Suhaib Webb – Uqud alJum’an of Sheikh alIslam, Selim alBishri (Lesson Seven) Prophethood
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Continuing to read from,
and
a few people reached out to me and
asked, like, where can they find this text?
SubhanAllah. Even in the Arabic,
this is the only nuschah that I know
of,
which is very frustrating. Right? Because, Sheikh Salim
al Bishri,
like, really did a great service to Islam
and Muslims.
And even in this print,
I'm noticing some mistakes.
So I hope maybe one day,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Yes Sir Lina Al
Amra. I can go to Egypt and try
to find the original, maybe make a photocopy
of it, and then I would feel comfortable
printing it,
in the sense of a translation or an
actual publication. As for this, I'm more than
happy to, like,
take pictures and share it with brothers and
sisters as I've done as a PDF. Like
it's an Amana.
If we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you
know, 70%
of the Mahdul taught,
you know, the handwritten documents. I was told
by a teacher
Lem Toradu Hashams.
They haven't seen the latter day, man.
So it's a lot there, SubhanAllah.
But we reach now the section on prophethood.
Prophethood is very important.
There is an essential need for prophecy and
prophethood
because prophets,
explain to us
revelation,
and of course, the final prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam are
sealing the deal for us, Telling us everything
we need to know as we prepare for
the hereafter.
As he mentioned that he and the hereafter
are like this close.
Salallahu alaihi wasalam.
From Mabhad
and Nobuwat.
Right? The section discussing
presenting our beliefs as Muslims about prophets, which
are very different
than all other religions. And I can tell
when a Muslim hasn't studied
formally,
not not for scholarship,
but for functional literacy.
When they say things like, well, we and
the other religions are exactly the same. It's
kinda like,
no. We're not. Like, respectfully, we're not.
Right? That's a sign that they're being informed
by something else. There's a context to that
statement. We don't wanna judge people to say
that, of course, but we wanna make sure
that we provide them an opportunity to learn,
right, in a comfortable way.
So he says,
He says it is it is an obligation
for you and I, if we're are Muslims,
as Muslims,
to believe that Allah
dispatched prophets
and sent messengers.
They gave glad tidings to those who obey
Allah
with paradise,
and they warn those
who do not obey Allah but disobey Allah
of *.
And Allah
aided them
with miracles.
And establish
clear
signs.
And everything which has been authentically
passed on to us on behalf of the
teachings of the prophets from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
is the truth. We have to believe that.
And everything that they told us and informed
us about is is the truth.
You know, sometimes people say, I read this
hadith, or I I read something in the
life of the prophet, it didn't sit right
with me.
We should not project that discomfort on the
prophet
or on the teachings of the prophet
We should start with ourselves, which is very
difficult in an age
where the cult of individualism
is running rampant. Right? It's hard for me.
It's hard for everybody.
There's a great poet who said, if your
eye is infected,
don't blame the painter.
If your tongue is infected,
don't blame the chef.
Right? So it's important that we are vulnerable
and honest. Maybe I'm not understanding something here,
you know, I should ask and try to
learn more and not just immediately rush to
a quick judgment. SubhanAllah.
And these Prophets
commanded faith
and commanded
uncompromisingly
obedience to Allah.
And they prohibited
us
from disbelief
and sin.
And that Allah
sealed
the prophets,
completed
prophecy
with Sayidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
One time I ran into some Ahmadi
followers
at
a MSA event or somewhere, and they were
telling me in Surat Al Ahzab,
Allah says
He doesn't say
So they started to try to break down
the epistemological
meaning of
and they said, but if it said
then that would be Muhammad Alaihi Salam
is the seal of the prophets.
So,
you know,
with my my
very, you know,
minute knowledge of
I said to them, well, there is the
qira of Abi Amr Abbasri.
There is
the
of Abi Amr Abbasri.
And then
and they became very angry at me, you
know, and they accused me of, oppressing and
wanting to kill. I said, I don't I
don't wanna kill anybody, man. I just call
you to Allah and to Rasulullah,
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Don't project again on
me. So already you've projected and understanding what
which is wrong on the Quran,
and now you're projecting on me and saying,
I've
never
ever, alhamdulillah,
assaulted anybody in the name of my religion.
Don't let people project things on you, man.
Don't get defensive.
Just say you're projecting on me this is
not true.
So he says,
He says, Sayyidina Muhammad
sealed
prophecy,
completed prophecy with Muhammad,
alayhi salatu salam.
The imam of guidance,
the leader of those people who will be
illuminated, meaning his ummah, we ask
Today, today, hamdullah, is
the day of Mawlid of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And there are, you know,
a lot of beautiful things to be said.
You know, people attack people for loving Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wasalam. Even now, some of our
Muslim brothers who are passionate and they they
they love the sunnah, but sometimes passion is
a problem,
They attack the lovers of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam.
Ahmad shoki said,
Ahmed Shawqi said in his,
oh, you who blame me for my
insane love.
But love is qadr.
If you were to experience
what I experienced with Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
you would not blame me nor would you
try to, like, invoke justice on me.
For those people who love the prophet
That's
the
love
that takes people to Jannah.
In his explanation actually of that poem, Sheikh
Salim al Bishri mentions the story of Majnun
al Layla
to show this kind of love, shawq to
Sayyidina Muhammad.
You will not complete your iman till you
love me more than everything.
Of
course, the ulama said this hadith is based
on niya, not al amal, because the amal
will be impossible for a person. But just
to have the niyah to love the prophet
more.
But SubhanAllah,
Majnoonah Layla,
he
was deeply in love with this woman, Leila.
And there's a story that says they decided
to take him to the Kaaba,
and he would seek to baruq, you know,
with the Kaaba,
and then ask Allah by the barakah of
the Kaaba, which is in the
to, you know, remove this unhealthy love.
So
so they took him to the Kaaba,
and then they said, You Allah, You Allah,
make dua. I said, Allahu Hazid Ni Hubbal
Layla. Allahu Hazid
Ni Hubbal Layla. Oh Allah, increase me in
my love of Layla, oh Allah, they said,
don't say that, don't say that.
And he said,
He said, to to suffer
for the one you love
is not an injury.
You know, in what's right and what's good,
like, you know, we sacrifice for our children,
right? Not to the point we destroy ourselves,
of course. We sacrifice for our friends, for
our spouses,
for the ummah, halas,
tudhhiayani.
Allahumazidnihubalayla.
So
loving the prophet
So brothers, you know, those of you who
don't follow, don't wanna celebrate, take it easy
on the lovers of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. It's out of love. You don't
do it out of love, they do it
out of love.
We're gonna talk about this next time, but
the sheikh says that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
we believe he gave every prophet a miracle
which
was in the proper cultural context of the
people that their prophet was sent to.
As for us to think about now here
in Harlem, New York City,
you know, in Manhattan,
what is culturally
what can I
employ to bring people back to Allah?
Whether you're in the Midwest, you know, whether
you're at the gym, whether you're in Europe,
whether you're in a Muslim country.
What what is the
pulse of society that you can
employ
to create entry points to Allah
To show the beauty of Allah, the beauty
of his deen.
The beauty of Sayed
and we're going to stop here. Next time
we'll continue our discussion on
for the the rant there. My apologies.
It was unintended.