Our love for rasulullah cannot in anyway match his pure love for us as he return to his maker saying: ummati, ummati. We love you our beloved prophet and messenger of Allah till death!

Rightly said, brother (in all sense) 🙂

I declare that there is no God but Allah, glory be to Him, he is the Most High and worthy of all praise and thanks. He is the Lord of worlds, both the seen and the unseen. From Allah ( great and glorious) we have come and to Him we shall return. Glory be to Him, our sustainer and our Helper. May Allah ( SWT ) save us from the subtle shirk and the great shirk.

We must consider and reflect on the fact the prophet Muhammad ( SAW ) was no ordinary man. Inwardly he had noor or light brighter than the sun but outwardly was just a normal himan being. Lets ponder on the fact the Prophet of Mercy is the final Prophet and he is Al-Mustafa or the Chosen one. He was the best of creation and Allah’s beloved. Why would it be so hard to comprehend that Allah (Most High) would give his beloved servant (SAW) special privileges? Priviliges that He (Most High) wont give anyone else? Why is it so hard to fathom that with Allah’s leave the beloved Prophet will be allowed intercession? Or to cure the sick when a muslim asks for his help? Or is that we believe that he is dead, yet a martyr is alive? When we give salams to our beloved Prophet, knowing the person he was, do we really think he wont return our salams?

We are well aware that there was never a prophet that was more concerned about their Ummah than he was. We must send our salawats to him, for he can Muhammad ( SAW ) is . Words will never ever explain what he means to us. The Burdah is an attempt to show how much we love him, how much he means to us. Our words written in any poem form will never be perfect. The poem mentions some things that people perceive to be shrk, but I must mention, those priviliges are allowed by Allah’s leave.

The prophet Muhammad, infinite peace and blessings be upon him, was no ordinary man. He was God’s chosen one, His slave in the highest rank and His beloved. None can match and he was beautiful and perfect in every sense. He was and is full of mercy for his Ummahand his heart will never be at ease until he has done all he can for his Ummah. He was given the ability to see the unseen, cure the sick, and even split the moon through Allah’s leave. He was the medium by which the Quran was sent through his tongue, the same Quran that if it was placed on a mountain would crush it! But the worss of Allah (SWT) was revealed through his lips, the only lips that could carry the words of Allah. At the battle of Uhud when he (SAW) was injured, he caught the blood dripping from his beautiful face onto his hand…for if that blood touched the ground God would have destroyed all the worlds due to His love for Hos chosen one. But Muhammad ( SAW ) knewthis and through his mercy for uuscaught it.

How can we say that the Muhammad ( SAW ) does not have special privileges?

Wassalm

Best reply and very wise answer brother. The doubtfull matters we shall leave alone. We will never be able to settle these disputes untill Qiyamat. So everyone should just pick a side but for their personal believes, not to enforce someone on it.

That being said, I find parts of this poem a little unsettling and so I leave it alone. And just because I find myself uncomfortable reading parts of this poem (regardless of the author’s intent) doesn’t mean I love the Messenger of Allah any less than you do.

Similarly, just because you disagree with me and see absolutely nothing wrong with parts of this poem (because I have misunderstood the author’s intent) doesn’t mean I have the right to call you kaafir or mushrik, and I have no willingness to do so.

What I fail to understand is the ghuluw shows by some people on both sides of the issue, let’s just relax.

I’m 46 years old and have studied Islam, alhamdulillah, for 26 years now. The first things I learned in Islam: Hold onto Islam until death, don’t ascribe partners to Allah, and DON’T MAKE TAKFEER !

Qaseedat ul-Burda is about Tawheed. The poem is a eulogy of Allah, His Book, His Messenger, and the Sahabah. It contains praise for the da’wa of Rasulullah, his Jihad, his perfection in quality, his love for his Ummah, and the FACT that he has been endowed, by Allah, with knowledge of future events of this life AND of the Hereafter.(Nothing in the poem mentions “complete knowledge”, so don’t go there)

To anyone who has a heart to feel with, the poem fills it with love of Deen by HONORING OUR BELOVED RASUUL. One who passes this life without a heart filled with love of Rasulullah, the juhud to follow him, and the firm belief that his Sunnah is the best of all ways, will likely meet disaster in the next life.

The poem ends with a brief seeking of Tawassul through Rasulullah, which is an established Sunnah, and ENDS WITH AL-BUSIRI MAKING LONG TAWBA AND DUA’A TO ALLAH ‘EZZA WA JAL FOR FORGIVENESS AND HEALING. (sorry to yell, just making emphasis.)

عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
كَانَ إِذَا قَحَطُوا اسْتَسْقَى بِالْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَتَوَسَّلُ إِلَيْكَ بِنَبِيِّنَا فَتَسْقِينَا وَإِنَّا نَتَوَسَّلُ إِلَيْكَ بِعَمِّ نَبِيِّنَا فَاسْقِنَا قَالَ فَيُسْقَوْنَ

Of course, don’t let the point be lost that all of the afore-mentioned “aal al-Sheikh” muftis who were not the least bit thorough in their literary critique of the poem, happen to be from the same family of people WHO HAD THE QASEEDAT UL-BURDA torn off the walls of Masjid an-Nabawi. Beside their joy of making takfeer, they also need to remain defensive about their predecessors mis-guided decisions to deface the Prophet’s Mosque. IMHO

Of course, some people will call you a mushrik if you ever say “brother, could YOU pass me the salt?”

wa-salaam