Studying the lives of the saints – A means of prosperity It is a fact that we don’t express our love and devotion to the saints merely on o...
Studying the lives of the saints – A means of prosperity
It is a fact that we don’t express our love and devotion
to the saints merely on our own whim, but Almighty
Allah has expressed their greatness in His Blessed
Word, the Holy Quran. The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam) has obviated their grand status
through His pure words and the Companions, the
successors, the Imams, the Jurists and the Hadithexperts have honestly safeguarded whatever they have
said about the saints. For this reason, the corpus of
Islamic literature is filled with the mention of the saints.
In an Islamic library, the category of “Tadhkira”
(biographies) is always mentioned. All it has is the
mention of the saints, their incidents and anecdotes
and their life and teachings.
It is a fact that we don’t express our love and devotion
to the saints merely on our own whim, but Almighty
Allah has expressed their greatness in His Blessed
Word, the Holy Quran. The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam) has obviated their grand status
through His pure words and the Companions, the
successors, the Imams, the Jurists and the Hadithexperts have honestly safeguarded whatever they have
said about the saints. For this reason, the corpus of
Islamic literature is filled with the mention of the saints.
In an Islamic library, the category of “Tadhkira”
(biographies) is always mentioned. All it has is the
mention of the saints, their incidents and anecdotes
and their life and teachings.
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