Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Lecture Journey into the Life of Beloved Prophet
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The story of the prophet sallali Alaihi wa sallam is relevant to today's conversation, as it is a similar story to the prophet sallali alaihi wa sallam. The importance of finding a gap in the way the prophet sallavi alaihi wa sallam talks and fostering a small community is emphasized. The program is designed to help children grow in their communities and foster a good father, teacher, leader, and student. Tar cessation is also emphasized as a way to put love in their children's heart.
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In New Jersey area.
And then, over there,
after that, he finished his, high school or
while he was studying over there. He joined
at very early age. We know,
Al Hasanayn Seminary,
which is in Indiana.
So where he did his ALIM course,
and towards the end, he finished his things,
his scholar program
in, Darussalam, Chicago. It's a very well known
institute.
And after that, he went to Turkey. I'm
going very brief. I have a long thing.
And he
joined Jamia Fala Adeen
Darnein.
And over there, he was, as a teacher.
He was a dean of student affair over
there, and then he is,
I mean, he he actually worked as a
community over here in different places. And then
he also studied with,
as I said, in Turkey,
with lot of, scholars. I mean, very well
known scholars over there. One of them is
Sheikha Wama, I said, who is one of
the famous scholar right now for the hadith
and, many other scholars.
He he is has done his things in
fiqh, in Arabic,
in hadith,
tafsir, and Islamic theology, and also Islamic jurisprudence,
which is the fiqh, actually. So, inshallah,
I'll not introduce or anything more further. Inshallah,
we'll go ahead and we'll have this program
every Tuesday
from Maghreb to Asia.
So
encourage that we are introducing this kind of
programs.
We are asking our guests to come from
outside. They take their precious times and all
these things. So we ask our
brothers to bring their children who are, like,
you know, 12 and above, and everybody should
come and join this kind of
Over here, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he tells us that indeed in the prophet
there was
there is
an example
for every single person.
Right? There's an example, but specifically for those
people who
have hope in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
have hope in the hereafter,
and that specific group that remembers Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And this is a very important fact, very
important
thing to consider because
everybody wants to follow the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. But it's those people who actually
take out time,
those people who try to learn
of what he came with, how he lived,
and the message of the Quran and the
Sunnah,
those are the people who actually find
a very beautiful example, a very beautiful role
model in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You know, we started this Sira Halakha
last year in Center Masjid
in Arlington.
And when we started, we had a few
people,
and then the Majma grew little by little.
There was one person who used to always
sit.
Brother, his name is Saeed Abu'issa.
Old age, he used to sit and participate
in this halaqa,
and after the halaqa, he used to come
to me and ask me questions.
And he used to tell me, okay, can
you bring me
the this quote that you mentioned and that
quote that you mentioned? And subhanAllah, he started
to live a very attached to the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam life. He started to
say, oh, this is why you guys do
this. We have the same exact practice in
Somalia. For example,
one time I mentioned about the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam's
father, Abdullah,
when he his father, Abdul Muttalib, vowed that
he's going to slaughter him.
But then they went to the soothsayer and
the soothsayer said that, okay, if you guys
go through the process that eventually you guys
slaughter 100 camels, guys won't have to do
it. So when I told him, he's like,
yeah. We have the same exact practice in
Somalia. I didn't know that this came from
the seerah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
So he became engaged,
and you could tell that the seerah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
became
for him,
became a role model. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam became a role model where everything
that he was already doing in life, he
was either referencing it to or he started
to live a life in which he started
to say that, okay, I'm going to do
this and I'm going to do that. And
a few months into this program, subhanallah, he
passed away.
Hanallah, he passed away. So you see, we
don't know when we're going to die,
but it's best
that we get connected to the prophet
sooner than later. Why?
Because when we die, you know, the kabar
were going to be asked 3 questions,
which means each question is worth 33 points.
And one of those questions
is going to be about the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
What do you say regarding this person?
And if we don't know much about him,
how can we claim that we love him?
How can we claim that we follow him?
And today, I'm going to mention one story
to you guys to kinda get an idea
that how did the companions of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam do it.
It's not like the companions of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam, they all
fell in love with him by spending years
with him. No.
Some of the companions of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam
fell in love with him before they even
saw him.
We're doing the book Surah Al Minhat Sahaba
with the students in the alum course.
And the first story that the author brings
is the story of Anas ibn Malikin radiAllahu
anhu.
Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu anhu was a young
boy.
Very young.
5, 6 years old.
And his mother started to talk to him
about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Started to mention that, you know, there's a
prophet.
He lives about 6, 7 hours or in
that time, he lives this distance away from
us, And he's this and this and this.
Fell
in love with the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam
before he even saw him.
He fell in love with the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam before he even saw him.
The author
says, perhaps sometimes the ears they fall in
love before the eyes.
So his ears were filled
with the love and the stories of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam.
Now this young man has never seen the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, but he began to
think that wow, I want to be like
this guy.
I want to be this person. I want
to meet this person. So every day and
every night he used to be longing. Can
we go to the prophet so we could
see him?
Can we go to, you know, can can
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam come to
us? And, subhanallah, this is so beautiful.
The other day my sister messaged me and
she's like she started to teach her
younger son, Idris. She's like, I started to
teach Idris
about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And today, the whole day, he's like, can
you call the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam? I
wanna talk to him.
Can you call the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam?
I want to talk to him. So it's
not something that's only relevant
all the way at the time of Sahaba.
Even today it's relevant. And she said, I
started to talk to him about Jannah, and
she's like, come on. Let's pack up. We
gotta go to Jannah. My sister's like, wait
up a little. Right? Let's go to Jannah.
So the idea over here
within ICI,
the purpose of this halakah is to foster
a environment, to foster a small community.
Right? In which we become
such that we long for the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
We are always thinking about the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Subhanallah,
even some of the students they come to
me and they tell me I saw the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in my dream telling
me this and that. I'm like, subhanallah, it's
a beautiful dream. You're seeing the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in your dream like this. We
know that Shaitan can never come in the
form of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
to anybody's dream. So if he comes in
your dream, you know that that's him for
sure.
So we see that what needs to be
done is that an environment
needs to be created in which we talk
about the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam in
such a manner
and bring such beautiful examples
that we all, not just by name,
not just by the tongue fall in love
with him, but by heart.
Where our heart is longing for him. We're
thinking like we become like those companions of
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. Where he's
like, oh prophet of Allah, when I'm with
you, I'm relaxed, I'm calm, I'm happy. But
when I go to my home,
I get an anxiety.
I get in this distress,
and I can't stay with my family, and
I have to rush back to come and
see you. Oh, prophet of Allah, what's going
to happen when we go to Jannah?
And in Jannah,
you are the prophet.
You will be at one level
and we are going to be all the
way at another.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells
him,
a person will be with the one who
he loves.
Today, we ask ourselves a question.
If we want to be with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Jannah, then ask about
our love.
Is it
sincere?
How many times a day does the thought
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam come
to my mind?
Why do I have to have
a whole entire fatwa
to tell me that this is how the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam dressed, and this
is how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
ate, and this is how the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam talked.
I should be striving.
I should be working hard
that where can I find a gap that
is not according to the way of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and I make
that my way as well?
This is the simple difference between us and
the Sahaba.
They looked at what can I possibly do
to become more like the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam?
And today, we look for
reasons to say that this is not fard.
This is only the sunnah. So
the the purpose of this halaqa
is to go into the life of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. To become in
love with him.
To lose ourselves in the love of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Where it's
on our tongue. It's his sunnah on our
body.
It's the character that we portrayed to others.
Whether it's our dealing, whether it's our talking,
whatever it may be. It's all about how
to become like the beloved.
And so first of all, I want to
congratulate everybody who's sitting here.
It's because of your love
for the prophet
that you're sitting over here.
It's not because of me. Majority of you
don't even know me.
It's because you heard that the journey into
the life of the prophet
And you're like, you know what? I want
to learn about the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
So congratulate yourself on this step and ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that what can I
do now
to not only make my own sitting over
here
persistent,
but also make this a means of and
bring other people? Especially, youngsters and parents.
Parents need to learn how to do of
their children according to the way of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Anas ibn Malik radiallahu alaihi
wa
sallam
was coming to Madinah,
every morning the kids would go and they
would be waiting
to see when is the prophet going to
come.
The girls would climb the roofs. The young
boys would climb the trees
and the men would go and be waiting.
The prophet is coming now and the prophet
is coming now.
And when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
one day they saw that he's coming.
Everybody started to sing.
Everybody singing that the moon has come up
and we are seeing the moon
like, shining like the moon was the face
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
now all of these guys are gushing to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Oh, prophet
of Allah, you come and stay in my
house. Another person is, oh, prophet of Allah,
you come and stay in my house.
And everybody's going and giving a gift to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And at
that time,
the mother of Anas ibn Malik, the Allah
one,
she
did not have any gift to give to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So she
takes her young child.
She said, oh, prophet of Allah, here's Anas.
This is the only thing I have. Let
him become your Let
him become your servant. Let him serve you.
And from there on
grew up
in the company of the prophet
Here today we can learn
how to put the love of the prophet
in our children's heart.
Today, subhanAllah,
running an institution,
the biggest thing that we get is calls
from parents.
My child is gone. My child is destroyed.
When was the time to do of your
child? It was the the child it was
the lap of the mother
when she was supposed to be talking
about the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. It
was the lap of the father when he
should have been talking and sending salawat to
the extent that the child comes to him
and say, oh, Abba, oh, Amma.
Why are you saying Allah
Muhammad?
And you take the time to explain to
him what that salawat means. You take the
time to explain to him why are you
continuously busy in that. That is the time
of tarbia. To make them fall in love
such that you don't have to tell them
to come and pray salah.
You don't have to come and tell them
to dress a certain way, to talk a
certain way, to be with the specific people.
They themselves will be like, I need to
find out how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam did it, and I want to do
the same exact thing.
Just like Khumai Sa'adhi allahu anha. So when
Khumai Sa'adhi allahu anha did this, what happened?
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam now starts to take
care of Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu anhu. Anas
ibn Malik radiAllahu anhu for
years years over a decade stays with the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he said, in 10 years,
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam has never
told me, oh, Anas,
why did you do this? Why didn't you
do this?
How did the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
do
Today, a child does something and they're like,
Terry, Bob, go Terry, you go, you go.
We go off.
Right? So how did the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
do that?
The Allahu an who once was sent by
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to go
do something,
and he became very late. He didn't do
what he was supposed to do. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went to see him,
and he was playing with kids. He went
to him from the back.
He told him, what
happened?
He said, oh, I I'm going right now.
I was on my way. He didn't say,
look at what time I sent you. Look
at what time it is right now. I
told you you're supposed to you know, a
whole entire lecture.
SubhanAllah.
Today we ourselves catch ourselves
being so harsh,
being so stern, being so rigid, and sometimes
that is the reason why our kids leave
us. When I was in Chicago studying, one
of the fathers, he took me to his
house and he told me to go sit
with my son and talk to him,
and I sat with his son and I
was talking and his son is like, I
don't wanna listen.
And then his father's quick trip telling me
try with him. I kept trying. He's like,
I don't I Look, let me tell you
something. Let me not waste your time. Let
me not waste your my time. I don't
believe in Islam.
I don't believe in Allah. I don't believe
in any of this.
And I just became a friend with him
like it's okay, fine, this, that. Started to
talk to him like, hey, listen, if you
ever need anything let me know. 1, 2
times he needed something I helped him out.
Developed a relationship.
One day he came, he's like I wanna
talk to you. He came to me and
we sat down.
When he started to talk,
he said, do you know why I'm in
this situation?
Because of the way my dad treated my
mom.
He was so rigid with her. He was
so tough with her that I said if
this guy has appeared this land and he
claims to be a Muslim and he claims
to be the follower of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. This is not who I
want to be.
SubhanAllah.
We don't realize that we push our own
children off the cliff.
We put them into the fire, and then
we're like please do something.
So,
it's really a the the seerah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is really a
class,
is really a course of tarbia.
A a course of how to foster, how
to be a good father,
how to be a good child,
how to be a good teacher,
How to be a good adviser? How to
be a good leader? How to be a
good commander?
The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, subhanAllah,
had all of these qualities in him. And,
subhanAllah, I don't want to lengthen the time
anymore. But Insha'Allah, next week, we will talk
about how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
brought the quality of generosity,
the quality
of mercy,
the quality of bravery,
the all of these beautiful qualities.
How one person had it in him and
what can we do to bring all of
those qualities
and into our own lives. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala allow us to be connected to
the sunnah of the prophet
I'm deep.
You know, brothers,
this program, you are starting and few more
things we will be bringing. You can invite
other people, and they can bring their children
also.
And this will be going throughout the entire
year. So, inshallah, it's a very good program
that is started
from this Tuesday and every Tuesday after Maghrib
will have it. So you can all there
who have their teenagers and things, we can
understand the life, his, attributes and things. This
is a program that's, you know, will help
the children to grow in our communities.