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We are explaining for the past few weeks something that is extremely important that we all need to understand and learn.
Ustadh Mohamad Baajour explains the meanings and importance of duas in Salat, focusing on At-Tahiyyat and proper reverence during prayer.
Key Takeaways
- Rushing in Salat diminishes its spiritual impact and should be avoided by mindful recitation of duas.
- Understanding the meanings of the words in Salat enhances khushu and connection with Allah.
- At-Tahiyyat is a profound greeting reserved for Allah, encompassing all forms of worship.
- Sending salam to the Prophet in prayer is a significant act that should be done with reverence.
- Proper Salat helps prevent sinful behavior and strengthens faith when performed with sincerity.
Summary
- Explanation of common mistakes in Salat, such as rushing between positions and duas.
- Two recommended duas to say between the two sajdas to avoid rushing.
- Detailed meaning of At-Tahiyyat and its components: greetings, salawat, and tayyibat.
- At-Tahiyyat is a special greeting reserved only for Allah when using the definite article.
- The significance of sending salam to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) during Salat.
- Encouragement to understand and reflect on the words of the prayer for better khushu (focus).
- The importance of sincere prayer to prevent sinful behavior and bring about spiritual change.
- Explanation of the plural form of salam in the prayer to include all righteous believers.
- The role of the shahada in Salat as a confirmation of faith and monotheism.
- Reminder that proper understanding and respect in prayer leads to meaningful spiritual benefits.
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And that is the duas that we make in the salat. We started from the dua before the Fatiha and last week we did the duas in the ruku and in the sujud.
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After we finish the dua of the sujud, there are like I mentioned before, there are two positions where people rush the most in the salat.
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Number one is when they finish sami'allahu liman hamidah, they go straight to sujud without the body going back to its original position.
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The second fastest position is between the two sajdas, someone make a sajda and then they get up and bam, they go down to the second sajda right away without any pause between the two.
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What is the dua between the two? We took it before, just because of the series.
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Many people will be watching the series and I advise you to always watch the series every time you forget.
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There are two duas that we can alternate, one time we say one and the next time we say the other, Rabbighfirli, Rabbighfirli, calm down.
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And when you do that, it eliminates that problem that we're talking about of being in a rush, Rabbighfirli, Rabbighfirli.
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Or the second option, Rabbighfirli, warhamni, wahdini, wajburni, wa'afini, warzuqni, warfa'ni.
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I gave so many talks about this, subhanallah.
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If this dua is answered, Allahu Akbar.
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Ya Allah, forgive me.
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Ya Allah, have mercy upon me.
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Ya Allah, fix all my affairs.
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Ya Allah, guide me.
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Ya Allah, provide for me.
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Ya Allah, elevate me.
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Subhanallah, all of them between, when you say this, how could you rush, because you're going to say it in a way that you are asking for it, right?
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Today our main talk, because this I explained before, is subhanallah, something that many of us do not know.
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What does At-Tahiyyat mean?
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When we, myself and you learned how to pray, we were just taught this is the position where you say the Tahiyyat.
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I don't remember anyone teaching me what does At-Tahiyyatu lillahi was-salawatu wat-tayyibat, all we do is just we repeat, we have no clue.
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And that's one of the reasons that we are not having khushu in our salat, because we are just repeating words that we have no clue what they are.
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Ibn Mas'ud radiyallahu anhu, he said, we used to say in the salat, Assalamu 'alallah min 'ibadih.
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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam heard them and he told them, do not say this because Allah is As-Salam, instead say, and then he taught them and the whole ummah till the Day of Judgment, say, At-Tahiyyatu lillahi was-salawatu wat-tayyibat, Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Assalamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillahis-salihin, Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluh.
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What does it mean?
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At-Tahiyyat is plural of Tahiyyah.
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Tahiyyah in Arabic means greeting.
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The ulama had a couple of meanings for At-Tahiyyat.
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All the greatest of greetings belong only to Allah azza wa jall, any greeting, any ta'zim, any tawqir, any taqdir, belongs to Allah azza wa jall and that is all under At-Tahiyyat.
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When I see my brother, when I end my message, I say Tahiyyati lak, my Tahiyyat, my greetings to you, but the minutes you add alif lam to the Tahiyyat, that means it's only to Allah azza wa jall.
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I cannot say At-Tahiyyat li Ahmad, At-Tahiyyat li Mahmud, no, Tahiyyati li Mahmud, yes, but At-Tahiyyat, when I add alif lam, it only belongs to Allah.
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Where is the verb from At-Tahiyyat?
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You hear some people saying sometimes greeting each other by saying Hayyakallah, right?
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Hayyakallah.
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This is a good, excellent Tahiyyah.
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This means At-Tahiyyat, al-baqa' ad-da'im, the eternal life, and that only belongs to Allah when you add alif lam to it, only one who will ever stay is Allah azza wa jall, al-Hayy alladhi la yamut, At-Tahiyyatu lillah.
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Another opinion, it says that At-Tahiyyat includes all the verbal ibadat, all the verbal ibadat belong to Allah azza wa jall.
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Was-salawat.
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As-salawat is plural of salat, every salat I make, Ya Allah, is only to you.
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The fard, the nafl, the sunnah, every salat I make belongs to you, Ya Allah, was-salawat.
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And they said here, as-salawat, every physical ibadah is under the salawat.
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Wat-tayyibat.
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At-tayyibat, they said that this, all the verbal and the physical ibadat that are pure, are belonging to Allah azza wa jall.
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At-Tahiyyatu lillah, all the best of greetings belong to Allah.
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All the salawat that I make, I do not make it to anybody except to Allah azza wa jall.
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Wat-tayyibat, and some said this is the financial ibadat, because Allah is tayyib and he only accepts what's tayyib.
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All the good, all the pure a'mal, all the pure words, some ulama said at-tayyibat is Subhanallah walhamdulillah wa la ilaha illallah wallahu akbar.
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At-Tahiyyatu lillah was-salawatu wat-tayyibat, all of them belong to Allah azza wa jall.
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Then, Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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We have been deprived in this dunya of greeting Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam live.
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May Allah grant us this opportunity in the akhirah.
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So when you say it in the salat, wallahi it is disgraceful.
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At-Tahiyyatu lillahi was-salawatu wat-tayyibat, Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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Would you dare say this kind of salam to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam if he's standing in front of you?
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Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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Assalamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillah.
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Would you dare say that?
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You are actually sending salam to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam at this point specifically.
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Your words traveling 8,000 miles to go to Madinah, like Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, every time you say salam to me, Allah will assign angels that will take this salam and present it to me.
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Do you think your salam that you are making in this salat worth being moved from here all the way to there?
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With that kind of salam, that speed in the salat that we make?
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You are making salam to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
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Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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What does the salam?
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I am making dua, I am making dua for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
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I'm making dua of salamah to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
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I'm making dua of rahmah and barakah to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
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Have respect when we are saying this dua.
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We rush in speed because we want the salat to be over and that's why we are not finding any change in our life.
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Because Allah promised that the salat will prevent us from falling into sins and major sins, but I pray and I deal with riba, I pray and I do not wear the hijab, I pray and I sell alcohol, I pray and I gamble.
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Why, because something's wrong with that salat.
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Something's wrong with the salat.
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It's not being given its proper rights.
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Assalamu 'alayka ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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Assalamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillahis-salihin.
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Listen to what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said about this statement.
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Assalamu 'alayna.
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Usually, if I want to say salam to myself, I say Assalamu 'alayya.
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Why am I saying it in plural?
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When I say Assalamu 'alayna in the salat, I am sending salam to everybody who's praying with me in that jama'ah.
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Assalamu 'alayna.
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And to who, and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, every time you say Assalamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillahis-salihin.
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Your salam will get to every righteous person in the earth and in the heavens.
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Your salam will get to every 'abd salih.
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Every righteous person on Earth will get that salam.
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Assalamu 'alayna wa 'ala 'ibadillahis-salihin.
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And then we utter the shahada so many times per day to confirm that we are Muslims.
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To confirm that we are muwahhidin.
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Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah.
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The word, the reason the creation was created because of la ilaha illallah.
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The Jannah was created because of la ilaha illallah.
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The anbiya were sent because of la ilaha illallah, and I utter it every single day many times to confirm my shahada.
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As one of, one of the kids, when we have so many shahadas here.
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A kid, he came to me at nine years old, he said, Sheikh, I don't remember taking my shahada.
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I said, Ya Habibi, you take your shahada every single day so many times.
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Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluh.
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Please, my brothers and sisters, please, when we pray our next salat, the sunnah you're about to pray.
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When you get to the Tahiyyat, please start pondering and thinking about what you're saying.
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You are greeting Allah, literally.
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You are greeting Allah, literally, you are sending salam to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
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Remember when I gave the whole workshop about improving our salat.
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I said, one of the keys, one of the secret keys to enjoy the salat and to change it completely, drastically is tell yourself, I am talking to Allah.
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I am talking to Allah.
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So when I am saying At-Tahiyyatu lillah, I am greeting Allah azza wa jall.
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Because the salat is a meeting between me and my creator.
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So, let's have some adab.
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Let's have some adab when we are greeting Allah and when we are greeting our beloved Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Topics:SalatDuas in prayerAt-Tahiyyat meaningKhushu in SalatIslamic prayer etiquetteSending salam to Prophet MuhammadUstadh Mohamad BaajourEPIC MASJIDIslamic teachingsPrayer reflection
