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I'm abdurahim
green you're joining me for
the proof that Islam is the truth and
today I'm going to be talking to you
about the stories of those people who
heard the Quran the age of Muhammad may
God's peace and blessings be upon him
was a time when the Arabs were at the
peak of the linguistic abilities indeed
one of the finest poems ever composed in
the Arabic language was done at the time
of the Prophet Muhammad sallah Al wasam
by a man who was contempor to the
prophet his name was
laia and his poem when it was recited at
the marketplace at aaz caused the Arabs
to prostrate before him in admiration
and when this same
leate began to hear the verses of the
Quran he embraced Islam and gave up
poetry alt together when he was once
asked asked to recite some poetry he
said what poetry after the
Quran indeed many of the Arabs entered
Islam just from hearing the Quran
because they knew that it was conclusive
proof of its divine origin they knew no
man could produce the like of the Quran
and its
eloquence you see the challenge of the
Quran was not to produce as some people
might
po a amazing piece of literature like
Shakespeare
or Shelly or Keats or Homer or any of
these
great liter interests
no the challenge of the Quran was
something much more fundamental because
the Quran differed in its very structure
the very structure of the Quran was
different from anything that proceeded
before it in the Arabic language and you
see in the Arabic language poetry falls
into 16 different bear the word bear
means see why because each poem moves
according to a different rhythmic
pattern and then of course they have the
speech of the soothsayers and they have
pros and they have rhymed pros and
normal speech so these are the forms of
the Arabic language yet the Quran and
although it seemed to reflect some of
those forms it was none of them it was
unique it was not like anything the
Arabs had ever heard before it did not
fit into any of those categories yet at
the same time it made sense more than
sense it was the peak of eloquence and
this is what made the Quran
inimitable and so the Arabs the Pagan
Arabs who when they heard heard this
message of the Prophet Muhammad may
God's peace and blessings be upon him
the message that they should give up the
worship of all the created things they
should not worship idols they should not
worship people they should not worship
each other rather they should pray to
and worship only the one God this was
the message of Muhammad and this was the
message of all of the
prophets when they heard this message
many of them did not like what they were
hearing they started to Rebel
mostly the rich and the powerful people
because in their mind it was challenging
their self-interest the cabba was the
center of pilgrimage for all the people
in Arabia they used to come to the Caba
and the tribe that was in charge of the
Sacred precincts around the Masid Al
Haram the sacred mosque the Kaa and its
surroundings was known as the qu and
they were the most respected tribe in
Arabia at the time indeed the prophet
Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam May
Allah's peace and blessings be upon him
himself was from the ques the qures was
a large tribe and the prophet Sall wasam
was from banii Hashim which was a
subtribe of the tribe of the qures
however the qur
collectively were in a state of despair
of about this message of the Prophet
Muhammad how can he make all the idols
into one God how can he make all of
these into the worship of the one God
they imagined that if this happened and
the idols were removed and the ca was
only to worship one God who would come
to the Caba who would come to Mecca who
would perform pilgrimage actually really
what they had in their mind was their
own material self-interest not truth
not the reality of whether Muhammad was
a prophet or not this is not what they
were interested in in fact one of the
uncles of the Prophet
Muhammad he said look your
tribe has looked after the pilgrims and
our tribe looked after the pilgrims your
tribe did this good action and our tribe
did this good action now you say you are
a prophet how can we compete with this
in other words he would was admitting
that his refusal to follow Islam was
based purely upon his tribal
Allegiance what a stumbling block to
truth what a disastrous path they were
following so they got together what are
we going to do how are we going to
combat this Quran this amazing speech
that enticed that Enchanted its
listeners so ALB Abdul man
he said in a gathering of the qures
leaders oh qures a new Calamity has
befallen you when Muhammad was a young
man he was the most liked among you the
most truthful in speech and the most
trustworthy until when you saw the gray
hairs on his Temple he brought you his
message you said he's a sorcerer he's a
magician but he is not for we have seen
such people and they spitting and their
knots you said he was a
soothsayer but we have seen those people
and their behavior and we have heard
their
Rhymes and you said he's a poet but he's
not a poet for what we we know every
type of poetry you said he was possessed
and but he's not possessed we seen the
possessed people and he shows no signs
of their gasping and whispering and
Delirious
oh men of qur look to your Affairs for
by Allah a serious thing has befallen
you well the qures didn't know what to
say they tried all types of different
things they called The Prophet a
soothsayer they call him a magician they
call him a poet they call him
possessed but none of these things were
sticking people didn't believe it
because when they met the Prophet
Muhammad they knew that he wasn't like
any of those things so what they
decided was that they were going to tell
the people the magic of his speech
turned a man away from his father wife
brother family and tribe this is what
they said and of course in a sense that
was
true in a sense the message that there
is nothing worthy of worship except the
one God was something very revolutionary
very different it was something that
separated the people who worshiped the
one God from the people who worshiped
others than the one
God so this is their claim this is what
they decided to say the magic of his
speech turned a man away from his father
his brother his wife his family and then
Abu lahab Abu lahab was one of the
uncles of the prophet muhammmad
s. wasam and Abu lahab would wait on the
roadways into Mecca in the Hajj season
now the Haj is the pilgrimage the annual
pilgrimage and that Hajj has been going
on for thousands of years even before
the time of the Prophet Muhammad the
Arabs used to make Hajj to Mecca but the
Haj had become corrupted with idol
worship over the
years but the people still used to come
from all over Arabia to the Hajj and
this was the source of the wealth of the
qur that of course they were so
frightened that The Message of Islam was
going to destroy I mean as a side point
look how many people are going to Mecca
today they didn't suffer because of it
did they anyway he went Abu laab and he
used to go and warn people he used to
say watch out be careful of this man
Muhammad you know he's my nephew I know
don't listen to him he's got this speech
that if you listen to it if you even if
you listen to it
you'll be fallen under its spell now
there was a man his name was toil ibar
now toil was the chief of the do tribe
he was the chief of a whole tribe and he
himself was a very distinguished poet so
he was an important man in society the
chief of his tribe he was a poet and he
was on his way to Haj
and as he arrived in Mecca he was ACC
costed by one of these meccans telling
him all these stories warning him said
Muhammad this Muhammad that watch out
for this
man he's so dangerous you have to watch
out for him so this is what they were
saying now I'm going to tell you the
rest of his story after the break don't
go away come back listen to us listen to
this amazing story of tbar and how he
became Muslim by listening to the
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Quran asalam alaikum everyone welcome
back to the proof that Islam is the
truth and today we're talking about the
stories of those people who heard the
Quran and how it influenced them and
affected them and today we're talking
about toil ibar the chief of the dou
tribe who he was on his way to make Haj
pilgrimage to Mecca and the the leaders
of the qur were waiting for him they
were waiting telling the people don't
listen to Muhammad his magic of his
speech is going to make you go mad and
turn you away from everything that you
know and you love so this is his story
he says I approached Mecca as soon as
the qures leaders saw me they came up to
me and gave me a most hearty welcome and
accommodated me in a grand house sha
knew how to look after people people
their leaders and notables then gathered
and said oh T you have come to our town
and this man he claims he's a prophet
has ruined our Authority notice he's
ruined our Authority and shattered our
community we are afraid that he would
succeed in undermining you and your
Authority and your community just as he
has done with us don't speak to the man
on no account listen to anything he has
to say he has the speech of a wizard
causing division between Father and Son
between brother and brother between
husband and wife and they kept on
telling me the most fantastic stories
and scared me by recounting Tales of his
incredible Deeds I made up my
mind then not to approach this man or
speak to him
or listen to anything he had to say the
following morning I went to the place of
worship went to Thea and made ta around
the Kaa as an act of worship to the
idols that we made pilgrimage to and
glorified I put cotton in my ears out of
fear that something of the speech of
Muhammad might affect me as soon as I
entered the place of worship I saw him
standing near the AB he saw the prophet
Muhammad standing near the Kaa he was
praying in a fashion which was different
from our prayer his whole manner of
worship was different the scene
captivated me his worship made me
tremble and I felt drawn to him despite
myself until I was quite close to
him not withstanding the precaution I
had taken God willed that some of what
he was saying reached my hearing and I
said to myself what are you doing to
fail you are a perceptive poet you can
distinguish between the good and the bad
in the Poetry what prevents you from
listening to what this man is saying if
what comes from him is good accept it
and if it's bad reject it I remained
there until a prophet left for his home
I followed him and he entered his home
and I I entered also and I said oh
Muhammad your people have said certain
things about you to me by God they kept
frightening me with these things and
keeping away from your message until I
block my ears to keep out your words
despite this God caused me to hear
something of it and I found it good so
tell me more about your
mission the prophet sallallah alai
wasam told to fail about the mission and
fail said and then he recited to
me and he said I swear by God I have
never heard such beautiful words before
I had never heard such beautiful words
before neither was a more noble Mission
ever described to me thereupon I
stretched out my hand to him in
Allegiance and testified that there was
none worthy of worship except the one
God and that Muhammad was truly the
messenger of God and that's how I
entered the religion of
Islam
even the leaders of the qures were
unable to desist themselves from hearing
the Quran to fail heard the Quran and as
I said he heard it and he became Muslim
but actually even the leaders of the qur
they were unable to desist and to resist
in fact according to the the s or the
biography of IB he mentions one incident
when Abu sufyan who is one of the
leaders of the and Abu Jal and Abu they
sneaked out of their houses in the night
to listen to The Prophet reciting the
Quran hiding in their places until dawn
they sneaked out of them and they stayed
listening to the Quran until the
dawn hiding and on the way home they
bumped into each other and they
reproached one another saying don't you
ever do that again for if one of the
weak minded fool sees you it will arouse
suspicion in their minds so they all
promised but this happened three nights
in a row three nights in a row they
snuck out to listen to The Prophet
reciting the Quran and again they bumped
into each other until they took a
totally solemn oath they swore that they
would never do it again this is the
question my dear listeners that I want
you to put to yourself how is it
possible for an unlettered and unlearned
man not versed in poetry to be able to
produce a work of unrivaled eloquence
and perfect rhetoric so that even the
assembled experts and masters of all the
forms of poetry and the Arabic language
were unable to produce the like of its
smallest chapter
indeed they chose to fight the prophet
rather than meet this challenge the
flower of the nobility were killed their
trade and reputation destroyed how could
they choose this rather than count the
verses of the
Quran let us look at another story this
is the story of Omar Al he became one of
the strongest Defenders of Islam but
before that he was one of the most V
violent enemies against the
Muslims he took it upon himself to
physically
abuse and attack the
Muslims and things became so bad for the
Muslims that they were forced to flee
and this was something unheard of that
people should flee their own tribes that
they should flee their own people
because the Arabian society was held
together by tribalism but the Muslims
were fleeing their own tribes and they
fled to go and live in abisinia and when
this happened Omar really began to think
about things and he was really unhappy
about it and the more he thought about
it the more unhappy he got until one day
he decided I am going to kill Muhammad
I've had enough he took his sword and he
was on his way to kill the prophet
Muhammad but on the way he met one of
the people who had become Muslims
secretly and he said to him
where are you going Omar with your sword
drawn like that he said I'm on my way to
kill Muhammad so he started to think
what can I do and then he remembered
that in fact the sister of Omar had
already become Muslim he said you know
what before you deal with Muhammad maybe
you should deal with your own family
first he said what do you mean he said
your sister she has become Muslim so
Omar was so infuriated he was so mad he
changed Direction still with his sword
drawn he headed off to his sister's
house he arrived and when he got to the
door he heard a noise that he had not
heard before he smashed down the door
and there he found his sister and her
husband reading something she jumped up
and he hit his sister and she fell on
the floor and started to bleed the
sister sister of Omar said okay I have
become Muslim do what you like with me
kill me I don't care I've become Muslim
so what and when Omar saw his sister
lying there bleeding and so vigorous and
defending herself and not even afraid to
die he became he calmed
down he said my sister what is that that
you are reading she said they are the
verses of the Quran the speech of God
the words of Allah he said let me see it
she said no not until you wash yourself
first so she made Omar wash his hands so
he could not touch the paper of the
Quran without washing himself and then
he sat down and he began to read and as
he read and as he read and as he read
the Quran began to enter his heart he
put the Quran down and he went off he
went to the place where the Prophet
Muhammad sallallah alai wasallam was
where is Muhammad he said their people
were saying Muhammad it is Omar he has
come the prophet said let him in Omar
came he said oh Muhammad I testify and
bear witness that there is nothing
worthy of worship except the one God
Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad
is the messenger of Allah and this is
how one of the strongest and most
vigorous opponents of Islam Omar
became one of the most strongest and
vigorous Defenders of Islam and he is
famous until today for his Justice and
for his piety and for his standing up
for the truth it's another story of
another person who embraced Islam just
from hearing the beautiful words of the
Quran how much more do you need in order
to be convinced that Islam is the truth
you need to hear more stuff well well
there is more join us in our next
episode for more amazing evidences of
the divine origin of the Quran and for
the proof that Islam is the
truth until then
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