Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Noble Reflection of the Prophet (S)
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
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kala hula Aleem My dear respected
or dharma brothers and sisters
As Salam aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
I'm going to quote to you a poem
which is a bit of a very bold statement poem.
It was written in order to do by a poet called cabal Sohei. And when
I translated to his making quite a bit of an assertion, a very bold
assertion, he makes a big claim. And then I'm going to have to try
to prove what he says to see whether what he's saying is
correct or not. So, what he says for those who understand or do
inshallah they'll understand it from here he says, Kitabi footrot
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Jota.
Now, that's a very bold assertion. This is what he's saying, Let me
translate it for you in English, he's saying,
if on the cover of the master plan of universe, if on the cover of
the master plan of the creation,
the name was not inscribed,
then the map of the use, the map of the universe would not have
come into being the present, the Preserved Tablet would not have
existed.
Again, if on the cover of the master plan of creation, the name
Ahmed was not inscribed,
then the map of the unit universe would not have come into being the
Preserved Tablet would not have would not have existed.
And then he says,
it's a very bold statement. It's a big, a very bold statement. Then
he says, if in your service, there was not manifest your noble
reflection,
then from the realm of the eternal being, your nation would not have
been addressed as the best of nations.
In your servants, there was not manifest your noble reflection,
then from the realm of the eternal be from the eternal being, your
nation would not have been addressed and call the best of
nations.
So now what is he saying here? Essentially, this is what he's
saying. He's saying that if
the name of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Muhammad, was not
to have been written
on the cover of the master plan of the creation by Allah subhanaw
taala.
And again, you can take this metaphorically, why would you
write somebody's name on the master plan of anything? Why would
you write the title of anything, because that's your, there's
something very important about that individual, that project that
goal, that objective. So that's why you would write something that
this is the master plan.
So for a name to be on the master plan, you have to have great
significance and purpose related to that plan. And here the poet is
saying that the master plan of creation has the name Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on it. And then he said that if that was
not the case, and if it was not written on there, sallallahu
alayhi wasallam then the map of the universe would not have
existed ever, meaning this universe would never have come
into being
and the Preserved Tablet would not have existed. So basically,
nothing to do with this universe. No decree to do with this universe
would have existed, this universe would not have come into being
because the decree is all about this universe. The Preserved
Tablet is all about this universe. Essentially what he's allowed
thing too, is he's alluding to a very special a special status that
Rasul Allah salAllahu Salam has in the sight of Allah subhanho wa
taala. In fact, there's a number of narrations of varying
authenticity and weakness that say that if it wasn't for the Prophet
salallahu Salam, Allah says that I would not have created the
universe. Now that there is some question as to you know, the
authenticity and exact reliability of this narration. But there is no
doubt that there are sort of last and Allahu alayhi wa salam was
extremely Beloved of Allah subhanho wa taala. Now, what you
have to understand here is that he is not the first created being of
Allah subhanho wa taala. And that's why Allah loves him most.
Neither is he the last of the created beings. And neither, you
know, generally speaking, when you've got somebody that's coming
first is the first one you created, you may have more love,
the last one you created, you may have more love. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was chosen to be the last prophet, but
they're not the last of creation.
Allah subhanaw taala loved him, he knew what he's about. And that's
why there are definitely more authentic narrations that talk
about the name of Rasulullah sallallahu is being above the
throne, and other mighty salaam, the first human to come in before
even Rasulullah Salah some existed. He looks at that name,
and he remembers that and then he uses that to call out as according
to many of them had the theme. So now this again is a very bold
statement. However, let's pass on to that. That's something we will
only know probably in the hereafter. But we can definitely
the next point is what I'm going to speak about here. Then he says
that if in your servants and what that means is, if in your servants
meaning the servants of the messengers of ALLAH, so we're all
the servants of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So his
entire Alma anybody who came after him, if in your servants, your
noble reflection, meaning the noble reflection, the axial axial
Karim Allah axial Quran, the noble reflection of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam was not to be manifest in his ummah, in his
servants in the people who claim to follow Him. If that was not the
case, then you would not have been considered your armor would never
have been considered to be the best of Homer's.
The only reason this OMA is Hyrule, Hyrule among the best of
nations is because it's supposed to have the noble reflection of
Rasulullah sallallahu values.
That puts a great responsibility on onto us, especially those who
claim to follow rasool Allah SallAllahu Sallam on a theological
level on a belief level, ideological level we believe in
him. So it's something we hold very close to our hearts. In fact,
if we don't believe Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam will be out of
the fold of Islam. So the fact that it's a demand of our Islam to
believe in a soul allah sallallahu Sallam we believe in him. So up to
that level, we definitely believe in him. However, it's the more
practical aspect, which is going to be the more transitive aspect
of it. What I mean is that to ourselves, we believe in him.
However, it's how we behave with others, whether we've inculcated
imbibed and infused ourselves with the character of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And his great conduct and behavior and
his actual current had, do we have the noble reflection of Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam? That's the question to ask today. And
especially in the, in the in the face of the current situation,
extremists killing extremists, as such. I mean, that's basically how
I look at it, people are killing each other. It's extremely
skilling extremists, right? And what you what you basically have
here is, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is not coming
back to this world, as a physical human being to speak for himself,
he departed this world.
He departed this world, he comes still in dreams and so on. But he
has left the task to us, how much how many of you will take the
noble reflection of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, then
display the display that the Prophet sallallahu sums noble
reflection being reflected of us to creation, we have to speak for
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, and I don't think we're
doing a good enough job. That's why people are allowed to do what
they do today. That's why these extremists at that, you know, who
who are killed these extremists who are killed. This is exactly
why they were able to make fun of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam show
him and were various poses and really an glorifying image imagery
about him, including naked and so on and so forth. They actually
that's how they made their money. That's what they got their thrills
out of, but the only reason they're able to do something like
this is that we're not strong enough to be able to reflect our
the Sunnah of Rasulullah the the behavior of Rasul Allah the
character Rasul Allah, who he is who is supposed to be his beauty,
we're not reflecting it so people can get away with this. And world
leaders will support that I
Deal of the extremist on that in on that side, because there's not
enough to show them an alternative path SubhanAllah. Now, what I what
I say about this is that if you look at Rasulullah sallallahu,
earlier someone's life, and the noble reflection, we can see it,
at its most vivid, the reflection, where somebody takes on completely
what Rasulullah sallallahu, it was the Nemours.
What you have to first realize, is that Arabia, where the Prophet
sallallahu sallam was chosen to be, it was a really interesting
place. First and foremost, it was in the Arabian Peninsula,
surrounded by the Persian and the Roman Empire to the north, and to
the south. It had the Persian it had the Romans, the the Christian,
it had the Roman Empire, and to the east, it had the Persian
Empire. And these were some of the greatest empires of the time, to
the to the west, it was the they had the see that. So beyond that
was Egypt, etc.
Now, despite the fact that the surrounding empires used to look
at these people, as savages, and wild individuals, and they were in
a time of ignorance, where they didn't know did not they, they
lived by the sword, they fought with each other. But if you were
to study them themselves, they were very proud of themselves. In
fact, they felt that they were the most superior in speech in the
whole world that nobody else could speak properly. So for them, they
were there. In fact, their name
indicates that a lot of means comes from therapy, which means to
be able to articulate what's in your mind, what's in yourself,
your thoughts properly. There's many people who cannot articulate
themselves, they've got the thought right in their mind, but
they can't, they're not very eloquent and effective in their
speech. If you look at the Arabic language, the more you study it,
the more amazed you will be of the richness, the absolute richness of
the language that you can use so many terms to describe slight
subtle nuance differences within a concept, they have different
words. So they have numerous words, just for the sheep, or just
for the horse, for example, not just two words, or three words,
but 10s of words, just to explain subtle, subtle differences within
the horse, for example. So it were a really perfect religion. And
they they knew this, and they thought everybody else was Arjun
and agile means somebody who can't speak properly. So the Romans
thought themselves with all their great pomp and palaces and their
golden treasures, and also the Persians, the same thing. And
these people had basically nothing they were doing in the desert, in
a sense, but they thought they were superior to everybody else,
the prophets, Allah was chosen to be placed there. Now, within this
wild group of people, he the Prophet sallallahu, had to come in
and change a lot of things. They were so particular about their
lineage and their ancestry, that it led to abuse of their
daughters, as you as you know, they buried their daughters alive.
So they were on an extreme in that sense that they buried their
daughters alive thinking that if my daughter is to grow up, she's
gonna become Mary, Mary, somebody else, she's not going to be able
to carry on the family lineage as such, because family lineage,
ancestry, it goes through the it goes through the sons, so then
they would kill their daughters alive, they would bury their
daughters alive as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, in fact,
what you had is today if you're if you're at work, and your wife has
been, you know, your wife, or your mother is in hospital, and then
suddenly you get the call that mashallah you've suddenly got a
daughter, or a, a sister, how happy you're going to be, you
know, you're going to be extremely happy. But then what either what
shall I do? Who will own the vanilla wedge? Who sweat then will
who are clean? Like, oh, no, I mean, I use another word, you
know, when soon as they would, they would be. And the Quran
explains it as bushido, when they will be the given the glad
tidings, because it's supposed to be a new life that's come into
this world. So Bucha I had the humble untha When one of them were
given the glad tidings, the good news that you had a daughter, your
wife just given birth to a daughter.
Their face would become dark, it's like they would rather have the
earth swallow them up, that this is a mark against my name, I'm
going to have to do something about this now. So then they would
have to you will just crazy trend and culture of their time, which
then forced them to go and bury their daughters alive. And it
wasn't easy for them to do it. But the culture forced them so their
emotions on the one hand, wanted them not to bury their daughters
alive. But then on the other hand, the pressure of the culture made
them conform. This is what culture can do to you
This is what current trends of the time can do to you. This is what
the problem is, and current trends will continuously change. That's
why it's the only the Muslims in this world who have a particular
culture that they try to use at any time during their existence in
any century that they live in, which is from Rasulullah
sallallahu, it was something that never changes certain core
principles. If you look around the world, it's only the Muslims that
actually do that in such a diverse in such a diverse way. Because
there are other groups in the world that go back to that hill
backwards, trace themselves back or try to do something, or maybe
just some aspects of worship that go back 2000 years. For example,
there are people who are like that, however, they're going to be
generally restricted to a particular area, a certain group
of people, certain ethnicity, and small numbers, when you're talking
about 1.6 billion Muslims around the world have multiple ethnicity,
ethnicities, pretty much from every country in the world,
representing every language there is in the world, food, culture,
dress, etc. And yet, they can all go back to, to the US culture of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam siboto, Allah, the color of
Allah subhanho wa taala, that he wants us to be permeated with our
challenges, how do we take that culture? How do we take that color
of Allah and still live in the world, in the prevailing customs
of that particular time, that's the challenge that we are living
in, because you know, we're told to do certain things, okay, you
cannot eat pork, you can't eat haram meat, you can't drink
alcohol. And suddenly you're at work. And you know, you've got,
you know, you just can't go into McDonald's, for example, and buy a
burger just like that, you know, you just can't go and have a Big
Mac, or you can't go and have this, that or the other wherever
else that you're going. So there's a certain challenge that we're
constantly facing. But that's our responsibility is to hold on to
that. Now, going back to the Prophet Salla, Lauryssens time,
you had this group of people who were looked on as wild and savages
by everybody else, they killed each other. And they did a lot of
things like this, the sword is what rain, what rule and the time,
they were willing to fight over any, any decision that they had a
difference of opinion about. Now, this is where the province of
liberalism came in. Now, the province of Assam himself, as you
probably know, the history, and I'm not going to his earlier
history, but he was brought up in such a way that despite the fact
that he did not have a father.
And then after that he did not have a mother, he was still
brought up with the best of dad. And that's one of the one of the
greatest miracles of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, the fact that
he is brought up without any regular, consistent tarbiyah
because one is that you have tarbiyah, which means nurturing,
and training from a single individual, or a single group of
individuals or parents for 10 years or 15 years and you suddenly
become something he was with Halima, he was with his mother for
a while. Then he went to Halima Saudi are the Allahu anha out in
the villages, out in out in the villages that he came back, he was
with his mother for a short while longer than he was with his
grandfather for two years, who was old at the time that he was with
his uncle. So you can see that going through all of these various
different
different nurture rings, Allah subhanho wa Taala looked after
him. So that's how he was, but what he did, it was what what the
most amazing thing is the first time that now now I'm going to
start telling you how his reflection paid off in the people
surrounding him. That's what we're going to study, as the poet says
that if your noble reflection was not manifest on your followers,
then you would not be the best of best of best of nations. So now,
Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the Allah one Amaro, the Allah one or the other,
the Allah one, and so on and so forth. Let's start with a sort of
lesson the lesson first, the first time he receives a revelation,
everybody knows that he goes in, he's been in the cave for a while
where he would go and retreat to meditate for for some days on end.
And then he has the experience of Gibreel Ali salaam, coming to him.
You must know the story of God Laurie salaam, coming to the
Brucella lives and telling him read. And the rest of them said I
don't know how to read I don't know how to read three times. And
then Gibreel at Islam embraced him. She realized that had come in
the form of a of a person at that time so he embraced him. And then
after that the promise that Allah son was able to read it Quran
Bismillah robic, Allah the HELOC and that's how he started. That's,
that's the way the prophets of Allah is someone was taken aback
by this experience.
This experience was a lot to handle. And I'll tell you why.
Number one, this is an experience unlike any other you know, an
angel comes in he grabs you and you know the kind of transfer of
Heart to Heart something's happening there. And you know what
it was? It's the Quran Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Quran, lo and Zelena hurdle Khurana Allah Jebin La La Atia who
has Xiang Mutasa, Dara
Akasha Tila,
if we were Allah subhanaw taala says that if we were to cause this
Quran and reveal this Quran cause it to descend on a mountain, that
mountain would literally blow up into small fragments, you turn to
dust, that's the weight of the Quran. These are the words of
Allah. What we read today, Alhamdulillah Hera, Bill Alameen,
Rahmani Raheem is
the Quran the words of Allah that have been processed through a
human being, and then given to us.
Because if we were, we could not read the way Allah subhanaw taala
actually spoke to these words, because that's eternal. That's the
Divine Being reading them. We are too weak to be able to read it in
the way Allah subhanaw taala reads it. So the Quran is revealed to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it goes through his heart.
And we know that this was a very, very heavy experience. Because
anytime the person was on would receive a what he, what would
happen is he would start sweating, even on extremely cold day, he
would start sweating because of just the burden of that situation.
And there's one sahabi, who happened to be sitting next to him
one day when revelation started coming and descending on him. And
if we if that experience hadn't happened, we wouldn't have known
about this. But he was sitting there and and the profits and
losses, edge of his knee, his knee was on this, this companions,
thigh. And as soon as the revelation began, the process was
looked down, he would cover his head, and he would look down,
because there was there was this extreme change of state for him,
if he wasn't an animal, he would have to make the animal sit down
because the animal could not carry his weight. So on that one
occasion, we know this, that when the prophets Allah was sitting
next to this individual, his knee on his, on his thigh, is that it
felt like a mountain was on my knee, it was just like, sudden
this weight. So that's the premise of the lesson, taking this
experience of the verses of the Quran, and basically, then
memorizing that or being preserved in his heart, and then he conveys
it to us. So it's a very special experience and a very solemn hat.
So he comes in, he's frightened. It's the first time this has
happened. He doesn't know what's going on. So as he comes, this is
the most interesting part. He comes home and he's trembling.
He's shivering, because of this experience. And his wife. These
are the hola Juana. This is what she said to him. Now, this is the
kind of belief of the people of the time this reflects the beliefs
of the time that if you're a good person, you will not be you will
not be inflicted by evil. That's the seems to be the pervading
custom of the time because what Khadija the Allahu Allah tells him
to reassure him, this is his wife. To reassure him, she says,
In Nicola Tasi don't run
in Nicola Tassilo, right. What Tamil will call a watermill will
tell you where to create beef. And what took Sybil might do.
He said, There's no basically she's reassuring him that there's
no way that you could have an evil influence of you or this be an
evil experience, or something harm or harm come to you because why?
Because of the following reasons. Number one, you are you tie the
knots of kinship with your family, which means you're very good with
your relatives. You always help them out, you're always there for
them and your your relationship is good with them, which brings about
Baraka in a person's life that was even understood at that time.
Number two, you pick up the burden for those who need help you pick
up their burden, whether that means speaking to them and
consoling them or means physically taking their burden, helping them
go from one place to the other to create life. You're very
hospitable to your guests, another praiseworthy, praiseworthy
characteristic and number four, you help those who don't have to
earn you assist those who don't have who are poor who are miskeen
you help them to earn so these are that's why you cannot be affected
by any evil influence of spirits. Anyway, let's fast forward that
wasn't that's just to highlight that point. Just remember these
four words. Some years later. Oh, Bakr Siddiq, Radi Allahu Anhu.
He gets tired of living in Medina in Makkah Mercado Rama, why?
Because they won't let him publicly read his solid. He would
he used to love reading the Quran. And he had a beautiful voice and
the non Muslims, the disbelievers at the time, they will actually
start gathering around him and they would listen. Now the the
leaders of the Quraysh they although opaka the alone as a
respected individual.
They felt that this was tempting their disbelievers to become
Muslim to become believers. So they wanted to push him into his
house said no, you can't do that. So he kept wanting to insist on
anyway there were these kinds of difficulties and pressures on him.
So he decided
You know what, let me leave the city and let me go and worship my
Allah subhanho wa Taala somewhere else where I am free to worship my
lord where I don't have these pressures. He leaves the city. He
goes down south from Morocco, Morocco Roma. He comes to this
place some miles outside Mocha, mocha Rama and to a place where
the car tribe lived. And there was an individual there who whose name
was Edna Davina, who was the chief of the car tribe. And he sees a
worker Siddiqa the ALLAH and he knew him from Makkah. Makara as
one of the you know, dignified individuals on basis. Yeah
Abubaker What are you doing here? He says, I am being forced out of
my city. I am being forced out of my town, because of this, this and
reasons. So this is what he said to him. He said to him, oh, Abu
Bakr. A person like you, Miss Luca, led to courage while at the
courage a person like you should not come out or should not be
forced out. You're such a beautiful individual. And then he
said the following words to him, which are the most important
things. He said to him the same thing in Nikola Tassilo Rahim what
time you call we took a deep dive what took simple model. He said
the same words to him that the wife of Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam had said to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Now
isn't that a noble reflection? That's what I mean a noble
reflection just a few years when the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
overthrew the Allah and has the same qualities as the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam suddenly starts reflecting from the Prophet
sallallahu His qualities. So I am a reflection of what my prophet is
supposed to be. Now that is, that's super, that's amazing. Just
a few years later, this is happening. Let's carry on, let's
move forward. You have another story. Amara, the Allahu Anhu. He
is a young man. And he, he is he's a shepherd for his father, he
grazes his sheep. And once in a while he loses a sheep, he loses a
goat, he loses one of one of the animals and his father gets angry
on him. Later on, he becomes the belief. So during when he becomes
the belief, he's going past the area that he would graze his
father's animals, and he starts to cry, he starts to weep, he becomes
very emotional, why are you becoming emotional? He said, This
is the place that I would lose an animal of my father, I would fall
asleep while I'm looking after my animals, and then my father would
turn me off because of the loss. And today he is the greatest and
that time, he's the greatest of the leaders of the world,
commanding these great armies and so on. And he's just looking at
the reflection of that, that what does Islam what does the noble
reflection of Rasulullah sallallahu does for a person who's
losing his father's animal, carefree attitude, person who's a
bit negligent and a bit heedless of his task at hand, suddenly, he
becomes the Farrukh such that Allah said that the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said that if Rama is greater than one st
shaytan has to move out and go on to other St. shaytaan and the
meridian cannot come together, he becomes the criterion of the right
and wrong. This is what Islam can do for you. This is what the noble
reflection of Rasulullah sallallahu does when you when you
when you accept it. And now let's move on a bit more you have
Amerindian answer the Allah Varna again, he is an ambassador of
hatred. He's an ambassador of enmity. He's an ambassador of
persecution from the people of Makkah. He was the one chosen by
the people of Makkah, when he was not yet yet a believer to go to
Abyssinia, which is Habesha Ethiopia today, the area general
area where the first group of Muslims had migrated to the people
of Makkah really hated that a group of their people had to go to
Abyssinia. They felt that that was really a bad mark on their name.
They decided to go and send somebody one of the most
influential people, one of the most diplomatic in people, one of
those people who knew the leaders of the world of the time and
Amaryllis Radi Allahu Anhu was not a Muslim at the time. He fitted
that bill. He is He was sent there. And he took a number of
gifts for Najafi and he said, Look, this is it. These are people
who run away we want to bring them back. However, he came back. He
came back obviously at that time, he did not he did not win his
case. But he was somebody who's in touch with everybody. Later on, he
becomes a Muslim. He comes to Madina Munawwara he becomes a
Muslim, and then he becomes the conqueror of Egypt. Egypt is now
under Islam because of Amarone loss of the Allah one. That's why
his Masjid still exists down there, just in the south of Cairo,
the masjid and wilderness probably nothing of his former self, but
you know, subhanAllah it's a massive message. It's a very
large, large area. That's that's where that's where it was. So, you
see a change that happens from a force of evil to a force of good,
a force of evil a force of enmity, a force of hatred, to a force of
good. That's that's what he becomes. Now you carry on. And
there's a very interesting story about Salman al Farsi Rhodiola.
Now you may have known some model Farsi Salam, the Persian or the
Allah Han came from outside. He wasn't from Arabia, he used to
speak Persian, but he came and he found a solo Allah salAllahu
Salam. Now one day he he wants
To get married, so he was told that there's a woman in the blue
lathe, the tribe of lathe, there's a woman in there who you know
would suit you. So go and ask her Go Go and ask that family if you
can marry her. So he decided to take his friend a Buddha or the
Allah one who along
a Buddha, the Allahu Anhu was from the area. And the reason he took
out the data, the Allahu Anhu is because Buddha Daria knew that
that tribe, so he thought that that's my contact through them,
you know, one is that you go right in writing, they're asking by
yourself, and the other one is that you take somebody hey, shave,
you know, you know that family, please go and talk to them about
me. Right?
Right. Anyway. So Sandman will force you know, the Allahu Anhu he
takes a Buddha that are the Allahu Anhu. Now, as they get closer, a
Buddha, the Allahu Anhu tells him that you just wait here, there's
no point as going together cold like this, let me prepare the
situation for you in all honesty in origin, you know, in all, in
all honesty, he says, let me do this. Let me go and speak to them
first on my terms, prepare the ground, then I'll bring you in,
then I'll you know, then I'll introduce you. Someone who has to
absolutely go ahead. So some monophosphate again, is waiting
outside. The Allahu Anhu goes inside, he speaking to them, then
he comes out and says You have probably thought okay, now it's my
time to go in and with other answers I'm really really sorry.
What happened is I went in there I started to speak about you to them
and so on but they told me that look, we don't know him. He's He's
strong. You know, he's from another tribe is from another
people. We know you though. Why don't you get married to her?
So I decided to say yes, I thought Yeah, it's a decent situation.
I'll say yes. And so I got married. I hope you don't mind
someone fasciae DMRC said no, absolutely nothing. No problem.
Now imagine if you did that. Imagine if some that something
like that happened to you that I sent shakin and then he just got
married.
So Hala it's you see the hearts were so pure. And he basically
said that if that's written for you then it's yours haha that's
it, you know, it's that's the end of story. And that it was only
able to do this because he knew the cleanliness and the purity of
the hearts. This is how the effect of Rasul Allah, the noble
reflection of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is being
becoming evident in the sahaba. The Sahaba definitely reflected
the noble reflection of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, why we're
failing today is because we're not taking this reflection in the
first place so that we can, you know, we can reflect it out. We're
not receiving so that we can give the problem today is SubhanAllah.
We say we are followers of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
when's the last time that we read a Syrah of the Prophet salallahu
Salam? If we don't even read a Syrah? How do we know how to act
in a particular situation?
It's as simple you know, we say we follow Rasulullah Salah awesome,
and theoretically, theologically, ideologically, we do he's our
Prophet, we would stand up for him, etc. But when it comes to our
behavior, we don't know what the Buddha said was a once in any
situation, because we just about pick up points from people from
speakers when they speak about a certain aspect. We don't do any
serious study of the zero of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam and I
believe that to really be successful really understand who
our messenger Salallahu Salam is and develop that love closeness
and take that reflection, we'd have to read more and more of the
Sierra and Sierra is something which is so powerful that if you
read the same Sierra Good, well written book on Sierra, over and
over again, you would each time benefit with new additions, new
points, because you can't take in everything that you read the first
time. But the more times you read it, the more points you will
discover and you will take in and Subhanallah there are so many
books and Syrah out there that we're not restricted to reading,
just a single Syrah. There are so many perspectives. There have been
so many great books written on this era, and we need to benefit
from these things. Now let's move on see some more of this. I just
spoke to you earlier and I told you that the way that people of
Makkah used to be where they used to bury their daughters alive,
fast forward 1015 years, in fact, not just 10 just fast forward 15
years or something like that. Now we come to the conquest of Makkah.
After Maka macabre, we have the migration to Madina, Munawwara and
then intently 10 years in Madina, Munawwara within nine years, you
have the conquest of Makkah, mocha Rama, eight to 10 years sorry,
within eight to nine years you have the conquest of mocha mocha
Rama, on that day after the conquest.
There is a very interesting scene that's taking place between some
of the cousins of Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam what you
have days you have and you know the Allah Juan, and you have hum
you have a few others who are
Hamza the Allahu Animas daughter had been left in Makkah macabre
from from his wife she'd been left in Mocha mocha Rama
Hamza, the Allahu Allah is a cult is an uncle of Rasul Allah Salas
and the young youngest uncle of
sudo allah sallallahu sallam, it really Allahu Anhu is also a
cousin of the Brazil awesome. So Hamza, there is also his uncle.
It's his daughters, his his cousin, sister, she's young.
Now what happens is him and a number of the other family members
above it, you know that number of the other family members, they're
arguing over who's going to take care of him.
Several years ago, a decade or two ago, what would happen, they would
want to bury their daughters alive. Today, you've got a child
who's an orphan, who want whose people are fighting over her
uncles and cousins are fighting over who's going to look after,
look what hatred was created to love. Look at what this abusive
system was changed to by the noble reflection of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam just to 1015 years because the promise of
Allah's and reflection is so powerful. It is so powerful, that
if you put yourself out to it, you will get some of it. But if we
don't expose ourselves to it, we won't get anything out of it. So
now
the Sahaba were a very special group that were specially selected
by us, for rasool Allah Salah Larsson to be part of they took
this reflection and that's why this OMA has been called the best
of humans. But this OMA will only be the best of the nations in
terms of how we're dealt with in it will only be the best of the
best of nations in terms of how we're dealt with, based on what
kind of reflection we can display of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. That's why our responsibility is really great.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam provides an example
provides a role model in every aspects for anybody. There is
nobody that should be deprived of seeing the progress on the Lord
Islam as his role model. The reason is that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was such a comprehensive individual,
that if you were to look into history, and for example, you were
to study the life of Isa Ali salaam, and if he's to be your
role model, you only know about, you would say, 3040 days of his
life, that's all you know about. Because whether it means the
Bible, or whether the Quran it speaks about his birth, his
miraculous birth, then he disappears. We don't know anything
about him, until suddenly, he comes again when he's about 30
years old. And then after that, if you look at the Bible, He only
speaks about 3040 or 50 days of his life. If you actually see how
much of the Eastside Islam the Bible speaks about, it's only
about 40 to 50 days. How can a person how can he be then be a
role model that doesn't diminish his character that doesn't
diminish his personality is a prophet of Allah, or the salon and
a salon. However,
for us to have a role model, the prophets are the best role models
because they came with direct guidance from Allah, they will not
assume and inherit out of all of the prophets. We don't know enough
of a Saudi salaam we only know a small amount of details about him.
Plus, he never had a wife. So there's a number of things he
never had children, for example. He was never a commander of an
army, for example, he was just the preacher at his time. So there's
only a few vocations that he played in his time. Again, this is
not to diminish his character. This is just to show that that's
all we know about him. We don't know enough about Ibrahim alayhis
salam documented, the only documented knowledge that we
anybody has in the world of any prophets, in a really
authenticated way is that of Rasulullah sallallahu. It was
summoned to such a degree, that if you're a rich person, then you
have an example in the tradesman of Makkah, Makara, Rama, the
recipient of the treasures of Bahrain, and treasures from around
the world when millions would go through his hands each day, how he
acted in those. So if you're a wealthy person, you have an
example in the in the trader of Mocambo of Mocha, mocha Rama and
the recipient of the treasures of Bahrain. If you're a poor
individual, then again, you have you have an example in the one who
was banished to the shape of a Bitcoin to the ravines of Italy
for three years where they had to start eating, where they had to
start eating from the leaves, where his house in Madina
Munawwara later, for so many days, there would be no fire on the
stove, because he would survive on dates and water. If you're a poor
person, you can relate to him. If you're a rich person, you can
relate to him. If you're a king and a ruler and a manager, you can
relate to the ruler of Arabia, the Congo if you're a conqueror, if
you're a victor, you can relate to the victor of a brother and her
name. And if you're
if you if you're defeated sometimes then you can relate to
the discomfort that was felt and the inconvenience and or heard
when they suffered a setback when the profits or losses suffered a
setback, how he acted in that situation. Again, if you're a
teacher, then look at look at the teacher of the students at the
sofa at the sofa. If you're a preacher, then look at the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
delivering his sermons in Masjid Nabawi Subhan. Allah, if you're
young, then look at the character of the shepherd of Makkah. Makara
Allah when he would when he would graze sheep when he was young. And
if you're a judge, then look at the one who entered Masjid Al
haram, who entered the sanctified Masjid in Makka Moo karma when
they were arguing, and they were about to fight over who placed the
stone back into the Kaaba. And he came in like a breeze of pleasant,
like, like a pleasant breeze. He came in, and they and they had
said that whoever comes in first will let them arbitrate the
dispute here. He came in and he said, Okay, let's put this cloth
down. Each one of the tribes, as the leader of each tribe take hold
of one side of this cloth, they all picked it up. And then he took
the Blackstone, and he planted it in his place. And by that he
averted a massive bloodshed because they were willing to fight
about who's going to which tribe was going to put that there. So if
you are a judge, then look at the way the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam judge, if you're a husband, then study the husband of
Isha. And Khadija the Allahu anha, and half son of the ALLAH, why not
study him as a husband, he is a husband to so many wives that he
has so many roles to play, you've got such a variety in him that you
can have, if you're a father, look at the father of Fatima or the
Allahu, or the Allahu anha. If you're a grandfather, look at the
grandfather of Hasson Hussein, Radi Allahu Anhu. In fact,
whatever you are, whoever you are, wherever you may be, you will find
something in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, because Allah subhanho wa taala, in a short amount of time,
and this will the person was his time, he made him play a number of
roles from being a shepherd, to being an orphan, to be poor, to
have been wealthy, to have been a father, to have been a
grandparent, to have been a husband, and so on, so forth, all
the way so that he could have this comprehensive, comprehensive
personality, do all of these different things, and then all of
that to be recorded in a way that we can judge its authenticity and
benefit from it, just so that the prophets, Allah has departed this
world, he has left the Ummah to speak on his behalf. And if we're
not going to speak properly, and if you're going to just show a
violent side, cloaking that to be the site of Rasulullah,
sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam,
then that is a big problem. We've got a big task ahead of us. And
seriously, I ask Allah subhanho wa Taala for assistance in this
regard, because it's our shortcoming due to which Islam is
not what it's supposed to have been. Meaning the people's
impression about our faith, why people can say, just drive all of
the Muslims to the sea. If this is what's going to happen, why be
politically correct, just get the Muslims out finish. If this is
what they're going to do. See, people will only look at it as my
final point, people will only look at what's happened in the last 510
years. And unfortunately, the last 1015 years have been quite a
violent 1015 years, they've been a time of great setbacks for the
Muslims. And people have resorted because of many reasons. But at
the end of the day, there's a lot more that we can do. There's a lot
more positive things that we can do on a local scale. That's as far
as we can go on a local scale, to try to show what it means to be a
believer and a Muslim to ours, our surrounding neighbors, our CO
colleagues, our co workers, and people that we're in touch with
day in and day out, by showing justice by showing fairness by
showing assistance in empathy, compassion, peace, kindness,
everything that a professor Lawson, because that's, that's,
that's our role today. That's our role today. We were not in a
position to go around killing people that's extra judicial,
that's not our responsibility. That's the responsibility of a
state to do that. So we must understand, understand these
things. And
they do more harm than good, as has the last decade or so has
shown us how image of Muslims, we have to wake up to this fact. And
may Allah subhanaw taala give us the noble reflection. The only way
we'll get it is by studying more about the life of Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam. If you think you know your prophet, believe me,
we don't know him enough, because we haven't read enough about him.
And the more we read about him, it won't. It won't fail to impress,
he won't fail to effect, he won't fail to cause it to reflect onto
others inshallah. So this is my urge today, this is the whole
point of this talk. This is the whole point of this talk, that we
learn to be the proper noble reflections of Rasulullah
Salallahu Salam in this time, and may Allah subhanho wa Taala assist
us in this regard while he was an Al Hamdulillah European army
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