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What do we learn, in this passage, about the believer’s love for the creation?
The love for Nature is so strong in Islam that an impressive Haadith states:
When doomsday comes if someone has a palm shoot in his hand he should plant it.
[Reported by al Bayhaqi]
This Haadith also shows the responsibility of men towards all that lives. Life is sacred because
Allah has given it. But there is another meaning that this Haadith conveys. What is it? Why
when the earth is going to be destroyed and revived men should still plant trees?
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The bound between the Muslim and Allah's creation is strong because all has been
created to worship Allah Ta'alah. We all have the same purpose on earth. Allah has created a
unity between all things in His creation, and an unbreakable bound. For this reason, everything
created makes Tasbeeh (reciting supplications), even plants and pebbles.
Some examples:
According to At-Tirmidhi and AD-DÂRIMI and Al-Hâkim, ' Ali Ibn Abi Tâlib (R&K)
said: " I was accustomed to accompanying Prophet everywhere where he went in Mecca.
One day, we left the area of Mecca and each time we passed close to a tree or a rock,
they greeted the Prophet saying: "Peace be upon you, Prophet of Allah."
The theologists affirm that these events took place at the beginning of the mission of the Prophet
(peace and blessings be upon him) as way of supporting and proving to him that creation will
obey to him and that his call will be listened.
Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) had as a practice to be pressed on a trunk of
palm tree while he made delivering the sermon of Friday in the mosque of Medinah.
One day, one proposed to him to build a Minbar [to him, a pulpit] where he would be
held to make the sermon. The Prophet accepted. When the pulpit was installed and that
Friday came, the Prophet went up on the pulpit and at this point in time the trunk of palm
tree emitted cries of pain for it was separated from the Prophet. The Prophet ran towards
it and passed the hand on the trunk, which was calmed.
This miracle is conveyed by a plethora of witnesses among the companions of the Prophet. As an
example one quotes: 'Ubayy Ibn Ka' B, Jâbir Ibn ' Abdillâh, Anas Ibn Mâlik, ' Abdillâh Ibn '
Omar Ibn Al-KhaTTâb, ' Abdullâh Ibn ' Abbâs, Sahl Ibn Saad, Abou Saïd Al-Khadri, Buraïdah
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Ibn Al-HaSib Al-Aslami, Om Salamah, and Al-MoTTalib Ibn Abi Wadâ' ah Have-Sahmi.
According to Year-Nisâ' I in his book Have-Sonan Al-Kobrâ, according to Sahl Ibn Saad:
"People were about to cry when they heard the trunk groaning until the Prophet had
comforted it while passing its hand above. The Prophet said:
" By That which has my heart, if I had not comforted it, it would have
continued thus until the day of the last Judgement."
During a visit paid to the prophet, by the first three Khulafa (future Islamic rulers), Abu
Bakhr, Umar and Uthman, the Prophet picked up seven or nine pebbles and put them in
his hand. Thereupon they made tasbeeh (praises for Allah) in audible sounds like that of
the bees.[reported by Al-Bazzar]
The true believer creates ties of affection with living and non-living creatures because
they are intimately related. We love the creation because it was created by Allah Ta'alah. The
creation also loves us. Read the passage below and find out why?
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Narrated by Anas bin Malik:
I went along with the Prophet to Khaibar so as to serve him.
(Later on) when the Prophet returned he, on seeing the Uhud
mountain, said, "This is a mountain that loves us and is loved
by us." Then he pointed to Medina with his hand saying, "O
Allah! I make the area, which is in between Medina's two
mountains a sanctuary, as Abraham made Mecca a
sanctuary. O Allah! Bless us in our Sa and Mudd (i.e. units
of measuring)."
(Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 139)
What is the definition of a sanctuary?
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