Your excellences are supreme...

Your excellences are supreme, your precedences are most honorable, your grade is the highest, you were most proximate to the Prophet and most resembling the Prophet in word and behavior and in aims and actions. Your status was lofty and honored. May Allah give you a good reward on behalf of Islam, Muslims and the Prophet. When the companions fell weak you strengthened Islam. When they displayed sloth you showed your initiative. When they left the Prophet alone you rendered help to him.

You turned to the clear path of the Messenger of Allah (S) when the companions were in confusion. You are…