The Prophets & seerahFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 21, 2026.
Love the Prophet by following his Sunnah
“If your love for them was true, you would follow, you would obey them.”
In one sentence
The khutbah argues that genuine love and reverence for the Prophet Muhammad are proven by believing, obeying, and following his Qur'an-and-Sunnah guidance, while Mawlid celebrations are an unacceptable innovation absent from the earliest Muslim generations.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Introduces Rabi al-Awwal and its associations with the Prophet's birth, Hijrah, and death.
- Establishes love for the Prophet as essential to faith through hadith about faith's sweetness, Umar, and companionship.
- Defines authentic love as believing, honoring, obeying, following the Sunnah, and sending salat and salam.
- Contrasts obedience-based love with celebrity imitation and argues that Mawlid celebrations do not represent genuine love.
- Presents hadith warnings against innovation and claims Mawlid was absent from the earliest Muslim generations.
- Concludes with the Companions' careful adherence to Prophetic practice and a supplication for guidance.
Try this week
Make the Prophet more beloved than oneself and submit to his commands.
Follow the Qur'an, hadith, and Sunnah in both major and minor matters.
Send frequent salat and salam upon the Prophet.
Avoid religious innovations, including the Mawlid practices criticized in the khutbah.
After sneezing, say Alhamdulillah as taught in the Sunnah.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to explain the three qualities that produce the sweetness of faith.
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to show that loving the Prophet more than oneself completes faith.
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to argue that a person will be with those whom they love.
Sahih MuslimUsed to support the warning that every newly invented religious matter is misguidance.
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to argue that religious innovations and unsupported deeds are rejected.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to connect frequent salat and salam with closeness to the Prophet on Judgment Day and to illustrate precise Sunnah-following.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“If your love for them Was true You would follow You would obey them For really The one who loves Someone Then he is someone Who follows And obeys him”
“Rather he taught us To just say Alhamdulillah Just to say Alhamdulillah Stopping Where the Messenger Of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Stopped Such was the Guidance of the Sahaba”
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