Isam Rajab – Loving The Prophet Sheikh
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All praise is you to Allah alone.
We praise Him. We ask His forgiveness and
we seek His assistance.
I bear witness that there is no deity
worthy of worship
but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad
is his servant and messenger.
Indeed, the best of speech is the book
of Allah and the best of guidance is
the guidance of Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And the worst of all matters is to
innovate in the religion and every such misguidance
leads to hellfire.
The poet Hassan,
the poet of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
was praising
Allah's Messenger
saying
that Allah
joined
the name of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
alongside His name
while
every Mu'avin, everyone who calls for the prayer
would say
And he derived from
his name
to honor him.
So the honor of the throne
is praised,
and this is Muhammad
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
Huwah Rasulullah
He is the Messenger of Allah
That Hassan,
again
the poet,
says about him.
He says,
Someone
more handsome than you, prettier than you,
I have never
seen.
My eyes have never seen.
Better than you?
No woman
ever has given birth to.
You were created
free from every
imperfection
as if you chose the way
you were created.
We see
people spending money,
millions and billions on cosmetics,
plastic surgeries,
to change something in their creation, in the
creation that Allah gave them. The Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
Hassan radiAllam says, He was created as if
he chose this way: perfection.
That is the Messenger,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We know that.
Where is the love
of him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
This is the condition of love, as Allah
Azzawajal said in Surat Ali Imran.
Say, If you
indeed love Allah, then follow me.
Allah then will love you
and forgive your sins.
Loving the Prophet
is not an option
it is a must.
No one will have Eman without
loving him.
But what is the true love
of the Prophet SAW?
It is what Allah Azzawajal said.
Fattabee'uni,
follow me.
In Surat I Nur
Surah 24,
Aya 54
Allah Azzawajal says,
and if you obey him
you shall indeed be guided
you want the guidance
you want Allah's pleasure
follow the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Because
Allah sent him
to guide us
to tell us
everything
that is important for us
something that is not important,
the Prophet SAW would not have wasted his
time.
That is what the Prophet SAW said in
the authentic hadith
by al Bayhati in his tribe and the
Musnat of Imam Ahmad, I have never left
anything
that would bring you closer to Jannah except
that I told you about it.
And I have never left anything that would
cause you to enter hellfire
except that I warned you against it.
It. That's the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
As
Allah said in Surat Al Alam, Wa'imna kalaalahuluqin
naveem.
You are indeed
of a noble
character.
Actually,
the entire message of Islam, as the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
I was only sent to perfect
the character,
the good character. That's
the entire message of Islam. That was the
core message of the Prophet
to make us
better.
This was his mission.
Where is the true love of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
In following his Sunnah.
In loving him truly
by knowing him
by following him.
The greatness of someone
is measured
by 3 things in general.
The good
that he does
within
his inner circle his family,
the improvement
to the people
that are around him
and the impact the legacy that he leaves
behind.
These are the three things. Because sometimes
you find someone
coming,
appearing in front of people, looking
perfect,
but then
within his family he's a terrible person.
We have seen people like that. There were
inventors, one of the billionaires in our time,
his daughter,
published
memoir,
exposing horrible things about her father. That's his
own daughter.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was not
like that.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was perfect.
The best among you are the best to
their family, and I am the best.
The good that he spread
and the improvement for the people, he didn't
say I am the only one and everyone
else would follow me, and that's it. No
one can say anything.
Every single companion became a leader.
Before Islam, they were idol worshipers.
After Islam, with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, they became leaders.
Mu'adhibin Jabal radiAllahu anha. Just one example of
all the companions
of the great examples
many many examples
Mu'adhib bin Jabal radiAllahu anha was a young
man
he was generous
and he used to borrow money to host
people
the guests, when they come, until
the debts were accumulated and he couldn't pay
them.
So the creditors came complaining to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told
them go and take what you find. That's
it.
He declared Muadh Radiallahu an bankrupt
go and take his money whatever you have
that's it
but the money that he left is less
than what he owes that's what you you
are asking for him you don't want to
wait that's what you get so they took
that what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam do
he didn't come to mu'aath to tell him
you have
bad
policies financial you don't think about no
he made from him a leader he sent
him to Yemen
to give Dawah
to an entire nation.
Mu'adh radiAllahu an.
As the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
The one who knows most about halal and
haram is Mu'adh.
That is the true leadership.
That is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He did not look at the mistakes of
people.
He always
looked at their potential.
He always made them better.
Ask yourself,
my dear brothers,
do you make those who are around you
better?
Do they want you to be
with
them or they wait
the time when you are away from them?
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Al Mubarak,
the blessed, even before Islam
even before Islam when Khadija
she testified
immediately when she saw something strange the prophet
did not know what happened he was scared
she said by Allah Allah would never disgrace
you
she mentioned the good things that he did
She mentioned all the good things that he
did that is even before Islam
that was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Where
is your love to him
that is a condition
of iman
that your iman will not be accepted will
not be perfect until you love him and
guess what
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
loves you more than you love him
Abu Huraira radiAllahu an narrates
and Anas ibn Malik the same narration in
a different book of hadith
both are authentic
from the prophet that
the companions were with him in a funeral
and he said I wish that I have
seen my brothers
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
wants to see
you. Do you want to see him?
They said, O Messenger of Allah, aren't we
your brothers? He said, No, you are my
companions.
My brothers
are the ones who believed in me
and they didn't
see me yet. They didn't come yet.
Great fortune, blessing
for the one who saw me and believed
in me
and three times
more than that for the one
who believed in me even though he didn't
see me yet
that's in Sahih bin Hidam and
in the Musnat of Imam Ahmad the same
narration seven times
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
loves you.
He did everything
most of his dua for his ummah.
He did not have to do that he
was already forgiven.
All the sins of the Prophet
if they were to exist, they are all
forgiven.
He doesn't need any forgiveness for us. He
is already forgiven, but he was always
caring for the Ummah, for us.
In his prayer, every prayer, he would pray
for you.
You wouldn't pray for your own children every
single prayer. We do, alhamdulillah, many times, but
sometimes we forget. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
would pray for his Ummah every
single prayer.
That is the true love
to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
by following him.
What do you know about the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam?
We have our youth team.
They love something.
They follow sport
an athlete a celebrity
they know every single thing about him or
about her
how much do you know about the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
How would you love him when you don't
know him?
How would you follow his Sunnah when you
don't know him?
This is a chance
when people turn the love of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to symbols and celebration
you turn the true love of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to knowledge
to following of his sunnah
that is the true love
'Abdulla ibn Mas'ud
radiAllahu anhu
He was asked a fatwa
something that happened
when he was in Iraq after the death
of the Prophet SAW, and they didn't know
the answer they came to him they said
a man
married a woman
and didn't
specify the dower how much exactly
they agreed on a dower but it was
not specified
he died before
consummating
the marriage
She is asking what should she do?
Should she wait? Should she mourn? Does she
have a waiting period?
What happens to the inheritance?
So, Abdullah ibn Mas'rud,
did not know of any example from the
time of the Prophet
they asked
him he kept thinking and then he said
I will answer
according to what I know if it is
right it is from Allah if it is
wrong it is from me and from the
shaytan
She has to mourn 4 months 10 days
like a widow,
and she
gets
the inheritance.
Then, one man,
from Qajulun min Asjahl, from the companions of
the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam, he stood up
and he said, I testify by Allah
that the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam gave that
judgment.
What happened to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud? He was
happy
like it was never before
just because he gave the fatwa according to
the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
That was their love
to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu
narrates
from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Do not prevent
the slaves of Allah, the women, do not
prevent them from the muskets.
Bilal, his son, he said,
by Allah we will prevent them.
Bilal didn't mean to oppose the sunnah of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, but at
his time he saw the change that women
are coming to the Masjid with makeup, with
perfume, with so he said we will prevent
them.
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud was so upset he cursed
him like he never before.
He told him, I tell you the prophet
says so and so, and you say against
it
even though Bilal didn't intend it? But that
was the reaction of Abdullah ibn Umar
That was
their true iman.
What is your true Iman? What is your
love
to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
When
we will all
see him, insha'Allah,
we will all meet him, Insha'Allah.
As the Prophet
gave the glad tidings,
Be patient until you meet me.
Even though there will be people turned away
They are Muslims,
but they innovated
in the religion.
The angels would take them away, and the
Prophet
knows that they are Muslims. He sees the
sign of Abu.
What
happened? Why you are taking them away?
You don't know what they did after you.
That's
the true Sunnah.
Following the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in
what he did, and following him in what
he didn't do.
We don't do what he didn't do. That's
the true following of the Prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam. That is the true love. We ask
Allah Azzawajal
to grant us the true love of the
Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam.
Ashabihi Woman A'la
Tarba Muqaddifah
Anmadat.
Sulayim
of the Allahu Anha,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to visit
her
and
sometimes he would sleep
in her house
and he was a hairy man. The Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would sweat
there were no air conditions.
So what did she do?
She collected the sweat of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
this is in saih Muslim imam annawee
titled the chapter
he was blessed
in his creation
in his action
and in his body
Amr Abdullah Al-'As
he says,
I have been through 3 phases in my
life.
The first
there was no
one that I hated on earth more than
the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam he was not
a Muslim
I couldn't look at him
out of rage out of hatred
to the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
Then,
I accepted Islam.
And when I accepted Islam,
I couldn't fill my eyes
from the Prophet SAW.
That was their love.
Then
things happened after his death, the trials between
Ali and Muawiyah, and I don't know where
will be my position.
The companions
Anas specifically said
We were not happier with anything
more than
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
There was a story I will finish with
it.
The companions were sitting with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and suddenly they were all
worried. So the Prophet SAW asked them, What
is the matter? They said, O Messenger of
Allah, we are with you.
We love you. We are happy, but we
remember in Jannah you are in a higher
place!
The joy will finish!
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: Al
maroo maaman ahab. A man will be with
the one whom he loves.
So the companions
were
happier more than anything else with this hadith.
Who vouches for you?
Allah Azzawajal
testified for the companions.
RadiAllahu
Anhum
Warabhu An.
Allah is pleased with them,
and they are pleased with Him.
Even Abdullah ibn Muqtum even a companion who
is blind!
Wahuwa yaksha in Surat Abasa Allah testified that
he fears Allah.
We only ask Allah
to grant us the true love of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
by following his sunnah
by
standing firm
in following his sunnah
because he told us that before the end
of times
things will change
and
what is common to people is not the
sunnah and the sunnah will be strange
great fortune
blessing for
the strangers
who revive the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam may Allah
grant us steadfastness
on the straight path of the Quran
and the Sunnah.