Sending Salawaat to our Prophet (ﷺ) - Nouman Ali Khan
With the 56th ayah of Suratul Ahzab, surah number 33,
another honor granted to our Messenger (ﷺ)
which is unlike any other honor granted
to any other human being.
Allah (عز و جل) says إِنَّ اللَّهَ
"No doubt about it, in fact Allah."
As if the word إِنَّ is used...
They say in Arabic, لِإِزَالَةِ الشَّكِّ,
to remove doubt.
So in other words,
what you're about to hear is so incredible,
it's gonna be hard to even believe.
How amazing this thing is.
"No doubt it is, Allah in fact,"
وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ
"and His angels,"
Now, how many angels are there?
Subhanallah!
For every human being there at least how many angels?
There's at least two on our shoulders, right?
So, the entire population of humanity is dwarfed
by the population of the angels.
And Allah says, "His angels."
Now all of them are His.
The entire legion of angels, all of them,
they do the same thing:
يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ
They send prayers upon the Prophet (ﷺ).
When the Prophet does something and we do it,
we say following the sunnah.
When he prays a certain way and we pray,
we're following his sunnah.
This act of saying, صلى الله عليه وسلم
The act of saying, اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمّدٍ
This act is a sunnah not just of the Prophet,
it's a Sunnah of all of Allah's angels,
and it's a sunnah of Allah Himself.
Allah Himself does salawat upon the Prophet (ﷺ).
This act is not just an emulation
of the prophetic behavior,
it's actually a deed of Allah Himself.
He Himself does salawat upon the Prophet (ﷺ).
Now He says, إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ
He could have said, فَصَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ
"Therefore you also send salawat."
He didn't say that.
He said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
"Those of you who believe,"
Believe in who?
Believe in Allah, believe in His angels,
believe in His Prophets.
Allah is saying, "I'm challenging your faith.
This is now a matter of your faith."
Can you imagine The One who created you,
The One who gave you guidance does this?
Are you doing it?
صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ
"Send salawat upon him."
يُكَثِّرُ مِنَ الصَّلَوَاتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ
Make more and more salawat upon the Prophet (ﷺ).
اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمّدٍ
Any opportunity you get,
send salawat upon His Rasul (ﷺ).
I was actually pretty shocked,
I was listening to a video,
a Sheikh was telling the story,
he has lots of thousands of people
that listen to his lectures and things like that,
and a brother came up to him
and said, "My mother wants to talk to you."
-"I would." -"She's in a village."
"And she's feeling sick."
And he said, "Among my students
there are a lot of doctors, they can help you."
"She specifically said that she wants to talk to you."
He said, "Okay I 'll go see her."
So he drives down to the village with them,
several hour drive,
and he goes to see this woman,
and she's old and huddled up in a corner,
maybe in her 90s.
And she said you know,
"Sheikh, I have a big problem.
I need to speak to you about it because..."
"What's the problem?"
She goes, "I have not seen Rasulullah (ﷺ)
in my dream for the last week."
"It's been seven days, almost,
I have not seen Rasul (ﷺ) in my dream."
The Sheikh is like, "Wait... uh?"
"You haven't seen him in your dream?"
"Does that mean you see him regularly?"
She goes, "Yeah, I've been seeing him every night
in the last 20 years."
"But the whole last week I haven't seen him."
"What have I done wrong?"
And the Sheikh himself just in complete shock, like...
The love this woman has,
every other word that comes out of her mouth,
she does something, she sends salawat upon Rasul (ﷺ).
She makes a du'a, she sends salawat upon Rasul (ﷺ).
The act of us connecting with Allah (عز و جل).
We connect with Allah (عز و جل) in our salah.
We drop everything.
And before we finish our prayers, what do we do?
اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ
The culmination of our prayer
is upon salawat upon the Prophet (ﷺ).
It's an incredible deed.
And it's a show of love to our Rasul (ﷺ),
and he'll give the gift of his ru'yah (the vision of him) in a dream.
May Allah grant us the vision of Rasul (ﷺ) in a dream,
you know, to those who demonstrate that love.
Allah says, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا
Not even سَلِّمُوا
سَلِّمُوا means send salam upon him.
وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا النَّبِيِّ سَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا
تَسْلِيمًا suggested the quality of salaam.
Taslim is actually kind of salutation or salute.
And you know there's a kind of lame salute,
and there's like a "Salute"!
Like a proper salute
when you're honoring the General, the Commander.
Show the proper respect to your Messenger
when you send salawat upon him (ﷺ).
There's one thing you should never get lazy
about is when you hear his name (ﷺ),
whether it's a pronoun or his name perfectly.
Calling him the Prophet, the Rasul,
we hear those words, we say (ﷺ) without fail.
Don't get tired of it. Don't get annoyed by it.
Be grateful that Allah gave you the honor
to fulfill one of his sunnahs,
by sending salawat upon His Nabi (ﷺ).
May Allah (عز و جل) give us the honor
of his syafa'ah in yaumal qiyamah,
his intercession in yaumal qiyamah,
and may Allah (عز و جل) strengthen our love
and our bond with His beloved Messenger (ﷺ),
with every passing breath.