Ebrahim Gabriels – The Epitome of Love Part 2
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Rabbi sh
honor,
honorable. MC
brother Khalid, honorable, beloved mulad,
the
Rahman Khan,
Allah, honorable and beloved, respected. Ulama,
oh my honorable and beloved mothers and fathers and sisters
and brothers and beloved youth and children.
Wahai Kung be tahiyat Islam. I greet you with the greetings of
Islam,
with tahiyatul Islam. Salaam and the greetings of Islam is peace,
for I greet you with the
universal greetings of love and peace and mercy. Assalamu,
Alaikum,
my dear beloved ones, I am indeed very honored to be here today with
your honorable selves.
And furthermore, I'm
extremely honored to have been asked to speak about a very an
amazing topic and an important topic, a very important topic that
is
loving Him,
salallahu, salaam, loving our beloved Nabi Muhammad. SallAllahu
wasallam,
but before I'm going to speak about loving Him, our beloved Nabi
Muhammad, Ali said to us, salam,
I would love to just quickly draw your attention
or ask you to look, to look at the love
of Allah towards our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam.
And there are many ways and many ayat
to explain Allah's love towards our beloved nabili Muhammad. But
allow me to ask you to look deep
into the following information of Noor and
the following information of love,
a very short ayah that all of us know, and that is kolusuba Han
wata ala in namah wa Mala ikat Abu Asmaa, musal mu Ali
Wa Salli, mudas niman, Allah, musalhi wa sallam, ala sayyah,
Muhammad in wala Ali wa Jama in
so think about it, my dear ones
In this ayah Allah wants us to know
that Allah loves and Allah honors and Allah cares for our beloved
Nabi Muhammad, Ali Sadr so much
that the Allah, continuously
and On a daily basis, puts Salah and blessings and mercy on our
beloved Navy, Muhammad, Abu Asmaa,
but please listen to this also,
that indeed Allah will put continuously, in other words, also
on a daily basis, on us
when we with love and passion, if we put on a daily basis, salawat
and our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam,
my beloved ones, Allah, subhana wa Taala
loves and cares so much for his beloved. Nabi Muhammad. Ali said
wasallam that ye Allah
has placed all around the world and appointed Malaika
to to make sure that our Salawat, wherever we are in this world,
when we put salawat and Rasulillah, Allah, subhana wa
Taala has appointed Malaika to deliver our Salawat directly to
our beloved navy. Muhammad
was Hadith. And listen to this hadith, the
Nabih, Muhammad says a few salata Alaya increase to put Salawat on
me
for in Allah, what color malakin
in the kabari? Because Allah has appointed an angel at my cover
for either salah, alai, arajun, mean ummati. So when a person of
my ummah put salah, Salah, Salah? What salah? Ami kalali, Dali kan
Malak, then that angel will tell me. Ya Muhammad, a.
Such and such a person, your name and the name of your father, such
and such a person as put salah, a new ya rasulallah.
Allow me to share with you a beautiful Hadith
that I've only heard yesterday.
And the reason why I make it a point to say that I only heard it
and listened to it yesterday or recently is just to motivate me
and all of us
to make more effort to learn more about our beloved Nabi Muhammad
Ali said,
and to learn more hadith of Rasulillah, because indeed, we
must admit that there are so many Hadith of Rasulillah that we don't
even know.
I always tell people that there's another Hadi that I've only
learned last year when I was 61 years old. So I'm now 62 years old
this year.
So only at the age of 61, years I heard this hadith of Rasulullah.
Ali said, wasam, when rasulallah was asked, ya rasulallah,
illallah, ya rasulallah, of all the people in the world who are
the most beloved to Allah, and our beloved Nabi Muhammad, said,
those of them were the best Allah.
So these are hard, you know,
need to be close to our hearts. Who of us wouldn't love to be the
closest to Allah and the most beloved to Allah? So the Hadith
that I only heard yesterday, it came by a whatsapp when this
shaykh asked,
Why are we putting Salawat on Rasulillah?
And some people get answers, and he said, Oh, that's fine, that
these answers are fine. But the reason why you're putting Salawat
rasulallah is recording the Hadith, Sallu, Alaya FA Ina,
Salah, takum, Alaya zakatul Nakum,
put Salah and put Salawat on me, because your Salah word on me.
It's a purification for you. It's a purification for your souls.
It's a purification for your hearts. It's a purification for
everything in your life, the salah word and Rasulillah,
my dear ones,
I want all of us
to focus on a few lessons here today
and take it home. We want to benefit out of this gathering
here. It must not just be another gathering. It must just not be
just a formality. We come in on a Saturday afternoon. We were
invited by DTI. No, we want to go home, and we want to improve our
lives. We want to get closer to Allah. We want to get closer to
Rasulillah, sallAllahu, sallam. So for example, the Hadith that I
just mentioned that increase the Salawat and Rasulillah. So we must
remember, because the more we put salawat and rasulallah, the more
Allah will grant us that we our hearts will be pure, our souls
will be pure because of the barakah and the Nur of the Salawat
and our beloved Nabih Muhammad blessed wisdom. So just imagine,
my dear ones, yes, our beloved Nabi Muhammad left this world.
But indeed, as a believer, we would love to have a Dianic
relationship with Allah, with our beloved Nabi Muhammad Ali, said to
us, and Allah has granted us this direct channel. And means
when we put Salawat on Rasul Illah and our beloved Nabi Ali said to
us, in our Salawat goes directly to Rasulullah with our names and
the names of our fathers. Now we coming to our topic
loving Him, sallAllahu, sallam.
Allow me to say that I think,
or I would love to believe, that each and every Muslim in this
world loves Rasulullah. SallAllahu, sallam, Abu but as in
the case of Taqwa and Iman and iklas and so forth, there are
different levels. People have got taqwa, but people are on different
levels. Like, for example, Allah says wasI, kaladi, natakal, Rabbo,
il Jannati, zumara,
the people of taqwa, they will be led to the Jannah, but they will
be in different groups. They will be grouped according to the level
of Taqwa.
So likewise,
all Muslims, they love Rasulillah, but they are on different levels.
For example, just recently, I read somewhere that some Muslims and
some saliheen, when they just hear somebody speaks about Rasulillah,
then they start to cry. Look
at that level of Imam. May Allah grant was asked also to, in fact,
we were very close to when shark.
Asim was sitting here and speaking about Rasulullah, we were close to
to tears to hear that Rasulullah, Ali said so much for us, and he
was making so much istiqar for us.
So
so the main purpose, or the main idea, why we have gathered here
today around these topics
is to look and to work out, how can we take our love for
Rasulullah to another level, to another level. We don't want to be
stagnant. We don't want to stay on the same level. We want to every
day or every six months or every year, we want to move to another
level in loving Rasulillah, sallAllahu sallam.
And let us start with the Hadith narrated by Anna sibling Anu,
when the person came to Rasulillah. And it was mentioned
by Shaykh Asim also,
and he said, Ya rasulallah matasa, when is the hour of judgment? And
then the NABI Muhammad asked him, What did you prepare for the Day
of Judgment?
Callah. And he said, lashayah, not much. Ya Rasulullah Illah, Ani
wahi, Bula wa rasulah Hu except, I not much preparations, except that
I love Allah, and I love Rasulullah. My whole life is about
this loving Allah. I love Rasulillah. Whatever I do when I
say something to a person, when I, you know, do something for my
wife, or do something for my husband, or when I become salah,
when I go to the masjid, it's all about love for Allah and love for
Rasulullah. Ali said to Asmaa, and then the rabbi Muhammad said,
antama Aman, abut you are, you will be with whom you loved. Ya
salam. So looking into the words with Rasulullah, with with deep
understanding. The Nabi Muhammad said to him, because of your love
for Allah and because of your love for me, will you not? You will not
only enter Jannah, you will enter the Jannah and you will be with me
in the Jannah because of your love for Allah and your love for me,
sister, Rasulullah
kala Ana, call Anu Anna sibri. Malik says Murphy Islami, Farah
Nabi in Naka, Maha man Abu Asmaa. Malik says
when we became, when we received the dean of Islam, we were
extremely happy. We haven't experienced that extreme
happiness, only more than when, when Rasulullah said these words
that you will be with whom you love in Jannah and
Anna Malik said, For Allah Wa, Rasulullah wa Aba bakrin, wa omju,
an aku na maam. So I love Allah, and I love Rasulillah. And, for
example, I love sinabu, Bakr, Sina, Omar, and I desire to be
with him, Allah, Akbar,
my beloved ones. Salah, salam, Taha wakura, this
is another important statement that we need to take home, that
the love Rasulillah is, in fact, obedience to Allah. And not only
obedience, it is a means of getting very close to Allah.
To love Rasulillah, it's obedience, and it is kurdah. It is
a means of getting close to Allah.
So by showing love to Rasulillah, it's like showing love to Allah
on the same basis, like Allah sing Quran, may you tell rasulallah,
whosoever base Rasulillah,
you've in fact, obeyed Allah.
So my dear ones, the key question is, what is the true love
for rasulidah? And let me
repeat the question
again and again. And what I mean by that is not again and again.
This is this slogan, that question we need to ask us continuously,
today, next week, in a month's time, almost every day, what is
true love for Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam.
Or we can ask, what is considered to be true love for Rasulullah? Or
we can put it this way, what what is considered to be the highest
level of love for Rasulullah, sallAllahu assalam. And to answer
that,
allow me to to share with you the following statement or concept,
and that is, if a person claims
that he loves Rasulullah, then.
Prove it by following Rasulullah sallallahu,
while above is true. That is just a statement that we are making.
Why that is true.
I want you. I want to remind you, my dear ones, that Allah,
subhanaw, Allah takes it to another level.
Allah says Kul In Kuntum tofiq boon Allah. Allah
doesn't say, if say, if you say that and claim that you love
Rasulullah. Now, Allah takes it to another level, if you say, and you
claim that you love Allah, Fatah, Allah,
rasulallah. Rasulullah,
that is how important and how great is the love for our beloved.
Nabi Muhammad. Just listen to it again. Kul im Kum tum Allah. Say,
if you claim that you love Allah, then follow the NABI Muhammad.
SallAllahu, sallam,
and because of you expressing your true love
to my beloved Rasul,
I will guarantee you my love your Biba Kumu Allah,
I will guarantee you my love,
my dear ones, I want to ask, shouldn't we repeat the statement,
or shouldn't we
make sure that we write down this statement
so that we can share it with our children, so that we can share it
with the whole world?
Listen again, because of you expressing your true love to my
beloved Rasul. This is the meaning of the ayah I guarantee you, and I
promise you my love, the love of Allah, subhana wa taala.
So my new ones,
if you have, if you have learned, for example,
and you've read the life of Rasulillah that Rasulullah Ali
said to Islam, made all his Salah in the masjid,
then you must also go make your Salah with love, with love
Rasulillah in the masjid. You're not just going to the masjid. You
do it because Rasulullah did. And you want to follow Rasulillah Ali
if you know, for example, that the rabbi Muhammad used to to fast
every Monday and every Thursday,
then you, if you fast on a Monday, when you fast on a Thursday, and
you do it out of love for Rasulillah, then you will get the
love of Allah subhana wa taala, and,
very importantly, besides, the Ibadah of Rasulillah, Ali said,
we need to follow Rasulillah in the main purpose that Rasulullah
came to this world. And what is the main purpose? It is recorded
in Hadith of Rasulillah, the NABI Muhammad says in namabu utam Mima,
makarima, aklam, the actual reason, and the real reason why I
was sent to this world is to complete the best of conduct, the
best of character. So we must, we must strive, and we must yearn to
follow Rasulillah in the beautiful character and conduct of Muhammad.
For
example, Nabi Ali said was salam was the best in controlling anger.
This is a when we talk about character, we we always, you know,
go for the top one, because al hilm, Sayyid, Al AHL, to be able
to control it, to be able to be gentle at the time of anger when
somebody angers you, that is the master of all beautiful
characteristics to be able to control your anger. And so when
we're going to do it, we're going to get the love of Allah,
when we, for example, the NABI Muhammad Ali said was was said one
day by his beloved wife, Sidna Aisha,
until the details, are you the one, the thing you? Renabi, yes.
Subhanallah, what
was the response of Rasulullah for the best summer, Rasulullah
smiled.
These are the lessons that we needed to go home. I'm saying for
the second time. This is not just another gathering. This is a
beautiful gathering.
This is an amazing gathering. This is a gathering of mahabha Love,
love for Allah and love for rasulallah. And I can feel that
all of us, we love one another. Year for the sake of Allah.
You know, one of my best moments when I go for Hajj or for Umrah is
when I look at my sisters and my brothers and my mothers and my
fathers and I, you know, I feel so good. I feel so good because these
are my own brothers and sisters. And likewise, you are the same.
All my sisters, they are more sisters than for those don't know,
you are more sisters and mothers than brothers, Alhamdulillah. So
we love you all for the sake of Allah, subhana wa taala,
Alhamdulillah.
So let us go on
to say that, my dear ones,
do we realize that through love for our beloved NaVi Muhammad,
listen to Islam, is actually why Ji compulsory,
and it is not a, you know, this compulsion is not a matter of
instruction of force and compelling? No, this is
instruction of love from Allah,
Who made it wahaji For us to love Rasulillah, so that we be loved,
so that we be loved by Allah, and we be loved by Rasulillah. And
because of our love Rasulullah, all the Muslims around the world
will love us all our
beloved ABI Muhammad says, la yok minu ahadu Kum
Hata, Akuna, Ahad Ilahi, Min wali di wawaladi wa Nasi ajima In your
Imam is not completed. You don't have true Imaan unless you love me
more than your mother and your father. We have been instructed by
Rasulullah of first, by Allah and Rasulullah to love our mothers and
our fathers, to love our children, to love the muslimeen, to love
people. But in this hadith, Nabi Muhammad says your Imaan is not
completed. You haven't got through Imaan until and unless you love me
more than your mother and your father, then your children and all
the people in the world.
And furthermore, my dear ones,
please take note in a serious way,
what Allah says about the importance of love, the love for
Allah, the love for Rasulullah sallallahu, Salah,
Allah says the Quran cool inkam, or cool in
Canada, what a jar to show NACA, Sada, Hawa, Masaki UT, donah Aha
Bay kum in Allah the Rabba su
Hatta
ya ATI Allah will be Amari Walla ULA ya Dil com al fahane say Ya
Rai to your people if the mothers and their fathers and their
Children and their brothers and sisters and their spouses, the
partners and the rest of the family and and the money that they
earn and their business and their homes that they are so much
satisfied with. If all those people and these things are more
dear to them, then Allah and more dear to them, Rasulullah and
more and more dear to him to strive in the deen of Allah. Allah
says, given a warning, then you wait for me for the day if the AM,
in other words, you wait what is going to happen of punishment to
you, if those people and those monies and those homes and
everything in this world are more dear and more love to you than
Allah and Rasulillah sallAllahu wasallam.
So my dear ones, let us. Let us conclude
with a beautiful incident in the time of Rasulullah sallam, and a
beautiful hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam, and the
incident that happened in the time of Rasulullah, Ali said to Salam,
as that Nabi Muhammad Ali said to Islam, always being alert what is
happening around Rasulillah. And it's a beautiful quality to have,
and always noticeable. Rasulullah noticed that tawban, one of his
Hardings, was looking a bit down, and
then rasulallah then asked him, malakaya, toban, what is wrong
with you, toban, why are you looking so down and sad? And
toban said, Ya rasulallah, I love you so much, ya rasulallah, that
if I haven't seen you for a day, then my whole day is spoiled.
But that is not the reason why I'm feeling so down today. The reason
why I'm feeling so down
and bitter is because I was thinking about the next world. I
don't know if
I'm going to make it to the Jannah, but even if I'm going to
make it to the Jannah, ya rasulallah,
I will be able to see you because you're looking to be up there,
Rasulullah, in the highest of Jannat.
That's why, that's why I'm feeling so down here. Rasulullah
Muhammad didn't answer and respond to the concern of the man. But who
answered and who responded?
Is Allah, Allah, the All Hearing and the All Knowing and Allah
reveal the ayah. May you to Allah, Rasul, whosoever obeys Allah and
whosoever obeys the the missings of Allah. Faulkner was siddina was
salihim. Then those people who have obeyed Allah and obeyed
Rasulullah, because that is a true love for Allah, and that is a true
love for Rasulullah, to obey Rasulullah, then those people will
be Na, Allah Dina and Allah alaihim, with those who Allah has
favored,
and this is a very we just need to pause here.
Who are the people that Allah favorite? Nim Nabi Hina was
siddikina washua day. And the reason why I say we must pause
here, because that is what we are asking Allah, minimum, 17 times
every day, is Dina, Sirata, musaki, oh, Allah. Gaiga San
Sirat, siraat al Naina and AMTA, Haleem, the way of life of those
people who you have favored. That is what we are asking Allah. We
are asking Allah that Allah must guide us on the path of the the
way of life of the NABI Yin, was it deep King wash with that. And
it's so important that we need to know that otherwise meaning into
asking Allah, that is actually what Allah wants us to understand.
You are asking everyday me that I must guide you on the way of life
of Rasul Illah,
the way of life of Nabi Musa, Nabi Zakariya, Nabi Daud, Nabi Isa, all
the Nabis and all the Siddhi and Shua dahi wa sallam.
So Allah responded to the Alban to say to him, If you obey Allah, and
if you obey Rasulullah, and you follow rasulallah and you love
Rasulullah, then you will, you will be with Rasulullah. In fact,
you will be with Rasulullah when all the navies and all the Salafi
and all the Siddhi team and
the Hadith that I want to end with is that the nabili Muhammad says,
mean Ashad the ummati Lee huqban
of of my ummah, that I've got the greatest love for Me, says
Rasulullah, people that will come after me.
Ya What do? Ahadu Lower Ali bi ahi wa Mali,
they will come after you,
but they would, they would so much desire
that if they have, they have, they have lived my time. They have seen
me with the family and with the wealth.
And how many times does don't we wish that we have seen Rasulullah
Ali said to us, but inshaAllah, with our love for Rasulillah and
with obedience for Allah and obedience for Rasulullah, Ali said
to us, Allah will grant us inshaAllah the honor and the
privilege to be with our beloved Nabi Muhammad, listen, Allah Ali
say Muhammad Alhamdulillah.