 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلى الله ومالا سيد الرحمة النبي نمي وعلى آله وصحبه وص apenas تسليم الكثيرة ربنا آتنا من لدونك رحمة وهي إلنا من أمرنا رشدة والصلى الله ومالا سيد الرحمة النبي النمي وعلى آله وصحبه وصليم الحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم وراهنت الله تعالى وبركاته الحمد لله وشكرا لله و marketplace thank الله سبحانه وتعالى جلتنا ومن المساعدات الذي أسأله لنا في المساعدة ومع بسيطة على المصرية أمترا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وقال إن صحي مسلم إن الله جميل ويحب الجمال فالبالت الله جميل ويحب جميل ونحن نفس الأول that came to my mind that came to my heart when I stepped into this blessed gathering just beauty وقد نتحب this حديث في الله جميل، ويعبو الجمال the principle of love which is central to our tradition and it's really at the core of who our Prophet was. صلى الله عليه وسلم as حبيب الله the beloved of Allah which is higher than خليل الله the intimate friend of Allah حبيب is the highest and the حديث says Allah loves beauty and we know that our Prophet is the one والله أحب الثلاثة ، صلى الله عليه وسلم وذلك الجمال هنا أفضل من المملكة صلى الله عليه وسلم ، والله أفضل من المملكة ، والله أحبه سيدنا محمد وكل أشياء أخرى في العالم لأنه هو أشياء الأشياء الأكثر من المملكة في هذا الموضوع ، أشياء الأشياء الأكثر من المملكة وأنه أحد of our eminent and beloved senior scholars of our age الشيخ أبلاحكي مراده ، أخبره يقول أن كل أشياء الأشياء الأكثر من المملكة هو أشياء أبلاحكي ، صلى الله عليه وسلم و هذا يصدق بشكل أسيطر منه ويأتي بأسيطر ، أبلاحكي مراده و one of the ways that we get to know our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is through his blessed heirs and inheritors و one of the great heirs of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was a scholar who died in 298 after Hijra his name was Abu-Athman al-Hiyari Abu-Athman al-Hiyari he died the same year that Imam Junaid died but he was in Khurasan and Imam Dahabi in his سيارة أعلامة نبلا which outlines biographies of the great masters of our tradition in the entry of CD Abu-Athman al-Hiyari he says that he was for Khurasan what Junaid was for Baghdad like eminent, eminent master of this tradition and Imam Dahabi says he was a Qudwah he was an Imam he was a Muhaddith he gave his whole life for Hadith he describes him as he says al-Ustadh he describes him as Sheikh al-Islam and Dahabi is the student of Ibn Taymiyah and he's saying about Abu-Athman al-Hiyari he was Sheikh al-Islam and then he says that Abu-Athman he gives his full name al-Hiyari al-Sufi which we're in a safe space so I can say that Dahabi called a Sufi Sheikh al-Islam Alhamdulillah but that Abu-Athman al-Hiyari he was at the same time this Haqim the great Muhaddith of Nisa Abu-Rim Haqim said our Mashaikh are in agreement that Abu-Athman كان مجاب الدعوة that he was someone whose jaw was answered and he was once sitting with a companion a fellow scholar and he said do you agree that عند ذكر الصالحين تنزيل الرحمة do you agree with this ubiquitous maxim of our tradition that when the righteous are mentioned mercy descends he says بلا of course this is well-known when the righteous are mentioned mercy descends and so Sidia Abu-Athman رحم الله says فرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم say the صالحين Allah's messenger is the master of all the righteous so how much mercy descends at his blessed remembrance صلى الله عليه وسلم and mercy is again one of the salient realities of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as we know the verse in the Quran وما أرسلناك إلا رحمة للعالمين we have not sent you except for the sake of mercy to the cosmos or another tafsir as a mercy to the cosmos and so he was sent out of mercy and he was sent as a mercy صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said in the hadith that حاكم relates in his مستدرك إنما أنا رحمة مهدا I am only a mercy that is gifted I am only a mercy that is gifted so he is our gift الله's gift to us صلى الله عليه وسلم and he is but pure mercy صلى الله عليه وسلم and Imam Sawi says هو عين الرحمة he is the very essence of mercy he is not simply a manifestation but he is the very center of the core of the loop the Ain mercy itself صلى الله عليه وسلم and that الله سبحانه وتعالى إن سورة يونس gives commands the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم to give us believers glad tidings when he says جل ثناءه وبشر الذين آمنوا أن لهم قدم صدق عند ربيهم give the glad tidings this Bushra this gospel right that Sain Aeesa صلى الله عليه وسلم gave the gospel the good news and that's بيرسولين يأتي من بقى اسمه أحمد a messenger that will come after his name is Ahmad صلى الله عليه وسلم the great gospel of the cosmos the great good news that شف يوسف النبهاني calls him البركلة it's the pericleat that's mentioned in the bible in the new testament which is the advocate the shaffir that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in this ayah is the good tidings give the believers glad tidings of قدم صدق عند ربيهم that in the presence of their lord they have قدم صدق what is قدم صدق linguistically قدم has to do with being ancient like first قديم as well as surpassing so it's primordial it's a reality that is primordial and surpassing all other gifts and it's predicated on صدق which in the تفسير means actualized real primordial treasure that's awaiting the believers and it's a good news it's a good news that's primordial ancient surpassing and it's realized it's actualized صدق it's true and guaranteed قتاد the great of the imam of the salaf حسن البسري the great imam of the تابعين زيد بن أسلم the مولا بعمر بن الخطاب they all said قدم صدق is سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he is this primordial surpassing guaranteed gospel for all believers صلى الله عليه وسلم because of his شفاء and his صهلي بن عبد الله on this verse said specifically it's رحمة he said قدم صدق في محمد it is a mercy that Allah deposited in Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم for the holy prophet on the day of judgment manifest this mercy in the moment that is his أنى لها أنى لها that all the prophets are asked by humanity intercede for us because judgment hasn't started yet his most significant the first intercession that is the key to open all other intercessions is صلى الله عليه وسلم because the the waiting at the قيام is so difficult overbearing that the humanity lock stock and bearable prophet ونحن أن يتساعد خلاله من يمر المقام المحمود واللعب العظيم لتساعده من الله لتجده في الطريقة ومن المقام المحمود ومن يمر المحب ومع ذلك إذا كانت تصميم كثيرا في الناس ونحن يساعده من أحده وأنه كانت لنا وأنه كان لنا وأنه كان لنا لأنه من مرسي لنا ، ومن أحبه لنا ، لماذا؟ لأن الصلاوات هي طريقةنا تساعد من ذلك لأن الله يردون سلوات في المدينة ، إن الله ومدائكته يسلون على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كل أنساء يردون صلاوات ، لذا عندما نفعله نمتعه ، نسلع عليها واحدة ونسلع الله عليه عشره ، عشره ، وعنده لكل ما نردنا ولكن also المقام المحمود ، نسأل الله لكي يجب عليهم هذه المرحلة مع هذه المرحلة لذا يمكنه أن يدرس for us وفي قيمة ، في المرحلة من الممتعات الأمترية ، صلى الله عليه وسلم وذلك يفرد أن يدرس لكل منه ، وذلك يمتع مستوى من المرحلة ، أعرف المساعدين who enter paradise without any account ، الله مجعلنا منهم لأنه يمتعه ، المساعدين who enter paradise who are forgiven their sins لأنه يمتعه ، المساعدين who would have gone to the fire temporarily ومساعدين who are believers because of sins but Allah forgives them because of his intercession المساعدين who are temporarily punished in the fire but then eventually taken out it's because of his intercession المساعدين who enter paradise who had shortcut in their worship it's overlooked because of his intercession المساعدين who enter paradise raised in their dharajat because of his blessed intercession ومany others المقام المحمود is praised by the station it's a primordial, surpassing reality that's guaranteed وبشر الذين I give this glad tidings the prophet is the one giving it, but he is it صلى الله عليه وسلم and so this principle of rahma manifesting and also that all of his teachings are rahma صلى الله عليه وسلم and of the most important teachings he emphasize is اخلاق ethics لأنه يبدأ من أثناء المدينة بشكلنا يظهر على الوصول يظهر على الحصول وعن ذلك هو الوصول على حلوك ويوجد شيء على مدينة أن يكوننا نحن نحن نحن نحن في الموضوع نحن نحن نحن نظر في نفسنا ونقوم باستخدام at least one thing we can work on للمحاجب الغلس من التعالة اليوم يجب أن تكون للممر ماهو بجهة نحن جميعا ونحن جميعا لله صلى الله عليه وسلم فهذا يجب أن تقوم بإمكانه أن تقوم بإمكانه صلى الله عليه وسلم أنا سأعمل على هذا one thing لأن خلق is at the heart of the matter and it resides in the heart and our mother Aisha when she was asked about the Prophet's character صلى الله عليه وسلم she says كان خلقه القرآن what a powerful statement his character was the Quran the Quran آيات حق من الرحمن محدثة قديمة سفة الموسوفي بالقدم versus of truth versus of Allah الحق from the all merciful that are in time such that we can recite them yet uncreated it's the uncreated word of Allah why because they signify Allah's eternal attribute of speech سفة الموسوفي بالقدم this miracle of the Quran كان خلقه صلى الله عليه وسلم من القرآن he is the mirror as it were of the speech of God this is our and our mother Aisha was a scholar of the companions رضي الله عنها that this was her insight and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's amazing that even there's so many subtleties of the Quran that have to do with him and if you read the first few chapters of the Shefah called the Iyad he goes through so many verses of the Quran that we wouldn't think refer to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that refer to him to the extent of the mystical letters the secret letters of the Quran that our Ulama did not say authoritatively with certainty what they indicate but through intuition what they very well could indicate and many of the Tafseers in the Shefah of Qadiyad the mystical letters even that his character was so Quranic he was so Quranic that even the secret letters of the Quran allude to something of his reality صلى الله عليه وسلم this is why صلى الله عليه وسلم about ألف لا ميم ذلك الكتابه لا رب فيه he says ألف الله لا أم جبريل ميم محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and Imam Samarqandi who Qadiyad cites and Qadiyad is a scholar of that outward and the inward he's a Maliki jurist محدث and so on his authority we cite these early masters who delved into something of the isharat of these sublime letters lest anyone get too excited that we're talking about what those letters could mean that Qadiyad cites also a Samarqandi and he says that الله جبريل محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ذلك الكتاب because that's how the book comes that's the book from Allah to جبريل عليه سلم to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم نزله على قلبك that jabriel brings it on your heart صلى الله عليه وسلم the Quran that where it sent to a mountain it would rent a thunder out of the fear of Allah's محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم mountains cannot handle this سنلطي عليه قولا فقيلة it's a weighty word but what handles it what can bear it نزله على قلبك جبريل brings it to your heart this is what greater تجلي than the speech of Allah the book of Allah coming on the blessed heart of the prophet that mountains would be rent a thunder because of he can bear it صلى الله عليه وسلم ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه there's no doubt in this book he also cites قاف والقرآن المجيد ابن عطاء one of the contemporaries of Imam Junaid قاعده يأت cites him what's qaf it's related to this the weightiness of the Quran because والقرآن المجيد by the majestic Quran the powerful sublime awesome Quran مجيد قاف he says ابن عطاء says it's قوة قلب حبيبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it's the intense power part of Allah's beloved محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and it's related therefore to والقرآن المجيد قاعد والقرآن المجيد سعجيد he says he cites one of the early كنام is about قاف ها يعين صاد is all references to the profound relationship between الله and his messenger والله العالم it's a possible meaning قاف كفاية Allah is sufficient for the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because he revealed عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم is Allah not fully sufficient for his servant and Allah takes ownership of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he's his servant my servant سبحان الذي أسرابي عبده like Allah takes this is the divine pride in saying the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم this description عبده عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم is Allah not sufficient for his عبد that's the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم primarily كفاية ها يداية ويهديك سرات المستقيمة I will guide you to سرات المستقيم and حسنه بس he said the prophet is سرات المستقيم صلى الله عليه وسلم هداية كافاية يا تأييد هو الذي ايدك بنصره الله is the one who gave you who aided you with his victory تأييد support يا عين والله يعسيمك من الناس عصمة and Allah protected you from people صاد قاديات says one of the greatest that the epitome of honor of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the Quran that Allah swears by the blessed life of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم لا عمروك إنهم لفي سكرتهم يعمهون by your life by the life of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the blessed Seerah the people who are astray are blind of heart in their stupor in their غفلة heedlessness and so كان خلقه القرآن he was the station the perfect mirror of the Quran in the world صلى الله عليه وسلم and Allah تعالى revealed إن سروط القلم نون و القلم و ما يسترون that عبدالله شيخ عبدالله سراج الدين says that this has to do with the knowledge عبدالله اسم الله تعالى و إنك بنعمة ربكة ما أنت بنعمتك بنعمة ربكة بمجنون و إن لك لأجر غير ممنون و إن لك شيخ عبدالله سراج الدين says this is indicating the profound عقل of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his supreme intellect nothing of Junoon touched him not even شائب not even the slightest bit of lack because Junoon is lack of intellect and شيخ عبدالله سراج الدين sites و هببن منب the great Tabi Imam who says I read 71 scriptures of the previous traditions and then all of them of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is such that if all of creation from the beginning of time till the end of the dunya if all those are gathered it's like a one grain of sand compared to all the sand in the world that's the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is و هببن منب Tabi Imam and so then and then the unending reward و إنك لأ خلق عظيم and verily you are the first verse اللتارة could have said any of the wonders of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم اللتارة could have said you are the first thing I created and that would have been true and beautiful اللتارة could have said you are my primordial light that I created اللتارة could have said you are the one that will intercede on the day of judgment اللتارة could have highlighted so many of the unique virtues of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what does he highlight it's the most salient reality that we can benefit from directly in terms of practical change beautiful character and so again this is what this night is about it doesn't end with the beautiful singing it begins with the singing such that that singing resonates in our hearts such that we are inspired to do something for the sake of Allah even if it's a little thing tonight to make that intention and a genuine intention قدمة صدق is related to صدق we have to have صدق as well genuine authenticity and honesty with our Lord that يبنى أطائلة رحم الله سلاتة من أخلاق الأولياء there are three salient virtues of the people of the Allah that أولياء سلامة الصدر وسخاوت النفس وحسنة ذنبي عباد الله to have a generosity of soul like our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his soul encompass the whole cosmos look at the how he bound the hearts of the peoples that knew nothing but violence the tribal warfare of عربية the the and the they had the battle of they were fighting each other now their brothers through the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم محجرين أنصار different tribes different cities he makes معاخة binds their hearts he صلى الله عليه وسلم the rich and the poor the enfranchised the disenfranchised the wealthy and the slaves binding their hearts صلى الله عليه وسلم the Arab and the non-Arab صلى الله عليه وسلم tonight in the early when the first of the Questo in the way one of the first early battles he makes peace generally and one again aukolly time on his way home to bring peace really money what did it he's always making peace really the I wanted in the effort to make peace and in a he II of raging war he the the Medina is an فهي ينفع في every level صحابة و نفس another salient virtue of the Oliya و سلامة to the Souther to not hold any grudges to not hold any grudges this is the people of Jannah they go to bed without grudges in their heart to just let go for the sake of Allah no envy, no ranker, no hatred we've been hurt by other people everyone in this room has been hurt by someone but if we can't let go for our egos let go for the sake of Allah and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم connecting ourselves with him because something of that light will then come in our lives and the sweetness will outweigh the bitterness and this is how the Sahaba handled Musiba when they had the worst child they went to him صلى الله عليه وسلم the Ansadi woman at Uhud they told her she came to the battle afterwards they said your father has been martyred your father was killed she says how is the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم they say your brother was martyred how is the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم they say your husband is martyred how is the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم they say he's fine he's good she says show me so I can see I'm still not satisfied and they take her and let her see she's looking at the proxen gazing she says كل مصيبة تنبأدك جلن every calamity every pain every difficulty after you as long as you're okay is easy is bearable through him صلى الله عليه وسلم whatever difficulties we're facing in our lives whatever difficulty the Ummah is facing we should say this it should resonate on our tongues on our heart كل مصيبة تنبأدك جلن because our prophet is just fine صلى الله عليه وسلم our prophet is just fine صلى الله عليه وسلم that's why I said نطلحة was a human shield on that day to make sure that the prophet is just fine took 80 wounds on his back to make sure the prophet is just fine صلى الله عليه وسلم when Zaid ibn Tuthunna was captured and he was being tortured and they said would you rather have Muhammad in your place and you're comfortable with your family رض العن he says I wouldn't want Muhammad so awesome to have a thorn be picked by a thorn while I'm comfortable with my family كل مصيبة تنبأدك جلن the prophet is just fine he's better than fine صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله whatever pain we're going through and so the reality of him and what he has bestowed through this teaching is love محبّة and this is really at the heart of a night like tonight is recognizing the centrality of love in our faith all of the different groups in the ummah الحمد لله we have love for everyone we disagree intellectually with ideas that are incorrect but it doesn't descend to the heart the difference in the mind never descends in the heart because we love this is what the the basis of the of the relationship of Muslims محبّة لا يؤمنوا أحدكم حتى يحبني أخيه ما يحبني نفسه none of you have perfected faith none of you have the beauty of faith the Muhammadan faith صلى الله عليه وسلم until he loves for his brother everything that he loves for himself to the basis of our relationship سنه شياء صلافه سوفي the whole line أشاري ماتوري دي محتزري everyone the basis is love that's it full stop then we engage in a dialectic and we reason to discuss okay here's what I think and there's a place for that and there's errors and errors have to be corrected but even the errors in our ummah are a mercy from Allah even the mistaken all the sects over 100 sects in our history the vast majority of them are still within Islam and even they are there's a hikmah in wrong ideas even in theology why? because there's gonna be people that that's the only way they'll hold on to faith and I would rather have someone have a wrong idea about the tradition but it keeps them within Islam because some scholar made that mistake or some sect made that mistake so they stay in Muslim instead of that if only the right ideas were preserved then all those people would leave the religion everything is a mercy الله سبحانه وتعالى رحمتي واسئت كل شيء رحمتي واسئت كل شيء in this ummah but we have to have love love is the foundation of all of our relationships المتحابين بي واجبت محبتي بالمتحابين بي my love is incumbent for those that love one another for my sake through Allah سبحانه وتعالى through the love of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is the reality our relationship with Allah is predicated on love and the lengthy hadith of the Nwafil that Allah تعالى the person draws near to Allah until حتى أحبه فإذا أحببته so وَلَا يَا is love the whole religion our relationship with Allah love our relationship with one another love and this is how the greatest of our teachers understood our faith and we'll conclude with one of the this principle manifested in one of the perennial questions that people get confused with شك عبد رحمان شاغوري رحم الله one of the great scholars and mystics of the last century رحم الله تعالى he was asked once why did Allah create this world? this is one of the this perplexes philosophers they'll debate till kingdom come why? why did God create this? many Muslims why did Allah create everything? and when he was asked رحم الله تعالى he said for محبة out of love that's the secret of the whole thing out of love and Allah عالم we could comment that that could be rephrases for the for محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم because he is that love he is that pure love he's the one that Allah loves the most and he's the one that taught love and he's the one that manifest love and the whole thing from beginning to end is because of love we ask Allah تعالى to make us people of mercy love prophetic virtue اخلاق of the process and we ask Allah تعالى to make our hearts mirrors of Allah's light and the prophetic light and the light of the olia we ask Allah تعالى to make us people who's outward and inward is oriented to the good pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the good pleasure of our blessed prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the happiness of the people of Allah the olama and the olia we ask Allah to resurrect us with our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم we ask Allah to bring us into the scope of the beautiful حديث المرء مع من أحب a person will be with the one that he loves and based on the barakah of that حديث that we are with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and all the great olama and olia of this tradition in this life and the next والحمد لله رب العالم