Salam,
The basic foundation of the
salat in the Quran is to worship God and God alone. We worship God by making the
following in our salat:
Remembrance of Him
"Verily, I am Allah:
There is no god but I: So serve thou Me (only), and establish regular prayer
for celebrating My praise. (Surah 20:14)
Magnify Him
Say: "Praise be to
Allah, who begets no son, and has no partner in (His) dominion: Nor (needs) He
any to protect Him from humiliation: yea, magnify Him for His greatness and
glory!"
Praise Him
And during part of the
night, (also,) celebrate His praises, and (so likewise) after the postures of
adoration. (Surah 50:40)
Be constant in prayer and
ask provision
Enjoin prayer on thy people,
and be constant therein. We ask thee not to provide sustenance: We provide it
for thee. But the (fruit of) the Hereafter is for righteousness. (Surah 20:132)
Glorify and Commemorate His
Names
And glorify the name of
their Guardian-Lord, and (lift their hearts) in prayer.
Seek help with patience
O ye who believe! Seek help
with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently
persevere. (Surah 2:153)
And in no wise covet those
things in which Allah Hath bestowed His gifts More freely on some of you than
on others: To men is allotted what they earn, and to women what they earn: But
ask Allah of His bounty. For Allah hath full knowledge of all things. (Surah
4:32)
Most
important salat is to worship God alone and the places of worship is for God alone
This is a pledged that we
have made when we say:
"Truly, my prayer and
my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are (all) for Allah, the
Cherisher of the Worlds: (Surah 6:162)
"And the places of
worship are for Allah (alone): So invoke not any one along with Allah; (Surah
72:18)
All these supplication and
praise to glorify Him can be found in the Quran to make our salat complete and
meaningful. In spite of these fundamentals which were brought by our Muhammad
the Messenger of Allah (Pbuh) in the Quran, the hadith pundits falsify some of
these fundamentals and in the process contaminated the basic fundamental of
genuine salat practiced by the Messenger of Allah.
The most intriguing and
preposterous schemes that they did were imposing the following falsehoods which
contradict to the worship of God alone in our salat, this is with regard to the
utterance of the “tashahhud” in the salat which when read give the following
meanings:
All greetings belong to Allah,
all righteousness is due to Allah. All the best prayers are for the sake of Allah.
Peace, mercy and blessing of Allah be
upon you, O Prophet, may peace be upon us and on the devout slaves of
Allah. I testify that there is no god but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is his messenger.
O God, send your mercy on Muhammad and his family as you send your mercy on Abraham and his family. O God, send your blessings on Muhammad and his
family as you have blessed Abraham and his family. You are the Most praised, the
Most Glorious.
In the above “tashahhud”
there are several falsehoods that can be observed:
When one says “Peace, mercy
and blessing of Allah be upon you, O Prophet!” This means one is immortalizing
the Prophet to be at par with the Living God. The Prophet has long been dead
and for those who do not accept this incurred God’s displeasure as He said:
Muhammad is no more than a
messenger: many were the messenger that passed away before him. If he died or
were slain, will ye then turn back on your heels? If any did turn back on his
heels, not the least harm will he do to Allah; but Allah (on the other hand)
will swiftly reward those who (serve Him) with gratitude. (Surah 3:144)
The other fabrication in the
“tashahhud” is testifying or bearing witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
God. Only Allah bear witness that Muhammad is His messenger so those who bear
witness according to Allah are liars:
When the Hypocrites come to
thee, they say, "We bear witness that thou art indeed the Messenger of Allah."
Yea, Allah knoweth that thou art indeed His Messenger, and Allah beareth
witness that the Hypocrites are indeed liars. (Surah 63:1)
The other falsehood in the
“tashahhud” is that God had blessed Abraham and his family. It is wrong to say
that God had send His blessing to all the families of Abraham as the father a
family member was never blessed by God as shown by the following verse:
It is not fitting, for the Prophet and those
who believe, that they should pray for forgiveness for Pagans, even though they
were of kin, after it is clear to them that they are companions of the Fire. And Abraham prayed for his father's
forgiveness only because of a promise he had made to him. But when it became
clear to him that he was an enemy to Allah, he dissociated himself from him:
for Abraham was most tender-hearted, forbearing. (Surah 9:113-114)
Thus for those who are not
yet hooked to the hadith they can eliminate the “tashahhud” by replacing with verses of the Quran which praise and glorify
Allah, a good one is the “Ayatul Kursi” at Surah 2:255.
Asar
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