The love of prophet sw. and the way it should be.(part-1)

Dear brothers! This is the month of rabiul aoal. The third month of Islamic calendar. This is the month where the mankind were blessed with the mercy of Allah swt. This is the month where Allah swt ended up his prophecy by sending his most beloved friends rahmatul lil alameen prophet mohammded sw.

By sending him Allah swt. declared/informed to the people of earth “o people of earth i have sent to you my last messenger and going to stop sending my messages and giving you complete and updated version of your religion by sending Qur’an on prophet mohammed sw.” 5:3 “To-day I have perfected for you your religion, and have completed My favour upon you, and am well-pleased with Islam as your religion.”  So, whosoever will seek a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted of Him, and he shall be of the losers in the Hereafter.(3:85)

 So, this is the month rabul aoal at 571 Allah swt. sent prophet mohammed sw and took him back in the same month at 11 hijri.
Today............we will talk about one of the important topic which is the love of prophet sw. and the way it should be. Allah swt. didn’t leave us on this earth by just saying worship me alone but, he sent 124,000 prophets to show the people his right/the true path.

Among all of them the greatest and final messenger was our beloved prophet sw. with the divine book of holy Qur’an.3:144 “Muhammad is only a Messenger. There lived other Messengers before him. Should (Muhammad) die or be slain, would you then turn back to your pre-Islamic behavior? Whoever does so can cause no harm to God. God will reward those who give thanks”
this verse also saying Allah swt. sent many prophets before him.

 And time to time most of the people denied them but they didn’t stop to establish their mission. They even put their lives at risk. They were determined to establish their mission to spread the message.

our prophet sw. was also committed to accomplish his message. When the prophet sw. started to preach the right and true religion of Islam to his people. The disbelievers tried to block his way and they made fun of him they mocked him and called him mad. 15:6”And they said, “O you upon whom the Qur’an has been sent, you are indeed insane.”
and they didn’t stop there, even his own tribe, friends, relatives attempted to kill him, finally, they made him flee from his own city which was macca. Once when he went to tyef to give dawah to The people they stoned him and made him bleed.

Despite all of these he still went out to convey his message. The way prophet sw. sacrificed his life for the Deen of Allah swt. and the way he saved us from the misguidance from the eternal hellfire. He deserve love from us and this is one of his rights to us to love heartily true love. This is why Allah swt. made it compulsory to love him 9:24 “Say, “If your fathers, and your sons, and your brothers, and your wives, and your tribe, and your acquired wealth, and the trade in which you fear a loss, and the houses of your liking – if all these are dearer to you than Allah and His Noble Messenger and fighting in His way, then wait until Allah brings about His command; and Allah does not guide the sinful.”

Also,in a hadith prophet sw. saying narrated by anas ibn malek ra. “The messenger said none of you can ever be a believer until i will not be more loved to him than his parents, his chidren and all other people”

These verses and the hadith making it very clear that without loveing him our Eman won’t be fulfilled
now the question is how can we love him as he is not present in front of us? There are many ways to show our love to him.like
1> holding firmly to the sunnah of prophet sw. and staying away from the bid’ah:

Today,Fitnah is everwhere and there is no way to save ourselves but to hold on to the sunnah of prophet sw. we can save ourselves from this period of fitnah only by practicing the sahih sunnah of prophet sw. staying away from made up things in the name of worship/Ibadah which is called bid’ah. There are lots of bida’h in our society which is not based on the Quar’an or the Hadith of the prophet sw. for example celebrating birthday or death anniversary or celebrating the eid-e-miladunnabi or celebrating the wedding anniversary and alike.
What the prophet sw. is saying “whoever loves my sunnah he loves me and whoever loves me he will be in jannah with me”
2> Defending him from all kind of criticism, attacks which comes from atheist, non-believers, and so-called secular, hypocrate muslims.

Categorically there are some type of attacks which comes towards the prophet sw.

@Outrage lies means making false story. for example in the 17 or 18 century the English writers wrote a story that one day people of Quraish asked him to bring a mountain to him if he is a real prophet then when the mountain didn’t come after prophet asked to come then he said okay if the mountain doesn’t come then i will go that mountain.  the story means that if the situation doesn’t work out the way i wanted then i will adapt the situation in my way. Likewise they wrote lots of story like his marriage of aysha. Also, they try to mock him by making cartoons, making bad comments. Recently we saw the Danish cartoonist made a cartoon and some Bangladeshi aitheist bloger’s makes very bad comments   about the prophet’s lifestyle. What Allah swt indicating 3:186 “you will surely hear much wrong from those who were given the Book before you, and from the polytheists; and if you remain steadfast and remain pious, it is then an act of great courage.

@ They distort the truth means they twists the truth what prophet and Allah sw. said.

 For example prophet sw. killed the people of banu Quraza because they broken the treaty. The agreement was between muslim and them that they won’t help anyone against muslim and then in the battle of khandaq they broken the agreement. so, they got killed it’s not because of their ethnicity but, breaking the agreement. Later on the Jews people twisted that story.

3>another way is to show our love to him which is, we should learn about his seerah the biography of prophet sw. inshallah from next week we will continue this topic on his seerah in three parts 1. Pre Islamic life of him 2.the maccan life 3. The madani life.

Dear brothers! Loving the messenger its compulsory duty upon every mumin but, another most important thing is we have to save ourselves from exaggerating in expressing our love to the messenger. Like some people think he is alive in his grave and he wasn’t created by the elements what Allah sw. used to create human. Some saying if you read the durood on him he will come in front of you.
what prophet sw saying in a authentic hadith narrated by Umar ibn khattab “don’t over praise me as the Christian did with prophet Jesus pbh., son of Allah. Im only a servant of Allah sw. so, call me Allah’s servant and messenger”

I would like to conclude this here by reminding you again the message Allah swt said related our topic he said “Proclaim, (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him), “O mankind! If you love Allah, follow me – Allah will love you and forgive you your sins”; and Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful”
May Allah swt. give us tawfiq to have pleasure of Allah sw. by following the sunnah of prophet sw.! amen!