What do you know about Rasoolullahﷺ

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

⚠️ AI-Generated Content: This transcription was automatically generated using AI. Bismillah al-nāzir r-raīm. Al-hamdu li-llāhi rabbil-ālamīn wa-s-salātu wa-s-salām �ruffī l-abiyā'ī wa-l-mūt salīd. Muhammad was-sūr allāhi ṣallallahu ʿalayhi wa-alā ʿāli wa-s-salām, tasliwun kateerun kateerun. The second thing in this context of focusing on ourselves is to ask this question and say, What do I know about the life of Rasul allāhu ṣallá Llāh? Now, this is an extremely important thing to do, which is, may Allah have mercy on us, which is usually ignored. And I don't say that it's ignored deliberately, because inshallah that is not true. The Muslims love Rasul allāhu ṣallá Llāh, but it is just ignored because of lack of understanding of the importance of learning about the Seerah. The Seerah of Rasul allāhu ṣallá Llāh is the living Qur'an, is the manifestation of the Qur'an in real life. It is the living tafsir of the Qur'an. And I'm not saying this out of my love for him. This is what Sayyidah Aisha Siddiquar of the Al-Anha said, this is the answer she gave somebody who asked her and said, Can you tell us something about the life of Rasul allāhu ṣallá Llāh? She said, Don't you read the Qur'an? He said, Yes, I read the Qur'an. He said that was his life. He was the living Qur'an. Now, what do we know about that? What do we know about his life? That is why this is another marker. One marker I said yesterday, which is, How much Qur'an do I know? The second marker is, What do I know and how much do I know about the life of Rasul allāhu ṣallá Llāh? Once again, like I mentioned, the method of doing it with the Qur'an al-Tarīb is ask yourself, What do I know now? And then start reading. And then test yourself after a month, two months, three months, six months, one year, What do I know, which is more than what I started with. There is no shortage of material. Alhamdulillah, there are many, many books and videos and so forth about the Seerah. For those who read Urdu, the very best is Seeratul Nabi by Sayyid Suleyman Nadiq. Alhamdulillah, which is the best in Urdu because it is also the best because the way that Seerah has been written and the stories of the Seerah, they have followed a very strict code of reference as they do for hadith. So the rigor of the research, the rigor of the program of how they did that, this is as strict as they do for hadith. So therefore it's a very authentic mashaAllah, very, very beautiful book. So those who read in Urdu, there is an English translation of that as well. So you could try that. Otherwise, there are many others. For beginners, there is this very famous book called The Life of Muhammad S.A.W. from the earliest sources by Martin Lings, L-I-N-G-S. MashaAllah, he was a great Muslim scholar and he wrote this book, very simple, very easily readable. So there is in Arabic and then English translation also of that, which is Ar-Rahiqul Maqtum, the secret nectar, Ar-Rahiqul Maqtum by Shaykh Mubarak Puri. So there are many books of Seerah. So please make sure that you read. You must know about The Life of Rasulullah S.A.W. and it must be very familiar to us. It doesn't need to be humming and hoeing and searching for answers if somebody asks a question. So you must know this. And the purpose both of reading the Koran and reading the Seerah of Rasulullah S.A.W. is to practice that in our lives. This is very critical, very important to practice in our lives. How can we practice the Seerah in our lives? How can we practice the Koran in our lives? Because we will not be asked, what did you know? We will be asked, what did you do? We will not be asked, what did you know? We will be asked, what did you do? And therefore, whatever we know must be translated into action. And that's our responsibility. So make sure that we do that. Pick one thing at a time. As I said earlier as well, the power of metrics. Pick one thing at a time, then monitor that and say, how am I doing it? For example,