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Episode 10: The Honor of Your Prophet
What is the connection between defending the honor of your brother and the honor of the Prophet ﷺ? And what is the best way to do that?
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. No person who loves Allah and the messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam, can be completely unaffected by the insults towards the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, by the way that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, has been drawn, ridiculed, portrayed, particularly in the Western image, to look like what the Muslim man is being molded to be, barbaric, angry, regressive, violent. And so the idea is that our Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, is this way. And therefore all Muslims are like that, especially the Muslim man. And the way we're going to prove it is by insulting the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and causing people to come out with their emotion, to respond in a way that allows them to submit to the very image that they've cast on the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. And so you find yourself in this predicament as someone who loves Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wasalam, who loves the Messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam, that when he's being insulted, your raw emotion tells you to respond in a certain way. But at the same time, you want to defend the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, while being like the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, in defending him, right? You don't want to defend him in a way to where you might make the substantive arguments that are needed to be made, to cast away those suspicions or those, those aspersions that have been cast upon him, salallahu alayhi wasalam. But you also don't want to give them the image because that's what they're trying to do is portray him in a certain way. Now I want you to think about this with the previous Hadith. If defending your brother in his absence, is that rewardable? What then is the reward of defending the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, in his absence, right? What good is it then when a person defends the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and does something that would actually cause him to be further insulted. So we have to think about this in a holistic way. Number one, to defend the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, is of the most beautiful acts of worship,
and one that the angels cling towards. And that's why the angels of Badr are so special, because they were with those special companions that defended the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, physically when no one else would. And that's why the angels of Badr are so special. When no one else would. And Jibreel alayhi wasalam asked the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, how do you view the veterans of Badr amongst you? Meaning human beings. And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, said, they're the best of us. And Jibreel alayhi wasalam responded, the malaika, the angels who served on that day of Badr, are also considered the best of us. Meaning you have the veterans of Badr from the sahaba, from the companions, the human companions, and the veterans of Badr from the angels that served Allah and his Messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam, that protected him in the midst of all of that turmoil, when very few people would. You also have someone who defended the honor of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, like Hassan ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And Hassan ibn Thabit was a poet. And he was sent by the enemies of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, to insult him, to lampoon him. And instead, when he saw the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he could say nothing but words of beauty about his appearance and his character and who he was. And he ended up becoming a Muslim and responding to the enemies of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, on his behalf. And Hassan was so talented that they built a manbar. They built a pulpit for him in the Masjid of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, that he would stand up and he would respond on behalf of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, since the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, would not respond on his own behalf to insult. And when he would do that, the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, looked at him in a certain way. And on more than one occasion, the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, said that Jibreel, alayhi wasalam, is with Hassan, not any angel. Jibreel is with Hassan so long as he defends the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He would even tell him, Ohajul mushrikeena fa inna Jibreel maak. Go ahead and lampoon them because Jibreel is with you. Respond to them. Jibreel is with you. Some of the scholars connected that to the verse in Surat Al-Hashr where Allah talks about the believers who love the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam more than themselves.
Wa ayyadahum bi roohin minh. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la supports them with a spirit from him. The majority of the scholars said roohin minh refers to the spirit of the power of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, not roohul qudus being Jibreel Alayhi Salam, the Holy Spirit. But some of the scholars said that it could possibly mean that as well, that when a person defends the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, not just any angel would come and support them, but maybe Jibreel Alayhi Salam as well, because that's what caused Jibreel to come in the life of Hassan Ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhum. So again, if defending your brother in his absence with his honor causes an angel to defend you and protect you, what then does that mean when we defend the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam intelligently, intellectually, emotionally, without becoming who they want us to become and demonstrating in the process of defending the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the character of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, even in that defense so that we don't submit to that horrific image that they've painted of him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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