Jumu`ah/Eid Khutbah
Alhamdulillah that Allah (swt) honored us to be from Ummatu ‘n-Nabi (s), to be from those who believe in Sayyidina Muhammad, `alayhi afdalu ’s-salatu wa ’s-salam. There is a big difference between us–between the whole of humanity, which is living now–and their beliefs. Everyone has a different belief in himself that no one knows it except Allah (swt). Allah has sent His Prophet, the Seal of Messengers, and He gave him the title of Rahmatun li ’l-`Alameen, Mercy for Humanity. If Allah (swt) did not give him that title, he would be a prophet like other prophets. Allah specified him, honored him, and perfected him in order to carry the message of mercy. It’s not easy to carry the message of mercy.
We are still in the month of the Prophet (s), the month when he was born. His birth was the beginning of mercy for the whole Ummah that came after the Prophet (s). The day he was born, that mercy was revealed to him.
As we know today, Ummatu ‘n-Nabi (s) is divided into two groups: Ummatu ‘d-Da'wah and Ummatu ‘l-’Ijaba. Ummatu ‘d-Da'wah means everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim. They are the Ummah of the Prophet because there is no other prophet after him. He is the Seal of Messengers.
وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَـٰكَ إِلَّا كَآفَّةً لِّلنَّاسِ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Wa ma arsalnaka illa kaafatan li ‘n-naas.
We have not sent thee but as a universal (Messenger) to men, giving them glad tidings, and warning them (against sin), but most men understand not. (Surah Saba, 34:28)
Surely We have sent you for everyone. Li ‘n-naas. He didn’t say for Muslims only, but for all people until Judgement Day. That’s what we call Ummatu ‘d-Da'wah: to be called, to believe in Sayyidina Muhammad `alayhi afdalu ’s-salaatu wa ’s-salaam.
Those who believe are called Ummatu ‘l-‘Ijaba. They are the Ummah that believed in the Prophet (s). They responded to what was given to them, they accepted, but between them also, from one to another, the belief changed. Not all of them are of the same belief. Some of them believe the way they like, but they still say, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah. They are from Ummatu ‘n-Nabi (s) and they are the believers.
Those who did not believe, you give them time. It might be that they believe at any moment. Who knows? It might be that when they are dying then they believe. Who knows? No one knows. So, that judgement is for Allah (swt). Don’t ever say to people, “This is a kafir.” Leave that judgment to Allah or Allah might make you kafir. Allah (swt) doesn’t like people to criticize His servants. You can advise them, but you don’t point at them with your fingers. Allah doesn’t like that. Would you like someone to say to your face, if you are a revert or convert, “Your mother is going to hellfire”? No one likes that. Or, “Your father is going to hellfire.” No one likes that.
Islam is mercy. Islam is love. What is the meaning of love? Today people are saying, “Love, love, love, love,” everyday. What is love? There are two Ahadith about love: one of them mentions the real love by word and the other one mentions the love that is created in you, that creates mercy in you.
Imam Ahmad mentioned the Hadith of the Prophet (s) in his Musnad, “Ar-Rahimoon yar-hamuhumu ’Llah,” those who show mercy to others, Allah will show mercy to them.
So what is the message then? It means you have to show mercy to everyone. You have to follow the footsteps of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Allah said to the Prophet (s), “You are the mercy that I have sent to humanity.” Didn't the Prophet, with the mercy he has in his heart, call people to the real belief or not? It was out of that mercy and that love.
So, our message is to be merciful to others, not to be rude to others. You find today that two brothers are rude to each other. Where is the mercy? O Muslims! We are losing that mercy in our hearts. The Prophet (s) said, “Ar-Rahimuna yaar-hamu hoom Allah.” Those who show mercy to humanity, Allah shows mercy to them. What is that mercy? It’s to give what you have to others. It’s not that what you have is yours and what they have is theirs, no. What you have, you have to give to them. That is the highest level of mercy. The Prophet (s) gave what he had, he didn’t keep it. He didn’t keep it in his heart. He helped people. Out of love Allah (swt) sent Sayyidina Muhammad (s) as a mercy to humanity in order to guide them.
What did the Prophet continue with in the Hadith that was just mentioned? “Irhamoo man fi ’l-ard yarhamku man fi ’s-sama.” Show mercy to those who are on Earth. He didn’t say show mercy to those who are on the Moon or on the Sun. What do we have on Earth? Who is on Earth? Trees are on Earth, which means don’t cut a tree. In the Prophet’s Farewell Khutbah he said, don’t cut a tree. Trees are on Earth, worms are on Earth, ants are on Earth, animals are on Earth. If the Prophet (s) said don’t harm these, what about human beings? Have mercy on those who are on Earth. Who is on Earth? Me and you and everyone else.
The Prophet (s) is saying, show them mercy, meaning, show each other mercy, then, those in the Heavens will shower you with their mercy. Who is in the Heavens? Don’t say Allah is in the Heavens. Allah is beyond. Allah, Allah. No direction, no place. “Yarhamuk man fi ‘s-sama” in plural means those who are ordered by Allah (swt) and they are in the Heavens. They will send their mercy on you and they are angels, but not only angels. It is also those who died and their souls are free because they were good people in dunya. Their souls can go anywhere.
Where is Sayyidina ‘Isa (a)? Is he not in Heaven? Where is Sayyidina Idris (a)? Didn’t Allah (swt) raise him to Heaven? There are prophets who have been raised to Heaven. They will shower you with their mercy that Allah (swt) is showering them with.
O Muslims! Allah (swt) gave us a way in order to help others. When you help someone, Allah helps you. But, when we don’t help, Allah sends His Punishment because we are liable. Why are we liable? Because we are believers. If you are not a believer, it’s okay. It means you are not yet up to maturity. But if you are a believer in the Prophet (s), the Seal of Messengers, then you have to follow the way of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). You cannot say, “No.” Either you believe or you don’t believe. Choose one of them. If you don’t believe, it means you don’t have maturity and you have no mind. You still did not reach the level of maturity. When you say, “I’m a believer,” then you have to give mercy to others.
How can we have mercy on others? It’s not like when I come and say, “I have mercy on you.” It’s to carry your problems, your difficulties. On the Day of Judgement, when Allah (swt) calls people for judgment, do you think Allah (swt) is going to call him and him and him and him and him, one by one? It will never finish. Does Allah want to punish His servants or release them and send them to Paradise with shafa’a, intercession of the Prophet (s)? That’s why He gave him the shafa’a, to forgive everyone! That is not from my writings. It’s not that I authored that. It’s a Hadith of the Prophet (s). You cannot come against the Hadith of the Prophet (s). If you are a believer, it’s finished. If you are a believer, you have to accept.
On the Day of Judgement, Allah will say to the Prophet, “Yaa Muhammad, I judge between people. I leave it to you now, you do what you want.” In that Hadith in Bukhari, Prophet (s) says, “I will go into sajdah and Allah will reveal to my heart praises that I never praised before, prayers that I have never known before.”
That makes a question mark for us to understand. [...] Nowadays, you can have thousands of different prayers. The Prophet (s) mentioned thousands in his life and they have been carried all over until today. We call them ad-du’a al-matsur from the Prophet (s), or ad-du’a at-musarat, the ones that the Prophet recommended. But he says, “On the Day of Judgement, I will go into sajdah and say prayers that have never been mentioned before.”
Does that mean that no Arab scholar can write prayers? Every Arab scholar can write and author prayers. That means letters are going to be changed. Not the Arabic letters, no. The Arabic letters are there because it is the language of Ahlu ‘l-Jannah, but the way that it is being put will be read differently. It means a different wording of the letter in a word that gives a different meaning.
So he goes into sajdah and makes prayers and Allah says, “Yaa Muhammad! Raise your head. Ask and you will be given. What do you want? What do you want?”
If you have a friend and you want to save him, you go to your father. Maybe he’s the president and you say, “O my father.”
“Okay, what do you want?”
“My friend has a difficulty.”
“Okay, yalla, I’ll sign it. Go.”
Allah wants to give shafa’a to Prophet Muhammad (s). He asks him, “What do you want? Tell me what you want. You take. He will say, “Yaa Rabbee, I need these people, my Ummah. I will not leave anyone behind.” He gives the Prophet (s) in three levels. He forgives them. He says, “Take one third of them.” He will take one third. Then he will make sajdah another time and du’a another time, then Allah (swt) will say to him, "Raise your head, I will give you,” and he will say, “Yaa Rabbee, my Ummah.” He (swt) will say, “Take another third,” and finally, “Take the last third. Don’t leave anyone, take them!” Only one He left. Allah wants to show us His Mercy.
That’s what I was saying: with one, Allah will judge everyone. With one, Allah will give His decision on judgement for everyone. Is Allah going to judge one by one? Of course, Allah can do anything, He is the Creator. Without judging, He can say, “Kun faya kun,” and judgement will end! But for us to understand, For example, you are in a class when you are young and studying and naughty people, students, they differ in their naughtiness. When the teacher comes, who will they call? The naughtiest between them! He is not going to call all of them. He says, “You come. Tell me what happened.” When this is finished, he will give his judgment. It means everyone else is already done because he was the naughtiest.
On the Day of Judgment, Allah will bring the worst one, the one who is going to go to Hellfire for sure. There is no way that this one will not go to Hellfire. The rest of the Ummah are less than this one in their sins. This one is the highest. Bring the highest one from Ummatu ‘n-Nabi (s). He puts his good amal on the one side of the balance, and the bad amal on the left side. Immediately, the amal on the left side is heavier. Maybe he didn’t do anything good in his life, it goes all the way down. The only good thing he did in this life was to say, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah.
We cannot say he’s not a Muslim, but he never did anything good. All his sins will be very heavy and the good amal will be shot up going high. Allah will ask him, “Did you ever make salawat on My beloved Prophet (s)?” Allah says through the Prophet (s) in the Hadith:
من صلى علي مرة صلى الله عليه بها عشرا
Man salla `alayya marrah, salla ’Laahu `alayhi bihaa `ashara.
Whoever prays on me one time, Allah prays on him ten times. (Sahih)
Our salawat is not like Allah’s salawat. We are doing our salawat with bad intentions. Maybe we are sitting and watching television and we remember, “Oh, the name of Muhammad,” and we say salawat with the lowest level of faith. But when Allah makes salawat on us, there is no resemblance. Imagine. Allah (swt)’s Name is Al-Azheem. When you are happy with something, you say “Allahu Akbar.” He is Al-Azheem. Can you define Azhamatu ‘l-Llah? Can you define the Greatness of Allah? No way, and there’s no limit on it. So with no limits that He has under His Beautiful Name, Al-Azheem, there is no limit to the salawat Allah is making on you because of one salawat on the Prophet (s).
Allah is asking that servant in order to save him, “Did you make one salawat on My beloved Prophet? If you make one, I am going to make ten salawat for you. My salawat is not like your salawat. My salawat is from you to Adam (a)--all of your ancestors will be forgiven!” Do you think Allah’s salawat is like ours?
Inna Allaha wa malaaikatahu yusalloona `ala ‘n-Nabiy. Allah and His angels are praising Sayyidina Muhammad. Yaa ayyuha ‘ladheena aamanoo. O believers! Praise him because I will praise you. If you praise My Prophet, I am going to send prayers on you.
It is not one prayer, Allah will send ten. And ten means–if you put this whole universe–and you put these salawat on the Prophet, these salawat are heavier than this whole universe. Because the Prophet said dunya doesn’t weigh the wing of a mosquito to Allah. It means your salawat is more valuable than the whole universe.
This whole thing that we are seeing at night–during the day, we don't see anything except the sun. Why do you see the sun? You don’t see the stars. People say that because the sun’s rays are so huge, our eyes cannot see. But, no, you can see the stars but, you need eyes. You need real eyes, not blind eyes.
In any case, Allah (swt) will call that person, “Did you do salawat on My beloved Prophet (s)?” And what did he say? On that Day when everyone is running from his father and mother and brother and sister and wife and children to be saved, everyone will say, “Nafsi, nafsi! Myself, myself,” except the Prophet (s). Even the prophets from Adam (a) to ‘Isa (a) will say, “Nafsi, nafsi! Myself, myself!” Except Sayyindina Muhammad (s) who will say, “My Ummah, my Ummah.”
Who is his Ummah? It’s everyone! The Prophet (s) said, “Adam (a) and whoever is under Adam is under my flag on the Day of Judgement.” What does it mean to be under his flag? It means under him. The only flag that will be raised is the flag of Sayyidina Muhammad, `alayhi afdu ‘s-salatu wa ‘s-salam. You must be happy, O Muslims, that you are from the nation of Muhammad (s)! You have to be grateful to Allah (swt) that Allah honored us to be from that Ummah, not from another one.
So He asked, “Do you have one salawat?” That servant is looking–what can he do? He has nothing. He says, “Yaa Rabbee, no.” At that moment Sayyidina Muhammad (s) will appear and say, “Yaa Rabbee, this is my Ummah. You gave them to me. You sent me as Rahmatun li ‘l-`Alameen. You have sent me as a mercy for humanity.” What is mercy? What is the meaning of mercy? It means, “I give. I sacrifice myself for the benefit of them. I’m sacrificing everything that You gave to me and I’m giving it to them.”
At that moment the Prophet (s) makes one salawat. He says, “Yaa Rabbee, do You need one salawat? I’m making it on behalf of my Ummah.” As soon as the Prophet (s) makes the salawat, all these bad amal go down, all the bad amal becomes light. With one salawat, the good amal disappears and the good amal becomes stronger and the balance goes down.
O Ummatu ‘n-Nabi (s)! Build up the faith of your children to love Sayyidina Muhammad (s). That is what is important today. Don’t say I am saying something not correct. I saw it in my home, I saw it in my parents, I saw it in my friends, I saw it in my cousins, I saw it in my uncles, I saw it in my country, and you are seeing it: we are raising our children to love Superman! To love–I don’t know their names–Spiderman! To love this and to love that. Very strong advertisements, very strong commercials, very strong propaganda to make these immense creative events in your mind. Thought creates thinking. When we think of something and give it to the children, it creates in them the love of that personality. We are seeing how children of the Ummah today are being raised on songs: rap music, bad songs, good songs. They are producing everything bad. Anything good they say is innovation. We cannot move anymore as Muslims. We are becoming innovators if we say, “Love Prophet (s).” If we say, “Decorate your home in order to show the love of the Prophet (s),” they say, “Oh, they are like Christians doing Christmas.”
In the Muslim countries, when I was young, every house on the day of the Prophet (s)’s birthday–masajid were making salawat until the morning, parades in the streets for love of the Prophet (s) with all kinds of qasidas. At home people were celebrating the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Children were raised like that. I was raised like these children with the personality that, “My hero is Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!” Today, who is your hero? Who are our heroes today? This one? Hollywood? Either Hollywood or extremists. There is no in between. If we want to be in between, they tell you it’s bida`.
O Muslims! Love of the Prophet (s) is important because Allah (swt) made angels–all angels–to love Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! And I will end with the love of Muhammad, to show you that in Paradise they were in love of Muhammad (s) too: one in Paradise, one in dunya. The one in Paradise was when Jibreel (a) was ordered by Allah (swt) to go to the Paradise of Buraq, to get a buraq and go to the presence of the Prophet and bring the Prophet for Laylatu Israa’ wa 'l-Mi`raaj. He went there, knocked and he saw a Paradise full of buraqs, all the same. All of them were praising Muhammad (s). The lives of angels is only to praise: to praise Allah, praise the Prophet, and whoever Allah wants they praise. Except one of them was crying. And he looked at him and he was crying and crying and crying, like a waterfall coming from his eyes.
It says in the Seerah that his tears were coming out like pearls in that Paradise. He approached him and asked, “Why are you crying? Everyone else is happy, enjoying the praising.” He said, “Dear Jibreel (a), when Allah created us, He mentioned the name of Muhammad (s) and Allah said, ‘I created you to bring Muhammad here, Sayyidu ‘r-Rusul, the Master of Messengers.’ From that time, his love is in my heart, never changing. From that time, I’m crying, yaa Jibreel, for the love of Muhammad (s).”
That’s why the Prophet (s) said:
يحشر المرء مع من أحب
Yuhshar al-maruw ma` man ahab.
Each person will be resurrected with the one he loves. (Tabarani)
People will be resurrected with whom they love. If we love Sayyidina Muhammad (s), we will be resurrected with Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! Build that love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in the hearts of children.
Jibreel (a) said, “You are the one who is going to carry the Prophet (s). Come.” Where did that happen? In Heaven.
The one that happened on earth--there are many stories of that but I will mention one. When the Prophet (s) left Mecca with Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r), leaving for Madinah, they were not fleeing. They were not running away. The Prophet went on Israa’ wa 'l-Mi`raaj. How do you misunderstand that he was running away? Even if millions of enemies come in front of him, he doesn’t need to run away but it’s Allah's Hikmah to make him go to that ghar, to that cave. Ghar Thawr. What happened there?
The Prophet (s) was tired. Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) extended his legs and the Prophet (s) took a nap on the thigh of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. See how lucky Sayyidina Abu Bakr was? May Allah (swt) let us nap on the leg of the Prophet (s) or even under his feet and under Sayyidina Abu Bakr’s feet.
What did Sayyidina Abu Bakr do? He could not move anymore because he didn’t want to disturb the Prophet (s) while he was napping. But he saw a hole in the wall, so he extended his leg to close that hole. What happened? A snake came out of the hole and it was close. What will the snake do? It doesn’t bite. It was nice food for the snake, so it began to eat. You know when the snake eats, it swallows. It began to swallow the feet of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq who was in pain but he didn't want to shout. If any of us today sees a worm, we will shout. If you see a cockroach, you will shout, especially women. They get afraid easily and also men.
So what happened is that, out of pain, one tear came out. It was not out of pain but out of love for Sayyidina Muhammad (s). That tear came out and came on the cheek of the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) opened his eyes. He said, “Yaa Abu Bakr! Why are you crying? La tahzan inAllah ma’an. Don’t get sad, Allah is with us.”
He said,”Yaa Rasoolullah! I have to tell you the truth. This snake is eating my feet. Out of love to you, let it finish me, I don’t care. Let the snake eat me but I don’t want the snake to come to you.”
He said, “Yaa Abu Bakr! Don’t you know that Allah prohibited snakes and animals to eat the flesh of prophets and the siddiqiyoon, the trustworthy people like you–the pious sincere people?”
That’s why when you open a grave of a pious person you see as he was but he was buried 500 years ago. There are many incidents like that, which I saw. Personally I saw these graves and I saw these dead people: six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred. The one who wrote Dala’il al-Khayrat was buried in Fez and they moved him after 600 years to Marrakesh.They found him in the grave as he was buried: the one who wrote the salawat on the Prophet (s) that we read everyday. Today they say, “‘Oh, this innovation, bid’ah, don’t do it.” In any case, we are reading it.
So what happened? The Prophet (s) said, “Wait, yaa Abu Bakr.” He spoke with the snake, “Don’t you know that the flesh of prophets and trustworthy siddiqiyoon like Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) is haram, forbidden to you?” The snake spoke in the Arabic language to the Prophet and said, “Yaa Rasoolullah! When Allah created me, I was in love with you. When Allah created me, I heard your name from other prophets and I asked Allah to give me life to see you. The feet and the lap of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq prevented that! That’s why I am chewing it, in order to be able to see you!”
He took from his saliva and put it on the feet of Siddiq, came as it was, and said to the snake, “Look at me now.” The snake came up and looked at the Prophet (s). He said after that, “Are you satisfied?” The snake said he was satisfied and then died. The Prophet (s) ordered jinn to come carry that snake away.
O Muslims! Even animals love the Prophet (s). I will say about myself, I’m a stupid animal that I don’t love the Prophet (s) as this snake loved the Prophet (s). O Muslims! Love of the Prophet must be overwhelming our hearts, taking our hearts. That's why those lovers of the Prophet (s) made all these poetries and everyone knows about them and everyone speaks about them. May Allah (swt) forgive us for the love of Sayyidinna Muhammad (s). [Du’a]
When we recite that, which is a part of the khutbah, and we say “sallu `alay” you don’t hear anyone making salawat. Go to any mosque.
البَخِيلُ مَنْ ذُكِرْتُ عِندَهُ فَلَمْ يُصَلِّ عَلَيَّ
al bakheel man dhukirta inda wa la an sallu `alayya.
The Prophet (s) said, “The miser is the one in whose presence I am mentioned, yet he does not send blessings upon me.” (Ahmad, Tirmidhi, an-Nasa’i)
The stingy one is not the one who doesn’t give money, there’s a worse one than that: the one who doesn’t make salawat when the name of the Prophet (s) is mentioned.
For hundreds of years when the khateeb is doing the khutbah of Jumu`ah and mentions the name of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), the whole masjid moves with salawat. Today we’re not hearing that, it’s gone.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمً
Inna Allaha wa malaaikatahu yusalloona `ala an-nabiyyi yaa ayyuha alladheena aamanoo salloo `alayhi wa sallimoo tasleema.
Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him, and salute him with all respect. (Surat al-Ahzab, 33:56)
[Du’a]
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