Asalamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato. Welcome back to another episode of Allah
Loves. So if you haven't noticed pretty much all of these qualities that we've
covered are embodied most in the person of the Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi
wa sallam and so I want to speak to that ayah as we're kind of coming down to the
end of the series when Allah tells us in the Quran 'qol inkontom
tohiboon Allah, fa atabi'ooni you bibokoum Allah wa ya'ghferlakoum thunoobikoum wa Allah howal
ghafoor al raheem' say if you truly love Allah then follow me and Allah will love you
back and he will forgive you for your sins and Allah is the most forgiving and
the most merciful you know you read that ayah and you think to yourself well how
do I be prophetic how can I actually be like the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
and that's actually the point that the Prophet peace be upon him had such a
comprehensive character 'wa enaka la'ala kholeken 'atheem' you are an exalted
standard of character that Allah (swt) had praised, that Allah
had crafted and Allah had given the Prophet peace be upon him the best of
those manners and the Prophet peace be upon him gives us something to aspire
for in every single aspect and element of our lives but I want to go to another
dimension of this the Prophet peace be upon him mentioned the great reward of
reviving a Sunnah reviving a tradition of the Prophet peace be upon him and so
a lot of these good qualities are things that you might find in people and
isolated incidents and they're not necessarily tracing them to the Prophet
peace be upon him or tracing them even to any type of religious grounding but
when you start to revive a Sunnah you revive one of these qualities that we've
been talking about and you directly trace it to reviving a Sunnah of the
Prophet peace be upon him and bringing the Sunnah of the Prophet peace be upon
him the tradition of the Prophet peace be upon him into your life then that is
the greatest way to earn the love of Allah (swt)
now here's the thing can you actually be like the Prophet peace be upon him, no
matter what I put towards the effort of worship I'm never going to be able to
worship Allah the way the Prophet peace be upon him used to worship Allah no
matter what I put towards mercy and generosity and kindness and due
diligence and all of these different things
that we've covered I'm never going to have enough of it I'm never going to
have what the Prophet peace be upon him actually had and that's actually why
this verse and so beautifully that if you're trying to be like the prophet
sallallaahu alayhi wa salam, Allah will overlook your shortcomings and Allah is
the one who is ghafoor al rahim, Allah is ghafoor, ghafoor means that Allah covers
so Allah is the one who forgives and covers for those faults and then shows
you a special type of mercy because you were in that process it's an
acknowledgement from Allah that even if you try you're never going to get there
but it connects back to one of the earlier episodes in which we talks about
Allah loving those who are just trying who are just in the process of that so
look at the life of the Prophet peace be upon him and particularly try to bring
in the qualities of the Prophet peace be upon him you know reviving a Sunnah of
the Prophet (saw) in regards to something that's smaller is good as well
and it could have a major award because we don't belittle actions that we do for
a lot but think about those qualities that we've spoken about and know that
even if you can't be just like the Prophet peace be upon him the fact that
that becomes your standard and that you're seeking it is enough for Allah
(swt) to love you 'yohbibokoum Allah wa yaghferlakoum thanoobakoum'
to love you back and to overlook any of your shortcomings in the
process. Ae ask Allah to make us like Muhammad sallallaahu alayhi wa asalam
to make us love Muhammed sallalahu alayhi wa salam and to join us with Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam under his love in Jannat al Firdous, Allahoma Ameen
JazakAllah Khayran wa salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato.