Muhammad(SAW): The Greatest Leader in Human History | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi

we won this level Dini what will happen soon he was unknowingly Sanji than me to me [Music] same smell alhamdulillah was salatu was-salam ala aalihi wa sahbihi woman wala hama bad so as you all know this will be the final lecture for my sojourn in this city and i ask allah azza wajal to bring it to a conclusion upon Baraka and hair and I was thinking about which topic to give and obviously it was something to do with the Prophet sallallahu said I'm in the last few months I have been thinking what should be the last one and I narrowed it down to two or three and one of our brothers came up to me a few days ago and basically suggested one of them in my head so I said bismillah I think that is the one to to to finish off with and in reality I was hesitant to do this topic that I will be doing today for the simple reason that one lecture does not do justice to it it was in my mind for a while to do but this topic well ayah you will see for yourself we will be rushing over so many points and without exaggeration this topic could easily have been done in maybe 10 lessons it would have been some justice to it but inshallah at least something is better than nothing as the saying goes and what I wanted to do today is to go over why we believe that our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was the single most successful person the single greatest leader the single greatest educator the single greatest human being who has ever come in the history of mankind and the reason why this is difficult is because how do you enumerate how do you put on a list that which doesn't really have an end and as well when you mention every single point there are literally dozens of examples and sometimes I won't even have time to give you any example so this is one of those points that ok well I'll give you a brief lecture today but in reality the entire serie you can cut and paste and use as examples over all of these points so what we're gonna do today is I will go over specifically 31 points that are universally acknowledged by anybody of intelligence there are traits and characteristics of successful leaders successful movers and shakers you will not be a successful leader unless you have some or all or most of these characteristics and our prophet sallallaahu aliens Elam had all of them and even more than them and he had perfected all of them so what we're gonna do today is go over 31 characteristics and why did I choose 31 simply because of timing literally I was going over this today and I had to stop because of time we only have one lecture to do and so every point is gonna have maybe two or three minutes and then I shall have to either move on I'll try to give at least one example if I don't then that's because it is self-evident and you can find your own examples and if you read any book on leadership any book on being even in a successful CEO you will come across some or all of these points and we will apply them to the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and demonstrate how perfect of a role model and how successful of a leader he was and obviously a leader is always the most successful of any group so when we say the Prophet system is the most successful leader automatically we imply he is the most successful human being in the history of mankind by any measure the whole point of this lecture you don't even have to be a Muslim to acknowledge that he is the most successful leader in all of human history and that is why I've also tried to compile compile some quotes that have been done by non-muslims who have studied the Sira by philosophers by intellectuals who have studied the Sira and they have come to the same conclusion that the single greatest leader in the history of mankind without a doubt must be our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and i'll begin by quoting you a book that most of us have heard growing up it was written almost 40 years ago in the 70s and it it went on the New York Times bestseller and whatnot and it was by famous intellectual of the last generation Michael Hart and he wrote his famous book the 100 a ranking of the most influential persons in human history writers the book that became famous in the 70s and it was a book that basically compiled the summaries literally of the 100 and the number-one out of this list and we all know who it is because we've heard about this book growing up but very few of us have actually read that that introductory chapter the number one on this list is the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu aleyhi wa salem and he says and i quote from his book my choice of Mohamed Salah iím to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers remember he's not a Muslim and most of the people I'll quote today are not gonna be Muslim may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others but he was the only man in history who was successful sorry who was supremely successful on both the religious and the secular level this is what Michael Hart wrote and in fact even he is being limiting because he only says religious and secular and we will see on many levels so let us began number one to be a true leader you must be a visionary and bring forth something new a new product a new model a new vision you must bring something new or else you're not a leader you're a follower to be a leader you must be a person who brings something new to the table and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom he didn't just bring something new in one area in one department in reality this one point can be spent at least four or five lectures he brought everything new a new theology a new ethics a new law he had a new society in mind and this is a topic that in and of itself we go into so many tangents he brought totally a different paradigm his model of society was completely different than the world that he lived in and this is something that is well acknowledged by many people the famous russian philosopher Leo Tolstoy he wrote that the legislation of the Quran will spread all over the world because it agrees with mind with logic and with wisdom this is Tolstoy writing that the Quranic example the prophetic example it is unparalleled one of the greatest minds of England of the last century HG Wells who wrote many famous novels GL's writes the Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings in behavior and inspired people with nobility and tolerance these are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable not only are the idealistic but they're also realistic these teachings brought into existence a society in which hard heartedness and collective impression and injustice were the least as compared to other societies islam is replete with gentleness courtesy and fraternity and quote so an unique vision bringing something totally different onto the plate number two to be a leader to be a successful leader you must have sincerity you must have motivation you must show that it lost to the people around you and no one can doubt the class of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom his entire serie from the beginning to the end is an example of that a class and self motivation he was not motivated by anything other than the true pleasure of Allah and this is something that fo an enemy friend and foe alike they must acknowledge every single incident from the famous one in which Abu Talib says to him what do you want we'll give you everything the Horesh came through Abu Talib and said that the kingdom will give you power will give you money will give you fame will give you and of course that famous quote which is one of the most famous quotes of the serie if they gave me the power of the Sun and the moon I would not abandon what I am doing and this is something that is readily acknowledged even by those who don't believe in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom Montgomery what of the last generation he was one of the famous Orientalists of England and he died 1953 Montgomery Roy sorry he died in the 60s but his book was written fifty three sorry Montgomery what when he's writing a Serie he was one of the first non-muslims to write a sympathetic sear on the 1950s like one generation ago one of the first non-muslims he has a book called Muhammad in Makkah another called Muhammad in Medina these two books they formed the basis for sympathetic ceará amongst non-muslims before him generally it was very unsympathetic Montgomery watt writes his readiness to undergo persecutions for his belief the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as a leader and the greatness of his ultimate achievement all argue for his fundamental integrity all evidences prove his fundamental integrity then he says and this is a problem that still irritates non-muslims to this day - suppose Muhammad sallallaahu Salim was an impostor raises more problems than it solves you understand this point to make the supposition that he was a liar that he didn't believe in what he's saying it's actually more problematic than the obvious which is that the truth moreover none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as is Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa seldom so Montgomery what is basically saying to claim that he wasn't sincere actually creates more problems than to claim that he was sincere everything points that he was indeed sincere and I remember on a personal level on an active anecdote as well that when I was at Yale one of my you know professor's world-famous figure or obviously everybody there is world-famous so we are having very frank conversations and I even brought up this point like what do you think is the motivation like why would this man come Salalah Selim and start preaching this message and my own professor was an agnostic he said oh I have no doubt that he was sincere I have no doubt that he believed he was a prophet so the sincerity is not really challenged by any serious researcher and this is the sign of a good leader the third sign that we're gonna mention is the fact that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom had to undergo personal struggles in his own life to become a leader in other words look at where he began and look at where he ended he was born into a family that was relatively unknown he was obscure Bey by and large of even of the civilizations the out of civilisation who was one of the most backward at the time he didn't have wealth that he was born into he didn't have power he wasn't born in a line of kings in fact everything that he did allah azzawajal allowed him to create his own legacy with the help of allah subhana wa ta'ala he began with nothing orphaned at birth without even throughout his early years without any power behind him without any army without even a formal education and yet look at where he went in the short span of a lifetime one of England's most famous philosophers of the last generation Thomas Carlyle he writes that one other circumstance we must not forget meaning of the profitsystem that he had no school learning of the thing they had no education the art of writing was just introduced and it seems that he couldn't even write life in the desert was all of his education and despite all of this his wisdom that that he learned was in a manner that basically I'm translating that he learned all that he did from the meagre circumstances around him and he still created what he did so the personal struggle of a person to rise from nothing it's one thing that you're the son of a king and you creates a better Empire okay it's one thing you born the son of a billionaire and then you become even more wealthy but to be born with very very meager circumstance without even parents alive when you're growing up and yet to create the world that seated by the pleasure and the blessings of Allah no doubt look at how leadership is done and from where to where did our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam go point number four to be a leader you have to be confident you have to have that sense of self-confidence exude that sense of character and confidence and your followers need to sense that and were as well a true leader has to believe in his own product and be its champion and Karen Armstrong the famous you know educator of our time she's still alive Karen Armstrong she says that Islam is a religion of success unlike Christianity Karen Armstrong was a nun she was a believing Christian for over 25 years of her life she was a dedicated her life to the church if she says anything about Christianity has the full right to desist to say so unlike Christianity which has as its main image in the West at least a man dying in a devastating disgraceful helpless death Mohammed Salim was not an apparent failure he was a dazzling success politically as well as spiritually an Islam went from strength to strength to strength this Karen Armstrong riding the strength of character of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam point number five to be a leader you must be eloquent you cannot be a leader when you are not eloquent and you must have effective communication skills you must be an effective speaker an effective public speaker and there is no question that our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was given as he himself said I have been given the most concise and precise of speech or at lead to Jo ah me I'll column I have been given the most succinctly studied the wisdom of the prophet salallahu alaihe salam every day after Asia when I'm here we do rialto salat in and we derive so many pearls from what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom said and also also when you look at his hood buzz when you see how he impacted people through his speech one of the Arabists ie the person who would compile Arabic dictionaries and was an expert in the Arabic language and he wrote the famous dictionary Stanley Lane Poole his dictionary is very famous Stanley Lane pool he lived in Egypt many years this is back in the 1800s he writes that those who saw him were suddenly filled with reverence those who came near him loved him those who described him would say I have never seen anyone before him or liked him after him liked him and he was of great tacit taciturnity means he spoke little but when he spoke it was with emphasis and deliver deliberation and no one could forget what he said this is Stanley Lane pool writing about the eloquence of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam point number six to be an effective leader you cannot be a coward you have to be courageous you have to be bold you have to be decisive and in the entire 63 years of the life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom never once did he even indicate the whiff of fear never once did he have any doubt never once was cowardice displayed from him this despite the fact that he was physically attacked assassins came to kill him arrows were thrown at him spears were lodged in his own face and mouth and in fact during some of the battles he was the one at the very forefront the companions fled in the battle of hunayn and the prophets or some stayed put as the errors are coming he saying come to me come to me that is what you call courage hadith in Sahadi that at night there was a large crowd cry that came out a large sound we didn't know what it was we came out out of our houses timidly and we found the prophets Allah Saddam had already jumped on the horse of a sahabi without even a saddle he had his his his sword around his neck hanging and he had already come back from the place of the noise saying you have nothing to fear you have nothing to fear this is the true leader courageous at the very forefront in fact the Prophet sallallaahu and he was seldom was the one the Sahaba would turn to at times of distress and they would get uplifted point number seven to be a leader you have to be persuasive you have to be able to convince people of your message and look at how many people he convinced from the very early beginnings of Islam when the tribal chieftain amativeness i came and there was only Balad and abu bakr and he said Tim who are you he said I'm a prophet he said what is a prophet never heard of a prophet and within a five minute conversation I'm Arab nabis accepts Islam to the number of pagans and wooshnikins who converted to the chief rabbi of Medina who converted simply by looking at the prophets of Allah who I said up to that chieftain who was a Christian of the lands of Yemen Adia Ben had him who came to him the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam persuaded all of those people to believe in him and not only that he continued to persuade people even those that have never seen him like us we are persuaded by his truth and his character imagine you don't even we haven't even seen the profit system and we are you clean that he is indeed the rasul allah and this is something that one of the greatest leaders of christianity of our times pope john paul ii he acknowledged when he said the religiosity of muslims deserve respect it is impossible not to admire their fidelity to their prophet to their prayer the image of the believers in allah who without caring for time and place fall on their knees and immerse themselves in prayer remains a model for those who invoke the true god in particular for those christians who having deserted their cathedrals pray only very little end quote in other words pope john paul ii is saying the faithfulness of the Muslims and believing in their prophet we as Christians should learn from that how dedicated they are that they are observant and this goes back to we are persuaded by the Prophet system even though we haven't even seen him we believe in his message even though we haven't heard his own voice and this leads me to the next point point number eight that it's one thing to follow it's another thing to be loyal people follow sometimes out of greed sometimes out of fear but loyalty comes from the heart and our professor Lala who I they he was seldom inspired loyalty like no other person heraclius his question to Abu Sufyan has anyone ever abandoned the faith after having embraced it and he said no no one has ever embraced the faith and then accepted point number nine you can be loyal but then to have that combination of fear and love and respect is something that only the Muslims have for the Prophet sallallaahu either you sell him the leader inspires true love and not just loyalty not just we agree and were obeying but we want to genuinely sacrifice for you and of course there are so many examples amongst them the famous one when the correlation the mushrikuna tricked after bitter meruna they tricked some of the Sahaba and they massacred them and the famous incident of Zeta minnerath Ana having been brought to the execution and one of the people taunted him don't you wish that Mohammad Ahsan was in your place and his famous response no allahi I would rather die than even a thorn prick the foot of the prophet sallallaahu idly he was seldom and nobody he's not lying he's about to die he doesn't even know his words are gonna be recorded and remembered in history that sense of genuine love and respect that we all know and those outside of our faith they mock our faith for sometimes going to excesses and there is true sometimes some Muslims do but that genuine love that comes is the sign of a true believer Gandhi believe it or not and by the way why are all of these readers and and intellectuals quoting the prophecies have been talking about him very simple leaders study of their other leaders philosophers study other thinkers so when I quote all of these people imagine Tolstoy in Russia in the 1850s is studying the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam I'm gonna quote Nepali why is Napoleon studying the Syrah I'm quoting Gandhi why is Gandhi studying the Syrah why because every mover and shaker is wise enough to know I need to study the movers and shakers before me every true leader is humble enough to know let me see what the previous guys did so that I can learn from their good and then implemented so Gandhi writes and in one of his writings that I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword by violence that won a place for Islam no it was the rigid simplicity the utter self-effacement meaning humility of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for his pledges his intense devotion to his friends and followers his fearlessness and his absolute trust in God and his own mission when I closed the second volume of the prophets biography I told you about the two volumes Gandhi read it when I closed the second volume Gandhi is saying I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life this is Gandhi saying I wanted to read more only two volumes in English I found and I wanted to read more point number 10 a true leader must be humble humility is the characteristic of a genuine bona fide mover and shaker no one likes arrogance and generally speaking typically power breeds arrogance typically when you're in charge you become egotistical you become maniacal typically when you have the kingdom and you are the boss then you become like pharaon or you become like the tyrants we see throughout human history it is extremely rare to find a humble leader and yet the lifestyle of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send him his genuine humility cannot be doubted by anyone he would not even like that the Sahaba stood up in his presence he ate and lived like everyone else he sat down on the floor to eat the food that was given to him he couldn't be told apart from his own followers when somebody entered the room they would find everybody dressed exactly the same Reverend Bosworth one of the Scottish orientalists of the of the last generation and also somebody who opened the door for studying Islam in a more sympathetic light he wrote in 1874 150 years ago he wrote and here he has a small biography of the Prophet system he wrote he was the Caesar and the Pope in one but he was the Pope without the Pope's pretensions and the Caesar without the legions of Caesar in other words without the fancy clothing and without the army of the leaders without any bodyguard without a palace without a standing army without a fixed revenue if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled ruled by divine right it was Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa seldom for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supporters so this is Reverend Bosworth writing about to the life of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam point number eleven a true leader has to act strategically and make the best of every situation and this is something we find of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom in every circumstance no matter what he had he made the best of it and he comes out a winner the entire life is a strategy the entire serie is a strategy of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and if you listen to any lecture of mine or any serie chapter you will find this strategic excellence of the prophet sallallaahu either you salem point number 12 to be a true leader there must be a combination between strictness and compassion between mercy and between justice that that perfect combination is so rare when should you be strict and when should you be merciful when should you be more just when should you be more compassionate and that is something that almost every leader falls into here or there on occasion but our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam managed to strike the perfect balance between strictness and justice on the one side and compassion and mercy on the other and again the entire serie is a testimony to this as I have said many times in my serie the general rule was compassion and mercy sometimes you would forgive his worst enemies and this was the default and the conquest of Makkah demonstrates this but at other times very rarely but when the I'm call for it he extracted justice and he showed what it means to disobey also deserves to be punished and there are a number of incidents the incident of gabon etre or the execution of specific people and the conquest of Makkah that combination of compassion and strictness of justice and mercy our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send them perfected it point number 13 a true leader manages himself self-management almost every leader has a mini army of staffs of piays of secretaries who micromanage look at any leader you will have one secretary for this and one that and one chauffeur and one this and that yet who can say that like the prophet sallallaahu ID he was seldom he did everything himself he didn't have an official secretary he didn't have an official chauffeur he did all of his own work including as I said milking his own goat and sewing and mending his own clothes along with meeting the famous delegations and along with taking charge of the army affairs making sure who's standing where no delegation he is in charge and he's managing himself everything from top to bottom what leader can even do this in our times every leader needs an entire mini army to micromanage and to delegate but our prophet system did not have that he did everything on his own point number 14 a leader cares about the followers and the genuine care there is an interest in those who follow you to make sure that they are taken care of and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would genuinely care about the Sahaba he would know when someone had not showed up he would know if somebody didn't come what happened where is so-and-so in the famous incident of Tabuk when the entire army has left Medina and a lone person comes from the distance he says let it be a Buddha how did he even know that a Buddha is missing from the entire army the whole army is there of a thousand five hundred people and he knows up with that is not there so when he sees the one man walking he says let it be a Buddha just imagine I remarked at that point in time look at his monitoring of everybody over there the beautiful hadith and Behati where that little baby boy on Assembly Malik's younger brother he used to have a pet bird remember that story I mention it right and the boy was missing for a day or two and then he came really sad and really distressed and he didn't have the bird and the profitsystem is noticing the boy is just like a three year old four year old little kid and the process of notices the kid is in distress he is crying so he says the famous statement yeah about who made my father know layer that abou no made he made a Cunha for the boy what happened to your little pet bird this is what you called the care and the concern of the prophet sallallaahu I D he was seldom as well we have again told story the same person that I mentioned before toaster by the way he wrote a beef brief pamphlet again this is almost 200 years ago in Russia can you imagine I don't know what his sources were I don't know where he got his information from but he wrote about the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he has a little treatise called who is Muhammad this is Leo Tolstoy the famous you know Russian intellectual of the early 19th century that he writes in his booklet there is no doubt that the Prophet Muhammad is one of the greatest reformers at the service of social improvement suffice to say that he led a whole nation to the enlightenment of truth and made it more inclined towards tranquility peace and modesty preventing it from shedding blood and from offering human sacrifice making the pre-islamic Arabs this great task that can be carried out only by an exceptionally strong man and such a man deserves to be regarded with respect and admiration this is Tolstoy speaking about again they care that the Prophet system had for his followers number 15 to be a leader to be a true visionary you need to have a very clear goal in mind you to be a visionary you have to have a vision you have to have a mission and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom had the greatest mission known to mankind and that is to take them out of the darkness to the light of tawheed and in particular his own people to unite the out of the Quraysh and then all of the Arabs and that eventually all of mankind upon the worship of allah subhana wa ta'ala what a noble vision look at other leaders their goal is to make money other leaders their goal is to make one product other leaders whatever they have the noble goal of our Prophet SAW said of the concrete vision the high mission thomas carlyle again one of the greatest minds of England of the last century he has a book called heroes and hero worship and it's about heroes and about the admiration of those heroes he has a whole chapter about our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send them thomas carlyle he wonders he remarks how could one man single-handedly well together the warring tribes and the veterans into the most powerful and civilized nation on earth in less than two decades how could one man do this a silent great soul one that who cannot be anything but earnest he must be sincere he was a kindle to the world a light to the world the world's maker allah azzawajal had ordered this so thomas carlyle is saying he is a rattle in alameen only because allah azza wajal made him that way number sixteen one of the one of the characteristics of a true leader is not only do you have a vision but you achieve that goal you are in fact successful and that is something that again our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom demonstrated there are many who never lived to see the success they never lived to see the fruits of their efforts there are many who fail along the way how many of those who attempt to get to their goal and never get to the end for some have said for every successful leader there are 99 that are unsuccessful for every successful engineer or not engineer we call that the patentee that the inventor for every successful inventor maybe 999 are unsuccessful these are just they say Allah so he knows the exact ratio despite all the odds the prophet sallallaahu while you said them succeeded and that is the sign of a true leader Edward Gibbon that famous philosopher and historian who wrote the rise and fall of the Roman Empire he is the of the 17th century I three hundred years ago Edward Gibbon he writes that it is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder it's not just that he taught it's the fact that it remained he was successful the muhammadans again he's writing in 1700 the muhammad is what they called him have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing their object of their faith and their devotion to a level with the senses and imaginations of man ilaha illaallah muhammaden-rasul allah is the simple profession of islam this is Edward Gibbon writing the intellectual image of God has never been degraded to an idol the honors of the Prophet have never transgressed beyond the measure of human virtue and his ideas have remained amongst his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion ie he is saying the message that the processing came with it has lasted and in he goes on and on Indians Africans Turks they have all taken this message and they have implemented it this is somebody writing 350 years ago and he's marveling were not surprised that the process I'm taught were surprised that the message lasted so much and all of these diverse people are implementing it number 17 to be a true leader is to lead by example actions speak louder than words he didn't just talk sallallahu alayhi wasallam he led by example he was literally in the trenches in the Battle of the trench he was at the forefront of every major battle he was at the head of the army in her name he himself participated in the assembly line of carrying bricks when the Masjid is being built and the list goes on and on he led by example and not just by command and speech he himself did the same chores he himself walked when people had to walk in the famous incident where in the Battle of Tabuk they had to share three people to a camel a leader the Ilona said the Auto suit Allah you know me and my colleague will say we will walk and you stay on the camel and he smiled and he said neither are the two of you and he's stronger than I am nor am I in any less need of the other than YouTube we will share equally on the camel all three of them then shared the camel he's leading by example when we read about his simplicity he said the standard so high that none of us can even come close to it when we read about his worship and tahajud we marvel how could he do that and still do what he did in every area he led not only by action but also by example not just talk but demonstrating what it means number eighteen a successful leader manages diverse groups of people not just one category of people and our prophet salallahu alayhi wa seldom he managed people from all different backgrounds from all different races w montgomery wat again the famous person who wrote Muhammad in Mecca and Muhammad in Medina the two volumes he says in his second volume Muhammad in Medina we may distinguish from Muhammad's some three gifts the first of them he says that he could you know he was like a prophet and whatnot the second is that his wisdom as a statesman making a call making a community of Islam and the third there is his skill and his tact as an administrator and his wisdom in the choice of men to whom to delegate administrative detail in other words the fact that he has the people around him that he is choosing and giving various tasks to managing diverse groups of people despite their socio-economic differences despite their racial differences he brings all of them together under the banner of Islam and this leads me to point number nineteen not only does he bring them together but he unites them equally which was something unprecedented in human history no one before him ever brought together people who hated one another who had racial prejudices who had genuine stereotypes and destroyed those stereotypes so that they became more beloved to each other than even their blood brothers no leader has ever done this before the prophets of cinema there was racism there was socio-economic strata as we know after that all Muslims came together and they put their differences aside they put their prejudices aside the slaves worked alongside the slave masters there out of and the non out of all of them work together equally and in fact they gave seniority based on Islam not based upon race which was something that as you know the whoreish could not understand and some of the later converts really found troubling how could you put peanut ahead of the other people and we have here a quote from a particular famous person in the Indian Independence moved from Bengal somebody called the 19 Gale of India Sarojini and I would know D I don't know how to pronounce it nudie nudie Naidu okay Naidu okay she has a little treaty she was a follower of Gandhi by the way and she played a major role against the British from the state of Bengal she has this quote about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom it was the first religion that preached and practiced true democracy by democracy she means equality here for in the mosque when the call for prayer has sounded and the worshipers are gathered the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and the King kneel side-by-side and proclaimed together Allahu Akbar no other tradition no other ideology brought together enemies and made them brothers under the banner of whatever the ideology was other than Islam point number 20 a true leader nurtures talent he fosters creativity a true leader sees what every person is capable of and then channels them in that direction and we see this throughout the serie the prophet sallallaahu i wish adam chose the right people tibula leaders for whatever they did he chose he encouraged hasan IBN thabit to become the poet that he did he told abu huraira to give special time with him for hadith because he would become the one who narrated hadith every sahabis talent the prophet saw some chose that Sahabi for that task and then gave him what was needed for that Sahabi to become who he was so to see the talent and others and to nurture it point number 21 the Prophet SAW a true leader must always be optimistic always have a positive attitude and never once in the entire life of the Prophet system did he have a negative attitude never did the people around him feel down and depressed because of him wherever he went he exuded positivity in fact an early Makkah when the Muslims were being persecuted and they came to complain to the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam how long are we going to you know last in this in this persecution the prophet sallallaahu I said I'm cheered them up even when they were being killed and cut to shreds he gave them optimism even though there was little for them to be optimistic about from a practical standpoint in the famous incident of the treaty of hudaibiya when even America table saying how can we do this how can we do this until finally Allah in fatahna laka fathan mubina' and the prophecy said Omar it is a Fatah from Allah how what room I didn't care when he heard it's a Fatah from Allah he started saying Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar this is a Fatah this is what you call optimism trust yaqeen certainty simply to hear it is a conquest from Allah a victory from allah and her mother's cheered up there is a victory he didn't know how he didn't understand what is going on but once he hears from the Prophet system this is a victory that's all that he needs so giving that sense of optimism that positivity is a sign of a leader and our prophet system was never down he was never somebody who gave off negative vibes making somebody feel you know even worse on that day not once in his entire life point number 22 emotional stability is the sign of a true leader a true leader is stable a true leader doesn't have tantrums he doesn't have fits he doesn't have a bad you know a something negative or something to say that goes against his character and once again we have in the entire life of the prophet salaallah seldom not once what we can call an emotional breakdown subhanAllah there is no human being except that once in a while he or she loses it there is no human being look at the biographies of any president any even those that are admired once in a while they have their bad days go read those that are close to them even the closest of the people who they know you know once in a while something's gonna happen he's gonna say something vulgar he's gonna have a tantrum an emotional bake tractor breakdown something of this nature but no our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom in his entire lifetime acted in a dignified manner always in control always emotionally stable always the dignity is there no human being can claim this point number 23 to live an entire life of integrity of ethical behavior not one single scandal what leader can claim this look around us now what is going on and not just around us any time in the past where there is power where there is fame where there is money all of that out of the way any human being you have your dark skeletons this is what it means to be a human being but our professor said I'm are there any dark skeletons not a single one no corruption no embezzlement of funds nothing even coming close to a scandal and it is impossible for any person to do this even those that are generally successful there are things lurking in the back that are negative but not so for our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom once again Thomas Carlyle he writes bigots claim that Mohammad Ahsan part sought personal Fame prestige and rule no the son of the desert the man with the greatest of souls the merciful the passionate the revered the wise he had a great heart void of worldly aspirations he had excellent intentions he was not seeking the upper hand with his silent soul he was one of those men who cannot be but faithful and serious the ethical behavior something that is indicated even by those who don't believe in Islam point number 24 and this is again absolutely amazing not only did he have ethical behavior not only is he embodying the highest level of integrity but he creates that integrity in his followers those who follow him they improved their lives even in private what leader can do this think about it even if there's a good leader the people around him are generally going to be corrupt or there's gonna be some corrupt or there's gonna be some charlatans and opportunists amongst them but those around the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom they absorbed his Aleph and they wanted to follow it not only did he raise the bar his followers all of them were inspired to raise their own bar and to try to embody the values of the prophets of Allah asylum in their own lives and those followers after them up until our times the love that is manifest to our Prophet SAW said him even amongst us you know 14 centuries later 45 generations have gone between us and the prophets ISM and still we want to know what is Sunnah how did he act how should we act in walk in his footsteps SP Scott when a historian from America he writes a history of the Moorish Empire in Europe he says if the object of religion be the inculcation of morals and the de munition of evil meaning to to eliminate evil and the promotion of human human happiness and the expansion of the human intellect if the performance of good works will avail in the great day when mankind shall be summoned to his final reckoning it is neither Arella irreverent nor unreasonable to admit that muhammed sallalahu i Salim was indeed a prophet of God meaning to summarize what he is saying is if you're gonna judge religion by the impact it has on his followers there is no question that Muslims have been impacted by their prophet more than any other person if a prophet is judged by his impact on his followers no group on earth has been impacted more by their own prophet then the Muslims have by the prophet muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam point number 25 of the signs of a true leader is to recover after a tragedy to come back after something negative happens and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam suffered a number of setbacks a number of calamities and he kept on rebounding back after every single one of them we don't like to think about those negative times or we gloss over them but imagine a dead carcass thrown onto him and he is there while people are laughing around him imagine the public humiliation his own uncle's going behind him yelling out don't listen to this man he's a madman imagine on the day of war he has to flee to save his own life imagine on the incident of thought if once again he has to take care of his own protection by running away from the people of thought if and yet to recover time and time again after every one of those calamities and to rebound back even stronger and to rise even higher this is the sign of a true leader point number 26 one of the most amazing signs of this leadership of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that really cannot be replicated is the swiftness of his success the swiftness of his success how quickly he changed the course of history 23 years was his time of being a prophet and of them only 10 when he was politically engaged the first 13 is just Darwin only 10 years where there's politics and there's Wars going on and yet he changed the entire course of history in that short period of time how many people strive for years decades maybe even they'll just lay the foundations and die and somebody else will then reap the benefits of that research and work but our prophet sallallaahu either you sell him not just in one lifetime but in one decade was able to accomplish what no one else was able to accomplish in many many centuries one of the great philosophical historians will durant he has a multi-volume book about the history of philosophy well known anybody who knows philosophy knows will durant will durant he's one of the greatest minds really of the last century he writes about the influence of the prophets or someone world history and he says in one paragraph in the year 565 the emperor justinian died the master of a great empire Justinian is the emperor of Rome the average human being has never heard of him yet and his time he was the pinnacle five years later Mohammed awesome is born into a poor family in a country three-quarters of which is desert sparsely people by nomads tribes whose total wealth could hardly have furnished the sanctuary of aya Sophia you know the famous aya Sophia all of the people of Makkah couldn't even have taken care of one Church in terms of their qualifications no one in those years would have dreamed that within a century those nomads would have conquered half of Byzantine Asia all of Persia all of Egypt most of North Africa and be on their way to Spain the explosion of the Arabian Peninsula into the conquest and conversion of half of the Mediterranean world and I quote is the most extraordinary phenomenon in medieval history and quote the most extraordinary phenomenon no one could have predicted the sharp turn of history with the coming of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it is one of the big questions that is asked what he hadn't come history would have had a whole different course the impact that he has had on history is something that truly we can say no one changed the course of history like he did again even if you're a non-muslim this is something you have to acknowledge point number 27 with all of this success you would think he had so much resources but no limited means limited followers yet the impact was beyond measure very finite resources yet the amount of impact he had is literally beyond measure think about it how much wealth did he have in his personal life even though out of how much wealth did they have think about it how many armies did he have how much weaponry how much power think about it hardly anything and yet with that small amount literally the entire course of history is changed Alfred grew Liam died in 1960 I was one of these Erebus professors at Oxford he used to teach Islamic studies the Oxford two generations ago and also at saw us Alfred William he writes Mohammad saw some accomplished in his purpose in the course of three small engagements he means by the rohad and the conquest of Makkah three small engagements the number of combatants never exceeding a few thousand but an importance they rank them amongst the world's most decisive incidents in other words what he is saying is very small amounts of people and yet it changed the entire course of humanity point number 28 to be a true leader personal family life how many are the leaders they are successful in business but a failure at home how many are the leaders they can become the greatest politically but their children suffer their families suffer almost all great leaders almost all of them their success comes at some failure and typically that failure is in the families this is the reality yet our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom managed to raise successful children his families were the best two families he managed multiple relationships with his wives and point number 29 following up from that not only was his personal life success well but his family and his wives them our mothers and his children there are the daughters of the prophets of Allah honey we said them they were amongst his closest if not the closest admirers and genuinely respected him and that is something that is very very rare and it is the sign of a true person subhanAllah I mentioned this called many times Sophia Nina said this one of the great scholars of our tradition and this is a well-known quote it is actually narrated from many many of the early scholars they said the people who least respect a scholar is his own family the people who least respect of scholar is his own family why is this I'll tell you why it is because the family sees the humanity of this person whom everybody raises up the family sees the flaws that nobody else sees and so when they see people raising somebody up and they know the flaws they can't raise him of that level this is the reality of human existence true respect is when those that are closest to you respect you true admiration is when your own family admires you and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom there is no question that his wives and his daughters his immediate family were his most ardent supporters and followers in fact subhanAllah even more so than this that to manage one family is difficult enough all of us are struggling with that to manage mashallah tabarak Allah 9 at one time it really is the sign of a true leader and a genius not just this but when the Prophet system gave our mothers the choice you want this dunya I'll give it to you or you want to me then you will have to accept my lifestyle you know I'm talking about the the famous choice that took place right you want this dunya go I'll give it to you and I'll give you tarik you want me choose this lifestyle if an abbas said not a single one of the mothers hesitated in choosing him over this dunya what does that show you what does that show you think about it all of his wives all of our mothers never once did they have a disrespect for him imagine that never once did they genuinely look down upon him even though it marital issues happen as we said but even in the marital issues there is genuine respect and genuine admiration and that is something that cannot come from this world it is a true prophet of Allah no leader can have a relationship where his own wife his own children look up to him with that admiration this is not human this is only from up there and that is from Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala point number 13 and were coming to the conclusion point number 30 subhanAllah the true leader is never somebody upon whom the whole mission ends with his death the true leader creates other leaders the true leader creates a new generation of leaders and there is no denying that our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom was one of the most of course the most successful who will say in creating not just a generation of leaders not just a will bakr and umar uthman and adi adi allahu ta'ala anhu but an entire generation of leaders that created another generation and another generation up until our times in every single generation there are true in amongst us and they become an inn because they follow the sunnah of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa send them leadership is given to those who value our process them and follow him leadership is given and bestowed upon those who take these values and then embody them in their own lives and this is something again we don't even need to mention it is self-evident and obvious and that is that the prophet sallallahu either he will send them created by the help of all obviously all of this is Allah's will the system of Islam such that any generation will always have hundreds and thousands and millions of people that can be come in and role models and people that will benefit others because they are following the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom in fact it is true to say that no system creates more leaders for its own people than the system of Islam and that is the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom point number 31 my dear brothers and sisters and the final point and again I reiterate that in reality there were so many other things even today an hour ago I was deleting some of them because how much time are we gonna have and we cannot do justice and even these 31 points there are so many other examples that can be given for every point that our that is there and along with stand what you cannot do in totality you do not leave in totality as the saying goes but point number 31 true leadership and the sign of a successful leader is the legacy after death what happens after you die there were some people in human history who took some of these points and manifested them to some level there were some successful leaders for that politically or theologically or militarily there were some groups that conquered large swaths of land Alexander conquered much of the known world of his time Genghis Khan created a new system yes it is true Genghis Khan created a new philosophy and a new theology almost a new ethics and he conquered some parts of the land but what happened with the death of Alexander everything fizzles out with the death of Genghis Khan his four sons split up and they all then continue each one goes their own way until their Civil War and the whole thing fizzles out with the death of the leader the vision dies that's not it that's not a fully successful leader that is not a leader of the caliber of our prophet salallahu alayhi wa seldom many are the people that have been successful partially in their lifetimes and maybe even eked out some legacy after their death many but to leave a legacy that founded not just one civilization but many dozens of civilizations within that of Islam many hundreds of political dynasties many dozens of great empires a new culture a new religion a new civilization very very very few humans have ever even come close to this and of course they always say Jesus Christ and I think Michael Hart puts him as number three or something number two I think is Paul because he says Paul has more to the Christianity than Jesus Christ but basically Jesus and Paul meaning Christianity are put number two and three but still Jesus Christ many of obviously is our prophet we love and respect him but of course let's not forget himself and his followers were not successful politically he and his followers were not successful politically in fact it was a fluke of history a la spada that constantine embraced Christianity or else it would not have happened is just a la spada that 300 years later a pagan Emperor decides to adopt this obscure religion and converts and even then let us not forget the diversion that Constantine adopted was not the version of Jesus Christ himself the version that he propagated the Trinity the triune God the version that he propagate was not even the message of ISA and so we cannot compare there was no success compared to the sex success of Islam and of course we mean success in the worldly sense of course ELISA is a prophet of Allah and his success in the ocula is a short but in this dunya his followers did not succeed the way that the followers of our prophet salallahu alayhi wa seldom succeeded Lamartine one of the historians of france again 300 years ago he wrote a book called history of turkey and of course you remember at that time when you say turkey you meant the Muslim world the Ottoman lands history of Turkey and he writes in his book philosopher orator apostle legislator warrior conqueror of ideas restore a rational dogma the founder of 22 rest steel empires he's saying 20 in fact there's more than 20 and have one spiritual empire that is Muhammad sallallaahu I Solomon as regards to all standards by which human greatness may be what may be measured we may ask is there any man greater than he this is a powerful phrase and we I agree with it 100% asked to regards to all standards by which human greatness may be measured we may well ask is there any man greater than he it's a rhetorical question who did more than him then he goes on if greatness of purpose the vision is large smallness of means very little to begin with outstanding results are the three main criteria of human genius this is very profound large vision small thing to begin with and and outstanding results successful who could dare compete with any man greater than that of Mohammed so I sort of think about that powerful statement the most famous men created arms and empires only they founded if any at all no more than material power Alexander the Great for example write often which crumbled away before their very eyes this man meaning the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom merged not only armies legislation Empire peoples and dynasties but millions of men in one-third of the inhabited world again he's running three hundred years ago right now is over the entire globe and more than that move the altars the gods the religions the ideas the beliefs and the souls on the basis of a book the Quran every letter of which has become law he created a spiritual nationality of every tongue and every race end quote and again this is Lamartine one of the famous historians of france and he has a book called the history of turkey i think in three volumes and this is a phrase about our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and one of the greatest minds of the previous century somebody whom we've all heard of because of the impact that he's left george bernard shaw again perhaps one of the last of the great philosophers of of europe and of england he said about our prophet sallallaahu while you seldom I believe if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world and he's writing at a time when there are many dictators but he's saying I wish the profitsystem became the dictator of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring much-needed peace and happiness I have studied him the man and his message and far from being an antichrist because in his time they called him an intercourse or salaam he must be called the savior of humanity this is coming from George Bernard Shaw far from being a negative and evil person he must be called the Savior of humanity I have prophesized about the faith of muhammad sallallaahu is Elam that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is being acceptable to the Europe of today meaning I prophesized that Islam will spread in Europe as it is beginning to spread today George Bernard Shaw wrote this almost 100 years ago these my dear brothers and sisters are some points thirty one out of many many more and these points were not spiritual they are not a Las blessings on him I gave that the first of the Serie almost nine years ago we talked about that the blessings that Allah has given to the Prophet system these are not the spiritual sight we're not talking about the house we're not talking about those I'm not about Gotha we're not talking about the chef aroma those are a separate category and they are something that are without a doubt more important to us than these we are today summarizing and mentioning that which even non-muslims medic must acknowledge that which even if you don't believe in the spirituality and the theology you must recognize that this human being sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was the single greatest human being who ever walked the face of this earth he accomplished more with less and in a Swifter timeframe and in a more permanent legacy than any human being has ever done whether you agree or not with his teachings you cannot deny that he was the single greatest leader and most effective human being that this world has ever seen and then the question arises if you're gonna acknowledge this how can you not acknowledge that he was sent by Allah subhana WA Ta'ala it is illogical to say as every one of these people that I have quoted have said it is illogical to say he was so great and then don't go to the next step and say this must be something that the one above gave him that doesn't make any sense but such is the reality of people that they will acknowledge this greatness but then their hearts will not see the truth and this is Vatika hood Allah he this is the guidance of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala as we come to a conclusion not just for today's talk but an entire almost decade-long of lectures and legacy and speaking about especially the prophet salallahu ideas element about the serie i pray that allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala blesses each and every one of us with a true love for the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom I pray that our Lord even as his wisdom dictates that he did not allow us to see the prophets elissa them in this world that he not deny is to see him on Judgment Day I pray that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala allows us to witness the profitsystem on clay amma and to be called by name on that day to the held I pray that our prophets of the law of Adi he was seldom recognizes each and every one of us from our will do and from our Salah and he calls us out by name to drink from the held I pray that we drink from that held after having been given permission by our prophet sallallaahu I they would send him a drink that will forever and ever and ever eliminate thirst from us I pray that we are resurrected in the company of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and that allah azza wajal gives him permission to mention us in his shafa and that we are granted his Shiva on Judgment Day I pray that in in our in in Jannah itself we are allowed the visitation of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and were allowed to be in his company one of the Salaf was said that in Jannah all you need to know is that in it is the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom we asked that allah azza wajal causes us to enter jannah and to be with our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and to interact with him and to hear him and to see his blessed face i pray that allah subhana wa ta'ala causes us in this world to always study the sunnah and to always want to be eager to be following the footsteps of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom I pray that on a personal note as well that if I have said anything that is incorrect that if I've ever ascribed to the sunnah or the serie anything that was incorrect that allah so it had forgive me for that if for it was a mistake and it was from the whisperings of Shaitaan and I pray that any good that I have ever done especially with regards to the serie and the Sunnah that Allah subhana WA - I'll make it of Chef ah for me and my family and for all of us on Judgment Day wahoo Darwin and in hamdulillahi rabbil alameen subhanak ilaha mohammed ashhadu an la illaha dentist al Farouq what a tubal ache my dear brothers and sisters all things must come to an end and even if I had not circumstances that not dictate that I leave this blessed community some things would have happened either you to you or to me where this would come endings are always inevitable nothing lasts forever other than Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala Allah Allah everything perishes except for the face of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala my beautiful time in this community is coming to an end and I leave with great sadness and it is truly a sadness and I ask Allah Azza WA JAL that the brotherhood that we had the camaraderie that we had the true good times that we had that we cherished them in this world and that we maintain them in the Acura as well I pray that all that we have done especially in this Masjid and especially in this community I pray that insha'Allah who tada it continues to be a source of inspiration for us in this world and a source of blessings for us in the next life how many times we have come together in this place how many lectures have been given how many of us have joked and banter together and subhanAllah this is the reality as I said that even if I didn't leave physically something would have happened even if it's just death here or whatever this is the reality but those beautiful moments they are preserved in the low hell my food and as we know the engender it is mentioned and the Quran mentions us and gives any Shara that because time is eternal and memories are perfect every single incident will be remembered by the people of Jannah of this world every incident and so I pray that every single interaction we had inshallah we will reminisce about it in general for those Onaga that as we have gathered here today together so many times some of us mashallah for all nine years some of you were here in the beginning left others have moved in the middle others have moved and left this is the reality that people keep on moving but every time we were here we gathered together for the sake of Allah I pray that our intentions were sincere and that we did something truly for the sake of Allah that some blessing and hair was brought about by the blessings of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala my words are coming to an end as you can tell I'm babbling and that is because I am emotional at this time we have had my wife and I and my children have had a beautiful time in this community I feel that we will not face the same love and the same respect anywhere else that I go and it is with great sadness that this is coming to an end in any case Allah who stand why they hit took land and insha Allah Allah even if my physical place in Memphis is no longer here insha'Allah my heart will encompass all of you and your hearts will encompass us inshallah I know and insha'Allah visits will be there regularly and inshallah I am confident that our paths are going to cross but I will miss this facility and this Masjid and I know that in Charlotte next time I come it will be in the next facility in shadow that is my gold inshallah please don't disappoint us now insha'Allah that after all these years insha'Allah we want to now have the new the new place inshallah open up so inshallah inshallah well then that means even quicker make sure that the place has opened up there's more of a burden on you along with Stan may Allah Azza WA JAL accept all that we have done all of us all of us not just me all of us that we have done robbing attackable min indica and the similar name motive Allen indicate that there were before him on behalf of myself my family all four of my kids sincerely jazakomallahu khayran I thanked every one of you for giving us this beautiful opportunity this has been a beautiful time of our lives no doubt the best time of my life was Medina there's no question but after that these last nine years that I have spent I shall always cherish them and I will always have the fondest fondest fondest memories of my time here and where that is shallow Tejada said ah what a comer Hawaii what I catch la eternal fire Oh hurry and I as in a feat Dona Ursula and world in her appearing here we saw upon being I won the German album being humble Lea art in German

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