The Mercy of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ. الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ خَاتَمِ النَّبِيِّينَ وَعَلَى جَمِيعِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالْمُرْسَلِينَ.

All Praise is due to Allah, we praise Him and we seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness from Him. We repent to Him; and we seek refuge in Him from our own evils and our own bad deeds. Anyone who is guided by Allah, he is indeed guided; and anyone who has been left astray, will find no one to guide him. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, the Only One without any partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad, peace and blessings on him, is His servant, and His messenger.

Dear Brothers and Sisters …

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

يَا أَيُّهَا الّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ – آل عمران:102

Al Imran 102: O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam.

I advise you and myself to have taqwa (consciousness of Allah) of Allah for there is no salvation on the Day Resurrection except through it.

وَيُنَجِّي اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا بِمَفَازَتِهِمْ لا يَمَسُّهُمُ السُّوءُ وَلا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

Az-Zumar (39) 61: And Allah will deliver those who are conscious of Him to their places of success (Paradise). Evil shall touch them not, nor shall they grieve.

Allah’s Mercy to His servants is great and His favor upon them is immense. And His Mercy is complete and does not have any deficiencies. And it is not driven by inability or weakness. It is the Mercy of the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent that encompasses everything with mercy and knowledge.

And the greatest mercy on this Ummah (nation) from the Lord is that he designated for them the Prophet of mercy. Through His Mercy, He honoured this final Ummah (nation) with the best of His creation and sent to them the seal of the Messengers. The Prophet ﷺ was the most merciful of the prophets to his ummah (nation). He ﷺ was the most compassionate, vigilant, pardoning and forgiving of the Prophets to his ummah (nation).

His ﷺ message revealed from His Lord the Exalted showered all kinds of mercies upon the creation. The people and the jinn.  The believer and the disbeliever. The righteous and the wicked. The young and the old. The strong and the weak. The near and the far. Men and women. The birds and animals.

And he ﷺ came with a shariah (legislation) all of which is good and mercy for the people. And there is no one on earth from the time that he ﷺ was sent to our present day until the Day of Resurrection except that will be touched by this mercy that Allah the Most High made reach all the world.

And from his ﷺ mercy for those who believe in him and embraced his ﷺreligion is that he ﷺ supplicated for them much. Especially if one considers the state of other prophets with their ummahs (nation). His mercy for his ﷺ ummah (nation) overtook him and he supplicated for them. As related by AbdAllah bin Amr bin ‘Aas (may Allah be pleased with them):

حَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى الصَّدَفِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، أَنَّ بَكْرَ بْنَ سَوَادَةَ، حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم تَلاَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ ‏{‏ رَبِّ إِنَّهُنَّ أَضْلَلْنَ كَثِيرًا مِنَ النَّاسِ فَمَنْ تَبِعَنِي فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي‏}‏ الآيَةَ

‘Abdullah b. Amr b. al-‘As reported: Verily the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited the words of Allah, the Great and Glorious, that Ibrahim uttered. My Lord! they have led many of mankind astray: ” But whosoever follows me, he verily is of me” (al-Qur’an, 14:36)

 ‏.‏ وَقَالَ عِيسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ‏{‏ إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ‏}

Isa (Jesus)  ﷺ  who said: “If You punish them, indeed they are Your servants, and if You forgive them, verily, You, only You, are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise”. (5:118)

‏ فَرَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ وَقَالَ ‏”‏ اللَّهُمَّ أُمَّتِي أُمَّتِي ‏”‏ ‏ وَبَكَى

Then he ﷺ  raised up his hands and said, “O Allah! My Ummah , my Ummah (nation),” and wept;

فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَا جِبْرِيلُ اذْهَبْ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَرَبُّكَ أَعْلَمُ فَسَلْهُ مَا يُبْكِيكَ

Allah, the Exalted, said: “O Jibril (Gabriel)! Go to Muhammad ﷺ  – and your Lord is most knowledgeable- and ask him: ‘What makes you weep?”

 فَأَتَاهُ جِبْرِيلُ – عَلَيْهِ الصَّلاَةُ وَالسَّلاَمُ فَسَأَلَهُ

So Jibril came to him and asked him (the reason of his weeping)

فَأَخْبَرَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمَا قَالَ ‏.‏ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ ‏.‏

and the Messenger of Allah informed him what he had said (though Allah is most knowledgeable).

 فَقَالَ اللَّهُ يَا جِبْرِيلُ اذْهَبْ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ فَقُلْ إِنَّا سَنُرْضِيكَ فِي أُمَّتِكَ وَلاَ نَسُوءُكَ ‏.‏

Upon this Allah said: “Jibril, go to Muhammad ﷺ  and say: ‘Verily, We will please you with regards to your Ummah (nation) and will never displease you”. Sahih Muslim 202

https://sunnah.com/muslim:202

The mercy of the Prophet for his ummah (nation) was to an extent that he preferred them over himself in the answered supplication that Allah gave him as He the Exalted gave other prophets before him. He did not limit this supplication to himself, and he included his ummah (nation).  As Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) related that the Prophet ﷺ said:

Every prophet had a supplication that was granted by Allah. I dedicated my granted supplication to having intercession for my ummah (nation) on the Day of resurrection. [Bukhari 6304 and Muslim 198].

https://sunnah.com/muslim:198b

Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

Every Prophet had a supplication that was granted, and every Prophet advanced their supplication (in this world). But I reserved my supplication as intercession for my ummah (nation) on the Day of Resurrection, and it will reach, if Allah wills, those of them who die, not associating anything with Allah. Sahih Muslim 199a

https://sunnah.com/muslim:199a

May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and how great his mercy was for us and how cautious he was over us.

Can the believers in him ﷺ be blamed for loving, honouring and supporting him when he ﷺpreferred them over himself and designated them for his supplication in a situation of all situations!?

By Allah, no one can blame them for that aside for a disbeliever or a hypocrite who is hiding his disbelief or an ignorant person that does not know the virtue of the Messenger ﷺ. Allah said:

لَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَؤُوفٌ رَحِيمٌ

At-Tawbah (9) 128: There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer; [he is] concerned over you [i.e., your guidance] and to the believers is kind and merciful.  

May Allah the Exalted reward him ﷺ  for his ummah (nation) with the best reward that a Prophet was given for his ummah (nation). And we ask Allah the Exalted to grant him ﷺ the intercession and favor, and the high eminent level, and raise him to the honoured station that Allah promised him. May Allah make us among those who love and support him ﷺ. And we ask Allah to resurrect us in his ﷺ group and that we enter paradise with him ﷺ. Indeed, Allah is the All Hearing, Answering.

I conclude with this and send prayers of blessings and peace upon our Prophet as your Lord commanded:

Allahumma Sallai Al’a Muahmmad’n wa’aila Muhammad

أَقُولُ مَا تَسْمَعُونَ وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللهَ  لِي وَلَكُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ ذَنْبٍ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ  إِنَّهُ هُوَ الغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ