Status In Cosmos-First Creation

“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

It is related that Jabir ibn Abdullah asked the Prophet ﷺ:“O Messenger of Allah! Please tell me of the first thing Allah created before all others?” and that he ﷺ replied: “O Jabir, verily Allah Most Exalted created – before all else – the light of your Prophet from His Light. That light remained (“turned”) in the midst of His Power for as long as He wished, and at that time there was not a Tablet or Pen or Paradise or Fire or angel or heaven or earth. And when Allah wished to create creation, He divided that light into four parts, and from the first made the Pen, from the second made the Tablet, from the third the Throne, (and from the fourth all else)…”

Recorded by imam Abdur-Razzaq San’ani (one of the Shaykhs of Bukhari and Muslim) in his Musannaf , Imam ‘Ajluni’s Kashf al-Khafa’ (hadith #827). Imam Qastallani in his Mawahib Laduniyya (1:55-56)

Sayyidina Abdul-Qadir al-Gaylani al- Hanbali (in many of his books); Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari al-Hanafi in his book on the Mawlid entitled al-Mawrid al-Rawi (p. 40); the Hanafi mufti Abdul-Ghani an Nabulsi in his al-Hadiqa an-Nadiyya (2:375); Qadi ‘Iyad in his Shifa’ (1:19, 59-60); the Indian Hadith scholar Abdul- Hayy Lucknawi in his al-Athar al-Marfu’a (p. 33-34); and many others…

However, the scholars consider the meaning of this hadith (specifically, the first sentence) authentic and sound, and it is supported by Qur’an (5:15) and other Sahih hadiths.

Mahmud al-Alusi in his Tafsir Ruh al-Ma’ani (8:71) and in another passage (17:105) he writes:“The Prophet’s ﷺ being a mercy to all is linked to the fact that he is the intermediary of the Divine outpouring over all created things, as stated in the report that, The first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet, O Jabir… and, Allah is the Giver and I am the distributor (Bukhari).”

Shaykh Ibn al-Haj al- Maliki (in his Madkhal 2:26-33) spoke at length about the sacred light of the Prophet ﷺ, and how it was a column of light glorifying Allah Most High, and how it was later deposited into the loins of Adam (alayhi salam); and he ended this section by saying:“So he ﷺ is the central pivot of the entire circle of creation, and the original reason for which creation was brought into existence, and because of whose blessing certain times and seasons (e.g. Monday, Rabi’ al-Awwal) were given preference over others. ”

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ja’far al-Kattani wrote in his Nazm al-Mutanathir (#194) – in which he collected the hadiths which are mutawatir – that “It has been mentioned in some hadiths that the first thing Allah (Most High) created was the 1) Muhammadan Light, 2) the Throne (‘Arsh)… (then he proceeded to mention the Pen (Qalam), the Tablet (Lawh), the Water (see Q11:7), the Spirit (Ruh), the Intellect (‘Aql))… and in explaining the apparent contradiction between these hadiths, I say that the primacy of the Muhammadan Light is the (absolute) reality, whereas the others are of a relative primacy, in that each of those other creations constitute the first of their kind only. So, the Throne existed before the other dense bodies, and the Intellect before the other subtle bodies, and so on…and Allah knows best.”

Hafiz ‘Ajluni states the same in his Kashf al-Khafa’, quoting from other scholars, and he also explained that the meaning of the phrase “from His Light” is not to be understood literally, but rather it is understood in the same way that the Qur’anic verse (32/9) about the creation of Adam from the Spirit (Ruh) of Allah is understood.

The hadith of Ibn ‘Abbas in which he states that light would appear to come out between his teeth when he ﷺ would speak.Recorded by Tirmidhi in his Shama’il (#14), Bayhaqi in Dala’il an-Nubuwwa (1:215), and Tabarani in his Mu’jam al-Kabir (11:416 #12181) and Mu’jam al-Awsat (#767).

And Anas stated: “On the day in which the Messenger of Allah entered Madina, everything in it became lit, and on the day in which he passed away, everything became darkened.” Recorded by Tirmidhi (#3551), Ibn Majah (#1621), Ibn Kathir (Bidaya, 5:274).

One of the famous supplications which he ﷺ used to recite before Fajr was, “and increase my light, and make me light” (Sahih Muslim 1:525), which Allah Most High no doubt answered.

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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