Muhammad West – Who was the Prophet – SAW
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The speaker discusses their desire to share personal experiences with religion and their church's agnostic approach. They also emphasize the importance of being a father, husband, and working for God, as it is a message of comfort and guidance to live life to reach Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The speaker emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and embracing the actions of those who do not fit their standards, including violence against women and children.
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Notice, then I don't know.
Like my kids, when we got back home,
because of how I would hang up my
my wife. We don't want them to miss
you, but you also want them to miss
you. So it's sort of a a mixed
mixed feeling. And,
we're not going to details about the, Alhamdulillah,
the travel that I had. The part of
the world that I went
to, if I travel, I I love looking
and going into the cathedrals and the synagogues.
You know? But I I enjoy going in
and speaking about religion.
And most of the cathedral synagogues, they're huge,
but they're empty.
And they're basically museums.
They're not used.
And going on these walking tours,
you, you know, with these youngsters and you
ask them because they think you passed this
as good thing to us both in that
time, all the historical thing that happened here.
And then you ask them, what religion do
you follow with your people? And the country
will take the public to know what's that.
Very proud. We're 80% atheist.
Majority
and this is sort of the thing in
the world.
And you want to understand why? Why is
religion sort of failing across the world?
Why is it that, subhanallah, in a place
like the UK,
more Muslims are in Jumuah, which is a
Muslims are highly minority. There are more Muslims
that I asked this young man, so,
you know, why because he's also very proud.
And I even asked him, should I go
and visit these cathedral and stuff? And he
said, do you wanna see Jesus paintings? I
mean, this is what the guy is telling
me. And,
ask I also, why is it that
why is it that you guys are so,
you know,
agnostic? So we're not atheist, we're agnostic. We're
not sure. And the answer was was, it
wasn't good enough communism or anything like that.
It's because we don't find any relevance of
religion in our life. There's no answers in
it. When we moved away from religion,
that's when science and technology had progressed. We
found more,
the further away we were from the church,
the further we were away from any kind
of religious,
you
know, structure.
We found meaning in our life. And there's
nothing in religion that inspires us. And there's
so much I want to Umashir, a person
with We hope, InshaAllah, we have iman. They
wanna share of the meaning that we find
in Islam.
Why we come to this and we, you
know, evening and we think about our prophet
Nabi Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam. What we
experience during Ramadan.
What we experience
when we are connected to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. You know, those moments when you are
in deep Ibadah. For those who go on
Hajj Umrah and you stand before the Kaaba,
you want to share. And subhanAllah, this evening,
it's a a lecture about the Nabi Salam,
but it's not for us, but it's to
share with our non Muslim friends, our colleagues.
And I you know, in Islam, we don't
have this concept of proselyzing. Prosthetizing is like
recruiting. We don't recruit people to Islam. We
give dawah. We invite you to share in
this beauty that we have. You can take
it if you want to. You cannot take
it if you don't want to. But it's
a dawah. It's an invitation. So there's an
invitation as to who the Nabi was. Why
is it?
Was. Why is it
that his name is the most
common, most prominent name in the world? More
people are called Muhammad than anywhere else. Why
is it that to this moment, every second,
people are sending salawat on him?
That his name is mentioned and loved. That
if people draw cartoons of any character,
it's not that we're okay with it, but
if they do a cartoon of this man,
then you'll find 1 and a half 1000000000
people, you know, getting very upset. Why is
it that 1 and a half 1000 years
after he has passed away, people still eat
the way he eats? They pray like he
prayed. They try to enter the bathroom the
way he entered. They try to follow
his life as much as they can. And
even though if you ask us, we'll say
we don't do justice to what we should
as his followers.
So we introduce you to the Nabi Salam.
And to put into context, as Surah the
Nabi Salam, he's not as we know as
Muslims, we don't worship the Nabi Salam. He's
not divine. He's a man.
And he is Abdullah. He is the slave
of the creator.
And his job is to guide us how
to live our life to reach Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. How do you live as a
father, as a husband? How do you work?
How do you sleep? How do you eat?
At the same time, you are devoted to
Allah. And he did not come to bring
a new faith to the world. He came
to revive and to maintain the faith of
the universe, which is that of Islam,
of all of creation yearning for its creator.
This is what Islam is. No matter how
atheistic you
are, deep down you want to connect to
your creator. Where did I come from? Where
am I going when I die? Who is
it that put me and what is my
purpose? That is Islam.
To be connected to your creator. And Allah,
the Creator,
he had sent many prophets
to guide mankind back to this path. We
know them.
Adam,
Noah, Nabi Noor, Nabi Ibrahim.
Every time mankind lost their way, a new
Nabi was sent to guide mankind back to
this religion.
And then a time came where
mankind lost its path so much. Allah sent
the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Nabi
Nabi'Isa, fulfilled all the prophecies
and he was rejected by his own people.
And then the world went into a dark
age. Even
And I mentioned this before, Harvard University, where
they studied the history of mankind, they said
the 6th century was the darkest time in
human history. In terms of human civilization, the
6th century was the worst. And it'll be
in this time, at the lowest point of
human civilization,
to the lowest society in the world, Allah
would send his final
message to his final
prophet and that will be it. Allah's promise
to mankind ends with nabi salaam. That's it
mankind. You have this final nabi. And you
are the final ummah. It's up to you.
You carry this message
or you reject it and that's the end.
And
so, our Nabi was born 5/71
in Arabia, in a land that was
the worst of of people. A people that
even killed their own children.
And in this difficult
society, no government, no laws, no system, no
order,
people
killed one another over animals, over camels. He's
born into the society, and he already in
not only is in a backward society, but
he has a few steps back to everybody
else because he lose both of his pair
both his parents.
Even in our day and age, if someone
is an orphan,
their prospects of survival, their prospects of success
in our society today with all the support.
You don't have much. You have a lot
going against you. You don't have your parents.
He didn't have his parents.
And he grows up in this very tough
environment.
And for 40 years until when he reaches
the age of 41, alhamdulillah, he comes through
a very difficult
life to become one of the most prominent
men of his tribe.
His virtue, his character, his universal,
strength as as a human being, the person
he was, people loved him. People admired
him. People believed in him, trusted him.
He had come from a very difficult upbringing
to becoming a man that has now reached
you would almost say, he has come to
a point of his life where he can
take it easy and he can relax. Alhamdulillah.
He's got a comfortable life. He's got his
family.
But at the but when he with all
of this, he realizes this is not the
meaning of life. And our prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, goes through a type of depression.
It's not a type of depression.
At the age of 40, what we would
make some of us go through a midlife
crisis.
Some people go and buy Ferraris or get
married a second time, subhanAllah,
protect us, whatever it is. Our nabi salaam
goes and finds comfort in seclusion being alone.
And just meditating and thinking, is this what
life is all about? We eat, we sleep,
we go to work, we come back, we
feed our children, one day we die. Is
that it?
That's what I ask those who don't have
any faith. Is that really your purpose in
life? Whether you die now or 50 years
from now, it means nothing?
This couldn't This didn't make sense to the
rabbi And the religions, he saw people worshiping
stones and idols which they made by their
own hands. This also could not be the
right way. That the universe has no
ultimate purpose. And in that moment at the
age of 40,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
communicates once again to humanity. The creator speaks
the Rabi Salam and says to him, kumfandir,
stand up and call your people.
Remind Remind them about this religion of Islam.
And so for the next 13 years as
we would know, the Nabi salalam begins what
would seem like a very strange religion in
Makkah. The worship of 1 God. The worship
that any human being, any person, young or
old, man or woman, whatever color you are,
you have a direct link with your Creator.
You can raise your hands and you can
speak to the Lord of the Alameen and
you say, Yeah, Allah help me. I'm sick.
Help me in my job. Everyone has a
unique connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There is no superiority to anybody in the
sight of Allah. It is only by Taqwa.
That Allah doesn't look at your
bank account or your color or your tribal,
your your your your address or your name.
Allah looks at the sincerity of your heart.
And so he preaches
is there's no hope anymore in this city.
Mecca.
He's on the him and his people are
on the verge of of genocide.
So they pack up and they leave and
they go to a town a few 100
kilometers away, the city of Madinah.
We We call it Madinah, but that's not
the real name.
The name
is Madinu Rosul, the city of the prophet.
When he arrived there, the people, they embrace
this religion. They accepted this religion. They found
this religion was true. Why? Why them? I
always ask this trick question. Why did the
people of Madinah
embrace Islam and the people of Makkah did
not? People of Makkah had the Kaaba. This
is where Allah,
you know, made his sanctuary in Mecca, yet
they themselves did not accept Islam. Why did
the people of Madinah accept Islam?
They had something which no one had. They
had a tribe of Jews in Madinah. And
when they heard now they would have thought,
you know, guys, you know, we follow these
conspiracy theories. Those of you watch podcasts,
you know, I think of all the conspiracy
theories. You talk this person is telling you.
So now the people of Madinah are listening
to the Jews. The Jews are telling them,
there's a God. He's 1. He sends prophets,
and He's gonna send the prophet. And when
He comes,
he will have miracles and he will guide
us to worship him. And when he comes,
he will bring civilization to the world and
he will rule the world. And they're describing
and describing how this prophet is. And these
Arabs thinks, oh, you guys are crazy.
Then a group of these people of Madinah,
these Arabs, they go to Makkah and they
find there's a guy who calls himself a
prophet. And he has exactly folds all the
boxes, ticks all the boxes as the Jews
had mentioned.
And this for them, they accepted the Nabi
salallam.
And so the prophet migrates to Madinah and
he spends only 10 years there. He's 53
years old now.
And for the next 10 years now,
he is a political leader, a religious leader
and a political leader. He's in charge of
a city.
And he can now establish the laws of
Islam in a safe environment.
And much of the laws we have in
the Sharia of the Quran how to how
to fast, how to give zakah, how to
give inheritance, how to get married, what is
allowed, not allowed. This is all in Madina.
And he establishes for the first time in
Arabia, a sort of a central authority, a
Arab, as the Sahaba would say, from darkness
to light, from
out of as the Arab, as the Sahaba
would say, from darkness to light, from ignorance
to knowledge, from the liberation of of being
enslaved to the dunya, to be free to
to to worship Allah alone. When you get
to see this for yourself, yourself. And that
is the invitation of dawah. Anybody who's not
tasted Islam, who's not tasted this deen, I
feel so sad for you to see what
this deen liberates you from.
You're not enslaved to Monday to Friday. You're
not
enslaved for the next promotion. You're not enslaved
by the difficult of the dunya. You're only
enslaved to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and with
Allah everything is possible. And so now,
after 10 years,
the Arabian Peninsula flocks to Islam.
We cited in in Maghrib, Allah says,
When Allah says, when his victory comes,
you see the people entering into Islam of
Wajah. They will start to enter this deen
in waves, tribe after tribe. The Arab, the
Arabian Peninsula for the first time, they found
a home, a place of security, a place
of of of guidance. And so the Nabi
al Hasan leaves after 10 years, he leaves
a a country, a nation under one authority
of Islam. He leaves his ummah with Islam
intact. And he basically says to his ummah,
I've done my job.
I've given over.
I have done my
part. I've given you the message. I'm just
a messenger. I've given you the Quran as
I was supposed to. It's up to you,
my ummah, to take it forward.
It's up to you, oh, ummah, to decide
what to do with this with this message.
And then the Sahaba, of course, as we
know, what would start in as an Arabian
sort of movement would become within a 100
years the leading civilization in the world.
From France to China,
the biggest
and we're not talking about conquest.
The biggest civilization up until that point in
human history
would be under the banner of Islam.
And you'd find a revival. Remember we said
the story began with
the world being in dark as Harvard University
mentioned that the world was in a dark
age. The world comes out of this dark
age. How? Through Islam. Science and technology now
thrives once again. People find not only meaning
in their deen. Islam is not just about
worshiping in the masjid. It's about how you
live your life, making your life productive.
And so we find
Islam, the world thriving
sallam, if you were to ask
about him from a personal perspective,
what did he look like?
He did not look like some superhero, Superman,
some Avenger, some Marvel character.
He was of moderate height. He was neither
dark of complexion
or or or very fair, but he was,
you know, colored if we were to use
that term.
And the thing that people whenever they described
him, what was the act what was the
thing that stood out the most? If anyone
meet him, they would say, we've never seen
someone that smiled the most. He has the
weight of the world, the ummah on his
shoulders, but he's smiling. He's not a morbid
person.
Nothing as the Sahaba would say, nothing gave
us more pleasure than to look at the
face of the Nabi Salam. And the more
we looked at his face, the more we
were unable to satisfy our desire to keep
looking at him.
Allah says about the Nabi Salam, his greatest
attribute, his greatest quality
wasn't that he was against some super some
superhero. Allah says
that he was of an exalted character and
his message that he called. So what is
the message of Islam?
What is this religion that we are inviting
you to? As the Rabi Muslim says,
Allah is my Lord.
He is your Lord. He created you.
So worship him alone.
This is the straight path. If you want
meaning in your life,
raise your hands and speak to your Creator
in whatever language you want. You don't have
to mention any. There's no priesthood,
no
graves or shrines, nothing like that. In our
religion, in this religion, every single person, you
raise your hand in your language
creator and everything comes right.
His message
is beautifully summarized. This religion is beauties beautifully
summarized in a speech that, Jafar, one of
his disciples, one of his Sahaba, his cousin,
had given to the king of Ethiopia. The
king of Abyssinia, one of the powerful men
in the world, asked, what is this religion
that you people have brought about you? Are
you like a cult?
What kind of strange religion is this? And
he, Jafar summarizes
Islam and he says, O king,
before Islam, before this man came with this
message, we were a people in a state
of ignorance of jahiliyah, of immorality,
of worshiping stones, idols. And we committed all
sorts of abomination and shameful actions. We live
like animals.
All
sorts of abomination and shameful actions. We lived
like animals. We killed each other. We murdered
each other. We killed our own children. We
sold our women. We had no laws. We
lived a shameful life. We broke the ties
of kinship,
And now we had no respect for our
guests. It was a society where the strong
rule the weak. That was our law. That
was the rule of the jungle.
And we remained in this state for 100
of years.
We were subhuman. That's how we lived.
Until the creator
sent us this man,
sent us this nabi.
And it's a person which we knew. For
40 years, we know him.
We know of his truthfulness. He never lied.
We're not about the rands and sins. Why
is he gonna lie about the creator of
the universe?
We trusted him.
And we knew of his integrity. He was
well known to us.
And then he called us to the worship
of 1 creator alone.
And to renounce the stones and the idols
which we and our ancestors to worship besides
Allah. And he commanded us to speak the
truth.
Don't lie in your business, with your family.
As a Muslim, you don't lie.
And to keep your promise when you make
it. And to be good to your relatives,
and to help your neighbor,
and to avoid all those forbidden shameful acts,
which you know you should not do, to
not shed the blood of any human being.
No person, Muslim, non Muslim, should be harmed
by your hand.
To avoid obscenities
and falsehood.
Not to to look after the orphan and
to take care of the rights of women.
This is what he came to preach.
He and because of this, he continues, we
were persecuted. This is our
religion. For those who might think that the
Nabi Salam
came for some worldly gain, he invented this
religion for himself.
At some point, he was offered,
O Muhammad, perhaps this is what the his
enemy said to him, perhaps you have invented
this religion because you want power.
Then we the Arabs would the Arabs had
didn't have a concept of a king. They
didn't have a king. They said, we will
make you our first king. You'll be the
first king of Arabia.
And if you want money, we will gather
all our wealth together and give it to
you.
You can be our king. You can be
the richest man amongst us. If it's women
that you want, you just take your pick
of our daughters, our wives, we will give
them to you. We'll give you whatever you
want to stop this religion.
And that's when he responded,
I am just a messenger.
Who will who of you are going to
protect me against Allah if I stop? And
if you were to give me the sun
in my one hand and the moon in
the other hand, this cannot this would not
stop me from preaching this message.
When he died, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he had
a 100000
people
that just did Hajj with him. Where if
he were to raise his finger,
they would do as he commanded. They would
have died for him. But when he died,
the house that he lived, the only thing
it had was a carpet and a bed
made of
dead leaves.
He could have had the world in his
hand, but this did not bother
him. Aisha says when he passed away,
he said, O Aisha, collect every
empty my as we would say bank accounts
and my everything. Bring it together so I
can see what I have. And she said,
You Rasulullah, I could only find 7 silver
coins. And the prophet felt so ashamed with
himself. He said, How do I meet Allah
with these 7 silver coins? Immediately give it
to charity.
This is the greatest man on the face
of the earth.
Wasn't for money or power,
but it was to bring mankind out of
darkness to light. And of his teachings, there
are many hadith I've I've mentioned here. We
won't be able to list all of them.
But these are universal. Any person,
this could resonate with them.
He says,
Allah is Jameel. Allah is beautiful. Your creator,
your God is beautiful.
And Allah loves that which is beautiful.
But Allah does not look at external beauty.
Allah looks at the beauty of your heart.
The clean heart is what Allah looks at.
He says, your Lord is generous. He loves
to give and your Lord is shy. So
that when you raise your hand,
Allah is too shy to ever let someone
pray to him and that hand goes away
empty. Allah will always give you something if
you ask of him.
The prophet says wealth is not the amount
of position that you have but it's the
wealth and the richness of your heart. How
much contentment you have in your family, in
your life. Allah grant us all a rich
life.
The prophet says you are not a true
believer.
If you are of you ate your fool,
but your neighbor around you is hungry.
None of you have faith until you love
for your brother what you love for yourself.
The pleasure of Allah
lies in the pleasure of your parents.
The pleasure of Allah
lies in the pleasure of your parents. And
the displeasure of Allah lies in the displeasure
of your parents.
His
servant, as we recall,
the person who come and fetch his water
and spent some Anas
stayed with him for 10 years, young boy.
And Anas said, For 10 years, I was
his servant from 6 to 16.
And not once did he ever reprim on
me. Not once did he ever say a
word that criticized me.
The happiest day of my life. This is
a servant, subhanallah. What would your I say,
what would your employees,
your domestic workers say about you, my brothers,
my sisters. This is gonna be some we
could say servant. He says, the best day
of my life was the day I met
him and the saddest day of my life
was the day he passed away.
The prophet says, whoever does not show affection
to the young and respect to our old,
you're not from this ummah.
Give workers their due, their wage before their
sweat dries. Pay them before their sweat dries.
Never ever he says to Aisha his wife,
turn away a person who knocks on your
door for something. Never let them go empty
handed.
Love the poor and bring them close to
you because Allah will bring you close to
him on the left kiyama.
And the reason says to all of us,
let your own faults
keep you so busy that it prevents you
from criticizing the faults of others.
Let your own faults prevent you from criticizing
the faults of others.
The best house is the house that cares
for an orphan.
Make things easy for people and don't make
things difficult for them. For Allah will make
things easy for you on qiyamah.
And he teaches us about about of who
your rabb is. When Allah says, oh son
of Adam, where your sins were to reach
the clouds in the sky, and then you
came to me for forgiveness, you would find
that I am forgiving.
The prophet says, fear Allah in how you
treat your animals. Fear Allah in how you
treat your animals.
So these are and there are more we
could mention in terms of his
his message to all of humanity
will bring blessing and goodness in your life.
And as we said, when he was within
the span of 23 years of teaching, of
preaching, he left the world personally with nothing
in his own personal capacity. But what he
then did was he established
the foundation of what would be the greatest
civilization
on earth. He would take mankind from its
lowest point
to bring into a new age
of light, of technology,
of advancement,
of prosperity.
He would make a civilization
where people, as he said, he would say,
Thawyih Sahaba, when you when you look at
my house, you don't see much. You think
you're talking about you speak to the creator
of the union. I don't see anything amazing.
He says, don't worry. When this religion becomes
set, you'd find people ladies would travel. A
lady all alone, she will travel from Yemen
to Makkah on Hajj, and she will be
completely alone. No one would bother her. When
Islam comes, you would find peace and security.
SubhanAllah, today you can't walk out of your
house here at home in the 21st century.
And so he established a civilization that became
the leader in the world. And no human
being has achieved this. You find great religious
leaders who developed religions.
And you find great rulers and kings and
politicians who developed empires.
But why he is still today
nominated as the number one person, the most
influential man in all of history
is because without an army,
in a land without learning, without libraries, without,
authority, without anything to work with, he started
from below 0
and establishes
a civilization.
And until today, that civilization,
1 in 5 people says,
And his teachings are still relevant today. If
you look at the biggest problems in the
world that we're facing.
So what someone says, what can a man
who lived 1 and a half 1000 years
ago in in the desert teach me of
today? Let's look at some of the problems
we're facing today.
Wars and fighting between different faiths.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la says,
Allah
says, and cannot insult
any of any other any from another religion
and those that they worship.
Do not insult. We are proud of our
religion, but we do not insult or disregard
or disrespect any other faith. We respect all
places of worship and all people of faith.
Once a
a person from another faith passed away and
the janaza, you know, the burial walked past,
and the Prophet stood up to honor this
dead man. And his disciples, his SubhanAllah, he's
not a Muslim.
That's not a Muslim. That's a non Muslim
that has that has died. And then I
was, was he not a human being? Was
he not a soul? Can we not empathize
and sympathize with him?
SubhanAllah.
If this is Rasulullah,
when they reject
Islam,
for us it's our religion. But for whom
that's rejecting him, his message is calling him
a liar, yet he was the one that
showed respect and tolerance. Within Islam, you'd find
many of the as we say so many
times, we remind us that the Jews
were not allowed to live in Palestine until
Islam reached Palestine with the Bani Israel, the
Jews allowed to return
to Palestine.
Jerusalem
today has the old churches in the world,
the oldest synagogues in the world. Where did
this come from? We preserved it and maintained
it. We got this from our Rasul.
We talk about the environment.
I always joke that the first account of
a man hugging a tree was the Nabi
salam, hugging the palm tree in his Masjid,
where he would give his khutbah. And he
would say and he says this this hadith,
Even if the end of the world were
to happen now, piyama, the trumpet has been
blown and the world was coming to an
end.
And you had a plant in your hand,
then plant that tree.
Plant that tree even if the world was
coming to an end. Take care of the
environment and the animals.
We talk about something which we struggle with
here in South Africa, JBV, GBV, gender based
violence,
violence against women and children.
We mentioned that the last sermon he gave,
he said, oh Muslims, take care of your
salah
and take care of your women.
Look after your pray, look after your women.
The most when he combines this this is
why Islam what makes Islam beautiful is there's
no such thing as I'm a pious Muslim,
but I'm a horrible human being. Or I'm
a wonderful human being outside, but I neglect
my creator. You need to be both. You
need to worship Allah devoutly and you need
to be good to the creation as well.
And therefore, he says, the person with the
greatest iman, not the man who makes the
most tajjud,
the
man that fasted the most the longest in
the masjid, but the man who is best
to his women.
Women meaning your mother, your daughter,
your wife. The man who can treat his
woman folk the best, this requires the greatest
of iman. And we tease and we say,
SubhanAllah, half of iman is Jihad and Hajj
and the other half is marriage. So
SubhanAllah.
With regards to racism, we're always so proud
of this.
SubhanAllah.
I went to
a place where 1 and a half 1000000
Jews were exterminated just because they were Jews.
This was a 100, not even a 100
years ago.
This is how backwards humanity was. 1500 years
ago, you find a man that says,
Ben, your people,
your Lord is 1
and your father is 1.
There's no superiority.
Whether you're a black, an Indian, a colored,
a white, doesn't make a difference, or an
Arab. None has superiority based on color, race,
and ethnicity. This is we're proud of your
ethnic group. You can be proud of your
your culture, where you come from. We don't
deny that. But this is meaningless in the
sight of Allah. The only thing that counts
in The only thing which Allah looks at
is the kind of human being your heart
is. What kind of person you
are. As I said, humanity,
not even a 100 years ago, exterminate almost
exterminated another race of people purely because they
weren't white enough.
1,500
years ago, you have a man that says,
we don't Allah does not look at
your color.
And another thing that shows you something special
about this man, there have been many great
men.
Men and women.
Great rulers and kings, prophets.
But there is something special about this man
in his ummah.
There's something special about the love this ummah
have as for the Nabi, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
They saw it in then, in the past,
and today you see it still today. The
fact that you are here, the fact that
you still we still try to emulate his
sunnah. We still try to make salah like
him. We still name our children Muhammad. We
still
love to hear about his story and his
his seerah.
We try our best to emulate him. And
what the rulers what the the the non
Muslims said,
one of them said, I have visited the
emperor of Persia,
and I visited the emperor of Rome, and
I visited the emperor of Abyssinia,
and I saw how their people, their followers,
their disciples
treat them, obey
them. But I've never seen people who love
and admire
Muhammad as
his ummah does, as his Sahaba does.
No other ummah
has been so true to the Nabi as
this Ummah is. With all our faults and
all our problems and all our shortcomings.
Well, alhamdulillah,
1500 years later,
at the tip of Africa,
in a land that take it takes you
9 hours by plane to get
to the birthplace of Islam
Yet we still remember him. We commemorate him.
We follow his sunnah. We try to preserve
his legacy. We recite the Quran as he
recited. This
is a sign no person in the history
of mankind
achieved this. That love that this Ummah has
for its Nabi only comes from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And so, so many accolades and
things we can say about the Nabi Salam,
but all those statements
cannot compare
to what the Lord of the Alameen says.
And Allah says,
But verily Allah and his They continue Allah
and his angels make salawat, praise him, and
sends greetings upon him 247.
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