Awliya- Barakah

“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)

 

Aulia Barakah

 

Imam Shafi`i seeks Baraka from the Tomb of Imam Abu Hanifa

Whenever he would have a problem, he would visit the TOMB of Imam Abu Hanifah , pray two Rakahs there and ask Allah (subhanu wa taala) through the Baraka of  Imam Abu Hanifah, and his problem would be immediately be solved. He would also make those two Rakahs according to the Hanafi Mazhab. When asked why, he replied : “In respect of the  person in the Tomb (i.e. Abu Hanifah)” (ta’adduban ma’a sahib al-Qabr).

( Imam Ibn Hajar al-Makki in in his Book called “al-Khairat al-Hisan fi manaqib al-imam Abu Hanifah al-Numan”. Ibn Abidin Shami in the introduction of his massive work called Rad al-Muhtar)

It is absurd to say that one may ask the living pious for du`a but once they have passed away it is Shirk to ask du`a, as they are still alive in their Qubur

Or do they say that Shirk is allowed with and a living person and not allowed with a dead person.

why did Sayyidina Abu Bakr as well as Sayyidina Umar requested to be buried next to the qabr of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ in his house, while everybody in Madinah gets buried in the Jannatul Baqi`? Because they knew that there was Baraka at his Qabr and they wanted it.

Kanzul Ummal(vol.7 p.66) and Ibn Qudamah (al-Mughni vol.4 p.554):Once while going to the Mosque to lead the Jumu`ah Salat, Umar passed by a canal (Mizab), which was in the way, and the dirty water from the canal messed up his clean clothes. He got angry and took the canal out of the way, went back home,  dressed up again and went to Mosque.In the Mosque, the Prophets ﷺ uncle Sayyidina Abbas (r) confronted him and said: “that canal was put there by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, as I saw with my own eyes”.When Sayyidina Umar heard that, he immediately left the Mosque with Abbas and went where that canal was, bent himself like in Ruku (bowing) and said to Abbas:” uncle of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, climb on my back  and put the canal back where Allah’s Messenger put it”.

Sahih Bukhari (Kitab al-Libas) …. Nabi Muhammad ﷺ had a ring, thereafter Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) had the ring, thereafter Sayyidina Umar (r) and thereafter Sayyidina Uthman (r). Clearly, they wore this ring to receive the Baraka of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.

Sahih al-Bukhari (Kitab al-Maghazi) that the same holds true for the spear of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ. It was passed on to Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) and then to Sayyidina Umar (r) and then to Sayyidina Uthman (r) and finally to Sayyidina `Ali (r).

Imam Nawawi on Seeking Baraka

Imam Nawawi says in Sharh Muslim vol.5 p.161 that there are three main things (Fawa’id) we learn from this Hadith:

It is permitted to get Baraka from Salih people and objects connected to them.

It is recommended to pray in the places where the pious used to pray.

It is recommended to seek Baraka from the places where the pious people resided.

The greatest proof of Tabarruk is the Story of the Holy Tabut (Wooden Chest) as mentioned in 2/248):

Al-Qurtubi (in his Tafsir vol.3 p.247) and Ibn Katheer (in his Al-Bidayah vol.1 p.8),
write that the Jews, before embarking on a battle, would put this Chest in front of them and Pray, and they would then be victorious through the Barakah of that Holy Chest! Ibn Katheer (in his Tafsir vol. p.313) narrates that this Holy Chest (Tabut), carried respectfully by the very Mala’ika of Allah, contained the Sandals, Clothes, Sticks and other blessed Relics of Nabi Musa and Nabi Harun, `alayhi-s-salam.

Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, was first and foremost in teaching us to receive blessing from him as illustrated by the fact that He distributed his Hair and Wudu water.

All Barakah comes from Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala: the Barakah of the Qu’ran, of Islam, of the Ka’bah, of Madinah, of voluntary charity, of Zamzam water.Every Muslim knows that these are only “Means” and “Attractors” and that the real Source of Barakah is only Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala.

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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