Loving Him..

assalam alaikum,LOVING HIM


Love for the Prophet Muhammad SAW is a measure of one's imaan (faith and inner conviction) and our imaan is completed and perfected only when our love for the Prophet SAW exceeds our love for everything else in this world, including our own lives. The Noble Qur'an states:

"The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and his wives are their mothers. And blood relations among each other have closer personal ties in the Decree of Allah than the believers and the Muhajirun except that you do kindness to those brothers. This has been written in the Decrees." [Al-Ahzaab: 6]

This is a definitional sentence which tells us what it takes to be a believer: preferring the Prophet even to one's own life. In confirmation of this the Prophet is reported in a Hadeeth to have said:

"None of you becomes a believer until I am dearer to him than his children, his parents and all mankind." [Bukhari and Muslim]

The best of believers, the Sahaabah (companions of the Prophet), did show such love for the Prophet SAW, especially the noblest of them. Ali (r.a.), speaking on behalf of all the community of Sahaabah in Medina, is reported to have said, "The Prophet is dearer to us than our wealth, our children, our fathers, our forefathers, our mothers and cool water at the time of severe thirst."

The firmly established principle in Islam that our imaan is as good as our love for the Prophet is fairly and accurately expressed by an Urdu poet when he says:

"Without love for the Prophet it is difficult to find God;
He who is not of the Prophet's cannot be of God.
Without love for Muhammad faith cannot be complete;
To be a Muslim it is not enough to believe in God.
Daily prayers, charity, fasting and hajj are fine;
But despite these I cannot be among the faithful.
Unless I am ready to be sacrificed for the honor of Muhammad;
God is witness - my faith cannot attain perfection."

By Dr. Ahmad Shafaat

Courtesy of: themodernreligion.com

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