The prayer of Salat al-Fatih is attributed to the great scholar, al-Qutb Abu Abdullah Sidi Mohammed al-Bakri Siddiqi of Egypt (d. 994/1585) (may Allah be satisfied with him) Transliteration: "Allahumma salli ' wa sallim was baarik ala Sayyidina Muhammadil nil-fatihi lima Ughliqa wal khatimi lima sabaqa wan-naa-siril-haqqi bil-haqqi wal-hadi ila Sirati-kal-mustaqima sal-lal-lahu 'alayhi wa 'ala alihi wa-ashaabihi haqqa qadrihi wa-miq-da rihil-'azim." Translation: "O God bless our Master Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) who opened what had been closed, and who is the Seal of what had gone before, he who makes the Truth Victorious by the Truth, the guide to Thy straight path, and bless his household as is the due of his immense position and grandeur." "In the words of Sidna Shaykh as read in the Jawahir al-Maani: "After I studied the prayer (of Salat al-Fatih) I realized that it excels the worship of all jinns, humans, and angles". And he said (may Allah be pleased with him): "The Apostle of Allah (peace and blessing be upon him) told me: 'No one has ever prayed on me with a prayer better than the one of Salat al-Fatih'." He said (may Allah be pleased with him): "That the residents of the Seven Skys and the Seven Earths congregate to describe the rewards of Salat al-Fatih they would have failed." And he said (may Allah be pleased with him): "What you have heard on the bounty of Salat al-Fatih is a drop in the sea compared to what is concealed." The Salat al-Fatih praises the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with four great traits: opening (al-Fath), sealhood (al-Khatm), victory (al-Nasr), and guidance (al-Hady). As such he is qualified as the promoter of the opening of everything that is concealed and blocked for all previous messengers. He is also described as director of law by law, attributed to him by God, and also, he is the guide of believers to Allah's path. Some have explained this opening by the first emergence of the Holy Prophet Sidna Mohammed (peace and blessing be upon him), being the first human being emerged from the big void, even before the genesis or the creation of the world. The Salat al-Fatih is not Sidna Shaykh's own. It had been inspired to another previous Shaykh, the great pole Sidi Abu Abdullah Mohammed al-Bakri Siddiqi of Egypt (d. 994/1585), who stated that one prayer of the prayer is worth the reward of six hundred thousand ordinary prayers. Verily, Salat al-Fatih is a divine matter which has no room for the mind intellect. If we were to estimate there are 100,000 nations each nation is made of 100,000 tribes each tribe is made of 100,000 men each one of those men lived for 100,000 years and recited 1,000 prayer upon the Prophet (other than Salat al-Fatih) every day of their lives then the reward (thawab) for all of these nations along all these years would not catch up with the reward of one times of reciting Salat al-Fatih."" -excerpt from http://sidratulmuntaha786.wordpress.c...

• published: 29 Sep 2015
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