Signs of Loving the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)

Question:
And may Allah bless you. The brother Abdullah, a thousand times, says: We all love the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), so how is the pure love for the Messenger, and how does a person follow this noble Prophet?

Answer:
Yes, it is obligatory for us to love the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); this is among his rights over us. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So loving him is obligatory upon every Muslim. The sign and implication of his love (peace and blessings be upon him) is that you follow him in what he commands by doing it, and in what he forbids by leaving it. This is the sign of sincere love. As for the one who claims that he loves the Messenger but does not obey him in what he commanded, nor leaves what he forbade, then he is lying in his love, or his love is deficient. And those who exaggerate in their love for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) to the extent that they claim he benefits and harms without Allah, and they draw near to Him with some form of worship, or ask Him for forgiveness and pardon, this is from exaggeration and from shirk (associating partners with Allah) with Allah the Mighty and Majestic. These people should be aware that the meaning of love is that the Messenger is more beloved to you than everything of the creation, after the love of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, and that this love is sincere by following this Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and not introducing into his religion what is not from it.
Those who introduce the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday claim that this is from loving the Messenger. This is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade. So it is a bid'ah (religious innovation). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not legislate for us the celebration of his birthday. Rather, this is something among the Christians that they introduced in their religion with Jesus. So we do not follow them, nor do we do their actions; rather, we follow the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he did not introduce a festival for his birthday, nor did his Companions do that, nor did those who followed them, nor did the best of generations do this introduced festival, which they introduce and claim is from loving the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is from the innovations that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade. Yes.

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