Understanding the vocabulary of salah

JAZAKALLHU KHAYR!

Day 1: Friday
This course is about a topic and subject is people wanting to improve their prayer and their salah. It doesn’t get simpler than that. Salah we all pray and we all want it to be better than it already is, the basic way to achieve that is to understand it in prayer.
This is an effective and efficient method in achieving kushoo in the salah.
What we do in the seminar we start from the beginning and then discuss lingutstic defininton of salah and then we talk about words like kushoo, what does it mean? From a technical viewpoint, what does it mean. What is the importance of salah in islam, what is the importance of praying it with kushoo.
We also will cover things such as qunoot, many people don’t know what it means! These are very powerful and beautiful supplications. If you knew what they meant it would take you 15 minutes just to proerply say it. We even study istekharah. One of the most practical forms of salah is istekhara. You can use it immediately.
It’s a lot of information to try to squeeze into one weekend but since we have done it 13 times that we can do it inshAllah. Friday night is a little different, we reach into the middle of the salah and we learn about something that can be called the ESSENCE of the salah, the CORE of the salah, we pluck that out from the middle of sallah and we study that here on Friday. And that is SURAH FATIAH.
We will study it specifally in the contect of slaah and we will study it using hadith qudsi. We don’t assume any knowledge coming into class. Hadith qudsi means it’s a tradition passed on to us from the prophet said, and qudsi is what Allah has said.
We will study surah Faitha tonight, for a lot of reasons.

The purpose of tonight is to get a feel for the course

Another reason is it’s the right way to get off on the right foot.