Re: Stop replying to this Munifiqun!
The Quran doesn't give a step by step to salah.
The hadith ALSO DO NOT OFFER STEP BY STEP instructions to salah. There are hadith that contridict each other as relating to the salah.
oh... Need examples???
Please remind yourself of the famous, weird tale of the Prophet ascending to heavens to meet with Allah, the so-called Me'raaj (the word is non-existent in the Qur'an). Is not Allah Omnipresent?
The "Imams" of Hadith want us to believe that Allah ordained 50 ritual prayers daily for Muslims on that occasion. As the exalted Prophet was descending from the highest sky, Prophet Moses told him of the impossibility of the situation and sent Muhammad back again and again. Imagine the Prophet bargaining with God! Repeated visits to and fro then bring the number down to 40, 30, 20, 10, (elsewhere, from 50 down to half and again to another half and so on), finally to 5! Allah also said,
“These are five and these are fifty. I do not alter My Word.” Moses a. s. wanted him to make one more trip but Muhammad said, “I feel shy of my Lord” (to go back and bargain any further.)
So, neither Allah nor Rasool had any idea of human limitations. Had Moses not intervened, the Ummah would be praying a non-stop 24 hours day and night. Thank Moses a. s. for being the instructor of Allah and Rasool. Thank him for saving Islam from their blunder. What mockery! Think!
my apologies for not responding sooner Akhi.
as a revert, i find that sometimes some ahadeeth seem a bit odd or even sometimes contradictory at initial glance. however some of the scholars that i turn to, eg, Dr Bilal Philps, Mufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe, explain the beauty and brilliance of Islam and the revelations delivered by Rasulullah. my time is limited, so permit me to expound on the hadith you just quoted.
Allah knows EVERYTHING that's going to happen. Prophet Moses, pbuh, spoke with Allah often, VERY often in the Torah. yet Muhammad ibn Abdullah,pbuh, just once. Moses,pbuh, was befriending Rasulullah,pbuh, and sending him back to Allah! we get a glimpse at how magnanimous Moses was. Allah was giving Moses,pbuh, and Rasulullah,pbuh, some bonding time and Moses,pbuh, was the instrument that Allah used to get the prayers down to the proper number. it was planned! Moses,pbuh, is mentioned MORE in the Quran than Rasulullah! why shouldn't Rasulullah,pbuh, have been given an "opportunity" to be schooled by him? AND Rasulullah got to talk to Allah an extra 9 times!
imho, it's a Glorious Hadith!
May Allah help you find that which you seek!
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