Remains protected from backbiting

Another advantage of reciting Salat-‘Alan-Nabi is that a person avoids doing backbiting against the people of the Majlis in which Salat-‘Alan-Nabi is recited. Nowadays, backbiting is so prevalent in our society that the place where some people gather they start backbiting and tale-telling without any end. How dangerous can backbiting be, is judged by the narration which says: Backbiting and tale-telling cut faith as a shepherd cuts a tree. Therefore study the book written by Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه named ‘Gheebat ki Tabah Kariyan’ [Backbiting – A Cancer in our Society] in order to refrain from backbiting. If you get a chance to sit with some people, recite Salat-‘Alan-Nabi yourself and also persuade others to do so. اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ by virtue of its blessing you will get rid of backbiting.

Shaykh Majduddeen Feerauzabadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: When you sit in a gathering, recite بِسۡـمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحۡـمٰنِ الرَّحِيۡمِ وَ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد, (By virtue of its blessing) Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will appoint an angel for you that will prevent you from backbiting. When you leave the gathering, recite   بِسۡـمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحۡـمٰنِ الرَّحِيۡمِ وَ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد, the angel will prevent others from backbiting against you.

(Al-Qaul-ul-Badi’, pp. 278)

مجھے غیبت و چُغلِی و بدگمانی

کی آفات سے تو بچا یا الٰہی

Forgiven before separation

Another advantage of reciting Salat-‘Alan-Nabi is this, if Salat-‘Alan-Nabi is recited at the time of meeting after saying Salam and shaking hands, so those who meet are being forgiven. To say Salam and shake hands are the Sunnah of our Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. Unfortunately, this Sunnah is also getting out of practice in our society and the people who say Salam and exchange handshakes like to meet only those who they know, though Islam teaches us to say Salam to everyone no matter we know them or not. Salam and handshake not only develop love between each other, but rather those