What do you mean Muhammad (saws) is the Messenger of Allah

What Do You Mean Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah?

By: Abu Taubah

Opening Greetings and Khutbah al-Hajah

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

جَزَاكُمُ اللَّهُ خَيْرًا

إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ، نَحْمَدُهُ وَنَسْتَعِينُهُ وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ، وَنَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنْفُسِنَا وَمِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ أَعْمَالِنَا ، مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللهُ فَلَا مُضِلَّ لَهُ، وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ

"O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims."

"O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs."

وَالْأَرْحَامَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا

"O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. He will [then] amend for you your deeds and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment."

عَظِيمًا

أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّ أَصْدَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللهِ، وَخَيْرَ الْهُدَى هَدْيُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، وَشَرَّ الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا ، وَكُلَّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ، وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ، وَكُلَّ ضَلَالَةٍ فِي النَّارِ

All praise belongs to Allah. We praise Him. We seek His forgiveness and His guidance. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own ego and the evil results of our deeds. Anyone whom Allah guides, then no one can lead him astray.

And anyone whom Allah leaves to stray, then there is no one that can guide him. And I bear witness that there is nothing worthy of worship and there are no real gods except the one and only Allah, who is alone and has no partners. And I bear witness that Muhammad ibn Abdillah is His slave and His final messenger to mankind and all the people and all the jinn.

Allah says what could mean, O you who believe, fear Allah, have taqwa for Allah. As it is His right, the amount to the degree that He deserves. And don't you dare die except that you die as a Muslim.

He also says, O mankind, fear your Lord, have taqwa for your Lord. Who is your Lord? The One who created you all from one soul, Adam. And created from that soul its mate, Eve.

And raised up and spread from the two of them, many men and women. And fear Allah, the one whom you ask things for. And don't cut ties with the wombs that bore you. Indeed, Allah above us all is a guardian watcher.

He also says, O you who believe, fear Allah, have taqwa for Allah. And in light of that, say a word that goes straight to the point.

If you do this, He will make right something that you made wrong. He will correct our deeds and forgive us for our crimes. And whoever is already obeying Allah and obeying his messenger has already achieved the highest ambition anyone could ever hope to reach.

Main Khutbah

As for what follows, then we have to realize that the best speech, the best thing we could be reading, and we need to respect this and try to think about this in the light of the things that we try to learn. Why do we read the newspaper? To learn something. Why do we study on the internet or read any book? So we can get more knowledge, beneficial knowledge to help us in our dunya, help us traverse this life.

We have to understand that the best speech, the best writing, the most perfect and excellent thing that we should be reading and tying ourselves to is the book of Allah, the Quran. And the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad ﷺ. And the most evil, the most atrocious of affairs, the worst thing that we can do is invent something in Islam.

Bring something to this perfect deen that Allah did not command us to do. We have to understand that. And that everything that we do, stick into Islam, is a path that leads us off the straight path.

And anything that deviates ever so slightly, how small it may be seen to us, it eventually leads us astray. And every path that leads astray eventually ends up in hell.

The Reality of Death

"Every soul will taste death."

Everybody. Everybody is going to taste death. Everyone is going to die. This is what Allah tells us.

And maybe we don't think about it sometimes. The reality of what it will be like, of what it should mean to us, death and dying.

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ

And Allah tells us, and no soul, nobody has permission. No one is going to go to die, except after Allah gives them permission. No soul is going to die, except with the permission of Allah.

"And no soul will die except by permission of Allah, as a decree is written."

This is something كِتَابًا مُّؤَجَّلًا is a period of time that has been qadr. It has been decided. It's already written. 50,000 years before we die, before we are born, before we come into existence, it has already been decided, the

moment we are going to be born, and the moment we are going to leave this present existence that we call life.

It's already done. And one of the things that we can get out of this second ayah, is that when someone dies, this is something that Allah has decided. This is something that Allah has decided so we can be comfortable with that.

We can get, we don't have to grieve so much because really our grievance is what? Because we are missing that person. Because the Prophet ﷺ, he told us, when someone passes away, we hurry up and we get them in the ground. We get them under, off the face of the earth.

If it was a righteous person, then we're giving him relief from us, from this dunya. And if it was an unrighteous person, then we're getting relief from him. At any rate, let's hurry up and get the person down and off the surface.

The Death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Everything is set for us. The saddest day I have ever tasted was the day the Prophet ﷺ died. That was the saddest day of my life.

When the Prophet ﷺ died, it was between what? Dhuhr and Asr. Because the Dhuhr had already been prayed. And so the people, they were so overwhelmed with the situation, they didn't think about the Salah.

Imagine. Imagine. All of Medina, the Messenger of Allah is dead.

And Umar ibn Khattab, he's standing up in front of the people saying, look, y'all got it mixed up. Really, what happened to the Prophet ﷺ is what happened to Musa. He was supposed to go away for 40 days and he's going to come back.

So you got it wrong. The Prophet is not dead. And anybody who says that, I'm going to chop their head off. That's what Umar ibn Khattab was saying till Abu Bakr showed up.

Abu Bakr showed up. He didn't even stop by Umar ibn Khattab and those people, the Sahabi. The greatest people in the world after the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Saints, all of them. Wali Allah. Awliya. The friends of Allah.

That Allah tells us that. The only ones we're sure of. He walks past them to his daughter's house. He sees the Prophet ﷺ has passed away. He's dead. He gives his friend a farewell kiss.

And then he comes out and he recites:

"Muhammad is not but a messenger. [Other] messengers have passed on before him..."

And he says to everybody there, and he puts his...

وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ

And then he gets in Umar's face. Umar ibn Khattab is a genuine giant. Real big man that when he got on his horse his toes dragged in the sand. When he's walking with normal people, it looked like he was riding on a camel and they were walking on their feet. It's a giant. Big man.

Not a thin man. Nowhere is it described that he was thin. He was big. So his weight and his height were comparison to each other. He wasn't really tall. He was just big.

And Abu Bakr as-Siddiq is a little thin man. His clothes hang on him. So much so we have the hadith of his إزار slipping off of him sometime because he was so thin.

He gets up in Umar's face and says:

"Muhammad is not but a messenger. [Other] messengers have passed on before him. So if he was to die or be killed, would you turn back on your heels?"

He said if it is going to be that he died or he's killed, you're going to turn away from this deen because the Prophet ﷺ died?

Everyone in the masjid of the Prophet ﷺ began to recite:

وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ

And they started to file out and go to their particular places and talk to their families and deal with the crisis at hand. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passing away, the end of revelation, safety is no more going to be on the earth without the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Imagine, any issue you have, you just go to the Prophet. Anything you want to know, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is present on earth.

You know certain things are not going to happen when the Prophet is there. So then the Asr time comes. Salatul Asr. And look at Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.

He's got the mind for Islam right now. Everybody is just in a daze but Abu Bakr as-Siddiq رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ . It's time for Salah. The Prophet is gone, we're going to continue practicing Islam.

Our commitment, our allegiance is first and foremost to Allah. And because he's the Messenger of Allah, we followed him and we still follow him. So Salah came, it's time for Salatul Asr. He tries to find Bilal to call the Adhan.

He finds him. Bilal is doing his thing. He's grieving over the Prophet.

He says, Bilal:

أَذِّنْ يَا مُؤَذِّنُ أَذِنْ

Oh مُؤَذِّن Call the Adhan. Bilal looks at him and says, I am the مُؤَذِّن of رَسُولِ اللهِ . I am the مُؤَذِّن of the Messenger of Allah.

لَا غَيْرَهُ

I'm not the مُؤَذِّن for nobody else. I will never call the Adhan for anybody after the Messenger of Allah. It's a beautiful position. You don't want to step down.

You don't want to go from the position of calling the Adhan for the Messenger of Allah for calling the Adhan for Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. But it's understandable. The Prophet was everything for them after Allah.

So Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he can't find anybody to call the Adhan. So he does what he has to do. He climbs up and he calls the Adhan himself.

Anybody knows anything about Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, the most courageous man in history after the Prophets?

And we say courageous because he gave everything he had away for Islam.

And the people that we look at and outwardly see as brave and bold like Umar ibn Khattab gave half. So put that in comparison to the heart. The only reason you give everything because you have confidence that you can get more.

This was his courageousness. When everybody hesitated or had an issue to think about or talk about when the Prophet ﷺ came to them with Islam, Abu Bakr didn't hesitate. He was called as-Siddiq.

He validated everything the Prophet said without question or doubt or hesitation. He didn't weeble wobble like they said. He didn't give in.

He climbs up the minbar or the minaret let's say and he calls the Adhan. He tries to. Abu Bakr could not complete the Adhan.

He got to Muhammadun Rasulullah and he couldn't say it. He said Muhammad and he broke down and started crying. So he tried again.

Muhammad and he couldn't get the words out. And then he finally said Muhammadun Rasulullah and he started crying in all of Medina. It says at that point the whole Medina broke into tears.

The ummah, that ummah realizing the devastation that's happened to the ummah with the death of the Prophet ﷺ. And we're living today with the crisis of that death still now. We're still living under the crisis of the death of the Messenger of Allah. Look at us.

Look at us. We are not representing what they represented. JazakAllah khair.

We don't realize what our commitments are, what our obligations are and what we're a part of in the grand scheme of things and the greatness of the things that we have by being Muslim, accepting Islam as our deen, as

Personal Testimony and Reflection

My mother's a Kafir. And that's a hard reality to deal with. When your people pass away... When your people pass away, you can make up to them what you didn't give them in the dunya.

I can't do that. When your people pass away, your peoples is Muslim. Your mother's Muslim. Your father's Muslim. You can make hajj for them if they didn't make hajj. You can give sadaqa for them if they didn't make sadaqa.

Enough! You can do things for them. My mother passed away. I can't even make dua for her.

Do you understand the ni'mah that you have? Every soul is going to taste death, brothers. Have you heard about Islam? Have you heard about Islam? This deen, the newest deen on the planet. It's the best thing out there.

The real deal. All we have to do is surrender. All we have to do is surrender and just practice this deen, this beautiful deen.

Follow the message of Allah. That's who we gave our allegiance to. Right? I'm really happy that Allah blessed me to become a Muslim.

I hope that you will be happy with the ni'mah that not only did Allah bless you to be Muslim, but He blessed you with a mother and a father, Muslims, cousins, and family. I wish I had that. I wish I saw my father just pray two rakaat, just one rakaat.

I wish I had that. You know, I wish you don't know. Y'all really don't know.

Having mothers, that's whores. You know, y'all don't know. Seeing your moms drunk, you don't know what it's like.

It's hard seeing that coming to Islam and you can't even express that to them. You can't even talk to them about it because it's not accepted. It's not accepted.

You know? And then to see your brothers, some of your brothers really, it's like crazy. And you want to act like us. You want what we got.

You want this. You know your brothers come over here, you want to dress like my brother? You don't know what we went through. You don't know why he's a straight.

You got a blessing. You can't count. You can't enumerate the amount of blessings that you have with being Muslim and having a Muslim family.

Muslim family. Everybody loves their families. Allah tells us, what do we recite? And don't cut ties with the wombs that bore you.

But there comes a point in my life that I have to cut ties with the ones that bore us. When they pass away. I want y'all to think about that.

Think about that.

Second Khutbah

فَإِنِّي أَقُولُ قَوْلِي هَذَا وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ لِي وَلَكُمْ

All praise belongs to Allah and that's enough for a man to understand. The source of peace and perfection be upon the best of those sent. The Prophet Muhammad, the chosen one and his family, his followers and those that follow him until the last day.

The Meaning of Muhammad Rasulullah

We say in the Shahada:

Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Many times we don't understand what that is supposed to mean for us.

So I want to remind us with something. It's a children's poem. However, it might be pertinent to some of us because it explains what it means when we say:

Then every Muslim must concur Muhammad is the messenger sent by Allah and so we trust everything he said to us. We must obey his orders and reject the things he called haram. All sacred laws must come from him.

This encompasses the meaning of مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

We talk about لَا إِلهَ إِلَّا اللهُ and we don't get to understand what does it mean مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ

When we say لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ the مَفْهُوم the understanding is a rejection of shirk. Singling and isolating out Allah for our عِبَادَة for our allegiance here.

But likewise we make a pledge of allegiance to the messenger of Allah to الْمُصْطَفَى مُحَمَّدٌ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ make an allegiance to him. Then every Muslim must concur and the opposite of the allegiance to مُحَمَّدٌ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ which is following his sunnah the opposite of that is making bid'ah.

Just like لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ calls us to tawheed and tells us to get away from shirk مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ it calls us to follow the sunnah and to leave off innovation, bid'ah that is doing anything that the prophet didn't command us to do as an act of worship. Because every Muslim must concur محمد is the messenger he is the messenger sent by Allah.

Five Points of Understanding Muhammad Rasulullah

So the first point that we have to understand about مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ that we say when we say مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ is that we're bearing witness and swearing that we swear that by Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى sent by Allah and so we trust everything he said to us.

First Point: The second point when we say مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ that we have to understand that not only was he the actual physical messenger sent by Allah meaning the messenger of Allah we trust everything كُلُّ مَا أَخْبَرَنَا بِهِ everything he told us we believe just like we see it right now he told us about the things that's gonna happen in the hereafter he told us what's gonna happen in the grave he told us what's gonna happen here on earth he tells

us how many angels are assigned to each people and what time they flip and change everything the messenger مُحَمَّدٌ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ said we have to accept and believe it if you don't you don't say مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللهِ understanding it properly so that's the second point not just that he was sent by Allah but that we trust everything he said.

Second Point: We must obey his orders we add it says we must obey his orders and the third point is that we have to obey we have to obey the orders أَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ everything he ordered us to do we do without question without hesitation we do because obeying him is obeying Allah. Who doesn't understand that needs to read the Quran obeying the messenger is obeying Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى

Third Point: We must obey his orders and reject the things he called haram anything the messenger of Allah صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ which is the fourth point anything that the Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ascribed with being haram illegal we not only have to leave that thing we have to call it illegal too.

It's not enough it is not enough that we just don't do it for example there's these people the homosexuals out there it's not enough as a person came and said this a Muslim said well you know I ain't got nothing it ain't no problem to me I ain't got nothing against them what do you mean? Well I'm not gonna do that but I ain't got nothing against them this is a wrong understanding you do got something against that because not only it's not good enough that you don't be a homosexual because it's haram it's not about being homosexual it's about this thing is illegal anything that Allah said is illegal then we say it's illegal we say it's wrong so you gotta say no it's wrong we not doing that that's illegal whatever it is I'm just using that as an example because that's what the lady said okay so we have to understand it's not enough for us not to make zina it's not enough for us not to steal or do riba but we have to say those acts are wrong those acts are haram and illegal according to me because that's my belief so we have to we must obey his orders and reject the things he called haram.

Fourth Point: All sacred laws must come from him all our sacred laws which is the fifth point all of our legislation our laws must come from the messenger of Allah the Quran in this site is our constitution and those hadith those authentically narrated hadith are the actuation of the law the precedences of case law how to apply that Quran.

What was Aisha asked? What was the character what was the Muhammad allowed? Aisha said he was a walking Quran so he is the embodiment of the Quran and how he ordered, commanded, acted and allowed this is our legislation this is our law.

Every moment in your life one of five rulings applies to whatever you're doing it is either:

1. Obligatory - meaning Allah's messenger ordered you to do it

2. Haram (illegal) - that Allah's messenger told you not to do it

3. Mustahab or Mandub (recommended) - which the messenger of Allah encouraged you but didn't make it demanded on you

4. Makrooh (disliked) - meaning that the messenger of Allah said don't do it but he didn't make it a demand that you don't do it meaning you're not gonna get a sin for not doing it or doing it

5. Permissible - just means you can do it or leave it

Every moment you're sleeping you're walking you're talking even you're thinking has a ruling as we find in those hadith in 40 hadith of Nawawi that if a man has the idea of doing something haram and he don't do it then he gets a good reward so you get rewarded for your thoughts so everything and that everything you do has one of those rulings.

So we go back and say and understand that we're making allegiance saying we swear we bear witness we support and we have our allegiance to Muhammad the one sent by Allah:

1. We trust whatever he said he said it it's true

2. Somebody said he's not doing it they're the liars they're الصَّادِقُ الرَّسُولُ he is the one the most truthful one that has to be believed الصَّادِقُ الْمَصْدُوقُ

3. We bear witness that he's the messenger of Allah

4. We bear witness that he always spoke the truth

5. We obey his orders and we reject everything he said was illegal

6. And our life our legislation is based in only taking from him

Closing

I say this and ask for forgiveness and for you I establish peace.