Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 14
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meaning exhaust the human mind, near and far always seem to be
dumbstruck. He is like the sun to the eye at a distance it seems
small, but when near it dulls the sight. How can his reality be
grasped in this world by people who are asleep, distracted from
him by dreams? The most we know of him is that he is a mortal man,
and that he is the best of all God's creation. Every miracle
which the noble messengers brought, was this by virtue of his
light alone, for he is the son of virtue, and they are as planets.
Amidst the shadows they display its rays to humanity. How noble
the quality of a prophet adorned by such traits, how full is his
beauty, how gifted with smiling joy, as a flower in a Dilek as a
flower in delicacy, as the full Moon in honor, like the sea in
bounty, as persistent as time itself? Now we have to understand
what he means by those words. So first and foremost, we looked at
the first poem last week, which is that understanding his meaning
exhaust the human mind near and far always seem to be obstructed
and matter how much whether you live that is time, or whether we
were we came after his time like us, or whether you were at his
time, nobody really got to the absolute nature of the secret
behind him. That's why he says he is like the sun Geshem see
thoroughly lie in a in a mean burden is like the sun to the eye
at a distance, it seems small. So he Rotom what a kilometer from in
me, but when near it dazzles the site, so the closer you get, it's
gonna dazzle the site.
So what he means by that, is that, what is the secret behind the
sudo? allah sallallahu? Allah uses closeness to Allah. What is the
secret behind his honor? Behind his high status? What is that
secrets? What makes him who he is?
We know many, many, many things that are external. We understand
those we've seen those we've seen them related to the ideals. But
what is the real thing why Allah chose him? What is the real reason
that Allah chose him? Did he he kind of chose him because of his
qualities because he made his qualities he made him because each
he made him with those qualities and that greatness and with the
character and the characteristic and the beautiful profile and
everything, the knowledge, the wisdom, because he chose him. So
that's not the reason why he chose him. Because Allah doesn't choose,
Allah makes and creates. So what is the reason why Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is of that status. That is something he
is saying that nobody has been able to understand. That's a
secret only Allah knows.
So the special secrets
that Allah subhanaw taala has specified
within the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Nobody's been
able to comprehend that.
People are
people are not able to understand it, and to understand its reality.
So in this case, this is what he's saying that in this case, those
who are close to him, like the Sahaba, for example of those that
were living at his time that those that saw him physically, or those
that will come after him, nobody will understand that, whether his
contemporaries or people that will come later. In that sense, he's
like the sun.
In that sense, he's like the sun. Because
it's when the sun, you kind of get an idea of what the Sun is, but to
really understand the sun.
When you get closer, it's raised, they dazzle you, so you can't
really even look at it. So whether you're close or fi doesn't really
make a difference. You can't really get too close to understand
anyway. So
of course, now through science, we have some idea that made
calculations and so on and so forth. But nobody's really been to
the sun to look at it or been to any of the stars, in fact, which
the sun is part of. That's just the closest star that we have.
So we have idea of what it may look like its own just like we
have ideas about things but it's reality nobody's ever been able to
experience that. Likewise is the secret of Rasulullah sallallahu
Oleoresin. And why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has
got the status that he has. In that sense, everybody's the same,
nobody really knows. Then he says,
Then he gives the reason he says, What can you say you did ecofit
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How can
his reality be grasped in this world? by people who are asleep,
distracted from him by their dreams? Now again, what does he
mean by that? The status that he has we some days ago, we read
the one couplet to the one poem in which he said that the knowledge
and the wisdom of all the other prophets are just like dots, and
the vowels to the actual letters, and his knowledge is like the
letters. We thought it was an exaggeration. Just later on that
week, or the next week, I was reading Sahih Muslim, we came
across a hadith
about the Mirage about the ascension, that no prophet has
been able to go beyond this universe for that reason.
And the prophets, Allah was was taken on a special animal from
here to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem. One first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh heaven. And then beyond
that, and then even beyond where Jibreel Adi song Congo, he was
taken closer than any other creation. That's when I thought,
Allah Boosie knows what he's talking about. That's not an
exaggeration. Because if you just look at where other prophets have
been taken, and where he's been taken, Musa lism, asked to see
Allah. And that didn't happen. The prophesy Lawson was taken up
there. And according to many of the Sahaba, he saw Allah as well.
And even if he didn't, he was close.
closeness, Allah knows best what that means. But that is a massive
difference. Where is above the seven, heavens Sidra, three moonta
and beyond, and just being on Earth?
What's the comparison? So when he says that, yes, his wisdom is
knowledge, then absolutely, that makes sense.
And that's what he is now really trying to make us understand.
Look, you don't know his understanding, you don't know the
secrets that he holds, why Allah has specified him in this way.
So all the knowledge that Allah the Prophet sallallahu Sallam has
been given all the secrets that have been he's been that have been
revealed to him. For example, there's one of the great aroma of
the past. One day he wakes up in the morning, and he can't see any
letters, he goes in to shake. He says, Look, I can't see anything
anymore. The Sheikh said that you've been given an element that
Dooney this was just once it happens, he says, Allah subhanho
wa Taala will give you inspiration. There's no way
there's no revelation. But Allah subhanho wa taala, he gives what
you call rasa. He gives certain ideas, and this is something that
each one of us can can experience. Sometimes I sit in this place, or
in any other place that I teach in, and it's something I have not
understood. But when we actually go and sit down to explain it
somehow, it just all makes sense. So if that makes sense to me, who
is nobody, then for others who are greater than the prophets? I mean,
there's direct, there's a direct feed, there's no doubt about it.
I'm just capturing parts of it, you know, hopefully somewhere. So
it's an absolute possibility.
You know, from experience, you can prove this, you don't need to just
take a leap of faith to understand this even so,
now what the thing is with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is that the Sahaba
he's not trying to say that how can he is not putting this
negatively
Is that how can people who are asleep understanding that you're
asleep, that's why you can't understand if you wake up you
will. That's not the point. What he's trying to say is that it's
very elegant. He's saying, you know, the Sahaba, who is the who
are probably the most knowledgeable and knowing of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam. All they know about him
is like what we would see in a dream. So that's the furthest, and
all they know about him is what they would see in a dream. So in
reality, they don't even know. They just know as much as a person
could see in a dream as compared in comparison to what you would
see in reality. So they know something, it's like you've seen
something in your dream. So you know about it, you have some
general idea about it, but you don't know the reality of it,
because you haven't seen it in real life.
So everything that they know, which is a lot, all the Hadith
that we have today, that's all from them. That's a huge amount of
knowledge. But all of that is just like a dream compared to the
reality which nobody can know in this world. So you're wondering,
then why are we speaking about it? We're speaking about this to show
the high status of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, that
there's just so much to know about him, I mean, the Sahaba that
that's all they've been able to get. So they have been able to
grasp his outward human form, his human actions, his behavior,
outwardly, he will see that they've seen it, they've observed
it. But what's esoterically inside him who he is, what's his reality?
Not in terms of biology and physical makeup, but what is his
significance? This is not about trying to make him some kind of
light and non human, we're not saying that he was a human being
came from parents. And he says, I am like you, I am a human being
like you, which Allah even RGB will clarify as well. But this is
talking about his significance is important, what he is who he is
his status. So nobody has been able to understand that. Oh, so
corny, who never saw Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam but
knew of him had become a believer in the profit and loss of new
human made and said that asked him for the armor the owner was told
to ask him for dua, he said wants to some of the companions of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He made a statement he
seems like he knew the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
despite not having ever seen him. He said that Mara Atim Minh rasool
Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa salam in La Villa.
The only thing you've seen of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is a
shadow.
You've seen him in real life, but what you've seen him compared to
his reality is just like a shadow to the real thing. So they said,
Well, what about Abu Bakr? If not a bit Kochava even him? Is that
only how much he's grasped as well? He says, Yeah, what Kochava
not even him. He's not a he's only seen the shadow as well. This
incident was mentioned to this great shape of the past will have
to show that he
and he said yes. always knows what he's speaking about. He's told the
truth. Because
it you know, the Allahu Anhu his status was that he had understood
the knifes of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. His
How do you translate this fucking hiddenness for fucka penetrating
insight into how things the truth of things, to understand a ruling
to understand how a ruling works, to understand jurisprudence. So,
each one of the Sahaba the four codify especially, they had
understood one specific aspect of Rasulullah, Salah some and that
dominated within them, and the others had not do not have the
same status as the others. Each one has a unique understanding.
Now this can only be understood from a lot of analysis of their
lives and then you see the similarity. So Ali Radi Allahu
Anhu is considered to have the MACOM the status of the knifes of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Earth man with the Allahu
Anhu had an understanding of his hearts. According to this analysis
on what are the Allahu Anhu had comprehended the intelligence of
rasool Allah is aka his intellect. You will see the fruits of all of
this as well. And Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu had understood his
rule and His Spirit. So he had a dominant dominance of the Spirit.
He was the closest because the rule is the closest.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his reality is of course,
the full reality of everything is only known to Allah subhanaw
taala. But these four had grasped different aspects, the ruler, the
knifes, the Akal, and the color the heart. So
different believers will have different perceptions and
understanding and comprehend the amount they've comprehended.
Rasulullah sallallahu some will be of different levels.
The whole of obviously the most in that regard.
because they stayed the closest with him, it really Allahu Anhu.
He had a dominance of understanding Messiah,
problematic issues, how to resolve them.
What's the How can the truth in certain Messiah, he had a good
understanding of that shadow that comes from forgotten us. Some of
these, there's very few of these that have forgotten us, where
they've studied so much. And Allah subhanaw taala has opened it up to
them because brava Lawson said, My URI de la who be clear on your
faculty who feed Dean, whoever Allah subhanaw taala intends good
with, he gives them a deep penetrating understanding of the
dean. So they may not have the books in front of them. But they
can tell this just doesn't look right. And this is haram, this is
wrong, or whatever the case is, they've got a much better and even
a complicated issue, they will be able to work it out more than
others. Others will have to look further, you know, to really look
impaired and think a lot these people will just understand it
because Allah has just given them that penetrating experience and
insight. So I leave that the Allahu Anhu was of that level.
It's like, can he stop that from happening? He can't. It's a
natural trait within him he can't even stop it is just so natural to
him to do that. That's how he had connected to Rasulullah
sallallahu. Right with the man with the Allahu Anhu his he was
more laid back. He wasn't more extroverted. He was more calm. You
don't see him you know, he's more doing his own things. His point
was of reflecting over the knowledge of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. So he had understood the heart of Rasul
Allah has called his heart because the heart thinks ponders, it
ponders, right different from how the mind wanders. So Earth man or
the Allahu Anhu has more to do with the heart of Rasul Allah,
while aroma Radi Allahu Anhu he was more in extrapolating and
understanding beyond that his was more adept borrowers are smarter
than I was more difficult, right. So it's very difficult to get an
understanding of the absolute difference between them. One is
just kind of reflection. The other one is probably further
reflection, which is more of the intellect. And Abu Bakr Siddiq are
the Allahu Anhu he just probably was the closest in terms of
getting that reality. That's why I needed the Allah one who is called
the door of Babel, Medina, Talal, the door of the City of Knowledge
and the process, the last one was the City of Knowledge, there is a
story that's related about him, which you can try to work out the
mathematics behind it, or the logic behind it, but I'll relate
it to you anyway. And whoever understands the logic behind it,
you can explain to me later,
it's related from Z ignore Hubei ish, or the Allahu anhu, that once
two guys sat down to eat, one of them that, you know, they probably
working together, traveling together, whatever, they brought
their pain. They're packed lunch with them. So one had five
rotis, bread, whatever you want to call them.
Whatever they wrote, he was like, in those days, whatever their
bread was, like, he had five pieces. The other one had three
sat down, he said, we're going to share 1.5 In the other 1.3 and you
can understand the right five pieces, one person but three
pieces, then suddenly this third person comes along.
And he asked that, you know, can you join in? So they said yes,
they both gave him permission. And now they all ate equally. So how
many pieces you had five plus three or eight pieces, or three
guys? They ate equally? How do you distribute that? What does it
become? Okay, you divide each one into three. That's a good point.
So how many would you get three times a 24 pieces. Right? Okay, so
you got it's like 24 pieces, eight pieces each. Then after that, this
third person
who had participated,
he put down in front of them eight Durham's and he says, this is in
lieu of what I've eaten with you. So you paid them afterwards, give
him a tip.
Now, he's gone. And these two, they're trying to distribute this
tip between them, you know, waiters, they like to, they have
these arguments as well. But anyway, these guys, they're trying
to distribute the tip between them. The person who had five, who
had contributed five, he said,
I should take five of these drums and you take three of these drums
because I had more you had less the other one for some reason. He
said no, we should share it equally for each rather than five
and three, we should share it equally.
So they of course they couldn't this is a conflict they couldn't
decide themselves. So they went to the to the Allahu Anhu. He said to
the person who had three who was being given three look, I would
say
Just that you take it, I would suggest that you take this three
if that's what he's offering you take it.
But the person said no Maori Illa, Sami Mohawk, I want pure truth. I
want the absolute right here. He really was convinced. This is this
is the natural case where this kind of things happen. People are
convinced that they've got the rights. This is what greed does to
you.
It does this to you, even though it's not yours. Everybody cannot
see it. But you are absolutely convinced. If you go and listen to
them, they'll convince you that it's their right. This happens so
many times I get a question. They'll tell me a story. I'm like,
wow, they've cheated you There you go and hear the other story. And
no, it's not. It's just this guy is so convinced that he can
persuade you.
So when he refused to accept the three it Radi Allahu Anhu said,
Okay, fine, then really, in all honesty, then you only get one.
And he gets seven. How'd you work that one out? That's why I said
you need to understand the logic behind this, right? You only if
you really want the truth, and you're only going to get one he's
gonna get he's going to get seven. So then he was surprised.
Obviously, that was a better deal I was getting earlier why this
now? He said it. He said working for Zakia Ameerul Momineen? How is
that possible? Yamaha is that meaning? Oh, what's the reasoning
behind it? So now he explains he says, because the eight is
actually should be in 24 parts, right. And
for the person who had five, he should get two thirds of that.
And for the person. Sorry, for the person who who provided five, he
should get 15 parts of it. 15 of the 24 and you should get nine.
Now you've already eaten
equally, you ate eight pots. So now you only got one pot left. So
you should only get one more now. out of
the out of nine. That was your right? You've eaten eight pots. So
now you get one more pot and your partner, your companion. He has
eaten eight. He's still got another seven left out of his
share of 15.
So and the third person he ate his
eight hearts. So seven parts for your for this person and one part
for you. See, he says okay, fine. He agreed it of the saying he
agreed. So this is his understanding his his under who's
understood this issue, we got very far from it, the alarms inside he
immediately let me look at the mathematics the way he worked it
out.
Straight away. We can discuss this more later. But
basically, it's the idea is that the person who contributed five
rotis, if you divide that by three, how many parts you get, if
you divide each one into three, you get 15. That's his
contribution.
The other person put three on the distal Han, three times three is
nine. So you got nine plus 15, that's 24 parts, you're probably
getting confused. If you if you times the eight by three. Well, it
works out the same way really. But this if you do that it's 24. And
then if you say two thirds, it's not really two thirds, right,
because not two thirds of 24 because that would make it six
816. But it's actually he had 15 pieces that we contributed, and
this person has given eight now. So this person's the second person
had eaten eight pots. This person had eaten eight pots, he had one
left, this person had how many seven left? So seven plus one is
eight. He looked at it that way.
Kind of convoluted, but the person agreed and that's what he took.
When you look at
oath man or the Allahu and he was one of the writers of the wacky.
Then you look at Roma are the Allahu Anhu how he perceived the
uncle of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And that's why
you see that there are over 20 situations during the time of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam where I'm going to be alone
insisted or said something or
propose something probably Salah some rejected at first but then
the Quranic verse came down according to that. So that's one
of the alone insight that he had gained from Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam and Abu Bakr the Allahu Anhu. Of course, he's
Marshall mashallah the level of understanding he had of the
Tawheed nobody else had. He was at the most intimate moments with
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, as Allah subhanaw taala
says the Quran he saw he Mihaela tasm in Allah Marina, when he was
when he was in the in the in the cave, with rasool Allah Allah made
that really precarious moment and the benefits he must have gained
for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam must have been
absolutely amazing.
The next one is
then he finally says the poet will city he says for my blog will AMI
fee and who Bashar one who Jairo hull killer he could lay him. The
most we know of him after understanding all of this. The
most we know of him is that he is a mortal man. Why would he say
this after all of this, this is kind of like reducing him in a
sense. So there must be many reasons why he's saying this. So
he says the most we know of him is that he is a mortal man that's as
much as we can see of him that he's a man he's a human being.
That's how we see him
in flesh and blood, that's how we know of him and that he is the
best of all God's creation.
All God's creation that includes the angels includes everything and
everybody. The Quran says this very clearly. Allah subhanaw taala
says, it says to reverse Rossum to say call in nama Bashara mythical,
say that I am merely a soul like you merely a human like you. And
in son like you,
the prophets of Allah Haysom himself said, on one occasion,
when there was a bit of a conflict between two people, and he said,
look in the mountain, abishola, Mithra, calm. I'm just like, a
person from among you.
Dr. Simona. Ilya, you bring your case to me. And it's possible that
one person is more eloquent and more articulate in presenting his
side of the story. And I may judge according to him, because that's,
that's the way I see it, because he's so eloquent in presenting his
case is so convincing. He shows me that he is on the right and the
truth, the other one can't speak properly. So he loses out even
though he is really on the truth. So I may judge in your favor. But
remember, that's my judgment here. But if you are wrong, and if I've
judged wrongly, then you will have to repay repay it. So in this
context, that's how he explains himself, which is out of his
humility. He explains himself, many, many Hadees show how the
promise of awesome is then the superior of every of every
creation. One is that the province of awesome himself said despite
his absolute humble nature, but he had to express this just so people
get the Eman right, so that they're not
confused. He said a crumble of Alina will arena, Allah Rob be
wonderful. I am the most noble of the early people or the later
people of all times I say this without any pride. What Annecy the
will the Adam Young will appear. And I am the leader of the
children of Adam on the Day of Judgment, even though I'm from the
children. And then he says that everybody will be under my banner,
including other monies. And then another one, he says one element
and Shaco annual Earth. First one from whom the earth will split,
and I will be resurrected first. What an usher if you're on one
wish. And I'm the first person to intercede and the first persons
whose intercession is going to be accepted. These were just some of
the virtues he mentioned. He also said what honestly you don't
already know we're not gonna see the NASCIO Malkia numerous
narrations of this nature. This is exactly our belief. This is our
belief. So we don't look at the other prophets, miracles and so
on. And we think well, they must be of the same level. They are of
a very high level. But Rasulullah Lawson's level is literally like
the earth to the sky, to the heavens. In fact, it's not just
him with all the other prophets as well the reason that they have
been selected, they each of the secrets which we can never
perceive in this world, but the promise of loss is just beyond
cannot be perceived. Then he says what could in
what could lie in utter Rasul Quran will be Ha, for in nama
TopSolid minuti he behaved me. This is another one of those
narration No, none of the one of those points that relate to the
prophets. And he compares to what he's saying in this one is every
miracle, think of this carefully. Every miracle which the noble
messengers, a Saudi Saddam Hussein Ali Salam use of ISIS, every
miracle that they brought, was this by virtue of his light alone.
So even then, miracles are through his virtue, even though they came
before him and he came later.
Now, let's understand that you might think that's another massive
exaggeration. Initially when you read this, you think it's an
exaggeration, but let's put it in perspective. First and foremost,
everyone from the prophet or the mighty salaam to our prophets,
Allah Lord isms time, they are all benefiting from the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, all the prophets are benefiting from
have benefited from the soul of Allah salAllahu Salam
because there is a Hadith which is kind of problematic. It's
been critiqued as being weak or fabricated, or, you know, very
weak level that the first thing that was created was my nor
the prophets, Allah some said this. And then there is also this,
based on this, there's also one of the opinions is that everything is
created from his light. Now, if you put that aside, we don't need
to use that we've already established under one of the
previous lines,
that the Prophet sallallahu sallam was addressed and said that if it
wasn't for you, nothing would have been created, which goes to give
us some understanding of the status of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam, if it wasn't for you, this dunya would not have
come from nothing into existence. So now, when all the prophets and
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi salam are displaying all of
these angels, these miracles, so you hear the miracle of Mousavi
salmon, and he saw this, I'm bringing somebody live, and so on
and so forth. And you see the promises and doing the same thing
as well. Maybe somebody would think that, oh, they are all the
same. He's doing miracles, he's doing miracles and the prophets,
Allah, some is doing miracles as well. So they must all be the
same, because for many people, seeing a miracle is the most
amazing thing you'd see of anybody. You know, people are
Bewitched, by that. So if you think that that's the way that it
should be looked at, however, he said, just in his previous one,
that we're under hierarchy law, he called him, he is the most he is
the most noble of all of Allah, subhanaw taala of creation.
So then, in order to expound on that, he compares him now to the
prophets and says, that they're miracles that were displayed on
them and manifest on them.
They all got it because of him. How so? All the miracles of all
the other prophets are because of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
salam, because he is the whole purpose why Allah subhanho wa
Taala created this entire universe. So then everything that
happens in it is going to be because of him.
You can't escape that fact. Whether it be a prophet or
somebody else, because if he wasn't, then then you are your
miracle or nobody would be there. So then the fact that you are here
and you got a miracle then is because of him.
Because if it wasn't for him, then you wouldn't have been there.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said we're going to be and
what Adam Beynon banal Matthew walked in, I was a prophet, when
Adam Alayhis Salam was still between water, and the sun, the
soil. He hadn't even been created yet. And I was already a prophet,
but I wasn't created either. Meaning I wasn't creating the form
that you see me. So some aspect of it. I think this is the crux of
the matter here. In fact, the another one, he says, Be the rule,
he will just sit between soul and body. That's how other Malasana
was, and I was already a prophet. I was a prophet before other
Mondays.
But I wasn't in the world yet. So that's mentioned in the Hadith.
And then you have the Hadith where other Muslim actually So Muhammad
Rasool Allah, written on the Arash and he used that to ask Allah
subhanaw taala for his forgiveness. So the fact is that
there was a special designation, the reality of which is impossible
for us to understand, but we know that Allah subhanaw taala, he the
first thing for him, whereas Allah doesn't have any first or second
because the he doesn't go through movement, Allah is eternal. For
him, time doesn't really matter. So we can never comprehend how
this works in the divine realm. But all we understand is that
mom's a lot Islam in terms of humans, was considered a prophet.
And given that designation, even though he had come into the world,
in the physical way that we know him, and Allah knows best, Allah
knows best for inner who Shamsul father in whom Keva kibou her
youth hin Anwar Raha leanness if you follow me, because he is the
son,
he is
the son of virtue, and they are its planets. He is now comparing
him to be the sun to the planets, and the prophets are like the
planets. This is very deep listen to this carefully amid the shadows
they display it's raised to humanity. Now listen to this
carefully. Then he says which is not in older editions. He's got
the commentary here by ignore Jeeva he adds a one extra line
which is not in other editions, which is hotter either Tada,
artefill oof, okay, um, who the * elemina? What? Umami that
such that when
they rise on the horizon, when no, until when it rises on the
horizon, then its guidance is universally
spread to all of the
creation, all the universes, and it enlivens all the communities.
What he's saying here is that at nighttime, you What do you use at
nighttime? Use the stars.
But when the sun rises in the morning, are you going to look for
stars? Are they even going to be visible. So that's what he's
trying to show the difference that the stars in relationship to the
sun, they give some light when the sun is not around. Once the sun
comes in, then there is no star, and there is no light.
So that's the comparison he's making. So let's look at this a
bit more carefully. He says,
that does Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he is the son of all
virtues.
Right, he is the son of all virtues.
Son, meaning he is the brightest that holds all these virtues, and
the mind of all perfections.
And he is the origin of all illumination.
So anybody in this world, whether it's angels or anybody after it,
any wisdom that they will have, has to come from him, has to come.
Because of him. When I say from him, it's like, you know, you're
directly getting something from him, let's say because of him. It
just makes it a bit easier to understand. Anybody who invites to
Allah subhanho wa taala, they only do it
as a Khalifa of his,
as a deputy of his anybody.
That's why the lights of the prophets are taken from his light,
because he was the cause for everything.
That's why when finally the son of his the son of his virtue rose,
and the lights of his guidance, illuminated everything, then the
lights of their guidance became extinguished,
became extinguished. Their Sharia their sacred laws, their systems,
they became abrogated.
Because now, the primary, the primary one was there. Because
when the sun is not around, people use the light from the stars. But
when the sun comes out, that people suffice from the light, and
it's more than enough.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lights are being
a being, given the example of the lights of the sun, and the lights
of the Gambia are like the lights of the stars.
And although stars, they are sun, they are different suns anyway.
And they have their own light, just like the nature of the sun.
They have, but he's just trying to make the comparison that we can
only see the stars when we don't have our sun in front of us, even
though they're all independent, because they all are suns in their
own rights. Do you understand? Which the prophets are they all
suns in their own lights, but they have a connection. In fact, their
connection from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
whereas the stars that we know they got nothing to do with our
Sun, in reality, right? They don't get their light from the sun,
according to astronomy. But the so that's just half an example. It's
just half a metaphor. Really what it is, is that the prophets, the
other prophets, they are getting all of this because of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And look.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam himself said that on the Day of
Judgment, I hope to have the biggest following.
So he is going to have more following than everybody else, his
OMA is going to be the greatest of them. In fact, Allah subhanho wa
Taala in front of him in his life, in such a short amount of time,
gave him the ability to guide more people than any of the other
prophets during their lives, even though they had much longer lives.
Some of them had much longer lives than him. But they none of them
got the same amount of happiness and satisfaction of seeing this
great oma in front of them. That's why the Prophet sallallahu semones
Farewell had just imagined this. It's only been, what, 3023 years,
22 years, 23 years. He's in the hudge in only 20 to 23 years. And
he's seeing 124,000 people that have that have arrived there.
These are the people who've been able to arrive.
And he's speaking to them. Can you imagine what feeling he had in his
heart to see all of these believers around you? Teaming
miles of people 124,000 people around you that are willing to
obey you
Three words that are full conviction in you Subhanallah
Majan what that did for him and that's where he made his Farewell,
farewell hotbar.
So, although we see His guidance as having begun after he claimed
prophethood and started to propagate, but what the claim is
being made here by Allama, Boo CT, implicitly, is that know his
guidance started well beyond that before that, because all the
prophets and their guidance was his guidance. So all the prophets,
when they asked people when they invited people, it's like, this is
the this is the inviting of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So now there's three ways of understanding this thing. I've
been thinking about this for a while, there is three ways of
understanding the Prophet sallallahu Salem's desire that he
will have the greatest following on the Day of Judgment. One way of
looking at it is that, as it's explained here, that if all the
prophets and their invitees and those people who believed all the
believers of the past nations if they are also ummah of Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam, but that's extending the meaning, I think,
because we know what his ummah is, because on that day, it mentions
that on the Day of Judgment, a Saudi salaam will come with Musa
is someone come with a group people, then there'll be a much
larger group of people in SRS, and will be in front of them, then
there'll be a massive group, like fill the horizon that will involve
similasan. That means that they cannot be part of this Mr.
Lawson's group, so we can't look at it that way. So the other two
ways to look at it. Right now. The Muslims are what they say 1.3
billion or something. How many Christians are there, though? A
few billion? Right? There's definitely, according to the
general census, that all the statistics and the figures that
are put out there, generally there seems to be more Christians in the
world than Muslims today.
So then, and the Christians have been around, or followers of Jesus
of proponent that proposed, or followers that claim to be
followers of Jesus, they've been around for much longer than the
Muslim six 700 years. So then, how are the Muslims going to be more?
That's the question to ask, how are the Muslims going to be more
when the Christians have had many more followers before and today,
they've got more followers.
I can think of two reasons for this very quickly. One is that
either as we carry on when he said Islam comes in, he sets them, he
sets the he sets everything, alright? Then there's going to be
everybody's going to be a believer.
So eventually, we'll end up being that there will be more Muslims,
because everybody is going to become a believer. The other way
to look at it, Allahu Allah, is that people who truly and
genuinely follow the Prophet. If you compare that, then the
believers of Muhammad Salah and mo, mo, because they still have
the right religion, the right teachings, or living tradition
still there with the Quran and the Sunnah, whereas the others is all
been really changed and manipulated and it's not in it's
alright, so yes, they've got more in number in terms of that. But
what was really real in that is maybe just a few. So these are two
possible ways of looking at it. And Allah subhanaw taala knows
best. But the main thing here just to finish this off, is that
because the Prophet of Allah is Allah subhanaw taala says, We're
not also NACA, Ilca phellinus I sent you, and for the entirety of
people I sent you, for the entirety of people that goes to
understand that when the other prophets are inviting, they're
inviting, because of him as well. So the benefit is gain from that,
from that sense.
And then, who is God for to nurse all the people that means that in
the previous prophets are all included in that as well? That's
why Allah subhanaw taala says in another verse in the Quran, that
Allah has taken a vow from all the prophets that if Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam was to appear, and they were there, they would
have to believe in Him. That was there. Okay, I'll make you a
prophet, but you have to believe in Muhammad Sallallahu when it
comes up,
so Ha, they know that, but this is, as you can see, this is very
deep. This is what poetry does, this is extremely deep. And you
have to really like understand and challenge your mind and go beyond
what you normally understand. So may Allah subhanaw taala give us
the Tofik May Allah subhanaw taala use Tofik to better understand our
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and fulfill his rights that
are due on us to fulfill by respecting sunnah by understanding
by sending salutations on him by reading a Syrah by telling other
people about him by defending his honor. And defending his honor
means defending his Deen from manipulation interpolation from
change and alteration. That's also very important as well. I can read
that one Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
olam and the Sudan woman because salaam to a lot of the other
jewelry from Allah homie Are you able to younger mythical stories
along them and then you know Landis?
I mean, just Allah who I know Muhammad Allah Hello over like
September dryness or Allah grant us and underst
handing of our messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O
Allah make the greatest significance of him in our lives
so that we follow him with full conviction and we're proud of it
of Allah take the embarrassment out of our hearts in following the
Sunnah. Any impediments in our way and obstacles in our way of
finding the Sunnah of Allah remove them from us. I know Allah make
him the greatest of our role models, make that tour to the full
conviction in our hearts so that we follow him with full
understanding and confidence. Oh Allah grant us that you're keen
because we know that following Him is the only way to you, Oh Allah,
we want to reach you. And following the messages a lot of
them is the only way I will Allah grant us a true and pristine,
clear understanding a pure understanding of your messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, all the difficulties that are in front
of us the confusing issues, that is separating the good from the
bad suffering the Huck from the bottom, oh Allah grant us the
truth and allow the truth to penetrate our hearts and for us to
follow it. And Allah safeguard us from the battle in the wrong way.
And grant us the ability to see the truth wherever it is, Oh Allah
grant us all Kenema La Ilaha illa Allah on our deathbed. Subhan
Allah because Allah is that your mIRC foon was salam when I'm more
saline will handle
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further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
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that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
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