14/07/2025
NUJOUM AL-HOUDA (STARS OF GUIDANCE)
Dealing with the Pre-Eminence of our Prophet
(pbuh) over all those who preached for the Lord
By: Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (RTA)
INTRODUCTION
In the name of Allah, Kind and Most Merciful O Lord! Bestow Your greetings on our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), the opener of what was closed, the seal of what has passed, the helper of truth with truth, and the guide to Your most straight, perfect path.
Let this blessing include his household, and be for them of a magnitude that matches the magnitude of the Prophet (pbuh). For his magnitude is (indeed) a great one. Ameen!!! This epistle has been written by the Shaykh, the Teacher, the Hadith narrator, the Sufi, the reverent Abu Ishaq Al Hajj Ibrahim Niasse, son of Al Hajj Abdullah Niasse Al Maliki Al Ashaari, At-Tijani of Kaolack. May Allah grant him everlasting power and give him long life, in order to confute the gossip of those who disown the Prophet's (pbuh) pre-eminence.
May the greetings of Allah be on him, and upon all the Prophets, and all the Messengers. He entitled it: "The Stars of the Good Road", dealing with the pre-eminence of our Prophet (pbuh) over all those who preached for the Lord.
CHAPTER I
Praise be to Allah who gave more merit to some Prophets (peace and blessings to all of them) than to others, who set off the glamour of some, compared with other Messengers, and who made of our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the most deserving of all, settling him at the summit of situations.
According to the texts and to unanimous opinion, he is the most deserving, the most perfect among beings, the chief of all Adam's (pbuh) children, and the mercy of mankind, even of those who received the Prophecies and the Divine messages.
Holy greetings to his family, his companions, and his nation which is the best nation humanity has known, according to the religious texts and to verses of the Qur`an. After this foreword, I intend to say that, since quite a number of years, I listened to talks ascribed to Muslims, which I have ranked as senseless lucubration's, and had decided not to dip my pen for refuting them.
Unfortunately they went a great deal and spread. Seeing that most of our contemporaries are uneducated, knowing of the Book but hopes, and what scrapes their chiefs have embellished, although it is nothing more than errors and untrue statements pretending that not a single proof does exist so as to confirm Muhammad (pbuh) as the most deserving of all the Prophets, Holders of truth, and Miracles, I feared that the ignorant masses would give ear to such insinuations, so I wrote this brief answer within reach of understanding of the contemporaries the carelessness of whom is well-known, and I have stated that in the Holy Qur`an the primacy among Prophets is mentioned as well as Muhammad's (pbuh) privileged place in comparison with the Prophets and the Messengers.
This is clear as daylight and needs no proof. As the saying goes:
How to believe in something, if the day requires proof? As long as we deal with narrow-minded folks, our answer will keep within bounds of their brains, therefore bearing witness and reporting verses from the Qur`an.
We declare that the Qur`an has mentioned that Muhammad (pbuh) was the Mercy of mankind. It is proved that, on the Day of the Last Judgment, he will intercede on their behalf, and that he is the chief of the sons of Adam (pbuh). Adam and those who are after him will fall in under his banner on the Day of Resurrection.
He is the latest and the leader of Prophets. His religion is the best, his nation perfect, and his Book the most valuable of all the Books revealed by Heaven. He is the first to arise from earth. He is the first to reach Heaven. He has got the means.
Allah has had regard for him more than for anyone else. He has enhanced his glamour; He has opened everything for him, and forgiven him everything. He has preserved his family from blemish. He set him in a night trip to the Heavens, swore by his name, by his time, by his country, and granted him profusion. His verses are eternal. His religion has abolished the other religions. He has been the Messenger of the whole humanity.
Here are the items on what we have stated: according to the exegetes (interpreters), there is a difference between the positions of the Friend, our Prophet, may the greetings of God be to him, and the others' position.
You have some verses here which partly explain this statement. Let us first begin by the difference of position between him and the Khalil (Friend of Allah, pbuh):
Al Khalil (Abraham, pbuh) begs pardon by saying: "It is from Him that I beseech the forgiveness of my sin on the day of accounts" whereas in that respect the position of the Habib (the Confidant of Allah, pbuh) is the following: "Yes, We made you winner of a glamorous victory so that Allah forgives you the early beginnings of your sin and whatever of it that has lingered".
The Friend (pbuh) is in the situation of an applicant. He says: "Do not wail out on the Day of the Resurrection": whereas He gave satisfaction to the Confident (pbuh) without a slightest request: "The Day when Allah will not lower the Prophet and his Companions".
The Friend (pbuh) said: "Grant me a truthful tongue among the lowest", meanwhile to the Confidant (pbuh) He said: "We have heightened your glamour".
Speaking of the Friend, he (Abraham, pbuh) says: "Spare me and my children from the worshipping of idols". While for the Confidant (pbuh): " Allah wills to spare you the blemish, a people of the Prophet's household".
The Friend (pbuh) says: "God satisfies me". Whereas for the Confidant (pbuh): "O Prophet, Allah satisfies you". The Friend (pbuh) says: "I walk towards my Allah who will lead me", when for the Confidant (pbuh): "Glory be to Him who set His servant to journey by night", and so on.
As for the Interlocutor (one who takes part in conversation, Moses, pbuh), He has come on earth for the meeting, while Muhammad the Confidant (pbuh) is meant by: "Glory be to Him who set his Servant in a night journey".
The Interlocutor's meditation happened on the Sinai, whereas the Confidant's meditation took place on the Throne and on top of Heights. Allah spoke to Moses (pbuh) by Divine inspiration, while He talked to Muhammad (pbuh), verbally and obviously. God replied to the Interlocutor (pbuh): "You shall not see me".
Speaking of Muhammad (pbuh) He says: "The heart was not mistaken about what it observed". Moses (pbuh) fell on ground, thunderstruck, while the Confidant (pbuh): "The eye did not turn aside and never rebelled".
He related thus His words to Moses (pbuh): "What is it that you hold in your hand O Moses?" (Verse from the Qu`ran), while He kept secret His conversation with the Confidant (pbuh), reporting it vaguely by saying: "He revealed to his servant what he revealed, etc.".
According to Fakr Ar-Razy, in his comment on the verse: "Those Prophets that we have distinguished from one another", the nation is unanimous to consider that some of them are more deserving than the others and that Muhammad (pbuh), is the most deserving of all. To back up this argument, there are many reasons:
𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔.