Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Lessons from the Prophet’s Migration (Hijra)
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So the kala hula alim, my dear respected friends.
Today, the discussion is about our beloved messenger, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
I was given a topic to speak about, I believe it said, the cave
or something like this, I'm assuming that this had something
to do with the migration. I felt that that was very relevant for
what the Muslims are facing today. Because the migration is that one,
really highlighting milestone journey of Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi wasallam, during his 23 years of prophecy,
which is really a very significant, significant, really
significant experience that was that took place at the time, the
migration. The reason I mentioned this, is that a lot of people
sitting here today and a lot of the Muslims that we know,
especially those people who come from
Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, maybe from Somalia, from Algeria,
from Egypt, etc, we all have some sense of an understanding of
migration, which is from moving from one place to the next for a
particular reason, while maybe our migration was for the sake of the
dunya. When I say I am our migration, I mean, the people that
we connect to our migration was to do with the dunya in terms of
finding better opportunity, better opportunity, sometimes you can
have a you can have a pious intention in that better
opportunity, being more comfortable, and thus be able to
also worship Allah subhana wa Tada. Sometimes in difficulty, it
can be quite a fitna, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
girdle Fukuro, a Hakuna Ghufron, sometimes poverty can lead a
person to
sometimes poverty can actually end up as Gopher, because a person
becomes so despondent, a person becomes so hopeless, so helpless,
that they then fall into the traps of others, there's so many
missionaries going around in the world, giving things in the name
of Jesus, peace be upon him. And it does create a lot of issues for
people. So clearly, there can be a pious intention. That's the beauty
of the intention of the believer that he could be doing something
for the dunya, but can also be doing something for the Accra at
the same time, our entire focus and intention should be for the
akhira, which will include intention for this dunya it's a
very simple, it's a very simple logic, if you make any plans for
this dunya only for this dunya it can include the hereafter, because
the hereafter comes later on. And anybody who's making any plans for
this world, it cannot incorporate the Akira. However, if you have
the Akira in mind, and your intention is the Akira, then any
plan that you make has to include this world. So in that sense, any,
any decision you take will include this dunya will include this
world, but it's focused and its effect will be concerned with the
hereafter. So that's the benefit whenever you're making any
decision about a business about a trip about a journey about a
purchase, about a marriage or whatever the case is, just have
just figured that archaea are in there, that the hereafter in
there. So when you come to Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi
wasallam, the migration he took that took place there was quite
amazing.
And the reason for it is that it's opposed to maybe what we've
experienced, were coming. Many of us have come from difficult
places, to possibly a better place in the sense of at least that
dunya. And to be honest, in a in a big sense. Maybe even in terms of
the dean, this country has offered us great opportunities. Of course,
because of the people who have worked hard. The forefathers who
set the Muslims in this country and who worked hard to establish
the massage and the institute's the organization's there's no
doubt Allah reward them abundantly because they will reap the
benefits and the rewards for this for time to come. And it's no
small deal. This is a trophy from Allah. I have had a
I've had an opportunity to travel extensively through Europe and
around the world. And I have to say that this, Allah subhanaw
taala has absolutely blessed us. We have issues, we have issues,
and we will have issues. That's the nature of the world, you could
be in a Muslim country and have issues. So the migration story is
quite an interesting story because it gives us a lot of comfort, when
you see the difficulty of somebody else, that it makes your
difficulty easy. That's why Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, before he passed away, one of the things he says that if ever
a calamity reaches you, then think of the calamity of losing me and
that will make your calamity more simple for you to bear. Because
the greatest calamity was that Rasul Allah Lawson departed this
world which was all the plan of Allah subhanaw taala. So, that's,
that's the way it's going to be. However, Allah subhanho wa Taala
speaks about he tells us about the previous prophets as well. These
are the closest of the closest, these are the most intimate
individuals to Allah subhanaw taala there's nobody closer to
Allah than the prophets. They are specially selected. They are made
in for envoys they are chosen from among all the people of the time
to represent Allah's message on this world to guide people to be
the vice Gerrans, the true representative. And among all of
them, you have the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So
now if you look at some of the verses, for example, in Surah,
Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Carl Mila will Lavina stick
baru mean call me healer? No hurry. Janica Yeah, sure. I will.
Latina I'm an American in Korea, Tina, out there who don't have
human Latina. This is the people who had transgressed and being
arrogant in the world. They said, Yeah, sure, I strive on a Salam,
we will surely evict you, we will show you send you out and banish
you from this place. And all those who have believed with you unless
you return to our faith. So movement as a threat, throwing
somebody else excluding somebody, all of this has happened before to
other prophets. In fact, number of prophets migrated. One of the
greatest is the great grandfather of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi,
wasallam, Ibrahim Ali Salam, he leaves his father, he leaves their
people and he says, I'm going and he goes from Babylon, which is
Iraq today, and he goes to Jerusalem. And then he goes, and
then he takes his wife from the Hydra Alia salaam, he goes and
takes it to Macau and he settles there and look at the great things
that have happened because of movement. Movement is an amazing
thing. Movement is an amazing thing as Imam Shafi says, He said
you should travel, although he's talking about traveling, but
traveling when it can't. He says for one thing that sometimes
people are not valued in the place they are they rejected, people are
ungrateful. And when you move, and you'll find another place, your
value suddenly comes about the he says that if it wasn't for
movement, then for example, if you had the pearls that are on the
necks of women that adorn their necks with these great pearls, if
they if it wasn't for movement, those pearls would have been at
the bottom of the ocean. If it wasn't for movement, the root,
which is the fungus on the bark of a tree, if it wasn't for movement,
it would have just remained fungus, just a buck, but it moves
and suddenly that becomes as great as gold. Same with gold itself.
It's in the grounds. But if it wasn't for movement, then it would
have been without any value. Today it becomes invaluable because of
its movement. Hudsucker and movement is important to look for
this tells us something great the migration journey of Rasulullah
sallallahu and tells us something very important that you cannot
bury your head in the sand. It this is the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi salam is speaking about this is Rasul Allah salAllahu
Alaihe. Salam out of all of these great prophets we spoke about he
is the greatest of them, the closest to Allah. In fact, there
is no comparison to him. As the author of the Buddha Allah boo
city says that Falconer been the hulking Wolfie Harlequin. In fact,
he mentions in another place. He says that there is no comparison.
There is no comparison. It's like he says, a new right Arabic you
have the letters. Elif Berta. And then you have the Holika you have
the Fatah casada man the dots, he says the prophets are only like
the symbols compared to the lead letters when you compare the
prophets to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When I first
looked at that, when I first read that I thought that was
exaggeration in love for Rasulullah Salallahu Salam, but
there is no doubt of the trueness of that fact. And the status of
Rasulullah for where he has been, where he has been. We can only
tell by his
His physical ascension. We can't tell his spiritual dimension,
because obviously he didn't reveal everything, all the experiences
that he must have had all those great, intimate discourses he had
with Allah subhanaw taala. Of course, he can't reveal it because
how can you reveal that? In the words of human beings, those are
experiences just the first time he's not the first time he's in
the cave, but the first experience that he has in the cave of Hira
when he receives the first revelation, can you imagine how
amazing that must have been? This is an angel, the greatest of the
angels Jabra, Jabra ilardi Salam Jibreel Alaihe Salam, he comes
down with the words of Allah with the words of Allah which Allah
says about these words. Lo unzila huddle Khurana Allah jevelin La
ADA who Hashem Mutasa, minha Shatila, if we were to have
revealed this Quran onto a mountain, you would have seen it
with her into doth, this was given to the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
in his heart. This has been processed, the Quran that we read
today would not have come to us we would not have been able to take
it in its original form. It is given to rasool Allah SallAllahu
sallam. That is why the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam is related
about him that whenever revelation would come to him, it would be a
freezing day, a cold day, and he would begin to sweat, he would
have to sit down, he would lower his head, he would take his shawl
and he would cover he would, he would take his wrap, and he would
cover himself with it just so that people couldn't see what was going
on. If you were sitting on an animal, and the revelation began,
he'd have to get off, the animal would have to sit because there
was a burden there. In fact, one Sahabi says that he was sitting
next to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on one occasion,
the prophesy blossoms knee, corner of his knee, because he was
sitting cross legged, his corner of his knee was on the thigh of
the sahabi next to him, and the revelation began just two words
revelation, well, you only borrowed that's it. And he says,
the weight that I felt I could not bear like a mountain on my, on my,
on myself. That's how it felt. The professor Larson would, would
would experience this would experience this, this was the
receive the receipt, this was receiving the revelation, the
Quran of Allah. Now imagine this experience when Gibreel Allah
Jabril Gibreel Ira Salam comes in,
embraces him, he hugs him, squeezes him in a sense. Can you
imagine what kind of
transmission is taking place there? This is preparation for the
prophesy loss. I'm saying I don't know how to read. I don't read,
read, I don't read. And then suddenly, after the third, he
started reading a crop misanthropic allele Hello, he
says, Read, he realized I'm told him, this is what you must read.
And the promise hasn't comes back. Now. The promise of awesome is
trembling. He's frightened. He's concerned. Clearly, that tells you
that this was an extremely unusual incident. extremely unusual for a
person to feel somebody like Rasulullah sallallahu Alireza,
that's an amazing thing that happens in that cave. And then
after that, you get the other experience which happens in the
other cave, the progress and ultimately, you know, as I said,
it's very difficult for us to understand the spiritual
elevation, the spiritual ascendancy, his spiritual
experiences, but the one thing we can say for sure, for example, he
says, on one day, he says that in my salaat, the shaytaan started
bothering me, they started confusing me. So I reached out and
I was about to grab the shaytaan and I was I was I grabbed the
shaytaan and I was going to, I was going to tie him up for you to see
the shaytaan but then I remember the dua of Solomon rd Solana that
do not give me give me give me a sovereignty and a kingdom like no
other. So then I let him go, these are experiences a soul allah
sallallahu Sallam is having these amazing experiences.
So how is it possible for us to understand his status? The other
thing is that when the professor was on was taken on that
ascension, from Masjidul, haram to Mr. Al Aqsa, and then beyond that
to the seventh heaven, and when he gets there he was he was allowed
to go where even the angel Jibreel alayhi salam was not able to go.
And he says that when he got there, he went to the Sidra to
Linda the load tree, which is the furthest and he says suddenly I
see all of this great shining things that surround this tree.
And he says there's no way that human words can describe this. The
only thing I can say is that this was some amazing 4d experience.
Not only if you've ever had a an artificial 4d experience, which
means
means when you hear something, we hear it with our ears. But here, I
believe it's something beyond that. It's about absorbing the
experience with every pore of your body. So no longer is it that
you're just seeing with your eyes. And you're just hearing with your
eardrums, you are through your ear canal, but you are experiencing
the whole thing with every pore of your body. And that's what makes
this so amazing. And it's impossible for a person to
describe this. This was Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam. Now,
you might say, well, this is just glorifying the messenger that we
get reward for this. The more we glorify our messenger, the more
his love sets into our hearts, the more he becomes pertinent and
important in our life. And it's only when somebody becomes
important to us in our life, that we will then seek to follow seek
to emulate, consider them worthwhile to even learn about,
that's what the issue is. Today. The problem is that the story of
Rasulullah sallallahu is restricted to the few believers it
is not shared. It is not shared sufficiently, it is not acted out
sufficiently. The story of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam
needs to be implemented, absorbed, adopted, and then emulated and
then he be represented by every Mohammadi on this earth for
everybody else that there is and thus that is what's going to
exclude the power. Now let us start.
Ibrahim alayhis salam migrated loot on a salon migrated with him
his wife sada Alia salami bro Madison's wife migrated with him,
Jaco Valley his Shari Valley Salaam is one that we will take
you out of this. So this kind of movement has happened quite
frequently with Rasul Allah salAllahu alayhi wasallam. The
story leading up to the migration is well known, there was great
persecution, the prophets of Allah Islam was first told that by Allah
subhanho wa Taala that your people can migrate to Abyssinia. That's
why two there were two migrations to Abyssinia before Madina
Munawwara. They were allowed to go to Abyssinia which was down south
through the Arabian Peninsula down towards Yemen. Beyond that, over
the over the Gulf and into Ethiopia today, Ethiopia is north
east, north east of Africa. That's where they went great king of
Negus and the Joshi, who was there, one of the Allahu Anhu. And
he welcomed you welcome the people for anybody who's interested in
visiting Abyssinia. Some plan that I've tried to make a few times is
a place called non Jewish or non Jewish, which is approximately
seven, eight hours from Addis Ababa towards the north. That is
where they say that this is where all of this happens. So it's not
in the capital. There's another famous area called Harar, which is
to I believe it's to the west of the country. That's where there's
a huge Muslim population, a lot of one of the great scholars of there
was in Lebanon, he had a you know, he has a following there. He has a
he has a few ideas, which is great scholar of archaea, etc, though he
has a few
issues with some of some of the issues that he has, but there is
it's about seven or eight hours further north towards more towards
Eritrea and the coasts in that sense. Anyway.
After that, people were allowed to move to Madina Munawwara the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was shown this in a dream
he saw taba the excellent place, the beautiful place this pleasant
illuminated city, which he was shown in his dream. So what then
happens is Rasool Allah says this, I'm going to I'm going to read to
you now I'm going to
recount to you that account. I'm going to recount to you the
migration through a number of different narrations. Listen to
that. Hamid Buhari, etc. I'm going to collectively mentioned to you
so that we understand the story of this migration, what happened and
hope to learn something from it. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, God, there are eight udara he's rhotic them. I've been
shown I have seen the abode of your migration, the abode of your
migration, redo Subhan Virta naphthalene bein Allah betaine. I
have seen this oasis between two love tracks, because around Madina
Munawwara there are two lava tracks, these dark stones if you
go outside of Madina, Munawwara you will actually see them dark
volcanic rocks. This is from the that's a volcanic area. In
essence, about 500 years after a solar allah sallallahu sallam, the
great volcano didn't erupt down there, and the fire came and it
was nearly going to consume the Masjid. But everybody ran into
make dua, the leader of the time he freed so many slaves gave a lot
of sadaqa the whole inhabitants went and they began to pray in the
masjid and miraculously right at the end
And this, this volcanic lava or whatever it was, as it was just
coming down in this one direction it's suddenly turned. And recent
geologists who have looked at this, they can actually see this,
that there's something that caused it to turn. Recently there was a
scholar who went with a geologist, and they were studying this, and
this is what they discovered, the proof of it is in there, and the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that this fire will erupt in
Madina Munawwara he said this in his time, 500 years or so, before
it did, and he said that it will be so large the flames and the
light from this will actually cause the palaces of the area in
Sharm called Busan southern sham under Damascus Busara it will
cause the next of the cameras there to be lit. That's how it
will be. And that's a very far distance. So this was an amazing
incident that took place. Anyway, the prophets Allah some says that
I have been shown the abode of your migration.
So it's now start to people started going to Madina Munawwara
it was easier to get to them, it was easier to get to, but as
people knew, as the disbelievers knew, they they did not want
people to go on the other side. The reason is that they would be
that would become a stronghold, that would become a place for re
incursion into mcomber karma. So they would persecute people,
number of people persecuted, people have to hide and go, those
who managed to go on what are the Allahu Anhu was the only one that
went open. He went into the gathering of the Quraysh by the
haram. This was the place they would hold their meetings. He went
there and he said,
which one of you which one of you wants his mother to cry over a
lost son, his wife to be widowed? Children to be orphaned, then
follow me beyond this valley. And he walked out like this boldly,
others had to hide when it came to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
There was another group that had gone to the way in in Abyssinia
when they heard about Madina, Munawwara being the place now they
all left Abyssinia and they came to Madina Munawwara so now you've
got this group building up in Madina Munawwara Of course, there
had been some high level secret meetings between the
representatives of Medina who initially offered this place, but
this tells us you continue your struggle, Allah will provide
through these external factors, Allah will provide opportunity,
you may not see it coming. You may not see it coming, but the people
have of Madina Munawwara the two tribes of Olson has Raj Babu kala
they call them right they were from the originally the same
ancestry before they offered this. So, after some meetings,
eventually the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam how to satisfy
your satisfied reassured his uncle was reassured as well. And then
after that he allowed the people to go so now people started moving
there.
Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu had already tried once to migrate to
Abyssinia. He'd been tired of Medina of maca, maca, Rama, he
tried to go down to Habesha to Abyssinia as he left Madina
Munawwara he was stopped by the by this person whose name was Edna
Davina, he was the chief of the cholera tribe, which is south of
Madina, Munawwara
this chief says to him that way, where are you going? He says, Oh,
my people are persecuting me, and they're causing me problems. They
don't allow me to pray, et cetera, et cetera. And this person was
totally shocked because obika The Allah who was well known as an
really decent, pleasant individual, somebody who doesn't
harm anybody else. So this ignorant Davina
out of compassion for him, he says that there's no way a person like
you can be rejected from his city evicted from his city, a person
like you can never do that. So he comes with him to Madina.
Munawwara speaks to the leaders that he says I give him my
protection.
So a worker then was allowed to stay there. And then after that,
he continued to make his Salaat in his garage and people continued
to,
to listen to that. The Quraysh did not like that. They did not like
that people would listen to his Quran reciting they tell him no
you have to read in your house, but he had made a like a little
masala outside of his house. Anyway, finally, when the prophets
of Allah said you can go to Madina, Munawwara over crodeon got
ready, because he was willing to go when the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam found out about a bucket of the oil he says Allah the slick
wait up stage, just wait wait for a while because I have a hope that
I'm also going to be permitted soon. Now he didn't say I'm going
to come with you. You're going to come with me. He just says Wait,
I'm going to be permitted soon. obika The Allahu Anhu said oh, you
hope to go soon. So the prophets Allah some said yes, so
overcrowded and then kept himself back. He stayed then what he did
in the meantime, is he started preparing to good calm
goes to good animals. He started feeding them. And this was for
about, He fed them the best of the time for about four months. This
was about four months he'd been feeding them well, then what
happens is I shot of the Allah Juana reports this now she's got
the whole detail. She says that once it was we were sitting in our
house at peak noontime you know the time when people take a
siesta, it's the afternoon time and nobody goes out. I remember
once I went to Dubai the first time and I'm going out in this
peak heat and no shops are open. And it was like a crazy man you
know, in two, three minutes you become and say what's going on
welcome, nothing's open says nothing is open right now come
back at four o'clock or six o'clock or whatever it was. Right?
So that's the way it happens in these countries, is we were
sitting in our house at this peak noon time, and suddenly somebody
announced to Abu Bakr the Allah one other Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam look billon.
This is the prophet Allah some was coming. He's covered his face. So
he's in this case he's uncovered is he's covered, so nobody can see
him. He's coming at a time when he would never visit us. This was not
the time for visiting somebody. So he suddenly appears Obachan are
the owners of Fida. Okay, well, me, my mother and father be
sacrificed for you something must have come up. This must be a very
important occasion. That's what Allah Lawson comes in, ask for
permission is given permission so he enters then the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said to overcome the Allah one, acknowledgement
InDeck take out anybody who's here. The worker The Lord said
it's only your it's only your wife, meaning actually the Allah
one she had been married, but she hadn't gone to Rasulullah Salah
Samia so she was at home. It's only your wife, your rasool Allah
be obedient unto me. Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam
said, I have just been given permission to leave now. I've been
given permission to leave obika The Allahu unsaid for Sahaba
meaning
companionship, you need a companion. So jasola Rasul Allah,
Allah some said, Nam, yes, I need a companion. So obika The Allahu
unsaid. He says, take one of these animals. Take one of these
covenants that I've been preparing. So the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said this sermon, he says with the price,
not for free with a price, no argument. So then I shudder the
alarm says that we this was the fastest preparation that we made,
because it was all of a sudden, fastest preparation that we made
was today, we then prepared for them some provisions, a packed
lunch for the weigh in, in this leather, leather bag of sorts.
Now, there was nothing to tie it with. So a smart Radi Allahu Anna,
who's quite older than I shall be Allah who I know from a different
mother. And what kind of your loved one who was married to
somebody else was from her from her she had he had a smart or the
Allahu Ana then he got married again after that. And then from
her, aren't you sure that the Allah so they were half sisters,
in that sense. So what she does a smart lady Allah she's a very,
very intelligent woman, very bold, very intelligent. She takes off
this
this rap that she had this like a belt of sorts, she turns it into
two uses one of them to tie this provisions with and that's why she
became known as the two nataka in the talk is that belt kind of
cloth and because she tore him to tissue becomes none of that and
knit arcane. Then the prophets of Allah isn't working with the Alon,
they first went self now if you have any idea of the geographical
location of the cities, maca will Kurama is South about one hour in
from the coast. Coast. Judah is on the coast of the western border of
Arabia of the Arabian Peninsula. Inside is mcomber Corona, then
about as you know, four hours up north for hours of today's travel
time for hours up north is Madina Munawwara so Madina Munawwara is
towards shum Yemenis towards yourself. So you have mocha mocha
Rama, and you have Madina Munawwara at the top, this raw
fold is south of mocha. So the intention, the destination is
north, but they go south first to this cave. Now, this was all
obviously tactics to throw people off, because they know that there
is going to be a chase that's going to be on against them. So
what then happens is, they make it to Hearthstone, and they stay
there for three nights. They stay there for three nights. Now what's
happening on these occasions was all planned. This shows that you
don't do things without planning. Right. Many of us many people who
act in haste, they don't plan things. This is being shown that
the prophets of Allah ism and obika The Allah and being very
careful preparation from beforehand, of course secrecy.
Right and number
Three, it's well planned, and the planning is that you go down
south. At the same time, what you have is Abdullah Hypno OB Bacara.
Abdullah, the son of a buckler, the Hola, Juan, he was a very
smart young man. What he would do is he would stay with them.
He would stay with them all night, after darkness, he would come
there, stay with them all night. Then just before Fajr before it
becomes bright, he would come back into the city. And he would be
there as though he'd spent the night there. So people wouldn't
know that he knows where the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam is,
but in the daytime, he would gather all the news. Now, you
might be thinking that how do people know? Well, there is no
phones in those times. There is no WhatsApp. There's no
communication, except physical communication. So they are here,
anybody who has left the city, you'd assume that they are beyond
earshot. Physically, individuals would have to go there to tell
them that so they just discussing among them, what where is the
profit are we going to do about it, what our plots were our plans,
they put a ransom on their head. So he's learning all of these
things. And then at night, he goes there.
So every day, this is what he does, he goes there after
nightfall, when it becomes dark, he goes to the, to the Prophet,
Allah somebody's father. Now, there's another slave of obika,
the Allahu anhu, his name is Ahmed iblue, for Hara, he is his
shepherd as well. So he takes his animals to graze down there, in
that vicinity. So the profit and loss from his drinking milk and
tobacco and drinking milk from these from these goats or sheep or
whatever they were, and then he would, he would, he comes back
into the city, the prophets of Allah. Now, this is very
interesting.
To get the root, right, the Prophet sallallahu is no book
early on, they hired a guide. Now this guide is not a Muslim, but he
was trusted by them.
He was from the Bernard L. Obama deal tribe.
He was a good it was a very good guide. He knew the roads were he
knew the pathways, and he knew the routes very, very well. So he was
he was hired for this. And he was obviously sworn to secrecy that he
would keep the in fact, the two animals, these two camels, they
were given to him from beforehand, you turn up on the third morning,
after the three nights, you turn up in that next morning, and then
we will take off from there. So that's what it was. Now, in the
meantime, in Mocha, mocha Rama, everybody's planning, where is he?
Where's he gone, and then they put around somebody's head. This is
how much you'll get for bringing them back dead or alive,
literally. Right? That's what it was. Nobody knew. Now, obviously,
some people did come to the cave, the stories about that. And we
hear about from certain durations, we hear that there was a spider
web that was spun at the mouth of the cave, there was a chest, there
was a nest of a bird that was formed very quickly by a bird down
there. So this all made them assume that nobody could be in
this cave. Now the cave was quite interesting. The cave was to get
into the cave, the opening was by the feet where you would be
standing so it was like on a ledge on the side of the mountain. Right
on like a ledge the entrance would be you'd have to stoop down to get
inside. So when you're standing up outside, the people inside will be
will see your feet. That's how it was. But they didn't bother
looking in there because they thought that this spider web is an
interrupted, right. It's not been moved and it couldn't have been
spun so quickly. So now inside Albuquerque, the woman is quite
concerned. He is concerned his friendship of Rasulullah His love
for us will Allah is to such a level, he's not concerned about
himself. He's concerned for the deen as why his words at that
time, is that if something is to happen to you today, then what
will happen to the dean, that's his focus. Now look at Rasulullah
sallallahu. If this was a personal thing he was doing for himself,
then there would be no reason to hide like this. Look at the
response he gives to obika the ALLAH and he says, What do you
think of to the third of whom is Allah? You know to with whom is
Allah subhanaw taala la tassen in Allaha Marina, do not grieve for
Allah is with us that I believe that this encounter with Abu Bakr
Siddiq, or the alone in this cave was a very special these three
days that Obachan idiom spent with Rasulullah Salallahu Salam under
those circumstances. You know, what is you spend a casual three
days normal circumstances with somebody, you will benefit from
them. But if you are in a state of desperation, right when it's an
emotional state like that, when you're in hiding, emotions or
writing Hi, can you imagine what kind of benefit must have
transferred from the Prophet sallallahu Sallam to obika The
Allah one, two
be in that same cave where the Messenger of Allah is for three
nights. Can you imagine the Mercy that's descending there? Oh bucket
of the Allah Juan is taking parts. He is reveling in this mercy. He
is enjoying this mercy He is taking this mercy that's why he
becomes UI is afterwards. He never falters with the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, he understands the Prophet sallallahu sallam,
towards the end of the prophets, Allah son's life, the prophets
Allah sent me saying that a certain servant of Allah has been
given the choice, and he's decided to take the choice of the
hereafter. Many people that did not understand that obika Johan
was it was very clear for him when he started weaving his connection
obika The Alliance connection with Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is
unlike any other is absolutely unlike any other. In fact,
scholars have pointed out more than 20 to 30, similarities,
similarities, extraordinary similarities, in terms of the age
and so on. I don't want to cover these things. Again, I actually
gave a talk about Obama out of the oven recently. It's online on some
some Academy anyway, and we should discuss all of these similarities.
But I believe that the key was a very special moment for three
days. You know, special Hancock, for those who understand Hong Kong
a special, you know, they imagined that towards you, if you use the
Sufi terms that were that must have taken place in that time. At
the end of the third day, they come out, the people are off their
track, they don't know where they are. Right? That's that's the
case. So they don't know where they are. They've put a ransom on
their head.
Now, on the third, on that morning, where they were departed
from the after the three nights there, they go south, and then
they go towards the coast. So they're going to take a coastal
route up. Today, you can travel this routes. In fact, there's a
book that's been prepared about this route with all the pictures
and everything. And there are two routes to Madina Munawwara there's
the main highway route, and there's another route that you can
take, right, which goes which is the less used drove roadbeds a
decent route. We actually use that when we went to Madina Munawwara
that's what the Rosa Larson is said to have taken most of that
route. So
Ibushi hub Zuni he relates from Abdul Rahman, Abdul Malik, Abdul
Rahman, a numerical modality. Now this Abdul Rahman Abdul Malik is
the nephew of Soraka of nomadic.
Soraka is nomadic in New Jerusalem. He was an expert track
tracker. Now
Soraka nomadic says that
the Quraysh had put a price on the heads of Rasulullah, sallAllahu
and obika. When they when they departed.
And anybody who killed them, or imprison them and brought them
back, they would get this. So once I was sitting in the meeting with
my tribes, people, tribesmen I was sitting there in the Blue Moon
village, when suddenly one of the members came back, he'd been out,
he'd been out somewhere, he came back, and he says, You know,
I've just seen
what seems like the people that you're looking for, on the coast,
on a path on the coast. So Soraka says that I immediately realized
that that must be them.
Right? That must be them. But because I wanted the price. He
said, I said to him, oh, in the Himalayas will be him. That's not
them. Oh, that's not them. It's actually such and such a person
who's gone such and such a person who have gone to, they lost
something on their recent return or something like that, they've
gone to look for something that they've lost. So he put him off
the scent. Now what happens is,
quickly, I sat there for a while. So it doesn't look suspicious that
I'm taking off immediately. I sat there for a while. Then I quickly
went home. And I told my servant to bring my horse for me because
my horse was behind some hills. At the back. I went from the back of
my horse, got onto the horse. And I went onto that path in their
pursuit. When I got close to the people I could see in front of me
when I got close there. Suddenly my horse stumbled, and I fell off.
I got myself up, dusted myself off. And then I felt suspicious. I
felt some concern, because these people were very superstitious.
They believed in all sorts of things. So when I stumbled like
that, they is it today Subhanallah in our fast lifestyle, we've got
no time to be concerned about anything. We just worried about
the next project. The next deadline the next chore so things
can happen to us left right and center. Little action, no problem.
Just Karen call the police insurance company, Joe, you know,
let's go next. These people. They really in touch with their
surroundings, right
Now not to the level of superstition, we shouldn't do
that, but we should be around we should be in touch. So now what
they used to do is they used to do Islam.
Right now, this is why I don't like when people say Muslim,
Islam, are those Muslims, even some Muslims say Muslims, right?
Which is really problematic. There's a difference between what
Muslim means and what Muslim means. Islam and Islam. Islam is a
word. It's not a corruption of Islam. Right. So what Islam Islam
are using Islam for who are Muslim. What that means is to, to
take out divining arrows, what it is, you know, used to have their
quiver full of arrows, they used to have different marks on their
on their arrows. So if they wanted to make a decision, this was their
istikhara. If they wanted to make a choice of something, it would
pull out an arrow. And if it was a red one, then it would be this and
if it was a blue one, or you know, whatever color scheme they had. So
he says that when I felt like this, I quickly grabbed an arrow
from I grabbed an arrow from my quiver. And for hydrogen to the
Accra.
The response was what I disliked. So the response I got wasn't what
I wanted, which means it wasn't that I should carry on it was in a
negative. However, the price is great. The honor is great,
according to them. So what I'll say till as long as I disobeyed. I
disobeyed these divining arrows. I went against their response.
So then I carried on until I could actually hear that Kira the
recitation of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi. Salam. So the
province the last one is traveling, and he's reciting. You
know, that's wonderful. This is a you see, the problem that I see
with us today is that we have seen so much tragedy around the world
that we hear about it every day, that for most of us, we become
desensitized in the people of the past, they would hear about
tragedies as well. But they would never see a visual of that
tragedy. Because there was no visual media at the time. You can
take pictures, nevermind broadcasting them, right, the only
thing that would happen is you hear you hear about it. Seeing is
not like hearing, seeing is a totally different dimension.
Personally, I think it's quite harmful for today, where we can
just see, sometimes it makes us feel good, obviously emotionally,
but also I think there's a desensitizing that takes us when
you've seen so many floods, you really need to then see a worst
flood to get yourself going. We've seen so much murder and killing
and pillaging around the world, and genocides that it needs to be
something really serious, or we need to have that moment of truth
for that to infect us. So I don't know how useful that is. This is
to be honest, I think it desensitizes us. Now, what happens
with him is
he the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, what happens with us is
when we hear about anything, the first thing that we do is we want
to listen, or read the news or watch the news and BBC live. If
there's a special event, it's going to be on BBC versus 24 hour
coverage. And he is watching waiting for something and it's all
the same just over and over asking this person, that person, people
giving their comments. It's such a waste of time to be honest. It is
a massive waste of time. The problem is that look, it's a waste
of time, but little seldom do we actually say let's make a dua
quickly.
Let's make a DUA. Now, if we sometimes do make a DUA, it's
basically rhetorical. Hello La Quwata illa Allah did we even know
what we said there? In that environment Rajon it's still
better than saying a swear word, right? Much better than that. But
really we should be turning to Allah. Rasool Allah Allah says in
his state, he is reciting Quran. What a beautiful state that is
right? Invoking the Mercy of Allah because the Quran turns it will be
a Sakina Sakina comes with the Quran as the Hadith mentions very
clearly, whenever the Quran is being recited Sakina dissents
Angel surround, this is the baraka and the protection that you get.
So rasool Allah is reciting this Quran, and he Soraka listens to
him. He says the prophets Allah was commonly just carrying on he
wasn't even looking around obika The owner was more concerned. He
was looking around, you know, to make sure that nobody was on their
path. Suddenly, as I'm getting closer, again, the this time the
two front legs of my horse, they sink into the ground, so I fall
off again. I shut myself off.
I tell my horse off, I tell my horse off and pull it's managed to
pull its legs out of the ground as then when it's standing. Finally
Alhamdulillah finally the realization hits me said Finally
the realize that realization hits me that there is something
In extraordinary about this, this is not a normal person. There's
something very strange about this. So then he says that when I got
the horse standing up, then I see smoke rising to the heavens, which
obscures my view it seems right Mikela Doohan for stuck some to
build Islam again, I try another divining RMB trading and maybe the
first time he was wrong, right? He tries it out again. And again, he
says, For horridge Allah, the Accra again, it is negative. So
then finally, Alhamdulillah he realizes funner day to humble a
man I call out with peace. I'm, I've come with P. So he calls out
for peace. So they stop, they stop. And I get on my horse. And
now my horse goes, no problem. Now the barrier has ended. Now the
barriers gone. So I come to him. And
I realize that this man is the future. Sale Hora this man is the
future, there is going to be something very special about this
man in the future. So then he says, I informed him about
everything that had happened in Makkah Makara Rama, that there's a
ransom on your head. This is the whole idea and so on and so forth.
This is what people want from you. And he said I had some provisions
with me some food and so on. I offered it to them but they refuse
to take anything. The only said they the only thing they said is
if Elena like keep keep us don't tell any anybody about us. We
don't want people chasing us, right? However, it occurred to me
he says that I should make them write something for me, just so
that I'm safe in the future. He's a he's a very intelligent man. He
says I told him to write a piece for me, safety for me that even in
the future, they're not going to they're not going to seize me for
this occasion. So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam told his arm
Good evening for Hara. So the servant of Abu Bakr didn't who was
managing the animals he was with them on the strip he was with them
and the guide so there were four people It wasn't just a worker
number, the laborers those who so are made up new for Hara wrote on
a piece of leather he wrote to this a man for me this, this is
the safety note for me. Then Ibushi hub relates that Ottawa Abu
Zubaydah, Ottawa ablest Dube is the nephew of Aisha the hola Juan
because Zubaydah the hola Juan not at that time, maybe, but he was
then married to a smarter the Allahu anha Zubaydah and lava from
the ashes Mr. Bashara and a smarter the Allah and their son
was Abdullah liveness Zubaydah Ottawa eveness debate so Ottawa,
Ottawa Abu Zubaydah was an nephew of Artesia. Many of the hadith of
our Isha are related from him. And he was very close to her. I surely
had no children. So Abdullah Agnes Zubaydah, alright, news obey,
we're like her children. They were her nephews, they had very close
contact with her and access to her. So what happens is Zubaydah
the hola Juan is a teenager. He's a he's a millionaire afterwards as
well. So he's a he's a tradesman. He's coming back from Sham, now
where sham as I explained, Sham is up north. So they're coming back
with their trade caravan and they meet the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
and his group. So Zubaydah the Allah who had this fine new white
garments, and he put that on a bucket of the Allah and the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So now they clothed in
white, right, they closed in white, so they proceed. And now
the people of Madina Munawwara also hear that Rasulullah
sallallahu is on his way, because by now information has reached
them that the results of a departed Mecca a few days ago, and
he's about to reach Madina Munawwara so what's happening now
is that every day they come out in the morning to the out the
southern outskirts of Medina mana because from Makkah, you're gonna
come to the south of the city first, the south of the city is
where Kuba is today. There was no Kuba then it was the there was a
tribe that lived there, the the blue if they live there.
Every morning, they would come there until and wait there waiting
for these people for this group of people to come. And then they
would have to go back to their homes when the sun became too hot
for them. So one afternoon, about noon time when they just returned
to their homes after waiting. One of the you may know that the sub,
the southern part of Medina was dominated by forts, Jewish forts.
That's why in the Battle of the Trench, they only had to dig a
trench in a crescent shape for the northern part of the city. Because
the southern part of the city that were these forts, and the Jewish
tribes, they're the three tribes. They were told to protect the
South. So one of the Jewish individuals their had gone to the
roof of his fort, to look for something else. And suddenly he
sees this White group coming and advancing
And towards Medina. So he quickly gives a shout that the person
you're looking for the elder that you're looking at uses the word
grandfather, Jed, the elder you're looking for. He's here. So
suddenly everybody comes back out of their houses run towards and
they welcome this party, this group of people, and this is when
they say Tala al badru. Elena, this poem that is read them now
they move them towards the right hand side. And they sit down there
they sit down there this is the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
remain in this boudoir amor ignore our tribe. This tribe was what was
there? So that's where he stayed.
And a number of the people there had never seen the price alone.
They just heard of him. What's happened in the province of Lhasa
is the sitting there Simon Come silently. Oh, Booker, they were
standing up for some reason. He's standing up because to protect the
boys wasn't from the sun. But people think that he's the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi salam, so they were coming and meeting him. And
the process is just sitting there silently. He's not saying Hey,
it's me. It's me. You know, it's just, he's just sitting there.
Afterwards as his son moved over Cardian moves, that's when they
realize that the promise a lot to me sitting down an old bucket of
him is Abu Bakr was just protecting him from the sun.
Then he stays there for over 10 days. And that's where they build.
The first Masjid which Allah describes in the Quran has the
masjid on or SR, Allah taqwa, min a Willa Yeoman, a hubco and
Tacoma. Fie, fie Regina alone, you hit buena Tata Heroux wala who
your hibel macpaw. Herein, this these people they were known for
they had a very special quality which Allah decides to describe
them by. There could be many things that could have been
described by but the one thing he says that this this is the masjid
which was based on Taqwa It was established out of Taqwa. And this
is the Masjid.
In which there are people who love who love to be extremely pure.
Because you see in Arabic, there's the word pa here, the Hora Yato,
which means to be pure to be pure. Then there's another word which is
yet thought. Tata hora, Yetta, Takaharu. With more letters, that
means
a more effective means of purification. Those days there was
a scarcity of water. So most people would purify themselves a
stranger as we call it, using clumps of dried soil, right to
because they had no tissue paper in those days. So you'd find
clumps of which will be absorb whatever it was, and, you know,
there's that's what they would use. However, these people here,
they would insist on using that plus water. And not just water,
not just this, but both and that's why they were praised by ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada in the Quran, specifically, that shows how Allah
loves purity. Why did he pick that point out to show purity when you
highlight somebody's characteristic of that nature. So
the prophets of Allah, some stayed there, among the blue Amber
Ignatieff for more than 10 days, the day he reached Madina
Munawwara was a Monday. It was a Monday in rural Iowa.
It was a Monday in the month of Ruby on a wall, and he stayed
there for about 1011 days. So
after that, the prophets of Allah Islam gets on his animal, and he
proceeds into Madina Munawwara so he goes further north, into the
city from the outskirts, and then suddenly, his camel sits down in a
place
and this place there was a storeroom. It was a storeroom for
dates that belonged to these to Sohail and son, it belong to their
family, they were your team, they were orphans by now, but he belong
to their family. So he sits there, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam says that this inshallah is going to be our final
destination. The Prophet Allah some calls these two, when he
found out that it belongs to these two young young boys. He calls
them over and he says that
I want to purchase this. I want to purchase this for the Masjid. It
says that maybe some people were already praying in that area
already. The Muslims were already there, because I want to purchase
this place. They said nah, boohoo luck, you know, we will give it to
you for free. We'll gift it to you. The Prophet sallallahu sallam
said, No,
this is we're going to purchase it from you. So he purchased it from
them. And then he makes that's where they built Masjid another
way. So this is the migration. Now at Hamdulillah. They've reached
safety, other people come and then the story continues. What I want
to mention before I complete this is the number of lessons that we
draw from this. First and foremost, I want to give us an
understanding of the people who migrated.
Now imagine you are here you live
In London, wherever you live in London, and you will, Inshallah,
God forbid, but imagine if you are forced to go somewhere.
How many years? How many decades? Have we been in this country? I'm
talking to immigrants here. That's why, right? How many decades have
you been in this country? 40 years, 50 years, 60 years. Maybe
the earliest recollection of Asian Muslims coming here is 1951 52.
That's what I get an idea of right? There were individuals
before that Allah Akbar and so on came to study. Right. But in terms
of people moving here and establishing these communities
that we are used to 1950s Right. How many years is that? But 6065
years, right. It's not much your grandfather wasn't born here.
Right? You don't imagine families like the Spencer's. Right? You
know, I mean Spencer's, right. They own these large tracts of
land in Warwick and other places, Diana Spencer, right.
Imagine the Spencer's and the Windsors and all these people
who've been here for centuries, as far back as you can remember. You
know, Bob Dutton is I mean, as they call it, you know, you tell
somebody sell your land in India now, how can we sell that? And you
know, go, we're gonna go back? No, no, how can we sell what our
grandfathers got? That's an ape. You know, that's something that's
a fault that you can't do that. So imagine people who've been here
for centuries, and they are forced to move. For us, we have 60 years.
I'm not saying we need to move. But what I mean is that 60 years,
I mean, there's some you have an attachment, but it's not from that
time, there's a different attachment, I can still not
understand that attachment. When I talk to elders from India who I'm
telling them to sell your land why you why you why you still got it
for their you know, living there, whatever. No, no, we can't sell it
right. Anyway.
So imagine that these people, all their relatives, this is all they
owned, and that's the time when people were not moving around like
we are today. You know, they weren't many diasporas. Right,
yes, the Jews had come from Babylon. And they had established
themselves the three Jewish tribes that established themselves in
Madina Munawwara looking for that Oasis because they knew from their
books that the next prophet is going to come where there's an
oasis in the desert, and they found that Madina Munawwara, smart
people found out that this Madina, Munawwara seems to be in that same
description. So they had established themselves there,
after Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed Babylon, right? Anyway. Now
imagine you are forced out of the lands, and all you can take is
what your camel can carry. And all your relatives, sometimes your
wife, you have to leave your wife, your wife has the wife has to go,
the husband has to stay. You know, this was a tough for the sake of
your dean. And you don't know what's going to happen afterwards.
Very different to when you know where you're gonna go, you
purchase something and you're gonna go there, or it's a better
case. This is purely for the sake of your deen purely for the sake
of human. That's why the migration, especially the people
who migrated first in those tough times are called Al muhajir rune,
a Serbia who in an hour alone, they are the top if there's a
hierarchy among the Sahaba you've got the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
then Abu Bakr the and then Omar the Allah and then Earthman and
Ali the four then you've got the Ashura MOBA, shara, then you've
got the Battle of the Hubble better the Batterien. Then you you
have the Mahajan, or what in in general, right? These people were
that special. That's why the whole Mr. Lawson then made the brothers
made them brothers with the other individuals there in Madina,
Munawwara unsought who gave back. They didn't have to go through the
same struggle, but they sacrifice what they had to accommodate these
individuals.
Very difficult for history to show that thing happening, to recreate
that entire experience. That's why today, we have many people who
become Muslim. We don't know what to do with them. There are so many
people who convert to Islam, and then they leave Islam because they
don't find them while hearts the prophecy was much shorter. So it
is a big day in India Monica Lima Allah His name is we asked him
this question that he makes so many people are Muslim. And
they're in need, how do you deal with that situation? He says, Do
what Allah Allah son did, which is to make brother with brother so
that it's not a big burden on the whole community. It's individual,
okay, you're responsible for this family. They become like your
friends. But we are so selfish. We're still in that state in this
country. We think that we're still in a state of survival. You know,
we're going to die before that time ends. That's just the
mentality of the survival that we need to establish ourselves. Yes,
we need to establish ourselves. But in the meantime, it's like,
for example, when I went first to hedge, I was told by a lot of
people that there's syndicates of beggars, they're not real beggars,
they're not in need. They just make millions more than
Other people they come they just to beg. So because of that I was
suspiciously looking at every person that was coming ahead of me
to beg. I didn't give to anybody. After a few days, I realized that
am I going to leave this place without giving anybody just
because I'm suspicious of everybody? Do you understand that
state is sometimes a deception from Allah, then you have to look
for people. So in this case, if we think that we can't do anything,
because we have to worry about our own self, well, we're going to die
very soon, life isn't that long. We need to try to accomplish as
much as possible. While setting ourselves Amanda Baraka comes
through that Allah subhanaw taala provides RG Baraka, when you make
a movement. That's why one of the other things that we're dealing
with today is we have two extremes. These are of people who
are concerned, we actually have three groups of people in a wide
kind of ranging
classification, we have the group in the middle who don't care.
They're passive. They're just relaxed, just concerned about
themselves. They're just worried about their own little house and
their own little family, they're not worried about anybody else,
then you've got people who are concerned. And in that you've got
two parties, one party door, can I just make more salad in the
masjid, and just make dua and give more sadaqa. Let places be bombed.
And then after that, we'll just send some, we'll we'll donate,
we'll raise 3 million pounds, we'll make we'll raise 200,000
pounds, and we'll try to rebuild that place. There's a lot of
people who do that they sleep until it's bombed. And then after
that, they send money afterwards to try to rebuild the place,
you've got another group of people who take activism in their hearts.
And in that you've got the extremists who go around killing
other innocent people, as you've as we've seen, and we're bearing
the brunt of this today. They take matters in their own hand, they
become vigilantes, they rebel to such a degree that they start
killing other innocent people just because they look like others.
Right, and then their anger knows no bounds, it becomes a blind form
of anger, and then they just start killing indiscriminately. And then
they think that they got Shahadat, from this, well, they leave a
whole mess for everybody else to deal with. And we all deal with
the fallout. However, there's a number of other people who tried
to do something, but they don't use Allah subhanaw taala as
assistants, they're not making, they're not running to the masjid.
What they're doing is they're just all about activism. It's all about
activism, just using political science, just using different
forms of activism, and marching, etc, etc. So, you've got one group
of people who just think dua is going to help only others who
think only activism is going to help, really with the profit and
loss of me it was both, he got up, he told the people you can
migrate, he migrated himself. He did something, he planned these
things, while at the same time, his heart is connected to Allah
focused on Allah seeking assistance from Allah subhanho wa
Taala was there in will be somebody was salah,
get assistance through patience, and through your prayers, but be
active in trying to do what's necessary. So the few lessons a
number of lessons that we can highlight from this patience.
Patience is extremely important. Baring difficulties for the sake
of your deen and for Allah. Allah had his own messenger. Allah could
have transported his messenger if he transported him from Mocha
mocha Rama to Jerusalem in one night, and up to the heavens and
beyond and back, couldn't have just spirited him out of there.
Next instance is somewhere else. This is the same Allah who is able
to bring who's able to give an ability to a human being in the
time of Srimati salaam to bring the throne of Bilquis in the next
instance in front of him, however, that was, could he not have just
transplanted the Prophet sallallahu sallam, but the
prophets also was made to go through this so that other people
can understand this is why Omar the Allah when he went, he went
boldly, the prophets Allah some hidden and went, in fact, he left
earlier the Allahu Anhu in his bed. So people could think no
realize in the morning.
They thought the process was there because they could see something
inside. As they were all waiting that night to attack the Bronx
allows them to process and walk past them throwing the sand in
their face, and they just didn't realize what had happened to them.
And then he went past but in the next morning, they finally did the
Allahu Anhu there, right who is there to give back everybody's
belongings that had been lifted Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, but
the Brahmin could have easily not have had to hide in the cave, not
put through any of these troubles not have been, you know tracked by
anybody. But
the reason why he went the way he did was because
Not everybody in the city could have boldly gone. So Omar the
alone is not superior to Rasul Allah just because he could do it.
That was his individual action. That is another reason why the
Prophet salallahu Salam is living in Madina Munawwara
like the lowest individual there, meaning he lives on the basic
essentials. for days on end, there is no food in his house that is
cooked. He is eating dry food, if anything dates and water for days
on end. Why, despite the fact that he could have had the sun, the
moon, mountains of gold, if he wanted as the prophets Allah as
Allah had offered to him, the reason is that he needs to be
relevant to the lowest individual Madina, Munawwara that they can
think that oh, if my prophet is like this, than where am I, today,
this is the way we need to see Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, we
need to see this migration the same way. We are not yet having to
migrate and inshallah we won't have to migrate in sha Allah, we
will do our best in this place to be the right kind of citizens to
benefit everybody with inshallah that's our inshallah idea. So
never lose hope. But remember, there will be difficulties that
you will have to bear for your deen just as our great messenger
SallAllahu Sallam had to do so. Allah's assistance will come
because often Madina Munawwara still difficulties but suddenly,
things start opening by the time lawsuit Allah Lawson departs from
this world, adopt the means of survival. Don't bury your head in
the sand, adopt means of survival. Be extremely prudent in what you
do, and try to assist and help others.
Keep your trust in Allah do not lose hope. It teaches us that you
need to be active to make that our two others not just become
despondent. If one group of people don't listen to you. The prophets
of Allah son went to if probably Salah went to Madina, Munawwara
because he felt that now Maka, McCollum was not the place to be
anymore. So he was willing to make that move to somewhere else. So
that he could continue is that where a lot of the time what
happens is, we give that away to one person, two people, they don't
listen to us and we become despondent. It's like if you've
ever gone to collect money from somebody for the masjid, one guy
gives you five pounds, another guy gives you three pounds. Do you
think man, what's the point? Let me just take out 1000 pounds from
my bank and go and give it it's in three hours. It's better work. But
if somebody suddenly gives you 500 pounds and 1000 pound check color,
you just feel like yeah, let me go to a few other places, but don't
become despondent. Because every time you do something for Allah,
it's being counted for you. Even though you don't see it, you don't
count it. It's being racked up. Your points are gathering and
you're getting upgrades. You don't even realize in general that Allah
is giving you upgrades as your points accumulate in this world.
other prophets, as I mentioned the beginning have also migrated. This
is the Sunnah of prophets to go through hardships. It's the Sunnah
of prophets. And I'll finally leave us with something relevant
to this situation. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that trials and tribulations will afflict you. They will be like the
dark
pieces of night where there's no light pollution. You don't even
know what's going on. You can't even see your hands. He says
samatha G O fitna.
In fact he says first Yurok pico Baja them you will see such
fitness which will make the other seem light. So we just look our
our situation for the last 10 years. Some Moto G or fitna, a
certain fitna will come certain challenge and a person will think
her the Metallica T I am dead. This is it from Martin Kashif, but
then that will that will be alleviated, then another fitna
will come, and a person will think Harvey he Metallica t. Now I am
dead, submitted cache? If. So this is going to continue happening
whether it happens every month, or every year, it seems the
intensities. If you keep reading the media, it seems that
intensities are getting very frequent, right? Sometimes there's
a cartoon, sometimes it's a movie, sometimes it's against madrasahs.
We don't know what's next Allah help us. But the main thing is
what the President said at the end of it. He says make sure that you
meet Allah with iman in your hearts. So this is not the time to
jump the train. The going is getting tough, but this is the
time to be first in the first class in Iman, where nothing
bothers you even though there's a there's a storm outside. If you're
just hanging on to the train of Islam, that you feel like you're
getting off because it's getting a bit uncomfortable. Now you need to
get inside and up to the first class. That's the idea because
this train is going to go and he's going to get to its destination.
As Allah says we're Allahu multimode well okay healthcare if
your own Allah is going to complete his noon, this train is
going to get to the end of the train is Islam. So Islam will be
completed and we'll get to the end will always survive what interval
let alone
In Control Momineen and you will remain, you will remain elevated
as long as you are believers. Personally, the way I look at the
challenges of today is that I think we're just getting a bit too
comfortable. Because Allah has given us everything. And other
people in the world have nothing. We have everything we want from
food, to clothing, to travel to security, but I think we're
getting a bit too comfortable. So these issues come about trying to
remind us if we're reminded we get closer to Allah, you might have to
go through some trouble. Yes. But if you don't get reminded, it's
only going to get worse. It's only going to get worse. That's why and
finally, the worst is that we will die one day, but we need to be
believers when we die. May Allah preserve our iman and grant us
our, the baraka of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
efforts, hardships. Allah grant us the baraka of those because he
went through a lot for us, but after that, why not until hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen