Mustafa Khattab – The Sahaba 4 4
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The speaker discusses the effort of the Great Sahaba to convey Islam to the Muslim population, citing the numbers of people who lost their lives due to the evil actions of the Sahaba. They also mention the struggles of the Great Sahaba, including the extensive sacrifices they made to convey the message of Islam and the thousands of miles they traveled to convey the message. The speaker concludes by reminding the audience to focus on their actions and manners to be a Muslim.
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Sha'ala
is the 4th
part of our discussion about the sahabah and
the greatness of the sahabah
Whether you are from Palestine,
from India,
Morocco,
Egypt,
Turkey, it is because of the Sahaba that
you are now Muslim, because it was the
Sahaba who conveyed the message of the Prophet
It is because of the efforts
of the great Sahaba of the Prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam that the hadith were collected, the
sunnah of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam is
reported to us in our time.
It is because of the great endeavors of
the Sahaba of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
that we have the Qur'an in its pure
and pristine form as it was revealed.
So the Sahaba, they sacrificed their money, they
sacrificed their lives to protect the Prophet
and to spread the message of Islam.
They traveled 1,000 of miles. Imagine the Sahaba
traveling from Mecca or Medina all the way
to Spain,
or to the borders of Istanbul and Turkey,
or to India, to Persia,
to Africa, and other places to convey Islam
in the same form that was revealed to
the prophet Sasa.
Some of them lost their lives,
they lost their money,
and they made a lot of sacrifices. In
one just one battle, as reported in the
books of,
Madinah,
and their shoes were torn,
and they lost their nails, their fingernails
because of the rope, the stones, and it
was so sharp and the distance was so
long, they have to tie clothes around their
feet to protect it, and they were bleeding
all the way.
That is not to gain money
or to become presidents and leaders in some
places or to become famous, you see, they
become celebrity, they didn't do this for them.
They did it to convey the message of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to the people.
So I'm saying basically that the Sahaba didn't
force anyone to accept Islam.
And as a proof for this, the historians
say that it took Egyptians, for example, 300
years
after the opening of Egypt by Muslims to
accept Islam,
totally.
Because they were accepting Islam individually and in
groups, and 300 years Islam became a Muslim
country after the entering of the Muslim army.
If Muslims were forcing people, or if the
Sahaba were forcing people to accept Islam,
Egyptians could have been Muslim in in 5
minutes,
you know.
The second reason is, if Sahaba were forcing
people to accept Islam, how come that till
this day, there are at least 25,000,000 Christians
living in Muslim countries? In Egypt, in Jordan,
in Lebanon, and in other places.
The third reason is,
the Muslim Country, 57 countries
to be exact,
throughout the past 1400 years, they were occupied
almost by everyone.
The fresh came and they stayed for 100
of years, in Algeria, Morocco,
in Lad Shem, and also the English, they
came, they stayed in Egypt, in India, in
other places,
and the Italians, they occupied Libya for a
very long time. So if Muslims were forced
to accept Islam, how come that they didn't
leave Islam
when they were ruled by the Christians,
from France and from
Italy and from,
and from the UK? So this is another
reason.
So I conclude with these questions. Okay. Now
we spoke about the efforts of the great
Sahaba,
and the hardships
they have been through, and all these sacrifices
they made in terms of their lives, in
terms of their money or families.
So what about you today?
When you think of all these sacrifices and
all these iffas,
and now imagine you are sitting at home,
doing nothing or walking around aimlessly like a
zombie, I'm not talking about everyone, I'm talking
about a couple of guys.
And you don't pray on time.
Is this how you compensate
the Sahaba for all the great difference they
did,
and all the sacrifices they made, and all
the thousands of miles they traveled to convey
the message of Islam, you don't pray on
time?
Is it okay
if you are an Arab for example, and
you don't even know how to recite Quran
properly,
and we sit in the Tajweed Halakhah in
the morning and we see the brothers from
Somalia and from Ethiopia and other places, they
recite beautifully
with all the Tajweed Jews and everything.
So you have to push yourself a little
bit harder
to to be in that position, to be
the khalifa of the sahaba of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Do your kids pray?
Or are they now in their twenties, and
they they don't know even Fatiha, and they
don't know how to pray? Is this how
you pay the Sahaba for all their efforts
and all their sacrifices?
Do you convey the message of Islam? I'm
not telling you to take a mic and
go to a church on the square and
start giving to people.
I'm asking about at least dua by your
actions, by your manners and aflav.
Do you do this? Oh, you do like
the guy?
Are you conveying the message of the Sahaba
purely and sincerely for the sake of Allah,
or are you just like a guy that
would told me about a few years back,
one of the brothers who was in the
masjid, the volunteers,
he said he was leaving the masjid,
and he found a Muslim brother talking to
a non Muslim lady in, you know, in
the parking lot in the back, and when
they saw him, the lady started to run
away, and the brother was confused and he
said, what are you doing here? He said,
I'm
I'm showing her the light, I'm I'm giving
her dua. So the brother said, why do
you show her the light in the dark?
Okay? You should go to the masjid, talk
to the imam and and make dua to
her the right way. So make dua to
the people by your manners. Talking is no
good, you have to show people what it
means to be a Muslim, by your manners,
by your aflab. And we'll continue inshaAllah in
the future, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to forgive our sins and fix and fix
our evil deeds.