Seerah Tun Nabi: Introduction Part 1

What is Seerah?

  • A path where someone walks
  • The direction where someone takes
  • Like a sidewalk
  • Referring to someone life
  • A biography or autobiography
  • It is used as a description
  • The way one lives his or her life
  • The first way or shape something is
  • The way a person looks and acts
  • The way a person behaves
  • It is a literary term
  • The overall life of the Prophet
  • It is a emotional consolation for us

 

The Prophetic Biography

  • Everything which has come to us and has been related to us
  • Anything related and connected to the life and times of the Prophet
  • The practice of the Prophet
  • Every single day of the life of the Prophet
  • All the attributes and characteristics
  • His physical appearance
  • His family life and home life
  • The military expeditions of the Prophet

 

Why study Seerah?

  • Seerah has been the subject of study since the beginning
  • The Quran and Seerah are studied together
  • We must apply the seerah in our life
  • We must apply the sunnah in our lives
  • How can I apply this in my life?
  • What lessons we can learn from Seerah?
  • Allah says the Prophet is an excellent example for us
  • We should put ourselves in the shoes of the Prophet
  • We need an in-depth study of the Seerah
  • It helps to humanize the Prophet so we can follow his example
  • And so we can relate to the Prophet
  • How the Prophet had a family?
  • How the Prophet suffered injury and loss?
  • It is for every demographic in the community
  • It is a practical guide on how to live your life
  • To increase a love for the Prophet

 

Hadith

  • Traditions of the Prophet
  • It includes what the prophet did and said
  • Excerpts from the life of the Prophet
  • It is very technical
  • It is verified and authenticated
  • Rulings are derived from this
  • It is not an overall narrative
  • It is not studied absent of the Seerah
  • Everyone should be aware of the Hadiths
  • Every Muslim should know the basics of their deen
  • Otherwise we will not know what breaks our wudu
  • It has a different criteria than Seerah

 

Studying Hadith or Seerah?

  • A preference is given to Seerah
  • Quran and Hadith was studied in-depth
  • Imam Bukhari’s life work was 6,000 Hadiths
  • 6000 Hadiths is very little

 

Sunnah

  • It is a very flexible word
  • It includes everything
  • Seerah of the Prophet is from the Sunnah
  • Everything from the life of the Prophet is Sunnah
  • The opposite of the word is biddah or innovation
  • It is the recommended acts of the Prophet
  • It includes mandatory acts as well
  • Sunnah has its place
  • Hadith has a place it applies
  • Seerah has its place

 

How Seerah has been studied?

  • It includes a Makkan period and a Madinan period
  • Makkah period of Prophethood was 13 years
  • Madinah period of Prophethood was 10 years
  • There is a lot more narrated about the Madinah period than in Makkah
  • The life and message of the Prophet was more open in Madinah than Makkah
  • Prophet would practice in the house of Arqam in Makkah privately
  • Madinah period was more eventful than the Makkah period
  • A lot of the battles occurred in Madinah period
  • Hajj occurred in the Madinah period
  • There is still a lot of narrations from Makkah period too
  • Makkan period holds a lot gems and insights for us
  • We are not completely in the Makkan period
  • We are not completely in the Madinah period either
  • We must have a full well-rounded appreciation of the Seerah
  • The Seerah of the Prophet begins from his birth
  • It gives you an understanding of how the situation was
  • To which time and place the Prophet was sent to

 

Authenticity of the Sunnah

  • Is the Prophet’s Sunnah authoritative?
  • Is it true or not?
  • Can I trust it?
  • How can we solve this issue?
  • Quran is the book of Allah
  • Allah has guaranteed the protection of the Quran
  • Allah told us to follow the Prophet
  • Allah protected the Seerah and Hadith as well
  • Allah protected the Original Arabic language as well
  • The system to preserve Quran is the same to preserve Hadith
  • The narrators of Hadith and the same people who preserved the Quran
  • We are told to love the Prophet
  • Learning the Seerah increases our love for the Prophet
  • We cannot love him without knowing about him

 

 

 

 

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