Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #16
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The speaker discusses the origin and cultural significance of Islam, including the use of tools to open doors and use people. They emphasize the importance of acceptance and being the medium of comfort for others. The speaker also touches on the importance of being the medium of information and not just the door, and the importance of being the medium of information and not just the door.
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Every good deed. Yay. Imam Al Bahati, you.
Timos, nadihibi, senadin Hassan and Khalid Ibn walidilahu, Anhu
qadil tadi, collection of Imam Al Bai ha TI. And he has a couple of
collections, I think this is the sunan, and it is narrated to us
with a reasonable generation by Sayyidina. Khalid does not have a
lot of a hadith, if any at all, that are narrated through him. And
this is really not much of a hadith, as much as it is him
telling us this his story, like how he accepted Islam. And it's a
long story. I'm just gonna take a little piece of it that I that I
find im arise when I was a kid, and I should probably never forgot
it. And it's just a it's just something in it that it just tells
you something about how he, how he his wisdom, alias Allah, to us. I
mean knowing how to speak to people, when and what to say, and
just this, this mastery of the of the craft and say the said Allah
Ali, who Ali wasallamish, had the hula the Prophet alayhi salam when
he entered for the Umrah of khaliah. So when he came for
David, he was coming from Umrah, right? And they didn't let him
come in. They signed the Treaty of Hoda b He went back again the year
after it was called Umrah, to in the seventh year of Israel for the
Umrah. And Khalid said, I wasn't there. I didn't I didn't witness
him
coming in. Pakayana Maha al Walid Ibn Walid miman, my brother,
Walid, Al Walid, who was younger than Khalid, he was a Muslim, and
he entered the Mecca with the Prophet Alaya. Saw to some during
Umrah, and he looked for me. He asked, where I want to see my
brother and I, he didn't find me. Faqabah, ILA, yaki Taban, so he
wrote a letter to me. Khali said, Bismillah, wahman, Amma, Baden,
Nilam Ara ajaba means the habi Raika. I mean Islami wa aka Luka,
aka Luke wami, Israel, Islami, yajalahu Ahad. So this is what he
wrote in this letter, in the name Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most
Merciful. I'm a bad I've never seen anything that is weirder to
me in my life than how your understand, your your mind has not
found Islam yet. This is the weirdest thing to me. Your
intellect is your intellect. Me. I've known you. You're the
smartest person I know, and you have not found Islam yet. I This
is the weirdest thing to me. I've never seen anything like it in my
life. You're too smart not to see this, and the likes of Islam is
not going to be missed by anyone who has intellects, is what his
brother is saying. Wakan said, Any the Prophet alayhi saw
some asked me about you. Halas, it
fixed the problem. Because Allah he faqed, he came with when the
Prophet entered Mecca with me, asked me, where's Khalid faqil to
Yet Allah? Who be He? So? I answered him. I said, Allah will
bring him. Fakala, Mami flu who yaji haul Islam, someone like him
will not, cannot miss Islam well. And who ja ilanika Yet a who wa
jadah, who el muslimin ala mushri keen like an Allah wala padamah.
If he put all the effort that he has, all of his all of his wit and
all of his abilities on the on the side of the Muslims against their
enemies, it would have been better for him. And had he come to us. If
he was to come to me, I will give him status. And that's that's the
quote of the Prophet he saw us, and so he continues to brothers,
come out in us. Ali, ha, you need to make up for the time that you
you've missed my brother, and you have missed some important
moments. You've missed important things. Khalifa, speaking Allah,
anikita, Abu Hush waslamical Islam. When I when I received the
letter, it gave me this energy to get up and go to Medina, and it
gave me this willingness to accept Islam. And the story obviously
continues. And Khalid would meet AMR and others, and they would go
to Medina to accept Islam. But this is how Khalid explains the
beginning of it. It was, it was the Prophet alayhi salatu Islam,
asking about him. Where is fulan? He's to say something nice about
him through a word, through a compliment in the midst of a
honey, a light that probably is filled with with a lot of back and
forth and all that contradictions and failures and sorrows and fears
and pains, he got here a nice word from someone who had status, and
it fell in his heart and it opened the door that was had been closed
for say in the heart for a long time. Sayyidina had.
He accepted late. He came in late. He came in late. It was the eighth
year of Hijrah. Only three years with the prophet Ali assault was I
was a Muslim, right? He came in late. He missed so much. The door
was closed for him, just the door wasn't open. And the Prophet said,
I never lost hope in Him. He always hoped that one day the door
will open. Well, the door doesn't open on itself by itself. Allah
subhanaw taala uses any tools to open these doors for people. Allah
subhanahu wa opens doors for people. He doesn't like doors
don't just fling open. He
uses tools. He uses people to open doors for people. So be someone
who Allah opens the door for someone else, for by or through.
Be the person like when Allah wants to guide someone, why not?
Why not it be through you? Why not? Why does it have to be
through someone else? Why can it be through you? If Allah grant
benefits, why not through you? He's going to grant this person
benefit. It's just a matter of which medium, which medium is
going to be. Be the medium you get there. You're for it. It's better
than doing nothing. Better than sitting around with nothing to do,
be the medium but present yourself. Allah subhanahu, he
wants to. Allah will guide whomever he wants and will
misguide whoever he wants. Just be the medium of guidance. The
Prophet alayhi Salat didn't let anything personal come between him
and Khalid. And there was so many reasons for him to allow something
like that to happen, but he didn't. He kept the door and he
said something. He left him. He didn't have to, he didn't have to
say anything nice about Khalid. Islam does not need anyone. Islam
has never needed anyone. But the Prophet alayhi salatu salam is not
about Islam needing it's about him needing Islam. It's about Khalid
and ulib needing Islam. The Prophet alayhi salaam having
within his toolkit the ability to maybe nudge him forward, encourage
him to come to Allah. He said something nice. Imagine if he
didn't.
Now, imagine Islamic history if he didn't.
Imagine if the prophet said that. They didn't say, didn't say, where
is he? Why is he not here? Someone like him should not be unknown to
Islam, or someone like him should not miss Islam. He should put his
effort with us. He comes to us, we'll treat him well. Had he not
said those words, it took him three seconds. He didn't say those
words, anybody would have nothing to write in this message. And
Khalid may have not imagined the difference. The smallest thing
sometimes can make the world of difference. Sayyidina, Khalid,
obviously, I need those who studied Islamic history know what
he did know to what degree. Say, the hard myth. He literally was a
myth.
Had to remove him, like he had to remove he had no choice. He
became. He was becoming a Arab were still very not too long ago,
just just a couple of just a decade before they were worshiping
Aslam. Arabs had not completely disconnected from this concept.
Yet they still haven't. Today, if you want, my opinion, they still
have not. They still have not. They're not even close to getting
to that. But say the high was coming to the point where he was
becoming a myth. People started to see him as something that he
wasn't. So said to remove him all because the Prophet Aliyah saw
those time and said, Allah, I find that to be a part of Yani, of his
dawah concept. The theme is obviously still Dawa, and I think
it's something do that everyone so ask about people, say something
nice, compliment them, and you offer them some you'll find that
opens their heart, opens the door. This may be closed for them.
They'll come to Allah subhanahu wa, them Coming to
Allah subhanahu wa, leave.
Islam
mean the hobby Islam, you are look for me through Islam, you Salama
Islam will know Johnny, who was the whole Muslim, Allah, a
Allah.