| " Ignorant people who do not possess full understanding of the meaning inunediately raise the objection: 'How strange that AIlah commands us to send darud on His Prophet, but we, in return, implore AIlah that He should send it | Therefore, the meaning of giving the Command of sallu'alaihi to the believers for the Holy Prophet is: 'Be attached to him, praise and adore him and pray for him |
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| This was the rime when the enemies of Islam were making alI sorts of false allegations against the Holy Prophet in order to satisfy their jealousy on the success of Faith, By sullying him they thought they would destroy his moralinfluence through which Islam and the Muslims were gaining more and more ground every day | Thirdly, the same thing found in aII the daruds taught by the Holy Prophet is that he may be blessed with the same kindness with which Abraham and the followers of Abraham have been blessed |
By the al of a person arc understood aII those people who are his companions, helpers and followers, whether they are related to him or not, and his ahl are those who are related to him, whether or not they are his companions and followers.
23| They say that it has become a convention with the Muslims to use salat-o-salam exclusively for the Prophets | Such were the conditions when Allah sent down this verse, as if warn the people: "However Bard the disbelievers and the hypocrites and the polytheists might try to vilify and slander My Prophet with a view to frustrating his mission, they are bound to suffer disgrace and humiliation in the end, for I am kind to him, and the angels, who are administering the entire universe, are his supporters and admirers |
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| Bersalawatlah kalian untuk Nabi dan ucapkanlah salam penghormatan kepadanya yaitu katakanlah oleh kalian, "Allaahumma Shalli 'Alaa Sayyidinaa Muhammad Wa Sallim", artinya, "Ya Allah! " Muslim "The one who sends darud on me most often will deserve to remain close to me on the Day of Resurrection" Tirmidhi | Therefore, the inevitable demand of your gratitude to him is that you should regard him with an equal, or even greater love than the malice and grudge these people display against him; that you should show a greater attachment to him than the hatred these people show towards him; that you should praise and adore him even more fervently than they condemn him; that you should wish him well even more heartily than they wish him iII, and pray for him just as the angels do day and night, saying: "O Lord of the worlds: Just as Your Prophet has done us countless and endless favours, so do You also show him endless and limitless mercy: raise him to the highest ranks in the world and bless him with the greatest nearness to Yourself in the hereafter |
Similarly, the Holy Prophet also prayed for those who were not' prophets using the word sale on several occasions.
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