Documents of the Right Word

ewildered. He turned to look at me. “What is the matter with
you? What makes you so pensive,’ he asked. I said, ‘O the
Messenger of Allah! Looking at the brightness of the haloes on
your blessed face and the lights spread by the drops of sweat on
your blessed forehead, I have lost myself.’ Rasûlullah stood up and
came near me. He kissed between my eyes and said, ‘Yâ Âisha (O
Âisha)! May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless you with goodnesses! I have not
been able to please you the way you have pleased me.’ That is, he
said, ‘Your pleasing me has been more than my pleasing you’.” His
kissing between hadrat Âisha’s blessed eyes meant awarding and
honouring her for her loving the Messenger of Allah, seeing and
recognizing his beauty. A line:
I congratulate my eyes on seeing thine beauty!
And a couplet:
How good those eyes are for looking at the beauty.
How fortunate that heart is for burning with His love!
Imâm-i-Mesrûq, one of the greatest members of the Tâbi’în,
whenever he was to give a report from hadrat Âisha, would begin
as follows: “Hadrat Siddîqa the beloved one of the Messenger of
Allah and the blessed daughter of Abû Bekr as-Siddîq, states
that... .” Sometimes he would say, “The darling of the beloved
ones of Allâhu ta’âlâ and of the inhabitants of heaven states
that... .” Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu anhâ’ would say that she was the
highest one of the Azwâj-i-tâhirât (the Prophet’s pure wives) and
boast about the blessings Allâhu ta’âlâ had bestowed on her. She
would say, for instance, “Before the Messenger of Allah (told my
father that he) wanted to marry me, Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’
showed (him) a picture of me and said: This is your wife!”
Drawing pictures of living beings had not been made harâm yet.
Besides, the picture was not drawn by a human being. Why
should it be a sinful act, then? In a hadîth-i-sherîf which exists in
the books Bukhârî and Muslim, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa
sallam’ said to our mother Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu anhâ’, “For three
nights I saw you in my dreams. The angel showed me your picture
drawn on white silk. He said: This is your wife. I do not forget the
picture the angel showed me in my dream. It is you, exactly.” Our
mother Âisha states, “Rasûlullah was performing tahajjud (after
midnight) namâz and I was lying by his side. This honour was
peculiar to me only. [She would boast with this honour.] As he
prostrated, his blessed hands would touch my feet and I would
pull my feet back.” One of the honours conferred on hadrat
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