Understanding the vocabulary of salah

IMPORTANCE OF ROLE MODELS

The innate need of someone is to seek out role model IT’S A NEED people have

Everyone looks up to SOMEONE

Everyone EMULATES SOMEONE!

Whether athlete, parents, celebrity, or friend
EVERYONE EMULATES SOMEONE
The need for role models is for everyone!
THIS AYAH TEACHES US IF WE DON’T PROVIDE POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, then they will be replaced by peoples worse than them.
What is the level of awareness of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh in our communities? VERY LITTLE

We need to teach about the prophets, his family, his personality,

We need to teach about the great scholors and sahabah

We as parents, as older brothers, we need to BECOME BETTER ROLE MODELS! we need to live up to the standard where they can lookup to us

We don’t do that SO ITS NO SURPRISE THE ROLE MODELS THE YOUTH FOLLOW today. They talk like them, they dress like them, they walk like them,

Its something to think about and this surah teaches us that

WA LADHAALEEEN

Allah responds

HA DHA LI ABDI

“THIS IS FOR MY SLAVE”

THIS IS THE Explanation for the teaser that was given twice, (my slave will get what he asks for)

THIS is what he has been asking for

What is the GREATEST blessing from Allah? - GUIDANCE,

That is why we pray for it, ask for it many times in every single salah

There is NO OTHER BLESSING BETTER, MORE SIGNIFICANT
Allah says THIS IS GIVEN TO HIM! What the slave had asked for
Take special note at the beginning of the hadith
THE UNDERLINED WORD IS SALAH

The beginning of the hadith, we started off by saying

“I HAVE DIVIDED THE PRAYER”

Then the hadith goes on,

The hadith talks about what? Salah? – NO
Hadith talks about SURAH FATIHA, it didn’t talk about salah, it talked about fatiha

Then why did Allah say I have dived the salah? When the hadith talks about fatiha?

ALLAH IS REFERRING TO A PORTION OF SOMETHING BY MENTIOING THE WHOLE!

Fatiha is part of salah, salah is whole, and portion is surah fatiha!

When I say my car is broken but the wheels are fine, the body is fine, the steering, the seats, everything is fine, only the engine is busted- I STILL say the “the CAR is broken”.
Allah says I have divided the salah (when He is really referring to Surah Fatiha)

The engine is the ESSENCE of the car, there is no point to the car without the engine

The ESSENCE OF THE SALAH IS SURAH FATIHA, there is no point of salah without FATIHA!!!

(hadith)

We also think its a FIQH issue (whether or not surah Faitha is needed for salah or notetc), but we missed the point! The prophet is saying FATIHA IS THE CORE OF SALAH, IT’S THE ESSENSE OF FATIH

After studying the Fatiha we find how it’s the core

The word NISFAYN in the hadith

We said it means TWO EQUAL HALVES

From the beginning of Surah Fatiha to the end of the first half (NASTEEN) there are 63 letters.

The second half from ihdinaa to waladhaaleeen,- there are 63 letters.

When Allah says he has divided Fatiha into 2 equal halves look at how the words of Allah ARE SO PRECISE THERE ARE LITTERALLY TWO EQUAL HALVES! It’s the beauty and accuracy of Surah Fatiha.
When was the LAST TIME YOU EXPERIENCED SALAH, not prayed salah, or performed salah, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU EXPERIENCED SALAH!!

When was the last time you LOST YOURSELF IN SALAH!??

Like kids playing video games, for HOURS they cant hear you or see you.
Football is 3 to 5 hours long! GONE LOST.

When you talk on the cellphone look a time counter, JUST the phone conversation

When you sit down at night you know you should pray isha, I just need to check my email for 5 minutes which turns into hours.

When was the last time you lost track of time in Salah?

When we go out to the mall or shopping we spend hours and hours there without even realizing it.

When it comes to salah WE COUNT THE MINUTES AND SECONDS OF SALAH!

Experience it

Feel it

Get lost in it!