{"id":789,"date":"2019-01-13T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slpeeran.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2019-01-13T16:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:59:41","slug":"the-virtues-of-prayers-namaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/the-virtues-of-prayers-namaz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virtues of Prayers (Namaz)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Man has to believe\nand consider himself as a vicegerent on this beautiful mysterious planet Earth.\nVicegerent of an Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Ever living, Everlasting Lord, the\nMost Perfect Being, who is always and constantly Beneficial, Merciful, Kind, Loving,\nForgiving Sustainer, a Tremendous Being with umpteen matchless qualities. Man\nhas to humble himself in total submission and surrender before that\nEverlasting, Ever living Lord who is neither begotten nor begets any \u201cbeing\u201d as\na like one in the form of a wife, mother, father or a son. The Lord as a Being;\nis totally perfect and alone stands without a Guide and anyone giving Him\ncouncil. The Lord is Self Sustaining All Alone (Wahid) and (Samad) without any\npartner to share His business and His command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man as a vicegerent\nhas to merely submit himself virtuously forever and ever and at all times with\nfull devotion and submission, without challenging the authority of the Supreme\nBeing. Man has to ever praise the Lord of all creations and all beings in the\nuniverse. The universe itself is created by a word of command (Kun) and it has\ncome into being (Fayakuun). None has the power to change a word of command\nexcept Himself. There is no interceptor other than Himself save as those\npermitted and accepted by Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For erring soul\nof man, the Great Being Allah has been an Ever Guide, a Master, a Friend, a\n\u2018Moula\u2019 and \u2018Naseer\u2019. All have to submit to Him unquestionable without\nchallenging His ever Greatness (Allah hu Akbar). Allah has been guiding His\nProphet Messengers, to pass on the message to the Mankind so as to prevent man\nbecome niggardly, disobedient mischievous and misguided by man\u2019s eternal enemy\nSatan, the Iblis, the Shaitan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the\nforemost command of Allah to man to surrender and submit before the full Eminence\nand Greatness of His supreme existence and obey His commands sent through His\nlast Prophet Hazreth Mohammad Mustaffa (SAS). Allah has commanded to ever be\nobedient and loving to His last Prophet Mohammad (SAS) as he is the light\n(Noor) of the universe (Noorullah) and has brought the Book (Holy Quran) as an\neternal guide to the niggardly error filled slippery man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most\nfundamental principal and command of Allah is to declare His \u2018Wahdaniyat\u2019\n(Allah sovereignty and unity of Godhood) and Risalat (Prophethood) of Prophet\nMohammad (SAS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second\ncommand is to praise Allah all the time and more so to cleanse himself and be\nin a state of inner and outer purity (Tuhar) and submit at an appointed hour in\ndaily prayers of five times as taught by Prophet Mohammad (SAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man should\nsubmit and surrender in prayers and extol the virtues and greatness of the Superior\nBeing in the manner and fashion as dictated by Allah Himself through His\nGabreal to Hazrath Mohammad Mustaffa (SAS). The prayers are referred to as\n\u2018Namaz\u2019. The prayers are performed to praise the Lord and to recall all His\nbounties, Mercy and Compassion and His Ever Forgiving quality and nature. The\nprayers are to break the violence and niggardliness of man and to make man to\nsubmit in peace to achieve both inner and outer solace, bliss and comfort for\nthe soul. \u2018Namaz\u2019 the daily appointed prayers is to bridle the passions, carnal\ndesires and the evil in man (Nafs e ammara) and to bring the \u2018nafs\u2019, the soul\nto obedience and order (nafseluwwamma) and to make the soul peaceful and a\nsurrended soul, \u2018Nafs e mutmaeena\u2019. Prayers are to help the soul to enlighten\nand purify itself and create a link with the Supreme Being. \u2018Namaz is therefore\n\u2018Meeraj e Muslimeen and momineen\u2019. It is through prayers alone that the link\nwith Supreme Being is established. \n\nThe troubled and ever\nturbulent mind is put to peace and solace and the heart is purified. The\nimpurities of the soul are cleansed and \u2018Namaz becomes \u2018Shifaul momineen\u2019\n(purifier for the momineens). Prayers enable man to establish peace, order and\ntranquility in him both inwardly and outwardly. \u2018Namaz\u2019 brings humility in man\nand man achieves sublimity and solace. It is through \u2018Namaz\u2019, prayers, that the\nprocess of purification of soul begins and man becomes a true vicegerent of\nLord Almighty. Man through \u2018namaz\u2019, prayer, achieves \u2018ubudiyat\u2019 (servant hood)\nand becomes an obedient servant of the Lord Almighty Allah.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man has to believe and consider himself as a vicegerent on this beautiful mysterious planet Earth. Vicegerent of an Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Ever living, Everlasting Lord, the Most Perfect Being, who is always and constantly Beneficial, Merciful, Kind, Loving, Forgiving Sustainer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/payx4D-cJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slpeeran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}