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Hadith of Intercession
- 2007
- Sülüs and nesih scripts. Black soot ink on ahar paper. 50 x 67 cm. This text was written for the international Al Burda competition organized by the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Culture, where it received an encouragement award. The text reads:Narrated Anas:Allah’s apostle said, “God will gather all the people on the Day of Resurrection and they will say, ‘Let us request someone to intercede for us with our Lord so that he may relieve us from this place of ours.’ Then they will go to Adam and say, ‘You are the one whom God created with His Own Hand, and breathed in you of His soul, and ordered the angels to prostrate to you, so please intercede for us with our Lord.’ Adam will reply, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking’ and will remember his sin, and will say, ‘Go to Noah, the first Apostle sent by God.’ They will go to him and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Abraham whom God took as Khalil’. They will go to him (and request similarly). He will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking,’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Moses to whom God spoke directly.’ They will go to Moses and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking’ and will remember his sin and say, ‘Go to Jesus.’ They will go to him, and he will say, ‘I am not fit for this undertaking. Go to Muhammad, as God has forgiven his past and future sins.’ They will come to me and I will ask my Lord’s permission, and when I see Him, I will fall down in prostration to Him, and He will leave me in that state as long as (He) God wills, and then I will be addressed. ‘Raise up your head (O Muhammad)! Ask, and your request shall be granted, and say, and your saying will be listened to; intercede and your intercession will be accepted.’ Then I will raise my head, and I will glorify and praise my Lord with a saying (i.e. an invocation) He will teach me, and then I will intercede. God will fix a limit for me, and I will take people out of the Fire and let them enter Paradise. Then I will come back (to God) and fall in prostration, and will do the same for the third and fourth times till no one remains in the Fire except those whom the Qur’an has imprisoned therein.” Hadith, Muslim Vol.8, Book 76: 570.