3 Signs That Indicates You Truly Love Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Love is intense in its feelings and can only be proved by one’s actions. One who love and the one who is being loved can never grasp the loyalty and intimacy enclosed in this feeling.
It has variants and degrees but for believer constant and true love is to love our Holy Prophet PBUH. Loving him has several reasons entailed with it but for Muslims this sole reason is more than enough that he was sent down as last merciful messenger with living miracle of Quran.
Holy Prophet PBUH loved his Ummah and he will be the one who will plead to Allah Pak for our forgiveness of our sins. Following hadith explains the countless love of him for his Ummah. Hazrat Aisha (RA) narrated it as:
“Once, when I saw the Prophet being cheerful, I said to him: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Supplicate to Allah for me!’He said, ‘O Allah! Forgive ‘Aisha her past and future sins, what she has concealed as well as what she has made apparent. ‘So I began smiling, to the point that my head fell into the lap of the Messenger of Allah out of joy. The Messenger of Allah said to me: ‘Does my Dua (supplication) make you happy?’ I replied: ‘And how can your Dua not make me happy?’He then said: ‘By Allah, it is the supplication that I make for my Ummah in every prayer.’
Think about the intensity of Holy Prophet’s love for his Ummah that he used to beg Allah for our forgiveness. He cares for us more than we care for ourselves and in return, Holy Prophet PBUH deserves the same amount of respect and love which can be commenced by instilling following qualities in our personality:
- Imitating Prophet Muhammad
People of this generation usually imitate icons who are sport starts or movie stars. Muslims have entirely forgotten the Sunnah of Prophet and are in sheer oblivion towards the actual teachings of Quran and Islam. (https://www.quran-o-sunnat.com/sunnah-the-second-source-of-legislation/).
Actual love is to imitate the one you love, adopting his persona and make him part of yourself. Read biography of Prophet Muhammad and try to cope and apply all those aspects in your life.
In case you want to imitate Prophet Muhammad PBUH then try to live your life according to him as in the end, action speaks louder than words.
- Contemplating his Seerah
Loving someone let you fall towards him more ardently and you want to learn more about him day by day. Sign of loving Holy Prophet PBUH is to read and know more about him.
Every Muslim should study his companion ship, manners, affiliation with kids, code of conduct and mercy towards enemies. While reading Quran about him you certainly will come to know some hidden aspects of his personality which will let you fall in love with him with more devotion.
- Study, Understand and Implement
Holy Prophet PBUH is sent on earth with revelation of living miracle Quran. It is the eternal and final book of guidance which reveals everything. (https://www.quran-o-sunnat.com/quran-the-book-of-enlightenment-and-guidance/).
Open this portal of supervision; read it and understand what Allah Pak wants to disclose in His imperative and divine Quran. In the end, it will intercede on our behalf and those who would have ignored this book will be doomed.
“The Quran is an intercessor, something given permission to intercede, and it is rightfully believed in. Whoever puts it in front of him, it will lead him to Paradise; whoever puts it behind him, it will steer him to the Hellfire.”