Understanding the vocabulary of salah

CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTABILITY

MAALIK- this refers to someone who has OWNERSHIP of something. He OWNS it and has COMPLETE CONTROL AND AUTONOMY of it. He is the one with COMPLETE OWNERSHIP.

YAWM- means THE DAY OF.

Some have translations of “the owner of the day of” this doesn’t give you the full understanding!

Arabic grammar is CONCISE and brief but it is STRONG. Just the SEQUENCE of the words adds meaning.
There is no word for OF in Arabic.

The Quran can ONLY be properly studied when we study and understand the Arabic and its intricacies.

MAALIK- the one with complete ownership

YAWM ADEEN- We normally translate “the day of judgment”

ADEEN does NOT mean judgment! (the word for judgment is HISAAB)

ADEEN does NOT mean resurrection! (the word for resurrection is QIYAAMA)

This word DEEN refers to RETRIBUTION. When you GET what you have coming to you

HISAAB- is accounting/judgment

DEEN- is retribution; it’s a step above that!
He Is The MASTER OF and has COMPLETE OWNERSHIP of the day of retribution.

There will come a day, without a doubt, that you will have to face the consequences of your actions!!!!

Surah Fatiha is very CONCISE. It captures the PRIMARY THEMES OF THE QURAN because it sets the tone for what is to come afterwards. We started off by the praise of Allah, we ACKNOWLEDGED that fact He created us, He feeds us, He maintains us, He protects us, He guides us…We said he is our RABB
RAHMAAN - we are invoking mercy from Allah

Because mercy is something we NEED.

That’s why Allah defines marriage as rahma, we NEED IT
NOW we acknowledge accountability

The theme of accountability

We realize that “LOOK, it is not just this life we are concerned with, there WILL be that day of resurrection when we will all have to answer TO ALLAH and face the consequences of our deeds.

This is a powerful concept of accountability we as Muslims must remember.*

ALLAH ONCE AGAIN REPSONDS TO US

The dialogue continues

Allah then responds
MAJDA DA NEE ABDI (MY SLAVE HAS GLORIFIED ME)
Comes from root word GLORY

Means MY SLAVE HAS GLROIFED ME (why glory? Because my slave is not just acknowledging his need for me in the life of this world but is ALSO attributing the fact that I will be the one solely in control of the day of judgment.

Another narration

FA WWADA – means TO SURRENDER

You are basically saying I AM AT YOUR MERCY O Allah, I am handing myself over to you

“My slave has surrendered himself to me, he has completely surrendered himself to me”

Why surrender? Because he is acknowledging the fact the HE WILL be accountable to me.
This is FIRST PORTION OF SURAH FATIHA
Then the salve says

IYAAKA NA BU DU WIYAAKANASTAEEN
This just might be one of the most powerful ayah of the entire Quran

This one ayah captures the ESSENCE of our relation ship with Allah

This AYAH

Very deep

Very powerful

Very beautifully laid out

Na’budu

NABUDU comes form the root word ibaadah

Ibaadah comes from the root word ABD- it means slave

How does ibadah means worship? Rather IBAADAH means to ENSLAVE YOURSELF to something

To devote and dedicate something is ibaadah

WORSHIP IS PART OF THAT

Worship is the PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION of that devotion, of that dedication
We can use the word worship here for now
But understand full context of the word
Iyaaka Na’budu

NA’BUDU KA means WE WORSHIP YOU (you refers to Allah) which is the NORMAL ORDER (WE WORSHOP YOU, NA BU DU KA) this is the normal sentence order