Even the forces of nature obey the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)

 In Kanz Ul ‘Ummal, Kitab Ul Fadhaail, there is a Hadith that Muhammad bin Fadhala (May Allah be well pleased with him) says:  I was all of 2 weeks that my mother took me to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and requested that He pray for my prosperity.  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) prayed for me and placed His hand on the back of my head.  The narrator of the Hadith says that when he grew old, all the hair on his body had turned white, but that part where the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) had placed His blessed hand was unchanged.

 

        Glorified be Allah, the Exalted!  What a powerful effect it was!  All the natural forces that act in this regard were trying to affect this part of the body also as they had affected other parts of the body, but when the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) had aided it with His sacred hand, nothing happened to it.  Is it any wonder that if those who pay their respects to the relics of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) have such a great conviction that they will be saved clear of hardships and tribulations?

 

Imam Qazi Iyaz (May Allah shower His mercy on him) has related in Shifa that Hadhrat Sa’ad bin Abi Waqqas (May Allah be well pleased with him) says that in the Battle of Uhud, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) would hand me shafts of arrows which had no arrowhead and would tell me to shoot them and they would work like arrows.

 

        This was nothing but the blessings of the sacred hand of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) otherwise if arrows could work without their arrowheads then why the need to fix them in the first place?

 

It is mentioned in Shifa and its commentary that on the day of the Battle of Uhud, Hadhrat Qatadah (May Allah be well pleased with him) got an arrow in his eye and his eye came onto his cheek.  He came to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) in this very state.  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:  If you want, I will right your eye or if you are patient, paradise is for you.  He said:  O Prophet of Allah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)!  Paradise is a very great and very excellent grant, but I can’t bear the handicap of being blind in one eye.  With His blessed hands, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) put his eye in its original place and also prayed for paradise for him.  The narrator says that this eye of his was more beautiful and more powerful than the other eye. 

 

        The apparent reason seems to be that Allah Most High liked it so that whatever thing/matter in which the hand of Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was involved, its beauty and excellence should be increased so that the excellence of the Beloved is distinguished in this world.

{Excerpted from Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 9}