Who is Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam?

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Mar 08, 2008 | London UK

Minhaj ul-Quran, London



Moderator: The Holy Prophet commanded the Ansaari, “Qoomoo li-sayyidikum - O people of Ansaari go and stand up and receive your leader.”

Now I am going to call on the Sign of Allah ayatun min ayatollah he is a sing of Allah. He is a symbol of Allah. And it is said in hadith when you see the friends of Allah you remember? [Allah!], you remember? [Allah] Please stand up of respect of shaykh and remember him in remembrance of Allah. Allah, Allah...

[Allah, Allah….]

Naray takbir [Allahu Akbar!!!]

Naray Risalah [Ya Rasulullah!!!]

Naray Haydari [Ya Ali!!!]



I am sorry, I am not that person. Please forgive me and please pray our shuyukh for Allah to give them long life. I like to thank Minhaj ul-Quran and especially send my best regards on my behalf and on behalf of my shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani to Mawlana Shaykh Tahir ul-Qadri Shaykh al-Islam for this beautiful event not only here but everywhere around the world. And I would also like to mention that we have very important guests in the meeting, that we send all our best and regards to them from the speakers and from the audience. And everyone, may Allah bless him and bless her and bless her and her family.

It is enough to say “be happy.” [Mawlana is crying] Be happy that Allah made us from the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. Be happy that Allah has created us and He called us His servants, where His messenger, His beloved one said, “the only time that I am happy is when Allah called me ‘My servant.’ If Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam is happy to be called

‘servant’ what about us? O Allah, we call You from this place, for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad whom you sent rahmatan lil-`alameen, forgive us. Forgive the poor ones before us and after. Send everyone to Paradise because they are all Your servants.

You created us and we know O Allah, I know we are responsible for our mistakes but we helpless and weakless servants, we cannot do that. …we ask Your forgiveness.



Alhamdulillah it is the first day of Rabi`ul-Awwal and we are celebrating that event. What is the meaning of that event? I am looking and thinking and wondering why are we meeting? What is the reason? Is it to call on Sayyidina Muhammad sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam and celebrate his birthday? Is that our message or is that our love? As Shaykh Abu Bakr just said, "It is easy to say it by tongue." It is easy to say that Allah put his name with the name of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam.

When you go to an event, say in the palace, you are invited to the palace or you are invited to meet a president. You cannot sit anywhere. There is a protocol you have a set and your name there. If your name is not there you have no right to sit. It means that chair doesn’t belong to you. If your name is there that means this is where you sit.

So if we think a little bit deep and we see that the name of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam is besides the name of Allah swt, where he says la ilaha ila-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah, that place belongs to Sayyidina Muhammad. We didn’t see any other name found there except the name of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. So we know that Allah swt is giving that reality to His beloved one whom He created before creation. Whom He created from His light and whom He made him a prophet before Adam and gave him what? Called him in Holy Qur’an what? And all of us we know that. He called him rahmatan lil-`alameen. What is the meaning of rahmatan lil-`alameen?

When you go to generous person: a lord or congressman or a king, or a queen, when you ask them something they are generous they give you everything they can. So generosity, Allah Huwa al-Kareem, generosity is when Allah wants to give He will not give in limits. When He gave Sayyidina Muhammad to be rahmat, one of His Beautiful Names ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, He dressed him from that mercy that Allah gave to him thru the manifestation to him as His servant. He made him rahmat, that Beautiful Names, gave him rahmat. That means He made him everything possible according to Allah's swt Greatness. Not according to human greatness. A king might give, a queen might give; a lord might give; they give according to the level of their generosity. But they don’t give what Allah gives.

So Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam according to His level of generosity. Without restriction. And that means that whatever the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam asks he will get. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said, “I am the master of the children of Adam and I say it with no pride.” What doe he means to say? It means, “O Allah give them to me...” Do you think if the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam says in Day of Judgment "give them to me?" What? Allah will say to him “no”? Why then is he rahmatan lil-`alameen. Will He not give him what he asks? Then if not He isn’t giving with full generosity.

That chair belongs to the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. And every chair in Paradise belongs to the Prophet.

When Adam made the sin and he ate from the tree and then he asked forgiveness for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad Allah asked him, "what do you know about Muhammad?” He said, “O Allah wherever I turn my face, even in the whole Paradise that you gave to me, I am seeing the name of Muhammad on every leaf of a tree; I am seeing on every wall of paradise the name Muhammad; I am seeing in every smallest atom that is possible I am seeing the name of Muhammad. That name is written on the walls, on every leaf of every tree, on every atom even. For that reason I know Ya Rabbee he is someone of importance to You; not for us.” Allah said, "O Adam, if not for Muhammad I would not have created creation. I gave that creation to Muhammad; he is My messenger to them.”

What does that mean? This universe we are living in; that great universe that we are living in. [It means:] “O Adam, I created creation for him.”

Allah said and I mentioned that before that wa in min shayin illa yusabihoo bi-hamdihi wa lakin... Every atom is praising Allah in a different way, not in the same way, every atom that Allah created, every creation that Allah created living and non-living, every cell in a human being there are three trillion cells in the human body, they regenerate completely every six months. Every cell is saying tasbih. Every non-living thing, every drop of water, is praising Allah… We are not understanding them. Who is understanding their praise?

The one who heard them when he was walking by Jabal Uhud, when the trees and the pebbles were praising Allah and everything was praising Sayyidina Muhammad. Allah ordered: inna Allah wa mala’ikatahu yusalloon `ala an-Nabi Ya ayyuhalladheena aamanoo salloo `alayhi wa sallimoo tasleema.

Allah ordered every angel to praise Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. Allah swt ordered every human being to praise the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. Allah.

So this universe live in is it big or small. Scientists say there are six billion galaxies and in every galaxy is 80 billion stars. And every star is bigger than this solar system that we are living in. And every atom in every star in every galaxy is praising Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. Allah gave them to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam.

O human beings enjoy. Be happy, don’t be said, be happy. Whatever comes, comes, only be good and praise the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. You will be saved. You think anyone will enter fire. Allah will give him shafa`a for everyone to enter Paradise You thank Allah created creation to burn them to punish them to crush them. For what? Allah is just, Allah is merciful. When He sees His servants crying and asking for His forgiveness He will not forgiven them? I am not saying only Muslims. Anyone who wants to object, they may object! We want everyone to enter Paradise. From Adam to the Day of Judgment. That is Islam. That is the message of Islam.

I am feeling bad because we are not doing enough. We are feeling bad, Muslims around the world and non-Muslims. They feel bad why? Because there is something in us and something reminding us of our mistakes.

We feel guilty. O Muslims enjoy this life by obeying Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam and all other prophets.

Before I finish I would like to say one thing. That when Adam as looked and saw all these names of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam on every leaf of a tree or every atom in of the universe in heavens he knew that this belongs to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. He was crying and crying and went into sajda. And He was crying and his tears were coming like a flood and Allah left him for forty years. And Allah said to him, "O Adam it is enough, raise your head. He said, "O Allah do you forgive me?" Allah said, "O Adam, of course I forgive you, but I let you to cry for forty years. Why? Because my beloved Prophet asked Me to intercede for every human being inside you. Adam at that time and I left you to give tears on the number of the grandchildren of Adam. And until that happened I told you to raise your head."

We are ummatan marhooma. Allah has blessed us and sent His mercy on us for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam.

What is the description of tasawwuf about the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam? We heard too much about Sufis, Sufis, Sufis and today are too many institutes around the world asking what is that Sufism.

And our shuyukh may Allah give them long life, and all our shuyukh and I cannot name all their names and all our shuyukh Shaykh Tahir ul-Qadri, they were… teaching their students tasawwuf.

That is a culture that is coming form the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam up to today. Today they opened their eyes on that because of what the others are doing today.

So they said, "there is a problem." And already shaykh Abu Bakr mentioned many about that. But I would like to mention one thing. Who is prophet? Do we know?? We know the picture of his grave. Did we see Sayyidina Muhammad? Yes or no??! [no] Why? You think he is not present here in this hall. You think if you call him “Ya Rasulullah Ya rahmatan lil-`alameen” will he not be present in this hall? The problem is we are blind, We cannot see. He is present here of course. He is here or course. He is looking at us of course. Why? Because as these great awliyaullah explained, as these Sufis teachers explained, that Sayyidina Muhammad is the mirror for creation. You cannot see yourself except thru the mirror. Sayyidina Muhammad is the mirror in the Divine Presence reflecting everything Allah created in this world in to existence. [naray takbir… naray risalah… naray…Ahmadi Mustafa marhaba, marhaba. Jaana-e Mustafa noore Mustafa…]

O Muslims, P human beings! We are the reflection from the Divine Presence thru the mirror of Muhammadun Rasulullah. We are still there. This here is our images. This isn’t our realties. The realities are still in the Divine Presence . Allah swt did not release them. He released them thru the mirror of Sayyidina Muhammad to be reflected them on earth. That is why Sayyidina Muhyideen Ibn `Arabi and many Sufi teachers, and Imam Ghazali, said, the real time when I am not blind is when I die. there I open my eyes and there I see the truth.

Muhyideen Ibn `Arabi said that the mirror that everything been reflects from the Divine Presence to existence is reflected is Muhammadun Rasulullah. If that mirror disappears you cannot see anything here, it will be a completely hidden treasure in the Divine Presence . What He wanted to appear, He made to reflect in this life thru the mirror of Muhammad. Since we are reflections in the mirror who then is responsible? The mirror or the reflection? The mirror is the one that is responsible. We are doing cracks on this mirror only.

You think Allah swt, when stones are coming on a car, you don’t see the glass break? No you see only the cracks. . It doesn’t break but it gets cracks. Sayyidina Muhammad does not accept even cracks on his mirror. That is why we are still in the divine presence pure. That is why awliyaullah say you didn’t see anything yet. What you are seeing yet is only images. Wait. Wait until you leave this dunya. We are asking, "O Allah show us his reality. Don’t leave us to akhira. In akhira everyone will see him. We want to see here. But we are asking “Ya Rasulullah, let us see you. appear to us! We are weak servants. Appear to us, appear in our hearts. You appeared to awliyaullah. Be with us in every moment of our lives.”

That is what we are asking, O Allah, for the sake of Your awliya and for Sayyidina Muhammad’s sake, let us be in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad in every moment of our life. Let our hearts say Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad. May Allah forgive us.

Love from our Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani and greetings to all of you and to Shaykh Tahir al-Qadiri and to all those who participated in this blessed gathering.



[naray takbir…]