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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
spoke spoke
few words,
he spoke a little and he contemplated a
lot.
So the vast majority of the time of the
prophet wasallam was him being silent,
contemplating,
thinking,
pondering.
And this is one of the greatest forms of
worship a person could do to get closer
Allah to Allahel
to contemplate and ponder was mentioned
in so many many verses of the Quran.
If allahel were to reveal this Quran
over a mountain, this mountain would be
silent and summoned and quiet out of the
fear of Allahawel. And these parables
are given to the people so that they
would contemplate and think.
And also so many places Allah tells us
that there are signs in the universe for
you to think and contemplate and ponder
upon the greatness of Allah. The stories
and tales that are told to us in the
Quran are for this reason. And indeed
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
whenever he walk whenever he woke up in
the middle of the night the first thing
he would do is wipe his face and then
recite the last verses 10 verses of
chapter 3 al
this was his sunnah
and what's so special about the last 10
ayat of Alan
Allah says indeed in the creation of the
heavens and the earth and the
alternation of night and the day. There
are signs for those who have brains and
they contemplate and it goes on to the
rest
and all of this
the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam
would recite and then he would brush his
teeth and make woodoo and stand up for
prayer. These verses
are an indication
of what Muslims should ponder upon. If
the prophet used to read this every
single night, it tells us that the
prophetat wasam is directing us to
something that would benefit us.
Abu Dari,
may Allah be pleased with him. He used
to tell us that some nights the prophet
sallall alaihi wasallam would pray the
whole night prayer only reciting one
ayah
and this ayah he repeats it.
Oh Allah if you should punish them
indeed they are your servants but if you
forgive them indeed it is you who is the
exalted in might and wise.
So the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam
used to repeat this ayah begging
Allahawel
for his forgiveness and
states that so many people of the salah
followed the sunnah and used to repeat
one ayah till pondering upon it they
would be sort of saturated with its
profound meaning and loving it.
The prophet sallallaihi wasallam may
have wept as we mentioned before when he
contemplated upon certain verses of the
Quran as per the hadith of Abdah when
the prophet ordered him to recite the
Quran and Abdah said how can I recite it
and it was revealed to you and the
prophet said I like like to uh uh hear
it from someone else. So he started to
recite the beginning of chapter 4
until he reached the ayah in number 41
where it says so how will it be when we
bring from every nation a witness and we
bring you oh Muhammad against them or
these nations or these people as a
witness. And here the prophet stopped
Abdah and said husb
says when I looked at the prophet
wasallam he was streaming his eyes was
were streaming with tears and he was
weeping because of how he pondered upon
these great um verses.
The prophet not only
cried or wept or pondered upon it. It
caused his hair to go white
because of his reaction
to some of these beautiful suras of the
Quran.
Abdah Abbas may Allah be pleased with
him says Abu Bakr once said to the
prophetatam
oh prophet of Allah you've turned gray
there is change in the color of your
hair and the prophet said
the surah of hood
These suras had turned my hair had
turned me gray. Scholars says that these
suras
have the mentioning of
the catastrophes
and what great events would take place
on the day of judgment. When the sky is
split open, when the mountains turn into
sand, when everything in this universe
changes
and what we had known to be a fact and a
universal fact, all of this changes. The
oceans boil
and the whole universe
transforms on the day of judgment. These
suras mention this
and elaborates
on mentioning it.
The prophet sallallaihi wasallam did not
just recite it and skipped it.
He had a reaction to it.
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He pondered
upon it. His contemplation
meant that these suras were in his
chest, in his mind. And that caused him
to be terrified of such transformations.
And that is why he turned his it turned
his hair into gray because of these
beautiful yet scary suras.
This is how the prophet contemplated.
And even before
the message when the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam went to
the cave of
he used to spend time there
avoiding his people avoiding their shik
their
playfulness their indulg
them being indulging indulged in this
dunya
He took time out to stay in the cave and
that was mostly in the month of Ramadan
before he became a messenger
contemplating about Allah's greatness
looking at this universe and how great
Allah is expressing his gratitude to
Allah while abhoring and resenting what
his people are doing associating others
with Allah.
Once he became a messenger,
such time was over. He would never ever
revisit the cave of Hara unlike what the
people do nowadays. They go there for
sightseeing and spend time and maybe
paint something on the rocks. All of
this is not from Islam. The companions
never went to the cave let alone pray
two raas or seek baraka by wiping it
like the ignorant people do. What are
you doing? All of this is not part of
Islam. So did the prophet stop
contemplating and pondering? No, he did
not. But he shifted
his effort to calling the people to
Islam. And this is a lesson for the duat
for those who call people to Islam not
to isolate themselves from their
communities.
The prophet saidatam
a Muslim who mixes up with others and
he's tolerant and patient for their
abuse is better than the Muslim who does
not mix with others and is patient and
tolerant for their abuse.
Nevertheless, the Muslim has his time
off in the middle of the night when he
prays.
This is this is when he contemplates.
The Muslim has his times time off 10
days a year when he's in seclusion inaf
in the last 10 nights of Ramadan when he
spends it in the masid away from the
world just worshiping Allah making dua
making reading the Quran and the likes.
So
this is not meditation as people say we
don't have meditation in Islam but we
have our time off with Allahawel when we
contemplate and ponder upon the beauty
of the Quran upon these universal signs
we see upon the greatness of Allah which
definitely empowers us energizes us and
gives us a lot of momentum and power to
go through this life.
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