Mirza Yawar Baig – Importance of the method

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The Seose of Aimee course is a fundamental course for raising children, and is important for learning and achieving success. The course is also discussed in relation to Islam, including the importance of learning and following a method. A doctor follows a strong spiritual connection with the sun and emphasizes the importance of practicing the course. The course is being taught by a professor, and the speaker shares a course on se disconnected from a tree and prays to the Ghat of Salah, which is being taught by a professor.
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As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.

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Wasalatu wassalamu ala sharafil anbiya wal mursaleen.

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Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa

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sahbihi wa sallam.

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Tasliman kathiran kathiran.

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Amma ba'du.

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My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah, we are here

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for this Mubarak Majlis to learn about the

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Seerah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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The word Seerah, as you know, is usually

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meant as biography.

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Seerah means the way, the path.

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We learn about the path of the Rasulullah

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because he was sent

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by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as a

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guide for all of mankind until the last

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day, so that people can have a life

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in this world, which is successful, as well

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as be successful when they meet Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala on the Day of Judgement.

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And that is why we learn about the

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Seerah.

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The Seerah is extremely important and should be,

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at least in my opinion, the Seerah should

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be a fundamental course of learning, a fundamental

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course of the raising of children of Tarbiyah

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wa Tazkiyah from day one, because it's like

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this.

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The reason why we have the way is

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the same reason why we have a recipe,

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right?

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The same reason why we have a recipe.

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Now, say for example, my favourite food is

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biryani.

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So, if I ask you, tell me how

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to cook biryani.

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So, you give me a list of ingredients.

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You must get the best mutton, you must

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get the best basmati rice, you must get

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these spices and so on and so on.

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And then I take all the ingredients, correct

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in that there's nothing wrong with the ingredients,

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same correct ingredients.

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If I take all of them, put them

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into a pot, put some water and boil

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it all up, I will get very nice

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smelling dog food.

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It will not be biryani, because rice cooked

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with meat, with spices and smell is dog

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food, right?

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Dogs will love it.

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It's not biryani.

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So, what is biryani?

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Biryani is to use the same ingredients, but

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according to a pattern, according to a plan,

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which tells you at what stage in the

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cooking each thing should be put.

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What do you start with?

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What comes next?

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And at what stage does the second one

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come?

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And then what comes after that?

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And so on.

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So, you have to follow a method.

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Good ingredients alone will not give you a

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tasty dish.

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Good ingredients cooked according to a method gives

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you a tasty dish.

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And that's exactly the same thing as far

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as Islam is concerned.

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We have the best ingredients, I mean, nobody

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can improve on the Quran and nobody can

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improve on the hadiths of Rasulullah ﷺ.

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But if that is approached without adab, without

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respect, without the method, then it will not

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give you the right result.

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It creates arrogance, it creates people who have

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no concern for others, it creates people who

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have no respect for the teacher, no respect

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for the kitab.

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And we see signs of this everywhere.

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We see people, for example, in our masjid

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who will be reading the Quran and then

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they put it on the floor.

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We have people who sit in the masjid

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with both their feet, legs extended, both the

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feet pointed at the Qibla.

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And if the imam, if the ustad is

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teaching, both the feet are in the face

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of the imam.

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So, the point I'm making is that that

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is the reason why we study the seerah,

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that's the reason why the seerah is so

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important, because the seerah of Rasulullah ﷺ is

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the method by which Islam should be approached.

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If Islam is approached in a method, in

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a way which is different from the way

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Rasulullah ﷺ approached Islam, then you will not

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get the results that Nabi ﷺ got.

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The best dalil for this I can give

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you is the story of Abdullah ibn Umar,

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the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab.

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He memorised Surah al-Baqarah, which is two

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and a half juz' in twelve years.

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Now, those of you who are familiar with

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our Badrasa system and Hif system, you know

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that in our Hif system, a child memorises

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the entire Quran, thirty juz' in two years.

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And if the child takes longer than that,

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maybe three years, then the ustadh will say,

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this child is slow, his memory is not

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that good.

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And if he does not even complete in

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three years, then at the end of three

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years, generally they will tell him, salamu alaikum,

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good, whatever you know is fine, forget it.

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So here, on the other hand, was Abdullah

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ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar, who was Arab, who

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was the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab,

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radiyallahu anhuwar, who was a close and personal

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student of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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One of his favourite students, Sayyidah Aisha Siddiqui,

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radiyallahu anhuwar, has a famous statement, she said,

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I don't know anyone who follows the sunnah

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of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, more than

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Abdullah ibn Umar.

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Abdullah ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar, used to follow

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the sunnah of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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to such an extent that sometimes people said,

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there's one story where he was mounted on

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his animal, on his camel, and he's going

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along a street, at one point he bends

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down, like this, and then he straightens up,

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and the camel is walking.

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So people asked him, why did he bend

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down?

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He said, there used to be a tree

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by the side of the street, and that

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tree had a branch which extended across the

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street, and when Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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would pass this way, he would bend down

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to get under the branch.

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So people said, now there is no tree,

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now there is no branch.

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But this was Abdullah ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar.

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He said, it doesn't matter, if there's no

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tree, no branch, Nabi, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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used to bend there, I will bend there.

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Another time, he goes to a place, he

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makes his camel kneel, he dismounts, and he

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prays to the Ghat of Salah.

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So they said to him, why do you

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do this?

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What is the sanctity of this place?

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He said, because, same thing.

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I will meet Nabi, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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one day, and Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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dismounted from his camel, and he prayed to

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the Ghat of Salah, so I prayed to

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him.

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Now, the reason I'm telling you this is

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because this shows the intense love for Rasulullah,

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salallahu alaihi wa sallam, that these Sahaba had.

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It was their intense love for him, their

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regard for him, their respect for him, and

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the way they followed him in excellence.

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Now, why is it important for us to

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study this and follow Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, in excellence in this way?

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Because Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said, As

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-sabiqun al-awwaluna min al-muhajireena wal-ansari

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wal-ladheena attaba'uhum bi ihsan, radiyallahu anhum

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wa radwan.

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Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said, the sabiqun

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al-awwalun, those who won the race, those

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who went ahead, from among the first of

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the muhajireen and the ansar, from the people

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from Makkah who came to Madinah, and the

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people in Madinah who helped them, muhajireen wal

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-ansar, wal-ladheena attaba'uhum bi ihsan.

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Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, left the door

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open, and Allah said, and those who followed

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them in excellence, radiyallahu anhum wa radwan.

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Allah is pleased with them and they are

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pleased with Allah.

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So, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said about

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the Sahaba of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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and that also, among the best of the

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Sahaba, the sabiqun al-awwalun, the ones who

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came, the first who came to Islam.

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And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, left the

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door open for all those who want to

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follow them.

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Now, how will you follow if you don't

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know what they did?

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And that's the reason why it is so

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important to study the Seerah of Rasulullah, salallahu

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alaihi wa sallam.

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And that is what we are doing here.

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What we are going to do today, inshallah,

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is a course that I created, and for

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which I wrote a book, and the book

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is called Seerah is the Answer.

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And inshallah, to teach the book, I created

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the course.

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And this course we have taught in many

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countries in the world, and we are doing

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it here.

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And inshallah, we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta

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'ala, to make it a source of khair

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and barakah and benefit for us.

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So the idea of learning is to practice.

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And so, therefore, my suggestion is, whatever you

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take away from here, focus on how will

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you apply it.

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We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to

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help us to do that which is pleasing

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to Him and to save us from that

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which does not please Him.

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Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem, wa ala alihi

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wa sahbih.

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Bi hurmati l-Habib, bi hurmati l-Fatiha.

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