{"id":712,"date":"2013-09-27T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/v2\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-09-27T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:36:40","slug":"daaim-al-islam-salaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/misbah\/inthefatemilibrary\/daaim-al-islam-salaat\/","title":{"rendered":"Daaim al Islam: Salaat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The virtues of Salaat, the third pillar of Islam, are plentiful. Awliyaullah<sup>AS<\/sup>\u00a0have said, &#8220;Every being has a face by which it is identified; the face of your Deen is Salaat&#8221;. &#8220;Of the deeds of man, Allah will first look at Salaat; if a man has prayed only then will Allah judge his other deeds.&#8221; It is related that a man approached Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0asking him to pray for a place in heaven. Rasulullah<sup>SA<\/sup>\u00a0replied, &#8220;Help me with plenty of sujud.&#8221; Syedna Qadin No\u00e1man<sup>RA<\/sup>\u00a0begins the chapter by encouraging mumineen to be mindful of Salaat, and by admonishing those who do not pray. He then goes on to explain the principles of Salaat.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is related that the biggest cheat is the one who steals in his Salaat i.e. he who is heedless of Salaat. The Salaat of Awliyaullah<sup>AS<\/sup>\u00a0is exemplary and unparalleled. When Imam Zain ul Aabideen<sup>AS<\/sup> prayed, his face changed color. On being asked, he replied that when I pray I am standing in the presence of a Great Emperor. It is a mumin&#8217;s duty to follow this example, to pray with absolute focus and dedication. Any imperfections in a mumin&#8217;s Salaat, which are inevitable, are covered by sunnat and naafelat.<\/p>\n<p>The rewards of Salaat multiply by praying Imamat: 12 times in any assembly, 25 times in a masjid, 100 times in a Jame Masjid, 1000 times in Bait ul Muqaddas, 10,000 times in al Masjid un Nabawi in Medina Munawwarah, and 100,000 times in Baitullah. It has been related that a person who lives in the neighborhood of a masjid, he who hears the sound of the azaan, should indeed pray in the masjid.<\/p>\n<p>Allah has said, &#8220;A mumin is in the shadow of Allah&#8217;s rehmat as long as he remains in Salaat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virtues of Salaat, the third pillar of Islam, are plentiful. AwliyaullahAS\u00a0have said, &#8220;Every being has a face by which it is identified; the face of your Deen is Salaat&#8221;. &#8220;Of the deeds of man, Allah will first look at Salaat; if a man has prayed only then will Allah judge his other deeds.&#8221; It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empireuae.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}