Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – Islam Of Omar
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All praise are due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon
our beloved prophet Muhammad,
the master of the first and the last,
and his family, his companions, and all those
who called to his way to the day
of judgment.
To those online, to our brothers and sisters
here, assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.
Alhamdulillah.
This is another
session
in our new Muslim Corner,
and the intention is to provide a space,
for those who are coming into Islam, those
who have been in Islam,
for a short period of time, and those
who want to revive,
their faith.
And that space will look at the foundations
within,
Islam itself
and then also try to look at some
of the,
different unique
characteristics.
And our intention, of course, is to separate,
Islam from culture
because there are so many cultures within the
Muslim world,
but yet the faith is what unites us.
And the basis of that faith,
we have understood, is kalima.
And the kalima, al kalima, this is,
that lailahilullah
Muhammad or Rasulullah,
and that is that there is no god
but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger. So
this is the beginning of the road.
It is the confirmation of the oneness of
Allah
and also the confirmation
of the final,
prophethood.
And the first part we learned
is la ilaha illallah,
and that is,
there's no god but Allah. In Arabic, we
say la.
So la is, nafi.
It is a negation.
And with it, we say la ilaha.
So there is no deity,
nothing worthy of worship. And when we say
ilaha, that's a general term,
which means anything that takes our ultimate fear,
ultimate love,
any,
anything in the universe that we feel is
is the creator
or who has any of the qualities of
Allah.
So in the beginning of our kalama, we
say, la ilaha.
And then the word
comes in,
and that, of course, means
except or but,
and that takes you from the negation. It's
a transition,
particle,
and then Allah comes in. So we say,
ill Allah,
accept Allah. So you have wiped away all
the concepts,
all the false realities
of deities,
and you replace that with
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the confirmation.
Okay? So it's negation,
confirmation.
And this is how this phrase,
has become so powerful
because of its makeup in Arabic.
Now the second part of the kalima,
Muhammad Arasulullah,
it begins with a confirmation.
So we confirm
that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.
And with this
confirmation,
we are actually making a negation.
But Arabic, in some cases, is abbreviated,
and so
we say Muhammad Arasulullah,
meaning that he is the messenger of Allah
and there are no other messengers.
So, therefore,
by making this confirmation,
we are negating any other,
prophet
who comes after the prophet Muhammad,
not before.
Because before, we believe there's over a 124,000
prophets and messengers
who came to every nation and every tribe.
So this is after.
And that means that,
whether that person is a very powerful general
or
they were able to predict certain things,
that's not the prophet we're talking about.
Somebody might say
that,
the the winner of the World Cup
is this particular country,
And that country won, so they say he
is the prophet of
football, of soccer. He's the prophet.
But they don't they mean prophet in the
sense that he's able to make predictions.
When we talk about the messenger of Allah,
we're talking about
contact.
That contact is made,
with the creator and he this person is
carrying a message. So that's totally different
than somebody who may have some sort of
vision
or some intuition
or some wisdom. Because there have been many
wise people,
in the human family
of all races.
But we're talking about inspiration.
So it's not just wisdom, it's inspiration
from the creator.
And it's this part of the kalimah
that we are looking at in more details
so that people can understand
something from the life of the prophet,
to understand what he went through and his
companions,
in order to
be able to fully grasp,
the second part of the kalimah.
And
the people who
went through the changes with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam are known as,
a Sahaba.
And Sahaba,
these are the followers, these are the companions.
In Christianity, they use the word disciple.
So this is a little bit different because
Sahaba is like Suhaba, and Suhaba is
somebody who,
was with the person.
So somebody who experienced things with the person,
a a companion. It's it's a broader term.
And so,
this is an important generation also.
It is through their lives as well,
that we, are able to understand the power
of this message.
And the prophet Muhammad,
once said,
the best people
So the best people are in my generation
and then the one that follows them
and then the one that follows them.
Okay? So these are the best generations,
and it is in this time period
that the revelation came.
So that revelation is still being followed and
used by people all around the world.
And in many cases,
the verses are actually responding
to something that happened
to 1 of the Sahaba.
K. So this is how important that generation
is. Now we reached
the point where
the prophet, peace be upon him, was
teaching the oneness of God.
He was breaking down class differences,
the rich and the poor,
racial differences,
liberation of women,
breaking down many of the negative tribal customs
and especially
to associate partners with Allah.
The Kaaba is there.
It is the house built by Ibrahim,
by Abraham, peace be upon him,
and
it has become
a place of idol worship. Over 360 idols
are in the Kaaba itself.
So
this movement
to bring together
the concepts
of
the power
or the creator,
at Tawhid, we call it, monotheism.
This was a powerful movement
because it challenged not only the spiritual beliefs
of the Quresh,
it also challenged
their economic and political dominance
because this would now make,
their claims
irrelevant.
So because of that,
the prophet and his followers were persecuted.
And this is a reaction that has happened
over time,
especially when
worship comes in. It's one thing if you
say there's there's a creator.
People can believe that. And even the pagan
Quresh believed that there was,
there was Allah.
But when you say
that this creator, we will now worship only
this creator,
we're not gonna worship the idols,
We're not gonna submit to anything else.
So this is where the challenge came in
and the persecution
began to,
intensify.
It intensified on the companions and
even on the prophet himself, even though he
was from,
a noble tribe, Benu Hashim,
and he had the protection,
of of his uncle,
Abu Talib.
Even so,
he was
persecuted, insulted,
intimidated.
And on one occasion,
when his uncle, Hamza
I remember his father, Abdullah, from Benue Hashim,
and then there is Abu Talib, and then
there's, you know, a series of uncles.
So one of his, uncles was named,
Hamza, ibn Abdul Muttalib
of the 10 sons.
And Hamza was known to be a very
powerful person.
He was into hunting
and hand to hand combat,
and he was considered a lion. Even the
word hamster itself is one of the names
of the lion.
And so he lived up to this,
and he he was one of the most,
physically powerful,
people from the Quraish.
And he had loyalty.
He had a good vision, but he was
caught up in
the time of ignorance.
And on one occasion,
when he heard that his
nephew was insulted,
spat upon, and, you know, Phil thrown on
him.
He couldn't take it anymore.
And so he went down to
the main headquarters of the Quraysh,
and
he shouted to the leaders,
how can you do this
to my nephew when I am on his
religion?
So something came over him.
Because he said, I'm on his religion.
So he's challenging them. And, of course, the
the bodyguards and the people there, they rose
up, took their sword, they're ready to attack.
But the leader said no.
Do not attack him because
he's a noble person from Banu Hashim. It's
gonna be a civil war.
So he challenged them.
And after that, when he left,
I guess it dawned on him what he
had done.
He had announced that he was a Muslim.
So he went, to prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him,
and announced his Islam.
This, of course, was a very important,
step for the believers because it's strength now.
Strength has come amongst them.
The other companions
are good people,
have some skills, but not this overriding strength
that Hamza had. So this is,
this is a a a special,
occasion when he embraced Islam.
But they tried to bribe him. They tried
to bribe the prophet. They went to his
his other uncle, Abu Talib.
And,
within the life of the prophet, they even
brought his uncle together.
And then they brought,
the prophet and and and the Quresh said,
we will give you everything.
We will you can marry anybody you want.
You can have the wealth.
We'll even make you the leader of Mecca.
We'll make you the leader.
But just stop teaching this message.
And the prophet said, you can put the
sun in my right hand and the moon
in my left.
I'll never give up.
Never.
So this was frustrating,
for the Quresh,
and
they reached the point where, in an unorganized
fashion, they even wanted to assassinate him.
And Abu Jahl, one of the enemies,
of, Allah,
tried to,
assassinate the prophet Bayrakaba
and Jibril, the angel Jibril came,
himself
and confronted him in in in in the
form of an angry camel,
okay, with a huge face.
And so that this was,
the assassination didn't work.
The message continued.
So this is where we're at,
at this point in time. It's a struggle
that is going on. So this concept of
Muslims being,
from this
major group that oppressed people and they are
taking slaves and they are conquering no. The
Muslims are,
they are weak people in the land.
And they're not even allowed
according to,
the scriptures,
the revelation.
They're not allowed to fight back.
K. So that's a different concept,
than what is being propagated today concerning Islam.
Another important,
individual who came into Islam,
and that is Umar al Khattab, brother illa11.
And Umar,
and this is around the 6th year
of the prophethood.
Now remember in the 5th year, then they're
going out for the migration.
So this is the 6th year.
Okay? There's still 7 years left when they
were in Mecca.
And,
was a person
who was also known for his strength.
Really powerful person,
intelligent,
great leader.
And
the assassination
had reached a climax
for the prophet, peace be upon him, and
he reached the point where he even
made a dua to Allah
to he prayed for Allah to to bless
him with 1 of the 2.
He he he needed,
more strength.
Hamza was not enough.
And Abu Jahl is Amr,
either Abu Jahl or Omar Khattab. So these
2
were maybe the most influential individuals in terms
of
psychological strength, physical strength,
and so the dua is for these people
to enter Islam.
K. So that's the condition of,
weakness
that the Muslims felt at that time.
And
it turns out that Ummah,
on one occasion, he was,
going to the Kaaba. They used to go
down to the Kaaba itself.
And in the area of the Kaaba, of
course, we have our own understanding
of buildings. But some in where in the
area, there was a place
where they sell alcohol.
Okay? Okay. It was a liquor store. It
was a pub.
And so, Omar went there to drink alcohol.
And so he was literally,
drunk, and
his emotions started to take him over.
And he heard more about this message, and
he said, I will kill this this man.
I'm gonna kill him.
So he unsheathed his sword, and he went
toward the area that he thought the prophet
was in.
Okay. So this is serious now. This is
one of the most powerful people
who's about to assassinate the prophet, take everything
in his own hands, and he comes across
his sister.
And when he,
reached his sister, he found out,
that she was a Muslim.
And this angered him. He slapped
her. Blood came out.
He was ashamed at what he had done.
And then he said, okay. What is this
Islam? She said, go wash up.
And so he went and he bathed and
he came back
and then
his sister, along with,
another one of the companions who was hiding
at the time,
they read from Surataha.
This is one of the chapters in the
Quran.
And Ummah then something came over him, and
he embraced Islam.
So this is another miraculous event
that takes place there in Mecca.
And,
Uma then,
went to the prophet, salsal, and just imagine
the situation.
He went to Dar al Hakam, which is
their underground hideout,
and he announced this is Omar
Khattab. Everybody was afraid inside,
but prophet Muhammad, because
of his own courage,
he went to the door, looked out, saw
Omar, and grabbed him by his beard.
One description is he grabbed him by his
beard, pulled him, and said, what is it
you want?
And he said, I came to embrace Islam.
And that, of course,
this was major.
So after this and Umar is an activist.
And you will you will see later on
when you look at his life, he doesn't
just sit around.
He's an organized thinker.
He's an activist.
And so he went forward
and he organized Hamza with Hamza,
that they would go forward
and they would bring the Muslims to the
Kaaba because nobody would pray in the open.
You had to go to a cave
or in the back of your house
or in the middle of the night.
But now
the Muslims march to the Kaaba
with Hamza and Ummah in the front.
Okay. They marched down to the Kaaba itself,
and this was,
a major move. And from that time, he
was known as Al Farooq,
which is the one who separates truth from
falsehood.
So Umar is a personality, one of the
greatest personalities
in the history of Islam.
And this is important for us today, especially
those who are embracing Islam.
Because sometimes if we've made mistakes in our
previous life,
and people make mistakes,
they commit sin. People are now not only
drinking alcohol, they're smoking,
marijuana.
They're doing all types of things.
So this is an individual who turns out
to be one of the great leaders of
Islam
and he begins
in a state of drunkenness.
Okay? And then he becomes a Muslim.
So
the prophet
said, Al Islam.
Islam
wipes away
what came before.
So all of those sins and things that
are wrong
done by the individual are wiped away, and
Omar,
became,
an important Muslim.
So this Islam
strengthened the Ummah. It strengthened,
the Islamic community,
and it is a turning point
in that early period,
for the believers.
So the Quraysh now again, this is back
and forth struggle.
The Quraysh
couldn't take this,
And so
they organized themselves,
and they took suggestions,
and it came out,
okay, maybe what we should do is
boycott.
And that sounds familiar too because what is
being done,
one of the weapons used today
against nations and Muslim nations have suffered,
under this is boycott
or
sanctions.
These are these are terminology
boycott
or sanctions
are being used against the Muslims.
And,
so in this case,
this is the boycott,
and
it takes a different form than today. Because
the boycotts of today,
you will find
nations are cutting off your bank account or
they will not allow supplies to come into
your country,
whatever it is. But this boycott,
although it is not as
large,
it was extremely
effective.
So the boycott was
that Mecca itself,
is a place where there's not a lot
of products.
There's not trees, not agriculture.
They're in Mecca.
They're importing everything.
So the boycott was
that nobody
none of the Quraish, none nobody
within Mecca would do business
with any of the Muslims,
and they would also not do business
with Banu Hashim.
Because, Abdul, because Abu Talib and Banu Hashim,
they were,
supporting the prophet.
So it's a total boycott. Now when they
stop doing business, would you stop talking to
you,
stop associating with you,
then after a while, your goods, your things
are gonna run out,
and nobody's dealing with you at all.
And so,
this boycott,
came about
in the 7th year
after the prophethood began.
Okay? So that's right in the middle of
the Meccan period.
Okay? They even went to the point where
they said no intermarriage,
because marriage would then break down a lot
of the differences.
No marriage. Nothing is allowed.
Okay? And,
so they had to retreat.
In order to,
be able to consolidate,
the Muslims retreated like they would say today,
you circle your wagons.
Okay? So they retreated to a valley
and brought whatever goods and things that they
had with them,
to this valley,
and
they were suffering
very seriously in this valley.
Their goods were running out.
And it reached the point where
it's hard for us to imagine this. Okay.
Now we have a case in Philistine, well,
where we're watching people,
going to
extremes.
So in this case,
it reached a point where
they took their sandals
made from leather
and they boiled the sandals
to make soup
because the only thing that has a type
of animal product in it.
There's nothing growing left in the valley.
And it reached the point where
they were in such serious starvation.
I was really touched the other day when
they showed 1 Palestinian man, Raza Wilhi Adubila,
you know, that he actually
had a a big stone tied to his
stomach.
Okay. Now that might sound
a person would say, like, what is this
based upon?
Okay. It is based upon the fact that
during these sanctions,
prophet Mohammed sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his they
were so hungry, they tied stones
to their stomachs. So in a sense that
it it it lessens the space in your
stomach.
Okay. So you won't feel the cravings.
They had so this Palestinian man, may Allah
help them,
and protect them
and and, you know, break this boycott
and break this, bring a ceasefire.
This was the same thing.
And on one occasion, the prophet was reported,
to be so hungry
that he got up in the middle of
the night
to just walk
because the hunger pains are so heavy.
And he walks outside,
and when he was out there, he turns
and he runs into our Abakar
and he runs into Omar.
They were walking too.
So this is extreme.
This is an extreme situation,
that is happening.
And,
the the boycott then,
it it's it's it's strengthening their faith because
they're not gonna give up,
but it's also having an impact on their
bodies as well.
And so Allah,
was merciful in some of the Quresh because
they did have some business ties
and some relationship.
They finally a few a group got together
and they decided we have to break this
boycott. This is no good.
And they wanted to meet down by the
Kaaba, and the boycott was written on scrolls
and it was hung on the Kaaba itself.
And when these,
disaffected people went to the Kaaba,
they found that the scrolls were being eaten
by termites.
They were literally being destroyed.
And so the boycott,
it ended.
It ended.
But this boycott
had very serious
effect upon the believers.
Okay? So this is one of the major
incidents that happens. Again, this is a different
image
that you get of Islam,
than what may be projected
through the through the orientalism
or the media of Muslims always being the
aggressors.
Okay. This is a different image altogether.
So this is one of the major incidents
coming,
there at that time. And what this led
to
is,
the year of sorrow,
and that is the 10th year,
after the prophethood began.
Abu Talib,
many of the elder people couldn't handle,
this starvation and what was going on, Abu
Talib became very ill, and in the 10th
year, he passed away.
And even though he was,
a good person,
he he he didn't accept Islam.
And even the prophet went to him when
he was on his death bed and said,
just say la ilaha illallah.
Just say it.
And on the day of judgment, I will
be a witness for you.
The Quraysh then came into the deathbed
and said, you can't give up
your your lineage. You're a proud person.
And he didn't say anything.
So, therefore,
we under our understanding is that he didn't
accept Islam. Some reports say that, you know,
as the soul was leaving, his tongue was
was moving.
Whether it was Kalima or not, Allah knows,
best,
but Abu Talib
passed away. This is a year of sorrow.
So this is again another person who was
who had taken care of the prophet, who
had been his
protector for all this period of time,
now leads leaves his life.
The next is that 2 months later, his
wife, Khadija
she also passed away.
This may have been also the effect of
the boycott as well.
It definitely affected, you know, their physical life.
It was her time,
and she passed away.
And this was his wife
who he never had other wives. Again, this
other image of him being a person who
marries all of these women.
This is his he he he never married
anybody else,
while he was married to her,
and,
she was his strength.
So his personal strength,
is is taken away.
His outward protector
is taken away.
And this is Amal Husan. It is the
year of sorrow.
So so this was the grief. This is
overwhelming
grief,
that struck,
our beloved prophet, peace and blessings,
be upon him. But the Muslims
continued to hold on to the kalimah.
They held on to their belief,
and they would not turn around.
And the prophet himself,
was now with this,
you could say, low point.
This could be maybe one of the lowest
points
that the in Mecca itself that he's reached.
It seems like everything is turning against him.
Okay. So in you know, at this point,
he is given direction through revelation
to begin to expand
his horizons.
Expand your horizons.
Okay? So he then
looks south.
He goes south
to a place that's called Ataif.
And those of you who've been in Saudi
Arabia, if you know Arabia,
as you go south, you're actually going up.
And and and this is a strange thing
if you look at maps. It's just like
if you look at a map of Egypt,
and you you think the Nile goes
from north south, but it doesn't.
The Nile flows from south north
because the mountains are in the south.
Ethiopia and Uganda,
in these areas, and so it flows actually
north. So similarly in Arabia based upon,
the land itself,
as you go south towards Yemen,
you're going up.
And if you've driven on that road, I've
been on that road myself,
and you go, through,
Al Baha, Abha,
and this region, Taif,
you go to these areas there, and you're
going mountains, mountains, mountains,
valleys.
You're you're just going up.
And so he reached Taif, and and and
many of the,
people of Arabia today,
during the summer, they will go take their
vacation in Taif
because it's cool and it rains.
So there's grapes growing. It's it's different than
other parts,
of Arabia.
And the tribe there
was known as Banu Thaqif.
Banu Thaqif.
So this is a powerful tribe
that's controlling that area. So if you run
across a person al Thakafi
if a person has al Thakafi,
you know, as their, nickname, as their tribal
name, then they're part of this, Benuzakif.
And
when the prophet, peace be upon him,
traveling,
with,
his servant Zayd,
entered into the area of
Taif,
the leaders came out. And he gave them
Dawah. He thought
that they would be more open minded,
that this would be a chance,
and he taught them the belief in one
god,
but their response was negative response.
And so
they sent out the urchins,
of the town and they stoned the prophet.
They literally
stoned him.
And so he had to now seek refuge
to leave, and it is said that he
was stoned so much
that the blood poured down his leg and
caked up in his sandals.
So think about this now.
And and and this again, this is a
different image than what many people would have,
of, prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Okay. So he is being stoned.
He is being rebuked,
and he sought refuge in an orchard.
And there in this orchard
of, Rabia,
there's grapes there and there's water.
He seeks refuge
and the servant,
of the the farm, area came out. His
name was Adas.
He was not from Benuzaqif,
And he came out,
and
he was ordered to take care of these
people, whoever they are.
So he came out with water,
and he came out with grapes.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
took the grape, he then said, bismillah
in the name of Allah. So
Adas
said this is strange.
Like, why did you say in the name
of Allah?
The Banu Zakif, they don't say that. They
have their own gods.
And the prophet then asked him,
where are you from?
And he said, I'm from Nineveh,
okay, or Nineveh.
This is in Iraq.
Okay? So remember Babylon, Iraq, this is part
of Iraq.
So the prophet, peace be upon him, then
said,
oh, you are from
the area of 1 of my brothers,
prophet Eunice,
peace be upon him, he is one of
my brothers in prophethood.
Okay? So then and then Adas this is
strange to Adas. Now just imagine this individual
now, you know, who's covered, you know, with
blood, who's suffering, but now he's relating to
him
on a human level.
And so when Adas realized this, he said,
you know, Eunice
is your brother?
And so Adas then kissed his hand and
wanted to kiss his feet
realizing that this is a true messenger.
And so this is the dua that continues,
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
is making
and they continued on they're going down now.
They're going down.
And as they go down,
they encounter,
in a desolate area,
the jinn.
And the jinn are created from
smokeless fire.
They are beings
as we have learned.
And
the prophet
then drew a circle
and he told Zaid,
stand in the circle.
Don't leave the circle. What that means, Allah
knows
best. But he said, stand inside that circle.
And so Zayd stayed in the circle and
he went,
into an area, a cave like area,
and he came across a company of the
jinn and the Quran came through the prophet
to the jinn.
And this is a chapter called Surat Al
Jin.
So it's literally in the Quran itself
that it is revealed
to these beings created from smokeless fire.
And they listen to it and
they embrace Islam.
And so amongst the jinn,
we have to realize there are believers.
People, when they think of the jinn,
they think the jinn are only evil demons,
But amongst the jinn are actually believers.
The majority, unfortunately, appear to be what you
know, they appear to be evil.
And the ones that usually make contact with
people are not the good ones.
But there are cases
and there are good jinn,
And in this case,
they embraced Islam.
And so,
during this period, as he's going down, the
angel of the mountains
then comes
and the angel
says to the prophet,
I will destroy these people.
Okay? For what they have done,
I will destroy them. Give me the command.
And the prophet
then
said, no.
Because maybe amongst these people will be somebody
who would say, la ilaha illallah. See the
calima again.
To do not destroy these people. Do not.
And this is, again, part of the prophethood.
This is mercy.
This is not revenge.
And it's not an easy thing to do
because most human beings,
you know, base their whole,
life upon revenge,
and they use this concept of revenge
in order to try to justify,
what they do. But in Islam, we do
not do we we don't do this.
We bring justice
and not revenge.
So this is the expansion,
of,
Islam.
The people of Taif
were saved
from this
destruction,
what would be
an utter destruction.
And
the message now,
continues,
and the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
has has this is another phase. It is
existent through his suffering.
Islam now enters into the world of the
jinn.
And later on, it was in the Medina
period.
And just imagine the emotion,
the Banu Thaqif came to Medina and they
accepted Islam in crowds.
They embraced Islam.
And they became some of the strong warriors
and protectors of Islam.
So this is part of the way Islam
was,
consolidated
and the way it was spread,
around the world.
So I wanna open up the floor now,
for any questions that anybody has. Again, this
is,
you know, showing the life of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Open up doors. You see some of the
details of his life.
This is not a mass of curved sword
warriors
forcing people to accept Islam. No.
These are believers in one god who are
suffering
and going through tremendous changes.
So the floor is open for any questions
that anybody has,
concerning,
this area
of expansion.
The boycott,
I'm not sure actually itself. I think it
lasted,
a few years. I'll check that out, but
but it lasted some time.
Yeah.
Question? In what ways and to what extent
did, the prophets of
prophets of Abu Talib quote?
Abu Talib,
of course, you know, you you have to
look back,
in his life even before he was a
prophet.
So when his his grandfather, Abdulmutallib,
who had taken over the prophet's life after
his father his father had died, then his
mother died, so Abu Talib was his protector.
Abu Talib passed away, and so
Abu Abdul Muttalib
passed away. That's his grandfather.
So now his uncle
becomes like his father. So from before Islam,
he was basically like his de facto like
his father.
He didn't spread Islam, but what he did
do was,
he didn't reject,
his nephew.
And when the Quraysh
were attacking him, he protected him.
So we have to realize it's a tribal
society.
So when one tribe is gonna attack and
another tribe
responds,
it can neutralize the attack.
So what he literally did was he neutralized,
the attacks in Mecca,
which is, of course, an important thing because
if the Quraysh was let loose, they would
have killed them all,
but they were neutralized.
And he also gave him some sort of
psychological,
support,
but not in his beliefs.
He he he couldn't go that far.
Alana's best. He couldn't go that far.
Question online? Floor is open for any questions
that are online.
Assalamu alaikum, Shahid. You mentioned that Ummad Al
Khabab used to drink alcohol and commit many
sins. Yeah. Does that mean any Muslim can
change
Yes. So the this this is this is
one of the best examples
of showing
the change of a person from what we
call Jahiliya,
ignorance,
into Islam.
Anybody can become Muslim.
You know, anybody even, you know, well, Yadavila,
you know, a killer,
drunken, drug addict, murderer
can become a Muslim
because Islam wipes away
their previous sins.
Of course, as we learn, there's a type
of compensation that they need to do,
to to consolidate their repentance.
However,
in accepting Islam, they're clean,
and that is one of the beauties of
this message. And you will find,
that because of this, Islam transforms
societies.
If the message is only looking for angels
on earth, people who have never done anything,
it wouldn't have gone anywhere
because human beings are constantly making mistakes
and doing wrong. So what it's doing is
it's transforming
transforming
society.
Okay. It's bringing forgiveness, repentance,
and a way for people to improve their
life. So this is this is one of
the best examples because it's clear. Now according
to because there's a question before. According to
this information,
that I have here,
the boycott
began on the 7th year,
and it was ended on
the 10th year. So that's 3 years.
Okay? So that that's serious.
That's the day they went through,
they went through suffering.
Yeah. Question. As a follow-up,
will that apply to Muslims as well who
are committing Muslims?
Can they change their way? Yes. So toba
applies to everybody. Allah tells us in the
law
gives all sins.
And you could say that tawba is one
of the greatest
weapons or tools that the Muslims have at
their disposal.
Because tawba, repentance,
is self analysis and reconstruction
so that we can commit sins,
go wrong, and then repair ourself and come
back.
And this is the reason why the Muslim
world it appears that we're down and we're
back up.
It appears that we have gone off the
path
and now we're back on the path because
repentance is there for all human beings and
even Muslims because the fact that you accept
Islam does not make you an angel.
That eve it it it gives you an
advantage because you have revelation,
but repentance is for everybody.
And and and this is a great blessing,
you know, from Allah Azza Wa Jal.
Yeah. Is there any specific verse referring to
Khadija, unwavering sacrifice
There's nothing that I know of at this
point. I'll check it, but there's nothing,
that I know of at this point.
Yeah. Questions here? Floor is open.
I imagine,
especially before,
Hamza and Omar accepted Islam, there were a
lot of middle friends who were just practicing
in secret.
And so especially given the nature of this
class of new Muslims that they might have,
the family members who are not really accepting,
are there specific, like,
someone gave or,
rulings in terms
of hiding your Islam as opposed to being
open about it? Well, you know, part of
his teachings is his life.
And and that this period,
the the the Meccan period, the first 13
years,
people tend to focus on
the last 10 years.
But the first thirteen
has a lot of lessons for us.
Okay? And so this is
literally a lesson
that Islam comes in stages,
and people will have to, in some cases,
not tell their family.
And you can see some of the companions,
Musa'ibib and Umer,
Radeel Lawan, and different they didn't tell their
families right away
because everything would have been cut off.
So that is the reality,
and and and the SEDA gives us
living a living example of the application of
Islam.
So this is not just theoretical.
So this is what people went through in
the best generation.
And so what about us today?
So, yes, therefore,
when a person's embracing
Islam,
that person has to,
go in stages. As I may have mentioned
before, I remember
there was a sister who embraced Islam many
years ago,
and,
we were in the in the Jammy mosque.
This is back in the early days with
us,
and she was from Colombia.
And Colombians are,
proud Catholics,
and they get very emotional people too.
If you know South Americans, you know, from
there.
And she embraced Islam.
It was a sister's,
circle
and the sisters were so
filled with joy and Masha'Allah. And they embraced
her and then they took this burqa thing
and they put it on her head.
And they said now go home.
Okay. So she went home and that night,
this literally happened. At 3 in the morning,
I got a call and they said the
sister's out on the street.
They kicked her out
because they're emotional people.
Fortunately, there were a few sisters living on
campus
who had space,
and she,
she moved in with them.
And eventually,
she got herself together, learned about Islam,
went back to her family and explained. They
eventually
took her back, at least they because they
could understand what Islam was.
She got married to an Egyptian brother, and
last thing I heard, they had 9 children.
And,
she's part part of the community.
But the the Shahid here, the witness is
the sister should not have put this
burqa on her at that point.
Let her go home. Let her understand
tawheed,
the oneness of Allah.
Let her understand what Islam is and then
she can, you know, break it to them.
She she can explain to them.
Okay. So, you know, it's it's not
a a sin that the sisters did. It's
just the lack of, like, wisdom.
So so the wisdom here is that Islam
goes in stages
and repentance is there, and that's something for
all of us. No matter where we are
along the line, if we make mistakes, we
can still come back.
That's the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now any other, general questions now? The floor
is open for any, general questions
anybody has concerning,
Islamic lifestyle.
Yeah.
They had,
there were 6 children. Khadija,
had 6 children, 4 boys and 2 girls,
and then another,
wife of his, Maria Al Kriptia, the Coptic.
She had a child, a a son, Ibrahim.
And,
unfortunately,
and by the will of Allah,
all of his children,
they they they passed away
fairly young. It was Fatima,
you know, from Khadija who was the one
who actually lived,
on.
But the the males, especially the boys, died
when they were
when they were very young.
And that is the will of Allah because
if he had had a son,
the people would have said, this is the
prince.
You know the way we think. Right? We
have our Persian
leaders. We have our Egyptian pharaohs.
Everybody's got a king. Right?
So they you know, we would have said
that's the king or that's the prince.
No prince.
It's just like it's,
it's Ismaili people.
They have a. Right? So they think it
comes from that,
size. Right. See, so that's the weakness you'll
find even in the Muslim world itself
where certain factions broke off from Islam because
of the love of
individuals.
And in this case, in the family of
Ismail,
who are descendants from, you know, Fatima,
but they broke away to the extent where
they felt
that this leader, Agha Khan, they called him,
was almost
like a prophet.
And they give, you know, their wealth to
him, and in some cases, when he comes
into an area, they don't have a red
carpet. The women take the hair and throw
it on the ground, and it walks on
the hair.
So they have allegiance to him in an
unbelievable
way. Right?
Which is totally outside of Islam.
When they came to the prophet and
they said to him,
describe
yourself to us.
So what did he say? I'm the greatest
prophet that ever lived.
I'm a descendant of Abraham.
I'm Quresh.
I'm handsome.
What did he say? He said, I'm the
son of one of your women.
That's it.
You see?
Total humility. Right?
He could have bragged, but that's not the
basis of Islam.
Because we're saying Muhammadur Rasool Allah, he's the
message,
messenger of Allah. He's not Allah.
So it's the message that
lives,
not the messenger.
Okay? And this is something which is really
important. That's the reason why,
Islam continues
and people will will continue to embrace it
because it's for everybody,
and it's not specifically
for any royal families.
Floor is open for any other, questions that
anybody may have,
about open questions on Islam? Is there anything
online?
Would we refer to Islam as
a movement
by them?
Could it be referred to as a movement?
Yeah. Revolutionary movement.
You know, revolutionary
is a term used in many different ways.
If you go to the basis of the
word revolution, it just means, like, a cycle.
It means a change.
So it was revolutionary
in that sense because it was changing idol
worship
into the belief in one god.
But revolutionary
today is generally used in a Marxist Leninist
type of way,
overthrowing the upper class, you know, type of
thing, so we wouldn't use that. You know
you know, it is, you know, a a
a movement of great change
for the belief in the creator.
The prophet preaches Islam to the jinn. What
does that just apply?
What? To the jinn? Yeah. Okay. Again, we
have to realize
that he is only a vessel for the
message.
Allah is sending the message through the prophet.
Okay? So the message now
came through him
to the jinn because the jinn,
have an ability
to choose between right and wrong.
They're they're they're not in our universe
or they're not in our,
you know,
our world in a sense.
They are around,
but it's a different frequency like it. It's
not
sometimes it it overlaps.
So the message then
this message is for them as well.
So when you describe,
prophet Muhammad,
we say that he was the last messenger
to all of humanity
and the jinn.
So that's something special.
No other prophet ever had anything like this.
And so this message is coming to them
as well, and you can you know, there
are actually gin,
you know, who are,
good. And that might sound strange to you.
But there was a friend of mine who
was living in Medina, was a student in
Medina,
and there was a scholar,
Sheikh Ali Mushraf,
and, he was the scholar was known to
take the jinn out of people. You know,
exorcism?
K. That scares a lot of people today
because of the movies. Right? But we have
a form of exorcism.
So he was an exorcist.
And he would teach his his class in
the college of Sharia
and then he would go home
and, in his basement, there were beds.
He had a big house.
And the people would come in.
It's like a doctor's office as they would
I don't know if they registered, but they
would come and lay on the bed.
So Ali Sheikh Ali
would then, you know, take it easy, maybe
drink some tea, whatever he does. And then
he goes downstairs,
and the people are on there, and he
goes to them and maybe hold them by
their neck and read certain parts of the
of the Quran.
He's he's trying to see whether he can
take this jinn out.
And my friend was allowed to witness this
one day.
And he said there was one case
where,
Sheikh Ali is now
communicating with this
being because literally inhabits the body. It's very
rare, by the way, so don't be afraid
if you go outside of IIT that is
gonna get you.
It very rarely happens,
but it can happen.
So this thing is inhabiting the body of
the individual.
And Sheikh Ali is saying, who are you?
Identify yourself. And
this and and and the jinn said, I
am an imam. I'm an imam from the
jinn. That's strange.
Right?
Because the jinns usually are evil. Right?
Tampering with people, messing with them, you know,
you you go crazy.
That's what Mejnun means, like the jinn is
in the person.
So
Shaikh Ali is saying, what is this?
Why are you here?
Now this person's family had come,
and they were on the sidelines. My friend
told me the story. They were on the
side.
And and and this voice came out of
the person and it and this is this
jinni, and he said, I am an imam
of the jinn.
And this person committed murder,
and I witnessed the murder.
So I'm I'm here
for this witness.
And as this was happening, my friend said
the family ran.
Right? So Sheikh Ali then
called, the local authorities
and and they literally,
arrested the person.
And the person confessed,
of having committed,
murder. But the the shayered here, the witness
was,
of course, after that was done, the jinni
left. Right?
That there there's a there are good jinns.
They're not all bad.
And the prophet
said, everybody has this kareen, you know, this
jinni. It it's around you. Right?
That's why you need to be reading Quran,
eating halal food, making zikr all the time.
Right?
Not just on special occasions.
And so
the prophet the prophet said everybody has a
jinn, and they said, what about you?
And the prophet said, I have one too,
but my jinni accepted Islam.
Right? So it's different than ours. Right? His
jinni is Muslim. Right?
And there's a company of the jinn. So
imagine now and somebody imagine this story. If
any of you would like to
do fiction stories or whatever.
This jinni,
and the writers have written about this, who
accepted Islam with the prophet, think about this,
was around the prophet all the way through
the revelation.
So this jinni now is is a good
force
and this jinni is a scholar,
a scholar, half of the Quran,
all different subjects.
And and some people even wrote to say
there is a company of these jinn, and
this particular one, he's their leader.
And just imagine the wisdom that that jinn
they live long periods of time.
So imagine the wisdom that that person has.
Unfortunately,
they they are not allowed, except on some
rare occasions,
to make contact with people.
They're generally not allowed.
K? But there may be something that happens
to you in your life where another force
comes in.
It might not be an angel that came
to help you. It may even be from
the good gen.
Right? So so
think positively,
When it gets dark outside, it's not all
evil out there. Number 1, there are angels,
and even amongst the jinn,
there are good jinn.
K? Floor is open for any questions,
there.
Any more general questions, anybody has? Yeah.
A lot of people when they say the
gin, they're just referring to evil jinn. Right.
Is the shaitan a more appropriate way to
refer to the evil jinn?
The shaitan will, yeah, the billah, may Allah
protect us. He is the he is the
the chief of the of the of the
evil jinn. Oh, so that's police.
Yeah. An individual.
And then there are many they they get
they they they get married. Right? And they
have children.
So there's numbers of them. And and this
is a reality that we have to face
in this world.
Yeah. I mean, that there's a general use
of the word shaytan.
You know? So a shaytan can mean like
a devil.
There's a devil amongst the jinn. That's the
evil jinn.
There's devils
amongst animals.
And that would be like, for instance, a
black dog with a white spot under here.
The jinni could be inside.
And a snake,
or a scorpion
that especially when they come in your house.
If the snake enters your house,
then it could be jinni.
And the Muslim has said, you know, the
sunnah is to speak to it
and say leave.
If it doesn't leave, then you can take
its life. We don't normally kill snakes and
animals and run around. But if it's in
your house,
that's different story.
It could be something else.
The Akrab 2, which is the scorpion, you
know, it could be from amongst that. There's
also shayatinal ins. Right? There's devils amongst people.
And you look at the situation today in
the world, there's some devils walking around this
earth,
and you can see what they're doing.
They're human,
but they're acting like devils.
They're demons. Right? They're evil.
They're not acting like normal people. And we
have so much of that in the world,
situation today that we are witnessing right in
front of our eyes. Now
any other general questions, anybody has?
So inshallah,
we will be continuing on. You know, if
you have any questions, write them down.
Is there anything afterwards,
Afra, anything?
After Maghrib? Yeah. Because the sisters wanna come
back, like, after Maghrib. Okay. So the sisters
may be coming back, you know, after Maghrib.
And, so you write your questions down.
This is a new Muslim corner. Alhamdulillah. We
have people online that are watching us. And
so may
Allah make it easy for everybody,
safe journey home.