Jamal e Mustafa

Book Name:Jamal e Mustafa

The hair of the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم was neither extremely curly nor completely straight, but in-between. His beard was thick, which he would look at in a mirror. He would have this blessed moustache hairs kept short, and also once said, “Oppose the polytheists; grow the beards and shorten the moustaches.”[1]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers, you have just heard o f how beautiful our beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is. There is nobody like him before, there is nobody like him now, and there will never be anybody like him. From head to toe, he is an embodiment of light. His every body part harbours unmatched qualities not found anywhere else. Now think carefully, is there anybody more befitting for us to love than this beloved Prophet  صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم ? Absolutely not! There is nobody we should love more than him. This point is especially important for people who fall in love with the temporary marvels of this world and fall prey to mundane, carnal love. They make unsuitable things the object of their desires, thereby, ruining their life in this world and the hereafter.

When addressing this topic, Amir Ahl al-Sunnah, ‘Allamah Muhammad Ilyas ‘Attar Qadri دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ mentions:

The biggest cause of this false, carnal desire-based love stems from the fact a huge number of Muslims lack Islamic knowledge in contemporary times. Not only this, but they are deprived from an Islamic environment in which the sunnah is practised. It is for this reason that sins have become so prevalent and widespread. Through televisions or the internet, programmes full of lustful content are aired. Some newspapers publish illicit stories, novels are written with indecent plots, and other forms of literature are also found to be packed full of vulgarity. Free mixing between


 

 



[1] Mishkat al-Masabih, vol. 2, p. 487, hadith 4421