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Islamic honorifics

Islam uses a number of conventionally complimentary phrases praising Allah (e.g., Subḥānahu wa-taʿālā), or wishing good things upon Muhammad or other prophets and chosen figures of God (e.g., ʿalayhi s-salām).

These phrases are encompassed by a number of terms:

Prayers upon Muhammad may be referred to simply as

Arabic: صَلَوات, romanized: ṣalawāt, "prayers",

Persian: درود, romanized: dorud, "greetings", or

Urdu: درود, romanized: durūd.

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