 Assalamu alaikum rahmatullah. It's an honor and privilege to be in this beautiful company and it's a madean of muhabba. It's an arena of love and so the the hearts are warmed and it's really you know we we ask Allah to include us in the prophetic description of such gatherings of His remembrance that the Sikina descends tranquility and the angelic presence is there the angels are present and the mercy of Allah Ta'ala envelops us and that Allah Ta'ala himself remembers us in his the Malil Aala. Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was a prophet of hope and optimism and it's difficult to read the seerah the blessed life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam except that one is filled with the sense of awe at the at the hope of of our blessed Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in his Lord. He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that I can just hold it maybe. He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the hadith that's related in the musnad of Imam Ahmad. He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that there's no such thing as superstition or bad omens bad luck these kind of things they have no they have no reality but I love optimism and optimism is a goodly pure word or pure statements good speech and the scholars clarify that if one is trying to fulfill a need and in that process Allah Ta'ala takes them such that they encounter a person of righteousness such that you know the a place or a time in which it occurs is there's something of barakah then it is from the sunnah to actually intuit from that positivity that Allah Ta'ala is helping that person and that Allah Allah will deliver them from whatever you know difficulty that they're in and another principle that is from the prophetic way is rajah which is hope in the divine and Imam Qashayli he says that rajah is qurb al qalb min mulatafat al rabb it is for the heart to be near to the subtle grace of the divine in other words to intuit the omnipresent subtle mercy and grace of Allah Ta'ala that imbues this cosmos and my mercy encompasses every single thing and so no matter how difficult a situation might appear to be it is not divorced from the divine mercy the divine mercy is ever present if we are open if we have that hope that optimism to intuit it to recognize it to embrace it and you know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam his optimism was grounded in his perception of divine beauty and he was the most perceptive of divine beauty he was the most cognizant the one who recognized the most the beauty of Allah Ta'ala sallallahu alayhi sallam and thus whatever challenges and difficulties he faced as we read in the seerah he was never you know unsettled sallallahu alayhi sallam and in as much as he's he was the most perceptive of the divine beauty sallallahu alayhi sallam he was also the most reflective of the divine beauty such that the people who are blessed to be around him as believers the companions Allah be pleased with them they could intuit that sublime reflection of Allah's Nur in his blessed person so his luminosity his radiance there are over 40 companions and contemporaries of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam that described him as luminous and you know the Al-Bara' ibn Azib one of the companions as is related in Bukhari and Muslim that he said I never saw anything more beautiful than God's Messenger and they would even perceive it from his blessed speech sallallahu alayhi sallam so Ibn Abbas relates a hadith that's in the Shamail that in the Shamail of Imam Tirmidhi radhullah wa anhumah that kana Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi sallam aflaj athaniyatain that the blessed Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam had a small gap between his middle teeth and this is something the Arabs considered very handsome a signifying beauty and he said that when the Prophet would speak sallallahu alayhi sallam that it would be seen as light emanating from between those blessed teeth sallallahu alayhi sallam and Abu Huraira radhullah anhu in the hadith of Tirmidhi that Tirmidhi also relates radhullah anhu that he said I never saw anything more beautiful than God's Messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam and he said it was as if the sun itself were flowing in his blessed face sallallahu alayhi sallam and the great companion Jabir Ibn Samura also in the Shamail of Imam Tirmidhi radhullah that he said in Sahih Muslim he said kana wajhuhu sallallahu alayhi sallam مثل الشمس والقمر he said that the blessed face of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was like the sun and the moon was like the sun and the moon and the same companion Jabir Ibn Samura radhullah anhu in the Shamail of Imam Tirmidhi he says that on one night he says radhullah sallallahu alayhi sallam he says one night I saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and it was a it was a night that was moonlit from the beginning to the end of the night idhayyan means imam jasuh says it's it the the moon was bright from the beginning to the end of the night and he says and he was wearing a red garment and he says and so I started looking at him sallallahu alayhi sallam and at the full bright luminous moon back and forth back and forth and he says radhullah anhu the lamb is for on earth it's like saying by Allah he sallallahu alayhi sallam in my estimate in my opinion in my view was far more beautiful than the moon and the ulama clarified that when he says it's not as if it was only his opinion but he's taking sharaf tasharruf it's like this is this is in me it with me is his is that he is better than the moon sallallahu alayhi sallam and some of the ulama say that these comparisons to the sun and the moon that the tamfil is actually reversed it's an inverted comparison so so in the wording is that he is like the sun sallallahu alayhi sallam he is like the moon but in reality the ulama say some of the scholars say that the sun and the moon were like him right because which one is higher in luminosity which one is higher in radiance and this is why the there's a poet imam salihi in his subul al-huda wa rasha the 12 volume book of seerah beautiful book of seerah he cites one of the great poets he says that wa lima la yudi'u bika al wujudu wa layluhu wa fihi sabahun min jamalika musfiru wa bi shamsi husnika kullu yawmin mushrikun wa bi badri wa bi badri wajhika kullu laylin mukmiru sallallahu alayhi sallam that he says he says why is it not the case why would it not be the case that the entire cosmos it's day and its night is lit up through you because every morning it's from your jamal it's from your beauty that the that the day gives its light and he says and so it's from the sun the shams the sun of your beauty that every day gives light and it's from the full moon of your blessed face that the night has a moon that night sallallahu alayhi sallam so he is the usul and every beauty in the world is a refraction a reflection of his usul is of his light sallallahu alayhi sallam and uh sheikh abduhaki murad i think he has a contention that i don't fully understand but it's around it hovers around this meaning that uh every perception of beauty every perception of beauty is a prayer upon the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and so when we witness beauty in the world we are capturing something we are recognizing something of that supreme usul sallallahu alayhi sallam and so how could he and his companions not be anything but hopeful sallallahu alayhi sallam and so then we reflect on the seerah and we see that with all that luminosity sallallahu alayhi sallam with all that radiance sallallahu alayhi sallam that time and time again whatever negativity whatever darkness that he that he encountered in the world it did not it did not affect him it did not move him away from his connection with his lord from his trust in his lord sallallahu alayhi sallam and so for example that the uh when the early in the in the muckin period when the qureish in their in their vehemence in their vileness they started writing poetry against him sallallahu alayhi sallam and they they were so it's so much calamity so much slander against him that they even changed his blessed name so his blessed name is muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam which linguistic means the one that is praised so much the one that is receiving so much praise so they switched it and they made it you know safr aladim mudhammam which is the opposite meaning and so then they were spreading this horrible poetry and using that false name instead of his true name and so he's sitting with the companion sallallahu alayhi sallam as is related an authentic hadith that musnad ibn ahmad that he says sallallahu alayhi sallam afala ta'jabun sallallahu alayhi sallam he says isn't it amazing that it's an optimism look at the look at the positivity sallallahu alayhi sallam he said isn't it amazing how Allah ta'ala diverted the the slander and the and the and the you know the the calamity of qureish away from me because they're directing all of that stuff against someone named mudhamma mudhammam but that's not my name my name is muhammad subhanallah like he he sees all that radiance so he could only see the noor he could only see the light of Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam later in the seerah then the muckin period for 10 years every in the mawasim every haj season he would go and make dawah sallallahu alayhi sallam inviting all of these big tribes up to a dozen or more tribes and clans of tribes that were visiting from around arabia and he was making inviting them to islam preaching the oneness of Allah ta'ala and then asking them if they would support him because of all the persecution in makkah sallallahu alayhi sallam and in the tabaqat of ibn sa'ad he says he relates that abul lahab would be following him wherever he goes and then he would be slandering him right afterwards so he so that the the you know his attempt to make dawah would be affected so people would say well if that's his own family so they would get hesitancy and then he said sallallahu alayhi sallam the dua he says Allahumma lo shittah lam yakunu haqadah subhanallah he his you know he is he is always with his lord sallallahu alayhi sallam so he says oh Allah if you willed they would not have been like this referring to abul lahab and and whoever reacted in a negative way oh Allah had you willed they would not have been like this because Allah ta'ala is in his dominion is the cosmos which includes the heart of every every human being if there's any person that is causing us problems we have to recall this sunnah of recognizing that Allah ta'ala is in full control of that person's heart and this is why one of some of the one of the inheritors of our prophet sallallahu sallallahu alayhi sallam abubakir alwarraq a great imam from balkh he died 240 after hijrah rahimullah ta'ala a man once came to him and said i'm afraid of so and so and he said la takhaf min hu fa inna kulla kalbi fa inna kulla kalbi mantakhafuhu biyadi mantarjuhu that he says that do not be afraid of him because the heart of every individual that you fear is in the grasp of the one that you hope in the heart of every individual that you fear is in the control of the one that you have hope in and another inheritor of our prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and when we learn from the inheritors we're learning from the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam because as umam busiri one of my blessed teachers he passed away last year sheikh Ahmad jamal rahimullah ta'ala he taught us when we asked him about different imams taking from different imams he said so the line from the burda that all of them are taking a scoop from the ocean of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam or a sip from his continuous rain so the great imams and the and the ulama and the oli of our tradition they are reflecting that light the light of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam his his hidaya and so another inheritor of our prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam qasim al khasasi he's a great moroccan one of the salliheen of morocco he died 1083 after hijrah and he's one of the six shadulis that are buried together in fez rahimullah ta'ala he once taught his student a student came to him with a similar problem he said he says never become overly preoccupied with someone who is harming you someone who is causing you problems rather be preoccupied with Allah and the sunnah the sunnah as we take the means we we we don't become you know a punching bag for people trying to harm us so we take the means of protection but what occupies our mind what occupies our heart so the great imam is saying do not let your heart and mind be overwhelmed preoccupied with the one who is showing animosity to you rather be preoccupied with Allah ta'ala and if you are preoccupied with Allah Allah will divert that person away from you because Allah is the one originally who stirred that person incited that person against you to test your claim to be sincere to test your claim of sincerity and so we have to always return to Allah ta'ala whatever child this is a beautiful sunnah and the one of the essential principles of optimism of of our blessed prophet a prophet of hope and so that the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam we know the stories of the hijrah and that when abu bakr urdu anu they were in the cave in jabb al thawr and abu bakr says that yara sullallah if they just look down they were above them if they just look down they're going to see us and what does the prophet say sallallahu alayhi sallam he's with Allah ta'ala his preoccupation is he he's the what is occupying his blessed heart sallallahu alayhi sallam in a time where anyone else would be you know completely filled and replete with anxiety he says oh abu bakr what do you think of two Allah is their third and as imam tahir Allah preserve him cited earlier from surah to toba this is the this is the essential foundation of optimism and prophetic hope and the other hadith of dur thur later in the madinah period when he went out once on an expedition sallallahu alayhi sallam against one of the clans of ghatafan and he rested under a tree and hung his blessed sword and the head of that clan dur thur in some narrations dur thur in others gharath there's discrepancy what his name was ibn al hadith al muharibi he came and he grabbed the sword and he pointed it at the blessed sallallahu alayhi sallam and the prophet opens his eyes sallallahu alayhi sallam and the man says man yam na'uka minni who's gonna who's gonna protect you from me now and in the hadith authentic hadith in riyadh sallahin and bukhari muslim he says allah sallallahu alayhi sallam and in one narration three times allah allah allah ibn allan the commentator of riyadh sallahin says he said it three times out of joy in enjoying the the remembrance of allah like subhan allah and we don't really know our prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam we we just have like subhan allah may allah give us more knowledge of allah and his messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam with his lot of his pannu ta'ala so so it's and and and then the sword drops and the prophet raises it and says man yam na'uka minni who's gonna stop you from me and the man says kuna khaira akhid you know be be graceful and and you know spare me and said the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam the man agrees to stop fighting the man agrees to stop fighting the muslims and the prophet says you can go the man goes back sallallahu alayhi sallam he just attempted to take his blessed life the man goes back he says to his people jid tukum bin indi khairin nas i have come to you from the best of people sallallahu alayhi sallam this is this luminosity look at his optimism because he is so grounded in the remembrance of allah ta'ala and it's the remembrance of allah ta'ala that he emphasized so much that the campaign companions so he said once on the way back they passed the mountain this hadith in sahi muslim sallallahu alayhi sallam and he said sabaq al-mufarridun you know those people who isolate themselves regularly for the for devotion those people who isolate themselves regularly for devotion and the remembrance of god they have outstripped everyone and the companions this term they weren't sure what it meant they said what is the description of these people oh god's messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam he said man and women that make plentiful and sincere remembrance of allah ta'ala and in the riewaya of imam tirmidi he said he said the people that are immersed in the remembrance of allah such that the the remembrance of allah lifts for them their burdens right it lifts for them their burdens the burdens of sin that weigh us down such that they arrive on the day of judgment light and easy such that they arrive on the day of judgment light and easy and he said sallallahu alayhi sallam in the hadith of ibn maja that hadith qutsi he cited his lord sallallahu alayhi sallam says i'm with my servant when he makes remembrance of me and his two lips move with my with my vikr i'm with my servant when he makes remembrance of me and his two lips move with my with me with my remembrance and in the version of sahih al-bukhari it's connected to a good opinion of allah that allah ta'ala says according to the hadith i'm in the opinion of my servant of me and i am with him when he makes remembrance of me so the good opinion of allah which is the foundation of optimism is conjoined to the remembrance of allah so we have to be people who regularly invoke the divine in in in in beyond the obligations the obligations are the foundation and then beyond that to cultivate a consistent habits of remembrance of god this opens the heart illuminates the heart such that the prophetic optimism can can can transpire and so hosna dan billah having a good opinion of allah ta'ala malik ibn dinar one of the tabi'in he was seen in a dream after his death and they said the man in the dream he said asked him what did allah do with you he says qadim tu ala rabbi dhunub kathira he says i i arrived to my lord with many many sins but they were all erased because of my good opinion of him they were all erased because of my good opinion of him and the prophet ta'ala sallallahu alayhi sallam in sahih muslim la yamu tanna let none of you die we all know people that passed away this last year he said sallallahu alayhi sallam let none of you die except having the best having a beautiful opinion of of allah ta'ala let none of you die except this is a command let none of you die except while having a beautiful opinion of allah ta'ala and in some the rivayat he said this three days before he passed away sallallahu alayhi sallam and the sheikh al akbar he says that this is proof that we should have a good opinion in each of our breaths we should have a beautiful opinion of allah with every breath that we take because we don't know which breath will be our last and so it's impossible to fulfill this hadith to get to be guaranteed to fulfill this hadith unless one is always having a good opinion of allah ta'ala so we ask allah ta'ala to make us prophetic in our optimism in our lord in our hope of allah in allah ta'ala we ask allah ta'ala to illuminate our hearts with his remembrance and with love of allah and his messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam and that translates to beautiful service of his creation we ask allah ta'ala to make his people who adorn our hearts with the beautiful opinion of him such that we are those that our prophet is pleased with