Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Both in this world and in the Hereafter, I am the nearest of all the people to Jesus, the son of Mary. The prophets are paternal brothers; their mothers are different, but their religion is one.”
Do you believe that the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the final messenger?
No yet..
Well, we have many reasons to believe that, that he was a true messenger, because when we read the Quran, the Quran makes it very clear that it could not have come from human mind.
Humans are categorized in three categories: Believers, disbelievers and hypocrites, simple that.. This is not to insult or degrade or to put down others. It is simply to clarify who is who. It is an identity exercise.
There is no other option for humans than to worship God. There is no other option for humans than to worship God. We are in submission, willingly or unwillingly. Maybe we don’t realize it. We are bound by the changing of the day and night.
And even in the Quran, Allah / God, He points to that reality that in the changing of the night and the day, there are signs for those who contemplate.
You cannot cause the sun to rise from the west or the moon to disappear, For example, you cannot change your seasons. Your climate is not under your control. You may influence it somewhat, but you cannot change it.
So you have to understand is that you are in submission to God, okay; either you do it willingly and submit entirely, or you are in submission anyway.
This life of ours is like a roller coaster, ups and downs, twists and turns, and it never ends until we take our final breath.
But for a believer in every turn in their life, in the moment of blessing and in the moment of difficulty, there is always a way that we can behave better.
Two scenarios represent the two paths that will lead us to Paradise, In sha Allah. That is the path of gratitude and the path of patience.
Allah made you a believer; in good times and in bad times, the believer always benefits, always gains, always moves forward, SubhanAllah.
when you miss something, which means that you wanted something and it didn’t go your way;
This plan is what Allah wants and what Allah wants is better than what I want.
The tests that Allah sends our way are of two types. Allah says in surah al Anbiya, that We surely test you with good and bad as a trial. And to Us is your ultimate return.
Tests, therefore come, in the form of goodness, fortune, blessing as well as hardship.
In every one of the scriptures of the past, you find this notion of false Messiahs, false messiahs that come and go, you find this notion of false Messiahs, false messiahs that come and go, some of them are more advanced than others. Some of them have certain tools of deception, or the circumstances allow some of them have certain tools of deception, or the circumstances allow and sometimes as the tools advance, then the case becomes more convincing because every one of these false messiahs that has come makes a claim. And then, on the other hand, you have messiahs who are like Mujaddid, people who revive until you have Al Masih, the ultimate Messiah, who of course, Isa (a.s) Jesus, peace be upon him.
There’s a time when faith comes or there’s a time when faith is no longer accepted And the Prophet (pbuh) said that there are three things. At that point, if a person did not profess faith, they did not benefit from their faith.
So these are five things that we take from the Prophet (pbuh) of how to protect ourselves from ad dajjal.
the Prophet (pbuh) said, before the dajjal comes, there are years of deception. The world changes in a way that it sort of sets the ground. It sets the stage for a ad-Dajjal.
…So people can’t distinguish truth from falsehood anymore. The world prior to him is a world where realities are distorted and people seek to create their own paradise on earth.
Our natural goodness and inclination is compromised. Our natural goodness and inclination is compromised. And as people become shallower, the tools to distort shallow realities become more advanced…. But at the same time, they trust it more. This is how it affects faith.
So that’s why you see people deny faith in the name of rationality….
Islam is an intellectual faith. Use your senses, use your brain.
People have to ask themselves what motivations and weaknesses the Ad-dajjal preys upon that could be within us. The deception of the ad-dajjal cannot happen without the deception of Dunya and the deception of the devil, it can’t,
Prophet (Pbuh) speaks about women He says, Oh, people, oh people, women have rights over you, just like you have rights over them. In his final sermon, he’s speaking about the rights of women. He says, Women have rights over you.
The Prophet peace be upon him has expressly mentioned that according to Islamic teachings, it should be the male and the female should support him and he should support her. He needs to respect her and love her and help her to fulfil her duties unto Allah.
And that’s why the Quran says she has rights upon her in the same way that you have rights upon her.
It is a beautiful partnership, and men are definitely responsible for women.
He (pbuh) says, when you married them, you married them with the name of Allah. You took them with the Amana and the trust entrusted by Allah. So look after them.
Remember when you speak to females; speak to them with utmost respect. That’s a real Muslim. That’s a true follower of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
One of the most sensitive subjects; when you talk about the rights of a Muslim on another Muslim is this concept of Naseeha / This concept of sincere advice and the most sincere advisor that has ever been sent to us was none other than our messenger (pbuh). Until now, the sincere advice of the Prophet (pbuh) lives with us and it guides us, and it pushes us forward.
Prophet (pbuh) mentioned that goodness will prevail in this nation so long as we continue to sincerely advise one another. Allah Subhanahu Ta’ala tells us that advice is to be given in the best of ways even to the worst of people.
The overall spirit of generosity, that when the Prophet Muhammed (ﷺ) was giving you advice. He put his own ego to the side ,Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, anything of the Nafs /self to the side because it was all about your welfare.
Imam shafi (Rah) said, whoever gives his brother or sister advice in private, has given them sincere advice and beautified them, they come out better. They come out stronger. And whoever gives them advice in public has humiliated them and betrayed them. We don’t put people on blast in the name of sincerity.
The Prophet (pbuh) always mentioned the good quality first of a person before he tried to correct what he saw.
Every one of these specific advice to the Prophet (pbuh) or from the Prophet (pbuh) to a companion fits us as well. There isn’t a single one of those advises that you can’t read and take for yourself as something beneficial.