Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #35
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The importance of following Islam's teachings and respecting the Prophet is emphasized, as well as the need for a person to represent the Prophet and achieve success in representing Islam. Successful people should be knowledgeable, empowered, and trusting, as well as be wiping up and protecting loved ones. The importance of showing faith in society and preserving deeds is emphasized, along with showing faith in society through community members.
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He started to look for other ways to
get to spread Islam and to and to
work out his his plan.
And the the mainstay of this plan was
to
pursue,
support from outside of Quraysh, outside of Mecca,
which was a difficult decision for him because
Quraish is his family
and Mecca is his home. So he looked,
in for support, he didn't find that, and
then he utilized
at the end of 10th year during during
the Musa al Hajj. So when we're going
through the years of the prophet alaihis salaam's
life, we're using the Hijri calendar not the
Gregorian. Right? So,
the 10th year of his prophecy alaihis salaam
we talked about the 10th year of Hajj
right at the end. And Hajj is at
the last in the last month of the
Hijri calendar. So he would go and speak
to 26 or 27 tribes
and, no one would respond to him aside
from 6 young people from Yefirib,
all from Khazraj. He they would go back
with the intention of coming back a year
later
with some,
extra individuals who would be from the opposite
tribe, an oath because the ongoing war would
make it very awkward if the prophet alaihi
sallallahu alaihi sallam came with only the support
of the tribal Khazraj. He would would become
the prophet of that tribe, the the other
one wouldn't wouldn't listen to him. So he
waited for a year
and they came back, 12 of them,
and that's what we talked about last week,
and they gave the prophet
They pledged the prophet
certain things and the pledge
was not really
anything but ethical aspects.
Tawhid obviously,
the first aspect
of the pledge that they gave the Prophet
at the end. This is the 11th year
of Hajj, right? The Hajj of 11th year.
So a full year of Bai. We don't
have a lot of
information about what happened in that year. We
just don't because we don't have narrations that
were produced during that period.
So, the Hajj of 11th year, the prophet
would meet these 12 individuals
at
where this Masjid is that you're looking at,
it's called Masjid Al Bayah, it's close to
Al Aqaba in Mina. So he would meet
them there and they would give a pledge
of not performing shirk.
And then all the other
articles of this pledge were not to commit
murder and not to steal and not to
commit zina and not to lie and not
to cheat and not to betray. All ethical.
No. He asked them, okay,
and then behave. You have to behave. Here's
the standard. Here's the standard of ethics that
we carry. You cannot dip below this. If
you do, this is not going to work.
So, accept
then go behave appropriately.
Come back and I'm gonna send with you
I'm gonna send with you someone to perform
dawah in Madinah. So
in the Hajj of 11th year, once they
gave him their pledge
the 12 people, there are 2 women amongst
them.
He sent back with them, Sayyidina Musaab ibn
Umayr
We talked about him a little bit in
the last
session, and we'll talk about him during the
battle of Uhud again, insha Allahu Ta'ala. And
Musaab
was an extremely knowledgeable sahabi,
and he was someone who had proven
his the he's proven had proven his dedication
and devotion. This is someone who gave up
literally everything. He gave up all of his
wealth, all of his status. He gave up
gave up his family. He gave up a
trajectory
of iz,
I talked about this every once in a
while in the seal of the Prophet alaihis
salam because I think it's very important for
you to contemplate.
When you commit
to Allah
will and you follow Allah
teachings,
please don't be in the mindset that you
expect
of expecting that Allah
just works everything out for you the way
you want it to work out.
If you enter with that expectation, you're going
to harm yourself. Like if you enter with
that in mind that I'm giving up all
these things for you, I expect I expect
the red carpet in life. I expect everything
to be exactly the way I want. Eventually
I want everything,
and more, and more than If you're expecting
that in dunya,
like in this life, then you're gonna Yeah.
You haven't understood this,
this agreement that you have with Allah
You will get exactly what you want and
more, but that's gonna happen on the day
of judgement. That's gonna happen in Alakhirah. In
duniya, it's hit or miss. It's whatever Allah
has has decreed for you. It's whatever your
ula and qadr carry
and hide. Allahu'ala.
Mus'aab lost everything
to be with the prophet alaihis
salam, never made it up.
He never got anything back.
And he died
way before Islam became a strong
power within Arabia. Like Alar al Sahaba of
his age
lived years decades after the Prophet alaihis salatu
wa sallam. And they saw the, the treasures
of Kisra being
brought
back from Persia and put at the feet
of Al Muqadd. They saw
the conquering
of Egypt
and the
far west, and they saw the Muslim
armies being able
to enter parts of India. They saw that
with their own eyes who were there. He
didn't.
He's gonna pass away in Uhud. He's going
to be martyred in Uhud
He literally is the example of someone who
gave everything and got nothing in return. So
for the sahaba that was his that's how
they remembered him. He was a sore spot
for all of them.
Like they always held themselves
to his example. Like we they always felt
like, Yeah, but Mus'aab was different. Mus'aab is
he's the guy. He's
the person who
actually sacrificed and gave everything. We can't And
of course all of them did, but that's
how they felt about him.
An example of of something being more important
than the Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam choosing
someone to go represent him during this extremely
critical time of his of his prophecy. This
has to work. Musaab has to get this
done. Musaab has to succeed in
representing the Prophet
and representing Islam, performing dawah. If he fails,
then
You have to go back to the drawing
board, and the drawing board is broken. Like
there's not much to go back to. Like
what exactly is he going to figure out
He spoke to everyone in Arabia.
There are no windows, there's no there are
no doors.
So this has to work. So he had
to his choice here
is I always whenever I'm hearing this, I
always thought that why didn't he choose like
Abu Bakr,
right? Or Omar. Someone that literally would represent
him
later in life, like after he passed away
alayhis salatu wasalam, he's Abu Bakr and Omar
Uthman He chose Musaab
And Musaab is in his early twenties.
Think about the early 20s.
You're choosing a 22 year old
to go represent you.
To me, that's a big deal.
For a 50, yeah, 92 year old man
alaihis salatu wa sallam at that point 52.
Choose a 21 year old boy
to go and represent him and perform the
dawah and teach the deen, that means this
individual is Yani,
light years ahead of his time.
He is someone who's light years because it's
not enough just to be dedicated.
That's not enough. If that was enough, then
okay, this argument, this discussion becomes easier. But
it's actually that's not enough.
He has to be extremely knowledgeable,
and he has to have the proper mindset.
And he has to know how to speak
to people, He has to know how to
listen to people. He has to know what
to prioritize in terms of what he asked
them to do. He has to bring people
together. He's going to deal with 2 tribes
that hate each other. He has to be
able to be the glue that brings them
to post. These are social skills that are
very difficult. You have to take courses upon
courses upon seminars, and go to to learn
how to do this stuff. Where did Musa'a
figure out how to do all of this?
Yeah. Honestly, I I when I think about
it, I don't I don't know where Mus'ab
How did he learn to be the person
he was?
Because you have to be someone who has
no ego at all, who loves da'wah. All
you care for is that people accept Islam.
And you are willing to put your all
day and all night for this cause.
And you have to have a certain charisma
to you. And you have to have a
certain you have to be you have to
speak in a certain way and and be
in a be a certain way.
And he was. And that's why the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam chose him,
to to represent him.
And Mus'ab was the was the Prophet alaihi
sallallahu alaihi sallam's messenger. He would go with,
I think I think this is the one
after. Isn't it?
So he would stay at the at the
the house of Asad ibn Zurara
And these are 2 giants within our Islamic
history. Mus'ab at this point, 22,
23, something like that. Asad, same thing, 21,
20, 21, very young. So 2 early 20
young men.
Giants of our Islamic history. These two people
are going to change how this works.
These two people are on his behalf, alayhi
salatu wa sallam, going to make this happen.
He he has put his you see, here's
the point I'm trying to make that I'm
kinda just dancing around. Had the Prophet
not empowered people,
had he not had the habit of empowering
people, had they not been in the habit
of being empowered by him this would never
have happened.
It's way too difficult for him to send
someone 400 kilometers to go speak to 2
fighting tribes and then trust that this person's
gonna do a good job. It's way too
complicated like I don't know how Unless for
the last 13 years or 12 years in
Mecca, that's all he's been doing
He's entrusting people with tasks of importance.
Unless all he's been doing over the last
decade is training people and then empowering them
and giving them responsibilities and allowing them to
work on his behalf and then coming back
and teaching them, so he felt very comfortable
sending these individuals to go and do the
job.
That's that's why, really. That's why. So really
what I'm complaining about is not the 20
year olds, I'm complaining about the 50 year
olds. That's what I'm complaining about. I'm complaining
about the older generation that are not doing
their job with the younger generation of empowering
them and and and and entrusting them with
tasks of importance and giving them responsibility and
giving them autonomy to do the job so
that they can be trusted with something of
that degree of importance.
Had he not done this alaihis salatu wa
sallam, this wouldn't have worked. How was he
going to make this happen? Who He can't
send a wubakr and umar. They don't have
the they don't have the energy to do
what Mus'ab was going to do. This day
and night,
this day and night work
can only happen from people who have that
type of energy and that type of passion.
You lose it after a certain age or
it's it's not as, it's not as easy
to,
to find inside yourself. He can't stand the
Ubakkur in his fifties or Ambar in his
forties. It's not it's not gonna work. This
is not gonna work. He has to send
someone young.
So unless he has people that he has
he has,
trained and built up and taught, that are
reliable,
that he trusts to do this task,
then this is going to be impossible.
If he was surrounded by children alaihis salatu
wasalam or people that he can't trust, then
he would have to say, I'm sorry, this
is not gonna work because, you know, I
can't come to Medina and do this myself
and none of these I can't send any
of these people, but he could. And that's
the importance of understanding this piece of the
story.
So, most of the will stay in the
house of and
they would do a lot of dawah.
And a lot of
the population is accepting Islam. On a daily
basis they're coming to the house of Asad
ibn Zulrah who's a Khazraji gentleman,
learning about the deen and accepting Islam. So
everyday there's a new Muslim. Everyday there's more,
there's new Muslims everyday for this whole year.
He's gonna do this for a year. His
task that he was given by the Prophet
alaihis salam, 12 months.
You're going after Hajj, you come back during
Hajj. And in the meantime you send me
quarterly reports. The Prophet
knew what was happening. Like he was not
oblivion to what was going on. No. Every
month or more, Mus'a'b would send back reports
to the Prophet who accepted Islam, which tribes
they come from, which families they come from,
what their numbers are, the demographics,
males, females, elderly, young. He knew alayhis salatu
wa sallam, he even knew about struggles.
Like he even knew if someone so for
example, there was a lady by the name
of
Hawa bint Yazid ibn II. So Hawa 'Azihi
accepted Islam with Mus'ab radiAllahu anhu. She was
from Khazraj. And she was married to a
man by the name of Qais. I can't
remember his last name.
And he would harm her. Like he did
every time he saw her praying, he would
say things for And
she was you know being perseverant and patient.
So, Mus'a'a during amongst the report he was
sent back to the Prophet is that this
lady accepted Islam and her husband
is Muzi, someone who's making it very difficult
for her. So the prophet
asked about this gentleman, this man Faiz. And
they told him, You Rasoolullah, he comes by
Makkah for his tijara once every couple of
months. And he's coming actually in a week.
So the Prophet alaihis salam waited for him,
and he would go, and he would ask,
Who is Faiz ibn Fula? And
they would point him out to him. So
the Prophet alaihis salam would go to him,
and
the wording of the story,
He would come to him, he would talk
whenever you call someone Abu something and not
by their name or not or something, that
means you know them well or you're trying
to establish a connection with the person. So
he was trying to he was speaking to
him very nicely. He was saying,
I call you to the way of Allah
and
let me explain to you the deen. And
Qais would finally say, okay, explain. The prophet
alaihi salam would explain.
And he would say, this is very beautiful.
I'm someone who's in the midst of war,
I don't have time for this.
So the Prophet alaihis salazar
if you're not going to listen.
It's like as the Egyptians would say, And
just
out of respect for me, don't harm her
anymore.
The Prophet treated him, and said, Yes, for
you, I will never harm her again. And
And from after that, after him meeting the
prophet
he didn't accept Islam, but he would always
come, he would be dressed well, he would
speak well. He never said anything to me
after that about my deen and about teaching
my children.
So he knew what was going on. Mus'ad
was sending him reports, he had a good
understanding.
After a month or two of him doing
this in Asad ibn Zura's home, and the
number of Muslims from Khazraj had increased substantially,
and the Muslims from Os had not.
Now Asad has a,
he has a special,
situation.
His mother is from the tribe in Os.
He is a Khazwah Ji man, his father
is.
Abu Umama Asad ibn Zura
But his mother was from Al Aus. And
he wasn't getting enough of his mother's family
to come and accept Islam, so he told
Musa'a, We have to go and poke the
bear. Like we have to go and rattle
the cage a little bit for for this
to work. So we're gonna go and we're
gonna set camp,
beside,
a a,
orchard.
Is basically an orchard where there's walls kinda
closing it in. That belongs to people from
Al Aus, and we're going to try and
perform dawah to them. So the most have
said, okay. He would go would say, Asad,
they would set camp and start performing dawah.
People would come listen, people would accept Islam.
Now the 2 leaders of Aus are Usayd
ibn Khadoyin,
He's not Muslim yet, but,
you kinda guessed it. And Sa'd ibn Wal.
These were the 2 leaders of Aus. They
were very young, in their twenties. Yeah. Because
all of the, leaders of the tribes
had died in the battles. So sometimes that's
what needs to happen. In order for change
to occur, sometimes you need the old generation
just to step aside or die.
But
for Aus and Khazraj what happened is that
all the leaders who were very close minded
had died. And in Aus, all young people.
The people in their twenties were now Sadatul
Qom. They were the nobles of the tribe,
they were the shiuhu kabila. Al Khaydraj still
had the problem. They still had Abdullah bin
Ubay bin Saloon. They still had he still
had people Al Bara'ib al Ma'udar, people who
was very old, who was hard to kind
of change, but the Aus didn't. But these
2 young men were very passionate about protecting
their tribe from
this foreign person who is bringing all these
weird teachings to to Yathrib coming from Quresh,
living in the house of Asad. So Sa'ad
ibn Mu'a'id would talk to Usaid.
And he would tell Usaid, Asad is maybe
ranking number 1 in Usaid. Usaid is the
2nd ranker.
We tell him, Go and talk to him,
to Asad, and to the man that he
brought with him, and tell him to leave.
Because I don't want to go there and
start a problem. Why? Because Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
is related to Asad. They're related through their
mothers, their cousins.
So Sa'd doesn't wanna go and cause a
problem with his cousins. He said, Oh, sayyid,
you go and talk to them. So, Usaid
would go carrying
his his his, a spear in his hand.
Usayd starts walking towards
Musaab and Asad and Mizura.
So Asad holds Musaab from the hand.
Tell him, oh, Musaab,
the leader of his tribe is coming to
you. This is the man.
So be genuine to Allah.
Be truthful and honest in your heart to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What do you mean?
Meaning,
I love the phrase, it's a beautiful phrase.
It comes in both
wordings in the books of Silah.
When you speak to him, increase the amount
of sincerity in your heart. When you speak
to him, make sure you are fully genuine
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so that this
works. Because this is the guy, if this
guy accepts Islam, it's gonna make a big
difference for us.
So
Mus'aab would say, Insha'Allah,
Bismillah.
I'm ready.
So the Sayyid would come and he would
take his spear and he would
put it in the ground and stand between
where I am and the wall over there.
He wouldn't come close, they're sitting over there,
he doesn't enter their tent. It used to
be like if you want to come and
speak to people, enter their tent that was
a sign
of non hostility, right? He would sit down.
He doesn't want to enter their tent because
he's hostile.
And when you put the spear in the
ground that way you're
we can see in his eyes there is
evil.
So he uses some heavy words. He said,
If you want to live, do you care
about your life? You guys want to enjoy
living? Yeah, get out. If you want to
continue to enjoy life, maybe you should get
out. You brought me this person, we don't
know where you brought him from he would
say in another narration. I take that, I'll
be in Paresh. He brought this boy with
you from Paresh,
bringing us all this
voodoo, making up all these stories, saying things
that are ruining families.
Take him and leave if you don't want
any trouble.
But
Mus'aab speaks, I'd say he's quiet,
yeah. Doesn't want to cause any problems. So
Musa'ab speaks.
Can I offer you something better?
Nothing is better than you getting up and
leaving.
You listen to what I have to say.
If you accept it, we continue talking. You
don't accept it, we pack up and we
leave.
Usayid said, Fair.
You see, Usayid came in aggressively. He was
escalating.
His
blood was boiling.
He was waiting for he said rude and
aggressive things to both Asad and Mus'ab. He's
waiting for something rude and aggressive to come
back, so that he can turn it into
a problem.
Mus'ab absorbs all of it.
This is the person the Prophet alaihis salallahu
alaihi wasallam sent. He's 21, 22 years old.
He absorbs all of this hostility.
He offers him something that makes sense that
any reasonable human being will accept.
He doesn't push it.
Hussain accepts.
Musaab radiAllahu anhu begins performing dawah.
Some narrations point out that he would give
a small introduction,
Alhamdulillah.
(3:3)
And
some don't, and then he would start reciting
from the book of Allah
Some point out that he recite from Surah
Zuzruf and some point out he recited from
Surah Zuzruhan. I don't know. It doesn't make
a difference. But he starts reciting the book
of Allah Musaab was one of the half
of what was revealed of the Quran so
far. Obviously, the Quran was not fully revealed
but every day it was revealed Musaab had.
So we start reciting.
Asad is telling us the story.
And we saw Islam in his face before
he said anything.
As Mus'aab is reciting, we're looking at I'm
looking at Usayb just watching this, I see
Usayb's face fill up with Islam. Whatever that
means. I don't know what that means, but
it meant something. Because as I saw something
happening in the face, and the eyes, and
the expressions,
and the facial expressions, and the body language
of Usayd as Musa'ib will say it's the
Quran. Usayd who was standing there in front
of his spear all tense was now loosening
up, and he was listening.
After
the musaab finished his,
So what does a person have to do
if he decides that they want to enter
your deen?
So Usayid, I told you guys they had
camp right beside an orchard. So he goes
into the orchard, he dips himself
into a well, he comes back, he performed
ghusi, and he gives shahadat tawheed.
And
then he says,
They will
I left behind me a guy. If he
accepts Islam, the whole tribe like this will
accept Islam. I can help but this is
the guy.
I'm gonna go to him and send him
here and then use the same word So
be genuine when you speak to him.
So he would go to Saad ibn Mu'adh
He's standing amongst his buddies.
He
was wrong with your friend here. He seems
to come He's coming back with a different
face than the one he left with.
He doesn't look the same.
What did you do?
I laid the law.
Told them, Get lost. And they said, Okay.
We'll get lost. The law's taken care
of. So he told a white lie.
Said, But I'm scared for
your cousin Asad ibn Zurarra because he's camped
in a place, he's outside of his tribe,
he's outside of his It's dangerous back It
was dangerous back then to do this. He's
camping outside and Banu Fulaha like a tribe
that Asad ibn Mu'ad has animosity with Said
they saw him and they're preparing to kill
him just to spite you.
So, Sa'ad is a smart man,
We'll see. He doesn't believe him, but now
he has to go and check because he
can't let
his cousin be killed.
Naba, we'll see about this. There's
something fishy here. There's something he wasn't
trusting this. So he goes and he walks
towards the area because he takes with him
some people and he finds Musa'a
sitting and talking.
Leave. If you didn't listen to the person
who spoke to you before, they'll listen to
me.
I
don't like to repeat myself, leave.
So Mus'aab told him exactly what he told
Usaid,
Can I just let me speak? If you
accept it, I continue. If you don't accept
it, I will leave. I will leave. We
will not cause you in trouble. We're not
here to start a fight. Just listen.
Taqaddi lassaad.
So, go ahead. So, Musaab repeated the same
thing. He did the exact same thing. Ma'ad
that's what Usay told him,
Well, when he was told that the first
time Musaab, this is what he did. So
he was told it again, he's like, Alright.
This worked. We stick to the same scenario.
You don't have to No changing of the
routine, the routine works. So you're repeated the
same
routine.
And we knew he accepted Islam before before
he actually gave the shahada. And Saib ibn
Mu'adh, as Usaid would give shahada tawhid and
say,
and then he would get up and he
would walk away. He wouldn't spend any time
to learn. As Usaid
is watching from afar, he sees this, he
hears
the shahat Tawhid, he comes because now he
wants to sit and learn from Mus'aib,
Sa'ad doesn't.
Usaid says to learn,
but Sa'd ibn Mu'adh stands up and he
walks in the opposite direction.
So Mus'aib al Sadiq ibn Zura asked a
question.
They're asking Usaid, Where your friend live? He
says,
Don't worry. He's gonna bring you the full
tribe. Just give him a few minutes.
He'll he'll get he has a he has
a task to take care of. Don't worry.
Teach me in the meantime because he he'll
be back soon. He won't be alone either.
Go to his people.
And he calls for a meeting, Who am
I to you?
You are the you are a leader, you
are a noble person, you are the most
intelligent one amongst us, you are the one
who makes our decisions, you are our protector,
they say all the stuff that they know
about him because back then, when you when
you achieved leadership in your tribe, you you
achieved it because of certain attributes that you
carried. Like you had to be someone who's
brave, who who always put the best interest
of the tribe over themselves, you're someone who
who is willing to sacrifice their own lives
for the sake of the people that you
loved and Assad was that type of person.
So he became he was this leader and
he's asking them because he wants to establish
something before he makes a request. So they
say all these things,
Say,
This is the shahada that I took and
my face,
I'll never look at you again.
I'll never speak to any of you again.
And so you all say
They gave See, Khaziraj accepted Islam over like
a long period of time.
It was like that. It was just you
just got the right guy. Right? You just
got the right guy. That's what the prophet
alaihis salaam did, alaihis salaam alaihis
salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis
salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis
salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis salaam alaihis
salaam al
during the Mekki period. When you hear the
prophet
going to
that that phrase like the nobles of Quraysh.
Why? Because he knew
There are key people within within
within this world, within communities and societies and
populations, there are key individuals. If if if
you can get to them, everyone else will
follow. And it because they trust them. They
trust their leaders, they trust those who
have experience and wisdom and knowledge, they'll they'll
trust them.
It still works that way by the way.
Not as clearly as it did back then,
but it's still there.
That's still there.
Populations
organically,
organically
will
choose people that represent them or people they
trust or people they want to listen to
and those people if they're able to come
together and do something beneficial
that unites them that benefits them
Then you can change, you can change history
really.
Is that easy? The reason that it's hard
to make change is because the people that
are of that status historically don't get along.
Like historically everyone's ego is too big to
work things out with the other person who's
also respected in the society. So people who
are of high of high status, it's not
easy to get them in one room. It's
not easy to get them to agree to
anything. So it's very hard to initiate change
by just talking to the individuals.
Like it's much more difficult, it's hard to
make change that way by just going to
every single person and getting them to change
their mind. If you just get the key
in people within each family, within each yani
community, you can make change but but it's
hard.
As Muslims I find it absolutely appalling that
we don't know how to do this properly.
Wallah, it's absolutely appalling that we don't have
this set
appropriately.
Because any form of status that you have
within the Muslim community,
the only purpose of it is to serve
the unity of the Umma. It's to serve
the best interest of the Muslim population and
community and society where you live. That's the
only purpose of having any form of status
or respect within a community. If you have
it and you're not using it for that,
then you are going to you have no
idea how you're going to be questioned about
this Like
you don't even realize what the questions are
gonna be like. Like how is it that
I gave Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, how is
it that I gave you this status where
people listen to you, and you did not
try to unite, and you did not try
to educate, and you did not try to
fix problems? How dare you? Take this gift
from me, and then use it for yourself,
and then increase the division, and increase the
difficulty. Well, how could you do that? Because
whatever you have in this life is a
gift from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You know,
he's gonna ask you about it.
Sa'id bin Wahab
He's a big deal by the way.
I'm not gonna tell a story.
Today, let me tell you about these 3.
As Sa'id bin Zul'ala
would pass away
the next year.
A year from where I'm talking to you
right now, Asad would die. Asad would pass
away before Badr. He wouldn't make it to
Badr, radiAllahu anhu. 22 years old, he would
die. Usaydin al Adair would die the year
after, 23.
Salib al Mu'adh would die after khandaq, 27.
These are their ages.
Just Musa ibn Umayl would die in Uhud,
25,
radiAllahu anhu.
And the heroes of this story, all 4,
would die,
Youhani, within the first 5 years of his
hijrah alaihis salatu wa salam. They wouldn't make
none of them.
None of them would make it to 30
years old. Not one of them. They'd all
die It doesn't matter how long you live.
What matters really is what you do with
the time that you have. That's all.
Doesn't matter how long. You have 50 or
60 or 70 or 80 or 21 or
24 or less than that
or less than that.
May Allah Subhanahu wa'ala grant you long life
with salihat InshaAllah Say Ayameen. And all your
loved ones InshaAllah.
It's what you do with the time that
you
have. That's why when I tell these names
and you're listening to them, you forget them.
Most people forget them within a couple of
months of me telling the story. Now you
remember Waqarah and Umar al-'Alayhi because they lived
years later and did stuff, but people forget
as Adam and Zurara.
The older young boy on that day, amongst
the 6 who listened to the prophet alaihis
salaam said yes and brought Musaab to his
house and was the mind behind orchestrating all
of this dawah. Don't forget about what was
said in Abu al Sadbu Mu'adh who brought
an oath to Islam making Khazraj,
making the people of Khazraj jealous.
It like amplified the dawah.
When the khazhu is felt they're outnumbered by
the number of Muslims now all in one
day, but from the
dawah actually was amplified. That's why he said,
Musaab al Umayyad would send an amazing report
to the Prophet
that we have achieved in the 100. In
the 100, within, you know, a couple of
months. But why? It's because Wasad and Usain
accepted
it. And they would all pass away before
they were 30 years old. And they've forgotten
by a lot of the Muslims today.
RadiAllahu Anhu, Ajma'e.
Now,
and we'll tell the stories InshaAllah. Said Mohammed
is still gonna be with us so let's
continue the story.
Let's talk a little bit about Bayat Al
Akhba Afhernia, the second Bayat Al Akhba.
Now, I'm going to perform insha'Allah within next
2 weeks or so. I'm gonna start a
new series of Khubbas and it's to be
about the 5 elements of Bayat Al Akhbah.
So I'm not gonna go too much depth
in
this halaqats and leave it for the Khubbas
for you to listen to insha'Allah.
So what year is this now?
So the first the 10th the Hajj of
10th year is where he met
the 6th individuals from Yathrib.
Hajj of 11th year is when he would
meet the 12th.
Hajj of 12th year is when he's going
to meet
the 75 individuals that are going to come
from from Yifrib for
that is going to establish
the new plan.
He's gonna start a new era. And
It was the only time you could camouflage
these types of beatings. There were too many
people
everywhere was packed, too much was happening, Khuday
didn't have time to follow him around
or follow people. So they they could they
could make it happen. The agreement
The agreement was that
they would come during Hajj,
they would come amongst
the group from Yathrib, they would not come
alone.
The Muslims would not come in their own
faj, in their own caravan or group. No.
They would come with the group of mushrikeen
that were coming from Yifrib,
and they would be with them in their
tents, and they would blend in with all
of them.
The Prophet is very very specific. This is
from his fiqh, and his the genius of
the Prophet
Do not, do not come
and show yourselves off as different. Blend in,
be with the group,
make sure that there's no evidence, no one
knows, make sure that the mushrikeen don't know
that you're Muslim, and don't talk about any
of it. You're just coming for aj.
And then on the last night of Mina,
close to Jamrat Al Aqaba, where Masjid Al
Bay'ah is, I showed you the picture of
Masjid Al Bay'ah. That's where we're going to
meet.
We're gonna meet there.
75 Muslims
would leave and come.
75.
Now, there are way more in Medina,
but that was what the Prophet alaihis salawam
was technically looking for. He's looking for something
around 75 people to 100, something like that.
Mus'amu al-'Amayr obviously is coming back with them
as well. He meets the prophet before they
do. He gives them the full report, everything
that he needs to know
about everything in Madinah. Not just in Yathrib,
not just how many Muslims there are, but
everything the geo political
the temperature of the of the area. When
it comes to the geography, how much food,
how many people, what Like the relationships, the
alliances between the allegiances between the tribes, the
animosities. He told the prophet everything you need
to know because he'd been there for a
year observing and he took note of all
of it.
On the way there,
say the Kaab ibn Malik, and Kaab tells
us the story of Bayat Al Aqaba by
the way. He is the one who tells
us the story of Bayat Al Aqaba. He
accepted Islam with Mus'ab,
and on the way there he would perform
jawa himself.
So he would get 2 people to accept
Islam,
on the way there. He would get a
man by the name of Bara'a ibn Ma'a'or.
Bara'a ibn Ma'or who were
He is the leader of this caravan of
fujaj. He was a mushrik. Right? But he
was a man of reason, and Ka'ab felt
that he had a chance with him. He
was a close friend to him. So he
spoke to, Bara' ibn Marul, and he offered
Islam, and Bara accepted.
He accepted,
and the way Ka'ab was offering it was
like, I don't want you to miss out
on this historical event that's going to happen.
This historic event that's going to happen where
we're going to meet Muhammad and
we're
gonna pledge and things are gonna change, I
don't want you to be the person who
missed out on it. So the bara said,
Thank you, I accept. Let's go and speak
One of the great narrators of hadith, one
of the fuqa'ah of the sahaba. He's the
son of Abdullah ibn Amul ibn Haram
will have his own story on the day
of Uhud when I talk about that story
later on. But he was a So
Ta'ab al Bara'al would go to 'Abdullaa ibn
Amr and they would speak to him. Abil
Haram and he would accept Islam as well.
So now they have a little bit more
momentum. The number initially was 73, now it's
75. And they have 2 of
the main leaders of
this caravan of people which made a big
difference.
As we'll kind of point out inshallah a
little bit later in the story.
So, Kaaba bin Malik and Baraat bin Marul
would go and meet the prophet alaihis salatu
wasalam before the time in,
during tawaf.
So I couldn't wait. He told us, Don't
don't speak to me.
The communication was, Do not approach
until
that last night of Mina when we meet
in Allahabad.
The Baba said, I saw him and I
could not wait.
I was impatient,
I couldn't wait, I couldn't help it, I
had to go speak to him
So the Bara would take and they would
go to the Prophet
Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam
Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa
Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum
Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam
Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa
Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum
Wa Salam Alaikum
Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam
Alaikum Wa Salam
Alaikum Wa Salam Alaikum Wa Salam. The poet.
Ka'al Malik The poet.
You see, he had 3 poets during
his life
that defended him in Islam in general, right?
The main poet was Sayyidna whom?
No. Hasan.
Hasan bin Thabit, yes.
And number 2,
was this gentleman over here a Kaab, numeric?
And number 3, anyone know?
Who was also there? Yeah, who was also
there. So Abdul Abarwalaha was also there at
the time and he's going to be one
of the
Nokribs on the way back. So Kaab was
a poet and he was known. And the
Prophet alaihis salatu when he met him, he
told him, The poet?
And this word from him alaihis salatu wa
sallam, it just entered my heart.
I've never been happier with anything in my
life. Then when he told me that day,
Aisha, you're the poet. That he knew me.
That the Prophet alaihis salam recognized me.
Recognized my talent.
Recognized the importance
of art in order for a society
to exist and to survive
and for youth to find interest,
a society and a community that has no
art in it is doomed
to cease to exist,
its downfall is around the corner because the
next generation will be too bored, there's nothing
to commit to, there's nothing to pull them
towards what it is that they're being asked
to philosophically
understand and follow because it's artless,
because there's nothing in it for them. They
they can't The youth are artistic in nature
which is why the Quran has its own
rules for how you read it, you can't
read it like you read any other book
in Arabic, you have to sing it out,
you have to sing it out, and you
have to make all these and put all
these because it's art. And a society that
does not honor its artists and does not
have artists, does not have different venues of
art is a society and a community that
will struggle to keep their youth apart of
what they're doing which is what we are
where we are. We have a problem.
Either there is no art in the community
or there is
really bad art in the community that I'd
rather know than the bad. Because when you
have when you have sloppy,
worthless,
just horrible to listen to stuff, then the
Muslim youth would like,
No, I'm not listening to
No, I grew up in Syria, so for
me, you know,
there's a certain cultural aspect to Nasheed that
I love, I'll always do it, but I
can't expect Muslims who come from other parts
of the world, growing up in other parts
of the world to find joy in these
things. We have to have other other forms
of artistic expression
that is that we encourage young people to
be a part of, so that they can
feel connected to the deen.
Because without this I
you're literally paralyzing people like me. Yeah, I
have nothing to go How do I make
them How do I touch them to these
places? How do I make them to You
already want to come and be a part
of There has to be something. The Prophet
alaihis salam knew the,
the value, the significance
of having artists within his community alaihis salatu
wa sallam. That's why he gave them status.
By the way,
you know, they weren't
I want I'm saying this very carefully. So
so listen listen to it and make sure
you understand.
When you rank them with the sahaba,
on a level of piety, on a level
of
of adherence to the rulings, they didn't really
rank with everyone
else. They didn't.
All of them the Prophet alaihis salam passed
away and he is And he
and Abu Wa Bar Ra'ahu
would be martyred and mutton the Prophet alaihis
salam speak of his status in Jannah. But
when you talk about the 3 of them,
and you describe, and you listen to the
description, they didn't all have the same level
of piety as as as Mus'ab and Ubakr
and Ali and Zubayr and Talha.
But they were still given the status.
Asad bin Fabbid never carried a sword, he
refused to.
He's like, I'm a poet, I don't do
this. Now on the day of khandaq when
he was absolutely needed, he didn't do it.
That, I let's do with Ali Qarwaju, that's
not me. Now Sofiyyah, the Prophet alaihis salam's
aunt had to go and take out the
the spy that was in the monks of
them. Nothing to take away from his Maqam
What I'm explaining to you is that with
the Prophet alaihis salam was able to see
the importance of having people specialize in certain
things and giving them the respect and the
and the status they needed to do the
job that no one else could do within
the community.
He saw value in that alaihis salatu wa
sallam.
And having those poets, having these people made
a huge difference for the Arab.
Made a huge difference for the muslims at
the time.
And and, you know,
I'm not surprised that that they did.
So, we have what? 8 minutes?
Oh, actually, we have more. Excellent. Perfect. Great.
So,
I was worried. So,
They meet the Prophet alaihis salam for a
moment and he tells them:
Just keep on moving. I'll see you the
last night of Mina.
What was the agreement? The agreement is that
they would sleep
within the tents of the mushrikeen. Meaning the
Muslims would not gang up in the same
tent so they can talk about Quran. No,
they would stay in the tents of the
mushrikeen.
And they would not wake up anyone who
didn't wake up on their own. So, if
you were going to attend Bayat Al Aqab
Ifaniyah,
you had to wake up on your own.
If you didn't wake up, you missed it.
If you didn't wake Imagine being that person.
Imagine being
such a heavy sleeper,
being someone who is so
incapable or unable
to wake up to do their job that
you miss out
And I can think of people right now
in my head. I have names in my
head that for sure that night would have
missed
I know people that for sure they would
wake up after the whole thing was over
and they would they would even know what
day of the week it was.
People you weren't allowed to wake anyone up
because if you woke someone up then you
run the risk of a mushrik waking up,
seeing,
wondering and then knowing something. And you're gonna
see how important this is going to be
in a few minutes. It's very important piece.
So no one will wake anyone up.
If you woke up,
middle of the night you would go over
to
the western or northwestern part of, Jamrati Al
Aqaba. That's where you would go.
We
left
our tents at night just like
pigeons.
Quietly
just not a word. No one We see
each other, we don't say a word. We
just make it towards to where it is.
This is a big deal. There's going to
be a problem.
Quraysh knows something's happening by the way.
Quraysh is not They're not idiots. They know
what's happening. They know Mus'aab went to Yathrib.
They know that a lot of people in
Yathrib now have accepted Islam. They know the
Prophet alaihis salam is cooking something. Yeah. They
can't pinpoint it yet because he's very secretive
alaihis salam. He runs a very tight ship,
so they don't know everything. But they have
certain ideas, they know what's going
on. They would meet with him alayhis salatu
wa sallam. 75 people would show up amongst
them 2 women.
And the Prophet alayhis salatu wa sallam would
come, not alone, would come with his uncle,
Labbas ibn Abdul Muttalib, who at the time
was not Muslim.
At the time, Abbas was not Muslim. But
Abbas at that point was the leader of
Banu Hashim, of the Prophet alaihis sala's son's
clan. After Abu Talib passed away, the leadership
of the clan went to Al Abbas. So
Abbas,
even though at the time he wasn't Muslim,
as far as we know by the way,
I mean there's some scholars will argue that
he was. Some scholars
will argue that and it's really hard to
kind of determine.
My reading of the situation that he wasn't
Muslim yet. But Azar Abu 'alib was protective
of his nephew, and Abbas was also protective
of his nephew and
the prophet
trusted
him to bring him to this meeting. So
he came with him to the meeting.
So,
Abbas would stand there
and he would begin
the,
this is a big deal. For Abbas it
made a big deal how
conversations and meetings occur.
If you grew up in the Middle East
and you're part of maybe parts of the
rural part of the Middle East or the
Bedouin parts of the Middle East,
When people come together to talk, who speaks
first
and who speaks
amongst those group, the group that's gonna speak
first and what's said makes a big deal.
It's a big deal, it's a big difference.
It's not something simple. So, it has to
be very well articulated. So, the person who's
gonna speak first is the leader of the
clan of the prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam.
Right? That he has to speak first because
the prophet alaihis salam before he speaks he
has to let the leader his uncle speak.
So, what would Abba say? Abba Azadullah would
say and he wasn't happy at all. He
would whisper to the prophet alaihis salam saying
before he when he saw the people call
them Maha'ula.
Allahi ma'arifumunum
ahadan. Ahadath.
Who are these people? I don't recognize any
of them. They're children.
Sheikh, they're children. Like
what you have? A bunch of 22 year
olds? What is this?
The prophet
told the Abbas, This is what I'm doing.
I'm getting out. I'm going there. So Abbas
is meeting the people that the prophet is
gonna go and meet and he's looking at
them aside from Ibarra bin Maroor in his
70s and Abullah ibn Abubil Haram. It's all
people in their 20s.
He's like, What is this? What are you
doing? How could you?
Because I'm going. So Abbaaz speaks.
Knows that you are here.
If you take him, you have to understand
that you must protect him, you must keep
him safe, you have to accept that you're
going to be the enemies of Allah or
the majority of the Arabic tribes.
So you can take him if that if
you've accepted this and if not, then our
clan
loves him more than you do. And we
deserve to have him amongst us more than
you do. And we will continue to protect
him amongst us. We have no problem, we
don't need you. The rabaaz is speaking and
he's saying basically, I don't need you. I
can protect my nephew.
But he wants to go with you, So
if you're gonna take him, you better do
a good job in making sure he's safe.
And he speaks a little bit. Abbas.
He's a little bit aggressive. A little bit.
You can go back to the books of
see if I'm really read the long yani
stuff. He's a little bit heavy. He used
some heavy words.
He's
finished speaking.
So, Al Bara'al Marur, now he's the Ra'iswa'al
Hajjis is the leader of the caravan of
the Ujjaj, and the eldest of them.
We have heard what your uncle says.
Now You Rasool Allah You speak
and ask for whatever you and your Lord
want.
Just say what it is that you want
from us. SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Bismay.
I have it up here for you if
you want to.
We're going to have insha'Allah, Yani, a khutba
series on these on these 5 points that
he speaks.
This meeting was not a formality.
Just so you understand. It was not a
formal. I wasn't like, oh, it's already agreed
upon, he's coming. No, no, no. This meeting
would make it or break it.
This meeting would make it or break it.
Musaaba has done a good job, zaghu lakhit.
May Allah bless him, barakatullah radiAllahu anhu. But
this deal is not a done deal.
The Prophet alaihis salam has specific
commands, specific things he needs
the people in front of him to accept
in order for this to work, and they
have to accept it.
'ai alaihi wasalam as you have learned by
now, he's not interested
in any form
of compromising or negotiating
when it comes to what he's asking for.
He doesn't care how big the tribe is,
how strong they are, how much money they
have, he is willing to give up 0
of his demands
Either you accept Islam and him as is
or leave it. He has no interest of,
you know, come figuring out things. No. No.
Then you've seen it. We established that through
all the meetings he had alayhi salatu wa
salam with
the different tribes.
So he would begin alayhi salatu wa salam.
I have 5 things to ask of you.
And he begins.
I ask for 5 things. Number 1, I
don't come to you as a, a consultant.
I don't come to you as an advisor.
I come to you as a leader.
I command and you listen.
Whether you enjoy it or you don't enjoy
it. Whether you are feeling up for it
or you're very tired and you have no
more energy, you're going to listen and you're
going to obey. There's going to be adherence
to what I say. I'm coming to you
as with commands of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
I am the leader. If I'm not the
leader, I stay where I am. I'm not
coming as an encourager.
I'm not a life coach. I'm not an
advisor of some sort, I'm not someone who's
going to be I'm trying to get you
to be No, no. I'm going to be
telling you, Here's what we're going to do,
we're going to say, Samanwatta.
That's a big deal.
It's a big deal almost.
I want to say almost unheard of in
Arabia, but, I can't.
Because it was unheard of in Arabia.
It had never happened before.
Never. Never had this had this one clause
ever been
established at any point and accepted by any
group.
Never had someone from outside a tribe come
and said, I'm coming to you, and I
am the malim,
I am the sheikh.
I am the sheikh of good. I'm going
to be the leader from now on. Unless
this person is coming with an army and
he's slaughtering all the elders.
But coming as an agreement and they are
saying come, yes, come to us. Come and
we will give up our leadership and you're
the leader now. No.
No. That's number 1. This is a big
ask. What I'm trying to do is I'm
trying to explain to you how big an
ask
this bay'a is, this pledge that they're gonna
offer the Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam is.
Number 2.
Your money.
Your money. You can't build a country. You
can't build a community. You can't build a
society. You can't start a masjid. You can't
have a school. You can't take care of
your youth, you can't have you can't start
small businesses, you can't support
your elderly, or your ill, or immigrants, or
people who are young trying to get married.
You can't do that without money. You know,
as as yqqani worthless money is in the
eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it's very
valuable when it's used to serve
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Himself and the causes
that please Him. But you can't do this
without money.
You can't
expect to be a part of a community
that's gonna go anywhere and not pay anything,
like not put your wealth, put your money
where your mouth is, you can't, it's impossible.
I have to share this with you. Yeah,
I'll talk about this more in the series
of khutbals. I have to share it with
you. I have noticed and I'm saying this
with my I wanna put my
my hand in front of my face, so
I'm embarrassed to say it, but I sense
that this community has this little bit of
entitlement
when it comes to what they expect from
masarajid and people who work in them. I'm
sorry to say it that way, and it
comes from I think from growing up in
the Middle East where there's where
there's like a whole ministry that pays that
bills the masajid and pays the shiukh. People
I I I Look,
I'm not upset
by personally by anything at all. I have
There's nothing No one has said anything to
me. Well, people say a lot of things
to me and they upset me, but no,
not regarding this specifically. I'm just I'm just
What I'm saying is, from my observations of
how people are are behaving, and this is
just kind of standing aside and just watching
and listening to how people talk about things.
There is a serious problem of entitlement in
our community
from both sides. Just so you understand, from
both sides. From community members who expect
masajid to exist,
function,
offer leadership, give education and mentorship
with their and them offering a $10 donation
on the way out and feeling that's going
to be enough. And also an entitlement from
from the institutions.
Entitlement from Masajid as well.
Entitlement
that people should put their money even though
there's no output.
Even though there's
nothing of value happening. Even though they're not
taking they're not surveying people, they're not listening
to them, they're not figuring out whether what
they need,
what they require. So they're not trying to
actually build programming that will suit them, they
expect them to give them their wealth even
though they're not listening, like they're not listening
to them. How do you expect people to
give you if you're not listening to what
they need, you don't really care, you have
your own So we have a problem on
both sides of the I'm
Yeah, this is my full honesty, Ulay.
But you can't expect
for a Muslim society to function without infraq.
He told them, Your money. Whether you have
a lot of it or you have a
little of it, you're going to put your
money.
These are 2
The third,
We're going to change
societal behaviors.
A list of changes are coming. A bunch
of things that were okay, won't be okay
anymore.
And a bunch of things that you never
did, you're gonna start doing. We're gonna start
moving things around ethically like we're gonna function
differently, you need to be okay with the
social adjustments that I'm going to bring to
you. I'm not gonna go say, no no,
you're good the way you are, you're not.
You're not good the way you are. No,
you have to make a bunch of changes
for this to work. You would think that
the prophet
if you obey me and if you give
me your money
No. I'm gonna come and say, here's why
you're making mistakes. This is wrong. You can't
treat her like that. You can't speak like
that. You can't dress like that. You can't
eat or drink that. You can't behave in
this manner. You can't You have to be
okay with all these things. I don't know
how many groups on the planet
would even continue to listen after number 3.
Like, You know what?
A little bit too aggressive for me. Too
many demands. Yeah, we were looking forward to
get to know you but you're very
needy. You know, you're already telling us that
Oh, you have to check. They were listening
very quietly.
And you're going to be fully dedicated.
You're going to sacrifice your time. You're going
to show grit and perseverance and sacrifice and
you're going to have no other priority in
your life that's more important than this one
thing. And you will have fear from no
one. You will show courage and you'll show
dedication. And you will not be dancing around
anyone, you won't be looking for to please
anyone else, you will be this is it,
this is what we have, this is what
we're doing and regardless whether people like it
or not.
Meaning you're going
to isolate yourselves a little bit, you're going
to stand out a bit, you're going to
present yourself as I'm not getting along with
everybody all the time and actually have a
little bit of a problem with the status
quo and I'm going to point it out.
And they're still standing.
After these 4 they're still listening. And in
the 5th,
You have to preserve this legacy. You see
preserving him alaihis salatu wa sallam was not
some form of selfish
ask,
no, no. He
is Islam.
He is Islam. He is the legacy
of this deen. He is the word of
Allah
and what he carries obviously. Alaihi Salat wa
Salam is what Islam is. So preserving him
symbolically means you're going to protect this deen.
You're going to protect the deen with everything.
Your lives are going to be less valuable
than the deen that you're protecting. So that
has to be the case here.
He said he asked for these 5 things.
People are absolutely quiet.
And then someone says
Some person in the back.
Just everyone's quiet. He breaks the awkward silence
and he calls out, What do we get
in return?
You can open
or
any of these books and you will find
one word.
He says
period.
Not an extra syllable.
Not even an extra syllable from him alaihis
salatu wa sallam. That's one word. What do
we get for this?
And then you find a period and then
a new paragraph begins within the books of
Siya'ah. That's it.
That's all you get.
Do we get No. Can we make sure
No. Can you ensure that No. Is it
okay No. No. No.
But later on who's going Doesn't matter.
Is there some way of No. No. You
get Jannah. You get Jannah. You want it?
Take it or leave it. This is the
deal. Take it or leave
lead.
Did the Ansar do their job?
You ever noticed that none of the great
leaders of Islamic history were from the Ansar?
Ever noticed that? Ever read and look at
that?
Al Baqar? Quraysh. Amur Quraysh. Azman Quraysh. Ali
Quraysh Muawiya Quraysh.
Where are the ulsar?
They did not hold office
at all.
They
never held office.
They never held office.
They just
they just saw this through
and gave their lives for it and then
passed away
and just kind
of disappeared into the Islamic
fabric of society that came later. They did
there's no they didn't they didn't cash in
at all. That's why the Prophet alaihis salatu
wa sallam was saying,
If the people walked in one direction and
the Ansar walked in another direction, I walked
in the direction of the Ansar.
If it wasn't for the fact that I
immigrated to Medina, I would want to be
amongst them.
And he would make,
The
is
your is like your it's like a part
of you, like they're a part of me,
they're part of me.
The sign of your ima is the love
you have for the insar, and the sign
of your nifa' is that if you don't
love the insar Because
they actually said yes to this.
It took a few minutes, I have to
tell you there's a couple of stories that
I have in Isha. There's a few more
stories I have to tell you but eventually
they said yes to this. And I can't
imagine a group on this planet
in any circumstance that would be okay with
this.