Understanding the vocabulary of salah

IGHSILNEE

IGHSIL- command to wash

NEE- me
MIN- FROM
KHATAYAYA- my mistakes my errors
BILMAA EE

BA- Its not just a letter, it’s a WORD, in Arabic certain letters also function as words. WOW, LAAM, even though its just letters, it functions as a word.

BA- means with, using
O ALLAH WASH ME FROM MY MISTAKES AND ERROS USING WATER
MAEE- WATER
WA SALJ-

Wa- and

Salj- means snow in classical Arabic

Modern times it means ice

WAL BARADH-

BARADH means ice

O ALLAH WASH ME FROM MY MISTAKES AND ERRORS USING WATER AND SNOW AND ICE
FIRST WE SAID O ALLAH PUT A HUUGE DISTANCE
THEN SECOND STEP, ITS LEFT A RESIDUE BEHIND, SCRAPE THAT AWAY, REMOVE IT AWAY

BUT THE WORD WAS DANAS- IT LEFT A STAIN NOW

THIRD STEP WASH THAT STAIN AWAY, WHAT EVER EFFECTS OF THOSE SINS LEFT, WASH ME COMPLETELY
What’s this about, water, snow, and ice?

It’s the PROGRESSION OF ICE

WHATS colder than water? Snow,

What colder then snow? Ice

O Allah I have small thing, water will work

Then there are bigger things, snow will work

The worse and bigger they get, scrape them all away!
Why the escalation in coldness?

Because what’s the consequence of bad sins? FIRE

As my sins get worse and worse, they bring me closer and closer to the fire of Allah, O Allah remove me farther way!
THE THEME OF THIS IS PURITY AND CLEANLINESS, PURIFICATION
This supplication has 3 parts, because we see ALLAHUMMA 3 TIMES
But how many times do we see KAMAA?

TWICE so the first 2 parts have kamaa

Kamaa is used to draw analogy to something.

This shows us the eloquence of the Prophet pbuh

O Allah remove my sins away like east and west

Then it say o Allah brush sins way like filth is brushed off white clothes

Look at how the Prophet pbuh describes, he merges the two parallels together
O ALLAH WASH ME, (doesn’t talk about clothes) WASH ME FROM MY MISTAKES

HE MERGED 2 TOGETHER, NO MORE KAMAA

WATER SHOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CLOTHES but he merged two together
SINS ARE A NATURAL OBSTACLE TO KHUSHOO, A PERSON CANNOT ATTAIN KHUSHOO WHILE HE IS STILL IMMERSED IN SIN!! A PERSON WILL NOTICE, THE MORE HE CURBS TO TAKE SINS OUT OF HIS LIFE, HE WILL EXPERIENCE HIS SALAH MORE AND MORE, THE MORE HE CUTS SIN FROM HIS LIFE.
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Abdullah ibn Masood narrates this supplication to us

The Prophet pbuh said

THESE WORDS ARE SOME OF THE MOST BELOVED WORDS A PERSON CAN SAY TO ALLAH!
The THEME of this supplication is PRAISE AND GLORIFICATION OF ALLAH
SUBHANAKA- 2 words

Subhana- comes from the root word which means TO SWIM

What does that have to do with praising Allah?

SABAHA means to swim in classical Arabic

AL AWM refers to when you swim with your head under water

Sabaha refers to when you swim with head over water

Allah is A LEVEL ABOVE HIS CREATION

Level above fault

Above creation

Just like head is above water

THEN there is deeper reflection in this word as well, -WHATS something required for swimming?

YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY MOVE,

IF YOU STOP, YOU DROWN, YOU SINK

Similarity, TASBEEH refers to praising and glorifying Allah. It is to remind us that THE ONLY WAY TO STAY AFLOAT IN THE SEA OF TEMPTATION IS TO STAY IN THE REMEMBERANCE OF ALLAH. THE MOMENT WE STOP, WE WILL SINK INTO THE TEMPTATION. We need to constantly to dhikr- remembrance of Allah

SUBHAAN- this is a specific form of the word, like subhaan , it signifies ABUNDANCE

So if I say subhaan relating to talking about how perfect Allah is, subhaan means how ABSOLOUTLY PERFECT ALLAH IS! HOW AMAZINGLY FLAWLESS ARE YOU,

KA-attached pronoun meaning YOU referring to Allah
ALLAHUMA- YA ALLAH
WA BI HAMDIKA-4 words

Wa- AND

Bi- and with

Hamdi- PRAISE

And with praise

KA- your (to show possession)
AND WITH YOUR PRAISE
HOW amazingly perfect are you with your praise!
WA TA BARAKA- Comes from the root of the word BARAQAH, not just blessing, BLESSINGS THAT ARE LONG LASTING and BLESSINGS THAT PERPETUALLY INCREASE.

Baqraqah- the root word, means long lasting blessings

To further explain what this word means lets look at derivates
BIRKAH – refers to HUGE pond, water that has been sitting around for a long time, 100s of years.

BARAKAL BAEERU- camels, they are very interesting animals, even in their behavior. They are very obedient and very loyal but THEY ACT IN PRINCIPLE, (dogs are loyal and obedient, even if you abuse it. It still remains loyal to you) however NOT camels, if you abuse camels, it will let you know.

So when a camel becomes aggravated, they will SIT DOWN. Then you CANNOT make it move. You cant move it. It puts up the fight of his life. When it does that, its called BARKAL BAEERU
TABAARAKA is an exaggerated form of word, means MOST BLESSED
ISMUKA-

ISM- name

KA- your

Most blessed is your name!

We are speaking with Allah
Why say Allahs name is blessed? Why not say most blessed is YOU, most blessed is Allah? TABARAKTA means most blessed are you.

Why say name?

2 reasons

1^st If someone’s NAME is most blessed, imagine how much more blessed that person must be

Its a powerful way of making the point.

2^nd thing, how do we seek blessings from Allah? Allah is the sole source but how do we get it? By the NAME OF ALLAH, WHEN YOU START SOMETHING, WHAT DO YOU START WITH? You say BISMILLAH, when you intend to do something INSHALLAH, when you are impressed by something MASHALLAH,

You seek blessings in your life this way at all times!
WA TA AA LAA

TAA LAA- means for something to be very very high. Means how amazingly high, most high

JADUKA-

JAD-in arabic means RESOLVE, determination,

For humans jad can mean will power,

So we are speaking to Allah, YOUR RESOLVE IS MOST HIGH

Means your resolve, your determination, SUPERSEDES and OVERIDES anyone and anything else.

So when Allah has destined that something will happen, nothing can stop it or change it!

WA LAA ILAAHA

WA- and

LAA- no
However there are 2 types of LAA- normal laa (no) and then there is a special la which means (ABSOLOUTLY NOT!) (NO WAY, NO HOW, ABSOLOUTLY NO) It removes ANY room for any exception to be made in any way or shape fo form.

How do you tell difference between the 2 types of LAA?

This is special La, it means ABSOLOUTLY NO,

ILAA means someone of something that is object of worship

ABSOLOUTLY POSITIVELY NO ONE IS WORTHY OF WORSHIP
GHAYROOKA

GHAYR- other than

KA- you

There is NOTHING worthy of worship other than YOU.

AND MOST BLESSED IS YOUR NAME

AND MOST EXALTED IS YOUR RESOLVE AND DETERMINATION

AND ABSOLOUTLY POSTIVELY THERE IS NO ONE WORHTY OF WORSHIP OTHER THAN YOU
The theme of this supplication is the praise and glorification of Allah
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The first 2 supplications are Prophetic Supplications

THIS SUPPLICATION is derived from versus of Quran. This is a QURANIC SUPPLICATION

THE THEME of this supplication is: MISSION STATEMENT OF A BELIEVER, this supplication teaches us, solidifies us, with what are the objectives of our lives, what is the purpose of our lives, and why we live life.
WAJAHTU – literally means I have turned my face-It comes from the root of the word FACE. Its like the face being verbified. This is why translations DON’T always work. We need to build familiarity with nuances of the word. They have rhetoric and expressions.

When someone says WHATS UP but if you break t down linguistically it doesn’t make sense. Why would I be asking you “tell me items that are facing upword or have a location above me?”…

“Ill get by”-

These are phrases,

Why do we assume Arabic doesn’t have expressions?

We somehow feel Quran can be studied word for word

You have to understand EXPRESSIONS and various functions of the language.

When you are referring to the WHOLE by mentioning the portion (steve jobs released ipad, did steve job do it? No, APPLE did it) But since Steve jobs is the most important person in apple you can say that. Sometimes you talk about whole by mentioning a portion because it is the most important part.

THE MOST RESEPCTABLE NOBLE PART OF OUR BODY IS THE FACE

Its how we are identified

Does a driver license have a picture of your hand on it? No its has your FACE

THE FACE IS THE NOBLITY OF THE BODY, IT IS THE IDENTIFIER!

In Arabic above means

I HAVE TURNED MY FACE MEANS- I HAVE DEDICATED MYSELF, I HAVE COMMITED MYSELF TO SOMETHING

It’s an expression.
WAJHIYA-COMPLETLY

WAJ- face

IY- my

My face
I have COMMITTED MYSELF COMPLETELY

Look at the salah, FIQH question

In the Quran, Allah told us to pray towards Kabah

Turn your FACE towards masjid alhraam

TURN YOUR FACE

It says turn your face. If I LITERALLY TAKE THE AYAH,

Can you pray like that? Can I have my face in the direction while sujood and ruku?

WAJAHTU

I HAVE COMMITED MYSELF COMPLETELY AND WHOLE HEARTEDLY

LILALDHEE

Li- (laam) in arabic language it means FOR THE SAKE OF

Aladhee- the one who

I have committed myself to the one who…FATARA

FA TA RA- Normally this word is translated as CREATED.

Ibn Abbas- great scholar of tafsir, he said I was confused about KHALAQAH and FATARA

He said when Ibn Abbas and I would travel, people came to him to get a question answered and they were fighting over a well, who the well belonged to

First one said THIS well belongs to me, I purchased the land and the well is inside the land so I purchased the well

He asked the 2^nd person- I AM THE ONE WHO FATARAD the well

It doesn’t just mean CREATE, create is general, you can take 2 things and plop them together and make something CREATE something new

But FA TA RA means ORIGINATE. To make something new,

to bring something into existence for the first time.

FA TA RA means HE ORIGINATED
I HAVE COMPLETELY WHOLE HEARTEDLLY DEDICATED MYSELF FOR THE ONE WHO HAS ORGINATED
AS SA MAA –plural of skies

WAL ARD- and the ground

When used TOGETHER, it refers to SKY AND THE GROUND

HANEEFAN-

Lets look at what is means by looking at another word

AHNAF- anyone know what pigeon toes are like-walks with feet inward. But some people have major problems, their feet are severely turned inwards. We don’t see it as much, now we have way to fix it. In classical times you would see people like that, people whose feet were very turned it. So when they walked, their feet would go towards the center

RAJULOON AHNDAR

HA NA FIYA- water tap

Why? Imagine a huge tank of water, what does the faucet do? It FOCUSES water, stream lines all that water into drain

HANEEF- means FOCUSED
I have whole heartedly dedicated myself for the one who originated the heavens and earth and I WILL REMAIN COMMITTED TO THIS (HANEEFAN) I am focused, no looking right and left
WA- and
MAA- one of the most difficult words to figure out, MA in some places means NO, in some places it means WHAT, in some places means THAT WHICH, (sentence connector) Ma has drastically different uses.

MA- means NO, it’s a negative something

To negate an idea, a concept, a possibility to negate something people have preconceived notions about. This is extracted from the statement of IBRAHIM (alayhisalaam)

The mushrikoon used to claim to follow him

WA MAA ANA- And I AM NOT

Min- form

ALMUSHRIKEEN- those people who associate partners with Allah
Mushrikeen- comes from the root of SHIRK, linguistically this also means TO PARTNER.

That’s why in modern Arabic a public trading company is SHA RIKAH, because you can become a partner in it

I AM NOT FROM THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE PARTNERS WITH ALLAH
INNA- its for emphasis, its used to remove DOUBT, it means MOST DEFINETLY, certainly
SALAH- Prayer (worship)

TI- MY
Most definitely my worship, my prayer
WA –and

NUSOOK- Plural of the word NASEEKA

In classical Arabic refers to the tools which are used to purify gold and silver. What ever the tools the person uses is called nasseeka, It literally means TOOLS USED TO CLARIFY in the ISLAMIC context it refers to SACRIFICES, the difficulties we endure,

Most definitively my prayer and my sacrifices
WA -and
MAHYAA- its comes from the root word HAYAAT(meaning life) . Whenever you have this form, it’s the “-ING” version of a word. This means MY LIVING

Hayaat is interesting word in classical Arabic.

HAYAA- modesty (because in modesty is the quality of life!!)

Istihyaa- to shy away from something , to back away from something, to become embarrassed or shy. You are trying to protect your dignity

HAYWAAN- a living creature, that has life.
HAYA ALASALAH- from adthaan, normally means come to salah- NO it doesn’t!

HAYA in Arabic language form the root word meaning LIFE, hayya means LIVE (structure you life)

ALAA- on top of (based on)

SALAH- salah

STRUCTURE YOUR LIFE BASED ON SALAH

There is a very important lesson in that for us!. Our attitude in terms of salah is that we make salah a burden, something we “add on” or “Squeeze” into ourschedule. We need to WORK AROUND OUR LIFE based on salah. Work, school, family, friends. Everything else is priority but not salah.

In the HOME, at home, at wok, YOU SHOULD HAVE A FIXED TIME for salah. That’s called dedication for salah.
YA-my
FIX the time of salah

THAT’S HOW YOU TEACH YOUR KIDS HOW TO PRAY,

By showing them the importance!!!

Its how you bring them up!

Its how you raise them!!

YOU need to SHOW THEM it’s a priority FOR YOU

Prophet forbade person to pray when distracted by human needs

WE ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH EVERYTHING ELSE EXCEPT SALAH!

HAYATUN- means snake. The word for snake in Arabic comes form the root word meaning LIFE

1. 
   The arabs sometimes having the habit of giving the name of opposite. So since snakes takes lives they gave it hayatun
   
2. 
   Snakes shed, so when ancient arabs saw shedding they thought it was giving life to itself.
   
3. 
   When ancient arabs saw snake for the first time, since it sits in a coil, they associated it with how you can tell how old tree is by looking at its rings.So snake tells you how long its been alive by showing you its coils
   

WA -and

MA MAA T- comes from the word MAWT- meaning DEATH. The form is in the ING version, so means my dying
MY living and my dying
LILLAHI- is for Allah.

Letter Lam- for
IS FOR ALLAH
RABIL ALMEEN

RAB- lord, master

Alaamaeen- nations
LA- special la,
SHAREEK- means partner, comes form same root word as shirk
LA HOO-

Letter Lam- for

HOO- Him (Allah)
There are absolutely no partners for Him
WA -and

BI- based on

DHAALIKA- that
AND BASED ON THAT, this idea, that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah
OOMIRTU-

Root word means command. Its passive meaning

I HAVE BEEN COMMANDED, I have been told
And based on that I have been commanded. That is what I have been told to implement.

WA ANA and I

MIN- from
ALMUSLIMEEN- Those who submit WE WILL TALK ABOUT MORE TOMMOROW.

AND I AM WITH THOSE WHO SUBMIT

And I am focused, And I am most definitely not one of those people who commit shirk

My prayers, my sacrifices, my living, and even my dying is for ALLAH ALONE, his rabulalaameen, He is the master of the day of judgment

That is what I have been commanded to live by, to spread, and I amongst the muslims
Its gives clarity-who we are
2.03 ISTIADAH

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There is an extended version also

AOODHU- comes from the root word AL AWDTH means TO CLING TO SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF PROTECTION for a sense of security. Means awdth

In classical Arabic, they would say a fawn (baby deer) CLINGS to its mother, its constantly standing next to the mother, constantly maintaining physical contact. It does that for the sake of protection. The arabs would call the fawn AWD

AOO DHOO means- I TAKE PROTECTION
ISTIADHAH- means to take protection

The translation “I SEEK REFUGE” is wrong,

The letters “seen” and “ta” add the meaning of SEEKING to a word

Do you hear seen or ta in AUDHU? NO .Its not seek , its I TAKE protection

Because when supplicating to Allah for something, to be a little insistent is loved by Allah.

O ALLAH I NEED YOUR PROTECTION! I NEED IT NOW! You are insisting! The Prophet pbuh used to do this

On the night before the battle of badr, Prophet pbuh was saying O ALLAH YOU HAVE TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE, IF WE DIE, NO ONE WILL WORSHIP YOU PROPERLY ON THE EARTH.

It shows the DESPERATION of the person

AOODHU- I TAKE PROTECITON
BILLAHI

Letter Ba- with

Allah
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

INSERT QURANIC AYAH

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.

INSERT QURANIC AYAH

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

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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