In the seccond volume of the rich book, “ the land of lovers” that is a exposition on Sahifeh Sajjadieh, the Author, Professor Hossein Ansarian, inspiring from the Sayings of Imam Sajjad(a) and Quranic Verses along with tadition, elaborates on all aspects of the creation of our prophet (s) ina delicate writing. The present text is a cut of his writings.
The Creation of Mohammad(s) is the Most Magnificent News of Creation
Our tongue is just unable to describe in depth the features of a man who is unique in the whole creation, beyond whom there is no wiser, or loftier or more magnanimous one. Our pen is just unable to depict his true features. Our thought is just too weak to appreciate him wholly. In order to describe him, I do not have any other way except resorting to the sacred verses of the Holy Quran, which are God's speech and to the narrations and the religious news which are the miracles of the men of God.
Defining the Great Prophet(s) of Islam in this volume is like pouring the wholly sea in an earthern pot.
He is the first wisdom; he is the closest to God; and he is the most complete of beings. He is distant from all worldly and selfish motives. We will notice the following features for Mohammad(s) in the most authentic narrations:
1- اوَّل ما خَلَقَ اللهُ العَقْلُ.
2- أوَّلُ ما خَلَقَ اللهُ نُوري.
3- أوَّلُ ما خَلَقَ اللهُ رُوحي.
4- أوَّلُ ما خَلَقَ اللهُ القَلَمُ.
5- أوَّلُ ما خَلَقَ اللهُ مَلَكٌ كَرُبيٌّ.
The five series of description belong to only one truth and one light. They are differing titles for just one single being. The highest manifestation of God's revelation is found in him. He needs nothing and nobody except God; neither does he observe any body but Allah.
No pen can ever depict this sacred being since he is God's most magnificent Messenger.
The more a being is distant from the worldly shackles, the closer he is to God. He was a sacred being who did not need even his physique. He was the manifestation of
أقْبَلَ إلى الدُّنيا رَحْمَةً لِلعالَمِينَ.
This shows that his light is manifest in all beings in the world: he is the most beloved and the purest of all creatures. Besides, one who associates with him is a perfect being who deserves the paradise. And one who ignores him belongs to the hell. This fact may be discerned in the following narration which is reported at the beginning of the book on wisdom by kafi of his book called Osul:
عَنْ أبي جَعْفَرٍD قال: لَمّا خَلَقَ اللهُ العَقْلَ اسْتَنْطَقَهُ ثُمَّ قالَ لَهُ: أقْبِلْ فَاقْبَلَ ثُمَّ، قَالَ لَهُ: أدْبِرْ، فَأدْبَرَ، قالَ: وَعِزَّتي وَجَلالي ما خَلَقْتُ خَلْقاً هُو أحَبُّ إليَّ مِنْكَ، وَلا اكْمَلْتُكَ إلاّ فيمَن اُحِبُّ. أما إنِّي إيَّاكَ آمُرُ، وإيَّاكَ أنْهى، وَإيّاكَ اُعاقِبُ، وَإيّاكَ اُثِيبُ.
The Prophet Mohammad(s) is the most magnificent creature, the summary of the two worlds; He is the light for all beings, the flower of all flower gardens, the light of the garden of creation. He is the most elegant manifestation of وما أرْسَلناكَ (And we have not sent you but to all the men as a bearer of good news 34:28); he is the nightingle of the garden ofوَما يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الهَوى “He does not speak out of desire. 53:3”
The Prophet(s) is the key to the hidden treasures, the torch for the society of believers and the giver of the mercy:
وَما أرْسَلناكَ إلاّ رَحْمَةً لِلعالَمِينَ.
(And we have not sent you but as a mercy to the worlds. 21:107)
The Prophet Mohammad(s) is the base for all existence and non-existence; he is the manifestation of the hidden world and of intuition; he is the discloser of the secret of مَنْ رَآني; he is the discloser of the heavenly revelation; he is the describer of the content of نَحْنُ الآخِرونَ السّابِقُونَ and he is the discloser of the secret اِهْدِ قَوْمي إنَّهُم لا يَعْلَمُونَ. He is the wakeful of لا يَنامُ قَلْبِي. He is the resident of أبيتُ عِنْدَ اَبي and he is the candle for لي مَعَ الله. He possesses the titles and attributes of a sublime God's messenger; he is our assistant on the Doom's Day; he is the leader to the believers; he is Abulqasem Mostafa, Ahmad, Mahmoud, and Mohammad(s).
Mohyeddin talks on Hathrat Mohammad's attributes in the following manner:
صَلَواتُ اللهِ وَمَلائِكَتِهِ وَحَمَلَةِ عَرْشِهِ وَجَمِيعِ خَلْقِهِ مِنْ أرْضِهِ وَسَمائِهِ على سَيِّدِنا وَنَبِيّنا أصْلِ الجُودِ، وَعَيْنِ الشّاهِدِ وَالمَشْهُودِ، أوَّلِ الأوائِلِ.
اَنّى هُمْزمِلى عَمُوخُونْ كَتْ لِكْسِكوْخُونَ اِينَ هَوْ پارقَليطارُ وخارِ قُدْس هَوْبِت شارِربْبى شمّى هَوْيت قِلپ لوخونْ كُل مِندى وهَوْبِت مَتخِررَ خون كل مِندى دِمرونِ الَوْخُونْ.
Lahiji in the interpretation of Golshan Raz explains the line of poetry with the content “There is just one line from the onset to the end”: From the first wisdom to the lowest which is the human state and then from humanity to the Divine there is one circle on which all creatures make their journey: They all come from the deep layers and then go there once again:
كما بَدَأكم تَعُودُونَ.
“So shall you also return. 7:29”
God's great wisdom has made it imperative that this journey on the above-mentioned circle should be carried out with a guide who possesses God's attributes. Those groups of people who are guided in this manner are superior to others and possess the attributes of the men of God. They are God's men because they are obedient to the Prophets.
On this journey, the Prophets acts like caravan-masters because they have been trained and educated for this specific task. As the caravan-masters manage the camels and their loads, so do the Prophets protect people from going to extremes in their moral affairs. They lead people towards the right path.
In comparing the prophets to the caravan-master there is an allegory to human spirit which sometimes goes out of control; at this stage it is called baqara in the terminology of Gnosticism. Upon being trained, it will be called badaneh which is a being trained, it will be called badaneh which is a camel which becomes slaughtered in Mecca on the festival Day of Azha. The story goes like this: The Prophets are the guides to people. And the true guidance is special only to those people who have submitted the camel of self to the sword of the disobedience of one's self to be slaughtered with it. It is as though the mission of the Prophets had been to connect these people to God:
وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ السَّلَامِ وَيَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ.
“And Allah invites to the abode of peace and guides whom He pleases into the right path. 10:25”
The Prophet excel other people in that they have connected with God and have given up their very exisistance to join Allah and have adopted God's attributes. In this transformation some are closer to God than others.
The complete and whole person who is absorbed by God is Hathrat Mohammad(s). Other men of God possess Only some of God's attributes. That is why the statement:
كُنْتُ نَبِيّاً وآدَمُ بَينَ الماءِ وَالطّينِ.
Is issued to include him.
The Strange Secret in Mohammad's Creation and his Genealogy:
Ibn Babereih, also called Saduq who, in autenthicity and sincerity, is unique among Shiite scholars, reports from Imam Jaafar Ibn Sadiq(s) who reports from the sample of world's pious ones Imam Ali(s), saying: God created the Prophet Mohammad's spirit prior to the creation of the skies, the earth, the heaven, the pen, the paradise or the other prophets. With this spirit, God created the following twelve curtains:
(1) The curtain of power; (2) The curtain of magnanimity; (3) The curtain of grace; (4) The curtain of generocity; (5) The curtain of prosperity; (6) The curtain of benevolence; (7) The curtain of status; (8) The curtain of guidance; (9) The curtain of Prophethood; (10) The curtain of excellance; (11) The curtain of reverence and (12) The curtain of forgiveness.
Then God put that spirit behind the curtain of power for twelve thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ رَبّيَ الأعْلى.
The spirit was then put behind the curtain of magnanimity for eleven thousand years it was saying:
سُبْحانَ عالِمِ السِّرِّ.
The spirit was then put behind the curtain of grace for ten thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ مَنْ هُوَ قائِمٌ لا يَلْهُو.
The spirit was then put behind the curtain of generocity for nine thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ الرَفيعِ الأعْلى.
Then the spirit was put behind the curtain of prosperity for eight thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ مَنْ هُوَ دائِمٌ لا يَسْهُو.
The spirit then was put behind the curtain of benevolence for seven thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ مَنْ هُوَ غَنيٌّ لا يَفْتَقِرُ.
The spirit was then put behind the curtain of status for six thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ العَلِيمِ الكَرِيم.
Then the spirit was laid behind the curtain of guidance for five thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ ذِي العَرشِ العَظِيمِ.
The spirit was then put behind the curtain of Prophethood for four thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ رَبِّ العِزَّةِ عَمّا يَصِفُونَ.
Then the spirit was laid behind the curtain of excellance for three thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ ذِي المُلْكِ وَالمَلَكُوتِ.
The spirit then was put behind the curtain of reverence for two thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ.
And finally the spirit was put behind the curtain of pardon for a thousand years, saying:
سُبْحانَ رَبِّيَ العَظِيمِ وَبِحَمدِهِ.
Then God wrote the Prophet's name on the table; and the name was shining for four thousand years. Then his superior name was shown by God which lasted for seven thousand years. This spirit or light was still shining till it was laid in Adam's sperm by God(Hayatol Qolub, Vol.2, P3.).
Later this spirit or light was transferred from Adam to other people till it reached Abde Manaf and then it reached Hashem. From Hashem it reached Abdolmottaleb; then it reached Abdollah. According to him all his fathers were monotheist and pious. And some of them, such as Ibrahim, Ismael and Nuh were among the great Prophets:
أشْهَدُ أنَّكَ كُنْتَ نُوراً في الأصْلابِ الشّامِخَةِ والأرْحامِ المُطَهَّرَةِ.
This is because clean wombs do not coincide with idolatry and the rejection of truth. Therefore, those who assume the Prophet's fathers were atheists are either ignorant or hypocrates or liars.
After Abde Manaf, Amrolala, who was a distinguished man came to be the head of the Qoraish Household. Since he used to have many guests and since many camels were slaughtered in his parties and since many camel bones used to be broken at his parties he was conseguently called Hashem. After him, his greatest son, called Abdolmotalleb resumed the leadership of Qoraish and the protection of kaaba (Mecca).
Abdolmotalleb was distinguished among Qoraish tribe to the degree that he excelled all his predecessors. Among his triumphs are the following:
1. He was the substitute for Hashem, his father, and continued to keep his father's feats. He kept his father's guest-house to entertain everybody even the birds and the desert beasts.
Hashem used to slaughter a camel each day and put it on the mountain of Mecca to feed the beasts. Abdoolmottaleb, too, continued this good custom.
2. Abdolmotalleb and his elder son Harith reconstructured the ZamZam well once again and surfaced its water after years of hiding for the people of Mecca and those tribes who attended Mecca. In this process, he discovered a lot of Gold which he dedicated to the house of kaaba.
3. Besides these honors, he got the honor to serve Hathrat Mohammad Ibn Abdollah(s).
Abdolmotalleb's newly-married son left Mecca towards yathreb in business where he passed away when quite young.
At this time, his young wife, Bent wahab, was pregnant with a boy who was destined to light up the world's darkness.
The bride, who was away from her husband's tomb, gave birth to her son whose protection was carried out by his grandfather, Abdolmotalleb. So far as he was living, he used to nurture his beloved nephew and at the time of his death he used to utter Mohammad's name. He did not recommend anything to his household except for the protecton of Mohammad(s).
4. The people of Mecca, including the tribes of Qoraish or thaqif, Hawazen and Batun were all idolaters. There were some Christians and Jews among them as well. It was only the Hashem Household, especially Abdol motalleb, who believed in the religion of Ibrahim Khaleel. Abdol motalleb took pride in worshipping God among other idolaters.
Believing in God was one of the honors of Abdolmotalleb which caused him to be reckoned as among God's men. One good reason for his piety is his struggle against Abrahe, the king of Ethiopia, who had come to destroy the house of Mecca with his elephants, with no success, however.
Without getting terrified in front of Abraha's superficial glory, Abdol motalleb only asked him to return the plundered camels to him. Finally, as Abdol motalleb had anticipated, Abraha's army was annihilated by a great number of birds which were God's army.
Among his axioms are: A tyrant will not die unless he is punished in this world. There is another world after this one in which every body will be treated Justly. If a tyrant is not punished here, he will definitely be chastised in the other world.
Concerning soul and the world of souls, the great Gnostics say that soul is a unique phenomenon; it is, in their view, the mover of the bodies of the plants by nature; it is the mover of the beasts with their own option; and it is at the stage of wisdom in man. The soul is a delicate and unanalyzible substance. It comes from God: it is the God's command itself. The body, on the other hand, is a dirty analyszible substance belonging to this world. Now let us see how the world of souls operates:
When God decided to create the world of souls first He looked at the most elite light. That elite was lighted and burned. From this the soul of Mohammad(s) was then created. Later from the elite, God created the souls of the prophets; then from the elite, God created the souls of His men. Later the souls of Gnostics and then the souls of the pious ones, and then the souls of the believers then the souls of the un-believers, then the souls of the infidels, then the souls of the beasts and finally the souls of the plants were created(Zobdatol Haqayeq, P50.).
Refrence: The land of lovers, vol.2. Professor Hossein Ansarian
source : The land of lovers, vol.2. Professor Hossein Ansarian
