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Jibreel (May peace be upon him) service in the presence of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)

As Jibreel (May peace be upon him) is a special servant and doorkeeper of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). He used to hold the reins of His mount as Imam Tabarani (May Allah shower His Mercy on him) relates in his Musnad e Shamiyyeen Vol. 1 Pg. No.. 603:

Translation of Hadith: It has been narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Anas (May Allah be well pleased with him): We were with the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) in a battle. We were going towards a valley. When we started climbing it, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) gave the Takbeer (i.e. Allahu Akbar) and looked at us, smiled and continued. When we reached the middle of the valley, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said the Takbeer, looked at us, smiled and continued going. When we crossed the entire valley, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said the Takbeer, looked at us, smiled and stopped. When all of us gathered, He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) asked us: Do you know why I said the Takbeer and why I looked at you and smiled? We entreated: Allah Ta’ala and His Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) know better than us.

The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: When we were climbing the valley, Jibreel (May peace be upon him) held the reins of my horse and said: O Muhammad, give this glad tiding to your Ummah that whoever dies in the state that he/she testifies, there is none worthy of worship except Allah Ta’ala and Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is His worshipper and Prophet, then Allah Ta’ala will certainly enter that person into Jannah. I said the Takbeer, turned towards you and smiled. Jibreel (May peace be upon him) held the reins and kept walking. After some time Jibreel (May peace be upon him) said: O Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), please accept this glad tiding and convey it to your Ummah that whoever testifies that there is none worthy of worship except Allah Ta’ala and Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is His Prophet, Allaht will enter that into Jannah. I said the Takbeer, turned towards you and smiled. Jibreel (May peace be upon him) kept walking. We covered the entire valley and reached the plain. Then he said: O Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), please accept this glad tiding and convey it to Your Ummah that whoever dies while testifying that there is none worthy of worship except Allah Ta’ala and Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is His Prophet, Allah Ta’ala forbids hell on that person.

Allah Ta’ala sent Jibreel (May peace be upon him) to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) to respect and revere Him

Jibreel (May peace be upon him) came to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) just before He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) passed away into the presence of Allah Ta’ala. It is given in Tabarani and Mawahib-e-Ladunniya:

Translation of Hadith: It has been narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Ali bin Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him), who in turn heard his father that 3 days before the

Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) passed away into the presence of Allah, Jibreel (May peace be upon him) came to His presence and entreated: O Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), Allah Ta’ala sent me especially to respect and revere You. Then Jibreel (May peace be upon him) asked the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) about His illness. The angel of death requested permission to enter the presence of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), Jibreel (May peace be upon him) said: This is the angel of death. He requests permission to come into your presence. Before this, he had never requested permission from any Prophet and will never request permission from any human being after this. The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: Permit him.

The angel of death entered the presence of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). He stood with utmost respect and said: Verily Allah Ta’ala has sent me to you and has commanded me to obey whatever you say. If you order that I should draw your blessed soul, I’ll do so. If you order me not to do so, I will refrain.

Jibreel (May peace be upon him) said: O Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), verily Allah Ta’ala wants to meet You. Then the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: O angel of death, do what u have been commanded to do. Jibreel (May peace be upon him) said: O Prophet of Allah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) this is my last coming to the earth with the Wahi (revelation). There is nothing else except that in this world my and is You only. (M’ojam Kabeer Tabarani, Hadith No. 2821; Al Matalib Ul A’aliyya Li Ibn Hajr ‘Asqalani, Hadith No. 4449;

Propher Jibreel (May peace be upon him) kissing the hands of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)

Zubdatul Muhaddithin Hadhrat Abul Hasanaat Syed Abdullah Shah Sahab Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Qadri (May Allah shower His mercy on him)a Hadith in his Miladnama pg no. 162

Translation of Hadith: Once Jibreel (May peace be upon him) was very ecstatic. He would kiss the hands of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). He would rub his face on the cloak of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) asked him: O Jibreel (May peace be upon him) what is this? Jibreel (May peace be upon him) said: O Prophet of Allah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), please ask Mikail. Hadhrat Mikail (May peace be upon him) said: O Prophet of Allah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), when we are not ordered to come to you, we become restless. Today we supplicated to Allah Ta’ala thousands of times. Seeing these humble prayers, other angels (May peace be upon them) asked us: O Jibreel and Mikail, what is this restlessness? We answered: We cannot be satisfied until we see the beauty of Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam). What can we do? Because we received permission to come to you after thousands of supplications, that’s why this is our condition.

ABRAHAM (IBRAHIM)

The Birth of Abraham

Abraham (Hazrat Ibrahim) was born in the fifth generation from A” abed and during the reign of a tyrant known as Nimrod (Namrood). Nimrod, a powerful king, made his subjects bow to him as a god. One night he dreamt that a star rose from the horizon and its brilliance eclipsed the moon and the sun. He woke up wondering about the interpretation of his dream. He summoned the astrologers and fortunetellers to come up with the most acceptable explanation of his dream. They conferred with one another and told him: ‘A person will be born in your kingdom who will wreck your power and destroy your influence. He asked if that person had actually been born or would be born in the near future. They told him that he was not yet born. Upon hearing that, Nimrod ordered a ban on all marriages, separating men from women and ordered the killing of all new borns.

God is All Powerful and All Knowing. His intentions come to be whenever Ile deems them to be. The mother of Abraham successfully concealed her pregnancy. She went out of the city limits and gave birth to her child in a cave. She stayed in that cave with her child until the senseless slaughter of the new borns had come to an end and the king’s own fear of his destruction had abated. By this time Abraham had grown up to be a tall and handsome lad. They returned to their ancestral home in the city of Ur.

His Intelligence, Cognition and Rejection of Idolatry:

In those days people believed in the celestial bodies as their deities. One night. Abraham also selected the brightest of all the stars for his observation. By the morning its light faded and it disappeared. He thought that the most brilliant of the stars could not be the creator as it faded away in the brightness of another celestial body. Similarly he noted that the moon changed phases and was but a shadow in front of the brightness of the sun. He concluded that the moon could not be the creator either. He pondered if the sun was the ultimate god, as he had also noted people bowing in subjugation to the sun. But the sun was out only for the duration of the day and gave way to the stars and the moon at night. He reflected upon this phenomenon and concluded that the one who put these celestial bodies in their respective places has the supreme power over them and must be the God Almighty, even though He was not visible or physically tangible. He was pleased with this conclusion and enthusiastically began to tell people how wrong they all had been to ignore the obvious power behind their daily lives, the Supreme power of God. He invited them to give up their false gods and return to the truth.

Some laughed at his idea, some ignored him as he was only a youth “with little knowledge of life,” while others got offended and admonished him for his lack of respect for their gods.

They invited him to come to the annual festival and see for himself how they had decorated their gods along with fabulous offerings brought over from far and wide. Abraham excused himself and did not go to the festival. As the town people had all gone to the fair grounds to indulge in their festivities, Abraham went to their temple, broke all their idols and left his axe hanging on the shoulder of the biggest of them all in the center of the temple.

Next day when people went to the temple and saw what had happened to their gods, they knew that Abraham had done it since he had made no secret of his dislike of those idols. The village chief asked Abraham if he knew who had broken their idols. Abraham, pointing towards the big idol said, “Why don’t you ask him?” The chief said, “How could a stone idol do such a deed?” Thereupon Abraham said, “If the stone idol was incapable of doing it. or protect itself and the other idols, how could it be a God, the provider and the protector?” They obviously had no answer to the logic of Abraham. However, they were not prepared to follow his path. They wanted him punished
for being disrespectful to their gods. They sent a deputation to Nimrod, their god-king for a judgement against Abraham. Abraham was summoned to the court of Nimrod to answer his charges and

face the punishment. When all the people had gathered in the court, Nimrod arrived. All subjects bowed down to the ground for their total submission except Abraham who remained upright and did not bow to the king-god. When asked why he refused to bow to him, Abraham replied that he submitted only to his God, The Creator, The Sustainer. This was an open insult to the king who commanded an absolute power over his subjects and claimed himself to be a god. By his act. Abraham provoked the king’s wrath. However, surprised at the courage of Abraham, the king decided to question him.

Debate in the Court of Nimrod on the existence of God

The king asked Abraham to explain to the entire audience who his God was. Abraham said that his God was one who gave life and who took it away. The king said that he did. that every day!

Abraham said that his God brought forth the sun from the cast. He asked the king that if he had the power, could he cause the sun to rise from the west! Clearly the king was unable to carry out such a feat.

The king then turned around and asked Abraham why he had broken all the idols in the temple. He gave the same reply to the king as he had given to the chief of the village before. The king said to Abraham that he knew that the idols did not talk and yet he kept on referring to the biggest of them to answer the question that actually pertained to him. Abraham said that since the king and all his subjects knew that idols did not talk, why then they worshiped them as gods.

As there were no answers to the logic of Abraham, the king ordered his courtiers to dig a large pit, light a wood fire and throw Abraham in it alive, to make an example so that nobody would again disobey or ridicule their god-king.

find themselves once more threatened, this time by their implacable enemies-the Jews.

The Conquest of Khaibar. 6A.H. (628 A. D.)

Khaibar is situated about a hundred miles to the north east of Medina, and means literally a fortified place. The Jews of Khaibar constituted a serious threat to the Muslims: The Jews who had lost their fights against the Holy Prophet, had slowly and imperceptibly collected in the vicinity of this fort, and had begun to incite their brethren to wage war against the Muslims. The valley surrounding Khaibar was considered as one of the most fertile of the desert oasis, and its great gardens of date palms were most jealously guarded by the various Jewish tribes whose territory it was. The Jews of Khaibar were considered the bravest warriors, and they posed a most powerful challenge to the supremacy of Islam.

Sorties of The Jews.

– The valley of Khaibar was studded with fortresses strongly situated on rocky hillocks, which numbered about ten, and some of which such as Al-Qumas, Al-Qatieba, Al- Watih and Sulalim were deemed impregnable. Outside help was now impossible. The Jews, counting upon their numbers far greater than those of the comparatively small horde of the enemy upon their valour as well as upon their strongholds, resolved to resist. But when besieged in any of their citadels, they could not resist very long and eventually evacuated it after one or two sorties. Thus all the inferior fortresses, with which the Muslims had begun their attacks, fell one after the other into their hands.

The Citadel of Khaibar

At last the Jews rallied round their chief, the king of their nation, named Kinana, son of Al Rab and grandson of Abul Haqiq. He lived in a strongly fortified citadel of Khaibar named Al-Qamus, built on a steep rock which was considered impregnable, having high and frowning walls; it was well defended by bulwarks closely guarded by brave soldiers as it also contained his treasures. As soon as the Prophet happened to glance at the fortification, he first of all offered prayers to the all-powerful Lord, praying for successful delivery of the citadel into the hands of the Muslims; and as long as he remained encamped before it, he daily offered prayers on a great stony rock named Mansela, and every day he made seven circuits around it. In later times a mosque was erected at this spot in memory of the Prophet’s worshipping place, and it became an object of veneration to the pious Muslims.

Sahl Ibn Abdullah Tustri

When the time arrived for Sahl Ibn Abdullah Tus- tri to depart from this world people gathered in masses for his funereal. A Jewish man who was about 70 years old lived in the town. He heard the commotion outside in the streets and came out of his home to see what was happening. When he set eyes on the funeral procession he asked, “Do you all see what I see?” The people questioned, “What do you see?” he replied ‘I see an army descending from the sky taking benefit from the funeral.” He then embraced Islam.

(Jame’ Karamaatul Auliya)