Yahya Rhodus – Lesson – 2 His Blessed Name Muhammad
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The speaker discusses the significance of Islam in the culture of the United States, with the Prophet Muhammad being said to have said a time before he met his daughter. The success of Muhammad's accomplishments is also mentioned, with the majority of people sending people to symbolize him. The speaker notes that people are sending people, including Sayyidina, to symbolize the person.
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In the name of Allah and peace and
blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and
upon his family and companions and those who
follow him.
And this is a name that is sweet
and we should find sweet.
I remember one time our teacher just repeating
his blessed name, Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad, and bringing
out in the heart, is this not a
name that is sweet?
Is it not a name that is beautiful?
Is it not a name that you long
for?
Just mentioning the name, the blessed name of
our Prophet ﷺ.
This might be translated as the oft-praised.
So we'll read here, and for those that
have the book, this is on page 73.
This is a name by which the Prophet
ﷺ is best known.
The Prophet ﷺ said, I have many names.
I am Muhammad, I am Ahmed, I am
Mahi, through whom Allah dispels disbelief.
I am Hashir, the gatherer, at whose feet
mankind will be mustered, and I am Aqib,
the last in succession.
So all those names are coming, but this
is a name that our Prophet ﷺ mentioned
in this narration.
There's other narrations as well where he mentioned
this blessed name.
So he is Muhammad.
And according to a hadith cited by Abu
Naeem al-Asfahan, it was his grandfather, Abd
al-Muttadib, who named him Muhammad.
When asked why he had done so, the
name being unknown amongst his forefathers, he answered,
it is my hope that the inhabitants of
all the heavens and the earth will sing
his praises.
That's why this is ilham.
This is divine inspiration.
It is my hope that the inhabitants of
the heavens and the earth will sing his
praises.
It was said that he named him so
because of a dream in which he saw
as if a chain of silver was emanating
from his back.
One edge of it was in the firmament,
in the heaven, and the other was in
the lands.
One side of it pointed to the east
and the other in the west.
Then it turned into the form of a
tree with light on every one of its
leaves, to which all mankind in the east
and west were holding fast.
He saw the Arabs and non-Arabs all
bowing and people from among the Quraysh holding
fast to it.
Then a group of people came and tried
to cut the tree down, but when they
drew close, a young lad whose beauty and
fragrance Abd al-Muttadib had never seen or
smelled the like of appeared and broke their
backs and gouged out their eyes.
Abd al-Muttadib tried to reach out to
take hold of the tree, but could not
reach it.
He was told, you will have a share
of it, but through the people who are
holding fast to it.
Upon waking up, he related this dream to
one of the divines of Quraysh, and they
interpreted it as meaning that a child would
emerge from his progeny, to whom all the
people in the east and west would hold
fast, and whose praises would be sung by
the denizens of the heavens and earth.
It is also related by Ibn Hisham and
Ibn Sa'd that the Prophet's mother Aminah heard
a voice speak to her, informing her that
she had given birth to the leader of
his nation, that she should name him Muhammad.
Scholars say, combining these two narratives, that she
mentioned this to Abd al-Muttadib, and so
he named him Muhammad, since her experience confirmed
what he himself had seen.
So both the blessed mother of the Prophet,
and his grandfather, Abd al-Muttadib, who he
was so close to, and who cared for
him so much, after the passing of his
father, and then passed him over to Abd
al-Muttadib.
So it was by inspiration, this was the
name, and as some have said, were this
to be the only miracle of the Prophet,
it would suffice, Muhammad.
Because it comes from the root Hamidah yahmadu,
which is to praise, and so the first
four names that he mentions are all words
that are derivatives of the trirodal root Hamidah.
The next being Ahmad, and then Hamad, and
then Mahmud.
But Muhammad here is the one who was
praised time and time again, for all of
his noble traits, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He is the one who is praised time
and time again, thus the name, the oft
-praised, because of how many great traits that
he had, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And every good trait that existed in all
of the Prophets were all in him, salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and in fact that he
had them to the highest possible degree.
So not only did he have the good
traits of the other Prophets, each individual trait
that he reached the highest degree of human
perfection in relation to that trait, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
So he goes on to say, no one
had been known by this name until shortly
before his birth.
According to Qadi Iyad, Imam Zulkani mentions in
his commentary on the Mawahib al-Dunya, that
this is the position of the majority of
scholars and is the soundest, since the Jews
and Christians were aware of his impending arrival,
about 15 boys, according to Ibn Hajar al
-Asqalani's commentary on Bukhari, were named Muhammad in
the hope that they would be blessed with
prophethood in their household.
Yet none of them claimed prophethood, and all
passed away before the spread of Islam, except
Muhammad ibn Adi, who by some accounts accepted
the religion at the hand of the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The name Muhammad is derived from the root
ha-mimdal, which means to praise.
This being the passive participle of the second
form, signifies one who is praised continuously and
copiously.
One who is praised continuously and copiously.
He is so called because his name is
forever being mentioned in the tongues of the
inhabitants of the heavens and the earth at
every moment in time, and also in their
hearts.
So think about that.
When is there ever a time, every moment,
there's people sending salawat somewhere on earth.
Think about how many people are sending salawat.
And how many times is the Prophet...
No matter what people do, they can never
take from the great name of the Prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Allah says, we have that raised your remembrance.
Allah has raised, we have raised for you,
your remembrance.
The adhans being called, people are sending salawat
after the adhan, people are sending salawat to
him in their prayers, people are sending salawat
to him outside of prayer.
That there's never a time in the world
except that there's, that thousands upon thousands and
thousands of people mentioning him, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
And that's just in the world, people, let
alone people in the barzakh, let alone in
the people, the angels, let alone.
And some of them even say is that
salawat is, whenever you recite salawat, paradise itself
expands with salawat.
With salawat, paradise itself expands.
So this is why we read about this,
because we want to take part in this.
That anyone who doesn't know Sayyidina Muhammad, they're
the ones who are going to be, they're
going to want to have wished.
يَا لَيْ تَتَّخَذْ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ السَّبِيلَ Oh, would
I have to have taken away with the
Messenger.
Allah, people are going to want to wish
when they see who he is on Yawm
al-Qiyamah.
Everybody's want to know, no one can speak,
no prophet, no one else can speak, except
one person.
Sayyidina Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he is
so called, in fact, he is remembered and
brought to mind, upon seeing and recognizing every
beautiful, noble quality, and through every knowledge learned.
So not just directly, but also indirectly.
He is remembered and brought to mind upon
seeing and recognizing every beautiful quality, every noble
quality, and through every knowledge learned, understood and
absorbed, since he is the source and epitome
of all noble qualities manifested in creation.
Not only is he praised abundantly in this
world, owing to the guidance and wisdom that
he brought, he will also be praised in
the next life, thanks to his intercession for
the whole of creation, after the resurrection.
His name alludes not only to being much
praised, but also to the fact that his
qualities and virtues are endless, and we can
never encompass them.
The more we discover, the more Allah reveals
to us, so that we may continue to
praise him until the end of time and
beyond.
Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
And that, as he says here, is that,
This is the most famous of his names,
that he's known by.
And the sweetest one to hear, and the
jameel-sameen for all of those here.
And the one that we say this name
brings, the greatest longing for him, sallallahu alayhi
wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
And when we talk about him being praiseworthy,
this is in relation to his essence, this
is in relation to his character, this is
in relation to his physical stature, this is
in relation to his actions, this is in
relation to his states, this is in relation
to his knowledge, this is in relation to
every single thing that is related to him,
and not only here on earth, but in
heaven, in this world, and in the hereafter.
Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us
to have the closest of connections to him.
Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.