Ahmad Kutty – Love For The Prophet At Two Extremes
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Brothers and sisters,
first and
foremost, I praise almighty Allah,
the creator of the heavens and the earth,
the all compassionate,
the all merciful.
May Allah inspire each and every one of
us
to begin our days as we wake up
to thank Allah for the gift of life,
for the gift of health, for the gift
of family,
and from the gift to for the gift
of guidance to the way of truth.
And may Allah
bless us
to utilize
each and every blessing that he has bestowed
on us,
to come closer and closer to him so
that we join the oldest company
of those who are blessed
by the favors of Allah
about whom Allah said
That whoever obeys Allah is messenger,
they will join the August company of the
messengers, the prophets,
the martyrs and the saints
and the righteous people.
They are the best company to join.
So may Allah honor me and you
to join the company of Rasoolallah,
salallahu alayhi wasalam, and the messengers of Allah,
and the awliyahawallah,
the friends of Allah, and the righteous people.
Before I begin,
I advise myself and each of everyone of
you
to be mindful of Allah
as
we begin our days,
examine our
intentions,
our words,
our thoughts, our actions,
and our mannerisms
so that
we can turn the entire
day
into a grand act of
worship of Allah.
That was the messenger of Mercy's life.
Before I go into the topic, the topic
I have is
befitting the month of Rabiullah.
This is the month
the conscience of the Ummah
chooses this month
to think of the messenger of mercy,
to praise him,
to sing
the praise of Rasoolullah
and to send salutations
and peace
on the Habib of Bilal Amin, the beloved
of Ar Rahman.
They
say
invoke the peace and blessings and salutations
of the messenger, the beloved of Allah.
So today
I want to talk about
how to express the love of Allah
and how do we do so.
The love of Rasoolullah
between the two extremes.
The extreme
veneration
bordering off on ship
and the dryness
lack of emotion,
lack of expression of that love.
Everything be there.
You can talk about the anniversary
of the stage of it and so and
so,
the institution of so and so,
but don't ever
dedicate, rebuild the wall
to praise the messenger of Allah,
to celebrate,
to commemorate.
I'm not talking about
the kind of celebrations
that borders
on Bida and Sheik.
So the question I want to address is,
how do we express our love for the
messenger of mercy
in a manner that is sanctioned
by Allah and His messenger in a manner
that the sahabah alaihi
who loved the messenger of mercy more than
anybody else.
The sahabah
and the first three generations
of Islam.
That's my topic.
But before going there, I would like
remind each and every one of us.
If you don't care
for the suffering of fellow Muslims
or even fellow human beings,
you are not you don't belong to the
family of humankind.
Is not one of them.
So we grieve
for the suffering of our brothers
in Gaza, Palestine, in each and every part
of the world.
I don't want to mention each country.
Wherever
there is a person
persecution and denial of denial of rights,
deprival
displacement.
May Allah
bring mercy, bring them belief.
May
Allah give our brothers in Gaza and
Palestine freedom, victory over the oppressors,
the Zionist oppressors.
May Allah
turn the tamers
against them. Allahu Majjal Taddumi rahum Fitadubiri.
You Allah turned
their plans against them,
and he has the power over our things.
And secondly,
I want to invoke the mercy of Allah
on behalf of everyone
who are suffering
from
pain, ill health, sickness,
those who are challenged,
those who are in the hospital
on the machine,
one of our best brothers who has been
very active in this community.
I'm not in the habit of mentioning names
on the member, but I remember him, may
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, ease his pain and
suffering.
Now coming back to the topic,
nobody loved the messenger of mercy like the
mess companions of Rasulullah and Lowers.
Why?
The answer is given
by Hassan al Hazabit,
radiallahu anhu,
who is known as the poet
of Rasoolullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He's to continue to praise
and sing the praise of Rasulullah
on the member of Rasulullah
after he passed away.
And yet,
we don't want to do that.
Doing that.
The Sahaba is to deny. Hassan of Rasabi
after the death of Rasulullah
used to sit on the member of Rasulullah,
and you sing the praise of Rasulullah.
Why?
The world has never lost someone
someone like Muhammad,
and I am sure pretty sure
no one like ever be missed under the
end of times.
And, of course,
I will continue to praise
the messenger of Rasoolallah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Why?
Because
by doing that,
I'm hoping to join
the company's company, Jannatul Firdaus.
Another point of Rasoolah, of course, the story
of Hassan ibn al Sabid.
Hassan ibn al Sabid,
the prophet prayed for him.
You Allah support him with the Holy Spirit
when he defends Rasoolullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
defends Islam.
How did he turn from an enemy to
the front to the devoted companion of Rasoolullah
sallallahu
This is a man who lived 60 years
in Jahiliyyah
and 60 years in Islam.
This is a person who lived 60 years
in Jahiliyyah, prayer to Islam,
singing praise of the kings and monarchs
because he was the best, you know, poetry
was the best medium at that time.
A poet can
raise a nation or bring them down
through his poem.
So he was a media man, a vast
medium at the time,
and he lived 60 years in Islam.
And the mushrikeen
tried every little thing
to fight Islam and the cause of Rasulullah
alaihis salam.
And when the messenger of Allah immigrated to
Madinah,
they sent
a big gift to Hassan,
big promise of award,
go
and make poem,
verifying the messenger of Allah, assassination,
character assassination.
So that
the media is turned against him.
The people
turned against him. So Hassan said, let me
go and see the man first.
I don't want just to do that because
you gave me money.
He went
and he sat on a hill
to observe Rasulullah's
coming and going, sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And the messenger of Allah passed by,
and he look
up and down.
Just one look
up and down.
He went back to the Muslim team and
said, I don't need your money at all
because I
cannot.
Why?
Abdullah ibn Arora answers it.
There are no miracles supporting you,
There were many.
It's enough for you to look carefully this
man. Observe him.
That observation will lead you that he is
indeed the messenger of Allah.
This is confirmed
by another great rabbi,
the chief rabbi of Yahud in Madinah.
Abdullah ibn Salam, his name was different before
converting to Islam, and the prophet called him
Abdullah. Abdullah ibn Salam.
When the messenger of Allah came to Madinah,
he wanted to see him for himself
to make a judgment because y'all who were
waiting for the messenger,
but, of course, many of them rejected.
And some of them, good ones, they embrace.
And therefore, they sacrificed for Rasulullah,
my chief of Mangan Wat, Abdulahir Rasulam, the
chief rabbi of Medina.
So he comes.
He hear the first
speech, Herman of Rasool Allahu Islam in Medina.
And he's the one who report that.
Oh, people.
Oh, mankind.
Many of them were not Muslims at that
time. In Medina
spread the greeting of peace.
And feed the poor.
And foster the ties of kinship.
And pray while people are asleep.
You can end up Jannah easily.
And you know what did Abdullah ibn Salam
say?
This was the first time
I saw the messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
As soon as I look and observe him,
I said this is not the face of
a liar.
And he said,
Not only that, he said,
Ask them who am I what is my
position with them?
Of course,
they said he's the best among us, the
son of the best,
and they praised him.
So,
yahoo,
this is the messenger we have been waiting
and he's
here. They said, no, you are the worst
among us.
And they falsified the messenger of Allah,
So brothers and sisters,
all of us, every Muslim will love the
messenger of Allah.
No one can be a believer
until I, the messenger of Allah, saying on
behalf of Allah. Allah told him to say
that
until I become dearer to him
than his parents,
than his children, and all of mankind.
Why?
Love of Allah love Allah because he's showering
his mercies upon you.
And love me because you love Allah
because Allah wants you to love me.
The love of Rasulullah
is because we love Allah.
This is a distinction we have to make.
Why we love the messenger of Allah?
No.
Not
equal to Allah
but because we love Allah and Allah warned
us.
Allah ordered us.
If you love Allah,
So
we have beautiful
the time of Kutubai is so short
and I cannot control myself because I love
the messenger of mercy.
You love the messenger of mercy?
Do one thing.
Can you do salawat on Rasoolallah?
100 times a day, if you can do
that. Otherwise,
at least 10 times a day.
Invoke the salawat
on the beloved of Allah
because Allah say orders us to make salawat
on him. This is the first thing.
100 times good. And you can do that
if you go for walking and make lots
of zikr,
10 times
until then,
10 times at least,
Allahu Musali Allahu Muhammad.
When waiting for the bus,
Don't
think idle thoughts.
Let your thoughts be turned into grand act
of remembrance.
Let your walking be an act of.
Let everything you're sitting, you're driving
is a beautiful thing. I have practiced this.
That's why I'm saying this.
While you are on the
you know, on the stereo, make zikr.
Make zikr.
Allah said
very drastic.
Somebody
ran red light on me.
My car completely smashed.
Completely smashed. Started both fire.
But Alhamdulillah, he was pulled out,
safe and sound.
Why
I was in an act of zikr?
Die in an act of zikr. You will
be raised up in an act of zikr.
The
continued
you will be raised up as a lover
of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Al Maru Mohammed
Abba, a person joined the company of his
beloved.
This is the promise of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
We love Rasulullah
but
we should avoid venerating Rasulullah.
Do not venerate me excessively.
The Christians venerated
Jesus, son of Mariam.
I am only
a servant and messenger of Allah.
Say I am a mortal like you.
Understand
a mortal like you,
a human being like you.
Yet how could somebody invent the fabrication
that Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Salam is created from
the light?
The first thing created was the Nur
of Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Salam.
First thing,
the lure of Rasoolullah.
The first thing
and Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Salam, they said,
He's Arab without Ayn, so he's Rab.
What happened here?
You are going to follow, imitate
the people of the book.
Inch by inch,
yard by yard, inch by inch. If they
were to enter a resource hall, you will
try to enter it. So what happened here
is
Christians say the world was created
logos
and the logos, the word was Jesus.
So he's create Jesus is the first creation.
We want to copy them and say, no,
first thing created in the Nur of Muhammad
This few fabric pure fabrications.
May Allah
save us from this. Says,
the Sahaba of Rilloa Rasulullah
love no one
at the David Rasulullah.
Never ever.
Never ever.
And so Malik
who stayed 10 years
from the age 1021
in the company of Rasulullah.
He had so much love for Rasoolallah. He
says
the best day
in the life of the Sahaba was the
day Rasoolallah
entered Madinah.
And the worst day in the life
of the Sahaba, the day Rasoolullah died, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, because a dark cloud move
over the horizon over the skies of Madinah.
And he said,
no one among us love anyone more than
we love Rasool, and
yet
they would never
stand up
when they came. They
they visited. Why?
Because he told them, don't stand up in
veneration for me
like
the people raise up, stand up for their
kings.
But here is the now extremism
when you make salah
stand up for tadeem
innovation.
1 after the other, we invented
this kind of things.
And Imam Nawawi
commanding on this says,
because Rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam did not
want
this one after the other fitna of shirk
creeping
into the hearts and minds of the Ummah
of Rasool Allah.
So how do we love Rasool Allah?
As for the everyone has a different responsibility.
All of us are in Ummah.
He has a responsibility
of discharging and disseminating
the message
that we know.
If you know one hand each, pass it
on.
This is responsibility
on the shoulder of everyone.
Pass
on what you know surely
of the teaching of Rasool Allah Salaos.
And secondly,
leaders
have a great responsibility.
Today, Islamophobia
using the state of the Muslim mumma to
preach against Islam and Muslims. Why?
No justice in the Muslim countries,
exploitation of the resources,
waste of food, you name it. Everything is
there.
I heard the other day the so called
Brunei King,
1700
rooms and 78 100 push cards.
This is the Ummah of Rasoolullah
SAW.
They
claim
to be and, of course,
and all of this supported
by
the saying it is okay for them to
indulge.
And, of course
so,
Umrah
have to lead by setting example for justice.
Justice and brotherhood,
equality,
freedom for everyone,
dignity,
freedom of expression,
freedom to criticize.
Yes.
This is the because said
this Ummah will go down
when the people are afraid to speak, criticize
their leaders.
And the leaders and rulers
are not welcoming criticism.
That will be the end of the Muslim
mumma who said
that So that has happened.
As for the ulama,
I was a student in Madina.
We were taught the alim should not be
indulging
in luxury buying parked cars and things like
that. You should go by what is sufficient
kafar.
But the same place now, the is preaching.
And I know at that time,
he
refused to take the new car. King Faisal
had gifted him. He said my old car
is for me. But the same place now,
they are supporting. It's okay for the imam
to drive
the postcard
and live in a mansion
gifted by the king.
Everything upside down. And when it comes
to ulama,
instead of standing up,
they are cozying up to the king.
The Sufisheth used to say is the best
statement I heard.
If your name is under in the register
of this monarchs and kings,
Your name will be deleted from the register
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
because your
Aflal Jihadi, Kalimatuhakin
and the Sultan al Jair, the supreme form
of jihad, is to speak the truth to
the power. May
Allah bring to our heart. And, of course,
ordinary Muslim,
ordinary father, mother,
husband
have example from the in Rasulullah.
You can turn your household
into a place of peace
and light,
shining the mercy of Islam
in the way you treat your wife, in
the way you treat your mother and father,
in the way you treat your grandchildren,
in the way how Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam Aisha came to as a young girl.
By the time Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam died,
she became one of the greatest leaders and
teachers of Islam.
More than 200 scholars graduated
from the University of Ayush al Lawin. Sallu
Arar Habib Allahum Masali Allah Muhammad wala Ali
Muhammad.
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