Specific Benefits of Salawat | Sufi Path of Love

Here again are the principal benefits obtained by invoking blessings on the Prophet ﷺ (salawat) as compiled by Hafiz as-Sakhawi in his book devoted to the topic:

“Among the rewards of one who performs salawat upon God’s Messenger ﷺ are the following:

• The salawat — blessing — of God, His angels, and His Prophet ﷺ on that person;

• The expiation of his faults;

• The purification of his works;

• The exaltation of his rank;

• The forgiveness of his sins;

• The asking of forgiveness for him by his own salat;

• The recording of rewards, the like of Mount Uhud, for him and his repayment in superabundant measure;

• The comfort of his world and his hereafter if he devotes his entire salat to invoking blessings upon him;

• The obliteration of more faults than that effected by the manumission of a slave;

• His deliverance from affliction because of it;

• The witnessing of the Prophet ﷺ himself to it;

• The guarantee of the Prophet’s ﷺ intercession for him;

• God’s pleasure, mercy, and safety from His anger;

• Admission under the shade of the Throne for him;

• Preponderance of his good deeds in the Balance;

• His admission to drink from the Prophet’s ﷺ Pond;

• His safety from thirst and deliverance from the Fire;

• His ability to cross the Bridge swiftly;

• The sight of his seat in Paradise before he dies;

• The preponderance of his prayers over more than twenty military conquests;

• Its equivalency to giving alms to the needy;

• Its being zakat and purification for him;

• His wealth will increase because of its blessing;

• More than one hundred of his needs will be fulfilled through it;

• It constitutes worship;

• It is the most beloved of all deeds to God;

• It beautifies meetings;

• It cancels out poverty and material duress;

• It lets him expect and find goodness everywhere;

• It makes him the most deserving of goodness;

• He benefits from it as well as his children and theirs, as well as those to whom its reward is gifted in the register of his good deeds;

• It brings him near to God and to His Prophet ﷺ;

• It is a light that helps him against his enemies;

• It cleans his heart of hypocrisy and rust;

• It commands the love of people and the sight of the Prophet ﷺ in dreams;

• It forbids slander (ghiba) against him.

In summary, it is among the most blessed, most meritorious, most useful of deeds in religion and in the life of the world, and carries desirable rewards other than all this for those who are clever and eager to acquire the deeds that constitute treasures for them, and harvest the most flourishing and glowing of hopes. They do this by focusing on the deed that includes all these tremendous merits, noble qualities, manifold and all-encompassing benefits which are not found together in any other.”

Al-Sakhawi, al-Qawl al-badi fi al-salat ala al-habib al-shafi (The Radiant Discourse Concerning the Invocation of Blessings on the Beloved lntercessor). p.98.

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