Darood o Salaam-Blessings
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
The Excellence of Durood Shareef (“Divine Blessings”)
“Surely Allah and His Angels send blessings on the Holy Prophet ﷺ. Oyou who believe! Send Blessings (Durood) and Salutations (Salaams) on the Prophet with worthy Salutation”.(33/56)
In Arabic as “Salawat”, in Persian as “Durood”, and in Urdu as “Salawat-o-Salaam”.
Divine blessings on Sayyiduna Rasoolullah ﷺ is the highest and the most meritorious act in our Deen. This “Divine Blessings” is called Durood Shareef.
Durood Shareef is actually “a Du’a in praise of the Holy Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Some of the new generation Muslim youth have in essence reduced him to a Prophet alone, who came with a message sent by God. They believe his value lies in the message he brought rather than in the personality itself. Unfortunately this is a misguided and erroneous concept. They argue that Islam is based not on love but on obedience alone. Extreme love and reverence for the Holy Prophet ﷺfor them has become irrelevant in Islam.
Religious practices comprises the body of Islam.
The extreme love and reverence of the Holy Prophet ﷺconstitutes the soul of the body. Both the body and the soul are combined to make a human.
Darood o salaam is one manner in developing a spiritual attachment to prophet(ﷺ).
Intense and overwhelming love too acts as a vehicle for the acceptance of worship.
If there is any deficiency in subservience, it can be compensated with love. Any deficiency in love cannot be compensated with subservience. Subservience without love is ostentation and hypocrisy. Such subservience is spurned on the face of the performer.
We should be satisfied that if it is carried away by angels, they perform their duties and if it reaches directly, it is the quality of divinely bestowed excellence and miracles of the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). If it does not reach and is not responded to, why was it ordered? Its commandment is the reason for it’s being accepted. However, since this has become an area of confusion let us look at the controversy surrounding this debate.
The reciter of Durood Shareef receives all the benefits in this world and utmost gain in the next world with addition to the love of the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
Durood Shareef is immediately accepted by Allah Ta’ala.
No one can doubt its acceptance, as Durood Shareef is being recited by Allah Ta’ala too.
Not only this, but He has revealed this secret in the Holy Quran by saying:Wara fa’na laka zikrah “Have I not exalted thy name.”
The soul is the soil where the faith of Allah is to be implanted firmly and faithfully which requires continuous recitation of Durood Shareef to thrive and flourish.
Durood Shareef is itself Light and when Light enters the soul every aspiration is achieved and every goal is won.
The highest blessings which Islam has conferred on man is the concept of Tauheed or Unity of Allah in its purest form.
Arabic is the language of Heaven, it is the language of Sayyiduna Rasoolullah ﷺ, it is the language of the Angels and it is the language of Hazrat Abu-Bakr(ra), Hazrat Umar(ra), Hazrat Uthman (ra)and Hazrat Ali (ra).
When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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