Mustafa Khattab – Birth of the Prophet PBUH
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The importance of love for the Prophet Luca is discussed, with the god considered the number one and most common in the world. The importance of following the Prophet's example, learning about his love, and not letting anyone's children die in the heat of their birth is emphasized. The importance of care for parents and not over tilling is also emphasized. The story of the Battle of BPD is also discussed, with a focus on the way it is applied to death and the importance of not over tilling the Prophet sallali wa sallam.
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I bear witness that Muhammad Sallallahu Wa
Ta'ala is the seal of the prophets,
They try to follow his example, and they
would love to be with him in Jannah
in the next life. And they would love
to give his Shafaq.
And I'm gonna give a couple of examples
of how Muslims love the Prophet SAW.
If you love someone
dearly,
you give his name or her name to
your son.
The prophet
name, Muhammad, is the number one, the most
common name in the world. There are more
than a 150
million people who have the name Muhammad.
The name Muhammad is the most common
given
boy name in England
now as we speak.
So people love the prophet
and so they named their kids after Muhammad
sallallahu
alaihi
wa
sallam.
Muhammad
So people named their kids after the prophet
I met or I heard of a shaykh
in the US. His name was Mohammed the
10th.
So people thought that the 10th or an
is his last name. And when he was
asked about this, he said, an is not
my last name. It's my number.
My name is Mohammed. My father's name is
Mohammed. My grandfather's name is Mohammed. My great
grandfather is Mohammed.
My whole family is Mohammed.
So this is a sign of love for
the prophet
Some Muslims,
even if they are not practicing,
they don't pray. Okay. They don't care.
But say for example,
that the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's name
is abused in front of them, they get
mad, and you see steam coming out of
their head, and they do something because they
love the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, even
if they don't follow him. So I think
this is a sign for the love of
the prophet, SAWSAW,
So why do we love the prophet
so much? The first reason is simply because
this is what we are commanded in Islam.
Loving the prophet
is a sign of your true imam.
The prophet
says in an authentic hadith, al Sahih al
Bukhari, and Muslim, none of you truly believes
until he loves me
more than he loves his son and his
father and the whole of humanity.
So you have to love the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
The second reason is every time you do
something good
or you avoid something bad,
stealing or lying or cheating or backbiting,
which is a good deed, then the prophet
will also get a reward for everything you
do
because you are doing it because of what
he taught us.
So this is the reason we love the
prophet salaam so
The third reason why we love the prophet
is because he came as a mercy to
all of humanity.
If you look in the seer of the
prophet
so closely,
you will see that the Prophet SAW Salam
came as a mercy
to Muslims,
to the Kuffar, and even to animals. And
maybe we'll give one footba, and show you
how the Prophet SAW Salam is a mercy
to Muslims and Kuffar and animals.
This coming Sunday,
some people will mark the birth of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And of course,
the scholars disagree when the prophet salaam was
born. Many of them say he was born
on 12th of Rabi'i Al Awad, which is
this Sunday. Some people say he was born
some other time. But whether he was born
this month or any other month,
what is more important for us is to
follow his example. This is the most important
thing,
to follow the guidance of the prophet
As I said, the most important thing is
to follow the example of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. As I said, the most
important thing is to follow the example of
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and follow
his sunnath.
You teach yourself
and your family how generous the Prophet was,
how modest and humble he was, how honest
he was,
how sincere and respectable he was, how kind
and courteous he was to people.
And you need to follow his example.
Is it from the sunnah that people go
to watch a soccer game?
And 75 or 77 of them died because
of this. Is this from the sunnah, man?
If you look at the victims
of this soccer game a couple of days
ago,
75
or 77 people died. They lost their lives,
and more than 300 people
wounded.
And this is more than the victims of
Ghazwah Badr, the Battle of Badr. 14 Muslims
died,
70 Kufar died.
So the number they outnumber the people who
died in the Battle of Badr.
Some of the parents,
they are living by themselves,
single,
because their kids
now they are married, they have their own
lives, they deserted their parents. So the parents,
they live
on their own, they live by themselves.
So I heard stories in our community and
elsewhere, most of the people, they don't know
about these stories, but we know as imams
that a father is living by himself, and
the father or the mother dies, and he
stayed dead dead in his apartment or her
apartment for a whole week or 10 days,
and nobody knows.
Then at some point, the kids realized, okay,
we haven't heard from our father in 3
months. Let's, give him a tweet
or send him a message on Facebook.
Aren't you ashamed
that when you are born, the whole family
is there for you to welcome you? But
when your father or mother dies, you are
not even there to say goodbye?
So what is it? What kind of gratitude
is this? You have to care about your
parents just like they care about you when
you you were young. This is from the
sunnah, from the akhlaq of Islam.
Islam
Is it from the sunnah that if someone
doubts the behavior of his single daughters, that
he goes ahead and kills them? There's no
such thing as honor killing Islam. We spoke
about this before and we said that this
is not the Tarism in Islam, and the
sunnah or the Sharia is not applied here,
so there's no such thing as honor killing.
We condemn what the brother did in Toronto.
He is not speaking for Islam, and he
deserves the punishment he got. Because this is
not the Islamic way.
Is it from the sunnah that the king
or the leader in our country's back home,
they abused people.
They abused their money. They violate their rights,
their blood, their honor, just to stay in
power for many years, 40 years, 30 years,
70 years. They build their thrones and the
castles on the bones and the skulls of
people. This is not from the sunnah.
So people differ
when the memory of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam comes.
Some people say it is haram to give
a footbath or talk about the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. This is one extreme.
The other extreme is some people they just,
they make and they go dancing in the
streets. Some people, they do, drugs in the
and I've seen this with my own eyes
back home.
Why are you dancing in the street because
the prophet
was born? Don't you know that he died
on the same day?
The Prophet SAW was born as most of
the scholars say on 12th or Rabi'i A1
in the year 571.
And he passed away
63 years later in the year
632.
So he technically, he died on the same
day. So why are you dancing in the
street? The prophet
died on that day too, so he shouldn't
be dancing. Right?
Some people
some people, they ask the prophet
to bring them benefit and to remove hardship
from them, and this is not acceptable.
If you want Allah
to remove hardship,
or to bring something good for you to
get married, or to get a job, or
to get a car, say, oh Allah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who
brings good and removes away hardship.
So the second mistake that some people do
is they over exalt the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
We know that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is the finest human being, and he
is the best. There is no question.
But don't raise him over what Allah
has already exalted him. So some people say
that the prophet knows
the unseen. He knows everything.
Even what is written in the
preserved tablet.
As some people say that the prophet
brings about good and removes hardship
or hardship.
The answer comes from the Quran. Surah Al
Arab, the highest verse 188.
The Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam says,
I don't or I can't harm or benefit
anyone,
and I don't know the unseen.
I'm just
someone who conveyed their message and awarded to
all people. So the Prophet SAW wasalam is
saying it in the Quran that I don't
know the unseen, and I can't help or
benefit or harm anyone.