August 11, 2010
To Our Visitors a Ramadan Greeting – and a Prayer
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Salaat: This Is How You Do It!
Thus, Salaah involves a whole range of the most amazing actions and practices including the following:
- Standing upright and very still, facing your God Almighty, and not looking left or right.
- Doing your best to banish all evil, alien and wanton thoughts and distractions from your mind.
- Making intention that you are preparing to pray to God, and to no one but God, your maker and master, and the maker and master of all creation and the worlds.
- Reading and reciting from the Qur’an – whatever you can manage.
- Bowing from the waist, with your back held straight and with your palms and fingers grabbing your knees tight.
- Putting your forehead and nose on the ground while going down on your knees and with your hands, palms down, on the ground on either side of your face – fingers pointing straight ahead.
- Sitting on bended knees.
Then Come the Personal Pleadings with God
Even as you go through these steps of performing the various actions associated with Salaat, you continue to do the following:
- Continually monitoring your heart and mind, making sure they are aligned to God and away from all kinds of worldly distractions and temptations.
- Continually chanting God’s Most Beautiful Names – that is what the Qur’an calls them – and his praise and glory.
- One more time: Reading and reciting from the Qur’an – whatever you can manage.
- Confessing your sins to God.
- Repenting for all the evil, bad and wrong things you might have done.
- Begging God for forgiveness of your sins and knowing full well that no one but God can and will forgive your sins.
- Pleading with him for help in the fulfillment of your lawful and legitimate needs in life.
- Crying before him even as you beg him for guidance and plead with him to show you the right path, the straight path, the path of truth – His Path!
- And asking God to bless Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.
- And all the other Prophets and Messengers of God – some mentioned in the Bible, some not.
- And your parents and spouses and children and family members.
- And all the good people of this world, past, present and future.
- And your home, neighborhood and society.
- And the world.
- And all of God’s creation.
Doing It All in God’s Own Words
And, believe it or not, you do much of all this in God’s own words in the Qur’an – to the extent you can. Just imagine that: You talk to God in his own words.
For, that is what Islam is. It is doing things the simple and easy way. It is doing things to the extent you can.
If you want, I can give a whole new definition of Islam based on this concept: It is the “religion,” as people say, of the Next Best Thing.
Here is an example. You can’t do your prayers standing up? Not to worry. Try doing them sitting down.
No, can’t sit down either? No problem. Just lie down and do them lying down.
Here is another example. You must wash up nicely so you can do your prayers. It is absolutely, positively required. What, no water? Are you sure? Well, don’t worry. We will fix that.
Just step out and see if you can find some clean sand or soil or “dirt” or dust. Strike your hands on it; dust them off if you want to; and then run them on your hands, face and arms; and you are done.
Now you are technically as “clean” as if you had done a most thorough wash using the cleanest and the most abundant supply of fresh water.
How do you beat that kind of stuff?
That is why what we all need to understand is that this Islam – and its teachings – could not have come from a human mind. Only God Almighty can produce these most amazing arrangements and then place them in our mortal human hands for us to use.
So Islam then means, with regard to everything, doing your best and then leaving it all to God Almighty.
So, a Prayer for You Today – on This First Day of Ramadan
So, we wish to give our visitors a very special greeting today – a greeting of prayer, a blessing in fact as they say.
We wish to offer a prayer for you today, if you will, for bliss and tranquility in your life.
And we wish to offer a prayer for you today, if you will, for success in all that you seek and ask and strive for:
- Provided it is good for you.
- Provided it is good for the rest of God’s world and creation.
- Provided what you ask is something that God approves.
- Provided it is in keeping with God’s laws of right and wrong – for example, many of those noted in The Ten Commandments.
- And provided it is in consonance with God’s own revealed calculus of permissible and forbidden – what the Qur’an calls Halal and Haram.
So, here we go:
God Almighty, Maker and Master of the World, O Allah, the Most High and Holy, O God Almighty, whose beautiful and blessed names are ArRahmaan ArRaheem, God of Infinite and Unending Love and Compassion and Mercy and Grace, Grant our visitors today, and on all days:
Health to those who may be ailing;
Comfort to those who may be hurting;
Wealth and Prosperity to those who may be in need of them;
Happiness to those who may be pursuing it;
Joy to those whose lives may be lacking it;
Enlightenment to those who may be looking for it;
Answers to those who may be searching for them;
Education to those who may be seeking it;
Relief to those who may be crushed under the burden of debt;
Truth to those who may be yearning and working for it;
Peace to their societies and the world in which they live;
Security to them and their surroundings;
Tranquility to their life, home and neighborhood;
Guidance to those who may have tasted the love and fear of God;
And blessings to all.
O Lord, the Most Praised and Praiseworthy, the Most Loving, Compassionate and Full of Grace!”
So, that is our prayer for our visitors today – on this First Day of Ramadan – and on all days.
For, it seems to me that is how we ought to greet you today. And that is the gift we want to offer you today – and on all days – should you, of course, choose to accept it from us.
We remain, yours in faith and human fellowship and in utter and abject sincerity and humility before God,
Dr. Pasha, May God Almighty bless my ancestors, and all those who help us to make this project possible.
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