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subham subh
all praise and thanks is to Allah the
Almighty we thank him we praise him we
seek his help and we seek his
forgiveness and we seek refuge in him
from the evil within our own selves and
from our bad Deeds whoever Allah the
almighty guides no one can lead astray
and whoever Allah the Almighty misguides
no one can give guidance to and I bear
witness that there's no one worthy of
worship except Allah the creator of the
heavens and the Earth and that Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon Him is the final
messenger Allah he says in the Quran in
the meaning of which oh you who believe
be dutiful to Allah the way he ought to
be obeyed and do not die except in the
state of Al Islam oh mankind be dutiful
to Allah the one who created You from
One Soul Adam and from it he created its
mate and from them both he created many
men and women so fear Allah through whom
you demand your Mutual rights Allah
indeed is all Watcher over you he says
also oh you who
believe be dutiful to
Allah and do righteous good deeds and
always speak the truth he will guide you
to do righteous Good Deeds and he would
forgive you your sins and whomsoever
obeys Allah and his messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam has indeed achieved a
great success the best speech is the
speech of Allah the Quran the best
guidance is the guidance of prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
peace be upon him and the worst of the
matters in matters of the religion or
the new invented matters in the religion
and every new invented matter in the
religion is an estray and every estray
is in h fire
uh this introduction is something that
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him used
to do and to say every time there's a
gathering he would start with this
introduction that you just heard from me
and it has great meanings in it and the
topic of today is who is Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to answer
this question with the details and the
specifics
behind the prophet
am 1 hour is not
enough a day is not enough days and
months is not even enough it's a whole
life time for the person to get to learn
the sayings the speech the actions the
effect that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam had left after he died
peace be upon him he is the messenger of
Allah when we say Allah it means the
creator of the heavens and the Earth
it's Arabic the root meaning of of it is
the one that is to be worshiped the only
one worthy of worship the God of all the
human beings and all that exists the god
of Adam no and Abraham and Moses and
Jesus and Jacob and Muhammad and all the
creation of the Creator he is the one
that is worthy of worship so he was sent
by his creator like all the messengers
that were sent before him for one
purpose and that is to worship the
creator of the heavens and the
earth when we talk about Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him sallallahu
alaihi wasallam we have to go back a
little bit and get to understand what is
the purpose of life the purpose of life
is to worship the creator of the heavens
and the Earth this universe that we live
in is created by the most wise the most
powerful everything speaks that way even
if it doesn't speak this perfect way of
life that we live in where the sun rises
from the East and sets in in the west
and the different seasons and the trees
and the skies and the Earth and
ourselves which in each and every
individual each and every one of us is a
miracle in itself the relationship
between our physical bodies and our
souls and our intellect all of this are
all signs of the creator of the heavens
and the Earth so as a result of
believing in the creator of the heavens
and the Earth then there's a purpose
each and every one of us we do not do
anything like this without any purpose
each person has a purpose they come to
school for a purpose they look ahead of
after they graduate they want to do this
or that so this is when it comes to the
creation how about the creator that
created everything everything that he
does is with a great wisdom and a
purpose and one of which is the creation
of the human being so the creation of
the human being is of a purpose and that
purpose is to worship the only Creator
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
if we understand this concept then we
get to know what is worship is worship
just some rituals that a person would do
here and there it's basically the whole
life of the human being is meant to be
for the worship of the creator of the
heavens and the Earth to be grateful to
him to praise him to be kind to one
another for people to live in harmony
and to live in peace and to do what is
good and to be away from what is evil
and he installed in each and every one
of us what is good and what is bad for
the most sense we know that lying is is
bad we know that lying is an evil act we
know that being truthful is something
good that nobody on the face of Earth
would debate to this fact why because
this is something that it's in the
nature of the human being that we
believe in this we live according to
what we have this and this is in all of
the human beings that the creator of the
heavens and the earth made in them so as
a result of that since the human being
has a purpose that means they need need
a way of life in which they get to know
the most perfect which is the creator of
the heavens and the Earth and how to
live our life the way he wants us to
live and that's why he sent Messengers
he sent he sent prophets from the same
nature of the human beings he did not
send angels He sent human beings but
special kinds of human beings these
human beings they came with one job and
that is to call the people to the
worship of the creator of the heavens
and the Earth these are the prophets
these are the Messengers
someone might say these Messengers how
do we know that they are messengers what
is the proof to prove to us as human
beings that they are messengers and we
have to listen to them there are certain
criterias in which if we ponder over
them we get to know who is a messenger
and who is not because if we get to know
the importance of the messengers first
of all to get to know the creator of the
heavens and the Earth and they are the
ones that get to the people to tell them
and to educate them how to live their
lives in the most proper way way we need
to first get the proofs of they are
messengers of the creator of the heavens
and the Earth some of these criterias
and there are five things first one
Messenger will tell about another
messenger coming after him another thing
is they're Miracles they are aided by
Miracles Miracles are things that are
Supernatural that people don't see
normally in their life and it comes in
the sense of a challenge to the human
beings if a person
challenges a community or a town or the
whole earth about something and nobody
is able to do the same as that one human
being did in the uh sense of challenging
them that means he is on the truth till
proven otherwise so that's why the
creator of the heavens and the Earth he
sent the messengers with Miracles and
most of you probably read and know about
matters of the religions and how The
Messengers they were all aided by a form
of a miracle that people saw in their
lives so that it proves to them that
these people are truly guided and
revealed to them from the creator of the
heavens and the Earth with uh miracles
for the people to see as we know for
example in the story of no peace be upon
him these stories are mentioned in the
bible or in the Quran uh the same thing
for Moses MSA peace be upon him and with
the stick in which the sea uh
was split into two parts and and the
people of the children of Israel were
able to pass into the sea and many many
miracles that we see from One messenger
to the other the Miracles that God aided
Jesus peace be upon him with curing the
diseased and making the one that is Dead
Alive by the will of the Creator and the
same thing with Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam as it will
come inshallah tal also one of the
criterias for us to know who is a
messenger and who is not is the lifetime
of the messenger it's the lifetime of
every messenger the manners how the
effect of this particular messenger and
as a fact throughout the history of
mankind there is no one claimed to be
the messenger or a messenger from God
from Allah the creator of the heavens
and the Earth unless if he was truthful
his message will be widespread and it
will be taken over centuries and
centuries if he is lying against the
creator of the heavens and the Earth
nobody would hear about him after a few
years and this is a fact
so when we look at the messengers that
Allah that the Creator sent you find the
message stays and the message was one
and that is the worship of the creator
of the heavens and the Earth also that
God would guide them and Aid them and
make them Victorious and make their
message spread because if someone lies
against the creator of the heavens and
the Earth he will not leave them and
instead when he make them Victorious and
Aid them with signs and miracles and
make their message spread that mean this
is a sign of their truthfulness
also when we look and ponder over the
principles that they brought to mankind
their teachings their speeches their
lives when we say that he is the most
perfect human being ever walked on the
face of Earth because he's the final
messenger from the creator of the
heavens and the Earth this is a claim
then we have to prove this claim then we
get to read about his life about his
speech and there's no man in history
you'll find his life and his speeches
and his actions and all specifics about
him even to the extent of which of how
he used to walk how he used to uh dress
how he used to eat how he used to even
get into the bathroom and leaving the
bathroom every single specific act in
his life it's all mentioned and reported
and it's saved for us so there's no
human being on the face of Earth that we
get to know the simple details of his
life unless we know it from the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam so
examining his life this is another
challenge for us to see if he is the
most perfect human being ever walked on
the face of Earth or not and then for
each and every one of us to judge
according to what we see and read so
these five things if we examine them of
course we cannot examine them in an hour
or less but it's for each and every one
of us and M and mallah when we say
mallah meaning uh it's by the will of
Allah something to be said when someone
is pleased by something that he sees or
she sees
uh most of the people present here are
intellect and they uh they are
University students or graduated or
whatever that is they use their minds so
it's for us to read and to research and
to find for ourselves what I've said the
truth about our existence on the face of
Earth and the truth about The Messengers
that Allah that God sent to the human
being for them to
follow so when we talk about the
Miracles which is the challenges that
God aided the messenger
for them to prove to the people that
they are messengers of Allah these
miracas have certain characteristics the
Messenger will come with it challenging
his people with it and nobody will ever
oppose it and as long as nobody opposed
it that means he is on the truth each
messenger was sent he was given a
miracle for the people to see once he
dies then the generation that comes
after him nobody would see this miracle
that he did like the stick for example
in the time of of Moses peace be upon
him or Jesus peace be upon him when he
would make the Dead Alive and things of
that nature we cannot see these Miracles
and that's why each messenger was sent
to his people to the group of people
that he was sent to when the when the
final of the messengers which is Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon Him came his
miracle was an everlasting one for every
generation to see the main Miracle
although he had many miracles during his
lifetime that when we get to see it in
inall tal if Allah Wills we would see
that this is also one of the Miracles
that used to be like The Messengers
before but the Everlasting and the
living miracle that Prophet Muhammad was
given is basically the Quran the Quran
which is the book as you probably know
that Muslims believe that this is the
word of God the word of Allah subhana wa
taala miraculous word of the creator of
the heavens and the Earth that it's a
challenge to mankind to bring something
the like of it and it's made of letters
Arabic letters and this book God in it
revealed to the prophet peace be upon
him to challenge the people to bring
like something like it and for mankind
and Jin and all that exists to get
together to bring something like the
Quran and of course they were not able
to do so then the challenge made as if
it's made easier for them to bring
something like 10 chapters of the Quran
the like of the Quran with its
miraculous
wordings of it and the miraculous
wording in the in the Quran is in the
Arabic language and in its meanings also
and the facts that the Quran had of so
many facts in it that it's miraculous in
itself and still nobody was able to do
so and then the challenge came in one of
the verses of the Quran to bring even
one chapter like the Quran and the
smallest chapter in the Quran you can
write it in one line three verses that
if you write it in Arabic it would take
only one line
and the challenge was bring something
like it one line only of wordings that
is made of the same letters that people
speak with the original language of the
Quran which is the Arabic language and
still at the time of the Prophet peace
be upon him where people reached the
peak in mastering the Arabic language
and I can tell you this from someone
that studied the Arabic language and
memorized the Poetry that used to be in
the era before the time of the Prophet
we used to memorize these lines of
poetry in the first year of college 300
and something lines of poetry we have to
memorize in one semester when you ponder
over the meanings of the lines of the
Poetry it's
amazing the Poetry of the pre-islamic
era it was in such a powerful language
that a person would be amazed is this
written by a human being or what and
this is man-made poetry but then when
you compare this to the Quran the Quran
is a total different structure of words
it's not poetry it's not NE what's NE in
English the composition when you write
something not the opposite of poetry is
what is what you write essays for
example or comprehension whatever that
is or composition it's not that it's
neither poetry neither just simple
sentences of words it's something else
it's something that challenged the human
beings CH challenged the Arabs at the
time to bring even one line like it and
they were not able to do so that means
the challenge stays alive meaning that
it's the truth it's the word of the
creator of the heavens and the Earth
till proven otherwise and nobody was
able to prove otherwise this is in the
linguistic challenge to it and there are
many forms of miraculous points to the
Quran besides the linguistic challenges
in it one of which the rulings in it
it's a perfect way of life of course I
have to say that because I'm a Muslim
but it is not something that we just
throw it out there and for people to
just take it the way it is no for us to
learn and to read and to see the system
that Islam brought to mankind there are
rulings that regulates the life of the
human being individual wise and a
community wise and country-wise in all
aspects of Life how to understand this
life that we live in the worship of the
only Creator the worship of him alone if
you recite and and ponder over the
verses of the Quran this is not a book
that calling for the glory of prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him it is not for
the call to worship Muhammad Fe be upon
him or to worship a human being or to
have the hearts attached to another
human being you find that the verses of
the Quran over and over again calling
the human being to turn to the creator
of the heavens and the Earth the Lord of
all the prophets the Lord of Jesus the
Lord of Moses the Lord of Abraham the
Lord of all the prophets and the human
beings calling them to worship him alone
and this is the real Freedom that a
person can live in this life and that is
to turn to the creator of the heavens
and the Earth in a clear and direct
relationship without having any
intermediaries between the human being
and the Creator we don't need to go to
someone to confess to him our own sins
for that person to forgive our sins or
for him to be an intermediary between us
and the creator of the heavens and the
Earth Quran direct us which is the book
that was revealed to Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him that if you want to
turn to the creator of the heavens and
the Earth you turn to him directly and
you ask from him and you make
supplications to him so in matters of
belief it answers the questions of the
human beings what's the purpose of Our
Lives is to worship the creator of the
heavens and the Earth what we are going
after this life the one that created us
from nothing he's capable of creating us
again and that is in the Hereafter
injustices that is committed on the face
of Earth it doesn't make sense that the
creator of the heavens and the Earth and
this is of course for those who believe
in the Creator so if they believe in him
that he's the most wise he's the most
knowledgeable he's the most powerful and
what we see around us in is an Evidence
to this our creation is an Evidence to
that it doesn't make sense that he
created the human beings and injustices
occurs on the face of Earth and people
do evil things and that won't be of no
meaning there has to be the Hereafter
for justice to be served in its in its
perfect sense for people to be judged
according to what they did in this life
and this is something that is called in
the Quran and in all the books before
rulings how if people believes in the
creator of the heavens and the Earth how
to have this strong relationship it is
not left for the human being to do it on
his own a perfect system of of how to
have this connection five daily prayers
what to say in the prayers you find the
perfect way of saying things manners the
rights of each and every subject in our
life and this is what is the purpose of
someone that says I'm a Muslim meaning
it is not just letters written it means
that it's someone that submitted himself
or herself to the creator of the heavens
and the Earth submitted to the most
perfect and that is God the creator of
the heavens and the Earth and that's why
we should live our lives trying to
fulfill the different rights in our
lives the rights of our own selves we
have rights on our own selves to educate
ourselves to to change from being
ignorant to be knowledgeable the rights
of ourselves to give its rest when it
needs rest and to do the things that
would fulfill our needs so the rights of
ourselves the rights of our parents
those who have so much favors on us the
rights of our brothers and sisters the
rights of our neighbors the rights of
those who share the same Faith with us
the rights of our enemies they have
rights on us if there are enemies
against us there are rights towards them
that we have to observe the rights of
animals the rights of the environment
that we live in all of this is mentioned
in what has been revealed to Prophet
Muhammad please be upon him in the Quran
and in his sayings which we call the
Sunnah his way the Hadith his speech
it's all there in these two Revelations
from God we do not need to wait to the
20th century or the 21st century to get
to know about the rights of the
environment and all of that it's all
present there and it's not just general
terms that I'm speaking speaking about
it's all with specific examples and
speeches and actions and it's for each
and every one of us to go and to
research and to read about the details
what is mentioned in the Quran and the
sayings of the prophet and you would see
this that is very clearly also the
miraculous wordings of the Quran and if
you go on with this even with when it
comes to economy and things of that
nature it's mentioned in there so Islam
is a way of life that encompasses
everything in our life not just a matter
of rituals it's a big part of it but
it's not just the rituals it's
everything even how to deal with animals
and the prophet BEP upon him when he
said in the Hadith his speech that in
feeding anything that has a liver is a
form of Charity meaning um translating
it literally which means anything that
is a life whether it's an animal or a
human being if you feed that thing it's
a form of Charity it encourages his
followers to even take care of the
animals even to the extent of
which playing
sports it's mentioned in the speech of
the Prophet peace be upon him I'm saying
about these small details and minute
things which make us understand that the
major things are there not going to deal
with the major things if we know that
even the smallest and the minutest
things are mentioned that means more
likely to be the the major things when
the companions of the Prophet they came
to him and they asked him that they feel
tired when they're traveling
he told them and this is in
Arabic which means
run run so that you would uh push away
tiredness from yourselves this is the
order of the prophet of Al Islam
Muhammad Salli wasallam so we as Muslims
we don't need to go out of the Quran and
his speech because we get to see all of
what we need in this life and in the
Hereafter in the most perfect way even
in things that people are discovering
nowadays that science is discovering it
whether it's 10 tens of years ago or now
or even things that are not still
discovered yet it amazes the scientists
how things are being mentioned in the
Quran and the sayings of the Prophet
peace be upon him from an illiterate man
I'm supposed to when we talk about
Prophet Muhammad talk about his life and
he was born in this year and and and
this and that of course this is
important but we're trying to hear to
get to the importantance that he's a
messenger of God Quran is not a book of
science Quran is a book to show the
lifestyle that a human being should live
his life in the most perfect way and
also in the sayings of the Prophet peace
be upon him but once in a while you
would you would see a verse that directs
the human being to think about the
creator of the heavens and the Earth and
his bounties on us so you find in some
of these verses a verse that talks about
something that people didn't know at his
time he was illiterate he did not able
to read and write this is meant in
itself to prove to the human beings that
he was chosen in such a way so that
people won't say that he's a learned man
and he have experience and things of
that nature and there are many verses in
the Quran that talks about the Miracles
mentioned in the Quran from the
scientific point of view that people get
to discover later on like the stages of
the embryo for example and I believe
that most of you or some of you have
already read about this stages of the
embryo it's mentioned in great details
in the in the Quran when the one of the
stages of the EMB that it hangs to the
uterus of the mother it hangs like a
leech and this is something that cannot
be seen with with the naked eye has to
be seen with a microscope uh Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
the city of Mecca they didn't have all
these means and this is something that
is recently discovered to the beginning
of of the century the science the world
of science used to have its own Theory
when it comes to the embryo station ages
of life it was already in the Quran so
when they saw this and one of which
great Scholars or big scholars in
medicine when they saw these stages
mentioned in the Quran they became
Muslims they embraced Islam because of
this the issues sometimes with regarding
to the Seas and the oceans when it meets
and things of that nature and the rain
and many miracles that are mentioned in
the Quran the the purpose of this topic
is not in to go to this and the Quran is
not a book of science but it has
different ways of Miracles that is shown
in the book of the Quran even from
history the Quran has stories of
prophets and stories of prophets most of
it was mentioned in the Bible and the
Old Testament and books and other books
but when it comes to history you find
very specific clearly
terminologies that is very precise and I
will give you an example Prophet Yousef
Prophet Joseph peace be upon
him uh there is a chapter in the Quran
with the name Yousef which is
Joseph and it tells the story of Prophet
Joseph and his brothers and what
happened to him when they threw him in
the well and so on and so forth when he
became uh an important man in Egypt it
says in the verses in the Quran that the
king of Egypt called him to appoint him
to be in charge of the the matters of
economy and money and things like that
the the verse in the Quran says
the mik the king said bring him forth we
know that in ancient Egypt it was not a
king and Kingdom it was a Pharaoh's type
of uh ruling right but at the time of
Yousef and this is something proven by
history it wasn't the the pharaoh's uh
families of of rulings it was the hixus
I'm not sure whether they call it in
English but it's an era where it was
Kingdom ship it was a kingdom it was not
the Pharaohs although it's very close
but this is to show the precise wordings
in the Quran and there are many examples
with regarding to this so the Quran by
itself is a miracle from different
aspects of life one of which is the
scientific Miracle also the sayings of
the Prophet the sayings of the prophets
peace peace be upon him and his actions
he had Miracles during his time one of
which the split of the Moon and when we
say Miracles it was witnessed by not
just one person one person might Forge
something but it was witnessed by a
whole city the whole city of Mecca when
they asked the prophet to show them a
sign a miracle as all the prophets
before they came with Miracles so he
pointed to them at the moon and the moon
was split into two halves and this is
something that the people were traveling
they even saw this with their own eyes
so this is a miracle that he did and
actually the recent discoveries also
shows that there is a the moon was split
14400 years ago
anyway uh he would cure the
sick one of the companions of the
Prophet peace be upon him when he came
at one time and his eyes he could not
see from his eyes and he you know he put
from his spit on it and he he was cured
or someone with a broken leg and he
would cure it and it's cured which is
something that The Messengers before did
or the water would comes and gushes
between his fingers for the people to
drink and these are all authentic
reports that he giv
drinks of water to a whole Army from
water gushing from his hand for them to
drink and again this is not something
that is witnessed by one or two people
this is witnessed by an army and it's
been reported animals speaking to him
people hearing it yes Like the Wolf did
and the tree did when someone asked him
for a miracle who would say that you are
a prophet the tree would speak the tree
would weep when the prophet would hang
to it or hold it when he was give his
sermon and then when a Pulpit was built
from wood and and he left it the tree
was people would hear from it that it's
sweeping and many many miracles but
these Miracles only for the people that
witnessed it but because he's the final
messenger we have the Quran still with
us and when we read the Quran we will
find the perfect meanings and things in
it also when we talk about Messengers
usually we say Prophet Muhammad is a
messenger of of the creator of the
heavens and the Earth and people would
say what's the proofs we mentioned some
of the proofs and also the question is
if you believe in the prophet before and
The Messengers before what proves that
Moses was a messenger of Allah what
proves that Moses is a messenger of God
people would say Miracles well the
Miracles are here and there if they say
that this is uh how it's been passed
from one generation to the other we
would say the same thing so how would we
know that someone is a messenger is a
prophet it's the same concept is been
applied from One messenger to the other
and it's proven to be true there are
even verses in the Bible or the old
Testament that speaks about this fact
that God would send someone like Moses
and there are similarities between
prophet Muhammad and Moses and anyway
whether this is something for a person
to read or not the facts speak about
this matter that he came as a truthful
person and this is another thing if a
person is truthful and he speaks the
truth all of his life he would not come
and lie against the creator of the
heavens and the Earth because if he lies
against the creator of the heavens and
the Earth supposed to be that God would
punish him he won't make him or keep him
lie about saying that he's a messenger
of God people can lie and they left
they'll be left lying but when it comes
to lying against the fact that he's a
messenger of God nobody on the face of
Earth in the history of mankind did that
and his message spread nowadays the
fastest growing uh religion is the
religion of Islam people are accepting
Islam why because it's it's so simple in
its meaning there is no tricks or
philosophies or too much uh uh things
that is against one's understanding and
intellect the matter is so simple the
one that created the heavens and the
Earth is one and as a result worship him
alone and that's it that's the message
of the religion of Islam and this is
what the meaning of Islam is does not
refer to a person does not refer to a
race or a cult of people it means an
action Islam means submit yourself and
this is what the life of the prophet and
this is the life of all the prophets
before him because it doesn't make sense
that the religion of God the way of life
that God wants the people to be in will
be different from One messenger to the
other because we can ask the question
what was the religion of Abraham for
those who believe in prophet Abraham
what was his religion who did he worship
he worship the creator of the heavens
and the Earth did he worship Jesus peace
be upon him no because Jesus peace be
upon him was not there yet so was
Abraham LED astray was he on the truth
or was he a deviant because because he
did not worship Jesus he worship he
worshiped the creator of the heavens and
earth the same thing with Adam with no
with Moses with Joseph with Jacob with
all the messengers they worshiped who
they worshiped the creator of the
heavens and the earth and the same thing
with Jesus peace be upon him and Prophet
Muhammad it can never change the belief
system the way that the the human being
turns to the creator of the heavens and
the Earth but when it comes to the
rulings this is permissible this is not
permissible yes it differs from one
generation to the other depending on the
environment and the state of the human
being is in but then once the prophet
was sent this is he's the final
messenger and that's why the message and
the rulings and the regulations and the
mannerism and all the things that we are
ordered and forbidden to do mentioned in
the Quran on the sayings of the Prophet
s wasallam it is still the same since
1400 years ago the status of women in
society which is usually people always
when we when they talk about Islam
because of the negative things that
media do and so they would throw into
this issue about women and the status of
women in Islam how was the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam peace be upon
him treating women, 14400 years ago and
it's the same thing that Muslims do to
nowadays and for the fact in history at
the time of the Prophet peace be upon
Him people were still debating other
people were still debating whether the
woman has a soul or not and this is
something documented in
history whether she has a soul or not
and if her soul is Superior or inferior
to the superior to the soul of the man
or it's the same this is what the human
being were indulged in the Arabs at the
time of the Prophet peace be upon him
before he was sent when when someone
would have a girl he would bury it Al
life because it's a form of a shame to
him till the 18th century in Britain a
man can sell his wife and this is a fact
he can go sell his wife till the 18th
century I believe and this is something
documented in history so this is close
cl to the modern world that we live in
the 18th century what was the matter in
the the Muslim world the woman had their
independence she had all the freedom she
can buy and sell she does not take the
the name of her husband she is an
independent human being mentioned in the
Quran in many verses men and women the
those who remember Allah the creator of
the heavens and the Earth both men and
women equal in their rewards when it
comes to their Good Deeds there's no
difference between the soul of the man
or the soul of the woman because they
are creation of the creator of the
heavens and the Earth Yes Men has
certain jobs that they're being
entrusted to do and women has certain
jobs some of it is different than the
jobs of the men because of the different
difference between them at least
physically so because of that there are
certain rulings and regulations that
would make sense in the life of the
human being to be harmonious if the
woman bear the child and she gave birth
there are responsibilities that entitled
that to that and this is a
responsibility in the religion of Al
Islam so this is how the creator of the
heavens and the earth created her in
such a way and the issue of the family
structure in Islam something very
important the family structure and how
it should be strong for the betterment
of children people raised children
raised in a healthy environment a mother
and a father and teaching and raising
and having all the different good
feelings and things of that nature this
is something that is the rights of the
child in the religion of Al Islam not to
be neglected how to protect this family
structure you find many rulings that
serves this purpose meant for that
purpose one of which is
forbidding major sins like adultery and
fornication which is the same in the
messages before the message of Jesus and
Moses and so on and not even just that
but to protect the human being from the
way that God created him that both sexes
are leaned toward W one another in a
very strong manner than to avoid the
falling into what breaks the family
structure protecting themselves against
themselves for example there is the
hijab or the the dress code for both men
and women and not just women because men
in Islam they're supposed to observe
also a certain dress code not to expose
most of their bodies but for women as
you probably know and you see how the
woman or the Muslim woman dress so that
she does not attract the the the the the
the the soul or the or the NFS or the
the thing that shars the human being
with the with the animal that he might
cause harm to the woman and we know the
crimes of rape and things of that nature
so it's all regulations to regulate the
family structure for the betterment of
the life for the woman to be looked at
as an intellectual human being and not
to undermine her role in the society
very important role and this is all
mentioned in details in the Quran and
the Sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam when we look at the
prophet s wasallam he was born without a
father he was an
orphan
and uh without going into the specific
details of his life he was given the
message from the creator of the heavens
and the earth when he was 40 years old
before that his life was also written
and documented that he was known among
his people as the
trustworthy trustworthy the honest man
people would leave with him
their valuables to save it with him and
he didn't know anything about Revelation
or about anything he never drank any of
the intoxications that people would
drink in his time and he would go
sometimes and stay in the outside the
city of Mecca pondering over the
creation of the creator of the heavens
and the Earth till the Revelation come
unto him from Angel jiel and then the
life changed he called people to the
worship of the creator of the heavens
and the Earth he stayed for 10 years in
Mecca in the city of Mecca calling
people to the Oneness of the worship of
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
he endured so much hardship and torture
from his people and this is a sign of
truthfulness when a person is alone
calling people not for his own Glory
calling people to worship the creator of
the heavens and earth and that's it and
he does not need nothing from them they
offered him Kingdom they offered him
women they told him that if that's what
you want we'll give you all what you
want and he told them in very simple
words he said that to his uncle if they
put the sun in my right hand and the
Moon in my left hand I would never leave
this purpose that God had revealed to
him to call the people to the worship of
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
and then when he migrated to al- Medina
with his followers the city of the
Medina then the establishment of the
statehood in Islam with the different
regulations what is permissible what is
not permissible how to regulate the life
of the Muslim Community with the other
communities and the treaties in the most
perfect way and this is something also
for people to read in history and he did
not die till the religion was completed
till nothing is needed more for him to
teach the human beings and this is in
itself is another miracle and he said
there is nothing that would get you
closer to the creator of the heavens and
the Earth unless I told you about which
in itself is a miracle why because if he
died early on without finishing his
message that means it a deficiency but
his message was completed and we see
after that it is not diminishing it's
kept increasing and increasing and
increasing and whole countries would
embrace the religion of Islam why
because people at the time they were
waiting for the prophet because there
are prophecies in the Old Testament and
the Bible and they were waiting for him
and that's why if you look at the map
the old map before the Americas you'll
find the old map with the Arabic
peninsula where the Prophet was sent
originally in he was sent to all mankind
but then you find the Egypt and Syria
and and palestin and all these areas
right it was all in a Christian world
and the center of Rome was in Damascus
and this is where all um you know people
were Christians but then when the
message reached them any place where the
Muslims went to people embraced Islam in
masses not just one here or there and
until nowadays it's the fast growing
religion as we see and it's all from the
teachings of prophet Muhammad someone
would say this was never mentioned in
the Bible to answer this is to say
you'll find prophecies in the Bible
about things that are less importance
than this about the conquer of such and
such or about what happened prophecies
and Revelation about things would happen
in the
future and would it be uh intellectually
correct to say
that the prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him and his effect in the whole life of
the human beings and how he changed the
whole entire world and how nowadays over
a billion followers it's not to be
mentioned in the Bible it doesn't make
sense actually when a person says this
that means he is saying that there's
deficiencies in the Bible but instead he
was mentioned in it and that's why also
when we get into the mannerism his
manners we say that he's the perfect
human being and this is not just a claim
when we see about his truthfulness his
enemies they said that clearly that he
is someone that is never speaks any lies
and when the disbelievers at his time
they said we never seen or witnessed or
experienced anything except truthfulness
from him his generosity it it is said in
one of the Hadith that he was never
asked for anything unless he would give
he would never said no and his courage
also that when they would fight in the
batt field would go behind him and
protect themselves by him if he is
someone that is going for his own Glory
he would be in the back lines but
instead he would uh be the most
courageous among them and he also he was
the most modest he was the most
renouncing this worldly game after the
Muslims had so much of the worldly
things he would still live a life of a
simple life he would sleep on a mat that
when he gets
up marks on his body because of the
roughness of the med that he sleeps in
when he died he died left a pot and a
mule and that's it he did not leave
wealth and palaces and things of that
nature where people when they seek the
materialistic things of this life
because of the glory that they call
people to but it's a life that is
totally for the sake of the Creator
calling people for their own benefit uh
they would wait for one Crescent after
another meaning for month and two and
over than that over than just two months
or 3 months without cooking food in the
in the houses of the Prophet peace be
upon him and when AA the wife of the
Prophet Sall wasallam when she was asked
what did you used to eat she would say
on the two black things dates and water
this is what they used to eat in which
if he wished to get all the
materialistic things he would get it but
instead he chose to live this life and
his humbleness he used to be in as it
says in Arabic meaning serving his
family he was a human being he was not
anything but a human being but a perfect
human being he would be with his wife in
his house cleaning and helping her and
being like a husband and he gave us the
example of how a husband should be
towards his wife but she said but
whenever the call for the prayers would
come as if he does not know us he would
go straight to the mosque and pray this
is how his life used to be his
gentleness and he was the most gentle
with his people with the enemies and
there are many incidences when it comes
to this even his faithfulness towards
his wife when she died and he would
remember her and his Mercy to the extent
of which that he would start the prayers
and he hears a young child crying and he
would finish the prayer quickly because
as he says because of what he knows from
the mother caring about the child while
she is praying she wants to to finish
the prayer because she's concerned about
her child so he would finish the prayer
quickly and uh his dealing with others
and as anas one of his companions he
said he never hit anyone in his whole
entire life whether it's a servant or
whether it's a woman never hit anyone
except in fighting for the cause of
Allah in the battlefield other than that
he would not he never hit a woman he
never hit a servant and this is how the
life of the prophet and it's mentioned
in detail there are books and books that
shows the speeches and what he says and
this is another subject if we just
examine the speeches of the Prophet
about truthfulness calling people to be
truthful taking care of the neighbor
being just uh always speak the truth be
kind to others uh no one he says in the
meaning of which no one shall attain
belief unless he or she loves for his
brother what he loves for his own self
and this is a high level of uh ISM that
only the the elite of the people would
do that means a person would love for
his Muslim brother for example what he
loves for his own self and that's why
the companions they applied this he is
the most beloved human being to over a
billion people and there's no one loved
on the face of Earth more than him and
this is something done by the those who
believe in him loved him meaning in the
sense that they obey his orders of
course and they would do whatever it
takes for uh making his way Superior of
course also uh when we look at his
principles what's the principles that
Prophet Muhammad came with he came with
the principles to the people to worship
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
and not associate partners with him and
as herculis I always don't know how to
pronounce it herac what can you say it
Hercules did I say right herul herculis
thank you much miraculous when he
interviewed one of the Arabs Merchants
when he went to Rome and he was asking
about the prophet people were waiting
for the prophet now there are many
stories to that so he asked him about
did a prophet came into your place and
he said yes and Abu sufyan that person
he was a disbeliever at the time and he
told him about the characteristics of
the Prophet to the extent of which that
herculis he said if I was with him I
would wash what's under his feet meaning
believing that he is the messenger of
God but one of the things that he said
he asked him what he is ordering you to
do what this messenger is wanting for
you to do he said he ordered us to
worship the creator of the heavens and
the Earth and not to associate partners
with him and not to worship idols not to
be Idols worshippers and he ordered us
to make prayers and this is the sayings
of a disbeliever those who were fighting
against the prophet he orders the people
to establish to perform prayers and he
ordered them to be truthful and to be to
abstain from what is evil this is his
this is his principles and this is what
he orders them and he comes with a
comprehensive way of life that as one of
the companions when he said that one of
the Jews at the time of the prophet he
said he taught you everything he said
yes he taught us even how to go to the
bathroom it's all there etiquet eats how
to do things how to eat how to deal with
one another and it's all there which
shows by by evidence and by proof that
this is a perfect way of life gives
peace and Tranquility in the life of the
human being Justice he says the prophet
of Al Islam he says by the name of Allah
if Fatima this is his daughter if she
would steal then her hand will be cut
which is a capital punishment if someone
steals which some people they say this
is very harsh these Capital punishments
were in the previous books in the Bible
too and if the if the punishment is very
severe and harsh but let me tell you
something how many people throughout the
history of Islam their hands were cut
because of this punishment and the
challenge is or the news is you would
find them counted on maybe one hint
throughout 1,400 years why because if a
person knows that his hand will be cut
when he steals he would not do it so
that's why it's a deterrent thing and
that's why you would not see it the same
thing with the battles of the Prophet
when see people say that he fought he
fought battles yes he did Moses did and
M Messengers before did not for the
glory of themselves but to break the
barriers between them and calling others
to the the worship of the creator of the
heavens and the Earth so in these
battles how many people killed in the
battles that the prophet fought someone
went and counted the highest versions of
how many people died from both parties
it was something like in the numbers of
4,000 or 5,000 throughout 20s of years
and 40s of years right but then imagine
now see how Wars are nowadays where
thousands and hundreds of thousands and
millions of people are dying for no
reason and anyway this is something that
is a part of our life that Wars is part
of the life that we live in people
sometimes transgress commit injustices
and people had to defend themselves so
this is something that is part of what
he brought to the human being teaching
them everything and his speeches is
another thing so the the bottom line is
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was a
human being
not God but a human being flesh and Bone
he has the desires that the human being
all have and this is something that he
said but it was revealed to him from the
creator of the heavens and the Earth he
showed the human being how to live his
life or her life in the most perfect way
to have peace with one's mind that he
made the matter of the Creed and the
belief and the acts of worship is so
easy and simple how to purify one's
heart it is not enough for the person to
say I believe and then there's no ways
of purification of this soul that we
have how to purify our souls you'll find
that in these teachings to exert
ourselves to be truthful to be honest
with others to give for the sake of the
creator of the heavens and earth not to
give to people and then look down at
them that I gave you charity that means
you need to be kind to me no people give
for the sake of the creator meaning for
matters of Hereafter he changed the life
of a whole generation that they used to
worship idols and sometimes they would
need the idols from dates and when
they're hungry they eat from it this is
how the mentality of the people at the
time and he changed this people and they
would whenever they a girl is born they
would bury her alive and they would
fight with one another for hundreds of
years or maybe 40 years I don't want to
exaggerate like one of the wars because
of a well of water this is what was the
mentality of the people at the time he
changed the whole generation to be
people that are living for a purpose for
a message like one of the companions of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
he said to the King of Persia when he
went to him he went to him with not a
very decent clothing Simple Man going
with a mule and going into the King of
Persia and the King of Persia told him
what are you coming for he said we came
our our message is to get the people
from the worship of the human beings
from enslaving giving them to the human
being and the creation of the Creator to
the worship of the creator of the
heavens and the Earth and to take the
people from the injustices of the
religions to the Justice of the religion
of al- Islam and from the tightness of
this world to the spaciousness of the
Hereafter this is what their message
they knew the message they didn't go for
some gold and silver to take they lived
a life purely for the truth to call
others to save themselves
from the punishment to save themselves
from the being enslaved to other human
beings enslaved to their own desires
enslaved to this materialistic world
that they live in and instead to be
dutiful to the creator of the heavens
and the Earth and that's how people's
life are changed and if we get into the
stories of the Companions and how the
life were how the life changed and
giving for the sake of the creator of
the heavens and the Earth and having the
real meaning of happiness and this is
something that we taste when the first
and is closer to the creator of the
heavens and the Earth so forgive me if
the talk was more General but this is
something just if we get from this for
each and every one of us to get to know
who is the prophet peace be upon him
from our sources from the sources of the
Muslims from the Quran and from the
sayings of the prophet and then the
person would use his own intellect to
see what is right and what is wrong and
when a person is seeking the truth God
willing he will be guided to the truth
uh I will stop at this point we have
half an hour if you have any questions
and I know probably there are many
questions especially for the non-muslims
and I'll try my best to answer these
questions inall