Understanding the vocabulary of salah

Evidence for Name of Allah being Unique
Evidence 1: What was the rule of thumb we learned? Can they concretely establish and prove root? NO, they cant decide, what is safer bet, to assume its JAAMID

Laam is not an awful letter, it’s a LIGHT letter

With the exception of ALLAH

ITS AN ENTIRE LANGUAGE AND THROUGH THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE IN EVERY SITUATION laam is a light letter in any place, EXCEPT FOR ONE WORD, ALLAH. That is a unique rule just for the name of Allah , this is evidence 2 that Allah is a unique word

Evidence 3 that name of Allah is unique

When you call out to someone, how do you do it?

YA

YA ZAID (hey zaid)

But there is one issue, if I am trying to call someone or something and the word I am trying to call their name or thing begins with ALIF LAAM, say a boy

AL WALAD

Ya al walaad, you CANT just put “ya” because it starts with ALIF and LAAm

What’s the buffer? AYU HAA

So I should say

YA AYU HAL WALAD

Example in Quran is YA AYU HALATHEENA AAMANU

There is ONE exception to this rule

YOU CAN SAY YA ALLAH., ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE

It’s unique, has its own rule!

Evidence 4

ALLAH HUMMA

Its in the Quran

You know what it is?

It’s a name fo Allah with a meem and shadhah after it

What does that mean? It means YA ALLAH

Basically uttering a meem at the end is the SAME as putting a YA in the front

Slight difference, Allah humma is more passionate, thats why its used in supplications, but essentially in meaning it’s the same!

If thats what it is , instead of saying ya zaid,

Can we say zaidumma? MUHAMAD-DUMA? No

THE ONLY NAME YOU CAN PUT A MEEM AND SHADDAH ON IT IS ALLAH

This gives evidence that the name of Allah is unique.

AKBAR

This comes from the root of the word means something to be BIG, something to be GREAT

The interesting thing is,

AKBAR is the pattern of the word called ISMUL TAQDEER (the COMPARATIVE PATTERN)

So for example,

Zaid is smarter than Khalid (COMPARATIVE)

Khalid is the fastest (SUPERALITVE)

Similarly

AKBAR, it is the COMPARATIVE, it means GREATER, (NOT greatest)

ALLAHUAKBAR, means Allah is greater.

ALLAH IS GREATER, does that sound like a complete sentence? -No

ZAID IS FASTER THAN… you would logically ask WHO? Zaid is father than who?

Similarly certain statements DEMAND an object

Thus, We say Allah is greater then…

In classical arabic its left open FOR A PURPOSE

This happens in Quran

INSERT QURANIC AYAH

FIRST AYAH OF HUJARAAT

Object is needed to complete the statement but its l eft blank
Its done to PERSONALIZE the message!

So now that its open ended and you can apply to it mentally, internally in your contemplation to WHAT EVER APPLIES TO YOUR SITUATION

So you are at work with work that is due and time for salah comes

ALLAH IS GREATER THAN WORK

If you are at school or studying for an exam and time for salah comes

ALLAH IS GREATER THAN SCHOOL

If you are being distracted by your children,

ALLUHAKBAR- ALLAH IS GREATER THAN MY LOVE FOR MY CHILDREN

If its time for Fajr and its difficult to wake up

ALLAHUAKBAR-ALLAH IS GREATER THAT MY REST, MY SLEEP

It’s a personalized message! ALLAH IS GREATER THAN WHAT EVER AT THIS POIINT IN TIME IS DISTRACTING YOU FROM YOUR SALAH!!!!
2.02 OPENING SUPPLICATION

There are 7 or 8 opening supplications narrated by the Prophet pbuh

Out of them 3 of them are the most popular ones

We will study all three of them- that way everyone is covered.

Even if you choose to recite one of them or ALL THREE OF THEM, they are authentic prophetic supplications

This is THE MOST DIFFUCLT PART OF THE COURSE,

1. 
   What you will come across is new vocabulary so this is the slow part of course. We need to work through it!
   
2. 
   All thee supplications are completely different from one another, but we cover so much vocabulary that once we go forward the ball starts to role, you know the words and it becomes easier. We NEED to have the habit that once we come across word once, or 2^nd time, we need to KNOW the word. This is best way to stay alert and retain what we learned.
   
3. 
   Saturday is hard work, it’s not just a conceptual course, it an APPLIED course. Saturday is a lot of work, when you are building vocabulary, Sunday is the fun part of the course. We save interesting part for what we study on Sunday. Sunday is more enjoyable. Saturday is WORK. You have to focus and put effort into Saturday.