Ali Hammuda – Our Ways With Prophet Muhammad – Episode 4 – Our Ways
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The importance of showing the Prophet's actions and abilities during a television interview is discussed, including his praise for actions and behavior, honoring his assets and assets, and the use of his name in the Q disclosure. The importance of honoring the Prophet's image and being hopeful for his success is emphasized, as he believes he will ultimately be recognized as the one who gives priority to the letter of the Prophet. The interviewer also discusses the upcoming "angry on this day" and the importance of not allowing people to reach critical points and avoid judgement. The importance of not opening gates until they have finished speaking is also emphasized.
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We are ready to start speaking about our
ways with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
What does it mean to be of adab
towards the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after having
dedicated two weeks speaking about our adab towards
Allah ﷻ?
And in order for us to be able
to appreciate the majesty of what we're about
to speak, i.e. how do I demonstrate
my adab towards my beloved ﷺ, I feel
that it is necessary to begin with an
introduction.
To understand first and foremostly who the Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ is in the eyes of Allah
ﷻ.
What is his maqam, his status, in the
eyes of the Maker of the heavens and
the earth?
And how Allah Almighty sees him will therefore
then become a reflection of how you should
see your Prophet ﷺ.
For if Allah Almighty Al Malik, the Sovereign,
sees him in this huge light, then that
needs to have some consequence on my life.
So before we start listing adab number 1
and 2 and 3 towards the Prophet ﷺ
in our modern contemporary setting, let us first
understand who is this Nabiul Kareem, this honourable
Prophet ﷺ in the eyes of Allah ﷻ.
And as you hear this, I want you
to reflect on yourself.
And we can never, we can never quench
from this river.
We can never inhale enough of the air
and the breeze where our Prophet ﷺ is
mentioned and praised and remembered and honoured.
Allah Almighty wants us to honour the Prophet
ﷺ.
Allah Almighty creates and Allah ﷻ He chooses.
So not only does Allah Almighty create, but
then Allah Almighty nominates from His creation who
sits at the top of the hierarchy and
all the way down.
He said, Your Lord creates as He wills
and He chooses.
So He has months, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and He chooses the best of them.
And He has heavens, He chooses the best
of them.
He has angels He created and He chooses
the best of them.
He's created mankind as well and He chooses
best of them.
Allah Almighty knows best where to place Prophethood.
So these messengers who came into being and
rose to fame with this burden, this task
and honour of Nubuwwah Prophethood, it wasn't arbitrary.
It was something that Allah Almighty saw in
their hearts that qualified them for this noble
place.
Allah Almighty who created mankind and then He
chose from mankind the anbiya, the prophets, and
then He chose again from the prophets the
rusul, the messengers, and then He chose from
the messengers ulul azmi, the five great messengers
of perseverance.
And then He chose from the five who
are Ibrahim and Nuh and Musa and Isa
and our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
From the five He chose two, the two
close friends of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the Prophet of Allah Ibrahim and the Prophet
of Allah Muhammad ﷺ.
And then He chose yet again and He
nominated our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to be the
last of the messengers, the seal of the
prophets, and the finest, most honourable, the greatest
of Allah's creation.
One of the poets he said, he
said consider the honour of the Prophet ﷺ
where five times a day when you say
I testify none has the right to be
worshipped but Allah you say instantly side by
side with it.
The name of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and
I testify that Muhammad is the slave and
the messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Five times a day this is happening in
the Muslim parts of the world and in
many of the non-Muslim parts of the
world which means that there is not a
second of any minute, of any hour, of
any day where the name of the Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ is not being mentioned somewhere and
filling the horizons.
I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah ﷺ.
Allah ﷻ caused his fame to rise and
He said, there is a commonality between the
name of Allah Almighty and the name Muhammad
ﷺ.
One of the names of Allah is Al
-Hamid which means the worthy of all praise
and He chose for His final messenger the
name Muhammad which means the worthy of praise.
There is a common derivative there of Hamd,
praise.
How praiseworthy must he be therefore in the
eyes of Allah ﷻ.
There isn't any aspect of our Prophet ﷺ
that Allah Almighty has not praised.
You praise people, how do you and I
praise them?
We say yeah he's a good man, he's
a good chap, yeah he's well mannered, yeah
he's ameen, he's trustworthy but then Allah Almighty
praises his Prophet ﷺ in every dimension, in
every aspect.
Things that you could imagine but you cannot
imagine.
So come with me on this journey.
Allah Almighty, He praises the mind of the
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
He said about his mind, your companion, your
friend, meaning the Prophet ﷺ, he does not,
nor does he go astray.
Allah Almighty has praised his glances, Allah praises
his vision, Allah notices, Allah acknowledges the adab,
the manners in his vision ﷺ.
He said, His eyesight, his gaze didn't turn
from left to right nor did it transgress
boundaries.
Allah ﷻ praised his truthfulness when he spoke.
He said, He doesn't speak from his own
desire.
It's revelation that we gave to him.
Allah Almighty has praised his heart.
He said, his heart was never untrue in
making him see what he saw.
Allah ﷻ has praised his purity, his tahara,
his inward and outward tahara, his status as
a man who was forgiven.
Allah said about him, we have removed from
you your burdens of sin.
Allah said about him, Allah has forgiven your
past and future sins.
He has praised his purity.
Allah ﷻ has praised his fame and he
said, have we not raised your fame high?
Allah Almighty even praised his pity towards the
believers.
He said, it grieves him that you should
be in hardship.
He's anxious over you.
For the believers, he is full of pity
and mercy ﷺ.
And Allah ﷻ would praise him in his
totality and he would say in one short,
comprehensive ayah, you behave with sublime morality.
To hear that somebody you respect, your mentor,
your shaykh, your parents, spoke about you something
positively in your absence, causes your skin to
crawl, makes you happy, ecstatic.
What a vibe to know that they spoke
highly of you.
Then when Allah, the maker of the heavens
and the earth, who has the keys to
Jannah and Jahannam, praises every single aspect of
your being, what must he be there for
in the eyes of Allah?
You see why this is a very important
segue to this lecture this evening.
Before we start speaking about adab number 1,
2, 3, 5, 10 towards the Prophet ﷺ,
first of all, who is he in the
eyes of Allah so that it may rub
off on us and so that we have
a huge incentive to show him the adab
that he deserves even after he has passed
away ﷺ.
When we know who he is in the
eyes of Allah.
Another aspect I want you to take note
of and that is, there isn't any Prophet
of Allah in the Qur'an, or let
us put it like this, every Prophet and
Messenger mentioned in the Qur'an, for the
most part, were addressed with their name plainly,
without titles attached to it.
With the exception to our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ,
he was never addressed plainly with his name,
O Muhammad.
It's a phenomenal observation.
So when you speak about the Prophet of
Allah, Adam ﷺ, Allah says to him, O
Adam, live, you and your wife, in Jannah.
He addresses him, O Adam.
Allah Almighty said, O Noah, descend with peace
and blessings upon us.
O Noah.
Ibrahim, Allah addresses him, with no titles, you
have fulfilled the dream.
O Dawood, Allah says, we have made you
a successor on the earth.
O Musa, Allah says, no titles, I have
chosen you over the people.
O Isa, Allah says, I'm going to take
you up and raise you to Myself.
And so on.
However, when Allah addresses the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ,
not once in the Qur'an, I dare
you to find the ayah where Allah says,
O Muhammad, this does not exist in the
Book of Allah Almighty.
Every time Allah Almighty addresses His Prophet ﷺ,
it is always with title of respect.
O Messenger of Allah, don't
be saddened by those who are rushing into
disbelief.
O Messenger, convey what has come to you
from your Lord.
O Messenger, O Prophet, we have sent you
as a witness, bearer of good news.
Sometimes Allah Almighty will address him with his
sifah, with his characteristic, with the state that
he was in at the time of the
address.
Ya ayyuhal muzzammil, ya ayyuhal muddathir, O you
who is wrapped up in his garments, O
you who is shrouded in his sheets.
And if and when the name of the
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ appears in the Qur'an,
it is connected straight away with his title
as Messenger of Allah.
Like what?
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
At times you speak, I mean I had
this with my supervisors and I'm speaking to
my Professor Martin, Professor Martin, Professor Martin, he
gets to a point where he says, you
don't have to keep saying Professor, you say
Martin.
Now as us, as maybe Arabs or Asians,
we find this a little bit distasteful.
Somebody who is old enough to be your
grandfather, you don't call him by his first
name, let alone your professor at university as
well and so on.
Yeah, you don't have to call me Professor
anymore.
Yet with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when
addressing his Prophet ﷺ, there is never an
exception that is made to him, even for
himself subhanahu wa ta'ala when speaking about
his Prophet, it is always, O Messenger, O
Prophet, O Messenger, O Prophet.
Maqam, a status that is unbelievably high, we
cannot fathom.
And how kind was Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala that he made us from his ummah.
Abdullah ibn Abbas has a phenomenal statement and
a unique observation in the Qur'an that
is gifted to the Prophet ﷺ and not
to anybody else.
He says, and I will translate, he said,
He said, I swear by Allah, Allah has
not created, fashioned or originated any human being
that is dearer to him and more honourable
than Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
And then he says the following, take note
of this, this is the observation.
He said, And I have not recited any
ayah in the Qur'an, I have not
come across any verse in the Qur'an
where Allah Almighty takes an oath by the
life of a human being, except by the
life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Where is the ayah in the Qur'an
where Allah takes an oath by him?
Ahsad, la amruka innahum la fee sakratihim ya'mahum,
from surah Hijam, where Allah says, by your
life, I swear by your life, all Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ, they were wandering blindly in their
intoxication, meaning the people of Lut and their
fetishes.
So Allah says, by your life, and Allah
the Mighty will only take an oath by
that which is mighty.
And that's why people today when they want
to draw your attention to something big that
they want to say, they say, I swear
by my mum's life, I swear by my
dad's life, I swear on my nan's grave,
all of this of course is haram.
We only take an oath by Allah's name.
But the idea is that you don't swear
upon something insignificant, you choose something mighty.
And that's why in the Qur'an Allah
takes an oath upon what?
The mighty things.
What did our Imam recite today in the
first rak'ah?
What are these four oaths?
Major oaths that Allah Almighty is taking on
these stars and Yawm al Qiyamah.
So Allah Almighty, he says, I swear by
your life, therefore his life is a very
precious one.
And Imam al-Tirmidhi narrates in his Jamia,
another phenomenal experience our Prophet ﷺ had.
This time he wasn't with a human being.
On the authority of Anas ibn Malik who
said, he said
the Prophet ﷺ was presented with the buraq
on the night of the night journey.
What is the buraq?
The animal of Angel Jibril ﷺ.
The buraq is the mode of transportation of
all of the Prophets and Messengers.
Some narrations suggest that the buraq was actually
the vehicle of transportation for all of the
Prophets, from Adam ﷺ down to Sulaiman and
Dawud and including our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
And this was of course his mode of
transportation of the night journey, taking him from
Masjid al-Haram in Mecca to Masjid al
-Aqsa in Palestine.
So Anas ibn Malik narrates that the buraq
was delivered to the Prophet ﷺ on the
night journey to transfer him.
Which means fully bridled and fully saddled, ready
to go.
The narration said, the buraq behaved in some
sort of uncooperative way.
Prophet ﷺ struggled to mount its back.
So Jibril he looks at the buraq and
he said to him, this is how you
behave with Muhammad ﷺ?
He said, I swear by Allah, no creation
more honourable to Allah Almighty than the Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ has ever ridden your back.
The narration said, so the buraq broke out
in a sweat.
He realised what was before him.
And it's amazing because every night he ascended
to a heaven during the night journey, seven
destinations and each time Angel Jibril is knocking
on the gates and there are angels allowing
people in and not allowing others in.
This is a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari
on the authority of Malik ibn Sa'sa.
And he would knock, the angel would say
man, he would say Jibril, who is it?
Jibril, man maak, who is with you?
Muhammad ﷺ.
And then the tone of the angels would
change.
Oh he has become a messenger now.
Ahlan wa marhaban wa la ni'mal maji'u
jaa.
They said ahlan, marhaban, welcome and how honourable
is the one who has visited us today.
So they are saying oh he has become
a messenger as if to say the heavens
have been talking about this man and they
were told by Allah Almighty that he is
going to become a messenger.
They just didn't know that he had now
become a messenger.
Oh he has become a messenger.
Marhaban bihi, welcome to him.
Wa la ni'mal maji'u jaa.
How wonderful, how honourable is the one who
has arrived today.
And then they would make their way to
the second heaven, knock, who is it?
Jibril, who is with you?
Muhammad ﷺ.
Oh he has become a messenger.
Marhaban bihi, how honourable is the one who
has visited.
This happens seven times.
He is known to the heavens.
We have raised high for you in your
faith.
Another really interesting observation is that the Qur
'an tells us about the Prophets of Allah
who were ridiculed by their people and insulted.
And then the Qur'an in the same
breath tells you that the Prophet took it
upon himself to defend himself.
So they would be told something to insult
their intelligence, insult their sanity, and the Prophet
would defend himself.
So the Prophet of Allah, who Allah Almighty
said about him, that his people said about
him, we see that you are a fool.
And we think you are a liar.
What was the response for those who have
memorised?
He said, oh my people, there is no
foolishness in me.
I am a messenger from the Lord of
the world.
He was insulted and who defended himself?
The Prophet of Allah, same situation.
We see that you are upon a clear
error.
What was the response?
My people, there is no error in me,
but I am a messenger from Allah Almighty.
And similarly, our Prophet was ridiculed and was
insulted as were all of the Prophets before
him.
Lamajnoon, oh you who claims that you have
received revelation, you are a madman.
This is what the Qur'an said about
him.
But who was the one who took it
upon himself to defend the Prophet of Allah?
La ilaha illallah.
He wouldn't even be given the opportunity to
defend himself because the response would come from
the heavens, from the king directly.
Lamajnoon, your companion has no insanity in him.
They said he is a poet.
Qur'an comes to rescue him.
It is not the word of a poet.
You just lack faith.
They said he is a soothsayer.
Allah Almighty said this is not the word
of a soothsayer.
But you just don't remember.
This is just a revelation from Allah, the
Lord of the Worlds.
A mighty man in the eyes of Allah,
see how all of this is preparatory content
for us so that when we start speaking
about what we owe him in terms of
adab, the foundation is fully laid.
Allah Almighty sees the Prophet in such a
light that he will bring an entire civilization
to its knees if they even insult the
letter that was sent to them by the
Prophet.
That's what he means to him.
And Allah Almighty will give endurance, longevity, mileage,
years for kingdoms and civilizations and empires if
they simply honor the paper that was sent
to them by the Prophet.
Proof.
He sends a letter to Kisra, the emperor
of Persia, inviting him to Islam.
What does the emperor do?
He rips it apart.
You just conveyed to the Prophet that your
letter was ripped apart by the Kisra, the
emperor of Persia.
So he makes a dua, as he tore
apart the letter inviting him to you, tear
apart his kingdom.
Not long after this, news is sent to
Malida that Kisra has been overthrown.
Kisra has been killed by his son.
Then a few years later, Amir al-Mumineen
Umar becomes Khalifa and it is the end
of the Persian Empire.
A civilization that lasted for hundreds of years,
if not thousands, comes to an end because
they dishonored the letter of the Prophet.
This is who he is in the eyes
of Allah.
Whereas he sends another letter to Ar-Rum,
to the Romans, inviting them to Islam.
And Heraclius assesses the letter.
He invites certain Arabs who are at war
with the Prophet to interrogate them about this
man who claims to be a prophet.
And he asks them around five or six
questions to Abu Sufyan who was a non
-Muslim at the time.
He realized this is the last messenger of
Allah Almighty sent to humanity, but arrogance or
fear of losing his position didn't allow him
to accept Islam.
Nevertheless, he honored the letter of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And they took good care of it and
they glorified it.
And they would pass it down from emperor
to emperor.
In fact, Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in
his Fath al-Bari, in the commentary of
the Hadith where Abu Sufyan is speaking to
Heraclius about the Prophet ﷺ, he has a
phenomenal incident that he documents.
He said that the king of Faranja, he
calls him Malik al-Faranj, the king of
Faranj, in my research I think that they
are speaking about Alfonso VI, and I could
be mistaken, about 600 years ago from now,
not too long ago, invited a man, a
Muslim delegate by the name of Seyfuddin to
his presence.
Seyfuddin arrived representing the Muslims.
And this king of the Faranj, supposedly Alfonso
VI or someone else, but somebody representing the
Roman Empire, said to the Muslim delegate, I
have an item, I have an artefact that
might be of some interest to you.
You can imagine Seyfuddin's heart pounding with curiosity.
And then a chest is brought, Ibn Hajar
mentions this, a chest which has compartments and
each compartment is holding treasure, gold.
And they pulled out from the chest a
particular drawer.
And from that drawer they pulled out from
the treasure a long and thin diamond-encrusted
box.
Then they opened the box, there were two
pieces of silk.
And wedged between those two pieces of silk
was a worn out paper with faded inscriptions.
He said to him, hold this.
He held it.
He said to him, this is the letter
that your prophet sent to my ancestor Caesar
many, many years ago, inviting him to your
religion.
He said, our ancestors have told us to
pass it down from emperor to emperor.
And they told us that if we do
that, God Almighty will allow our kingdom to
endure.
He said, therefore we protect this paper diligently.
We protect this paper diligently.
And we glorify this paper.
We honor it.
And we make sure that the Christians don't
learn about this letter.
So that our kingdom endures.
So I'm quite certain that this letter exists
somewhere on earth today.
Somewhere in the universities of Oxford or Cambridge
or Harvard or in those mysterious vaults of
the Vatican, right?
It's there somewhere.
And perhaps this is the secret why Allah
Almighty is allowing Rome, what we call today
America, Europe, and the other parts of the
Western world to endure today amidst other properties,
I am sure as well, that there is
some honoring of the letter of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And we ask Allah Almighty to enable us
to see this paper, to feel this paper
that was written by our Prophet ﷺ and
to retrieve it and to be in the
hands of its rightful owners.
So Allah will pull down empire civilizations if
they honor, if they dishonor the letter of
the Prophet ﷺ.
And he will do the opposite for those
who honor the invitation of the Prophet Muhammad
ﷺ.
As a quick footnote here, we may say,
therefore, what type of honoring will come to
you as a Muslim who honors every aspect
of the Prophet ﷺ, not just a paper
that he sent?
What type of honoring awaits you in this
world?
What type of honoring awaits you in your
grave?
What type of honoring awaits you on Yawm
al-Qiyamah?
Be hopeful, be excited to meet him ﷺ.
More importantly, be hopeful to meet Allah Almighty
who will be the one to reward you
for this love and reverence that you had
for his Habib ﷺ.
So Allah Almighty will stand in the defense
of the Prophet ﷺ.
Allah Almighty will continue to stand in the
defense of the Prophet ﷺ.
During his lifetime, 1400 years ago, until the
end of time after his passing, Allah will
defend his name because he said, innaaka faynaaka
al-musta'zeeen.
Allah said, we have already taken care for
you, those who try to mock you.
We've already taken care of them, Allah said.
We've spared you of their harm.
And Allah Almighty, He said, wallahu ya'asimu
kamina an-naas.
Allah will protect you from the people.
That's during his life and that's after his
death ﷺ.
And Allah Almighty said, inna shaniaka huwa al
-abda.
The one who despises you, that's the one
who's cut off from all.
There is a narration which Shaykh al-Islam
ibn Taymiyyah mentions in his book.
Phenomenal.
He said, haddathani al-thiqatu min ahli al
-thiqhi wal-khibrati.
He said, righteous and trustworthy, reliable people have
told me.
He said, people of knowledge and experience.
They've told me a first-hand account.
They said that whenever we would go out
fighting in the path of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and we would besiege a particular
fort of the Romans, and we would struggle
to breach it till we would almost despair
and walk away.
If and when we hear them insulting the
honour of the Prophet ﷺ, as much as
our hearts rip in pain, it also fills
with optimism as we know that the victory
of Allah is now near.
After they insult him one or two days,
he said, by Allah, one or two days
max, and Allah Almighty conquers the fort.
Allah does not tolerate any derogatory speech towards
our Prophet ﷺ.
And in a phenomenal narration that took place
during the Mongol Empire, Ibn Hajar mentioned this
in his book al-Durad al-Kamina.
He said, the Christian missionaries used to send
out proselytizers to convert people to Christianity in
the midst of the Mongols, and this was
facilitated by the Mongols because Hulagu Khan, who
is one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan,
Hulagu Khan was married to a woman called
Doqoz Khatun, and Doqoz Khatun, she was a
Christian crusader herself.
So she facilitated the presence of the Christian
missionaries to spread Christianity in the midst of
the Mongols.
And on one evening, there was a celebration,
there was a party of some sort for
one of the princes who had converted to
Christianity.
And as they were there celebrating and talking,
he got up to deliver a speech.
During the speech, he was insulting the Prophet
ﷺ.
And there was a nearby hunting dog that
the Mongols were famous for using, and they
tied this dog to one of the poles,
Ibn Hajar, he said.
The dog started howling at him, and he
continued berating our Prophet ﷺ.
The dog managed to break free from the
rope and pounced at him, and it gashed
him.
And so they managed to pull away the
dog and they tied it back to the
pole and they attended to his wounds.
And one of the congregants, he made a
joke just in jest.
And he said, it seemed that the dog
was upset because you were speaking about the
Prophet of Islam.
He said, no, no, no, it's not that.
It's just a proud dog.
It's a proud dog.
It's a hunting dog.
And so when I was waving my finger
like this in my speech, it thought that
I was threatening it.
That's all.
So anyway, he got up after he attended
to his wounds and he continued speaking in
a more vile way against our Prophet ﷺ.
Ibn Hajar, he said, the dog this time
managed to break free from the rope a
second time, this time pouncing at his face
and ripping out his throat.
He died on the scene.
Ibn Hajar, he said, by the end of
that evening, 40,000 Mongols embraced Islam.
Allah said, we have already taken care of
those who mocked you.
We've already dealt with them.
So for those who are unsure of the
status of our Prophet ﷺ, this will become
a reality that everybody will become familiar with,
but on Yawm al-Qiyamah.
And you are aware of this because you
made a du'a for this after you
heard the Adhan this evening.
What am I referring to?
Any gathering, we will conclude with this narration,
that speaks in praise of the Prophet ﷺ,
cannot and must not and inshaAllah will not
exclude this narration that I shared with you.
Any gathering that speaks of the honouring of
the Prophet ﷺ in the eyes of Allah
Almighty is deficient if this narration is omitted.
Which narration is this?
Hadithu Ash-Shafa'ah, which Bukhari and Muslim
narrates on the authority of Abu Huraira, that
the Prophet ﷺ said, in a long hadith,
in a graphic hadith, speaking about an event
in the near future, on Yawm al-Qiyamah,
where you and I will witness it ourselves.
He sat with his companions and he said,
pre-empting this day, he said, ana sayyidu
waladi adama Yawm al-Qiyamah.
He said to the Sahaba, I will be
the leader of all humanity on the Day
of Judgement.
In another narration he added, wala thakhra, and
I don't say this with any type of
pride.
Hal tadroona mimma that?
He said, do you know why that is?
And then he begins to explain to them
this event that will happen on the Day
of Resurrection.
He said, yajma'ullahu al-awwaleena wal-akhireen,
Allah Almighty will on the Day of Resurrection
gather the first and the last of creation,
ala sa'eedin wahd, on one flat plane
of land, fa yubsiruhumu al-nadhir, wa yusmi
'uhumu al-da'i, they will all be
visible to one another, and they will all
hear the announcements that are being made on
that day.
Because it's one flat land, where there's no
hills, there's no caves, there's no homes, there's
no walls, there's nothing for you to even
lean on, there's no shade either.
So you will see everything, and you will
hear everything.
yubsiruhumu al-nadhir, wa yusmi'uhumu al-da
'i, wa tadnoo minhumu al-shams, and the
sun will be dangerously close to the heads
of mankind.
A day of sweating, a day of heat,
immense perspiration and stress.
fa yablughu al-nasu minal ghammi wal-alami
ma la yutiqoona wa la yahtamiloon, so people
will reach a state of distress and anxiety
which they can no longer tolerate.
Imagine, you're there standing in this painful way
of cramming, and we have just opened the
door, for doing that because of the heat,
imagine for 50,000 years and the sun
is above you, and you're walking and walking
and walking, it looks like it's an endless
journey for 50,000 years, when will this
end?
So people will reach a critical limit, it's
a breaking point, and they will say to
each other, don't you see what we're going
through?
We can't take this anymore.
Can't we go and find somebody who will
speak to Allah on our behalf to start
the judgement?
They agree, they go to the Prophet of
Allah Adam.
So imagine, they start flocking to the father
of humanity Adam and they plead with him,
they say the following, O Adam, father of
humanity, Allah created you with his hand, and
he calls his angels to prostrate to you,
don't you see what we're going through?
Will you not ask Allah Almighty to begin
the judgement?
Adam, peace be upon him, will say, he
said, my Lord is angry on this day,
he has never been this angry, and he
never will be this angry, of course, Allah
Almighty will be angry on the Day of
Judgement, and you have seen the constant feed
of bloodshed, massacre, limbless children, global silence, there
in Gaza, and a genocide that now seems
to be widening and engulfing the entire region,
an entire Arab and non-Arab world that
is complicit, and you wonder why Yawm al
Qiyamah is 50,000 years long, there are
a lot of scores to settle on that
day.
Don't you see the stress that we're going
through?
He says, my Lord is angry on this
day, he has never been this angry, Adam
says, he will never be this angry, and
then he said about himself, Allah Almighty prohibited
me from eating from the tree, and I
ate from it, so nafsi, nafsi, nafsi, myself,
myself, myself, all I care about is myself,
idhabu ila ghayri, go to someone else, idhabu
ila Nuh, go to Prophet Nuh, people are
at a breaking point, so they make their
way to the Prophet of Allah, Nuh, they
plead with him, Ya Nuh, oh Nuh, you
are the first of the messengers that Allah
Almighty sent to the earth, and Allah has
called you in the Qur'an a grateful
slave, don't you see what we're going through?
When you not intercede on our behalf and
ask your Lord to start the judgement, Nuh
will say, my Lord is angry on this
day, he has never been this angry, and
he will never be this angry, and I
had one dua that was answered during my
life and I chose to direct this dua
against my people so that Allah will drown
them, so nafsi, nafsi, nafsi, myself, myself, myself,
go to someone else, go to Ibrahim alayhi
salam, people now they flock, they're looking between
the millions of people, Ibrahim, there it is,
Ibrahim, they make their way to Ibrahim alayhi
salam, oh Ibrahim, anta rasulullah, anta nabiullah, wa
anta khaliluhu min khalqihi, you are the Prophet
of Allah, you are the intimate friend of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, don't you see
what we're going through?
Can you ask Allah to begin the judgement?
We can't do this ourselves, maybe you can,
the Prophet of Allah Ibrahim will say, my
Lord is angry on this day, never has
he been this angry, you will never be
this angry, and in my life I uttered
three lies, they were not really lies, he
was getting himself out of difficult circumstances for
those of you who know, he said I
uttered thalathu kadhibat, three lies, in my life,
so nafsi, nafsi, nafsi, even Ibrahim, was the
most to resemble our Prophet ﷺ in character,
in iman, and in physical appearance as well,
he will say go away, myself, myself, myself,
it's an incredibly stressful day when the Prophets
who were chosen by Allah to deliver people
from *, they're saying leave me, it's all
about me, nafsi, nafsi, nafsi, go to someone
else, go to Musa ﷺ, so people are
looking, where is Musa, where is Musa, they're
asking, where is Musa, there is Musa, they
make their way to Musa ﷺ, oh Musa,
you are the messenger of Allah, Allah Almighty
chose you as a messenger and he spoke
to you without a middleman, they're praising him
in the hope that he will be convinced
to go and to speak to Allah on
their behalf, don't you see what we're going
through, will you not intercede on our behalf,
Musa will say, in my life I killed
somebody that I wasn't supposed to kill, so
nafsi, nafsi, nafsi, myself, myself, myself, go to
somebody else, go to Isa, so they go
to Jesus ﷺ, the son of Mary, they
plead with him, oh Isa ﷺ, don't you
see what we're going through, will you not
intercede on our behalf, Isa ﷺ will say,
my Lord is angry on this day, he
has never been this angry and he will
never ever be this angry and in a
narration that I'm sharing with you, he will
not mention a sin that he committed, although
in another narration mentioned by a tirmidhi in
his jamia, he will say, I was worshipped
besides Allah, you want me to go and
speak to Allah Almighty, they took me as
a god and here he is our Lord,
I can't speak to him on this day,
go to someone else, go to Muhammad ﷺ,
so now these people they are making their
way to their saviour, they meet the messenger
of Allah ﷺ, Allah knows what type of
state of honouring he will be on that
day, when he speaks to them, and they
will say to him, oh Muhammad ﷺ, you
are the messenger of Allah, you are the
seal of the prophets, Allah has forgiven your
past and your future sins, it's as if
they are saying to him, please don't do
what the other prophets did, please don't tell
us of a sin that you committed, because
we know from the Qur'an that you
have no sins, Allah has forgiven your past
and future sins, let's get to the bottom
of this, don't you see our messenger of
Allah what we are going through, the messenger
of Allah ﷺ will say to them, I
am the one for this, I am the
one for this, I am the one for
this, he said, so I will make my
way, until I stand beneath the throne of
Allah ﷺ, then I fall into frustration, pause
that scene in your mind for a moment,
all of humanity, mankind, the African, the Mongolian,
the Chinese, the Arab, the non-Arab, the
jinn, all of them, the angels, they are
observing the scene, as if he was able
to do something that none of them, no
human, no jinn, no angel, not even Jibril
had access to this moment, he is there
frustrated, beneath the throne of Allah ﷻ, he
said, he said there, beneath the throne of
Allah ﷻ as I prostrate, Allah will inspire
me to praise him with words that no
human being has ever used to praise Allah,
so if Allah honors his brothers, he allows
us to enter Jannah, let us remind each
other, to ask the Prophet ﷺ to teach
us this that he said in praise of
Allah with words that have never been used
in praise of him.
Allah Almighty will then say to his Habib,
his beloved, raise your head, raise your head,
the honoring of Allah for his Prophet ﷺ,
raise your head, make your request, I will
give it to you, make your intercession, I
will grant it to you, what do you
want, why have you come, what do you
want from me, he will say what, myself,
myself, myself, no, he will be the only
exception, he will say, my nation, my nation,
my nation, and with this intercession, the judgement
begins, so the whole of humanity are put
out of the misery of Yawm al Qiyamah,
though it ends with paradise or *, the
process now moves, it is a brand new
phase in this long day because of the
intercession of the Prophet ﷺ, this was a
position that no one could attain but him,
and that is why Allah says in the
Qur'an, speaking to his Prophet ﷺ, pray
at night, some optional prayers Allah said to
the Prophet ﷺ, carry out optional prayers in
the night because it may be that Allah
will raise you to a place of praise,
what is this maqam al mahmud, this honorable
position of praise, it is the one I
just shared with you, when all of humanity
will see him for what only he was
able to do and they will all unify
in the praise of the Prophet ﷺ, pray
at night some extra prayers, it may be
that your Lord will raise you one day
to a very praise worthy station, and this
is the dua that you made as I
mentioned earlier, after you heard the Adhan, what
did you say at the end of it,
wa ba'athuhu maqaman mahmudan alladhi wa'attahu,
O Allah, allow him, meaning the Prophet ﷺ,
allow him to attain this position of praise
that you have promised him, and finally he
ﷺ will now arrive, fast forwarding to the
end of yawm al qiyamah, when the bridge
has finished and the scales have finished and
the interrogation has finished, alhamdulillah, and now it
is just the believers Ya Rabbi make us
amongst them, making our way now finally, with
faces beaming like the full moon, making our
way to the gates of Jannah, Muslim narrates
on the authority of Anas ibn Malik that
the Messenger ﷺ he said, aati baabal jannah,
I will make my way to the gates
of Jannah, fa astaftih, I will knock, I
will seek permission to go in, the first
of the human beings now to make his
way to Jannah, and we are behind him
inshaAllah, fa astaftih, I will seek permission, and
they will say who is it, and he
will say Muhammad ﷺ, then the angels will
say, then the angels will say, bika ubirtu
laa aftahu bi ahadi min qablik, I have
received instructions from Allah Almighty to not open
the gates of Jannah to anyone before you,
and this is when the gates of Jannah
enter, he is the first to see what
Allah Almighty has prepared for him and prepared
for his ummah and prepared for the other
Muslim nations of the world.
So this is just a very quick snapshot
of who the Prophet ﷺ is in the
eyes of Allah, this was just setting the
foundation, setting the scene, so that in two
weeks time, when we now start speaking about
what does it mean to have adab, manners
towards the Prophet ﷺ, I hope we will
all be ears, ready to listen, ready to
write down as we have agreed, and ready
to apply to give this honourable Prophet the
Haqq that he deserves, alayhi salatu wa salam
wa sallallahu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa alhamdulillahi rabbil
alaihi wa sallam.