Salah Mahmoud – Why Every Muslim Should Study Seerah
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is
the Greatest I bear witness that there is
none worthy of worship except Allah I
bear witness that there is none worthy of
worship except Allah I bear witness
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah I
bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah Come
to Prayer Come to Prayer
Come to success Come
to success
Allah is the Greatest, Allah
is the Greatest There
is none worthy of worship except Allah Allah
is
the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest There is
none worthy of worship except
Allah
Allah
is
the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest I bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship
except Allah Allah
is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest There
is none worthy of worship except Allah As
usual in the beginning of the khutbah, I
would like to request the brothers and sisters,
the youngsters, whoever is using the cell phone,
inshallah to put it on the side for
a few minutes.
Disconnect yourself, detach yourself from dunya, and come
forward to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Using the cell phone while the imam is
talking, any imam, any masjid, invalidates the prayer.
Because this is a type of laghw, right?
As if you are talking to someone physically
in the masjid.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you.
As they always say, just as a joke,
that you not checking your profiles and your
shares and all of that, your stock shares,
is not going to change anything in the
market.
The market is always going to be the
same, whether you check it now or later.
Nothing is going to change.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you.
So, in the previous khutbah, I understand it
was the first khutbah, but I know some
brothers, mashallah, I saw them in the first
khutbah.
So, inshallah, can I build on what we've
talked about last time, about the hubb of
Rasulallah ﷺ, since we are in the month
of Rabi' al-Awwal.
And here I'm not going to get into
the argument whether, you know, al-Mawlid al
-Nabawi, al-Ihtifal, and celebrating al-Mawlid al
-Nabawi is bid'ah or not.
This is not my topic for today.
My topic for last time and for today
is all about the hubb of Rasulallah ﷺ,
is about Rasulallah ﷺ himself.
And when it comes to Rasulallah ﷺ, we
can talk about him any point of time.
But, as I requested the brothers in the
previous khutbah, I will request the same, inshallah.
Whenever you hear the name of Rasulallah ﷺ,
please say, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Right?
Because the Prophet himself says, and he says
the one who is stingy, the one who
is bakheel, is the one whom my name
is mentioned in front of them and they
don't say, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us
in the Qur'an, إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ
عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ
وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا Allah started with himself and the
angels, and then he said, do the same.
Right?
إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ اللَّهَ سَنِسْتَ الْبِيسَ وَالبْلَسِنِقِ عَلَى
النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَى النَّبِيِّ
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ O believers, do the same
thing.
So whenever you hear the name of the
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, say, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
or Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi wa sallam.
Whichever form, inshallah, is easy for you.
Right?
And one of the things that I said
in the previous khutbah is that the sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam ala nabi ﷺ not only
benefit you in akhira.
Wallahi, this is very true.
I remember one of my shuyukh in New
York used to tell me this.
You know, if you want Allah ﷻ to
facilitate something for you in this dunya, increase
the sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ala nabi ﷺ.
You say to yourself, this amount of sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam ala nabi ﷺ will be,
inshallah, with the barakah of Rasulallah ﷺ that
Allah ﷻ facilitate things for me.
Be it, you know, a difficulty, job issue,
family issue, whatever it might be, Allah ﷻ
will make it easy, inshallah, for you.
And one of the interesting things that I
shared with the brothers also over some of
the reflections that I post sometimes, I said
that last week I dedicated the day to
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ala nabi ﷺ.
I gave the first khutbah here and I
drove all the way to Valley Ranch to
give the second khutbah.
And I said to myself, both khutbah are
going to be sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ala
nabi ﷺ with the intention that Allah ﷻ
facilitate some personal matter for me.
And as I finished the khutbah, as I'm
driving to Valley Ranch, I got the phone
call that I've been waiting for, subhanallah, for
weeks.
Congratulations, you got what you wanted, right?
And immediately I was so excited that I
actually shared the story with the brothers at
Valley Ranch over there.
I told them that's exactly what happened.
I've been waiting for a phone call and
I received the phone call as I was
driving to you.
So what do you explain that, right?
That's the salah and sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
ala nabi ﷺ.
I was talking about the mahabbah of the
Prophet.
Why do we love Rasulallah ﷺ?
Number one, because Allah ﷻ Himself loved him
so much.
He loved him and He demonstrated that in
so many different ayahs in Qur'an.
One of them is that whenever He mentioned
the name of the Prophet ﷺ, He uses
the title, Ya ayyuha, Ya ayyuhan nabi, Ya
ayyuhan rasul, O Messenger, O Prophet, right?
If you look at the rest of the
message on the Prophets, Allah ﷻ calls them
with their names only, their names.
He says, Ya Zakariya, Ya Yahya, Ya Isa,
Ya Dawud, Ya Isa, and so on and
so forth, Ya Musa.
But when it comes to Rasulallah ﷺ, Allah
ﷻ says, Ya ayyuhan nabi, O Messenger, O
Prophet, Ya ayyuhan rasul, O Messenger.
And whenever Allah ﷻ mentions the name of
Rasulallah ﷺ without a title, He says, Muhammadun
Rasulallah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Do you see this hubb from Allah ﷻ
to Rasulallah ﷺ?
We should demonstrate the same hubb to the
Prophet ﷺ.
And the best way to demonstrate and exemplify
the hubb of Rasulallah ﷺ by learning the
seerah of the Prophet ﷺ.
If you claim that you love someone and
you want to follow someone, yet you do
not know anything about them, that is not
possible.
How can you love someone without learning about
them, reading the biography, right?
Without reading the details of their lives, right?
When we, our youngsters especially, and a lot
of brothers and sisters, when they want to
imitate, you know, when they want to take
a celebrity as a role model, like an
artist, a soccer player, a football player, or
whatever it may be, you feel like they
read everything about them.
That if you just randomly ask them a
question, they will tell you.
They will tell you everything.
I promise there will be some youngsters or
some brothers, they will tell you what day
and what time and what game Cristiano Ronaldo
scored when he was in Manchester United.
I promise they will remember this.
But when you tell them, alright, who is
the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ?
When did the Prophet ﷺ migrate?
What was the Ghazwa of this or that?
They have no clue.
But then when we talk about Rasulallah ﷺ,
they say, When someone speaks bad about Rasulallah
ﷺ, they say, But then Rasulallah ﷺ probably
is looking at us like, what are you
guys talking about?
How can we sacrifice everything but you do
not even know anything about me?
Because when you know someone, when you get
to know someone deeply on a personal level,
you will copy them and imitate them.
So the best way is by studying the
seerah of the Prophet ﷺ.
And why is it important?
Why is it important?
It's not just about picking up a Rihaq
al-Makhtoom, one of the seerah books and
just read.
No, actually deeper, get deeper into the sunnah
of the Prophet ﷺ.
Attend lectures, listen to lectures over YouTube, and
educate yourself about the Prophet ﷺ, how he
interacted with his family members, how he interacted
with his companions, with the society, with the
community, with the enemies and so on and
so forth.
Again, I will pause and I will humbly
request the brothers, inshallah, whoever is using the
phone, please put the phone on the side
and connect with Allah ﷻ.
Using the phone when the imam is talking
invalidates your prayer.
Imagine you came, you left your work, your
school, maybe it's a break time, your lunch
time, you left your family and struggled with
the parking, with the traffic, and you're coming
here, right, parked your car, and you came
in and you started checking your phone and
your profiles, and perhaps texting and doing all
of that.
And then on the Day of Judgment, right,
when you see a record, Salatul Jumu'ah
on that day, it's not there.
Ya Allah, where is Salatul Jumu'ah?
It was there.
Well, Habibi, you were in the masjid, but
you were not in the masjid.
You were actually busy with dunya, right?
See, then what do you expect from Allah
ﷻ?
So it's very serious, and I take it
very seriously because I care for you.
May Allah ﷻ bless you.
Ameen.
So, back to studying the seerah of Rasulallah
ﷺ, why it is so important to learn
and study the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ.
Number one, because it does humanize the Prophet
ﷺ.
To make average person connect with the Prophet
ﷺ.
I promise when you study his seerah on
the personal level, you will connect with the
Prophet ﷺ, and you will see one aspect
of his life that you've never heard about,
right, that you've never heard about.
Whenever we presented the seerah of the Prophet
ﷺ to people, we presented in such a
technical manner.
Like it's all about the ghazawat, it's about
the sulh, it's about his, you know, interactions
with the certain leaders.
High level, right?
But when you go deeper into the seerah,
you'll realize that the Prophet ﷺ was just
like a man, like a human being, like
you and I.
Rasulallah ﷺ, if you're talking about tests and
the trials, every single test and the trial
that you've been going through, that you have
gone through, that you will be going through,
Rasulallah ﷺ has gone through the same exact
test, subhanallah.
You lost a child, Rasulallah ﷺ buried six
or five of his children, six of his
children in his lifetime, right?
Your daughter got separated, the Prophet ﷺ daughter
got separated as well, right?
The Prophet ﷺ marital issues, the Prophet ﷺ
had some marital issues as well.
Some people betrayed you, Rasulallah ﷺ was betrayed
multiple times, right?
People, you're insignificant in people's eyes, the Prophet
ﷺ was, you know, was actually, they gathered
young children and threw rocks at the Prophet
ﷺ.
You feel you're being humiliated sometimes, Rasulallah ﷺ
was so humiliated.
You feel like the people after you, people
were after Rasulallah ﷺ.
So when you read these situations and these
stories and incidents, you will say to yourself,
wait a minute, it seems like everything happened
to Rasulallah ﷺ is happening to me right
now.
But that's the time when you should learn
how to deal with that.
Because we all know that the musiba will
come, will come.
إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَّهِ رَجِعُونَ This is part
of the contract.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sign up a
contract with us, alright?
He said, اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ عَلَىٰ سِيِّدُ لَقَدِ خَلَقْنَا
الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ You will be tested, I
will be tested, all of us will be
tested.
No single human being will be left without
a test.
Whether you like it or not, whether you
accept it or not.
فَإِن شِئْتَ أُجِرْتَ فَإِن صَبَرْتَ أُجِرْتَ وَأَمْرِ اللَّهِ
نَافِذٍ If you have sabr, you will be
rewarded and whatever Allah decided will come to
happen.
And if you do not have patience, if
you do not accept the decree of Allah,
the decree of Allah will happen and you
still will not be rewarded for it.
خلاص, that's the reality of dunya.
If anyone can change that reality, be my
guest inshallah.
Tell me how you do that so I
can follow you inshallah.
So now, when you find that Rasulullah ﷺ
has been going through all of this, this
is the human aspect of Rasulullah ﷺ.
How he interacted with his family members.
I have shared a beautiful story of Rasulullah
ﷺ with his grandchildren, you know, young children.
When he was giving the khutbah, like I'm
giving the khutbah right now, and he sees
al-Hasan and al-Husayn, al-Imam al
-Hasan and al-Imam al-Husayn, عليهم السلام,
شباب أهل الجنة.
He sees them coming from afar, and they're
little kids, you know, they're stumbling, they're not
able to walk straight.
And then Rasulullah ﷺ, he stops the khutbah.
He pauses the khutbah, alright?
And he goes down, and he picks them
up, and he brings them also to the
minbar.
He's telling everyone, check them out, they are
my family.
My family comes before anybody else, right?
Have you ever thought about a situation like
this?
When your wife tells you, or your kids
are telling you, Dad, why don't you prioritize
your time with us over your work, or
over your friends, right?
Why you prefer to spend time for your
friends?
Why when it comes to people outside, dealing
with strangers, you're always smiling?
When you come home, you're always, you know,
you're not smiling, you're not laughing with us,
you're not talking to us, right?
Thinking that, oh, I'm doing this for you,
I'm working hard for you, I'm making connections
because of you.
Guess what?
You are not helping them, because that is
not what your family is expecting from you.
Rasulullah ﷺ taught us that family should always
come first.
And it doesn't matter how successful you are
in the outside world, with the standard of
people, the people's standard, right, of success.
Doesn't matter how successful you are.
If you're not successful in your house, meaning
that you put your effort, you've done everything,
you've, you know, given quality time to your
children, you've given them proper tarbiyah.
I'm not talking about the ones who are
being tested.
You know, they've done their part, but it's
not working out.
Khalas.
It's a qadar of Allah.
But I'm talking about the ones who neglected
their families, and don't give them priority, thinking
that they are successful.
What are you looking for?
I have secured a house for you.
I have savings for you.
I got you the latest Tesla model or
any car, right?
I've done all of that for you.
Guess what?
That is not what they're looking for from
you.
They're looking for quality time, right?
That's the priority.
That's what they need from you, brothers and
sisters, right?
So, thinking that because you've gained wealth and
you're successful at your career, but you're not
able to interact with your children, there is,
your children are very dry from, you know,
when talking to you, that your wife, she's
not able to talk to you.
You feel like you're not, you have no
value in your home, and they call this
success outside.
Listen to any successful, listen to billionaires, and
I want you to listen to them.
Wallahi, I am, I also, I'm very interested
in listening to successful people with the dunya,
you know, standards, all right?
They always say the one thing that we
regret, not spending enough time with our families.
Because, because, unfortunately, unfortunately, we focus on our
work so much that we neglected our families.
So, when you come to the sunnah of
the Prophet ﷺ, I will have to pause
again and ask, request the brothers and sisters
not to use the phone while the imam
is talking.
Disrespectful to Allah, to the imam, unless you
are a doctor.
I need to be fair.
There are some doctors who are on call,
they cannot, and I, alhamdulillah, I appreciated that
one of the doctors taught me this, alhamdulillah,
he said sometimes we are on call, and
we have to look at our watches and
phones and stuff.
If you are not a doctor, if this
is not an emergency, I promise, stock market
will not change because you're not checking your
phone.
It will be the same, right?
But when you focus, inshallah, you learn, especially
we're talking about whom?
Habib Muhammad ﷺ.
ﷺ, better than anything else, right?
So, when you interact with the seerah of
the Prophet ﷺ, you get to learn how
he interacted with his family, with his children,
with his spouse, right?
How he interacted with his friends, right?
With everyone, everyone.
Why everyone loved Muhammad ﷺ.
There is no single leader in the history
of humanity that people actually follow him like
how the Sahaba followed the Prophet ﷺ.
And don't tell me that, yeah, there were
some leaders here and there.
Brothers and sisters, it was all about nationalism,
right?
We are from this country, and he was
the leader of our country, so we followed
him and we fought.
We fought for the country, not just for
the person.
But when it came to Rasulullah ﷺ, Ali
ibn Abi Talib ﷺ, he slept in the
bed of the Prophet ﷺ.
A young man, knowing that he could have
been killed at any point of time, but
it did not matter to him.
Why?
ﷺ I sacrifice everything for you.
You have someone like Abu Bakr Siddiq ﷺ,
who followed Rasulullah ﷺ, he was crying, crying
so much when he knew that he was
going to accompany Rasulullah ﷺ during al-Hijrah.
Why?
Why such a successful person like Abu Bakr
Siddiq ﷺ?
Why would he love Rasulullah ﷺ like that?
Because there was something about that man, Muhammad
ﷺ, that he made them attached to him.
What did he do?
What kind of emotional intelligence did the Prophet
ﷺ have that the people were really attached
to him?
It wasn't just about the divine.
And I'll tell you why.
Because somebody says, he was a prophet, Allah
supported him.
It was before he received the message.
Even people loved him.
People said, he is a Sadiq al-Amin,
right before receiving the message.
Say this and Allah will forgive you and
me.
One of the greatest signs of loving Rasulullah
ﷺ is studying the seerah of the Prophet
ﷺ, getting in connection with the seerah of
the Prophet ﷺ.
Why?
Because it does humanize the Prophet ﷺ.
And this is a very important aspect.
Rasulullah ﷺ is our role model.
How can you love the Prophet ﷺ?
By following him.
Not just saying, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
Siddiq.
Khalaq al-Dhikr and Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and Aba Isa ﷺ.
That's not what Rasulullah ﷺ really wants from
us.
He wanted tibaa.
See what he used to do and do.
But nowadays, you tell someone it's a sunnah.
What is the hukm?
It's a sunnah.
Alhamdulillah.
It's a sunnah.
Alhamdulillah.
Meaning, I'm not going to do it.
That's it.
I'm not going to do it.
It's right.
It's true.
Right or wrong.
That's what happens.
I'm not going to do it.
It's sunnah.
Alhamdulillah.
It's not in the Qur'an.
Khalas.
Who cares?
Alright?
But sahaba of the Prophet ﷺ were completely
different.
Yeah?
Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ.
When we tell the brothers, he used to,
you know, drink with his right hand.
Sometimes you try to advise some brothers.
You don't want to take the nasiha.
What difference does it make?
Yeah, it doesn't make any difference.
But Rasulullah ﷺ did it.
You know, if he was a celebrity, he
used to do that.
That's so ajib.
I don't understand the brothers and sisters.
You see people copying celebrities and artists and
everything.
You feel like they don't have their own
separate identity.
They just talk like them.
They walk like them.
You see someone, you know, I look like
Ronaldo.
You know?
Exactly.
The hairstyle.
The way they talk.
Right?
If Ronaldo has an accent, they will speak
with an accent.
Right?
So ajib.
Wallahi so ajib.
But if you say, Rasulullah ﷺ used to
talk like that.
Rasulullah ﷺ used to smile like that.
Okay.
Alright.
That's Rasulullah ﷺ.
It's not my business.
Subhanallah.
Ajib.
Right?
There is a trend nowadays in one of
the countries where an artist, I'll conclude with
this inshallah, he sings while covering up.
Like, you know, wearing a mask.
Because everyone is like, who is that?
Who is that?
Not disclosing their identity.
And everyone is just going crazy that some
people started purchasing the same mask and wearing
with, even men wearing niqab in the street.
Men wearing niqab in the street.
Right?
Why?
Because that celebrity is doing that.
Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
Ajib.
Ajib.
Another artist tells people, what kind of color
you have to wear when you come to
my concert.
If you do not wear that color, you're
not allowed to be in.
And guess what?
Everyone is wearing the same color.
Allahu akbar.
But tell them Rasulullah ﷺ used to wear
that, for example, white taub or black taub,
whatever.
Okay?
It's a habit.
Is it mentioned in the Qur'an, Sheikh?
No.
Alhamdulillah.
It's the hub of Rasulullah ﷺ.
Brothers and sisters, time is always against us.
Today, there's something historical that's happening here, inshallah,
which is the Sira Conference.
Alhamdulillah, our first annual Sira Conference.
We have 22 speakers coming from nationwide, everywhere
in the nation.
And every single speaker is going to talk
about one of the aspects of the life
of Rasulullah ﷺ.
By the way, if you think I'm –
of course, I'm encouraging everyone to come.
All the tickets have been pretty much sold
out.
Alhamdulillah.
Takbeer.
We're good.
We're good, alhamdulillah.
But it's for you and your family.
We have tonight from 6.30 all the
way to Al-Isha, and tomorrow, the whole
entire day.
This room is going to talk about the
human side of the Prophet.
That room is going to talk about another
aspect of the Prophet.
And that, you know, multi-purpose will talk
about, you know, the final moments of the
Prophet ﷺ.
It's a full package for everyone.
So, please, do yourself a favor.
Bring your family.
If you did not purchase the ticket, come.
There will be a way, inshallah, Rabbil Alameen,
to come and attend.
But show the love of the Prophet ﷺ
by saying to yourself that I will come
to Frisco Masjid, inshallah, and I will learn
something the whole entire day about Rasulullah ﷺ.
There will be food vendors.
There will be everything that you want, inshallah.
We ask Allah ﷻ to grant us success.
And we ask Allah ﷻ to unite us
with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Allahumma Ameen.
Allahumma Rabbana inna yas'aluka anta taqabbala minna
salatana wa jami'a malina wa anta jma
'ana bin nabi Muhammadin ﷺ.
Allahumma Ameen.
Wa aqibu as-salam.