Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Would It Be Considered Sinful Not to Repeat Salawat
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If we are
listening to something or at a class where
the name of the prophet is
mentioned many times, would it be sinful not
to repeat salawat, the, you know, the sending
of blessings
many times?
So that's a thoughtful question. May Allah
bless you. The basic ruling is that if
the name of our beloved messenger is
mentioned,
it is Wajib,
it is a religious duty
to
send blessings upon him once in each gathering
where his name is mentioned.
If his name is repeated, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
it is
recommended
to repeat the sending of blessings on the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So that is the the optimal thing to
do is to send blessings upon him every
time his name is mentioned,
but the
obligation is fulfilled
by sending blessings upon him, salallahu
alaihi wasalam, once
in any gathering. But one is missing out.
The prophet salallahu alaihi has commanded us
to send blessings upon
him. Indeed,
Allah
and his angels
are ever sending blessings on the prophet.
Oh, you who believe.
Send blessings upon
him and much peace. So
the duty is to send it send blessings
upon him once.
Repeating it is sunnah.
Some scholars said repeating it is wajib.
Repeating it is wajib. The answers on seekers
guidance
explain this, but our prophet
tells us
that A stingy person is the one in
whose presence I was mentioned and who doesn't
send blessings upon me. And then we should
strive to be people
of purposefulness,
of presence,
of consciousness,
not people of heedlessness and distraction. Oh, I
was kinda listening to a talk, but I
was also following Real Madrid,
in the Champions League, and I was kinda
doing this and kinda
No.
Live
a purposeful life. Live
a purposeful life. May Allah facilitate that for
for me first and foremost and for all
of you and for anyone who listens to
this and our loved ones.
So don't
drift
through life. Sail
purposefully
through the oceans of life.
And the same thing applies if one hears
his name, if one reads the name of
the prophet
it is a duty to pronounce
the the sending of blessings on our beloved
messenger
If you're reading a book, send blessings upon
him
The scholars of hadith would
argue that one of the things that distinguishes
us as
the the Muhaddithin,
as the people of hadith, is that we
spend all day
sending blessings on the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. Because every time they would narrate a
hadith or they write a hadith,
they would write out the salawat on the
prophet salawahu alayhi wa sallam and they would
send salawat with their tongues.
May Allah bless
the people of Hadith and
all the imams of the deen who are
the inheritors of the prophet
So every time you read the name of
the prophet
you should send blessings on him alayhis salatu
salam. Similarly,
if the name of a companion of the
prophet, sallallahu alayhi salam, is mentioned,
whether you hear it
or you read it,
Send the taradi.
Send,
the supplication that is befitting, which is
and or may Allah be well pleased with
him. Or
for a female companion or in the plural
May Allah be well pleased with them all.
Right?
Because Allah has declared the rank of the
companions. Right? And we have many answers related
to that, which you can
see in the requisite place. Similarly,
if the name of a scholar is mentioned,
you hear it or you read it, you
should say,
may Allah have mercy on them. You can
also
say
say
may Allah have mercy on them.
May Allah have mercy on them. These are
our connections
back to the prophet
These are the pillars
that have preserved the deen for us. Love
of them
is the straight path.
Guide us on the path that is straight.
What is the straight path?
The
path of those who've blessed before us. They're
those are the people who've walked on the
footsteps of the prophets.
Of
the voracious,
the champions of truth, the siddiqeen,
and the martyrs and the righteous
who walked in the footsteps of the prophets.
And what a good company they are. So
when you open a book of his you
know, you're reading something, you know, this is
not
entertainment.
Right? It is
a it's rising.
It is an act of rising.
Right? So you have we have adab when
we're listening to a class. We're not just
lying down whenever we you know? Sheikh Hamza
Yousef speaking. If he was sitting in your
living room, would you be lying down and,
you know, scratching your thigh and,
you know, fidgeting with your ear and picking
your nose? Of course not. Right? If you're
sitting in front of if Sheikh Hamza comes,
you sit up. So you're, you know, you
you're on YouTube. You're looking at a video
about,
the best cases for your wireless mic or
whatever.
Suddenly, a video of Sheikh Hamza comes up.
You click on it.
Sit
up. You sit up or pause it. Go
make
sit up. Maybe grab a
a cap
and listen.
Before you click play, say
At the end of listening to even a
clip, say
Right? Make du'a for the speaker.
Right?
Because they have given you something of eternal
worth.
May Allah be well pleased with them all.
So what are
what I learned from from my teachers such
as Sheikh Noor Keller is that the adab
with a scholar whose book one is reading
should be like
the adab the adab you would have in
their presence.
You're in the company
of Imam Al Haddad if you're reading his
book. If you read his book with adab,
of course, not a substitute for said studying
with with scholars in person, but you open
the book of assistance. You're not just sitting
there in pajamas lying down, feet
on your wall, blanket all around. You sit
up as best you can.
Uphold the adab that we know,
and
that reading will not be like the reading
of old.
Every time
a prophet is mentioned,
say,
alaihi salaam
or
or
say it in English, peace be upon him.
Of course, when you speak about the prophet
similarly.
See?
Send the salawat on him.
And
same with the companions,
with
the the scholars, with the righteous,
and it it extends further. You're mentioning someone
who's passed away of your family. Say, may
Allah have mercy on them.
Oh Allah forgive us and our brethren who've
preceded us in faith. That is the attitude
of the believer.
And in that,
right, we'll find a different
connection
to these matters. And keep in mind, of
course, every time you make dua for another,
what do the angels say?
Anytime you make dua for another,
we know from the hadith of the prophet
did the angels say,
and his folk and grant peace.
What do the angels say?
May you have the like of it.
May you have
Allah's
blessings upon you and the p and peace
upon you.
And what is blessings?
Her salah
is arrahmatulmakuratu
bi raafidarajatiwat
tadeem.
It is mercy
with raising in rank and
honoring.
Peace
is to have eternal peace and to to
be put at rest from all
fears and concerns.
It's a good deal. It's a good deal
to send blessings on the prophet
Similarly, when we say about a great one
of the Sahaba, Sayyidina Abu Hurairah,
who's mentioned.
We say that, may Allah be well pleased
with him. The angels
say, oh Allah, grant him
grant her the like of what they asked
for.
Like of what you asked for
say And imagine if you said that with
real
respect and love
for the
prophet for the Sahaba
for the righteous
Right?
Will more umam and ahab, a person will
be with those they love.
That's why when
the a man came to the prophet
and said, you Rasulullah,
a person may love a people, but they're
not at their level.
The prophet
said,
a person will be
with those they love.
Said the Anas ibn Malik
said, we did not rejoice
in Islam
with anything whatsoever
as much as we rejoiced
when the prophet
said,
a person shall be with those they love.
Then say the Anas who said, so by
Allah, I love Allah, and I love the
messenger of Allah, and I love Abu Bakr
and Umar, and
I ask Allah to resurrect me with them.
That is our deen.