To call oneself the servant of the Prophet

is not Shirk

Verse 20: And marry those among you who have not been married and of your suitable servants and handmaids. (Al-Noor 24:33) Allah has called our slaves as our servants (Ibad). One can say, His servants, Zaids servant, Umars servant; whether Allah says it, or his Prophet, or the companions or the jurists. However, when one says The servant of the Prophet (Abd al-Nabi) becomes Shirk? then it

Verse 21: Those who will serve the Prophet, the Messenger (the communicator of the unseen news), and the unlettered, will find with them written in the Torah and the Injeel; he will bid them to do good and forbid them from doing evil, and will make lawful for them clean things and forbid them from unclean things. He will also take off from them that burden and shackles which were upon them. (Al-Araf 7: 157) May we be sacrificed upon the hands of the life of the universe, the light of our faith, the Beloved Prophet of Allah , whose blessed hands eliminated from our backs the heavy burdens and removed from our necks the restraints and the shackles. Please do justice for the sake of Allah! Isnt this called Dafiul Bala? Verse 22: Prophet Ibraheem Alaihis Salaam supplicated to his Lord saying: O our Lord! Send in them a Messenger from among themselves, who may recite to them Your signs and teach them Your book and wise knowledge and purify them well. (Al-Baqarah 2:129) Our Prophet Ibraheem). says Ana Dawatu Abi Ibraheem1, (I am the prayer of my father,

Verse 23: As we sent in you, Messenger from among you, who recites Our signs to you and purifies you and teaches you the Book and wise knowledge and teaches you that which you did not know. (Al-Baqarah 2:151) Verse 24: Undoubtedly, Allah did a great favour to the Muslims than in them from among themselves, sent a Messenger who recites unto them His signs and purifies them and teaches them the book and the wisdom, (Aal Imran 3:164). The Prophet will keep purifying and will remain teaching till the Day of Judgement

Verse 25: it is He who sent among the unlettered people a Messenger from among themselves, who recites to them His signs and purifies them and bestows them knowledge of the Book and wisdom. Although they had been necessarily in manifest error before that. And purifies and teaches others among them who have not yet joined them. He is the Mighty, the Wise. (Al-Jumah 62:2-4)

Dalail al-Nubuwwah li al-Baihaqi, the chapter Dhikr Moulid al-Mustafa, (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut), vol. 1, p. 81. Al-Dur al-Manthur, under verse 2:129, (Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut), vol. 1, pp. 303-304.

Alhamdulillah these verses of the Holy Quran have illustrated the fact that not only is the Messenger of Allah the giver, the cleanser of sins and purifier for the companions only, but he is the benefactor of all these bounties to all his respective Ummah till the Day of Judgement. It is in Baidawi Sharif: This other group (in the above verse) whom the Messenger of Allah teaches and purifies them are all those who will come after the companions, till the day of judgement.2 It is in Maalim al-Tanzeel Sharif: Ibn Zaid has said that they are the ones who will enter Islam after the time of the Prophet up to the day of judgement. This has also been narrated by Imam Mujahid, the student of Abdullah bin Abbas RadiAllaho Anhuma, cited by Abu Najeeh.3 The Holy Quran has stressed such an importance about these qualities of the Prophet that it has mentioned it four times in four different places; Twice in Surah al-Baqarah, once in Aal Imran and once in al-Jumah. This last verse has mentioned such words, which have illuminated our hearts and have brought tremor to the hearts of the ill-hearted. When Abu Lababa and a group of people stayed away in Tabuk, they tied themselves to the pillars and vowed that they will not release themselves until the Messenger and release them. Allah Almighty thus sent down the verse: will pardon

Verse 26: (O beloved Prophet!) Take out the Sadaqah from their wealth to purify them, cleanse them therewith, and pray well for them. Indeed your prayer is solace to their hearts. (Al-Tauba 9:103) Now we can perceive that the Prophet , the remover of calamities, purifies them from the darkness of their sins and removes the calamity of sins off them. When the prayer of the Prophet is the solace to their hearts then this is indeed classed as Dafial Alam (the remover of worries). Verse 27: No one is the possessor of intercession except those who have taken a covenant with Rahman (the Most Affectionate). (Al-Maryam 19:87)

Anwar al-Tanzeel (Tafseer al-Baidawi), under the verse 62:3, (Dar al-Fikr, Beirut), vol.5, p. 337.

Maalim al-Tanzeel (Tafseer al-Baghawi), under the verse 62:3, (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut), vol.4, p. 311.