{"id":9562,"date":"2017-04-27T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:08:01","slug":"the-brilliant-lamp-of-nubuwwat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=9562","title":{"rendered":"The Brilliant Lamp of Nubuwwat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=9138\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"madina-shareef-21\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9138\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/madina-shareef-21-300x300.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 250px; margin: 5px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/madina-shareef-21-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/madina-shareef-21-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/madina-shareef-21-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/madina-shareef-21.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Nabi (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam) has been likened to a brilliant lamp <em>(siraajam-muneera)<\/em> in the Quraan instead of a shining sun. Various reasons have been given. Among them is that a lamp is something that is accessible and which man is familiar with. This was evident in the life of Nabi (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam). Another reason is that one lamp can light up thousands of other lamps whereas this is not the case with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Shafee&rsquo; Saahib (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) explains that the manner in setting alight our lamps through the lamp of Nabi (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam) is by emulating the sunnat of Nabi (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam) and sending abundant durood upon our beloved Rasul (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Daamat Barakaatuhu) mentioned: Nabi (sallallahu &lsquo;alaihi wasallam) has been likened to a brilliant lamp (siraajam-muneera) in the Quraan instead of a shining sun. Various reasons have been given. Among them is that a lamp is something that is accessible and which man is familiar with. This was evident in the life &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[410,17],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat","tag-malfoozaat","tag-mufti-ebrahim-salejee-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}