so we had been talking about the actual
uh journey of the Hijra and uh we had
mentioned the story The the miraculous
The Amazing Story ofb Malik which is one
of those stories that is really an Iman
lift and Iman boosting story how this
bedin from the is told that he's going
to be wearing the uh the uh bracelets of
KRA the bracelets of the emperor of
Persia and that is exactly what happened
uh the story of the Hijra has a number
of small stories and one of the
significant ones is the story of small
still paragraph about the story
of and the story of is narrated from her
directly uh and she converted to Islam
at the end narrates this story herself
and she says that she is an elderly lady
uh and she is a complete like beduin she
is living in the desert in a tent
wandering from place to place finding
food and uh and water so her husband had
left to find some food and she's in her
uh sheep skin or go tent she's in the
tent waiting for her husband to return
and she hears the rustling outside of
some Travelers who ask permission to
come in and she comes in she's not she
asked them to come in because she's not
worried about anything she's an elderly
lady and she has nothing to be stolen
she's is very uh poor and it turns out
it's Abu Bakr and the prophet but she
doesn't recognize them because she
doesn't know who they are and she
describes the the What's
significant is one of the
few who describes the physical looks of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
most of the sahab did not describe him
in that detail is one of those who
describes him as being Wasim for example
handsome and he had long hair and he was
neither short nor tall so she gives that
description that I've already mentioned
in the beginning I mentioned um's
description right when we began the S I
mentioned that description from um so uh
uh and this was by the way outside of
Medina by an hour and a half Drive in
hour time it's still in hour time this
place is still called the same as it was
called then and it's
called when you're driving from Makkah
to Madina or Jed to Madina you will pass
by a sign it says Exit and that's where
this incident took place so the prophet
entered in and Abu Bakr and they said uh
may we purchase any food from you we we
are Travelers and we would like some
food to purchase um and this is of
course the of Abu Bakr and the process
they didn't ask for free food even
though if they had asked for free food
this is also customarily acceptable when
B and when Travelers are going they just
want some water or some basic bread
whatever you have can you have share but
they asked food to be purchased and
replied that she apologized she has
absolutely nothing to give them nothing
at all because her husband is has
actually gone out in search of uh food
uh they asked for um do you have any
milk any think she said we have
absolutely nothing to give so uh the
prophet wasam saw in the tent an Old
Goat in the corner and it had long uh
you know the the the Heyday of this goat
the the era of this goat had not been on
the decline it's basically about to be
slaughtered it is no longer giving milk
it is no longer capable of giving birth
it's just an old goat that's basically
about to be slaughtered one day when
they want to have some type of meat
that's what it's waiting for in the
corner it's not even grazing outside so
the prophet
asked permission to uh milk the
goat smirked and said that day has long
gone you can't get any milk from this
that's gone it's like this is now no no
no more and so the prophet once again
said but do you allow me to but do you
allow me to and of course I mean there's
no question in her mind where's the milk
going to come out you can do what you
want the goat is beyond giving milk and
so said if you if you want to go ahead I
mean if that's what you want to do and
the prophet made Dua and he mentioned
the name of Allah subhana wa tala and he
moved his hand under the ud and the ud
filled up with milk right then and there
the other filled up with milk and Abu
Bakr then milked the uh uh the the milk
from this coat and it brimmed all the
way to the top and the prophet drank Abu
Bakr drank and they left the remainder
for and her husband when her husband
returned he shocked to find the milk
because they want milk for many days and
they haven't had milk where did you get
this milk from from this goat how did
this goat give milk so she gave the
whole story that two strange men came
and this is where she described the
prophet she described the prophet in
detail one of them you know was was
taller and handsome and this and that
and the other looked like His companion
she described all of this her husband
said those are the two of the qur are
searching for cuz the news has spread
and uh those are the two do you not know
that one of them claims to be a Nabi one
of them claims to be a nabbi and when
she heard this she realized this is not
just a claim he is a nabbi he is a nebi
and so both her and her husband accepted
Islam and this is one of those small
stories of it is also narrated by the
way that two or three other people
accepted Islam but we don't have their
stories that the prophet passed by them
and spoke to them and they accepted
Islam and in this even though it's so
insignificant we don't even have the
names of some of them right but still
the point is Subhan Allah when he's
basically running for his life right
even though he knows Allah is going to
protect him but still it is running for
his life he still pauses to give dawa to
people he's still inviting people to
Islam and Subhan Allah at least we have
references of at least four or five
people converting in this journey from
Makkah to Madina subh wherever the
prophet is going he's spreading good
doesn't no time no place is is basically
lacking for da any opportunity that the
prophet gets he is giving da it is also
narrated once that a caravan passed them
by a caravan now of course this is the
middle of the desert and Caravans are
going back and forth a strange Caravan
in those days if a caravan passed by in
the desert they would make way to meet
each other just to you know pass news
and find out what's happening and say
Salam or or or greetings can you imagine
you're in the middle of the desert you
haven't seen a human for many days you
see somebody in the desert you'll simply
kind of sort of meander towards each
other talk a little while and then move
on right so when a caravan saw the two
Riders they veered away to go and say
hello or to to give greetings to them
and lo and behold one of them Rec
recognized Abu Bakr from a trading
Expedition this is not the quray this is
not the ANS this is a caravan we don't
know which Arab tribe it is but at some
fair or at some business transaction Abu
Bakr was a Trader they recognized Abu
Bakr and so they greeted Abu Bakr now
this is a caravan coming from another
area they haven't heard of the bounty
they haven't heard the two people have
fled from mecah right so they recognize
Abu Bakr and they uh find out some
information whatever they wanted to and
then they asked Abu Bakr who is this man
with you who is this man with you and
Abu Bak instantaneously responded in
what is called t t as I've said many
times is double meaning and this is
allowed in Islam for a reason this is
not lying in English we call it a white
lie it's not a lie it doesn't give you
an untruth but it's rather a double
meaning and so Abu Bakr said he is my
guide guiding me to the path he is my
guide guiding me to the path and of
course what Abu Bakr meant was he is my
guide
to guiding me to the path to Jenna right
but what they understood was this is my
hired guide that is guiding me right
this is the double meaning that abak
instantaneously uh uh said this also
shows us by the way that at a certain
point in time the uh the guide abdah
left them that finally when they got to
the road that they understood he went
back and returned and it was just the
two of them because obviously when they
entered Medina the guide had had already
left so the guide basically brought them
to a place where from that point onwards
they knew how to get to Madina and so
this Caravan intercepted them at that
point in time and that's when Abu Bakr
said this is my guide he's guiding me to
the he's guiding me to the and of course
abak one thing and another thing was
understood now some uh lessons from the
Hijra before we move to the city of
Medina and its strategic uh importance
some lessons from the hij Subhan Allah
look at the meticulous preparations for
the hij
the prophet is telling Abu Bakr don't
travel I need a companion and inshallah
it will be you Abu Bakr instantaneously
prepares two camels fattens them up
Force feeds them makes that hump nice
and large so that they can travel in the
desert the prophet then comes to him
when everybody's asleep so that nobody
can see that the prophet is is is
basically planning something and even
when he comes his face is covered his
face is covered so that just in case
nobody can recognize but of course Abu
Bakr recognizes because that's his best
friend his His companion and when he
enters the house he tells the people
everybody leave now all of these
preparations are coming from somebody
who has ultimate in Allah correct still
he takes
precautions and this manifests the
reality of our religion tie your camel
and then put your trust in Allah
right you do everything you can look at
the secrecy look at uh every single
aspect uh leaving Ali in his bed so that
when somebody looks in over the window
they find a body over there tossing and
turning right so much down to this
detail leaving Ali in his bed so make
sure that nobody gets suspicious uh
coming to Abu Bakr first in the middle
of the day and then in the middle of the
night when they actually leave for hij
they leave in the dead center of the
night covering their tracks coming and
covering their tracks abdah Bak coming
every morning telling them the news
finding somebody like Abdullah Bakr whom
they can trust and whom the quray would
not suspect giving some food as giving
them every single detail it is just
amazing that they took the best
precautions and yet what is beautiful
when they're out in the desert all open
the prophet Sall wasallam is not worried
he's not he's not grieved he's not uh
troubled he's walking reciting Quran and
not even looking left or right as we saw
when Saka came Saka was the one who's
noticing from afar Abu Bakr is worried
Abu Bakr cannot concentrate Abu bakr's
heart is palpitating sometimes before
sometimes behind he's worried what if I
go behind somebody comes from back let
me go be behind when he comes behind
what if somebody comes to the front let
me go in front back and forth while the
prophet wasam he's done everything he
can now he puts his trust in Allah right
this is the essence oful that you do
everything possible you don't act like a
fool in our religion this is not you do
everything meticulously to the last
planning but your heart is not attached
to these preparations your heart is
attached to Allah subhana wa tala and
therefore once you've done everything
again in the cave right Abu Bakr begins
palpitating again right if they just
look down they'll see us he can't he's
he's worried not for himself for the
prophet and the prophet has to calm him
down this isul they're hiding in a cave
this doesn't go against right this is
tying the camel this is taking
precautions they don't stand up and say
here we are do what you can Allah is
going to protect me this is not taul
this isul to hide in the cave so that
they don't see it Allah will then send
the pigeon or Allah will then send the
spider if these re are authentic and
there's nothing wrong withing them Allah
will make sure
that don't look down and Allah subhana
wa tala will protect you once you've
done your job and the same applies to
each and every element of Our Lives that
when we want something we have a goal
Allah has told us the path to the goal
we need to make sure we undertake this
path but our is not in the path it is in
Allah subhana wa tala just like our
Prophet sallallah alai wasam and there's
a beautiful verse in
Surah which is one of the last suras
revealed at a time when the Muslims were
at the peak of their power after the
conquest of mecah Allah
reveals at the peak of Islamic power
Allah says to the sahab if you're not
going to help the prophet sallallahu
alhi wasallam don't worry Allah has
already helped
him when the uh KU expelled him from
mecah and he was the second of only two
people there were only two people and an
entire city was out to kill
them right there were this he was the
second of only two
people when they were in the cave the
cave
of when he said to His
companion don't worry Allah subhah wa
taala is with us and Allah subhana wa T
says at that point Allah sent his s upon
the Prophet The Prophet was not worried
he was not anxious he was completely
calm because Allah had sent his Sakina
down
and Allah helped
him and he helped him with an army that
you didn't see a lot of Scholars say
this Army is basically the the the Dove
and the the pigeon and the the the
spider this is the according to one
interpretation this is the army that
Allah did not allow the mus to even
think that in this crevice there might
be Abu Bakr and the prophet sallallah
alai wasam and it is amazing that Allah
revealed this verse when the Muslims
were at their Pinnacle and Allah says
this strength is not going to I don't
need the strength I already helped him
when there was none of you none of you
were able to help him when there were
only two and I sent an army that you
could not uh see also by the way from
this verse an important Point
here the only companion of our Prophet
Sall alai wasam whose companionship has
been testified for by Allah is Abu Bakr
the rest is inferred
indirectly it's there but it's indirect
but for Abu Bakr it is direct
how so Allah
says Allah affirmed Abu Bakr as being
aahi right the only sahabi who actually
Allah mentions this is his
sahabi so if anybody denies Abu Bakr as
being a sahabi he has gone against what
Allah has said in the Quran and again
this is no wishy-washiness here this is
exactly what Allah says and by unanimous
consensus of all the groups of Islam
even they will admit that it was Abu
Bakr in the cave and not anybody else it
say Abu Bakr in this cave and not
anybody else and Allah
says so anybody who denies ofak he has
gone against what Allah is saying in the
Quran now uh before we get to the
arrival of the prophet in Medina that
will be inall next Wednesday
uh so right now we're basically right
outside the city of Medina and the
process is about to come in right so
before we get there that is next week
inall I wanted to talk about why Medina
what is out of all of the cities of the
world or of Arabia or even even of the
world because there were Muslims in
Ethiopia right now in habasha ABIA
excuse me there were Muslims in ABIA
right if Allah had wanted to he could
have told the prophet look the king of
ABIA has already embraced your religion
why don't you go to him and uh you know
he can then become a public Muslim or do
something like this but why did
Allah choose Medina so a little bit
about uh Medina Medina of course is not
its original name its original name is
y its original name is y and yth is an
ancient city surrounded by volcanic rock
and it is blessed with an undercurrent
of water there is um I don't know the
geological term but there is a river
river that flows basically underneath uh
there's an undercurrent of water not a
public River not not an open River but
there's a river that basically from the
mountains around it it comes and there
is a a water source underneath the city
that allows for this fertile date palms
to grow and that's why Medina is known
for its uh date palms it has always been
famous for its dates there are two
places in the Arabian Peninsula that had
such large date palms and Medina these
were the only two places that had these
large
date palms and in fact our Prophet was
shown Medina by its date palms in when
he's in makah he
said the prophet said this is in the
11th year 10th or 11th year of the da
two years before the hij he tells the
Muslims I saw a dream that I'm going to
immigrate to a land
and I saw a lot of date palms and so I
thought that it might be or and these
are two cities far away on the other
side of the peninsula in Yemen this is
not in the hij and Yemen does have some
date areas but in the hij the only
places
are so I thought it might be the the
Yen but it turned out to be Medina when
did the process find out it turned out
to Medina when the Embraced Islam and
when they invited him to come so Allah
in his own dream he saw the city but he
couldn't recognize it he couldn't
recognize it until the sign came from
the embracing of the and then the O of
Islam and the prophet said in as
well I have been commanded to immigrate
to a city that shall devour all other
cities
they call
it but it is
Medina from this Hadith we learn that it
is not allowed islamically to use the
name y anymore because the prophet said
they call
it this is what mankind has called it
but its name now is going to be
Medina Medina and so the prophet wasam
changed its name from y to Medina and it
is clear that the Quran itself
emphasizes this point
because the Quran
mentions only from the tongues of
the only from the tongues of
the when the when in the Quran when the
are trying to stoke up fear of the
Muslims they call out to the people and
they say
so the used to call the city still
because they didn't like the name Medina
and in one Hadith uh the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam uh the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
whoever says should
say whoever calls should say because it
is because it is we're going to get to
this name in a while what is now uh
Allah therefore always calls the city
Medina Allah calls it Medina and the
prophet calls it Medina so Allah says
for example
in Allah calls the city Medina in and it
is the who call it also our Prophet said
they call it and it is Medina so what
does
mean uh some Scholars say it comes
from which means to
criticize there is no criticism on you
today and others say it comes from which
means evil and Corruption and we know
that our Prophet did not like bad names
and a number of people converted to
Islam with bad names and he changed
their names and he said no this is not
your name this is your name right um in
one Hadith a woman comes and converts
what's your name sour you're not sour
you're sweet right and then similar like
this so the Arabs had a Superstition and
it is still prevalent in our culture of
India Pakistan as well that they say
something bad about somebody else if
some say if somebody says something good
so if somebody says your child is
handsome the mother might say no no he's
very ugly right this is common in our
culture for those who know why they'll
say Nazar they'll say evil eye this is
in fact not the Islamic way to counter
evil eye this is what the Arabs would do
as well it's not the jahil Arabs and our
Prophet did not like this we don't we
don't do this we don't counter evil eye
in this manner but that's a separate
topic I'm not talking about that now the
point being bad names are avoided so
when has a bad meaning the prophet wasam
changed it and he called it al- Medina
and what a beautiful name al- Medina
means it's the city the city capital T
Capital C Alina and a longer name is m
wasam but the prophet primarily called
it Alina now Al Medina also has many
names in fact uh some of the scholars
who wrote about the history of Medina
such as a sahudi and others uh have
actually listed over a hundred names of
Medina over a 100 names of Medina and
another scholar who wrote about the
history of Islam early scholar said no
city has more names than the city of
Medina and the Arabs when they
considered something Grand they would
give it many names and so so the city of
Medina has the most names of any City
known to early Islam however our Prophet
called it only two or three things of
them is of course Medina of them
is is also the name of the city
and and both and so and both mean the
same thing and mean the pure and the
source of Purity right so in oneith it's
for example theed the prophet said
whoever
says and this actually shows that meant
evil and Corruption because the opposite
of evil is and right so don't say
say right and also in another he called
it
so these are all names of the uh City uh
Medina has many many blessings
associated with it of the
is that the prophet sallam made Dua that
Medina become beloved to him in a in the
prophet
said oh Allah cause us to love Medina as
much as we love mecah or even more than
this cause us to love Medina as much as
we love mecah or more than this and
Abbas narrates that whenever the prophet
would come back from an expedition and
he would see the silhouette of Med in in
the distance he would become excited and
tell his camel or his horse to go faster
so he became excited to see the city of
Medina and he would love the city of
Medina and of course Medina has the
mountain of and the mountain of the
Prophet sallam said that
had this is a mountain we love it and it
loves us so we believe that the mountain
loves the Muslims the mountain of is a
blessed mountain and the prophet
wasallam said that is one of the
mountain of Jen and this is uh in Medina
and our Prophet told us that will not be
able to enter Medina theal will not be
able to enter Medina he will come to
Medina trying to destroy it but he will
not be able to enter it because two
large angels will meet him at the door
and expel him and kick him out and so
one of the cities that uh the will never
be able to enter is Medina and therefore
uh when the in one basically in the
early tradition we are told that if we
hear of we should go to Medina because
Medina will protect you from the also
our Prophet said that no plague shall
ever uh infest Medina right no plague
will ever wipe off the city of Medina
and Subhan Allah in its 14th centuries
famines have come but no plagues there
have been famines in Medina because the
prophet made Dua against plague but
there has never been a plague even when
the the the the plagues happened in the
past the buan play or in 1918 there was
the famous Spanish influenza that killed
one3 of the world you should know this
100 years ago literally one3 of the
world died in this in this Spanish
influenza the the second bonic plague it
didn't touch the city of Medina the city
of Medina was protected which is amazing
because people come to Medina from all
over the world but the plague did not
enter uh Medina also our Prophet sallam
made Dua that Medina be blessed Medina
be blessed the prophet wasam said
that oh Allah give us in in this city of
ours and he said is Inari that oh Allah
your servant and
and he
declared and I too am your servant and
your ab and youro so I make Dua to you
to make Medina aam to make Medina a
Haram and so Medina is considered the
second the second in our religion and in
one also the prophet said oh Allah bless
us in our weights and our measurements
of Madina what is the weight and
measurement in those days when you
purchased grain or barly or dates or
anything they would weigh it you know
that's how they used to do it and so the
prophet is saying bless us in our units
of measurement what this means is the
food that you buy in Medina will be a
blessed food IE what is does mean means
it will suffice more people and so the
food that you purchase in Medina by the
Dua of the Prophet it will suffice uh
more people and our Prophet s and by the
way this Hadith has been interpreted uh
so in one Hadith the prophet
said oh Allah make Medina double the
blessings you have given to mecah now
this Hadith has proven a little bit
problematic for some Scholars because
does this mean that Medina is more
blessed than Makkah because that's what
the Dua is being said and uh there's
been a a lot of discussion some of the
classical Scholars of them is like IM
Malik cuz he was Med so he's a little
bit biased towards his own Hometown uh
they would consider Medina to be the
holiest land even if meca has more
reward for praying because Mecca prayer
has 100,000 whereas Medina prayer has
1,000 not 50 1,000 Medina prayer has
1,000 uh and so clearly there's that
difference but for IM and others they
said the city of Medina has more
blessings because of this Hadith and
other Scholars have said that each city
is blessed in its own way we don't
compare the two no doubt mecah has
superiority in some angles of them is
that mecah was blessed uh some say from
when the creation was created and then
ibraim announced its blessing this is
the majority opinion that makah was
blessed the day Allah created the
heavens and earth and then ibraim
announced its blessedness where as
Medina became blessed with the
immigration of the Prophet to it right
so that's clearly a superiority for meca
another another superiority of meca is
mecah is the first Masid on
Earth the first mosque or Temple or
structure meant to worship Allah on this
whole earth the first mosque was Mecca
that's a blessing of the blessings is
that Mecca has 100,000 and Medina has
1,000 so it's not appropriate to compare
each one has its and its blessings and
this is something that we experience
when we go there of the blessings of
Medina our Prophet wasam said that
Iman returns to Medina like a desert
animal returns to its hole in the
desert rushes back and and goes in it's
a beautiful analogy when the desert
animal feels threatened when there's
anything attacking it immediately
disappears and jumps into its hole right
so Subhan Allah when the people of Iman
are attacked or when Islam is facing a
crisis Medina will be the place where
imman will be protected Medina will be
the Bastion of Islam and uh this is
proven as well that theal will never
enter it of them is that Medina will be
protected by PL against the plots of its
enemies the prophet said again all of
thesei Subhan Allah the blessings of
Medina are so authentic we find them in
bukari and Muslim that no one shall plot
to harm Medina except that Allah will
dissolve him like salt is dissolved in
water like salt is dissolved in water he
will be disappeared and in the same uh
book he says that
whoever whoever uh it's what the meaning
of had here is either a sin or an
innovation whoever does a crime in
Medina whoever innovates something in
Medina or helps a criminal in Medina he
shall have the of Allah the of the
angels and the of all of mankind and
Allah will not accept from him any
obligatory or n
deed nothing will be accepted of him
this is a huge blessing of Medina and at
the same time a very dangerous warning
for anybody who wishes to harm uh Medina
and of the blessings of Medina is that
it is a blessed place to live in it is a
blessed place to live in the prophet
said again is
is better for them if they only knew
better for anybody if they only knew no
one leaves it not wanting to live there
except that Allah subhah wa ta'ala will
replace him with someone better than
that no one leaves Medina not wanting to
live there except that Allah subhana wa
tal replaces him with someone better
than that and no one is patient at the
difficulties of Medina Medina is a very
difficult land to live in because it's
very hot uh because of its Extreme Hot
and Cold by the way both of them are
present in Medina also before the Advent
of modern technology uh food was also
the seasonal it was seasonal when you
don't have the the date season it's
difficult uh so there's some problems
that were in Medina so the prophet said
whoever is patient at the difficulties
of Medina I will be an intercessor for
him on the day of judgment and in fact
Medina is not just blessed to live in it
is blessed to die in as well in ahed the
prophet
said whoever amongst you is able to die
in Medina let him die in Medina because
I shall intercede on behalf of anybody
who dies
there dying in Medina is a very big
blessing in and of itself and our
Prophet said whoever is able to die in
Medina let him uh do so and we all know
that this is
in would make a strange Dua and his own
sonar would uh scoff him and say my
father how can this ever be true would
say oh Allah I want to die a Shah and I
want to die in Medina and his son would
say that oh my father how can you
combine these two things if you want to
die Shah you're going to have to go to
the borders of the Muslim empire right
and if you die in Medina you're not
going to die Shahid right and Allah
accepted that Dua because Omar died a
Shahid in Medina right and so Omar
didn't want to leave Medina and he
wanted to die Shah and Allah subhana wa
tala gave him that and of course
especially has a very particular
blessing the uh what we call in our
culture the proper name
is has a very blessed it is the Most
Blessed graveyard in the world
because says that over 10,000 s are
buried in over 10,000 sah are buried in
all the nine wives of the Prophet other
than khad all the nine wives of the
Prophet are buried
in the prophet son ibim is buried in the
prophet's great grandson and great great
grandson and great great great grandson
are buried in the prophet's Aunt sa is
buried in uh so many of the close
companions is buried in as you know and
are buried in the along with the prophet
and is buried
in also of the
famous and Scholars IM and IM these are
famous names they're all buried
in and the prophet made a special Dua
for the people of and in one evening
when woke up and found that he wasn't
there he comes back and he tells her
came to me in the middle of the night
and told me to go and pray for the
people in
and so he left his bed in the middle of
the night to go to to pray for the
people
in from a perspective from a perspective
Medina is something we call a Haram and
this is something we need to talk a
little bit about because we need to
understand what exactly is a Haram Haram
comes from Haram and Haram means
forbidden Haram is an area of land that
certain things which are Al outside of
it become Haram inside of it that's why
it's called a
Haram that's why the root is the same
certain things that are Halal outside of
the Haram become Haram inside of the
Haram for example carrying weapons is
Haram in the Haram you cannot carry
weapons except for a necessity for the
umah for example the armed guards that
are protecting the imams and what this
is an exception right but armies do not
come in even the prophet when he
conquered meca said Allah has given me
special
permission for a little bit of time in
the day to come in with an army
otherwise it is not allowed to enter and
March into Mecca with an army it is not
allowed to uh to instigate any type of
Bloodshed in meca is not allowed to
pluck the leaves and the fruits of mecah
is not allowed it's such a Haram that
you cannot even pluck the grass that you
see that that much of a har right it's
so sacred any living object is protected
that's how even a a leaf even a even a a
leaf on the tree you cannot pluck it
this is a Haram and a Haram means
everything is safe and Allah says in the
Quran whoever enters the shall be
safe and therefore Abbas says Omar says
that in in the days of
a man would see the murderer of his
father doing ta around the KA and he
wouldn't do anything to harm him this is
even in the days
of he would see but he wouldn't harm it
why because Makkah was a har from ibra's
time and so the Arabs knew it is a Haram
and Islam came and affirmed that a Haram
means everyone is protected there and
therefore if you find a lost object in
the Haram for example you're not allowed
to pick it up you're not allowed to do
that whereas you are allowed to pick it
up in other places and then adver in
Makkah you leave it you leave it you're
not even allowed to pick up a lost item
all of this is Haram it's protection of
Allah subhanahu wa tala and whoever
intends any harm in the Haram his
punishment will be
manifold Allah says whoever desires to
cause facad and harm whoever desires it
forget doing it if you desire to cause
harm to the harams Allah says I'm going
to cause you to punish a severe penalty
and so the harams of our religion now
pay attention I don't want people to get
angry at this because it's going to
cause a little bit of an issue now so
listen carefully there are only two
harams of our
religion mecah and Medina there are only
twoam and Medina now everybody's going
to say hold on a sec how about
how about the response it is a blessed
land and it is the first and it is
something that we should visit and pray
in and whoever prays there gets extra
reward according to the most authentic
narration 250 times so mekah is 100,000
Madina is 1,000 Masa
250 and all of these blessings are there
but it is not a
Haram from a standpoint point it's not
aam even if the people call
it the people of Jerusalem call that
area Al right the FIS know this right it
is known in the popular vernacular as Al
Haram but from a standpoint it is not
Alam because these rulings don't apply
over there you may hunt the animals of
Jerusalem you cannot hunt the animals of
meca and Medina right you may pluck the
Trees of Jerusalem you can not pluck the
Trees of Makkah and Madina and by the
way this is not something I'm saying
none of our Scholars none of the none of
the ever said that Jerusalem is a Haram
it
is it is a blessed land so don't get
confused between blessings and Haram
every Haram is blessed but there's only
two harams mekah and Madina but not
Every Blessed place is a Haram right and
Jerusalem is the best example for this
the Jerusalem is blessed but it is not a
Haram so this is something about Medina
another 3 4 Minutes about why Medina was
chosen and then inshallah next week
we'll start from the prophet entering
Medina why why why was Medina chosen now
obviously when we answer this question
we need to put the disclaimer this is
from what we understand and Allah knows
the real reasons if they are more or
less than this this is what our Scholars
have derived and in reality Allah knows
there might be many reasons we'll never
understand and figure out of those
reasons the most obvious reason it's
strategic
location it is reasonably close to meca
without being too close it's not too far
and too close right from Makkah to
Medina an average Caravan would take 7
to 8 days and a very fast rider could do
it in three three and a half days right
so from that stand from those standards
this is a distance that is not
threateningly close an army could not
just surprise you right but it's also
not on the other side of the world such
as let's say ABIA you see the point here
is that it's a reasonable distance from
the center of where the da began and
that is mecah the the place where that
needs to be conquered in order to subdue
all of Arabia also so basically the
Strategic location the central locality
of the Arabian peninsula of the hij
Medina is Right dead in the middle of
the hij and hij in the middle of the
Arabian Peninsula so it's very strategic
also another reason is the natural
protection of Medina and this is is
clearly manifested in the battle of the
trench Medina is an amazing City from a
military standpoint how so is points out
that it is protected from three sides
naturally an army cannot attack it from
three sides naturally on the two sides
South and uh sorry east and west east
and
west and they're still called exactly to
this
day the prophet said that
that Medina is a between its
two we said a few weeks ago is lava la
is lava and it's two lava
foundations and Medina there was uh
volcanic activity maybe a few thousand
years ago Allah knows when and so this
volcanic activity spread outside the
city of Medina and formed a type of
material that is neither sand nor Rock
nor gravel it's very you don't you
you've seen volcanic rock semi-porous up
and down it's not something you can walk
on easily so two areas of Medina the the
East and the West are surrounded by
these
large and the prophet said between these
two is the Haram of Medina so no Army
can walk in because you cannot walk with
a th 2,000 people you cannot ride camels
on this area it's just naturally
protected a third side of
Medina and this is the uh southern side
which is the side closest to Mecca when
you come the southern side of Medina is
generally a very luscious cultivation of
date
PS and it was densely populated with
date Pals and you cannot take an army
through all of these date Pals either
it's not going to be possible you know
one person can wander through but you
can't bring an army through this this
dense cultivation and small little
plantations everywhere so there's only
one area one stretch of land left and it
was that stretch that the prophet wasam
had to protect when he dug the the
trench right the the that's the the that
he dug it was a few miles long so Subhan
Allah this natural military strategic
location it actually clearly was a
Divine wisdom of Allah subhana that was
used in that was used in the battle of
the had it been any other City this
would not have been possible you can't
dig a a moat around the entire city in a
week but they're able to dig aat a few
miles long that's all that was the open
area that an army could attack in and
they successfully uh did this another uh
benefit of Medina was that the people of
Medina had never been conquered before
they had always been an independent
principality and this gave them a sense
of and a fighting spirit because when a
nation has been conquered generally
their spirit has been broken and it is
easy to reconquer and reconquer and
reconquer but the people of Medina had
never been subservient to any other Thom
any other uh tribe they had always been
independent from its Inception and so
they had this Independence that was
necessary for the beginning of Islam
they had an that was necessary to
translate into the early portion of
Islam also points out one of the
blessings of Medina was the wars of bath
the Civil War that took place we
mentioned this many times before the
Civil War that took place uh some
Scholars say it had been going on for a
hundred years before the Hijra uh and
some say 40 50 years we never know
exactly but more than a generation of
Civil War more than a generation of
fighting right uh and this fighting had
done many thingsa says this was a gift
that Allah gave to the Pro system as I
said before it was a gift coming out of
nowhere because the people of mekah are
not monitoring the wars of but Allah has
a plan and when everything finishes you
can connect the dots but when the dots
are being drawn out we don't know what's
happening the wars of did many things
most importantly it eliminated the
senior leadership of the city the
leadership That's the older generation
the power hungry the one stubborn in
their ways and it gave fresh blood a
chance to come up and fresh blood many
things happen with younger blood they're
open-minded they're not is stuck in the
old traditional ways they're willing to
experiment with other ideas other
religions such as Islam they're also uh
tired of the Bloodshed they're just
tired of having been raised in a whole
generation of blood everybody's died
their fathers their uncles their
grandfathers all so they want change
they're embracing change and so they
want a new leader from outside of the
blooded tribes because everybody else is
going to be tainted right they're w a
fresh neutral leader and they found this
in the prophet
sallai and so this is said gift to the
prophet wasam of the Miracles that Allah
chose Medina for and this is clearly a
Divine wisdom that Subhan Allah out of
all of the tribes of Arabia out of all
of the places in the peninsula the
prophet sallam had a direct blood
connection with the people of Medina
clearly this is willed by Allah he had
no blood connection with the people of
of habas he had no blood connection with
the people of Yemen with the people of
the the nud there's no connection but
Allah chooses his place of immigration
to a land that he is actually related to
in fact he is the second cousin of some
of them second cousin is not that far
off right second cousin is not that far
off how so go back to one of the early
lectures that we gave and uh we talked
about the prophet's great grandfather
Hashim the Banu Hashim he is the Banu
Hashim right the prophet a great
grandfather was Hashim and Hashim was a
Traer a traveler and he would go through
Medina on his way to Syria and one time
when he went through yeth of course it
was called yeth at the time he saw a
very energetic Dynamic beautiful lady
called Salma who was a business lady and
she was a very strong personality lady
as well in fact it is said she would
marry and divorce men of her choice not
the other way around
right that's how strong personality she
was and she was the daughter of the
chief so that gave her that Independence
she was the daughter of the chieftain
and so uh when he was in the marketplace
he was attracted to this lady and he
found out that she's single she's been
divorced a number of times she's now
single so he sends a proposal through
her father She lays a condition down cuz
she is the she is the masallah that type
of Lady she's like I'm going to stay
here and any children we have are going
to be with me and I'm not going to give
any of my business uh entrepreneurship
up I'm still going to remain who I am
right I'm going to be who I am I'm not
going to become a housewife I'm going to
become a I'm going to remain a business
lady right and so Hashim agreed to this
and it is said that he they were only
able to be together for a short period
of time uh because then he died in
actually he died in Gaza believe it or
not in fistin he died in Gaza uh of
course at that time Gazza was Roman
Empire he was traveling and trading over
there so uh Salma is pregnant with his
son and she didn't tell the qur that
she's pregnant because she wants to keep
the child the son is born he has a white
streak on his head so he call he is
called shba he is called shba and he
grows up and the qur have no idea that
there's a son that belongs to them
because she didn't tell she's again
independent minded finally when somebody
finds out they're going through and they
look at this guy this is not his
features are Alli his features are all
and they can tell this right so he asks
this this boy who is your father and the
father of course he knows who his father
is he's proud because his father is
Hashim the leader of the qur whatnot so
he said my father is Hashim you know of
the qur instantaneously he goes back and
tells the qur do you know you have a a
son over there you have somebody so
immediately Al the brother of Hashim
secretly goes in finds the kid and
convinces him to come back with him
basically you can say it a type of
kidnapping but it's a voluntary
kidnapping because he bribes the kid
that you're the son of a chief you're
going to come back this is going to
happen that's going to happen you can't
stay here and you know give up a future
and the kid was probably 12 13 years old
at the time ABD mutalib of course sha
and so he is seduced by these uh talk of
grandeur and Majesty which would all
Come True by the way which would all
come true and so Hashim uh sorry Al puts
him on his on his camel and quickly
rides away without telling Salma because
or else as you know what would have
happened if the mother found out so they
go back to the quray and when they enter
the quray ask who is this kid is he your
slave that you purchased and he doesn't
want to say anything because he's
worried about the news spreading back so
he remains quiet so Sheba is called
abdb and who is ABD mutalib the
grandfather of the
Prophet is this not a Divine miracle
that the grandfather of the Prophet is
raised in y right the very streets the
very houses that the prophet is going to
be living in basically right his
grandfather has seen them and lived
there I mean is this out of all the
cities in Arabian Peninsula Allah is
planning Allah's plan is working through
history right there's no question about
it so Abdul mutalib is raised in Medina
until he's a
teenager and his relatives are still
there and of course uh Salma is from the
tribe of theanu from the K from the KJ
and therefore the prophet is a second
cousin to the KJ because his grandfather
his grandfather's mother is a k right
his great grandmother his Grand
grandfather's mother and you need to
understand the Arabs memorized their
lineage inside out they knew every
ancestor for 20 Generations this was how
they were and the prophet to them was
not a stranger he was a second cousin he
was somebody related now to be frank
here somebody related through a female
is not the same as a male for that
culture even in Islamic law right
nonetheless it is a
relation so they considered it to be a
the relation through the mother right
not like the which is a much stronger
Bond but it's not as if so this is why
somebody might say why would the choose
the prophet when he's a stranger well
he's not quite a stranger he is blood in
the end of the day he is blood and they
know this and in fact when the prophet
did migrate to Medina it's not a
coincidence he stayed in the house of
who his house did he stay
in whose house did he stay
in who is from
the is his closest relative of the ANS
it's not a coincidence I mean that's
exactly the point that he is staying in
a relative's house AB is his uh relative
uh also of the reasons that Allah
subhana wa taala uh again we we can
assume and Allah knows best uh chose the
city of ye was that the the people of
yeth the people of yeth the Arabs of Y
the and the K the Arabs of Y were the
and the K and they were descendants
ofan andan now go back all the way to my
second lecture of course everyone has
remembered everything about the genes
the Arabs and I don't need to quiz you
right you all have completely memorized
this right uh and so let me actually
quiz you who were the two main
progenitors of the
Arabs mashallah see some of the sisters
do remember mashallah and none of the
brothers are any you you remember okay
one brother also remembers
alhamdulillah and are the yeni Arabs and
Adan are the hiji Arabs very simplistic
right these were the two main tribes and
there was still tension between them
there was still you know a little bit of
civil issues and whatnot skirmishes now
again it's not a coincidence you know
clearly and adani are merging together
to form the new Islamic
State Subhan Allah out of all of the
local tribes they were allani other than
the and the K again it's not Allah has
plan Allah has a plan that he is putting
in place right the surrounding tribes of
the qur were all adani except for the
the they
were and so in the early Islamic State
for the adani and the kis to come
together nobody could oppose them on
nationalistic grounds
anymore nobody could oppos the Muslims
on nationalistic ethnic grounds because
they're both and and this is a sign of
what's going to happen that Islam will
come to obliterate these ethnic
differences Islam will come to get rid
of this uh tribalism and uh of course uh
the k um the uh there's also benefits of
this as well and I mentioned this before
the prophet praised the people of Yemen
and are yemenite and the prophet
said wisdom is y and IM is y beautiful
Hadith
that the Yen people are good people the
Yen people are wise people they're
faithful people they're loyal people and
W this is so true that our Yemen
Brothers mallah they really are humble
nice gentle Brothers we all know this
and the prophet praised them you know 14
centuries ago and these are the ansar
because they are yemeni in their blood
they are originally uh yemeni um one
final point I know I'm getting a little
bit late we cannot really talk about
this in detail uh but the
the unique combination of the yahood and
the Arabs in y was very necessary as
well and it has of course some cons came
out of it as you know of the presence of
the yahood but there were also many
benefits that came out as well and of
the greatest benefits and we mentioned
this two three weeks ago the and
the had rubbed shoulders with a
monotheistic people for two centuries
and they're familiar with the concept of
prophets the concept of a book the
concept of a Shar and the yahood Have
Always Been flouting it in their face
that we're better than you because we
have all of these things right and the
table was flipped against them because
this arrogance served to empower the ANS
the and the to embrace the truth when
they saw it that they were flouting
their arrogance and the El and the K
realized that it does make sense to have
a Shar it does make sense that Allah
sends prophets but as you know that
religion doesn't want converts right
it's not a it's not a universal religion
it is a localized it is an ethnic
religion so the and Kaz cannot convert
to the faith but they know the truths of
the faith for two centuries it's been
being rubbed in their faces basically
right and so when the truth comes the
people who are waiting for it reject it
and the people who weren't expecting it
know it's the truth and accept it you
understand this point right they also
the therefore accepted and the
interactions uh of the yahood as well
have a lot of positives and also some
negatives came out of it as well we'll
talk inshallah next week about uh where
did these uh Jewish tribes come from
it's a very very important question
which uh has many different theories
question is very interesting in the
middle of the Arabian peninsula where
did these Jewish tribes come from who
are they what is their orig what were
they doing there I mean the centers of
Judaism are you know the Babylon and and
uh um Jerusalem before the expulsion
after the expulsion they go to so many
different places they were in Bagdad and
Iraq what are they doing here in the
center of the Arabian peninsula there
are a number of theories out there and
we'll talk about them inshallah next
week along with the relationship of the
and and the yeh and then we will talk
about the entering of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam into Medina
and start the new phase the medani uh
phase uh inall we have a few minutes
left for questions so if there are any
questions now uh we can take them
inshallah
ask the question first hand second hand
yes the question is about what did Sal
do when her son was taken away
without it is uh said that because uh
shba or abdb had now become a young man
there's nothing much he could do because
remember you're independent when you
reach puberty and he had already reached
puberty right and uh he basically now we
don't know too much but what we do know
is that he reassured his mother that
this is his choice what can be done now
he a
man no uh abdb basically reassured his
mother that this is now my choice now I
want to be here basically right now when
he's a young man what are you going to
do now this is just the reality of life
in our times when a 25-year-old wants to
do something what is the father going to
do you know some of us fac this problem
already right it's just the reality of
life so in those AG he's now a young man
he can make his choice and he did make
his choice and he remained where he was
yes we know from the prophet like that
he knew about as the eventual look at
the sky but it seems as far as Medina is
concerned he did not recognize that
because although his family came from
Medina he must have traveled to Medina
on his expedition he did travel to
Medina we said not come to his mind when
he was shown those dat concrete so this
is something he was 5 years old when he
went to Medina he was 5 years old and he
only visited it once perhaps for a few
weeks and again why did am take him to
Medina to visit his second cousins to
visit the extended because the Arabs did
have this concept of family extended
family so the only reason am traveled
all the way to Y is to allow the pro to
see some of his you know fellow uh you
know second third cousins if you like
and then on the way back am passed away
so when the prophet was shown the city
he clearly did not recognize it this is
not then part of
because Prophet was a tra no Medina was
not was Medina was a stopping point when
they would go to Syria but did he travel
that route as a traitor that's what the
question I'm asking did he travel this
route as a traitor if you remember back
when we talked about the incident of BH
the monk we said that is very
problematic and it is very likely that
the prophet never traveled as a traitor
right so if the story is not authentic
the only time therefore he he would have
gone to Medina is when he was 5 years
old okay question from the sisters yes
go ahead um you you said
that right so how is it that they were
able to this construction and
expand destroy so uh obviously there are
number of
exceptions of the exceptions is Al Abbas
when the prophet said uh it is not
allowed to pluck any leaves said make an
exception
for allow us this one tree at least
because it has so many benefits and they
use it for a number of things so the
prophet said okay we'll allow you to
plug also the scholars say this does not
apply to trees planted by humans for
cultivation this applies to Natural
trees right so farmers are not prevented
from plucking their crops again I mean
I'm not giving the so I just glazed over
these rules uh farmers are not prevented
from plucking their own uh fruits
because how else are you going to live
right but natural vegetation is
protected also when there is a need or a
necessity to do it then the scholars
allow it to be done so for example the
prophet when he was building the mosque
he had to cut the date palms to build it
so anytime you need to construct
something there's a legitimate reason to
do it so this is considered to be a
necessity in order to cut it off so the
point being that when there is a need
then you may carry weapons so the guards
of the Haram carry weapons they have
guns you know and for good reason they
have guns because there have been
attempts to you know do strange things
in the meca we want them to be
protecting the you know uh so they're
allowed to carry weapons this is an
exception to the rule uh so the same
applies when you need to construct
something that for legitimate reasons
you may pluck you may destroy the trees
you may cut it off as I said the prophet
himself had trees uh cut off when he was
building his own mid even though he
calls Madina so construction is a
necessity that allows trees to be
plucked and other reasons as well yes
there is this Tradition at least in the
Pakistani culture that if you go Medina
you stay for 8 days and pray 40 prayers
is there
any there is a tradition that is close
to being fabricated it's one level above
fabric the question is uh this notion of
praying 40
prayers uh for8 days uh where does this
come from and the response is there is a
tradition reported in the which is a
very obscure work relatively speaking
meaning it's one of the more tertiary
works of Hadith and it is almost
fabricated if not fabricated it is
almost fabricated and it mentions this
tradition of uh whoever prays 40 with in
Medina will be saved from having said
this uh there's nothing wrong with
praying 40 prayers in Medina you know
it's very good uh so this one of those
things that we should be a little bit
wise about there's nothing from the
Sunnah to stay for8 days and pray all 40
prayers uh but if somebody is doing it
yeah what are we going to say I mean you
know okay alhamdulillah he's in Madina
doing this but our Scholars do point out
that if you have uh so many days to
spend
do realize that a prayer in Makkah is
worth 100,000 whereas in Medina is 1,000
our Scholars have said this very clearly
that mecah is 100,000 and Madina is
1,000 so the emphasis should be on mecah
for this reason uh and visiting Medina
is a very big blessing and it's a very
you know important thing but it is not a
r of our religion unlike mecah it is a
pillar of our religion if you can afford
to correct right visiting meca is a
pillar if you're able to do it you
cannot do HA without visiting mecah now
we will say it is not proper that you go
all the way to mecah and then don't go
to Medina nonetheless if somebody were
to do this there's no sin and there are
people who can only let's say go for
eight days for Hajj 6 days for Hajj
right there are people many people like
this and if they can only get this
package that okay we can only go from
mecah do the 5 day ha and come back they
have done the of we will all agree to
this right not very good that they
didn't go to Medina but there's no sin
at the same time so visiting mekah is a
pillar of our religion if we can afford
it and visiting Medina is very strongly
encouraged and recommended okay yes go
ahead could you tell us
the of the
of the boundary of meccah is more
difficult um and it's something that in
fact to be honest both boundaries
realize that geographical surveys are a
modern phenomenon right and to have you
know satellite maps or Google Earth
where we draw a line so with such
Precision it's a modern notion in the
time of the process it was vague
areas right and therefore uh even if you
go for to do Haj for example there is a
sign that says mif stops here Mina
begins here right and our Scholars say
that even if you're within visual sight
of that sign on the other side of the
sign this is something overlooked
because these are generic regions right
so if the sign is right here and then
you're two feet away it's not as if you
are outside of mina because this is a
generic region right now if you're you
know half a mile away oh no that's not
good but if you're 5 10t away and that
this is not this is not a theoretical
scenario in mifa for example many times
you try to find a place to sleep you
know this personally maybe first time I
have many times this has happened you
don't find a place and as soon as as you
get to the sign it's dead empty right
there is no sin at all for you to sit
right outside the sign and the sign is
right here and you're sitting here not
at all because the prophet didn't draw a
line in the sand you see my point here
right so that's one point the same
applies for the har so the the is
demarcated clearly more clearly than the
and
the the prophet said
uh and another
so means the two volcanic Plains of east
and west and and th are North and South
small mountains and is a mountain behind
and th is a mountain on the other side
small mountains so the prophet clearly
demarcated Four Points the two labas
east and west and and Thor North and
South right and so from this modern
scholars in fact there was a survey done
in the previous generation amongst my
teachers in Medina uh in the
1970s in the 1970s and I read the survey
myself when I was in Medina uh they did
a survey where they try to form a type
of more precise boundary and they have
they have their conclusion which is then
the official Saudi government position
now uh based on this but again imagine
the process gave you four points how are
you going to connect the dots right so
there is an element of vess and then
there is you have a general limit so
behind is not Medina
from to the is Medina between the two
PLS is Medina like this
okay question regarding praying in in
Makkah if you say one mile away praying
from the uh from the Caba you know in
the m one mile
away would it be
getting you are asking very deep
questions you don't realize the
profundity of them I
think very well this is the final
question this is a deep
question Medina so let's start with
Medina
Medina uh in Medina the reward of a
thousand prayers is restricted to the
Masid the reward of a thousand is
restricted to the Masid not the a lot of
people think only the has a thousand no
the entire Masid will be a thousand
right and if the is expanded beyond what
it is now it will be in that expansion
when the first person to expand the
Masid
was and he saw some people hesitate to
pray in the
extension he saw some people hesitate to
pray in the extension and he said it
will be the Masid even if it goes
to is the mik if I expand it that is the
Masjid so from this The Scholar say
whatever is the physical Masjid of the
prophet Prophet wasam at the any current
time that will be the Thousand reward so
if you pray in the furthermost corner of
the Masjid you will get a th000 and if
you pray in you will get a thousand but
you will get more for being in sa but
the Thousand will be the same correct
has blessings separate from this now
your question about meca is a profound
one why because there is a classical
from the time of theah
regarding what what is it mean to
say does it mean theid only or does it
mean the IE the Haram Haram right do you
understand this point
the
right within within the boundaries
within the boundaries right this is an
that goes back to the goes back to the
earliest of
times and they both have their evidences
they both have evidences so for example
we just talked about is Right tells us
that the prophet was in his house was in
his house his house was outside the
Masid correct Allah says in the Quran
subh so Allah called his
house and that's one of the evidence
that the it's not really majority it's a
50/50 split maybe one of the evidences
that is used to say that all of mecah is
the Blessed Haram and it's not
just the Masid around the Kaa right
that's one opinion and another opinion
is that no it is the Masjid and the
congregation of the Masjid right and to
be honest I lived there for 10 years and
I was not able to find an opinion that
made sense to me both have very strong
evidences but alhamdulillah when I went
to mecah always prayed in the so I never
had to worry about this issue it's like
you know who would go to mekah and then
go a mile away to pray you know what I'm
saying it's question the H time you oh
who whoa whoa in the hjj time if the
congregation is connected to the hotel
places then it will count as the
congregation of the Kaa so we don't have
to worry about this we're asking about
the other mid in Makkah will you get the
100,000 reward or not and many scholars
say yes all of the Haram of Makkah is
the the 1,00 100,000 and many say it is
only that Masjid but for us
alhamdulillah when we go there we don't
have to worry about this the people of
mecah can debate and of course they
prefer the other opinion obviously right
but for us we don't have to worry about
this because we always pray inshallah in
the uh the center Haram which is the we
will continue uh next Wednesday any
announcements
donish the what one final question go
ahead you told that went to Brave to
prayer so what prayer we should do for
the diseas if somebody go and
cover the prophet's Dua to in front of
the graves was very authentically
reported and other duas are mentioned
the prophet s's duas are numerous in
front of the Grave uh and we mentioned
before two weeks ago was it about the
issue of reading Quran and whatnot it
has never been narrated that the prophet
would read fat in front of the Grave or
do anything like this so we should stick
to the Sunnah it is better and make the
duas of the prophet and Allah Knows Best
in with this we will conclude and
continue next Wednesday insh