Abdul Rahman Chao – Jumuah 05-7-2024
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When the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam visited Ta'if,
he met with
3 brothers.
Abdul Yalil, Wamasarud
and Habib.
And the prophet went to Taif because his
mother's side is from Taif.
And so he was hoping that with the
rejection of
that the rejection that he faced from the
Meccans.
That he could possibly find
some success from his mother's side.
From the people
in Taif.
From the people of Taqif.
So when he approached these 3 brothers,
he asked them He
started inviting them to Islam and he requested
that they keep this conversation
private.
So the first brother said,
after he heard the message of Islam.
He said,
if Allah sent you,
if it is true that Allah has sent
you,
then I shall go and tear
the cloth of the Kaaba.
To express his outrage
and disrespect to the Prophet
The second brother said,
Allah couldn't find anyone else to send as
a prophet other than you.
And the third brother said,
la ukallimak.
I shall not speak to you.
Because if you are a prophet,
then who am I
to give a response to a prophet?
And if you are a liar,
then I don't need to respond to a
liar.
The prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam left their
gathering
and these 3 brothers immediately
started telling everyone in the town.
Here is a prophet come after him and
start attacking him, stoning him, chasing him, abusing
him.
They totally disregarded the request of the prophet
As the
prophet was being hit, he entered
a grape
orchard,
and it was owned by
2 of the most
or they were the 2 biggest enemies of
Islam.
Utba and Shaiba.
2 brothers. And they happened to be in
their farm at that moment. And they saw
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam wounded, injured,
being chased.
They felt sorry for him even though they
hated Islam.
So they sent their servant
Adas.
They said
bring him some dates so that he can
relax and calm down etcetera.
So when Adas who was
a Christian, he was a Syrian.
He brought the date to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam grabbed the date
and he said,
Bismillah.
So Adas was shocked and surprised.
He said, you say Bismillah?
The prophet said, yes. He says, no I've
never heard anyone around here say Bismillah.
So the prophet immediately understood that Adas was
not actually from 5. So he said, and
where are you from?
He said, I am from Nainoa
from Iraq, from Northern Iraq,
Nineveh.
He was an Assyrian Christian.
He said,
you know They know what? He said, yes
that's from where prophet Yunus is from. He
said, you know prophet Yunus?
He
says, nobody around here knows who prophet Yunus
is. He says, I know who prophet Yunus
is. He was a prophet and I am
also a prophet of Allah.
From the vast
life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
why are we focusing
on this conversation between the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and Adas?
Because what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did
beautifully in this example.
Is that he showed Adas
the historical
connection
and the legitimacy of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
by connecting to 1 of the prophets of
the past.
And brothers and sisters last week we had
spoken
in-depth
about how
our identity, the foundation of our identity
is governed by Al Ubudhi Illillah.
The worship of Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala. Understanding
that you are a slave of Allah.
Today we want to talk about
1 of those things
that strengthens
your identity,
your worship and your connection to Islam.
And that is what the prophet SAWAYAM did
here.
And that is
by connecting
Islam and Muslims.
Teaching them
to connect it to
all of the prophets and the messengers from
the past.
All of the righteous people from the present
and the past. All of the people from
the
time
of
Adam
all the way to
today and into the future.
So brothers and sisters,
you look at what is going on in
Palestine today.
There is an active
campaign
by the enemies of Islam.
To erase
Muslims
and their historical connection
to the land of Al Quds.
Why?
Because when you cut off
a group of people from their history,
you are cutting off a part of their
identity.
So when you say,
when you hear, excuse me, when you hear
the argument that oh, Philistine once upon a
time was just an open barren land. There
was nothing there. It was just a few
Bedouin
Bedouins
living in the middle of nowhere.
And that
this new fake country
brought
civilization to it like none other.
I'm not here to address that.
I'm here to address
the employment
and the twisting of history
to craft a narrative.
And ironically,
the enemies of Islam
love to invoke history.
They want to talk about how
God gave it to them
1000 of years ago.
And that their historical
claim lives until today.
But our historical claim
means nothing.
And that is why brothers and sisters,
it is so important
to understand
the history of Islam.
The history of the prophets. The history of
the messengers.
The history
and the Seerah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And all of the companions of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Because when
you don't know your history,
you're leaving it up for interpretation. You're leaving
it up for someone else to come
and twist it and to delegitimize
it.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
tells us how we are connected
in our belief
in a historical way to the prophets and
messengers of the past.
Allah says in the Quran,
We have not sent before you, oh Muhammad,
From amongst the messengers
except that we reveal to him what?
That there is no God worthy of worship.
That there is no God worthy of worship
except me, I mean Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So worship him.
So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is revealing
this Quran to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam filled
with stories from Adam
and Kabil and Habil, the 2 sons. Talking
about Nuh, talking about Samud,
talking about
Ad,
talking about Ibrahim,
and all the prophets. It's not for the
sake of like Sunday school style. Just talk
about some stories.
It's to connect
the prophet shalom.
To give him emotional support. To lend legitimacy
to the prophet shalom's message. That your message
is not a new thing.
It is a continuation
of the message of La ilaha illallah.
Yes. The laws
for different prophets and messengers differ. But the
essence of the message is that there's no
God worthy of worship except Allah.
And so that's why brothers and sisters, when
you look at your daily salah, Allah reminds
us about history.
In Suratul Fatiha,
what does Allah say? What does Allah tell
us to say?
Guide us to the straight path.
The path
that you have bestowed
your favor upon those.
Upon them. Who's them?
Alayhim
manhum. Who are they?
The previous prophets. The previous messengers. The previous
believers. The righteous people.
And that is why brothers and sisters
1 of the key themes
that orientalists
and those who are who who don't like
Islam in the academic world. What do they
love to attack?
They love attacking the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. They love delegitimizing
the hadith.
They'll say well hadith is made up. Hadith
is something that Muslims came up with later
on and they attributed to the prophet salallam.
The they won't attack the Quran,
but they'll attack the sunnah. The same companions
who brought you the Quran are the same
companions who brought you the Sunnah.
But why are they delegitimizing the Sunnah Allah
Subha SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? Because when they delegitimize
the history of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
we become an Ummah
stripped away
from context.
Stripped away from the what the prophet did.
And that is why brothers and sisters
learn the Seerah. Learn the history of the
prophets and the messengers
of the past. Because when you learn their
stories,
it will connect you with what you are
undergoing.
It will make you realize that you are
not just part of the Ummah of Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam, but you are part
of the Ummah of the believers, of the
mumineen
of the previous generations.
From the very beginning when prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam received the message of the Quran
from Jibril.
And Khadija took Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
to Warakah bin Nofal, a Christian. 1 of
her relatives.
What did he say to him? He connected.
He wanted Muhammad SAW to understand that you
are connected to a previous prophet. What did
he say?
That angel that came to you
is the same angel that came to Musa
alaihi salatu salam.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
took Muhammad
to Al Quds,
to Masjid Al Aqsa.
It wasn't just for a trip.
It was to connect Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam to all the previous prophets. That's why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala had Muhammad SAWAYAM lead
the prophets in prayer.
That's why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala raised them
up to the heavens and he met all
those different prophets and he saw
them. Why?
To connect him
to the message
of La ilaha illallah. That's why Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam had this back and forth conversation
with Musa Alaihi Salat wa Salam during the
establishment of Salah.
Brothers and sisters,
I want to close off
with an emotional story from the life of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and that is
when his uncle
Abu Talib
took care of him from the age of
8
all the way until Muhammad SAWS was 50.
I want you to think.
42 years,
Abu Talib shielded Muhammad
from persecution,
from harm,
from what the Quraysh wanted to do to
him. And on his deathbed, Abu Jahl was
right near
Abu Talib like a Shaipan.
And there were others as well.
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was on the other side
telling him to say
And another narration,
And in another narration, Asfa'alaka.
Oh my uncle,
A sentence
that I can intercede for you on the
day of judgement to Allah. That I can
bear witness for you on the day of
judgement to Allah.
What did what did what did these,
these, Abalis and these Shaathim and Abuja Hallandam,
what were they doing? They were invoking
history
to sway him from the truth.
And this is what we want you to
learn.
But not all history is to be taken
but the history that leads you to the
truth. Because what did they say?
Are you turning away? Are you rejecting
the religion of your father Abdul Muttalib? In
other words,
the forefathers and all of them before that.
And it's the same tune that they would
sing to
the entire time.
And that is
Islam came and Muhammad wasallam is rejecting the
traditions, the history, the the precedent of all
of his forefathers.
And the prophet
kept saying, Sayla Ilahiallahu.
And
towards the end, at the very end, Abu
Talib
still
decided
that he was
on the wrong side of history.
And so that is why brothers and sisters
be on the right side of history.
The right side of history is
La ilaha illallah.
Since the time Adam alayhis salaam came to
this earth, that is the right side of
history. Because when you're on the side of
La ilaha illallah, that is the key to
paradise.