Understanding the vocabulary of salah

USING PLURAL WE WORSHIP YOU

Only you do WE worship

That is plural, All of us

What if I praying salah by myself? Can I say “I” worship?- NO

Remember Fatiha is the ESSENCE, the CORE of the concepts in the Quran

One of THE most important concepts we have in the Quran is UNITY

Its very important!

Here, when we talk about worshiping Allah , its WE, not I to remind you of unity

What is that unity connected to? WORSHIP, IBAADAH
The #1 Way to establish unity amongst us is by the means of our worship.

We focus on EVERYTHING else except ibaadah

Lets have picnic, get together, diner etc,

But NOTHING unifies us like salah!

It removes all the barriers

It doesn’t matter color, culture, language, rich poor, nothing matters anymore young, old EVERYONE lines up. Everyone follows imam together, goes into sujood together

Unity is focused mainly on community

Unity is also WIHTIN the family!

One very basic solution is performing salah together at home,. It sounds simple but it begins and starts here.
Our bonds with each other becomes weaker when our relationship with Allah becomes weak

HE IS THE ONE that puts the companionship and unity within our hearts

RESTABLISH YOUR CONNECTION WITH ALLAH
iyaka

Allah responds again

HA THAA BAYNI ADBI-

“THIS relationship, this bond, this connection, IS BETWEEN ME AND MY SLAVE

The means 2 things

-When someone has a problem with someone and a third person steps in and its said to that person “don’t worry its just between him and me”, that mean I have things taken cared of, Allah is saying “this is between me and my slave, everything else is taken cared of”

2^nd implication

2 people are having conversation, and 3^rd person comes in and you say get out, this is between me and him. This shows PRIVACY, INTIMICY, this is an INTIMATE relationship, close, near, private, unique, individual relationship with Me and my slave.

WA LI ABDI MA SA AL-

2^nd time we see this! Climax is building, it is coming, building suspense

“And for my slave is what ever he has asked for” – still doesn’t explain what that means, it will come.
We JUST FINSIHED FIRST HALF (NASTAEEN)