Mustafa Khattab – Defending The Prophet Pbuh 1
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The importance of honoring the prophet Muhammad's name and his success on all levels of religion is highlighted. The success of his message is also highlighted, as it was successful due to his actions and actions. The success of the prophet's message is also highlighted, and it is important to find success in a situation where the person is facing challenges and the message is resonating with them. The importance of being active in the media and politics to gain respect and gain respect for people is also emphasized.
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There's this verse in Surah Al An Nasshah
al Kasabir
where Allah subhanahu alaala says,
We have elevated your mention.
We have given you an honorable mention.
And if you read about
the the the reason why this particular verse
was revealed in the Quran,
it came at a time when Muslims were
very,
few in number in Mecca. They were outnumbered,
vastly outnumbered.
They were in a difficult situation.
And this verse came to reassure
the the prophet
that one day, inshallah will prevail,
and the Allah
will give you honorable mention everywhere. So this
happened when the prophet
was in Madina and Muslims had a hard
time.
So in this hadith in,
Nabi, Nijayr,
and also Abiyyah
is reported through Abu Saeed al Fudrillahu alaihi
wa sallam
said after this was revealed.
So he said, Jibril, alayhis salaam, Gabriel, came
to me and and said that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is asking you, do you know
how we honored you, your mention, you Muhammad?
So I said, Allah knows best. I don't
know.
I also believe in Muhammad, they are not
true Muslims because part of your faith in
Allah
and the sincerity of your belief is also
to believe in Muhammad,
because some people say, yes. The key to
Jannah is
But as we said a long time ago,
every key has teeth.
Every key. If you just say your key
out of your pocket and look at the
key, it has teeth. Yes.
But one of the teeth
is Muhammad Rasoolullah. Another tooth is salah. A
third tooth is zakan. The fourth one is
Hajj, and so on and so forth. He
cannot open the door without these teeth. Right?
So no one takes Shahadah or becoming becomes
a true Muslim without believing in Muhammad salaam
as a prophet salaam.
The Khuba is not acceptable
without saying, Ashawwala ilaha illa illa Allah or
Shahuwala Muhammad al Rasool Allah.
And they say, all of the ways that
Allah honored
the mention of Muhammad and
this has never been done for any other
human being
and will never be done for any other
human being is in Adan, you know, because
of the time difference,
every city has a different time. And let's
say, for example,
if the people in Baha'u make Adan,
by the time they finish their Adan in
the different Mas'id,
1 or 2 minutes later, the people in
the area of will be doing another Adan.
But as time we are done, the people
in Saint Catholics will be saying,
Then by the time of the people in
Hamilton will be saying the other.
Once they are done, the people
in the the Oakville, then the people in
Mississauga, then the people in Toronto, then the
people in Chicago,
and throughout the world, they say every single
probably every single second during the day for
24 hours, some masjid somewhere is calling Adan
and saying,
This has never been done for any other
human being, and this is the meaning one
of the meanings of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has also honored the
mention of the prophet
by combining the obedience of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala with obedience to the prophet.
We know in the books of Aqidah for
your deeds to be accepted and to be
fully rewarded by Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, 2 conditions have to be met.
Number 1, you do aiba, something good, a
charity, or salah
sincerely or purely for the sake of Allah.
So this is the first requirement. And number
2, you have to follow the example of
the prophet
If you do something else, your salah, for
example, is not accepted. Yeah. I mean, for
example, if you pray Madri before raka.
Yeah. You pray another rakah, which is, you
know, technically, there's something good, but your salah
is rejected altogether. Why?
Although you did more because you didn't follow
his examples of
so you have to follow his example to
get the full reward. So this is another
way of honoring
the prophet
They say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala faqbalah
and Beyah. Allah exalted him over all other
prophets. He elevated his example or his mention
over
other prophets,
although he is the last one. But still
in the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the prophet
is is the best and he is the
finest
In Ulil Asl, the 5 highly elevated prophets
and the rest of the prophets.
They said he will be the first one
to be raised on the day of judgement.
He will be the first to make shafa'ah.
He will be the first to take the
people to Jannah, and so on and so
forth. And this is part of
the honor that Allah
has given to the prophet, salam. Millions
of people after Advent,
they make dua and they thank Allah and
they pray for Allah
to give the prophet, salam, and we see
in a
and this is also part of honoring the
mission of the prophet
We know every detail of the life of
the prophet
And this is not true for any other
prophet.
Jesus or Abraham or David, we know some
things about them, a few things about them,
but we know every detail of the prophet's
life,
which is mentioned in partially in the Quran,
but mostly in the sunnah of the prophet,
in Bufari, in Muslim, in Termini, in Messiah,
Muslim Abi Dawood, and all these books of
hadith. We know every detail on the prophet's
life
from praying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his
spiritual life,
all the way to how he cleaned himself
in the washroom. You know, every detail. How
he lived
with his family. What he did inside the
house and outside.
Even in his sleep, what he did in
his sleep, before he slept, when he woke
up, and so on and so forth. You
know everything. What kind of God he said
when he entered the house, when he came
out, when he put on a dress, when
he took it off. All these things
you don't know these things about other people
who lived in different times. So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala honored his mention
over other prophets and any other ruler of
of other times. There are thousands, if not
millions of rulers and kings and queens who
lived throughout history. We don't even know their
names.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honored the prophet
that we know every detail of his life.
Another way of making the prophet salam
honored in this life and in the hereafter
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made him successful
on all levels.
You'll be astonished when you read the book
by Thomas Carlyle
when he said the title is the 100
most influential people of all time. And he
listed Muhammad
as number 1
Although the author himself is Christian. Right? So,
he said,
my choice of Muhammad to top the list
of the, 100 most influential people in human
history
would be astonishing and surprising to some people
and it will be questioned by others. But
he is the only human being in history
who has been successful on both the secular
and religious levels.
Yeah. Hamdulillah.
Musa alaihis salaam did a wonderful job trying
to guide his people,
but he died before he entered the holy
city. He died in the wilderness, he stayed
for 40 years, but he couldn't go.
Nour, a. S salam, eventually,
the people gave him a hard time. Very
few people accepted
the, you know,
the
faith. Very few people believed in him.
So finally,
he had to make dua against him. If
you Allah, I think nobody has accepted my
message. Destroy all of
them. Sadr, a sallam, did the same thing.
Hud, a sallam, did the same thing. Right?
But the prophet, a sallam, he was very
persistent in his message. So Nuh, a sallam,
stayed in Dawah, for example, 950
years. Only a few people believed in him.
The prophet SAW had spent only 23 years
in Dawah. And
before the death of the prophet SAW had
almost all of Arabia accepted Islam. We're talking
about hundreds of thousands of people. Right? So,
he was successful despite
the the very,
little means that he had, despite the great
challenges that he was facing,
and the great enemies that he was facing.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was very successful
on all levels
and this
is testified to by even the enemies of
the prophet himself
throughout history. They say that man was very
successful
and if you compare him to any other
prophet or any other historical figure, he is
number 1. He is the best. Right?
So because of all these things and because
of the honor that the prophet has given
to him
and because Islam is the fastest growing religion
in the world more than any other faith,
Maybe some people are not too happy to
see this. Right? So, you will see the
attacks.
And I said before, nobody attacks a loser.
If if if you are a loser, nobody
will care about you. They only attack
the successful ones. Right? I give you example.
We learned a long time ago in the
village, the only tree that we, threw stones
at was the fruit tree. If that tree
didn't have any fruits, nobody even cared about
that fruit that tree. Right?
So, because of this the people started attacking
and they know that some Muslims are going
to react because we love him. It's true.
We love the prophet
more than we love ourselves. This is the
way it should be. Right?
Some people do it for different reasons.
Some people, some magazines
and some papers and some,
producers of movies and stuff, they don't attack
the prophet or Islam because they necessarily
hate the prophet or Islam.
Some people do it for publicity. They want
to become famous. Some people make it for
money. And believe it or not, because I
started this for several years,
the Muslim image,
in the media,
Some people they do it to other faith
as well. So they make fun of Jesus,
they make fun of Mary, they make fun
of Musa and Ibrahim alayhi salah
because they want attention. Right?
So, for example, there is an American artist.
I'm using the term loosely.
Back in
1987,
this artist by the name of Serrano,
nobody knew about him. He knew that the
easiest way to make money and to become
popular and famous is to attack religion. So
what he did basically,
he took a crucifix.
It's a cross and it has the body
of Jesus on it. And
he submerged
this crucifix
in a cup or glass of his own
urine. He filled it with his own urine
and he put the the image of Jesus
in it. Of course, he later received death
threats and all that stuff, but the point
was there was an auction and he sold
this image for a
$167,000
back in 19,
in
1987. Right? He made a lot of money.
He became very popular because of this. Right?
If he did something good, nobody would care
about him. So people do it for for
this reason. They want attention and they want
publicity.
Charlotte Itu, Charlotte Itu, this newspaper,
I read a little bit about their history.
They have financial difficulties. They have financial problems.
They were in debt.
Right? Not so many people were very fond
of their,
paper,
but they started to make fun of religion,
of the prophet Sasa, and now they are
very popular.
And
this week, some European countries, in solidarity with
them, they said, okay. Our country is going
to carry your paper in different languages and
they are very popular now. Right? Why? Because
we gave them a lot of attention.
Right?
So, this is what they are after.
So
so as I said, if you are successful
some people will be saying things about you
as throwing stuff at you. Right?
We are told on the Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala himself
guaranteed that he will defend the honor of
the prophet
He says,
Allah subhanahu wa'ala himself in the Quran
vows to protect the roadside against those who
make fun of him.
In the Quran, in several places.
In his life,
his Sahib Muslim Abuja
to go to the prophet
when he made satra and he said I'm
gonna put my foot on his neck or
over his head
and he said
when the prophet made satra he went to
do it. So, then he came back terrified.
So his his companions, his the friends of
Abu Jahn, they said, why didn't you do
it? Why are you so scared? He said,
when I got close to Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wasallam,
I saw a trench of fire between me
and him, and I saw feathers and tremendous
things.
And the prophet said at the end of
the Hadith, Gulah, if he came closer
the Malayka would have snatched him organ by
organ. He would have been destroyed
and this is during his lifetime.
Also,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protected the prophet
after his death. You probably heard the story
of Muradin Zinki
in the year 557.
Some people they tried to dig under the
grave of the prophet and steal his body.
And they were destroyed. Allah subhanahu alaihi
wa sallam
alaihi
wa
sallam
alaihi wa sallam alaihi wa sallam was very
peaceful with people when he was in Mecca
because Muslims were were
outnumbered. So, he was peaceful, but he when
he was in Medina,
he destroyed people and killed them for ridiculing
them. Well, this is not entirely true because
there are so many examples,
Like, when the prophet
and the Sahaba, they took over Mecca,
no one hurt the prophet
and Abu Sufyan
and Hind
and Habashib Washi. Right? They abused the Sahaba.
They abused the
Prophet, they made fun of him, they killed
some family members.
Still when the Prophet took over, he forgave
all of them.
You know the story of Qarib in Zulayim.
He was making fun of the Prophet in
his poems.
He took the sword and he put it
on the neck of the prophet and he
said, who can protect you from me?
So the prophet
said, Allah.
Then the man started to shake and the
sword fell on his head and the prophet
took it and put it on his neck
and he said, who can't protect you now
from me? The man said, yeah, Muhammad.
Oh,
Muhammad. You're better than me. You are not
like me. You know, you are better than
me. So the prophet said,
okay. Go on. And you let him go.
He didn't do anything. Although,
It's true that when,
the name of the prophet who's abused, all
of us are angry. All of us are
mad.
And this is part of your love. This
is part of your faith in him.
But I don't think killing people who made
fun of the prophet who solved the problems
will actually,
it will make it even worse.
There are different ways you can respond. So
what happened in Paris and other places?
I don't think violence is the right way
to respond. As we saw in the example
of the prophet,
there is a man,
by the name of Van Dorn.
He is a Dutch politician. He's a conservative
politician.
Several years back, he was
attacking the prophet and he said was supportive
of some kind of movie that was produced
to make fun of the prophet
and satirize him fit in the, I think,
fit in the movie.
And this man, because of all the love
and all the grace that Muslims,
showed to the prophet,
this man took Shahadim 2 years ago,
and he made Hajj last year.
Why? Because he showed he saw how much
the people loved the prophet,
and he thought, well,
people from different faith, the different
religious leaders, they are abused all the time,
and nobody's saying anything. But why Muhammad in
particular? Why people get angry
when the name of the prophet
is abused?
And he realized, well, this is because
of the strong love for the prophet is
a sallam.
And, again, we are totally against killing people
for saying something. We don't agree with what
they say, and there are different reason and
different ways to respond.
Killing them is not one solution
because people will sympathize with him. Right? And
this is not supported by our faith to
shed the blood of people even if they
do something wrong.
So one of the ways
to respond to
evil
misrepresentations
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in
Islam
is to make dawah. This is number 1.
We are not very active in dawah. We
are not taking the message out. And the
prophet said,
convey my message even in the form of
You
have to let people know about Islam. This
is the right on you.
Whether they accept it or not, it's up
to them. It is not your job to
give Hidayah. Hidayah is only in the hands
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 2, you have to ignore
these misrepresentations
in the meh. As I said, one major
reason why these magazines, these papers, and these
movies attack Islam is because they want attention
and they want publicity.
Once we started,
posting some Facebook and Twitter, once we keep
talking about them,
these people will be gaining a lot of
attention.
Now they're gonna be starting to, to be
invited to TV shows and Fox News and
different,
you know, news shows and stuff, and they
will be invited to the universities to speak
about Islam, and they will be making a
lot of money. Because they know that the
fastest and the easiest way to make money
is not to sell drugs anymore, but to
attack Islam. They know it now. So this
is why you see a lot of people
attacking Islam, because they know this is the
best way to make money.
Number 2 number 3, actually,
we have to be active in the media,
and we have to be active in politics,
and we have to be successful as business
people.
The Jews figured this out a long time
ago. Back in the 19 forties,
some of the, just a small example. In
Toronto,
some of the restaurants and some of the
organizations
and law offices and places,
they put this sign on the door. No
dots, no Jews.
This is how bad it was for the
Jews. We're not there. Right?
It is not as bad for Muslims. So
how did they do it? The media,
politics,
and business.
This is the way to get respect. You
have to be strong.
If you want to be respected, you have
to be strong. There's no respect for the
weak. There's no respect for the despised.
You have to be strong to gain respect
from the people.
Also,
over the last century,
some studies have been made on the Muslim
image in, say, for example, in film, in
the film industry.
Over 1500
movies have been produced
to make fun of Muslims and to make
them look horrible.
How did Muslims respond?
So, for the 1500
a 1,500
movies that have been produced to make Muslims
look bad,
how many Muslims
how many movies Muslims produce
to clear or to clear the image
and fix the image
in English, an international production.
Only one movie in 1976
or 1977,
The Message.
This is the only movie we have produced,
and we have been bragging about it for,
like, 30 years. We have to do more,
and we have to try to fix and
clarify the image by being active in the
media.
The last thing
that we have to reach out
to non Muslims, and we have to invite
them to open houses and to have to,
to show them the true image of Islam
through your character, through your actions.
A few days ago, about a week ago,
just one day after the the shooting in
Paris,
I took my son and take him in
the morning. We stand on Willem Avenue.
So,
to to catch the bus and take him
to school. So I was waiting for the
bus. It was very cold outside. It was
a snowy day,
and all of a sudden this car stopped
and this old lady came out. She's old
enough to be my mother.
She came toward me and she said, you
know, I saw I I see you every
day here taking your kid to school,
and I believe you and your family are
very nice people, and I have some friends,
and you are very loving people. And I
don't believe that,
what happened in Paris, you have any connection
with this. And now, I just sent out
of my car to tell you that we
love you guys and care about you, and
we don't think you are evil people. We
love you and we respect you. And she
hugged me,
and don't get me wrong. As I said,
she's old enough to be my mother. But
the whole day, Goliath moved
by, you know, first of all, she's an
old lady. She stopped her car on the
way to work or something and she came
out of her way just to tell me
that she cares about us and she doesn't
believe what people say about us in the
news. Right?
This made my day and we need more
people like this to sympathize with us and
to support our cause. And finally, we ask
Allah
to give us the best in this life
and the best in the world to come
and to give you value to all people
and give us sincerity in everything we're saying
in Zoom.