Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Why Muslims Love Sham and Masjid alAqsa
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sisters, our friends are Salam alaykum. Warahmatullahi
Wabarakatuh.
Sham is in English, loosely translated as the Levant and this
is both spoken about in the Bible as a blessing area. Because
Ibraheem Alehissalaam moved to this area from from Babylon, from
the cradle of civilization, which is currently Iraq, and he was told
to go to Sham so he went to Sham as well. Ibrahim Ali Salam, as you
know, is the father of the three major religions of today. In the
Ibrahima Colonel Merton Cornett and de la Hanifa Ibrahim alayhis
salam, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada for all of the troubles that Ibrahim
Ali salaam went through for all of the struggles that he had to
undertake, and for having to move from his own area for him to go
and do what he did another places ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada gave him
huge amounts of reward. His rewards a number of different
ways. He is a man who is remembered, and he's revered by
the three major religions of today.
Both by the Christians, the Jews, and the Muslims, the forefather of
them all. In fact, after Ibrahim alayhis salam, all the prophets
came from his descendants from the Israelites and then Muhammad
salallahu Alaihe Salam So Ibrahim it is Saddam's
son is married Ali Salaam and it's how can he Salam he had other sons
as well. At least one other son, but these are the two famous ones
and it's hard for me psychotics along came as you know, yeah,
cool, buddy. He's jacobellis around other name, who knows
Jacoba asylums other name
is Raju, right? So hello, Rama, Israel Ebola enough. See, as Allah
subhanaw taala speaks about in the Quran. Sri eel is actually the
name of Jacoba is Salam Israa eel is Rafi Jabra e il mica IL. All of
these names are like we saying in Arabic, Abdullah, Abdul Rahman and
so on so forth, servants of Allah. This is in this is in Hebrew. So
it's Surah eel Iacobelli Solana as you know jacobellis And I'm had 12
children, and one of them was used by the salam Binyamin Yehuda, and
a number of others, Lee, Levi and others, and then that's where, so
Musa alayhis salam comes from one of the sons that would that Islam
comes from one of the sons, and so on and so forth. But all the
prophets after Ibrahim Ali Salam came from his generation from his
progeny. Likewise, all the major books that we know of today, the
Torah, the Buddha, the Injeel, and the Quran, again, they are all
from prophets, messengers, rather, from the descendants of Ibrahim
Alayhi Salam. So this is
an amazing area, this place called Sham. It's a place where there are
many, many prophets. Many prophets are buried there, many prophets
live there. And clearly, that's why there is the commotion there
that is there is today because the descendants of these prophets,
they vie with each other. Now, what's very interesting, for those
who've been to Jerusalem, once you go beyond Jerusalem, and you go to
beta lamb or Bethlehem, Bethlehem is very interesting, because when
you get to Bethlehem, there are where they claim it to be the
place of the birth of ESRD. Salaam. There are approximately
four churches there that are literally next to each other, some
without walls in between. So it's like they've all grabbed areas
right next to it. It's one of the highly
competed and vied for areas in the world where sometimes they will
have fights with broomsticks as well for who gets the right to
clean that particular place. So there's four different
denominations minimum and probably more that vie for that particular
area. It was very interesting because when I traveled to beta
lamb, and we went to visit this place, we got inside and there was
a tour guide, an Arab tour guide. A lot of people in beta Lama
Muslim, it's in the West Bank. So we've actually taken public
transport
From Jerusalem, one of the Imams there. He said, If you want to see
the beta lamb to Hebron to Al Khalifa, then why don't you go by
public transport travel the way the locals do. So we got on local
bus. Here we had a guide with us who was half blind, an older man
with a stick. And we had to go through the checkpost. And
everything like we thought, let's experience that. So when you go to
beta lamb, he didn't come with us, but we I was with my family. So we
went into the place and went to
as we were looking around this particular guide, he finished what
he was his his guide, he was he was guiding some another group of
people, I'm not sure from what country but when he finished and
he turned around to us, a Salam Alikum Caesar, who is a Muslim, so
he's earning his living, doing some guiding tours there. And then
he started giving us a tour. He says, Don't worry about it. I will
Muslim, I'm just going to tell you guys a few. So he gave his normal
spiel of what is where and this is this and this is the manger and
this is what happened. And you know that the normal guidance
spiel and then suddenly it has a 360 degree turn. It looks around,
there's nobody looking and he says, Everything that I told you
is just the story that I tell. My real opinion about where
essentially salaam was born is about 15 miles or something from
this place or a few miles few miles. I can't remember exactly
the number of miles you mentioned. Because as it says in the Quran,
in ESRD salaam was born, Moriarty Salam gave birth to him at the
bank of a river and this was down in a cave, where this church is of
the Holy is that the Holy Spirit that's in Jerusalem, this where
they say is the birth you they take you down into,
into like a cave. And they say that this is where it's made. And
they have like, the nativity scene, they're all displayed and
everything says I think it's a few miles from here at the Bank of
this river, as I mentioned in the Quran, anyway, so you had a Saudi
Salam Do you have many things in this area, just to get an idea,
according to the scholars as to what is Sham in general. Now, Sham
in general is quite a bit of an area. It's part of Egypt, the
Sinai in particular, that's where Musa Ali Salaam is buried today,
with Saudi some asked to be buried close to Sharm close to Jerusalem
rather, but he was then you have much of Jordan, if not all of
Jordan. And that probably encroaches a bit into parts of
North northwest of Saudi Arabia as well. And then you have a lot of
Syria as part of that. And then of course, Lebanon, Philistine and
currently Israel, where that takes place. So all of that however,
there are prominent locations within that area. So the whole
place can be considered Sharm in general. In fact, I read recently
that it extends all the way to Madina, Munawwara Medina being
very specific, though, but that's not the generally understood
opinion, but that is Milady of Cadiz mentioned that as well, but
we're not we don't need to take it that far. Madina Munawwara macoco
has its own virtue anyway. So
anyway, so what you then have is then you have the specific areas
with which the profit or loss of spoke particularly about
in this sham area in general, so one is you have obviously Masjid
Al Aqsa Jerusalem. Now, what's very interesting in the towel
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam they generally referred
to it as elior. That's where they went Aelia that's that's what was
it was referred to, not as not generally as Masjid Al Aqsa Mosque
blocks. I was there but not generally as Jerusalem or
Aldershot them. You're Charlotte, it's there's been it's gone
through quite a few.
The name has gone through quite a few evolutions to get to where it
is, or as we understand it today. Anyway, then, so then there's,
there is Jerusalem, then there is Damascus. Right now, in general,
in the Arab world, if you talk about Sham, in particular, they
refer to Damascus, a sham, probably why probably is because
Damascus has been spoken about, there are events that are going to
occur there. So they holds something for the future.
Jerusalem has its own further Island, Felina and virtues anyway.
So people seem to say, Damascus is Shang, even though a lot of the
surrounding area is also shown. Do you understand but when you go
there, where you're going to I'm going to Sha Sha means Damascus in
that case, but again, this is just like taking a general name and
applying it to a specific place because of certain virtues that
are in the area. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to mention some
of the general virtues of Sharm first, then some specific virtues
of Masjid Al Aqsa, maybe a few about about Damascus itself, as
well. One thing about Damascus and Sham is that most of its
significant
I don't want to say most of its significance but a lot of its
significance is about is to do with the end of time. More to do
with the end of time than the current situation, although the
prophets of Allah cinema a number of occasions as you will see in
the Hadith that I mentioned, when somebody asked him that if I had
to leave Madina, Munawwara or if I was to be evicted from Medina
forced to leave by the way should I go, he said Shall, so, Sham in
general was a nice resort, a nice place to go to,
it was a nice place to go to. In that sense, it was a virtuous
place to go to in general like that. However, SHA will take on
greater and greater significance towards the end of time because
that is where as the famous Hadith mentions, a side Islam is going to
descend.
So, let us look at sham in general first, the first and foremost is
when Allah subhanahu wa Tada says in Surah three is right in the
beginning
Subhanallah the SR, the Abdullahi Laila Minal Masjid Al haram et al
Masjid Al Aqsa, Allah de Baraka hola who linaria whom in IR Tina,
in the who was Samuel Busey,
a glorified purified is he who took his servant by nights Astra
used to be means to take somebody by night somewhere, lay in the
middle of Masjid Al haram from Masjid Al haram to Masjid Al Aqsa,
it this is these two questions are named in the Quran. Masjid Al Aqsa
mashallah, mashallah, Kuba is also referred to as Masjid in the
Quran, but not as Masjid Kuba right. It says La Masjidul OC
Salah taqwa, the masjid, which was established on the basis of God
fearing Enos and piety, but Masjidul haram mercy Luxa is name
is mentioned by name. Now an interesting story about this.
One of my days is Imam in California. There was this new
Muslim that came and you know, there's non Muslims they know
about mercy Luxa because there's issues there. So he comes in he
says, You guys are always saying that Masjid Al Aqsa is mentioned
in the Quran. I don't find it anywhere in the Quran. So that
surprised me that statement, surprise Minister, what do you
mean you don't find it in the Quran? He says yeah, read the
whole Quran. There's no it's not there. And it's surprising a lot
of people who are interested in Islam they will actually read the
Quran with a lot of meaning and thought more than some people many
of us were born Muslims.
So then I said that's not true. I've memorized the Quran says
Subhanallah the Assad BRB, Lena, minimal still haram and let's see
Luxa. Now clearly this guy, this person, this individual wasn't
looking at the Arabic he was reading a translation. I said,
Look, where were you reading this? Which translation? So he grabbed
Abdullah use of various translation, which is generally a
decent translation, for the most part, it's got some issues, but so
he brought it along. And yes, we opened it up. This is the first
time I'm looking at this translation. So it says glorified.
I'm going to paraphrase with the specific words for the Masjid. He
says Glorified is He who took his seven by night from this from the
sanctify from the sacred mosque to the to the furthest mosque. So now
in somebody who is the furthest mosque it's the furthest most what
does that mean? We take in as much AXA, we take it literally like
this, you know, she looks up a day we're translating it as the
furthest mosque and it makes sense. It's the furthest most from
Makkah, from Madina Munawwara it was considered a distance. It's
about what, maybe about a 20 hour car drive today. So
I explained to him that you're actually reading a translation of
Masjid Al Aqsa, which is important for us to know because it means
the distant mosque is everything is just named relatively speaking,
the distant mosque of goods
by El Beit El Mercado, this.
codes just means
the divine sacred sanctified location. That's where all of
these words come from, because of the sanctuary cities got so many
different names.
So Subhanallah the SRB Aggie Lena minima still haram illiteracy,
AXA, Allah de Baraka, hola her, around which surrounding which in
the environs of which we blessed, this blessing in that area
linaria whom in IR Tina so we could show him our signs, because
he is the Allah subhanaw taala is the most seeing and hearing now,
according to some of the scholars, he said that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was taken by night from Masuda haram
by the angel with the Baroque etcetera, to Masjid Luxa. And all
of this happened within a portion of the night and he came back
before Voyager. And he was also taken from the Luxor up to the
heavens to the seventh heaven and beyond for the ascension. Why
would
Has he taken on this journey in this direction with this route,
rather than from material haram up to the heavens, end of story. So
according to Psalm, they say that the opening the door of the
heavens is above Masjid Al Aqsa above that area.
That that is where the door to the heavens is up. Now, I don't know
if the people who traveled in space if they want to get some
idea about this, and see if it's any easier to fly out from there
or whatever, I don't know, right? Then Cape Canaveral or
Texas or wherever it is that they go from Allahu Allah, but the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that's where he went from.
Now the interesting story, as most of you will know, is that when he
got there, on the way, he stopped in a number of different places
where he met Moses and on one occasion, then he met with all of
the prophets in Mr. Luxa when you go to machine Luxa today, if
you're facing mercy Luxa with the Cobra to Sakura, behind you, then
on the right of that is the the Maha Shiva gate, which is the the
western gate of the gate of the Moroccans or however you want to
go North Africans and there is the Masjid Al Buraq. The Masjid
Baroque you have to go down there and they show you that there is a
link metal iron ring that is fixed to the wall. And they say that
this is where the profits of the lorrison tide is horse, one of the
people who took us places I mean, this is difficult to ascertain
whether that is really where he tied his horse or not. Right
because that was many, many years ago, anybody could have put a ring
there but the profits are awesome tide is hoarse in that area
somewhere. Also Masjid Al Aqsa, you've seen a lot of the pictures
of it, the top part is very new, you have the only open the bottom
part at certain times. That's where the original muscle OXA
that's where the the part is. Okay. So the first is that Allah
Subhan it's a place around which Allah subhanaw taala is placed a
lot of blessing, a lot of the blessings and truly it is a very
blessing area is one of the when I traveled from Jerusalem to Tel
Aviv, is one of the most I mean, just from aesthetic beauty, the
olive trees, the rolling mountains and hills, all of that is a very,
very blessed place. zaytoun is again, as you as you know,
mentioned in the Quran, and I've eaten some of the best figs in
Damascus. Right during season some of the best figs I've eaten in
Damascus. So you've got the figs and you've got the zaytoun in that
particular area. So there's a lot of baraka and lot of blessing in
the area. A lot of profits have come, for example, in Europe,
we've had no profit. That's why people have gone to Immanuel Kant
and other people. That's basically what they look for enlightenment.
In fact, if there's a profit that has been important, it's been
Jesus from the Middle East down to here. I remember once when the
Passion of Christ the movie came out, Mel Gibson did a movie on the
Passion of Christ. And it raised a lot of controversy, because of the
way he depicted certain other religions and so on in there. So
once we had a discussion about that, you were this was an
American interfaith discussion. So I'm sitting there with the priests
and so on. And they started getting grilled about they were
there were some Africa, African Americans that were Christian. And
they started this question, Was Jesus black?
Why is Jesus shown to be white? In all of the depictions? Why wasn't
he black? So there's this whole racial undertones that they were
trying to pull out of this? So the, the Christian priests, they
were in really, in a difficult position to try to answer this
because they had to answer it in a politically sensitive way, in a
diplomatic way, keep the calm because the whole program was
about interfaith harmony. And they were having a hard time. So then
that's when I chipped in. I said, Look, let me let me try to sort
this out. According to our traditions, according to the
Hadith, the traditions of the Muslims, Eastside Islam has been
described as being of wheatish complexion,
right as being of wheatish complexion, and have slightly dark
hair, which looks Middle East, and so it's neither white nor black.
Right? It's somewhere in between. So we managed to diffuse the issue
there.
The virtues of Mercy Luxa, the virtues of Sham,
numerous people have written about this. Now wherever you see that
people write about a particular area, that it means there's
something significant about the area. So for example, for those
who understand these names, how Phil Ibnu, Osaka, who died in
about 571, he's really he wrote about the virtues of Sham. There's
abolhassan Rubby a half of them the Tamia ignorable, humbly, and
many others, they wrote about Shang there's many books that you
can buy about the full healer of Sham the people who
buried there. So just to put us in perspective, one we've got the
historical Sham, in terms of Masjid Al Aqsa, and the
surrounding areas and who came there as prophets? That's where a
lot of this begins Masjid Luxa was built just some years after, after
the kava, right after the Kaaba many, many, many centuries ago,
many many centuries ago. So it starts obviously from there that
Masjid being there. However, then we have all of the prophets that
were in that area Jacoba Islam and you go to Al Khalifa, you've got
Jacoba de salaam Yusuf Ali Salam is Hawk Ali Salam, their wives,
many of their wives, Ibrahim Ali Salam, and you've got certain
other prophets that are purported to have been buried, as well.
Allahu Alem.
Then the other thing is then you look at in the town Rasul Allah
salah, and the results have encouraged it a lot. That's why
the first place that
the Donald Khilafah of the muslimeen move to, right, although
he was in you could say Kufa with it, really and that was a bad
experience. Right? That was a bad experience in for those who know
the history of it with the idea of the Allahu Anhu and he was invited
by the pupil of Kufa and so on. So although cufon Basara, you could
say, had way more development in terms of in terms of the Islamic
sciences, because after Madina Munawwara you could say that cufon
Basa, Iraq had probably the highest level of development in
terms of the Islamic sciences, even grammar, Arabic grammar, and
and a lot of the Aqeedah and so on so forth, then you get Damascus,
in Egypt, and so on like that, but really, Iraq holds the big, but
when it comes to rule, it's mainly more ARE WE ARE THE Allahu and the
omits, because that was the stronghold. That was a kind of a
different area altogether. For example, Omar, or the Allahu anhu,
during his time would not allow the Sahaba and the tabby and he
would frown upon people using finery any person during his
reign, during his rule, in the different areas of Muslim lands
has gone into Iraq and Persia or Iraq, in which was originally
under the Persians and the Roman lands, he would really not want
them to dress in fineries, and so on. But when it came to what are
we gonna do Allah Han, it was fine in Damascus, because people only
respected you if you were like that, because it had a lot of
Roman influence in that area.
So after all of the problems within, you know, with the idea of
the Allah and why we are the law, and so on and so forth, and then
hasn't really alone passed over the philosopher to moi, we are the
Allah one, they established the philosopher as such, the omega the
Khilafah, and it's dynasty Rand in Damascus. So that was you can say,
after Madina Munawwara that was the place of the rule for the
Muslims around the world for a significant number of years from
why are we really alone in New Year's Eve, and then why are we
and then
it was Marwan and then Abdullah Medicube, number one and then his
children. And then until they finished then the Abbasids, they
shifted it to Baghdad, but that was a brand new city. But that did
not exist in a time of the sahaba. Baghdad was only was only
established afterwards. Right? Again, that's Buzzaround Kufa were
not taken Baghdad brand new city, established by Abuja from the
monsoon anyway, so you then have the other thing you have about
Damascus is that because it's a place that Rosa Lawson had spoken
about so much. That's why many of the Sahaba are buried. In fact,
not just Sahaba in general, but some of the greatest of the Sahaba
and some of the, if you if you want to find the family of the
prophets, Allah and buried anywhere, you will find them in
Madina Munawwara as soon as you get into the graveyard in front of
you, and then you will find them in Sharm you've got a number of
the close family members of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
buried Satan, Xena and others who are buried in Jerusalem in sorry
in in Damascus belong to the Allahu Anhu is is there as well.
In fact below the Allahu Anhu did not want to it says in a hadith
did not want to come back to within one hour, because he just
felt so homesick.
He felt so distant from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam because of course hasn't gone he would not want to come
back. Then there is a narration that mentioned that he saw the
rise of loss and once in his dream, and the prophets Allah
Islam said to him, Maha Jaffa Yeah, Billa al what is Why are you
being estranged from me? Why don't you come to Madina? Munawwara. So
then as soon as he had that dream, it says that he just got up and
took off. He just went on and on and on and went into Madina
Munawwara but he was in Damascus, went to Madina Munawwara. And the
story is interesting that
when he got there, everybody discovered, beloved the owners and
who is here but he'd refused to give a darn as he used to give in
the terminal sort of lost a lot of them. So then they told Hassan and
Hussein that he alone to try to encourage him and he couldn't
refuse them. So then he started giving us a van
And Allahu Allah, but it says that women ran out of their houses
because it brought back memories of the time of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam what is going on here? Is it all back? You
know, so
you have numerous Sahaba and especially family of Rasulullah
sallallahu and buried in Damascus. That's another very interesting so
you can tell that them being there. It was a sanctuary at the
time, it was a sanctuary at the time.
Z Debnath orbital Ansari, the famous Sahabi he relates
that I heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saying yes to by
Alicia. Yeah, to Burley Sham. Yeah to buddy Sham, which means he's
saying the promises some saying glad tidings for Sham, glad
tidings for Sham glad tidings for Sham. So they said Yara surah
Allah?
What is the reason for this? Why is the glad tidings for this? He
replied, Because the angels of Allah have spread the wings upon
Sham.
Now, I know that at this time,
the turmoil that Sham is going through, and not just Sham, but
the other place where the prophets Allah made dua for which we're
going to be looking at right now. In the next Hadith, and
SubhanAllah. The people from these two areas where the prophets Allah
some speaks about the next hadith is from Abdullah Abdullah Ahmed or
the Allahu Anhu. He says that Rasul allah sallallahu sallam said
Allahumma Burdick Luna fish Amina wobei Declan arfi Yemen Nina,
call you a finished dinner
called Allahumma barik lana fish Amina alberic Nana femenina CalU
afinogenov. Kala Hoonah Zilla ZIL Wolfington will be her. Oh minha
Yahoo codnor shaytaan so now the promises are awesome is in front
of his congregation. And he starts making this door he says, Oh Allah
bless us in our shower.
Oh, Allah bless us in our Yemen. So not only does he say bless
Yemen and bless sham but he says bless us in our Yemen, in our
shower. A really personalized it. Really personalized it. The
Prophet sallahu wa salam that's probably as in the direction that
he went. It's probably the furthest furthest direction he
went to. In fact, when he was younger, with his father with his
uncle, as a trades as a tradesman. It was towards Sharm that he went,
and then eventually he came back. But that's the price of didn't go
beyond that to any other area. So it's kind of interesting. He says,
oh, Allah bless us in our sham bless us in our Yemen. So there
must have been some nudge the sitting there. There's an area
called Nudge, nudge, there's the eastern border of Arabia. If you
look up Madina, Munawwara and macabre karma. Right. And Madina
Munawwara. Then on the east of that towards Iraq is called
nudged. It's a province it's a major area province of towards
Riyadh's, right, that area. It's a major province of the Arabian
Peninsula, Saudi Arabia today. So there must have been people from
there, and the rows are awesome said, you know, then they said,
We're finished dinner, they're trying to it's like, Okay, what
about London? What about Bedford right? So
our nudged is Well, yours will Allah but the Bronx awesome,
repeated the same door. Oh, Allah bless us in our sham bless us in
our Yemen. Again, they asked and in our nudged
if only, but the prophets Allah, some said, No, that is where
there's going to be earthquakes, fitna trials, tribulations
challenges will come about from that area. And from there also,
the horn of shaitan will emerge. Now.
The people who live in that area, they generally understand these
Hadith to mean that direction of Iraq, because that was the closest
of the Arabian Peninsula, in the direction of Iraq, where there's
going to be lots of issues coming from that side. So they try to
say, oh, it's the direction he's speaking about that there's going
to be issues coming from that direction, is not speaking in
particular about nudge itself. While a lot of people who don't
like nudge these, they say that this is specifically speaking
about nudged itself. People have nudged are, in general, the people
of nudge, although they kind of are in the ruling seat right now
in Saudi Arabia, and many of the Imams of Harlem etc. They are
nudge these and they are known to be a bit you can say harsh in
nature. They're known to be a bit harsh in nature in general anyway.
Right. So, of course, they will Muslimeen right now, in that
sense, but without going into that polemics because our discussion is
on Sham. Let's keep to sharp let's forget nuts right now.
But that again tells you And subhanAllah, Yemen, and Shang the
people have they're very soft hearted. Generally speaking
The people of Yemen and sham just like Madina Munawwara very soft
hearted people. Very easy to deal with this businessman. Yes. Right
Yemenis and Syrians are known to be business people, no doubt about
that. And Subhan Allah Masjid Al Aqsa, I have not seen anybody more
proud than the people of Mists of Jerusalem,
though they're in all the difficulty that they're in, but
that trip that I had there, they hold their head high, they still
talk about aspects like hospitality and so on and so
forth. For example, the Imam, when I told him that there was a
particular individual who wanted to charge us for taking us around
or something, he was really upset. He said, This is not how our
people should be, you are a guest and we should be doing all of this
for you for free. Of course, we will need to make money and of
course even Madina, Munawwara Maka mukarram has been big money making
now the hospitality and fortune is very hard to find, as it used to
be, where they would you would be expected to, you know, be really
helped along and so on and so forth. But the people of Damascus,
east of Jerusalem, even today Subhanallah they are very
independent, very proud. That's why they've survived a lot of the
people. That's why they've survived these years of
encouragement, they haven't given up. Allah subhanho wa Taala is
great and given them a lot of grit, a lot of zeal, may Allah
subhanaw taala increase them in that regard.
Now, the third Hadith I'm going to relate is from udara, the Allah
one, he says that
I was once in the industry, the gnabry. And the prophets of Allah
Islam came, I was sleeping, I had fallen asleep in the masjid. And
the prophets of Allah some came and he nudged me with his foot.
And he said, Allah, Allah cannot even do I see you sleeping here.
You see me in the masjid. So I said, Yeah rasool Allah my eyes
overcame me. I couldn't help it. I fell asleep, called a cave. It
does not either reach them in. What would you do? He asked me a
sudden question. He said, What would you do if you were
if you were
if you were forced to leave leave Madina? Munawwara if you're forced
to leave the city, where would you go? So look, for him to give a
straightforward answer so quickly, he says, RT sham or the Mocha DESA
Elmo Baraka clearly, they had heard about Sham, Sham was spoken
about sham its merits and so on so forth had been discussed and was
well known. So immediately the sahabi said I will go to Sharm the
blessing and the holy land of Sham I will go there called a cave it
does not either reach them in nulliparous awesome character. He
says what would happen if you were also forced to leave that area?
Called a Massena? You're gonna be you're gonna be Allah. Other it be
safey now he had no answer. He then he said, Yara salah, what
should I do? Should I start fighting with my sword? Like, will
it be so bad then I'll just have to fight with my sword. The
Prophet sallallahu sallam said Allah De Luca Allah ma hua hai,
you're on luck. Mubarak was a corrupt worker of Russia. Should I
tell you something that is better than that, than what you would
have to do? What you think you would have to do? Something that
is closer to guidance, this smart War Two, three, what insock
Professor cook. Very interesting Hadith says you will just listen.
You will obey. And you will just be driven wherever you're driven.
It's better to do them. But then because the fitna,
right, I don't want to go into the whole discussion of uprisings and
rebellions and so on, because we're here talking about the fall
of these people. Right? So that's a whole different subjects. But in
this particular Hadith, the prophet Allah was me saying, take
it easy.
You know, you're not going to be able to deal with on a physical
level, just do what you have to do at the time and just carry on.
This is what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, he called
it Accra Brewster in that case, because rebellion is never is
hardly ever a good thing except in very specific circumstances. And
what's interesting is that this is a Buddha Rhodiola one, I will
throw the Allah one was a man of
a different temperament, very particular, about taking the words
black and white from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So
then what he did was he did live leave Madina Munawwara. Finally,
after the process and passed away, he left Madina Munawwara for the
deserts of Charmin. He stayed there during the Khilafah of a
worker syndicate to be alone for two years and some months from
Armada the Alon for over 10 years he stayed there. So that's 1213
years. It was during the Khilafah of Earthman or the Allah one, that
when he was in Damascus, he then became saddened by the increase of
the Muslims luxury and comfort and everything like that. And he felt
all of this was wrong. He saw the change and he felt all of this was
wrong. So then, with Amanda, the Allahu Anhu invited him back to
Madina, Munawwara because overthrow of the law was in Madina
Munawwara when he got there, he was equally critical of the people
now people that change
wasn't wasn't only Sahaba anymore. And now people were a bit more
indulgent than they were in the time of Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam. So he started having issues with this. So Samantha the
Allah and then gave him the instruction to go to a small
village close to Medina menorah call Roberta, that you move to
Raba, where you can stay alone with your wife and maybe a servant
or something like this and just spend the rest of your life
because he discovered that his temperament was such that if we
stayed in Madina Munawwara he'd be giving fatwas about what he saw
around him.
And that's where he eventually stayed in his asceticism, that's
where he stayed. Finally,
abou the next hadith is from Abu Umar Radi Allahu Allah and he says
that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, software to Allah
him and or the he a sham or fee her software to whom in hulky.
Were a birdie. Well at that Quran, alginate aminomethyl, Latin la
Hisa sobre la himolla.
These are the Hadith that the Sahaba had heard. And that's why
they would say, if I'm going to leave here, that's where I'm
going.
Now, everybody's got some idea of where they would go if they had to
leave. Well, I hope so. Because that's the nature of the world,
you should know where you need to go. Right? Whether that's back to
solet right, or India or withdraw to wherever it is right? But you
have to have an idea. nothing's guaranteed in this world. May
Allah give us stability but nothing is guaranteed in this
world. This is the Sahaba now it's these Hadith are they relating
this hadith narrated by Mantovani from Abu Umar Radi Allahu, and he
says that assuta allah sallallahu sallam said,
the chosen land of Allah is Sha.
Now that doesn't put it over Madina, Munawwara Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam is the greatest of the prophets. But you
have Ibrahim and Islam who has a lot of significance. Usually some
have a lot of significance Musallam all as meaning Russell,
so each one has his own merits, but clearly Madina, Munawwara is
superior. But Kamakura is a superior, you know, Sham has its
own benefits as well though, so that's why he said, the promise of
awesome said the chosen land of Allah is Shang, and in it are His
chosen people and servants.
A group from my nation will certainly enter paradise without
any reckoning or punishment. And to be honest, Sham was that one
place where there was a lot of light I remember still entering
before Fajr midnight, it was like a flight about three o'clock and
four o'clock. We got up. And there was an amazing serenity there when
I went there. I went there in 1998 98, amazing serenity. No,
I've been to other Muslim cities. There's another city I won't take
its name. Probably more mosques and a greater city with more
knowledge in the current times, then Damascus. They say it's a
city of 1000 minarets. No doubt there are Masjid is next to each
other in that city. If you want to study massagin and architecture,
and you want to study different dynasties, that's the city to go
to, literally one Masjid after the other in one streets avenue of
misogyny. But I didn't feel the same thing down there that you
feed in show that you felt in Damascus. I haven't been to Yemen.
So I can't speak about Yemen, from the people that told me they'd be
200, remote, etc. That's another great. That's another great place.
But all of these places are great. But the sham is amazing. It was
amazing. A lot of light there. And the beautiful thing in that time
was that there were no McDonald's. There was no Coca Cola. There was
no mobile phones there at the time. The only Coke or any of
these things that you could actually buy was smuggled in from
Beirut from from Lebanon. With only small quarters, people would
quickly put up a little table and start selling these things.
Otherwise, it was a very simple no conglomerate, conglomerate's very
simple simple solution.
And the best thing about the place was that
you could access so many scholars, nearly every Masjid was full of,
you know, some darts or the other some class or the other. Shade
Wamba here, shake Ramadan, booty here, shake, you know, so and so
here. And in this place this does every day of the week, you have
access to go to these gurus, you have to go to these, these colors.
So we used to go to shake a deep callus, which was used to live in
a place called Maha Jeannine. On the top of a mountain, you
literally have to they made these steps and about 100 200 steps to
climb up. And you'd be out of breath by the time you get there.
And sometimes used to go by taxi, but you had to pick the right taxi
to go there. Because most of the cars in Damascus time were very
old, like 30 years old or 40 years old. So some of them would just
refuse because they couldn't get up that hill. Right? So you'd have
to get the right taxi to go up there or walk up and you go to his
house. You take your book
with you, and there's already 1015 other people who are sitting
there, and everybody has turns, okay, then he teaches, you know,
you read your book to him for about 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and
then you put your book away and then somebody else reads this. So
everybody's doing their individual jobs as such, very beautiful, just
beautiful. And then the other place that I studied was in the
great OMA Yad mosque itself. Now, another thing about Sharm is that
the Prophet sallallahu lism says that a Saudi salaam will descend
in Damascus,
on the Eastern White minarets of the Great Mosque of Damascus. In
the time when he said this, there was no mosque in Damascus,
Damascus hadn't been conquered, it was under the Romans. But it
always also was saying that a time will come when a Silius and I will
descend there, say you know, clear Hadith about it. So then what you
have is this Willie Dibner Abdul Malik, the Obama years when they
escaped this is when he constructed this great mosque.
Obviously has gone through a lot of iterations since then. But he
constructed this great mosque and there is that white minaret which
is on the eastern minaret of it. Now, the most interesting thing is
that I used to study on the opposite side. And this side. This
is where Sheikh Abdul Razak al Halabi Rahim Allah used to be so I
used to read my Quran to him and he used to teach outside of there.
It has only stayed in this masjid for quite quite some time he
stayed here. So again, you know, this tells you another thing about
shum Lazar, he was in Imam Reza, Allah was was in Baghdad. But
that's brand new city, right. It's a brand new city for from the time
of the Sahaba from after the time of the sahaba. So Imam Al Ghazali
leaves Baghdad. He's originally from tus, which is by Mashhad in
Iran, Northwest Iran Nisha pulled in that area. He is the biggest
scholar one consider one of the biggest scholars of the Muslim
world of the time. So he is in Baghdad. But then after he gives
all of that up for about 10 to 11 years, he decides to just go in
the path of Allah just seeking Allah and leaving everybody. So
where does he go? He goes to Masjid Al Aqsa, he goes and stays
in Damascus. And he goes to the Haramain. That's the four places
he goes to. Now, as this is for a Muslim, you can just understand
where people would want to go to if they wanted some sanctuary.
Unfortunately, maka mokara. Madina Munawwara today is difficult
without a visa visa restrictions. And of course, if it was open,
then it will be overcrowded. Because now with the ease of
travel, everybody would be then just stay there the whole year.
Why why why leave you know, so that's why they do what they do.
Jerusalem, very expensive, but possible to be there. Damascus,
although Damascus itself is still kind of intact, the central intact
and for unfortunately the surroundings, the other areas,
it's a tough place to be. However, it's more talking about the end of
times that this is where the Muslims will reach will eventually
revert to right. In fact, it says that Madina Munawwara will become
desolate, this hadith to that effect. Madina Munawwara will
become desolate. How will it be the province of Assam said when
certain things like that will happen Medina mana and they were
shocked. So end of times is all Jerusalem. And that area, that's
where ISA is and will kill the job
as well. So that place is called bubble Lloyd
which is outside of outside of Jerusalem.
Because it's between Damascus and Jerusalem where a lot of this
discussion of the End of Times takes place. It says that when a
Saudi son will descend onto this minaret and he'll come down. It's
it's a possibility that here MADI
Radi Allahu Anhu would have gotten everybody together because the
Christians will be waiting, the Jews will be waiting, and the
Muslims will be waiting. And when a Silas alarm comes down, he will
say what he has to say. And the people will start following him
those who want to find others will start opposing him. So many of the
Christians will become Muslim at that time. Because there's a he
will break the cross kill the swine and eliminate the jizya. And
then they will be either for against in that sense. Then it
says he will go after the jewel
towards Jerusalem. So it's just outside Jerusalem. You have Ben
Gurion International Airport, by loot. That's where it says inland,
that's where he'll kill him.
And what Allahu Allah, there's a lot of there's a lot of
speculation you can do as to the flight that the gel will be
taking, and so on and so forth. But the main point of
Our discussion is Damascus and Syria, sorry, Damascus, Syria and
Jerusalem. These are the two places where a lot of this is
happening, then even afterwards afterwards,
or most of the attention is in that area with the Saudis and with
the Muslims will be with the Saudi salaam, when Jews and Jews will
come, they will just totally destroy everything. And the people
that we with Sid Simon, he will go to the mount. They're in Sharm in
general, and that's where he will make his dua. So a lot of the
discussion on the end of times is in that area. Now, I know there's
a lot of persecution taking place right now. So
I'm just going to mention a few more Hadith I mentioned. Then I'll
move on to inshallah Jerusalem in particular. There's another Hadith
I'm going to mention her Abdullah Abdullah Hawa as the related by
Imam Toblerone again. He says that oh prophet of Allah choose for me
a place where I should be
for you know, where I could be if I was to live Madina Munawwara but
then he did say if I were to know that you would remain I would not
have chosen any place so once you're not here, then where should
I go? So he said the Prophet salallahu it he said go to Sham
very sorry, I'm told him go to shop.
So it looks like he didn't really register that properly. And didn't
really take that as a you know, so when the professor Lawson saw his
indifference towards it, he said Do you know what Allah says about
sham
Valley uh, Allah says oh sham You are my chosen land and I shall
make the best of my servants enter you
so that's why the people who are there who are undergoing all of
the turmoil and and the destruction everything like that
there are a number of other things about sham like that talking about
the best of people who are in Sham for example, I'll mention another
Hadith Shuddha Domino's. Now shut down Domino's, if you go to, to
Jerusalem, you'd actually visit his grave? Because his grave is
very, very prominent. They're shut down even oaks. Why, again, where
does this come from? Chanda. Dino's was, it seems like he was
feeling some pressure from something. So he didn't seem to be
too well. And he seems to be in some kind of struggle. So the
prophets of Allah Who are you some said to him what's wrong? gosha.he
said, Doc could be a dunya. The world has closed on me, constraint
on me.
So the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, the world has not closed in
on you. Verily, We got locked to hopeful. He says Verily sham will
be conquered. And alkaloids. So this was a prophecy that was given
at the time, Shaolin will be conquered, and of course will be
conquered. And you and your sons will be Imams there. If Allah
wills you and your sons will be Imams if Allah wills. So now
what's interesting is I shuddered. Hypnose he played a leading role
in the conquest of Charmin cots
and he passed away in 58 Hijiri at the age of 75, and he's buried
there in the Muslim graveyard, neighbouring Massoud Luxa. It's
there I think I even have a picture of this. The other
companion very famous was buried there as Oba Abner Seimetz where
the Allah one the final Hadith I'm gonna mention about Sham is a
Hadith as related by Muhammad Ali even though we thought it really
alone says that I heard a Sula Salah some saying a dahlia Kulu
inhibition. Well, Homer Baron when Olajuwon kala Mamata Rajon
Abdullah who McKenna who wrote Jhulan for years it became a lathe
when solo behemoth aleida were your serif one Orisha or were you
sort of an Orisha and behemoth either
I don't even know Batali besides that I heard the Messenger of
Allah saying that the Abdol will be in Sham they are 40 Min.
Whenever one of them passes away, Allah replaces him with another
man. It is through the invocations that water will come through will
come through rain enemies will be defeated and punishment will be
withheld from the people of Sham.
The word of dull means substitutes. Now, there's numerous
opinions about what exactly this refers to. But most scholars, most
Hadith scholars as well have confirmed the existence of 40
great men in Damascus. When you say great men we don't mean
they're all this kind of
special palace for them or something like this. These are 40
men that are hidden only known to Allah subhanaw taala who these and
you can just speculate that this is one of the 40 Let's see if
anybody has traveled to Damascus and inshallah hopefully you will
get an opportunity to travel to Damascus again inshallah in the
future, right once Allah subhanaw taala brings about some relief
there. If you go to Mount Casio and there's a masjid there and it
says that this is they've made 14 member 40 kind of arches down
there. And it said, you know, this is just kind of a symbolic kind of
thing.
of reminding people that this is the place of these blessing
individuals. Now, what the Hadith mentions is that they are people
that Allah sends reign because of them. Allah loves them so much
like some of the pious of the most pious people in Sharm. And you saw
that light when you're in Damascus, because I said the
massage it will fill there was a general piety on the streets, even
in discussion in general, there'd be a lot of discussion, a lot of
doors that are given to one another, just the general piety.
Anyway, not to say there's not any bad this is the world there's
going to be bad. But when there's a lot of goodness, somewhere where
there's scope for learning, that's that's what I'm talking about.
Anyway, most scholars have affirmed the existence including
some of the great names like Ignace, Salah, Allah Abu Dhabi,
duniya, Abu cerca, Allah Zara, Zara Kashi, Alana Zahawi, Saluti,
Costa learning, ignore Aberdeen, a Shermie, and so on and so forth.
Talks about these great individuals. You have to remember
just because a place is going through good times doesn't mean
that it's a blessed place. And a place that's going through
persecution is a bad place. It doesn't have to be like that.
Because the responsibility of a believer in this world is Sabra
and Shakur.
And sometimes through sober, sober is definitely superior to sugar in
general, because the dean is mostly sober, our all of our good
deeds that we do coming Fajr etc, etc. That's all sobriety or
abstaining from firearms in the face of attraction is all sober
because it's called sober annual Maaseiah. To persevere and be
patient in not doing the Haram and calamities. So sober is fasting is
sober, and that's why fasting has some of the greatest greatest
rewards. Allah says what we share is Siberian Alladhina Eva Asaba
Tomas Eva Galu in Florida who in either urology rune will iCarly
him sort of out in the lobby him Rama, what would I go home after
doing? So SABR so Allah subhanho wa Taala may want to elevate,
elevate their status, Allah subhanaw taala wants to sift out
all the evil from there, and so on as well. There could be many, many
reasons.
But again, Damascus is going to place a play a very big role
afterwards, towards the end of times. Now, let me just go through
some of the
virtues of Jerusalem, which are probably more well known to people
anyway. Because you generally hear more about Jerusalem than you hear
about Shawn and, and Damascus.
So there's some very clear cut Hadith about Jerusalem because it
has a very special position. First and foremost, Jerusalem remain the
Qibla for the muslimeen
while in Makka, moo karma, and then for about
16 or 17 months after moving to Madina Munawwara as well, only
after that wasn't changed. So while in Makkah the Qibla was
Jerusalem but you could actually pray towards Jerusalem while
facing the Kaaba so you could get both as the profit and loss him
used to do, but when it came to Madina, Munawwara you had a
choice. You couldn't pray in both directions anymore. The reason is
that Mecca is here, Medina is above. And Jerusalem is in the
northern direction to that. So if you pray towards Mecca, you can
pray towards Jerusalem and the hokum the command is pray towards
Jerusalem. Now the Prophet says and couldn't pray to both. So he's
waiting, waiting. He has this hope in him that is going to change and
finally changed. That's why you have the muscular Qibla team.
Now there's another Hadith that's related by Imam Buhari from Abuja
Radi Allahu Allah.
Call the call to rasool Allah, au Masjid in will the FL or the
overland which was the first Masjid to be established on this
Earth called Al Masjid Al haram Masjid Al haram called a call to
me, then which one? Call the Al Masjid Al Aqsa?
So, machine Luxa is before Madina Munawwara clearly, this was early
on gum kind of Urbino. He really wanted to get this specific says,
How long was it between the two.
And then he said, our own Asana only 40 years. So they say that
the GABA was originally Michelle haram was originally established
by the angels in the world right in the beginning. In fact there's
narrations that GABA lies in the place from where the earth was
spread and became around.
GABA lies in the heart of the world. And if you look at a map,
you know, if you look at a map, you will actually see the Arabia,
Kava is in the center.
And whether you look at it upside down or the other way around, it's
it's just about in the center in that sense. And so there are
narrations which say that the earth was spread from there from
what was from that area it was spread from there. However, the
professor Lawson did say three
My aim at rocket Kosala to do for Sun li for Indian philosophy
that wherever after that wherever you find a place to pray, you can
pray.
So the prophets of Allah are some goals for his ascension from the
first question to the second question, then up to the heavens.
This was before the migrant this ascension to before migration
before Madina Munawwara
then there's another Hadith that Imam Buhari relates.
alphanumeric Radi Allahu Anhu says, I came to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam during the
expedition of the book.
He was in a tent made of leather.
I went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
And I said, and he said to me,
remember of he says count these six things.
Keep these six things in mind. They will happen before the before
the Day of Judgment. Moti The first one was my death it will
occur
so much obaidul muchness.
Then after that, Betamax this will be conquered.
So that was mentioned before the conquest. And then after that it
was it was conquered.
The most prominent thing here is this, if I live in if you live in
this area, right? If I if you live in this area, and you've got this
question, do you have a bigger machine in town? Or is this the
biggest question? There's a bigger one, right? The big one the
German. Okay. So now if somebody thinks this is a small masjid, I
get more reward for going to that big Masjid.
Then you're wrong, you get more most reward in your local because
that's your local, that's where you're right. That's what you have
to frequent and inhabits. However, if you say for example, I'm going
to go to Jewsbury. I'll get more reward for praying solid there.
You're also wrong.
Yeah, you can go to Jewsbury for the markers and for the public and
for all that work. Or you can go to Regent's Park mosque, just to,
you know, look at it, if you want, right, but if you say I want to
pray in Regent's Park, because I get more reward there. Why I'm
gonna pray in the White Chapel mosque because I get more reward,
then you don't, you don't get reward in any Masjid more than you
get in other Masjid. Unless there's a difference of
other factors, other factors being more people more of a chance of
somebody solidly accepted, more righteous people. So then you've
got a more chance of your prayer being accepted. There's those
things but generally, you're not supposed to kind of overcome your
mercy and go somewhere else. However, there are three masajid
in the world where you can actually take a journey, a proper
journey to go there. And you will be rewarded for that entire
journey.
That's Masjid Al haram, Masjid Nabawi and Masjid Luxor. So you
will actually be rewarded for going there. If you go for the
right purposes. You will go there, whatever money you pay, that is
because the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam says in this hadith
law to shut the rehearsal Illa Illa Salah T masajid you should
not get your travelling gear together rehearsal like get your
animal and everything set up to go somewhere like take an undertaker
travel or a journey. It should not be done except for three massages.
Because there's virtue for those three months did you get extra
reward they'll mentioned the rewards but you'll get special
msgid their
muscle haram mercy Luxa and this Masjid of mine
so you you're rewarded for going to Jerusalem to pray in the masjid
for every Salah that you go there specifically with the intention
Abdullah I have no idea what are the Allahu unreleased that the
prophets Allah lorrison said Lama Farah Sulaiman Buddha would have
been been on eBay to mock this.
When Solomon Ali Salam, Salam might even the dough with
completed building the masjid Luxa Baytril. Mark this Baytril mark
this the house of holiness, the house of sanctity, that's kind of
the translation.
He asked Allah subhanahu wa taala thrice
sorry, he asked Allah for three things. One was Hoekman.
One was a power
number two sovereignty lion bahini had him embody
sovereignty like no one's ever to come after him.
And number three,
which is what is appropriate for us just not a historical point of
view, but it's something that is still ongoing, and inshallah it
still stands is law yet. Do you have a message? I don't know. You
read a la sala de la hora. Julian Zulu b He came in what are the
toma
now this is not a well known Hadith generally, this is the Tao
of Zulema and Ali Salam, the third of his dua two of them were
definitely accepted and this one we can only know in the hereafter
is accepted or not. Anybody who comes to this masjid, only to
perform salaat in it,
then he will shed his sins like the day his mother gave him birth.
So that is a reward to go purely for that sake. I want to go there
just want to pray in that Masjid.
Then you'll get the reward inshallah.
And finally, towards the end of times, again, everything goes into
that direction, right?
It relates from maybe when I've been to said, one of the, one of
the female servants of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, she said Jana
be Allah. Athena, if you bathe in McAleese, tell us something about
Betamax give us some ruling about Betamax. This, he said Ardell
McSherry will mention this is the place where the gathering will
take place. This is the place where these events of the day of
judgment are going to take place. So it holds greater prominence in
that regard. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to end here
by just saying for ourselves that, of course that these lands are
going through great turmoil in these times.
They This is not the first time Damascus has undergone probably
worse than this when the tide has invaded, just as Baghdad has
undergone worse.
Damascus itself
when it was overcome by the tortoise.
The Christians took over the masjid and pork was being served
wine was being sprinkled in the masjid because the Tatas were in
alliance with the Christians of the city at the time. Right. So
after all of that it still come back.
Jerusalem itself after being out of our hands for over 90 years
we're no Salatu was performed.
No Salah was performed in that Masjid.
For 90 years, no Imams stood in the Merab. On the pulpit, no Quran
was recited and Masuda Kuba to Sahara was made into a temple, a
cathedral templum domine Cross was Golden Cross was on the top.
Right. And then mercy Luxor was made like into a museum and next
door stables.
But Alhamdulillah I came back. So let us not feel that these are the
end of times you don't get anything out of feeding dates, end
of times, tell that to you. Because you'll only get worse, the
challenges will only get greater. And then other people are very
interested in the end of chat at times they get really excited
about all of these end of time prophecies. They're wasting their
time, believe me, I'd rather not be at the end of times. Because
the challenge will only get worse. I don't want to challenge in my
own well being I want to ask you I want to be simple. And we need
from this world in a simple states. Not in a because it's not
easy. Because just for example, if you take the journal, the
professor Lawson said that he's the worst of the unseen fitness.
Now just imagine any fitna that we have today. What is your fitna for
men generally it's women, you know, the whole desire aspect of
it, how difficult is it to deal with that? You know, for women,
it's something else, whatever it may be, you know, shopping or
whatever the case is, well love wearing them, you know, just think
of the worst thing that you have trouble with. And if the jelly
supposed to be worse than that,
you know, the whole energetic system, then I don't want to be
there. I'd rather go earlier. I'd rather be closer to time.
Rasulullah Salallahu Salam in that sense. So it doesn't have to be
the end of time because we've seen worse than this both in Damascus
in Baghdad in Jerusalem.
hamdulillah Madina Munawwara I've seen worse as well. Do you know
that in Madina Munawwara there were
several days that past when the salah did not take place. The Yvan
did not happen officially.
There was always inside the museum was in the masjid.
alone when the fitna of hydrogen there was a massive rebellion that
took place and problems. No Salah took place in the masjid
and he would hear a Satanist who stayed in the masjid. He heard a
van coming from the grave of Rasulullah sallallahu sunnah. So
Medina has fared worse. Madina Munawwara has fared worse.
Likewise, maka Maka, the black stone was removed.
The Black Stone was removed. For over two years, there was no
bloodstone there. That's why it was broken.
That's why today the Bloodstone is not a full stone. It's actually
just pieces. If you get a chance
It's only pieces about seven pieces of something.
The remnants of what's left. So we've seen it all. This is not new
times don't think this is the worst of times. The main thing
that's important for us is that we remember Allah and we die on our
faith. Because that's what the Bronx, Ellison told us. He said
that fitna will come to you.
One will make the other one look simple and small, your article
about her better than fitna will come, and each one will make the
other one seem insignificant. It says that a fitna will come and a
person will think heavy he might look at this is this is it, I'm
dead in this one. So Matunga Schiff. But it will be removed,
and then another, the geo Accra, another one will come and a
personal thing now I'm dead, and then again it will be removed. So
what the promise is and what he does say at the end of it is you
make sure that you meet Allah.
You meet Allah with iman. That's the most important thing for us.
So may Allah subhanaw taala help us with that one and Al hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen