 Alhamdulillah, we're blessed to be back in performing Juma prayer at a mosque, even though it's outside, it's the city of the mosque. May Allah open the masajids and may Allah open the hearts of the believers to His love. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when He created the human being, He embedded in the human being the potential, the potential of becoming a linsan al-Qamdu, this to reach that level that you take your humanity, your insania to the level of perfection. And every human being has that potential to become what we call an abtradition, a wali or a saint. And if you have met someone like that, and if you get a chance to meet someone, a true wali of Allah, a saint of God, they change your life with just one nathab, with just one glance. They change your life just being in their gathering. This is the nature of the people that they abandon their naths and their desires and their wants and all they become, they become souls. And there are people like that in the history of Islam, and there are people like that until the end of time. One of the people Mawlana Rumi met was Shamsi Dina Tabriz. Shamsi Tabriz was a man who was reached that level of perfection of sainthood. And when he met him, Rumi said, what did you do to me? He said, what did you do to me? You flipped me upside down. He said, no my friend, you've been living your life upside down all your life. You've been living an upside down life, your entire existence. I just turned you right side up. And it's still like this, you'll be fine. It changes life forever, that man that came into his life, changed Mawlana Rumi's life forever that we mentioned, and now 800 years later, and present in California. A man who was born in Afghanistan and died in Konya. But, all of the Awliyaa, they don't even reach the house of the prophets, because the prophets are on another level, they are infallible, and Allah sends down prophets who are perfect human being. And amongst the prophets you have the Ulil Adam, and amongst them you have our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. When the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was born on the 12th of Rabiul Awal, in an hour before Fajr, the earth shouted towards the heaven and said, who's better now? Because the earth is dunya means the lowest of God's creation, that's what the dunya meant. And it was until the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was born, and we know by a jnah of all of the scholars, the greatest place, the most sacred place, the most beautiful place, the highest place, and all of God's creation is the Rabudah Sharif, is the place where the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is buried in Medina Munawwara. There's nothing higher than that. It's higher than the Arsh, the Kursi, all of Samawad, the heavens, and the earth, everything. There's nothing higher than that, and that is our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that he came in, and he put things in order, everything was upside down, and he turned it right side up, because he was an Adib, he came with Adab, and Adab is to put things in their proper perspective, in their proper places, everything he put in the right place, and this is our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who brought dead hearts to life with Kelibutullah ilah illallah wa hamdah Rasulallah, on the 12th of Rabiul Awal. This is the day that we are celebrating his birth, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and all of existence was celebrating his birth, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He also died on that day. He was born on a Monday, the 12th of Rabiul Awal. He died on the same day, on Monday, the 12th of Rabiul Awal, right? He received revelation on Monday as well, it's a blessed day Monday, but when he died on Monday, he actually, you know he got sick on Thursday, and he couldn't lead the prayer, and said Abu Bakr to lead the prayer, and Abu Bakr Sadiq is the only companion that never missed a unit of prayer behind the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, never missed a unit of prayer behind everybody else missed it, except him. The three days of the prophet, he migrated, went to Al-Qar-Hira, it was only Abu Bakr and him, there was nobody there, nobody. Everybody was either migrated before or after, the 12 days they were traveling, it was him, and that's Abu Bakr's Maqam. But the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam died on Monday, and when Israel came, he said he came to visit or take the soul, he said both. And the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, this is in the Kashf al-Asrara, in the commentary of the Quran by Abdullah Al-Sari, may be with his commentary, he said, where's my friend, Jibril, 23 years of friendship with Jibril, that would come almost every day to visit the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and bring revelation. Jibril Ameen, he said, Jibril is in the seventh heaven, and all of the angels are giving ta'zia, condolences to him, because of your departure. And Jibril came immediately to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he said, oh my friend, give me some good news. I want to hear some good news from you. And Jibril said, oh messenger of Allah, all of the angels are lined up from here, from Medina Munawwara, all the way to the seventh heaven, with rahan and with flowers and with beauty, just waiting for your soul to reach them, so they can look at you, your beautiful soul, so they can see you. All of the angels, an untold number of angels, he said, the generosity of Allah is amazing with me. But if that's not what I'm asking for, give me some good news. He said, oh messenger of Allah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has closed the doors of fire, has opened the doors of paradise for you, all of paradise is ready and bright for you, the rivers are flowing, the flowers are blooming, everything is ready for you. He said, oh Jibril, generosity of Allah is amazing, but give me some good news. He said, Allah says, you will be the first to be raised amongst humanity. You will be the first to make shafa'ah. You will be, your shafa'ah will be the first to be accepted on that day of judgment. He said, oh Jibril, give me some good news. The generosity of Allah is amazing, but give me some good news. He said, Ya Rasulullah, what better news than this? What better news than this you want to hear? And you know what the Prophet said? Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said, tell me about my ummah. I want to know about my ummah, the state of my ummah. Bunch of folk are all du'aba, weak people who are trying their best to incriminate the shari'ah, who are trying their best to be a good Muslim, but they're weak. Tell me about their state. I want to know about them. I want to know what's going to happen to them on the day of judgment. This is the man on his deathbed and he's thinking about us. And Jibril says that Allah says that no one, no prophet, no other ummah will enter paradise until you and your ummah enter paradise. And he said, I'm ready now. I'm ready now. You can take my soul now. This is our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and this is why we celebrate him and this is why we love him because he has done so much for us in the dunya. On his last breath he's thinking about us on the best night of his life when he was Isra and Miraj. What did he say to Allah? What am I going to take back to my ummah? Not to my wife, not to my children, not to my sahabahs. No, to my ummah. On his deathbed he's thinking about what about my ummah? What about my ummah? I'm worried about them. He's worried about us. He's worried about us. But Allah will forgive us or not. This is our Prophet and this is why we should love him. He is worthy of falling in love with him. Well, there's anyone worthy of falling in love with him because Allah has chosen him as chosen him as Habibullah, as his beloved. If Allah has chosen him as Habibullah, shouldn't we have him as our beloved? May Allah put his love in our hearts, in our hearts, our families and our community. The love of the Prophet is foundational to our religion, is foundational to our devotion, is foundational to our well-being, is foundational to our success, is foundational to a happy life. We have, some of us have diverted from that. In all of these stories of our Prophet that become an abstract concept, it's not a reality that we live anymore. Most of our children, they don't have connection with the Prophet like our parents did. We don't have connection like our parents and our grandparents. And we're losing that grip. And if we lose that grip, we lose everything. We lose everything. And the love of the Prophet, Sayyidina Maimouna, the wife of the Prophet, who outlived all of the wives according to one narration. She was the last of the wives to die. She died in year 61. She was over 80 years old when she died. She asked on the last days of our lives, she said, I want to move to this place. It's 10 miles outside Mecca, in the middle of nowhere. So they said, why do you want to go there? I said, I just want to move there and stay there. So they moved her and she stayed there. She died there. She was buried there. And many of the people don't know where she's buried, unfortunately. We go, when I go to Alra every time, we visit her first before we perform at Alra. And it's on the middle, on the side of the road. No signs or anything, unfortunately. But anyways, and I ask her, why do you want to live here in the middle of nowhere? And she said, because this is the place where I spend the first night with the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So I want to die in here. Now that's love. Because she had wafa. She had wafa with the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And if you want success, if you want dunya, if you want akhira, whatever you want, Wallahi, if you're a Muslim, you have to have wafa with the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And you will get everything. You will get everything. Allah will give you because you have wafa with His Beloved. He said, What do you want? You want the dunya? You want success? You want to rule the world? Forget about those. I give you the pen and the tablet. Why do you own destiny? What do you want? I give you everything. But we have to be real lovers of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And these days come every year to remind us who he was and what is our responsibility towards the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. To love him, to know him is to love him. And to love him is to know him. We need to read the Sida. We need to read the Shemail. We need to connect with our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and fill our hearts with his love, with his stories. We need to tell our children and our family his stories. Our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that is a living love. It's not a dead love. It's a living love. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May Allah put that love in our hearts, in the hearts of our family, in the hearts of our community, Inshallah. in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.