7/28/2019 Five Daily Prayers in the Holy Quran According to Ibn Abbas

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Five daily prayers in the Holy Quran according to Ibn Abbas

It is stated in the book of Tafsir named Baidawi, one of the most valuable books of Tafsir, "HadratAbdullah ibni Abbas 'radi- allahu ta'ala anhuma' was asked: In what part of Qur'an al-karim is the ayatal-karima commanding the five daily prayers of namaz? He answered: Read the seventeenth andeighteenth ayats of Rum sura. These two ayat al-karimas purport, "Make tasbih of Allahu ta'ala atevening and morning times. The hamds performed by heavenly and earthly beings and done in theafternoons and at noon times are for Allahu ta'ala." The 'tasbih' to be done 'at evening time' representsthe prayers of namaz to be performed in the evening and at night. The tasbih to be done in themorning stands for the namaz be performed in the morning. The 'hamds done in the afternoons and atnoon times' symbolize afternoon and noon prayers of namaz. The ayat al-karimas command to performthe namaz five times daily." Those who deny the five daily prayers of namaz become startled whenthey hear this ayat al-karima. They say that this ayat al-karima does not contain the word 'Salat'. Whenthey are quoted the ayat al-karima commanding to 'make salat' and told that there are more than sixty-five such ayats, they make a U-turn and say that "Salat means prayer. We obey these ayats and pray inseclusion. Namaz is not an Islamic commandment."

The two hundred and thirty-ninth (239th) ayat of Baqara sura purports, "Protect the salats and thesalat of wusta! [That is, perform the namaz continuously]. Obey Allah and make salat!" 'Protect thesalat' means 'Perform the five daily prayers of namaz at their proper times and observing theirconditions.' It is stated in a hadith ash-Sharif, which is written in the book Musnad by Imam-i-Ahmadand in Imam-i-Munawi's book Kunuz-ud-daqaiq: "The salat of wusta is the afternoon namaz." Hadrat Ali'karram-allahu wajhah' narrated: Our Prophet stated in the combat of Hendek (Trench), "The enemy didnot let us perform the wusta [afternoon namaz]. May Allahu ta'ala fill their abdomens and graves withfire!" Salat means both prayer and namaz. Hence the word 'salat' used in this ayat al-karima means the'namaz' which we know. The ayat al-karima says to perform the prayers of namaz and the afternoonprayer. According to the Arabic grammar, the word 'salats' means 'three salats in the least'. Since theafternoon salat is called (Wusta), which means 'the namaz in the center', the number of salats meanthere cannot be only three. There have to be at least four salats in addition to the afternoon so that theafternoon salat be exactly in the center, that is, between the second and the fourth salats.Kamaleddin-i-Shirwani 'rahmatullahi ta'ala alaih' quotes the fifty-ninth ayat al-karima of Nur sura in hisbook Miftah-us-saada to prove that the number of salats to be performed daily is five. The names of morning and night prayers of namaz are written clearly, i.e. as 'Salat-i-fajr' and 'Salat-i-isha', in thefifty-ninth ayat of Nur sura.

The hundred and second (102nd) ayat of Nisa sura purports, "To perform the namaz at certain timeshas become fard for Muslims." It is stated in a hadith ash-Sharif, which exists in the books Riyad-un-nashin and Hulasat- ud-dalail: "I was by the entrance to Kaba, when Jabrail 'alaihis-salam' came nearme twice. He performed noon prayer with me as the sun left its position at the zenith." In anotherhadith ash-Sharif, which is written in Abulleys-i-Samarkandi's book Muqaddimat-us-salat existing withnumber [701] at the section called (Asad Effendi) in the library of Sulaimaniya and also recorded in thebook Fath-h-ul-Qadir at the section named Ayasufia (Saint Sophia), our Prophet 'sall-allahu alaihi wasallam' states: "Jabrail 'alaihis-salam' made me perform the namaz for two days by the entrance toKaba. The first day, we performed morning prayer as the fajr-i-Thani [whiteness] appeared, noonprayer as the sun left it zenith, afternoon prayer as shadows were as long as the real objects theyrepresent, evening prayer as the sun set, and night prayer as dusk disappeared. The second day weperformed morning prayer at daybreak, noon prayer when everything had a shadow as long as itself,afternoon prayer when the shadow of everything was twice as long as itself, evening prayer at the timeof breaking fast, and night prayer when one-third of the night time had elapsed. Then he said: OMuhammad! These are the times of the namaz for thee and for past Prophets and for thine Ummat." AsSulaiman bin Bereeda narrates from his father in the book Muslim, somebody asked Rasulullah aboutthe times of namaz. The Messenger of Allah said, "Perform namaz with me for two days!" As the sunleft the zenith, he ordered Bilal Habashi to call the adhan. We performed noon prayer. It is stated in ahadith ash-Sharif, "Afternoon prayer is performed before sunset."