Manifestations of Prophet Muḥammad 's Beauty: The Hearts of Allah's Saints

being an english translation of:

Jamāle Muḥammadi Qulūbul Awliyā in Urdu by Haḍrat Shaykh Molānā Yūsuf Motālā Sahib

Introduction

CONTENTS

1. THE MASTER OF BOTH WORLDS, PROPHET MUḤAMMAD

Be True Followers of Muḥammad 56
Arrival at Madīna Ṭayyiba 57
Observing seclusion (iʿtikāf) in the Cave of Ḥirā’ 57
The First Revelation 58
The Entire Universe Shone upon the Arrival of the Master of Both Worlds 59
Appearance of the Light (Nūr) of Prophethood 59
O Allah! Hāla! 60
Khadīja Was Such and Such 61
The Noble Lineage of the Master of Both Worlds 62
Sayyidunā Ibrahim Khalīlullāh 63
Sayyidunā Nuḥ 64
Sayyidunā Ādam 64
(Remember) When Your Lord Said to the Angels, “I am Going to create a Deputy on the Earth!” 65
I Swear by the Forenoon 65
The Noble Lineage of the Prophet 69
The Prophet’s Auspicious Birth 69
Custody and Suckling 70
The Prophet’s Blessed Names 70
Custody of the Prophet 72
Journey to Yemen 72
First Journey to Shām 73
Second Journey to Shām and Marriage to Khadīja al-Kubrā 74
Prophethood 74
Migration 76
Demise 77
The Prophet’s Sons 81
The Prophet’s Daughters 81
The Chaste Wives of the Prophet 83
The Prophet’s Paternal Uncles and Aunts 88
The Prophet’s Ḥajj and ʿUmras 93
The Expeditions of the Prophet 93
The Prophet’s Scribes 94
The Companions Dispatched By the Prophet as Envoys 96
Those Servants of the Prophet Who Had Always Been Free of Slavery 100
The Freed Slaves of the Noble Prophet 101
The Prophet’s Bondswomen 103
The Mu’adh’dhins of the Prophet 104
The Prophet’s Doormen 104
The Prophet’s Guards 105
Leaders of the Armies Dispatched by the Noble Prophet 105
Those Appointed as Governors by the Prophet 107
The Viziers of the Prophet 107
Those Companions Appointed as Judges 107
Companions Appointed over the Deposits Trusts and Expenditure 108
Companions Appointed over the Penal System 108
The Noble Prophet’s Confidants 108
The Noble Prophet’s Shepherds 108
Those Companions Responsible for the Domestic Needs of the Noble Prophet 109
The Noble Prophet’s Flag Bearers 109
Those who Would Prepare the Noble Prophet’s Mount 109
The Poets of the Noble Prophet 109
Those Companions Who Would Look After the Slippers of the Prophet 110
The Camel-Drivers of the Noble Prophet 110
Behind whom the Noble Prophet Performed Ṣalāh 110
The Orator of the Noble Prophet 110
Those who Resembled the Noble Prophet In Some Aspect of Their Physical Appearance 110
Some of the Plants, Inanimate Things and Animals That Had the Honour of Conversing with the Noble Prophet 113
The Prophet’s Horses 114
The Prophet’s Five or Six Mules 115
The Prophet’s Camels for Milk 116
The Prophet’s Goats 117
The Weapons of the Prophet 118
The Blessed Items Used by Allah’s Messenger 125
The Noble Prophet’s Blessed Clothes 125
Utensils 131
Other Items of Use 134
Food and Drink 140
Descriptions of the Noble Prophet’s Blessed Appearance 153
The Exquisite Character of the Prophet 159
Miracles of the Prophet 163
The Grievous Demise of the Prophet 179
Chronological Summary of the Noble Prophet’s Biography 191

 

2. SAYYIDUNĀ AMĪR AL-MU’MINĪN ʿALĪ

Just Say La ilaha illallah Once! 214
In the Care of the Noble Prophet 215
Invitation of Islām to Abū Ṭālib 215
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Time of the Migration 216
Marriage of Sayyidunā ʿAlī 220
Asceticism of Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ 221
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Battle of Badr 223
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Battle of Uḥud 227
Sayyidunā Mālik Ibn Sinān 228
Selflessness in the Face of Starvation 229
Starvation of the Noble Prophet 230
Love of Sayyidunā Abū Bakr for the Prophetic Household (Ahl al-Bayt) 231
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Battle of Aḥzab 232
Sayyidunā ʿAlī’s Combat with ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd 235
Now they Will not Attack Us 237
Allah is Most-High, Most-Sublime 238
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Treaty of Ḥudaybiya 238
Does a Command Take Precedence Over Respect or Respect Over a Command? 240
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at ʿUmrat al-Qaḍā’ 241
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at Khaybar 242
Sayyidunā ʿAlī at the Conquest of Makka 242
Sayyidunā ʿAlī and the Caliphate of Sayyidunā Abū Bakr 245
Sayyidunā ʿAlī and the Caliphate of Sayyidunā ʿUmar al-Fārūq 248
Sayyidunā ʿAlī and the Caliphate of Sayyidunā ʿUthmān 249

 

3. SAYYIDUNĀ ḤASAN AL-BAṢRĪ

Our Two Imāms 251
Ḥajjāj and Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 252
The Parents of Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 254
Islām Abolished the Concept of Slavery 255
What is Concealed in their Hearts is Worse 255
The Noble Companions in the Sight of Critics 255
Birth of Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 257
The Two Imāms of Sharīʿa and Ṭariqa 257
Virtues of Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 259
Miracle of Sayyida Umm Salama 259
The Blessed Ceiling of the Noble Prophet’s Apartment 260
Bayʿa (Pledge) 260
I Envy Two Saints 261
The Ultimate Merit 261
He Was Never Seen Laughing 262
Final Moments of Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 263
Which Sin? 263
What Must the Calibre of Muḥammad the Senior Be? 264
Mālik Al-Ṣaghīr 265
Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and Eloquence 266
Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and Bravery 267
The Extent of His Beauty 267
The Extent of His Humbleness 268
Mawlana Ḥasan 268
Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and the Muʿtazilī Sect 269
Similarities Between Saints 270
Nothing but Recitation 270
Similar Light and Fragrance 271
Shaykh Zakariyyā and Dogs 272
Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and the Dog 272
Those who Harmed Sayyidunā Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 273
Those who Harmed Shaykh Zakariyyā 273
Punishment for Insulting Shaykh al-Islām Madani 274
Vowing to Perform 125 Thousand Ṭawafs 275
Allah’s Acceptance Descending 276
Reciting the Holy Qur’ān Thousands of Times 277

 

4. KHWĀJA ʿABD AL-WĀḤID

Now Grant Me a Dīnār for My Superficial Master 279
I Am Really Fond of This Practice of His 281
Throw Dust in Their Faces 282
Performing Fajr with the Wuḍū of ʿĪshā’ for Forty Years 283
Time is Like an Elastic 284
Abd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim al-Malīkī and Imām Mālik 284
Souls Are Recruited Soldiers 285
Shaykh Hisham Ibn ʿAmmār 286
In the Service of Imām Mālik 287
Imām Mālik’s Inheritance 287
Our Late Barrister 288
Shaykh Zakariyyā and Imām Ghazālī 288
The Barrister’s House 289
Hit Me More! 290
Ibn Farrukh Al-Qayrawanī 292
Imām Abū Ḥanīfa and Ten Thousand Rulings 293

 

5. SAYYIDUNĀ FUḌAYL IBN ʿIYĀḌ

Seeing the Noble Prophet Because of Omitting a Sunna 296
One Thousand Rakʿats Daily 298
Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ in the Service of Imām Abū Ḥanīfa 299
And by the Stars, They are Guided 299

 

6. SAYYIDUNĀ IBRĀHĪM IBN AD’HAM

Palace or Travellers Lodge? 302
Governance over Land and Sea 303
Calls from the Unseen 304
The Imām of the Whole World Has Passed Away 305

 

7. SAYYIDUNĀ ḤUDHAYFA MARʿASHĪ

Weeping 308
But It Is the Hearts That Turn Blind 308

 

8. SAYYIDUNĀ KHWĀJA HUBAYRA CHISHTĪ

Yaḥyā al-Jallā’ 312
I Seek the Master of Paradise 313
I Seek Nothing but To See Allah 313
Exercises of Spiritual Struggles 314
Call from the Unseen 315

 

9. KHWĀJA MUMSHĀD DAYNŪRĪ

Yaḥyā al-Jallā’ 317
My Father 318

 

10. KHWĀJA ABŪ ISḤAQ CHISHTĪ

11. KHWĀJA ABDAL CHISHTĪ

12. KHWĀJA ABŪ MUḤAMMAD CHISHTĪ

Chisht, Fayroz Koh and Jam 323
Annual Seclusion in the Cave of Ḥira’ 325

 

Imāmat of a Child 327
The Deceased Awaken Slumbering Ones 329
The Blessings of One Hundred Recitations of Sura al-Fatiḥa 329
Meeting Point of the Two Seas 330
Mother of the Believers Sayyida Ṣafiyya 331

 

14. KHWĀJA MAWDŪD CHISHTĪ

Awjaz al-Masalik 335
Abstinence From Superfluous Things 336
The Spiritual Struggles of Khwāja Sharīf 336
Sayyidunā ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ 337

 

16. KHWĀJA ʿUTHMĀN HĀRŪNĪ

Khwāja ʿUthmān Hārūni Jumped into the Fire 341
Initiation of Fire Worship 342
A Dream Informing of Late General Zia al-Ḥaqq’s Death Prior to His Tragedy 343
Pharaoh’s Maid 346

 

17. KHWĀJA MUʿĪN AL-DĪN CHISHTĪ

Islām in the Indian Subcontinent 349
Caliphate of Sayyidunā ʿUmar al-Faruq 351
Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr and Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād 351
Arrival of Khwāja Ajmeri in India 352
Khwāja Ajmeri and the Parthawi (Raj) 353
Consider me Alive like Yourselves 354

 

18. KHWĀJA QUṬB AL-DĪN BAKHTIYĀR KĀKĪ

The System of Teaching and Memorising the Holy Qur’ān Using Boards 358
Need for Competent Teachers 358
The Art of Calligraphy in Half a Line 359
The Art of Poetry in One Line 360
Definition of Taṣawwuf in Just Two Words 360
Half of the Holy Qur’ān Memorised in Just Four Days 361
Completion of Qur’ānic Memorisation in Just Ninety Days 362
Completion of Qur’ānic Memorisation in Just Three Months 363
An Entire Area of Ḥuffaẓ 363
Completion of Qur’ānic Memorisation in Just Eighty Days 364
Completion of an Entire Qur’ānic Recitation Every Night 364
Fifteen Parts (Juz’) in One Night 364
Hifẓ, Studies, Pledge of Allegiance and Discipleship 365

 

19. SHAYKH FARĪD AL-DĪN GANJ SHAKAR

Titles Descend from the Heavens 367
Mischief of the Tartars 368
Pledge of Allegiance, Completion of Studies
and Authorisation 369
The Miswāk Stick 371
Fruit of a Pilu Tree and Wild Fig 371
Pick the Black Ones! 372
Why Did You Put Salt on It? 373
The Spiritual Struggles of Shaykh Zakariyyā 373

 

20. SHAYKH ṢABIR PIYĀ KALYARĪ

Exclusive Devotion of the Master of Both Worlds 376
Rock Turns into Kuḥl 377
The Effect of Shaykh Raipuri’s Gaze 377
Protection of Khwāja Ṣabir Piyā Kalyari’s Grave 378
Fragrance from the Graves of the Pious 379
Pillars of Light 379
Detachment from Everything for Allah and Raptness 380

 

21. SHAYKH SHAMS AL-DĪN TURK

Jealousy in Everything 383
Survival on a Single Almond 384
A Practice of Shaykh Zakariyyā 384
Seclusions of the Noble Prophets 385
Shaykh Chilley 388
He Saw Himself for the First Time in His Life 389
Shaykh Shams al-Din Turk and Shaykh ‘ʿAla’ al-Dīn 390
The Lover and the Beloved 393
In a World of Profound Meditation 395
Charity of Three Nights Accepted 395
The Story of a Father and a Son 396
Take Everything 397
The Four Cornered Cap: Four Abstinences 397
Just One Restriction 398
Desires: Abstinence and Reduction 399
Seclusion of Sayyidunā Sulayman and Sayyidunā Mūsā 399
Seclusion of the Noble Prophet 400
One Rakʿa, One Prostration 400
Accepted in Heavenly Courts 401
Shaykh Shams al-Dīn Turk Serving as a Soldier 402
From Multan to Kalyar Sharīf 404
Remembrance of Allah 408
Two Duties after Faith 408
Three Lessons for Life 409
Let us go and Stay in a Place Where there Is Nobody 410
Spiritual Raptness of Shaykh Zakariyyā 412
An Amazing Statement of a Woman 414
Visiting Ḥaram after 35 Years 415
The Ghazālī of Current Times 418
Imām Ghazālī 419
Upsurge of an Emotive Pain 422
I Really Enjoy this Pauperism 423
Intelligence of Junayd Baghdādī 424
Pledge to Sayyidunā Ibrahim Khalīlullāh 425
The Saint of all Saints Wandering in the Desert 426
Ḥājī Imdādullāh and Fervour for the Lord 427
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī and Satan 428
Special Arrangements from Allah Most High 429
One Poem Sufficed 430
True Zeal 431
Imām Ghazālī and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī
Wandering in the Wilderness 433
O Israelite! Come and Listen to the Discourse of a Follower of Muḥammad! 434
Muḥy al-Din Jīlānī 436
Titles Descend from the Heavens 437
The Title ‘Shaykh al-Ḥadīth’ 438
You Have Been Appointed Quṭb al-Aqṭab 438
Balance Between Sharīʿa and Ṭarīqa 440
Ḥanẓala Has Become a Hypocrite 441
Spiritual Efficacy of Saints 442
Another Explanation of the Four Abstinences 444
Base Desires 446
The Glorification of Every Limb 448
This Heart is Burning 449
Recognition of Allah 449
Conditions of Paradise 451
If Only Our Senses Were to Awaken 452
The Announcement of Sayyidunā Ḥudhayfa 452
Always Pleasing Satan 453
Atoning for Thirty Five Years of Ṣalāhs 454
Mālik ibn Dīnār 455
The Practice of the Prophets 457
Iʿtikaf of the Master of Both Worlds 458
A Fire Burns 459
Sincere Aspiration 460
Gathering of Silence 461
Maʿrūf Karkhī 462
Three Types of Worshippers 463
Repel Your Lower self 463
Restraining the Lower self 464
Divorcing the World 466

 

22. SHAYKH JALĀL AL-DĪN KABĪR

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Radolwī and a Faqīr 470
Remembrance of Allāh in a Royal Palace 471
Shaykh Saʿdī and a Saint 473
Reflect over the Noble Prophet 474
They Are Mine as Much as They Are Yours 475

 

23. SHAYKH ʿABD AL-ḤAQQ RADOLWĪ

Upraised Eyes 477
He is Performing Dhikr 478
Meaning of Murāqaba 479
Introducing Shaykh Zakariyyā 480
Wear an Old-Style Shirt 482
We Are not like Others 482
Clear Mirror 484
The Two Naṣīr al-Dīns of Delhi 485
The Tartar Disaster 487

 

24. SHAYKH ʿĀRIF IBN ʿABD AL-ḤAQQ RADOLWĪ

Spiritual Raptness of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq 491
It Talked in Infancy 491
The People of the Pit 491
Intuition of a Believer 493
At the Age of Seventeen 494
A Master of Every Field at Seventeen 495

 

25. SHAYKH MUḤAMMAD IBN ʿĀRIF IBN SHAYKH ʿABD AL-ḤAQQ RADOLWĪ

A Wish of Shaykh Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī 497
The Cure for the Lovesick is to See the Beloved 498
You are Stubborn 499
When is Yūsuf Coming? 500
My Ṣalāh Should not Be Missed 501
No Anaesthetic Should Be Used 501
The Shaykh’s Displeasure upon Missing Ṣalāh 502
Awaiting a Call from the Heavens 502

 

26. SHAYKH ʿABD AL-QUDDŪS GANGOHĪ

Spiritual Fostering After Death 506
Recite to me a Poem (Qaṣīda) 507
Simāʿ - a Form of Nourishment 508
Allāh’s Messenger Listening to Poetry 509
Simāʿ Is Terminated from Today 510
Mawṣūl (Relative Pronoun) and Its ṣila (Clause) are Considered One 511

 

27. SHĀH JALĀL AL-DĪN THĀNĪSARĪ

Arrival of Shāh ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangohī 513
The Effectiveness of a Single Sight
of Shāh ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangohī 514
Shaykh Raipūrī and Shaykh Zakariyyā 515
He Could not Bear a Single Sight 515
At the Fair of the Hindus 516
A Gathering of Simāʿ and the Ruling of the Prophet 517
Mutual Respect Despite Differences 518
Conditions of Simāʿ 519

 

28. SHAYKH NIẒĀM AL-DĪN THĀNĪSARĪ

Reprimand for Practices Involving Jinn 524
Shaykh Niẓām al-Dīn Balkhī 524
One Blow from Shaykh 525
A Test for Completion 526
Self-Conceit 528
Cure for Self-Conceit 529

 

30. SHAYKH MUḤIBBULLĀH ILĀHABĀDĪ

Your Share is Destined in Radolī 532
Call from Sind 533
An Esoteric Order 534
The Uwaysiyya Order and Khilāfa
Through Divine Inspiration 535
Instructed by Allah 535

 

32. SHĀH MUḤAMMAD MAKKĪ JAʿFARĪ

Recognising Ḥājī Ṣāḥib 545
Reform of the Order Through Shaykh Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī 546
The Statement of the Noble Prophet Regarding ‘The Seven Rulings’ 547
The Field of Interpretation 549

 

34. SHAYKH ʿABD AL-HĀDĪ

The Three Saints of Amroha 551
Primary Education and the Incident of a Pauper 551
The Incident of a Majdhūb 552
Four Types of Saints 553
Late Brother Isḥāq Atcha 554
Work is to be Taken from You 556
Bayʿa and Khilāfa 556
The Greatest Jihād is Obedience to One’s Parents 557
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥayy 558

 

35. SHAYKH ʿABD AL-BĀRĪ

Sending Reward for the Saints of the Order 561
Seeing the Noble Prophet in a Dream 561
Darul Uloom Appearing as a Bright Star 562
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bārī 563
An Attendant of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bārī 563
The Orders of Taṣawwuf 563
Taṣawwur al-Shaykh 564
Shaykh Sayyid Aḥmad Barelwī 565
Repentance from Shiaism 566
Initiation of Jamāʿat al-Tablīgh 567
Callers Towards Ṣalāh 567
Third Principle: Qur’ān 568
Seventh Principle: Abstinence From That Which is Futile 569

 

36. SHAYKH SHĀH ʿABD AL-RAḤĪM FĀṬIMĪ

Shaykh Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd 571
The Presence of Saints is like Alexander’s Wall 574
Shāh Waliyyullāh 574

 

37. SHAYKH MIĀ JĪ NŪR MUḤAMMAD JHANJHĀNAWĪ

The Effect of a Single Moment’s Spiritual Attention 577
The Shaykh’s Miracle 578
Level of Adherence to the Sunna 580
Aroma Emanating from the Grave 581

 

38. ḤĀJĪ IMDĀDULLĀH MUHĀJIR MAKKĪ

Shaykh Shāh Ballāqī 584
Shaykh Qalandar Ṣāḥib 584
Shaykh Miā Jī Nūr Muḥammad Jhanjhānwī 585
A Dream 585
A Special Jumper 585
The Shop of Maʿrifa 587

39. SHAYKH RASHĪD AḤMAD GANGOHĪ

The Three Saints 592
Bayʿa 592
The Jihād of Shāmlī 593
Martyrdom of Hāfiz Ḍāmin Shahīd 594
The Madrasa of Gangoh 595
Level of His Expertise in Fiqh (Jurisprudence) 596

 

40. SHAYKH KHALĪL AḤMAD SAHĀRANPŪRĪ

Family of Saints 599
Education 600
Dawn of his Teaching Career and Bayʿa 601
The Entire Ḥaram Was Filled with Light 602
Refuting Deviant Sects 603
Three Supplications 603

 

41. QUṬB AL-AQṬĀB SHAYKH AL-HADĪTH MUḤAMMAD ZAKARIYYĀ MUHĀJIR MADANĪ

Blessed Birth 608
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī Twice 609
Initiation of Ḥadīth Studies 610
Respect Towards Ḥadīth 610
A Saint of Shām 611
Unique Style 611
Aroma from the Soil of the Grave 613
Unscheduled Landing of the Plane 614
Plane Lands for Fajr Prayer 615
Lā ilāha illallāh Recited One Thousand Times in Ten Minutes 616
Immediate Notification in India of an Incident in England 616
Reassuring the Tablīghī Jamat in Belgium 617
Discerning Anxiety 617
Visions, Miracles and Adherence to the Sunna 618
Seclusion for Studying 619
Respect for Ḥadīth 614
History of the Saints of the Chishtiyya Order 620
Shaykh Zakariyyā and Royalty 621
Conditions of Travel 622
Generosity 622
Level of Abstinence from the Luxuries of the World 623
Ṣalāh and Recitation of the Holy Qur’ān 624
Fasts 625
Zakāh 625
Final Ḥajj 625
Adherence to the Sunna 626
Restlessness for Propagation Work
Amongst Non-Muslims 626
Humbleness and Humility 627
Meeting the Angel of Death Whilst Awake 628
Meeting with the Angel of Death in a Dream 629
From the Cradle to the Grave:
Chronological Summary of Shaykh al-Ḥadīth’s Life 636