7.18. SEEKING PARADISE AND PROTECTION FROM HELL IS THE WAY OF THE PROPHETS AND THE MESSENGERS
Seeking Paradise and praying for protection from Hell is the path of Allah’s Prophets and Messengers and the path of every one of His past proteges brought close and of those of the right hand. It is related in the Sunan that the Prophet asked a Companion of his: “What do you say in your invocation?” So he said: ‘I say: ‘O Allah, I ask you for Paradise and seek Your protection from the Fire.’ I do not know your murmur or the murmur of Mu’adh.” The Prophet said: “We murmur about those two.”
As we can see, the Prophet informed his Companion that he and Mu( adh {radiyAllah ‘anhu), the best of the regular Imams of Madinah during the Prophet’s life, were only murmuring about Paradise. Is someone else’s word then above the word of Allah’s Messenger and Mu’adh (radiyAllahu ‘anhu) and the Emigrants
(al-Muhajirun) (radiyAllahu ‘anhum) and (al-Ansar) Helpers (radiyAllahu ’anhum) who prayed behind them? It is clear that the servant’s supplication was sufficient to take him to Paradise.
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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