 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim we start with the name of Allah we say we start with the name of Allah in the name of Allah they necessarily exist in the universally merciful the particularly merciful that any time before we start a thing we start with the name of Allah and then we start with two of his overwhelming qualities of mercy that Allah could have had to start with Bismillah Jabbar Bismillah al-Azeez he could have had to start Bismillah al-Muntaqim he could have started he could have had to start with any of his many names al-Muntaqim the Avenger and Jabbar the overpowering but Allah starts has a start with Bismillah ar-Rahmanirrahim the most merciful the universal merciful who gave us our existence and then our particular mercy of the mercy of our faith Allah chose us for our faith Allah chose us to have this faith and not only that he chose us to be among the ummah of his beloved that we didn't ask for this this mercy we didn't ask for the mercy of being of the best ummah the best nations and where does it come from that we're the best of nations where Allah says that you are the best nations that were brought out to mankind for all people that you were made you were made to be the archetypal person of Allah ukhrijatul innaas the model of conduct for the rest of creation but why because we take from the one that broadest this deen sallallahu alayhi wa sallam right ta'muruna bil ma'rufi the ayah continues that you enjoin what is good what is no ma'ruf means what's known you know what's known to be good people know things to be good people know things to be bad you don't need to teach someone that lying is not a good good action you don't need to teach someone that murder is not good right ta'muruna bil ma'rufi what already people know whether they recognize it or not people know that what Islam calls to is good and it's a notification perhaps not teaching but a notification of what this deen came with is good and how do we understood it for what it was for we would know that it was good ta'muruna bil ma'rufi wa tanhauna and then you prohibit what is munkar we translate as what's evil but really munkar means like what you find distasteful we don't need to teach people that alcoholism is distasteful right there's a reason that Allah prohibits what he prohibits and enjoins and commands what he does that this deen is a mercy on to us in that sense and this is why Allah says about his that we have sent you as nothing except as a mercy to all the mankind that what he came it's Allah sent him as a mercy on to us whether we recognize it or not whether we see the few prohibitions that Allah's place is a mercy whether we see them as inconveniences or whether we see them as a mercy doesn't change the fact that this is a mercy from Allah and that this is the month Rabiyan where that called literally the first spring and we're not in spring right now we're in fall but part of the mercy of Allah is that the hijri calendar the count the lunar calendar that we use for these months that Allah has set out doesn't it doesn't match the four seasons right our solar calendar matches the four seasons but this hijri calendar whether it's spring or not whether you see the flowers blooming and whether you see the trees producing fruit and the leaves on the trees whether you see the beautiful green or not that that spring comes and it brings and it's the spring of meanings from the heart it's the spring of love for him so as and it's the spring of love for his Lord and our Lord Azawajal that it's that spring and that love for him saw some is not restricted or conditioned to a particular time it's not conditioned to a single day that that love if it's not there every single day that we haven't reached the perfection of faith where he saw some said to Allah one when I'm ready long came to me said I love you more than everything except myself and that's natural people love themselves right what was his response so long Salam you said that you mean who I had to come had to I couldn't have a lady him a what I did he what what did he when I see a jma'in that none of you believe meaning none of you truly believe none of you have truly perfected your faith until I am more beloved to them than his wallet his son literally but encompasses child any child male or female what he and his father literally but encompasses both the father and the mother and all of your ancestors your grandparents your great-grandparents one nasty a jma'in and all people put together all people put together and this is not from him saw some calling to himself what may I take one in Hawa Allah Azza wa Jalla says about him in Surah Najem one nansmi either how I'm a little less I will come on my go out that loss Allah swears by this that the star as it sets and why does Allah swear by these things because these are significant natural phenomena that the star that we see so far in the distance we don't realize sometimes I will mean we most of us know that these are large celestial bodies right but perhaps if we weren't told that it would be difficult for us to infer that that something that far billions of miles away if not trillions of miles away brings its light to us that how significant is that thing that Allah part of Allah's mercy that he losses see that the beauty and the light of those stars and Allah swears by that one nansmi either how I as it sets ma dalla sahib o kuma ma gawa that you are sahib the person that you grow up with your friend sahib the person that's from your tribe from your from your kind ma dalla sahib o kuma ma gawa that he wasn't misled right nor was he a stray that that's what he's saying about his Habib ﷺ that what he's bringing to us is not from himself and he doesn't speak of his own desire so when he says so I send it none of you truly believe until I am more beloved to him than his child his children his parents and all of creation put together it's because Allah Azza wa-jan commanded him to say so and why does Allah Azza wa-jan commanded to say so because if we don't find that love for him in our hearts Allah son it'd be difficult to find love for the one who sent him Azza wa-jan and if you don't have love for the one who sent him how would we follow the guidance that he sent him with Salah so how would we follow the Quran that he sent us that he sent him with that Quran that we read that's words that indicates pre-eternal meanings that Quran that we flip through the pages and and find you know the words that are in that Quran we find them as guidance where Allah might say wa ma yantikwanil hawatik guide us to the fact that he saw some doesn't speak from his own whim but also that the Quran is understood through the walking Quran Salah Asim or Aisha radiallahu anha was asked about his character saw some about him saw some she said can I call him Quran that his character was the Quran that he is the interpret interpretation of the Quran that there's no way of interpreting the Quran except through how it was interpreted by him in his life so we might find ayat that we find difficult to accept we might find ayat that are not politically correct to say and how do we interpret those ayat how do we interpret or we might find ayat that we should accept we know we should accept and implement in our lives but we find it difficult when Allah says if I come to me in a Salat if I see new would you how come that when you stand up to your prayer wash your face and it might be the dead of winter the dead of night and winter and you don't want to get up for Fajr you don't want to leave that warmth of your blanket and though we intellectually accept those ayat intellectually accept that yes we're supposed to wash our face for wudu but our heart finds it difficult to accept because we put what we want of what Allah Azza wa Jalla wants and what he sent his beloved S.A.W. with then that until we recognize that that love is going to bring us to following him and that following him S.A.W. is going to bring us to the love of Allah where Allah says in kuntum tahibbuna Allah fattabi'uun yakhbibkum Allah yakhbibkum danubakum that says telling him S.A.W. to tell his people oh you oh speaking to him S.A.W. in kuntum tahibbuna Allah tell them if you believe if you love Allah fattabi'uun yakhbibkum we not love Allah if we know that Allah Azza wa Jalla is the one who gave us our existence who gives us our provisions who allows us to breathe who allows our hearts to pump the blood who allows our eyes to blink what blessing is it that our eyes blink that it keeps our eyes moist and keeps them from being becoming irritated what blessing is that we don't we do it subconsciously we don't we don't bring ourselves to blink if we were to think about every single time we blink and we had to do it consciously how difficult would it be but Allah Allah Azza to happen he does it for us had we had to be the ones that pump our own blood with our heart how difficult that be but Allah does it for us wa jubiratin qulubu a'la man a'sana ilayha that hearts are wa jubiratin qulubu a'la man ha'bati man a'sana ilayha o kama qal s.A.W. that that hearts are inclined to those who do ihsan who do excellence you do beauty you do who do good to them hearts love those those entities that do good to them and Allah Azza wa Jalla does that good to us how can we not love him and if we love him we're told to follow him s.A.W. and how can we follow him if we don't love him s.A.W. we love those that we follow right how many people dress a certain way because of their favorite celebrity does how many people walk a certain way speak a certain way because their favorite celebrity does is he not awla bil mutminin is he not awla bil nas is he not more prior to us than a celebrity or even someone even someone that we should look up to like our parents is he does he not take priority over them s.A.W. is he not more prior than them s.A.W. and if he's more prior to we not love him more than we love our more than we love that model of conduct that we've made for ourselves whether it be your parent your sibling your manager at work whatever it may be that you want to be like that person that what is that person compared to him s.A.W. that that is our pride that we are from his s.A.W. and that that pride brings us to humility that Allah chose us with no with absolutely no reason other than the fact that that it was his pure divine will to do so we didn't deserve that faith but Allah gave it to us how can I not bring love for him a soldier and love for his beloved s.A.W. and when that love enters our heart it becomes easy to follow what he asks when Allah says and it's the dead of night and winter and you don't want to get out of bed and it's cold and that blanket is it feels like it's heavier than a boulder when it's coupled with love before the time comes and we'd want to get up whether we feel tired or not we'd want to get up whether it's cold or not we don't feel the cold I say it literally translated English it means like when the beloved hits you it's like eating raisins means like it's sweet sounds strange in English but whether you find it your heart your your ego finds it good or not in a normal circumstance when it's coupled with love you wanted that those that we love you look over what they do what they do to us whether we look over the harm they do to us but if that's the case then what about the ihsan that Allah s.A.W. and his promise to us does for us that when I say that Allah saw him in cheerful s.A.W. he said ya RasulAllah make dua for me right and when and when we hear about the happiness the process should bring happiness to our hearts when we hear about his happiness s.A.W. should bring happiness to our hearts and to our and should bring a smile to our face and we hear about his sadness to bring sadness to our hearts and it should bring a and it should it should bring that sadness to our hearts but not it's not a frown to our face because he s.A.W. was Daimun-a-Hazan Daimun-bishu that he was always had that sadness in his heart but he didn't let manifest in his face so it's not trans it doesn't it's not transitive to others so others still feel happy even when you're sad then when she said Allah s.A.W. make dua for me she said oh Allah forgive Aisha Allah s.A.W for everything that she's done any slip that she may have done prior or forthcoming in secret or in public and she laughed so much Allah s.A.W. had that her head her blessed head Allah s.A.W. fell into the blessed lab the process and I mean she said he said does this make you happy and she said of course it makes me happy why wouldn't it and she said he is so awesome said I make this dua for my ummah and every single prayer that have we made that dua for ourselves that we have that concern over ourselves to the extent that he saw some had for us have we made dua for ourselves to the point that when we stand our feet crack and our tears flow and wet wet wet our faces have we done that for ourselves we have most of us haven't but he saw some did that for us how can we not love that person who's done such ihsan on to us such excellence and to us especially particularly considering the fact that what Allah s.A.W. just says to him what a sofa you'll take a rabbu kafa tarada that your Lord will surely give you what a sofa what last sofa your Lord will surely give you what a sofa you'll take a rabbu kafa tarada your Lord will give you for tarada until you are happy and he saw some will not be happy until we enter jannah some of my people of jannah qawli hada what's the fear of Allah only when I come to salam islaminia come to stop fear and what's the fear of Allah only when I come to salam ism Allah and Alhamdulillah was Salat was Salam Allah Rasulillah wa ala Ali he was Sahbih mawala this Dean it's founded on following him because he is meant to be fallas and because he is the beloved of Allah loving him because Allah loves him and loving Allah because he loves Allah whoever the beloved loves you love them we can't love him salam until we know what he's done for us the ihsan he's done to us if you don't know about the ihsan that the excellence that he's done to us how would our hearts incline at him so this month not particularly this month but every single month every single day though this month it comes as a reminder that we should take the time to learn about his characteristics inwardly and outwardly learn his learn his biography learn what he salam did for us so that our hearts become attached to him and then in turn attached to attached to Allah Azawajal and recognize that our hearts cannot be attached to Allah Azawajal unless our hearts are attached to him so he's the Rasul he's on that brings Allah to you and brings you to Allah brings Allah he brings Allah Azawajal and the message from Allah Azawajal to you and he brings you back to Allah that the Shafa intercession when everyone else will turn you away what would our mothers do for us but on that day our mothers will say nefsi nefsi myself myself our mothers would turn us away other prophets would turn us away he saw some says umma dee umma dee my umma my umma so may Allah makes the people who actualize being of his umma may Allah makes the people who actualize having our faith in him salam in his Lord Azawajal in our Lord Azawajal may Allah makes the people of love and make us people of Rahman make us people of mercy may Allah makes people of mahabba of love may Allah makes people ma'rifah of knowledge may Allah make his people ihsan of excellence may Allah makes the people of iman of faith may Allah makes people of Islam of submission may Allah makes the people who never lose sight of that faith who never lose sight of his beloved Salah Salam may Allah makes the people who never live lose sight of him Azawajal may Allah makes the people whose love only increases may Allah makes the people whose whose last words before we depart is that which brings happiness to him Azawajal happiness is his Habib thousand my Allah's work our last words be la ilahein Allah Muhammadan wait for Allah Salam may Allah make us have appreciation for those who brought him, brought message of him to us, particularly our teachers and our first teachers, our parents, we say, Oh, Allah have mercy on them as they had mercy on us when we were young. May Allah make us people who see no peace except in Him, And may Allah make us people who recognize that Allah and His angels and their benedictions and salutations on him so that we're asked the same You remember Allah, he'll remember you, and he'll remember you, and he'll remember you. Call upon him, he'll answer you. You remember Allah as great as He is, and he'll remember you.