 وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ آيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشد الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعاله واصحابه والتابعين لهم بيحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى I want to share a benefit with you all إن شاء الله تعالى and that is how does one really know that he loves the message of صلى الله عليه وسلمة and what shows that you truly love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because loving the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلمة falls under the muqtada what is necessitated from when you say وشد أن محمد الرسول الله when a person says وشد أن محمد الرسول الله that I testify and I bear witness that Muhammad is a messenger sent from Allah what comes under that is that you love him عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم but what is the thing that shows and proves that you love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم شاء الله تعالى I'm going to mention six things that are an indication and an evidence to show that an individual loves the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم the first thing is اتباعه سنةه the person will be found to follow the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم السنة and they will hold onto واتمسك بهديه the person will hold onto the prophet سنة and they will also follow his guidance عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم الله سيزين القرآن وإن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني يحببكم الله ويغفل لكم دونوبكم والله وفروا رحيم that if you truly love Allah أزوج الله you are one who is what you are an individual who follows the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم if you love Allah you follow the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم وإن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني follow the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the second thing that shows that a person is in love with the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم is الإكتار من ذكره the person will talk about the prophet excessively and they will mention the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم a lot ومحبة رؤيته and the person would be in love of seeing the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم الإمام مسلم رحمه الله he narrated in his Sahih that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said من أشد أمتي لحبة ناس ون يكونون بعده يود أحدهم لو رآني بهلي ومالي رسع صلى الله عليه وسلم في this حريث that the people who loved me the most are a people who will sacrifice their wealth and their family in order to see me that if their family would be destroyed and they will lose their wealth just to see me not to spend time with me not to be my companions and my followers no just to see me just to see me and that's it they lose their wealth and they lose their money and their children and everything they just they would want that just to see نبي اللهي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so the prophet said these are the people who love me the most so this second thing which is to want to see him that much is an indication that you love him عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم number three is learning the Quran and implementing the Quran and coming with the etiquettes that will be found in the Quran to implement it this is an indication that you love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم و لذلك the noble companion عبد اللهي بن مسعود and he said لا يسأل أحد عن نفسه that one does not ask about himself when she not ask about himself and where he is except that he should look so don't ask yourself if you love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم don't ask if you love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but he said فإن كان يحب القرآن but if you love the Quran فهو يحب الله و رسوله فهو يحب الله و رسوله then you love Allah in his messenger and Imam al-Bayhaq narrated this in his Kitab Kitab al-Adab the fourth thing that indicates that a person loves the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم is you love the people in which he loves and you hate the people in which he hates the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said حديث صحيحيين بخاريين مسلم آية الإيمان the sign of إيمان is what حب الأنصار loving answer و آية النفاق بغض الأنصار and the sign of faith and belief is what the sign of faith is to love answer and the sign of hypocrisy is to what it is to hate answer this is an indication that the person he does not love Allah in his messenger he is a monaafiq the fifth is الحذر من الغلو فيه to stay away from going overboard with the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and placing him in a station that he didn't place himself حديث عليمنا بيطالي بن منشز that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has said يا إيه هالناس who owe people لا ترفعوني فوق قدري that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has said do not take me beyond my station فإن الله تخذني عبداً قبل أن يتخذني نبيا الله has made me a slave before he even made me a what before he had made me a prophet إن هذا حديث the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says إنما أنا عبد I am only a slave فقولوا عبد الله و رسوله just say about me the slave of Allah and the messenger of Allah so if a person takes the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم below the station of being a prophet they take them below that station they don't love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and any person who takes the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم beyond the station of being a slave and gives him the characteristics of ألوهية this person doesn't also love the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم last but not least الحذر من البداعي والبعد عن الأهواء the sixth thing is stay away from innovation stay away from your whims and desires if you do that you love the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ولذلك عبد الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith ألمام الداري مي نريتر اتبع ولا تبتدع فقط كفيتهم follow and do not innovate you've been sufficed and also أبو بكر رضي الله تعالى عنه he said in the hadith narrated by ابن سعاد الانسطبقات إنما أنا متبع أبو بكر said I'm a follower ولست بمبتدع and I'm not an innovator فإن استقم تو فتابعوني أبو بكر said if I'm upright and I'm steadfast then follow me in that وإن زغطوا and if I deviate from that path فقويموني then correct me أبو بكر said that but when did he start his speech with إنما أنا متبع I am what? I am a follower and I'm not an innovator I'm not one who introduces these six that I mentioned the first one being التمسك ام اتباع السنة he follow his sunnah والتمسك بهدي and holding on to his guidance is the first characteristics that indicates that the person love the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام the second one is الإكتارو من ذكره ومحبة رؤيته speaking about him a lot and also loving to want to meet him the third one is learning the Quran and implementing the Quran and coming with the manners and the things that are in the Quran number four is loving those people in which the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I loved and hating those people in which the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم I hates five it's to stay away from extremism and taking the process and beyond his station الله تبارك وتعالى place to me number six is to stay away from innovation and wins and desires anyone who comes with those six it's an indication and a proof that your claim of loving the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام is true and you do really love him anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفير وقوة وإله