Books mentioned in the reminder:
- The Life of Muhammadﷺ from the earliest sources by Martin Lings
- Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl Makhtoum) by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
- Seeratun Nabi by Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
- Leadership Lessons from the Life of Rasoolullahﷺ by Mirza Yawar Baig
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The seerah of Rasulullah S.A.S. is the tafsir of the Quran And this is not my opinion This is what our mother Sayyidina Aisha Siddiqua R.A. told us about this She said that They asked her Can you tell us something about the life of Rasulullah A.S. And she said to the person, don’t you read the Quran? And the person said, yes, I read the Quran She said that is the life of Rasulullah A.S. So the life of Rasulullah A.S. is the tafsir of the Quran There are many ayahs in the Quran When you want to ask the question, you read the ayah, you know the meaning And then you say, how must I apply this in my life? You look for that answer in the seerah, in the life of Rasulullah A.S. The seerah therefore is a required reading It is a part of the education of the Muslim Unfortunately, it is highly neglected and that is something that we need to change So next question, next benchmark for yourself is what do I know about the seerah? I will also post some links to books of the seerah that you can start with, inshallah So read those books, inshallah, it will give you an idea about the life of Rasulullah A.S. Now, when you’re reading the book, key thing to understand is you are not reading it for information You’re not reading it to get some names or mention or remember some dates You’re reading it only with one purpose And that is to say, how can I practice this in my life? Inshallah, Allah SWT will put barakah in our lives if we do that And therefore we must read and study When I say read, that’s only the first part, just reading But the key thing is to Not just to read, but to study it in detail and then to implement it in our lives So this is a very important thing to do Second thing is also take this into the family Get the children, get your spouses, everyone involved in that And practice it in the smallest ways You sit down to eat, you say, are we eating in the way that Rasulullah A.S. used to eat? And then have a little like a quiz And say, well, how did he eat? So he ate with his right hand He said, Bismillah, before he ate And he did this and he did that and he did that Whatever he used to do, we do that And Make sure that we remember those things and we practice it So what is the learning from the Now in the course of this same discussion and thinking about the Seerah Is which will come automatically, it will happen If you are studying the Seerah, this is something which will just bound to happen Which is talk about the Akhirah Because this is the reality which not only the Seerah, but also the Seerah And the Seerah is the reality which is the reality of the Akhirah Because this is the reality which nobody denies People deny even Allah SWT, they deny the Nabi A.S. They deny everything, but nobody denies death because we know one day we will die We have seen others dying, we have seen others dead We have attended Janazahs, we have gone to the To the Khabaristan, we have buried people and so on, so we know this So what is our preparation for that? So have these discussions, talk about it Because the fact is, the reason I am saying this is because the reality is that In life you will find whatever you talk about Remains, what you don’t talk about disappears Right? Just a very simple test If I ask you, tell me the name of your maternal great grandmother That is your mother’s grandmother Your mother’s grandmother I can bet you that most of you will not even know the name Because the name is never spoken Right? At the most somebody will say Nani Jaan, Nani Maan, some such thing You know, Jadda, but nobody, usually the name is not there So it disappears, it is as if she never existed She existed, that is why you exist You have got her genes in your blood, you have got her blood in your veins But you do not even know the name So that is a very important, so therefore as far as the consciousness of the Akhira is concerned The same rule applies, if you mention it, if you talk about it, the consciousness will remain And the consciousness is only the first step It’s not simply enough to say I am conscious of it, I am conscious means what? So therefore I need to run my life in a way where on the day of judgment I will not be humiliated before Allah SWT The Sahaba used to discuss this, talk to the Prophet, many hadiths where they asked the Prophet Ya Rasulullah, how is Jannah? What is the water like? What is the size of the power granite fruit? What is the size of the grape? What is this, what is that? I mean they used to ask many, many questions The Prophet said there will be people in Jannah who will have palaces which are floating Floating in the air Imagine you are sitting on the ground, the palaces up high up in the air, huge beautiful palace As Sahaba said, and see the questions also that they asked, show the level of Iman and Yaqeen When Nabi Salim said that there will be palaces, people will have palaces which are floating in the air They did not ask how is it possible, how can something float in the air? Today if I throw a stone up it comes down, there is gravity, there is no gravity in Jannah They did not ask all this, they said Ya Rasulullah, how will we get into that palace? So he said you will fly up like a bird Imagine, so the fact that there will be a palace floating in the air Is a matter of Yaqeen for them and should be for us only because Rasulullah SAW said so Now all of this will happen if we study the Seerah, if we understand the Seerah Because the love for Rasulullah SAW is an article of faith It is something which is a foundation, which is a pillar of our Iman The love for Muhammad SAW is not a discretionary thing, it is not something Ya if it is good to have, if you don’t have it is okay, you know I love him more, somebody loves him less No, to love the Rasulullah SAW is a part of faith If a Muslim says I do not love Muhammad SAW, he ceases to be a Muslim If a Muslim has a doubt about love of Muhammad SAW, this man’s Iman is in serious doubt His Iman is in great danger Now that is the reason we need to study the Seerah because obviously logically speaking You cannot love somebody you don’t know You can only love someone you know And the beauty of the life of Rasulullah SAW and this is true also of the Sahaba Is that unlike normal people today There is a proverb in English, familiarity breeds contempt Which means that the closer you know somebody, the more you know somebody The more you are familiar with somebody, you will lose respect for them Because may Allah protect us, our lives are like that If somebody comes to know the details of your life Then it is likely that they will uncover all kinds of not very nice details And they lose respect for you So it is better to be at an arms distance But not in the case of Nabi SAW With Rasulullah SAW, the more you learn about him, the more you love him The more you know about him, the more you love him This is one of the evidences and proofs of his Risala also That Allah SWT created him in such a way and gave him such Akhlaq Which Allah SWT himself praised And Allah SWT said, you are on the best of Akhlaqs Inna Ka’ala Khul-e-Qinadi So therefore reading and studying the Sunnah of Rasulullah SAW With the intention of practicing it And then actually practicing it in your life And the important thing there is to monitor that As I said two things, one is things that you don’t mention You forget, you don’t know, you lose consciousness of that Second thing is that what we monitor, what we measure Is what we value There is a guy called Michael Harry who invented the Six Sigma quality standard He used to work in Motorola He said, famous quote, he said, if you want to see what people value, see what they measure If you want to see what people value, see what they measure So we like to say time is money But time is not money because if we really value time like we value money Just to give you a short example If you drop a $100 bill and you lose it Then you will feel the pain of that That although $100 is not such a great amount of money It’s okay, you lost it, lost it But no, you will feel that pain because you have a value for that $100 You might feel the same pain for $20 But how much time do we spend on useless social media? How much time do we spend on just browsing the net Or watching TikTok or watching YouTube shorts or something? At the end of that one hour, two hours, time just flies And at the end of that two hours or one hour If somebody says, please write down three things that you learned From this one hour of your lifespan that you donated to TikTok free of cost So that TikTok can make money What did you gain from this? Three things that you can count I can bet you there is not one person who will be able to write three things Because it’s just mindless looking at the screen And that’s very, very important for us to keep this in mind and say What do you value? And the way you value is by metrics, by measurements So when you say I value the Sunnah The thing to do is now measure how much of the Sunnah am I practicing in my life It’s not enough simply to say The people who claim to love Rasulullah Salaam And their love of the Rasulullah Salaam is on one day in the year They will sing Nasheed and whatnot And they will have a function and they will call it Milad Anabiyya I’m not even going into the aspect of weather to space To celebrate Milad, Mawlud, whatnot on the 12th of Rabiul Awal Whether this is Sunnah or without Forget that, point is If you value the Nabi Alayhi Salaam If you love the Rasul Alayhi Salaam What is the evidence? And the evidence can be only one Which is I am unitive, I follow him The love for the Rasul is shown by following his way So we need to measure that and say Well, how many Sunnah do I follow in my life? And is that increasing? Like I said to you about the Quran How much Quran did I know last year? How much do I know this year? Is there a difference? If I don’t know more this year than last year Then something is wrong, I need to memorize some more Until I finish inshallah The complete Quran and the Qur’an No matter how long it takes inshallah We have the hope with Allah that Allah will grant us the level of hafiz Even if we did not make it If we died before that because we had the niya and we made the effort Similarly with the Sunnah We need to make this into a niya to say I want to be as close to the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as possible So how many Sunnah of his Sunnah do I follow? So in my appearance, in my speaking In my dealings, in my earnings In what I eat, in how I eat How I sleep, how do I deal with my family How do I deal with my children, my neighbors My employer, my employees The whole thing, the beauty of the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is That there is an answer for every person No matter what that person’s own situation is in life If a king wants to know how must I rule There is an answer in the life of the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam If a beggar wants to know what must I do I am in a destitute condition, I have got no money There is an answer in the life of the Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam If an employer, if an employee If a soldier, if a general If a married person, if an unmarried person If an unmarried person, a man or a woman, a child Whoever has any issue, any question in his life And say how must I do this In a way that will please my Lord The answer is in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And that is the reason why it is so important to Study his life in such detail So inshallah this is your second metric First metric is the Quran The second metric is the Seerah of Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam With the intention of practicing it in our lives In the计划 that Allah has provided The fulfilment of that determination I want to close with the Basharah and the promise that Allah went to the one who emulates The one who emulates, not only our base Who emulates the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Allah the Almighty said قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللّهَ فَا właśnieْ يُعْبِبْكُ اِنَّهُ اللّهُ يَقْفُلْ لَّكُمْ 있ُا وَاللَّهُ غَفُرُ رَّهِيمً returning to his holy place Allah the Almighty said Say to those who claim to love Allah Emulate me, emulate Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam, emulate, not only obey, emulate. Emulation is a sign of love. Obedience requires an instruction. You cannot obey unless there is an order. But emulation requires no instruction. Emulation happens because we love. So people will imitate film actors, they will imitate sportsmen and sportswomen and they will dress like this fashion icon and that fashion icon, not because that person told them to do that, but just because they love that person and they want to be like that person, therefore they emulate that person. And if you emulate Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam, what will happen? Allah swt has said, Allah will love you. I want, I remind myself anew, let us sit with this statement. Allah will love you. Who says Allah is saying it? Allah swt is saying, I will love you. What is the meaning of this? What is the value of this? What does it mean to say that Allah loves me? Just think about it in one simple context, which is that if in fact Allah swt loves me, then if I raise my hands to ask Allah for something, what is the absolutely unwavering and effortless result? That is that whatever I ask Allah will give me. Because what is the meaning of Allah? If Allah is loving me and then if I ask Him for something He doesn’t give me, then where is the love? So Allah will give me. This is the beauty. So think about this and say, Allah said, Allah will love you. And the minimum condition of that is, Allah will forgive your sins and Allah is the most forgiving and most merciful. So the boundary condition, the first step of Allah loving me is that Allah will forgive my sins. This is the beauty of the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I ask Allah swt to enable us to live our lives in a way which is pleasing to Him and His glory and majesty and to live our lives in a way which emulates the way and method of
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