Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

wa sallam’, this person certainly has seen him, for the devil cannot
assume the Prophet’s guise.
Sarwar-i âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ is now alive in a
life we can not understand. His blessed body never rots. An angel
stays in his tomb and informs him of the blessings which his
Ummat (Muslims) invoke upon him. Between his pulpit and his
blessed tomb is a place called Rawda-i-mutahhara. This place is
one of the gardens of Paradise.
It is one of the greatest and most valuable acts of worship to
visit his blessed shrine. He said: “My shafâ’at is certain for him
who visits my shrine.”
Sarwar-i ’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ had three blessed
sons and four blessed daughters, eleven blessed wives, twelve
uncles and six paternal aunts.
[In order to deceive youngsters, immoral and indecent people,
the enemies of religion say that the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ was fond of women and girls, and they insolently slander
him by saying and writing very loathsome things which become
their abominable souls, but of which we would be ashamed to
write in this book of ours. Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ first marriage was when he was twenty-five years old; he
married Hadrat Khadîja. She was forty years old and a widow. But
she had much property, beauty, wisdom, knowledge, honour,
nobility, chastity and decency. They lived together for twenty-five
years, and she passed away three years before the Hegira in the
month of Ramadân in Mecca. As long as she was alive, Rasûlullah
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ never entered into another
marriage.
The second marriage that Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ entered into was to Hadrat ’Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anha’,
Hadrat Abû Bakr’s daughter, when he was fifty-five years old. He
took her under his nikâh [1] one year after Hadrat Khadîja’s death,
with the command of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and lived with her for eight
years, until he died.
He married all the others after marrying Hadrat Âisha ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anhunna’ and did so for either religious or political reasons
or out of mercy or as a kindness. All these women were widows.
Most of them were old. For example, when the Meccan
disbelievers’ persecution and harm to the Muslims had become
[1] Marriage contract prescribed by Islam. Please see the twelfth chapter
of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss for ‘nikâh’.
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