لَّقَدۡ كَانَ لَكُمۡ فِى رَسُولِ ٱللَّهِ أُسۡوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ۬ لِّمَن كَانَ يَرۡجُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلۡيَوۡمَ ٱلۡأَخِرَ وَذَكَرَ ٱللَّهَ كَثِيرً۬ا
There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
It was around the five regular
prayer times in which all other regular activities were scheduled in the life
of our Nabi (saw). The Prophet (saw) would wake up for Fajr namaz, and he would
wake up by thanking Allah (swt) for granting him another day of life by
reciting “Alhamdulillahillazi Ahyana Ba'dama Amaathana Wa Ilaihinnushoor”. He
would then proceed to make wudhu and perform namaz. The Prophet never slept after Fajr namaz and
prohibited the Sahabas (RA) from doing so also. Instead he used to stay at the
mosque until sunrise and have group conversations with the sahabas. The
subjects of these conversations were both religious as well as entertaining,
for example, on some mornings dreams of the previous night would be related
while on other mornings he would engage in dhikr until sunrise and once the sun
has risen he would perform two rakat of
namaz.
On days when he was not
fasting, he would have breakfast afterwards. The Prophet (saw) preferred eating
in a group rather than individually and also preferred to sit on the ground
placing the food on a matt rather than a chair and table. Anas(RA) related that
the prophet never ate off a table or in small plates.
After Zuhr namaaz, he would
take a nap and encourage others to do the same, as this would help them to stay
awake at night for prayers.
When greeting people he would
say salaam first (regardless of knowing the person or not). Abu Umamah reported
the The prophet (saw) said ‘The person most worthy of Allah is the one who
greets with salam first”. And there is the hadith “He who greets first is free
from pride”, and we know that pride is an attribute of shaitan and we should therefore
always try to avoid it or cure it.
When meeting someone he would
shake hand their hand, and if it was someone he hadn’t seen in awhile he would
hug and kiss them. Anas (RA) reported: A man asked: "O Messenger of Allah!
When a man meets a brother or a friend, should he bow to him?" He said,
"No." The man asked whether he should embrace and kiss him? The
Messenger of Allah (saw) replied, "No." He asked whether he should
hold his hand and shake it? The Messenger of Allah (saw) replied,
"Yes." [At-Tirmidhi]
When interacting with people
would smile often as we know that smiling is a form of charity, and he was also
very humble and never deemed others inferior, that brings to my mind a very
famous quote by Sheik Suleiman Mulla where he says “I assume others better than
myself, simply because I assume them to be sinners, while I know with certainty
that I am a sinner”. He also spoke very clearly and I think it goes without
saying that he never gossiped or slandered and just never engaged himself in
useless talk.
After Asr namaz he would spend
time with his family, whether he was taking part in the household chores or
just talking about their days.
He never went out right after Maghrib
because shaitan starts roaming the streets in the first portion of the night (approximately
one hour after maghrib). Instead he would wait one hour and then go out, and
that too only if it was something of importance.
After Isha, some nights he
spent with his wife, while on others he would stay up in prayers. It is said
that after Isha there a three groups of people; those who get blessings, those
who get sins, and those who do not get anything. The ones that get blessings
are those that spend the night in worship, while the ones that get sins are the
ones who use that time to gossip or backbite, and the ones who do not receive anything,
are the ones that go to sleep right after Isha.
When retiring he would put away
all pots and utensils and would never keep the exposed. He would also turn off
all appliances and would lock all doors. He would then apply kohl to eyes three
times and perform wudhu.
When he was ready to go into
bed he would dust his bed three times because you don’t know what was in your
bed since the last time you lay in it. He would lay on his right side, placing
the right hand below the right cheek. He would also never lie on his stomach
because it is a sleeping position that is disliked by Allah (swt).
He would then make intention of
waking up for tahajjud. It comes in a hadith that whoever makes intention for
waking up for tahajjud and during the night sleep overwhelms them, then that
sleep would be counted as a donation.
When having bad dream he would
recite and imitate the action of
spitting on his left side before going back to sleep.
The point to take away from all
this is not the order in which The prophet (saw) did things, but rather that he
did do them. We shouldn’t take of great importance that he spent time with his
family AFTER Asr, but rather that he would take a portion of his day out to
spend with his family. In the time of our beloved Nabi (saw), the Sahabas used
to love the actions of The prophet (saw) because they were sunnah, and today we
are leaving it because it is just sunnah. Today we have sunk so low that we can’t
even be bothered to say (SAW) after our Nabis name is mentioned anymore.
May Allah (SWT) grant us all
the tawfeeq to act upon this Inshallah.
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