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A few words from Shaykh A. Nooruddeen Durkee
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Alhamdulillahir Rabbil Alamin wa amma baad.
Brothers and Sisters, I am only going to speak a few words Inshallah and always I am speaking about the same thing.
Allah Subhana Huwatala says of the Prophet alaihis salatus saalam, "Wa ma arsalnaka illa rahmatallil 'alamin. He says, "Harisun alaikum bi mukmina raufur rahim." Alaihis salatus saalam says, "La yukmim billah hatta yuhibli akhliki ma yuhibli nafsi."
If you want to know the sunnah of the Rasulullah Alaihi wa salatus saalam: its not something that grows out of your chin, its not something that you put on your head. Its not some clothes you were. Its mercy to other human beings, its love of other human beings, its compassion for other human beings, its concern for your fellow human beings.
Allah says, "Ya aiyyhalladhina wa 'amilus salihati."
O you who believe and who make amal or actions which are salih (whole).
If you want the proof of the sunnah, its not to come here once a year, its not to come to jummah once a week. Allah! It is to live in this world as a representative of the Prophet alaihis was salatus saalam at in this time. It is to dispense mercy and justice to other human beings. Islam, it means saalam. There is no saalam without 'adl.There is no peace without justice, brothers. There is no peace without justice.
There is no justice without mercy. There is no mercy without love. And there is no love without freedom.
You can not take a gun and put a gun at somebody's head and tell "love me". You will put a gun at somebody's head and say "love me". They say ah I love you. I love you, I love you. Take away the gun, may be they don't love you anymore. Love is essentially self-communicative. You get it from those who have it.
Who had it? Rasulullah alaihi salatus saalam is the mentor for all human beings, for all nations, for all tribes, for all colors, for all languages, for all people, for all times. He existed before Adam was between clay and water. He existed by Jabar's saying, When Allah decided to make the creation He took the Noor from the Wajh, His Face and said Be ya Muhammad. Haja huwa al Muhammad alaihi wa salatus saalam? Haja huwa Muhammad alaihi wa salatus saalam? Filal awwal wal akhira. He existed in the beginning and the end and in the middle, alahi was salatus saalam.
He was the son of Abd'llah and 'Amina. He came to this world but he had a secret deeper than this world.
When he made the tawwaf Gibril congratulated him. He said "I made this tawwaf before you even stood here."
Before there was Gibril, before there was any creation, there was Muhamamd alaihi was salatus wasallam.
(from audience: Naraye Takbir, Allahu Akbar, Naraye Risalat, Ya Rasulullah)
If you want to be successful in this world and I mean, many of you people came from some place, I came from some place. We all came from some place.
If we want to be successful in where we are then we have to practice this sunnah. That is how it spread. It went from the Spain to the China. How it went? By this way: "Love for all and malice towards none." How did it spread in the sub-continent? How did Islam come to the sub-continent? How Indonesia, two hundred and forty million people. What army went to Indonesia? No army went to Indonesia. Love went to Indonesia. Love went to India. Love went everywhere.
And everywhere that Love went, then people said, "La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad Rasulullah."
Black, White, Red, Yellow, Green, Purple, it doesn't matter: who you are, where you are from. Thats the truth. But you have to know the truth. You have to understand and you have to know.
I am a teacher of children. The children come to me from parents, who's parents are muslims. They don't know things. They don't know about Rasulullah sallalahu wasalatus saalam. They don't know sometime who his mother. They love him but they don't know who his mother, who his father, they don't know who his friends were, who his companions were, who his family were. Why we have the milad? So that people can get knowledge. They can get understanding, they can know about him. When they come, the little ones, look at little boy going there running going ha ha ha. He only hear Muhammad, hu, Muhammad, hu. He hears in his ears. And when he hears in his ear, it goes from his ear to his heart. He grows up and he comes year after year.
Last year we said bring your friend. Last year remember there was a barrier there. That was all where we prayed. Look its filled with people! This, this when we work like this, when we work for this love, when we develope this love in our hearts. People love Love. When they love Love, they love you.
This is the khuduwa hasana of the Rasulullah alaihi wassalatus saalam.
He was love, they loved him. You love him, he loves you. You love him, you love your fellow human beings and peace, shekinah comes on the people.
(The talk was delivered at Mawlid event in Sterling, VA. 2008)
May Allah be pleased with Shaykh A. Nooruddeen Durkee, bless his work and grant him good life. Ameen.
(c) Green Mountain School | 2008