And if you converse with one of them and ask him to bless Muhammad...

And if you converse with one of them and ask him to bless Muhammad, he will answer you by saying: Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam, without referring to his Progeny. Some of them go as far as circumventing it even more, saying only: Salli wa sallim (bless and salute). But if you ask any Shi`a, be he from Arabia or Persia, etc., to bless Muhammad, he would say: Allahomma Salli ala Muhammadin wa Aali Muhammad (O Allah! I invoke You to bless Muhammad and the Progeny of Muhammad).

The books written by "Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jama`a" quote the Messenger of Allah mandating to "Say: Allahomma Salli ala Muhammadin wa Aali Muhammad," applying the present and future tense in the form of a supplication, an invocation, directed to the most Glorified One. Despite all of that, they are satisfied with the phrase "Salla Allahu Alaihi wa sallam," applying the past tense and in the narrative mode without making any reference to the Prophet's Progeny.

Indeed, the leader of "Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jama`a," namely Mu`awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan, tried to remove any reference whatsoever to Muhammad in the athan.[^140] No wonder, then, to find those who follow and emulate him deliberately circumventing and distorting sending blessings unto him. Had they been able to eliminate it altogether, they would have done just that, but there is no way they could__or can__ever do so. No way!

You may nowadays hear those who ascend the pulpits, especially Wahhabi pulpits, offering nothing but the adulterated invocation of Allah's blessings unto him and his progeny. They may either use the curtailed supplication or, if they feel obligated to complete it, they will then add to it the phrase: "... and unto all his sahaba," or they may say, "...

and unto his good and pure sahaba," thus changing the Qur'anic verse referring to the purification of to make it sound as though it was revealed in honor not of but of the sahaba. They do so in order to mislead the general public into thinking that the sahaba enjoy the same merits enjoyed by . They have, in fact, learned the art of adulterating and distorting from their very first faqih and "great leader" Abdullah ibn Umar of whose hatred towards we are already fully aware.