Yahya Rhodus – Lesson – 7 Al-Shama’il Al-Muhammadiyya Chapter 1 – Hadith 8 – Part 2

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The study on the Prophet's beautiful sh centered face focuses on the sh centered face, and focuses on the sh centered face. The speaker describes the physical appearance of the Prophet's blessed body, including his hair, eyes, and neck, as well as his body's shiny and black hair and skin. The speaker describes the details of his body, including his skin, and how he would walk with vigor. The study explains the meaning of the Prophet's hair, including his stance, weight, and stance, and discusses the way he would turn people on at the end.

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			Bismillah wa salatu wa salam ala rasulillah wa
		
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			ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala.
		
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			So we will continue our study, bismillah, of
		
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			the shamal of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			We left off in the middle of hadith
		
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			number eight.
		
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			And so we will continue our study, insha
		
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			'Allah ta'ala, and hopefully finish number eight
		
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			by the end of this session, bismillah.
		
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			Now, so again this is the hadith narrated
		
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			by Sayyidina Hasan bin Ali that he asked
		
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			his maternal uncle Hind ibn Ali Hala.
		
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			And I believe that we read towards the
		
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			latter part of what would be page nine
		
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			of the book.
		
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			So his complexion was fair and luminous.
		
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			And so he, this is the meaning of
		
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			azhar al-laum, there was a luminosity to
		
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			his blessed skin ﷺ that gave him this
		
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			otherworldly sense.
		
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			His blessed forehead, jabeen, was wide, salallahu alihi
		
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			wa alihi wa sahbihi wa salam.
		
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			And we will also read the notes that
		
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			we have here.
		
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			Oh, that's actually where we left off was
		
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			there.
		
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			His blessed eyebrows were arched, thin, long, and
		
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			full, perfectly shaped without connecting.
		
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			And so in other narrations it seems like
		
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			when people looked that he would have had
		
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			a connecting eyebrow ﷺ, but there actually was
		
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			a thin space between them.
		
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			The one who came close and looked closely
		
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			found that they were not connecting, but he
		
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			had the most beautiful of eyebrows on his
		
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			most beautiful forehead, salallahu alihi wa alihi wa
		
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			sahbihi wa salam.
		
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			They were slightly arched and they were arched
		
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			and they were thin.
		
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			They were long and full, perfectly shaped without
		
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			connecting.
		
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			And now, then he goes on to say,
		
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			between them there was a vein that anger
		
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			would cause to pulsate.
		
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			So our Prophet ﷺ is that when he
		
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			would become angry, and of course that his
		
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			anger was only for the sake of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, he had a blessed
		
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			vein of his that would protrude, that they
		
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			would see when our Prophet was angry.
		
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			And we always have to remember is that
		
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			it's important that we be balanced in terms
		
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			of our anger.
		
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			And our Prophet taught us how it is
		
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			that we should be angry, never for the
		
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			sake of our own selves, but for just
		
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			causes, of course.
		
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			To protect people and to be protected, to
		
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			ward off harm from evildoers.
		
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			Anger has its place, and if we don't
		
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			have a sense of righteous indignation when there's
		
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			wrong, there's something wrong with us.
		
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			So when the Prophet was angry, they would
		
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			see this blessed vein between his two blessed
		
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			eyebrows, salallahu alihi wa alihi wa sahbihi wa
		
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			salam.
		
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			And then he moves to a description of
		
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			his nose.
		
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			His blessed nose was prominent, long with a
		
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			thin tip and a slight curvature in the
		
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			middle.
		
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			It was aquiline.
		
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			You can go online and look what that
		
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			means.
		
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			Just type aquiline nose of a male so
		
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			you can be spared pictures.
		
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			His blessed nose was prominent, long with a
		
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			thin tip and a slight curvature in the
		
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			middle.
		
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			It was aquiline.
		
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			A light rose from it.
		
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			One who did not look closely at him
		
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			would think that it was raised high and
		
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			straight, with the tip of the nose slightly
		
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			prominent.
		
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			And because of the light emanating from the
		
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			Prophet's blessed nose, those who did not look
		
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			closely would initially think that it was straight,
		
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			but up close, they would see that it
		
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			was slightly curved in the most beautiful way.
		
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			And then he says his blessed beard was
		
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			full and dense.
		
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			And we know that this is a sunnah
		
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			of our Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alihi wa sallam,
		
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			to grow the beard, and that if we
		
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			are unable to grow the beard like some
		
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			of us, inshallah ta'ala we least do
		
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			so with the right intention.
		
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			And one of the blessed moments of my
		
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			life, when you learn from the real great
		
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			scholars of this ummah, I remember alhamdulillah I
		
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			was able to study the Shammah with the
		
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			Mara Abdu'l-Hajj and he was someone
		
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			who embodied it.
		
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			He was so merciful, so gentle, so caring
		
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			for his students.
		
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			And I remember on one occasion, I was
		
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			very young when I first went there, I
		
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			was only 20 years old.
		
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			And sometime after that, when I was studying
		
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			with Mara Abdu'l-Hajj, I came to
		
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			read my lawh with him, and on this
		
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			occasion there wasn't anyone else around.
		
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			And so he looked both ways, he looked
		
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			to the right, and he looked to the
		
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			left, and he got really close to me,
		
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			and he kind of leaned forward, and just
		
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			had this beautiful, gentle, fatherly, lovingly look on
		
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			his face.
		
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			And he says to me, shaving your beard
		
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			is haram.
		
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			And I said to him, I said, Seyidi,
		
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			it doesn't grow.
		
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			And he said, khalas, lamas, then don't worry
		
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			about it.
		
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			But it's like, if you would have asked
		
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			me to fly to the moon, even though
		
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			I can't fly or run to the furthest
		
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			extent of the world, what an amazing, like
		
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			that's how you give people advice.
		
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			And it was just his concern, his care,
		
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			he didn't want anyone else to know.
		
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			He could have just said it, and no
		
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			one would have heard, no one was around.
		
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			But he even moved physically closer, and it
		
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			was like such a merciful way that he
		
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			was looking at me.
		
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			And then, it's like, you just accept advice
		
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			like that.
		
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			And then when I said, you know, that
		
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			it doesn't grow, he said, khalas, lamas, lamas.
		
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			So our Prophet had the most beautiful of
		
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			all beards, sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wasallam.
		
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			His blessed beard was full and dense, and
		
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			his cheeks were smooth, and that they were
		
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			neither high upon his blessed face, nor protruding.
		
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			A thin line of hair, his mouth was
		
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			wide, and between his blessed front teeth was
		
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			a slight space.
		
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			And so this is a literal description of
		
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			his blessed wide mouth, that of course was
		
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			proportionate to the remaining part of his blessed
		
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			face, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, but it also is
		
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			an indication of his eloquence.
		
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			And between his blessed front teeth was a
		
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			slight space, so that he'd have a slight
		
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			little space between his two front teeth, and
		
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			when he would speak, that a light would
		
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			be seen emanating from them.
		
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			Everything about our Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, was
		
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			nurani, was luminous.
		
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			A thin line of hair ran from his
		
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			blessed chest to his navel, so we've taken
		
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			that before, we know that, that from here,
		
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			from his chest to his navel, there was
		
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			a thin line of hair.
		
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			His blessed neck was like that of an
		
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			ivory statue, as resplendent as silver.
		
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			And here, that they even mention in the
		
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			commentaries, that there are different types of metals
		
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			and things that you could have used to,
		
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			that are sparkling or shiny more, but they
		
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			say that the one who is narrating this
		
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			is doing the very best that they can,
		
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			given what it is that they knew, and
		
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			when it's about ivory, ivory in its smoothness,
		
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			and in terms of that when it's polished,
		
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			how shiny it is, not in terms of
		
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			its color.
		
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			This is why that what came after that
		
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			was that referring to it being like silver,
		
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			we've already spoken about his color, sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam, so we don't liken his color to
		
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			ivory, he was rather fair-skinned and with
		
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			luminous skin that had a tint of redness
		
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			to it.
		
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			So, as resplendent as silver, and I'm just
		
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			going to read this note, number 53, Imam
		
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			Bajoi notes that there are minerals in gems
		
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			which are more radiant than ivory, such as
		
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			crystal.
		
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			So why did Hind describe the Prophet's blessed
		
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			neck as being like ivory?
		
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			He suggests that Hind used the word ivory
		
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			because it was familiar imagery to the people
		
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			of that time, as opposed to other precious
		
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			metals, Hind also intended to go to the
		
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			greatest things possible in describing the Prophet's dazzling
		
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			beauty in sublime form, based upon what it
		
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			is that they knew.
		
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			His physique was evenly proportioned, sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
		
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			and here that Imam Bajoi says refers to
		
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			everything that preceded and everything that will come
		
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			after it in terms of its description.
		
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			His whole physique and all of his body
		
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			parts were evenly proportioned.
		
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			He was well-built and firm, and so
		
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			that he was strong and to maintain his
		
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			strength even to his latter days, and there's
		
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			a note here, we just took this recently
		
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			in the Ihya, towards the end of his
		
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			days his blessed body became heavier, so he
		
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			was more full, but his flesh was almost
		
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			as firm as it was in his early
		
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			years, unharmed by age, sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			His blessed chest and stomach were even with
		
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			each other.
		
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			His blessed chest and shoulders were broad, and
		
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			his blessed joints were proportionately large.
		
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			His blessed limbs that were unclothed shone brightly.
		
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			And you could also translate this, his blessed
		
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			limbs that were without hair shone brightly.
		
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			Besides the thin line of hair that ran
		
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			from his blessed upper chest to his navel,
		
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			neither his breast nor his stomach had hair.
		
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			His blessed arms, shoulders, and upper chest, however,
		
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			had hair.
		
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			So the Prophet had hair on his upper
		
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			chest, he had hair that from here going
		
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			down, then he had hair, sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
		
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			on his blessed arms and his shoulders.
		
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			He had long forearms and wide palms, and
		
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			full flesh, sturdy hands and feet.
		
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			His blessed fingers and toes were long and
		
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			well-proportioned.
		
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			Or you could translate this, or he said
		
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			his blessed fingers and toes were not crooked
		
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			or bulging, based upon the different way that
		
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			the word that the narrator here used.
		
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			The sa'il al-atrafa, sha'il al
		
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			-atraf, it would be translated in those two
		
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			different ways.
		
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			And he had a slight arch in the
		
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			soles of his blessed feet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			So that his feet weren't completely flat, nor
		
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			did they have high arches.
		
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			He had a slight arch to his feet,
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			His blessed feet were smooth, such that water
		
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			could run right off them if poured.
		
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			So now we've made our way down to
		
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			the description of his blessed feet, which are
		
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			the greatest feet in existence, sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			And so the Prophet had nice, smooth, beautiful
		
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			feet.
		
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			And oftentimes people's feet, from walking, it's very
		
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			common to have that broken toenails and that
		
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			cracks in the feet and all these different
		
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			types of things.
		
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			But our Prophet's feet, despite walking on them,
		
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			were extremely smooth and very beautiful.
		
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			And to the extent that they were so
		
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			smooth that water could run off them if
		
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			poured.
		
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			This is also the description in general of
		
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			his skin.
		
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			His skin was very silky.
		
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			So you know how some of us, if
		
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			we take showers, and here you see these
		
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			signs even around here, if there's hard water,
		
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			they want you to buy a water softener
		
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			to make your water softer.
		
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			That hard water, especially if you put soap
		
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			on and wash it off, it doesn't flow
		
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			over your body very easily.
		
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			Whereas the Prophet's skin, it was like silky
		
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			smooth water, flowed over it very easily.
		
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			And then we have a description of his
		
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			blessed walk.
		
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			When he walked, he would lift his blessed
		
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			feet with a vigor.
		
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			And he would lean forward slightly and would
		
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			tread lightly.
		
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			So the first part of this is, he,
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam, itha zala zala qala'an.
		
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			Meaning that there was a determination when our
		
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			Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, walked, he would walk
		
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			with vigor.
		
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			And he would direct himself to where it
		
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			is that he was going.
		
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			Now, when we say walking with vigor, in
		
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			order to balance that out, we have these
		
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			other descriptions.
		
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			And here, this was how he would put
		
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			his blessed foot on the ground, sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam, in a very determined fashion as he's
		
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			walking forward.
		
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			And he's slightly leaning forward, not moving side
		
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			to side.
		
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			So when he walked, he would lift his
		
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			blessed feet with vigor, would lean forward slightly,
		
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			and would tread lightly.
		
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			So the Arabic there is, wa yamshi honan.
		
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			So he didn't look like he was walking
		
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			fast.
		
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			But because it was as if the earth
		
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			itself was folding up underneath him when he
		
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			was walking.
		
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			And so just think about if someone is
		
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			walking and the earth itself is kind of
		
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			folding up underneath you, that you're going to
		
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			be taking a step.
		
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			And he naturally, as we said here, that
		
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			he had a naturally long stride.
		
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			So he wasn't trying to overexert himself.
		
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			He had a naturally long stride.
		
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			He's putting his feet down with vigor, but
		
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			he is walking in the most beautiful and
		
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			graceful way of all.
		
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			And the earth is being folded up underneath
		
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			him.
		
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			And that you see him in this perfect
		
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			harmony with everything that was around him, sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam.
		
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			And he was also describing him when walking,
		
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			it was as if he was descending from
		
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			a height.
		
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			And so this word that was used, wa
		
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			yamshi honan.
		
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			We know that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
		
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			-A'la mentions in the Quran, wa ibadah
		
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			rahman li yamshoona ala al-ardi honan.
		
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			Allah speaks of the servants of the All
		
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			-Merciful Who that tread lightly on the earth
		
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			and that no one walked on the earth
		
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			like the best of creation, sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			Then look at these beautiful descriptions.
		
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			When he would turn to look at someone
		
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			or something, he would turn with his whole
		
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			body.
		
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			So he was determined, he was walking straight.
		
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			And we know that he would lower his
		
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			gaze, he would look at the ground more
		
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			than he would look at the sky.
		
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			But despite that, if someone called him or
		
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			someone needed him, he would turn completely to
		
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			them.
		
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			To give them his full blessed attention, sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam.
		
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			He would lower his gaze, he would look
		
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			at the ground more than he would look
		
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			at the sky.
		
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			And there are many different meanings to this.
		
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			And as Imam Bajroudi points out here, is
		
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			that this is better for us to maintain
		
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			a heart that is gathered upon reflection.
		
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			And to protect the heart from anything that
		
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			will distract it.
		
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			And he says here as well, this is
		
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			also because he was sent to give tarbiyah,
		
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			nurture the people on earth, not those in
		
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			heaven.
		
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			And then we learn about his blessed glance.
		
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			Most of his looking was from the corner
		
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			of his blessed eye.
		
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			Meaning the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam would occasionally
		
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			look at people and things, and would not
		
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			stare at them directly.
		
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			This also means that most of his looking
		
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			was thoughtful, reflective, and full of contemplation.
		
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			It is also reported that the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam would see things at a vast
		
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			distance, as he would see them that were
		
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			close.
		
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			He would see behind him in the same
		
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			way that he would see in front of
		
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			him.
		
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			And he would see in the night in
		
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			the same way that he would see in
		
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			the day, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			Imagine that if he just looked at you,
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, out of the corner of
		
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			his eye, let alone if he gave you
		
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			his full attention, and that in and of
		
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			itself, and that as I heard one of
		
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			them say, that yes be, he would captivate
		
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			the heart.
		
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			If anyone that was ever glanced at by
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, received that blessed
		
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			divine gaze, that even from the corner of
		
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			his eye, let alone that directly placing his
		
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			blessed eyes in their direction, it would completely
		
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			captivate their hearts.
		
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			May Allah Ta'ala bless us to see
		
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			the blessed eyes of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam in a way that he is pleased
		
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			with us, inshallah ta'ala, and with complete
		
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			following of him.
		
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			He would have his companions walk in front
		
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			of him.
		
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			It would initiate greetings of peace with whomever
		
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			he met.
		
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			So, he wasn't someone who wanted to be
		
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			at the front, and wanted to have people
		
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			behind him as a way of boasting.
		
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			On the contrary, is that our Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam, that he would walk behind them,
		
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			and that he would also say, walk in
		
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			front of me, and leave my back for
		
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			the angels.
		
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			And that on the occasions when some of
		
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			the companions would walk behind him, during journeys
		
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			around Medina, he would have them walk on
		
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			his right and left side.
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi wasallam.
		
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			Allah, mashallah ta'ala.
		
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			There's a beautiful note there that I encourage
		
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			everyone to read, note number 67, which has
		
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			a number of other beautiful benefits in relation
		
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			to this.
		
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			And it says also that from his humility,
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi wasallam, just
		
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			as it was also so he could look
		
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			after them.
		
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			If you're behind your companions, that you can
		
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			look after them and tend to their needs.
		
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			And he, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, whether someone was
		
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			young, whether someone was old, he would begin
		
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			people with salams, and not expect people to
		
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			be the first ones to greet him, even
		
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			though he's the best of creation, teaching us
		
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			this is how it is that we should
		
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			be, and to show this humility, and to
		
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			resemble him, and to follow him.
		
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			May Allah ta'ala bring our hearts to
		
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			life with these blessed meanings, with these blessed
		
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			descriptions, and to bless us, may we know
		
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			them, attach our hearts to them, and may
		
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			they be a means to open up the
		
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			doors for every single one of us to
		
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			attain the highest degrees of closeness to him,
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi wasallam, and
		
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			then prepare ourselves to attain high degrees of
		
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			closeness to Allah.
		
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			May Allah ta'ala give us tawfiq in
		
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			all of our affairs.
		
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			Wa sallallahu ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi
		
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			wasallam wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin