1 Why Humanity Needs Prophet Muhammad By Abdul Hakim Murad ...

descriptions of Rasulullah (s.a.w.) which emphasizes beauty as part of his culminating role
in prophetic history. He is the final perfecting addition to the mansion of the Prophets and
as such, he is perfection of human beauty, which is itself the supreme manifestation of
beauty in the cosmos. It’s recorded of him, as it’s recorded of the great auliyah, that those
around him would never tire of looking at his face. I should close now.
I hope that I’ve at least managed to convey something of what I believe to be the
essential ingredient in any strategy of Muslim survival and growth and flourishing in the
West. We have to recognise that the outward forms alone, the zahir, the dry bones of
religion, will not be strong enough to support our spiritual survival. They will not appeal for
long the converts, they will not sustain for long our second and third generations. We have
to clothe those bones with the garment of taqwa, of true consciousness, of dhikr of our Maker,
our Sustainer. And we have to step inside the barriers of protection afforded by those who
would take them, by the auliyah and by the tariqas, with their endless prayers and the imdad
which come from them and from their predecessors in the way, and from Rasulullah (s.a.w.)
whose prayers and madad for the people of tariqa is endless and unimaginable, because these
things will reinforce and give life to our own in themselves inadequate and feeble spiritual
efforts.
poems:
Imam al-Haddad, about the Sadatul Auliyyin of South Yemen wrote in one of his
O Lord! Give us the benefit of their barakah
And guide us to what is best through their sanctity
And cause us to die in their way, in their tariqa
And safe, and well-kept from all fitan
And all of this flows from emulating the inward and outward greatness of Sayyidina
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) because he is the Prophet for this time. Early religions have been
superseded. Only though his immeasurable greatness in the ghaib and through attachment
to his representatives can we hope to be preserved from the confusions of this dark age and
know peace and salvation.
And we ask Allah (s.w.t.) to make us those who follow the Sunnah not just outwardly
but inwardly as well so that we may, insha’allah, be granted the blessing of beholding the
prophetic beauty in visions, in our dreams, and at the Judgment and that we may receive the
privilege of his generous intercession on the Yawm Ul-Qiyama. Amin ya rabbil al’amin.
Wasalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu.
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