Mustafa Abu Rayyan – S01 Ep01 Seerah Introduction
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The speaker discusses Islam's program called Islam Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, including a comprehensive one covering various topics. They emphasize the importance of learning the story of Islam's name and how it is mentioned in the title of the program. The speaker also discusses the importance of learning the prophet's actions, including his connection with Islam and his use of words to express their love for him. They stress the importance of knowing the prophet's life and the details of his actions, as well as the importance of learning theseems of the internet to better understand the teachings of Islam. The speaker also discusses the challenges faced by the prophet's people during his journey to Islam, including his support of his wife and the challenges of being a Muslim. They emphasize the importance of finding out who is a winner of the airplane and reminding everyone to express their love for the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam and not to be like this all the time.
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I start by praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and sending blessings and salutations upon our beloved
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
As promised,
the program
that the masjid started,
and this program is a comprehensive one whereby
we are not only covering one aspect of
the deen, but some of the core and
most important ones.
On Mondays there's an aqidah class.
On Wednesday there's a fiqh class
and we will conclude the work week if
you will
with the beloved Sira,
the beloved story
of our beloved Muslim Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
And,
before I start, I just wanna,
tell our sisters and our brothers
that,
there is a link for those of you
that are on the there's a Telegram group
where a lot of information updates are mentioned.
If you go to bina.co.uk,
you'll find a link to a Telegram group.
And in there is a link for questions
that will be answered by the instructors including
myself to write inshallah.
Once you send your questions in, we'll do
that at the end.
First, how fortunate are we
that we are starting a class
and we are in the month that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was born.
Rabi al Awal. And,
that is. It's a it happened by accident.
But in the end, it's worth mentioning that
it is this month that we are in,
that the one we love more than anyone
else.
The one human being
whom we love more than anyone else,
who we worship Allah
through loving Him and following Him
was born in this month.
And he salallahu alaihi wasallam also passed away
in this month.
And he salallahu alaihi wasallam arrived in Madinah,
that momentous occasion
where they leave the oppression and the shirk
in Makkah
and arrive in Madinah welcomed by the wonderful
companions the Ansar
was in this month as well.
So
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allowed us to
be here speaking about the seerah of our
prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi wa sallam and starting
it in this month.
When
it comes to the of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
it is one of those stories and it's
one of those lessons that everyone wants to
listen
to. When you hear about the prophet, your
heart just feels different
and that's because of our iman.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam.
He is beloved by Allah.
And there's a narration where Allah
where the prophet said, when Allah loves someone,
Allah puts
that love
within mankind and within the angels.
And this person will be beloved by the
angels and beloved by mankind.
Who is that more befitting of
than Muhammad
The reason we read his Sira,
the reason we
we love to talk about him is because
there's literally no one,
no one
we would want to talk about more than
him.
Allah says in the Quran,
And we made high your mention.
Oh Muhammad, we made high your mention.
When the adhan is called and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is name is raised,
the prophet Muhammad's name is mentioned right next
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He is mentioned
whenever we mention Allah,
we mention him in our salah.
We mention him during our day so many
times.
In fact,
I would love to ask a question.
If your name is Mohammed, raise your hand.
Hi. Hi. Come on. Come on. I wanna
see the names.
If you have a family member whose name
is Muhammad, keep your hands up. I want
the Muhammads to keep their hands up. If
you have a family member whose name is
Muhammad, raise your hand.
Rasoolullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam his story is
different my brothers and sisters.
And I want to share with you a
few hadith to get you into the right
mindset.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered us to
love him and made it part of our
iman.
Where the prophet said,
one none one of you has not truly
believed
Until I become more beloved to him, the
prophet is saying, you have not truly believed.
Until the prophet becomes more beloved to you
than who?
Than your own children,
than your own mother and father, than all
of mankind. Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam
comes first.
So of course
we would want to learn his and
story.
One day, a Bedouin man came to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And the Sahaba, they used to love when
a Bedouin man comes because the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam would entertain their questions more,
and he would teach them more. Whereas with
his Sahaba that lived with him, he did
not like for them to ask him many
questions.
Do you know why?
Because from questions would come legislation.
When they ask, you Rasool Allah, is this
haram? Is this halal? Should you do this?
Then legislation will come as a result of
that,
and legislation means responsibility
and responsibility
means potentially incurring sin if we don't do
it. So he would say to them, don't
ask me many questions.
Don't ask me many questions. Does that make
sense? It was rifa. It was gentleness. But
when the bedwunners come he would love to
give them the answers because they don't spend
as much time with the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam as his close companion instead.
But this this hadith you all know. This
bedwun man, he asked the prophet a question,
You Rasulullah,
when
is the hour?
And the prophet replies,
What have you prepared for it?
What have you prepared for it? It's not
about when it is, but rather what have
you prepared for it? And this man was
so honest. He said, You Rasulullah, I did
not prepare for it much salah, much fasting,
much worship.
Isn't that a problem?
That's a problem. We should prepare with much
salah and much silkat and much worship. Should
we not my brothers?
But then he
said,
but I love Allah and His messenger.
I love Allah and His messenger salallahu alaihi
wasallam. And the prophet said something.
A statement
that is so beautiful.
It's when we hear it, it should makes
our heart feel calm and happy. He said,
The person will be with whom he loves
on the day of judgment.
Maybe all be with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. Say I mean.
The narrator of the hadith is Anas ibn
Malik
who was in that gathering listening to that
story and seeing that exchange
and he said something very powerful.
He said,
that statement of the prophet when he said,
you will be with whom you love. That
statement was more beloved and more precious to
us than anything else.
And then he said,
I love prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam
and I love Abu Bakr and I love
Umar, Allahu Akbar.
So again,
that love is so important.
Now the question is we all understand that
we have to love the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, but how do we do that?
How can you love someone you do not
know?
How can you love someone you do not
know? And my brothers and sisters, that
what we know about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is so amazing.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there is no
human being that has ever lived,
whose life is more detailed than Rasool alaihi
wasallam. We know everything about him.
Everything about him.
We know the type of food he ate
and liked
and the type of food he did not
like.
We know
that he never
said when food was brought to him
something bad about that food.
We know how many white hairs he had
on his head.
We know how he smiled.
We know how he walked.
We know what he wore.
The specific
clothings that he wore, we know.
We know salallahu alaihi wasallam.
How he was with his wives. How he
was with his children. We know his injuries.
We can literally I can literally highlight to
you the injuries and the scars of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Who in human history do we know so
much details? The type of plates that he
used?
How he combed his hair? Which foot he
would love to put his shoe in before
he got out of the house?
Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What chapters of the Quran
he would recite in every salah?
That's how much we know about the prophet
We know the moments that made him happy
and he laughed.
The moments that they made him sad and
he cried.
We know how he worshipped. We know how
much adkar he made. We know every trip
that he made and where he went and
who went with him.
We know what happened every instant in his
life recorded and talked about.
And I'll tell you something amazing, no one
in history, my brothers and sisters,
has it been recorded
their moments of silence.
Reports
that the prophet
was leading salah.
And after he finished his
he got quiet.
The prophet was silent for a bit.
Who in history
are the moments of silence recorded?
Who in history
are the moments of silence
recorded?
And high we raise your attention.
We know the prophet's childhood. We know his
jobs.
So my brother and sisters, it is not
hard
it is not hard
to learn about him.
It is extremely important because it will increase
the love you have for him. And the
way rasool Allah's story is laid out.
It is as if you are living with
him. InshaAllah ta'ala as we go through his
journey the next few weeks we will be
talking about before he even became a prophet,
early Makkah.
His marriage to Khadija, his early life and
I'll tell you something interesting about rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wasallam that Allah made him in such
way
every single person no matter where you are
in life.
There is a way you can connect to
the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
If you're in charge of people, the prophet
was in charge of his sahab and the
ummah. He was a leader.
If you're involved in politics, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was a statesman.
If you're married, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was a husband.
If you're a parent the prophet
was a father. He was a friend. The
prophet was
a spiritual leader. He used to lead the
salah. The prophet was
a general that commanded armies. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam had was a trader at one
point in his life in business.
Sallallahu alaihi wasallam he was a shepherd.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was
so many different people
and had so many different roles
that is very easy to connect with him.
This is why he is so special. And
I want you to think about this for
a second, my brothers and sisters.
Allah
looked at the hearts of all of his
creation,
all of mankind and picked Rasool Allah
as
The one who concludes
the message that came from Allah because
the perfect conclusion.
He is the last of the prophets yet
the first.
He salallahu alaihi wasallam is so beloved to
Allah,
so beloved to Allah,
that the day of judgment will not commence.
As we are all standing in front
of waiting for judgment to start, it will
not commence
until Rasulullah
walks up, make sujood, praise Allah, and Allah
says, oh, Muhammad, stand up.
Ask and you will be given. Intercede and
your instruction will be accepted. That's when the
judgment will start.
Will not be opened up. The gates of
will not open
until he is standing in front of it.
Look at how important Rasoolah is.
Now I want to show you from a
different angle.
Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi wasallam is so important,
so special
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala while he was
still alive ascended him to the highest place.
A place even Angel Dibreel could not go
until he communed and spoke and conversed with
his lord, Allah Almighty.
And then he came back.
And yet when he was home,
he would bend his shoes,
he would milk his goat and he would
do the menial jobs in the home.
And when he would leave,
any person from the street could grab his
hand and ask him questions and he would
allow it. A Bedouin man would grab him
and speak to him harshly and he would
smile.
So I'm trying to get all of us
in the mindset
of how great the person whose life we
will be talking about is,
how great the person whose life we're talking
about is.
He bled for us. He bled for this
ummah
in the battle of
Uhud. The worst day of his life, one
day
was the day of Uhud the worst day
of if when there's one day that it
was even worse. We'll cover it inshallah when
he went to die. But even
as he's bleeding, trying to save this ummah,
trying to connect all of us to Allah.
That's all he wanted. That's all he wanted.
He would stay up at night making dua
for us.
The prophet loves us so much.
He will
be
saying Oh Allah, my ummah, my ummah, my
ummah, my ummah, my ummah. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam will be as hold
hoping that every one of us is there.
The prophet
called
us here, his brothers, when he told his
companions.
I wish I could meet my brothers
and they asked him, are we not your
brothers? And he said, no, you are my
ashab, my companions.
My brothers are those that have not met
me, heard of my message and believed in
me. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's mission
was to connect us to Allah. That's all
he wanted. And Ummada worship Allah. Look at
his beginning, the
where he receives a revelation
and he goes out to the people
in secret. He speaks to Abu Bakr, calls
them to Islam. He speaks to his family
member calling them to Islam. I want you
to imagine 4, 5, 6 people are Muslim.
And then he goes through so many trials.
So many trials.
And I want you to look at his
final moments.
His final moments as he removes the curtain
from his home and he sees a sahala
praying for Allah
and he smiles.
The seer of my brothers and sisters is
one of the greatest sources to increase your
iman, to give you that energy.
The seer of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is key in forming our identity.
Insha'Allah. This was a bit of a mukadimah
to really get us into the mindset to
appreciate
the greatness
of who we are talking about.
Allah calls him
Oh Muhammad, we have not sent you except
as a mercy to mankind.
A mercy.
That's who he was.
And they get surprised how upset we get
when they dare to insult him.
They don't understand.
They don't understand that we love Muhammad more
than any human being,
more than our parents, more than our children.
The prophet the Sahaba used to say,
I would ransom my own mother and father
for you You Rasool Allah.
Everything good about us.
Everything good about us.
The salaam that we give to each other,
the visiting of the neighbors, the salaah that
we pray after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We
have Rasool Allah to thank for.
This is why Shaitarif
Some people say they like Some people like
to go,
like to go for Umrah and they say,
Can I do an Umrah on behalf of
the prophet? And this is coming from a
really good place, isn't it? They they they
come in from a place of love.
But then
people don't understand that
The fact they're doing umrah.
The teaching came from who?
From the prophet
you did do umrah for him. Sallallahu alaihi
wasallam because he has the reward for all
the higher that he showed us and taught
us. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has to
have a huge place in your heart, my
brothers and sisters.
May we be among those that truly love
him and are resurrected with him. May you
be among those that are with him in
Jannah. May you be among those that follow
his path.
Loving him is not enough.
Loving him only is not enough.
That love has to manifest itself in what
we call
means to follow him, to emulate him,
to want to be like him. That there's
an aspect of you that's thinking my salah,
Is it like the prophet? Can I improve
it? My salah needs to be more like
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
My character is like the prophets. I need
to improve my character. They can be more
like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That
whatever character flaws that we have and whatever
shortcomings we have in our ibadah that we
try to be more like the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said Pray like you have seen me
pray.
Take the acts of Hajj and the rituals
from me. The Sahaba were eager
to worship and act and behave like the
prophet
So that's key. Not only do you want
to love him, but you want and as
you go through the, you will see how
the prophet was. And every single Friday night
that we leave here, I want you to
leave here inshallah ta'ala with a plan. Another
way I can be more like my prophet.
Another way I can act more like my
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. If there's no barakah
from this class,
then that we are going to send salawat
upon him often then let's do that my
brothers. It's in allah of salawat upon the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. There's so much higher
and barakah just in that. So that is
allahtala covers a bit of a muqaddimah of
the importance of Seera and why we do
Seera and who it is that we are
really talking about. That
he
is,
the one Allah told us to follow.
Indeed,
within the mercy of Allah lies a great
example.
Allah wants us to follow him
and that's what we will we should do
in every aspect of our life.
So
now
let's
discuss more about what it means to study
Sira and how Sira is studied.
So the first question we have to ask
ourselves is what are the greatest and most
important sources to study Sira?
Right?
And this is my first question
to all of you.
What where do we get our sources from
the Seerah from? So raise your hand if
you have an answer.
What is a good source to learn the
Seerah? Or the most important source I should
say.
The Quran.
What's your name,
Ibrahim.
The Quran. The first place we learn the
is the Quran. Ibrahim, if you don't mind
me putting you in the hot seat, which
in the Quran is?
Muhammad,
the answer is the whole Quran.
Is all over the Quran. Let's start with
the smallest
and I'll show you how.
When the was placed upon the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, there's a whole story in
the sira that is connected to what?
To these 2 surahs. Let's move on.
It's connected to a major incident in the
Syria. Who can tell me?
About who?
About the prophet's uncle Abu Lahab and
the harm he would do to his to
his to his nephew and our prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. Let's move to the next surah,
Surah Al Nasr.
Which major innocent is that connected to? Who
can tell me?
The conquest of
Makkah.
The conquest of Makkah and everything subsequently that
came after.
Go to the next surah, Surah Al Kafirun.
Which major innocent is that connected to? When
Qurays try to compromise with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, we will worship. Why don't
you worship 1 year,
our our idols and 1 year we'll worship
Allah and the prophet had to make a
stance. You see now we're just going to
the smaller chants of the surah and we're
finding innocence of the seerah. So the whole
Quran, Surat al Fal is all about the
battle
of Badr. Al Imran as well portions of
it are about the battle of Uhud. Surat
al Hazab is about the battle of handuk.
Surat al Mujadra. In the seerah where a
woman came to complain to the prophet
about her husband. Allah revealed Quran. The whole
Quran is littered with moments of the seerah
that we can benefit from and learn from.
So the first source of learning the seerah
is where? Is the Quran. And especially if
you take those chapters of the Quran and
you go back to the tafsir. So now
we're going to the major tafasir or
or
any other tafasir.
They will expand upon that incident mentioned in
the Quran. So the first source that we
go to to learn the student of prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is what? Is the
Quran.
Now, this should be easy now. That won't
be the second source.
The hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. So before we even go to seerah
books that are compiled a to zed, the
story of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you have to think when it comes to
seerah, yes. Buhari and Muslim and Tirmidi, those
books of hadith,
they in them is a lot of seerah.
Because the is highlighting the incidents and events
that happened during the prophet's life,
and you will find them in these books.
Does that make sense to everyone? So the
second source that we utilize
is the hadith. And these 2, the Quran
and the hadith,
that's where
you will find
the most authentic.
Especially the, sources of hadith that are of
course verified and authenticated by scholars of hadith.
The Quran and the hadith. After that my
brothers and sisters, the sources whereby we learn
the seerah from are books that have been
written for the purpose
of writing down the life of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Right? So the Quran
is not only Sira. In it are ayaas
related to tawhid and belief. In it are
ayaas related to rulings halal and haram. In
it are ayaas related to stories of the
prophets that came before and also included in
that is
things related to the seer of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Similarly with the hadith.
But then later on what happened was the
scholars,
they started to compile books written
purposefully
to highlight the prophet's story a to z
a to z.
And those books, they go back 1000 of
years.
We have many books that we read now
today, inshallah,
but one of the earliest
compilations of such is the seerah of Musa
ibn Uqba, a a tabi or tabi, if
you are the students of a great tabi
called Zuhri,
and he compiled this is the earliest and
the most authentic that we have, and this
was the year he died in the year
of 141, I believe, and he compiled what's
interesting is that this book, this particular book,
the earliest compilation of the seerah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he compiled
it in major instance of the prophet's life,
and it's all authentic. In fact, Imam Malik
ibn alaihi, the great Imam Malik ibn alaihi,
he said
that he would recommend that book as to
be the best and the most authentic book
that compiled
Sira the prophet
used to call them back then al Ma'azih.
Now,
that book, interesting fact, for the longest time
was not
available in the Muslim libraries.
It was lost in history,
and that happens sometimes.
And that manuscript
of that book was found a few years
ago.
That manuscript was found a few years ago
after it was lost for many many years,
and then it was printed,
and it was quite really a a a
big deal to for that book. And was
I found fascinating is I think yesterday, I
just got a Twitter notification
that it's been translated.
It's it's I'm sure there were other translations
at work, but particular translation, and I was
look looking at the PDF of that.
Those earlier books,
what makes them what stand out is the
chains of narration. So they're all chain of
narration because they're so close to the time
the prophet
is literally,
my teacher told me that his teacher told
me that the companions said that the prophet
said or that this event happened. So the
chain of narration is there. Then after that,
you have a a the seer of Iba
Ishaq.
Ibra Ishaq lived around the same time as,
Musa, or he was from the Tabir Tabir,
and he also compiled a seerah book, but
that seerah book did not last throughout history.
Then later on, it was written it was
found as
a part of a book called the Seerah
of Ibn Hisham, and Ibn Hisham's Seerah is
the main source that people utilize when they
are going,
to
refine references for the Seerah, the Seerah of
Nisham.
2 to 2 or 3 volumes in the
Arabic language.
Now this for you for those of you
that are here just to learn the story
of the prophet, this is not that important.
But for those of you that are maybe
a bit more interested to know, the Seerah
ibn Hisham is really the key go point
to go back. And a lot of the
Seerah books are written after, they reference the
Seerah of Ibn Hisham. Now another thing that
you have to understand is when it comes
to Seerah, the level of scrutiny that we
put into the stories and the children's narration
is not the same. And let me teach
you something here. This is really really important.
If we find a hadith,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said this or
did that.
That narration
can either be weak
or authentic. Correct? Authentic or inauthentic.
Sahih or?
Or what?
Raif. Sahih or Raif. Right? No.
A lot of people think that it is
black and white.
Taif, put it in the bin.
That's not necessarily
how,
hadith authentication
works.
Right? And there are levels of scrutiny.
Generally speaking, if I really simplify it for
you, the pass rate
for us to achieve a statement to the
prophet or incident to the prophet is very
high.
Higher than normal history.
Higher than normal history.
Because in normal history,
they don't check the who said this and
are we sure that they said the level
of squint is on there. In other words,
pick any major incident in history.
Recent history, early history,
the the the Tatar invasion,
and Genghis Khan. You guys all familiar with
that? Some of you are? Taib.
There are certain events that are trans transmitted
to us. Right? That that happened and they
conquered this and they
What's it? Where's the chain of relation for
that?
Columbus and America. Where's the chain of relation
for that?
It's just like, here is what do I
think?
Isn't that a fair question to ask? Most
of history. Alexander the Great and all of
the stuff that he done.
Right?
There is no generation usually. Right? And people
are lax. It's history.
It's generally recorded and approximations and the level
of scrutiny that we have for this the
the incident and the is way high. In
other words,
most of history
would be what?
What do you guys think? It would be
It would be what?
But it is accepted.
But why are we so difficult
and so harsh and so detail oriented when
it comes to the hadith?
Because our deen depends on it.
Do you guys understand?
Now,
because of
this, they looked at
the different narrations that are coming from the
Quran. If it's related to our aqida and
belief,
there's no messing around there. It has to
be Sahih.
If it's related to halal and haram, prayer
and worship, there's not it has to be
But the
if it's not related to rulings and if
it's not related to,
belief, but it's just an innocent that happened.
They will be a bit more relaxed, and
this is what we have understood from the
salaf. They will be a bit more relaxed.
So in other
words, when it comes to studying aqidah, fiqh,
and sira, which one of those 3 are
we a little bit more relaxed when it
comes to authentication? Who can tell me?
Why?
Because rulings do not depend on it. It's
more of a story that is being told.
This is generally
That being said, do we still scrutinize and
distinguish the sahir from the? We do. And
as we are going through the story, I
will be highlighting some of these things
inshallah.
That is just to give you an understanding
of the mindset
and that the the for example, the in
it are some narrations that the chain of
narrations will not be the strongest and others
are really strong and you can pick and
choose and some of the ulama have done
this.
Now, a woman,
books contemporary books that are really good. Let
me mention a few especially in English language.
So the sealed nectar is a really good
book.
Is a very good book written by Saif
Rahman Al Barak Fori. However, it's a heavy
book.
A lot of references and sometimes it's not
an easy read, but I do recommend it.
It actually won an award,
in the seventies. It's actually a 50 year
old book. It's not that new. It won
an award, and it's highly regarded, and it's
it's taught often as a really good book.
That same author has another book called
where he wrote it in a way that
is more is much easier read.
And the English version of that is called
when the moon splits.
When the moon splits, and I highly recommend
that one. It's a much easier read insha'allah.
There is also,
another one that's written by Mahdi. I believe
Mahdi is.
It is called the biography of the prophet
of Islam. It's 2 volumes.
He did a really good job when it
comes to verification
and referencing. And these 2 volumes, it's a
very good read as well. Not too dissimilar
with
the. There are other ones as
well.
Other there are also other ways to learn
about the prophet other than just the seerah.
There are books known as Shamail.
Shamail
are books that
compiled
the characteristics
and the the of the prophet
and also the the
the way the prophet
looked. Right? How did he look? What did
he wear? What did he eat?
His character, his humility.
They compiled these distinguishing characters of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. When you read that, you
get a really good insight of who the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was. So one
is telling you the story,
the seerah a to zed, and one is
telling you more about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's, his characteristics,
the behaviors as well as,
how he looked.
So that
covers some of the, resources
that you can utilize
to learn the seerah of our beloved prophet
Muhammad.
Let me ask you guys a few questions
to keep you engaged. If you know the
answer, please raise your hand.
Number 1, who can tell me why is
it important
to learn the?
Why?
This is an easy one, man. I give
you guys a softball.
Why is it important to learn the?
I have a rule. If you're gonna answer,
I have to know your name. What's your
name?
Why is it important to learn the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
Learning about the will allow us to follow
his sunnah, which we have to do to
not go astray.
So the seerah is a guide. What about
something to do with hope and love? What
do we say? Are we not meant to
love the prophet? Can we do that without
knowing him? No, we can claim it. We
can try it. But wallahi,
the person that learns the seerah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is not the
same. And I promise you all, my brothers
and sisters, as you come to these classes,
as you go through the journey, as you
learn the prophet's childhood, you learn about the
prophet's challenges
and worries and moments of joy and moments
of happiness,
it will transform you.
And that's the whole point. The seerah is
what? It's transformative.
Who can tell me the earliest collection
of seerah that we have?
The seerah of
of
who?
Musaiblu? Who can tell me,
the first source that we utilize for?
The Quran. And then the
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam
Let me now,
conclude,
if you will,
with an explanation of the program itself and
what we're going to be doing, inshallah,
every Friday night.
We
split the sirrah up and for the next
7 weeks
6 weeks, I should say,
we will be talking about the prophet's early
childhood
and journey to prophethood. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Next lesson will be about the prophet's family.
His mother, father, grandfather,
early Makkah, the incident of his birth,
his lineage. What was Quresh like? What was
Makkah like? To get you into the mindset
of the prophet,
when he becomes a prophet, what society was
he in? What was the kind of society
he was told to change? So inshallah
we will talk about that and then we
will start with his birth.
The day he was born.
How was it like?
And what did his mother do? And the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's journey as a childhood,
and who raised him? Who was Halim al
Sadia to him? Right? The incident of the
opening of his heart the first time when
he comes to into contact with an angel
as a 4 or 5 year old boy.
When he loses his mother
at the very ripe age of 6, loses
his grandfather at 8,
and then is taken in by his uncle
Abu Talib.
What was the prophet like as a young
man? Who named him Mohammed?
And why was he named Muhammad?
What happened to his father?
All of that inshallah to really help you
understand who prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
as we then go in through his early
adulthood,
his travels with his uncle, his marriage to
Khadija. Who was Khadija?
What made him special? How old was he
when they got married?
How old were they both?
And,
we
will learn more about Abu Talib until we
get to
the first time Allah blesses him and the
ummah with revelation.
That will be the end of this, if
you will,
session
these sessions, inshallah, the next few sessions. And
then we'll take a week break and we'll
continue on. We'll continue on,
now he's a prophet.
How did his people deal with him? What
were the challenges that he met? We'll learn
about al Bakr's Islam. Khadija's support. Young Ali
that lives with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and how eager he was to become Muslim
at the age of 11.
The secret call
as they are in Mecca, only few Muslims
5, 6, 7.
Saying I was the 8th Muslim
or
the 7th Muslim ever in Mecca,
and how they were looked at as a
group that is strange
and how then the challenges kept on increasing
until year after year the group grew bigger
and bigger until Allah tells him now you
have to go public. And he goes public
with his dawah and then he gets all
the challenges.
All of a sudden Quraysh has a huge
problem with his message and then the clashes,
the abuse, the persecution,
the first shahid.
The first shahid of this ummah, a woman
called Somaiya and her husband Amar. Somaiya and
Amar. And why were they killed? Why were
they killed?
And the struggles of being a Muslim hiding
the fact that you pray
and then the first migration to Abyssinia.
First, this was unknown. Unknown for people to
leave their tribes to go to another tribe
because your tribe was safety. Your city was
safety. But due to their iman, Mecca is
not safe anymore. A small group travels
all the way to Abyssinia
to meet a Christian king who gives them
refuge.
And then the tensions after, the prophet's whole
tribe gets ostracized
to the point where they have nothing to
eat
all because they say
until things get worse and worse and worse
and more difficult.
And the challenges and the prophet loses his
wife Khadija
at the 9th year, his uncle.
And then the the instead of
happens where he ascends
all the way up to his hijra.
And then the great story of the hijra,
where there's a bounty on the prophet's head
and then he needs to go to Madinah.
The deal he made with the Ansar.
How they came to Mecca first to make
a deal with him saying, if you come
to us we'll protect you.
And they asked the prophet, the Ansar from,
from Madinah asked the prophet, if we give
you our lives and protect you with our
with our wealth and give you shelter, what
do we get? And he says to them,
you'll get Jannah.
And then after a while, the prophet sends
a few companions first to Madinah, and they
start giving dawah in Madinah. And then the
prophet joins them after the hijra, then they
establish the 1st masjid, then when they establish
the first community,
how did the prophet deal with the refugee
problem?
When you had people that came from Mecca,
they had nothing.
And how did the ansar accommodate them? How
did they became brothers? The Ansar and the
Muhajireen
and then the first time the prophet has
to meet his enemy in battle, the battle
of Badr and then the battle of Uhud,
which is an invasion to the city and
on and on until finally the prophet goes
back to Makkah as a conqueror
with honor and walks in, removes the idols,
tells Bilal to
go on the Kaaba and call the Adhan.
The same Bilal that was tortured in those
streets. Allahu Akbar.
The seal is powerful about the situation.
Week after week, we'll go bit by bit.
We'll reflect on it, derive lessons from it
and hopefully inshallahta'ala
benefit from it as well.
I'm gonna conclude the lesson here. So that's
just a glimpse of the plan.
May Allah make it a blessed gathering. May
Allah access it from us. Spread the word.
Tell more people to come to the Albinah
program. Come to the aqeedah class. Come to
the fiqh class. Come to the seerah class
inshallah ta'ala, every Friday. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
bless us, bless this gathering, and make us
among those that truly follow the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. I'm gonna take some questions
and then after
that what we'll do is,
we will conclude
the session here.
Taib. The first question is how can we
invite individuals who celebrate the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's birthday?
So,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
to love him means
a great deal.
And
the people
that started the tradition
or the people that are involved in the
tradition
to celebrate his birthday
often if not all the time it's coming
from a place of love. Not a place
of hatred and sunnah, but a place of
love. However,
our love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
must be controlled
with our adherence to his sunnah. It is
not enough that we just love him and
then we do whatever we want to love
him. No. Expressing the love of the prophet
means also trying to follow his sunnah.
So
the celebrating
of the prophet's birthday,
when we wanna know its ruling and its
ukum,
we first have to ask ourselves,
is this something
that is legislated? Meaning, is this part of
our deen?
It's the first question. Is this part of
our deen?
And to understand when something is part of
your deen or not, you go to the
sources, you go to the Quran, you go
to the sunnah, and you go to the
prophet himself and his companions.
Can we ever claim to love the prophet
more than his companions?
More than Abu Bakr, more than Umar, more
than Aisha. We cannot claim that.
None of them,
none of them
took the day he was born as a
day of celebration.
There's no report. They never discussed it.
So if you even look at the Sahaba,
you can't find
it. You can't find any mention
or significance that they attribute to the mold
itself. Where they gather, where they read. No.
They have none of that. Then on top
of that, if you look at the salaf,
the 4 imams, perhaps you can find something
that Abu Hanifa said about the mawlid but
sadly we cannot find anything. It never crossed
his mind. It was not something that was
done during the time of Abu Hanifa. Maybe
Imam Malik, same thing.
Imam Malik never said yay or nay. He
never said yes or no regarding the mawlid
because it was something that was not known.
At the same time, Imam Shafi, Hamble,
Imam al Bukhari, none of them had anything
to say about the mawlid because it was
not known.
Can we truly say
that
they did not love the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam? We cannot say that. So,
there is a statement of imam Malik,
Something that was not part of the deen
then will not be part of the deen
today.
Now, then the question we have to ask
is how did mauled come to be? And
the history of the mauled is known. It
was started by the Fatimids at first and
it was a day that they said we're
going to create festivals, and they created a
number of festivals.
And one of them was, we're going to
create a festival on the day the prophet
was born. And they did it. And they
would come and they would eat and they
would be lavish and there would be events
and there would be something that they do.
Something that they did was,
it's just generally, and something was not.
In any case, that tradition started. And over
time, it continued on and continued on. Then
what happened was some of the ulama looked
at it and said,
It's okay. It's fine.
But others said, no. It's not fine.
And some looked at the intention and what's
being done and others looked at the concept.
Someone said, oh, the intention is to remember
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, Taeib. Okay.
And the intention is to do high, read
the seerah, read some poetry that praises the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. But
even if what's happening
during it is okay,
the concept becomes problematic. Especially when you have
huge
gatherings
that rival the Eid, which happens in some
countries. When the prophet said we have only
2 festivals in Islam, the 2 Eids. So
there's a myriad of issues when it comes
to this. So
the advice to people that celebrate the mawlid
is celebrate the prophet's life every day.
Celebrate the prophet's life every day. Follow his
sunnah. Read his seerah. Praise him. Say salat
upon him all the time.
Don't specify one day. The prophet is more
worth than one day.
Who are we when we just remember him
one day in the year?
In fact, we should remember him more than
this.
Now,
then the only thing we need to look
at is there are different levels.
So as a concept, it's not part of
our deen.
It's not part of our deen. But then
we can look at the actual mawlids themselves
and some are far worse than others.
Some are far worse than others.
We cannot compare.
Some people that came together,
read a bit of Seerah,
ate some food to people
that are committing acts that can be considered
shirk when they are talking about the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Are those 2 the same? They're not the
same. So although as a concept there is
no evidence for it, although we understand it's
coming from a place of love, so this
is very important, we understand it's coming from
a place of love,
We are but we also understand there is
no place for it in our deen because
if it was, we would have found the
sources for it. We we
also appreciate that it was started randomly by
the Fatima empire for, to be honest reasons,
that were not all that good. And then
it became something to keep the people busy
with. Some of the tried to find some
evidences for it to allow it with certain
conditions, but we say
All khair is in following the righteous generations.
We do not need to commemorate the prophet's
birth when we commemorate and remember him every
single day of the year.
Is that clear everyone?
Now,
as it relates to the people that celebrate,
show them rahmah.
Show them mercy. Do not be like this
all the time. Understand that a lot of
them are just following traditions that they grew
up in. And if you can correct them
and advise them in a gentle way, that
is the sunnah.
That is the sunnah. Correct them and also
empathize. Understand where they're coming from. Yes. We
love the prophet just like you love the
prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. But don't force me
to express my love in the way you
tell me to for it, especially when I
have no evidence for it.
Famedom,
when it comes to correcting, we use rahma.
But when it comes to legislation and deen,
the deen is clear.
The deen is clear.
Another question is asking, can you ask those
brothers sitting on chairs? Oh, okay.
To move to move what? Towards the back
of the room so they're not blocking those
sitting behind them. I should have seen this
before. I do apologize.
Brothers, in the if you're sitting on chairs
from in the future, go towards the back
because some people feel that you are blocking
them.
What's the name of the earliest biography written
on the prophet? This is known as the
of
Musa Musa Musa. You
can find it.
We can take maybe 2 or 3 more
questions, from the
from the, brothers that are here. I will
also say for the sisters,
if you follow the announcements
and our social media, we will be announcing
a special q and a sisters
session for the Albinah,
sisters that come to the program that we
will, inshallahta'ala, do because we do understand that
accessibility is something that is important to the
instructors.
Brothers, are there any questions before we conclude
inshallahta'ala?
What's your name,
Abdul
Hafid.
Does it make sense to celebrate someone who's
no more? To be honest,
we
celebrate the word celebrate
means
to hold an if you mean holding an
event to express joy
I mean, right
now I believe we are expressing joy and
learning about the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. It
happens to be on Rabi'ul Awl that was
not planned like I said but Alhamdulillah.
But actually no.
We we should always express joy when it
comes to the prophet
The birthday of someone who's no more. Yes.
That's one interesting way of putting it.
But like I mentioned, that we do
not add anything into the deen,
that there's no need and we do not
need to be told
to appreciate Prophet SAW Monday in the year
when we do it when we should be
doing it all the time and every time.
Is there any more questions from the brothers?
If not, we'll conclude here. And I'll see
you all next Friday
but I hope to see you all attend
the aqeed and nafir class as well as
it is important that you are getting a
holistic
learning of the deen. But inshallahta'ala,
I definitely want to see you all,
next Friday and bring even more people as
we learn and yes celebrate
the life of our prophet
through learning his journey.
Path.
Path.
Right.
A path that you walk on. That would
be definition.
Any if there are any more questions, we'll
conclude here.
And,
for attending.
For coming to the masjid. May Allah
accept all from us.