Ali Ataie – The Prophet’s Weighty Character
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The importance of the Prophet Muhammad sallal Ali Ali Ali Ali Ali (Speaker 1) is discussed, including his actions towards his wife and his children. The speaker advises against targeting people with false or denying values and to pray for guidance. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of Islam, including the belief that it is the only real religion left in the world and the common belief that it cannot be a prophet. The speaker gives advice on how to deal with the truth of Islam and suggests seeking out the truth.
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Allah.
The in the Quran, he speaks,
directly to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi said,
and he says
to
him that indeed
you are
upon
magnificent character.
That the fruit of the prophet
is
'avim,
which means just something beyond our imagination.
More than anything we can possibly think of
is the hud of 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,
or 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 adu,
your enemy.
He will become as it were your intimate
companion and friend.
Right?
That the the hulk of the Prophet
has this power to transform people
from hating him to loving him.
Amr ibn Al-'As radiAllahu anhu
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 sallam,
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
Amr ibn al-'Aas one time he said that
he went to the prophet
because when he became Muslim, the prophet
showed him so much
Mahakba.
Right? So Ahmad 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 So he said to himself I must
be the most beloved person.
I know it's it's obvious. So he came
to the Prophet
and he said
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.
Mashallah,
he loved his wife.
This is extremely important.
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, they're they're clowns in the circus.
So they attack the prophet
These are the real motives.
Right?
And it comes out and these people are
Mustaqzeem,
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
people who denigrate the prophet
Allah tells them
I am sufficient for you
against the Musta's in.
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 wasalam.
Right? Allah
will defend the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasalam.
There's nothing anyone could say in reality that
can insult the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 Hadithullah. He's the most beloved
of God.
So what is the wisdom behind this? Our
mother Aisha brought the You
know, the
the Umaha to mumileen, 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 did.
This is the wisdom
Allah
used our mother Aisha as a means of
preserving his religion.
We have a wife of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi sallam, 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 salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. That's what the Sahaba would
go to her.
She she relates to hadith
Where do we get these 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 Hijra
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. So what's wrong with
the 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 hapi.
Rest assured about this
Don't platform these people.
You know, if if there's a fitment 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 a 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 there's 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 to
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 appointed to them,
to them being able
to propagate the worship of the nafs,
their own Hawa.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
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. Has no effect whatsoever.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defends his prophet
We should be able to articulate these things.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam 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
Sallallahu alaihi salaam.
Right? But if there's a fit in the
community,
we have to be able to communicate to
people
and and bring Urlamat who 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 place to debate Christian
I still debate them a little bit.
These Christians. Right?
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 alayhi salaam engaged with no. He he
doesn't.
It says in the Torah that it's in
every Christian Bible. Musa alayhi salaam when he
was coming down from
and he sees his people
worshiping
the 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, salallahu alaihi sallam,
in 23 years,
how many people were killed in these battles?
A 1017
or a 1,015.
If you're similar to opinion, a 1,030, 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 men, women,
and 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. This 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 subhanahu
wa ta'ala 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 Volkism,
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 said, advice to
the prophet not my advice. He's giving you
his advice. A man came to the prophet
of Allah, and said,
Tell me something about Islam that only you
can tell me. Give me, like, something special.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's 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 jinn.
This type of Scooby Doo. This no. No.
No. We're grounded in knowledge.
Like the prophet,
he's a great white man.
He passed
by 2 Majlisain in his masjid.
One of them was making du'a to Allah
and the other one was engaging in Ta'aleem
and Ta'ilun.
And he sat with those who were making
Ta'aleem 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, thingamabhuritumu'alima.
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 increase in
is Elim. That's it. Elim.
That's why the prophets, they don't leave an
inheritance.
The inheritance of the prophets is knowledge, sacred
knowledge.
So this is extremely important. We need to
seek knowledge. Seek knowledge, sit with the ulama,
seek them out.