Mustafa Abu Rayyan – S01 Ep01 Seerah Introduction

Mustafa Abu Rayyan
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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

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and sending blessings and salutations upon our beloved

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messenger Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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As promised,

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the program

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that the masjid started,

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and this program is a comprehensive one whereby

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we are not only covering one aspect of

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the deen, but some of the core and

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most important ones.

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On Mondays there's an aqidah class.

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On Wednesday there's a fiqh class

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and we will conclude the work week if

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you will

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with the beloved Sira,

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the beloved story

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of our beloved Muslim Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam.

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And,

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before I start, I just wanna,

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tell our sisters and our brothers

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that,

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there is a link for those of you

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that are on the there's a Telegram group

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where a lot of information updates are mentioned.

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If you go to bina.co.uk,

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you'll find a link to a Telegram group.

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And in there is a link for questions

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that will be answered by the instructors including

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myself to write inshallah.

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Once you send your questions in, we'll do

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that at the end.

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First, how fortunate are we

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that we are starting a class

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and we are in the month that the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was born.

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Rabi al Awal. And,

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that is. It's a it happened by accident.

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But in the end, it's worth mentioning that

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it is this month that we are in,

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that the one we love more than anyone

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else.

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The one human being

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whom we love more than anyone else,

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who we worship Allah

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through loving Him and following Him

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was born in this month.

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And he salallahu alaihi wasallam also passed away

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in this month.

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And he salallahu alaihi wasallam arrived in Madinah,

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that momentous occasion

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where they leave the oppression and the shirk

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in Makkah

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and arrive in Madinah welcomed by the wonderful

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companions the Ansar

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was in this month as well.

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So

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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allowed us to

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be here speaking about the seerah of our

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prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi wa sallam and starting

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it in this month.

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When

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it comes to the of the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam,

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it is one of those stories and it's

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one of those lessons that everyone wants to

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listen

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to. When you hear about the prophet, your

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heart just feels different

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and that's because of our iman.

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Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam.

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He is beloved by Allah.

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And there's a narration where Allah

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where the prophet said, when Allah loves someone,

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Allah puts

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that love

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within mankind and within the angels.

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And this person will be beloved by the

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angels and beloved by mankind.

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Who is that more befitting of

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than Muhammad

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The reason we read his Sira,

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the reason we

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we love to talk about him is because

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there's literally no one,

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no one

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we would want to talk about more than

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him.

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Allah says in the Quran,

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And we made high your mention.

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Oh Muhammad, we made high your mention.

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When the adhan is called and Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala is name is raised,

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the prophet Muhammad's name is mentioned right next

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to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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He is mentioned

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whenever we mention Allah,

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we mention him in our salah.

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We mention him during our day so many

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times.

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In fact,

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I would love to ask a question.

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If your name is Mohammed, raise your hand.

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Hi. Hi. Come on. Come on. I wanna

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see the names.

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If you have a family member whose name

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is Muhammad, keep your hands up. I want

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the Muhammads to keep their hands up. If

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you have a family member whose name is

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Muhammad, raise your hand.

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Rasoolullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam his story is

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different my brothers and sisters.

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And I want to share with you a

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few hadith to get you into the right

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mindset.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered us to

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love him and made it part of our

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iman.

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Where the prophet said,

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one none one of you has not truly

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believed

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Until I become more beloved to him, the

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prophet is saying, you have not truly believed.

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Until the prophet becomes more beloved to you

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than who?

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Than your own children,

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than your own mother and father, than all

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of mankind. Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam

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comes first.

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So of course

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we would want to learn his and

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story.

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One day, a Bedouin man came to the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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And the Sahaba, they used to love when

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a Bedouin man comes because the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam would entertain their questions more,

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and he would teach them more. Whereas with

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his Sahaba that lived with him, he did

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not like for them to ask him many

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questions.

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Do you know why?

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Because from questions would come legislation.

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When they ask, you Rasool Allah, is this

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haram? Is this halal? Should you do this?

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Then legislation will come as a result of

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that,

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and legislation means responsibility

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and responsibility

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means potentially incurring sin if we don't do

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it. So he would say to them, don't

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ask me many questions.

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Don't ask me many questions. Does that make

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sense? It was rifa. It was gentleness. But

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when the bedwunners come he would love to

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give them the answers because they don't spend

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as much time with the prophet salallahu alaihi

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wa sallam as his close companion instead.

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But this this hadith you all know. This

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bedwun man, he asked the prophet a question,

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You Rasulullah,

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when

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is the hour?

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And the prophet replies,

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What have you prepared for it?

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What have you prepared for it? It's not

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about when it is, but rather what have

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you prepared for it? And this man was

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so honest. He said, You Rasulullah, I did

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not prepare for it much salah, much fasting,

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much worship.

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Isn't that a problem?

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That's a problem. We should prepare with much

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salah and much silkat and much worship. Should

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we not my brothers?

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But then he

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said,

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but I love Allah and His messenger.

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I love Allah and His messenger salallahu alaihi

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wasallam. And the prophet said something.

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A statement

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that is so beautiful.

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It's when we hear it, it should makes

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our heart feel calm and happy. He said,

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The person will be with whom he loves

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on the day of judgment.

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Maybe all be with the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam. Say I mean.

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The narrator of the hadith is Anas ibn

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Malik

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who was in that gathering listening to that

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story and seeing that exchange

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and he said something very powerful.

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He said,

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that statement of the prophet when he said,

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you will be with whom you love. That

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statement was more beloved and more precious to

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us than anything else.

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And then he said,

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I love prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam

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and I love Abu Bakr and I love

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Umar, Allahu Akbar.

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So again,

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that love is so important.

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Now the question is we all understand that

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we have to love the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam, but how do we do that?

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How can you love someone you do not

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know?

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How can you love someone you do not

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know? And my brothers and sisters, that

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what we know about the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam is so amazing.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there is no

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human being that has ever lived,

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whose life is more detailed than Rasool alaihi

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wasallam. We know everything about him.

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Everything about him.

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We know the type of food he ate

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and liked

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and the type of food he did not

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like.

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We know

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that he never

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said when food was brought to him

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something bad about that food.

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We know how many white hairs he had

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on his head.

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We know how he smiled.

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We know how he walked.

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We know what he wore.

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The specific

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clothings that he wore, we know.

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We know salallahu alaihi wasallam.

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How he was with his wives. How he

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was with his children. We know his injuries.

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We can literally I can literally highlight to

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you the injuries and the scars of the

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prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Who in human history do we know so

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much details? The type of plates that he

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used?

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How he combed his hair? Which foot he

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would love to put his shoe in before

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he got out of the house?

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Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What chapters of the Quran

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he would recite in every salah?

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That's how much we know about the prophet

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We know the moments that made him happy

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and he laughed.

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The moments that they made him sad and

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he cried.

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We know how he worshipped. We know how

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much adkar he made. We know every trip

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that he made and where he went and

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who went with him.

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We know what happened every instant in his

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life recorded and talked about.

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And I'll tell you something amazing, no one

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in history, my brothers and sisters,

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has it been recorded

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their moments of silence.

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Reports

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that the prophet

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was leading salah.

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And after he finished his

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he got quiet.

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The prophet was silent for a bit.

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Who in history

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are the moments of silence recorded?

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Who in history

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are the moments of silence

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recorded?

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And high we raise your attention.

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We know the prophet's childhood. We know his

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jobs.

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So my brother and sisters, it is not

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hard

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it is not hard

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to learn about him.

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It is extremely important because it will increase

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the love you have for him. And the

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way rasool Allah's story is laid out.

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It is as if you are living with

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him. InshaAllah ta'ala as we go through his

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journey the next few weeks we will be

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talking about before he even became a prophet,

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early Makkah.

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His marriage to Khadija, his early life and

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I'll tell you something interesting about rasulullah salallahu

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alaihi wasallam that Allah made him in such

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way

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every single person no matter where you are

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in life.

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There is a way you can connect to

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the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.

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If you're in charge of people, the prophet

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was in charge of his sahab and the

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ummah. He was a leader.

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If you're involved in politics, the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam was a statesman.

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If you're married, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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was a husband.

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If you're a parent the prophet

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was a father. He was a friend. The

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prophet was

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a spiritual leader. He used to lead the

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salah. The prophet was

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a general that commanded armies. The prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam had was a trader at one

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point in his life in business.

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Sallallahu alaihi wasallam he was a shepherd.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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was

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so many different people

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and had so many different roles

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that is very easy to connect with him.

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This is why he is so special. And

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I want you to think about this for

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a second, my brothers and sisters.

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Allah

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looked at the hearts of all of his

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creation,

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all of mankind and picked Rasool Allah

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as

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The one who concludes

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the message that came from Allah because

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the perfect conclusion.

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He is the last of the prophets yet

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the first.

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He salallahu alaihi wasallam is so beloved to

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Allah,

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so beloved to Allah,

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that the day of judgment will not commence.

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As we are all standing in front

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of waiting for judgment to start, it will

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not commence

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until Rasulullah

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walks up, make sujood, praise Allah, and Allah

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says, oh, Muhammad, stand up.

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Ask and you will be given. Intercede and

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your instruction will be accepted. That's when the

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judgment will start.

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Will not be opened up. The gates of

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will not open

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until he is standing in front of it.

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Look at how important Rasoolah is.

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Now I want to show you from a

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different angle.

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Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi wasallam is so important,

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so special

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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala while he was

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still alive ascended him to the highest place.

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A place even Angel Dibreel could not go

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until he communed and spoke and conversed with

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his lord, Allah Almighty.

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And then he came back.

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And yet when he was home,

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he would bend his shoes,

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he would milk his goat and he would

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do the menial jobs in the home.

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And when he would leave,

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any person from the street could grab his

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hand and ask him questions and he would

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allow it. A Bedouin man would grab him

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and speak to him harshly and he would

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smile.

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So I'm trying to get all of us

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in the mindset

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of how great the person whose life we

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will be talking about is,

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how great the person whose life we're talking

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about is.

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He bled for us. He bled for this

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ummah

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in the battle of

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Uhud. The worst day of his life, one

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day

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was the day of Uhud the worst day

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of if when there's one day that it

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was even worse. We'll cover it inshallah when

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he went to die. But even

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as he's bleeding, trying to save this ummah,

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trying to connect all of us to Allah.

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That's all he wanted. That's all he wanted.

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He would stay up at night making dua

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for us.

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The prophet loves us so much.

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He will

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be

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saying Oh Allah, my ummah, my ummah, my

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ummah, my ummah, my ummah. The prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam will be as hold

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hoping that every one of us is there.

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The prophet

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called

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us here, his brothers, when he told his

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companions.

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I wish I could meet my brothers

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and they asked him, are we not your

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brothers? And he said, no, you are my

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ashab, my companions.

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My brothers are those that have not met

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me, heard of my message and believed in

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me. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's mission

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was to connect us to Allah. That's all

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he wanted. And Ummada worship Allah. Look at

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his beginning, the

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where he receives a revelation

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and he goes out to the people

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in secret. He speaks to Abu Bakr, calls

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them to Islam. He speaks to his family

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member calling them to Islam. I want you

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to imagine 4, 5, 6 people are Muslim.

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And then he goes through so many trials.

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So many trials.

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And I want you to look at his

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final moments.

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His final moments as he removes the curtain

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from his home and he sees a sahala

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praying for Allah

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and he smiles.

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The seer of my brothers and sisters is

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one of the greatest sources to increase your

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iman, to give you that energy.

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The seer of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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is key in forming our identity.

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Insha'Allah. This was a bit of a mukadimah

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to really get us into the mindset to

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appreciate

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the greatness

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of who we are talking about.

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Allah calls him

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Oh Muhammad, we have not sent you except

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as a mercy to mankind.

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A mercy.

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That's who he was.

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And they get surprised how upset we get

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when they dare to insult him.

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They don't understand.

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They don't understand that we love Muhammad more

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than any human being,

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more than our parents, more than our children.

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The prophet the Sahaba used to say,

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I would ransom my own mother and father

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for you You Rasool Allah.

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Everything good about us.

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Everything good about us.

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The salaam that we give to each other,

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the visiting of the neighbors, the salaah that

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we pray after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We

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have Rasool Allah to thank for.

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This is why Shaitarif

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Some people say they like Some people like

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to go,

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like to go for Umrah and they say,

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Can I do an Umrah on behalf of

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the prophet? And this is coming from a

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really good place, isn't it? They they they

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come in from a place of love.

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But then

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people don't understand that

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The fact they're doing umrah.

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The teaching came from who?

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From the prophet

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you did do umrah for him. Sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam because he has the reward for all

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the higher that he showed us and taught

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us. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has to

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have a huge place in your heart, my

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brothers and sisters.

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May we be among those that truly love

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him and are resurrected with him. May you

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be among those that are with him in

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Jannah. May you be among those that follow

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his path.

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Loving him is not enough.

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Loving him only is not enough.

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That love has to manifest itself in what

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we call

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means to follow him, to emulate him,

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to want to be like him. That there's

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an aspect of you that's thinking my salah,

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Is it like the prophet? Can I improve

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it? My salah needs to be more like

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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My character is like the prophets. I need

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to improve my character. They can be more

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like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That

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whatever character flaws that we have and whatever

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shortcomings we have in our ibadah that we

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try to be more like the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam said Pray like you have seen me

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pray.

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Take the acts of Hajj and the rituals

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from me. The Sahaba were eager

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to worship and act and behave like the

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prophet

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So that's key. Not only do you want

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to love him, but you want and as

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you go through the, you will see how

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the prophet was. And every single Friday night

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that we leave here, I want you to

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leave here inshallah ta'ala with a plan. Another

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way I can be more like my prophet.

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Another way I can act more like my

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. If there's no barakah

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from this class,

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then that we are going to send salawat

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upon him often then let's do that my

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brothers. It's in allah of salawat upon the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. There's so much higher

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and barakah just in that. So that is

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allahtala covers a bit of a muqaddimah of

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the importance of Seera and why we do

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Seera and who it is that we are

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really talking about. That

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he

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is,

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the one Allah told us to follow.

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Indeed,

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within the mercy of Allah lies a great

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example.

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Allah wants us to follow him

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and that's what we will we should do

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in every aspect of our life.

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So

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now

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let's

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discuss more about what it means to study

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Sira and how Sira is studied.

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So the first question we have to ask

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ourselves is what are the greatest and most

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important sources to study Sira?

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Right?

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And this is my first question

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to all of you.

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What where do we get our sources from

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the Seerah from? So raise your hand if

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you have an answer.

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What is a good source to learn the

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Seerah? Or the most important source I should

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say.

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The Quran.

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What's your name,

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Ibrahim.

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The Quran. The first place we learn the

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is the Quran. Ibrahim, if you don't mind

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me putting you in the hot seat, which

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in the Quran is?

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Muhammad,

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the answer is the whole Quran.

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Is all over the Quran. Let's start with

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the smallest

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and I'll show you how.

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When the was placed upon the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam, there's a whole story in

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the sira that is connected to what?

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To these 2 surahs. Let's move on.

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It's connected to a major incident in the

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Syria. Who can tell me?

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About who?

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About the prophet's uncle Abu Lahab and

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the harm he would do to his to

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his to his nephew and our prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam. Let's move to the next surah,

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Surah Al Nasr.

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Which major innocent is that connected to? Who

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can tell me?

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The conquest of

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Makkah.

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The conquest of Makkah and everything subsequently that

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came after.

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Go to the next surah, Surah Al Kafirun.

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Which major innocent is that connected to? When

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Qurays try to compromise with the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam, we will worship. Why don't

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you worship 1 year,

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our our idols and 1 year we'll worship

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Allah and the prophet had to make a

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stance. You see now we're just going to

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the smaller chants of the surah and we're

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finding innocence of the seerah. So the whole

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Quran, Surat al Fal is all about the

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battle

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of Badr. Al Imran as well portions of

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it are about the battle of Uhud. Surat

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al Hazab is about the battle of handuk.

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Surat al Mujadra. In the seerah where a

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woman came to complain to the prophet

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about her husband. Allah revealed Quran. The whole

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Quran is littered with moments of the seerah

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that we can benefit from and learn from.

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So the first source of learning the seerah

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is where? Is the Quran. And especially if

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you take those chapters of the Quran and

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you go back to the tafsir. So now

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we're going to the major tafasir or

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or

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any other tafasir.

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They will expand upon that incident mentioned in

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the Quran. So the first source that we

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go to to learn the student of prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is what? Is the

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Quran.

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Now, this should be easy now. That won't

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be the second source.

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The hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam. So before we even go to seerah

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books that are compiled a to zed, the

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story of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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you have to think when it comes to

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seerah, yes. Buhari and Muslim and Tirmidi, those

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books of hadith,

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they in them is a lot of seerah.

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Because the is highlighting the incidents and events

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that happened during the prophet's life,

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and you will find them in these books.

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Does that make sense to everyone? So the

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second source that we utilize

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is the hadith. And these 2, the Quran

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and the hadith,

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that's where

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you will find

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the most authentic.

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Especially the, sources of hadith that are of

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course verified and authenticated by scholars of hadith.

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The Quran and the hadith. After that my

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brothers and sisters, the sources whereby we learn

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the seerah from are books that have been

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written for the purpose

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of writing down the life of the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Right? So the Quran

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is not only Sira. In it are ayaas

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related to tawhid and belief. In it are

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ayaas related to rulings halal and haram. In

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it are ayaas related to stories of the

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prophets that came before and also included in

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that is

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things related to the seer of the prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Similarly with the hadith.

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But then later on what happened was the

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scholars,

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they started to compile books written

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purposefully

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to highlight the prophet's story a to z

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a to z.

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And those books, they go back 1000 of

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years.

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We have many books that we read now

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today, inshallah,

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but one of the earliest

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compilations of such is the seerah of Musa

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ibn Uqba, a a tabi or tabi, if

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you are the students of a great tabi

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called Zuhri,

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and he compiled this is the earliest and

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the most authentic that we have, and this

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was the year he died in the year

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of 141, I believe, and he compiled what's

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interesting is that this book, this particular book,

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the earliest compilation of the seerah of the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he compiled

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it in major instance of the prophet's life,

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and it's all authentic. In fact, Imam Malik

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ibn alaihi, the great Imam Malik ibn alaihi,

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he said

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that he would recommend that book as to

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be the best and the most authentic book

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that compiled

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Sira the prophet

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used to call them back then al Ma'azih.

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Now,

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that book, interesting fact, for the longest time

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was not

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available in the Muslim libraries.

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It was lost in history,

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and that happens sometimes.

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And that manuscript

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of that book was found a few years

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ago.

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That manuscript was found a few years ago

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after it was lost for many many years,

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and then it was printed,

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and it was quite really a a a

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big deal to for that book. And was

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I found fascinating is I think yesterday, I

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just got a Twitter notification

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that it's been translated.

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It's it's I'm sure there were other translations

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at work, but particular translation, and I was

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look looking at the PDF of that.

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Those earlier books,

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what makes them what stand out is the

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chains of narration. So they're all chain of

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narration because they're so close to the time

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the prophet

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is literally,

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my teacher told me that his teacher told

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me that the companions said that the prophet

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said or that this event happened. So the

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chain of narration is there. Then after that,

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you have a a the seer of Iba

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Ishaq.

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Ibra Ishaq lived around the same time as,

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Musa, or he was from the Tabir Tabir,

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and he also compiled a seerah book, but

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that seerah book did not last throughout history.

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Then later on, it was written it was

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found as

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a part of a book called the Seerah

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of Ibn Hisham, and Ibn Hisham's Seerah is

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the main source that people utilize when they

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are going,

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to

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refine references for the Seerah, the Seerah of

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Nisham.

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2 to 2 or 3 volumes in the

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Arabic language.

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Now this for you for those of you

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that are here just to learn the story

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of the prophet, this is not that important.

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But for those of you that are maybe

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a bit more interested to know, the Seerah

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ibn Hisham is really the key go point

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to go back. And a lot of the

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Seerah books are written after, they reference the

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Seerah of Ibn Hisham. Now another thing that

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you have to understand is when it comes

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to Seerah, the level of scrutiny that we

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put into the stories and the children's narration

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is not the same. And let me teach

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you something here. This is really really important.

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If we find a hadith,

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said this or

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did that.

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That narration

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can either be weak

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or authentic. Correct? Authentic or inauthentic.

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Sahih or?

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Or what?

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Raif. Sahih or Raif. Right? No.

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A lot of people think that it is

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black and white.

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Taif, put it in the bin.

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That's not necessarily

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how,

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hadith authentication

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works.

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Right? And there are levels of scrutiny.

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Generally speaking, if I really simplify it for

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you, the pass rate

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for us to achieve a statement to the

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prophet or incident to the prophet is very

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high.

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Higher than normal history.

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Higher than normal history.

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Because in normal history,

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they don't check the who said this and

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are we sure that they said the level

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of squint is on there. In other words,

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pick any major incident in history.

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Recent history, early history,

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the the the Tatar invasion,

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and Genghis Khan. You guys all familiar with

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that? Some of you are? Taib.

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There are certain events that are trans transmitted

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to us. Right? That that happened and they

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conquered this and they

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What's it? Where's the chain of relation for

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that?

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Columbus and America. Where's the chain of relation

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for that?

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It's just like, here is what do I

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think?

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Isn't that a fair question to ask? Most

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of history. Alexander the Great and all of

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the stuff that he done.

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Right?

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There is no generation usually. Right? And people

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are lax. It's history.

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It's generally recorded and approximations and the level

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of scrutiny that we have for this the

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the incident and the is way high. In

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other words,

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most of history

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would be what?

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What do you guys think? It would be

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It would be what?

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But it is accepted.

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But why are we so difficult

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and so harsh and so detail oriented when

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it comes to the hadith?

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Because our deen depends on it.

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Do you guys understand?

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Now,

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because of

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this, they looked at

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the different narrations that are coming from the

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Quran. If it's related to our aqida and

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belief,

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there's no messing around there. It has to

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be Sahih.

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If it's related to halal and haram, prayer

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and worship, there's not it has to be

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But the

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if it's not related to rulings and if

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it's not related to,

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belief, but it's just an innocent that happened.

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They will be a bit more relaxed, and

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this is what we have understood from the

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salaf. They will be a bit more relaxed.

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So in other

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words, when it comes to studying aqidah, fiqh,

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and sira, which one of those 3 are

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we a little bit more relaxed when it

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comes to authentication? Who can tell me?

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Why?

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Because rulings do not depend on it. It's

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more of a story that is being told.

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This is generally

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That being said, do we still scrutinize and

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distinguish the sahir from the? We do. And

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as we are going through the story, I

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will be highlighting some of these things

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inshallah.

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That is just to give you an understanding

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of the mindset

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and that the the for example, the in

00:31:20 --> 00:31:23

it are some narrations that the chain of

00:31:23 --> 00:31:24

narrations will not be the strongest and others

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are really strong and you can pick and

00:31:26 --> 00:31:28

choose and some of the ulama have done

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this.

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Now, a woman,

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books contemporary books that are really good. Let

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me mention a few especially in English language.

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So the sealed nectar is a really good

00:31:40 --> 00:31:40

book.

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Is a very good book written by Saif

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Rahman Al Barak Fori. However, it's a heavy

00:31:46 --> 00:31:46

book.

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A lot of references and sometimes it's not

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

an easy read, but I do recommend it.

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It actually won an award,

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

in the seventies. It's actually a 50 year

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old book. It's not that new. It won

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an award, and it's highly regarded, and it's

00:32:00 --> 00:32:01

it's taught often as a really good book.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:04

That same author has another book called

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where he wrote it in a way that

00:32:06 --> 00:32:09

is more is much easier read.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

And the English version of that is called

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

when the moon splits.

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When the moon splits, and I highly recommend

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

that one. It's a much easier read insha'allah.

00:32:19 --> 00:32:19

There is also,

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another one that's written by Mahdi. I believe

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Mahdi is.

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It is called the biography of the prophet

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of Islam. It's 2 volumes.

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He did a really good job when it

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

comes to verification

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and referencing. And these 2 volumes, it's a

00:32:33 --> 00:32:35

very good read as well. Not too dissimilar

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with

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the. There are other ones as

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well.

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Other there are also other ways to learn

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about the prophet other than just the seerah.

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There are books known as Shamail.

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Shamail

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are books that

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compiled

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the characteristics

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and the the of the prophet

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and also the the

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the way the prophet

00:33:02 --> 00:33:05

looked. Right? How did he look? What did

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

he wear? What did he eat?

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

His character, his humility.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:12

They compiled these distinguishing characters of the prophet

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

sallallahu alaihi wasallam. When you read that, you

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

get a really good insight of who the

00:33:16 --> 00:33:19

prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was. So one

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

is telling you the story,

00:33:21 --> 00:33:23

the seerah a to zed, and one is

00:33:23 --> 00:33:25

telling you more about the prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

wa sallam's, his characteristics,

00:33:28 --> 00:33:30

the behaviors as well as,

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

how he looked.

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So that

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covers some of the, resources

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that you can utilize

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to learn the seerah of our beloved prophet

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Muhammad.

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Let me ask you guys a few questions

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to keep you engaged. If you know the

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answer, please raise your hand.

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Number 1, who can tell me why is

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it important

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to learn the?

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Why?

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This is an easy one, man. I give

00:34:04 --> 00:34:04

you guys a softball.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

Why is it important to learn the?

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

I have a rule. If you're gonna answer,

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

I have to know your name. What's your

00:34:16 --> 00:34:16

name?

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

Why is it important to learn the prophet

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?

00:34:31 --> 00:34:34

Learning about the will allow us to follow

00:34:34 --> 00:34:35

his sunnah, which we have to do to

00:34:35 --> 00:34:36

not go astray.

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So the seerah is a guide. What about

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

something to do with hope and love? What

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

do we say? Are we not meant to

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

love the prophet? Can we do that without

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

knowing him? No, we can claim it. We

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

can try it. But wallahi,

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

the person that learns the seerah of the

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is not the

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

same. And I promise you all, my brothers

00:34:54 --> 00:34:56

and sisters, as you come to these classes,

00:34:56 --> 00:34:58

as you go through the journey, as you

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

learn the prophet's childhood, you learn about the

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

prophet's challenges

00:35:01 --> 00:35:04

and worries and moments of joy and moments

00:35:04 --> 00:35:04

of happiness,

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

it will transform you.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:08

And that's the whole point. The seerah is

00:35:08 --> 00:35:09

what? It's transformative.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

Who can tell me the earliest collection

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

of seerah that we have?

00:35:17 --> 00:35:17

The seerah of

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

of

00:35:20 --> 00:35:20

who?

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

Musaiblu? Who can tell me,

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

the first source that we utilize for?

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

The Quran. And then the

00:35:31 --> 00:35:33

the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

00:35:33 --> 00:35:34

sallam

00:35:38 --> 00:35:39

Let me now,

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

conclude,

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if you will,

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with an explanation of the program itself and

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

what we're going to be doing, inshallah,

00:35:52 --> 00:35:54

every Friday night.

00:35:56 --> 00:35:56

We

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split the sirrah up and for the next

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

7 weeks

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

6 weeks, I should say,

00:36:02 --> 00:36:06

we will be talking about the prophet's early

00:36:06 --> 00:36:06

childhood

00:36:07 --> 00:36:10

and journey to prophethood. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:36:10 --> 00:36:13

Next lesson will be about the prophet's family.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:16

His mother, father, grandfather,

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

early Makkah, the incident of his birth,

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

his lineage. What was Quresh like? What was

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

Makkah like? To get you into the mindset

00:36:24 --> 00:36:25

of the prophet,

00:36:25 --> 00:36:28

when he becomes a prophet, what society was

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

he in? What was the kind of society

00:36:30 --> 00:36:31

he was told to change? So inshallah

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

we will talk about that and then we

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

will start with his birth.

00:36:36 --> 00:36:38

The day he was born.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

How was it like?

00:36:40 --> 00:36:42

And what did his mother do? And the

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's journey as a childhood,

00:36:44 --> 00:36:47

and who raised him? Who was Halim al

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

Sadia to him? Right? The incident of the

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

opening of his heart the first time when

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

he comes to into contact with an angel

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

as a 4 or 5 year old boy.

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

When he loses his mother

00:36:57 --> 00:37:00

at the very ripe age of 6, loses

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

his grandfather at 8,

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

and then is taken in by his uncle

00:37:04 --> 00:37:04

Abu Talib.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

What was the prophet like as a young

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

man? Who named him Mohammed?

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

And why was he named Muhammad?

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

What happened to his father?

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

All of that inshallah to really help you

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

understand who prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was

00:37:18 --> 00:37:20

as we then go in through his early

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

adulthood,

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

his travels with his uncle, his marriage to

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

Khadija. Who was Khadija?

00:37:25 --> 00:37:28

What made him special? How old was he

00:37:28 --> 00:37:29

when they got married?

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

How old were they both?

00:37:31 --> 00:37:32

And,

00:37:33 --> 00:37:34

we

00:37:34 --> 00:37:36

will learn more about Abu Talib until we

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

get to

00:37:39 --> 00:37:42

the first time Allah blesses him and the

00:37:42 --> 00:37:43

ummah with revelation.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

That will be the end of this, if

00:37:47 --> 00:37:47

you will,

00:37:48 --> 00:37:48

session

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

these sessions, inshallah, the next few sessions. And

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

then we'll take a week break and we'll

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

continue on. We'll continue on,

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

now he's a prophet.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

How did his people deal with him? What

00:38:00 --> 00:38:02

were the challenges that he met? We'll learn

00:38:02 --> 00:38:06

about al Bakr's Islam. Khadija's support. Young Ali

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

that lives with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:38:07 --> 00:38:09

and how eager he was to become Muslim

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

at the age of 11.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

The secret call

00:38:13 --> 00:38:16

as they are in Mecca, only few Muslims

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

5, 6, 7.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

Saying I was the 8th Muslim

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

or

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

the 7th Muslim ever in Mecca,

00:38:24 --> 00:38:25

and how they were looked at as a

00:38:25 --> 00:38:26

group that is strange

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

and how then the challenges kept on increasing

00:38:29 --> 00:38:33

until year after year the group grew bigger

00:38:33 --> 00:38:35

and bigger until Allah tells him now you

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

have to go public. And he goes public

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

with his dawah and then he gets all

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

the challenges.

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

All of a sudden Quraysh has a huge

00:38:42 --> 00:38:45

problem with his message and then the clashes,

00:38:45 --> 00:38:46

the abuse, the persecution,

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

the first shahid.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

The first shahid of this ummah, a woman

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

called Somaiya and her husband Amar. Somaiya and

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

Amar. And why were they killed? Why were

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

they killed?

00:38:56 --> 00:38:58

And the struggles of being a Muslim hiding

00:38:58 --> 00:38:59

the fact that you pray

00:39:00 --> 00:39:02

and then the first migration to Abyssinia.

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

First, this was unknown. Unknown for people to

00:39:07 --> 00:39:10

leave their tribes to go to another tribe

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

because your tribe was safety. Your city was

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

safety. But due to their iman, Mecca is

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

not safe anymore. A small group travels

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

all the way to Abyssinia

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

to meet a Christian king who gives them

00:39:22 --> 00:39:23

refuge.

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

And then the tensions after, the prophet's whole

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

tribe gets ostracized

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

to the point where they have nothing to

00:39:30 --> 00:39:30

eat

00:39:31 --> 00:39:32

all because they say

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

until things get worse and worse and worse

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

and more difficult.

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

And the challenges and the prophet loses his

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

wife Khadija

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

at the 9th year, his uncle.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

And then the the instead of

00:39:46 --> 00:39:47

happens where he ascends

00:39:48 --> 00:39:50

all the way up to his hijra.

00:39:50 --> 00:39:53

And then the great story of the hijra,

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

where there's a bounty on the prophet's head

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

and then he needs to go to Madinah.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:00

The deal he made with the Ansar.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:02

How they came to Mecca first to make

00:40:02 --> 00:40:03

a deal with him saying, if you come

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to us we'll protect you.

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And they asked the prophet, the Ansar from,

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from Madinah asked the prophet, if we give

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

you our lives and protect you with our

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

with our wealth and give you shelter, what

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do we get? And he says to them,

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

you'll get Jannah.

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And then after a while, the prophet sends

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a few companions first to Madinah, and they

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start giving dawah in Madinah. And then the

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prophet joins them after the hijra, then they

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establish the 1st masjid, then when they establish

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the first community,

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how did the prophet deal with the refugee

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problem?

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When you had people that came from Mecca,

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they had nothing.

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And how did the ansar accommodate them? How

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did they became brothers? The Ansar and the

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Muhajireen

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and then the first time the prophet has

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to meet his enemy in battle, the battle

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of Badr and then the battle of Uhud,

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which is an invasion to the city and

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on and on until finally the prophet goes

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back to Makkah as a conqueror

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with honor and walks in, removes the idols,

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tells Bilal to

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go on the Kaaba and call the Adhan.

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The same Bilal that was tortured in those

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streets. Allahu Akbar.

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

The seal is powerful about the situation.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

Week after week, we'll go bit by bit.

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We'll reflect on it, derive lessons from it

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

and hopefully inshallahta'ala

00:41:10 --> 00:41:12

benefit from it as well.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

I'm gonna conclude the lesson here. So that's

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just a glimpse of the plan.

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May Allah make it a blessed gathering. May

00:41:18 --> 00:41:20

Allah access it from us. Spread the word.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

Tell more people to come to the Albinah

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

program. Come to the aqeedah class. Come to

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

the fiqh class. Come to the seerah class

00:41:25 --> 00:41:28

inshallah ta'ala, every Friday. May Allah subhanahu wa

00:41:28 --> 00:41:29

ta'ala,

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bless us, bless this gathering, and make us

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

among those that truly follow the prophet sallallahu

00:41:33 --> 00:41:35

alaihi wa sallam. I'm gonna take some questions

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

and then after

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that what we'll do is,

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we will conclude

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the session here.

00:41:46 --> 00:41:47

Taib. The first question is how can we

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invite individuals who celebrate the prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:41:50 --> 00:41:51

wa sallam's birthday?

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So,

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:41:59 --> 00:42:01

to love him means

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a great deal.

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And

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

the people

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that started the tradition

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or the people that are involved in the

00:42:12 --> 00:42:12

tradition

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

to celebrate his birthday

00:42:15 --> 00:42:18

often if not all the time it's coming

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

from a place of love. Not a place

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

of hatred and sunnah, but a place of

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

love. However,

00:42:24 --> 00:42:26

our love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

must be controlled

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

with our adherence to his sunnah. It is

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

not enough that we just love him and

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

then we do whatever we want to love

00:42:33 --> 00:42:36

him. No. Expressing the love of the prophet

00:42:36 --> 00:42:39

means also trying to follow his sunnah.

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

So

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the celebrating

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of the prophet's birthday,

00:42:46 --> 00:42:48

when we wanna know its ruling and its

00:42:48 --> 00:42:49

ukum,

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we first have to ask ourselves,

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is this something

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that is legislated? Meaning, is this part of

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

our deen?

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It's the first question. Is this part of

00:42:58 --> 00:42:58

our deen?

00:42:59 --> 00:43:01

And to understand when something is part of

00:43:01 --> 00:43:03

your deen or not, you go to the

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

sources, you go to the Quran, you go

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

to the sunnah, and you go to the

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

prophet himself and his companions.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

Can we ever claim to love the prophet

00:43:11 --> 00:43:11

more than his companions?

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

More than Abu Bakr, more than Umar, more

00:43:14 --> 00:43:16

than Aisha. We cannot claim that.

00:43:16 --> 00:43:17

None of them,

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

none of them

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

took the day he was born as a

00:43:21 --> 00:43:22

day of celebration.

00:43:23 --> 00:43:26

There's no report. They never discussed it.

00:43:28 --> 00:43:29

So if you even look at the Sahaba,

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

you can't find

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

it. You can't find any mention

00:43:33 --> 00:43:36

or significance that they attribute to the mold

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

itself. Where they gather, where they read. No.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:40

They have none of that. Then on top

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

of that, if you look at the salaf,

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

the 4 imams, perhaps you can find something

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

that Abu Hanifa said about the mawlid but

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

sadly we cannot find anything. It never crossed

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

his mind. It was not something that was

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

done during the time of Abu Hanifa. Maybe

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

Imam Malik, same thing.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

Imam Malik never said yay or nay. He

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

never said yes or no regarding the mawlid

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

because it was something that was not known.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

At the same time, Imam Shafi, Hamble,

00:44:03 --> 00:44:06

Imam al Bukhari, none of them had anything

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

to say about the mawlid because it was

00:44:08 --> 00:44:09

not known.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:11

Can we truly say

00:44:11 --> 00:44:12

that

00:44:13 --> 00:44:14

they did not love the prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:44:14 --> 00:44:16

wa sallam? We cannot say that. So,

00:44:19 --> 00:44:21

there is a statement of imam Malik,

00:44:24 --> 00:44:26

Something that was not part of the deen

00:44:26 --> 00:44:28

then will not be part of the deen

00:44:28 --> 00:44:28

today.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

Now, then the question we have to ask

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

is how did mauled come to be? And

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

the history of the mauled is known. It

00:44:35 --> 00:44:38

was started by the Fatimids at first and

00:44:38 --> 00:44:39

it was a day that they said we're

00:44:39 --> 00:44:41

going to create festivals, and they created a

00:44:41 --> 00:44:42

number of festivals.

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

And one of them was, we're going to

00:44:43 --> 00:44:45

create a festival on the day the prophet

00:44:45 --> 00:44:48

was born. And they did it. And they

00:44:48 --> 00:44:49

would come and they would eat and they

00:44:49 --> 00:44:50

would be lavish and there would be events

00:44:50 --> 00:44:52

and there would be something that they do.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

Something that they did was,

00:44:54 --> 00:44:57

it's just generally, and something was not.

00:44:57 --> 00:45:00

In any case, that tradition started. And over

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

time, it continued on and continued on. Then

00:45:02 --> 00:45:05

what happened was some of the ulama looked

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

at it and said,

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

It's okay. It's fine.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:11

But others said, no. It's not fine.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

And some looked at the intention and what's

00:45:13 --> 00:45:16

being done and others looked at the concept.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:18

Someone said, oh, the intention is to remember

00:45:18 --> 00:45:20

the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, Taeib. Okay.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:23

And the intention is to do high, read

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

the seerah, read some poetry that praises the

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. But

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

even if what's happening

00:45:30 --> 00:45:32

during it is okay,

00:45:32 --> 00:45:36

the concept becomes problematic. Especially when you have

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

huge

00:45:37 --> 00:45:37

gatherings

00:45:37 --> 00:45:40

that rival the Eid, which happens in some

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

countries. When the prophet said we have only

00:45:42 --> 00:45:45

2 festivals in Islam, the 2 Eids. So

00:45:45 --> 00:45:47

there's a myriad of issues when it comes

00:45:47 --> 00:45:48

to this. So

00:45:48 --> 00:45:51

the advice to people that celebrate the mawlid

00:45:51 --> 00:45:54

is celebrate the prophet's life every day.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:57

Celebrate the prophet's life every day. Follow his

00:45:57 --> 00:45:59

sunnah. Read his seerah. Praise him. Say salat

00:45:59 --> 00:46:01

upon him all the time.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:04

Don't specify one day. The prophet is more

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

worth than one day.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

Who are we when we just remember him

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

one day in the year?

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

In fact, we should remember him more than

00:46:12 --> 00:46:13

this.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

Now,

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

then the only thing we need to look

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

at is there are different levels.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:19

So as a concept, it's not part of

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

our deen.

00:46:21 --> 00:46:22

It's not part of our deen. But then

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

we can look at the actual mawlids themselves

00:46:26 --> 00:46:28

and some are far worse than others.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

Some are far worse than others.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

We cannot compare.

00:46:31 --> 00:46:33

Some people that came together,

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

read a bit of Seerah,

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

ate some food to people

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

that are committing acts that can be considered

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

shirk when they are talking about the prophet

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

Are those 2 the same? They're not the

00:46:46 --> 00:46:49

same. So although as a concept there is

00:46:49 --> 00:46:52

no evidence for it, although we understand it's

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

coming from a place of love, so this

00:46:54 --> 00:46:55

is very important, we understand it's coming from

00:46:55 --> 00:46:56

a place of love,

00:46:57 --> 00:46:58

We are but we also understand there is

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

no place for it in our deen because

00:47:00 --> 00:47:01

if it was, we would have found the

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

sources for it. We we

00:47:03 --> 00:47:06

also appreciate that it was started randomly by

00:47:06 --> 00:47:09

the Fatima empire for, to be honest reasons,

00:47:10 --> 00:47:12

that were not all that good. And then

00:47:12 --> 00:47:13

it became something to keep the people busy

00:47:13 --> 00:47:16

with. Some of the tried to find some

00:47:16 --> 00:47:18

evidences for it to allow it with certain

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

conditions, but we say

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

All khair is in following the righteous generations.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:32

We do not need to commemorate the prophet's

00:47:32 --> 00:47:35

birth when we commemorate and remember him every

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

single day of the year.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:38

Is that clear everyone?

00:47:38 --> 00:47:39

Now,

00:47:39 --> 00:47:42

as it relates to the people that celebrate,

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

show them rahmah.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

Show them mercy. Do not be like this

00:47:46 --> 00:47:48

all the time. Understand that a lot of

00:47:48 --> 00:47:50

them are just following traditions that they grew

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

up in. And if you can correct them

00:47:52 --> 00:47:54

and advise them in a gentle way, that

00:47:54 --> 00:47:55

is the sunnah.

00:47:56 --> 00:47:58

That is the sunnah. Correct them and also

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

empathize. Understand where they're coming from. Yes. We

00:48:00 --> 00:48:02

love the prophet just like you love the

00:48:02 --> 00:48:04

prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. But don't force me

00:48:04 --> 00:48:05

to express my love in the way you

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

tell me to for it, especially when I

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

have no evidence for it.

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

Famedom,

00:48:10 --> 00:48:12

when it comes to correcting, we use rahma.

00:48:12 --> 00:48:14

But when it comes to legislation and deen,

00:48:14 --> 00:48:16

the deen is clear.

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

The deen is clear.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

Another question is asking, can you ask those

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

brothers sitting on chairs? Oh, okay.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:25

To move to move what? Towards the back

00:48:25 --> 00:48:26

of the room so they're not blocking those

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

sitting behind them. I should have seen this

00:48:28 --> 00:48:29

before. I do apologize.

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

Brothers, in the if you're sitting on chairs

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

from in the future, go towards the back

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

because some people feel that you are blocking

00:48:35 --> 00:48:35

them.

00:48:37 --> 00:48:39

What's the name of the earliest biography written

00:48:39 --> 00:48:41

on the prophet? This is known as the

00:48:41 --> 00:48:41

of

00:48:42 --> 00:48:43

Musa Musa Musa. You

00:48:44 --> 00:48:45

can find it.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

We can take maybe 2 or 3 more

00:48:49 --> 00:48:50

questions, from the

00:48:51 --> 00:48:53

from the, brothers that are here. I will

00:48:53 --> 00:48:55

also say for the sisters,

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

if you follow the announcements

00:48:58 --> 00:49:01

and our social media, we will be announcing

00:49:01 --> 00:49:02

a special q and a sisters

00:49:03 --> 00:49:04

session for the Albinah,

00:49:05 --> 00:49:06

sisters that come to the program that we

00:49:06 --> 00:49:09

will, inshallahta'ala, do because we do understand that

00:49:09 --> 00:49:12

accessibility is something that is important to the

00:49:12 --> 00:49:13

instructors.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:16

Brothers, are there any questions before we conclude

00:49:16 --> 00:49:16

inshallahta'ala?

00:49:20 --> 00:49:21

What's your name,

00:49:22 --> 00:49:22

Abdul

00:49:26 --> 00:49:26

Hafid.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:38

Does it make sense to celebrate someone who's

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

no more? To be honest,

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

we

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

celebrate the word celebrate

00:49:44 --> 00:49:45

means

00:49:45 --> 00:49:48

to hold an if you mean holding an

00:49:48 --> 00:49:49

event to express joy

00:49:50 --> 00:49:51

I mean, right

00:49:51 --> 00:49:53

now I believe we are expressing joy and

00:49:53 --> 00:49:55

learning about the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. It

00:49:55 --> 00:49:57

happens to be on Rabi'ul Awl that was

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

not planned like I said but Alhamdulillah.

00:50:00 --> 00:50:01

But actually no.

00:50:02 --> 00:50:05

We we should always express joy when it

00:50:05 --> 00:50:06

comes to the prophet

00:50:09 --> 00:50:12

The birthday of someone who's no more. Yes.

00:50:12 --> 00:50:13

That's one interesting way of putting it.

00:50:15 --> 00:50:17

But like I mentioned, that we do

00:50:17 --> 00:50:19

not add anything into the deen,

00:50:19 --> 00:50:22

that there's no need and we do not

00:50:22 --> 00:50:23

need to be told

00:50:24 --> 00:50:27

to appreciate Prophet SAW Monday in the year

00:50:27 --> 00:50:28

when we do it when we should be

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

doing it all the time and every time.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:35

Is there any more questions from the brothers?

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

If not, we'll conclude here. And I'll see

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

you all next Friday

00:50:39 --> 00:50:43

but I hope to see you all attend

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

the aqeed and nafir class as well as

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

it is important that you are getting a

00:50:47 --> 00:50:48

holistic

00:50:48 --> 00:50:50

learning of the deen. But inshallahta'ala,

00:50:50 --> 00:50:52

I definitely want to see you all,

00:50:52 --> 00:50:55

next Friday and bring even more people as

00:50:55 --> 00:50:57

we learn and yes celebrate

00:50:57 --> 00:50:58

the life of our prophet

00:50:59 --> 00:51:00

through learning his journey.

00:51:09 --> 00:51:09

Path.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:11

Path.

00:51:12 --> 00:51:12

Right.

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

A path that you walk on. That would

00:51:15 --> 00:51:15

be definition.

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

Any if there are any more questions, we'll

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

conclude here.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:22

And,

00:51:23 --> 00:51:23

for attending.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

For coming to the masjid. May Allah

00:51:28 --> 00:51:29

accept all from us.

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