Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – The First Who Believed
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The conversation covers the history of Islam, including its importance in burying and the importance of privacy and control in burying children. The speaker emphasizes the need to learn and follow the Bible to understand the teachings of Islam, as well as the historical significance of the Islam community's teachings and influence on behavior. The speakers also discuss the use of images and language, as well as the importance of control and privacy in burying deceased individuals.AI: Transcript ©
All praise are due to Allah, our lord
of the worlds, be upon our beloved prophet
Muhammad, master the first and the last. His
family, his companions, and all those who call
to his way
and established his sunnah to the day of
judgment.
Stewart follows,
Alhamdulillah. We are continuing on with our new
Muslim Corner,
and we are trying to understand
the fullness
of the kalima.
And the kalima that is
the shahada or bearing witness. There is no
God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.
That is the beginning of the road for
a person who embraces Islam.
And it is the hope of Muslims
that that would be the end of the
road. That the last thing that the person
would say
would be a witness to is this Kalima.
Interested in Islam,
when the veils of propaganda
come down because there's all the negative propaganda
against Muslims and
exotic things. It used to be exotic,
like coming from the east and
harems and all these things. Now it's violence
and a lot of fear,
misunderstanding. But if that comes down
from a person's eyes, if they start to
question,
then,
the first part of the Kalima
is
very easy to understand
that there is one God, that there was
a creator
who existed before anything else and put everything
into into motion.
And so people from most religions,
can understand that concept.
It's the second part of the Kalima,
that Mohammed ibn Abdullah,
peace be upon him,
is the messenger of Allah.
So that he is the seal,
the finality of prophethood.
So for the average person who's not living
in Arabian Peninsula,
who hasn't been in contact with Muslims,
who is Prophet Mohammed? Who is he?
When I grew up in America
here,
we never knew anything about
Prophet Muhammad. There were some individuals who used
his name, Muhammad Ali, you know the boxer?
So people know Muhammad and Ali, Muhammad Ali.
But nobody knew what his first name actually
meant, who it actually was
because we were just not exposed to it.
And anytime you see Arabs,
in movies, they're usually
villains.
They're usually terrorists
or something exotic. Nothing to do with
a real religion and a real way of
life. So
that's the part that needs to be understood,
that people need to know
who Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah, peace be upon
him, is or was,
what he represents.
And the more a person understands that, even
if you already became a Muslim,
is the stronger your faith is actually gonna
be. But for those right at the border
of Islam, just trying to make a decision,
if there were
a more
detailed
and easy to understand explanation
of the life of the prophet, then it
would be much easier for a lot of
people,
to come into Islam. So we're looking at
this second part of the Kalima
and trying to understand it
and to get familiar,
with the life, of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
and what happened during his time.
Because you can't judge things
that happened 1400 years ago
completely by today,
especially the incidents, the interactions between the peoples.
And so, in looking at this,
we found out that,
the prophet, peace be upon him,
came from the lineage of Abraham, Ibrahim alayhis
salam,
not on the side of Sarah, but on
the other side of Hajar, who was the
Egyptian,
who was first his handmaid and then became
his wife. Down, to Prophet Muhammad. He's part
of that lineage.
On the other side of the family,
as I mentioned before,
was Sarah,
his first wife, Abraham's first wife,
and then Isaac and Jacob, and it goes
down Moses and Jesus.
So based on lineage, based on what we
now call
DNA
studies.
And many people do DNA studies.
They like to know
where is their blood coming from.
And that's interesting for a lot of people
because
we tend to get cut off from our
roots.
And it is important for everybody to know
what their family is.
It's shocking to people to note that in
terms of DNA
that Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed are cousins.
This is a shock.
They're actually coming from the same family.
The average Christian would not believe you.
What are you talking about? But it's right
in play inside of you. Just do a
little chat And show Abraham and go to
the Bible and show that he took his
wife,
Hajar. He took his mate for his wife.
She had a baby. It's in the Bible.
So it's clear,
but it's just been hidden in plain sight.
And so
he was teaching
the same monotheism
as Abraham, Ibrahim alaihis salam,
the same monotheism
as Moses, Jesus, all of the prophets. And
his life,
prophets. And his life,
went through a 23 year period as a
prophet.
So 23 years as a prophet.
He he his prophethood began at 40.
And he died at 63. So it's 23
years.
So it's during that time period and even
before
found
out that
when the angel Gabriel
Gabriel came to him and the message to
Quran began,
it began with the angel,
imprinted on my chest. These words. That is
what the Quran is. It is a
series of revelations
over 23 years,
not a book
that just came out the sky.
And
last week, we looked at some of the
miraculous
aspects of it.
So unbelievable
when you actually look at word sequence.
You look at meanings.
It's it's it's amazing, and that really is
the greatest miracle,
of the prophet. But for the average person,
you need to have
side witnesses.
It's good to hear what somebody else
has to say about him
and not just Muslims.
And when you hear that in the context
of the world he lived in, it helps
you to understand more who he was
in that time.
And we found out that the great empires
of the world,
the Roman Empire,
Byzantium,
so that was Rome, and then there was
Persia
on the eastern side of Arabia.
And then there was
Africa,
an Aksumite Empire, Abyssinia,
was a great empire.
And it's also said that 3 kingdoms in
China, that China was the 4th
world power at the time. So these were
the great powers of the world.
And
the message
started with the revelation only 1 person
who who got the message,
and then it started to spread.
And we will be looking at some of
the first people to believe and some of
the some of the things that happened.
But there's an interesting
dialogue
that I found,
and this is concerning
who is this man?
Who is this man?
And this dialogue actually happened a little bit
later in his in his prophethood.
But it it it gives you an idea
of an image of who he actually is.
And so this dialogue
happened in the northern part
that is an area of Jerusalem and Syria
that was controlled by the Romans.
And the Roman Emperor
at the time
was Heraclius.
And Heraclius was very intelligent,
leader. They were Christians.
And but they believed in a trinity.
But they were also amongst the Christians,
there were people who believed in one God
and people who had
other types of,
testaments
amongst the Christians.
So there's a lot of division
in the Christian world at that time.
So Heraclius was very intelligent,
and it was at that time again, it's
later in the prophet's life
that letters were sent out to the kings.
So they sent out letters to Roman, Persian,
Ethiopia,
Egypt,
to the leaders of Arabia,
the prophet sent a letter inviting them to
Islam.
So Heraclius
received the letter,
and he wanted to know more.
And so at that time,
the Arabs remember, the trade was going from
north to south,
and they would go from Yemen to frankincense
to myrrh,
later coffee.
So many things traded north.
And they go on the coastline in the
area of Gaza.
That's how important Gaza was back then.
They trade on the coast,
so all that area, and then they bring
it back down. So Abu Sufyan was on
one of these journeys. Abu Sufyan was
probably the leader of the Quraysh
in Mecca at the time,
and he's a businessman.
So he was north
doing business, and Heraclius found out that there
was a group of Arabs from Mecca
who were in his territory.
So he called them to Jerusalem,
to one of his palaces because he wanted
to interview them.
So think about this. This is now an
interview, a Christian ruler
who is interviewing
non Muslim Arab leader.
It's not a Muslim.
Interviewing the non Muslim Arab. He wants to
know more about this man. So the same
way, like, a person who wants to know,
okay. Why why should I say Muhammadu Rasoolallah?
Why should I say he's the messenger of
Allah?
That's a natural question.
So Heraclius
was asking these questions.
And,
so they came into,
the, the, the court.
And Heraclius was there wearing his crown and
the
the dialogue began. And,
They were talking through translators
because the the Romans
in Byzantium, they spoke Greek.
Okay? And the Muslims, of course, they were
Arabs.
But there were there were enough translators because
business is going on regularly,
so there's a lot of people who could
translate. And
so Heraclius then,
said to his translator,
Ask them
who amongst them, who amongst this group of
Arabs,
which one of you is a close relationship,
to the man who claims to be a
prophet.
K. So he wants to know.
And Abu Sufyan,
replied,
I am the nearest relative to him.
Because remember Quresh, right, he's part of the
Quresh
on the Umayyad side.
Heraclius then asked, what degree of relationship do
you have with him?
And Abu Sufyan said, he's my cousin.
And there was none of Beni Abdulmanaff.
No other people were there. He said, so
this is my cousin. So you've got somebody
who's pretty close to you. So the Caesar
that's the name we'll use, the Caesar because
he was the Caesar of Rome
he said,
you come close to me.
So he brought him close. Think about this
person's on a throne
with his body. The Arabs are there. They're
wearing simple clothes.
Right? He says, bring him close to me.
And the Caesar ordered that my companions stand
behind me
on my shoulder,
right, and said to his translator, tell his
companions
that I'm gonna ask this man about the
man who claims to be a prophet.
If he tells a lie,
they should contradict him immediately.'
He's threatening them.
He said, you who are standing in back
of Abu Sufyan,
if he's lying,
you better you better tell me that he's
telling a lie.
See, he wants to have as close to
the truth as possible.
And,
Abu Sufyan said, by Allah
because later he did become a Muslim, he
said, but at that time he was not
a Muslim.
He said, by Allah, had it not been
shameful that my companions
label me a liar, I would not have
spoken the truth about him when he was
asked when he when he asked me. But
I considered it shameful,
to be a liar, be called a liar
by my companions.
So the Arabs had shame in terms of
their reputation.
Right? So then
Abu Sufyan said, so I told the truth.
So his witness now
think yourself you're in a courtroom, right? This
is close as you can get to a
witness now.
A third party witness about this man.
So Caesar said, ask him,
Abu Sufyan,
what kind of family does Mohammed belong to?
And he replied,
he belongs to a noble family
amongst us.
Caesar said, has any has anybody else amongst
you ever claimed
the same thing before him?
This is a really intelligent person.
And Abu Sufyan said, no.
No Arab is amongst our people. Nobody has
ever claimed this
amongst our people.
The Caesar said, had you ever blamed him
for telling lies
before he claimed what he claimed?
Abu Sufyan said,
no. Caesar said, was anybody amongst his ancestors
a king?
He's trying to understand this man
now.' Abu Sufyan said, no.'
The Caesar said, do the noble or the
poor people follow him?
Abu Sufyan said, it is the poor
who follow him.
Caesar said, are they increasing
or decreasing
by day?
Are there more Muslims or is it gonna
be less?
Sufyan Abu Sufyan said they are increasing.
Caesar said, does anybody amongst those who embrace
his religion become displeased
and then leave the religion?
Intelligent question.
Abu Sufyan said no.
Caesar said, does the prophet, so called prophet,
break his promises?
Abu Sufyan said no.
But we are now at truce with him,
and we are afraid that he may betray
us.
This was a thing called Hudebia. It's a
treaty later on.
Abu Sufyan added,
other than the last sentence, I could not
say anything against him.
So Caesar said, have you ever had a
war with him?
And they and he said, yes.
What was the outcome?
Abu Suvyan said, the result was unstable.
Sometimes he was victorious,
and sometimes we were.
He said, what does he order you to
do?
Now this is now he's getting now he
says he's a prophet.
So what is he ordering you to do?
And Abu Sufyan said he tells us to
worship Allah,
meaning the creator, alone,
and not to worship others along with him,
and to leave all that our forefathers used
to worship.
He orders us to pray,
give in charity,
be chaste, keep promises,
and return
what
is entrusted to us.
So the reaction of Heraclius,
the Caesar said to his translators, say to
him,
I ask you about his lineage, and your
reply
was that he belonged to a noble family.
In fact, all of the apostles
came from the noblest lineages of of their
peoples.
Then I questioned
I questioned you about whether anybody else amongst
you had claimed such a thing,
and your reply was no.
If the answer had been yes,
I would have thought that this man was
following a claim
that somebody made before him.
See, he wouldn't be original. Right?
When I was asked when I asked you
whether he was ever blamed for telling lies,
your reply was in the negative. So I
took it for granted that a person who
did not tell a lie
about others, the people, could never lie about
Allah.
If that person was never known to tell
lies,
then how is he gonna lie about God?
Then I asked you whether any of his
ancestors was a king.
Your reply was in the negative.
And if it had been in the affirmative,
I would have thought that this man
wanted to take back his kingdom.
This is a deep
thinker.
So he's not fighting for political power.
He's not fighting for riches.
Then, the Caesar said, when I asked you
whether the rich or the poor followed him,
he replied, it was the poor who followed
him. In fact, such are the followers
of the prophets.
They are generally
poor people.
Then I asked you whether his followers were
increasing
or
decreasing. You replied that they were increasing.
In fact, this is the result of true
faith
till it is complete.
I asked you whether there was anybody who,
after embracing his religion, became displeased
and discarded his religion, and your reply was
in the negative.
In fact,
this is a sign of true faith.
For when it for when its cheerfulness enters
and mixes in the hearts completely, nobody will
be displeased.
He's judging it now based on the Christianity
that he had.
I asked you whether he ever has broken
his promise. You replied, no.
Such are the apostles.
They never break their promises.
When I asked you whether you fought with
him and he fought with you, you replied,
he did.
Sometimes he was victorious, sometimes you indeed, such
are the apostles.
They are put to trials,
and the final victory is always theirs.
Then I asked you what he ordered you,
and you replied
that he ordered, you to worship Allah alone,
not to worship others along with him,
to leave all your forefathers used to worship,
offer prayers, speak the truth, be chaste, keep
promises,
and return what is entrusted, he said, these
are really
qualities of a prophet
who I knew
from the previous scriptures
would appear.
See? So he's saying, I knew somebody like
this was gonna appear.
But I did not know he would be
from amongst you,
the Arabs. Because the Arabs are the most
downtrodden
people
living in the desert. They don't have any
any you don't think they have any lineage.
Nobody talks about them. They don't have any
written books that you can read about.
It's oral.
K?
If what you say
should be true,
he will very soon occupy the earth under
my feet.
And if I knew that I would reach
him, definitely, I would go immediately to him.
And were I with
him, then I would certainly
wash his feet.
That's what the Caesar said.
So this is a third party,
person that was got sense.
Okay? And
after that, Abu Sufyan,
added that the Caesar then asked
the the letter. There's a letter to the
kings. Right?
So let me have your letter.
So the letter came, and it said,
in the name of Allah, the beneficent, the
merciful,
This letter is from Muhammad, the slave of
Allah and his apostle, to Heraclius,
the ruler of the Byzantine.
'Peace be upon the followers of guidance.
Now then I invite you to Islam.
Embrace Islam and you will be safe.
Embrace Islam and Allah will bestow upon you
dub a double reward. But if you reject
this invitation,
you shall be responsible
for the misguided
misguiding the adisiyin.
Okay. Now this word adisiyin,
they translate it as peasants.
But adisiyin
also
scholars like Sheikh Hassan Nadawi of India and
other scholars have looked into this word,
this word could very well be the followers
of Arius.
Remember Arius
who was the bishop who refused the trinity.
So the prophet is saying, if you don't
accept Islam, you're gonna be responsible
for these monotheists
who are amongst you. Right? And we're running
across these people all over the place.
Then
the letter quotes, oh, people of the scriptures,
come to a word. This is the Quran.
Oh, people of the scriptures, come to a
word common to you and us
that we worship,
none
except Allah,
and that we associate nothing in worship with
him, and that none of us
shall take others as lords besides Allah.
And if they turn away, say, O Muhammad,
be a witness that we are
the Muslims.
We are the ones that surrender to you.
Okay? So now Abu Sufyan,
then said, this is his report.
When Heraclius had finished his speech,
there was a great hue and cry caused
by the Byzantine
royalties around him. They were really upset
because he had a courtroom full of Christian
nobles. Right?
There was so much noise that I did
not understand what they said.
So we turned out of the court.
When I went out with my companions
and we were alone, I said to them,
verily,
ibn Kaepsha, they used to call Mohammed, his
affair
has gained power.
This is the king of Bennu Asfar.
This is the king of the Europeans
who's afraid of him.
Okay? And then he said,
by Allah, I remain low
and was sure that his religion would be
victorious till Allah converted me,
to Islam.
And so,
it goes on a little more, but very
interesting report. This is found in Bukhadi, Hadith,
by the way, For those who are into,
you know, what is the
authenticity
of the report, it's actually reported in the
in in Sahil Bukhadi.
Okay.
So,
this is a third party person now who's
given you information, and
you know about,
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
and, after his contact with Allah
through the angel,
he was,
told through the message
that you should call your close relatives.
Call your close relatives.
Now there was a period of time remember,
the angel was coming and bringing this revelation.
And then
prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he got
really afraid.
He was in a cave,
and this entity,
you know, had smothered him. So he was
really afraid. So he went home, and he
was shaking. You know, it's like trauma. Right?
He was trembling. So his wife Khadijah covered
him up.
She's a very intelligent woman. She covered him
up
and and and confirmed him and said, you're
not a liar.
This could not be an evil force.
And she calmed him down.
Right? So this is a woman now, right,
who's actually
there, and she was the first to believe.
So the first believer in Islam
in its final form was a woman.
She was the first also
to consolidate
Islam. She consolidated the prophet.
And I read this interesting report one time
that, during this period, you know, the angels
started to come back.
Then,
but but the prophet wasn't sure.
He just felt this entity
coming around him. Khadijah could not see
the angel.
The angel Jabir was only
made, visible at that point,
to the prophet himself
or just came as sort of a entity
of force.
So this is how intelligent Khadija is.
She said
and this is reality. I'll give you the
what what actually happened.
She said, is is the is he here
now? Is the angel here now
in the room?
And the prophet said, he's here.
So she took her,
her her skirt
and she lifted it over,
her leg.
So a thigh was showing.
And then she said to him, is he
here now?
And the prophet said, no.
K? Then she put it back and covered
herself completely, and she said, is he here
now?
And the prophet said yes.
That she said this is an angel.
Because if this was
a a a demon, right,
a shaitan, right,
He would enjoy himself
because he wants nakedness and confusion.
She had the the the the the the
intelligence,
the religious
intelligence
to test an angel.
Think about this.
And and and it's the higher because angels
are very shy.
And if you have,
pictures,
dogs in your house,
if you have statues,
it's like pictures of people, like, you know,
and and you have,
dogs in your house. You
have statues.
Angels will not enter your house.
And in times of nakedness also angels will
not be.
They have 'heyat' they have serious
modesty.
Okay. And this is a woman
who is not trained in Christianity, Judaism,
but just through her God given,
like, intelligence,
religious intelligence,
she's able to help him. Right?
She said, this is an angel
that's visiting you. So the angel then,
Jibril, alayhi, salam, bring the Quran
where, it it it said to the prophet,
peace of call your close relatives.
So the first ones who we actually started
to do do dawt
to we use the word dua, right, which
means to call
to Islam.
The first ones was his close relatives.
And,
of course, they you know, then there were
those people who were inclined,
toward the belief in one God.
Okay?
So first was his close relatives.
So Khadijah,
she embraced Islam.
And the angel used to come and teach
the prophet how to make wudu
ablution. Right?
And the angel used to come in the
form of a man
and show him how to pray.
So the motions that we do,
the ruku, the sujood,
jelsa, all the positions
were taught by the angel to the prophet.
And then he taught it to Khadija.
So she was the 1st person
to make salat,
like, start listing things that she did. Right?
The first person to make salat
was a was a woman
after the prophet.
Alright?
And
on one occasion,
they were praying
and their cousin whose name was Ali ibn
Abi Talib. Remember your prayer chart. You have
Abu Talib is the prophet's
uncle.
Okay? And he was the protector because remember
his father died?
Prophet's father died, Abdullah, and then Abdul Muttalib,
his grandfather. They died.
Abu Talib was like his father.
Okay? And and and and Abu Talib,
you know, he he he was the protector.
You know? And but Abu Talib,
he wasn't that wealthy. They were having difficult
times at that point. So when the prophet
married Khadijah,
she's a rich woman,
Abu Talib said, take my son,
Ali.
Let him stay with you.
You know? Because in extended families,
your family members will stay with each other.
So let him stay with you. So Ali
was like a son.
He was a young boy in the house.
He was not his son. Right? He was
his cousin.
But he was in the prophet's house.
And on one occasion he's around Ali's around
9 or 10, something like this. And on
one occasion then,
Khadija and and Mohammed, peace be upon them,
they were making salat.
And Ali came in,
Very intelligent young man.
Extremely intelligent.
So when they finished, he said, what were
you doing? And they said, we're praying to
Allah.
And he showed interest in this. And he
said,
Can I learn to pray?
And so the natural reaction is
you should first go back to your father
because maybe they consider him to be like
a minor. He was not reached puberty yet.
Look.
Discuss it with your father.
It's still close. It's his uncle,
but he's not a Muslim.
Just discuss what and Ali said
highly intelligent person.
Ali said, my father had nothing to do
with me
in terms of, you know, where I came
from. You know, I came from Allah.
Allah was the one that created me.
So for me to worship Allah, I don't
need permission from my father.
I don't need his permission.
And so they let him he took shahada,
became Muslim,
and then started to learn to make salah.
So for those who think who raise up
people like Khadija and Ali, many Muslims raise
up Ali naturally because he is
so close.
They were non Muslims who took shahada. Right?
So you can't look down on people who
are new Muslims. Right? Because they were all
new Muslims.
So
Ali then
becomes the next.
Following this,
this servant, they had a servant named Zayd
ibn Hadithah.
Now in those days,
slavery or servitude,
it was all over the world.
Right? The word slave comes from Slav
because the Romans took the
Eastern European people as their slaves,
Slavic.
Okay? The Arabs had slaves.
Slave was not based on color.
Anybody could be a slave who did not
have power,
so anybody could become a slave.
And so Zaid, who came from an Arab
tribe,
was captured
and sold. It's more like it's more like
a bonded servant. He's like a servant,
but he was owned by Khadija.
So he was their servant,
and then
it is said
that,
you know, he he wanted to be he
was interested too.
And so he
he he he he learned to be Muslim,
and then
his family came and
the,
you know, the prophet
said, you know, I'm gonna free you
because he was with he was Khadijah. They
both owned him. He said no more slavery.
You are free. And then so Zayd's family
came.
This is an Arab tribe.
And they came they heard about it, and
they came to take Zaid.
So so then Mohammed said, okay. Now you
have your choice.
You can go with your family or you
can stay with me.
So then Zaid thought about it, and he
said, actually, I would rather stay with you
than go back to my father and my
family.
And the Arabs said, like, you know, woe
to you. Like, what's your problem?
Because it's a tribal society. Right?
You're gonna go to somebody else and not
your family?
And then Zaid said, this man has shown
me qualities
I've never seen before, and I don't wanna
leave him.
So he stayed.
And so the prophet, peace be upon
him, changed his name
to Zayd ibn Mohammed.
You are now
because your family, like, wrote you off. Right?
So you're now Zayd, the son of Mohammed.
But the Quran came down and revealed
that you should not
call your your sons and daughters by the
names of their parents.
In other words, the Quran corrected
prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and said,
no. Your name you know, so he had
to change. His name continued to be Zayd
ibn,
Haritha,
but he was like the adopted.
He was adopted.
And this is an important point.
It's it's a detail.
But in adoption right? You know how adoption
comes in this society. You change the person's
name. Right?
If you adopt a child,
you change the name. But according in Islam,
you can adopt, but you can't change the
name of the child.
The child has to have the lineage of
his actual family because you're not the blood
lineage of that child.
So that's the difference because some people ask
me, is adoption permissible in Islam?
Because some people even say there's no adoption
in Islam. That's not true.
There is, but what is not permissible
is to change the name of the child.
Okay?
So Zayd accepted Islam.
And there's some reports also
that the daughters,
you know, of the
of the prophet and Khadijah,
Ruqaiya, Fatima, Zainab, he had his daughters also
embraced. They were younger,
but they grew right into it.
You know? And then the next to embrace
were those people inclined
to the belief in 1 God? So when
it when you're doing dua
and this is important for for us who
want to spread the message. You don't walk
you don't come into a town. You don't
go in the middle of the street and
just start talking to everybody.
It's best to begin with your family, the
close people.
And then it spreads
to those people who are inclined
to the belief in one God.
Okay? And in this case,
the person who was, you know, inclined let
me see if I have the next one
here. The the the person who was inclined,
and I'll I'll fix this for you next
time, but the person who was the the
most inclined towards Islam
was a person named Abu Bakr,
Asadig
or the long one. Atik was his name.
Atik.
That was his name. But his nickname was
Abu Bakr.
So everybody knows him as Abu Bakr, but
his name is Atik.
And he was a person just about the
age of the prophet.
He was a wealthy business person.
And,
he was recognized by his people.
And he but he did not like idol
worship. He did not like the actions
that the Quraysh were doing.
And so
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam then went
to him
and explained
about
the oneness of Allah
and his prophethood, and Abu Bakr accepted Islam
immediately.
So Abu Bakr is known to be
the fastest person who ever embraced Islam was
Abu Bakr.
He did not hesitate
at all.
Most people will hesitate.
You think about it.
What's the message? I'll go home. I'll
talk to my friends.
Abu Bakr had no hesitation,
and so he embraced Islam.
So these are, like, the first
people coming in.
Later on,
Eamon,
Barakah, who was,
the,
dry nurse, like the prophet's foster mother in
a sense,
she also embraced.
So these are the early,
people who are Muslim. Abu Bakr, he went
to other people who are
inclined to Islam.
And so he went to Saad ibn Abi
Waqas,
Abu Ubaydah ibn Jabra, Talha,
and many of them are in a group
called the 10 people promised paradise before their
death. So Abu Bakr
gave dawah to them.
So they were the first ones
who were inclined,
you know, to Tawhid, to the belief in
one God,
And so they were the first ones,
to believe.
K. So at this point, I wanna open
up the floor for any questions anybody may
have, any feedback
or anything.
But this this is how the dawah began.
This is how it started
because it was dangerous to be Muslim at
that time. You're gonna say there's no god
but Allah?
All those idols that are in the Kaaba
that make the business of Quraish,
You're gonna say there's no god but Allah?
You'll wage in war against them.
So they have to take their time. Any
question online? Yeah. We have one online.
Given these predictions, is it possible with what
is retained in the Old and New Testament
that there are remnants
Yes. There there there are definitely,
references.
The problem we face
is that what is left
of the actual,
Ingeal
is not much.
There was one
Bible where the the Christians
went over the Bible, and they said anything
that is
actually said by Jesus
in the New Testament, they put it in
red,
and then you get the rest.
And when you actually look at it, you
will see only a small amount of the
words are actually in red
because it was Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
you know, who were not the original disciples,
but a couple 100 years later,
they wrote what they understood and they collect
it.
So it's a collection
of stories and sayings
and whatnot that makes up the New Testament.
It's not actually
the words of Jesus himself.
But there are some different verses
that
do,
point to the fact,
you know, of of of of of the
prophet being,
you know, the one. There's one in John.
I don't have the exact number, but it's
in John
where Jesus said, I have to leave you
because the comforter
is to come.
So he uses the word comforter,
and he's telling his followers, I have to
leave.
I'm not gonna stay.
Now what is the comforter? In the Greek,
it's Paracletus.
And
so today they try to say
it's the comforter. If you asked,
a priest or a minister about this verse
that's there, he would say the comforter is
the Holy Ghost.
But the problem is, what is the Holy
Ghost?
It's hard to define what is the actual
ghost. Is it the angel Gabriel?
Gabriel, they most don't say that. Is it
a spirit that comes over you?
Like, what is the Holy Ghost?
Another one of the meanings of parakletos
is the praised one.
So
Jesus is saying, I have to leave because
the praised one
is coming.
And one of the names of Mohammed is
Ahmed.
Even Mohammed itself is actually means the praised
one.
So you could
interpret through that verse
that he's talking about him, But things have
been so changed around
and so diluted
that we can't get to the original
teachings.
There was one of the gospels remember, the
gospels were put together
in the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.
Right? That's in what is now,
Istanbul
by by by Constantine,
and they said they had a lot of
different gospels.
1 of the gospels
was the gospel
according to Barnabas,
Saint Barnabas,
who was one of the big disciples.
And
there was for a long time a big
controversy about this gospel of quote and say
Barnabas.
But the problem is,
see, in this gospel, which was in Greek,
when they translated it, it's actually talking about
the prophet Ahmed.
It talks about Ahmed coming. It's in it.
But the problem is and and you can
look it up online, gospel according to Saint
Barnabas.
The problem with this is
is that if you read the whole gospel,
there's some other things that are not really
Islamic things,
And it's not in the original language
because they spoke Hebrew or Aramaic.
It's in Greek.
So so we can't use it as a
reliable source.
But there's definitely proofs. There's certain verses
which could be interpreted
to mean,
prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. But this
was so much deleted
and changed
around
that we can't we don't know.
Actually, we wouldn't know unless we have the
original
scrolls,
which would have been in Hebrew
or Aramaic,
but we don't have it. The Dead Sea
scroll is the oldest one,
and that is Greek.
And Greek is a whole another language group
than Semitic languages.
It's a different language group.
Okay? And when you say things in one
language
and
it changes. Those of you who speak more
than one language, you will know. They say
colloquialisms.
Right?
Like in America
where I was raised, right,
we have a saying,
or we used to, now this is
things times have changed. But we used to
say,
John went up the river for 20 years.
Does anybody know what that means?
John went up when he went up the
river for 10 for 20 years.
In American English, probably before
30 years or something because everything's changed.
What that meant is he went to jail.
So if you say that in America, he's
up he went up the river for 20
years.
That meant he went to jail
because most of the prisons were built on
the rivers.
They were islands on rivers.
So if you went up the river,
especially on the East Coast,
you go into jail.
If I translate that into Spanish or into,
Mandarin,
another language, they'll say to me, was he
swim was he swimming?
Was he fishing? Like, what is he doing
up the river? Right?
Nobody's gonna think about a jail right up
the river. That's colloquial
interpretation and language. So when you translate from
one language to another,
you're making a jump.
So
that's why we don't accept
the Dead Sea Scrolls as the original
gospel given to Jesus,
not the original language.
And they haven't been able to produce it
up until now.
Floor is open for any other general questions,
anybody has? Yeah. Was Zaid free before or
after the process of the year?
Good question.
More than likely it would be is after
after the prophet would.
I mean, because remember, slavery at that time,
you know, it's not all beats, chains and
beaten. He was like a servant.
So, you know and she had caravans and
everything. And so she had servants and, you
know, bonded servant.
And,
and they treated him well and everything like
that.
But still, according to the the laws of
the thing, he
she owned him.
And that's the way it was all around
the world,
in all societies of the world. If you're
a prisoner of war and they capture you,
you become a slave or whatever it is.
You're the property of somebody else.
Right? So it would be after Islam because
after Islam,
there's all the slaves are being freed.
There was no slave raiding, anything like this.
So it would be after.
It'd be after the message.
Any other general questions anybody has?
Online,
anything else? Okay. So now we want to
open up the floor for,
general questions about Islam.
Okay, so if anybody has any questions, you
know, things that happened during the week,
other than political questions,
then, you know, the floor is open for
any general questions,
that anybody may have.
Yeah. I have question regarding,
for Janaza.
Can a woman
go to the burial or is it
For the Janaza? Yeah. For Janaza. Okay. So
this this is kind of a deep question.
Right? It's a little bit off the topic
because everyday.
But,
yes, it is permissible,
for for a woman to go.
You see,
I don't wanna go too deep into this,
but
the Mecca there's the Mecca period and the
Medina period. So in the Mecca period, Islam
was not formed that well in the Mecca
period.
And the women at the time, it was
even the Arab
And the women at the time,
it was even the Arab culture at the
time,
when somebody dies, you have to wail.
You cry. Like, you know, many cultures have
this.
I know some cultures. If there's a funeral,
certain women come and they stop crying. Everybody's
crying.
Even one one one place I went to,
you pay people to cry.
So If I may add to that, in
Europe, that's where I'm from. That used to
be and that's also at the same time.
You used to pay women. They were that
was their job. That's right. You needed to
it was this howling crime you have to
make. So when people pass the house, you
know, there's a a person that has passed
in that family.
And these women would also go on behalf
of the family
and cry at the cemetery.
That's right. So amongst the Arabs, it's the
same thing. Many parts of the world and
our sides do not behave like that. No.
It's it's it's it's very similar to that.
The Arabs too. I mean, they would get
so crazy, they would tear their clothes off
and jump in and whatever.
You just lose it, right?
So,
therefore, the prophet in the Meccan period,
he said to the women, don't come to
the Janasa
because because he knew what they do. And
that and I believe that harms the person
who's
who's who's, you know, trying to get peace.
That's
not good.
But then when they went to Medina
and
the rules of Islam came
and, you know, people had more consciousness of
Allah and whatnot. The prophet said,
And the Hadith, he said, I used to
prohibit you
from visiting the graves,
but now
visit the graves.
And it is a plural,
which means women as well as men for
those who want an argument. Right? This is
a Sahih Adith.
So he said, you are allowed to visit
the graves.
So it is permissible
to visit the grave. Another proof is
that,
on one occasion,
the the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you know, the the the grave the Baqir
cemetery
is was fairly close to the mosque the
masjid where his house was.
So he used to go to the Baqir
sometimes and make du'af for the for the
dead. And, you know, he he one night
he went to the cemetery.
And his wife, Aisha,
who was a young woman at the time,
and, so she followed him.
Right?
And so but he sensed her. Right? You
know, you can hear somebody you know. So
he sensed her. And then when he turned
like this, then she ran.
And when he came home
and he said to her,
you know, oh, Ayesha,
you know, when you visit the graves,
you should remember the next life
and you should make prayer for them. Any,
any, any
made a famous dua,
you know, what you say for the dead.
So if it was wrong for her and
this is Medina period. Right? If it was
wrong for a woman to visit the grave,
he would have said, oh, Ayesha, don't visit
the graves.
But he didn't say that. He said, when
you visit the graves,
this is what you should do.
So that's a solid proof. Now
on the ground, Muslims have culture.
So based upon the culture and the level
of Islam that people have,
in some cultures,
the Muslim women, even though they know they
know they're not supposed to do it, they
will still
wail,
or they will stay they will still,
you know, lose it. So I I I'll
give you one culture that I was in
in Cape Town in South Africa,
there, which is very Islamic culture. So what
they did when somebody
dies, they would they would generally do the
washing and then the body would be laying,
sort of laying in state, you know, in
the home.
Then the family would come and, you know,
women would come and everybody would come.
And then at the time of the burial,
then the men would come and then take
the body and carry it to the grave,
you know, and then bury it.
So so everybody gets a chance,
you know, to be involved,
you know, but,
that's how they did it just to protect
against because in their culture, whatever their ruling
was.
But technically speaking,
you cannot
tell somebody they can't go.
Like, we had an incident like this.
And I was in Los Angeles, and we
were teaching. And then and this sister,
we were mostly new Muslims, and we're studying
straight Quran and Sunnah.
And and the sister's
son, you know, was killed,
you know, was murdered.
And, you know, she was had no husband
at that time. Her husband died or something.
And so we're going to bury her child.
You know, and she said, you're not going
to tell me I cannot go to my
child's
funeral.
And we agreed with her, And we looked
in the sources, and it said, Islam is
not saying
you can't go. However, when you go,
control yourself.
She was a strong person anyway. But just
to be sure,
everybody should control themselves. And if a woman
can control herself and she's dressed properly,
Islamically,
it's not wrong.
What some people do is they make their
culture to be the religion.
So culturally, they make it seem if a
woman goes, you know, to the grave,
there's something really wrong. What is wrong with
her going to the grave?
The only thing that was wrong historically
was wailing.
And if the wailing
is taken out,
nothing's wrong.
So even here when we have, when bodies
are taken here, many of the it depends
on which group you're with. But here, many
of the burials, women will come,
and,
they'll they'll be there. And so there might
be areas a section for women's section for
the brothers, whatever.
But but they are they would be allowed
to come. You know, it's it's based upon
what group. Some people are too
culturally
strict.
Not strict. It's, I would say, extremism.
It's just like women coming into Masjid.
Who could say a woman can't come into
Masjid?
But in some cultures,
they build a Masjid, and they have no
woman section.
So what is this?
When the prophet's mosque had men and women's
section.
And it was to the point, like, that's
how our our master is set up.
And it was to the point where
the women's section was getting close to the
men. That's happening in IIT now, too.
It's getting close to the men, and there
were some men. This is real life I'm
talking about.
Some of the Sahaba, one was weak minded
brother.
And so he would he would say, Allahu
Akbar, and he would look like this back
at the system.
Right?
So he had to be corrected. What did
the prophet do? Did he build a big,
you know, Berlin wall there, you know, in
in between?
No.
He just said
he told them, fear Allah,
lower your gaze. The best line for men
is the front line,
and the worst line is the back line,
and the best line for women
is the back line,
and the worst is the front.
Okay? Now
if there was a barrier, that hadith wouldn't
make sense.
Why?
But without the barrier, you can see why
he actually said that.
You see?
You can see it.
On that, the the best fight for women
is in the back.
During Ramadan,
especially, we always have a problem.
It's just not filling in the gaps. And
I think part of it is because of
the. So I'm just wondering if you can
explain it a little bit more because when
we form our minds, are we supposed to
form them in the same way as the
men in that you fill up the first
line before you start a second line? Yeah.
You you know, some people culturally
and again, I don't wanna get too deep
in this class. This is a fit class
now. But but but some people
culturally,
made all these rules for women. Even when
you pray, you gotta
go down and all this.
None of that is in hadith.
None of it is there.
They did that. Maybe there was a reason.
So if you crunch yourself up and somebody's
looking at you, they can't see.
But it's not in the hadith.
And the rules of prayer,
like shoulder to shoulder,
make your lines
close and straight. It's for male and female.
It was never said only the men do
that, not the women.
But culturally, somehow,
they they they neglect.
It's a weakness. It's a it's a neglect
for the women's section.
But the rules of fiqh, the rules
of Islam are the same
in most cases for the men and the
women unless it's specifically stated.
You follow the same rules.
There's no difference.
No.
And the janazah, there's, like, 4. There's 4
tech beers. And you stand up. You don't
do record and sujudis to the tekpias.
And the second one is, how if there's,
like, 2 or 3 janazahs
and the
So what they do is that they will
they will bring both bodies. They can do
bring both bodies at the same time.
And then, you know, when,
when you make your dua
in in the prayer, you make it for
2 people
instead of 1.
Or you could have 2 separate genazis, but
normally what
the the right way to do it is
you have, you know, you could line up,
you know, both people and you make a
dua for both people at the same time.
The other general questions, anybody has? Floor is
still open.
Anything online?
So,
inshallah, next week, you know, we will be
continuing
make a decision about, you know, the timing
of the class for the summer. Because next
week is the end of the classes here.
And so we'll be making a decision, you
know, about what would be the timing of
the classes.
So we'll continue, inshallah, the new Muslim corner.
You know, you know, we'll continue on, you
know, as much as we can, you know,
during during the summer months. Okay? So have
a safe journey home. So
I just wanted to, put it out there.
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