 It is he, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who sent his messenger, sallallahu alayhi alayhi wa sallam, with guidance and the religion of truth making it prevail over all others, even to the dismay of those who associate with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Nowadays, perhaps more than ever, human beings are steeped in a type of existential chaos, in theological chaos, in moral chaos. Of course, chaos is the opposite of cosmos, meaning order. So, disorder is everywhere. There are millions of people in the world right now. There are millions of people in the world right now, who's basically their entire world view is being turned on its head by the current sort of spirit of the age, the current zeitgeist, by this pervasive and pernicious culture that makes them question their own common sense. And they should know that Islam has something unique and elegant and beautiful and reasonable to offer them. And by Islam, I don't mean some kind of vague, undefined submission. I mean the message brought to us specifically by the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi alayhi wa sallam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that the Qur'an is that the Qur'an itself is a healing, is a cure for what is in the hearts of humanity. And people are afflicted everywhere with spiritual maladies and diseases, and in many cases they don't realize that they even have them. There's rampant doubt in hypocrisy, and there's arrogance and vanity and heedlessness. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to cure us of all such diseases and maladies. So watering down our religious beliefs unnecessarily or attempting to combine or somehow equalize all of these religion, religions actually compromises our distinctiveness as a religion. It compromises the Qur'an's distinctiveness as a scripture, as a unique book of healing. There is something special about Islam. There is something special about the Qur'an. There's something special about the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi alayhi sallam. And we should make no apologies about this. This is the truth. However, we show humility before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he said This is the hadith recorded by Imam al-Bayhaqi. And this is a spiritual principle. So you have mathematical principles, you have biological principles. This is a spiritual principle, a spiritual law that if we are humble before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will raise us. And if we are arrogant, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will debase and humiliate us. Almost the exact same statement is attributed to Isa alayhi sallam in the New Testament. So the Christians, they have these spiritual laws. People who believe in ultimate accountability, they tend to have these spiritual laws. But there are people who love the dunya and cling to the dunya. And these people follow other principles, right? They have other axioms, they have other laws like just do you, or do what thou wilt, do whatever you want, or live your truth, or it's my body, it's my choice. This type of thing. I mean good luck with that. Inna li-inna li-llahi wa inna ilahi raji'urum. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, indeed we belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We don't own anything. I don't own my wealth, I don't own my house, I don't own my body, I own nothing. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is a sovereign Lord. Wa idha l-mawooda tu-su'ilat li-aidham bin qutilat. When the innocent little beautiful baby girl will be asked on the Yomul Qiyama for what crime she was killed. Can you imagine? This is proven. The majority of children killed by their parents are girls. No one wants to talk about this war on women. This is a global war on women. The other front of the war on women, there's many fronts, there's multiple fronts of the war on women, is when men appropriate the gender of women. When men think they can become women, like some sort of gender blackface, when womanhood becomes mockingly performative, this will systematically erase that which makes real women unique and distinct and precious. This is in the Quran. The male is not like the female. The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he recognized this perennial problem in human society that people who don't believe in ultimate accountability will oppress others that are physically weaker. That's the law of the jungle. But we're not animals living in a jungle, we're human beings. We are insan. We have a akal. There's something different about us. We don't follow the law of the jungle. We follow the laws of revelation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, whoever has three daughters and shelters them and has compassion towards them and protects them, takes care of them, Jannah is wajib upon that person. Qila ya Rasulullah, wa inkanat ithnatain, qala wa inkanat ithnatain. And they said to him, oh messenger of God, what if we have two daughters? And he said, even if you have two daughters. And then the narrator of this hadith, he says, we were going to ask even if it's one daughter and we were sure he would have said even one daughter, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Notice how he did not stop. At shelter them. You shelter them. You have compassion, rahma towards them. You take care of them, protect them. Okay, so I wanna say a few things about the sacred narratives in the Quran. This is really the topic of my khutba inshallah. So it is a fact that the sacred narratives described in the Quran, such as the story of the flood at the time of Nuh alayhi sallam, the story of Joseph, Yusuf alayhi sallam, the story of the exodus from Egypt, the hijra of Musa alayhi sallam with the Bani Israel, the Quranic versions of these narratives make much more historical sense than their biblical counterparts. In other words, the flood and the exodus as described in the Bible are basically historically impossible or at least highly implausible. Somehow, the Quran avoided many of the problematic historical claims of the biblical authors. And this is from the Dala'il an-Nabua. This is one of the proofs of prophecy. This is a proof that the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam was a true Nebi, a true prophet. For example, I'll give you an example. The Bible says that 600,000 men of fighting age made exodus from Egypt with Musa alayhi sallam. This means about three million people made exodus from Egypt. If we count the women, the children, the elderly, not to mention animals, three million people plus livestock. Historically, this is almost falsifiable. This would mean that basically a third of the entire population of Egypt made hijrah. This would have been noticed by other civilizations in that region, yet no one recorded it. Three million people for 40 years would have left a major footprint in the Sinai Desert. There is none. If three million people were marching, just to give you a visual or to conceptualize this a little bit, if three million people were marching, 10 men across, when the first row reached Mount Sinai, the last row would have still been in Egypt. What does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say in the Quran? The exodus is confirmed in its general sense in the Quran, but there are changes that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes in the narrative that are extremely important and often overlooked by even scholars, let alone average readers. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says We reveal to Musa, alaihi salam, journey under the cover of night with my servants. Indeed, you will be pursued. So they all left in one night. Farah sent summoners to the cities. Saying these people are a small remnant, a small remnant according to the Quran, a small group of believers in Allah and his messenger Musa, alaihi salam, made Hijrah, made the exodus. How many Sahaba made Hijrah from Mecca to Medina during the time of the Prophet, alaihi salam? Who is this small group? The biblical version of the exodus cannot be true historically, while the Quranic version is very plausible. If the Prophet Muhammad, alaihi salam, plagiarized the Bible, which is the standard Quranic, the standard of one, the standard Orientalist trope that he plagiarized the Bible in the Quran. Then they say this even to this day. Why didn't he copy these problems? How did he know to make this adjustment to the narrative? How did the Prophet, alaihi salam, in quotes know that the rulers of Egypt at the time of Yusuf, alaihi salam, were called muluk. They were called kings, not pharaohs. The ruler at the time of Musa, alaihi salam, was called Fir'an, was called Pharaoh. The Quran is correct historically. The book of Genesis gets it wrong. Why didn't the Prophet, alaihi salam, call the ruler? Why didn't the Prophet, again, in quotes, call the ruler of Egypt at the time of Yusuf, alaihi salam, a pharaoh like the Bible did? How did he know to make this adjustment to the narrative? How did he know to avoid this anachronism? It's called anachronism. There are linguistic subtleties in the Quran that the Prophet, alaihi salam, could not have known. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Zikru rahmatirabbika abdahu zakariya. The name, zakariya in Hebrew, means the mention of the Lord. This is what his name, zakariya in Hebrew means the mention of the Lord. So this verse is a play on words. Zikru rahmatirabbika abdahu zakariya. The mention of the mercy of your Lord to his servant, the mention of the Lord. There's this beautiful, subtle symmetry in this one ayah. The author of this ayah knew Hebrew. There's no doubt about it. If a Jew living in the Hijaz heard this verse, his ears would perk up. He would notice the subtlety. Another example, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala says, That the wife of Ibrahim, alaihi salam, she laughed and then we gave her glad tidings of Isaac. Isaac means laughter. And then it says, And then following Isaac, Jacob. The name Isaac means laughter in Hebrew. The name Jacob means to follow or to come after. This is a type of word play that adds to the eloquence and brilliance of the Quran. Whoever composed this verse knew Hebrew. Of course we know this is a revelation from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'll give you another example. There's hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of these types of examples. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala says about Yahya, alaihi salam, wa hanana milladuna wa zakatan wa kana taqiyyah. Now Yahya is John, John the Baptist. Peace be upon him. Most probably. The Quran calls him Yahya, meaning he lives because he was martyred. And the martyrs are alive. Bal ahya'in da rabbihim yurzaqun. They're alive with their Lord, receiving sustenance from their Lord. But the Hebrew name of John is Yo Hanan, which is related to Hananan. Wa hanana milladuna wa zakatan wa kana taqiyyah. This is the only occurrence of this word in the entire Quran. And it's describing Yahya, alaihi salam, because it actually relates to his historical name. These are subtleties that go over the head of 99% of the Quran's readers. The author of the Quran is playing with these languages in a masterful way. Now we also believe in miracles. Mu'ajizat. Musa, alaihi salam performed many miracles. And secular historians do not consider miracles when determining what happened in history. That's part of our iman bel ghayb, right? Because the past is ghayb. We don't have access to it. We can't reproduce these things. Our belief in miracles is not irrational, nor is it falsifiable. It is based upon our belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And we can argue rationally that this universe had a designer and a creator and that this creator is personal. This is why there is something rather than nothing. This is a big philosophical conundrum for these philosophers. Why is there something rather than nothing? This creator who brought this universe into existence from nothing has power over every atom in the universe. Miracles are easy for him. But this is a philosophical argument. This is a theological argument. But from a standpoint of history, the Quran's narratives avoid the historical pitfalls of the biblical narratives. And I would say this is also true of the teachings of Jesus, peace be upon him. Our Master Isa alayhi salam, when the Quran's Christology, it's statements about Christ, even though, so the Quran's Christology make more historical sense than what the New Testament even teaches about Jesus, peace be upon him. Even though the Quran came 500 years after the New Testament, this is amazing. Most historians today do not believe that the historical Jesus, peace be upon him, claimed to be divine. They say he claimed to be a prophet and a healer who taught a more relaxed interpretation of the Torah. And that he spoke of someone to come after him who would bring the kingdom of God on earth. And when it comes to the crucifixion, so here the Christian will point, will point out to the Muslim and say, look, here the historian says, Isa alayhi salam was crucified, but the Quran denies it. But here I would say that historians have highly overemphasized the historicity of the crucifixion. I think if they look closely at the evidence again, many of them will affirm at least the historical plausibility that Isa alayhi salam was not crucified. What does the Quran say? It says those who differed about it, meaning the crucifixion, were in doubt, in shak concerning it. They did not have certain knowledge. They did not have, except that they followed done conjecture. In other words, none of the evidence that Jews and Christians marshal to support Jesus's crucifixion, none of it was written by an eyewitness of this alleged historical event. Every epistle, every Gospel, every statement in Christian Jewish and Roman sources, without exception, came much later and were authored by people who were not there. Paul was the first person in recorded history to claim that Jesus was crucified. This was 20 years later after the alleged event and he wasn't even there. Paul never met the historical Jesus. He was not a disciple. So these sources are conjectural. They are done me. Today, we know that this is true. The Quran is correct. But back when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam first uttered these words, Christians and historians believed that the four Gospels, that two of them were written by two disciples of Jesus and the other two were written by disciples of disciples. No historian really believes that anymore. The Quran is correct. Yet most historians continue to drag their feet on this issue. There's a dogmatism among even secular historians. I don't think these people are objective. Put 50 quote-unquote objective secular historians in a room and give them a topic. You have 50 different responses, 50 different opinions. So allow me to paraphrase. An excellent point made by Dr. Luey Fatouhi. It was what he says. He's a paraphrase. He says, if the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the real author of the Quran and he desperately hoped to convert Jews and Christians to Islam and to become his followers, then why in the world did he deny the crucifixion of Jesus when both Jews and Christians maintained that he was crucified? Why would he invent an uncrucified Jesus? Why would he create an unnecessary barrier to conversion? The answer seems to be that the Quran is stating an actual fact since it has direct access to history as a divine revelation. It is simply a fact that Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, peace be upon them was not crucified. So here's the main point. The Quran's version of the flood, the Exodus, the story of Joseph, the teachings of Jesus are more historically accurate than what the Bible says. So why would this also not be true about the history of the patriarchs? About Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob, peace be upon them. Now, despite the problems with the biblical text, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala tells us that there are predictions and descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the Torah and in the Gospel that have survived the pens of the editors and the Torah and the Gospel that are with them and that they have, the truth is there. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala preserved these things so that they might recognize, they simply need to extract them using reason and logic and textual criticism, theological consistency, the tools of historical inquiry. There's a verse in Genesis 17, 1720 that says that God blessed Ishmael and that God would make him a great nation. The context of this verse as it appears in Genesis is as an afterthought, right? It says that God favored Isaac over Ishmael and God made an everlasting covenant with Isaac and his descendants, not Ishmael. But okay, I'll give Ishmael, I'll make him a great nation as well. I'll give him something, but in reality it's all about Isaac. This is how the verse about Ishmael is presented. So from the context, from the present context of this passage, the normative Jewish claim, okay? It's important for us to understand the claims, the norm and stop building these straw men and destroying them. We have to know what people actually believe. The normative Jewish claim is that all the nations of the earth will be blessed by the descendants of Isaac, not Ishmael, but blessed how? What do the rabbis say? Blessed with the light of monotheism, they say. This is the absolute bedrock and basis and foundation of Jewish teaching according to Judaism, monotheism, Tohed, the King Messiah, they say. Okay, from David's line, going back to Isaac, we'll convert the world to Tohed. Ishmael and his descendants will play a supporting role, a subordinate role. This is their claim about what it says in Genesis 17 about Ishmael and Isaac. We should know their claims. Now, is this true? What actually happened in history? So there's a text and then there's reality. Anyone can make a claim. There's the claim and then there's the truth. Let me give you an analogy. Imagine I said in the year 1990, many years ago, I was very young, young man, much older, many of you were even born. Imagine I said in 1990 that the Houston Oilers will be the greatest dynasty in NFL history. And I also said specifically that the New England Patriots will be okay, but the Oilers will be greater. I promise you. Now fast forward to 2022. Was I right? What actually happened? Can I still be right in the future? No, why? Because the Houston Oilers no longer exist. I have been falsified by history. I have been falsified by the iradakonia of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Here's a fact. The line of David is lost. It's been lost for 2,000 years. Here's a fact. The greatest and most successful monotheist in the history of humanity. It's not even close. What's the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? A descendant of Ishmael. He made the world monotheistic like no one before him and no one will after him. Here's a fact. The chronology of events described in Genesis were created by editors hundreds of years later. So who did God most likely make this promise with? Ishmael or Isaac? Absolutely no disrespect to Sayyidina Isaac, Alaihi Wasallam. Obviously, we love him. He's a prophet of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. In our prayer, we send blessings upon the family of Ibrahim, Alaihi Wasallam. We don't say upon Ishmael and his progeny, upon Ali, upon the entire family, Ali Ibrahim. Everyone. But facts are facts. Claims that are contrary to facts. Don't change facts. In the book, Ishmael mentioned that he was true to the promise and a messenger and a prophet. He used to enjoy on his people prayer and fasting and his Lord was well pleased with him. This is what reality demonstrates. Historical reality that falsifies the claims of Ahlul Kitab and exposes the errors in their scriptures. What about the Christians? The Christians inherited the Jewish scriptures. And so they forced themselves, essentially, to accept the book of Genesis, hook, line, and sinker. So then the Christian claim is also that God would bless the world through the descendants of Isaac. They accept the text of Genesis as it stands. And so the Christian claim is that God would bless the world through the descendants of Isaac. They accept the text of Genesis as it stands. But according to them, God did this through Jesus, peace be upon him, who was God's divine son, or God himself, who died for our sins as a human sacrifice. Now, Udubi-Lahi Minash-Shaytan al-Rajim. This is Paul's claim in the book of Galatians. The problem with this Christian claim, with all due respect, I'm not trying to disrespect anybody, right? We have to be clear about our beliefs and about their beliefs. This is what the Christian claim is. About their beliefs. This is what they believe. When we off-fuskate, when we muddy the waters, we confuse people. Let's be clear and direct. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was clear and direct in his speech. The problem is that the Christian claim is utterly incompatible with Abrahamic monotheism and his highly blasphemous. The Torah says, lo yish eylevi chazeb in Hebrew. That's right. Any man who claims to be God is a liar. The Quran says that the reward for a man who claims to be God is jahannam. So the Jewish claim as to how God will bless the nations through Isaac is historically impossible. While the Christian claim as to how God will bless the nations through Isaac is theologically impossible. Wa gharrohum fideenahim makannu yaftaroon. How perfect are the ayat of the Quran. This is perfect. Their fabrications have deceived them about their very own religion. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed humanity through Isma'il alaihi salam. This is what reality demonstrates. Here's the actual verse in Genesis 1720 about Isma'il alaihi salam. I'll end with this, inshallah. This is the verse isolated from its contrived and falsifiable context in the Torah. Is this definitely what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed to Musa alaihi salam? Allah alaihi salam. But it's probably something close to this. God says to Abraham, I have blessed him, meaning Isma'il, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget. And I will make him a great nation. I have blessed Ishmael, it says. And the Hebrew says, berakti oto. That is to say in Arabic, Ishmael was mubarak. The cognate here in Arabic is mubarak. It further says that from this mubarak person, Isma'il alaihi salam, there will come a great nation. In this context, great doesn't simply mean great in numbers, it means spiritually great. We know this because he's called mubarak, right? The verse is not talking about a lot of mushrikin. The verse is talking about a multitude of mawahidun, of monotheists. This is clearly a reference to the blessed and great ummah of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam, who again was the most successful monotheist in the history of humanity. Judaism could not simply ignore him. He's too great to ignore. This is a major delir of Nabooa, a proof of prophecy. The Quran is the greatest testimony to monotheism in the history of the world. The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam is the greatest monotheist of all time. There's no one, even in the same ballpark, it's not even close. Now in mystical Judaism, I'll just mention this, I thought this was interesting. There's something called jamatria. This is kind of like a numerological interpretation of sacred texts. So as Muslims, we should be careful of these things, take them with a grain of salt, as one of my teachers said. Perhaps there's something to this, but we should never be dogmatic or insistent about these things, right? They say too much salt on a meal spoils the dish. Nonetheless, some interesting numerological correspondences have been pointed out to me by my Jewish colleagues. I have Jewish, when I used to work at a Catholic school, the rabbi professor came to me and he pointed these things out to me. He said in Genesis 1720, God said to Abraham that we would multiply Ishmael exceedingly. The word exceedingly he says in Hebrew is bimod meod, which translates as exceedingly. And he said the numerical value of this is 92 exactly. And he said the phrase as a great nation, legoi gadol is also exactly 92, the numerical value. And he said, did you know that the numerical value of Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Hebrew, memchet mam dalat is exactly 92? This subtlety did not escape the notice of Hebrew exegetes. And there are Jewish scholars who admit that the prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a fulfillment of this verse. Genesis 1720, they admit this. They admit that this verse is predicting the Muslim ummah under the prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. You'll find this in their classical literature. This is the position of a famous 11th century Tunisian rabbi named Hanayel ben Hushiel. People can look this up. The famous Spanish rabbi and Torah commentator, Bahia ben Asher, he quoted rabbi Hanayel. This is what he said, quote, once this prophecy came true, Islam conquered the civilized world like a world when we, the Jewish people, lost our position of preeminence in the world due to our sins, end quote. They know that this verse is describing the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I'll be done in two minutes, inshallah. Now, what do we learn from the Quran about the historical situation in the Hijaz during the time of the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? The Quran quotes the enemies of the prophet, the mushrik even Mecca, right? Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Inna hum kanu idha qira lahum la ilaha illa Allah yas takbirun. Wa yuquluna inna latari khush, aali hatina li-shaali majlun. That when it is said to them, there is no God but Allah, they have arrogance. And they say, should we abandon our gods for a possessed poet? These are charges that polemicists today continue to levy against the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He was a poet, right? In other words, the Quran is not some revelation. It's just literature. It's high register, rhymed prose. Or the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was possessed, were out of his mind, Arood bil la. They still say these things. Nothing has changed. Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala responds, Ba la jaa bil haqee wa sadaq al mursaleen. Rather, he comes with the truth and confirms the messengers. So after hearing such ayat, the mushrikin in Mecca finally bit the bullet and sought counsel from the Jews in Yathrib. They described the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to the Jews in Yathrib. And when the Jews in Yathrib heard the descriptions of the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, sight unseen. They didn't even see him yet. Many of their scholars knew he was a true prophet. And they communicated this to the Quraysh. Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us a record of this. Wa innahu la tanzidu rabbil anameen. Nazla bihi aroohu alameen. Alakalbiqa lidakuna minal mundireen. Bi lisanin arabiya mubeen. Wa innahu la fi zubidil awwaleen. Awalam yakun lahum ayatan ayya'lamahu ulama'u bani Israel. Is it not a sign for these mushrikin that many ulama from the Jews knew him to be true? This verse gives us a key piece of insight into the actual historical situation in Mecca and Yathrib. The Qur'an would not make such a statement unless it were true. It would not make such a statement if the Quraysh could immediately falsify it. In other words, the Qur'an is reminding the Quraysh what they already knew, that Jewish scholars in Yathrib and elsewhere were confirming the Nabooa of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. These were learned Ahl al-Kitab, people of scripture. They recognized him as a prophet before they even met him. These ayat are from Surah Tushu'ara, a Meccan Surah. This is before the Hijrah. Why else is this significant? It is significant because the earliest Muslims in Mecca tended to be slaves and the youth and women, people that the Meccan aristocracy did not value so much. And so Allah SWT is telling the Quraysh that while you're going around calling him a poet, an insane and a soothed sayer, and making fun of his followers, meanwhile in Yathrib and in other places in the north, Ulama of the Bible and of biblical tradition have recognized the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as being a true prophet. You're missing the boat. Ya'arifuna hukma ya'arifuna abnahum. Even many Jews in Medina during the Prophet's time took this position regarding him. They knew he was a prophet, but they wavered because he was an Arab. He was a Gentile. But the Qur'an argues, Ibrahim alayhi salam, who is your father, the Jews called Ibrahim, Avraham Avinu, Abraham our father, our patriarch, not Jewish, ma'kan Ibrahim yahudi an wa la naslani an wa lakin kana hanifa muslima wa ma'kana min al-mushrikin. He is Nabi al-Umi. The Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is Nabi al-Umi. He's the Prophet of the Abrahamic Restoration. I'll just end with this hadith from Imam al-Tidmidi relates a hadith. And Abi Musa, So he says that the Jews would come and sit in the majalis of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Medina and they would sneeze on purpose because they wanted the Prophet to say may Allah have mercy upon you. They knew he was a Prophet. And the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say, And the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say may Allah guide you and correct your understandings. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala strengthen our iman with knowledge. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us a means of guidance and not a hindrance to guidance. I'll say this As-Salaatu was-Salaam al-Rasulillah al-Mustafa wa ala ala sadaatina wa immatina Abi Bakr al-Urman al-Uthman wa Ali wa radhi Allah ta'ala an-ashabi Rasulullah ijma'in ya qulullahu subhanahu wa ta'ala fi kitab al-Aziz ba'da nakulu wa awd bi lahimina shaytan al-Rajin Inna Allaha wa Malaikatahu yusalluna alal nabi ya ayyuhal nadina amanu Sallallahu alayhi wa sallim utaslima Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ali Sayyidina Muhammad kama salli ta'ala Sayyidina Ibrahim