Prophet 
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
25 February 2010 Abidjan, Ivory Coast
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. Sallu alan-nabi, sallu alan-nabi, sallu alan-nabi! (salawaat). A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
No one can speak about the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). No one can understand what Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Because Allah said in Holy Qur'an:
إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرَ
Inna `atayna kal kawthar,
We have given you (yaa Muhammad) lots. (108:1)
He didn’t say “a lot,” meaning a little bit, no. It means, "We have given you lots and lots." So no one can define the meaning of “lots” because what Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is infinite.
Allah (swt) created Adam (a) and ordered angels to make sajdah to Adam (a), and angels went immediately into sajdah. When they went into sajdah, according to many scholars of Islam, it was sajdah of ihtiraam, respect, not sajdah of `ibaadah; it was sajdah of respect to the light and presence of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in Adam (a). Don’t think that it is too much!
I will give you a small example in science. If you want to go above the Earth in the atmosphere, you need a space shuttle to take you up to 100 kilometers, not more; you need a vehicle to take you up and to bring you down safe. If you don’t use a space shuttle you will burn completely, you will disintegrate. Think about Sayyidina Muhammad (s); he did not use a space shuttle, he physically rode Buraaq and went through this universe to qaaba qawsayni aw adna (within two bows' length). It is not in the universe, because the universe is something created. Qaaba qawsayni aw adnaa is a place of the Reality and Presence of Allah (swt). There Allah revealed to Prophet (s) what He revealed and he came back to Earth, and still his mattress was warm! His body was able to go and come back (that fast)!!
That is why don’t say Muhammad (s) is like us, no! Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is Sayyid ul-Bashar. Allah (swt) gave him what He did not give anyone. Allah said in Holy Qur'an:
وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىمَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى
Wa 'n-najmi idha hawaa, ma dallah saahibukum wa maa ghawaa, wa maa yantiqu `anil-hawaa, in huwa illa wahyun yoohaa.
By the Star when it settetYour comrade erreth not, nor is deceived; Nor doth he speak of (his own) desire. It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired. (53:1-5)
in huwa illa wahyun yooha, He never speaks except revelation from Allah (swt).
فَأَوْحَى إِلَى عَبْدِهِ مَا أَوْحَى مَا كَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَى
Fa awhaa ila `abdihi maa awhaa, maa kadhabal-fuaad maa ra’a.
So did ((Allah)) convey the inspiration to His Servant- (conveyed) what He (meant) to convey. (53:10-11)
What He revealed to His prophet, no one knows until today. Until the Day of Judgment, until everyone goes to Paradise, no one will know what Allah (swt) gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) because it is only for him, not for anyone else.
Astronauts can only go up 100 kilometers, they cannot go more. Space shuttles going to Mars take years to reach and come back, if they can. This is the solar system, beyond this solar system we are in a galaxy in which scientists found today, there are 80 billion stars. And Prophet (s) was able to go not only through one galaxy with 80 billion stars; there are 6,000 galaxies in which every galaxy has more than 100 billion stars! With the speed that you cannot imagine, Prophet (s) was able to reach the Divine Presence.
If you are in a bus or in a car, the driver can see everything on the right and left, all the stores, shops, and buildings. That is because when you are driving you are passing them so you know what is there. If you are in a plane you can look from the window and see all these different countries that you are passing, and you even memorize it. What do you think about that one who went into 6000 galaxies, with billions of stars in every galaxy? Allah was giving him `uloomu 'l-awwaleen wa 'l-akhireen, "the knowledge of before and after." Not only Islamic knowledge, as people think. Allah (swt) gave Prophet (s) all scientific explanations because most of his ahadeeth are predictions that scientists are discovering and confirming today.
In his ahadeeth of the Last Days we can find lots of discoveries that he mentioned 1400 years ago. Prophet (s) was able to penetrate through this universe, seeing and knowing everything through his heart and mind, until reaching qaaba qawsayni aw adnaa, which is what? Qaws means "one arm"; the length of the bow is one arm. But Allah said in Holy Qur'an, qaaba qawsayni aw adnaa. How much adnaa or less? No one can understand how much Prophet (s) was near the Divine Presence until some scholars of Islam, like Imam Nawawi (r), explained. He said that in his Isra wal M`iraj (Night Journey) when Prophet (s) reached qaaba qawsayni aw adnaa, that is where he met Jibreel (a), but he was seeing his Lord with the eyes of the head. Fa awhaa ila `abdihi maa awhaa, "Jibreel (a) was not there," meaning that Allah (swt) revealed directly to Sayyidina Muhammad (s). What He revealed no one knows, except what Prophet (s) said to us, that is what we know. But what he kept hidden, no one knows. Until the Day of Judgment no one will know the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!
Prophet (s) said, “Human beings disintegrate except the coccyx,” the tailbone. It will never disintegrate; it will be living in the grave. Prophet (s) said that hadith 1400 years ago. Today scientists made a discovery. They took one coccyx from a dead person and burned it under high pressure and checked the ashes and found that there are living cells inside the coccyx. They took another coccyx and crushed it under very high pressure until it became powder, and checked that powder, where they found one living cell inside. There are a lot of scientific ahadeeth of Prophet (s) and I think many scholars today are discovering more and more.
That shows us that Allah (swt) loves Sayyidina Muhammad (s) so much, that He gave him so much. That’s why He said, “Yaa Muhammad (s), I gave you a lot. I gave you the love,” Inna `atayna ka 'l-kawthar. That’s why as much as we love the Prophet (s), we are not yet coming to a perfect love. If your son or daughter is sick, you don’t sleep all night. If you are traveling, you keep calling your daughter or son asking, “How are you doing? What are you doing?” Are you remembering Prophet (s) as you remember your children when they are sick? Are you remembering Prophet (s) every moment when your husband or wife is traveling? No! That is why our love to Prophet (s) is not yet complete. Allahumma salli`ala Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana stands and sits.)
I will give you another scientific example to show `adhaamatu 'l-Islam, the greatness of Islam. Allah said in Suratu 'l-Feel:
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
Alam tara kayfa fa`ala rabbuka bi ashaabi 'l-feel, alam yaj`al kaydahum fee tadleel, fa arsala `alayhim tayran abaabeel, tarmeehim bi hijaaratin min sijeel, fa ja`alahum ka`asfin maa kool. (105:1-5)
Have you (O Muhammad) not seen how your Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant? Did He not bring their stratagem to naught, And send against them Flights of Birds, which pelted them with stones of baked clay And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)? (105:1-5)
What does it mean? It means that look at the People of the Elephant who came to destroy the Ka`aba. What did Allah (swt) do? Fa arsala `alayhim tayran abaabeel, He sent on them birds coming directly from Paradise, arriving in Mecca and bombarding them. Every bird was carrying three pebbles in their beaks and claws. What does that mean? Allah (swt) made them into airplanes like F-16s or F-18s, carrying rockets in their beaks and claws, and that’s why He described them, tarmeehim bi hijaaratin min sijeel, throwing them with rockets from Hellfire.
Imam Suyuti (r) said that every stone became like a bullet with a red light (like a laser), hitting the person whose name was written on it! If it was written on it "Y", it killed only Y, not X. If it was written on it "X" it will kill only the person whose name is X. So every rocket was a wise rocket, or as they call today "smart bombs." Fourteen-hundred years ago, Allah (swt) explained about airplanes and smart bombs in the Holy Qur'an regarding those who were trying to destroy the Ka`aba. Fa arsala `alayhim tayran abaabeel, tarmeehim bi tijaratin min sijeel, fa ja`alahum ka’asfim ma’akool. He said these smart rockets that were turning and shining with power were moving and killing only human beings, not destroying the Ka`aba, like the hydrogen bomb of today that can destroy people but not buildings. Look at how technology is being mentioned in the Holy Qur'an 1400 years ago!
O Muslims! Remember and think about the greatness of the Holy Qur'an and the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), that he was able to carry the Holy Qur'an ! Allah (swt) said:
لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ وَتِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
Law anzalnaa haadha 'l-Qur'ana `ala jabalin la-raytahoo khaasheey`an mutasaddi`an min khashiyatillah wa tilka'l-amthaalu nadbribuhaa li 'n-naasi l`alahum yatafakaroon.
Had We sent down this Qur'an on a mountain, verily, thou wouldst have seen it humble itself and cleave asunder for fear of Allah. Such are the similitudes which We propound to men, that they may reflect. (59:21)
If we reveal this Holy Qur'an on a mountain, the mountain will disappear, but the heart of Muhammad (s) did not disappear.
Prophet (s) was able to carry the Holy Qur'an. Salloo `alayh, salloo `alayh, salloo `alayh! (Mawlana stands.)
May Allah (swt) forgive us.
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
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