Saleem Chagtai – Islam Awareness Week Messengers to Mankind 4 of 7

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.