I will'll be resuming from where we left
off two weeks ago we had a break last
week because of the uh weather
conditions and if you remember uh two
weeks ago we had discussed we had begun
to discuss the preparation for the and
we were talking about the two types
of the two types of covenants that took
place with the people of Medina uh the
first Covenant and the second
Covenant and remember that the second
Covenant it took place in the 12th year
of the prophethood and the main
difference between the first and the
second Covenant who can remind me was
was the difference between the first and
the second
Covenant so which one is the woman's
Covenant the the first one why was it
called the woman's
Covenant commitment there was no
commitment there was no political
commitment there was no commitment to
fight there was no commitment to
protect hence this was called the
women's Covenant and then the second
Covenant was called The Covenant of War
basically this is the Covenant where the
Prophet asks them to protect him like
they will protect their own own women
and children and notice and it's a key
Point here the Covenant mentions
defensive protection not offensive
attacks right and this is going to come
up in the Battle of bad we're going to
mention this again that the Battle of
bad was not a defensive battle and so
when the ansar participated in it the
prophet had to then basically ask them
are you agreeing is this fine with you
we're going to mention this later on but
the the Covenant the second was about a
defense
uh Covenant and therefore the prophet
wasam said you will protect me like one
of your own they asked what will we get
in return the prophet said what do they
want in return Jenna you will get Jenna
in uh return now uh we had I think we
had
mentioned Zur uh standing up and
reminding them that before you give this
Covenant I think we stopped over here if
I'm not
mistaken Z stood up and he said perhaps
if we close the door Amar just close the
door maybe let the outside noise there
and he said that oh people don't be
Hasty don't be Hasty we have traveled
all this way from Medina knowing that
he's wasam we know this to be true but
realize that this Covenant is not like
the first one he's basically saying
right realize that if you say yes to
this you will will lose children you
will make women widows you will have to
fight the other people and so if you're
ready to do this then take the oath of
Confidant otherwise excuse yourself now
perhaps Allah will excuse you because
you didn't stand up to the commitment
don't promise and then back out before
you do this
so clearly he shows that he's a leader
he shows his thinking about the future
and of course has a lot more stories
later on after this when said this the
people of the uh they're not yet called
ansar we're calling them ansar a little
bit Loosely here they're not yet ansar
they're going to be ANS after the M come
to Medina uh in fact it's not even
Medina yet remember it is y right it's
all going to be built up uh the people
of the and the or the people who would
be the ANS said
oh remove your hand we want to take the
oath of Allegiance from the prophet
sallallah alai wasallam and so one by
one all of the 70 plus took the oath of
Allegiance and there were two women
there and they gave the verbal
allegiance to the prophet sallallah alai
wasallam as said that the prophet never
touched a woman that was not his M it's
definitely against the Sunnah whether it
is or is but there is no question that
it is not of our that men and women
should be uh shaking hands or or freely
touching one another most Scholars say
it Isam just a VI point a minority says
that it is Mak but they all agree that
should be avoided and the prophet never
touched the hand of a woman even in
shaking hand even in giving the oath of
Allegiance so the two women gave their
oath of Allegiance verbally they didn't
shake the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam hand and all the while Abbas
was standing there not pleased he was
not happy at what his nephew was doing
he felt very awkward and he kept on
saying to himself I don't know any of
these people they're all youngsters I
haven't dealt with any of them and Al
Abbas is thinking in the ways of the
jahia of old that you don't have the
protection of the elders why would these
people do anything for you because again
for them it's all about loyalty it's all
about you know we we all kind of
understand the gang mentality whatever
leader says goes in The Gang This is
what tribalism is if the leader says it
then the whole tribe has to follow suit
and Abbas is saying I don't see the
elders these are not the people I know
these are
all they're youngsters and I don't know
whether they'll fulfill their treaty
with you or or not and of course Allah
subhana wa T had already chosen them for
this uh issue it is narrated
inbam that while this oath was going on
they heard a loud voice in the middle of
the night now remember this is pre-dawn
and if anybody's you know been outside
and preone it's in the desert it's
deadly silent and one voice can carry a
long way and as they're taking this pack
they heard a loud voice in the valley of
mina remember they're in Mina and
they're just in
which is close to the jamarat it's a
valley behind the jamarat they heard a
loud voice cry out oh people sleeping in
the tents meaning meaning the oh people
sleeping in the tents do you not know
that a group of rebels a group of
blameworthy people have gathered
together with the to wage war against
you what is a a is mentioned in the
Quran right the term comes in the Quran
uh
that and the Arabs would call anybody
who left their religion
a they would call anybody who left their
religion
a and many times when the sahab
converted the news would
spread so and so has and for them meant
to leave their religion and to become uh
a monotheist now just as a footnote Who
are the
that the Quran mentions in the Quran in
this in this Hadith the term is not
meant as the same as the quranic one I
reiterate the Arabs would call anybody
who converted away from their paganism
sa this is a generic term sa means for
them
monotheist that he's become he's become
a monotheist however the quranic term
for is clearly a group of people right
Allah subhana wa T says in the Quran
that uh um what is the verse of
Bak right the Believers and the Y and
the
and so Allah is talking about a specific
group of people and just FYI which is a
bit of a tangent but everybody always
asks about this that who are the the are
a group who
go back it is said to even before
Christianity so much so that they claim
to have a book from sheath who is
sheet who is obviously some Prophet Mah
but
who she
is the son of
no sheath is the son of no right and so
they say that they have a book from that
time and they still exist in our times
very small quantity probably less than
30,000 still alive 30,000 is one of the
smallest religions in the world and uh I
looked up some of their beliefs and uh
and and culture and it's very strange
that they still have a concept ofar they
still they don't eat pork uh they uh
they have to do after J uh they have
certain rulings that clearly they show
they have some type of sh and they
believe in these days they believe in
the stars that the stars have some type
of power and effect on on them the and
they come from the land that is the
cradle of civilization that has all the
religions and the subcultures and the
sexs of the world which
is
where irq Iraq is the land where
everything comes from so they are
actually these days they're all Iris and
they are called maybe some of you have
heard of them they don't they're not
called Saun in our times they're
called zarrian or majus
no Kurds are an
ethnicity Kurds are an ethnicity they
are
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called have you heard of these any of
you huh mandans they're called
mandans uh and they still are around
this is
the these days they're in Iraq and then
there's a huge uh amongst them in
America obviously as well because they
came as refugees so there are Mandan
groups here in America as well anyway
that's the point getting back here the
term used by the quray means leaving mon
leaving paganism to monotheism the
quranic term for means uh as we said the
now getting back here so they heard a
loud voice scream out oh people of the
tents don't you know that there's
traitors plotting to wage war against
you under the sa with the capital S the
big sa meaning of course the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam so the voice
comes out to awaken the people in the
tents in the middle of the night and the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
this
is the
of the of I swear by
Allah I will deal with you soan felt so
overwhelmed at this time that he
actually went public cuz Shan is private
right Shan is hidden he rarely comes out
and screams but he felt so overwhelmed
that things are going to change now that
he actually screamed out to the human
world and he screamed out to the people
of the tents that do something here are
the the the traitors that have come to
kill you do something and so the prophet
wasam Subhan Allah he knew the name of
the Shan he knew which one this was and
this also shows that and we know this
from other things as well that the sh
live in abandoned Valley the live in the
places that people don't frequent and
they have leaders and they have so this
is the leader of the valleysan the of
The Valleys of and he said this is the
leader of the
of and the names of the sh are always
very weird and convoluted with lots of
Conant and vowels and the prophet
obviously knew the name of the uh Shan
and the Jin and he said W I will deal
with you uh the the ANS when they heard
this they said
should we not should we not launch an
attack now if they're going to fight us
shouldn't we preempt the attack and
we're 70 strong we all have our swords
they are unarmed remember it's Hajj
remember it's Hajj they are not armed uh
in Haj you're only allowed to carry one
weapon and that is the weapon that you
use uh to fight against a uh an animal
if it attacks you right it's not the
fighting sword there's different types
of swords they don't have the the
fighting sword they have a if you like a
defense sword right uh sword to just to
protect yourself or in case something
happens this emergency sword so the
ansar said we're 70 strong and they are
not prepared we can we can attack them
in the middle of the night and we can uh
have a huge if you like victory over
them the prophet wasallam
said I haven't been commanded to do this
this is not my methodology I have not
been commanded to just go kill the
people like
this this is a key point will come back
to this I have not been commanded to go
uh kill these people when this news
spread the ansar then basically the the
meeting wrapped up quickly the was
finished and they went back to their
tents silently just as they had come and
the next morning the a delegation from
the quray was sent to every single
Camp because the news has spread the
rumors have spread a delegation from the
quray is sent to every single camp that
do you know of any meeting that took
place with this man Muhammad wasallam do
you know anybody who met did anybody
from your tribe meet until finally when
they went to the tents of the when they
went to the tents of the K remember
every tribe has its area when they went
to the tents of the K the qur come in
and they say who amongst you has met
with the prophet Muhammad has any
amongst you met with this man and so the
the Muslims remain silent and the pagans
spoke up and they said no by Allah we
have no idea what this is we swear by
Allah that none of us have gone to meet
him and the Muslims remained silent they
didn't say anything cuz they're not
allowed to lie and the quray I mean
sorry the the pagans of the Kaz because
again K are not all Muslims now they're
the ones who basically spoke up and the
Muslims went in behind that oath and the
matter was uh resolved and this clearly
shows uh this clearly shows that the
ansar are developing their Iman their
their their strength in Allah subhana wa
tala their courage their fear not only
do they say they're the ones who say for
how long are we going to take the
prophet and let him be persecuted for
how long will we allow him to be repel
from One Tribe to another begging for
protection why don't we adopt him why
don't we take him on and then they are
the ones who volunteer what if we launch
an offensive even though this was wrong
at the time but it shows their Iman and
the contract had not been for an
offensive Jihad it had been for a
defensive Jihad but automatically
they're eager to protect the prophet and
therefore when the battle took place
which was offensive and not defensive
they all volunteered none of them held
back and said hey hold on you only
promised as defensive none of them had
that type of Iman that they're short
changing even though the letter of the
law was Defensive that's what the treaty
says that you will protect me against
attack like you protect your own
children just like you protect your own
family that's all I'm asking
protection and when the time came the
ansar none of them held back and they
went forward like the Great of the
Muslims and indeed we talked about the
blessings of the ANS over and over again
and that is why the prophet wasam said
that this Hadith is inkari and Muslim
and he said this after the conquest of
mecah he
said were it not for
the I would have been a man from the ANS
it's the Hijra that's forcing me to be a
because I was born there but otherwise I
would have been a person of the ansar
and if the ansar went in One Direction
and all of mankind went in the other
direction I will follow the direction of
the ANS this is aith praising the and
the prophet said and thisi is
in simple Arabic everybody should
understand that loving the is a part of
IM and in another Hadi the prophet
sallam said hating the ANS is a sign
sign of hypocrisy hating the ansar is a
sign of hypocrisy and therefore as
Muslims we are commanded to love not
only all of the sah the M have a type of
love the ANS have a type of love and in
another Hadith the prophet
said oh Allah forgive the an and the
children of the ANS and on and on so
many of the blessings that are given for
the ANS and of course one of the most
beautiful ones after the conquest of
mecah when the
prophet especially after the battle of H
andif when the prophet gave many of the
leaders of the quray uh and the people
of H and the people of uhif he gave them
large amounts of money he gave them
large amounts of money especially the
people of thif they were not willing
converts the people of thif were one of
the last tribes to convert and the
people of hun as well so he gave them
lots of money to one of their leaders he
gave entire Valley full of sheep this is
like few thousand sheep and the ansar
felt a little bit like look we're the
ones who participated we're the ones who
fought we're the ones who got all of the
booty and now it's being given to them
so they fell something and news spread
that you know there's a little bit of
mumbling and after all they are human
all of us you know we are human at the
end of the day and they felt something
that how come we're the ones who fought
and yet they get the bulk of the booty
of course they got their sh care but
then there's an extra amount that is
given uh voluntarily and that's the
rules of uh Distributing G are a
different topic but it is up to the
commander every single Warrior gets a
share and then it's up to the commander
what to do with the Surplus if he wants
to give it back to the Army he wants to
give it to B he wants to give it others
so the process in that particular battle
didn't give it back to the Warriors the
Surplus he gave it to these particular
leaders who has whose IM was very weak
as you know one of the types of zakat is
what
right to gain their to gain and you know
the tribal leader what did he say when
he got these sheep he went back to his
people and said oh my people Embrace
Islam for w I have met a man who does
not fear poverty he does not love wealth
he must be a prophet so he told his
people to embrace Islam and that little
bribe basically made him genuinely
convert that no human being can give
this many sheep you know and feel
nothing in his heart this is a man who's
truly a prophet of God so in fact it
worked but again getting back to the
issue here the ansar felt something in
their hearts you know what the prophet
wasam said he called the meeting just
for the ansar none of the mun just for
the
ANS and this also shows by the way and
again we love all of them but the mun no
doubt Allah had preferred them over the
ANS right the mun Allah had preferred
them over the ANS and Allah says in the
Quran
that he always mentions whenever Allah
mentions the both he mentions m first
and there's no doubt that the level of
the muhaj is higher the murmuring was
not amongst the mun the murmuring was
not amongst the so he made sure there
was no muhaj in the tent and then he
said uh he reminded them oh didn't I
Choose You above the people didn't I
leave my people for you didn't and then
he mentioned this Hadith here were it
not for the hij I would be a person of
the ansar and if you went in One
Direction and all of mankind went in
another Direction I would go in your
direction and then he said that
beautiful phrase oh ANS oh people of the
ansar are you not happy that these
people go back with sheep and Durham and
DIN and you go back with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and of course
they began you know crying at this
because how true I mean Subhan Allah how
true you they're going back with these
you know I have chosen you I could have
stayed in meca now but I gave you my
word I gave you my word at the time OFA
right even after the conquest of mecah
the the prophet did not stay in mecah
because of this he said that's what the
ANS said remember their their fear was
once you win over everybody will you
then leave us that was their fear so he
said
no and this is an expression in Arabic
which means my blood is your blood my
destruction is your destruction we are
now one we are now one and therefore
when this incident happened he reminded
them way back in this and he said look
I'm coming back with you and everybody
else is going back with money and sheep
and gold and din aren't you satisfied
with this and of course that was the
last of the murmuring and this shows us
the wisdom and the leadership of the
Prophet sallah alai wasam now before we
move on some wisdoms of building up the
ansar and again I stress and I've said
this point before but wah it is one of
the most important lessons in my opinion
from these stories and that
is the element of being genuine and
sincere at every opportunity that is
presented to you
this is for me one of the most important
lessons here that the prophet was not
expecting Victory to come from this
small K he was not it was not even on
his radar he was concentrating on the
larger tribes and this is common sense
nothing wrong with that but he didn't
trivialize the smaller tribes six people
from K he didn't even
recognize which the of the Y of he
couldn't even it didn't register which K
right they said yes six people they
didn't even have a tent that time
they're sitting in the middle they're
not like the big ones that he's going to
kinda and the the bab there's no this is
small tribe but this is what we do you
don't know the opportunity you don't
know the person you're speaking to who
he's going to become or who he might be
and you don't know you don't trivialize
any opportunity so he didn't trivialize
and look he planted the seeds and these
seeds became the entire Islamic Republic
also look at how the prophet built them
up now this entire series is taking 3 to
three and a half years firstly he talks
to them they think about it they say
we'll think about it some of them
perhaps converted and they die we don't
know but it is then said that they did
the wars of B were going on so some of
them it is said they died as Muslims and
Allah knows best they come back the next
year the first batch of actual converts
so they are given the of women then they
come back the third year and by the way
the second year the prophet then sends
them M and he sends them to teach them
Islam spreads to every household in
Medina in one year Islam spreads to
every single tribe some people convert
they come back the next year more than
75 roughly come back and for every one
of them there must be at least two
Muslims in Medina so we have already 200
Muslims in Medina right in one year's da
and they invite the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam uh back also notice the
the wonderful ways of Allah and here's
the point when Allah is on your side
Allah will work things out for you look
at how many things were set up firstly
the civil war between the K and the the
wars
of says these were a gift Allah gave to
the prophet but the gift was being given
when the prophet didn't even realize he
needed one right when Abu Talib is alive
the wars of are going on you see Allah
has his plans simultaneously what's
happening in Medina is unknown to the
people of not relevant to them but Allah
has a plan here things are happening in
the world we might not understand but
there's a divine plan that everything
will become clear to us also notice the
irony of that group ofab in Medina who
felt themselves superior to the pagans
and they kept on boasting over the
pagans the Anar basically we are better
than you we have a book we have a
prophet we have a civilization you have
nothing and our Prophet has promised us
that one Prophet is going to come and
when he comes he will be the Conqueror
and we will kill all of
you so for decades for centuries this is
being instilled in them right notice
this da actually flips against the very
people who are giving the dawa right the
very people who are saying this they
don't accept the message and the people
whom they're
mocking they are the first wants to
accept it because it makes complete
sense now we knew that a prophet was
coming we knew that somebody would be
coming to preach the message we've been
hearing this for generations and
centuries obviously this is the person
right again it's the mysterious ways of
Allah subhana wa tala that they are
trying to consider themselves superior
but in fact the people whom they think
are inferior are really the ones who are
superior and again these are the ways of
Allah subhanahu wa taala also notice as
well how the IM slowly grows in the ANS
we already pointed this out that they
became Brave they wanted to protect the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
it's important to point out they were
the ones who offered to sponsor the
Prophet The Prophet didn't ask to come
to Medina they're the ones who said come
and we will protect you and so his
condition was okay if you're going to
protect me yes I'm going to come and
this is a very important point to point
out that he did not impose himself on
the people of Medina the people of
Medina wanted him to be their ruler and
initially they were not the majority but
as the people converted they became the
majority and as they became the majority
then the tensions arose and that's going
to be a constant theme of the uh Med of
the med s notice as well the important
phrase when the ansar or the Neo ansar
if you like the people are going to
become the ANS when they say why don't
we just kill all of them Why Don't We
Just Launch an offensive they're all
sleeping in their tents right every one
of us takes a few tents and will just
will cause huge damage because again
this is the middle of the night it would
have been a bloody massacre would have
been a a massacre of immense proportions
because they're unarmed and they're not
expecting an attack it's the last day of
Haj what did the prophet say this is not
our religion I have been command this is
not what I've been commanded to do our
war our religion is not about war and
bloodshed and killing that's not what
Allah told me to do even if we have the
upper hand that you're 70 and you have
your swords with you and they're
sleeping in their tents no our religion
is not about violence Allah didn't tell
us to go kill the people
no Allah didn't tell me to do this I
have been commanded to do this this is
not my religion let us be persecuted
we're not going to be killing them like
this in their sleeps so clearly shows us
that at such a time when for the first
time in the history of Islam at this
point the prophet finally has a mini
Army compared to what is going on 70
people is a mini Army and they're all
with their swords and if he wanted to
get retaliation to get revenge to make a
statement now was the time to do it and
then run to Medina he could have easily
done that but once again this is not
what our religion is
about and then again and again we find
the clear Message of Islam Islam is not
about violence and bloodshed even in
such a situation when the quray have
done what they have done this is not
what I have been commanded to do clear
example here that we can quote over and
over again to those who say that Islam
is a violent uh religion also notice the
beauty of the preparations of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that
he is a very wise obviously the wisest
of all human beings this meeting is
taking place in the middle of the night
on the last night of Hajj everybody is
dead tired everybody is sound asleep the
next morning they're going to be going
back to their places the 13th of uh
right the next morning is the end of
that's it and so the meeting is taking
place when the people Le least suspect
it and it is taking place literally
under their noses in the next Valley
he's also stationed people Ali and abas
Abbas comes with him to represent Ali
and Abu Bakr as we already mentioned
were're stationed as Lookouts to make
sure that nobody is coming and if they
are they're going to be warned notice
he's the prophet of Allah he knows Allah
will protect him but there must be a
plan tie your camel then put your in
Allah there must be a plan even the
prophet is planning a logistical
sensible plan in the middle of the night
away from the eyes we're going to meet
at this time this is what we're going to
do we have two Lookouts here if this is
the prophet Muhammad and he knows Allah
will protect him without any doubt how
about us we need to also have a vision
we need to have a methodology we need to
have a realistic pragmatic plan taking
into account the situation of our
times also notice as well that clearly
and this is not being apologetic it is
is a fact that there is a clear
participation of women even in these
matters that the prophet didn't say keep
your women in the tents don't bring them
he they came they participated and he
took their oath except that he didn't
put his hand in their hand right so
women clearly have a role to play and by
the way this treaty or this Covenant was
not the Covenant of women even though
these are women this is the Covenant of
War
right even though these are women the
actual promise that they gave was the
same as the other men and this clearly
shows us that no doubt I mean women and
men are different and there are
differences that Allah clearly mentions
but still women have a role to play and
sometimes that role is going to be a
public role and the prophet didn't say
oh you're women I I I don't see any need
for you to participate no he took the
oath from these two women and indeed
they lived up to that role uh of the
stories that we have the the the the
names of these two
were
and as for we don't have any details you
understand that um it's a sad reality
that most of the sahaba we don't have
lots of details about right this is just
a sad reality that most of the sahaba if
we even know two or three things about
them it's a big deal you realize that
the names that we hear all the time
these are Big names we can write books
about them how about the rest of them
and there were tens of
thousands tens of thousands of sahab how
about the rest of them the bulk of them
we don't even know their names not even
their names those who participated in
the final farewell pilgrimage who knows
who they are you know from all over
Mecca from all over Arabia they came
from every tribe we don't even know
their names and for those whose names we
know sometimes we don't know anything
other than the name because the Hadith
has their name in it right because again
imagine if we were to document all the
people of Memphis of one generation how
is this possible who's going to remember
so no doubt the same thing happens here
so
for
for we don't have any stories I tried to
look up at I could not find anything
from all that we know is that she was
the cousin
of is Mu the famous uh the prophet said
the one who knows and the most is Mu
this is her cousin this is his cousin as
for we have quite a number of stories uh
and this clearly shows that when this uh
an this this this took this oath she
understood what it was and she lived up
to
it participated in the Battle of uhud
and she was severely wounded with over
12 wounds in the Battle of uhud she had
12 wounds by the end of the battle of
she also witnessed the and she gave the
oath again to the prophet at do you all
remember with the rumor spread he died
this
isan right and she was there as well so
she witnessed that oath as well and so
she becomes one Elite and another Elite
because these are two separate blessings
these are Badges of Honor these are real
badges of Honor not the fake ones that
people put on this is the real badge of
honor she gave the oath of and then she
gave the oath ofan her son became one of
the generals
under
and uh he was martyred in front of her
eyes she was fighting
alongside against
m alab in the wars of R and her son was
martyred in front of her eyes by m he
cut him to bits in front of her eyes
this is NBA and she participated in the
war against the Romans she's now in her
60s and she goes and she fights against
the Romans in the Battle of yarmuk and
her hand was cut off in that battle as
an old lady she's still fighting behind
KH in the Battle of yuk and her hand was
cut off and and then we don't know what
time she died or anything after this the
history basically dries out I Tred to
look up as much as I could about her
these are the tidbits that we found but
what is interesting she gave the oath of
allegiance to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and she lived up to it
she lived up to it at every opportunity
in meca in sorry in Medina after the
prophet's death and even in the land of
the Romans cuz yuk took place basically
in the land of the Romans she went all
the way up there as well and Subhan
Allah this shows again uh this is a lady
doing as much as she has done clearly as
well uh doesn't need to be said the
tactics of Shan the desperation
desperation of Shan here is Shan
generally he is hidden and yet now he
becomes so overcome with anger so
overcome with jealousy and hatred he's
calling out to the people to do
something because he cannot do anything
and this shows us again the desperation
of Shan as Allah says in the Quran uh
that uh oh you who believe Shan is a
clear enemy to you so take him as your
enemy and this is clearly manifested
over here and one final point before we
move on we are already sensing a change
beginning for the first time and in fact
there ironic what Abbas said because
that's exactly what the point is these
are new faces I haven't seen them before
right that's actually very true these
are new faces there's a new phase
beginning right a new sense a sense of
for the first time these people are
saying let us defend against you let us
fight against you and from a time of uh
humiliation and weakness overnight the
Muslim shall be transformed into a state
of power and Isa which is going to
continue to grow and grow and grow and
this is the change from Maka to uh
Medina and thus the second was completed
and the ansar returned home even more
excited waiting for the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam uh to come to
their uh City to come to their uh new
town the city of that would eventually
be called
the also again before we move on another
very important point to be mentioned
here and this point is one that has very
clear ramifications in our modern era
when we look at the S this is an
important point I you to understand this
when we look at the S we find the
prophet utilizing different tactics
different methodologies and different
Visions for different circumstances
we have the early dawa of Makkah we
called it the private dawa we had the
public non-confrontational dawa in makah
we had the political Asylum immigration
to
abisinia habasha we have as well the
political State immigration to Medina
which is going to happen now right uh in
the Medina phase we also have times of
peace and Times of war with the people
of mecah right sometimes all
hostility sometimes peace treaties such
asud right we also have all out war with
all of the tribes such asab when they
come and attack this is all the tribes
now the question here that
arises does this mean that we should
take the Final Phase that the prophet
basically died upon or are all of these
phases equally legitimate based upon the
circumstances and the situation do you
understand the question here right we
see multiple phases in the life of the
Prophet multiple phases the question is
are all of these phases equally valid
such that we choose which one is the one
that's conducive to our situation or are
all of these phases merely like the
prohibition of alcohol it didn't come
down once came down gradually right
initially Allah says has a lot of evil
some good then Allah says Don't Pray
when you're drunk
then Allah
says that avoid alcohol so this peace
meal we don't go back to the original
understandings of the original verses
which basically meant you could drink at
night after is you could drink that's
what the verse means basically don't
drink in the daytime drink at night
basically as the understanding so are
these phases consecutively abrogated one
after the other such that we have to go
to the final or are they all equally
valid this is a classic controversy it's
not a modern one goes back to the
earliest Scholars and a small minority
of them and the most uh hardcore in this
was the Andalusian scholar ibam IB haam
was the most hardcore he said all of the
earlier phases cannot be resorted
to we must go with the last
phase and that is allout offensive war
and he was writing at a time of
political the beginnings of the decline
of
andalus right so there's a desperation
here we need to do something ibam
witnessed the glory era but he's be
seeing the decline so there's a level of
desperation that unless you do your
something we're going to we're going to
lose all of this and that's exactly what
happened in and as well however this is
a minority opinion the majority of
Scholars have always understood that
these phases are not abrogated there's
no reason to consider them to be
abrogated right all of these verses
still apply in every situation and phase
and therefore alhamdulillah we thank our
religion has given us many options
politically this is a key point and let
me be very Frank here it's a difference
that I have with many of the uh Islamic
groups in the world that they only have
one vision for the whole
umah you understand what I'm saying here
right I can be even more Frank well I
don't mind the the ISL all of these
groups as this is as Frank as I can get
okay they have one unified vision for
for the entire um whatever that might be
and in my humble opinion this is to be
very gentle this is not very wise or
precise or
academic it seems to
be not very gently naively foolish this
is my position that you're going to have
one unified goal for the whole umah it
doesn't work that way every group of
people needs to look at their own
situation every group of people needs to
see what is happening in Pakistan is not
what is happening in Egypt what is
happening in Egypt is not what is
happening in Tunisia and Algeria what is
happening in Algeria and and other
Muslim lands is not what is happening in
America Subhan Allah even in Western
countries what is happening is France is
not what is happening in
America you know and if you study the
political climates of every country you
find so many scenarios so many so in my
humble opinion this is why I disagree
with u the basic premises of some of
these groups and with respect to all of
them there's good in all of these and
there's mistakes we're all humans we're
all have our good and our bad my point
is very simple the scholars of every
locality need to study the s fresh and a
new need to study it in light of their
circumstances because the S will always
be a source of inspiration a source of
model a source of looking at how to live
our lives after all he is role model for
all of us correct and so every single
group of Muslims should always go back
to the Quran and Sunnah should always go
back to the S of the prophet and find
for themselves that which is the most
suitable for their time and their place
and in my humble opinion it is very
clear that and I've said this many times
that one of the models that is closest
to our model is that of the Muslims of
ABIA one of the models that is closest
and of course you're never going to get
100% you know hand fitting a glove
that's not going to happen but you have
an overall model that you take as a
basic example the Muslims of abisinia
had no political Ambitions to conquer
abisinia none whatsoever their goal was
to live peacefully and it is narrated
that some people also converted this is
free land at the time the neas As We
Know converted it is also narrated even
though there's there's nothing authentic
but there are if you like Legends in
early books nothing with an isnad but
there are uh rumors if you like in the
early books that some groups of
abyssinians converted to to Islam but
that's besides the point the main point
that we all agree upon they had no
political Ambitions to challenge the
authority of the status quo they had
their business to worship Allah to be
free in their daily rituals and the
political system is what it is and this
is a basic premise that we as American
Muslims can use I'm not speaking about
Muslims in Pakistan Muslims in Egypt
that's not my business I can comment as
a human being but I'm not an expert in
their Affairs let the scholars of those
lands deal with it for us as Western
Muslims and in particular as American
cuz even Western Muslims have
differences right France is getting much
more xenophobia right now you know
sarosi just said yesterday or is it
today that we have too many immigrants
in France and you know what he means you
know what he means by this you know
there's one large group of immigrants
and that's Arab Muslims in France we
have too many immigrants we have to do
something by the way that type of talk
is really bordering on the final
solution more and more this type of of
racism is basically reminiscing us
reminding us of the 30s of of Germany
this type of talk and Allah knows what's
going to hold but my point being the
scholars of every land need to look at
their own uh situation and uh in my
humble opinion it's very clear that the
S gives us many Alternatives not just
one Vision no doubt there is a perfect
vision and that's the conclusion there's
no
question there's no question that that
is the Perfection but does this mean
that all of the others are invalid
no we have options to choose from and
that's I think one of the beauties of
the uh now after the battle OFA sorry
not the battle the Treaty of
the prophet made a public announcement
to the Muslims in fact some Scholars
even say he made this announcement
before we don't have a date when he made
the announcement he made an announcement
in Mecca to the Muslims most likely in
the house of daram and he said Allah has
shown me the land that you shall
immigrate to I saw it in a dream Allah
has shown me the land that you shall
immigrate to and it is a land of date
palms between two vol canic
planes and La is a volcanic plane and
actually Medina it's very interesting
that Medina is surrounded by if you ever
have the opportunity to take a flight to
Medina take one in the daytime and then
look outside the window when you're
close by to Medina and you will see
clearly large places uh outside of
Medina with volcanic rock around this
big volcanic rock and this rock is very
you cannot walk on it you cannot
Traverse it with with with horses uh
there must have been a volcano thousands
of years ago and therefore that molten
lava you see it porous I've seen this
many times the rock is a very different
type of rock it's porous with holes in
it very rough very ragged very difficult
and Medina is in between two volcanic
planes and it has date
Pals two volcanic planes and dats so
according to one version The Prophet
wasam announced it but he didn't know
the city he said I have have been shown
it and I think it is such and such but
he didn't know the city then a few days
later he said Allah has told me it
is in one version he said I thought it
might be but it is in fact in another
version he said I thought it might be he
mentioned a land in in Yemen because
there's only a few places in the Arabian
Peninsula that has date palms uh in a
large amount is one of them is well
known for its dates as well and this
place in Yemen is also but both of those
places don't have volcanic
uh Mounds around them it's only Medina
that has both of these signs the sign is
dat palms and Volcanic Plains so the
prophet said I saw it and then in a
later Hadith he said Allah has told me
that it is y so he gave them permission
to immigrate so the Muslims began
immigrating by ones and twos secretly
none of them did so uh in public except
for one or two exceptions as will come
to uh and the reason of course for this
is because the reason for this is of
course that the quray would not be
willing to allow them to immigrate the
things are at their worst remember the
tension right now in Mecca against the
Muslims and so the people began
immigrating in small uh secret groups
and it is said that the first person who
immigrated uh to Medina uh was Abu
Sal ABD Abu Sal the husband of Sal um
Sal is going to become one of the wives
of the Prophet later on of course at
this time she is married to Abu Sal Abu
Sal was not from the quray Sal was from
the quray Abu Sal had been one of the
few uh this was known at the time it
wasn't common but it was there that
sometimes a man would leave his tribe
and go live with the tribe of his wife
right and that also is referenced in
the the famous right that if a man makes
Hijra for the sake of a woman then his
Hijra is for the sake of the woman it's
not for Allah that's the reference here
that people did have this notion that
sometimes the man would adopt the tribe
of the wife so Abu Sal was one of such
Arab that he was an Arab he was a free
man a noble man but he was not a quesi
and he had married um Sal from the qur
so he had moved to Makkah when the
persecution increased he was not a
bloodi so he was persecuted more so he
left with his wife to
ABIA then when the rumor spread that the
conversion took place remember the
satanic vers story said they return back
and they decided to stay rather than go
back they decided to stay right so Abu
Sal are are of the few who are called
those who made both
hijas they made both because you see the
bulk of those who immigrated to abisinia
from abisinia they went directly to DAR
Islam
Medina right that's that's majority very
few of them and um Sal is one of them
and Abu Sal is one of them they did two
two hijras for the sake of Allah and
they're called the people of the two
hijras because they immigrated both to
abisinia then they came back to mekah
and then they immigrated again to Medina
right so that's two hijas this is Abu
Sal so the first person to immigrate it
is said was Abu Sal and Abu Sal gathered
his belongings took his stuff he put his
wife and he had one child at the time
put them on his camel and uh he made his
way out and he was the first so he
didn't do this secretly he thought this
is my business I can take whatever I
want right that that's why this was one
of the reasons why people started
migrating secretly because of the story
so Abu Sal didn't do this secretly he
just you know packed his bags everybody
knew he's about to leave the news
spreads amongst the people so when he
leaves the quray come and confront him
with their with their weapons and they
said oh Abu Sal where do you think
you're going he says I'm going to what
business is it of yours I have a free
man I'm allowed to go so they said as
for you we have no right okay you're not
we we renounce
you're not a take her passport back
basically you know retract your passport
as for your wife she is
ours she's
Ai and we will not let you take her or
her son because he is our son now this
is pure not that they have any interest
in it's just pure you know and so they
forced him to leave his wife and child
and they expelled him without anything
so he thought he's going to go with the
family and everything is taken from him
including his wife and his his his son
and he has forced to basically flee to
Medina on his own when Abu Sal's tribe
found out that he had been treated this
way their Jah got the better of them as
well and they marched to the qur and
they said ask for the lady she's
yours but this boy is ours
and they took the boy and the qur held
on as well to the boy this was we know
very little details obviously is being
described in some graphic terms here but
they picked up the boy to take him and
the qur held on and it became a tug of
war with a
2-year-old until his hand was
dislocated and um Sal cried out that let
them take the boy because it's her son
being be killed now basically I mean you
know tug of war this is all J not that
they care but it's again a matter of
prestige and you know we call it the
nose you know the uh the issue of being
arrogant this is my how dare you do this
to to our to our son you know this is
our son so Abu Sal's tribe took the
baby Sal's left with the qur and Abu Sal
goes to
Madina and um Sal is narrating the story
herself she said for more than 60 months
every day year and a half I would go to
Al which is uh the farthest place
outside of Mecca that is still within
view of the city right crying in the
desert because that's where her child
and her son have and her her husband
have gone right crying every day not
able to do anything because Subhan Allah
you can imagine she's a young mother you
know she's lost her baby boy she's lost
her husband and she cannot live and
function normally every day I would be
going to the desert until finally some
of my uh cousins had sympathy on me and
they came and They begged the
elders uh they beg the elders to what do
you have to do she's just a lady she
wants to go with her husband and child
let her go so after a year and a half
they let her go she went to the uh the
the tribe of her husband and by this
time as well tempers had calmed down so
they gave back her the boy and so she
took the boy and she just walked into
the desert putting her trust in Allah
that I need to get to Medina somehow
right how is she going to go to Medina
she has no she doesn't know anything I
mean but she what else is she going to
do but Allah saves such people I mean
when you have such in Allah Allah
subhana waala saves such people and so
she says that by the time I got to you
know that's the outside of meah where we
go by the time I got
to there I met uh t
t excuse Meb
and is from the qur he's one of the
young men of the quray and he's not a
Muslim at this time I met coming back
from one of his expedition maybe went
hunting something and he's coming back
he sees me all alone at which is Way
Beyond what you can see from the city
this is dangerous for a woman to be
alone you understand this she's a young
lady she has her young son here you know
wolves L uh prey animals of prey uh
obviously evil people she's all alone so
so man says what are you doing so she
says I'm going to my husband Abu Sal so
he says you're all alone he says I have
no one I I have Allah so says this will
not be I will take you and so Sal says
that I don't think there is any more
noble gentleman amongst all of the Arabs
than I don't think there's any more
noble gentleman thanan he walked the
entire
way and he led the camel with his hand
he's walking from Makkah to Medina and
he didn't say a word to me but when it
was time to stop he would tell the camel
to come down and he would go forward and
turn his back on me because she's a
woman she has to come out it might
something might show her leg might show
something turn his back on me when I
would get down he would put me under the
tree let me sleep and he would sleep by
the camel and then in the morning I
would get back on the camel and we
proceeded this way all the way from
mecah to Medina until finally when I
could see the uh the the houses of ye
basically uh he said your husband is
over there and he then let me go uh on
the camel this
is right not even a Muslim but his honor
and he's a young man as well at this
time his honor and his his his gentlemen
if you like qualities right they're
shining how can I let this lady and her
young child go well imagine I mean would
we have done even a fraction from makah
to Madina walking walking this is at
least a two-e journey one way on the way
back he doesn't even have a
camel doesn't even have a camel
right who is no doubt Allah will reward
him right no doubt I mean you cannot
even he's a pagan by the way even he's a
pagan but still there's some type of
some type of do you know wh is well
firstly he converted the very last batch
before the conquest of Makkah Allah gave
him that honor along with and there were
three people who converted the very last
batch of converts before the conquest
right and that gave them an honor
because Allah says in the Quran not
equal are those who converted before the
conquest versus those who converted
after right
they have a higher level so the last
batch
was and then in the conquest of mecah
when mecah is
conquered the prophet is handing out the
prizes if you like the big prizes of the
KA what are the prizes who will get to
have what is called theaa means the
right to give the the the the water who
will get the right to uh the keys of the
Kaa who will get everything so AB was
given the abas was given the right to
feed the the the pilgrims it's a very
big privilege right he says oh messenger
of Allah give me the keys as well I want
both give me the keys as well right and
at this Allah subhana revealed
that Allah commands you to give the am
to those who deserve it so the prophet
gave the key
to and he said go give this
to and it shall be with him and amongst
his descendants until the day of
judgment and anybody who tries to take
it from him will be
a so Ali went and gave it to said I
thought that you guys were getting it
the B hasim cuz the news has spread that
they want it right and so Ali said Allah
revealed in the Quran this about
you Allah revealed in the Quran
basically that we need to give the keys
over to you the prophet gave it
to can you believe for the last 14 and a
half centuries it has been amongst his
descendants to this day to this day The
Keeper of the keys of the KA is from the
descendants
of because this is something again and
Allah will reward you know you do
something for and even though subh he
wasn't even a Muslim at the time but
still there was a sense of honor and and
who did he do this to someone who is
going to become our mother this is right
there not just any someone who's about
to become our mother he didn't know it
nobody knew this at the time she's
married to Abu Sal Abu Sal dies and then
the prophet marries um Sal right she
becomes our mother showing respect to
her still as a pagan yet Allah Asel will
give that blessing to him the keys of
the Kaa to this day are in the hands of
The Descendants
ofb also there's many other stories as
well uh about this early immigration and
the problems that people suffered uh of
the famous uh stories is the story
ofii uh the only sahabi who spoke fluent
Latin by the
way the only sahabi who spoke fluent
Latin so by the way was not a Roman a
lot of people uh uh think he was a Roman
no he was not so was from a northern
Arabian tribe Arab tribe he was
conquered in the days of Jah uh and sold
into slavery to the
Romans so he grew up in the land of the
Romans where we have no idea was it Rome
itself or we don't know but he grew up
amongst the uh the the Romans and he
spoke fluent Latin and it is also said
he had a ruddy complexion I a whitish
type of complexion so this gave him the
L so the Roman because you speak Roman
you look like a Roman we might as well
call you a Roman and it is even said
that he spoke Arabic with an accent
because he grew up in the land of the
Romans as a child right so he's
ethnically Arab but uh his his culture
his civilization what he grew up with
was Roman so he became a slave amongst
the Romans and because he was ethnically
Arab I guess one of his Masters sold him
back to an Arab tribe eventually
eventually he works his way as an Arab
uh slave he works his way to the house
of Abdullah Jud
who was who has been mentioned in manyi
and he wasa's distant relative and he
works his way to Freedom clearly he's an
intelligent man and even in the days of
Jah of course in Islam by the way
Islamic law guarantees if there are such
a thing called slavery now there is none
but once there were slaves Islamic law
guarantees the slave the right to become
free if he wants it's called M if the
slave wants to become free then you make
an agreement with him and you give him
uh uh the time to work and he will
purchase his freedom even in the days of
jilah they had this so so clearly he's
an intelligent guy he's a smart guy he
works his way to become free in the days
of Jah and he becomes a free man he
becomes a minor businessman in Mecca and
again this clearly shows uh the impact
if you like even with the Roman culture
on him that he's not going to take this
slavery thing he becomes a a free man
and he accepted Islam amongst the
earliest batch and his closest friend
and the person who gave da to him and
they both converted the same day wasar
and were always together they were
always their closest friends and so they
accepted Islam together and uh uh they
were well known throughout the s for
being together so decided to leave as
well now remember the prophet is still
in Medina sorry meca the proess still in
Mecca these are the early batches of
immigrants right so still it's not clear
what's going to happen so decides to
leave as well it looks like he tried to
leave surreptitiously uh but eventually
his news spread and do realize I mean
meca was a small town everybody's
watching everybody you know news spreads
very quickly very very fast if you're
going to leave you have to pack your
stuff you have to have a certain mount a
certain animal you have to have a lot of
baggage for the food water Etc it's not
that easy to be done so however it was
the news spread that so is leaving so a
delegation from the qur not a delegation
a militia from the quray marched outside
of the city and surrounded him so was
armed he was a single person by the he
has nothing except himself and his
belongings so was armed he pulled out
his bow and his arrow and he said oh
people of qur I have 40 bows in my
quiver and I swear by Allah that none of
you will get to me until I've used all
40 and then when you get to me here is
my sword and I swear by Allah nobody
will be able to get me until I get to
him first now the qur didn't want to
leave but they love their life more than
they loved leaving right life is
precious and so they were wondering what
to do there's this tension standoff
they're outnumbered I mean soib is
outnumbered but who's going to make the
first move and face the wrath of so said
what if I were to tell you where I hid
all of my
wealth cuz there's no bank accounts you
transfer money to Y right it's physical
gold physical money
and you have to hide it somewhere go out
in the desert and hide it under the tree
whatever and then later on you come and
you discover it what if I tell you where
all of my wealth
is will you let me go they said okay
deal deal you tell give us all your
wealth and you walk away free and so Su
told them where he had put all of his
wealth and he has to tell the truth
because if he lies he's one man they can
catch up to him later on right not just
that he's a a Muslim he's not supposed
to but he has to tell the truth so he
tells them all of his wealth where it is
buried and so he literally arrived in
Medina with just the clothes on his back
after having won his freedom after
having become a mini businessman after
having a good amount a decent amount of
wealth he literally arrived in Medina to
start completely from scratch and as
soon as the prophet wasam saw him he
smiled and he said Allah has revealed in
the Quran about you
there are those who sell everything that
they have they sell themselves for the
sake of Allah and he says that was
his your transaction has been successful
your transaction has been success
without telling him what happened this
is the miracle without telling him what
happened that nobody could have arrived
before of course jel has told him what
has done and so the prophet tells him
your transaction has been successful
your transaction has been successful One
More Story and then inshah we'll call it
a uh an evening for tonight and that is
the story
of and his immigration with two people
of the
quray the story of Omar's migration
we'll talk about in a while but he
mentions his companions when Omar uh
decided to immigrate he he chose as his
companions to for the journey two other
sahab andham
who's the brother of of uh um the uh the
um sorry sorry who's the brother of uh
so he chose as his companions these two
and the deal was on such and such a day
we'll meet up at that Valley outside of
Mecca and when Dawn breaks whoever's
there will go if you're not there then
we'll assume that you were stopped right
because it's Again difficult to be
migrating at this time so the deal was
we're going to meet up at this
particular uh place outside of Mecca on
this particular day if you're there when
Dawn breaks we're going to be going
together if you're not then we'll just
we're going to have to leave and whoever
is there will go at the appointed time
Hisham did not show up which means that
he was basically stopped and prevented
Hisham did not show up and soash andar
were the ones who migrated to Medina and
they made it to
Medina by the time they got there Abu
jahal and his brother were actually aash
is half brother soash and Abu jahal and
the third person all shared a mother but
different fathers so Abu jahal is the
half brother of aash and Abu jahal had a
brother as well who's also the half
brother of aash you understand same
mother but different fathers right so
Abu jahal and his brother this is still
the process him is in mekah remember
he's still in mekah Abu jahal and his
brother traveled all the way to
Medina and they went to their half
brother aash and they said to aash oh
don't you know what you've done do you
know the state of our mother after you
left she cannot eat she cannot drink she
has made a promise to Allah that she
won't taste the shade and she's in the
sun since then and she is in such a
state that lice has full has made her
hair completely full of lice and she
cannot enjoy any food you know she's on
the verge of death etc etc she's made a
promise to Allah she's going to sit in
the sun until she sees her son
again and they kept on going about
stories and stories until A's heart
melted his mother you know and so he
decided to go back with them and so let
me just take care of my mother then I'll
come Omar said ohash they're tricking
you they're tricking you but this is his
blood brothers here I mean you know have
brothers right they're tricking you and
then he said if she's hungry she can eat
food if she has life she can shave her
hair off right you don't have to go back
and do that for her so aash said no I'll
be a good son let me go back to my
mother and I also have some money I left
it now that I've everything is secure
here I can bring the money back with me
Omar said to him if it's money W I'll
give you all that you have don't go no
Omar is not even his blood brother by
the way but he's his Muslim brother
right if it's money I'll give you all
that you want don't go with them I'm
worried they're going to trap you and if
it's your mother then she'll deal with
herself you know and they kept on
insisting that no no come back your
mother needs you this and that and so
A's heart became soft for his mother so
pulled him aside said look if you're
going to go take my camel because my
camel is stronger and faster than theirs
and if you find any treachery ride back
immediately to Madina so he gave him his
own camel Subhan Allah I mean this is
amazing here that Omar is bending over
backwards and his own blood brothers are
going to do you understand this is a
trap right his own blood brothers are
going to do this butar feels more love
for him than his blood brothers do
giving him money offering him all that
you want just take it just don't go with
these guys please giving him his own
camel because it's faster than their
camel and then eventually as the road
goes on they start chitchatting you know
how it goes in the saf you open up and
they're laughing and joking Abu jahel
then says oh looks like my camel is is
um uh weary and tired why don't we just
uh ride on yours because it is stronger
so let me ride on yours and then we'll
let the camel take a break right and so
aash doesn't realize that this is a trap
so he uh makes the camel sit down down
because he's on his own camel now he
makes the camel sit down as soon as he
do this they jump on him and they tie
him up and they make him a prisoner and
they carry him back to Medina as a
prisoner and they March him around
Makkah saying this is how we treat our
fools this is the result and this the
process is in mecah at the time by the
way remember this is still he hasn't
made the hij right so they bring aash
back and he discovers that hisam the one
they were supposed to meet is all also
being held
prisoner so he gets thrown into the
dungeon with Hisham they set up a prison
in Makkah for these two special just for
these two and they throw him in with
Hisham and the prophet eventually
migrates uh we're going to talk about
his obviously next lesson migrates to uh
Medina and when he first migrated his
first Dua was about hisam andash and all
of these people he would make Dua for
them after standing up from R and he
would say oh Allah save oh Allah save oh
Allah save the oh Allah send your
punishment upon the qur so he's so much
concern for these prisoners in mekah
right and he kept on asking the Muslims
who will volunteer to save aash who will
volunteer to say now saving aash means
you're going to walk into the lion's den
and you're going to save them from
clutch them from the middle of the qur
right nobody wanted to do that until
finally
Al's older
brother and his story I think I
mentioned it but we'll mention later on
anyway finally when he kept on asking he
said I will do it I'll do it and so he
traveled to mecah entered it in the
middle of the night and Allah blessed
him his story is long story but he
blessed him to basically find out where
this this dungeon was because it's not
public knowledge uh and in the middle of
the night he uh broke into the dungeon
and he uh cut the bonds of aash andam
and uh saved and and uh rescued them and
brought them back to uh Medina and again
that's all we know but imagine these are
the stories of Legends if you really
think about it you know walking into
mecah single-handedly I mean that's all
we know that's the the details of story
but can you imagine being in the shoes
of right can you imagine trying to
figure out where this place is and then
figuring out you know your you know the
guard the arms Allah knows what he had
to do we have no clue but he then it is
said he had to jump over the the the the
wall he didn't enter from that door he
literally climbed into the roof and then
made his way down this is literally a
story of Legends like Hollywood movies
couldn't get better than this you know
this is the real stuff this is the real
stuff here that he's doing and he saves
the two prisoners of war and he brings
them back and's brother I mean the same
blood there that that bravery uh is
there and uh eventually they come back
to Medina and the both of them become
famous sahab as for Hisham is a very
brave Warrior and he actually uh dies
fighting against the Romans in the
Battle of yuk he had a big victory in
the Battle of yuk Hisham the brother of
and again these are sahab clearly Allah
has written for them Destiny Allah has
written for them and inshallah in our
next week we will talk about uh the
prophet Hijra himself with Abu Bakr and
the stories and what happened and the
lessons we deriv from there we have
around few minutes for questions and
then inshallah
break for
Salah yes you mentioned
earlier what are the followers of
Zab
of of the book Z refer to uh the zabur
is the book of
David therefore the the the Psalms of
David are in the Old
Testament therefore the yeh are the
followers of the zabor there's not
separate
religion there is no separate group who
follows only David and not
Moses the people who follow M also
follow DA they view it as a continuation
which it
is so the yehud are the ones who
primarily follow the Psalms the
Christians look at these books and pick
and choose what they want from them
because for them the Old Testament
abrogates the New Testament but as you
know the Christian Bible comp is
composed of the Old Testament the Old
Testament has in it the Psalms of David
the Old Testament has the pent talk
which are the five books of Moses right
uh Genesis and exodus and Leviticus and
and uh um the the others I forgot them
the the first five the pent talk and
then you have the Psalms as well the
Psalms of David in the Old Testament
that's the remnants of the zabur and
even in the Psalms of David the most the
most uh poetic of the Old Testament is
the Psalms the Psalms the most hymns the
most singing that is done and we as
Muslims belief that that was his book
that it
was that oh mountains and birds sing
along with him and we believe that the
greatest voice ever given was the voice
of D so his book that was uh that was
given to him was a book of ta and a book
of recitation and if you read the Psalms
of David clearly I mean obviously we
believe there's been changes and whatnot
but the essence some of the the passages
are still there very moving and there's
so many hymns and so many praises of God
and the god of Israel and describing
Allah subhana wa tal with the most
beautiful ways so we believe that there
are elements of Truth in the Psalms of
David and that's uh what the yah and
even the nasara the Christians also
believe in the Psalms of David other
questions yes you compared us to the
immigration of habash but habash
immigration was a temporary immigration
it was all SP that they were going to
come back and join the main stre so
actually in that sense it seems we are
closer to the Mad immigration and those
of us who are here in American in that
sense not me but the Americans were born
here they have like to be part of the
political person the only issue for the
Sharia they're trying to make sure that
they Bas is you and when your child or
my child goes for that they say they
going to BR sh we are not planning to
bring Sharia but the issue is that we
are more like a permanent if you say
we're not planning to bring Sharia this
is closer to Aban than Med that's the
key point was a temporary it was never
supposed to be a how do we know this
when they immigrated
there how do we know this when we immigr
some people have surmised time has it no
this is hindsight is 2020 looking back
we can say abisinia was temporary there
is an interpretation of the and again
this is all open ter interpretation that
ABIA was a backup
plan yeah you critical mass there so yes
there was always this plan B in in case
Medina fails and that is why and this
does make a lot of sense because as soon
as the process migrated to Medina he
didn't tell the people of ABIA to come
in fact it was only after basically uh
uh the Battle of roughly the 7th year of
the hij right ja joined basically at the
time
of and the reason that is so significant
is that for the first time it can be
said there is no die threat to the
survival of
Medina takes place takes place take
place and they are over there right and
there's always an internal threat was
what eliminated the final existential
threat to Medina so the question arises
we can now look back and
say abisinia was temporary but at the
time perhaps they didn't think it to be
temporary Point number two even if it
was temporary for them they stayed there
10 years which is to say we cannot
extend that for 50 years 100 years and
we live in a land in a temporary method
for a while Point number three even in
this temporary status it is not as if
they did not participate in the
political process we mentioned that they
resorted to the courts they went to the
Palace they argued for their rights
right their rights to live as Muslims in
this land majority land so that is being
a part of the process but they didn't
intend to overthrow the status quo
whereas in Medina that was the intention
so one needs to be careful if one says
that then you are basically going a
different tangent in my humble opinion
and uh that is one that the islamophobes
will jump on if you make that and me
personally I think it is very clear uh
it is unrealistic to think of this as
Medina we are in a Land of abisinia in
other words we are a minority we're 2 3%
and our goal is to preserve our rights
to worship Allah as the Muslims of ab
had you had a question just go ahead
Jews you know well researched as they
were were they anticipating that you
know someone from their Tri come oh yes
there's clearly no doubt that the yahood
were expecting one of their own to
become a prophet there's no question
about this right because remember uh uh
sopia's father uh
y uh sopia the wife of the Prophet her
father and her uncle uh
um the both of them when they met the
process for the first time sopia
narrates that I was a young girl you
know you can imagine 6 years old 5 years
old and my father and my uncle I was
their darling they would always play
with me uh when I rushed back when I saw
them they didn't even give me the time
of day and they were drained out of
energy they were you know lethargic they
didn't they seem to be greatly stressed
out and I heard them speak to one
another and they ignored me cuz she was
a little girl and uh Sophia's father
says a sorry her uncle says a is that
the one and her father says a wah it is
him it is him so his her uncle says what
are you going to do and the father says
we will oppose him till he dies till we
die no that we don't know about that if
they the seal Salman was the main word
with the seal but the characteristics
that had been predicted had been
mentioned so Allah subhana himself
says
when what they recognized came to them
Allah
says right they know him and recognize
him as they recognize their own
Sons so clearly they and this is what
they were saying that uh were we're
going to be with Victors over you when
the prophet comes we're going to
Massacre you they expected this there's
even a theory that that's why they were
in y there's a theory this cannot be
proven there's a because the question to
this day by the way nobody has a solid
answer what were these yahood doing in
the middle of the Arabian Desert I mean
there's no solid answer where did they
come from were they original yahood or
were the yahoodi converts this these are
questions that nobody has any solid
knowledge for because we don't have
historical documents all the we have is
from the books of our s that's all that
we have we don't have their remnants we
don't have their histories so one theory
is that this was a group who went out in
search for the
prophet and the signs that they had
indicated date Palms Desert uh volcanic
uh mounds and that's why they settled in
both
and right that's one Theory out there
and Allah knows best okay sisters any
questions from the sisters yes go ahead
um I was
wondering the keys to the Kaa are
symbolic these
days and no doubt the political Powers
have the authority to demand the person
to open the door or not right but the
one who keeps the key and the one who
will go and open the door has always
been from The Descendants
ofman right so the descendants ofman to
this day to this day there this is
called the S the s means to take care of
the Kaa every time the Kaa is washed
they are called every time the is
changed they are called because they are
technically still in charge of the S
right so the s means the maintenance of
the so got the maintenance of the Kaa
and his descendant had it and they still
have it to this day so no doubt it is a
symbolic office but it is nonetheless I
mean who wouldn't want that symbolism
right to go to sleep with the keys of
the Caba in your house I mean maybe even
they I'm sure they don't even keep it in
their house they probably have but I'm
my point is technically they are in
charge and nobody opens the door other
than that tribe it's a tribe now
obviously and obviously one of their
members always gets chosen when every
time they die then another one is chosen
so it is a symbolic honor no doubt the
political Powers will tell them this is
the day we're going to watch the cab I
mean I I don't think they would have
that power to do that but once that day
is decided who's going to go and who's
going to be the one opening the door is
going to be's descendants okay in chur
the
church the church of nativity right it's
still in their descendants I wouldn't be
surprised is still in the descendant of
the original one who was added to this
this happened this was this was this
kept
from even the chge
ofl I wouldn't be surprised
alhamdulillah