Reels of Light
Watch the salutation unfold, one screen at a time
Scroll vertically. Each reel recites a passage aloud and keeps your notes beside it.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ۚ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا
Indeed, Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who believe, send blessings upon him and greet him with a worthy greeting.
Surah al-Ahzab 33:56
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
And We have not sent you except as a mercy to all the worlds.
Surah al-Anbiya 21:107
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
And We raised high for you your remembrance.
Surah ash-Sharh 94:4
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
And indeed, you are of a magnificent character.
Surah al-Qalam 68:4
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ
O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad and upon the family of Muhammad, as You sent blessings upon Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. Truly You are Praiseworthy, Glorious.
Dala'il al-Khayrat, the opening salutation
O Allah, send blessings upon our master Muhammad, the ocean of Your lights, the mine of Your secrets, the tongue of Your proof, the bridegroom of Your kingdom.
Dala'il al-Khayrat, Salat al-Fatih tradition
مُحَمَّدٌ سَيِّدُ الْكَوْنَيْنِ وَالثَّقَلَيْـنِ * وَالْفَرِيقَيْنِ مِنْ عُرْبٍ وَمِنْ عَجَمِ
Muhammad is the master of both worlds and of both weighty creations, and of both groups — the Arabs and the non-Arabs.
Al-Burda, verse 34
He is the beloved whose intercession is hoped for, at every terror among the terrors that come suddenly.
Al-Burda, verse 35
Leave aside what the Christians claimed about their prophet, then say what you will in his praise and judge it well.
Al-Burda, verse 38
Know that whoever loves a thing prefers it and prefers to be in agreement with it. Otherwise, he is not sincere in his love and is merely a pretender.
Qadi 'Iyad, Ash-Shifa
The sign of love for the Prophet ﷺ is to give preference to what he brought over one's own desire.
Qadi 'Iyad, Ash-Shifa
مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَيَّ صَلَاةً صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ بِهَا عَشْرًا
Whoever sends one blessing upon me, Allah sends ten blessings upon him in return.
Reported in Sahih Muslim; the exchange of light, tenfold
None of you truly believes until I am more beloved to him than his father, his child, and all of mankind.
Sahih al-Bukhari 15
Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations — since I was cut from the reed bed, man and woman have moaned in my lament.
Rumi, Masnavi, Book I
The lovers of God are not the water-carriers of this world; they drink from the cup that Ahmad passed around.
Rumi, Divan-e Shams
Love is the fruit of knowledge. Whoever knows the Prophet ﷺ loves him, and whoever loves him follows him.
Al-Ghazali, Ihya 'Ulum ad-Din
The heart is a mirror; the remembrance of the Beloved polishes it until the light it receives is the light it gives.
Al-Ghazali, Ihya 'Ulum ad-Din
وَأَحْسَنُ مِنْكَ لَمْ تَرَ قَطُّ عَيْنِي * وَأَجْمَلُ مِنْكَ لَمْ تَلِدِ النِّسَاءُ
My eye has never seen one finer than you, and no woman has given birth to one more beautiful than you.
Hassan ibn Thabit
You were created free of every fault, as though you were created just as you wished to be.
Hassan ibn Thabit
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar.
Rev. Bosworth Smith, Mohammed and Mohammedanism, 1874
I have studied him — the wonderful man — and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
George Bernard Shaw, The Genuine Islam, 1936
It was the rigid simplicity of his character, the scrupulous respect he had for the rights of others, that made him the most successful of all prophets and religious personalities.
Michael H. Hart, The 100, 1978
A silent great soul; one of those who cannot but be in earnest, whom Nature herself has appointed to be sincere.
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero-Worship, 1841
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 1924