Status In Cosmos-Noor And Book
“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
“There has come to you from Allah a Light and a Manifest Book” (5/15). “light” in this verse to refer to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, in that in his original reality he is a light from Allah. Imam Suyuti (Tafsir al- Jalalayn),Imam Fakhruddin ar-Razi (Mafatih al-Ghayb), Baydawi (Tafsir Anwar at-Tanzil), Ibn Jawzi (Zad al-Masir), Baghawi (Ma’alim at-Tanzil), Shawkani (Fath al-Qadir),Sayyid Mahmud al-Alusi (Tafsir Ruh al-Ma’ani), Ibn Jarir at-Tabari (Jami’ al-Bayan), al-Khazin in his Tafsir, an-Nasafi (Tafsir al-Madarik), Qurtubi (Ahkam al-Qur’an).
“O Prophet! We have truly sent you as a witness, a bearer of good news, and a warner, and one who invites to Allah by His Permission, and a light-giving lamp (sirajan munira)” (33/45-46).
Mulla ‘Ali Qari al-Hanafi writes in his Sharh al-Shifa’ (1:505) the following:“Muhammad ﷺ is a tremendous light and the source of all lights…sirajan munira means a luminous sun, as in Q25/61.There is in that verse an indication that the sun is the highest of the physical lights, and that other lights are outpourings from it. Similarly, the Prophet ﷺ is the highest of the spiritual lights and other lights are derived from him by virtue of his mediating connection and pivotal rank in the sphere of creation. This is also inferred from the hadith ‘The first thing Allah created is my light, O Jabir!’”
(18/110): “Say, I am a human like you who is Divinely inspired…”, then this is no contradiction to saying that the Prophet ﷺ is created from the Light of Allah.
Nor do we mean by “light” the physical light that we see when we turn on the switch in our rooms.Rather, there are other lights besides the purely material, which can be seen in such sayings of his ﷺ as: “You should keep to the dhikr of Allah, for it is a light for you,” and “Wudu’ is bright light” (Sahih Muslim, #246).
Indeed, he is both the “light from Allah” and a “human being,” and the inability to grasp both aspects of his blessed being is the shortcoming of the individual.
Furthermore, this verse only means that he is a human creature, in other words, created and not creator, and that is the only way in which he is like us other humans. Otherwise, which one of us can say that he has received direct revelation from Allah, or that he has went beyond the universe and spoken with, heard, and saw Allah Most High (all at the same time)?
It is a grave error to think that this verse means he is like us in all aspects, for he himself ﷺ also said, “I am not like you…,”
Compare the words of these Muslims today who have no reverence for their Prophet to the words of the disbelievers before them:
1.“… (Fir’awn and his people) …said, ‘shall we believe in two humans like us….(23/46-48).
2. “So they (the disbelievers) ….said, ‘shall (another) human guide us?’” (64/5-6).
3.“So the disbelievers … said, ‘we do not see you except as a human like us…’” (11/27).… and other similar verses.
Ubayy ibn Ka’b, when the Prophet ﷺ struck his hand upon his chest to correct him, said: “I began to sweat profusely and it was as if I was looking at Allah Most High Himself” (Muslim #1356, Ahmad 5:127, 129).
“Do not over-extol me in the same way that Christians extol their Prophet…” (Bukhari #3189) – meaning, do not attribute Divinity/khudai to me .
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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