Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

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 ringlets of hair in front, later
he parted his hair into two. Sometimes he used 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 fewer 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 moustache.]
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ always had his
miswâk and his comb with him. [A miswâk is the twig of the erâk [1]
tree that grows in Arabia. It is used for brushing the teeth.] He
used to look in a mirror when he combed his blessed hair and
beard. At nights he used to put kohl on his blessed eyelids.
Fakhr-i kâinat (Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’)
used to walk fast, looking down at the ground before him. When
he went past a place, he would be recognized by his odorous scent.
Fakhr-i ’âlam had a white complexion mixed with red, and was
extremely handsome with a blessed and lovable appearance. If a
person says that the Prophet was ugly he becomes a disbeliever.
He ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was an Arab. ‘Arab’ means
‘beautiful’ in the dictionary. For instance, ‘lisân-i arab’ means
‘beautiful language.’ In the geographical sense, ‘Arab’ means
person who was born on the Arabian Peninsula and who grew up
in its climate with its water and food and who is of the blood of its
people. As people of Anatolian blood are called Turks, people
who are born and raised in Bulgaria are called Bulgarians and
people in Germany German; likewise, Rasûlullah is an Arab
because he was born in Arabia. Arabs, during the time of
Rasûlullah were white, light-complexioned. Especially the family
of our Prophet (Muhammad) was white and very beautiful. As a
matter of fact, his ancestor Hadrat Ibrâhîm had a white
complexion and was the son of a Muslîm named Târuh, who was
one of the inhabitants of the city of Basra. Âzer, who was a
disbeliever, was not Hadrat Ibrâhim’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ father. He
was his uncle and stepfather.
[1] Toothbrush tree, salvadora persica (or indica), galenia indica, peelu
(or pilu).
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