Mirza Yawar Baig – The position of Rasoolullah #02
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Allah declared
that Muhammad salamahu alaihi wa sallam is his
messenger,
his Rasool, and the last of them,
and the
seal of the prophets
and that after him there is no other
prophet and no other messenger.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said which means
Muhammad
is not the father of any of your
men,
of any of the men among you,
but is the messenger of Allah
and the seal of the prophets.
And the seal of the prophets and Allah
has perfect knowledge
of all things.
The first thing
to remember
about
and our relationship with him
is that we are required to believe
in Him,
not just to believe the message,
but to believe that He, Muhammad SAW,
was the messenger of Allah.
To believe in Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as
the messenger of Allah
is essential
because the message is about Al Raib,
the unperceivable.
Imam Al Raib is the fundamental
element of our creed, of our aqeedah.
Everything depends on that.
We believe in it
because Rasulullah
SAW Alaihi Salam said so. There is no
other reason.
We believe him
because we believe in him
and believe that he was completely and totally
truthful,
and so if he said that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala said such and such, then we
believe it.
His word
is the evidence, the daleel in Islam.
His word does not need anything else to
support it
as a Dalib in Islam.
This is the basic principle
of authentication
of a hadith.
The muhaddideen,
the scholars of hadith check to see if
Rasool Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Salam said it.
If he did,
then they don't
go further to see
if it can be proven scientifically
or in any other way. If it is
verified that he said it, we believe it.
The reality is that our science
doesn't go far enough
to look into the future
or to tell us what happens after death
or anything of Alhuray.
We believe in
Alhuray simply because
Rasulullah, he
sallam,
informed us about it.
If you think about this, this makes the
entire Quran also a hadith of Rasool
We believe that alhamdulillahi
rabbilalameen
is an ayah
only because
Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us that it
is an ayah. It could just as easily
have been something that Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said because if you wanted to say all
praise and thanks are for Allah,
the rub of the worlds, that is how
you would say it in Arabic.
This is what Abu Bakr as Siddiq said
when they told him that Rasoolullah sallallahu had
said that he had traveled from Makkah to
Jerusalem
and then into the heavens to meet Allah,
he said,
if he said it, I believe it.
He did not think about is it possible,
not, but he said, if he said it,
I believe it.
That became the fundamental principle of authenticating
a hadith.
That is why it is critical to believe
in Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam as the Rasul of
Allah because the truth of his message
is based on his position
as the messenger.
Allah ordered
him to announce to the world.
Allah said which means, say, O Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, oh people, oh humanity,
I am Allah's messenger to you all.
To him alone
belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the
earth. There is no God worthy of worship
except Him.
He gives life and causes death. So believe
in Allah and His Messenger,
the unlettered prophet who believes in Allah
and His revelations
and follow Him so that you may be
rightly guided.
Follow Him so that you may be rightly
guided.
The guarantee of right guidance
is to follow Muhammad
Allah
reiterated
and emphasized
this relationship and commanded,
He said, so that you believers may have
faith in Allah
and His Messenger,
support and honour Him
and glorify Allah
morning
and evening.
This is a hook on us. The distinction
of Rasulullah
is that though he's called a messenger,
he is in fact a teacher. Unlike a
postman, for example, who carries a bag of
letters, which he has nothing to do with.
He knows nothing about what the letters contain.
His job is merely to deliver the letters
to the addresses.
In the case of Rasool,
the meaning of delivery of the message
was to teach people
how to live by the orders of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Islam is the name of
a practice
like a martial art, for example.
To learn it, there is some theory to
study and some books, but you learn by
practicing under a teacher.
That is why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
Allah said which means indeed
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has done the believers
a great favor. He has blessed them
by raising a messenger from among them,
reciting to them his revelations,
purifying them, and teaching them the book and
wisdom. For indeed, they had previously
been clearly
misguided, previously been clearly
astray.
The job of Rasool
was not merely to recite or inform, but
to inform,
to purify
internally and externally,
to receive the information,
explain what it means, and then show them
how to implement
what had been commanded.
Without the preparation, the teaching, and the demonstration,
the information cannot be implemented.
The messenger
is intrinsic
to the message.
The message came to be acted upon and
without him, Sallallahu Alaihi Salam, the message cannot
be acted upon and lived by. Islam is
not merely a theology or a philosophy,
but a complete way of life. Islam is
a
in is not knowledge about Islam, but whether
we practiced
it in our lives or not. That is
why the agents of Shaytan
attack Rasool Allah Naihi Salam
because they know that if they can remove
the Sunnah from our lives, they would have
effectively removed Islam
and replaced it with the desires of people
to be manipulated at will until they accompany
Shaitan to his destination.
Thus, this struggle is primordial.
It is from the beginning. The Mu'tazila
and their successors, the Quraniyeel,
they do it.
Allah
deliberately separated the law from the details of
its implementation.
He commanded us to pray but didn't tell
us how to do it in the Quran,
but sent that part of the message to
his Rasool, alayhis salaam. The message is complete
only when you take the 2 together.
That is why Imam al Auzai, Ahamzul Ali,
and others
said the book needs the sunnah more than
the needs the book. That is why Allah
called his Rasul, his niyama, the blessing on
the believers and not his book, which is
what the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam brought.
Respect for the book and its message is
embedded in respect
for the messenger. One does not exist without
the other. It was narrated from
from that he said, verily, I have been
given the book and something
like it with it, but soon a man
will be lying replete on his couch, and
he will say, you should adhere to this
Quran alone. Whatever you find
is permitted in
it, take it as permissible, and whatever you
find forbidden in it, take it as forbidden.
Verily,
the meat of tame donkeys is not permissible
to you, nor is the meat of any
every animal
that has fangs. And this is the Hadith
in.
This
is the Rasoolullah Sallallahu Salam, legislating
that the meat of donkeys
and the meat tame donkeys meat of tame
donkeys and
the meat of every animal that has fangs
in another place, also every bird that has
talents is haram.
This is not in the Quran. This is
the Rasool alayhi salaam legislating that. What is
in the Quran is
you and leave whatever he stops you from
and fear Allah
and Allah
is severe in punishment.
Respect for Rasool Allah,
loving him and following his sunnah are the
bulwarks
against Shaitan To learn about Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, to study his seerah with the intention
to live the way he lived, to mold
our character on his, to follow his Sunnah
in every aspect of our lives is a
sign that we love him.
And he said, sallallahu alaihi sallam, that on
the judge on the day of judgment, we
will be with those we love.
What can we say about the one on
whom Allah
sent salaam and ordered us to do the
same by commanding,
Allah.
Allah's blessing upon him and salute him with
worthy, worthy greetings of praise.
My brothers and sisters, let us make salat
and salaam on Rasoolah Salaam our daily habit
of goodness.
The minimum reward of which is that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will send salaam 10 times
on the one who sends salaam on Rasool
Rasoolam
one time.
Fearing nobody other than Allah. Our responsibility is
to convey the message, not to convince anyone.
Allah
Allah
Allah said, which means, say,
obey Allah and obey the messenger. But if
you turn away, then he is only responsible
for his duty as you are responsible for
yours. And if you obey him, you will
be rightly guided.
If you obey him,
you will be rightly guided.
The one who does not obey him cannot
be guided. The messenger's duty is only to
deliver the message clearly. Ask Allah
to
open our hearts
to his message
and to understand
that message through
the teachings of Rasulullah
SAWHSAW and to
fill our lives with the blessing
of that message.