Importance of the Seerah

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And we praise Allah, the Lord of the worlds. We praise Him and we greet His noble Messenger. And what is next? Allah said, Allah and His angels greet the Prophet. O you who believe, greet him and greet him with a greeting. O Allah, greet our Master Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you greeted Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. You are the Most Glorious. O Allah, greet our Master Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you greeted Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. You are the Most Glorious. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders, and that one of the malaika was standing there trying to put a musalla. MashaAllah, may Allah bless you and keep you always, raise your darajat and keep you always in special protection, inshaAllah. We are gathered here today, Alhamdulillah, to do what is perhaps the most important activity that a Muslim can do in his life or her life, other than the fara'id which Allah has made for them. And that is to learn about the blessed life of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the blessed life of his family and companions. It is the haqq of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that every time his name is mentioned, every time you say Rasulullah, or every time you say Muhammad, that at least we say, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and if you say more, Alhamdulillah, but at least this much. This is his right and therefore, you must do it, you don't need to do it loudly, but for yourself. And remember that when we do this, it is not that we are doing a favor to the Rasul , we are doing a favor to ourselves. Because when a person, as we know from the hadith, Rasul said that when a person sends salam on me, sends dhruud on me, Allah sends salam on that person ten times. Ten times for every single time that we send salam on him, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and upon him and upon his family and companions. And this is the most important thing. And the most important thing is that we are not doing a favor to the Prophet , but to the Prophet . The reason I say that this is the most important activity is because just now we heard the Tilawat of the Quran. Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless the Shaykh. May Allah illuminate his life with the Quran. May Allah illuminate his Qalb with the Quran. May Allah keep the Quran firm in his heart and may he be the means by which the Quran and the love of the Quran is spread across the world to everybody who comes into contact with him in every way. If Allah had wished, Allah could have sent Jibreel to come and stand on top of the Kaaba and recite the Quran to the people. Jibreel could have come in his true form or he could have come in the form of a human being or he could have come in any form that Allah pleased and he could have recited the Quran to the people of Makkah. This was perfectly possible for Allah to do. It was perfectly possible for Allah for example to send the Quran al-Kareem in the form of a book one for each of the residents of Makkah. And don't tell me they didn't have paper in those days and printing press. That doesn't matter. Allah is Allah. So Allah could have done this. Or Allah could have sent His Kalam to this world in any way or form that He pleased. But Allah did not do any of that. Allah said Allah said Allah said He sent Al-Furqan, which is the Quran to His slave. Abdeehee. So the Kalam of Allah came to Muhammad Rasulullah . We say and we should say that Allah sent the Kitab to us and He sent the Kitab Qudal-e-Nas for the Hidayah to everyone. But the person who received the Kitab of Allah is Muhammad Mustafa . And this is the great Hikmah of Allah . The Hikmah of Allah is that He did not send the Quran to an Angel. He did not send the Quran in the voice of an Angel. He did not send the Quran to a Malik to walk in the streets and recite to the people. Because Allah sent the Quran for two reasons. One, Allah sent the Quran to the people as a guide for people for their lives. Entire life. And the second reason is Allah sent the Quran as a Hujjah, as an argument, as the evidence in your favor or against you. And that Hujjat is Muhammad . The Hujjat is the guidance of the human nature of the Messenger of Allah . And Allah told him, announced to the world and said, Say, I am a human being like you. In terms of his human nature, in terms of his humaneness, he is a human being like us. In terms of his status, he is unique. He is not like us. So when we say, we should be very careful with the language we use with respect to Rasulullah . Because both ways, there is a problem. And this is the trap that people fall into. On the one hand, people fall into the trap of saying, oh, he is a man like me. If you really actually believe that he is a man like me, then you are committing kufr. He is not like you. Believe me. He is the Nabi of Allah. He is the Rasul of Allah. He is the recipient of the Kalam of Allah . He is the one who went on Isra and Meraj. You did not go. How can he be like you? Right? But in terms of his Bashari, and I will tell you why that is important. In terms of his humaneness. Right? You don't know what you are talking about now. There are poets who do excess in poetry. In terms of Anasheed and so on, which they write and they sing. And there are some in Urdu. And they say, at the time of Meraj, there was a curtain. And the one behind the curtain and the one in front of the curtain was the same. So two extremes. And both are wrong. Both are wrong. I said the Bashariya is the Hojja because Remember this was one of the excuses or one of the criticisms of the disbelievers of the time who said, what kind of a Nabi is this? That he eats the same food we eat? The same food we eat? The same food we eat? The same food we eat? The same food we eat? The same food we eat? The same food we eat? Does it work that he also walks in the markets with us? But that is the Hojja. And that's the Hojja because And that's the Hojja because nobody will be able to say that he was a special being, he was actually an angel, he was actually super human and therefore if you give him his life as an example, sorry we cannot be like him because after all we are human. He was not human. He was superhuman. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala disproved that by this declaration and by the fact and that is the reason why we need to study the seerah. Because when you study the seerah, you realize that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam suffered bereavement. His beloved wife, our mother Khadija tul Kubra passed away in front of his eyes. The two people he loved the most, Abu Talib and Sayyeda Khadija tul Kubra, they both passed away before his eyes. He couldn't stop that happening. He tried to give dawah to Abu Talib till his last breath. Abu Talib did not accept Islam. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam could not make him accept Islam even though he wanted to do that more than anything else. To the extent Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminded him that he should not throw his tongue into the division of Muhammad , because he will be in J 17C Qasas, Qasas. When he turned over, Abu Talib turned back. Fatiha marked him with religious qiw бли回 ولا تعلم. In the time he came Allah188in kolik. He� meinba ladee 1la šefaa. Where is their art come to you? Where do you think this qiwah means? I think this means that Allah 법و بالد Patriotic canozada himah جف في الوحيد. Before that Murray's qiwah became rocks of incense. So they did Qiwah father's pak? How many times did he pray? Only two times? When the man threw the rock, Rasulullah did not have an energy shield around him and the rock didn't bounce off the shield. The rock hit him. It hit him so violently that links of his chain mail went into his blessed skull and face. And when the sahib, he tried to pull it out, he couldn't pull it out, he used his teeth and he broke his teeth. And today, some of the physicians and so on and the neurologists who have done some research in this, they say that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, towards his end when he was passing away, he suffered from very, very terrible migraines, very, very severe headaches. They say that was probably because of cerebral meningitis, which is a viral infection, which could have entered through the, maybe his skull, suffered a hairline fracture. Because of that, this infection may have happened. That is why he suffered those headaches. But this happened. He almost lost consciousness. He fell down. He bled so much because of a facial wound and skull wounds bleed so much. He bled. He bled so much that he actually almost lost consciousness. And a list of things, I can, I can, you know, endlessly talk to you about this. He felt hunger. This sahib comes in the battle of Khandaq and he said, Ya Rasulullah, we are so hungry. And he lifts up his shirt and there is a stone tied to his belly. And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam lifts up his shirt and there are three stones tied to his belly. He suffered hunger. He suffered thirst. Why all this? Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying, He was a man like you. He was a man like you. And despite all of this, he obeyed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in every single thing. He obeyed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in every single thing. Without exception. To a level of excellence. So that a hujja is established. And nobody will be able to say that Islam is impossible to practice. Because here was a man who walked among you. And he practiced Islam. And that is the reason why we need to study the seerah. To answer the question, how did he do it? Because unless we know how he did it, we cannot do it. How is it? Today when you see the suffering that is happening in the world, be very, very careful, especially with the language you use. Just today somebody tells me, Allah Ta'ala has forgotten Gaza. He said, I say, Make istighfar, make tawbah. This tongue will take you into Jahannam.