Abdullah Hakim Quick – Seerah Of The Prophet #01 Life In Arabia Before Islam
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The importance of understanding the context and cultural and political aspects of the Bible is emphasized in the bookelling of the prophet sallali Alaihi wa sallam, the man behind the story. The importance of historical understanding and understanding the spiritual aspect of Islam is emphasized. The types of people and cultures that were present in the ancient Middle East are discussed, as well as the belief in the tribal system and its protection system. The region where the region was trading with the substance used in the chewing gum and the region where the region was trading with the word Syrosis is also discussed. The history of the region where the region was trading with the substance used in the trade and the region where the region was trading with the word Syrosis is also discussed.
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Scientists tell us that there was a great
valley called the rift valley.
And that rift valley went, you know, from,
East Africa,
Kenya, and even below, all the way up
right into Palestine. So it is from the
Yemen,
that you find the pure form of the
Arabic language.
Welcome, everyone. My name is Mamun Hassan. Welcome
back to the Islamic Institute of Toronto YouTube
channel. Today, we're talking Sheikh Abdul Hakim quick
about this beautiful new series that we're starting,
which is a discussion about the sire of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Our prophet
alaihi salatu wasallam's life is 1 of the
most documented
lives. Actually, it is the most documented life
that you could ever imagine on the face
of the earth. And it is important for
us as Muslims to understand the life of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam so we
can,
understand the message that he, alayhi salatu salam,
has come about. Today, we're going to begin
with a general introduction, inshallah, talaq, of the
land that the prophet, salallahu alayhi salam, and
the world that he has lived in. Welcome.
It's always a pleasure to have you. And
may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless you and
give you a jannah. This is actually a
really wonderful endeavor that we're going to get
on to inshallah. The sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
is something that every single Muslim
person understands
the importance of to the religion itself. But
the source of the sunnah, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam,
is the man who
really is behind,
I guess really, if you if you're gonna
believe in Islam, you need to know about
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The life
of prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, is
actually
the kalima
or the basis of the kalima
put into
living form.
And that is so important today, especially in
the world that we are living in. Because
people, especially the younger generation,
generally take their knowledge
from action oriented,
to individuals.
So it's not just going into an old
library or, you know, seeking knowledge, you know,
from a, you know, a hermit on the
top of a mountain, but now it's cyberspace,
now it's information, now it's see it in
in in motion and in action.
So when we get the life of the
prophet, you will literally see the Quran,
you know, in walking and talking, you know,
as Aisha
described the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
so so therefore, it is of critical importance,
for people to go through the story,
to live
the experiences of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
because
these experiences
are the base of revelation.
So the Quran did not come down
as a single book,
but it is
an answer to issues happening over this 23
year period.
So when we understand
the life of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, we are understanding
the context.
And so the context is so important,
and then it gives us,
living solutions
to the problems we're facing today. Yeah. And
that's and I guess really that's important when
you're actually dealing with Islam itself and understanding
it. But even before,
becoming,
coming into Islam really in a sense. Right?
So a lot of people actually are are
let's say people who are trying to embrace
Islam for us. Yesterday, we were talking about
this. We talked about this completely 2 different,
I guess really extremes of not knowing the
prophet
if you don't know him as an actual
Muslim, what is the danger of that?
The danger is that your your kalima in
a sense, which is,
it it's not complete
because many religions, many individuals believe
that there is a great spirit,
that there is a creator.
Even the scientists
talk about this power force that was there,
of perfection from the beginning of time.
But the but the but the completion of
the kalimah is that Allah
then,
sent a messenger
who was the seal of all the prophets
and messengers who came,
and through him came the last revelation.
And and so by getting that completion,
then we're actually touching on the essence
of what Islam is in its final form.
Mhmm. Okay. Wonderful. In order for us to
understand the the life of the prophet
let's set the context. I guess, really general
area of where the prophet himself is actually
from. Tell me a little bit, Sheikh Aboula,
about,
I guess really
the the the times,
or before the prophet came. What was his
society like?
It's important,
for us to be able to
release ourself from present day names and constructs,
when we are looking at history.
Even if people look back at their maps,
30, 40 years ago, they would see the
Soviet Union,
which no longer exists on the map. Now
it's Russia and it's broken up into many
states. So therefore,
historical maps, historical understanding
gives the context.
Now we have to take a big leap
back. We're talking about going back
time of the prophet. So suddenly, we're talking
about the 6th century.
And for the time before him,
we're actually talking about the early part of
this, millennium,
even BC.
Because this story goes into
the the time of BC, the ancient times.
And and so it's it's important to
to to to put it in its proper
perspective.
And by putting it in its proper perspective,
then we understand,
the importance of the Arabian Peninsula
and how it fit right in
with the last revelation.
Mhmm. So this is important to keep in
mind all the time
is that this is gonna be the base
of the last revelation to all of humanity.
So this is Jazirah Tellarah.
This is the Arabian
Peninsula.
And Jazirah is used in a sense that
normally you think of Jazira as an island.
Yeah.
But this is really a peninsula. But when
you look at it geographically,
the northern part is covered by a sea
of sand.
So it was literally
cut off from the rest of the world.
And it is in this desolate place,
this ancient,
world
that the final revelation comes.
And when you look at the 6th century,
you will see
that the great powers,
of the world and 1 of the great
philosophers of ancient Persia,
named Manny. This is somewhere around
4th century or so. But he said there's
there's 4 great powers in the world. Same
way we
have United States, we have Russia, we have
NATO, China,
but there were 4 great powers at that
time.
1 was the Roman Empire.
The other was the Persian Empire.
The third,
was
3 kingdoms in China.
So he was looking at the whole world.
Yeah. And the 4th, surprisingly enough,
was in Africa.
It was the Aksumite Empire.
So that was considered to be 1 of
the 4 great powers on Earth.
And then there was the Arabian Peninsula.
But when but when you look at the
at the world, you will see the Arabian
Peninsula is sort of like a crossroads.
It's sort of like in between,
these empires.
Okay. So this is actually wonderful, Sheikh. Describe
to me because I wanna see really in
a sense at that time, Sheikh,
let's
assume that we are now a part of,
I guess, really the the Roman Empire, right,
in a sense. How did we see the
Arabs? Like what was what was our perception?
What would you think of them?
The Arabs were generally seen
as Bedouin type people, even the word Arab
itself,
Arabi,
you know, it
it it does give the meaning of
like a a wasteland, somebody who's living in
a desert.
And, generally, the Arabian Peninsula was known, you
know, for that,
except, of course, for the south. Now in
the south where Yemen
was was there were great civilizations,
although, of course, Yemen is still connected to
the desert.
But because of the frankincense and the myrrh
and and the spices coming out of the
south,
the Romans knew about
civilizations,
but they never gave it much weight because
they are materialistic people.
And in terms of materials,
the Arabian Peninsula did not have the palaces.
It did not have the huge armies,
the carpets, the porcelains,
all those different aspects of so called civilization.
But they were known to be,
resolute people,
people with a very complex type of language,
and people who had
this resilience
to be able to travel long distances and
to survive
in very difficult circumstances.
Okay. So that's that's wonderful. That's how they're
seen, I guess, really, I mean, I asked
you if the the how the Roman Empire.
Is that how they were seen by all
of them? Is that how they were seen
also by the the Persian Empire, for instance?
How they were also seen by the,
the really the Aksumite
empire? Like, is that is that like a
uniform way of how they were seen?
It was in a sense, although the Persians
did not do much trade in terms of
the frankincense and myrrh, the major trade routes.
Persians had more of a connection with Arabian
Peninsula because of Iraq, the Tigris Euphrates. Yeah.
So so their relationship was,
slightly different than the Romans. However,
still
the Arabian Peninsula, Jazayo Tal Arab, was considered
to be a wasteland. Mhmm. And it's a
place where nobody really wants to pass through.
You gotta find a way around it
and not go through it. Okay. This this
is actually really important that you said this.
How did the Arabs get there? I mean,
you're saying that the land itself was such
a difficult land, and and most of the
reasons why you're saying to me there wasn't
a lot of communication with the other, empires
really, It was due to the language and
also the vast,
I guess really desert that they were living
amongst. Like, how difficult the land itself. How
did these Arabs come to live in this
difficult,
space? Again, if we look at the world
in terms of the chronology,
of, you know, the Earth and the shifting
of the Earth,
Scientists tell us that there was a great
valley called the rift valley.
And that rift valley went, you know, from,
East Africa,
Kenya, and even below all the way up
right into Palestine.
And and and that valley it was that
valley that split,
that made the Red Sea.
Mhmm. So in ancient times, and I'm talking
1000 of years ago, Africa was connected to
Arabia.
There was no separation.
And even if you look at the 2
sides after the split, the Red Sea is
not a major barrier. Yeah. So
therefore, the the peoples of Africa
who, I think it's agreed upon,
human beings, homo sapiensapien,
actually originally came from out of Africa.
These are the original human beings
who migrated to different parts of the world,
And so in the same way that they
migrated north and went to the Sahara Desert,
of North Africa,
they went across the Mediterranean, they went to
different areas.
So they migrated into this Arabian Peninsula,
area Mhmm. And they settled,
in that area keeping their connection,
with the people across the Red Sea,
especially the people in what is now known
as,
the Sudan,
Djibouti,
Somalia, and and those areas. Really, there was
not much,
separation.
However, with time and through the changes in
history,
the Arabian Peninsula took on a special significance.
Mhmm. But in the ancient times,
it was really just a place that people
would cross through,
in order to get somewhere else. Mhmm. Okay.
So that's good. That's that's how how they
came about. Now you oftentimes you talk about
the types of Arabs.
I I wanna get into understanding the types
of Arabs before we get into who Quraysh
is and what type of people that they
actually were themselves. You break down the Arabs
into 3 different categories. Yeah? That's right. Many
of the historians and linguists,
look at the ancient Arabs,
and I'm talking 1000 of years ago, as
first being.
Mhmm. And so this is what you could
call the perishing Arabs.
These are the ancient societies.
And the Quran speaks about Had and Talmud
and Madai and Salih.
There are still ruins there in the Arabian
Peninsula of these ancient societies.
But for the most part, although they were
speaking a type of
proto Arabic, it was
a Semitic language, which some say is the
original Semitic language.
They for the most part
died out
and their languages died out because of the
droughts and because of destructions and things that
happened. So they are perishing Arabs. The only
thing left from them, I visited the country
of Oman.
And in Oman,
there are some people who are speaking a
language.
It's not Arabic. Mhmm. And it's considered to
Some some modern day Arabic. Yeah. It's it's
like it's it's not even, you know, patois
colloquial Arabic. It is something else. And the
Romani said this is the remnants of this
ancient language that was there,
of of Al Arab al Baydah.
The second group, you could call,
Al Arab Al Araba.
So these are the
pure original Arabs,
and
I think that most historians
and linguists
do agree on the fact that the the
original Arabs came out of the Yemen. Yeah.
So it is from the Yemen,
that you find the pure form of the
Arabic language, and then you will find the
tribes that migrated to different places.
Even if you look at places like, Medina,
Yathrib, the house in the Khazdaj, and you
go back and you'll see they originally came
out of Yemen. Yeah. If you look back
at many different parts of what is now
the Arabian Peninsula,
so it comes out of Al Arab and
Araba.
So this is
the pure original Arabs. And the third group
is
Al Arab and Mustadaba,
and so these are the,
Arabized
Arabs. So these are people who took on
the culture,
of the Arabs, but mainly the language.
They took on the language and and they
came into the Arab world. And so today,
if you look at the Arab world and
you had a meeting of all the Arab
states and you had a Moroccan delegate
speaking to a Lebanese delegate.
Very far off. They might not understand each
other. Only 10% of the unless they spoke
classical Arabic. Yeah. If they spoke classical Arabic,
then they could. But it is because the
the the Lebanese were originally Phoenicians,
so they had their own language.
The Moroccans
and Algerians were originally Amazigh. They were Berber,
so they had their own language. And then
they took on Arab Arabic
and gave it sort of their own accent,
their own nuance,
and whatnot. So these are the 3 groups,
you could say that make up what we
now know as the Arab world. The Arab
world. Okay. Very good. So the are
gone. Like, what's an example of
a right now, for
And you could also find I found, because
I visited the south of Arabia,
and if you go to,
El Baha and you go way down south
by the Yemen border, you'll find the Saudis
down there. Yeah. The dialect that they speak,
you know, is,
you know, a pure type of Arabic. I
mean, I was learning Arabic. Mhmm. And And
so there's so many different
barriers you have to go through with colloquial
Arabic. And and 1 of my original teachers
was from Yemen,
and, he easily spoke fusha. The only problem
with Yemen is is they talk too fast.
That's right. So you have to slow them
down. Slow them down. Yeah. If you can
slow them down,
then you will see that they are it's
it's almost,
pure Arabic itself. Mhmm. Okay. Wonderful. And then
the Arab of Istanbul, right now, I guess,
really with your sum
if you use the exam, modern day Lebanon,
modern day Sudan, modern day
these these other countries.
Okay. Wonderful.
So this is actually a really good introduction
to what we're going to get into right
now. Because right now, actually, what I want
to talk about is this release,
the Al Arab as an entity.
And this is a I don't know if
it's a unique thing to them, but it
is something that they they they sought out
as something that's very prominent within their society,
which is the tribal system.
System of tribes, system of and that's I
think it's really important for us to talk
about this because the prophet before we talk
about him and which tribe he came out
of, I wanna understand a little bit about
how the society operated in terms of tribes
and sub tribes and so on. This is
just in in in that area of the
tribes of the prospect. Again, when you look
at the Arabian Peninsula,
we'll see that 90% of it or more,
is Sahara. It's desert.
And living in the desert,
requires
resilience,
courage,
strength,
and it requires unity.
So therefore, it was natural for human beings
to come together in strong units.
And so it is these units that adapted
to different sections of the Arabian Peninsula,
and
defended their land,
and built their traditions and their customs, you
know, around themselves.
And generally, they were an oral culture. Yeah.
So they would also transmit,
you know, their lineage,
and and became very important to them in
terms of their lineage.
And you'll see that, you know, tribalism
or the fact that you're in a certain
tribe,
in some cases,
would save your life.
If you look at Africa, for instance, West
Africa,
there are people who have scarification.
Yeah. To know you to know where they're
from. So you'll see. And, you know, somebody
told me, you know, this is not just
AAA design for beauty on his face. That's
his passport. Yeah. So literally That's right. You
know, that's a tribal passport. Somebody sees those
scars on your face, you can go through.
That's right. So if you don't have it,
you're in trouble. So so similarly with the
Arabs,
they would identify themselves through the tribes as
a means of survival, subsistence,
as a means of unity,
as a means of bargaining with other tribes,
in order to form larger groups,
which eventually,
could come into nations.
But it starts with that family,
and then it goes to a higher, you
know, stage.
And I would say that really
survival is the basis of it. It's not
just a matter of pride.
It's not racism
because Arabs are light skinned,
brown skinned, dark skinned. It it's not really
a racial group,
but it's more of a subsistence
group, and and a way to unite,
to survive this terrible climate. Mhmm. Okay. Wonderful.
So I guess that's really the the the
and it's also, I guess, really a part
of protection
for the community. So kind of like, I
guess, really the law right now. Right now
we have police and we have legal systems,
but that's how you kind of have,
that this tribe. I guess, really, that's you've
mentioned a couple of things that are positive
about Israel, the tribalistic system, and so on.
But we're gonna talk about the prophet. I
do wanna talk about some of the negatives
of having such a tribalistic system. What were
some of the things that you would have
been apprehensive about, I guess, really living in
that time? The problem with the tribal system
is that,
because it is this protection
system and it and it has its own
honor
based upon its leadership.
They had a serious problem with intercom revenge.
And once blood was shed
between 2 tribes, they could fight for the
next 50 years,
which would get doesn't really make sense, but,
you know, in a tribal,
honor system,
it becomes very important.
So
that is the negative part, you know, of
of of the tribal,
you know, system. And then if a larger
enemy is attacking an area,
it would be easy to defeat them because
they're broken into tribes.
They're not united. Yeah. So therefore,
they could never form,
a major
entity,
a major nation like the Persians or the
Romans
or the Aksumite Ethiopians,
they couldn't do it because they were too
divided into small,
factions and groups.
So this really is a negative part. And
then also in terms of intermarriage,
in terms of respect,
in terms of
linguistic differences.
Mhmm. Sometimes people
split hairs. They they they have these tiny
differences,
you know, which are not really differences,
but which keeps them divided for a long
time. That's right. And I guess really, Sheikh,
I mean we're talking about the the tribalistics,
but I guess just really kinda I guess
really from my own knowledge. That wasn't something
that was just specific to the Arabs. Right?
Like, I mean, other
other
groups also had tribes and subtribes. I guess
it just really prevailed a lot within the
actual Arabic,
like,
society. Like, didn't Persians have tribes? Didn't Persians
had tribes.
Turks had tribes. The Africans. Surprisingly enough Africans
had tribe tribalism, very serious issue in Africa.
Yeah. Surprisingly enough, even in the Americas Mhmm.
The indigenous people, the native people here had
had tribes. And 1 of the great
achievements of the Iroquois
nation,
which is 1 of the most famous nations
is that they united
the tribes in a confederacy. Mhmm. And so
it was that confederacy
that was the basis of the constitution of
the United States.
Because Benjamin Franklin went amongst the Iroquois,
and and he found this system
of uniting different tribes under this
confederation, under this constitution.
And so unless you have some
uniting constitution
or belief system,
you will stay hopelessly divided.
Wonderful.
This is actually really amazing that we're talking
about this because I wanna really lay down
the ground for what it was gonna be
talking about
The next thing that I wanna talk about,
I guess, really, so we can
is the city that the prophet himself was
born in before the birth of the prophet.
I mean, let's not even before the birth
of the prophet. How did Mecca come about?
I mean, it's it's it's in such an
awkward
place in the world, right, in a sense?
If you can tell us a story of
how Mecca as a as a city came
about.
When you look at the Arabian Peninsula,
we see Yemen,
in the deep south. Mhmm. And then, of
course, you know, north, which is by Syria,
you and then this desert area, and then
you have the Red Sea, which, you know,
which is on the west.
And so,
there were trade routes
that were going from the south to the
north, and from the north to the south.
And Mecca in a sense What were they
trading services?
So so so generally, you know, they would
be trading the frankincense and the myrrh,
from the south because in Oman and Hazaromat,
and these regions in the south in Yemen
Yeah. They had this,
you know, type of incense. It's
almost like Canadians have maple syrup. Yeah. And
so you cut it off the tree, it
drips. Yeah. So they had a type of
syrup as well, but when you cut it
off, and it forms a very tough,
substance. If you burn it, it releases a
smell that kills bad otis. And it's got
sort of a spiritual
nature to it as well. There's another form,
of Luban that they have. There's another form
that's a little bit gummy. Yeah. And so
they would take it and they cut a
little piece off and then chew it. So
that was your original chewing gum, your juicy
fruits. Yeah. Yeah. Was actually first started down
in the south. Yeah. And what's interesting about
this is that you could travel 1, 000
of miles with this substance in your bag
and it's okay.
It doesn't go bad.
And so everybody wanted this. The Christians wanted
it for their churches,
The Buddhists, the Hindus, everybody wanted it for
their spiritual centers
to have this smell.
The rich
and the famous
wanted to have,
this smell,
for their houses,
to to keep their houses, you know, having
a good smell and also their breath,
to have a good breath. So this is
became part of high civilization.
So the Arabs would then trade it from
the south. It would go along the coast,
the Red Sea coast,
and then to the north,
and then they would trade,
you know, on, you know, the the coast
in mainly in the area called Gaza,
you know, today. And we we will go
more into this Shem Shem overall. Yeah. Later
on. Yeah. But that's basically the area they
would trade, you know, up and down. The
Romans and the Greeks
and the Phoenicians, they would meet them on
the coast.
And then they
they would have
different metals and, you know, different,
objects that were needed, you know, by the
Arabs at the time. The leathers that were
needed and,
different, you know, gemstones and things that the
Arabs could use at the time. So it
was a brisk trade,
that continued,
you know, for 100 of years. But Mecca
is not on the on the,
I guess really on
the coast
close. So how did it come about? So
so Mecca is really
more toward it's going toward the center. Yeah.
But it is sort of halfway in a
sense when you're on your way up. Mhmm.
And in order to understand
what Mecca was, it's it's basically a desolate
valley. Mhmm.
And those who have been in deserts know
it. They're not all nice evenly formed sandals.
But in deserts, there's flat areas, there's valleys,
there's mountains,
there's all types of things that are in
deserts. And in order to understand
this desolate valley
that was known as Becca,
because Becca was the original name, We have
to go into the story of, Ibrahim alaihis
salas,
prophet Abraham.
Because it is there that this desolate valley
actually took shape,
and became like a city itself.
But in ancient times,
it was known as a valley,
that is there not too far from the
coast, but in that. Mhmm. Okay. So that's
actually wonderful. Let's talk about how, prophet Ibrahim
alaihis salam, for instance, established Makkah.
Tell me just a really brief and quick
because that's not really the actual scope of
what we're talking about but just give me
a brief quick
description of how this came about. Well, basically,
we we need to look at Ibrahim alaihis
salaam, in a different way because people tend
to be very nationalistic and,
you know, extreme when they deal with religious
characters. But if you look at the the
genealogy of Ebrahim,
if you he came from the Tigris Euphrates
region. Mhmm. On the from the area of
Mesopotamia.
Mhmm. And so there,
were idol worshiping people,
and he rejected the idols. He was driven
out of his country, and he left from
there with his wife Sarah.
Mhmm. And they went,
into Syria,
and then around into, Palestine,
and then down into Egypt. Yeah. Now they
were speaking a type of Syriac language
that that was connected to the Semitic languages.
It wasn't actually a total Semitic language,
but it was sort of a sister, you
know, language of this of this Semitic language.
Keep in mind, Sheikh Sheikh, that, Ibrahim alaihis
salami is not an Arab, where he's not
by all the scholars, he's not considered as
an Arab. So he's not an Arab. Yeah.
It's a very important point. And so he
travels around,
and, in his travels, he he ends up
in Egypt on the Nile Valley.
And
the the Nile had been taken over
according to some historians by the Hyksos, the
Amalekha,
who actually came from Iraq as well.
And it's a long story, but they eventually
befriended him, and,
they had captured a number of Egyptians, because
the Egyptians are African people, by the way,
clearly. Mhmm. And,
they had captured, you know, some of the
nobility. And there are some accounts that say
that he was given,
a handmaid,
a princess from a royal family. Hadjar,
was her name. And then later on,
because Sarah could not have children,
Sarah gave
Hadjard
to Ebrahim as a wife. Mhmm. So so
at that point, Ebrahim,
Abraham had 2 wives. He had Sarah on
1 side and he had Hajar on the
other side. Yeah.
And he went back to the Palestine
area. Hajar
actually got pregnant Mhmm. And she conceived Ishmael.
Ishmael
is known, you know, in the Western world.
And so,
Sarah stayed in in Palestine,
and Ibrahim,
you know, with direction from the creator,
went south. And this is recorded even in
the Psalms,
in what is left of the bible. Yeah.
And Becca is the name that is being
used. Becca is used also within In the
Quran. The Quran
itself. So Ibrahim,
and Hajar, and Ismail
went to the desert, they went south. He
was commanded by God. They ended up in
the valley,
And,
Ibrahim,
after a while, he had to leave,
to go back to his other wife who
was in Palestine.
This is all under
divine direction. Yeah. And he leaves Hajar in
the valley, and it's it's very hot and
and very barren. Ismail is digging in the
ground,
and water is coming, and so Zamzam water
appears.
Okay. So now when when Zamzam appears
gushing out,
this now changes the desolate valley
into an object of attraction
Yeah. For the caravans.
And so literally,
from distances you could see birds
flying towards this area. In the desert, that's
a sign of water and life. That's a
sign of water. Yeah. And so the tribes,
El Arabel Araba,
who are coming from the south
on the caravan routes, they realized their animals,
you know, tending toward this area.
Birds and their scouts went there, and they
realized there's water in this valley. Mhmm. So
they came to the valley, and they settled,
in this area,
And it is reported that Ishmael,
alaihis salam, he actually married from the Jurhum,
which is 1 of the Arabel Araba tribes,
there. And so the settlements now started to
fall,
with the pure Arabs coming from the south
and then the family of Ibrahim,
alaihis salam. So Mecca now takes a different
shape.
It becomes
a stop off point on your way north
or your way south. Yeah. And by the
very nature of stop off points,
it becomes a center of trade. Yeah.
Because people will drop their goods, they will
pay for food, they will pay for water.
Yeah. And so it started to to grow,
and people came from areas, other areas to
be in the area of Mecca. It's still
in this valley,
but it it takes on,
you know, AAAA
economic
base.
And
later,
with the building of the Kaaba itself by
Ibrahim alaihis salam, you know, and his son,
it takes on religious,
you know, sense in that the Kaabo or
the house of worship was built there. So
therefore,
it it it changes from a desolate valley
into now, an trade center,
a religious center,
a center of the meeting of different peoples,
and it becomes a very important city. Okay.
So it's important, Sheikh, because by by definition,
really, the moment this this city becomes a
a center of trade, a center of worship,
and so on,
The people there will start to speak a
language that's a bit more accessible to everybody
else. They'll learn the language of those who
are actually arriving and so on. Right?
I mean, I I know I read some
of the the people where they say that,
you know, the scholars talk about the fact
that this is really the reason why the
prophet saw someone, he speaks to people, he
can speak to anybody who's anywhere because he
has that kind of a skill and so
on. Right? Right. And I and I genuinely
appreciate the fact that you're mentioning this here
because it's really important. Okay. So
now Sheikh,
a year or 2, I mean, this is
really modern time. Okay. And I guess really
what I want to talk about next time,
Insha'Allah
is the actual times at the year or
2 before the birth of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. And this we'll talk about
the next time inshaAllah ta'ala.
Well, I I think it's important,
again in the formation of
the people of Mecca Yeah.
And
the nobles of Mecca.
Because Ismail alaihis salam,
he learned Arabic
from the Jordan. Yeah. This is interesting. Yeah.
He learned to speak Arabic. So he was
not an Arab.
He's
a he learns to speak Arabic,
and then his children now,
become natural Arabic speaking people. But when you
look at the genealogy, because I think it's
always important to look at the root of
the people,
The, mother of,
Ishmael was an African Mhmm. From a noble
family in Africa Yeah. Egypt.
The father was Iraqi
Mhmm. For Tigris Euphrates region. So this is
these are 2 major
civilization
bases.
Meeting together. So it's a meeting together of
the Tigris Euphrates,
the Nile Valley,
and the pure Arabs of the south. Subhanallah.
So the combination of these
civilization
bases
forms the tribe of Quraish.
So the nobility is not a racial 1
because there is no if you do DNA.
Right? There's no expression about that. You're gonna
see African DNA, you're gonna see,
Mesopotamian
DNA, you're gonna see, Arab DNA.
It's a mixture, but it is
really the position that they have.
And then,
being in that position,
they they develop a type of dialect as
well, their way of speaking Arabic because of
the prominence of their city.
And so they become that is what they're
now considered to be noble
people. Okay? And so that really is the
base of the leadership,
there in Mecca itself,
and and the basis of that society.