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“Indeed, Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet…” (33:56)

In this short clip taken from Day 20 of our LIVE Surah Al-Ahzab sessions, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan takes us inside the divine and linguistic depth of this famous ayah. This is not just an instruction—it’s a declaration. A fact of the unseen. Allah doesn’t begin with a command to us, He begins by stating what He is already doing: that He, along with every single angel, is constantly sending salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ.

And then, in the only instance of its kind in the Quran, we are told to join in.

But what is salawat? It’s not simply a prayer. It’s mercy. It’s purification. It’s divine softness being directed toward someone. It’s a heavenly light descending on a person’s name. When we send salawat, we’re not elevating the Prophet ﷺ—his status is already sealed and honored by the Lord of the Worlds. Instead, we are aligning ourselves with the rhythm of the skies. We are stepping into a spiritual current that never stops flowing.

Allah sends salawat on the believers to lift them out of darkness. But He doesn’t say that about the Prophet ﷺ—because he was never in darkness. He is, as Allah describes elsewhere in the same Surah, a sirajan munira—a radiant lamp. The source of light, not its recipient.

And yet, we are commanded to send our prayers of peace, love and reverence upon him—not to benefit him, but to benefit ourselves. Every time we say “Allahumma salli ‘ala Muhammad,” we are participating in an act of worship that mirrors the worship of the angels and brings barakah, peace and spiritual elevation into our own lives.

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