Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #02
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So hello ramen Rahim
swallowed off man Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam o Allah say you didn't want to be in our Maulana Muhammad
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah
Houma. Inanna Luca hubback will hold them in your head book will
Hoba Ahmed and your car Ivana Isla Hovik Yahama rahimian, we ask
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah for his love. We ask Allah to give us
the love of His Habib.
The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is Habibollah,
the Beloved of Allah. And the purpose of this, this new series
we're starting is to develop and cultivate that love for the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because if we get that
love, the rest is easy. When you love someone, you you imitate
their ways you do what they want from you. And if we love the
prophets of Allah who it was salam, then that's the that's the
best gift that Allah subhanaw taala could give any of us.
So we're studying the prophets lie systems character, his life, and
how he won the hearts of those around him. And last week, due to
the loss of our beautiful brother had, we spoke about the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam receiving revelation, the prophets lie Selim
receiving revelation and we also spoke about how the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam cried, how he cried. Now, again, for some
people, it may be like, you know why? Why do I need to know that?
And there's two ways to approach this. The one is one approach is
that we know so much about everybody else. We know so much
about random people that are famous for whatever reasons and
hats off to their accomplishments. But what do we know about the one
who Allah subhanaw taala chose to give us this message? What do we
know about the one who Allah subhanaw taala selected and chose
to teach us our way to salvation? So from one perspective, when we
know so much about the world, and you know so much about people that
don't know you, what about the one who spent nights crying for you?
What about the one who spent nights crying for you, and that is
how he is described as he would spend the nights crying for his
own mummy and you people that he never saw.
And the other perspective is
to know how he cried,
helps me understand how someone to emulate
someone to emulate.
For me, it's more personal, and it'll be different for everyone.
And one narration the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, he said,
Annaleigh calm kilowatt led to Alamo calm. I am a father, for
you, I teach you.
And as I said last week, and I'll repeat this because I want it to
deeply penetrate our hearts, that the prophets of Allah today was
salam. He's the father, so to speak for our Aveda life, not this
life of the dunya. And so we owe him so much and we owe him to
learn and love who he was.
Today's halacha I want to talk about two aspects of who he was.
Because this is the beginning of this series, I want to focus on
the early moments of his life sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. By
the way, hold up before we get started.
This is a Holika where we will be saying sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
so much.
And there's a hadith I want to remind you of. Where are the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, the one that will
be closest to me on the day of judgment will be the ones who did
the most Salawat or prayed for me. And I don't know about y'all, but
my deeds ain't that great, but at least if I can get in that group,
by just sending more Salawat Allah Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
what are the Shabbat, cheat code?
Cheat Code and hamdulillah they like how you get here. So Allah,
Allah who it was salah, that's how I snuck in that hamdulillah so we
want to look at his early life before he was a prophet as a young
person because Allah subhanho wa Taala protected him as a child and
a young man from certain
ICE's so that he would be ready for prophethood. But Allah also
also also, he also made him go through certain things. And I
think tonight, it would be beautiful for us to look at what
he went through as a young person. Now, before I get started, I want
to say one more thing. And we'll get right into this one part of
his life.
They say that the Sierra never changes. The stories that we'll
read, many of you have heard them since you were young children. In
fact, some of these stories will talk today, I read them to my
children at night.
But you know what? First of all, some of us convert. So we like
Brian heard none of this before Hamdulillah. Second of all, the
stories don't change. But you change.
And because you change the story hits different.
The story heads different, you may have heard the story a dozen
times, don't approach the story that Oh, I heard that before law.
You're not the same you you were when you heard it last year.
And so you may gain something different from the story if you
come to his life with that openness, to learn more about who
he was. So we're gonna first of all, look at some of the early
moments of his life, what shaped him and lessons we can learn from
that number one, and number two, because we spoke about how he
cried. It only does justice to speak about how he smiled and
laughed. How he smiled and laughed.
The intention is what here. The intention is that your love gets
so strong, that you see him in a dream. If you get it. One of the
brothers came up to me this morning. I only got to look that
way.
Because he's here and he says, hey, oh, yeah, he's here. So he
said your share, you know, you said the intention was to see him
in the dream. I was like, I sat up I was like, weren't what happened?
He was like, Yeah, I had a dream last night. I was like,
and he goes, I saw you
I saw you.
I was like Bravo bad.
Don't worry.
Oh, next time is Sheikh Omar.
Mashallah, Mashallah. I don't even look his way. Beautiful brother.
May Allah bless you in sha Allah. I mean, all right, so Bismillah I
want to start, obviously, this isn't a theater class, we're
taking snippets and portions of his life that we can take lesson
from, but I want to begin with how his life begun.
We all know that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam when he
was born, his father, Abdullah had already died. So he comes into
this world without that father figure. Without that father figure
and I want some of you who had a father that wasn't there, connect
to the prophet who had didn't have his father there. So right there,
you have a way to connect. Every time you listen to him. You're
it's where your connection lies. So he comes into the world and the
only one there is his mother Amina, who's there for him.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam. At the age of six, his
mother
took him to Medina.
Prior to that, if one Forgive me, the prophets of Allah, it was
something the first thing that happened is that that Azusa Allahu
alayhi wa sallam, they had this habit that they would give their
children off to a wet nurse, in order for the child to grow up
outside of the city and the more open area, the more pure Arabic
language so they weren't caught up in all the vices of the city. And
so we all know the story. It's a beautiful story of honey Messiah
idea. She's from the tribe of Assad, which is further away from
Mecca than life in the direction of thought, but further away.
So, Holly Masada, the Allahu anha, she tells us this beautiful story
about when she came to Mecca in order to take a child. And I want
to relate the story to you because I know you may have heard it, but
it's such a beautiful narration. Halima what are the hola Juan she
says and I'm reading her words. She says Hara jet that we left
from our city. We left from our city in order to go to Mecca. And
she says that I had my husband with me. And we were going in
order to look for a child and the idea was if we took a child to wet
nurse, then we would take the child back and then the father
would take care of the he would take care of us and pay us for
that work that we did. She says but this was a year that was
extremely dry. There was no rain and so it was really
be hard on us limb to limb to Battilana che and she says we
didn't have much. She didn't have much and that's why they were
going to get the child and hope to get money for her us too. She says
I went out on a white mule that I had. And we also had one
camel. And she says, Linda, that's all we had. And she says Wallahi
my Tbit lubi authority and it didn't have a drop of milk and
it's others no milk at all. And she describes her plight she says,
Well Amanda Nam who Leila Turner asthma, we wouldn't sleep at all
that night due to our children crying. Men who caught him in a
jewelry because they were so famished. They were so hungry,
that they would just cry. And she says there was nothing in my
breast to give them nourishment. And there was nothing in the camel
in order to feed them. But she says in these words hit me when I
read it. She says Well, I can now connect nodule life. She says but
however we were hopeful of of relief. And this is this is a
beautiful quality that we all have to have. That in the darkest
moments when seemed theme things seemed bleak that we can never
ever lose hope. And she says, you know things were tough, but we are
we gonna make it through things will get better. We were hopeful.
So then she says we were hopeful. So she says we went out we kept
going we went to Makkah. And we arrived had Dhaka demon and Mecca.
She says for my Mina, Emirati and she goes every single this line.
She goes every single woman in our tribe was presented the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he's a baby. He's a young baby. He's a
suckling baby.
He's
he was a suckling baby.
He's a suckling baby. And she says these words, I want you to think
about who it is. She says there was no woman in our group. Except
that they were presented the prophets of the White House and
they rejected Him for tat about what they rejected him. They
didn't want him. And they used to say, I know who your team he's a
he's an orphan. How are we going to get paid from his father? He
doesn't have a father.
So why would we take him so so I need you to understand that when
people overlook you in life, it doesn't speak of you but it speaks
of their inability to see the greatness within you.
That's what I listen all of.
No, seriously, seriously, just a lot of times in life, you will get
picked over you will get looked on somebody you ain't gonna get picks
you're gonna play now I want to marry you. Real talk
or whatever it may be. You get last to get picked up in the
basketball game. I don't know. There will be moments in life
where you're overlooked for the promotion, whatever it may be. But
one of the aspects of who are Habib sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
was was he was someone that was overlooked because people couldn't
see what this child was going to become. And I think all of us need
to hear that some time.
Let make it easy.
She said that so everyone passed by him. So she goes, there was no
woman left for my buckets, Imola to and Kadima to Maui all the
women that came with me in LA rally and all of them got a child
to nurse for nama de la there was time to go we're like we got to
leave. She says go to Lee Sahibi. I said to my husband Wallahi in
Accra and our Jackman beanie so heavy I don't want to go back
empty handed. Everybody got a child their nursing. It just
doesn't look right. She goes, You know what I'm gonna do what hola
hola nama go back. And I'm gonna get that that your team child that
poor child
and I'm gonna take him. Her husband says La La Ke and tough
Valley. La Alico Bismillah. Go ahead. No big deal. Go ahead. I
support you. I'm here for you.
So she says I went back. And then he says these words. La Aliki and
Tiff le I Salah who I imagine Elena Fie, he bought our katha.
See, this is heavy, this is the see that Subhanallah he goes,
maybe Allah will put Baraka in him for us. I just I love how he
staying positive. Who knows Maybe Allah will put baraka and lo and
behold, she goes so I went back, I grabbed him. And she goes, Well,
Allah He, there was no reason for me to grab him. Except for the
fact that I didn't want to go home go home empty handed. She goes for
llama Acosta who? I grabbed him. I took him his mother gave him to me
for a job to be he ilaro Holly, I took him back to where my camp
was.
She goes in, I placed him in my lap. And she says immediately, I
started to feel milk in my chest for sciatica and he he latched on
and he began to suckle. sallallahu alayhi wasallam
And subhanAllah now that that now that she has nourishment, the two
other his brother and sister, meaning Halima has own two
children, they begin to drink too because now she has milk.
She says, I had thought, oh, yeah, everyone was for film Annamma the
children went to sleep. While my couldn't as she says, and before
this, we didn't sleep at night.
Then my husband, he got up and he went to the camel. And he says,
all of a sudden the utter was filled with milk. This is another
miracle. And in here I want to highlight something here. There's
a hadith of the Rasul of Allah who it was salam, the prophets of
Allah who it was salam See, he used to say it will who need to
offer a comb bring me the weak people bring me the poor bring me
the weak people. Bring them to me why the in nama tourists Hakuna
watunes ser una vida equal I want you to know this hadith that are
suicides, Salim he said, Indeed, you are helped to divine the
divine providence divine help comes what tours Hakuna and you
are provided, be though I felt it can because of the weak people
amongst you. There was a man there were two brothers. There were two
brothers in the time of the Prophet somebody was telling them,
I don't think we understood what this point means. When the
prophesy centum was brought this, the weakness of him the prophesy.
centum is telling us that there's people in your life that you need
to support, whether they're young, or whether they're old, and the
prophets, Allah, He was telling his teaching us that you don't
realize in your mind, man, they're cutting into my check. They're
cutting into my time, they're cutting into who I am, and the
prophets of the body of sediment saying, I'm here to teach you the
reality. The reality is that these weak people that you take under
your wing and you help out, they are the ones actually bringing
risk into your life. They are the ones actually there were two
brothers. There were two brothers in the time of the prophets of
Allah, it was Sunday. And they had they were they were brothers, they
but they had different characters like every brother. And so one of
them. He used to sit with the prophets. I sent him all the all
time. That's it, he didn't want to do anything else. That was his
thing. And the other one, he was working on the farm a lot. And so
in this moment, there are moments of course, and we'll talk about
this. But in this moment, the two brothers they come. The brother
who works a lot, he comes in, he goes, y'all Sue, I got an issue.
He goes, What's the issue, he goes my brother here, he, he's always
he doesn't help he doesn't do anything. He's not helping. And
then the Prophet said some deep words. Now and I want us to
understand this imbalance because we will talk about the importance
of work. That's no doubt the Prophet taught that. But in this
moment, he had to teach a deeper lesson and the deeper lesson he
says, like I like a tourism will be He. He said, You don't realize
that perhaps he's the reason why you're getting more risk. I know
people that live this reality. I know people with three, four
children, he adopted another child.
And I'm like Habibi, he's a risk.
Risk. He was wala he brings so much risk, he brought his risk. My
teacher used to say, you don't realize Subhanallah before the
child come, there's no milk, literally the child comes. The
risk comes with it.
Though this comes with it. So this hadith is profound. The hadith
reminds us in this moment where the baby Mohammed sai Senna was
brought in. It reminds us of this reality that if there's people in
life, who you have to support, never ever doubt that that is an
opportunity for you to get close to Allah number one, and never
doubt that they may be the reason why all that those promotions is
coming and all that help is coming and everything is opening up.
So that also said Allah who it was salam, he says in my twin Sarona
Indeed you are helped, what tools Hakuna and you are provided for
visa equal. And then the prophesy centum said sibylline Oba Huni
bring me though if I come, I want all the weak people around me
bring them to me. Y'all don't want him. I want him. Why? Because he
remembers he knows where he was.
And that's why I said we're studying this part of his life.
And some people like what does it benefit me to understand like him
as a baby, but you don't understand like, he knows where he
came from and that shaped who he was. And that gives us insight to
who he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was he was the one overlooked by
everyone. But he was the one when somebody did take him in was the
source of immense baraka and blessings.
So then she continues to tell the story. She says that they saw so
much Baraka. They brought him home. And when they brought him
home, well, the same night that they get milk, the husband goes
and milks the camel. And he says to her, and these are the words
that he said, he says, Yeah, Halima, I think Lakota healthy.
nyssma 10, NASA 10, Mubaraka. Ted, he says to her, Oh, I think you
just got a very blessed soul. And she says, I think so too. And from
that moment, they saw so many blessings. One incident that is
narrated is that on the way going their, their their camo was so
weak that they were holding the group back in the moment that they
were coming back, and now they have the blessing of Muhammad
Sallallahu. It was setting them with them. All of a sudden, the
camera was moving quick, and the group is trying to keep up. And
they're saying Did you switch? Did you switch mules in Mecca? She
goes, No, it's the same one. And they said something's up with it.
When they got back to Ben who saw they used to graze the animals and
they would notice that their their, their sheep would come back
full with, with with food and therefore thereby producing milk.
And so the other people in the tribe used to tell the shepherds
while charges follow the shepherd of Halima has, because what's
going on and they would come back empty, but the the family of
Halima their, their goats and animals would come back full. And
so they saw so much blessing. And so I wanted us to reflect on that
if you are being looked over in life, know that that is just one
more connection you have to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
The prophets of Allah Islam stayed with Halima for a few years until
the incident of the splitting of his chest happened. And the moment
of his splitting of his chest, how do you model the Allah one when
the angels came and washed the heart of the prophets of Allah who
it was sudden them? In that moment, Halima got really scared.
And she was worried because this is an Amana this child is not my
child. And so she rushed back to Mecca only months after having
begged Amina to keep him with her because of all the butter because
she saw.
And so she rushes back. She goes on, I think it's time to drop him
off. I think he's big now. And she's a hold up. Something's up.
How did you just switch up on me like that? What happened? He goes,
nah, it's just you know, he's big now. And she pressures a little
bit. She goes, No, something did happen. And I'm worried. So she
says, you're worried about him? Something happened? She goes, No,
nothing's gonna happen to him. I saw amazing signs. When I was
carrying him. This is a special boy. There's something special.
When the Prophet was six years old, this is heavy. We need to
connect to this. A six year old child is cognizant of what's going
on around them. They don't, they're not missing anything. When
the Prophet SAW, I said and was six years old, he was taken by his
mother to Medina. And they went to their maternal relatives in Benin
in a jar. And they stayed there for about two months or so. And
when the Prophet he remembers it so well, so Allahu alayhi wa
sallam that he he says, that's where I learned how to swim. There
were wells in Medina, that he used to dive in and swim in the wells.
And he says, I learned how to swim in that vacation that we took to
Medina. So the point is, it's Cognizant he remembers this, he's
recalling it very well. Well, it's time to leave. And they're going
back to Mecca. And on the way his mother falls, ill, and she dies on
the way in a place called Ebola. And I want us to understand the
loss now. Today, we're going to talk about how much he smiled. And
it's amazing when we study it, but I need you in this moment to
connect to the pain that he went through as a young boy, he doesn't
have a father. He's overlooked as an infant play if he can't
remember that, okay. But then when he comes back to his mother in
those years now, he only has a few years with his mother before she
dies, and he loses his mother. At this moment, he's given over to
his grandfather and his grandfather, and this is the point
I want us to all connect to. His grandfather recognizes how much
he's lost. And Abdulmutallab does what he honors this boy. Because
just because people have lost someone, doesn't mean you can't
come in and fill the gap and make them feel like they've lost
nothing.
It doesn't matter who you've lost. What matters is who you have
around you now. And all of us in this room can be there for someone
I've done. Natella used to have a little spot that no one could sit
except him. And all of his sons would sit around and if anyone's
sat on it, they would push them away. One day Muhammad so I sent
him he was he was young. He's seven years old. He comes and sits
there and everyone's like move move and the Prophet and Abdullah
Abdullah Matata, goes leave my boy alone.
And he was the only son grandson that was a
allowed to sit there.
He's able to benefit from this on conditional love. Two years later,
he passes away too, he loses someone else. He loses someone
else. He loses abdominal credit. Now, I want to focus on this
moment because at this moment now, he's passed over to a loving
uncle, who we all know in this era of politics, and I will positive
serves as this this protection. We spoke about it last week. I will
thought it was his outward protection but Khadija was his in
the house protection we'll get there in sha Allah.
When the prophesy Saddam was around 12 He did what everyone
does, he got busy with earning livelihood. He got busy with
taking care of alleviating some of the burden off of a toilet.
And here's what I want to focus on for a moment here.
The prophets of Allah de was salam one Hadith, this is insoluble
hottie. He's about 17 ish, 1617 ish. And I want to focus on this
moment. One day the Prophet was with the Sahaba This is later in
his life way later, he's a prophet now the Sahaba are with him. And
jab would have been Abdullah he says kendama on Nebby we were with
the prophets of Allah who it was suddenly
be motorable. Haoran in this one place. And we were knocking down
leaves off a tree for the for the goats in the sheep to eat from
and the prophet sees us doing it and he goes, I lay can build us
word. Make sure you hit the black leaves down. Those are really good
for the goats. Now, everybody kind of looked up, like we know you as
a prophet. We know you you teach us the religion, but how you know
about like, feeding goats. So they said a Cocona Jada suit Allah
kaneka Itel Hannah. Ya rasool Allah is it seems that you used
to, what's it called Shepherd? Goats and sheep and star.
And the prophets of Allah it was Selim, he replies, he says Nam. He
says yes. He says there's no profit. No profit is ever sent.
Except, and these are his words. Well, heileman Begin in LA vaca
Daraa. He goes, Is there any profit except that they were? They
were a shepherd? Now this is deep because with the scholars, they
highlight that when he was 1617 years old, and another Hadith, the
prophets of Allah, it was setting them. They say, y'all rasool
Allah, you did this. And he goes, Yeah, I used to shepherd animals
as a teenager for karate, a few pennies for the people of Mecca.
Now, I want to stop here for a moment because this is heavy. The
prophesy centum is teaching us that when he was young, this is
something he did to earn a living. And he mentioned number one, about
how little pay he used to get to do it, meaning he's just doing an
odd job to make money. But the scholars highlight something which
is deep. What is the wisdom in all of the prophets, having been
shepherds, they say, the reason why an MBI were shepherds of sheep
and goats before Naboo is because it taught them and built within
them a few qualities, focus on these. He says, I need to double
Rabu Isleta while they're the very first thing that they learn is to
all their humility. This isn't an honorable job, so to speak. This
isn't trade. This isn't commerce. This is taking someone's sheep out
to the desert and finding sight finding places for pastures for
them to graze. He says they learned a while though, I want to
talk about that humility. way tomorrow, no Allah listen to this.
And through dealing with this herd, they learned the qualities
that they're going to need later in life as a prophet of Allah
dealing with different people. They say yes, what Allah whom
hilum they get forbearance. Number Number three, they get chef God
Subhanallah the Shepherd has to be forbearance on this group of of
animals that are scattered and not only are they scattered, they
don't really do what's best for them.
And so now the Shepherd has to have love and concern for each and
every one of the flock number one number two, the Shepherd has to
deal with the this the silliness or the of the randomness of the
flock but still wish for there were well being and so, you know,
one of the scholars he says either Cebu Olara er, they have to have
patience and they have to gather them together after they have been
scattered. They have to find places for them to be nurtured.
You know, one of the things that I was thinking about is, as he's
taking these animals out, and looking for
are somewhere to turn to nourish themselves. He doesn't know where
there will be nourishment, but he is the lead to walk on on Allah.
He has to lead a flock. So connected, I understand there's a
deep connection here. So some of the things I wanted to reflect on
number one,
taking these animals out, reflect on the quietness of the open
desert.
As a young boy, young man, he's taking these animals out, but it's
nothing but nature around him.
Number two, he has to lead this flock that has to trust him, this
flock that has to trust Him, and look for him to protect them from
dangerous things, and provide the nourishment for him.
And the next thing
he has to develop a love and an understanding for each of those,
those animals. After taking these animals out, over and over again,
he gets used to the to the to the temperaments of each of the
animals. And now knowing them and keeping them in mind he has to
take care of them and take them to what is best for them. It reminded
me of a hadith. There's a hadith where the Prophet SAW Selim speaks
about his job as a prophet, and you can see the connection to him
growing up as a young man having this job and how all prophets were
shepherds. In one narration, the Prophet peace and blessings be
upon him said Allah who it was setting them he said, In my
machete what my fella Almighty he said the example to me in my own
my like the comparison, come up Allah Julian is still for the
naira like a person who can build a fire. So the the moths and the
mosquitoes in different nets, they start to come to the fire. And
obviously they're attracted to the light, but the moment they get
close, it burns them, the prophets of Allah to send them he says,
this is the example he goes, I've the fire is lit and I'm around the
fire trying to push y'all away. He's trying to push us away from
the Haram push us away from the things that are detrimental to our
soul. But what are those flies? What are those mosquitoes that are
those insects keep doing, they keep coming back, they keep coming
back, they keep coming back. And then little suicides, said them he
said, Well, I asked him to be hedges ECAM. It's like I'm holding
you, from the back of your your thumb. I'm holding you and I'm
trying to pull you back. But you keep going forward into that fire.
You're not stopping you're not holding back. And so here
Subhanallah that also said Allahu alayhi wa sallam, he is a
shepherd. Now one of the main qualities, the part of this, this
series, we want to study the qualities that he had. And one of
the main qualities that they say the shepherd learns is the quality
of tilava or humility. And I want to talk about this humility
because throughout the life of the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam
humility was something that was embodied in every moment of him.
And I want to share some of those moments. There's one Hadith I came
across, narrated by Sheikh Yusuf never honey, he narrates a hadith
where the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was on a journey
with three Sahaba and the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, he
ordered the sahaba. He said, See, here's the thing before I go into
this, when you look at the Prophet, slice Adams humility, he
never wanted to distinguish himself from the rest of the
people. He wanted to be one of the people. He never saw himself as
separate from them. He was one of the people so every opportunity he
gets, he gets, I'm just one of y'all. That's the humility of the
Rasul. So in this narration, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he says, Hey, I, let's, let's make a, let's, let's have a
meal. Let's have a lamb. And so one of the Sahaba he goes, Okay,
I'll slaughter it. The second one, he goes, Okay, cool. When you
slaughter it, then I'll scan it. The third one, he says, After you
scan it, then I'll cook it. And then the Prophet goes play it.
What I'll do is I'll go gather the firewood. And once he said that
all of the Sahaba they stopped, they were like, your sword Allah,
we can handle the wood. And there are suicide. allottee was sudden
and he goes like you don't understand. He says, I know you
can handle it. I know you could do it. But I dislike to be different
than the rest of my crew. The rest of my people. I want to be one of
you. I want to be with you. When they were building the masjid in
Medina when they first arrived. They were building it brick after
brick after brick, they're building this. And when the
prophesy Saddam was building, he was helping them and they keep
trying to take the rocks from the profit size on them. And there are
suicides, sell them, he goes, Stop. You aren't stronger than me.
And you don't need no more. You don't need more reward than me.
You're not stronger than me. If you want to wrestle weaker
wrestle. I'll prove it to you. I'm stronger than you. And on top of
that, I need the reward to humility. Humility embodies who he
was. I do I've been I've been I've been I deep Inhotim he says that
He was he came to Medina in order to accept Islam. This is towards
the end of the life of the prophets of Allah to send them. He
says that he came to Medina in order to accept Islam and ideas,
this high profile figure. His father is hot Timothy, who's well
known.
And when it comes everyone's hyped ideas here ideas here ID, it's a
big deal. He says the prophets I send them they told him I was
here. He came out and he met me. He grabbed my hand and we began to
walk into the city. We began to walk into the city of Medina. And
he says, he says, As we began to walk into the city of Medina, an
elderly lady lady stopped, Id stopped him. And she said, I have
to talk to you about a few things. And he said, Okay, talk to me.
What is it? And an ID says, For walkoff Allaha Whelan. This was
the humility of the prophets of Allah. They were selling. He stood
there for so long, the Hadith says, And he listened to her and
he helped her and he listened and he listened.
And it says, I knew I was on the fence about accepting Islam. He
says, I knew in that moment, that this man wasn't a king, he was a
prophet, because of his humility,
because of his humility. And another narration, it says that
the prophets lie Selim, a lady came up to him, an elderly lady,
and she said, I have some thing I need from you. And he said to her,
he said, sit in any of the streets of Medina and send someone to get
me out, come and I will take care of your need, whatever you need.
And they said, he said in the streets, because it's an open
place. But he didn't tell her to come to him. He said, I'll come to
you. Humility of the prophets of Allah, it was suddenly. So if we
look at this moment, this moment is a moment of working he's he's
earning a living in order to support his family. And the job
that he's doing is something that's teaching them how to deal
with other people. Now, there's something deeper here though, I
think we can also reflect on how, as a young man, the prophesy,
centum is working as a teenager, he's not being sheltered and told
not to work. But rather he's learning the importance of earning
a job, or earning a living and taking care of a family. And what
I want to connect here is something that we fail to
understand is that if young men and women aren't serving, then
they're going to always expect to be served.
They're going to always expect to be served. And one of the things I
often say to our mothers, may Allah reward them, is if you treat
your son like a prince, when he gets married, he's gonna think
he's a king.
And so
no real talk, real talk part of the prophets Young Life is a
simple job where he's earning pennies, providing for the family
earning pennies providing for the family.
And this is so contrary to what happens in so many of our cultures
here when someone says I made it so you don't go to work. How do I
get to Ala villa, tada boy to shovel some snow Yanga snow die
wash your car, do something, earn a living stand on your feet for a
few hours. So you know what it feels like?
Stand on your feet for a bit and and this is what shaped who he
was. He was out in the desert trying to earn just a few bucks in
order to alleviate what Apple thought it was going through. This
is what made him who he was. Now check this. If you don't think it
translates, let me share something with you. There's a narration that
we talk about. What was the Prophet sallallahu wasallam like
as a husband now listen closely. I showed her the Allahu Taala on
her. She says somebody asks her kalila Lee. Aisha mother can a
young man bro suicide Salafi Beatty he again we want to walk in
his footsteps. Let's be real. She says someone asked her Oh Aisha
What was he like at home? What was he Salah it was sent him like at
home. Now I want you to make the connection we saw how he was as a
teenager working are not expecting any handouts all working hard
grinding as we say. Now how was he as a husband though? She says all
its cannabis should Meenal Basha. She goes and she uses the word
Bashir now graduated. She goes he was a guy like other guys. And she
goes Yes, Lee Silva. He used to clean his clothes, patches
clothes. He used to take care of his if his clothes had a hole in
it or something. If he had to clean it, he would clean it he
would patch it. Meaning he didn't walk in the house like oh, it's
got a hole on it. Okay, take care of that real quick. Law. She goes
liberal suicide Allah who it was selling them when he would
At home he would yesterday sober he would clean his own clothes
and then she goes well yeah lib shatter. And he would go on his
own and milk the goat
he would go milk the goat what I'm trying to show you is that the
young Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam was one of I do it myself to
provide and the older Bahamas I sent him as a husband was not one
to say just serve me now.
And I understand as a parent that compassion we have towards our our
children, we want to give them everything. But we have to instill
in them qualities that will make them the best human beings what
made us who we are. Well, yeah, live shot that he would milk the
goat himself. And then she says these words and these are not
these are from ISIS words in the site. She goes, Well, yeah, dem
NAFSA Allahu Akbar. Yeah, them the word is koderma. Yeah, that means
serve. Well, yeah, dim NAFSA who he would serve himself.
Now, how different is that in contrast to our culture?
How different in that is contrast.
And when we talk I spoke about this briefly last week when we
talk about one of the reasons I wanted to walk in His footsteps is
to get that true picture of prophetic masculinity.
The prophets have a lot he was sending this idea of in the
houses, I'm serving everyone, and I'm not expecting to be served.
And that's who he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was about I want
us to understand is again I'll say this this statement again if moms
and we love you, we love our mothers. But if you treat them
like a prince you create in a wreck bed for that wifey who's
going to be his wife someday.
The narcissistic tendencies of being served and under Oh, I
should be I don't even know how to turn the laundry the washing
machine on.
You be like yo, turn the dishwasher. Oh, no, do that. Brah
for ill. Real talk, brothers real talk.
Real talk to prophetic. She says he used to do you serve himself at
home?
Stop asking your mom to make you tea, bro.
Go wash your own clothes, man.
And I see a lot of the older heads nodding because they understand
what this creates inside of a man.
And so this, the reason I brought this up is because when we look at
him working as a young man, it created who he became as Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
But also said Allahu alayhi wa sallam. This was a moment in his
early life that shaped who he would become. The role of a
shepherd is one that has to look over different people. The
Shepherd has to care and watch out for danger. This is what prepared
him for what he would be. The role of the shepherd is to have deep
love for everyone in the flock. Now how do we connect to this me
and you? There's a hadith Kulu kumara and what Kulu, comas own
IRA er, TV, all of you are shepherds and all of you will be
questioned about the flock that you are leading about his humility
I want to read a beautiful Hadith. And the Hadith I'm there I'm
reading to you is one of the most descriptive narrations you will
ever hear about what he said Allahu alayhi wa sallam was like,
pay close attention to this narration.
The narration is reported by hand
even Ebihara now let me tell you who this is.
Khadija, the Allahu anha had sons from a previous marriage. And when
the prophesy said the married her those sons were in the house
and the sons fell in love with Muhammad Sallallahu was the same
way Zaid fell in love with the prophets of Allah who it was
Sunday. So Hynde, it narrates this hadith. Now, Hassan, the son of
it, he says, I didn't tell my brother. But I Loki went up to my
uncle hint. And I asked him, can you describe swiftly, can you
describe the prophet for me? sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam. And he
says I kept it low key. I didn't tell my brother Hassan was trying
to get one up on Hussein, like Amon and Akram right here. Right?
Right. If you go into the Holocaust without the other one,
I'm just joking. So he was trying to get one up on him. He says
after some time, I told my brother Hussein, hey, I went to our uncle
hand, and I asked him to describe me the prophesy southern he's Oh,
yeah, Ben did that.
So he goes, Oh, really? He's like, Yeah, I asked dad to Dad was I did
it alone. So now Hussein actually knows more. So he says the Hassan
Hassan says, can you tell me your Hadith now? He goes, Yeah, I'll
tell you my Hadith. And so this hadith is where Hussein Radi
Allahu Allah and asked I
li to describe the prophesy centum and I want you to focus on the
humility because when we walk in His footsteps, you can't walk into
his footsteps to walk in the door with his mentality. You walk in
your house with his mentality. Now we're walking in his footsteps. So
listen to this on and Hussein Hussein Radi Allahu taala. And he
says, sell to a b i asked my father this is a long Hadith, but
it's detailed, take notes and remember it and the Hooghly rasool
Allah, I asked him, What was the prophet like, at home sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. Paul can either hour when he would come home Jezza
he would split up his time. Allahu Akbar. He would split up his time
South Africa into three portions
Subhanallah I want to stop for a moment. Don't front how many
videos on YouTube have you taught watched about how to spend your
day? How to Divide divide my to how I stay productive as a Muslim?
I don't
already know.
How can we never heard this hadith about how he split up his time so
low. It was
just an epic moment for some of us. So listen closely. He says he
would split up his time into three portions.
Jews and Lilla this is when he was home on the home in the house.
Jews and Nila one portion of time for Allah would use only actually
one portion of time for his family
would use only enough see, and one portion of the time for himself
his own needs. So
then he would take his portion and split that into La Jolla quote
Okay. Half of his portion he would give to people from outside the
community that needed him. And then he would keep that half of a
third right? It was out of six. Right? He would keep his six
right. He would keep that six for himself.
Now listen, Fila
for what would he do? He would allow people to come and visit him
and he would bring people that had to see him who had any needs
for men who had just some people had one need some people had two
needs some people had so many things play out the shout that
will be him. He was busy serving them talking to them enter what do
you need talking with them? Where should they go home female usually
home this is deep, he would busy them and what was good for them.
So he would give them things to do that would be good for their AKA,
hey, why don't you work on this? Why don't you focus on this? Why
don't you do this?
With body him, Biller, the young brother and he would tell them
what they needed to do in their lives and help them and then he
would say to the people in the gathering in his home. Do you
believe the shot had been come alive, whoever's present make sure
you tell those who aren't present and whoever has a need but can't
reach me if you're able to help them get their needs to me. Allah
will make you firm on the Day of Judgment what he's teaching the
people here is some people don't know how to express what their
needs are and if we become people that help them we're helping them
and Allah subhanaw taala will make us from on a day of judgment. He
says that in this gathering law you that get an endo Illa Dodik in
this gathering he would only let that go down that's all that was
spoken about. What was good for people what they could do what can
better themselves there was no like, like extra talk that was for
another time.
And next she he says that what call her Canada suicides and then
I'm sorry and then Hussein asked it okay tell me what he was like
outside the house when he left the house. So I leave it on the other
one he says first thing can use in the sun. It lithium ion he used to
be very careful about what he spoke. He would only speak about
things that concerned him.
While you are lethal him he used to make people feel very
comfortable in a gathering Subhanallah I see so many new
faces, you will make people feel comfortable. Make them feel what
are you in a fetal home, he would never ever push people away from
the gathering.
While you have it on us he was out he would warn people about things
that would be harmful for them. And listen to this. If this is
something we can act upon to become more like Him. What you
have to do is have a hole. He used to miss people when they were
absent.
He used to miss people have you ever like missed the day at class?
And that one dude hit you up like yo Muhammad where you been?
And you wonder Subhanallah or have you ever been gone for a weekend
nobody even message
and you wonder Subhanallah do they even notice I'm there? The
prophetic quality
Get the fucka do us have anytime someone was missing? Y'all were
such and such were such and such. Well, yes, alumnus I'm marthinus
This is beautiful. He would ask people Hey, what's going on in the
town?
I think this was beautiful because some of us get this picture of
just he wasn't aware of what's happening. But it says clearly
Well, yes, aloneness and nothingness. What's going on?
What's everyone up to?
Well, you have seen will have seen if something was good, he but oh,
that was amazing. While you while you Oh, we and he would strengthen
it. If something was bad, he would amend That's horrible. He would
weaken and he was balanced. He was balance. What were his gatherings
like on Cana Rasulillah Salam, this is deep liar Kumu wala agilus
illa. Allah zicatela anytime he got up, or anytime he sat down,
there would be some little level of dhikr of Allah Subhan Allah
even at work.
When he was sit down, we would get up
every seating and everything he would he would remember a lot.
What you got into ha Isla calm humility, I wanted us to focus on
his humility. He's taking a sixth of his day, and he's making that
for people, whatever you need come I'm here for you. Now, the next
part says that there are suicides send them either. I tell Allah
Coleman, if he came to a group of people that were sitting down, he
would sit at the end of the gathering. I called you up, don't
worry, I got you. He would sit at the end of the Gathering. Now, but
this is different for those who say Salah, the Prophet sallallahu,
wasallam, doesn't want to be distinguished. So when he would
come to a gathering, he doesn't want attention, everyone looking
at him. So he would just sit right in the back wherever there was
wherever he wanted. He would just sit right there. That's it. Stay
humble in the back. No one even knows he's there. Well, yeah, I'm
gonna be Vatika he didn't ever want someone to stand up, move
their spot and take and he sit there. And then the narration says
he would tell if someone wanted to speak to him in his gathering. He
would sit there, listen to this, this is beautiful. He would sit
Sall Allahu alayhi wa sallam with the person until that person
themselves turned away and was ready to go.
You know, sometimes someone's like, you get to eyebrow dip,
right? You got to go sei Cobis. La he was there for you. And until
you were done, he wasn't done with you.
The greatness of the prophets I send them is that he saw greatness
in everyone else.
And he didn't think of himself as great. Our problem is we think
we're the main character energy again, right? We think it's all
about us. And for him. It was that wasn't the case.
The narration says that he would never refuse anyone that asked for
anything if he had it. And if he didn't have it, he would speak
good words to them. He would open his character for them to the
point where he became like a father to him.
Last week, we spoke about the prophets of Allah de was salam.
And how he cried.
This week I want to speak about and highlight a part of who he was
and how he laughed and smiled. There's a beautiful narration and
chapter that I'm going to read from about what his smile was
like.
I chose this one specifically because we read about how much
pain he went through as a young boy.
And if anyone has a reason to be upset and mad at the world, he
does if anyone has a reason, father gone, Mother gone
grandfather gone.
uncle died not believing in my message, you name it. But despite
that, the narration say
this
Abdullah bin Hadith he says, I never saw anyone
who smiled as much as the messenger of allah sallallahu
alayhi wa salam.
Jarier bin Abdullah Al Badgley.
He accepted Islam in the last year of the Prophet's life.
SallAllahu wasallam. He says, Every time I looked at him every
time
he never met me, except that he had a big smile on his face.
Now there are narrations that say about his character that he said
what he was selling was the image
that he was always he wasn't sad. So the scholars they tried to
reconcile how did these narrations say that he was always sad and
this the narrations are easy see, when he was by himself, he was in
thought he was in deep thought about awkward about life about
reality. But the moment someone came into his presence, it shifted
to not I have to give this person what's best for him.
and what's best for as many people as they need to see that smile?
And that's why little suicides send them he said a Tibet simfy
Watch. Yeah theek left us sadaqa to smile in the face of your
brother. You know, they say smile in his like yawning is contagious.
You gotta be working real hard not to smile when somebody smiles at
you. Some of y'all, alright, cool, whatever. It's all good. It's all
good. I cool I got you
know, a little suicide. Salem gave you a smile because that is what's
going to help the one with him. So when he was by himself, he would
be in deep thought. He's thinking about awkward, he's thinking about
Allah. But the moment someone came into his space, now, it's not
about me, it's about putting you where you need to be. So Jared,
Jared, then Abdullah, allegedly, he goes, I accepted Islam in the
last year. And every single time I saw him, he was smiling.
What was his laughter like?
Aisha, she says, I never saw the Messenger of Allah bellowing and
laughter. Listen to this. When we spoke about crying. We saw that
the prophets of light Islam did not allow like this wailing, but
he allowed crying. Similarly with laughter, it's balance. When you
look at the prophesy, sometimes character is balanced. So she
says, I never saw him like like bellowing and laughter. In Arabic
is called a Ha, like extremely from the gut, deep, deep, deep
laughing love.
So she says, however, when he laughed, you could see the back of
his throat. It wasn't always that he just smiled, but he laughed and
you can see the back of his uvula.
And one narration, the Messenger of Allah subulata is sudden would
not confer converse, He will not speak except that he would smile
while doing so. I want you to picture him and see him that's
what you should be doing right now.
The laughter of his companions, while in his presence would
consist of smiles without sound, and that was out of emulation and
respect for him.
When the Prophet said a lot he was sending would be taken in
laughter. He would cover his hand over his mouth.
He would cover his hand over his mouth.
There are Hadith narrations that speak of the prophets of Allah, it
was selling, laughing while his molar teeth were visible. But most
of the time, his laughter was just a smile.
There's a narration where the prophets have a lot he was selling
them said, I know the first man to enter paradise in the last man,
the first man to exit from *.
A man will be brought forward on the day of judgment and it will be
said, present his minor sins or her minor sins before him or her.
And the major sins will be hidden.
Now the person is seeing their sins, their minor sins. Imagine
that the person will be seeing their minor sins present it
differently than the big since these are the small ones.
And the angel will say you did such and such on this day you did
such and such on that day. And the person will acknowledge them and
say yes, and they will not deny them. But the person is fearful
over their major sins that they haven't even seen.
Then it will be said, give him a good deed. Allahu Akbar, give him
a good deed in place of all the sins. When the man hears that
he'll object and say y'all other sins you forgot.
And you see how you smiled and laughed the Prophet in that
moment. He smiled and laughed so much that his molars were visible.
When he narrated that hadith. When he narrated that hadith, he
laughed.
There was another
I really debated whether to share this one with you. Because I don't
know if you can appreciate the humor in the moment. But I'll try
my best it was his sunnah. It was the Battle of the Trench as a war.
We were being attacked by an oppressive group of people
surrounding Medina. And the prophesy Salaam is fighting back
we're fighting back against this army that is attacking us. And on
the other side of the trench, there was
one of the forces attacking he was flaunting and walking proud with
his shield, and he would put his shield and move it he was taunting
us mocking and taunting us.
And sod. Sod WWF cos
he was a very good Archer.
So he puts his boat
and he shoots.
And right when the guy puts his head out, it hits him. And when he
falls back, his feet go up in the air.
Profits start cracking
I don't know if y'all could appreciate it I appreciate it
probably that was mad funny.
caught them Figo up in the air and prophesy so them started laughing
the prophets Hello It was salam. There's one narration I want to
share with you which is a beautiful one.
This is a action you can act upon to but the prophets of what he was
sending when he narrated this, he smiled and laughed. And that's why
I'm sharing it with you.
One time, Ali Radi Allahu Allah and
his ride was brought and we'll wrap it up after this one. i These
ride was brought any put his foot in the stirrup. And when he put
his his foot in the stirrup, he said, Bismillah so it's like, you
know, you open the car and you say, Bismillah, right. And then he
hoisted himself up and he took his seat. He got in the car, you could
say and he said Al Hamdulillah so Bismillah when you grab the door
handle, I don't know Allah. And then he said it hamdulillah when
he sat down, and then he recited Subhanallah the Sahara and ohada.
Um, I couldn't Allahu McAleenan were in Isla Robina La Mancha when
he recited the DUA that we often read when we're driving or riding
in some vehicle.
And then after that, he said, Alhamdulillah three times, Allahu
Akbar three times, and Subhanallah three times Allahumma inni. The LM
two Nuptse. Felt fiddly for in the Julio, Oh ALLAH forgive my sins,
because no one forgives sins except you when I leave. When the
student narrated this, he smiled and laughed after this. And his
students were just sitting there like shakes, tripping and
whatever. And the student and the teacher said, Why don't you ask me
why? I laughed. So obviously the shake Why'd you laugh? And the
shake says, because when the Prophet said a latte was salam
narrated this hadith? He laughed, and the Sahaba who were better
students than you, they said, jasola Why are you laughing? And
he says,
What caused you to lash out or sort of line? He said, Your Lord
is pleased with a servant that commit sins, and then knows that
there's no one else to forgive him except the law.
So the Prophet he narrated that hadith and he said,
and I like Yoda, so why do you laugh? He says, Because Allah
loves the fact that you know, that you can make sense, but you know,
there's only one Allah to forgive you. So what is the dua hold on
hold on Bismillah Alhamdulillah Subhanallah de, the whole DUA and
then Subhanallah, three times hamdulillah three, no, Allahu
Akbar three times 103 times upon Allah. And then all Allah forgive
me for a new life after the novella and only you forgive sins.
That Hadith says all your sins are forgiven. And the Prophet
chuckled. I narrate the Hadith, so that we can study how he laughed.
We do this so that we can envision picture who he said Aloha today he
was Saddam was today we looked at his life as a young man, what was
he like? What shaped him to be the one serving the family at home? It
was having learned how to serve people at a young person at a
young age. What made him so compassionate that he would look
in a gathering hold on y'all I know time is up, but hear me what
what made him so much that when someone in the gathering was
missing, he would say were such and such because as a shepherd, he
was looking for lost sheep.
That is what made him who he was. That compassion made him the
compassionate Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and that compassionate prophet as a shepherd learned humility. And
that humility allowed him to not distinguish himself from anyone
and say to an elderly lady, wherever you need me, I'll be
Auntie I'll take care of whatever you need me to take care of. And
that is what won the hearts of people. May Allah give us love of
Muhammad sallahu wa salam, O Allah, may Allah give us love that
allows us to embody who he was some Allahu Allah was. May Allah
subhanaw taala make these gatherings a means of our
forgiveness of Gulu call the harder stuff for Allah Holly
welcome. What does it mean for stock Pharaoh in the whole world
of afforda Rahim? May He allow us to smile often like he did? And
laugh like he didn't show love? So that's it. I'll see you next week
and show us and I want to come
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