Hamza Yusuf – Loving And Following The Prophet

			This month Alhamdulillah is called Roby lol, which means in Arabic The first spring, and it is the
month that our prophets Eliza was born in, and it's a blessed month. For that reason. The prophets
Allah Islam was asked in Sahih Muslim about fasting on the day of Monday and he said he wanted to.
In other words, I was born in that day. So it's a good day to fast because of the blessing of his
birthday. And the one of the traditions of the Muslims was during this month, after about the
seventh century, they began to revive the enumeration of his qualities and his blessed personality.
Now, I would just like to take this opportunity on this day visiting your community to remind you of
		

			a few things. One of them is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in a Hadith, that is
from Satan alley, or the Allahu anhu, he said, Alamo Allah to come, sir, as a facade, teach your
children three qualities.
		

			Been a beacon of love of your profit, will have the alley he and love of his family will cheat our
truck or an thing Hamlet or Quran
		

			because the teach them love of the Prophet, love of his family, and teach them how to recite the
Quran, because those who carry the Quran, whom Adam and Adam and naughty on the piano, they are on
these
		

			terraces of light on the Day of Judgment. So the prophets, Allah Islam told us to teach our children
to love the prophets of Allah, he was sent him inculcating love of the Prophet is one of the most
important things in Islam.
		

			But the thing that that the non Arabs responded to, was the Prophet sallallahu sallam, which is why
wherever you go in the non Arab world, there is an immense love of the Messenger of Allah, if you go
to South Asia, if you go to Pakistan, or India or turkey, or if you go to Indonesia, or if you go to
Malaysia, you will see that there is an immense love of the Messenger of Allah, because it was
through the Messenger of Allah, his character that those people entered Islam, it was through the
help of the Yemeni merchants who went to Indonesia and South India, their high character that they
convince people that this was a true religion, they wouldn't cheat in their transactions. They were
		

			more concerned about a fair price than about making profit. And then if somebody was unable to pay
his debts, they will actually forgive them because they want it to be forgiven from Allah. They were
the embodiment of the law of the Prophet of Allah. So it will it will serve them now that character
of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam if you look today,
		

			in the Muslim world is absent.
		

			People have it on their walls wakulla nasya husna. But if you accidentally run somebody off the
road, Elia baytech, you know, he's not doing what Gunilla nasya, krisna he's not following
instability here accent,
		

			really, um, this is the reality they have people put them on their walls, they put these wonderful
ethical principles on their walls, but they're not in the heart.
		

			And the reason for that is because they're divorced from the character of the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And that is because inculcating love of the Messenger of Allah is
something that has to be done from an early age. It has to be done so that there's love of
sacrifice. What animal unethical Rasulullah the early Sahaba, the messenger was walking among them,
there were Sahaba that were willing to die for him. They would during the Battle of there were so
bad, even a worm was jumping to catch arrows. He had 72 wounds on that day.
		

			By his own testimony, a man saw him to change his shirt and his body was covered with wounds with
scars, scar tissue. And he said, What's that from? He said, it was the day of guarding the Messenger
of Allah.
		

			And that's that those were people that they weren't weren't doing that because they were trained
because they were Secret Service because they were being paid. They had,
		

			you know, insurance policies and that's not why they were doing they were doing it because they love
the Messenger of Allah and they loved him more than they love themselves. And the prophets, Allah
lighty when it was sent him said that Athan men Cana, men canopy he wasn't alone. Hello with him and
there are three things that if they're in a person, they find the * out of him and the first one
is unequal and you can elect who wore a suit who had the La Nina suwama. There are law and Hispanic
		

			are more beloved to anything other than them say Norma was sitting with the property said well lie
in your head Waka acara
		

			min min galicians one FC allottee Bane agenda I love you better than anything except my own knifes
that's between my sides and and the Prophet said will lie you know I had to come across akuna hubbie
li min min min min min Malik he was allowed he will he will never see OLED TV any jambay none of you
believes until he loves me more than he loves his well, his children, his parents, even his own
self, this between your side and and and say that online at that point he said, Well I indicated a
ministry and the TV and agenda. He said a anioma now on your minds complete, that was all motivated.
		

			He loved the profit more than he loved himself
		

			and love of the Prophet if your children are not given love of the Prophet now. Do you see if you if
you look you ask them about who who what this basketball player this football player they know
statistics. They know what what what athletes hit 350 last year, they know what shoes
		

			the basketball players were. They know what who starred in this field they know who played seraphina
up in the film, but they don't know who stood up was.
		

			They'll know the actor that played him in the film, but they don't know him.
		

			They know all the names of Pokemon but they can't give you the 99 names of God.
		

			I mean, this is the reality of the age we're living in. You see if you don't inculcate in your
children, a love of Allah and His Messenger, then you that you're disobeyed online is messenger,
because animal is fairly ama little job you have to teach them inculcate in them a love of Allah and
His messenger. Now, the only way you can do that is if you love Allah and His messenger. Because you
can't give somebody stuff talking to say
		

			the Arabs they say somebody who doesn't have something can't give it.
		

			And then you have to ask yourself where is a law on your list of priorities because God put man
first but most men put God last in their lives.
		

			You have to look where Allah is on your list of priorities. Allah Subhana Allah says look for a
woman and as a man a
		

			woman, a nasty man, your tuxedo and Jasmine dooney died, you should
		

			be
		

			amongst humanity are people that love idols
		

			as they should love Allah
		

			one Medina ammo a shed to vanilla, but those who believe love God more than other people love their
idols and that are replacements is the need is is something that's like something else. It's
something that you can exchange one for the other because they're so similar. So the Ally's saying
that there are people out there who have replacements for God. They have replacements for God and
they love those replacements as they should love Allah subhana wa Tada. But then Allah says, while
at the nominal, a Shinto vanilla, those who believe love God more than these people love their
replacements to Allah subhana wa Tada. Now, if you look at what people out there do for dunya you
		

			ask yourself, are you doing anywhere near that for your asherah there's people that get up every
morning, five o'clock for their junior. Every morning, you'll see them heading to work on the
highway at five o'clock. There's people for their body. They'll get up at five o'clock every morning
they'll jog for 20 3040 minutes ever build things to put people to sleep.
		

			Right hotels, huge hotel like this is a big giant to make money.
		

			Because that's what they that's what they worship. That's what they love. They love money. People
love money, money. Where did you put money on your list of priorities? Is money more important to
you than your religion? Because if you sacrifice more for money than you just where you put it, you
put that over that so if you want to know where you stand with a law you have to look at where our
law stands with you eyes yourself what is important to you as a human being?
		

			What takes precedence over everything else? No matter if I do and young will appeal to young mothers
and young one after the automatic Auto lobia
		

			HSP will say what is God going to do with me today?
		

			What What is Allah going to do with me today? Because as of Allah subhana wa tada all your plans can
fail. Every plan you make every plan that you made, can fail and you can work 20 3040 years to build
a business and you can lose it overnight.
		

			You can rake 3040 years of in
		

			vestment time energy, love commitment and all those children, anything that you do in this life.
		

			It's completely in