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3- The one who uses such a prayer is the one who either never read the Quran or has read it but does not really believe it! This is because Sura 48 confirms that God has informed the prophet that He has forgiven him all his sins, past and future :

"We have bestowed upon you (O Muhammad) a great victory, whereby God forgives your past, as well as future sins." (48/1-2)

What this great sign of mercy from God to his prophet means is that Muhammad is secured the highest reward in the hereafter (since he is forgiven all his sins). As a result, no prayer could elevate his position any higher (since there is none better than he who has been forgiven all sins in advance!).

4- The words ‘you do not break your promises’, are to say the least insulting to God. The utterance of these words can only mean that whoever speaks them is not really sure if God will keep His promise and that a small reminder will come handy !!

Instead, when a true believer reads in the Quran that God has forgiven the prophet all his sins, will consider the matter a closed one. He will not need to remind God of His promises.

If this is the correct meaning of the words ‘Sallat ala al Nabi’, then what is the meaning of the word ‘Tasslleem’ as in ‘Wa sallemoo tasleema’ (Sura 33, verse 56)?

Sadly, the corrupted interpreters have found another corrupted meaning to these words as well. They claim that these words are a command from God to salute the prophet and send him our greetings! This is based on their false interpretation of the word ‘Tasleema’ to mean greetings!

This is contrary to the meaning of the word in the Quran as will be demonstrated, but before doing that we must consider all similar words to ‘Tasleem’ that are used in the Quran.

1- Islam: Which means submission to the will of God as in:

"The only religion approved by God is Islam" (3/19)

"Anyone who adopts other than Islam as his religion, it will not be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be with the losers.’ (3/85)

2- Salam: Which means greetings as in:

"Do not say to the one who offers you Salam (greetings), ‘You are not a believer....." (4/94)

3- Salm: Which is the opposite of war as in:

"If they are inclined towards Salm (peace), then so shall you and put your trust in God. He is the Hearer, the Omniscient." (8/61)

4- Saleem: Which means without defects as in:

"That is the day when neither money nor children will be of any use, only the ones who come to God with a heart that is Saleem (without defects, pure) (will be saved)." (26/88-89)

5- Istisllam: Which means surrender as in:

"Stop them and ask them, ‘How come you do not help one another?’ On that day they will be Mostaslemoon (in total surrender)." (37/25-26)

6- Soullaman : Which means a ladder as in:

"And if their rejection gets to be too much for you, you should know that even if you dug a tunnel through the earth, or climbed a Soullama (ladder) into the sky, and produced a miracle for them (they still would not believe)...." (6/35)

7- Tasleem: Which means recognition and acceptance.

As in the subject of this search (33:56)

It is noteworthy to mention that the word ‘Taslleem’ is found in only three verses in the Quran, and in all three verses it means to recognize and endorse:

"Never indeed, by your Lord; they are not believers until they come to you to judge in their disputes, then have no objection to your judgment and ‘Yessallemoo Taslleema’ (totally accepting and endorsing it)." (4/65)

His messenger had promised us, indeed God and His messenger have been truthful. All this strengthened their Iman and Taslleem (faith and recognition)." (33/22)

"God and His angels ‘Yessalloo ala al Nabi’ (support him). O you who believe you shall ‘Salloo alayhee’ (support him) and Sallemoo Taslleema , ( fully recognize him and accept him as the messenger of God)." (33/56)

A very simple and effective way of proving that the word ‘Tasslleem’ means recognition and not greetings as the corrupters would have us believe, is to substitute each of these two words, first (recognition), then (greetings) in place of the word ‘Tasslleem’ in each of the previous verses and see which one of the two words make more sense.

Let us start with the word greetings:

- ".........they are not believers until they come to you to judge in their disputes, then have no objection to your judgment and greetings" !!

- ".....indeed God and His messenger have been truthful. All this strengthened their Iman and greetings" !!!!!

It is obvious that the substitution of the word greetings in these verses makes no sense whatsoever. However if we insert the word recognition in place of ‘Tasslleem’ all three verses will make perfect sense.

The correct meaning of verse 56 of Sura 33 is thus:

"God and His angels support the prophet, O you who believe you too shall support him and fully recognize and accept him (as the prophet of God)."

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