Ali Ataie – Prophet Muhammad His Example as a Practical & Spiritual Solution to Our Problems
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He says to him
that indeed
you are
upon
magnificent character.
That the kuruk of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
is 'avin,
which means just something
beyond our imagination.
More than anything we can possibly think of
is the hulk, the character of the prophet
So this is important for us to understand
what is this great character of the prophet
How did he interact,
with,
his family members,
with his wives,
even with his enemies?
There's a verse in the Quran which Allah
says,
Repel evil with something that is better.
Repel evil with something that is beautiful.
And then you will see the one
between you and him was Adawa, which means
like hatred or enmity.
He was your adum, your enemy.
You will become as it were your intimate
companion and friend.
Right?
That the the huluk of the Prophet
has this power to transform people
from hating him to loving him.
Amr ibn al-'As
on his deathbed
he said to his son Abdullah,
he said he said, my dear son there
was a time when I hated the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
so much
that I went out against him in many
of these battles. I was trying to kill
him.
And then there was a time when I
loved the prophet
so much I couldn't even look at him
in his face
because I was overawed by him.
And if you ask me right now to
describe him, I couldn't even do it. Because
after I became Muslim, I couldn't even bring
myself to look at him in his face.
Right?
And Ahmad ibn al-'Aas one time, he said
that he went to the prophet
because when he became Muslim, the prophet
showed him so much,
Mahapa.
Right? So Amal ibn al-'Aas, he thought himself
that I am the most beloved person to
the Prophet
because this is how the Prophet
made you feel. He made you feel very
important, very honored,
very dignified.
So he said to himself, I must be
the most beloved person.
I know it's obvious. So he came to
the Prophet
and he said,
you Rasulullah,
a yunas ahaqoo bilayj.
O Messenger of God, who do you love
the most amongst the people?
And he expected the prophet
to say it's obvious it's you.
And the prophet
said, Aisha,
his wife.
Masha'allah,
he loved his wife.
This is extremely important.
And people, as
my father said, people attack the prophet
for various reasons.
And many times,
but many times, don't think that this is
motivated by some kind
of sincere academic inquiry.
A lot of these people have
ulterior motives.
Right?
Either they are militant liberals
or they're extreme
feminists
or they're part of, you know, the circus
with the many colors.
You know, there are there are clowns in
the circus.
So they attack the prophet
These are the real motives.
Right?
And it comes out and these people are
Musta Hazidim,
right? The Quran talks about these people. These
are people who mock and denigrate the prophets
of Allah
and we should not give these people any
kind of platform.
This is extremely important.
Don't invite them to your,
you know, your
podcasts. Don't put them on TV.
Especially if you're not willing to show their
faces. These people are cowards. Not using their
real names.
If you're going to say something about the
prophet,
be a man, let me see your face.
What's your name?
Right?
But these people, we should not give them
platforms and the prophet
was ordered by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala not
to even engage with the Mustazimun.
People who denigrate the prophet Allah
tells them,
I am sufficient for you against the Mustaazim.
Don't even engage with them. Engage with people,
that have genuine,
you know, sincerity in the religion, that are
asking good questions,
not pointed questions,
not drawing these conclusions that are slanderous,
that are denigrating the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Right? Allah
will defend the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
There's nothing anyone can say in reality that
can insult the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. When
Allah has
raised him,
when Allah raises someone, nobody can debase
him. Nobody can debase him.
Right? So we should pray for people, pray
for their guidance.
Right?
But we should
know that he is Habibullah. He's the most
beloved of god.
So what is the wisdom behind this? My
mother Aisha, Radha,
you
know, the
the Umaha's al Mu'min, they don't get married
after the passing of the prophet
She she did not get married after him,
and she had no children. So what was
she doing?
She was teaching the sunnah
for 55 years.
Five and a half decades.
She was a fountain of knowledge.
Into her seventies, from age 18 to 73,
she's full time teacher, Mufti, one of the
7 or 8 sahaba that gave fatwa.
This is the wisdom
Allah
used our mother Aisha as a means of
preserving his religion.
We have a wife of the prophet,
someone who's in the house. This is someone
that has
access to the prophet that nobody, no male
companion has.
Imagine how much information and knowledge,
details of the life of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. That's why the Sahaba will go
to her,
She she relates to hadith.
Where do we get this hadith from? Where
do we get a third of our religion
from? There's great wisdom in this. For 5
and a half decades, she's teaching the religion.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There was someone in
the year 60 hijrah
who is a Sahabi,
our mother Aisha who's teaching the sunnah.
This is the wisdom behind people don't see
the wisdom. Because people have they're looking at
the world through their own diseases.
Right? If you have cataracts in your eyes,
and you're seeing everything yellow, you don't blame
me for being yellow. What's wrong with you?
Why are you yellow?
No. The disease is in your own eyes.
That's what you're seeing. You're seeing the world
through your diseases.
Right?
So we should know that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
He
will take care of these people who are
mocking his happy.
Rest assured about this. Don't platform these people.
You know, if if there's a fitna in
the community,
then we should have an item
who will address these issues.
But don't let the masses hear
these these these insults and wrong conclusions.
People who don't know what they're talking about,
people who have an axe to grind. Why
do they have an axe to grind? Because
the Quran is true.
Allah
says in the Quran, it it is he
who has sent his messenger with truth and
the deen al Haqq, the religion of truth,
that it may supersede all other religions. Islam
is the only real religion left in the
world.
Look around the world. You go to a
church at random, it's the circus.
Where's your morality?
Where's your tradition? What happened?
You have the pope saying weird things.
Go to a synagogue. They're eating pork. They're
not praying.
They're they're they're engaging in
all kinds of
shaitonic practices. What happened to your religion?
Because the the religions of the world right
now, basically,
is just militant liberalism
with a veneer of religion. That's the that's
the base religion, a militant type of liberalism.
Woe
liberalism.
With just a
a very light coating of Christianity,
Judaism,
Buddhism,
Hinduism.
But Islam is the only deen left, and
people see that. People are noticing that,
and this bothers them because
Islam is the barrier according to them,
to them being able to propagate the worship
of the nafs,
their own power.
And Allah
He says in the Quran to the prophet
and by extension to all of us,
Do you see the one who takes his
own Hawa,
his own nafs, his own desires,
his own capris as his ila, as his
god.
Right? This is a very very common form,
common type of idolatry in the world.
Right?
So the Prophet said that no one can
debase him. One of the poets said, these
people are like dogs barking at the moon.
Does does the barking of the does the
barking of the dogs on the earth affect
the moon
as it passes through the sky?
No. It has no effect whatsoever.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defends his prophet
We should be able to articulate these things.
The prophet
does not need us to defend him. Right?
Allah will defend him. But so defending him
is only for our benefit. He doesn't benefit,
Right? But if there's a fit in the
community,
we have to be able to communicate to
people
and and bring ulama. We have studied these
things. To clarify these issues for the people.
This is very very important,
you know. Very very important. Even to put
things in perspective.
I speak into a race to debate Christian
I still debate them a little bit.
These Christians. Right?
And one of them it's very common. They
say he the prophet said he can't be
a prophet because he engaged in wars.
Engaged in wars? What are you talking about?
Have you read the bible?
Musa, alayhis salaam, engaged in no. He he
doesn't it it says in the Torah it's
in every Christian bible. Musa, alayhis salaam, when
he was coming down from Turisineen,
Harisinai,
and he sees his people
worshiping
the agent,
the calf. According to the Torah, he ordered
3,000 men killed in one day.
In one day,
3,000 men.
Now if you look at the fasawat of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
in 23 years,
how many people were killed in these battles?
A 1017
or a 1,015.
It's different to a bit of a 1030,
something like this.
And all of the military
and these are all men on the battlefield.
Men against men on the battlefield, fighting like
men,
you know,
not like modern warfare,
where they drop bombs on innocent wet men
living children.
200,000 people killed in an atomic blast.
Right? These these things are completely haram.
Those things are barbaric.
Completely haram according to our sharia.
So we should know the way of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. His teaching is
a teaching for the intelligent ones,
for the people who think,
for the people of faith.
May Allah,
guide us to the truth. May Allah
give us the ability
to clarify these issues,
for the next coming generation.
Because this is becoming difficult for a lot
of young people.
Right? Especially in high school, university
setting
because these philosophies, these postmodern philosophies,
this type of volcism,
this type of militant liberalism,
this is the
zeitgeist, like the general sort of spirit of
the age, it's the most prevalent type of
philosophy,
in colleges and universities.
And Muslim children enter into these places and
they don't know how to deal with these
things.
Right?
Because the teaching in these places is that
there is no ultimate truth.
There's no such thing as ultimate truth.
There's no such thing as objective morality.
Right? They say, how dare you have an
opinion about morality? Which is ironic, because they
have an opinion. That's their opinion.
There's no such thing as ultimate truth. That
in and of itself is an expression of
ultimate truth. The whole thing is a big
contradiction.
The whole thing is convoluted. The whole thing
is false.
Okay. So the my final advice is a
man came to the prophet of Allah and
said, advice to the prophet of Allah. Not
my advice.
Tell me something about Islam that only you
can tell me. Give me, like, something special.
And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, his
response was very short,
right, but very comprehensive. Say,
I believe in Allah
and be steadfast and upright
upon that. Have istikamah in the religion.
Istikamah in the religion means you don't waver.
Right? You stick to the path, but you're
grounded in knowledge. Those
who are grounded in knowledge.
It's not based on emotion, it's not based
on trends,
you know, it's not, you know, I wanna
become Muslim because I wanna catch a chin,
This type of Scooby Doo. This no. No.
No. We're grounded in knowledge.
Like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he's the
great white man.
He passed by 2
majlisain in his masjid.
1 of them was making du'a to Allah
and the other one was engaging in Ta'ileem
and Ta'ilun.
And he sat with those who were making
Ta'ileem and Ta'ilun. 1 was making du'a to
to Allah
and the other was was learning and teaching,
and he sat amongst them. And he said,
We had to seek knowledge.
The only thing in the Quran that Allah
tells us to pray for and increase in
is
not or
whatever.
You know?
The only thing Allah
teaches us to ask him for increasing is
elm. That's it. Elm.
That's why the prophets didn't leave an inheritance.
The inheritance of the prophets is knowledge, sacred
knowledge.
But this is is extremely important. We need
to seek knowledge. Seek knowledge. Sit with the
ulama. Seek them out.