 Alhamdulillah, what is sweeter and what is better than remembering our Lord Subhanahu wa ta'ala remembering our blessed Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and really all that needs to be said is what has already been said and that both poetry and prose and mentioning the blessed Habib ﷺ, if we just look very closely at the 10 chapters of the book of it, in particular the first chapter and all of the various Fusulah and chapters of the Mauded that we are reciting but in particular that first chapter, we will find that all of it is summarized in the first chapter. It sets the tone for everything that comes after. So Imam Abu Sayyidi that his first chapter is titled Fil Ghazal, which is essentially love poetry, wa shak wa l-gharam and his complaining, that complaining the way that a lover truly complains, as you will see, wa l-hubbu ya'atadidur ladati wa l-alameen, that wa shak wa l-gharam because his state of love is so powerful that he's complaining about his state and that we shouldn't think that this is the type of complain that other people tend to have when they complain about some manifestation of the Divine Decree. This is someone who is that lost in love and that at the same time, despite everything that they're going through, still wants more and knows that the pleasures of love are mixed with pain and that this is part of the affair of love. This is one of the things that happens. And so, both of these chapters tell us a little bit about how it is that we should be. As for Imam Abu Sayyidi, he uses all of these different words, like sabb, sabba yusubbu is to pour. And the sabb is the one that has love poured into his heart in every single moment. And he says about this individual, ayah sabba sabbu, annal hubba munkatimua. Does the sabb, the one who loves like this, think that he can conceal his love? And abaynamun sajiman minhu wama tarimi, is that how can he conceal his love when his eyes are swollen and the tears are that dripping? And then he uses the word hawaa, which is also one of the blessed words for love, hawaa. Hawa yahwi is to fall, similar like in the sense that we say in English, someone falling in love. That we're not to be for hawaa, that this love that we have, that you wouldn't have shed tears ala talal. And this is in reference to the lover that in the, that pre-Islamic Arabia, where he would go to the places his beloved was, but they had moved camps and that they would remember the way that the tents looked, they remember the way that the surroundings looked and all of the nostalgia associated with it and they would stand there and cry. And that Alhamdulillah, just think about all of the blessed, that athar that we have of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and all of the meanings, whether they be athar in terms of relics that were connected to him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, or that athar in terms of the traditions that teach us about him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and that all of his blessed character traits everything that was associated with him. And one of the amazing things, one of the amazing things is, is that if you look at the Shama'il, as the Shama'il literally refers to the physical that character traits of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But then you have a mention of all of these other things, that the type of utensils and dishes that he used to drink and eat with Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the type of possessions that he used to have. And so that because they were connected to him, that they were indeed something great our teachers used to mention, often the blessed Siwak, that it's a small little branch on a tree that once it was connected to the best of creation Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, it became something special and of the 90 something plus benefits that they mentioned of the Siwak. One of the greatest benefits is, they say, it will help remind you of the shahadate before you die. And how could it be otherwise, when our Prophet said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, a Siwaku Matharatunil Fem. It is a purification of the mouth, Mardatunir Rab, and a source of contentment for our Lord Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And so here you have just a branch because our Prophet that touched it and used it and it became affiliated with him, that Subhan Allah that it led to this great Fadila and this great merit and as many other blessings of the Siwak as well. But it was because it was connected to him and this is why in the chapter on water in the books of Fiqh they talk about the greatest types of water and that if you would ask to come Muslim, what is the very best water in existence? Any water that ever has existed or any water that exists now or any water that ever will exist? What is the very best water of all? And they say it was the water that came from the blessed hands of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, by way of miracle. And one of them put them in lines of poetry and said, The very best water of all is the blessed water that came from the hands of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And then after that that we have Faneer-e-Masraf, Abaqir and Huri. After that is Zem Zem water and then the Qawthar. And some might think, wait a second, how could Zem Zem be before the Qawthar? But they say, and this is in the Khair al-Muhammadiyya by Sheikh Muhammad bin Al-Maliki, he explains it by saying, the best night in the right of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was the late Isra'a Miraj. And that in preparation for that, it was one of the three and some say four incidents where the Prophet's blessed heart was washed, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and it was washed with Zem Zem water. And so whether to have been a more honorable water in existence, it surely would have been used to wash the blessed heart of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so Zem Zem is special. That after that water that came directly from him, it's the best water. And then after that is the Qawthar, Inna Al-Tayn Haqqal Qawthar. Allah Ta'bar al-Qawthar it says, in Qawthar means abundant good. And so that has a very general application to all of the good is come every blessing, whether it be worldly or religious. And this word in the next ultimately stems from our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but then the meaning of Qawthar is specifically that a river in Paradise flows into his blessed base in Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Sayyida Aisha said, is that if you put your hands over your ears and you hear the sound that that makes when you cover your ears, that's how the how it sounds. And that's how the Qawthar sounds as it flows into the basin of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But also one of the meanings of Al-Qawthar is the blessed family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So in the city of Tehrim whenever they would recite this like in the Khatmah of the Quran, that they would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wa Alaihi Wasallam when they would get to Inna Ataynaka Al-Qawthar. They would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wa Alaihi Wasallam because that they are the abundant good that was paid for them that by the Messenger of Allah, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the night of the wedding of Sayyida Aisha, Sayyidina Fatima, and Sayyidina Ali Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, O Allah, bring many beautiful and that good people from their loins and Ahlul Bayt al-Rusul, to this day that how many of the blessed members of the family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam are still here with us and how many have there been throughout the centuries. So Alhamdulillah we learn how it is that we should be in relation to that our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he goes on with the last one where we should find the Bodh-e-Sharifa, is that, Yes, the taif, right? The imagining of the image of the one that I love, Sara, that was crossing my heart by night, right? And what was the result? It kept me awake, it kept me awake. That as a result of that night time and that we just heard in the Qasida about the special states that people have that at night time when it is dark with our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and then this is where he says, and indeed that love mixes pleasure with pain. But then if we look at the other moment that we recite tonight that we have similar descriptions about the way that a person should be. Every time that we hear the blessed name of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we should have a heart filled with love and that is one of the greatest things we can do of all. It's one of the greatest acts that we could ever do of all in one of the things preserved from he used to say is that there is no scale that large enough to weigh the love of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so that silly heavy omron says, and that he swears an oath by Allah is that the lover does not mention the beloved, the beloved is not mentioned to the lover except that he becomes passionately overwhelmed with joy. And so wa alihan is from wa lah which is to be, it's like bewildered and that not fully there with you. I'm not mistaken in the Urdu poem that he was saying day one all right. Does that mean crazy? Out like in verse. So it's the similar meaning that subhanAllah this is what happens and that the muhab is ma'zor he is excused. And then he's nashwan which means intoxicated as a result of the Habib Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Is that where are the lovers who find ease in sacrificing their souls and every precious thing? This is Jinnas using these two beautiful words and nufoos and nafaas. It relates to that your own self you're ready to sacrifice that and everything precious. Anything that relates to wealth or anything else to what degree are we willing to sacrifice and you can't truly be a lover if you're not willing to sacrifice and you can't truly be a lover until you're willing to give things up and until you're willing to let things go. And so to the degree of one's ability to sacrifice is to the degree that they will truly love and this is currently seen in the lives of the blessed companions of our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who were willing to sacrifice everything for anything that had to do with the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So the lover has to be willing to sacrifice and then he goes into more detail and we all know these blessed lines but this is really all that needs to be said is that how we should be when we hear the blessed name of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam every time we hear his name we want to have a renewed love in our heart every time that we hear his name that we should feel that a deep connection to him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and that name should be sweet and bring great joy and bring great pleasure to the heart and this time that we spend in gatherings like this don't think that they're in vain this is the greatest provision of all for the moment of truth that you and I are all going to face and all of us know that our dear brother Osama Kanan who that he was in majatus like this that we used to that be with him reciting these blessed poems for many many years from the time that we converted now that 25 years ago and that all it takes is that seeing anyone die up close but especially if it's someone that you knew and that you were that very close to and had an intimate relationship with to actually see their grave and to be buried six feet under the earth and to know that this is all of our end this is where we're all going to be and some of us might live longer than others some of us might outlive our kids and some of us that might not outlive our kids we don't know which one of us is going to go and anything can happen to anyone at any given time people could die suddenly or people could get sick or people could live a long time and not really have that many physical problems but it's an enormous Ibra it's an enormous Ibra and a lesson that you and all you and I have to take and that we have to have that provision for our Lord and some of the greatest provision that we can have of all and that we can prepare for the meeting with our Lord is the provision that we can have a love of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his family that as it is said about that dimension of her brings my heart to a life Fahiruqni wa Imadi she is my pillar in my foundation the love of her on the Day of Resurrection is my provision that is our provision is that Hasha that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that would punish someone who has love fixated between his two sides of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ I think he was shak'isa al Bayanuni has those verse in lines of poetry is that is that a that physical body that the love of Ahmed our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is firmly rooted in by Allah it's one of the ways that you can say an oath Allah is that the earth will not eat that corpse it won't eat that corpse and that there are stories that indicate this blessed individual was buried and the blessed city of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and this is how they found his grave and found him in his grave even at a later time as an intact as it was as if the day that he was buried and so this is the way that the people of Allah are and they spend this time day in and day out day in and day out year and year out year and year out throughout their life in gatherings of remembrance in both of their meetings learning but also that mentioning our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and having love for him and this is why we all have to be there for each other and our loved ones that have now returned to Allah ﷺ we have to remember them and we have to that make do offer them in the gatherings and hopefully that by bringing them to heart is that they will get benefits even in their grave and without doubt that someone that was a means for someone else to receive any type of good any good that comes to that person still is received by that person without diminishing the reward in the slightest bit even when they're in their graves and anyone that is a day then effect anyone is a day then benefit the same thing happens but one of the greatest things that we can all do is collectively that show and exemplify our love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and for his Dean and for his family and for his ummah and for his companions and everything that was associated with him ﷺ and that we realize the very least affiliation to him in any possible way whatever it might be is the greatest honor of all and this is what Sheikh Yusuf el-Nabahani was referring to when he said in his blessed lines of poetry I am a servant literally of the master master of the prophets I am a servant of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and I am a servant of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is that this love of mine and he repeats the word wa la'i wa la'i is also a word for love can mean loyalty it's like a deep loyal love this deep loyal love that I have from all this deep loyal love that I have from is Qadeem it is ancient I am a abdun li abdihi wa li abdi abdi abdun qada bi ghay dinti hai I am the slave of his slave and the slave of his slave slave slave in this way without any end meaning that we're the slave to have a slave in the slave you actually can't have a slave but we're the slave to have a slave and that slave to have a slave and keep going any type of affiliation that that I have to the blessed master dutis is the greatest honor of all and nothing is more important than that and that he goes on to say these very beautiful words where then he says is that is that I will never cease to praise him and to enter into the door of his contentment amongst those who enter perhaps it will be said to me that you are the Hassan of the praise of me meaning you praise me like Sayyidina that Hassan didn't have it and the Salman of my love and the Salman of my love and that Masha'Allah Tabarak Allah that he keeps going on is that that with my soul is that I leave it as ransom for the dirt of his sanctuary and then if he accepts it the fatherless for him not for me I mean my soul is ransom not for him of course for him anything related to him but my soul is ransom for the dirt of his sanctuary let alone for him and that if that's accepted the fatherless for the Rasul not for me look at how selfless these people were and look at how they understood true honor and he was a great scholar hourly but there are many great scholars amongst the campaigns there are many great scholars for those who came but they realized this door is the greatest door of all and that one of the things that we can do regularly is when we're sitting set of water upon the Prophet Sayyidina imagine his presence that he's right before you and how radiant that presence would be and what would it be like to be in his presence of Allah to your center and how he looked and how you would feel and what would happen and you could only approximate that with the great inheritors that you've seen and we know how we are in their presence but then what about Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what about being in his presence and then how would all of the mbiabi how would all of the sahaba be and everyone after them this is that a good practice that we could do to think about what it is that we need to be like in front of him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam may Allah bless all of us and keep all of us together this is like a reunion every time that we come back seeing all these blessed people that have been so much a part of the Falkir's life you know for all of these years so it's always wonderful to be here with you all we have a lot to put out to keep us together and may none of us be left behind well we all stay together in the dunya and in the barzakh and in the achar inshallah to add it with our teachers and their teachers teachers and all of the lovers of the Rasul back to the Prophet himself sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and to remember these moments in the highest so paradise was sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and praise be to Allah