Salatur Rasool (sm) Part-01

Salatur Rasool (sm)

Writer: Dr. Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ ِللهِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنَسْتَعِيْنُهُ مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللهُ فَلاَ مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلاَ هَادِىَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لآ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيْكَ لَهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُوْلُهُ، أَمَّا بَعْدُ:*

Allah says,

 وَأَقِمِ الصَّلاَةَ لِذِكْرِىْ

'And you establish salat to

remember me' (Toa-ha 20/14).

SALATUR RASOOL (SM)

Ponder over

Respected Musalli!

Ponder over the message of your Lord: 'Those believers will be successful, who will engage themselves in salat with fearfulness'. Therefore think deeply, for which your Lord Allah has created you? Always bear in mind that He has not created you for nothing. He has sent you in this world with a far-reaching  plan for cultivating his beautifully created world properly. Allah has created death and life here to examine that who is best in performance and who practices the commands of his Lord most pleasingly.2 You will have to place before your creator the account out and out for all of your actions in this life, whether have you made proper use of the gifts of Allah  or not, such as your hands and feet, eyes and ears, noses and tongue and above all, the resources of knowledge, language and thinking capabilities given to you.3

When someone does a favor to you, you remain ever grateful to him. Have you ever expressed your gratefulness to Allah, who has given you everything ? Once you think, would you be able to repay the debts of your two beautiful eyes by the value of entire resources of the world?  Would you be able to give proper price for your two hands, legs, ears and your tongue? The soul that is within your heart has been staying there, under whose command it comes there and under whose command it will come out there?4 What is the shape of it, have you ever seen it? Not only this, the whole system of your bodily structure is a wonderful value of just a single insignificant limb the entire resources of the world?

Therefore, let us open all our mind to express the gratitude to our glorified creator Allah! Let us be devoted to perform our salat (prayer) according to the teaching of His messenger Jibreel, the Angel and to the practices of the last obedience to our Lord Allah, the Omnipotent.

Oh Musalli!

During your solitary conversation with Allah in salat, open the door of your  heart before your creator.6  Approach with all of your prayers before ending of salat. Shed tears on going down in prostration. Allah knows the talks of your  heart. He understands the language of your eyes. Listen to the yearning prayer of Father Ibraheem (A): 'Oh our Lord! Verily you know what we conceal in our minds and what we express in our lips. Nothing on the earth and in the heaven is hidden from Allah'.7 Therefore, with fearful respect and deepest faith stand up fixing your hands folded on the chest before your Lord. Raising two hands through Raf'ul Yadayin  submit yourself before Allah. Thereafter pronounce the greatness of your creator by shouting Takbeer. Shattering all prides bend your head in Ruku before your creator Allah. Then go down to Sijdah (Prostration) putting your fore-head on the ground. Always remember His everlasting message, 'If you are grateful, then surely I will give you more. But if you are ungrateful, then you should know that verily My punishment is severe'.8 He says, 'Oh the son of Adam! make your mind free for my prayer. I will make your heart full of comforts and remove your wants. But if you do not do so, I will make your two hands full of the (worldly) anxieties and I will not remove your wants.9

Therefore, come on! to earn the satisfaction of Allah and to gain Heaven in the life hereafter, let us concentrate in salat, the greatest Ibadat and prayer ceremony of Islam, by saying takbeer-i-tahreemah, leaving aside all worldly functions and submit ourselves with devoted, humble  and dissolved heart.

Oh Devotee! Go on through the high-way

of Sunnah without any fear.

This high-way is directed straight

to the paradise of Firdaus.

Come on! build our life on the light of the holy Quran & Authentic Hadeeth. 

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* Muslim, Mishkat H/5860, Ch: 29, Fazail & Shamail, Para: 5, The signs of prophethood; In 10^th year of prophethood Zemad Azdi, a man of exorcism of Yaman after coming Makkah goes to the Prophet (sm) to make Him free from the grasp of so called jinn Satan. Then after hear the khutba above he became deeply impressed and take Baiy‘at (oath) of Islam at that time by the hand of the Prophet (sm).

[1]. قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ، الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلاَتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ = Sura Mu’minoon 23/1-2.

[2] .اَلَّذِىْ خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَ الْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً = Mulk 67/ 2.

[3] . فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ ، وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَّرَهُ = Zhilzhal 99/ 7-8.

[4] . وَيَسْئَلُوْنَكَ عَنِ الرُّوْحِ قُلِ الرُّوْحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّيْ وَمَا أُوْتِيْتُمْ مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلاَّ قَلِيْلاً =Isra 17/ 85.

[5] . صَلُّوا كَمَا رَأَيْتُمُونِي أُصَلِّي =Bukhari (Delhi) Ch: 2, Azan, P. 1/88; H/631, 6008, 7246; Mishkat -Albani (Bairut, Al-maktabul Islami, 3rd edn. 1405 A.H./1985 A.D.) H/683 Ch: 4, ‘Salat’ Para: 6, ‘Azan at delay’.

[6] . إِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ إِذَا صَلَّى يُنَاجِيْ رَبَّهُ... = Verily when some of you performs salat, he discusses secretly with his Lord’. Bukhari, p. 1/76; Muttafaq ‘Alaih, Mishkat H/710, Ch: 4, Salat, Para: 7, ‘Mosques and the places of salat’, Ahmad, Mishkat H/856, Para: 12, ‘Recitation in Salat’.

[7] . رَبَّنَا إِنَّكَ تَعْلَمُ مَا نُخْفِىْ وَمَا نُعْلِنُ وَمَا يَخْفَى عَلى اللهِ مِنْ شَىْءٍ فِى الْاَرْضِ وَلاَ فِى السَّمَاءِ =Ibraheem 14/38.

[8] . لَئِنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ وَلَئِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِيْ لَشَدِيدٌ = Ibraheem 14/7.

[9] . Hadeeth Qudsi; Ahmad, Tirmizi H/2466; Ibnu Majah H/4107; Do, Mishkat H/5172 Ch: 26, ‘To soften the heart’. Sec:2; Albani, Silsila Saheehah H/1359.