Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #34

Adnan Rajeh
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The speakers emphasize the importance of finding one's own success and happiness in life, avoiding the negative narrative of Islam and finding one's own success by finding one's own happiness. They also discuss the importance of protecting oneself and not being in a situation where one is missing in protecting one's own safety. Mus'ab's death was buried in the Battle of Uhud, as a man who died early in Islam and was buried in the dry days of the previous. The importance of protecting oneself and finding one's own success is emphasized.
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As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh Saturdays,

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again.

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It always was on Saturdays.

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I put it on Fridays out of convenience

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just for myself, to have a weekend day

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for myself, but now that, as you can

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see, I don't know, maybe you missed the

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winter beginning of September memo, as I did,

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but apparently we're already in winter now.

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So there's no point of taking, for me,

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Saturdays off anymore.

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So we're going to bring it back, in

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shā'a Llāh, to Saturday after Maghrib.

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We'll keep it after Maghrib until daylight savings

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changes, or maybe this time they grow a

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brain and they don't actually do it.

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And if they don't do it, amazing, if

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they do, I may keep it just an

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hour before Isha, if the schedule in the

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centre allows for it, meaning doing it from

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6.45 to 7.45. But for now,

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we're going to do it, in shā'a

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Llāh, between Maghrib and Isha.

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I know Isha is 9.12, so it's

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a little bit late, but I think for

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scheduling purposes, it's the only thing that works

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right now for the centre.

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And I've always liked it on Saturday, because

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Saturday is a bit of a quieter day

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for me.

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It's hard to do on Friday, when I

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had a khutbah and a Q&A before,

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and then a ḥalaqah in Arabic afterwards, I

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get extremely exhausted, and I don't even remember

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half of the stories that I want to

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tell when I do it that way.

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So today is much easier for me to

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tell the story.

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So we're in the 10th year of his

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prophecy, ʿalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām, and

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ḥajj of year 10 is an important event,

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for sure.

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We don't have, again, we don't have a

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lot, I don't have a lot of stories

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to tell you that occurred in year 11

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and 12 and 13 of his prophecy, ʿalayhi

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ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām.

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I don't have a lot of events and

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stories to tell you, because the Prophet ʿalayhi

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ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām was literally trying

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to keep himself alive.

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He was trying to keep himself from being

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assassinated and killed and murdered by Quraysh, because

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that's what they had set out to do.

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So he was only publicly seen at times

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and in places where Quraysh could not touch

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him, where Quraysh could not afford to do

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anything to him.

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So he would only emerge during the time

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of ḥajj, or during the weeks of Sūq

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al-ʿUqāw, where they're having the large meetings

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in the markets.

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But outside from that, the Prophet ʿalayhi ṣ

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-ṣalātu wa-s-salām couldn't really show himself.

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So we don't have a lot of stories

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from that timing.

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And the Ṣaḥābah who were there with him

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in Dar al-Arqam learning, didn't really share

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with us a lot of what occurred.

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Or if they did, they shared it as

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in the lessons that they learned, but not

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the actual timings.

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They didn't tell us stories as in, Oh

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yes, in year number 11, we were sitting

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in Dar al-Arqam and he told us

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this.

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That didn't really occur.

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They just obviously shared with us all of

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the principles and values and lessons that he

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taught.

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Obviously the Qur'an being the most important

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of these lessons and teachings.

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So I don't have a lot of stories.

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But I do have, within each of these

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years, what occurred during ḥajj.

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Because of the importance of what actually happened.

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And in the 10th year of his prophecy

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ʿalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām, which is

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what I covered for you or shared with

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you, over the last two or three sessions

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that we ran a couple of weeks ago.

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The Prophet ʿalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām

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went and he presented himself to the qabā

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'il, meaning the different tribes that came for

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ḥajj.

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And he had 26 different attempts ʿalayhi ṣ

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-ṣalātu wa-s-salām.

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He spoke to 26 different tribes within the

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span of the 8 or 9 days of

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ḥajj.

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Which is a lot of attempts.

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If you think about it, he was doing

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at least 2 to 3 or 4 a

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day.

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And all of them were failing.

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None of them were working.

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The closest he would ever get is just

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people rejecting him politely.

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That was the best case scenario.

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People would reject but in a polite way

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where he was not being ridiculed or mistreated

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or mocked ʿalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām.

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Maybe I'll change the wording for this.

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I find it difficult to put myself in

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his position during the 10th year of ḥajj

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and seeing that what he did was possible

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for me to do.

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This is the point of studying his life

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ʿalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salām.

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It's listening to the story and saying, Could

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I have done that?

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Could I have attempted that?

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Where would I have failed?

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When would I have failed?

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What would have not worked out for me?

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And I find that rejection is something that

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human beings tend to do their best to

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avoid subconsciously without even necessarily knowing that they

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are.

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Rejection is a difficult part of being a

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human being.

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And a lot of what we do as

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people, a lot of the choices that we

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make, are designed for us to avoid or

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to lessen the possibility of rejection.

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And I think we've always been like that

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as people.

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But I feel, this is just my observation,

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that within the time that we're living, we're

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much more sensitive to it.

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We're much less capable of accepting it.

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And because of that, we are not behaving

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socially and personally the way we should.

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I think it's important for me and you

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and for our younger brothers and sisters to

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understand that rejection is a part of being

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alive.

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You're going to be rejected by many parties.

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By many, many parties.

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In almost every field of being alive, you're

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going to be rejected.

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It's going to happen a lot.

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And you have to be okay with that.

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You have to find a way to be

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okay with that.

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And the reason that people fear rejection is

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because I think we're living in a time

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where we're very self-conscious and our self

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-value is not as stable as it was

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before.

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Human beings had much more of a stable

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self-value, I think, a thousand years ago

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than they did today.

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That's why the Qur'an talks so much

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about arrogance and vanity, because those are the

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two problems that people had to learn to

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get rid of.

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When today I talk about these things, when

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I try to talk about these topics about

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self-value and avoiding arrogance and avoiding vanity,

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most of the conversations that I end up

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having are about how do I avoid low

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self-esteem?

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How do I avoid feeling lesser than other

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people?

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The majority of time is spent talking about

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these stuff, which, yes, it happens every once

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in a while in life, but it should

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not be happening at the rate and at

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the level that it is, in my opinion,

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in my humble opinion, of just observing things.

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And I find that that's something that we

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should address that a little bit more within

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our societies and within our homes.

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Why is it that people are much more

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insecure about their personal and self-value?

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Especially Shabab, when I find someone, a young

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man who wants to get married, for example,

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and they go and they take the steps

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for marriage and they get rejected and they

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come back and they're feeling like, yeah, so

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you got rejected, so what?

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Why is this bothering you?

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I don't understand.

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And I'm sorry, sometimes I'm not as empathetic

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as I should be, but I don't get

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it.

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So you got rejected, that's fine, that's how

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the system works.

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You go, you knock on the door, you

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present yourself, you ask, and they say yes

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or no.

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If you're scared of rejection, then you'll never

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get married.

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You'll never get married if you're going, I

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won't knock on the door unless I know

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they're going to say yes.

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No, you have to be okay with this.

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It's a part of being human.

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I don't want to turn this into a

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psychological technicality.

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I don't want to make it too philosophical.

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But we do have a problem today in

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accepting the possibility of rejection.

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I have a folder in my Yahoo email.

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It has over 2,500 emails of all

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of the universities that rejected me when I

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applied for residency over four years.

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I have them all in a folder, I

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have them saved, so I can always go

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back and look at them.

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There's over 2,000 rejections.

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You're going to be rejected a lot in

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life.

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You're going to try, you're going to put

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yourself out there, you're going to try your

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best and be vulnerable for a moment, and

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you're going to get rejected, and you have

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to be okay with that.

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And when you do get rejected, that should

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not affect your self-image and your self

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-value ever.

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You shouldn't feel less about yourself because you

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got rejected.

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You shouldn't stop doing what you're doing out

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of fear of being rejected.

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Nor should you stop doing what you're doing

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because you got rejected.

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Because that doesn't mean anything.

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If you know what you're doing is the

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right thing, if you're pursuing something that is

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haq, that is khayr, and you are qualified

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to pursue it, and you have all your

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ducks in a row, and you've prepared yourself

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for it, rejection is just a part of

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the deal.

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It's going to happen.

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Living your life, trying to avoid it is

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a waste of breath and a waste of

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energy.

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Once you accept that, by the way, you

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become much more bold, not bald, but much

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more bold, much more courageous and brave and

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much more confident, when you're like, it doesn't

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matter, they reject me, they reject me, there's

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no problem, I will continue to pursue.

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The reason I'm telling you this is because

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when I studied this story specifically, and you

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actually go to Ibn Ishaq's seerah or Ibn

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Hisham's seerah, and you read all 26 attempts,

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like you read the recollection of all 26

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attempts, and what they said to him, as

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I was reading, after maybe the 15th attempt,

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I'm like, I'm tired of reading, I'm tired

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of reading.

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Forget about doing it, I'm tired of reading

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it.

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Like I'm at a point where I probably

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would have stopped trying this, I would think

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something, but he didn't.

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He didn't stop trying.

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He spoke to 26 different tribes.

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And that's aside from the people, individuals that

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he spoke to, which I told you a

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couple of those stories.

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That's not counting the individuals.

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Like the people he just had, he called

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to Islam on their own.

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That number goes up to the hundreds.

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And again, the majority of them rejected, I

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just tell you the stories of those who

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didn't.

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Like the stories that I share with you

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here, the ones who said yes, there's a

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hundred more.

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For each person who said yes, there's like

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99 that said no.

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And I got tired of just reading the

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rejections.

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I can't imagine how he was able every

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day to get up and try again, unless

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he was of a personal psychological understanding of

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things, that rejection didn't bother him.

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That didn't mean anything to him.

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And when I thought about it more deeply,

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I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what it was.

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He had the Quran.

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He had the most valuable thing.

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He had the pure Haqq in his hand.

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Rejection meant nothing to him.

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You were rejecting yourself when you said no.

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Like when he brought to you the Quran

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and you said no, it's your loss.

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That was his level of confidence.

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I am telling you, I am offering you,

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I am offering you the best thing that

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will ever be offered in the history of

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things that were offered.

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And if you say no, then that's on

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you, it's not on me.

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It doesn't reflect on me.

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Now that doesn't mean the Prophet did not

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analyze his approach every time and perfect his

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craft.

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No, he did.

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But he didn't allow it to take away

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from his confidence, from his grit and from

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his enthusiasm and from his willingness to continue

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to do what he knew was the right

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way to go about things.

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And I have to share this piece with

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you because I think it's very important.

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Especially if you're a bit younger.

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The sooner you get over the fear of

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rejection, the sooner you make peace with the

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fact that you are going to be rejected,

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that there are going to be people who

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don't like you, who don't think you're that

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great, who don't think you're awesome, who don't

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think that you're worth being a part of

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their team, who don't want you in their

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family, who don't want to be friends with

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you, who aren't impressed by anything that you're

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doing, the sooner you're okay with that, Wallahi,

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it's like, there's a sense of freedom that

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comes with that that is almost unparalleled.

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There's a sense of freedom that comes with

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that.

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Once you stop fearing being rejected, you're okay,

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yeah, I'm going to try, and not everyone's

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going to be okay with me, not everyone's

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going to like me, and I'm okay with

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that.

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You'll live better.

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The Prophet, peace be upon him, was not

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interested in what people thought, he didn't care

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what people said, and he was not taken

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by what people were doing.

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He knew his path and he continued.

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There's no other explanation for why he continued

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after the first three rejections.

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Forget about 15 or 20 or 30 or

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30, I would have stopped.

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No, he didn't, because it didn't matter.

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To him, peace be upon him, the path

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was clear, and rejections didn't really affect him.

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Think about that, learn that piece.

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If you're young, reflect on it.

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Reflect on the number of times you didn't

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do something out of fear of being rejected

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by your peers or by someone that you

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respect.

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The number of times that you wanted to

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say something but you didn't say it out

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of fear of being rejected by your classmates

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or by your colleagues or by those who

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you...

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Think of how many times that happened in

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your life and how many times you ended

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up not participating or not contributing or not

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getting ahead or not doing what you knew

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you were capable of doing just out of

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fear of that one piece.

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And if you stop having that in your

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life, you live better, you live well, and

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you're much more free than people around you

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because everyone else around you are avoiding rejection.

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That's what they're trying to avoid the most

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in their lives.

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And I don't think it's worth the time.

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So the Prophet Ali spoke to 26 tribes.

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I shared with you maybe six or seven

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of them.

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I'm not going to share any more of

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these stories out of respect of time.

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But I do want to tell you the

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story of a few people that he spoke

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to individually.

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And I talked to you, I think about...

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I told you the story of Dumad al

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-Azdi, I believe, last time I remember that.

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Did I tell you the story of Suwayd

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ibn al-Samit?

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Did that come up?

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The guy who had the books of Luqman?

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Okay.

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So the Prophet Ali would run into a

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gentleman by the name of Suwayd ibn al

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-Samit.

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And funny enough, this gentleman was from Yathrib.

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He was from Medina.

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But he wasn't coming on behalf of the

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city.

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He was just there on his own.

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And he had his own followers.

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Because he was someone who was...

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He was seasoned.

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He was well-educated.

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And he had studied in some part of

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modern-day Syria from someone who still had

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the wisdom of Luqman al-Hakim.

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You know the story of Luqman.

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And Luqman is a man who is an

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African man, actually, who lived in a part

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of Africa during a certain period of time.

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Scholars don't agree whether he was a prophet

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versus just a very wise man.

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We don't know.

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Most likely he was someone who was a

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follower of a prophet, not a prophet.

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But he was a man of wisdom.

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And the words that he said and the

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teachings that he spread were written and documented

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by his followers.

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And they were carried throughout the centuries.

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And Suwaid was a man who went and

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he learned them.

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And he came to the Prophet ﷺ because

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he was being told that the Prophet ﷺ

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was claiming prophecy and had the Qur'an

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and whatnot.

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So he came to him and said, أَلَا

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إِنَّمَا عِنْدِي لَهُوَ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا عِنْدَكِ Indeed, I

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have something that is way better than what

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you have.

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Like, I don't know what you're telling people,

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but I have something that is better.

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فَقَالَ أَسْمِعْنَا مَا عِنْدَكِ He said, let me

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hear what you have.

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So Suwaid recited upon him some of what

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he had from the words of Luqman.

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فَقَالَ صَلَى اللَّهَ عَنْدَكَ خَيْرٌ Indeed, what you

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have is very beautiful.

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These are beautiful words.

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وَلَكِن مَا عِنْدِي خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُمْ What I have

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is actually better.

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إِن كُنْتَ تَسْمَعُنِي If you want to listen.

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فَقَالَ أَسْمِعْنِي مَا عِنْدَكِ So he said, yes,

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let me hear.

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So the Prophet ﷺ recited upon him the

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Qur'an.

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Some narrations point out that Suwaid, after he

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listened to the Prophet ﷺ recite Surah Ar

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-Rahman, accepted Islam immediately.

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As some say that he listened to the

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Prophet ﷺ and then commanded everyone around him,

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all his followers, to get up and leave

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with him.

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And then he came and accepted Islam a

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few years later.

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He got scared.

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He got scared.

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When the Prophet ﷺ started to recite the

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Qur'an upon him, he got scared for

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his followers to leave him from what he

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was listening, what he was hearing.

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So he commanded them all to get up

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and leave with him.

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And he would come back and accept Islam

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years later.

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He would run ﷺ into a man by

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the name of At-Tufayl ibn Amr Ad

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-Dawsi.

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And this is a story I have to

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tell you.

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Because this is one that lived on for

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a number of years.

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At-Tufayl ibn Amr was Ahad Sa'ad

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Ad-Dawsi.

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He was one of the leaders and nobles

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of the tribe of Daws.

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And he was a known poet.

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And he was a wise man who had

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connections with the kings of the land.

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He was a very highly respected gentleman.

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He came for Hajj on his own.

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He didn't come with his tribe.

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And as he was entering Quraysh, what they

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had done during this year, just so you

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understand, the Prophet ﷺ is speaking to the

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tribes, but Quraysh is also doing their due

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diligence.

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Quraysh have people on the outskirts of Mecca

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warning the tribes that were coming in from

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the wizard.

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From the person who will basically sway you

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with his words.

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The person that will cast a spell upon

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you through your ears to be aware of

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him.

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And when he comes to speak to you,

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avoid him at all costs.

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Because he will ruin your life.

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He will ruin your marriage.

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He will ruin your family relationships.

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He will take away...

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This is what they would say about him

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ﷺ.

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So they had these people.

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So At-Tufayl, before he came in, At

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-Tufayl was a respected individual.

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And Quraysh obviously did not want to lose

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At-Tufayl.

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So they told him, be very aware.

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This is what he looks like.

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Don't speak to him.

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At-Tufayl is telling us a story.

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فَقَالَ فَخَوَّفُونِي مِنْهُ وَأَرْهَبُونِي مِنْهُ حَتَّى أَدْخَلْتُ فِي

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أُذُنَيَّ الْكُرْفُسِ Meaning, they kept on scaring me

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of him.

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Scaring me of him.

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Telling me that this person will cast a

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spell on me.

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Until I actually took cotton and shoved it

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in my ears.

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So that I wouldn't have to hear him.

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As a proactive and preventative measure, he put

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cotton in his ears.

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Then he entered, رضي الله عنه, he entered

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At-Tufayl, Mecca.

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And as he was performing tawaf, he would

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run into the Prophet ﷺ.

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And the Prophet ﷺ, during these times, he

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would be sitting reading the Qur'an.

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And At-Tufayl could see the Prophet's lips

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moving, but he couldn't hear because he had

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the cotton in his ears.

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So he's walking around the Ka'bah.

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فَقَالَ حَتَّى قُلْتُ لِنَفْسِي مَا تَفْعَلُ يَا تُفَيْلُ

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أَيُّ رَجُلٍ لَذِيبٍ أَنْتُ تَخَاطُوا مِنْ كَلَامٍ So

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At-Tufayl said, and I talked to him

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myself, I'm saying, what are you doing?

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What type of, what smart, what intellectual man

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are you?

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You're scared of words?

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Or you're scared of listening to someone say

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something?

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أَلَا إِنِّي خَدْ كُنْتُ رَجُلً أَذِيبًا لَذِيبًا أَعْرِفُ

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شِعْرَ الْعَرَبِ وَشِعْرَ الْفُرْسِ وَشِعْرَ الْإِنسِ وَشِعْرَ الْجِنِّ

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He said, I was a person, I was

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a well-rounded poet, and I knew the

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poetry of the Arabs and the non-Arabs,

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and the poetry of human beings, and the

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poetry of jinn.

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I've listened to every...

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Why am I scared of...

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This is what propaganda does.

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So I always like this part of the

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story, because it shows you, even someone as

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intelligent as this man, as Tufayl, someone that

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was well-rounded, he had traveled the world,

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he was well-educated, he was a smart

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gentleman, even someone like that can be subject

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to ongoing propaganda.

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They can end up doing something really dumb.

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And Tufayl took a moment to realize how

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silly he looked, walking around with cotton in

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his ears, out of fear of something that

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someone is saying.

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And he's like, no, this makes no sense.

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Why am I doing this?

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But that's what happens.

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So don't blame people.

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Especially here, living in the West, don't blame

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people who maybe behave in ways, or believe

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certain things, or say certain things that, to

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you, are obviously wrong.

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Because they are subject to ongoing agenda-driven

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media outlets that will spread propaganda, have been

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spreading propaganda amongst them for decades and decades

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and decades.

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If we want to put a dent in

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that, if we actually do, as an Ummah,

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want to put a dent in that, then

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we have to spread our message in a

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much more efficient and appropriate manner.

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We have to have something that stands up

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to that.

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It's getting better today than it was maybe

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20 years ago.

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By far.

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For sure.

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Muslims today have much more of a reach

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within media, way better than it was maybe

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20 or 30 years ago.

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But we're still not even remotely close.

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I find it hard to blame someone living

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in certain parts of the world when they

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grow up not liking Islam.

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I can't blame them.

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Because what they've been told about Islam has

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been very, very negative all their lives.

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This is what the propaganda that they went

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through.

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For me to blame them is not fair,

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because I don't think they've ever actually been

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in a position where the proper narrative has

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been presented to them in any form or

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manner.

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And if At-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi

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shoved cotton in his ear when they told

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him this man will cast a spell on

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you through his words, then I can't really

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blame people in their teens or early twenties

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when all they see on TV and all

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they hear is the evil of what is

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claimed about Muslims.

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It's very sad, but that's the reality of

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it.

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So At-Tufayl came to his senses.

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What am I doing?

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Are you an idiot?

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Take this out.

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So he pulls out the cotton and he

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comes up to the Prophet and he says

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What is your story?

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What is your story?

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What's your story?

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So the Prophet began explaining things to him.

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So At-Tufayl is listening to the Prophet

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explaining to him Tawheed, Islam.

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Let me hear, I want to hear some

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of the Quran that they say that you

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have.

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So the Prophet began Bismillah ar-Rahman ar

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-Rahim He

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recited upon him the beginning of Surat al

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-Zukhruf.

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We did a long Tafsir of Surat al

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-Zukhruf in one of the Ramadan sessions.

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You can go back and listen to it.

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It's a very beautiful Surah.

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So he starts reciting upon At-Tufayl Surat

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al-Zukhruf.

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So he listens to it.

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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Indeed what you

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have told me is neither wizardry, nor is

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it sorcery, nor is it poetry.

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These words that you are sharing with me

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are beautiful and they are majestic.

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Tell me and command me what is it

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that I must do so I can enter

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into your Deen.

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So the Prophet So he gave him Shahadat

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Tawheed.

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So At-Tufayl He said La ilaha illa

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Allah Muhammad Rasulullah And At-Tufayl didn't stop

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there.

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He said okay What do I do with

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my people?

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Go back and speak to them about the

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Deen and teach them.

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So he spent with the Prophet a couple

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of hours to learn as much as he

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could from the Quran and about the Deen.

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And At-Tufayl said yes and he left

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and he was on his way back to

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Dauz and he came back.

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Before he made it out of the sea

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he came back.

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My people don't listen to anybody.

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I fear if I go back to them

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that they don't believe me.

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Give me something.

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Give me a sign from you.

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The Prophet made dua that Allah grant him

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a sign.

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He had a little light spot here between

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his eyes.

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Can you put it somewhere aside from there?

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I fear if I go back and people

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see it and say that's his punishment for

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leaving all the gods.

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So it was at the end of his

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stick that he carried.

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And it stayed with him.

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This was something that the people of Dauz

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would talk about.

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At-Tufayl had like a never dying flashlight.

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When he went back to the people of

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Dauz at the end of his stick there

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was always a light.

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And he would go back and he would

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speak to his people and he would spend

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with them many many years many many years

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performing dawah.

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And he didn't end up bringing as many

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people as he wanted.

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The story I narrated not too long ago

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within one of the after isha duroos.

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He would come back of course Abu Hurairah

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is one of the people who accepted Islam

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because of At-Tufayl.

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So a lot of the hadith that we

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have At-Tufayl is banking all of the

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hasanat for because Abu Hurairah accepted Islam through

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him.

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But he came with 60-70 people but

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Dauz is in the tens of thousands.

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It's a huge huge tribe.

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It still exists today by the way.

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There are people in Saudi Arabia their last

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name is a Dauzi.

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Saudi will tell you this.

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I grew up there and I knew them.

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It's a huge tribe.

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So he didn't come back.

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He came with a reasonable number of people

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but not close to the entirety of the

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tribe.

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So he came back to the Prophet towards

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the end of his life.

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He said, Indeed Dauz as a tribe they

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have disobeyed and they have shown arrogance towards

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your teaching.

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Ya Rasool Allah make dua against them.

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So the Prophet put his hands up.

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They said Dauz is going to all be

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destroyed.

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The Prophet said, I'm going to make dua.

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Allahumma hadi Dauzan wa ati bihim.

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O Allah guide Dauz and bring them to

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me.

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So At-Tufayl went back with his people

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and he spent there a couple of weeks

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and he came back with all 12,000

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of them.

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He came back and this is right before

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many scholars say that he came back just

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before the Prophet passed away.

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And some say they came just after he

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passed away.

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And they visited his grave.

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He would meet a man by the name

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of Iyas Ibn Muadh.

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I like this story because it shows you

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there's never, see I find that a lot

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of times we don't realize that our job

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is not to choose who it is that

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is going to find guidance.

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That's not up to me.

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And I don't get to be selective here.

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I don't get to say, oh, Fulan has

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more money or is more educated and I

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go and I try to get them to

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be a part of this.

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No, no.

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You call to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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all people and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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will guide whoever he wants.

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The Prophet would go to one of the

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tribes of Al-Khazraj.

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So he would speak to one of the

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tribes of Al-Khazraj from Yathrib.

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He would actually go and talk to a

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full tribe.

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Not as the story is going to be

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told in a few moments which is a

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little bit different.

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He goes and speaks to one of the

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tribes of Al-Khazraj.

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And he would call them to Islam.

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This is one of the attempts of the

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26 that I didn't tell you.

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And as he's talking to them, a young

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man, he's sitting and speaking to the Shuyukh

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al-Gabail.

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I'm not sure if you've watched any historical

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movies or documentaries.

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But the way it was, you would enter

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the tent.

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And in the tent you have the Shaykh

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of the Qabilah, the noble.

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And on his side are his consultants and

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connoisseurs and all that.

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They're sitting around him.

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And there's always on the side young men.

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And usually their job is to clean things

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up, bring in the food.

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And Iyas ibn Mu'adh was one of

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those.

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He's one of the young men.

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Maybe he's 15, 16.

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He's listening to the Prophet ﷺ speak.

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And as the Prophet ﷺ is speaking, Iyas

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is getting very excited.

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He's saying, Indeed, this is beautiful.

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This is a great thing for us to

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go back to our people with.

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And the leaders of Al-Khazraj don't like

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any of it.

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They're listening to it and they're saying, this

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is going to be difficult.

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We didn't come here to add to our

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animosity against Quraysh.

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We actually came here to see what they

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had come for Hajj for.

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They wanted Quraysh to help them in their

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war against Al-Aus.

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Now Al-Aus and Al-Khazraj, you know,

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they were at war for a long time.

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This group of people from the tribe of

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Al-Khazraj had come with the intention of

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getting Quraysh to help them.

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And Quraysh had told them to get lost

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already.

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They told them, we're not doing this.

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Why would we get involved in a domestic

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problem in a city that's 400 kilometers away?

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There's no point.

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We don't want to get involved.

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So they're already upset.

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And the Prophet ﷺ is offering them this

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and they're saying, what?

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We didn't come here to actually add another

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enemy.

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To make Quraysh our enemy, so go home.

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And Iyas is getting more and more excited.

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But they didn't listen to him.

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The only one who did was Iyas.

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And the Prophet ﷺ offered him the Deen

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and he accepted it.

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And he would go back with his people

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and he would die within the ongoing war

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between Al-Khazraj and between Al-Aus.

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He would die in that war.

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Before the Prophet ﷺ made it to Medina,

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he would die.

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The reason I'm telling you this story is

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because in the narrations, We would hear him

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during the war.

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He was the only person that we would

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listen to.

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We'd be saying, And

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when he died, everyone there were 100%

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sure that this person died a Muslim.

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And he had accepted that he died as

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a Muslim even though he was fighting for

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his tribe against another tribe.

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The whole war was a mess.

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And it wasn't even worth it.

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But that's where he was in his life.

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He didn't have much of a choice.

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And he died as a Muslim.

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It just shows you the Prophet ﷺ went

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and spoke to a full tribe.

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It was a 15-year-old boy that

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accepted the Deen.

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And that's alright.

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You don't guide whom you want or who

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you like or who you love.

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Allah guides whoever wants to be guided or

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whoever he wants to guide.

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You just do the job.

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You never know.

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You have no idea who it is that

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Allah has destined for guidance.

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He would continue to speak to these tribes

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until the last day of Ayyam al-Tashreeq.

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So Hajj, you have the ninth day which

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is the day of Arafah.

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Arabs had different names for this but Arafah

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was a known name of the day.

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And the tenth day of Dhul Hijjah is

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Yawm al-Nahr.

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The Arabs knew this even before Islam.

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Hajj was known to the Arabs.

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And then Ayyam al-Tashreeq, the three days

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that come later, also known to the Arabs.

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But of course they didn't do within them

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what the Prophet ﷺ taught us to do

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today.

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They did different things.

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But he continued to speak to the tribes

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until the final day of Ayyam al-Tashreeq.

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The final day, at the end of the

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13th day.

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The Prophet ﷺ was literally, this is why

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I like telling this story, he was literally

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the last person to leave Mina.

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He stayed in Mina.

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Mina is where all of the tribes and

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all of the people would stay until Hajj

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is over.

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And then you would leave from Mina.

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You don't stay in Arafah or Muzdalifah.

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You stay in Mina, as we've explained before.

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And then once the Hajj is over, people

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would leave.

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They would go and do Tawaf around the

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Ka'bah and then go back home.

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But Mina is where they would be camping.

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So once they're leaving, people are taking down

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their tents.

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The Prophet ﷺ was there as people were

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pulling down their tents and preparing them to

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leave, speaking to everyone that he could.

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Meaning, I had the 26 attempts, along with

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all of these individuals.

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And then there was just the ongoing random

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speaking to people that was not formal.

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See, I shared with you the 26, we

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had the 26 formal attempts.

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There are many informal stuff that I don't

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have the literature on.

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I don't have the actual narrations.

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But he would continue to speak with people

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until there was no one left in Mina.

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Absolutely.

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The Maghrib of the last day of Ayam

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al-Tashriq and there's no one left.

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So he's walking through Mina ﷺ and he

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looks and he sees maybe a kilometer or

00:31:04 --> 00:31:08

a half away, he sees maybe six, maybe

00:31:08 --> 00:31:10

five, six, seven young men, young people.

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All of them, they all look teenagers.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:14

They're shaving their heads before they leave.

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They are the last group of people.

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The reason that they're doing it now is

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

because they didn't come with an official tribe.

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So they didn't get a turn to get

00:31:23 --> 00:31:24

their heads shaved after Hajj.

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The Arabs did this as well.

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After Hajj, you would do taqseer or halq.

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Halq is what they did.

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So they wanted to have their heads shaved.

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They were very poor.

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They didn't come with a tribe.

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So they had to wait until everyone was

00:31:35 --> 00:31:36

gone before they got their turns.

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So everyone literally left Mina before they got

00:31:39 --> 00:31:40

the chance to shave their heads.

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So the Prophet ﷺ saw them and after

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maybe 11 days or 12 days of the

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

Prophet ﷺ doing this, after speaking to all

00:31:48 --> 00:31:49

of the leaders of the land and not

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

getting anywhere, the reason I like this story

00:31:51 --> 00:31:54

is because he still had it in him

00:31:54 --> 00:31:56

to go and speak to one more group.

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There's no one else left.

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You can see them.

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They're all just a bunch of teenagers.

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

If they were of any status, they wouldn't

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

be doing their halq now.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

They would have done it a couple of

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

days ago and on their way home.

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

But they're doing it now.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:13

They don't have that much strength or status

00:32:13 --> 00:32:13

or wealth or anything.

00:32:15 --> 00:32:16

But he would go up to them ﷺ

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and thankfully he did because this would change

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

the course of history.

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I don't think we would have a story

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to tell had he not done this ﷺ.

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You stay and you try until the last

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moment.

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If you understand what it means to be

00:32:36 --> 00:32:38

Muslim, you continue to learn this deen and

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spread it and teach it and work for

00:32:40 --> 00:32:41

it until the last breath that you are

00:32:41 --> 00:32:42

capable of drawing.

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There's no such thing as retiring in Islam.

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Retirement is a western concept that came from

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

people who hated their jobs and hated their

00:32:52 --> 00:32:52

lives.

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So they needed to stop doing it at

00:32:54 --> 00:32:55

some point before they lost their minds.

00:32:55 --> 00:32:58

But if you are a part of a

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

movement that you adore and you love and

00:32:59 --> 00:33:02

you see value in, then the concept of

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

retirement makes almost no sense at all.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

Because why would you stop doing something that

00:33:06 --> 00:33:09

you see value in, that is the literal

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

purpose of your life.

00:33:10 --> 00:33:12

And the Prophet ﷺ, that's how he lived

00:33:12 --> 00:33:12

his life.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:17

But it's also an aspect of personality.

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

Where you don't give up, you just keep

00:33:20 --> 00:33:20

on trying.

00:33:22 --> 00:33:25

If you watch sports, now I'm a big

00:33:25 --> 00:33:30

football fan, Abu Darwish, the actual football, not

00:33:30 --> 00:33:32

the American football.

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So I watch, it's a team sport.

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Now when you watch team sports, and sometimes

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

the two teams, one of them is way

00:33:41 --> 00:33:42

better than the other team.

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And they just cream them.

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Like it's like 6, 7, nothing, there's only

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

10 minutes on the clock.

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It's impossible.

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There's a certain respect that I have for

00:33:50 --> 00:33:51

a team that keeps on trying.

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

Like there's a respect that I have inside

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

of me for a player that keeps on

00:33:55 --> 00:33:55

pushing.

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Even though it's 7, nothing, there's 2 minutes

00:33:59 --> 00:34:00

on the clock and there's no point of

00:34:00 --> 00:34:00

doing anything anymore.

00:34:01 --> 00:34:03

They're still trying their best.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

It is worthy of praise.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:07

Like it's worthy of admiration.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

The one that just never gives up.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:10

Just keeps on trying.

00:34:12 --> 00:34:15

Here's the point in life that you should

00:34:15 --> 00:34:15

always remember.

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You only lose when you stop trying.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

If you stay down, that's when you lose.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:22

If you keep on getting up, it doesn't

00:34:22 --> 00:34:23

matter how many times you've been knocked down.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

It doesn't matter what the score is on.

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It doesn't matter.

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If you keep on getting up, then you

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

have not lost yet.

00:34:29 --> 00:34:32

Loss is not something that your opponent is

00:34:32 --> 00:34:35

able to actually state.

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

Loss is something that you have to state.

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

Like you're the one who has to surrender.

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

If you don't surrender, then you haven't lost

00:34:40 --> 00:34:40

yet.

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

In life, that's the only way this works.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

You only lose when you say, I've lost.

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

As long as you have not accepted that,

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

that you're still coming back, you're still trying,

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

you're still pushing, then you haven't lost yet.

00:34:52 --> 00:34:53

And they still have to deal with you.

00:34:53 --> 00:34:55

And the Prophet ﷺ, this is the best

00:34:55 --> 00:34:57

way, he was relentless ﷺ.

00:34:58 --> 00:34:59

He never gave up.

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He just kept on coming back.

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

He never stopped.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

You could not stop him ﷺ.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:07

And that's just an aspect of his character

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

ﷺ that I think is just really beautiful

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

and worthy of thinking about and learning.

00:35:13 --> 00:35:16

Till the end, he went and he spoke

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

to these individuals.

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

Six youth from Al-Khazwaj.

00:35:20 --> 00:35:22

Five young men and a woman by the

00:35:22 --> 00:35:22

name of Afrat bint Ubaid.

00:35:23 --> 00:35:25

He would go and speak to them ﷺ.

00:35:25 --> 00:35:26

Ask them, ...

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

...

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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So he started talking to them about Islam.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

As he's speaking to them, they're whispering to

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

each other and their eyes are glaring.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

He doesn't know what they're saying but they're

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

whispering and they're talking to each other.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:09

What they were saying was, It's him.

00:36:10 --> 00:36:13

It's funny how things come together in life.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:17

The reason they're going to accept Islam is

00:36:17 --> 00:36:21

because in Yathrib, there was the diversity of

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

the tribes that existed.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:26

It's because the Khazraj were allies with the

00:36:26 --> 00:36:29

Jewish tribes that they knew what the Prophet

00:36:29 --> 00:36:30

Ali was saying.

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

Because the Jewish tribes in Medina, in Yathrib,

00:36:34 --> 00:36:38

for the longest time would tell the Arab

00:36:38 --> 00:36:41

from the Khazraj that soon the Prophet of

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

the end of time will come and we

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

will kick you out of all of this

00:36:45 --> 00:36:45

land.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

Very soon.

00:36:47 --> 00:36:48

They didn't like the Khazraj living with them.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

Very soon we will get rid of you.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:51

Very soon he will come.

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

He will be like this and he will

00:36:52 --> 00:36:52

be like that.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

He will say this and he will do

00:36:53 --> 00:36:53

that.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:58

And they would describe unknowingly, subconsciously or not

00:36:58 --> 00:37:02

even consciously, they would describe the Prophet Ali

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

to them.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

So these kids grew up listening to these

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

tribes tell them who the Prophet of the

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

end of times who he would be.

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

What he would be like.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

What he would say.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:14

They didn't care but they grew up listening

00:37:14 --> 00:37:15

to this.

00:37:15 --> 00:37:15

The time will come.

00:37:15 --> 00:37:16

He will come and he will be like

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

this and he will behave like that.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:23

So they had this subconscious information.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

So when the Prophet Ali started speaking, it

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

all started to line up.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

It all lit up in their brains.

00:37:32 --> 00:37:32

It all clicked.

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Like this.

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Remember?

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They said he would say this.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:39

They said he would say, Subhanallah.

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And they're sitting there saying, he's the one.

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

Is this the one that the Jews would

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

tell us about?

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

We swear this must be him.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

Who else could it be?

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

This is literally exactly what they told us.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

They told us that a man who would

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

look like this and speak like this and

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

he would be the Prophet of end times.

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

This is exactly it.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:06

So they're speaking amongst themselves saying, he'll be

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

from us.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:07

I thought he was going to be from

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

them.

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

How is he from us?

00:38:09 --> 00:38:10

How is he amongst the Arabs?

00:38:10 --> 00:38:11

It doesn't make any sense.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

He turned out he's from us.

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

Let us hear some of the Qur'an.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

So the Prophet Ali recited from the scripture

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

of Fatiha.

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All six of them gave their shahada at

00:38:30 --> 00:38:30

that moment.

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And they said, by Allah, we are a

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people like the Arabs.

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There is enmity between them and their brothers,

00:38:40 --> 00:38:40

just as there is between us.

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And they said, by Allah, we are a

00:38:41 --> 00:38:41

people like the Arabs.

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We come to you and we tell you

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that, we swear to you that there are

00:38:47 --> 00:38:50

no people amongst the Arabs who have more

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

animosity with their kin than us.

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They are, all six of them were from

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Al-Khazraj, by the way, all of them.

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As you know, Yathrib, and we're going to

00:39:00 --> 00:39:03

talk about this in some degree of detail

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

once the Prophet Ali performs his hijrah, the

00:39:05 --> 00:39:08

demographics of Yathrib are quite complex, by the

00:39:08 --> 00:39:08

way.

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The two main Arab tribes are Khazraj and

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

Aus, and they are related.

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They are cousin tribes, like their genealogy is

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

not separated, they're cousin tribes.

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And they've been killing each other for years.

00:39:19 --> 00:39:22

They've been fighting and murdering each other for

00:39:22 --> 00:39:22

many years.

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Khazraj was a larger tribe than Aus was,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:28

in terms of numbers, yet the fight would

00:39:28 --> 00:39:28

continue.

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And I just told you that Khazraj had

00:39:32 --> 00:39:36

sent some ambassadors to get Quraysh to help

00:39:36 --> 00:39:37

them, and Quraysh said no.

00:39:38 --> 00:39:41

And these youth, their mentality was different.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:43

They're like, we've been fighting our cousins forever.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

We don't even know why we're fighting our

00:39:45 --> 00:39:46

cousins.

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And there's so much animosity that we have

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

with them, it's horrible.

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And we hope that Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:39:50 --> 00:39:52

'ala will fix this animosity through you.

00:39:53 --> 00:39:56

InshaAllah your presence will fix this problem that

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

we have.

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And this is the reality.

00:39:59 --> 00:40:02

It's the older generations that lack insight sometimes.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:06

Sometimes older generations lack insight on certain things.

00:40:07 --> 00:40:09

Just like younger generations will lack insight on

00:40:09 --> 00:40:10

other things.

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Which is the importance of mentorship, the importance

00:40:12 --> 00:40:15

of sharing and listening to what people have

00:40:15 --> 00:40:17

to say, because there's so much that you'll

00:40:17 --> 00:40:18

learn when you do that.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

The older generations of Aus and Khazraj were

00:40:20 --> 00:40:22

like, no, fight, kill, fight, kill, they're horrible,

00:40:22 --> 00:40:23

they're not good people, we need to get

00:40:23 --> 00:40:23

rid of them.

00:40:23 --> 00:40:26

The younger generation is like, I don't understand.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

I went to school with these dudes, we

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

always hang out, they're fine, they're all good.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

I don't know why we continue to have

00:40:31 --> 00:40:34

to fight and lose lives and ruin our

00:40:34 --> 00:40:34

country for this.

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So the Prophet, peace be upon him, Now,

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just let me make something clear.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:44

He wasn't really interested in Aus and Khazraj.

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He didn't want to be accepted by the

00:40:47 --> 00:40:47

people of Yathrib.

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Honestly, he didn't want to.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

For many reasons.

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Number one, the animosity, the ongoing animosity, the

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

ongoing wars.

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

Why would he want to go to a

00:40:55 --> 00:40:56

city that is torn by war?

00:40:58 --> 00:40:59

They aren't wealthy.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

They're all farmers, and farmers are the least

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

likely to commit to anything.

00:41:06 --> 00:41:11

Farmers, their hours are way too long, and

00:41:11 --> 00:41:11

it's seasonal.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:13

So you don't get their ongoing commitment, just

00:41:13 --> 00:41:14

like university students.

00:41:14 --> 00:41:16

I have them now, and then in April,

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

the masjid is empty, and I can't invite

00:41:18 --> 00:41:20

anyone to do anything in the masjid at

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

all because everyone has exams.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

Like the same thing, seasonal or difficult to

00:41:22 --> 00:41:25

run, people who have seasonal commitments, it's hard

00:41:25 --> 00:41:25

to do things with them.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:29

And there was a lot, in Medina, the

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

wealth was all in the hands of the

00:41:31 --> 00:41:31

Jewish tribes.

00:41:32 --> 00:41:33

The wealth was all in the hands of

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

tribes that had been there for a long

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

time.

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And the climate of Medina, Yathrib was not

00:41:39 --> 00:41:39

nice.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

The climate was just very difficult.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

You would go there, you would get sick

00:41:43 --> 00:41:43

quickly.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:46

So the Prophet didn't really want to go

00:41:46 --> 00:41:46

there.

00:41:47 --> 00:41:48

It wasn't what he was hoping for.

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

But that's what Allah wanted for him.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

The problem was that all six of these

00:41:54 --> 00:41:59

people were from Al-Khazraj, all six of

00:41:59 --> 00:42:00

them.

00:42:01 --> 00:42:04

As'ad ibn Zurara, I hope you remember

00:42:04 --> 00:42:06

this name as you go through life.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

And I'll tell you why, maybe a little

00:42:10 --> 00:42:10

bit later I'll tell you why.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:12

But try to remember the name.

00:42:12 --> 00:42:13

As'ad ibn Zurara was the eldest of

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

the six.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:16

He was 21 years old.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

The eldest of the six was As'ad

00:42:19 --> 00:42:20

ibn Zurara, 21 years old.

00:42:21 --> 00:42:23

He was a bright young man.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:27

He said, Ya Rasool Allah, Innana kullana min

00:42:27 --> 00:42:30

al-Khazraj We're all from the same tribe.

00:42:31 --> 00:42:34

If you come to us now, you will

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

be the Prophet of Al-Khazraj and the

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

Oath will never accept you and you won't

00:42:37 --> 00:42:38

be able to fix the problem and you

00:42:38 --> 00:42:39

won't get anywhere.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:44

Fana'ood wa na'ati bi ikhwanil lana

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

min al-Oath We go back to Medina,

00:42:46 --> 00:42:47

Yathrib.

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

Next year we come back, we bring with

00:42:49 --> 00:42:51

us people from Al-Oath who accept Islam

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

here.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

And then you're the Prophet of both.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

So when you come to us, it's accepted

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

by both tribes.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

This is the wisdom of this young man.

00:42:58 --> 00:43:00

Faqala salallahu alayhi wa sallam sadaqt Ali salallahu

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

alayhi wa sallam said, Yes, that's a good

00:43:01 --> 00:43:01

point.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

Go back, come back next year.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:07

I have nothing to tell you between this

00:43:07 --> 00:43:08

moment and next year.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:09

I don't know.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

I don't know what happened.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:11

I don't have anything.

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

I have no data, nothing.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:16

You can go, open Seerat ibn Ishaq ibn

00:43:16 --> 00:43:17

Hisham al-Waqidi.

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

Read.

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

There's nothing.

00:43:18 --> 00:43:18

I have nothing.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:19

I don't know.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

I have no narrations of what occurred in

00:43:22 --> 00:43:23

the next 11 months.

00:43:23 --> 00:43:25

All I know is that the Prophet alayhi

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

salatu waslam's life was on the line at

00:43:27 --> 00:43:27

all times.

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

The plotting to kill him was ongoing.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

So he had to keep a very low

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

profile and he wasn't ever seen publicly unless

00:43:34 --> 00:43:35

Quraysh could not touch him.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

Aside from that, he was teaching the Sahaba

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

in discrete locations, mostly in Dar al-Arqam.

00:43:42 --> 00:43:42

That's it.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:45

I don't have any other information to share

00:43:45 --> 00:43:46

with you in terms of what happened throughout

00:43:46 --> 00:43:46

the year.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

They would go and they would come back

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

the 11th year of Hajj.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

So now we're a year ahead.

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

The 11th year during the Hajj period.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

This time, twice the amount.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:56

12 people would come.

00:43:57 --> 00:43:59

Eight from al-Khazraj and four from al

00:43:59 --> 00:43:59

-Aws.

00:44:00 --> 00:44:02

So a third to two thirds was the

00:44:02 --> 00:44:05

breakdown, which was not perfect, but it's good

00:44:05 --> 00:44:05

enough.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:07

They would come to the Prophet alayhi salatu

00:44:07 --> 00:44:07

waslam.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

As'ad ibn Zurarah is with them and

00:44:09 --> 00:44:10

Afra' ibn Ubaid is also with them and

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

there's a number of other people.

00:44:12 --> 00:44:15

The interesting piece for me in both situations,

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

the 10th year and the 11th year, then

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

the 6th and then the 12th, is that

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

we don't know for sure exactly who they

00:44:20 --> 00:44:20

were.

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

Like when you read the books, they'll tell

00:44:22 --> 00:44:25

you of Waqeela, i.e. Abu al-Haytham

00:44:25 --> 00:44:28

ibn al-Tihan, Waqeela, Waqeela, Waqeela, all these

00:44:28 --> 00:44:30

names, Wa'awfu ibn al-Harith, Mu'adh

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

ibn Afra' These are names that are thrown

00:44:32 --> 00:44:32

out.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

We don't know for sure.

00:44:33 --> 00:44:35

Like we don't have, I don't have concrete

00:44:35 --> 00:44:38

or proper evidence to say, these are the

00:44:38 --> 00:44:39

six from al-Khazraj on the first year,

00:44:40 --> 00:44:41

here are the 12 in the next year.

00:44:41 --> 00:44:42

I don't have it.

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

I don't know.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:44

We don't know their names.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:49

And that always, to me, meant, you find

00:44:49 --> 00:44:50

that in the Quran a lot, right?

00:44:50 --> 00:44:51

Mu'min Yasin, what's his name?

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

They say Habib al-Najjar.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:53

I don't know.

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

I have no evidence to support that that's

00:44:55 --> 00:44:55

his name.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

In the Quran it is, Wa ja'a

00:44:57 --> 00:45:00

rajulun min aqsal madinati yas'a That's all

00:45:00 --> 00:45:00

I have.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:04

Ahl al-Kahf, Sayaquluna thalathatun rabi'uhum kalbuhum

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

wa khamsatun That's it.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

Three guys, three youth with a dog, five

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

with a dog, seven with a dog, I

00:45:08 --> 00:45:08

don't know.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

We don't know their names.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:10

We don't have their names, we don't even

00:45:10 --> 00:45:10

know their number.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:14

Allah puts this a lot as a theme

00:45:14 --> 00:45:16

throughout the Quran and throughout the Prophet's, alayhi

00:45:16 --> 00:45:17

salatu wasalam, story.

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

It doesn't matter.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

It doesn't matter that much.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

Whether people know you or not, whether people

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

appreciate you or not, whether your name makes

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

the list or not, doesn't matter.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:30

As long as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

is watching you.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

As long as you make the list as

00:45:33 --> 00:45:34

far as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

00:45:34 --> 00:45:34

concerned.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:35

Because He sees you.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

He knows it's you.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:38

He watched your sacrifice.

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

He saw your grit.

00:45:40 --> 00:45:43

He observed subhanahu wa ta'ala your devotion

00:45:43 --> 00:45:44

and dedication and hard work.

00:45:44 --> 00:45:45

That's all that matters.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:48

Whether someone like me sees it or doesn't.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:55

Once a messenger for Umar ibn Khattab came

00:45:55 --> 00:45:58

back to him to tell him about the

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

outcome of a battle.

00:46:00 --> 00:46:05

The Khulafa would send people to stay behind

00:46:05 --> 00:46:07

lines to observe the battle and come back

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

and let the Khalifa know.

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

Or else how else would they know what

00:46:10 --> 00:46:11

was happening.

00:46:11 --> 00:46:13

So this man would come back from one

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

of the great battles and he would say,

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

Ya Ameen ul-Mu'mineen Intasarna There was a

00:46:17 --> 00:46:18

great victory.

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

Wastushhida Fulan Wa Fulan Wa Fulan He started

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

counting and this person was martyred.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

And this person was martyred.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

The names that he knew.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:32

Qala Wamaata shiwaahum khalqun katheerun laa na'rifuhum

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

And a lot of other people that we

00:46:33 --> 00:46:34

don't know died.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:36

That's how he said it.

00:46:36 --> 00:46:39

Faghadiba radiallahu anhu He got very upset.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:44

Faqala anta laa ta'rifuhum Wala yadurruhum annaka

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

lam ta'rifuhum You don't know them.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

And it does not harm them that you

00:46:48 --> 00:46:48

don't know them.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:52

Walakinna lahum Rabbani ya'rifuhum Waya'rifu asma

00:46:52 --> 00:46:55

'ahum wa asma'a aba'ihim wa ummahatihim

00:46:55 --> 00:46:57

But they have a Lord who knows them

00:46:57 --> 00:46:58

and knows their names and the names of

00:46:58 --> 00:47:01

their fathers and their mothers and their families.

00:47:02 --> 00:47:02

He got upset.

00:47:02 --> 00:47:04

Why are you saying it as if they're

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

just, No.

00:47:06 --> 00:47:07

They mattered.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:08

They were important.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:08

They were individual.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:09

They were people.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

And they have value.

00:47:11 --> 00:47:12

Just because you don't know their names means

00:47:12 --> 00:47:13

that you can...

00:47:13 --> 00:47:14

He didn't...

00:47:14 --> 00:47:15

I'm sure the messenger didn't mean it.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

I'm sure he got very scared when he

00:47:17 --> 00:47:18

saw him upset.

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

But you understand why he got upset.

00:47:20 --> 00:47:21

There's something there.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:22

I don't know their names.

00:47:23 --> 00:47:26

When you think about it, I would think

00:47:26 --> 00:47:28

that that would be a good blister to

00:47:28 --> 00:47:29

provide the next generations.

00:47:30 --> 00:47:31

Like to write that down.

00:47:31 --> 00:47:32

Who are the six people except for this

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

man that literally changed the course of history

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

today?

00:47:36 --> 00:47:37

Because like I told you, a full year,

00:47:37 --> 00:47:37

nothing.

00:47:38 --> 00:47:39

I have nothing to tell you.

00:47:40 --> 00:47:41

Imagine if this didn't work out.

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

How many years of...

00:47:43 --> 00:47:44

I have no narration.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:44

I have nothing.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:45

I have no stories to tell you.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:46

I don't know what happened.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:48

I don't know what surahs were revealed.

00:47:48 --> 00:47:50

I just don't know because we have nothing.

00:47:51 --> 00:47:55

The narrations, it's like there's this gap almost.

00:47:56 --> 00:47:58

It's almost this gap for like three years.

00:48:00 --> 00:48:02

There were three years gap almost in the

00:48:02 --> 00:48:04

Hisar al-Shi'ab Bani Hashim, like in

00:48:04 --> 00:48:06

the boycott of the clan of Hashim.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:09

But these three years are much more, the

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

silence is more eerie.

00:48:11 --> 00:48:12

During the boycott, I have some stories to

00:48:12 --> 00:48:13

tell you.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

Certain things happened.

00:48:14 --> 00:48:16

I could tell you, but here I have

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

no idea.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:19

And imagine that they didn't come back the

00:48:19 --> 00:48:20

next year with 12 people.

00:48:20 --> 00:48:21

I don't know what would have happened.

00:48:22 --> 00:48:23

He didn't go and talk to all the

00:48:23 --> 00:48:24

tribes the next year.

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

He just met the 12 that came.

00:48:28 --> 00:48:28

That's it.

00:48:29 --> 00:48:29

That's it.

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

He met the 12.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:34

And they all had accepted Islam or came

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

to accept Islam at his hands.

00:48:37 --> 00:48:39

And this was called Bay'at al-Aqab

00:48:39 --> 00:48:42

al-Ula in the 11th, the Hajj of

00:48:42 --> 00:48:44

the 11th year of his prophecy.

00:48:45 --> 00:48:46

How did it go?

00:48:47 --> 00:48:50

This is what he asked them to perform

00:48:50 --> 00:48:50

bay'ah for.

00:48:51 --> 00:48:54

If you read this, you and you know

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

some of the Quran, you will make a

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

very quick reference to the end of Surat

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

al-Mumtahina.

00:49:00 --> 00:49:01

You'll read it and say, yeah, I've read

00:49:01 --> 00:49:02

those before.

00:49:03 --> 00:49:07

It's the same clauses that the Quran talks

00:49:07 --> 00:49:08

about the end of Surat al-Mumtahina.

00:49:08 --> 00:49:13

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِذَا جَاءَكَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتُ يُبَيَنَكَ عَلَىٰ

00:49:13 --> 00:49:16

أَلَّا يُشْرِكْنَ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَسْرِقْنَا وَلَا يَزْنِينَ

00:49:16 --> 00:49:19

وَلَا يَقْتُلْنَا أُولَادَهُنَّ And he goes on a

00:49:19 --> 00:49:20

number of things.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:21

When you read what the bay'ah was,

00:49:21 --> 00:49:22

a bay'ah basically is a pledge.

00:49:23 --> 00:49:24

It's an agreement.

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

It's a very strong agreement.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:27

It's your word.

00:49:28 --> 00:49:30

You are dedicating, you are offering your covenant

00:49:30 --> 00:49:32

that this is how you're going to live

00:49:32 --> 00:49:32

your life.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

So the Prophet ﷺ, it wasn't just that

00:49:34 --> 00:49:35

he accepted Islam with him.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:37

No, he put his hand out and he

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

said, I need a pledge from all of

00:49:38 --> 00:49:39

you.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:40

I'm going to need a pledge.

00:49:41 --> 00:49:42

So they put their hands in the hand

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

of the Prophet ﷺ.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:46

The pledge was this, لا تُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا

00:49:46 --> 00:49:48

You will not associate anyone else with Allah

00:49:48 --> 00:49:48

ﷻ.

00:49:48 --> 00:49:52

This in its most raw form means that

00:49:52 --> 00:49:55

you will no longer follow the rules, the

00:49:55 --> 00:49:59

commands of anyone aside from Allah ﷻ.

00:49:59 --> 00:50:01

You are no longer a slave or a

00:50:01 --> 00:50:04

servant or a follower of anyone aside from

00:50:04 --> 00:50:04

Allah ﷻ.

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

No one's law, no one's rule, no one's

00:50:07 --> 00:50:10

desires, no one's commands mean anything to you

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

if they are not aligned with what Allah

00:50:12 --> 00:50:13

ﷻ is saying Himself.

00:50:13 --> 00:50:16

That's what لا تُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا means.

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

No one is equal to Allah ever again.

00:50:18 --> 00:50:20

No one will ever again be equal to

00:50:20 --> 00:50:20

God ever again.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:25

You will never equalize any other entities, desires,

00:50:25 --> 00:50:29

or commands, or whims, or rules to Allah

00:50:29 --> 00:50:30

ﷻ's laws and rules.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:33

That's what لا تُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا means.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

It's very liberating.

00:50:34 --> 00:50:37

It's very, very liberating and extremely powerful.

00:50:38 --> 00:50:40

That's the first thing, لا تُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا

00:50:40 --> 00:50:45

وَلَا تَسْرِقُوا وَلَا تَزْنُوا وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ Don't

00:50:45 --> 00:50:46

steal.

00:50:46 --> 00:50:47

Don't commit zina.

00:50:48 --> 00:50:50

Don't harm your children.

00:50:51 --> 00:50:53

لا تَأْتُوا بِبُهْتَالٍ تَفْتَرُونَهُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَأَرْجُلِكُمْ Don't

00:50:53 --> 00:50:54

betray.

00:50:54 --> 00:50:55

Don't make something up.

00:50:56 --> 00:50:57

Don't lie about what you're listening to.

00:50:58 --> 00:51:00

وَلَا تَعْصُونِي فِي مَعْرُوفٍ And you don't disobey

00:51:00 --> 00:51:01

in ma'ruf.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

When I give you something good to do,

00:51:03 --> 00:51:04

you listen to it and you follow.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:05

You take nasiha of good things.

00:51:05 --> 00:51:07

Don't be someone who refuses to do something

00:51:07 --> 00:51:07

good.

00:51:08 --> 00:51:10

It's a good trait to have in life.

00:51:11 --> 00:51:12

If you make a lot of mistakes, just

00:51:12 --> 00:51:13

take this one trait.

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

When someone gives you advice to do something

00:51:15 --> 00:51:15

good, do it.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

If you're someone who makes a lot of

00:51:18 --> 00:51:20

mistakes, just keep this trait with you.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:22

When someone comes and gives you a nasiha

00:51:22 --> 00:51:23

to do something good that you are not

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

doing or stop something bad that you are

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

not stopping, take that nasiha at least for

00:51:27 --> 00:51:27

the moment.

00:51:28 --> 00:51:30

Like if someone smokes, and someone's gonna say

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

you should stop, at least for that moment,

00:51:32 --> 00:51:33

put it out.

00:51:33 --> 00:51:35

At least for that day, don't do it.

00:51:35 --> 00:51:36

Take the nasiha.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:39

لَا تَعْصِي فِي المَعْرُوفِ Ma'ruf is goodness.

00:51:39 --> 00:51:42

It's any form of good advice or good

00:51:42 --> 00:51:42

behavior.

00:51:42 --> 00:51:44

Don't disobey when it's something good that's being

00:51:44 --> 00:51:45

offered to you.

00:51:46 --> 00:51:50

فَمَنْ وَفَّى مِنْكُمْ فَأَجْرُهُ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ وَمَنْ أَصَابَ

00:51:50 --> 00:51:53

مِن ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا فَعُوقِبَ بِهِ فِي الدُّنْيَا فَهُوَ

00:51:53 --> 00:51:56

لَهُ كَفَّارًا وَمَنْ أَصَابَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا فَسَتَرَاهُ

00:51:56 --> 00:52:00

اللَّهُ فَأَمْرُهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ إِنْ شَاءَ عَاقَبَهُ وَإِنْ

00:52:00 --> 00:52:02

شَاءَ عَفَى عَنْهُمْ So he said, alayhi salatu

00:52:02 --> 00:52:06

wasalam, and those of you who keep their

00:52:06 --> 00:52:09

word, keep this pledge, then they will be

00:52:09 --> 00:52:10

rewarded by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:52:10 --> 00:52:12

And those of you who don't and then

00:52:12 --> 00:52:15

are harmed, have some harm or difficulty or

00:52:15 --> 00:52:18

misfortune in dunya, then that is a kafara.

00:52:18 --> 00:52:19

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is forgiving their

00:52:19 --> 00:52:20

sin by that.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:24

And those of you who break this pledge,

00:52:24 --> 00:52:25

but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala conceals their

00:52:25 --> 00:52:27

sin and no one sees it, then it's

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

up to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:52:28 --> 00:52:30

Either He punishes you on the Day of

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

Judgment, or He pardons you and forgives you.

00:52:32 --> 00:52:33

And that was the pledge of bay'at

00:52:33 --> 00:52:34

al-aqaba al-ula.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:35

That was the first bay'at al-aqaba.

00:52:35 --> 00:52:37

It happened at al-aqaba, at jamrat al

00:52:37 --> 00:52:38

-aqaba.

00:52:38 --> 00:52:40

So when you go and perform your hajj,

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

inshaAllah you'll throw jamrat al-aqaba, which is

00:52:42 --> 00:52:43

the largest of the jamrat.

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

And it's a discreet area.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:48

The Prophet ﷺ had to stay out of...

00:52:49 --> 00:52:52

If people heard him ﷺ pledging with these

00:52:52 --> 00:52:53

12 individuals, that wasn't good.

00:52:53 --> 00:52:54

It's all off.

00:52:55 --> 00:52:56

It's not going to work.

00:52:57 --> 00:52:58

So they made that pledge with the Prophet

00:52:58 --> 00:52:58

ﷺ.

00:52:58 --> 00:52:59

Do you notice something here?

00:53:00 --> 00:53:03

What do you notice about this list that

00:53:03 --> 00:53:04

the Prophet ﷺ is accepting as a bay

00:53:04 --> 00:53:05

'at?

00:53:06 --> 00:53:08

Anything that strikes you as odd?

00:53:12 --> 00:53:13

Not just the people.

00:53:14 --> 00:53:16

We'll talk about the youthful piece for sure.

00:53:16 --> 00:53:19

But I mean the actual bay'at, the

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

actual covenant or the actual pledge.

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

Anything kind of stand out for you here?

00:53:24 --> 00:53:26

Where is the five pillars of Islam?

00:53:28 --> 00:53:29

Where are the five pillars?

00:53:29 --> 00:53:29

Where is salah?

00:53:30 --> 00:53:31

Where is qiyam?

00:53:31 --> 00:53:32

Where is zakah?

00:53:33 --> 00:53:34

None of it.

00:53:34 --> 00:53:35

None of it.

00:53:36 --> 00:53:37

The first thing he pledged with him ﷺ

00:53:37 --> 00:53:38

is your ethics.

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

Your ethically, you can't steal.

00:53:42 --> 00:53:43

You can't commit zina.

00:53:43 --> 00:53:44

You can't commit murder.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:45

You can't lie.

00:53:45 --> 00:53:48

You can't be someone who refuses nasiha on

00:53:48 --> 00:53:48

good things.

00:53:48 --> 00:53:49

No, no.

00:53:49 --> 00:53:51

Your ethics have to be impeccable first.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:53

Islam in order for it to work, as

00:53:53 --> 00:53:54

a human being, you have to have good

00:53:54 --> 00:53:55

ethics and morals.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

If you don't, if you don't, then it

00:53:57 --> 00:53:57

doesn't matter.

00:53:58 --> 00:53:58

Like it's not going to work.

00:53:58 --> 00:54:00

This whole story is not going to work.

00:54:00 --> 00:54:05

You have to attend to these points first.

00:54:05 --> 00:54:08

If you go back and you pray your

00:54:08 --> 00:54:10

prayers and you fast, you read Qur'an,

00:54:10 --> 00:54:15

but you're committing zina and they're stealing and

00:54:15 --> 00:54:17

they're lying and they're harming people.

00:54:17 --> 00:54:17

What's the point?

00:54:18 --> 00:54:20

This defeats the purpose.

00:54:21 --> 00:54:22

You're not going to be of any benefit

00:54:22 --> 00:54:25

to Allah or to the Prophet or to

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

the deen or to yourselves if you don't

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

understand the importance of what this point carries.

00:54:31 --> 00:54:32

They were all ethical.

00:54:32 --> 00:54:34

All of the points of the Prophet ﷺ,

00:54:34 --> 00:54:35

the bay'ah, bay'ah al-aqab al

00:54:35 --> 00:54:35

-ula.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:39

The only religious peace was laa tu shirikoo

00:54:39 --> 00:54:39

shay.

00:54:39 --> 00:54:40

No shirk.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:41

Tawheed.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:43

Have tawheed and then everything after that.

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

You have to behave.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

You can't cross these lines anymore.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:49

If you've been crossing them, stop crossing them

00:54:49 --> 00:54:49

now.

00:54:50 --> 00:54:52

Because you're now the ambassador of the deen

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

and the deen that you follow does not

00:54:55 --> 00:54:56

allow for these types of behaviors.

00:54:56 --> 00:54:57

So you have to stop them.

00:54:59 --> 00:54:59

So they did.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:02

But he didn't send them alone this time.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

This time he sent someone with them.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

Anyone want to blurt out the name before

00:55:09 --> 00:55:10

I put them?

00:55:11 --> 00:55:12

Who went with them?

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

Yeah, Sayyidina Mus'ab ibn Umair.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:16

In one narration, he sent with Mus'ab

00:55:16 --> 00:55:18

Abdullah ibn Ummi Maktoum.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:19

Some narrations point out that he went with

00:55:19 --> 00:55:21

Mus'ab, the blind gentleman, the blind sahabi

00:55:21 --> 00:55:22

from Abasa wa Tawalla.

00:55:23 --> 00:55:23

But we don't know for sure.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:25

But for sure we know that Mus'ab

00:55:25 --> 00:55:28

ibn Umair radiAllahu anhu, was sent by the

00:55:28 --> 00:55:28

Prophet ﷺ.

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

He was called Rasoolu Rasoolillah ﷺ.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

He is the messenger of the messenger of

00:55:33 --> 00:55:33

Allah.

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

Now, I've always...

00:55:39 --> 00:55:42

Think about what it takes or what it

00:55:42 --> 00:55:44

would take for the Prophet ﷺ to choose

00:55:44 --> 00:55:47

you or to choose someone to be the

00:55:47 --> 00:55:49

person who will go and speak on his

00:55:49 --> 00:55:50

behalf.

00:55:50 --> 00:55:52

This is one of the most critical moments

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

of the seerah, of the Prophet ﷺ.

00:55:55 --> 00:55:57

This has to work or else it's complete

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

silence when it comes to the seerah, year

00:56:00 --> 00:56:00

after year.

00:56:01 --> 00:56:02

I don't have any...

00:56:02 --> 00:56:03

I have no stories to tell.

00:56:03 --> 00:56:03

Nothing's happening.

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

The number of Muslims is not increasing at

00:56:05 --> 00:56:07

the level that it needs to increase in

00:56:07 --> 00:56:08

order for this to work.

00:56:08 --> 00:56:11

He is not gaining any ground ﷺ meaningfully.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:12

It's not happening.

00:56:13 --> 00:56:14

Basically, we're just going from one year to

00:56:14 --> 00:56:17

the other from hajj to hajj, looking for

00:56:17 --> 00:56:17

events.

00:56:17 --> 00:56:18

There's not much else going on.

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

Mus'ab has to go there and on

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

behalf of the Prophet ﷺ teach Islam to

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

the Muslims and teach it to the non

00:56:25 --> 00:56:25

-Muslims.

00:56:26 --> 00:56:27

He has to go and start speaking to

00:56:27 --> 00:56:29

al-Aws and to al-Khazraj and get

00:56:29 --> 00:56:31

them to come on board to Islam.

00:56:32 --> 00:56:34

What type of person does that have to

00:56:34 --> 00:56:34

be?

00:56:35 --> 00:56:37

What type of person...

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

Who would he choose ﷺ?

00:56:40 --> 00:56:42

Like, it is not a simple choice.

00:56:42 --> 00:56:44

He's not randomly just...

00:56:44 --> 00:56:46

No, he's choosing someone who he can trust,

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

someone who knows how to speak, someone who

00:56:49 --> 00:56:51

knows how to think, someone who understands what

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

Islam is about, someone who has knowledge of

00:56:53 --> 00:56:55

the Qur'an, someone who has the public

00:56:55 --> 00:56:57

speaking skills, someone who has social skills, a

00:56:57 --> 00:56:59

high social IQ, knows how to deal with

00:56:59 --> 00:57:02

human beings, who's going to represent Islam ethically

00:57:02 --> 00:57:05

and in the mannerism and the etiquette of

00:57:05 --> 00:57:05

Islam as well.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:06

People, what do you think they watch?

00:57:07 --> 00:57:08

People watch how you stand, how you sit,

00:57:08 --> 00:57:10

how you speak, how you eat, how you

00:57:10 --> 00:57:10

walk.

00:57:10 --> 00:57:12

When you are representing Islam to someone, they

00:57:12 --> 00:57:13

are watching everything.

00:57:13 --> 00:57:15

I hope you realize that.

00:57:15 --> 00:57:16

I hope when you're going to school and

00:57:16 --> 00:57:18

university and at work and people know you're

00:57:18 --> 00:57:21

Muslim, that they are watching literally every movement.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:23

You do the same.

00:57:23 --> 00:57:25

You just don't maybe draw the parallel.

00:57:25 --> 00:57:26

You do the same.

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

When someone walks into your life from a

00:57:28 --> 00:57:29

different faith and you don't know anyone else

00:57:29 --> 00:57:31

from that faith and you've never really seen

00:57:31 --> 00:57:32

that faith, you're watching them.

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

You're watching how do they...

00:57:35 --> 00:57:36

How do they go to the bathroom?

00:57:36 --> 00:57:38

What do they leave behind them in the

00:57:38 --> 00:57:38

bathroom?

00:57:39 --> 00:57:41

What does the bathroom look like when they

00:57:41 --> 00:57:41

walk out?

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

They care about these things.

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

They're watching to see what is this about.

00:57:47 --> 00:57:50

The Prophet ﷺ had to choose someone who

00:57:50 --> 00:57:53

was going to represent Islam perfectly.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

So he chose Mus'ab ibn Umair رضي

00:57:56 --> 00:57:56

الله عنه وارضاه.

00:57:57 --> 00:57:59

The Sahaba, by the way, never spoke of

00:57:59 --> 00:58:02

anyone as they spoke of Mus'ab.

00:58:03 --> 00:58:05

And quite frankly, they didn't really speak of

00:58:05 --> 00:58:06

him much to begin with.

00:58:07 --> 00:58:09

Because Mus'ab was a sore spot for

00:58:09 --> 00:58:09

all of them.

00:58:11 --> 00:58:12

A couple of months from now, I'll tell

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

you the story of the Battle of Uhud

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

where Mus'ab fell.

00:58:16 --> 00:58:18

When Mus'ab looked like the Prophet ﷺ,

00:58:18 --> 00:58:19

by the way, a lot.

00:58:19 --> 00:58:20

There was a lot of similarities in the

00:58:20 --> 00:58:21

way he looked.

00:58:22 --> 00:58:23

They thought, a lot of people during the

00:58:23 --> 00:58:25

Battle of Uhud, that when they killed Mus

00:58:25 --> 00:58:26

'ab, that they had killed the Prophet ﷺ,

00:58:26 --> 00:58:27

which caused all the chaos that day.

00:58:28 --> 00:58:30

All the chaos of Uhud, aside from the

00:58:30 --> 00:58:32

people running down the mountain, really set in

00:58:32 --> 00:58:35

when Mus'ab was martyred and they said

00:58:35 --> 00:58:37

they killed Muhammad ﷺ, but they didn't, it

00:58:37 --> 00:58:38

was Mus'ab.

00:58:38 --> 00:58:41

But the Sahaba stood around him on the

00:58:41 --> 00:58:44

day they buried him in tears because they

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

loved this man.

00:58:45 --> 00:58:46

He was their friend.

00:58:47 --> 00:58:47

A close friend.

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

He was a person of wealth.

00:58:49 --> 00:58:50

He was a person of status.

00:58:50 --> 00:58:54

They say, the myth goes, that Mus'ab

00:58:54 --> 00:58:55

could be smelled two blocks away.

00:58:56 --> 00:58:59

The amount of cologne, of foreign cologne that

00:58:59 --> 00:58:59

he put on.

00:58:59 --> 00:59:04

He only wore Calvin Klein.

00:59:04 --> 00:59:07

He only wore imported from Sham and Iraq.

00:59:08 --> 00:59:09

He didn't wear anything local.

00:59:09 --> 00:59:11

No, no, he was very, very rich.

00:59:12 --> 00:59:14

And he was a strapping young man, the

00:59:14 --> 00:59:15

bachelor of the city.

00:59:16 --> 00:59:17

And he was someone who knew how to

00:59:17 --> 00:59:18

dress and he always put on all the

00:59:18 --> 00:59:19

perfume.

00:59:19 --> 00:59:20

And he accepted Islam and his mother cut

00:59:20 --> 00:59:21

him off.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:22

To the point where he had nothing.

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

He had nothing.

00:59:24 --> 00:59:28

He had to depend on sadaqat and hidayah

00:59:28 --> 00:59:29

from the Sahaba to survive in Madinah.

00:59:30 --> 00:59:31

And he died that way in Madinah.

00:59:32 --> 00:59:33

To the point where when they buried him,

00:59:34 --> 00:59:35

they had a piece of cloth.

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

This gets me every time I tell this

00:59:38 --> 00:59:40

story because they stood in front of him

00:59:41 --> 00:59:42

and they were very sad that he had

00:59:42 --> 00:59:43

passed away.

00:59:43 --> 00:59:43

They loved this man.

00:59:43 --> 00:59:44

They loved him.

00:59:44 --> 00:59:47

They loved his devotion, his dedication.

00:59:47 --> 00:59:49

The amount of his genuineness was something that

00:59:49 --> 00:59:50

they all felt.

00:59:50 --> 00:59:52

And they could not find a piece of

00:59:52 --> 00:59:53

cloth to cover him fully.

00:59:54 --> 00:59:55

If they covered his head, his feet stuck

00:59:55 --> 00:59:55

out.

00:59:56 --> 00:59:56

And it stuck out.

00:59:56 --> 00:59:58

And if they covered his feet, his head

00:59:58 --> 00:59:58

stuck out.

00:59:58 --> 01:00:01

And it's like, you know when you're holding

01:00:01 --> 01:00:02

yourself and you can barely, you're just barely

01:00:02 --> 01:00:04

getting through and they're trying to get it

01:00:04 --> 01:00:04

fit.

01:00:05 --> 01:00:06

And then finally it doesn't fit and they

01:00:06 --> 01:00:08

just get all upset and they all start

01:00:08 --> 01:00:09

crying and then they never talked about this

01:00:09 --> 01:00:09

again.

01:00:10 --> 01:00:13

And anytime someone praised one of them or

01:00:13 --> 01:00:16

someone talked about their sacrifice or someone talked

01:00:16 --> 01:00:17

about the times they spent with the Prophet,

01:00:18 --> 01:00:20

they would say, أَلَا إِنَّ مُصْعَبًا فَعَلَ كَذَى

01:00:20 --> 01:00:23

وَكَذَى وَيَوْمَ مَاتَ لَمْ نَجِدْ Mus'ab did

01:00:23 --> 01:00:24

this and this and the day he died,

01:00:24 --> 01:00:25

we could not cover his whole body when

01:00:25 --> 01:00:26

he died.

01:00:26 --> 01:00:28

Like it continued to be a sore spot

01:00:28 --> 01:00:29

for all of them.

01:00:29 --> 01:00:31

It was like Mus'ab was the, he

01:00:31 --> 01:00:32

was like the standard that they had to

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

live up to.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:34

They had to live up to this gentleman.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:37

He died early, رضي الله عنه, he martyred

01:00:37 --> 01:00:38

early in Islam.

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

But all of them who knew him felt

01:00:40 --> 01:00:43

like he drew this line for them that

01:00:43 --> 01:00:45

they had to live up to.

01:00:46 --> 01:00:48

He would go with As'ad ibn Zurarah,

01:00:48 --> 01:00:50

he would stay in As'ad ibn Zurarah's

01:00:50 --> 01:00:50

home.

01:00:51 --> 01:00:52

And I'll talk a little bit about As

01:00:52 --> 01:00:53

'ad next week because I have to tell

01:00:53 --> 01:00:54

you a few things.

01:00:54 --> 01:00:55

You're talking about youth, we'll talk about him

01:00:55 --> 01:00:56

a little bit next week, if you have

01:00:56 --> 01:00:57

an important piece.

01:00:58 --> 01:00:59

He would sit there and he would spend

01:00:59 --> 01:01:03

the year, the whole year talking to the

01:01:03 --> 01:01:06

people from Al-Khazraj and the people from

01:01:06 --> 01:01:06

Da'os.

01:01:06 --> 01:01:07

I'm going to start this story, we're not

01:01:07 --> 01:01:08

going to get through it.

01:01:08 --> 01:01:09

This is Masjid al-Bay'ah by the

01:01:09 --> 01:01:10

way.

01:01:10 --> 01:01:11

You can go and see this in Mecca

01:01:11 --> 01:01:12

if you want to at some point.

01:01:12 --> 01:01:13

This is where the Prophet Ali, salallahu alayhi

01:01:13 --> 01:01:15

wa sallam performed one of these bay'ahs

01:01:15 --> 01:01:16

if you want to see it.

01:01:17 --> 01:01:19

So he stays in As'ad ibn Zurarah's

01:01:19 --> 01:01:20

house.

01:01:21 --> 01:01:24

As'ad was from Al-Khazraj but he

01:01:24 --> 01:01:25

was related to Al-Aus.

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

He's one of those mixed breeds.

01:01:28 --> 01:01:30

Meaning his mother is from Al-Aus, his

01:01:30 --> 01:01:31

father is from Al-Khazraj, so he's from

01:01:31 --> 01:01:32

Al-Khazraj, but his mother is from Al

01:01:32 --> 01:01:32

-Aus.

01:01:33 --> 01:01:34

And a lot of the Muslims who are

01:01:34 --> 01:01:35

coming to accept, people who are coming to

01:01:35 --> 01:01:36

accept Islam were from Al-Khazraj.

01:01:37 --> 01:01:38

He wasn't getting a lot from Al-Aus

01:01:38 --> 01:01:40

and that was not the plan.

01:01:40 --> 01:01:41

So he would take Mus'ab and they

01:01:41 --> 01:01:43

would go and they would hang out at

01:01:43 --> 01:01:46

the outskirts of the neighborhoods of Al-Aus

01:01:47 --> 01:01:49

just to provoke them, just to be there

01:01:49 --> 01:01:51

and kind of, he would go stay at

01:01:51 --> 01:01:54

a house of a friend that's right beside

01:01:54 --> 01:01:56

where the people of Al-Aus live.

01:01:56 --> 01:01:57

And they would make noise there, they would

01:01:57 --> 01:01:58

do the Quran and they would teach.

01:01:59 --> 01:02:02

And he kept on pushing that until Usaid

01:02:02 --> 01:02:03

ibn Al-Hudayr and Sa'ad ibn Mu

01:02:03 --> 01:02:04

'adh got upset.

01:02:04 --> 01:02:06

Now Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh and Usaid

01:02:06 --> 01:02:09

ibn Al-Hudayr are the two leaders of

01:02:09 --> 01:02:12

Al-Aus or Bani Abdul-Ash'al, which

01:02:12 --> 01:02:14

is the largest tribe within the tribe of

01:02:14 --> 01:02:14

Al-Aus.

01:02:15 --> 01:02:19

Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh is the ultimate

01:02:19 --> 01:02:19

leader.

01:02:20 --> 01:02:22

Usaid is the second in command.

01:02:22 --> 01:02:24

And they're sitting there and they're like, how

01:02:24 --> 01:02:25

dare he bring him here?

01:02:25 --> 01:02:27

Like, that's what they're talking about, Usaid ibn

01:02:27 --> 01:02:27

Zararah.

01:02:28 --> 01:02:32

How dare he bring this foreigner who's ruining

01:02:32 --> 01:02:35

people's faith close to our neighborhood?

01:02:35 --> 01:02:37

On what authority is he doing this?

01:02:37 --> 01:02:38

They're getting upset.

01:02:38 --> 01:02:40

So Sa'ad says, Usaid go and tell

01:02:40 --> 01:02:42

them to leave because I can't go and

01:02:42 --> 01:02:43

do it myself.

01:02:43 --> 01:02:43

Why?

01:02:43 --> 01:02:47

Because Sa'ad is Usaid's cousin from his

01:02:47 --> 01:02:48

mother's side.

01:02:48 --> 01:02:49

He's like, if I go and yell at

01:02:49 --> 01:02:51

him, I'm yelling at my cousin, my mother

01:02:51 --> 01:02:52

gets upset, it's a problem, I don't want

01:02:52 --> 01:02:53

to do this.

01:02:53 --> 01:02:54

You go and talk to him.

01:02:54 --> 01:02:56

So Usaid said, yes, no problem.

01:02:56 --> 01:02:57

So Usaid goes and he's carrying with his

01:02:57 --> 01:03:00

hand, his rumh, he has this spear.

01:03:01 --> 01:03:03

So he goes and he stands in front

01:03:03 --> 01:03:05

of Mus'ab and in front of Sa

01:03:05 --> 01:03:07

'ad ibn Zararah and he puts the spear

01:03:07 --> 01:03:08

right into the ground.

01:03:10 --> 01:03:12

We can see evil in his eyes.

01:03:13 --> 01:03:15

Ya Usaid, Ya As'ad.

01:03:15 --> 01:03:17

Atayta ila diyarina bihada as-safihi.

01:03:18 --> 01:03:21

Yakhda'u du'afa'ana wa yusubbu alihatana.

01:03:21 --> 01:03:25

You come to my neighborhood with this ignorant

01:03:25 --> 01:03:27

man that you have, this safih, this something,

01:03:27 --> 01:03:29

a bad word about Sayyidina Mus'ab.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:32

As he fools all of our weak, our

01:03:32 --> 01:03:35

weak-minded people and he ruins our deen.

01:03:36 --> 01:03:40

In kana lakuma haajatun fil hayafun sarifa.

01:03:40 --> 01:03:42

If you want to live, I would advise

01:03:42 --> 01:03:42

you to leave.

01:03:43 --> 01:03:45

If you want to live, I would advise

01:03:45 --> 01:03:45

you to leave.

01:03:46 --> 01:03:47

Now, we'll go for Salam.

01:03:48 --> 01:03:49

But I want you to hear what As

01:03:49 --> 01:03:51

'ad ibn Zararah told Mus'ab as Usaid

01:03:51 --> 01:03:52

was talking.

01:03:53 --> 01:03:57

Qala ya Mus'ab, inna hadha la sayyidu

01:03:57 --> 01:04:00

qawmihi fa akhlis lillahi feeha.

01:04:01 --> 01:04:03

Indeed, this man, he's the leader of his

01:04:03 --> 01:04:03

tribe.

01:04:04 --> 01:04:06

So you're gonna speak to him, akhlis lillah.

01:04:07 --> 01:04:09

Fill your heart with akhlis lillah, subhanahu wa

01:04:09 --> 01:04:09

ta'ala.

01:04:10 --> 01:04:14

Fill your heart with genuineness and sincerity to

01:04:14 --> 01:04:15

Allah so that he hears you.

01:04:16 --> 01:04:18

That's the advice that As'ad gave Sayyidina

01:04:18 --> 01:04:19

Mus'ab abdullahu anhu.

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

And I'm gonna talk about that a little

01:04:21 --> 01:04:22

bit more insha'Allah ta'ala next week.

01:04:22 --> 01:04:23

But with that, subhanahu wa ta'ala, alhamdulillah.

01:04:23 --> 01:04:25

Shukran la ilaha illa anta astaghfiru wa atubu

01:04:25 --> 01:04:25

ilayk.

01:04:25 --> 01:04:27

Wasalamu alaykum wa baraka ala nabiyyina Muhammadin wa

01:04:27 --> 01:04:28

alayhi as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

01:04:29 --> 01:04:30

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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