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Youth Speech Competition - March
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Sunday 29 March
2009
By the grace of
Almighty Allah (swt) and the blessings of the Holy
Prophet (saw) on March 29, 2009 Mississauga Muslim
Community Centre held their first bi-yearly Speech
Competition that takes place every year in the blessed
month of Rabiul Awal and Ramadan. The topic of speech
for all the 21 contestants was “The Love of the
Holy Prophet (sallahu alayhi wasallam ) is the root of
iman.” The ages of the contestant ranged from 8 to
16 years; which was further divided into two groups,
the juniors ranging from 8 to 12 and the senior group
ranged for the ages 13 to 16.
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Panel of Judges comprised Br. Alim Ali from
Alghazali Institute, Dr Minhaj Qidwai founder of
Qidwai Foundation and Br. Athar Kamal.
Program started
with recitation of the Holy Quran by Assad Qidwai,
which followed by a Naat Shareef form Iqra Shaikh.
Then Mr. Abdullah Raja MC of the program invited
Mr. Faheem Bukhari to explain the rules of the
competition.
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Speech
Content of 1st position holder in Jr. Group
Speaker: Sidrah Ahmed
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Nahma do ho wa naualai
Ala asula hil Kareem Amaba
Fa Auzu billahi minsheytawn ir rajem
Bismillah Hir Rahman Hir Raheem
Dear brothers, sister, respected elders and honorable
judges
Asalam o Alakum Warah matulahi wabarakatuhu
As you all known the topic of my speech is the love of
the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) being the root of
iman.
Probably half you of you are like, “yeah we get it, we
love the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) and can we get
over with this.” But keep in mind, this love that we
have for the Holy Prophet (saw) is not something
ordinary. This love should not be the love you have
for your siblings, parents, or friends. In fact, it is
the Hadith that none is a true believer unless he
loves the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) more than his
life, family, parents, and belongings.
This love for Holy Prophet (s.a.w) is the strongest
love you should have after the love of our merciful
lord Allah (s.w.t). In fact the great scholars of our
time say that the love of the Holy Prophet (saww) and
the love of the Allah are one. When you love you love
both, you can’ t love Allah without loving the Holy
Prophet (saw) and you can’t love the Holy Prophet
without loving Allah (swt).
Now my brother and sisters the question arises how do
we love this great creation of Allah, the beloved of
Allah, well I am not going to answer I will give you
the answer Allah (swt) gave us Himself. Allah (swt)
says in the Quran:
“Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. O
ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on
him and salute him with the salutation of peace.”
Now pay attention closely to the way Allah (swt) is
portraying His extreme love for the Holy Prophet (saw)
in this ayah, Our lord Allah (s.w.t) Himself praises
the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.w.t). Allah loves him so
dearly that he swears an oath on the city, era, and
age of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w). With his name
Allah always mentions the name of the Holy prophet (s.a.w),
showing his excellence. When Almighty Allah spoke of
the other Messengers, he used their names, but for
Huzoor (s.a.w) he used his blessed titles. The love
between the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) and Allah is
unbreakable. Love for the holy prophet Muhammad (s.a.w)
is love for Allah (s.w.t).
This is the real love of the holy prophet (s.w.t) .If
you dearly love him you will not only send Salam on
our Beloved (s.a.w) but also you would always speak
the truth and follow and spread the Sunnah of our
Rasool (s.a.w) and Inshallah you will enter Paradise.
Sayyiduna Anas (r.a) reports that Rasulullah (s.a.w)
said, “Whoever cherishes my Sunnah, indeed he
cherishes me and whoever loves me will be with me in
Jannah.”
One who rejects the Sunnah of the holy prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w) is warned severely by Rasulullah (s.a.w)
with the words, ‘I curse him, Allah curses him and so
does every Prophet of Allah [alayhis salaam].If you
follow the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) you
will Inshallah enter Jannah.
It was in his charity that the entire universe came
into existence. If it was not for him we would not
even be standing here right know. If it was not for
him we would not even have the iman, faith that we
have today. We probably wouldn’t even be Muslim today
if it was not for the existence of our holy prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w). Our life, time, and existence should
be for Allah (s.w.t) and his blessed messenger alone.
Once at a grand milad our famous and beloved scholar
Dr. Muhammad Tahir al-Qadri gave a few hour lecture,
after the program a young man came up to him and said
its really sad that all night we mentioned the Holy
Prophet (saw) but never once made mention of Allah.
Upon hearing this the sheikh answered him by saying
The zikr of Rasulullah (saw) is the zikr of Allah. How
may you ask, well for example if I made a masterpiece
and displayed it out in the front and every time
people would see my master piece, they praise it and I
would be the one feeling happy and joyful because it
is my beautiful masterpiece that they are praising
which in reality they are really praising me on my
work. Now if you look at the big picture one can now
understand when one praise the Holy Prophet (saw) and
consistently mention him they are in fact praising
Allah and remembering Allah (swt)
Subhanallah
Before I end my speech I like to say
A true love holds great test and success is to accept
the beloved totally. True love and reverence for the
Holy prophet (s.a.w) is the first condition of imaan.
May our lives and death be blessed with the love of
our prophet (s.a.w)
Amen
Wama Alayna illal balag ul mobeen |
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