{"id":2532,"date":"2013-01-14T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2013-01-14T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:53:41","slug":"retraction-saying-yaa-allaah-is-not-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/retraction-saying-yaa-allaah-is-not-correct.htm","title":{"rendered":"Retraction: Saying “Yaa Allaah” is not Correct"},"content":{"rendered":"

In previous lectures, perhaps more than once, I erred in mentioning a point of Arabic language regarding the phrase “Yaa Allaah”<\/em><\/strong> – that the Arabs used the phrase “Allaahumma”<\/em><\/strong> to replace it.<\/p>\n

On the Salafitalk Forum<\/a>\u00a0(the older, currently uneditable version of Salafitalk.com), I wrote:<\/p>\n

As a note for proper pronunciation: Yaa Allaah would be pronounced together as: Yallaah (saying the yaa’ and going right to the laam), since the hamza in Allaah’s name is hamzat al-wasl, however saying “Allaahumma” instead is the usage found in the Qur’aan and the Sunnah. And Allaah knows best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today I was sent an authentic hadeeth which proves that at least one Companion supplicated saying, “Yaa Allaah,”<\/em> and it was approved by the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace), disproving my mistaken claim.\u00a0 A Companion was saying the following supplication\u00a0at the end of his formal prayer, after the tashah-hud<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0645 \u0625\u0646\u064a \u0623\u0633\u0623\u0644\u0643 \u064a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0628\u0623\u0646\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062d\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0645\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u0644\u0645 \u064a\u0644\u062f \u0648\u0644\u0645 \u064a\u0648\u0644\u062f \u0648\u0644\u0645 \u064a\u0643\u0646 \u0644\u0647 \u0643\u0641\u0648\u064b\u0627 \u0623\u062d\u062f \u0623\u0646 \u062a\u063a\u0641\u0631 \u0644\u064a \u0630\u0646\u0648\u0628\u064a \u0625\u0646\u0643 \u0623\u0646\u062a \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0641\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0645<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allaahumma<\/em> (O Allaah)!\u00a0 Verily I ask you, yaa Allaah<\/strong><\/span><\/em>, as You are al-Waahid (the One), al-Ahad (another name meaning “the One”), as-Samad (the Eternal), the One who has no offspring nor was He born, nor is there anyone similar to Him, that You forgive me for my sins!\u00a0 Verily, You are al-Ghafoor (the Forgiving), ar-Raheem (the Ever Mercilful)!<\/p>\n

Upon hearing this, the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace)\u00a0repeated (what means), “He has been forgiven,”<\/strong> three times.\u00a0 The hadeeth was collected by Aboo Daawood (#985), an-Nasaa’ee (#1301), and it is authentic.<\/p>\n

While many scholars mention that “Allaahumma<\/em>” is used to mean “Yaa Allaah<\/em>“, it is not only permissible to say “Yaa Allaah<\/em>” based on this clear hadeeth,\u00a0it should be known that it is an established Sunnah.<\/p>\n

ARABIC BENEFIT:<\/strong> Regarding the assumed problem with the pronunciation, that the alif<\/em> in Allaah’s Name is actually hamzat al-wasl<\/em>, which means it should be pronounced “Yallaah”<\/em> (\u00a0\u064a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u00a0), and not “Yaa Allaah” <\/em>(\u00a0\u064a\u0627 \u0623\u0644\u0644\u0647\u00a0),\u00a0the early\u00a0scholars of\u00a0Arabic have exempted this\u00a0alif<\/em> from its original rule, and have allowed a hamzah<\/em> to be added and\u00a0pronounced, thus legitimizing the pronunciation of “Yaa Allaah”.\u00a0<\/em> See: al-Kitaab<\/em> of Seebooyah (4\/109)\u00a0and more importantly:\u00a0as-Sahaah<\/em> of al-Jowharee (5\/1798 under laam-yaa-haa<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The bottom line:<\/strong> The phrase “yaa Allaah”<\/em> (\u00a0\u064a\u0627 \u0623\u0644\u0644\u0647\u00a0) used to call upon Allaah is correct and in no way problematic, as it is\u00a0a phrase used in an authentic supplication from the Sunnah.<\/p>\n

Please make a note of this if you learned this mistake from me, and help me to correct it by informing anyone you know who may have heard it from me as well, and may Allaah reward you.<\/p>\n

Written by: Moosaa Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n

*Special thanks to my brother, Naveed Khawaja (may Allaah bless him and his family), for sending me the hadeeth today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In previous lectures, perhaps more than once, I erred in mentioning a point of Arabic language regarding the phrase “Yaa Allaah” – that the Arabs used the phrase “Allaahumma” to replace it. On the Salafitalk Forum\u00a0(the older, currently uneditable version … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,85,86,64,89],"tags":[340,344,301,345,343,348,346],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections-2","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-hadeeth-studies","category-original-articles","category-supplications-fiqh-islamic-rulings","tag-correcting-mistakes","tag-corrections","tag-mistakes","tag-mistakes-of-moosaa-richardson","tag-retractions","tag-salafitalk","tag-yaa-allaah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}