 Allah swt says that the Prophet ﷺ is more dear to the believers than even their own selves. That is to say the believers prefer the life of the Prophet ﷺ over their own selves. Sayyidina Ali, Allah waw wajah, he said, He said that the Prophet ﷺ was more dear to us than everything, even more so than cold water. And the analogy here, cold water is an analogy for life in the desert area. In other words, the Prophet ﷺ was more dear to the Sahaba and to the believers than life itself. Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, he said one day to the Prophet ﷺ, I hope that Abu Talib becomes Muslim over Abu Tuhafa. I hope that Abu Talib, your uncle, the man who raised you, becomes Muslim over Abu Tuhafa. Who is Abu Tuhafa? This is the father of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq. I hope that your uncle becomes a Muslim over my uncle. You understand the import of this statement. I hope that your uncle goes to Jannah over my father because that may make you happy, O Messenger of God. And your happiness is my happiness. When the Sahaba used to laugh, when the Prophet ﷺ used to laugh, the Sahaba used to laugh. When he used to cry, they used to cry. They were annihilated in the Akhla, in the Adha, in the Khurdah of the Prophet ﷺ. There's an epidemic going around the Muslim world. Muslims are leaving the religion. A lot of people are becoming Muslim too. Alhamdulillah, I heard up to 20,000 people every year in America become Muslim. A lot of people are leaving the religion. There's a lot of apostasy. And this isn't just a youth. I mean, the old people and the young people, they're leaving the religion. I think part of the reason for this is because we're not experiencing our faith. Right? There's two types of love according to the ʻIrmah and the ʻMuḥaddatīn in regards to the Hadith. When the Prophet ﷺ, another of you, is a perfect believer in the ʻIrmah and the ʻMuḥaddatīn. That his parents and his children are all of humanity. There's a type of love called ʻHurq al-Ali, a love that is based on the rational faculty. That we love the Prophet ﷺ because we know that it's good for us. But then, we're supposed to convert this type of love into a ʻHurq that is based on imam, which is called ʻMahabah. We love the Prophet ﷺ because it's worthy to be loved. But we need to get there. And how do we get there? There's two ways of getting there. According to the ʻIrmah, the first way is to have ʻMaʿifah to know who the Prophet ﷺ is. We have to know about him. And every book I mentioned, they sound like a broken record, but I think this is extremely important. The people have to read. They study the ʻSirah of the Prophet ﷺ. Know the biography of the Prophet ﷺ. He studies so many different things, but we don't study the ʻSirah. What are the names of the children? What are the names of his imminent companions? Study the ʻSirah of the Prophet ﷺ. Study the ʻSasais, the special qualities of the Prophet ﷺ. His distinctions between the messenger. His distinctions between the messenger. Study the beautiful character, the ʻShama'ah of the Prophet ﷺ. His inward and outward manifestations. So that we can move into ʻMaʿah of the Prophet ﷺ. So we can taste our faith. We can have ʻTafqeeq. We can have ʻAqqalization of our faith. The ʻSahabah did not meet the religion after ʻMuhammad ﷺ. The words of apostasy that happened at the caliphate of ʻMuhammad ﷺ. First of all, there was ʻMuhammad ﷺ. Secondly, they didn't leave the religion. It was political treason. It was political apostasy. They did not leave the religion. This is a misnomer. So they experienced the transformative nature of the ʻMuhammad ﷺ reality. This is what we need to sustain our faith. To have the sustainability for our youth and for our older ones as well. And we have to taste our faith. We taste the love of the Prophet ﷺ. Because he is a ʻSahabah. He is a means by which ʻAllah swt has guided us. And once we taste that, we'll never go back. That's why we have that prayer. These are a few things I mentioned in the other verses a few weeks ago. Because we're studying the ʻSeerah. I'll mention them again. They think they're very important. First of all, for my own benefit, I'd like to extend it to all of you. When the Prophet ﷺ, he entered into Madinah al-Munawwar during the hijrah, the women and children came out and they started singing a eulogy about them. ʻTadah ʻAn-Badru ʻAnaynana. The white maroon has risen over us. This is how they used to talk about the Prophet ﷺ. The white maroon and its beauty is an analogy from the beautiful face of the Prophet ﷺ. And he was more beautiful than a phobu and ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi wa ʿAlayhi wa ʿAlayhi wa ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi. The white maroon has risen over us. And it's upon us to show ʻShukr paraphrasing the eulogy. We don't have time to go into it. But one of the things that they said about them, ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi wa ʿAlayhi wa ʿSallallahu ʿalayhi, that we give ʻShukr wajima ʻAlayna. That it is wajima ʻAlayna to give ʻShukr for this blessing of ʻAllah ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi wa ʿAlayhi, sending us this da'i, this one who calls us to ʻAllah ʻSallallahu ʿAlayhi wa ʿAlayhi. If you look in the Quran, ʻAllah ʻSallallahu ʿAlayhi wa ʿAlayhi, ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi wa ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu ʿalayhi, quite often he uses indefinite now. Now ʻSallallahu ʿAlayhi wa ʿAlayhi, indefinite. Because this according even now is in form of a superlative. To ʻAllah ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi wa ʿAlayhi, he says, You are a great, great warrior and someone who gives glad tidings and someone who is a college for ʻAllah ʻSallallahu ʿalayhi, car excellence and a light or a lamp that illuminates a lamp that spreads light. What happens when you come into the presence of a lamp? You are affected by the light. There was a companion in ʻHadzala ʿRuqya ʿAllah ʿTan'anhu who came to Abu Bakr ʿSattif ʿRuqya ʿAllah ʿTan'anhu one day. And he said, I've become a hypocrite. And the sahabah, they feared we thought they had tawadwar. They had humility. You know the Prophet ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi told me the names of the ʿMunātah ʿTan'i he would write right now. Said the ʿMunātah ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi he used to come to her day and they said ʿAllah ʿAlayhi ʿMunātah ʿTan'anhu Did the Prophet ʿMunātah ʿTan'i mention you? Is my name mentioned? He said, No, you are ʿMunātah ʿMunātah. Of course you are ʿMunātah ʿMunātah ʿTan'i. Did he mention you? This is from the ʿTawadwar Of the ʿsahābah So he said He said because when I was in the presence of the Prophet ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu ʿAlayhi ʿSallallahu I feel a spiritual high But when I leave this presence it went and it goes away And he said If you are in that state as you are in my presence You would be shaking hands with angels in the street, inside of his lights, sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam. Won't you experience that? There's no going back. Your entire being, your Ruh has been annihilated in the love of the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam. The Sahabah preferred his life over their life because they loved him more. When the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam came into Medina, Abu Ayyub, he took the baggage of the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam into his own house. And the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam said, he managed his baggage, so he went into the house of Abu Ayyub a'la sallam. And Abu Ayyub had a two-story house. And he put the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam on the ground floor. Because it's easier here to come in and out if people are going to visit him. And then he and his wife were on top in the second floor. And then a few days into the visit, Abu Ayyub said, Subhanallah, you know we're walking over the head of the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam? We're walking above his head. This is what's occurring to the Sahabah. This may not even occur to us. Abu Hanifah did not stretch his feet in the direction of his teacher. He did not even stretch his feet in the direction of his out. You know we're walking on top of the head of the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam? So he came back and said, Allah sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam forgive us for our bad adab. We're walking above her head. He said, no, don't worry about these things. It's easier for me. And they would bring food down in the sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam. He would take the food and sometimes he wouldn't eat the whole plate. So Abu Ayyub and his wife, they would try to determine which corner of the plate was the prophet eating from him. Let's eat from that corner. Subhanallah. This is the love of the Sahabah. Which corner of the plate was he eating from him? Let's eat from that corner. Sometimes he didn't touch the food at all. Then Abu Ayyub al-Azari, afraid that he had reached adab with the prophet sallallahu a'la alaihi sallam would come down. Ya Rasulallah, you didn't touch your food. What did I do? What did my wife do? What happened to the offender? Please forgive us. Please forgive us. You know, when the ayah is revealed in Surah Al-Hujrat, Inna ladina yububduuna asfatofum nda rasunin laf Those who know their voice and the presence of the messenger of Allah, They are the ones whose hearts Allah has tested with taqwa For them this forgiveness and a beautiful reward. Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, after this ayah was revealed, He would only speak to the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam in the whisper. Only in the whisper. Sallallahu alaihi sallam. Abu Ayyub said, what did we do? Did we offend him? You didn't touch your plate. The prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam said, No, there's onions in this. And I conversed with Jibreed alaihi sallam. So I can't eat onions. Alaihi sallam to the Muslim. Many, many years later, Many years later after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, The governor of Medina Marwana Ibu Hakam Who was walking in the road of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, He would become the fourth Umayyad Caliph later on. He's walking in the road and he sees an old man Seated in front of the grave of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. And the old man's head was touching the stone on top of the grave Of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. And he said, he kicked him with his foot. And he said, a tatli mantasna? Do you know what you're doing? And the man looked up. Who was it? I don't know. I don't know. The man who stayed, the prophet stayed in his house For seven months. And he said, be, relax. I visited the prophet. I don't visit stones. I'm visiting the prophet. This is the love of the Sahaba. radiAllahu tana'imu l-ijka'im. When he came into the city, a rabbi from Kaniqa Ibuqa, Abdullah ibn Salaam, he said, when he saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, Araf to Anu wa Jahul, he said, he watched it at that. I can tell from his face, it wasn't the face of a liar. Just looking at his face, as a transformative experience, that beautiful face that Anas ibn Manik said, that on the day of the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam, at Salatul Fajr, we were standing in prayer. They were praying in Saluna. They were in prayer facing south towards the tibla. The prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam was in the apartment of Aisha on the eastern wall of Qashem al-Sitarah. And he picked up the curtain. Anas ibn Manik in his prayer, he turns his face 90 degrees to look into the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. Why? He's worshipping the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam? Hasha lillah. Of course not, because he understands that the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam is the great means by which he can even worship Allah swt. He's the means by which he can even worship Allah swt. And Anas ibn Manik said that his face ka'anna hu ka'anna hu warakatu mushaaf. His face looked like the page of the Qur'an. What is the page of the Qur'an looked like? Beautiful. Full of meanings. Deep meanings. And then the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam went into the prayer of the salam. We have to tell people this. Beautiful hadith when it came into the Deen of Allah. Ya ayyuh al-Nas, afshu sallam wa sallim ta'amah wa sallim al-arhamah wa sallim al-layh wa nasum al-niyam tadhulu jannatabi sallam alayhi sallatu wa sallam He said, oh people spread peace. Share your food. Maintain ties of kinship and pray in the night when other people are sleeping you enter paradise in peace. And you enter in paradise in peace. One laha, one moment one moment with the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. This is what we mean. This is why people are leaving the religion. They don't have that one moment of love, that one moment of actualization of the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam which is truly transformative. The musher jinn made Hassan al-Nufabit their greatest poet. They said, you know what you see, Muhammad denigrate him in one of your poems because the Shuarah was here. If a poet denigrates him in a poem they can stay with you for the rest of your life even after your death and your family for generations. So Hassan al-Nufabit took some a small sum of money to do this. Waited by the road. The prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam walks by. He takes one glance into the face of Al-Habib sallallahu alaihi alaihi sallam. One glance and he walks away. He goes back and says here's your money. I don't want your money. What, you couldn't do a poem? He says, no, I didn't do a poem. Let's hear it. He says, He says when I saw his light approaching his Anwar was approaching I had to put my palm over my eyes. I had to put my palm over my eyes. Khawfan al-Arabasani Minhrisni surah al-Arabi sallallahu alaihi sallam out of fear of losing my eyesight because of the beauty of his form sallallahu alaihi sallam falassu anduruhu il al-Arabatani I can scarcely look at him. Ruhum minan nuri fi jislim minan qamarim. A soul from light a body as if it's carved out of the moon like a man who laid up a woven out of brilliant stars sallallahu alaihi sallam He's a human being but he's not like other human beings. He's a human being. No one is saying the prophet is an angel, a denigah, anything like that. He's a basha. What is the genus of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam? Basha. Basha. What is our genus? Basha. Inna manfa inna manfa basharum isna kum. You have a lady. But he's a diamond. A diamond is also a stone. Right? But it's not like other stones. The prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam is a human being but he's not like other human beings. He is a diamond while everyone else is like a stone. This is what he said. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam said, Inna allahu alaihi sallam He said, Indeed Allah swt has aided Hassan a holy spirit when he eulogized the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam. Our mother Ayesha said, Cana sallallahu alaihi sallam, Yad da'rulu. Yad da'rulu. He Hassan minbaran fi masjid. That Hassan had a minbaran pulpit in the prophet's mosque where he would eulogize the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallallam. They prefer his life over their own lives. They want to be with him sallallahu alaihi sallam. For the sake of Allah swt on the authority of Anas in humanity who is khadrul Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He is the servant of the messenger of Allah. He served the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for 10 years. And the eulogist say, After a while, after a while a man or woman starts to take on the qualities of the meaning of their name. Anas comes from punts, which means intimacy. This is someone who is very intimate. He loved the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Anas is humanic. Anas is son of a king. The son of a king. He is walking around. One hadith says the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at night went outside. Anas was following him at night. In the middle of the night. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he sees Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. In the middle of the night is Mancha Abidya Aba Bakr. While he is marching out of Abu Bakr. Listen to the answer of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. He is going out in Baydi. Ke'angura wajah Rasulullah. I have left my house. In hopes of seeing the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. In hopes of seeing the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He was in his house. Umru man. His wife said Abu Bakr as-Siddiq in his bed. We are saying washuqah. Washuqah Rasulullah. Oh how longing. How much longing do I have? How much do I long? To see the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. This is his best friend. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. So he goes outside. He goes to the temple maybe to run into the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And he sees him. alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Subhanallah. Al-Wayb al-Lima la yarrani yawm al-Qiyamah. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said woe to the one who will not see me on the yawm al-Qiyamah. And Abu Bakr as-Siddiq said who is the one who is not going to see me? And he said man thukir to indahmu. For them you said the alaihi wa sallam. The one when I mentioned in his presence he doesn't send the addictions upon him. He doesn't say sallallahu alaihi alaihi wa sallam. He doesn't say alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We should get in the habit of doing this inshallah ta'ala. That when you hear his name sallallahu alaihi wa sallam send blessings and peace upon him. This is what it says in the Qur'an. This is our duty to do this. We want to see him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam on the yawm al-Qiyamah. We want to see him in our dreams. Because if we see him in our dreams then we've truly seen him. Sayyidina Bilal he couldn't even survive after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He's on his deathbed. There's no tribulation tomorrow I'm going to see my beloved Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Just a moment with him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam transformed life. There was a woman, a young woman in Medina who had a lot of courage. She was very forward. So she came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam one day and the prophet was sitting on the ground and eating. And she says to him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he said to her sallallahu alaihi wa sallam give me something to eat. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he never refused anyone a request. My plan, he hoped to sat in him. He did not say don't to anyone. We serve them for 10 years. He never said no to anybody. So he put his hand there with some food and she said no I want you to put the food in my mouth. Put the food in my mouth. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said here I'll put it in your mouth. I want the food in your mouth. Put that in my mouth. So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he keeps the food out of his mouth and he puts it in her mouth. In the full lullu lukumah a little piece of food a morsel of food but mixed with the lukumah is the saliva of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And the saliva of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has heaving qualities. You know in the day of khaybah they were in the sahabah where there were 15 days they couldn't even penetrate the first quarter So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam one night and sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he says tomorrow I'm going to give the liwa I'm going to give the battle flag to someone who you love and you love someone who loves Allah in his messenger and he is beloved by Allah in his messenger So the next morning after sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he calls for the liwa and puts it in the ground and he looks out at the audience and everyone is clamoring. So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he has an alphabet he has an inflammation Ramadan in his eyes you can barely see don't worry about it bring him and lead him by the hand to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to lay down on your back the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took some of his blessed saliva and started rubbing the eyes of Sainah alaihi wa sallam he healed him Sainah alaihi wa sallam according to the New Testament according to John Shachar and the New Testament this is one of the reasons why he is called a messiah a messiah means a messiah to rub or do anointing wa jaananeen bubarakan eena maa konjulu sainah alaihi wa sallam in the Quran he is maybe a person of Barakah that I can rub someone over the eyes and they can see me and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because he was blind the man's eye had fallen out of his eye socket and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam replaced the eye so he gave this food to this girl and after this food came into her body they said that no one in the entire city of Medina was more modest than this woman no one in the entire city of Medina should be clothed and velled up in modesty because it was the one lukma that was given to her by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam there was a man who came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam we said Ya Rasulullah I'll do whatever you say but I love to formicate I can't help myself I just love to do it and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said can you imagine someone would do that with your sister your mother and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam put his blessed hand on the chest of this man one moment second when I entered her to see the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I loved fortification more than anything and when I left her it became the most odious thing to me the most odious thing to me why? because of one single small transformative experience with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and you say well now in those on the sahabah we don't have the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam we have the sunnana we have the warathat al-anbiya we have the renama we have to sit with these people we now play these things but not important to sit with the olama I have the internet yes you can use the internet as beautiful one of the great men of tasawuf and one of the great men of shari'a she had a bucket of sallah he said you know these city folk come to me and they're full of themselves you know like an empty cup like a full cup you say when you come to the ornama you should have them yourself forget about what you know what you think you know you should have these ideas when you come you sit in the presence of a saint forget what you know be an empty receptacle and take on the lights these city people come to me full of themselves they sit and they listen to me for hours and hours and they don't benefit anything and then a better one will come a simple better one will come and you'll accidentally urinate on my thigh and I give them one of them one glance and his entire life is changed we have to sit with these people sit with these blessed human beings these are the heirs of the prophets seek them out and benefit from them insha'Allah ta'ala and Sahih Muslu at one time Sayyidina al-Ismi relates that the prophet was giving a khutbah and a man interrupted the khutbah because the prophet made reference to a sa'a and the man says when is the a'a when is the a'a and the prophet is ignored for them at that time and after the prayer he turned around and said where is the one who a'a and the prophet said what did you prepare for the a'a this is what we have to think about don't let the death wake you up don't let the death of your father when you're 50 years old like oh I should start praying my father has died maybe it's your death maybe it's your death the truth of the matter is one day here someone is going to announce your death this is the truth of the matter and it could be any time what did you prepare for the a'a don't worry about the time a lot of people they try to give you a date what they say a few years ago December 21st or something like that no nobody knows the date the most important thing is what did you prepare for not much as far as fasting and prayer he only did the a'a he only did the a'a but I love a'a in his messenger but I love a'a in his messenger and the ma'a man a'a and the ma'a man a'a you'll be with the ones who you love you'll be with the ones who you love and say the a'a I said we've never been happier than when we heard that we have to get to know him get to know him sallallahu alayhi sallam wa a'a wa a'a wa a'a he says he says absolutely the best of creation is our prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam so steer clear of our descendant he is the one who's word reverberated in the highest assembly the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam who's giving a hukba and a man comes into the mustach and he says there is a drought everything is dying our animals are dying the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam raised he blessed hand before he dropped his hand and sahaba said that his beard was soaking wet with rainwater why? because the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is the perfect agent of allah sallallahu alayhi sallam this is the beginning of the hadith that you put so important to have a possibility that my beloved does not become my servant does not do anything more beloved to me than his father alayhi sallam and then he continues to draw nearer to me with his extra credit until I loved him and then I become the either which he sees the foot by which he walks the hand by which he brasss and he's going to ask anything for me I shall surely give it to him this is hadith wudzi so the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam the birds are guided by allah sallallahu alayhi sallam they're guided by allah sallallahu alayhi sallam and allah's messenger are people in their obedience my mother is Rasul fufaqa ta'aba this is not an essential or ontological equality we don't believe in that it's going to be renewal or tihad divine incarnation, things like that with all the respect that christian friends at least the orthodox christian made a major mistake here when they mingled la hutan nasoot divinity and humanity they said they're from the same essence they have the same essential ontological nature no, no one is saying that about the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam what the Quran is saying about the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is, if we obey the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam we are automatically obeyed by allah sallallahu alayhi sallam because they're equal in their obedience so then the same time you're ready there isn't a much to it one week later then you ought to say, well everything is dying there's a flood the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said around us, not above us around us, not above us his words reverberate in the highest assemblies sallallahu alayhi sallam one time he was talking about jibir alayhi sallam and he said, you know what he's having a conversation with jibir alayhi sallam he said, I haven't eaten in days my family hasn't eaten in days and suddenly there was a crash in the heavens a huge crash in the heavens and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was startled by it he said, is it Yom Al-Qiyamah? is this the crash? and jibir alayhi sallam said no, Allah swt what you just said has deployed an angel from the highest assembly and the angel can't be landed and some of the traditions say he was as big as the Kaaba and he says to the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam do you want to be a servant prophet or a king prophet? do you want to be a servant prophet or a king prophet? and he said, I choose to be a servant I choose to be a servant this is our prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and Allah swt he says we can give us that that thubut in our hearts with respect to the love of Allah and his messenger we have that we have that