A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,
nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`alaa fee haadha 'l-masjid.
أَطِيعُواْ اللّهَ وَأَطِيعُواْ الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ
Atee`oollaha wa atee`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.
Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:59)
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Mawlid an-Nabi (s). As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh. I think this is a blessed night. (...)
[Ziyara to two Holy Hairs of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and to the Ghilaf of His Holy Grave (s).]
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakaatuh. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbi 'l-`Alameen, was-salaatu was-salaamu `alaa ashrafa 'l-Mursaleen Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadin wa `alaa aalihi wa sahbihi ajma`een. Yaa Sayyidee, yaa Rasoolullah unzhurnaa bi nazharin min `indika yaa Habeebullah, anzhur `alaa quloobina; nawwar quloobanaa bi nooru ’l-imaani wa ’l-islam, wa bi noorillahi ’l-Kareem wa bi noorika yaa Habeebullah, yaa Rasoolullah, yaa Shafi` al-mudhnibeen yaa Sayyiddee yaa Rasoolullah nahnu mudhniboon, narjoo shafa`ataka yaa Sayyidee, narjoo shafa`ataka wa law annahum idh zhalamoo anfusahum jaaooka fastaghfirullah, w ’astaghfara lahum ar-rasoola la-wajadoollaha tawaaban raheema! Yaa Sayyidee yaa Rasoolullah, bijaahika indallahi `azza wa jall an ya toob `alayna `azza wa jal min dhunoobinaa wa sayiaatinaa wa soowa `amaalinaa innaka Anta al-Habeeb innaka Anta al-Kareem innaka Anta al-Jawaad innaka Anta ar-Ra'uf innaka Anta ar-Ra'uf ar-Raheem kamaa atlaa `alayka azza wa jall, yaa Habeebullah!
Brothers and sisters, sons and daughters! I don’t know from where to begin and from where to end. When it comes to Mawlid an-Nabawi (s), the Milaad of the Prophet (s), I don’t know what to say. It is a great event that cannot be described. It is not the description of a man, as they say, “The Perfect Man,” al-Insaan al-Kaamil, that many people have written books on. It is not, ‘The Perfect Man;’ rather, he is “The One Who Cannot Be Described!” Allah (swt) described Himself by Himself to Himself by the 99 Beautiful Names and Attributes. And the Prophet (s) has to be described and he described himself to himself by himself with one word, “`abd.” That means it is the highest level possible that can be attained by the Prophet (s), when he says, “I am `abd.”
We cannot say that as we did not reach Maqaam al-`Uboodiyya, the level of `abd; we are still in slavery to our Shaytan, everyone, including me, even `ulama. Awliya are protected,but still they make mistakes. No one is innocent, infallible, except Prophet (s) and all other prophets. So Allah described Himself to Himself by Himself through His Beautiful Names and Attributes and the Prophet (s) described himself to himself as “`abd,” but we cannot describe ourselves as such.
Allah (swt) said:
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلاً
Subhaan-alladhee asraa bi `abdihi laylan.
Glory be to He Who transported His servant by night. (Surat al-Israa, 17:1)
The Prophet (s) likes to be described as ‘`abd.’ That is why when Muhammad al-Busayri (r) was writing “Mawlaya salli wa sallim daa’iman abadan” in his Qaseedat al-Burdah, he was unable to continue and he stopped there. He was sitting by the Nile River with his two feet in the water and was unable to continue that verse. From the love of Prophet in his heart and the fact that he was unable to continue the verse, the Nile was boiling from his `ishq, his love. At that moment he was stuck. He would usually be in a vision whenever he wrote, but that vision was cut. He tried to get back that vision of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), as awliyaullah often get dictated by Prophet (s) what they have to say, to write poetry. People speak of Hassan bin Thabit (r) praising the Prophet (s), but who is Hassan bin Thabit (r)? Prophet (s) is praising himself through Hassan bin Thabit! Because he is `abd and so cannot praise himself. Then the Prophet (s) came before him and told him to write, “`alaa habeebika khayri ‘l-khalqi kullihimi.” The Prophet (s) mentioned to him what he has to write in order for us to repeat it!
مولاي صلّ وسلم دائما أبدا على حبيبك خير الخلق كلهم
وكلّ من رسول الله ملتمسا غرفا من البحر أو رشفا من الدّمي
هو الحبيب الذي ترجى شفاعته لكل هولٍ من الأهوال مقتحم
Mawlaya salli wa sallim daa’iman abadan, `alaa habeebika khayri ‘l-khalqi kullihimi.
Wa kullun min rasoolillaahi multamisun, gharfan min al-bahri aw rashfan min ad-diyami.
Huwa ‘l-habeebu ’Lladhee turjaa shafa`atahu, li kulli hawlin min al-ahwali muqtahimi.
O Allah! Send prayers and peace always and forever upon Your Beloved, the Best out of all of Creation!
All of them partake from the Prophet of God a handful of his oceans or a sip from his continuous rains.
He is the Beloved of the One, from whom we have hopes of intercession (from) all the woes that have descended upon the humans.
O Muslims! From his humbleness Prophet (s) looks at us; otherwise, we don’t deserve it as we are sinners and we do things that Allah doesn’t like. We are struggling: one day we are good and one day bad. But the most important thing is to ask for forgiveness. So Muhammad al-Busayri (r) with his `ishq to the Prophet (s) wrote something that we read but don’t stop to analyze: Wa kullun min rasoolillaahi multamisun, gharfan min al-bahri aw rashfan min ad-diyami. Do you repeat that verse of Qaseeda al-Burdah or not? Did you memorize it? It is in al-Burdah. They say that everyone, even prophets, take from Sayyidina Muhammad (s), but in reality, when you say in Arabic “Wa kullun min rasoolillaahi multamisun,” everyone is in need to seek something from the Prophet (s) or else he will not be existing in this world, as Allah said in the Holy Qur'an:
وإعلموا أن فيكم رسول الله
W`alamoo anna feekum rasoolullaah.
And know Allah's Messenger is in you. (Surat al-Hujuraat, 49:7)
What is the meaning of this ayah, does anyone know what it says? The meaning is not that Prophet (s) is “among us,” as they have translated for their own purposes because they don’t want to say it is “in us.” In reality feekum means “in you,” Rasoolullah; it means the Light of Existence, where Allah created all Creation from the Light of the Prophet (s), so it means there is Noor al-Muhammadiyya in everyone.
What happens when we say, “Yaa Muhammad!” You think that when you say, “Yaa Muhammad” --say, “Yaa Muhammad!”--when we say this, that Muhammadan Light, Noor al-Muhammadiyya, will dress you whether you see it or not and it is not up to them, you get it. If you keep repeating it, increasing, that Noor will dress you. When you go to a king and say, “Yaa Sayyidee, yaa Sultan, yaa Malik al-Mulook,” he will give you a gift before you leave. What about the Prophet (s)? Do you think there will be no gifts from the one who gives gifts to everyone and who has been sent as Rahmatan li ’l-`Alameen? The Prophet (s) was upset, he was sad, and Allah (swt) said:
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ الَّذِي أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
Alam nashrah laka sadrak wa wada`na `anka wizrak. Alladhee anqada zhahrak.
Have We not expanded for you your breast? And We removed from you your burden that weighed so heavily on your back. (Surat ash-Sharh, 94:1-3)
Alam nashrah laka sadrak, “Did We not expand your chest? We have made your heart happy.” Wa wada`naa `anka wizrak, “And We have taken off your sins.” The question now arises, does the Prophet (s) have sins? No. So how does the ayah say, “We have taken from you your sins, your burdens?” How is Prophet (s) fallible (when) even the prophets who are lower in rank have no sins? It says in Qur’an that they are infallible. So Allah is saying, “You must be happy, yaa Muhammad, as I have given you everything.” So what does that mean? It means, “Yaa Muhammad! We know you! You are carrying your ummah on your shoulders and on your back. Whatever your ummah has done of sins, We have taken away! We are taking all the sins of your ummah, the ones that you are caring for in every moment of your life, saying, ‘Ummatee, ummatee!’ You are carrying that burden on your shoulders and I am telling you that I am relieving you and I forgave them before I created them, for your sake.”
Allahu Akbar! Allah (swt) is giving gifts to the Prophet (s). What kind? When you give gifts to people you give perfume, not an iron bar. You go to the perfume shop and get something that has a nice smell, but if you go to the blacksmith you get some sparks on your dress, burning it. You go to a perfumery, you get a special, nice perfume. Allah is the Kareem, the `Azheem: “min `azhamtee wa min karamee.” He gives Prophet a gift that cannot be described! We cannot understand it, but we understand what is written in Holy Qur’an: wa wada`na `anka wizrak, “We took your burden, your ummah! We are forgiving them, everyone! Don’t worry about them! I give you them, I give them shafa`ah and send them to Paradise.”
What do you want more than that? Be happy! Go rest, sleep, be happy, don’t fight! So go home, be in peace and don’t fight with your father or mother, brother or sister, and especially with your mother-in-law or father-in-law! There is too much of that and they come at the end and say, “(We suffer from) black magic!” You are Muslim; how can black magic affect you? When you say “a`oodhu” it disappears. It says in Holy Qur’an, “fasta`idhoo billah;” when you say that, they run away. Read Fatihah (and black magic is) finished!
We have compiled some salawaat that are unimaginable in their blessings, salawaat that you cannot imagine that it can be written like that. They are from different awliyaullah who have shown us how they recited salawaat on the Prophet (s) and with what kind of blessing. I was not going to recite, but inspiration came “How did you stop reading my salawaat?” So now I have to read; we cannot delay or otherwise it will be a sin. We take one, the first one, read by a big wali of Egypt, Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi (q), one of the great imams in Egypt, a big wali. Do you know his story? We read the salawaat first, then we will mention his story.
Salawat Nooraaniyyah
اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ وَباَرِكْ عَلىَ سَيِّدِناَ وَمَوْلاَناَ مُحَمَّدٍ شَجَرَةِ اْلاَصْلِ النُّوْرَانِيَّةِ، وَلَمْعَةِ الْقَبْضَةِ الرَّحْمَانِيَّةِ، وَأَفْضَلِ الْخَلِيْقَةِ اْلاِنْسَانِيَّةِ، وَأَشْرَفِ الصُّوْرَةِ الْجَسْمَانِيَّةِ، وَمَعْدِنِ اْلاَسْرَارِ الرَّبَّانِيَّةِ، وَخَزَائِنِ الْعُلُوْمِ اْلاِصْطِفَائِيَّةِ، صَاحِبِ الْقَبْضَةِ اْلاَصْلِيَّةِ، وَالْبَهْجَةِ السَّنِيَّةِ، وَالرُّتْبَةِ الْعَلِيَّةِ، مَنِ انْدَرَجَتِ النَّبِيُّوْنَ تَحْتَ لِوَائِهِ، فَهُمْ مِنْهُ وَاِلَيْهِ، وَصَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ وَباَرِكْ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلىَ آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ عَدَدَ مَاخَلَقْتَ، وَرَزَقْتَ وَأَمَتَّ وَأَحْييْتَ اِلَى يَوْمِ تَبْعَثُ مَنْ أَفْنَيْتَ، وَسَلِّمْ تَسْلِيْمًاكَثِيْرًا وَالْحَمْدُ ِللهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِيْنَ.
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baarik `ala Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadin shajarati ’l-asli ’n-nooraaniyyati wa lam`atil qabdati ’r-rahmaaniyyati wa afdali ‘l-khaleeqati ’l-insaaniyyati wa ashrafi ’s-soorati ’l-jismaaniyyati wa m`adini ’l-asraari ‘r-rabbaniyyati wa khazaaini ’l-`uloomi ’l-istifaaiyyati, saahibi ’l-qabdati ’l-asliyya wa ’l-bahjati ’s-saniyya wa ’r-rutbati ’l-`aliyya, man indarajati ’n-nabiyyoona tahta liwaa’ihi, fahum minhu wa ilayhi, wa salli wa sallim wa baarik `alayhi wa `alaa aalihi wa sahbihi `adada maa khalaqta wa razaqta wa amatta wa ahyayta ilaa yawmi tab`athu man afnayta wa sallim tasleeman katheera wa ‘l-hamdulillahi rabbi 'l-`alameen.
It means:
O Allah! Exalt, greet and bless our master and liege lord Muhammad, the Tree of Original Light, the Sparkle of the Handful of Divine Mercy, the Best of All Humankind, the Noblest of Physical Frames, the Vessel of the Lord’s Secrets and Storehouse of the Sciences of the Elect, the Possessor of the Original Divine Grasp, Resplendent Grace, and Uppermost Rank, under whose flag line up all the prophets, so that they are from him and point to him. Bless, greet and sanctify him and his Family and Companions, to the number of all that You have ever created, sustained, caused to die, and caused to live again, to the Day You resurrect those You reduced to dust, and greet him with an abundant and endless greeting. Glory and praise belong to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!
And there are many other different salawaat. Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi (q) is a big `alim asking Allah to open His Door. His munajaat at the time of Qiyam al-Layl was, “Yaa Rabbee, open for me Your Door!” He is a big shaykh, asking, “Open for me your door! Whatever I have learned is nothing compared to Your Door that You will open for me! Open Your Door for me to be in Your Presence, to be in the Presence of Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!” And that is because the Prophet (s) reached Qaaba Qawsayni aw Adnaa and is there in the Divine Presence. One year had passed and Ahmad al-Badawi (q) and never getting a response every night for two years and then three years, but he never stopped asking.
Allah (swt) said:
ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ
Id`oonee astajib lakum.
Supplicate to Me and I will give you! (Surat al-Mu’min, 40:60)
Even if you do not get a response, you must still ask every night as it is an obligation and that is ilhaa, to be persistent. So insist and persist: you must insist in making the du`a and persist in doing it. There are some people who come to me and say, “I came and after ten days didn’t get answer.” Some still wait ten years, when (today some people) argue with Allah, saying they want an answer in ten days! Your responsibility is to keep making du`a. How many people kept doing du`a and Allah responded to them? Allah wants you to be patient! His last Holy Name is “as-Saboor,” the Most Patient, the Absolutely Patient. We are not even patient on each other! When we are young, like these young children reading and memorizing Holy Qur'an, we don’t fight, but when we grow up we begin to fight for money between brothers and sisters.
Until one day someone like Mawlana Hamadani appeared to him, a nice, pious person.
That man said, “Yaa Ahmad, what do you want?”
Ahmad al-Badawi (q) said, “I want Allah to open His Divine Presence to me, I need the key.”
The man said, “Your key is with me, I have the key.”
But Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi (q) was arrogant then. He was an `alim; he had not reached the level of saints. `Alims are always peacocks. Sorry, there are no `alims here; I think there is only awliya here!
He said, “I don’t want the key from you, I want it from the Keymaker!”
So the man said, “Okay, go and find key.”
Ahmad al-Badawi (q) continued saying, “Yaa Rabbee! Yaa Rabbee!” and one day he heard a voice saying, “Yaa Ahmad! In this dunya, We have made everything by causes. Your key is with the one who came to you, whom you chased away. Now go and find him.”
You don’t know where your key is, it might be with your neighbor. That’s why be kind to everyone. Sufism is to teach you to be kind to each other, not to fight, not to argue. If one begins to fight, the other must listen.
So he was looking for that man and could not find him for months and then suddenly that man appeared.
Ahmad al-Badawi (q) said, “Yaa Imam! You have my key and I need it.”
The man said, “No! Now there is a price.”
Are you ready to pay the price? I am asking you! [Yes!] Say, “We are ready to pay the price!”
So he said to him, “Your price is, what do you want to give me?”
Ahmad al-Badawi (q) said, “I am a poor man.”
“I don’t want money. If I wanted dunya it would all come under my service.”
You are `alim, all of you, are you `alim? [No.] Alhamdulillah. If you are `alim you must tremble!
“You are an `alim, so give me your `ilm that you built on arrogance, baatil, and for people to call you ‘`alim’.”
Today people go to university to get called “`Allamah,” “Mufti,” “Mawlana,” to be given titles. Allah knows what titles they give to themselves! “`Alim” must be lower. Say, “I am nothing,” or Allah will test you as he tested Ahmad al-Badawi and his `ishq to the Prophet (s).
Ahmad al-Badawi (q) said, “Okay, take what you want,” and that wali sucked all his knowledge using his eyes and left him completely empty of knowledge, not even knowing how to read Surat al-Fatihah! Then he wandered the streets of Cairo, Istanta, near Cairo, and the children of Cairo said, “The Imam of Cairo became mentally sick, lost his mind!”
After six months of wandering, that wali appeared again and said to him, “Sit in front of me, knee to knee” and then he poured from his eyes the real `ilm, `Ilm al Haqqaaiq, into Ahmad al-Badawi's eyes, until no one could look into his eyes as too much light was coming out and he had to wear a burqa (to veil himself from the people)! Anyone who looked into his eyes fainted from the light of `Ilm al-Ladunni.
These salawaat take you up like that and give you that light! They will take you to the way of Prophet (s).
Muhammad al-Busayri said, wa kullun min rasoolullaahi multamisan, “Everyone is in need of Prophet (s).” Everything is created with that Light and that is why when the Prophet’s name is mentioned we kiss our thumbs and rub our eyes and say, “Qurrata `aynee bika, yaa Rasoolullah!” like Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) did. And they say to you, “Why you do that?” (We do it) because Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) did that! He was happy to rub the name of Muhammad on his eyes; it means with the name there are miracles! Why is it rubbed on our eyes, not on our nose, why not on the mouth, why on the eyes? What is this finger? (The index finger.) Shahaadah. Say, “Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadu ‘r-Rasoolullah.” So then we put them together (index finger to thumb) and what is on the thumb? That is the ID Allah gave to everyone. (Then we can say) “Yaa Allah! That is my passport, my ID that You gave to me on my thumb and I am witnessing that You are my Creator in the Shahaadah.” That is why in juloos (during salaat), this (index) finger is witnessing, then we bring them together and kiss them and rub our eyes.
So today, what did scientists find in the eyes? They found another ID is in the iris: two identities. With both identities (iris and thumb) you are declaring, “Yaa Rabbee! I witness with my identity that we are seeking you, yaa Rasoolullah, to take us to Allah’s Presence!”
So 1400 years ago, Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) knew there are two identities. Yaa Siddiq! How did Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) know that 1400 years ago? And today technology also shows that your ID is in the iris. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) was able to see that 1400 years ago! It means Allah gave awliyaullah power and all take their power from the Prophet (s), “wa kullun min rasoolillah multamisan.” Some are taking in big quantities from the ocean or in little quantities in handfuls from the river. There is a big difference: handfuls of knowledge or oceans of knowledge. The Prophet (s) is our ocean and there is no other ocean but him! He is the one whom Allah (swt) will listen to on the Day of Judgment. And what will the Prophet (s) give us on the Day of Judgment?
He is “al-Habeeb.” Huwa ‘l-habeebu ’Lladhee turjaa shafa`atahu li kulli hawlin min al-ahwali muqtahimi . He is “the lover,” the only one, ismu ishaara, as indicated by “huwa,” no one else! This one is the lover to Allah (swt) and no one else. You are in need of his shafa`ah, for anything that happens to you in your life and in your Akhirah, any difficulty or mistake that you do or something hawl, hawl, “terrible,” like what is happening in Arab countries, bombarding, bombs everywhere killing people, and Qiyaamah is hawl: bombarding by airplanes killing innocent people, Hawl al-Qiyaamah you cannot describe in terms of what is happening in these countries now as it is more fearsome than that. No one can imagine it! The sun will come over your head, it will boil your brain, except those whom Allah covers with His shade.
So who do you need at that time, al-Busayri (q) is asking. You need Muhammad (s)! You need al-Habeeb to come and save you! Huwa al-Habeeb, you need him, you need him for your safety. What will the Prophet (s) do at that time? In Allah’s Presence, at that moment he will go into sajda, as mentioned in a lengthy hadith. He will make du`a that he never made before and Allah says to him, “Raise your head, I give you what you want!” He says, “Yaa Rabbee, I need them! That’s what I want, I want my ummah!”
Are we part of the ummah or not? [Yes!] As Imam mentioned in a hadith earlier. So are we in the ummah or not? [Yes!] And Allah (swt) will say, “Take one-third to Paradise, no questions!” Then another sajda and Allah gives him another one-third, and the third sajda and make du`a, and Allah will give him the whole, “Go take them and go to Paradise!”
If the Sahaabah (r) were doing what we are doing today, they would have faced big problems! Today we are doing worse than what they did in the first jaahiliyya, worse than the first jaahiliyya, you cannot imagine of their sins, they are doing everything! We are doing everything. They brought for us TV inside the house showing everything that is abnormal, from politics to movies to bad movies all in front of the children, and not only that. They give them computers, iPad, everything to make them to run away from Islam. They don’t like Islam. How Shaytan wants to change the Muslims? The only way today is to come through technology. Everyone says they need technology, even a child, “I need a computer to learn Holy Qur'an.” They even teach it on Skype and girls and boys can talk on Skype and take their clothes off on Skype; sorry to say that, but that is what’s happening. It is mentioned in a hadith:
وعن بن عباس أنه قال لجلسائه يوما :أي الناس أعجب إيمانا؟ قالوا : الملائكة. قال: وكيف لا تؤمن الملائكة والأمر فوقهم يرونه؟ قالوا :الأنبياء. قال: وكيف لا يؤمن الأنبياء والأمر ينزل عليهم غدوة وعشية؟ قالوا: فنحن .قال: وكيف لا تؤمنون وأنتم ترون من رسول الله ما ترون؟ ثم قال: قال رسول الله :" أعجب الناس إيمانا قوم يأتون من بعدي يؤمنون بي ولم يروني . أولئك إخواني حقا ".
The Prophet (s) was sitting with his Companions and said, “Who are the ones with the most imaan, that astonishes and stuns me?” He asked the Sahaabah (r), “Did you hear about them or can you figure out who these people are?” They looked at him and thought, “Who can be of the best imaan?” They said, “The angels, who are always under Allah's Order in everything; it must be the angels.” The Prophet (s) said, Wa kayfa la tumin al-malaaikata wa ’l-amru fawqahum yarawnahu, “How can the angels not have strong imaan when they are in the Divine Presence and they see what they see? Of course they have the best imaan. No, they have imaan, but there are others with the best imaan.” The Sahaabah (r) thought some more and said, “If it is not the angels, then it must be the Prophets.” The Prophet (s) said, “How are the Prophets not going to have imaan when Allah (swt) reveals to them morning and evening and they hear Allah's revelation through Jibreel (a), who brings them the message, or Sayyidina Musa (a), who talks directly as Kaleemullah? How can they not believe when it is being revealed to them?” Then the Sahaabah (r) looked at each other and said, “If not the angels and not Prophets, then it is us. How is it not us and we are following you?” And the Prophet (s) said, “How do you dare to say ‘us,’ and how can you not have imaan when you are among the Prophet (s) and see what he is bringing to you? No, there are others who have the best imaan. The people with the most imaan are those coming after me, who believe in me although they did not see me, and that means coming after you, O Sahaabah! Those are in truth my brothers!”
We are asking to see the Prophet (s) in dunya and Akhirah! We are beggars, asking, “Yaa Sayyidee, Yaa Rasoolullah, to see you in dream and in reality, in this life and the Next!”
So the Prophet (s) said, “These people believed in me without seeing me. fahum as-haabee fahuwa ahbaabee, “You are my Sahaabah (r), but they are my lovers.”
So be happy, especially in this month and in every month as well, as every day is Mawlid! This is the month of Mawlid and we celebrate it any day and in any month. We are weak, helpless servants, we are ‘needless’ servants, as no one needs us. May Allah keep us on the threshold of the House of the Prophet (s) and this is adab.
Prophet (s) said:
ما بين قبري و منبري روضة من رياض الجنة
Maa bayna qabree wa minbaree rawdatan min riyaadu’l-jannah.
What is between my grave and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise. (Ahmad)
Subhaan-Allah! “Between my grave,” and everyone knows this, “and between my minbar is a piece of Paradise.” Why a piece of Paradise? Because Sayyidina Muhammad (s) stepped on it! He stepped to Qaaba Qawsayni aw Adnaa and came back and after ten years later he stepped between his house and the minbar. Wherever the Prophet (s) put his feet is a Paradise, so how can anyone who goes there and prays two raka`ats be thrown in Hellfire, since he entered Paradise? Impossible! When you are in Paradise you are in Paradise: this means your sins were forgiven, before and after! [Naray takbeer! Naray Risalah!] To get that barakah is nowhere in dunya, that Paradise, except there because it is where he put his feet and we are carrying his sandals on our head! This is a sharaf, honor for us. You think there will be honor for the one who put his feet between the house and the minbar, as the Prophet (s) put his feet there? And then you pray two raka`ats there, how then can you go to Hellfire?
Awliyaullah say the Rawdah is the distance between the Holy Grave of the Prophet (s) and the minbar. It is rectangular and its width and length goes straight, all over the world! If we say, for example, that it is ten meters, it goes all over the world in a circle the width of ten meters and comes back. Anyone praying on that part will get the same manifestation of praying in the Rawdah. That is karamu illahee, because not too many people can go. Those who can go can go, those who cannot go, if they can enter that area, it will be as if they are praying in the Rawdat ash-Shareef.
May Allah keep us under the dome of Prophet (s), always to be with him in dunya and Akhirah!
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
I am sorry I was long, may Allah forgive me and forgive you.
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