Understanding the vocabulary of salah

MIN- from
ASHAYTAAN- satan. The devil. The root of the word is SHA TA NOON. In Arabic

SH TA Nun is a LONG ROPE, the 2 ends are very far from each other

Bi Roon shatoonoon -deep empty well (very dangerous)
SHAYTAN IS VERY VERY VERY DISTANT FORM THE MERCY OF ALLAH
RAJEEM- root word rajm means TO DISCARD SOMETHING, TO THROW SOMETHING AWAY. This word has a negative connotation. When you throw something away carelessly. You throw a rock, that’s called rajm.

When you throw a ball its different, its called RAMU at a target

I take refuge from shaytaan WHO HAS BEEN DISCARDED LIKE TRASH,
EXTENDED VERSION of ISTIADHAH (top of age 11)
MIN- from

And I ALSO take refuge from him (he)

HE HE HE means his his his referring to shytaan

His hamaz, nafakh, his nafas

“I seek refuge with Allah from satan the rejected one, from his madness, his arrogance, and his poetry”
HAMAZ- root of this word means TO POKE something. Or someone

The Prophet pbuh defined the poking of shaytaan as the INSANITY OF SHAYTAAN, the craziness of shaytaan what does that have to do with poking?

Example: you are sitting in class and someone sitting behind you and in front. The person in front isn’t paying attention to you in the middle and the teacher is turned around doing something at the board

The person behind you is saying “psst flick his ear”

Hurry, the teacher will turn around

The kid behind you is egging you

Cmon do it do it! He is poking you

What do you turn around and tell him “Are you crazy or something? Leave me alone”

Shaytaan is OBSESSED with us, he is crazy

When we come into the masjid, guess who comes inside the majsid with you? SHAYTAAN

To make sure you don’t pray tahtul masjid, he makes you read the bulletin board (even though nothing has changed)
The Prophet pbuh said as soon as muadthin calls adthaan, shaytaan RUNS FOR HIS LIFE, it terrifies him. He is breaking wind as he runs. The interesting thing is as SOON as the adhtaan finishes, what does he do? He comes right back

“Hey what are you going to eat after jummah?”

He starts messing with you again

HE IS OBSESSSED

NAFAKH- literally means to inflate, to blow air into something, like inflating balloon into ball

The Prophet pbuh described this as the arrogance of shaytaan

When someone is arrogant you say he is FULL of himself, big head,

Shaytaan FANS THE FLAME, he tries to grow it. He fans the flame of your arrogance. Makes you think to another brother “Who does he think he is? Does he know who I am? HOW DARE HE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT”

Shaytaan INFALTES your ego

“I AMTHE MAN”

NA FA Shhh- When you talk, you slightly have spit come out (its filled in your mouth) while you talk, literally that’s what it means, when someone talks they lightly spit at you.

The Prophet pbuh defined this as SHI-RUHOO the ENHANCEMENT of shaytaan, the POETRY OF SHAYTAAN,. Shaytaan goes RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR EAR, if someone talks so close to your ear, they would be spitting on you, SHAYTAAN DOESNT GIVE UP

I TAKE REFUGE FROM ALLAH FROM SHAYTAAN WHO IS DISCARDED

AND REFUGE FROM HIS INSANITY, HIS INFLATTING, HIS ARROGANCE, AND HIS ENHANCEMENT, HIS NON STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE ME, AND TALK TO ME

When do we recite ADUHUBILLAHI?

When ever we recite Quran. When else do we recite it?

-When you have evil thoughts

-When you get ANGRY

Another way to curb anger, when you are standing up, sit down, if you are sitting then laid down

Make wudhu

In salah, do we make wudhu? YES

We say audhubilla? Yes

Stand to sitting:? YES!
SALAH IS ANGER MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE BELIEVER!

Salah CALMS A PERSON down

Takes the edge off a person
LOOK AT THE PROPHET PBUH, think about how CALM COOL AND COLLECTED the Prophet pbuh was.

Remember the beduion who urinated in the majsid?

There was NO REACTION, no emotional outburst from the Prophet pbuh!
When young man came to Prophet pbuh and said “I want to commit zina “ in public

When man who took loan from prophet came and forcefully asked to have it paid back

All these instances the Prophet pbuh kept his cool!
SALAH TAKES THE FRUSTRATION AWAY,
Allah says in the Quran “we have 2 types of enemies” 6:112

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Trouble makers from people and trouble makers from jinn

From jinn- we say AUDUBILLAH

From humans- Allah also gives us solution- right and wrong never same, good and bad not the same.

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41:34

IDFA- this is defensive term- retaliate, repel, fight back with,

AHSAN- with that is better
Someone does a wrong to you- forgive them

Someone is rude to you, be nice to them

KA ANNAHUM- Its as if he becomes your most loyal compassionate friend.!
2.04 THE BASMALA

Top of pg. 12

The EARLIEST of scholars would refer to basmala as the TASMIYAH

The letter Ba- in the arabic language has about 12 uses

12 meanings as a WORD in the language

But we will only share 5

BA

1. 
   Sometimes Ba can be used to show 2 things are INTIMATELY connected (2 show 2 things are intimately and permanently connected) “the messenger came to you with the truth from your Lord)
   

2. 
   Can mean “with the help of”- Katabtu bil qalam- I wrote with the help of the pen
   
3. 
   Ba can mean AT THE PLACE OF - “Allah most definitely helped you at the place of Badr”
   
4. 
   Sometimes it is used to take an OATH, occurs in 2 places in the Quran, Allah in these places Allah takes an oath LAA UQSIMU BIYOWMIL QIYAMMAH
   

And LAA UQSIU BI HADHAL BALAD these are some different uses for the letter ba

5. 
   Ba can be used to show the cause of something. What comes AFTER ba is the CAUSE of , the reason for, what comes before Ba. “All the chaos in the land and sea is a direct result of what the people have done with their own 2 hands”
   

In bismillah, Ba means WITH THE HELP OF

ISM- means name. Its root words has 2 opinions

Root of SUMOO- means to elevate something

To separate from rest of pact
Root of WISMOON- means to brand or mark something. When we know someone by name its like we brand them with that name.
Which one seems more logical? The SECOND one. In reality it’s the FIRST ONE that is the correct opinion based on linguistic reasons.
Plural of the word ISM is ASMAA