Omar Suleiman – Did The Prophet See You In The Future
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The Prophet servicing the future nations is essential, and the Prophet servicing the love of the Prophet servicing the needs of its followers, including manifesting actions and reaching. The importance of following the Prophet servicing the love of the Prophet is emphasized, including following his teachings and not criticizing them. The importance of major qualities in history and where they fall into it is also emphasized, along with the importance of graduation and being in a certain category.
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Did the Prophet ﷺ ever see you in
a dream or in a vision?
Did he see you on the night of
Al-Isra and Al-Mi'raj?
Was the Prophet ﷺ talking about you specifically
in some of these Ahadith that we read
about the future nations to come?
A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wa Al-'Udwana Ila Al-'Ala Al-Dhalimeen.
Wa Al-'Aqibatu Lil-Muttaqeen.
Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barak al-'Abdika wa
Rasulika Muhammadin Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim wa tasliman kathira.
We begin as always by praising Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and by invoking his peace
and blessings upon our beloved messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
wa Sallam, the prophets and messengers that came
before him, his family and companions that served
alongside him, and those that follow in his
blessed path.
And we ask Allah to make us amongst
them.
Allahumma Ameen.
Dear brothers and sisters, if you have been
following the series on Al-Aqsa that we
have just started, we are about to come
into the chapter of the Fada'il of
Ash-Sham, the virtues of Ash-Sham and
its people.
And Ash-Sham refers to, in the broad
sense, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
And subhanAllah, one of the things about this
chapter, about the people of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon,
and Jordan, the people of Ash-Sham, is
that it struck me as the genocide began,
and as I was looking into these Ahadith,
that these people were not even Muslim yet,
when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was speaking
about very specific virtues that they had.
I want you to just imagine that for
a moment.
And of course, it's not only the people
of Ash-Sham that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam spoke about.
He spoke about the Fada'il of the
people of Yemen, for example, the virtues of
the people of Yemen.
These people were not Muslim yet.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in
Al-Madinah Al-Munawwara, and he's talking about
a territory that is under the control of
the Romans.
And he's already talking about the future Muslims
that reside in that land, and how blessed
they are, and how much he loves them,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Now, why is this relevant to us, and
what did I want to focus on here
today, that I can't necessarily focus on in
the second lecture of our Al-Aqsa series?
This actually brings us to a very interesting
genre of Ahadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, where there are a number of Ahadith
where the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
will say something like, عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ الْأُمَمُ that
the nations were presented to me.
Or he would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, عُرِضَتْ
عَلَيَّ أُمَّتِي my nation was presented to me.
Or he would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, رَأَيْتُ
رَجُلًا مِنْ أُمَّتِي I saw a man from
my Ummah.
And the Hadith continues in that way.
The point is there is a genre where
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking about
future nations, future peoples.
And SubhanAllah you can find him talking about
the Ummah in its good times to come,
in its bad times to come.
You can find him talking about very specific
blessed people to come, and very specific people
of fitna to come.
You can find him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam crying
over incidents that would happen 40-50 years
after him, right?
Like the murder of Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu.
You can find him talking about all sorts
of things.
The leader of Al-Khawarij.
You can find him talking about Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, the global events to happen.
And you can find him talking about things
that would happen to people from his Ummah
in their graves.
And you can find him talking about people
on the Day of Judgment.
And you can find him talking about very
specific scenes in Al-Jannah and Al-Nar.
So he has this vernacular Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that's been given to him by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, that he sees things, right?
Now where do we read ourselves into that?
So I want to take you to a
hadith that's very famous.
Then we can get into some of the
specific categories here.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, وَدِتُوا
أَرَىٰ أَحْبَابِي أَرَىٰ أَحْبَابِي Oh how I wish
to see my beloved ones.
And the sahaba of course, hearing that from
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they said, Ya
Rasulullah, who are you talking about?
Are you talking about the muhajireen?
Or are you talking about the ansar?
Are you talking about the people that came
from Mecca?
Or are you talking about the companions from
Al Medina?
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, بَلْ
أَنْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي No, you are my companions.
I'm talking about people that have yet to
come from my ummah.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is praising
these people and he's saying, الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِي
وَلَمْ يَرَونِي Those who believe in me and
they have not yet seen me, and they
would do anything to be able to come
to Al Medina.
And to see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And to be with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying,
هُمْ أَحْبَابِي هُمْ إِخْوَانِي May Allah make us
amongst them.
They are my beloved ones.
They are my brothers.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking
about a group of people to come.
And he's very specific Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
he loves us.
And I say us with a hopeful tone.
That we would be counted amongst them.
That he loves us بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى before
we were even born.
Because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam knows that
he has an ummah that is to come.
That loves him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he perceives us in that Ihsan Alaihi
Wasallam.
In that excellence of loving us before we
were even born.
As he knows we are to come.
And that we will reciprocate that love to
him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And then love has categories, right?
قُلْ إِن كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبُكُمُ اللَّهَ
Say if you truly love Allah, then follow
me and Allah will love you back.
So you can't claim the محبة of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
You can't claim the love of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Nor the love of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala if you don't follow the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
So there are very specific categories of اتباع
النبي Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
What it means to follow the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam than to qualify for his love.
Now here is what I want us to
do.
Build on this very well-known narration where
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking about
people that love him that are yet to
come.
And then look at the people that he
described from these different regions and in these
different eras.
And the qualities that he assigned to them.
So for example, when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam talks about the people around Al-Aqsa.
The people around Al-Bayt Al-Maqdis.
The people that are from Al-Ta'if
Al-Mansurah.
The victorious group that are around the area
of Asqalan which is where Gaza is today.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't just talk
about them from the perspective of blood or
nationality.
And in fact, let's just be very clear.
You could be a Fajr Kafir from Palestine.
And you could enter into the lowest pit
of * fire.
In fact, some of the scholars say if
you fall within one of the blessed regions
or one of the blessed categories.
And you're a Fajr and you're a disobedient
person.
That makes it that much worse.
Because just like if a blessed season comes
upon us like Ramadan.
And you are sinful even in Ramadan.
Then that's worse for you.
So if you're from Ahlul Bayt.
What's better than being from the lineage of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
From the family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And you're still disobedient.
And you still disobey the sunnah of the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That's a proof against you, not for you.
And so this is not a source of
nationalistic pride.
That oh yeah, I'm from Palestine.
I'm from Syria.
I'm from this place and that place.
Therefore I qualify.
No, no, no.
The earth does not make anyone holy.
Right?
Your deeds make you holy.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would mention
qualities.
So when he says, That they are manifest
upon the truth.
Okay, there's a very specific manifestation of that
truth in Gaza right now.
And there's a very specific manifestation of that
truth in Syria for example.
But are you someone who is manifest upon
the truth in your own circumstances?
When you think about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam saying, That they are a thorn in
the side of their enemies.
Are you someone who is a thorn in
the side of the enemies of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala?
By your insistence upon righteousness.
By your insistence upon justice.
Where you are.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, That
they are not affected or impacted.
By those who take them as enemies.
Nor by those who betray them.
Are you one of those people?
So you have to look at the qualities.
So when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions
for example, The people of Yemen.
And he mentions, That they have surpassed by
the softness of their hearts.
You could be from Yemen but not have
a soft heart.
And you could not be from Yemen but
have a soft heart.
And you would qualify for all of the
virtues of that reward.
Because it's the qualities that you pay attention
to.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam loved people
for the righteous deeds that were to come.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam happened to
mention, The prevalence or the prominence of those
righteous deeds.
Perhaps through specific episodes of history.
In very specific regions.
But you can qualify for those righteous deeds.
So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
أَعِزَّةً عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ يُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا
يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَ تَلَأَمُ Where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala mentions a people that, If you were
to turn away.
If you were to turn away.
And the Mufassideen say, this is referring to
the Arabs.
Right?
If you turn away.
فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَ Allah will
bring about another group of people.
That love him and he loves them.
And so it's not region specific.
It could be the Persians under Salman Al
-Farisi.
رضي الله تعالى عنه It could be the
people of Habesha under Bilal.
رضي الله تعالى عنه It could be people
all over the world.
That embrace the qualities.
And you'll find that there's alignment.
Between the qualities that are mentioned in these
ayat.
And the qualities mentioned by the Prophet.
So for example, Where the Prophet says, لَا
يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَرَهُمْ وَلَا مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ
مَنْ خَذَرَهُمْ وَلَا مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ Right?
That they are not deterred by those who
take them as enemies.
Or those who betray them.
Compare that to, وَلَا يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَ تَلَعَبُونَ They
don't fear the blame of the blamers.
They're manifestations of the same qualities.
But the point is, Do you actually manifest
that quality?
Now here's where we get to, SubhanAllah, something
very profound.
And they are from this genre of Ahadith
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
When you actually sit and you think to
yourself, Was I one of those people?
Perhaps, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw
on the night of Asra ul Mi'raj
and that made him happy.
Was I one of those people?
Like was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam one
day having a dream?
One night having a dream.
Where he saw what was happening in Gaza.
Where he saw some of the turmoil around
the Baitul Maqdis.
And then he saw a group of his
Ummah standing up and rising to the occasion.
Could I have been one of those people?
Right?
Or if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talked
about a group of Muslims rising from the
lands of Kufr.
Could I have been one of those people?
You have to actually have that ambition to
say, maybe, just maybe, I could be one
of those people.
What if I fell in the sight of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and I could
have made the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam proud
and the other side could also be true.
What if I disappointed the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam?
What if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam described
me as someone from the Ummah as a
disappointment?
Like, look at these people from this area.
Look at these people with this quality.
Look at the people that do this and
do that.
And they're from my Ummah and the disappointment
of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May Allah spare us from that disappointment.
May Allah not make us amongst those who
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will complain about
on the Day of Judgment.
May Allah make us amongst those who the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will reach and he
will be proud of alayhis salatu wasalam.
And of course, greater than that, may Allah
make us amongst those who meet him and
he's proud of us subhanahu wa ta'ala.
May Allah praise us for these qualities as
Allah sees even what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam could not see.
Allah sees everything and he sees the hearts
and he sees every single detail because he
decrees every single detail subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So let's look through some of these ahadith.
One of them, subhanallah, is the hadith of
Umm Haram bint Milhan radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha
and she is the khala of Anas ibn
Malik radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and she narrates
Atana Rasulullahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came to us one day
and he went to sleep at our house
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was related
to them Fastayqada Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wahuwa yadhak
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up from
a nap in our home and he was
laughing Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and when you read
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was laughing
that should make you happy because you love
the joy of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
just as you cry when the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam cries as you're reading these episodes
of the seerah so imagine he woke up
in your house and he was laughing Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam faqultu ya Rasulullah bi abi wa
ummi ma adhakaka by my mother and my
father may my mother and my father be
sacrificed for you O Messenger of Allah, what
caused you to laugh and in one narration
may Allah keep you laughing may Allah keep
you happy these people love to see the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam happy and the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says ra'aytu qawman min
ummati yarkabuna hadhal bahra that I saw some
people from my ummah that were riding along
the seas meaning the first marines of the
ummah and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says
kal muluki alal asirrah they were like kings
like there is something so deeply profound that
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is describing this
first group, this first batch of his ummah
they're desert Arabs that will go out on
the seas and they're like kings on their
thrones and Umm Haram radiyaAllahu ta'ala said
Ya Rasulullah, immediately she said ud'u Allah
an yaj'ali minhum make dua that I
be amongst them and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam made the dua, he says fa innaki
minhum you are from them so it was
not only a dua that you would be
amongst them the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
you are from those people thumma nama thumma
istayqada wa huwa yadhak then the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam went asleep and he once again
woke up and he laughed Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and I asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
what he saw so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam saw an extension of that dream he
saw more, Allah gave him more in his
dream Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and she once again
affirmed with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ya
Rasulullah, am I one of those people you're
seeing in your dream and the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said anti minhum, you are indeed
amongst them and the second time he said
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam anti minal awwaleen, you are
from the first you are from the first
people that are amongst them and SubhanAllah what
happened is that Umm Haram bint Mulhan radiyaAllahu
anha, married Ubadah ibn Samit radiyaAllahu anhu and
they were on the ship to Cyprus she
accompanied Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu on the
ship to Cyprus and just as they got
off the ship she fell off of her
animal and she broke her neck and she
passed away radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and her
grave is still in Cyprus now this is
a very well known story but just think
about the vision here right, how many more
episodes did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam see
but no one was there to narrate the
dream or he didn't share the dream with
anyone else what did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam already see of what's happening right now
in these consequential times in history and where
do I fall into this now what I
want to also come to in conclusion is
that a lot of times we're thinking once
again these major major major qualities these major
deeds right stepping up to the plate and
indeed we should be an ummah of himmah
we should be an ummah of ambition and
we should try to step up to the
plate and we should try to do great
things and not settle for less but it's
also the small things too so I want
to leave you with these two ahadith one
of them is the hadith of Abu Dharr
radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu that he says that
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ
أُمَّتِ بِأَعْمَالِهَا حَسَنِهَا وَسَيِّئِهَا the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said that my ummah was presented to
me with its good deeds and with its
bad deeds so I saw the good, the
bad, the ugly the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is saying I saw the trajectory of this
ummah and that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam would talk about the things that unfortunately
we'd fall into right of gluttony and greed
and deceit and lying and becoming inconsequential despite
our numbers and rebranding and renaming evil things
and all of these things that unfortunately become
qualities of the ummah despite its large number
because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said I
saw its good and I saw its bad
but then he says Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam فَرَأَيْتُ
فِي مَحَاسِنِ أَعْمَالِهَا الْأَذَى يُنَحَى عَنِ الطَرِيقِ I
saw something from its good that someone removing
something harmful from the road so remember when
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said I saw
a man strolling in paradise because he removed
some other something harmful from the road so
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is seeing that
something so small enters a person into Jannah
so I saw something so small from my
ummah to come and he said Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam وَرَأَيْتُ فِي سَيِّئِ أَعْمَالِهَا وَرَأَيْتُ فِي سَيِّئِ
أَعْمَالِهَا he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that I
saw from its evil deeds that there is
snot in the masjid that is not buried
now subhanallah this gives you actually something to
think about back then they didn't have carpets
in the masjid so if you saw something
like snot or you saw something that wasn't
great you buried it in the dirt at
that time subhanallah so he's saying Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam I saw these very small good deeds
these very small bad deeds these very small
qualities of good and bad that maybe we
don't pay attention to another narration the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ أُجُورُ أُمَّتِي
that verily the rewards the أجر the أجور
of my ummah were shown to me and
he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam حَتَّ الْقَذَاتُ يُخْرِيجُهَا
الرَّجُلُ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ even a small peck of
dust that a man would remove from the
masjid I'm giving this example to say that
it could be a small deed that you
do that actually put you in the vision
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam but what
you have to do is you have to
place yourself in the vision of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam you have to place yourself
in some of those qualities that the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions and not just to
say I don't belong to this category or
that category and think about this, someone says
well I'm not from Al Bayt Nabis Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam I am not from the people
of Asham or the people of Yemen or
the people that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is mentioning there I'm not from maybe I'm
not even an Arab I don't even speak
Arabic so I can't read the Quran in
a certain way or I can't do this
in a certain way or maybe I'm not
rich so I can't give a lot of
so all these things about people of I
don't fall in that category maybe I'm not
a scholar so I don't fall in the
category of these people of so you degrade
yourself to a point that you don't aspire
to be of any of those categories that
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned and that's
not what Allah demands from us instead we
are a great Ummah because we are the
followers of a great Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
so aim high and go into this genre
of Ahadith and think about it, could I
have been from the dream of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam could I have qualified for
one of those qualities that the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam praised and saw in the Ummah
to come and then suffice yourself at the
end with Anta ma'man ahbabt you are with
those whom you love and so you express
your love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and on the day and night of Friday
you increase in your salawat on the Messenger
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and you seek to be
amongst the people even though you do not
have the deeds necessarily that put you in
their ranks but through your love of them
may Allah Azawajal make us amongst those who
truly love Allah and who truly love the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and who love the
righteous until their righteousness becomes infectious in a
good way and it takes over us and
our deeds start to resemble them and may
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us amongst
those who are raised up on the Day
of Judgment from As-Sabiqoon Al-Awwaloon from
the first in one of these blessed categories
and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow
us in these consequential moments to rise to
the occasion ahead of us and to be
amongst those special followers of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam Allahumma Ameen Jazakum Allah Khairan Wassalamu
Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh