Suhaib Webb – Rest For The Hearts 26 March 2023
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I hope everybody is doing wonderful
in Ramadan.
And things are going wonderful for each and
every one of you. We ask Allah to,
give us
success throughout this impressive,
incredibly
powerful month and to make it a means
of transformation.
We're reading now from this poem that is
about the
miracles of the prophet
which we're going to talk about tonight.
And also his noble character. And we said
that there
are 2 sort of
reasons for doing this. Number 1 is we
are being attacked intellectually,
outside of the Muslim community in particular,
and attacks
directed towards the prophet
and that's nothing new.
So we want to be able to learn
about his miracles so that we can defend
ourselves and we can strengthen our faith in
him.
And then the second part of the poem
is going to help us when we deal
with even people with inside the Muslim community
who may act,
in ways that are counter to
prophetic
ethics and prophetic character. So we center ourselves
on the prophet
We don't center ourselves on on others. We
center ourselves around the character
of the prophet, and we remind ourselves
that we when we run into bad examples,
we can always return as Allah says
Like, return back to the messenger of Allah.
So the shaykh, he begins the first part,
The word
is from
means to be weak.
That's why, for example, one of the words
we use to describe,
an elderly person is or.
Is someone that does not have the physical
capability to do things.
So the word
are those things that the prophets were given
to by Allah
which are beyond our ability. Now you can
understand the words
are those things that Allah
blessed the prophets with
as a means
to illustrate the truthful
nature of their message and their personalities
which were
impossible for people to do.
That's why it's called
from ajaza
which means to be weak. Ajaz too means
I'm too weak to do something.
So the are the miracles given to the
prophet
And,
Sheikh, he says
And he says that the prophet
he has numerous miracles.
There are so many miracles of the prophet
and this is something that sometimes we hear
from people. They say like, you know,
maybe people attacking Islam, like, Muhammad Ali Salam
doesn't have any miracles. No. We have a
very important principle in Islam.
Just because I don't know something doesn't make
that
effect.
Like, or Adam.
Like, just because I don't know something doesn't
mean it doesn't exist. But
if we were to look at the academic
sort of record historically throughout Islam, we'll find
for example, Imam Abbehaqi, he wrote a massive
book called
and Nabuwa.
The miracles of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
a'rihi wa sallam.
Say the imam Asiuti.
He wrote a book called
He
actually wrote 2 texts specifically about
the unique miracles of the prophet
So there is like a long
academic history of collecting
the numerous miracles of the prophet,
So first we defined what are miracles,
and it's very important that we understand what
miracles are Islamically
because it was the inability to understand what
miracles are that caused people to take, for
example,
Jesus as god.
So you may talk to some Christians and
they said,
well, he caused the dead to come to
life. That's
that's a a miracle given to a prophet
but we have to ask him, what is
the source
that allowed
Isa
to
have that ability?
And that's why in the Quran,
when Jesus, he talks about his miracles, what
does he say?
By the will of Allah by the will
of Allah by the by the will of
Allah. He doesn't say
He says
So there's a difference, and that's why it's
important that as Muslims, we understand
in our theological
terminology, what is
Because most people, they took, unfortunately, things as
gods when they were unable to understand the
idea of miracles. So he said that a
miracle in Islam is only given to prophets.
That's one thing. And secondly, it's from the
word which means to be weak, ajuz.
Right? It's a word people still use in
contemporary Arabic. So the
is something which is impossible for us to
perform.
It can only be performed
by prophets.
So the next part of the poem we're
going to talk about some of the beautiful
miracles of Sayidah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to strengthen our faith in
him because this is the month of the
Quran and the month of Saydul Aqwan
and to develop a sense of confidence. It's
very important
and I wanna welcome a Sheikh
Bowers with us. It's very important that we
push into learning
and that we push into our faith.
Allah says enter the religion like
push into it. So when we learn about
the miracles of
we we will strengthen
our iman
and that will also increase our confidence.
Subhan Allah. There's a difference between Karamat and
of course
Like Karamat or Mukar Rara, like Karamat, the
gifts given to the auliya,
those can happen. Today, I witnessed some subhanAllah,
a 19 year old young woman who lives
in Africa,
who contacted me, subhanallah, over the last few
weeks trying to get in touch with me.
I saw Allah blessed her with the great
miracle or the great karama gift today. She
embraced Islam.
SubhanAllah in her home.
So, of course, karama, they can continue.
But he says,
He said that the prophet
has numerous miracles. And as I was saying,
sometimes we run into people, especially polemics who
attack Islam and say
that, you know, the prophet
does not have miracles. And I said, this
doesn't align with the historical tradition. I want
you to remember something that I'm about to
tell you, that usually
people interpret Islam correctly because of one of
three reasons.
The first is that they are not aware
of the text,
like the religious text.
And in that first point is how to
interpret that religious text. So
You know, they don't they're not aware of
certain text or how to use the text.
The second is they are not aware of
the
academic tradition
related to the subject matter. So for example,
when people say that the prophet
didn't have miracles
There's so many texts. That's why the sheikh
says not
numerous miracles.
And then I said to you earlier, if
we look at some of the early writings,
for example, of Imam al Beyhaki, Rahim Muhullah,
ibn Qutayba,
We find that there is imam Sayna, imam
Matir Midi. There is a tradition of people
who wrote specifically and collected narrations
about the miracles of the prophet
So the second reason now someone's not aware
of the intellectual tradition, and this is something
that impacts Muslims.
And then the third reason is that the
person
is unaware
of specific
subjects. Like, there are specific subjects if you
go through history
of our
you're gonna find certain subjects that people studied
that would have addressed those issues. So there
are 3 sort of reasons why people fall
into misinterpretation within the Muslim community
and outside of the community. We ask Allah
Al Aafia. So he says, lil lil Mustafa,
say, the Muhammad, his name is Al Mustafa.
Imam Ibn Nufar had said that after the
names of Allah,
the names that you should know and that
you should ponder on the most are the
names of the prophet
For example, and then Nabi Ramakim
Al Malik, I am the prophet of mercy.
Also related in the in the, the prophet
list his names.
To some, the one who trust in Allah.
And, the one who will erase kufr. So
one of the names of our beloved prophet
is
Al Mustafa,
the one that Allah chose him.
So he says
a
little that the prophet has numerous miracles and
all of them are illuminated. All of them
are very clear. All of them are bright.
All of them are going to bring light
to our lives and bring light to our
iman and give us an ability to see
through.
Minha, from amongst them, and then he begins
with the first miracle,
the greatest miracle of the prophet
It's the Quran
that no other community was able to,
attack
or able to, have any have the ability
to use it in a way that would
discredit
the prophecy of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. So the first miracle of Sayna Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that we wanna talk to about tonight is
Al Quran. And that's fitting because,
this is the month of the Quran.
Quran.
That this is the month of which the
Quran was sent. To say no
Mohammed
and he continues and he says
very nicely,
that no Ummah was able to bring
verses similar to the Quran.
Throughout history, and as one of our teachers
used to say, this is the ultimate challenge.
To humanity. Okay. If you want to question
the veracity of the Quran
and the truth of the Quran, to
be
then bring
a minimum 3 verses
similar to the Quran.
And until at the time of the prophet
because right before the Prophet's life, you have
the apex of the Arabic language, and then
the Prophet's time comes,
And
from that time till now, nobody has been
able to replicate
at a minimum 3 verses of the Quran.
So
he
says,
And he said, therefore,
all human beings have been weak, incapable.
That the Arabs and the non Arabs, none
of them were able to bring
anything equivalent to the Quran.
One of the things that I think we
should address because this is something that I
never imagined
in my life, like, I would I would
see, like,
Muslims having to debate
is the preservation of the Quran and the
qiraat.
And there is this notion
that are something that was invented
after the time of the prophet
And that's why at Swiss, our school, we
have an entire class taught by doctor Yousef
Waheb Sogood, who's a master of the qira'at,
where he goes through, like, I think, 8
lessons, and he goes into great detail
as to the preservation of the Quran, the
qira'at, the different ways of reading the Quran,
and how all of these go back to
say,
As someone myself
who is a student of the qira'at
and received different ijazah from scholars in the
different recitations of the Quran, I can tell
you
that people unfortunately that are saying this,
perhaps have not studied in the proper way
the
compilation of the Quran
and the different qira'at.
SubhanAllah. And I'll give you an example.
A lot of these these ideas are coming
from imam
in his book of and nobody should read
the may Allah protect us as Imam Masuki
was very critical of that text. But one
of the things that he says in is
he attacks one of the great 7 imams
of
Abu Amr al Basri.
As mentioned by Saydee Imam Shaiti, Shaiti Rahim
Muhullah.
Abu Amr al Basrihi
And the reason that Zamaq Sharid is the
one of the first people to say that
the qira'at
are from
is because those disproved
his heterodoxical
beliefs.
So he wanted to be able to, like,
if you can stay, like, gaslight those
to
gaslight
the work that they were doing. So he
gaslighted them. How would he gaslight them to
say, they just made Ishtihad. This is not
based on because
it didn't agree
with
thoughts. But I'll give an example of how
we can see just one small thing that,
the had. For those of us who study
the we know we have
back to the prophet
but I'll give you just like one example.
Imam Al Khaled is one of the students
of subhanallah the 7,
great Imams of Quran, Imam Qisay.
And the Khaled, he reads, you know, for
example,
You have also imam sayna imam,
Kumbul who reads
as imam
Shoutibi says
I
know this might be hard for you, but
pay attention to it. Imam Al Khaled, he
reads what's
called
because this is a correct way to read
it but the rest of the Quran
even starting in
he reads it
with. If if this was his own if
this was his own way of thinking,
you wouldn't find that. It wouldn't be
It will be
So the point here is he's following a
rule. He's following something he was taught. He's
following standards.
This is very, very important. So pay attention
to this that
and this actually is the beauty that the
logic of a person is not to contradict
themselves.
Like the logic of a person is if
you do something once you keep doing it.
So if we've seen one of the Quran
saying,
which is authentic,
And then the rest of the time he's
saying
or
if you see one of the Quran say
and then the rest time it's
that means not coming from him.
He's following how it was passed down from
his sheikh to his sheikh back to say,
so
the irony is
that in the different way of reading,
you find the symmetry
of a nubuwa.
You find the sunnet back to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Another proof is people ask why did they
read different ways like
in wash,
in and also
in
I want you to remember this. The
When he compiled the Quran,
there were no marks in it.
Remember this.
There were no marks purposely,
even the letters.
And and we know that this this came
this became codified later on in the time
of Sayyidina Ali
But they still had ways to recognize different
letters. But in the time of saying
the Quran that was given to the people,
it was written,
as I heard from my teacher who was
his sheikh,
without any of the marks. Why? So that
it would allow for those different variant readings
that came from the Sahaba
that came back to the prophet
How do we know that the Sahaba were
reading with these different?
The Hadith of
with
Hisham related by Al Bukari.
When Sayedna Umar heard Hashem reading sort Al
Farhan.
And Sayedna Umar, he said,
who is who is the one who taught
you how to read like this? He said,
The prophet taught me to read it like
this.
He knew.
So he said to him, that's not how
he taught me.
That's not how he taught me. How it
sounds, the way you're reading it, it doesn't
sound the way I read it.
So they went back to the prophet
and he said to say, now Amar, more
or less I'm paraphrasing.
This is how I taught him and this
is how I taught you. So we saw
very early on these different what I call
it.
Different ways of the
the is
the that we have
until this time as mentioned by Imam.
And I gave you now 2, actually, 3
examples.
So you can feel confident
and you don't have to get caught up
in these kind of discussions. And
my advice to you is if you have
questions about the Quran or the pirat,
go to Ahlulquran,
go to the people who
who put the work in to study the
Quran.
I am,
you know, wherever I live in my life,
I always have a Sheikh of Quran.
SubhanAllah.
Wherever I live in my life, I always
had
a in Egypt when I was in the
Azhar, when I was in synagogue,
wherever
I would always have a sheikh who was
teaching me until now. Just yesterday, I was
reading the of Imam Ibn Kathir to my
teacher. The point is,
this is not something simple that we can
just say, oh, I don't think the Quran.
Stay with the people of the Quran and
you will find alhamdulillah your iman increasing. And
I just gave you, like, 3 very simple
examples,
to show you this. When you talk about
the miraculous nature of the Quran,
we specifically because he said
At the prophet
his greatest miracle is the Quran,
alayhi salatu salam, and that no one has
ever been able to bring 3 verses like
the Quran
until the time of the prophet till now.
This is the greatest challenge of the Quran.
But let's specifically talk about some of the
miraculous natures of the Quran. The first is
that the Quran is an everlasting miracle.
The first is that we believe the Quran
will last till the end of time. And
when we hear this, we should ask people
how.
How does that happen? And one, I'll give
you one way that it happens
is that the Quran
is such a universal,
beautiful text
that oftentimes
it leaves things unmentioned
so the reader can insert
their own experience or context into the meaning.
Subhanallah. That doesn't become part of the Quran.
That becomes part of their reading.
I'll give you one example.
For example, in the first verse of the
49th chapter of the Quran,
Allah says, oh you who believe, do not
put in front
of Allah and his messenger.
The
word
the word needs an object,
but the object pay attention brothers and sisters.
The because you're gonna learn something.
We're not here just to entertain people.
Right? We have to raise the bar of
our our understanding and our knowledge because Islam
is under attack. If you take your religion
seriously, then you'll learn it. You'll invest in
learning it so you can protect yourself and
your family and those around you.
So the first verse of the 49 chapter
of the Quran,
do not put forward in front of Allah
and his messenger. Put what forward? The object
of the verb is purposely left out. It's
called
It's not mentioned.
Why? Because every one of us has our
own problems
that we unfortunately,
at times prioritize more than Allah and his
messenger. May Allah forgive us. So maybe let's
say I'm backbiting people. So when I read
this verse,
do not put
don't put any words in front of the
obedience of Allah and his messenger. Maybe somebody
struggles with vice. Don't put
don't put any type of vice in front
of Allah and his messenger. Each rule, each
reader has their own object that they insert
into the verse. Therefore, the Quran will stay
relevant
and contextually
appropriate
to its readers until the end of time.
This is one of the miracles of the
Quran,
That those type of words are left out,
the object, the verbs,
sometimes the verbs themselves, so that the reader
inserts those verbs into their reading.
So therefore, now I become part of
the narrative.
SubhanAllah.
I become part of, you know, that narrative,
and the Quran now becomes
part of my life and my experience.
So you can see it's like incredible, man.
Another example is
there's something not there.
I recite
all those all those things that I I'm
I'm
experiencing,
I can put it to the context of
the basmalah.
So I I smile.
I I read
What about if I can't speak or read
Arabic? It's okay. That's why you wanna ask
your teachers, you wanna be around educated people.
Not everybody has time to study that way.
Not everybody has time to invest in that
kind of study. But it's important that if
I'm smart, I recognize my shortcomings, and then
I surround myself with the resources to help
me.
Unfortunately, the contemporary world has made everybody so
insecure that if we find people around us
that may be more talented or more gifted,
we become haters.
But Islam, we don't become haters. We become
beneficiaries.
If we see people that have something that
we don't have, we wanna take it from
them.
We wanna learn from them.
Look at Imam Sheifi. He's one of the
greatest imams,
but in hadith, he used to refer to
Imam Ahmed
because he knows Imam Ahmed.
He knows
something he doesn't know. That kind of humility
is lost. It's on the endangered species list.
So how do we learn? 1st, we do
what imam and Nawi said. We cultivate our
hearts for learning like we cultivate the land
for learning.
And then how do we find a good
teacher? We should look at for people that
have qualifications, not just charisma.
Charisma is not necessarily a component of education,
but they have the qualifications.
And then we begin to study. It's better
to start studying with your local teachers first,
Like to people in your community and then
you build it step by step by step
inshallah. But we have to finish our poem.
My apologies. So the first example of the
miracle of the Quran is what's
called those things which are not mentioned
so that the reader will put them into
the reading. And you can also pick this
up in English, by the way. If you
read it, you see transitive verb, intransitive verb,
you'll be able to feel it. But actually
the translator should put like insert
here, insert here.
So that you know
like this is where I need to be
contextualizing the Quran into my experience.
Is so amazing.
The second is that the Quran,
its meanings
and the power of its meanings.
And it's it's the way that it's set
up is so incredible. And so, for example,
one time the prophet
in his community,
it was read this verse.
And the the man who heard it, he
wasn't Muslim. He made sujood.
And they asked him the Sahaba,
why did you make sujood? He said,
because I have never heard
such eloquence and beauty. Like, he made sujood
out of thankfulness.
Even though he was a Muslim when he
heard
he never heard some kind of Arabic like
that before.
We find that in in our history remember
I said earlier one of the reasons that
sometimes, like, we we don't understand correctly because
we're not aware of our history. Because if
you don't know your history,
it becomes
his
story. You wanna remember that. If you don't
learn history, it becomes
his
story. So not being aware of our history
as a community sometimes creates a blind spot
that is filled by,
bad things.
But,
in the time of of one of the
early,
Muslim leaders after the time of the 4,
there was a group of people sitting together
and there was a Muslim, he was reciting
the Quran, and he read the verse
He read this verse from the Quran where
it says whoever obeys Allah and his messenger
has reverence to God and obeys God. And
there was a Christian
man there, and he said, stop. He said,
everything that you just read in this one
verse is the sum total of everything that
was sent to say
The
the power and the distilled nature of the
meaning of the Quran
would move people
and and impact them in ways that
was incredible. And that's why we have to
be really cautious
of trying to
use the Quran to jump into the wars
of trans modernity. Like now, the Quran is
a book of science. The Quran is a
book of this. The Quran is a book
of guidance.
As Imam
says, don't try to stress the text
to places it wasn't supposed to go.
The the the job of the Quran is
to help us in our relationship with Allah
as we're gonna talk about it in a
second. And then to create a devout heart.
Someone who is dedicated in their worship to
Allah and good to other people.
The third miracle of the Quran is this
impact on the hearts. Today, I mentioned to
some of you, there was a young woman
who contacted me.
She's very young.
And she kept kept contacting me. And then
finally, I was able to touch base with
her and she's
like, I wanna take Shahada, like, now. I
want to embrace Islam now
because of the the beauty
of this book.
And we find that some of the Sahaba
as mentioned by Al Bukhari.
When they would hear the Quran, they would
say
like
I felt like
my heart was going to fly.
Like I felt when I heard the Quran,
like, my heart was going to fly from
my chest.
SubhanAllah.
So the the the third is that the
Quran
that
the the Quran
brings healing to the hearts.
The Quran is called
because it is bringing life to the
And what happens to us if we take
the spirit out of our bodies?
Then we won't be able to live. What
happens if you take the spirit out of
the Quran, out of the heart, which is
the Quran? Well, there you go.
And of course, the 4th is we know
that the Quran
made clear challenges to people
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he
he immediately,
challenges the uncle of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa Salam
to to say to him, like, you you
are going to be a disbeliever.
Like, he could have all all Abula have
had to do was say,
but he couldn't because this is decreed by
Allah. So Allah says in the Quran, this
person will die this way and he died
that way.
His life will end as a disbeliever and
he died as a disbeliever. So we find
in numerous places in the Quran
him over and over. This will never happen.
This will never this will never happen. Those
people coulda acted
in contradiction to the but they couldn't because
that was what Allah decreed. So that's an
evidence of the prophecy of the Quran.
So he said that the first miracle of
Sayna
Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa
Salam is the Quran.
The word Quran, actually, we should talk about
it briefly.
It comes from the word
which is
Quran.
Quran.
And the word
is really nice. It's from the same word
as the word
is a village.
Right?
Because people gather together.
That's why we say the word Quran from
the strong opinion is that
that the word Quran in its in ancient
Arabic is that's why there's a great poem
of
that, you know, the
the embryo didn't
didn't latch
on to, but it says to
the,
uterus of the woman.
Means to join. So the word Quran means
to bring together.
To bring together. Why? Because the Quran, it
brings together words
and phrases and ayat.
That's the strongest opinion by the way.
And so when you when you talk, you
are bringing together those words and ayat and
you are stating them, you are saying them.
That's why it's called
But here we could take a bigger lesson,
man. In the month of Ramadan, many of
us, we started to read the Quran more
We start to have this relationship with Quran
that we didn't have before. Just 2 days
ago.
Just 2 days ago. Just 2 days ago.
What were we listening to?
Like, let's ask ourselves, like, if we die
if we die,
listen to that. Are we gonna be happy?
Subhanallah.
I remember one time when I lived in
the Muslim world, there there was this this
this individual, he was known to listen to,
like, really bad he was he was known
to be kind of a a reckless person
in the Muslim world, and he was known
to listen to, like, really foul stuff.
And he got into a car crash.
And
his friend told me this,
that
in the car crash, they they they the
the the brother that was with him, he
he he was okay.
But that brother, he thought he was gonna
die.
So his friend was saying to him, like,
and
he started singing songs.
He started singing those
songs. He was telling,
this dude is singing songs.
He survived
And after that, he he made tawba. He
came back to Allah. Not just songs, but,
like, bad songs. I'm not talking about music.
That's a different discussion. But, like, filthy stuff,
although agreed does not allow.
So imagine, like, on our deathbed,
and you and I start talking about Netflix.
We start talking about this show or that
show or this song or that song. We
don't have the to say
But now imagine just 2 days later,
shaytan is locked up
and your nafs are lit.
Your your iman is high, and you have
a relationship with the Quran.
And what's the job of the Quran
to make you whole?
To make you complete?
Because the Quran is the only book that
you will read
that will recognize
what you are as a true creation of
Allah. Because the Quran is from Allah.
Allah is the one who knows us better
than we know ourselves.
Allah says,
we're closer to you than your own jugular
thing.
So you wanna take an opportunity
now to become whole. I wanna take an
opportunity to be whole.
The Quran
is protected by Allah as we mentioned earlier.
In Sayyidina Sheikh, he says, the next line,
Because subhanahu wa ta'ala the Quran, its revelation
was perfect protected,
then its recitation has con continued
from the time of the prophet
till now. Look at me, man.
Look at look at someone like me. I
wasn't even born Muslim.
Muslim. I wasn't born Muslim.
I wasn't born with a silver crescent in
my mouth.
I'm from Oklahoma, which is one of the
poorest states in America,
One of the most undereducated
states in America.
And
was able to memorize the Quran in 2
years.
Like, if if anyone
doubts this,
just say, okay.
Look at those people that Allah guided
to Islam.
Look at those people who subhanallah Allah.
Just remember that.
And then let that inspire you. Don't say,
oh, man. These people who embrace Islam are
better than me or the this no. No.
No. No. That ain't the case.
You have every opportunity in the world.
Use it to motivate yourself. And I like
to tell people, you have to push in
to study in Islam. You have to push
in.
You have to come in with force.
Don't be weak. Come to the deen with
force.
Of course, with
and Adam, but you have to be passionate
about it.
So the Sheikh, he says,
Allah
that the Quran was protected when it was
revealed to the prophet
and for that reason is has
always stayed.
I experienced this one time I was with
my teacher when I was reviewing the Quran
some years ago. We were in a bus.
And he told me, you have to read
this just
I was like, on a bus in the
Muslim world. So I read the whole gist
on the bus.
You know, like, I read the whole Jews
on the bus.
And then he said to me, that's how
the Quran used to be. Like the Quran
in the early time of the prophet peace
be upon him. People read in the Quran
in the context of society.
People read in the Quran in this context,
and he said, if you can memorize it
on a bus, you can memorize it anywhere.
Like, Taraweeh will be easy for you. So
the sheikh, he says,
because the Quran was protected,
then has maintained itself.
And all the other books that came before
the Quran. They were not preserved.
They were not protected, so their has ended.
Then he says in the next line,
that the Sharia,
the religious laws of all of the other
communities
before Sayna Muhammad
had been abrogated.
Abrogated by his Sharia.
That the Quran is meant to come and
parse
and make clear what's in the previous books.
What's correct
and what's
incorrect.
So it's the Nasik
and everything before the Quran is.
So he says
That all of the previous
religions
were abrogated.
Those prophetic messages that came to all of
the other prophets
by Sayna Muhammad
Then he moves on and we're gonna go
through this part rather quickly because it could
be a little complicated.
And he talks about the name of the
prophet, Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam. The name Muhammad
is
the object.
It's not Mohammed.
It's Mohammed.
Whenever you find fatha, usually that means it's
being done too.
Bread.
It's called.
So Mohammed
Mohammed
is the one
because of who he is,
he is always praised.
And there's something that's lost in the Arabic
language here that I mentioned to you in
English translation that I mentioned to you that
the prophet
the way he conducts himself
and the way he deals and I want
you all to listen to this. And you
should encourage other people to join
this every Friday, every Saturday night inshallah. We
may add Wednesday nights
also so we can finish. But encourage people
to attend, and we're gonna send out the
poem tomorrow inshallah to people who signed up.
Mohammed,
why is he Mohammed
the object? Because the prophet is
such a human being
that everyone around him has to praise him.
Like, he's so so honest.
He has so much fidelity.
He has so much good character.
He you cannot
you cannot
accept, appreciate him.
That's why I say,
which has said in as related by Imam
Mathir Midi,
nobody met Muhammad
except they loved him.
Nobody would meet the prophet Fuja Aten, like,
suddenly out of nowhere
except they will love him.
And that's why even Abu Sufyan,
at the time of his hatred for the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallamah, when he was
told that his daughter, Habiba,
she married the prophet,
Habiba. And people said to Abu Sufyan, did
you hear who your daughter married?
He said, no. No. Who?
They said,
you he married
your daughter,
Abu Sufyan.
People thought he was gonna get angry, and
he said, I cannot find any better person
to marry her than him.
Subhan Allah. Subhan
Allah. For you and I, this is very
important.
That our prophet
is Mohammed.
Because we know that the prophet Alaihi Salam
is going to be for us or against
us. If we ask ourselves,
My neighbors in this neighborhood I'm in now,
am I Mohammed to them?
The way I act, the way I conduct
myself, do I bring their praise?
Am I good to them? Am I honest
to them? Am I generous to them today?
I was with 1 brother. He said that
his his mother-in-law,
she
sends food to all the neighbors doing Ramadan.
Like, you know, every once in a while,
like, every 3 or 4 days, she sends
like halwa
or something to the neighbors.
So she's
to them, Muhammad,
she earned their praise.
There's a brother, subhanallah, I remember in Saint
Louis,
one of our neighbors, unfortunately, her daughter was
addicted to drugs, and her son was also
addicted to drugs. And the brother would go.
She was a old lady. He would go
and mow her yard, man, in the summer.
That's being Mohammed,
alaihis salaam. Muhammad to my kids? Do my
kids? Do I do I act in a
way that my children praise me? Am I
Mohammed with my spouse? That my spouse finds
nothing except to say good about me and
praise me? If you think about the name
Muhammad,
you should have trouble sleeping at night
because the name Muhammad
demands from you and I that we raise
our character and our behavior
and our actions to a place where people
have nothing to say
except good about us.
And if they say evil about us, it's
because they hate us.
Allah said they're jealous of you. They were
jealous of the prophet because of his goodness.
So when you
say,
this is a big statement
because now
I am locating the name of the messenger
of Allah
as a means to hold myself accountable.
Am I
Mohammed in my home? Am I Mohammed in
the streets? Am I Mohammed
at my work? Am I Mohammed with Allah
that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do?
The name of the prophet
we call it
That the Ummah will know its true place
when it measures itself with the name Muhammad.
Because if I'm living racket, if I'm living
foul, I'm not Mohammed.
I'm something else.
So now you see something.
So Sayidna,
a Sheikh, he says,
He said that the name of the prophet
is from Hammed.
Hamd.
Hamd means to praise. And the word hamd
is taken from this word hamd which implies,
like, the incredible nature,
the awe, the awesomeness
of the prophet.
And that the name Muhammad, he says something
really beautiful and this is according to our
scholars.
The name Muhammad
is not his
name. It's his essence.
That every aspect of the prophet, not just
like because somebody may have the name Mohammed
and be foul.
Somebody may have the name Mohammed
and be bad.
But the prophet Mohammed Alaihi
Salam
is Mohammed
in his name
and in his character
and in his essence, what we see and
what we don't see,
everything about him is Muhammad,
is praiseworthy.
It's so beautiful.
And then he says,
You know that the prophet's name is
coming from an ocean of wisdom.
As we conclude inshallah, we're gonna read one
more line. And now we're going to start
to talk about
the
miracles
of the prophet
after the Quran.
So, the first one we talked about the
Quran
and now we're going to talk about some
air other miracles. So the Sheikh he says
that the lizard
talk to him.
We know this from the the narration
of Imam, I believe, Imam Al Bayhaki.
That the
prophet
also mentioned by
that the prophet
he was calling people to the truth, and
there was 1 Bedouin.
And he said to the prophet, peace be
upon him,
what what do you call to?
Thank you so much, Naruna.
What do you call to? May Allah bless
you and give us. What do you call
to that bedouin said?
And the prophet said, I call you to
say
and it will bring you good.
And then that bad one, he said,
is there anyone else here
that can testify to this?
And the prophet said yes, and he pointed,
There was like a lizard, a bulb
at that lizard.
And then the prophet that Bedouin, he was
like shocked. You're gonna talk to a lizard?
So the prophet said, he said,
and that
that lizard responded to him.
He said,
I'm here to serve.
I'm here to to be at your service.
For the one who is the most beautiful
and will fulfill his role
in the hereafter.
And then the prophet said to him,
And that lizard said to him, I worship
the one whose is
in the heavens, and whose authority
is on the earth. And
in the ocean
are the waves that he created, the power
to move the ocean and the seas.
And in the in Jannah is his rahma,
and in hellfire
is his, like,
final decree.
And
then the prophet said to this, listen, who
am I?
And it responded and said,
you're the message of Allah.
And then that bed when he became Muslim.
So the sheikh, he says,
that
this lizard spoke to him.
And the the tree stump
wet. This is the second miracle we're gonna
talk about,
wet for the prophet.
The the hadith of the tree stump is
actually mentioned in Bukhari
and mentioned in so many sources
that our scholars say it's.
It reaches the level of certainty. The hadith
about the lizard,
subhanAllah,
it's not that kind of is a different
type of lizard.
The
the
the
the the the hadith about the lizard, maybe
there's some discussions about it. But the hadith
about the tree stump
is mutawatir.
That the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam,
he used to give his khutba on this
tree stump.
And then the Sahaba, they made for him
a minbar.
They made for him a
small tree stump. From that tree stump, they
made him. After that, he give Khubba on
that small tree stump, then they made a
minbar for him with 3 steps, like a
pulpit.
So he left that tree stump, and he
started to give khutba
from that pulpit.
And in the narration,
of I believe Abu Horeira or Sayna Amrul
Khotab,
when the prophet started to give his Khutba
from that pulpit, the tree stump is started
to weep.
One of the narrations says, we could not
The the Masjid
was occupied by the weeping sound of something.
One of the narrations said, it sounded like
a child, like the way it was weeping.
Says about this hadith, this is greater than
any miracle of the other prophets.
Because the other prophets, if they cause something
to come to life, it was that that
thing was alive before.
But a tree stump didn't have life in
it,
but because it longed for the prophet
and it loved the prophet
and it missed the dhikr
of the words of the prophet, it began
to weep. The prophet
in Bukhari, he came down from the pulpit
and he began to
put his hand, we say in Persian,
If any of you are Persian, you can
tell
people what's, like a light massage
on that tree stump and it calmed down.
And the prophet
said that if I had not done this,
if I had not placated this tree stump,
it will weep until
You will hear it weeping like this
until the end of times.
Imam Ibn Abi Sirin
the great writer. He didn't write a book
of dreams, by the way. It's not true.
You know what he said when he would
narrate this hadith? I heard from my teacher
who narrated this hadith to That
when Ibn Sirin would narrate the hadith about
the the the tree stump weeping out of
missing the messenger of Allah, he would begin
to weep brothers and sisters. You know why
he would weep? He would say,
even the hard bark
misses the messenger of Allah, but the hearts
of Muslims,
they don't miss the messenger of Allah.
SubhanAllah. That even the tree stump will cry
longing for the prophet, but how many weeks
go by? How many months go by? We're
busy with everything,
and we didn't take time to read about
the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
We didn't send salawat upon the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
We didn't
read some of his beautiful hadith. In fact,
we feel like,
stuff for Allah.
So imam ibn Sirin when he would narrate
this hadith would weep.
So we mentioned now 3 miracles.
So the first, this lizard like creature
spoke to the messenger of Allah.
2nd, that this tree, the tree stump
wept
missing the messenger of Allah.
And the 3rd the 4th miracle, and then
we're gonna stop here tonight,
is that also a tree
ran to the messenger of Allah, came to
the messenger of Allah. And we know trees,
he said, like, they don't have feet yet.
Because the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Salam, similar experience.
He was calling people to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, and one of the Bedouins, he began
to challenge him, and he said, who else
will
bear witness that you are the messenger of
Allah? And suddenly this tree was next to
him, and the tree,
bear witness to Sayna Muhammad. This narration is
authentic. He
said
So we took tonight
4 miracles
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I didn't
go into the last one because I don't
wanna take too much of your time. But
the first is
the Quran.
We talked about the preservation of the Quran
and the qira'at,
and how this is back to the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Then we talked about
We talked about the prophet speaking to this
bub,
and that the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, this
tree wept for him.
And those trees that testified
to his
prophecy.
If we have any questions, we can take
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went after Sayedna
Ibrahim, alisa,
is a specific type of lizard. It's not
a bulb.
A bulb actually is a larger sort
of creature in its kind of scale. I
wanna say like an iguana, but I don't
wanna get it wrong. And we know that
the process when he was asked to eat
a bulb, and he he said it's not
from, like, my land. So this is a
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Somebody made a lot of money off of
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I didn't study as a tuna and tuna.
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