 The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said Shaabanu Shahri, he said the Shaaban is my month So the Ulama say that in this month we should increase in our benedictions upon him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam It is in this month according to the Ulama the people of knowledge In which the ayah was revealed in surat al-Ahzab ayah number 56 Inna Allaha wa Malaiqatahu yusalluna ala nabi Ya ayyuha aladheena aamunu sallu alaihi wa salim utsaslima Allahumma sali wa salim ala Sayyidina Muhammad The Quran says al-Nabi wa Ulabi al-Mu'mineena min anfusihim. We quoted this verse last time I was here for the khutbah That the Quran says that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam his life takes precedence for the believers over their own Cells now there's an epidemic that is sweeping across the Muslim Ummah in The sharqa and in the gharab from the kibar and the sighar the east and the west the old and the young Many many people are leaving the deen there's a lot of ridda a lot of apostasy Many people old and young leaving the religion And the ulama are scratching their heads wondering why this is happening Part of the reason why it's happening is because of a lack of ma'rifah A lack of knowledge as to who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is And the one that acquaints us with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the one that gives us knowledge of Allah of ma'rifah to Allah Is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa la li wa sallam? Why were the sahaba so strong in their iman? Why were they so strong? Why were they so? Courageous why were they so virtuous is because they had him sallallahu alaihi wasallam They experienced the transformative nature of the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Right so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was the means It was the saba by which their hearts were made firm on the path and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam He used to pray Oh turner of the hearts put my heart firmly Give strength to my heart Put my hearts firmly upon your path upon your obedience and upon your religion She asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make our hearts Strong upon this path and upon the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa la li wa sallam when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Entered into the city of mandila to the manawara Many of the men obviously they wanted to You know bring him into their homes and to house him and take care of him Abu ayyub al-ansari radi allatara anhu one of the great companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam He took the baggage of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam into his own house So the prophet said a man is always with his baggage So he went into the home of abu ayyub al-ansari and abu ayyub had a two-story home Right, so he put the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam on the first floor Because it's easier for him to come in and out and people are going to visit him and so on and so forth And then he and his wife abu ayyub and his wife were on the second floor And then a few days into the visit of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam It suddenly occurred to abu ayyub and his wife that you know when we're walking around upstairs We're actually walking above the head of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam And who thinks of these things but the sahaba have so much adab Have so much comportment so much love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that this was bothering abu ayyub al-ansari and his wife So abu ayyub came downstairs and he said yara sallallahu alaihi why don't we switch places You go here and we'll go down you go to the second floor And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said no don't worry about these things And then they would bring food down to him sallallahu alaihi wasallam And he would eat from the food sometimes would be left over food And the the plate would be taken back upstairs and abu ayyub and his wife were trying to determine From which side of the dish the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would take the food and they would try to emulate him in that Even in this little tiny meticulous detail why because they loved him so much sallallahu alaihi wasallam And then one time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he did not touch the food at all Right so abu ayyub he goes downstairs and he says yara sallallahu alaihi what did i do did i offend you What did my wife say to you did i say something to you Right they're so concerned about breaching adab with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Right this was this was something that was on their purview something that really Distressed them have i offended the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam You know when the ayah was revealed in surat al-hujrat and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says In surat al-hujrat He says those who lower their voice in the presence of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Those are the ones whose hearts allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has tested and tried with taqwa For them is is forgiveness and a great reward after this was revealed abu bakr sadiq He would only speak to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and a whisper He would only whisper to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because he didn't want to breach adab with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam So He said you know did we offend you? You didn't touch your plate of food abu ayyu balansari and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam He said no i can't take from this because there's onions in it and i speak with the jibreel alaihi wasallam But this was something that concerned the sahaba You know the same man abu ayyu balansari many many years after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the governor of madina marwan ibn al-hakam who would later become the fourth umayyad caliph But he was the governor of madina during this time He was walking in the roda of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he saw an old man Who's sitting on the ground in front of the grave of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his head was down like this on the ground And marwan walks by and he kicks him and he says atadri matasna. Do you know what you're doing? And this man looked up and it was abu ayyu balansari The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam lived in his home for seven months No one knows their aqidah better than the sahaba And he said don't worry. I'm visiting the prophet. I'm not visiting a stone But long after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam these sahaba they had longing they had shawq Tashweek for the prophet sallallahu alaihi Wala alaihi wasallam when he came into the city of madina because we're talking about the hijra There was a rabbi abdullahi ibn salam who later became muslim radhi allatul anhu He said araf to anhu wajj He said I could tell by looking at the face of the prophet It wasn't the face of a liar And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had a beautiful face He was the most physically beautiful of human beings and he had the best character as well So much so that anas ibn malik he says and this is a hadith you'll find in the shama'il of imam abu isa tirmidhi That when the prophet sallallahu alaihi the day of the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at salatul fajr Anas says we were in prayer in prayer. So they're facing south the qibla from madina to al-manawara is south And he said the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was in the apartment of aisha And kafa shasitara that he removed the The curtain He picked up the curtain and looked at the congregation And anas said I looked at his face and his face looked like anhu warakatu mushaf His face looked like a page of the quran So beautiful and full of meanings and we have to think about this. How did anas look at his face? He turned his face 90 degrees in the middle of his prayer to look at the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Why did he do that? So he's praying he shouldn't do that when you're praying. Who knows aqeed a better than sahaba Did you know anas ibn malik studied with the prophet for 10 years? 10 years khadimu rasoolillah. He is the servant of the messenger of god anas ibn malik Right sometimes we some of the shabaab they go to the muslim majority world for six months But they come back. We say oh, he's sheikh al-islam now. He studied for six months anas ibn malik Studying with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam 10 years Why did he look at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam? Is he worshiping the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam? As-salamu alayhi wasallam no There's a hadith in bukhari and muslim Mutafaqa alayh in both books that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said I don't fear shirk For you after me. I don't fear shirk. I fear that you're going to love the dunya more You're going to have her but dunya Why did he look at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam? Because he loves the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the means of his guidance He wouldn't be praying if it wasn't for the prophet sallallahu alaihi Walla alihi wasallam. So then abdullah ibn salam He says I I saw I could tell from his face It wasn't the face of a liar and then he said the first thing the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said was afshu as-salama Spread peace while atiimu taama spread food around feed people Wasilu al-arhaama and keep ties Of take keep relational ties family ties, right? Keep your ties Wasallu wasallu billayl Wa nasu niyam Tadkhulu jannahabi salam and pray in the night when others are asleep and you will enter paradise in peace This was the first spoken words of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam His first sort of command or lecture that he gave to his umma to the muhajvelin and the ansar and madinatul monabara so One instant with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam can change lives We're talking again about the hijra when he came into the city of madina Some of the munafiqeen, right? They were mushriqeen, but they were pretending They paid one of their poets named Hassan ibn Fabet They paid him a large sum of money and they said to Hassan, you know when you see muhammad Write something about him Denigrate him in poetry make fun of him ridicule him in a poem Because the poet the shair was feared by the by the Arabs if a poet wrote something about you If he if he complimented you that could stay with you the rest of your life Even after your death they would stay in your family And if he denigrated you insulted you that could stay with you for the rest of your life even after your death So Hassan ibn Fabet he was waiting by a certain road for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to pass by And then the prophet comes by And Hassan he takes one glance into his face one glance one navra into the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam And then he goes back to his people And they and he says you can take your money. I don't want it And then they said did you make a poem about him? Did you write something? He said yes He said let's hear it. He said this is what I said When I saw his eyes He says when I saw his lights approaching I had to cover my eyes I had to cover my eyes Out of fear of losing my eyesight From the beauty of his form I could scarcely look at him Ruhum minna al-noori fi jismin minna al-qamari A soul from light A body as if carved out of the moon Like a mantle that's woven together with brilliant stars Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is a human being but he's not like other human beings He's a diamond and everyone else are stones. He's a human being The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is not a demigod. He's not a son of god. He's not half god half man He's not a melek. He's not an angel. He's a human being. He's flesh and blood But he's a great human being A diamond is also a stone. Isn't it a diamond is a stone, but compare a diamond to one of these pebbles outside You'll see the value of it. This is what he's saying Right and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he heard these words and ayesha relates that the prophet actually had a Minbar in the masjid for hasan ibn thabit that he would go and he would eulogize the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam inside the Masjid poetry about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam praising his qualities praising allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The prophet said inlallah you ayyidu hassan biroohil kudus That indeed the holy spirit has helped hassan subhanallah In the hadith of tirmidi on the authority of anas ibn malik And again anas ibn malik is the servant of the messenger of god Uh, abdulla ibn mas'ud. He was a carrier of the na'alain. He used to carry the the sandals of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa la alaihi wasallam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam one time he said that When he was visiting jannah on laylatul isra wal miaraj. He saw this huge palace In jannah he said jibril whose palace is this and jibril said a young man from the quresh He said who and in jibril said umar So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he went to get a closer look at this palace and a woman walked past him in front of him In jannah Who is this woman umus sallam the mother of anas ibn malik The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam according to his hadith in tirmidi. He goes out in the middle of the night The middle of the night to do something anas is following him And he sees abu bakr sidiq in the middle of the night And he says ma ja abika ya aba bakrin. What has brought you out? Oh abu bakr At this hour what has brought you out? And abu bakr said listen to this response. He said kharaj tu min baity k'andura wajha rasulillah I left my house On the chance that I might see the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And then his wife umru man. She says abu bakr sidiq in his house He shouts Wa shawqa wa shawqa li rasulillah. How much is my shoke? How much is my Desire or longing just to see the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. This is his best friend He sees him every day, but in the night he can't see him. This is the type of love we're talking about This is the type of love we have to cultivate for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said He said uh, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He said well to the one who won't see me on the day of judgment And aisha said radi allathe la anha. Who's not going to see you on the yawm al qiyama He said man dhuqirtu indahu fa lam yusalli alaiya the one when I mentioned in his presence He doesn't even bother to send benedictions upon me So we have to say sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says we we said at the beginning of the khutba This verse was revealed in shaaban that Allah in his angels They send blessings of peace upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Allah is enough. Allah is enough, right? The angels is an addition But this is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is doing sallu alaihi wa sallamu taslima So there's a there's a command here two commands by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to emulate this action That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is doing himself one lahta what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Will change lives. It's transformative But people leaving the religion because they haven't experienced the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Well, so that was so long ago the prophet is not here anymore But his his message is here the sunnah is here the hadith are here The quran is here we can have that relationship with him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam We have to engage our sources. We have to seek out the mashaykh and sit with them And understand how he was sallallahu alaihi wa sallam one instant with him could change your life and after that you'll never leave the religion One time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was sitting on the road He was eating some food with some companions and a young woman approaches him and she had a lot of Courage jura a lot of courage. She walks up to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And she says give me something to eat with your own hand And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He never refused the request So he says fine. He wants to give her something and then she says put it into my mouth With your hands And he says okay, and then he's and then she says no take the food out of your mouth And put it into my mouth So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he did that Because in the the morsel of food in one luqma of food There's the saliva of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And the saliva of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as healing qualities, you know on the day of khaybar The sahaba were at khaybar for two weeks. They couldn't even breach the first fortress of the bani israel at khaybar So one night it's a lot to the isha the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He says tomorrow I'm going to give the liwa. I'm going to give the standard to a man You have a lot how are you lahu or you have a lot who are you lahu I'm going to give the standard to a man who loves allah and his messenger and is beloved by allah and his messenger so the next Morning at salat al-fajr the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam after he gives this taslim He says bring the liwa bring the standard bring the flag. He takes it and he puts it into the ground And he looks out in the front row and all the men are clamoring And he says aina ali where is ali and they say he has uh afthalmiya He has ramad in his eyes his inflammation. He can barely see don't worry about him pick one of us And he says no bring ali. They had to lead him by the hand And he comes and he lies down in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam The prophet takes some of his saliva and rubs it over his eyes like this And he was cured subhanallah. This is from the mu'ajizat. We believe in mu'ajizat There was a false prophet at the time named musailama al-kadab From bani hanifa who's claiming to be a prophet also And one of his companions came to musailama and said you know this man in madina muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He can perform this miracle. Can you do it? So they brought him a man with an inflammation in his eye So musailama takes his own Cursed saliva and he puts it on the man's eye and then they saw that this eye is starting to get inflamed This is called ihana. This is khawarik al-adat. This is a miracle But it's a miracle that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will manifest in order to humiliate a false prophet So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And speaking of love we'll get back to the story of the young woman in a minute But we said he loves Allah on his messenger. He's beloved to Allah on his messenger another hadith in muslim By anas that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He was giving khutba and a man stood up in the middle of the khutba because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was talking about Assa'a the hour and he said yara sallallahu alaihi wa sallam matasa'a When is the hour and the prophet ignored him because it's a khutba But after the prayer immediately after the tasleem. He said aina sa'il Where is the one who asked the question and he said aina yara sallallahu And he said you asked me about the sa'a. What did you prepare for the hour? And the man said nothing special. I do my fault. I prayed I do my give my zaka I fast during ramadan, but nothing in addition illa an yuhibulllah wa rasoolah Except I love Allah on his messenger And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said something to him That anas commented on that he'd never been happier in his life on that that that instant When he heard this comment from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. What did he say? You will be with the one whom you love because anas knew that he loved the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He knew that he loved the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So anyway This young woman she said give me the luqman that's in your mouth and put it into my mouth So that's what he did sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And then they said that after she ate that it came into her body And she digested it that there was nobody in medina more modest than that woman was There was nobody there was no woman in medina more modest than that woman one instant with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam A man came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said yara sallallahu I'll do anything you say, but I love to fornicate I love to commit zina And there's different types of zina the zina of the eyes many of the shabab and many adults Major issues with this zina of the eyes because of internet and things like that major issues dividing families splitting families Right, so this man said i'll do anything you want I'll do anything you want, but I have to commit zina So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he said can you imagine somebody doing that with your mother or your sister or your aunt He said oh, I would hate it and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He put his blessed hand on the man's chest just for a moment And the man said when I came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I loved zina more than anything and when I left his Left his company nothing was more detestable to me Than fornication one instant with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So we need to get to know him in closing We need to get to know him. Who is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? Imam ibrahim al-laqani. He says in a johara tawheed. He says This is part of our akida that the greatest of creation The absolute best of creation is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So steer clear of dissent He's his words reverberated in the highest assemblies the words of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam When he was given a khutba one time there was no roof on the masjid in those days And there was a famine and things were dying a man came into the masjid our crops are dying Our animals our livestock are dying. There's a drought. There's a famine Supplicate to your lord the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam raised his hands and before he dropped his hands His beard was soaking wet in rainwater and there was flooding in the masjid And then the same man comes in next week and says everything is flooded Pray to your lord to help us the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He moved his hand like this and said hawalena wa la alayna Around us not above us. This was witnessed by several several sahaba They looked up. They saw the clouds were moving what he would move his hands His words what echo reverberate in the highest assemblies one time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He was sitting with jibril alaihi wa sallam They're having a conversation and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the midst of the conversation just sort of in passing He says to jibril, you know my family and I we haven't eaten food in several days And suddenly there's a hadda. There's a booming sound that comes from the heavens and it startled the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And he said is it yom al qiyama Ya jibril is it day of judgment and jibril alaihi wa sallam. He said no He said Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Because of what you just said has deployed an angel From the heavens and the angel landed on the earth and some traditions say it was as large as the kaaba And the angel asked the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Do you want to be a servant prophet or a king prophet? It's your choice Do you want to be a servant prophet or a king prophet in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? He said I choose erbudiya. I chose servitude I choose servitude There are some people who believe a lot of muslims fall into this the prosperity gospel That we need to be rich. We need to have money. There's nothing wrong with being wealthy Right, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that There's nothing wrong with the rich man as long as he has takwa But he also says every umma has a a fitnah What fitnah to umma ti al mal and wealth it could be a fitnah It's the fitnah of my umma. So we have to be careful not to love the world more than we love al akhirah So this is a fitnah Right, but the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he chose erbudiya So we have to be careful. We shouldn't judge somebody Based on their bank account or how much money they have or where they live how big their house is That's no indication of their standing with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because khayr al khalkilla is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And he had to tie rocks around his stomach sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the stave of hunger pangs Three months go by there's no fire coming from his house. He's not eating meat in three months Habibullah Something happens to us our car breaks down. We owe Allah. Why did you do it? My Mercedes broke down? I can't believe it. I'm having a bad hair day, you know Uh, I didn't get uh, whatever all of my insurance money back something like something so Laughable whereas the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam look at his life a life of struggle But a life of iman a life of tawakul upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us to fiqh to implement may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Uh, bless all of us and give us a close relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and give us Ma'rifah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do the wisdom and the teaching of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I'll call you Hatha. I'll stop for a lot of you. Well, I'll stop for a lot of you Inna who will go for a lot of him? I'm gonna let her be a lot of him Salatu wassalaam allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Wa ala sadatina wa immatina abibakar umal arthman and Ali What are the Allah's are on us have a result of a jama'in Ya qulullah subhanahu wa ta'ala fi kitab al-aziz Ba'dan aqulu a'udu bilahim in a shaitan al-rajim Inna allahu wa malaiqatahu yusallu na'alan nabi Ya ayyuhal adina aminu sallu alaihi wa sallim utasneema Allahumma salli ala muhammadin wa la li muhammadin Kamma salli ta'ala ibrahim wa la al ibrahim fi al-alameen Inna ka hamil al-majid Allahumma baraka la muhammadin wa la li muhammadin Kamma baraka ala ibrahim wa la al ibrahim fi al-alameen Inna ka hamil al-majid Allahumma inna na's alakubi nuri wa chika al-karima Bi haqqik alaik husna al-khatima inna al-mamat Lana wa ri'ahbabina wa ri'jimi'in al-muslimin Ya arhamal rahmeen Allahumma ahdina fi man hadayt Wa aafina fi man aafayt Wa tawwalna fi man tawallayt Wa barik lana fi ma a'utayt Wa qina sharra ma qadayt Rabbana la tuzikulu bana ba'da idha hadaytana Wahab lana min ladunka rahmah Inna ka anta al-wahab Rabbana a'atina fi ad-dunya hasana tun aakhrati hasana Wa qina a'adab al-naar La ilaha illa anta subhanaka Inna kunna min al-zalimeen La ilaha illa anta subhanaka Inna kunna min al-zalimeen La ilaha illa anta subhanaka Inna kunna min al-zalimeen Rabbana zalamna anfusana Wa inna mtaqfilana wa tarhamna Lana kunna min al-khasideen Ya muqaliba al-qulub al-absar Thabit kuluban al-adinik Ya muqaliba al-qulub al-absar Thabit kuluban al-alatu atik The Prophet ﷺ said in a sound hadith He said that during the month of Sha'ban Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala During the month of During the night of Nisfu Sha'ban That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He looks at His creation And He forgives all the Muslims Except the one Except the one who is committing shirk Or the one who is musha'hin The Muslim who has an issue With another Muslim For a dunya we reason They don't fall under the amnesty Of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness So let's forgive our fellow human beings In general insha'Allah ta'ala During this month Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Wa la alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin Allah commands justice and good And He grants the heart And He ends with forgiveness And the close and the rest May Allah bless you and remember you And may peace be upon you