You should know, may Allah guide me and you to His love [PPBUH], that the blessings of the Generous Messenger [PPBUH] has filled the whole universe, up and down, and however got close to him through loving, obedience, and service, got his share of his blessings. The blessings of the Prophet [PPBUH] has shown all over earth which was purified with his honorable birth. He [PPBUH] said (The earth was made a mosque and purifying for me). His soul got higher than heaven, Allah said [Then he drew nigh and came down ¤ Till he was at the chord of two bows or even nearer] an-Najm 8-9. His gifts and blessings was extended to his family, house hold, beloveds, and inheritors like the light rays from the lighted lantern. May Allah give His prayers, peace, and blessings to Sayyduna Muhammad, his family, and his companions.
Abo-Na'im, al-Bayhaqy, and ibn Asaker narrated from Anas that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (Seek the goodness all your life. And get exposed to the gifts of Allah, as Allah has gifts of His mercy which He gives to whom he wills of His servants. And ask Him to cover your defects and reassure your frights). As-Seyouty narrated from ibn Omar [AAH] that the Prophet [PPBUH] said (Get exposed to Allah in your days, as Allah has gifts and one of it may come over you, then you will never become rogue or miserable after that).
At-Tabarany narrated in his Awsat from Mohamed ibn Musallama that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (Your Lord, Almighty, has in the days of you life gifts, so get exposed to it. As one may come over one of you, then he will never become rogue or miserable after that).
One of the greatest gifts and blessings is the memory of his honorable birth [PPBUH] when Allah sent him as mercy for all worlds, which is the mercy that revives the hearts urges the souls to obey, get close to, and yearn to him [PPBUH]. in this context, Imam Fakhreddin said:
[And to the Messenger of Allah we aim our travel
we yearn to him, with longing in our chests] 67/16
One of his gifts is his blessing [PPBUH] at the time of his honorable birth when Allah made them victorious over their enemy without fight, on the day of the elephant. Saied ibn Jubair narrated from Abdullah ibn Abbas [AAT] that the Messenger of Allah was born on the day of the elephant. Qays ibn Makhramah [AAH] said: I was born with the Messenger of Allah on the day of the elephant, so we are equal aged. On the day of the elephant Abdul-Muttalib, the grandfather of the great Messenger, fearing for his people from the heart of Abraha's army, he ordered them to go out of Mecca and resort to the mountain tops. Then he went with a few people of Quraish to the Ka'ba door and grabbed it handle and asked Allah victory over Abraha and his soldiers. Abdul-Muttalib said:
[O, Allah! One defends his luggage – so You defend Yours, they should never beat with their cross – and their ability Your power]
Then Abdul-Muttalib left the door handle and they went to the mountains. They say that they left a hundred camels by the Sacred House as a sacrifice, so that the army may get some of it without right, then Allah will be angry with them and retaliate.
Ibn Kathier said that he [PPBUH] was born in this year as if Allah, Almighty, is saying: We did not make you victorious over the Habasha because of your being better than them, O, people of Quraish. But to save this Old House which is to be honored and glorified by the sending of the Ummy, Prophet, Sayyduna Muhammad [PPBUH], the last of the prophets and messengers.
Sahl [AAH] said: when Allah, Almighty, wanted to create Muhammad [PPBUH] in the womb of his mother, He ordered Radwan, the guard of paradise, to open the doors of al-Fardaws [the highest level of paradise] and He ordered a caller to call in heavens and earths and say: the protected and stored light has rested in his mother's womb this night.
Sd. Amenah [AAH] said: I never felt that I am carrying my son Muhammad, as I never felt any carriage trouble or weight as pregnant women do. But I wondered when my period stopped. I saw while I was carrying him, a light that lighted the east and west until I saw the palaces Basra of Sham.
Sd. Amenah [AAH] said: when it was the night of my delivery which was Monday at dawn time, I saw a group coming down from heaven with three white flags. They set one on top of the Ka'ba and another one on my house's top and the third one on Jerusalem. And the stars got closer to me until I thought they will fall on me. Earth was filled with light and the doors of heaven opened. Then a lot of birds with beaks from emerald and wings from ruby landed on my house. And I saw the brocade spread out from heaven to earth.
Sd. Amenah [AAH] said: I saw men in the air carrying in their hands silver pots with chains of gold. I was thirsty, so I drank from one of them. As I was thinking feeling my chest tightened from loneliness, a group of women entered to me. I never saw any women better than them. They had Aseya, the woman of Pharaoh, with them and she was the midwife.
Sd. Amenah [AAH] said: The labor got harder, so I saw a bird with great creation and good looking. He wiped my stomach with his wing, so I gave birth to my son Muhammad. He came out straight with his honorable legs first, not upside down, as a signal that he [PPBUH] would always be standing straight for the truth. Then he spoke in clear words and said: Allahu-Akbar [Allah is Great], Allahu-Akbar, Alhamdu-lellahi-Rab-al-Alamin [Thanks to Allah the Lord of the worlds].
His great esteemed grandfather, Abdel-Muttalib ibn Abd-Manaf, tells us about that night and says: I was circulating the Ka'ba that night. Then the Ka'ba bended down and prostrated towards the Maqam, and the idols fell down and it said: Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar, Muhammad the glorified was is born. The clouds of mercy poured on it. So I came to Amenah's house, and I saw a cloud shadowing her room. I was rubbing my eyes and asking myself: Am I asleep or awake? So I called Amenah to open the door and she did. So I found Mask smell coming out of her room. I asked her: what is going on? And she said: Muhammad [PPBUH] was born. I said: Let me see him. She said: He is in the house. When I wanted to enter to him, a man came with a sword and said wait until the angels finish their visit.
When it was time for the happiness and the blessing of his nurse [PPBUH], Sd. Halima, she said: when I came out of Mecca and rode my donkey, and I carried him over it with me, by Allah, I walked with it a distance none of their donkeys could have walked it. The women accompanying me even said: Hay, O, daughter of Abo-Zu'aib, slow down, be easy on us. Is not this the donkey you came on? I said: Yes it is, I swear to Allah. They said: by Allah, it has some matter.
Sd. Halima [AAH] said: Then we came to our houses of Bany Saad. I do not know of any land more infertile than our land. But when we came with him [PPBUH], my sheep used to go full of milk, and we milk it and drink while no one else drink a drop of milk or find it in an udder. Until our people would say to their shepherds "Why do not you go graze for your sheep were the shepherd of bent Abo-Zu'aib". As, their sheep would come back hungry and unable to give not even a drop of milk, while my sheep would come back full with milk. So we kept learning the excess of goodness from Allah until he spent his two years with us and got separated from us.
His blessings came to Mecca when he [PPBUH] came back to it, after nursing in Bany Saad. Sd. Raqiqa bent Sayfy ibn Hashim ibn Abd-Manaf tells us about that and says: some years came on Quraish that took away their money and drag down the selves. Then I heard a caller in my sleep saying "O, people of Quraish, this Prophet who was sent out of you is about to come. He will bring you life and fertility. So look for a man who is related to the middle of you all, tall, great, white, his eyebrows are joined, his edge of the eyelids have long lashes, his hair is curly, his chicks are plain, and his nose is fine. He should bring all his sons with him and a man from each tribe subdivision. They should wash up and ware scents and hang on to the corner of the Ka'ba then go to the top of mountain Abo-Qabis. Then this man comes forward and asks for water with belief and you would be watered". She woke up and told her dream to them, and they looked around and found that the description fits Abdel-Muttalib, the grandfather of the generous prophet [PPBUH]. so they gathered with a man from each tribe subdivision and did all I told them to do, then they came up the mountain of Abo-Qabis with the Prophet [PPBUH] while he was still a boy. Abdel-Muttalib came forward and said "O, Allah, these are your servants and the children of your servants and we have been in what You know, and the years passed and took with it the hoofs, the pads, and drag down the selves. So take away the barrenness from us, and gets us the life and fertility". They did not left yet when the valleys were streamed. So they were watered with the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]. Raqiqa bent Sayfy ibn Hashim ibn Abd-Manaf said:
[With Shabat-al-Hamd, Allah watered our town
when we lost the life and our rain dried]
[He gave us the water so much it made ways in the mountains
And gathered until the trees and cattle lived on it]
[this was a gift from Allah for the sake of the blessed one
the best one that Mudar was brought good tiding for]
[He is blessed with all his matter, and he is the on to pray for water
He has no equal in all people, and no one represents risk for him]
Shabat-al-Hamd was a nickname of Abdel-Muttalib which meant the man whose hair became gray while he is praised.
Ibn Asaker also narrated about his blessings that: Quraish said to Abo-Talib, the uncle of the Messenegr of Allah [PPBUH], while they had very dry time, they said: the valley has been dry for long and the children became so barren. Then Abo-Talib came out with a boy -he meant the Prophet [PPBUH]- looking like a sun that came out of darkness from behind a cloud, with some other boys around him. Abo-Talib grabbed the boy [PPBUH] and fixed his back to the Ka'ba and the boy raised his hands to the sky, while there was no cloud in the sky. The came the clouds from here and there, the it poured water and kept pouring until the valley and the hills were filled and fertile. Abo-Talib said about that:
[a white one, who they ask for clouds with his face
the one who is there for the orphans and a protection for the widows]
Of his blessings too, is that his cousins, the sons of Abo-Talib, did not get full of any food unless the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] eats with them. So Abo-Talib used to say, when he wants to feed them lunch or supper: as your are until my son comes. Then the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] comes and eats with them, so they all get full and there would be left some food. And if it was milk, then he drinks first then they take the pot and they drink all of them to the last one from just one pot.
From his blessings also is that he [PPBUH] gave the great companion, Qatada ibn an-Noman a crescent and prayed with him the Esaa prayer in a dark rainy night, and he said to him (Go. This will lighten in front of you ten and behind you ten. Then if you enter your home you will find some darkness, so hit it until it gets out as it is Satan). So he went out and it lit the way for him until he entered his home and found the darkness and beat it until it went out.
From his blessings also is that the honorable companion, Hanash ibn Oqail, said: the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] made me drink a dose of Suwaiq -it is made of wheat and barley- he drank its first and I drank its last. I still full from it when I get hungry and feel quenched from it when I get thirsty and cold when I suffer thirst.
Also the great companion Utba ibn Farqad had a scent that was higher than the scent of his women, because the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] wiped his belly and hand with his hand.
The Messenegr of Allah [PPBUH] wiped the head of the honorable companion Qays ibn Zayd al-Guzamy and prayed for him. So he died a hundred years old with his hair all grey except the place of the hand of the Prophet [PPBUH] on his head. They used to call him: Agharr [the with the blaze].
He [PPBUH] wiped the face of the great companion Qatada ibn Melgan, so his face had shining until one would look at his face as if he is looking at a mirror.
He [PPBUH] put his hand on the head of the great companion Hanzala ibn Khudaym and he blessed him. So they used to bring to Hanzala a man with swollen face or a sheep with swollen udder and they put it to the place of the hand of the Prophet [PPBUH] then the swelling would be cured with the blessing of the place of the hand of the Prophet [PPBUH].
The Prophet [PPBUH] sprayed a spray of water on the face of Zaynab bent Om-Salama, so no woman had as much beauty in her face as she did.
Tawous [AAH] said that no one with madness was ever brought to the Prophet [PPBUH] and he pushed him on the chest, unless his madness went away.
On the day of Hunain, when the fighting was very hard between him and the disbelievers and he [PPBUH] took a grip of sand and threw it to the faces of the disbelievers and said (may the faces be deformed). None of them was left without having some of that sand in his eyes. Allah then defeated them and they went back rubbing their eyes.
Abo-Hurairah [AAH] said that he used to forget a lot. Then the Prophet [PPBUH] ordered him to spread his cloth, and he gave him a grip from his hand and told him to wrap his cloth back to himself. He did and he never forgot anything afterwards.
Khalid ibn al-Walid had few hairs of the hair of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], he put it in his hood and he never went with it to a fight unless he won. Also the jubbah of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] used to be washed, after his passing away, for the sick to be cured with its wash. Also some of the water left from his ablution [PPBUH] was spilled in the well of Qubaa, then its water never got dried. He [PPBUH] also spit in a well that was in the house of the great companion Anas ibn Malik [AAH], then there was no well in Medina with sweeter water. He [PPBUH] pass by some water and asked about it. They told him that it is called Bysan and its water was salty. He said (No it is Noman and its water is good). And its water became good ever since.
He [PPBUH] was brought a bucket of Zamzam water and he spit out in it, so it became better than the musk. He [PPBUH] also gave his tongue to Sd. al-Hasan and Sd. al-Husain to suck it, when they were crying of thirst, so they were quenched and they stopped.
So the blessings of the Great Messenger are like a sea with no shore. May Allah benefit us from it and from those who had it, for us all and the all the loving ones and the beloveds. Amen. We intercede to Allah with him and his family and all followers. Imam Fakhreddin said:
[and every light we have is just a ray of his light
and it is a blow of his mouth, what is in us]
and the prayers of Allah and his peace are upon Sayyduna Mawlana Muhammad, his family, and companions.
Written by Ibrahim Gafar
Translated by Sameh
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