Muiz Bukhary – A True Love Story
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The importance of love in Islam is emphasized, citing sermons from Muhammad sallali Ali Ali hang on a wall and the sermon of hesitation from the same speaker. The natural love of love is emphasized, and the importance of discipline and orderliness is emphasized. The speaker describes the emotional responses of the messenger's actions, including retaliation and the loss of the messenger's life. The speaker encourages people to embrace the messenger's lifestyle and teachings, drink water, and share in the company.AI: Transcript ©
Muhammad We begin by praising Allah
the lord of all worlds, the exalted, the
majestic, the all powerful, and we ask him
to send his choices to blessings and salutations.
Upon the final messenger, our beloved prophet Muhammad,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the fountain
head
of kindness, of compassion, of care, of love
in this world.
We ask Allah
to send his choices of blessings and salutations
upon him, his family members, his companions, and
every single individual who embraces the prophetic teachings
with akhlas with sincerity until the end of
time.
My dear respected elders, brothers and sisters in
Islam, sisters, because perhaps they will listen to
the recording later on, insha'Allah.
I start off by reminding myself and then
all of you all gathered here for salatuljumaa
to adopt a life of taqwa,
and that is to be conscious of Allah,
conscious of your maker. And you must do
this during every single second of your lives.
Oh, believers, oh, my congregation, if you wish
to attain victory and success in this world
as well as the hereafter,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us all
from people of Taqwa, and may he make
us from the victorious and successful ones. Amen.
The topic for my sermon today is
a true love story.
The topic for my sermon today,
a true
love story.
Anas ibn Malik, he reports,
hadith is recorded in the book of Imam
al Bukhari and Imam Muslim, Rahimahumullah.
It is an authentic hadith.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
The messenger is reported to have said, none
of you
have truly
brought in iman.
In other words,
none of you have completed
your iman
until
I
the messenger says this, until I am more
beloved to that individual
than his own children,
his own father,
and all of mankind.
All of mankind.
We have another narration.
Abdullah ibn Hisham radiallahu anhu he reports, we
were with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and he was holding
the hand of Umar radiAllahu an. The prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam is holding the hand
of Umar radiAllahu an. Now Umar radiAllahu anhu
then says to the messenger,
oh, messenger of Allah.
Oh, messenger of Allah.
You are more beloved to me
than anyone,
than everything
except for myself,
but myself.
Now, this in and of itself is a
powerful statement. Yes.
But then, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
at that juncture now goes on to educate
Omar radiAllahu
an.
No. By the one in whose hand is
my soul
until I am more beloved to you, O
Omar, than your own self.
I need to be more beloved
unto you than your own self.
Umar
without flinching,
not even batting an eyelid, he immediately goes
on to correct himself and he says, if
that is the case for messenger of Allah,
indeed
indeed, I swear,
wallahi,
if that is the case, I swear by
Allah
that you are more beloved to me now
than my own self.
Now, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
says, alana
Yeah. Umar.
Now, you are right. Omar.
Hadith is recorded in the book of Imam
al Bukhari rahimahullah.
So, you when you look at the the
commentary,
when you look at the explanations of this
hadith, my dear brothers, in Islam,
you understand
that loving yourself,
loving oneself is natural.
It is known in the Arabic language as.
It is a natural
instinct, a natural love. In other words, if
we are sane,
okay, upon a stable mental state, we would
not want to hurt ourselves.
We would not throw ourselves into destruction.
We would not take our own lives. Why?
Because we love ourselves.
We love ourselves. We value our lives. We
value ourselves. So, that is a naturally
ingrained love
hardwired into us.
On the other
hand choosing to love someone else
This is
not
It is
It is a love by choice.
A love by choice.
And this love by choice comes about due
to certain reasons,
due to external factors, due to precursors.
For example,
when a man and a woman get married,
they choose to love one another.
It is not as if they were born
ingrained with the love towards one another. No.
By perhaps one another's good character,
by perhaps the way one another carry themselves,
by perhaps the way one another looks, and
so on and so forth. There are a
number of reasons as to why this love
would come in. This optional love where you
choose to love someone else.
You admire that person. You respect that person,
and you start loving that person. You choose
to love that person. But loving yourself is
a natural love.
So, Umar radiAllahu, at
the initial stage,
he had taken on the optional love. He
chose to love the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. But the prophet corrects him by saying,
You Umar
The optional love is fine,
but what I require from you is the
naturally
hardwired
ingrained love within you where you have to
love me more than even yourself. My dear
brothers in Islam, this is
a
This is a pillar
from the pillars of iman
to love the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And to hate the messenger, may
Allah protect us. To hate the messenger,
it is
a nullifier
from the nullifiers of iman. It will nullify
your iman
if you do not love the messenger, if
you choose to hate the messenger. And the
primary proof for that is the hadith that
I shared with you at the beginning, that
none of you have truly brought in iman
until you love the messenger more than your
own children, more than your own parents, more
than your spouse,
more than every
single human being, more than the entirety of
mankind, even more than your own self. You
have to love the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wa Sallam.
My dear
brothers in Islam,
what is the definition
of loving the messenger of Allah?
You see before getting into
sufficing yourself
with the life of the messenger,
before you get into
following the messenger,
before all of that,
it starts off
with inclining your heart towards the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Turn your heart towards
him. Incline your heart towards the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We live in
a world
where people
are being swept away
with love and admiration
for all kinds of people,
for all kinds of personalities.
Today, all it takes is for something to
go viral,
for someone to become quote unquote an influencer,
and people don't hesitate.
They follow in the 100, in the 1,000,
in the 1,000, in the 1,000,000.
Whilst in all honesty, if you really look
at it, it's so superficial.
There's really nothing to admire.
There's really nothing to look up to in
comparison
to the role model that we are supposed
to be looking up to. The role model
that we are supposed to be loving with
every fiber of our beings? Muhammad.
And
to
instill this love, my dear brothers,
You have to look towards the lives of
the Sahalah.
The lives of the companions. The ones who
lived with him.
We claim to love him. Yes. But they
lived with him day in and day out.
They lived with him. They saw him. They
sat by him. They held his hands.
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
I have 2 stories. I don't have much
time. So, I have to share them with
you insha'Allah.
The first story
is of
a companion. His name was Sawad radiAllahu an.
So one
day, it was, if I'm not mistaken, during
the battle, during the day of Badr
during the day of Badr,
the the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam was arranging the roles. I want you
all to listen attentively. He was arranging the
roles. This is for battle, by the way.
Not for prayer. For battle.
And what happens? The messenger had a stick
with him. The messenger had a stick with
him. And he being the leader, he being
the imam, he being the commander,
he is now walking straightening the rows Straightening
the rows. And here you see how important
discipline is, how important orderliness is, how important
being organized is. So, the prophet is now
straightening the rows.
There was this companion, suad Radi Allahu man.
And, you have to understand. It is not
any ordinary day. It is Badr Badr.
The Sahaba knew this was
a powerful day. SubhanAllah, you are about to
go into battle. You may not come alive.
So Sawad radiAllahu anhu, he's seeing the messenger
of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam approaching.
He knows what to do.
Intentionally, what he does is he comes forward
a bit. He comes forward.
So now he's off alignment. Intentionally, he's off
alignment with the rope. So the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam is now coming. It's the
woo. It's the woo. You know what the
imam says? You would have heard me saying
before prayer as we stand for prayer. It's
the woo means straighten your rose straighten your
rose straighten your rose. Now the prophet,
hawk eyed, he spots
off alignment.
He goes
up to He had the stick in his
hand. He gently
taps him on his upper body, chest or
stomach.
Straighten
Straighten
Stand in alignment.
No sooner this stick that the prophet had
in his hand touched the body of Sawad
radiAllahu anhu.
He screams out. You Rasool Allah, Aw jaaathni
Aw jaaathni.
You have hurt me.
You have hurt me.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam looks at
him perplexed, a warrior
standing here, mere touch of a stick and
he's saying you have hurt me. The sahaba
around were also baffled. They looked at Sawad.
What's up Sawad?
What's going on?
Sawad says, you are Rasulullah. You are the
most just. You are the most fair. You
have hurt me, now I wish to retaliate.
I wish to retaliate.
I want to seek vengeance.
Now, the Sahaba were taken aback.
Some of them were
astounded.
They look at Sawad initially it was you
know they were looking at him in a
in a light hearted way. But now they're
looking at him what's wrong with this individual.
This is such a crucial day and he
wants to exact vengeance from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. So some of the sahaba
were disturbed. The prophet calms them all down
and he says, so what is right?
If I have hurt him, he
reserves the right
to do the same unto me.
So the prophet now hands over the stick
to Sawad radiAllahu anhu and says, you Sawad,
exact your retribution from me.
It was emotional.
It was emotional.
Sawad radiAllahu anhu tears glistening now on his
eyes. He takes the stick of the messenger.
He takes the stick of the messenger and
he looks at the prophet and he says,
you Rasool Allah,
as you can see, I am bare bodied.
I am bare bodied.
My upper body is exposed. You are wearing
your armor.
You are wearing your armor. If it is
to be fair and just, you have to
shed your armor.
Allahu
Akbar.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam calmly look
at the leadership.
Look at the humbleness.
Look at the attitude. He did not scorn
him. He did not push him away.
He removes his armor 1 by 1
and exposes
his blessed upper body.
No sooner his body was exposed, Sawad radiAllahu
anhu respectfully
keeps the stick of the messenger on the
ground. He rushes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He hugs him and he starts
to kiss the body of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The messenger is
surprised. He says, you Sawad, why? Why?
What is this? And Sawad says, you Rasulullah,
I don't know whether I will come alive
after this day, after this battle. I wanted
my skin to touch your skin the last.
I wanted this kiss on your blessed skin,
on your blessed body to be the last.
You Rasulullah.
I love you. You Rasulullah.
This is the love that the Sahaba had
for the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Very quickly. After
the demise of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
He can't bear it. He can't bear the
crushing weight.
He leaves Madinah. He goes to Damascus after
the demise of the prophet
He is in Damascus.
Now the messenger has passed away.
One day he sees a dream. In the
dream, the prophet says, You Bilal.
What is this? Mahadihi jaf Mahadihi jafaa. What
is this foolishness? Why are you not coming
and visiting me?
So no sunabila, radiAllahu, one who sees this
dream, he wakes up. He wakes up and
he thinks,
He's calling me, and he now sets to
Madina. Sets off to Madina. He goes to
Madina as he's entering Madina. Abu Bakrmi siddiq
radiallahu anhu welcomes him.
The memories of the messenger. I don't think
I will be able to call out the
adhan. He goes a little bit forward. Umar
radiAllahu anhu makes the same request. Bilal radiAllahu
anhu refo refuses. He goes forward.
The grandsons of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, Hassan and Hussain radiAllahu anhu. They come
running to him and as he embrace them,
the little children, as he embraces them, he
gets the smell of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He's overwhelmed.
He breaks down in tears. And then they
say, you Bilal, call out the Adhan for
us. He cannot say no to the grandchildren
of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He goes now
to the place where he used to call
out the Adhan from the mibbar,
from the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. He stands and now he calls out
the Adhan.
Allahu
Akbar. He calls out the Adhan. The people
of Madina, They all come rushing out.
It is Bilal calling out the Adhan.
Glad tidings.
The Messenger
has come back. Salallahu Alaihi Wa Salam. Muhammad
Salallahu Alaihi Wa Salam has come back. The
men, the women, they all rushed to the
streets of Madinah making their way flocking towards
the Masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Salam. Bilal radiAllahu alaihi wa sallam who continues.
He continues the Adhan. So beautiful. So melodious.
They all remembering the messenger of
allah. It is a joyous day.
He goes on.
He's able to hold his composure.
Now he comes to
He breaks down.
He breaks down.
He's not able to continue. He's weeping. He's
sobbing. Why?
Because a true love story my dear brothers
in Islam.
The love his heart is aching.
He cannot contain himself.
It is grief washing
over him. He crumbles. He breaks down and
he comes down.
And then
all the people who had flocked realize,
oh, the messenger is not with us.
The messenger is not with us. The narrator
says,
after the day that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam passed away,
this was the second
bluemiest,
darkest, and most saddest of days in Madinah.
They were filled with so much of grief.
Why?
Because they loved the messenger so much.
My dear brothers in Islam,
as I conclude, in the few minutes that
I have with you all, I want to
instill.
Let this be a stepping stone.
Let this be a stepping stone to nurture.
Let the flames of love for Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam burn bright.
Study the Seerah.
Implement the sunnah. Draw closer and closer to
the teachings of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. As the world
moves away,
let us move closer.
Let us embrace the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Not for the sake of following a
trend or a fag. Let us truly
embrace his lifestyle,
his teachings.
Rabiwasalamu
alayhi. May my mother, my father, and myself
be ransomed and sacrificed for him. With that,
I conclude the sermon. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
cleave, open our hearts and fill our hearts
with true and piercing love for Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi
wa sallam. May he fill our hearts with
admiration
towards Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. May he
fill our hearts with the desire to follow
the teachings of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
May he forgive us of our sins. May
he accept our good deeds. And just as
how he united us here in this mischief,
may he unite us in the gardens of
Jannah, in the companionship of our beloved prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And may he
bless us all to drink at the howd
at the fountain through the blessed hands of
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
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