The Love for The Messenger S- Islamic Reminder

All praise belongs to Allah, who through his infinite grace and mercy and kindness upon us, Allah has blessed us with the wealth of iman, with the kareem, لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ. This iman demands from us that we believe firmly in Allah, that the belief should settle in our hearts, that Allah can do anything and everything without the help of the entire creation. And to bring that conviction in our heart, that the entire creation cannot do anything without the help of Allah.

Allah is Ahad, and Allah is Samad, Allah is one and alone, and Allah is independent of every created entity. After creating it, Allah is independent of every creation. To bring the true conviction of Allah, to bring the true yaqeen of Allah, to bring the true oneness of Allah, the highness of Allah, the purity of Allah, the doing of Allah, that Allah is the one that is doing as he wants, when he wants, how he wants, to whom he wants, and he is not in need of any of his creation.

And the second portion of this kalima, مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ, is that we should have the conviction in our heart, that in the sunnah of Muhammad, is each and every one of our success. The success of the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the educated and uneducated, in any part of this world, the success lies in the way of Muhammad. Success in this world, success in the grave, and success in the eternal life of Akhirah.

If we move away from the sunnah of Rasulullah, we will be unsuccessful in this world. We will be unsuccessful in the grave, and we will be unsuccessful in the eternal life of Akhirah. There was only one that was the Habibullah.

There was only one that was the beloved of Allah. That Allah sent Rasulullah as a means of guidance to the whole mankind until the day of Qiyamah. That Allah took an oath in the Quran, Allah took an oath on the life of Muhammad, Allah in the Quran took an oath on the words of Rasulullah, Allah took an oath on that words that were revealed to Rasulullah.

Every utterance that came out of his blessed lips, every utterance that came out from the blessed lips of Rasulullah, Allah classified it in the Quran that this is divine guidance and revelation from Allah. Allah took an oath on his place in which he loved. Allah took an oath on the blessed land in which Rasulullah loved.

My respected brothers and elders, each and every one of us, we have to look in our life and match our life with the life of Rasulullah. See every aspect of our life has to be according to the sunnat of Rasulullah. Allah sent Rasulullah to take mankind out of darkness.

Allah took Rasulullah and made him a means so that mankind can come out of darkness. When Rasulullah, before he came in this world, the ulema state every nabi that came, every nabi that came in this world told his ummah on the coming of Rasulullah. Every nabi said to his ummah and gave the news to their ummah that a day is going to come when Muhammad will come on this earth.

This was the call of every nabi before Rasulullah came. And at that time when Rasulullah was born, the muarriheen write, there were two superpowers in the world. There were the Romans on the one side and there were the Persians.

And the Persians were on the other side. The Faris and the Rum. At that time the Persians were fire worshippers.

They were fire worshippers. The Romans were so to say Christians. But Allah made it as a matter of miracle that in the castle of Noshirwan, in the castle of Noshirwan, on the birth of Muhammad, thousands of miles away, in Mecca Mukarramah, at the time on the birth of Rasulullah, a fire that these fire worshippers worshipped for over one thousand years.

Over one thousand years, the fire worshippers worshipped Allah extinguished that fire. Allah extinguished that fire and fourteen pillars in his castle came crumbling to the ground. Allama Ibn Kathir has mentioned in his tafsir that every king that was present at that time, when he woke up the next morning his throne was overturned as a sign to mankind, as a proof to mankind that now is the time of Muhammad existence.

Miraculously my respected brothers and elders, mothers and sisters, miraculously, normally in historic books, clear mention is made about wealthy people and every aspect of their life is recorded. About kings that have come, every aspect of their life is recorded. Leaders that have passed before us, every aspect of their life is recorded.

Miraculously my respected brothers and elders, mothers and sisters, this orphan, this orphan born in the desert of Arabia, وُلِدَ يَتِيمًا وَعَاشَ مِسْكِينًا وَمَاتَ فَقِيرًا, miraculously every aspect of his life recorded because Allah wanted to protect this deen. Allah said we have revealed this book, the Quran, we have revealed this deen and it is our responsibility to protect this deen. That's why every aspect of the life of Muhammad has been recorded and the ulama state he was born, at that time there was no given dates of the specific year.

Every year belongs to Allah whether it is the lunar calendar or whether it is the solar calendar. Both belong to Allah. The sun belongs to Allah and the moon belongs to Allah.

Both calendars belong to Allah. At that time the Arabians, the people in Arabia, they did not have specific dates for the year, but the muarriqeen state it was Aam ul-Feel. After the great incident that took place when Abraha tried to destroy the Kaaba and Allah protected the Kaaba which Allah mentions in the Quran.

This incident took place while Allah protected the Kaaba. In this same year Rasulullah was born. It was in Aam ul-Feel. It was in the month of Rabi ul-Awwal.

And coinciding with the calendar that we have, it was on the 22nd of April, 571, when Rasulullah was born. The historians write it was at the time of Tahajjud, when Tahajjud just ended, at the time of Subh Sadiq, when true dawn takes place. His father's name was Abdullah.

This was not coincidence. It was not coincidence that his father's name was Abdullah. No.

Allah made his father's name Abdullah, that this servant of Allah will be in the abdiyat of Allah. And his mother's name was Amina. It was also not out of coincidence, but because he was going to be a means of peace to the whole of mankind.

And at the time of delivering, there was a midwife by the name of Shifa, the mother of Abdurrahman bin Auf. This was also not coincidence. But this child that was going to come into existence was going to be the means of the cure of the whole of mankind until the day of Qiyamah.

And then he was taken to the house to learn Arabic. It was the general custom of the Arabs to go into the villages to learn the beautiful language of Arabic. He was taken by Halima Saadiya.

This was also not coincidence. She was Halima that was going to take care of Rasulullah. So that qualities of gentleness and softness could be created in Rasulullah.

The scholars state, he was not born in the ashwarul hurum, in the blessed and sacred months because his birth gave sanctity to the month. He was not born in the place where there was water because his birth gave water to the place. He was not born in the place where there was plantation and vegetation.

He was the plantation and vegetation. The scholars mention he was born in Rabee'ul awwal. What is Rabee'ul awwal? Rabee'ul awwal is spring at the onset and after the ravages of darkness of winter.

It destroys everything. Winter destroys everything after the time of winter has passed and then we get the freshness and we get the greenness that comes out. This is called Rabee'ul awwal.

Rasulullah was born in Rabee'ul awwal. He was the greenness and the freshness that was going to be brought to this world for approximately 600 years. Approximately 600 years.

Now Nabi is born. No Nabi came to this earth. No Nabi came to this earth and Rasulullah was born at the time of Subh Sadiq when true dawn takes place.

The darkness of night is complete. The darkness of night is complete. Now is the time for a new light to come into existence.

The light for which the world will get guidance. The life of Muhammad. That's why Aisha used to say, that the time will come when the sun sets and when the sun sets it becomes dark. But with this Nabi of Allah, even when the sun sets, then his Noor and his light will spread as a means of Hidayat.

Rasulullah's mother Amina, Allama Suyuti is mentioned and produced a Hadith under the authority of Abu Nuhaym in his Hilya that Amina, the mother of Rasulullah, as a normal woman, at the ninth month she feels the pains and the pangs of giving birth and she started feeling some kind of pain and then when she was in her room, Shifa, the midwife was with Amina and she seen in front of her a white angel that came and took its wings and pressed it against her chest that removed every pain that she was going through. And then she seen towards her right and her left and there was a vision that was given to Amina that she could see three different flags that were placed on the earth. That one flag was placed in the far west and one flag was placed in the far east and one flag was placed on top of the Kaaba as a sign to state that that day is going to come.

That day is going to come that this child's deen will reach the far west and this child's deen will reach the far east and it will spread from here from Makkah Mukarramah. And then Shifa says miraculously without any pain she gave birth to Rasulullah and the body of Rasulullah was clean. There was no need to bathe the body and Rasulullah was circumcised.

There was no need to circumcise Rasulullah. The umbilical cord was cut. There was no need to cut the umbilical cord of Rasulullah and a sound came out from the voice of Rasulullah. He murmured some words stating to the close effect اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ كَبِيرًا، الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ كَثِيرًا، سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا. From this moment when Rasulullah came into existence, Allama Suyuti has also mentioned another narration where he states that a plume of smoke came around Rasulullah and a voice called out تُفِّ بِهِ مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا لِيَعْرِفَ بِاسْمِهِ وَنَعْتِهِ وَصُورَتِهِ that let this Nabi of Allah be known to the whole of mankind.

His name, his qualities, his attributes and beautiful qualities were placed in Rasulullah. From the day he was born. He was given and he was anointed with the characteristics of 124,000 Anbiya. Rasulullah was blessed with these Sifat and qualities from the day he was born. Every aspect of his life recorded by the Muarriheen.

Recorded by the Muarriheen so that this Ummah remains until the Day of Qiyamah. We don't have to search anywhere else for our success. We don't have to look in another direction for our success.

We know we have the Beloved of Allah, the Nabi of Allah. So much detail has been mentioned by the Muarriheen. Even the goats of Rasulullah have been recorded. The goats from which Rasulullah drank milk, those goats names have been recorded by the Muarriheen.

He had one male goat. Rasulullah only had one male goat. Yum was the name of the male goat of Rasulullah. Rasulullah had two mules.

Those names have also been recorded. Fidda and Duldul. Rasulullah rode one male camel.

That's also recorded. Askar. He had four female camels recorded in the books of Hadith.

Jaba, Shahba, Qaswa and Ababa. Four camels that Rasulullah rode. Even the horses that Rasulullah rode.

Every aspect has been recorded. Word, Sijil, Yaasub, Yaabub, Murtajiz, Sahba, Sabha. The different horses that Rasulullah rode.

My respected brothers and elders, mothers and sisters, the object of Rasulullah's coming is that we have that love. We can emulate his sunnah. Bring every aspect of our life according to the sunnah of Rasulullah so that we can be successful in this world.

We can be successful in Akhirah. To honor Rasulullah. To see that my children, my wife, my family practices every sunnah of Rasulullah. They came to, Allama Ibn Suyuti has mentioned in his book, he has mentioned in his book that Allah called out to Rasulullah in the Quran. He called out to Rasulullah 227 times.

227 times. Not once did he say Ya Muhammad. Not once did he say Ya Muhammad.

Yes, for other Anbiya Allah called them by their names and he said to the other Anbiya. But not once in the Quran, not once in the Quran did Allah call Rasulullah by his name and say Ya Muhammad. Always he called him by a title. يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ. يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ. يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ.

One Bedouin came to Madina Munawwara and he started screaming from outside the Masjid, Ya Muhammad. Ya Muhammad. He was a Bedouin, uncultured.

He did not have any kind of civilization that was there. He started screaming from outside. Allah immediately revealed the verses to Rasulullah. Allah said you don't call out to Rasulullah in this manner.

There is a specific kind of etiquette. There is a specific kind of way that we conduct ourselves to approach Rasulullah. My respected brothers and elders, to bring the life of Rasulullah. We have to make an effort. It demands, the Iman demands from us that we have to love Rasulullah. We have to emulate every sunnah of Rasulullah. Allah put his name with the name of Rasulullah in Mi'raj when Rasulullah met Allah and he said to Allah, Oh Allah you gave specific things for different Anbiya. What is my speciality? For Ibrahim. For Sulaiman. For Musa. You made him your Kareem.

What have you given me special? Allah said to Rasulullah. Have I not given you more than what I have given every other Nabi? I have given you more that whenever my name will take place, whenever the name of Allah will take place, the name of Muhammad will be with the name of Allah. Open Quran and you will see, Open the Quran and you will see in different places where the name of Allah is the name of Muhammad. In every Adhan that takes place in the whole world, in every Iqamah, the name of Allah is with the name of Muhammad. In every Khutbah, in the Khutbah wherever it takes place, my respected brothers and elders, to bring the sunnah of Rasulullah, every sunnah of Rasulullah to make an effort, this is the means of our success. Rasulullah held the hand of Abu Sufyan and he said, I have come to you with the goodness of this world, the honor of this world and the honor of Akhira.

May Allah give us the Tawfiq of practicing. Jazakum Allah khair.