importance of salat

Importance of SalatMAJLIS KHUDDAMUL AHMADIYYA CANADA

What is Salat?

What is Salat?• Salat is the daily obligatory prayer prescribed to Muslims

• One of the Five Pillars of Islam

• Universal Direction - Qibla

• Offered 5 Times a Day• Fardh, Sunnat, Nawafil, Wajib

• Prescribed Form• Qiyam, Ruku, Sajdah, Qa’dah, Taslim

Condition of Bai`at The 3rd Condition of Bai`at states;

“That he/she shall regularly offer the five dailyPrayers in accordance with the commandments ofGod and the Holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH and shalltry his/her best to be regular in offering the tahajjudand invoking durood on the Holy ProphetMuhammad PBUH…”

Importance of Salat

• Prescribed Form

• Ahadith

• Writings from Promised Messiah AS

• Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V AA

• Faith Inspiring Incidents

Salat – Importance of Prescribed Form

“Who believe in the Unseen and Observe Prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them” (Surah Al-Baqarah: Verse 2)

- The Qur`an commands that Salat is mandatory, but through the Sunnat of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) we get instructions on how to formally offer our prayers

- Prescribed Form refers to offering prayers in a formal structure

- It is crucial that our prayers are in correspondence with the form of the Holy Prophet (pbuh)

Prescribed Form

Adhan Iqamah Niyyah Qiyam Ruku Qa`dah Taslim

Ahadith – Salat

Ahadith – Salat

What is the effect of taking a bath 5 times a day in this river?

Ahadith – Salat

Hazrat Abu Hurairah ra has related that he heard the Holy Prophet pbuh saying, ‘Tell me if one of you had a stream running at his door and he should take a bath in it five times everyday, would any dirt be left upon him?’ He was answered, ‘No dirt would be left on him.’ The Holy Prophet pbuh observed, ‘This is the case of the five Prayers. Allah wipes out all faults in consequence of them.’

Sahih Al-Bukhari

Ahadith – Salat

The Messenger of Allah PBUH said: “The first thing that Allah made obligatory upon my Ummah was the five prayers; and the first thing from their acts of worship that shall be taken up will be the five prayers; and the first thing that they will be questioned about will be the five prayers.”

Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18859

Ahadith – Salat

The Messenger of Allah PBUH said: “The prayer is the standard of Islam. Whosoever loves prayers, and observes their limits, timings and methods, is a true believer.”

Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18870

Guidance from Hazrat Masih Mau`ud RA

Hazrat Masih Mau`ud AS

“The Prayer is so powerful that the heavens incline towards the human with it. The one who does full justice to Prayers feels that he has died; his soul has melted and fallen at the threshold of Allah... A house in which Prayer is offered in this manner will never face destruction...”

(Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 3, p. 627)

Hazrat Masih Mau`ud AS

“So all ye people who count yourselves as members of my Jama`at, in heaven you shall be counted members of my following only when you truly being to advance on the paths of righteousness. Offer your five daily Obligatory Prayers with such concentration and awe of mind as though you were seeing God in front of you.”

Kashti-e-Nuh, Ruhani Khaza`in Vol 19 p. 15

Guidance from Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V AA

Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V AA

“Salat also means to seek God’s mercy and forgiveness, to supplicate, to be compassionate towards God’s creation and fulfil one’s obligations to them, and to offer durood to the Holy Prophet. Thus when we observe Sabr and Salat, God’s help will be with us, and all our endeavours will be made easier for us. A believer’s duty is to take his worship and his efforts to the utmost limit and then leave the result to God”

Friday Sermon November 22nd 2013

Faith Inspiring Incidents

Faith Inspiring Incidents “..The outbreak of plague in India was one of the signs of the truthfulness of the Promised Messiah AS in that Allah had informed him that people who had come into his ‘household’ would be saved from the disease.

Indeed, during this time the Promised Messiah’s AS own young son, Hazrat Mirza Sharif Ahmad (grandfather of Khalifatul Masih V) fell ill with high fever and at night time his condition deteriorated.

The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) was extremely distressed at the thought that people would imagine that the boy had the plague. He did his ablutions and stood for Salat. Very soon into his Salat he was granted the state that is a manifest sign of acceptance of prayer.

He experienced two visions and indeed when he finished his Salat, his son’s fever was totally gone.”

Friday Sermon August 25th 2006

Faith Inspiring Incidents Hazrat Chaudhry Ameer Muhammad Khan sahib narrates an incident, where his wife was under treatment in a clinic for a foot condition and had undergone several surgeries yet the foot condition had not improved.

The nurse suggested that it may be best to cut the foot at the ankle so that the limb does not become gangrenous as well. After consultation within his household, he gave the consent for the amputation.

As he was not allowed into the operation theatre, he decided to offer supererogatory prayers, and supplicated: O Lord, You are The Most Omnipotent and have power over everything. Please save my wife’s foot from being amputated and from her becoming handicapped for the rest of her life.

After he finished his supplication, he was told that the surgeon refused to amputate the foot and decided to operate on it himself, and thus his wife was saved from this lifelong handicap.

Friday Sermon June 15th 2006

Faith Inspiring Incidents A mu’allim from Benin, Zakaria sahib writes that an Ahmadi’s child went missing. He searched all over the place and had it announced on the radio that his child had gone missing. With no results, he lost hope.

The mu’allim told him that it was a sin to lose hope and asked him to pray, saying he too would pray. The father fell down in prostration before God and prayed to God pleading that he was the only one in the area who had accepted the Imam of the age. He pleaded to God, ‘Your Imam is certainly true, for the sake of his truth, return my child to me.’

After finishing a prolonged prayer, as he returned home from the route where he had lost the child, he saw his child alive in the jungle. He says that this was a living miracle of the truth of Hazrat Imam Mahdi (on whom be peace) for him.

Friday Sermon September 2nd 2011

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