Status In Cosmos-Before Adam

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

 

The Light of the Prophet ﷺand His Special Distinction

Ibn ‘Abbas said that, “The spirit of the Prophet ﷺ was a light in front of Allah 2000 years before He created Adam. That light glorified Him and the angels glorified by his glorification. When Allah created Adam (AS), He cast that light into his loins.” Qadi ‘Iyad narrates it in his Shifa’ (1:59), in the chapter on the nobility of the Prophet’s lineage, and Imam Suyuti states in Manahil as-Safa’ (p. 53 #128):

And he ﷺ said, “Allah created His creation in darkness, then He cast upon it from His light.” Recorded from Ibn ‘Amr by Tirmidhi (#2566), Hakim (1:30-31), Bayhaqi (9:3-4), Ibn Hibban (14:43-45 #6169-70), Hadith Sahih according to Hakim, Ibn Hibban, Haythami (Majma’, 7:193-94), and others.

Imam Fakhruddin ar-Razi wrote (Tafsir of 2/253) that the angels were commanded to prostrate to Adam only because of the light of Muhammad ﷺ which shined upon Adam’s forehead.

Ibn ‘Abbas explained taqallubaka (“your passage/movement”) in 26/218-19 (“Who sees you when you stand, and your passage thru those who prostrate”) as meaning: “your descent through the loins of your prophet-ancestors.” Recorded in the Tafsirs of Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, Suyuti, Mawardi, Baghawi, Ibn Jawzi, and many others, and also by Tabarani (Mu’jam al-Kabir 11:362)

Al-Shahrastani in his Kitab al-Milal wa’l Nihal (2:238) states: “The light of Muhammad ﷺ went from Sayyidina Ibrahim to Isma’il. Then that light passed through all his children until it arrived at Abdul- Muttalib…and with the blessing of this light Allah repelled Abraha’s harm.”

Al-Zuhri (one of the greatest Tabi’in) narrated: “Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib was the most handsome man that had been seen in Quraysh. One day he went out and was seen by an assembly of women of Quraysh, and one of them said, ‘O women of Quraysh, which among you will marry this youth and catch the light that is between his eyes?’ For verily there was a light between his eyes. Thereafter, Amina bint Wahb married him, and after he joined her she carried the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.” Recorded by Imam Bayhaqi in Dala’il an-Nubuwwa (1:87), Imam Tabari in his Tarikh (2:243)

All of these narrations above address how the original light of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was passed down thru his ancestors – all of whom were upright chaste men and women – down to his father Abdullah.

Imam Tirmidhi recorded (#3158-59) an authentic hadith on the authority of Mu’adh ibn Jabal, wherein the Prophet (asws) said: “My Lord came to me in the best image,” and in other narrations, “I saw my Lord in the best image, and He asked me what the angels of the highest assembly argued over. I said I did not know, so He put His ‘Hand’ between my shoulders, and I felt its coolness in my innermost, and the knowledge of all things between East and West came to me…” Also recorded by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad (#16026, #21093, #22126), Darimi in his Sunan (2:170 #2056), Tabarani in his Mu’jam Kabir (1:317 #938; 8:290 #8117; and also 20:109, 141),

Also, Ibn Kathir and Ibn Abi Hatim record in their Tafsirs that in the Mi’raj, the Prophet ﷺ went beyond the Sidrat al-Muntaha and heard the screeching of the Pens writing the Decree, then saw his Lord.

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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