 Allah SWT, in the Qur'an He speaks directly to the Prophet Muhammad SAW, and He says to him, that indeed you are upon magnificent character, that the fault of the Prophet SAW is adin, which means just something beyond our imagination. More than anything we can possibly think of is the khuluq, the character of the Prophet SAW. So this is important for us to understand what is this great character of the Prophet SAW? How did he interact with his family members, with his wives, even with his enemies. There is a verse in the Qur'an which Allah SWT says, good and evil are not equal. Repel evil with something that is better. Repel evil with something that is beautiful. And then you will see the one between you and him was adawa, which means like hatred or enmity. He was your adoon, your enemy. He will become as it were, your intimate companion and friend. That the khuluq of the Prophet SAW has this power to transform people from hating him to loving him. On his deathbed, he said to his son Abdullah, he said, my dear son, there was a time when I hated the Prophet SAW so much that I went out against him in many of these battles. I was trying to kill him. And then there was a time when I loved the Prophet SAW so much, I couldn't even look at him in his face because I was overawed by him. And if you ask me right now to describe him, I couldn't even do it because after I became Muslim, I couldn't even bring myself to look at him in his face. And Amr Ibn al-A'as, one time he said that he went to the Prophet SAW because when he became Muslim, the Prophet SAW showed him so much muhabba. So Amr Ibn al-A'as, he thought himself that I am the most beloved person to the Prophet SAW because this is how the Prophet SAW made you feel. He made you feel very important, very honored, very dignified. So he said to himself, I must be the most beloved person. It's obvious. So he came to the Prophet SAW and he said, messenger of God, who do you love the most amongst the people? And he expected the Prophet SAW to say it's obvious it's you. And the Prophet SAW said, his wife, Masha'Allah. He loved his wife. This is extremely important. And people, as my father said, people attack the Prophet SAW for various reasons. And many times, Allah but many times don't think that this is motivated by some kind of sincere academic inquiry. A lot of these people have ulterior motives, right? Either they are militant liberals or they're extreme feminists or they're part of, you know, the circus with the many colors, you know, they're clowns in the circus. So they attack the Prophet SAW. These are the real motives, right? And it comes out. And these people are mustahzeen, right? The Quran talks about these people. These are people who mock and denigrate the Prophet SAW. And we should not get these people any kind of platform. This is extremely important. Don't invite them to your, you know, your podcasts. Don't put them on TV, especially if they're not willing to show their faces. These people are cowards not using their real names. If you're going to say something about the Prophet SAW, be a man, let me see your face. What's your name? Right? But these people, we should not give them platforms. And the Prophet SAW was ordered by Allah SWT not to even engage with the mustahzeeon. People who denigrate the Prophet SAW, Allah tells them, I am sufficient for you against the mustahzeeon. Don't even engage with them. Engage with people that have genuine, you know, sincerity in the religion that are asking good questions, not pointed questions, not drawing these conclusions that are slanderous, that are denigrating the Prophet SAW, right? Allah SWT will defend the Prophet Muhammad SAW. There's nothing anyone could say in reality that can insult the Prophet SAW. When Allah SWT has raised in When Allah raises someone, nobody can debate him. Nobody can debate him, right? So we should pray for people, pray for their guidance, right? But we should know that he is Habibullah. He is the most beloved of God. So what is the wisdom behind this? Our mother, Aisha, radiallahu anha, you know, the Ummahat al-Mu'mineen, they don't get married after the passing of the Prophet SAW. She did not get married after him and she had no children. So what was she doing? She was teaching the Sunnah for 55 years, five and a half decades. She was a fountain of knowledge. Ummah al-Mu'mineen, Aisha, radiallahu anha, into her 70s from age 18 to 73, she's a full-time teacher, Mufti, one of the seven or eight Sahaba that gave fatwa. This is the wisdom Allah SWT used our mother Aisha as a means of preserving his religion. We have a wife of the Prophet SAW, someone who's in the house. This is someone that has access to the Prophet that nobody, no male companion has. Imagine how much information and knowledge, details of the life of the Prophet SAW. That's what the Sahaba would go to her. She relates the hadith. Where do we get these hadith from? Where do we get a third of our religion from? There's great wisdom in this. For five and a half decades, she's teaching the religion. Allah SWT, there was someone in the year 60 hijra, who is a Sahabi, our mother Aisha who's teaching the Sunnah. This is the wisdom behind, people don't see the wisdom because people have, they're looking at the world through their own diseases, right? If you have cataracts in your eyes and you're seeing everything yellow, you don't blame me for being yellow. Is it what you want? Why are you yellow? No, the disease is in your own eyes. That's what you're seeing. You're seeing the world through your diseases. Right? So we should know that Allah SWT, he will take care of these people who are mocking his hafid. Rest assured about this. Don't platform these people. If there's a fitna in the community, then we should have an alim who will address these issues. But don't let the masses hear these insults and wrong conclusions. People who don't know what they're talking about. People who have an axe to grind. Why do they have an axe to grind? Because the Qur'an is true. Allah SWT says in the Qur'an, it is He who ascended his messenger with truth and the religion of truth that it may supersede all other religions. Islam is the only real religion left in the world. Look around the world. You go to a church at random, it's the circus. Where's your morality? Where's your tradition? What happened? You have the Pope saying weird things. Go to a synagogue. They're eating pork. They're not praying. They're engaging in all kinds of shaitanic practices. What happened to your religion? Because the religions of the world right now basically, it's just militant liberalism with a veneer of religion. That's the base religion. A militant type of liberalism. Woke liberalism with just a very light coating of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism. But Islam is the only dean left and people see that. People are noticing that. And this bothers them because Islam is the barrier according to them. To them being able to propagate the worship of the nafs, their own hawa in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He says in the Qur'an to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and by extension to all of us. Do you see the one who takes his own hawa, his own nafs, his own desires, his own caprice as his ilah, as his God. This is a very, very common form, common type of idolatry in the world. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, no one can debate him. One of the poets said these people are like dogs barking at the moon. Does the barking of the dogs on the earth affect the moon as it passes through the sky? No, it has no effect whatsoever. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defends his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We should be able to articulate these things. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam does not need us to defend him. Allah will defend him. But so defending him is only for our benefit. He doesn't benefit sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. But if there's a fit in the community, we have to be able to communicate to people and bring ulama who have studied these things to clarify these issues for the people. This is very, very important. Very, very important. Even to put things in perspective. I speak into a place to debate Christians. I still debate them a little bit. These Christians, right? In one of them, this very common, they say the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he can't be a Prophet because he engaged in wars. Engaged in wars. What are you talking about? Have you read the Bible? Musa alayhi sallam, engaged in... No, it says in the Torah, it's in every Christian Bible, Musa alayhi sallam, when he was coming down from Torah Sinai and he sees his people worshiping the agenda. The calf, according to the Torah, he ordered 3,000 men killed in one day. In one day, 3,000 men. Now, if you look at the Rasulat of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, in 23 years, how many people were killed in these battles? 1,017 or 1,015, difference of opinion, 1,030, something like this. And all of the military, and these were all men on the battlefield, men against men on the battlefield fighting like men, not like modern warfare, where they dropped bombs on innocent men, women and children. 200,000 people killed in an atomic blast. These things are completely haram. Those things are barbaric, completely haram, according to our Sharia. So we should know the way of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. His teaching is a teaching for the intelligent ones, for the people who think, for the people of faith. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide us to the truth. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the ability to clarify these issues for the next coming generation, because this is becoming difficult for a lot of young people, right, especially in high school, university setting, because these philosophies, these postmodern philosophies, this type of vocism, this type of militant liberalism, this is the the zeitgeist, like the general sort of spirit of the age, it's the most prevalent type of philosophy in colleges and universities, and Muslim children enter into these places and they don't know how to deal with these things, right, because the teaching in these places is that there is no ultimate truth. There's no such thing as ultimate truth. There's no such thing as objective morality, right, they say how dare you have an opinion about morality, which is ironic, because they have an opinion, that's their opinion. There's no such thing as ultimate truth, that in and of itself is an expression of ultimate truth. The whole thing is a big contradiction, the whole thing is convoluted, the whole thing is false. Okay, so my final advice is, a man came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, he advised the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, not my advice, he's giving you his advice, a man came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and said, Ya Rasulullah, kulli fit islami qawulan, la asaloo anhu ahadan ghaylak, tell me something about Islam that only you can tell me, give me like something special, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam's response was very short, right, but very comprehensive, say I believe in Allah and be steadfast and upright upon that, have istiqama in the religion, istiqama in the religion means you don't waver, right, you stick to the path that you're grounded in knowledge, those who are grounded in knowledge, it's not based on emotion, it's not based on trends, you know, it's not, you know, I want to become Muslim because I want to catch a jinn, this type of scoopy dude, this number or no, we're grounded in knowledge, like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam, he's the great Mu'allim, he passed by two majlis saying in his masjid, one of them was making du'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and the other one was engaging in ta'alim and ta'aloon, and he sat with those who were making ta'alim and ta'aloon, one was making du'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and the other was learning and teaching, and he sat amongst them, and he said, inna ma burithum mu'alima, we have to seek knowledge, the only thing in the Qur'an that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us to pray for and increase in is ilm, not malan or whatever, the only thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala teaches us to ask him for increase in is ilm, that's it, that's why the Prophets don't leave an inheritance, the inheritance of the Prophet is knowledge, sacred knowledge, so this is extremely important, we need to seek knowledge, seek knowledge, sit with the ilmah, seek them out, insha'Allah ta'ala, jazaq Allah khairan