Dars e Imam-Light Mehraj

“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)

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.” (Tafsirs of Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, Suyuti, Mawardi, Baghawi, Ibn Jawzi)

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.” (Imam Bayhaqi in Dala’il an-Nubuwwa (1:87), Imam Tabari in his Tarikh (2:243), Ibn al-Jawzi in his Kitab al-Wafa’ (Ch. 16))

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.

Abu Darda’ said: “When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) left us, there was not a bird that flies in the sky but that he had given us some knowledge about it.” (Imam Ahmad (#20399), Abu Ya’la (9:46 #5109), Ibn Hibban (1:267 #65), Ibn Sa’d (2:354), Bazzar (Musnad 9:341 #3897, Zawa’id 1:88),

This indicates his extensive knowledge of the Unseen given to him by Allah (Most High). He also said, “Truly, I do not know anything except what my Lord told me.” See: Ibn Hajar’s Fath al-Bari (13:364) and Isaba fi Tamyiz as-Sahaba (2:619), Tabari in his Tarikh (2:184),

Qadi ‘Iyad wrote a chapter in his Shifa’ called “The Prophet’s knowledge of the Unseen and future events.” In the beginning of it he wrote: “The hadiths on this subject are like a vast ocean whose depths cannot be plumbed and which does not cease to overflow. This is one aspect of his miracles that is definitely known. We have many ahadith which have reached us by multiple paths of transmission (tawatur) regarding his familiarity with the Unseen.”

He then goes on to list 58 concrete examples of the Prophet’s (ﷺ) knowledge of the Unseen and the future, which are mentioned in the hadith collections of: Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasa’i, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Imam Ahmad, Imam Malik, Tabarani, Abu Ya’la, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim, al-Bayhaqi, Ibn Khuzayma, and others.

Nafs is for kidmate e elahi –duniya

Ruh is for qurb e elahi (love+knowledge)

Huqooq ullah = huqooq ur rasool (creation but rights are of Allah’s)

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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