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some scholars also make this distinction they say that the karma match of the awliya the miracles of
the righteous are not done to challenge others and it does not necessarily happen by the by
the person requesting it to happen contrary to the miracles of the prophets so the prophets come with
very specific miracles that are meant to serve as a challenge to the people and help uh you know uh
certify or serve as a proof of a means of proof for their claim to prophethood okay
so that's also one distinction that's made and as some of the scholars also mention
the magnitude of karamat is not like the magnitude of the marjisat of the embiya the magnitude of
the miracles of the righteous is not like the magnitude of the miracles of the prophets and so
when you look at isa alaihissalam raising you know the dead right or blowing life
into a lifeless bird or what happened with the brahim salam also with the birds right and then
them coming back to life with ibrahim islam the splitting of the moon and of course the quran
the miracles of the prophets the splitting of the sea right what happened with musa and his staff
and the drowning of the army of the magnitude of those miracles is an entirely different level
than the magnitude of the miracles of the righteous and pious people
that come after so what's our process how do we start to grow in that spectrum of
ilaya and becoming those close friends of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to where you know
we may encounter some of these things even though that's not the sought out goal allah azza says
the pious worshipers of Allah the friends of Allah for him they have no fear upon them
nor will they grieve
those who believe and they have taqwa they are god conscious okay those who have iman and taqwa
they have belief and they have god consciousness as a result
for them are glad tidings in this life, okay so this is where we start to see another
basis for the notion of karamats of these miracles that happened to them
they have the glides hidings in this life and in the hereafter and there is no
changing exchange for the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and indeed that is the great success
so here we find that Allah describes the aulia very specifically in the Quran as
believers that also excel in taqwa excel in god consciousness they are highly attentive
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and hence allah Azza Wa Jal is highly attentive to them right
so they pay specific attention to the commands of allah subhanahu wa to allah and as a result
allah bestows upon them things that are beautiful right and that are that are very powerful
that denote or that confirm some of their righteousness and so you have the combination
of iman and taqwa some of the scholars say iman is tarkou shirk iman belief is to abandon
shirk is to abandon the worship of anyone besides allah taqwa is is the abandonment of sin
okay so iman is the abandonment of shirk taqwa is the abandonment of sin disobedience of allah
so when you combine those two then a person is a person is a believer and a person is someone
who is highly righteous attentive to allah conscious of allah subhana wa highly pious
and that's when a person starts to ascend the ranks of the awliya this is of course confirmed by
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam where he says that allah azza has so
takes one of my friends one of my aliyah as an enemy then i have waged war against that person
and Allah azza goes on to say abd after and my servant does not come close to me with anything
more beloved to me than the obligations starts with the obligations it starts with the same
things that every believer has to do you never reach a point of righteousness where you don't
have to pray anymore or you don't have to do the fasting anymore on the basics anymore you
don't have to go to juma anymore because what am i going to benefit from the quote
you never reach these places okay what is followed remains fellow so you're not going
to come close to Allah subhanahu ta'ala with anything more beloved to him than observing
the obligations and avoiding the things that he has made categorically prohibited and then
and then my servant continues to draw close to me with the voluntary deeds
so first it's the obligations it is the wajibat and the you know the obligations as well as the
things mr habbat so you have the wajibat the obligatory things and i'm sorry the wajibat and
leaving off the things that allah has made haram so first observing the obligations and abandoning
the prohibitions and then you have a person observing the things that are mustahab
and leaving off the things that are cruel so then that person goes into the voluntary
where they start to replace those acts of disobedience
with extra acts of obedience and they start to abandon even things in the grey area okay that
might lead to disobedience or that resemble acts of disobedience or they're not pleasing to allah
subhanahu there's dislike in them okay so they start off with as the scholar is mentioned and
leaving off the the uh the obligations and leaving off the things that allah has made prohibited and
then they go to observing the muslim and leaving off the things that are doing the
things that are recommended and leaving off the things that are merely disliked allah azza says
until i love that person a special love that allah then has for that person because you're not going
to come close to allah with any of these things except that he's going to come closer to you
then i become the hearing with which that person hears.
and the sight with which that person sees
that point when that person gets to that point when they ask me something i will
give them what they ask and if they seek refuge with me then i will surely grant that person
refuge and so when allah loves a person how does this now relate to the very specific
karamah of the presence of angels when allah loves a person what happens he announces it too
and we all know this hadith right and jibril is loves that person as well and announces it to the
angels and the heavens and they love that person as well right and then kabul acceptance is made
for that person on the earth as well so when allah loves a person then all the angels will love that
person right and then when that person loves allah what happens that person is going to do the things
that the angels love to be around and witness all right so allah and the angels love that person
and then that person loves the deeds that the angels love because
it brings about the love of allah subhanahu tana and so that person naturally becomes
surrounded by the angels of allah surrounded by the malaika and certain things happen so the
miracles that happen regarding the angels with these righteous people are just a form of the
karamat a form of the miracles that are related to that person's righteousness before all else
that person's before all else may allah make us amongst them i mean the scholars then categorize
why do miracles happen for a person number one either it is a hajja in the deen a proof in the
religion as that person is calling to allah so it's something with their dawah to the people
that allah subhanahu ta gives to that person that confirms their darwah to allah subhanahu ta'ala
number two the scholars say is to give that person victory over their
enemies and so this is the majority of the miracles the karma that we see happening
with the companions as they were fighting off their persecutors as they were fighting you know
against the quraysh and what was happening to them the battle of badr which we'll talk about in great
detail right this is where you find the majority of those karma the majority of those miracles and
they're not always related to the angels right so if you've been following the first series
we talked about rukasha radhiallahu ta'ala and one of the miracles that took place with him
number three they say kashfashida to remove harm from that person to remove harm from that person
so a miraculous form of healing or something that happens to the person in that regard
number four as a means of extraordinarily honoring them such as the case of maryam ali and of course
there's debate over whether maryam is a prophet or one of the awliya merely one of the greatest
of the auliya but when allah honored her with with food out of season we'll see that happening to one
of the companions as well that we'll talk about in this series insha'allah so that is the fourth
thing when allah wants to honor that person number five to make an example out of them
which is the case of as-habilikaf the sleepers of the cave okay so these are the five things that
the scholars mention a huja in the deen number one which is indebt proof in the religion number
two victory to give them victory number three to remove something harmful from them number four
to honor them number five to make an example out of them of course that's not exclusive to some of
the other categories above when we talk about the fifth category in particular and so no generation
collectively had more awliya than the sahaba of the prophet salallahu
there is no generation that had more people as a generation than the companions of the prophet
saws that fit into this category of the awliya of allah and so that's why you're going to see all
sorts of miracles that happen with the companions of the prophet saw islam as a consequence of their
righteousness and most of it is in the capacity directly tied to serving the prophet salallahu
so there's there's a secondary reason as well so no generation had more awliya than them
and of course they are the most righteous generation period right the prophet saws mentions
that if you were to spend you know uh and gold you would never reach their righteousness allah has
declared that he is pleased with the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and so
you're not going to find a generation with more olya than them hence you're not going to find a
generation from the um of muhammad sallallahu with more quran with more miracles than them
and what also is important in this regard especially for the purpose of
the series that we're doing is that the prophet saw islam was amongst them to confirm and
contextualize their miracles and encounters of course this is for the majority of them not all
of them because some of the qurans happened the miracles happened to them after the death of the
prophet saws but most of them they went to the prophet salisa and they asked the prophet saws
what happened and he explained to them what had actually happened to them sometimes it
was they're witnessing a miracle with the prophet saws himself and that is of course
a gift that allah bestows on a few right that they're able to witness the prophet saw islam
in an encounter with jibril islam right or something that allah sends to comfort the
prophet salallahu or to be on the receiving end of a miracle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
and so you know seeing for example when the prophet saw salaam was sitting and
jibreel comes to him and says to me do you want us to show you a sign and he says yes and he looks to
a tree and jibril islam tells the prophet sam to call the tree to him the tree coming to him
and telling the tree to go back right and this being a form of comforting the prophet's
lies in them or when they saw the tree that the prophet saws used to lean against and
give khutbah under and it cried when the prophet saws and left that tree right so there's the
miracles that were being witnessed by them then there is being on the receiving end and there are
categories here where you have those that for example ate from the hands of the prophet saws
when the prophet saw some put his hands in food and the food became more plentiful
right so what could have only fed one person feeds a hundred people and of course you have
to be of a certain level to be blessed with that but then you have the specific miracles
like when the prophet saw islam uses his saliva and it cures the eyes of adebu abi talab
another one that that's not as common is the story of sallam
who had the mark of of a blow a big wound on his shin and he was asked what is that
that wound on your shin and he said it was a wound that i suffered on the day of Khaybar
and the people said that Selamat was wounded so the prophet sawsome came to me
and he blew on it three times and he said i never noticed it until now right it left nothing on me
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