The Rights of the
Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ)
The rights of the Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ)
are summarised in four:
ONE: Having faith (‘īmān) in him. This means to affirm his prophethood, that he
was sent to all mankind, believe him to be truthful in everything that he
conveyed, that it came from Allāh and that it is obligatory to follow it and
that he fulfilled his trust. Reviling him or what he came with invalidates
faith.
TWO:
Obeying him and following his Sunnah. Imām Aḥmad (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ): “I looked in the
Qur’ān and found (the command)
to obey the Messenger (صَلَّى اللهُ
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ)
in 33 places.” “Upon you is to follow my Sunnah” in the ḥadīth
of al-‘Irbād bin Sāriyah. Ibn Mas’ūd (رَضِي اللهُ عَنْهُ): “Moderation upon the Sunnah is better than striving in
innovation.”
Three: Loving him.
Loving the Prophet is from the greatest obligations of the religion and it is
from loving Allāh. A person loves what Allāh and His
Messenger love and he follows it in speech and action. However, It is not
permissible to fall short in this love and nor to exaggerate. “One of you does
not truly believe until I become more beloved to Him than his father, offspring
and all of mankind” in the ḥadīth
of Anas. Loving him includes loving his family and companions.
FOUR: To protect him
from harm and to honour him. Ta’zīr means to support him and prevent every type
of harm coming to him and tawqīr means to honour and respect him. “So they who
have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which
was sent down with him – it is those who will be the successful.”(7:157). From
honouring him includes: Not putting anyone else’s speech ahead of his. Not
raising one’s voice over his. Also honouring him occurs with the heart, tongue
and limbs. With the heart, one loves him more than anything else, and perceives
him in terms of all the lofty qualities. With the tongue one praises him
without exaggeration and excess, rather upon the Sunnah, and with what he
deserves. And with the limbs, one acts upon his Sunnah, fulfils his commands,
avoids his prohibitions and refers all affairs back to his Sunnah, and to
defend his Sunnah and to spread it.
Adapted from Ḥaqq al-Nabiyy (صَلَّى اللهُ
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ)
Shaykh ‘Abdullāh al-Bukhārī (Dār Aḍwā’ al-Salaf, 2013).
Abu
‘Iyaad @abuiyaadsp
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11/24/15, 2:51 PM
