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The Pain of His Death | Meeting Muhammad ﷺ Episode 29
| The greatest tragedy and deepest loss of the ummah was the death of the Prophet ﷺ. But even in his final moments, even in his illness, he strove to ease the pain of his Companions. |
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Everything we read about, about how you should die, applies most to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. That when a person dies, either they are relieved of this world or the world is relieved from them. When Allah talks about an evil person, ma bakat AAalayhim wa-ssama'i wal-ard that the heavens and the earth did not shed a tear for them. Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, he says that for the righteous person, the heavens cry when they die because the gate of the heavens that their deeds used to ascend from is no longer open. And their place of sajda, the earth cries, the place of sajda, of prostration cries. And you think about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in that regard. A person that everyone longed for when he was alive and a person that everyone would grieve when he would die SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. If you're in Medina at that point, your entire life revolves around the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. There is not a moment that you're not thinking about what he's doing and if you can get his attention and if you can have his companionship. And at this point, it's been that way for over a decade. The day the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came to Medina is like giving birth to a child. It brought light to the entire city. It gave new life to everyone. And there's a scene even in the battle of Uhud, right? Where it was shouted out, just suggested that Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was killed. And people put down their swords and put down their armor and just started to cry, not feeling like they had any reason to live anymore. And that's only with being with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for just a couple of years. Think about it now. You're in this situation where you're sitting in the masjid
and there's all of this anxiety about whether or not the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is going to come out. And inside of yourself, you feel like he's not really going to die. You know, it's inevitable. He's a human being SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, but he's not really going to die. He's going to make it out of this because he has healed so many people SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam How many people were about to die and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam made dua for them and they lived. He's not going to die yet. There's still so much more to go. The story still has so much to unfold in front of our eyes. And how befitting is it that the last sight of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is a smile. He's in his room SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and Anas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu describes the scene. We're praying and you see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam draw his curtain and he smiles. Tabassum adhahikan He smiles and he laughs, meaning you could see all of his teeth SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his face was like the page of a Mus'haf meaning his most beautiful smile was the last smile he gave to this Ummah. When he came into Medina, Abdullah ibn Salam embraced Islam because of his smile. And he's leaving Medina and he's leaving this world with a smile SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and you're in Salah and you're looking at him and you're so excited because the way he's smiling that means he must be recovering. He's going to come back out. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, keep on praying as if to say, keep on going. I fulfilled my mission. I did what I was supposed to do. I conveyed the message. Now you're in prayer. I'm good. I've fulfilled my mission. Keep on going, not just keep on praying. And he closes the curtain SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And at that point you're in the Masjid and you just have a lot of anxiety.
What's happening in his room SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is that this time it's not Aisha radiAllahu Anha's head in his lap. This time it's his head in her lap. And Aisha radiAllahu Anha is describing the severity of the fever of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he's saying, La ilaha illallah inna lilmawti sakarat La ilaha illallah, verily the closing of death, the coming of death and the last moments of this world are difficult. Nibban Masood radiAllahu Anhu he said that the fever of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was hotter than anything he had ever felt. And while he's in her lap, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sees her brother Abdur Rahman and he has a Siwak and Aisha radiAllahu Anha knows that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is looking at it. So Aisha radiAllahu Anha says, do you want me to get that for you? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he nods. So she gets the Siwak and she chews it and she gives it to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam brushes his teeth for the very last time. He used to use the Siwak SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for every prayer, for every single Salah to prepare himself for his conversation with his Lord. And he uses that Siwak SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he looks up and his face lights up as Jibreel Alayhi Salam enters into the room. And Jibreel Alayhi Salam gives him that choice to either live with eternity in this world, as long as this world exists or to be with the highest companion. And he chooses SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Ar-Rafiq Al-A'la, he chooses the highest companion. And he continues to look up and he continues to say, rather I choose Ar-Rafiq Al-A'la, the highest companion. Until Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha says that the hand of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes down and his soul leaves his body
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And she says that this beautiful scent filled the room immediately. You know, when the righteous soul is being taken away the angels come with a kafan with a shroud of perfume. How would it be the angels and the shroud of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that scent? And so the perfume of it filled the entire room and it was the most beautiful scent that they had ever smelled. And Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha cries out. At this point, as you're sitting in the masjid and you hear Aisha radiAllahu Anha shout and you hear, maa ta rasoolAllah, maa ta rasoolAllah, maa ta rasoolAllah that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has died. That the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has died. That the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has died. And you're sitting in the masjid staring at that curtain wondering if he's gonna open it again or if this is all just a hoax or if it's like Uhud where we thought he was dead but he wasn't really dead. We've been through things like this. He's gonna come out now. This can't be real. This can't be real and every single person is looking at that curtain and looking around and some are coming to terms with it at different points and they're crying at different points. Some are still in disbelief. You're looking around and you're seeing Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu so eloquent and Ali can't speak. You're seeing Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and Uthman can't stand up. And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu saying, who said that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam died? You're lying, you're lying, you're causing fitna. This is not true. Of course the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is not dead. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is going to come out. You're a hypocrite, don't cause fitna. He couldn't come to terms with it radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And those words, mata Rasulullah, that the Prophet of Allah is dead. They stung every single person in the masjid. And then Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stands up
and Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu reminds the people, whoever used to worship Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam then Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is indeed dead. And whoever used to worship Allah, fa innaAllaha hayyun la yamut. Allah is alive and Allah is ever living. The sentiment, if you could imagine every single person in a community losing the most beloved person in the world to them, and what that would do to them. If you imagine an entire community of people and everyone's child died at the same time, the most beloved person in the world would be the one who died. And the most beloved person in the world would be the one who died. And the most beloved person in the world to every single person in that masjid just died. And they all have to come to terms with their individual pain. And everyone has to now go to the house where they had the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as a guest, they have to pray in the masjid with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam no longer leading them. They have to celebrate without him. They have to, every single occasion is going to sting. SubhanAllah, that pain of losing a child there's actually a Hadith where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, as he's talking about the reward for the parents that put forth a child, and some of the Sahaba say to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya Rasulullah, as you're talking about this reward, what about those who have never been tested with the loss of a child? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, then they have the reward of my loss because lan yusabu bimithli they won't be tested with anything harder. They won't be tested with anything harder than my death.
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