I had come across a Shaykh Yaqoubi video on the nalain of Rasool SAWS and kept skipping over the video. Then I read about the nalain and this led me to check the video out.
The nalain of Rasool SAWS are his sandals. And according to the video and websites, there is much barkat in them. One can get a paper cut-out of Rasoolullah SAWS’s shoes or make it themselves. Carrying it said to bring barkat and even holding it against an ailing part of your body is said to heal.
And there are examples among awlia who experienced miracles thru the nalain. But then I pessimistically think, “Well, shaykh so n so is already at such a great spiritual maqaam. An ordinary person may not experience a miracle so easily.”
This was the first time I heard about the nalain of Rasool SAWS. I don’t think I recall seeing the nalain pattern in the Muslim world or like during my visits to Pak or even when I lived in the ME. If I had seen it and if it is a common sight, I guess I didn’t know what it was.
Has anyone experienced any benefits/miracles through Rasool SAWS’s nalain? Or perhaps heard of others who have?
And why do I have a feeling that nobody will have an experience to share. I guess it’s cuz there’s very little info on the Internet and questions in this vein tend not produce many responses for some reason.
I have a question for you, since you done some study on the matter.
Recently i had a thought that i should get a Nalain Shareef Topi, but then i had doubts about Bidah and showing off because it can be seen by other people. Sister, i trust your understanding, in your brief research would such a topi (hat) be permissible to wear?
I have not researched this specific issue in regards to the topic. However, I know that there are also hijabs that display the nalain.
I do not know about bidah. Maybe I am naive in thinking that if a great wali and knowledgable man and descendent of the Prophet SAWS sees no harm in it and encouraged using the nalain…then that feels sufficient for me.
As for the showing off…it depends on one’s intentions. It can be said that beards and hijabs are adopted for “show.” Keeping an image or copy of the nalain is not even a farz act. But there are so many basic actions…which are also obligatory…that we sometimes have to do openly in front of others such as salah, such as fasting. If “openness” of an action is the basis upon which one fears “showing off”…then brother there are many good actions that are done openly. The only thing that differentiates the sincerity of actions is intentions and Allah knows best what our intentions are.
Hanging up such pictures or plaques could lead to shirk, because some people think that these things are amulets that will protect the house and its people from evil and disease. This is shirk and is haraam, because the One Who really offers protection is Allaah, may He be glorified, and one of the means of gaining His protection is sincere recitation of the Qur’an and du‘aa’s taught in the Qur’aan and Sunnah.
Some people hang up such things for “blessing” - which is a form of bid‘ah. The blessing as described in Islam comes from reading or reciting the Qur’aan, not from hanging it up or placing it on shelves or turning it into artwork and three-dimensional images.
Hope this helps.
Pictures of sandals aren’t going to help anyone. To put faith in such things is only harming your own self. Its best to not wear items that have such pictures and to place trust in Allah.
Allah knows best.
I can confirm from several verbal sources the same.
Have I seen it myself? I have seen a Mubarak strand … It would not be beyond plausible if it were true. I trust those who have told me, without it being a major issue …
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala keeps the imprint of Prophet Ibraheem Alaihis Salam at His House in Makka
Also Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala, His Prophets in the Quran and The Sahaba in Hadiths all recommended the use of worn clothes (shirts) as a means of cure. People 'could become confused about the source of help? - No
These people that you are linking to at islamqa are ahul bidah, their shop runs on making people scared of Islam. Traditional Islam runs on Love. As we have seen with above examples love has its own fiqh
Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) caused the trace of his footprints to remain on the stone as a reminder to the believers among his descendants.Although the Arabs worshipped stones during the Period of Ignorance, no one ever worshipped the Hajar al-Aswad or the Maqame Ebrahim even though the Arabs revered them. It appears that it was Allah’s explicit intention to protect the Maqame Ebrahim from Shirk and all types of worship.
Note that the significance of the Maqame Ebrahim is that it is a place for the performance of salah and not for touching or kissing. When there are lots of people performing tawaf it is better to perform salah some distance away from the Maqame Ebrahim to avoid causing unnecessary inconvenience to others.
What applies to the Maqame Ebrahim doesn’t apply to pictures people make of the prophets sandals. And in the end Allah knows best.
If that was the case (growth of the Blessed hair of the blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)), how long is the hair? Keep in mind that it is nearly 1425 years ago since the blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away.
In sha Allah the message of Islam as practiced and preached by the blessed Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) will keep growing as promised by Allah Almighty.
Don’t be hasty. Slow down before rushing to the conclusion that an object is being “worshipped.” I read an account of a man who was told by his teacher about the barkat of Rasool SAWS.'s nalain So, one day his wife was ill and in pain. Remembering his teacher’s words he placed the nalain on the area that pained his wife and made dua where he beseeched ALLAH..(nit the shoe)…he beseeched Allah through the barkat of the nalain and his wife was healed.
The Quran contains barkat. The durood contains barkat. We are advised to include durood when making dua…as it increases barkat. It’s said that dua made after reciting Quran is accepted. There is barkat in salah…obligatory and nafli. So we may perform nafl salat as a way adding barkat to our dua…But we are not asking the Quran or the salah or the durood…We are still asking from Allah.
Don’t worry there’s no hijacking going on here. If you wish to do so that is up to you, as long as you have understood the sunnah and Quran then whatever you do afterwards is your choice. May Allah give us all hidayah and the strength to follow His straight path. Ameen.
The water is believed to have barkat and healing properties. So, if one drinks zamzam and hopes that they would be healed through the barkat that Allah Himself (source of everything) has placed in the water…is zamzam being “worshipped”…?
If one makes dua to Allah either before or after drinking zamzam that Oh Allah you are the one who cures, heal me thru this blessed water…who is being beseeched here? Allah or the object (zamzam)…?
And maybe some folks do place more hope in the object than Allah…but to jump to that conclusion immediately? Errr…not necessarily.
people should study the ahadith before jumping to label everything they don’t understand as shirk.
Tabarruk with the Prophet’s hair and nails
There are countless hadiths on this.
Bukhari narrates in his Sahih in the Book of Clothing, under the chapter entitled “What is mentioned about gray hair,” that Usman ibn Abd Allah ibn Mawhab said: “My family sent me to Umm Salama with a cup of water. Umm Salama brought out a silver bottle which contained one of the hairs of the Prophet, and it used to be that if anyone came under the evil eye or ill health they used to send her a cup of water through which she would pass this hair (for drinking). We used to look into the silver bottle: I saw some reddish hairs.”
Anas said: “When the Prophet shaved his head (after pilgrimage), Abu Talha was the first one to take of his hair.” Bukhari.
Anas also said: “The Prophet threw stones at al-Jamra, then sacrificed, then told the barber to shave his head right side first, then began to give the hair away to the people.” Muslim.
He said: “Talha was the one distributing it.” Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud.
He also said: “When the Prophet shaved his head in Mina, he gave me the hair from the right side and he said: Anas! take it to Umm Sulaym [his mother]. When the Companions saw what the Prophet gave us, they began to compete to take the hair from the left side, and everyone was getting a share from that.” Ahmad narrated it.
Ibn al-Sakan narrated through Safwan ibn Hubayra from the latter’s father: Thabit al-Bunani said: Anas ibn Malik said to me (on his death-bed): “This is one of the hairs of Allah’s Messenger, Allah’s blessings and peace upon him. I want you to place it under my tongue.” Thabit continued: I placed it under his tongue, and he was buried with it under his tongue.”
Abu Bakr said: “I saw Khalid [ibn Walid] asking for the Prophet’s forelock and he received it. He used to put it over his eyes and then kiss it.” It is known that he then placed it in his qalansuwa (head cover around which the turban is tied) and never faced battle again except he won. al-Waqidi (Maghazi), Ibn Hajar (Isaba). Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani relates that Imam Malik said: “Khalid ibn al-Walid owned a qalansiyya which contained some of the Prophet’s hair, and that is the one he wore the day of the battle of Yarmuk.
Ibn Sirin (one of the tabi`in) said: “One hair of the Prophet in my possession is more precious to me than silver and gold and everything that is on the earth and everything that is inside it.” Bukhari, Bayhaqi (Sunan kubra), and Ahmad.
In Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 784: Uthman bin Abd Allah ibn Mawhab said, “My people sent me with a bowl of water to Umm Salama.” Isra’il approximated three fingers indicating the small size of the container in which there was some hair of the Prophet. `Uthman added, “If any person suffered from evil eye or some other disease, he would send a vessel (containing water) to Umm Salama (and she would dip the Prophet’s hair into it and it would be drunk). I looked into the container (that held the hair of the Prophet) and saw a few reddish hairs in it.”
Hafiz Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari, Volume 10, page 353, said: “They used to call the silver bottle in which the hair of the Prophet was kept jiljalan and that bottle was in the home of Umm Salama.” Hafiz al-Ayni said in *Umdat al-Qari*, Volume 18, page 79: “Umm Salama had some of the hairs of the Prophet in a silver bottle. When some people got ill, they would go and obtain blessings from these hairs and they would be healed by means of their blessings. If a person were struck by the evil eye or any sickness, he would send his wife to Umm Salama with a mikhdaba or water-pail, and she would pass the hair through that water and then drink the water and he would be healed, after which they would return the hair to the jiljal.”
Imam Ahmad narrates in his Musnad (4:42) from Abd Allah ibn Zayd ibn Abd Rabbih with a sound (sahih) chain as stated by Haythami in Majma` al-zawa’id (3:19) that the Prophet clipped his nails and distributed them among the people.
I guess it’s cuz there’s very little info on the Internet and questions in this vein tend not produce many responses for some reason.
