Be Very Regular in Sending Durud Upon the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa

who wakes up, obviously there is a pain that is waking him up. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 2, p. 182)

The Promised Messiahas also says:

Get up at night and supplicate that Allah the Almighty may guide you to His path. The companions of the Holy Prophetsa also received their training step by step. What were they before? They were like the a seed sown by a farmer. The Holy

Prophetsa in turn watered and prayed for it. The seed was healthy, and the soil was fertile. With watering, it yielded excellent fruit. They walked the path of the Holy Prophetsa without hesitation. They did not wait for day or night. You should repent with a true heart. Wake up for tahajjud.

Straighten your hearts. Leave your weaknesses, and make your words and deeds correspond to the will of Allah the Almighty. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 1, p. 28)

The third condition also requires that the initiate shall be ever eager to send durud upon the Holy Prophetsa. In this connection Almighty Allah says in the Holy Qur’an:40

40.(al-Ahzab, 33:57)

Allah and His angels send mercy on the Prophet. O ye who believe! You also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with abundant salutations of peace.

Hadrat ‘Abdullah Bin ‘Amr Bin al-‘Asra narrates that he heard the Holy Prophetsa saying:

When you hear the caller of adhan, repeat the words that he is saying. Then invoke Allah’s blessings upon me. He who invokes Allah’s blessing upon me, Allah will grant him His mercy ten-fold.’ Then he said, ‘Whoever begs Allah that He may grant me wasilah—which is one grade in Paradise, which

Allah will grant to one of His servants, and I hope that I am that one—my intercession for such a one will become permissible. (Sahih Muslim, Kitab-us-Salati, Babul-Qauli mithli

Qaulil Mua’dhdhini liman Sami‘ahu Thumma Yusalli ‘Alan

Nabiyyi)

Everyone should keep in mind that in order to win the pleasure of Allah, to attain His love, and to have our prayers find acceptance with Allah, we need the intermediation of the Holy Prophetsa. The best way to do that—as we are told in the hadith—is to invoke Allah’s blessings upon him. The Promised Messiahas has also admonished that durud should be recited abundantly.41

41.Bless O Allah, Muhammad and his progeny as You did bless

Abraham and his progeny. Certainly You are Praiseworthy and

Glorious. Prosper O Allah, Muhammad and his progeny, as

You did prosper Abraham and his progeny. Certainly You are

Praiseworthy and Glorious.

Hadrat ‘Amir Bin Rabi‘ahra narrates that the Holy Prophetsa said, ‘A Muslim who invokes Allah’s blessings upon me will continue to receive the blessings from the angels as long as he continues. Let him, if he wishes, shorten the time or prolong it.’ Hadrat ‘Umar Bin al-Khattabra says, ‘The supplication remains suspended between heaven and earth. Until someone invokes blessings upon the Holy Prophetsa, no part of it goes up to be presented before Allah the Almighty.’ (Sunan-ut-Tirmadhi, Kitab-ul-Witri, Babu ma ja’a fi FadlisSalati ‘Alan Nabiyyi) Hadrat ‘Abdullah Bin Mas‘udra narrates that the Holy Prophetsa said, ‘On the Day of Judgement, the closest to me will be those who invoke Allah’s blessings upon me most frequently.’ (Sunan-ut-Tirmadhi, Kitab-ul-Witri, Babu ma ja’a fi Fadlis-Salati ‘Alan Nabiyyi)

The Promised Messiahas narrates his personal experience as follows:

Once it so happened that I was completely absorbed in invoking Allah’s blessing upon the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, for a long period of time because I was certain that the paths of reaching Allah the

Almighty are very narrow and cannot be found except through the intermediation of the Holy Prophetsa. As Allah also says:42

After a period of time I saw a vision that two water-men enter my house, one from the interior side and the other from the exterior. On their shoulders they were carrying waterskins filled with the light Divine. They said:43

(Haqiqat-ul-Wahyi, p. 128, footnote, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 22, p. 131, footnote) Through invoking blessings upon the Holy Prophetsa… it is my personal experience that, divine grace in the shape of wonderful light proceeds in the direction of the Holy Prophetsa and is absorbed into his bosom and then issuing therefrom numberless streams of it reach everyone deserving them according to his capacity. Certainly, no grace can reach anyone without the agency of the Holy Prophetsa. Invoking blessings on the Holy Prophetsa brings into movement his throne from which these streams of light issue. He who desires to obtain the grace of God Almighty should invoke blessings on him persistently, so that divine grace might be brought into motion. (Al-Hakam, February 28, 1903, p. 7)

42.…and seek the way of approach unto Him… (al-Ma’idah, 5:36) 43.This is a consequence of the blessings you invoked upon

Muhammadsa .