Considering oneself equal to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?

Considering oneself equal to the Holy Prophet

(Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?

 

Each and every aspect of the blessed body of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is radiance, which the people of insight understand.  There are such excellence and blessings in the sacred body of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) that such blessings are not found in any other thing.  Taking them inside our body is a means of spiritual progress.  Imam Qadhi ‘Ayaadh (May Allah shower His Mercy on him) has related in Shifa that a woman drank the urine of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said to her:  You will never have any trouble of the stomach from now on.

 

This shows that even the waste matter of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was considered by the Companions as sacred.  As per the words of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), they are a cure for bodily diseases as well – which human beings instinctively desire.  When we think over the fact while drinking it, the lady had no disease (to seek cure from), it becomes clear that the Companions had a firm belief that that waste matter is sacred than their lives and a means of spiritual progress.

 

This ought to be thought over that when the Companions whose excellence is established by the canonical sources considered the waste matter of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) as greater than their own lives, would they have considered themselves “equal” to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?  They also recited the verse of Qul Innamaa Ana Basharum Mislukum.  In fact, their faith was the original faith.  They understood the background of the revelation of the verses of the Holy Quran and thus understood the intent of each verse of the Holy Quran.  In spite of all this, not a single line is related that any Companion said what people of these times say; who insist that saying so is a culmination of believing in the Oneness of Allah and consider themselves distinguished on that account.

 

We can understand with a moment’s reflection that if belief in Oneness of Allah entailed all this, then such things would have been related about the Companions.  Our religion is based on the teachings of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and when we see the people whom the Prophet Himself taught, we see such things that these people have nothing in common with it – in fact, what these people say and do is entirely the opposite of what they did.

 

This clearly shows that this kind of belief is a reprehensible innovation – it was not found in the time of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and the Companions.  Muslims should take their belief from the Companions – who considered the waste matter of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) as greater than their own selves, forget about considering themselves equal to the Prophet.

 

Qadhi ‘Ayaadh (May Allah shower His Mercy on him) has related that when the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) would go to relieve Himself, the ground would swallow it and only fragrance would be left there.

 

[Maqaasid Ul Islam, Vol. 9, Pg. No. 264-266]