Dear brothers! This is the month of rabiul aoal. This is the month where the mankind were blessed with the greatest mercy of Allah swt. The is the birth month of prophet sw. This is the month where Allah swt ended up his prophecy by sending his most beloved friends rahmatul lil alameen prophet mohammded sw.
Last week we were talking the love of prophet sw.and the way it should be and we talked that one of the effective and strong way to show our love to him which is the studying the seerah/the biography of prophet sw. and this is the sign to love someone to know him more details. This is why if anyone claims he does love the prophet sw. but, doesn’t study his seerah then the fact that there’s a clear sign he doesn’t love to prophet sw. So, studying his seerah is a sign of love and through studying his seerah is increasing his love.
Dear brothers! Last week i said that we are going to talk on the seerah of prophet’s sw. but, I decided before going to details first we have to know why everyone of us should study the seerah of prophet sw.?
There are many reasons that telling us why we have to know the seerah of prophets sw.? If we truly love him first, we have to know how important it is to learning the seerah of prophet sw.?
1. It’s an obligation upon us to know his seerah. Allah swt. Commanded us in 55 places in the Qur’an. 33:11“Indeed in the Messenger of Allah (Muhammad SAW) you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting with) Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much”
2. Studying his seerah its easiest way to practice/to follow his sunnah. For example: studying the seerah you will know the relation between his wives and as a leader of the nation, as a president of the country, as an Ideal father, as an Ideal husband. He is the best and perfect example to follow. This is why Allah swt made his prophet from mankind, not from angels so people can’t say we can’t be like angels.
3. Studying the seerah it will help to know the best generation of this ummah. Those whom upon Allah were pleased and they were happy to Allah swt. what Allah swt. said over 8 times in the qur’an. And prophet said the sahaba were the best human from my ummah. These people were legendary.
4. Studying the seerah of prophet sw. its helps to defend the honour of prophet sw. which comes from atheist, non believers. They say he was a blood thirsty terrorist, magician, mad and polygamy and this and that.
5. Understanding the seerah of prophet sw. it helps to understand the Qur’an. It’s the best way to understand the Qur’an. The Qur’an is a very complex and profound book. This is why without context it’s hard to understand. Aisha said the seerah of prophet sw. is the direct reflection of the Qur’an. Means his life is the best tafseer of the Qur’an.
6. Studying his seerah its increase our eeman. Like Allah swt. telling the story to prophet mohammed those prophets who were before him in order to make his eeman stronger. 11:120 “Muhammad), We tell you all the stories of the Messengers which will strengthen your heart. In the Quran We have revealed the Truth to you with good advice and reminders for the faithful ones”
So, it’s clear that studying prophet’s lifestyle its increase our eeman which is must concerning thing to us.
7. Studying the seerah of prophet sw. life and time is studying our religion and also, we will be able to explore the miracles of prophet sw. how a orphan, uneducated, shepherd boy become a blessed for mankind. What is the power he had that made a huge revolution that will continue till the end of Earth.
Now the Question is how can we learn the seerah of prophet sw.? What are the sources to learn his seerah?
There are many ways. The best three ways are:
1. The Qur’an. In The Qur’an Allah swt. stated his life before his birth and hole life till the death(included War, education, growing up, death). Like surah nashrah for his sucking the chest, surah fil before his birth, surah fath for the war of hudaybiah. The clue thing is that Qur’an giving you all the information not only authentically but also the hidden and non-hidden. Which the historian could missed due to their limitation of knowledge.
2.The Ahadith of prophet sw. Every single of hadith is the snapshot of the seerah of prophet sw.
3. The specific book of the seerah of prophet sw. it’s said that the first kind of seerah book written by Urwah the son of sahabah Zubair ra. And then later on there was a scholar ibn shihab az zohri he died at 129 hijri. He wrote the first seerah book. But, none of these books are exists now. And then the massive and complete book of seerah wrote by ibn ishaq (85-150 hijri) the book name is ‘sirate ibn ishaq’ it was in 10-12voliums. And then second best one was ibn hisham this was Quiet copied from sirate Ibn Ishaq.
And today there are many books of seerah what i would like to recommend you to read one of the best seerah book which was a prize winner book in 1182 books. ‘The sealed nectar’ written by an Indian scholar Allamah sofiur rahman mubarakpuri. It can be found in 25 languages. Those who want to know the prophet sw. you should collect this.
Dear brothers! As we talked that one of the effective and strong way to show our love to him which is the studying the seerah/the biography of prophet sw. This is why if anyone claims he does love the prophet sw. but, doesn’t study his seerah then the fact that there’s a clear sign he doesn’t love to prophet sw. So, studying his seerah is a sign of love and through studying his seerah is increasing his love.
Most of us we think that reciting durood on him is only the way to show our love to him. But, the way Allah swt. told us send durood on him the same way he commanding us to follow him and if we truly want to follow him, follow his sunnah there’s no way but to know his seerah. This is why I would like request all of you to study the seerah of prophet sw. and if you need any help with materials we are here to help you in sha Allah!
Last week I said that we will talk on Pre-Islamic life of prophet sw. but, as I have to finish here in shaAllah we will continue this topic in next weeks.
May Allah swt. give us tawfiq to study the seerah of prophet sw.!
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