{"id":2753,"date":"2021-11-19T21:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2021-11-19T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:38:51","slug":"virtues-of-sending-prayers-and-salutations-on-the-prophet-saws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/virtues-of-sending-prayers-and-salutations-on-the-prophet-saws\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtues of sending prayers and salutations on the Prophet SAWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The religion\nof Islam, i.e. finding peace through submission and worship of Allah SWT is one\nthat has been with mankind since Prophet Adam, peace be upon Him. The blessing\nof the ummah to which we belong is that we were blessed with the seal of the\nProphets SAWS and hence we belong to the best of all prophets, Prophet Muhammad\nSAWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Muslims,\nwe can\u2019t fully appreciate the magnitude of this blessing. We have given\nreminders in the past of how blessed we are to have been part of the Ummah of\nthe Prophet Muhammad SAWS but no reminder can do justice to this blessing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allah SWT\nhelps us understand the magnitude of this blessing by speaking of Himself\nsending blessings on the Prophet SAWS. The imam reminded us of this in Sura\nAl-Ahzab, ayat 56 in which it is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, Allah and His angels send blessings to the Prophet. O\nyou who believe, do pray Allah to bless him, and send your Sal\u0101m (prayer for\nhis being in peace) to him in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear\nbrothers and sisters, as you can hear from this translation, both Allah SWT and\nthe Angels send blessings on the Prophet SAWS. And so, by performing the same\naction, we are in the unique position of not following a sunnah of the Prophet\nSAWS but actually we are following the actions of Allah SWT Himself. Just this\npoint is enough for us to stop and ponder on the significance of this act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we\nspeak of how this is done, lets take a moment in today\u2019s reminder to remind ourselves\non the virtues of this blessed act of sending Salaam on the Prophet SAWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imam\nlisted some of these today and they are as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. By sending salaam upon the Prophet\nSAWS, you are directly copying something that Allah SWT does and thus you reap\nthe rewards of this from Allah SWT. <\/li>
  2. By doing this, you are also indirectly\nremembering Allah SWT and therefore is a form of dhikr, i.e. remembrance of\nAllah SWT.<\/li>
  3. Each and every salaam that is sent\nupon the Prophet SAWS is answered and replied by Him.<\/li>
  4. Various hadiths mention that this act\nis associated with being generous, having imaan, having sins forgiven and having\nduas accepted.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Dear\nbrothers and sisters, the rewards of this act are immense and we should aim to\nmake this a cornerstone of our day, alongside our prayers, our remembrance of\nAllah SWT and our recitation of the Quran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And so this\nreminder concludes with how for those of us who are new to this and want to\nincorporate this into our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. The imam mentioned the 9th<\/sup>\nayat of Sura Al-Fath which is translated to say:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      so that you[people] may believe in God and His Messenger,\nsupport Him, honour Him, and praise Him morning and evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dear brothers and sisters, from this we can conclude that our\nsalaams on the Prophet SAWS should be something we do both at the start and\nthen at the end of the day. One possible way to incorporate this is to make\nsure we do this as part of our post-salah supplications during Fajr and Isha as\na bare minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      • One of the sunnah acts of the day of Jummuah\nis to send blessings on the Prophet SAWS and so we should take the opportunity\nwhen we are travelling to the masjid or leaving the masjid to do so. Even if we\narrive here and we are waiting for the imam to begin the khutba, we can achieve\nthis as it helps us switch off from the world we leave behind outside the\nmasjid every Friday.<\/li>
      • We can choose to recite the salaam on\nthe Prophet SAWS that we recite in our salah or we can choose to learn a\nsmaller version of this for our frequent recitations of salaam. Whatever\nversion you choose, as with all habits you try to form, make it something you\ncan easily sustain for a long period of time as this is the key to any habit\nforming. Once you\u2019ve established the habit, you can build upon it in the future\nbut begin today in whatever form you can manage, no matter how small.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Dear brothers\nand sisters, we are blessed with this ability. Let us start today by making the\nmost of it so that we are of those people who, according to hadith, on the Day\nof Judgement will be closest to our Prophet SAWS due to this act that we perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The religion of Islam, i.e. finding peace through submission and worship of Allah SWT is one that has been with mankind since Prophet Adam, peace be upon Him. The blessing of the ummah to which we belong is that we were blessed with the seal of the Prophets SAWS and hence we belong to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}