Understanding the vocabulary of salah

All talks about the prayer of the Mushrikoon

8:35 MOST INTERESTEING USE FO THE WORD SALAH IN QURAN

Allah says “He is telling us about the mushirkoon, the idolaters of makkah, before Islam came to them “And their salah was nothing but “ila MUkaa an” (whistling) (clapping) Allah is talking about mushirkoon, before Islam came to them they used to whistle and clap.
Now the mushirokoon, was their belief system correct? -NO

Was the method correct? -NO (whistling and clapping)

Their belief and method not correct, what they are whistling not correct

DESPITE ALLL OF THAT, this incorrect worship that they are offering ALLAH STILL CALLS IT SALAH!.

That tells you something…

Allah could have sad IBAADAHTUM… he said SALAHTU

WE learn that SALAH is a general word describing worship

And the lesson we can extract from that, just because someone is offering salah- its NOT GOOD ENOUGH, IT DOESN’T MEANS ANYITHING, ITCOULD BE GOOD, BAD, POSTIVE, NEGATIVE, IT COULD BE SOMETIHNG YOU GET REWARDED FOR OR SOTHING THEY CAN EVEN GET SIN FOR!!!

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1.03 Description of salah in the QURAN

This is interesting

In the Quran there is word associations

Allah associated certain words with other words

And associated words with concrete ideas

The association is created for a specific divine purpose and there is a reason and LESSON in it

Allah connects sabr with khayr

With sabr comes khayr

When Allah connects salah with something, an association is PERMENANTLY connected

Muhammad rasoolah, Muhammad IS the messenger of Allah

An association sometimes is created by SUBSTITUTION,. Everywhere in the Quran Allah says salah, salah, salah, salah then all of sudden Allah uses ANOTHER word for salah- (He substitutes it).
In the middle of Surah Baqarah-

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2:143 “Here there is series of 7 ayah, starting with ayah 142 to 148

In these 7 ayah, Allah is talking about one of the most major incidences in the life of the Prophet pbuh that was THE TURNING OF THE QIBLAH,

We pray to Makkah, Muslims used to pray to AL QSA in Jerusalem

What happened was Prophet pbuh was able to pray at an anlge/direction toward Makkah AND Jerusalem at the same time.

Once in Medina he wasn’t able to do that,

Then Allah commanded that we turn the qiblah and pray

This was a PROFOUND strategic issue

It was a STATEMENT for not only Muslims but others as well

Because when they used to pray towards Jerusalem in Makkah, they were unique, no one else did it.

One they went to Medina, the JEWS also prayed in that direction! So it gave a uniqueness to pray towards Makakh

When the qiblah changed, the sahabah had a question, they were concerned about their ibaadah They asked “What happened to all the prayers we performed before this? those that prayed towards the old qiblah. Allah answered their question in this passage, in this ayah by saying
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