{"id":1317,"date":"2023-05-03T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:11:38","slug":"muhammad-may-allah-bless-him-and-grant-him-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I det vi sang i dag, peges vi p\u00e5 centraliteten af Allahs Sendebud, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, og at vi m\u00e5 overveje ham og hans rolle i tilv\u00e6relsen. Jeg \u00f8nsker at fremdrage et enkelt aspekt, som er implicit i hans sirah, men som sj\u00e6ldent bliver ekspliciteret: blandt sendebudene, fred v\u00e6re med dem, var han civilisationens profet, dvs. Madinah, byen par excellence. Madinah blev etableret under vejledning af \u00e5benbaring. Der er en parallel til Skibet Nuh, fred v\u00e6re med ham, som Allah sagde om, det som betyder: “Byg skibet under vores opsyn og som Vi \u00e5benbarer.<\/em>” (23:27) Imam Malik forbandt vores tema om Madinah og Nuh-skibet med hans ord: “Sunnah er Nuhs skib: den der g\u00e5r om bord p\u00e5 den, bliver frelst, og den der holder tilbage fra den, druknes.” S\u00e5ledes har han givet os navnet p\u00e5 Madinan-ordenen: Sunnah. Sunnah er ikke kun l\u00e6ngden af sk\u00e6gget eller t\u00f8jstilen. Det er et s\u00f8dygtigt fart\u00f8j, der kan transportere et helt samfund. Et andet ord for Sunnah er hikmah<\/em> \u2013 visdom. Allah, oph\u00f8jet er Han, beskriver sin profet, fred v\u00e6re med ham, som “at l\u00e6re dem bogen og visdommen<\/em>“, og folket i Koranens kommentarer forklarer, at visdomen her er Sunnah.<\/p>\n\n\n

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N\u00f8glen til alle profeternes l\u00e6re er i deres ord, som citeret i Koranen: “S\u00e5 hav Allahs taqwa og adlyd mig.<\/em>” Taqwa<\/em> er eksemplificeret i tre dimensioner: Islam, Iman og Ihsan, som forklaret i Jibrils hadith. De giver os tre forst\u00e5elser, for det arabiske ord fiqh<\/em> betyder forst\u00e5else: forst\u00e5elsen af handlinger, b\u00e5de tilbedelse og almindelige hverdagslige; forst\u00e5elsen af hvad der kan siges om Allah, Sendebudene og om eksistensen; og forst\u00e5elsen af ??hjertet og dets tilstande, b\u00e5de prisv\u00e6rdigt og bebrejdende. Denne sidste forst\u00e5else, som vores qasidah<\/em> p\u00e5peger, er selve kernen, essensen af helheden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Med profeternes bortgang tilfalder lydighed mod dem en gruppe blandt muslimerne n\u00e6vnt i Surat an-Nisa’: “I der tror, adlyd Allah og adlyd Sendebudet og dem, der har kommandoen blandt jer<\/em>.” Vores paradoks er, at opgaven for os i mange tilf\u00e6lde er at skabe den gruppe for at adlyde dem, og desuden g\u00f8re det uden at udg\u00f8re en udfordring for eksisterende borgerorden, hvad enten det er i muslimernes eller ikke-muslimernes lande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I alt dette m\u00e5 drivkraften v\u00e6re, som n\u00e6vnt i vores sidste dhikr, k\u00e6rlighed til hinanden, en k\u00e6rlighed der altid vil udvide sig for nye mennesker, og kommer til udtryk i de \u00e6dle karakteregenskaber, som Budbringeren, fred v\u00e6re med ham, var sendt til perfektion, som er sammensat i \u00e9t arabisk ord: futuwwa<\/em>, nogle gange oversat som ridderlighed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Og det moderne menneskes dominerende vrangforestilling er ‘viljestyrke’. Den s\u00e5kaldte civilisation i dag er en manifestation af menneskets vilje, og selv n\u00e5r det vil godt, er det katastrofalt. Allah siger, det der betyder, “s\u00e5 enhver der vil, skal tage vejen mod sin Herre. Men du vil ikke, medmindre Allah vil. Allah er Alvidende, Alvis<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what we sang today, we are pointed to the centrality of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and that we must contemplate him and his role in existence. I want to bring out a single aspect, which is implicit in his sirah<\/em> but rarely made explicit: among the Messengers, peace be upon them, he was the Prophet of civilisation, i.e. Madinah, the city par excellence. Madinah was established under the guidance of revelation. There is a parallel with the Ship of Nuh, peace be upon him, about which Allah said, that which means, \u201cBuild the Ship under Our supervision and as We reveal.<\/em>\u201d (23:27) Imam Malik connected our theme of Madinah and the Ship of Nuh by his words, \u201cThe Sunnah is the ship of Nuh: whoever embarks on it is saved, and whoever holds back from it is drowned.\u201d Thus he has given us the name for the Madinan order: Sunnah. Sunnah is not merely the length of the beard or the style of clothing. It is a seaworthy vessel, one that can carry an entire society. Another word for Sunnah is hikmah<\/em> \u2013 wisdom. Allah, exalted is He, describes His Prophet, peace be upon him, as, \u201cteaching them the Book and the Wisdom<\/em>,\u201d and the people of Qur\u2019anic commentary explain that wisdom here is the Sunnah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to all the teachings of all the Prophets is in their words as cited in the Qur\u2019an: \u201cSo have Taqwa of Allah and obey me.<\/em>\u201d Taqwa<\/em> is exemplified in three dimensions: Islam, Iman<\/em> and Ihsan<\/em>, as expounded in the hadith of Jibril. They give us three understandings, for the Arabic word fiqh means understanding: the understanding of actions, both worship and ordinary everyday ones; the understanding of what can be said about Allah, the Messengers, and about existence; and the understanding of the heart and its states, both commendable and blameworthy. This latter understanding, as our qasidah<\/em> points out, is the very core, the essence of the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the passing of the Prophets, obedience to them devolves on a group among the Muslims mentioned in Surat an-Nisa\u2019: \u201cYou who believe, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in command among you<\/em>.\u201d Our paradox is that in many cases the task before us is to bring about that group in order to obey them, moreover doing so without posing a challenge to existing civic order whether in the lands of the Muslims or the non-Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all of that the motive power must be, as mentioned in our last dhikr, love for each other, a love that will always expand for new people and is expressed in the noble qualities of character that the Messenger, peace be upon him, was sent to perfect, which are comprised in one Arabic word: futuwwa<\/em>, sometimes translated as chivalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the dominant delusion of modern man is \u2018willpower\u2019. So-called civilisation today is a manifestation of man\u2019s will, and even when he wills good, it\u2019s catastrophic. Allah says, that which means, \u201cso whoever wills should take the Way towards his Lord. But you will not will unless Allah wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I det vi sang i dag, peges vi p\u00e5 centraliteten af Allahs Sendebud, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, og at vi m\u00e5 overveje ham og hans rolle i tilv\u00e6relsen. Jeg \u00f8nsker at fremdrage et enkelt aspekt, som er implicit i hans sirah, men som sj\u00e6ldent bliver ekspliciteret: blandt sendebudene, fred v\u00e6re med … <\/p>\n

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