Ismail Kamdar – The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) – A Proof of Truth

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The Prophet sallali wa sallam is the greatest human to live in Islam, and the importance of having a strong faith in Islam is emphasized. The interviewer discusses the lack of trust in the Prophet's character and the importance of having a strong faith in Islam. The history of Islam is also discussed, including the transformation from man to woman and the influence of Islam on modern media. The importance of learning the Hadith of Islam and practice daily to influence others to adopt Islam is emphasized.

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			past few weeks, we were discussing the proofs of Islam.
		
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			And in our first discussion, we focused on how Islam matches with what humans naturally believe in
the fitrah in the nature, that if you have to take a look a look inside at what a human naturally
believes, like the oneness of God, the purpose of life and afterlife, morality, justice, compassion,
all of these beliefs are found in Islam and Islam builds upon it. There is no belief of Islam that
contradicts the human soul. All of it goes together.
		
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			The second proof of Islam which we discussed last week,
		
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			is the Quran.
		
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			And he said that the Quran is the greatest more a jeiza Miracle of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, it is the greatest proof that He is the true prophet of Allah, that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam himself said that, because of the Quran, because this is his Magiera, he hopes that
his ummah will be the largest on the Day of Judgment because of how powerful the miracle of the
Quran is. And we mentioned last week, that the Quran is both the message and the proof of the
message.
		
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			Today we will focus on the third proof of Islam.
		
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			And as we said, the message is the proof of the message. This week, we say the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is also the proof of the message
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the greatest human to ever though, is himself a walking in
his lifetime he was and he remains today in his example, a living proof of Islam. An example of how
Islam is what Islam is, and he proved that Islam is true. Now, why do we say that the life of
Rasulullah as well it's not even the existence of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is itself a
proof that Islam is drawn, I want to tackle this from a few different angles. Number one, we look at
his character Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his character was on the highest level. Allah
subhanho wa Taala describes it as Allah fulfill the highest caliber of good character, and even his
		
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			people who he had met, and who had lived through it, even those amongst him who did not believe in
Him. They all knew him as a solid and alchemy, the truthful and the trustworthy. This was the level
of character that he had established. Now, we had mentioned a few weeks ago that when someone claims
to be a prophet, they're either one of two types of people. They are either the worst of the worst,
because they are lying about receiving a message from Allah, or they are the best of the best
because Allah chose them to actually receive the message. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
known to his people long before he claimed to be a prophet as the best of the best. Everybody in his
		
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			society loved him. He was a man on the highest level of character to such an extent, that even after
he became a prophet, even after his people had rejected Him, even when his people were trying to
kill him to same people still trusted him with their belongings, they still trusted him with a
route, they still consider him the most trustworthy person in the community.
		
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			And it's really an irony on their part, that they saw him as the most trustworthy and the most
truthful, but they did not accept him would be trustworthy and truthful with the message that Allah
sent him.
		
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			But those who recognize us, they became suspicious for us. And so we have, for example, a moussaka
Roger Lowe, who he accepted Islam without any doubt without any thought about it. Why? Because for
very simple reason, he knew Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam to be truthful and honest, why
would a man who lived his entire life being the greatest role model of truth and honesty suddenly
lie about God?
		
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			And he wasn't even the Muslims only recognize you know, we look at the king of, of the Roman Empire
at the time for athletes. So very beautiful story and perhaps one day we'll do a full clip on the
story. But the leader of the of the of the Arabs at the time of operation Abu Sofia, he was
travelling through Jerusalem, and at the same time Heraclius the king of all
		
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			of Rome was in Jerusalem at that time, and correct yes had received a letter from the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam invited him to Islam. So he called us up to his court and had a
discussion about him about who the prophets of Allah wa alayhi wa sallam was. Now he called Abu
pIane for two reasons. Number one, Abu Sophia was an Arab from the same city as the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam. Number two, he was one of those people who has not yet followed the Prophet saw
the sub later on to become a Sahabi. At this point, he was not one yet. So he wanted to see what the
enemies of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say about him, and he asked a series of
		
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			questions. These questions will determine if it's a true prophet or not. One of those questions the
one that links in with our topic is that he asked him has he ever lied before? Has he ever lied
before?
		
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			And said, No, we knew in a minute you know, as a trustworthy, truthful, so Iraqi is the King, the
Caesar of the time said, if he never lie about anything else, why would he lie about God? Why would
he lie about receiving a message?
		
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			This is you know, a surgical Amin so when the most truthful human being to ever walk the face of
this earth, came forward and said that he is the messenger of Allah, there is only one obvious
conclusion he was indeed, the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The second proof that
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a true messenger of Allah is the fact that
Allah assisted him and gave him victory. You see, when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam first
claimed to be a prophet, many of the Arabs said, Let's just wait and see. Let's see. If he's, if
he's a liar, Allah will humiliate him and be truthful, Allah will give him victory. And so
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam starts preaching the message of Islam in Baraka. And within
in the first decade, he has like 80 to 100 followers.
		
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			And within two decades, he has over 10,000 followers. And now 1000 years later, he has over a
billion followers. I want you to think about this. Can you think of any other human being in the
past 2000 years, who claimed to be a prophet who now has a billion followers
		
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			anyone just name a single other person who claimed to be a messenger or claimed to be a god or
claimed to be a messiah thing to you started his own cult or whatever it works. Name anyone in the
past 2000 years, who claim such a claim and now has a billion followers, there is only one
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam the fact that ALLAH SubhanA ated his message, bless his
message, Allah allow you to spread across the earth made it such that up today more than a quarter
the other races message. This itself is proof that you were the true message of Allah. Look at the
situation was Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was in the minority. He was in a tribal society
		
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			that wasn't known for the technology, or the civilization or the government or the laws, he was in a
place where he did not have much allies. He was in a situation where his forces for the first few
years were always outnumbered by the enemies. In that situation, within a period of 20 years, he
becomes the ruler of all of Arabia. And within 100 years, his followers are the rulers of Arabia,
Egypt, Spain, India, a huge empire, in superpower, Allah subhanho wa Taala allowed him to grow from
one small town in Medina to a superpower in less than 100 years on this message.
		
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			Now Had this been a false message, Had this been a false prophet? As we had seen every false
prophet, the humiliation company in their lifetime, every false prophet from saleable cause up to
the recent ones, they have been humiliated and exposed in their lifetimes. None of them have ever
reached a point where they've had a million followers. None of them have reached a point where their
followers became the superpower of the world. This was given only to our Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and he's one of the greatest proof that he was a true prophet. And this is why when he
conquered Makkah, he saw the people enter Islam in large numbers, because these people, the outside
		
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			tribes, what are they waiting to see, they said, if he was a true prophet, Allah will give you a
victory. If he's not a true prophet, then Allah when Allah gave him victory, Allah gave him victory
over the whole of Arabia waited 20 years. And when people saw that they entered Islamic masses, they
said this has to be the truth of our world. And even those who are opposing that Abu Sofia, at that
moment they recognize this has to be true prophets
		
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			will remain when the army of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was marching towards Makkah and
Abu Biondo standing on a hill with a bus the uncle of the prophets, lollies of watching this army
coming wave after wave 10,000 people marching towards Makkah
		
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			Hello Sofia look and he's what is this apostatized This is prophethood this is true Prophet. Allah
bless his message spread that fast that many people in that short period. And so the fact that ALLAH
SubhanA gave Rasulullah sallallahu Salim some victory in his lifetime and gave his followers victory
for hundreds of years over 1000 years and those now we look back you know, sometimes because many of
us not familiar with history, we look at the state of Uber today, we think it week, everything new
you humiliated everything. Some people think this is a proof that Islam is not true. But understand
what we are in today is an exception. This is one of only two times in history where Muslims have
		
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			been weak. The first woman the Mongols took over and now after World War One, these are the only two
times in history a Muslim have been in a position of weakness. For the bulk of the past 1400 years,
Muslims have been a superpower of the world. For the bulk of this 1400 year period. Muslims have
been whether we talking about your media empire, the opacity Empire, the Mughal empire, Tamiflu
Empire, the gel you saw, the Ottoman Empire, all of these were major world powers. All of these
were, you know, on a level that we can't even imagine today. So don't look at the current situation
and judge all of history by look at the dominant dominantly Allah subhanho Gamess religion victory.
		
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			And the very simple reason we don't have victory today, because we have strayed from the message of
Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. And when we return to it, Allah will bless us with that victory once
again. A third prove that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a true prophet of Allah is a true
prophet of Allah is his followers. There is a verse in the Bible that states by the fruit you shall
know them. Meaning when someone claims to be a prophet, we look at the type of people they produce,
to see where they will process because we know that these scouts and his and his false religions,
and you know all these modern new religions that popping up the kinds of followers that they produce
		
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			a week, the kind of followers they produce. The kinds of followers they produce good, they don't
really have high caliber of piety, or religiosity or anything of this nature. But who are the
followers of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam number one when the Sahaba those who met him,
became the greatest people to ever love. And the transformation was amazing. Last week we spoke
about
		
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			a man who started his life as a camel herder, and who passed away as a ruler of a major empire. And
he went from a man who in his youth would kill people, and we drink alcohol to the most pious human
being on earth at the time of his death. That level of transformation is proof that Islam is true,
because nothing else can transform a person like that. Look at Hollywood, Walid Radi Allahu Anhu. He
was a man who led an army against the prophets law, he was Saddam and cause defeat to the Muslims
that good. And then he converted to Islam and he becomes the sword of Allah, he becomes the sword of
Allah, at whose hands the Persian and Romans tremble at whose hands great empires crumble. Okay,
		
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			look at the humble beginnings. These are people who came from a small tribal society in Makkah, and
became world powers, they shook the world because of the power of the mind. If that is not proof
that this is a true religion, what is what is this, this is, you know, the level of change. It's not
just the sahaba. The Sahaba are the best example. But what's more amazing to me, he said, every
generation of Muslims from the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, until today, has
produced some of the most pious and the most knowledgeable human beings have the greatest of the
greatest people to ever live in every generation with from the amount of Sula sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam. And what's amazing, but those who came after is that they never met him. All of the
highest alumni in the world today, never met Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam yet following
Him have taken them to that level have taken them to that have taken him to where they are looking
the second generation of Islam, people that hasn't bustling people that only with Abdul Aziz, look
at the level of their piety and the mind and the impact they made on this world. And where does this
come from? Where does this come from, except that they follow the religion of Trump and they follow
the message of tree by the fruit you shall tell them the fruit of this message where the Sahaba and
		
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			he will about and the Olia and all of the great Muslims who have learned to live among us today. And
so this seems to be one of the greatest proofs of Islam, that when someone follows Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam and tries to emulate him and tries to follow his footsteps and tries to
adopt his character tries to adopt his his his message and follow it to the best of the ability that
they become amongst the greatest of human beings. Because this is what elevates us to become the
best of the best. The message of truth is the only message that has an impact on the hearts of
people. So behind me is a
		
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			The pool was salam ala mousseline.
		
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			Hamdu lillahi, WA Salatu was Salam ala Medina
		
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			inner circle Hadith Nikita Buddha, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for sure moving on to how
		
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			Baku be at in Darla Baku?
		
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			How do we connect with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Last week we spoke about how the Quran
is a proof of Islam and we said we need to connect to the Quran to discover that it is the same suit
allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his life his message his example is our flock is his dog, his
bodies are all of these proofs of Islam. How do we connect to this? Number one, study his study his
life, make it a daily part of your life. Make it something that you do at least once a year is read
the entire Siraj of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, let that be our role model in every aspect of
our life. You want to know how to be a good husband. Read the Bible for Shula sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam you want to know how to be a good father read the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
so you know how to deal with political problems, you read the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam you want to learn how to do Tao resist like the Syrah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. When you studied you will find any proof that is not true, you will find any reason to
increase your demand you will find any role models for every aspect of your life. But it means we
have to read it we have to study we have to think about it, we have to analyze and we have to live
by it. So we should make the syrup of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam irregular online number
		
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			two linked to the Syrah we should also make the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu it was a regular
part of our life. Now hadith is a bit more of a complex topic because they are these about EDA is
about vague, at
		
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			least fabricated such pretty very simply get a book of Aggies focusing on the Aflac the adab general
statements of spirituality something like the reality story here for anything else that focuses on
are easy to understand how these that we do our tactic and study those books start there. Read
Hadith
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the true believer is what others are saved from
his hands and thumb. We didn't have the stink about it, reflect on it apply to your life. Read the
Hadith where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that none of you truly believe.
		
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			The prophets prophecies have said that whoever believes Allah the last day should speak what has
been official or remain silent. Think about these ideas reflected and applied. The hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam should be the guiding force of our life. And we should make time just
like he said last week we should make time to study the Quran and effect on the Quran and live by
the Quran. When is the same word the Hadith the authentic hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam once again, the average Muslim should not be deriving their own fake properties, the
average Muslim should not be deriving their own aqidah from this, this you study with Allah ma you
		
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			sit with a scholar who you trust and you learn in your feet, okay Nikita from them, but general
things character manners, how to be a good person how to teach your neighbor how to treat your
parents, this you can take from the Hadith and apply directly to your life. A third thing that we
should do, in order to experience you know are the closeness with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is to increase in our daily Salawat
		
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			that we should be reciting the Salawat upon the Prophet SAW yourself every single day, at least 100
times a day. And at the very minimum, when you hear his name mentioned, see some Allah wanting to
value when it is disrespectful that the name of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he mentioned
that we stay silent. And every time we save some Allahu alayhi wa sallam is many words with us. And
not only that, but it connects our hearts to his heart and increases our mind. And it increases our
relationship with the greatest of all of humanity. So Allahu alayhi wa salam. Now the thing that we
can do to connect with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is to emulate his character and his
		
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			manners. And this is an area where we tend to fall short. Now nowadays, we've spent so much time
obsessing over what we call the tsunami. And sometimes the things that we call the Sunnah might be
things with a difference of opinion about but the actual tsunami of the character of Rasulullah
sallallahu so we forget about it. So we have people who are like so strict and mean and angry about
what they think is dressing according to the Sunda but at the same time, they are harsh, they are
arrogant, they are mean they don't treat the family properly. It needs to be balanced. Yes, if you
want if you feel dressing a certain way should not be dressing that way.
		
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			But more important than this, have the heart set Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had follow
in his footsteps, be kind to your spouse or he was kind to his spouse, be good to children where he
was good to children, be just your employees the way he was just to his employees. He have a lot of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam he's degrade, the sooner that we can divide our time. And
remember, it was the law of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that in his lifetime was the
greatest proof of Islam. People met him. They fell in love with this kind of thing. He said, If no
businessman can be like that they converted to Islam. And this can still happen today. That when we
		
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			emulate that of love and adopt, and people see Islam in our character, our manners, our
truthfulness, our trustworthiness, when they see this in our lifetime, this can be the thing that
convinces them that this is the true way of life. This is the true religion because this is how we
transform followers so that I studied the syrup of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam studying is
a Hadith that is emulated a flock. Dhabi's character has manners. There is an increase in our rule
and follow up on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam let us spread his message to the world that
has shared the message of Islam with everybody around us in Allahumma nakedness alula wa
		
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			nima in LA he was alone to Rihanna Ramiz
		
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			was salam.
		
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			reminded to the brothers