Why Muslims Are Humanity's Greatest Nation

Alhamdulillah. Continuing.

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In authored by in the 19th book or in some versions. The 18th book,.

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I'm trying to choose. It's you know it's so many nice narrations.

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Islam.

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Here we have a narration and it's actually and it's actually a a an explanation offered to us by Abi by Abu Now there's not a lot of narrations from Abi with respect to him explaining verses of the Quran. This is rather unusual because Abu was more specialized in hadith. Because he had memorized so much from the prophet. Wasam due to his diligence and also that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam specifically chose him to be the greatest memorizer of his sunnah. and narrations and he made dua for him and he tailored him in order to be able to memorize and relate the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam's words the most and so most of what we get from Abi are narrations he narrates to us I saw the prophet do I heard him say etc however on occasion we do have instances where someone like Abu will explain a verse from the Quran now someone is memorized as the majority of what he says with respect to verses of the Quran. So he'll mention a a verse and then he'll say this is the meaning of this verse. Where would we expect that he got this understanding from? From the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. Mostly mostly. As a matter of fact, that goes for the companions across the board. Some scholars have even considered that anything the companions say about a verse is ex accepted as a narration from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam because the companions were not people of opinions. They were not people of I think and my opinion and I believe and the way I see it and etc. This kind of rhetoric was not in their DNA. The companions were most diligent in transmitting narrations relating to the what they saw, what they heard, what they witnessed from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. And so Abu Hurra explains to us a verse and then in another instance we see that this explanation he got and he gave us is actually a narration of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam verbatim. And I bring this up because this is a very dangerous slippery slope that some modern speakers find themselves at. And that is that they assume that a verse of the Quran, if a companion says this verse means the following, that this is somehow just that companion's opinion and it is okay to contradict it. And that is a very very dangerous argument. When a companion explains a verse and other companions do not disagree with him, this is articulating an element or a dynamic of the verse that was well accepted amongst the companions. And where did the companions get these understandings from? From the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. They didn't wonder about them and come up with their own opinion. They would hear verses, they would learn them directly from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam and they would learn their explanations from him as well. So when a companion says this verse means the following that is a red line. And so the scholars tell us that as long as it is not a dis an issue where the companions have differed on. So one companion says this and another says something contrary in the explanation of the verse to explain the verse that will directly conflict with the understanding of the companions because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he cited the companions as being the yard stick for proper for understanding, didn't he? In the Quran, he says, for.

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Bey. for.

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We have a verse in where Allah cites the companions's understanding as being the proper yard stick of understanding. Understanding the Quran and Sunnah he says he says subhanahu wa ta'ala that which means and so if they meaning the people believe in what in the way that you all have believed then they have been become guided. What do we understand this to mean? We understand this to mean if they do not believe in the way that you all have believed then they have become what? Misguided. And the verses in this vein are many. The point is is that when a companion says this verse means the following and other companions haven't differed with him and it's not an issue that the companions differed upon, this is a red line. And the verse definitely means this because they didn't just get this from their minds or their opinions or from rhetoric. Also I want to mention one more thing that a lot of people don't know about. Every chain of narration to the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hinges on the Quran. It fundamentally hinges on. He is one of the five companions that the Quran's recitation hinges on. So the same man that is narrating these narrations is the same man that narrates to us what the Quran. This is not just some guy. This is not just somebody who learned the Quran you know as a kid and this is a major major companion of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. So Abuur tells us that Allah says in a verse verse 110 in Ali he says speaking to the companions and by extension the Muslim to come you all are the best of nations which has been brought forth for the people. Many of us have heard this verse before right? You all are the best nation that was brought forth for the people. What does that mean? For the people. He didn't say amongst the people. You're the best nation that was brought forth amongst the people. You are the best nation for the people. Of all the nations, how many nations were there? Does anyone know? The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam tells us that the number of nations are how many? No, not 72. That's the number of sex. 73. No, the number of nations is 70. You are so close but so far at the same time because you were in one subject and the answer was in a completely different universe. But very good. 70 nations. 70 nations. The prophet sallall.aii wasallam tells us that this nation is the final and 70th nation amongst humanity. And it in the mix the ratio of this nation compared to the people that have come before is a white hair on the back of a of a black bull. Meaning on the day of judgment, we all of us, the first of us and the last of us, the jin of us and the and the humans of us, we will be amongst the nations a black hair on the back of a white bull. In one narration, he says a white hair on the back of a black bull. and another he says a black hair on the back of a white bull. So you can see that just this one hair in this sea of humanity yet this nation is the best nation. Why is it the best nation? For many reasons but in this verse Allah tells us you all are the best nation for humanity. Then Allah explains that. He says he says you all are the best nation that was brought up for the rest of humanity. If you fulfill the role of commanding the good, f forbidding the evil and believing in Allah truly. Now Abu Huraya shows us another aspect of this verse. Another aspect that many of us maybe would not see without his pointing it out. He says this verse means you all are the best of people for the people. You are the best of humanity for humanity. You are the best of believers for believers. You are the best of for. He says, "This nation literally and figuratively brings people into Islam, brings them from disbelief into Islam with chains on their necks and takes them into paradise." Then he narrates in another narration, Allah is astonished. He is mesmerized by a people who will enter paradise in chains. What does that mean? Enter paradise in chains. will in Noi tells us that the Muslim will have a lot of enemies and when they clash with these enemies they will take many of them as prisoners of war as slaves etc and then those people will choose to become Muslim. So they will enter into the midst of the Muslim in chains and they will enter paradise in those chains. This is very reminiscent of the statement that the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam made. He said in Muslim IM Ahmed to a manlim become Muslim. The man said, he said, "I feel in my heart turned off from becoming Muslim. I don't want to." He said, to the contrary even if you feel to the contrary because Islam is the truth even if a person doesn't fancy it at the moment and so we are the best of nations for humanity provided we are ambassadors and vanguards and ultimately martyrs for and upon Islam. The Muslim is different than the rest of humanity. We are not just, you know, give me my toaster and my fancy radio and my nice car. Don't rock the boat, okay? Let me just live in my comfortable existence. You do you. I'll do me. You know, I'll refrain from double parking. I'll try take the trash out on Wednesday nights. I'll follow all the rules. Just pay me. Don't. And I just want to enjoy myself. This is not the narrative of the Muslim. The Muslim is worth more than that. We are not a passenger on this earth. We are only the best of nations for humanity when we live for something. If you do not have something that you are ready to die for now, you are living for nothing. That's the truth. That's the reality of it. The person who lives the most miserable life is the one who is not seeking the most honorable death. To the point that the companions and the after they saw how the prophet Muhammad died, sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam he was sick for a lot of time. How long was he sick for before he died? Anyone know 2 weeks some narrations 15 days. What did he die from? He died from poison. Poisoning. This is a terrible death. This is a painful death. This is an agonizing death to the point that his daughter saw him curled up from the pain enduring it and she said I see that you are in immense pain. He said there's no pain upon your father after this this time after today. This is the last bit of pain. When they saw how slow and agonizing and difficult his pain was, they held the belief that it was shameful to die comfortably. That the prophet sallall.aii wasallam died in agony and I die comfortably. No, they would seek the most violent rageful death in martyrdom for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because if that is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam went through in order to meet his lord then I feel ashamed of myself to meet him in comfort. Now obviously we have different battlefields. There is a physical battlefield which is not our battle here. Our battle here is the battlefield of the heart. The battlefield of knowledge. the battlefield of learning and teaching and preserving this revelation. Even if we're unable to do something significant with it today, we will at least pass it on to the next generation. Clean, pure, unadulterated. We will end with a statement of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam his followers. This was described as.

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They are described as a people whom their gospel is in their hearts not in the pages of a book. the Quran and that Allah gave this ummah a book that no amount of water will wash away. When that book gathers dust on our shelves, we are in a moment of shame before the altar of Allah, before the messenger of Allah sallall.aii alaihi wasallam and our ancestors. The world is waiting for us to be great again. We had greatness. We fumbled it along the way. A lot of us were born into circumstances. But we can change that right now. That's the beauty of being human. You can choose. You are not simply biology. for.

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Subhanahu.

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He was.