The Eleventh Flash

The Eleventh Flash

The Stairway of the Practices of the Prophet (UWBP)

and Antidote for the Sickness of Innovations

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Now has come to you a Messenger from among yourselves; it grieves him that you should perish; ardently anxious is he over you; to the believers is he most kind and merciful.(9:128)

[The first station of this verse is the Highway of the Prophet’s (UWBP) Practices, [^1] and its second station, the Stairway of the Prophet’s (UWBP) Practices.]

[^1]: That is, the Fourth Flash. [Tr.]

But if they turn away, say: “God suffices me, there is no god but He; in Him do I place my trust – He the Sustainer of the Throne [of Glory] Supreme!”(9:129) Say: “If you do love God, follow me: God will love you and forgive you your sins; for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”*(3:31)

Eleven of the hundreds of points concerning these two sublime verses will be explained concisely.

First Point

FIRST POINT

God’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) said: “Whoever adheres to my practices (Sunna) when my community is corrupted shall receive the reward of a hundred martyrs.” [^2]

[^2]: Ibn ‘Adiyy, al-Kāmil fi’l-Ḍu‘afā’, ii, 739; al-Mundhirī, al-Targhīb wa’l-Tarhīb, i, 41; Ṭabarānī, al-Majma‘ al-Kabīr, 1394; ‘Alī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn, Muntakhabāt Kanz al-‘Ummāl, i, 100; al-Haythamī, Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, viii, 132.

Yes, to adhere to the Prophet’s (UWBP) practices is certainly highly