Beauty of Mustafa ﷺ

Book Name:Beauty of Mustafa ﷺ

Similarly, a person came to the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and started seeing him in a way that he did not blink his eyes. The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: Why are looking at me like this? He humbly replied: O my Master! May my parents be sacrificed for you! I enjoy seeing your luminous blessed face.  (Shifa, vol. 2, pp. 20)

 

سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه عَزَّوَجَلَّ!, blessed companions عَـلَيْهِمُ الرِّضْوَانْ were so deeply in love with the beauty of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم that they would be lost all the time in the luminous appearance of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and would illuminate their hearts and minds with the Tajalliyaat (blessed sights) of his luminous face. The beauty of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is such marvellous that the person who once saw him, used to be captivated by seeing him. Seeing the luminous face of Mustafa, blessed companions used to be engrossed so deeply in devotion to Rasool that some would compare the blessed face with the moon, for some the face was even more beautiful than the moon and some would compare the face with the sun. In short, expressing their love and devotion in their own words every companion would describe the beauty of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has said: ‘مَارَاَیْتُ شَیْئاً اَحْسَنَ مِنْ رَّسُوْلِ اللّٰہ صَلَی اللّٰہُ عَلَیْہ وَسَلَّمَ کَاَنَّ الشَّمْسَ تَجْرِیْ عَلٰی وَجْہِہٖ’ i.e. I have never seen anyone more beautiful than the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. It seems as though the sun is emerging from his blessed face. (Mishkaat, vol. 2, pp. 362, Hadees 5795)

 

Sayyiduna Jabir Bin Samurah رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has said: Once I saw the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in a red lined robes on a full-moon night, I sometimes looked at the moon and sometimes towards the luminous face of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, so I concluded that his blessed face was more beautiful than even the moon.

(Ash-Shumaail-ul-Muhammadiyyah, pp. 24, Hadees 9)