Love of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wassallam

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum

Dear Friends

I pray that you are well.

Love is a sweet and beautiful feeling, undescribable. You experience some of this sweetness and beauty when you are in love with someone. Don't you wish it never go away? Increase your knowledge of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, and you will experience the true sweetness of love that never go away, inshaAllah. Don't go a day without learning something about the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, so you know him. One cannot claim to love the Prophet, if one doesn't know him, never talks about him, and ignores his Sunnah.

We know that the Companions of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, had intense love for him, and part of love is to anticipate the need of the lover and do everything you can to fulfill it. One day one of the women of Ansar saw the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, sitting on the floor leaning against a date palm tree and offered to make a mimbar for him. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, didn't like to say no to people and so he accepted the gift. After the pulpit of his masjid was made, he ascended the pulpit and began to give his Friday sermon. All of sudden there was this crying and weeping and it filled the whole masjid. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, descended from the pulpit, went to the palm tree where he used to lean against, stroke it and hugged it. It was the palm trunk that cried and wept because he yearned for him. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, spoke to it and give it a choice to be uprooted and given a new life or buried under the pulpit. The palm tree chose to be buried under the pulpit of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace. If you have the chance to visit the Prophet's masjid in Madinah, you can see a medallion that marks the location of the palm trunk.

SubhanAllah! If this is how much the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cared about a piece of wood that long for him, imagine the treatment we would get from loving and yearning for him! If your love for him is not there or has not increased since True Love of Allah and His Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace, do something about it. Traditional scholars, when narrated the hadith about this palm tree, would ask, "What's the matter with us? We don't weep from separation of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, whether physical or spiritual." Try and take the means to love the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and grant him peace. If we are not following the sunnah of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, we are not trying. We owe this level of love and application to someone whom Allah has sent to us as a means of mercy and saving our eternal soul. Love and attachment is found all across creation, so work on our hearts. Our hearts shouldn't be harder than the palm trunk.

May Allah make our hearts tender and increase our love for His Messenger, Allah bless him and grant him peace. Ameen.

Please don't forget us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.

And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam