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Salawaat by Sufi Mashaaikh
Chapter 2: DALAAIL U'L KHAYRAAT
Of:IMAM AL-JAZULI
An Appreciation by Siddiq Osman Noormuhammad

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE BLESSINGS

A popular form of reciting salawaat is to specify the number of times a particular salaat is intended. For example, in Chapter Two of Dalaail u'l Khayraat, we come across this salaat:

Allahumma Salli 'alaa Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammad-in
'adada makhlooqaatika

O Allah! Bestow blessings on our patron Sayyidina Muhammad,
as many times as the number of things created by You.

In the same way, there is salawaat on the Holy Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam as many times as are the (uncountable) Words of Allah ('adada Kalimaatika), as many times as the Pen Wrote in the Mother of Books ('adada maa jaraa bihi'l Qalamu fee Ummi'l Kitab), the number of stars ('adada nujoomi's samaa), the number of leaves of trees ('adada awraaqil ashjaar), the number of men and women (adad-an-nisaai warrijaal), and so on.

Muslims of course never become satiated in sending salawaat on the blessed Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam. A form of salaat that occurs most often in Dalaai u'l Khayraat is the one that offers blessings a thousand times the number of days from the day Allah Ta'ala created the earth till the Day of Judgement. An example of one such salaat is:

Allahumma Salli 'alaa Muhammad-in
'Adada kulli qatratin qatarat min Samaawaatika ilaa Ardhika
Min yaumi khalaqtaddunya ilaa yaumi'l qiyaamati
Fee kulli yaumin alfa marrah

O Allah! Bestow blessings on Sayyidina Muhammad
as many times as the number of rain drops
that drop from Your sky to Your earth
from the day You created the earth till the Day of Judgement
a thousand-fold a day!

Salawaat with praise of the Holy Prophet>
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