uh before we begin do the sisters want
the lights on or off how do you like
it on or off off off okay some people it
on okay
inshallah um inshallah uh so last week
we had discussed in a lot of detail the
incident of T the incident of T and we
have mentioned uh many of the wisdoms uh
the blessings the hidden wisdoms that
Allah subhah wa ta'ala conferred upon
the prophet sallallah alai wasam and it
is because of these incidents the death
of
and the death of abuali and the incident
of that the entire year was called or
the year of Sorrow now as we have said
many times before and the they gave a
few weeks ago as well Allah subhana has
promised Allah subh has promised that
he's never going to test or TR us except
that there will always be ease along
with and also after that trial right and
Allah subhana wa tala has told us that
those who are patient will taste the
fruits of their patience and therefore
after the lowest Downs if you like in
the life of the Prophet the most
traumatic incidents in the life of the
Prophet Sall wasallam it was only
natural that the prophet would then be
gifted by one of the alltime highs and
in some ways uh and in some ways this is
the all-time high in some ways because
of course there are many multiple
victories of the Prophet Sall
wasam so after all of these personal
losses and griefs and encounters Allah
subhah wa ta'ala blessed him with one of
the greatest miracles in fact some
Scholars have said this is the greatest
miracle that the prophet has been given
personally not the miracle to his umah
his personal miracle and that is the
incident of
Al the incident
of and this incident
Allah subhah wa tala has referenced it
twice in the Quran once he has
referenced the is and in another verse
he has referenced the right so what is
the is and what is the the word is means
to travel at night this is the
linguistic mean meaning of the word is
to travel at night and therefore Al is
means the travel that occurred at night
there's a specific travel that occurred
at night and of course in Islamic
terminology or in s terminology Al is
means the night Journey that the prophet
undertook from mecah to Jerusalem this
is al-
is actually means the uh if you like
item or the mechanism of rising up
high which is the for those who
understand Al is the instrument that you
use to rise up okay okay there is a
mechanism of rising up this mechanism
call it a lift call it an elevator right
call it some type of spiritual uh
creation of Allah that causes a person
to ascend up this apparatus is
called from which means to Rise Up from
which means to rise up so Al that which
causes you to rise up so Al is the
actual apparatus but we refer to it as
the actual Ascension not the apparatus
but what the prophet did and that is to
rise up to the heavens and so Al is from
mekah to Jerusalem Al from Jerusalem to
the heavens so is is one Journey that is
on Earth this is a journey that happened
on this Earth Al is a journey that has
nothing to do with this world because it
is an Ascension it is going up to the
heavens and this journey as we said is
referenced both the isra and the m and
two separate suras reference them as for
the uh is Allah subhana wa tala revealed
an entire Surah and the Surah is called
is is and the Surah Begins by the famous
phrase
Allah is saying that he is worthy of
being praised subh subh means exalted
subhana means free of imperfection subh
means he has no evil no defect this is
what subh means so we say
sub all glory be to the one why should
glory be to him what is the reason why
glory is to him because he blessed his
servant with the miraculous journey in
other words Allah is saying that he is
worthy of being praised because of this
journey he is worthy of being venerated
because of this journey he is worthy of
being because of this journey that's how
important how miraculous how Grand the
journey is that Allah is being praised
because of
it subh the one who took his
servant and here uh the word AB is the
highest praise that Allah has given to
our Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
because when Allah says in the Quran
that I have created men and Jin for no
other reason except to worship me right
this is why I have created men and Jin
so when our Prophet is being called what
AB here means is the perfect worshipper
from right the perfect worshipper so no
one has perfected the worship of Allah
or the purpose of creation like our
prophet sallam and therefore as says
that Allah generally calls our Prophet
not by his name but by his title to show
his honor and rank because when you call
somebody by name of course that's okay
but when you call somebody by title that
is even more that is even more honorable
right to call somebody by title that's
why even in even in America when we meet
somebody uh you know Mr President or Mr
Senator right or meet Ambassador uh Your
Excellence
we don't mention names because there is
a title that is given much less in Arab
and Muslim land we have plenty of
royalty there you know so we have plenty
of hes and princes and whatnot so we
refer to them and this is the culture of
of mankind Allah subhah wa tala refers
to our Prophet sometimes by name
sometimes rarely right generally in
the
muh right Muhammad twice Allah says this
in the Quran but more often than his
name Allah refers to him by his title
and that is
Abdullah it's not a name Abdullah is not
a proper noun it is an adjective it's a
description that our Prophet wasam is
the one who has perfected the worship of
Allah meaning the prophet when the
prophet stood
up Allah Praises himself because he has
done done something for to the
prophet all praise be to Allah who has
sent the book to
his all praise be to Allah or may Allah
be exalted because he has taken his in
one
night from
theah to the in
Jerusalem this J Allah is saying we have
blessed the land around
it in this verse Allah tells us why is
why what's the wisdom Allah says so that
we may show him of our wondrous
Miracles
singular the entire journey of is meant
fori wasallam the entire journey of is
meant for
and that's why for us we simply have to
believe we didn't experience it we don't
we haven't seen it happen right we
simply have to believe that it happened
who was it for it was
foram and in so this is the is as for
the where does Allah reference
the not I was thinking somebody would
say
it's not referenced over
there Allah references the and Allah
subhana wa tal
says that the uh the chest is not lying
the heart is not lying when it narrates
what he saw he's not saying telling you
a
lie are you going to doubt what he saw
and indeed he saw him for a second time
we'll talk about this what is this
reference here uh he saw him at the what
is we'll get to
that the eyes did not go beyond their
Mark they didn't blink they didn't
become scared I.E the prophet gazed with
bravery the prophet wasam took in all of
these sights that he saw
he saw of the miraculous signs of his
Lord
notice you see the parallel
right and the exact same phrases or
roughly the same
right so that we can show him of our
magnificent signs and inah is Allah says
and indeed he saw of his Lord's
magnificent signs both suras mention is
with one reason and that is to show our
Prophet sallallah alai wasam the
Magnificent signs of
Allah and therefore the entire journey
of is was a personal gift toam it's a
personal gift this is yours for
you we just hear about it we're not even
we're just we're not even Witnesses
right we're just hearing about it as a
blessing to alai wasallam and the timing
here is perfect because we already said
Allah never tries a person and that
person is patient except that Allah
rewards him Allah never tests a person
and that person passes the test except
that he faces the uh fruits of that test
immediately now the journey of is a
little bit problematic from an academic
perspective for many reasons
uh realize my dear brothers and sisters
in Islam that the Journey of is has been
narrated by the prophet sallallah alai
wasam in numerous it has been reported
by over 20 in alone there are six
companions who narrated portions of it
and in fact now listen to this this
interesting fact here if you were to
compile all of the Hadith about the mean
era
except for is and put it in a volume and
you were to compile all of the about
is you will find more aith about is than
you will find about the entire me ER
minus
is in other words there's so many
narrations now we will say alhamdulillah
great well this leads us to some issues
first and
foremost this story has been taken up by
storytellers in the earliest of times
and storytellers were known to be
exaggerators and
Fabricators they were called an Arabic
they would just tell stories and
therefore this journey of actually has
been narrated in many obscure books not
the authentic books with such vivid
details and imagery uh that actually is
not even true it's not even true so
that's one problem that we have that the
academic scholar has to sift through all
of these things now for those of you who
are not aware in early Islam a
phenomenon began before Islam or before
academic Islam flourished and became
solidified a phenomenon began of people
uh preaching to the masses based on
ignorance just uh they would go mosque
to mosque and you know stories are
always the most enlightening of of
things to hear everybody loves to hear
stories and so these people made a whole
profession of telling stories some of
these stories were stories they heard
from friends and peers of the local
times and places some of these stories
were stories of the prophets of old
complete Fabrications some of these
stories involved our process these were
unscrupulous people who just wanted to
and after they told the stories people
would give them money you know just like
in our times as well we have people they
do things and then they just given money
so they would give them money so the
storytelling became very popular
especially in the second and third
generation of Islam and then the
scholars of Islam rose up and they
preached against this and they said that
uh these types of things need to be
stopped so much so that a number of of
banned the storytellers they they said
this is not allowed anymore in the
masjids but during this interim certain
stories became very popular and they
entered into this literature and
therefore the most popular story was the
prophet going up to is and all of these
weird things happening that have no
basis to them so that's the first
problem the second problem okay even if
we go through and find out which is
authentic which is not and alhamdulillah
many people have done this and I myself
have spent a lot of time going over
these once we even do that we have
another problem which is even bigger
because to sift through authentic and
inauthentic this is a exact science we
know exactly we go through the chains we
figure out authentic inauthentic once we
get all of the authentic what's the
problem we have pieces of a large
puzzle and there's nothing or very
little to link these pieces together in
a proper chronological
order you guys see the point here the
prophet might have said I saw this this
happened said this to me phrases right
imagine for example you attended a whole
day uh conference or you saw whatever
football match whatever a soccer match
basketball whatever when you come back
you're going to be talking about that
for the next few days maybe right and
you'll be giving Snippets to various
people right the problem comes how do
you know if you were to compile all of
these Snippets how do you know the
actual order of the original uh thing
that you saw it's very difficult and
therefore in one sense it is in fact
really to be honest it is impossible to
absolutely verify the full chronological
order of exactly what happened when and
in fact and this is uh human nature as
the sahabah reported uh again let me
give you an example that uh suppose one
of you uh even this lecture that I'm
giving now even this lecture I'm giving
now suppose one of you went back and
tomorrow summarized it for somebody who
wasn't here
you would maybe mention 5 10 things but
you might not remember exactly which
order I said it in and you would narrate
with your own wording so the same thing
has happened with the Journey of is that
all of these 20 sahab who narrated it
all of these 20 sahab even if they're
authentic the ones that are authentic
are 20 all of these 20 sahab around 20
sahabah they're mentioning things
sometimes those things contradict what
another sahabi said for example in order
of detail for example uh in one in one
version uh jel comes to the prophet
while he is in the Masid of and he hands
him the two vessels of milk and of wine
and he chooses between the two in
another version jiel hands him these two
when he's taking them up to the heavens
and he's in the heavens right what does
one do here because they're both
authentic and obviously one of the
narrators kind of sort of mix things up
then how do we know some Scholars said
it happened twice others said well you
know uh we just have to figure out which
one of the two is more authentic so you
see this is another job that uh the
scholars will always be engaged in and
therefore I have to give this uh little
bit of an introduction before I jump in
to illustrate to you some of the
problems that we face in talking about
the and also to point out that uh even
not just for this uh lesson that you're
learning from me but from any lesson
that sometimes what I say might be
little bit different than what you'll
find in some of the you know generic
textbooks right because there is there
are some difference within the and some
details and some variant so I want you
to know this before we move on in
fact not to confuse you too much because
I try not to make the class too advanced
in academics but you should be you
should know that some Scholars because
there's so many narrations of is and so
many different details some Scholars
very famous including for example thei
Fel felt this way that perhaps there
were multiple is
perhaps it happened more than once why
were they forced to say this because
they're getting reports that they cannot
reconcile so IM anoi for example in one
fatwa that he has uh you know perhaps
the prophet you know had two two isas
maybe right now you know for some of you
you've never heard this type of stuff
before but it actually was a very common
opinion Jam many famous Scholars of the
past they actually felt there's multiple
is is because why because there's so
many narrations and they cannot
reconcile them however in my humble
opinion and this is the majority opinion
this is opinion all of you aware of it's
only one is because Allah clearly says
subh what's the next
word it happened at one night right it
happened at one night therefore it's
pretty clear that there's
one and if there are any discrepancies
we try to reconcile them and that's what
we have insh done because is is so long
we're not going to finish today we're
going to take uh at least two uh if not
three just to go over all of the is
weeks so let us insh begin first
question when did it occur when did the
is
occur we find in uh early in early
literature from
the that they're trying to put some
dates on the is but we don't have any
narration from a any companion so some
of the early said is happened one year
before the hij
and this is the opinion of pretty much
most of the early commentators and the
early writers of the including IB is and
is as we know is the number one
Authority other Scholars said it
happened a year and a half others said
two others even said five years before
the hij however there's one very
important clue that we can at least
eliminate some of the more extreme
opinions and that clue is telling us
something about
khad said about
khad that Khadijah died before the Salah
became
F what has that that got to do with
anything so what if she died before
Salah became
F because Salah became F at
is okay so the fact that khad died
before became clearly shows that is
happened basically in the last year and
a half of Makkah right so we can
eliminate all the other opinions they
say 2 years 5 years 7 years clearly
incorrect because we have
clearly authentically saying khad died
before Salah became therefore the is
occurred after khadijah's death and
obviously khadijah's death and abu's
death and were literally one after the
other so it makes complete sense
therefore and this is the uh majority
opinion that is occurred after these
three incidents and before the hij and
that's basically our timeing when we're
doing the S class I finished uh the year
of sorrow and now we move on to the
incident of
is as for the month that the is took
place in there are no opinions narrated
from the early Scholars of Islam all the
opinions began after the first 200 years
and this clearly shows therefore that we
don't know which month it happened in
you know some some of these early
Scholars said some
said some said as you all know the
famous month in Muslim culture and lore
is rajab some said Ramadan some said sha
these are the five opinions I found I
found five opinions about various early
Scholars none of them have any authentic
basis from the and therefore the fact of
the matter we don't know which month it
occurred in we don't know which month in
occurred in so automatically anybody who
celebrates a day and says this is the
day of is when we don't even know the
month forget the actual day it occurred
this is simply uh an unknown uh a time
when it occurred in and you know what
and the fact of the matter is the fact
that the sahabah didn't preserve the
date shows that they didn't care what
day it occurred what's important is the
incident see the Muslims don't
commemorate specific days of the year uh
uh when something happens on it this is
not of our culture Allah gave us these
two days of remember those two days the
rest of this the sahabah did not record
what exact date it happened on because
they realize it's not important what's
important are the details of the story
so the first question when did it happen
probably the strongest position around a
year before the hij that's all we know
around a year before the second question
where did it happen from and here is
where we get the first difference of
opinion cuz we have a number of
different reports all of them authentic
two of them are in bukari
itself the first report says that the
prophet wasallam says that while I was
sleeping in
Alim what is Alim
it is the semicircular region that is
outside of the Kaa right this is theim
theim used to be a part of the Kaa in
the time of
ibraim and then the qur when they
rebuilt Thea I explained when I showed
you that chart many months ago they
didn't have funds to build a full Kaa so
they said let's build a half Kaa when we
get money we'll build the full Caba
right so they built a square Caba rather
than a rectangular as the original CA is
rectangular and ever since then
basically uh the the the Kaa has
remained a square and it was the wisdom
of Allah that theim remain open for
everybody because praying in theim is
basically praying inside the right
praying in theim is praying inside the
KA and this is the wisdom of Allah that
he let theim open so in this version and
this is the most authentic version The
Prophet wasam said that when I was in
the lying down jel came to me so this is
the most authentic version there is
another version uh that says that the
prophet says that when I was in my house
I saw the roof open up and jiel come to
me and then there are other versions
that are not as authentic ha says this
shows that he was in his house and jel
first took him to theim and this makes
sense because why would he be sleeping
in the open in theim when he has a house
in Makkah right so we see that not every
contradiction is at face value of full
contradiction in fact makes a good point
that is he was sleeping in his house and
J came to him and the first thing that
he took him to was the KA to pray two
over there and then from there J then
took him somewhere else okay so this is
how you reconcile sometimes to take both
of them at face value the prophet in one
story he begins from theim in the other
one he begins from his house and there's
no contradiction because from his house
he was taken to theim and
uh he says that in the or in
the opened up my chest and he brought
a bowl made out of gold that was full of
in one version it says zamzam in another
version it says full of Ean and again
there is no contradiction because
whatever is in that it is going to give
him Ean and it was also zamzam then so
again there's no contradiction here full
of Ean or full of zamzam
and he took out my heart and washed it
and put it back and this was the second
time as we all know that this happened
so the prophet's heart was taken out
twice once when he was four or five
years old but that time there was a
detail that is not mentioned here what
is that detail who
remembers very good a black spot was
taken out right now when this is
happening there is no black spot to take
out obviously because it's already been
taken out right so there is no black
spot so then what is the purpose of
washing the heart when it's already been
washed and it's already the black spot
has been taken out the purpose is to
strengthen the prophet for what he's
about to see because he's about to
see he's about to see things as
UMB says that if another man were to
have seen even a fraction of what the
prophet saw he would have gone mad he
just saw a fraction of all of these
wondrous amazing things he's entering a
different world he's
entering he's entering another dimension
if you like if another man were to have
done this he would have gone crazy our
Prophet Allah
says the eyes took everything in firmly
and so to fortify him to strengthen his
IM the prophet's heart was washed and
that's why in one version he says the
bowl was filled with IM and another
version he says it was it was filled
with uh zamzam then he says then jel
brought me a DA daba is a beast it's an
animal it is smaller than a mule and
larger than a donkey so he's describing
it with Precision so it's not as big as
a horse a horse is much bigger right
it's smaller than a mule bigger than a
donkey pure white
and it was called
Al Al and Al of course comes from the
root of lightning right so it's
lightning lightning speed right this is
the root of lightning and the prophet
explained that it puts its hoof where
the eye can see every hoof of this Bak
it puts it as far as the eye can see now
uh here's where some Legends began the
the V the image of B with wing Wings has
not been narrated right he this Hadith
clearly says that Bak is a physical
creature it's not a mythical it's not a
spir it is a DA Flesh and Blood right
it's something that Allah created that
is a creature and this creature it can
run much faster than a normal horse so
fast it jumps as far as the eye can see
now can you imagine we see you know
sometimes 8 9 10 miles in the distance
every foot is like 10 miles let's say
the other foot is another 10 So within a
millisecond 20 miles right within a
minute how much are you doing so if
every second you're going like 20 30
miles a second imagine this is something
way faster than anything that we know
but this is a physical creature
according to another report in
tii the prophet said it had a muzzle on
it you know what you put on the the
harness it had a harness on it and it
had a saddle so this is a physical
creature and so the prophet wasallam jel
was holding on to the the the harness
and the prophet wasallam stepped on to
Al he basically mounted Al what does an
animal do that is mounted by a strange
person jumps up it Nays right so Bak
tried to do that and jiel basically
smacked him jel yanked the harness and
he said woe to
you are you not ashamed how dare you do
this right so J is rebuking B how dare
you do this for
for no one has ridden you more blessed
in the eyes of Allah than your current
writer no one has written
you that is more blessed in the eyes of
Allah than your current writer what does
that show by the
way that Bak has been written by
other whoever whatever we don't know
right but Bak has been ridden by other
creations other Allah knows what they
are maybe they were not even humans
Allah knows right but this shows by the
way this clearly shows that Bak is a
physical creature right because it's
acting like creatures act it's acting
like animals act and when when it became
agitated jiel is rebuking so Bak
understands Bak knows what's going on
but it's still an animal so J is
rebuking him how dare you do this you
know you're this is the most noble
writer that you have ever
and this also shows it's just a glimpse
that Allah has created things beyond our
knowledge right you know Allah says in
the
Quran that Allah has created that which
you have no knowledge of last week we
talked about even the Gin have Beasts
and creatures remember we talked about
this Hadith right even the Gin have gin
animals right this is of the creation
that is amongst us we have no knowledge
of them so how about of the other world
or how about even like which is a
physical creature that lives in the
other world and it's only brought down
for these types of times and occasions
or maybe this was the only time it was
brought in this world we'll never know
this is a so comes and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi uh mounts him and the
prophet sallam said that I rode him and
he took me until we came to makd until
we came to makd now here we have to
pause here it's very interesting to note
that at this time there is no Sanctuary
at Mak there is no structure at there is
no mosque Temple or synagogue do you
know why because the Christians wanted
to make a point to the Jews that they
have no respect for their for their uh
Heritage remember Roman Rome is a
Christian country Empire now right and
they control Jerusalem but uh the
Christians historically were usually
very anti-semitic they were always there
was this thing that they had and this is
historically well known uh that they've
always had this type of thing and so uh
the Roman Emperor had basically decreed
that this holy sight of the Holy Temple
should be converted into
a trash you know gutter like this sewer
basically it was a a filthy area okay
what this shows is is that when the
prophet came here he is seeing the as it
was right so Allah basically brought
about the probably the original of San
or something whatever it was that he is
praying there because as it is it is a
trash dump this is not the uh the that
we can don't think of the Dome of the
Rock that obviously when the prophet is
coming there there is no Dome of the
Rock right there is no M all of this is
of course later on so the prophet said I
came to
and what clearly proves that there is a
structure here that mankind cannot see
is that he says and I tied Al to the
animal post that is used by the prophets
Subhan Allah B has to be tied up because
if you don't tie him up he's going to
run away okay so Bak has to be tied up
not only that but he ties up B to the
post that is used by the other prophets
which means what
the other prophets that used to pray
there right they had a post that they
would use to tie their animals to from
this I joke having an Imam parking is
not anything that's wrong that it's
permissible to have Imam parking outside
of the Masjid because here we have the
prophets coming to a special place right
outside the uh Masjid of course that's a
joke don't take it to that's for horses
so we makeas for our times to cars okay
we makeas for our times that's just of
course a joke but but uh the point is
interesting that the prophets had a
special place to park their animals that
they would put their animals cuz that's
what the prophet said so I tied it to
the post that was used by the previous
prophets and this by the way again
clearly shows that he is seeing a
structure that is not seen by men at
this time because obviously the post
that Prophet San used is not going to be
present you know for 3,000 years later
obviously right so Allah is basically
showing him the original and he is
physically there and this is Allah's
capability and this beyond our
understanding and then he
says I went inside and I prayed two I
prayed two and of course this is before
was legislated so this shows us that the
concept of of when you enter the Masid
you should pray this is even before the
process and legislated it in Madina cuz
that's when he legislated it but he
himself was practicing things in mecah
this is before Salah is right but he's
still praying and he's praying when he
enters the Masjid now here's where we
get another minor uh narration
difference according to one narration
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
prayed two and when he turned
around he saw all of the prophets lying
behind him so the impression we get from
this narration he didn't know that there
were prophets behind him okay from the
other narration that we have the prophet
actually says that I saw myself with the
other prophets and there was M
praying and he was a strong and tall and
strong and muscular man of a brownish
color as if he is a man from the tribe
of shua we don't know what the people of
the tribe of shanu look like in our
times but for the people who the prophet
is speaking he is saying Musa is like
the people from the tribe of shua and I
standing and praying so there's one
place M standing another placea is
standing and the one who looks most like
him
is once again we don't know what looks
like but for the sah there's a
resemblance going on he's trying to show
them that uh this is what he looks like
uh in another version The Prophet said
he was uh whitish in color of course the
Arabic is red as I said before the Arabs
called white people red just like the
American Indians call white people pale
faed right so the Arabs would call red
or
yellow they would call the the white
people either red or yellow because
that's how they perceived that type of
whiteness as being reddish or yellow so
he said he was a basically a Caucasian
looking or whitish looking and his hair
glistened with water as if he had come
out of a steam bath so his complexion is
uh uh it's it's basically you can
imagine this I don't know how El to
describe it but the hair is coming it's
glistening uh and he is a rather Short
Man compared to M so Isa is not as tall
as M and then he said and I
saw notice standing and praying M
standing and praying ibraim is standing
and praying right as he enters the
Masjid all of them are standing and
praying and the one who resembles him
the most is your own companion meaning
himself right in another Hadith he said
uh that I could not see anybody more
closely resembling to ibraim than myself
and I could not see anybody more closely
resembling myself to ibraim in other
words ibraim and our Prophet wasam were
almost mere images of each other in
their physical appearance and then it
came the time
to so I was put the IM of them so this
version has it that he knew exactly
what's going on and this is again one of
those things that well it's difficult I
mean how do you reconcile this Allah
knows best did he know did he not know
there's two versions but the the main
point is he is leading the the uh and
the behind him and what is interesting
uh what is interesting is that all of
the prophets he's seeing are already
standing and
praying and this shows us the importance
of Salah that even after death at least
for ibraim and M as for Isa he's still
alive right but even after death the
prophets are praying and in fact our
Prophet s wasallam said that when I was
going to is I passed by the grave of M
so this means he passed by his grave and
then Allah took him to mjid uh to uh M
right and then Allah took him to the
sixth heaven so he met M three times so
he said I passed by m in his grave what
was he
doing then he gets to now M doesn't need
bz m is already in the spirit form M
does not need B to get to so M was there
what's he doing standing and praying Isa
he only saw him there for the first time
what's Isa doing standing and praying
ibraim what's he doing standing and
praying this is enough of an indication
of the blessings of Salah that the
prophet is seeing all of
these even after death they are standing
and praying uh it also uh shows and of
course this is clearly understood the
fact that the prophet wasam becomes the
IM of all all of the prophets behind him
of all of the
and clearly shows that he is being given
an honor that is unparalleled and
unequaled that not only is
he right he is the Imam of all of the
prophets not only this but by extension
since every Prophet is the leader of his
umah and the prophet is leading the
prophets who leave all the individual
UMAS our Prophet Muhammad is the leader
of every single um I.E as he himself
said he is the the say here means the
leader the master he is the S of all of
the children of Adam on the day of
judgment and then he said I'm not saying
this to boast to be arrogant this is
just a fact and this incident clearly
proves this that by Leading the prophets
in and every Prophet is the leader of
his um so the leader of all of the UMAS
therefore is our Prophet Muhammad Sall
alai wasam uh another Point here that
the scholars have commented on is that
because these prophets are obviously in
a different like they're in their
spiritual form or what not so there's no
space barrier as it is anyway they're
actually all standing in
one right so there is no behind him
there's one long row that we can
basically uh extrapolate
is 120,000 and 317 or something people
long cuz we know there's 120,000
prophets remember a lecture long back we
spent a whole hour talking about
prophets and Messengers remember that
one long time ago and then we said that
there's 120,000 prophets and 30 15 or so
Messengers so in this Hadith we
learn are standing behind him this means
there's a that is 120,000 and something
people long and they're all in the same
SF and this proves another point and
that is in one version in one ey excuse
me that all the prophets are the same in
one sense and then in another
sense right some prophets we have
preferred over others so the Quran says
no difference and then the Quran says
yes we have preferred some over others
how do we reconcile we we they are all
the same they're praying the same prayer
they're praying to the same Lord doing
the same R and their message is the same
but amongst themselves some are better
than others and our Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam is the best of all of
them then he says that after he
finished as I said this is one of those
differences in this version jel comes to
him right now and presents two two
utensils in another version jiel does
this when they ascend up to the heavens
minor difference it doesn't really
matter that much uh so what are these
two utensils and what are they what is
inside of them one of them has
and the other one has Lebon right so
there's wine and there is milk now
remember up until this time wine has not
been made
Haram wine is still Halal the Muslims of
meca are drinking wine wine has been
made Halal at this point there is no so
jel hands him these two and jel says
choose and choose for your umah in other
words this choice will affect will
affect not just you as will affect your
umah so so the prophet wasam chose the
milk and jiel says you have chosen the F
you have chosen the right one and that
is the and this is a huge symbolism here
that again have to summarize but I've
spoken about this in my theological
lectures in more detail the difference
between wine and milk is very profound
and it's very
symbolic milk comes pure from the animal
as Allah
says from between the filth and the
blood Allah says we bring
forth pure wholesome milk for those who
drink it and in a Hadith uh it says that
nothing substitutes for both food and
drink other than milk nothing
substitutes for both food and drink
other than milk so milk is a blessed
delicacy that Allah mentions in the
Quran that the prophet praised that he
is reported to have drunk many times he
used to drink milk used to love uh
camels milk and sheep's milk milk is
pure and it comes straight from the
animal and it is wholesome and healthy
and it is nourishing and nutritious as
you all know we are instructed to drink
you know at least a glass or two
everyday kids even more than this right
what is wine wine is corrupted fermented
filthy wine is something that was pure
and then bacteria literally bacteria
have infested it right and corrupted it
wine stinks literally it stinks right
you smell it and you feel disgusted what
is this how can you you know
alhamdulillah I mean it's not a praise I
have never drunk wine I've never tasted
alcohol but I remember clearly the first
time when I was a teenager I passed by a
group of you know young people partying
with wine and whatnot uh and I had first
time I smelt it and W I thought that
somebody had urinated on the street W I
thought somebody had urinated on this
tree what is what is this my friend said
don't you know this smell what is this
he said this is this is beer this is
what wine smells like alcohol smell like
it's disgusting just to smell it it's
disgusting right and then what does it
do when you drink it is it wholesome is
it pure like milk is it nourishing no it
makes you lose your mind it corrupts you
it makes you think strange and act
strange and act foolish and um one of
the sahabah said that W even if wine had
not been prohibited any intelligent man
would have avoided it one of the sahabah
said that even if wine had not been
prohibited any
man proper intelligence will understand
how foolish it is when you drink wine
you act like this right so compare and
contrast what is milk what is wine the
prophet chose that which is pure comes
from the pure and sustains you purely
versus the wine that is corrupt that is
corrupted and that corrupts the body
right so the proess automatically chose
the pure and jiel said this is for your
um I.E your um will also be pure and
your um will be upon the F and our
Prophet sallam said look jel called milk
the F and our Prophet said every child
is born upon the F it's pure it's
wholesome and it is a good child it's a
child that is good in it the based
Instinct of man is good and not evil so
the prophet chose the milk and that is
when uh the the the jel came to him and
uh the prophet sallam says the the doors
of the S opened up for me this is the
now okay so from Jerusalem this is the
from the doors open up for me so notice
the da or B is still tied at the post
okay so the journey is very simple from
M to M from M up to the heavens then
he's going to come back down and then
use B to get back to meca okay so this
is the Journey of
is so he says jel ask permission for the
doors of the Heavens to
open and the
gatekeeper behind the door asked who is
it so jiel says it is jiel and the
gatekeeper said do you have
anybody and jiel said yes I have with me
Muhammad s wasallam the gatekeeper says
has he been sent
for does he have permission to pass jiel
says yes so then the doors open up so
this shows that there are doors that are
locked cuz Jil cannot go through there
are doors that are locked there's a
special type of lock it shows that every
door has a doorkeeper a gatekeeper and
it shows that the gatekeeper is not
allowed to let anybody pass unless they
have
permission and because these are angels
and Angels cannot lie what is the
permission you don't need a paper you
don't need a visa you don't need a stamp
the angel simply says Allah has told me
to do this they don't lie right so the
angel has to verify who is there who is
with you does he have permission that's
all and if the person says yes or the ji
says yes permission is given so for
every single one of the seven Heavens
the same story happens they get to the
second heaven and it's closed jiel ask
permission the gatekeeper says who is
there jel says it's jiel he says is
anybody with you the same conversation
every single one of the seven Heavens
okay now let's pause here we need to
explain what are these seven
Heavens this is one of the biggest
confusions that people have that they
confuse jat with
s they confuse J with s and these are
two separate words and two separate
Concepts Allah Allah subhana wa tala
says that he is the
one Allah has created
seven one on top of the other means in
layers means in
layers right this is layer upon layer
and so Allah
says and Allah has created a similar
number of earths that's a separate topic
we don't want to go into that tangent
right now it's confusing enough as it
is so there are seven s okay so s are
physical heavens above
us and in my humble opinion I think I've
said this before uh uh in in this class
in my humble opinion uh everything that
we see around us the furthest
star hundreds of billions of light years
away all of the millions and billions of
galaxies that we know everything is the
lowest Heaven IE Heaven number one right
at the or you can say is how the Quran
refers to it the lowest of the heaven
Beyond this there is a sixth beyond that
there is a five beyond that there is a
four and why do I say this because Allah
subhana wa tala says
we have beautified the and we know the
is the first because even in this report
it
says even in this report in B the
prophet says took me until we finished
to
the and then he asked permission for the
door to open
so what is it Allah says in the Quran
we have beautified
the with its lamps and its lights
meaning meaning what the Stars so all
the stars that we see and if you study
even the most basic astronomy your mind
begins to just lose track of how big
this space is right if you study even
the most basic lengths and distances and
light years and the furthest Galaxy is
literally billions of light years away
which means that it doesn't even exist
anymore what we're seeing was what it
was you know billions of years ago the
mind just boggles every telescope
mankind keeps on inventing it keeps on
looking further into the universe we
still have not discovered just what the
physical eyes with the telescopes can
see you guys understand this that this
is unbelievable how large wah your mind
cannot comprehend how large this created
universe is we have no idea we have no
clue because everything we keep on
creating when we did the Hubble the
Hubble telescope is still sending us
information we cannot digest and every
time we'll create a bigger one I am sure
that that bigger one will not be able to
see uh you know except to a distance
right and all of
this just the lowest Heaven what is
beyond
that we we'll never really going to find
out in this world and in the next life
we wouldn't care about it anyway okay so
that's of the creation of Allah subhana
wa tala so what are the samaat
physical
places one of which is our universe our
everything that we know our cause most
Beyond this there are second third
fourth fifth sixth and seventh now what
are the janat the janat are the heavens
that are promised as the reward for the
Believers s is different than
jna where are the
janat it appears there's two
interpretations here one of them says
that the jat are in the seventh s all of
them so the jat are hundreds and
thousands of layers as well right and
where do they occupy their place is the
seventh
heaven right so the seventh s is where
all the jat are this is one
interpretation another uh interpretation
which is very similar is that the jat
began in the sixth but then they work
their way to the seventh and there's
evidences for both and you know to be
honest this is we're just trying to
trying to find bits and pieces here and
there but the bottom line is the jat are
at the top of the S right the jat are at
the top of the and this is what we get
from thei now what
happens the
prophet goes to the first door the first
door opens and there is a man standing
the prophet described as being tall huge
and jel says this is your father Adam so
say Salam to him so the prophet said
Salam and Adam responded and
said welcome oh Noble son and oh uh
Noble Prophet welcome oh righteous son
and oh righteous
Prophet then we went to the second
heaven and then the same conversation
this is a very longi it is inkari and
this is the uh this Hadith only
describes who's at each heaven and what
happens at each heaven so this paragraph
of jil's conversation with the
gatekeeper multiply that by seven that's
you understand what's happening here in
the second Heaven There
is I.E their two mothers were sisters
right so maram and her sister the their
two children are Y and Isa or Isa and
yya and uh the prophet wasam was told
this is y and Isa say Salam to them and
so I said Salam to them and they said
welcome uh oh Noble brother and a noble
Prophet Adam said oh Noble son and a
noble Prophet they are saying oh Noble
brother and O Noble Prophet then the
third heaven and in the third heaven was
yu. and the same thing welcome oh Noble
brother and oh Noble prophet and here is
where the Prophet said the famous phrase
I saw YF and lo and behold it was as if
he had been given half of all
Beauty right so this is where that
famous phrase comes from that in fact
this is the only time he saw YF and he
goes I saw YF it was as if he had been
given half of all Beauty then I went up
to the fourth Heaven and the fourth was
ID and Idris also says welcome oh Noble
uh oh Noble brother and a noble Prophet
then I go up to the fifth heaven and
there is Haron and the same uh wel
become a noble brother Noble Prophet I
go up to the sixth heaven and there is
Musa and he described mus as well as
being Stout tall muscular and brownish
color uh and he goes again the one rewi
says as if he's from the tribe of shanu
and if anybody knows what somebody from
the tribe of Shinu looks like I would
like to know I don't know is there
something still known or is it now uh
gone from our times then I went up M
began to cry this has a story that the
others don't have M began to C cry so he
was asked why are you crying so M says I
am crying because this young man who was
sent after me shall have a larger
following that will enter Jenna than my
own
um I am basically jealous that this man
who who is a young man M called The
Prophet now the prophet is how old now
52 51 52 right m is calling
him some of you should be happy
in why is he being called gulam by
mus because mus died when he was 130 or
something years
old okay so compared to Musa this is a
man half my age right and so M says this
is a right it's a young boy basically
right so is allowed to describe the
prophet in this manner because his own
age is more than double that of the
Prophet when he passed away okay so he
cries and he says that he's basically uh
jealous in an Islamic manner as we'll
talk about because this is a a positive
thing that you're jealous for more Hass
he's not jealous against the prophet
wasam but it's good to be jealous for
more rewards right you should be jealous
for the of the Quran the of the Quran
the the generous you know rich man you
know the Hadith right this is a positive
jealousy so this is what m is that this
is a positive jealousy I wish I was like
this right it's not a negative that why
did he get it it's the positive that
we're all supposed to uh have and then
the prophet sallam said after the
seventh heaven notice by the way each
one of these welcoming committees
welcoming parties is after he enters the
heaven right so he enters the first
Heaven There is Adam waiting for him
then he enters the second heaven and
then there
is there is y
Anda right and then the third is YF so I
wish should memorize this by the way
this is a quiz question you should
memorize the order from now on so let's
start again the first is Adam the
second and the third YF the fourth Idris
the fifth Haron the sixth M excellent
and then the seventh we all know and
then he said that I went up to the
seventh heaven the same question back
and forth with jel and then I saw
ibraim and he was sitting with his back
leaning on
the we're getting there he was sitting
on his back leaning
on and jel said to me this is your
father
ibraim IIM say Salam to him and so the
prophet said Salam to him and ibraim
responded the exact same way that Adam
had responded notice the beginning and
the end the same response
right the only two who said this right
are Adam and ibraim because everybody
else they
said right but uh Adam and ibraim were
the only to who said welcome oh Noble
son they're proud of their son Subhan
Allah right this is natural in they're
proud of their son welcome oh Noble son
and uh and oh Noble uh Prophet now uh so
inall today what we'll do is we'll
finish up with the wisdom of these
ordering and then we'll have to stop
inall because there is appears to be
some wisdom in this ordering why these
prophets in this order realize that this
order common to popular misconception
this order has nothing to do with
blessings of the prophets no this is not
the case some people say that Adam was
the lowest and then no that's not the
case that's not does not seem to be the
case um and what appears to be is that
these are basically as I already
referenced some Scholars have said these
are basically welcoming committees
welcoming parties that Allah subhana wa
taala sent some of the noblest prophets
and some of the most famous prophets to
Simply greet the prophet as he comes in
and Subhan Allah this is a custom that
we still have you know when a noble
person comes when the president or
dignitary comes the president comes out
to meet him or the dignitary comes out
to meet him this is the Sunnah of Allah
even in the creation and so when our
Prophet is coming up he is basically
being being given the Royal carpet
welcome that every single Heaven every
single s there's going to be a welcoming
party or a welcoming Prophet to greet
him and to then help him to move on to
the next uh stage and in each of these
uh seven choices there seems to be some
uh some wisdom and some hidden reference
and each one of them we can derive that
for example Adam it is befitting that he
is the first to greet him because he is
the father not just of all the prophets
but the father of all of Mankind and by
seeing Adam what you remember is that he
was a man whom Allah subhah wa ta'ala
chose with Jenna but he had to leave
Jenna but eventually he shall be
returning to Jenna and there is a
symbolism of leaving your security and
comfort and leaving if he left the
holiest place in the next life the
prophet has to leave the holiest place
in this world and that is meca but
eventually he will return to that
holiest place just like our father Adam
will eventually return to his holiest
place if if Allah will that Adam had to
leave the holiest in the in that world
our Prophet just the next year is going
to have to leave the holiest of this
world and that is mecah cuz we know
mecah is the holiest city so he will
have to be expelled from Mecca like his
father Adam was expelled from from Jen
and the people who did
itan did it there and the evil people
are doing it now Abu laab and these
others are doing it now okay so there is
that symbolism there seeing uh Isa and Y
Isa and Y are the perfect second
candidate second Jenna why because they
are chronologically the closest to the
prophet in time in time no prophets came
after Isa and Y until the prophet
Muhammad sallallah alai wasam so they
are the closest contemporaries they are
the peers in terms of chronological
order and there's also a symbolism here
that the yahood their own people tried
to kill the both of them and and they
succeeded in killing y you know John the
Baptist they actually cut his head off
can you believe their own Prophet this
is not I'm not saying this this is in
the New Testament I'm not the one saying
this is in their own books right that
they killed him
in what can I say this is that's how
Allah describes him so they killed him
in okay and this is John the Baptist y
they tried to kill Jesus we all know the
story right they even tried to kill
there's a clear symbolism here you're
not the only one who has been opposed
you're not the only one who people have
rejected you right and if that doesn't
bring the point home let's move up to
the third heaven
yuam who tried to harm him his own blood
brothers his own blood brothers tried to
harm him but what happens and here's the
symbolism his own blood brothers
reaccept him back and they accept his
faith and they repent and they are
guided and therefore there is a
symbolism that your own people will
return to your faith your own blood
relatives who have expelled you shall
come back and Subhan Allah what did our
Prophet say or who did he quote when he
conquered mecah who did he quote when
he's standing on the who did he quote
when the people of qur said what are you
going to do what are I going to do with
you right and they said you
are right the brothers of yusu say the
same thing that you know we we we oh
brother we wronged you you know you're
our brother we wronged you do something
so the The Quay said this to the prophet
and what does the prophet respond he
responds by quoting YF just as he saw YF
now
right there is no sin on you today Allah
will forgive you moving up to the fourth
Heaven the only thing we know about
Idris is what Allah says in the
Quran and that's all we need to know we
have raised him to a high place that's
the only thing we know about and so the
prophet is meeting someone whom Allah
has described as in a high place and by
the way he's in the fourth Heaven out of
seven that's a high place
right and so our Prophet is being
told where have raised your own rank as
well right harun and mus both have
similar reasons uh and in that Haron uh
was despised by his people and then
accepted and Musa is the one Prophet
that has the most similar experiences to
our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alai
mus has the greatest number of trials
and tribulations that are similar to our
prophet and he has the second largest um
after our Prophet sallam so his
experience is unrivaled amongst the
prophets and when the prophet Met m mus
had a lot more experience than him
because Prophet is still in the middle
of his da plus M has six decades 7
decades more than the prophet and so
Musa is being shown as some type of role
model and how many times did our Prophet
wasam say and this is an authentic
Hadith that when something happened that
harmed him that irritated him he said
indeed Musa was hurt more than I was and
he was still patient he kept on
reminding himself of Musa right indeed
Musa was harmed more than I was by his
own people and he kept his cool he kept
his uh patience and of course in the
highest Heaven uh and remember these are
heavens and not janat so don't think
that them is in the first Jenna and then
no these are not jat all the prophets
are in the highest of jna right so this
is the common confusion that Adam is in
the lowest Jenna no he's not in the
lowest jna he's in the lowest s and the
two are not the same as we said they
have been taken from their places and
they have been brought to the S to be
welcoming parties for the prophet
sallallahu alai wasam right now they're
not in jna because Jenna has not been
occupied since Adam has left it right
Jenna is not occupied until after the
day of judgment so wherever the prophets
are and they are as our Prophet wasam
said in their graves standing and
praying because he saw ibraim in his
grave standing and praying the only
exception to all of this is of
course CU Allah
says that uh
sorry that I will raise you up to myself
so the only one who is physically uh had
to come down to meet the prophet was Isa
right and this is a symbolism that he
will come down again because that's the
whole point of him coming down towards
the end of time that he's come down once
to meet the prophet and then he will
come down again to meet his um at the
end of times and that's what's going to
happen so by by uh showing ibraim of
course the prophet is being shown his
own ancestor uh and the highest of all
the prophets because M was indeed very
high but he was and is the one whom you
speak to ibraim was higher because he
was
and our Prophet sallam said and means
close friend Confidant and our Prophet
sallam said Allah has only taken me and
ibraim as a the only people that ibraim
that Allah has taken as a is basically
ibim and myself there's only two people
that have reached that status that the
title of and that is ibraim and the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and
the fact that ibraim is sitting with his
back
on is of course completely uh
appropriate what is Allah subh
mentions it's in the
Quran literally means the frequented
house means the frequented house
and we only have basically one Hadith
about that is authentic with different
version but one Hadith that's all we
have no other information
about and if you hear anything else then
uh trust me it is fabricated or weak the
only information we have about is that
the prophet said it is a house the
similar to the Kaa in one version it is
the Kaa of the heavens just like there's
a Kaa on Earth in another version it is
above the ca on Earth such that if it
were to fall it would fall on the ca on
this Earth so it is above the Kaa of
this Earth and every single day since
Allah has created the creation so way
before the Kaa was here every single day
70,000 Angels
enter to basically do and pray and those
70,000 never return and every single day
this happens do the math after 10 days
you get 7 million after so you do the
math and after a while your bra brain
starts spinning every day 70,000 Angels
who have never come before and they're
never going to come again since the
beginning of time up
until and ibraim is there because he is
the one who built the Kaa on Earth so he
deserves to be associated with the Kaa
in the heavens and we
know the reward will be in accordance
with what you have done right what you
sacrificed what you did Allah will
reward you in the same category as what
you did and so when
ibraim built a on Earth he was rewarded
by being associated with the in the
heavens and that's why the prophet saw
him with his back to resting and
relaxing over there and if the angels
are not allowed are not allowed to come
back ibraim is over there Subhan Allah
he has a higher status right if the
angels can only come once ibraim alisam
is peaceful and content and relaxed that
he is in
the our time is up we said probably
another three lessons maybe at the rate
we're going Subhan Allah maybe three or
maybe we'll see if we can do it in two
uh of is and as we said this is uh we
have a lot of incidents and a lot of of
is and inshallah we'll continue uh next
week uh before I open the floor for Q&A
some announcements uh
firstly uh what's the announcements
firstly the program this weekend I hope
that inshallah all of you are as excited
as as I am about this program uh we're
having uh some somebody who's a
specialist in child uh Psychiatry uh
someone who uh was the head child
psychologist at the UT Medical Center in
Houston very prestigious position he was
there for many years uh and now he's
dedicated more of his time to the Muslim
um he's a licensed uh uh counselor a
licensed medical practitioner uh and uh
we will be doing uh a program that deals
with uh dealing with teenagers basically
and therefore on Saturday starting at
10:30 what time 10:30 uh Saturday at
10:30 uh this will be for uh a session
just for the teenagers and by teenagers
we basically 11 and and 12 and up so in
11 and 12 and if you feel that your son
who's maybe 10 is mature enough then
that's fine uh but do realize that these
are going to be topics that you
understand teenagers face with so you
know your son better and you know your
daughter better there will be very Frank
talk uh and you understand what this
Frank talk is uh you know it's not going
to be that explicit but at the same time
uh it's going to be some very explicit
questions are going to be asked and uh
Anonymous surveys are going to be done
because we want to hear from them what
are their problems you know they can't
come to us they're too scared to come to
us directly let them come to us
indirectly then let them fill out the
forms you know anonymously and there's
going to be surveys there's going to be
open Q&A there's going to be uh just
chilling out time of course there's
going to be lunch included as well so uh
you know have your kids dropped by 10:30
no adults allowed this is a private you
know for the for the teenagers basically
uh and you know Dr sh is going to be
here he's our guest and he'll be be uh
he has plenty of experience especially
with Muslim teenagers uh so he'll be
here uh up until what's the end timing
10:32 3:30 10:30 to and there will be
lunch and some chilling out time it's
not just going to be all lectures and
stuff some games and activities so 10:30
to 3:30 uh Saturday night at 6:30
there's a uh lecture for the converts uh
but it's open for everybody but it's
going to be geared towards the converts
about uh marriage uh in Islam and
basically some of the issues they need
to know uh the F of getting married for
example some basic stuff for them and
inshallah Dr will also be our guest but
I will be the main speaker but he has a
lot of experience by the way in marriage
and in in youth he has a lot of
experience but we wanted to emphasize
one we're doing a marriage thing with
another speaker in two months as you
know uh so that's on Saturday two events
on Saturday on Sunday 10:30 to 3:30 uh
will be the same session but for the
adults for the adults no teenagers
allowed and especially if you're
teenager came on Saturday you really
need to come on Sunday because we will
share with you the results of our
surveys your own teenagers have filled
out forms of course we don't know who is
what they're not going to be with names
but the the the comments that they have
said the concerns that they have
expressed we will hear them and you will
hear perhaps your own child speaking to
you indirectly and if it's not your
child it's the child of your brother or
sister in this Masjid right so this is
something you need to be very familiar
with do not think this is only a
children's event if you are a parent you
need to send your child and you just
show up yourself if your children are
too young then you just show up yourself
uh you know to learn about teenagers if
you've already gone through the teenage
years I don't know it's up to you if you
want to come or not I don't know what to
say okay I'm sure some of you have gone
through the teenage years and you've
already your kids are already mallah
adults it's up to you if you want to
come or not I'm not uh you know saying
anything uh or maybe we can benefit from
your wisdom how about this right will
benefit from your experience because
believe me I need to know and I think
many of us need to know we need to
benefit from your wisdom and experience
so this is going to be Saturday and
Sunday 10:30 to 3:30 however we need to
cater we need to make sure the chairs
are set up we need to have appropriate
lunch so please register the
registration forms are with brother H
are you going to hand them out um just
uh just uh register for it so that we
know how many people will be coming
inshallah uh and if you want to take a
form for somebody or you can do it
online uh if you know somebody who has
not registered do tell them to show up
inshallah we'll try to accommodate but
lunch we need to know how many people
are coming so uh do try to do that
inshallah tal uh with that we have just
2 three minutes for questions and we
break for Salah inshallah so questions
for this
uh so Dr Nadim says can we derive from
the Hadith of is the benefits of organic
milk
versus hormonally changed milk right
it's a very valid
question let me just say though that we
cannot compare organic milk versus with
those modified to to to alcohol right so
it's a bit of a stretch to compare there
uh you know there is a movement Now in
America it's very small but there's a
movement to drink fresh unpasturized
milk and I was actually very surprised
when I heard this uh but when I went to
Houston this last summer I was told that
there's a place that the farmers they
come in the morning to sell the milk
that they extracted one day ago just
literally and it's unpasturized to get
the full now I have never uh drunk that
milk but those who have have told me
it's tastes completely different than
pasteurized and then this hormonally
modified and I have no doubt personally
that that is the case now uh I have I
mean I don't know what to tell you other
than it makes sense but to derive this
from the kind of sort of
basan a drink of it is the drink of f
but there's nothing that goes against
boiling it for pasteurization I
was as the drugs are being introduced I
have no doubt that if you try to
genetically modify something you're
messing with the Perfection of Allah
I've have no doubt about that so I mean
this is in the Quan you
know thatan will try to cause you to
change the creation of Allah so we we
can derive this directly from the Quran
to be honest
uh
statement might used
by we do not know any other authentic
Hadith about Bak or who wrote him or his
description what we know is exactly what
I have said smaller than a mule larger
than a donkey white and its hoof goes
where the side can see that's all that
we know that and there's a tether and
there's a saddle we don't know any other
details about who has written B but it
is not surprising wasting a that by the
United States
conference uh I mean you know the source
of that that particular series used a
book that is simply full of stories and
I I am a little bit more academically
inclined I just don't just quote these
that the book that he quoted okay sister
in the back was a hand
raised not going to be yes I made a
mistake I I I said there's going to be a
sisters two weeks ago but I forgot that
we had invited Dr AR sh so the sisters
Hal will be inshallah uh sometime in uh
you know March inshallah we'll announce
it sorry sorry February not that
sometime in February inshallah we'll
announce it uh so there's not going to
be sister's on Sunday yes so going back
to the uh the milk and the wine isue um
just like pork why wasn't alcohol
before why wasn't alcohol prohibited for
earlier
UMAS there's there's no there's no
explicit reason given in our texts uh
but it is possible some Scholars have
derived this that because our
Shar was the perfect and the Perfection
of the Shar of all Shar cuz Allah
clearly says in the Quran that we have
given you this Quran that is
that is going to supersede all other
previous scriptures and Sh and Allah
subh says of course that this is the
religion that will be manifest over all
other so because of this Allah gave us a
sh that is the most perfect and he might
have allowed imperfections in other Shar
maybe because the people were not
qualified or they didn't deserve those
Perfections and sometimes that it was
intentionally made difficult as a
punishment for them as what happened
with the bani is and sometimes it was
maybe because they were not they didn't
have enough IM to live up to it uh so
these are the wisdoms that we can derive
apart from this we do not know why was
it that Allah allowed the previous Shar
this issue but he prohibited it upon us
because it is true the brother's fact is
true that the previous Shar uh did not
prohibit wine however we have references
that the prophets of Allah never drank
so even if it was allowed for them the
prophets never did it and this of itself
shows the Perfection and Allah knows
best still there are some Christians
that don't drink yeah Baptist yeah go
ahead the celebration of
is uh as we already said there is no
precedent for the date or the month that
occurred we have no clue and therefore
to specify is really to speak from no
knowledge number one number two to take
this day as a day of doing extra things
and as we know we we try to stick to our
prophet and the sahab's actions they
have the purest Islam and they had the
best knowledge and if they didn't do it
then we really should avoid it uh and
there there is nothing authentic to tell
us to celebrate on uh you know was the
27th of rajab or the 15th of shaan or
all of these dates really all of these
dates they it's just simply best to
avoid them and Allah knows best final
question I saw a hand raised here final
question physically by his body Soul
well we will talk about this uh when we
wrap up but it is very clear that he
went physically uh and this is something
that there is in Islam No scholar ever
said that he went only by the soul or
imagination because because if you say
that he went by the soul or that it was
a dream there is nothing miraculous
about
it why what's the big deal and the next
morning when he woke up and he told the
qur that last night I
went we can go to the moon and back in a
dream who's going to deny us right you
know we can go across the world we can
go to different lands what's so strange
the very fact that the qur found the
strange and they said you expect us to
believe this that's what they questioned
him right and Abu Bakr was called
because it's a physical Journey had it
been an imaginary Journey a journey of
the Mind a dream what's the point
of what's the point of why should we
believe you right so there is unanimous
consensus that took
place that with the body and the soul I
in the physical and there are also reat
and reports that show that the prophet
says that when he came back his bed was
still warm right which means the entire
Journey took you know few minutes 5 10
minutes because it's a different
dimension you know B is going at the
speed of light his name comes from
lightning he gets there he prays two ra
he then goes up that's a different
dimension there is no time and space
there he comes back down he comes back
and his bed is still warm so all of
these clearly show that it is a physical
journey and we'll talk about this in
more detail inshallah uh whenever we
finish in with this we conclude for this
week inshallah I'll see you I have the
this week Friday and then on Saturday
Sunday I hope that all of you show up
insh for our teenager thing