قال: «إِنَّ الصَّلاةَ تَنْهى عَنِ الْفَحْشاءِ وَ الْمُنْكَرِ...

قال: «إِنَّ الصَّلاةَ تَنْهى عَنِ الْفَحْشاءِ وَ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ لَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ، فالنهي كلام، و الفحشاء و المنكر رجال، و نحن ذكر الله، و نحن أكبر He -asws said: ‘ Surely, the Salat prevents from the immoralities and the evil, and the Zikr of Allah is the greatest [29:45] . So the prevention is speech, and the ‘immoralities and the evil’ are men (enemies of the Progeny -asws of Muhammad -saww ), and we -asws are the Zikr of Allah -azwj , we -asws are the greatest’.

[23] عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الرَّيَّانِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الدِّهْقَانِ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لِي مَا مَعْنَى قَوْلِهِ وَ ذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى قُلْتُ كُلَّمَا ذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ قَامَ فَصَلَّى Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Al Husayn, from Ali Bin Al Rayyan, from Ubeydullah Bin Abdullah Al Dihqan who said, ‘I went over to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws , so he -asws said to me: ‘What is the meaning of His -azwj Words: And does Zikr of a Name of his Lord, so he sends Salawat [87:15] (فَصَلَّى)?’ I said, ‘Every time he mentions the Name of his Lord -azwj , he prays Sal ā t ’.

فَقَالَ لِي لَقَدْ كَلَّفَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ هَذَا شَطَطاً فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَكَيْفَ هُوَ فَقَالَ كُلَّمَا ذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ صَلَّى عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ So he -asws said to me: ‘So Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic has Encumbered him with an enormous burden’. So, I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ! So how is it?’ So he -asws said: ‘Every time he mentions the Name of his Lord -azwj , he sends Salawāt upon Muhammad -saww and his -saww Progeny -asws ’.

[24] الشيخ في (التهذيب): بإسناده، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن أبي بصير، عن زرارة، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام)، أنه قال: «من تمام الصوم إعطاء الزكاة، كالصلاة على النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) فإنها من تمام الصلاة Al-Sheykh in Al-Tehzeeb, by his chain from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Baseer, from Zurara, who has said: ‘Abu Abdullah -asws has said: ‘The one who completes the Fasts, gives the Zakat, should send Salawat upon the Prophet -saww , for it is from the completion of the Salat.

و من صام و لم يؤدها فلا صوم له إذا تركها متعمدا And the one who Fasts but does not recite it (Salawat), so there is no Fast for him if he has avoided it deliberately.

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