The Radiating Scent
In the Dhikr of the Beloved Prophet,
Nashr ut Teeb fi Dhikr il Nabbiyal Habeeb,
Booklet/Paperback - 44 pages,
by Ashraf Ali Thaanvee**
Transl.by Muhammad Sajid Younus.
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Translator’s Foreword :
This is an abridged translation of Ashraf Ali Thaanvi’s famous booklet, Nashr ut Teeb fi Dhikr il Nabbiyal Habeeb (The Radiating scent in the Beloved Prophet’s Dhikr). The reasons for translating this booklet are the same as Thaanvi sahib’s reasons for the writing of the original booklet, namely two:
---[1]. That narrations used in the Dhikr of the Prophet, Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam, be sound and authentic.
Thaanvi sahib explains in his foreword that many people, quite rightly, want to base their Dhikr on authentic sources and be able to differentiate between them and weaker narrations.
‘For some time it has been many people’s request that some conditions of the Prophet, Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam, both before and after Prophethood, be compiled from authentic sources so that if, out of love, any follower of Sunnah (as opposed to those of Bid’ah), wishes and desires to undertake the blessed Dhikr, he can read such a compilation with security.2
---[2]. Some people contest and question the purpose of the Dhikr of the Prophet, Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam.
Thaanvi sahib explains that people will be able to use his booklet for the Dhikr of the Prophet, Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam, and attain barakah from that Dhikr.
‘Nowadays many folk are distressed by outward fitnas such as plague, earthquake and inflation, amongst many other
1. The announcement of Prophethood for as we will learn later he was bestowed Prophethood even before the creation of the Universe.
2. Knowing that it is based on authentic hadith and free from exaggeration and reduction.
anxieties and also by inward fitnas like heresy, bida’h, obscenity and wickedness. At such times of misfortune scholars of this Ummah have always sought tawassul through reciting and compiling his words, verses of praise, miracles and plenty of salaam and salawaat’
He further states :
‘This booklet will mention his conditions, the great purpose of which is that such mentioning of conditions will lead to marifa and marifa will lead to love and love will lead to companionship and intercession in Qiyaamah’
The reader can read these narrations in the hope and knowledge that the barakah from them will bring relief from inward and outward fitnas and through which one’s marifa and love of the Prophet, Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam, increases.
Allaama Thaanvi also points out that he is beginning this booklet on the blessed Monday in the month of Rabi ul Awwal, which is significant for being the Prophet’s Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam, birth.
‘This risaala is begun today, (which) by coincidence, is the month of Rabi ul Awwal and Monday of the first ten days …. With the name of God I aim to (complete it) this.
**DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS BOOK, SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED BY PRESENT DAY DEOBANDIS.
