#seerah

They would say yes, but the love cannot be very deep and sincere unless you know the person. If you have shallow information about someone, you cannot really love them alot. To love a person you need to know them more, and this is especially true with Muhammad ‎ﷺ, because the more you know him the more you would be impressed with his personality, the more you would love him.

So even though the Ummah today, with the shallow information that the masses of Muslims have about him, love Muhammad ‎ﷺ, we cannot truly have deep love for Muhammad ‎ﷺ unless we know him.

I never had tears in my eyes hearing about the Prophet SAW, nor the desire to go to Madinah to visit him, or to be buried in Madinah so that I could be near him or see him in a dream. I could never feel all this or relate to it.

Yes, I heard lectures, felt compassion, and love for a while, but then got over those feelings and thought that maybe this is it. This is all I should be doing.

But then, Nemrah Ahmad launched her course, and like a die-hard fan of hers, I knew I was missing out on something, so I enrolled in it. Still, my thoughts remained the same: that reading and learning Seerah are additional things I would be doing. I didn't give it much importance as my entire focus was on the Quran and Ahadith.

So, I got the course, I opened the first lesson, and I started reading. And boy oh boy, did NA just drop a bomb over my head? She said, “You love to read and understand the Quran, you pray five times a day, you have a relationship with Allah, you want to go to Makkah and Madinah to seek forgiveness. You give Zakat, Sadaqat, and even stay away from sins.

So you believe that in doing so, you have enough faith to enter Jannah. Right? But it is not. It’s like taking an exam, answering all the questions correctly, giving your 100% in the test, but forgetting to write your roll number on the answer sheet. Will this make you pass your exam? No! Because there is a condition to having faith, which was told to us by the Prophet himself (SAW) years ago: "None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his parents, his children, and all of mankind.”

So, you’re telling me that if I’m reading the Quran, praying all my five Salah, doing Tasbeeh, staying away from Haram, giving Sadaqa and Zakat, but I do not have love for the Prophet (SAW) in my heart more than my parents, my children, and all of mankind, that means I have no faith?

And how can I have his love in my heart more than for the entire mankind without reading about him? Without hearing his stories? Without learning what he was like and what he did for us?

And that’s where Seerah comes in 🥹

"The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was neither very tall nor excessively short, neither extremely white nor deep brown. His hair was neither very curly nor very straight. Allah sent him as a prophet at the age of forty, and he stayed in Mecca for ten years and in Medina for ten years. Allah took him unto Him at the age of sixty, and there were not more than twenty white hairs in his head and beard."

Hamid ibn Mas'adah al-Basri narrated to us. Abdul Wahhab al-Thaqafi narrated to us from Hamid, from Anas ibn Malik, who said:

"The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was of medium height, neither tall nor short, with a well-proportioned body."

Mahmoud ibn Ghailan narrated to us. Waki' narrated to us. Sufyan narrated to us from Abu Ishaq, from Al-Bara' ibn 'Azib who said:

"I have never seen anyone with thick curly hair, wearing a red garment, more handsome than the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. His hair reached his shoulders, spread evenly across them, neither too short nor too long."

Kitāb al-Shamā'il al-Muḥammadiyyah by Al-Tirmidhī

1. Seerah of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

2. The Seerah

Book review - The Sealed Nectar

Perhaps one of the best books on the Seerah (life of the prophet saw)

The book covers his day to day life, key events in Islamic history, the spread of Islam, the Prophet (saw) interacted with Companions and family, his role as a leader, as well as his characteristics and mannerisms.

The more you learn about the life of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him), the more you learn about his devotion to his Lord and his concern for all of humankind.

This book is available in most languages and good for those seeking awareness about Prophet saw, as it is easy to navigate and all stories/Hadith are fully referenced.