Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #30
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The importance of the story of the prophet's meeting certain people for specific reasons is discussed, as it reflects on struggles with the time. The success of Islam in 10 years has led to progress with leaders of the land, but there is a need to be in one's own control and not lose self esteem. The importance of knowing Islam's art and finding a way to live life rewarding and valuable is emphasized, as well as setting up devices to avoid losing track of progress projects.
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See about
the the series that you'll listen to, you'll
find that when they talk about the is
a little bit, it's quicker. It's, like, usually
one session and it's over. I take more
time to talk about the
specifically because I think there's a lot, in
that story to reflect upon.
And I know we're you I'm using my
imagination a little bit, but I'm not using
it wildly outside of the, of the of
the realm of of of what is what
is logical, what makes sense. I mean, the
prophet
was set up to meet certain people. There's
a reason why he was going to meet
these people. They didn't randomly have them meet
people. There's nothing random in the story.
Wanted to meet certain people for for specific
reasons. And with a little bit of, a
little bit of, a little bit of, contemplation,
he could figure out why, you know, why
he's being these people specifically. Every that he
met, there was something for him to learn
from this encounter that he had with them.
And,
even though we don't have a lot of
narrations,
that tell us what they talked about, I
I just kinda go out of my I
I I I I imagine what they talked
about. And I and I use use basically
the stories of the prophets themselves and what
the prophet
had had gone through or what he was
going to go through in his life that
would make this encounter very meaningful to him,
And I think there's there's there's value
in in in, in talking about that. And,
and the reason that he that he got
to to go on this journey, alaihis salatu
wa sallam,
was mainly What? For a couple of reasons.
The first one was that he he was
going through probably the the the the darkest
moments of of his life of his of
his entire life
When he said that, it's not I didn't
I'm not saying it's it's his words,
that he felt that this was the most
difficult time. He lacked alaihis salam alaihis salam
alaihis salam alaihis salam alaihis salam.
10 years of dawah, this is the 10th
year of his of his dawah, alayhis
salah. 10 years of dawah, which is a
decade of time.
After a decade of work,
I'm sure that he was reflecting
on the output, the outcome. How many people
did he actually have? What was he able
to achieve in 10 years? I believe the
prophet
looked at what he had achieved, and he
wasn't he wasn't thrilled by it. Not that
he wasn't happy with what
Allah had given him, but I'm sure he
because the the way the prophet was, and
this is what we have to learn. He
was someone who was very self aware, and
he performed
self accountability. He always held himself accountable. So
he always, yeah, he always went back and
wondered what he could have done better. Was
he doing this as well as well as
as he could? Should he be doing more?
Did he make mistakes? What mistakes did he
make? That's that was his nature out of
his sloth. It was a really good nature
to have as long as you when you
do that, you're not someone who
who uses self accountability to feel less about
themselves or to lose self esteem. Okay. You
got self
esteem.
Yeah.
Okay.
So if you think about it, 10 years
is a a decade of time. It's a
long time. Like, it's not it's not a
short period of time. After a decade,
if you were to do a quick, review
of what what was the
prophet able to do to actually achieve,
you find that in 10 years, not that
much Islam is is scattered over to play
in Mecca
made a lot of progress with the leaders
of the land. There are no there are
no peep there are no peep true leaders,
as in as in the head of their
tribes who've accepted Islam.
Who were with him, and it's technically speaking
from a long time before,
not not but not much else. He had
not put together a lot of wealth from
the people that he had. He wasn't able
to free the slaves he was that that
hadn't believed in him. When he when you
look at the accomplishments,
you know, he wasn't that impressive. And I'm
sure the prophet
was was stealing that with way as well.
There's nothing wrong with that, by the way.
We have to be in our lives, we
have to be
that you have within you the ability to
reflect and to contemplate the answers of am
I doing the best I can assist the
best I can do? Can I do anymore?
Tawhid. And then he was stalled in the
heavens where he would go and see what
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has in store.
Right? The reverence and the respect that he
had out in his love, there. And he
got to meet people of such high power
to tell them that, don't worry. Yeah. Yeah.
Sometimes the first 10 years
suck. Sometimes sometimes it'll spend a decade with
very little to show. Sometimes it'll work
and and I find that the the the
joke and and the reason that I I
do the the the the the
that he doesn't meet that's one one of
the major prophets called? One of the major
messengers?
Noah.
Right? Noah. He doesn't meet Noah. Like,
job was designed for to begin with. You
go to the source and hear what the
job looks like to begin with, and it
gives you an authentic understanding. And then Adam
Alayhi Salam was that
do any better. So your your job is
not to hate your nuts. Your job is
to purify your nuts. Teach it. It's not
don't destroy it. Don't kill it. It's your
consciousness. There's something else inside here.
A voice that seems to be very certain
of things.
A voice that seems to, you know, know
it all. No. No. This is what I'm
going to do. And it seems to be
very pushy too. How do I deal with
it? So I don't learn. So I don't
I share the
sibling
same period of time, the same space for
the same people as well. So there's a
lot of, overlap between them. And I think
they it is the only sky where he
meets 2 people. I'm sure he could've met
2 people out of the skies. I know
there you know, with certainty that there are
I'm behind all the skies, so he could've
met 2 people because the
yet they loved one another, and they worked
well with one another, and they respected each
other. And even though
followers. Allah's command. Know that the followers of
these states, one way or the other, would
have the most influence on on the land.
So knowing any such thing as
the
Muslims, we see and we revere the prophets
of these other faiths very, very highly. We
don't, and that's an important that's an that's
an important distinction
these
are obviously the distinction, but that was the
intention at least in what they did.
And speak to, to Christians
and we don't need him to to ask
that question, but let's say, what what is
he known for with it with within the
faith that claims to
a very poor lifestyle. In terms of finances,
they weren't rich
and was filled with mercy, filled with compassion,
filled with humbleness, with with with humility, with
would be just being someone who does not
does not have that and and and meeting
in
name. They would call him, oh, you this,
and call his mother or something. Very, very
rude. So Esai Alaihi Salam would turn to
him and he would say,
tyrant out of someone.
White didn't seem like they were tyrants,
but it took his
his approach to reform out of his love
for them to bring out the tyrants that
their lives because they stood up against against
pirates of their land. And the Quranari used
to hide the sea that, yeah. Yeah. It
it it didn't
went through a full story of Dawah
with very little to show for at the
end of it
and lost their lives. They get
at new Harissa.
The
they don't really meet anywhere else. So they're
very very separate. Culturally, they speak the same
language, but culturally, ethnically, and
once the 7 years of difficulty come along,
you're going to
distribute the grain fairly based on numbers of
people, and people have to actually bring something
in for it. You have to work. It's
not going to be free social support. It's
not that
I'm against yeah. I need social support in
any other countries that we live in, but
I think, yeah, there's some degree of of
clarity here. And I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna throw my my hat in the blue
golden here.
I'm not running for anything, but here's my
I don't think
psyche or the human heart. It's not healthy
for you to be here. You don't have
to do anything at all. You have to
contribute something.
You have to contribute something unless you are
of a certain age where you're retired and
you've already contributed all your life. You have
to be contributing something. And I think the
concept of that existing without any form of
contributions is is a problem. If you're studying
that what that's something, but would there be
nothing at all? And this is a problem
under social equity. We're on this out there
being any form of contribution participation or anything
that that is coming back, then not only
will our economy suffer and our currency suffer,
and not only will it become impossible
to rent a place to live or to
buy a car or to buy a house
or to make ends meet at the end
of the month is going to be a
war ended up all those that go way
beyond that. So that it has to be
does because he planned things out to them,
Islam was in jail. He
lies about him. Yusuf found a way to
get over that. It's
a
He didn't become less helpful when he was
being oppressed or mistreated or poor. He held
his ethics all throughout his life, alayhis salaam
alayhis salaam. And that is a
copy of the hand. Because the Quran was
written initially. And then the hadith of the
Prophet, alaihis salatu wa sallam, like, a century
or a half later was written. And then
the hadith of Prophet,
alayhis salatu wa sallam, a century or a
half later was written. And then all of
the ayim that was the the scholars, extracted
from these two sources of evidence was written
and documented.
So we have we have documentation.
So we don't so we got that documentation
is why I can sit here and tell
you these stories because the human brain can
only hold on to so much before it
forgets everything. If you depended on the human
brain, maybe half the brain would have
alayhis salami, meeting him and learning that piece
was of of significance
because his deen, alayhis salami, his legacy
Indoreza.
The second thing Indoreza is known for, Indoreza
was the first one
that you have right now. And and just
invest in that. Invest in being the best
person you can be today. Invest in being
the most
kind person, the most pious and close to
a lost
not, you don't have a deadline. Like, the
next because you can't you're not gonna be
able to do this if you have a
deadline the next day or you have an
exam. So you you look for a day
that works for you that that's appropriate. I
usually wish I will help you out. And
then you live that day as if you're
going to die
before you wake up the next morning. Right?
And you and just to allow your brain
to function that way a little bit. And
it's a very, very, yeah, rejuvenating,
experience. It's very, very helpful. It's one of
the most helpful experiences, but it does
require a certain degree of, of of comprehension
of of Islamic topics in order for you
to do it well. And you have to
have it but if you do it in
your life, yeah, I mean, it helps you
maybe start And you have to have it.
So if you do it in your life,
yeah, I mean, it helps you maybe start
living that way in general. You start to
find out that the one aspect of living
your final day that you can live in
every day, that you just choose not to
for no good reason. And then you can,
you know, if you have to take time
to think about it, it's it's very it's
very,
reason to delve in. So
spot. He didn't have to he didn't feel
like he had to try and help Sean
Moosa as a no. He was okay. He
was okay with being being
at the right hand of his of his
younger brother. His younger brother. He was okay
with that. He was okay being the person
whose name was not going to be yeah.
And he celebrated in the in the large
groups, was not as in the Muslim. He
was okay with that. That required a certain
degree of selflessness that doesn't exist in in
in most people's hearts. But how would I
say that had that in him? And the
prophet meeting someone like that is important because
that's prophet, alaihi salam, meeting someone like that,
that's important
because that's who he was alaihi salam. He
was not here to find that in alaihi
salam. He wasn't
he
and in your ethics and in your
you were acting like that. You were accusing
her of Haum. As in your old life,
you're acting like you're Haum.
She didn't have a brother called Haum.
From Ra'un, was getting them a prophecy, was
getting to, the Mas'il Absa. But he he
was meeting Musa alayhis salaam had a 1,000,000
what the prophet Ali Islam was carrying in
his life, and meaning how he was was
of value. The third reason
is that was the public speaker.
Be known for in Islam and meeting Harun,
who was that person, who was the public
speaker, who knew how to address people.
Harun was the guy with the open dialogue.
Harun was the one who sat down in
disgust and argued and went back and forth.
Even remotely close to Musa, alayhis salaam. Like,
there's Musa, then a huge drop, and then
you have all the other prophets. Yeah. Yeah.
Huge drop. Like, there's no there's no competition.
2,
sections of the story. The story where he
was standing up against tyranny,
and the story where the tyrants were his
visited the hill. Like, he did a lot
of that type of work. And that work
actually is what brings people together. Like, it
brings communities together and unites communities. And Musa
Azzam was a soldier leader. He's
person who sits down and does the, the
lectures and the teaching and one person who
does the like, I I need people who
to take on different specialties, but you need
a social leader. Someone who relates to people
that they felt ashamed whenever he said anything.
So they wouldn't disobey him behind his back,
not to his face. They wouldn't dare do
it to his face because he had invested
so much and they were all embarrassed
visit people who have problems or they would
go and attend certain
social functions and be a part of their
social gatherings. That's,
subhanallah.
Resources, you know, were they working, and did
they all have money? You get to know
these aspects of yourself as of their life
and allow them to make decisions. Our politicians
today aren't social leaders. And also, they're social
to see it or you have to go
and witness it or experience it,
it only only sociopaths,
only psychopaths will not respond to some degree
of compassion or support to make it impossible.
But when you distance yourself, like,
you is it you can only not care
about what's happening in the bus. If over
the last 9 months, you did not watch
TV at all. Like, you didn't have a
Google screen. You don't look at the
listening. They're not seeing what's happening. They lose
touch. They lose focus, and they lose they
lose relevance to their community. They don't know
what's actually happening. They
Right? And I and I can't even hear
it. I can't even and I have to
begin to imagine what they talked about. But
we do have a narration.
You have one narration, like an authentic narration
life,
but you're you're you're you're investing in in
what's coming later. Don't lose
track and sight of what of what is
coming next.
There's one inside. We'll get to see. Okay.
I understand. I
I I saw him today, but I was
my brain was was with me.
What's going on, streamers? In today's video, I'm
gonna be showing you how to set up
the video capture device in streamer's desktop, and
this is gonna be here for speaking streamers.
So right now, I have my capture card
as the example. I'm gonna go ahead and
delete that.
I'm
also gonna give you a demonstration
I see mister instead of the camcorder. So,
like, in this one, I'm answering questions about
getting saying things like, I recorded it and
the sound is there when I listen back
to the recording, but when I'm recording, I
can't hear anything.
So that is something you need to look
at in terms of headphones and where you're
plugging the headphones into.
Let me start with the main thing. Let
me show you how I set it up
in OBS.
I use Streamlabs
OBS, so it might look slightly different
to your screen. However, it's basically recording a
session. I'm gonna put in the HDMI video
feed of the video,
then I'll do a HDMI video feed.
Well, HDMI
audio feed, so it'll be 2 inputs. And
then you can monitor that by setting your
computer
to either listen to that or not listen
to that, which I'll show you. Okay. So
looking at my Streamlabs OBS, I click on
little plus cog, which lets me add a
new device, video capture device, and I add
it. I toggle this little button to add
a new device, and I'm gonna call this
HDMI video so we could clearly see which
one it is. I'll add the source, and
you should see my screen come
I toggle this little button to see which
one it is. I'll add the source, and
you should see my screen come up now.
And this is basically my camcorder. I'm just
doing a voice over now because
I
couldn't
record.