Abdullah Hakim Quick – Fiqh-Us-Seerah 04

			Bismillah R Rahman Al Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala hartsville and
BIA will mousseline Seder Muhammad Valley. He was off the edge of mine were bad. My beloved brothers
and sisters, I begin with the greeting words of the righteous. Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah.
		

			Alhamdulillah. We are again blessed to be involved in the study of ficou Sierra.
		

			And this is a story unlike any other story.
		

			Because the story of people, every story has something special about it. And Allah subhanaw taala
has created all of the sons and daughters of Adam alayhis salaam in a special way.
		

			However, the story of the Prophet Mohammed bin Abdullah alayhi salaatu wa Salaam is a special story
in the sense that Allah subhana wa Taala
		

			specially chose this man, as a human being, to be the source of the revelation, that through this
man, Allah subhanaw taala would bring in His revelation, a revelation that would continue until the
Day of Resurrection.
		

			Within this revelation, there would be spiritual blessings, spiritual teachings, also politics,
economics, history, social life, all aspects of human existence, are covered within the life of the
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. And so when we study a Sierra, when we study his
biography, we are not just reading a story.
		

			We are looking at this biography for hikma to gain wisdom, to be able to put things in the proper
perspective that we within our own lives would be inshallah, following the example of the properties
of this allow us what on Hassan we would try to follow this example.
		

			And we would try to be as close as we can, to the Sunnah, and to the way of our beloved messenger,
peace and blessings be upon him.
		

			And when we look at the Sierra, and we see how Allah subhanaw taala manifested his power, divine
power, and the divine change the cause of
		

			the destiny that came over the earth, still lasting up until today. It strengthens our Eman.
		

			It helps us to build taqwa. It helps us to recognize the closeness that Allah subhanaw taala is to
all of us, and the power that Allah has over history. Because the same angels came in support of the
Prophet peace be upon him, are still available today.
		

			Allah is still alive, you will never die.
		

			And we have to look at this. And it's so important for us to reflect upon this, especially in the
times that we are living in when it seems as though the whole world is ganging up against Muslims.
		

			And so this information
		

			is not just factual information for knowledge sake, but it is information for our lives. It is
information for direction,
		

			and how to choose the right from the wrong and we know looking at the life of the Prophet peace be
upon him, that Islam began to spread in his time. And then after his time, in a way that no other
religion has ever spread before,
		

			that no other prophets, even the prophets of monotheism ever saw success in the way he saw success.
		

			He changed the face of the earth.
		

			This way of life, conquered environments, it traveled through cultures, without the use of modern
technology.
		

			And so there is something just in the nature of what happened with early Islam, in the foundation
roots of Islam, there is wisdom in this for us. But in order for us to completely grasp the full
morges miracle of the life of the prophets, Allah selam we need to understand something about the
background.
		

			What was the world like in the time of the prophets Allah Salah?
		

			What were the powers in the world at that time?
		

			Why did Allah subhanaw taala choose the Arabian Peninsula? What is special about the Arabian
Peninsula? What is special about a lovettsville abbia What is special about the Arabic language
		

			What is special about the Arabs? in all of this is wisdom, because Allah divinely chose these
people, not that they would be followers of the Prophet peace be upon them for themselves. But as he
had described in one of his Hadith, near the end of the Hadith, he said, a Prophet would be sent to
his people, but I have been sent to all of humanity and the jinn.
		

			So he was sent not only to the Arabs, but he was sent to the non Arabs.
		

			We also recognize that the message of tawheed that the province of Southern brought was not a new
message. And Allah told us well up at bath nuff equally oma Rasulullah Ania Buddha law, which Teddy
Britta hood, and we have sent to every nation a messenger, that they would worship Allah, and stay
away from false gods. And so we need to understand the great powers in the world. And what was the
environment like when the Islamic message in its final form, took shape. And so when we look at the
world, we see that of the great powers of the world, probably the greatest single power, aggressive
power at that time, was the power in Christendom in Christianity.
		

			And when we speak of Christendom, we are speaking of the Roman Empire. Now we know the Roman Empire
to be that empire that was based in the city of Rome, in Italy. But when we are speaking about the
Roman Empire, there are two phases. There is the Roman Empire in Italy. And then there is the
Byzantine Roman Empire, now known as the Orthodox Romans, or the Greek Orthodox, that was based in
Constantinople, which is now Istanbul.
		

			And so they were probably the greatest single aggressive power on the face of the earth at this
time, and it's important for us to understand,
		

			to a certain extent, what was happening within Christianity, because it had remnants of the last
messenger, last major messenger. Isa Elisa Lam, who came before the time of the Prophet Muhammad
Salah Sunday.
		

			What we understand about the the the prophethood, of Isa Alayhi Salaam, is that
		

			his mission really began somewhere around his 30th year.
		

			And according to the scholars, it didn't really last more than three years. And after he was raised,
after he was taken up to Allah subhanaw taala, in a state of life, he left a small group of howdy
Jean, apostles, or disciples, and a small following. And his followers who are basically Jewish
people, and this is important for us to understand, because we say Christians, meaning the followers
of Christ, but actually the word Christ, or Christos is a Greek word, and it was not being used in
the time of Esau Leyzaola. They were Jewish people who were the Jews of Nazareth. And so they are
called an English nazarenes. We say an Arabic nesara nasrani.
		

			They were actually Jewish people who came from this village of Nazareth. And from what we
understand, his disciples, for the most part, were true to the message. But from amongst his
followers, there appeared a man whose name was Saul. And when he saw he claimed to have seen a Salah
Salaam on a Damascus Road, he changed his name to Paul. And he visited the Holiday Inn, and they
rejected him.
		

			Now, according to many historians, they rejected him, not only because he was a torturer of
Nazareth, but because he brought a new way of looking at the message. He wasn't firm in his tawheed
he opened up the doors for other beliefs for other ways of life. And so he was rejected by the naza
Marines. And he followed or he traveled with one of his companions and early classmates was one of
the disciples and his name was Barnabas. So Barnabas, and Paul left the area of Palestine and Syria
and went to the island of Cyprus. Later Paul went into Greece. But history records that Barnabas
left Paul.
		

			And so Barnabas Rahim Allah, He saw something wrong in the teachings of Paul housel.
		

			But now the church that represents the teachings of Isa lay Salaam that we know as Christianity is
really more the church of Paul than it is the Church of Christ. And when you see that people
speaking about the Trinity, and about the divinity of Christ, and about the original sin, you will
recognize that they are usually quoting Paul, they are not quoting from Jesus peace be upon him
himself. And so this new interpretation that rose up in Greece, when the teachings went into Greece,
and some of the early Christians, followers of Christ, were trying to give the message was based on
a number of practical decisions.
		

			One of the decisions was the fact that they were being tortured and slaughtered.
		

			And the Romans would have
		

			coliseums. And they would torture the Christians and the coliseums, in the same way that we go to
see the rugby games. Or in America, they go to the football game or the hockey game, and they watch
the player destroy the other player. The Romans used to go out to the Colosseum, and they used to
watch wild beasts, destroy Christians. And so there's an old saying, they say, if you can't beat
them, join them.
		

			And so they use this basic logic. And the fact that the DD the teachings of the Greeks and the
Romans was so embedded in their mentality, it was hard for them to accept the belief in one God, the
Greeks and the Romans had a multiplicity of gods, they had sun gods, they had moon gods, they had
goddesses of love, Venus, they had a god for the ocean, Neptune, they had Cupid who would shoot his
arrows, especially on Valentine's Day. And Today is February 14 is Valentine's Day. And many Muslims
think that this is something and occasion that we are involved in. But we don't realize it is a
pagan ceremony called the lupercalia, which was practiced by Sun worshipping people who allow their
		

			teenagers to have open sexual relationships on this day, and celebrated the pagan rituals for the
goddess of women and the goddess of sexuality. February data
		

			from which comes the name February.
		

			And so within this pagan belief, was the concept of three gods. It probably began in ancient Egypt,
with Horace, ISIS, and Osiris. It was also found in ancient India, amongst the Hindus, in the Greek
teachings under Plato, in the logical teachings in the philosophy they will go into, they had the
concept of the first cause, the reason, or the logos, and the soul, or the spirit of the universe.
So there was three parts to the Godhead, three parts to the power in the universe, which was the
initial cause, or the first cause, then there was the reason. And then there was the soul or the
spirit of the universe. And so this this concept of Trinity was not a new concept. It already
		

			existed. And so we find, when the Roman Empire was destroyed, and the seasons were destroyed in
Italy, the vandals and the German tribes came and destroyed them. The power of Rome was transferred
to Constantinople,
		

			under the Byzantium.
		

			And one of the key emperors of Rome of Byzantine Rome, was a man named Constantine.
		

			And Constantine who, from after who was named the city, Constantinople, or the city of Constantine,
which was the largest city in the world at the time.
		

			He became Emperor around 312, of the Common Era.
		

			And he mixed up religions he practiced the pagan religion, and Christianity together, he united
them, and he abolished the Sabbath, you know that the Jews have yoma Sabbath, and they were not
allowed to worship and work or they will not allow to work and have sport and play on your Sabbath,
they will only worship, he abolished this, and he changed it to the last day of the week, that we
now know as Sunday, the day of the sun. And so we transferred it to the pagan belief within the Sun
God and His symbol was the cross. Now many Christians when they're in trouble, they make the cross.
They think that the cross represents Jesus Christ, but the original cross was an ancient Egypt.
		

			From ancient Egypt, it traveled to different parts of the world and when it came into Europe, it was
the symbol of eternal life.