Description of the Prophet(SAW)

not declare the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) divine. That is a miracle and if you cannot see that you are a fool. Allah has protected his Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) from being associated with Allah. The proof is that they associated Ali with Allah and where is Ali in relation to the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) with all his greatness and stature? He is a drop in the ocean and yet there are people who claim divinity for him. But we did not make that mistake with our Prophet, why? It is because he did not test our intellects with more than we can understand our of a covetous desire for our guidance so we neither wander or go astray. This is why he said “do not claim for me what the Christians have claimed for Isa, but say the servant of Allah and the messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). I am a man like you but I am not like you” because we do not receive wahy. He is not the same yet he is the same. One of the scholars said “the Prophet is a human but not like other humans like a ruby is a mineral but not like the other stones”.

 

This is the gift we have been given. We have been given the gift of understanding the messenger in relation to the One who sent him which is one of the calamities of religion when the Messenger becomes exalted over the One sending. This is the failure of the Buddhists, Hindus and ultimately the failure of the Christians in our understanding. So what we are doing when we reflect on these meanings and I would say that I believe the mawlid that if you celebrate it one day out of the year it is a bidah. I would say you should not do that. The mawlid should be celebrated every single day of your life until you die because if you are not happy that he was born you are a kafir. We celebrate his birth everyday of our lives and we know that his own Uncle was given respite in the hellfire, Abu Lahab because he celebrated his birthday according to the sahih hadith. He freed a slave girl that came and gave him the news of the birth of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). In the sahih hadith, he is given water in the hellfire because of that one act. So what do you say about a man who celebrates his birthday everyday of his life? What is his reward? We are here to celebrate but not today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after until the last breath you take. We say that hope springs eternal. The nature of spring is that it gives you hope. He was born in Spring in April the most temperate month of the year, the month we all yearn for, we look forward to the flowers. If you look around you, you see a lot of green. What does that green do to us? It delights the eye because it connects us with a very deep truth. Green in the spectrum of colours that is between purple and red. It is exactly in the middle. If you look at the light spectrum of the 6 or 7 according to Newton, there are 7 colours in the light spectrum. If you look at them and add them altogether and divide by 2, you get the spectrum of green because it is the middle colour. It is the colour that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) loved the most. He was born on Monday because according to the ulema it was on the day that Allah created vegetation.

 

There is something else about green, his dome was painted green out of a wisdom by the people at that time because they were the people of the internal and they painted the dome green because it represents something. The secret of life in biology is photosynthesis. What is photosynthesis? It is two greek words. It means to make light. What is being made is chlorophyll and what is chlorophyll? It is green. So the secret of life is the ability to produce green. That is what life is, the ability to produce green. Why did Allah make the secret of life related to the colour green? This is a modern discovery, This is not something they knew 1400 years ago. Everything that you see in the outward world is a meaning set up in an image. Those who discern this are from the people of intelligence. This whole world is meanings set up in images. So whenever you see some outward thing you should know that it indicates something else. The Arabic word for world alam is the means by which you came to the knowledge ilm. What did we come to know? Our Lord and that is the secret of the whole universe. Like the poet said “isn’t it in every sign, in everything it is a sign indicating the truth of the Oneness of Allah of the shahada”. The whole world is testifying and witnessing the truth. So what is it when light hits vegetation there is an extraordinary event that occurs in which it causes a process to happen and in that process photosynthesis occurs which is the production of chlorophyll. What happens is that is what gives us our nourishment. Even protein that we from the animals is still from chlorophyll. Even the meat that you eat is as a result of this secret. Your whole body is as a result from this secret. Every cell in your body cannot exist without this reality. The same is true for the soul. There is something, when light is allowed into the soul it produces something and this is the light of the messenger of Allah. “Light has come to you”. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) had a light and anyone who denies that light is a kafir. The sahaba said “we saw in his face that light and that light is his secret”. This light that Allah has placed in his Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) in turn gave that light out, that light is what transforms the earth and brings it to life. That light that the messenger of Allah grants you. He grants it because he is the giver. “Allah is the giver but I am the one who disperses what He gives. I am the one who has been given that authority to disperse this”. This is why he is central to our teachings and that centrality goes on as long as we go on. People misunderstand this but they are foolish because these are at the essence of what we have been given. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), this light that enters into the heart by praying on the Prophet. Allah says “the Prophet is an object of His action and his action is of the essence”. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is an object of that and it is a special object in the same that we are also an object of that. We are an object of that because Allah says Allah prays on us but how does He pray on us? The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said “no one says a prayer on me except Allah says a prayer on him ten times”.

 

So we do not associate our Lord with our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). We do not do that. We do not believe he is divine, we do not believe he is uncreated. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is a creation of Allah. He came into existence from nothing. So we do not attribute to him divinity and we negate that. We recognise the centrality of his authority and his opposition. It is by the permission of Allah. If you love Allah, follow me. We cannot love Allah according to our understanding without following a Prophet of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) of our age is our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)and we accept all of the Prophets before him and we love them all. We love Jesus, Moses, John, Ilyas all of these Prophets. These are our Prophets and we love them but we love our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) as our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) who specifically was sent to us. He is the beloved of Allah.

 

I want to finish this by saying a few things:

 

Good intentions without guidance is of no benefit. You have to have guidance. When I was taught, I was taught there is no reward for action without knowledge. There is no benefit in it. Some say it harms and certainly causes harm because as you lose the love of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) you lose the light of traditional Islam. You lose the light of this deen. “I was sent only as mercy to this world”. How do I attribute that to my Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) if I think I can go kill a Jew because he is a Jew. If I think I can blow up a synagogue in Morocco and the Morroccan Jews are the last Jews left actually like the muslims and have a high regard for the muslims because they are the last Jews that still now their existence is owed to Islam because they fled from the persecution of Spain, from the Christians to the Muslims and that is why they are there. There are there because our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said he was the protector of the dhimmiyeen. He said “whoever betrays the trust of a dhimmi, I am the advocate of that Jew, Christian, Magian, Buddhist on the day of judgment”. He is not going to stand by the muslim. He is going to stand by the Jew of Christian and you should think about that because it is a sound tradition. Our religion is not about tribalism, that is other traditions. Our religion is not about I am in the right tribe no it is I am on the right side. If you are on wrong side in any situation, then you should know that your Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is not standing by you unless you repent. That is what has happened, these people have lost sight of our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). What right do you have to remove somebody’s life from this world without just cause? If you say “this is what they do to us”, they are not our teachers. Since when did they become our teachers? If we do not stop this madness we are going to end up like the Jews. We will end up in the oven because they will just get fed up of us. Seriously, and do not think that is not possible. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said “you are going to follow the Jews”. If you look at their persecution and what was done to them, do not be surprised if that happens to us. But we should be speaking out about this now, this is not our religion. We should not allow people to speak on our behalf, either with their words or by their actions. We need to condemn these things because they are wrong. I am saying this because this is my understanding of Islam and I do not find any other understanding. I have read their arguments and do not buy them.

 

Show people the true face of Islam. The mercy, generosity, faithfulness of Islam, the honesty of the tradition, the uprightness that it inculcates in the hearts of the followers and adherence. This is what you have to do, if you do not do it, I am telling you, things are getting bad and they are going to continue to get bad. They have just passed the Abu Hamza law in England which means they can redeem citizenship from people they deem undesirables. That is named after a muslim who has become so heinous in their sight and obnoxious that they have passed a law to rescind citizenship from people like that. We have to think deeply and seriously. I am saying this as naseeha with serious counsel and advice to myself and you. We have to think deeply and be able to dialogue.

 

I went into a mosque the other day and I was almost attacked physically. I was thinking why aren’t we human anymore? Why can’t we sit down? Why have we descended to the level of dogs and vicious animals? Raising our voices and shouting at each other. We can’t have a civil conversation. Our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said that a mumin does not raise his voice over another mumin but he listens until he finishes what he has to say. That is how he describe the character of a believer. They walk gently on the earth and when ignorant people speak to them, they say peace. That is the description. I don’t find any descriptions in the Quran that say be fierce with the kuffar. There is a verse that says “Allah does not prohibit you from being nice to people who do not abuse you, persecute you for your religion or steal you land from showing them birr, sharing your wealth with them”. Allah loves people who do that. He says He loves those people who show non muslims kindness because they in turn have been kind to them. When the Christians of Najran came to the Prophet, they came with humility. He let them pray in his mosque according to one riwayah. These are the teachings we have forgotten. Why have we forgotten them? It is because we have forgotten Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). We forgot he came as a mercy to everyone. The muslim is the one who muslims are safe from his evil. So if you want to be a mumim then you have to elevate your level of consciousness through a higher level. That is why people become muslim. Now people think Islam is a hotel they have reserved for themselves and there is no more room. They put up a sign saying sorry no vacancies. If you come they slam the door in your face because they think it is booked until yaum ul qiyamah so they don’t even have to be nice thinking they might come back later when we do have a vacancy. We have muslims out there, this is their attitude “kuffar”. Who gave you that authority to send people to hell? I thank God these people aren’t my judge on yaum ul qiyamah. That is why Allah said if He put rahmah in your hands you would have been misers. You would not have shared it, but our Lord is not like that and nor is our Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).