Ummatī, Ummatī

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Allāh ﷻ says He ﷻ sent our Prophet ﷺ to us from among us.

“لَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُم بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ”

(Qur’an 09:128)

“Laqad jāakum rasūlun min anfusikum ʿazīzun ʿalayhi mā ʿanittum ḥarīṣun ʿalaykum bil-mu’minīna raūfun raḥīmun”

“There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer; [he is] concerned over you and to the believers is kind and merciful.” Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm.

“I sent him ﷺ from among you,” says Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla about our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Not from other creatures, but He ﷻ sent him ﷺ from mankind just like them. But our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is different.

Many ignorant people say he is a man, and we are men. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ is a man but those who say so are not real men. They are something else. Because people who don’t know the value can’t be valuable. People who know the value are valuable.

Our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is valuable. His ﷺ value is that he ﷺ is mercy to ummah. He ﷺ showed them the way and warned them about hell. Our Holy Prohet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam begged Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla so that they are not destroyed.

Whatever there was, our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam always invited them to the way of truth and to paradise. It was everything our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam wanted.

When he ﷺ came to this world after his ﷺ birth, he ﷺ was saying “ummatī, ummatī” in sajdah. Babies cried. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ said ummatī when Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla created him ﷺ. As soon as he ﷺ came to this world and started breathing, he ﷺ thought about his ﷺ ummah.

And until he ﷺ passed away, he ﷺ kept showing the way and making intercession for ummah. And he ﷺ will do so forever. He ﷻ will beg Allāh ﷻ in qiyāmah to be an intercessor for them.

Certainly, our Holy Prophet ﷺ wants the ummah to benefit from it. He ﷺ wants them to be loved by Allāh ﷻ. It is his ﷺ wish and goal to bring humanity to the right way so that Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla grants them favours and thawāb.

Our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is Nabī, he is a person who foretells the future. All Prophets are Nabīs. They are people who can foresee and foretell the future. He ﷺ is informing us in ḥadīth sharīf, “My ummah will get spoilt. My ummah will go astray.”

In order not to go astray, people should follow sunnah. The more they follow sunnah of our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, the stronger their īmān will be. Who avoid sunnah will lose their īmān.

It is possible that they have only Islām on tongue. But as our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, it doesn’t go below their throat. It is only on the tongue.

Therefore, our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says in this ḥadīth sharīf, “When my ummah is spoilt, those who revive any of my sunnah,” a person who revives any sunnah that our Holy Prophet ﷺ did “will have earned thawāb of a hundred martyrs.”

It is not easy to be a martyr. And it is not easy to earn his thawāb. But as the time we live in is exactly when his ﷺ ummah is going astray the most, we live in the time when they are going away from Ḥaqq the most.

Therefore, for every sunnah made, people attain thawāb of hundred martyrs in the presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. What are the sunnah? Sunnah of ablution, sunnah of movements, however our Holy Prophet ﷺ moved and did. There are thousands of sunnah.

As much as you do, as much as you can think of. Most of them are not difficult at all. It is very easy to make sunnah.

Whoever does so, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla will not only give him a hundred martyr’s reward; make a thousand sunnah, and for every sunnah of the thousand of them you will earn the thawāb of hundred martyrs.

The treasures of Allāh ﷻ are endless. Allāh ﷻ is generous, He ﷻ gives. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla doesn’t break His ﷻ promise like people now. People say they will give. But when you go, they deny saying so.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has no fear. The whole universe is in His ﷻ Hand. He ﷻ will give you. Don’t be afraid with the permission of Allāh ﷻ.

Therefore, Sunnah is very important. As we said, the intercession of our Holy Prophet ﷺ is very important. Who makes sunnah strengthens his īmān. Without īmān, there is a big chance of it being spoilt. And may Allāh ﷻ protect, the end may not be good.

In order for people not to make sunnah, shayṭān makes them do everything he can; with all kinds of means. May Allāh ﷻ protect us from his evil. May we attain shafa’ah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, in shā’a Llāh in these holy days.

For his ﷺ honor in shā’a Llāh. And this du‘ā’ for rain is also his ﷺ sunnah. It is sunnah of our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. We made it too. May Allāh ﷻ accept it, in shā’a Llāh. May He ﷻ give us good rain, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

05 September 2025/ 13 Rabih Al-Awwal 1447

Lefke, Cyprus

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