 ونستغفره ونتوه إليه ونعود بله من شهور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا من يحديه الله فلا مدل له ومن يدل فلا هار له وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشهد أن سيدنا محمد عبده ورسول يا أيها الذين آملوا اتقوا الله حقا تقاته ولا تبوتون إلا وأنتم مسلمون يا أيها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفسه واحدة خلق منها زوجها وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء والتقوا الله الذي تساءدون به والأرحام إن الله كان عليكم رقيبا يا أيها الذين آملوا اتقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدا يصلح لكم أعمالكم ويوفيلكم ذلوباكم ومن يتع إله ورسوله فقد فاز فوزا عظيما أما بعد فإن أصدق الحديث كتاب الله وخير الحديه هديو محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وشر الأمور محدثاتها فكل محدثة بلعة وكل بلعة ضلالة وكل ضلالة في النار الحمد لله الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعله إواجاء الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا دنه تريى لو لا أن هدان الله الحمد لله رب العالمين Our praise is due to Allah The Lord of all the worlds Our praise is due to Allah Who has blessed us with this great great religion As we mentioned previously The saying of Imam Ali رضي الله عنه إن من نعم الدنيا يكفيك الإسلام نعمة From the blessings of this world is that Islam suffices as a blessing الحمد لله during this month ربي الأول The Muslims are reflecting commemorating renewing their attachment to our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Our Prophet is the embodiment of human virtue صلى الله عليه وسلم And for that we love him People love and they are attracted to that which reflects perfection And in human terms Our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is that embodiment However We understand that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is the gate to the epitome of perfection And that is Allah SWT The epitome of knowledge The epitome of beauty إن الله الجميل يحبه الجمال The epitome of mercy And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم reflected that Just a brief example of how the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم reflected the perfection of Allah SWT الله سبحانه وتعالى يتكلم أو يجب أن يتكلم أن الله سبحانه وتعالى أن الله سبحانه وتعالى has divided his mercy into 100 portions One portion of that mercy He distributes through all of the creation from the beginning to its end The mercy of the mother for her child The mercy of the strong towards the weak That we see every day embodied all around us And certainly there are strong who exploit the weak But we see manifestations of mercy in this world In incredible and amazing ways But all of that mercy from the beginning of the creation to the end of the creation is just one portion of Allah's mercy The other 99 portions Allah has held back to be reserved to be dispensed amongst us when our account is taken يوم القيام In other words Allah has held back most of his mercy for the next life So that that mercy can envelop us and can shower us and can be an aid for us to enter into paradise 99 out of 100 parts The Prophet ﷺ Reflects that concern for us Every Prophet ﷺ The peace and blessings of Allah upon them were given a prayer All of them used their prayer in this world The Prophet ﷺ Despite the suffering he saw amongst his companions Despite the suffering he knew would befall the ummah after his parting ﷺ In spite of that he held back his prayer for the Day of Judgment so that he could pray for our salvation ﷺ This shows how the compassion and mercy that Allah has for us وقانب المؤمنين رحمة and Allah is merciful to the believers that the Prophet ﷺ was a perfect human reflection of that And he is also described بالمؤمنين رأوف رحيم He is compassionate and merciful to the believers So if we understand that and if we understand the other great virtues of the Prophet ﷺ We love him And if we love him we follow him Because love a function of love is obedience A function of love is longing and desire So المحبة cannot be separated from إرادة And محبة can be separated from طاعة These concepts they are linked So if we love the Prophet we follow him ﷺ But in following him we are demonstrating Our love for Allah ﷺ So Allah ﷺ He links love And he links obedience When he says in the Qur'an قُد Say to them او محمد قُد فتبعوني يحببكم الله يوفيركم ومباكم والله غفر رحيم So he links Three things Love In two manifestations And obedience So he links The love His love إن كنتم تحبون الله Our love For Allah ﷺ قل إن كنتم تحبون الله This is linked To the following Or obedience to the Prophet ﷺ فتبعوني Say to them If indeed you love Allah Then follow me And then that following Of the Prophet ﷺ Is linked to something greater So Our love for Allah ﷺ Leads to something greater Our following The Prophet ﷺ Why do we say something greater Because this is a proof Of our love for Allah So the proof is greater Than the claim We can say I love Allah Just like some of us say To our wives Or our husbands Or I love you I love you I love you What's the proof You love her But you treat her In despicable ways You love him But you never cook for him You love him But the house is dirty When he comes home That's called a Dawah Not Dawah تأمربوته with ألف ألف مقصورة دعوة Which is just a claim It has no real validity And it is usually used in a negative sense It's a claim That's not accompanied with action It's just empty words I love you I love you So Allah تعالى He demands proof كل إن كنتم تغيبون الله And this was said To a group of hypocrites And a group of those who disbelieved قابل الأشراف وعطباؤ The followers of قابل الأشراف They said as Allah recording in the Quran نحنو أولياء الله أولياء الله وحباؤ We are the beloved of Allah And we are the friends of Allah نحنو أولياء الله وحباؤ And we are those who love Allah And so the Prophet ﷺ was instructed To tell them If this is true for them, follow me Otherwise it's an empty claim And so we should ask ourselves Are we true in our claim of love For Allah سبحانه وتعالى And the answer is easy Are we following the Prophet ﷺ Ask yourself Do you want to smell like the Prophet ﷺ Or do you want to smell like something produced by Brut Or Revlon or Max Factor or who knows what Do you want to dress like the Prophet ﷺ And not necessarily in the style That was prevalent amongst the Arabs The Izara and the Redaq The upper and lower cloth That they covered their nakedness with But the standards introduced by the Prophet ﷺ Lose clothing Beautifying clothing Form-fitting clothing Dignified clothing Or do you want to dress based on the standards Set by Hollywood And we know who controls Hollywood Undignified clothing Coating that reveals the aura of people Coating that Imitates poverty But you have to be rich to buy it Like ripped up blue jeans And it's not sufficient This is how sheath on And it's all the act they exploit And make fools of us It's not sufficient to wear your own blue jeans Until they wear out And then you have a pair of ripped up blue jeans You have to pay $150 or $200 To buy some fake ripped up blue jeans It's the epitome of insanity But is that your model Is that the tight fitting skinny jeans Is that your model If it is, ask yourself Ask yourself Where is your love for Muhammad? Say to them If indeed you love Allah then follow me Follow me And so The following of the Prophet ﷺ Is higher than the claim of love And the reward for following the Prophet ﷺ Is higher Than following the Prophet ﷺ And that's the love of Allah For you For us قول إن كنتم تهبون الله هفت تبيعوني يحببكم الله و يأفيركم بنوبك And so that leads to the love of Allah For us And the forgiveness of our sins And these are two separate things So we all know A young man A young lady From we were young women And we were young women From we were had puppy love So we loved somebody For the first time We knew our love was worthless And our love could even be a source of torment If they didn't love us We tormented I love her so much For right now You'll all grow it in six months But right now I love her so much But I'm tormented That love isn't a source Of elevation It's not a source of bliss It's not a source of felicity It's a source of torment Because she doesn't love me She won't write back When I send her these notes She won't even look at me When I pass her in the hallway So What is the value of love If it's not reciprocated But if she loved you Oh boy I love you You're on cloud nine If Allah loves us We're beyond the clouds There's no number of the clouds You're beyond the clouds You love Allah And then What does Allah do A lot of people They don't notice this They love you And forgive you And forgive you Allah loves you And forgives you sins And what is the virtue of that Besides the obvious The obvious We won't have to carry these sins When we're judged But the sin When we sin It stays our heart And when it stays our hearts Our hearts are darkened over And when our hearts are darkened over We can't perceive Allah And the purity of His splendor So when Allah forgives our sins Then as the stain Is removed from our heart And then our hearts are sensitive And receptive To Allah سبحانه وتعالى And we can behold Allah The basira Of our hearts is pure And then the purity Of Allah's love Can penetrate to our hearts Because they're not darkened By the stain of sin Our love is elevated That's that much higher Our love is that much pure Our love is that much powerful In terms of its impact On our heart On our soul On our very being يَوْ فِيرَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ أَفُرْ رَحِيمْ And Allah is forgiving and merciful That and Allah So Our following, our messenger And our messenger Is opening up the gateway For us to Allah صلى الله عليه و سلم This is the value of the moment We say What do we say? يَا إِمَمَا وُسْلِ يَا سَنَدِ يَا اَنتَرْ بَعَبُو اللَّهِ مُ Queen ofим You are the gate leading to Allah سبحانه وتعالى He's the gate, leading to Allah Of the Love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى هذه هي الأفرقات التي الله يعطينا. وهم يفرقون ويقرأون في هذه السنة. أخيين ومأخيين لا تتبعون هذه السنة بحيث تفكير على المفتاح في العالم المساعدة. سلطة الله وعليه السلام. لا تتبعون هذه السنة بحيث تفكير على المفتاح عن أحباء الله سبحانه وتعالى. الله تعالى يحبنا نتكلمنا. يحب and إرادا. هؤلاء المحب والإرادا. عند الله تعالى يحبنا. يحببكم الله يريدون جيد لنا. يردون بنا الخير والخيرات. الله يريدون جيد لنا. الله يريدون سمواتنا. الله يريدون تفكير على المفتاح. This is the implication of Allah's love for us. And if Allah wants to go for us, there's no one who can deny it. Allah wants guidance for us. This is an implication of His love. There's no one who can lead us astray. When Allah is there astray, there's no one to guide. And whoever Allah has guided, there's no one. And whoever Allah guides, there's no one to lead astray. We need the guidance of Allah. We live in a time where the forces attempting to lead us astray are probably stronger than they've ever been in the history of humanity. Those forces of materialism are stronger than they've ever been. The forces of consumerism are stronger than they've ever been. And we mentioned an example of that. I don't think you can find in human history a time where people would spend money to buy fake ripped up clothes. They just wear their own ripped up clothes before the industrial revolution, most people have one or two garments. The industrial revolution made all of this possible. They ripped up, they just wear it, put a patch on it. Now we pay money for ripped up clothing. We pay money for clothing with patches on it. And our own ripped up clothing will throw away, will discard. And we won't even put a patch on the ripped up clothing. We'll go buy a blazer with patches on the elbows when our own elbows that we've worn out over the last 5, 6, 10 years we won't even put a patch on it and wear that. We'll throw it in the garbage and go to the store to buy a brand new blazer with patches on the elbows for fashion. I don't think you can find a time in human history when people behave like this. The forces of Shaytan are stronger than they've ever been. The forces of sexual promiscuity, both heterosexual and homosexual are stronger than they've ever been. There was a time when only prostitutes dress like prostitutes. Now it's fashionable for most women to dress like prostitutes advertising their bodies. Have we had a time like this in human history? And you combine all of this at the same time, the assault of Shaytan, the four great enemies of the human of Ben An-Nish at Dunya, Al-Hawa, when Nafs was Shaytan, Nafs الشحواني البهيني is appealed to like it's never been appealed to. The Hawa, just follow whatever is suggested to you. You go to Las Wages or Las Vegas a big sign awaits you. Surrender to your desires. Just follow your Hawa. If it says to spend all your money gambling, forget about your bills. Forget about your children's tuition. Just follow, surrender to your desires. The Dunya and the materialism, Shaytan, the Nafs, the Hawa, they're all calling the person a stranger. And in a time like this, we need to buttress and strengthen ourselves to hold on to our religion. And to do that, we have to follow the way of our Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم. Here's our fortress against these forces that have been unleashed against us. Here's the protection and the barrier, the shield rather, to ward them off. Here's the way to Allah, سبحانه وتعالى, This is the ultimate source of protection. We need our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم like we've never needed him. We need the protection of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم like we've never needed him. We need to follow and adhere to and cling doggedly to the way of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as he instructed us. عليكم بسنة والسنة الخلفاء رحشدين المهتيين عدو علي هبنواجه It's incumbent upon you to follow my way in the way of my rightly guided predecessors or successors. Biden to them with your Haiti. عدو علي هبنواجه Claim doggedly to them. Hold on to them with all of your might. Biden to them. Don't let anyone rip it away from you. ملللا جبا ستوفيك. مللا ألفي لس. ملللا بلسس to realize the value and the virtue of this Prophet he sent to us صلى الله عليه وسلم He is the gate to Allah. He is the key to Allah. تحالس love. He is the passport we need to enter in. We need to enter into the fortress that Allah Taala provides for us. ملللا تعالى جبا ستوفيك. أقولوا قولوا قولي هالا وستغفر معه فيه ولكم ولسائر المؤمنين يقولوا يستغفروا الله. بللله ربنا هالمين وسلاد والسلام على سيد المجسنين سيدنا وحبيبنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليم كثيرة إن الله ملائك تهو يسالون على النبي يا أي وهل الذين آمنوا سدوا عليه وسلموا تسليمه ما الله مصلي وسلم وبارك على سيد وحبيبنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليم كثيرة. الحمد لله. لذلك نتكلم في هذه الخطب love of the Prophet and the love of Allah but our love as a believer is completed by a third love. So we love Allah والذين آمنوا وشدوا حبا لله and we love the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يؤمنوا أحدكم حتى أكون أحب إليه من ولاده ووالده ومن والده ووالده والناس يجمعون. No one will truly believe until I'm more beloved to him than his father, his son and all of humanity and the magnitude of this love. These two loves are emphasized or illustrated when the desert Arab came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم جان عربي إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فساله يا رسول الله فقال صلى الله عليه وسلم ما عددت لها قال ما عددت كفرة صلاة وصيام ولا صيام إلا إني رحب الله ورسوله قال صلى الله عليه وسلم المره مع من أحبب وانت مع من أحبب ومره مع من أحبب لذا the desert Arab came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him when is the hour and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what have you done to prepare for it it doesn't matter when the time is what matters is that you're ready whenever it comes and he said I've been prepared an abundance of prayer and fasting but I do love Allah and his messenger and he said صلى الله عليه وسلم you will be the one you love you will be the one you love so this illustrates to us the weightiness of the love of Allah and his messenger but there's a third love that all of us should concern ourselves with Allah تعالى mentions in the Quran and again to emphasize the weightiness of what he says he introduces it by instructing his Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he says you love Allah say to them and another verse where the love of Allah is mentioned Allah تعالى mentions باقوك وأبناغك وأخوانك وأزواجك وعشرةكم وأمأموان نقترافتموها وتجارة تخشون كسادها ومساكن تردونها أحب إليكم من الله و رسولي و جهاد في سبيل فتربصوا حتى يتي الله بأمر و الله لا يهدي القومة الفاسقين سريتنا محمد if it be that your parents mentioned the fathers specifically or your children mentioned the sons specifically or your siblings mentioned the brothers specifically or your spouses mentioned the wives specifically or your kin folks the business the wealth what you had in Fisa Bili for the glory of Allah and the glory of the messenger of Allah and we don't want anything from the people for the glory of Allah و يتعيمون الطعام على حبيه مسكينة و يتيما و أسيرة إنما نتعيمكم لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة إنها نخافم الربنا يوم و حبوسا قبطة ريرا we don't want any thanks or appreciation we're doing it for Allah but we have to strive في سبيل الله what you had in Fisa Bili what you had in Fisa Bili so just as we asked ourselves is our love true let us ask ourselves am I using this life the skills, the talent the ability, the time that Allah has given me to do something positive for Islam and if we find the answer is not what it should be we should do everything in our power to rectify it so that we can meet Allah SWT and the fullness of his love is radiating from us the love of Allah and the love of the messenger of Allah who is striving in his cause اللهم اغفروا المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأحياء منهم ولا موت ربنا لا تذكروا بنا بعد ذهبتنا و هبلنا باللدونقة رحمة إنك انت الوحاب ربنا افرق علينا الصبر والثبت اقدامنا ونصرنا على القوم الكافرين ربنا افرق علينا الصبر وثبت اقدامنا وتوفنا المسلمين ورحمنا انت مولانا تنصرنا على القوم الكافرين اللهم انا نعوذ بك من الهم والحزن ونعوذ بك من العجز والكسل ونعوذ بك من الجبن والبخل ونعوذ بك من غلب الدين وقهر الرجال اللهم اقسم لنا من خشية كما تعوذ به بيننا و بينما عصيك ومن طاعتك متبلغونا بها جنة ومن أن يقين ما يهون وعلينا مصعب الدنيا ومتعنا بأسمائنا وأقصارنا وقواتنا ما احيتنا وجعه الورث مننا وجعه ثقرنا على منظلمنا ونصرنا على منعداننا ولا تجعل مصعبةنا في ديننا ولا تجعل الدنيا اكبر رحمنا ولا مبلغ عمنا وعلينا بذنوبنا من لا يخفك ولا يرحمنا يا أحم الراحمين وعفو عنا وافتلانا ورحمنا أنت مولانا فانصرنا على القوم الكافرين سبحان ربك رب العزة أما يصفون والسلام علي المرسلين والحمد لده ربنا لبين والصلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم أقيم السفلات يا رحمي