Subtle Reminder : Muhammad SAW

He is extremely kind, incredibly generous, and compassionate even to the people who mocked, hurt, and insulted him. He is someone who championed the rights of the women, of the orphans, of the poor in a time where no one bothered about them. Everything about him was beautifully balanced, he was neither too tall nor too short. he was not too fair nor too tanned. his hair was neither too straight nor too curly. and some people have said that "he is as beautiful as the moon"

some of you may know who I'm talking about right now but for those who don't, the man whom I've been describing is The one and only Prophet Muhammad SAW. but to be honest with you guys for the longest time I've had no idea how to love him. I mean I knew he was my prophet, I knew we were supposed to love him but he was just a figure from the past. and I would extremely jealous of my friends or at people who would cry just by hearing his name SAW. That made me think "is there something wrong with me?" that I've not been able to love him like how all these people could and when I started thinking logically about this, I realized that the main reason why I haven't been able to love the prophet SAW is simply that I didn't know him. I mean I knew his name Muhammad SAW but I didn't know his stories. I knew he was a Prophet but I didn't know the kind of sacrifices he had to make for me for you and for this ummah. I said shahadah every day but I've never stopped to realize how the shahadah is incomplete without me believing in him. That my faith will also be incomplete if I didn't take the time to get to know and to love the Prophet SAW. ever since then, I've started to try harder to get to know him SAW. I do this through learning about him, through reading stories about him, through listening to lectures about him and every single time I would read or I would listen about him SAW my hard heart would melt in awe and in love towards him. because the more I learn about him the more I realized that He SAW loved me too, someone who he has never met and there is one story that I really keep close to my heart and I want to share with you guys. So this is part of long hadith but I will try to concise.  so Allah will grant a dua for every single prophet but Rasulullah SAW is the only Prophet who has kept his dua and he kept his dua to be used on the day of judgment for his ummah because he knew that there is a time where we need it the most and what would happen on Judgement day is that everyone is doing their best to save themselves. so they will start saying "let's go to the prophets, they might be able to intercede for us" so the people started to go to Nabi Adam AS because he was the first man ever created and the first prophet but Nabi Adam AS said "No, go to the next one" and they went from Nabi Adam AS to Nabi Nuh AS to Nabi Ibrahim AS to Nabi Musa AS to Nabi Isa AS and all of them said the same thing

"I am not qualified, please go to the next one after me" (Bukhari) until they reached Prophet Muhammad SAW and Rasulullah SAW in that day, would go into prostration and he would stay in prostration for as long as you can ever imagine and he will call out to Allah like he has never called out to Him before and he will say to Allah  "Ya Allah Ummahti, Ummahti" please forgive my Ummah, so on the day where no one cares about anyone else other than themselves Rasulullah SAW is the only one busying himself, trying to save us. You before Rasulullah SAW died he said something to his companions, he said that If there is one thing that I would miss when I die is not being able to see my brothers" and Abu Hurairah RA who was there he asked Rasulullah SAW "but aren't we are your brother?" and Rasulullah SAW said "You are my companions, but my brothers are those who have never seen me but still followed me and still believed in me"

and the Rasulullah SAW said "I'm going to meet them on the Day of Judgement" and the sahabahs were saying "how would you be able to recognize them?" you've never met them and this part is really touched my heart. He said "I would be able to recognize them because on the Judgement they would be shining with noor with bright light from the Wudhu that they take because of their Sholat, because of their prayer" (Muslim)

Rasulullah SAW knew that it would be harder for us to believe in him and to follow him but Rasulullah SAW didn't forget about us, he wanted us to know that we are his brothers and we are his sisters. I don't think anyone of us no matter how much we would have learned about the Sirah of Rasulullah SAW can ever imagine how much Rasulullah SAW loves us. I don't think our limited human brain can even comprehend the kind of sacrifices that he had to go through for us for someone whom he has never met as well, and if you ask anyone who has ever taken the time to study or read up about his biography every single one of them would have one or two specific stories that they love about The Prophet. Every single one of us can relate to at least one story about the Prophet SAW so if you don't have one right now please I beg you start reading up about him and the more you learn about him the more you will fall in love with him and the more you will miss him and the more you want to emulate him and the more you want to make him proud and I think this is love, love that transcends time, love for the sake of Allah

I concise all of those words from aida azlin. Love from sister :-)