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alhamdulillah alhamdulillah
salat wa salam ala rasulina while ard he
was happy he woman wala I'm about in our
last week's halacha we had discussed the
infamous incident of the Satanic Verses
and we had mentioned the number of
opinions and Allahu Alem but it appears
that there was no such story and the
fact of the matter is that the Quraysh
prostrated simply because of the power
of Surat and nijem and this rumour as we
said led to the Muslims to return back
from Abyssinia and they when they came
back they discovered that this rumour
was false now number of points here
before we get back to the actual story
the question arises about the number of
people who emigrated the first time to
Abyssinia and who was and who was not a
part of that initial batch and we're not
going to go over all of the opinion
that's a little bit too advanced but the
main point is that from the immediate
Sahaba of the Prophet system of course
the greatest companion is Abu Bakr
right we'll discuss his case or omar at
this point why did no one emigrate to
ever seen you who can tell me he wasn't
even a Muslim yet okay Rothman is him a
granite Abyssinia yes he was of those
who emigrated and then who is left all
evening a butyl dip Ali at this age at
this stage is still a young child really
you know he's he's probably at this at
this stage he's probably around nine ten
years old so the question of other
immigrating could not come about okay
therefore out of the Sahaba the only two
out of the four let's say the main
Sahaba the only two who qualify are Oba
Carr and earth manner if not immigrated
how about Abu Bakr we didn't mention his
story the story of Abu Bakr Abu Bakr
initially decided to immigrate and he
decided to accompany earth man and the
people to go to Abyssinia but on the way
to the ship on the way to Judah he they
passed by the neighboring tribe the
leader of that tribe was eben Adelina
even at Delfina was the leader of that
tribe and the tribe name is not known so
we're not is not known to us here so
we're not going to confuse
do more with more and more names the
main point is the leader or the chief
even Adelina he saw all of them leaving
so and they packed their bags they have
all of the camels loaded so he said
where are you going
so they said we're going to have a
senior he said why so they explained
where our people have tortured us they
have not allowed us to worship and we
are all going to a land where we can
worship Allah now if nedelya
had used to have a good partnership with
Abu Bakr and buying and selling he was
somebody who mal bakr knew personally so
even a Delphina when he saw out of all
of these people he picked on Abu Bakr
and he said someone like you does not
deserve to leave the land of Mecca and
if your people have persecuted you then
let me intersection now remember the
whole jahaly system is based on who's
going to protect who right and the tribe
of Abu Bakr has basically accepted that
they're not going to protect them a
buckin anymore okay and so even a dozen
I said let me go and negotiate on your
behalf and maybe they'll take my
protection so that they're not going to
harm you and so Booker said okay let's
give it a try so o bucket an even dozen
returned back the rest of the Sahaba
emigrated Abyssinia and if that Delfina
entered mecca and he approached the
Kaaba and it was the time that everybody
sits as we said many many times they had
an afternoon time where basically when
it's everything is over in the day you
come and you sit in front of the camera
and efnet Davina announced that oh
people of Mecca would you accept it if I
offered my protection to Abu Bakr now
notice he cannot do so instantaneously
because is the land of Mecca and Ibelin
Delphina is not from the college she's
from another tribe right and so it's
like a neighboring country saying this
is our citizen can he live amongst you
and he has our rights it's as if he's my
tribe member so this is an adoption if
you like right so even a deafness at all
adopt Abubakr let him live amongst your
own people like basically imagine
America going to Canada the Canadian
government saying to America that okay
look forget his American citizenship
pretend he's a Canadian right that's
basically what's happening here
Mandela is saying that let me offer my
protection to Abu Bakr but then he needs
the permission of the college are you
going to accept and if Dina was a
trading partner even Adele Tina was the
chieftain of a neighboring tribe the
tribe that is next to temeka
and so they basically had to agree
because it's a neighboring tribe and
they wanted to just make him happy
so they said okay we will accept your
protection for Abu Bakr and therefore
Abu Bakr did not emigrate because of
even at Delfina however they said - even
at Delfina they said Tim the Delfina
were only going to allow this with one
condition and that is Abu Bakr cannot
pray publicly because Abu Bakr was of
the elite of the collection before this
he would pray in front of the Kaaba and
he was of the few people who was brave
to pray in front of the camera
everything changed with the conversion
of Umar WA normal converted then Muslims
could prefer the Kaaba before that time
you had to be a really brave person and
it was really only the process and would
regularly pray once in a while al-bakr
joined him so they said you have to were
not going to allow abu bakr to pray
publicly and if he agrees to this will
agree to your protection that he can do
as he pleases in private but not in
public and therefore the Quraysh agreed
and Abu Bakr agreed and therefore what
he decided to do was he was the first
person to ever build a Masjid this is
what it says the first person to build a
message it he didn't build a message
structure he basically extended his
house and he made a room into his place
of worship right because they didn't
allow him to worship publicly so he
decided to make a public message it
right he's using the loopholes here so
he builds an extension of the house and
he begins praying in that extension and
he prays out loud because it's his house
and the condition was he can pray in his
house right so he's basically reading
through the lines here he builds an
extension he makes a message it and then
he starts praying out loud in his house
which is a now a Masjid obviously what's
going to happen the people abu bakr
steal our was a very gentle to Dawa and
a Walker's recitation of the Quran was a
very melodious recitation
and a Venus Hawk says the women and the
children would gather around in
amazement listening to Abu Bakr's
recitation because it was a beautiful
recitation and his own daughter Ayesha
tells us that Abu Bakr econo rajala and
baka and he was a man who very easily
began to cry and he would weep from the
fear of Allah and so when he recited the
Quran he would cry and he would beg
Allah for forgiveness so it's a very
emotional
recitation so the people began to gather
around his house every time he's praying
you know it's a small city it's a quiet
time at night you're reading for fragile
or motherly Boresha or tahajud anybody
walking by can hear you you know it's
dead silence not like the city and
that's like the houses are far far away
it's a small you know how it used to be
in those days many of you might remember
from back home still houses are small
narrow alleyways so because recitation
is going five blocks let's say right
because that's what a block is for them
you know each houses are there so people
began gathering outside of his house now
technically the condition was he could
read in his house and that's what he did
but this got to a point where they sent
a messenger to even Adelina and they
said we have to take back our condition
he cannot even pray in his house span
Allah we have to take back our condition
he cannot even pray in his house do you
have to tell him to start praying even
in his house so even Adel Hina came to
Makkah when the messenger came even a
doctor came to Makkah and he said to abu
bakr that Oh Abu Bakr I have no choice
except to ask you to stop praying even
or allow me out of this protection
because I can't give you that type of
protection right you have one of two
choices that you either stop praying or
I can't protect you anymore obviously I
don't need to tell you which one of our
chose right so he said I throw back your
protection to you and I accept the
protection of Allah I throw back your
protection to you that you're free now
you have done your job I you did it now
you couldn't you know stand up basically
because even ahead it didn't fight at
all he just basically agreed and in one
sense we understand because it's not his
territory it's not his
and he's really going out of his way to
help a worker so buck I said okay you
know thanks but no thanks
take your protection back and I trust in
the protection of Allah and after this
he was in Mecca without any protection
other than the protection of Allah and
that is why I told the story two weeks
ago that when Abu Bakr came to protect
the process and they almost beat him to
death and nobody lifted a finger because
he was not under anybody's protection I
told you the story two weeks ago that
somebody came and tried to choke the
process now I will but came in and
pulled it out and I said attitude
illusion and your kohlrabi Allah are you
gonna kill a person just because he said
Allah is my Lord and they began beating
him until he was the equivalent of
hospitalized he was immobilized for more
than a week and he could not move in his
house because of the severity of beating
how could they get away with this even
though Bakr was karashi because his
ownself tribe had basically withdrawn
and even a delta had withdrawn so now he
is a homeless person and he's living at
his own risk
and he continued to live at his own risk
until the professor salaam emigrated to
medina now we already mentioned that
around 14 some say 15 some say 16 some
say 17 between 14 to 17 people emigrated
Allahu Alem the strongest opinion would
be 12 men and 5 women so that's a total
of 17 12 men and 5 women so we heard we
talked about the fact they heard the
rumor they came back as they're coming
back they're eagerly asking have the
people of Mecca accepted of the ulam
accepted they're waiting for a caravan
to get the news before they get to
Makkah the first caravan they meet they
ask and the people of the caravan said
you have heard false this is not the
case the people of Mecca are as they
were and the new religion is being
persecuted and so this jolted them this
was a big shock for them so much so that
some of them said let's just go back
before entering Mecca let's just go back
now can you imagine put yourself in
their shoes Mecca is right in front of
you right this is your homeland your
relatives your possession everything is
there literally you're just one step
away and now debate occurs should we go
back or not until obviously emotionally
psychologically they said look course
so close let's just go back and see what
the situation is like right let life
would have been very tough as we said
imagine a different culture a different
language they don't speak Abyssinian
it's a whole different land whole
different environment it's much worse
than we can imagine and I forgot to
mention one point when I mentioned this
issue that's a parallel one of the
punishments of Islamic law which is no
longer practiced pretty much anywhere in
the world because the world has changed
and the shows that sometimes change is
permissible one of the punishments of
Islamic law for certain crimes it's
called a Talib atari means leave your
land and go somewhere else if you're
from let's say the Hejaz go live in the
nudge if you're from the nudge dinner go
live in Surya or someplace right one of
the punishments for certain types of
petty crimes right then you're not going
to be boot whipped you're not going to
be jailed just go live somewhere else
for a year that was a punishment
well I in our times it's not a
punishment it's sidesync threat this is
a vacation you tell me to go for a years
of vacation okay so look at how times
have changed that to leave your society
to leave your land was a type of
punishment and so the Sahaba had to self
inflict this punishment when they went
to Abyssinia when they come back they
decided okay let's just go see what is
happening in Mecca now when they left
Mecca they had basically again I'm
speaking in modern equivalent they had
cancelled their passports they had
renegade it from their tribe because
that's the whole point now so when they
go back in they cannot just expect the
same protection so each one of them has
to find new protection each one of them
has to find a new sponsor like what's
going to be my entry visa to get into
Mecca and we have some stories about
what happened here earth man had been
mother owned or if Manny Ben mother
owned one of the famous Sahaba and he
has a lot of stories in the serie and he
died an early death in one of the
battles of Shaheed earth man David
maroon reached out to Al Waleed abnormal
zero the same one who is the famous poet
because he had a friendship with him and
led by Molina agreed and so al aliy
marched with him and they publicly
announced this is how they enacted
treaties it publicly announced and Walid
said I
I've given my protection to earth man
even maroon and so earth man remained
completely protected Walid is one of the
most powerful men in Mecca we already
said Allah revealed verses in the Quran
this is the father of who Khalid ib'n
Alwaleed this is the father of Khalid
right this is the one whom Allah reveals
to them with death fear learning woman
Halak to wahida which I'll to the who
Malon mom Duda Weber Nina shoe who that
all of this Allah is talking about this
is al walid the one who Kerouac
under he thought what am I going to say
about the prophecies in him and then he
said this is a strange type of magic
this is a lead one of the most powerful
men rivaling Abu jahil so and what it
gave protection to earth man and because
this is what either earth man not - hair
on his head was touched now even as
house says one with man would go back
and forth in the city and he would see
the Muslims being persecuted and he
would see that he himself was untouched
his guilt began to get the better of him
even though he's not doing anything
wrong and he said how come they are
suffering and I am in safety how come
they are suffering and I am in safety so
one day he went to Al Waleed in Malaya
and he said that oh my uncle will it is
a senior man elder man oh my uncle
please take your protection back Oh
Dalia Jawara your jawad is called the
protection just take backyard you are so
and what he said
my nephew what has happened has anybody
harmed you is it have I not done my
service I mean is anything you know why
do you want to return it's a very
obviously big thing you know why do you
want to return it so he said I cannot
bear to see my fellow brothers and
sisters suffer while I have this freedom
Spinola look at now there's nothing
sinful per se about about earth man
situation but his conscience was so
strong he said why do I have just
because I have a friendship at what heed
from the days of Julia now he's
protecting me how about the rest of the
people how about even mr. ooh how about
Bilal how about even the other people
who returned from Abyssinia and who
didn't get the protection I got it's not
fair and so he voluntarily returned
Alwaleed protection and it will eat came
and to the cabin and he
that Oh people of Mecca earth man has
asked that I return his protection to
him and man announced that yes I have
done this and it's not because of any
issue of annuity today wants to make
sure that people don't think that it
will it fell short is because I have my
own reasons it's nothing to do with and
worried so ok announcement is made
they're not gonna just jump an attack on
him I mean okay the announcement is made
now he comes walking back and he passes
by a very famous poet was visiting
Makkah at the time one of the most
famous poets so much so he is of the
author he is of the poets who has
written the most famous poetry in pre
Islam and he is one of those poets who
eventually accepted Islam eventually
right now he's not a Muslim
he's one of the few of the mighty poets
if you like who eventually accepted
Islam his name is labeed his name is
labeed and he passed by and labeed was
sitting on the modulus and all the
people of Quraysh were surround you know
the poetry you know this is their
entertainment right Sola be this
reciting poetry and labeed was not from
the Quraysh she was a visitor they had
invited him for their festival so labeed
is reciting poetry and so he begins to
listen the beard says and he recites a
line of poetry ala kulli shayin mahal
ilaha bow to you now pause here footnote
the prophecies and i'm said the most
truthful statement that any poet has
ever said is this statement of Alwaleed
ala kulli shayin maha la laa Baloo the
possum said that he quoted this one of
the few lines of poetry the process of
actually quoted he hardly quoted poetry
but this is one of the lines he quoted
in fact his half a line half a stanza
and so what does it mean it means verily
everything other than Allah is useless
ala kulli shayin maja ilaha bal to do
right so he said this line and so he's
very impressed meaning earth run
eventually the bid accepted Islam but
right now he's a mystic so obviously
you're happy he's very impressed
he said so doctor you have spoken the
truth everything besides Allah is
useless the only thing that's worthy to
concentrate on and to make an ultimate
goal is Allah everything besides Allah
is just useless and then he said what
cool Luna Amon and every single blessing
Lama Hallett za aloo without any doubt
it will disappear every enjoyment will
disappear now earth man's heart had gone
so high there was a beautiful line of
poetry then he said something that he
didn't agree with so he said Kadapa you
have just lied because Jenna will never
disappear right this is any that the the
line of poetry is that everything
besides Allah is useless and every
pleasure there is no doubt about it
will come to an end and here if man said
no you're lying the pleasures of Jenna
will never come to an end now this is in
a large get you imagine this you know
this is the dignitary this is the VIP
right all of the coalition around him
his he has just withdrawn his protection
right and right then and there literally
on the way back because they had the
nadi over there on the way back he
utters this statement and labeed gets
irritated I mean he is the guest of
honor here and he said since when have
you treated your guests with this matter
I mean if you stand up and you know a
speaker has come from another place
since one of you this is rude I am your
guest you've invited me to recite my
poetry and now now he doesn't know
what's going on obviously Lavie doesn't
know that earth man is a Muslim and he
doesn't understand all of this right so
he considers earth man a heckler in the
audience right you understand this right
and so he says to the Quraysh since when
has this become your custom that you
heckle your your visitors and so
somebody stood up in anger and gave him
a hard smack and basically gave him a
black eye and his left eye became
completely swollen and he
went home and when I will heed heard and
Waleed came rushing to his house and
said my nephew why did you why did you
get rid of my protection I mean I could
have you know use foolishness come come
back with me I'll give it back to you I
mean you see what's happening here and
so uh with man responds that no this is
not a problem at all verily and this is
a classic line of an said verily my
other eye is now in need of the
blessings that this eye has gotten my
other eye is jealous now it needs to get
the same thing as this eye and he
refused to get back under the protection
of a Lalit and this shows us that Subhan
Allah I mean the some of the Sahaba did
get that protection some of them
remained in it right and the shows as
people are different levels and there's
nothing wrong with those who remained
but some of them did not feel
comfortable and so they returned their
protection of those who kept the
protection is Abu Salam ah
of course Abu Salam ah is the husband of
OMA Salama Abu Salim was gonna die
shortly and the process was going to
marry Oh miss enemy right so this is
that Abu Salam
so Abu Salim I returned back because Abu
Salim Anoma sedima migrated first and
then they migrated again as we're going
to talk about there were two my gracious
ever seniors were going to talk about so
Abu Salam becomes back
Abu Salim ah is actually a cousin of the
Prophet SAS Allah but he's a cousin from
his mother's side not the father side so
Abu Salim is not banu hashim Abu Salam
is actually Burnham assumed by no
makhzoom is Abu Jahl
right I was Salamah is from the tribe of
Abuja but his mother is the aunt of the
profit system ie abdullah sister right
you guys following abdullah sister is
abu salim --is mother so Abu Salim a
doesn't want to reach out to Abu jahil I
mean come on Abuja is not going to give
me protection so who can he reach out to
his uncle from his mother's side who is
who is I will taught it
Abu Talib right I will father his his
mother's brother so he sends a message
to a booth Anup that look can you
basically sponsor me you know can you
get me into your try basically
protection so Abu Talib said of course
yes
now what do you think abou jaha is gonna
do when he hears that somebody else has
taken one of his tribe members who do
you think you are so a delegation comes
from voluma zoom to the House of Abuja
Abu Talib again you're interfering in
our politics this is our guy right who
do you think you are to offer him
protection because it's a matter of
Honor it's a matter of snubbing their
nose basically right and so Abu jihad
and others they get angry at Abu Talib
and Abu Todd have said well if I'm gonna
give protection to one nephew meaning
the Prophet Muhammad SAW Sodom why can't
I give protection to the other nephew
meaning I will sedima I mean if I'm
going to protect one why can't I protect
the other and so they were not they were
not going to budge and they surrounded
his house and an argument broke out and
that Allah brought about a solution from
a source we would never expect Abu Lahab
Abu Lahab stood up and he said have you
not irritated this old man enough I mean
I will thought it was a senior figure
you know he's an elderly person Abu
Lahab is now feeling compassion for his
brother not because he loves the
profitsystem but just as a brother
because after all they are brothers you
know and so he stood up and he said have
you not irritated this old man enough
let him be - cool come on let him be how
much are you gonna pasture this guy let
him be from a lie if you're gonna
continue then I'm gonna have to force my
side I'm gonna choose him this is Abu
Lahab speaking right and he's not
speaking out of a love for Islam he's
speaking out of his love for his tribe
and the protection of his chieftain
right and as we said that type of love
is not going to help you in Islam even
Abu Talib loved the Prophet system but
not a religious love it was a love of
Uncle there was a love of a fatherly
figure it was a love of a fellow
Hashemite but it was not a religious
love that we have for our messenger
sallallaahu ra who sent him he didn't
have that religious love he had a
paternal love and that love is not going
to necessarily save you from the
punishment of allah subhana wa ta'ala
even though it helped a live
but for a booth olives case so I would
gel sorry um Abu Lahab stood up and
defended against Abu jahil can you
imagine an amazing scene here right and
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala chooses whomever
he chooses to help this religion
somebody like Abu Lahab have there have
been more than one time where he's done
small things that have brought some
benefit to Islam even though he didn't
do it for the sake of Islam and our
Prophet SAW said in Medina many years
later he said verily Allah can help this
religion from a calf it from a pagan
Allah can how Allah will help SAR is a
better translation innallaha leg you au
doha the deen allah sometimes helps this
religion from a person who is not even a
believer of it and this these types of
incidents they demonstrate the truth of
what the professor's Adam said so the
point being that the situation in Makkah
remained status quo it didn't change at
all and the Quraysh continued to
persecute the Muslims and so the initial
batch that had emigrated from Abyssinia
came together and decided what do we do
now and the bulk of them said let's go
back it was a mistake to come back now
let us go back but in the meantime they
had stayed in Makkah two three weeks and
the news spread amongst all of the
Muslims about how good life was in
Abyssinia at least in terms of physical
harm yes it was difficult culturally and
language and climate but not hostile and
you know at the end of the day you know
if you're living as we said the two best
blessings that Allah gives a let the
Ottoman woman Joran well I'm at a home
in health right these are the biggest
blessings that Allah gives after Iman
and they had that in Abyssinia they had
food and they had safety these are the
best blessings and so when they heard
this a large percentage of Muslims we
don't know how many Muslims were in
Mecca at the time it's not there were no
census but it is probably correct to say
that at least thirty forty percent of
the Muslims of Makkah if not 50 percent
decided to immigrant that's a huge
number right any half of your people are
now leaving half of the pit Muslims or
it's a huge number and so it is as if
and this is my opinion and Allah knows
best the wisdom why Allah allowed these
early Muslims to come back only to
return was so that the bulk of the
Muslims or a large group of Muslims
would then be convinced to travel to
Abyssinia because as we all know the
number one way to be convinced is what
word of mouth it's the number one way to
actually be committed my friend told me
right that's the number one way and
there was no other way that so many
Muslims would have emigrated to
Abyssinia no way unless allah allowed
the very muslims who benefitted to come
back tell the people satisfy and then
people were convinced and so for the
second immigration more than 80 muslims
emigrated that's more than quadruple the
number that went there for time more
than 80 Muslims migrated and this time
they were headed by Jaffa even a
bethought of the direct obviously cousin
of the Prophet sallallahu aleyhi was
sent him now please note though of that
initial batch of 17 not all of them
returned in the 80 17 went and came back
some of those decided to remain the most
famous person who remained earth might
have been a fan earth might have been a
fan decided to remain and he then
emigrated to Medina he participated in
budded and other than all over the rest
of the the battles so if not even a fan
did not go back to second time right of
course I was sediment almost anemic went
back and I was anima then passed away
over there other Sahaba that did not go
back it is said that most habanero made
the famous Masada bento made who was the
first to emigrate to Medina right the
first person of the process had sent to
Medina because his own parents had
tortured him the worst torture his own
mother and father so the process of
first sent him to Abyssinia then when he
came back he decided that he wanted to
stay with the process of him so he
stayed with the process time but then
within three years before the
immigration that he himself did the
process him he sent Muslim as soon as
the first batch of Muslims accepted
Islam the process said
to most I'll go to Modena you can live
there so most I'm also did not return to
Abyssinia other Sahaba as well some of
them returned some of them didn't
now when over 80 people and Makkah at
this time probably had only a few
hundred people in it right so 80 people
in Mecca represents more than 15% 20% of
the people of Makkah say percentage of
the city
remember Mecca is not a thriving
metropolis it is composed of what and I
said this way back in the beginning when
we say tribe don't think a thousand
people think more like ten look at the
banu hashim there were ten brothers
right there were ten brothers the
descendants of Abdul Muttalib
that's all they were ten brothers so it
don't think of like massive no these are
small sub tribes and there's only six or
seven sometimes of the Horesh so you do
the math again we don't have census
records but they were for sure there
were not more than a thousand people in
Mecca for sure of that if and that's if
there were thousand most like they were
even six hundred four or 500 out of that
80 are migrating I mean that's like more
than 10% of your population right and
it's a big embarrassment that your own
people are leaving this is unprecedented
in all of Arabia you never have your own
tribes men migrate out of your tribe so
huge embarrassment and this is the
Quraysh the one that is the strongest
tribe the most elite the most protective
the the custodians of the harem and now
they have 10-15 percent of their own
tribes people emigrate this is a shame
and they cannot bear this and so when
they immigrated to Abyssinia
now the Quraysh decided we cannot allow
this emigration we need to stop it we
need to stop it so what did they do they
decided to send two people to Abyssinia
and appeal directly to the nagashi Najah
she is the title of the person who rules
Abyssinia like caesar is the title of
the ruler of Rome like Pharaoh is the
title of the ruler of Egypt is not the
name that Joshi is not his name and in
fact his name was Al umma his name was
al Souma the name of the new Joshi
with a sod and a hat al Souma this is
what we have narrated and by the way the
grave of nagashi of Asuma is still well
known to this day and some of my friends
have visited it I have not gone to that
land but some of my friends have visited
they said this is a well-known the grave
of Najah she is well known in the in the
land of Abyssinia so they sent two
delegates how many of that house and
another person scholars have differed
who that second person was I would have
been asked for those of you who know who
he is you know who is who those who
don't know who he is he was a very
intelligent and shrewd politician and
when he accepted Islam he retained that
know-how of how to rule and he became or
Aaliyah's main advisor how many bananas
and of course he's a companion so we say
nothing but good about him but at this
stage he's not a Muslim obviously and he
was a very cunning person at this stage
later on a man came and sown hamdullah
he accepted Islam and as a Sahabi we say
nothing but good of him but he had that
mind of a politician and he was he had
that blood in him he had that that
prestige of being a ruler in him this is
Amna house here so how many of the house
was sent by the Quraysh because they
know who he is and they sent one more
person with him so they traveled all the
way to
Abyssinia now omma Salama who was to
become our mother on misil ama has left
us many reports about life in Abyssinia
and about the details and hamdulillah we
thank Allah for this because she's the
main reporter of the events of Abyssinia
and Ouma sedima narrated and this isn't
sahih bukhari
Oh miss Alma narrated when we landed in
Abyssinia this is the second Hitler when
we landed in Abyssinia we retreated very
hospitably with thee by the Negus
he granted us security in our religion
he allowed us to worship Allah without
persecution or any hindrance in fact we
did not even hear one ridicule against
us by the people you know that when
you're a minority in a majority usually
there's racial slurs usually there's a
look at what's happening in America now
right you know these people are taking
our jobs there this there that you know
what's happening you know it's a common
thing so Amazon I was saying that we
didn't even hear one word spoken against
us but then the Koresh heard of our
status that we have is a and so they
plotted against us and they decided to
send two strong men by strong she meant
people who would do their job not
physically strong that too strong men
and they gave them precious gifts they
loaded them with gifts what were the
gifts of Mecca primarily a leather skins
Mecca was known for a special type of
camel leather which was obviously I mean
you're not going to get that type of
leather in Abyssinia and so Mecca was
very well known for exporting the main
export of Mecca was at that type of
leather the main export of Medina always
was dates so they sent all all of these
luxurious camel skins and many other
gifts and the two dignitaries emissaries
arrived in Abyssinia the first thing
that they did was they went to all of
the VA's ears the ministers of nagashi
and they gave each of them expensive
gifts and leather basically bribe them
they gave each of them expensive gifts
and letter and they said to them that we
have in your midst a group of renegades
and rebels and we will speak to the
nagashi tomorrow about their case and we
want you to hand them back to us and
support us in this cause so basically
this is open bribery okay this is open
bribery and so make sure that you help
us out in this regard when we give the
Negus his gifts remember our gifts to
you because they're gonna bribe the
Negus tomorrow and somehow look at the
hatred really of the price here that
they can't even bear to see the Muslims
live in a foreign land it affects them
that they have so much freedom so the
next day they approach the Negus and
they said some foolish youth from
amongst our nation have emigrated to
your country
have left our religion and they have not
embraced your religion they've invented
a new religion they have left our
religion and they have neither embraced
your religion nor any of the other
religions that we are aware of and the
leaders of our community have sent us to
you in order that you hand these young
foolish people back to us so that we can
deal with them because we are more
knowledgeable of their faults than
anybody else and so they presented the
Negus with lots of fine gifts and
incense and they present them with all
of these leather goods and so Paola this
is the reality of in our times we call
this lobbying basically right and our
times we call this lobbying that you go
and you give politicians money and when
you give them money for their campaigns
for their funds and this is perfectly
legal in this land as you know it's
perfectly but in fact that's the way the
system works right and somehow I just as
a comment here it's not directly related
to the seeder it's a comment here spare
Allah our religion is so perfect that
our prophets are seldom before all of
this modern system came by our purposes
that I'm strictly forbade what we now
call loving strictly with the most
harshest words you're not allowed to
give a public servant money you're not
allowed to in our religion I'm talking
about in an Islamic state we're not
allowed to give the employees of the
state any money at all their money comes
from the Treasury from the state because
their employees they have no right to
get any money from you because that is
going to sway them from their job right
this is basically the essence of bribery
and subhanAllah
in this land this is not called bribery
it's called lobbying it's completely
legit even though and this is the irony
here if you pay them money directly to
their pocket this is bribery but if you
pay to their campaign this is or you pay
something else this is lobbying and they
just have their ways around it you all
know the famous Heidi to the process and
that he appointed somebody to go collect
zakat right and the zakat collector came
back and he said all of this is for you
and I was given a gift of something
small I was give this as my gift right
this is my lobbying I got the
profitsystem became so enraged that he
stood up
and he called the people to come to the
messages and he gave a whole tuba in the
middle of the day not on Friday he gave
a halt but about this and he said what
is wrong with some of you he didn't
mention the person name because he
didn't ever did that what is wrong with
some of you that we appoint him to do a
job and we get we pay his salary and
then he comes back and he says this is
for you and this gift is for me and then
the president said something that is
very very blunt but it shows how angry
he was why didn't this man sit in his
mother's house and see if a gift would
then come to him mrs. will lie the
essence of Islamic political science
why didn't he sit in his house and then
see if somebody would give him a gift
right you have no right for the public's
money you're getting paid to do your job
do it you're not getting paid to take
the people's Gibson and take a cut from
them right
but somehow Allah the way that you know
other systems work it's a completely
different system and in a and that's why
money talks in this part of the world
and that's why if you have money you
will be able to get things passed even
at the highest levels of political power
and if you don't have money even if the
truth is on your side and so the Quraysh
know this tactic very well and they're
basically greasing the hands of nagashi
and all of the and all of the people
there now notice here they are
frightening the Najah she by religious
differences political differences social
differences and perhaps even some
scholars say economic bribery and
differences religious differences the
Najah she and his followers are all
Christian so they come and they say
these guys are religious fanatics
they're neither our religion nor yours
they're a cult social differences they
say they have broken away from the
elders they're a bunch of youngsters
they're just dismissing them economic
differences well perhaps not differences
but they're attempting to bribe and some
scholars try to say that and Allah knows
how true this is that there was also
insinuation that the economic treaties
between Abyssinia and Makkah would be
weakened and Allah knows how true this
is political as well that these are a
group of strangers we don't know what's
going to happen we can control them send
them back to us and every government in
power is scared of unknowns every
government is scared
unknown and so they're trying to
frighten the Joshy religiously socially
politically culturally these guys are
all weirdos and to this day that's the
common tactic that these people we don't
know what they are and who they are so
when they finish their petition the
Vizier stood up
they've been bribed and they said oh our
ruler verily what they have said makes
complete sense these are strangers in
our land we don't know anything about
them return them back to their people
let them deal with their affairs spiral
of money talks but they were bribed and
they listen to the bright so the VA's
ears all of them that had been bribed
stood up and agreed with the with the
two Korah she's Rajah she said no by
Allah I cannot just hand them back after
they have chosen my land now remember
when they entered Abyssinia even though
the books don't mention this but it must
have happened they must have sent a
petition to Najah she asking permission
to live because there's no other way you
can live in that lab and the Josh you
must have granted that petition even
though the books of zero don't
explicitly write it out but it's
understood there's no other way so the
Joshi is aware what's happening that
there's a group here from from Makkah so
he's so he said these people have chosen
me over all the other lands they could
have chosen and they asked for my
protection the least that I can do is to
listen to their side of the story spinal
oh look he's a king he doesn't need to
listen to 80 people right but what did
the process and say medico Nadi
does it didn't he say that he's a just
king and a just king will listen to both
sides and decide what is right and wrong
did not decide what is in his power or
what is in his benefit so he said I will
not return them back until I listen to
them he didn't say I'm not going to
return them exit let me see what they
have to say and then we'll make up our
minds I can't just and somehow to look
at this I mean this is way before we
have modern law Najah she has common
sense that you have to listen to both
sides of the story and so Najah she says
that we need to listen to their listen
to their side and this shows us
how true the profitsystem was when he
said he is a just king and it also shows
us that when a law is on your side a law
will plot and plan no matter what the
others plot and plan
well Mikado Amica allah w'allahu khayru
makka Dean so the Nika sent a messenger
Najah she sent a messenger to Jaffa have
you thought it and they said he said
come all of you to the palace tomorrow
and explain to us why your people are
opposed to you now they had never seen
the new Josh and Josh is the king right
they had never had any direct contact
with him now they're being told they
Emperor himself wants to meet you come
to the palace all of you and so they
became frightened which is only natural
and they said what are we going to say
what are we going to tell him and so
jafra said we will only say what our
profitsystem told us to say and we're
not going to change the truth no matter
what happens I will speak the truth and
it shows that when Muslims stand up for
the truth Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will
protect them and stand up for them so
when they arrived at the palace
they found the Negus surrounded by his
advisers by his the Arabic word is
Baraka and methodical actually has a
Latin original which was then made into
English which is patriarchy the word
patriarchy is from bethought if that's
the same thing so the patron patriarchs
are basically the senior figures of the
religion right they are the the
ministers so he was surrounded by the
va's ears and the patriarchs this is an
official meeting all the congressmen and
Senators are present if you like they
all come to the palace and you have
Hamilton Alison you have his companion
on one side and you have Japanese autumn
and the delegation of the Muslims on the
other side now I'm gonna last entered
first and him and his companion as was
the custom of the nagashi they
prostrated in front of him because as
with most Emperor's even the Roman
Emperor the Persian Emperor the
Abyssinian Emperor people always
frustrated in front of the king this was
the common practice of all kings of the
time and I mean these people are pagans
if they're prostrating to rocks and
stones prostrate your living being make
s'mores
instead prostrates logs and so they
don't mind who cares it's just it's all
the same to them so they prostrated in
front of nagashi jmw thought have
entered and he walked in erect firm and
he did not lower his head one inch the
minister said how dare you walk in
without prostrating to vana Joshi and
subhanAllah this was at a time where
their life hangs in the balance their
future and IVC near hangs in the balance
but they have a principle and that
principle is we cannot worship other
than a line we cannot bow our heads to
other than Allah this is not issue of
compromise here I will we can't change
that and they're coming at a state of
weakness this is not the state of
strength right but they're not going to
compromise their iman and so Java says
our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom
has told us that we can only prostrate
to our Lord this is our religion we can
only prostrate to our Lord and so the
judge she says and obviously all of this
is through a translator because they
couldn't speak up as anything he could
they could not he could not speak Arabic
Najah she says tell me what is this
religion of yours that you have now
invented now this is your showing me
this religion by not prostrating what is
this new religion that you have invented
and what is the matter that you have
forsaken the religion of your people and
you haven't embraced my religion nor
have you embrace the other religions on
earth right now if you had become
Christian we understand if you become
Jew there are people that are Jews but
how about this new religion what is it
and so Jaffa gave that eloquent response
that all of you have read and have heard
so many times it is well like the
pinnacle of eloquence and it shows us
why the Prophet SAW said I'm trolls
Jennifer to be the leader because to be
a leader you need to have a personality
and you need to have eloquence without
this you really cannot be a leader and
japhet had both and that's why Jonathan
marches and firm he's not going to bow
his head down had it been others maybe
they would have collapsed under the
pressure
not Jaffa and when he was sincere to his
faith that sincerity automatically
brings about respect and you know the
fact of the matter brother
when you stand up for what you believe
even if your opponent doesn't agree with
you they will in some sense even if they
hate your guts they must respect you for
being firm to your principles this is
just a fact of human life it doesn't
matter whether they agree or disagree
they could hate you more for being so
stubborn but one part of them will
respect and this is what jackford is
basically doing he's staying for him to
his religion so job hood responds and
you know you all know this beautiful
passage which really should be read many
times and memorize I'll just narrate it
and it's something that we have read
since we were kids your highness we used
to be a nation steeped in jahiliya and
we would worship idols and we would eat
this dead meat you know from animal dies
we'll eat it now of course the people of
Abyssinia are Christians right and they
have some sense of ethics and morality
and they have some civilization you know
they have structure they have buildings
they have society they have morals maka
as we said over and over again
really and truly was just completely
backward and it's something many Muslims
don't doesn't click for them uneducated
backward people they have no clue what
is civilization so Jaffa is trying to
explain we were basically you know
jagged we living in jahiliya that's
exactly the word he uses we were living
in jellia and we used to perform a
fahisha we didn't have a sense of right
and wrong fahisha means sexual
immorality we didn't have laws we just
go to zina it's not something we had
ethics to do and we would break the ties
of kinship and treat our neighbors in
contempt the strong amongst us would eat
up and devour the weak it was all about
who was the stronger one and we remained
in this state until Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala sent a messenger to us now again
his very wise here because the Negus
knows what is a messenger the or I had
never seen a messenger it's not in their
culture the Negus as a Christian he
knows very well what a messenger is
right and the whole speech of Jaffa
shows that he understands the psychology
of negus and he shows how to give doubt
so he says Allah sent us a messenger
this messenger was known to us he's from
our community we know his house and his
lineage and we know his truthfulness and
he never spoke one lie in his life and
he invited us to believe in one God
alone this is the religion of
Christianity and Judaism monotheism and
to leave idol worship and he told us to
abandon the ways of our forefathers that
are and to leave the worship of stones
and statues and he commanded us to be
true when we speak and to fulfill our
promises and to fulfill the ties of
kinship he told us to be good to our
neighbors and he commanded us to avoid
all evils he told us to not spill blood
to give true testimony he forbade us
from eating the property of orphans he
forbade us from accusing others of
adultery and he commanded us to worship
Allah alone without associating anything
with him he told us to pray and to fast
and to give charity so we believed in
him and we followed him and we had faith
in Him and we worshiped Allah alone and
we gave up worshiping idols and we
forbade upon ourselves everything that
he told us to offer for bait and we made
permissible all that he allowed for us
but our people opposed us and they
showed hatred towards us and they
tortured us and they punished us and
they tried to force us back into idol
worship and they were unjust to us and
they made life miserable and they
prevented us from being who we were so
when they did this we emigrated to your
land and we chose you above all other
rulers and we wish to come under your
generosity and hospitality and we put
our trust in you that we would not be
shown injustice in your land Oh exalted
highness now the whole speech is we
couldn't have invented a better one if
you had the imagination the time to do
so and he did it on the spur of the
moment right he appeals to the emotions
the justice the generosity the common
sense the religion of the NICUs he puts
instantaneously himself in the positive
and the two emissaries in the negative
in a five-minute speech the whole table
has turned
even the Arabic is eloquent and this
shows us why the process one chose Jaffa
Mei be taught him and again the point of
praising nagashi
and praising the intelligence and wisdom
of Najah she's a panel that shows you
are you need to appeal to the court of
nagashi and so this speech swayed Najah
she and it moved him and he said to the
muslims do you have any revelation that
this prophet says he has do you have any
speech that he says that allah gave to
him so Jaffa said yes i do and so he
said recite it for me
and so jafra bin ABI talib recited the
beginning few pages of surah maryam and
even in this of course i mean it's
obvious the choice here could have
chosen a million suitors well not a
million but you get my point could have
chosen so many suitors but he chose the
one surah that talks about the virgin
birth talks about mary talks about jesus
beautiful and again can you imagine the
voice of jaffa booming in the halls of
Najah she reciting Quran in that
beautiful melodious voice all of the
priests and ministers all of the the
elite people are hushed and humbled and
the walls of the palace are
reverberating with that till hour which
must have gone on for at least 10
minutes 15 minutes do them you know do
the math as I say three and a half pages
of surah Maryam would be the story of
Jesus right and he's reciting all of it
it's not just a one minute thing here
imagine again put yourself in that shoes
for 15 minutes
beautiful Tarawih and obviously it is
said even as how Himself says this that
even the the methodical even the
patriarchs without even understanding
what was being recited they removed to
tears I mean this is the Quran and we
believe the Quran has this impact and so
even the patriarchs were moved to tears
and the Joshi himself began to cry when
it was translated to him he too began to
cry and then he said I swear by God this
recitation this till hour
the messages of Moses and Jesus have
sprung forth from the same fountain this
is the same source and he spoke to the
two emissaries and said go away from me
because I'm not going to hand these
people over to you and I'm not even
gonna think about it basically don't
even think about handing these people
back so I'm a liberal house and his
companion exited in humiliation and as
they were leaving I'm a whispered over
to his companion and said don't give up
yet I have one final trick tomorrow I
will come back and bring one final trick
out of my hat his companion said now his
companion some people say was Abdullah
bin ABY Arabia others say was his cousin
or modern it will eat Allahu Alem who it
was there's a little bit of a difference
who the Campania was his companion was
the more gentle of the two and his
companion said leave it llamo Carlos
leave it Kenny we tried we failed
because look even if we don't agree with
them in the end they are our relatives I
mean realize this is your cousin your
brothers your uncle's your nephews there
are our relatives I mean leave it alone
from now but this is our house and at
this time he's not a Muslim so I'm gonna
said that no one more attempt just wait
tomorrow so the next day they sought
permission again and the nikah said what
do you want we already decided and
you're not going to get them back and so
I almost said that oh all the Emperor we
forgot to mention to you one thing that
they say something blasphemous about the
God that you worship Jesus Christ
they didn't tell you that bit go ask
them what they believe about Jesus
Christ now what is blasphemous he's not
the Son of God right
this is blasphemous because it's not
Christianity and so Najah she is now
interested like what is this so in the
jaw she sent the emissary again on the
next day and said come immediately to
the palace come immediately to the
palace we're waiting for you now we want
to know what your position is on Jesus
Christ at this the Sahaba were struck
with terror much more than they were on
the day before because now this is like
come right now and they know this is now
I'm just doing because what else is
going to happen you know and so once
again they say what are we going to say
yeah Jaffa and so jafra said we will say
exactly as what the prophet saw son told
us to say and that is that Jesus Christ
is the Abbot of Allah he is the servant
of Allah
and he is the Rasool Allah and he is the
rooh of Allah and he is born of the
Virgin Mary and we will not change this
for them subhanAllah he's not gonna
change what they believe just because he
wants to please nagashi and this is the
way of the believer because they stood
up for the truth Allah strappado would
have protected them and they went to the
Emperor again and by the way before we
move on to the story itself ala one of
the most important lessons we learned
from this whole story is that the Sahaba
used the system of the time to fight the
oppression of the time it's not an
Islamic state is it right now Josh is
not a Muslim
not now he's not and they are being
charged if you like in a manner of the
system of the Joshi and I say this
because we have some people still left
you know honestly pre 9/11 there are
much more post 9/11 most of these
scholars have had to wake up and smell
the coffee and I speak as being a part
of that group that used to say similar
thing as many many years ago this ultra
conservative vision of Islam that's not
going to be realistic or practical there
were still people there are still people
who say you're not allowed to be a part
of the system
you're not allowed to be a part of the
democratic process you're not allowed to
do this and that there's still some
minority of scholars who say this a
before for those of you who were active
in the past this used to be much more
common and it was very common to hear
ask the cutaways that had a door around
to vote right now here we find that
Jaffa Timnath olive is using the system
of the land to fight against oppression
and to fight for his freedom is he not
right and nobody is saying oh hold on a
sec the ways of natashia are the ways of
Kufa these are democracy or this or no
you have no choice this is the way you
need to fight for the truth and you have
to use the resources given to you and
the land that whatever system it has you
use it and japhet had no qualms using
the system so we will do the same thing
in this land we will fight against
oppression through the courts through
the media through the public pressure
the same opportunities that everybody
has we too have them and we must do so
like Jeff Adam debited Apted jaffa used
his opportunities we need to use our
opportunities and therefore Javon MDB
thought have said that we're not going
to change the truth and so they come
back to the nagashi
and the joshi is a bit irritated and he
asks them what is this that I have heard
that you have a blasphemous opinion
about Jesus Christ
so jafra said your royal highness
we say exactly what our prophet said no
notice he said this phrase multiple
times and this also shows us that he's
trying to impress upon the nagashi
I am remaining firm to my principles
this is what I believe and he's quoting
what is an evidence for him and the
Joshi should understand that it is an
evidence for him and we should also not
be embarrassed to say the same thing why
do your women wear hijab
because our God told them to do so why
do you pray five times a day because our
book tells us to do so this is an
evidence that even if you don't agree
with the book you must understand this
is a legitimate evidence for us correct
right nothing wrong and in fact it's a
watertight evidence in its own way and
I've spoken about this in other lectures
that I've given the best evidence that
we can give
to any non-muslim is to say because the
Lord that I believe in who created me
told me to do this and that's why I do
it
so watertight argument you cannot attack
this argument you have to go back and
say well I don't believe in that God and
that's the point we say yes you don't
we'd wheel it's a different religion so
the point being he says our prophet told
us that Jesus Christ is the abbot and
the rasool the Abdullah and rasoolallah
and Kali Mottola that he gave to maryam
Alba to Allah draw the the Virgin the
innocent the chaste maryam and that he
was a righteous prophet now he stopped
their notice and this is a key point as
well that what he said was absolutely
true but he didn't go and be on the
offensive and say and we say that the
Trinity is blasphemous and we say that
saying that the Jesus Christ the Son of
God is insulting even though that's what
the Quran says right but he didn't get
there because look you don't need to go
to that level yet he's not hiding the
truth but he's telling it in a wise
manner and we do have some who really
don't understand how to give that one
that look right now you just need to
establish your credentials he's not
lying everything he says is positive but
he just stops before he gets to the
point of saying what you guys believe is
blasphemous in our religions there's no
need to say that all right
he says what he believes and Najah she
gets the point you don't think he's the
son of God
basically because he doesn't say that
and even in this is wisdom that and I've
said this many times before we're never
allowed to lie but there's also a manner
of speaking and an audience in which we
speak in and a methodology and awarding
and Jaffa uses the appropriate wording
and so when Jaffa said the truth now it
comes out and we can read into the lines
here that the Negus was not in fact a
believer in the Trinity and he didn't
believe that Jesus Christ as the Son of
God and in this he resembled Heraclius
his contemporary and colleague the
emperor of Rome in that once upon a time
politicians were educated those were
fairy tales of the past they no longer
exist
times you know we must believe that once
upon a time politicians used to be smart
people that was a time long gone so
politicians actually were intellectuals
and both the Najah she and Heraclius
believed in versions of Christianity
that their own priests did not believe
and so when Jaffa speaks the truth Najah
she is even more impressed because this
is what he himself has been believing
all this time and so he picks up a
little branch that was in front of him a
twig and he says wallahi what you have
just said does not exceed what Jesus
Christ said by this much of a branch in
other words your message is the message
of Jesus Christ
he never said he's the son of God he
never said that he's a third of a
Trinity and there are many Christians
who secretly believe this or who know
this but then society is simply too much
of a pressure upon them and so when he
says basically what Natasha himself
believes then Najah she now makes a
final decision and he turns to the
emissary's and he says town bowdabra
house that be gone from here and take
all of your gifts back with you I have
no need for them he returned the gifts
at least the day before he kept the
gifts right now to add insult to injury
right I don't need your cheap bribes go
return all of these gifts to them and so
Oh miss anima is narrating all of this
and she concludes by saying the two
emissaries left humiliated debased and
degraded callous that's like you know
they've lost everything
having been returned the gifts that they
had come lady with all that they came
with they went back with and this is
really it's a slap in the face because
gifts are typically accepted right and
the day before had they left the gifts
would have been there but now every gift
even the minister's gifts was returned
nobody's allowed to take anything from
them and we remained in the land
receiving the best hospitality and the
most neighborly treatment until we
finally returned to the Prophet system
in Mecca few more points a child will go
to for another ten minutes and then stop
for Isha because
we need to finish the story of Najah she
now when the JA she said this that he
picked up the twig and he said Jesus
Christ never said anything more than
this
rumors spread that Najah she has become
a heretic he has abandoned the religion
of our forefathers Najah she has become
a heretic and so the ministers and you
know how politicians are me there's
always internal battles and a lot of
people there's always inner struggles
and inner core's so another group began
to speak against Anna Joshi privately
and they began to taint him that he's
not Christian enough and he has
heretical beliefs and there was a
possibility of a coup d'etat and the
joshi is aware of what's happening he
has his own sympathizers telling him and
so one day he decided to confront that
batch of instigators and he wrote on a
parchment a shadow and his own language
a shadow a la ilaha illallah that I bear
witness that lay ahead Allah and that
Issa is the rural law and the Kadima to
Allah and Abdullah he's a Christian
that's what he believes right and this
is what we believe and he put this
parchment inside his robe you know he's
wearing all of this fine robe we put it
inside his robe and then he calls these
instigators and he brings them into his
private chambers and he says what is
your problem with me what is the matter
have I not been a good King to you they
said yes have I not been a just ruler
they said yes
have I not improved the situation this
economically whatever and overall
everybody loved nagashi over all he was
one of the better Kings they said yes so
he said what is your problem with me
come out with it tell me what is your
problem and he knows because of the his
own sympathizer so they finally come out
and they say you have abandoned our
religion and you have heretical beliefs
so he asked them what do you say what do
you believe and so they say we believe
that Jesus Christ is the son of God he's
our Lord he's our Savior is the third of
the Trinity it's basically Christianity
and so Najah she said and I swear by
Allah that this and
he pointed to the piece of paper which
was on his heart that this is exactly
what I believed and he left it at that
now this is of course Thalia complete
double meaning completely he said
something which is true right but the
way they understood it is completely
different right I swear by Allah this is
what I believe and by this he means what
is in the parchment that is next to my
heart right and so when he swore by
Allah that this is what they believe
that he believes the Christians were
satisfied because of course what he had
said before was I agree with you all
Muslims that Jesus Christ is not the Son
of God basically right and so when he
said this that that internal struggle
stopped it is mentioned that before he
had this meeting he sent a messenger
secret messenger to the Muslims and he
said to them that i am having issues and
problems and it is possible that i will
be killed soon so this was a major issue
right and if you hear news of my death I
have instructed one of my ships to be at
such in such a place as soon as you hear
that I have been killed go to that place
that ship will be yours with its captain
go wherever you please but he actually
won the battle and so that plan was not
needed but look at how much Iman he had
and look at where he uh he has thinking
about the the Muslims and al-bayhaqi
narrates in his Sunna sorry in his
Lenovo that the profitsystem eventually
wrote him a letter when he emigrated to
Medina the processor modena Joshi a
letter and he invited him to Islam and
the Josh he wrote back to the prophecies
and I'm saying that I am a Muslim and I
believe in you and I believe in all that
you say and if you command me out of
Salalah I will come right now to Medina
and serve you if you command me I will
come right now to Medina and serve you
Sona Joshi publicly well not publicly
privately to the professor said that he
is a a Muslim and there's only I have
tried to look as much as I can in the
stories of the serie for the stories of
Abyssinia because the Muslims lived
there for more than ten years
for more than 10 years the Muslims were
in Abyssinia in fact for 12 12 years
they were in Abyssinia and unfortunately
don't have very many stories there's one
more story mentioned about the the
Muslims of Abyssinia and that is a story
that involves a Pretender to the throne
not an internal struggle within the
palace no another force another
Abyssinian royal family was struggling
with the nagashi and trying to seek
power in the land and matters began to
get bigger and bigger and it was all
heading towards a civil war and Ouma
Salomon aerates that we began to be
scared that Najah she would be defeated
and an enemy our enemy or somebody else
would be installed in his place and we
didn't know what to do and we began
making dua to allah subhana wa ta'ala to
help Najah she win and remain in power
and the situation finally reached the
level that there was a civil war there
was a battle between the two sides and
so we had a meeting in which we said
what are we going to do and so we said
who is going to find out what happens at
the battle so that we here before
somebody else comes and tells us right
in other words let some one of us go and
spy on the battle see who wins
and then if if the other side wins we
need to get out of here right so debated
then I won another cousin of the process
and I'm volunteered and he was zubeida
as a strong man and so he said I
volunteer he packed his stuff he took
some food and stuff and he went the
battle was taking place the book say on
the banks of the River Nile the Nile
goes all the way down into Abyssinia as
you know it's not just in Egypt keeps on
going all the way down to into Africa
and so the battle was on the banks of
the Nile
so debatable I want camped on one side
as far away as he could and he waited to
see who would win the battle and who
miss Adam I said in the meantime we were
praying to Allah the most serious prayer
that o Allah allowed the de Joshi to
remain in power and give him Tam key and
fill out give him authority in the earth
and zubeida wom came back in a few days
with a great smile on his face and he
said
Shido rejoice that indeed the joshi has
won the battle and so he will remain in
power and this shows us as well that I
made of course in this era it's black
and white Najah she is a secret Muslim
the Muslims know this Najah she will
support them but one important point
here
nough Joshi and his contemporary were
not fighting over Islam this was not a
jihad being fought this was pure
politics pure politics and the Muslims
sided with one over the other
emotionally right now they couldn't get
involved in any other way because
they're not citizens of the land this is
not their war to be fought right this is
not their battle let's extrapolate to
2011 soon to be 2012 there is nothing
wrong when there's two parties in the
land one of whom is more sympathetic to
Muslims that you want with that
sympathetic party to win and have the
Abyssinian Muslims been in a position to
help in the joshiy do you think they
would have not helped him right of
course they would and again when you
read the seal of thinking about the
modern world changes your whole
perspective it's a matter of survival
this is not just the American Way it is
the Islamic way that when you have an
opportunity to defend your rights to
defend your freedoms you must do so
whether it's to do the media whether
it's through campaigning whether it's
through public awareness whatever it
might be but there is a party that is
sympathetic to your needs in this case
cisterna Joshi in our cases will talk
case by case basis right but for sure
one of the two parties in Harper era
yeah they're like leapfrogs which one is
going to be more Islamophobic you know
every one of them says every Muslim must
be you know profiled in the airport one
of them running for president said this
as you know every Muslim should be
profile all of them are racist against
non-white people as you know this even
the one who's not white himself said
that he wants a fence that's going to
electrocute every single Mexican that
dares to cross the border I mean this is
down insanity sheer stupidity it is
everybody knows this you know
everybody's making fun of this do you
know how much it's gonna cost to build
defense to anyone going into my tangent
here but my point being it shows how
you know my bringing to reality what is
wrong in fact it is Islamic that you
want a party that will be more
sympathetic to you and your rights as a
Muslim right that you may go out to a
lot that you facilitate the affair and
more than that the Muslims represent you
could not do anything more than that
because they're not citizens right they
are foreigners there and they're on visa
status it's not their battle to be
fought what if they were citizens what
would they do would they just sit on
their backs and do nothing No Oh miss
Adam I said we were never as terrified
as we were when we heard that the Najah
she might lose so they are desperate to
get their freedom well we are in similar
well not not that similar but
nonetheless we have some types of
similarities here the final point
inshallah and then we will conclude that
Najah she eventually died a number of
years later and the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa send them the prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa seldom came out one
day in medina and he said Gillian has
come and informed me that a pious
brother of yours has died in a
neighboring land before anybody could
come and tell him two weeks journey
instantaneously on that very minute the
Prophet SAW was informed that nagashi
has died and he commanded the Sahaba to
come and pray the one and only prayer
that was ever prayed in the life of the
Prophet SAW salaam sirata genocidal hype
the only time ever in the history of
Islam that the Prophet SAW salaam prayed
over somebody without a body being
present it's called salata janazah Allen
alive
never before after except over nagashi
and I've written a long article on this
you can google it online or I can send
you the link or maybe you can send it
here about the fit of praying salat
regina's over five when should it be
prayed the format has all have different
opinions the question arises why did the
prophets as an only pray over Anna Joshi
was it because a he was a famous person
so that anytime a famous person who
helps Islam let me say a famous person
who helps Islam anytime a famous person
who helps Islam dies then the whole
world should pay genocide alive over him
or was it because be nobody in Abyssinia
pray janazah over him because he was a
secret Muslim and so because nobody
prayed over him in Abyssinia the
prophecies and prayed over him in Medina
based on this empty laughs the format
has had their own opinions that even
within the four you have more and it is
I have written an article about this you
can find it online in my humble opinion
the reason is because nobody else prayed
over him and that is because many famous
Sahaba died in the lifetime the process
of them and he didn't pray and they died
in either in battles or in other places
and he didn't pray janazah
over them and therefore this shows and
Allah knows best that we pray janazah a
salat al habib / people whose janazah
was not prayed over but if somebody has
pray Janosz over somebody then it
doesn't make sense to praise allah azza
live nonetheless this is a fit issue of
things you would see it I'm just saying
as a point of interest
inshallah we have gone slightly over our
time we'll take some questions next week
in sha Allah Allah just remember them
and write them down and there's an
announcement to make in each other I
will see you all next week I shall
little yes
tomorrow and
very pertinent question we're already
running late inshallah we'll do a short
sale as well then this is of course the
month of Muharram and it is the year
1433 and the month of Muharram is a very
special month it is a month that the
profitsystem has said it is the only
month that the profitsystem has called
it the month of allah the prophet sessom
said shahrullah hill Muharram shahrullah
hill harem there is no other month that
has been ascribed to allah shahrullah
hill muharram and Muharram was chosen by
romanovna kebab to be the first month of
the calendar year you all know that the
calendar year was decided by madonna pop
in the 16th year of the hijra the 16th
year of the hijra one of abu musa
al-ashari sent a letter to her mother
and he said to her mark that oh yeah
Amira meaning your letter comes to us
but we don't know when it was written
and when you want us to do something by
there's no dates ie so please set for us
a schedule or a calendar that we can
implement the commands by and so I
almost said this is a great idea so he
called the gathering of the Sahaba and
he asked them when should we begin our
numbering system and there were many
opinions at the birth of the process and
at the death of the process of them and
at the hijra and Ali said should be at
the hijab I didn't ever thought of
suggested at the Hitler and he said
because this was when Allah changed the
situation of Islam from being persecuted
to being protected from being humiliated
to being at a state of Asia it's the
hijra that was when things change so
let's make the Hegira the first year
okay The Hitcher is the first year
what's the first month because they
didn't have a they don't have a first
month right the 12 months the names were
in pre Islam but because there's no
calendar no month is the first month so
one opinion says Roma Bahn because
that's the holiest month another opinion
says a red job because Rajab is the only
of the four ashram that is by itself
right another says the Lida another
sorry uh shawol shawol because
the first no sorry the card the hydrogen
Muharram another says you hide it
because the three holy months there's
four holy months to Khadija
Rajab by itself right so one opinion was
we choose Rajab another opinion would we
choose to hide it because that's the
first of the three another pity was
doing educause that's when the Hajj
takes place because there's lots of
opinions now until finally it was
rumoured as well who suggested and
others then agreed our mother said it
shall be Muharram why scholars have
differed the de 30y and my opinion is
very clear the later scholars have said
because in Muharram Noah was saved with
the ship and Musa was saved with the fan
out this is all valid but that's not why
her mother brocco Bob shows it he said
very clearly this is because the judge
returned home and so basically a new
life begins for the judge the very
interesting point here right yeah when
you come back from Hajj you turn over a
new leaf right and so by the hedge I
when you're in hatch now you come home
that's when you change so it should be
when the judge returned and in those
days most of the Sahaba would do hedge
right I mean this is Mecca Medina it's
not like America and Timbuktu is Mecca
and Medina most of how about going for
hedge every year so every year should be
like a new beginning basically right
and so Muharram should be chosen as the
first of the year later scholars then
try to bring it back to the Hegira that
the Nia to make the hedge row by the
processing room was actually formulated
in the hid Jeff and so the first month
that was seen was the month of Muharram
but again this is reading back whatever
Himself said makes the most sense so
I've gone into my tangent as usual but I
shall be benefited with this Muharram is
a blessed month it is a sacred month I
said that I have never seen the Prophet
SAW some fast in any month other than
our Mabon as much as much as Muharram
and the prophets of them said that
fasting on the 10th of Muharram forgives
the sins of the year before don't get
confused always the fast of the ninth
and tenth of the rajah both years back
and forth the
Haram is the year before only the year
before which is big enough we're saying
only but the whole the minor sins of the
whole year and on this day as we know
Musa was safe from faroan another
version adds that no ship landed on Judy
on Mount Judy nor ship Alice Adams ship
was saved on Judy and Found was
destroyed on this day and as for the sad
event that happened in Karbala on that
day it is a time of sadness there's no
question about it
but it has nothing to do with the tent
Omaha drum being sacred it was just a
coincidence that it happened on that day
and our heart bleeds for the evil that
happened but it has nothing to do with
the sacredness and sanctity of that day
that was made sacred before what
happened at that instance and so
inshallah remind myself and all of you
to fast
on the 10th of Muharram if it is
possible to