Yahya Rhodus – Connecting Our Hearts To The Prophet Muhammad
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Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa afdala salat wa
atamu taslim ala Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadin wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim ajma'in.
Allahumma salli wa sallim ala Sayyidina Muhammadin, nurika
sari wa madadika jari wa jama'ani bihi
fi kulli atbari wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
ya Noor.
This blessed Salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ in
it is that we ask Allah ﷻ to
gather us in all of our different stages
with Rasulullah ﷺ.
This is the maqsad and the goal and
the aim of the true people of Allah
ﷻ, is that they be connected and affiliated
to the best of creation ﷺ and every
single one of their states.
They don't want to have anything transpire in
relation to them except that it is a
means for them to be affiliated in the
deepest and most spiritual sense of all.
And ultimately that the more and more that
you spend time learning this blessed deen, when
you start with alif, ba, ta and you
learn the basics and then you continue to
study throughout your life, the more and more
when you study with true scholars, the more
and more you realize how central the Messenger
of Allah ﷺ is to this deen and
how important it is to establish a loving,
living, heartfelt connection with him ﷺ.
And this is when you see the true
people of Allah ﷻ that transmit these uloom
and these various sciences, some of which we
just heard about from Shaykh Uzair, is that
this is how you see they are.
These are people that have a very real
and living relationship with the Prophet ﷺ, is
that there is an outward dimension to that
and then there is an inward dimension to
that as well.
And what a blessing to be from the
ummah of our Prophet ﷺ.
What a blessing to be from an ummah
that has this unbroken chain back to them
such that we know with absolute certainty that
he lived.
We know with absolute certainty that hundreds, if
not in the thousands of various statements that
it is that he said ﷺ, because according
to one of the two opinions of the
people of the science of hadith ulama, they
say is that if a hadith is sahih,
you can be certain that our Prophet ﷺ
said it.
And this blessed collection that we have spent
time reading over these past ten days now
and tomorrow will be the 11th and we
will do the khatm inshaAllah ta'ala after
asr and all of you are encouraged to
come.
This is a special occasion and this is
a very blessed occasion and inshaAllah ta'ala
we hope it will be a time of
istijabat ad-dua, where prayers will be accepted,
where we can come with all of our
needs and all of the needs of the
people that we know and how many people
do we know that are suffering in our
own lives, people that we know and then
people that we hear about in the ummah
of our Prophet ﷺ, let's come together with
the intention of dafal bala, that from the
blessing of finishing a complete reading, is that
a ward off tribulations from us and from
our family, loved ones, people that we know
in the ummah of our Prophet ﷺ and
that it also lead to salah al-muslimin,
that Allah ta'ala rectify the state of
our fellow believers from the east to the
west.
This great imam was someone who followed the
Prophet ﷺ closely, one of the scholars mentions
a dream from the early periods is that
someone saw the Prophet ﷺ and he was
leaving a village and Imam Muhammad bin Ismail
al-Bukhari was walking behind him ﷺ and
every time that the Prophet ﷺ put his
foot somewhere, that Imam al-Bukhari put his
foot there and then that Prophet ﷺ put
his other foot here and then he would
put his foot there, he was walking just
behind the Prophet ﷺ and putting his feet
exactly where the Prophet ﷺ placed his blessed
feet.
One of the meanings of that is, is
that this book and this is just one
volume, it's three volumes for a total of
about 7500 hadith, is that this is one
of the greatest preservations that we have, one
of the greatest manifestations of the preservation of
the sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and
we read this today and as we read
this, it just crossed my heart is that
it needs to be shared and it is
a little bit of a longer hadith but
it relates to gatherings of goodness like this
and this is in the kitab al-da
'wat, the chapter on supplications and when you
hear a hadith quoted but then when you
hear it quoted with the sunnah, it has
a different impact upon you.
So we're going to read this whole hadith
inshaAllah ta'ala with a very brief translation.
So it says hadathana, meaning that he's been
informed by this blessed individual Qutayb ibn Sa
'id, hadathana jareer, anil a'mash, an abi salih,
an abi huraira.
So it goes back to the blessed companion
who narrates more hadith than anyone else, Abu
Huraira.
Qara qara Rasulullah ﷺ and he says that
he said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
said.
So again, that we know these words are
actual words that the best of creation said.
Think about the implications of that.
These words that we're about to hear were
uttered from the blessed mouth of the best
of creation ﷺ who as we heard Shaykh
Uzair said is that everything he says in
hu illa wahyu yuha, he receives revelation and
he conveys it ﷺ as a hadith and
his words are one of the types of
revelation.
Inna lillahi malaikatan.
Indeed that Allah has angels.
Yutufuna fit-turuq is that they go about
in the streets.
Yani they wander about in the streets.
Yiltamisuna ahl al-dhikr.
They are looking for the people of dhikr
in both of its meanings, knowledge and remembrance.
There's angels that are roaming looking for the
people of dhikr.
Were the veil to be removed, this would
be something people could witness.
Fa idha wajudu qawman yadkuruna Allah.
Notice it's in the plural.
And so if they see a people who
are remembering Allah, tanadu, they call out to
one another because they're roaming in a group.
And they say halummu ila hajitikum, that come
to your need.
Qala fa yuhiffunuhum bi ajnihatihim ila al-samaa
ad-dunya.
Is that they surround them and they encircle
those people with their wings all the way
extending to the samaa ad-dunya, the terrestrial
heaven.
Allahu Akbar.
Look at what our Prophet ﷺ was informing
us of.
This is something we believe in with absolute
certainty.
Is that when people come together to remember
Allah, this is what happens.
The angels see them.
And that the blessed gatherings of remembrance is
that tataraa.
Is that they shine light into the heaven
and the angels know where they are.
And then they're attracted to them because they
are beings of light.
And then they encircle these gatherings and that
they, that take care of them.
And this meaning of that putting their wings
around them, of all of the meanings of
protection and blessing and all and all and
on and on.
Qala fa yas'aluhum rabbuhum wa a'lam
minhum.
And so their Lord that asks them and
He knows better than them.
Ma yuqulu ibadi.
What are My servants saying?
Qalu yuqulun wa yusabbihunak wa yukabbirunak wa yahmadunak
wa yamajidunak.
Is that they're doing tasbih and saying SubhanAllah.
They're saying Allahu Akbar.
They are praising you and they're glorifying you.
What have we been doing from the beginning
of the majlis other than remembering Allah, that
supplicating Allah, sending salawats upon the Prophet ﷺ.
Then Allah says, fa yuqul hal ra'oni?
Allah asks the angels and of course He
knows better.
Is it have they seen Me?
Fa yuqulun, the angels say la wallah.
No by Allah.
Ma ra'uk?
They have not seen you.
Qal fa yuqul wa kayf la ra'oni?
How would those blessed people be were they
to have seen Me?
So then the angels say, la ra'uk
kanu ash-shadda laka ibadatan wa ash-shadda
laka tamjidan wa akthar laka tasbihan.
Were they to have seen you, they would
have worshipped you any more.
They would have glorified you even more and
praised you even more.
Qala fa yuqul, famma yas'aluni?
What are they asking Me?
Qala yas'alunak al-jannah.
They're asking you for paradise.
Qala yuqul wa hal ra'oha?
And then Allah says to the angels, have
they seen it?
And they say, no by Allah, O Lord.
They have not seen it.
And then Allah says to them, how would
their state be were to they have seen
it?
He says that they would have even done
more to be able to attain it and
to seek it and have desired it even
more.
And then Allah ta'ala says, what are
they seeking refuge from?
And they say, the angels, they're seeking refuge
from the fire.
Qala yuqul wa hal ra'oha?
Have they seen the fire?
And they say, no by Allah.
Ma ra'oha?
They have not seen it.
Qal fa yuqul wa hal ra'oha?
How would they be were they to have
seen it?
And then the angels say, were they to
have seen it, they would have fleed from
it further and had more fear of it.
And then look at what Allah jalla jalaluhu
says to these blessed beings in His creation,
these beings of light, angels.
Fa yuqulu fa ushhidukum anni qal ghafartu luhum.
I am making you witnesses that I have
forgiven them.
Why do our teachers tell us so much
about majanis, how important gatherings are?
Because they're more aware of these realities.
This is just one of many ahadith about
this.
They know how important these gatherings are and
what you attain in them and the blessings
that happen that are beyond our ability to
ever truly perceive or know.
And that this is that one of the
great bounties which is forgiveness of sins.
And there's a long list of others that
go along with it.
But Allah that makes them bear witness that
I have forgiven him.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He forgives the sins of the people who
gather for His sake.
And then look at what the angels say.
Qal yuqulu malik mani malayka.
One angel says among those who are in
the presence of Allah.
Fulanun laysa minhum.
There's someone who came that's not from them.
Meaning this person didn't even have the right
intention.
This person didn't even come to make dhikr.
To remember Allah ta'ala.
They might have just come because there's someone
there that's going to like sell them a
car after.
Or that someone owes them money.
Or that they were just dragged to and
didn't want to be or whatever.
Of all of it, there's someone from among
them that's not even from them.
Innama ja li haja.
He came because he had a need.
Qal.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala responds
to this angel who brings us up.
He says, humul julasa.
La yashqa bihim jalisuhum.
They are people that anyone who sits with
them will never be damned.
Meaning is that these were people that are
going to be forgiven.
Even if they're not from them.
This blessed hadith of our Prophet ﷺ.
This is one example of many of the
hadith in this blessed book.
All of the hadith in this blessed book.
That come from that blessed mouth of his
and that blessed heart of his ﷺ.
Because the nature of Prophethood is that it's
teaching us things that were not to be
for those realities that are being uttered by
them we wouldn't know them at all.
Were it not to be that our Prophet
is telling us this, we wouldn't know this
is transpiring.
So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open
up our hearts to these meanings.
And bless us to be able to realize
the greatness of this deen.
And the greatness of the inheritance of the
Prophet ﷺ that has been bequeathed to us.
And that is still among us.
And may we live our lives learning it.
And struggling for it.
And sacrificing so that these meanings can remain
for the next generation and the generation after
them.
And the generation after them.
In sha Allah ta'ala.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us
tawfiq and open the doors of His mercy
to all of us.
And bless us to be from the people
of Dhikr.
Bless us to be people who are encircled
by His angels.
Ya Rahim wa Rahimin wa Sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Muhammadin wa alayhi wa sallam wa alhamdulillahi
rabbil alameen.