Random Facts about Prayers - Part 6

by Syed Adam Alhabshi

This is a simple series on some interesting facts on our obligatory prayers. For all of the articles in this series please click here.

Fact 9: The Three Recitations in Ruku’ and Sujud

I learned in my sprirtual class that there is a hadith reported by Abu Hurairah that the Prophet mentioned if you read subhana rabbial azimi (in ruku’) and subhana rabbial a’la (in sujud) once, one-third of your body is forbidden to enter Jahannam.

Therefore, reciting it three times would free your whole body from entering Jahannam (Hellfire).

So do not rush in "employing" these magnificent bodyguards the next time you pray. 

Read it slowly and take your time to do so. Discover its meaning and also pray and hope that it will be our shield from entering Jahannam. 

In this era, we will certainly need all the firewall and anti-Jahannam software/hardware we can get!

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Random Facts about Prayers - Part 5

by Syed Adam Alhabshi

This is a simple series on some interesting facts on our obligatory prayers. For all of the articles in this series please click here.

Fact 8: Tahiyyat/Tashahud

This is the recitation of tahiyyat/tashahud that is common to Malaysians as we are taught this in school.

  

“All compliments, blessed words, prayers, pure words are due to Allah. Peace be on you, O Prophet, and also the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Peace be on us and on the righteous slaves of Allah. I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (in another narration: ... is His slave and messenger).”

I was once told that the tahiyyat that we read in our prayers is actually the beginning of a three party conversation.

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Faith Fridays - The Social Justice of Umar ibn al-Khattab by Alyas Karmani [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new.

If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us".

This weekend YMP will be hosting Paying it Forward as part of our Ramadhan Chit Chat Series. Check out the event here. As such this week's video will focus on the charity work and social justice.

Alyas Karmani is a social justice activist in the UK that has been involved in anti-racism work since his early teens. He has previously worked in universities and governments with regards to social policy covering a wide range of issues - mental health, housing, HIV/AIDS, religion and religious discrimination. He is a regular khateed at mosques in the UK and has shared the stage with Tawfique Chowdhury and Khalid Yasin.

In this video he explains a little about Amir al-Mu'minin Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra) whose reign was the first time social policy was put into place and how this has evolved into welfare that we see today. He ends with a beautiful story of Caliph Umar and his wife and how they attended to the health and well being of a poor family in their city.

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Random Facts about Prayers - Part 4

by Syed Adam Alhabshi

This is a simple series on some interesting facts on our obligatory prayers. For all of the articles in this series please click here.


Tonight is the 25th night. If tonight is Lailatul Qadr and you put into practice our tip for today it could be the equivalent of asking for forgiveness for your parents for 1000 months.

Fact 8: Seeking Forgiveness For Your Parents

I have mentioned in Fact 7 that there are many recitations that we can memorise to add more spice to our prayer. There’s a lot to pick from. I would suggest that you take those which are the shortest and most familiar to you. Practice it before thinking of adding any other. Better to be steadfast than to just do things in one go and forget about it later on.

One of the shortest extra recitation for ruku’ is Allahumaghfirli (O Allah, please forgive me) and for sujud is Rabbighfirli (My Lord, please forgive me). Maybe I could suggest you to start with these two first. It adds an extra objective to our prayers i.e. to seek Allah’s forgiveness.

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Random Facts about Prayers - Part 3

by Syed Adam Alhabshi

This is a simple series on some interesting facts on our obligatory prayers. For all of the articles in this series please click here.

Fact 5: Synchronization

There are numerous hadith in Sahih Muslim that state that the Prophet mentioned that when we utter "amin" after surah Alfatihah in a jama’ah prayer and when the Imam says: "Allah listens to him who praises Him." and we reply: "O Allah, our Lord for Thee is the praise” (rabbana walakal hamd), if what we say synchronises with the angels in the heaven, our past sins will be forgiven.

How cool is that?

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