Understanding the vocabulary of salah

KA MAA- just like, Just as
BA ATA- past tense form of BAA ID

Just like you placed a huge amount of distance

AL MASHRIK – means the EAST, comes from root word SHARK, to fill something with light, to illuminate something
So why would the root of east come from fill with light? BECAUSE OF THE SUN!
AL MAGHRIB and the west, almaghrib refers to THE WEST

We also call salah maghrib

The salah maghrib occurs at what time? SUNSET

The root of this word refers to something being FAR AWAY, something GOING AWAY, something VANISHIHNG, DISAPPEARING

Why would the west be called/referred to something vanishing? SUN IS GOING away, SUN DISAPPEARS!!
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GHAREEB- means stranger, why is a stranger called gharee? Because he comes form somewhere we don’t know about! Place not known to us!

GHURABAA- plural
GHURAAB- means crow- comes from same root which means to vanish and disappear

Like many cultures, the jahiliya arabs where very superstitious people and they have attached a lot of superstition to the crow. They used to see crows as evil omens. They used to mean death. If they saw a flock of crows over a village it means someone will die so they gave it a name GHURAAB thinking they would go away. They prided themselves on their words. They thought words were very powerful and thought if you called it ghuraab it would vanish

NEXT there are 3 portions, sections

We covered first section

OH ALLAH PUT A HUGE DISTANCE CLEARLY BETWEEN ME AND MY ERRORS JUST LIKE YOU HAVE PUT A HUGE AMOUNT OF DISTANCE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

NOW Imagine from the perspective of the Prophet pbuh who taught us this, you look all the way east and west, how large is that distance? ENORMOUS.

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