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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam 💐🤲

 

The comparison at the end of the tashahhud: اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى اۤلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى اِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَلَى اۤلِ اِبْرَاهِيمَ 

Allahümme Salli ala Muhammedin ve ala ali Muhammed kema Salleyte ala İbrahime ve ala ali İbrahim inneke hamidün mecit 

Allah!!Grant blessings to Muhammad and to the Family of Muhammad, as You granted blessings to Abraham and to the Family of Abraham,” (Bukhārī, Anbiyā', 10)

for Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was greater than Abraham (Peace be upon him), and the recipient of greater mercy; so what is the reason for it? Since early times the same supplication has been repeated in all the ritual prayers; whereas if a prayer is accepted once, that is enough. If those for whom millions of prayers have been accepted are persistently prayed for, and especially if the thing sought has been promised by God... For example, Almighty God has promised: "Soon will your Sustainer raise you to a station of praise and glory!," (17:79) yet always after the call to prayer and iqāma the narrated prayer: “And raise him up to the station of praise and glory that You have promised him”* is repeated; the whole Umma pray for that promise to be fulfilled. What is the reason for this too? *{‘Station of Praise and Glory’ - al-Maqām al-Maḥmud: Bukhārī, Adhān, 8, 17; Tirmidhī, Mawāqit, 43; Ṣalāt, 42; Abu Dā’ūd, Ṣalāt, 37; Nasā’ī, Adhān, 38; Ibn Māja, Adhān, 4; Iqāma, 25; Musnad, iii, 354.} The Answer: There are three aspects and three questions within this question. First Aspect: For sure Abraham (Peace be upon him) was not equal toMuhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), but his family or descendants were prophets. Muhammad’s (Upon whom be blessings and peace) family were saints, and saints cannot reach the level of the prophets. Evidence that this prayer for his family has been accepted in shining fashion is this: The fact that the saints who, among three hundred and fifty million, emerged from the progeny of only two of the Family of Muhammad (UWBP), that is, Hasan (May God be pleased with him) and Husayn (May God be pleased with him), were in the great majority of cases the spiritual guides and leaders of the sufi paths of reality, was because they received the effulgence of the Hadith: “The learned of my community are like the prophets of the Children of Israel.” {al-‘Ajlūnī, Kashf al-Khafa, ii, 64; Tecrid-i Sarîh Tercemesi (Turk. trans.), i, 107.} Those who guided the greater part of the Umma to the way of truth and reality of Islam ─foremost Ja‘far al-Sadiq (May God be pleased with him), Gawth al-A‘zam (May God be pleased with him), and Shah Naqshband (May God be pleased with him)─ were the fruits of the acceptance of this prayer for Muhammad’s (Upon whom be blessings and peace) Family. Second Aspect: The reason for benedictions of this sort being restricted to the ritual prayers is that they recall to one that he is on the way opened up and taken by the great caravan of the prophets and saints, who are the most luminous, perfect, and righteous of mankind and its eminent members. He has joined that vast congregation, which acquires strength through its hundredfold consensus and cannot confuse its way, and is accompanying it on the straight path. By recalling this, he is saved from satanic doubts and delusions. Evidence that the members of this caravan are the friends and acceptable creatures of the universe’s Owner, and its opponents and enemies are rejected, is that from the time of Adam, succour has always arrived from the Unseen for the caravan, while its opponents have always been visited by heavenly calamities. Yes, just as opponents like the people of Noah, the Thamud and the ‘Ad, Pharaoh and Nimrod have all received blows from the Unseen that tell of Divine wrath and chastisement; so the sacred heroes of the mighty caravan, like Noah (Peace be upon him), Abraham (Peace be upon him), Moses (Peace be upon him), and Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), have wondrously and extraordinarily manifested miracles and received dominical bounties from the Unseen. A single blow demonstrates anger, and a single bestowal, love, so thousands of blows being visited on opponents and thousands of favours and instances of assistance arriving forthe caravan testify and prove self-evidently, as clearly as daylight, the rightfulness of the caravan and that it is on the straight path. The verse: The path of those whom You have blessed in Sura al-Fatiha looks to the caravan, while the verses: "Not those on whom Your anger has been visited, nor those who have gone astray" (1:7) looks to their opponents. The point we have explained here is clearer in the discussion about the end of Sura al-Fatiha.

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam💐🤲🏼

Upon the birth of the Beloved Prophet ﷺ, Thuwayba came running to Abū Lahab, the Beloved Prophet’s ﷺ uncle, to give the good news of the birth of his nephew. Abū Lahab became extremely happy and 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 pointed to Thuwayba saying: “I free you in thankfulness of the birth of my nephew!”

What was the outcome of Abū Lahab freeing Thuwayba by merely pointing at her on Mawlid?

‘Urwa narrated: 

“Thuwayba was the freed slave girl of Abū Lahab whom he had manumitted, and then she suckled the Prophet ﷺ.

When Abū Lahab died, one of his relatives (‘Abbās ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib) saw him in a dream in a very bad state and asked him: ‘What have you encountered?’

Abū Lahab said: ‘I have not found any rest since I left you, except that I have been given water to drink in this (𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚."

📗 - [Saḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: Volume 7, Book 62, Number 38]

Imām Ḥāfidh Shams ud-Dīn bin Nāsir al-Dimashqī states:

“𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐮̄ 𝐋𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐛’𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭 (𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞-𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚. When Abū Lahab, whose eternal abode is Hellfire and regarding whom whole Sūrah of Tabat Yadā (i.e. Sūrah Lahab) was revealed, he gets Takhfīf in his ‘Adhāb every Monday 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐌𝐮’𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭 (𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐝.”

📗 - [Imām al-Dimashqī in Mawrid as Sādī fī Mawlid al-Hādī]

 Imām Qastallānī writes:

“How would anyone of the Ummah of the Holy Prophet ﷺ fare, who is a Muslim and is steadfast in his belief in the unity of Allāh and rejoices at his ﷺ birth and who spends whatever he can afford for the love of him ﷺ? 

𝐈 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚̄𝐡, 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬.” 

📗 - [Imām Qastallānī in his celebrated work Al-Mawāhib Al-Ladunniyyah]

Imām al-Dimashqī and Imam Qastallānī were scholars who had memorised over 100,000 aḥādīth with matn and sanad like al-Suyūtī, al-‘Asqalānī, al-‘Irāqī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Jazarī, al-Sakhāwī, al-Haytamī etc. - all who approved Mawlid! You expect me to leave their opinion for a dimwit who barely knows the 4 fard of wudū’, took a 3 days crash course on Bukhārī and learnt how to pronounce Bid'ah and Shirk?! Never in 10 lifetimes! Dream on and keep taking the tablets. ‘Ulamā are the heirs of the Prophet ﷺ, the pride and coolness of our eyes, without whom the religion wouldn’t have reached us. #MawlidTillDeath