The weeping tree trunk

Summary of today’s majlis Thursday 5th July 2018 The Prophet (ﷺ) used to stand by a tree or a date-palm on Friday. Then an Ansari woman or man said. "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Shall we make a pulpit for you?" He replied, "If you wish." So they made a pulpit for him and when it was Friday, he proceeded towards the pulpit (for delivering the sermon). The datepalm cried like a child! The Prophet (ﷺ) descended (the pulpit) and embraced it while it continued moaning like a child being quietened. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "It was crying for (missing) what it used to hear of religious knowledge given near to it." Hadhrat Hasan Basri ra said that this is a piece of dried wood which was yearning of its meeting with Rasul ‎ﷺ and you oh believers should be more desirous of the meeting of Rasullullah ‎‎ﷺ. This tree trunk is still buried in rawdatul jannah. This was a miracle of the prophet ‎ﷺ. This incident has also been mentioned in Nashruteeb by Hadhrat Thanwi ra. There is no doubt that this happened as all the sahaba were present at the Jumuah salah and each sahaba narrates the incident in their own words. We are deprived if we don’t recite durood. The ulama say we should recite at least 300 daily. May Allah give us tawfiq. www.kalimatalhikmah.co.uk