Ahmad Saleem – Igniting the Love for Prophet Muhammad Muhammad
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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim It is customary for humanity from the
time it began that whenever it was hit
or struck with a calamity or Allah had
blessed them with a bounty or a victory
that they would create some form of memory
or memorabilia or some form of remembrance of
that particular day or event Hence, we know
that Rasulullah was born for example in Amulfil
What is Amulfil?
A monument event that took place at the
time So the Arabs of that time, they
codified it and said, we will call this
the year of the elephant so we don't
forget Similarly, when Rasulullah S.A.W. arrived
in Medina He saw the Jewish people, they
were fasting on the day of Ashura So
they said, why are they fasting on the
day of Ashura?
So they said, well this was the day
Allah saved Musa S.A.W. from Fir
'aun at that parting of the sea moment
that's seen in history and to thank and
to remember that day the Jews fast Hence
Rasulullah S.A.W. he said نحن أحق
بموسى منهم We have a lot more right
on Musa S.A.W. than them And
then it is mentioned that for every year
to come Rasulullah fasted He fasted, in one
narration that he was alive for 6 years
and in another narration this was his last
year Hence the hadith says that if Allah
gives me life till next year I shall
fast لَتَسِعْ لَأَسُومَنَّ التَّاسِعَ وَالْعَاشِرَ I would do
mukhalafa of the Jews I will fast the
9th or the 10th So it is customary
for us as human beings If you look
at today's history, irrespective of our religion Irrespective
of our cultures The days that we know
a country gets independence from its colonizers They
were free before that But when the colonizers
came and enslaved them And now they got
so free from those colonizers We mark that
day as a form of celebration And this
is the nature of humanity forever It was
in this blessed month That Rasulullah S.A
.W. with the consensus of all the scholars
That he was born on this month The
month of Rabi-ul-Awwal This is the
month in which Rasulullah S.A.W. got
married to Khadija R.A This is the
month in which the Wahi began And you
may ask, wait a minute Didn't the Wahi
come in Ramadan?
As Ibn Ishaq mentions That the Wahi started
6 months 6 months before the actual revelation
It was Wahi Ghayr Mubashir Rasulullah S.A
.W. would see a dream And he would
see what is going to take place tomorrow
Then the next morning that event will take
place As you see the sunrise coming There
will be no doubt in that event This
is the month in which Rasulullah S.A
.W. did hijra This is the month, Rabi
-ul-Awwal In which Rasulullah S.A.W.
built Masjid-ul-Quba This is the month
in which Rasulullah S.A.W. built Masjid
-an-Nabawi This is the month in history
in which Allah gave him few victories in
the battles And this is the month in
which Allah S.W.T. decided to take
Rasulullah S.A.W. from amongst us Towards
his Janab S.A.W. And that is
why Allah S.W.T. says in the
Quran Say, O Prophet of Allah, say Say
to the people Say, By the Grace of
Allah By the Grace of Allah By the
Generosity of Allah S.W.T By His
Mercy And by His Mercy And as Ibn
Abbas, Muqatil and some of the other Mufassirun
of the early generation We are talking about
the second generation after Sahaba And even some
of the Sahaba as Ibn Abbas They would
say, This word Rahmatuhu entails Rasulullah S.A
.W. i.e. Say, By the Generosity of
Allah By His Mercy i.e. Rasulullah A
mu'min and a believer has to be happy
That Rasulullah S.A.W. came on this
day We are talking about this intrinsic happiness
that you must feel We must have this
That this was the month in which Rasulullah
S.A.W. came to us It is
a moment of joyous occasion for us According
to the consensus, he was born on a
Monday There is no ikhtilaf on that And
as for the specific date on which he
S.A.W. was born There is variety
of opinions that exist And each one of
these opinions are predicated on calculations that they
were able to do Because all you and
I need to be able to calculate What
are we doing?
We are counting the number of days to
calculate So if he was 63 years We
know that Hajatul Wada took place on Juma
'ah I just want people to understand how
the calculation works It took place on...
And when does the Haj take place?
In Dhul Hijjah You count from Juma'ah
Days backward You peg that day That we
know on this day is Juma'ah And
on this day is Ashrah Dhul Hijjah And
this is the Yawm of Arafah 10th And
then you calculate Now in your calculation there
are going to be three scenarios There is
going to be scenario one which you are
going to do Every single month till the
end of the birth of Rasulullah Or the
death of Rasulullah You are going to count
30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 all the
way back Or you are going to do
You are going to do with 29, 29,
29, 29 Or you are going to do
Half 30, half 29 In all scenarios The
date birth of Rasulullah does not fall on
12th of Rabi'ul Awwal It does not
As a matter of fact One of the
first people who actually brought up this date
Was Al-Ibaidiyah This is a deviant sect
That existed They were the ones who built
Cairo They were the ones who built Cairo
They invented this date Because they had a
certain hatred towards the Sunnah They did not
like the Sunnah of Rasulullah So they turned
the date of his death As a form
of confusion And infiltrated into the books of
Sunnah that date And then the Ulama picked
it up In the early days they didn't
They said this is a case it has
been passed down And they didn't do those
calculations But today with calculations we can confirm
that Now coming to the second point Which
is important for us to understand On this
particular day When Rasulullah was born On a
Monday in Rabi'ul Awwal Whichever date it
was Some things took place On this earth
That had never taken place before Cosmological changes
took place And all of them are mentioned
Some of them are mentioned in the Quran
Right before the birth of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam The passageways to the skies were sealed
And if any of the jinns would steal
the news فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ Allah says A
blazing star chases that jinn and kills it
The skies were fortified Then on the day
when Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Came into this
earth Qaisar or Caesars had balakona So if
you think about it That we're all sitting
here And then there's another stage Which is
upper and an upper He had 14 balconies
of his audience He used to have a
taj or a crown That weighed 90 kilograms
You might ask Like how is he putting
the crown on his head It was suspended
with two chains And he would have these
curtains And he would sit on the chair
And he would insert his head on the
crown And when the curtains would open up
This 4-5 meter huge giant crown Made
of gold of 90 kilograms And then the
scene that the people On the 14 balconies
would see Would be this auspicious person Sitting
with this giant crown And it was very
huge Like you know awe It would instill
awe into the people And many of them
would just fall To do sijda to him
All of his 14 balconies They broke the
day Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came on this
earth There was a fire in Persia The
same fire that The father of Salman Al
-Farisi Was responsible for making sure That it
stays on Duhqan Al-Qariya He was responsible
for that fire The father of Salman Al
-Farisi That was his job That fire extinguished
Extinguished for the first time In thousand years
It had never been extinguished It is also
mentioned And this is something That you can
pick up even in the books Of the
Christians In the book The Rise and Fall
Of the House of Caesars You can pick
this up, pick the book up in Amazon
It mentions That Caesars was a stargazer He
had this special acute ability To be able
to figure out The celestial signs Of that
time and there was an entire science And
he understood that And the night Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Was born He came back to
his Balcony and he said The night before
So Rasulullah is born the next day The
night before he tells to his people I
saw the star Of the king of the
world Build on the sky this night And
then the next day Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
Arrived on this earth So there is no
doubt That there is no greater day That
the humanity has witnessed Than the day On
which Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Came in this
earth His own mother's account Mentions That before
I gave birth To Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
I saw this light That was emanating from
me In a dream that would Illuminate The
saddles of the camels Headed towards Sham Towards
Levant, Syria and Jordan And the palaces of
Caesar and Rome And the door of Sanaa
And the red door of Yemen All of
these were illuminated And he saw this dream
Few moments or few nights before Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Came into this earth And these
are all authentic accounts that we have in
our books Now On this blessed day Rather
than our hearts Being filled With love, awe
Mahaba Jalal Majesty And these feelings And the
feeling of utter submission To the way of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam This day Has become
a source of division Within our ummah And
every year this debate Comes up For the
last Four months my email is active For
people to ask me questions Not one question
Came to me Nobody asked me a question,
they asked me either privately Or they come
and talk, nobody sent an email And all
of a sudden Like six emails We have
to affirm, the others are like We must
deny, we must make a stance This is
bid'ah This is not anybody who doesn't
celebrate This division Wallahi Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
In his grave Is not going to be
happy to see The state of this ummah
like that To see us divide And we
don't know anything about his Shamail We don't
know anything about what he preferred to eat
We don't know anything about How he dressed
We don't know anything about How would he
cover his hair Rather we have false misconceptions
And when those misconceptions Are corrected People are
shocked, oh my god He had four, he
had braids Rasulullah had braids, how is that
possible Because we prefer culture Over religion We
like culture We like that you know what
Just pray salah five times Don't tell us
what to do Let us be in our
cultural Islam But that's not the job That
is not the job The purpose of us
Giving these khutbahs is so we understand On
the basis of ilm And I thought that
inshallah Today we will have a much more
Serious conversation And little bit of an intellectual
conversation So we can understand Where both sides
are coming from And then what is it
The way forward for us Number one Most
of the people who Hold opinion And this
is not something new in our madhab Just
to preface that Imam Shafi'i holds the
opinion That it is wajib on every single
person Praying in this room that you must
read Surah Al-Fatiha when the imam is
reading Surah Al-Fatiha Imam Abu Hanifa holds
the opinion That it is haram for you
to read that If the imam is reading
Right, nobody fights with one another These are
valid differences That existed on their jurisprudition Methods
of how they came to that Deduction So
similarly there are two camps One camp says
we must And the other camp says we
shouldn't The ones who say we shouldn't Let's
study that quickly So their premise is very
simple Did the event take place in the
life Of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam The answer
is yes Did Rasulullah know about this particular
event The answer is yes Did Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Do something with this event The
answer is no Did the sahaba know about
the event Yes, did they do anything about
this event No, hence when the first three
generations Did nothing with it This form of
anything that we add The event took place
In the life of Rasulullah And we added
after the first three generations Then that event
Or that element or that ibadah Or whatever
it is, is considered bid'ah That's their
logical argument That's how they come to that
deduction Now the same people So on the
other side The people use the same deduction
methodology And they prove otherwise And that's the
beauty of this deen So they say during
the life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Was
there Did people recite the Quran with tajweed
Yes, did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Recite the
Quran with tajweed Yes, did Rasulullah know The
rules of how to recite Yes he did,
did the sahaba know all of that Yes,
did they put it in a format Of
a tajweed book Of ikhwa, ikhfa, idghan, qalqala
All of these rules, no they did not
But nobody comes today and says Tajweed rules
are bid'ah Similarly you have examples of
the 30 juz Quran was not Divided into
30 juz In the early days it was
only 4 juz Then it got divided into
7 In the people of India and Pakistan
That's why if you look, pick up some
of the older Quran That says in the
bottom Manzil, manzil 1, manzil 2, manzil 3,
manzil 4 Manzil 5, manzil 6, manzil 7
i.e. you finish the Quran in 7
days Then it got divided into 60 You
have 60 hizb And finally Towards the end
of Hajjaj ibn Yusuf It was solidified as
30 And then from there onwards It has
been 30 So all of these events took
place At the time of Rasulullah, he didn't
do it None other than the sahaba The
two adhans that you see here Did not
take place at the time of Rasulullah Did
Rasulullah know that there was An adhan for
Juma'ah, yes he did So there are
numerous examples The other side gives Using that
same logic and says Well this logic does
not sustain Because there are events that took
place Then the other side presents the argument
He said, no no, all the examples you
have given Has nothing to do with inside
the ibadah It are all external things Give
us an example of an ibadah So the
argument for the sides Who are pro, they
bring the example That when Rasulullah s.a
.w. Was leading the salah And there was
a sahabi at the back who said what
رَبَّنَا وَلَكَ الْحَمْدِ حَمْدًا كَثِيرًا طَيِّبًا مُبَارَكًا فِي
مِلْءَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمِلْءَ الْأَرْضِ And the entire hadith,
when he said this Rasulullah s.a.w.
turned And he said, who is the one
who said this Oh you are the one
who said it So the response to the
other side Who say that this is not
allowed They say yeah but this happened in
the life of Rasulullah So he affirmed That
action He affirmed the action So if you
come back to the side who says No
no, wait a minute He affirmed the action
but the question is Did they get Did
he get the ajar Before the confirmation Or
after the confirmation He got the ajar before
Because Rasulullah s.a.w. saw the angels
Leaping to that person 83 to 89 angels
Trying to document The entire Ajar that he
got In this one transaction And so on
and so forth So for us to understand
That these are viable differences They have existed
In our ummah from time On end, they're
not gonna end But what cannot Happen is
we use these differences To divide We put
comments We deleted that comment But you know
just It has nothing to do with my
defense but you have to understand Like literally
one of the comment was Where is the
person Who dropped off this imam Of a
donkey and left him With our masjid Has
nothing to do with me But the point
is this way Of argumentation When we forget
the ayat of the Quran Where Allah says
وَقُولُوا لِلنَّاسِ حُسْنًا Say to people Not to
Muslims Say to people good speech When Musa
a.s. Is being sent and he goes
to Fir'aun Or does Allah s.w
.t say To who?
To Fir'aun None of us over here
are even The slightest in terms of our
disobedience To Fir'aun وَلِلَّهِ الْحَمْدُ To Fir
'aun, Musa a.s. Is told what قُولَ
لَهُ قَوْلًا لَيِّنًا Speak softly to him When
we Drop The adab Out of our conversations
For a view that I hold dearly That
is not the way of Muhammad S.a
.w. Whether you are pro Celebrating Mawlid or
you're against If you hold these Views and
you behave in that manner You're not from
the Sunnah This is not the way of
Nabi Muhammad S.a.w. And the answer
to the simple question Well, why didn't the
Sahaba do it in the past?
I don't have much time I have 12
hadiths mentioned But I will only mention 2
so we can understand The first 3 generations
They did not need this Why?
Because their state Of connection With Rasulullah was
such That Imam Malik, it is mentioned About
him that ذُكِرَ النَّبِي ﷺ When Nabi S
.a.w.'s Name Was mentioned صَلَّيْتُ عَلَى النَّبِي
ﷺ اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ When his name
was mentioned What would happen to Imam Malik
يَتَغَيَّرَ لَوْنُ وَجْهِهِ He would turn pale Out
of the waqar For Rasulullah S.a.w.
Whenever he would come Out of his majlis
It is narrated about Imam Malik That he
never wore shoes In Medina Out of the
respect for Rasulullah S.a.w. It is
mentioned about Ja'far ibn Muhammad And Sadiq,
not the sahabi Ja'far ibn Muhammad and
Sadiq He says كان كثير الدعاب والتبسم He
was a very happy person He would joke
around He was really gentle and soft to
kids فَإِذَا ذُكِرَ عَنْدَهُ النَّبِي ﷺ When just
Rasulullah's name was mentioned إِسْفَرَّ وَجْهُهُ His face
would turn pale As if all the blood
Has dissipated from his face None of us
Here are at that level So we are
in Desperate reminders So the majlis or Gatherings,
this is a season This is a month
in which we should Turn this as an
opportunity To teach our kids about Nabi Muhammad
S.a.w. We're living in a time
Where belief In Prophet S.a.w. Has
been turned into an optional thing For people
And this cannot happen So we must wake
up and use These seasons to connect our
Our young children, our youth And every single
one of us and the older ones To
the life of Rasulullah So that perhaps when
his Name is mentioned in front of us
That we feel some form of connection With
him In the end Two things and I
end This is not an Eid For us
We have two Eids جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَنَا عِيْدَيْنِ
To believe that this type Of celebration Or
this day is Eid for us Is not
part of Islam None of the four schools
of thought The four fuqaha they have ever
affirmed Yes, to show Happiness on this day
is part of our Iman and the ayat
about that Are mentioned so many so many
وَلِيُوَقِّرُوهُ وَيُوَزِّرُوهُ Where Allah S.W.T. says
That Allah has sent the Nabi for you
Why?
That you تُوَقِّرُوهُ That you do وَقَارَ تُوَقِّرُوهُ
To this Nabi So there are enough ayat
in the Quran That tell us that.
In the end the correct Manner of remembrance
of Rasulullah S.A.W. Is that If
you start any gathering With some form of
Quran And remembrance of some of his shama
'il Wallahi if we read The Kitab Shifa
'a بتعريف تعزيز المصطفى If you read that
book, there are not a page That will
go by and many of us If you
have an ounce of love for Rasulullah You
would cry Because we have not known him
So these are Moments in which we can
spend our Family times, put on Any of
the speakers that you want I'll post on
the WhatsApp group few of the English Lecture
series that I think are really good As
a family to watch Listen to, listen to
them in the car And turn this into
a season Every year, not a day But
the entire month So that we walk away
with at least this level That when his
name is mentioned Nothing but tears drop down
from our eyes أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله
لي ولكم ولسائر المسلمين فاستغفرو فإنه الغفور الرحيم
بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على من
لا نبي بعده In the end We also
want to allude To this one factor That
many of the sahabahs at the time of
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم They would add
things to ibadah Never once asking Rasulullah صلى
الله عليه وسلم As was the case of
that sahabi He added something in the salah
He had access to Prophet صلى الله عليه
وسلم He could have asked before But he
said it, you had Bilal رضي الله عنه
Who added what, after every wudu He would
pray two rakahs nafl He never went to
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم and asked him
Rather Allah showed Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
The effect of his Extra devotion In the
dream And he comes and he says I
saw your footsteps in Jannah Bilal What do
you do Who had the direct access To
find out So Bilal رضي الله عنه That
tells you and examples are numerous That the
sahabahs understood That when we say the hadith
That كل محدسة بدع Every new thing Is
an innovation It was not this type of
innovation It was something else Because this hadith
happened in the first hijri The examples I
am giving you Are towards the end of
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلمs life So they
understood this That not everything that you do
In a form of ibadah If you want
to make an extra dua In the salah
You are permitted as long as you know
it in Arabic And you can do it
in Arabic What Rasulullah taught us Is something
as the scholars they say This is the
minimum performance level i.e. everybody else can
enter At that minimum level You want to
add a dua about a masalah you are
having At your job Ask Allah in the
sujood Bukhari says that the person is the
closest To Allah in the sajda You had
examples of sahabah Their books have been written
Zainul abideen His istighfar There is a 350
page book Of all the different ways he
could think of Doing istighfar i.e. presenting
his sins to Allah And asking him for
forgiveness So they were not wrong They understood
That our deen has something that MPL The
awam would do that But if somebody wants
to go And they want to add something
to it That is from the deen Not
something created You bring a 6th salah There
are 5 salahs, they are established But if
somebody wants to pray an extra nafil Because
they feel they want to There is nothing,
no harm in that As long as there
is a premise of that Ibadah in our
religion