Baqarah 253
253- THESE MESSENGERS, WE FAVOURED SOME OF THEM TO THE OTHER, SOME SPOKE TO ALLAH, AND RAISED SOME OF THEM DEGREES IN STATUS. AND WE GAVE JESUS THE SON OF MARY THE CLEAR SIGNS AND SUPPORTED HIM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. IF ALLAH DESIRED, THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THEM WOULD NOT HAVE FOUGHT, BUT THEY DISPUTED, SOME OF THEM BELIEVED AND SOME DISBELIEVED, BUT IF ALLAH DESIRED, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE FOUGHT, HOWEVER, ALLAH DOES WHAT HE WILLS.
Allah the Highest choose to put His messengers in ranks. They are not all at the same level and of the same degree.
One of the signs of high ranking, is that some of the messengers spoke to Allah the Highest. We know that Allah the Highest spoke to Moses, peace upon him. Allah the Highest said: “ALLAH SPOKE TO MOSES OPENLY” (S: 4 A: 164)
Allah the Highest sent clear Ayahs to the messengers including Jesus, the son of Mary, who was also supported with the holy spirit (Gabriel, peace upon him), who was also the carrier of the revelations of the Quran to Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him.
Allah the Highest also so spoke to Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, when he was raised for Meraj (when Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him was taken up to heaven). Allah the Highest, then informed Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, of the obligation of Salah for every Muslim, man or woman.
Allah the Highest told us some of the special characteristics, and indeed praised his prophet and messenger Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, in many ways. I shall mention some, but not all of them:
- Allah the Highest praised Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, in the Quran on several occasions, “YOU ARE OF SUPREME CHARACTER”. (S:68 A:4)
Also “O PROPHET, WE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS, BEARER OF GOOD NEWS, AND A WARNER, AND CALLING PEOPLE TO ALLAH, WITH HIS PERMISSION, AND AN ILLUMINATING CANDLE OF LIGHT” (S:33 A:45-46)
Allah the Highest made an oath in the Quran by Allah’s messenger’s life saying: “BY YOUR LIFE, THEY ARE BLINDED IN THEIR INTOXICATION” (S: 15 A: 72)
- Allah the Highest choose Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, to be the last of His prophets and messengers, peace be upon them all “AND MOHAMED IS NOT THE FATHER OF ANY OF YOUR MEN, BUT THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH AND THE LAST OF THE PROPHETS”. (S:33 A:40)
- Allah the Highest gave his messenger, prayer and peace upon him, a river called Kowther in the Paradise “WE HAVE GIVEN YOU THE KOWTHER” (S:108 A:1)
When Sorah Al-Kowther was sent down, Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, smiled and told them about it, then said: “Do you know what the Kowther is”. They said: “Allah and His messenger know best” He said: “It is a river my Most Exalted and Majestic Lord promised me in the Paradise, with plenty of goodness. My nation comes to it on the Day of Resurrection; it has as many cups as there are stars. One of them will be prevented from reaching it, and I shall say, my Lord, he is of my nation, He will say: “You do not know what they did after you”. (M: Salah: 53 & B: Tafseer Sorah 108; 1 & D: Salah; 122)
- Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, will be given a large basin in the Hereafter, which he described: “It’s length is a month travelling and it’s angles are equal (4 right angles)” (M:Fadael;27)
He also described it as: “Its water is whiter than silver and its smell better than musk, and has as many cups as there are stars, and whoever drinks from it shall never be thirsty afterwards”. (M: Fadael; 27)
- Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, is the first to be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection. Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “I am the master of the children of Adam on the Day of Resurrection, and I am not being arrogant, and I am the first to come out of the earth on the Day of Resurrection and I am not being arrogant, and I am the first to intercede and the first to be allowed to intercede and I am not being arrogant, and I shall carry the banner of Hamd on the day of Resurrection and I am not being arrogant” (B:Manaqeb;1,17 & Ma:Zohd.37 & A:1;5,281 4;198)
- All the prophets were sent especially to their people, while Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, was sent to the whole of mankind.
Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “I have been given five things which were not given to any prophet before me. Every prophet has been sent to his people especially, while I have been sent to the red and black (meaning mankind), and I have been permitted to take the spoils of war, while it was not permitted before me, and all the earth has been permitted for me to pray as a clean and pure place, whenever it is time for Salah, a man may pray wherever he is, and I have been supported by fear struck into my enemies hearts as if they are waiting for an army marching a month for them, and I have been given the right of Intercession” (B:Salah;56 & M:Masajid;3 & N:Gasel;26 & Da:Salah;111 & A:1;301 55;162)
- On the night of Israa, Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, was flown to Al-Aqsa mosque where he led all the prophets and messengers from Adam’s time in Salah.
- On the same night, Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, was taken up into the heavens in Miraj accompanied by Gabriel, peace be upon him. He met many messengers, until he went to the seventh heaven and above it to Sedret Al-Montaha, where he went in through, but Gabriel, peace upon him, could not go through. There Allah the Highest spoke to him and he spoke to Allah the Highest. He went in to where no one else has been.
Allah the Highest sent the prophets and messengers, peace upon them all, to preach the same Religion, Islam. People divided this religion with their perversions.
Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, forbad us from saying that he is better than any of Allah’s other prophets and messengers, or that any prophet is better than the others. A Muslim man had a row with a Jewish man who said: “No, by He who choose Moses above all mankind”. The Muslim man struck him with his hand saying: “You evil man, even over Mohamed, Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him”. The Jewish man complained to Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, who then said: “Do not say that some of the prophets are better than others”. (M: Fadael; 159 & B: Anbya; 35)
While recognizing the supreme status of Mohamed, prayer and peace upon him, we should not argue or fight with others over him being better than other prophets and messengers or not. We have been forbidden from doing so. All this will be made clear on the Day of Resurrection.
B: Bukhari M: Muslim Mal: Malek A: Ahmed D: Abu Dawood
Da: Daremy Ma: Ibn Magah N: Nesae T: Termezi
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