Ali Ataie – To Love The Prophet More Than Yourself
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The transcript describes a culture where the Prophet optimization is emphasized, using a shoulder injury as a way to climb up on Mount Uhud. The culture also includes a emphasis on learning about the Prophet's name and legacy, while acknowledging the importance of serving the people.
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Allah subhana wa ta'ala in the Qur
'an celebrates the birth of al-anbiya.
This is in the Qur'an.
Qur'an is dalil qat'i.
So we have dalail that are general and
then more specific.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala quoting Isa a
.s. says, وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ وُرِدْتُمْ Peace be
upon me the day that I was born.
Peace be upon me the day that I
was born.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us about
Yahya a.s. وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ وُرِدْتُمْ Peace
be upon him the day that he was
born.
In Sahih Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ was fasting
on Monday and the Sahaba said, يَا رَسُولَ
اللَّهِ Why are you fasting?
His answer was يَوْمَ وُرِدْتُمْ فِيهِ This is
the day that I was born.
And so what do you think the Sahaba
did with that information?
Oh that's nice.
No they started fasting on Monday because they
emulate him.
They have ittiba' of the Prophet ﷺ.
Ittiba' you know in ayatul imtihan قُلْ إِن
كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهِ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهِ وَيَغْفِرْ
لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ The love that Allah subhana wa
ta'ala has for us is commensurate with
the level of ittiba' we have for the
Prophet ﷺ.
The Sahaba knew this خَيْرٌ نَسْقَرْنِي No one
knows aqeedah better than Sahaba.
So they began to fast.
Why?
In celebration of the birth of the Prophet
ﷺ.
But are there other ways to celebrate?
Al-Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ
would eulogize the birth of the Prophet ﷺ
in poetry.
He used to say that the Prophet ﷺ
when the Prophet was an infant he would
lie in his cradle and the Prophet would
point to the moon and play with the
moon.
And Al-Abbas said Wallahi I would see
the moon shaking in the sky based on
what you were doing with your finger ﷺ.
There are numerous ahadith that are mentioned by
great scholars, things in nature happening at his
birth.
Animals conversing and greeting each other.
The fire in Persia that was burning that
was revered by the Majus, by the Zoroastrians
was suddenly extinguished at his birth ﷺ.
The balconies of Caesar suddenly crumbled.
The waters of the sea of Tiberias, the
sea of Galilee in Palestine had receded.
So things were happening.
You know in Sahih Bukhari we were told
that Al-Abbas he had a dream of
Abu Lahab.
Abu Lahab right.
Abu Lahab Abdul his name was Abdul Kaaba
Ibn Abdul Muttalib.
He had a dream of Abu Lahab and
Abu Lahab was in a terrible state.
May the hands of Abu Lahab perish.
Abu Lahab used to follow the Prophet ﷺ,
chase the Prophet ﷺ and throw stones at
the Prophet ﷺ.
So he put hands on the Prophet ﷺ.
Something you don't want to do.
You fall in danger of sual khatima.
If you show enmity towards the beloved ones
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, whoever shows
enmity towards my awliya, my friends, take notice
of war from me.
This is Hadith Qudsi.
So Tabat Yada Abi Lahab Ibn Wattab.
So Abu Lahab you know he's speaking to
Al-Abbas.
This is in Bukhari.
And Al-Abbas he says what is your
state?
And he says terrible, terrible.
But on Mondays, on Mondays I can drink
some cool water from my finger, my right
index finger.
I have a little bit of relief.
He said why?
Because on the day of the birth of
the Prophet ﷺ, Abu Lahab pointed to a
slave of his, a slave girl, Thuwayba, the
first wet nurse of the Prophet ﷺ.
And he said, Antihurri li wajhillah.
You are free for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And he pointed to her with his finger.
So here is a certified Kafir.
Abu Lahab is a Kafir.
There's no doubt about it.
It's in the Qur'an.
Who showed joy and performed a good deed
on the day of the birth of the
Prophet ﷺ.
And as a big Kafir, he receives a
little bit of lightening, a little bit of
relief in Jahannam.
A Kafir.
Imam Masyuti says how much more?
A muhib, a lover of the Prophet ﷺ.
If a lover, a beloved one of the
Prophet ﷺ shows some joy and performs good
deeds on the occasion of the birth of
the Prophet ﷺ, how much more will Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala reward that person?
In the Mustadrak of Al-Hakim, and a
Mustadrak is an abridgment of another larger book
of Hadith.
So in theory, only the sound narrations call
a Mustadrak.
We are told that the Prophet ﷺ, when
he entered into Madinatul Manawarah, he performed a
second Aqiqah.
Two animals were slaughtered.
Imam Masyuti says in his Fatawa, he did
this on his birthday in Madinatul Manawarah to
celebrate his own birthday.
This is in the Hadith.
So what did they do?
What did the Sahaba do?
Were they fasting on this day?
No.
They were sharing food and they were listening
to his words.
This is what we're doing.
This is Sunnah.
They were gathered together, listening to his speech,
eulogizing him, taking wisdom from him, praising him,
obeying him, and sharing some food.
So the Mawlid is a commemoration.
Hajj is a commemoration.
Ibrahim ﷺ, Ismail ﷺ, Adam and Eve, the
five daily prayers is a commemoration.
Each prayer has something to do with a
specific Prophet.
The Mawlid is a commemoration of the birth
of our Master Muhammad ﷺ, who is the
best of creation.
So this is a Sunnah.
Many of the Ulama say the Mawlid is
a Sunnah.
So people don't want to celebrate.
You don't have to celebrate but I feel
bad for you because you're missing something great.
So Allah describes the believers many times in
the Quran.
195 times you'll find the word Mu'min in
the singular, the dual, the plural, in different
case endings, Marfur and Mansub and Mahfud, Mu'min,
Mu'minun, Mu'minin.
Describes them in many ayat.
But Aflaha al-mu'minun, for example, the believers
will gain salvation.
In Surah Al-Ahzab, ayah number six, Allah
ﷻ says, An-Nabiyyu awla bil-mu'minin min
anfusihim.
An-Nabiyyu awla bil-mu'minin min anfusihim.
That the Prophet ﷺ, his life is more
important for the believers than their own lives.
The Prophet's life takes precedence for the believers
over their own life.
This is the state we need to achieve.
And I mentioned this the other day, somewhere
in a masjid.
I don't remember.
Yesterday is a blur.
Somewhere, where I mentioned to one of my
teachers that 50% of Christians, they can't
name the four Gospels in the New Testament.
He said, I guarantee you, 50% of
Muslims coming out of a masjid cannot name
one hadith, cannot quote one hadith.
One hadith.
Ad-dinu nasihah.
There's a hadith.
Why?
We have a crisis of ilm.
We have a crisis of love.
La yu'minu ahadukum hatta, hatta akuna ahabba ilayhi
min walidihi wa walidihi wa nasi ajma'in.
Or kama qala alayhi ﷺ.
Sahih Bukhari.
You don't have complete faith.
It's not complete unless I am more beloved
to you than your parents and your children
and the whole of humanity.
How do we get to this mahabba?
This is unconditional love.
There's different terms for love in Arabic.
Mawadda, right?
Which is sort of a courtesy and a
willingness to sacrifice for another person.
Mawadda, the word Dawood is related to it.
Khulla, khalil, khulla, friendship, love, ishq, you know,
passionate love, but something that comes and goes.
And then mawadda, mahabba, mahabba, steady, unconditional love.
The way to mahabba is through ma'rifah,
is through intimate knowledge of the Prophet ﷺ.
How do we get knowledge?
We have to study.
We have to study.
We pray, oh Allah, make the Prophet beloved
to me, and we waste our time five
hours a day watching television.
That's the national average.
That's the national average in America.
We're in that average.
We're American.
We're watching five hours of television a day,
two hours of Facebook.
Wallahi last week I deactivated my Facebook account.
Inshallah, I'll never go back to it.
Never ever.
You know how Facebook started?
At Harvard was a way that these frat
guys were showing pictures of women that they've
committed fornication with and were raiding them.
That's the origin of Facebook.
Is there barakah in this?
I didn't see any.
Wallahu alam.
So this is what we have to understand.
Complete faith in the Prophet ﷺ is not
just accepting a rational proposition.
Yeah, I accept that he's the Prophet of
God.
We have to have qabool and id'an.
Qabool means submissive, means to accept what he
brought, completely accept it.
And id'an means to have submissiveness towards
him.
Submissiveness.
By your Lord, they don't have
complete faith unless they make you a judge
in all affairs and they have no resistance
in their heart against your decisions and they
come to you in total submission.
This is in the Qur'an.
We have to develop a relationship with the
Prophet ﷺ.
A relationship.
We have to have tahqeeq.
We have to have actualization of this hadith.
We have to move from just accepting a
rational proposition.
Shaytan believes there's one God.
Shaytan knows there's one God.
Iblis, does he not know there's one God?
He was in the company of angels.
He knows the Prophet ﷺ is a messenger
of God.
He knows it.
He was tantalizing the mushrikeen at Badr, telling
them, you're good.
You're number one.
Go Quraish.
Ra ra Quraish.
Give me a Q.
Give me a U.
Egging them on.
And the shaytan, he goes to the wells
of Badr.
He sees mala'ika descending.
And he says, I am free from you.
I can see something you can't.
I fear Allah.
And he cuts out on them.
Shaytan has accepted the rational proposition that the
Prophet ﷺ is a messenger of God.
No qabool.
No id'an.
That's why he's a kafir.
So we have to be careful.
We need to work on our relationship with
the Prophet ﷺ.
I want to talk about some testimonies of
love.
As I said, the sahaba were the greatest
generation.
And the aqeedah of ahlus sunnah wal jama
'ah is an articulation of the aqeedah that
the sahaba were upon.
That's our aqeedah.
So Sayyidina Ali, karamallahu wajhah.
He said, kana ﷺ ahabba ilayna min kulli
shay'in wa min al maa'il baaridi
ala dhamma.
Subhanallah.
What a statement.
Sayyidina Ali, he said, he ﷺ was more
beloved to us than everything.
Even more so than cold water when we're
thirsty.
You got to think about this.
What does cold water mean for the desert
Arab?
It is an analogy for life itself.
It is life.
We loved him more than life.
You know, sometimes you might say to your
spouse, you're the air I breathe.
Maybe you don't say that.
That means I can't live without you.
This is how the sahaba are speaking about
the Prophet ﷺ.
What did the Prophet ﷺ say about Sayyidina
Ali?
He loves Allah and his messenger and is
beloved by Allah and his messenger.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he said to the
Prophet ﷺ, he said, Ya Rasulullah, I prefer
that your uncle, Abu Talib, become Muslim over
Abu Quhafa.
Do you understand what this means?
Abu Quhafa is his own father.
I prefer your uncle, Abu Talib, who raised
you, to become Muslim and go to Jannah
over my own biological father who raised me.
I'm his blood.
Why?
It'll make you happy.
It'll make you happier.
When the Prophet was happy, the sahaba started
laughing.
If they see the Prophet crying, they start
crying.
This is the sahaba.
This is how in tune they were with
the Prophet ﷺ.
With the ahwal, the states of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And this is not cut off at the
death of the Prophet ﷺ.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadili, he said, If
the Prophet ﷺ was veiled from me, the
blink of an eye, I would not even
consider myself a Muslim.
This is someone who has absorption, someone who's
annihilated in the prophetic states, annihilated in the
love of the Prophet ﷺ.
Sayyidina Umar said, Your uncle over my father.
Abu Hurairah says in Musnad Ahmad, O Messenger
of God, whenever I see you, my eyes
well up with tears of joy.
Whenever Abu Hurairah, whenever he would just look
at the Prophet ﷺ, he would begin to
weep.
Just begin to weep because he is the
sabab of his hidayah.
He is the means of his guidance into
Jannah.
You know, the Prophet ﷺ is buried in
Madinah al-Munawwara.
The caliph one time, I mentioned this earlier
as well, the caliph Abu Ja'far al
-Mansur, he was in the Masjid al-Nabawi
and he was arguing, he was saying something
to Imam Malik ibn Anas.
And Malik ibn Anas, you know, he didn't,
he thought jidal was haram, you know, bayna
awam and makruh if it was between the
ulama.
Here's a caliph now raising his voice in
the Masjid of the Prophet ﷺ, raising and
getting louder and louder and louder.
And Imam Malik, he suddenly said, lower your
voice.
And the caliph was shocked.
He said, Alladhina yaghudduna aswatukum anda rasulillah ulaika
alladhina imtahanallahu quloobuhum li taqwa lahum maghfiratun wa
ajlun azeem Don't you know what Allah said?
Those who lower their voice in the presence
of the Prophet, pointed to the grave of
the Prophet ﷺ.
Those are the ones that Allah has tested
their hearts for taqwa.
For them is forgiveness and a great reward.
This is the adab they would have.
These are the salaf, right?
Incredible love, incredible adab, right?
May Allah ﷻ make us like them.
When Malik ibn Anas, the imam of Medina
to Manawrah, when people would come to him,
he said, what do you want to study?
They say fiqh.
He said, bismillah, sit down.
If they said hadith, he said, hold on,
you go take a shower, put on white
clothes, tie his turban, put some perfume on.
We're going to talk about hadith.
This is the state of the muhibb, the
state of the beloved, the lover of the
Prophet ﷺ.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was in Thawr, in
the cave.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he went in first
into the cave and he put his arm
down the rock crevices to provoke an attack
on him by an animal.
He wanted to be attacked because his companion
is next to him, the Prophet ﷺ.
And then the Prophet was exhausted.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq is sitting, Indian style
as it were, I don't know if that's
a politically correct term, in the lotus position.
The Prophet ﷺ, his head is on Abu
Bakr's lap and he's sleeping.
Some sort of poisonous insect, a scorpion or
something, begins to lash the toe of Abu
Bakr as-Siddiq.
And he's wincing in pain, the pain was
so great that he begins to cry and
one teardrop falls on the blessed cheek of
the Prophet ﷺ and he wakes up.
He said, what happened?
He said, this animal stung my toe.
He said, why didn't you wake me up?
He said, I don't want to disturb your
sleep.
How can I disturb your sleep?
The Prophet ﷺ takes some blessed saliva and
he just heals the toe of Abu Bakr
as-Siddiq.
Abu Ayub al-Ansari.
Abu Ayub al-Ansari is buried in Turkey.
The Prophet ﷺ entered into Medina to Manawarah.
Abu Ayub had a two-story house and
he told the Prophet ﷺ, take the ground
floor, it's easier for you, you're going to
have visitors.
So Abu Ayub and his wife were on
the second floor.
Suddenly it occurred to Abu Ayub al-Ansari,
we're walking above his head.
This is what's occurring to the mind of
a Sahabi.
We're walking over his head.
So he goes down and said, Ya Rasulallah,
let's switch places.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, no, no, no,
don't worry about it.
It's okay.
A lot of people are going to come
visiting me.
So Abu Ayub al-Ansari looked into the
room of the Prophet ﷺ and he saw
the firash, the mat of the Prophet ﷺ
in a certain corner.
So he goes back upstairs and he says
to his wife, we can never walk in
this corner.
And they would shimmy across the walls because
if you stomp your feet in a mud
brick home, dust will fall.
A glass of water broke.
Abu Ayub al-Ansari ripped his shirt off
and began to absorb the water because it
might seep down upon the Prophet ﷺ.
This is the type of love we're talking
about.
When they brought him food, when they, when
they brought the Prophet ﷺ food and you
eat some, Abu Ayub and his wife would
try to determine which part of the plate
did the Prophet's finger enter the food.
Let's enter from there.
For Tabarruk, these are Sahaba.
This is Aqeedah.
This is their Aqeedah.
And one time the Prophet didn't even touch
the plate and Abu Ayub started crying.
Did I offend you?
What did I do?
Did I offend you?
And the Prophet said, I smell some garlic
or onions.
I have mystical conversations with malaika.
I don't eat garlic and onions.
Abu Ayub al-Ansari said, no more garlic
and onions in my house ever again.
This is the state of Sahaba.
Imam Ahmed mentions many, many years after the
passing of the Prophet ﷺ, a few decades
later, during the time of Marwan the governor
of Medina, who would become an Umayyad Caliph.
Marwan was walking in the roda of the
Prophet ﷺ.
And he saw a man lying on top
of the grave of the Prophet ﷺ.
And he was crying.
There used to be a stone marking the
grave.
And so Marwan, he walks up and he
kicks him.
And he says, what do you think you're
doing?
What do you think you're doing?
And the man looked up and said, Relax.
I've come to visit the Prophet ﷺ.
And I haven't come to visit a stone.
Who is this man?
Abu Ayub al-Ansari, a companion of the
Prophet ﷺ.
This is the love of Sahaba.
People say, don't overpraise him.
Overpraise the Prophet.
Is it possible?
Overpraise.
His name is written on the Arsh.
His name is Kutaba al-Arsh.
La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulallah.
The Auraq of Jannah, the leaves of Jannah
have the name of the Prophet ﷺ.
The Abwabul Jannah, the gates of Jannah have
the name of the Prophet ﷺ.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala praises the Prophet
ﷺ.
What is our praise?
What is our praise?
Say, for the sake of Allah's grace and
mercy, for the sake of that, let them
show joy.
For the sake of Allah's rahma, let them
show joy.
What is Allah's rahma?
Who is Allah's rahma?
We show joy at the coming of the
Prophet ﷺ in its offensive to people.
I don't get it.
I don't get it at all.
Hassan ibn Thabit, before Islam, he was a
great poet amongst the Arabs.
And some of the mushrikeen in Medina, they
later became munafiqeen after Badr.
But there was mushrikeen in Medina, in Yathrib
at the time, before it was Medina.
They go to Hassan ibn Thabit and they
say, write a hijab, a defamatory poem.
Write something, defame him, denigrate him, lampoon him.
Right?
The Prophet ﷺ.
Because the poet, the sha'ir had power.
The sha'ir, if he lampooned you in
a poem, it would stay generations in your
family, potentially.
And if he praised you, it would stay
generations.
So Hassan, so they gave him some money,
a small sum of money.
And Hassan ibn Thabit, he waited by a
small hill and the Prophet ﷺ walks by.
And Hassan takes one glance at the Prophet
ﷺ.
And he goes back to his friends and
he says, Here's your money, I don't need
it.
He said, what happened?
Did you write something?
He said, Oh, I wrote something.
He said, read it.
He said, When
I saw his lights approaching, lights, anwar were
approaching me.
He said, I had to cover my eyes
with the palm of my hand out of
fear for going blind.
Because of his incredible beauty, I could scarcely
look at him.
A soul from light, from a body carved
out of the moon, like a beautiful mantle
stitched together with brilliant stars.
Muhammad ﷺ is
a human being, but he's not like other
human beings.
He's like a jewel or a ruby or
everyone else are stones.
It's the same genus, a diamond or a
ruby is still a stone, but it's a
very special stone.
This is what he said, More
beautiful than you, no eye has never seen.
More pure than you, no woman has ever
given birth to.
You were created faultless.
You were created free from every fault as
if you were created according to your own
specifications.
Imagine if you were, imagine if you can
pick your own physical qualities and internal qualities,
what would you choose for yourself?
Hassan were absolutely beautiful.
That's why we have to learn the prophetic,
when you look in the mirror, what did
he say?
Oh Allah, just as you have made my
outward form beautiful, beautify my inward form.
You know, one time her brother said, well,
I can't make that dua.
I don't think I'm a very good looking
person.
No, you're good looking, mashaAllah.
Don't be so self-deprecating.
If you're the son or daughter of Adam,
mashaAllah, you're When this is from Sahih
Muslim, Musnad Ahmad, when the ayah was revealed,
and Allah will protect you from the harm
of human beings, right?
When this ayah was revealed, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was on a military expedition
at the time.
He comes out of his tent and he
dismisses all of his hurras, all of his
bodyguards.
You're free to go.
My Lord is now protecting me.
So everyone leaves except one man.
And the Prophet said to him, I dismissed
all of them.
You're free to go.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, I'm not here for
hirasa.
I'm here for khidmah.
I'm here for service.
Give me something to do.
Labbayk, Ya Rasulullah, I'm at your service.
Labbayk.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said,
get me a bowl of water for wudu.
One bowl of water.
So here you go, Rasulullah.
Give him a bowl of water.
The Prophet looked at him and said, sal,
sal, ask me for something now.
Subhanallah, bowl of water.
What are you going to ask for?
The sahaba, mashaAllah, they have high spiritual himmah,
very high spiritual ambition.
Right?
We have high spiritual, we have high dunyawi
ambition.
We should have high spiritual ambition.
Right?
What did he say?
Oh, you know, can I have, you know,
a few camels and a few goats, make
me the governor of this or that district.
What did he say?
Rabi Ibn Ka'b, he said, Ya Rasulullah,
I ask you for your companionship in paradise.
This is what I want.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
smiled and he said, anything else?
He said, that's it.
That's all I want.
Help me do this for you.
Literally, help me overcome your nafs by making
sajdah in abundance.
So the ulama say, if you want to
be the companion, if you want the suhbah
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
Jannah, based on this hadith, we have to
establish the prayer.
Number one, it is the essence of our
spirituality.
The celestial name of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is given in the Quran.
It was quoted by Isa alayhi sallam is
Ahmed.
That's his name in the celestial realm.
Ahmed is alif, like qiyam, alif, you're standing.
And then ha, ruqoo, mim, sujood, dal, qa'da.
The name is a raka of worship.
He is the perfect slave of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
He perfected ibadah and ubudiyah.
He perfected ibadah, worship of God and ubudiyah,
attitude with God, slavehood.
At Qa'if, he was stoned out of
the city.
Mushrikeen are having pity on him.
A bunch of thugs and children were stoning
him for three miles outside of Qa'if.
They were following him for three miles, throwing
stones at him, aiming for his feet.
The traditions say they wanted to cripple him
so he'd fall and kill him.
This is what they were trying to do.
It was an assassination attempt.
He barely got away.
He collapses under a tree.
He makes a beautiful dua to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
He says in the dua, if this is
happening to me and you're not angry with
me, then I don't mind.
I don't mind.
If they're going to kill me, torture me,
but you're not angry with me, then I
don't mind.
This was his concern.
They say a wali of God, he doesn't
complain.
If he's in the shade, he doesn't seek
the sun.
If he's standing in the sun, he doesn't
seek the shade.
He's content where Allah puts him.
Praise be to Allah in every state because
the wali of God, he understands the big
picture, the great picture.
Ali al-Ridha, he came to Nishapur, Imam
Ali al-Ridha.
And he said, and the people of Nishapur,
20,000 people came out.
And they said to him, give us a
tradition from your forefathers.
He said, I heard from my father, Musa
al-Kadhim, who heard from his father, Jafar
al-Sadiq, who heard from his father, Muhammad
al-Baqir, who heard from his father, Ali
ibn Hussain Zayn al-Abideen, who heard from
his father, Hussain ibn Ali, who heard from
his father, Ali ibn Abi Talib, who heard
from his father-in-law, al-Habib sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, who heard from Jibreel alayhi
sallam, who heard from Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, this golden chain, who heard from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, who said, La ilaha
illallah is
my fortress.
Whoever says la ilaha illallah has entered my
fortress.
And whoever enters my fortress, he is safe
from my punishment.
This is what the Awliya know, big picture
idea.
Ultimately, they're under the care of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
These little nuisances in the dunya, that's the
nature of the dunya.
So this is what Sahaba were thinking about.
Khubaib ibn Adi, Sayyidina Khubaib, he was captured
after Ghazwat Badr by Mushrikeen, the Mushrikeen of
Mecca.
He was captured, put in prison until the
sacred months were over, then taken out to
a place called Tanaim, where they basically crucified
him.
They killed him, they executed him.
And they said to him, do you have
a last request?
And he said, yeah, I'd like to pray
Rakaatain.
So he began to pray.
In the middle of his prayer, they turned
him from the Kaaba to insult him.
After his prayer, he said, Whichever way you
turn, you'll find the countenance of God.
So they nailed him to a stake and
they began to deride him, make fun of
him.
And one of the leaders of the Mushrikeen,
he said, don't you wish you can trade
places with Muhammad right now?
You're at home with your family and he
was here.
And Sayyidina Khubaib, he said, I don't wish
a shawka, a thorn to prick the finger
of the messenger of Allah ﷺ.
I don't wish a thorn to prick his
finger.
This is what the Sahaba were thinking about.
And when the Reeh of Jannah filled his
lungs and the Ru'ya of Jannah filled
his eyes, what came into his mind?
He's about to pass away.
What came into his mind?
He said, Oh Allah, convey my salams to
your Rasul.
He was thinking about the Prophet ﷺ in
Medina.
Paradise did not distract him from the Prophet
ﷺ.
So the Prophet ﷺ was in Medina He
was sitting with Zaid ibn Haritha and other
Sahaba.
And suddenly a feeling came over him as
if the revelation was descending.
He raises his head ﷺ and he says,
So what happened?
Your companion is being martyred in Mecca.
And Abu Sufyan ibn Haritha at this time
was not Muslim.
He was there and he said, I've never
seen anyone love anyone like the companions of
Muhammad ﷺ.
It's like when Urwa ibn Mas'ud from
the Quraysh came.
He was the negotiator for the treaty of
Hudaybiyyah.
So he spent some time with the Sahaba
and the Prophet ﷺ in their camp.
And he went back to the Quraysh and
he said, Wallahi, I visited Caesar and Kisra
and the Najashi.
Wallahi, I've never seen anyone respect, give ta
'zeem to anyone else like the companions of
Muhammad ﷺ give ta'zeem to the Prophet
ﷺ.
He said, they were jostling over his wadu,
his used wadu water.
They were trying to catch his water, rub
it on their faces.
When he was getting his hair cut, no
hair, not a strand of hair struck the
earth.
They were before it would even strike the
earth, they're taking his hair.
This is the love of Sahaba.
This is the love of Sahaba.
Khalid ibn Walid, he had some hair of
the Prophet ﷺ in his helmet and he
was in the battle.
And then he called a temporary retreat because
there's kar and farr, temporary retreat to regroup.
And so all of his men left.
He was the last one out of the
foray.
He was always the last man out, first
in last out, right?
And they looked at him and his helmet
was missing.
He's riding his horse and they said to
him, your helmet.
He started going like this.
Immediately he turns around into the enemies, into
the foray.
He has no protection.
He's alone.
So where are you going?
He comes back a short time later.
He's wearing his helmet.
So I'm not going to leave my helmet
for these mushrikeen to trample upon.
This has the blessed sha'ar of the
Prophet ﷺ.
This is what Sahaba are thinking about.
Hadith in Bukhari, it was paraphrased earlier that
the Prophet ﷺ is giving khutbah and the
Bedouin comes in.
And the Sahaba always had mixed feelings about
the Bedouin because they love the questions the
Bedouin would ask, but they didn't like how
the Bedouin were rough around the edges.
They lacked adab a little bit, right?
So the Bedouin comes in and in the
middle of the khutbah, he says, Ya Rasulullah,
mata sa'a?
The Prophet ﷺ says something, he motions, you
know, sit down, let me finish the khutbah.
So he finishes the khutbah and after he
gives the salams, he turns around and says,
man is sa'il?
Where's the one who asked about the sa
'a?
He says, anna ya Rasulullah?
He says, wa mada adadta laha?
What did you prepare for the sa'a,
the hour?
He said, la shai'a, not much.
You know, I do the minimum, not a
lot of extra prayer and fasting, but I
do the fara'id.
But I love Allah and His Messenger.
You know, Anas ibn Malik, he said, we
were so annoyed at this Bedouin for interrupting
the khutbah.
We were so annoyed.
But then the Prophet said, a person will
be with the one whom he loves.
And Anas said, thank God for the Bedouin.
We were never happier than with this statement.
Subhanallah.
You know, Hadith Qudsi in Bukhari, you know,
my servant does not draw close unto me
with anything more beloved than his fara'id.
We know the Hadith, right?
He continues to draw close unto me with
his extra credit worship, nawafil, until I love
him.
And then I become the eye by which
he sees, the hand by which he walks,
and the foot by which he, the hand
by which he grabs, and the foot by
which he walks.
And if he were to ask anything from
me, I shall surely give it to him.
This is Sahih Bukhari.
Right?
So nawafil, the five pillars of nawafil.
For prayer, you do extra prayers, right?
For zakah, you give sadaqah.
For hajj, you go to Umrah.
For fasting, you do extra fasting.
What about shahada?
What is the nathilah of shahada?
I asked one of my teachers.
He said, zikrullah was salah ala nabi.
So maybe we're too lazy to do extra
prayers.
We don't want to go to umrah.
We don't want to give more than the
zakah.
We can't be too lazy.
We can't be bakheel, right?
As the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
the one who hears my name, falam yusalli
alayya.
Hadha bakheel, a miserly person.
So inshallah, we can be beloved by Allah
with our extra zikrullah and our salah ala
nabi.
And we'll get to more of that in
a minute inshallah.
Importance of that.
But they sought ittisal.
They sought connection with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
In Sahih Bukhari, we're told on the narration
of Sahal ibn Sa'd that a woman of
Medina came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and gave the Prophet a beautiful white
piece of cloth.
And she said, ya Rasulullah, I made this
for you.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam accepted
it with graciousness and made dua for her.
And then he went into his house and
wrapped it around his lower half.
He used it as a tunic.
And he came and he sat with the
sahaba.
And the sahabi right next to him, who's
not named in the hadith, he started touching
the cloth.
And he said, ya Rasulullah, this is jameel.
This is beautiful.
Can I have it?
Can I have this?
And he said, naam, yes, you can have
it.
You know.
He never said no.
He never said la to anyone.
He never said la except when he said
la ilaha illallah.
He goes back into his house, puts on
his old tunic.
While he was gone, the other sahaba began
censuring him.
This sahabi.
You have not done well.
Right?
He wore that because he needed it.
And you knew if you asked him, he
would never say no.
You knew he wouldn't say no.
And this companion said, wallahi, I didn't ask
him for it so that I can wear
it.
I asked him for it so it would
be my death shroud in my grave on
the day I die.
Because it touched the skin of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And then the narrator of the hadith, he
says, Indeed it was his death shroud.
Subhanallah.
Muslim and Abu Dawood were told that Asma,
the daughter of Abu Bakr, she had the
burda, the mantle of the Prophet ﷺ.
The burda that our mother Aisha was clutching
when she was passing away.
The wife of the Prophet.
No one had more intimate contact with the
Prophet ﷺ.
Yet when she's passing away, she's clutching to
the burda of the Prophet ﷺ.
And then it came into the possession of
Asma.
And she said sick people would come to
her.
It's mentioned in the hadith.
And she would fill up cups of water
and just dip the edge of the burda.
Dip the edge of the burda into the
water like this.
It's here.
Bismillah.
Drink this.
They drink it.
Shifa.
Kamilah.
And Ibn Hisham mentions, it's ittisal.
They want connection with the Prophet ﷺ.
Every relationship is cut off yawm al qiyamah.
Except those who are connected to me.
Either through Ahlul Bayt or other means.
Through love, through ittiba.
Salmanu minna Ahlul Bayt.
Right?
An honorary member of Ahlul Bayt.
Then one of my favorite hadith, because I'm
Persian.
Salmanu minna Ahlul Bayt.
Right?
Subhanallah.
This is what they want.
At Ghazwat Badr, the Prophet ﷺ was lining
up the Mujahideen.
It was a man in the front row,
Sawad ibn Ghaziyah al Ansari, who was a
little bit ahead of everybody else in the
front row.
And you know, you have to have discipline.
You need to line up straight like we
do in prayer.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he's walking down the
saf, and he's holding some arrows.
And he just barely taps Sawad on the
chest.
It barely taps him.
Like, get back a little bit.
And then Sawad says, you hurt me, oh
messenger of God.
You hurt me.
And the Sahaba, there was sort of a
murmur.
What?
You hurt me.
And Allah sent you with truth and justice.
So give me my requital.
Give me my vengeance.
The Prophet ﷺ gave him the arrows, exposed
his chest, and said, why don't you take
it?
And Sawad lunged forward and planted a kiss
over the heart of the Prophet ﷺ.
And he said, why the ruse?
Why did you do this?
And he said, I feel like I'm going
to be martyred today.
I wanted the last thing, my lips to
touch, to be your blessed skin.
This is what he said.
This is the love of Sahaba.
This is the love of Sahaba.
Umm Sulaym, the mother of Anas, it's mentioned
in Sahih Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ, sometimes he
would take a Qalula, a nap, in her
residence.
It was very hot.
He would sweat.
He woke up.
She's collecting his sweat in a bottle.
He said, what are you doing?
He says, this is the best smelling fragrance
I've ever smelt in my life.
Subhanallah.
Thawban.
There's a companion named Thawban.
Very mashaAllah, very sincere companion who fell ill.
He was very sick.
The Prophet ﷺ visited him.
He was yellow.
He was emaciated.
And he said, I haven't eaten anything.
I haven't slept.
I haven't drunk anything in days.
So the Prophet ﷺ said, what's wrong with
you?
And he said, I just, I can't get
this thought out of my head.
So what's that thought?
And he said, This was his thought.
Please tell me.
Will I see you in paradise or not?
Because you're Habibullah.
And you're going to be in the greatest
of, the highest of stations.
And inshaAllah, I just might barely get in.
So I'm not going to see you in
Jannah.
This was causing a Sahabi to lose sleep.
This was causing a Sahabi to stop eating.
Right?
The ayah was revealed.
This is the sebab al-nuzul of the
ayah, which Allah ﷻ says, Whoever
obeys Allah and His Messenger, they are going
to be with those who have the blessing
of Allah upon them, from the prophets, from
the truthful ones, from the martyr witnesses, and
from the righteous one.
What an excellent fellowship.
What an excellent fellowship.
Sayyidina Bilal ibn Rabah.
Sayyidina Bilal, the Prophet ﷺ saved Sayyidina Bilal
in every way you can imagine.
Sayyidina Bilal was a slave who was being
tortured in the desert.
And the message of the Prophet ﷺ took
him from that low level to on top
of the Kaaba, making Adhan.
He would stand in front of the Prophet
ﷺ, when the Prophet was sitting on his
minbar.
He was standing right in front of him,
calling the Adhan, saying Muhammad Rasulullah ﷺ, three
feet from the Prophet ﷺ.
Sayyidina Bilal loved the Prophet ﷺ.
Loved the Prophet ﷺ with a love that
we cannot possibly imagine.
When the Prophet ﷺ passed into the mercy
of his Lord, Sayyidina Bilal could not even
live in Madinatul Munawwara.
He had to leave the city because everything
reminded him of the Prophet ﷺ, called separation
anxiety.
It's like when a child dies, right?
Sometimes the parents, they have to move houses,
because they go into that room and they
just start weeping.
This was the entire city of Madinah for
Sayyidina Bilal.
He goes to Damascus.
People die from this.
People have died from extreme shawq, longing for
the Prophet ﷺ.
They're called shuhada ul-muhabba, the martyrs of
love.
Fatima az-Zahra, the ulama say, killed by
the sword of love and longing.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, every time he would
speak after the passing of the Prophet ﷺ,
they would smell like burning liver coming from
his breath.
They ask, what's wrong with you?
My liver is on fire.
Why?
Out of longing for the Prophet ﷺ.
This is what ultimately killed him.
Shuhada ul-muhabba wa shawq.
These are sahaba.
So Sayyidina Bilal, he felt death coming.
He leaves Madinah.
He goes to Damascus.
He's living there.
Never gave adhan in Damascus.
He sees a dream.
If you see the Prophet ﷺ in a
dream, it's actually him.
This hadith is mutawatir.
If you see me in a dream, it's
me.
Shaytan cannot imitate me.
If you see me in a dream, you've
seen the truth.
The Prophet ﷺ comes to him in a
dream.
What is this aversion and distance, oh Bilal?
Isn't it about time to visit me in
Madinah?
You know, Sayyidina Uthman also, the day he
was martyred.
Sayyidina Uthman was reading his mushaf.
He dismissed his bodyguards.
Who were his bodyguards?
The men at the door, al-Hassanain.
Imam Hassan, Imam Hussain.
He said, you're free to go.
I will not, you know, shed blood in
Madinah.
People coming, raided his house.
He tied his izar so that when he
struck, his aura wouldn't be exposed.
He's reading the Qur'an, right?
He kind of fell asleep, dozed off.
Who comes to his dream?
The Prophet ﷺ with a company of Sahaba
that were martyred behind him.
And Sayyidina Uthman was fasting that day.
And the Prophet said to him, isn't it?
Don't you want to break your fast with
us?
Don't you want to break your fast with
us?
And then he wakes up and he's struck
and he's martyred.
Subhanallah.
So Sayyidina Bilal, he goes towards Madinah.
As soon as he comes into Madinah, the
lava tracks, immediately his knees give out.
He can barely walk.
He's weeping profusely.
He walks into the Masjid An-Nabawi.
He falls down on the grave of the
Prophet ﷺ and he's rolling around in the
dust.
This is because he entered into a hal,
right?
It's excusable.
So, you know, when we go to visit
a graveyard, there's a certain adab, right?
But when one goes into a hal out
of mahabba, it's excused.
This is a Sahabi.
He's rolling around on the grave of the
Prophet ﷺ.
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq comes to him and
says, Give us an Adhan.
Give us one Adhan, right?
Addhin lana kama kunta tu addhin.
Give us an Adhan like you used to
give Adhan.
He said, Wallahi, I can't do it.
So Sayyidina Umar comes in.
So Abu Bakr told Umar, He said, look,
Bilal is here.
Addhin lana, addhin lana.
He said, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
And Hassan and Hussain, they come in.
And Bilal hasn't seen them for over a
year.
And children grow very quickly.
And Imam Hassan looks like the Prophet ﷺ
from the neck up.
He looks exactly like the Prophet ﷺ.
Imam Hussain from the neck down looks like
the Prophet ﷺ.
So he said, Ya Bilal, addhin lana kama
kunta tu addhin li ajli jaddina.
Make an Adhan for the sake of our
grandfather.
Give us one Adhan.
He can't say no.
He starts making Adhan.
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.
People start coming into the streets of Medina.
Hadha sawtu Bilal.
This is the voice of Bilal.
Bu'itha Rasulullah.
The messenger has been resurrected, some of them
said.
The messenger has been resurrected.
Be of good cheer.
Old women that haven't left their house in
years were coming streaming into the masjid.
Ashadu wa la ilaha ilallah, ashadu wa la
ilaha ilallah.
Ashadu anna Muhammadan.
And he falls down.
He said the name of his beloved and
his knees give out.
His voice gives out.
He falls down in a swoon.
They had to pick him up, take him
out of the masjid.
This is Sayyidina Bilal.
This is the love of Sahaba.
This is the next time he gave Adhan.
This is the love of Sahaba.
Nusayba bintu Ka'b, also known as Umu
Umara, stood in front of a horse, an
armed horseman at Ghazwat Uhud.
Abdullah ibn Qami'ah, who had just killed
Mus'ab ibn Umair.
And now he sees the Prophet ﷺ.
He charges with his horse.
A female companion, Nusayba bintu Ka'b, Umu
Umara, stands in front of this horse with
her sword, not going to budge.
So Ibn Qami'ah, he starts striking her
on the shoulder, breaks her clavicle.
It took her a year to recover from
that.
The Prophet ﷺ said, Wherever I looked on
the day of Uhud, I saw Umu Umara
defending me and her two sons.
Allahumma ij'alhum.
Allahumma ij'alhum rufaqa'i fil jannah.
Sahaba are hearing this du'a from the
Prophet ﷺ.
Oh Allah, make them my companions in paradise.
SubhanAllah.
In the Mustadrik of Al-Hakim, a woman
lost her father, her husband, and her brother
at Uhud.
And she was hysterical.
Calm down.
Totally hysterical.
So relax.
What's wrong with you?
I want to see the Prophet ﷺ.
I want to see him.
They don't know what she's going to do.
See him.
Is she angry with him?
She sees him at a distance and she
immediately calms down.
She said, My concern was for the Prophet
ﷺ.
I heard a rumor he had been killed
on the day of Uhud.
Every calamity is only important after you, O
Messenger of God.
And then we look at the people of
Ghazwat Uhud, the Sahaba.
The Prophet ﷺ, he named 10 men in
a hadith that is Tawatur, Asharan Mubashshireen bil
Jannah.
If you look at these 10 men, the
majority of them defended the Prophet ﷺ with
life and limb at Ghazwat Uhud.
They proved without a shadow of doubt, An
-Nabiyu awla bil mu'mineena min anfusihim.
Talha ibn Ubaydullah.
70 wounds he suffered on the day of
Uhud.
The Prophet ﷺ said, A walking martyr.
When Ibn Qami'ah swung his sword, aiming
for the head of the Prophet ﷺ, Talha
ibn Ubaydullah, he put his bare hand up
to block the blow.
He was able to turn the blade over,
and it landed flush on the face of
the Prophet ﷺ.
Talha lost the use of his right hand
for the rest of his life.
After the battle, the Prophet ﷺ was ailing
from his injuries.
They were climbing Mount Uhud, and Talha got
down on the ground and said, Just step
on my back.
And he get up.
He used himself as a human stool for
the Prophet ﷺ, to stand on top of
him and climb up on Mount Uhud.
With his hand completely dysfunctional.
As Zubair ibn Awam, defending the Prophet ﷺ.
Many years later, as Zubair took off his
shirt, and one of his sons said, Oh
my God!
What happened to you?
Scar tissue everywhere.
He said, Ghazwat Uhud, Fidifa'i Rasulullah.
In the defense of the Prophet ﷺ.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas was 15 years old
when he became Muslim in Mecca.
His mother took an oath.
She said, I will not eat anything or
comb my hair unless you renounce Islam.
Two weeks went by.
She had not eaten anything.
And Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, he goes to
his mother and he says, If you had
a thousand souls and died a thousand times,
I'm never going to renounce Islam.
She immediately started eating.
So he's serious.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, on the day of
Uhud, was standing right in front of the
Prophet ﷺ.
A few feet away from archers firing arrows
at the Prophet ﷺ.
And he put his bare hand up in
front of the Prophet ﷺ to block arrows.
And then he'd take arrows and shoot.
And the Prophet ﷺ once in a while
would collect some arrows and give them to
Sa'd and say, Irmi Ya Sa'd, Fidaaka Abi
Wa Ummi.
Sayyidina Ali heard this.
He started shaking.
What did he say?
Shoot your arrows, O Sa'd.
May my parents be ransomed for you.
He never said this to anybody else.
Why?
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas was standing right in
front of enemy fire.
Sayyidina Ali, they say, is like a moth
around a flame doing circles around the Prophet
ﷺ.
Deflecting swords and bows and arrows, you know.
These are Sahaba.
And the chainmail of the Prophet had penetrated
his cheek, right?
And they couldn't pull it out because he
would grimace in pain.
So Abu Ubaidah ibn Jarrah, he used his
teeth, pulled out the rings, the chainmail and
lost his two front teeth in the process.
He didn't care, right?
Sayyidina Umar ibn Tabari mentions, I'll end with
this.
Sayyidina Umar, these are testimonies of love.
You know, because people say, you should be
Salafi.
Okay, these are the Salaf.
Let's be Salafi.
These are the Salaf.
These are Sahaba, right?
So Sayyidina Umar, Imam Tabari mentions in his
Tariq, Imam Ghazali mentions also Kitab Dhikr al
-Mawt.
Sayyidina Umar was standing in the Mihrab of
the Prophet ﷺ when he was martyred.
He was standing, his feet were in the
place where the Prophet would stand for prayer.
And this, I'm sorry to say a Persian,
He stabbed Sayyidina Umar several times under the
navel and a few men in the front
row as well.
And Sayyidina Umar, he's falling down, he grabs
the first man he sees behind him, Abd
al-Rahman ibn Awf.
He said, lead the prayer.
And he falls down.
The people in the back have no idea
what's happening.
He said, we heard the Takbir of Umar
but the Qira'ah of Abd al-Rahman
ibn Awf.
Some of the Sahaba broke their prayer, they
threw a blanket over Abu Lu'a who
took his own life under the blanket.
So Sayyidina Umar, he said, was he a
Muslim?
And they said, no, he was Majusi.
He said, Alhamdulillah.
He said, what do you want O Ameer
al-Mu'mineen?
He said, go to our mother Aisha and
ask her for a special favor.
He told his son Abd al-Rahman ibn
Umar.
Ask him a special favor.
Ask her for a special favor.
What do you want?
Ask her for that.
The greatest real estate in the universe, the
most holiest place in creation is the Rawdah
of the Prophet ﷺ.
The soil underneath the blessed body of the
Prophet ﷺ is the holiest, the most Muqaddas,
place in creation, by 10 senses.
So Abd al-Rahman ibn Umar goes to
our mother Aisha and says, Ameer al-Mu'mineen
Umar is asking for this spot next to
the Prophet ﷺ.
And Aisha, she has Ithar.
She's selfless.
She says, yes, of course.
He goes back to Sayyidina Umar.
And Sayyidina Umar, he says, he says, Alhamdulillah.
Lam yakun shay'un fi nafsi aham min
dhalik.
Nothing in this universe was more important to
me than that.
Nothing in this universe, there's nothing at all
is more important to me than that.
But then he said to his son Abdullah,
he said, when I pass away, ask her
again.
Maybe she said that out of deference for
me.
And don't say Ameer al-Mu'mineen, say my
father Umar.
So Sayyidina Umar passes away.
Abdullah ibn Umar goes back to our mother
Aisha and says, my father Umar is asking
for it.
Yeah, I already said yes.
So our mother Aisha said, when the Prophet
ﷺ was buried in her apartment, she used
to visit him without a hijab.
That's her husband.
And Abu Bakr was buried there.
That's her father.
She didn't wear a hijab.
She said, now when Umar is there, I
have to wear a hijab.
Subhanallah.
So here's my ending.
I want people to say inshallah when I
say these points, inshallah.
Let's make an agreement that we're going to
do our five daily prayers on time, inshallah,
every day.
And also 100 salawats upon the Prophet ﷺ
every day.
This will take you five minutes.
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad.
That's the minimum.
How many words?
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad.
Get a subha.
Everyone used to have a subha in the
Muslim world, right?
Tasbeeh, you know, get a clicker, do something.
Do 100 salawat.
It takes you five minutes.
You can do it while you're driving, while
you're at work, you know, between meals.
100 salawat, inshallah.
Say inshallah.
Read 15 minutes a day the seerah of
the Prophet ﷺ.
There's a beautiful seerah in English.
Whatever language you understand.
If it's English, Martin Lings' seerah.
Martin Lings called Muhammad, his life based on
the earliest sources, which is taken primarily from
a seerah an-Nabawiya by Ibn Hisham.
It's a beautiful seerah.
And then when you finish with that, study
the shama'il of the Prophet ﷺ.
I was so pleased to see that in
the masjid of Imam Didmar, they're teaching Yusuf
an-Nabhani's text.
Wasa'il al-wasul ila shama'il al
-rasul.
It's been translated into English, right?
The means of arrival at the shama'il
of the Prophet by Yusuf an-Nabhani.
So get this book.
It's a beautiful book.
It's been translated beautifully.
Read the shama'il.
And then go to chassa'is.
So seerah, shama'il, and then chassa'is.
The book that's been translated recently is Bidayat
al-sul fi tafdhil al-rasul.
The beginning of inquiry into the eminence of
the Prophet ﷺ, Imam Izzuddin ibn Abdus Salam.
It's been translated.
Bidayat al-sul, the beginning of inquiry.
Read 15 minutes.
Start with the seerah.
When you're finished, go to the shama'il.
And then when you're done, go to the
chassa'is.
And then go back to the seerah.
So you're constantly learning about the Prophet ﷺ.
This is how we're going to love him
ﷺ.
Inshallah.
I'll finish with this.
One time a Christian said to me, Why
do you revere the Prophet ﷺ so much?
And he's passed away, but Jesus is alive.
Right?
First of all, there's a hadith in Musnad,
Abu Ya'la al-anbiya'u ahya'un
fi qoboorihim yusalloon.
All of the prophets are alive in their
graves.
It's actually a heightened state of life.
They have heightened senses to greater type of
life.
He said ﷺ in Abu Dawud, ma min
ahadin yusallimu alayya illa raddallahu alayya roohihi hatta
arudda alayhi salam.
No one greets me except that Allah returns
my soul to me so that I might
reply to his salam.
This is what he said.
Man salla alayya anda qabri sami'atuhu.
If you greet me at my grave, I'll
hear it.
Wa man salla alayya na'iyan bulliqtuhu.
And if you greet me from a distance,
it will be conveyed to me by an
angel.
The most important thing is, huwa hayyun fi
quroobina.
He is alive in our hearts.
He is alive in our hearts.
Which prophet has the extensive biography?
Which prophet has more of a legacy left
behind than the Prophet ﷺ?
We know everything about him ﷺ.
The way they used to dress, how many
white hairs were on his temple, what his
nose looked like, how he tied his turban,
what was his attitude with his enemies, with
his wife, with his companions.
Which prophet is like this?
He is alive in our hearts.
He is alive in our hearts because he's
actualized real unconditional love for him ﷺ.