Mustafa Khattab – Muhammad PBUH Mercy to the World

And I bear witness that Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam, is the seal of the prophets

and the final messenger to all humanity.

Whomever Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, guides, there is

none to misguide.

And whomever Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, needs to

go astray,

there is none to guide.

Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala

never swears in the Quran

with the life of any human being or

a prophet except the prophet,

the Surah,

insha'Allah.

So today, inshaAllah, we'll talk about the special

qualities of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

We'll mention 4 of them briefly, and there

are many many of them. And several books

have been written on this topic. So I'll

talk only about 2 qualities in this life

and 2 qualities in the next life.

So the first quality for the prophet SAWSALAM

in this life the first characteristic

that makes the prophet salaam

special and more unique than other prophets is

the universality

of his messages.

So every prophet, according to the Quran,

was sent to his own people.

Shuay

was sent to his people.

Salah to his people and so on and

so forth. Every single prophet was sent to

his own people. But when it comes to

the prophet, salah al salam, Allah says,

we have sent you, Muhammad,

as a mercy to all of mankind, as

a mercy to all of humanity.

That not a single previous prophet before me

got any of these. This what makes me

special. And one of them, the prophet

said is

that every prophet was sent to his own

people, but the prophet was sent to all

humanity.

The second reason or the second quality of

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is that

he came as a mercy

to all

In the previous nations, as we read in

the Quran, if someone committed a major sin,

a major sin, like worshiping the calf in

the Surat Al Baqat, a badatil 'il.

The only way for them to repent was

to kill themselves, to kill one another.

But in Islam, if you commit a major

sin,

the only thing you need to do is

raise up your hands and say, oh, Allah

forgive me, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will

forgive me.

Hafta wa'ilaa mala adhuluqa'ana

nasama.

Even if your sins go the distance between

the heavens and the earth and you ask

no one to forgive you, he will forgive

you.

And

also

in the field of purification in the previous

nations.

If an impurity falls on the cloth of

the person,

the only way to purify him at that

time was to cut it off and patch

it.

But in Islam, the prophet salallahu alayhi wa

sallam tells us, all you need to do

is just wash it or scrub it, and

it will be clean.

The prophet

made everything

beneficial

haram for us, and he made everything harmful

haram for us.

With regard to non Muslims,

the prophet,

salam, orders in several authentic ahadith

to be just and to be kind and

courteous and nice to them

as long as they're not fighting and killing

us. And the prophet, salam, made it prohibited

for Muslims to harm non Muslims.

We read in Surah Al Hash,

chapter 60 verses 8 and 9, that Allah

says that he does not prevent us prevent

us Muslims

from dealing

kindly

with courtesy with non Muslims who don't fight

us or kick us out of our homes.

Allah

loves those who deal with equity.

Even in the battlefield,

The

prophet tells us in this hadith, authentic one

is saying Muslim Dawood,

depart in the name of Allah.

Don't kill a child or a woman or

an old man, and don't mutilate the bodies

of dead enemies,

But be courteous and gracious. This is what

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says.

We are told in a hadith that the

prophet says that a man will go to

Jannah because he gave water to a dog

in the desert.

We are told in a hadith that the

prophet

said that a lady would go to the

helfa because she

imprisoned a cat in the house. She never

gave her food or drink until it died.

The prophet

prohibited

sitting animals on each other to kill each

other. The prophet prohibited

hitting animals with arrows to take them as

target while they are alive. He says it's

haram. Don't do it.

Bull fights are haram in Islam because you

kill animals. The only two times in Islam,

in filth, you are allowed to kill an

animal

is if you want to eat it or

if you want to defend yourself.

Even when you take an animal to slaughter

it for al khaia or to eat it,

you have to treat it in the best

way. You have to be merciful.

You sharpen your knife to treat it nicely

even when you are going to kill it.

Which make him unique, is the shafa'ah in

the next slide. Intercession.

And the greatest shafa'ah, because we are told

in the books of hadith, the prophet salawasalam

will make shafa'ah several times on the day

of judgement.

They listed 8 different shafa'ahs or intercessions that

the prophet shafa'ah will do. The first one,

shafa'ah.

So people will be moved away from the

place of assembly, Ardal Maqshab,

after standing there for 50,000

years.

And every time the people will go to

a prophet asking them to make shafa'ah so

the judgement will begin,

every prophet will run away and will say

go to someone else. Eventually, they'll go to

the prophet

and he will make sujood and ask Allah

so the judgement will begin. Then Allah

will say, oh, Muhammad, raise up your head.

Ask whatever you want. Whatever you ask for

today is granted.

The second shafa'ah, the prophet

will make shafa'ah for Muslims to go to

Jannah. He will knock on the door of

Jannah, as reported in Sahih Muslim.

Then the keeper of the gate of Jannah

will say, who is it? Who is knocking

on the door? So So the prophet

will say, it's me, Muhammad.

So the people will say, is that you?

Because I was told by Allah

not to open for anyone the door of

Jannah before you. So it will be the

first ones to enter. And your Ummah, your

nation, will be the second after you.

The prophet

will also make shafa'ah for some Muslims

who were destined

after judgement to go to the hellfire so

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will protect them from

the hellfire. So they don't go. They don't

fall in there.

The

4th type, the prophet would make shafa'ah for

sinful Muslims.

Those who will go to the hellfire to

be punished for some time, to take a

whooping for their misdeeds in this life, then

the prophet will make for them and all

of them will be removed

from the hellfire by the shafa'ah and the

barakah of the prophet

so not a single Muslim will stay in

the hellfire forever.

The 4th one, and this is the last

one for today,

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

will have his will make the majority of

the people in Jannah. The prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam in Jannah will have more followers

than any other prophet whatsoever.

The prophet

says in Anuzatul Khadim, the Bukhari and Muslim,

the nations and the prophets were presented to

me on the day of judgement.

So I have seen a prophet

with a number of people, a bunch of

people following the prophet. He gave them the

message. Some accepted, so he would take them

to jail. Then I have seen a prophet

with a couple of people with him. All

the 2 people accepted his message.

And I see a prophet with only 1

person who accepted his message. And I see

another prophet with nobody at all with him.

He went to the people, gave them dua,

and nobody accepted. So the prophet came on

the day of judgement by himself.

Nobody behind him. Then the

prophet will say, I looked in the horizon,

and I see,

millions and millions of people blocking the horizon.

And I looked on the other side, and

I saw billions and billions of people blocking

the outer horizon. And I was told, oh,

Muhammad,

rejoice.

This is your ummah. So this gives us

hope, and we ask Allah

to give us the shafa'ah of the prophet

salaam in the next life. And we ask

Allah

to help us follow the prophet

to follow his sunnah and his guidance, and

to give us sincerity in everything we say

and do.