Zia Sheikh – The Rights of the Prophet peace be upon him Upon us

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The importance of following the Prophet's command to love one another and avoid mistakes is emphasized in the face of the pandemic. The speaker discusses the need for actions that match his words and actions, and the importance of showing love for the Prophet s.a.w. in every respect and the wake of the pandemic. The speaker also highlights the importance of showing love for the Prophet s.a.w. in every respect and in the wake of the pandemic.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			My dear respected elders, brothers and sisters, I've
		
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			been given a very important topic, which you
		
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			could actually make the basis of a whole
		
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			conference over.
		
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			And that is the rights of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ upon us.
		
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			The things that we are obligated to do
		
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			for the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And why wouldn't we do those things, when
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ loved for us and he
		
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			cared for us so much.
		
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			He thought of us 1400 years ago.
		
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			There's a very famous hadith in which the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, he said to the Sahaba, I
		
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			want to meet my brothers.
		
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			The Sahaba said, Are we not your brothers,
		
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			O Prophet of Allah?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, My brothers are the
		
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			ones that have not yet come yet.
		
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			My brothers are the ones that have not
		
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			yet come.
		
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			Meaning, he was referring to us.
		
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			The people that did not meet the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, did not see the Qur'an being
		
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			revealed, but yet 1400 years later we love
		
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			him and we respect him.
		
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			And we hold him in highest esteem.
		
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			And we do not like that anybody should
		
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			insult our beloved Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, he referred to us as
		
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			his brothers.
		
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			Just imagine, just imagine the love that he
		
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			had for us.
		
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			So why would we not fulfill his rights?
		
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			So my lecture today is about fulfilling those
		
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			rights and what those rights are.
		
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			And in the theme that's mentioned of seven
		
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			rights, actually you could increase it to many,
		
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			many more things that we should do for
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, but it's been limited to
		
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			a few for the sake of time, inshallah.
		
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			It's narrated that one of the leaders of
		
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			Quraysh, Urwah, he came to see the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ once.
		
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			And during the course of this seeing, he
		
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			describes what he saw.
		
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			He says, Whenever
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ spat, he spat, the spit
		
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			would not fall to the ground, it would
		
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			fall in somebody's hand.
		
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			And that person would take the spit of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ and he rubbed it over
		
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			himself.
		
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			Extreme love and devotion for the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			When the Prophet ﷺ ordered them to do
		
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			anything, they would rush to fulfill his orders.
		
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			وَإِذَا تَوَضَّىٰ كَادُوا يَقْتَتِلُونَ عَلَىٰ وَضُوءِهِ When he
		
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			made wudhu, it was close to people fighting
		
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			over the remnants of his water, meaning the
		
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			water that was coming from his body, they
		
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			would fight over it.
		
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			But who would take that water and rub
		
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			it over himself?
		
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			فَبَرَكَ وَإِذَا تَكَلَّمَ خَفَضُوا أَسْوَاتَهُمْ عِنْدَهُ When the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ talked, they lowered their voices in
		
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			front of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			وَمَا يُحِدُّونَ إِلَيْهِ نَظَرٌ تَعْظِيمًا لَهُ They didn't
		
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			look at him directly with a sharp gaze
		
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			out of respect for him.
		
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			This was the state of the Sahaba when
		
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			they respected the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			What does Urwah say?
		
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			Urwah came back to his companions.
		
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			The Quraysh had sent him to talk to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Urwah goes back to his companions and he
		
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			says to them, أي قوم O my people
		
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			والله لقد وفدت على الملوك I've been in
		
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			the courts of kings.
		
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			ووفدت على قيسر وكسر I've been in the
		
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			palaces of the Persian and Roman emperors.
		
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			والنجاشي And the Ethiopian emperor.
		
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			والله إن رأيت ملكا قطّ يُعظِّمه أصحابه ما
		
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			يُعظِّم أصحاب محمد ﷺ And I've been to
		
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			all of these palaces and emperors and I've
		
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			never seen any one of those emperors loved
		
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			and respected like the Prophet ﷺ is respected.
		
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			This was the love that the Sahaba had
		
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			for the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			People who show respect for emperors and kings,
		
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			they do it with an ulterior motive.
		
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			For the love of position, for the love
		
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			of money, for the love of gifts given
		
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			to them.
		
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			But the love that the Sahaba had for
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ was a sincere love.
		
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			And ours is a sincere love for the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			We love him sincerely with the depths of
		
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			our hearts because he is our Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So what are the things that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ deserves from us?
		
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			What are the things that we are supposed
		
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			to do for him?
		
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			First and foremost, we are supposed to believe
		
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			in him.
		
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			We are supposed to have iman in him.
		
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			And iman means the actions that follow iman.
		
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			Not just knowing.
		
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			Otherwise, Allah ﷻ tells us in the Qur
		
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			'an about the people of the book.
		
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			Those that we gave the book to, the
		
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			Jews and the Christians, they know the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ just like they know their children.
		
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			But knowing is not sufficient.
		
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			Belief is completely different.
		
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			Belief is knowing and following up with actions
		
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			that are related to that belief.
		
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			And why shouldn't we have that obligation?
		
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			Even the Anbiya ﷺ were obligated to follow
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			They were obligated to have iman in him.
		
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			At the beginning of my lecture, I recited
		
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			an ayah for you from Surah Ali Imran,
		
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			in which Allah ﷻ says, وَإِذْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ
		
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			مِن فَاقَ النَّبِيِّينَ Allah ﷻ took a covenant,
		
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			a promise, a treaty from the Anbiya ﷺ.
		
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			لَمَا آتَيْتُكُم مِّن كِتَابٍ وَحِكْمَةٍ ثُمَّ جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ
		
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			Whatever I gave you from the book and
		
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			wisdom, that's fine.
		
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			But when a Prophet comes to you, referring
		
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			to our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, مُصَدِّقُن لِمَا
		
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			مَعَكُمْ and this Prophet is, he testifies to
		
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			the truth of what you brought.
		
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			لَتُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهِ وَلَا تَنْصُرُنَّ You will have iman
		
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			on him.
		
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			And you will believe in him and you
		
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			will help him.
		
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			So all the Anbiya ﷺ were given this
		
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			order by Allah ﷻ that when Muhammad comes,
		
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			if he comes in your lifetime, then each
		
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			one of you have to have iman on
		
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			him.
		
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			It's not sufficient for us to say about
		
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			the Jews and the Christians and bearers of
		
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			the previous religions that they are good people
		
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			if they don't have iman in our beloved
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, if they don't believe in him.
		
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			Many people misunderstand certain verses of the Qur
		
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			'an which talk about the previous religions being
		
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			forgiven.
		
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			Those verses are actually referring to those people
		
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			that came before our beloved Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And they had iman in the time of
		
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			their Prophets, Allah ﷻ forgives them.
		
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			But each and every human now is obligated
		
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			to believe in the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			If the Anbiya ﷺ, they were obligated to
		
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			follow our beloved Prophet ﷺ and to believe
		
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			in him, then why should their followers not
		
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			be obligated to follow?
		
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			Allah ﷻ goes on and tells us in
		
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			that verse that the Anbiya ﷺ all agreed.
		
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			They said, yes, we believe.
		
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			We are going to do that.
		
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			If Muhammad ﷺ comes in our time, then
		
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			we will believe in him and we will
		
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			help him.
		
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			All the Anbiya ﷺ made this promise.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, he said about himself, he
		
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			saw Umar ﷺ one day reading the text
		
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			of the Torah, which of course we believe
		
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			in, that it was a scripture sent down
		
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			to Musa ﷺ.
		
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			But the Prophet ﷺ became upset at Umar
		
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			ﷺ and he told him, لَقَدْ جِئْتُكُمْ بِهَا
		
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			بَيْضَاءَ نَقِيَّةٌ Whatever I brought to you, it
		
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			is clear and pure.
		
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			أَمَا وَاللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَ مُوسَى ابْنِ امْرَانَ حَيًّا
		
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			لَمَا وَسَعَهُ إِلَّا اتِّبَاعِي If Musa ﷺ was
		
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			alive today, it would not be sufficient for
		
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			him except to follow me.
		
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			He would even have to follow me, Musa
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			So again, this shows the importance of following
		
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			and of believing in the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Ali ﷺ is reported to have said, إِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ تَعَالَى مَا بَعْثَ آدَمَ عَلَيْهِ ﷺ وَمِن
		
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			بَعْتِهِ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ عَلَيْهُ ﷺ إِلَّا أَخَذَ عَلَيْهُمُ
		
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			الْأَهْدَ لَإِن بُعِثَ مُحَمَّدٌ عَلَيْهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ حَيٌّ
		
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			لَيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهِ وَلَيَنْسُرُنَّ From Adam ﷺ to Isa
		
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			ﷺ, each one of the prophets were told
		
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			to believe in the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			This supports the ayah that I've just mentioned
		
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			above.
		
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			Now, just like we believe in the five
		
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			pillars, we believe in shahada, salah, zakat, fasting
		
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			and hajj.
		
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			Belief in the shahada, it basically, it is
		
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			the foremost thing which is proven by our
		
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			actions in the other four things.
		
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			So our belief in the Prophet ﷺ is
		
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			not sufficient that we believe in him.
		
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			It is followed up by certain actions.
		
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			What are those actions?
		
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			That's what I'm going to talk about now.
		
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			We have to obey the Prophet ﷺ in
		
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			each and every respect.
		
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			Allah ﷻ, he addresses the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			tells him, whenever we hear the word qul
		
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			in the Qur'an, it is Allah ﷻ
		
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			telling the Prophet ﷺ to tell humanity.
		
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			The question is, why is Allah ﷻ saying
		
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			that?
		
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			The whole Qur'an was actually a message
		
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			from Allah ﷻ to humanity through the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			So why specifically Allah ﷻ is telling the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, tell them.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the thing that follows the qul is
		
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			very important indeed.
		
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			And it is worthy of our attention, our
		
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			particular attention that we have to pay attention
		
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			to this point that is being mentioned after
		
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			the word qul.
		
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			إِن كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهِ If you love Allah
		
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			ﷻ, then show your love to Allah ﷻ
		
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			فَاتَّبِعُونِي by following me, the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			told by Allah ﷻ to tell the people.
		
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			اتباع of the Prophet ﷺ is a sign
		
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			that we love Allah ﷻ.
		
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			A result of that will be يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ
		
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			وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ In return, Allah ﷻ is
		
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			going to love you and He will forgive
		
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			you your sins.
		
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			So اتباع النبي ﷺ very clearly mentioned in
		
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			the Qur'an and it is a رد,
		
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			it is a denouncement of those people that
		
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			say that the sunnah is not to be
		
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			followed.
		
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			The Qur'an is sufficient for us.
		
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			Allah ﷻ very clearly tells us time and
		
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			again in the Qur'an that we have
		
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			to follow the Prophet ﷺ and we have
		
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			to follow in his footsteps.
		
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			Allah says فَلْيَحْذَرِ الَّذِينَ يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ أَن
		
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			تُصِيبَهُمْ فِتْنَةٌ أَوْ يُصِيبَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ Those people
		
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			that go against the command of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ they should be afraid that they're going
		
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			to be afflicted by some kind of a
		
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			trial or a painful punishment.
		
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			Very clearly telling us that we have to
		
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			follow the Prophet ﷺ otherwise we could be
		
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			the victims of the punishment of Allah ﷻ.
		
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			In another verse قُلْ أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَعْتِيُوا الرَّسُولِ
		
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			Again and again Allah ﷻ tells us throughout
		
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			the Qur'an obey Allah, obey the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا فَإِنَّمَا عَلَيْهِ مَا حُمِّلَ وَعَلَيْكُم
		
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			مَّا حُمِّلْتُمْ If you turn away then he
		
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			has his responsibility and you have your responsibility.
		
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			And the next point is very very important
		
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			indeed.
		
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			Allah says وَإِن تُطِيعُوهُ تَهْتَدُ If you obey
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ you'll be guided without i'ta'
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ you will not be
		
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			guided.
		
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			And this verse actually falls in a portion
		
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			of verses which is differentiating between the munafiqeen
		
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			and the people of iman.
		
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			And in these verses Allah ﷻ says and
		
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			describes the people of nifaq, the hypocrites, that
		
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			they are opposite to the obedience of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			They don't obey the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Their nifaq, their hypocrisy pulls them away from
		
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			following and believing in the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			Allah ﷻ very clearly tells us وَإِن تُطِيعُوهُ
		
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			تَهْتَدُ If you obey the Prophet ﷺ you'll
		
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			be guided.
		
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			And the next hadith is a very important
		
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			hadith.
		
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			And again the Prophet ﷺ told us about
		
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			the fitn and the trials and tribulations that
		
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			will come to this ummah 1400 years ago.
		
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			And one of those trials is something that
		
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			I've just mentioned.
		
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			The rejection of the hadith of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ he said in this hadith
		
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			of Abu Dawood أَلَا إِنِّي أُوتِيتُ الْكِتَابُ وَمِثْلَهُ
		
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			مَعَهُ Be aware that I've been given the
		
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			Qur'an and I've been given something similar
		
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			to it.
		
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			أَلَا يُوشِكُ الرَّجُلُ شَبْعَانَ عَلَىٰ أَرِيكَتِهِ يَقُول Be
		
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			aware that there'll come a time when a
		
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			fat person شَبْعَان meaning he's full, his stomach
		
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			is full he's going to be reclining on
		
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			his couch and he's going to say something.
		
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			What is he going to say?
		
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			He's going to say عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْقُرْآنَ Follow
		
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			this Qur'an that's sufficient for you.
		
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			فَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَلَالٍ فَأَحِلُّهُ Whatever you
		
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			find in it that's halal, consider it halal.
		
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			وَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ فَحَرِّمُوهُ And whatever
		
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			you find in it from haram then regard
		
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			it as haram.
		
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			Meaning he will say that it's sufficient for
		
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			you to follow only the Qur'an and
		
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			the sunnah is needless, we don't need the
		
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			sunnah to follow.
		
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			Another hadith on the same lines the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ said يُوشِكُ الرَّجُلُ مُتَّكِيَنَ عَلَىٰ أَرِيكَتِهِ يُحَدِّثُ
		
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			بِحَدِيثِ مِنَ حَدِيثِ A person is going to
		
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			be reclining on his couch and he's going
		
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			to narrate my hadith and he's going to
		
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			say بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَ Between
		
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			us and between you is the book of
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ حَلَالٍ اِسْتَحْلَلْنَاهُ Whatever we
		
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			find in it that's halal, we will regard
		
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			it as halal.
		
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			وَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ حَرَّمْنَاهُ And whatever
		
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			we find in it from haram, we will
		
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			regard it as haram.
		
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			أَلَىٰ The Prophet SAW mentioned at the end
		
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			of this hadith أَلَىٰ وَإِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ الرَّسُولُ اللَّهِ
		
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			صَلَىٰ اللَّهُ مِثْلُ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ Be aware
		
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			that whatever Allah SWT made haram, it is
		
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			similar to what the Prophet SAW made haram.
		
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			So following the sunnah, obeying the sunnah, regarding
		
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			the sunnah of the Prophet SAW as a
		
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			source of guidance, as a source of shariah,
		
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			is very very important.
		
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			And without it, our iman is incomplete.
		
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			Because وَمَا يَنْتِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ إِنْهُوَ إِلَّا وَحِيُّ
		
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			يُحَىٰ The Prophet SAW didn't talk from his
		
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			desires.
		
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			Whatever he said was a wahi, something that
		
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			was revealed to him.
		
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			So we need to understand that the sunnah
		
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			of the Prophet SAW is a source of
		
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			shariah and we could not live without it.
		
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			Jabi RA he narrates in a long hadith
		
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			about the description of hajj.
		
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			He says at the end of the hadith,
		
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			he says وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا وَعَلَيْهِ يُنَزَّلُ
		
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			الْقُرْآنَ وَهُوَ يَعْرِفُ تَأْوِيلَهُ فَمَا عَمِلَ بِهِ عَمِلْنَا
		
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			The Prophet SAW is in front of us
		
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			and the Quran was revealed upon him.
		
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			He knows the ta'weel of the Quran
		
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			He knows the tafsir of the Quran He
		
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			knows the understanding of the Quran He explains
		
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			the Quran to us That is something that
		
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			we need to follow and we will follow
		
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			what the Prophet SAW taught us.
		
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			This is in the hadith which describes the
		
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			hajj.
		
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			In another hadith the Prophet SAW, again about
		
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			hajj, he told the sahaba لِتَأْخُذُوا عَنِّي مَنَاسِكَكُمْ
		
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			Take your manasik of hajj from me.
		
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			Learn your manasik of hajj from me.
		
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			Meaning that you will not find the description
		
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			of it in detail in the Quran.
		
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			In another hadith which you probably heard many
		
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			times before, the Prophet SAW said صَلُّوا كَمَا
		
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			رَأَيْتُمُون يُصَلِّ Pray as you have seen me
		
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			pray.
		
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			So the Quran will tell us certain things.
		
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			It will tell us أَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةِ It will
		
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			tell us to perform the hajj.
		
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			It will tell us آتُوا الزَّكَاةِ But how
		
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			do you perform the salat?
		
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			How many rakats do you perform?
		
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			What time do you perform those salats?
		
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			What do you recite in ruku?
		
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			What do you recite in sajda?
		
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			What do you recite in tashahud?
		
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			All of these things you find them in
		
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			in the sunnah of the Prophet SAW.
		
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			Without the sunnah we cannot practice our religion.
		
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			So following the Prophet SAW and regarding him
		
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			as a source of guidance, this is the
		
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			first and foremost thing.
		
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			Moving on, our love for the Prophet SAW
		
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			should be more than the love for anything.
		
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			This has been emphasized in the Quran in
		
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			which Allah SWT mentions all of the things
		
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			that a person could love.
		
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			Instinctively he loves those things.
		
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			Allah SWT tells us قُلْ إِن كَانَ آبَاؤُكُمْ
		
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			وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ وَعَشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَالٌ
		
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			اِخْتَرَفْتُمُوهَا وَتِجَارَةٌ تَخْشَوْنَ كَسَادَهَا وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهَا
		
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			أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَجِهَادٍ فِي سَبِيلِهِ
		
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			فَتَرَبَّس وَحَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي
		
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			الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ Tell them again, Allah SWT uses
		
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			the word قُلْ at the beginning of this
		
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			ayah also, that if you love your fathers,
		
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			your children, your brothers, your sisters, your families,
		
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			your wealth, your businesses, your houses, all of
		
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			these things we instinctively love them.
		
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			But Allah SWT is telling us in this
		
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			verse that if these things are more beloved
		
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			to you than Allah and His Prophet, then
		
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			wait for the Allah SWT to give His
		
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			command, meaning that Allah SWT will send His
		
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			command of punishment upon you.
		
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			So the question is, we instinctively love our
		
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			parents, we instinctively love our children, we instinctively
		
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			love our wealth, we instinctively love our houses,
		
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			then what does this verse mean?
		
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			What it means is that when there's a
		
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			conflict between the two, what do we give
		
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			priority to?
		
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			We want to go to the masjid, our
		
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			children say, you do not, please don't go
		
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			to the masjid, play with us.
		
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			At that time, what is the priority that
		
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			we have?
		
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			Do we go to the masjid and pray,
		
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			or do we listen to our children?
		
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			Our boss tells us that you cannot go
		
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			for Jummah prayer.
		
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			Do we sacrifice the Jummah prayer, or do
		
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			we sacrifice our job at that time?
		
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			When there's a conflict between the two things
		
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			that we are supposed to be loving, then
		
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			who do we give priority to?
		
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			If we give priority to Allah and His
		
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			Prophet, then that means our Iman is intact.
		
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			And if we give priority to those other
		
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			things, then our Iman is under question.
		
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			So our love for the Prophet has to
		
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			be more than anything.
		
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			Umar said to the Prophet, brutally, truthfully, he
		
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			said, Ya Rasulullah, I love you more than
		
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			anything except myself.
		
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			The Prophet said, no, that's not sufficient.
		
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			Your Iman is insufficient.
		
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			None of you can have true faith until
		
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			he loves me more than his parents and
		
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			his children and all of humanity.
		
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			Umar r.a thought for a minute, and
		
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			he said, Ya Rasulullah, I love you now
		
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			even more than myself.
		
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			So then the Prophet said, Al-an Ya
		
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			Umar, now O Umar, your Iman is complete.
		
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			So our love for the Prophet is more
		
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			than all of humanity, all of our parents
		
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			and our children put together, and we should
		
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			increase in our love for him.
		
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			There's a Hadith which you've probably heard before,
		
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			in which Abu Umama al-Bahiri r.a
		
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			from the Prophet s.a.w. said, There
		
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			are three things if a person has them
		
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			inside him, he will taste Iman, he will
		
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			taste the sweetness of faith, and one of
		
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			them is, that Allah and his Prophet
		
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			become more beloved to him than anything else.
		
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			This is one of those things.
		
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			And he loves somebody only for the sake
		
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			of Allah s.w.t. And thirdly, that
		
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			he dislikes to come out of Iman into
		
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			Kufr after Allah s.w.t. Allah saved
		
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			him from it, just like he dislikes to
		
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			be thrown into the fire.
		
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			But our point here is, that our love
		
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			for Allah and his Prophet have to be
		
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			more than anything else in this world, and
		
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			that will increase our Iman, and we will
		
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			taste the sweetness of Iman.
		
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			Ali ibn Abi Talib r.a was asked
		
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			about his love for the Messenger of Allah
		
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			s.a.w. He said, Allah's Messenger was
		
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			more beloved to us than our wealth, our
		
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			children, our fathers, and our mothers.
		
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			He was dearer to us than cool water
		
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			to a dying man when he's dying of
		
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			thirst.
		
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			Just imagine, a person is dying of thirst,
		
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			he needs water.
		
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			The most beloved thing to him at that
		
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			time is to fill his parched throat with
		
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			cool water.
		
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			But Ali r.a says, that the Prophet
		
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			s.a.w. was even more beloved than
		
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			that cool water that would save our life
		
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			on this hot, dry day when we are
		
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			dying of thirst, if you can imagine.
		
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			So what are the signs that we love
		
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			the Prophet s.a.w.? You know when
		
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			you love somebody, you want to talk about
		
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			him all the time.
		
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			You talk about him all the time, you
		
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			mention him all the time, you check your
		
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			Facebook status all the time to see if
		
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			he's put a like on your statuses or
		
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			not, right?
		
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			So this, our love for the Prophet s
		
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			.a.w. has to be like that.
		
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			We mention him all the time, we think
		
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			about him all the time, we talk about
		
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			him all the time.
		
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			We should long to meet him all the
		
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			time.
		
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			We should think about how it's going to
		
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			be on the Day of Judgment when we
		
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			are lining up on Al-Hawd, Al-Kawthar,
		
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			and he's giving people water with his hands,
		
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			how it's going to be to take that
		
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			water from his hands and drink from it
		
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			directly from his beloved hands.
		
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			Just imagine that day, just think of that
		
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			day and think how we want to be
		
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			part of those people and not amongst those
		
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			people who engaged in bid'at and innovation,
		
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			who will be dragged away from that line
		
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			and even the Prophet s.a.w. will
		
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			tell them, get away from me, get away
		
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			from me.
		
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			So if we love the Prophet s.a
		
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			.w., these are the things that should be
		
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			crossing our mind.
		
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			And finally, a person, when he loves somebody,
		
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			he imitates him.
		
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			He walks like him, he talks like him,
		
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			he acts like him, he dresses like him.
		
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			He wants to be like the Prophet s
		
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			.a.w. in every respect.
		
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			So imitation, as they say, is the best
		
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			form of flattery.
		
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			Imitating the Prophet s.a.w. is our
		
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			sign of love for him.
		
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			Like I said, the subject of my lecture
		
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			was very, very vast.
		
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			I've covered a couple of points and unfortunately
		
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			I've been told my time is up.
		
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			I pray that Allah s.w.t. increases
		
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			our love for the Prophet s.a.w.
		
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			and I pray that we get to meet
		
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			the Prophet s.a.w. on the Day
		
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			of Judgment and we get to drink from
		
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			his beloved hands the sweet water of Al
		
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			-Hawth al-Kawthar.
		
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			Ameen.