The Mission of Muhammad Pbuh & Our Lives

The Mission of
Muhammad pbuh
&
Our Lives
Dr. Abdulazeez Abdulraheem
www.understandquran.co 1
Outline
1. His Mission
2. His Rights on us (Our
Obligations to Him, pbuh)
3. Start NOW with Time, Money,
Team
4. Following the Prophet pbuh
5. Workshops and Projects
1. His Mission
His Mission
It is He Who has sent
amongst the Unlettered a
ُ ْ َّ
messenger from among ‫ن‬ َ ‫ميِّي‬
ِّ ‫ث فِي ال‬ َ َ‫هُوَ الذِي بَع‬
themselves ‫م‬
ْ ُ ‫منْه‬ ِّ ‫سوًل‬ ُ ‫َر‬
• who recites to them His
communications and ِ‫م آيَاتِه‬ ْ ِ‫ يَتْلُو عَلَيْه‬
• purifies them, and
‫م‬ْ ِ ‫يه‬ ّ ‫ك‬
ِ ‫ز‬َ ُ ‫ي‬ َ ‫و‬ 
• teaches them the Book
and ‫ب‬ َ ‫م الْكِتَا‬ ُ ُ‫مه‬ ُ ِّ ‫ وَيُعَل‬
• the Wisdom,
‫ة‬َ ‫م‬ َ ْ ‫حك‬ ِ ْ ‫ وَال‬
although they were before
certainly in clear error, ‫في‬ ِ َ ‫ل‬ ُ
‫ل‬ ْ ‫ب‬َ ‫ق‬ ‫من‬ ِ ‫وا‬ ُ ‫ان‬ َ ‫وَإِن ك‬
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His Mission – to recite!
Same verses are recited today! Do we

care to understand them as they are
recited?
Can we even recite the way he recited?

(with tajweed!). Or we can’t even
read because we just don’t read it.
Don’t have time!
His Mission – to teach
He was Mu’allim (teacher). Then who

should be his students? Us!!! Are we
not too busy!
In other words, we are saying: O Prophet

(pbuh), you may be Mu’allim but we
don’t have time to be your student (to
learn Qur’an)!
Or is his prophethood was limited to his

times only (i.e., we don’t need to be
We have two things with us:
 Al-Qur’an - Theory
 Sunnah from the Saheb-e-Qur’an
(The man of Al-Qur’an) – Practical
Demonstration as to how to live
according to Al-Qur’an.
So our task is… Learn it &
Convey it to a Billion Muslims
َّ ُ
‫م‬ ‫عل‬
َ َ ْ َ ْ ‫خيُْرك‬
َ ‫ت‬ ‫ن‬ ‫م‬ ‫م‬ َ
َّ ُ
‫ه‬
ُ َ ‫م‬ ‫عل‬ َ ‫و‬
َ ‫ن‬
َ ‫قرآ‬ ‫ال‬
The Best of you is the one who learns the
(Qur’an and teaches it (to others
‫ما‬ ّ
ً ِ ‫عل‬
َ ‫م‬
ُ ‫ت‬ ْ
ُ ‫عث‬ِ ُ ‫ما ب‬ َ
َ ّ ‫إِن‬
So our task is… Learn it &
Convey it to a Billion Muslims
We have to be a part of his mission!
The task is huuuuuuuuge. Almost a

billion Muslims (82% Muslims are non-
Arabs) just don’t understand the
Arabic Qur’an. Translations contain
the message but they are not Al-
Qur’an.
And the Next Task is…
Convey it To Non-Muslims… Almost 6

Billions!!!!
ً َ ‫و آي‬
‫ة‬ ْ َ ‫ول‬ ‫ي‬ِ ّ ‫ن‬ ‫ع‬
َ ‫غوا‬
ُ ّ ِ ‫بل‬
Convey from me even an Ayah of the
.]Qur'an ]Bukhari
We don’t even understand it ourselves nor

do we interact with it daily! How can we
convey it to others?
His Mission – to do
Tazkiah
Tazkiah: Purfication
Tazkiah is removal of wrong things and

infusion of right things … and that too
step by step (like a farmer)
He purified the lives of Sahabah in all

aspects; in their creed, thinking,
morals, dealings,…
His Mission – to do
Tazkiah
We need to know it first (through ahadeeth

and Seerah)
And do it for ourselves and then on others

too whom we care (with wisdom … ).
Hikmah
Hikmah: Sunnah / Understanding of

Shariah
Both of these are in Hadith and Seerah.
We need to know it and teach it as well to

others.
His Tasks…
 Dawah to everyone
 Tazkiah of those who accepted him as
the Prophet.
 Implementation (of Allah’s
commandments) in individual and
collective life.
That should be our mission too, if we

believe in him, if we love him, if we
really follow him, …
• His Rights on us
or
Our Obligations to Him,
pbuh
His Rights on us
Our Obligations to him
(pbuh).
َّ َ
So (as for) those who ‫ن‬
َ ‫فالذِي‬
• believe in him and
ِ ‫منُوا ْ بِه‬ َ ‫ آ‬
• honor him and
• help him, and ُ ‫ وَعََّزُروه‬
• follow the light
which has been sent ُ ‫ه‬ ‫رو‬ ُ ‫ص‬
َ َ ‫ن‬ َ ‫و‬ 
down with him, ُ َ
َ ِ‫ وَاتَّبَعُواْالنُّوَر ال ّذِيَ أنز‬
‫ه‬
ُ َ ‫مع‬
َ ‫ل‬
these it is that are the
successful. (157 ‫ن )أعراف‬ ْ َ َ ُ
َ ‫حو‬ ُ ِ ‫فل‬
ْ ‫م‬
ُ ‫م ال‬ ُ ُ‫أوْلـئ ِك ه‬
To be successful, we
need to do all the 4 !!!
1. Believe in him : (Accept everything
that he brought)
2. Honor him: (includes loving him)
3. Help him: (in his mission)
4. Follow the light (Al-Qur’an) which
has been sent down with him,
The 3rd one: Help him
- Wa-nasaroohu (plural…Teamwork!)
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Helping the Prophet pbuh in his mission can not
be done by scattered individuals. It has to
be a team work.
Example: Construction a building! – not possible
without planning, coordination, execution,
follow-up, …
Helping the Prophet pbuh is a huuuuge task
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3. Start now with
time, money, team
So Start with Time…
 To know the Prophet pbuh, give time,

to read, to listen…
 Example – To Love the Prophet pbuh
– Impossible to love someone without
knowing him ENOUGH.
Example – Loving the
Prophet pbuh
‫ن‬ ْ ‫م‬ ْ َ َ ُّ ِ ‫النَّب‬

ْ ‫م‬
ِ ‫ن‬
َ ‫منِي‬
ِ ‫ؤ‬ ُ ‫ول َى بِال‬ ْ ‫أ‬ ‫ي‬
‫م‬
ْ ‫ه‬ ِ ‫س‬ ُ ْ ‫أن‬
ِ ‫ف‬
The Prophet is closer to the Believers
than their own selves ]33:6].
‫ل يؤمن أحدكم حتى أكون أحب‬

‫إليه من والده وولده والناس‬
‫أجمعين‬
“No one of you becomes a true believer
until I become more beloved to him than
Prophet pbuh
Allah knew the love of the Prophet pbuh
on his Ummah and that is why He asked
us to love him.
 The Prophet pbuh was more kind to us than
we are to ourselves
 Our selves (nafoos) call us toward fire, and
he pbuh called us towards Jannah. He
showed us the path to salvation
Prophet pbuh
The Prophet pbuh said:
“My example is like the example of a person
who kindled fire. When it lighted, moths and
insects around it started falling into the fire.
The man tried (his best) to prevent them,
(from falling into the fire) …”
Prophet pbuh
 When he was alive, he carried the burdens of
this Ummah while the Ummah enjoyed the
life:
He said:
“if a true believer dies and leaves behind some
property, it will be for his inheritors (from the
father’s side), and if he leaves behind some
debt to be paid or needy offspring, then they
should come to me as I am the guardian of
the deceased.”
Prophet pbuh
 His continuous sacrifice … has a direct link to
me being a Muslim.
 He reserved a special accepted prayer for the
Ummah, for us, on the day of judgment.
So if we know about him, we can do what

he wanted us to do.
Therefore start reading books on Seerah

and Ahadeeth!
Budget for..
 Books (BUILD THE LIBRARY …)

– Qur’an learning
– Hadith collections
– Seerah Collections (small, med, large)
 Do it:
– For self
– For others
 Dawah work
– Supporting Dawah teams/ workers, etc.)
In fact, budget for…
 Budget for Money (% of Salary!)

 Plan for Time
 Make a Team
Budget your Time!!!
 Without spending time, books won’t help!!!

 Prepare a time slot for:
– Family reading
– Organize and attend workshops
– Personal Reading (medium size & Big
volumes)
 Big volumes in holidays, weekends
And Make a Team…
 Organize family sessions (at least 3

minutes per day… if not, then an hour
per week).
 Family sessions generally are not
regular. Therefore, have parallel
programs of males, females, and
children.
 Join dawah teams / organizations and
help yourself by helping them!
And follow-up…
Evaluate Plan
Implement
4. Following the
Prophet pbuh
Following the Prophet
pbuh
Following the Prophet is:
 Easy in Non-challenging situations
(Relatively)
– The way he slept, he sat, he ate…
 Challenging in Tough Situations of our life:
– Remember 10 stories of Prophet pbuh for

10 such tough situations
– 2 Examples…
pbuh
Example -1 : How he lived with those
who did not let him go according to
his plan…
Battle of Uhud – His plan was to defend and

not go out. But a good number persisted
to go out.
pbuh
Example -1 : How he lived with those
who did not let him go according to his
plan…
After so many casualties in Uhud, he never

said anything to them who wanted to go out.
Comments by Allah
َ ‫ت فَظًّا غَلِي‬
‫ظ‬ َ ‫م وَلَوْ كُن‬
ْ ُ‫ت لَه‬ َ ‫ن اللّهِ لِن‬َ ‫م‬ ِّ ٍ‫مة‬ َ ‫ح‬
ْ ‫ما َر‬ َ ِ ‫فَب‬
‫فْر‬
ِ ْ‫ستَغ‬
ْ ‫م وَا‬ ُ ْ‫ك فَاع‬
ْ ُ‫ف عَنْه‬ َ ِ ‫حوْل‬ َ ‫ن‬
ْ ِ ْ ‫ضوا‬
‫م‬ ُّ ‫ف‬ َ ‫ب لَن‬ ِ ْ ‫قل‬
َ ْ ‫ال‬
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pbuh
Thus it is due to mercy from Allah that you
deal with them gently, and had you been
rough, hard hearted, they would certainly
have dispersed from around you; pardon
them therefore and ask pardon for them,
and take counsel with them in the affair;
so when you have decided, then place
your trust in Allah; surely Allah loves those
who trust. [3:159]
How many times do we follow this

example!
pbuh
Example -2 : How he lived with those who
did not let him go according to his plan…
The captives of Banu Qaynuqaa’ and

Abdullah bin Ubi’s role in releasing the
captives.
When it comes to living with “hypocrites”,

how do we interact with them? Give them
names? Insult them? Ask Allah to kill
them?
pbuh
Similarly, do I remember an example from his
life:
– When I am angry (how many times I did that
last week?)
– When confronted with false allegations…
– When faced with death or sickness…
– …
Evaluate these aspects in terms of how I

did in the past week!!! Not just
5. Workshops and
Projects
Hold Workshops on
Seerah
 Just listening one speech after the other is
not enough!
 Have Learning sessions followed by quizes,
workbooks, activities…
 Prepare proper handouts, statistics,
timelines, FAQ about seerah, one-minute
presentation practice on FAQ, …
In brief, make sure that the audience learns…
Projects on Prophet pbuh
 Time Management model of the Prophet

pbuh – in modern terms. The Most influential
person has to be the best in time
management. Why not follow & promote this
model?
 Similarly let us put forward his Human

Resources management model. His disciples
ruled the world!
All these should be IN SIMPLEST STYLES (usable

by common man) – not just theories and
ppts, flash
presentations, …
 Timeline of his life
 Selected Stories of the Prophet
 List of Books (elders and children) along with
brief reviews
 Models of Prophet’s house; Prophet’s mosque,…
to show everyone as to how he lived!
 Maps and atlases (showing the journeys, routes,
ghazawaat, sariyyah, expansion of the Islamic
state in his time, along with statistics…)
ppts, flash
presentations, …
Special Presentations on the Prophet pbuh as:
• A Preacher
• A teacher
• A worshipper
• A Zaakir
• A Husband
• A leader
• A Murabbi/Muzakki (Trainer)
In this era of information explosion, almost

nothing… is there on the internet in terms of
ppts and flash presentations on the Prophet
pbuh.
Each one, take one!!! Do something on this

side.
Sisters can also do a lot.
As an Ummah, we have
 Highly competent in profession, creative in
their plans, aggressive in their growth
 But Extremely ‘poor’, sloppy, sluggish,
‘innocent’, ‘simpletons’ when it comes to
Islamic work. Why?
– Perhaps the true answer is ‘We just don’t
care!’.
 PLEASE…… LET US DO SOMETHING!
We have seen…
1. His Mission
2. His Rights on us (Our Obligations
to Him, pbuh)
3. Start NOW with Time, Money,
Team
4. Following the Prophet pbuh
5. Workshops and Projects
May Allah give us Tawfeeq to
fulfill all the rights of the
Prophet pbuh on us… including
“Helping him in his mission”
in our lives.
But Again! Start planning
now!
Yes, NOW!
(or that time may never come)!
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Same verses are recited today! Do we

Can we even recite the way he recited?

He was Mu’allim (teacher). Then who

In other words, we are saying: O Prophet

Or is his prophethood was limited to his

We have two things with us:

The task is huuuuuuuuge. Almost a

Convey it To Non-Muslims… Almost 6

We don’t even understand it ourselves nor

Tazkiah is removal of wrong things and

He purified the lives of Sahabah in all

We need to know it first (through ahadeeth

And do it for ourselves and then on others

Hikmah: Sunnah / Understanding of

Both of these are in Hadith and Seerah.

We need to know it and teach it as well to

That should be our mission too, if we

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

 To know the Prophet pbuh, give time,

‫ن‬ ْ ‫م‬ ْ َ َ ُّ ِ ‫النَّب‬

‫ل يؤمن أحدكم حتى أكون أحب‬

So if we know about him, we can do what

Therefore start reading books on Seerah

 Books (BUILD THE LIBRARY …)

 Budget for Money (% of Salary!)

 Without spending time, books won’t help!!!

 Organize family sessions (at least 3

– Remember 10 stories of Prophet pbuh for

Battle of Uhud – His plan was to defend and

After so many casualties in Uhud, he never

How many times do we follow this

The captives of Banu Qaynuqaa’ and

When it comes to living with “hypocrites”,

Evaluate these aspects in terms of how I

 Time Management model of the Prophet

 Similarly let us put forward his Human

All these should be IN SIMPLEST STYLES (usable

In this era of information explosion, almost

Each one, take one!!! Do something on this

Sisters can also do a lot.

“Helping him in his mission”

(or that time may never come)!

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