 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Ahlan wa sahlan wa lahmatullahi. Welcome, welcome. My name is Shraam Al-Fadah. And I am coming to you live from San Ramon Valley, Islamic Center in San Ramon, California. This is our yearly Tri Valley moded. Alhamdulillah. This is a year unlike any we have ever experienced before. This is a year unlike any we have ever experienced before. With social distancing and this pandemic. But that will not stop us from celebrating our Habib. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah, tonight we have a very beautiful program lined up for you all. Insha'Allah. We will start with the recitation of the Quran. And then we will go forward with Adhgar, Dikr of Allah SWT. Insha'Allah. And salutations upon the Prophet Muhammad SAW. And then after that, insha'Allah, we will have, we talk by our scholar, Sheikh Ali Al-Abi. And then after that, we will have more insha'ab, more talks by various scholars. We have tonight with us Sheikh Baraz Khan, Dr. Ali Al-Thai. Ghari, Amar al-Laha. And the Bay Area Munchereen, Omer Khan, Qadri, Sidi Mahdi Amin. And Qadri Yasin. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah. We ask you all to make intention, intention to praise our Habib. Salaamu alaikum, wherever you are, wherever you are, any part of the world. Insha'Allah, this model will be widespread, widespread. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah. We will start with recitation before we come up. Listen. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before we come up. We will start with recitation before time. Allahumma salli ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala sallim, Allahumma salli wa ala salli wa ala s Bismillah inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. If you have the mode in the book with you you can open it up to page 173, 172. If you have the mode in the book with you you can open it up to page 173, 172. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, before we begin with our first lecture we're going to have a quick Mashi'id inshallah, a quick Mashi'id when he prays at the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Mashi'id inshallah, our next speaker, our first speaker of the night is our local scholar, our local ustad, Sheikh Tariq Al-Arabi. May Allah bless him and increase him to protect his family. Sheikh Tariq Al-Arabi was born and raised in Syria, Damascus, where he studied with some of the foremost scholars of our time there. Such as Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Shawwiri, Sheikh Ramadan al-Bayouti, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. And now we're going to have him give us a little talk inshallah, Bismillah. May Allah bless him and praise be to Allah, our Lord, and may Allah grant him blessings. May Allah grant him blessings, may Allah bless him and may he offer us كرم على سيدنا و حبينا و طبيلنا و شكرنا. May Allah grant him blessings as well. May Allah bless him and praise him. May Allah bless him and praise him. Amazing. Night to gather together and will all the Ahbab online to celebrate the best of creation. sallallahu alayhi sallam. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi sallam, they asked him, he was fasting on Monday. He said, why you are fasting on Monday? He said, this is a day I was born in. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi sallam, who was celebrating every Monday, he's mowling. Because he knew sallallahu alayhi sallam what happened when he was born. Because Allah said that we send you as Rahman in Alameen. It's mercy for all creation, not only for Nurmeen, not only for Jinn, not only for this earth, it's for all the Alameen. And the Alameen is everything except Allah SWT. And all the creation is Alameen. So the Alameen mulk wal malakut wal jabarut, all the thrones, they are Alameen. And he is Rahma to all of them. And they said, Ya Rasulullah, tell us about yourself. Sayyid al-Sahih hadith, the Rasul said, tell us about yourself. He said, I am a da'wah to abi Ibrahim. He said, I am the answer of the call of my father Ibrahim, alayhi sallallahu alayhi sallam. As Sheikh Hatif read in the Qur'an the verse of Allah SWT, Rabbanah wa ba'ath fihim rasulam binhum, sent amongst them a messenger, yet you alayhim ayatik. He recited your verses, your word, wa yu'a'iyyumul kitab, and he sent the book, the Qur'an, wal hikmah, and the wisdom, and the wisdom is that he is with Allah SWT, the sunnah, wa yuzaqihim, and then you will find them. He said, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi sallam, I am the answer of the call of Ibrahim. When Sayyid al-Ibrahim was raising the basis of the Ka'bah, he made this du'a. And Allah answered his du'a, and he brought our Habib sallallahu alayhi sallallahu alayhi sallam. Sayyid al-Sahih said, tell us about yourself. He said, I am the answer of the call of my father Ibrahim, wa ana nisharatu aakhimu isa. This is the good news that my brother Isa gave, as Allah said in the Qur'an, wa itzala Isa du mariyam, ya bani Israel, indi Rasulullah, they come. Oh, people of bani Israel, I am the message from Allah to you, musabtiqal ni'ma bani adiyyamin tawrat. I confirm all the Old Testament that became to you. Wa mubashiran bi Rasulinaati baratis mo Ahmad. I am giving you good news that the one we are waiting for, all of us, is coming, is him, is Ahmad. So he is giving us good news. So Sayyid al-Muhammad sassan said, I am the answer of the call of Ibrahim and the good news of that Isa gave. And then my mother, so when I was born alive, we have to know that the birth happened before Fajr and it was darkness and then she saw light from that light, the castle of Sham was shown. So it's like from Makkah to all the way to without the Sham. And he said, this is, this is, he's talking about himself, and he will not say this unless because he was asked. He doesn't want to like show off and say because they asked him. Now, what's happened that this Rahmah that reached everybody? And Mustafa, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, came to us as Allah told him, and Uswassam delivered this to us and he told the Sahaba, I love you from dunya and you love me from the people. I love you from the prophets and you are my share from Allah, from all nations. It's like I am your gift and you are my gift. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wanted to take a good care of his gift, us, all of us. And that's why he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, ummati, my ummah, my ummati umatum marhuma. My nation, my ummah is a nation of mercy. Allah made their punishment, he said there's no punishment on them and the name doesn't. There's punishment in this dunya. And he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they're punished by the dunya by problems amongst themselves, and by earthquake and by killing each other. And that's the punishment of the dunya. Now we've seen some people who really, they criticize saying what's happening with the Muslims around the world. Why they are in this position? You didn't know that this is the side of the mercy, that he converted the adab from the Akhira which is a day, a day of 50,000 years of punishment that nothing can help you except if you come to Allah with a heart that is pure, salim. But as sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said instead of this 50,000 years of pain, you're going to have a few go away from my message. If you go away from my way, then the punishment will burst. So that's rahma that's coming. And if you really want to understand this, you compare this to the, how was the tawba before? Our deen, previous Ahlul Kitab, their tawba is, one type of the tawba is just to kill themselves. Our tawba, our rahma is from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Now as Allah said in the Quran, that day the only thing that benefit you is a qalb salim. So who have this qalb salim? Who have this pure heart? Sayyidina Jibril alayhi salam when he opened the chest of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and took his heart and he said qalb wa gi'a fiyyainani tubsiran wa fiyyidun naita asma'an. Amazing power for the pure heart. In it, there is two eyes that sees things. There's two ears that hears things. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he pointed to his heart, he said, at taqwa here, at taqwa here, at taqwa here. The people of Ma'rifah they said all the taqwa and all the things that Allah speaks with them is in the heart of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And for us to gain and to come close to Allah is to come close to that heart because he is our Ma'rifah. That's why Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, he said, Naumar, your belief is not there with you. Don't love me more than your family and yourself and your money and everything. And we said, Naumar and he calibrated himself, he said, Ya Rasulullah, I love you more than myself. He said, Al anehumar now. So if we connected our heart to the heart of the best of creation, then we will be applying our self and Allah said in the Quran, wa rafa'ana laka rikra. And that connection can happen through three things. Number one is doing salawat on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. As Allah order us that Allah the Injured doing salawat on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And we are all invited to join that. Number two is longing to him and loving him, longing to him and loving him. That love will take you in a place where our actually cannot reach. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Al naumar wa maaman ahab. You'll be with the one you love. Number three is knowing Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or with character. That can be done as Sayyid-e-Aisha said. So if you recite Quran and go through the death of the Quran, you're knowing Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And if you know the Seerah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know the Quran. And by this, you increase your haf. As I said, we, he is our haf. He's our portion, he was our luck. We need to increase our haf. He already sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he already increased his haf. He, one night he was making do an crime online and Allah said, Siddiquil. What do you hold? He said, my ummah. The Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam kept getting. He said, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you'll be one-third of the jannah. And then Allah increased his haf. You'll be one-half of the jannah. Allah increased it. And then he said, you will be two-third of jannah. People of inter-jannah will be two-third of all human being. As Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, people to inter-jannah, they are 120 rows. 80 of them they are from this ummah. So this celebration of the birth of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, all of us we know that this body is made for this dunya. And the thing that came from Allah is the soul that made this body alive. But the moment the body is done, then the soul will leave, go back to Allah s.a. But there is one body that became better than all the bodies and became the body better than all the souls. Which is the body was at this month in Rabiyah, when the soul of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam joined to his body. Now his body became higher than all creation. That's why it's the only body that would allow to go beyond Siddharat al-Guntah, beyond everything to be with the hadr of Allah s.a. With all the seven heavens, with the Isra'adi mi'raj and everything, and bypass, jannah bypass, lot three and then. So that body is the body that Allah raised above everything. We are enjoying this moment. This moment where earth, Allah s.a. s. He did earth, and then when he, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, was born, he flipped completely because Allah s.a. s. said, Khairul-Qurrani, Khairul-Qurrani, Khairul-Qurrani, Khairul-Qurrani. The best of time on earth is my time, and then the one after, the one after, the generation after, the generation after. That's why wherever he goes, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it became paradise. The city with diseases came Madinah Munawwarah. The place where he walks, it became Raubah of paradise. They say the soil that touching his body now is more holy than everything on earth, everything on, you know, everything more than the holy than the Ka'bah, more holy on the seven heavens, more holy than the Kursi and the Hash. So we are lucky to be part of this Ummah, we listen, Ummah team, mine. So all of us, inshaAllah, will increase our love of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, by the salawat and the love of the Daqra. Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Wa aalayhi wa sahbihi wa sallam. BarakAllah wa bihup jazaqa wa la wa khairanan wa tarif. Jazaqa wa ma wa tarif inshaAllah. We'll be able to practice what was preached today, inshaAllah. Before our next speaker, inshaAllah, we're going to have a knot in the Buddha, when inshaAllah praising our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ya Habib, ya. jashne milaad mostafa hai aaj josh par rahehmate khuda khus le aalam hu wahe nurani khus le aalam hu wahe nurani zulmate kufr midde gaya hai aaj zulmate kufr midde gaya hai aaj asma unne hi ke qadmaon par asma par unne hi ke qadmaon se sharfi arsh arsh bada gaya hai aaj sharfi arsh bada gaya hai aaj asma kya hai arsh aalase asma kya hai arsh aalase rudbaye farsh bada gaya hai aaj rudbaye arsh bada gaya hai aaj Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim meh madine chala meh madine chala meh madine chala meh madine chala fir karam ho ne chala fir karam ho gaya meh madine chala kefsa chhaya meh madine chala kefsa chhaya meh madine chala chhumta chhumta meh madine chala chhumta chhumta meh madine chala aak thamte nahi askh jamte nahi aak thamte nahi askh thamte nahi lad khada tha hua meh madine chala lad khada tha hua meh madine chala meh madine chala meh madine chala meh madine chala meh madine chala Then it became a miracle, I went to Medina My soul is in pain, you have to leave My soul is in pain, you have to leave I went to Medina so quickly I went to Medina so quickly I went to Medina so quickly I went to Medina so quickly Then it became a miracle, I went to Medina The next speaker is Sheikh Faraz Khan Sheikh Faraz Khan is on the faculty of Zidouna College His specialty is in areas including Ashari and Maturibi theology Hanafiốt's students and logic He has taught as an instructor at the Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan, and also serves as a researcher and instructor for Seekers Hub Global. His education began with a bachelor's in biology from the University of Texas, Austin. Afterwards, Shefaraz lived and studied in Amman, Jordan for several years, while earning diplomas in traditional Islamic studies in classical Arabic. His new book has recently been released. It's titled Introduction to Islamic Theology, and it is a must-have, a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Islamic creed and theology in an increasingly atheistic world. You can go buy it at the Ziduna bookstore. Go check out their website, insha'Allah. Bismillah. Shefaraz Khan. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalillahumma. It's a great blessing to gather for the remembrance of Allah Ta'ala and the remembrance of his blessed Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. One of the great inheritors of our Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu-Athman al-Hiyari, Raheemahullah. He was a great Imam who is from Uray in Persia, and he moved to Nisapur where he studied. He spent his entire life studying and seeking to learn and implement the prophetic way, and he died in the year 298 after Hijrah, the same year that Imam Junaid passed away. Allah be pleased with them all. And in Nisapur, in his biography, Imam Dahabi describes Abu-Athman al-Hiyari as an eminent Imam. He says he is an Imam, someone to be emulated or taken as an example. He calls him Sheikh al-Islam, which is a title reserved for only the greatest of our Ulama, generally speaking. So he was once sitting with one of his companions, Abu-Athman al-Hiyari, and he asked his student, he said al-astum tarona, an'a'inda dhikr al-salihin, tanzil al-rahma. He says that do you not hold fast to the principle that when the righteous are mentioned, Divine Mercy descends, and the student said, of course, and Abu-Athman al-Raheemahullah, he says fa Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi sallam, Sayyid al-salihin. He says in that case, Allah's Messenger sallallahu alayhi sallam is the Lij Lord, is the master of all the righteous. So if mentioning any righteous person is a means of mercy descending, then what about mentioning the best of creation, sallallahu alayhi sallam? And that the title for the Maulid this year is triumph during tribulation, the prophetic light triumph during tribulation. Tribulation is very much what defines the context of the Seerah, that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam underwent the most difficult of trials. He was orphaned at birth, losing his father before birth. In fact, he, sallallahu alayhi sallam, his mother, he lost his mother Amina at the age of six, sallallahu alayhi sallam. And then he went under the care of his grandfather, the Mutalib, whom he lost at the age of eight, a couple years later, sallallahu alayhi sallam, and then he was brought under the care of Abu-Talib and raised in his house, sallallahu alayhi sallam. He had seven children total in his life, sallallahu alayhi sallam, six with our spiritual mother, Lady Khadija, radhula anha, Qasim, and then Zainab, Ruqayya, Um Kulthum, and Fatima, radhula anhum, and then Abdullah. And then he had a seventh child with Mary al-Qubtiya, Ibrahim, Alayhi sallam. And that of the seven children, he lost six of them in his life, sallallahu alayhi sallam, all except Lady Fatima, radhula anha, that he buried with his own blessed hands, sallallahu alayhi sallam. He was persecuted by his people, his own kinsmen, his own family, sallallahu alayhi sallam. He was ridiculed, he was fought against, hostility was shown to him. Throughout the prophetic life, the blessed Seerah, we find tribulation after tribulation, trial after trial. And of course, when he was asked what his most difficult time was, sallallahu alayhi sallam, he said, he referred to the year which in the books of Seerah is called Aam al-Huzan, the year of sadness. And in that year, he lost two very close loved ones, Abu Talib, who was like a father figure for him, and who not only raised him, but was the means for his political protection in Makkah, that despite the hostilities and ridicule directed against him sallallahu alayhi sallam, the Quraish could not wage an all-out war, they could not actually attack him fully or threaten his blessed life while Abu Talib was alive. Why? Because of the tribal system of the Quraish, and Abu Talib being the head of his clan, sallallahu alayhi sallam, that he maintained that protection of him sallallahu alayhi sallam. So the, and on top of that, Abu Talib was like a father figure for him. In fact, when he was 12 years old, according to the hadith in which he traveled with Abu Talib to Syria and he met the monk, Buhaira, and Buhaira noticed signs of his prophethood and asked him sallallahu alayhi sallam. Before he asked the prophet questions, he asked Abu Talib, what is his relation with you? And Abu Talib says that he is my son. He is my son. Buhaira says that's impossible because the scriptures had that the last prophet would be orphaned, sallallahu alayhi sallam, and Abu Talib then admits actually he is my nephew. But the fact that he calls him my son, it shows that the intimate, the close relationship that they had. And Abu Talib loved him like a son and in fact more than his own children. And Abu Talib wrote a lot of poetry, very eloquent poetry that in fact Ibn Qayyim says was more eloquent than the classics of Quraish that were hanging on the Ka'bah. Those legendary poetic works that were so great that they hung on the Ka'bah, Abu Talib his poetry was in fact arguably more eloquent than those, the Mualliqat. And he has tremendous love and praise for the prophet in that poetry, sallallahu alayhi sallam. So he loses Abu Talib and along with the political protection afforded through that relationship. And then of course within a couple of days he loses his beloved, blessed wife, companion, best friend, lady Khadija, she is the minister of truth, minister of genuine support for the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. He was of course the one that Allah ta'ala decreed that he would have most of his children six of the seven sallallahu alayhi sallam. She was in fact the one that Allah ta'ala decreed that under her what went during their marriage that wahi began. And in the famous hadith of the beginning of revelation, Badr wahi, that our mother Aisha describes, Allah be pleased with her, that when he came back from Hira after revelation and the encounter with Gabriel that she comforted him. So she has this maqam, this station, Allah be pleased with her, that Allah will never forsake you. And she mentions his virtues that you are someone that you maintain kinship bonds and you help the people in need and you serve the poor, et cetera, sallallahu alayhi sallam. And she was someone that, that he in fact said that Allah provided me, it was provision from Allah that he loved her. Because later in his life sallallahu alayhi sallam, you know, he would still think of her, he would send gifts to her friends, sometimes when they would slaughter a sheep, he would send part of that meat to the friends of Khadija thinking about her. And he told our mother Aisha, in me, in Sahih Muslim, that Allah has given me the provision of love of Khadija. And her rank is so great, she is the best of women that, of course, Gabriel came once in the Hadith in Bukhari in Muslim that Gabriel alayhi sallam came and said Khadija is on her way with a pot of stew and meat and some drink. And when she comes, right, so I read her alayhi sallam, that convey to her sallam from her Lord and from me, Gabriel alayhi sallam, and give her tidings of bait in the Jannah of a house in paradise, from reads, in which there is no raising of voices, there is no shouting and there is no exhaustion and fatigue. And some of the ulama mentioned that of the wisdoms of this description that her home in paradise has no shouting and no fatigue or exhaustion because not once in their marriage did she raise her voice to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam and not once in their marriage did she annoy him in any way or cause him fatigue, cause him frustration, sallallahu alayhi sallam, that the perfection of their relationship, the perfection of her being a blessed wife and what is to say of her rank that Allah sallallahu alayhi sallam sent sallam to her, Subhanallah, that Jibril alayhi sallam when he came with the sallam it wasn't simply from Jibril, it wasn't simply from him, he says convey to her, O Allah's messenger convey to her sallam from her Lord and then from me. And so what is the rank of Lady Khadija, the Prophet loses her in the year of sadness sallallahu alayhi sallam and then of course when he makes his da'wah to ta'if he goes to the neighboring city of ta'if and he preaches and invites them to Islam and in addition he's seeking support so that he can continue his preaching in Makkah that perhaps they might afford him the political support now that Abu Ta'dib had passed and the story is well known that the leaders of ta'if mocked him, they were rude and they ridiculed him sallallahu alayhi sallam, they were sarcastic with him sallallahu alayhi sallam and they said vile things and then later when he continued making da'wah to the others, the public of ta'if then they sort of riled up the people and they got the Sufaha, the foolish and the ignorant to be hostile to him and they made two rows and they got the servants and the children, the slaves and the children to throw stones at him sallallahu alayhi sallam and in one Rewaya Zaid ibn Haritha was with him and trying to shield with his body, trying to shield the Prophet from the harm sallallahu alayhi sallam but despite that he was pelted so much and sometimes in the description of the Seerah his blessed body he would go to the ground because it was so much and that they would lift him by his arms and push him forward sallallahu alayhi sallam to the extent that there was blood, his blessed blood on his blessed legs sallallahu alayhi sallam and so this is the most difficult time, the most intense tribulation for him, what does he do? He turns to Allah Ta'ala, he teaches us how to deal with our most difficult moments, he teaches us the adab, the proper etiquette of dealing with hardship, dealing with constriction, dealing with abuse is firstly to direct ourselves to Allah Ta'ala and he makes the famous dua one of the most beautiful du'as in the Sunnah and in the Seerah that he says sallallahu alayhi sallam Allahumma ilayka ashku da'fa quwati wa qillatahilati wa hawani ala al-naas oh Allah to you alone do I complain of my weakness and my lack of resources and the abuse I'm facing by the abuse and humiliation that people are directing towards me and that Ya'ar hamar rahimin oh most merciful of those who show mercy, anta rabbul mustadaafin you are the lord of the weak, the disenfranchised, anta rabbih and you are my lord that manifesting his servanthood, direct servanthood to Allah, turning to Allah you are my lord and by implication that he is manifesting that he is the abd sallallahu alayhi sallam, he is the servant of Allah, anta rabbih, anta rabbul mustadaafin wa anta rabbih ila mantakiluni to whom will you entrust me ila ba'eedin yata jahamuni to some far off person that will abuse me, you know Ta'if was not his family, his family is Quraish, he had to go outside to a different city ila ba'eedin to some far off person, a stranger not a familiar not a relative not one of the Quraish to one of the Banu Ta'if of Ta'if to ila ba'eedin yata jahamuni who is going to abuse me or ila qareebin mallaktahu amri or to a near person a close person a relative to whom you have given them control over my affair mallaktahu amri who has control of my situation ilam yakun bika alayya qadabun falaa ubali in any case so long as your anger is not on me oh Allah so long as your anger is not on me falaa ubali I don't mind I don't mind this was his concern that is this a manifestation that Allah Ta'ala is upset with me or is this simply a test that is an expression of Allah's love and of course for his for him Sallallahu alayhi sallam everything that happened was an expression of the intimate love of Allah for him that he is Habibullah Sallallahu alayhi sallam but this is something for us to have introspection of is look at the etiquette is that if we're faced with a circumstance that leaves us straightened and constricted that we go back to Allah in servitude and we ask Allah and we also ask ourselves that is this a is this a sign that Allah Ta'ala is upset with me or is this a raising of my ranks how do we tell we make toba we we we ask ourselves am I involved in something am I persisting in something that is displeasing to Allah and also a way for us to gauge a way for us to measure or have an indication of why the test is coming whether as an expression of Allah's wrath God forbid or Allah's pleasure and love is how is our response during it do we have the patience and fortitude and the contentment with Allah and his decree which would indicate as sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani Rahimullah he said if if a person has patience and is content with Allah's decree that's a sign that the test is coming from Allah's pleasure and love but if a person is lacking patience and falling apart and and and not having fortitude it's a sign that the test itself is from the displeasure of Allah God forbid and so back to the dua then he says as long as you're not angry with me I don't mind but then what does he say however well-being safety security it gives me more room it's it's it's wider for me and subhanAllah and in the hadith he said sallallahu alayhi sallam in the in the other hadith he says the best dua to make to the best thing to ask Allah ta'ala for after yakin after certitude is aafya and mu'afa well-being health safety security aafya encompasses all good in terms of one's one's life and livelihood and so he says he says as long as you're not angry sallallahu alayhi sallam as long as you're not angry I don't mind but your aafya is easier for me it gives me more room and then what does he say sallallahu alayhi sallam and this connects you know the title of the moded that the Prophet's light sallallahu alayhi sallam triumph during tribulation because his light sallallahu alayhi sallam is a mirror and expression of the light of Allah ta'ala Allahu nurus samawati wal-arad Allah is the light and the source of all light in the heavens and the earth and so what does he say next sallallahu alayhi sallam I seek refuge and protection in the light of your countenance the light of the wajj of Allah and in our theology wajjuhu thatuhu the countenance of Allah is the very being the very entity of Allah wa thatuhu wujuduhu and his entity is his very being jalathanauhu capital B being the necessary being of Allah ta'ala and so he he says I see sallallahu alayhi sallam I seek refuge in the light of your countenance the light of your very being that illuminates all darknesses and by which all affairs of this life and the next are made right this is the islamic answer to the problem of evil and suffering the philosophical problem of evil and suffering the answer to that is is in this prophetic moment and in all the moments of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam but explicitly in this dua in this supplication because it's the light of Allah that removes all darknesses in other words if we recognize that Allah ta'ala is behind is the is the one governing all of our tribulations is the one governing is the is the owner and master of every moment of existence that Allah ta'ala has decreed everything eternally recognizing that is recognizing the light of the heavens and earth and so the darknesses of our tough times and our constrictions and our moments of anxiety and depression and the trauma that we face that those darknesses are illuminated by the light of the heavens and earth Allah ta'ala himself and so trusting relying on Allah relying on the illuminator and the light of the heavens and earth lights up the darknesses it shows the light behind the darkness so he says this sallallahu alayhi sallam that I seek your refuge in your light oh Allah lest your anger or wrath descend upon me you have the right you have the right to blame as long as you're pleased you have the right to blame and censure as long as you're pleased and there's no strength there's no power except with you this is the light this is the what is the light of the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam at heart right you know of the most salient virtues of his life sallallahu alayhi sallam is his perfect the perfection of his slavehood the perfection of his servitude sallallahu alayhi sallam and al-iftiqadu in Allah expressing our need for Allah expressing for the servant to express his need for Allah ta'ala this is what the prophet does sallallahu alayhi sallam this is what he teaches us one of the contemporaries of imam junaid abu bakr al-kitani he said if the if one's need for Allah is authentic and real then one's enrichment through Allah will be authentic and real that that the the darkness of our circumstance is illuminated when we go to Allah with need and we express our absolute intrinsic need for Allah says your need for Allah is intrinsic to what you are is intrinsic to who you are it never leaves us and when tribulations occur they are but reminders of what we forget that we need Allah in every moment this is why the adab of the righteous is that even in the comfort of their homes when they make dua they make dua as if they're drowning they make dua as if they're drowning even in the comfort of their homes because our reality is we're always drowning we're always in need of Allah ta'ala and so that this is the light of servitude that the prophet ta'ala sallallahu alayhi sallam in the hadith of tirmidhi the prophet ta'ala sallallahu alayhi sallam is the greatness the magnitude of the reward is commensurate with the magnitude of the tribulation the greater the tribulation the greater the reward from Allah ta'ala and then he says sallallahu alayhi sallam wa inna Allah ta'ala iida ahabba qawman ibtalahum and barely Allah most high when he loves a people he tests them when he loves the people he tests them there's so much tribulation happening in the ummah right now it's a sign that Allah loves this ummah because this is the ummah of Habibullah sallallahu alayhi sallam so insofar as we are the ummah of the beloved of Allah we are the ummah that is beloved to Allah so long as we adhere to his way so long as we emulate him sallallahu alayhi sallam wa inna Allah ta'ala iida ahabba qawman ibtalahum fa man radia falahu ridha wa man sakhita falahu sucht so whoever and again this is how we know why the test is happening it's about our response so whoever for man radia whoever has ridha whoever is content and satisfied with Allah falahu ridha they shall receive the divine satisfaction and the divine good pleasure wa man sakhita falahu sucht but whoever is angry and frustrated at Allah God forbid then they receive the same from Allah ta'ala and so approximating ridha always seeking to increase in our contentment with Allah ta'ala what is the means by which we increase in our ridha abu athman al-hayri the same imam we began with today one of his teachings rahimullah ta'ala and he was an eminent imam hakim the great hadith master of nisa pur at his time he said he said none of our teachers none of the sheikhs of nisa pur had a difference of opinion they were in consensus and agreement that abu athman al-hayri was someone who was mujab al-dawa that his dua was always answered immediately and imam dahabi says abu athman al-hayri was for the for the people of khurasan a purja like imam junaid was for the people of iraq he was at the level of imam junaid that abu athman what did he say radu anhu he says a tafweed muqaddimat al-ridha a tafweed he says tafweed is to give back to Allah what you don't understand is to return back to Allah to consign to Allah what you don't understand I consign my affair to Allah I don't understand why this is happening and he says then what tafweed muqaddimat al-ridha and tafweed is the precursor to ridha it is the means by which we can attain unto true contentment with Allah ta'ala and his decree and then he says abu athman rahimullah warridha babullah al-adham and contentment and satisfaction with Allah is the greatest door to Allah is the greatest door to Allah ta'ala and so what did the Prophet say in the muqaddimat Ahmad sallallahu alayhi sallam in the authentic hadith ajaban al-mu'min how amazing is the true believer Allah ta'ala does not decree anything for the believer except that it's good for him ajaban al-mu'min Allah ta'ala how wondrous and amazing is the believer Allah decrees nothing for him save that it is good for him and another hadith of muslim Ahmad the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was counseling one of his companions that had a a defect something with his gate the way he walked was a problem and the Prophet was counseling him and he said but I have this this disability which is why he and the Prophet insisted that he he took his counsel of had to do with his dress his garment and then what does he say sallallahu alayhi sallam he says do it anyways even if your your your disability will be more manifest because why because everything in the creation of Allah is beautiful everything in the creation of Allah is hasan and this is one of the secrets of the light of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is that this is how he saw the world even in the year of sadness even with the loss of his loved ones Abu Talib and Khadija even with the circumstances at ta'if his vantage sallallahu alayhi sallam is always hussan the beauty right the beauty of Allah because the beauty is the beauty of Allah and what did he name his grandchildren hussan and hussain from the same root and imam hussain ibn ali radhullahu anhum what did he say with respect to dealing with tribulations to manifest the beauty in in in in located in his blessed name hussain like his brother hussan alayhi sallam what did he say he says whoever relies on the beautiful choice of Allah for him he will he will not desire anything other than what Allah chose for him whoever trusts and relies on the beautiful selection of Allah for him he will not desire anything other than what Allah ta'ala chose for him and so the the beauty of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam his blessed light is a perfect reflection of the fatihah itself which begins after the basmala alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen whatever our circumstances whatever we're facing the good times the bad times the times of joy and elation the times of joy the times of elatedness elation or the times of constriction depression sadness pain what rings true and what should be reverberating echoing in our hearts and on our tongues is alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen whatever pain whatever difficulty we experience all praise belongs to Allah Lord of all the worlds nurus samawati walard we ask Allah ta'ala to make his people who manifest these teachings who reflect this beautiful light of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam in our own character and behavior inwardly and outwardly and that that Allah ta'ala relieve our difficulties and the difficulties of the ummah walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen as-salamu alaykum rahmatullahi As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu ahlam sa'ham welcome back welcome back to our annual tri-valley celebration of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we want to thank San Ramon Valley Islamic Center for hosting us this year we also want to thank the Muslim Community Center at East Bay and the Islamic Center of Livermore for helping us put this together and come to Allah and come to Allah insha'Allah we're going to continue our program and we're going to continue with the recitation of Surah Muqt which is traditionally recited after Isha prayer by our Hafid our Qadir, Fadi Amr of Allah and Allah s.w.t. with all that increase in blessing protect his family. Fadi Amr was raised in Morocco and he memorized the Qur'an at age 17 he has hijaz up with the hubs and wash forms of Qur'anic recitation in 1994 and 1995 he was awarded top prizes in the national Moroccan victory competition he is recognized for the beauty clarity and excellence of his recitation and is one of the big areas for most Qur'anic teachers Mashallah, Mashallah none of my teachers like it when I introduce them but I have to as MC Fadi Amr, Mashallah I have a personal connection with him when he first came to the San Francisco Bay area in the early 2000s from the lagoon town and my friends put on at our house and Mashallah an entire generation of youth was raised to love the Qur'an by Fadi Amr and Allah s.w.t. I'll reward him for his accuracy many of the students have gone out to memorize the Qur'an Mashallah As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhum Alhamdulillah many things stopped during COVID but love did not stop loving our Prophet did not stop sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the beloved of God and the beloved of our hearts one of uh when I came today I had a very difficult moment resisting to hug staz aliyatai it was one of the hardest moments in these seven months of COVID not being able to hug staz aliyatai may Allah bless him and all of our teachers say amen lakafat fadhina biyabhira lakAllah alayk wa yahdiyaka siraatum ustaqima sallallahu alayk wa yon suraka allahu nasr al aziza um rasulun min anfusikum azizun alayhi ma alittum harithun alaykum harithun alaykum bil mu'minina r'u'r-iha yaniyya tawawal laufaq al-hasbiya allahu la ilaha ilahu alayhi tawakkat alayhi tawakkat wa huwa rabhu al-arjil al-Aliyya Ya Habib din Allah wa Malaikatahu yusallun alan Nabiyy Ya ayyuhal lazeen aamanu sallu alayhi wa sallimu tazneen Allahumma salli wa sallim wa bariyy alayhi wa adha'liyya Bismillahir rahmanir rahim Alhamdulillahi l-nadiya dana bi'abidi al-muktari man da'ana ilayhi bil adni wa fadhna dana labbaika ya bandana wa adana sallallahu alayhi Allahumma bariyy yukal adi bikaya mushafaq al-suna wa habana sallallahu alayhi Al-Aliyya al-atu harim adini sirrik al-azmaq al-umzughun al-najati qimanat wa ala al-suhabati kankira bihrumati dinika al-asbakul walayhi wal tabiyyuna lahum bi sirq al-ma adha'ad al-mawaddati hayyajal al-mijana al-kira al-habib al-adha al-muḥib illa wa adha'wani wa al-najwana w'uḥibquna l-lallu n'uqūsima n'afā'i siyāna al-isla'ūna bi dhikr tāha al-mustafa ila bi'intāshu wa adhab arā'i dhā'anjati l-arwā'i ut-tashdā'a ut-tas'alū rabbā'i ila kadā'an fa-sima'i ila siyār il-mūshafā'i wari ila w'umfati ila al-mujitabā wa-hdulllī al-salli wa-sallim al-a'iman ala habibika bani ilayka dā'anā al-mā-salli wa-sallim wa-bā'ir qāti wa-lā'āni he's 94 muḥammadun ashrājābī muḥammad yamshī ala qādamī muḥammadun bāzī qulbā'ru fi jā'umu muḥammadun sā'ib al-ahsani wa-lā'āni wa-sallim dā'id al-qalqī russī lāhi qātā muḥammadun salli wa-sallim wa-bunf subhā'al al-lādi'a anbā'āna sallā wā'ā'āni takri hi'ād bihi mannā na'am al-qawla hufāliyaki fā'hānā muḥammadun salli wa-lā'āni muḥammadun bāzī qulbā'u salli wa-sallim wa-bā'ir qāti wa-lā'āni sallātu Llāh sallāmu Llāh tāḥā rasūlillā sallā'im ḥabīm sallātu Llāh sallāmu Llāh pa' Alem Muḥammadun sallāو tāi Sikhli qāgh rights Fazad dā'id al-qusan dī'aj shayin ṣal yū hāi al-thi chimney nā poo nā sā From God who gave such clarity, His mercy comes in one, He said, to mold our hearts more From God who gave such clarity, His mercy comes in one, He said, to mold our hearts more Inspiring Him to act so kind as one judge, if I could sit at the Son of God Let us give a day's day, be blessed and sing, for He was born to grace our strength With little birds and life's rebirths, in a dome of green, like His on earth Salam-salaam-mooille-la, salam, salam, salam-salaam-salaam, salam-salaam-salaam I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sinned, I'm sin Manchannu Huqiz bin Al-Kasha'a Wa fi silsilati usulihi atana Ilas ma'lilakada lila bi ma'unniswa Rabbil Samaa qusalatha wa l-hamma wa l-ahzana Sada bi anna l-muhaymina sharrafa l-akwana Ya'fas tabsharat wa dana l-maqadufa Untri'atim idhuwa La biLlahi l-Ali l-Azim bi kullin aghadin abadah Adada qalbi wa l-rana si wa sinat ashi wa midadakal wa tajallat wa tajallat il-anwar Bin kulli l-jiyati fa wabt milaad il-mushafa'i Al-Ala Sada wa l-awali Manafal min ar-lazat shamsa l-huda Zahra l-Habibu mukarramahu ma mursana Salam sallallahu ala Muhammad sallallahu ala wa salam Salam sallallahu ala Muhammad Salam sallallahu ala Allah ya Nabiyy Rasul sallallahu ala salam Ya Rabbi sallallahu ala salam Masha'f as-salam Hamad wa mursul sallallahu ala O Kisar as-salam O Sherriki Masha'f as-salam Masha'f as-salam As-salam As-salam Bi-Llahi al-Azim bi kullin aghadin abadah Al-Habibu sallallahu ala Manbiyy Rasul sallallahu ala salam As-salam sallallahu ala O Sherriki Masha'f as-salam Masha'f as-salam As-salam sallallahu ala Masha'f as-salam As-salam sallahu ala Am Dawil sallallahu Ala Manbiyy Masha'f as-salam As-salam sallallahu ala Manbiyy As-salam sallallahu ala Manbiyy As-salam sallallahu ala Manbiyy As-salamu As-salam sallallahu ala Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam usbina ya sallallahu ala wa sallam Mughtimil Umrah bi husna wa sinil wabba wa marja sallallahu ala Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam wa sallatullahi dhamshan Malahu Al-Husnu ta-jama sallallahu ala Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam As-salamu As-salam wa sallallahu ala wa sallam We're very lucky to know the name of our beloved, the Messenger of God. It's a very special time. We're in a very special place, in a very special month. Alhamdulillah, we're surrounded. One of the sweetness of this faith is through teachers. And if we don't know teachers, then it's difficult to taste the sweetness of this faith, of Islam. Alhamdulillah, even Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam was sent, Jibril Gabriel, alaihi salam. Even though Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu ala wa sallam was sent, all of us, all of us, he's our teacher. Sayyidina Muhammad, he was sent as a teacher, and he's our teacher. And he has inheritors. And those inheritors, we keep close to us. Without those teachers, without those inheritors, it becomes very difficult, becomes very difficult to taste the sweetness of this faith. And so in this next moment, we would like to benefit from the presence of our teachers. Alhamdulillah, we have with us one of our special beloveds, Ustaz Ali Atay. I can describe him, I can attempt to describe him as a boulder, but even that falls short of what he represents and of who he is. He's a man of truth. He's a man of God. May Allah bless him and bless his family, insha'Allah. And may he always have the courage to speak the truth, and to speak in a manner that pleases God, insha'Allah. Always with increasing wisdom, may Allah bless him and his family. Everyone say Amin. And now we invite Ustaz Ali Atay to share a few words with us, insha'Allah. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa rahmatullah. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa rahmatullah. Alhamdulillah, blessed day, it's a blessed month. When we can gather and speak of the Messenger of God, as-salamu alaikum. I'll keep it short, insha'Allah. A few things I want to mention is that the title of this modad is Triumphant Tribulation. As-Syed Faraz has mentioned already, the life of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is fought with tribulations. And he's a great teacher. He was only sent as a teacher, teaching us how to deal with these problems. And one of the culmination of tribulations was his hijrah to Medina Tummanawara. And when he entered into the city of Medina, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was expected by the Biansar, as well as the Jews in the city, Abdullah ibn Salam, radiallahu anhu who at the time had some training as a rabbi ethnically Jewish. Later became Muslim. He said, he said, I can tell, and Arafah means to recognize. Re-cognition. I recognize that his face was not the face of a liar. And in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he made his initial statement, And that was recorded by Abdullah ibn Salam. And so, here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is moving out of his, what some of the earlier were referred to as a Christic phase or an Isawi phase. In other words, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Mecca resemble the Isa alayhi sallam. He was assertively non-violent. He did not retaliate for any personal injury towards him. And this was also in the Madani period as well. When he entered into his mosaic or Musa alayhi phase. In Mecca, the Mushriqin, they would lampoon him. They'd make fun of him. They call him the opposite of Muhammad in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The way he dealt with that is, as one of my teachers said, he did not give it any reality. He just said, who is that? I'm Muhammad. What are they saying? They're saying something else. That's not me. What are these fools talking about? Right? And there were people in Madinatul Munawara that there were Mushriqin in Madinah. They later became Munafiqin after the Battle of Badr. But when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was coming into Madinah, some of the Mushriqin paid their best poet, and they said to him, when you see him, pick some feature that he has and make fun of him, lampoon him, ridicule him, and let us recite this poetry for as long as he's here. Let's make fun of him. Right? So Hassan al-Kunfabah, he climbs a small hill and he sees the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam going by. And according to the story, he looks at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is one glance at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, one glance at the spectacle of creation that is passing by him. And he goes back to the Mushriqin because they paid him some money. He said, I don't need your money anymore. Here you go. I don't need it. He said, let's hear what you wrote. And he said, When I saw his light approaching, I saw his light approaching, I saw his light approaching, I saw his light approaching, I saw his light approaching, He says, I had to cover my eyesight with my hand because of the blinding lights Khawfa'n ala basari, I mean Hussni Surati. Out of fear of losing my eyesight due to the beauty of his countenance, so let's do andhuruhu ila ala qadri, I could barely, I could scarcely look at him. Ruhum minan nuri fi jismin minan qamari. A soul from light, a body that looks like the moon, the full moon, ke hilliyat al nusijat minan anjum al-zuhri. Like a mantle stitched together with brilliant stars. Muhammadan basharun wa laisa kalbashari. He's a human being, but he's not like other human beings. Wahua ya'udatun wal nasifal haji. That he's, other people are like stones, but he's like a precious jewel. So he's still from the genus of stone as it were. But he's a human being. He's a very special human being. And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Medina, and he was a peacemaker. Okay. Here's the thing is that the Qur'an is our primary text and it's very hard for the Shay'atine to attack the Qur'an because the message of the Qur'an is very clear. They go to hadith, they go to weak hadith, they go to solitary transmission, they go to seerah literature. Okay. The mass transmitted normative agreed upon ethos of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is taken primarily from the Qur'an. And if there are solitary transmissions that run counter to that, then we take the Qur'an and we take the mass transmitted sunnah over solitary transmissions. So what does the Qur'an say about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? It says that he was a peacemaker. وَعْتَسِمُوا بِحَبِلِ اللَّهِ جَنِيْعَنْ وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا And this ayah of the Qur'an is agil and I quote it a lot in many, many different contexts. Hold fast to the rope of Allah and don't be divided amongst yourselves. Don't be divided. And Hablullah according to the sound hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said, Hablullah is Kitab Allah al-Mateen, the book of Allah subhanahu wa sallam. وَذْكُرُوا نِعْمَطَ اللَّهِ عَرِكُمْ إِفْقُذُ الْأَقَاءَنْ And remember the blessing of Allah subhanahu wa sallam. You were enemies. Humanity. In the first instance, the Aus and the Khazraj who will become the Ansar, Imam Fakhreddin Ar-Razi, he says they were fighting blood feuds for 120 years. And he says, إِلَاْنَ أَتْفَأُ اللَّهُ ذَا رِكَ دِكْ إِسْلَامِ Until Allah subhanahu wa sallam extinguished that with Islam. فَأَلَّ فَبَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوانًا وَكُنْتُمْ عَلَا شَتَحُفْرَةٍ مِنَ الْنَارِفَ أنْ قَضَكُمْ مِنْهَا And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He made a leaf. He brought your hearts together. He united your hearts by means of his mi'ma Imam Al-Baytawi, he says إِلَّا فَبَيْنَ هُمْ يِرُسُولِهِ صَلُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَا آلِهِ وَسَلَّامِ Then mi'ma, the great mi'ma through which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala united the hearts was through his Habib صَلُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَا آلِهِ وَسَلَّامِ And you were on the brink of the fire and he saved you from it The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Madinah al-Munawara in the Hadith, Literature Hadith that's in the Mustadrak of Imam Al-Hakim Imam Al-Baytawi also records the Hadith He performed his own Haqiqa in Madinah Imam Suyuti says in his Fatwa in his Fatawa that this was to celebrate his motive The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam celebrated his motive This is the opinion of Jalaluddin Suyuti who is a great great scholar Right? In the Sahih Haim Why are you fasting? We know the Hadith That day I was born This is the day in which I was born And the day in which the Quran was revealed to me In the Sunnah of Imam Al-Nasa'id The sound hadith The sound hadith from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri He says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one time came and he saw his Sahaba in a halqa sitting in a halqa and he said ma ajlasa ma ajlasakoon Why are you sitting in a circle? What has brought you out here? Why are you sitting in this majlas? And they responded to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam They said He said we are calling on Allah SWT They said to him We are calling on Allah SWT Which is what we are doing here And we are praising Allah SWT the guiding us to Islam Okay And the blessing of you And the blessing of you Ya Rasulullah So what are the Sahaba doing? What we are doing? That's exactly what we are doing Right And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said I am not asking you to rebuke you Read the entire hadith He said I am asking you because I was informed that That Allah SWT is boasting to the angels about you right now Because of what you are doing So what were the Sahaba doing? They were sitting around They were supplicating to Allah SWT They were praising Allah SWT And they were recounting the blessing of Allah sending them the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So celebration of motive is indispensable Every Muslim has to celebrate the motive In other words every Muslim has to be happy that Allah SWT sent the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam If you are not happy that Allah sent the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Then there is something wrong with your Aqidah That is an Aqidah issue On the day in which you do that that is not an Aqidah issue If you are one day in the Masjid that is not an Aqidah issue But expressing joy for the birth of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam This is something that is indispensable This is the hallmark of a Muslim The Christians say la ilaha illallah I have heard them say Arab Christians Jews they say that too What makes the difference What makes the difference for us Muhammadur Rasulullah Muhammadur Rasulullah He is the messenger of God The final messenger of God And in the names of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam There are indeed secrets They might put the name of Allah SWT One of my teachers mentioned something interesting He said if you look at the name Allah Allah That is the name of Allah SWT If you take off the first letter Which means For God And if you take off the lamb Here And if you take off the lamb Here you have All of these have meaning Then he said If you take the name Muhammad And what does Muhammad Means It means the most praise The one who is repetitively praised The one who is intensively praised When you take off the meme You have hamd You have praise Or hamed Because sometimes the dagger alif is not written In shorthand Arabic When you take off the ha You have madad Madad spiritual Nourishment That we gain our spiritual nourishment Through salat al nabiy Through itiba' of the Prophet And hearing to the sunnah And then you take off The next letter and you have The ha you have daal You take the meme and you have daal Daal What is that? It means it is a signification An indication Right? It's like the ulamas say We have daal What we have Right? The sort of modality Of the Quran Indicates upon the pre-eternal The pre-eternal personal speech of Allah So what we have with the Prophet Is an indication Of the Names and attributes of Allah In a perfect Addemic creature Indications of the names Of Allah In the Quran To the believers He is kind and merciful These are two names of Allah That Allah Bestows upon the Prophet Of course it's not the same Obviously The Prophet is a creation Of Allah But he is the best of creation And this is what it means To be the perfect human being It is to be the perfect If you will theomorphic manifestation Of the names and attributes Of Allah The perfect human being To be lordly in that sense Right? Like what the Christians did They took prophets and angels To be Other than Allah But Rather be lordly Be reflections Reflections of the names and attributes Of Allah Like the Prophet So we ask Allah To Give us Tofuq And to give us His forgiveness And to make this a means By which we approach Allah For us Allah is the light Of the heavens And the earth The meaning of that Is that Allah Is the source of all light And the heavens and the earth Abdullah ibn Abbas The one upon whom The Prophet is blessed And said Allah Give him deep substantive Knowledge of the Quran The exegesis of the Quran The meaning of this Allah is the guide of all creatures Of the heavens and the earth And then There is an incredible And in the Quran Is an ocean of meaning And everything you'll find in the Quran One of my teachers said that He said There was an orientalist Who attended a A dars And The sheikh He said Everything is in the Quran Everything you need to know is in the Quran And the orientalist said Do you really believe that? And he said Yes, of course And the orientalist said If you have a sack of wheat How many loaves of bread can you make from it? Is that in the Quran? And the sheikh said Yes Where is it? Baker How many loaves of bread can I make with one sack of wheat? He said about 15 to 20 Everything you need to know is in the Quran Not necessarily everything And it's my new details But the methodology is there Right So in this ayah There's incredible Meanings in the Quran The Quran has four levels Of meaning The expression, the illusions The subtleties, the realities And these are known by like the Awam And then you have the Ulama Then you have the Anbiya Meanings of the Quran Significations of the Quran That are only known by Allah But something that Abdullah ibn Abbas he mentions Mathadu Noorihi Now we have The similitude, the parable of his light A light that Allah owns Ibn Abbas says A reference to the light Of the Prophet Muhammad And the entire parable Is a eulogy A eulogy A praising of the Prophet Muhammad So we need to engage In the Kitab Allah We need to engage In The Sunnah The mass transmitted Sunnah Of the Prophet Muhammad Okay And knowledge is something that I mean if you keep We're running out of time but If you get down to the End of the ayat of Noor Noor on ala Noor They say what that means is Nakal in Akal The Akal, the intellect, the conscience The word conscience is a Latin word Conscience with knowledge Your fitrah that you're born With certain truths that you know That are innate, that are natural Interacts with the Nakal, the Wahi Right? This produces illumination of the heart Just as Oil Which is the zait Which is internal to the lamp, the misbah And the naa of the fire Which is external to it, when they interact Illuminates the lamp Nakal in Akal, this is our methodology This is how we engage With the world Right? May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala bless all of us May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Accept our Deeds, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Forgive our Misdeeds and Raise our ranks and give us Jannah and give us The companionship Of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him Peace be upon him Peace be upon him Peace be upon him Peace be upon him Beautiful reminder Thank you so much Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah May Allah close us out Inshallah In the name of Allah Allahumma salli wa sallim Wabarika ala Sayyidina Wa Habibina Muhammad Wa ala Ali Wa Sahbih Allahumma salli wa sallim Wabarika ala Ali Wa ala Ali Wa lakad ashrat Linaatiman Awsaafhu Tuhil Ulubat Haysh Al-Asjana Wa salli wa sallim Wa Allahu qad aathna Aleyhi Fama yusawil qawl minna Awyakoon Thana Lakin ahuban Fishtara Iriqadda Alimadih Isafwati Rabbina Wa hadana Wa idam tazajna Bilma wadat Ahuna Nafaa Aidi Wa Rajan Tawassilina Biman Aleyhi Da'ana Wukhtari Wa Habibih Wa Safih Zain Wujood Bihil Ilah Habana Al-Mustafaq Balna Ajib Da'wa Al-Mustafaq Balna Ajib Da'wa Antalana Antalana Yad Haibana Ma Wadda Al-Mahsinina Wa man Ajab Lidana Wadda Al-Huqooq Wa Taliban Awsana Wa Sa'iyan Fiji Amina Haan Ahnubayna Yadayka Anta Tadarajawna Kafa Haqq Su'lana Wa Asma Fadlika Yaa Sami Wa Asr Bina Wajke Kamoula Me'an Wa Al-Nas Wa'zqana Kasselha Qana Wajfi Wa Aafi Ajilam Marghana Wajfi Wajfi Wa Aafi Ajilam Al-Hajat Wajsin Khatmana Wa Amnat Wajlim Taqic Wa Aswan Al-Hajat Wajlim Al-Mamat Wa Aswan Allahumma salli alayhi wa ala alihi wa ala ashabi wa azwajihim wa durriyatihi wa ahl-i baytihi wa salim taslimen kathiran kathira walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen walhamdulillahi hamdan kathiran walhamdulillahi hamdan kathira Allahumma lakal hamduka ma yambaghili jalalin wajimka wali azeem sultanik lakal hamdua ala iliman walakal hamdua ala islam walakal hamdua ala nabiyyir rahmah seydina wa habibina muhammad Allahumma inna nasanuka ridwaak waljannah wa na'udu bikka min sakhatika walnaab Allahumma jma shanlal muslimin wa wahid kalimatahum ala l-haqq wa ad-dil Allahumma inna nasanuka hubbaak wa hubba nabiyyina wa habibina muhammad wa hubba man yuhibut wa hubba l-fukarai wa al-mashaykh wa al-ulamai wa al-masa'kin wa idha aratta bi'ibadika fitnatan faqb idna ilayka bayram akhtunil waladala muzinlil waladala hasidina wala mahsudin wa jalla min aibadika wa awliyayka as-salihil islahillahumma sha'nana islahillahumma awladana wa banatina wa nisa'ana wa rijalana wa mujtama'ana bariklana fima aqaitana wa qina azaabana Allahumma rzukna hubba nabiyyina wa rzukna husnat tiba'ih Allahumma rzukna shafa'atahum ya Rabb al-Alamin wa hashurna ma'ahu ya akram al-akramin wa aridna hawbah wa sqina miyyabin sharifati sharba tanhani'atallana ad-ma'u ba'da'abada Allahumma barikfi ihba bin al-hadirina wa l-ghaibin Allahumma barikfi him wa zidun min fadlik wa nuwa nura as-sanawati wa l-arziya Rabb al-Alamin Allahumma rfa'il wa ba'a wa l-bala'a anna Allahumma rfa'il wa ba'a wa l-bala'a anna wa anil muslimin Allahumma jann ibn al-fawahi shana zahra minna wa ma'abatan ya arhamar rahimin Allahumma shfi kulla marin Allahumma shfi marzana wa marzal muslimina ajma'in wa arham ma'utana wa ma'utal muslimina ajma'in bi rahmatika ya arhamar rahimin nas'aluka Allahumma husna al-khatima wa nas'aluka al-unamina al-jannah wa nas'aluka shahada da'a la ilaha illa Allah ainda al-mamat ya arhamar rahimin wa salli Allahumma wa sallim wa barik'a la seydina wa habibina Muhammad al-Fatiha Thank you everyone. 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