Sapient Thoughts #32: Was the conquest of Mecca proof of the Prophet's ﷺ Mercy? | Mohammed Hijab (2021-06-18) ​

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0:00:13 welcome to another episode of sapient
0:00:15 thought so we discussed theo
0:00:16 philosophical issues
0:00:18 where we answer the objections and the
0:00:20 retractions of the detractors
0:00:22 of islam in addition to making our own
0:00:24 arguments for the veracity of islam
0:00:27 today insha'allah we're going to be
0:00:28 talking about a contention
0:00:31 that is probably one of the most severe
0:00:33 and untrue contentions that we're going
0:00:35 to be dealing with in this entire series
0:00:37 it's something which aims to cast
0:00:39 aspersion on the good
0:00:41 character besmirch the good character of
0:00:43 the prophet muhammad
0:00:47 and label him as a violent man a man
0:00:51 of violence and aggression rather than
0:00:54 as the quran says about him
0:00:56 a mercy the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:00:59 alaihi wasallam
0:01:00 let's actually start with that he is
0:01:02 mentioned of the quran
0:01:04 as a mercy for humankind
0:01:10 he sent him as a mercy for humankind
0:01:13 and then indeed in fact allah mentions
0:01:16 in chapter number three verse 159
0:01:31 that if you are harsh hearted with them
0:01:33 they would have fleed
0:01:34 from from aside you in other words
0:01:36 really
0:01:37 that if you're talking about a harsh
0:01:39 character
0:01:40 harsh characters like that unmerciful
0:01:43 characters like that they don't act
0:01:46 uh as magnets for the people they will
0:01:49 be repelling the people away from them
0:01:50 rather than bringing them close to them
0:01:52 and so allah is saying if you are
0:01:54 harshhearted with them they would have
0:01:55 been
0:01:56 dispersing from around you which which
0:01:59 in fact is a very rational argument in
0:02:01 addition to this argument
0:02:03 which the quran mentions there's
0:02:05 actually the life of the prophet
0:02:06 muhammad
0:02:08 itself and we could mention the
0:02:11 situation of
0:02:14 when he went to if but that would
0:02:16 require a video on its own right today
0:02:18 insha'allah
0:02:19 i just wanted to focus on one primary
0:02:22 example which is fat mecca which is the
0:02:25 conquest of mecca
0:02:27 the reason why i wanted to focus on this
0:02:29 example in the seerah of the prophet
0:02:30 muhammad
0:02:33 is because this is a position where the
0:02:35 prophet muhammad was
0:02:36 in in a position of power
0:02:40 you know it's not a test for people to
0:02:41 be um
0:02:43 merciful when they're weak because when
0:02:46 you are weak
0:02:48 you could you are forced to be humble
0:02:51 when you are weak you are forced to be
0:02:53 humble because sometimes you have no
0:02:55 other choice
0:02:56 but when you are in a position of power
0:02:59 that is where the real test is
0:03:02 likewise for example a poor person
0:03:04 cannot be tested in the same way
0:03:06 with wealth as a rich person will be and
0:03:08 so
0:03:09 the more power authority you have the
0:03:12 more responsibility you have and that's
0:03:14 a very well known principle that is the
0:03:16 reason why we've chosen fat hameko the
0:03:18 conquest of mecca as the primary example
0:03:20 today
0:03:21 now the conquest of mecca occurred when
0:03:24 the prophet and the companions
0:03:26 they went into mecca they went into
0:03:30 mecca this place this city
0:03:33 which the chieftains of which were
0:03:35 responsible
0:03:36 for torturing and boycotting the muslims
0:03:39 for
0:03:39 13 long years we know the stories of
0:03:43 bilal
0:03:44 radhiallahu when he was being tortured
0:03:48 and the boulders were being put on him
0:03:50 and he said
0:03:52 one god one god we know the stories of a
0:03:55 story of sumayyah
0:03:57 and when she was killed
0:04:00 was the first mata in islam the first
0:04:02 female mata
0:04:04 and she was killed in front of her son
0:04:06 amar even
0:04:08 and he witnessed his own mother being
0:04:10 killed
0:04:11 we know the stories of the boycott we
0:04:14 know the stories of the attempted
0:04:15 murders
0:04:16 this is what happened in mecca now the
0:04:18 prophet now
0:04:20 and thousands of people coming from
0:04:23 medina
0:04:25 what are they going to do are they going
0:04:26 to come in an exact
0:04:28 revenge we're not talking about just 13
0:04:31 days or 13 weeks or even 13 months
0:04:34 we are talking about 13 long years
0:04:37 of torture of boycott of the hardest
0:04:40 conditions human beings can expect
0:04:43 and now the prophet is coming in
0:04:46 prevalent
0:04:47 and in control what is he going to do
0:04:52 is he going to walk in arrogant pomp
0:04:56 with his chest out like conor mcgregor
0:04:58 with the billionaires walk
0:05:00 into mecca killing and shooting oh
0:05:04 with bows and arrows killing slicing
0:05:06 people up left right and center
0:05:08 and saying you know welcome to my world
0:05:13 or something to that effect is he going
0:05:15 to go in
0:05:16 and pillage and rape as they accuse
0:05:20 muslims and islam of stating you can do
0:05:22 and do this
0:05:23 now the prophet came in humbly in fact
0:05:26 reports say that he
0:05:27 he lowered his head as he was coming in
0:05:32 it was so low that it was actually in
0:05:35 line with the
0:05:36 horse that he was riding here oh first
0:05:39 thing he did
0:05:40 is he demolished the 360
0:05:44 statues that were around the kaaba just
0:05:46 touched them
0:05:47 and they fell on their face and broke
0:05:50 and then he prayed
0:05:52 prayed in gratitude and thankfulness and
0:05:54 praise to the
0:05:55 to the lord almighty and bell even
0:06:01 the person who they were being racist to
0:06:04 and who had now been married to her
0:06:05 living to
0:06:06 alf and he had gone up to the kaaba
0:06:10 and done that then literally physically
0:06:14 on top
0:06:15 of the kaaba the same voice that had
0:06:17 been crying in agony
0:06:31 and this is in hadith he said the same
0:06:35 thing
0:06:35 that joseph said to his brothers as in
0:06:38 the quranic and old testament narrative
0:06:41 that there's no blame on you today
0:06:44 he forgave the people on mass the people
0:06:46 were forgiven
0:06:48 he forgave them even those
0:06:51 who were who killed
0:06:55 the most beloved some one of the most
0:06:56 beloved people to the prophet which was
0:06:58 hamza washi
0:07:03 washi we would later know that even the
0:07:05 prophet he forgave him but he couldn't
0:07:06 bear to see him more
0:07:08 he said to him
0:07:11 and can you
0:07:24 but he forgave him and he forgave the
0:07:26 people and in fact he offered them safe
0:07:28 havens he told them where to go
0:07:32 and this was how the prophet reacted
0:07:35 if he was bloodthirsty war hungry why is
0:07:38 he forgiving the people when he is most
0:07:40 powerful
0:07:43 that's the question of course now
0:07:46 some people are going to use the
0:07:47 exceptions to the rule those who are
0:07:49 assassinated
0:07:51 let's go through them because there are
0:07:52 some people who were assassinated that
0:07:54 day
0:07:57 but most of them had been guilty of
0:08:00 capital crimes
0:08:01 huge crimes war crimes
0:08:05 and yes there were exceptions made for
0:08:07 them
0:08:08 but i tell you what there was no
0:08:10 exceptions that were made for people
0:08:11 that were killed
0:08:12 unjustly for example when khalid who had
0:08:16 just become muslim
0:08:17 and didn't know the rulings of islamists
0:08:19 were as good and he killed some people
0:08:21 unjustly the prophet put his hand up
0:08:23 and this shows you in hyperbolized
0:08:26 fashion
0:08:27 to what extent the prophet was against
0:08:30 the killing of non-combatant innocent
0:08:31 civilians
0:08:32 put his hands up and he said
0:08:36 i am lama innibarium
0:08:52 which kind of actions are we talking
0:08:53 about we're talking about killing women
0:08:55 and children
0:08:56 we're talking sorry killing people uh
0:08:58 that were
0:09:00 uh to be forgiven this kind of action is
0:09:04 condemnable by the prophet and he wanted
0:09:06 to make clear
0:09:07 that that was not his policy that was
0:09:10 not his policy
0:09:12 there were people however who had been
0:09:15 there were some people who had been
0:09:18 exceptionalized
0:09:19 from the general rule and it for example
0:09:22 abdullah ibn abi but
0:09:26 abdullah ibn abi by the way most of us
0:09:29 had these many of them
0:09:30 are weak if you go and see his story and
0:09:33 stuff like the
0:09:34 the story of the wahi that the right
0:09:35 wingers and orientalists use
0:09:37 most of them are actually weak but
0:09:43 he at first was
0:09:46 to be assassinated but then he was
0:09:48 forgiven because he became muslim
0:09:50 and was there only muslims that were
0:09:51 forgiven no for example
0:09:55 you have tana and sarah the two girls
0:09:57 that were singing and doing these things
0:10:00 actually sarah was not just singing
0:10:03 you see some people some muslims they
0:10:05 say well this shows you the blasphemy
0:10:06 laws in
0:10:07 action and that's freedom of expression
0:10:09 freedom of speech no
0:10:10 even even as hack he mentions canada
0:10:12 taught the kenneth
0:10:15 she had physical that she was engaged in
0:10:20 physical other
0:10:21 torture of the muslims in mecca and the
0:10:24 prophet in particular
0:10:26 and had it been just about the poetry
0:10:28 that they recited then
0:10:29 why was one of them because it says hack
0:10:32 one of them was spared
0:10:37 so clearly now we don't know much about
0:10:39 why the other one wasn't
0:10:41 but what we do know is that she was
0:10:42 involved in war crimes what we do know
0:10:44 is that she was involved in torture
0:10:46 what we do know is that she did not do
0:10:49 what the others did
0:10:50 in compliance and unfortunately she
0:10:53 couldn't make our life
0:10:56 however
0:10:59 he was spared actually even though
0:11:02 originally he was on the
0:11:04 list to be assassinated he was actually
0:11:07 eventually spared
0:11:10 actually even though that happened
0:11:14 this man this muslim this criminal
0:11:17 he actually tried to kill
0:11:21 the baby that was in the in the in the
0:11:24 in the belly of
0:11:25 um who was one of the daughters of the
0:11:28 prophet her and
0:11:29 fatima they were on the
0:11:32 riding beast and he tried to attack
0:11:35 these women
0:11:36 and one one of them has a miscarriage
0:11:39 when ali never tala found about that
0:11:41 he went and got his justice and he
0:11:44 executed that man
0:11:45 killed him yes this guy is now going for
0:11:49 women
0:11:50 and not just any women the daughters of
0:11:52 the prophet and the wife of ali
0:11:54 he got ali dealt with him accordingly
0:11:59 then you have no suburban
0:12:04 and he actually killed somebody a
0:12:05 capsule prime kata ansari
0:12:07 on sareen he killed an ansari so
0:12:11 he was killed
0:12:15 and he went to yemen and eventually
0:12:19 he became muslim
0:12:23 and you have some uh weak narrations
0:12:27 by the way on these assassination points
0:12:29 like of um
0:12:31 very weak the whole story is fake by the
0:12:33 way most of these stories that these
0:12:35 orientalists get are fake so this shows
0:12:38 you that
0:12:39 actually all of those who were on the
0:12:40 list most of them were actually spared
0:12:42 anyway
0:12:43 for those who had to be assassinated
0:12:44 from the exempted list
0:12:47 and even those who were not spared they
0:12:49 had
0:12:50 done some serious war crimes some
0:12:53 serious war crimes
0:12:54 and so the point of the matter is this
0:12:57 if the prophet was so
0:12:59 uh was it merciless
0:13:02 malevolent if he was
0:13:06 diabolical in this way why is he
0:13:08 forgiving the people on mass
0:13:09 why is he forgiving people that killed
0:13:11 his own family members
0:13:13 why is he going in and acting so humbly
0:13:16 why is he disassociating from the people
0:13:19 who did
0:13:20 who did kill people that should have
0:13:22 been forgiven
0:13:23 why is he making hyperbolizing his
0:13:25 action why is he
0:13:27 continuously as narrated in the reports
0:13:29 telling people not to kill women and
0:13:31 children
0:13:31 and to remain calm why why why the
0:13:34 reason why is because the narrative of
0:13:36 him
0:13:36 being a harsh man being a man that
0:13:39 cannot control himself in a war hungry
0:13:41 man
0:13:42 that's a false narrative and that's a
0:13:43 narrative that cannot be sustained
0:13:45 and that's a narrative that was
0:13:46 falsified by the life of the prophet
0:13:48 muhammad not only that
0:13:50 but those who followed him when he went
0:13:53 into
0:13:54 jerusalem and unlike what we're seeing
0:13:56 today with those muslims in
0:13:59 east jerusalem killing the people and
0:14:01 humiliating them trying to harm them
0:14:02 with no good reason he forgave them and
0:14:05 he allowed the christians and the
0:14:06 muslims and the jews
0:14:07 to work to live together
0:14:10 not only that but very famously despite
0:14:14 the fact that when the crusaders came in
0:14:16 and when they killed the muslim they
0:14:17 killed them so much so that the blood
0:14:19 had been
0:14:20 to the knees of the people he killed one
0:14:22 men women and children
0:14:23 but we're not sallah you'll be liberated
0:14:25 in jerusalem as it will be
0:14:26 insha'allah liberated again when zlatan
0:14:30 came in he spared the people
0:14:32 citing the sp the sparing and the
0:14:33 forgiving of the prophet muhammad
0:14:35 sallallahu alaihi sallam as his
0:14:36 inspiration
0:14:40 so don't come with this don't pretend
0:14:44 yeah don't pretend that the prophet was
0:14:47 this man that you want him to be he was
0:14:50 the most
0:14:50 merciful man the most forgiving man
0:14:54 but also the strongest man
0:14:57 both mind and body that ever lived in
0:14:59 estonia was alive