Mirza Yawar Baig – Bidaat and Mawlid

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speakers discuss the importance of celebrating birthday celebrations and not celebrating birth celebrations. They also emphasize the importance of knowing birth dates and avoiding confusion. The transcript explores the historical and cultural context of Islam, including the birth of Muhammad Sallal and the importance of fasting every day to celebrate. The speakers stress the importance of practicing Islam and avoiding rules.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين

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والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين محمد ورسول

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الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم تسليماً

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كثيراً كثيراً فما بعده My brothers and sisters,

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I get asked this question every year and

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I answer it every year and I don't

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know why I'm asked this question every time,

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every year.

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Anyway, and that question is about celebrating the

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birthday of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم Eid

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Mawlood, Eid Milad, Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi

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by whichever name Celebrating the birthday of Rasulullah

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صلى الله عليه وسلم I want you to

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listen carefully at all the words Now, in

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one line, celebrating the birth and celebrating the

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birthday are two separate issues Celebrating the birth

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of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله

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Allah سبحانه وتعالى Himself said لقد من الله

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على المؤمنين إذ بعث فيهم رسولاً من أنفوسهم

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يتلو عليهم آياته ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتاب والحكوى وإن

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كانوا من قبل لفي ضلال مبين Allah سبحانه

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وتعالى said Verily Allah سبحانه وتعالى has blessed

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من الله على المؤمنين Allah has sent His

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نعمة His blessing, His gift on the believers,

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on the مؤمنين and may Allah count us

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among them that He sent a messenger to

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them from among them to recite His كلام

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to recite the آيات which He receives to

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purify them internal and external purification to teach

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them the Book of Allah which is the

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same آيات and to teach them wisdom which

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is how to apply these آيات in their

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lives so obviously when Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala called the بِعْسَة the raising, the coming

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of Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم as

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His blessing obviously it's a no brainer that

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this is a matter of great rejoicing this

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is a matter of great happiness this is

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something for us to celebrate الحمد لله Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala said إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ

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يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا

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عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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said verily Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent

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His blessings on His نبي محمد صلى الله

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عليه وسلم and so do the ملائكة the

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angels make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala to send His blessing on the messenger

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Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and then Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded us and said

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يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ

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وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا and when you meet him say

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السلام عليكم so here we have a blessing

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of Allah and obviously we are supposed to

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rejoice and celebrate and thank Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala for all blessings whether we do

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it or not is a different issue we

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should do it we should thank Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala for our faculties which work

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for our bodies which work for our health

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and our wealth and our parents and our

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children and our friends and families and the

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places we live in and the fact that

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we live in peace and comfort where we

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live in peace and comfort the fact that

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us the

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strength to resist and fight against and deal

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with and cope with difficulties and tragedies and

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so on and so forth all of these

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and more all that I have mentioned and

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all that I cannot possibly mention are all

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the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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jalla jalaluhu without any cause for doubt in

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that fact and every single one of them

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must be thanked must be gratitude must be

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expressed for that Allah must be thanked for

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that and every single one of them must

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be celebrated and we should be happy about

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that and we should be thankful about that

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and we should feel grateful about that and

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we should express our gratitude to Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala about that one of the

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biggest of those blessings is Islam itself which

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is without which we would have been in

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Jahannam so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave

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us Islam the biggest blessing of among the

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biggest blessings is the door of Tawbah and

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Istighfar which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala left

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open for us until the last moment of

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our life may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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grant us the Tawfiq to make Tawbah and

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Istighfar right now not wait until the last

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moment because we don't know when that will

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come so make Istighfar and Tawbah right now

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as we sit here and as we listen

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to this but remember even though Allah granted

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us all of these blessings Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala did not mention any of them

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specifically and did not draw our attention to

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any of them specifically and called it a

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blessing except Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi

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wa sahbihi salam he sallallahu alayhi wa ala

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alihi wa sahbihi salam is the only one

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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called specifically

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mannallahu alayhi Allah has blessed you with this

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and who is this?

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Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi

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salam so therefore if somebody says should we

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celebrate the birth the coming the raising the

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presence of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa

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sallam that's a dumb question that's a no

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brainer of course you should if you do

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not do that if somebody says do not

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celebrate that you would say well you know

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you must really examine your Iman because what

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you are saying goes completely against the principle

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of Iman second question if somebody says should

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we celebrate the birthday of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi

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wa alayhi wa sallam then two other questions

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must be answered before that first question that

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must be answered before that is do you

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know when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was

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born birthday do we know when Rasulullah sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam was born the answer to

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that is very simple and the answer is

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that we don't know the exact date we

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don't know the exact date when Rasulullah sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam was born now for example

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if you say if I tell you my

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date of birth it is 20th of October

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which corresponded in the year that I was

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born to 4th of Rabiul Awwal but do

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we have an exact date like that for

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the answer is

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no we didn't have we don't have that

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and the reason we don't have that is

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very simple which is that among the Arabs

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they had no tradition of noting down dates

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of birth the calendar itself was very sketchy

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they used some parts of the Roman calendar

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they used they used to name years based

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on significant events that occurred in that year

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for example we know for certainty that Rasulullah

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was born in the

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Aam ul Fil the year of the elephant

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this we know because this was recorded that

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he was born in the in the year

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of the elephant and that refers to the

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incident where the Yemeni king Abraha came to

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Mecca with the intention of demolishing the Kaaba

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and of course he was foiled in his

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attempt by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala later on revealed Surat

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al-Fil and he narrated what happened in

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that but obviously it was a huge event

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because it had never happened before nobody had

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come with an army to demolish the Kaaba

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and on top of that this army had

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elephants it had one or more elephants and

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for many or most or all of the

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people of Mecca this was the first time

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they had actually even seen this animal the

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elephant so for them it was a huge

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event and so they named the year after

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that similarly for example when we read the

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Sira we have the mention of the Aam

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ul-Huzur which is the year of sadness

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the year of grief and this refers to

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the year in which Rasulullah s.a.w.

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lost both Abu Talib and Umra Khadija tul

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Kubra his two greatest supporters in his family

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he lost them both in that same year

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and this caused him immense grief and this

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year therefore is called Aam ul-Huzur the

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year of sadness and we know this but

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if you say well Aam ul-Huzur the

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year of the elephant or Aam ul-Huzur

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which year was that in the calendar so

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the first question is which calendar how would

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you how would you date that you know

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so this was the this was the situation

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at the time and people didn't record exactly

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the day of a person's birth number one

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number two Rasulullah s.a.w. was born

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like every other child in that particular year

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in the city of Mecca in the town

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of Mecca and more than likely none of

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the dates of their births were recorded either

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if you say for example what was the

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date of birth of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

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what was the date of birth and you

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can just sort of randomly name almost anybody

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and say what was the date of birth

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of these people we don't have those we

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don't have those dates we do not have

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those dates of the births of any of

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those people and so also when Rasulullah s

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.a.w. was born this was a child

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he was born in a in an honourable

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home he was born in a in an

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honourable family but it was not a royal

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family he was not the son of a

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king or something because the reason I'm saying

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that is because this was a tradition of

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the time and even I guess even till

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today continues that the children of royalty and

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nobility especially their dates of birth are recorded

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in the in the in the Christian system

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they would have a family bible in which

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they would in the front or the back

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they would record the dates of birth of

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those of those people in other cases you

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know they would record the dates of birth

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in other places but this was generally done

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for nobility and royalty and so on it

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was not done as a common practice in

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society Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was was not

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a son of a king because there was

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no royalty and nobility among the Arabs of

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the time it was one of the most

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democratic egalitarian society that you would imagine and

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so his date of birth was never recorded

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later on people tried to count backwards and

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then they said maybe it was this maybe

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it was that and that's the reason why

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we have so many different dates which are

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quoted as the dates of birth of Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam 12th of Rabiul Awwal and

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somebody said he was born in Ramadan and

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somebody said he was born in Muharram and

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somebody said he was born in this month

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and that month all of these are conjectures

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all of these are hypothetical even people who

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say the most valuable the most reliable opinion

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I mean this is that the statement the

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most reliable opinion itself is conjecture so this

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is there so the first and foremost question

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should we celebrate the date as I said

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this brings two questions one is when is

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that date because if I tell you yes

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you should celebrate it then obviously you will

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ask me so which date is that and

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if I tell you 12th of Rabiul Awwal

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what is my what is my dalil what

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is my proof and I have no proof

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and nobody on the face of the planet

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has any proof nobody ever had any proof

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every statement that you hear about 12th of

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Rabiul Awwal or this date in Ramadan or

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that date in Muharram or that date here

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that date there all of these are conjectures

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Alhamdulillah those who made the conjectures may Allah

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reward them if they were right and if

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they were wrong may Allah SWT forgive them

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but that is a conjecture it's not a

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definitive fact number one number two the question

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of saying well which brings us to a

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more complex or complicated issue which is when

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you are doing any action connected with the

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Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam this would come under

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the description of Sunnah right if you are

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doing anything that you are connecting with him

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it becomes Sunnah and Sunnah by definition by

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default Alhamdulillah is rewardable by Allah SWT it

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is Ibadah it is an act of worship

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somebody who is doing an act of Sunnah

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somebody and Sunnah means you are doing it

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the way Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam used to

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do it and you are doing it for

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the reason he did it these are two

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conditions of the Sunnah and you are obviously

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doing it for the pleasure of Allah SWT

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so when you are doing these actions any

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action of the Sunnah right so for example

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for growing a beard for example if somebody

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is growing a beard to look nice this

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is not Sunnah so therefore there is no

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reward in that he might still look nice

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any man would look nice with a beard

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but that's immaterial but if he is growing

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his beard because Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam used

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to have a beard and he ordered and

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commanded us to grow a beard so therefore

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the person says I am growing a beard

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because Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam commanded us to

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do that because he used to do that

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for the reason he did it because he

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said my Rab likes this appearance the Hadith

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of the beard I don't want to go

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off track now by quoting that Hadith but

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there is a Hadith where Rasul Alayhi Salatu

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spoke to the two people who came from

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the Iranian Empire to meet him and to

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take him with them he said to them

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they had big mustaches and they had no

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beard and he said Rasul Alayhi didn't like

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that appearance he asked them who asked you

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to have this appearance they said our Rab

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our Lord Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam said my

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Rab likes this appearance and he passed his

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blessed hand over his blessed face and his

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beard and then he commanded the Sahaba he

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said trim your mustaches and grow your beard

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he didn't say shave your mustache he said

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trim your mustaches and grow your beard so

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somebody who is growing his beard it's not

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a matter of facial hair it's not a

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matter of fashion if he is growing his

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beard because he wants to please Allah Jalla

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Jalaluhu in the way that Rasul Alayhi Salatu

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Wassalam did for the reason that he did

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then this is a Sunnah and this person

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InshaAllah will be rewarded by Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will

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reward him and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta

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'ala reward him every single second for every

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hair of that beard as it grows InshaAllah

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similarly for everything else if somebody eats his

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food or her food in the way that

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Rasul Alayhi Salatu Wassalam used to eat they

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will be rewarded InshaAllah for eating their food

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as a Sunnah as a matter of worship

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so anything that is done with the intention

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of pleasing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in

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the way that Muhammad Rasul Allah Subhanahu did

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it becomes a Sunnah so now we come

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to the issue of the celebrating of the

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birthday so first of all we don't have

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a day secondly the issue of celebrating it

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how would you celebrate it the way to

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celebrate the birth as I told you celebrating

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the birth Alhamdulillah this is Sunnah this we

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should do this makes sense this is what

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told us to

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do celebrate his birth question is how do

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we celebrate the birth

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of Rasul Allah Subhanahu the way to celebrate

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the birth of Rasul Allah Subhanahu the way

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to celebrate the birth of Rasul Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala the way to celebrate the

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it celebrate his presence the way to celebrate

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his birth the way to celebrate his being

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with us is to follow him is to

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make his He

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didn't say, as Allah did not reveal Quran

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about this.

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He said, I was born on a Monday

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and he was to fast on Mondays because

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he said, I want Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la my deeds to go up

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to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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when I'm in a state of fasting.

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So the way to celebrate the birthday, which

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we know, which is a Monday, the day,

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not the date, the day, we know it's

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a Monday.

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The way to celebrate that is to fast

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every single Monday of your life.

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That is 52 fasts per year, right?

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So please go ahead and do that.

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Please go ahead and do that fast every

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single Monday of your life from this day

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onwards, if you are sincere about celebrating the

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birthday of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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If on the other hand, instead of that,

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you celebrate his birthday, first of all, by

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nominating a particular day of the year on

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the calendar without any authority and without any

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evidence as the date of his birth.

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And then by having some kind of a

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celebration, whether it's a function, whether it is

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lectures, whether it is nasheeds, whether it is,

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you know, cooking special food, whether it is

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wearing special clothes, whether it is calling it

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Mawlud or Mawlid or Eid-e-Milad-un

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-Nabi or Milad-un-Nabi or whatever name

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you give it, specifying that particular day.

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And may Allah have mercy on us.

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We have incidents where now there are some

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masajids and imams who are actually doing a

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two rakat, they are doing a khutbah for

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Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi and they are

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praying two rakat of Salat-ul-Eid.

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Now, if you do that, then number one,

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you have zero evidence for any of these

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actions.

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First problem, there's no evidence.

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Number two, none of these actions were done

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by Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam himself, nor did

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he command anyone to do that, nor did

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any of the Khulafa-e-Rashideen do it,

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nor did any of the Sahaba do it,

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nor was any of this stuff done until

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it was started and invented in Egypt by

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the Fatimid dynasty.

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This was the Shia Fatimid dynasty in Egypt

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and one of those Fatimid kings, more than

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300 years after Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed

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away, invented this tradition of Mawlid or Maulud

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or Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi as part

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of a series of celebrations which included his

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own birthday and it included the birthday of

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Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib radiyallahu anhu, Sayyidina

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Fatima Dhul-Zahra radiyallahu anha, Sayyidina Hussain and

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Sayyidina Hassan radiyallahu anhuwa, and Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam.

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He is, this king is the one who

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invented this practice.

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This practice did not exist on the face

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of the earth until it was invented by

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this person.

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So the point is now, therefore if you

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are doing any of this stuff, who are

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you following?

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Are you following Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?

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Are you following the Khulafa Rashidin Mahdiin?

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Are you following the Sahaba Ridwanullah Ali Ibn

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Jumein?

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Or are you following this Fatimid king?

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So decide for yourself, go read the history

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and make sure that you are following the

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one who, following whom Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la ordered to follow, whom Allah

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ordered you to do and following whom will

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lead to Jannah.

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And that is only one.

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Who is that one?

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Muhammad Mustafa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Allah Subh'anaHu

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Wa Ta-A'la said, laqad kana lakum

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fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasana.

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fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasana.

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Allah did not say somebody else other than

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the Rasul.

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laqad kana lakum fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasana.

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liman kana yarjullaha wal yawal akhira wal zakarallaha

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kathira.

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For the one who looks forward to the

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meeting with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la and who looks forward to the day

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of judgment and who makes a lot of

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dhikr of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la.

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentioned

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this very, very, very clearly for anyone who

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is interested in getting hidayah, anyone who's interested

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in being guided.

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Then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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said to those who follow the Prophet Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam out of his love for him.

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Allah said, qulin kuntum tuhibboon Allaha fattabi'ooni

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yubibkoon Allah wa yaffir lakum zunubakum wallahu wafuroor

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raheem.

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Allah said, say O Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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to these people who claim to love Allah,

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make my ittiba, follow me, imitate me, emulate

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me and Allah will love you and Allah

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will forgive all your sins and Allah Subh

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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is the most

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forgiving and the most merciful.

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The guarantee of having our sins forgiven, the

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guarantee of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la loving us, the guarantee of success in

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this dunya wal akhira is to follow Muhammad

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Mustafa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Allah is my

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witness when I say this, ya Allah you

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are listening, ya Allah you are making me

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say it, ya Allah make this true.

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Not following anybody else, nobody.

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Nobody.

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And least of all, somebody who was neither

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a Khalifa Rashid nor was he a Sahabi

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nor was he anything.

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Now, he might say well okay, so got

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this and therefore I would say, ask a

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simple question and we are talking now about

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this Miladun Nabi business but ask this question

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about anything at all.

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Did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam do it?

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Did the Khalifa Rashid do it?

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Did the Sahabi do it?

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And if your answer is that none of

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them did it, then don't do it.

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Do not do it, do not participate in

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it.

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If there is any gathering which is happening

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with that Anwan, with that title, with that

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purpose, do not participate in that gathering.

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As I mentioned to you right at the

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beginning, celebrating the birth, meaning if there is

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a gathering which is not specific to a

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particular day, which is not talking about it,

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this is a gathering of Miladun Nabi, this

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is a gathering of Mawlid and Mawlud, this

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is a gathering of Eid-e-Miladun Nabi

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if none of these titles is there.

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If there is just a gathering to talk

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about Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to talk about

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his Seerah, Alayhi Salatu Wasallam, with the intention

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of pleasing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, with

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the intention of trying to follow the Seerah

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in our lives, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Mubarak, Mubarak,

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Mubarak.

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Please go and participate in that gathering, support

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it and hold more and more such gatherings

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in your own places, no problem.

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But if the same thing is happening or

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something similar is happening with the title of

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any of this stuff, celebrating the birthday, so

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on, so on, stay away because this is

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not from the Sunnah and this therefore is

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a big problem.

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Now, we come to the next part, which

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is, what is the problem?

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The problem is that this becomes a bid

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'ah.

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What is a bid'ah?

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This is very important to understand this.

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A bid'ah, the basic word, bada bid

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'ah means an innovation, something new, right?

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The famous hadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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which he mentioned, where he said, bada Islama

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ghariban, bada Islama ghariban.

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Islam started as something strange.

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Islam started as something strange.

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Bada Islama ghariban, sayyaudhu kava bada.

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And it will turn and it will return

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to being the way it was when it

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started.

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Fatuba alil quraba, and he said, give the

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glad tidings of Jannah to the people who

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will be called the strangers.

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So, bada, strangers, strange, new, right?

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Ghariban, ghariban is strange, not bada.

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Bada is, ghariban is strange, in Urdu we

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say ajib o gharib, that's from Arabic.

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And bada, it means the beginning, something new.

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So, bid'ah is something which is new.

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Now, we have the famous hadith of Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam which we hear practically in

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every jubaa, in every masjid on the face

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of the earth, where we say Rasulullah Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned, inna ahsara al hadithi,

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inna azdaqul hadithi kitabullah, verily the most truthful

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statement is the kitabullah, is the book of

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Allah.

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wa ahsara al hadithi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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and the best of guidance is the guidance

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of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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wa sharrul umuri muhdathatuha, wa kulla muhdathatin bid

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'a, wa kulla bid'atin dalala, wa kulla

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dalalatin finnar.

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The last part, wa kulla dalalatin finnar, is

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in one of the narrations, and in the

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other one it is not there, but, wa

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kulla bid'atin dalala, is there in both.

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Now, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, therefore, as

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I mentioned, the best of guidance is the

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kitab, the best of, the most truthful of

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speech is the kitab of Allah, is the

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speech of Allah, is the book of Allah,

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the best of guidance is the guidance of

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Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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And he says, wa sharrul umuri muhdathatuha, he

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says, of all matters, the worst are innovations,

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and everything new is an innovation, kullu bid

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'atin, kullu muhdathatin bid'a, everything new is

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an innovation, and every innovation is a deviation,

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kullu bid'atin dalala, wa kullu dalalatin finnar,

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and every deviation leads to the hellfire.

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Now, it is very, very important to remember

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that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not say

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that there are exceptions to this, he said,

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kullu bid'atin dalala.

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Now, I know there are differences of opinion

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from different scholars, somebody says it applies to

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this and applies to that and so on,

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but I am explaining to you that first

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and foremost, the dominant opinion is that when

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Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says something, it means

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the way he said it.

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To give it another interpretation, which in some

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cases, like in this one, seems to be

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the opposite.

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Those who are doing it, they have whatever

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reason they have to do it, but safety

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lies in staying within the boundaries and the

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boundaries is, just take his word literally as

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he said it and if he said kullu

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bid'atin dalala, that's what it means.

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All innovation is misguidance and kullu dalalatin finnar,

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all misguidance is in the fire, number one.

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Number two, some people ask this question, well,

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Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not use a

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cell phone and he didn't sit or drive

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in a car or a plane, so is

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that a bid'at?

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Now, this is again, the problem is that

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most of us don't take trouble to learn

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the deen systematically, so we don't know the

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definitions of meanings of things and meanings.

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Now, obviously, the language is one, whichever language,

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and the language has, no matter how many

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words it has, it doesn't have enough words

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to describe every nuance.

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So, for example, the meaning of the word

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salah is dua, right?

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As we said in the ayat itself, inna

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allaha wa malaikatahu yusallum al nabi, Allah and

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his malaika send salah on the Nabi, and

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Allah is saying, sallu alaih, yaayu allatina amanu

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sallu alaih, O people, O believers, send your

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salah on the Nabi.

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So, what does it mean?

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It means dua, make dua for the Nabi,

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send salah for the Nabi, ask Rasulullah sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala to bless the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam.

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The word is the same word, salah.

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You are saying, salatul janazah, you're praying janazah

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salah, so salah is, means you're making dua

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of maghfirah, you're making dua to Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala to forgive the person who

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passed away, salatul janazah.

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So, then if somebody says, well, then why

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must I pray salatul fajr, salatul zuhr, salatul

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asr, salatul maghrib, salatul isha, if I just

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

make dua, this is sufficient because salatul janazah

00:32:21 --> 00:32:23

is dua, sending salat and salam on Rasulullah

00:32:23 --> 00:32:25

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is dua, the same

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

word salah, therefore I will use this as

00:32:27 --> 00:32:29

my understanding, you will say, sorry, you are

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

wrong.

00:32:30 --> 00:32:33

That is not the meaning, every word has

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a linguistic meaning and it has a technical

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

meaning, right?

00:32:37 --> 00:32:39

It has a technical meaning and the reason

00:32:39 --> 00:32:41

why this is because the words, we don't

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

have different words, so it's the same word,

00:32:44 --> 00:32:46

which has a linguistic meaning, which is dua,

00:32:46 --> 00:32:49

which has a technical meaning, where Allah subhanahu

00:32:49 --> 00:32:52

wa ta'ala said, inna salata kaanat alal

00:32:52 --> 00:32:55

mu'mineena kitaban mawquta, Allah did not say that

00:32:55 --> 00:32:58

making dua has been prescribed on the people

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

at specific times, Allah said salah has been,

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

now what is this salah?

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

what salah is and he said, sallu kama

00:33:07 --> 00:33:11

ra'aytuni usalli, pray as you have seen

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

me pray, he didn't say make dua as

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

you saw me making dua, he said, he

00:33:15 --> 00:33:17

showed people what to do, this is salah,

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

you stand facing the Qibla, you stand in

00:33:20 --> 00:33:24

a state of tahara, you stand in a

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

place which is clean, you're wearing proper clothes,

00:33:27 --> 00:33:29

you raise your hands to your ears, as

00:33:29 --> 00:33:33

takbir tahareeba, to begin the salah and then

00:33:33 --> 00:33:34

you do this and this and this and

00:33:34 --> 00:33:36

you make ruku and you make sujood and

00:33:36 --> 00:33:38

you recite this and you recite that, you

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recite this before that and so on and

00:33:41 --> 00:33:42

so forth and you make salah when your

00:33:42 --> 00:33:45

salah is over, this entire process is called

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

salah also.

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So, so what must you do?

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

Simply say, well you know what, salah means

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

this, therefore I will do it, meaning I

00:33:54 --> 00:33:56

will just make dua, alas, forget the masjid,

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

I don't need masjid, I don't need jamaa,

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

I don't need imam, I don't need anything,

00:34:00 --> 00:34:03

I just make dua and alhamdulillah, you people

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

are praying five times a day, I will

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

pray 25 times a day.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

Does it make sense?

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

It makes no sense because you are using

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

the word out of context.

00:34:15 --> 00:34:18

So similarly, in this case, when we are

00:34:18 --> 00:34:23

saying, bidaa, the word itself means innovation, it

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

means something new, but it doesn't mean something

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

new by itself.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:30

The technical meaning of bidaa is something new

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

in the practice of the religion.

00:34:34 --> 00:34:35

It doesn't mean wearing different kinds of clothes

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or it doesn't mean driving in a car

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

and not driving in a car or riding

00:34:40 --> 00:34:41

a horse or riding a camel or not

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

riding a camel, it has nothing, because riding

00:34:43 --> 00:34:46

a horse or riding in a car has

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

nothing to do with religion.

00:34:47 --> 00:34:50

It is a worldly matter, which alhamdulillah, we

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

are free to do whatever we like, as

00:34:52 --> 00:34:55

long as it doesn't conflict with any religious

00:34:55 --> 00:34:56

injunction.

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But as far as the religion is concerned,

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

every matter which is part of faith and

00:35:02 --> 00:35:06

especially part of ibadah, part of worship.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:10

So if somebody is giving a khutbah for

00:35:10 --> 00:35:13

Eid, Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, right?

00:35:14 --> 00:35:17

And praying two rakat of salah as salah

00:35:17 --> 00:35:19

of the Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, then

00:35:19 --> 00:35:22

this person must show evidence for that from

00:35:22 --> 00:35:23

the Quran and the Sunnah.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:26

If he does not do that, then this

00:35:26 --> 00:35:28

action becomes an action of bidaa because this

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

person is inventing an act of worship, which

00:35:30 --> 00:35:32

was not done by Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

00:35:32 --> 00:35:35

or the Khulafa or the Sahaba or anybody.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:39

A new action has been invented, which was

00:35:39 --> 00:35:40

not done by any of them.

00:35:40 --> 00:35:42

If they have the evidence that Rasulullah Sallallahu

00:35:42 --> 00:35:43

Alaihi Wasallam did it, please show it.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:47

We have the Hadith, famous Hadith in Sunan

00:35:47 --> 00:35:51

Nasai and Sunan Abi Dawood, narrated by Malik

00:35:51 --> 00:35:54

R.A, who said that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

00:35:54 --> 00:35:56

Wasallam, when Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came to

00:35:56 --> 00:35:58

Madinah, they said, Ya Rasulullah, these people have

00:35:58 --> 00:36:02

two days of Eid, two days of celebration.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:03

Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah has given

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

you two better days of celebration.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

Two, not three.

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

Two better days of celebration, he said, Eid

00:36:09 --> 00:36:12

-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha, in which

00:36:12 --> 00:36:13

you pray to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

-A'la and Eid-ul-Adha, you sacrifice

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

in the name of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

00:36:17 --> 00:36:18

Ta-A'la.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

He did not say, we have three Eids,

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha and my

00:36:21 --> 00:36:21

birthday.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

He didn't say that.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:24

He said, you have two Eids, Eid-ul

00:36:24 --> 00:36:26

-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha, and this is

00:36:26 --> 00:36:28

the nature of people.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in another Hadith, he

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

said that people have days of celebration, our

00:36:32 --> 00:36:35

days of celebration are two, not three, not

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

four, two Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

-Adha.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

So Alhamdulillah, we have this.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

Now if somebody wants to innovate something new,

00:36:43 --> 00:36:44

then this becomes Eid-ul-Adha.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

Now, the biggest problem with Eid-ul-Adha,

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

the biggest problem with innovation is, first of

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

all, as I mentioned to you, Rasulullah Sallallahu

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

Alaihi Wasallam said specifically, all Eid-ul-Adha

00:36:53 --> 00:36:55

is misguidance and all misguidance is in the

00:36:55 --> 00:36:55

fire.

00:36:55 --> 00:36:58

So fear Allah and fear the fire.

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

Please do not enter into Eid-ul-Adha,

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

do not start them, do not participate in

00:37:03 --> 00:37:03

them.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:07

Number two, or the reason why bid'ah

00:37:07 --> 00:37:10

is such a big deal, is because Allah

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentioned very

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

clearly, the famous ayat in Surah Al-Ma

00:37:14 --> 00:37:17

'idah, which was revealed when Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

00:37:17 --> 00:37:23

Wasallam was in Mina during his Hajj, and

00:37:23 --> 00:37:24

Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said,

00:37:24 --> 00:37:27

Al-yawma akmaltu lakum deenakum wa atmamtu alaykum

00:37:27 --> 00:37:30

ni'mati wa radi'tu lakum wal-islam ad-deena.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:34

Allah said, today Allah has completed your religion.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

Completed.

00:37:35 --> 00:37:37

Allah has not left anything incomplete.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:41

The religion does not need anything at all.

00:37:41 --> 00:37:44

The religion is total and complete and final.

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

Akmaltu lakum deenakum.

00:37:47 --> 00:37:50

Allah has completed for you your deen.

00:37:50 --> 00:37:52

Wa atmamtu alaykum ni'mati.

00:37:52 --> 00:37:53

And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

00:37:53 --> 00:37:57

has completed for you his ni'ma, his blessing

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

on you, Ya Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

Wa radi'tu lakum wal-islam ad-deena.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

00:38:04 --> 00:38:07

is pleased with Islam as a deen for

00:38:07 --> 00:38:07

you.

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

Islam as a way of life for you.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:11

Right?

00:38:11 --> 00:38:15

So this ayah came completely unequivocal, complete.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:17

There's absolutely no room for doubt.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:20

There's no room for any speculation.

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

There is no question.

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

Islam is complete.

00:38:25 --> 00:38:28

There is no room for doubt about this.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

This is the Quran.

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

The one who believes in it is a

00:38:32 --> 00:38:32

Muslim.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

The one who denies it is not a

00:38:34 --> 00:38:34

Muslim.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

Simple as that.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:38

Then Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the same

00:38:38 --> 00:38:41

day, in the same place, we have the

00:38:41 --> 00:38:44

famous narrations of his Hajj.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:48

Among the things he said was, he said

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

to the people, have I completed my job?

00:38:51 --> 00:38:55

Have I conveyed everything to you without leaving

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

anything out?

00:38:56 --> 00:38:59

And they said, we are, yes, ya Rasulullah,

00:38:59 --> 00:38:59

you've done that.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:03

Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam raised his index finger

00:39:03 --> 00:39:04

of his right hand to the sky.

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

He looked to the sky and he said,

00:39:06 --> 00:39:07

oh Allah, you are witness.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:08

You are witness.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

You are witness.

00:39:09 --> 00:39:12

So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam completed his job,

00:39:13 --> 00:39:17

completed his responsibility and he conveyed the religion

00:39:17 --> 00:39:22

completely, fully, totally, without leaving anything out.

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

And we are witness to that.

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

This is part of our Aqidah.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:30

Anybody who believes that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

00:39:30 --> 00:39:33

left something out, has himself or herself left

00:39:33 --> 00:39:36

the religion because they are making a bohtan,

00:39:36 --> 00:39:39

they are making slander on the Nabi Sallallahu

00:39:39 --> 00:39:42

Alaihi Wasallam.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

Therefore, they cannot be in Islam.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

They are out of Islam.

00:39:46 --> 00:39:49

Anyone who's starting a bid'ah, anyone who

00:39:49 --> 00:39:52

starts anything new in the religion is saying

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

both these things.

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

He's saying that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

-A'la did not speak the truth when

00:39:57 --> 00:39:59

he said that the religion is complete and

00:39:59 --> 00:40:00

that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not speak

00:40:00 --> 00:40:02

the truth when he said he has conveyed

00:40:02 --> 00:40:03

everything.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:06

There was a piece left and that piece

00:40:06 --> 00:40:10

I am completing today by starting this new

00:40:10 --> 00:40:10

practice.

00:40:11 --> 00:40:15

Whether it is giving a khutbah for Eid

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

-e-Milad-ul-Nabi and praying to rakat

00:40:16 --> 00:40:19

of salah or whatever the nature of the

00:40:19 --> 00:40:22

bid'ah, this bid'ah which is an

00:40:22 --> 00:40:26

innovation, which is an introduction, which is a

00:40:26 --> 00:40:29

new thing in the practice of the religion,

00:40:29 --> 00:40:34

starting especially with the ibadah, starting especially with

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

the formal acts of worship but can extend

00:40:36 --> 00:40:38

to anything which is part of religion.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

It's not wearing a sherwani or wearing a

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

turban or wearing this kind of shoe or

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

driving in a car or a plane or

00:40:44 --> 00:40:44

whatnot.

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

Sorry for repeating myself but this is a

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

question which goes again and again.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

So please don't ask these questions.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

I hope I'm making it clear.

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

Anyone who introduces anything into the religion of

00:40:54 --> 00:40:57

any nature, this person has introduced something into

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

the religion and by his or her action

00:40:59 --> 00:41:02

and by his or her speech, they are

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

claiming that Allah did not speak the truth

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

and the Nabi alaihi salam did not speak

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

the truth, na'udhu billah, and that they

00:41:08 --> 00:41:13

are now completing the religion and until this

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

time, this religion was not complete.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

Anyone who's saying that, obviously they have denied

00:41:17 --> 00:41:20

the Quran and they have denied the speech

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

of Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and you

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

know the meaning of that.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:26

So my brothers and sisters, please, whether it

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

is, I'm saying all of this in the

00:41:28 --> 00:41:31

context of Mauludh and Milad and whatnot, but

00:41:31 --> 00:41:34

any action in the deen, please judge it

00:41:34 --> 00:41:37

on this very simple format.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

Don't worry about difference of opinion and this

00:41:40 --> 00:41:41

scholar said that and that scholar said that.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:43

We don't follow any scholar, we follow the

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

Nabi alaihi salam and we follow all the

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

scholars who followed the Nabi alaihi salam period.

00:41:47 --> 00:41:49

Ask yourself a very simple question.

00:41:50 --> 00:41:52

Did Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam do it?

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

Do you have conclusive evidence to show that?

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

Did the Khulafa Rashidin do it?

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

Did the Sahaba do it?

00:42:00 --> 00:42:01

And if the answer is that the Rasul

00:42:01 --> 00:42:03

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not do it

00:42:03 --> 00:42:06

and neither did the Khulafa or the Sahabi,

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

please don't do it.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

Stay safe.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

Stay safe.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:12

Don't play games with the deen of Allah

00:42:12 --> 00:42:14

because it's a matter of you are my

00:42:14 --> 00:42:17

akhira which is forever and ever and anyone

00:42:17 --> 00:42:22

who is encouraging you to go against this

00:42:22 --> 00:42:24

rule will not be standing with you when

00:42:24 --> 00:42:26

we face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

when we face the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

sallam and when Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:42:29 --> 00:42:32

said very clearly, he said on my house,

00:42:32 --> 00:42:35

I will be there at my house and

00:42:35 --> 00:42:38

I will see my followers coming to me

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

and I will recognize them by the shining

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

of their faces and their hands and their

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

feet because of wudu.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:48

So he's talking about practicing Muslims and he

00:42:48 --> 00:42:51

said, but the angels will come in between

00:42:51 --> 00:42:53

and they will drive them away.

00:42:54 --> 00:42:57

They will drive them away and I will

00:42:57 --> 00:42:57

protest.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:59

I will say, don't drive them away.

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

They are my followers.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:00

They will say, Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

they are not your followers.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

You don't know what they did after you

00:43:04 --> 00:43:08

left them and this refers specifically to bidat.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

These are the people who introduced things into

00:43:10 --> 00:43:13

the religion when you had gone and the

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that I

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

will turn my face away.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

We don't want to be among those who

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

will be driven to the Jahannam after living

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

a life, practicing Islam, thinking we are practicing

00:43:22 --> 00:43:26

Islam because we introduced bidat, we introduced things

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

into the deed which didn't belong there.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

We ask Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

save us from all bidat.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

We ask Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to

00:43:33 --> 00:43:34

keep us safe.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

As I mentioned to you, don't worry about

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

this, the differences of opinion of the scholars.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:38

No problem.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

Let them have differences of opinion.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:40

You're not a scholar.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

I'm definitely not a scholar.

00:43:42 --> 00:43:43

Let this go on record.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

But I am somebody who plays safe.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

I do what the Nabi alaihi sallam did.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

Nobody, Allah is not going to question me

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

why I did not follow Imam Ghazali or

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

Imam this or Imam that.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

Allah will question me why I did not

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

follow Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

And I make sure that I follow Muhammad

00:44:00 --> 00:44:01

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

And this is what I'm asking you to

00:44:02 --> 00:44:02

do.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:02

Nothing more.

00:44:03 --> 00:44:06

I'm asking you to follow Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

00:44:06 --> 00:44:09

wa sallam and nobody who said anything different

00:44:09 --> 00:44:10

from that.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

As simple as that.

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