Now Is Our Time For Action | Imam Mohammed El Farooqi

says he said, "Take account of yourselves before the day comes when you are taken account of and weigh your deeds before they are weighed for you. Indeed, today you have the opportunity to perform action and there is no accountability. Tomorrow there will only be accountability and no opportunity to perform action. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from those people who are aware of him who are aware of his rights and the rights of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam who fulfill the rights of him subhanahu wa ta'ala and the rights of his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We are in the blessed, generous, luminous month of and a conversation that is important for us to have is the conversation of love. The reality of this entire affair of this world is that this entire affair is an affair of love. A love that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose to show us through giving us his beloved messenger saiam where he says in the Quran that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has has given has performed a favor. Allah has done a favor upon the creation upon the believers in that he has sent to them a messenger. The function of the messenger sallallah.aii wasallam is to be that vessel of love for us. a vessel that would contain the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and fulfilling his rights. For verily the one who does not love the messenger sallall.aii wasallam cannot love Allah and the one who does not believe in the messenger sallall.aii Wasam cannot reach Allah as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says in the Quran there are those people who would claim that they love Allah there are those people who would claim that their relationship with Allah is strong so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says the only way and the measure to prove your love for Allah Say, "Oh messenger, oh beloved, say, tell your people that if they claim to love Allah, that the only way their love of Allah is true or will hold any weight is if you follow me." Sai wasallam in the obedience of the messenger sallall.aii Wasam and the obedience of the messenger sallallahu alaihi see obedience and they're two very different things obedience and or following the command. Obedience is completely different is it does not require love. Right? It does not require love. It does not require love. It is simply as Allah commanded. So once Allah has commanded, you have to do whether you love it or not. On the other hand, the crux of is now without you, there can be no there can be noba without mahaba. And so when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he informs the believers through the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam that if we are lovers of Allah then we have to have of the messenger sallallahi wasallam then we have to love the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Now how do we love the messenger? How do we love the messenger? We love the messenger like the people around him loved the messenger. And we love the messenger like Allah loved the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But there are a couple of things my dear brothers and sisters the reality of the human disposition living in today's day and age is that we struggle to love the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We struggle to love the beloved sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And there are many reasons could be many reasons can there be there can be many many reasons. But today I want to just talk about two very two things. The first is ignorance of his reality. The ignorance of the reality of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the reality of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam is not simply that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent him as a messenger but that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gifted the creation an example that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala perfected that Allah perfected so what did Hassanab that more beautiful than you. Oh beloved messenger sallallah.aihi wasallam I have never gazed in my entire life. My eyes have never laid up laid upon anyone like this and more handsome than you. No woman has ever given birth and you have been created free from all deficiency. It is as though you were created according to your own will and in a in a way to say that though you have been created in the most perfected form that a human being can be in. And the most perfect form of human being of a human being is that the human being is a to Allah. So the only one to whom Allah refers as his in the Quran is Muhammad. And so that is that is the goal. The goal is to reach the at least the lower levels of that see the lower levels of that servantthood that submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the only path to that is of it is the love of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam so why do we struggle the first is the ignorance of the reality of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam in learning his his physical description was in learning his the specific miracles that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed him with those that manifested in the [snorts] physical reality in himatam in his body and those from his tongueam And those realities that transpired through the words of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam or simply through the mere presence of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We not know the story of the companion or a man who intended to assassinate the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And he hid his dagger under his and he goes to the Kaa and he finds the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam performing. He goes around and around and the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam each time looks at him and he says what are you doing? He said, "Yeah, I am making dua. I am praying to Allah. I am following you." But secretly, he has his dagger hidden. He wants to assassinate the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And then finally the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam turns around and he places his blessed Mubarak hand on his heart. Physical realities that transpired through the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. You see, loving the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam cannot only be achieved through learning simple facts about his life. When was he born? Who were his parents? When did he leave this dunya? When did he migrate to Medina? Yes, all of those things are important, but they are an aspect. They are an aspect, one single aspect of our path to learning the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and to learning his reality. And so he says that so he says that when a person recognizes the blessing of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam upon the creation that his perfect mercy upon the creation and his deep compassion and love for you then loving the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam is inevitable. So we often hear the people we say the scholars they say that if you learn about the messenger it is impossible that you don't love the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So that aspect is not simply what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam command and when was he born and the simple facts of his life. Who was he? His mercy transcends time from 1400 years ago until today. The messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam he feels what we feel. He feels what we feel. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he told us that our actions are presented to him and if he sees that our if our actions are good then he makes dua and if he sees that our actions are bad then he makes for us all the difficulty that you go through Allah is telling us in the Quran the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam feels it his empathy transcends time and it reaches us from 1400 years ago to today That is the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. That is the mercy of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. The messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam is who? The one who was leading an entire army. And he finds that there is a small boy who was sitting on the side of the road. And what is he doing? He has his dead pet sparrow. Small sparrow. You know the the bird it dies. So this boy is grieving over his pet and he's sitting on the side of the road and the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam is leading an expedition and there are thousands of people standing behind him. He descends his ride and he goes and he sits next to this boy and he asks him what did your sparrow do oh young man that is the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. That is the mercy of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. His compassion for those who were older and those who were young. Those who would we might see him. We might see these people as insignificant. But these are his mercy in the way that the connection that he made with the hearts of the people and the physical attributes of the messenger sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam and the perfection of those physical attributes. Too many to count. Too many to count. These are all a part of knowing the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. They are all a part of knowing the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. The second my dear brothers and sisters is that we reduce loving the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam to to rules. Now, now we come to the difficult conversation almost. This is not really that difficult. We reduce the love of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam to rules and we say that some people might imagine rather that they say that if they follow the external law of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that that is sufficient that is enough. that if they follow simply what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said do this and don't do this that it will be simply enough but the Quran disagrees with this position now I made that claim so now I have to back it up with something that is heavier than that the Quran disagrees with this position and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says in the Quran inah So not just those people who believe and not just those people who believe and who follow his command. No, no, no. Allah subhana says those who believe in him, who honor him who honor him who revere the messenger and who support the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and they follow the light the guidance with that that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent him with they fulfill the requirements of that guidance But right after iman, what was the first condition that Allah presented? Honor the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Honor the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He says He says in in in in is a compilation of his commentary on the 40 hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that that imi he reports or he compiled sobb he says that love for the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam requires the heart's inclination towards him your heart must be connected to the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam your heart must revere the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam In magnifying the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam dry obedience without honor without veneration will take that person nowhere. It would take that person nowhere. How many of us we fulfill obligations today outwardly right? But where is the feeling the connection to the sun of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam in that regard he says in he says that that a servant may perform acts of obedience but he may find no sweetness in those actions if there is no love. If there is no love. So what is it? What is this love that is almost pushing you beyond these rules that they're talking about? And I will just simply give one example and uh uh the companion who was captured and was tortured by the Quraysh and Abu Sufyan who was not Muslim at that time he said to him don't you wish Z that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was in your place and you were at at home safe with your family and Zina is crucified. died. They nailed his arms. They nailed his head to Yani wooden poles and they're torturing him is in and out of consciousness. And he goes, he wakes up and he says, "Wallah, by Allah, it would not please me if a thorn was to prick a finger of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and I was sitting home alone safe with my family." the love of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam that trembles the hearts that shakes the hearts this is this is the love this is the love my dear brothers and sisters so we ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to grant us this love and to truly understand the m of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and allow us to to to gather time and time again as those are the solutions to these problems to gather to remember the the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and