In the Quran, God mentions
that God and His angels continue to send blessings on Prophet Muhammad (the
final Messenger PBUH) and He commanded mankind to also send blessings upon him.
It is basically a commandment from God to send abundant blessings on our
Prophet (PBUH) day and night. It does not require much time and nor does it
take much effort. It merely requires pure intention and 4 little words. “Allah humma
salli ala Muhammad” (Arabic for “Oh Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad PBUH”.)
When we send blessings upon
our Prophet PBUH, we are actually following an act that God Himself has stated in
the Quran that He and His angels do upon Muhammad PBUH continuously. When we ask
God to bless our Prophet PBUH, we not only fulfill God’s command but are also
administering a God-like quality within us. Since Muhammad PBUH is so beloved
to God according to the Quran, Allah rewards us and asks us all to follow Him in His Way. This reward
is multiplied by ten times according to the sayings of our Prophet PBUH.
It is not that Prophet
Muhammad PBUH needs our blessings as he was free of sin and always obeyed God’s
Order and knew that He had earned God’s Divine Pleasure; but the essence behind
this beautiful prayer is to build a loving and an unbreakable bond between us and
him(PBUH). To know Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and to study his life is part of our
faith as Muslims. The Quran repeatedly mentions the he was sent as a ‘mercy to
all of creation.’ Muhammad’s (PBUH) mission was solely to make sure that all of
creation had believed in the fact that mankind was meant to worship the One
Supreme Lord who is the Master of the Universe and Master of The Day of
Judgement. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself received revelations over the course of 23 years from
God through Angel Gabriel and God had made him memorize His Divine Words into
his heart. These Words are now compiled
in a book-form called the ‘Quran’. The Quran is a ‘recitation’ of God’s own
Words that God promised He would preserve till the End of Times.
When we send blessings upon
Muhammad (PBUH) through asking God, we send him our love and connect with him
in order to follow him in his footsteps to please God. This act of ours is actually our response to
his love for his nation. Often people think that this "nation"(mankind) is just for the
Muslims alone. This is not the case, Muhammad (PBUH) loved, cried, worried,
fought and prayed for the guidance of everyone whom God created. It is
unfortunate that not all creation believed in him except for those who we now know
who became Muslims (believers). Muslims are those people who surrender their
will to Allah (the same One God that all monotheistic religions adhere to).
What identifies a Muslim from a Non-Muslim is the Declaration of Faith(Shahada)
which is:
“La ila ha illa Allah,
Muhammad an Rasool Allah” (There is no God but the One God and Muhammad is the
messenger of God.)
There is a saying of our
Prophet PBUH that if we were to send one prayer of blessing upon our Prophet
PBUH that God will send us blessings equal to 10 times more and raise our ranks
and omit 10 of our sins. Why wouldn’t we want to love our teacher and our role
model? If Muhammad PBUH spent his entire life to show us the right way we can
only benefit by loving him and following him in order to be loved by God. Having
faith in God is akin to having faith in Muhammad PBUH and his message. Loving
and following our beloved Prophet PBUH is our right and our ticket to success.
What are we waiting for? So you may ask how one can attain the love of the Prophet Muhammad
PBUH?:
What do you do when you fall in love? You spend every moment of your days and nights wanting to know about your person, you talk about them, you want to learn about them, you start behaving like them and you start liking what they like and you start hating what they hate. So imagine falling in love with the one that God is pleased with. Follow God’s command and send blessings upon Muhammad PBUH and read about his life and try best to follow in his path. Love will follow us and that is a gift from God!
What do you do when you fall in love? You spend every moment of your days and nights wanting to know about your person, you talk about them, you want to learn about them, you start behaving like them and you start liking what they like and you start hating what they hate. So imagine falling in love with the one that God is pleased with. Follow God’s command and send blessings upon Muhammad PBUH and read about his life and try best to follow in his path. Love will follow us and that is a gift from God!
In my own experience I cannot
imagine a day without prayer, a day without remembering God, or a day without
the fear of losing my connection with Him. I owe my faith, my sanity, my
devotion, my prayers to my teacher who taught me how to live in order to win
God’s Divine pleasure. Without Muhammad PBUH
mankind would be lost. He loved us
before we even knew him. How self-less is that?
May God bless all of the
collective Prophets and may God bless Muhammad PBUH.
“Allah humma salli ala
Muhamad”
Peace and Blessings be upon him
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