What does the Adhan start with? “Allahu Akbar!” - Allah is Greater! No one is more important in your life right now than He! Leave your business, leave your job, leave your family and your children, leave your sleep! Allah is Greater than all of it. It’s time to report to Him now. ........................ So what is required of us now, after we have testified to sincerity and conformance? “Hayya ‘ala-Salah!” [Come/Rise to prayer!]. But instead of repeating these words now, what must we say? We are to say “La hawla wala quwwata illa billah”- There is no might or power [in me] but which Allah [grants me]. Only Allah can help me rise in obedience and facilitate my worship. I can’t do it without His help. So Adhan is similar to the expressions of Surah Al-Fatihah where we first establish that worship is due to Him alone [iyyaka na’budu], then we seek His help to carry it out [wa iyyaka nasta’een]. The next words should inspire in us sheer joy and enthusiasm! The next words promise us all the success- “Hayya ‘alal-Falaah!”- [Come/Rise to suc-cess!] If this Salah guarantees my success in my work in this life and then in the next, then how can I not rise and answer its call? And again, the power I have in me comes only from Allah so to these words I say again, “La hawlawala quwwata illa billah.” And finally, the words that end the Adhan are similar to those that started it- “Lailaha illAllah”. Where “Allahu-Akbar” in the beginning calls upon you to leave the Dunya because Allah is Greater. Now “la ilaha illAllah” summons you to come focus upon the Akhira [the next life], the real life to work for. The next time you hear the Adhan, hear it as the long awaited announcement that your meeting with your loved One is almost here! Listen to it like a child would as he stands in the arrivals terminal anxiously awaiting his mother’s return, and then hears the announcement that her flight has just touched down! The Adhan also has its unique flavor; for “whomever loves to meet/be with his Rubb- his Rubb also loves to meet/be with him..” And this longing and yearning to be with Allah should inspire you to rush to your Salah without delay, just as Prophet Musa (AS) rushed to His Rubb, قَالَ هُمْ أُولَاءِ عَلَىٰ أَثَرِي وَعَجِلْتُ إِلَيْكَ رَبِّ لِتَرْضَىٰ “..and I hastened to You, my Lord, that You may be pleased [with me]. (Surah Taha:84) The sad reality today is that Adhan has become for many, a dull play of words that fades unnoticed into the backdrop of the commotion of busy hectic lives. But as we learn of what its words really signify, we come to realize the power of Adhan in retuning our outlook on life and on our entire existence. Reference: “How to Taste the True Beauty of Salaah!” - Mishari al-Kharraz Via DiscoMaulvi
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:19:53 +0000
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