Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah wa kafa wa salamun ala ibadihi allatheena astafa amma ba'd.
My dear respected brothers, elders and sisters, inshallah I'd like to first of all give salam to every single one of you and welcome you here today.
And inshallah today I'll be speaking about the final few days of the life of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The exact month in which 1436 years ago the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam breathed his last.
In the month of Rabiul Awl.
On the 12th of Rabiul Awl to be precise.
And today inshallah I'm going to just share the narrative of the final moments of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with you all.
And you might ask yourself,
we don't really speak about this.
We've not heard this.
But there's a reason behind it.
Why is it that the ummah of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will re-account the final moments of the Messenger?
Number one, it softens the heart.
Number two, things get very real.
Life becomes real.
That the greatest man to walk the face of this earth,
is death.
And number three,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in a hadith, he says,
When any one of my ummah,
in their lives,
face any challenges,
any difficulties,
let them remember my difficulty.
That will be the greatest difficulty the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will ever see.
This difficulty will become small,
in light of the difficulties that the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam faced.
So it was the 10th year after Hijrah,
that the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
certain changes began to happen in Madinah Munawwara.
The first change,
Ramadan of the 10th year after Hijrah arrives,
the Rasool sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
it was his practice that every year in Ramadan,
he would review the Quran that had been revealed on to that point,
with Jibreel Ali sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
However, this year,
in the 10th year after Hijrah,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
Inna hu aaradani al-AAam marratain
This year, Jibreel reviews the Quran with me twice.
The month of Ramadan continues.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
it was his practice to sit the final 10 nights of Ramadan in
I'tikaf in the Masjid.
The 10th year after Hijrah, something happens.
Ramadan is the month of Ramadan.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is there,
and the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sits I'tikaf for 20 nights.
After Ramadan, the month after Ramadan, anyone?
Shawwal alhamdulillah.
Shawwal and then?
Dhikaa'dah.
Dhikaa'dah and then?
Bilhijjah.
So Ramadan finishes and the months of Hajj begin.
The Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam announces to the Arabian Peninsula,
that he is about to perform the Hajj.
The Hajj that today we know as Hajj.
The Hajjatul Wiba.
The farewell Hajj.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going towards Makkah
and a hundred thousand people gather to assist and accompany the Mesliha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on this final Hajj.
Jabir radiallahu anhi, in a Raeesah Hadith,
he says,
As far madda basari,
as far as my eye could see,
all I saw were men, women, on camels, on foot, on horses.
And I looked towards my right and I see exactly the same.
I looked to my left, exactly the same.
I looked behind us and exactly the same.
As far as my eye could see.
And you know when you read the Seerah,
you will realize a few years prior to this, this was inconceivable.
It could not have happened.
The Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on his final Hajj,
again, he's making subtle remarks.
La'alli la'alqaakum ba'da aami hadha khudhu manasikakum.
O my Sahaba, learn your deen from me.
Maybe after this year you will never see me again.
Hajj finishes, the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam returns to Madinatul Munawwarah.
And the first month of the eleventh year after Hijrah enters,
the month of?
Now what is this?
Muharram.
It was around this time that the Hadith of Jibreel,
we know the Hadith of Jibreel,
where Jibreel is the one who is the most powerful,
the most powerful,
the most powerful,
Jibreel alayhi salatu wasalam arrives in Madinatul Munawwarah,
and he summarizes our entire deen in one sitting
by questioning the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam occurs.
by questioning the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam occurs.
It was early this, in the eleventh year after Hijrah.
It was early this, in the eleventh year after Hijrah.
After that we go to the Hadith of Abu Muwayhibah
radiallahu aami.
He says, one night, in the month of Safar,
ba'athani Rasool Allahi fi jaw fin layl.
It was the darkness of the night,
the Rasool of Allah sends for me,
and he said,
O tell, go and tell Abu Muwayhibah that he is the Messenger of Allah.
that he is the Messenger of Allah.
And you know when I read this,
And you know when I read this,
we look at this and we think, SubhanAllah,
the Messenger is calling from
one of his Ummatis in the dead of the night.
What is the response of Abu Muwayhibah?
Labbayka ya Rasool Allah.
I am present.
Today,
our situation,
the Mu'adhin will call
Haya ala Salah in empty beautiful masajid.
Haya ala Salah in empty beautiful masajid.
Haya ala Salah to an Ummah that is completely asleep.
Haya ala Salah to an Ummah that is completely asleep.
The Sahaba were different.
You know when we look, Iqbal says something beautiful.
He says,
He says,
You want the sword of your forefathers?
You want the results of the Sahaba?
You want the results of the Messenger
and you ask,
why is the Ummah in such a state today?
For that you have to create the arm
of your forefathers.
For that you have to have the commitment of your forefathers.
For that you have to have the commitment of your forefathers.
When Allah's call comes,
when the call of the Messenger comes,
you are there and you are ready to respond.
you are there and you are ready to respond.
You are there.
You are there.
You are there.
So Abu Muwayhibah
didn't make excuses at that time.
Immediately he goes to the Messenger
immediately he goes to the Messenger
The Prophet says to Abu Muwayhibah,
O Abu Muwayhibah,
I have been instructed
to ask forgiveness for the people of Baqee.
I have been instructed to go to the graveyard of Baqee.
The graveyard of Madinatul Munawwarah
and seek forgiveness for its inhabitants.
and seek forgiveness for its inhabitants.
He says, Abu Muwayhibah says,
we arrive at the graveyard,
the Messenger not only does he give salam
to the people of the graveyard,
he says something.
He says to them,
you are in a better place than those outside.
You are in a better place than those outside.
Atabalatil fitan
Fitan are about to come upon my Ummah.
Fitan are about to come upon my Ummah.
And then he turns to Abu Muwayhibah
And then he turns to Abu Muwayhibah
He says, O Abu Muwayhibah,
Allah has given me an option,
two options.
two options.
that I take the treasures of this world,
that I take the treasures of this world,
I live a long life
and then I go to Jannah.
Or,
I go and meet my Allah
and receive my Jannah.
So Abu Muwayhibah being Abu Muwayhibah,
the Sahaba , Ya Rasulullah, Khul
mafateeha al dunya
wal khulm, thumma al Jannah,
O Mazniya of Allah, choose the treasures of this world
and a long life and then Jannah.
The Prophet says to him,
The Prophet says to him,
Inni qad iftartu liqaa rabbi
I have made my choice, my choice is that I want to meet my Allah.
I have made my choice, my choice is that I want to meet my Allah.
He returns from Baqee, this is the end of Safar.
Aisha says,
Aisha says,
towards the final days of Safar,
the Prophet , the second month of the Islamic calendar,
he goes to
Baqee to perform a Janazah, he comes home
and this was the beginning
of the final sickness of the Messenger of Allah
.
He comes home and Aisha says,
As soon as he enters,
I say, Ya Rasulullah, wa ra'saa
I have a splitting headache.
And she says,
The Messenger of Allah says to me,
Bal ana ya Aisha, wa ra'saa
Aisha, no no,
I have a splitting headache.
And then a conversation takes place
between the husband and wife.
Who will die first?
So the Messenger of Allah
lovingly
and jokingly with his wife,
he says to Aisha,
Aisha, if you die first,
ghassaltuki,
I will perform your ghassal.
Wa kaffantuki, I will shroud you.
And then I will seek forgiveness for you.
And then I will pray your Salatul Janazah.
And then Aisha
in the capacity of a wife,
she says, Ya Rasulullah,
well then once you've buried me,
you return to your other wives.
And she says,
The Rasul of Allah, he smiled,
thumma budia fee waj'ihi alladhi maata fee.
And this was the beginning
of the sickness of the Messenger of Allah
in which eventually he breathed
breathed his lahs
on this earth.
So the sickness begins at the end of
Safar.
And we go to five days before
the passing of the Messenger of Allah .
The sickness is intensifying.
The Messenger of Allah
is the Wednesday before his passing.
We're going to go through these final few days.
The Wednesday before his passing
is the time of Dhuhr.
The Sahaba had to
literally pour buckets of water
over the Messenger
so he can regain consciousness.
Today we have the miracle of medication.
You can regulate the body temperature.
At that time
when you had a fever, you would burn.
You would burn.
You would feel the pain.
The Prophet
says, I went into the house
of the Messenger
I placed
my hand on his forehead
and I said, Ya Rasul Allah
You have an extreme fever.
Ya Rasul Allah, you have an extreme fever.
And he says, the Messenger
said to me, O Abdullah
I have the fever
equal to two of you.
And what it meant at that time, there's no red
in the body temperature.
There's no medication, there's no Tylenol,
there's nothing that you can take at that time.
So they would tie the turban
tightly around their heads.
And this was the practice of the Arabs.
Why? It would distract you from one pain
by causing your body another
discomfort in your body.
It would distract you from the original pain.
The pain that you were feeling.
The Prophet mentioned that the Prophet
