Al-Sayyid Muhammed Bin Alawi Al Maliki Makki
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Al-Sayyid Muhammed Bin Alawi Al Maliki Makki
Saudi Arabian Sunni Islamic Scholar Al-Sayyid Muhammed Bin Alawi Al Maliki Makki Coming in a Mawlid in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Awareness of the dead and their spiritual life in the graves:a teaching by the Great Sayyid Maliki Firstly, the Qubur of the Prophets, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam. A Sahih Hadith narrated by Imam Muslim (vol.2 p.268) states that the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, said that on the night of Mi'raj, "He, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, passed by the grave of Sayyidina Musa and saw him praying in his grave (iza bi Musa yusalli fi Qabrihi)". This is evidence from the Sunnah of the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, that there are certain holy people of Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala, who can even pray in the Qabr. The Ulama say that they are not praying because it is fard upon them (since they have already passed away) but that they are praying for the sake of the love of Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala, and because they enjoy praying and thus talking to Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala. This is why they pray in their graves. About the Ambiya Allah (Prophets), there are no doubts since Abu Ya'la and al-Bazzar (in their Musnads) narrate a Sahih Hadith that the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, said that: " All of the Ambiyaa are Alive and Praying in their graves. (al-Anbiya Ahyaa'un fi Quburihim yusalloon). The Arabic word for prayer used in this Hadith is (Salah), which may also mean Du'a, besides the ritual Salah we know. In another Sahih Hadith narrated by Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ahmad, Tabaranim and others, the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, said that one must make a lot of Salawat/Darud on the day of Jum'ah as this will be presented to the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam. Then the Sahabah asked the Prophet, sall- Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, how their Salawat was going to be presented to him after he had died and his body is no more, and the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, replied that: " Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala, has made it haram (forbidden) for the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets". By the way, things are only presented to someone if he is alive, fully aware and conscious of everything. This Hadith also shows that the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, is aware of our Salawat and our spiritual states, otherwise what is the meaning of this presentation? So they are alive in the graves, they are praying, they are aware regarding who is making Salawat on them in short--- they know us. We also know that on the night of Mi'raj, all the Prophets, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, assembled in Masjid al-Aqsa, physically (or spiritually as some think), but all of these Prophets save I'sa, `alayhi-s-salam, had already died, so to say. Yet that night they met the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, spoke to him and prayed behind him. And when he went into the samawat (the skies) He, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, met them again. This shows, and we know it from many Sahih Hadith concerning the Mi'raj,that these Nabi's were alive and they went to the Aqsa, went to the skies and met the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam. Yet many people today want to deny the life of the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wasallam, who is in fact the Imam of all those Prophets, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, saying that the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, is dead and cannot go from place to place, that he is no more and has no awareness in him, A'uzo billah. May Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala, protect us from such blasphemy. We all know about the incident of Mi'raj, and the reason why Masjid al-Aqsa is so dear to us and so holy is because the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, prayed there with all the Nabis. If we say that they never prayed then why is it so dear to us? What then is the importance of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem? We also know that Sayyidina Musa benefitted us on that night because Allah, subhanaHu wa Ta`ala, had made fifty Salahs fard on us. But, through the intermediary action of Musa, `alayhi-s-salam, this number was reduced to five times daily. What a great help is this to the Ummah of Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam. There are so many people having problems performing only the five daily Salahs, how much more difficult would not 50 have been? Allah's Rahmah for us is indeed great. But it came to us through the mediation of a Prophet! But what is astonishing about this incident is that Musa, `alayhi-s-salam, had passed away 4 000 years before that night of Mi'raj, yet there he was, acting as an intermediary for the Ummah of the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam. If this is the ability of Musa, `alayhi-s-salam, what about the best of creation, the Imam of all Prophets, our own Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam? Cannot the Nabi Muhammad, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, benefit us today if Sayyidina Musa could benefit us then?
YouTube | October 1, 2007
