Why Not Whole Salah In One's Own Language
Sir, Did all prophets offer salah only in arabic? According to my knowledge, absolutely no. And we can see that in Torah that Eel word is used in place of Allah for god… So Were they saying “Eel hu akbar” in salah? Now, where is the sunnah and ijtihaad and ijma of prophets ? They all were using different languages because of their different times and different places…… So, if word of God could change for different generations then why couldn’t the language…… If you will ask to me that Were different prophets offering different types of Salah? Then, I will say that All the prophets offered salah in Same Posture, i repeat same posture means In starting raising hand, qiyam, ruku, stand after ruku, two sajda, sitting in 2nd rakah after two sajda, sitting again in last rakah, then moving face side to end salah…. All the postures were same for all the prophets…. But not language….. Prophet Muhammad( P.B.U.H) offered salah in arabic and all the companions of prophet, generation after them, all great imams were repeating it and transferring it to their generation in arabic… Because that was their mother tongue language.. They didn’t have any problem in offering it because they used arabic daily in their life…. But what about the people of india, America, and all other countries who don’t have arabic language in their daily basis… If the name of God could change for different people of different generations So why can’t language of salah change?… Sir, Allah knows everything. ( every language either arabic or other) . Salah is the method of connecting our relationship with Allah( not with the person who knows only Arabic) It depends on our intention, our emotions, our feelings of surrender in front of God..And yes. I agree that the obligatory parts of saying are 5- Allahu akbar, Surah Fatiha, Adding One Surah,Sami Allah hu liman hamida and Assalamualekum and without them ,salah is invalid… But… These obligatory sayings can be offered in any language….