MEANS TO OBTAIN THE VISION OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH SallAllahu alaihi wasallam.

There are forty four means listed in this chapter (from The Key to Arriving at t he Door of the Messenger SallAllahu alaihi wasallam Vol.2*) They have been extra cted from the book Al-qubul fi wusul ila ruyati Sayyidina Rasul of Shaykh Hassan M uhammad Shaddad ibn Umar, may Allah Taala reward him for his services to the Ummah . InshaAllah I post 17 at the moment. My typing Arabic is slow and made more tediou s by adding the tashkeel, if Allah the Almighty wills more to be posted in the f uture Alhumdulillah, Alhumdulillah in all situations, Alhumdulillah, Alhumdulill ah! (apologies for the small Arabic font.blogsome refuses to allow me to post oth erwise, so I suggest that you copy/paste into word and then enlarge it, InshaAlla h) The First Means: The Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam said: One who wishes to see me in their dream should recite: And we have not sent a messenger except that he should be obeyed by the permissi on of Allah. And if they had come to you when they had wronged themselves and so ught the forgiveness of Allah and if the Messenger of Allah sought forgiveness f or them, they would have found Allah, Relenting and Merciful. (4:64) The Second Means: He SallAllahu alaihi wasallam said: One who recites the following salutation will see me in a dream: O Allah send blessings upon our master Muhammad from among the spirits, upon his bodies and upon his resting place from among the resting places. One who sees me a their dream will see me on the Day of Judgement, and the one w ho will see me on the Day of Judgement, I will intercede for them, and the one w ho receives my intercession will drink from my Hawd and their body will be prote cted from the Hellfire. Shaykh Abdusi Rahmatullah alaihi said that after the above salutation one should recite Sura Ikhlas, Sura Falaq and Sura Nas three times each and fall asleep wi thout speaking in between. The Third Means: The Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam said: One who sends blessings upon me on Friday, a thousand times with the following salutation: May the blessings of Allah be upon our master Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet. will see either their Lord, their Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wasallam, or their p lace in Paradise. If this does not occur, then they should repeat it for two, th ree or five Fridays consecutively. The Fourth Means: Abu al Mawahib ash-Shadhili Rahmatullah alaihi said: I saw the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in a dream and he said to me: When going to sleep recite , Aauthu billahi minash shaitanir rajim.five times, and Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. five times, then say: O Allah show me the face of (our master) Muhammad SallAllahu alaihi wasallam wit hout delay. Surely I will come to you without fail, and one who wishes to see me should say: Muhammad SallAllahu alaihi wasallam twenty two times when going to sleep. The Fifth Means: It has been related on the authority of Sayyidina Ibn Abbas Rad hiAllahu anhu who said that Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam said: Inde ed a servant who performs two Rakah of prayer, after the Fatiha recites Sura Ikhl as 25 times, the (after he has finished) recites 1000 times: May the blessings of Allah be upon (our master) Muhammad the unlettered Prophet.

The following Friday will not arrive until they see me in the dream. One who see s me, Allah forgives their sins. The sixth Means: The following salutation was given to Sayyidina Ali RadhiAllahu anhu from the Me ssenger of Allah SallAllahu laihi wasllam: In the name of Allah, who is ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim. O Light of Light. Send bles sings upon our master Muhammad, the enlightened one and upon his family. The seventh Means: Imam al-Fayruzabadi has related in his book Salat wa al-bishr fi al-slat ala kha ir il-bashar, on the authority of Sayyidina Khide Alaihis Salam and Ilyas Alaihi s Salam, who said that a man from Syria came to the Messenger of Allah Sallahu a laihi wasallam and said: :O Messenger of Allah, my father is old and he would lo ve to see you. The Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam said: Bring him to m e. He replied: He is very weak of sight. Rasulullah Sallahu alaihi wasallam said: Te ll him to recite for seven days: May Allah send blessings upon Muhammad. and he will see me in a dream. He did so and he saw the Messenger of Allah Sallah u alaihi wasallam in a dream. The eighth Means: One who recites Sura al-Qadar (97) 21 times at sunrise and at sunset, they will see the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in their dream. The ninth Means: One who recites Sura al-Kawthar (108) 1000 times in the night, they will see the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in their dream. The tenth Means: One who recites Sura al-Muzzammil (73) 41 times, they will see the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in their dream. The eleventh Means: In the book Khazinat il-Asrar one of the scholars has mentioned: One who recites Sura al-Qadar (97) 1000 times on Friday, they will not die until they see the Me ssenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam. The twelfth Means: One of the scholars has said that one who recites Sura al-Kawthar (108) 1000 ti mes and sends blessings upon the Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wasallam 1000 times o n Thursday night, and then goes to sleep they will see the Messenger of Allah Sa llahu alaihi wasallam in their dream. The thirteenth Means: One of the teachers has said: One who recites Sura al-Quraish (106) 1000 times in the middle of Thursday night, then sleeps with ablution, they will see the Mess enger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in their dream and their wish will be ful filled. The Fourteenth Means: Sayyidina Ibn Abbas RadhiAllahu anhu said: One who recites Sura al-Ikhlas (112) 1 000 times in the night they will see the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasal lam in their dream. The Fifteenth Means: One of the most effective supplications for seeing the Messenger of Allah Sallah u alaihi wasallam in the dream is this Dua of Habib Abd al-Qadir ibn Ahmad as Saqq af: In the name of Allah, who is ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim.O Allah, Lord of Muhammad an d the family of Muhammad. Unite us with Muhammad soon, O You who answers all pra yers! O Allah, he is Your greatest door, and Your straightest path. There is no path except through this door, honour me by removing the veil. O Allah, do not d eprive me of this vision, nor of seeing his face, nor denying me entering into h is blessings, nor of gaining his solicitousness. Make me, O Allah, always under his gaze and make me close to him, O You who answers all prayers, O You who answ

ers all prayers! All praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon our master Muhammad, his family and companions. The sixteenth Means: One who recites the following salutation 100 times on Thursday night, will see t he Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam in their dream: O Allah! Send blessing upon our master Muhammad, the Opener for what is closed, the seal of all that which has preceded, the Helper of Truth by the Truth, the G uide to Your straight path, peace and blessings upon him and his companions, acc ording to his formidable standing. The Seventeenth Means: It has been related in ad-Dhakhair al-Muhammadiyyah that one who wishes that to s ee the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasallam should recite the following 10 0 times: O Allah, I ask You by the light of lights, who is You beloved and not other than that, to show me the face of Your Prophet, our master Muhammad. May the blessin gs and peace of Allah be upon him and his family, as those blessings are known t o You. I will finish this post with a witr number, Allah Taala loving odd numbers.if ther e is a demand for the complete forty four means, do comment, and InshaAllah I wil l try to post them all over time. Some of the above specify the night of Jumaah to be auspicious for reciting these means, and Allah the Almighty knows best. JUMAAH MUBARAK! May we make the most of this Shaban, the month of our Beloved Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wasallam a time for increasing all of our salutations upon him, Ameen. And a timely reminder, to me first, from the same book: The Doors of Repentance are Open. Make haste, make haste, O beloved of the Messenger of Allah Sallahu alaihi wasall am! The doors of repentance are open, and Allah is the All-Forgiving, the All-Me rciful, He accepts the repentance of His servants, and He forgives sins. Do not forget your share of the temporal world, and act with excellence, just as Allah favours you with excellence, getup, strive, endure and be patient! May we all take these next few seconds available to us as we approach the glory of Ramadhan to be polishing the heart more than usual, Ameen!