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better H yeah okay so inshallah uh last
Wednesday we had discussed uh the
Journey of is and we had reached the
place where the Prophet sallallahu Alam
had been assigned the 50 salawat and
then uh if you like The Descent began
and the problem with as we said The
Descent or the problem with even most of
the narration of is it is almost
impossible to piece together the exact
order of events we simply have a Hadith
and therefore from this point onward
what we have is just a collection of
incidents we don't know the exact order
they occurred in and of the first uh
incidents that I will mention we don't
know chronologically which one came
first there's a very long Hadith inmed
where the Prophet mentions one incident
that that uh that he came across and
then there are other Hadith inkari
Muslim about other incidents of this uh
Hadith in Muslim Ahmed the prophet wasam
said on the night that I went on
is I smelt a fragrance that was very
sweet and so I asked jiel what is this
beautiful fragrance so jiel said this is
the fragrance of the one who used to
comb the hair of the daughter
of the one who used to comb the hair of
the daughter of F and her children so
the fragrance is coming from her and her
children so the prophet said I asked
jiel what is their story how come their
fragrance is so strong so jiel said once
when she was combing the hair of the
daughter of f the comb fell from her
hands and she said
bah so the daughter said surely you mean
the name of my father
because for her daughter's perspective
my father is God and so this woman said
no my Lord and your lord is Allah and
the Lord of your father is Allah so she
told this girl that your father is not
God is Not Allah rather Allah is my Lord
and your lord and the Lord of your
father
and the the girl said do you want me to
tell my father you said this and this
woman whose name we don't even know said
yes go
ahead and so when found out he called
this slave girl because she's a servant
and a slave girl and asked her are you
saying you have a Rob besides me because
used to
say and used to say as the Quran
says did I ever teach you there's
another God besides me because he has to
teach his people about uh God and this
is exactly what he asked this lady as
well did I teach you that do you know
there's another God besides me and so
the woman said with the same bravery
that she said to this young girl she
said to the F himself she said yes my
Lord and your lord is Allah my R and
your R is Allah and so F ordered that a
cauldren be put of fire and it was
boiled in front of her and she was told
that she has to throw her own children
into the fire she has to throw her own
children into the fire one by one we
don't know how many children she had she
has to throw her own children to the
fire one by one or else acknowledge as
her Rob and so faced with this dilemma
faced with this dilemma uh she said I
have one request oh said what he said
that you bury me and my children all
together you take all all of our Flesh
and Bones and you bury them in one
location don't split them up into
different locations so said this is a
condition that we have upon you if
that's what you want then you will get
uh this condition fulfilled and so one
by one her children were thrown in until
finally the last one that was left was
her baby that was suckling at her bosom
and this was the one that she could not
she paused at and so the baby spoke to
her own his own mother we don't know it
was a boy or girl and said oh my mother
go forth and drop yourself in proceed
forward because this punishment of this
world is nothing compared to the
punishment of the next and so she threw
herself in and then IB Abbas commented
that there were only four who spoke from
uh the Cradle from uh from uh being a
baby and and he said this one and Isa
when he was a baby and the story of J
which we mentioned uh in a a after
Friday night and uh the witness of Yu
this is abbas's opinion that Shah of YF
is a baby we talked about that when when
we said the class that it doesn't seem
to be it's not a Hadith it's something
thatb Abbas derived and Allah knows best
but that is not a true thing that Shah
Yu is not a baby but this Hadith clearly
mentions the the story of F's uh
daughter's seamstress or uh Helper and
what is amazing is that Subhan Allah we
don't even know her name but the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam recorded her
plight and narrated it to the umah her
courage and bravery Allah had willed
that it would be preserved for the umah
her sacrifice Allah had willed that the
people of f might not know of her
sacrifice but it would be remembered and
mentioned by the greatest umah and the
largest umah and the world would know of
her story and the story of her children
and she would become a role model for
all of the future Muslim Generations so
Allah preserved this story and it is
amazing that this story even though it
happened in the for musa's um yet it is
preserved in our umah and the IM is uh
of course exemplary and yet it is
preserved in our umah and it is not
preserved in uh the um of M because the
story is not mentioned in the Old
Testament and it's not found in the
Jewish uh tradition and scriptures the
prophet
also said
in that after Salah had been prescribed
upon
him then I entered into Jenna then I
entered into Jenna and I saw in it tents
made out of pearls and I saw that the
soil of Jenna was made out of musk which
is of course the most expensive perfume
we already mentioned last time that the
wisdom of entering Jenna after meeting
Allah subhah wa taala is obvious and
that is that the prior Authority is to
meet Allah it is appropriate that as
he's going up he's going up directly to
meet Allah once he meets Allah and the
meeting is over then he can go and see
the other sites that Allah had will for
him and this is exactly what happened
that after the meeting with Allah then
all of these other incidents happen here
we have a theological uh question and
that is it is narrated or at least this
is the interpretation of many scholars
that nobody has entered Jenna since the
time of
Adam and this is something that perhaps
there's even some references in Hadith
literature as well that the first person
to enter Jenna uh after Adam will be our
Prophet Muhammad this has been narrated
in some Hadith so how and this is after
the day of judgment is over after the
all of this when the doors will be open
for the first time uh of course as for
the issue of the Shahid a lot of people
get confused the Shahid he is not living
in Jenna the Shahid is flying around in
Jenna right there's a difference between
living in Jenna occupying Jenna versus
seeing Jenna right and the Shahid is not
in his body in Jenna the Shahid is in uh
the body of a green bird and he is
hanging from the chandeliers of Jenna
right but he's not actually in living in
Jenna so he's close but not quite in
there this is the Shahid the question
therefore comes for the prophet wasallam
how do we how do we interpret this and
to be honest there is no clear-cut
interpretation one can say that the
phrase the first person to enter Jenna
after Adam is our Prophet still applies
because he entered it in and then he
enters he will enter it in so there's no
contradiction that the phrase that the
first person to enter Jenna after Adam
will be our Prophet Muhammad wasam is
true but except that he entered it once
at is and once he will enter it of
course for the final time and that is
after and another interpretation is that
when he entered Jenna he is entering it
again similar to the Shah looking at it
or and there are some versions of theith
which
says I saw jna and that's different than
saying enter Jenna right so to see Jenna
is different than entering Jenna so
perhaps this is an
not as explicit but there is this point
of whoever enters Jenna will never exit
from it uh especially when when the the
you know uh the the the happens so how
then does what interpret the process
came in and out again there's no
clear-cut response we have one of two
interpretations firstly it's an
exception which is possible secondly he
didn't actually enter rather he surveyed
Jenna and this is also a plausible
interpretation which is support Ed by
some of
the that mentioned is the process that's
all he said about by the way of uh of
this entering of Jenna the prophet also
said he saw many of the punishments of
hell and this perhaps gives Credence to
the fact he didn't actually enter Jenna
because obviously he didn't Enter Hell
obviously right so when he's describing
Jenna then he's describing hell this
looks like he's describing it as an
overseer somebody who's looking in
peering in telling us what is in Jenna
and what is in Janam so this does seem
to make sense that the prophet is
basically telling us as a description of
what he saw and not necessarily as
somebody having entered Jenna but if
somebody were to say this it is not
problematic also uh that he entered
Jenna of course obviously he did not
enter the fire of hell but he saw the
punishments of the fire of hell and a
number of them are mentioned explicitly
and I'm putting together a lot of
different narrations again the prop is
giving many different when I went to
isra I saw this punishment when I went
to isra I saw that punishment so I'm
putting it together this is not in one
Hadith that all of these punishments uh
are narrated so in one Hadith the
prophet wasam said I saw the punishment
of the one who stole an orphan's money
who stole orphans money that they had
noses like that of camels disfigured
they looking ugly and they would be
eating coals made out of fire and their
mouths would swallow SW these coals and
it would come out through their anuses
and that's exactly what Allah says in
the Quran that those who eat
uh that they're eating the fire of hell
so the prophet said I saw people they
were literally eating coals from Janam
and it's going through their bodies and
these were the people who would eat
orphans wealth and property uh the
prophet said in one Hadith that he saw
people who had nails of copper and they
were scratching their bodies and their
faces with this and these were the
people who used to backbite all the time
speaking of others so their flesh will
be disfigured on the day of judgment
because they would disfigure the Flesh
of others because when you backbite then
you are uh scarring their flesh their
honor their Prestige so in retaliation
uh this will be the punishment for the
one who does this uh the prophet said I
saw a and in each of these he said he
sees something he asked J who are these
people in each of these ones he cannot
understand he asks J who are they J
tells them the prophet said I saw people
they had in front of them pure meat and
they had rotten infested meat and they
were eating the rotten and infested meat
and avoiding the pure meat and I said I
as I said to ji who are these people and
jiel said these are the people that used
to fornicate they would leave the Halal
meaning their spouses and they would go
to the Haram they would leave the Halal
and they would go to the Haram uh in
another Hadith the prophet said that he
saw people with such large bellies that
they could not stand up they were on the
ground and uh animals were being brought
over them to trample over them as a
punishment and when he asked who they
were jel said these were the people who
would get their money from riba these
were the people who get their money from
riba from interest and of course the
connotation here is greed the
connotation here is go get as fat as you
can because that's what you wanted you
wanted to get money go and get your
fatness and these are your animals and
these are all that you own cuz once upon
a time when you were Rich you had a lot
of animals it was a part of a part A
package of being rich in our times if
you're rich you have fancy cars and
houses and those days if you were Rich
you had to have a lot of animals right
so the point being here these are your
animals see what see what good they have
done you on the day of judgment and uh
the prophet also said that uh he saw
people who were cutting their own lips
and their
tongues with nails of uh scissors of
copper and scissors of uh punishment and
fire and he asked people uh he asked
jiel who these people were jiel said
these were the people who used to tell
others to do good and they would forget
themselves and we seek Allah's Refuge
from being amongst such people uh the
prophet also said and I saw
theal and I saw theal and one of his
eyes was bloated one of his eyes was uh
in basically not seeing so he's
describing in another Hadith the prophet
wasam said that I saw the and I will
tell you something about theal that no
other Prophet has ever told his people
and that is that his left eye is like a
rotten grape so one of his eyes is
basically uh bloated and not normal so
you look at it you know that he's
deformed so and uh and the prophet said
know that the is and is oneeyed know
that is and means he is oneeyed these
are some of the things that we hear
about when the proc is coming back down
we don't have any detailed narration as
we do when he was going up he met every
single Heaven he met a a certain Prophet
we don't have any such narrations all we
have is these tidbits we put them
together and Allah knows what order it
happened in we don't know the exact
order it happened
in the prophet came back down to
Jerusalem and he then rote Bak so Bak is
tied up in Jerusalem right remember Bak
is a animal that is for this world to
transport him from mecah to Jerusalem as
for the transportation from Jerusalem to
the heavens this is what is called Al so
when he gets back down to Jerusalem he
then rides the Bak back to Medina and
there are some narrations that are not
fully authentic but there's no problem
in them to affirm them as well that the
prophet passed by three Caravans of the
quray that he recognized he recognized
three Caravans of the quray on his way
back and on one of them he recognized uh
uh certain of the people of the qures
because again everybody knows everybody
in mecah in another one he was feeling
thirsty so he drank some of the water
from the the the there's an N or a
public if you like well that every not a
well but a big canister that everybody
is going to drink from in the Caravan so
he just took a canister uh from this and
he drank because this is not private
property this is where the the large
earn that the water is in and in a third
Caravan he said that I saw uh so and so
and he mentioned him by name looking for
a camel that they had lost they could
not find it they could not find a camel
and they were searching for a camel that
had been lost so these are the three
Caravans that he said that he saw when
he came back to Mecca the prophet wasam
went back to sleep he said and he woke
up in the Haram he woke up in the Haram
and this clearly shows there for that
the actual is took place from theam
itself
to and then back to the and this is in
Conformity with the Quran because the
Quran
says so any report that says the prophet
was sleeping in his house or in the
house of we interpret this by saying he
was sleeping there then Jil took him to
the Haram and then from the Haram J took
him to
then from brought him back to theam so
the prophet the actual is took place
from one Masid to the other Masid from
the mecca to
Jerusalem the prophet when he woke up he
himself told us the story so this story
we have in the first person this story
we have in the first person that the
prophet wasam said when I woke up the
next
morning I felt an anxiety I felt an
anxiety about how am I going to tell the
people of what happened to me and this
shows that Allah had told him that he
has to tell the people because the
prophet never did anything without being
told the the the role of the Prophet is
that he has to be told what to do he
doesn't do anything of his own uh Accord
so Allah must have told them you need to
tell the people so the prophet said I
felt an anxiety how am I going to tell
the people and what will they say and
they are going to reject me and this
shows his Humanity that despite being
the prophet of God sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he's also a human being he
feels the anxiety he feels the stress
that any of us would feel for our
mundane jobs can you imagine the stress
for his job the stress for having to
tell people about this and how are
people going to uh respond back uh maybe
if we if we can close the door maybe
it'll be better let the kids play but
they shouldn't be disturbing us as well
so he said I woke up in the morning and
I had an anxiety how am I going to tell
the people about this and as I was
sitting anxious and nervous and
worried anxious and nervous and worried
he's sitting in front of the Kaa Allah
wi the prophet saying that
uh right the enemy of Allah Abu J passed
by me and he saw me in that
state he saw me sitting anxious and
worried and grief struck
the proph saying he's very sad because
he knows his people are going to mock
him he's wondering how am I going to
tell the people this and so Abu Jah said
to him in a sarcastic
manner what is the matter with you why
is has anything happened and so the
prophet because he cannot tell a lie
even if it's Abu jahal of the Prophet
said yes something happened so Abu jahel
said what what happened so the prophet
wasallam
said yesterday last
night I was taken from here to
jerus so was shocked and he said and you
are now here amongst us you claim to go
to Jerusalem and then you're here
amongst us the next
morning you're now waking up amongst us
and so uh the prophet himself said he
didn't didn't know whether to make fun
of me then or to wait so that I would
not retract when he called the other
people right so he's being serious right
now Abu jahal is being serious the
prophet said he didn't know should he
reject me now or should he delay the
rejection you know like to to to let the
bait go more to make sure the people
will hear this so uh the prophet said
yes I'm waking up amongst you here so
Abu jahal said if I call all your people
meaning the qur will you tell them what
you have just told me cuz if I tell them
they're not going to believe me right if
I call the qur will you tell them
exactly what you have just told me and
so the prophet sallam said yes I will
and so Abu J began screaming out to the
people which is the great-grandfather of
the come forth we have an announcement
to make and so the people came slowly
from the place is a meca meca is a small
city as you know and Abu jahal is a
leading figure and when he's making this
announcement eventually the people come
and they all came and they sat down
around Abu jahal is standing there the
process is sitting there and there's
this announcement something strange
these two enemies are saying there's an
announcement to be made so the people
are very curious what is going on and so
uh Abu jahal says tell them what you
promised you would tell them you
promised right don't go back now right
tell them what you just told me you
promised you're going to tell them and
so the prophet wasam said that last
night now notice here the is not
mentioned so perhaps Allah told the
prophet to mention the issue of the is
right I went Tod and I came back and the
he told to the Muslims later on uh so
last night I went
Tod uh and uh I went to pray in the Mas
the so the people uh the process himself
is narrating this right the people began
reacting in different ways some of them
began just like clapping like in in what
is going on here others put their hands
on their heads not knowing what to do
and others began snickering and laughing
but they didn't know what to do because
he saying it seriously right that he's
never known to have told a lie before so
people are reacting basically in shock
what exactly to do until one of them
said and he had been there to MD
can you describe it for us because
everybody knew that the prophet had
never been to right he's never been to
so one of them who had been there put
him to the test and he said can you
describe it for us and so the prophet
said I began describing the until they
began to ask me about specifics that I
wasn't able to recall and again this
shows his Humanity that he he is a human
being yeah he went in the middle of the
night he prayed in uh the Masjid that we
already said had must have been
resurrected the image of which had been
resurrected but the city the streets the
S he went through it but he doesn't
remember every single thing right
imagine when you drive through a city at
night what do you actually remember of
the city and so as they began to ask him
questions the prophet
said I got confused
and again and again and again we see his
Humanity I got confused what to do
and I became so worried and anxious that
I wasn't able to answer that I had never
been so worried before
ever and then uh the word actually kurba
is used and kurba means
terrified it literally means terrified I
was so terrified that I wasn't able to
respond
that I had never been this terrified
before now why is he terrified because
this is a very legitimate question from
their perspective can you describe the
city and from his perspective he doesn't
remember each and every detail
somebody's going to say where was the
another will say what was the tallest
building another will say this and that
so each one is asking a question that
perhaps you know if you really had
memorize the city and you had a few days
you would know it but the prophet only
went in at night prayed and then came
came back he doesn't remember all of
these details and so he is now terrified
what am I going to tell them now and he
said as I was waiting for what to
respond I saw in the
distance rising up in front of
me rising up in front of me until I saw
it descending beyond the house of abali
his cousin right and this is the house
that he grew up in because Abu Talib had
died and is now living in it right so
this is his house basically so you can
imagine basically you know until it is
behind my house basically that's what
he's saying the house that he grew up in
not the house he's currently living in
that's khadijah's house the house that I
grew up in and no question they asked of
me except that I saw
the right B basically being shown to me
and I looked at them and I answered
every question that they had looking ATD
in front of me and of course the the
could not see anything of this happening
until finally one of them said as for
the descriptions of then of Jerusalem
then he is accurate everything that
we've quized him he seems to know and it
was at that time that uh and IB hisam
mentions this that uh the the prophet
wasam said I will give you some signs as
well and he mentioned the three Caravans
he mentioned the first Caravan is of so
and so and they will be returning uh
soon because they were the closest to
the city the second Caravan is so and so
and they had lost a camel and you can
ask them about that Camel they were
searching for it the third Caravan is
such and such and they had this ear of
water that I drank from so he described
every one of these three Caravans and in
the version of IB Hisham Abu jahal said
if this is the case then the Caravan
should be coming if if you saw them at
such and such a place the CERN should be
coming right now because it was very
close to Mecca and the prophet said I
saw them at this place and while they're
discussing the news arrives that the
Caravan is entering Makkah and so Abu
jahal goes and sees and it is exactly as
the prophet described and he comes back
and saying this is clear sorcery this is
this is sorcery they cannot respond to
this uh here there's a a phrase here
that has caused a lot of a lot of
Scholars some issues and problems and
the phrase occurs in ibam only it
doesn't occur in bukari Muslim or the
six books of Hadith it occurs inam and
it doesn't have an isad and therefore we
can be a little bit LAX about this
phrase and say perhaps it's not accurate
unfortunately a lot of the translators
of s and authors of s write this because
IB hasham mentions it and this phrase
says when the news spread amongst the
Muslims some of them couldn't grasp it
and they left the
religion right now this is problematic
for a number of reasons most importantly
we don't have a single narration of any
Muslim becoming mad in the makan
era we don't have any narration of a mad
in the makan era and this contradicts
what we know for a
fact in a
inar that when in the ninth year of the
Hijra sorry in the not the ninth seventh
year of the hij sth year of the Hijra
when Abu sufyan was in jlam and the
prophet wrote a letter to hercus the
prophet wrote a letter to hercus
asked Abu sufyan a series of questions
about the process and his message Abu
sufyan was not a Muslim at the time and
of the questions he asked has anyone of
his faith ever left the faith after
having embraced it and Abu sufyan said
no this has never happened this Hadith
is in bukari it's a very beautiful long
narration we'll come to it when we talk
about the letters the prophet sent
hercus asked like 20 questions to Abu
sufyan wanting to find out who this man
is what is his message what is his
lineage where is he saying where is he
coming from all of these
questions and one of the questions was
tell me about his
followers do they increase or decrease
they increase who follows him the meek
and the rich the meek and the poor or
the rich and the Nobles no the meek and
the poor do his followers ever leave the
faith after converting no they never
leave the faith and then hercus explains
that this is the sign of a true faith
that the meek and the poor follow before
the rich and the elite that the faith
increases and not decreases and that
nobody ever leaves a true Faith right so
Abu sufyan is saying in the seventh year
of the Hijra that he's never heard of a
mad and yet here in IAM we have because
of the story of
ofam says some people
right but many of the scholars have said
that because we don't have an authentic
chain for this this story should not be
relied upon because it doesn't even make
sense that in the mechan era anybody
would have become a a mad and of course
it was at this time when the news
reached Abu bakik this is authentically
narrated in and a number of books uh
that before the prophet could tell Abu
Bakr because he was in the Masjid he
woke up in the Masjid Abu Bakr is in his
house one of the quray came running to
AB Bakr and said do you know what your
companion has just said do you know what
your companion has just said said what
he said your companion claims to have
gone all the way to Jerusalem which is a
month's journey and back which is
another month's journey and he did all
of this in one night so the prophet Abu
Bakr said and this shows his
intelligence he didn't say yes he did
that he said if he said that then it
must be true cuz I don't know what
you're I don't know maybe you're lying
to me right if he said that then he must
be saying the truth so the man said to
him
do you believe him in such a
claim you believe him in such a claim
and so Abu Bakr
said I believe him in something that is
even more amazing than this he claims
that the Revelation from above the seven
Heavens comes to him instantaneously
which is more amazing just to go to
Jerusalem and come back or that Allah is
communicating with him instantaneously
and so
because of this Abu Bakr was called from
this time onward he got the title The of
Abu bakik AB bakik now we've already
mentioned that Allah mentions the the is
in one Surah and the in another
Surah the is is of course mentioned in
is and the or instance or details of the
Mir are mentioned inah and it is
interesting to note that Surah is begins
with the isra and it's just one Ayah
that's it and the bulk of the Surah
especially the first two pages talks
about bani is and it talks about the yeh
and the transgressions of the yeh it's
amazing that as an introduction the is
immediately jumps into the sanctity of
Mak and the Holiness of makd and then
what is going to happen towards the end
of times about
and some have interpreted this verse to
be something that might happen now some
have interpreted this that the second uh
threat might be something we are still
awaiting and Allah knows best and as for
of course it mentions issues of the uh
of
the uh two theological questions firstly
did the prophet see his Lord did the
prophet see
Allah we have narrations from some of
the sah where there seems to have been
some slight difference of opinion it is
narrated from I Abbas in one r that he
said he saw his
Lord and from in the prophet sorry says
this Hadith is in said
whoever says that the prophet has seen
his Lord has said a huge lie a massive
lie against Allah because Allah says in
the
Quran eyes cannot Encompass him eyes
cannot Encompass him so AA said this and
Mas who is one of the students of the
sahabah was sitting there and so sitting
behind the curtain cuz never appeared
publicly never appeared publicly she
appeared behind the curtain or the
hijab Allah says in the Quran about the
wives of the Prophet that if you're
going to speak to them for anything
speak from behind a hijab and this hijab
was a hijab above and beyond what normal
women have to wear this hijab was a
hijab that physically separated them
from men so the regular hijab we all
know what it is right but this was a
level of hijab that they could not even
see the uh the the figure of the the the
the the mother of the Believers she has
to be behind an actual curtain and even
when she went outside AA she would have
an actual curtain that she would put on
her camel so here in her house she's
teaching there's a physical curtain so
Mas is behind the curtain and he was
listening with his back on the wall and
whena said this Mas is narrating he said
I stood up meaning I I went forward and
I said yeah my mother allow me to ask
something and don't get angry at me
allow me to ask something and don't get
angry thisi is in Muslim Mas says didn't
Allah subhah wa tala say in the
Quran so he quotes two ay in the Quran
which says and he saw him in the highest
place and he saw him uh
and he was closer than two bows lengths
so responds back Subhan Allah my hair is
standing on end because of what you're
saying in other words I'm trembling how
dare you say that he saw Allah I was the
first person to ever ask the prophet
about these
verses is saying I was the first person
to ask the prophet about these verses
that is
the reference is
to all of these references are
to not to
Allah and then she said to have you not
read in the Quran that Allah says in the
Quran
that eyes cannot Encompass him and he
encompasses eyes it's beautiful
verse eyes cannot Encompass him but he
knows what your eyes are seeing and he
can Encompass your eyes and have you not
read in the
Quran that Allah says in the Quran it is
not permissible it's not allowed for any
man to speak to Allah except it be
through inspiration or from behind
behind a curtain or an angel comes and
communicates Allah says three things
either I Inspire directly into his
heart or he speaks from behind a curtain
or an angel comes and speaks to him so
notice here beautiful here thata clearly
knows her stuffa is quoting verses left
and right M thinks she's out he's out
withed is like come on doesn't the Quran
say he saw him he saw him
right he saw him so is saying I've read
the Quran it clearly says he saw him is
saying been there done that I've talked
to him directly I know exactly what
these verses refer to and they refer to
and not to Allah and they cannot refer
to Allah because Allah
says eyes cannot Encompass him and Allah
says no man can speak to Allah except
from behind a curtain and this is
clearly proven in aith in Muslim that
asked him directly and this
islim you cannot get more explicit did
you see your Lord did you see your lord
and the prophet
responded there was light how could I
see him there was light how could I see
him and the scholars have said the
meaning here is there was the light of
Allah
there was the light of Allah's hij
because another Muslim
says Allah has a hijab of Allah has a
hijab
of if Allah were to lift this
Veil then the Rays that come from his
face
sub means the raise literally sub of the
is means the raise the Rays that come
from his face would destroy everything
that it sees which means everything
because Allah sees everything right so
from this the scholars have said that
Allah he is of course a type and in his
own we we affirm the language and we
don't affirm how Allah says he
is so Allah is new and Allah's guidance
is new and Allah has created the N all
of this is the meaning of Allah Allah is
n and we affirm Allah is n how he is he
we don't think our mind should not think
just like we say Allah is living but we
don't think how Allah is hearing but we
don't think how Allah is seeing but we
don't think how every name or attribute
we affirm it but we don't we shouldn't
think how we know the Arabic meaning we
don't think how it's not part of our
what Allah has told us to do so Allah
has said he is n and that no is so
powerful the prophet is saying that it
would have destroyed the whole creation
and this is proven in the Quran itself
in the story of Ms right in the story of
mus that M
says and Allah
says lifted that Veil between him and
the mountain and what happened the jabel
collapsed it couldn't it couldn't this
is what's going to happen when the veil
is lifted up no creation can withstand
this in this D and that's why Allah
says that eyes cannot Encompass eyes
cannot Encompass Allah subhah wa tala so
in this Hadith therefore the prophet is
saying in order to protect the creation
from his magnificence Allah has taken a
veil
and the veil in our D is always a veil
of darkness and cover but in Allah's
case the veil itself becomes created
light the veil is light whereas for us
the veil is always covering and it's
always a Darkness you cover it up right
but in the case of
Allah the itself
becomes and so when Abu said did you see
your lord the response there was light
how could I see him and and that is the
light of the new of the hijab of Allah
subhanahu wa taala and this also clearly
shows back to our uh talk last Wednesday
that the prophet wasallam went to a
place that no other being had gone
because he saw the hijab of Allah he saw
the hijab of Allah so he said there was
light how could I see him now if
somebody were to
ask how then will the creation see Allah
in the next World the response is that
next world is not not a world of
physical bodies that we have now it is a
different world that next World the
resurrection will be a perfect
resurrection and it will be resurrection
of Eternity and it is not going to be of
the type of Flesh that we have now it is
going to be its own type of uh existence
that only Allah knows about and in that
existence and only in that existence we
will be able to see
Allah otherwise in this world this
seeing is completely imp it's not even
possible no one has seen Allah in this
world of this creation no one has seen
Allah nor could they see Allah and
therefore IB Abbas is statement he saw
him can be interpreted that either this
was a mistake from his part uh and Anda
is more knowledgeable than him cuz she
asked directly and Abu as directly or it
could be that uh and there's one version
that supports this IB Abbas said he saw
him with his
heart and this is a different type of
Rya it's not the Rya of the eyes so if
IB Abbas affirmed this then that doesn't
contradict the fact that nobody has seen
Allah Asel with uh with the eyes another
question that was debated by some of the
early Scholars and in our times it is
being resurrected is the question of
whether the prophet wasallam went on is
in his physical body or was it a dream
was is a dream or was it an actual
journey and the reason why uh some of
the early Scholars interpreted this way
is because some of
the some of the students of the sah they
do have narrations in which they said is
was a dream and they based this on
certain narrations that said that the
prophet said I woke up for example in
meca I quoted this I woke up in front of
the Kaa and so with this phrase they
said well because he woke up this means
it must have been a dream but the people
who narrated this are only one or two in
number and it is clear that they're
misinterpreting the whole incident based
on one
phrase the fact of the matter is
throughout medieval Islam and throughout
premodern Islam basically for the 12200
years in the middle the Muslim um has
unanimously agreed that the is and M was
in body and soul was in flesh and spirit
was in a state of wakefulness and not in
a dream and the evidences for this are
too many to mention of them is had the
prophet gone in a dream what was their
miraculous about him going to Jerusalem
and back we can go to the moon and come
back in our dreams and nobody's going to
find this amazing so if he had gone in a
dream why would he have found it a
problem to tell the quray the next day
of them is the fact that there's a
physical ride Bak needing to take him to
Jerusalem for dreams you don't need
physical RS you'll wake up tomorrow in
your home country no big deal right of
them is the fact that the Propet God
thirsty on the way back he drank the
water right and the fact that he's
drinking water clearly shows he's in a
state of wake fulness so clearly the
prophet's Journey was in a state of
wakefulness body and soul spirit and
mind all of it together of course in our
times there have been a number of people
you know the progressives and modernists
they try to trivialize any Miracle they
don't like any Miracle because it's not
scientific enough for them and so they
interpret The Parting of the Sea and the
everything that me the Quran mentions as
a miracle they try to reinterpret it
because they find it embarrassing that
we believe in miracles and so there are
some people and there are some modern
books of s as well that try to state
that the the entire is occurred in a
dream and of course it is nonsensical to
say this because the whole purpose of is
then would be no point if it's a dream
who cares why is it miraculous in a
dream you can go and do more than this
the whole Miracle is that it was in body
and in Soul so we conclude Now by
talking about some of the benefits of is
and some of the benefits of is really
realiz that is is something that is
narrated in the Quran and in the mut
authentic mut means narrated by too many
companions it's not just one or two
narrations we have 40 50 narrations
about the is and and therefore anybody
who denies the is and is denying the
Quran and the authentic Sunnah and
that's not no muslim can do this the
explicit Quran tells us there was is and
M the primary wisdom of is
and is to show the prophet sallallah
alai wasam his own status and to console
him after all of the hardships that he
himself had undergone and a smaller
example that helps you illustrate this
point remember M's first encounter with
Allah and that's a minor example of what
the is is that Allah spoke with him and
Allah Asel said to him go back and tell
this is your message right and
Allah told M that you have been given
certain Miracles what are those Miracles
Allah told him right then and there
throw your staff see what happens and
put your hand into your pocket and take
it out see what's going to happen now
when M did this who is witnessing these
Miracles who is witnessing it no one
accept himself why are these Miracles
happening what's the psychological
reason of these
Miracles strengthening the faith of who
of M exactly streng the faith of
strengthening the faith of M that I know
this is true right yeah even the
prophets of Allah can help with a boost
I mean does not ibraim
say doesn't ibim himself say I know oh
Allah you can resurrect the dead but you
know i' like to see it right so that I
feel content even IIM he
wants so this is
his and for our Prophet what is it is
the greatest Miracle of all and that is
is to show the prophet wasam that
everything that you are preaching is
true that everything is real that your
lord is communicating with you that
Jenna is real now is real that the
angels are like this that you
see and that's exactly what Allah
says another really interesting point
here is that this entire
Miracle is a personal gift from Allah to
the prophet Muhammad wasallam it's a
personal gift I mean we don't benefit
except that we believe that he went
there it's not a gift to the umah as
much as it is a gift to him directly
from Allah to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam because you see
generally Miracles are meant to prove to
the unbelievers the truth of the Prophet
right that's what a miracle is but
sometimes Allah givs a miracle for the
sake of the Prophet himself not to
believe cuz he
knows and so this was a personal gift to
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam the likes of which no other
Prophet had were ever had the likes of
which no other Prophet had ever been
given yet another Point here is that
this miracle and this gift occurs at a
time of great sadness and it is
completely unexpected no indication that
it's going to happen and both of these
points make us understand why this is
such a beautiful gift because when we're
feeling down right I mean even for us as
regular mundane issues when our friends
surprise us with something when we're
feeling down doesn't that cheer us up so
much more than if something has been
planned for weeks in advance and we know
was going to happen the gift came
completely unexpectedly out of the blue
at a time when the prophet just lost his
wife just lost his uncle had just been
rejected by the people of th is the
lowest of the low at the time and Allah
blesses him with the highest of the high
and that is the direct journey to
is and this clearly shows us that
that with every difficulty there will be
ease and the greater the difficulty the
greater the ease and the greater the
burden the greater the gift at the end
this clearly shows us that no matter
what Allah puts us through if we remain
firm and faithful what we get back will
be commensurate proportional or more
than what we have suffered the prophet
had to suffer so much in order to be
blessed with what he was blessed with
another uh blessing and point of of
benefit
here is that as IB cath said the famous
IB C the muf if
any person had seen even a fraction of
these Miracles he would have woke up a
mad
man to imagine I mean seeing these signs
he would have woke up insane but our
Prophet came back and went back to
sleep and this shows us the IM that
Allah himself
references the eyes did not blink they
didn't falter that he took in all of
these Miracles and he took it in
stride the eyes did not falter nor did
they go beyond and Allah is praising the
courage of the propess praising the IM
that if anybody else had witnessed as
says a fraction of this he would have
gone insane Wen up a mad man but our
Prophet comes back to his bed he goes to
sleep complete calm collect and this
shows us the courage and bravery of the
Prophet sallallah alai
wasam and this also is indicated in the
Hadith of the Prophet as
well
that that if you knew what I knew you
would not be able to laugh that much and
you would cry a lot
if you knew what I knew you wouldn't be
able to stand uh your enjoyment of life
that's what he's saying in another
Hadith he said you would have left your
wives in their beds you would have left
them you couldn't even go and you would
have gone out to the uh the fields you
would have gone out to the deserts
meaning you would go insane if you knew
what I knew but we don't know what he
knows and if we did know that we would
not be able to we would not be able to
uh keep that within us we would not keep
our sanity but the prophet can keep his
sanity yet another benefit that we gain
here is that it shows the humanity of
our Prophet we've said this over and
over again that we see the joys the
fears the Sorrows the ups and the downs
we see that he wakes up and he is H he
is sad because he knows his people are
going to reject him and yet he still
tells them and that shows his bravery as
well even if it's Abu jahal he'll still
mention CU Allah told him to say it this
also shows us the and of course the
benefit here we don't distort The
Message of Islam
we don't it's not our job even if we're
embarrassed about it and this is a big
problem that unfortunately a lot of us
fall into that we get embarrassed about
what Islam says and we want to sugarcoat
it we want to try to change it to
appease the people but that's not our
job it's not our job our job is to sell
the product not modify the product and
if people don't like it it's not my
fault I didn't it's not my product that
I can change it right I am the salesman
I'm just teaching telling others about
what my Rel religion is if they don't
like it I haven't it's not my
problem and so this we benefit from this
that the prophet did not change or
distort what Allah told him to tell he
told yet another benefit we gain here
the permissibility of using physical
proofs to show the truthfulness of Islam
in that when they asked him about what
Jerusalem was like he didn't say just
believe me don't worry about that rather
he began answering them he began
answering them and when he wasn't able
to answer he felt terrified and Allah
gave him the victory by basically
picking up Jerusalem for his benefit and
showing it to him any direction he
needed until he answered all of the
questions and this clearly shows us in
our times we may use physical evidence
whether it's miracles of the Quran
whether it's any other things of this
nature to prove the truthfulness of our
religion another benefit of is is to
link the messages of the two sons and
the two great traditions of the prophet
ibraim and that is is and is that
clearly the Mas represents ibraim and is
and the Masid represents is and his
progeny and the linkage is very clear
and the Precedence is given to mecah
because the Journey Begins in mecah and
it ends in mecah but there's a direct
linkage to that the two are not separate
from one another they are the same
message and this clearly shows us the
blessings and the F of the
and the m and this is proven especially
by the first page ofah is in fact the
first two pages all of it is a blessing
of and uh what happened with the yeh and
what is going to happen to the uh yahood
and of course this links it into the
fact that uh the is something that will
occupy Center Stage for many many uh
incidents and things to occur and this
inste of is the story of is the first
page is and that's a whole different
issue by the way what does the first
page say and what are the two incidents
of the first page of is that's beyond
the scope of this class but as I said
some of the scholars have their
interpretations that make this interp
that make this reference a modern
reference rather than a reference of the
past and we know for a fact that uh the
B makd will be the sign the site of the
final battle as well between good and
evil between the and
M it will be in the vicinity of uh so
this will remain something that is
Center Stage till the end of times and
it was of importance in the life of the
prophet and it shall remain important as
well and that is why when
conquered when he conquered uh Jerusalem
Subhan Allah as we said the actual
Temple ofan had been desecrated by the
Christians because the Christians were
very anti-semitic generally they really
did not like the Jews because they
viewed the Jews as being people who
rejected Jesus Christ as being the
rejectors of Jesus Christ and uh and
they felt them as basically uh try
having tried to kill their lord and God
right so they had
made into a trash dump they had made
into the junkyard of the city the actual
Temple of Solomon Temple
ofan and when conquered it he ordered
that all of this junk and trash be
cleansed and he built the Masjid that we
are now familiar with on that on that
location he built that Masjid to purify
because he knew the status of makd even
if the Christians did not at the time he
knew the status of B makd and therefore
he purified it and he was the one who
restored the honor to B makd not because
it's a yahudi site because it is a
Islamic site it is a site of Allah
having praised it in the uh Quran and so
there is a clear connection between
Jerusalem and between mecah and there's
a clear connection between the tradition
of is and the tradition of
is uh there's also a sign and some
callers have derived this as well that
the will be changed as well that the
prophet eventually uh he he starts from
Makkah he goes to makd he prays there
but then he comes back and he prays
basically F in the so there's going to
be this shifting or this change from to
the and this was to happen literally a
year later or maximum depending on when
we say is occurred maximum a year and a
half to two years later the change in
Direction came that is direction is
shifted to the uh uh in the existence of
and the and all of these creations we
clearly find that there are worlds
beyond our world and there are Creations
beyond our creation man should never
think that he is the only creation of
Allah subhana wa tala rather there are
many other creations many other species
many other existences that only Allah is
aware of and Allah says this in the
Quran that Allah has created what you do
not uh
know also in the existence of
bak and in many other instances as well
we clearly find that
Allah has linked
efforts with causes I'll clarify what
I'm saying nothing comes for free there
must be an effort before you get your
goal in other words you don't just sit
at home and and you think things are
going to happen rather there's always an
effort you need to put in to get to the
goal and even if Allah is blessing you
with a miracle there must be an effort
from your part to get the miracle so B
has to be mounted and Saddles and that's
what the prophet did to ride the B to
get to and then to tie B at the post
that b is tied upon right and this is
shown throughout the
Quran Allah is going to bless her with
fruits falling from the heavens but
those fruits they're coming from the
tree how is going to get
it it doesn't just fall you need to put
in some effort you need to do something
even if it's small but Allah has linked
your goal with some effort you put in
for it right and if this is for a
miracle how about the daily occurrences
that are not miraculous Allah never
gives anything like that you need to
show your dedication you need to put in
the effort to to strive to get it you
want money you're going to have to work
for it and Allah will give it to you you
want to be cured you're going to have to
go to the doctor and get the medicine
but Allah will give you the Cure
whatever you want Allah has created the
paths to get there even the Miracles
that don't have General paths Allah
still said You need to do something to
part the the Red Sea Allah didn't just
say to M stand there and it's going to
happen Allah said to M throw and hit
your staff you need to do something to
get that that Red Sea parted right all
of this clearly shows uh that Allah has
created the causes and the efforts to
get to the goals that you want the goal
isn't just going to come to you from the
heavens even if it is a miracle there
must be an effort to to that is put in
to uh get that miracle in the story of
the milk and the wine
we clearly see the purity of the Prophet
soul in that even before wine has been
made Haram he knows that he doesn't want
wine and he chooses the pure over the
corrupt and jbel says you have chosen
the pure had you chosen the wine your
umah would have gone astray and you
chose the pure and that is honey and we
talked about the difference between wine
and honey wine uh between wine and milk
milk comes out pure directly from the
animal and we drink it whereas wine has
to be fermented has to become corrupt
whatever it is you have to basically you
know uh ferment it and allow the
bacteria to go and corrupt The Taste
milk serves as food and drink and it
nourishes like nothing else on Earth
wine does not nourish at all it corrupts
the Mind wine is not nourishing it is
corrupting of the mind and so the
difference between milk and between wine
is the difference between Islam and all
other and all other ways and the prophet
chose Islam which is pure and all other
ways are corrupted and uh
evil in uh another uh interesting point
uh in one version and I didn't mention
this at the time and it was my mistake I
should have mentioned it back
then when the prophet went up and he saw
Adam he actually saw Adam surrounded by
many many people beyond what he count
and on the right side of Adam was one
group on the left side another group and
when he saw adamai saw the people on his
right he was happy and when he saw the
people on the left he began to cry so he
asked jiel about this and jiel said
these are all of the children of Adam
the are the people of J the are the
people of jam so when he looks at the
people of Jenna he's happy and when he
looks at the people of Janam he is
saddened so this is a benefit
and we derive from it yet another
benefit and that is that if you think
about it in this journey of is the
prophet physically saw all of the
pillars of IM all of them or at least
indications of them he saw the hijab of
Allah and he spoke directly with Allah
he saw numerous angels and he saw the
angel jiel in the original form he met
all of the prophets and he spoke to them
and this is the prophets in the books
right and he spoke to them about the day
of judgment and he spoke to them about
the signs of the day of judgment and he
saw heaven and hell which are going to
take place after the day of judgment and
he even saw the reality of how by seeing
Adam with the right and the left and by
one more thing the pen the writing of
the pen hearing the pen so he physically
saw the reality of as well so if you
think about it the IM of the Prophet
after literally seeing with his own eyes
all of these pillars of IM you
understand that this was a personal gift
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam to increase his own Iman of the
benefits we gain is the Brotherhood of
all the prophets that all of them
there's no hatred there's no animosity
they're all loving towards one another
and they acknowledge the differences of
their statuses when the prophet LED them
in prayer they all accept this because
Allah has decreed it and if this is the
case with the prophets then who are we
to deny the decree of Allah if some
people are richer than us others have
higher positions than us we should
accept the decree of Allah the prophets
have no problems accepting these decrees
as well even in M crying why did he cry
not out of anger or jealousy of the
Prophet but out of mercy and love for
his own um because he wanted his own
umah to be the largest um so he has a
feeling of wanting good for his um
there's nothing negative against the
prophet it's positive for himself that I
wanted to have the best umah and that's
basically natural that I want to have
the best Good Deeds right I want to have
the so the competition with other people
should be in and not in the worldly
things and we see this in mus and the
prophet that he felt a positive jealousy
not a negative jealousy that I wish I
had the largest um and and Allah has
will that he has the largest uh
umah of the uh benefits that we see
clearly and we mentioned this before the
status of the Prophet as being someone
who clearly is the most chosen of the
High creation
the the one who leads the prophets the
one who goes up
beyond the one who sees the veil of
Allah and here's the pen writing on this
tablet no other person has been there
and this is clearly of the blessings
that Allah has given uh to our Prophet
Muhammad s. wasam of the blessings we
get from is is the status of Salah and I
talked about this last Wednesday as well
that no other commandment has been shown
in this manner Salah is is the Crux of
our religion and it is enough of an
indication to show us how we got the uh
Salah of the blessings of
is is the superiority of our umah over
the um of mus because Musa said my umah
would not be able to pray five times a
day and yet this umah has taken it on
and by in large even if it's not 100% we
have a healthy percentage of the umah
that is praying five times a day and the
righteous followers of the Prophet are
all praying five times a day even though
um said I have experienced sorry M said
I have experience you don't have and my
um could not have done that but Allah
knew that we could and so he gave us the
five salawat and we are fulfilling the
five salawat there are many uh there are
many theological benefits as well
briefly we'll just go over them just
list them the fact that Allah is above
us the very fact that the prophet went
up shows that Allah is above us and this
is a clear reputation of those extreme
groups who believe Allah is everywhere
which is really a strange belief if you
think about it Allah is not everywhere
we're not walking through Allah Allah is
above us the Mir clearly shows that of
the benefits of is is that Heaven and
Hell exist right now as we speak Heaven
and Hell exist right now of the benefits
of is theologically benefits is that the
f is the Purity represented by milk and
the religion of is Islam is that Purity
Islam fits in with our being and
creation and it does not uh corrupt us
and there are other uh theological
benefits as well believe it or not there
are even some benefits and with this
will conclude some benefits of is we
learned some legal rulings first and
foremost of the legal rulings we learn
is that we need to ask permission before
entering doors where do we get this
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from mocking and asking
permission and we learn as well that
when somebody says who is there we
respond with our names because jiel said
this is jiel and not it's me because
even our Prophet said don't say it's me
right we respond with our names and this
is a benefit we even learned from is
because jel says this is jiel right I am
jiel here and so he mentions himself by
name of them is that the one who is
walking should start the Salam with the
one who is sitting and standing even if
he is more noble than him because the
prophets were were waiting for the
prophet Muhammad wasallam and they're
the ones who said their salams and in
the case of Malik as well when the
prophet turned around Malik was the one
who began the Salam before the prophet
wasallam could say the salams of the F
blessings here it is allowed to and
encouraged to give Glad Tidings and good
news uh to those who are worthy of
receiving it because the prophets gave
Glad Tidings to the prophet sallam and
they're telling him news about uh about
the signs of the day of Judgment of the
blessings here is that it is permissible
to give uh an encourage to give advice
that will bring about good for the
people in other words because because
Musa is giving advice even though the
prophet didn't ask for it m is giving
advice even though the prophet did not
ask for it and this shows us that when
there's a opportunity to help somebody
you should try to help them out uh and
it's a part of our religion a we already
know that of the uh blessings we get uh
is that it is completely permissible to
sit with your back facing the where do
we get this
from ibraim was sitting with his back
actually on right and some of our
cultures in particular my culture
consider this to be impermissible but
this clearly shows us that it is uh
permissible to do so and of the final
blessing we'll mention these are
blessings uh and this is clearly proven
in a Hadith that night traveling is
actually preferred to day
traveling and the prophet himself said
that when you are traveling then travel
at night because Allah subhah wa tala
makes a distance easier to go by right
uh and so is right is better than uh
doing it during the day isra means night
travel uh and this is something we can
derive in incidentally not directly but
there are authentic Hadith about this as
well that the prophet encouraged uh
night travel rather than uh day travel
and of course this is nothing wrong with
day travel but he's saying if you can
choose between the two the night travel
uh is better and uh obviously in those
days in the Sun and whatnot it was
easier to do it when the sun had gone
down of course night travel means after
M you go to as long as you can go this
is what is would mean these are some of
the benefits that we get from is and
inshallah next Wednesday we will start
the next chapter of our s and that is
laying the foundations for Medina and
what the prophet was doing during this
time to think about immigrating uh to uh
the city of Medina that will be
inshallah next uh next Wednesday
unfortunately we really don't have time
for Q&A I really went a bit late so
inshallah we'll try to take them in the
next Wednesday are there any
announcements do you know no
announcements in so we will stop over
here and of course Dr Dr Nadim Mah took
us to The Challenge and and he did
indeed bring Hal mallah right so
alhamdulillah
Mah alhamdulillah but after Salah after
Salah please pray that it expand as if
you be telling
us please pray that we expand when we
eat it no no no no we don't want to exp
Mee inshallah we pray that the Baraka
descends on the Suites inshallah so
let's pray Salah and then