and we had mentioned the idolatry that
was rampant amongst them and how that
idolatry began and there was one final
point that was left that time did not
allow us to uh elaborate on and I think
it is very relevant and very important
because this aspect demonstrates to us
what our religion is and it demonstrates
to us the meaning
of now the interesting thing about the
jahili Arabs the Arabs before Islam was
that they actually believed in the same
God that we believe in by the same name
and the same attributes and that is
Allah you see they never depicted Allah
as an idol they made Idols
of they made Idols of all of these
beings but they never made an idol of
Allah there was no Idol called Allah
because they knew that Allah could not
be represented by an idol and they knew
that Allah was their creator and their
originator and their
sustainer Allah says in the Quran if you
were to ask them who created you they
would say Allah created us if you were
to ask them who sends the rain from the
heavens they would say Allah if you were
to ask them who supplies you your risk
your food they would say Allah the Quran
says if you were to ask them who is the
lord of the heavens and earth they would
say Allah and this is interesting
because their paganism is not like the
paganism of modern religions if you ask
them who is their God they will say
Krishna or Buddha or something these are
groups who say no Allah is our God and
Allah is our Creator and Allah is our
sustainer and yet they are not Muslims
and we don't consider them to be Muslims
even though they say there is no Creator
other than Allah and there is no
sustainer other than Allah and there is
no Lord other than
Allah so when the prophet is coming to
them he's not coming with a new God he's
not coming with a new deity they know it
is Allah who created them yet why are
they not Muslim well because they're
worshiping Idols well why are they
worshiping Idols when they know that
Allah created them the Quran tells us
Surah zum verse3 zum verse3 Allah says
that if you were to ask them why are you
worshiping these beings they
say we're only worshiping these beings
so that they can bring us closer to
Allah notice the ultimate goal is Allah
these beings are Stepping Stones they're
intermediaries they're simp simply tools
we use to get to the Grand deity and
that is Allah Surah yunus Verse 18 Allah
says they worship besides Allah these
beings that are useless and they say
these beings are our intercessors
between us and Allah our
intermediaries you see we're too sinful
we're too Unholy and these beings are
holy beings so we go through them to get
to the holiest of holy and that is Allah
now no notice here this is very
important because their shik was not in
rejecting Allah it was not in
saying created me it was not in saying
that will resurrect me no they firmly
believed Allah is the creator sustainer
nourisher everything by name Allah not R
Krishna Buddha Allah yet they're
worshipping other than Allah and they
say we're too sinful we need to use
intermediaries to get to Allah now this
is important because unfortunately we
have Muslims in our times who fall prey
to the exact same mentality word for
word letter for letter we're sinful
people change Allah to change to change
man to and you get the exact same
concept we're too sinful people we can't
worship Allah directly he's too holy so
we have to go through the saint or they
will have to go through through the
prophet wasallam we worship this being
we make prayer to this being we
sacrifice to this being we invoke the
blessings of this being because this
being has a high status with Allah he
will plead our case to Allah and all of
us who have family back home we know
that this is unfortunately common
amongst uh the Muslims around the world
and this mentality is exactly the
mentality of the Jah Arabs it is exactly
the same and this this is compounded by
the fact that if somebody says how dare
you compare a to a lot how doare you
compare my she to a lot the response is
what is allat except a p and a what is
allat do you know the origins of allat
allat was aat was the main Idol of right
we said last time what is the main Idol
of mecah who can remind me the main Idol
of mecah is Hub and this was the
original idol where did it come from who
can remind me Syria from the
Amit came from the this is the original
idol that was there until the prophet uh
got rid of it in the conquest of mecah
then the second major Idol was and that
was in these were the two main idols and
hub and then manat was the the third and
so these are the main Idols
nowat what what is Alat Alat was a man
who used to feed to the pilgrims a type
of soup and the word for making soup in
Arabic
is and a lot is the one who grinds a lot
is the one who basically does the thing
to make the soup The Barley you grind it
and then you make the soup out of it
it's not his name it's his title and
this was a man who would stand on the
road towards Mecca and everybody who
went there he would was a generous man
he would feed them and so they called
him Alat the one who gives the soup the
one who feeds the one who makes the
barley for the soup Alat when when he
died they said let's commemorate him
he's a good man he's a righteous man so
they build a monument a mum and in our
religion we're not supposed to build a
monument on a grave because of this
reason exactly because of this reason so
they said let's commemorate him he was a
good man so they built a big structure
and what happens when you build a big
structure on a grave people come they
rub their bodies on it they put their
hands on it they want to get blessings
and bit by bit slowly but surely it
becomes an idol and a god that is
worshiped besides Allah so what is allat
accept a holy man A righteous person and
we already mentioned before that the
most common being who is invoked on
earth besides Allah is Jesus Christ the
most common being that is worshiped
besides the true God is Jesus Christ
what is Jesus Christ an evil being or a
good being he's a good being he is one
of the greatest of all prophets and
Messengers you see the slippery slope
doesn't occur with evil people I mean
how few people worship shaan right the
satanists how few are they and yet look
at how many people worship Jesus Christ
in the billions because it's easy to
slip with a good man you put him above
his place you take him to a status above
what he deserves and this is what our
religion came to prohibit no you don't
worship anybody including the prophet
Muhammad wasam you don't go through him
to get to Allah meaning you don't direct
your prayers through him you take him as
a role model and you don't take him as
another God a Demi God a semi God so it
is important that we understand that the
sh of the Jah Arabs was a very unique
type of shik it is not the shik of let's
say the Hindus or the Buddhists or the
zarrian because these groups they
believe in another God besides Allah
they don't believe in Allah the god of
the Arabs was the god of Abraham and is
and is and that is Allah that is the god
that we believe in their shik was not in
rejecting him it was in affirming him as
being too holy we can't get to him
directly we have to go indirectly and
it's very important that we as Muslims
therefore understand what our religion
is about and that is there are no
intermediaries between us and Allah
subhana wa tala and that was a point
related to the last lesson now we now
move on to today's
lesson and We Begin by pointing out well
we just talked two lessons about how
evil Jah Arabia was how bad it was and
next week we're going to continue this
uh Dr Bashar is going to be speaking
next week I won't be here he'll talk
about the social circumstances of Arabia
uh and again so many evils taking place
in Arabia now if Arabia was so bad was
so evil why did Allah choose Arabia and
the Arabs for the prophet to come in I
mean why didn't he choose the Romans who
were the mightiest civilization or the
Persians who had an ancient civilization
why didn't he choose another Nation why
in the back can't say back Waters the
back Sands of Arabia why in this desert
in this nomadic lifestyle that didn't
have a civilization it didn't have a
script it didn't have anything it didn't
even have a government why why did Allah
choose this Society to send the last
prophet well there are many wisdoms that
we can derive that we can glean from
choosing these groups of people first
and foremost the Arabs and Arabia was in
between the two major superpowers of the
time and those were the assassinates and
the Byzantine Empire right the Eastern
Roman or the Byzantine Empire and the
assassinate or the Persians the Romans
and the Persians is simplified uh the
more correct is the the Byzantine and
the assassinates so AR I is smack in the
middle or you can say Southmost but it
is in between Wars are taking place
right above Arabia in the Syrian
hemisphere or or or land Wars are taking
place for 400 years between the
byzantines and the assassinates Arabia
is right there in the middle
additionally so it's geographically very
uniquely situated it's connected to the
two greatest International superpowers
yet it is distinct connected but
distinct and Subhan Allah what happened
in 30 40 years Arabia conquered these
two superpowers right had Arabia been in
China it would not have been able to
conquer these two superpowers by being
connected and yet separate just on the
border the very first lands of Conquest
Allah will that these two Mighty Nations
be conquered by the Muslims within 20
years within 30 years after the death of
the prophet in the time of as you all
know additionally the Arabs did not have
a history of colonialism or aggressive
behavior because the Arabs were busy
fighting amongst themselves they never
challenged Rome they never challenged
Persia so when the Arab armies first
marched towards Rome and Persia I.E
after Islam the Romans and the Persians
were laughing who are these bedin
wanting to attack us and it is said that
this the assassinate Emperor treated uh
s and and and the other Muslim leaders
as children because have you gone crazy
your armies are going to attack us go
back and we'll give you some gold coins
if you want I mean don't don't bother
they treat treated them like kids
because they couldn't believe that a
group is coming from Arabia the Arabs
never had a colonialist influence they
never were aggressive to the superpowers
so it was a surprise completely coming
out of this land another point is that
the fact that the Arabs did not have
their own unique Civilization now what
do I mean by civilization some people
ask me what do you mean they didn't I
when when I say they didn't have
civilization I mentioned certain uh uh
benchmark of a civilization the first
Benchmark is a Unified Government if you
don't have a Unified Government you
don't have Law and Order in society I
mean that's the first Benchmark of a
civilization you have a Unified
Government and then another Benchmark is
literature arts architecture now the
Arabs did not have literature they had
poetry which is one step less they did
not have written literature per se
because they didn't have reading and
writing right another Benchmark is is
architecture buildings the Arabs did not
have buildings they didn't build
anything of lasting significance whereas
the Roman I mean to this day the the
haga sopia it was built before the
Prophet by 100 years and it is still a
Marvel that we go in and we look at you
know in in Istanbul and in
Constantinople and other places the the
Palaces of Persia they're still around
uh peroulis outside of tan they're still
around you can go and see them
magnificent structures the Arabs at the
time didn't have that so again I mean
I'm not trying to I mean some people
apparently there were one or two people
that felt a bit offended when I said
this but it's a fact that Islam came and
gave the Arabs is instead of being
offended they should take pride that
Islam came and made the Arabs the the
top Nation before Islam came the Arabs
were considered to be a backward bwind
nation and they were like that and Allah
says in the
Quran your we have given you a book in
it is your legacy your your legacy will
be through this book this is in the
Quran that you didn't have a legacy
before this book came before this book
came you weren't any anything now when
this book
comes this will give you a legacy that
people will look up to you by right so
this book came and civilized the Arabs
so the fact that the Arabs didn't have
this civilization they didn't have a
Unified Government they didn't have all
of these factors when Islam came it made
it easier for the Arabs to develop a
unique and their own culture and
civilization there was no competition if
Islam had come to the Romans it would
have been very problematic cuz they have
their entire structure up and running
and for Islam to come there you have to
then fight the status quo in Arabia you
can say there's somewhat of a vacuum
there is no status quo to fight so when
the prophet unites the Arabs for the
first time the the the the wars that
he's undertaking are relatively small
there's no Mighty Unified Government
that's attacking him and this is of the
blessings of Allah that he chose Arabia
for this the first time the Arabs were
ever United is under the prophet they
never United before him he came and he
United all the Arabs all the descendants
of is before this they were not United
and so the fact that they didn't have a
civilization is in fact a blessing in
disguise because then Islam came and
brought that Civilization and a unique
Islamic civilization with its own
language its own literature its own
script its own coinage even its own
everything came everything even its own
architectural style as you know the UMAS
had their own the Abbas had their own
the andal all of this came it came
because there was a vacuum and so the
Arabs came and they filled that vacuum
with Islam and they then brought forth a
new
civilization another benefit and wisdom
of sending the prophet to uh Arabia was
the fact that be and we referenced this
slightly before because of the internal
Warfare amongst the Arabs and their
relative backward State the rise of a
political entity from Arabia was
completely unexpected no body could have
predicted that there will be a political
force coming from Arabia it is as if
right now somebody pointed to one of the
lowest uh GDP countries let's say on the
index right uh one of the subsaharan
countries let's say and said in 5 years
this will be the superpower of the world
right now everybody's thinking it's
China or this or that we have two three
names and then right at the bottom
there's one or two names imagine if
somebody said no no no all of that is
wrong it's going to be one of those
countries at the bottom it's not even a
threat nobody's thinking about it so the
Arabs and the the Romans and the
Persians were completely uh unprepared
for the Arabian Conquest also another
point of benefit is that meccah was the
site of the first house built for the
worship of Allah subhah wa tala and it
was the place of ibraim and is therefore
it was most appropriate that mecah
become the place of the first Universal
religion because Islam is the first
Universal religion every other religion
that Allah revealed which is now called
Judaism or Christianity these are
revealed religions they were local they
weren't meant to be Universal we believe
that Jesus Christ did not come for all
of the world he came for the children of
Israel we believe that Moses was not
sent for all of mankind he was sent for
only the Jews yet the prophet was sent
for the entire world so it is befitting
that his place be the place where the
first house of worship was ever built on
Earth we already said two weeks ago that
Allah says in the Quran the first house
of worship was the one built in beah
which became Makkah this is the first
Masjid ever built on Earth by Humanity
by ibraim so it is befitting that the
first Universal call come from that very
Valley from that very Sanctuary from
that very house yet another benefit of
why Allah Asel chose the Arabs is that
even though the Arabs did not have
certain qualities they had other
qualities that made them very good to be
receptive to that message of those
qualities was the purity of spirit
purity of spirit they were not polluted
by philosophical indoctrinations they
didn't have other they were simple
people and being simple has its
positives and its negatives right being
simple has its positives and negatives
and of the simple of the positives of
being simple is that when truth comes
you accept it more easily you're not
clouded by philosophical baggage if you
like you don't have lots of weird ideas
you're a simple person and that's why
generally speaking even in society sub
the first converts are always the
sincere innocent people this the first
converts they're always the sincere
people not the ones who are convoluted
not the ones who have no it's just
simple another benefit that the Arabs
had was that they were a people who were
so used to hardship so used to lack of
food and lack of water and and
everything that this of course helped
the armies in early in the early
conquest of Islam you see the Romans and
the Persians were spoiled troops these
were troops that needed needed supply
lines these were troops that had lots of
armor lots of baggage with them now the
Arabs they didn't have all of this and
they're used to traveling in the desert
for long distances with small amounts of
water small amounts of food an early
Islamic conquest needed that it needed
that stamina that neither the Arabs that
neither the Romans nor the Persians had
and so Allah chose a group that he knew
would be able to benefit Islam in its
early time also the Arabs had
characteristics that were very positive
bravery they were not cowards they were
brave people they were proud and in a
sense PR PR Pride can be negative and
pride can be positive if you're proud of
something that is worthy to be proud of
if you're proud of being a Muslim this
is positive and if you're proud of being
of something that is racist or something
this is negative so having an element of
Pride sometimes is good there were also
honest people the Arabs hated lying they
hated lying they were very honest people
and there's many evidences to show this
of them is the famous story of Abu
sufyan with hercus which we referenced
uh last week when we talked about the
emperor of Rome met Abu sufyan right and
he asked him a series of questions and
we didn't mention in a lot of detail but
Abu
sufyan was brought in front of hercus
and the rest of the Caravan remained
behind him because Abu sufyan because
the hercus knew that Abu sufyan is an
enemy to the prophet he's not a believer
in the prophet so hercus wanted to make
sure that Abu sufyan is is speaking the
truth so he put the back of Abu sufyan
all of the people of quray were at his
back the Caravan and he's facing hercus
and then he told The Interpreter to the
people behind Abu sufyan if Abu sufyan
lies make a motion to me that he's lying
tell me that he's lying now they're all
pagans they're all they're all you know
Idol worshippers andone them are Muslims
Abu sufyan said were it not for the fact
that my people would have accused me of
being a liar
I would have invented lies against the
prophet at that point in time I didn't
want to tell the truth I didn't want to
say all of these things CU they're all
positive is he the most noble is he
honest is he trustworthy is he this he
said were it not for the fact that my
people would call me a liar in other
words despite being a pagan he didn't
want to be called a liar truthfulness
honesty was something that was prized
amongst the Arabs also the Arabs were
sincere in their Oaths if they gave a
promise they would uphold it we quoted
last week an incident that really shows
this a promise that was
upheld ABD mutb and his promise to Allah
ABD mutalib and his promise to Allah
nobody is even telling him that oh this
is a promise you made to me he made a
promise to Allah and he wanted to
fulfill it the Arabs were people who
they were people of their word and they
abided by their word and that's why
there were no written contracts in
Arabia until Islam came there was no
need for it if a man said it that was
his there was no need for Witnesses if a
man said it that's it he said it he's
not going to retract on his word so
treachery was considered to be very very
evil amongst them and the final point
that we'll mention is that the Arabs
were of course the best uh Horsemen
there was no denying this that the
Romans and the Persians could not
compete neither with the horses of
Arabia nor the Riders of Arabia so the
horses of Arabia were the best horses to
this day the Arabian horses and by the
way there are a Hadith about Arabian
horses by the way and the prophet
praised horses from Arabia and subh
these are that are authentic and Subhan
Allah to this day the world knows that
the most prized horses are Arabian
horses and our Prophet wasam uh said
that the best horses are uh the Arabian
horses the horses of this peninsula and
Subhan Allah to this day as we said the
Arabian horses are the best because our
Prophet said so so the Baraka remained
or the blessings remain in them so the
horses were the best and then the Riders
were the best and they were the most
accustomed to the most brutal War
they're not used to Heavy Armor they're
used to riding as we said long distances
they're used to uh a very difficult type
of War which the Romans and the Persians
would not going to be accustomed to so
for all of these reasons and then of
course there is the issue of the Arabic
language itself the Arabic language is a
citic language and the semetic languages
are far more eloquent and powerful than
than languages based in Latin anybody
who has studied Hebrew Aramaic those of
you who have studied Arabic you
understand the transmutation of the
three-letter
word all of these transmutations this is
a very semetic issue it's not found in
the other languages and it's a very
powerful tool if you learn one verb the
let's say from it you can derive over
200 nouns and verbs and Concepts because
the same verb will give you Roots will
give you structures that you will derive
over 200 different uh nouns and
adjectives and verbs and whatnot this is
an amazing language and it's a powerful
language and generally speaking it is
said that the semetic languages are the
most eloquent languages we of course
believe this theologically but even
people who are not of any theology they
say that the the semetic languages have
a power and beauty that is not found in
the other languages of course semetic
languages uh in our days there's only
Hebrew and Arabic that are spoken uh but
of of course in in the days gone by it
was Aramaic and syri and and all of
these other languages are all semetic
languages and the final reason why Allah
chose or the final reason we will
mention of course there must be many
more the final reason that we will
mention why Allah chose the Arabs is of
course the most obvious one and that is
the prophet ibraim made a Dua the Dua of
ibraim as he's building the Kaa him and
his son is and he says
Oh Our Lord we pray to you that from our
progeny you send Forth One Prophet or
messenger who will come to them and
recite to them your signs your aat and
will purify them and will clean them and
will teach them the book and wisdom so
ibraim and is made a Dua that there
should be a prophet from their progeny
because he knew that there would be
prophets from the other progeny of is he
knew this because Allah says in the
Quran that when sah became
pregnant even before is was born and of
course the Old Testament expounds Upon
This Much More Allah knows if it's true
or not but the Old Testament says that
uh the Angels or The God said to Abraham
that through this son of yours shall be
my Covenant now we believe there was a
covenant through that son for thousands
of years but then it was transferred to
the sons of is so Allah says that that
when sah was pregnant we will give you
is and after is will give you another
Prophet so he's being told that there's
going to be many prophets from is and we
believe that every single Prophet that
came after ibraim up until the prophet
Muhammad wasam came from the children of
ish we believe that every Prophet after
the generation of ibraim was from the
descendants of is we believe this we
give them that privilege because Allah
gave them that privilege but we say the
final Prophet only one Prophet came
after is from his progeny and that is
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam so ibraim makes a Dua that oh
Allah from this son as well I want a
child I want a prophet who will come to
his people and who will come and recite
the signs and purify and teach them the
book and so of course the children of is
are the Arabs and so the prophet
ibrahim's Dua had to be fulfilled and
that is why the main reason we can say
that Allah chose the Arabs the main
reason I left it for the last is that
the prophet ibraim said I want a prophet
from this PR from this son and that is
indeed what uh what Allah gave and
that's was exactly the prophet wasallam
said that he said in authentic
Hadith he said I am the respon of the
Dua that my father ibim made and to ibim
I am that response of the Dua
and I am the Glad Tidings that Jesus
predicted and to this day in the New
Testament there are references that
Jesus says I must leave you for uh of
course the Hebrew or the uh the Greek
says uh paraclet to come has been
translated in different ways perhaps
this is a reference and this is what
some Muslim theologians say that Jesus
is saying I have to leave for the other
one to come and the prophet Muhammad is
saying in the Quran is saying as well
that Jesus predicted his coming so he
said and I am the good
news the good news has generally been
translated as the gospel uh by the
Christians but we believe that Jesus
Christ predicted the coming of the
Prophet Muhammad so he saying I am the
good news that Jesus Christ uh told
would come so he is the da of IIM and
the of this is what our Prophet s wasam
said we had already pointed out that the
lineage of the Prophet was the most
noble lineage we mentioned to theth in
Muslim that the prophet wasam said that
out of the children of is Allah chose
kinana out of the children of kinana
Allah chose quray out of the children of
qur Allah chose Beni Hashim and out of
the children of Beni Hashim Allah chose
me and so this means that the prophet
was chosen from the most noble of all
lineages and we firmly believe that
there is no lineage more noble than his
lineage let us now move on to the issue
of the birth of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam we spoke about Abdul
mutalib and his ancestors we now get to
the prophet's direct and immediate
parents and these are of course Abdullah
and
Amina Abdullah and Amina both of them
both of them we have but a few lines
about their life and
times we have very little about them for
a number of reasons firstly because the
both of them as we know lived very short
lives they both died in their early 20s
maybe maybe even before this 189
19 secondly and so obviously you have a
short life you don't have you know a lot
of memories to leave I mean you have
only lived a few years
secondly the both of them died before it
was known that the prophet is a prophet
wasam so nobody's recording you know The
Life and Times of even those 20 years
these are regular people of qur they
might be Noble they might be good but
there's not there's no prediction that
these are going to become the parents
thirdly when the prophet becomes a
prophet it's already been 40 50 years 40
years right since his parents have died
and by the time he gets to Medina 53
years by the time he himself passes away
63 years who's alive to remember what
happened 63 years ago right so when
Islam finally reached Isa power when
Islam finally became stable who is
living to remember those early days of
Islam and that is why we're going to
come to this in after Ramadan when we
get there we all know that the mean
period lasted 53 years 40 before
prophecy and 13 after prophecy correct
53 years the medinan period lasted how
many years 10 years now if we were to
put all of The Chronicles of those 53
years in a volume and all of The
Chronicles of the med years in a volume
the Medan volume would be three times
the size of the mean
volume even even though the time frame
for Medina is 10 years and mekah is 53
why because when Islam is stable that's
when people can record and and write and
talk and and remember when Islam becomes
powerful that's when it is easier to
record events and remember them when the
followers become peaceful and stable not
when they're persecuted not when B is
being dragged in the streets of Med and
Amar is being tortured I mean they're
not going to have time to remember and
and narrate to their children right so
if this is the case of the life of the
Prophet that we have one volume versus
three volumes of his life what do you
think of his mother and father so sadly
we have very little information much of
which is Legend much of which is not
quite we don't know for sure if it's
true or not but what we do know what we
do know inshallah we'll try to narrate
it uh that we have here Abdullah as we
know was the one whom Abdul mutb was
about to sacrifice I already told you
the story that he was saved right after
this immediately after the saving of of
Abdullah Abdul mutalib decided that he
needed to choose a bride for his son
according to one report he was 18 years
old at the time and one version says he
was 20 25 years old but he was a young
man it's a young man at the time and
Abdul mutalib chose for him the daughter
of the chief of the Banu Z the Banu zra
were one of the tribes of the quray we
said many times and the average Muslim
is unaware of this qur is a big tribe
within it are many small subtribes we
have to memorize this qur is the large
tribe within it are many subtribes the
Banu Hashim is one the Banu zra is
another so the chief of the Banu zra had
a daughter by the name of Amina his name
was of course wahab so the chieftain of
the Banu Z was wahab and he had a
daughter Amina and so Abdul mutalib
proposed on behalf of Abdullah Abdul
mutalib proposed
to on behalf of
abdah and this proposal took place
shortly before the Caravan season when
the Caravans were about to depart to
Syria shortly before that and so wahab
agreed to marry his daughter to the son
so they were both Chieftains right and
so when you're the son of a Chie you
want to marry the daughter of a
Chieftain ABD m is the chief of the of
the Banu Hashim and the chief of the of
the Banu Z is wahab and so the daughter
of wab am and the daughter of ABD
Abdullah they agreed to get married so
Abdullah got married to Amina just a few
days before the Caravan departed and it
is said that he barely spent three or
five days with her before he had to go
with the Caravan he spent barely a week
with this new bride of his and he then
departed on the Caravan as you know
never to be seen again so they had an
extremely short short marriage because
as soon as they got married he had to
leave for the Caravan now there are some
Legends here or there are some stories
here that are not authentically narrated
but there's no harm in uh in in
mentioning them because there's nothing
wrong with them now I have to point out
here that I try my best to keep
authentic stories only we need to
realize that just like with any story
and our Prophet is no exception people
wanted to add Legends and make it bigger
and bigger and in fact it is very true
to say that because he is the prophet of
Allah people wanted to add more details
and make it more flowery than it is our
job is to stick to the facts our job is
to look at it academically through the
science of Hadith the science of
transmission we don't let our emotions
sway us sometimes it's okay to narrate
such stories if there's nothing wrong
with them and this is one of them that
their Legends are mentioned that
Abdullah had a type of brightness on his
face he had a type of uh NAD it's called
and that it is also mentioned that he
was a very handsome young man and so the
Young Dam cells of the quray were all
eager to marry him the young ladies of
the qur were all eager that he would
propose to them and it is said that a
number of them hinted at this to him
that why don't you take me as a bride
and why don't you uh you know propose to
me I'll be more than willing to become
your bride and he said I have to follow
my father whatever my father wishes
after he married
Amina those same ladies that were uh
suggesting themselves to him to marry
they stopped taking an interest in him
completely
and so he said what is the matter why
are you not you know speaking with me or
anything so they said that you had a
brightness in your face that no longer
is there this is what it said meaning
that after he was with am for a while
this brightness left meaning that
obviously it's now the progeny the
prophet Muhammad Allah knows best this
is not an authentic one but there's no
harm in narrating something like this
nonetheless So within a week of marriage
less than a week after marriage he only
spent a few days with am he then had to
leave catch the Caravan go all the way
to Syria on the way back from Syria he
fell severely ill with the Caravan and
he was slowing the Caravan down and by
the time they got to Y which was later
to become Medina he said to the Caravan
I'm slowing you down I have relatives in
y I will stay with them until I recover
you go back to mecah question who are
his relatives in
y how did he have reles and go back two
weeks abd's what mother so that's
his grandmother it's his paternal
grandmother now Subhan Allah notice
Allah subhah wa ta'ala
prepared some relationship with the
prophet in the city he would go to this
is very rare the qur married amongst
themselves it's very rare for them to go
to out of nowhere was is not a city that
is common for them right and yet Allah
prepared this there's a relationship
with Y the prophet we're going to come
to uh in two weeks he visited ye as a
six-year-old boy because his mother
wanted to take him the right so there's
a relationship with the city Allah has
in his divine plan this prepared and so
Abdullah says I have my cousins here in
the uh the tribe of Banu Nar I have my
cousins here I will stay with them until
I recover you go back to mecah by the
time the Carin got back to Mecca amen is
all excited my husband's coming back I
want to tell him that I'm pregnant and
lo and behold he's not with the Caravan
so most likely Abdullah did not even
know that am was pregnant in fact if we
believe this version of the event which
ISB he could not have known because he
was only with her for 4 days so by the
time the Caravan comes back she is told
that he is sick and he should be coming
in a few weeks after he recovers and
then the next news comes that he has in
fact passed away in y whatever the
sickness was we don't know he had passed
away at a very young age 20 22 years old
he passes away and uh he is buried
somewhere over there nobody knows where
is buried nobody has ever discovered
this no can anybody do it now but he's
buried somewhere in y
so remain becomes a widow at the age of
18 19 young young age maybe even younger
than this carrying The Offspring of
Abdullah and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam is born in the famous
year of the elephant uh and this leads
us to the issue now of the date of his
birth when exactly was he born now and
this is the next discussion which will
last us quite a while because I believe
that this is interesting to discuss and
also has relevance to modern times now
we we have been told that the prophet is
was born on the 12th of and this is the
commonly known date yet the fact of the
matter is that our early historical
textbooks mention a number of dates and
there is no unanimous agreed upon
decision regarding the date of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam birth
the prophet told us certain things that
we know for sure of them in the famous
Hadith of Muslim that a man asked the
prophet why do you fast on
Mondays why do you fast every Monday he
said this was the day I was born on and
this was the day that Revelation began
to
me came down on Monday so we know for a
fact he was born on Monday okay that
narrows on a day of the week how about a
year well there are some narrations that
mention the year as well there's a
beautiful narration in which asks one of
the oldest uhis and his name
is after the death of the prophet he
asks
him are you meaning what does Akbar here
mean
older because he's an old old man but of
course Akbar also means bigger or
grander right so
uh smiles and he goes the prophet sallam
is but I am older than
him he changed the question because the
question gave it's the question is
alluding to the fact are you bigger than
the prophet sallam so he said no the
prophet is bigger than me but I am older
than him
and then he says the prophet was
born we have a year now he was born in
the year of the elephant and as for me I
remember my mother taking me outside of
mecah as a child and I saw the dried up
green dung that the elephants had left
what does this
show what does this show that he
remembers the elephant's dung which is
basically the same year of the year of
the elephants right and the prophet was
born that year so he's a little bit
older than the prophet sallam and the
prophet is bigger than
him this is narrated in
so therefore puts a date also we have uh
somebody asked another
sahab about the prophet's birth and he
said the prophet and I were both born
the same year that we were
born the year of the elephant so from
both of these narrations we can pretty
much verify that the prophet was born in
the year of the elephant even though
there are some opinions he was born 10
15 20 years before after but these are
very minuscule minority the bulk or the
vast majority of early historians said
he was born in the year of the elephant
we already said the Arabs did not have a
calendar we already said that they would
have a calendar based upon events the
year of the drought the year of the
invasion the year of the elephant and
then for the next 5 10 years they would
say two years after the year of the
elephant three years before the year
until something else big happened and
then they began something else right so
this was their calendar system until
came and said we need a calendar this is
a part of civilization to have your
calendar right we need a calendar and
then he made the Islamic hij calendar
which we follow to this day so pretty
much we are confirmed now two things the
year of the elephant and a Monday okay
what is the year of the
elephant difficult to date because we
don't have any type of Chronicles of the
abyssinians and what they did but by and
large piecing together various factors
that are beyond the scope of this
majority of historians say this
corresponds to 570 of the Christian era
570 of the Christian era 570 CE the
prophet wasam was born now how about the
day of the so it's the year of the
elephant fine how about the the month
and and the the day of the month when we
look at two of the earliest books ever
written about the history of the Prophet
s wasallam we find differing accounts
the most famous book of history is of
course IB is we talked about it the ofb
is is died 150
hij is says without any chain of
narrators he's writing from himself that
the prophet wasam was born on a Monday
the 12th
of in the year of the elephant so this
explains why this opinion is present he
says very clearly that the prophet was
born on a Monday on the 12th of in the
year of the elephant however between him
and the prophet are almost 200 years
because remember going back to the birth
of the Prophet is is 53 before hij so
between him and the birth of the Prophet
is 200 years and he doesn't tell us
where he gets it from who's narrating
this to him what is the chain of
narrators when we look at the second
earliest book and this is called the
which was written around 220 or so
the
the says that it is said that the
prophet was born on a
Monday some people say I quote he was
born on the 10th of
R others say he was born on the second
of end
quote two opinions neither of which
conform to
the 12th
of ab it is said also said the 10th
of the famous historian of Islam IB in
his
Al says that the majority opinion is
that the prophet was born
in but others have other months as well
and then Scholars differed with regards
to the date of his birth one group said
he was born on the 2 of R number second
of says this was the opinion of ab a
famous scholar of History died 171 it
was also the opinion of ABD a very
famous scholar of andus died 463 it was
also the opinion of Ali who died 207 Al
is one of the most famous historians of
early Islam so we have three very early
authori saying he was born on the 2
of goes on another opinion is that he
was born on the 8th of
R he says this is the opinion
ofam famous caller of andus IM Malik
anas you all know IM Malik The Scholar
of Medina and the opinion of AI who
again I mean I cannot explain how famous
Z is 128 hij and opinion of
Muhammad a number of famous people of
the past the eth
of moves on a third opinion is that he
was born on the 10th on the the 10th of
so we have now 2 8th and 10th the 10th
of he says this is the opinion
of and the opinion of J Who
ja cousin no he's the descendant of the
prophet and the Shia consider him to be
one of the imams he's the sixth IM for
the Shia but he's a descendant of the
Prophet Salli wasallam so one of the
descendants of the Prophet says that he
was born on the 10 on the 10th of
says the fourth opinion is that he was
born on the 12th of and this is the
opinion of IB is but there is no isad on
this matter in other words there's no
chain of narrators that mentions
anything about uh the the 12th
ofb does say that this is the most
popular opinion in his time IB cath died
770 something way after in medieval
Islam 12th is the most popular opinion
and from medieval Islam up until our
times is the most popular but in early
Islam it was not the most popular the
fifth opinion the 17th of RAB the sixth
opinion the 22nd of RAB the seventh
opinion he wasn't even born in Rab he
was born in Ramadan and this is the
opinion of Zu bakar who was the first
scholar to ever write a history on
Makkah and he died 256 Hijra and then
there are other opinions as well so to
summarize there are over 10 opinions in
the earliest books of Islam about the
exact day that the prophet was born none
of them
are is let's say uh indisputable none of
them are clearcut none of them have
solid evidence all of them are the
opinions of early authors and narrators
and to be very academic the opinion of
the 12th of R seems to have much less
weight than the 2 and the eth and the
10th because these three
have they have descendants of the
Prophet whereas the opinion of the 12th
it is
byb is who is 200 years after the birth
of the prophet and he doesn't have any
chain so if this is the case why then is
the opinion of the 12th of the most
popular so much so that for many of you
it's shocking that I'm daring to go
against this fact of history right this
might be blasphemy tell you that how
dare you how why is it so popular very
easy to respond Point number one IB
is I already mentioned that 90% of
authors who write about s they only rely
on I is they just take IB isak and
summarize it redo it translate it do
this and that that's what they do and
it's a good book but it's not the only
book so because is ISB is and because he
says 12th of R end of story no questions
asked is going to be the 12th of RAB
the second opinion or the second reason
why the 12th R AIS becomes became so
popular is that and this leads us to a
controversial issue but I don't shy away
from controversy as you all know is that
the first time that the prophet's
birthday was celebrated as a public
event IE the or the as we call it the
first time that it was celebrated the
authority who celebrated it chose the
12th
of and because they chose the 12th of
now that's it it just spread like
wildfire the day and the event and the
custom now I have written a detailed
article about the history of the mid and
who started it and how did it become
popular and you can refer to it on
Muslim matter is called a history of the
M by myself you can just Google it and
you'll find it three parts uh and just
to summarize
the or
the the first recorded instance that we
have of anybody
celebrating is around 517 Hijra 517
Hijra I.E the sixth Century of Islam so
for 500 years the concept of celebrating
the birthday of the Prophet is simply
unknown to the Muslims they cannot
because celebrating birthdays is not a
custom that comes from Islam or from I'm
not saying it's Haram by I'm saying it's
not something that that the Arabs would
do they wouldn't record birthdays to
celebrate them in the first place right
many of you I know my own grandmother
had no idea when she was born they
didn't record these things it was not
something of significance to them the
day and the month and the year that you
were born this is a western concept that
is now modern everybody records it but
it was not something that if you even
ask your own grandparents many of them
would not know you know it's not
something that was recorded and so the
concept of celebrating it is a very late
addition and the first group that celebr
ated it were the fids of Egypt and the
fids uh are a dynasty that are not of
Sunni theology they are an extreme sh
Dynasty the fatimids are the ancestors
of in today's time the aahan and the
bohra the Isis uh the fatimas are the
ancestors of these groups the extreme
Shia groups and for a number of years
they ruled over Egypt the FAA dast ruled
over Egypt and they instituted over 30
40 festivals
and of course there's a reason why
rulers have festivals why do people have
festivals what does it
do
distracting
and economy people come and buy and sell
popularity of whatever it's called the
nation state in our times or in their
times the ruling family right so there's
a reason why the ruling class want to
have public festivals there's a there's
a philosophy behind it and the ftim is
had over 30 or 40 public festivals
throughout the every few weeks there was
a major event and festival and they
celebrated they celebrated 10th of
muharam these are all Shia festivals
they celebrated the birth of this IM the
death of that IM and of those
celebrations it is said they celebrated
the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad
this is the first time in Islamic
history that we come across the
celebration of the birthday of the
Prophet wasallam as I said 517 hij
517 and the people who are doing it are
these fatimids and as we said there's
clearly a motive for them to do it when
it was done in FID Egypt then 150 years
later some Sunni Governors thought this
was a good idea and they imported this
particular festival and because it was
done in Egypt on the 12th of they Egypt
at that time was a fatim state they
imported it to mosul which is outside of
uh of Bagdad it's a place in Iraq the
first uh Sunni Governor he was not
the first Sunni governor who celebrated
uh the mid celebrated at around 670 or
so hij so for 670 years this was unknown
in the Muslim world to celebrate the
birthday of the prophet and this
celebration was done once again on the
12th and it became a very luxurious
festival and various Governors and
rulers would then compete with each
other who could have the bigger festival
and the grander festival free meat and
free uh uh bread and and free you know
gifts were given out and people so it
became a literally a national festival
and as I said there are reasons why
rulers want to do this and so they began
to compete with one another in order to
attract the the trade the Commerce just
like now why do governments want the
Olympics to happen in their country
right why do governments want the World
Cup to come to their country there's
reasons there we need to be a little bit
more uh reading in here and so the
governors wanted these festivals to
become the biggest so each one wants
Theirs to be bigger and bigger and of
course is the birthday of the process
who's ever going to say anything about
that and so slowly but surely from 660
ah it began to spread in in Sunni lands
initially some Scholars opposed it some
Scholars you know said well if you do it
with these conditions it's okay after a
while under public pressure it just the
floodgates opened and it became a very
very common uh festival and you all know
my opinion on this is that uh the way to
celebrate the birthday of the Prophet if
you really if you really wanted to
celebrate it is to fast on Mondays
because that's what he would do if you
really want to celebrate his birthday
then you should fast every Monday
because when he was asked why do you
fast on Monday he said cuz I was born on
a Monday so to take one day of the year
and do events and whatnot I mean I'm not
going to be harsh here but let me just
say it's a really easy copout to show
that you're loving the prophet wasam if
you do something one day real love is to
be dedicated throughout the year right
real love is to show that love every
single day and not just one day of the
year by giving some money and going to a
festival nonetheless so because the
first time that the M was celebrated was
the 12th of what happened it became the
date associated in the minds of the
people even though then we conclude here
with this section move on to the next
one even though academically speaking it
is actually a very weak date and the
eighth and the 10th and even the second
are more authentic historically and they
have evidences from the more than the
12th of
now we also know that and there are
chains of narrators back to who died 95
so there's a gap he didn't see the
prophet but he said that it has been
narrated to me that the prophet was born
at High Noon so there's a gap but it is
a gap in early Islam so we can Overlook
it s died 95 his father is of the age of
the companions right so we we can
overlook this little Gap and this is the
only narration that we have about the
timing of his birth and that is High
Noon when the sun was at its Pinnacle
and Peak and of course there's a clear
symbolism here that is not lost on
anybody that when the sun is brightest
this is when the prophet is coming out
with his own truth that is when Allah is
revealing or or Allah is sending down
the prophet because it is coinciding
with the time of the bright Sun just
like the bright Sun illuminates
everything so too this Prophet Salli
wasallam will illuminate everything and
nothing will remain uh dark around him
now when it comes to the actual birth of
the Prophet sallallahu alai wasam there
are so many Legends and so many
narrations not one of which is
academically sound except for one except
for one all the rest of them are really
Legends and these Legends are mentioned
and Subhan Allah what is really amazing
and you know I have to say this frankly
here that we don't need to invent lies
to praise the prophet we don't need to
invent fairy tals Allah has praised him
enough and the facts are enough we don't
need to to to fabricate things and what
is really amazing is that the earliest
books you go to has the least
information but as you go on and on in
history then the books get bigger and
bigger and the details get more and more
and you wonder where did this come from
and I mean if you want to come to my
house to even demonstrate youb is is
this big and then I have another book
written in the ninth Century about the
it is this big now IB is is the first
book of s right and he is saying I want
to write everything I come across
and it's this big and then you have a
book written 700 years later five times
the size of IB is and this book is full
of and it is said to me and my she said
and this and that where is it coming
from where it's something that as we
said little bit Legends and whatnot so
what some of you might have heard the
prophet was born let's say already
circumcised one one report says another
says he was born and he fell into SJ
another said he was born and he lifted
his finger to the sky to say the sh
I mean well just we don't need to do
this and it makes a mockery of our
religion it makes a mockery of our
religion we don't need to invent these
things about the prophet he is the best
human being and the facts are enough to
show us that and when we resort to these
Tales it it makes our religion not look
as dignified as it needs to look you
knowb is mentions none of these things
none of these things because he doesn't
have this information but when you turn
to books written in 700 hij 800 hij
masallah the guy knows so many details
you wonder where did he get it from okay
there's only one Hadith that mentions
the birth of the he mentions his own
birth and it is a Hadith narrated in mus
IM Ahmed IM ahmed's book of Hadith and
it is authentic Hadith that the prophet
wasallam said when my mother gave birth
to me aha so now he's telling us it's a
Hadith that goes back to him it's not
some because again imagine who witnessed
am in the room come on you know use the
brain that Allah has given us would a
man be there and Witness
being given birth so that he then
narrates that when he came out he fell
into s when he came out he lifted his
finger to the sky I mean you think about
it but now the prophet is saying so
Allah told him this happened he is
saying when my mother gave birth to me
this happened right so now this is
something we don't have to doubt at all
the prophet is telling us so he said
that when my mother was carrying me this
is the first thing that when my mother
was carrying me uh and in one version
gave birth to me so there both versions
are mentioned but the point is when he
was either in the room or when he came
out my mother saw a light emanate from
her that cast its light or or it reached
all the way to the city of bura in the
land of Syria the city of busra in the
land of Syria busra is on the on the
south which is the border of this of
what is is what near but these people
don't know what is so that doesn't do us
much good okay I might but these people
don't know where it's basically very
close to the Arabian
border it's on more on the southern side
of the Arabian of what is now Saudi
Arabia let closer to that side so it's
on the southern side of Syria so the
prophet is saying that my mother saw a
light either in a dream or a physical
light she doesn't mention what coming
from her that came all the way and
illuminated the the Palaces or the city
of bus uh the Palaces of the cities of
busra in Sham in Syria
now what is the significance of this
Scholars have tried to understand why
Syria and why you know this light coming
from of course the light is him the
light is the prophet that she's carrying
something that will bring light to bus
of sham Allah knows best but there's
some things that have been derived here
that sham or Syria is mentioned because
now the the people of Syria can be happy
alhamdulillah there's a lot of syrians
here last time I taught this class there
was no syrians there so now I have a lot
of syrians here Syria is a blessed land
according to our religion now before you
get really happy do realize that the
Islamic Syria is not modern Syria
Islamic Syria
includes modern day Jordan and modern
day fistin a number of different so sham
is broader than modern day Syria but you
guys are included you can breathe easily
alhamdulillah so thee you are the core
yes you are the core true so it is true
that our religion considers sham to be a
holy land overall and of course the the
children of is B is the Jews they always
considered that region to be holy and in
particular Philistine region to be holy
to this day they do that right so we
also believe that there's a type of
Holiness in these lands and that and
that is why Allah says in the Quran
there is
around this is sham sham there is Baraka
over there and the prophet predicted
that sham will remain a fortress of
Islam there's always going to be people
of Islam in uh sham and amazingly sham
was the first major country that was
conquered a province that was conquered
after the Arabian Peninsula right right
after the death of the prophet in the
time of sham was conquered and one of
the first cities maybe even the first
city that was outside the Arabian
Peninsula is BU so there is an
indication that the prophet is going to
challenge status quo sham was the right
arm of the Byzantine Empire I mean
Damascus do you understand we think of
Damascus as an Arab land or an Arab
civilization before the coming of Islam
Damascus was the right hand of the
Byzantine Empire it was the jewel of of
the Romans it was where everything
happened Commerce and trade and culture
and civilization everything was there it
was impossible for the Arabs to think
that one day Damascus would be the core
of Arab civilizations the um's capital
was Damascus so by showing the light
going to the borders of Syria there's an
indication that Islam is going to
conquer this land it will take over and
that's exactly what happened that the
very first land that was conquered was
the land of uh Syria and we also believe
as Muslims that will come down in sham
he's not going to come down in Makkah
and Madina he will descend in sham
because it was sham that was made Holy
by his ancestors the children of is it
was sham that was made holy and he will
come down in D and that is where he will
meet the Mahi and that is of course uh
towards the end of time so sham has a a
symbolism and of course over at this
point I'm I have to make Dua that Allah
frees sham from The Tyranny that it is
currently undergoing and that Allah
helps uh the people who are trying to
oppose this this tyranny and gives them
sa and patience and may Allah bring the
glory of sham that used to be bring it
back to uh sham we finish up here
there's only a few minutes left we
finish up here by mentioning a few more
things that are alleged to have occurred
um that are not found in the authentic
books but they're Allah but it says that
the uh temples of the pagans fell down
in other lands I mean these are things
that there's no recorded history of and
I don't believe this to be true myself
now one a lot of Scholars say that when
the prophet was born this was when the
Jin were stopped entry from the heavens
you guys are familiar with this concept
that the Jin were allowed entry into the
heavens to listen to the angels and
Allah references this in the
Quran
that we used to listen we had our
resting places and we would listen to
the
discussions whoever listens now will
find or basically uh comets or what not
kicking him out so one group of Scholars
says when the prophet was born this was
when the heavens were closed to
these but the correct opinion is that
this occurred not at the birth but when
he became a prophet I at the age of 40
and this is clearly referenced in other
Hadith as well that when came down when
J came down basically Revelation that
was when the skies were closed and that
was when the jins began wondering what
is happening and then Allah says in the
Quran that a group of Jin heard the
Quran being recited and they came back
believing in the Quran so this did not
occur at the birth I just wanted to
point that out and the final thing that
we'll say time was already up subh Allah
I was wanting to go a few more pages but
time is already up uh IB is mentions
that the prophet wasam was circumcised
on the seventh day
pause here for a while later books seven
centuries later mention he was born
uncircumcised the first book mentions
factually matter of fact that that his
grandfather circumcised him on the
seventh day and this is subh Allah
there's nothing wrong with this he is a
normal child born of a normal uh
marriage a normal birth and so his
grandfather circumcised him on the
seventh day and his grandfather AB MB
held A Feast for him and his grandfather
chose the name Muhammad which was a
unique and unusual name some Scholars
say that this was an unknown name to the
Arabs and one group of Scholars says
well it was known but it was not common
and this seems to be the stronger
opinion because there are people whose
references we have whose name was
Muhammad but it was a very uncommon name
and there was nobody in meca by that
name nobody in mecah so when people
asked Abdul MB why are you calling him
by a name that nobody knows nobody's
heard of why don't you call call him one
of your standard names of your fathers
and and forefathers he said I want him
to be praised by the people of the earth
as I want him to be praised by the
people of the heavens Muhammad means the
one who is praised I want him to be
praised by the people of the earth as I
want him to be praised by the people in
the heavens and when the prophet Sall
Ali wasallam was born uh the news spread
amongst uh the qur and Abu laab who was
later to become an enemy at this time of
course he is is an uncle and of course
he's always going to remain an uncle but
at this time he is not an enemy Abu laab
who was one of the older uncles by the
way cuz remember there were 10 brothers
and Abu lahab was born of another mother
no other full brother Abu lahab did not
have any full brother Abu Talib and
Abdullah were full brothers and others
were full Brothers Hamza others were
full Brothers Hamza and safia were full
brother and sister Abu was his own he
didn't have any full he was much older
so perhaps he felt a type of I have to
care for this offering this orphan you
know my younger brother died and whatnot
perhaps he felt some sympathy and so the
the girl that came running the slave
girl that came running to tell him that
your uh son's brother has been born your
your son's Offspring has been born this
girl as soon as Abu laab heard the news
he told her I set you free I'm so happy
you're free he was a slave girl so he
became so happy that just because she
came with this good news he set her free
it shows he was so happy and her name
was
th thba and in our Indian Pakistani
culture it was transformed to soia but
it is in fact thba uh and so and those
of you who are named soia this goes back
to this misreading
OFA uh nothing wrong with it by the way
is just the the name uh and so uh
there's a Hadith in mus IM Ahmed and
with this Hadith we conclude and then
pray inshallah that
Hamza saw or sorry not Hamza Abbas Abbas
saw Abu laab in a
dream after he died Abu lahab after Abu
laab died he saw him in a dream and he
saw him being punished with the utmost
severe punishment because this is
AB
so Abbas said to
him did not your relationship with the
Prophet your uncle who basically the you
know benefit you he said no except for
one thing that I did that when the good
news came that he was born I freed thba
and because of this I am allowed a few
drops of water a few drops of water
because I did this good thing when the
prophet was born because of this I'm
allowed just a little bit of of that's
my concession that's given to me that's
all that is uh given given to him but
the point being that he released thba
and gave made her free so sure he was
happy at the birth of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam we will
continue inshallah next week and the
week after that and then for the month
of July um a different series will start
DR bash will take over completely in a
different series two weeks we'll be
doing the insh uh and with this we don't
have time for questions so we will uh
call somebody to do the Adan and I will
see you inshallah next time