Seeking blessings from the relics of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)

Most of the Muslims revere the relics of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).  However, some people raise many silly doubts about them and make outlandish presumptions, which make those people who don’t have enough knowledge lose their respect for the blessed relics of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and become deprived of the source of great blessings which Allah Ta’ala had sent to them.

 

That’s why it would be highly well-advised to know the Hadith about this.  Before we write the Hadith about acquiring blessings from the relics of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), we consider it reasonable to write about the blessings gained from the blessed hands and blessed saliva of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), so that it becomes a help in understanding the main objective.

 

There is a Hadith in Khasaais-e-Kubra that in the Battle of Uhud, the sword of Hadhrat Abdullah Bin Jahsh broke off.  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) gave him a frond of a date palm tree, it immediately turned into a sword with which he fought.

 

Subhanallah!  When the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was so powerful that he could change a thin stick into an unyielding sword, then what is it that He cannot do?  Here, one may think that if He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) had such power, then why was did establishment of religion take such a long time.  the answer to it is that there is no pleasure if a great task is completed in a jiffy.  That is why for 22 years, He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) kept striving against the disbelievers.  This is in fact, a Sunnah of Allah Ta’ala.  In spite of being able to create everything with one “Be” (Kun in Arabic), the Lord Almighty created the heavens and the earth in many days.

 

It is given in Khasaais-e-Kubra, Mu‘awiya Ibn Hakam says:  We were with the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).  My brother’s foot was severely injured by stumbling against the wall of the trench, because of which blood was flowing freely from the wound.  He came to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).  He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) passed His hand over the wound and said, “Bismillah” and my brother became fine then and there.  Even the pain vanished.

 

Can any doctor claim to treat as fast as this?  This ‘natural’ cure is only possible for those people who have been given the authority to make changes in the material worlds.

 

It is given in Khasaais-e-Kubra that ‘Aaiz Bin Umar says that in the Battle of Hunain, an arrow struck my forehead and blood gushed forth from the wound and even spread on to my chest.  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) wiped the blood with His own hands.  The narrator says we saw that wherever the blessed hands of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) touched him, that area became radiant.

 

Apparently, what the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) wanted to do was to wipe away the blood and that the wound should become fine.  Maybe, the aim was not that his chest and face should become radiant, but because it is a characteristic of His merciful hands that some special characteristic should remain, that’s why that area became radiant.  These are the physical blessings.  We don’t know what kind of spiritual blessings were gained from those merciful hands.

 

[Excerpted from Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 9]