Ali Ataie – How To Increase Your Love for Our Prophet
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Allah
says that the prophet
is more dear to the believers
than even their own selves. That is to
say, the believers prefer the life of the
prophet
over their own selves.
He said that the prophet
was more dear to us than everything, even
more so than cold water.
And the analogy here here, cold water is
an analogy for for life in the desert
era. In other words, the prophet
was more dear to the sahaba and to
the believers than life itself.
Abu Bakr al Sadir Ibrahim Abu Talm Abu
Talm Abu Abu Abu Abu Abu Abu Abu
Hanam. He said one day to the prophet
This is the father of Abu Bakr al
Sadiq.
I hope that your uncle becomes a Muslim
over my uncle. Do you understand the import
of the statement? I hope that your uncle
goes to Jannah over my father
because that would make me happy.
Oh, messenger of God. And your happiness is
my happiness.
When the Sahaba used to laugh, when the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to laugh,
the Sahaba used to laugh.
When he used to cry, they used to
cry. They were annihilated in the akhla, in
the ada, in the khulk of the prophet
There's an epidemic going around the Muslim world.
Muslims are leaving the religion. A lot of
people becoming a Muslim too. Alhamdulillah.
I've heard up to 20,000 people every year
in America become Muslim. A lot of people
are leaving their religion. There's a lot of
apostasy.
And this isn't just a youth. You mean,
The old people and the young people are
leaving their religion. I I think part of
the reason for this is because we're not
experiencing
our faith.
Right? There's 2 types of love
according to the rima,
in in regards to the hadith from the
prophet
that his parents and his children are all
of humanity. There's a time of love called
a
love that is based on the rash patriarchy.
That we love the prophet
because we know that it's good for us.
But then, we're supposed to convert this type
of love into a fruit that is based
on iman, which is called We
love the prophet
because he's worthy to be loved But we
need to get there. And how do we
get there? There's 2 ways of getting there.
The first way is to have the nahkifa.
To know who the prophet is. We have
to know about them. And every reply I
mentioned this, I saw him have a broken
record, but I think this is extremely important.
The people have to read. They study the
sierra of the prophet Know
the biography of the prophet.
We study so many different thingies, but we
don't study the seerah. What are the names
of his children?
What are the names of his imminent companions?
Study the seerah of the prophet.
Study
the the, the size, the special qualities
the special qualities of the prophet Muhammad Ali
Salam. His distinctions between the messengers.
His distinctions between the messengers,
study the
the the beautiful character, the shahaya of the
prophet, his input and out from manifestation so
so that we can move into
Mahaha of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi salam. So
he can take our faith. We can have
tahkeer. We can have habazation of our faith.
Secondly, they didn't leave the religion. It was
political treason. It was political apostasy. They did
not leave the religion. This is a misnomer.
So they experienced the transformative
nature of the Muhammadan reality.
And this is what we need to sustain
our faith, to have the sustainability
for our youth and for our older ones
as well.
And we have to taste our faith. We
have to taste the love of the prophet
because he is a subaf of his means
by which Allah
has guided us. And once we taste that,
we'll never go better. That's why
we have
These are a few things I mentioned to
the other hostel a few weeks ago. Because
we're studying the Siraj. I'm gonna mention them
again. They think they're very important.
First of all, for my own benefit, and
then by extension to all of you.
The white manhun has risen over us.
This is how they used to talk about
the prophet The white manhun and its beauty
is an analogy for for the beautiful face
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And
he was more beautiful than the full moon
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The white manu has
risen over us.
You don't have time to go into it.
But one of the things that they said
about him, that
we give shukkuq.
That it's it's to
give shukkuq
for this blessing of Allah
sending us this batari,
this one who calls us to Allah
If you look in the Quran,
Because this according to even matter is a
form of a superlative.
So Allah
You are a great foreigner and someone who
believes,
glad tidings
and someone who is a a caller called
also Hagar wa Jada, par excellence and a
light or a lamp that illuminates.
A lamp that spreads light. What happens when
you come into the presence of a lamp?
You're affected by the light. There was a
companion in Khamzada
I've
become a hypocrite.
Did the prophet mention you? Is my name
mentioned you? I said, no. You're a prophet.
Of course, why don't you know, Mordecai. Don't
you know, Mordecai. Can he mention you? This
is from the
of the sahaba,
So he said
because when I'm in the presence
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I
feel feel a spiritual high. But when I
leave his presence, it waves and it goes
away.
If you were to stay in that state
as you are in my presence, you would
be shaking hands with angels in the street.
Inside of his lights,
Would you experience that? There's no going back
up. Your
your entire being,
Yoruba, has been annihilated
in the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. The the Sahaba preferred his life
over their life because they loved him more.
When the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam came
into Madinah,
Abu Abu alaihi wa sallam, I'm sorry. He
took the baggage of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam into his own house.
And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, his
man is with his baggage. So he went
into the house of Abu Abu Abu Abu
alaihi wasallam.
And Abu Abu al Ahab had a 2
story house, and he put the prophet al
alayhis son on the ground floor
because it's easier and nerve to come in
and out if people are going to visit
him.
And then he and his wife were on
Paha in the 2nd floor. And then a
few day later into the visit,
Abu Aisha, SubhanAllah. Remember we're walking over the
head of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
Did not even stretch his feet in the
direction of his out. Did you know we're
walking on top of the head of the
prophet, so
he came back and said, Allah forgive us
for our bad adaba, who are walking above
their heads and said, no. Don't worry about
these things. It's easier for me. And they
would bring food down to him, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. You take in the food and
sometimes they're gonna eat the whole plate. So
I'm I'm you and his wife, they would
try to determine
which corner of the plate is the prophet
eating from? Let's eat from that one.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the love of
suhava for tabarah. Which corner of the plate
was he eating from? Let's eat from that
one. Sometimes I didn't touch that food at
all. Then Abu Ayyub and Azari, afraid that
he had reached Adah, but the prophet
would come down. Rasoolallah, you didn't touch your
foot. What did I do? What did my
wife think? What happened? Did he offend you?
Please forgive us. Please forgive us.
You know? When the ayah was revealed
in the Surah Al Khajarat
in the ladina
the presence of the messenger of Allah. They
are the ones whose hearts Allah has tested
with taqwa. For them is forgiveness and a
beautiful reward.
What
did we do? Did we offend him? He
didn't judge your plate.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, no. There's
onions in this. And I can first read,
so I can't eat onions.
Many many years later,
many years later after the passing of the
prophet Muhammad Ali Islam,
the governor of Medina, Narmon al Zohakam, who
was walking on the the road of the
prophet Muhammad Ali Islam, he would become the
4th Umayyad
Saif Saif later on. He's walking in the
road, and he sees an old man seated
in front of the grave of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and the old man's
head was touching the stone on top of
the grave of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And he said he kicked him with his
foot, and he said,
do you know what you're doing?
And the man looked up, who was it?
Adarayu madam Sahib.
The man just stayed. The prophet stayed in
his house
for 7
months and he said, be relax. I visited
the prophet. I don't have visit stones.
I'm visiting the prophet. This is the love
of the Sahaba,
When he came into the city,
a rabbi from Ali Qayyun Gara, Abdullah ibn
Musalam,
he said when he saw the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam,
I can tell from his face it wasn't
the face of a liar. Just looking at
his face
has a transformative
experience.
That beautiful face that anti Semitic said, that
on the day of the passing of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, at salatul fajr,
we were standing in prayer. They were praying
through sunnunah. They were in prayer facing south
towards the tabralah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was in the
apartment of Aisha on the eastern wall of
Kashim al Sintara, and he and he picked
up the carpet and he said pneumatic in
his prayer. He turns his face 90 degrees
to look into the face of the prophet
He's the means of the maghrib of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then as the Numa'ik
said that his face
His face looked like the page of the
Quran.
What does the page of the Quran look
like? Beautiful.
Full of meanings.
Deep meanings.
And then the prophet of the prophet of
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet of the prophet of the
prophet of the prophet of the prophet of
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet of the prophet of the
prophet of the prophet of the prophet of
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet of the prophet of the
prophet of the prophet of the prophet of
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet of the prophet of the
prophet of the prophet of the prophet of
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet
and pray in the night when other people
are sleeping. You enter paradise in peace,
and you enter a paradise in peace.
One lakha, one moment. One
moment when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam. This
is what we need. This is why people
are leaving their religion. They don't have that
one moment of love, that one moment of
actualization,
of the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, which is truly transformative.
Their greatest poet. They said, you know, when
you see Mohammed,
denigrate him in one of your poems because
the Shura of a fear. If a poet
denigrates it with a poem, it could stay
with you for the rest of your life,
even after death and your family for generations.
So Hassan ibn Abi Talib, you took some
a a small sum of money to do
this.
Waited by the road. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam walks by. He takes one glance
into the face of Al Habib salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. One glance and he walks away.
He goes back and says, here's your money.
I don't want your money. What? You couldn't
do a poem? I said, no. I need
a poem. Let's hear it. He says,
He says, when I saw his lights approaching
me, this was approaching me, I had to
put my palm over my eyes.
I had to put my palm over my
eyes.
I can scarcely look at him.
A soul from light,
a body as if it's carved out of
the moon.
Like a man made up of roven out
of brilliant stars.
Anything like that. He's a Bashar. What is
the genius of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam?
Bashar. What is our genius? Bashar.
But But he's a diamond. A diamond is
also a stone. Right? Right. But it's not
like other stone.
The prophet is a human being, but he's
not like other human beings. He is a
diamond while everyone else is like a stone.
This is what he said. And the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasalam said
Our mother Aisha said, Hannah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, that
Hassan had a mid army both fitted in
They prefer his life over their own lives.
They want to be with him,
for the sake of Allah
There's a hadith in Tiruvideen
on the authority of innocent humanity who is
Khadid Khurazoodhil alaihi wa sallam. He is the
servant of the messenger of Allah. He served
the prophets of Allah for 10 years. In
the early must say, after a while
after a while, a man or woman starts
to take on the qualities of the meaning
of their name. Anasams from uns, which means
intimacy. This is someone who's very intimate. He
loved the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Anas emblematic.
Anas is son of a king. The son
of a king
is walking around.
1 hadith says the prophet
at night went outside, Anas was following him
at night. Like, in the middle of the
night
And the prophet,
he sees Abu Bakr Ras Siddiq.
In the middle of the night, his manja
abikya abaqrib,
what has brought you out of Abu Bakr.
Listen to the answer of Abu Bakr.
So I've left my house in hopes of
seeing the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
In hopes of seeing the face of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He was in
his house. Umrahuman. His wife said, Umrahma Rasulillah
and his men were saying, wah shawfa.
Wah shawfa Rasulillah.
So, oh, how longing, how much longing do
I have? How much do I long
to see the face of the prophet, the
son of the Lord? This is his best
friend of Abu Bakr as Siddiqui.
Then our mother Aisha said, who is the
one who's not going to see you? And
he said,
The one, when I mentioned in his presence,
he doesn't send benedictions upon him. He doesn't
say
He doesn't say
We should get in the habit of doing
this inshallah. That
We want to see him in our dreams
because if we see him in our dreams,
then we've truly seen him.
Sayyidina Bilal, he couldn't even
survive after the passing of the prophet Muhammad
Ali Salam. He's on his deathbed. His wife
is screaming.
There is no tribulation tomorrow to see my
beloved, Muhammad.
Just a moment with him transformed
lives. There was a woman, a young woman
in Medina
who had a lot of courage. She was
very forward.
So she came to the prophet
one day and the prophet was sitting on
the ground and came in.
And she says to her, father sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he said, Rasallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
he never refused any one of requests.
He did not say no to anyone. He
served her for 10 years. He never said
no to anybody.
So
No. I want more food in your mouth.
I want the food that's in your mama.
Put that in my mama.
So the
prophet takes the food out of his mama
and he puts it in her mama. SubhanAllah.
The food a little lokomaha, a little,
piece of food,
A morsel of food. But mixed with the
lokumaha is the saliva of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. And the saliva of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has he being
moloties.
You know, on the day of Khayba, the
the they were in the Sahaba over there
for 15 days. They couldn't even penetrate the
first fortress of the
to
someone.
Someone who loves Allah and his messenger
and he is beloved by Allah and his
messenger. So the next morning after the prophet
Subhanahu alaihi's meeting, he calls for the nihuaha,
puts him in the ground. And he looks
out at the audience and everyone is clamoring.
So
he says, Anna Aiman, where is Aiman? He
said, oh, he has he has alphabia. He
has an inflammation, Ramana, in his eyes.
He can barely see.
Don't worry about that. They wanna wanna he's
so jealous. He'd make me.
So no. Bring Adi Adi. So they have
to bring him and lead him by the
hand to the prophet of the Lord Almighty
Say to lay down on your back.
The prophet of the Lord Almighty said to
him, blessed Salai Adi. He shall broken the
eyes
The man's eye had fallen out of his
eye socket and cuts off the head. And
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam replaced the eye.
So he gave this food to this girl
and after this food came into her body,
they said that no one in the entire
city of Medina was more modest than this
woman.
No one want the entire city of Medina.
She became clothed and fell up and modestly
because it was the one
that was given to her by the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
There was a man named King of Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who said, you Rasoolullah,
I'll do whatever you say, but I love
to fornicate you. I can't help myself out.
I just love to do it. And
the prophet said, do you imagine someone to
do that with your sister, your mother?
Yeah. That's terrible. And then the prophet said,
just for a moment, put his blessed hand
on the chest of this man. One one
one one
second.
This man went out and said that when
I entered her to see the prophet,
I loved fornication
more than anything. And when I left it,
it became the most odious thing to me.
The most odious thing to me. Why? Because
of 1 single small transformative transformative experience in
the prophets of Allah using. And you say,
well, now we're going to the sahaba. We
don't have the prophets of Allah using. We
have the sunnah.
We do all these things are not important
to sit with you on the buy on
the Internet. I guess if you use the
Internet, that's beautiful.
1 of the great men of Tassos and
one of the great men of Sharia, Sheikh
Abu Bakr from Einar from Tariq in South
Yemen, and.
He said, you know, this city folk will
come to me and they're full of themselves.
You know, like an empty cup like a
full cup. He said, when you come to
the river, you should empty yourself. Forget about
what you know, what you think you know.
It's called
or genosis in Greek. Greek. Christians
have these ideas. Now when you come and
you sit in the presence of a saint,
forget what you know. Be an empty receptacle
and and take off the lights.
Jesus, civic people come unto me full of
themselves. They sit and they sit and they
listen to me for hours and hours and
they don't benefit anything. And then a Bedouin
will come, a simple Bedouin will come who's
emptied himself, and you accidentally urinate on my
thigh. And I give them one of them,
one glance in his entire life has changed.
We have the sick with these people.
Sick with these blessed human beings. These are
the heirs of the prophets. Seek them out
and benefit from them inshallah.
And Sahih Muslim one time said that this
relates
The man said, mas
masa masa, you Rasoolullah. Majesah, what is the?
And the prophet
ignored it for for then at that time.
And then after the prayer,
And the prophet said,
what did you prepare for the outcome? This
is what we have to think about.
Don't let my death wake me up up.
Don't let the death of your father when
you're 50 years old wake you up. I
should start praying. My father has died.
Maybe it's your dead death and you never
wait like that.
Maybe you'll die.
The truth of the matter is one day,
here, someone is going to announce your denial
or my my my my my. This is
the truth of the matter.
And it could be any time.
What did you prepare for the hour? Don't
worry about the time. A lot of people,
they try to give you a day date.
What did they say a few years ago
ago?
December 21st or something like that. No. No.
Nobody knows that day date. Only Allah
knows that. The most important thing is what
did you prepare for? And he said that
not much as far as fasting and prayer.
The Unama say that he only took the
fara'at.
Than when we heard that and the prophet
said that we have to get to know
him.
Get to know him.
He says absolutely the best of creation
is our prophet, so
steer clear and descend them. He is the
one
he is the one whose word reverberated
in the highest assembles. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
was giving me the footba and a man
turns into the mustit and he says, you
Rasoolallahu,
there is a drought and everything is dying.
Our animals are dying. The prophet said raised
his blessed hand before he dropped his hands,
the sahaba said that his beard was soaking
wet, wet rain water.
Why? Because the prophet is
the perfect agent of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is the meaning of the hadith
prophet.
And then he continues to draw near him
to me with his extra credit
until I love him. And then I become
the eye by which he sees, the foot
by the foot by which he walks, the
hand by which he grasps. And if you
were to ask anything from me, I shall
I shall surely give it to him. This
is how he puts it in Sahih al
Farbar.
So the prophet
his speech and his words are guided by
Allah They're
guided by Allah
And
Allah and his messenger are people in their
obedience.
This is not an essential or ontological equality.
We don't believe in that.
Divine incarnation, things like that. With all the
respect, my Christian friends, at least the orthodox
magician made the major mistake here. When they
mingled the Lahout and Nasut, divinity is humanity.
They said they're from the same essence.
We are automatically obeying Allah because they're equal
in their obedience.
So then the same man rebidah in the
masjidah one week later,
everything is dying. There's a flood. The prophet
around us, not above us. Around us, not
above us.
His words reverberate in the highest assemblies.
One time he was talking about Jibreel Alaihi
Salam now. He said, you know who's having
a conversation with Jibreel Alaihi Salam now? He
said, I have an infant in days. My
family hasn't eaten in days. And suddenly there
was a crash in the heavens. A haddada.
A huge crash in the heavens.
And the prophet
was startled by it. Is it is it
yomukhayama?
Is this the crack?
And Jabir Alaihi Salam says, no. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala because of what what you just
said has destroyed an angel
from the highest assembly and the angel came
and he landed it. And some of the
traditions say he was as big as the
Kaaba.
And he said to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, do you wanna be a servant prophet
or a king prophet?
Do you wanna be a servant prophet or
a king prophet? And the prophet
said, I choose purpura dia.
I choose I choose servitude.
This is our prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa'alehi.
He
give us that