The Excellence's of Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Hasan and Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Husaien
[Radiyal laahu-’Anhumaa]
The Holy Prophet Muhammad
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
have said
[Hazrat ] Hasan and Husaien are my two flowers in the world.
He who loves them actually loves me and he who harbors’ malice against them actually harbors’ malice against me.
[Hazrat]Hasan and Husaien are the leader of all youths in paradise.
He who loves me and loves Hasan and Husaien and their parents [Hazrat 'Ali and Hazrat Faatimah]
[May Allaah Kareem Bless their souls]
will be in paradise with me.
MARTYDOM.....SHAAHADAT
Allaah [Almighty and Glorious is He] says in the Holy Qur'aan, in the 2nd Soorah, al-Baqarah,
Verse 155 to 157:
Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits [of your toil], but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere. Who say, when afflicted with calamity:
"To Allaah we belong, and to Him is our return"
They are those on whom blessings descend from their Lord, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance.
Martyrdom on the path of Almighty Allaah, to give one’s life, is an act of Grace from Allaah Amighty [an-ni’maah] and Blessing [sa’adat] that we can determine it from a saying of the Holy Prophet Muhammad
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions) in which he says:
I swear by Almighty Allaah, I would love to be martyred in the path of Allaah Kareem,thereafter brought back to life in this temporal world and be martyred again. Then be brought back to life and be martyred again.
The Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions expressed a desire to be martyred again and again.
The Commander of the Believers [Ameer-ul-mumineen]
Hazrat 'Umar Farooq
[Radiyal- Laahu ‘Anhu]
is such a great personality, that the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions) said that:
If there were to be a Prophet after me, it would have been 'Umar, but since the Office of Prophet has been sealed he is not a prophet Hazrat Ameer ul Mumineen Hazrat ‘Umar [Farooq-e-A’zam] [Radiyal Lahu ‘Anhu]
used to supplicate to
Allaah Kareem
[Subhaanuhu Wa Ta’aalaa]...
‘Allaahummar Zuqni Shahaadatan Fi Saabilika Wa Ja Al Mauti Fi Baladi Rasulik’
O Allaah, grant me martyrdom in Your path and in the City of Your Beloved Messenger, Madinah.
His supplication was accepted and he was martyred whilst reading salaah, in the Mosque of the Messenger
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
in Madinah.
The aim is to emphasize to you what a great status and blessing martyrdom is. Such great personalities desired and supplicated to attain martyrdom. Those who drink the nectar of martyrdom, in the path of Allaah Kareem, don’t feel any discomfort at the moment of attaining martyrdom. The effect of the spear, sword or bullet does not cause any discomfort to the martyr.
It is a Hadees of the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
"The martyr experiences no more pain in being killed than one of you experiences from a sting."
[Tirmidhi, Nasa'I, Darimi]
Some may object, that no pain is felt, since it defies human experience. How can it be that somebody is shot with a bullet or a spear; or pierced with a sword and yet feel no discomfort? I say that a declaration of the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
[Peace be upon him, his family and his companions] can never be false. Let me explain it to you. He who gives his life in the path of Allaah Kareem must surely have great love in his heart for Allaah [Subhaanuhu Wa Ta'aalaa].
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The love is the motivating force that makes one give one’s life in the path of Allaah Kareem. Only one drunk with the love of the beloved will give his life. The intoxication of love surpasses all other intoxication's. Other intoxication's wane, but the intoxication of love never decreases. The martyr at the moment of martyrdom sees heaven in front of him.
The Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
have said
One martyred in the way of Almighty Allaah, on the first shedding of blood, before the drops of blood reach the ground, he is shown his abode in paradise and He sees the radiations of Almighty Allaah’s Beauty unveiled.
The martyr gets so awestruck and absorbed in the beauty of
Allaah Kareem
and the splendor of paradise that he does not feel the impact of the weapon used to slay him.
It says in the Holy Qur'aan.
12th Soorah, Yoosuf:
[Verse 31]
When the ladies of Egypt saw
Hazrat Yoosuf
['Alaiehis-Salaam]
they were so absorbed by his beauty that instead of cutting the fruit, they cut their hands and they said, "Allaah preserve us! No human being is this! This is none other than a noble angel!"
If the beauty of Hazrat Yoosuf ['Alaiehis-Salaam] could make them not feel the cut on their hands then how could one who sees the beauty of the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions) feel the effect of an arrow.
Shaiekh ul-Islaam wal Muslimeen, Hazrat Baabaa Fareed ud deen Ganj e Shakar says that on the tenth night of Muharram a saint had a dream that Hazrat Faatimah Zahraa
[Radiyal laahu-’Anhaa]
together with a group of women was sweeping the plains of Karbalaa.
He asked her, ‘O Pure daughter of the Holy Prophet! Leader of the women of paradise! Why are you sweeping this ground?’ She replied, ‘My son, Husaien [Radiyal laahu-’Anhu] will drink the nectar of martyrdom tomorrow, at this spot. I sweep this ground so that no stone or thorn should pierce his blessed body.’ Ask the mother that reared him the reverence of the blood of Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Husaien
[Radiyal laahu-’Anhu].
The enemies did not know. They wounded his entire body and dropped him of his horse. Their evil actions did not cease even after martyring him. They rode their horses over his blessed body, burnt his tents and unveiled the noble ladies. The Imaam of Exalted Status, Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Husaien
[Radiyal laahu-’Anhu]
displayed such patience and perseverance at Karbalaa, that history can provide no other similarity.
I recited the verse from the 2nd Soorah, al-Baqrah,
Verse 155
Be sure We shall test you with something of fear..
Allaah Almightytests some with fear and distress, some with hunger and thirst, some with loss of life and some with loss of children but when the time of the trial of the grandson of the Holy Prophet Muhammad
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions arrived he tested him with all these combined.
The grandson of the Holy Prophet
Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions proved victorious and successful in all these tests because he was trained by the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam],
his family and his companions) and was nurtured by
Hazrat Faatimah Zahraa
[Radiyal laahu-’Anhaa].
The Beloved Grandson of the beloved holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam]
Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Husaien
[Radiyal laahu ‘Anhu]
of Exalted Status, saw his eighteen-year-old son, slain in front of his eyes; his six-month-old son 'Ali Asghar, take a spear to his neck whilst being carried in the Imaam’s [Radiyal laahu ‘Anhu] hands; his six nephews; eight brothers and twenty five friends slain but his feet never wavered from the path of truth. In such circumstances, very brave, courageous souls lose courage. Who can bear such a scene? Any other would have considered giving the pledge of allegiance, even a deceitful pledge. No! The exalted
Imaam Husaien
[Radiyal laahu ‘Anhu]
gave no such pledge and showed no weakness. He said that he could witness his entire family being wiped out; see the flowers of paradise from the garden of
Bibi Faatimah
[Radiyal laahu ‘Anhaa]
being cut down but he could never give his hand into the hand of the unworthy. The beloveds of Almighty Allaah, the more hardships they endure on the path of Allaah Kareem in this world, the more is their worth with
Allaah
[Subhaanuhu Wa Ta'aalaa].
Allaah Kareem increases their rank and status proportionately.
The martyrs are inmates of heaven. The martyrs will not be questioned and without reckoning they are admitted to, paradise.
Thus the feeling and sensation experienced at the moment of martyrdom cannot be found even in heaven.
I conclude with the verses of Allamah Iqbal:
Kash Na Danad Jud Shaheed I Nukta Rah
Ko Ba Khoonay Kud Kareed I Nukta Rah
Besides the martyr none knows this secret
For the martyr gave his life for knowledge of this secret
He who has not given his life ignorant of this secret
And he knows not
Allaah Kareem, through the blessings of these martyrs grants us martyrdom in the city of Madinah also and on the Day of Reckoning may we be resurrected with these pure souls!