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In every generation, there are people who have
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to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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We have hundreds of thousands of our brothers
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and sisters today in Gaza, who are making
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that sacrifice, whose lives are being taken from
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them, who are being killed and murdered and
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massacred.
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But this is not a new tradition.
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This story is as old as the ummah
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itself.
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And inshallah, in this series, we're going to
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be talking about the marchers from the time
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and the life of the Prophet ﷺ as
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a source of comfort and inspiration.
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One of the most beloved people in the
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entire world to the Prophet ﷺ personally was
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Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib r.a. Hamza r
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.a. had a very fascinating relationship with the
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Prophet ﷺ.
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First of all, Hamza r.a. was technically
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the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ.
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Hamza r.a. was the brother of the
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father of the Prophet ﷺ.
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Number two, Hamza r.a. whose mother was
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the first cousin of the mother of the
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Prophet ﷺ.
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So they were second cousins through their mothers.
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Thirdly, Hamza r.a. was only two years
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older than the Prophet ﷺ.
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And because of that, they had been nursed
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by the same nanny.
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And so they were actually foster brothers, rada
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'i brothers.
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And being only two years apart growing up,
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their relationship was definitely of that of brothers.
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Hamza r.a. was the big brother the
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Prophet ﷺ never had.
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And he always looked after him, looked out
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for him, always had his arm around his
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shoulder.
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And so he was very extremely beloved to
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the Prophet ﷺ.
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Even the story of how Hamza r.a.
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becomes Muslim is very interesting.
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I won't go into all the details here,
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but Hamza r.a. became Muslim in a
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moment where he was defending the honor of
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the Prophet ﷺ.
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He came back from one of his legendary
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hunting trips.
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And someone told him that Abu Jahl had
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disrespected the Prophet ﷺ publicly.
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So he went into the Ka'bah, the
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Masjid al-Haram near the Ka'bah.
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And he hit Abu Jahl on the head
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and stood up to all the people there.
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And he said, you people keep disrespecting Muhammad
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ﷺ while I believe in him.
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And I accept his message.
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And so even the moment in which he
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accepts Islam, and then he had a follow
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-up conversation with the Prophet ﷺ.
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But I wanted to mention very specifically that
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it was in a moment where he was
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offended on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ.
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And he was defending the Prophet ﷺ.
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Hamza r.a. was the very first flag
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that was ever carried by a soldier of
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Islam in the way of Allah in jihad
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was Hamza r.a. That it was the
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very first flag the Prophet ﷺ ever gave
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to anyone for the battlefield was he gave
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it to Hamza r.a. On the day
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of Badr, on the day of Uhud, Hamza
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r.a. fought valiantly in the battlefield.
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And the narration mentions he would fight with
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two swords.
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He was ambidextrous.
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He would have a sword in each hand.
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And he was like a human buzzsaw.
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He would tear through the enemy.
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On the day of Uhud, the day that
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Hamza r.a. would be martyred, where he
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would give his life for Allah.
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Before he fell, he had taken out 31
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people from the enemy side.
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That is how courageous and valiant he was.
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And when that moment finally came, the day
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of Uhud, in the month of Shawwal, in
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the third year of Hijrah, when Hamza r
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.a. was 57 years old, his life was
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taken and he fell in the battlefield of
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Uhud.
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And it was one of the most painful
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days of the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
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You know, whenever we hear about people dying,
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people being killed, like our brothers and sisters
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in Gaza and beyond, it's very important to
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remember that this was someone's mother, someone's father,
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someone's brother, someone's sister, someone's son, someone's daughter,
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someone's uncle, someone's nephew, niece, aunt, etc.
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It's very important to remember that.
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Because the brother, the cousin, the nephew, the
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best friend of Hamza r.a. who is
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none other than Muhammad Rasulullah ﷺ.
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And he grieved that day.
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He said, لن أصاب بمثلك أبدا ما وقفت
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موقفا قدت أغيض إلي من هذه The Prophet
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ﷺ, he said that, I will never be
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tested with anything greater than the loss of
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you, O Hamza.
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And the Prophet ﷺ said that, I have
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never stood at a place that is more
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disliked to me, أغيض إلي من هذا that
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is more disliked to me than this place
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where I'm standing.
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When he was standing over the dead body,
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the mutilated body of Hamza r.a. He
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said, this is the toughest moment of my
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life.
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The Prophet ﷺ said that Jibreel, the Archangel
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Jibreel, he came to me to comfort me.
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And he said, مكتوب في أهل السماوات السبع
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It is inscribed upon the heavens.
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حمزة بن عبد المطلب أسد الله وأسد رسوله
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That Hamza is the Lion of God.
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And he is the Lion of the Messenger
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of God.
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The Prophet ﷺ, when he stood at the
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grave of Hamza r.a, he said, رحمك
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الله May God have mercy upon you.
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أي عمي My dear beloved uncle.
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فَلَقَدَ كُنتَ وَصُولًا لِلْرَّحْمِ You were good to
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me.
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You were always good to your family.
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You were good to me.
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فَعُولًا لِلْخَيْرَاتِ And you led by example.
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You always did good.
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Even when they reached back to Medina, and
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more than 70 Muslims had fallen on the
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day of Uhud.
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And there were this, you could hear the
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sounds of crying.
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Every home was mourning.
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The Prophet ﷺ became very sad.
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And he said, لَكِنْ حَمْزَةٌ لَا بَوَاكِيَ لَهُ
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But Hamza, my Hamza, no one cries for
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him today.
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And this was a very heavy loss on
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the Prophet ﷺ.
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Somewhat so that the Prophet ﷺ, for the
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rest of his life, he had a regular
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practice of going there to Uhud.
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And where Hamza was buried.
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And to remember Hamza.
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Even the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ, Fatima
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رضي الله تعالى عنها Every week, she would
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go to Uhud to pay her respects to
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Hamza رضي الله تعالى عنه.
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And this was the pain of the Prophet
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ﷺ at the loss of someone so near
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and so dear to him.
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But he was comforted by the fact that
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they would be reunited in Paradise.
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The Prophet ﷺ He will be the leader
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of all the martyrs in Paradise.
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We pray that all of the Muslims who
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have been martyred, who have been killed, may
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Allah ﷻ reunite them with their loved ones
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in Jannat al-Firdaws al-'Ala.
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Ameen, Ya Rabb al-'Alami.
