Namaz led by Shaykh Taner – For Murids only

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namaz: formal Islamic worship that is observed five times daily; also known as salat

rak’at: cycle of standing, bowing, kneeling/sitting and prostrating during formal Islamic prayer

Edited Transcript of Namaz led by Shaykh Taner

Okay now, I want you to practice this right now.
I will tell you what to contemplate.
Now we are going to do two rak’ats. I mean, with you now, I am going to lead you for two rak’ats. This is not a regular prayer. At least two rak’ats, you need to pray like this every day and you need to contemplate.

We are going now.
(Shaykh Taner begins to lead prayer.)

A’uzu billahi minash shaytanir rajim.
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the outcast.

Allahu Akbar
How Allah is Great, that is what you are thinking now.

Now I am going to recite, you are going to join me.
You have to mean to Allah.

(Click here for a PDF file with meanings of sura Al Fatiha and suratul Ikhlas)

You are talking to Allah:

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil alamin
Ar Rahmanir Rahim
Maliki Yawmid Din
Iyaka na’budu wa iyaka nasta’in

Ihdinas sirat al mustaqim
Right here, you are asking Allah to guide you.
“ihdina”, you have to say it from the heart.

Ihdinas sirat al mustaqim
Siratallazina an amta alayhim
ghayril maghdubi alayhim walad daalin
amin

Now Allah is talking to you:

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Qul Hu Allahu Ahad
Allahus – Samad
Lam yalid wa lam yulad
Wa lam yakun lahu kufuwan Ahad

Allahu Akbar

Subhana Rabbi Al Azim.
(Allah is Great. Allah is Great. Allah is Azim.
I praise Allah Whose greatness is unmatchable.
I praise Allah Whose greatness is unmatchable.
I praise You Allah, Ya Azim.)

Think of that 150 billion galaxies.

Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim

Allahu Akbar

Sami Allahu liman hamida
[Allah is Sami, He hears and listens to those who praise Him and are grateful to Him]

Allahu Akbar

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

(Praise to Allah, The High. Allah, The High. Allah, The High.)

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

(Say it as many times as you want, not three times, not fast. You have to mean it. You have to say it to Allah.)

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

Allahu Akbar

Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad
O our Allah! Please send Your peace and blessings upon our Revered Master Muhammad and his family.

Allahu Akbar

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

Allahu Akbar

Now you are on your own now. I am just going to recite. Contemplation, you have to do.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil alamin
Ar Rahmanir Rahim
Maliki Yawmid Din
Iyaka na’budu wa iyaka nasta’in
Ihdinas sirat al mustaqim
Siratallazina an amta alayhim
ghayril maghdubi alayhim walad daalin
amin

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Qul Hu Allahu Ahad
Allahus – Samad
Lam yalid wa lam yulad
Wa lam yakun lahu kufuwan Ahad

Allahu Akbar

Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim
Subhana Rabbi Al Azim

Allahu Akbar

Sami Allahu liman hamida

Allahu Akbar

next level of Heaven

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

Allahu Akbar

Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad

Allahu Akbar

Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala
Subhana Rabbi Al Ala

Allahu Akbar

At-tahiyyatu lillahi was salawatu wat tayyibat, assalamu ‘alayka ayyuhan-Nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. assalamu ‘alayna wa ‘ala ‘ibadillahi as-salihin, ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa rasuluh.

Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ali Sayyidina Muhammad kama sallayta ala Sayyidina Ibrahima wa ala aali Sayyidina Ibrahim wa baarik ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad kama baarakta ala Sayyidina Ibrahima wa ala aali Sayyidina Ibrahima fil alamina innaka Hamidun Majid.

What you are saying is as You did to Hazrate Ibrahim [Abraham], as you give peace and blessings upon Hazrate Ibrahim, so You do it for Hazrate Muhammad and his family. As you made Hazrate Ibrahim and his family baraka, like holy, please make Hazrate Muhammad and his family holy too.

Rabbana atina fid dunya hasanatan wafil akhirati hasanatan waqina ‘azaaban nar
O Allah please give us goodness in this world and in the Hereafter and protect us from the torment of Fire.

Now we are saying Salaams to the world:

As-Salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah
As-Salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah

Now, I want you to pray two rak’ats like this.
But each time when you say Allahu Akbar, you are shifting a level of Heaven, right? You have to imagine that, and you are seeing all the space.

We are not worshiping the space. We are worshiping Allah Who is the Maker of that, Who is behind all this, Who owns all this space. We are worshiping Allah. Allah!
Do it!

Qur’an References

And of His signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Do not adore or prostrate to the sun or the moon, but adore and prostrate to Allah Who created them, if it is truly to Him you are connecting and devoting yourselves. (Fussilat:37)
(Note: Please prostrate, as is customary, when reading this and other sajda ayats.)

The mulk of the universes and the earth belongs to Allah. Allah is able to do all things. Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the difference of night and day are signs (from Allah) for ulul albab. Such are those who do zikr of Allah standing, and sitting and reclining, and contemplate the creation of the heavens and the earth, and say, “Our Rab, You did not create all this for nothing! Glory be to You! Please protect us from the torment of the Fire. (Aal-e Imran:189-191)

Keywords

ulul albab: the people of understanding and mature discernment; the people of zikr; the people of reasoning; those who follow and contemplate Allah’s reminders

This is an edited transcript of Namaz performed by Shaykh Taner with his Murids in South Africa in December 2015. The translation of the Qur’an verses and terminologies are from Es-Seyyid Es-Shaykh Taner Vargonen el Ansari. Published here in the Islamic month of Rajab 1445, on January 30, 2024.

Love, peace and togetherness in goodness

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