Why is Durood Sharif (Benediction upon Prophet Mohammad) Recited? An Amazing Secret!
God had a special reason behind descending the Durood Sharif.
Now tell me something
there is a Prophetic Tradition in which Prophet Mohammad said, ‘Cursed be the liars’.
One day, Prophet Mohammad was delighted, he was happy and smiling and asked the Companions,
‘Will you not ask me why I am overjoyed today?’
The Companions asked, ‘O Messenger of God, what is the reason for your exuberance?’
Prophet Mohammad replied, ‘Gabriel came to me and said,
‘O’ Messenger of God, the one who sends benedictions upon you once will be rewarded tenfold by God.’
Do you think the Prophet was happy that people would now praise him?
In fact, Prophet Mohammad did not like being praised.
So what does the divine revelation about the benedictions have to do with the Prophet’s happiness?
Does it mean that the Prophet is happy about being praised?
No, that’s not what it was.
Actually, what Gabriel said to the Prophet was that the Companions whose hearts are enlightened with God’s name,
when their inner faculties are overheated,
then they should recite Durood Sharif and with the merciful glance of God, they will obtain spiritual equilibrium.
This is why Prophet Mohammad was happy.
Prophet Mohammad knew that the Personal Name of God is very powerful and that Moses asked for it but was denied.
Since Prophet Mohammad was granted the Personal Name of God and his nation through him,
the Prophet feared that the intensity of God’s Personal Name may force a spiritual state on his followers
that compels them to shun the world and make jungles their abode.
This had happened in the past with the Companions of the Bench.
What happened to the Companions of the Bench?
They left their homes and families [to sit at the bench outside the Prophet’s mosque].
Therefore, this was the reason why Prophet Mohammad was elated as the divine revelation had now become part of the religion.
Sending benedictions upon Prophet Mohammad became part of the religion.
The Durood Sharif would control the faith of the devout believers.
For example, when we cook something, if it becomes too hot we add a splash of water to cool it down.
The heat is levelled.
Similarly, the law of nature states that we cannot cook something without heat, whether it is food or your inner spiritual faculty.
If your food is overheating add a splash of water to regulate the heat.
And if your inner spiritual faculty is overheating then say the name of Prophet Mohammad, it will cool you down.
Now there is one more thing here.
Don’t just say ‘Ya Mohammad’ because it doesn’t help you cool down.
The name of Prophet Mohammad itself is powerful because it too is a Personal Name.
So Prophet Mohammad’s name itself is powerful
Now, only His Divine Eminence told us about this.
And the Durood Sharif that His Divine Eminence gave to us does not have too much of a cooling effect
so that we don’t get used to the cooling effect.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
‘Ya Mohammad’ has the Personal Name of Prophet Mohammad.
The Personal Name of Prophet Mohammad in Ya Mohammad does not have as much of a cooling effect as people believe.
Because there is a veil of only one letter in Mohammad, the rest is God.
That’s why you can call him Mustafa,
Mujtaba,
Taha,
Ya Muzammil,
or Ya Mudassir.
All these names render a cooling effect.
However, ‘Ya Mohammad’ does not have as much of a cooling effect as it is believed.
Because it is the Personal Name of Prophet Mohammad.
Shaikh Ahmed Rafayi told his disciples about this Durood
and then it was His Divine Eminence who told us.
No one else revealed this Durood.
The Durood ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
His Divine Eminence writes the name ‘Mohammad’ on the chest of His disciples through this Durood.
When we recite ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ in the Zikr,
we’re not just simply reciting the Darood,
we are also visualising and inscribing the name of Prophet Mohammad across our entire chest.
Now see here, these are the five subtleties of the breast.
During the recitation of the Darood
This is the Darood.
During the Darood, we have to visualise the name ‘Mohammad
starting with ‘Mo’
then ‘Ha’, over the next subtility
then ‘Ma' in the middle
and the ‘D’ goes across the final two subtleties.
This is how we inscribe the name ‘Mohammad’.
This is how the name ‘Mohammad (PBUH)’ is inscribed across the entire chest.
In the early days, when I would practise doing this, I was not successful.
The reason for that is when I would be in the Zikr Circle, I would only enjoy two Zikrs,
‘Ilallah’ and ‘Allah Hu’.
Neither did I enjoy ‘La Ilaha Illallah’ nor any other Zikr.
So I would focus more on ‘Ilallah Hu’,
‘Ilallah Hu’
‘Ilallah Hu’.
I would be in deep spiritual ecstasy during this Zikr.
Then during ‘Allah Hu’.
'Allah Hu’
After these two Zikr, the rest of the Zikrs would be like a formality.
I would recite it half-heartedly.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
Like I’m falling asleep. ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
But one day something happened.
When I was doing Zikr, my favourite Zikrs, Ilallah Hu
Actually 'Ilallah Hu' was more of a favourite than 'Allah Hu'.
I have no idea why.
I would go into a state of Jalal during [Ilallah Hu].
In fact, during the Zikr of Ilallah Hu, I noticed that even if I punched a wall during Zikr,
the wall would break but nothing happened to my hand.
During the Zikr of Ilallah Hu, I used to hit the wall like this and this.
So that day, I began the Zikr of Ilallah Hu and I was visualising the name of God (Allah) and I couldn’t do it!
It was not happening for me.
Suddenly, I saw two angels came and these angels had made a bouquet of roses and jasmine flowers, a round bouquet.
So they had made a bouquet of jasmine flowers.
You know jasmine flower?
So it was a bouquet of jasmine flowers and the name ‘Mohammad’ was written in the middle with roses.
Yes!
The angels brought this and thrust it into my chest.
And I heard a voice saying,
‘Prophet Mohammad has now written his name in your chest. Now you must concentrate on this Zikr too’.
Honest to God.
His Divine Eminence is my witness.
That beautiful bouquet made of jasmine flowers and roses,
incredibly beautiful.
I can still see it in my eyes.
The name ‘Mohammad’ made of roses.
And I was told that Prophet Mohammad has sent this.
And it was stamped into my chest.
Thereafter, I would enjoy ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ the most.
One day, I thought now that ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ has become my favourite,
my inner spiritual system must have cooled down as if all my subtleties have been placed inside a refrigerator.
It must have cooled down.
But it wasn’t.
Another thing happened along with this.
My birthday is on 16th of June.
So on 16th of June, 1995,
I was in the Manchester office
and during the Zikr of ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’
what His Divine Eminence did was all the spiritual gatherings of Prophet Mohammad
There are nine different spiritual gatherings.
The doors to all those spiritual gatherings were opened.
And ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ was echoing.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
I was reciting at the top of my lungs.
During this Zikr, I tore my clothes.
I tore my clothes and there was an inexplicable spiritual ecstasy.
We were banging against the walls,
there were cuts on our hands;
broken glass, blood, the lot.
We were in a strange spiritual state.
The Zikr of ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ was ongoing and suddenly I saw 12 pigeons, physically.
These 12 pigeons would fly in one by one and transform into human beings.
And then, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Wow.
Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) arrived.
And what can I say!
The Zikr of ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’
was ongoing; and what happened?
I lifted Prophet Mohammad onto my shoulders and we were reciting,
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
And it was just the most incredible moment of my life.
And it went on for a long time.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
We kept reciting it.
Suddenly, I noticed that even Prophet Mohammad is reciting along with us.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
When I noticed that Prophet Mohammad is also reciting with us, I saw there were two Prophet Mohammads there.
There were two Prophet Mohammads there.
So I thought, ‘O Prophet, you are sending benedictions to yourself?’
Prophet Mohammad smiled and said,
‘I am not the one reciting. It is His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi’.
So His Divine Eminence was also reciting ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
Prophet Mohammad said, ‘Do you know why HDE Gohar Shahi is reciting it?’
I said, ‘Please enlighten me’.
Prophet Mohammad said, ‘Because I love His Divine Eminence and His Divine Eminence loves me.’
'When Gohar Shahi says my name, He says it due to His love for me.'
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
Later on, I also realised that the joy I would see on the countenance of HDE Gohar Shahi
during the Zikr of ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’,
I would not see it during the Zikr of Allah Hu.
If you want to see a smile on His Divine Eminence’s face,
you will see it during ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’.
‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’
You could recite ‘Sallallahu alaika ya Mohammad’ for the rest of your life and never tire of it.
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi has given it the sweetest touch.
The sweetest touch.