{"id":6606,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/what-does-salah-mean\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:56","slug":"what-does-salah-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/what-does-salah-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Salah Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>We  find that during certain prayers we remain silent even though the  Qur&#8217;an directs us to utter our prayers in a moderate volume (neither too  loud nor too soft). Some would argue that verse of the Qur&#8217;an is  referring to Salaat the system of following Allah&#8217;s commands closely.  And it means call people to Allah&#8217;s way in a moderate manner (not too  aggressively neither too meekly).<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The  verse in question commands the Prophet (sws) to recite the Qur&#8217;an in  moderate tone in the prayer that is obligatory on his exclusively. This  we conclude form the fact that he taught the believers to pray in a  certain way. It inlcudes prayers which are said loudly and prayers which  are whispered. Then there are parts which are said loundly and parts  which are whispered. That the Prophet (sws) taught us the prayer this  way is established absolutely without a shadow of doubt. The Prophet  (sws) instituted the Prayer among the generation of the Companions and  they transmitted it to the next generation with their consensus. The  successors too received and passed it on. There has not been a singe  generation in the entire history of Muslims where the believers left the  prayer to be rediscovered later on. It has travelled through the  generations with thier consensus. This makes it absolutely authentic. <\/p>\n<div>Since  this is not this prayer which is referred to in the verse and since the  context leads us otherwise we believe that the directive is not  regarding the general prayer but the tahajjud prayer which was  specifically obligator for the Prophet (sws). The words used in the erse  and the style of expression does not allow us to take it to mean a  system of following Allah&#8217;s commands.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-05<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6606\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We  find that during certain prayers we remain silent even though the  Qur&#8217;an directs us to utter our prayers in a moderate volume (neither too  loud nor too soft). Some would argue that verse of the Qur&#8217;an is  referring to Salaat the system of following Allah&#8217;s commands closely.  And it means call people to Allah&#8217;s way in a moderate manner (not too  aggressively neither too meekly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[1159,1515,1402],"class_list":["post-6606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-prayer","tag-prayers","tag-salah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Does Salah Mean? - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/what-does-salah-mean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Does Salah Mean? - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We find that during certain prayers we remain silent even though the Qur&#039;an directs us to utter our prayers in a moderate volume (neither too loud nor too soft). 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