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His Smile [PPBUH] in the Black Darkness

 

Whenever the night gets so dark, hope gets so high in a beam of light the cuts this darkness, and scatters the gloom of the pitch-black night… the human self is natured to seek the intimacy of the beauty of the daylight when it shows up… after the long dreary loftiness night when it become dark… If it you became sure of that, then you should know that the souls are natured to the love of the Prophet Chosen-One whose seeds of light were deeply planted inside the dense mud of the humanity of Adam's children… until it was honored with its creator's speech, Almighty, when he said [And know that among you is Allah's Messenger] al-Hujrat 49:7… smiles at you when the darkness becomes black, a smile that is a saving ship when the dangers surround in the seas of the worlds.

How much today is like yesterday! Whenever you look around you and see hypocrisy, dissension, and bad manners, from which the Prophet, Chosen-One Guider Honest, has asked Allah protection, you would greatly feel the extent of our need for some his manners and his clear light. That is how he was in the course of his biography… you would find him in the darkest moments a lantern lighting the path way removing all the darkness. Then whoever would be thrown in the fire of trial, in his presence, will not be burned… as the praising scares to praise his highness fearing that it might miss the correctness, also the trials are extinguished, the tiredness is cleared off, and the grudging one is disgraced by the door… but the Beloved stays as he is, with no coloring or despair of Allah's soul, he would not pray against those who hurt him rather he says (may Allah gets out of their spines some people who believe in Him)… that is how he was… bad ones wrong him while he, the forbearing, never avenges himself, rather he trades their bad doings with his good deeds and patience. But when it is about the religion of Allah and the safe delivery of his deposit, he teaches the nation that there is no negligence for any of Allah's rights. This is the sign of all signs for the great wisdom and the fairly good advice and the telling of how the nation has to be of Shari'a, path, and truth. You would see that a lot in between the honorable Prophetic Hadith… the Prophetic Mercy is flowing all over this universe as Allah said [And We have not sent you but as a mercy for the worlds] al-Anbeya 21:107.

The one who dared to offend the Prophet [PPBUH], and his offspring:

Ibn az-Zubayr narrated from Jaber that he said: A man -in the second narration he was identified as Dhuel-Khowaysara at-Tamimy- came to the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] in al-Gurana while he was leaving Hunain and Belal was carrying a load of silver in his cloth for the Prophet to distribute it and the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] was taking from that silver and giving people. Dhuel-Khowaysara said: O, Muhammad, be just. The Messenger said (Woe to you. Who is to be just if I am not?! You would fail and lose if I am not just). Omar ibn al-Khattab said: let me kill this hypocrite, O, Messenger of Allah. the Messenger said (Allah forbid, people talk about me killing my companions. This one and his company recite Qur'an but it does not go beyond their throats. They leave it as an arrow leaves the bow). Al-Musnad al-Gamee.

In another narration: az-Zahry said: Abo-Salam ibn Abdel-Rahman told me that Abo-Saied al-Khudry [AAH] said: while we were with the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], and he was dividing something, Dhuel-Khuwaysara, who was a man from Bany Tamim, came to him and said: O, Messenger of Allah be just. He said (Woe to you. Who is to be just if I am not?! Verily, You would fail and lose if I am not just). Omar said: O, Messenger of Allah, give me permission and will cut his nick. He said (Leave him; he has company that one would despise his prayers with theirs and his fasting with theirs. They recite Qur'an but it does but it does not go beyond their collarbones. They leave the religion as an arrow leaves the bow. He looks at its edge and finds nothing, he looks at the end of its string and finds nothing, he looks at its shaft, and find nothing with it, and he looks at its feathers and finds nothing -it is all parts of the bow and arrow- it has preceded the fat and blood. Their sign is a black man; his upper arm is like the breast of a woman or like a piece of meat shaking, and they come out when people are in difference…) narrated by al-Bukhary in the section of the signs of the prophecy in Islam, and in the narration of Muslim: az-Zahry from Abo-Salama, and ad-Dahhak al-Hamadany from Abo-Saied al-Khudry, also an-Nasa'i in al-Kubra he mentioned what Ali was specialized with from the fighting of the religion abandoning ones. Also Ahmed had more in his Musnad (the ones with new teeth and foolish dreams).

In another narration: Anas ibn Malik said: there was, at the time of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], a man that we liked his worship and his strive, so we mentioned him to the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] with his name but he did not know him, and we mentioned his description but he did not know him. While we were trying to mention him, the man showed up, we said: here he is. The Messenger said (you are telling me about a man on whose face a scorch from Satan). The man came to them but he did not say the Salam. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said to him (I ask you by Allah, when you stood by the sitting, did you say: no one in the people is better than me)? The man said: Yes, by Allah. Then he went in to pray. The Messenger of Allah said (who kills the man)? Abo-Bakr said: I do. He went to him, but he found him standing in prayers, he said "Subhan-Allah, do I kill a man while he is praying? And the messenger of Allah has forbidden the killing of the praying ones". So he came back. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] (What did you do)? He said "I hated to kill him while he is praying, and I was forbidden to kill the praying ones". Omar said: I will. So he entered and found him putting his face on the ground. Omar said: Abo-Bakr is better than me. And he came back out. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (what)? Omar said: I found him putting his face to the ground, so I hated to kill him. The Messenger said (who kills the man)? Ali said: I will. The Messenger said (You will if you catch him). Ali went in but found him gone. He came back to the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], so he said (What)? Ali said: I have not found him. He said (If he were killed there would be no two men disagreeing in my nation first to last). Musa said: I heard Mohamed ibn Ka'b saying: that was the man whom Ali killed the one with the breast thing…

Comments on the interpretation of the Hadith:

                The saying of: "be just" to the Prophet [PPBUH] is a sign of lightheadedness and slighting of the prestige of the Prophet [PPBUH] which one of the signs of the people of arrogance and impoliteness leading to bad ending, Allah protect us. That is why the Prophet [PPBUH] answered him en extremely wise eloquent answer and said (Verily, You would fail and lose if I am not just…) the You he meant Dhuel-Khuwaysara and the Verily here means the realization of the signs of his prophecy [PPBUH], so the man got the failure and loss for his impoliteness with the Prophet [PPBUH]. The clear meaning of the words of the Prophet [PPBUH] (You would fail and lose if I am not just) is that if your belief is built on the base that the Prophet may not be just in any part of time, then you would definitely fail and lose, no escape of that.

                The description of Sd. Omar for the man as the hypocrite in front of the Prophet [PPBUH], with no objection from him, but the Prophet [PPBUH] described him as a companion when he commented saying (Allah forbid, people talk about me killing my companions). That was some of his great wisdom, patience, and noble morality, leaving the door open for anyone who wants to repent, and then the description of Allah for him [PPBUH] as a mercy for the worlds is realized.

                His saying [PPBUH] (They recite Qur'an but it does but it does not go beyond their collarbones): it means that it does not go beyond the bones of their collars, i.e. it does not go from head level, which is the pronouncing by tongue, to the level of understanding by heart. Imam Nawawy said in his explaining for the Sahih of Imam Muslim: the words of the Prophet [PPBUH] (They recite Qur'an but it does but it does not go beyond their throats)… al-Qadi [the Judge] said: there is two interpretations in it: one of them is: their hearts do not understand it and they do not benefit from what they recited of it. And they do not gain except the reciting with the mouse and throat which define the letters. The second one is: no work or reciting is raised up to heaven or accepted.

                In the narration from Sd. Anas ibn Malik [AAH] (on whose face a scorch from Satan); the Prophet [PPBUH] told them about that man just by looking at his face without previously knowing him or revelation. That was the insight that Allah made as a condition for calling to Him, Almighty. This insight which was hard for the people of our time, so they neglected its necessity in the matter of calling to Allah not just that but they also accused its people of disbelief and detained them from carrying out their mission in the course of calling to Allah. Allah said [Say "This is my way: I do invite unto Allah, with insight, I and whoever follows me. Glory to Allah! and never will I join gods with Allah!"] Yusuf 12:108.

                The saying of the narrator “The man came to them but he did not say the Salam” in spite of the fact that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] was among them. This indicated the he has a disease in the heart. As if had in his heart a grain’s weight of love for sayyduna the Messenger of Allah, its signs would have shown when he meets him. This is a state that is know for the people of love whether it was high or low. But that was the arrogance which prevents from entering the garden of the Messenger of Allah in this worldly life before the hereafter.

                The saying of the Messenger of Allah (I ask you by Allah, when you stood by the sitting, did you say: no one in the people is better than me)? He said: Yes, by Allah. Then he went in to pray. That is another evidence for whoever believes in physiognomy, inspiration, enlightenment, uncovering, and al-Fateh [the insight opening], which are all ranks of the insight, which is the sight of the heart, like the sight for the eyes. Also we do not forget the rank of empowerment of the caller for Allah, which is clear in the truthful saying of the untruthful hypocrite. That was empowerment and support from Allah for his beloved to show the signs of his prophecy for his companions, in order to increase their love and belief in their Prophet [PPBUH]. Exactly like Abo-Lahab, when the revelation talked about him and he could not deny the Prophet by declaring the embracement of Islam even through lying. This is eradication and impressing of the hearts of the hypocrites, the polytheists, and the enemies of the religion. Allah said [And permission shall not be given to them to put forth excuses] al-Mursalat 77:36. then look at the condition of the hypocrite and how he sees himself above everyone including the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], so would there be a place for the likes of him in paradise, where there is no place for those in whose hearts there is a grain of pride?!!

                The saying of the Prophet [PPBUH] (who kills the man)? And the repetition of this request with Sd. Omar and Sd. Ali showed the politeness of the companions with the guidance of their Prophet [PPBUH] and with each other. As we see Sd. Omar saying: Abo-Bakr is better than me. And he followed his guidance, in spite of what could be understood from the repetition of the request of sayyduna the Messenger of Allah of killing the man, and what would be understood that his prayer is not actually a prayer rather it is pretending and hypocrisy. Then look at what he told Sd. Ali [AHHF] (You will if you catch him) and what it contain of sharp insight and telling of the unknown. Also see the composition of the words to indicate the doubt out of curtsy and politeness with Allah, and commitment to the rules of slavery to Allah and hiding, the humbleness to Allah, and the descending to their rank in order not to be terrorizing them with their prey.

The talk about the Prophet [PPBUH] and his great manners, his teaching to his companions, his state, his sayings, his staying, and his travel are seas of guidance that stays for ever as a source that does not run out, and the one who dives into it will never rest and will never get tired.

 

Written by Dr. Ibrahim ad-Desouqi

Translated by Sameh

 

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