Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhammad () The Chosen Prophet
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know bungler yet, it's been a very long time. I think I need to sit
more I need to actually visit places like beach north and
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places, then maybe I'll pick up some vanilla Inshallah, then I can
speak to each other.
I'm gonna have to use English My apologies, because you probably
don't understand reality anyway.
See the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
That's what we've gathered here to discuss the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam.
And
generally around this time of the year, there's many, many sera
programs
discussing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
departed this world, and he passed away on the 12th of robiola. Well,
which was last week.
The Prophet sallallahu wasallam was born around these days. It's
not agreed upon, maybe on the ninth, maybe on the 12 maybe
another date. That's not 100% but on the 12 He passed away.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam father passed away before
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was born after the prophets
Allah son was conceived he was conceived in the month of Rajab.
And then the Prophet sallallaahu son passed away. Now the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam. It was a very special occasion.
Everything was especially chosen and selected for the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Nothing was random, nothing was
arbitrary. With the Prophet salallahu Salam, there was a
design a planning right from before, but karma karma had been
chosen from eternity as being the place. Do you know that many
centuries before that Ibrahim Ali Salam was told to go from the sham
area and take his wife had take his wife herget Alayhis Salam, and
drop her in Makkah mocha Rama, where there was absolutely no
inhabitation. There was nothing.
And then, you know, the story which you hear every year during
AIT, she had her son, Ismail alayhi salam who was born at an
old age for Ibrahim Ali salaam, and he was left there, and zum zum
well came up and that whole story, all of that preparation is being
made. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam then is born among
the children of Ibrahim Ali salaam, through Ismail alayhi
salam,
you have the Quraysh. And among them, you have the best tribe is
chosen for the coming of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam
Mocambo Koroma muddy and Madina Munawwara, which was yesterday at
the time, that area, the ages, the Arabian Peninsula, that part of it
especially, had never been colonized. You had the Persian
Empire, on one side, huge Persian Empire at the time, with the cost
rose, the Kisara. And on the other hand, you had the Roman Empire
with the Caesar. So they were but no place No, no, no dynasty, no
organization, no ruling party, nobody had been able to colonize
these people. They were in their own right, their own tribes, and
they had their own issues that were taking place. They had their
own trends, they had their own culture, they had their own
language, there was a reason that this place was chosen. The people
of Makkah Makara, Rama, there's a few reasons why that place was
chosen. One of the reasons could be that it's has a very, very
harsh climate. It gets 40 degrees and over sometimes it's desert. So
that's one of the reasons why choose these people. Islam had to
spread through Dawa, a dirty meaning the one who goes to
propagate the faith and who goes to do that, and who goes to
spread. He has to be able to survive anywhere. If you can
survive in the deserts of Arabia, you could probably survive any
Well, I don't know about now. Because now it's all the air
conditioning and the five star designer stuff everywhere now. But
in those days, that's how it was, if you couldn't live in Arabia,
you could live anywhere in the world and you could propagate. So
that was one of the reasons. The other reason.
There's many reasons, but the other reason is the Arabs, even
though they were never colonized by by anybody. They were actually
one of the reasons why people left them alone is because they were
considered to be just wild, tribal people. Right, with no
civilization, just tribal mentality, right? killing one
another fighting with one another. The sword is, well, that was the
case in many places in the world, the sword is what worked in those
places. But the one thing that they were very, very, very proud
of was their language. What do you mean by their language, so good
about the language, Arabic, which is the best of languages, is one
of the most nuanced and most comprehensive languages, it has so
many words for a single thing. So if you want to explain something,
and there's a slight difference, that would be another word for it.
Whereas in English, it's the same word for everything, or in other
languages, for that matter, actually, English is quite
comprehensive, as well. But Arabic is extremely comprehensive. For
things like the goat or the sheep, or the lion, they have 10s of
words, for love, the stages of love, all the way from the
beginning to intense love, they have about 28 words to to tell you
and to define each of the stages of love starting from inclination,
obsession, and so on. It's a very comprehensive language. That's why
they call it art. And the art of the meaning of art comes from the
idea of being able to do to articulate yourself to say what's
in your mind in a way that clear, lucid people will understand in a
comprehensible manner. So for a dar E for a Dawa, to give Dawa,
you need good language. In fact, they used to consider all the
other people of the world iGEM. That's what they refer to the rest
of the world as IgM. IgM means dumb, somebody who cannot
articulate themselves. So the Arabic language is very, very
profound. So that's why this special place was chosen. Now, if
we go even more specifically, the prophet Salla Lauryssens father,
Abdullah, he had many, many brothers.
He had many brothers about 10 or so brothers. Only four of them
remained after the Prophet salallahu Salam became a prophet.
That was Abu Lahab Abu Talib, and then Hamza and Abba, so the Allahu
Anhu. Only four remained, all the others had died, including the
father of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. But the best of
the names among older brothers was Abdullah, as opposed to Abdul
Kabah Abdullah Russa and things like that Abu Talib and Abu Lahab
that was their title. their real names were Abdul kava, Abdullah
Rosa, things like that.
So Abdullah, the servant of Allah, that's the name chosen for his
father. Now this is not random. The name chosen for it. They had
some really strange names in those days. But the name chosen for his
mother was Amina, comes from the concept of Aman, which means
safety, security, peace, so his mother, that's where you get the
peace and the security The name itself is special. Not only that,
you have everybody related to him. He is then sent and I'll tell you
the story later. He is then sent to Halima the Allahu anha who
feeds him milk she is the wetness. Her name is Halima Halima comes
from the concept of *, which means prudence, forbearance,
clemency patience, all of this and seriousness, all of these meaning
come from Halima, so he gets milk from her Masha Allah. Then after
that, the midwife who gave Who helped give Amina birth to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Her name was Shiva, Shiva,
Shiva, Binti Amer it Meowth Can you believe it? She Her name is
Shiva, which means cure. Even that is a special chosen name. I think
it's not random. Then after that, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam was with his mother Amina, but there as has mentioned
the story, and she taken him to her homeland, and then she passed
away. The person that took care was the her servant, and her name
was Baraka
blessing, so she looked after the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
for a while her name was Baraka blessing, right growth. Baraka
means blessing and growth. Her title was OMO Amon. Her name was
Baraka, but her title was more Amon, the mother of Amon Amon
comes from the concept of human fortune, the right hand side
fortune in general, everything is especially chosen. He's born in
Makkah, which is the best of cities, which is the best of
places. One Salaat in Makkah, is how many how many? How many reward
one 100,000
In three days, how much reward you're gonna get 1.5 million
rewards. Because in five prayers in one day you get 500,000 times
three that's 1.5 million rewards. You probably never thought about
it like that. Stay in Macau for three days, you get 1.5 million
rewards.
Everything especially chosen the zum zum world, which we spoke
about when Ismail Ali, salaam Hajer. They had found it that
before the time of the promise that was many, many years before
that it had been lost. It had been sanded over. Right, the
grandfather of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Abdullah looked at it, he saw a dream and then he eventually just
rediscovered it. So it's in the foundry, the purpose of the law is
Salem, the name given to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe. Salam is
Muhammad and Muhammad.
Again, that's a special name not many people will call Mohammed
before. But now there was this idea that when the there will be a
special person whose name will be Muhammad. So that name was given,
I believe, by the grandfather of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
because the father wasn't there, Abdullah had passed away already.
Mohammed means the most praised one, the one who's praised
abundantly, frequently by others. Muhammad, Muhammad Sallallahu
Sallam is praised by Allah. He's praised by the angels. He's
praised by the creation, and He has been praised by the creation
from even before he is praised in the earlier books he's mentioned
in the earlier books. And he's been praised throughout right now.
At any given time. He has been spoken about and he is being
praised. People are saying sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
there's an event that's taking place somebody's making Salah and
indexing adhere to the law and then he's saying As salam o Allah
Johanna, bu Rahmatullah. There are just so many ways. Allah has
raised his mentioned, somebody may want to criticize him. But he is
being praised at that one criticism that may come about as
there has been throughout history, people have criticized him,
unfortunately, but he has always been praised praise, the praise of
the Prophet salallahu Salam completely outweighs any of the
criticism that he has received, that he will receive. May Allah
subhanaw taala protect him.
All of this was very, very special. Aminata the Allahu anha
then says that when she was pregnant with the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wasallam. She didn't even feel it. The only
thing she actually noticed was that her menstruation had stopped.
That's how she did otherwise it was the easiest pregnancy that you
know, when you compare it to others, it was that no morning
sickness, nothing like that. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was born, it's mentioned that he was born he fell on the
ground, he was on the ground on on his hands, looking up at the
heavens, he was circumcised, the spinal cord was cut. And there was
no other dirt. In that sense, a very, very special birth. Now at
that time, there were a number of incidents that took place around
the world. So if you go many, a few, a few several 100 to a 1000s
of miles away towards the west. towards the east actually, there
was
the Persian Empire which I mentioned earlier, they were fire
worshippers, they no longer remain there. They came to India, the PRC
is now they called Parsis. They're in India right now. So they used
to worship fire. And they were very old civilization. The Persian
Empire was a very, very old civilization. Right one of the
very superpowers of the world at that time, you can say Wright had
a lot of pomp and glory. They had 1000 they had a fire there they
had God, which had to be specially looked after, and they had looked
at looked after it so well, for about 1000 years, that fire had
never gone off. Probably one of the longest sustained fires in the
world, because they had literally hundreds of attendants looking
after a day and night, to look after this fire to make sure it
did not go off. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
born, regardless of all of their caretakers, everybody looking
after it to see what it went off. Now another really interesting
thing that happened is that in those days like today, as well,
there's a lot of there were a lot of soothsayers, fortune tellers,
clairvoyance astrologers, people who try to tell the future using
different means there's like 5060 different ways that people tell
the future or think they know what the future is.
Even those people even though they're completely about it, they
talk to Shayateen they talk to Jin, and you know, there's a lot
of lies in what they say. Even they found out about the birth of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And they were happy
about it as a really strange idea that they completely but even
Allah subhanaw taala wanted to show that even though they have
false means, but the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is so truthful,
and so much of Huck that even they spoke the truth at that time, and
they they got excited at that time, a number of other things
that happened. The heavens, nobody could go up there anymore
afterwards. That's eventually because the Shaytards used to go
up and listen to the angels that stopped. A number of cosmic
changes took place or the coming of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. Now let me just tell you one incident we have a short
amount of time just
highlight to you how much the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was chosen in every single sense. I mean, just from the names
too. There was a tradition among the people in the city of Makkah
that their newborns, the infants, after a few days or something,
they would actually send them out to the the Bedouin villages.
Because the air was better there. It was a pure place language was
good and pure. So they would send them out for several months, maybe
a year or two years, or however long it was.
And that was really interesting. I don't know if you do that today,
where you just give your child up for maybe several months, let
somebody else give them milk outside. I don't think people will
do that today. But this is a tradition, right? So Halima Sadie
are the Allahu anha. In fact, her name is Halima sack. The sad also
means fortune is goodness and fortune and beauty everywhere you
go. She said she came with a group of women from her community to
look for children. Like this is the time of the year that they
would come and they would find the child and they will take what
benefit would they get? They will be paid, they would get a gift
from they were in the villages. This maca McCullough was a city
people used to come there. So they were probably more prosperous
people. So she said I came and my animal that I was on. It was we
were always trying to catch up. We were always at the back. It was a
very, very weak animal emaciated animal. We always tried to catch
up and I was kept saying, you know, wait, wait, wait, let me
catch up and so on. When we came to Mocambo karma, we went around
and all the women, they found a child, they found an infant, a
baby so that he could take him back home to feed them. I couldn't
find anybody. Now we've seen the Prophet sallallahu some but nobody
had taken him because his father had died. Because he was an
orphan. And if you if the father has died, then where you're going
to get where you're going to get a gift from the mother is not going
to be able to give you much the expectation was from the Father,
so nobody had taken him. So Halima, the Alon says that I
thought, You know what, I don't have any other child. I'll just
take him. I don't want to go back empty handed. So I'll take this
child. So she went and agreed with them and talk Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. She also already had children of her own. There was
a drought in her community. There was a drought there, there was
hardly any rain and they were suffering, crops are suffering.
Animals were suffering, because they were, there's no there's
nothing to eat. So the animals are suffering, there's not much milk
they're able to provide and so on. She takes him and she gets on to
her animal. And she with the rest of them, they leave town. And
suddenly all of these changes started taking place. Her animal
is now the strongest animal. She's able to go ahead and everybody
else is saying Allah recently Kiana listening you're like, wait
up, what's happened? What kind of animal you have now? He was racing
to catch up. You had an old Datsun banger car at the beginning and
now mashallah, you know, you're like in a Ferrari, you're going
ahead. And everybody was running like, what are you feeling this
what's happening? She says that when we got home, she said, My, I
was able to, until now wasn't able to feed my children properly,
right? Because he was all dry, and I couldn't produce enough milk now
mashallah, I was able to fully feed my own children and feed the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, my animals would go out
to graze and they would come back and they became mashallah fat, and
healthy, and everybody else's animals, they were suffering
because there was a drought, they would come to instead of where is
the secret location, that you are sending your animals to graze? You
know, where is this green pastures that you have, our animals are
suffering. And it was the bark of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. To such a degree that when it time came now to give the
children back, she had so much Baraka in her house, and in her
family that she decided that they went and made another agreement
that I want to keep them for a bit longer.
Now, what happens is that after a short while her that her children,
they suddenly see the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam at the back
somewhere, and he's been pushed down onto the ground. And there's
two min individuals that have basically performing open heart
surgery. These were the two angels that washed his heart, and they
were obviously very fearful as to what was happening. And then so
they came toward the mother, when he when she came back.
They found the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and His face had just
changed color. But that now she became worried. So she took him
back to Makkah mukarram and says, I want to return he says, Why do
you wanna return just now you wanted extension? instead? She
didn't want to exactly mention but then eventually Aminata the Allahu
Amina, she said she made it very clear. She says that there can be
no evil influence on him. And then she mentioned how her experience
had been during her pregnancy and so on. She had full conviction.
She stayed with his mother for a short while, and then his mother
passed away. And then his grandfather took over, he passed
away. And then after that his uncle took over Abu Talib, and
that was until the 10th year. That was until the 10th year after the
prophecy, and then he passed away. So the Prophet sallallahu it was
Salam, especially in all of these things that that's, that's what
happened with him. Now I'll give you
there's a famous poem called The qasida. Buddha.
Right? It's a really interesting story the way it was written. But
when I was reading it, there's one phrase in there where he says, he
compares the Prophet sallallahu Sallam to many things. And he
compares him to the other prophets. And he says that other
prophets, compared to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, I just like the
symbols, compared to the actual wording. Now, what does that mean?
You see, in English, when you when you're writing English, we have
vowels, a, e, i, o, u, that's how you make sounds with the other
letters, the consonants, you have the vowels a E, now, a, e, i, o,
u, they take the same amount of space as B, C, D, E. In Arabic,
though the vowels are symbols, they're just little signs, Fatah
Castro, dama, zaporozhets. Fish, right. That's why in Arabic, you
can actually write much smaller, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi. Salam
is written much smaller in in Arabic than in English, right? So
this is what he said. He said, that
the other prophets are like the symbols and the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Sallam is like the actual wording.
That's the comparison he's making. When we're not even on the page.
The prophets are greater than any other human being except the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam in general, but he's saying that even
a comparison among the Prophets with the Prophets and the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, there is no comparison. He is like the Elif
Berta Jeem ha ha the actual wording and they are just like the
Fatah Casa Dhamma is not denigrating them is just showing
the superiority of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam. When I
read that, I said, this is an exaggeration. When I first read
it, I thought this is an exaggeration. Poets exaggerate.
Right poets poetry allows for exaggeration, right? Poetry allows
for exaggeration. Poetry is the highest form of expression in any
language. So if you look in order, we have some amazing poetry. In in
Arabic, we have some amazing poetry. I've not heard much
bungalow poetry, but I'm assuming there must be some great poetry
there. But in English, we're still struggling, right? Because now we
are living in a visual time where you just watch you're not right.
Right. Poetry is the highest expression. So
when he said this, I said this is exaggeration. So I thought about
it, read some of the commentaries, and you start looking. And you
realize that it's not an exaggeration at all. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is not just higher than everybody else,
he's higher than the prophets far higher, especially selected even
among the prophets are higher than everybody else. But Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu means higher than the other prophet. That was
not an exaggeration, it probably is an underestimate. Now, I'll
just give you one thing that comes to mind to show how the person is
so much greater.
He has been where nobody else has been. He has been where others
have dreamt to be, have us to be have wished to be but he wasn't.
But but couldn't get there. And he's done that he's what's
happened to him. And what he has experienced has not happened to
anybody else who is not gifted to anybody else. When example. If you
look at Sahih Muslim Kitab al Iman, there's a section in there
about the marriage about the ascension, you know, the story of
the marriage, okay?
The progress on the Lauriston was taken up with Jubilee lady salaam,
on the board from here to Jerusalem. And from there he goes
up to the heavens, you know the story, when they get to the first
heaven. The angel, The Guardian, who's there says, Who is it said
Gibreel. Out Islam who's with you, Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. Has he
been invited?
Has he been invited?
exclamation of Wunderman. Wow. Has he been? Has he been invited? You
could read it as has he been invited as he got a ticket? You
could read it like that. But the better way to read it is Has he
been invited? So hello, wonderful. So he gets permission on the first
heaven. He sees other mother who salami meets other Melissa marhaba
madness Saudi. Welcome, oh, righteous son. On the second one
he meets Sid Sardar,
on the third one, he meets Yes, use of Elisa on the third one. And
the fourth one is Elia so arias. Oh, it's Idris, Idris Ali Salam.
And then on the next one, the fourth one, he meets Harun Ali
Salaam and the fifth one, no, sorry, sorry. For the fifth 20 her
own her own. sixth one is Musa alayhis salam. And then he meets
Ibrahim Ali Salam on less on the top on the last one, the seventh
one. Now the story, you know, then he carries on he goes beyond that
you realize time is coming with him. Jimmy Larry Summers been to
these areas. He's taking him. He says, Now this is really
interesting. He gets to a place
is where he says we got to the Siddhartha lamonta This is the
most extreme lote tree that's up there in the heavens is a special
tree called the LOTE tree, huge branches, and its roots go down
into the seven heavens, but its branches are above the second
seventh heaven. And he said, When I got there, I was given a show. A
special show was put on for me, says I saw frosh mean the hub. I
was put a show flying objects, most likely the angels. But he
says that the the spectacle that was put on for me the show,
whatever it was the demonstration, no person, no words can articulate
it.
Now that's really strange. The prophets of Allah Islam is the
most articulate individual Arabic is a very comprehensive language
to start with. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam is one of the
most comprehensive speakers, he was given Jomi and Kelim
comprehensive statements where he could say so much, in a few words,
amazing ability to choose the words, right. But he says nobody
can put this in words. The experience was amazing. What was
that experience? While you're in parrot, you're up there in the
heavens, I believe it was some kind of four D, five d six D
experience. Now today we look at 2d objects. If you you got to get
those glasses and you watch a 3d experience, and then you have a 4d
experience where they they put air on you and they maybe pinch you
and so then you feel like you're really part of it, right? That's
4d.
This, I believe was an experience that you don't just see with your
eyes, or just hear with your ears, I believe it's just my idea that
you are experiencing every pore of your body, you're in it. And you
can't express that you have to experience it to understand that
nobody else has had that experience. Then he carries on to
many other places. And then he gets to a place where God Allah
Islam says I can't come with you anymore. You have to go alone. I'm
I don't have authorization beyond this. The Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Sallam has been forget where any other human being has
been. He's gone where any other angel has not been.
Now, is there any comparison? There's no combat that what but
what the Casita, Buddha says, is not an exaggeration, right? It's
the reality if it's not an under because they he doesn't know.
Right? What the real reality of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam is what's really interesting when he gets to that
position, he suddenly hears it's nothing, I don't know what
experience, it's nothing, it's beyond the universe, right? He's
going to meet with Allah subhanaw taala
mentions in one narration that he heard the voice of Abu Bakr,
Siddiq or the allawah and that tells you many things that obika
sinigrin is very special for the Prophet salallahu Salam, when
you're in a strange place. If you have a familiar voice, it makes
you feel less estranged. Makes you feel a bit more familiar. Maybe
that's why I will look at a Siddiqa. The Allahu Anhu his voice
was heard that he meets with Allah subhanaw taala. Many of the Sahaba
majority, I would say the stronger opinion is that he saw Allah
subhanaw taala. Others say he just he saw a light and that's where
they leave it. And the minority say he didn't see Allah, the
minority say that there's only two generally two that is related from
but then the stronger opinion he saw allah how Allah knows best,
right? When he came back, he was given the 50 press. That was the
time when he was given 50 Salaat so when he gets back onto the 67
Musar Islam stops so what did your Lord give you that 50 prayers. So
you know the story then he sent him back he says your Alma can
never do 50 prayers. May Allah thank Mousavi salam for us. You
can't do 50 prayers. So he went back to Allah 4540 And it went
down until five moosari Some still said go back even even at five he
said no and now I feel a bit embarrassed. But Allah subhanaw
taala says that's fine now you but they will call Lula they write
whatever I said first you're gonna get the reward of the 50 just do
five, you will get the reward of the 51 opinion is that why did
moosari Some keep sending him back? Yes, maybe he had compassion
for this ummah as well. But some other might say again, this is
just the interesting point. He had wanted to see Allah subhanaw taala
rugby areni under a lake. Oh my Lord, let me see you. But Allah
says Linda, Ronnie, you're not you cannot see me right. So now he
kept wanting to see the eyes that had seen ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So
he had that frequency of that meeting kept sending Musa now
again this is not in a hadith this is just an interesting point. And
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam comes back. So now this is the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, you can probably in your whole
life, we probably wouldn't be able to accomplish everything about the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, there are some very simple
straight facts but there happened during this time and happened this
time.
Hunter can conquest desert time the person did this many home runs
and hedge and so on. But in terms of his personality, in terms of
trying to understand what he said, and how far reaching that is, and
everything else, it will take you a lifetime to try to understand
that. I'll give you a why I'm saying this is that how many of us
have actually read a book of Syrah? After we've grown up? You
may have read one in mcta time when you had, you know, the
teacher taught you maybe some Syrah, but how many of us have
picked up a book and its entirety and read in any language
whatsoever to learn about the Prophet salallahu Salam, I had a
friend when I was in America, I had a friend who had just come
from Bosnia after the Bosnian war, in the 90s, after the Bosnian war,
so this is around 2001. And two, he was in my community. And you
know, people in Bosnia at that time didn't know much about their
faith. Right, because they'd been secularized. You know, there's
quite a bit a few struggles in the Balkans like that. So he set out
to learn about the process inside a few books. I've said, I gave him
one, I go here, read this, he read it. He says, give me another book
on Sierra. I said, You've read one. He says there's no way and he
taught me a lesson. He says there's no way that you can
actually learn about any, in any any thing or any individual budget
by reading just one book. Because that one books gives you his
perspective. I said, the facts, the specific few facts, they're
the same, but in terms of what you can learn from the life of the
prophet Sallallahu, some of the different things that he did, and
he said, that is something that every reader will give you a
different perspective, and you can keep writing series for the rest
of your life, people can keep writing an earthing. That's why
every sera book is different. Right? So the only way you're
going to learn about the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is by reading
more than one book by listening to more than one lecture series by
the various different Allamah. Right, the long series to take out
how, why should we learn about the serum, because he's our role
model.
That's who we should be learning from. I believe if more people
started reading the Syrah, there would be a lot less problems in
the world. Today, one of the issues why people don't like
people don't like Muslims. One of the reasons is because they don't
like Mohamed Salah where he said now the biller is because there's
not because they went and saw Mom selasa said, or seen what he's
done, or that he's done something bad to them, is because we claim
to be representing him, but we do bad things. So they think that
this is a reflection of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam, were the were the only ones who can actually change that
by telling people so we get very angry when they then make a comic
about him, where they make a cartoon about him when they
criticize him. And they say something bad about him. But
really the way to give that one to tell them because you can't force
them to read a book on the zero is to actually act the Act. The best
balance and equilibrium that you will find in any one is in the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that would that's why we
should learn from him directly by reading his Syrah. I'll give you a
simple example. Let's just say somebody came in today.
And they just walked in with their boots.
They walked in, and then they started urinating on the side.
The I mean, would you get your incharge hearing? What would you
say to him? You probably get angry first. Would you remember this
hadith of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, that when somebody came in
and started urinating the Sahaba ran to stop him and present and
Leave him leave him.
Why would you do that? Now I want to think and this story is famous,
you probably know this story. The Prophet saw some stopped leaving
the two three move, like Stop, don't don't disturb him. He's
already started urinating few stops somebody in the middle of
urination that's harmful.
How can you think about that? How can you get to that level of
compassion? Okay, he shouldn't have done it. But since he's doing
it already leaving, we can just put some water over it. How are
you? So particular to think about this when there's so much pressure
on you? If somebody does that you're gonna get angry. So your
anger comes out, but the promise that allows him is calm? And he
says no, don't do that. Then he called him and he explained to
him,
then he called him and he explained to him the ability to be
controlled in pressure environments. Subhanallah you will
learn that from the Prophets Allah sternum, and most of our problems
today is because we say something silly under pressure. You get a
bit angry and you say something Talaq, Talaq Talaq.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam at nine waves at once, as it was
talking about the marriage, right? I couldn't understand all the
beautiful words, but I got some of it, I think, right? So
the promise on that nine wives, and he dealt with all of them
injustice, with justice, with compassion, with love with care,
saying that I'm the best of you to my wives. And one of the reasons
is because I'm the best in character, character is self
control. And that's what we're going to learn from the Vorticella
lives and his self control. You read about these things.
For example, there was one of the scholars his son passed away. So
on that day, he's hardly seen smiling, but on this day when his
son passed away, he's seen smiling.
Why are you smiling today? Right? Why are you smiling on the day
your son has has passed away? He said, I'm practicing Radha Bill
Kedah
trying to show that I'm satisfied with Allah's decree, so I'm making
an extra effort.
Now that's a very precious time to think about that. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam though what is his sunnah? He is invited
to his grand son is grandchild who is about to die. First. He says
look for Allah is whoever He Allah gives an Allah can take. Yeah, for
ALLAH SubhanA wa he takes wherever he wants. Then when his daughter
insisted that he come, he went,
and he held the child. And then he started weeping. So the Sahaba
that were around him some of the big Saba who around him they got
surprised. Why are you crying? Because you told us that you
shouldn't lament and he says, yeah, that's lamenting, that's
different. But he says, this is Rama. You can do that. Can you see
how
he lets his emotion come when it's when it's when it's appropriate?
is a no, no, no, I'm gonna act like some kind of stoic, you know,
philosopher or individual that I'm not going to say anything. You're
allowed to weep and let that emotion out because that's human
being Prophet sallallahu sallam was the perfect absolute perfect
human that showed how to be the perfect human being the perfect
slave of Allah subhanaw taala.
The Sahaba learn from him now. I had a friend he's a convert from
America. He's a convert he went to Turkey he studied he came back
now. He was in Arizona and one of the towns in Arizona economy he
was in Tucson or in Phoenix one of the two times and he used to wear
a Bugatti any mama now in London, it's you can wear buggery, you can
wear a mama, you can wear niqab, nobody's gonna say anything to
you. Right? It's casual. But in many towns where there's nobody
wearing that you're the only one wearing a turban. Imagine that in
that Phoenix and it's very hot there. Right? It's very hot there
as well. He used to wear a turban another Muslim came to him and
said, Why do you do it wear this thing for? Is it necessary? Why'd
you wear it? I don't know. Sometimes people feel a bit guilty
or something. So they try to challenge you like, Why are you
eating? You know why you're doing this for?
The answer was amazing. He said, Brother, I don't know how to
explain to you.
It's such a personal thing. I think about this. It's a very
personal thing. The best man I know is the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, he's the best that Allah has created. He's the
most Beloved of Allah. He used to wear a turban. So I was
like, How can I explain that to you? He didn't tell him it's part
of the hijab. sunnah was that? No. He just said, this is what I feel.
This is what I want to emulate. What do I tell you? How do I
explain that to you? I can't give you that. You know that that same
zeal?
That's very important.
That's why all the Sooners of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam we must try to follow. It's difficult to follow all of them
straight away. But what you want is start off with an ambition that
before I pass away in every subsequent day and month and year,
I want to become more closer to the Prophet sallallahu Sallam than
I've been before. So you start reading start reading Riyadh, the
Saudi and Hadith you start learning from the ALMA different
Sooners. You start with the more important ones, and you do as many
as you can. If you can't do it today don't justify a lot of
people they come and they say, che Can you tell us the hook of the
beard? Is it why jib? Is it fuddled? Is it just sunnah? What
is it? The Shafi say it's they have two views and all of this I
don't answer the question. I say look, the prophets Allah Allah
Islam had a really nice beard. And that's why I keep on you can't
keep on today because maybe your wife complains, ah is right or for
whatever reason, then intend to keep it tomorrow.
Don't justify don't look for a fatwa that you know it's not
necessary or it's not fuddled, or it's not there. So it's not that
and then for the rest of your life, you've just stumped to your
growth. Wouldn't you want to be closer to the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam before we die. So to extend our chances to be in his
company to be given to drink from his hand to gain his intercession
to gain his company in the Paradise, you know, something to
just expand our chances. See,
the Sahaba on a different level.
Abdullah normally then statements about him that he would even try
to find the exact places when going from Makkah Mecca, Medina
menorah to mcomber carnamah, where the browser summit stopped, where
he had even relieved himself. He tried to remember that he tried to
exactly go to those but it's not necessary to do that.
That's not fired. The person didn't even tell him to do
that, but he's felt he's the best man. I'm going to follow whatever
he does. That's why I feel it's good.
Try to find out as much as you can and then try to follow as much as
you can. This is what I will suggest, as a final point. Many,
many stories about following the Robert Solow some that just please
don't justify.
Say I can't do it today inshallah I'm going to do tomorrow and Allah
will give you the Tofik to do tomorrow. Okay. Welcome to that
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