بِسمِ
اللهِ
الرَّحْمَنِ
الرَّحِيمِ Allah, in the name of, the Most
Affectionate, the Eternally Merciful |
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دیکھنے کے
لئے نسخ اور
نستعلیق
فانٹ یہاں سے
ڈاؤن لوڈ کیجیے
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The
Prophet’s Love
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Other than the
faith in and following the Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم),
another dimension of our relationship with him is our love for him. In Islam,
having faith and following his commandments is not acceptable without love.
In certain circumstances, following without love is hypocrisy. Love with the
Prophet should not be a formality. This love must be dominant over all other
loves. The closest relation and the most favorite things should be considered
nothing in front of this love. Everything must be sacrificed for this love,
but it should not be sacrificed for anything. Quran describes the standard
for this kind of love. قُلْ
إِنْ كَانَ
آبَاؤُكُمْ
وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ
وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ
وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ
وَعَشِيرَتُكُمْ
وَأَمْوَالٌ
اقْتَرَفْتُمُوهَا
وَتِجَارَةٌ
تَخْشَوْنَ كَسَادَهَا
وَمَسَاكِنُ
تَرْضَوْنَهَا
أَحَبَّ
إِلَيْكُمْ
مِنْ
اللَّهِ
وَرَسُولِهِ
وَجِهَادٍ
فِي
سَبِيلِهِ
فَتَرَبَّصُوا
حَتَّى
يَأْتِيَ
اللَّهُ
بِأَمْرِهِ
وَاللَّهُ
لا يَهْدِي
الْقَوْمَ
الْفَاسِقِينَ۔ O Prophet, tell them: If your
fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your relatives, the wealth
that you have acquired, the business in which you fear a loss, and the homes
which you like are dearer to you than Allah, His Messenger, and making Jihad
(struggle) in His Way, then wait until Allah brings about His decision. Allah
does not guide the transgressors. (Al Tauba 9:24) Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم)
explained this reality in different ahadith (plural of hadith, a description
of Prophet’s saying or practice). قال رسول
اللہ صلی
اللہ علیہ
وسلم: لا یومن
احدکم حتی
اکون احب الیہ
من والدہ و
ولدہ و الناس
اجمعین (بخاری،
مسلم، مشکوۃ) Prophet said: None of you can
become a perfect believer unless he loves me more than his parents, children and
all other human beings. Another hadith
is: ثلاث
من كن فيه وجد
حلاوة
الإيمان: أن
يكون الله
ورسوله أحب
إليه مما
سواهما، [وأن
يحب المرء لا
يحبه إلا
لله، وأن
يكره أن يعود
في الكفر كما
يكره أن يقذف
في النار.] (بخاری،
مسلم) The person possessing these three
attributes will enjoy the sweetness of faith: (1) (S)he loves Allah and His
prophet more than anyone else; [(2) (S)he loves anyone only for the sake of
God; (3) (S)he hates returning back to disbelieve like his / her hate for
burning in fire.] Here it must
be clarified that the love of Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم) under discussion is not like the emotional love of a
person with his family or relatives. It is a rational and a
principle-oriented love that anyone has with some principle. Based on this
association, (s)he keeps this principle and view point above all priorities.
(S)he sacrifices everything, every other principle, his / her all desires and
decisions for this principle, but does not sacrifice this principle for
anything. For the
dominance of this principle of Prophet’s love, (s)he leaves everything at low
priority and does not accept this principle at a lower priority. If his/her
own emotions resist in following this principle, (s)he fights with them. If
the demands of his/her family are in contradiction with this principle, (s)he
always prioritize this principle and rejects the demand of his / her family
or nation. Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم) himself clarified that this love is principle-oriented
and rational. من احب
سنتی فقد
احبنی و من
احبنی کان معی
فی الجنۃ۔
(ترمذی) The person who loves with my path
(sunnah), actually loves me. The person who loves me will be with me in the The Love without Following
& the Following without Love From this
detail, it is clear that our faithful relationship with the Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم) cannot be
established without the basis of having faith in him, following him, adopting
his practice and loving him. It can be derived from various indications that
the “following-without-love” is hypocrisy and the “love-without-following” is
a deviation from his religion. Quran contains clear verdicts that
the following-without-love is a form of hypocrisy. When Islam established a
political state at Madina, various villagers from the outskirts of Madina
started following the Islamic laws and teachings. This submission was merely
due to political reasons, not on the basis of a sincere and trustworthy faith
in and love with Allah and His Prophet. On various occasions, they claimed
that they were doing a favor to the Prophet and Islam and thus were
believers. Quran asked the Prophet (صلی اللہ
علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم)
to tell them that a person cannot become a ‘believer’ if he accepts the
submission to Islamic law. Sincerity and love is an essential condition to
become a true ‘believer’. Your minds and hearts are free from this sincerity
and love, therefore, your claim for faith is not correct. قَالَتْ
الأَعْرَابُ
آمَنَّا
قُلْ لَمْ
تُؤْمِنُوا
وَلَكِنْ
قُولُوا
أَسْلَمْنَا
وَلَمَّا
يَدْخُلْ
الإِيمَانُ
فِي
قُلُوبِكُمْ
۔ The Bedouin Arabs say: "We
have believed." Tell them: "You have not believed; rather say 'We
have submitted (to law);' for faith has not yet found its way into your
hearts. (Al Hujurat 49:14)
The other side of this coin, “the
‘love-without-following’ is a deviation from the Prophet’s religion”, is
derived from various verses and ahadith. قُلْ
إِنْ
كُنْتُمْ
تُحِبُّونَ
اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي
يُحْبِبْكُمْ
اللَّهُ
وَيَغْفِرْ
لَكُمْ
ذُنُوبَكُمْ
وَاللَّهُ
غَفُورٌ
رَحِيمٌ ۔ Tell the people O Muhammad: "If you sincerely love
Allah, then follow me; Allah will also love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is
Forgiving, Merciful.”(Aal Imran 3:31) من احب
سنتی فقد
احبنی و من
احبنی کان معی
فی الجنۃ۔
(ترمذی) The person who loves with my path
(the Sunnah), actually loves me. The person who loves me will be with me in
the In this verse, Quran has described the
method of loving God i.e. following the Prophet. Without adopting the
practices of Prophet, all methods of loving God are deviations from the
religion. Similarly the Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم)
clarified in this hadith that the method of loving the Prophet is that that
one only loves him if (s)he follows his teachings and acts according to them.
In certain other ahadith, he forbade any extremism in his love similar to the
extremism of some Christians in love of Prophet Jesus (علیہ
الصلوۃ
والسلام). It is clear
from the instructions of the Prophet himself, that the claim of those people,
who claim that they love the Prophet but do not follow his practices, is not
true. If there is some truth in their claim, then their love without
following is a baseless love. If they have invented certain practices which
are not according to what the Prophet preached, it is a deviation from the
religion. And it is similar to the Christians who, in love of Prophet Jesus,
promoted him from the rank of a ‘Prophet’ to the rank of ‘the son of God’. The love of
Prophet’s companions to him, was not only merely rational love, but it was
emotional love as well. Their emotions never caused them to trespass the
limits imposed by the Quran and the Sunnah (Prophet’s practices). On one hand
they accepted the extremes troubles that they had to suffer without any
complains but even a thorn in the Prophets foot caused them grief. While
protecting the Prophet (صلی اللہ
علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم),
they used to take the arrows on their own bodies. They used to protect the
Prophet at the cost of their own lives. Even women used to protect the
Prophet at the cost of their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers. On the other
hand, the practice of Prophet was so important for them, that they used to
take care of Prophet’s likes and dislikes. Anas (رضی
اللہ عنہ) reported: عن انس
قال لم یکن
شخص احب الیھم
من رسول اللہ
صلی اللہ علیہ
وسلم و کانوا
اذا راوہ لم یقوموا
لما یعلمون
من کراھیتہ
لذالک۔ (مشکوۃ
بحوالہ ترمذی) Anas said: The Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ
وسلم) was the most beloved person among his companions but
they never stood up for his respect because they knew that he dislikes it.
If we look at the Muslims of modern world,
we will find that their majority claims to have faith in the Prophet but they
do not follow his practice. They claim to love the Prophet but following
Sunnah is not important to them. They have invented a few rituals from their
own instead of following the Prophet. Some people celebrate his birthday,
some cook and distribute food in his name, whereas some organize rallies and
pronounce slogans in his name…. They consider that these things are enough to
demonstrate their faith in and love with Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم). You can find
various people, who never perform the prayer, but they conduct congregations
on his birthday to praise him. They do not pay the Zakat (the mandatory charity)
on their wealth, but they spend thousands of dollars on the deviations they
conduct in the name of Prophet. They never try
to read the Book of God and the ahadith of Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم)
and transform their lives in the light of his teachings, but they portray
themselves as extreme lovers of Prophet and become adoring when they hear a
poem about the Prophet. This behavior
is not limited to a specific class of our society. Our all groups claim to
love the Prophet but deviate from his path. Some others claim that they
strictly follow the Prophet’s Sunnah, but their Sunnah is limited to a few
disputed issues. And they spend all their efforts on these petty issues, as
Prophet (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم)
was sent by God to convey only these disputed issues. (This
article is adopted from the works of Amin Ahsan Islahi. Excerpts from
“Tazkiya-e-Nafs” translated by Mubashir Nazir, reviewed by Muhammad Umar
Khan)
Think about it! · In your opinion, what
are the reasons that people love with the Prophet but ignore his teachings? (صلی
اللہ علیہ واٰلہ
وسلم) · Other than our famous
sectarian disputes, identify three practices of our society for the sake of
Prophet’s love but in fact they are in violation of his teachings. Please send your answers through email
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Unit 1: Relation with God & His Prophets In the name of God, the most Beneficent, the Eternally
Merciful | The
Treasure’s Map | The
Month of Ramadan: What to achieve?
| The Prophet’s Love |
The
Basic Premise of the Religion |
Who
is like You? |
Pure
Monotheism I |
Pure
Monotheism II |
Who deserves the Paradise?
Unit 2:
Elimination of our Negative Personality How to get rid of Poverty? |
The Report of Transparency International
and a Hadith |
Justification
or Admitting One’s Fault |
Artificial
Colors of Glamour |
Religious People & Ostentation |
Character
of Ancient Religious Leaders at Jerusalem |
Attachment
to a Group is irrelevant for Success |
Successful
Life | The Revolution Occurred! |
Form
& Spirit |
Jealousy
& Modern Testing Techniques |
How to overcome
Procrastination? | The
Difference between an Extremist & a Moderate Person Unit 3: Development
of our Positive Personality The Quranic Strategy for Personality Development |
How to get rid of Poverty? |
Character
builds the Nation |
The
Sermon of Mount |
Success: What is it? |
Success Secrets |
A Positive Attitude affirms the Life |
Road Block |
Thinking after Writing! |
Trust
is Golden |
Getting off to a good
start | The Lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Unlocking
the Gates to Success |
Admitting
One’s Fault |
Top 10 Qualities of Excellence
Unit 4:
Relationship with Human Beings Backbiting |
Suspicion |
Defamation |
Examining Others with Suspicion |
Are
you killing your family? Unit 5: Our
Responsibility, Vision & Mission The Love of Prophet Muhammad with Knowledge
| Traditional Mentality
| Strange Similarities between Christian
& Muslim Histories | The Relationship of Revelation & Intellect (Part I)
| The Relationship of Revelation & Intellect (Part II)
| The Problem of Aurengzeb Alamgir |
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