DUROOD FATIH

Salawat Al-Fatih (durood Fatih)

Salat Al-Fatih is held in particular esteem with the Tijaniyya Order. In English, it goes like this:-
O God bless our Master Muhammad (pbuh) who opened what had been closed, and who is the Seal of what had gone before, he who makes the Truth Victorious by the Truth, the guide to thy straight path, and bless his household as is the due of his immense position and grandeur.

Allahumma salli ' wa sallim was baarik ala Sayyidina Muhammadil
nil-fatihi lima Ughliqa wal khatimi lima sabaqa wan-naa-siril-haqqi
bil-haqqi wal-hadi ila Sirati-kal-mustaqima sal-lal-lahu 'alayhi
wa 'ala alihi wa-ashaabihi haqqa qadrihi wa-miq-da rihil-'azim.

From the Tijaniyya - abun-Nasr; an excert from:- And Muhammad Is His Messenger : The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety by Annemarie Schimmel, ISBN: 0807841285

The Salat (Durood) is considered to have merits of eight categories…. He who reads it once is guaranteed the bless of the two abodes;

also reciting it once atones for all sins and is equivalent to six thousand (6000) times all prayers of glorification to God, all Dhikr and Dua'a, long and short which have occurred in the Universe.

He who recites it ten (10) times acquires recompense greater than that due to a Wali (saint) who lived ten Thousand years, but did not say it.

Saying it once is equivalent to the prayers of all angels, human beings, and Jinn from the beginning of their creation to the time when it was uttered, and saying is a second time is like [i.e. equivalent to the recompense of the first] plus the recompense of the first a and the second, and so on.

Salawat al-Fatih (Durood-e-Fatih) Associated with the Tijani order

This Salawat ala rasul is enough for you and your family if you just keep consistent with it, so keep on reading it ask duas with it, by and, try reading it 11 times every night (go to sleep and talk to nobody and try to sleep in Wudu, you’ll see the most wonderful dreams In’shallah if you make this a practice, if you can’t no problem but try now and again sleeping in wudu reading the salawat as your last ibaadah ) and 100 times every Friday.

once your more familiar with this Salawat ala rasul increase the number get to reading it 40 times a day and 1000 on Fridays but don’t do this straight away built up to it over a period of time like 40 days or more depending on your will on reading, if this is too much then 11 times every night is just fine and 100 times very Friday is really a Must after Asr prays.