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As we're all aware, the seer of our Prophet's Allahu Alaihi Wasallam, his life and times, are an eternal source of guidance for us, along with the Qur'an, these two are our primary and ultimate sources.

And every single aspect of the seer of every anecdote, every incident, every single story is full of wisdom for us.

Ibn Hezim, one of the greatest scholars of Andalus, remarked,

If the only miracle that our Prophet's Allahu Alaihi Wasallam were given were the miracle of his seerah, it would be enough to prove that he is a prophet from Allah.

He doesn't need any miracle other than the miracle of his own life and times.

In today's brief khutbah, I wanted to remind ourselves of an incident, an anecdote.

One of my favorite of the seerah, because it reminds us of the beauty of this religion, the simplicity of this religion.

And that is the incident or the anecdote or the first advice that our Prophet's Allahu Alaihi Wasallam gave when he migrated from Mecca to Medina.

On this historic, on this auspicious occasion, when the Ummah of Islam is having a change between persecution to a state of dominance,

when, later on, the Sahaba, when they asked themselves, when should we begin the Islamic calendar?

They all agreed, the one most momentous incident in the seerah was the Hijrah,

which should begin the Islamic calendar from the Hijrah, because that's when you can divide the Mecca and Ira and the Medina Ira.

That incident, the Hijrah, our Prophet's Allahu Alaihi Wasallam migrated with his life literally on the line,

being persecuted, almost assassinated, and he enters a city that has taken him as its leader.

On this auspicious occasion, when he walks into the city of Medina, when the people are gathered together,

when the celebrations are about to begin, when you have Muslims and Jews and pagans all come greeting him, welcoming him.

What is he going to say?

What is the words of advice, the pearls of wisdom that he's going to utter on this auspicious occasion?

The books of Hadith, the books of seerah, have recorded for us what our Prophet's Allahu Alaihi Wasallam said,

and that will be the short khutbah that I give today.

It is reported that the chief rabbi of Medina at the time, Abdullah Ibn Salam,

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