Thread by @rayhanburhan

“All praises are due to Allāh who illuminated the existence with the emergence of the best of humankind, our Master Muḥammad—upon him prayers and peace—the moon of guidance, the star of the Lordly providence, the lamp of the mercy that is sent forth, the sun of the religion of…

…Islām. Whoever takes him as a patron, he will be entrusted with eternal preservation, protection, and care. His station rises above all stations and he is set above the prophets and emissaries, the beholders of lofty ranks. He was the starting point to the firsts and the seal…

…to the lasts. His nation is honoured above the preceding nations. It attains with it a degree of proximity, felicity, and regard. Its honouring is revealed in the precise Qurʾānic verses: «You are the best community ever raised for humanity—you encourage good, forbid evil,…

…and believe in Allāh.» [3:110] How sweet is this statement!

I praise Him that He made us from this nation that is particularised with this excellence, triumphant with the arrival at the Abode of Peace. I thank Him for this gift, and I seek help from Him and ask to be rightly…

…guided by Him perpetually. I repent to Him from crimes, slips, and blunders. I seek forgiveness from Him from sins and misdeeds. I seek the attainment of His proximity, hope, and safety. I ask Him of pardoning, well-being, and the best of ends.

I bear witness that there is…

…no god but Allāh, the Pre-eternal in His Unique Essence, the Solitary One in creation and annihilation; a testimony that I freed it from the Shayṭānic inclinations and rightly ordered by it in following the footsteps of the righteous in worship.

And I bear witness that our…

…Master Muḥammad whom Allāh opened through his means the doors of the genesis of existence and sealing the order of the noble prophets and emissaries with his form.

His noble name consists of four letters; to every letter from it is an excellence and station.

The first mīm:…

…there is no prophet nor emissary except that he was created from the light of his radiant emergence; he is the source and the whole, from him are branches [of creation], without any doubt nor delusion.

The ḥāʾ: a protection to those who beloved in him and follows his…

…rightly guided religion. And far be it that the one who considers his message is true and holds on to his sunnah is wronged!

The other mīm: the key of mercy on the day of the presentation of the world of concealed secrets.

The dāl: the call of his intercession to his nation…

…that kept concealed for him in the knowledge of the All-Knowing, the Most Knowing. Prayers of Allāh be upon him and upon his kinsfolk and companions morning and night; a prayer and a peace that are eternal and persistent, that do not cut off.

O Allāh, perfume his resting…

…place with grandeur and greetings, and forgive us of our sins and misdeeds.”
— al Imām ʿAbduLlāh ibn Muḥammad al Munāwī raḥimahuLlāh, al Taʿṭīrat al Sharīfah aka Mawlid al Munāwī

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