Londoniyyah - Part 18 - Proof of Prophethood / 1 (2022-03-07) ​

0:00:11 and welcome to another episode or
0:00:12 another session of a londoner today
0:00:15 we're going to go on to revelation and
0:00:17 the prophets which are two things we
0:00:19 need to establish as muslims now just to
0:00:21 remember or to remind ourselves of what
0:00:23 we covered in the previous session we
0:00:25 spoke about god's existence we went
0:00:27 through some arguments namely the
0:00:30 contingency argument today we're going
0:00:32 to be trying to establish
0:00:34 uh the prophethood of prophet muhammad
0:00:37 and the truth of the quran
0:00:39 which is a very stable part obviously of
0:00:41 the
0:00:42 of the objective because we're not just
0:00:43 trying to get people to believe in one
0:00:45 god
0:00:46 but the fact that the prophet
0:00:48 muhammad was actually a true prophet and
0:00:51 also that the quran is the final
0:00:53 revelation revealed to mankind but for
0:00:56 that we need evidence and obviously
0:00:58 today we're going to be going through
0:00:59 some of those evidences so the first
0:01:01 thing we're going to be going through is
0:01:02 some categories
0:01:04 now one distinction that should be kind
0:01:06 of thought of is the
0:01:08 sufficient slash necessary
0:01:11 conditions
0:01:12 distinction and i'll tell you what i
0:01:14 mean by that
0:01:15 if i say
0:01:16 something is required as a as a
0:01:18 necessary condition i mean that if it's
0:01:20 not there then the condition can never
0:01:22 be met or that the thing can never be
0:01:24 made in and of itself for example
0:01:26 if i say that if i wanted to get married
0:01:29 and uh
0:01:31 you know it's necessary for for another
0:01:33 human being namely a female to be there
0:01:36 that's a necessary condition otherwise i
0:01:38 can't be married however for it to be a
0:01:40 sufficient condition
0:01:41 in order for my marriage to count
0:01:43 islamically speaking for example there
0:01:45 has to be for example like you know two
0:01:47 witnesses and the maha has to be then
0:01:49 the well he has to be there
0:01:51 so the the existence of the woman
0:01:54 is a necessary condition but it's not a
0:01:56 sufficient condition because otherwise
0:01:57 it would be a boyfriend girlfriend
0:01:58 relationship
0:02:00 uh you know obviously which is not
0:02:02 allowed in islam i'm giving an islamic
0:02:03 example obviously you guys can
0:02:04 understand it but for it to be a
0:02:06 sufficient condition i have to fulfill
0:02:08 the other criterion or the pillars of
0:02:10 nikach
0:02:11 there which are the three pillars
0:02:13 namely the
0:02:14 you know the the
0:02:16 the two witnesses and the weli if these
0:02:18 three things are
0:02:20 met then marriage is done okay and
0:02:22 obviously her consent that that and your
0:02:24 consent and that's
0:02:25 taking that into consideration
0:02:28 um
0:02:29 now these are conditions
0:02:32 these are sufficient and necessary
0:02:33 conditions
0:02:34 now we're going to go through
0:02:37 some
0:02:38 necessary conditions but many of you
0:02:39 already know them so we're going to go
0:02:41 through them quickly
0:02:42 for revelation what are the necessary
0:02:44 conditions and we're going to go through
0:02:46 the sufficient conditions when we talk
0:02:48 about sufficient conditions now
0:02:50 we are going to be referring to
0:02:52 a different kind of framework
0:02:54 like when we were arguing for god's
0:02:56 existence we were
0:02:58 arguing deductively sometimes from first
0:03:00 principles with this is a little bit
0:03:02 different because now we're going to
0:03:03 argue
0:03:05 probabilistically
0:03:06 probabilistically meaning
0:03:09 we are going to infer
0:03:12 to the best explanation and this is
0:03:13 referred to as abductive reasoning
0:03:16 it's inference to the best explanation
0:03:18 when you make an inference to the best
0:03:20 explanation this is called abductive
0:03:22 reasoning
0:03:23 and and this is a kind of probabilistic
0:03:26 uh rationalization and most of the
0:03:28 things we do
0:03:29 includes this level of what you call
0:03:31 epistemic
0:03:33 probabilistic reasoning
0:03:35 so things that you've done today
0:03:36 everything that you've done today almost
0:03:38 everything
0:03:40 kind of implies that like when you woke
0:03:42 up and then you you you stood up you
0:03:44 know you went to the toilet or whatever
0:03:46 you did
0:03:46 you know had a shower press the button
0:03:48 for the shower you oh this is gonna work
0:03:51 you know
0:03:51 uh
0:03:52 you went into the car you started
0:03:54 driving the car this is gonna work why
0:03:55 because this worked yesterday's work
0:03:57 today before she wasn't a car then you
0:03:59 know on the trees sat there waiting for
0:04:01 the train or waiting for whatever
0:04:03 this is going to happen it's going to
0:04:04 come there's a train there you believe
0:04:06 that otherwise you wouldn't be seeing
0:04:07 there imagine if people didn't believe
0:04:09 that trains were coming where they sit
0:04:10 in the bus stop what kind of fools would
0:04:11 they be you know it's so we employ a
0:04:14 probabilistic reasoning
0:04:16 in life without having to do any kind of
0:04:19 total probability uh actual calculations
0:04:22 we don't sit there and say
0:04:24 well actually what's uh on a bay a base
0:04:26 theory or
0:04:29 total probability mathematical theory
0:04:31 what's the chances that this will happen
0:04:32 like sometimes we do that maybe when
0:04:34 people gamble they do that but otherwise
0:04:36 they don't really do that people live
0:04:37 their life
0:04:39 using epistemic probability and using
0:04:41 that they come to conclusions almost
0:04:44 intuitive
0:04:45 you know without reference to anything
0:04:46 else
0:04:47 in their day-to-day life they're going
0:04:49 you go on your phone you call somebody
0:04:51 oh you expect someone to answer or not
0:04:53 you expect there to be a connection or
0:04:55 not you expect when you go on a plane
0:04:57 for you not to crash even though there
0:04:58 are some chances that you will crash
0:05:00 you when you were in this building right
0:05:01 now we're expecting the building to stay
0:05:03 upright
0:05:04 although obviously the lights have
0:05:05 switched off
0:05:06 and maybe we expected the lights to stay
0:05:08 on
0:05:10 you know and so on you know that
0:05:12 so
0:05:13 what we're saying is that we use this
0:05:15 kind of reasoning
0:05:16 now in terms of necessary conditions
0:05:19 it's really interesting
0:05:20 it's very very interesting
0:05:22 that the quran is the only ancient
0:05:24 religious text that i know of
0:05:26 that even has a verse relating to
0:05:30 falsification and
0:05:32 with respect to contradictions
0:05:38 if it was from other than god they would
0:05:39 have found in many contradictions
0:05:42 so the first thing is a necessary
0:05:44 condition for something to be from god
0:05:47 which is the all-knowing as we've
0:05:48 described before when we said that god
0:05:50 is the all-knowing he's the one he's the
0:05:52 powerful etc
0:05:53 if something is the source of it is the
0:05:55 all-knowing god it cannot have
0:05:57 contradictions now the idea that
0:06:00 something that is from an all-knowing
0:06:02 god should not have contradictions the
0:06:04 the challenge doesn't come anywhere
0:06:05 except for the it's not in the old
0:06:06 testament it's not in the new testament
0:06:09 and it's not in the bhagavad-gita it's
0:06:10 not in the ggs it's nowhere to be found
0:06:12 only in the quran
0:06:15 it's as if the quran at least
0:06:16 acknowledges that if a revelation is to
0:06:19 be from god it has to be internally and
0:06:22 externally consistent
0:06:24 because this would be undermining the
0:06:25 knowledge
0:06:27 the supposed knowledge the perfect
0:06:29 knowledge of god
0:06:30 if
0:06:31 there is not internal consistency to a
0:06:34 perfect degree
0:06:35 so the quran challenges people to find
0:06:37 contradictions within the book
0:06:40 moreover in addition to that the quran
0:06:43 must be preserved
0:06:45 it has to be preserved the access of the
0:06:48 original
0:06:49 people to the quran has to be the same
0:06:52 access that we have otherwise they would
0:06:54 have a preferential
0:06:56 access to guidance than we do
0:06:58 and if the quran is meant to be for all
0:07:00 peoples in all times or if the guidance
0:07:02 the final revelation
0:07:04 yeah is meant to be for all peoples in
0:07:06 all times
0:07:07 then it has to be accessible
0:07:09 to all peoples in all times in its
0:07:11 purest and completest forms
0:07:14 someone will say what about people that
0:07:15 have not been introduced to the quran we
0:07:16 know theologically they're not judged in
0:07:18 the same way people that have been
0:07:20 islamically introduced to the quran and
0:07:22 sunnah and then they reject it have a
0:07:24 different ruling altogether an
0:07:25 eschatological ruling
0:07:27 to those who have not been like in the
0:07:28 aboriginal jungle i don't know where
0:07:30 where you know this place or that place
0:07:33 or forest or
0:07:34 even even even those individuals who
0:07:36 live within muslim sorry
0:07:40 western societies who have wrong
0:07:42 understandings of islam well the only
0:07:44 exposure they have to islam is a false
0:07:46 understanding to islam um
0:07:50 we were not going to punish a people
0:07:51 until we sent them a
0:07:53 messenger prophets
0:07:54 or messengers so this is to say that if
0:07:58 people are not given such messengers and
0:08:00 the message has not received to the
0:08:02 person then they should not be judged in
0:08:04 the same way as someone who has
0:08:07 so the access point has to be the same
0:08:09 so preservation and internal
0:08:11 external consistency must be
0:08:14 they must be
0:08:15 prerequisites and necessary conditions
0:08:18 for a revelation to be from god now bear
0:08:20 in mind
0:08:21 these conditions which are necessary
0:08:23 conditions
0:08:25 are not to be found in the old testament
0:08:27 or the new testament by the admission of
0:08:28 the scholars almost the consensus by the
0:08:31 way
0:08:32 the consensus of christian scholars
0:08:35 this is and this is a big thing to
0:08:37 mention
0:08:38 almost a consensus agree now in biblical
0:08:41 scholarship we call text criticism that
0:08:43 the bible is completely interpolated and
0:08:45 fabricated and there's layers of there's
0:08:48 layers of fabrication interpolation
0:08:50 from athanasius in the fourth century
0:08:52 who is the one who put all the the books
0:08:55 together
0:08:56 all the way through
0:08:57 to
0:08:58 the newest translations of the bible the
0:09:00 new international version the vice
0:09:01 standard version the king james version
0:09:03 this that whatever all of these have
0:09:05 different very variants contradictory
0:09:08 variants what to include what to exclude
0:09:10 we don't have the same we have so many
0:09:11 controversies in islam
0:09:13 it remains the case that with all of the
0:09:16 sects in islam that oppose each other
0:09:20 no sects the the sects in islam don't
0:09:23 are not fighting over what the quran is
0:09:25 you don't find dior bandis and bravis
0:09:27 and salafis and sufis attacking each
0:09:29 other this is the quran this is not the
0:09:31 quran they fight about everything else
0:09:33 but they agree on what the quran is
0:09:34 correct
0:09:35 have you ever seen a controversy no
0:09:38 whoever comes out with something is
0:09:39 usually outcast and thrown out lord yes
0:09:42 if if someone comes out this is not the
0:09:44 quran the outcasts are thrown away
0:09:45 simple as that
0:09:47 the even with all the controversies in
0:09:49 islam this is not one of them
0:09:51 it's not one of them
0:09:53 we have kirat yes we have different
0:09:55 variations or whatever these are all
0:09:57 which are agreed upon yeah they are
0:09:58 agreed upon
0:10:00 and so
0:10:02 having said that now
0:10:04 that so we said on the
0:10:06 on the two points on the two points
0:10:08 which are necessary conditions
0:10:11 for revelation to be from god
0:10:13 these two points which are necessary
0:10:14 conditions are not even found in the
0:10:16 other religions
0:10:18 origin of alexandria
0:10:21 who wrote a book called on first
0:10:22 principles and in the back of his book i
0:10:24 remember reading this for the first time
0:10:26 the butterworth translation
0:10:28 he was referring to the very first page
0:10:31 of the old testament
0:10:33 and it says on the first day obviously
0:10:34 god created the night and the day on the
0:10:36 fourth day
0:10:37 he created the luminaries
0:10:39 and he was saying what man of
0:10:40 intelligence would believe that the the
0:10:43 night and day was created the first day
0:10:44 and the luminaries were created on the
0:10:46 fourth
0:10:48 how could there be night and day without
0:10:49 the luminaries
0:10:52 it's what he said
0:10:53 he said this is why we have to accept
0:10:55 the
0:10:56 the uh this is why we have to look at
0:10:59 the the old testament or the bible in a
0:11:02 spiritual sense and by that he means
0:11:03 metaphor metaphorize it
0:11:06 in in the book of genesis chapter 1
0:11:07 verse 11
0:11:09 on the third day
0:11:10 you had vegetation
0:11:12 which is the you know the herbig and so
0:11:14 on being created by god apparently right
0:11:17 but in in genesis chapter two verse five
0:11:20 which is the next chapter
0:11:22 you you you see that no it's quote no
0:11:26 plant had sprung up yet that's what it
0:11:28 said so were there plants or were there
0:11:30 not plants
0:11:32 recently william lane craig
0:11:34 he put in his uh
0:11:36 reasonable faith
0:11:38 he was saying this is his quote
0:11:39 something to the effect of
0:11:41 it seemed like the author of the bible
0:11:42 didn't care if there were contradictions
0:11:43 or not
0:11:44 when i told him that he said that he
0:11:46 tried refuting me and said well you know
0:11:48 or he wrote it down you know he tried to
0:11:50 refute me recently yeah he said well if
0:11:52 i really wanted to i can see where the
0:11:53 follies of the quran and the
0:11:54 contradictions they're in i'm waiting to
0:11:57 find
0:11:58 a way to see this
0:11:59 he this is what he said
0:12:01 it's like saying well i'll get my dad on
0:12:03 you you know
0:12:04 okay just bring the bring bring the beef
0:12:05 you know whatever just give me the give
0:12:07 me the evidence instead of telling me i
0:12:09 could do it if i wanted to
0:12:11 even though his whole career was based
0:12:12 on
0:12:14 basically you know his whole career if
0:12:16 he would if he was not there
0:12:18 it would be a necessary condition for
0:12:19 him to be who he is today
0:12:22 not even sufficient
0:12:23 so
0:12:25 and obviously he wrote a book called
0:12:28 i'm not sure if you know this book but
0:12:29 he basically said that all his arguments
0:12:31 although all these were he was not all
0:12:33 his arguments but he's bringing
0:12:35 the quran and saying this these are the
0:12:37 logical arguments in the quran
0:12:39 it's called christian he says look this
0:12:41 is a logical argument
0:12:43 his whole point the point of the book
0:12:44 was to show the logical arguments in the
0:12:46 quran
0:12:49 which acted as a basis for ghazalis
0:12:51 everything that begins with this has a
0:12:52 cause the universe has begun to say
0:12:53 foreign
0:12:55 may have come directly from the quran
0:12:57 william then craig used the quran to
0:12:59 protect the bible and now he's attacking
0:13:00 the quran
0:13:02 can you see can you imagine this guy
0:13:04 anyway that's another guy for another
0:13:05 day
0:13:08 you know and he spelled my name wrong in
0:13:09 the refutation as well
0:13:12 he spoke my name wrong you know
0:13:15 hajib
0:13:16 it's not hajib is hijab
0:13:19 and he knows it
0:13:21 he knows my name
0:13:24 but he's bought it wrong just to show
0:13:25 that he doesn't know who i am
0:13:27 anyway so there are necessary and
0:13:29 sufficient conditions and there are
0:13:31 contradictions in the old testament and
0:13:33 the the the whole bible is not preserved
0:13:36 you can't say any of that stuff about
0:13:37 the quran there's no argument that can
0:13:38 be made
0:13:39 i mean there are arguments that are made
0:13:41 by orientalists
0:13:43 non-muslim orientalists that talk about
0:13:46 general preservation of the quran
0:13:47 there's no such argument like for like
0:13:49 argument that is made about the bible
0:13:52 there is no such like-for-like argument
0:13:54 that is made about the bible
0:13:56 so you can say well it's debatable if
0:13:58 the quran is preserved the fact that
0:14:00 it's debatable that the quran has uh no
0:14:01 contradictions in it fine it's debatable
0:14:04 debatable means it could be the case and
0:14:05 it couldn't be the case with the bible
0:14:06 we know it for a fact is not the case so
0:14:08 it's not even debatable it's consensus
0:14:11 so it's already it's eliminated you've
0:14:13 eliminated the bible you've limit we've
0:14:14 eliminated the trinity and you've
0:14:16 eliminated it with this as well
0:14:18 okay
0:14:19 now
0:14:22 having said that
0:14:24 we we are going to go into some of the
0:14:26 evidences now we've talked about the
0:14:28 necessary conditions now we're going
0:14:30 into the sufficient conditions
0:14:32 let's
0:14:34 uh think about this together so i've
0:14:36 divided
0:14:37 okay into three types
0:14:40 you have quadratic evidence
0:14:42 evidence that comes directly from the
0:14:43 quran
0:14:46 and you have extra quranic evidence now
0:14:48 some people
0:14:49 they they seem not to understand how
0:14:51 things work
0:14:52 so they say well if you say that the
0:14:54 some evidence has come outside the quran
0:14:55 that means you're committing
0:14:58 this is what they say some salafists
0:15:00 from the right wing of salafism not all
0:15:01 of them of course but some strands of
0:15:03 medicalism so when they say
0:15:05 if you if you're saying there's any
0:15:06 evidence coming outside the quran you're
0:15:08 committing because you're saying there's
0:15:09 evidence that's bad in the quran but
0:15:12 this is a weak type of argumentation not
0:15:14 least because there are some things
0:15:16 which have been corroborated from
0:15:18 outside sources which the quran talks
0:15:20 about
0:15:23 the romans have been defeated how do you
0:15:24 know the romans and then they will
0:15:26 defeat after
0:15:27 you have to go and see outside the quran
0:15:28 if the guy is going to be defeated or
0:15:29 not which is now an evidence which is a
0:15:32 historical evidence outside the quran
0:15:46 many things about different prophets
0:15:48 and
0:15:49 different prophets and he says
0:15:51 these are from
0:15:53 the news this is from the news of the
0:15:56 unseen which
0:15:57 you didn't know
0:15:59 which which which would reveal upon to
0:16:01 you
0:16:02 yeah
0:16:08 you and your people did not know these
0:16:09 things before that
0:16:10 phosphorus
0:16:12 so you have another layer of historical
0:16:14 arguments
0:16:15 which once again can be corroborated by
0:16:17 outside another thing is physical
0:16:18 miracles are the prophet
0:16:20 and the physical miracles are the
0:16:21 prophet where the prophet did things
0:16:23 you know and and so on these are things
0:16:25 that the prophet did which are not
0:16:26 quranic
0:16:28 they're not within the quran
0:16:30 obviously it's within the prophet's own
0:16:31 remember he was doing this kind of thing
0:16:33 but this is what i mean by extra quranic
0:16:36 it's not quran it's more in line of
0:16:38 sunnah this one yeah and then you have
0:16:40 the sunnah type evidences like we said
0:16:41 the prophecies the the historical ones
0:16:43 today we're going to go through and also
0:16:45 the prophet himself
0:16:47 is because if you so little by inner
0:17:02 because
0:17:03 the prophet himself is an evidence
0:17:05 so his life is an evidence
0:17:08 he's a being in fact he's a very clear
0:17:10 evidence because when you assess the
0:17:12 life of the prophet muhammad from the
0:17:14 beginning to the end from when he was a
0:17:15 young
0:17:16 man young boy all the way up to when he
0:17:19 was a man and a prophet and when he got
0:17:20 married and so on you realize that
0:17:22 actually him he himself
0:17:25 is an evidence
0:17:26 now i want you to think about how that
0:17:28 is the case so with the person next to
0:17:30 you i'm going to give you a good time
0:17:31 here i'm going to give you five minutes
0:17:33 to think about
0:17:35 the following question i'm going to give
0:17:36 you very clear parameters okay
0:17:40 i want you to try and think of the
0:17:41 following if you have three minutes to
0:17:42 sum up the prophet salallahu's life
0:17:44 admission just life and mission not
0:17:46 going into miracles or
0:17:48 that kind of thing just yeah just life
0:17:50 in mission if you have three minutes
0:17:52 someone said who was the prophet
0:17:53 muhammad someone non muslim that you
0:17:55 know asked you who was the prophet you
0:17:57 have three minutes
0:17:59 what would be the events that you would
0:18:00 mention okay
0:18:02 what would be the key salient points
0:18:04 that you might say i wouldn't give you
0:18:05 five minutes with the person next to you
0:18:07 to think about like five to seven points
0:18:09 bullet point type thing and then i'm
0:18:12 going to give each of you
0:18:13 two to three minutes to to answer that
0:18:15 question because uh because i think it
0:18:16 needs to be fluid on our tongues how we
0:18:18 answer this question
0:18:19 that's all right all right five minutes
0:18:21 go ahead
0:18:23 i'm gonna give you guys time to speak
0:18:25 all right so everybody's gonna get three
0:18:26 minutes everyone's going to get three
0:18:28 minutes all right because we need to get
0:18:29 used to speaking as well so
0:18:32 we'll start on the right and then move
0:18:33 around okay
0:18:35 okay go ahead please
0:18:37 um okay so the prophet salallahu i think
0:18:40 the first kind of main important event
0:18:41 that we should establish is um who he
0:18:43 was before prophethood so the fact that
0:18:45 he was trustworthy um people in society
0:18:47 they praised him they accept him to
0:18:49 society they all trusted him um and also
0:18:53 the fact that he was unleaded
0:18:55 and you know he didn't have an education
0:18:56 to be able to read and write
0:18:58 um so i think that's the kind of the
0:18:59 first main event you know who he was
0:19:01 before prophethood and then um
0:19:03 so at the age of 40 he was uh receiving
0:19:05 revelation um and his revelation uh you
0:19:08 know was from god and the only thing
0:19:11 that he was calling people to was to
0:19:12 worship allah alone
0:19:14 and it was only for this reason you know
0:19:16 it seems like very something which is
0:19:17 very simple but because of this you know
0:19:19 one message you know just to worship
0:19:20 allah alone um
0:19:22 the people they outcast in from society
0:19:24 so just for this message um you know he
0:19:26 didn't want material things he didn't
0:19:28 want
0:19:29 um you know power or anything because
0:19:31 the people they offered this to him they
0:19:33 offered him material um possessions they
0:19:35 offered him um power but then he
0:19:37 rejected them all
0:19:38 why because he wanted people to just
0:19:40 worship allah alone so he wasn't
0:19:42 compromising on his message
0:19:45 and then the kind of last event i would
0:19:47 mention is kind of after hijra which is
0:19:48 in medina
0:19:50 and kind of you know the combination of
0:19:51 his life where you know by the end of
0:19:52 his life people were able to see that he
0:19:55 was successful in all areas um in that
0:19:58 he was um successful as a um as a father
0:20:02 as a husband as a family man um but then
0:20:04 also um as a as a law maker um you know
0:20:08 he brought laws um and you know
0:20:10 principles into the justice system into
0:20:12 politics into economics and he um and
0:20:15 even in war and he was successful in all
0:20:17 of these areas and then also in hood he
0:20:19 was also
0:20:20 you know just one thing i'd be careful
0:20:21 reason with lawmaker before i forget
0:20:23 yeah because obviously we believe the
0:20:24 laws come from yeah yeah keep going
0:20:27 yeah um but yeah so i think these kind
0:20:29 of free areas
0:20:31 uh are good proofs and you know if one
0:20:33 was to examine these three areas
0:20:36 yeah so the first one being
0:20:38 who he was before prophethood and you
0:20:40 know how his trusted for society um and
0:20:42 then second is you know when he was
0:20:43 receiving revelation and then he was
0:20:45 outcasted from society um you know
0:20:47 exactly what his message is him
0:20:49 receiving the quran even though he was
0:20:50 unlettered he was you know reciting
0:20:52 these uh you know miraculous words these
0:20:54 words that you know the arab poster
0:20:56 couldn't uh you know compete with and
0:20:57 then the third being um kind of the
0:21:00 combination of his life and the success
0:21:01 that he had in all these areas at the
0:21:03 end
0:21:06 yeah that's good that's three minutes
0:21:12 the person next to you please
0:21:17 it can start
0:21:19 yeah go ahead
0:21:20 uh the brother pretty much carry all the
0:21:22 points that we're thinking about but
0:21:23 yeah so
0:21:24 i'll probably be just reiterating what
0:21:25 he's what he said uh yeah so one uh i
0:21:28 think
0:21:29 the fact that his character was well and
0:21:31 truly established uh way before uh he
0:21:34 proclaimed uh prophet
0:21:35 is very important to point out uh and
0:21:38 then
0:21:39 the fact that he was uh unpleased with
0:21:40 the state of affairs in terms of
0:21:42 spiritual state of affairs
0:21:44 of the uh
0:21:46 of the society that he was living in he
0:21:48 was
0:21:48 extremely uncomfortable with
0:21:50 the politician apologism that was uh
0:21:53 present day in mecca at the time
0:21:56 and then uh also like again like just
0:21:59 like the brother mentioned the fact that
0:22:00 um uh he basically
0:22:03 had everything at that point because he
0:22:04 was born into a very noble family he had
0:22:06 to give up everything and he turned
0:22:08 basically and in turn basically got
0:22:09 nothing he just asked people to worship
0:22:11 one god it's not like he was
0:22:13 calling for people to help him out to
0:22:15 something so uh
0:22:17 he basically gave up everything and was
0:22:19 persecuted just uh
0:22:21 and in return you only ask people uh to
0:22:23 call for god uh to worship god sorry so
0:22:26 um
0:22:27 that's i think an uh another good
0:22:29 indication uh of him being legitimate uh
0:22:32 and then um
0:22:33 also uh just being uh true to his
0:22:35 message to his message and mission uh
0:22:38 throughout all the persecution or the
0:22:39 suffering that he went through is
0:22:41 another thing that should be pointed out
0:22:43 uh and then also the fact uh that
0:22:46 uh until uh until the end of his life uh
0:22:49 he was uh he he is straight to true to
0:22:52 his mission and um
0:22:55 it is very clear that uh he wasn't
0:22:58 until the very moment that he died he
0:22:59 wasn't expecting uh
0:23:01 in any worldly things uh uh
0:23:03 in return uh for what he was
0:23:05 asking for from the people uh so even if
0:23:08 somebody comes up say things like well
0:23:10 he had nine wives
0:23:11 and tried to imply that he was uh
0:23:14 living a hedonistic lifestyle all we
0:23:16 have to do is just go back to his life
0:23:18 to see that he was a true aesthetic in
0:23:20 every sense of the word uh and uh
0:23:22 the argument that he was
0:23:24 he was a hidden hedonist or something it
0:23:27 just doesn't uh hold any grounds
0:23:29 uh yeah so say yeah i would say
0:23:32 his consistency with his uh
0:23:35 his consistency and
0:23:36 him staying true to his mission i think
0:23:38 uh
0:23:39 it's a key sign of his uh uh prophethood
0:23:43 okay you have 30 seconds you wanna
0:23:45 end there i think yeah okay nice uh next
0:23:49 person
0:23:51 so this is if someone asks us like to
0:23:53 summarize the laughter
0:23:54 so
0:23:56 um
0:23:57 as i'll start by talking about the fact
0:23:59 that basically you know some simple
0:24:00 information in terms of where he came
0:24:01 out from
0:24:02 suppose we believe sent as a as a guide
0:24:06 as somebody who was to
0:24:08 call the people to the religion of islam
0:24:09 he was sent to an area mecca a society
0:24:11 that was relatively cut from other areas
0:24:13 and was suffering from an immense number
0:24:15 of vices um there was sort of uh sexual
0:24:18 lewdness within the community there was
0:24:19 intense problems of tribalism racism
0:24:21 um there was immense sort of warfare of
0:24:23 the petty matters that were going on
0:24:24 within the community
0:24:26 and so um his entire lifestyle his
0:24:28 entire life from the beginning of his
0:24:29 life until the end is something that the
0:24:31 muslims or muslims take guidance from an
0:24:33 inspiration from
0:24:34 um and it's part of his an evidence of
0:24:36 his prophethood and that he was
0:24:37 protected from indulging in all of these
0:24:39 lewd things even before prophethood um
0:24:41 eventually once he added a 40 he
0:24:43 received the quran which is
0:24:45 transformative it's particularly potent
0:24:47 because he was he was unlettered himself
0:24:49 and yet he came forth with something
0:24:51 that was
0:24:52 linguistically sort of
0:24:53 unprecedented in the arabic language
0:24:56 he begins a spiritual teaching
0:24:58 in cocking values and morals within the
0:25:00 people that he's i begin to follow him
0:25:02 um and for 13 years in makkah he's
0:25:04 offered all of these things of the dunya
0:25:06 of the world money wealth power and he
0:25:08 rejects all of it and he you know stays
0:25:10 firm him and his companions
0:25:12 whilst they're being oppressed abused
0:25:13 tortured um and he's just teaching them
0:25:15 these things and he has nothing to offer
0:25:16 them except
0:25:18 allah and talheed in a reformation of
0:25:19 their souls and their character and they
0:25:21 love him and they follow him in that
0:25:23 and he takes nothing from the world
0:25:24 either eventually he leaves mecca and he
0:25:27 goes and they make hijra to another city
0:25:30 called medina um to take refuge there
0:25:32 from the hardships that they were that
0:25:33 they were suffering and at this point in
0:25:35 time um as he's now the role of a
0:25:37 political community
0:25:38 um as when people begin to march in the
0:25:40 community as a responsibility to defend
0:25:42 that community and so there's a series
0:25:44 of battles that then take place and we
0:25:45 see a different sort of aspect of his
0:25:47 character where he is somebody who leads
0:25:50 his community not only spiritually but
0:25:51 also militarily politically
0:25:54 and you see that like pragmatism you see
0:25:56 his negotiations you see the way he um
0:25:58 you engage with all the different tribes
0:26:00 of arabia at that particular time
0:26:02 um and so yeah his he he fulfills his
0:26:05 prophetic mission and when he leaves
0:26:06 makkah he leaves sort of with the the
0:26:08 promise or the aspiration that he will
0:26:10 eventually return and eventually returns
0:26:11 and uh retakes the city um and
0:26:14 establishes it as a place of as a place
0:26:16 of monotheism as a place to as opposed
0:26:18 to polytheism and most potently before
0:26:20 he passes away he gives his companions
0:26:22 the responsibility of taking this
0:26:24 message of islam to the rest of the
0:26:26 world and so even after he dies there's
0:26:28 um there's an evidence really of the
0:26:30 tremendous achievement of his life that
0:26:32 he not only was an immense leader in
0:26:34 himself but he created leaders and he
0:26:36 created people that came afterwards that
0:26:37 took the message of islam and gave birth
0:26:39 to an immense and amazing civilization
0:26:42 people
0:26:43 okay before we continue to dress i want
0:26:45 us to
0:26:47 create a model answer
0:26:49 so can we have uh everyone taking notes
0:26:53 bullet point notes on what's already
0:26:54 been said
0:26:56 uh so that we can have some
0:26:58 if there's something that's missed out
0:26:59 so and then you know
0:27:01 so um what were some of the points that
0:27:03 were made
0:27:05 already i can't see you just shout out
0:27:07 don't worry
0:27:09 he was a great military leader teacher
0:27:12 husband
0:27:13 father general family man in general
0:27:15 okay let's try and get this in
0:27:16 chronology though as you're right
0:27:17 definitely but let's let's let's start
0:27:19 with mecca first before we go to medina
0:27:21 so what were some of the main things
0:27:23 that were said about in mecca prophet
0:27:25 hood
0:27:26 so even prior to prophet heard him being
0:27:28 unlettered and everything he was deemed
0:27:29 trustworthy by
0:27:31 everybody yes
0:27:32 so trustworthy and and unless it so
0:27:34 jonah
0:27:35 we'll go put that down so that he was
0:27:37 unletted why is unlettered why is that
0:27:40 significant
0:27:41 because what was to come later uh will
0:27:44 indicate you know some sort of truth to
0:27:46 the claim that he is you know a prophet
0:27:48 of of god why why why would that why is
0:27:50 that the case
0:27:52 because he would have been
0:27:53 outside um
0:27:55 the influence of uh right literature
0:27:57 right right right so they couldn't say
0:27:59 that he read such and such and that
0:28:01 influenced him good point all right so
0:28:03 let's put that point down let's let's
0:28:05 put down the
0:28:06 mean
0:28:06 the truthful and the trustworthy one
0:28:08 yeah now let's be um
0:28:11 a little bit critical here what if
0:28:13 someone were to ask
0:28:17 well
0:28:18 what is the evidence that he was
0:28:21 that he was actually the truthful and
0:28:24 the trustworthy one what would someone
0:28:26 uh
0:28:27 how do you prove that as you're making
0:28:29 that claim but how can we prove that he
0:28:31 was assad i mean the truthful and the
0:28:33 trustworthy one sorry you can say the um
0:28:36 before his prophet the warring tribes of
0:28:38 arabia used him as an arbitrator
0:28:41 yeah excellent yeah so he was
0:28:43 yeah because he had such a good
0:28:45 reputation beautiful particularly with
0:28:47 the example of um the laying the black
0:28:50 stone in its in his place in the kaaba
0:28:53 and uh he he basically the good the
0:28:56 other tribes aggressive you know they
0:28:58 were fighting each other but they
0:28:59 trusted him
0:29:00 and he recommended that you know they
0:29:03 all
0:29:03 take
0:29:04 the black stone
0:29:06 in in a in a cloth and each hole the
0:29:08 corner of the cloth and then he himself
0:29:11 was chosen to put the blackstone in its
0:29:13 correct place and that shows that they
0:29:15 trusted him exactly beautiful any other
0:29:17 points on trust
0:29:22 just shout out because i can't see
0:29:23 anyone's hands
0:29:28 his first marriage his wife uh so he was
0:29:31 a trustworthy person in business
0:29:35 sorry his his wife
0:29:38 yes and she she she was so
0:29:41 um she she was so impressed by his
0:29:43 character and trustworthiness obviously
0:29:46 she saw how he did business
0:29:48 that she chose him as her husband
0:29:50 beautiful and excellent this is
0:29:52 definitely corroborating
0:29:54 anything else
0:30:01 people would leave their stuff with him
0:30:02 you know um
0:30:04 for collection do you know about this
0:30:06 so can you elaborate upon it
0:30:09 um i don't know details but yeah people
0:30:11 they would uh entrust him with their
0:30:13 belongings like when they would go on
0:30:15 like uh trips
0:30:17 um and
0:30:18 uh yeah he'd look after him and this was
0:30:20 actually even after he
0:30:22 came to be a prophet they continued to
0:30:24 trust him uh with you know their
0:30:26 possessions
0:30:28 excellent there's also a verse
0:30:36 and i had lived before prophethood a
0:30:38 whole lifetime before it do you not
0:30:41 think yeah
0:30:42 now if you think about what the quran is
0:30:44 the quran is going to be a public
0:30:46 declaration
0:30:47 so if the quran is making a public
0:30:49 declaration that you know the prophet
0:30:51 lived a whole life before you
0:30:54 if if this statement was going to stir
0:30:57 controversy
0:30:58 it would not have been made
0:31:00 if that makes sense like
0:31:02 if if people were going to say well yeah
0:31:04 and we knew you to be
0:31:06 uh a bad character and we knew you to be
0:31:08 like a dishonest person or something
0:31:10 like that
0:31:11 the fact that we don't have any report
0:31:14 from any antagonist
0:31:16 or any enemy of islam to indicate that
0:31:19 the prophet was known for lying
0:31:21 even despite the fact that the quran
0:31:22 makes declarations
0:31:25 to the fact of his
0:31:26 character
0:31:29 that you are of impeccable character
0:31:32 is indicative of the fact
0:31:34 that this was a given that the quran was
0:31:36 publicly announcing rather than
0:31:38 something of controversial quality like
0:31:40 when the quran makes the statements
0:31:42 about his impeccable character and his
0:31:43 trustworthiness or whatever it may be it
0:31:46 doesn't do so in an argumentative way or
0:31:48 persuasive format it does so in an
0:31:50 informative way
0:31:52 which
0:31:53 the expression of which is not intended
0:31:55 to stir any type of controversy which we
0:31:57 know it didn't does that make sense
0:32:00 or not yeah
0:32:02 yeah
0:32:03 all right so uh so we talked about
0:32:05 sadhaka i mean the fact that he is the
0:32:07 truthful and the trustworthy one
0:32:09 what else can we
0:32:10 say in the meccan period justin what did
0:32:13 what else was mentioned you mentioned
0:32:15 some key terms tribalism racism what
0:32:17 else kind of thing was mentioned
0:32:19 i think also mentioned the fact that he
0:32:21 was unlittered and the society at the
0:32:22 time
0:32:23 um they were um
0:32:26 very involved in like poetry and they
0:32:28 used to you know uh compete at you know
0:32:31 elite levels with each other um in
0:32:33 poetry
0:32:34 so this was something that you know the
0:32:36 arabs at the time they took very serious
0:32:38 right but write down also what we just
0:32:40 mentioned so tribalism racism okay
0:32:43 put that in your notes because it's very
0:32:44 important tribalism racism okay
0:32:48 and infanticide the idea of killing
0:32:51 young girls
0:32:52 i'm not sure if that was mentioned but
0:32:53 these are the kinds of things that were
0:32:54 typical in the meccan environment
0:32:57 obviously the quran and the hadith come
0:32:59 explicitly
0:33:02 in opposition to these things yeah
0:33:06 what other things in mecca that could be
0:33:11 thought about
0:33:12 if i remember correctly there was a lot
0:33:14 of
0:33:15 lewd lewdness like behavior
0:33:18 i don't remember a lot of the details
0:33:19 but there was practices for example an
0:33:21 arabian woman would have intercourse
0:33:23 with
0:33:24 several men and then once she's pregnant
0:33:26 she will simply choose out of the
0:33:28 uh the bundle of men who is the father
0:33:30 of her of offspring there was a lot of
0:33:32 this going around and he abstained it
0:33:34 was you know a virgin until marriage at
0:33:36 the age of 25 to khadijah good so he was
0:33:39 chased
0:33:40 you know this is a good point this is a
0:33:41 very good point he was it was pure
0:33:44 there's there's actually this very
0:33:45 interesting story in the in the seerah
0:33:48 in the meccan period where the prophet
0:33:49 was going on his way
0:33:51 to a gathering
0:33:53 and i'm not sure if you've come across
0:33:55 the story but basically he fell asleep
0:33:57 before he could get there
0:33:59 have you seen him
0:34:01 he fell asleep before he could get there
0:34:03 and and he recalls it being like allah
0:34:05 has saved him from going to that
0:34:06 gathering because it was there was haram
0:34:08 elements
0:34:09 there basically
0:34:11 so even at that time god was guiding him
0:34:13 and stuff
0:34:15 so the chastity element the purity
0:34:17 element is a big part obviously the the
0:34:19 his heart was being purified as a child
0:34:22 think about his his upbringing
0:34:24 um
0:34:26 what kind of um upbringing did he have
0:34:28 did he have a nuclear family
0:34:30 or was he something else what was he was
0:34:33 begin with oh
0:34:35 he was an orphan this is important
0:34:37 because it humanizes the character of
0:34:38 the prophet muhammad
0:34:41 you know we have to mention this you
0:34:42 know the prophet muhammad was an orphan
0:34:45 okay he
0:34:46 he he grew up you know
0:34:49 with um
0:34:50 his uncle
0:34:52 you know
0:34:53 and he married a woman that was older
0:34:54 than him some reports say five years
0:34:56 older some say 15 years older
0:34:59 khadijah was much older than him
0:35:02 you know and if you just look at the
0:35:04 very sensitive and
0:35:06 innocent way they got married
0:35:09 he was no arrogant man womanizer like
0:35:12 they make out he was you know the way
0:35:14 that he approached hadija
0:35:16 was so innocent like it was through a
0:35:19 third party and he didn't think that she
0:35:21 would you know she would love him or
0:35:22 that she would like him or whatever and
0:35:24 the same thing backed with her and then
0:35:26 it was made into a union in a very
0:35:28 natural and he went to the family
0:35:30 you know this shows like honor
0:35:33 there's this deep level of honor there
0:35:35 don't you feel
0:35:37 okay anything else that was already
0:35:39 mentioned by this side before we go to
0:35:41 this side sorry because i'm i'm getting
0:35:43 involved too much i think
0:35:45 on what was also mentioned on this side
0:35:47 and in terms of the mechanism
0:35:55 that hasn't been mentioned yet so you
0:35:56 can put on your answer that's fine yeah
0:35:59 you can see he had a meditative
0:36:00 temperament
0:36:02 you know
0:36:03 he did have a meditative temperament he
0:36:05 wasn't once again he was you know we
0:36:07 went in isolation
0:36:08 think about things today in the cave
0:36:14 yeah this is meccan period the whole
0:36:16 making period including prophethood
0:36:18 yeah anything mentioned about how
0:36:21 even during that period though they had
0:36:22 a lot of rituals and things like that
0:36:23 around the kaaba i love a lot of circle
0:36:25 of polytheism and he has no but you can
0:36:27 mention this you can mention this is a
0:36:28 new point but from what the brothers
0:36:30 have mentioned already
0:36:32 is there anything we've missed out so
0:36:33 far i'm not sure how far ahead we're
0:36:35 going but we did mention that um even
0:36:37 after
0:36:38 him claiming to be a prophet they
0:36:40 offered him right this is a very
0:36:41 important point yeah so they offered him
0:36:43 what god yeah they offered him uh
0:36:46 uh like uh riches they offered him uh
0:36:49 you know women for marriage they offered
0:36:50 him power they even offered compromising
0:36:53 like you know we will worship your god
0:36:54 in one day and you know but on the other
0:36:56 days you know we will you know
0:36:57 worship our gods so they made the
0:36:59 compromising efforts to uh you know to
0:37:02 try and persuade them away from his
0:37:04 message
0:37:04 this is very important because a liar
0:37:08 when they're met with this kind of thing
0:37:09 they usually take it like
0:37:11 what if you're doing it for
0:37:12 materialistic purposes they said they'll
0:37:14 make you the same they'll make you the
0:37:15 the leader of the place they'll give you
0:37:17 women they want women will give you this
0:37:18 we'll give you that
0:37:20 you know these negotiations were being
0:37:22 had and if this is what he wanted he
0:37:23 could have gotten it yeah
0:37:25 this is actually a very important point
0:37:27 because why would someone do this what
0:37:28 is the motivation of doing something
0:37:30 like this
0:37:31 you know if it's for material gain that
0:37:33 he was offered material gain and he
0:37:35 rejected material gain
0:37:37 this is very important
0:37:39 he rejected material gain
0:37:41 and you know you mentioned i think some
0:37:43 of
0:37:44 you mentioned that he lived a life of
0:37:46 poverty in fact he did
0:37:49 and i think one of the most powerful and
0:37:51 maybe it could be some kind of homework
0:37:53 we do for the next session or something
0:37:54 one of the most powerful hadith there's
0:37:56 two or three that indicates in this
0:37:58 reality one of them is that when that
0:38:00 when ahmad went into the
0:38:02 house and he saw the prophet and you
0:38:04 know he's been sleeping on this kind of
0:38:07 straw mattress
0:38:09 and the lines the straw lines were on
0:38:11 his back and he said look at these great
0:38:12 kings
0:38:15 you know they have
0:38:16 they have been given everything and you
0:38:19 and look at you basically he said that
0:38:21 they've been given the riches of this
0:38:23 dunya by you know i i'm not opting for
0:38:26 that basically i can get the the for
0:38:27 hadith exactly what i said
0:38:30 you know but the this kind of thing is
0:38:33 really powerful because his wife
0:38:36 aisha said that we lived on two black
0:38:38 things meaning lived on water and dates
0:38:40 they were all living on like the
0:38:41 luxurious foods and
0:38:43 middle class
0:38:44 lifestyles it's not what was happening
0:38:47 but this is going more in the medina
0:38:49 period let's give
0:38:50 the rest of the brothers some time uh
0:38:52 three minutes each year
0:38:54 go ahead uh let's start with
0:38:56 whoever's right most with the
0:38:58 fluorescent jacket so
0:39:01 just mention things that wasn't
0:39:02 mentioned yeah i mentioned as much
0:39:04 whatever you want
0:39:05 and it will be good if you mention
0:39:06 things that were not mentioned as well
0:39:08 so as you know just mentioned like some
0:39:09 casual characteristics of the process so
0:39:12 like how it was very contemplated a lot
0:39:14 went to cave hero this was also before
0:39:17 prophethood he spent a lot of time there
0:39:19 away from like the
0:39:20 the noise of the city of uh of mecca
0:39:23 and this was also like a form of
0:39:25 preparation for prophethood so he was
0:39:28 extended within his nature to be like
0:39:29 that and also a sense of higher sense of
0:39:32 shyness also wasn't someone like you
0:39:34 mentioned like a womanizer like when
0:39:36 uh he was doing the business
0:39:39 he wouldn't even go into the house to
0:39:42 ask her for the for the for the payment
0:39:44 but we sent his friend through instead
0:39:46 because of his his shyness that he had
0:39:48 within his character and that's also and
0:39:51 yeah
0:39:52 also whilst he was being offered these
0:39:54 things in in mecca from the quraish like
0:39:56 all these riches and women things of
0:39:58 this nature
0:40:00 it wasn't just living like an easy
0:40:01 lifestyle
0:40:02 whilst not taking that it was also just
0:40:04 being persecuted as all so also was
0:40:06 praying in front of the kaaba that abu
0:40:08 lahab came
0:40:09 and his companion to like throw the
0:40:11 intestines of of of a camel upon him
0:40:14 and even through like throughout the
0:40:16 persecution and stuff like that at that
0:40:18 point he rejected like the riches it
0:40:20 wasn't just they just left him by
0:40:21 himself he was getting persecuted on top
0:40:24 of you know being offered uh things of
0:40:26 that neutral
0:40:28 uh also how he was with his companions
0:40:29 so his companion stayed with him in
0:40:31 mecca
0:40:33 he came to defend from salon
0:40:35 and a man of you know thought that she
0:40:37 was the truthful message that he had
0:40:39 with him like his companions they went
0:40:41 to an extent where you know it would be
0:40:43 like an evidence to say
0:40:44 to prove that what he was saying was
0:40:46 true because like how could you go that
0:40:47 far for someone that was just you know
0:40:49 enough for the dunya
0:40:51 so yeah it's kind of like a supporting
0:40:53 evidence for his perfect wood
0:40:55 i'm bringing medina as well guys so it's
0:40:57 not just mecca here's bringing
0:40:58 everything yeah you've got a minute left
0:41:00 if you want to bring anything you can
0:41:02 uh
0:41:04 i think i'll just leave it okay
0:41:07 no problem next
0:41:10 so yeah just to sort of echo everybody
0:41:12 in the room um
0:41:13 he was an unletted man who
0:41:16 lived
0:41:17 in a society where there was a lot of
0:41:19 you know tribalism racism infanticide
0:41:22 and lewdness you know going on which he
0:41:23 abstained from
0:41:25 especially especially polytheistic and
0:41:27 shirky
0:41:28 acts which he also abstained from
0:41:33 uh he was known for his impeccable
0:41:35 character and trustworthiness and
0:41:37 truthfulness
0:41:38 he was a
0:41:39 you know moving you know i believe into
0:41:41 the median period he was a military
0:41:43 leader
0:41:44 fantastic
0:41:45 teacher husband family man in general
0:41:48 ruler and companion
0:41:50 and um
0:41:51 yeah that's what i have so far
0:41:53 yeah try not to because you've only
0:41:55 spoken for one minute um
0:41:57 so let me just uh yeah just to read
0:42:00 a few events add a few things that
0:42:04 um i think one event uh sort of
0:42:08 portrays
0:42:09 him
0:42:11 in being known as a trustworthy
0:42:13 individual
0:42:15 i believe it was on the
0:42:17 mount safa
0:42:18 the mountain of safa where he yelled
0:42:21 you know
0:42:22 which is an arabic expression
0:42:25 and he goes
0:42:27 if i told you that horsemen were
0:42:28 advancing to attack you from the valley
0:42:30 on the other side of this mountain will
0:42:31 you believe me
0:42:33 to which they replied yes we have always
0:42:35 found you truthful then the prophet went
0:42:37 on to say i am a plain one
0:42:39 to you overcoming severe punishment so
0:42:41 that's one example in which he was found
0:42:43 to be truthful by
0:42:45 people whether that was his family
0:42:47 friends critics or enemies
0:42:49 they were found to be as such
0:42:51 it's a really good point and the fact
0:42:53 that's a good evidence of his
0:42:54 truthfulness and the fact that he was
0:42:56 seen as truthful because that's how they
0:42:57 responded is
0:42:59 we always saw you as truthful as very
0:43:00 good
0:43:01 evidence the mount safar was a very good
0:43:04 point
0:43:08 yes
0:43:09 well the prophet he was a very humble
0:43:12 man and
0:43:13 as the brothers have already said that
0:43:15 he was um he had impeccable manners and
0:43:18 he was known throughout the
0:43:20 the area as uh incredibly polite he'd
0:43:24 always greet everybody strangers or
0:43:28 familiar people with a smile so you know
0:43:30 he was known
0:43:32 for his character like that
0:43:34 and uh he apart from that he was also
0:43:38 successful militarily a great general
0:43:41 and
0:43:43 one of the um one of the nicest stories
0:43:45 that i've ever heard is the story of um
0:43:48 a humble man when he bought the prophet
0:43:50 some grapes
0:43:52 and the prophet was eating the grapes
0:43:55 and he didn't offer to his companions
0:43:57 any of them
0:43:58 and uh when they
0:44:00 when they asked because it's in our
0:44:02 cultures to offer anything you have to
0:44:05 other people
0:44:07 when the man went away he said that
0:44:09 because the grapes were sour i didn't
0:44:11 want you to
0:44:12 to
0:44:13 for the man to see an any expression on
0:44:15 your face that may hurt his feelings so
0:44:17 i ate the grapes myself
0:44:19 so that's one of one of the indications
0:44:22 of his character
0:44:23 also that uh throughout his life he
0:44:26 never
0:44:27 uh requested any
0:44:29 any wealth or any kind of um
0:44:32 uh anything that was involved in
0:44:34 you know anything that would uh be
0:44:37 outwardly
0:44:38 uh
0:44:39 ostentatious
0:44:41 and he always lived frugally
0:44:43 uh including when he was at his height
0:44:46 of his his prophethood he would live in
0:44:48 a room with three he would live in a
0:44:50 house with three rooms so it would be a
0:44:52 guest room his bedroom and and the um
0:44:55 the washroom
0:44:57 so
0:44:57 and this is a man who could have built
0:44:59 um you know a palace of gold for himself
0:45:02 but uh to the end of his days he he
0:45:04 provided an example for all muslims to
0:45:07 live frugally
0:45:08 and
0:45:09 and that's what we take as
0:45:13 an individual who has impeccable manners
0:45:16 and who was humble and uh an example for
0:45:19 all of mankind
0:45:20 beautiful fantastic relations very
0:45:22 excellent
0:45:24 you know um
0:45:25 just to add to some of this i think
0:45:26 we've we're getting closer to that model
0:45:29 answer that we won you know one of the
0:45:32 um
0:45:35 the greatest uh
0:45:37 or for me anyway one of the most
0:45:39 powerful
0:45:40 events in
0:45:41 well two or three things i want to add
0:45:43 actually
0:45:43 first of all the profit this is a fact
0:45:46 that he buried all of his children
0:45:47 except for one
0:45:49 he buried all of his children it's very
0:45:51 easy to come off the tongue you know he
0:45:53 buried all of his children except for
0:45:55 one he buried his wife
0:45:57 hadidah
0:45:58 and he buried his uncle but he buried
0:46:00 all of his children all the girls and
0:46:01 his sons etc except for one so it's a
0:46:04 man who had and he had been an orphan as
0:46:06 a child
0:46:07 just this by itself like we're talking
0:46:09 about a man who had experienced life
0:46:12 like he had been through grief in life
0:46:15 you know this is difficult
0:46:17 and
0:46:18 i want you to just think about one thing
0:46:20 one of the things that is usually used
0:46:22 as an evidence against the prophet's
0:46:24 character is the fact that he engaged in
0:46:26 warfare
0:46:30 but the fact that he engaged in warfare
0:46:32 once or twice a year
0:46:35 once or twice a year
0:46:37 on average
0:46:39 in his medinan period only before that
0:46:41 he was being persecuted right
0:46:43 i think that's an evidence for his
0:46:44 prophethood and i'll tell you why
0:46:46 the reason why is because
0:46:49 it was risky business claiming to be a
0:46:51 prophet
0:46:53 like imagine having to put your life on
0:46:56 the line once or twice a year
0:46:59 like you this is not a matter of okay
0:47:02 you're claiming to be a prophet and now
0:47:03 you're living a luxurious lifestyle
0:47:05 you're claiming to be a prophet and this
0:47:07 could lead you to be killed
0:47:10 once or twice a year people are going to
0:47:12 try and take your life
0:47:14 and this that happened almost you know
0:47:16 it it came close to that in for example
0:47:19 where his tooth was broken and they
0:47:20 thought he was dead
0:47:23 you know um
0:47:25 and this was a defensive battle actually
0:47:28 just like
0:47:29 most of them were
0:47:31 with the exception of one or two which
0:47:32 you can make an exception the romans you
0:47:34 can say was preemptive although they
0:47:36 killed the emissary first but we can go
0:47:38 into those details later on
0:47:42 that's i think evidence for his profit
0:47:45 the fact that he
0:47:46 that he was willing to put himself
0:47:49 in these life or death situations
0:47:54 and connected to that is the fact that
0:47:56 allah in the quran
0:47:58 he proclaims that he will defend him and
0:48:00 he will
0:48:01 he will safeguard him
0:48:02 despite all of those attempts on his
0:48:04 life
0:48:07 allah he will protect you against the
0:48:09 people
0:48:11 so in other words there's a godly
0:48:13 protection being offered here
0:48:16 and this is
0:48:18 a guarantee it's a godly guarantee
0:48:23 so
0:48:24 that's another thing so he just to
0:48:26 summarize the points here
0:48:27 he buried all his children except for
0:48:29 one
0:48:32 he buried his wife he went through
0:48:34 intense grief in his life persecution in
0:48:37 his life and in the time when he was the
0:48:39 leader of a country
0:48:41 he was being his life was being
0:48:43 challenged once or twice a year
0:48:47 and when he was living in that state he
0:48:49 was living
0:48:51 in poverty this was a
0:48:54 a leader who had been living in poverty
0:48:58 now they say nine wives
0:49:00 nine lives at one time is no joke
0:49:03 in fact this is exactly what a womanizer
0:49:05 doesn't do
0:49:07 sorry to say
0:49:08 when they say
0:49:09 well you know he had nine wives at one
0:49:11 time yeah he did have nine wives at one
0:49:13 time all of them were divorcees and
0:49:16 widows except for one which is aisha
0:49:20 yeah he had nine wives at one time
0:49:22 all of them were with him until he died
0:49:26 so he maintained nine women at one time
0:49:30 and the reasons obviously we know tribal
0:49:32 to get the tribes together and to you
0:49:33 know all that things but let's just
0:49:35 focus on the fact that they had nine
0:49:36 women all the time
0:49:38 a womanizer doesn't commit to
0:49:40 relationships that's a fault that is a
0:49:42 rule
0:49:43 yani a a womanizer that he goes from one
0:49:46 woman to the next he uses the woman and
0:49:48 he goes to there he doesn't want to
0:49:49 contribute to her life he doesn't want
0:49:51 to take care of her
0:49:52 that's not what a womanizer does
0:49:55 womanizers are the most afraid of
0:49:57 commitment
0:49:59 but having nine women at one time means
0:50:00 he's committed to nine women's health
0:50:02 safety protection
0:50:05 physical psychological and so on
0:50:08 they're learning
0:50:09 at one time
0:50:11 he is he is elevating their status in
0:50:13 society
0:50:14 in a way that nothing else could have
0:50:18 so these arguments you always find that
0:50:20 the arguments that are used against the
0:50:22 prophet are the best arguments for his
0:50:24 prophet
0:50:26 or he was a warlord or he was a you know
0:50:29 whatever a womanizer but when you really
0:50:32 think about it
0:50:33 you realize that actually
0:50:37 actually you know it's not the case
0:50:40 and just on the point of warlord
0:50:43 since uh
0:50:45 this video probably would go out
0:50:47 after i've spoken to peterson
0:50:50 who had made that comment i mean the
0:50:52 problem is with this comment
0:50:54 is that
0:50:56 warlord
0:50:57 indicates the term warlord indicates
0:51:00 that the prophet
0:51:02 he got
0:51:04 power through aggressive and violent
0:51:06 means that's how dictionaries define it
0:51:08 but the prophet did not gain power
0:51:12 through violent and aggressive means the
0:51:14 prophet muhammad he went to tariff as
0:51:17 you guys know and this is a very
0:51:18 important event
0:51:20 he went to tariff by himself okay he
0:51:22 didn't go with an army
0:51:24 and when he went to tariff he was pelted
0:51:27 and violently rejected by his people but
0:51:30 it happened before the migration to
0:51:31 medina
0:51:34 and he was rejected violently almost
0:51:37 killed
0:51:38 actually
0:51:42 and then he went to austral
0:51:44 two groups of people who embraced islam
0:51:47 through a religious incentive and made
0:51:49 him into a political leader
0:51:52 through popular support he gained
0:51:54 leadership he didn't gain leadership
0:51:56 from there was no war of medina that
0:52:00 established him as the leader of media
0:52:02 it was through popular support that he
0:52:05 became the leader of medina
0:52:07 that
0:52:08 gave bay'a to him pledge of allegiance
0:52:11 to him
0:52:12 and as a result they put him in that
0:52:13 position and he as soon as he got
0:52:15 leadership
0:52:17 he put he made constitutions between him
0:52:19 and the minority groups namely jewish
0:52:21 people and polytheists
0:52:23 and we have those documents to hand it's
0:52:25 not like these things are
0:52:27 extant not extant they are historically
0:52:30 extant
0:52:31 they are catalogued
0:52:33 there is we have them all the way back
0:52:35 to
0:52:39 azuri
0:52:42 all of these things with the chain of
0:52:44 narration
0:52:45 which is good
0:52:46 which talks about the the the the
0:52:50 the minority rights that were granted to
0:52:52 jewish people the minority is very
0:52:54 important
0:52:55 we must and put this in the notes as
0:52:56 well we must talk about the fact that
0:52:58 the prophet and this is another charge
0:53:01 he's an anti-semitic person you know he
0:53:02 killed this person
0:53:04 he why would he if that was the case why
0:53:05 would he make
0:53:06 a constitutional
0:53:09 agreement with the jewish people when he
0:53:11 went to medina and that constitution we
0:53:13 have with us
0:53:16 in fact i you can make an argument that
0:53:18 pluralism that existed in the islamic
0:53:20 state was more robust than the pluralism
0:53:23 that exists in liberal states
0:53:25 especially considering the fact that
0:53:27 they were given their own courts of law
0:53:29 that would have efficacious rule
0:53:32 such a thing doesn't exist in britain
0:53:34 for muslims
0:53:35 like if you have a sharia council it's
0:53:37 not going to have efficacious
0:53:39 law if the police is not going to come
0:53:40 and knock on your door if you don't if
0:53:42 the fatwa that gives is not going
0:53:43 to be
0:53:44 implemented but that would have been the
0:53:46 case
0:53:47 for jewish courts in muslim countries
0:53:51 and this is the case so there was an
0:53:53 element of a strong element of pluralism
0:53:55 that existed and there was a strong
0:53:57 element
0:53:58 of
0:53:59 a national identity based on religion
0:54:01 that you know of not compulsion religion
0:54:03 all these things and protection explicit
0:54:06 express protection that was given
0:54:09 so i think these points are very
0:54:10 important
0:54:11 because one of the things that's held or
0:54:13 he's anti-semite
0:54:15 but when the quran talks about itself
0:54:17 the quran talks about
0:54:20 the prophet muhammad
0:54:22 and his interaction with for example
0:54:30 that is because when he mentions in the
0:54:32 first couple of verses
0:54:34 you know the the the excesses
0:54:42 they destroyed their own houses and so
0:54:43 on all these kinds of events that took
0:54:44 place
0:54:46 then he says that is because they went
0:54:48 against they challenged
0:54:50 the allah and his messenger it's not it
0:54:52 doesn't say there it can be
0:54:54 it's because they were jewish
0:54:56 why is it always the case when allah
0:54:58 he speaks about
0:55:01 fighting groups of people who are not
0:55:03 uh muslim
0:55:04 this couched in language of
0:55:06 justification and it's to do with their
0:55:08 actions
0:55:10 if it doesn't say that because they were
0:55:12 jewish they were ethnically jewish or
0:55:13 whatever
0:55:15 it doesn't say anything like this
0:55:17 so the charge of anti-semitism
0:55:19 is
0:55:20 is a flatly false one
0:55:24 especially considering and this is one
0:55:26 of the most important things you can uh
0:55:27 because and this this discussion of ant
0:55:29 symptoms will keep coming up
0:55:31 but this is the nail we talked about one
0:55:33 thing this will be the nail in the
0:55:34 coffin now
0:55:35 especially considering the prophet
0:55:37 married a jew
0:55:40 that's it sofia bintu was a jewish woman
0:55:43 she came from
0:55:45 who was a jewish man
0:55:47 she was ethnically jewish and she was
0:55:49 one of those people who the prophet
0:55:51 married
0:55:53 and not only that when she was being
0:55:54 harassed
0:55:56 for her jewishness
0:55:57 the prophet gave her words to say
0:56:00 which
0:56:01 which exalted her honor
0:56:03 namely that i come from the lineage of
0:56:05 of harren of uh aaron uh
0:56:09 so if it was a matter of anti-semitism
0:56:11 when she came to complain to the prophet
0:56:14 right that oh you know these women are
0:56:16 uh telling me about i'm a jew and so on
0:56:19 he would have said to them oh yeah
0:56:21 they're right about that
0:56:22 you know it's true you are jewish you
0:56:24 know
0:56:25 and it made some maybe
0:56:27 agreed with it but why did he give her
0:56:29 words to defend herself which would
0:56:31 exalt her
0:56:33 ethnic status
0:56:34 if he was such an anti-semite these are
0:56:36 important things
0:56:38 and the point that you made
0:56:40 about about racism or anti-racism is an
0:56:42 extremely important point because there
0:56:44 is i i'll tell you this explicitly
0:56:47 and i've challenged people with this
0:56:49 there is no equivalent
0:56:52 of
0:56:53 hadith which is there's no virtue of a
0:56:55 black man over a white man or a white
0:56:57 man over a black man or an arab over a
0:56:59 non-arab or non-arab or an arab in any
0:57:01 world religion
0:57:03 in any ancient world religion
0:57:06 obviously you can i say ancient here we
0:57:09 have to obviously you can say this
0:57:10 feminism whatever's religion or
0:57:12 you know or
0:57:14 scientist scientology we're talking
0:57:16 about ancient world religions yeah there
0:57:18 is no equivalent there's not one verse
0:57:20 in the bible the old testament
0:57:22 that explicitly condemns racism you'll
0:57:25 never find in fact the new testament
0:57:27 itself
0:57:28 could be said to have
0:57:29 things inside of it which indicate
0:57:31 racism itself
0:57:34 jesus saying to the gentile woman who
0:57:36 came
0:57:37 that i don't you know it's not for the
0:57:39 dogs to come in you know she referred to
0:57:41 as a dog
0:57:43 because she was a gentile she was a
0:57:44 non-jew now this in modern parlance
0:57:46 would be seen as racist discriminatory
0:57:52 but you don't find anything equivalent
0:57:53 imagine this was in the quran imagine
0:57:55 hadith
0:57:56 imagine for a second that you had the
0:57:58 equivalent of a non-arab man coming to
0:58:00 the prophet and the prophet referring to
0:58:02 them as a dog please please imagine
0:58:08 please imagine what they would do with
0:58:09 that
0:58:12 so
0:58:13 islam is clearly the most anti-racist
0:58:16 religion in the face of the earth
0:58:18 clearly
0:58:19 and for that reason it's the most
0:58:20 multicultural religion in the face of
0:58:21 the earth
0:58:22 and it's the only religion which takes a
0:58:24 sense the way it does on these issues
0:58:26 so much so that we we talk about
0:58:30 bill
0:58:31 the black man who married helen and alf
0:58:33 by the way who's arab
0:58:34 but there's more than that like osama
0:58:36 bin zayed he was black as well he had
0:58:38 black skin literally had black skin
0:58:40 and the prophet made him a leader of
0:58:41 armies
0:58:44 he loved him actually because he his
0:58:46 father was
0:58:47 zaden hadith
0:58:48 who was as you know right so the idea of
0:58:52 race is a very important one tribe is a
0:58:54 very important one because
0:58:56 the prophet muhammad was able to unify
0:58:58 the tribes
0:59:00 no one else before him could do that the
0:59:02 quran says that itself
0:59:05 you know
0:59:06 that you are left
0:59:10 that you had
0:59:11 that sorry that allah had had
0:59:14 allah
0:59:16 that he he put he made their hearts
0:59:18 united
0:59:23 and if you had put all
0:59:24 your money into this project you would
0:59:26 not have been able to
0:59:28 from the whole world make them united it
0:59:30 was only a spiritual and religious
0:59:33 incentive that made them united
0:59:38 and then you have the charge once again
0:59:40 of the prophet being more hungry and
0:59:41 power hungry because they say fine maybe
0:59:43 he was not maybe he was not money hungry
0:59:45 maybe it wasn't a woman thing but maybe
0:59:47 it was about power power hungry
0:59:49 so why is it then when he met
0:59:52 when he in
0:59:54 when he was trying to go into
0:59:58 to do omra
0:59:59 with the sahaba with the companions
1:00:02 he criticized that this is very
1:00:04 interesting he criticized them for being
1:00:07 war hungry he says
1:00:10 he says woe to you
1:00:12 let's
1:00:14 that war has devoured you
1:00:16 he said
1:00:17 war has devoured you so if he was the
1:00:19 one on the
1:00:20 the one who wanted war all the time
1:00:23 then why is he criticizing the
1:00:24 opposition
1:00:26 for wanting war in fact he went there to
1:00:28 do a peace treaty and
1:00:31 and he he and this shows you the
1:00:33 pragmatism that you're talking about
1:00:34 hodei bia is the
1:00:36 best bedrock example
1:00:39 in the seerah for compromise of the
1:00:41 prophet muhammad
1:00:44 now and this is they use hodei
1:00:47 the jurisprudence uh the jurists they
1:00:49 use
1:00:50 they use it to show that you can add you
1:00:52 can have peace treaties with any nation
1:00:55 you want islam is not a religion that
1:00:57 doesn't want peace that's that's false
1:00:59 if it was a religion that couldn't
1:01:01 handle peace
1:01:03 had no propensity for peace
1:01:05 or couldn't deal with peace that horde
1:01:07 would have been out of the question and
1:01:10 huda beer is one of the most bedrock
1:01:11 examples of where islam is is not only
1:01:14 capable of peace but it's calling for it
1:01:17 on a military and geopolitical level
1:01:22 and who broke hadeb's agreement it was
1:01:24 them it was it was the enemy tribes who
1:01:27 broke hodei and when it broke
1:01:30 and father took place
1:01:32 when the prophet could have gone and
1:01:34 slaughtered everybody
1:01:35 those people who had been torturing and
1:01:38 persecuting and
1:01:40 he could have done all of that but when
1:01:41 he went into mecca he went in and the
1:01:44 narrations say
1:01:46 that his head
1:01:47 was
1:01:49 on parallel with the horse's head
1:01:50 meaning he was arched over in humility
1:01:55 he wasn't pumped
1:01:57 like maybe i would be going in like some
1:01:59 kind of
1:02:00 professional wrestler
1:02:02 there was no
1:02:03 you know or you know it's human nature
1:02:06 when you beat someone you want to you
1:02:08 see it in the mma you see it and this
1:02:10 and that
1:02:11 you raise your arms and you know you do
1:02:13 this it's a human impulse you're so
1:02:15 excited it's a psychological reaction
1:02:17 the prophet was not entered into this
1:02:19 dunya
1:02:21 he was not introduced to a worldly stuff
1:02:23 can you imagine such a victory bro such
1:02:26 a victory that for years and years
1:02:28 10 plus 13 we're talking like 20 plus
1:02:31 years
1:02:33 that he's fighting against his people
1:02:35 war after war ibn kayem says 19 wars 19
1:02:40 19 times you could have been killed
1:02:42 19 times you were maimed or hurt or
1:02:44 injured you your your brethren were
1:02:46 killed in your family members were
1:02:48 killed you so many people died
1:02:51 and you finally get to that stage where
1:02:53 you conquer
1:02:54 this city not through fighting but
1:02:57 through
1:02:58 just walking in because they know that
1:02:59 they're the dominant force they didn't
1:03:01 fight
1:03:03 and you do so in such a humble way
1:03:08 that
1:03:08 it's that in and of itself is that it
1:03:11 this is not just us it's not lip service
1:03:14 when we say that he has impeccable
1:03:15 character
1:03:17 this is the reality because we can see
1:03:19 it through his actions and it was those
1:03:21 actions you talk about
1:03:23 that exactly stop salahuddin from going
1:03:25 in and doing the same thing he thought
1:03:27 about that because if you look at the
1:03:29 crusade's history
1:03:30 the crusades
1:03:32 when they came in they destroyed
1:03:33 everybody
1:03:35 look at the reports it's not even
1:03:36 reports from muslims they came in and
1:03:38 they they slaughtered men women and
1:03:39 children
1:03:40 as the bible talks about in the old
1:03:42 testament they slaughtered them
1:03:43 destroyed them
1:03:46 that kind of stuff you see in the old
1:03:47 testament you'll never find the quran go
1:03:49 in and kill the woman the children the
1:03:51 ox and the sheep
1:03:53 kill everything that breathes literally
1:03:56 this is a verse in the bible
1:03:59 the blood was ankle deep
1:04:01 that's what they say this is what
1:04:02 historians say
1:04:04 the blood was ankle can you imagine that
1:04:07 like children were decimated
1:04:09 now it was deen's turn
1:04:11 and he said the same thing that the
1:04:13 prophet said letter
1:04:16 which is that there's no blame on you
1:04:17 today you're forgiven basically
1:04:19 where did salahuddin get this impeccable
1:04:21 character and this he got it from the
1:04:23 prophet muhammad the same thing with
1:04:25 he could have gone to jerusalem
1:04:27 and fought and killed everybody
1:04:29 the prophet predicted that jerusalem
1:04:31 would be overtaken and we'll talk about
1:04:32 this more and talk about prophecies yeah
1:04:34 but when ahmadinejad went in
1:04:37 what did he do did he kill the people he
1:04:39 told the as soon as he went in he told
1:04:41 and this is mentioned by the way
1:04:43 by thomas
1:04:44 walker arnold
1:04:47 in the preaching of islam it's an
1:04:48 orientalist book
1:04:51 i mean
1:04:53 orientalists even admit this orientalist
1:04:55 admit this
1:04:57 that when um
1:04:58 went into jerusalem
1:05:01 he went in
1:05:02 and he gave he was he was he was eager
1:05:05 i'm paraphrasing obviously but he was
1:05:07 eager to give jews and christians their
1:05:09 rights
1:05:10 to protect them to not destroy any place
1:05:13 of worship
1:05:14 this is extremely important stuff
1:05:17 because the
1:05:18 the accusations are held against muslims
1:05:20 are not just unjust
1:05:22 they are inaccurate and they historical
1:05:25 that this is the reality honestly we
1:05:27 need to be able to because these are
1:05:28 misconceptions now these are these have
1:05:30 become fabrications your prophet did
1:05:32 this and he did that and he killed these
1:05:33 people yes
1:05:34 there were some people that were the
1:05:36 prophet himself killed only one person
1:05:37 in his life by the way
1:05:38 in war was only one person
1:05:44 but there were wars
1:05:46 but they were not like the wars of sorry
1:05:47 this is the 20th century like what would
1:05:49 they what on earth are we comparing it
1:05:51 to we're talking about hundreds of
1:05:52 people that died maybe in all the wars
1:05:54 hundreds
1:05:55 hundreds of people that died hundreds
1:05:57 not even a thousand
1:05:58 and if we if we if we want to go liberal
1:06:00 then maybe a thousand to two thousand
1:06:02 but liberal estimate
1:06:05 how are you going to come compare that
1:06:06 to the excess the bloody excesses of the
1:06:08 20th century
1:06:10 30 million 40 million
1:06:13 like let's make a comparison
1:06:14 a few people 100 people died in tribes
1:06:18 and skirmishes and fights and so on
1:06:21 in mostly and i say this mostly
1:06:23 defensive wars
1:06:25 versus 30 million that night oh your
1:06:27 religion causes this and causes that
1:06:28 which which causes what really
1:06:30 nationalism caused 30 million deaths
1:06:33 it was it was national imperialism your
1:06:35 version of nationalism
1:06:37 power hungry
1:06:39 this this is not the same thing where
1:06:41 the prophet salallahu salaam very
1:06:42 explicitly said
1:06:44 man
1:06:58 he says what would have what would it
1:07:00 have
1:07:02 disadvantaged them
1:07:04 if they just let me go to the people and
1:07:05 speak to them basically give that one to
1:07:07 them basically proselytize them
1:07:09 basically bring them to the religion of
1:07:10 islam meaning that the the only reason
1:07:13 for this in the first place was to have
1:07:14 access to people so you can tell them
1:07:16 about
1:07:17 told them about the origin of islam and
1:07:18 abraham moses and jesus it wasn't to
1:07:20 acquire wealth and to acquire treasures
1:07:22 and so on
1:07:23 and he wasn't even he wasn't a
1:07:24 beneficiary to any of that
1:07:28 he lived a life of poverty
1:07:31 and you know one other thing i want to
1:07:33 add
1:07:34 the prophet muhammad
1:07:35 we said he had 19 wars but that's
1:07:38 not saraya by the way not not the small
1:07:40 skirmishes
1:07:41 he lived in in this poverty nine wives
1:07:43 all of these things difficulties yeah
1:07:47 religious
1:07:48 rulings in the morning
1:07:50 he had as an obligation
1:07:53 that he were to pray the whole night so
1:07:55 sorry two thirds of the night or half a
1:07:57 night or a third of the night
1:07:59 can you imagine like we pray five times
1:08:00 a day imagine spending
1:08:02 let's let's let's count it let's say
1:08:04 three hours a day just standing up and
1:08:05 praying
1:08:07 i can't handle that sorry to say can't
1:08:09 handle that even ramadan
1:08:11 three hours is a long time we do tala we
1:08:13 have one hour imagine times that by
1:08:15 three and make it 365 days a week
1:08:19 plus fasting plus your wives and plus
1:08:21 fighting sorry man this is too much
1:08:25 no what imposter can keep that up
1:08:28 i want you to think about that what
1:08:29 imposter can keep up the fact that they
1:08:31 have to pray
1:08:33 two thirds of the night or a third of
1:08:34 the night or half of the night as the
1:08:36 quran states
1:08:44 yeah you know
1:08:45 half of it or a third of the night or
1:08:46 two thirds of the night like that range
1:08:49 you're praying or standing up your your
1:08:52 legs are cracking from the pain and so
1:08:54 on and you're still in prayer for that
1:08:57 long
1:09:00 and it's obligatory upon you
1:09:04 because the quran says
1:09:07 it's
1:09:09 means it's hate for him it's obligatory
1:09:12 so he had to pray that much
1:09:14 and someone said well how do we know he
1:09:16 did that every single one of his wives
1:09:18 will witness to that
1:09:19 it couldn't be that all nine of his
1:09:21 wives and this is one of the wisdoms of
1:09:22 having nine wives came together and
1:09:24 colluded that yeah we're gonna have to
1:09:26 uphold this lie that he prayed
1:09:28 one third of the night or you know
1:09:31 and all the the community members that
1:09:32 saw him pray other community members saw
1:09:34 that
1:09:35 let's uphold this lie in this tacit
1:09:37 collusion that we all have together and
1:09:39 we all uphold this line no he prayed
1:09:41 this long people saw her even his wife's
1:09:44 people that he was traveling with he was
1:09:45 with they saw that stuff
1:09:48 so what kind of imposter would that have
1:09:51 to be
1:09:52 it would be an emote a level of
1:09:54 motivation
1:09:56 that is not explicable through human
1:09:58 means
1:10:00 you're praying two thirds of the night
1:10:02 you're putting your life on the line
1:10:03 you're living on dates and water
1:10:05 you're sleeping on straws
1:10:08 you're eating uh scraps
1:10:12 and yeah
1:10:14 and somehow this is all a lie
1:10:17 somehow
1:10:18 you made it all up
1:10:20 that candy it doesn't seem right
1:10:23 just by looking and this is why the
1:10:24 prophet saws himself is a beginner
1:10:26 himself that's his life is that evidence
1:10:28 why do you think the people that were
1:10:30 with him and believed in him why do you
1:10:32 think they were so
1:10:33 certain like abu bakr
1:10:35 that he was on
1:10:37 because they knew about him they knew
1:10:38 about his life
1:10:39 there's no chance that this guy is this
1:10:41 man here there's no chance that he's
1:10:43 making this up there's no chance that
1:10:45 he's an imposter there's no chance just
1:10:47 based on his character alone now with
1:10:50 the person next to you actually
1:10:52 with that we conclude
1:10:54 yes we will do more interactive stuff
1:10:57 but but we
1:10:58 uh what we're going to do insha'allah
1:11:00 for monday for monday's lesson
1:11:03 i want you to produce and i'm going to i
1:11:04 know that some of you have already
1:11:06 written something for the previous thing
1:11:07 that i set i will be looking at that as
1:11:09 well inshallah so add whoever's finished
1:11:11 that please give it to me
1:11:13 it's optional you don't have to give it
1:11:14 but this one i do want everyone to do
1:11:16 even if it's you'll take any five
1:11:18 minutes of your time based on everything
1:11:20 that everyone has said today in this
1:11:21 brainstorm and what i said as well
1:11:24 we need to redo the three minutes
1:11:26 yeah everyone's gonna really do three
1:11:28 minutes because we want to make it as
1:11:29 gold standard as possible
1:11:31 if someone asks you this question it's
1:11:33 one of the most important questions you
1:11:34 can ever be asked
1:11:36 about the prophet muhammad we follow him
1:11:39 you know we follow him he's the final
1:11:40 prophet so for us we need to be able to
1:11:42 be on point
1:11:44 and give the answers that will basically
1:11:46 be the most
1:11:47 pertinent
1:11:49 salient points about his life which
1:11:51 indicate his genuinity
1:11:54 yeah which indicate
1:11:56 his legitimacy as you mentioned it's a
1:11:58 good word they use
1:12:00 so
1:12:01 let's
1:12:02 think together and we'll put uh these
1:12:04 points inshaallah and on monday we'll go
1:12:06 further and also read the the k by h
1:12:09 thing on my website the the 10 points
1:12:12 okay because we're going to be talking
1:12:14 about evidences now because we haven't
1:12:15 even gotten into evidences we haven't
1:12:17 got into prophecies or history or
1:12:19 linguistic or structural we haven't even
1:12:21 started that yet and look already how
1:12:23 convincing it is
1:12:24 like we haven't even cited the evidences
1:12:26 and look how convincing this thing is
1:12:28 just by the prophet sam's character
1:12:29 itself which we have underexplored
1:12:32 let's be honest about it in the dawah we
1:12:34 have not given it as haqq
1:12:36 so any questions on that
1:12:40 all right with that we conclude
1:12:41 insha'allah and we'll see you in the
1:12:43 next session wassalamualaikum allah