On how we invoke safety for the Prophet after his death in the tashahhud

Question : If someone were to say: This supplication for safety may have been clear during his lifetime, peace and blessings be upon him. But after his death, how do we invoke safety for him when he has passed away, peace and blessings be upon him?

Answer : The answer is that we say: Death does not bring safety; death does not result in safety. There are the terrors of the Day of Resurrection. This is why the messengers, when people cross the Sirat, say: “O Allah, grant safety, O Allah, grant safety.” A person does not escape from fears and calamities merely by dying. This is one point. So we invoke safety for the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, from the terror of the standing and its fear. And we also say that it may have a broader meaning: safety in his Shari'ah and his Sunnah, as the scholars said regarding They said: to him in his lifetime, and to his Sunnah after his passing. So your supplication for safety upon Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, after his death is a supplication for the safety of his Shari'ah and his Sunnah from being touched by the hands of those who meddle.