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muham and
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today insh we will embark on a new
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series of lectures a series of lectures
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concentrating on The Life and Times of
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the single greatest human being who has
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ever lived ever walked on the face of
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this Earth and in today's lecture I
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wanted to begin by talking about some of
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the broad characteristics of our Prophet
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sallallah alaihi wasallam some of the
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what what in Arabic is called sh some of
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the unique and specific characteristics
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that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given
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to our Prophet sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam before we embark on the Journey
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of s and why we study s and what is s
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that will be inshallah next weekend next
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week and then we begin with the the
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birth and the pre-islamic Arabia all of
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this will come before we even begin a
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little bit of a tantalizing tidbit if
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you like of the characteristics of the
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unique specialities that our Prophet
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sallallahu alaihi wasam was blessed with
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because when we begin these series by
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talking about his specialities even
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though all of us are motivated to study
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his s when we study his specialities we
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will be even more motivated and we'll be
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even more eager to learn about The Life
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and Times the lessons and morals the
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incidents that occurred in the life of
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our Prophet Muhammad sallallah alai
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wasallam and so where then do we begin
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when it comes to describing the one whom
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Allah has chosen above the entire
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creation how can we do justice to him
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when Allah himself
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says Allah says we have raised up your
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mentioning and Remembrance Allah has
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raised up his mentioning and and
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Remembrance and IB Abbas and and other
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Scholars of the sahabah they said Allah
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has raised up his remembrance such that
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whenever Allah is mentioned the prophet
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is mentioned right after that and how
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true this is whenever Allah is mentioned
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the prophet is almost always mentioned
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right after that even in our
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sh muhm in thean in the Salah that we
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pray in the Quran itself there's hardly
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a that we give except that we praise
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Allah and we send Salat and Salam upon
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the prophet Muhammad s. wasam when Allah
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subhah waala himself has called our
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Prophet Sall alhi
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wasallam you are the mercy to the entire
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world you are the embodiment of Rah
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Allah has sent you and through you you
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will be given Rah and you are a r and
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you are the channel of Allah's R so he
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is the prophet is Rah and his sending is
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Rah and his message is rahma and his
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teachings is r and believing and acting
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upon what he has come with is a he is
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everything associated with Mercy that
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is so how then can we begin to do
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justice to the prophet sallallah Alam
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when Allah has praised him so highly
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however even if we cannot mention all of
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those blessings and characteristics then
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at least let us mention some so that
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they can be an indication for that which
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is not uh it can not be mentioned
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because of time and restrictions And We
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Begin by mentioning some of the names
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that Allah gave our Prophet Muhammad s.
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wasam for our Prophet had many names
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many of the names of our Prophet were
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given to him by later people the the
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early Scholars and one of the famous
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Scholars of the has derived over 250
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names of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam and if we were to give a class
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on this we'd spend 3 four weeks just
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talking about that list but I wanted to
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mention some of the names that Allah has
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given him because you see names come
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from Allah and names come from the
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people and we are obviously the ones
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that come from the people we can benefit
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from them but the ones that Allah has
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given our Prophet those are the primary
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names that have the deepest meaning and
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of the Hadith that the prophet mentioned
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his names he
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said the prophet Sall Al wasallam said
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I have a number of names so the prophet
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is telling us he has a number of names
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he
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said I am
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Muhammad and I am Ahmed I'm going to
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mention each of these
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names and I am Al of his names is Al and
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he explained Al is the one
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whom Allah erases
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kuur of his names is Al
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people will be
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resurrected means to be resurrected on
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my footsteps or meaning after
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me of his names is and he said is the
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one who has no Prophet after
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me he said I am the that is one of my
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names and I am the of
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repentance and he is the m and the we're
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going to explain what this means but the
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one that who has uh come after all or
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the one who pre not not predates the one
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who comes consequently the one who comes
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at the end of a long chain that
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is and I am the prophet of we're going
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to explain all of these names one by one
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so the most common names of the prophet
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and the two that the Quran explicitly
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mentions the Quran mentions many
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adjectives but it only mentions two
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nouns the Quran mentions many adjectives
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for the prophet from those adjectives we
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can derive names so we can derive it
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from the
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Quran this is a description an adjective
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but in terms of proper nouns or in terms
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of nouns there are two names that are
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mentioned and these names are Muhammad
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and Ahmed the name Muhammad is mentioned
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four times in the Quran and the name
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Ahmed is mentioned a few times as well
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if my memory serves me correctly it is
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two or three times the name Ahmed is
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mentioned and every time it is mentioned
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it is mentioned from the tongue of Jesus
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Christ the only time Ahmed is mentioned
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is from the tongue of Jesus
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Christ says that I'm going to tell you
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of a prophet coming after me his name is
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Ahmed both Muhammad and Ahmed come from
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Hamed
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and H ham means to praise but not any
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type of
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Praise ham is what the first word of the
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Quran
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alhamdulillah and hamd means to praise
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not in return for some favor given to
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you because that is shuk if somebody
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does you something you praise him back
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that is shuk you you that's that that is
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a
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praise it's something that you give and
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take right you give me some I say thank
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you or you're a generous man this is not
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called ham this is shuk because you have
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given something back in return for
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something he's given you ham is higher
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than shukur shukur is a transaction in a
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way even though it is something that is
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good higher than shukur is ham and ham
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is the highest form of Praise ham is a
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praise that is given because of the
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inherent characteristics in the object
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that you're praising not because he's
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done you anything you given back to him
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because he deserves to be praised for
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who he is ham is an object of perfection
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an object that is worthy of being
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praising praised regardless of what he's
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done or hasn't done he is worthy of
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being shown praise and so the prophet
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has two names and his two most common
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names come from the root which describes
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praise why because Allah has praised him
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and the angels have praised him and the
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people on earth have praised him and all
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the prophets have praised him and every
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single one of mankind Praises him
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directly or indirectly as for praising
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him directly these are the Muslims they
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praise him directly and as for praising
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him indirectly then the characteristics
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and qualities that he has come with are
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characteristics and qualities of
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perfection so even those who reject him
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by the Tongue they must
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admit and they must praise the qualities
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that he came with Mercy
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tenderness it doesn't matter even if
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their tongues deny his prophethood they
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must praise the qualities that are in
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him so he is worthy of Praise from all
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of humanity and therefore the prophet
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sallallah alai wasam is praised in the
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heavens and in the earth he is praised
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in in the previous um and in the present
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um he is is praised in this D and in the
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this is the ultimate praise there is no
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human being who has ever been praised or
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is praised at this point in time or who
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shall continue to be praised more than
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our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam and
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think about it no millisecond occurs on
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this earth except that there are not
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Millions not tens of millions hundreds
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of millions of people around the globe
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praising this one person sallallah alai
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wasam either by sending and and or by
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giving a or lecture or by giving uh uh
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uh the saying the Salah because you
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cannot pray any Salah you cannot pray
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any except that what do you do in
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that think about it there is no second
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on Earth that goes by except that
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hundreds of millions of people are
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praising this one human being there is
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no person
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who is more praised than our Prophet s.
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wasam and the ultimate praise that he
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will be given by Humanity of course the
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ultimate praise he is given is by Allah
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as for Humanity the ultimate praise he
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will be given will be the praise that he
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will be given
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on on the day of judgment on that day
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all CFS will know the truth of Islam you
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cannot deny Allah when you are
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seeing Muslim Muslim and non-muslim they
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will know the truth of course it is too
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late to believe in the truth but they
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will know it so when they recognize the
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truth the people will all go to Adam
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thei is in bukari and Muslim they will
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all go to Adam and they will say oh Adam
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you are our father and Allah created you
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with his hands and Allah blew his R into
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you do you not see the situation your
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children are in why don't you go to
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Allah and beg for forgiveness why don't
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you go to Allah and beg him to start the
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Reckoning so that we can move on so Adam
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will make an excuse and he will say I
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committed a sin that I should not have
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done meaning I'm not worthy to go and
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ask Allah asael I committed a sin and
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I'm worried about myself na go to
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another person go
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to and so
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Humanity at large will go to the prophet
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n and the same request and the prophet
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no will say I made a mistake which I
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should not have done Allah told me not
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to ask anybody to be saved and I asked
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him to save my son and I disobeyed him
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and I'm worried about myself na go to
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somebody else go to ibraim they will go
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to ibraim ibraim will say the same thing
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that I made three lies even though they
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were not lies but he's so worried he
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says I made three lies and I'm worried
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about those lies on the day of judgment
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what are these three lies number one he
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said the big Idol did it right this is
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it's not even a lie but he's so worried
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now I don't know maybe Allah will call
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me to task number two he said I'm sick
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when his Idol when his uh people went
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out of the town he said I'm sick I don't
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want to go with you let me stay here why
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because he wanted to destroy the idols
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uh and number three he called uh Sarah
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his wife uh he said Sarah is my sister
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meaning in Islam because the King was
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about to kill him so he said she's my
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sister I'm not husband wife we are
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sister and brother meaning and he sister
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in Islam because he wanted to save his
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life these three things he was so
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worried about he said I'm too scared go
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to somebody else go to M and M will also
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make an excuse he will say I killed
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somebody in Anger even though it was an
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accident I kill somebody in Anger I'm
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worried so go to somebody else they will
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go to
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ISA will also uh say I'm not worthy go
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to somebody else and so all of mankind
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will come to the Prophet Muhammad
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sallallah alaihi wasallam all of mankind
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Muslim and cfir and they will beg the
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prophet sallallah alai wasam to
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intercede to be a representative to be a
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a messenger from them to Allah and to be
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an intercessor and to be a
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representative so they choose one human
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being to be a representative to go in
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front of Allah and plead for all of
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humanity plead what to begin your
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cuz is taking too long and they are
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getting so worried so uh so if you like
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the punishment is increasing because
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itself is 50,000
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years itself is a type of punishment and
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the people who have rejected Allah they
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will be so exasperated by they will say
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whatever comes let it come let's just
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get rid of this day let's move on to
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whatever it is the tension is too much
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so they will beg
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wasallam to go in front of Allah and
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begin the and ask Allah to begin the
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Reckoning and so the prophet will say
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this is my
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job this is my responsibility and so he
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will then go in front of Allah and
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because he will be the representative
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all of humanity will praise him and he
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will be given the praiseworthy station
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which is called Al Alm this is Al mm
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this is exactly what Alm is what ises
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Alm means Al Mahmud means the station
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mam the rank that is Mahmud what is
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Mahmud from Ham it is the one that is
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praised everyone will praise him no
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human being will be left except that he
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will thank the prophet and be thankful
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to him and praise him for the Mak mm
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Allah will lift him up to the m mahm the
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angels will praise Him Humanity will
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praise him every single being in
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existence will praise the prophet at
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that point in time it is
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Al and because it is Al who better to
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then it be given to than the one who is
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Muhammad and the one who is Ahmed Alm is
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for Muhammad and it is for Ahmed what
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and both of them mean the one who is
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ultimately praised what is the
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difference between Muhammad and Ahmed
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mam for those of you learning Arabic
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is means that he is being given
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continuous praise continuously Time
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After Time praise after praise so
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Muhammad is for the quantity of Praise
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that every single point in time he is
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being praised and as we already said
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from the beginning of time up until our
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time till the day of judgment on the day
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of judgment after the day of judgment
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all of the time our Prophet will be
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praised so Muhammad is for continuity
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Muhammad is for quantity and as
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fored means that he is being given the
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best type of praise the highest quality
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of Praise so Ahmed is for Quality
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Muhammad is for quantity and the both
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are combined in our s alai wasam that he
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is worthy of being the the praise the
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highest way that any human being can be
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praised of course the praise that we
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give to Allah is a different type of
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praise and that is a Divine Praise but
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the highest praise for any human being
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is for our prophet sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam and the most continuous praise
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is for our Prophet sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam so Muhammad is for quantity
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Ahmed is for quality and the both of
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them are combined in our s wasam who
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will be given
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Al which is the praise worthy station
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now as for the issue of why is it that
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the prophet M predicted our rol with the
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name of Muhammad as the Quran says and
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Isa predicted ouro with the name of
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Ahmed the famous scholar said that the
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wisdom behind
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this the wisdom behind this is that the
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largest umah after our umah is that of
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the Jews the bani Isel they are the
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largest umah of real followers that is
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because the Christians as we believe the
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majority of them they took a different
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path that of Paul and his version of
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Christianity the original Christians the
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True Believers of Isa were few in number
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and their religion died out very quickly
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uh as you know Constantine and all of
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these they changed the religion and it
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became a trinity it became a divine
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nature of Jesus Christ of course Isa
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never preached this from our perspective
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so the prophet
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m his people were the largest umah of
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true Muslims after our umah and
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therefore they were given quantity
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because they have quantity so they are
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told the name that is conducive that is
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fitting with them because they're large
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quantity as for the prophet Isa his
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followers were few his disciples were
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few and the people who truly followed
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the actual message of Jesus Christ were
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not that many but they were great in
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quality the disciples and those who
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followed them they were persecuted they
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were tortured the Pagan Romans killed
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them they put them in front of the Lions
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they comb their their their their uh
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bones and their flesh with Combs of iron
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just like you see on the movies these
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tortures this was given to the early
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Christians the real Christians meaning
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the followers of Jesus Christ the true
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followers of Isam they were few in
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number but they were truly devoted and
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righteous and so for them they were
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given the name Ahmed because they were
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people of quality they were people of
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quality and they were told that
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our wasam would be the one who is worthy
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of the best quality of Praise And so
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Muhammad and Ahmed are both his names of
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the third name that he mentions an Al
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Ali he explained it himself Ali is the
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one whom
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Allah and means to face to wipe out Mah
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means to wipe out so through me Allah
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subhah wa ta'ala will wipe out kufur and
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we see this occurring in his lifetime
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that the Arabian Peninsula was immersed
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in kufur and in his own lifetime the the
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the entire Peninsula was immersed in
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Islam and within 20 30 years major
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bastions of kufur were then converted to
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Islam and they have been in Islam ever
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since within 60 70 years Islam reached
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the borders of China and andalus where
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it remains to this day so Allah subhah
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wa taala used our Prophet as Al means to
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wipe away and W if you look at a
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geographic map if you look at a
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historical geographic map that tells you
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the expansion of Islam you see exactly
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what Ali is literally the religion of
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Islam is expanding 5 10 15 20 30 40
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years it's as if the other kufur is
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being wiped away and the religion of
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Islam is spreading forth all of this is
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the one who erases and
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faes the prophet said he explained it as
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well that mankind will be
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resurrected means two things means at my
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feet literally but what it actually
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means is right after me so the prophet
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sallallah alaihi wasallam is the signal
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signaling of the day of judgment and in
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fact the coming of the prophet
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the first
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sign of the day of judgment his sending
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is the first sign that judgment is now
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close compared to all the previous
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Prophets The Very the very of our
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Prophet Sall alhi wasallam is the first
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of the signs of the day of judgment so
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he is
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saying another interpretation is that I
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am the first person who will be
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resurrected and everybody will be
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resurrected after me
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so after I am resurrected I will be the
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first person resurrected and even the
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order of resurrecting shall be a
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blessing from Allah subhah and there's
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no question that the prophets will be
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resurrected first and foremost and then
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the and the and then the rest of the
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umah so even the order of resurrection
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and the Order of recognizing what's
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happening cuz Allah mentions in the
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Quran that when they are resurrected
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they'll be shaking off the dust and they
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will say
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what is happening to us who has brought
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us forth from our resting places people
00:23:34
will be confused what's happening and
00:23:35
the prophets will understand immediately
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what is happening and the first person
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to be resurrected and the first person
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to understand will be our Prophet wasam
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so he's
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saying the one that is signaling the has
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by his coming he is signaling the coming
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of the day of judgment and by his
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resurrection on the day of judgment he
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will be the one after whom everybody
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else will be Resurrected
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and he said I am the he himself
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explained it there is no Prophet after
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me so means the successor the the the
00:24:11
word seal is not appropriate because
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that's but uh what it means is that the
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one who cuts off basically uh the one
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who is at the end is the best phrase
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here the one who comes at the end and
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then he said I am
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the and I am the and you understand
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and Allah calls
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him I am the which means I am the
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prophet that is the prophet of
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repentance I am the source of repentance
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meaning that by believing in me and by
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following my teachings people can be
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forgiven and I am
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Al here means that the one who comes at
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the end and makes the previous prophets
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complete or the one who makes the
00:24:57
message of the previous prophets there's
00:24:59
no need anymore because we have the full
00:25:01
message or the complete message of the
00:25:03
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and in
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one Hadith he called
00:25:08
himself I am the prophet that will
00:25:11
signal lots of Trials and that is
00:25:14
because the biggest trials that the
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world has ever seen will occur with the
00:25:18
umah and during the umah of the Prophet
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sallallahu alaihi wasallam trials such
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as theal and trials such as the three
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major earthquakes that will signal the
00:25:28
end of time and trials such as the
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coming down of and the all of these
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major trials they will occur within the
00:25:35
um of this Prophet Sall wasallam so he
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called himself I
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am and this is a description that is
00:25:43
more of a warning for us and for those
00:25:46
who oppose him that that that there's
00:25:48
going to be a lot of trials and
00:25:49
tribulations in his time and there are
00:25:51
other names that are mentioned in the
00:25:53
Sunnah and their other descriptions
00:25:54
mentioned in the Quran and inshallah in
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the course of our lectures and series we
00:25:58
will be uh talking about some of them as
00:26:01
for his specialities what is called in
00:26:04
Arabic something that only he was given
00:26:07
and no other human being was given and
00:26:10
there are many books written by the
00:26:11
early Scholars
00:26:13
about and about which means that his
00:26:17
characteristics and what is unique to
00:26:19
him and there are many many uh
00:26:21
characteristics that are unique to him
00:26:22
some scholars in our times have lifted
00:26:24
has listed listed up to 50 specific and
00:26:29
unique characteristics and blessings
00:26:32
that only he was given and no other
00:26:35
human being was given some of these
00:26:37
again this is all the summary there's so
00:26:38
much more that can be said some of these
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number one he is the final prophet of
00:26:43
Allah no prophet of Allah has obviously
00:26:46
ever been the final prophet and there's
00:26:48
only one Prophet that can be the final
00:26:50
and Allah chose him to be the final
00:26:53
prophet and this is explicitly mentioned
00:26:55
in the Quran
00:27:03
and in another
00:27:04
recitation and that is the seal and the
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end of the prophets number two the
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prophethood of our Prophet sallallahu
00:27:13
alaihi wasam had been decreed by Allah
00:27:17
even before Adam existed even before
00:27:23
adam. was a living Soul Allah had
00:27:26
decreed the Prophet the prophethood of
00:27:29
our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
00:27:31
wasallam even before the r was blown
00:27:34
into Adam one of the sahab asked the
00:27:38
prophet when were you decreed to be a
00:27:41
prophet the prophet sallallah alaihi
00:27:43
wasallam said that when Adam was between
00:27:48
the between the mud and the r in other
00:27:52
words Adam was not yet combined with and
00:27:57
when Adam am was still two separate
00:28:00
entities and that is the and the when
00:28:02
before the was blown in Allah subhah wa
00:28:05
tala had already destined and decreed
00:28:07
that I would be coming for
00:28:10
mankind of the specialities of our
00:28:12
Prophet number three is that he is the
00:28:15
only Prophet to have been sent for all
00:28:20
of humanity in fact the only Prophet to
00:28:24
have been sent even to the Jin no
00:28:27
Prophet before our Prophet was sent to
00:28:29
All of humanity no Prophet every single
00:28:33
Prophet was sent to a specific Nation
00:28:37
now somebody can say here Adam was a
00:28:41
prophet and he was sent to all of the
00:28:44
people of his time because his children
00:28:46
there were only his children there and
00:28:49
was a and he was sent to the people of
00:28:52
his time and there was no other people
00:28:54
of his time so he too was sent to the
00:28:56
people of all of humanity how then can
00:28:58
this be a unique thing for our Prophet
00:29:00
sallallahu alaihi wasallam the response
00:29:03
is that Adam and N were both
00:29:07
exceptions that simply happened by a
00:29:09
coincidence of early history in that
00:29:13
Adam is the first human and the only
00:29:15
human beings will be his descendants it
00:29:18
is not that Allah destined him with the
00:29:20
title you have been sent to humanity it
00:29:23
just so happens that the only Humanity
00:29:25
are his children and the same goes for
00:29:28
the first messenger ever sent and that
00:29:30
is there's only one city in all of
00:29:33
humanity there's only one city when he
00:29:36
was sent there weren't Villages andas
00:29:38
all over the place there was just one
00:29:39
group one people one nation one
00:29:41
Community that's his people and so when
00:29:44
Allah wipes that one Village out the
00:29:46
world is wiped out because that's the
00:29:47
only one Village out there so once again
00:29:49
it is not as if no was intended to be
00:29:52
sent for all of humanity it just so
00:29:54
happened that all of humanity was one
00:29:57
Village and that that's why both of
00:29:58
these are the earliest two prophets
00:30:00
right no Prophet after them when there
00:30:02
were multiple cities was sent to both
00:30:05
cities no Prophet after them when there
00:30:07
were other civilizations was sent to
00:30:09
more than two civilizations other than
00:30:11
our prophet wasam he wasn't just sent to
00:30:14
two civilizations he was sent to All of
00:30:17
humanity and not just this another
00:30:20
speciality he was actually even sent to
00:30:23
the Jin and this is a uniqueness that no
00:30:25
other Prophet has ever been sent for and
00:30:28
inshallah in the course of our lectures
00:30:30
we will mention a very famous incident
00:30:32
in the early me it is called the night
00:30:35
of the Jin the night of the Jin and on
00:30:37
this night the jins came to mecah Muslim
00:30:40
jins and they wanted the prophet to
00:30:42
teach them about Islam so the prophet
00:30:45
went and he taught them what they needed
00:30:46
to know and there are details that we
00:30:48
know of that night and we'll talk about
00:30:49
it during that time of the specialities
00:30:53
of our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam
00:30:55
that no other nation and no other
00:30:57
Prophet has been given our Prophet Sall
00:30:59
alhi wasallam said that Allah has helped
00:31:01
me
00:31:04
with means a type of fear that Allah
00:31:07
will inflict into my enemies even before
00:31:10
I reach them even one month's Journey
00:31:13
before I come to them they will become
00:31:14
terrified of me so Allah helped him
00:31:17
without even physical combat that in his
00:31:20
time of course this is unique to him
00:31:22
only not to the rest of prophets or even
00:31:24
to his umah to him only that when he
00:31:26
went into battle against against an
00:31:28
enemy then the people began became
00:31:30
terrified of him even before he reached
00:31:33
them and this he said Allah help me with
00:31:36
is frightening or fear uh and Allah Str
00:31:39
struck fear into the hearts of my
00:31:41
enemies for the distance of one entire
00:31:44
month of the specialities that he has
00:31:46
been given was that he has been given
00:31:49
the largest umah out of all of the
00:31:53
prophets and this is mentioned in aith
00:31:56
inar that he said that Allah showed me
00:31:59
the ums and I saw an um as large as the
00:32:02
eye could see and I said maybe this is
00:32:06
my umah and I was told no this is the um
00:32:09
of
00:32:10
M and then I saw an um even larger than
00:32:14
that and then I was told and it was
00:32:17
larger than the Horizon it blocked my
00:32:19
vision and I was told this is your um
00:32:22
and in another Hadith he said that to
00:32:25
the sahab do you wish that your um
00:32:28
meaning the um of the Prophet should be
00:32:31
onethird of the people of jenah they
00:32:34
said allahar there have been hundreds
00:32:36
and thousands of UMAS and if one um is
00:32:39
onethird of Jen allahar so he was silent
00:32:43
then he said would you be happy if I
00:32:45
told you that your umah is one/ half of
00:32:48
the people of Jenna they said allahar
00:32:51
then he was silent and then he said by
00:32:53
Allah my hope is that my um shall be too
00:32:57
thirds of the people of Jenna not that
00:33:00
we want to kick the other UMAS out
00:33:02
they're all going to get in if they
00:33:03
deserve it but that our umah will be so
00:33:06
large and Subhan Allah modern estimates
00:33:09
say how many people are Muslim on the
00:33:11
face of this Earth around 1 billion
00:33:13
right 1 billion do the math from the
00:33:15
time of the Prophet until imagine I mean
00:33:19
already the percentages are so huge and
00:33:22
then compare them to the real followers
00:33:24
of the prophets right the actual true
00:33:27
Christians not the Christians who
00:33:28
believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ
00:33:30
the Christians who believed in Jesus
00:33:32
Christ as being how few must they be and
00:33:36
then the actual bani is at the time of M
00:33:39
at the time of the prophets of the old
00:33:41
who believed in the prophets they must
00:33:43
have been in the hundreds of millions
00:33:44
great number mallah great number but you
00:33:47
cannot compare to the billion that we
00:33:49
have now and and throughout history for
00:33:51
14 centuries and Allah knows how many
00:33:53
centuries till and so when you look at
00:33:56
that inshallah you can see
00:33:58
how true the prophet and imagine he's
00:34:00
speaking at a time when there's only one
00:34:03
city of Muslims that's Medina he's
00:34:05
speaking at a time when there are maybe
00:34:07
1,500 Muslims on Earth and there are
00:34:10
probably 2 three million Christians and
00:34:14
hundreds and thousands of Jews and he's
00:34:16
telling a group of 50 sahab in his Masid
00:34:18
that I hope that inshallah you will be
00:34:20
2third of the people of Jenna when we
00:34:23
hear this Hadith now we say of course
00:34:24
it's common sense but when he said it it
00:34:26
was a miracle and we see this now with
00:34:29
our two eyes of his
00:34:32
specialities that no other Prophet has
00:34:34
been given is that he has been given the
00:34:37
most powerful
00:34:39
miracle and that is the miracle of the
00:34:42
Quran now I've given many lectures about
00:34:44
this issue and inshallah one day we'll
00:34:46
talk also about this issue in more
00:34:47
detail but there is no miracle that
00:34:50
compares to the Quran there is no
00:34:52
miracle that compares to the Quran and
00:34:55
one thing will demonstrate this for you
00:34:56
and that is that
00:34:58
look look at any other miracle that you
00:35:00
can imagine the splitting of the Red Sea
00:35:02
or the resurrection of Lazarus Jesus
00:35:05
Christ resurrected by the permission of
00:35:06
Allah the dead right all of these
00:35:09
Miracles we have no access to them we
00:35:12
didn't see the splitting of the Red Sea
00:35:14
you weren't there when Jesus Christ
00:35:16
called out to Lazarus and he came out
00:35:17
walking from the grave so how do we it's
00:35:20
not really a miracle for me and you
00:35:22
except that we believe in it but the
00:35:24
Quran is a miracle that I can hand to a
00:35:27
non Muslim say here this is the miracle
00:35:29
of my Prophet the Quran is a miracle I
00:35:31
can recite and the people can hear it's
00:35:34
a living Miracle it's a miracle that all
00:35:37
of humanity has access to and there is
00:35:39
no miracle that compares to the miracle
00:35:41
of the Quran in many different ways and
00:35:43
that is the topic of an entire other
00:35:45
lecture of the specialities that our
00:35:47
Prophet has been given and no other
00:35:51
Prophet has been given and we will spend
00:35:53
inshallah two or 3 weeks discussing this
00:35:55
one speciality is the night journey
00:35:59
of no other Prophet has had the
00:36:02
privilege of undertaking this journey
00:36:06
even when Allah spoke with one of the
00:36:09
greatest prophets and that is
00:36:11
M it was the Divine speech that was
00:36:14
given to M while M was on Earth M was on
00:36:19
and Allah spoke with him as for our
00:36:22
Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam the
00:36:24
only human being to have been called
00:36:27
called up to the presence of Allah no
00:36:31
other human being has ever been called
00:36:34
up to the presence of Allah and the
00:36:36
prophet undertook a journey that no
00:36:38
other as far as we know ever undertook
00:36:41
and he went up to a that jiel told him
00:36:45
my permission stops here you must go
00:36:47
alone even jiel said I this is my my my
00:36:51
stop is right my Visa whatever you want
00:36:52
to call it right this is where it ends
00:36:54
ends I can't go any further and so our
00:36:56
prophet
00:36:58
went
00:37:00
up according to an interpretation and
00:37:02
this we'll talk about inshallah in more
00:37:04
detail uh in in the Journey of but this
00:37:08
is definitely one of the greatest
00:37:10
blessings that our Prophet sallai wasam
00:37:14
was given of his specialities that he
00:37:17
was given is that he is the leader of
00:37:20
all of humanity and he himself told us
00:37:23
this in Inari and Muslim
00:37:28
I am the the here
00:37:32
means means the one who is in charge of
00:37:35
the one who is the representative the
00:37:37
one who is the
00:37:40
leader I am the of the children of Adam
00:37:44
and what do say here means many meanings
00:37:46
first and foremost he is the master
00:37:50
meaning what does it mean say master
00:37:52
here meaning he is the Perfection of
00:37:54
humanity and he deserves to be the
00:37:57
leader of humanity and he will be the
00:38:00
leader of Humanity on the day of
00:38:02
judgment so the say here has multiple
00:38:04
meanings and he is all of these meanings
00:38:07
so the prophet is the of the day of
00:38:10
Judgment of the blessings that are
00:38:12
unique to him is that the prophet
00:38:14
sallallah alaihi
00:38:16
wasam will be the very first human being
00:38:19
to be resurrected on the day of judgment
00:38:21
as we said in tells us this the first
00:38:24
grave to open up when the second trumpet
00:38:27
is BL there are two trumpets
00:38:30
right the trumpet will be blown twice
00:38:32
the second trumpet will be when the
00:38:34
graves will be opening up so when the
00:38:36
graves are opening up the prophet sallam
00:38:38
said the first grave that will crack
00:38:40
open will be mine the prophet will be
00:38:43
the first human being and that also
00:38:45
explains his name Al and he will also be
00:38:48
the first human being to be clothed on
00:38:50
the day of Judgment of the specialities
00:38:53
that he has been given is that he will
00:38:56
be given the largest
00:38:58
how and how is a pool that our Prophet
00:39:02
has been promised we talked about this
00:39:04
when we talked about of and this is a
00:39:08
pool a which is square in shape he has
00:39:12
told us it is square in shape and it is
00:39:15
so large that one side of it one of
00:39:18
these squares it is as if it is from
00:39:20
Mecca to which is the entire AR or half
00:39:24
of the Arabian Peninsula right from
00:39:25
mecah to this is just one one side of it
00:39:28
you multiply that by four you get the
00:39:30
perimeter and I described the and the in
00:39:34
a previous lecture inshallah you can go
00:39:36
back to that of his speciality is the K
00:39:38
he has been given the main tributary the
00:39:42
main river of Jenna and all the rivers
00:39:45
of Jenna split from that it is as if one
00:39:48
can say it is as if the people of jna
00:39:51
will drink water from the gift of the
00:39:54
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
00:39:55
because it is Al and
00:39:58
is so the people of J's water is all a
00:40:02
gift for and coming from and given to
00:40:04
our Prophet Muhammad sallallah alai
00:40:07
wasam of his specialities is he will be
00:40:11
the first to cross over the satat and he
00:40:13
will be the one guiding his um to jenah
00:40:15
and he will be the first to knock on the
00:40:17
doors of Jenna and he will be the first
00:40:20
human being to ever enter Jenna after
00:40:23
our father Adam has left it and he will
00:40:26
be the one in whose name the gates of
00:40:28
Jenna will be opened when he knocks on
00:40:30
the door and the angel the bab the the
00:40:33
the the the angel in charge of the gate
00:40:35
will say who is it and he will say
00:40:37
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam the
00:40:39
angel will say to you I have been
00:40:42
commanded to open meaning I can't open
00:40:44
for anybody else you are the one I have
00:40:46
to open for and so when his name is
00:40:48
uttered it is his name that will give be
00:40:51
the permission to open up the gates of
00:40:53
jenah and therefore as he told us the
00:40:55
very first footstep to be entering into
00:40:58
jenah will be that the right foot of our
00:41:00
Prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasam
00:41:03
and then his umah will be the first umah
00:41:06
even though we are the last umah
00:41:09
chronologically but because we are his
00:41:11
umah and because we are his followers
00:41:14
Allah will bless us and Allah will gift
00:41:16
us and Allah will honor us not because
00:41:19
of us but because of him and we will be
00:41:21
asked to enter along with him so we will
00:41:24
be the first um to enter Jenna even
00:41:27
though we are the last um
00:41:28
chronologically and this is of his
00:41:30
specialities and the final speciality
00:41:32
will mention and there is so much more
00:41:34
to be said uh but time is of the essence
00:41:36
here the final speciality that will be
00:41:38
mentioned is that Allah has blessed him
00:41:42
with the highest level of Jen it is a
00:41:46
level that is the Pinnacle
00:41:49
of it is an entire level some Scholars
00:41:53
have said that Jenna you can look at it
00:41:55
kind of like a p pyramid in that the
00:41:59
higher up you go the fewer the people
00:42:01
right the higher up you go the fewer the
00:42:03
people so Jenna will be more populated
00:42:06
at the lower levels and there will be no
00:42:08
crowding in Jenna alhamdulillah but
00:42:10
nonetheless it will be more populated in
00:42:13
the lower levels and the higher up you
00:42:15
go fewer and fewer people will be able
00:42:17
to get to those levels and there will
00:42:21
come a point and there will come a level
00:42:23
that is an entire level of Jenna and
00:42:26
that is meant for only one person the
00:42:30
whole D the
00:42:32
whole plane of that field of Jenna is
00:42:36
only meant for one person and it is the
00:42:40
Pinnacle
00:42:41
of and it is immediately underneath the
00:42:44
Throne of Allah subhanahu wa taala and
00:42:47
this is
00:42:50
called This is called Al this is called
00:42:55
Al and the prophet
00:42:57
alai wasam said that
00:43:00
this is
00:43:03
a it is a level of Jenna that Allah has
00:43:07
chosen for only one of his servants for
00:43:12
only one of his servants and then he
00:43:14
said modestly
00:43:17
that I hope
00:43:20
that that I am that person and this is
00:43:23
out of his modesty there is no other
00:43:25
human being that is qualified to to be
00:43:27
of that place and so he simply said I
00:43:30
hope I pray that I am the person that
00:43:32
that is destined for and that is why he
00:43:35
wanted us to pray that Allah gives him
00:43:40
this and and that is why every time the
00:43:43
Adan is called what do we
00:43:53
say that is the of right
00:43:58
so is for the is for the day of judgment
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is for after the day of judgment you
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give him after the day of judgment we
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give
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him that
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is and resurrect him on the day of
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judgment so the is on the day of
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judgment we explain what that is and
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that is all of humanity will be praising
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him and all of humanity will be sending
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their Salat and Salam upon him even even
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those who rejected him in this world
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even those who cursed him and ridiculed
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him and mocked him and Drew diagrams
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against him W on that day they will be
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praising him and sending salaat and
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Salam upon him because they have to
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because it is so all of humanity will be
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praising him on the day of judgment
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on and in the he will be
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given and that is why we make Dua to
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Allah to give him all of these levels
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and characteristics and these are simply
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some of the some of the specialities of
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our Prophet Sall Al wasam and
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unfortunately there's only a few minutes
00:45:08
left so there's no point beginning the
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next section which is about his
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characteristics and how he looked and
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his mannerisms and his his lifestyle
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insh we will be talking about that uh
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next uh Wednesday
