Does Reciting Durood Ibrahim In Salah Contradict Quran?
When Allah says don’t invoke anyone besides him, he means don’t ask from anyone except him. Durood e Ibrahim isn’t asking from Ibrahim A.S and Muhammad SWS, it is about asking Allah to grant Muhammad SWS the same extent of mercy and blessings that Allah gave to Ibrahim A.S. Now there’s that. The history of how we started reciting Durood in our Salah as an obligatory part, has its own beautiful account. The prophet was approached by people who would ask him what should they supplicate in their prayer to acknowledge the mercy that Allah has bestowed upon them, through him. This, request sent prophet Muhammad into a dilemma and he hoped that such a question wasn’t asked, anyhow, after much insistence, he replied, if you must supplicate for me, do it in that way (Durood e Ibrahim), this was never compulsory. It is as same as we ask God to grant mercy and salvation to our parents. As per essence, it is pretty amazing too. We start our Salah by reciting, Surah Fatiha, which is an ethereal supplication of sustained guidance, this was a gift for humanity, this gift was sent by Allah through the tongue of his last prophet. Since this gift was of such a value that it would help us attain salvation for the eternal afterlife, it was only befitting, we would appreciate this gift by supplicating for our prophet in the later part of our salah, who made this arrangement possible or was an intermediary in fulfilling this grant from God.