 We praise Allah SWT for as he ought to be praised and for picking and choosing his Habib Mustafa SAW over all of humanity and we bear witness that there is no God, no deity worthy of worship other than Allah SWT and Muhammad SAW is his servant and his messenger and I encourage all of my brothers and my sisters, elders and teachers here before me and youngins to have taqwa of Allah SWT in privacy and in public. Allah SWT says in the Quran يَا يُهَلَّدِينَ آمُنُوا اُذْكُرُوا نَاعمَطُوا اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ O you who believe, Jameean, together, remember the Nyaama, the blessings of Allah SWT upon you and specifically these times during Rabi'ul Awal and after there's a lot of debates, there's a lot of talks about the Maulid of the Prophet SAW which this is not the topic that I will be discussing but one thing that I did want to discuss is the the khasai is the speciality of the Prophet SAW. A brother emailed me in detail a paragraph and a thesis and he said that the Maulid causes an exaggeration of the honor of the Prophet SAW. Astaghfirullah. Allah SWT in the Quran says لَا تُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحْدٍ مِنْ رُسُولِ that do not differentiate between my prophets. SAW, the Prophet SAW, we do not differentiate out of our own whims. We do not say one prophet is better than the Prophet. We do not say anything that really differentiates. We say what Allah SWT says and I would like to take this time inshallah to choose some of the ayahs from the Quran and from the Sunnah to display that to everybody. We are not the ones that pick the Prophet SAW to be a mercy to all mankind where the other prophets were just Bashir and Nazir. They were warners and bringers of glad tidings for their tribe but Allah SWT picked the Prophet SAW as رحمة للعالمين وما أرسلناك إلى رحمة للعالمين. We did not pick the Prophet SAW as the متشفع. As the one that does the intercession on the day of judgment when all of humanity stands behind him. It is Allah SWT that picked the Prophet SAW. It is not us that prophesize the Prophet SAW in all the world scriptures until his coming SAW. It was Allah SWT. It was not us that raised his remembrance SAW. It was Allah SWT that said ورفعنا لك ذكرك. We have now raised your remembrance O Muhammad SAW. All of these things the khasai is the speciality of the Prophet SAW is done by Allah SWT and we just repeat those things. There is no way for the human being. There is no way for the jinn. There is no way for the creation to actually exaggerate the honor for the Prophet SAW. He was honored divinely by Allah SWT. After that, who can honor him? Who can measure up to the honor and love that Allah SWT has given him? In a poem, one of our Mashaikh and knowers of Allah SWT, Muhammad Shabistri, he says He says in this poem that Allah SWT, he's the one became known in his monotheistic religion to the entire of the humanity through who through Ahmad to the meme of Ahmad when Ahmad came. And though he was the first that was created and he was the last to send to the humanity, the difference between Ahad and Ahmad is just one meme. But the secret of the entire world is sunk in this one meme. That it was Ahmad that brought Tauheed. Nothing in the life of the Prophet SAW was by chance. The people that was put around him. The time that he came. Everything was planned by Allah SWT. It was decreed by Allah Even if you look at the name of the father of the Rasul SAW, Abdullah. His paternal grandfather was inspired by Allah to name his father Abdullah. Why? Because Abdullah is the servant of Allah. He is the slave of Allah in servitude and slavehood is the greatest form of love. If you love, if you serve somebody and you are a slave to them without loving them, that's as empty worship. The greatest title of the Prophet SAW is Abdullah. And his father was named Abdullah because he brought a Tauheed because the Prophet was going to bring the Tauheed of Allah SWT. His maternal grandfather named his daughter Amina, the mother of the Prophet SAW. Amina means safety. You find safety in the Tauheed of Abdullah. Even his parents, their names was decreed for the coming of the Prophet SAW. Sayyed Sharifat Jorjani mentioned in his commentary about sending salawat on the Prophet SAW. He says that Muhammad SAW was almost like a reflective mirror that Allah SWT does not have any commonality with his creation. Lace the committee he shade. There is nothing like unto Allah. Anything that you can possibly think Allah is something other than that. So he created Muhammad SAW and Muhammad SAW is the one who reflects this light and the form of his attributes that humanity may get to know the attributes of Allah SWT and a human being that we call Insanil Kamil, the most complete human being. And through this light Allah SWT says He said is the one the same, the one that has light, the one that we have given iman to, the one that we have given a spiritual awakening to, like the one that used to be dead, not the dead that's in the grave, but when you don't have spiritual awakening, when you are not connected to Allah SWT and you're committing idol worship and you're committing shirk, you are as good as you are a walking dead person. So Allah SWT says did we not send, did we not give this light to you that brought you back to life, spiritual life, the real life that Allah SWT, every time he talks about true life in the Quran, Aish, Allah talks about a connection with him and his messenger SAW, not this dunya. Some people say, oh, he he's he's he's left life. Oh, live a little. They think that this dunya is life, they associate life with that, but true life is to know Allah SWT and his messenger SAW. And that's why in Surah Al-Hazab, Allah SWT says that it is Allah that sends blessings upon you and his Malaika and his angels that sends blessing upon you, to what? To bring you from death to life, to remove you, to take you from zulumat, from darkness and into light. And then later in this chapter, later in this verse, Allah SWT says what? So he says, oh, you who believe, Allah and his angels presently write this second and forever sends blessings on the Prophet SAW, or who you believe, send blessings upon him. Why? Ibn Abbas, radiolahu ta'ala, who says about this ayah, he says it goes back to the ayah of Allah, taking you from zulumat, from darkness and into light. Because we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this from darkness and into light. Because when you send, if Allah's blessings and his angels' blessings are removing you from darkness and bringing you into light, then sending blessings on the Prophet SAW says what? That if one of you sends one blessing upon me, Allah sends 10 upon that person. And when Allah sends a blessing upon you and his angels, what happens? You get removed from darkness, you're brought into light, you're removed from death and you're brought into life. And Allah says, This is, we often hear this verse. We have not sent you Oh, Muhammad as but a mercy, but to all the entirety of the world. Allah says, Praise belongs to the Lord of the worlds. We have to define here, what does Allah means by the world worlds? There's different worlds. There's this realm, which we see some manifestation and before us. And then we have the souls, the things that we cannot see. Everything other than Allah, is Alam. So everything other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Prophet SAW was sent to as a mercy. Everything other than Allah, everything is Alam, the angels, the Arsh of Allah, the pen, there's nothing that you can think of that hasn't been created that is not considered Alam, that the Prophet SAW was not sent to as a mercy, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And that is why his birth, his coming was the greatest, most magnanimous day in his story, in history, in this. And even when you look at it, people try to compare, but if you look at Laylatul Qadr, it was greater than Laylatul Qadr. It's greater than a thousand months this month. Who cares if you caught a thousand Laylatul Qadr when Allah says, that the Prophet is closer, that the Prophet is more dear, that the Prophet takes priority over the believers, even in their own souls, even in their own souls. The Quran, sometimes people try to compare the Quran, the Quran is the safari, it's the Zat of Allah, it's the speech of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But you have to remember, the Quran was ascended on the, descended on the Prophet SAW ikraman ala Rasool Allah SAW. The Quran was given to him and to honor the Prophet SAW. It was given to honor the Rasool SAW. So he's a mercy to the angels, the humans, the gins, the animals, other nations, non-Muslims, other nations were destroyed when they did an offensive thing. You see the Qaumulat, they got destroyed. And with them, the animals, everything Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent brine stone to destroy them. They came to the Prophet SAW, and they said, They said to the Prophet, oh if this message, oh Muhammad, if this message is true, and you know, and your book is true, and he said, then ask Allah to send upon us brine stone, send upon us rain upon us rocks and stones and show us this adab, show us our punishment. They dared him. So if this is true, then send this adab upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the next ayah. He says, And Allah will not punish them while you're with them, oh Muhammad. Because he was a mercy, sallallahu alayhi sallam. He is a mercy to the end of time, to the day of judgment. He is a mercy for you and I. He is a mercy for all of us here, brothers and sisters. He's amongst us, his life, his sunnah, and as long as he is, that is his khasayah. That is one of his specialty, that he's a mercy on to mankind, to the animals, to everything. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he's Al-Razim. He is the one, he's the giver, the sustainer. He's the one that provides. But through mercy, you get through love and mercy. So and if you're saying, That's why the word womb of the mother womb is Rahim, because what kind of love does the mother has called motherly love? And ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim to the most merciful and says that the prophet is a mercy. So it's a merciful love, a loving love. It's a love that he loves you without any condition the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa laayhi wa sallam. And through this love, remember his title is the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is Al-Qasim, the one that distributes. So through this love, everybody gets a portion, Muslim, non-Muslim, jinn, Malaika, whatever it is, is through this mercy of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that Allah has sent unto mankind, unto humanity to get it. And when you love somebody, you can explain them. You mention them. When you when you love a woman, you can remember her. She had eyes like this, she had hands like this, you know, and it's same thing with the opposite. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala out of his love. When you study the Quran, he mentions the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam body part by body part. Ya Rasul, the eye, the ear, the body, every single body part of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam out of love and honor for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions his Habib sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And there's a conversation when they come to the Sidr tul-Mintah on the night of Isra and Meiraj, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam brings them to the furthest low tree and he cannot ascend from there. And there's a conversation and there's many variations of this bear with me. But there's a conversation between Jibril alayhi sallam and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and between Allah and the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When they come to the Sidr tul-Mintah, Jibril alayhi sallam cannot ascend. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Ahunaka yatruku khalil khalil huya jibril. Is this where a person abandons departs from his friend, O Jibril? And Jibril says, Azza alayya firakuka ya wa li kulli minna maqamil ma'loom. He says, O Ya Rasulullah, it weighs upon me. It hurts me that I have to leave you here. But all of us have a station that is known with Allah s.w.t. Then if I take one more step, Ya Rasulullah, if I take one more step, I will be disintegrated. I will be burned by the majesty and glory of Allah s.w.t. But unto Abdullah, la uta qaddam tahtaraqta bi'anwari jamal. But if you go, Ya Rasulullah, this is your station, you're the Abdullah Allah. If you go, you will be enveloped in the Nur, in the light of glory and majesty and beauty of Allah s.w.t. So Jibril alayhi sallam has to stay. Because the light of Jibril alayhi sallam is not like the light of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, where everything gets that light from him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he comes before Allah and he prostrates. And he raises his head in this conversation. He says He says to the Allah s.w.t. And he knows the answers, but he says out of humility. He says, Ya Allah, if you've made Ibrahim your intimate Khalil, your friend. And if you've spoken to Musa, and Isa is a spirit from you, and you've given Suleyman a great dominion in a great kingdom, and you've raised Idris into the high heavens with you. Then where am I amongst these people? Where am I out of his humility? Allah s.w.t. says, Ya Rasulullah, and If I've taken Ibrahim as my intimate friend, you are my beloved, you are my Habib. And the Habib is more beloved to me, the beloved is more noble to me than a friend. When And if I spoke with Musa, Ya Habibi, I spoke to him from behind a veil, from a burning bush. But here you are sitting on the red carpet of Allah s.w.t. before me, Ya Habibi. And the Habib says, Ya Allah, if I've given, if Isa is a spirit from me, I have annexed, I have attached your name to mine. There isn't a person that'll say, Ya Allah, if I've given Suleyman a great dominion. And you've given the great tremors of. And if I've given Suleiman a milk, a great dominion, I've given you the Quran and there's not one of you that will recite this Quran that I will not forgive their sins whether it's as great as the foam on the ocean floor or the sands in the world or the pebbles and the rocks in this entire world, ya Habibi. And he says, فَبَئِزَّتي وَجَلَالِيَّا مُحَمَّدْ لَوْصَلُكَ عَلَيْكَ كُلِّ تَرِيْقٍ وَتَرَقَ عَلَيَّا كُلِّ بَابٍ ما قَبَلْتُهُمْ مَا فَتَحْتُ لَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتُوا خَلْفَكَ يا رسول الله says, Oh Muhammad, if they come to me from every single other door, if they try to reach me through any other door, it'll never be accepted from them. It'll never be open from them. The only way they will come and be accepted is if they come from behind you, Oh Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And this is his khasayah, this is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fuses, views his beloved sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam. And when you read the Qur'an and when you see how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks to the other prophets and you see how he interacts with the Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The other prophets, they all are matloob, they're asked, they always ask. They're making dua, Allah give me. Musa alaihi sallam, Rabbi shrahli sadri, Oh Allah, over to open my breast, my chest for me. Oh Allah, when it comes to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he didn't ask, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Alamna shrah laqa sadra, did we not expand your chest for you? Oh Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. When Musa alaihi sallam said, Rabbi you read on Hungary Lake, Oh Allah, I want to see you. He was told, Lan Tarani, you will never see me. But during the Isra and the Miraj, what does Allah, what does it say in the Qur'an? His vision, his eyesight did not waver, did not move from the beautific vision of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stood before him subhanahu wa ta'ala. Musa alaihi sallam was not even permitted to look at him subhanahu wa ta'ala. Wa qadda ala ka-noori ibraheema malakutu samaawati wal-ard layakuna minal moukinin. And we made Ibrahim, we made him sabit, we made him, yakeem gave him certainty by showing him the stars. He looked at the moon and it went down. My Lord can't be something that falls. He looks at the sun and it goes down. He says, we brought him, we made him, we gave him certainty. When what does it say about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? He was before us, two bow lengths or even closer. How do you get that kind of certainty and it's saying, and it's saying Ibrahim al aleyhi sallam and he says, oh Allah, he makes the war. He says, and abase me, not on the day we are raised. Do not abase me. Forgive me, Allah, on the day we are raised, my parents, these people around me were not mus, did not believe, yalla, do not abase me. What does he say about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? Allah has forgiven everything past and present with you, oh Muhammad. When he says to him, يوم الله يغضي الله النبي والذين آمنوا معه on the day that Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgives all of the ones that are with the Prophet in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That was him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And if you look at the Sahaba, if you look at everybody that loved the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in the honor that he had, they had for him. Abu Noaim reports of a man that comes, a Tabi that comes up to Ibn Umar and he says, Ibn Umar, oh son of Umar, I wish that I would have seen the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. If I would have seen him, what would you have done? He said, If I would have seen him, I would have believed in him and I would have kissed him between his eyes. And Ibn Umar says, should I not give you then glad tidings? He says, yes, yes, give me glad tidings, Aba Abdul Rahman. He says, He says my love, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, my love does not enter one's heart and mixes inside him that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't make the fire of Jahannam haram on that person's body. That when you love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and we're talking about true love, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that the fire of Jahannam becomes haram on that person out of love as Habib sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And this is how the Sahaba understood it. He was their Qiblah. It wasn't the Ka'bah. Remember, they were praying towards Jerusalem at first. And when in the Masjid Qiblah came, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam turns, the Sahaba the most would understand and they turned with him. He was their Qiblah. Whatever they did, whatever he did, they did. That's how they love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah says in a verse, he says, When you come to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, bring something in charity. Now, the prophets are not allowed to accept charity. So this is not about bringing something to the Prophet in charity. In Surah Yaseen, that's made clear and we all know that this Prophet can't accept charity. But Allah is saying, show your ikhlas, show your love for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A woman brings a thing of milk. She doesn't have anything. And Um Solaym, the mother of Anas ibn Malik, doesn't have anything. She walks up to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam holding Anas ibn Malik's hand. He's 10 years old. Ya Rasulullah, I have nothing else. Take my 10-year-old son. He's yours. And he grows up in the House of Prophethood. He gave him, she gave him his 10-year-old son. That's the love that they had for him. Julayb ibn Malik was one of the Sahabis that he was not very good looking. He went to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Ya Rasulullah, I'm not that good looking. I'm never going to get married, Ya Rasulullah. What am I going to do? And he says, go to the House of Fulan. They're a noble family. They have a daughter. Tell them Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent you and to give their daughters hand in marriage to you. So he goes. He knocks on the door. The father answers and he sees Julayb ibn Malik. He's not good looking. And he says, I've been sent by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to ask for your daughters hand in marriage. And he looks at him and his wife looks from the side of the door. And they're not too happy. So they say to him, you know, just go and we'll talk to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So he turns his head, puts it down, starts walking away. When his daughter comes running through the doors, Ya Abi, how did you turn away? How did you turn down somebody that the messenger of God sent for me? I accept. I accept Ya Abi, that I accept this marriage because why? Because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Soban was a Sahabi that came to him and he said, Ya Rasulullah, I heard there's levels in heaven that you might be of course on a higher level and I might not be there on the same level as heaven as you. And if that's the case, Ya Rasulullah, I don't want heaven at all. I don't even want heaven, Ya Rasulullah. And if that's comparing our love to Allah's love for him and to the Sahaba's love for him, then what about inanimate things? What about the palm tree that he was, that used to give khutbah by all the time? And somebody suggested that we turn the palm tree into a pole, that we build the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a pulpit. So he left the side of the palm tree and he would start giving his khutbahs on a pulpit. This hadith is mutawater, mutafakun ilay, so many people narrated this hadith, it is kufr to not believe in it. When he left that pulpit, that tree started whining and screaming. Everybody heard it to the point that he got down from the pulpit, he went up to it and he hugged the tree and held it and promised it would be with him in Jannah, so it would quiet down. This is a tree's love for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Mount Ahud when he stepped on it, it started to shake. He said out of reverence and honor for him, he said, stay calm, on top of you is a Prophet, a Siddiq in Tushohadah, that with him was saying, stay still and he sees Ahud from a distance and he says, this is the mountain that loves us and we love it. A mountain, and finally the stones, how are we saying that we are exaggerating the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A tree went on an expedition, he went narrated by Yala ibn Murad Astaghafi. He comes, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is sleeping on doing an expedition. A tree uproots itself from the ground. It goes into prostration as it walks and it comes over the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to hug it. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wakes up and he says, this tree wanted to come and give me salam and hug me out of love in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepted his dua. These are things that are seen. These are things that are in reality actually happen and we're comparing our love. How do we even compare our love to that? And we'll finish with this. The love and knowing of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the most important thing that we could do even before prayer brothers and sisters. These people have figured it out. That's why they have idols. That's why they have lebron. That's why they have all of these people that people flock to in love. I saw a footage of a film. The rock showed up and just surprised the girl and said, hey, how you doing? She started crying. Oh my God, it's the rock. It's the rock. The rock has never done anything for that woman. We have to learn who the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is. We have to instill the love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in our hearts. And as one of the Tabeen who finished with this, they're sitting in a mudgess of dust and they're giving a talk and they're teaching their students. And some of their students, they say to them, they say, Ya Sayidi or our master, siflana al jannah, describe to us heaven. What is heaven like? How is the rivers of jannah? What is our castles in jannah going to look like? Tell us something about jannah that's going to make us enthusiastic and work for it. And he says, what else do you want? Fiham Muhammad. What else do you want? And it will be Muhammad. And if you don't want to go there because if Muhammad is in there, what else can I do for you?