The Jazb (Attraction) of Hazrat Abu Bakr As-Siddique (Radhiallahu Anhu) Towards The Beloved Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)

The Jazb (Attraction)of Sahabah (Radhiallahu Anhum) Towards The beloved Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)

I begin with the story of how Allah Ta’ala made Jazb of Abu Bakr As-Siddique (Radhiallahu Anhu). When he was sixteen years of age, the beloved Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) was eighteen.
The friendship between these two elevated souls began in their youth. They met on a daily basis in the blessed city of Makkah.

On one occasion, Abu Bakr went to Syria for the purpose of trade. In Syria, he saw a dream, which he mentioned to a monk whom he met there. The monk asked him a few questions, “Where do you come from?” He replied, “From Makkatul Mukarramah.” “What work do you do?” To this, he replied, “I am a trader and have come here on a trade mission.”

“Which tribe do you belong to?” “To the tribe of Quraish do I belong,” he replied. The monk then said, “Listen to the interpretation of your dream.”

“The meaning of your dream is that shortly there will be a proclaimer of Prophethood in your city. A Prophet will be deputed from your people. You will be his minister during his lifetime and his first successor after his demise.”

Hazrat Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) kept this a secret from the entire world. Neither to his wife, children, nor to his friends did he revealed this dream until he was thirty-eight years old and the Apostle of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) returned from the cave of Hira with the treasure of Prophethood. Iqra1 was revealed whereby all the previous heavenly books of the previous religions were instantly abrogated.

That Orphan to whom the Qur’an was still not fully revealed necessitated the abrogation of all religions; all the libraries containing scriptures from previous books became obsolete.
The Taurah (Torah) was abrogated as well as the Zaboor (David) and Injeel (Bible). The Apostle of Allah Ta’ala (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) announced:

“O Abu Bakr, I am the Prophet of Allah Ta’ala, Allah Ta’ala has sent revelation upon me.” To this he said, “O Muhammad.” He addressed the Apostle of Allah Ta’ala as is the case of friends who address each other informally, for he had not yet adopted faith. However, let us allsend Durood upon Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) “

“…what is the proof of the truth of that to which you invite me?”

The friendship between them was very firm, so he, with the ease and informality of a bosom friend, posed the above question. The Prophet
(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) replied:

“The dream that you saw while in Syria!”

This was reference to the very dream which he had hidden from the entire creation. Siddique-e-Akbar2 (the great truthful one) immediately realized. “He is a Nabi (Prophet) whom Allah Ta’ala has informed regarding my dream.” This, in reality, was Allah Ta’ala’s system by which He attracted the soul of Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) towards Himself by means of the dream that Siddique-e-Akbar (Radhiallahu Anhu) (the great truthful one) had seen so many years before.

This was the very first case of Jazb in the Ummat-e-Muslimah that occurred to Siddique-e-Akbar (Radhiallahu Anhu). He was the very first recipient of the manifestation of Allah Ta’ala’s quality of Jazb, of the Tajalliat-e-Ijtiba’iyah. On that occasion, he was extremely overjoyed to witness the realization of his dream, to the extent that he involuntarily embraced the Apostle of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). He experienced the state of “Uns” (a state of delight and pleasure) as a mutual recognition of souls was taking place. These are the blessed souls who, even after their demise, are granted the
honorable precinct of the Raudah-e-Aqdas, who are the immediate neighbors of the Apostle of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). The soil with which a person is molded is taken from the place of his final rest.

This is proof of the fact that the soil with which Siddique-e-Akbar and Umar Al-Farooq (Radhiallaho Anhuma) were created is the soil adjacent to the soil with which Nabi-e-Kareem (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) was created. After embracing the Apostle of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), he kissed the Apostle of Allah Ta’ala between the eyes on the forehead and recited the Kalimah Shahadah.

Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) is that elevated soul who, on his acceptance of Islam as well as at the time of the demise of the Apostle of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), kissed the noble Prophet’s (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) blessed forehead.

Source:Manifestation Of Allah’s Attraction  – Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Saheb (رحمة الله‎)