My first visit of the Holy Prophet SAW's masjid and resting place was none like I had expected. Despite my earlier effort in preparing to meet Rasulullah SAW with the best ethics that I could possibly do, I felt like a rough ill-mannered illiterate bedouin who came from the most remote part of the desert to the holy city of Madinah, unaware of the extent of greatness of his host. The narrative of the ignorant bedouin who had a pee in the Masjid Nabawi during the time of the Prophet SAW came to mind.
First, I got mixed up on the proper entrance door to visit the Prophet SAW. Instead of entering through Bab-ul Jibreel, I tried to enter the masjid through Bab-ul Baqee. Rightly, I had been stopped from entering by the guards since Bab-ul Baqee was the point of exit of the the flow of people entering from the opposite Bab-ul Jibreel. Still wondering why the guards had stopped me the first time, I tried to enter again without success. Finally, after a few vain attempts, I just stood outside Bab-ul Baqee feeling very sad looking from afar at the resting place of Rasulullah SAW.
Soon afterwards, when dawn was approaching, still in confusion I lamely entered Bab-ul Nisaa' hoping to find a good spot for me behind the Rawdah. The number of people was far more than I had expected and I was really struggling to find even a tiny space to sit. Like a lost bedouin who has no idea where he was heading, I walked over the shoulders of devotees again and again, inviting uneasy stares from the people around me. It was then that I felt like a ruthless moronic barbarian standing alone among the civilised cultured people.
Alas, alhamdulillah, indeed Allah Most High had extinguished the pride and self-sufficiency within me at that point of time in the most perplexing way. Truly, Allah is the One for Whom nothing is hidden from His Knowledge.
It was after fajr solah that I managed to find the right way to make ziyarah of Rasulullaah sallaalaahu alayhi wasallam through Bab-ul Jibra'il with the guidance of the kitaab Fadha'il Hajj, Umrah and Zirayah by Maulana Zakariya Kandhlawi which I have to refer again. I tried my very best to follow the detailed ethics of zirayah as beautifully stated in the said kitaab. I started crying profusely the moment I whispered, "Assalamu'alayka ya Rasulullaah..."
How would I be able to give karguzari to my beloved Nabi sallalaahu alayhi wasallam?
It was after fajr solah that I managed to find the right way to make ziyarah of Rasulullaah sallaalaahu alayhi wasallam through Bab-ul Jibra'il with the guidance of the kitaab Fadha'il Hajj, Umrah and Zirayah by Maulana Zakariya Kandhlawi which I have to refer again. I tried my very best to follow the detailed ethics of zirayah as beautifully stated in the said kitaab. I started crying profusely the moment I whispered, "Assalamu'alayka ya Rasulullaah..."
How would I be able to give karguzari to my beloved Nabi sallalaahu alayhi wasallam?
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