ald uh last Wednesday we were talking
about uh the preparation of the hij of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and we had mentioned that the prophet
had passed by a group from Y and he
asked who are you small group he didn't
recognize them and they said we are from
the KJ and he didn't recognize which KJ
because it's not one of the big tribes
he sat with them he gave them DAW and
they converted and some of them thought
of converting but the point was there
was an openness and they said let us
think about this affair and we'll come
back the following year so this is not a
formal conversion of all six it's rather
the six people are interested in this
new religion is it something interesting
is it something we should be thinking
about or not and perhaps they converted
on the spot perhaps they converted at
when they went back to uh the city of
Medina of course remember at this time
Medina is not Medina Medina is y Medina
is y it will be called Medina after the
immigration of the prophet wasam he will
change it to the name Medina but now it
is called y so so they go back and for
the next year they simply spread the
message that there is this new religion
there's this new Prophet preaching the
message of monotheism of worshiping
Allah subhana wa tala alone and the next
year they sent a message to the prophet
wasallam that we're coming for Hajj
we're coming for the pilgrimage with 12
people who have converted these are now
converts to the faith and this is the
largest group of con converts from
outside of mecah since the beginning of
the da never have 12 people it sounds so
small but never have 12 people converted
from any group outside of meca and
outside of the quray and therefore in
the 11th year of the da remember we're
talking still before the hij so this is
two before hij in the 11th year of the
prophetic preaching 12 people came from
the city of yth 10 from the K and two
from the o 10 from the tribe of the K
and two from the tribe of the O and they
met with the prophet wasam in the plains
of there was no need to be secret
because there's only 12 and these are
just the regular pilgrims coming from
from y unlike the year afterwards it's
going to change but now there it's
nothing to be 12 people having a
conversation with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam also we notice that for
the first time the and the seem to be
forgetting about their hostility and
coming together under the common
platform of Islam the and the K were
enemies of one another the and the K had
a civil war between themselves for 5
years in which they had decimated each
other's populations now this new
religion comes and this new religion
causes them to forget about the past
it's a positive beginning never before
have the O and the Kaz come together for
anything now for the first time we see
what's going to happen
with this new religion of Islam it will
cement bonds it will overcome that which
disunited the people it will unite them
together nonetheless it's still the
beginning so 10 are from the K two are
from the O so they're still some
familial ties there's still some
tribalism because the first converts
were from where were the sixth converts
from the KJ and therefore the next year
the bulk are still from the KJ it's
going to take a while to overcome this
split it's going to take a while but
nonetheless slowly but surely we see
Islam will unite these Pagan tribes
Islam will come and cause them to forget
about their uh problems in the past in
this uh meeting of 12 people of Medina
of Y with the Prophet wasam this was the
first time a formal conversion took
place and in those days when anybody
converted we already said that they
would uh give an oath to the prophet
they would literally Place their hand in
his hand and they would swear a
conversion that they are converting to
the new Faith
andit was one of those who witnessed the
famous all of you know the name is very
familiar to anybody who reads
theit is one of those who attended this
first uh Covenant and it is called
obviously the first Covenant
of the first Covenant of don't get
confused a lot of people get confused
here what happened the year before is
not called a covenant the six people who
spoke with the Prophet this is not
called a because there was no formal it
was just a conversation and we don't
even know did they accept Islam on the
spot or did they go back and accept it
was simply the opening up of their
hearts to Islam
so said he's narrating this himself and
this is in bukari I was of those who
took the
first the first Covenant of is calleda
because one of the areas of mina is this
is where the jamarat are this is where
the three jamarat are and the people of
Y their camping spot was close to the
large Jam we already said that in those
days Even in our days actually the
entire Mina is divided according to
geographies according to ethnicities
right even to this day when you go for
Hajj American Pilgrims one area all of
us we have one area on so in those days
every tribe had it so the the tribes of
Medina had a small area Inaba and this
this oath took place on the plains of of
mina on the plains of mina in their
campgrounds there's no need for any
privacy because the prophet is going
publicly preaching his message nobody
needs to care that another few people
have converted even though it was the
largest conversion outside of mecah
so said I was of those who participated
and it was the oath of the women he
called
it what
is the oath of the women was an oath
that had no political connotations it's
just an oath of morality and
theology because later on the next oath
will be an oath of support an oath of
alliances an oath of political support
and that's a different type of oath the
second is not going to be called the
oath of women when women would convert
the prophet would only ask them to live
moral and righteous lives and to be good
Muslim uh worshippers of Allah so this
is called the oath of women because
there are no political
connotations there's nothing to do with
protecting the prophet nothing to do
with if somebody attacks you have to
defend no nothing like this so said the
first Covenant we did it was
like and we swore our Allegiance to
worship Allah alone that's the main
point of Islam we're going to give up
our Idols we're going to worship Allah
alone and we're not going to fornicate
we're not going to steal we're not going
to uh kill our children as they did in
the days of Jah we will not live immoral
and unrighteous lives and we will obey
the prophet in all good matters so he
will we will be basically good Muslims
and remember at this time the five
prayers have not firmly been established
uh at this time zaka has not quite been
established at this time there is no
Ramadan at this time there is no Hajj so
what do you have to do to be a Muslim
basically worship Allah and live
righteous lives give up not even alcohol
because alcohol was banned in the third
year of the hij right still alcohol has
not yet been banned so what did these
early Muslims have to do give up
fornication and murder and stealing and
worship Allah alone so we all gave him
our oath of Allegiance we all gave him
our oath of Allegiance one of the uh uh
uh one of the things of this oath the
prophet said whoever fulfills this
whoever lives a righteous life his
reward will be with Allah Allah will
give you paradise and
whoever falls short and repents then
Allah will forgive you and if you don't
repent then you might be punished so
basically it's pure theology it's pure
simple Islam you live good lives you'll
get to Paradise you live bad lies try to
make it up and Allah will forgive you
it's a very simple oath there's no
political connotations at
all when these 12 converted to Islam
they requested some help in terms of
teaching Islam in terms of somebody to
tell them teach them the Quran um I said
Salah had not been legislated of course
it had been my mistake the is has
occurred by this time the is has
occurred the Salah has been legislated
and so the prophet wasam chose out of
all of the converts there were at least
250 converts now at this stage at least
250 male converts at least the prophet
chose to send back with them to go to Y
he
chose to teach them the Quran and to
lead them in Salah and it is narrated
that within a few weeks of musab
reaching y 40 people had converted to
Islam within a few weeks and and
therefore the prophet wasam told them
they may establish J
Salah and so the very first Friday
prayer ever in the history of Islam was
actually not done by the prophet it was
done at his command but in mecah they
couldn't pray in public as you know in
mecah they could not pray in public in
mecah they would have been persecuted
and killed so the very first Friday
sermon was delivered by
in the House Of Z who was the Ani who
hosted who hosted musab so he was the
one who allowed to live in his house he
had a large house with a large garden a
date palm Grove and and this was where
the first J took place with 40 people
now uh just a little bit of a tangent of
here what is the minimum required people
necessary for Friday prayer what is the
minimum required people necessary for
Friday prayer the or the scholars of
have differed over this issue one said
the minimum is
40 and they base it on this narration of
and Z that the first J took place with
40 people and they say this is their
reasoning the reason why jum became
obligatory upon them was because they
reached the number
40 but if you really think about it
was it because they reached the number
40 or it just so happened coincidentally
that they were 40 when the propess sent
the letter to do jum you see which of
the two ways do you look at it right and
if you really look at it the propess
didn't know how many people had
converted he didn't ask them for a
survey send me how many people when the
number 40 came he then told them oh we
have to now do jum no rather he gave
them the command to do J and uh it just
so happened there were 40 this is the h
m by the way that you have to have 40
people therefore according to the H if
you have 39 men you should not pray J
right this is one opinion of the H this
is obviously doesn't seem to have very
strong academic Merit other mhab say you
need to have a large group of people
without unspecified number but the fact
of the matter is that there doesn't seem
to be any number specified in the Shar
and therefore it goes back to what is
the minimal congregation that you need
to have most Scholars say the minimal
congre conation consists of three people
one of whom is the IM Im so if you have
two people according to this opinion
then you you should do jum if you only
uh uh if you have two people and an IM
then you should do jum and according to
another opinion actually if there are
two people including the IM you should
still do jum so you have one person give
the and you have masallah one person in
attendance right and then you should
also give uh J so there is an amongst
the
scholars this is something that if there
are ever two people in a place and they
decide to give inshallah there is noaj
on them and if they say you know what
there's only two so we'll wait till we
have one more mallah to have a j of
three then uh that too is good somebody
will say has there ever been a jum of
only two people that you have one person
and one one IM and one person following
I say to this I have participated in
such a j I have participated in such a
not that when the people heard I was
coming the Masid was empty don't worry
that wasn't the case rather when I was
uh a young teenager this is a personal
story so just going back a little bit
when I was 19 years old I used to work
in Freeport Texas at Dow Chemical and
there was no Masjid and there was no M
even there wasn't even a mosque or a Mah
at the the factory over there and this
is in the early '90s um I'm sure they
have a Masjid now so I sent out an email
to all the Muslim names that I could
find probably not the wisest thing to do
these days but back then it was
excusable plus my age also excused this
and masallah one person
responded that kalas let's have J so we
showed up at his house expecting a lot
of people to come alhamdulillah
afterwards you know 5 10 people came but
for the first time it was just me and
this one brother in the living room of
his house because there is no Mah no
Masid so the only in my life that I
delivered uh was I was giving the and
there was one man in front of me and we
gave I gave a very short it was very
strange and then I leted the Salah and
I'll never forget that and this was the
first J in in Freeport I'm sure now they
have a Masjid even when I was there over
the next few months more and more people
heard this is how you start right this
is how you start so if anybody says has
this ever happened you I actually have
witnessed this uh myself and uh it is
possible nonetheless Point
here is it two or three Scholars have
differed and some even say 40 because of
getting back to the story okay getting
back to the story The Prophet
sent as we said to Y to Medina and
eventually it is said that every
single subtribe of the and had a
household at least of Muslims remember
that their J Society is divided into
subtribes and every subtribe lives in
its own subdivision because in those
days where you lived was where your
tribe was So eventually there's not a
single locality of Medina except that
there's one or more households that have
embraced Islam and the conversion of two
people in particular led to a mass
conversion instantaneous conversion
amongst the people of yeth and these two
were the upand cominging leaders of of
the the up and cominging leaders in the
vacuum created by the wars of these
were
and sorry is the one who who's housing
uh who's housing it
is and my
mistake who who knows his story what is
the famous
about there's a story inkari about
him anybody remembers the
story is the one who whenever he recited
the Quran he would see the Angels come
down to listen to him this
is that he would see some light coming
down and and listening to him and he
went to the prophet he would recite it
after F he went to the prophet saying
every time I recite I see these these
lights and uh my animals start getting
agitated and I get worried what's going
on the prophet said said these are these
are the peace and the the the the angels
of ofman coming to listen to your Quran
so basically continue reciting and then
mu was the second convert who opened up
the door for all of the uh other
converts s mu who's mu who can tell me
the famous Hadith about s
mu when he
died this is
it shook out of anger that somebody had
killed him this is s right so
and were close friends and was preaching
in the House Of Z okay you see these
names already are very different from
thei names this is names names much more
and much more Hamas if you like so
uhb was sent by mu s and us are talking
and S says to us this new religion has
come to our city and my
cousin Asad so Asad is his cousin my
cousin Assad is housing the man who's
spreading the faith who is who's the
manab musab musab is being housed in
Medina right my cousin is housing this
man because he's my cousin I feel
awkward going why don't you go and
expell this man from our city go and get
rid of musab because who is he to come
and preach against the religion of our
forefathers and so he went with his
spear this is a sign of War he went with
his spear he went to the house of Asad
and when as saw him marching with his
spear he said to musab oh musab this is
one of our leaders this is one of the
leaders of the
K he's getting scared now that he's
coming with his his Javelin with his
spear to come and attack you one of the
leaders of the make Dua have we're going
to something's going to happen here
right so when he came he began speaking
in an angry voice and he said why have
you come to our land have you come to
brainwash those of ours mind those of us
who don't have strong intellect to take
our women and children away from our
ways and to convert them to the ways of
this new prophet of yours go back to
where you came from if you value your
life so a threat if you stay here I'm
going to kill you go back to where you
came from if you value your life musab
responded with a calmness and confidence
that only IM can bring you and musab
said to
him why don't you sit and listen to what
I have to say if you find it agreeable
then good and if not then I'll stop at
least listen I mean you haven't even
heard what I have to say so he found
this to be a very reasonable request and
he sat down and he listened to M
preached to him the basic Message of
Islam it was only after listening to
some basic teachings of Islam that us
his heart opened up to Islam and he said
what you have said makes complete sense
to me how does one embrace your faith
coming with a javelin to kill him 5
minutes later he's saying makes sense to
me well let's how do I convert what do I
have to do and so mus said go do and say
the shahada and pray to that's all you
have to do so he washed himself and said
the Shah pray and uh he said I have a
person who has sent me and this is I
have a person who has sent me if you can
convince him of this then you will have
no opposition left if you can convince
him what you have just convinced me you
will have no opposition left go send him
to me go send him to me so went back
to and saw him he's sitting with his
friends s said this is not the same man
who has left us because wah when you
leave paganism and you
embrace you you change when you
embrace you change and S said this is
not the same man that has left something
is different about him this is not the
same man that has left us and he went
back to S and he said and S asked him
did you
succeed said I tried talking to them but
why don't you try why don't you go and
talk to them so he's trying to get him
to go right and to add some salt some
some urgency he said and it has reached
me that the tribe of such and such he
mentioned under another tribe of Medina
the tribe of such and such has decided
to kill as because he's housing musab
and also because he's your cousin and
you're not doing anything in other words
he's riling up his
Jah tribalism and he's saying unless you
do something the other tribe will go
kill him now where did he get this from
obviously we will assume that there was
an element of truth that there were
rumors that this tribe is going to kill
Asad he's because Asad is the one
housing and so he's basically telling
these rumors just like the father of
yusf says I'm worried the wolf is going
to eat YF it's not a blatant lie it's
kind of sort of it's kind of sort of
stretching the truth it's a white lie
basically right so he is making a sense
of urgency you better go right now that
make sure they don't kill him if anybody
kills him it should be you that's the
point right make sure they don't kill
him or else it's going to become a
tribal Warfare so uh s became alarmed at
this and S took his weapons s took his
weapons and he went marching to the
house of as Z and he said to oh he's
speaking to not even now oh this is his
cousin had you not been my cousin these
weapons would not be hanging at my
side I.E they would be unen out at you
had you not been my cousin these weapons
wouldn't be hanging at my sides and it's
just because of our blood relationship
that I am not taking this more but get
rid of this guest of yours get rid of
this person and tell him to leave our
land and stop spreading his pollution
amongst
us took over immediately without even
said same thing at least listen to what
I have to say you haven't even listened
to what I'm preaching sit down and
listen to what I have to say and if you
find it agreeable then good and if not
then I will stop I mean that's a very
big condition and gave
it if you don't agree then I I'm don't
worry I'll leave okay and that's a very
big shows his confidence I mean it's a
bit overconfident but this is only the
confidence of a and his IM one of of us
would not make this this condition but M
made it cuz if if you don't agree then
I'll stop and so the calmness and the
confidence of musab made s think okay
well that's a valid point it was the
calmness and the confidence that he's
not wavering he's not frightened here's
a man who doesn't even care about
killing mus much as his own cousin he's
going to kill his own cousin right and
yet musab is just staring him straight
down and speaking with that gentleness
and that politeness that that only IM
can bring and he says listen to what I
have to say and once again he sat him
down and this time he
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recited he recited beautiful recitation
we can imagine now and this completely
changed having heard the Quran because
again the Quran is the miracle it is the
miracle right and having heard it
directly from M's
mouth mu immediately said how do I
convert once again exact same question
how do I convert where do I sign what do
I do to get to to convert to this faith
and so as well converted to the faith
and with the conversion of s and the
entire tribe of the it is called which
is one of the subtribes of the the
entire the entire tribe converted along
with them because these two were their
leaders
and with their conversion the tribe
automatically had no problems converting
within the span of a few weeks the
entire tribe of the converted and that
was the largest conversion ever Mass
conversion up until that point in time
with the conversion of these two and uh
by the way there's one exception there's
an interesting story one person from the
tribe did not
convert and his story uh is a tangent as
well but it's very brief his name
was and was the only Pagan of the tribe
of for the next four years two and three
years he remained a pagan and he refused
to convert slowly but surely everybody
converted remained on his paganism uh
and then he converted on one particular
day Abu H used to quiz his students Abu
Hur would say who can tell me the name
of the man who entered Jenna
when he while he never prayed one to
Allah subhana T this is obviously who
can tell me the name of the man who
entered Jenna without having prayed a
single ra and of course the the would
not know and Abu would say he is the of
the this is the subribe
of and he
is of
the he remained firm on his paganism
until the day of until the day of and on
the day of on the morning of the battle
of uh he decided to convert and when he
came to fight in the battle his people
said ohim we have no need of you you
can't fight you're not a Muslim we don't
we can't have your help here we have no
need of
youim said I am here to fight they said
are you going to fight out of tribal
loyalty or out of love for Allah and his
messenger why are you defending us
because again they're being attacked by
the pagans of Mecca are you defending us
out of your tribal loyalty in which case
we don't want you amazing they are
outnumbered 3 to1 right the quray are
3,000 the Muslims are 1,000 they're
being attacked but they realize Victory
comes from sincerity and not from
paganism Victory comes from belief in
Allah and not from belief in the idols
so they quiz him are you helping and are
you coming to us now because you're a
member of our tribe and you feel
threatened or are you coming to us
because you love Allah and his messenger
so he said no I I am now a Muslim I have
converted and I want to fight for the
sake of Islam and they took him to the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam The
Prophet quizzed him he embraced the
Islam he converted he took the shahada
and he embraced Islam after Salat he
became a Shah
before and so no Salah ever came at his
time he never had to pray because there
was no Salah to pray and so the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam
said he did very little but he was
rewarded a
lot J and he is of the people of jenah
because he obviously if the time for
Salah had come he would have prayed but
it's not his fault he converted at let's
say 9:00 a.m. he became a Shah at let's
say 11:00 a.m. right so how is he going
to pray what's he going to do so because
there was no time to pray he is the only
sahabi that we know of who converted to
Islam and mallah died without having
ever having prayed a single Salah
nonetheless getting back to our story so
uh with his da manages to convert a good
population and a good amount of the
people of and therefore in the second
year of M's coming which is the 12th
year of the
da rather than 12 people coming we now
have around 75 Muslims who came to give
the to the prophet wasallam and by the
way these are 75 who went and did the
Hajj one can imagine for everyone who
went there must have been at least two
or three who cannot go that year right
because again not everybody goes for
Hajj every year and so around 75 people
are actually coming from Medina to meaka
in order to perform the pilgrimage and
these are the ones who undertook the
second and for every one of these there
must be at least two or three who are
Muslims in Medina and so in the second
year uh sorry in the in the 12th year of
the dawa the 12th year of the dawa which
is one year before the hij or to be more
precise it is only a few months before
the hij cuz remember the Hijra took
place in the beginning of the 13th
year of the of the da right and
therefore the ha is taking place at the
end of the 12th year and therefore
within a few months of the second the
hij occurs remember there's no zero year
there's no zero year you have one year
before the Hijra then the first year is
the year of the Hijra time doesn't go
zero so one B one BH and then you have
one ah there is no zero ah right so the
year of the Hijra is year one the year
of the hij is year one and a few months
before the hij is when this takes place
which is
in the month of and the hij took place
uh as we will uh uh as we will mention
two months after this so in the 12th
year of the
prophethood returned with around 75
converts he's been gone for one year and
in one year he manages to convert a
minimum a minimum um of 250 to 300
people this is the largest group of
converts outside of meca and they are
now rivaling in quantity the Muslims of
mecah Subhan Allah why did the people of
Y Embrace Islam so quickly when the
people of mecah were so stubborn that in
13 years the quantity of Converse is
just a little bit more than what it is
in mecah in Madina excuse me why who can
tell me no persecution well number one
no persecution monistic existence in
Medina number two the the monotheism
Tendencies of Medina the people of
Medina but there's a biggest
reason they had a fight which did
what lot of the tribal leadership had
been decimated in their Civil War and so
they had a younger generation a fresh
generation who hadn't been raised up in
the ways of paganism and who have tasted
the ludicrousness of paganism
they have seen with their own eyes the
foolishness of paganism they've seen it
because they've killed half of their
their leadership or half of their city
has gone all of their leadership has
been killed what of what good has that
done now there's a new message that
teaching us to be moral to give up
Bloodshed to live good lives to worship
one God so they were young they had seen
with their eyes the foolishness of their
old ways and they're wanting a change
and this is of the reasons that the
people of yth began to embrace Islam and
mass and so around 75 people come for
Hajj that year and the prophet sallam
communicates with them and says we shall
meet up on the last night of the Hajj
before everybody returns home on the
last night of the Hajj before everybody
returns meet me before the fer Prayer by
a few hours basically in the last third
of the night meet me in the valley next
to aaba it's a Valley that is behind
where the ANS where the they're not
ansar yet remember I'm jumping the gun
here they're not ANS and they're not
medanis yet they're still yet and
there's still people from they would
become after the mun come so we're being
a little bit quick here hey Ste it's
excusable the people who were to become
the ansar because eventually they're
going to be called the ansar so the
prophet says meet me the very last night
of Haj in the last third of the night in
the valley of uh the
that is behind where you camp ja abdah
the famous jab abdah who's probably one
of the most famous of all of the ANS jab
abdah was an eyewitness to this
conversion and Jab abdah narrates that
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasam
stayed for more than 10 years in Makkah
preaching to the people uh in Hajj in
the Hajj season and he would ask them
this is jab summarizing the the the Mak
in one line basically jab is a he
doesn't know the Mak of firstand so he's
summarizing it in one line so the
prophet stayed in meca for more than 10
years trying to find support from the
other tribes when the quray rejected him
and he would ask the other tribes who
will support me so that I can spread the
message of my Lord and he would not find
anyone embracing his faith except for a
man or two from mudar or from Yemen or
from this tribe in other words the
converts were not and mass the converts
were one or two how is how is that going
to help you need some political base
right remember we said there had been
converts but not and mass until finally
Allah subhah wa ta'ala guided us to
Islam a group from the people of Y
guided us to Islam and we believed in
him and we recited the Quran we believed
in him and we began to recite the Quran
until not a single subribe which is a
sub tribe out of all of the people of ye
were there except that some amongst them
had embraced Islam and therefore he's
talking about the fact Islam spread in
that one year and then Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala caused us to come together and
we spoke to one another and we said for
this is a beautiful line
here for how long will we allow the
prophet wasam to to be repelled from one
Valley to another outside of Mecca and
to fear for his life for how long are we
going to let him do this in other words
the idea comes now that we have two 300
converts here why don't we tell him to
come to our
land and jabber says Allah gave us this
idea he didn't even say we thought of it
because he's being modest because Allah
gave them the idea right so jab says
until Allah gave us this idea that we
said to one another for how long are we
going to let the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam be rejected and be
fearful of his life for how long are we
going to do this and so we gathered
together jab is saying we gathered
together in the last night of the Hajj
another person who witnessed I'm going
to come back to jabber's report another
person who witnessed this is Malik who
is Malik who can remind me you should
now know these names now who is
Malik the one who
book he's one of he's one of the three
and the most famous of them and the one
who narrates the
story and the one whom Allah revealed in
the
Quran right is the one who refused or
initially he didn't go to tabuk and then
Allah revealed his repentance Allah
reveal this is Malik so Malik is
witnessing here and by the way it goes
without saying that every single one of
these people becomes a famous sahabi
obviously when they sacrificed when
Islam was small Allah rewarded them when
Islam was big they sacrificed when Islam
was difficult Allah rewarded them when
Islam became easier so Malik also
witnessed this treaty and he said that
when we went for Hajj we hid our Islam
from our Pagan
relatives many of these Muslims were
secret Muslims from their Pagan
relatives this is the the K and we all
agreed to meet at a particular place in
the last third of the night this is the
valley behind aaba and so in the middle
of the night we began sneaking out of
our tents one by one so as not to arouse
suspicion amongst the people of yeth
amongst the K so as not to arous
suspicion we began sneaking out to meet
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and we waited for him and
eventually he came with his Uncle Al
Abbas even though Al Abbas was still
upon the religion of his people
interesting Abbas is coming even though
Abbas is still a pagan he's still an
idol worshipper at this time and then we
go back to the version of jabber and
jabber says that when uh his uncle Abbas
came Abbas said to the prophet looking
at all of these people remember Abbas is
a traitor Abbas knows the Elders of Y
from his travelous days but these Elders
have now died
the elders that Abbas were trade with
are no longer there so Abbas looks at
all of these people and he says oh my
nephew I don't know any of these
men and I don't feel
comfortable because Abbas is thinking in
terms of jilah Abbas is thinking in
terms of tribalism who are these
youngsters they're none of the senior
people that I recognized from yet from
yeth and I know I knew many of them but
I don't recognize a single one amongst
them and this shows why Abbas is coming
Abbas feels a sense of loyalty out of
tribalism out of his nationalism Abbas
feels look the prophet is leaving mecah
he's leaving the Banu Hashim I need to
negotiate it's a transfer of visas right
I need to negotiate if his uncle Abu
lahab has rejected him I haven't
rejected him and as the senior most
member of the qur who still acknowledge
him I need to negotiate his release if
you like to the people of Y and it shows
us that Subhan Allah Abbas like Abu
Talib loved him with a natural love and
eventually he's going to convert to
Islam remember Abbas is one of the later
converts in the Battle of bad in the
Battle of Abbas is still in mecah Abbas
has not come to Medina for a long time
right unlike Hamza Hamza comes
immediately and Hamza becomes you all
know the story of Hamza we're going to
get to that AB
took a while but he has genuine love for
the prophet and also Abbas and the
prophet were of a similar age and so uh
and they were also Foster Brothers as
well they were Foster Brothers uh and
being uncle and nephew and so there was
a strong bond of friendship even though
it was Uncle and nephew but there was a
strong bond of friendship and the
prophet trusted Al Abbas and so uh
jabber
says uh that we came in front of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
Abbas was the one who stood up to speak
on behalf of the prophet and he
said he called them by Kaz even though
there were some o people because the
majority were still Kaz and in the eyes
of Abbas he he cannot see Muslim and and
kafir he only sees K andr and right this
is the eyes of jilah when he looks at
the people he can't see them as Muslims
he is viewing them as and and the
majority are he goes oh people of the
you know the status of this man amongst
us meaning the prophet you know his
status amongst us the Banu Hashim and we
have protected him from his own people
even though we agree with our people I.E
we agree with the same religion as our
people but we have prevented the qur
from harming this man he has and honor
amongst us and and he has protection but
he has decided to leave us to go over to
you so if you are sure that you can live
up to your conditions with him and
protect him from those who disagree then
you shall bear his
responsibility otherwise let him be from
now make sure you can promise him what
you're going to live up to and realize
Abbas concludes that he is honored
amongst his people
Abbas is
clearly not trusting of the K Abbas is
clearly very hesitant at what's
happening and he's also embarrassed at
the fact that his own nephew has to
leave the Banu Hashim clearly and so
he's trying to overcompensate by saying
he has and he has protection but that's
not
true amongst the qur they tried to kill
him multiple times the assassination
plot is going to take place 3 weeks
after this conversation the major
assassination the night before the few
weeks after this conversation right this
is not true but AB feels embarrassed
that our own my own nephew has to leave
Mecca because we couldn't do our job
basically so he tries to reclaim that
honor by saying look we are great people
and we've done this and that typical you
know typical tribalistic nationalistic
jingoism here just like talking about
what good he's done even though they
didn't do much good even though the
prophet has to leave his own Nation to
go and find uh protection with the
people of Y so uh the people the the uh
the Muslims replied oh Abbas you have
spoken now let the prophet speak I
enough we don't need you to speak okay
now let the prophet speak
and put the conditions that you want
what do you expect from us cuz again the
message that they had sent the prophet
was come and live with us this is the
message they're sending him leave the
people of mecah and come and live with
us and it is really important to note
that the offer came from the people of Y
the prophet didn't impose on them the
people of Y said come and live with us
so they said what conditions do you need
in order to move to Y what are the
conditions that you need that what are
the conditions you're going to put upon
us the prophet wasam then stood up and
this is taking place in the middle of
the night there are no lights there are
no it's just the moon there and there uh
it's not even the full moon there going
to be the 11th of the month the 12th of
the month not the there but there will
be uh uh this this Bleak if you like
Darkness along with uh whatever is in
the distant light and the prophet began
preaching and Advising them to fear
Allah and reciting them the Quran and
then
said I shall give you the Allegiance or
the in other words I'll allow you to
give the in return
for
protection that you shall protect me
like one of your own I.E
what would you do if I was a part of the
or a part of the the house you would
protect me as one of your
own this is a protection I.E I'm going
to leave the Banu Hashim I'm coming over
to you and as long as you agree to make
me the same as one of yours then I will
basically agree with this uh with the
and so Al stood up one of
the stood up and he said we are people
experienced in the Arts of War they've
just gone through a civil war we are
people who have experienced the Arts of
War we have inherited it from our
forefathers this is an easy condition we
know we can protect nobody's going to
harm you don't worry stretch forth your
hand and we will give you the allegiance
Hasty but also IM he wants to get it
done with yes we're
here another anadi stood up I'm being
I'm saying anadi here you know what I
mean they're not called anadi yet but
will be called an and this is the famous
Aban Aban he is the
one regarding whom uh abam is the one
whom who passed by the prophet wasam and
Abu Bakr and Omar when all three of them
had no food to eat and each one has the
stone on his stomach and abam said I
can't bear to see this and he went back
to his wife and said whatever you have
we're going to cook it and give it she
said we only have one Old Goat left just
get rid of it we're going to and have a
feast for the prophet so this is the the
famous AB abam this is that one and
there are other stories about abam as
well so abam stood up this is a man of
intelligence Al is a man of impatience
and he wants to get over with but it's
also im as well abam stood up a little
bit smarter and he said y
Allah we have ties with the yeh
we have political treaties with them by
accepting you those treaties will be
broken and we know
it it's a smart man he knows exactly
what he's talking about by accepting you
that means those protections are broken
so once you come over to our
side and then Allah gives us
Victory will you then leave us and go
back to your people
people this is his fear and worry that
if we were to now be with you eventually
qur will be conquered he has IM Allah is
going to give Victory to us right he
knows this is the messenger of Allah
these people firmly believe this isol
they have no question they're going to
change their whole lifestyle so he's
saying once we win over the quray what
an amazing man there's 70 people the
quray or one ,000 but he knows the day
will come that they will win over the
quray and what is his
fear when we win over them are you going
to go back to mekah Subhan Allah this is
what he's worried about are you going to
go back to mecah and then you're going
to leave us in a very difficult
situation in Medina because we would
have broken all of our political
alliances with everybody else and so the
prophet smiled and he said very profound
phrase in Arabic when you translated it
it loses everything uh
which basically means no my blood is
your blood and my destruction is your
destruction I.E We Are One People we're
going to in English we say we're going
to live together we're going to die
together that's what it basically
translates us right that no this is a
permanent immigration once I cut off
ties from mecah I am going to be a med
I'm going to be a part of you and uh
this was the condition that they wanted
and Subhan Allah isn't it amazing look
at the people of ye the an what were
they worried about when Allah will give
them victory that the prophet will leave
them contrast this to the people of
kinda a few months ago right when Allah
gives us Victory will you make us the
rulers that's what their condition was
remember right and that's why Allah said
you're not worthy of it no sorry you're
not even though the irony they would
have become the rulers but when that was
their goal no you Embrace Islam for the
sake of of God you are righteous because
you expect a reward from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
also there's an element here of uh uh
the the IM of the and Kaz the IM of the
uh the people of Yemen uh why do I say
people of Yemen by the way because the
and thej we're going to come to this
maybe in two weeks the and the Kaz are
in fact yemeni
Arabs the and the kazra are yemeni Arabs
they came from Yemen 300 years before
this and their tribes go back to uh uh
the the tribes ofan remember way back we
didan in Adan remember should I quose
you now or I should just ignore no no
don't do that huh so these are the K
Arabs right these are the K Arabs and
this is one of the major forefathers of
the Arabs and the and the Kaz are from a
totally different branch than the quray
totally different branch than the qu and
the and the are from a branch that is
basically Yemen and there are so manyi
about
Yen right the prophet said that the
people of Yemen are the softest in their
hearts and the gentlest in their chests
are either very good people the prophet
said right that IM is y and wisdom is
yite and it's these things even in the K
we see their wisdom here also Subhan
Allah notice I mean the Iman of abuan
and also his bravery I mean what a
Frank and a blunt question it might even
border on the
sacrilegious but there is freedom here
there's no there's no there's no uh uh
fear that am I allowed to ask such a
blunt question straight to the Propet
what are you going to do once we win
what are you going to do when we do
everything you want are you going to
then abandon us or will you stay with us
because he wants to be with the prophet
and there's this openness and freedom
that is really amazing to see and also
once the prophet gave his word obviously
he lived up to
it right when he did reconquer Makkah
and in front of him is the house of
Khadijah where he lived for 20 years and
in front of him is the house of Abu
Talib where he grew up for 40 years and
he is with his tribe and his family and
his entire and his entire extended
family is there and they have now all
accepted Islam and he could have moved
back to his hometown what did he do
eventually he turned his back to mecah
and he walked back to Medina and he
lived in Medina and he died in Medina
and he is buried in Medina he lived up
to his word once I leave I will be with
you and the prophet praised the ANS in
so manyi we'll talk about them inshallah
in a while so they said oh messenger of
Allah what should we give you we agree
what are what what is the phrase of the
we should give so the prophet sallam
said you must give the you must give the
oath of allegiance that you hear and you
obey in ease and in and in difficult IE
in what in times of difficulty and Times
of ease and that you spend of your money
in the way of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
and that you command the good and forbid
the uh the evil and that you speak the
truth no matter what the consequences
never lie no matter what the
consequences and that you help me once I
come to y and this is one of the only
times he called it y one of the only
times he called it y because he was
going to change the name very soon and
that you help me when I come to Y just
like you help your own family and your
own uh uh wives and children I.E I
become your family I become a part of
you so these are now political
conditions it's not just be a good
Muslim and pray and and worship it's
also that you will protect me if the
quray come and attack we will attack and
fight back this is not the of women this
is another this is a
political and so this is the second and
these oats were much more stringent once
the prophet said this a voice cried out
in the from amongst them and what shall
we get in
return what is in it for us and the
prophet wasam said the one word that
they wanted to hear
Al I can't give you any money I can't
promise you Fame and Fortune Paradise
will be yours you help the messenger of
Allah and Allah will give you his
pleasure it's all I can promise you and
that's all they wanted to hear and so
they all stood up to give to him and
before anybody could Embrace The
Prophet's
hand held on to the prophet's hand and
kept it
down this is a freedom of expression
that is unbelievable he did not allow
him to raise his hand and he said wait
everybody remember is the one housing m
is one of the first converts as is one
of the six who spoke was two years ago
so is one of the leaders of the Muslims
held on to the proess and said and said
wait calm down oh people of
Y we haven't traveled all of this
distance and undertaken this long
journey except that we know that this
man is the messenger of Allah we know
this
and once his people expel
him i. he leaves over to us then you
will be asking for
war this is a very big decision once his
people expel him they will try to kill
him now you will be asking for war and
so if you're ready that your necks meet
swords you're ready to die then go and
give him the oath of Allegiance and
realize that the best of you will be
killed killed the best of you will be
killed and fathers will lose their sons
and Sons will lose their fathers and you
will cause death amongst yourselves by
accepting him realize this if you're
prepared to do this then give him the
oath if not then stop now per chance
Allah will forgive you because you
didn't give the
oath I.E are you ready you really sure
you're up to the standard this isn't a
joke this is the last chance once you
put your hand in his hand end of story
and this is the intelligence of that he
did not want the punishment of Allah to
come if his tribe eventually said I
can't do that sorry too much telling
them one last chance and they said oh
you have spoken enough get your hand off
the hand of the Prophet we want to put
it they're eager we want to embrace his
hand and give him the and so one by one
all 72 men amongst them gave the of the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and in
return promised them jna one by one what
a beautiful blessed group that is and
the two women that were present there
and there were two women there the
prophet took their oath of Allegiance
verbally he did not take it uh in his
hand as we know uh the prophet wasam
never touched the hand of a woman that
was not related to him and this is well
known and this is another instance here
the prophet did not take the oath uh
from their hand and he simply took it or
or verbally and when the entire oath was
finished Abbas was looking along in
great worry and great anger and great
irritation and he said to the prophet
sallam these are people I don't know any
of them and all of them are young kids I
don't know who they are I don't know
what you're doing he's very worried
about the prophet sallallah alaihi wasam
but if did not know them then Allah knew
them if abas did not recognize them then
Allah and his messenger did indeed
recognize them and uh they all finished
up
the and uh insh we will continue uh we
need to uh stop here for a few
announcements in Q&A uh we inallah
continue talking about the very last
incidents in this and then also uh the
actual hij which will be done inshallah
tal uh next Wednesday we'll talk about
the Hijra and some of the benefits that
we get from this incident of the uh of
the
second with that if there are any
questions in we can take a few questions
now yes go
ahead coms second the question one is it
was Madina who gave to makah and then
brought her son back so that for to get
the son back mother yes we already said
that uh the prophet had relationships
with y clearly Allah Asel had uh planned
this that the prophet's great
grandmother uh was from yth and so he
had some distant cousins from Y and even
Amina went to visit Y and D on the way
back so this is all in the plan of Allah
and the question is like we talk about
but it seems there are many more people
who were given yes there were many more
people how you rank what is the separate
significance of compared to the 70 you
just told us that the were also
guaranteed 72 and then the ones who came
earlier also guaranteed multiple people
it's not just the 10 multiple people but
these 10 were of the earliest who were
promised paradise and these 10 were
promised Paradise in a had that actually
lists all 10 of them by
name so the prophet
said he went on and he listed all 10 so
they have a special significance over
the others the rankings of the sahabah
we mentioned before there's multiple
rankings of the sahabah and uh the M
have a ranking and the an have a ranking
the highest amongst the ANS are those
who attended the first and then those
who attended the second so they have a
ranking that is of the highest of the
ANS