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Shots and pulses | Scenes from the biography by A. Ali bin Muhammad Al-Qarni | H (29) | Signatures of the Companions
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
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Snapshots and pulses.
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Scenes from the Prophetic biography in the reading of Muhammad.
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By Professor Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ali al-Qarni.
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I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
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The Companions come.
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Abu Bakr said regarding his beloved:
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"I drank until I was quenched."
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And Umar said:
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"You are now more beloved to me even than my own self."
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And Ka'b Ibn Rabi'ah al-Aslami said:
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"I ask of you your companionship in Paradise."
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And Suhayl Ibn 'Amr said:
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"I have visited kings."
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"Yet I have never seen anyone revere another,"
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"As the Companions of Muhammad revere Muhammad."
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And Abu Hurayrah said:
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"My intimate friend advised me to do three things:"
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"To fast three days of every month,"
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"To pray the two units of the Duha prayer,"
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"And to pray the Witr prayer before I sleep."
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And Jarir Ibn 'Abdullah al-Bajali said:
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"The Messenger of Allah never saw me,"
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"But that he smiled in my face."
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And a woman from the tribe of Dinar said,
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When her husband, brother, and father were struck down at Uhud:
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"What has become of the Messenger of Allah?"
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They replied, "He is well."
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"He is, by the grace of Allah, as you would wish him to be."
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She said, "Show him to me, so that I may look upon him."
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And when she saw him, she said:
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"Every calamity after you is trivial."
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And 'A'ishah said:
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"The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was never given a choice"
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"Between two matters,"
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"But that he chose the easier of the two,"
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"As long as it was not a sin."
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And Ibn 'Umar said:
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"I have never seen anyone more courageous, more generous, more valiant,"
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"Nor more radiant and handsome than the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him."
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And Mu'awiyah Ibn al-Hakam al-Sulami said:
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"May my father and mother be sacrificed for him,"
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"I have never seen a teacher before him or after him who taught better than he."
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And al-Bara' Ibn 'Azib said:
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"The Prophet, peace be upon him,"
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"Used to carry the dirt with us on the day of the Battle of the Trench."
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And Ka'b said:
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"The Messenger is indeed a light from which illumination is sought,"
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"A drawn sword from the swords of Allah."
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And Hassan said:
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"The generations past have never lost the likes of Muhammad,"
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"Nor will anyone like him be lost until the Day of Resurrection."
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And Thawban said:
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"O Messenger of Allah,"
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"I am neither in pain nor suffering,"
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"Except that when I do not see you,"
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"I yearn for you,"
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"And I feel a profound loneliness until I meet you."
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"Then I remembered the Hereafter,"
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"And I fear that I will not see you there,"
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"Because I know that you will be raised with the Prophets,"
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"And if I enter Paradise,"
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"I will be in a station lower than yours,"
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"And if I do not enter, I will never see you at all."
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These are expressive sentiments,
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And sincere emotions,
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That welled up from hearts overflowing with love.
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So how could it be otherwise when the beloved is the greatest of mankind?
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If you find within yourself a refined feeling,
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Then turn to their words,
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And contemplate their expressions,
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For love—all of love—is found here.