Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 21
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Bismillah Al Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
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when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam was born and then when he
became a prophet, and when the ye revelation started to descend,
Allah subhanahu wa Tada changed the system in the heavens, and
prohibited further
the Djinns that used to go up and listen to what the angels were
saying. So then, as we were discussing that last time, he says
we're back dama Aryan who Phil Ufa came in Shubin, Munford 13 With
coma Phil or demon tsunami. So the poet was saying, how before allah
sallallahu sallam was born and before he became a prophet, the
other nations around the world were told by their people that
they used to trust their soothsayers and fortune tellers
and tell us of the future about the coming of a prophet and how
their religion was going to be dominated, and it will be ending,
and so on and so forth. So one of the things that they noticed also
in that was that the ship the jinn, they were unable to go up
anymore. So now jinn are also responsible creatures of Allah
subhana wa, tada, like human beings are, they supposed to also
believe only human and Jenna like that nobody else is like that. So
when it comes to gin, one of the signs for them of the coming of a
prophet was by this major, major change in the heavens, where their
members were unable to go up not that all of them used to go up,
some of them used to go up. So he says, and even though the eyes
beheld on the horizon, great meat shows falling as idols toppled on
Earth. So this is what the people on the earth saw, happening, until
sent flying from Revelations rode, demons fled after those who were
overthrown. So this is about the shayateen. What used to happen is
that needs to climb one on top of the other, all the way up to the
heavens, I don't know how many they needed to climb up there
depends on the size of the gym, because some jeans are smaller
than others. So I don't know how many they needed. But then the
topmost one, he used to listen pass on the information to the
second one second one person to the third one, and like that, it
goes all the way down. But by that time, it will be changed the
information, a lot of the information will be changed, so
there'd be half truth and half falsehood near about or, you know,
it could be less, less truth and more falsehood, either way. So
what happened is, although they didn't have free access, even
before sort of allah sallallahu sallam, they didn't have complete
free access. They still used to be pelted, but they could still get
away with it. There were windows of time, or opportunity where they
could still go and listen. So it wasn't like they could just go up
there and listen, and always know what's going on. Oh, the next
meeting is taking place. Let's go and listen right now, it wasn't
always like that they had to take the chance even before but after
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
was born, then it became strong, the protection became intensified.
And that's why then they were not allowed to go up there. So if they
did go there, they were actually shot at so they probably left
doing that. What used to happen is they used to go up, the first one
would be pelted so he would have to jump down, and then the second
would be pelted. So Allah knows best exactly how this used to
happen. There's a hadith in which once the prophets Allah, some
asked his companions, they just seen a shooting star. They just
seen one. So he asked his companions What did you guys used
to say about that? Enjoy Hillier times? What was your theory about
the shooting star? So they said, Oh, we used to think that an angel
has been born or a, an angel has just died. You know, they used to
call the angels, the daughters of Allah. So we used to think that
it's something to do with angels up there. So the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, that's not the matter. That's not That's not
what it used to be. Right? Then, in the next two poems, which are
the last two poems of this section,
about the birth, he's just describes how the shaytans were
the shayateen were when they were being pelted. So he says, gun the
home Hello Robin upto abre hurtin Oh askren Bill Hassan Minh rotti
he wrote me knob the knob them behave that this be him be botany,
Hema.
Nob Hill Musa behave in Asha evil Taki. Me. So he says that these
demons they fled after those who were overthrown, fleeing like the
champions of Abraha. And or like a host pelted with pebbles from his
hand, the author, the poet is talking about two things here.
There were two events that took place in history were, well, one
took place beforehand, one took place actually after one took
place before the province of ours and the other one took place after
his birth, of course, one is the Abraha story, the king of Yemen,
who wanted to come and topple the Kaaba, and how they were attacked,
and they all fled. So he's using that as an example to show how
these Jin were fleeing from the heavens when they were shot us. So
because abre has army it was being shot up with pebbles as well. And
they were just scattering left, right, left, right and center and
just dying from that. So he's trying to say that they, they had
to flee the way Abraham had to flee with his army, or like a host
pelted with pebbles from his hand, in the Battle of brother.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam took some pebbles and he
threw it in the direction of the Quraysh of the people who had come
to fight him. And again, Allah subhanaw taala used that to topple
them. Allah subhana wa Tada. He toppled them using using the
pebbles. So these were two major defeats where people had to flee
where people had to flee. So likewise, he's saying that
although you could not see the jinn fleeing from the heavens, it
was in a similar manner. So he says, fleeing Kandahar Robben as
though they are fleeing running away. Abdominal Abraha train of
thought means about bottle bottle means a champion paddle one they
say in order to write, so they like the champions of Abraha they
had to flee or like a host, meaning a group Oh askren An army
an army that were pelted with pebbles Bill hasa mean Raha Tae
Hee Rumi, which were thrown from his hand, which were thrown from
the Prophet sallallahu Islams palms, knocked them behind. We'll
do that. Next. But here, what?
First and foremost, he's depicting the running away and the fleeing
of the jinn when they were being pelted by the shooting stars up in
the heavens as Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran. So
first is Abraham story. Now what exactly happened with Abraham many
of you probably know the story anyway. But the other story which
we'll quickly have a synopsis of the story, but the second story is
that the people of butter, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam threw
stones at them, cables, people of butter, and also he did that, in
the Battle of her name. We're not going to be speaking about the
Battle of her name today, because the poem The poet himself will
allude to the Battle of Hunan, specifically later on, so we'll
look at them. So you can resemble you can you can consider the
shayateen that are fleeing, like any of these stories. The main
thing is that they all been shot at in a divine way, and they've
had to run away. So Abraha, who was the leader of Yemen, what he
did was, he wanted, he saw that people in Morocco, Morocco was
well respected. People held it in high esteem, people considered it
a sanctuary. So he thought that if I build a special place of
worship, then we will have the same kind of respect and
reverence, because he felt that the reverence for Makkah came with
the house of Allah, which it did. Of course, he felt that if he made
a house like that, and had people start coming around him, and
performing these rites, then he would also say he was a man of
ambition, clearly was a man of ambition. What this teaches us
that men have ambition, they're the ones who would put a foot in
this kind of direction. They look at competition, humans are very
competitive. So they're looking at this as a competition. Now, this
is talking about the temperature here, the year the process was
born. So this is before Islam. So the idols were being worshipped
there. They were being they were idols, 360 idols. So he felt I
could put a few idols here, and we'll have the same thing. But
that was a tradition, that although they were worshipping
idols, the origin there was the house of Allah, built by Ibrahim
Ali Salam. So he had a religious origin, though it had taken a
pagan cover and a form at this point in time. But what people
with ambition need to think is that yes, competition is very
good. And humans, they learned from other humans. There are ideas
that you get where you put 234 things together, and then you come
up with a new unique idea. Generally, most of it is based on
some kind of model at some level, and then you manipulate that or
you change that and you think
and you have a some kind of stroke of genius or luck from Allah
subhanaw taala. Of course, however, one has to be careful
that that doesn't lead them to do the wrong, that does not lead them
to desecrate the honorable, the sanctified, that is also done in a
matter of honor, then you can succeed. So, he decided to build a
cabin of his own, a house of his own a place of worship one of the
desert Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula. From near Makkah, he
decided that this is sacrilegious. This is something totally wrong.
So he went down to Yemen, went into this place of worship, and
dedicated and soiled the area when nobody was around. That was his
simple way of showing his anger and protests. That was the protest
of the time to do that. Now, Abraha became extremely offended
to such a degree, he felt that now there is no response to this,
except to go and put this house down so that this house will
remain supreme. So now, his ambition and his goal is mixed
with anger with wrath. And once a person loses his mind, then he
doesn't think clearly then that sometimes leads to the destruction
became extremely angry. God is an entire force together. And within
his force, he got his elephants together, they were the unique
feature of his force. The people up north in the hijas had not seen
these elephants, so they didn't know what to deal how to deal with
them. So he got this force together. Of course, they had
their lookouts, they knew that he was coming along, even though
there's no means of mass communication in those days. So
the people of Makkah, what they did was they decided, look, we
have nothing, we can't argue with this army that's coming. They ran
to the surrounding mountains around mucca mucca, surrounded by
mountains. It's been surrounded by mountains for all its history. But
now those mountain mountains one by one are coming down. The
landscape is changing down there. Now there's buildings which are
the mountains, tall skyscrapers, monolithic structures, big,
massive ones. So they decided that Allah subhanaw taala This is that
they had such firm belief. They knew they were in a very sacred
place, and they knew this is the house of God. So they said, Only
God can look after this. Now, let's move out of the way. So they
all went up into the mountains. When he got to Quraysh when he got
to Makkah, there's, there's a long story about this Babu,
Abdulmutallab, the grandfather of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he
kind of came on the way because what happened is as this Abraham
is going on the way he's also taking and confiscating or killing
or whatever, the flocks, that people are grazing around. So he
did that to Abdullah Mata ribs. So Abdulmutallab became right in
front of him and confronted him. He said, Why are you doing that
for? So Abraha actually admired the courage of this of
Abdulmutallab? Abdulmutallab was like quite taken aback. But then
he asked him a question. He says that Why have you come to defend
your flock and not the house of God, not your house of God? So I'm
done with that. He gave a very interesting answer. He said, that
I am in charge of my flock, so I have to come and argue about it.
The house law who rob Boone yami it has a law that will protect it,
that did strike Abraham. So then he gave his animals back. But they
went into the ravines and into the into the mountains and so on, and
just left the city to left the city to be taken over. Literally,
that's what they did. They left it to Allah subhanaw taala. Anyway,
Allah subhanho wa Taala says long story about Allah subhanho wa
Taala showed his great power, and his mate. So where nobody could
fight against, he said of elephants, the elephants, they
came to a particular position and they refuse to go forward, you
would turn it in that direction, you will just refuse to go and sit
down, he won't do anything. So abre obviously became very
frightened, because they believe that a lot of superstition that
there's something wrong here. But no, his angle was too much he
wanted to go. And they tried to push them with all sorts of
things, the elephants and so on, but it wasn't going to work.
Finally, they were attacked, they were attacked, and they just had
to all just run away and flee. But then they were attacked by the
availabile. Meaning they were attacked by the absorbing these
are small birds. And they had three stones each one in each pour
in its in each of its claw. And when its beak and it would just
drop it. It would just drop it and it would just penetrate each of
these people in the army. And although Abraham wasn't
what didn't die there, he died on his way back, just disintegrating.
So when these stones would hit somebody, they would literally
just start eating away at the flesh. You
was like some kind of toxic pellets of some sort, specially
configured to do this. So Abraha became totally, literally like
pieces, because just parts of his body falling off flesh falling off
until eventually he just totally died. And that's how Allah
subhanaw taala kept his house, despite the fact that his idol is
being worshipped there, the origin was the house of Allah, that was
the year Rasulullah sallallahu was going to be born, Allah subhanho
wa Taala had many things in store for it, then. So that's the short
story, the long story you can go on. You know, there's many other
sources for that. But we want to move on. Now he says, The about
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, from his blessing hands
throwing these pebbles in the direction of the enemy in both of
those occasions of butter and who name now, it says here in the next
poem, knob them be the test be him be botany, Hema, novel Musa behave
in actual evil Taki. Me. So in the previous one that we read, He is
saying that when you want to think of these as these Jin how they
running away, the shaytans how they run away when they pelted and
they can't listen to the ends of speaking. And he said that you can
think about this in the way abre has forced her to run away, and
they were defeated, or like the Prophet sallallahu Sallam through
the pebbles, and those forces were defeated. As you can see, he's
kind of stringing all of this together from one point to the
next one point to the next. He's not mentioning them. disjoint Lee,
he's talking about all the miracles of the birth, within that
the miracle was of the shaytans being pelted now the shaytans are
being coated like these enemies, who the Prophet said the Lord is
who like Cobra, and like the brucellosis and pelted and then he
says, it brings in one of the specialities of Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam he says, They sang glory in his hand, these
pebbles sang glory. Basically, they did the speech in his hand,
these pebbles did this be his hands, and they were cast like the
praising unis. And then they were cast, like the praising unis, or a
sudden cast from the whale's belly. So he is referring to, to
other totally to other situations that have no connection with this,
but they have relevance to it. So he's talking about the way he
started talking about the way the army had to retreat in butter and
in her name. And then he says, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam that was
because we're going through the pebbles at them. Now, at that
time, when he threw the pebbles at them, those pebbles did not do
this B. But there were other times to other times, well, one other
time when they did do this B in his hand, so then he connects it
with that. So he's saying pebbles, which did this be one time, not at
the time that he threw it, but before that time, in another
instance, which I will be covering. And there was also
another time when something else was thrown. So because the theme
is now about throwing this universally, Salam has thrown
because he made this be, so the connection between the stones
being thrown by Prophet sallallahu sallam,
which stones had made this be at one time in his hand, Eurosonic
made this be in the stomach of this whale. And he was then thrown
out to, to security back to normal life. So that's the way he's kind
of
winding this up all together as this beautiful poem. If only you
could, it's just that the next time you will read this poem,
because you know, the stories that it refers to, when you read the
poem, it'll just all flash by. That's why the Obama have found
this to be one of the most profound poems because it
incorporates so many different incidents and stories and nearly
like so many historical facts and the CEO of Rasulullah Salallahu
Alaihe Salam. So when you just read, or listen to two lines of
this poem, it reminds you of so much, because it's not just
talking about one thing, it's talking about many, many things.
That's the benefit of the commentary to know the commentary
when you read the poem, it also gives us mashallah, more
inspiration, as as, as believers it gives us more inspiration as
well. So he says, none of them be throwing it like pelting it like
bad that this be him be botany, Hema, after they had made the
switch in his hand at one time, not the will Musa Bay. What's the
Musa Musa Musa Bay is the one who does this be right. So like the
casting of the one who did this be referring to us on a salaam mean
Asha evil taki me, Asha Interestings coming out from the
Interestings of of a whale. Right. So what this is now in detail
Imam Abu Dawood on top Ronnie, they both relate from Annissa the
Allahu Anhu that once a soul Allah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam took a
handful of pebbles from the ground. And they began to do this
be in his hands until the test be was heard by people. So it wasn't
just they were doing the speech of Rasul Allah, they could be heard.
And then what kind of they took the pebbles. They continue to do
the speech in his hand as well. And then, when we took the
penalties, they stopped doing the speech. So we didn't experience it
in our own hands, but we heard it from there. There is another
narration it says that he did it in the hands of Omar Earthman. And
it you know, the Allahu Anhu as well. But that's another
narration. When it comes to Unison A salaam story. Many of us have
heard parts and parcel of it. And in general, we understand what the
story is. It's a very interest story that the gist of which Allah
subhanho wa Taala mentions in the Quran, the main features of it
because the Quran is not a book of detailed history to tell you
stories, bedtime stories at night, it is more for reflections. So the
main themes of each story that are relevant, and that are more
historical in the application, and can apply forever. They are
generally mentioned, it's Hadith and other its Hadith that fill the
gaps. So you had an individual whose name was Eunice Inomata, one
of the very slight prophets to a certain group of the believers. So
apparently, he was given prophecy at the age of 28 years of age.
According to this narration, Allah subhanaw taala sent him to this
group, he invited them to, to the way of Allah, they didn't respond.
He did this for a very, very long time. And eventually, when he
became totally frustrated and then despondent, and felt that they
were not going to now listen, he decided to use his one da each
prophet is given that is definitely answered. And he said,
Oh, Allah finished them off. He became despondent of them, he
said, finished him off. Now, this was a very unique case, they
thought to them, now they had a bit of
fear from him, meaning they rejected him. But then he was
speaking about something quite unique. So they felt that maybe he
might have something. But to change your ways is not easy to
give up. What your forefathers have been doing is not easy for
anybody, believe me, the Sahaba, you don't understand what they
went through. If you just understand how difficult it is for
people who were so more set in their ways than us, we live in
especially when you live in a cosmopolitan like we are, probably
if you live in London, you're probably less set in your ways and
have more flexibility. Allahu Allah is just a theory that comes
to mind, then somebody in a place like Blackburn or Bolton, even
though we're both in England, because there's a lot more culture
and tradition, their communities are much stronger and closer. When
you come to London, or any cosmopolitan society, you've got
different challenges every day, there's different things that
inspire you encourage, you tend to attract you mislead you. And you,
you constantly have to adapt yourself and fight sometimes in
the sense of spiritual kind of battle with these things. And
subhanAllah, there's a there's a lot of these challenges. And now
we're talking about people who are very set in their ways, the
hundreds of years they've been doing, they've been doing this,
and they were scrutinized by by the society who cares today, who
does what today. You know, you can be what you when you become
somebody, few people may say something, but you're not going to
become an outcast, you still will have your scope there, you became
an outcast anyway. So for them to change and to become believers,
with a small band of people, that was no doubt one of the reasons
for their great position. So now what these people thought is that
he seen this, let's watch. So he told them looking at when he made
the DUA against them. He was told, or it's mentioned that it sorry,
it was told to him that the punishment is going to come on
this day. So he was informed, divine information, Revelation,
however you want to call it. So he mentioned that, look, this is
what's going to happen. So now they began to speak with one
another. And they said that, look, we're going to find out if this
man is a true man or not. Let's watch what he does. And let's
watch what he does. If he stays here, he means is nothing's
happening. If he runs away and leaves the area, that means
something's going to happen, then we need to really think about it.
So we know if he's a liar or not. Because many people have claimed
these things and say, punishments coming on this day. And they just
relaxing in their house. That means he's a liar. Otherwise, if
he runs away, then that means he's got something going. So when that
day came, the night of that a middle of the night, he left the
area. He went out of the city, and they were watching out for this
because they were concerned it seemed they had enough concern,
because then they realized that the punishment is definitely
are going to come, then they realize that he must be truthful.
So the truth got to their hearts. So they all also went out and they
started making dua they set the it says that they separated the
young animals that the feed links those the young camels and goats,
etc, that were feeding from the their mothers, they separated them
so that they would cause a big uproar as well just to attract
mercy, right, because these little kids are crying for their mothers.
So they did all of these things. And they made lots of Tober. And
they probably had enough data with from him to understand what was
required. So they did that. And Allah subhanaw taala stopped the
punishment from them. Now, unicyclist doesn't notice he's
gone. Without looking back, he's gone. Then he waited at a
particular place, waiting for Allah subhanaw taala to do what he
said he would do, and the punishment to come. But then he
noticed that nothing major was happening. He couldn't see
anything happening. So he was at a distance where he could still see,
and he noticed that no punishment had come.
And, of course, you can imagine what he felt like, how am I gonna
go back because they're gonna think I'm a liar.
And apparently, the idea was, in their tradition, if anybody was
caught to be a big liar, like that they would be killed. So of
course, he done what he did out of anger for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
for his sake, he decided he's never gonna go back to the
community, he's gonna go somewhere else. However, he didn't ask Allah
what to do. He just decided to take apparently the matter in his
own hand, thinking the next best thing to do is just go from this
area runaway, I can't go back to there. He could have asked Allah
Subhan should I go back there, but that would have been a lot to have
asked, you know, to think of to ask Allahu Allah. Now, although he
never didn't, he didn't do anything wrong. He wasn't told
that you go outside and just wait for me to tell you what to do. You
know, he was like, You need to go. So he had gone. But when it comes
to people who are close to someone, they will be then taken
to task for every small slip, which for others will be
tolerated. But for those who are closer, they're supposed to know
better. So this was the sub optimal thing he did. It wasn't a
it wasn't a sin that he committed because there's nothing haram he
did. He did everything according to protocol. But now he must have
been, he should have thought no, let me ask Allah this time as well
what I should do, even though he goes against everything that I
think is going to happen to me, they're where they're going to
kill me. So that was the kind of confusion that was there. Because
small defects are considered to be in those who are considered to be
honorable, small defects among them the look glaring, whereas
anybody else who does weird things like that, even bigger things, it
doesn't look bad among them, because they use that the whole
makeup is like that, when somebody honorable does something even
slightly weird. It looks more weird than it looks on somebody
else. He ran towards the sea, he ran towards the sea, that was the
close area for him to get across. Because to put to put some water
in between him and his area, that was the best way for him to do he
entered into the ship that was leaving this boat this C means of
conveyance, he went insulated from ignoramus Rudra, the Allahu anhu,
that now he's on this boat or ship, and they got into the middle
of the ocean, and this ship will not move.
It suddenly stopped, it wouldn't go anywhere. It would go in the
wrong direction, he wouldn't go the direction they wanted. So now
they were very superstitious people at the time, of course, so
they decided something's wrong here. One of us, they figured out
that there's one of us is a runaway slave.
You know, you had runaway slaves at that time, people who were
owned by somebody, they ran away. So this was I don't know, the
tradition of the time that this the boat, something bad happened
when there was a runaway slave use but too bad. Who is that? Let's
figure it out. Nobody, he didn't think he was a runaway slave,
because he wasn't a slave of any human being. So they decided to
pick lots. And they had strange way of doing that they would
gather all of the arrows together and shoot them. And if one arrow
did not act like the other arrows, they did it a few times. And each
time it was his arrow that went astray, and kind of signaled out
that it was him. So they need about three times each time. It
was his arrow that stood out. So they decided that he's going to
have to throw himself into the water. Would you call that?
When they
put people overboard they walk the plank, as they call it.
Now the thing is that he's there trying to find the best spot to
throw him into the water. So according to one narration it
mentions, in fact, he says that he was going to throw himself into
it, that he decided that there's no way this boat is going to go
anymore. And I'm going to have to walk the plank and just go
I have to go and taka nada Allah. So each time, they would go to one
corner of the ship to do that, they'd be this whale waiting there
open jaw. So then he goes to another area, and we go there at
least I don't fall into the wings, right? So it just used to go
around, he realized them that this is from Allah, something is
strange this is from ALLAH. So he throws himself in, he submitted
Himself to Allah subhanaw taala. Of course, they prophets will have
a bit more understanding, a lot more understanding than us of
what's going on. And the subtle signs, they know Allah more than
any of us. So instead of drowning, he was picked up by this whale and
swallowed a life.
There is another narration that he actually fell into the water
first, then he was swallowed. The other opinion is that he literally
as he went in the world just took him up straight away without
touching the water. Now what you have to understand is that
although this whale has a system by which it works, anything that
goes into anybody's stomach, we know that it's not going to, you
know, if it's especially if it's malleable, listen, it's not going
to come out proper, it's going to come out in a different form, or
process than everything is the we cannot stop our system, the only
thing we can do is try to puke it out or excreted out. But there's
no way we can stop our system and say, Don't attack what's in there,
unless it's something like metal or something like that, which will
attack us. So now what you're going to do with a human being
this massive whale is system isn't going to stop. But what you have
to realize is that the headquarters that controls this,
this whale is not within the whale, the headquarters is with
Allah subhanaw taala he is the one who governs every aspect of every
well not just that whale, but everywhere and every movement he
makes, whether that movement is a volitional movement of the world
itself or within its system, and the way it system functions, it
ask Allah because that is what we believe that Allah is behind
everything. He permits each of these things without it, tiring
him out. So Allah subhanho wa Taala image it's related that
Allah subhanaw taala told us and told the world that this one is
not food for you. This is not sustenance for you. Llama JAL, Yun
silica is gone. I haven't made unis risk and your sustenance were
in jail to bought Nicola who Harrison was originally I've only
made your stomach for him two things a prison for him to learn a
bit of a lesson. And number two, protection for a while
Fergana middle mode Halloween, as Allah season Econometrica and I'm
in a lot held him would have been means the one who has overcome and
dominated he was overcome and dominated when they picked blots
to find out who it was that was causing the ship to not function
properly. So it was him. Or it could also mean and then it says
well who are money, money mean means he's the one who was
censored, censored means told off, admonished
that's exactly what was happening here. After that Allah subhanaw
taala had the will throw him out, Allah protected him and within the
whale did not harm him in any significant way to make him lose
or how he breathed during that time. Allah knows best if Allah
can allow an embryo to breathe for nine, you know, five months or
whenever it gets life and to breathe, and to sustain itself in
that, how difficult is it for Allah subhanaw taala to do that
later, you know, for an embryo that doesn't even have its own
ability. It Allah has given it enough ability, spontaneous
ability to do it without doing it itself. So you've got a human
being that Allah knows best how that happens? How long did he stay
in there? Allah knows best. But it says that this was just like an
hour of the day, according to one opinion, very quickly, some say
about seven hours of the day, some say three days. So it was either
days or hours. Allah knows best either way, it definitely happened
as Allah says in the Quran, some say even 40 days. Now, the
question though here that's important for all of us, what do
we do if we're swallowed by a whale? He I don't know if any more
miracles are gonna happen like that, of course they're possible.
But forget the whale. There's not much likelihood that we're going
to be captured by a whale unless we're with the, you know, we're
playing with the orcas all the time. But it's not about the whale
here. It's about any other whales in this world. Getting stuck in a
rut, having something overcome you. That's the lesson of the
story for us. It's an amazing story for this prophet America.
But that's a prophet and America before us is at our level if we
get stuck in the middle of a wheel, stuck in a shackled by
something. What's going to help us what *
This prophet, what helped him was his this be? That is what this
poet also alludes to. So Allah Mabuchi Rahim Allah alludes to. So
there's a difference of opinion as to exactly how that was able to
debate he says it was him saying Subhan Allah, very powerful Subhan
Allah, we say it many times a day. Subhan Allah be LLVM Subhana Allah
unfortunately the, I would say maybe a majority of the people
that say it, don't know what it means, which is the weirdest
thing, weirdest phenomenon that you can think about. If when you
It's so silly. You got more than 50% of the Muslim world who
probably Say Subhan Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah subhana, Allah, Allah
in Arabic, but they probably don't know what it means. Because why is
a 50% is because Arab speaking Muslims are a minority of the
world. There are more non Arab speaking non Arabic speaking
Muslims in the world. And not all of them unfortunately, know what
SubhanAllah belagavi means are some horrible artilleries. So they
can't when they say so 100 billion that they don't know what they're
saying. So what kind of a disbelief is that? The whole point
of it is not to say a few words, but it's to say, what is meant by
those words to make me feel that when you're in your Roku, you're
saying glorified, purified, absolutely pure and Transcendent
is my Lord, who is most majestic. That's what we're saying. ruku, we
bow down and we speak about the majestic Lord, we say he is
limitless. That's what it means. And we're in such the subhanaw
taala we're in such that we're low down, we're on the ground, and we
say Glorified is our Lord who is
most high. So it's this IGF system where you're on the ground and
you're talking about your most high Lord. That's a truth, the
speed. When you understand what that means, then you won't rush to
come out of the DSB
out of the system. Now, what else others have a different opinion.
For example, cortada atterberry, and even our bus on the island.
They say it was his Salah and his prayer during good times. That
benefited him during his difficult times. Because anybody who
remembers Allah subhanaw taala in good times, easy times when
there's no problems. It benefits him in times of difficulty, and
there is no doubt about that. Everybody has difficulty in this
world. But those who are pious and righteous, who have some DSP, they
have more energy to deal with that difficulty of the world.
The hakab notice another one of the turbo Ian's was a famous
professor of the Quran he used to say on the member. This was his
This was his hotbar in a sense, he would say we'll go to Allah Farah
ha. You go to confession. Remember Allah subhana wa Tada in your
times of prosperity. And Allah will remember you in your time of
difficulty, because in the universe, it has Salam Kirner in
the law, he the Quran eurosai Salam was considered to be a
person who remembered Allah.
So in Allah sight he was a person who remembered Allah for the
Messiah to ship the Nova without any conviction. So when this
difficulty came upon him, it benefited him because Allah says,
follow Allah and who cannot be null Musa behind? Lella visa vie
botany he ILA yo me yo baritone, Allah says it clearly in the
Quran. If it wasn't for the fact that he was off the Musa behavior
of those who do this me, then he could have stayed, he would have
stayed in the stomach of that fish until the Day of Resurrection, you
would never have come out. Clearly Allah subhanaw taala is saying
here that you speak counts his must be helped him, he worked him
and that is the main gist of the story for us that in the when we
get caught up in a whale in this world, our dispute should help but
that does mean should be profits during the day in our good times.
So you have no look at this. You have unis ID Salaam in the fish.
He's done trust me beforehand. So it helps him now in this time of
difficulty. On the totally diametrically opposing end you
have Iran who is a massive transgressor a tyrant during his
good times when he's enjoying his rule and leadership and his power.
So when he is about to drown now in a similar situation, he's about
to drown it's in the water.
He brings his he says Amen to
I believe now, something convinced him at that time to say a believe
but it was too late. Because he had nothing going for him.
He had nothing going for him, so nothing could benefit him. It was
too late. It was just said too late. So first go to Allah Raha
your score coefficient. Remember Allah subhana
What are other in prosperous times? You remember you in
difficult times, has an ignoble Hasson says that this is another
opinion that he actually then carried on doing this we in the
stomach of the Fisher's well insulated that Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that when you witness it his
salaam called out filament in the darkness, his calling his dua went
up to the heavens. Because our doors the reason we point up is
because that's the Qibla of dua. Not because Allah is in the
heavens in the physical heavens, you can't say that. Otherwise, the
question is, then we pray towards the Kaaba, which is called the
House of Allah.
Allah is not in there. It's a direction for conformity, because
humans need direction, psychologically. Anyway, when this
prayer went up to the heavens, the angel said, yah, Robina Hagia
Sophia underneath me moldable in orbit, this sounds to be Eunice's
voice, but it's very weak. It sounds very weak. Like it's, I can
hear a signal but it's very weak from the you know, they're still
looking for that plane that went down which, you know, those
Malaysian, that Malaysian Chinese plane.
So it's coming from a very strange place. So Allah subhanaw taala
answered his call. If no debate he says that, where he mentioned that
if he had not been from the people who did the speak what the speaker
is speaking about La ilaha illa, Allah Subhana Allah in the
continental body mean, there is no God except to you. Subhanak.
Again, tesni Subhanak is another way of saying Subhan Allah subhana
Anika just means you are glorified. I have been of the
oppressors. It mentions that then the this whale it went around the
oceans
until it finally threw him out in Mosul.
Mosul is in the media right now, isn't it?
Yeah. Mosul is in North Iraq. He was funnel brother who fill out
what was Sikkim. Allah subhanho wa Taala says that he was then thrown
out into an IRA. An IRA means
a land that's without any trees.
He was thrown out like us like a child is thrown
with some
there was some effect on his body of being in the ocean of being in
the, in the well, it's like an embryo is thrown out.
So he had to be brought back to here to be rehabilitate
rehabilitated. So his flesh was all
very sensitive, and so on.
Except that he was still sound in terms of bodily functions and so
on.
Allah subhanaw taala brought for him facilitated for him rather
this kind of
young teen young teen is like a pumpkin. Something of that family
the squash family. So that's what he used to eat the day and night
shedule rotten or is it one but no. Shujaat Amin Yaqeen
as Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran, so he used to eat
from it and he used to there's narrations which mentioned that he
used to find also forms of tastes from that, and he used to enjoy
it.
Eventually he became fine.
rehabilitated became better. One day he was sleeping.
And when he woke up this god or what he used to eat from that
became all dried out due to the intense heat of the sun. And he
felt that okay, now what's my way of survival here? Allah subhanho
wa Taala revealed to him who unis
Are you worried about this plant
becoming dry and you're not perturbed by the destruction of
100,000. People, your people more than made it to elfin oesd. Dune
it was that's what Allah mentioned the quality of 100,000 or more
people who have made Toba after you left them.
So now he realizes the story that they may Tober after he left them.
So this was all a punishment from Allah subhanaw taala. You can say
a slap on the wrist. I mean, you go through this gave him this
miraculous thing. Right? He becomes known I mean, who else
went into efficient came out alive. So it's a miracle. It's a
punishment. It's an admonition on one side, but at the same time, he
also makes him to be known. We know universally, he said, we
speak about him more than we speak about other prophets because he's
got a strange story kids that told his story before many other
prophets. So then he becomes well known as well as Allah works in
ajeeb ways. So this is the fact that
Anybody who's at that stage they are required to have more other
etiquette, refined understanding and behavior than anybody else.
That is where he went slightly wrong in just that. Nothing haram
nothing wrong, nothing blasphemous,
just the other was just slightly in the wrong direction.
And that's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says to our Prophet, and
this applies to all of us in any situation, especially for those
who are trying to work hard and do something and they finding
opposition. Allah says to the Prophet, Fosbury, hook me up big
fuss bitterly hurt me robic, be patient and persevere on the
Command of your Lord. What are the couldn't Casa Hey Bill hoods?
Don't be like the Don't be like the one of the whale. Don't be
like the whale one. Don't rush. Don't jump to conclusions and just
run out and leave and abandon work, persevere.
Of course then Allah subhanho wa Taala had him go back to his
people. And then he went, and they of course they welcomed him. And
he they they brought faith on him then and he stayed with them until
he and they all passed away. Right? There's two more lines.
After this, he says Jia Utley that what a hill a shell Russa G that
Anthem, she either he alleges, thin Bill Academy. Now this is
where he starts the next next section. The next section is the
section of the prophets miracles. So he says Gergely there were to
heal a shower or surgery that them she you know, he had certain
Bidadari trees came prostrate to heed His call the trunks walking
to him though they had no feet. Now already to say trees walking
to him, which would obviously mean sliding towards him in some sense.
But just to make it sound even more, nobody can walk without
feet. So this is just to show more exaggeration. And of course, they
just were tearing the ground and coming in his direction and then
they would go back and it would all be confined again, like
something you'd see in a movie today. One of these weird sci fi
movies, because camera effects but this was reality.
Only for a short amount of time. Didn't happen all the time. Got
anima cetera et cetera and Lima Ketubot foru Herman buddy, Ill
hottie Fila, Kumi. What does that mean? It was as though their
branches were writing lines as they came along with the finest
calligraphy, just to show the beauty of the way they're coming.
This is a poem, this is to read into things and to make them sound
and impress and inspire.
Okay, so very quickly, what he's saying here is, we just spoke
about the pebble speaking in his hand making the speech
and that and then on the occasions of bodhran, who name the enemy
being defeated by his throwing the pebbles in their face. After that,
he speaks about the mortgages, of the trees prostrating for the
purpose of the Lotus.
And they're responding to his call in his back. Now, whether any tree
actually prostrated in front of him or not, we don't know that.
But what he means by frustration here is submission. Because the
highest level of submission to Allah is through frustration. So
that's a word he's used to explain them coming to him, which is more
than any frustration anybody can do. It's It's America like that.
However, although you don't have any interactions about trees
prostrating to him, you do have stories of camels and sheep
prostrating to him coming down and just putting their heads down in
front of him related from a boomerang or the Allah who
understood allah sallallahu Sallam once entered into an orchard. And
a camel came up and frustrated in front of him. So at from Java,
you're at Nomura, Abdullah him Jaffa, that there was this one
orchard that nobody would enter? Because there was a
a camel who had become wild and
when camels become wild, you can't trust them anymore.
They become very stubborn. A camel is very arrogant, very stubborn
animal when it becomes stubborn. Otherwise, it's very, it's fine if
you're fine with it. So in this one, anybody that came in, it
would attack it. It would attack that that person that came in, so
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam walked in. When the professor
Lawson walked in, it didn't come to attack him. He invited he
called it so he came and lay down as docile form next in front of
him. And the professor Lawson said to it, nothing in between the hen
there's nothing in between the heavens and earth. That doesn't
know that I am the messenger of Allah except the disobedient jinn
and humans
The only two creatures that are disobedient and don't recognize me
are from the humans in the gym. In another version of the narration,
he says the person asked him that why you're doing this for so he
says that oh, they I think they're going to slaughter me. So he's
just acting as for survival.
And so the Allah one reports that once a suit Allah salAllahu alayhi
salam went into this unsired His garden
with Abu Bakr, Omar, and another on Saudi,
and there was some sheep there. They made such the Ubercart of the
Allah one who then said he looked at those sheep. And for them,
they're always thinking how we can worship Allah more, and how we can
respect our messenger more. So the Lord is so when he saw that obika
The Allah one who says that could be scheduled the minhang We've got
more right to prostrate in front of you than a sheep, if you're
allowing the sheep to do that. Yours will Allah.
Now when it comes to trees, we know that when he called it a came
and spoke. So there's a hadith sahih from a solar allah
sallallahu Sallam that he called the tree. And it came to him.
In this, you can tell it's in submission until he came and stood
right in front of him. And it said that he is the messenger. And then
the rest of us I'm told it to go back and went back.
I Jeem situation, there was nobody who had a camera at that time. If
people can do magic today,
right? That is not a magical trick.
Like this new guy that's on the block.
walking on water, okay, that one, they could have something
underneath.
You went down to the water and just started working on it. And
everybody's watching him. But then some part of his feet are getting
wet. And so you wonder that No, he's working very carefully. Why
does he have to do that? The only way he could have to do that is
there's something underneath or he's holding on to a gin or
something.
And then doing these weird other things, which don't seem like
magic tricks they fit that he definitely has a gin to his
because it doesn't even seem like magic. It seems like this. He's
got help to pick up weight that the strongest guy there just about
managed to pick up and he's like half his size. And he picks up
that way to no problem. Right so there's something going on there.
So if that can happen today, for some random guy doing magic, or
doing these weird things and a prophet doing these things
from Allah subhanho wa Taala and he's amazing ways to split the
moon and so on big things like that.
So it's related from Aisha Radi Allahu Anhu Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said
that, you know, one of the first meetings with Djibouti Laurie his
Salam, one of the first instances of ye and revelation. When the
prophets Allah Islam came back on his way that was the time this
happened. So this was before he became famous and so on. One of
the first times he got he came back from Djibouti base and there
must have been an amazing encounter. He says that every tree
I went past every stone I went by, it said to me a sutra mighty Korea
rasool Allah. This didn't happen all the time. This happened in
that instance, when he had first met with Chipotle someone came
back on one of those first instances on what are the Allahu
Anhu relates this is really cheap. I called the Al Dinesh Shiva from
Abner Amara, the Allahu Allah. He says that once we will sue allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on a journey. And this RRB desert Arab
came close by the prophets, Allah some said to him, oh, there's an
Arab.
Bedouin. Where are you going? He says, I'm going back back home. He
says, Would you like to learn some virtue and goodness? Would you
like to learn something good and nice. What is it? He says that you
believe professor said you believe that there is no God except Allah
alone. He has no partner and Mohamed Salah Larsson is seven and
His messenger.
So the Arabi, he said, Bring me some proof. Who's going to who's
going to witness what you're saying to the truth of it? So the
province alone just said how they shedule
this tree here,
what kind of conviction he has to say just this tree here. It was on
the side of the valley.
So the person has called it up. It's not like we haven't even now
we have to go there. This is proper VIP service come over here.
It says no, he actually told the RRB you tell it to come and we'll
come to you. This Robbie's probably amazed and dazed. So he
called it and it came to him just tearing through the ground
until he went came and stood right in front of him. And it said it
three times that this is the messenger of Allah
and then he went back, done its job and went back
bowrider the Allah one reports that an hour
Arabi asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for a sign for
something special. He says, Say to that tree, that the prophet the
Messenger of Allah is calling you.
So, that's tree started to Sway left and right and then started
moving forward.
And it started to tear the ground and come towards until it came and
stood right in front of Rasul Allah Allah some said a Salah
Malik ya rasool Allah,
the RRB said, tell it to go back now. This something weird, you
know, like, did I really see that? Okay, now tell you to go back.
More her photography Illa mitzvah. So you went back. Apparently, it
was pulling all of its roots with it. So it wasn't like just the top
of the tree came, its roots must have come out and it came came
through.
And this is not a cartoon. Because when you hear these stories, you
go back to things you've seen like that is human behavior, we go back
and rethink how do we envisage that so it's not this kind of
refined way of the cartoons you know, and so on. This is this is
something serious. Anyway, this RRB then sent to the voicemail
awesome, I need to prostrate in front of you. So then the
prophets, Allah some said, if I was going to tell anybody to
prostrate, I would have told the woman to prostrate for husband.
Okay, let me kiss your hands and your feet. So he let him kiss his
hands. There's a number of other stories like that.
So anyway, the poet he then carries on he says that the way it
worked, it made these
these puffs these lines on the ground. So it didn't hover. They
actually came making lines and these symbols on the ground. And
that's why he says, gan nama Satara saturon Lima Ketubot foru
ha me buddy il hot Devi Lakshmi that it was as though their
branches were writing lines as they came along with the finest
calligraphy. So in here, it talks about its branches, so it left its
signs on the ground like nice calligraphy about what it just
happened.
Okay, then he's going to speak about other other miracles of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. In the next one he says myth little
Hama Mati anassa rasa irritant ducky he heard Roboto is in little
hygine hate heavy, which is saying, unlike the cloud, how it
moved about to protect him from the midday heat, red hot, so that
was another one. Then another one he says Aksum to Bill Commericial
mon shocky in the home in Calvi, this button Murata la casa me by
the moon split in twain. Truly it has a swear by an oath that is
true, a link with his heart. So there's some nice poems are Aisha
al Boronia says the Prophet King has come now. The banisher of
shades illusion now is fled away. Its recollection even flames, even
fades. Now it's the time of the Prophet King,
Mohammed Gaya he says, a fish and then a sea with Jonah's praise
within God or to district degree, yield up what you drew in, so
that's addressing
the wave. So a man shall have he says every atom in the world took
up the tail, cried they all with voices Hi, uplifting Hill.
So this is in referred reference to the trees and so on that we're
speaking about Rosa Luxemburg,
Amin al Zulueta says the story stillness, the courtyard of orange
trees, the unceasing signs of his calligraphy,
Allah's calligraphy.
You know, there are people who have become Muslim
from atheism,
just by looking at different fruits, the textures,
the appearance, their taste, their shapes, it's amazing. Just take
for example, just take another Kado
take an orange, take a grapefruit. You seen how good a grapefruit
tastes when you take out it's when it's without it's when you take
off the skin and you just eat the flesh inside. It's amazing the way
Allah has made it with so sophisticated with all those
lines. Go to one Halal place inshallah to go and visit right is
to go and take your kids to Kew Gardens. We've got these gardens
in London it costs 15 pounds and adults and children are free few
100 years old and it's got trees and plants from all around the
world.
1000s of species everything you know from an olive tree to, to
everything else, right trees from the tropics, trees from the
deserts, trees from lilies everything amazing just the fact
that you've got literally 1000s of types of different different trees
with colors and amazing there's no way you cannot believe in Allah
subhanaw taala How does it become like that? Because everything is
so precisely designed
so precisely designed each one of these things. May Allah give us
the Tofik to recognize him? Allahu Mantis salaam into salaam to Barak
the other jewelry with the Quran.
Allah homea yatta yatta younger African Studies Allah who may or
hindering him and then you know hate Atlanta Subhanak in local
nominal body mean just Allah horna Mohammed Mr. Hua Hello
Allahumma salli wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Sayidina
Muhammad alberic was salam. O Allah, we ask, we ask You to
forgive our sins. We ask you to allow us to become closer to you.
of Allah We ask that you Illuminate our hearts of Allah We
ask that you illuminate our heart and you purify our heart of Allah
Our hearts are so impure, how can they enter into your pure quartz?
Oh Allah. Even in this world when a person is in a seminary defiled
state, and when he is impure, he is not allowed in the masjid of
Allah he is not allowed to touch your book the Quran of Allah if
our hearts are so dirty, and so impure with the years and years of
sin, then how are you going to allow us to be in your court and
to be close to you? Oh Allah, we ask that you purify our hearts
despite our despite our disobedience, we ask that you give
us love for you and for your obedience to such a degree that we
enjoy. And we find the sweetness of faith and Iman in our hearts of
Allah. We ask that you forgive us our sins and you forgive us our
wrongdoings for the years and years of wrongdoings that we have.
Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that instead of us wanting to impress
others that we want to impress you, or Allah, allow us to
constantly be thinking about you, that we want to impress you. Today
is a Friday and this is a time of acceptance. There's a time on this
day as your messenger SallAllahu Sallam has told us where do as
accepted Oh Allah make this that time that this is the time for
acceptance and accept our dua accept our da so that we be close
to you and we find that the best of our our days is the day that we
stand in front of you. of Allah make us worthy of being agenda
fulfill those. Treat us with Your mercy treats us with Your Mercy of
Allah treat us with Your Mercy of Allah We ask that Your mercy which
is
which is available, but Allah we are bereft of it because we don't
even ask for it. Oh Allah, we ask that you envelope us with Your
mercy and you deal with us with softness with gentleness with
compassion of Allah, we will if you deal with us, and you
exhaustively question us, then we don't see any form of survival. or
Allah, we ask that you, you find one good action of us, there must
be one thing that we have done in a moment of sincerity, in a moment
of virtue, that that is for you. Oh Allah, we ask that you turn all
of our actions into valuable actions, despite our weakness and
despite our defects, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask you because there's
nobody else to ask you. We ask that you protect us and our
children, you accept all of those who have worshiped in this
blessing night that has just passed you.
Give us the Tofik to
allow ourselves to be free to benefit from the month of Ramadan
when it comes and to be better at the end of this next month of
Ramadan than we were ever in our life. Oh Allah, Oh Allah make us
tomorrow better than we were ever in our life. Oh Allah Oh Allah we
ask that you make us better every day that is remaining of this life
so that when we are with you we're not in a bad state of Allah
safeguard us from a strange type of death and a sudden death allow
us to be prepared for our death of Allah grant us you can call him
Allah, Allah, Allah Allah on our deathbed. And we ask that you
bless your messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
abundantly, abundantly until, until eternity for all the good
that he has done for us and granted his company in the
hereafter Subhan Allah because genericity and IOC foon was salah,
we're not anymore Saudi will handle
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behind you can continue to live, you know, to listen to lectures,
but you need to have this more sustained study as well.
JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.