Forty Benefits of Supplicating for the Prophet - Understanding the Effects of Dhikr (Part 6)

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Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have Mercy on him) said:

34 - Sending Peace and Blessings upon the Prophet is a cause for an increase of love – us gaining the love of the Prophet and our love for him.

35 – It is means for which the guidance of the slave and the guidance that he receives in his heart is increased. Every time he sends the Peace and Blessings of Allaah upon him, his heart becomes filled with love for the Prophet. Thus, there remaining no contradiction in his heart against his teachings. There remaining no doubt in that which he came with. Rather, the person will find that the more he supplicates for him, the more he finds his heart conforming to his traditions – reading from his Sunnah constantly, taking from the light of his message, succeeded with the various disciplines and sciences that he taught. The more he increases in this, the more wisdom he gains for himself, and his intelligence and ability to understand exceeds.

For this reason, the People of Knowledge, those who are well-informed of the Sunnah and its guidance, are the first to follow it. This shows the difference between the way they send Peace and Blessings of Allaah upon the Messenger and the way the common-folk do. You often see laymen raising their voices in supplicating for the Prophet, showing physical love and energy for him but they are ignorant, unlike the scholar who sends Peace and Blessings of Allaah upon him, knowing what the Prophet came with and following his Sunnah.  Their supplication for the Prophet is completely of another level. The more they send Peace and Blessings of Allaah upon the Prophet, the more they increase in knowledge, love and by doing this, the more they increase in actualising the very supplication they are making for him, asking Allaah to have Mercy on him and protect him (and his teachings).

This is just like the Dhikr of Allaah. The more the slave knows about Allaah, the Glorified and the Exalted, the more he obeys Him, loves Him and his Dhikr of Him is not based on an empty heart of mind which is filled with negligence.

This point (point 35) is something well-known in the texts of the Sharee'ah and is something that can be clearly observed; there is a huge difference between the one who knows and loves and then does Dhikr and the one who doesn’t.

If a person knows the Names and Attributes of Allaah, then he increases in love for Allaah. His heart then becomes a slave to this love for his Master. His Praises Him and Extols His Majesty. As opposed to the one who does Dhikr of Allaah which his tongue alone. He has no idea of what he is uttering. His actions don’t implement what he is saying (in the Dhikr).

So true Dhikr is to know and implement what the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] came with. This is true life and the soul of it.

[Jalaa’ al-Afhaam Fee Fadl as-Salaat wa as-Salaam ‘ala Muhammad Khayr al-Anaam (Pg. 515 - 527)]