Saleem Chagtai – Islam Awareness Week Messengers to Mankind 4 of 7
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The importance of focusing on specific characteristics of Islam, including being a messenger to all cultures and nations, is emphasized. The speaker also discusses the need for people to ask themselves why they are not making relationships with non-M-thinkual colleagues and bringing up the responsibility to act confidently and show a definite love for oneself. The speaker also touches on events occurring during the time of Islam, including the movement of the manifest of Islam, the removal of the MAC, and the removal of the fortivity of the Quraysh religion. The speaker suggests that people should not be pressured into believing in Jesus, and that the world is not his. They also emphasize the importance of love for Jesus, not only for the Christians, but also for all Muslims.
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Whereas other prophets
and messengers were sent to their people primarily.
Didn't mean that they didn't give down to
other people. It didn't mean that they were
not supposed to help or guide other people,
but prime primarily, their focus was on particular
tribes and nations.
And the prophet was honored by
being given the rank of
being the being
the messenger to all of mankind
and all tribes and all nations.
And it's very important that
we should focus on some of the particular
characteristics because even if obviously, we know, but
it's important for us to carry this message.
You see, brothers,
we need to understand, you see, dawah calling
people to Islam
is not
the type of thing that we outsource.
What do I mean by that? It's not
the kind of thing that we say, okay,
such and such is doing it. Therefore, I
don't have to do anything.
No.
This will be an extremely selfish
and erroneous thing to do.
Because how do you know that the person
you didn't give dawah to won't come on
the day of judgment
and complain to Allah about you?
That you didn't tell them anything
about Islam and the real meaning of their
life.
So they're facing hellfire
forever
and you didn't tell them.
And they may complain to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala the day of judgement for that.
So the reason why I say this, brother,
is that we have to understand that
if we do not even have the relationship
with our colleagues
to even invite
1 or 2 of them
to the events that you organize,
then thought there's something wrong.
There's something wrong, seriously.
It means that we see ourselves
as almost like the chosen
the chosen the chosen nation.
We're going to Jannah. We don't care about
the rest.
And this is not what the prophet taught
us.
He didn't.
He didn't teach us to be like this.
He didn't teach us to view people
with suspicion
and dislike and hatred
for no reason.
Of course, he did. He
for those people that didn't accept him and
didn't accept him as a prophet, he didn't
like them,
but he still will just to them. He
still showed good to them. He still showed
them that he was still the embodiment of
the message.
And think about it. If he only
stayed in Arabia, how is he the messenger
to mankind if you don't tell anybody the
message?
Is he gonna do it?
You and I are supposed to be the
conveyors of this message.
So really, brothers, it's something we need to
think back. Obviously, if we try, you know,
the results from, of course. But really, I'm
I'm just ask I'm just saying that we
we need to ask ourselves,
you know,
you know, all the effort we put into
doubt, are we really still either reluctant to
even one, why we're not making
relationships with our non Muslim colleagues?
We should do it for the sake of
Allah
I mean I mean, the reason why we're
brothers
and we have this brotherhood is for the
sake of Allah
after all. So you do it for that.
Why didn't you do it with your non
Muslim colleagues?
Why don't you have some relationship with them
that you can invite them
to things and tell them, you know, why
don't you learn a little bit more about
your purpose of life? Learn ways to deal
with them. Learn to
to think like a guy. Think of what
are the things that affects this person, and
I will now give down on that basis.
The prophet did this. Remember this incident when
he wrestled with a wrestler?
That was his to him, and he beat
him. That was his to him.
All the time when
the the lady who should throw rubbish on
him and on his path,
and you went to visit her, that was
his dua to that lady.
So no one's asking you to learn, you
know, Zakir and light type arguments, You know,
you can quote chapter verse and this, that,
and the other. No one's asking that of
you.
All that is being asked of you is
to just behave like a Muslim
and to be sincere to that.
But if you're sincere to that, you will
love
for humanity when you love yourself. There's some
scholars that say that, you know, the hadith
which says love for your none of you
truly believe until you love for your brother
what they love for yourself. Some scholars like
no, we say that that implies all of
mankind.
It can be me or brother
in your tribe or your brother in your
nation
who may not be Muslim even.
Something to think about.
So we have a responsibility
in that.
We should tell
the non Muslims
that the prophet
foretold of everything that would occur to him
and his community after him,
pertaining to the manifest spreading of Islam,
and the removal of the tyrannical kingdoms of
Khosrow, the Zoroastrian kings of Persia, and Caesar,
the Romans,
and the establishment of the religion of Islam
throughout the Earth, and that indeed happened.
And these events occurred when the prophet prophesied
this. It was as if he was reading
from a book
from the future talking about history.
The prophet
was a perfect example of being upright, merciful,
compassionate, truthful, brave, generous,
distant from all
semblance of evil character,
aesthetic in worldly matters. He had no one
of the of the of the life of
this world. Even though he had power to
do
anything,
he still
slept on a reed mat, which would make
marks in his bested back,
which would make Omar, a man like Omar
rather Anwar just cry thinking, you know, how
come this noble man lives such
a humble life?
Why should we talk about this, brother? Because
this means,
shows that he was not in it for
anything of the dunya.
Because remember he was offered it. He was
offered this by the priest. The said, look,
you you're causing too much trouble. What do
you want? If you want to be king
of us, we'll make you a king. If
you're sick, we'll send you the best doctors.
If you want women, we'll marry you to
the most beautiful women of the Quraysh. If
you want money, we'll give you all our
money. You know, what do you want? Just
just take it. Stop what you're doing. He
said, no. I will not stop this dua.
I will not stop this call to the
belief and worship of 1 Lord.
And if he was a charlatan,
an imposter, then he would not. When the
eclipse happened and they said that it was
because of his son dying, he would not
have said
that this is just something that happens and
has nothing to do with the death of
my son. He was an imposter. That's a
great opportunity. If you're you're fooling a people,
then you could have said yes, this is
because of
that. This is God showing sympathy.
If you were an imposter, you would not
have praised the other prophets.
You could have just
you could have just
insulted and said that their message was was
was flawed and weak. My message is the
true one. Why would you keep on insisting
that all the other prophets and messengers are
noble and truthful?
It would have been easier. It would have
been easier to say to the Christians, we
don't believe in in in Jesus being anything
to do with God. Because it was problematic,
the fact that they were assigning him as
part of the trinity.
It doesn't make sense. It would have been
easier to say we don't believe in Jesus.
But, no, he persisted
in clarifying the truth about Jesus, alayhis salaam.
A
great sign of the prophet
probably good is that
the believers and even the whether they either
they came met him or even the ones
who came afterwards have an amazing love for
him.
Isn't it true that we do love him
more than ever? Isn't it true? And yet
we have not seen him.
And what would we do just to to
to look at him? What would we do
just to touch him? What would we give?
And that's why people can't understand why we
get upset about the prophet
because they don't realize that this is a
miracle.
Our love for him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
is unparalleled.
The Jews don't have this love for Musa
alaihi salaam, and the Christians,
they have
a different type of love. It's not they
do have a love for Jesus without a
doubt, but it's not like this that they
would become
that they would
really be willing to sacrifice their family for
him.
Well, not most of them anyway. We're talking
about most Muslims
who will call themselves Muslims.
And remember also that the He
is the most recorded
person in history.
You will not find any personality
being recorded in history like he is.
And even Michael Hart acknowledged, and you you
probably know this, as the most influential person
in history.
Because as he mentioned that he covered the
religious this is from a non Muslim from
a secular point. What they call religious
and the political spheres of life.
He was equally competent from their perspective.
Obviously, we don't even know that there's a
distinction,
but
non Muslim observers had to had to acknowledge
this.
And there's never been a man on Earth
who is followed in all his doings by
his nation.