Must We Always Say (Insert Arabic) SWT, PBUH? | Mufti Abu Layth

what are your views and guidance on using phrases like subhanallah peace be upon him when referring to god and the prophet should we always use them should we say them in arabic or our native languages um i i think you can say in any language um i i think see a person doesn't have to like if a person like if i'm speaking now and i say look uh well god said this i don't need to say god the almighty or god the the transcendent i don't need to say that but if i said it sure i mean it's it's a it's a beautiful thing to say that if i said allah subhanahu wa

but i could get it that if you're speaking to let's say you're speaking to just non-muslims and it's going to be a bit confusing then you don't need to be confusing them i mean if you because if you said well look okay so allah azzawajal was and they're like sorry what what what and then you keep repeating this and it's it's hindering the message you see the hadith says

talk to people in a manner that corresponds to the intellect and reasoning if i'm speaking to muslims sure maybe even if i'm speaking to non-muslims sometimes it may come out just as a as as a kind of second nature i may say well the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam now sure i may say but maybe if if i can consciously apprehend that and say well peace and blessings be upon him or the prophet uh you know be blessed he had taught us this now i don't need to each time i say the

prophet in that sentence say you know uh peace and blessings be upon him if i want to sure i can but what i would say is to keep the conversation natural if you're speaking to muslims it's natural at times to or to to send blessings upon the prophet salallahu if i was speaking to muslims i would always say you blessings be upon the messenger of allah and in and the prophet by taught us the art of giving by sending blessings upon him because that is an art of giving that really just blesses us but

it's it just shows that that kind of creating a heart to give to bless because by extension you'll bless other people the prophet salallahu doesn't need our blessings and god does not require need us to say be all but this teaches us by extension we will send we will bless other people but if i'm speaking in a gathering where people are of this and it is natural to say that i i should keep it natural but whereas if i start saying hey you know the prophet you know the prophet sometimes people say hey you know mohammed said and in in a gathering of muslims now

that would come off um distasteful like it's a bit like somebody almost saying yo it's like sorry you know so propriety issues should always be kind of uh taken into consideration and etiquette but if i'm speaking to non-muslims imagine i'm speaking to now norah you're from a uh a non-muslim background you know i'm sure you've got many friends who are still non-muslim now if you're speaking to them and maybe you want to speak about islam keep it natural you see sometimes if you start saying a lot of things that the other

person doesn't understand it starts to seem cultish like imagine a christian was speaking to us and every time he said something he said a phrase in latin and nobody understood it and then he then in every second sentence he says some words in latin in in a chanting manner see you you get a bit put off because you think what's going on here why is this person saying that to me like what i don't get what he's trying to and you feel almost like is this person does this person become like very cultish now because that's how it feels to the other person because you're

speaking in a way that it's not natural to them so you see people don't always like if so in this culture the western culture let's say you love someone um now you might say sometimes after him ah you know this person ah bless him you know he's like this this and and that shows your love for them and people it lights people up that wow this person really loves that person now you might say you know another oh god i love that person so much and and this show but imagine each time you said oh hey you know that person bless him and then say and that person bless him was

going down the road and and he met this other person and he said bless him that you know god well why do you keep saying bless him and see it comes off unnatural so this so i would say it's important to always keep a natural rhythm sure if you're speaking to muslims it would seem very natural um it doesn't mean you need to always do it but if you did do it it would be natural if you did it occasionally if you did it once or twice it would still be natural so that's what i would say i hope that helps

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