Durood or
Darood Shareef (from
drōd) or
Salawat or
aṣ-ṣalātu ʿala -n-nabī (from ) is an invocation which
Muslims make by saying specific phrases to compliment the
Islamic prophet Muhammad. The
Islamic view is to say
durood whenever a Muslim reads, speaks, or hears the name of Muhammad. Durood, a kind of prayer mentioned in
hadith, as well as in the
Qur'an, are recited in the form of
Wazifa.