1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

which no one else’s could.
Fakhr-i âlam (sall-Allahu ’alaihi wa sallâm) was affable. He
used to smile pleasantly. When he smiled, his blessed teeth
used to be seen. When he smiled, his sacred light used to
enlighten the walls. His weeping was easy like his smiling. As
he never burst out laughing, so he never used to cry loudly, but
his blessed eyes would shed tears and the sound of his blessed
chest would be heard. He used to weep when thinking of the
sins of his Ummat [that is, Muslims], and he used to weep out of
fear of Allah. He also wept when he heard the Qur’ân al-kerîm
and, sometimes, when performing namâz (ritual prayer).
Fakhr-i âlam’s (sall-Allahu ’alaihi wa sallam) blessed fingers
were big. His blessed arms were fleshy. His blessed palms
were wide. The scent of his entire body was more odorous than
the most beautiful scent. His blessed body was both soft and
strong. Anas bin Mâlik says, “I served Rasûlullah for ten years.
His blessed hands were softer than silk. His blessed sweat was
more odorous than the most fragrant scent or than any flower.
His blessed arms, feet and fingers were long. His blessed toes
were big. The bottom of his foot was not too high and was soft.
His blessed belly was wide and his chest and his belly did not
exceed each other. [They were in the same vertico-frontal
plane.] The bone at the point of his shoulder was big. His
blessed chest was wide, his qalb-i sharîf (blessed heart) was
nazargâh-î ilâhî (a place of Divine Sight).
Rasûlullah (sall-Allahu ’alaihi wa sallam) was not too tall, nor
was he short. When someone came near him, Rasûlullah would
look taller than the person. When he sat, his blessed shoulders
would he higher than all of those who sat down.
His hair and the hairs of his beard were not too curly, nor too
straight, but they were undulate from his creation. His blessed
hair was long. Formerly he used to have a ringlet of hair in front,
later he parted his hair into two. Sometimes he use to grow his
blessed hair long, and sometimes he used to have it cut and
shortened. He didn’t use to dye his hair and beard. When he
passed away the white hairs in his hair and beard were less
than twenty. He used to trim his blessed moustache. The length
and the shape of his moustache were as much as and like his
blessed eye brows. He had private barbers in his service. [Also,
it is a sunnat for Muslims to grow their beard as long as a small
handful and to cut what is more than this and to trim their
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