Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Rasul Allah (saw) was the seal of the prophets, the final revelation from the one God.
During his lifetime he was a religious, political, and military leader originally from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is a messenger and prophet of God and, the last prophet sent by God for mankind. He is the restorer of an unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets.
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Imam-e-Rabbani Hazrat Mujaddid Alif Sa’ani Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624) was an Indian Islamic Scholor from Punjab, a Hanafi jurist, and a prominent member of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. He is described as Mujaddid Alf Thani, meaning the “reviver of the second millennium”, for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the heterodoxies prevalent in the time of Moghal Emperor Akbar He is said to have had considerable and longlasting influence in India and to have given Indian Islam the stamp it bears today.
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Al-Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib is an important figure in Islam, the son of Fatimah the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and of the fourth Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib. Hasan is a member of the Ahl al-Bayt and Ahl al-Kisa. He briefly succeeded his father Ali ibn Abi Talib as the righteous Caliph following the latter’s death, before retiring to Madinah and entering into an agreement with the first Umayyad ruler, Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, who assumed the Caliphate. Both Sunni and Shia Muslims regard Hasan as a martyr.
Continue readingHazrat Khawaja Yahya Madni (ra)
Do grasp the helpless with your grace
Do grant us a sip from the goblet of love
Be good to us, for the sake of the best of creation
Salutations to you, oh Qutab of Madinah, salutations
Have mercy Shaykh Yahya, master of kindness.
Shaykh Abu Yusuf Yahya ibn Mahmud (ra) was a great master of the Chishti Nizami order whose renown spread beyond the borders of the Indian Subcontinent, to the Arab World and even the Hijaz. Such was his greatness that he was afforded the title of Muhyin ad Din the reviver of religion by his contemporaries.
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Hazrat Khwaja Abdul Wahid ibn Zayd (ra)
Hazrat Imam al-Hassan Basri (ra) had numerous followers drawn from diverse backgrounds; the literature of the time describes some of them as being scholars and others who were holy warriors. They were united by their sanctity and asceticism, as well as by their harmonization of the inner precepts and outer practice of Islam. They despised social injustice, luxury and hypocrisy – the contradiction between inner and outer jihad, thoughts and deeds. One of these holy warriors, Abd al-Wahid bin Zayd (ra) became Hazrat Hassan al-Basri’s khalifa.
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