*What I felt whilst reading the last portion of the Seerah of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ!*
Reading the last portions of the Seerah of The Prophet ﷺ when he falls ill and ultimately dies in the arms of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) in front of the Sahaba, brings tears to the eyes. Wallahi nothing is more of a greater a calamity than that.
Imagine Aisha remembering the days she spent with her husband ﷺ, the love, the jealousy, the running race in which they beat each other, the descending of Ayaat in her house…
And what about the Sahaba who saw his blessed lifeless body…
Talha bin Ubaidullah would remeber his best day , when he was the human shield of the Prophet in Uhud, defending him against the rain of arrows…
Ali ibn Abi Talib may have cried with reminiscences of his childhood with his lovely cousin ﷺ and caring father in law…
Abu Bakr would have seen those youthful days with his non-sibling twin just before his eyes, the day he stopped the polytheists of Makkah from choking his bosom friend ﷺ, the three days in the Cave of Thawr, being his assistant in every battle…
Umar ibn Al-Khattab couldn’t believe his ears and lost his mind, he couldn’t imagine that his love ﷺ was never to return and that Jibreel would cease revelation…
Alas, the Prophet ﷺ has gone, and nothing is greater a calamity than that…
The Prophet said that “If any one of you is touched by a calamity, let him remember the calamity that befell him concerning me (death) because it is of the greatest calamities*.”
We will always miss you Messenger of Allah, you and your blessed teachings will always live in our hearts, we wish to meet you in Paradise and live in your neighbourhood. We will! Surely we will!
الصلاة والسلام عليك يا رسول الله و على آله و صحبه أجمعين.
*[Ref: Tabraani Mu`jam al- Kabeer 6718 and Saheeh by Albaanee in Silsilatul Ahadith As-Saheeha 1106]
-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna
[Reflections from the Seerah]
2nd November, 2019.
Saheehus-Seerah 