Mawlid Khutba

Fiqh of Minorities is the Most Recent Means

of Playing with Allah’s Religion.

All praise is due to Allah, praise that complies with His blessings and compensates His abundance. Our Lord, for You is all praise as befits the majesty of Your countenance and the might of Your authority.

O Allah, I cannot sufficiently enumerate praises upon You; You are as you have praised Your self. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone and He has no partner, and I bear witness that our Master[1] Muhammad is His slave and Messenger and His sincere and intimate friend, the best Prophet that Allah sent to the entire world as a herald of glad tidings and admonition. O Allah, pray upon, give peace and give blessings upon our Master Muhammad and upon the family of our Master Muhammad, prayers and peace that last inseparably until the Day of Judgement. I advise you and my sinning self to have fearful awareness of Allah the Exalted.

To proceed, O slaves of Allah:

It has been authentically related from our Beloved Mustafa that he said: ‘None of you will truly have faith until Allah and His Messenger are more beloved to one than anything else.’ He also said: ‘None of you will truly have faith until I am more beloved to him than his wealth, his children and his own self that is between his two sides.’ It has been authentically related that one of the Companions asked the Messenger of Allah about the Hour, and Al-Mustafa said to him: ‘What have you prepared for it?’ He said: ‘By Allah, I have not prepared for it with many prayers or much fasting, but I have prepared for it with love for Allah and His Messenger,’ so he said: ‘You will be with those whom you love.’

We, O brothers are believers, and for Allah is all praise. This means that there must be from us some portion of love, even if it is a little, for the Messenger of Allah, and I hope that portion is not a little. I hope that it is as the Messenger of Allah said, that the love of Al-Mustafa is greater than the love of wealth, children and one’s self. And if...................

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