 When we look at all of the things that we hold in esteem or perhaps the people that we hold in esteem, the people that we look up to or sort of the things, the inanimate things that we like, the people that we like, it's usually because there's something about them that we like, either we don't know them on a personal level but there's something amazing about them that we like or perhaps if we do know them on a personal level, they've done some good to us, so we like them for that and in extreme liking we use the word love, that's extreme liking. So that's for people that we don't know and for people that we do know. So for instance, there's people that like athletes, although they may have never met them before, there's people that like certain actors, they've never met them before but they enjoy something about them, there's something about them that it's really, it's just appealing and then there's also things that we like as well, we like things, and then the reasons we like things are that we derive benefit from the things that we have, the inanimate things. Sometimes it's not really deriving benefit from them, sometimes it's just to have something, we like it, but nevertheless there's still a love there, there's still a liking or if it's extreme liking then we call it love. So it's still there, it's liking something and inevitably out of these two categories liking a person or liking a thing, it's also due to us knowing something about it. So there's actors and athletes, we know things about them and therefore we like them for those things. There are items we possess that we like because of the things that we know about that thing. Now sometimes we are sometimes unaware of the benefits that we have derived from other people or other things and therefore we sometimes lack in the amount of gratitude that we show towards something. So for instance, it's possible that you may have crossed in traffic as you're coming here, you probably were driving next to the person that delivered the milk to the grocery store that you purchased on some specific data and it's perfectly possible that that happened but you were unaware of it and therefore you didn't show gratitude when you passed by the person in traffic. You didn't thank him for that because you were unaware of that and perhaps if you were aware of it you would have said, hey, you know that delivery that you made, yeah, I purchased it. So you show gratitude when you're aware of it. The thing about, if we look at all of the, see, because we're all here, we come under the category or we call ourselves the group of Muslims, we come under the category of what's called Muslims. We have a certain individual that, you know, the more you know the Prophet s.a.w., the more you actually come to start appealing to the Prophet s.a.w. You'll start liking the Prophet s.a.w. and then eventually it'll start leading to just intense amounts of liking because the Prophet s.a.w. said that, you know, our hearts, human hearts have been made to appeal towards or to gravitate towards those people that have done us good. So our hearts naturally incline towards things that, towards people that do good to us. That's human nature. And if the opposite happens, if that actually doesn't happen then there's some type of sickness involved. There's some things, something's not right, something's, something's off there for the, for the, the great poet, Al Mutanabi, he said, if you show generosity to a generous person, you, you'll come to, that person will come to acknowledge it, right? And then if you show generosity to a vile person, who actually dislike you for that? Because all of a sudden now you have the upper hand where you gave generosity to another person. Now they feel indebted towards you and they don't like to feel indebted towards anybody. And so that riles up this anchor, a rancor in people. So it's very interesting how that happens to human beings. So that's when sickness is going on. But generally baseline human beings, we've been made to, to like people or to incline towards people that do good to us. Now the only person or the most amount of good that we've seen from anybody, that we have received from anybody is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And we will come to that truth, we'll come to that realization, we'll come to that conclusion the more we learn about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, right? Because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the means for our worldly life and he's inevitably the means for our success in the other worldly life as well. I mean the, we know that, the key to paradise is saying and believing and living with la ilaha illa Allah, where did that come from, right? Who, had it not been for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam 1400 years ago being told by the Lord of the worlds to spread this truth amongst people. Had he not done it, had he just sort of relaxed, had he took in the, the deal that the Quraysh cut with him, right? Because the Quraysh told him, hey listen, this stuff you're doing, it's bad for our business. Because the Quraysh, they're over there in Makkah. They're getting business by people coming and worshiping the idols. They're, they're making revenue from that. So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's coming and telling them these things are useless, la ilaha illa Allah. And the Quraysh told him, listen, we need you to stop this and if you stop, we'll give you whatever you want, right? Whatever you want from all of the, the worldly desires. We'll give you whatever you want, right? But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said no, right? Because he's on a mission. He's, it's, it's clearly from Allah swt that you're on a mission. And this, and from that, that also trickles down to us as well. That we have a certain type of responsibility first to educate ourselves, our families to be, because if you don't know what you're calling to, then you're unable, you're unfit for, to be a caller. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for 40 years, his first 40 years of his life wasn't, it wasn't prophecy. He became a prophet at 40 years old, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And prior to that, he had his habit of going to the cave, Ghad Hira, and meditating there by himself. That was his habit. That was his own, he didn't know what was going to happen at 40 years old, but that was, that's the divine determination of working out. That's just how it worked out. That's what happened. That's what the plan was, and the plan followed, followed through, and that's what happened. And so for the first 40 years, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he's being prepared by his Lord. And then at 40 years old, he gets the, okay, now it's time to, to, to take this out because you've done enough self-reflection, you've done enough self-work, you've done enough self-exercising. It's time to bring, to take this out to other people. And that's usually how it works in the world as well. One of the things that, interesting things about this world is that things that work out in the dunya, it's the same principles that get used in our deen as well, same exact principles. So in academia, you have people who, for a very long time, they, they study and, and, and so, and what's the doctorate's degree? The doctorate degree is, you now break off, you do your own thing. That's what the doctorate degree is. So now you've heard enough of other people, now it's time for you to actually, right, allow, allow yourself to flower, right? Allow yourself to, right, what can you produce? What can you bring to the table? So then you allow yourself, so that's what the doctorate degree is. And then in, in, in other facets of the world, it's the same thing. It's the same thing, very similar, right? So these are things that if the more we know the prophecy of Islam, how his life worked out, the more we'll come to love the prophecy of Islam because we'll then understand what it is that the prophecy of Islam has done for us. He also says, that whoever doesn't show gratitude to humanity, he hasn't showed gratitude to God. Part of showing, part of being grateful to God is to be grateful to the people that have benefited you and nobody has benefited us more than Rasulullah s.a. Right, cuz, and we need to be aware of it. We, we need to come, right, we need to become aware of that. Right. One of the ayes in the Quran says that Indeed, in the Prophet's Salaam, you have the best example, so he is the best example. But for who though? I mean, who is he an example for? Who takes him as an example? For those people who have high hopes in their Lord, they hope for Yawm al-Qiyamah, that's very interesting how Allah Ta'ala put that there, that you hope for Yawm al-Qiyamah, it's usually that Yawm al-Qiyamah is, it's the day of standing where you get judged. But here Allah Ta'ala is saying that you hope for Yawm al-Qiyamah, so that's interesting that I think that's worthy of reflection, why Allah Ta'ala would ask us to be hopeful for Yawm al-Qiyamah. Yawr-ul-Laha wa-l-Yawm al-Akhirah wa-zakara-l-Laha kathirah, and those people that do a lot of zikr, those people that mention Allah Ta'ala a lot. These three categories of people, these are the people that the Prophet ﷺ is a good example for. If we're not in one of those three categories, we need to get into those three categories because that's when you become aware of the Prophet ﷺ, you become aware of what he has done for us, and then you inevitably would want to learn more about the Prophet ﷺ. Because so what's the big deal about the Prophet ﷺ, why is everybody talking about him? You've got to learn about him and then you'll know why. That's right. I mean, if there's something popular out there, there's a reason why it's popular. The Prophet ﷺ is popular more so than it's just we need to be aware that he is popular. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, wabarak ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa alayhi wa sahbihi juma'in wa aqimu s-salatu wa sallam.