Advice for the Muslim

y the ’ulamâ’ of the four madhhabs (rahimahum-Allâhu ta’âlâ).
We wish that the Saudi Arabian government should not get
involved in such an ugly act and should not break the hearts of
Muslims all over the world. Disrespect to the Hujrat as-Sa’âda
has been witnessed many times, but those who committed it
have been punished by Allâhu ta’âlâ even in this world, the
examples of which are very many. It is written at the end of
Mir’ât al-Madina, “When the Governor of the Hijâz, Hâlat
Pasha, visited Medina in 1296 A.H. (1879), the head of the
servants at the Hujrat as-Sa’âda, Tahsin Agha, with a view of
winning the favour of the Pasha, said, ‘Let’s have the women of
your house visit the Hujrat as-sa’âda. This chance would not be
met at other times.’ The Pasha, though refrained from it at first,
took the women of close and distant relations of his house into
the Shabakat as-Sa’âda at midnight upon the urging of the Agha.
Since there were unclean women without an ablution among
them and because of this disrespect towards Rasûlullâh (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), a violent earthquake occurred three
times in Medina the next morning. People ran to and fro in
panic. When its cause was understood, the Pasha was disgraced
and was let out of Medina. A little later, he died and his family
melted away. Similarly, all those who have committed acts of
disrespect to Rasûlullâh’s tomb have been doomed and
troubled.”
During the time of Shams ad-dîn Effendi, the head of the
servants at the Hujrat as-Sa’âda and several vagabounds from
Aleppo entered Masjid an-Nabî one night with the view of taking
away the blessed corpses of Hadrat Abu Bakr and Hadrat ‘Umar
(radî-Allâhu ’anhumâ). But all of them sank into the earth and
vanished. This event is written in detail at the end of Mir’ât al-
Madîna and in Riyâd an-nadara.
The brigand named Artat, who was the ruler of the Karak
castle and the villages on the outskirts of Nabulus town near
Damascus, wanted to take the Prophet’s corpse and had small
ships be constructed for the transportation in 578 A.H. (1183). He
had the ships come together in the Red Sea and sent them to
Yanbû’, the seaport of Medina, with 350 bandits. The Sharîfs of
Medina heard of this and reported it to Salâh ad-dîn al-Ayyûbî
(rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih), who was in Harrân. Salâh ad-dîn was
grieved much by this news, and he sent an order to the Governor
of Egypt, Husâm ad-dîn Saif ad-dawla (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ).
Husâm ad-dîn sent soldiers under the command of Lulu’, who
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