Mini Seerah - Introduction to Prophet Mohammed (2021-05-29) ​

0:00:10 what is the purpose of the miniseries
0:00:12 the purpose of the minisera is to give
0:00:13 you
0:00:14 a chance to be acquainted with some of
0:00:16 the main events
0:00:17 in the lifetime of the prophet muhammad
0:00:19 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:00:21 without having to watch uh voluminous
0:00:25 kind of series of online or reads
0:00:28 encyclopedic seerah books for example so
0:00:31 this is a brief
0:00:33 this is a brief kind of episode for a
0:00:36 beginner an introduction to muhammad
0:00:38 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:00:39 and of course in the time that i'm going
0:00:41 to dedicate to this
0:00:42 i will not be doing justice to the life
0:00:44 of the of the rasulullah
0:00:48 however if someone wants an introduction
0:00:51 maybe this video will give them
0:00:54 pointers in certain directions and give
0:00:56 them a flavor of something of the
0:00:58 prophet muhammad
0:01:02 so let's start by asking a question
0:01:04 which arises in the field of apologetics
0:01:07 which is usually the question that
0:01:09 michael cook and others
0:01:11 have put forward in the 70s and 80s is
0:01:14 the revisionist question the historical
0:01:16 question did muhammad sallallahu alaihi
0:01:18 even exist in the first place and they
0:01:20 say that well we're over relying
0:01:22 you know on arabic sources and muslim
0:01:24 sources and therefore
0:01:25 the question of whether this man
0:01:27 muhammad sallallahu islam exists in the
0:01:28 first place
0:01:29 is something which needs to be answered
0:01:32 the straight answer is
0:01:33 we have a plethora of evidence in the
0:01:35 arabic as
0:01:36 they know the quran being one of the
0:01:38 strongest evidences by the way
0:01:40 which mentions muhammad by name four or
0:01:42 five times
0:01:43 and which is stated to the time where he
0:01:45 is meant to have existed
0:01:47 and of course the sahaba and the taber
0:01:49 in the companions and those who came
0:01:51 after them etc are also a testament to
0:01:53 this because they literally
0:01:54 witnessed his existence but the colonial
0:01:56 and racist or imperial
0:01:58 or orientalist historian might not be
0:02:01 necessarily satisfied with that because
0:02:04 they don't trust for some reason or
0:02:05 another
0:02:06 the arabic sources it has to be
0:02:08 something from the west
0:02:10 well there's no shortage of that either
0:02:12 uh second century
0:02:14 geographer ptolemy and we've got to be
0:02:16 because many ptolemies in the
0:02:18 historical record we're talking about
0:02:19 the second century geographer
0:02:21 he actually mentions yathriba which
0:02:24 we'll know as yethrib
0:02:26 and makaba or mecca he mentions this in
0:02:30 the second century
0:02:31 so the sites the holy sites of mecca and
0:02:34 yathrib
0:02:35 which would then become medina was
0:02:37 something that was referred to well
0:02:38 before the existence of the prophet
0:02:40 muhammad
0:02:42 and it's not just that for example john
0:02:44 fennick who is a 7th century
0:02:46 historian actually mentions muhammad
0:02:49 sallallahu alaihi wasallam by name
0:02:51 and he is writing in the greek language
0:02:53 and he mentions him by name
0:02:55 not only that but he mentions that he is
0:02:56 an instructor and a guide
0:02:58 for the people and so these are just
0:03:01 some examples of uh histories
0:03:04 histories from other than the arabs but
0:03:07 this is just a taster
0:03:08 quite frankly because in many of the
0:03:10 wars like motta and tabok and others
0:03:12 there are actually
0:03:13 roman accounts of those particular wars
0:03:16 which took place between the arab people
0:03:19 whose leader was obviously muhammad
0:03:20 allah and
0:03:22 the romans for example so this really is
0:03:25 a pathetic interrogation
0:03:26 but it's important for us as muslims to
0:03:28 be able to defend ourselves from it
0:03:31 and for those non-muslims to be
0:03:33 convinced of
0:03:34 the evidence is not just from our
0:03:36 perspective but from
0:03:38 a triangulated perspective perspective
0:03:41 using the historical
0:03:42 critical method the hc m
0:03:46 now having said that now let's talk
0:03:48 about what context
0:03:50 was the arabian peninsula in the seventh
0:03:52 century
0:03:53 many of us will know the story of al-fil
0:03:55 the story of the
0:03:56 the elephant where before the prophet
0:03:59 muhammad
0:04:00 was born in fact there was
0:04:04 a delegation from abyssinia at the time
0:04:06 who attempted to
0:04:08 go into mecca and to destroy the kaaba
0:04:12 which is the black box for those who
0:04:13 don't know what that is where
0:04:15 muslims prayed to wards at that time
0:04:17 obviously was surrounded by 360 idols
0:04:21 and when they went and tried to do that
0:04:23 allah
0:04:24 god almighty this obviously is a sacred
0:04:27 history
0:04:28 but a recorded ticket history at that to
0:04:30 be fair he sent down
0:04:33 hijara he sent down these pelting stones
0:04:37 from the birds that literally dropped
0:04:39 them and the elephant
0:04:41 that came from the from the abyssinian
0:04:44 from abyssini at that time had to
0:04:46 disperse fleetingly
0:04:49 but this is something of the context we
0:04:51 should know something about
0:04:53 the culture not just the political
0:04:55 events as this probably would be
0:04:57 considered one
0:04:58 what is it what was the culture of the
0:04:59 arabs at the time well as you guys know
0:05:02 or at least maybe you should know that
0:05:04 in the seventh century the
0:05:05 there were two major uh powers you had
0:05:08 the sassanid empire which is the persian
0:05:10 empire
0:05:11 and you had the roman empire as well and
0:05:14 those two empires were the two
0:05:15 major empires as many of you definitely
0:05:18 would have known that
0:05:20 and the arabia the arabian peninsula was
0:05:23 actually lodged in the middle of those
0:05:24 two places
0:05:25 it didn't have well at least not at that
0:05:27 time no one had discovered natural
0:05:29 resources yet
0:05:29 oil or something like this it was a hot
0:05:33 desert climate just as it is now if you
0:05:34 go to saudi arabia especially in the
0:05:36 summer time
0:05:37 or anywhere in the arabian peninsula you
0:05:39 will feel the heat
0:05:41 you will feel the heat and so it was a
0:05:44 very hot place
0:05:45 humid hot it was a tribal society so
0:05:50 there wasn't necessarily like a
0:05:51 government or federal system or some
0:05:53 kind of top-down
0:05:54 system like this unlike obviously the
0:05:57 uh rigorous kind of organizational
0:06:00 structure that existed in both
0:06:01 assassinate
0:06:02 and the roman empires and
0:06:05 you had you had a warrior culture
0:06:09 quite frankly because obviously if
0:06:10 you're tribes the thing that
0:06:12 you're going to need to do a lot of is
0:06:14 fight and fight with other tribes
0:06:17 and in fact interestingly enough um
0:06:19 there are some things called the
0:06:21 actually these very famous poetries that
0:06:23 existed before the time of the prophet
0:06:25 muhammad
0:06:27 lived and these are called literally
0:06:30 means the hand ones because
0:06:32 it was said that they were hanged on the
0:06:34 cab on that like they literally hang on
0:06:36 the black box the cabba
0:06:38 and um obviously i don't know if it was
0:06:40 black then maybe
0:06:41 they put another color on it but now we
0:06:42 know it as black obviously if you look
0:06:44 at the pictures
0:06:44 but the point is it was said to be the
0:06:46 case but some historians
0:06:48 differ with this this naming of this
0:06:50 coinage that is in fact uh
0:06:52 that should be called the malacca to
0:06:54 anything like that as some refer to them
0:06:56 as the habit because it was written in
0:06:58 golden income
0:06:58 and this is something which we don't
0:07:00 need to go too deeply into but what i
0:07:02 want to
0:07:02 give you a taster of is something that
0:07:05 one of the
0:07:06 uh poets the warrior poets called
0:07:09 antarabinshid
0:07:10 he was an ethiopian man who came from a
0:07:13 slave lineage
0:07:14 who was a warrior and i want to give you
0:07:16 a flavor of the kind of thing that he
0:07:18 would
0:07:19 um write poems about so let's listen to
0:07:21 this very interesting he says this
0:07:24 he says
0:07:28 either
0:07:44 he says let your swords judge in the
0:07:47 face of the enemy
0:07:49 let your swords judge in the face of the
0:07:51 enemy
0:07:52 and he says and when you enter upon a
0:07:54 land disgraced
0:07:56 then leave that land in other words
0:07:57 don't don't face and accept humiliation
0:08:00 you can see now what kind of culture
0:08:01 this is a war
0:08:03 a proud culture a warrior culture
0:08:07 and when you see an oppressor he says
0:08:09 we're either buliith
0:08:15 with an oppressor listen to this
0:08:18 be more of an oppressor
0:08:23 and you you see the one an ignorant one
0:08:27 if you see an ignorant one if you see
0:08:31 someone who wants to get rude basically
0:08:32 you want to put it in street language
0:08:35 you want to get rude then get rude more
0:08:38 be more ignorant with them and you can
0:08:40 see
0:08:41 you know you can see subhanallah the
0:08:44 warrior the spirit
0:08:46 the fight the pride the bravery the
0:08:49 courage
0:08:50 the gallantness of those people this
0:08:53 particular
0:08:54 actually uh anthony vince i'm mentioning
0:08:56 him because just to give you a taster
0:08:58 of the culture that existed before he
0:09:00 actually had a love of his life her name
0:09:02 was abla
0:09:03 and in fact one of his most famous
0:09:04 poetries was
0:09:09 he's speaking to the in the house of
0:09:12 ablah
0:09:12 now because of his race and this shows
0:09:14 you what islam did in terms of
0:09:16 transformative effect
0:09:17 because he was black and habla was an
0:09:19 arab okay
0:09:20 he couldn't be with habla so she was
0:09:22 like the forbidden love
0:09:24 you see what i mean she was like the
0:09:25 forbidden love so look imagine this this
0:09:27 guy he's a soldier he's a warrior
0:09:29 he's going out this way he's going right
0:09:31 he's fighting everyone with the swords
0:09:32 people when they see him they just flee
0:09:34 because they they know
0:09:36 when this guy throws the bow uh sorry
0:09:39 the arrow when they just see his bow
0:09:40 they want to run away because they know
0:09:42 he's got that
0:09:42 he's got that precision and he's got
0:09:45 that sword strength
0:09:47 but even him he's outside of the dar of
0:09:49 the house of ablah
0:09:51 who he would he want to be with
0:09:54 and he's saying he's saying oh how he's
0:09:58 speaking to the house
0:09:59 look at that personification and it
0:10:01 shows you the imagery and the
0:10:02 personification and the richness
0:10:04 of of language that these guys had at
0:10:05 that time
0:10:07 oh house of habla yeah
0:10:10 he says he's speaking to it speak back
0:10:13 to me basically he's saying to her
0:10:15 and then he says something and wake up
0:10:18 in the morning
0:10:19 of of of of habla and
0:10:22 come to me and and so basically he's
0:10:24 talking to the house
0:10:26 because it's sentimental because
0:10:27 abdullah used to live there but he
0:10:28 couldn't be with
0:10:29 her now obviously we're not going to get
0:10:30 there yet but just bear that in mind
0:10:32 that we
0:10:33 this was a racist society someone like
0:10:35 antara bin shiddad couldn't get
0:10:37 married to he's black he could not get
0:10:39 married yeah to someone who's another
0:10:41 race
0:10:42 but all of that changes as we know bill
0:10:44 ibn
0:10:47 he became the highest level um
0:10:51 caller to prayer yeah for the muslims
0:10:53 and not only that but he he also got
0:10:55 married to an arabs
0:10:56 hellebent alf for your information so
0:10:58 that shows you a transformative effect
0:11:01 of the islamic kind of morality
0:11:05 on the arab society already it was a
0:11:07 racist society it was an
0:11:09 unequal society and in terms of
0:11:11 sexuality it was loose
0:11:14 in terms of sexuality it's very loose
0:11:16 some people think that okay we're living
0:11:17 in a very sexually loose society now
0:11:19 it's true
0:11:20 but then before islam was quite loose as
0:11:23 well because
0:11:24 you had these these kind of prostitute
0:11:27 houses
0:11:28 okay brothels call them that if you want
0:11:32 brothels and the woman will be obviously
0:11:34 having intercourse with lots of men
0:11:36 she'll be having intercourse with this
0:11:37 man and this one and
0:11:39 when she gets pregnant because obviously
0:11:41 at that time they didn't have
0:11:42 contraception or maybe they did
0:11:43 understand cortisone interruptus but not
0:11:45 always
0:11:46 will it work she'll bring all the men
0:11:48 that she had intercourse with
0:11:50 and she'll say you're the father whoever
0:11:52 she likes the most she'll point them and
0:11:53 say you're the father
0:11:55 and obviously when islam came in
0:11:56 addition to destroying racist
0:11:59 elements it also destroyed this idea of
0:12:01 not knowing where your lineage is in
0:12:03 fact one of the five
0:12:04 things that islam came to protect was
0:12:06 lineage so this kind of practice was
0:12:08 put to an end and people talk about
0:12:09 polygamy but there was an unrestricted
0:12:11 polygamy at that time
0:12:12 you know and women were doing it as well
0:12:14 like everyone was everyone was wild
0:12:17 and so that gives you a kind of like
0:12:19 understanding i've kind of already just
0:12:21 alluded to this already but
0:12:22 the fact that was 160 360 idols around
0:12:25 the kaaba
0:12:26 so it was a paganistic culture um
0:12:29 there were remnants probably of
0:12:30 christianity and judaism judaism in
0:12:32 medina when we get there but
0:12:33 christianity there were some people that
0:12:35 uh kind of understood what christianity
0:12:37 was and
0:12:38 but really the arabs were pagan they
0:12:40 were pagan
0:12:41 okay and they believed in idols and they
0:12:43 worshipped their idols and in fact it
0:12:44 was their source of income
0:12:45 which is why when the prophet came with
0:12:47 tahit the idea of monotheism
0:12:49 they saw it as such a threat because it
0:12:50 wasn't just a theological threat it was
0:12:52 an economic threat as well
0:12:54 um so we spoke about that we're talking
0:12:56 about poetry
0:12:58 and we spoke about some of the context
0:12:59 that desert environment
0:13:01 um and how marriage was and stuff like
0:13:03 that
0:13:05 we're going to be talking now about the
0:13:06 prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi
0:13:07 wasallam himself
0:13:08 so look the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:13:10 alaihi wasallam
0:13:12 he was from a a particular tribe called
0:13:14 banu hashim which was a sub-tribe
0:13:16 of quraish okay so he was from it was
0:13:19 which was
0:13:20 a very prestigious if not the most
0:13:21 prestigious tribe and of course the
0:13:23 lineage of that
0:13:24 goes back to ismail uh ismail ishmael
0:13:28 who is obviously one of the two
0:13:29 two sons that we know of of abraham or
0:13:32 that i mentioned in the scriptures of
0:13:33 abraham
0:13:34 ibrahim and
0:13:37 so the lineage goes back to to abraham
0:13:40 as
0:13:40 if you don't know already okay the jews
0:13:42 and the arabs are actually cousins from
0:13:44 that perspective
0:13:45 especially what we see now of palestine
0:13:46 israel it's a bit ironic when you think
0:13:48 about it like that right
0:13:50 and it's usually the narcissism of small
0:13:51 difference when people are closer
0:13:53 together
0:13:54 sometimes the conflict becomes even more
0:13:56 pronounced
0:13:57 but he was from that lineage he was the
0:13:58 he was from the lineage of abraham
0:14:01 and he was from the lineage in
0:14:02 particular of ismail
0:14:04 and what happened was when he was born
0:14:07 in fact the
0:14:08 sacred history tells us that his mother
0:14:10 amina
0:14:12 she basically had light emanate from her
0:14:16 from her when she went when he when he
0:14:18 was born and
0:14:19 this is a miracle one of many different
0:14:22 miracles that took place at the time of
0:14:23 the prophet muhammed when he was younger
0:14:25 his heart was taken out and washed
0:14:28 literally he had an
0:14:29 angelic open heart surgery that would
0:14:32 spiritualize and to cleanse and purify
0:14:35 his heart
0:14:35 the center of spiritual revelation
0:14:40 for what would happen next to him and
0:14:41 the kids saw that and that's written on
0:14:42 our spiritual
0:14:44 or sacred histories when he got a bit
0:14:45 older he started obviously working now
0:14:48 and he was a man with a meditative
0:14:50 temperament okay he was
0:14:52 he was known in the community as
0:14:56 known a somebody who was trustworthy
0:14:59 truthful and trustworthy
0:15:01 that's why some people would go to him
0:15:03 and basically they would leave their
0:15:04 stuff with him
0:15:05 like for example if they're going
0:15:06 somewhere and they want to leave someone
0:15:07 like a safety deposit box
0:15:09 they'd go to his house and say can you
0:15:10 take care of this one and he was known
0:15:12 for that
0:15:13 okay and this shows you already the
0:15:15 trust that he had in the community
0:15:16 by the way someone may object from an
0:15:18 apologetics perspective and say
0:15:20 well that's just you saying that
0:15:21 obviously you will say that you're a
0:15:22 muslim and you're biased
0:15:23 but what we'll say in response to that
0:15:25 is being polemical here
0:15:27 well actually this was used as one of
0:15:29 the arguments in the quran and in the
0:15:31 sunnah
0:15:32 and had it held no currency it wouldn't
0:15:35 have been used or at least it would have
0:15:36 been refuted
0:15:37 in other words the things that the
0:15:39 opponents of the prophet muhammed
0:15:41 say like he's a magician
0:15:45 that he is majnun he's insane
0:15:49 that he is possessed by the devil uh
0:15:52 that he
0:15:52 all those things that they they make
0:15:54 about him or the fabrications that they
0:15:56 make about him
0:15:57 not one of them is not that he's not
0:15:58 trustworthy he's a liar bear that in
0:16:00 mind that no one actually made that and
0:16:02 we have by the way
0:16:03 so many reports which fulfill the
0:16:06 principle of embarrassment meaning
0:16:08 that even some of the orientalists admit
0:16:11 these reports show us that the histories
0:16:13 are actually authentic it's one of the
0:16:14 principles of history
0:16:16 the principle of embarrassment probably
0:16:18 chief most of which is the satanic
0:16:20 verses
0:16:20 the fact that that made it into the the
0:16:23 hadith literature in the first place
0:16:25 shows that the one really and we'll talk
0:16:27 about this by the way in its own
0:16:29 we'll give it its own treatment when we
0:16:30 do sapient thoughts on sapient institute
0:16:33 website
0:16:34 youtube page but the point is is that
0:16:38 things were just recorded things were
0:16:40 just recorded and that's why even things
0:16:42 which are weak or inauthentic
0:16:44 or fabricated make it into the tradition
0:16:47 and that's why there is a process of
0:16:49 cleaning up
0:16:50 the tradition that has taken place
0:16:51 through el mor-rijal or the idea of
0:16:54 tadil looking at who said what and
0:16:56 seeing if they have a bias or not and
0:16:57 this was a critical method employed
0:16:59 by the first people in islam but that's
0:17:03 another lecture for another time let's
0:17:06 continue now and talk about the prophet
0:17:07 muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam so the
0:17:09 prophet muhammad he was known as
0:17:11 he was known as the truthful and the
0:17:12 trustworthy one people would leave this
0:17:15 stuff in his house
0:17:15 there were many incidents that he showed
0:17:17 superior wisdom
0:17:19 like for example the kaaba had been
0:17:20 destroyed at one time and they were
0:17:22 reassembling it
0:17:23 and the last brick they wanted to put
0:17:24 back in place in order to reassemble it
0:17:26 and every tribe wanted to put the brick
0:17:28 and they were saying let me put the
0:17:29 brick and whatever
0:17:30 so then they said let the next man that
0:17:32 comes through here he be the
0:17:34 arbitrator of our dispute and it was
0:17:36 none other than the prophet muhammad
0:17:38 obviously at that time he had not
0:17:39 received revelation
0:17:40 and he said look i got an idea he said
0:17:41 what's the idea he said look put the
0:17:42 brick in the middle here
0:17:43 everyone lived it lift it like so all of
0:17:47 you get the honor of lifting the brick
0:17:49 and putting it back in its place and i'm
0:17:51 gonna push it in its place
0:17:52 so look at that it's an extremely wise
0:17:56 kind of solution to the problem that
0:17:58 they had
0:17:59 so he was known for that kind of thing
0:18:00 and he was a trader in fact he was also
0:18:02 shepherd
0:18:03 you know the prophet muhammad was the
0:18:05 custom in arabian times he was sent
0:18:08 to the desert basically because it helps
0:18:10 with articulation
0:18:11 you get tough you get strong and by the
0:18:14 way this is a lesson for us because we
0:18:15 are
0:18:16 too luxurious here in the west like
0:18:18 especially if we're from a certain
0:18:19 country whether it's
0:18:20 you know a middle eastern country an
0:18:22 african country an asian country ever
0:18:24 we should go back and kind of see the
0:18:25 roughness in that country because we get
0:18:27 too complacent
0:18:28 and ungrateful so the arabs knew that
0:18:31 very well and they used to put their
0:18:33 kids in this basically in the desert
0:18:35 to be raised with these people and
0:18:38 they would pick up the language in a
0:18:39 better way they would have a better
0:18:41 kind of connection with nature and they
0:18:42 would come out rougher and tougher in
0:18:44 other words they had the warrior spirit
0:18:45 the prophet saw he went through that as
0:18:47 well and he became a shepherd at one
0:18:49 point
0:18:50 and what's really interesting about all
0:18:51 the prophets as a hadith that says that
0:18:53 all the prophets
0:18:53 were practically all of them practically
0:18:55 shepherds and if you think about
0:18:57 the idea of a shepherd the shepherd
0:18:59 actually guides the flock and that's
0:19:01 what a prophet does
0:19:02 so this is a kind of tamheed if you like
0:19:06 or it's a kind of preparation
0:19:07 for all of the prophets to the guidance
0:19:10 to the enterprise of guiding the people
0:19:12 what's really interesting is if you find
0:19:15 um
0:19:15 goats and stuff like that their eyes are
0:19:17 actually by the side of their face not
0:19:18 in front of their face
0:19:20 so they can't really see in front that
0:19:22 well so they need a shepherd in order to
0:19:23 show them the straight path
0:19:25 and so it's physically a very
0:19:27 appropriate thing to have a shepherd
0:19:29 that would literally show them the
0:19:30 straight path and obviously the prophet
0:19:32 sallam
0:19:33 and what would come would show the
0:19:34 people the spiritual straight path
0:19:37 and and let them know and guide them and
0:19:39 instruct them so after being a shepherd
0:19:41 he started working as a trader
0:19:43 which basically shows as well that you
0:19:44 need to get out there and do work
0:19:46 because the prophet muhammed was not
0:19:48 on at home doing job seekers allowance
0:19:51 or the or
0:19:52 he wasn't on the dole he wasn't
0:19:53 depending on other people to maintain
0:19:54 him like that
0:19:55 he was out there working hard and in
0:19:57 fact his his boss was
0:19:59 khadijah a woman who was shrewd
0:20:02 extremely intelligent woman you know
0:20:06 extremely noble woman who had kids
0:20:07 before from her previous
0:20:09 marriage you know she had been married
0:20:11 before and so on
0:20:12 and she had been a woman that the
0:20:16 prophet muhammad really admired
0:20:18 so obviously he'd he'd pack things he'd
0:20:20 go into the caravan they'd do things
0:20:22 and she looked at him she said this man
0:20:24 is amazing
0:20:25 this man is amazing he's trustworthy you
0:20:28 know
0:20:29 he's he's always doing exactly what is
0:20:31 expected of him he does more
0:20:33 he gets the business done he's
0:20:34 proficient he is if you want to put it
0:20:36 in a contemporary language
0:20:37 he is professional he is a professional
0:20:40 which shows us already that look
0:20:42 at work we need to be professional you
0:20:45 know
0:20:46 it's that is not even people say let's
0:20:49 do that with our actions
0:20:50 that is a sufficient but not necessary
0:20:52 requirement it's unnecessary but not
0:20:53 sufficient
0:20:54 dawah is done by calling people to tell
0:20:56 hate but you need to
0:20:58 at the base level show a level of
0:21:00 professionalism at work with your
0:21:02 colleagues
0:21:02 with your friends because that's where
0:21:04 it all starts with your personal
0:21:06 reputation
0:21:07 and the prophet had the best reputation
0:21:10 he had the best reputation
0:21:12 and no one really no one said anything
0:21:15 about him being honest
0:21:16 trustworthy all of those things and so
0:21:19 his wife hadija was always there for him
0:21:22 she would become his wife obviously at
0:21:24 this time she wasn't his wife here so
0:21:25 this woman khadija who was
0:21:27 who was his boss at this time she went
0:21:30 to one of her
0:21:32 kind of workers and she's nafisa she
0:21:34 said to you know do you think that a
0:21:36 prophet
0:21:36 or do you think that muhammad at that
0:21:39 time he wasn't the prophet right
0:21:40 and she said would you think that he
0:21:41 would be interested in someone like me
0:21:45 she didn't believe it like and then
0:21:47 ephesus went to muhammad sallallahu
0:21:49 alaihi salaam and she said do you think
0:21:50 that you'd be interested
0:21:51 he was like the same he's like you know
0:21:53 i don't think so you know why
0:21:55 humble like masha'allah you know and
0:21:58 and then he went to basically her uncle
0:21:59 and long story short they got married
0:22:01 and he was 25 and some reports say that
0:22:03 she was 28 or 29 some other reports they
0:22:05 said she was 40.
0:22:06 she was older than him full stop okay
0:22:08 she was older than him full stop
0:22:10 and she they still did business together
0:22:13 they still worked
0:22:14 you know it was still a very functional
0:22:16 marriage and he
0:22:18 he he always retreated now to the to the
0:22:20 cave
0:22:22 and this is called and if you go to
0:22:24 saudi arabia you can
0:22:25 you can see this place it's like it's a
0:22:27 small nice enclave like a small cave you
0:22:30 have to go up it's actually quite a long
0:22:31 thing to get up there
0:22:33 and he would just sit there and think
0:22:34 about god and he would think about
0:22:37 like purpose of life he had that as we
0:22:39 said a meditative temperament
0:22:43 which shows you really the power of
0:22:46 seclusion
0:22:47 just being by yourself sometimes like
0:22:50 the the age that we live in is too much
0:22:51 hustle and bustle in the cosmopolitan
0:22:53 world that we live in
0:22:54 to retreat sometimes by yourself even if
0:22:56 you're in a car driving or something
0:22:57 just by yourself and think to yourself
0:22:59 you know
0:23:00 this is what i need to get done you can
0:23:02 clear your thoughts have clarity of mind
0:23:03 that's what he was trying to achieve
0:23:05 and he he wanted to worship god so he'd
0:23:07 do this regularly he'd go to the cave
0:23:10 you know his wife was very supportive
0:23:12 his wife was very
0:23:14 like extremely supportive and he went to
0:23:17 the cave one day
0:23:19 and he was doing the same routine that
0:23:22 he's used to
0:23:23 which shows you the power of routine and
0:23:26 all of a sudden he was grabbed he was he
0:23:29 was
0:23:30 something held on to him and seized him
0:23:33 and he was shocked by it and it's and
0:23:36 whatever that thing was
0:23:38 said said read recite
0:23:43 and he said i can't read it's
0:23:47 not something i can do because he was
0:23:48 illiterate sallallahu
0:23:50 because it was the society actually most
0:23:52 people in that society couldn't read and
0:23:53 write was an oral culture
0:23:55 so most poetry was done orally rather
0:23:57 than through the pen
0:24:03 one more time read recite because means
0:24:06 read but it also means recite
0:24:09 he goes i can't read this is what's this
0:24:12 like you know
0:24:14 shock a feeling of shock
0:24:18 and you can imagine now just him in the
0:24:19 cave feeling like that and feeling
0:24:21 constrained feeling constrained straight
0:24:23 jacketed by this experience
0:24:26 and and shocked because this is known
0:24:27 this is no joke of an experience right
0:24:29 now
0:24:30 and then finally
0:24:34 read in thy name of your lord who
0:24:37 created
0:24:40 created the human being from a clot
0:24:44 yes and read and your lord is the most
0:24:48 generous
0:24:51 the one who taught with the pen he's the
0:24:54 one who taught
0:24:55 with the pen after that
0:24:58 he was shocked and then you he was it
0:25:01 was released
0:25:02 that feeling that straight jacketed
0:25:05 he could finally exhale now he could
0:25:07 finally exhale now this was a
0:25:09 shocking experience and he looked up
0:25:12 into the
0:25:12 horizon and he saw something an angelic
0:25:16 creature with
0:25:16 huge wings like imagine seeing a huge
0:25:20 tree in front of you
0:25:21 that blocks the entire
0:25:24 your entire vision it shades everything
0:25:27 that's in front of it
0:25:31 he went back home and he said to his
0:25:34 wife he said seven million
0:25:36 he said just cover me up cover me up
0:25:39 look how
0:25:40 look how honest this report is
0:25:43 look how human this report is
0:25:47 look how it reveals the the very
0:25:50 normal and natural insecurities of human
0:25:52 being
0:25:54 of vulnerability of vulnerability to
0:25:58 things which are unpredictable
0:26:00 to things which create anxiousness
0:26:03 this is reported that he said
0:26:07 he said cover me up
0:26:12 and then khadija walla when you hear the
0:26:14 stuff that she says and reaffirming
0:26:16 words
0:26:18 you know why she's the best she's the
0:26:20 best wife that the prophet muhammed ever
0:26:22 had no doubt about it
0:26:25 no doubt about her she was like no allah
0:26:28 wouldn't punish you
0:26:29 and she mentioned some of his good
0:26:31 traits that he feeds the poor charity
0:26:32 that he does
0:26:34 that is good to the orphan the prophet
0:26:35 himself was an orphan
0:26:37 don't forget that he was an orphan and
0:26:40 when you remember
0:26:41 when we say that the prophet muhammad
0:26:43 was an orphan
0:26:45 you think to yourself when these people
0:26:47 talk about him in the negative way
0:26:49 do they even know that he was an orphan
0:26:51 that he lived this underprivileged
0:26:53 socio-economic upbringing he was an
0:26:56 orphan
0:26:57 and and and hadith going back to the
0:26:59 point
0:27:00 was was convincing him look don't worry
0:27:03 allah is not punished not punishment
0:27:09 and the prophet muhammad saw allah he
0:27:12 was still shivering and
0:27:13 shocked being in the
0:27:18 and so what khadijah said she had a
0:27:20 cousin
0:27:21 no philbin was sorry yeah
0:27:24 he was a christian now that was one of
0:27:25 the few christians that lived in mecca
0:27:27 so they went to him and
0:27:31 they said they said to him like what's
0:27:33 going on right now
0:27:35 so he basically because obviously his
0:27:36 access to the new testament or
0:27:38 biblical information or whatever you
0:27:40 want to call it christianity he had
0:27:41 access to
0:27:42 the christian tradition to some extent
0:27:44 whatever form it took in arabia
0:27:45 at that time and bear in mind the the
0:27:48 bible was not translated in arabic at
0:27:50 that time
0:27:51 it was not translated the old testament
0:27:53 or the new testament but he this was
0:27:56 full and and and he said look this is
0:28:00 this is you know uh the angel that comes
0:28:04 to all of the prophets
0:28:05 and he started giving warnings to the
0:28:07 prophet muhammad saying look
0:28:08 you are gonna face persecution basically
0:28:10 to put it in a long story short and i'm
0:28:12 paraphrasing he said basically you're
0:28:13 gonna
0:28:14 because this this kind of thing didn't
0:28:15 happen to anybody except that they faced
0:28:18 persecution
0:28:19 and resistance
0:28:22 and that's exactly what he faced just a
0:28:24 quick correction i
0:28:25 when i was mentioning the prophet mum's
0:28:27 name it was not
0:28:28 amina it's by the way just a quick
0:28:30 correction now we're at the point
0:28:32 in the seerah where the prophet muhammad
0:28:36 had that first revelation and how
0:28:37 intense
0:28:39 how intense was that first revelation
0:28:41 imagine once again just imagine with me
0:28:43 that you are seized and and feel like
0:28:45 you're being straight jacketed by some
0:28:47 force that you can't even see
0:28:49 and you are told to read and recite and
0:28:51 you can't read and rest you don't know
0:28:52 what's going on you go back to your wife
0:28:56 and she and he's shaking covering me up
0:28:58 i don't know what's happening
0:29:00 i don't know what's going on right now
0:29:03 she takes him to work
0:29:06 the cousin of khadijah
0:29:09 and he's telling him he's telling her
0:29:11 this is what's going to happen it's
0:29:12 going to be
0:29:12 there's going to be resistance there's
0:29:13 going to be persecution there's going to
0:29:14 be whatever
0:29:18 and so subhanallah what happens after
0:29:20 that is
0:29:21 she's obviously reaffirming it for him
0:29:23 and saying that look you're a good man
0:29:24 trust me this is not punishment from god
0:29:25 but he feels insecure he feels like
0:29:27 and this is this is the mark of a
0:29:30 sincere person
0:29:31 where they always feel like that there's
0:29:33 something wrong with them even if
0:29:34 even if they're perfect even if they're
0:29:37 sinless
0:29:38 they always feel like there's more to be
0:29:40 done they're always yearning for
0:29:41 perfection
0:29:42 they're always blaming themselves it was
0:29:45 finding a reason
0:29:46 to improve a mark of a successful person
0:29:51 is someone who finds a reason to improve
0:29:55 and so the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:29:57 alaihi wasallam
0:29:59 he was by himself and for months and
0:30:02 months now
0:30:03 he was he was not getting that
0:30:04 revelation and as
0:30:06 as worrying and scary and traumatic as
0:30:09 it was
0:30:11 he missed it he felt like maybe
0:30:14 god almighty is upset with something
0:30:16 that i did something i fought something
0:30:18 like
0:30:19 he started getting really bad anxiety
0:30:23 like extremely bad anxiety acute
0:30:26 anxiety
0:30:30 and months would go by and
0:30:34 there's a famous report in bukhari which
0:30:36 says that oh he has suicidal thoughts by
0:30:37 the way that report is moderate
0:30:40 it's not something the prophet saw ever
0:30:42 said himself
0:30:44 who narrates this hadith that's his
0:30:48 commentary of it so he had
0:30:51 very very very deep
0:30:54 level deep-seated anxieties there's no
0:30:57 evidence to suggest that he had these
0:30:58 suicidal thoughts however
0:31:00 but it shows you the length or i mean
0:31:03 the extent
0:31:04 of his cousin of his sadness and sorrow
0:31:07 and just for
0:31:07 interestingly nowadays a lot of people
0:31:10 suffer from mental health
0:31:11 disorders like depression
0:31:15 chronic depression anxiety and so on
0:31:19 and they think by the way a lot of
0:31:21 people think
0:31:22 that going through stages of your life
0:31:25 where you're feeling anxious and
0:31:26 depressed
0:31:27 that that diminishes your status as a
0:31:31 muslim person
0:31:33 that's false that's absolutely false
0:31:36 it doesn't diminish your status as a
0:31:38 muslim person in fact we have
0:31:40 things in the quran of mary maria
0:31:44 when she was saying i wish i was dead
0:31:47 basically
0:31:48 well i wish i was forgotten even i was
0:31:50 when she was giving birth the pain that
0:31:52 that
0:31:52 and the embarrassment that she felt when
0:31:53 she was giving birth to jesus
0:31:56 and we have also in this in the quran
0:31:59 jacob
0:32:00 in in surah yusuf chapter 12 of the
0:32:02 quran
0:32:03 where he literally had so much
0:32:06 hosun like deep seated anxiety
0:32:09 because he lost his son that he went
0:32:11 blind
0:32:13 like let me ask you a question and just
0:32:15 think about this for a second now
0:32:17 what if he went to a psychiatrist or a
0:32:19 psychologist or someone who was
0:32:21 trained in the field and he explained or
0:32:24 if someone say
0:32:26 it does that and they explain that they
0:32:27 have gone blind because of their anxiety
0:32:30 i'm sure they would prescribe
0:32:32 antidepressants and say look you've got
0:32:34 a high level
0:32:34 you know you've got high level anxiety
0:32:36 and depression and these kinds of things
0:32:38 but he said
0:32:42 beautiful patience for so
0:32:45 what we don't offer and i'm being very
0:32:48 straightforward here
0:32:49 what muslims don't offer is
0:32:52 that you're not going to have anxiety in
0:32:53 your life you're not going to have
0:32:54 depression you're not going to have to
0:32:55 let you're not going to have tests
0:33:06 do people think that they're just going
0:33:07 to be left like that and say that we
0:33:08 believe
0:33:09 and they were not going to be tested
0:33:18 that we have certainly tested those who
0:33:21 have come before them
0:33:22 so allah will know in other words
0:33:25 distinguish between those who are
0:33:26 truthful and sincere
0:33:28 and those ones who are liars in other
0:33:30 words insincere
0:33:34 and allah he mentions in the quran
0:33:48 and this came as people were becoming
0:33:50 muslim at this verse by the way
0:33:52 with something of naksmen
0:33:55 deficiencies and health you'll be more
0:33:58 scared
0:33:59 anxiousness jew hunger
0:34:02 deficiencies in wealth etc these are
0:34:04 tests
0:34:06 what islam offers to people is not a
0:34:07 magic pill to depression and anxiety
0:34:10 such a magic pill does not exist
0:34:15 let me just be very clear about that
0:34:17 such that even the prophet is not immune
0:34:18 from anxiety
0:34:20 and not him just not just him other
0:34:23 prophets that came before him
0:34:25 he's not immune from anxiety this is one
0:34:28 of many different times in the life of
0:34:30 the prophet we're going to find that he
0:34:31 went through
0:34:32 at least what would be referred to in
0:34:34 the psychological literature as
0:34:36 tr transitory sadness
0:34:39 because i think that they differentiate
0:34:41 between transitory sadness and
0:34:42 depression
0:34:43 through the chronicle nature of the
0:34:46 of the episode or lack thereof there's
0:34:49 some of them say six months if it's more
0:34:50 than six months
0:34:51 interestingly enough this is six months
0:34:53 right it was more than six months
0:34:54 subhanallah they say it was more than
0:34:55 six months it's not
0:34:56 chronic depression they call it
0:34:58 transitory sadness but six months later
0:35:00 now
0:35:00 in a useful segway the prophet muhammad
0:35:03 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:35:04 he revealed the next uh surah the quran
0:35:08 or the next ayat of the quran in chapter
0:35:10 74
0:35:18 these verses in chapter number 74 oh you
0:35:21 who is wrapped in garments
0:35:26 get up and warn the people or rebecca
0:35:30 and go ahead and glorify your lord
0:35:38 now imagine do you know like let me tell
0:35:40 you something maybe we can make this
0:35:41 work for you a little bit
0:35:43 you might have you might have a love
0:35:45 life interest in your life you might
0:35:46 have someone you like
0:35:47 or something you love and it doesn't
0:35:49 necessarily have to be a spouse it
0:35:51 doesn't necessarily have to be
0:35:53 um a part no it's tough for allah if
0:35:55 you're not muslim watching this but you
0:35:56 know
0:35:57 there are no muslims watching this a
0:35:58 partner right a girlfriend or a
0:35:59 boyfriend
0:36:00 hopefully you'll come to the truth and
0:36:01 you won't have to live like that anymore
0:36:02 but let's just say you have that
0:36:04 and you see when your phone gets like
0:36:06 starts vibrating and like it starts
0:36:08 flashing or something like that
0:36:09 thinking oh who is it and you you're you
0:36:12 know
0:36:12 you're anxious you want to know who it
0:36:14 is you want to know if it's that person
0:36:15 it could even be
0:36:16 it can even be someone that's not
0:36:17 romantic in their romantic setting
0:36:20 it can be a platonic relationship like
0:36:22 your mum or your dad like
0:36:23 someone that you love and that you want
0:36:26 to see if they're okay or your son or
0:36:27 your daughter
0:36:29 love interest in your life when they
0:36:30 call you or
0:36:32 especially when there has been a hiatus
0:36:34 and there's been a lack of interactivity
0:36:36 between you and that person
0:36:38 you feel like very very like even more
0:36:41 enthused when it comes to retrieving the
0:36:44 information that they have
0:36:45 we have this we have this kind of
0:36:46 experience now imagine imagine
0:36:48 the prophet muhammed now after six
0:36:52 months of hiatus there's no
0:36:53 revolut it's a revelatory hiatus he gets
0:36:56 this
0:36:57 phone call if you want to call it that
0:36:59 angelic phone call
0:37:01 but who's calling allah subhanahu ta'ala
0:37:06 he's the one who's calling imagine the
0:37:08 happiness
0:37:09 imagine the euphoria use this word
0:37:12 now honestly this especially if someone
0:37:14 has had like a spell
0:37:15 of anxiousness and maybe depression
0:37:18 let's use the word depression
0:37:19 he's had that at least transit through
0:37:20 sadness deep seated
0:37:22 sadness and then allah
0:37:27 like rings your phone and then starts
0:37:30 speaking to you that same voice that you
0:37:31 heard the angel gabriel
0:37:33 the same angel that came to all the
0:37:35 prophets that came before him well this
0:37:37 it's a different story now it's a
0:37:39 different story now
0:37:42 and it's giving them instructions now
0:37:45 tell me
0:37:46 how much more motivated would the
0:37:48 prophet have been
0:37:49 because of this hiatus because he's
0:37:51 blaming himself this whole time feeling
0:37:52 insecure
0:37:53 to do the things that are mentioned even
0:37:55 though they could put his life at risk
0:37:56 and this is a very important point
0:37:59 this is extremely important for anyone
0:38:01 who wants to doubt the messenger
0:38:03 prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi why
0:38:05 would a man who's living
0:38:07 as a minority with a
0:38:10 seemingly new religion especially in the
0:38:12 cultural
0:38:14 kind of environment at that time put
0:38:16 himself in a position
0:38:18 where he's now going to be boycotted his
0:38:20 people are going to be persecuted et
0:38:22 cetera
0:38:22 in fact when
0:38:26 this these verses came down other verses
0:38:27 came down like when the uh ashirataka
0:38:30 karabin and warn your close family the
0:38:33 ashira
0:38:34 comes from the arabic word literally
0:38:36 meaning 10
0:38:38 or those extended family members go and
0:38:41 go and
0:38:42 go and warn your extended family members
0:38:45 and the first muslims were people like
0:38:48 obviously khadijah
0:38:51 she believed him straight away she knows
0:38:53 his track record she's lived with the
0:38:54 man
0:38:55 she married him because he was a so the
0:38:59 truthful and trustworthy one
0:39:01 she believed ali abby talib he believed
0:39:06 he believed abu bakr
0:39:09 said and he was named as-siddiq because
0:39:12 of how much he believes
0:39:15 bilal others there were many people that
0:39:17 became muslim
0:39:19 and they were at the lower echelons of
0:39:22 society at that time
0:39:24 and because of it they were boycotted
0:39:26 they were attacked
0:39:27 they were physically injured you know
0:39:31 very famously was they put boulders on
0:39:34 him
0:39:34 they killed somaya a woman who her son
0:39:38 was amar
0:39:39 ibn yasser he had to see his mom they
0:39:42 would have killed it like this was
0:39:44 serious stuff
0:39:46 if you if you don't even have any
0:39:47 strength you're living in
0:39:49 in mecca and you're seeing all this
0:39:50 happen it takes only a sincere person
0:39:54 i cannot imagine that someone will be
0:39:56 doing this in their instance how think
0:39:57 about that for a second just try and let
0:39:59 that settle in your brain let it ferment
0:40:01 in your mind
0:40:02 why would someone who is insincere
0:40:04 endure
0:40:06 years of persecution boycott
0:40:09 pain disaster years of that
0:40:12 seeing people his fa his his close
0:40:14 people being killed
0:40:16 then there was an economic boycott these
0:40:18 guys were getting so hungry that they
0:40:19 were eating leaves
0:40:21 they're getting hungry it's not if it
0:40:22 was for worldly reasons they actually
0:40:24 offered him
0:40:25 they offered him all the worldly
0:40:27 pursuits and he refused it
0:40:29 they tried to compromise with him so
0:40:31 many times that the quran actually had
0:40:32 verses revealed on the matter
0:40:39 disbelievers i'm not going to believe
0:40:40 what you believe and you're not going to
0:40:42 believe what i believe
0:40:43 and yo and so on you have your religion
0:40:45 and i have mine
0:40:48 for you they wish that you can
0:40:50 compromise so
0:40:52 that you can compromise with them and
0:40:54 they would compromise with you the quran
0:40:55 says that in chapter 67 verse 3
0:41:00 so the the point of the matter is they
0:41:02 wanted to compromise but the prophet had
0:41:04 no compromise with tawhid
0:41:06 that's why this is the pure and
0:41:07 respectable monotheism
0:41:09 the tawheed the believing and
0:41:10 worshipping the creator god
0:41:12 that created the universe without
0:41:15 partners or associates we don't believe
0:41:16 god is a man
0:41:17 or human being we don't believe god is a
0:41:20 statue or is
0:41:21 in his in a statue
0:41:25 we don't believe something can supervene
0:41:26 on the nature of god
0:41:28 we believe in the creator god the all
0:41:30 wise the all-powerful the most merciful
0:41:33 the creator of the universe the
0:41:35 sustainer of the universe
0:41:37 yes and that is the one god that we
0:41:40 worship and that was the
0:41:42 that was the uncompromising message for
0:41:45 13 years you know what i say 13 years
0:41:48 when i say 13 years you guys might think
0:41:50 okay what 13 years
0:41:52 13 years that is a considerable chunk
0:41:55 out of someone's adult life
0:41:58 13 years is no joke with all due respect
0:42:00 for someone to be enduring all of that
0:42:02 we trivialize it
0:42:03 we say oh you know 13 years no 13 years
0:42:06 going through boycott
0:42:07 persecution the prophet went to
0:42:10 prostrate
0:42:10 and some people they put in the bowels
0:42:12 of the animal on him and his daughter
0:42:14 had to watch that like this is living
0:42:16 a difficult difficult difficult life
0:42:21 for what for the for allah is not he was
0:42:25 definitely not going to compromise with
0:42:26 these people
0:42:27 on that the message of the quran
0:42:30 remained resilient
0:42:32 and the prophetic mission remained
0:42:34 resilient as well
0:42:36 and what happened was he had an uncle
0:42:38 called abu talib
0:42:41 and this uncle was not a muslim but he
0:42:43 was very much
0:42:45 you could say sympathetic to the prophet
0:42:47 muhammad and because he had that
0:42:49 connection
0:42:50 it basically prevented them from killing
0:42:51 him and what happened was when there was
0:42:54 there was a year
0:42:56 where his uncle and his wife both died
0:42:59 like imagine this the love of his life
0:43:02 khadija
0:43:03 who who was there for him like you know
0:43:05 he came back from the
0:43:07 she was there for him before that she
0:43:08 was supporting him with her money like
0:43:10 she was a businesswoman
0:43:11 he was they were working to used to be
0:43:13 and and now
0:43:14 this person who was at his side and he
0:43:16 had daughters of her in fact
0:43:18 all of his daughters were from with her
0:43:21 all of his daughters
0:43:22 including fatima were with
0:43:25 and now she dies and
0:43:29 abu talib the man he actually he loved
0:43:31 he had a connection with him
0:43:33 and so much so that he why he wanted him
0:43:36 to become muslim allah revealed
0:43:42 you're not going to guide who you want
0:43:44 but allah guides whom he wills
0:43:47 and both of them died in the same year
0:43:50 and this was this was the year that was
0:43:51 referred to as
0:43:53 the year of grief
0:43:57 once again going back to mental health
0:44:00 it shows you it shows you that we are
0:44:02 all human and we are susceptible to
0:44:04 these things
0:44:05 the extraneous variables in our life and
0:44:08 our humanly existence
0:44:09 will have an effect on our mood
0:44:13 whether you like it or not and it had an
0:44:16 effect on if it had an effect on
0:44:17 muhammad al-assam's mood
0:44:20 do not think it will not have any effect
0:44:21 on your mood do not think you should be
0:44:23 or you're entitled to be
0:44:24 immune from this you're not entitled to
0:44:27 be immune from anxiety all your life
0:44:29 the purpose of life is not for you to
0:44:31 feel completely happy all the time
0:44:34 the purpose of life is to worship allah
0:44:35 despite what you think we feel
0:44:39 that's the purpose of life so what
0:44:41 happened is that a prophet muhammad
0:44:42 sallam started to gain support
0:44:44 and people started to become muslim in
0:44:46 small pockets
0:44:48 and so he started speaking to people
0:44:51 from this town
0:44:52 called the ethrip
0:44:56 and there were two main tribes there
0:44:58 also
0:45:00 and those two major tribes basically he
0:45:03 did dollar to them he brought them
0:45:05 he told them islam he didn't have any
0:45:06 monetary thing to offer them by the way
0:45:08 and this is extremely important point
0:45:10 because it's going to signal that
0:45:12 how the prophet became a leader in
0:45:14 medina he became a leader in what would
0:45:15 become
0:45:16 named medina not through demolition or
0:45:20 violence
0:45:21 he became a leader through popular
0:45:22 opinion
0:45:24 think about that for a second he didn't
0:45:27 become a leader because there was
0:45:28 someone before him
0:45:29 and this differentiates him from all of
0:45:30 the others by the way the kings of the
0:45:32 roman empire
0:45:34 no these guys were inherent for the most
0:45:37 part they inherited a monarchy right
0:45:39 the prophet became a leader by pop
0:45:41 backed by popular opinion
0:45:43 he did not have anything monetary to
0:45:45 offer these people at all
0:45:46 when he left now for the hijrah he left
0:45:49 with abu bakr
0:45:51 obviously his companion and stuff and
0:45:53 they had they had a warrant for his
0:45:55 arrest and his death
0:45:57 okay and
0:46:00 when they had a warrant for his arrest
0:46:03 they
0:46:05 tried to kill him in fact there's a
0:46:07 there's a there's a famous story of
0:46:08 salah
0:46:09 malik of a man who tried to catch him
0:46:13 and as he approached the legs of this
0:46:15 horse of this guy
0:46:16 it sank into the into the sand
0:46:19 and the prophet and he came to the
0:46:21 prophet knowing now he's a prophet
0:46:23 because
0:46:23 how could this happen and he became
0:46:25 muslim this
0:46:26 and malik and this hadith is in bukhari
0:46:29 and you will find that actually
0:46:30 he even predicted that he will be
0:46:32 wearing the bracelets
0:46:34 of kisrah of the assassinate king and at
0:46:37 the time of umar just to skip away
0:46:39 you know he actually this prophecy was
0:46:41 in fact actualized but the point is
0:46:43 they made it they made a break for it
0:46:44 and they went they went to
0:46:47 from mecca to medina before that
0:46:50 obviously and
0:46:51 i'm skipping a lot of stuff here for
0:46:52 example the emigration of a lot of the
0:46:54 muslims to abyssinia
0:46:56 okay and we could talk about that and
0:46:57 there were two such occasions
0:47:00 but the reason why i'm not mentioning it
0:47:02 directly is because it will descope
0:47:04 and it will make this too long right but
0:47:06 there was another when the prophet
0:47:07 sallam he sent a lot of the people that
0:47:08 have been persecuted to abyssinia
0:47:10 because there was a just king there
0:47:12 called najashi or
0:47:14 nagas as they call him right but before
0:47:16 that now they they had
0:47:18 moved towards medina and the austin
0:47:20 hazrat who had already accepted the
0:47:22 prophet
0:47:22 and his terms and there were two such
0:47:25 baja's pledge of allegiance
0:47:27 they welcomed him when he came and he
0:47:30 came there and it was it was kind of
0:47:32 like a celebratory experience
0:47:34 and now we mark and with 13 years we
0:47:37 just brushed through it maybe
0:47:39 an hour or whatever has been we're 13
0:47:41 years by and we have seen
0:47:43 the whole meccan period come to a close
0:47:49 now subhanallah the question of allah
0:47:53 when does it take place so the scholars
0:47:54 have differed so i'm not going to tell
0:47:56 you the difference opinion but
0:47:57 there was also an incident where the
0:47:59 prophet muhammed
0:48:01 where he went from from and this is why
0:48:03 jerusalem is very very
0:48:05 important to us muslims he went from and
0:48:07 this is we believe a miracle
0:48:09 he went from medina all the way to
0:48:12 jerusalem on this animal called al-buraq
0:48:17 now some i've seen some new atheists and
0:48:20 others they make a mockery of this i say
0:48:21 what are you talking about
0:48:23 how can you say that the prophet what
0:48:24 animal is this we want to know
0:48:26 what kind of animals is wait a minute
0:48:29 why is this uh impossible to believe on
0:48:30 what basis is this
0:48:31 very difficult to believe that he went
0:48:33 from mecca to medina
0:48:35 with this animal now we have planes that
0:48:37 do the job
0:48:38 we have rockets that go up as well you
0:48:40 think you as a human being can create
0:48:42 these technological things
0:48:44 and that allah cannot make an animal
0:48:46 that can do something better than your
0:48:48 machines this is the delusion and the
0:48:51 self
0:48:51 aggregation of the new atheists and in
0:48:54 fact if you if you take some of their
0:48:55 arguments
0:48:57 i actually had wondered conversation
0:48:58 just on the point of and they said
0:49:02 one conversation with an atheist once
0:49:03 and he believed in the multiverse
0:49:05 i said you know if you believe in the
0:49:06 multiverse and he said infinite amount
0:49:07 of universes
0:49:08 so if you believe in a multiverse of
0:49:10 infinite amount of universes that means
0:49:12 that all possibilities will actualize
0:49:15 including there's a man called muhammad
0:49:17 going on the borac
0:49:18 because that is a possibility it might
0:49:20 not be and he didn't realize this line
0:49:22 of argumentation
0:49:23 and it kind of stunned him and the point
0:49:25 is that even on other world views this
0:49:27 is not inconceivable so long as there's
0:49:29 a god out there
0:49:30 that can do all things which are
0:49:32 possible this is a possible thing it's
0:49:34 not an impossible thing it's not like a
0:49:35 square circle
0:49:36 and so we say that the prophet muhammad
0:49:39 was taken from
0:49:40 medina to jerusalem and he prayed there
0:49:44 and he led the prophets in prayer and
0:49:46 then he went up to the heavens
0:49:47 all seven of them and he spoke to allah
0:49:51 and that is when
0:49:53 the five prayers were revealed in this
0:49:56 spiritual
0:49:57 voyage and adventure so now when we pray
0:50:00 we have an outer
0:50:02 body experience we have a spiritual
0:50:04 experience where we're literally
0:50:04 ascending
0:50:06 maybe not physically as the prophet but
0:50:07 definitely spiritually
0:50:09 and that's why when we start praying we
0:50:10 say allahu akbar and we literally
0:50:12 mean that allah is greater than because
0:50:15 that's what the translation of that word
0:50:16 is
0:50:16 anything else we may be doing we are
0:50:18 transcending the worldly existence and
0:50:20 moving into a spiritual domain
0:50:22 which is completely above and beyond
0:50:27 our menial activities that we do on a
0:50:29 daily basis the prayer is never a waste
0:50:31 of time and it's the center of the
0:50:32 islamic experience
0:50:34 five times a day it anchors our belief
0:50:37 system and it gives us a sense of
0:50:39 stability and tranquility and serenity
0:50:41 and spiritual guidance that cannot be
0:50:44 afforded in any other exercise that
0:50:45 anyone can do
0:50:46 the prayer and that is when the prophet
0:50:49 sallam had this
0:50:51 amazing and miraculous interaction with
0:50:52 some of the previous prophets
0:50:55 chief most of which probably to be
0:50:56 remembered is moses who reduced the size
0:50:58 of the prayer from 50 to 5.
0:51:01 after a kind of transactional discussion
0:51:03 or interaction between the prophet
0:51:04 muhammed
0:51:05 and allah himself the creator of the
0:51:06 universe and yes of course allah can
0:51:08 facilitate such interaction
0:51:10 so when he came back some people
0:51:12 actually couldn't believe this because
0:51:14 empiricism was strong even then right
0:51:16 and so people couldn't believe this
0:51:18 they went to uh abraham and he said
0:51:24 very famously he said that if he said it
0:51:27 that this happened
0:51:28 they said to him you believe that he
0:51:30 actually went to jerusalem and they went
0:51:31 up to the sky and whatever
0:51:33 abu bakr and this is the reason why he
0:51:34 was referred to as a siddique if he said
0:51:36 it then it happened
0:51:38 and this is the attitude of a true
0:51:40 believer
0:51:41 when you see a quranic verse you see a
0:51:43 hadith which is authentic
0:51:44 you say if this is the verse then i
0:51:47 believe it
0:51:48 if someone brings that hadith that you
0:51:50 don't know and is
0:51:52 maybe inauthentic or you don't know if
0:51:53 it's authentic or not
0:51:55 and you want to be safe and protect
0:51:56 yourself say if it's authentic i accept
0:51:58 it
0:52:01 but nowadays it's a matter of
0:52:02 interpretation but the point being is
0:52:04 this
0:52:05 that incident took place
0:52:08 the muslims now had a polity and this
0:52:11 was the polity of medina
0:52:13 and obviously the quran she's those
0:52:15 pagan arabs that had been
0:52:16 the perpetuators or the perpetrators i
0:52:19 should say the perpetrators of the
0:52:20 boycott and
0:52:21 of the persecution this riled them up
0:52:24 and
0:52:25 aggravated them angered them
0:52:28 and so they wanted to fight the muslims
0:52:31 and what would become
0:52:32 probably the most famous battle of all
0:52:35 the battles that the prophet muhammad
0:52:37 took part in and let me just say
0:52:39 something about the prophet's battles
0:52:41 that he took part in all of them he
0:52:43 shared the risk
0:52:45 with his fellow comrades he didn't just
0:52:47 aloofy
0:52:49 say to his people go and fight and i'll
0:52:50 sit here in my
0:52:52 white house smoking a pipe somewhere he
0:52:55 went out with the people that fought
0:52:56 with him
0:52:58 he was a man even though he was in his
0:53:00 50s he would go out and fight as well
0:53:02 in the front line with the sword and
0:53:05 some people use this against the prophet
0:53:07 as if it is an argument against islam
0:53:09 if anything this is an argument for
0:53:11 islam why would a man risk his own life
0:53:14 fighting on the battlefield on the front
0:53:16 line if he is indeed
0:53:19 insincere to his cause knowing full well
0:53:22 that the risk
0:53:23 is death think about it yeah i mean
0:53:26 a lot of these people they're putting
0:53:28 the prophet muhammad as if he was some
0:53:29 kind of materialistic man
0:53:31 so 13 years of boycott and when he goes
0:53:32 to medina it's battle after battle after
0:53:34 battle
0:53:35 and uh he has to protect himself and
0:53:38 defend his people
0:53:39 so i don't see how that works and at
0:53:42 this time by the way
0:53:43 obviously khadijah had died he married a
0:53:44 woman called saudi zama
0:53:46 who was another elderly woman people
0:53:47 don't realize she was older than him
0:53:49 and she had her own kids and the prophet
0:53:51 married her so if he was a womanizer
0:53:53 this is another thing that comes to mind
0:53:55 why is he marrying people that are older
0:53:56 than him with kids why is he always
0:53:58 doing that
0:53:59 the third wife he had was
0:54:03 she was the one famously in the hadith
0:54:05 where she had a young age and so on
0:54:07 the hadith of nine years old and
0:54:08 whatever and at that time it was not
0:54:10 something that the people that
0:54:12 had any issues with people were getting
0:54:13 married at that time or all along
0:54:16 and we have another videos on this you
0:54:17 can put my name on youtube
0:54:19 and the marriage of aisha and stuff like
0:54:21 that if you want more information about
0:54:23 why at that age and so on but the point
0:54:25 is his marriage started to happen and a
0:54:27 lot of the marriages started to become
0:54:28 political in nature in the sense that
0:54:30 he would get married to women because he
0:54:31 wanted to create a
0:54:33 polity which was which was unified
0:54:36 and we'll come to examples of that in
0:54:38 what follows but aisha was the daughter
0:54:40 of abu bakr
0:54:41 as-siddiq so he was creating stronger
0:54:43 bonds between himself and the companions
0:54:46 and at this time so he's now in medina
0:54:48 creating his polity and the battle of
0:54:49 badr
0:54:50 takes place where there's only 313
0:54:53 of these muslims and they overpower and
0:54:56 defeat
0:54:57 in an amazing show of military strength
0:55:00 and wit those pagan arabs and it was
0:55:04 seen as something which really
0:55:05 established him as a force
0:55:07 in that area it totally established him
0:55:09 as a force in that area
0:55:11 and in fact this was predicted in the
0:55:12 quran
0:55:15 where allah says
0:55:19 that they're actually going to be
0:55:20 defeated and they're going to run away
0:55:22 that verse came before but that took
0:55:24 place and it was a prediction of them
0:55:25 running away and they did run away and
0:55:27 they lost
0:55:28 and this is another example of when the
0:55:30 quran makes predictions and it comes out
0:55:31 to be true
0:55:33 and so now after this the polity of
0:55:36 islam has been
0:55:37 established after this particular war
0:55:42 for those who say that the sacred
0:55:43 history sounds too good to be true
0:55:45 there was what some referred to as a
0:55:47 defeat and a setback with uh
0:55:49 where the prophet almost died himself
0:55:51 his teeth came out he was
0:55:53 injured and this shows you that he was
0:55:55 sharing that risk
0:55:56 that military risk
0:55:59 and after and after there was another
0:56:02 war there was war after war
0:56:04 there was war after war and i'm skipping
0:56:06 a lot here but let's say azap
0:56:08 so we're going to talk about before we
0:56:09 do so i think it's extremely important
0:56:12 to realize that when the prophet
0:56:13 muhammed came to medina
0:56:15 obviously it was called the ether and
0:56:16 then it the name changed to medina which
0:56:18 literally means in arabic
0:56:19 the city and medina
0:56:24 or the city of the prophet in the
0:56:26 abbreviated format would be
0:56:28 just the city of medina that's what it's
0:56:29 called medina now
0:56:32 when he got there he actually drafted a
0:56:35 what you would call a constitution in
0:56:37 fact this book here which i think is a
0:56:38 good read
0:56:40 for someone who wants to have an
0:56:42 introduction you know the english
0:56:44 language to the seerah gives us a bit of
0:56:47 a
0:56:47 kind of elaboration of what kind of
0:56:49 thing existed in this
0:56:51 and he he mentions obviously
0:56:55 in the treaty he mentions ibn hashem as
0:56:57 the reference but we also know that
0:56:58 ibn shah bazori had the ketab called
0:57:01 mahazi which is also a reference as well
0:57:03 but this
0:57:03 is an important treaty because it shows
0:57:05 that the intention was not
0:57:07 um to try and eradicate all the
0:57:09 pluralism that existed in the in medina
0:57:12 all that the intention was the
0:57:14 uniformity to try and bring everyone
0:57:15 force everyone to become a muslim this
0:57:17 is indeed
0:57:18 an insidious and it is a malignant
0:57:22 and it is a deceptive it is a crooked
0:57:25 lie
0:57:26 a monstrous falsehood that has been held
0:57:28 against the islamic tradition and
0:57:30 something which has no basis
0:57:31 in any of the primary source material
0:57:34 let's take a look at this treaty just to
0:57:35 give you a taster of what existed in the
0:57:37 treaty
0:57:38 the jews of banyalf are one community
0:57:40 with the believers it says
0:57:42 the jews will profess their religion and
0:57:43 the muslims theirs
0:57:45 because the quran even mentions this i
0:57:47 mean for women
0:57:49 for whoever wants to can believe and
0:57:51 whoever wants to can disbelieve
0:57:53 in chapter 18 you have your religion we
0:57:56 have ours we've already stated this
0:57:58 in the in the events that took place
0:58:00 before
0:58:01 the quran mentions in there's no
0:58:04 compulsion
0:58:04 in religion and here you have it now
0:58:06 enshrined
0:58:08 in a document in a treaty in a
0:58:10 constitution
0:58:11 which you could say existed that
0:58:14 facilitated the atmosphere
0:58:15 for people that were not muslim the
0:58:17 second point is jews shall be
0:58:18 responsible for their expenditure and
0:58:20 the muslims for theirs
0:58:21 seems very fair it doesn't seem like
0:58:22 there's any kind of domination going on
0:58:24 here some kind of
0:58:25 oppression no it says if attacked by a
0:58:28 third party it shall come to the help of
0:58:30 the other
0:58:31 seems like it's a civil society being
0:58:33 formed here in this new polity of medina
0:58:36 four each party shall hold counsel with
0:58:38 the other mutual relations shall be
0:58:40 founded on righteousness
0:58:42 sin is totally excluded so once again is
0:58:45 setting the expectation the moral
0:58:48 bar is set this is a moral society we're
0:58:50 not going to try and transgress one
0:58:52 against one another
0:58:53 in sin uh and listen to this neither
0:58:57 shall
0:58:58 uh commit sins to the prejudice of the
0:59:00 other
0:59:01 very straightforward the jews shall
0:59:03 contribute to the cost of war so long as
0:59:05 they are
0:59:06 to fight along the believers
0:59:09 some people say well look at the jizya
0:59:10 the discriminatory attacks
0:59:13 the jizya according to the earliest
0:59:15 authorities was less than
0:59:16 zakat it was less than the zakat
0:59:20 why is it discriminatory tax who is it
0:59:22 discriminatory towards the muslims
0:59:24 because the zakat is 2.5 percent of the
0:59:25 male and they have the cattle fit on
0:59:27 this
0:59:27 why is this why is the jews are so
0:59:29 discriminatory when it's less
0:59:31 when it is less in terms of an
0:59:33 expenditure for the for the population
0:59:35 of
0:59:36 non-muslims is it just because it has a
0:59:38 different name
0:59:39 yeah of course that's a different name
0:59:40 because there's a cat has the the
0:59:42 functionality the spiritual
0:59:44 functionality
0:59:45 of tazkia which is purification
0:59:48 so there's we don't have to have the
0:59:50 same name
0:59:51 with all due respect no we're not trying
0:59:54 to force
0:59:55 in fact and we're skipping obviously
0:59:57 here but
0:59:59 made it very clear when he was in charge
1:00:01 that jews were going to have the pension
1:00:03 they're going to have all the luxuries
1:00:05 that muslims have
1:00:06 the elderly jews were going to be
1:00:07 respected that they have their own
1:00:09 institutions that there will be a
1:00:10 pluralistic society
1:00:12 that they would have their own they
1:00:14 would have their own
1:00:15 laws being implemented in their
1:00:16 jurisdictions
1:00:18 this is more than what we have here as
1:00:19 muslims we don't have uh
1:00:21 courts that can islamic sharia courts
1:00:23 which actually have
1:00:24 implementation power these are just
1:00:27 fatawa that these mashayak give they're
1:00:29 not actually implementable
1:00:31 from a law perspective as for the quran
1:00:33 and islam it allows
1:00:35 the jews and the christians in
1:00:36 particular to have such jurisdiction
1:00:38 so these kinds of things which are held
1:00:40 against us
1:00:41 these monstrous falsehoods by people who
1:00:43 are intoxicated by false opinion
1:00:45 these things are actually contrary to
1:00:48 the facts
1:00:49 literally contrary to the facts look at
1:00:51 number six
1:00:52 the wrong party shall be aided doesn't
1:00:54 matter who they are yeah at the wrong
1:00:55 part it could be a muslim
1:00:56 against the jew and they shall be aided
1:00:58 the jew shall contribute to the cost of
1:01:00 all so long as they are fighting along
1:01:01 the believers medina shall remain sacred
1:01:03 and inviable
1:01:04 for all those who join in this treaty
1:01:07 should any disagreement arise between
1:01:09 the signatories to this treaty then the
1:01:11 allah that all high
1:01:12 and his messenger shall settle the
1:01:13 dispute and naturally as the head of the
1:01:16 state
1:01:17 and the chosen head of the state by
1:01:20 the the two major tribes who actually
1:01:22 had peace agreements with the jews
1:01:24 before that
1:01:25 the signatories to this treaty shall
1:01:26 boycott the quraish commercially
1:01:28 they shall also abstain from extending
1:01:30 any support to them it's extremely
1:01:32 important here
1:01:33 because the quraish was an antagonistic
1:01:36 and provocative political power now that
1:01:39 we're trying to
1:01:40 kill the muslims as we know with uh we
1:01:43 saw with brother we talked about bedouin
1:01:44 how the 313 but
1:01:46 this is a worrying country if you want
1:01:48 to have a civil society we can't have
1:01:50 agreements with the enemy tribes we
1:01:52 can't have that and those individuals
1:01:54 that tried to kill and boycotted the
1:01:55 muslims for 13 years
1:01:56 there have to be boundaries and those
1:01:58 boundaries must be respected
1:02:01 there have to be boundaries and those
1:02:02 boundaries have to be respected
1:02:05 each shall contribute to defending
1:02:07 medina in the case of a foreign attack
1:02:08 in its respective area
1:02:10 and this treaty shall not hinder either
1:02:11 party from seeking lawful revenge
1:02:14 and you see this is in ibn hashem but
1:02:16 it's also
1:02:18 mentioned as i've mentioned and they've
1:02:20 been she had
1:02:22 book so it's there in the primary source
1:02:25 materials there clearly was
1:02:27 a um a treaty in place and when we talk
1:02:29 about
1:02:30 here what is connected to al-azab is
1:02:34 or the expedition and the killing of
1:02:37 those
1:02:38 treacherous and traitorous combatant
1:02:42 jewish tribe called banu quraida who
1:02:45 who were part of the azab these
1:02:47 individuals who are attacking
1:02:49 the the precincts of the holy area of
1:02:52 medina
1:02:52 because what happened was quraysh tried
1:02:54 to invade and this was a defense of war
1:02:56 for all intents and purposes
1:02:58 so much so that trenches it was called
1:03:00 khandak as well
1:03:01 literally they were which means trenches
1:03:03 they were they were
1:03:04 constructing trenches around the area
1:03:07 and the prophet muhammed the companions
1:03:09 were starving of hunger so much so
1:03:12 so much so that the prophet would even
1:03:14 tie a rock around his stomach
1:03:16 to get to trick the body into thinking
1:03:18 that it had food inside of it
1:03:20 this is the desperation that they let
1:03:22 this is the humanitarian crisis
1:03:25 that medina had been plunged into
1:03:27 because of the attacks
1:03:29 the constant and persistent violations
1:03:32 by the korushi's who attempted to invade
1:03:34 medina
1:03:36 so they built these trenches uh on the
1:03:38 city periphery and what happened was
1:03:39 this
1:03:40 you have three tribes of jewish tribes
1:03:42 you have been
1:03:43 there
1:03:46 and those three tribes had the same kind
1:03:48 of uh agreements with the prophet
1:03:50 muhammad
1:03:51 and what we what we find is that quite
1:03:53 frankly every single tribe
1:03:54 were aggressive to the prophet muhammed
1:03:57 in different ways
1:03:58 so we've mentioned probably the most
1:04:00 aggressive towards him
1:04:02 by teaming up with
1:04:05 the enemy and we're going to have a
1:04:07 segment on this in sapient thoughts
1:04:09 speaking about this incident by itself
1:04:10 but what they did effectively was that
1:04:12 they teamed up with the enemy in so much
1:04:14 as that they let them in
1:04:15 remember they'll be building trenches
1:04:17 around medina and so on but they let
1:04:18 them in
1:04:19 and the quran even has some verses
1:04:21 regarding this you know
1:04:23 if jaya ukum in focus
1:04:38 when they came and this is talking about
1:04:41 all the professors and executives say
1:04:42 this
1:04:42 when they came from in front of the city
1:04:44 and behind the city and
1:04:46 your eyes became uh and
1:04:49 you you couldn't maintain your vision
1:04:54 and when the hearts reach the throats
1:04:55 meaning you felt fair because
1:04:58 these guys were facilitating away and
1:05:00 opening up for women and children to be
1:05:01 slaughtered
1:05:03 opening up the city for women and
1:05:04 children to be slaughtered
1:05:06 the they're going against the agreements
1:05:10 they're going against the
1:05:11 pact they're going against the treaty
1:05:13 the constitution
1:05:15 and they are treacherous and trait
1:05:17 traitorous
1:05:18 this is clear treachery and then what
1:05:20 did the prophet do after all of this
1:05:22 and we'll go into this in more detail
1:05:25 the combatants among them
1:05:26 were killed and that how many of the
1:05:29 combatants
1:05:30 400 500 we don't know but were they
1:05:32 killed because they were jewish
1:05:34 if that was the case why is bernoulli
1:05:35 not killed
1:05:37 or killed in fact if it was about
1:05:39 jewishness why is the prophet even
1:05:41 getting married to a jew
1:05:42 he gets married to safe into haye after
1:05:45 that time
1:05:46 and she is jewish in ethnicity nothing
1:05:49 to do with anti-semitism this is all to
1:05:50 do with
1:05:51 these treaties and law and order
1:05:55 and we had strength at that time the
1:05:57 muslims and so we're not going to let
1:05:59 somebody be treacherous and try and kill
1:06:00 us
1:06:02 fool me once fool me once shame on you
1:06:05 for me twice shame on me
1:06:08 and that is why the prophet salallahu
1:06:11 hadith
1:06:11 which which spells out the political
1:06:14 realistic situation
1:06:17 he said in the hadith he said
1:06:21 the muslim is not bitten from the same
1:06:23 hole twice
1:06:25 meaning the thing that comes out the
1:06:26 whole we're not going to be tricked so
1:06:28 in other words we cannot
1:06:30 allow combatants in that area to do
1:06:32 those things
1:06:33 and so they were they were executed and
1:06:35 in clear surrender
1:06:36 because it was war that's what it was it
1:06:38 was war it wasn't a civil situation just
1:06:41 went into the village
1:06:42 as we're seeing now unfortunately unfold
1:06:43 in front of our eyes
1:06:45 bombing bombing civilians and so on
1:06:49 punishing children for the for the for
1:06:51 the actions
1:06:52 of other men that's how they punish
1:06:56 sorry you can't compare and talk about
1:06:58 massacres those same people that talk
1:07:00 about the massacre
1:07:03 are the supporters of israel and they're
1:07:04 supporters of them by the way
1:07:06 in their bombing and their shelling and
1:07:08 their disseminating
1:07:10 the gods and kids they just don't like
1:07:13 muslims they want to paint us in the
1:07:14 worst light possible
1:07:15 they don't want to admit that the
1:07:16 prophet muhammad had the most military
1:07:19 exceptional
1:07:20 skills as a strategist and in fact it
1:07:23 wasn't just a prophet muhammad let's be
1:07:24 honest
1:07:26 it was something that allah facilitated
1:07:28 so much so
1:07:30 that in this this particular war there
1:07:34 was a rock
1:07:35 and the prophet muhammed smashed it once
1:07:38 and he said allahu akbar and he says
1:07:41 hashem has been given
1:07:42 to me and he smashed it again and he
1:07:44 said the yemen has been given to me and
1:07:45 he smashed it again
1:07:48 and he said i think it was bahrain he
1:07:50 has been given to me so he
1:07:52 was gushing and he was making
1:07:53 predictions about the future in one of
1:07:55 the most
1:07:55 weakest moments one of the weakest
1:07:58 moments
1:07:59 in the whole time of the seerah he's
1:08:01 making predictions about the future
1:08:02 and obviously these predictions came out
1:08:04 to be true and as
1:08:08 barnaby rogerson says the similitude
1:08:12 of the the expansion that took place at
1:08:15 the time
1:08:16 i'm paraphrasing it there are at that
1:08:18 time with the arabian peninsula
1:08:19 where they took over the sassanid empire
1:08:21 and the persian and the roman empire
1:08:23 is like eskimos taking over russia and
1:08:26 america it's unbelievable thing that
1:08:29 happened in world history
1:08:30 when i was reading a book called a brief
1:08:32 history of
1:08:33 of the world by gumbridge when i got to
1:08:36 the chapter where it's talking about
1:08:38 prophet muhammed the expansion that
1:08:39 happened thereafter he was candid
1:08:41 even though he's an orientalist for
1:08:42 intents and purposes he said this is
1:08:44 probably the most amazing thing that i'm
1:08:45 going to write about in this whole book
1:08:47 and his remit was to write about all of
1:08:50 world's history
1:08:51 why because the truth of the matter is
1:08:52 that he had god on his side
1:08:54 these things cannot be replicated the
1:08:56 spread of christianity cannot be
1:08:58 linked to the all compared to the spread
1:09:00 of islam the spirit of
1:09:02 christianity was you had an empire an
1:09:05 emperor
1:09:06 who was constantine who became a
1:09:08 christian and he spread it by force
1:09:09 theodosius ii spread christianity by
1:09:11 force the
1:09:13 the the establishment was already there
1:09:14 the institution was already there all
1:09:16 that was required
1:09:17 was that the emperor changed his
1:09:18 religion and he enforced the laws
1:09:20 this was different this way you had a
1:09:22 bottom-up approach you had a man the
1:09:24 prophet muhammed who was accepted by the
1:09:26 tribes and then made his own polity
1:09:28 and built everything himself and then
1:09:30 islam expanded in a way
1:09:31 that nothing else can and ever will
1:09:34 expand in the in that way
1:09:35 and this in fact if these individuals
1:09:37 think this is evidence against islam
1:09:39 they are foolish because this is one of
1:09:41 the biggest evidences for the veracity
1:09:42 of islam
1:09:43 the fact that islam spread in this
1:09:45 manner after the prophet muhammad's
1:09:47 death by the way
1:09:48 but this azab and uh
1:09:52 that took place after it you cannot you
1:09:54 cannot say that this is because of
1:09:55 anti-semitism because these people were
1:09:56 jews
1:09:57 that is not the uh the attitude
1:10:01 that is not the attitude of the prophet
1:10:02 with the jews and
1:10:04 even to be honest with you fair-minded
1:10:07 orientalists and scholars not even
1:10:09 muslims will agree to this people like
1:10:10 karen
1:10:11 armstrong people like thomas arnold
1:10:14 walker
1:10:14 many people agree to that so here after
1:10:18 ahzaab and all those things took place
1:10:20 there's many different wars that took
1:10:21 place
1:10:22 and there's motta which took place as
1:10:23 well which was a war between the muslims
1:10:25 and the
1:10:26 the roman empire because there were
1:10:28 letters that were being sent out by the
1:10:30 prophet muhammed to different
1:10:31 emperors and he sent messengers and one
1:10:34 of them was to
1:10:34 the the people of the roman empire and
1:10:37 the assanis were there
1:10:38 uh in motta and basically what happened
1:10:41 was that
1:10:42 they killed the the ambassador you know
1:10:44 the diplomat the the emissary
1:10:46 they killed him and then the muslims
1:10:47 went and fought to revenge
1:10:49 that that thing so a lot of people think
1:10:51 that when the muslims went to the roman
1:10:53 empire
1:10:54 emperor empire and they fought them this
1:10:56 was because
1:10:58 they just wanted to expand no if you
1:10:59 look at what as a prime case study
1:11:02 they started the aggression there are
1:11:04 salads who are a um
1:11:06 a subcontracted group
1:11:09 who are connected to the roman empire
1:11:12 okay there were christian arabs on the
1:11:15 on the periphery of the roman empire
1:11:17 they indeed okay started the uh assault
1:11:20 and so the reactionary politic of the
1:11:23 prophet muhammad the strategy
1:11:26 that ensued sending a battalion to that
1:11:28 area
1:11:29 that was in reaction to
1:11:32 that particular event that took place
1:11:35 now i want to put something to you and
1:11:37 it's very important that we know
1:11:39 just as the prophet muhammad sallallahu
1:11:41 alaihi sallam he knew how to go to war
1:11:43 he knew how to arrange an army he knew
1:11:45 how to do all of those things and
1:11:47 and he knew how to get make a civil
1:11:49 society
1:11:50 and to get all the tribes to come
1:11:52 together he also knew how to negotiate
1:11:54 and he also knew how to make peace and
1:11:56 he also knew how to make international
1:11:57 peace agreements
1:11:58 and this is of extreme importance for us
1:12:01 in this world that we live in now
1:12:02 because we are living in a post-world
1:12:05 war ii
1:12:05 society where we have the un and the
1:12:08 iamf and you have the world health
1:12:11 organization and these kind of
1:12:12 international agencies and organs
1:12:15 and the question is is an islamic state
1:12:17 capable of making peace treaties the
1:12:19 answer is yes
1:12:20 absolutely and i'll give you adebiya as
1:12:22 an example
1:12:23 and i'm going to read what the treaty of
1:12:24 said but just to give you a context
1:12:26 what happened was the prophet salallahu
1:12:28 salaam had a dream okay
1:12:30 and i'm i'm skipping a lot of the
1:12:31 battles that took place i've just told
1:12:33 you about better ahadep
1:12:37 but there are other battles and the
1:12:39 scholars say that the ones that the
1:12:41 prophet muhammad actually
1:12:42 kind of involved himself in were eight
1:12:45 some say nine in number
1:12:48 anyway the point is at one point the
1:12:50 prophet saw
1:12:51 had a dream and the dream was that
1:12:55 people were getting he was getting his
1:12:57 hair cut and trim some people getting
1:12:58 their hair can't people get their hair
1:12:59 trimmed
1:13:00 so it was interpreted that they were to
1:13:03 go to umrah the lesser pilgrimage
1:13:04 and on their way to umrah they were
1:13:06 confronted by this
1:13:08 nasty group of karashis that came
1:13:11 including
1:13:12 and others who basically tried to
1:13:14 prevent the prophet muhammed
1:13:16 he said look i'm not interested in
1:13:19 fighting we're just going to drama
1:13:20 to do pilgrimage and basically
1:13:24 they involved themselves in a
1:13:25 negotiation and
1:13:27 the negotiation was a negotiation for
1:13:29 peace and a fact
1:13:31 okay i'm gonna read out the terms of
1:13:32 this negotiation there are four major
1:13:34 terms i'm gonna read this out and this
1:13:35 is from the book
1:13:37 number one the muslims shall return this
1:13:39 time and come back next year so
1:13:40 basically they said look you can't come
1:13:42 tomorrow this year but you can come next
1:13:43 time
1:13:43 next year number two
1:13:48 what activities shall be suspended for
1:13:49 ten years during which both parties will
1:13:51 live in full security and neither will
1:13:53 raise swords against each other
1:13:54 this is of extreme importance because
1:13:57 one of the
1:13:58 poisonous and malignant and cancerous
1:14:01 and unfair i will say this to you unfair
1:14:05 criticisms of islam is that it's
1:14:07 incapable of creating peace
1:14:09 politically and that its only desire is
1:14:12 one of expansion and there's no
1:14:13 propensity for islam
1:14:16 to create peace and this second clause
1:14:18 here of the contract which by the way
1:14:19 obviously the prophet sallam agreed to
1:14:22 is a damning thorn in the neck of these
1:14:24 individuals who are promulgating such
1:14:26 narratives
1:14:28 he agreed to this that there will be a
1:14:30 peace treaty
1:14:31 the fact that the prophet saws agreed to
1:14:33 this and this was not abrogated
1:14:35 this was not abrogated that you can
1:14:36 still make peace means
1:14:38 to say means to say that any time now
1:14:42 any muslim government in history can
1:14:44 create peace or have peace agreements
1:14:46 with any non-muslim country that becomes
1:14:49 a possibility
1:14:51 and knowing that makes us realize that
1:14:54 islam
1:14:54 although labeling it as a religion of
1:14:56 peace as if that is the only remake of
1:14:58 islam
1:14:59 is not accurate but re but labeling it
1:15:01 as a religion of violence
1:15:03 and war is also not accurate the true
1:15:06 opinion is or the most balanced kind of
1:15:08 understanding is that has the propensity
1:15:11 for both
1:15:12 it has the propensity for both and this
1:15:15 clause ii here is an ample example of
1:15:18 that clause three
1:15:18 whoever by the way this is in bukhari
1:15:20 and so no one can say well sierra
1:15:22 literature no this is in bukhari
1:15:24 you can find this interaction between
1:15:26 the prophet muhammad in bukhari
1:15:28 number three whoever wishes to join
1:15:30 muhammad or enter into a treaty with him
1:15:32 should have the liberty to do so
1:15:34 likewise whoever wishes to join
1:15:36 or enter into treaty with them should be
1:15:38 allowed to do so number four anyone from
1:15:40 the quraysh
1:15:41 who goes over to muhammad salla with
1:15:43 obviously they don't right
1:15:44 i'm saying it myself without his
1:15:46 guardian's permission referring to a
1:15:48 fugitive shall be returned to quraysh
1:15:49 however if any of muhammad's followers
1:15:51 return to the quest he will not be sent
1:15:52 back
1:15:53 and they were tested with this because
1:15:54 there was one particular guy abu jandal
1:15:56 and he was a muslim that was with mecca
1:16:01 and abu jandal because of the terms of
1:16:03 agreement had to stay with the meccan
1:16:04 pagans even though
1:16:05 they were torturing him and stuff
1:16:07 because that is the level
1:16:10 that you have to stick with your
1:16:11 agreements and contracts let me tell you
1:16:12 this
1:16:13 as someone who has researched contracts
1:16:15 for a very long time
1:16:16 and not just research contracts and i'm
1:16:18 not talking about legalistic framework
1:16:20 in
1:16:20 british law i'm talking about the
1:16:22 islamic framework and comparing it with
1:16:24 a liberal
1:16:25 contractarian framework i will say this
1:16:28 to you
1:16:29 now and please remember this okay
1:16:32 the biggest point of intersection
1:16:36 and the biggest point of agreement and
1:16:38 the biggest point of
1:16:39 um similarity continuity
1:16:43 between the islamic tradition islamic
1:16:44 legal tradition
1:16:46 and the western liberal tradition
1:16:50 is contracts the quran
1:16:53 very candidly says oh you who believe
1:16:57 fulfill the contracts one of the signs
1:17:01 of a hypocrite
1:17:02 is a is if he fulfills a contract he
1:17:05 goes against it
1:17:07 one of the or conversely one of the
1:17:08 signs of a true believer
1:17:14 those who are to their trusts and their
1:17:16 contracts
1:17:17 people who take care of them in other
1:17:20 words
1:17:21 in other words contracts form the
1:17:24 bedrock of both
1:17:25 you could say the islamic legal system
1:17:28 and
1:17:28 the western liberal legal system they
1:17:32 are
1:17:32 extremely important and when you know
1:17:34 that then you start thinking about the
1:17:36 world and the politics and the
1:17:37 geopolitics in a different way
1:17:39 we can we can offer contracts of peace
1:17:42 of negotiation
1:17:43 we are capable of that as muslims
1:17:45 because not despite what the prophet
1:17:47 muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam did
1:17:50 but because of it and already you start
1:17:52 to realize the stark differences between
1:17:54 the prophetic mission
1:17:56 and groups uh uh outcast groups like
1:17:59 isis
1:18:01 they didn't believe in contracts in
1:18:02 negotiation candidly they did not
1:18:04 al qaeda does not believe in contracts
1:18:06 and negotiation why not
1:18:09 in the quran and the sunnah this is
1:18:10 something which is very explicit and
1:18:12 especially for weakened people
1:18:14 weakened people the prophet muhammad at
1:18:16 that time had a thousand five hundred
1:18:17 muslims
1:18:18 in the ten year period which which
1:18:20 didn't uh wasn't the whole ten years
1:18:22 that elapsed before this contract was
1:18:24 broken by the way the
1:18:26 people that became muslim through dawa
1:18:27 alone
1:18:30 it went up to almost ten thousand how do
1:18:32 we know that because
1:18:33 there was about ten thousand people
1:18:34 according to reports which from one
1:18:36 thousand five hundred to ten thousand is
1:18:37 a huge number
1:18:39 which shows you the importance of dawah
1:18:40 and the importance of promulgation to
1:18:42 islam
1:18:42 but the point is this is very important
1:18:45 that
1:18:45 we have the propensity and the ability
1:18:49 and the precedent and the legal
1:18:51 framework
1:18:52 as muslims traditionalists people who
1:18:54 stick to the quran sunnah
1:18:55 people who stick to the people who don't
1:18:58 want to deform
1:18:59 and to twist the religious edict we
1:19:02 still have the ability to what
1:19:04 we have the ability to create
1:19:06 contractual
1:19:07 agreements which are meaningful in islam
1:19:11 and in on the liberal framework that
1:19:13 also exists
1:19:15 that is to be fair that absolutely
1:19:17 exists
1:19:18 contractarianism and so this is
1:19:21 probably the biggest
1:19:24 breakthrough if you think about it in
1:19:27 the
1:19:28 context of world peace and how to
1:19:30 achieve it
1:19:32 it's very important dawa can
1:19:36 be can be the main way through which and
1:19:39 by which people convert to islam
1:19:40 people will receive the message of islam
1:19:43 now you don't necessarily it might not
1:19:44 it's not advantageous to act in a way
1:19:46 as we did in the medieval period
1:19:48 especially with american hegemony
1:19:51 so this gives us a framework of
1:19:53 acceptance
1:19:54 and it like i say it completely destroys
1:19:57 the narrative and i'll tell you
1:19:58 something else that destroys the
1:19:59 narrative
1:19:59 when the prophet muhammad sallallahu the
1:20:01 the clash of civilization narratives
1:20:02 the narrative that we're barbarians and
1:20:04 violent people only with the propensity
1:20:06 to be like that
1:20:07 another thing which destroys that
1:20:08 narrative is fatah conquest of mecca
1:20:11 and this is the test this is the litmus
1:20:15 test
1:20:15 some people they make a force comparison
1:20:17 they say look when we look at the new
1:20:18 testament
1:20:19 we see that jesus christ was a peaceful
1:20:21 character
1:20:23 jesus christ was a peaceful character
1:20:25 whereas the prophet muhammad he was a
1:20:26 man of war
1:20:28 and you see the difference between the
1:20:30 two well
1:20:32 actually jesus christ was always in a
1:20:34 situation of weakness
1:20:36 jesus christ according to the new
1:20:38 testament by the way is not
1:20:40 by the way that's false because we can
1:20:41 look at how jesus is portrayed
1:20:44 in the new testament and that's the
1:20:45 discussion of itself but the point is
1:20:47 you're comparing apples and oranges this
1:20:48 is this analogous
1:20:49 you don't compare jesus christ
1:20:53 with medina and muhammad sallallahu
1:20:54 alaihi wasallam you compared jesus
1:20:55 christ with mecca muhammad allies
1:20:58 where they were both in the situation of
1:20:59 weakness and they were both under some
1:21:01 other kind of rulership
1:21:03 here now the question is how the how did
1:21:06 muhammad
1:21:07 sallallahu alaihi sallam react how did
1:21:10 he react when he went into mecca and he
1:21:12 done fat
1:21:13 conquest of mecca did he did he kill
1:21:16 everybody did he massacre and destroy
1:21:18 everybody
1:21:19 the way they would like us to believe
1:21:20 because they were different religion
1:21:22 or because they were because they were
1:21:23 against him because they killed him they
1:21:25 tried to kill him or they killed his
1:21:26 uncle
1:21:27 hind the woman who put washi
1:21:31 the man who killed his uncle hamza we
1:21:33 didn't speak about the conversion of
1:21:34 hamza we didn't speak about the
1:21:35 conversion of
1:21:36 but hamza was one of the most beloved
1:21:40 uncles to the prophet muhammad who was
1:21:42 killed in the battle of badr
1:21:43 who was killed in cold blood in the
1:21:45 battle of badr
1:21:47 and washi is the one who killed him but
1:21:49 after the conquest the prophet muhammad
1:21:51 he forgave
1:21:52 hind and he forgave washi the killer of
1:21:54 his own uncle
1:21:55 the forgiving prophet and he said let's
1:21:59 the same thing as what joseph said when
1:22:00 he saw his brothers
1:22:02 in the quran and also in the old
1:22:03 testament the story is there the point
1:22:05 being here is very clear
1:22:06 this fat point it puts a spanner in the
1:22:10 woodworks and it puts the cat in with
1:22:11 the pigeons
1:22:12 it completely disturbs the idea of a
1:22:15 power hungry
1:22:16 um malevolent individual that wants to
1:22:20 destroy everybody in this cold blood
1:22:22 because he did not
1:22:24 he forgave the people and he allowed
1:22:25 them to embrace islam
1:22:28 and those who didn't embrace islam they
1:22:30 were not killed
1:22:32 they were not killed there were
1:22:33 exceptions there were six exceptions of
1:22:35 those individuals who continued their
1:22:36 cantankerous and malignant
1:22:38 and cancerous warlike
1:22:42 warlike
1:22:46 promotion who were not who were not
1:22:49 forgived
1:22:49 forgiven but apart from them the people
1:22:52 were forgiven
1:22:53 and you see when he came into the kaaba
1:22:56 and he smashed
1:22:57 he destroyed the idols all 360 of them
1:23:00 that the arabs had become known
1:23:03 for and bilal the same one that the the
1:23:06 these arabs by the way they were racist
1:23:07 to him
1:23:08 they used to humiliate him they used to
1:23:09 be they actually were racist to him they
1:23:11 were attacking him
1:23:13 physically attacking him because he
1:23:14 believed in one god and put the boulder
1:23:16 on him he went up
1:23:18 and the arabs have an interesting saying
1:23:19 they say al jazeera
1:23:21 the recompenses from the same genus as
1:23:24 the action
1:23:25 and he went on top of the kaaba and when
1:23:28 he was
1:23:29 on top of the kaaba he he done the athan
1:23:31 he'd done the call to islamic prayer
1:23:34 he was honored they were talking about
1:23:36 obama
1:23:37 obama being the first black president
1:23:40 as if this is some kind of achievement
1:23:43 no sorry
1:23:44 obama he went to kenya and he was
1:23:46 telling them
1:23:47 to follow laws that would put and ideas
1:23:50 and ideologies
1:23:51 his own backyard that belonged to the
1:23:54 white man that guy
1:23:55 withhold you respect he he cannot be
1:23:58 compared to bilal and others that came
1:23:59 before him
1:24:00 and that he he was the leader of the
1:24:02 people he was there
1:24:04 on top of the kaaba literally above them
1:24:06 literally not just physically
1:24:08 not just figuratively doing their call
1:24:11 to prayer islamic prayer
1:24:12 married to an arab the prophet accepted
1:24:16 him
1:24:20 and then they they did exactly that they
1:24:23 broke the
1:24:23 the and this
1:24:28 you see now the farewell pilgrimage
1:24:31 and the prophet makes a final speech and
1:24:34 obviously
1:24:34 we're skipping a lot of things here
1:24:36 there were expeditions that took place
1:24:41 which we're not talking about because it
1:24:43 will descope and it'll make it too long
1:24:45 but the farewell pilgrimage of the
1:24:47 prophet muhammed
1:24:49 where he makes a speech and in that
1:24:50 speech he talks about racism
1:24:52 in that speech he talks about women's
1:24:53 rights in that speech he says that
1:24:55 there's no
1:24:56 superiority over a white man over a
1:24:57 black man or a black man over a white
1:24:59 man
1:25:00 yes or an arab over a non-arab or an
1:25:03 arab over an arab and that in the akron
1:25:07 the best of you are those who have
1:25:08 almost conscious
1:25:11 tell me now of a person in the 7th
1:25:13 century that was saying that kind of
1:25:14 thing
1:25:15 tell me now that you had winston
1:25:17 churchill the guy that was just in the
1:25:19 60s he was
1:25:20 you have you have a plethora you have a
1:25:21 catalogue of racist remarks that he
1:25:23 makes
1:25:25 don't don't compare your civilization
1:25:27 with ours
1:25:28 don't compare that he said that
1:25:31 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
1:25:33 and he said be good
1:25:37 with women because they are prisoners
1:25:39 with you
1:25:41 telling us so look at this already
1:25:43 predating all of these movements that
1:25:45 took place and
1:25:46 saying the right thing at the right time
1:25:47 in the farewell speech of the prophet
1:25:48 muhammad sallallahu alaihi
1:25:51 and he outlawed interest
1:25:54 and he said all of it is modular all of
1:25:56 the ones that are
1:25:58 interest now is is is nullified
1:26:01 the exploitative practice that the whole
1:26:04 western economy is based on not only the
1:26:06 western economy
1:26:07 quite frankly the whole world economy he
1:26:08 he outlawed that
1:26:11 exploitative practice
1:26:15 and and just go on and go and see a
1:26:17 script
1:26:18 subhanallah of the farewell speech of
1:26:21 the prophet muhammad
1:26:23 how many things he told us to do
1:26:28 and it was called the farewell speech at
1:26:29 the front of my house for a reason
1:26:31 because this was the last speech he
1:26:32 would make in this kind of capacity
1:26:34 tens of thousands if not hundreds of
1:26:35 thousands of people are listening to
1:26:36 this
1:26:37 can you imagine the scene can you
1:26:40 imagine a scene tens of thousands if not
1:26:41 hundreds of thousands of people listen
1:26:43 to this
1:26:43 and the ayat of the qur'an
1:26:48 islam came down the ayat which says that
1:26:51 they have perfected your religion
1:26:54 and we have completed your favor
1:26:58 and we have we have to allah
1:27:02 islam and we have made the religion of
1:27:04 islam as the pleasurable
1:27:06 religion we have we are we are uh for
1:27:10 you
1:27:12 so allah is pleased with islam as a
1:27:14 religion and in the same surah allah
1:27:16 says allah is
1:27:18 all of those walls that he took place in
1:27:20 allah would protect him so that he can
1:27:22 get to that
1:27:22 stage where he can say the final ayat of
1:27:25 the quran
1:27:26 and that is a miracle in and of itself
1:27:28 because had he died before these verses
1:27:30 came down the the verse would have been
1:27:32 disproven but this is another
1:27:34 proof of his miraculous prophethood
1:27:37 and after he did this the mission had
1:27:40 been done
1:27:41 and at one particular event you know to
1:27:44 show that the prophet muhammad was a
1:27:45 cosmopolitan man that was
1:27:47 with everybody he went to a jewish
1:27:48 woman's house and in fact he ate
1:27:51 something
1:27:52 and some of the scholars they say that
1:27:54 this thing she had put poison in it
1:27:55 and the companion that the prophet was
1:27:58 with ate more of it and he died the
1:27:59 prophet
1:28:00 sallam didn't eat as much of it to die
1:28:01 but then he fell ill
1:28:03 he was poisoned and by the way some
1:28:06 scholars say this is
1:28:07 makes him a shaheed because it's the one
1:28:10 who has been infected in their stomach
1:28:11 is one of the categories of
1:28:13 shaheed the mobtun and he was
1:28:16 subhanallah at the age of 62 63 he was
1:28:19 with his wife aisha
1:28:21 which we haven't spoken about and
1:28:22 wallahi we should have but she deserves
1:28:24 a lecture in and of herself
1:28:27 who was the you know the young wife
1:28:30 the inquisitive one she loved him she
1:28:33 loved aisha loved him
1:28:36 and he was just
1:28:39 with with with aisha and he was
1:28:42 basically like kind of leaning on her
1:28:44 you can imagine like you know he was
1:28:46 leaning on her
1:28:47 lap and he went to the toilet you know
1:28:51 felt sick felt oh and and at that time
1:28:54 he died
1:28:56 you know and you imagine this society
1:28:58 that he built and what he left behind
1:29:00 and this was the time where allah made
1:29:02 people come into islam in droves
1:29:05 in swades people were coming in
1:29:08 either
1:29:19 when you see the open manifest victory
1:29:21 of allah and the conquest
1:29:25 and you see people coming into islam in
1:29:27 droves so then
1:29:28 glory send glory to allah
1:29:34 and and be and it's your lord and and
1:29:39 because he is someone who accepts
1:29:41 repentance
1:29:44 and subhanallah ibn abbas who is the
1:29:47 cousin of the prophet muhammad
1:29:48 so the nephew of the prophet he said
1:29:51 this means that the prophet is going to
1:29:52 die soon
1:29:54 he knew what this meant and people were
1:29:56 getting upset and he did
1:29:57 indeed die sallallahu salaam
1:30:01 the people were shocked went into panic
1:30:04 mode
1:30:04 he took out his sword he said if anyone
1:30:06 says that he's dumb when i killed them
1:30:08 uh he said he had to come out and be and
1:30:10 you can see now he was the
1:30:11 leader the the mature the calm mind that
1:30:14 he came out he said whoever used to
1:30:15 worship muhammad
1:30:18 s
1:30:20 that certainly muhammad died and whoever
1:30:23 used to worship allah that allah is high
1:30:26 and he allah is ever living and he does
1:30:27 not die
1:30:31 and this was the life of the prophet
1:30:32 muhammad
1:30:35 after this spread islam in the most
1:30:38 amazing way
1:30:39 possible something which went in line
1:30:42 with the prediction of the prophet
1:30:43 muhammad as he said in the hadith of
1:30:59 east and western parts and my um my
1:31:01 nation
1:31:02 will reach all of that area what has
1:31:05 been projected from it
1:31:06 for me this is i've skipped a lot of
1:31:09 things here and i'm sure
1:31:11 uh people will you know notice that but
1:31:14 the point is i tried to make this an
1:31:16 hour and a half
1:31:17 for an introduction as an introduction
1:31:18 to the people to know who this great man
1:31:21 was
1:31:23 the brave muhammad sallallahu alaihi the
1:31:25 courageous the merciful muhammad
1:31:27 the family man the father muhammad the
1:31:30 man
1:31:31 who and we haven't gone into his
1:31:33 relationship with his children there's
1:31:34 lots of things that were missed out here
1:31:36 his relationship with his wives how he
1:31:38 was so
1:31:39 forbearing with them how he was so kind
1:31:42 with them
1:31:43 how he was a strategist politically and
1:31:46 militarily
1:31:47 but how also he was a family man and he
1:31:49 would prioritize them and how he would
1:31:51 he was a worshiper just the fact that
1:31:53 the man was praying
1:31:55 half the night on a regular basis or
1:31:57 more than half
1:31:59 the night as the quran mentions like he
1:32:02 was
1:32:02 a monk at night and a warrior by the
1:32:05 morning
1:32:06 how can how can a man do so much how can
1:32:09 a man do so much in such a little
1:32:11 small time frame
1:32:14 how can a man change the world so much
1:32:16 that we are talking about him now
1:32:20 as the quran says and we have raised
1:32:21 your mentioning
1:32:23 my name is muhammad and that is actually
1:32:28 a continuation also like fulfillment of
1:32:30 the fact that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
1:32:33 has
1:32:33 raised the station of allah it's one of
1:32:35 the most popular if not the most popular
1:32:36 name in the world
1:32:38 allah has raised the station of muhammad
1:32:39 allah and people are probably saying the
1:32:41 word muhammad now
1:32:42 any time in the world given time
1:32:44 someone's doing that then someone's
1:32:45 doing it
1:32:46 someone saying someone's calling
1:32:47 somebody most mentioned man in history
1:32:51 most mentioned man in history
1:32:55 most remembered man in history
1:32:59 and most influential man in history
1:33:01 muhammad sallallahu alaihi
1:33:02 if you didn't know now you know wasallam
1:33:06 alaykum
1:33:13 you