Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why We Love the Prophet Muhammad (S) so Much
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A Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Today, I want to ask
ourselves the question as to why so many Muslims around the world
1.61 point 8 billion Muslims around the world 1/3 of the
population of the world follows the Prophet salAllahu alayhi
wasallam in the way that they do. Many of us have a number of
weaknesses and shortcomings in our following and our obedience to the
messenger to the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So
despite that weakness, despite those shortcomings,
despite the fact that we can't do everything that he would like us
to do, and that his guidance has shown us. However, there is a love
that every Muslim has so deep down even if a person isn't considered
to be to practicing, they would still be offended by a cartoon of
him, even though they don't practice as much. They may never
even be praying, in fact, they just have some belief in the
hearts. But because there's something about this messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that takes over the hearts
in a way that although you may not express yourself each day as being
a lover of his, but the love, definitely the flame of that love
does remain in the heart, and people do get offended about this.
Yes, there are probably more people that may relate to that may
consider themselves to be Christian followers of Jesus
Christ, then they may be Muslims according to official sentences
census, but
in the way that Muslims, even nominal Muslims generally will
follow the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam or know that and
feel that and wish and desire that one day they will be able to
follow him. That kind of following is not found anywhere else. Yes,
there's lots of groups in the world lots lots of people who
believe in different ideologies, different individuals. In fact, if
you go to Greece, there's still a remnant community who follow and
worship Zeus, who still follow Zeus, they they still relate to
something that was around 2000 years ago, a belief that was held
2000 years ago, there's still a remnant of that. So you will find
that throughout the world, there are still people who claim to
follow the devil. This place, there's people who follow all
sorts of things around the world. However,
the diverse community that you have of Muslims around the world,
it sets it apart from any belief in anything else. Believe belief
today, if you if you look at what's trending on Twitter, and
Facebook, etc, people with the highest following on those are
generally movie stars are singers, generally speaking,
or presidents sometimes, like the president of America, for example.
However, that's just the trend. It's a phase. As soon as what
makes these people look good or sound good, or have a position as
soon as that disappears, as soon as they lose that as soon as they
see the end of their time, then that following that following
goes. And that's that's just a temporary phase that people go
through a very kind of artificial following, because it's just a
time of a trend. It's not something that stood the test of
time. The way to look at what actually means to follow someone
is STEM is is having to is basically how long it's happened
for has it stood the test of time, and that's what you see with the
Muslims. Now you may say, Well, there's more Christians, and they
seem to love Jesus and no doubt they do they profess this love.
However, love is where it takes over your heart to such a degree
that it makes you want to be like Him in every sense of it. Whether
that goes
against your own persuasions, whether a gate goes against your
own desires, your own ideas about certain things. Unfortunately,
that's not as found as much as it is in the Muslims. And this is
something which at the same time is to be celebrated by the
Muslims. And which actually goes it goes to show the the character
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the Prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him and his influence on the Muslim ummah.
It's also something to be feared, something that people think that
is it has to be feared, meaning non Muslims, this is what they
fear people who are in positions that want to influence the world
in particular ways. They see this as a fear. So then this creates
room and support for people who want to denigrate the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam. So why is there so much support? Apparently?
Why do so many people come out on the streets of Paris for such a
thing? Why do leaders of the world go to for such a thing, because
they see that this is helping to keep down the profile of the
Muslims and the profile of the Prophet Mohammed. Because, you
know, we shouldn't be allowed to denigrate him, it should be
allowed to do that. Now the one thing that I want to mention is
that nobody denigrates the prophets of Allah Islam, he's
gone, he's left his mark. The only people that they denigrate today
is us. Because we are not embodying the Prophet salallahu,
alayhi wasallam profile, we're not embodying his character. We're not
embodying his teaching. And that's why the failure today why is
somebody allowed to do that is because we have not shown the
beautiful side of it, that this is a hobby who's in the time
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he said something that
is so interesting, he says, that if somebody saw the Prophet
sallallahu, it was done. And all of a sudden, Herbert who he would
be overawed, you will be taken aback with all he would be all
means to be slightly taken aback, maybe frightened slightly, you
don't know how to move forward with it, because the person is
just owing you. It's not necessarily scaring you, but it's
just this, I need to tread carefully here, wow, this is so
honorable, so dignified, it stops you in the tracks. But then he
says, What either ha not harlot way, either way, either
highlighter, who might prefer to
have a habit who, that when the person would then begin to know
him and know more about him, then he would just begin to love him,
suddenly the or disappears, not disappears, but becomes turned
into love, where you see where this greatness is coming from, you
see a dignified individual, then you say there must be something
behind him. And I believe that this still works today. There is
no doubt about it, this still works today.
If people are, the problem is that what makes the highlight and the
headlines today is when somebody goes and commits a terror attack,
when somebody goes and commits a level of aggression of some sort,
takes matters in their own hands, and acts like a judiciary and goes
and does a killing, for example, and then says that we you know,
this is in love for the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. So
then they relate, people are only going to relate to what they see.
And what they see is murder, extra judicial killings. In the current
climate, that's exactly what it is, right? That's exactly how it's
seen, for example, and they relate that to the Prophet Muhammad, that
that is what it must be. Because if somebody is being a martyr,
wants to be a martyr, wants to go on a mission of this nature,
sacrifice their life, put their selves into such a great risk, to
go and kill a few people for the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him, then that means he must inspire them to do that. This, it
will be a very superficial way of doing it. Yes, Alhamdulillah out
of this, a lot of people are trying to understand who this
prophet was, the thinkers will think a bit more. And they will
think, Well, it can't just be that there must be something behind,
there must be something and so somebody 1400 years ago is able to
influence people today. What is it that makes them tick? What is it
that makes them do things of this nature? So people, most people
will generally not look beyond the lines, they will just look at the
clear kind of so called associations, while others will
try to look through but this is where we fail, because the only
thing that makes the media about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
salam is somebody going and getting in his name, or somebody
marching in his name. It's never about somebody acting in an with
great behavior in his name. Now, I know that there's certain bias in
terms of coverage and selective process of what people will cover
and what they will cover. But I'm not talking about media only.
That's a very difficult battle. You have to start at home. It's
going to have to start at home. It's going to have to be about
convinced
sing our neighbors of what it means to be the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam who he was why he makes us love him so much, why we
have this belief in our hearts to such a degree, it's going to have
to start at home for the individual, because I've been
thinking for a very long time, especially when these things
happened last week, I've just been thinking since last week, what can
we do to raise the profile? What can we do to raise the profile?
What these murderers have done essentially, after speaking to
another scholar, what he said is that, essentially, it's given them
a cause, you know, like people have a cause to die for. So this
is crazy. You know, you think only religions could do that, you know,
only people who were in religions would do that. But no, they do it
for me, they do it for nationalism, people do it for
atheism, and France is a great example of that. They've had a
revolution against the church. That's what you have to realize
France has had a revolution against the church, that's what
makes them different to the different to the British, the
British, they don't do as much as in Al Hamdulillah, we have a much
better here, the reflection, you can see that in Quebec and Canada,
the Kenny, the French speaking, the French language, media, they
reproduce the comics, they reproduce the pictures, after last
week's killings, in solidarity with them, whereas the English
speaking, or the English language, media, they did not do so. And
they said, we do it out of deference for you know, our Muslim
citizens or whatever it may be. So you can see there's a massive
difference, there is a history that they have there. I'm not
justifying what, you know, their approach or anything of that
nature, I'm just trying to give perspective here. So for them,
they've had a rebel revolution against religion, the church was
really persecuting the church was extremely persecuting, especially
in France. So the response to religion, and faith is really
extreme down there, that the climate is very difficult, even
though it has more Muslims than any other country in, you know, in
Europe. But that's just the way they are in the way they do
things. We can only make a change from the person next door to us,
the Tom, Dick and Harry who lives around you, that's who we're going
to have to make a change from. But basically what's happening with us
to be honest, I mean, this is what our problem is that we're failing,
both from a Dini perspective, a religious perspective. And also
from a worldly political perspective, we only react when
something happens, then we'll do a march. And we might write a few
letters, we will try to preempt this from before and try to work
on making a difference, and changing laws that will maybe
prohibit these kinds of things from happening in the future as
other groups and people have done. We don't do that. And neither do
we, in our normal everyday life, embody the character of Rasulullah
sallallahu in a way that we can actually show people in that. So
we're failing both from a DNA perspective, and from a worldly
perspective. And this is why these kinds of things are happening. You
can blame everybody in the world that you want. But at the end of
the day, what are we doing? What have we done? You know, giving
Dawa to others is a is not easy for everybody to do. People find
it very difficult to speak to somebody about the beauty of the
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, people find that
difficult. But one of the best ways to do this is to start
learning about ourselves and then to embody in our own character in
our own behavior. And people wonder why is this guy so
different? Why is this person so different? Why is he so honest?
Why is he so compassionate? Why is he so helpful? I see him praying,
you know, I see him do these weird postures, he takes off for five
minutes, he goes and washes himself, or she does this or she
does that. What is it that makes this and people are going to be,
you know, people are going to be really thinking about this. And
then that's the opportunity to tell them why we do what we do you
know, why is is it that we love the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam so much. So I think that the main thing is about the
failure on our own part, which allows these things to happen. And
this is this is this is the way the world works. If there's enough
of an influence of any particular idea, idea, then it will be able
to influence the thinking of the time. And we just don't have
enough of it because we are indulgent. In every other sense of
the word we're just indulging. We're consumers. And we just
consume, consume, consume without being contributors. And and on top
of that, we expect other people to do our work for us. We expect
other people to do our work for us. And we because we are totally,
you know, we're so we're so taken aback, and we are so taken aback
and we consider ourselves to be victims, when the times or any of
the other Rupert Murdoch media will will write something against
the Muslims or against us. We don't do enough. We just expect
that people should do the right thing. We're not telling people
what it is that what makes it so beautiful. Why do 1.8 billion
Muslims around the world love him loved the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam as they do?
What is it that makes it like that? What is it that makes him so
special for them? And there's there's a number of issues there.
The problem is that we don't read enough of the prophets, Allah
lorrison. The only thing we know about him is what's trending at
the time. What people are speaking about at the time, what the Imams
are speaking about on Friday, you know what's going around Twitter
or something at the time, we are literally our knowledge of the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam is piecemeal, just basically
selections of headlines here, there in the other, we have not
done a serious study of trying to find out who the who he really is.
Because only then we'll be able to really understand how it applies
to our life. We've got this love, we've got this claim, we have
everything hamdulillah right, and there's nobody more beloved than
him that is followed. And people will feel guilty if they do
against that. You know, for example, you know, you're not
allowed to go and eat something haram. But people will will feel
guilty when they do it, because they know that this is against his
teachings against the Muhammad Salah laws and Prophetic
teachings. But we still do it.
The prophets of Allah and Islam as such, what this proves is that
he's a personality that though he's departed this world over 1400
years ago, he has left such an influence, he has left such an
influence. And he said this himself this is the Hadith
relating the beginning. One of the hadith is related from Imam
Muslim, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
Abu Huraira the alone relates that in them in a shed in in them in a
shed the almighty the Hogben Nason Hakuna verde that
the most the people who will love me most most intensely will be
people that will come after me.
Now you know the love for rasool Allah Lawson The Sahaba had
but the prophets of Allah sent me saying that there will be people
who will have such an intense love for Me, will be people who will
come after me yoga, do I had hula or Ernie be ugly? He will not he
to see me they would sacrifice their wealth and their family if
they could but see me. Because why would you do that? Why would you
want to see the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if you don't know
anything about for me to want to see something, I would have to
have a lot of interest in that. And the way that I would have to
have interest is it better be somebody special, it better be
something special for me to travel for me to desire for me to want
for me to have this wish that I want to see someone I want to meet
somebody, maybe it has to be somebody very special. And the
prophets Allah knows it, that what is going to be left of his legacy
will be enough to make the people want to see him. And this is the
feeling of many Muslims, they would love to see the person lost.
They would have loved to have been there around him and for him to be
in their midst. But that's what it is. He has he does command that
kind of awe and respect and dignity and love and that
attraction he does have, but it's just that is the state of the
Ummah, but we're failing to where we thought we're failing to
transmit this to others. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
also related from Abu its relative from Abu Umar Radi Allahu Allah
Zima Muhammad relates that Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said
to Balamand Ronnie, glad tidings glad tidings for those who have
seen me. Glad tidings for those who have seen me. What am I gonna
be and then they believed in me, they brought faith. Those who saw
me saw me in action saw me in practice saw me delivering so me
teaching so my guidance or whatever we know about a salsa
lesson and then they believed Good, good glad tidings for them
people. But then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
what tuba sub Amma rotten, seven times Glad Tidings Glad Tidings
multiple times, seven times for those who did not see me and still
believed in me.
Now, this is the promise of Lawson speaking 1400 years ago about
things that were going to happen later on. And subhanAllah isn't
that the case? We still believe in Him, a man from Arabia like that.
And We have certainly never saw him. We've never seen anything
like him. We have shortcomings in our belief, but we love him. You
know, we don't do everything that he's told us to do. But
Subhanallah our love is that we are extremely offended when
somebody offends him like that.
At the end of the day, today, the discussion is not about what
others should do. We know they're not going to do it. It's proven.
It's proven. I mean, governments are supporting the idea of such a
level of free speech. We don't we're not talking about that. We
failed in that regard already. We're talking about ourselves
today. What can we do? We have the belief, everything is there. The
ingredients are there. This is the composition of this faith. This is
the way it is it gives you a spark in your heart. And that's why
Subhanallah you see people who don't practice don't want to
practice they will not leave the faith though. They will still not
leave the faith. They'll come on TV and
They will talk against what they will call extremists, against
people who are conservative who are practicing, they'll come on
without their hijab, and they'll come on with grit, but they will
still consider themselves to be Muslim. They'll still say they
love the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but then they'll
just personalize their faith, because it's too valuable. So they
want to personalize it, there's a value to be had. There's a
question that was asked to one such individual. When you're
saying that, you know, there's so much corruption within the faith
that people practice today. Why don't you just go and start
another faith? Why consider yourself still to be a Muslim? You
know, why still hold on to that title.
And that was a very difficult for them to respond to that. There's
something in the heart that keeps them wanting to be a Muslim, but
they find it difficult to practice. So then they personalize
their Fe they said, This is not really my faith. And then they
will invoke the message and say that if the prophets Allah Hassan
was alive today, this is how he would dress. This is what he would
do. And this is what he would not do. There's something in the faith
Subhanallah I want us all to go back to them to be really thinking
Stop complaining. Stop complaining what others are not doing.
Forget it.
Do it yourself. Are we doing enough? Why are we feeling so
hurt? When come when when journals of that nature or magazines of
that nature allowed by law to print? Why are we so we haven't
done enough to try to make it law that it's illegal. We haven't been
able to influence the people around us would be going and
trying to buy that magazine. B which is you know, sold huge
amounts of copies, even though that it was suffering beforehand.
And it were looking for donations just a few months ago, they were
looking for donations, it could have closed down that magazine.
Now suddenly, they've just had a facelift. Suddenly they've just
had mashallah, you know, a boost by by by these acts. What what
does it do? This is what we must be talking about, Forget what
others are not doing for us. What are we doing for ourselves.
We can all have big conferences. We can all do big mass media
projects, but we can start at home, we can start talking to our
coworkers, we can start talking to our neighbors. And it's very
difficult to give that away. As I mentioned, the best way is the
practice of it, then they get curious, then you tell them then
you speak about them. But at the end of the day, we do it for Allah
subhanho wa Taala when you do something for ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada, it will have to talk it will speak by itself. It will speak by
itself when you do something for the sake of Allah subhanho wa
Taala we need to stop becoming just raw consumers
are just taking the benefits of the time, materialism, we need to
really focus on what's happening to this must be a wake up call for
us. It has to be a wake up call for us, because it's not going to
get any easier.
It's not going to get any easier. But what are we going to do in our
love for our soul, allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
that is that we need to start practicing ourselves. We cannot
claim to be followers of the Sunnah when we don't even read a
book of Syrah. How do you know what it means when our knowledge
of the Syrah is literally selections from from what people
have said here, there and other what you've heard any mom saying,
we have never done a serious study.
The Sahaba never had to do a study. It was a social study that
was going on. It was a practice. It was a practical, you know, it
was a practical experiment that was taking place for them. For us,
we have to study because around us, we don't see the Sunnah being
enacted.
The other day somebody called me, and I'm trying to sell my car, and
he's giving me a lot of aggravation. I'm telling him, No,
you can't have it for this price. Because I've got a friend who
wants it for that price. I'll sell it to you for 3200 minimum, you
know, last price, because for 3000, a friend of mine has asked
for it. And then you know what he starts telling me, he said you
shouldn't sell, you know, you shouldn't sell things to your
friends. He started giving me wisdom because he wants a better
deal from me. I said, why not? He says because if something goes
wrong with the decision on the other, I said, it's alright
brother, my friend wants it. He understands that. And I look after
my friends and he was upset about that. But then it carried on he
carried on and I just stopped and I said look, if you don't want it,
it's okay. Don't worry about it. I'm really sorry. I can't accept
that price. I could have argued with him. But then I thought of
the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that
the one who stops an argument who doesn't argue even though who who
stops an argument when they're wrong, he still gets a place in
Jannah around the outskirts and a person who's right and he prevents
the argument for nothing because you know you're not going to get
anywhere with this argument is just a waste of time, then you
will get a place in the middle of Germany or the highest places of
Jannah. So that I mean, I'm only mentioned this as an example that
if you know these are hottie in mind, they do help you.
They do help your behavior. Otherwise our behavior is what was
taught to us by our culture.
You see this pupils come
culture is a people are generally behaving according to their what
the culture teaches them. We need to go beyond that to the beautiful
way of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam and you can only do that if
you learn about the prophets, Allah, somebody who has different
times. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the tofield May Allah
subhanaw taala give us the thought and accept us to be great there is
of this to change our life to really make this thing how can we
help to elevate the Kalima of the kilowatt of Islam and La ilaha
illAllah. And how can we elevate the profile of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam because he is where he is where he is
already he was already Muhammad the press one is just about now
how we can help and benefit from this work without one on your
hands.