Alhamdulillah.
Uh we were discussing the stories of the
and we're trying to lay the foundations
for the actual of the prophet the hij of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
We discussed many of the other hij that
took place and the point that we need to
underscore the prophet was really one of
the last if not the last uh adult Muslim
to immigrate to Medina. The only people
left after the prophetam were some of
the women and children such as the
family of Abu Bakr such as Ali.
Otherwise basically all of the adults
had migrated uh before. And there's only
one story left before we get to the
actual story of the prophet's and that
is the story of which is a very brief
story and it shows the bravery of and
the uh the the methodology that had
narrates that I don't know of anybody
who did the hij publicly except for
Omar. I don't know of anybody who did
the hij publicly except for Omar.
Everybody was sneaking away. Everybody
was doing it in the middle of the night
except for he was the only Muslim to do
the hij and make it public. He packed
his bags. He armed himself and wore his
uh shield and his arrows and everything
and he went to the and did seven times
and he's dressed as a traveler. He's
prepared as a traveler and then he makes
a public announcement. Oh people of
Mecca,
whoever amongst you wishes that his
mother lose him tonight
or that his children become orphans or
that his wife becomes a widow, then know
that I'm performing the hijra and you
can meet me outside of Mecca in such and
such a valley. This is the only person
who performed hijra making it public.
And of course nobody took up on that
challenge. And this again shows us the
status of and this is why our prophet
made dua
that oh Allah bless Islam with the more
beloved of the um to you. The other one
was being Abu Jah because his name was
also and and so is a type of Omar. One
of the means of ways of saying Omar is
and and and
all of these from the same root of and
Omar. And so the prophet said bless
Islam with one of the two who is more
beloved to you. And so Allah loved
and Abu Jah has a different fate as we
know. So this is the final story that we
have of the hij of the other sahab and I
mentioned the rest of them before and
I mentioned all of them uh last week and
so we now get to the actual hijra of the
prophet sallall.aii wasallam and as
usual we need to piece together the
incident of the hijra from many
different stories. Again one of the
problems of the s is that the s is not
written down in one story. We have
different reports just like we have for
is just like we have for we need to
piece together the puzzle. So we have a
number of stories. The first of them the
most authentic of them narrating the
first person narrating her memories of
the hijra as a young girlisha at this
time is around six or seven years old.
So this is basically her first memories
of Islam and
says and the hadith is in Bkari so it's
fully authentic. I don't remember any
day except that my parents were Muslims
i.e. as far back as I can remember my
parents were Muslims. So Isha obviously
was born and Abu Bakr was already a
Muslim at the time right is born and
Abbakr is already a Muslim and she is
the younger of the two. Asma Bakr is
older and Asma has a different mother
and Asma's mother was not a Muslim. She
was a mushik. So Abu Bakr divorced her.
Abu Bakr divorced Asma's mother and he
married's mother. And so Aisha says, I
don't remember a day except that both of
my parents were upon the religion of
Islam and I don't remember any day
except that the prophet would come
visiting us in our house. So her
earliest memories every day
is coming to us sometimes in the morning
and even in the evening. And then Aisha
narrates that when the prophet was given
the permission to migrate and he told
the Muslims to migrate, Abu Bakr
prepared a camel to migrate to to Medina
and he asked the prophet sallallah.aii
wasallam for permission. Every Muslim
asked the prophetam for permission for
everything that he did. And the prophet
wasallam said wait for I hope that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will give us
permission. I hope that Allah subhanana
wa ta'ala will give us permission
meaning I'm waiting for Allah to give us
this permission. So, so Abu Bakr
understood that the permission that the
prophet is waiting for is permission for
him to accompany the prophetam on the
hij
and so when Abu Bakr heard this he asked
are you hoping for my companionship
meaning can I be with you is that what
you're hoping for and so the prophet
said yes this what I'm hoping for and
this shows us as well that the prophet
never did anything except with the
permission of Allah and after asking
Allah the prophet did not undertake any
major decision without getting
permission from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and so everybody's allowed to
immigrate but he's not migrating why
because Allah did not tell him to do so
yet so he says wait Abu Bakr I hope that
perhaps you might be given uh permission
so when Abu Bakr heard this he prepared
two camels instead of one he prepared
two camels what does it mean to prepare
a camel. You all know that a camel is
the ship of the desert. You all know
that a camel uh is able to carry its
food and its water on its back, right?
But in order to do so, you need to feed
the camel special diet and you need to
cause it to drink extra water. And you
actually have to give it salt in order
to cause it to drink water. Believe it
or not, obviously you have to give the
camel salt so you force it to drink
water. So you prepare it for a few weeks
and then the hump appears.
You give it a special type of diet. You
keep it locked up so that it doesn't
burn its fat and you just feed it, feed
it, feed it and you give it water and it
will uh have that extra hump on its
back. So this is what Abu Bakr is
saying. I'm preparing two camels. When
the prophet said this, I prepared two uh
camels and he said I did this for four
months. Now scholars say this might be
like a little bit of exaggeration
because it's actually been 3 and 1/2
months. So he's making it up to four,
right? So because when the prophetam
told the people to immigrate and then
when he immigrated this is uh an interim
of 3 and 1/2 months. So he's just
rounding up as we say not exaggeration
but rounding up not three and a half but
rather uh four months and this took
place in of the 13th year of the mission
of of the 13th year of the uh of the uh
to be more precise okay let's be more
precise the 12th year of the prophetic
message in the month of and then muharam
it becomes the 13th year right because
muharam is when we begin the year so in
the muharam of the 13th and then the
suffer the the prophetam according to
our best estimates he didn't say this
it's not in any hadith but we're trying
to estimate according to our best
estimates how do we estimate we know a
number of details we know that he was
the last to immigrate we know that he
immigrated on a Monday because Abbas
says Muslim that the prophet reported
that on Monday
was revealed to me I became a prophet
and on Monday I was born and on Monday I
immigrated.
So Monday is a day all of these things
occurred. So looking back at the
calendars that we are able to derive we
see which of these days corresponds to a
number of facts and the closest date
that some of our modern researchers have
have developed is the 26th of Safar. The
26th of Safar in the 13th year of the
dawa. This would basically be the first
year of the Hijra, right? Because the
hijra actually occurred in safar and not
in muharam and I mentioned in other
places in why the sahaba chose muharam
to mark the beginning of the calendar
that has nothing to do with the prophet
it has to do with something else. So
muharam of that year then the 26th of
the prophetam actually immigrated. What
happened on that day in the daytime in
the daytime of the Monday
Aish is narrating the same hadith that
when we were sitting in our house at the
peak of the heat of the day at noon time
it's a hot day and in Arabia in fact in
every hot climate in Spain is one
example of this they have the siesta and
all of this in every hot climate in the
middle of the day everything just shuts
down and people just take a nap because
there's nothing else they can do. It's
too hot to go outside. It's a it's a
siesta. You take a nap. And this is a
culture that not only did our prophetam
find, he encouraged it. And he
encouraged the Muslims to take this
afternoon nap. And everybody knows
scientists, doctors, they all tell us
when you take this nap, it makes you
energetic and it makes you better
prepped for the day uh to have a little
nap in the afternoon. So the prophet
advised us and encouraged us to have
this afternoon nap. So this was the time
in this nap time where says that in the
in the in the hot time of the day we saw
a figure approaching and the streets
were deserted. Nobody's there and the
figure had wrapped his turban around his
head
is it's like the man who wraps the
turban around his face. You cannot see
him until we recognize from the distance
that it is the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. Now obviously when you know
somebody very well even if they cover
their face you can recognize from the
body from even the th anything you can
recognize this is that particular uh
person and so we said wah the only
reason he must be coming is for
something very grave to have occurred.
This is an emergency. Nobody comes at
this time for something very grave to
have occurred. So the prophet asked
permission to come in. Abu Bakr granted
it to him and he said remove everybody
from the room. Now in those days the
houses were not divided into different
rooms. They were divided into
compartments.
The houses didn't have these massive
mansions as we do. You walk in here and
there. Rather you built a house and then
you would have chambers. You would have
curtains that would have private rooms
in it. Right? So the prophet does not
know who's inside these rooms. So he
tells Abu Bakr, "Get everybody else out.
Whoever whatever woman is here, get her
out. Abu Bakr said Allah they are but
your family. That's it. I.e and her
sister. That's all there was there. And
of course uh had already been uh engaged
to the prophet. The had been done and
the consummation had not yet occurred.
So the nikah has already taken place and
uh and Abu Bakr says yeah Allah this
only your family. Nobody else is here.
And so Aisha is narrating first person.
She's hearing from behind the curtains.
She's hearing cuz she's in the house. So
Aisha is narrating first person uh this
story. And so Abu Bakr says there's only
there's only your family here. Meaning
Abu Aish and Asma and so Abu the
prophetam said Allah has given me
permission to immigrate. Allah has given
me permission to immigrate. Now Abu Bakr
was waiting for permission to come to
him as well. And so he asked him,
"Oh messenger of Allah, did Allah allow
me to be the companion?
I beg you by by my mother and father,
did Allah give this permission?" And the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
"Yes, the permission has been given for
you to accompany me."
says this hadith is in Bkari and this
addition is inbisha says that I saw Abu
Bakr cry
and I had never believed that people
could cry out of happiness until I saw
Abu Bakr cry out of happiness on that
day. Aisha is saying I never believed
that people cried when they got happy.
Crying is something you do when you're
sad, when you're worried, when you're
distressed. Aisha says, "I never
believed that people could cry when
they're happy until I saw my own father
Abu Bakr cry when the permission was
given to migrate with the prophet
sallallah.aii wasallam." And so the
prophet wasallam told Abu Bakr that he
was going to uh migrate with him. Abu
Bakr said, "Yeah, I have prepared two
camels. One of them is yours." Subhan
Allah. The prophet did not have a camel
even in Mecca. He didn't have a camel. I
have prepared two camels. One of them is
yours. And the prophet wasallam said
only if I pay you the price of the camel
till till it becomes mine. I'm not going
to take it as a free gift. I'm not going
to take it as a freebie. Subhan Allah.
Why? Because this is of the perfection
of his manners sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. It's the perfection of his
manners. Even though he'soolah he
doesn't take advantage and flouted do
this and do that until I pay its price
then I'll take it from you. And also
because he wanted the full reward of
doing the hijra because as we all know
if you help somebody doing some good
deed what happens? You get a share. And
so the prophet wants the full reward.
I'm going to pay for it myself and I'm
going to migrate on the camel that I
own. And so uh Abu Bakr is basically
forced to uh take us home from the
prophet to give him that uh camel. And
Asma who is Aisha's older sister Aisha
is too young to do anything. And Asma is
at least 15 years older than her. 10 to
15 years older than Asma is basically
adult already. And Aisha is a little
girl. She cannot prepare anything. So
Asma had already prepared food and
reserves for them. And so in the uh
panic of the moment, she bundled up all
of the food and she didn't have anything
to tie the bag with. And so she took off
her belt. And in those days, the belt is
nothing other than some, you know, grope
or something. She took off her own belt
and tore it in half with her teeth and
used half of a belt for her own uh
garment and then used the other half for
the baguh of the prophet and Abu Bakr.
And that is why she was called
she of the two belts. This is this is
the this is the title. If anybody says
who is she of the two uh belts, this is
the title that was given to Abu Bakr
because of this incident that she took
off her own belts, cut it in half and
then she just used half of it to try to
keep her own uh uh blouse and skirt on
and the rest of it she used for the uh
food of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. And Abu Bakr had at this point
in time 5,000
uh dirhams. And uh Ibn Hak narrates that
when Abu Bakr accepted Islam, he was a
wealthy man who had 40,000 dirhams. And
by the time he immigrated, 35,000 of
them had been gone for what? For saving
people like Bilal. for basically
purchasing almost every single slave he
could find in Mecca that was being
persecuted. He spent 90% of his wealth
completely for the sake of Islam. And
when he immigrated, he took the entire
amount with him. 5,000 dirhams he took
with him. And uh side tangent here, but
when he took this amount, Abu Bakr's
father, Abu Kahafa, and Abu Kafa did not
accept Islam until after the conquest of
Mecca. Abu Kahafa was an open enemy, a
sarcastic enemy in that he always mocked
his own son. How could you have accepted
the faith of this man? And he was
already a bitter old man. He was a blind
old man who had a sharp tongue. Already
had a sharp tongue. And Abu Kahafa when
Abu Bakr left with the prophet, we're
jumping the gun. Just to take tell the
story. Abu Kafa came to Asma
mocking Abu Bakr for having abandoned
the two little girls without any money.
What type of father is this? He has left
you with no money. He had all of this
wealth. He's taken it all for his
companion. Has left nothing for you. And
so Asma Subhan, look at her iman and her
intelligence. And he's a he's a blind
man. Asma took the uh money jar. It
wasn't a jar. which was a sack cloth
that Abu Bakr kept his money in and
quickly picked up some pebbles and threw
them in there and wrapped the money jar
in some more cloth and said no my
grandfather he has left us some money
here look and she gave him the bag that
Abu Bakr kept for his money so you know
this is the bag that is the money bag
and so he felt it and he felt it a heavy
amount right so he said okay I I'm
mistaken if this is what he has left for
you then there is nothing to to blame
even though Asma says He didn't leave us
a penny.
Why? Because he wants every penny for
the prophet wasallam. And he expects
somebody will give them food and water
and they're not going to starve to death
in Mecca. They're not in the middle of
the desert. There are people that are
going to give them the basic to live. We
are going in the middle of the desert.
We don't know where we're going to need
this money who we're going to have to
pay off. So he took every last that he
had and he left nothing with and is and
of course Allah took care of them and
eventually they made their way to uh
Medina. Now there is uh this is the
version of Bkari and the version of
Bkari is as always Bkari's versions are
always the most concise, the least
detailed.
You want the juicy details you need to
go to the other books and the problem
with the other books is many times they
don't have authentic isnats right. So as
we said many times over and over again
these types of traditions no problem in
narrating them but we should sift
through that which we know as a fact
versus that whose isnads might be
slightly weak. When we turn to uh Muslim
im Ahmed,
we have a hadith that gives us a little
bit more description about what happened
on that particular night. And Abbas says
Allah revealed in the Quran one ayah
describing that night, the night of the
Hijra and that is surah Anfal verse 30.
Surah alfal verse 30b Abbas said this is
an ayah that talks about the Hijra. What
is Alfal vers 30?
when the people who disbelieved plotted
secretly to either try to imprison you
or to exile you
or to kill you. when they plotted
secretly to do one of these three things
and Allahawel plotted and they plotted
and Allah is the blessed best of those
who plan. Sob Abbas says this ayah talks
about that night. What happened that
night? They came together in Dunad.
Darun Nadwa was their parliament and
they came together in the middle of the
night. There was a secret meeting and
representatives from all of the tribes
of the Quraysh came except for the Banu
Hashim except for the Banu Hashim. But
the Banu Hashim did not come. They
weren't invited. And so Abu Lahab was
not invited for this meeting because it
would have been a conflict of interest.
Even though his heart would have been
with them, his presence would have
jeopardized it. This is a bit deep here.
Think about this. They intentionally
left Abu uh Abu Lahab out of the
meeting. Why?
Because
they were planning to harm one of his
relatives, immediate relatives, his
nephew. And no matter how much Abu Lahab
wouldn't have minded that he couldn't
have officially given the green light
for that. As they say, ignorance is
bliss. Right? So if Abu Laahab didn't
know, Abuahab doesn't have to answer.
Even though they knew that his heart
would have been with them. You guys
following this point here, right? Is
that very crafty of them to leave Abu
Lahab out? They know exactly what
they're doing. And they also left out
another very important figure and that
is Mutbi.
Who is Mutbi? Mutbi is the one who's
basically allowed the prophet to remain
in Mecca.
It's his protection not Abuahabs.
They've left him out because once again
Mim has given his word and he cannot
take it back in a private meeting.
Right? And this shows us despite their
evil and conniving there is some sense
of dignity. There is some sense that we
cannot invite these two people even
though they're pagans they're not
Muslims but Mutim has given his word
right he's the one the passport if you
like the visa is from Mim that I'm
giving you protection so they can't
invite Mim to the meeting right and
Abuab no matter how much he hates his
own nephew and even he's even withdrawn
his protection but Abuahab cannot get
his hands guilty with the blood because
that would be something that forget he
doesn't care but it's It's embarrassing
for the public. Not that he loves this
nephew. He doesn't at all. Right? If he
had his way, he would have been killed
long time ago. But it's a matter of
tribal honor. It's a matter of the war,
the the customs of the time. How could
Abuahab allow his own nephew to get
killed knowingly? This would have been a
shame for Abuahab as long as he lived.
So he also was not invited. Who was
invited? The rest of the seniors and the
elders. and in one uh so basically the
uh uh the descendants of Abd the
descendants of of the descendants of
other subtribes of the Qur not the
hashim and notb
and it is also said in a narration that
has a slight uh missing link in it
who he narrates from from this time and
he never saw this time there's a missing
link uh that an old man came knocking on
the door in the middle of the night I
mean this is a secret meeting nobody is
supposed to know about it and when When
they opened the door, they saw a man.
They could not recognize who he was.
They said, "Who are you?" He said, "I am
a leader from the Najj. I'm not from
here. I'm the leader from the Najj." And
it has reached me that you're having a
meeting and allow me to come. Perhaps I
can benefit you with my wisdom about
what you're planning to do. And uh Abbas
says this was Shaitan. This was who
wanted to seal the plot. Make sure that
the actual plot that was done was that
of assassination. When they came
together, they began talking to one
another and they said, "The Muslims have
now migrated to another land and we are
scared if we allow this man to leave,
they will become a political threat to
Mecca because again up until now the
Muslims have been in their control. Up
until now they've all been in Mecca. Now
everybody has migrated. They all know
that one person has left. That's the
prophet with Abu Bakr. Everybody else
has gone. So they have a meeting the
very night of before the hijra the very
night before the immigration they have a
meeting and they say we need to do do
something now realize the hijra was
because of this meeting right the hijra
the timing of the hijra was because of
this meeting because they plotted
allahel plotted that's what Allah is
saying so they came together on that
night and they gave some suggestions the
first suggestion let's imprison him in a
house now there's no such thing really
as a prison in Arabia at the time they
didn't have a concept cept of a prison
and if they had to imprison somebody it
was an exceptional thing it was not the
concept of putting somebody in jail was
not known to the early Muslims or to the
Arabs and if you think about it it's a
very inhumane concept to lock somebody
up for 20 years in a room this was not
known to uh the Arabs so they said let's
basically put a house and put him into
that house and this is what Allah is
saying they want to tie you up put you
down and the old man basically said, "If
you were to do this, his words would
still reach his followers.
People would smuggle out the Quran and
what not to his followers. It's not a
good enough plot." Another said, "Let us
send him into exile."
Allah says in the Quran, "Let us send
him into exile. At least he'll be rid of
us here in Mecca." Again, said sending
him into exile is to send him back to
his followers. It will strengthen them
rather than weaken them. You can't
elimate, you can't get rid of him. And
here is where Abu Jahal of course was in
the audience and Abu Jah said, "You
still haven't said the point that is on
everybody's mind, but they're scared to
say it." Every one of you is thinking
this, but nobody has the guts to come
and say it. Well, let me say it. Abu
Jahal,
why don't we kill him?
But now the problem would come and I've
said this many times before. It's a
matter of honor for the Arabs. It's a
matter of law that you don't kill one of
your own. It's something that they have
never done before. You don't kill one of
your own in cold blood. This is
something that is it's something they
for them it would be uh a mark of
humiliation. It would be something their
enemies would criticize for the rest of
the Quraysh's lives. They'd be
criticizing this. Right? So Abu uh Jah
said but we'll do this in a way that
nobody can get angry at any one tribe.
And this was the dastard plot of Abu
Jahal. Abu Jahal said rather than one of
us attack him, why not every single
tribe sends one representative
and they fight him like one man such
that by the time he's dead, their blood,
his blood is on all of their swords. So
nobody knows who killed him and all of
the tribes are equally to blame. If we
do this, no one tribe can be made fun of
because they're all guilty. At least the
ones in the room, the tribes that were
in the room. And he said the Banu Hashim
will have no choice but to accept the
blood money. Otherwise, the Banu Hash
would have had to declare war. You see,
this is again tribal honor. Has nothing
to do with the fact they love or they
hate this man. It's tribal honor. It's
gang mentality. You harm my gang, I have
to kill one of your gang. You kill me,
we're going to kill you back. It's gang
mentality. So the Banu Hashim, if any
other tribe had attacked them, the Banu
Hashim would have had to declare war
until they killed a good amount of the
other enemy and then they said, "Okay,
this is now if all of the tribes in
Mecca and in the surrounding regions
equally participate, the Banu Hashim
cannot declare war against all of them."
So what are they going to have to do?
They're going to have to accept the
blood money, the dy and the the the
concept of blood money and was
pre-Islamic. Islam came and gave it some
rules.
But the concept of having blood money
and the concept of having it is
pre-Islamic. Islam fine-tuned it and
made it uh precise. Uh and so they had
this notion of blood money. So the uh
Abu Jah said if we do this the Banu
Hashim will have no alternative except
to take the blood money and it will be a
done deal. This was when stood up and
said this is this is the this is the
smart decision. This is the intelligent
decision that there is no other decision
to take other than uh this one. And this
was therefore what they all plotted to
do. And right then and there every one
of the tribes people thought of one
person in their tribe the a young strong
man whom they could choose for this
deed. And they sent them immediately to
the house of the prophet sallallah.aii
wasallam. And this was when jirel came
down to the prophetam and informed him
that you must make the hijra now. So
this was on the same evening that he
spoken to Abu Bakr. The same evening. He
does not know what's happening but Jibil
comes and tells him you need to leave
right now and so Allah subhana wa ta'ala
informed him of that plot and his hak
reports without any isnad uh and so
there's no isnad at all but this is the
famous report that we all know
that as they surrounded the house of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the
prophetam went outside reciting surah
yasin reciting surah yasin and they did
not recognize him or they did not see
him at all because Allah says
we put barriers in front of them and
behind them so we caused them to go
blind or we covered them up and they
couldn't see anything and so the prophet
recited surahim the first verses and
they were blinded to his presence they
didn't see a thing and mentions that he
threw dust on their hair. He threw dust
on their hair as a sign of humiliation.
Like it's something that is disgusting.
Even if one of us has dust on us, we
don't like it, right? So he threw dust
on every one of them as he walked out.
And they didn't even see this until
after he had uh left, until after he had
left. And it is said that uh at the time
he was still living in the house of
Khadijah, of course, because Khadijah
has passed away. So he's living in the
house and with him is of course Ali
because he's supposed to be taking care
of Ali. Ali grew up in the household of
the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam and
Ali at this uh stage Ali is a young boy
at the time. Ali is a young boy at the
time. He's a teenager. He's a young man
I should say. He's a teenager because
Ali has been a Muslim since he was
around 7 8 years old. So he's around 19
18 19 now at this time. He's a young man
at this time. And Ali was told to remain
behind in the bed of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. You know
they didn't have closed windows. you
know for them there's this opening there
you look inside and you will see the
people inside the house and so he told
Ali to stay in his bed so that if the
Quraysh looked in they would find
somebody lying there and it's dark
nobody sees who it is they would assume
that this is the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam all of this this details
of the story it is found in but without
any isnat so there is not 100%
authenticity but at the same time
there's nothing wrong with affirming
these uh these stories Now Abu Bakr
had already prepared the two camels. The
prophetam came to the house of Abu Bakr
in the middle of the night. The two of
them in the middle of the night rode
their camels and they went to as we all
know the cave of
now is very interesting because it is in
the exact opposite direction that Medina
is. Medina is due north. Straight line
is due south. Exact opposite.
You literally are turning your back to
Medina and walking away to get to
literally. And it's a 2 and 1/2 3-hour
walk from Mecca. And so they had already
devised a plot, a plan to go to this
cave and stay there for 3 days and three
nights in utmost secrecy.
And then after 3 days and three nights,
they would then meet with a guide who
would take them from a path that was
unknown to the Quraysh. A path that only
some of the Bedawins of other tribes
knew, not the main road, not the
highway, a back road. And in fact, they
had to circle down to what is now Jeda.
And they were very close to Jada. And
then they made their way to Medina from
Jada. And so they didn't take the the
highway from Mecca to Medina. They
actually took the highway if you like
from Jeda to Medina. And the modern
highway that is that they have just now
built the modern highway that they have
just now built. I say just now it's been
at least 15 years. Um but for 40 years
before this back in the 60s and 70s
there was a very old you must remember
it uncle sitting here. You must remember
that old I still have memories of that
as well when I was a kid. Uh there's a
very old highway from Mecca. That's uh
that was another path. The new path it
is actually called that's the name of
the highway in our times
because when the engineers actually
found out when they had a maps and they
figured out what's the best way to get
from this place to that place they
actually figured out believe it or not
actually we firmly do believe it that
the best way is
right the easiest way and this was not
the way that was known to the Arabs at
the time because in order to do it you
have to go towards so therefore if
you're going from Mecca to Medina, you
actually circle a little bit towards
Jeda and then you work your way up.
That's the highway of our times. And so
the highway that you go to is actually
closer to the hijra of the prophetam
than the old highway that they had built
back in the uh 50s back in the 40s and
50s. Now uh we had said that Abu Bakr
already had this point in mind and Abu
Bakr
had a plan how to undertake this
journey. We're going to get to this uh
we're going to get to this uh in a
while. Before we get there,
it is said that when the prophet
sallallah.aii wasallam left Makkahi
reports in his sunnah when he passed the
final shops of Mecca cuz the s of Mecca
was on the outskirts when he passed the
final s of Mecca the middle of the night
he turned around to take one final look
and he would not enter Mecca again
except as a conqueror. so many years
later except for the one interlude in in
the he came for 2 days or 3 days and
then left otherwise he would not enter
Makkah again except as a conqueror uh 8
and a half years later he turned around
and he said speaking to Mecca
generically or metaphorically he said to
Mecca that you are the most blessed land
on earth and the most beloved to me
and were it not for the fact that my
people
have expelled me, I would never have
left you. Were it not for the fact that
my own people have expelled me, I would
not have left you. And this is exactly
the wordings that
told him almost 13 and a half years ago.
When he accepted
told him who that was, no said, "I wish
I were a young man to help you the day
that your people will expel you." the
exact same wordings and the prophet said
my own people are going to expel me. He
is saying 30 13 years later my
exact same wordings 13 years have gone
by and this is the fulfillment of the
prophecy that says because knows reality
knows what has happened in the past and
so says yes every prophet has been
expelled and you're not going to be any
exception and so uh the prophet said
this ib ka has over here that he also
made a long dua and he has the dua
recorded
It's a long beautiful dua where he
basically asks Allah for protection. He
asks Allah to make the safar easy for
him. He asks Allah for his mercy and his
uh and his protection. All of this is
mentioned in Iben Kir's. I have not
found it in any earlier uh um one of the
classical books. Allah subhana wa ta'ala
knows best. Now getting back to the
story of uh Abu Bakr and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and also the
version of says that Abu Bakr had
planned to stay in the th for three
nights
and they had made an arrangement with
two different people or I should say
three people actually they had made an
arrangement with three people to do
three chores. So Abu Bakr has been
thinking about this for a long time. The
planning has been done. The first was
his son Abdullah. Abdah Bakr.
This is speaking. He was a young strong
man, very intelligent and very quick to
understand.
Abdahbak,
he is his oldest son and he's younger
than Asma. The oldest is Asma. then
Abdullah and then you have and then you
had Abdahman and then you had a third
daughter that was born after Abu Bakr
died. His wife was pregnant. Uh and that
is
no um
the very last daughter of Abu Bakr uh
uh that when when Abu Bakr died he was
on his deathbed and he told Aisha take
care of your two sisters and your two
brothers. Aisha said what two sisters? I
only have one sister. And Abu Bakr said
uh that I feel that my wife she he had
another wife after that my wife is
pregnant and she will give birth to a
daughter. And he didn't even know this.
She was not visibly pregnant but he had
a intuition from Allah. He had an
intuition from Allah. And so he died and
8 months later his wife gave birth to
Aisha's youngest sister. Aisha's
youngest sister. This is Abu Bakr's
intuition that Allah had given him.
Anyway, getting back here. So Abu Bakr
had said to his son Abdullah, he is the
oldest son. Asma is the oldest daughter.
His son Abdullah that every morning he
would come out with some food and drink
for the cave cuz they're not going to
leave the cave at all. So this is going
to be their provision inside the cave.
And he would listen to the people of
Mecca what they're doing, which
direction they're heading in. He's a
young child. He's not going to be people
are not going to pay attention to him.
He's going to be going in the
marketplace and Eve's dropping what are
the people talking about? Where are the
expeditions being sent to? So he would
inform them on a daily basis in case
they need to modify their plan. So this
was Abdullahb Abu Bakr's uh task and he
would do this every day. He would just
go around as if he's doing his chores,
purchasing what needs to be purchased,
taking out the goats, doing this and
that. In reality, this is just a guise
to listen to what the people are talking
about. And because he's a kid, nobody's
paying attention to him. That's why
Aisha says he was a smart kid. He was
way ahead of his years. The second
person Aisha says
was Abu Bakr's personal servant, i.e. a
slave whom he had freed. Fra was Abu
Bakr's freed servant. Abu Bakr had a
slave. Abu Bakr freed the slave. And so
there's a clear sense of loyalty to Abu
Bakr. Fu
had the job of taking out the flocks. He
would take some money to be a shepherd
for the people of Mecca, right? This is
the the most menial job you can do. The
prophet himself did it. He would be a
shepherd. His job was to take out the
flocks and make sure that the footsteps
of Abdullahb Abi Bakr are erased away.
Notice the footsteps of Abdahbakar are
erased away, right? And so takes the
flock of sheep and he grazes back and
forth over the footsteps so that nobody
knows where the prophet has gone. And
then there was a third man assigned for
the job and that is Abdullahb
or both are mentioned. Abdahb al
both are mentioned we don't know the
exact name and his job he was not from
the Quraysh he was from a far away tribe
and he was from a beduin tribe and his
job was to lead them down this what we
now call
because they're not going the famous way
they're going a way that nobody travels
right now I know this is difficult for
us to understand they actually did have
highways back in those days believe it
or not they did what is a highway back
This is a welltraveled road. Wellraveled
road. And they would have wells. And
they would even have provisions for
those who are completely out of
everything. They would sometimes build.
This would depend on the uh the
political and the economic state of the
of the of the people. But they would
have provisions on the road for those
who don't have anything. They would put
it up. If you're out of everything,
there's going to be some water under
some rocks or something. There would be
marks. There would be markings. People
would know this is the the path, right?
And people would love to take the path.
The same reason why we take the major
highways and not the back roads. Safety,
security, something happens, a major
caravan will come. The exact same
reasons, right? Nobody just takes a 4x4
and goes into the the desert unless they
are of a different spirit. You know,
that adventurous spirit, you know,
that's not something the average person
does. The same thing happens at the time
of the prophetam. So they hired Abdahb
to tell them of this back road that
nobody ever traveled. You wouldn't find
a soul on this road unless they happen
to be of a similar adventurous spirit.
This is not the road that other people
travel. And the point was or the goal
was or the plan was that Abdullahb would
meet them on the morning of the third
night. Three nights in the cave, nobody
knows. And then on the morning of the
third night, they would meet Abdullahb
al and he would take take them on this
uh on this new uh road. Now in a
narration that is uh uh that's bkari and
Muslim
Malik says that Abu Bakr narrated to us
the details of the journey. Abu Bakr
narrated to us the details of the
journey and this is the famous story
that all of you know that Abu Bakr said
that now uh some of you I'm sure have
been there. Who's been to
the two three? Huh?
You've seen it. You've been inside it.
You have been inside. You haven't been
inside. So when you is not like it's
very different is very different is a
very small cave and the entrance is more
on the top like you have to wiggle your
way in and then jump into not really
jump but put your way into the now in
our times if you go to it's actually a
small chamber that's because there's
been probably 5 million people that have
come in and out of it every time
somebody comes in you know it gets a
little bit bigger you know you take a
little bit sand out. You literally carve
out a bigger cave just by walking into
and out of it, right? This is basic
geology, basic uh, you know, physics. I
mean, everybody who comes in, believe it
or not, every human being who walks into
that cave and walks out, the cave will
actually expand because of that, right?
Another example is the mount of the
archers
in the time of the prophet was at least
four times higher than what it is now,
right? Nobody came and destroyed it. But
what happens? We all go up and we go
down. As we go up and we go down, we
take a little bit of the sand with us,
right? So what happens over the last 14
centuries, this jabal has become a
little bit of a hill that's maybe what
three times the size of this masjid,
right? Three, four times. It's very
small. Even an elderly person can walk
all the way to the top and come back
down. No problem. That wasn't the way it
was back then. Back then it was much
higher. By the way, the same happens for
Safa and Marwa. Safa and Marwa were much
larger than they are now. We only see 10
ft. It was actually more like 100 ft
back then. So the point being this is
basic geology, basic human uh basic
sciences
was a very small chamber and it is said
that there was only space literally for
two people in that jabal. So it's not
like a little massive chamber that
there's mashallah ventilation and
running water and no this is not. It's
literally a crevice. That's more like
what it is. Just a little crack. And Abu
Bakr had uh planned this to be there for
three days that stay in there. Now Abu
Bakr uh saw the Quraysh walking up and
down the cave. Question arises how did
they get there? And this is not
mentioned in this narration. It is
mentioned in other books ali and other
books mentioned that when the Quraysh
figured out that the prophet had not
gone the usual road because all the
other muajun had taken the usual road
all of the other muajirun had taken the
usual road but the Quraysh didn't send
expeditions to bring them back right if
they you you all know the story they
only did it for su and a few people
otherwise they didn't send an expedition
to send them back if they got to the
road then kalas okay who's going to go
and get them back for the prophet
They sent out riders. They sent out
every direction. They figure out he's
not there. So then aladi says one of the
ancient books it says they hired
an expert scout.
They hired an expert scout
to figure out the traces of the camel
from the house of Abu Bakr.
And so this scout managed to despite all
of the precautions. Now he's an expert
scout, right? So he has his ways. Allah
knows. I have no idea how this person
can figure it out. But whether it's
through camel dung, yes, camel dung
because even camels have different dungs
and once you figure out which one this
is, uh you can figure this out or I
don't know how other ways as well, but
they have their ways. So they hired this
expert scout from outside of the city,
private detective basically, right? And
they bring him to Mecca and they say
trace the footsteps of these two men.
And so he leads them to the base of
and he goes, "This is where I can trace
it. From here it's a mountain. I can't
follow anymore. From here it's a
mountain." Now, this is skeptical. It's
iffy. Like this is one theory. So
they're they're not 100% sure he's on
the mountain, but this is the best uh
hint they've had for the last 3 days. So
what happens? They all send in the
troops and the forces, right? Abu Jah is
there.
uh uh Khalif is there. All the big names
come because this is the hint now that
they've been wanting. This is better
than anything they've gotten. And so
this is the famous incident that Abu
Bakr looks out and he sees Abu Jah and
Abbal and all of them. That's why they
were on the mountain. And this is when
he whispers to the prophet that all they
need to do is to look into this crevice
and they will see us. All they need to
do is look into this crevice and they
will see us. Uh he says uh
if they just look down at their feet
where they we are now they would see us
because the entrance to the cave it's at
feet level. And so the person who's
walking outside might see a little bit
of a crack and they would assume that
the crack is not a cave. They would
assume it's just a crack. You know how
mountains have these all these cracks.
So Abu Bakr became panicked and he
whispered if they just look down they'll
see us. And this is when the prophet
responded to the famous phrase that all
of you should know and memorize.
Oh Abu Bakr, what do you think of two
people? Allah is the third of them. What
do you think is going to happen? What do
you think of two people? Allah is the
third of them. Now over here, of course,
we all have the um famous stories of the
spider and the tree and the pigeons and
all that. Uh and again uh there they are
mentioned in some of the books. Uh the
the the story of the spiderweb is
mentioned in Musad Ahmed and there's a
slight weakness in it. And so out of all
of the stories, this is the best story.
There's a slight weakness in it. As for
the uh narration of the tree leaning
down over the mouth or the two pigeons
setting up a nest, these are reported
with massive uh missing links. So third,
fourth generation reporting what
happened at the time of the prophetam.
Uh so no problem narrating it but we
should know that this is not in Bkari
and Muslim this not like 100% uh
authentic but nothing is surprising if
Allah had willed it then uh we don't we
don't have any problem affirming that.
So they crossed over the and they didn't
realize they were in there and so after
the third day they met Abdullahbd
and the three of them began uh going on
their way to Medina towards the
direction of the shore. Now Jeda is at
the shore. As you should know, Jeda is
at the shore. Mecca is uh inside inland.
So they work their way down south and
then from south they work their way out
basically to what is now Jada right
outside of Jada. And then they began
going northwards towards Mecca which is
a road that is parallel to the main road
from Mecca to Medina but not the main
road. It is parallel to it, right? But
it is not the main road. And this is the
road as I said today in our times this
is the main highway that runs from
Makkah to Medadina. It actually goes
this way and then upwards because we
have discovered that this is actually
the fastest way to get to Medina in our
times. And that's what this discovery
was only uh recent. And on the way to
Medina a number of stories are nar are
narrated. Uh most important of them two
stories are narrated that are uh clearly
authentically narrated. The first of
them is the story of ib Malik and and uh
the second of them is the story of
ib Malik and very briefly these are
stories that all of you should be
familiar with
and they are narrated with authentic
chains
Ib Malik was from the tribe of uh Malikb
uh from the tribe of uh and he was not
from the Quraysh basically he was from
one of the Bedawin tribes and he was the
leader of the tribe
He was the leader of the tribe and the
booty, the bounty, the war money of a
100 camels have been placed on Bakr and
the prophet. Dead or alive, anybody who
finds them gets 100 camels. That's a lot
of money. 100 camels is a lot of money.
The prophet didn't even own one camel
until the hijra, right? A camel is like
a car. Imagine 100 cars. It's a lot of
money. And so there's a hundred camels.
Whoever catches the prophet Abu Bakr
dead or alive, no questions asked.
Malik narrates the story to us himself
in the first person. That's why it's
very interesting. He narrates the story
after he accepts Islam and Ib Malik says
that he was sitting with his uh fellow
tribesmen and the news comes that
they're searching for three writers
because now they've discovered the plot.
They discover Abu Bakr and uh the
prophet and a guide. Three people have
left. So the news goes out. It's on the
grape vine. Three writers in the desert.
If you find them dead or alive and they
are the prophet they will then they are
uh you get a 100 camels. So says I was
sitting with my tribesmen and one of my
uh people came back from a hunting
expedition and he says I saw three
people in the distance.
I'm sure this must be the three the
Quraysh are looking for.
Sura got greedy
and Suraka wanted the hundred for
himself not to share it with anybody. So
immediately he lied and he says, "Oh no,
no, that's not those three. That's the
party of so and so. They told me they're
going on expedition in that region." He
lied. That's not those three. There's
somebody else. I know who they are.
Don't worry about that. So he sat down.
The man who thought it was came up
excited. He sat down. Conversation
continued.
says, "When they forgot about the
incident because he played it cool, he
slipped away, rushed back home, got his
warhorse ready, put on his armor, and
galloped at lightning speed as fast as
he could to get to those three people
cuz he has bows and arrows." And it says
dead or alive, he can kill them without
even coming close, and he'll get 100
camels. And
says, the story is famous. I have to
summarize it because time is limited. uh
that when he saw them for the first time
in the distance, all of a sudden my
horse sunk into the ground and threw me,
flipped me over. And it had never done
this before. In another version, he said
that I could see a smoke between me and
the three writers. Something's clearly
wrong. And so he said, I pulled out my
Islam. Islam is their uh their method of
predicting the future. Islam is like
tarot cards or reading your palms or
something like this. They had a uh they
had uh they had a type of Islam which
basically means they're going to ask the
gods what should be done. Call it a
pagan.
Okay. Call it a pagan. That's really
what it is. Okay. So he said I pulled
out those Islam. What is Islam by the
way? It's uh it's arrows that has
certain things on it. You know literally
like you have the tarot cards or Ouija
boards. it has these weird symbols and
whatnot. You need to interpret it your
own way. So he has those things with
him. So he said, "I threw out my Islam
onto the sand to see which direction is
going to go." See all of that. And the
response that I got was do not proceed.
I ignored it and continued going cuz he
wants the money. Right? The second time
I came closer once again the exact same
thing happened.
Once again I was thrown across the
horse. Once again I took it out. Once
again, it says, "Do not proceed." I
ignored it and went for the third time
until finally they were within uh
yelling distance. I could I could speak
to them. And for the third time, my
horse did it even more violently. And I
knew that this was a force beyond me. I
knew that this was a man I could not
reach, beyond my beyond my power. And he
said in this hadith he said and I knew
that the affair of this man would
spread. I Islam would spread. I knew
that the affair of this man would
spread. So I called out to them that I
am a safe person. I'm not going to harm
you. Give me permission to come close.
Subhan Allah. From the hunted he becomes
the one asking permission. Right? From
the one who's hunting he becomes the one
asking permission. And he he narrates an
interesting thing. He says, "When I saw
them in the distance, I forgot to
mention this. When I saw them in the
distance, I saw that one of the two I
Abu Bakr was riding in a very agitated
state. Always looking right and left.
Sometimes behind, sometimes going to the
front, sometimes going back behind,
sometimes going to the front." Because
he's so worried about the prophetam that
he's worried he's going to be attacked
from the back. He goes in the back. Then
his paranoia gets the better of him.
What if he's attacked from the front? He
goes to the front, right? He cannot
concentrate. Whereas the other rider was
riding calmly and peacefully, not
turning once left or right, reciting
something, reciting the Quran, reciting
something. The status of Abu Bakr, the
status of of of the prophet, right? Abu
Bakr is very worried wanting to protect
and the prophetam
he's not even looking not know he's just
he knows Allah will protect him so when
he finally got permission to come uh to
come forth
Malik says that I asked permission from
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
to give me protection
in writing
Allah is an amazing thing. One minute he
wants to pull his arrow to kill them.
The next minute he says, "I knew that
their affair would spread everywhere. So
I wanted protection when that happened.
I didn't want to be hurt when that
happened. So I asked for protection. A
man a man means we're not going to harm
you." Right? Well, amazing. Look at how
in one instance from the hunted to
begging permission to live basically.
And the prophet allowed Abdullahb
to write down on a scroll, write down on
a parchment a man forb
Malik that you will be safe. You're
going to be safe. We're not going to
harm you. You uh uh you protected us
today, we're going to protect you
tomorrow whenever the need comes. Said,
I offered them some food. And the both
of them refused. They had no need of it.
They were prepared for that. They had no
need of this. But Abu Bakr said, "Don't
tell anybody about us. That's the one
request we have. Don't tell anybody
about us." And so didn't tell anybody
about them until finally he went uh when
they did arrive in Medina. By the way,
Suraka told them all the story that
happened. And uh Abu Jahal wrote him a
scathing poem uh where he called the
foolish that you let them go and you did
this and this and you know you're
basically an idiot. Basically, it's very
harsh poetry. He wrote him that they
slipped out of your hands and wrote back
poetry this all in and he said to him
that had you been there on that day and
you had seen what I had seen then you
wouldn't be saying what you're saying I
know what happened you don't know what
happened okay I saw with my own eyes you
didn't see what I saw and so eventually
after the battle of course by the way in
oneb Abd says this what I mentioned to
you is Muslim I A M A M A M A M A M A M
A M A M A M A M IB Abdar another very
early author says that When turned to
leave, the prophetam for the first time
turned to him and said to him, "Yeah,
oh, how will you be the day that you put
on the bracelets of
how will you be the day that you put on
the bracelets of
shocked couldn't say anything other than
the son of like as if we said the
president there's only one president as
if you said the king in any land of
kings there's only one king there's only
one right but he can't the son of
meaning the emperor of Persia you want
me to wear his bracelets or I'm going to
wear his bracelets and that's it the
prophet didn't even respond how will you
be the day that you put on the bracelets
of now was uh
well known for the jewelry that he would
wear as man. He's a man, but he would
wear jewelry, right? Not to mention
things that you shouldn't be seeing. But
if you've seen the movie 300, you've
seen the leader of the of the Persians
dressed in all these weird things,
right? That's basically there. That's
the uh the idea the idea of the Roman or
the Persian emperors. There would be
bracelets and earrings and whatnot. This
is they would dress like this. And he
had very expensive jewelry and very
expensive gold and decorated bracelets.
Well known. Everybody envied him for
this. Okay. So the prophetam is saying
how are you going to be the day that you
wear those bracelets of right and on the
day of hunain which is after the
conquest of Mecca the prophet
conquered uh basically the other tribes
outlying Makkah and he finally conquered
the tribe of ib Malika pulled out the
very piece of paper that he had it's not
paper it's actually parchment he pulled
out the very piece of leather that he
had that the prophet had written to him
almost 10 years ago 8 n years ago and
the prophet recognized and he gave him
the security. He gave him the and
accepted Islam and Sura became a
well-known sahhabi after this and he
migrated to Medina. He lived in
Medadina. The prophet passed away within
six seven years of his death. uh the the
mighty nation of the Sassinid Persians
collapsed as we talked about in the
battle of Kadisa was the beginning of
the end of the Sassinids and eventually
uh Perisopoulos which is still standing
to this day still standing to this day
Parisopoulos which is a city outside of
Tahan which was the capital of the
Sassinids you have pillars in the middle
of the desert literally like 100 200
feet just in the air going it's amazing
you just see pictures of it in our times
we are astounding to this day these
massive palaces completely empty and
abandoned right from the middle of
nowhere you see to this day it's amazing
architecture uh eventually peropous was
conquered that is the capital of the and
as is typical all of the per the the
jewelry all of the treasures of the
palace are gathered and sent to
and in the masjid they're opened up the
masid of the prophet is full of
treasures and gold and when he sees the
palace treasure. He says, "Where is
Surah? Call Sura for me." And so Saka is
called, he's found in the city. He
called and Omar puts him on his own
chair. And Omar finds in that gold the
bracelets of cuz everybody knows the
promise. Everybody knows what the
prophetam said. These are now legends.
Everybody's heard. He finds the two
bracelets of he puts them on the hand of
ib Malik and the entire congregation
starts saying Allah abbar Allah abbar
this is the fulfillment of what the
prophetam said and in fact the version
says they took around Medina can you
imagine the bracelets of the most
powerful man now and
said alhamdulillah who has taken this
bracelets away from the son of hurm and
given them to a beduin from the tribe of
the bunny the tribe of the Banu Mudj uh
alhamdulillah who has taken them from
this mighty man and given them to this
Muslim as what the prophet predicted so
many years ago. Subhan Allah. What an
amazing story and it is clearly
mentioned in our books and it is one of
the many many miracles that are
mentioned uh in the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We don't
have time for the story of Mbad. We will
continue the story of Muhammad inshallah
next Wednesday and then as well talk
about the entrance of the prophetam to
Medina and inshallah also next Wednesday
we'll talk about a very important topic
and that is why Medina we didn't talk
about this yet why Medina why did Allah
choose this city and not so many other
cities that's a question that has many
responses and reasons to there's a deep
and profound wisdom and that is
inshallah something we'll talk about
inshallah next Wednesday uh if we're
able to do all of that we have a Few
minutes left for questions and then some
announcements as usual and then we'll
break for salat is
not comment on the religion of the guy
he was Muslim
some wisdom.
So yeah, in next week and next
Wednesday. So we're going to talk about
some of the wisdoms of the one of the
wisdoms of the S that we learned of the
Hijra, excuse me. One of the wisdoms of
the Hijra Abdullahb
uh was not from the Quraysh by the way.
He was not from the Quraysh. He was not
from the Quraysh and he was also not a
Muslim. He was upon the religion of his
people. I.e. he was a a mushri. And it's
very amazing that
they paid him a sum that must have been
a fraction of a 100 camels. He's a
guide. He gets paid, right? He gets paid
a small amount. They paid him a sum that
is a fraction of the 100 camels. But he
still did it.
Why?
Many scholars, not just me, have tried
to find out as much as they can about
Abdullahb.
We don't have any references.
In fact, we don't even know if he
accepted Islam. At the time, he was
clearly a pagan. The earliest scholars
himself today says, "I searched and I
couldn't find anything about this man."
After this incident, we don't hear from
him again. Did he accept? Did he not
accept? We don't even know. One can
assume he accepted, but we don't have
anything narrated if he accepted or not.
Clearly therefore
we have to assume that the prophet Abu
Bakr knew something about this man that
we don't know and that he was a
trustworthy person and this is something
we know for a fact that many noon
Muslims can be very trustworthy and many
Muslims can be very untrustworthy right
we know this for a fact so Abdullah Ibat
was somebody that they both trusted
that he was an honest
and he would do this for them and not
betray them for a larger sum of money.
And the fact of the matter, Allah says
in the Quran,
there are people of the if you were to
give them a treasure, they would be
honest and return it to you. And there
are others if you were to give them a
few measly coins, they try to trick you
out of it. This is the reality that you
will find people who are non-Muslims,
pagan, idol worshippers, Hindu, Jew,
Buddhist, atheist, and they're honest.
Islam doesn't necessarily make you
automatically honest if you don't
practice it. Correct? We all know this
the hard way, many of us, right? And
vice versa as well that you will find
people who have good manners. Allah
mentions this in the Quran, but they
don't have iman. So Abda and so this
shows us as Muslims we clearly are
allowed to use the services even trust
non-Muslims
if we feel that they're honest people.
Honesty is what is important here and
it's clear that the both of them felt
Abdullahb al was an honest trustworthy
man.
Other questions before we have some
announcements? Yes.
not going to interrogate.
Excellent point. And I was going to
mention this next Wednesday as well. Abu
Jahal came to interrogate Asma
and in fact he beat her up until she
bled, but she refused to say a word.
So they did interrogate,
but they couldn't get it out. Hisha was
too young. And of course, the father is
Abu Kafa. He's a pagan. He doesn't know
the father wanted to criticize Abu Bakr
and he ended up you know being tricked
by by by Asma. So Asma was doubly
punished once by her grandfather uh who
taunted her and then by Abu Jah who
physically beat her. Abu Jahal came and
uh tried to get it out of her but he
wasn't able to do so.
Uh inshallah with this