Amjad Tarsin – The Universal Prophet

Alhamdulillah nahmaduhu wa nastaeenuhu wa nastahdeeh wa sallallahu

wasallam ala sayyidina muhammadina al rahmatul muhdah wa

al ni'matul musdah wa ala alihi al-tayyibin

wa ashabihi al-akramin wa man tabi'ahum

bi ihsanin wa hudan ila yawm al-deen

wa alayna ma'ahum wa feehim bi rahmatika

ya arham al-raahimin It's hard to say

anything after words that emanate from such pure

hearts.

But just as something to remind the ones

speaking and all of us and we ask

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala for tawfiq and

for benefit is to really reflect upon the

magnitude of the Prophet's salallahu alayhi wasallam's merciful

heart.

Is that in this month in which he

was born salawatullahi wa salamuhu alayh we have

to really reflect deeply on his sunnah and

how much of his sunnah we're living in

our lives.

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says wa ma

arsalnaka illa kaafatan linnasi basheeran wa nadheera walakinna

aktharun nasi la ya'lamoon Allah says about

the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam we have sent

you oh Prophet only as a deliverer of

good news and a warner to all of

humanity.

Kaafatan linnasi to all of humanity and the

Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam explaining this in further

detail he tells us in a hadith narrated

in Bukhari and Muslim that wakanan nabiyu yub

'athu ila qawmihi khaasah wab'ithtu ila an

-nasi kaafah that Prophets previously were sent to

their specific peoples and I was sent to

all of humanity and in another narration in

Muslim and At-Tirmidhi the Prophet salallahu alayhi

wasallam says walil khalqi kaafah I was sent

to all of creation which is once again

confirmed and emphasized in the Quran when Allah

Subhanahu wa ta'ala says wa ma arsalnaka

illa rahmatan lil'alameen that we sent you

oh Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasallam only as

a mercy to all of creation so our

teachers tell us that we actually have to

reflect upon the magnitude of his mission the

significance of the fact that he salallahu alayhi

wasallam is the universal prophet he is the

universal prophet and we as members of his

ummah we have to think about how universal

is the mercy in our hearts in this

month we have to really think about if

we look at the life of the Prophet

salallahu alayhi wasallam his mercy to his family

his mercy to his companions his mercy that

he showed children salallahu alayhi wasallam even a

young boy his pet bird died and the

Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam in a very light

hearted way consoled him ya aba umair ma

fa'alan nugair giving him an honorable nickname

oh abu umair what did the birdie do

what happened to the bird and consoling a

child that lost its pet the Prophet salallahu

alayhi wasallam had mercy even for animals and

that he rerouted the army at the conquest

of Mecca around a dog and her pups

so as not to scare her and cause

her or her baby dogs any harm the

Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam even had mercy towards

inanimate objects when the tree stump was moaning

and crying out for him and he was

only a few feet away but that tree

stump missed the touch of the Prophet salallahu

alayhi wasallam and that he would lean on

that tree stump when he would give his

khutbahs salallahu alayhi wasallam these are not just

stories that sound good we as members of

his ummah we have to internalize that mercy

we have to really think about our own

character our level of concern the way that

we deal with every single person in our

lives and are we reflecting that mercy so

when we go home be more merciful to

your spouse be more merciful to your children

be more merciful to your neighbors reflect that

prophetic concern in your dealings with your co

-workers with people around you with the people

that you see at the store and let

us inshallah in this month in which he

was born salallahu alayhi wasallam reflect his beauty

and his light we ask Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala for tawfiq wa salallahu wasallam ala

Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma

'in walhamdulillahi rabbil alamin