# What does the word salat mean in the Quran according to the Quran-only view?

*What salat means in the Quran: solidarity with God, with the messenger and among believers*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/32/
- Date: 2020-06-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (2:38:46–2:42:40)
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**Topics:** Prayer; Quranic Arabic; Quran-only movement

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest defines salat from the Quran as solidarity rather than ritual: with God, which is remembrance and connection, and with people, which is the secular Friday gathering; the essence is dhikr, not physical form.

## Longer summary

The guest says the Quran itself defines salat in 75:31, where the one who did not believe and did not pray is described as turning away, so that salat is the opposite of turning away: turning towards, showing empathy and solidarity. He reads 33:56, that God and his angels support the messenger and believers should do likewise, and the verse that God and his angels yusalli upon the believers to bring them from darkness to light, and 9:103, where the Prophet is told to take charity and to salli upon the people, which he reads as supporting and calming them. He says this shows solidarity in three directions, between God and believers, God and the messenger, and the messenger and the believers, so that salat has two aspects: solidarity with God in the domain of iman, a mental connection, support and promise to follow God's way, and solidarity with people, which is the secular Friday gathering, a civic duty for all peacemakers; salat with God, he says, is prayer and remembrance, which may be physical but whose essence is dhikr.

## Sources and names cited

- Edip Yuksel
- Quran 75:31 (he neither believed nor prayed): https://quran.com/75/31
- Quran 33:56 (Allah and his angels send salat upon the Prophet): https://quran.com/33/56
- Quran 9:103 (take from their wealth a charity and pray for them): https://quran.com/9/103
- salah
- jumu'ah
- dhikr
- iman

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:38:46–2:42:40)

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[2:41:46] God and give promise to God that he or she will support God's Way and because of God means God's attributes so it doesn't mean necessarily the ritual pre no no and the other one in the other one is being solidarity with people salat with people and that is salatul juma its secular you go to select solidarity with people who once in a while in the neighborhood or in the city you are invited to come as people being somewhere it is psychologically socially politically financially being solidarity

[2:42:26] a salat with God I do think it is prayer Zickuhr law to commemorate God and ask help from God and meanwhile to Institute possible it could be physical but it is an optimist or not valid Vickery yeah it is not the essence the essence is thicker because the only time said God said do not you say that when you don't know what you are saying means mental connection with God it is for moving as for Muslim all the Muslims need to do salat all the Muslims means peacemakers

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment ZmIrskjob4o/s/32. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/32/

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