Rasul Suluki – Guidance from Allah

We pray, as Allah, and ask his peace

and his blessings upon his servant and his

messenger, Muhammad, his descendants, his companions,

and upon all the righteous.

We are

always grateful to Allah

to be here

at Al Maqasid,

and

we always look forward to being passed over

but

masha Allah

it

alhamdulillah one of the things

that we were thinking about

is that

as you grow older,

you realize

your parents,

I mean

what a tremendous sacrifice they made for you.

You know, when you're a kid,

you take so much for granted.

You think the food just arrives on the

table,

and the clothes just arrive on your back

without

too much effort.

But when you grow older and you look

back,

you have tremendous

love for your parents because of what they

did

on your behalf.

Even when they didn't give you what you

wanted

you even realized the benefit of that

okay

and

so it is true

that when you look back at the messenger

and you realize the tremendous

sacrifice

that he made

if you read sort of to and

the to it

you realize the tremendous pressure he was under

constantly

from the disbelievers.

And Allah at the same time assuring him,

you know, and telling him to tell those

people.

And the kind of

tolerance he had to have to deal with

the

persecution

and the

efforts to humiliate him.

You know, you take someone

that was well regarded by his people,

and now you're trampling on him in the

mud.

And so the fact that

the Messenger of Allah

made these tremendous

sacrifices for us,

that he was always concerned

not to make things too difficult for us,

to avoid doing things

that he thought that Allah might make

obligatory for us.

And so his concern was for us

more so than our parents.

So

our love for him should be

tremendous.

And the more we

hear

about him

the more we think about

the great sacrifices

and the great love that he showed for

his

just not singing the casitas,

but

really

tuning in to what they're all about and

trying to grasp,

you know, this

love in our hearts for him and this

longing for him.

And this I didn't realize when when I

became Muslim, and

you know you have your years of just

trying to learn how to

pray and do what you're supposed to do,

but then

now you look back and you say

all of that was because he

sent that to me

by the grace of Allah

he sent it

to me by all of these people who

were teaching me

they all were

in some way connected back to him

and of course it was from Allah,

but it's all through him

that all of these people came into my

life

and they instructed me and guided me and

told me this about the prophet,

he prayed like this, he ate like this,

he did this, he did that, and at

the time you're just trying to copy and

do what you're supposed to do, but then

you realize

it was his love for me

that brought it all to me.

And so this,

you know, should make us more

loving

of the messenger of Allah

and the great bounty there is in loving

him.

And this was not stressed in the beginning

of the trip,

but now you see that it is an

essential part

of being able to go forward,

and that is that

we have this deep,

deep love for the Messenger of Allah and

what we're bringing about

is thinking about what He did for you,

all right, what he did for you personally,

yes he did for the Ummah, but what

he did for you personally

and then

it will breed in us more love for

him

And we ask Allah

to give us the love of the messenger

and give us a large

and

the righteous.

And we ask blessings on him, his family,

his descendants, and all the righteous until the

last day.