Mufti Menk – Does Salaah Mean Prayers

			Today, I wish to highlight one of the
		

			most blessed and most powerful acts of worship.
		

			You and I know that Allah
		

			has
		

			prescribed upon us the 5 daily prayers
		

			known as As Salah.
		

			The term a salah does not translate as
		

			prayer,
		

			but the word prayer is probably the closest
		

			to try and explain the term salah.
		

			Because if we were to say prayer in
		

			the English language and if I were to
		

			ask you to pray,
		

			people who don't know would probably supplicate
		

			and engage in what we know as dua,
		

			which is also called prayer. May Allah
		

			grant us an understanding.
		

			But I'm referring to the 5 daily prayers
		

			that start with a beautiful intention and then
		

			the words Allahu Akbar, raising our hands and
		

			placing them
		

			where Allah has instructed us to place them,
		

			and then ending it with Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullah
		

			on the right side and so on. So
		

			that is a salah.
		

			It is by far one of the most
		

			important acts of worship but within the salah
		

			there is a certain position
		

			that is by far the loftiest, the most
		

			loved by Allah. The highest position
		

			considered the position wherein which
		

			the son of Adam, meaning humankind,
		

			would be the closest to his Lord. SubhanAllah.
		

			The closest that a worshiper could be to
		

			his hub, to his Lord
		

			is
		

			what is it? Wahuwah sajid.
		

			The the position of sujud, prostration.
		

			When you put your head on the ground
		

			for Allah in a specific way during the
		

			5 daily prayers, there is no position
		

			that can be closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		

			Ta'ala
		

			than that in terms of a worshipper trying
		

			to gain that closeness to Allah.