Muhammadan Perfection: A Shoreless Ocean Best of creation ﷺ

Saintly Aphorisms

Muhammadan Perfection: A Shoreless Ocean Best of creation صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم

Muhammad Mun’im Attari Madani

A single drop from the noble virtues

Even if all of creation worked together to enumerate the Prophet’s virtues and merits, they will only reach a drop of his oceanic perfections.

*   Imam al-Yāfiʿī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[1]

The perfect intellect of the Leader of all creation صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم

I have read 71 books of the earlier people. In all of them, I found that from the inception of the world until its end, the amount of intellect that Allah Almighty has given to all people in comparison to the blessed intellect of the noble Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is like a grain of sand before all the deserts of the world. The opinions of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم are loftier and superior to all.

*   Sayyiduna Wahb ibn Munabbih رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[2]

The perfections of the Messenger صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم are beyond enumeration

If all of creation came together and expended their utmost efforts in enumerating the virtues of the noble Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم , they would be unable to fully describe or gather all the merits and perfections that Allah Almighty bestowed on His beloved and noble Messenger صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم ”.

*   Shaykh al-Islam Imam al-Bājūrī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[3]

Your virtues are free from the blemish of ceasing

By Allah, if all the rivers and oceans were my ink, and all the trees were my pens, and I spent my entire life writing the distinguishing qualities of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم , I would not even be able to write a tenth of them because the signs and virtues of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم are more than these shining stars.

*   Imam Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[4]

Whoever acquired anything acquired it from this court

From the beginning until eternity, in the heavens and the earth, this world and the next, in religious and worldly matters, in soul and body, small or large, abundant or little, whatever blessing or favour anyone has received, is receiving, or will receive, was distributed, is being distributed and will forever be distributed from the generous court of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم .

*   Sayyidi Ala Hazrat, Imam of the Ahl al-Sunnah, Imam Ahmad Razā Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[5]

The blessings of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم continue to cascade

The Prophet’s صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم benevolence, purging people of sins, and purifying them was not limited to the Companions رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ عَنْھُم , but extends to the entire Ummah who will continue reaping these blessings under the compassionate gaze of the noble Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم .

*   Sayyidi Ala Hazrat, Imam of the Ahl al-Sunnah, Imam Ahmad Razā Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه ^[6]