Book of Namaz

Monday. The (Hijri lunar) calendar of Muslims has it’s beginning
that year as well. It starts with Muharram month that year. Twelve
lunar months is equal to one lunar year, which occurs as the result
of the moon’s travelling twelve times around the world. He passed
away before noon on Monday, Rabî’ul-awwal 12th, 11 H. [632
A.D.]. In the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, he was
buried in the room where he passed away. When he passed away,
he was sixty-one years old according to solar calendar and sixtythree
years old according to lunar calendar.
Muhammad ’alaihis-salâm was white. He was the most
beautiful one of all mankind. He would not disclose his beauty to
everyone. Whoever sees his beauty once in his lifetime, even if it is
in his dream, spends his life in joy and happiness. He is the most
superior of all people in anytime, anywhere. His reason, logic,
beautiful manners, the power of his limbs’ were greater than all
other human beings.
While he was a child, he made two trips towards Damascus and
they returned from a place called Busrâ. He never made a trip to
another place. He was ummî. That is, he never went to a school.
He did not take lectures from anybody. However, he knew
everything, that is, whenever he wanted to know something,
Allahu ta’âlâ informed him. An angel named Jabrâil ’alaihis-salâm
(Archangel Gabriel) would come and tell him about what he
wanted to learn. His blessed heart was radiating divine light (nur)
as if it were the sun. The knowledge emitted by his blessed heart
spread over everywhere, earths, skies like radio waves. Now, they
are emitting from his grave. His power of emission is increasing
every moment. As a radio receiver is necessary to receive
electromagnetic waves, to receive his nûrs, it is necessary to have a
heart which believes and loves him and purified by following him.
A person with such a heart receives these nûrs and then he himself
also radiates beams of nûr. These great people are called “Walî.”
When a person who knows and loves that Walî, respectfully sits in
front of him or thinks about him with respect and love, even if he
is far away from him; that person’s heart will start receiving nûrs,
faid [outpouring that flows from the murshid’s heart to the
disciple’s heart, which thus attains motion, purity, and exaltation]
and it will begin to become mature and to be purified. As Allahu
ta’âlâ made the solar power a reason to nourish our material body,
He made Muhammad ’alahis-salâm’s heart and nûrs emitting from
it a reason to mature our souls and hearts and to make us reach
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