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.]

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

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

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1   That is, the Fourth Flash. (Tr.)

2   Ibn ‘Adiyy, al-Kamil fi’l-Du‘afa’, ii, 739; al-Mundhiri, al-Targhib wa’l-Tarhib, i, 41; Tabarani,

al-Majma‘ al-Kabir, 1394; ‘Ali ibn Husam al-Din, Muntakhabat Kanz al-‘Ummal, i, 100; al-Haythami,

Majma‘ al-Zawa’id, viii, 132.