Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #204 Why Gather to Praise Prophet Muhammad Allah bless him and give him peace Shayk
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Mentions
why we
celebrate
the coming of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Because
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us in the
Quran,
Say, in the bounty of Allah
and in His mercy, in that let them
rejoice.
It is better than all that they amass.
So while it is the basis for the
believer
that
this
reality that the bounty of Allah
and His mercy, what is it? What should
we be celebrating?
What should bring us happiness and joy?
It should be
Allah and His Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Right?
In our day to day
what should excite us and what should excite
us is the opportunity
to be present with Allah, the opportunity
of living
that light
and guidance and beauty
that the Messenger
has come with. Yet we are excited by
so many other things.
Right. So
we gathering such as this are meant to
rekindle
that
rejoicing,
that
in Allah, that rejoicing
in Allah, the rejoicing in the Messenger of
Allah.
Many of the early Muslims if you look
at the great tafsirs of Islam in explaining
the
in the bounty of Allah and in His
mercy. They said the bounty of Allah and
His mercy. What is it? It is the
Quran.
It is the Messenger of Allah It
is what the Messenger of Allah
has
come with.
Right? The bounty of Allah is meanings.
The mercy of
Allah is meanings.
It is that which lasts
right? It is the light and guidance of
and good right?
So this
is this is what we celebrate
And this is why
the response
to the one who recognizes this gift of
Allah is love.
Right? Is love.
And what is the state of love?
Right? Habib
Omar.
By Allah,
the beloved is not mentioned
to the to the one who loves except
that
they are overcome
in love,
right,
and are
inebriated.
Right? They are energized
by that
mention. They
are
Where are those lovers
for whom
giving of their own self
with all that is precious
is easy for them.
When he was beaten up for giving the
first khutbah
publicly in Mecca.
He He asked the prophet permission. The prophet
said,
We are just few still few in number.
It's after 5 years
at Dar Al Arkam
where the believers gathered there's only about 50
believers.
Sayyidina Abu Bakr out of his great concern
for his people said let's proclaim this publicly.
The prophet said wait because we're few. But
Sayyidina Abu Bakr kept asking so the prophet
gave permission. Sayyidina
Abu Bakr
went to call people to Allah and his
messenger
from in front of the Kaaba. But the
prophet followed behind him. When Sayyidina Abu Bakr
started,
beat him up so badly that you couldn't
tell his nose from his cheeks, they said.
People thought he was dead. Then his tribe
showed up that if he's dead, they'll they
shall be blood.
But then the tribalism took over.
But when Sayna Bakr woke up because then
they his own people thought he was dead
when they took him home.
When he woke up the first thing he
asked was,
How is the messenger of Allah
Right? Even before expressing any pain
he expressed
the the deepest feeling he had which is
how is the Messenger of Allah Is
he okay?
And then he said, Yes. He's fine.
And he was
he was so happy with that that he
didn't feel any pain.
They do they do not hear
the mention of Taha, the chosen one,
except that they are invigorated by this, and
all their woes depart.
All their burdens and the things that
rile us. And this is one of the
things that
we should strive to do. Right?
Day to day, we should strive to have
points of connection with the prophet.
Because sending of blessings upon the prophet is
not an act of the tongue. Although it
may begin with the tongue. When you say,
Oh, Allah.
Send blessings upon
our master Muhammad
and upon
his people
and grant peace.
Right?
This is an act of turning to Allah.
Allahumma.
Okay?
Bless our master Muhammad.
Okay? And why do you ask to be
that Allah bless our master Muhammad?
Out of our sense of love, out of
our sense of gratitude.
How do I express my gratitude to the
Messenger of Allah? I can't.
So ask Allah to send his blessings.
Yeah. So it's an act of love.
Gra love and gratitude to Allah, love and
gratitude
for the Messenger of Allah
k? You bring to mind the Messenger
when we say that.
His beauty,
his mercy,
his excellence,
his good,
and His people,
everybody.
And grant peace.
And when
you make dua for another, what do the
angels say?
When you make dua for another, what do
the angels say?
May you have the like of what you
asked for.
You have asked Allah to bless the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Right? It's like
on the
but you ask Allah to bless his the
the bless
to
to bless the one whom Allah has said,
that Allah is is blessing him eternally.
The mess the angel are blessing from the
beginning of time
till the end of time.
So you're connecting yourself
to the
flow of eternal blessings.
Right? And this is a key to be
blessed.
Right? To find contentment.
So this is
why we
gather
to celebrate the messenger,
to to
stir
the
flow
of sending blessings upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. But from the adab of gathering
for that, for
in gatherings like this is firstly
to send blessings ourselves.
Every time at the end of the line
when they
say
be saying it too, but stir the meanings
of love within. Stir the meanings of gratitude.
And then make a commit make a commitment
to be of those who send much blessings
on the Messenger
So souls
are stirred up,
yearning
for the meeting.
And they
they yearn
asking Allah for his absolute good pleasure.
Such is the way of lovers. So
here
the mention of the ways
of the accepted intercessor, the prophet
and give good ear.
And
be attentive to the mention
of the qualities
of Paha,
the elect one.
And make your heart present.
So that it can be filled
with ecstatic joy.
Right. And as one of the poets said,
Whoever does not find,
let them let them yearn
to find
that these meanings.
Deliberately
so that they may turn themselves towards
the bounty of Allah.
Right? Fake it sincerely till you make it.
Well it doesn't mean you start like shaking
around or whatever. No.
Turn your heart. Right? Turn your heart. Right?
Oh oh lord,
send blessings
and peace
always, eternally, upon your beloved.
The one
who
to to you
called us. That's why imagine this is without
him,
right, we would be lost in the darkness
of meaninglessness.
And then we would die
bereft
of any
ultimate
lasting
good. Right? So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala that he really make us of those
who
turn
and who open our hearts
in gatherings like this
and have the complete confidence that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala did not facilitate for us
to come
to gatherings
of
sending blessings except that Allah wants us to
attain unto blessedness.
And then may we walk on the paths
of the blessed.
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