Suhaib Webb – Rest For The Hearts wImam
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We send peace and blessings upon our beloved
messenger, Muhammad
upon the community of the prophet
until the end of time. Assalamu alaykum,
my apologies for the last few days. Actually,
my my my daughter and my 3 year
old is really sick right now. So she
may actually call me in a minute. I
may have to run-in there to help her
out. Please keep her in your duas.
But
that's really the reason,
that I was unavailable the last few days.
So it's very important to be in service
of our family as the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
So my apologies to everyone. Also hope that
everybody's having an incredibly
wonderful last 10 days of Ramadan.
We ask Allah to make it a means
of our
our nearness to Allah and our forgiveness for
our shortcomings.
We're now reaching the end of this poem.
Which is really nice poem, and I promise
to send out to all of you. I'm
just making sure that it's edited and done
really well.
And we said that this poem, the first
part of it,
says, Mariamah. We said that this poem
is divided into 2 parts. The first was
some of the miracles of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, which are important for us
to learn. Number 1, because it's followed for
us to learn.
It is an individual
obligation for us to learn about the prophet.
That's
why Sheikha Marzuk, he says,
You know, that everything that the prophet has
brought, we have to learn it, accept it
and submit it, submit to it. So we
have to know the messenger of Allah.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as Muslims to know
the one that Allah sent. SubhanAllah.
The second is we said that the poem
talks about the character of the prophet peace
be upon him. And we said there are
2 goals for that. When we learn the
miracles of the prophet, we fulfill that obligation
that he has upon us. Then secondly, we
equip ourselves with the intellectual
tools to
repel those who may attack
the character of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, which is really an attack on his
prophecy.
Peace be upon him.
And then the second we study his character,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
So that we can stay centered in prophetic
morality.
And that we can be prophetic in our
actions and how we conduct ourselves.
I appreciate all the duas in us. So
now we reached the section on his character.
And we have a duas request for someone
going to oncologist.
I experienced that with one of my own
family members last year.
Make it easy for you all and make
it completely
free of any cancer. And
the sheikh, he says,
That from the and and there's a difference
between Karam and Jud.
Karam and Jud, and I don't wanna get
too much into this now, but Judah is
a form of generosity that is deliberate.
Karam is a form of generosity that just
comes but by, like, our nature.
So here he's talking about the deliberate generosity
of the prophet
that has this quality, that has this incredible
quality that touches hearts.
And that's why the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in the authentic hadith,
you know, when people will come to him,
and they will ask him for things.
And they will even ask him for wealth,
and he will make sure that they are
given
something. They will go back to their people
and they will say, like, this person is
the most generous person we've ever seen, Aslima.
Like, all of you should embrace Islam.
So we should think about our neighbors, our
communities, the people around us. Are we reflecting
prophetic generosity?
The deliberate generosity.
And and, subhanAllah, we live now in
a time now where even, like,
kindness is an endangered species.
Generosity is an endangered species. The saydah
Muhammad
is the most generous person and and deliberately
generous.
So he says,
that from the deliberate generosity of the prophet
is that he never said no to people.
That he never said no to them.
And, of course, we have
the hadith
of the prophet
from one of his illustrious companions from Jabir
who
says
Said the prophet was never asked about anything,
and he said no. Meaning, of course, anything
permissible.
Right? Anything good.
Alayhi salatu salam.
He will never say
no
to
people.
That doesn't mean it's followed
to say yes to everybody,
but we have to appreciate the great capacity
of generosity of the prophet.
And also the famous hadith of Sayna Anasymptomatic,
who served the prophet
for so many years.
We said,
And the prophet wasn't asked about anything
except he would give it to somebody.
And the man came to the process, some
of the process, and gave him some spoils
of war.
You know, it's so beautiful. He said, go
this person went back to his people, and
he said that the prophet Muhammad, you should
become Muslim
because Muhammad he gives as someone who doesn't
fear poverty.
He gives
So it's very important that we frame ourself
in a place of generosity, generosity with our
family,
generosity with people around us. And as we
talked about last time, generosity with Allah
that we are miserly with sin,
and we are generous with the obedience.
Sometimes people invert this, they say, man, I'm
so worried Ramadan is gonna start because they
worry that they're going to lose some of
the evil they did before Ramadan or some
of the freedom they had before Ramadan. This
is not being generous with obedience.
This is being a miserably.
But actually the
attitude should be the opposite. Like, I'm
so sad that Ramadan is going because this
was the season
for worship.
This was the season,
if you will, the holiday, if you will,
to establish the Ibadah of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam how
he carried himself,
not what he said, but how he carried
himself.
It it carried the meaning of yes.
So here, the Sheikh is doing something beautiful.
He's talking about the prophet's outward character and
his inward character. His outward character was that
he would say yes to people, and his
inward character also people felt he was very
generous,
very generous.
So the sheikh is talking about the prophet's
physical actions and the state of his heart.
His heart
was And that's why, subhanAllah, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says about the prophet,
Like, even if the prophet was harsh in
his heart,
people would have left him, but he wasn't.
And Allah
knows that the inner and outer of the
prophet are the same.
Allah swears by the stars, and he says,
I swear by the stars that your companion,
Sayyidina Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasalam,
He has not gone astray in his actions
in society
nor is he internally astray. His heart also
is with Allah.
As we'll talk about maybe later tonight or
next time once we've when we finish.
That the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam Allah bears
witness to the purity of his inner state
and his outer state. Why? Because he is
like a star that is internally combusting
and then externally giving more. That's the secret
of shultan legend.
So the prophet
is like a star
who internally is full of light and combusting
and externally sharing that light with others in
times of difficulty and darkness.
Then he describes the prophet. He
that the prophet
is the remedy for hearts.
That the prophet
by his treatment for people can
cure broken hearts and hurt hearts. People who
are internally,
you know, they're hurting.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam took and also
he cures the hearts that are filled with
Kufr,
or they are filled with shirk, or they
are associated,
you know, with things in the dunya which
are unhealthy. Allah has made him
the one who can cure the hearts through
guiding them to Allah.
And the prophet
is the one he forgives people.
When people do things to him, he forgives
them.
Alhamahu alaihi salam, Allah says to the prophet
in the 43rd chapter of the Quran, say
to the people of Mecca, salaam.
Of course, there's a time to be aggressive.
There's a time to engage. The prophet made
jihad when necessary,
but the default, the nature of the prophet
he forgets people.
And that's why Allah
says about him,
That's the prophet, he forgives the believers.
He pardons the believers.
So it can also mean whoever follows his
teachings,
they will cleanse their hearts.
It will be like a tabit for their
hearts. And whoever follows the teachings of the
prophet, it will be a means of their
forgiveness. There's a second meaning to this part
of the poem.
So sometimes people complain, I don't feel internally
good in my relationship with Allah. Ask yourself
about your obedience to Allah.
Sometimes people feel that their heart is far
away from Allah. Ask yourself, how close are
you to the sunnah
of the messenger of Allah?
Say, the Quran says, if you love
Allah, then follow me.
And forgive your sins. So the second meaning,
is for those who follow him.
As we said earlier, Sheikh
And whoever
seeks
and this also has two meanings, sought him
in this life when they were alive and
the prophet
was alive,
they will never be wronged.
Whoever draw nearest to the prop whoever draws
near to the prophet
and
becomes one of his students in his lifetime,
they will not be wronged. And also,
those of us who follow the prophet sallallahu
alaihi
wa sallam after he passed,
alayhi salatu salam, you will not be wronged
because to follow him
will bring about blessings and forgiveness.
And that the the high aspirations of the
prophet and this is important for us now,
especially
the generations which are
having access to, like, social media,
to Discord, to Twitch, to TikTok, to Instagram,
you name it. Right?
There's a lot of money to be made,
and there is a lot of commodification. Now
when people contact me,
even people who I know who I'm close
to, they're asking me, like, how much do
you
charge? Why would I charge you? Like,
that's not the foundation of our relationship.
Foundation of our relationship is ritma to Islam.
No doubt people should should be paid for
their work, but not to the point where
everything is commodified. Recently, an organization from Germany,
some youth, they invited me. They said, can
you come on May in the late part
of May? And I was like, you know,
that's that's not possible. My schedule is not
going to allow that. And they were like,
you know, can you can you do a
video recorded message and we'll pay you. I
said, why do you need to pay me
to report a video message?
I'm not saying that to say I'm a
good person. Of course not. But what I'm
saying is we need to be very careful
that we are not commodifying
every single thing we do with one another.
Like, every single thing,
all prophets were nonprofit.
And especially those people who are in the
Quran
and teaching the Quran, you should be paid,
but you should not be charging people exuberant
amount of money.
Because, masha'Allah, what you got from Rasal in
the Quran is more with Allah.
That's why I say, the imam, and I
have actually those lines are from Shahuatobi. You're
watching on Facebook, you can see that word
behind him. What does imam Shahu Ta'bi say
about the people of the Quran? And he
that people don't use the Quran for money
because when we become a community
that's moved solely by prophets
with an f
and not profits with a p, that makes
us strategically
weak
and vulnerable to outsiders who have more money.
So it's we should pay people for their
work,
but subhanAllah, it should not be exuberant,
and everything doesn't have to have a price.
And now we saw
one of our our sisters, I believe,
asking us to make dua for the people
of Sudan. You know, I had some great
teachers from Sudan, Sheikh Sheikh Ismail
from Darfur, Masha'Allah.
And Sheikh Mohammed Nur,
almost 30 years ago,
please, wallahi keep the people of Sudan in
your dua and educate yourself. Go ahead and
read and study like what's going on there.
So we have to be careful that everything
is commodified. And especially now,
I know on social media, I've had people
contact me also,
try to pay me to to
share certain ads,
to put out certain messages, and I told
them I can't do that.
I have a responsibility to the community. We
have a responsibility to the community.
If people contact you, especially young people like
MSAs,
others, and they need you to come,
they they may not have the financial capacity
at that time because they're still young. Go,
man. Go serve them youngsters, man. Be with
them. And Allah will put in
the work queue.
So here that important idea
that we should be moved by something
more than just
financial acquisition.
He shared in this next line when he
talks about the heart of the prophet and
the character of the prophet, he says, Abba.
Abba means to refuse.
Allah says that he
refused to make sujood Abba.
But here it says
that the inner state of the prophet, the
great the great
aspirations of the prophet refused him to sell
out even for a mountain of gold. And
of course, this is like hyperbole.
What he means is that the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam could not be bought.
That the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam could not
be bought.
That he could not be moved by either
promises of popularity,
social utility,
financial gain,
political power.
The prophet
He his his in his aspirations
would not sell out for that.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam forever.
Even if that that mountain was made of
gold,
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam his aspirations were
more. So now we have to be careful
because if it's money that only moves the
community,
this means we are going to surrender to
the messaging of others outside of our community.
And that's why it's very important that we
support one another,
and that we allow each other to be
financially independent.
As Imam Mashefi'i said, If
I'm busy with the bas'ala, la ufakrifam mas'ala.
If I'm busy with the onions, I can't
focus on
Because Allah protected him.
He says because his lord protected him, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, that he would not sell out.
That the prophet
he was not moved by what was popular.
He was that's not what formed the foundation
of his principles and moral character.
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
with Allah.
Leave it to Allah.
And so the prophet we see from some
of his earliest
Sahaba, people who are outcast in society,
people who are the objects of extreme poverty
and social stratification,
but the prophet stays with him.
Stay with those who call to Allah.
If and you'll notice the more you become
popular, the more you become an influencer,
the more people will try to encourage you,
distance yourself from the Imams,
distance yourself from the shoe. They are a
political liability.
They are a cultural liability.
Distance yourself from the Muslims
because they are a liability for you. Then
what what are you gonna be left with?
What will you be left with? And this
is the opposite of the prophet
who stays
with the Ummah,
stays with his people,
doesn't sell out the Muslims,
subhanAllah,
doesn't sell them out. So in Surat Al
Kahf, we see Allah commanding the prophet to
stay with the people who are poor.
And the prophet
said, oh, Allah resurrect me poor. Here, poor
doesn't mean financially poor means those whose hearts
are poor to Allah. They know that they
need everything from Allah, if they aren't to
Allah.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands him to
be with those people who even may have
physical ailments that distance them from being accepted
by the broader society,
specifically those who are generating culture in Mecca,
the cultural generators.
Because just because something's popular don't make it
right.
Allah says in
that good and evil are not the same
even if evil
is popular.
Even if evil is popular. So we have
to be very careful
that we and that's why it's important to
learn about the prophet
that we align
our hamma,
our aspirations with prophetic aspirations.
The Prophet's great aspirations
refused,
refused at any cost
to sell out even for a mountain of
gold.
Because he was protected by Allah.
So in,
someone who their society considers as an outcast,
a blind person.
Allah commands the prophet to be with that
blind man.
So we have to be very careful
that we don't sell out,
and that's the character of the prophet.
We know people came to him, they offered
him political utility.
He didn't accept it. They offered him financial
success. He didn't accept it. They offered him
marriages to very important influential people. He didn't
accept it. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi
was with Allah. His heart is bought by
Allah. His life is bought by Allah.
Allah says that he purchased the lives of
the believers for Jannah. And if you're in
the space
where
people are trying to
bring you into positions of influence and promising
you fame and politically
political
gain and financial gain. You know how you
can test those people?
Have some asks.
Have some strategic asks.
And you will see if you ask them,
for example, the genocide in India, if there's
an opportunity for you to talk about it,
how masjids are being destroyed there, What's going
on, of course, in Palestine? What's happening
in
in in in the US?
If you start to bring up issues
and you see their reaction, that would tell
you what kind of Allah they want to.
The Allah says about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
salam
Allah protected you.
The next line he says
that the prophet listened to all humanity as
a guide.
And a mercy.
And that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was
sent as a mercy to all creation
and all communities.
This implies
so many things. Number 1, the angels.
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam, one time,
angel Gabriel came to him, and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, what's wrong with you?
He said,
I was scared, but now now I'm with
you,
I find security.
As is mentioned in the Quran. So even
with the angels.
The second, the jinn, the Sahih al Bukhari,
the prophet
said that everyone has a shaitan that's born
with them. This shaitan, by the way, doesn't
leave you in the month of Ramadan. That's
a longer discussion you can find maybe in
my highlights.
And then
one of the sahabas said, even you? He
said, even me, except I made I called
my jinn to Islam, and he embraced Islam.
So the prophet is rahmatullah
to the jinns. And of course, with the
believers, Allah
says, and the faithful Muslims who are struggling
The problem is forgiving and merciful to his
community. And then finally, even to inanimate objects.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, when he would
hold stones, those stones would make tasdi
in his hands.
The Azjar of Mecca used to send salam
to him. The trees used to say salam
to him. The stones in Mecca used to
say salam to him.
And even we know we and we talked
about this a few weeks ago in this
poem that the
the
stump of a tree began to weep, and
the prophet
he caressed it and pacified it, and it
became calm. So when we say the prophet
Rahmatal lil'alameen,
not just to human beings, but to everything,
everything in existence, the prophet
is
And then the sheikh, he says something that
our theologian talked about that any good you
see,
any form of excellence you see from the
time of Sayyidina Muhammad
and before the time of Sayyidina Muhammad
until the end of time,
any
That's very nice. It means that all the
good you see
is are drops
from the ocean of the goodness of the
prophet, subhanahu wa sallam. Either
implicitly or explicitly,
are related back to the prophet
And, of course, the light that the prophet
brought, he'd removed
the
that was in the hearts
and the that was in the minds.
And this is like
And that every, like, every goods everything, good
smells, you name it. Everything you see, which
is good that falls under the Sharia,
is from Sayeda Muhammad
And he says with him
all places and times were honored, wherever the
prophet was, or whatever time period he was,
alayhi,
we honor that time period.
That's why some of the sahabah like Abdullah
ibn Umar
when he would make a Umrah from Medina,
sometimes he will go off on a different
path than the other people, and they will
ask him why. He said, this is the
way I saw the prophet walking.
And we know that the lifetime of the
prophet
is the best time in human history.
And that's why
ibn Hazem, he said that one second of
the Sahaba
with the prophet
is better than our entire lives.
Better than our entire lives.
So
the
shayhis
is
That's why all of us we have a
love for Mecca and Medina, because Mecca and
Medina reminds us of Sayidina Muhammad
If you go to those places and you
have someone who knows the area,
they can show you all the historical. The
prophet drank here, the prophet said here, the
prophet did this year,
this this this this this this you'll find,
subhanallah,
those places still,
they have honor.
Because of
because the prophet
is the best
of all Arabs and non Arabs. As he
said in the authentic hadith and a seed
As the prophet
said, I am the best of humanity, and
I don't say this bragging. Why did he
say this? Because he has to. Here's an
important lesson sometimes when you're filling out college
applications
or job applications,
or you need to put yourself in a
position that you may feel like religiously. I
shouldn't talk about my real accomplishments. Yeah. Sometimes
you have to share
your success, like saying that Yusuf Ali salatul
salam. What is it? Ijali,
make me Al Hazayah. It make me in
charge of these things. Guess what? I'm hafidum.
I'm someone who is,
trustworthy, arimon and acknowledge. So
So the prophet says, someone says, I'm the
best human being. This is not
he's bragging. He has to say it.
Because this is his job,
to guide people so they will feel a
sense of,
you know, a sense of trust with his
teachings. And he
says that on the day of Hashem, when
when everyone is brought together under
the sun being just a few miles from
our head as mentioned in Surat Al Hament,
We ask Allah to make it easy for
us. And one of the people that will
be taken care of on that day and
protect our young people who use their youth
for Allah.
So he says
all of the prophets
on the day of Hashem
is a flag.
Is
a is a flag.
No. There's one poem.
It's on the ancient poem, you know, that
talks about the river is like a flag,
a banner.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
every
creation
on the day of judgment will be under
my liwa,
my flag, all of the righteous and the
prophets.
And we know that the prophet, his flag
will be called what the Wa'uhamd,
the flag of praise.
Praising Allah
for what he gave him and praising Allah
for what he gave his Ummah on that
day. So
say,
That every prophet will be following the prophet
and his flag, the flag of Hamdul.
And that the prophet sallallahu, he said, will
make Shafa.
Shafa, intercession.
We know the long hadith in Sahih al
Bukhari when the people will run to Adam
and run to say,
run to say, Ibrahim,
Idris and say, Ibrahim, and Musa and all
of the prophets.
And each of them will
remember something that they considered as a mistake
even though it wasn't a sin, because the
prophets are so pious, subhanallah, even their simple
mistakes caused them to work.
Even their in inadvertent mistakes, they worried about
them. Like, you and I, we worry about
the biggest sins.
So So they will go to each of
those prophets, and they will ask those prophets
to intercede for them. And each of those
prophets will refuse
and say go to the next prophet
out of their humility, out of their characters.
Then finally, they will come to say, Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he will say,
alalaha, this is my job. Again, an example
of when you're qualified for something you should
push into.
And when Allah has given you the ability
to do something, you should do it. You
should step into it, SubhanAllah.
So the prophet, he will say,
and then he will make sujood
below the ash, and then he will begin
to make dua,
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And then he will be called Yeah,
Muhammad.
Oh, Muhammad, raise your head
and ask, you'll be granted.
So the prophet at that moment, he will
make
that the date of judgment will start.
That hasha will end.
And the prophets
on that day will be accepted by
Allah They will say
You know, raise your head,
ask,
and your intercession will be accepted.
And the prophet, the first thing he will
say, man, the first thing he will say
at that moment,
Oh, Allah, my ummah.
My
ummah. The prophet
will
make for his ummah. And then Allah will
say, take out
anyone who has a Adam's weight of
of a man.
Take them out, you know, and put them
in Jannah
And this will happen, like, 8 times.
After the day of Hasher ends and the
day of judgment starts, the prophet will continue
to make intercession, like, 8 times
for his Ummah,
for the people in Jannah to be raised
in a higher level of Jannah, for the
people in the prophet's community who are in
the hellfire that they'll be taken out from
the hellfire, For some people that they will
have no intercession,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Even for disbelievers that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will relieve
their punishment for them, for the people who
cross Sirat, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
facilitate the prophet or keep asking, let me
make Shifa and let me make intercession for
my Ummah, for my Ummah, for my Ummah.
Because how much the prophet loves you?
And how much the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam
he has concern for us? So the first
that the hasher will end and the day
of judgment will start. And then there's, like,
7 more, if I remember correctly.
1st, for those people in his
that they will never
be judged,
they'll go straight to Jannah.
2nd, for those people
who in his ummah are judged that they
will go to Jannah.
3rd, subhanallah, for those people from his ummah
who will go to *,
Even though look look now online.
How
you know, I saw people even attacking me
on YouTube. They said things about me, it's
not true. But but there's no let let's
say it was true.
Why don't you ask me?
Call me. Ask me to to repent to
Allah.
Make keep me as part of the community.
Don't just cast people out.
People make simple mistakes. Well, hey. Today, someone
in Instagram, they sent me a DM. It's
a bad thing. And I realized they sent
it to me on purpose. So I rolled
back. I said, may Allah protect us from
this. And the person rolled back and said,
I'm so sorry. I sent it to you
on accident. I said, listen, keep asking questions.
Keep don't worry. I'm not I'm not I'm
not throwing you out.
SubhanAllah, people from the prophet's Ummah, can you
imagine that? How he'll feel he he may
feel let down.
You follow me and you're in *? Like,
how could you follow Muhammad
and be in hellfire?
But he doesn't say, man, these people, they're
evil. These people, blah blah blah. These people,
this this
this. They'll say, yeah, Allah, forgive them.
He will still intercede for them.
The prophet doesn't have a cancel culture.
The prophet has a redemption culture.
Everyone can come back to Allah.
Doesn't mean there's no justice,
but the door to come back to Allah
is
there
is there. And that's the irony.
That secular morality,
whether it's articulated through the right or the
left,
has far more or less potential for forgiveness
and redemption
than Islamic morality.
Subhanallah, the prophet will see his followers in
*, man.
And he won't say, okay, Khallas, go to
*,
You should have followed me.
We'll ask Allah to forgive
them.
Until the person Allah will say the one
who has the smallest amount
of iman,
take them from *.
Even disbelievers
like his own uncle,
according to Ahlus Sunnah, the majority,
he will ask Allah to remove relieve some
of their punishments.
So what about us?
We should learn from
the great forgiveness of Sayid Muhammad,
Alayhi Salaam.
And he says
that human beings and jinn and angels, they
were in the service of the prophet
And good news for them. What does it
mean they were in the service of his
deen and the servant the angels actually, they
protected him. We know as we talked about
before earlier. So how the jinn protected him,
and now how do human beings how do
you and I protect the prophet? To stand
up for his deen
and to stand up for his
And they will have the goodness of Jannah
for that service.
Allah gave the prophet an honor which no
one else has.
You know? And this this
this type of honor is only for him.
The character of Sayidina Muhammad.
It encompasses all people. Like, the prophet whoever
truly takes the time to learn about him
and know him, they will fall in love
with him.
And that the prophet's character is such that
he can never be tricked,
and no no hypocrites can deceive him, and
no one can harm him.
And that Allah, as we talked about earlier,
protected him from the plans of the evildoers
and the sinners.
And that the prophet was protected by the
plots and plans
of those hypocrites
and his enemies and aggressors by Allah.
As we said earlier, Allah says in the
Quran
And that man, when he came to the
prophet
and
the
prophet was sleeping, and his heart was awake,
his eyes were closed.
And that man, he had a sword, and
the prophet said, he woke up and the
man, his sword fell.
And right before it fell, he said to
the prophet, who will protect you from me?
Then the sword fell in the hand of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because the
prophet said to him, Allah.
Allah.
And then the prophet said to him, who
will protect you from Allah?
So and the prophet didn't kill him, by
the way.
How a light
And his,
and the process suddenly he's asleep, actually, he
was being awake. Meaning, his eyes were closed,
but his heart was
and his nature was
His nature was
And we know that there's 2 types of
this kind of shyness or regalness. Number 1
is the good and the bad. The good
and then second is the bad. The good
type of shyness is to be shy of
Allah. To be shy of disobeying him. To
know I'm being washed. To be shy of
letting my parents down. To be shy of
letting my children or my spouse down. Or
those people around me that really have importance.
I feel shy to let them down. Most
importantly, Allah or the messenger of Allah, this
is a good Haya.
Then there's the bad Haya. The bad Haya
is I feel shy to lose friends by
not doing bad. I feel shy that I
won't become a super influencer, and I won't
have fame and money unless I listen to
these people when I do something wrong. This
is the which is.
So the prophet his
his
that his nature
that the process of his nature is to
have that kind of weakness.
As the prophet said,
that
you know, to have that kind of shyness
of Allah, to disobey Allah is from
iman.
And the prophet
he was specifically blessed with the ability
to communicate
big meanings in short words.
Here the sheikh is playing with language. He
said,
the first that has fatah. The
second is is is the
milk of a mother.
Is plural. It is a pearl.
This is called
in rhetoric, but the Sheikh here, he's playing
with the language. I love you also for
the sake of Allah.
Unite us under his love.
So he
says,
meaning,
it's hard to translate this, but as though
the breastfeeding of the prophet was
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's true because the prophet
he lost his father. There's different opinions about
when his father died. And then subhanahu wa
ta'ala he was separated from his mother, and
his wet nurse will say the Halima
who later on became Muslim,
but Allah took care of him.
As though it came directly from Allah as
it did, but the sheikh is is like
playing in the language.
And means that the prophet's words is like
pearls,
man.
But the pearls that came from the prophet's
mouth, meaning his words,
are far more valuable
than the most beautiful
exquisite pearls in the world.
It's
hard to translate this, man.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the one who took care of the
prophet
sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
his
breastfeeding.
And the pearls of his speech.
Some people ask him to explain in Arabic
because they speak Arabic.
Okay.
So as I just said in Arabic, the
poet he's showing you, the sheikh,
his
his he's a person of great
literary prowess.
So first, he plays the language he uses
2 words, but because the change of one
vowel, the meaning changes.
Means the milk of a mother.
Is a plural.
So he's saying
that, you know, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
the one who took took care of the
prophets breastfeeding, and the prophets speech
is like pearls.
But even more value.
And that the prophet actually his the pearls
that came from him are more valuable than
any pearl
you'll find on the face of the earth.
He said that the prophet
always he's smiling.
We call human beings
because
means to show. Because our emotions, they show
on our face.
That's why we say
This is Al Bishrufi Wachi,
meaning that the prophet
always he was smiling.
Why? Because he's happy.
Even on the level of,
he was smiling
even though they were struggling because he's with
He knows what's with Allah is best, whether
it's good or bad for us.
Because
he's satisfied with Allah.
So he's always smiling.
Why sometimes are we sad? Because we want
what's beyond our ability, and we're not honest
with ourselves.
And one of the things that the contemporary
world does, it tries to inflate your sense
of ability.
It tries to inflate your sense of ability,
so you become frustrated. Someone's asking,
can you read on paper of the Quran?
Yeah. Of course. You can. You can read
on it.
May Allah bless you.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam
And,
you know, you have some beautiful narrations of
the companions
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
who say, like, we never met him except
he will be smiling.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Every time we encountered
him, alayhi salatu salam,
he would be smiling.
You know, always he was engaged in Islam.
And always meaning the goodness would always be
with him.
And honesty and integrity.
So paradise for the one
who takes the
spoils,
takes the treasure
from the prophet's
happiness.
You know? So they they also embody that
prophetic happiness.
And they also take the
the excellence and goodness and generosity of Sayidina
Muhammad
Good news for that person.
To be a Muslim is not to get
caught up in the nasty, ugly, cold,
cultural wars of the west.
To be a Muslim is to rise above
that and to be on the sunnah of
the prophet and to bring heal the people,
man.
Heal them. Bring them to Allah.
Through your character and through our goodness.
Oh, Allah, he's so beautiful this line. He
says,
Say whatever you want to say about him.
And he say whatever you want to say
about the prophet
except you describe him with the characteristics of
Allah, of course.
Meaning,
any great things you wanna say, any good
things you wanna say about Sayed Muhammad,
except
only what belongs to Allah.
Because
the
the the the the worth of the prophet
and the status of the prophet
is at the highest levels.
He is the embodiment
of the perfect human being.
Being. So you can say what you want
about him.
As Allah says about him,
And now the sheikh, he completes his poem
as we come to the conclusion.
He says,
That that my my my goal for writing
this wasn't to praise him.
That my goal for writing this wasn't to
praise the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
But my
my poem about him is praised because I
described him. Yes.
It's like I I I can't I cannot
praise the prophet
because the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah
praised him.
So,
he's saying that what makes my poem good
is that I mentioned and organized in it
with Sifat and Mahmoud.
Islam.
No. Allah says in the Quran, don't think
that you favored Islam because you're Muslim.
No. Allah favored you.
So here he's saying, don't think that, like,
I somehow should be
recognized, you know, like like the prophet. I
don't have to praise the prophet. I don't
have to recognize the prophet's greatness because the
prophet is great.
Because Allah said he is, but what makes
this great is I described his characteristics
and who he
was.
And that the prophet's companions, there are people
of
illumination
like stars.
And that the book of Allah, the Quran
mentions the great virtues of the companions
of the prophet
Then he finishes, and he says,
peace be upon your, oh, prophets, have a
lifespan.
And the salutations from our creator.
And peace be upon your community and your
companions, the people of great Hinman.
Look at look at us as Muslims now.
Where is our Hinman?
Our ambition is for dunya or akhira.
What made the early Muslim successful
is their ambitionals for akhira. And that
by default made their great.
But somebody their their aspiration is only their
will be lost.
But somebody who they have the correct aspiration
for,
their dunya will naturally fall in line.
Then he says,
And what was said by the one who
composed this poem, who has hope.
And my hope is that Allah, he says,
will forgive me for my sins and things
that I'm blain worthy for.
And I complete my poem
by thinking Allah as I started it. So
he's gonna end the poem by saying the
same thing he said in the first line
and the last line.
All praise be to Allah
who created all human beings.
We finished this poem
that talked about the miracles of the prophet
as well as the noble virtues and characteristics
of the prophet. Someone lies. And we'll be
sending it out free to our, people who
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to take those classes. May Allah bless you.
Ask Allah to accept what we have presented
from this short poem. Ask Allah to bless
the writer of the poem. Ask Allah to
bless those who attended and listened to
And we ask Allah to bless Sayna Muhammad
to unite us
with Sayna Rasuba Sallallahu wa ta'ala. We pray
for our brothers and sisters in Sudan.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to relieve
their challenges and difficulties. Pray for our brothers
and sisters in India, where there is a
a historical,
genocide happened against the Muslim there. We pray
for all of our families, our departed ones
who passed away, our sequence, may Allah cure
them. We pray Allah will bless the ummah
of the prophet, especially the young people. Now
Allah used them
for And we'll take any questions. If you
have some questions, we can take them. If
not,
is late, and we only have a few
days left in the month of Ramadan.
But we're happy to take any questions if
you have, Michelle.
I appreciate all the duas for my daughter.
Please keep her and her duas. Her temperature
is super high.
I said, yeah. Of course, Ahmed. I don't
know. All of a sudden, any questions you
have, feel free to ask them to show
you.
I
see Tayo Tayo from Uptown. Hope you're doing
well, and that'll be actually in Manhattan,
on Wednesday.
Tuesday Tuesday, I'll be in Manhattan. So Tuesday.
Can we play with dried blood? Is it
okay on our shirt? If it's more than,
like, a quarter
and you have the ability to remove it,
you should. If you can't, cut off. No
problem, Shama.
What was the language of prophet Adam? The
narrations that say that he spoke Arabic
are weak. So Allahu Adam. Allah knows what
his language was. I have no,
really.
Can I share my journey with going going
to Esar? You know, that was
a 7 year journey, man. So that would
be like a Netflix series.
My experiences in Egypt were incredible,
transformative,
and meaningful. But I think that has to
that definitely couldn't happen now. That would be
to condense, like, 7 years. You know?
That would be difficult.
So in the future,
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We're able to finish this poem. It's a
big accomplishment,
And we ask a lot, yeah, for the
people. Absolutely, you can make it du'a for
people who are not Muslim. That's all my
highlights to answer that question. Buhari has a
chapter on making du'a for non Muslims.
It's easy
for all of us. It's a great question.
Have a great Ramadan and Eid early Eid
Mubarak to everybody.