Tehdidi Nama Mubarak

شرارتی جنّات اور شیاطین کے نام رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) کا ایک خط جس میں انہیں حکم دیا گیا کہ وہ مسلمانوں کو پریشان نہ کریں۔

The Hirz (Shield) of Abu Dujana al-Ansari (رضي الله عنه) is a letter given to him by the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) ordering the mischievous jinn and devils not to trouble him. Imam al-Baihaqi (رحمه الله‎) says in his book Dalail-un-Nubuwwah and Imam al-Qurtubi (رحمه الله‎) in Tazkira that Abu Dujana said,

“I was lying down, when I heard a noise like the noise of a mill or that of the leaves of a tree and saw a flash like lightning. I raised my head to see something black that was rising in the middle of the room. I felt it with my hand. It was like a porcupine’s skin. It began to throw things like sparks at my face.”

At once I went to Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) and told him what had happened. He said,

“O Abu Dujana! May Allah give your home goodness and abundance!”

He asked for a pen and a piece of paper. He had Ali (رضي الله عنه) write a letter. I took the letter to my home. I put it under my head and went to sleep. A yelling voice woke me up. It said,

“O Abu Dujana! You have burned me with that letter. Your owner is certainly much higher than we are. There is no way of escape for us, except that you remove that letter. We shall no longer come to your home or your neighbors.’ We cannot go to places where the letter is.”

I told him that I could not remove the letter without getting my owner’s permission. The night seemed very long to me because of the crying and wailing of genies. After performing the morning prayer in the mosque, I told Rasulullah what the genie had said. Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) said,

“Remove the letter. Or else they will suffer the letter’s pain till the Resurrection.”

Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (رحمه الله‎) writes in Bahishti Zewar (p90) that if this Hirz is hung inside the house, it will be protected from malevolent forces (إن شاء الله).