Love for the Beloved Prophet

I would like to talk about 2 distinguished imams who, in my opinion, have succeeded to manifest their tremendous love for the Holy Prophet in their own writings, 2 of which remain a classic masterpiece in Islamic Literature.

Imam Sulayman al-Jazuli completed the highly regarded Dalail Khayrat, a book of prayers upon the Holy Prophet. And just by simply reading excerpts from the book, you can easily tell that the author has such a profound love for the Prophet. i mean,Imam jazuli started the book by making Salawat upon each and every of the Prophet's 201 names, peace be upon them all.
and then he begins a long liturgy of salawat upon the Prophet by first saying this:

Allahumma inni, nawaitu bissolaati alan nabiyikal mustafa
O Allah, i INTEND TO MAKE SALAWAT upon Your Chosen Prophet.

the thing is, how often do we say "i intend to make salawat upon the Prophet"? most of the time we just jump to the salawat.the fact that Imam Jazuli wrote it in such a way, shows his immense love for the Prophet. Splendid!

Going on further, you just can't help but to feel the love for the Prophet emanating from the words Imam Jazuli wrote in his Dalail Khayrat, a prayer liturgy for the Prophet saw.

Qadi Iyad and his book on the Prophet, asy-syifa, is yet another classic. it is divided into parts, each part dealing about characteristics or attributes of the Prophet,his exalted station,his miracles, about why and how much we NEED to love him. it's just excellent. it also narrates some less well-known hadith, explaining the high status of our Beloved Prophet.

Truly, faith is only complete when the Prophet is dearer to us than anything else.

lastly, just wanna share a vid on a very 'touching' mahallul qiyam for the prophet, it was very moving. shaykh afeefudeen jailani even made a surprise pop up, though the naqshbandi-qadiri mursyid, Kiyai Ahmad Asrory, was not present due to ill health, let us pray for yai's good health amin.