The Tears of the Prophet ﷺ - Portal Gems #16

Est. Read time: 4 min
Edition Number: 16
Adapted from: The Smile and Tears of our Beloved Prophet ﷺ
Instructor: Mufti Abdul Wahab Waheed

Assalamu Alaykum,

Today we’re going through a gem from Mufti Abdul Wahab Waheed’s Shama’il class, The Smile and Tears of our Beloved Prophet ﷺ about who the Prophet ﷺ would cry for.

Hope you enjoy!

We begin in the Name of Allah ﷻ, the Most Merciful and Compassionate,
We ask that He ﷻ sends Peace and Blessings upon our noble and beloved
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Imagine a mother or father trying to sleep at night knowing that there was a chance that their children would go through oppression or persecution the next day.

I remember when I had my ACL surgery - ACL surgery is pretty rough, it's like four or five hours, but it's not life or death.

I remember it was like 6:00 AM in the morning and my mother couldn’t sleep the entire night. She's standing up in tahajjud like I’m about to go into a battlefield. Me on the other hand, I'm knocked out - I wake up for fajr like 3 minutes before and then go to the surgery room.

Nonetheless, parents can't go to sleep over a simple surgery or illness.

Imam Tabari says that it's proven that the Prophets love their ummahs more than parents love their children.

If a mother can't sleep knowing that a child has to go through a procedure that is safe and secure, how can the Prophet ﷺ be at ease when he is thinking about the people of his ummah having to go through the struggle of Jahannum?

We can count on our fingers the amount of times the Prophet ﷺ cried for personal reasons: the death of Ruqayya (RA), the death of Zaynab (RA), the death of Ibrahim (RA). But to count the amount of times the Prophet ﷺ cried for us - it can't happen, it’s impossible.

To cry for your family is so easy, but to cry for people you've never met - that’s not even logical. And yet, to count the moments in the life of Rasululah ﷺ where he cried for his ummatis who he never met is impossible. Every flip of the page in Shama'il in this chapter is the Prophet ﷺ crying for his Ummah.

The Prophet ﷺ’s tears were for the upliftment of us in the akhira.

They say that the dua that is accepted beyond any other dua is a dua of a person behind the other's back - when you make dua for a brother or sister without them being there. That's a dua that is accepted right away, that happens very less with dua.

Imagine a dua for a person that's not even alive, that's the dua that the Prophet ﷺ saw would make for us.

May Allah grant us tawfiq to bring the sunnah of our Beloved Prophet ﷺ into our lives.

أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم، فاستغفروه إنه هو الغفور الرحيم

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