Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #118 Prophet Muhammads Concern for His Ummah The Greatness of Sending Blessings Upon the Pr
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In our sessions
on the Roha
in which we're looking at
some of the guidance of the prophet
and some councils
for
seekers of guidance.
We're continuing to look at some of the
hadiths
on the virtues of our beloved messenger.
And this is from a collection of 40
hadiths on the virtues of the prophet
from
Sheikh Yusuf
ibn Ismail and Nabihani, and reached hadith number
21.
And hadith number 21
is
related
on
the authority of Sayna Abdullah ibn Umar
who relates.
So he said,
the messenger of Allah
recited
the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
from the Quran.
The messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
recited the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So whoever
that they have truly
led astray
many
amongst people,
so whoever follows me,
those
indeed
are from me.
And whoever disobeys me, then you
are all forgiving and most merciful.
Right? That I can only account for those
who follow me
is the is the are the words of
all the prophets. Right.
And those who disobey my example, I'm not
responsible for what they did
but
it returns to your
forgiveness and your mercy.
If you forgive them,
then they are
but your servants.
Right? If you punish them,
then they are but your servants.
And if you forgive them, then indeed you
are
the tremendous,
the Aziz,
Al Hakim,
and most wise.
And the messenger of Allah raised
these recited these verses and then he raised
his noble hands
and said,
And he said, oh Allah,
my community,
my community,
and he cried.
So Allah most high said,
Muhammad, Allah
said to Jibril Alaihi Salam, the angel Gabriel,
go to Mohammed.
And your lord knows best,
But ask him, what is causing him to
cry?
So Jibril came to the prophet
and asked him.
So he informed him of what
he said.
And Allah is more knowing.
So Allah
said, oh Jibril,
go to Mohammed
and say to him,
truly,
we shall make you pleased
with respect to your community
and will not cause you
to be saddened.
This is related by my Muslim. It's a
rigorously authentic hadith. The prophet would
frequently
recite the verses about the fate of the
various communities
in his prayer, and it has come in
other narration that he recited these in the
depths of his night.
And in other
incidents, the prophet
recited
the the the second of the verses that
are mentioned here
that,
if you punish them, they're but your servants.
They belong to you.
They're yours. You can do with them as
you wish.
But if you forgive him,
you are
the Aziz, the most honorable,
the most tremendous
Al Hakim,
and
the most wise.
And once
yeah. I mentioned that many occasion in the
process repeated this one verse
the whole night in his nafil
prayers and was cried so much that his
beard
was drenched in tears and dripping.
Right? Saying, ummati, ummati, my community,
my community.
But Allah reassured the prophet, right,
we will surely make you pleased with
respect
to
your
community.
But we will not cause you to grieve.
But
the umma of the prophet there's the general
umma, but the true but the
but the umma that is under the protection
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala completely
are those mentioned in the first set of
verses. Right?
Whoever follows me is indeed from me.
Right?
And a group of those who are
with you.
Right? And 2 of the qualities of withness
with the prophet,
one that is mentioned
Quran explicitly
is to be of those who
are
who establish night prayer.
Another of the qualities
as from certain Muslim. Right?
And a group of those who are with
you. Another
quality of those
who are
with the prophet in the hereafter and therefore
therefore,
you know,
protected
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala fully
are those of good character,
of true religious good character.
Right? The people closest to me in the
hereafter will be those
closest to me in character,
said the prophet
Another quality, of course,
is calling to Allah
Right?
Sorry.
Say this is my way.
Say this is my way.
I call to Allah
within sight.
I and those who follow me. So I
think these are 3 of the key qualities.
Right?
Devotion
you know, striving to embody, you know, prophetic
devotion, particularly in the depths of the night.
Secondly, upholding good character.
Right? Learning about, being inspired by, and embracing
prophetic character.
And the third is calling to Allah
with
with insight.
Hadith number 22,
So who
relates to the messenger of Allah
said,
whoever
sends blessing
sends blessings upon me once,
Allah
most high
sends blessings upon them,
buy it
10 times.
Right. And what is salah?
A salah
is
a dua.
Right?
Salah, the
word means
dua. Call calling out of need. Right?
And
that's salah from the servant to the lord.
Right?
Allah's
on the servant
granting salah, it's
Allah's blessing
is
his mercy
with acceptance,
veneration,
right, and raising in rank.
There's
4
primary
aspects to it. A salah from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is
mercy
with acceptance,
with
with granting greatness
of recognition
and reward. Right?
And raising in ranks.
And some added, taking from the Quran,
Right?
Right?
It is he, Allah, who sends blessings upon
you as do his angels to take you
out from many full darknesses
into the light.
So that's another
meaning that's understood of the salah. Right? That's
rahma,
kabul, mercy,
acceptance,
tadeem, raising, you
know,
of veneration,
rafraid darajat, raising in ranks, and
So whoever sends blessings upon me once and
of course, you're not doing it. You're asking
Allah to do it on your behalf. Allah
we say
Muhammad
Right?
So
you ask for it once from him, Allah
blesses you, meaning grants you his mercy,
acceptance,
honor,
raising in ranks,
and taking from darkness to light
tenfold.
Right?
And this is,
a tremendous
opportunity. Right? This is a tremendous opportunity,
which is
why
of the best of spiritual works is
sending blessings. I know the best of ways
to change one's spiritual state
and to gain divine favor and assistance,
right, is to send blessings upon the prophet
right? Because it's an an act of gratitude.
It's an act of love. It's an act
of acceptance.
Right? It has these benefits of mercy,
acceptance,
veneration,
raising of ranks, and taking from darkness
to light.
And one of the key times to do
this as another narration that Sheikh Islam Nabihaqqani
quotes after
is
when
the adhan is given. The prophet
said,
when you hear the
then say the like of what he says.
Then send blessings upon me.
Right? After
the
gives the ada. Do you say what the
says? Then send blessings upon me.
Because whoever sends blessings upon me once, Allah
sends blessings upon them
tenfold.
Then ask Allah for the,
the rank of inter
of intercession.
Because it is a it's a it's a
rank.
It's it's a it's a station in paradise.
That only befits one servant of the servants
of Allah.
And I hope that
I be that 1.
Whoever asks Allah
for the
rank
of,
the rank of intercession for me, then my
interceding,
my
my intercession
becomes
permitted for them, is
allowed for them. And this is the shafara
Hasa.
This is the shafara, the intercession
of raising in ranks,
not the shafar. The shafar the general shafar,
the shafar ludma is for all creation.
And this is a shafa'ah chosla. It's a
it's a shafa'ah of
of honor
for the servant. Right? So
one should particularly pay attention to sending blessings
on the prophet
of repeating after the adhan. That's why one
should give the adhan. I said emphasize sunnah
to give the adhan
and repeat what the Mu'azin says and then
send salaam the prophet in any way,
and then make the make the
Oh, Allah, lord of this complete call.
And the prayer about to begin.
And the lord of the prayer about to
begin.
Grant Muhammad
the
the the station of intercession and and the
the absolute
honoring
and grant him the most praised station
that you have promised him. You make that
you
have to like what you've asked for.
Right? So
this is and the point out, this is
one thing. You won't find anything else that
the prophet
asked from us from for him.
So there's there's a there's a there's a
secret in this, obviously.
And this benefit is not for the prophet
because he's already Allah has told him.
Allah does not renege on his promise. He's
already not just promised him, he's told him
that it's yours.
And the prophet told has told us that
it's it. So he's asking us to seek
this from him
for our sake.
So one should not omit
this and to say it with presence of
heart and consciousness.
Anas
release the prophet
was
had the the buraq,
the the that marvelous
creature that he rode on his night journey,
brought to him on the night of the
night journey,
and the Buraq
found it very difficult
to let the prophet
ride him out of awe.
So Jibril
said,
would you do this with Mohammed?
For no one has ridden you who is
more honored by Allah than him.
Right?
So
he became full of sweat
out of the sense of awe
of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Right?
Because if you think about
who he is and his rank with Allah,
he is
greater than anything else in creation in rank
with Allah
Nothing compares in rank
to him
But it is from the mercy of Allah
that
that his majesty,
the majesty of the prophet was
clothed in mercy
and beauty
in a manner that people would be would
be comfortable being intimate with him.
Right?
And this is mentioned by Qadir y'all d
neshifa and by others.
Hadith number 24.
The messenger of Allah
said, we are the the we we are
the final ones,
yet
the fur the but the first on the
day of resurrection.
The other people,
despite the other people being given
their
revealed books before us and us having been
given our revealed books after them,
we will go first on the day of
resurrection.
Right?
Then the the prophet said, and and then
this is the day that was made incumbent
upon them, meaning
Friday.
So the prophet said, and this day, meaning
Friday, was a day that Allah made incumbent
upon them,
but they differed regarding it.
Right? The
so Allah guided us to it,
to the Friday.
Right?
Because it is the best day of the
week by Allah's decree.
But even in this, the other people follow
us in it.
For because the Jews fast
the next day
and the Christians fast the the the Jews
rest the next day, Saturday,
their Sabbath, and the and the Christians
the day after, the Sunday. This is related
by Muslim.
Hadith number 25,
Every means
and every
lineage
is cut off on the day of resurrection
except for my means and my lineage.
My means meaning that
which is connected to him
by way of guidance, by way of love.
Right?
And his lineage on condition
of faith and uprightness, of course.
And we'll continue
from hadith number 26. We'll also look briefly
at some of the counsel of Imam Al
Ghazali from his
work, Yohul Walad.
Can can you read?
K. So it's related by Imam Shibley
that he served
over 400
teachers.
And they they mentioned that this is
the part of they used to say
that they served
so and so because they would be in
a
relationship of
of mentorship, and part of that is that
one
as one takes, one gives as well in
terms of service.
And and he said, and I read
over 4,000 hadiths. And this
is means is to read
from to someone or from someone.
As opposed to
is what you
study on your own
or you what you what you do on
your own. I but
is
is you read to either by the student
reading to the teacher or the teacher reading
to the students. There are different ways of
that.
Right? Like study
is what
is also what you study under a teacher.
Right?
So classically, someone read
the whole curriculum of studies,
that's not called reading.
It's not called
and it's called not it's not called
It's not called learning.
Continue.
So he studied
4,000 hadiths,
meaning that that he read them under a
teacher.
Right?
Okay.
Continue.
Then he said, and I
chose from it one hadith,
and I acted upon it.
Right? And I act upon it. I took
it as my
what I as the point of focus for
acting upon. Doesn't mean he neglected all
other guidance, meaning that that's what I
focused
to act upon.
Okay?
And he said, and I reflected upon it,
upon this one hadith.
And I found
that my salvation and
my
success
was in it.
And the knowledge of the first people and
the last people, all of it
was encompassed
in this
hadith.
So I found my sufficiency in it.
And that is that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is reported to have
said
to some of his companions
The act
for
act for
your act for your worldly life to the
extent
of your dwelling in it.
And act for the next life to the
extent
of your
dwelling therein.
An act for the sake of Allah
to the extent of your need for him.
And act for the fire
to the extent that you can be patient
with it, with burning in it.
So this hadith
is not exactly related in this in this
wording,
but
it is similarly narrated from Imam Al Behati.
Right?
That act
act with the actions of a person who
doesn't who imagines that they will not die.
And be cautious
with the caution of a person
who imagines that they'll die tomorrow.
And
and this is related by
relates,
rectify your worldly life.
And act and make your action for the
next life as if you will die tomorrow.
And there are a number of other similar,
other texts. Although this particular text that that
is related from,
with this particular wording,
is not is not established
as one hadith.
And Sheikh Ahmed ibn Siddiq al Umari has
a treatise
on that,
because subululhuda,
the ways of guidance in negating
that in that specific wording being a hadith,
but each part of it is the meaning
is found in related hadith.
So the point here being that
know
these higher truths. Right?
That this world
is perishing.
So act
do the your worldly things with the awareness
of its perishingness.
The next life is lasting.
So act for it
accordingly. Allah says
Truly the next life
is better for you
than this
life. Right? In comparison,
it's
not that it's better for you that both
are good and that is more good than
in comparison
with
with this life, which
is limited.
And the next life, which is limitless,
it is absolute good.
Comparatively,
it is
absolute good.
And
act for the sake of Allah to the
extent that you need him. And
what is your reality? Your reality is absolute
neediness.
So then he says,
my
dear child.
If you know this
these words,
right,
then you don't need a lot of knowledge.
Reflect on another
incident.
And that is
at
who was of the companions of
He said, you kept my company for 30
years. What did you attain in it?
Right? And Hatem Al Asom,
who was one of the noted
people of the suhud of renunciation
and simplicity.
He was born in Bilq,
and he's and he learned
fiqh and hadith and other sciences there, and
then he went to Baghdad
where he met
Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal.
And he was of the distinguished scholars
who engage in Jihad and defended the lands
of Islam, did rebat.
And he spoke a lot about renouncing worldliness.
And he died in the year
237
after the Hijra.
And
Shaikh El Belkhi
Shaikh
ibn Ibrahim El Belkhi,
He was of the most famous of the
scholars of Khorasan
in the far eastern lands of Islam.
And
he
took the spiritual path from Ibrahim ibn Adham,
and he studied
and amongst his students were Hathim Al Asam.
And he he was from a family
of
great wealth.
Imam Al Zahabi said
that he
when he was young, he had over 300
villages under his
authority.
But when he died,
he did not even have enough money for
his own kafan,
for his own shouting.
Right?
But a 1200
years later, we still
remember him and the people who took over
those villages.
No one cares for them and no one
remembers them.
So he said you kept so Shaikh Al
Belkhi asked his student, Hatib Al Asam, that
you kept my company for 30 years.
What did you gain in it?
He said I acquired
8 points of knowledge.
30 years,
I learned 8 things. Right? So this is
part of the duties of knowledge. Right? That
knowledge is not just cumulative.
Right? What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's messenger prays
is
gaining depth of understanding in in knowledge. Of
Of course, he took many things from Shakit
al Belkhi,
both in knowledge
and in guidance and so on, but he
reflected on it
and he distilled it. So he realized
that it goes back to 8 principles,
The 8 points of benefit
which encompasses everything else. Right? And that's the
having depth in knowledge.
How?
By a mind that is ever reflective.
Right? They say if the sign of a
student of knowledge is that if you stop
them on the street, say what were you
thinking about?
They're thinking about knowledge.
You stop them when they're eating, you know,
eating their lunch. What do they think about?
They're thinking about knowledge.
Yeah. Just like majnoon and leila.
Right? Majnoon,
everything.
They're what
as
they they say that the state of the
seeker of knowledge with respect to knowledge is
like the lover with respect to their beloved.
You have taken
my my sight
and my thinking
and
and my hearing
and my soul
and my limbs
and my entirety completely.
Right? As
a talks about love. Right? That is
This is how love is. Otherwise, it is
pretense.
Right? So that is
and but why?
Because means take the ruling of ends.
And the purpose of knowledge is that it's
a light
that shows you the way to Allah.
So if Allah matters more than anything else,
then nothing in this life matters more
than knowledge.
Right?
And then he talks about what are these
8 lessons,
and these are
amazing lessons. We'll look at them,
on next Monday.
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