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In [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]]'s ''[[Misbah al-mutahajjid (book)|Misbah al-mutahajjid]]'', Reciting this verse has been recommended after maghrib prayers and after saying the [[tasbih of Lady Fatima (a)]].  
In [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]]'s ''[[Misbah al-mutahajjid (book)|Misbah al-mutahajjid]]'', Reciting this verse has been recommended after maghrib prayers and after saying the [[tasbih of Lady Fatima (a)]].<ref>Ṭūsī, ''Miṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid'', p. 85.</ref>


In Shiite religious culture of some regions such as [[Iran]], this verse is recited loudly by one person after [[congregational prayers]] and the participants recite salawat three times.  
In Shiite religious culture of some regions such as [[Iran]], this verse is recited loudly by one person after [[congregational prayers]] and the participants recite salawat three times.  


==Interpretation==
==Interpretation==
Based on a number of [[hadiths]] mentioned in [[Shiite]] and [[Sunni]] sources, Allama Tabatabai states that the correct form of salawat is to ask God to bless the Prophet (s) and his family. He also emphasizes that the believers, by saying salawat, in fact follow God and the angels in their blessing the Prophet (s). According to him, this verse is also an emphasis on the warning in the subsequent verse that those who hurt God and His apostle are cursed in this world and the [[hereafter]].  
Based on a number of [[hadiths]] mentioned in [[Shiite]] and [[Sunni]] sources, Allama Tabatabai states that the correct form of salawat is to ask God to bless the Prophet (s) and his family.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāʾī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 16, p. 338.</ref> He also emphasizes that the believers, by saying salawat, in fact follow God and the angels in their blessing the Prophet (s). According to him, this verse is also an emphasis on the warning in the subsequent verse<ref>Qur'an 33:57.</ref> that those who hurt God and His apostle are cursed in this world and the [[hereafter]].<ref>Ṭabāṭabāʾī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 16, p. 338.</ref>


In his ''Payam-i Quran'', Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi mentions that, according to Shiite and Sunni hadiths, [[Muslims]] are to ask God to bless the family of the Prophet (s) together with the Prophet (s). Sunni hadiths in this regard can be found in such sources as ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'', ''[[Sahih Muslim]]'', ''Tafsi Durr al-manthur'', and ''Tafsir al-Tabari''.  
In his ''Payam-i Quran'', Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi mentions that, according to Shiite and Sunni hadiths, [[Muslims]] are to ask God to bless the family of the Prophet (s) together with the Prophet (s).<ref>Makārim Shīrāzī, ''Payām-i Qurʾān'', vol. 9, p. 399-403.</ref> Sunni hadiths in this regard can be found in such sources as ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'',<ref>Bukhārī, ''Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī'', p. 937, hadith 4797.</ref> ''[[Sahih Muslim]]'',<ref>Muslim Nayshābūrī. ''Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim'', vol. 1, p. 305, chapter 17, hadith 56.</ref> ''Tafsi Durr al-manthur'',<ref>Suyūṭī, ''al-Durr al-manthūr'', vol. 6, p. 646-647.</ref> and ''Tafsir al-Tabari''.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Jāmiʾ al-bayān'', vol. 19, p. 176.</ref>


According to a hadith quoted in [[al-Tabrisi]]’s ''[[Majmaʿ al-bayan]]'', [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] said, “He who asks God to bless the Prophet (s), angels will ask God to bless him, they will erase ten of his [[sins]], and write for him ten good deeds.”
According to a hadith quoted in [[al-Tabrisi]]’s ''[[Majmaʿ al-bayan]]'', [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] said, “He who asks God to bless the Prophet (s), angels will ask God to bless him, they will erase ten of his [[sins]], and write for him ten good deeds.”<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Majmaʿ al-bayān'', vol. 8, p. 579.</ref>


==Evidence for the Obligatoriness of Salawat==
==Evidence for the Obligatoriness of Salawat==
According to Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi, the salawat verse indicates that saying salawat upon the Prophet (s) is [[obligatory]] at least once in one’s life. Moreover, Shaykh Mansur Ali Nasif, a Sunni scholar and author of the book ''al-Taj al-jamiʿ li l-usul'', is reported to have stated that scholars unanimously agree that this verse indicates, in its manifest meaning, that saying salawat upon the Prophet (s) is obligatory.
According to Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi, the salawat verse indicates that saying salawat upon the Prophet (s) is [[obligatory]] at least once in one’s life.<ref>Makārim Shīrāzī, ''Payām-i Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn (a)'', vo. 3, p. 200.</ref> Moreover, Shaykh Mansur Ali Nasif, a Sunni scholar and author of the book ''al-Taj al-jamiʿ li l-usul'', is reported to have stated that scholars unanimously agree that this verse indicates, in its manifest meaning, that saying salawat upon the Prophet (s) is obligatory.<ref>Makārim Shīrāzī, ''Payām-i Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn (a)'', vo. 3, p. 200-201.</ref>


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