Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #36
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The importance of tawak publications in shaping behavior and success is emphasized, with a focus on tawak satisfaction for Muslim individuals and avoiding controversy and disclosing one's own success. The importance of protecting people and the Prophet's use of words is emphasized, along with planning for life and flexible planning for successful planning. honesty and loyalty are emphasized, and the importance of planning for life and flexible planning for successful planning is emphasized. The transcript doesn't provide much context or information, but offers a reminder of a prize for showing a picture of a show of hands and a video about a prophet's statement.
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Insha'Allah we'll continue the seerah of the
Prophet alayhis salatu was salam and we had
talked last week about the hijrah And I
hope insha'Allah that was a beneficial to
you I find the story of the hijrah
of the Prophet alayhis salatu was salam to
be extremely profound And very beautiful on multiple
levels and I try to Really bring the
point of tawakkul within it because that's in
my opinion My humble opinion the kind of
the main lesson that we learned from him
alayhis salatu was salam in this As he
as he personifies the concept of tawakkul Without
necessarily using the words or saying the word
he just personifies in the way that he
behaved he took All of the precautions needed
he he exhausted all of the resources that
he had available to him He planned this
out to the best of his ability alayhis
salatu was salam And then he executed with
the full understanding that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
is the one who delivers Whatever result Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala wants to deliver and in
his heart.
He was in a state of full content
He was content with whatever Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala was going to give him whatever Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala chose for that day The
Prophet alayhis salatu was salam was content with
that.
He had no issue with it alayhis salatu
was salam And that is really what tawakkul
is.
Tawakkul is just that willingness to push yourself
Keep on doing your job and whatever Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala dishes out for you.
You're okay with it You take it if
it's khair Then you're grateful to Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala and you and if it's if
it's if it's difficult Then you you persevere
and you try again or you keep on
pushing forward or you look for a different
Avenue You try a different method, but this
is this is what life is.
There's really nothing not much more to life
than than this For the rest of your
time here on this planet.
This will be pretty much what you're gonna
be doing you're gonna be trying your best
and Depending upon Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in
your heart as you go along and whatever
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gives you you you
accept You're okay with it and you make
sure that you're someone who's capable of of
holding themselves accountable And you have some degree
of self-awareness and self-analysis You can
take a look if you failed to see
where where you could have done better and
when you succeed you do the same Thing
take a look and see where maybe you
could have done better so that you continue
to grow and continue to improve And you're
not someone who's going around blaming the world
or blaming time or blaming God or blaming
anyone for the misfortunes in your life but
rather you are taking accountability and You're moving
forward with whatever Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala chooses
for you And there's a certain degree of
content inside of you where you're you're not
objecting you understand that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
has Divine wisdom and this wisdom may not
be clear to you You may not fully
understand it Within the time that you have
here and you may not understand until you'll
be on and you may you may understand
it at some Point allahualam.
That's something that only Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
Yeah, and he knows and that's really what
tawakkul is But that that's kind of also
what life is and that's why this concept
of tawakkul is a Strongest tool that a
Muslim has within their tool kit is the
most important one as a young person growing
up Yeah, I mean understanding what tawakkul is
and taqwa these are the two main Yeah
Any tools that you're going to be carrying
and facing the world and facing life with
in a face The world with these two
tools and understanding how they're going to aid
you and help you Continue to move move
forward.
So the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He He went and he did everything he
could possibly do he he put Ali Allah
on in a spot for a number Yeah,
and if in a spot that he had
made Quraish very very accustomed to seeing him
in alayha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He left
at noon.
He covered his faces.
He went south He spent three days in
a cave somewhere the opposite direction of his
of his destination And he had Amir Ibn
Fuhayrah cover the tracks of anyone who brought
him food or brought him information.
Yeah, I mean with his With his flock
of sheep He did everything he could I
think it's a lot to us and what
I still made it to the cave But
they didn't see him They left alayha sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
Yeah, I mean is for him and Abu
Bakr.
This was a new Yeah, I mean it
was a new era It was like a
new life Which is why hijrah was you
know He was called the was where we
started our to tell you because it was
like he was reborn On that day because
the the proximity between Him and Abu Bakr
and death was very very was was almost
it was too near It was a near
-death experience for both of them.
They were sure they were certain that this
was the end Yeah, you can't imagine that
the people that the mushrikin of Quraish Figured
out what area and it figured out which
mountain and figured out which cave is still
failed Just point them out in a small
There's only one opening in this whole cave
aside from it where it is Like you
you're not gonna imagine that's gonna fail just
to look go like that.
No, they made it this far You're pretty
certain that they're gonna look but Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala Is the one who controls all
of these things and all these details that
you don't?
Yeah You know you and I can't account
for only him subhanahu wa'ta'ala is in
full control of them and they didn't see
him And Another reason of why I'm a
really I'll be a lot one whom yeah
He chose in a hijra as the beginning
of the Islamic calendar.
This is where we started counting.
One, two, three is because Your best moment
your greatest moments aren't the moments of victory
aren't the moments where you walk in with
your head held high as you are being
you know, Handed over the staff or given
the baton or Yanni were dressed or were
being crowned as no It's the moment of
true and full sacrifice is the moment of
full dedication It's where you are working at
your full capacity That's that's the moment that
you want to remember when you are when
you are running at full speed You are
doing as much as possible.
There's not there's nothing more that you could
be doing at this moment That's the moment
you want to remember and right then when
the at that moment when the brother alias
awesome was on his on his Way to
Medina yesterday the hijra That's when he was
running at full capacity on his Salah to
us I'm he was doing everything literally everything
within his power to achieve his objective of
Producing a prosperous ummah.
That's that's what he was trying to do
on his Salah to us I'm so he
did at this moment.
He had offered everything he had he is
leaving his country he had the plan was
absolutely Yanni the borderline insane this plan of
Going to another city and establishing a country
there the whole thing was just so Risky
and so difficult and so unknown and how
do you stop those and has to get
out of like this was the moment of
True sacrifice of true dedication and commitment and
that's why I'm hot but chose it He
chose that moment so that we always remember
it We always remember his and his effort
out of his thought was salmon and the
time that he spent Performing his striving.
So as they leave the property is awesome.
And I'll buckle say we still have time
You can make it to the to the
meetings point There's a meeting point a meeting
space a place where he's going to meet
a man by the name of Abdullah I've
been already put and I believe it was
a daily.
They call the they call it a Delil
a delil mean is someone who leads you
on your journey was going to do and
and I put I showed you a slide
Last week where the prophet was not going
to take the regular path to Yathrib Even
back then there were routes to get from
one city to the other that were known
So he wasn't gonna take that route.
He wouldn't take the highway he was gonna
go through a different route was much more
dangerous and took longer and It was something
he did not know how to do out
of his thoughts of himself all about them
They'd never done done that they needed someone
who could take them through the mountains and
through the forests to yes They're avoiding the
highway basically avoiding the major points You know
the major Milestones of travel and in the
main and the main roads so that no
one would catch because he knew out of
his thought was I'm that not only are
they Gonna try and catch him themselves But
they're gonna put a bounty on his head
and they did they put a bounty of
some say a hundred some say a thousand
Camels, yeah, I wish is which is an
insane.
Yeah any amount of wealth for the person
who would catch him?
So I just thought of Salaam Took over
kind of went to the meeting point I
mean like it was there and was about
to leave because they were so late Due
to what happened in the cave they make
it just in time to For him to
take them on their way and he begins
to take them on their way And he
doesn't stay for the whole time this man
He just chose them Yeah, I mean he
explains to them how he starts them on
the path and he explains to them how
they're going to navigate their Way, you know
back to you through of note.
This man was not Muslim Just of note,
but this man was not Muslim I don't
have evidence in the in the seerah to
to indicate that he he accepted Islam at
least not during that period some evidence That
may be accepted it later, but not during
that period and the reason I'm bringing this
up Is that the Prophet alaihissalatu wassalaam and
he trusted someone?
Who was not Muslim with something that was
extremely valuable.
He trusted him with his life I'm alive
and what I could have easily just went
and told He didn't have you could have
betrayed the Prophet alaihissalatu wassalaam completely and fully
when I think about the story I find
that trusting him with this Like I when
I read them like that that's a risky
move for me because a lot of us
were Grew up or were brought up to
believe that you shouldn't be trusting anyone Outside
of your faith or outside of your family
or it's out of your your race or
outside of your community And that's not that's
not accurate.
That's not that's not how he operated out
of his thought to Islam there are people
of nobility of integrity In this world that
are not necessarily a part of your community
and they have the akhlaq the good the
good ethics And they have good morals And
if you have dealt with people you know
from different backgrounds and different races and different
cultures and different religions You know that you
know they run into people that you've run
into someone But you know people that you
would trust you you would trust them with
your life because they have that they have
certain ethics And the Prophet alaihissalatu was a
good read a good judge of character.
He's a very good judge of character So
he he knew that this man would not
betray him So the Prophet alaihissalatu trusted him
with this trusted him with the meaning point
and getting him over So he would go
With Abu Bakr and there are many you
know stories that are narrated on this on
this path And I'm going to tell you
one or two of them So as they
are going on this path to towards Yathrib
They because the path is long.
It's very long.
It's longer than the regular one.
They had packed more Provision than you would
usually pack on a path of this sort,
but they still ran out they still ran
out of water and food way before they
got to where they were going way before
and One of the story and they and
they realized that was going to happen so
they were very aware as they were traveling
for maybe any Any opportunity to refill their
waters or to drink milk or to get
something for themselves to provide for themselves because
they knew that The stretch where they may
not find that may be very long so
they would run into a young shepherd a
rye ghanam and The narration that we have
is the Prophet alaihissalatu wasallam would come to
him and he would say I like I
had he'll ghanam is this is this ghanam
are these sheep is this for you?
Do you own them?
It's not it does not.
I don't own them Fakada helmin Helmin shots
in latin is there amongst them a sheep
that does not have milk I mean, it's
a female sheep, but she doesn't have milk
But I don't have any but I don't
I write a in him tell a little
how harry ben at an israel if Somehow
it it fills up with milk.
Are we okay to drink from it?
But I know I'm here that I live
is not one of the like it's not
what I thought of a semi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam he would make a quran and
it filled up with milk and it filled
up with milk and they filled a container
of milk and they filled a container of
milk and they gave the shepherd to drink
first and they gave the shepherd to drink
first and this is why I'm telling you
this story because it's not, there's nothing here
that's too exciting, but I'm telling you this
story because of the wording so the prophet
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam offered Abu Bakr
to drink and Abu Bakr said, no no,
you start ya Rasulallah so Abu Bakr said
qala fashariba rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hatta
rtawayt so the prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam drank until I was full you'd think
when you first read it when you were
a kid I thought that whoever wrote it
was a typo they missed, they didn't get
they mixed up their damair they mixed up
how the Arabic language works but no, he
actually, what he was saying is fashariba rasulullahi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hatta rtawayt meaning he
drank until I felt full because this is
the level of love Abu Bakr alayhi sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam had with the prophet alayhi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Umar ibn Khattab was
saying lalaylatun min layali Abu Bakr khayrun min
Umara wa ali Umara ila yawm al qiyama
there is a night in the life of
Abu Bakr that is better than not only
me as a human being and everything I've
done but me and my family until the
day of judgement qal laylatuhu fil ghar the
night he spent with Ghar qaywala shahratun fi
sadri Abu Bakr wa huwa yuhajiru ma'a
rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lakhayrun min Umara
wa mil'il ardi min Umar and a
hair on the chest of Abu Bakr while
he was going, doing his hijrah with the
prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is better
than Umar and filling the planet with people
like Umar radiallahu anhu wa rada because he
got the sohbah Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
he got the sohbah, he is thaniya thnayni
ithuma fil ghar in a second of two,
as they are sitting in that cave, and
that's him radiallahu anhu al-Siddiq and this
is what you get when you spend time
with people of greatness this is what you
get this is the piece of advice I
offer you, when you spend time with people
of status and greatness and high ambition and
hard work yes it is tiring yes you
have to sacrifice yourself but that's what you
get, you get a moment in time where
you witness something that you can carry with
you for the rest of your life where
you may be included in something that you
didn't necessarily plan nor did you have a
lot of contribution to but you just stuck
with this individual or this group long enough
for you to witness something of greatness happen
and that's what I tell the younger people
is that you can easily live life avoiding
any form of controversy any form of commitment
and devotion you can get through life, it's
not that hard I was raised to live
like that you ever heard of al-hayt
al-hayt you ever heard that, it's an
Arabic just walk beside the wall don't let
anyone see you, don't have a shadow make
sure no one knows that you're there, keep
quiet stay low, don't do anything, don't make
noise make sure no one notices you so
you don't get in trouble, so you can
get in life quietly it's not that hard,
people have done it and you can totally
do it, but that's not really living life
and you miss out on an opportunity of,
imagine imagine if Abu Bakr didn't have the
bravery to say la ilaha illallah when he
was offered it imagine if he was a
little bit late imagine if he didn't say,
he would have lost this he wouldn't be
he wouldn't be he wouldn't be the companion
of Rasool Allah as he is going to
what sharaf in the world comes even remotely
close to this that's why once he passed
away they didn't really have a lot of
there were some people who argued out of
racial or cultural preferences for themselves because it's
just hard when there's status and there's control
and there's politics, people feel it but there
was no doubt in their minds that it
was going to be him they didn't doubt
it, who else was it going to be
who else was it going to be even
those who argued, they said we knew it
was going to be him it's just leadership
and power it makes you say something you
shouldn't have said we knew it was going
to be him he was with him what
are you going to say there's no way
but the reason he was like that because
he said something like that because that's how
he felt he drank until I was full
until I was full he drank and now
I feel he drank and then the Prophet
gave it to him I love that story
as they're going there's an interesting individual his
name is Suraka bin Malik so Suraka he's
one of those people let's call him a
free spirit Suraka travelled a lot travelled many
he'd been to many places and he worked
many he had many crafts and worked many
trades and he's someone who didn't really care
for religion or politics or order of any
sort he looked for opportunities to make money
so he could spend that money on himself
and go places and travel and do what
he wants and he was on his way
to Mecca and he sees from afar he
sees two people walking in the opposite direction
it happened to be Rasool Allah but he
didn't care it doesn't matter to him he's
going back to Mecca he arrives in Mecca
and he finds the city in a knot
people are very upset everyone is talking about
something everyone is talking about how someone got
away and they missed him and that there's
a bounty and he's not really getting it
because he just arrived so he finds people
talking so he sits down and listens they're
talking about a bounty of a hundred or
a thousand camels or something of the sort
and of course this sparks his interest because
this is the type of stuff he likes
he's a bit of a bounty hunter if
he can find something and make a little
bit of money so he's listening, this is
a crazy bounty this is insane so he's
listening to this who's offering this much, for
whom and they start to describe as they
describe who it is you know those light
bulbs on cartoons it goes up above his
head he's like, oh my gosh there's two
of them, right?
how did they look again?
what were they wearing again?
you just came, did you see them?
no, I didn't see anybody completely empty that
route no one go down that route because
I just came from it it's a complete
waste, a dead end there's no one there
see the hikmah of Allah because of his
greed people in Quraysh knew him well they
trusted him and they believed him they were
going to send a couple of cavalry in
that direction had they done that they probably
would have caught up with the Prophet this
route but Suraqah said, I came from that
route I came from it and no one's
there so let's not waste any of our
horse power go in other directions so he
single-handedly stopped any form of following of
the Prophet himself his greed, that's why you
never know what's best for you I'm pretty
sure if Abu Bakr or the Prophet saw
Suraqah seeing them, they were like, ah we
got caught, but you never know what's best
for you in life you really don't you'll
think that this is the worst thing that
ever happened to you and if you're just
a little bit perseverant just a little bit,
and you show a little bit of content
and you accept what Allah said and you
just wait for a bit, you'll see that
it wasn't that bad like later on I'd
like to look back and say that wasn't
the worst thing that happened to me that
was probably one of the best things that
happened to me but I was too dumb
to know it at the time, forgive me
it happens so often I hear stories of
this nature so much in my life, from
older people from older people older people who
share their stories I advise you if you're
young, listen to the stories of people who
are a couple of decades older than you,
listen to their stories and you will find
in their stories certain gems nuggets of wisdom
that they may not even notice in their
own lives that you can see because we're
all human and we all don't like things
to not go the way we want them
to go, but you don't know if your
way is the best way anyways you have
no idea I always tell this to younger
they used to be younger, now they're older
so they want to get married, before the
problems were much different so you want to
get married, I want fulan you don't know
if they're good for you or not it's
ok to want someone, it's ok to hope
for someone it's ok to make dua for
someone but remember the following, you don't know
if they're good for you you don't know
that if you can't understand this, then I'm
sorry you need to go and get an
IQ test of some sort, you don't know
what's best for you, you want something that's
ok, you know what you want and that's
ok to want something and you can analyze
and say, I think this is a good
thing for me you can look at it,
you can analyze it, you can study it
I think this is a good thing for
me, it's ok to say that Ya Allah
grant me this, I think it's good for
me but at the end, you don't actually
know if getting this thing that you want
is going to be good for you in
the long run in your life, you don't
know so whenever Allah's order dishes out for
you, don't be too upset don't make a
big deal about things you just don't know
which path, which route which road is the
best for you to take you waste time
worrying worrying about things you can't control and
worrying about the opinions of other people you
shouldn't be worrying about you just don't know
so suraqah wasn't the worst thing that happened
his greed was the best thing that happened
that day he swore up and down, I
came from that route there's absolutely no one
there no tracks, there's nothing so they didn't
send another cavalry now of course he did
this because he had a plan he buys
a horse and he follows the Prophet he
comes close now as Abu Bakr is walking
with the Prophet they're on their camels and
Abu Bakr goes and he's in front of
the Prophet then he goes to his left
then he comes to his back then he
goes to the right again and the Prophet's
like, what's wrong?
what are you doing?
just stay in your place I remember that
maybe they'll come and chase you, so I
come behind you to protect you I remember
that they may have like an ambush for
you, so I go in front so it
hits me first and I remember that you
may be betrayed I don't know how to
protect you so I'm just moving around but
you're scared for me if I die, I'm
just a guy but if you die, you're
the Ummah, Ya Rasulallah I have to protect
you it wasn't about, of course it's about
him but it wasn't necessarily just about one
person feeling less than the other it was
the value of Wahi it was the value
of Allah's choice of messengers and the love
Allah saw for the Prophet had for the
Prophet that Abu Bakr had to protect with
his life with his life he protected him
and that's the norm he smiled knowing that
one day things would and as they're doing
this Abu Bakr who's moving around and looking
he sees in the distance a horseman coming
quickly so as he's coming close he tells
the Prophet, Ya Rasulallah those who are following
us have come near what do you think
we should do?
Oh Allah he used the words of Abdullah
ibn Thamir from the story of Al-Ukhdood
the young boy who was trying to be
killed by the king and the known story
that I told at the beginning that happened
before the Prophet's life Abdullah ibn Thamir one
of the young people of faith who changed
the history of the region one of the
stories the Prophet grew up listening to he
grew up listening to the story of Ahl
Al-Ukhdood in Najran he grew up listening
to the story of Ashab Al-Feel in
Abraha these are the two stories that were
the most famous because they happened maybe just
a couple of years before him he knew
them, it was a part of the social
memory of his community and one of the
dua that this young man made was protect
me from what's coming to me how you
will and with whatever tools you will in
whatever form you want to when I
came close I heard him supplicate and the
hooves of my horse started to go deep,
it's like there's quicksand it started to slowly
go into the into the sand until I
got scared of dying I called upon them
and said you're safe from me and then
he said something, he supplicated and then my
horse was able to get out and I
became greedy again I tried again I thought
I would try and catch them he said
and then it happened again you're safe this
time for sure and the surah came to
the prophet and he said he started with
dua he talked to him about Islam he
told him will you accept the shahada of
la ilaha illallah muhammad rasulallah no I don't
accept it then you don't go back and
tell the people that you saw me here
you don't go back and let people know
but I need something in return it was
money he was about money, he didn't care
about anything else he wanted money I need
something in return now what did he have
he had absolutely nothing he had nothing they
can't give him the small amount of provision
that they had, if they offer it to
him they're as good as dead so let's
go tell them and we'll take our chances
to make it to Medina before they catch
us because I can't give you the provision
that I have and he didn't have anything
that was worth giving I'll give you the
two bracelets of Kisra bin Hurmuz the king
of Persia he looked at Abu Bakr the
king of Persia what is the joke you
will one day wear the bracelets of Kisra
on your arms I give them to you
he said I knew that this man was
a man who was protected by a force
that I didn't understand a man who had
a status that I didn't comprehend so I
told him put something in writing for me
he said so Abu Bakr wrote it for
him and he put it so Abu Bakr
wrote it for him and he put it
and As-Suraqah would go back he would
tell people and of course no one followed
the Prophet As-Suraqah time would go by
As-Suraqah would accept Islam and become one
of the Sahaba and he would outlive the
Prophet and he would outlive his companion Abu
Bakr on that day this is why he
asked for something written because he outlived them
both and no one would be left to
say that this happened except him and no
one is going to believe you if you
come with a treasure and I say oh
a couple of dead people said that you
owe me this piece it's my word and
it's very self-serving no one is going
to believe it so he asked for this
to be written and it was during the
time of Abu Al-Khattab that the Muslim
armies were able to to bring back the
treasures of Kisra after the kingdom of Persia
fell it was a pagan kingdom at the
time and they brought back the treasures of
Kisra now As-Suraqah didn't keep this document
hidden, it wasn't a secret if you had
a document signed by the Prophet it's a
big deal so the Sahaba knew about this
and Umar knew about this As-Suraqah at
that time was an old man as old
as old can be he could barely walk
once they brought the the treasures of Kisra
they had them and they put them in
the masjid of the Prophet and Umar went
and he brought As-Suraqah bin Malik this
old old man and he would say Ya
As-Suraqah, what did the Prophet write for
you?
what did the Prophet write for you on
this document?
As-Suraqah would read out what the Prophet
what Abu Bakr had written up for him
that he promises me if I don't go
and tell people about his hijrah, about where
he is going and that I saw him,
that I will one day be given the
two bracelets of Kisra Ibn Hurmuz, the king
of Persia ...
Umar would pull out from the treasures the
two bracelets of Kisra ...
even though wearing gold is haram, but he
would put them ...
...
so that the wording of the Prophet would
be as accurate as it ever would be
...
...
...
now people started to call out truthful is
he the Prophet, truthful is he and that's
the story of Sayyid As-Suraqah bin Malik
now for the rest of the, there's a
bunch of other things that happened on the
way of his hijrah, he goes into the
...
a bunch, amongst other things all of them
lack strong evidence, so I'm going to move
on from them but you can go and
find some other stories in the books of
Sira if you want to listen more about
this, this is the end of the Meccan
period and the first 13 years of his
prophecy ends with him making it safely to
Yathrib now he hasn't made it there yet,
I'm going to talk about him entering and
everything but now that he got away from
Quraysh, Quraysh does not they can't catch him
anymore, he was too far for even if
they got the quickest horses and they tried
to catch up with him, he was too
far in he was going to make it
to Yathrib before anyone was going to catch
him so technically he made it they're going
to have a safe landing in Yathrib which
was really the whole point of this story,
because that was the fear, the fear that
he was not going to make it because
of how much Quraysh wanted to stop this
immigration so knowing that, this is where the
scholars of Sira call the end of the
Meccan period they call this point the end
of the Meccan period after the Prophet had
guaranteed that he was not going to be
caught anymore on the way there, so they
call the end of the Meccan period before
he actually enters Yathrib but just far enough
in that he's not going to be caught
so what I put out for you here
are a couple of points to summarize the
Meccan period I think it's an important piece
before we move on to this new era,
it's a new era the challenges are different,
the problems are different the obstacles are different
the whole story takes a huge like it's
a huge detour in the story of his
life something that he didn't, I'm not sure
he fully even understood what he was getting
into, he had enough wisdom, he had enough
prep, he had enough mentors from the night
of Mi'raj he had learned a lot
from the time he spent in Mecca, he
thought that he was going to go into
this with his full effort and all of
his ability to plan however, what was awaiting
him was something that no one could have
imagined, what was going to come next was
something that if you sat with him or
Abu Bakr or any of the Muhajireen or
any of the Ansar, they would have never
thought this, they would never thought that a
day would come where they would defeat the
strongest power in the land that a day
would come where all of Arabia, all 10
,000 troops would surround them ready to kill
them this is not something they were thinking
about, they had a comprehension that it was
going to be hard and the Arabs were
going to put up a fight but not
this, not what was going to end up
happening, and that's how life is by the
way plan, I not only I don't urge
you to plan or encourage you, I command
you to plan you have to plan, you
have to come up with plans, and you
have to make them good plans, and you
have to make sure that you run those
plans by people who have some degree of
experience and wisdom to help you make sure
they're good, I'm just going to give you
this piece of advice for free, I'm not
going to charge you $40, your plans aren't
going to work out almost 100% of
the time, your plans are just not going
to work out, it's just how life is,
you still have to plan because if you
take a step one step without a plan,
then you're lost and people who are lost
are not functional, people who are lost are
depressed they're anxious, they're scared they're upset, they're
disgruntled because you can't function as a human
being without a plan, you have to have
a plan, so make sure you sit there,
and with the grace of Allah you plan
to do that which pleases Allah the most,
just know that most of the time, it's
not going to work out the way you
planned it, so learn to be flexible, so
that when it doesn't work out, you're able
to kind of go back, revise, sit in
front of the drawing board, and come up
with another plan so that things work out,
and if you can do that in life
then you will inshallah make it you will
succeed, if you can't do that in life
then you're going to struggle you're going to
struggle we know that because he planned so
much and most of his plans did not
come through the way he wanted, or the
way he imagined them to come through I
know for a fact he did not, when
he started his dawah the plan was not
that Quraish was going to try and kill
him I know that when he started sitting
with the sahaba, he did not plan initially
to send them to a different continent I
know that when he went to Ta'if
he didn't plan for it to bomb that
way and that when he went on the
day of hajj, he didn't plan to talk
to a couple of teenagers, the six teenagers
standing, shaving their heads at the end of
hajj, because they were too poor to pay
for it in appropriate timing he didn't plan
that but every time the plan didn't work
out, he went back and he figured things
out, he tried again because when the destination
is clear, you're fine when the goal is
clear, you're fine wherever I put you, you'll
know where your Qibla is, it doesn't matter
where you are which is why we pray
that way, which is why we don't pray
in any direction no, wherever we are in
the world, we know where our direction is
I pick you up, I drop you somewhere
on the planet you're like, alright, where am
I?
where's Mecca?
I figure it out, you figure out your
Qibla and as long as you figure out
your direction, you'll be fine in life, if
you know where you're going, it's okay you'll
figure out a path and then it doesn't
work out, you're thrown somewhere else no worries,
you stand up, you look around, you figure
out your destination and you can do it
again that's why you have to have a
Qibla that's why the concept of Qibla is
going to come up very soon within the
time of Medina, let's go through some of
these points number one, so identifying Islam as
a message as a message, not as a
list of rituals or a list of do's
and don'ts as a message that will bring
reform that will bring reform, that will change
the way people think the way that people
behave, and it will remove the injustices, it
will remove the bad habits and the bad
behaviors and the corruption and it will bring
reform, believing in that and then living by
that.
Number two, perseverance as an ethic grit, that
full commitment sacrifice these are cardinal cardinal ethics
and values that the Prophet lived by during
the Meccan period without them, without perseverance without
grit, without commitment, without the willingness to sacrifice
and to offer everything you have or what
you believe in, then none of this is
possible, none of this would have been possible
number three, training and preparing the new generation,
the Prophet invested in the youth he invested
in Ali and in Zubair and in Talha
and in Abdullah and Mas'ud, he invested
in the younger generation, the people that were
going to later on lead this generation even
then, even when times were dark, even when
he had no country, he had no masjid
he was not able to command troops or
to command a country he still invested in
younger people, he still taught them and trained
them, that's why he had Zaid ibn Haritha,
a great leader Ali ibn Jafar, you had
these people who were able to carry themselves
and present themselves and represent Islam in a
way that was positive because he invested in
the youth if we don't prepare the next
generation then there's no point of doing any
of this this is a waste of money,
really it really is, because we will run
out within a couple of years no one
stays young forever very soon we'll be gone,
it's not that long inshallah Allah grants us
a long life with good health no matter
how long he gives us how long is
it going to be, it's never enough by
the way, never enough I walked into the
room of a 92 year old gentleman, it
was like 3 o'clock in the morning,
I was on call I was absolutely miserable
and fed up, and I walk into his
room and he was just very ill just
very ill, he had all these problems and
he was fighting with the nurses and he
was demanding this and demanding that, so I
walk in and I I fix it, I
get his medications all right and figure out
what's going on and I chat with him,
like what's your what's the end game for
all this like you're 92 what else are
you I just wanted to know he's like
you know maybe another 2 years I'm like
all right, so you get another 2 years
and then what, he's like well then maybe
another 2 years after that I'm like all
right, another 2 years after that, then what
every time we come to the end we
hope for another 2 years, and that's the
human being a human being doesn't have an
ability to do anything else, unless you have
a very clear understanding of akhira and a
clear understanding of accountability and a clear understanding
of fate and of life it's hard, it's
just very difficult and I've seen it a
lot we're not going to be here forever
so this next generation has to have the
right recipe they have to have the right
recipe, the right combo they have to be
prepared and trained and empowered and educated they
have to have the right identity and the
right feeling about it, and it has to
happen during our time, not after I'm gone
now it has to happen, as we sit
there and watch them and observe them and
help them and correct them when they make
mistakes and allow them and give them space
and autonomy to do things or else, this
is anyways number 4 proactive, intelligent, unique and
flexible planning skills, and I talked about that
that's how I describe it for him he
was flexible, he was proactive he didn't wait
for things to happen he wasn't always responding
to the punches he was initiating, he was
doing things throwing Quraysh off balance all the
time Quraysh was always in the reaction because
he was always coming up with something new
he wasn't reacting it's intelligent he put a
lot of thought in it it was not
planning that lacked vision or lacked proper proper
understandings and it was very flexible he was
willing to change as he went along those
planning skills we need back coexisting with non
-Muslims in Mecca, that was a big piece
he was living at that time with non
-Muslims and he had to get along with
them because if he didn't, then all of
Quraysh would have turned against him and they
would have killed all the Muslims but majority
of Quraysh didn't like what their leaders were
doing they didn't agree with the boycott of
Bani Hashim for example they didn't agree with
trying to kill him because they saw in
him and the Muslims people of integrity, of
nobility of good ethics, of good manners so
they didn't want this but they were too
weak to say anything about it but they
didn't like it because when you coexist with
people from a different faith and you represent
Islam appropriately they learn about Islam from what
you do not from what you say no
one is listening to what you have to
say but they're watching what you do they're
seeing not what you preach but what you
practice, that's what really matters here so coexisting
with non-Muslims and doing it well was
a big part of that Meccan period self
-control and firm values they had to exhibit
a very clear ability to control themselves because
they were ongoingly being physically abused and financially
abused and socially abused and they weren't allowed
to respond they were not allowed the few
times in the seerah where we have in
those 13 years where we have someone throw
a punch like Omar this only happened because
he didn't know yet like when you have
the story of Hamza slapping Abu Jahl with
his bow and breaking his he hadn't even
accepted Islam yet and Omar accepted and didn't
even ask what are the rules he just
went and started swinging punches at some of
the bullies of Quraish so the examples that
we have of some degree of physicality was
from people who have not yet been told
how this is going to work that's all
but the command was you need to control
yourself we're not going to engage in any
form of physical harm as we live amongst
these people we will follow the law and
we will continue to carry our values with
pride number 7, the role of women this
was a big deal there is no uprise
for this ummah without women being a central
part of it there's no competition in Islam
at least this is how Islam sees it
there's no competition between men and women they
are two sides of the same coin we
complement we complete to one another we are
the community, men and women we serve to
certain degrees different roles in the whole process
but it doesn't work any other way the
Prophet, peace be upon him the cut down
of the maybe 400 Muslims in Mecca at
the time were 60-40 or 55-45
% men, women there were early Muslim men,
there were early Muslim women as well his
dawah was not targeted towards just one gender
until this ummah understands that we're very late
by the way we're coming in very late
to do this until we understand that we're
not going to get anywhere we're not going
to get there because next generations don't get
raised by men, by fathers fathers, their job
is to be a figure to be a
role model that's what your job is, it's
going to be in your household the raising
and the teaching and the supporting and aiding
and counselling and talking and loving and nurturing
is going to come from the women and
if they are not empowered and educated if
they don't feel that they are a central
part of the story then we're not going
to get anywhere but at the same time
we need sisters to take that baton and
run with it they need to understand that
responsibility that they carry there is no ummah
if you are not willing to raise this
ummah if you're not willing to raise the
next generation then there is no ummah, it
ends now it ends here if our sisters
don't see the value of their role if
somehow nurturing life and raising the next generation
of Muslims takes a back seat or a
shotgun to some other priority then we're not
going to get anywhere we're going to fail
as a community we're going to fail as
a human race as a human race we
will fail if sisters and women continue to
see their role of producing life and nurturing
life and raising people with ethics to be
something that is frowned upon or less valuable
than some other function then we are doomed
we are absolutely doomed and that requires the
effort from both us and both men and
women to properly educate everyone involved as they
grow up and as they engage in life
number 8, mistakes and failures are a natural
part of the progress you're going to fail
I'll pop that bubble for you right now,
you're going to fail and you're going to
fail a lot don't plan to fail just
understand and accept the probability of failure as
you plan and move forward with your life
it's not any success you end up at
a high point by getting there is a
series of roller coaster like dives where you
are screaming at the top of your lungs
with a nose diving into the ground before
you find your way up again and this
is how, success does not look like this,
that's not the graph the graph is something
very different it takes a very different way
to get to a point of actual prosperity
and actual thriving so accept that and understand
that he had no problem with things not
working out, he wasn't ashamed of it he
wasn't embarrassed of it, he didn't hide it,
he didn't get other people to try and
say no, it wasn't really a failure no,
he came out and said this didn't work
this was a failure we have to scrap
this and try something else and because he
was comfortable with that he succeeded because he
taught the sahaba to be comfortable with that
he succeeded number 9, hope as long as
you are doing your best, there is always
hope there is always hope hope is the
single most important thing that you need as
a person and the single most important value
that we need as an ummah today we
have to have hope in the midst of
this of this pain and this agony and
the blood count and the loss and the
ongoing crises across the planet, you need hope
in order for you to have hope you
have to have the willingness to work hope
without effort is a lie it doesn't mean
anything hope while you are lying down, watching
things happen and you just have hope, you
are pulling hope out of thin air, no
hope requires amal it requires the striving and
the sacrificing and the commitment, but as long
as you are working as long as you
are pushing forward as long as you are
doing your absolute best you are obligated, not
that you have the right no, you are
obligated to have hope if you don't, then
it's an act of kufr it's an act
of kufr if you don't have hope وَمَن
يَقْنَطُ مِن رَحْمَةِ رَبِّهِ إِلَّا الضَّالُّونَ إِنَّهُ لَا
يَيْئَسُ مِن رَوْحِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْكَافِرُونَ only
the people who disbelieve in Allah will lose
hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mercy
and compassion and his victory and him aiding
you that's the only time but you have
to work and you have to put that
effort number 10, tawakkul and I talked about
that in some degree of depth so I'll
move on from it and number 11, four
central values there are four central values that
the Meccan period carried number one, honesty learning
to be honest, be honest with yourself first
before you're honest with anything else being honest
with yourself before you're honest with anyone else,
trustworthiness the Prophet ﷺ showed the importance of
just being trustworthy someone who is capable when
entrusted with something you see it through to
the end regardless of what that looks like,
loyalty and excellence, doing your job and doing
it well I think we're going to run
out of time and then righteousness versus personal
interest is the final piece at the end,
life is not that complicated, life is pretty
simple every given moment you have this comparison
where either you do what's right or you
do what works for you what helps you,
what's selfish that's it, every moment it's like
this little little scale, put it up there
alright, do the right thing or what you
want to do that's it, wake up for
a fresh double sleep it's really easy I
want to do this one, this is the
right thing to do tell the truth or
get out of the problem I want to
do this one, this is the right thing
to do etcetera, etcetera, etcetera it's very simple
and the Meccan period, that's all it showed
it showed people were not able to do
the right thing when they needed to, and
people who did and some of them, it
cost them their lives but they did it
anyways and they're remembered to the day of
time to the end of time, the day
of judgement they'll be remembered in a way
that is positive so that's the summary of
the Meccan period I had for you a
little small timeline that may be of some
value to you so you can look at
we'll start next week by talking about the
new era we'll talk about the Prophet arriving
in Medina it's one of the nicest stories
ever of him arriving in Yathrib there's so
many things that happen as he arrives into
Yathrib, I look forward to this part to
tell you the story him arriving in Yathrib,
getting in there and what happens, we'll talk
about that next week I hope that was
a benefit to you Assalamualaikum
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh everybody welcome back to the second
weekly kahoot from when we started it back
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we'll get started now I don't know why
the color looks kinda seerah october 5th question
number one true or false you should not
trust somebody who isn't muslim, true or false,
true or false don't yell at the answers
please false
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam trusted the
dalil when he was leading him, he was
not muslim next question 3 people got that
wrong Yasir Hassan Saf number Mr. Halal multi
-select the opportunity of greatness comes from what
multiple of these answers are correct when you
stick with something long enough you'll see its
greatness which of these is part of that
statement the same way Abu Bakr stuck with
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam the bottom
two, devotion and commitment a lot of you
guys chose a lot of those ok, first
place we have Noor, second place Jamanji and
third place Abu Ubaidah third
place, oh sorry, third question what was the
issue with the bounty hunter Shuraqa, why did
he mess up what was the problem was
it his greed, was it his intelligence was
it his anger or was it his memory
which one was it his greed is correct
the fact that he was greedy he didn't
let anybody else know where the prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam was the leader board remains
constant and we will move to the next
question, what was offered to Shuraqa the crown
of England, the staff of Rome the bracelets
of Persia or a Tim Hortons gift card
I think the last one is incorrect, I
will tell you guys that the last one
is incorrect the correct answer was the bracelets
of Persia Kisra leader board again stays the
same, let's see if we can get somebody
on there or somebody off for the next
question when the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
gets to Yathrib, this signifies what is that
the beginning of the Meccan period the end
of the Meccan period the treaty of Aqaba
or the boycott treaty what does that signify
when he gets to Yathrib it's easy if
you're listening just pay attention incorrect the correct
answer was the end of the Meccan period
he's going to Yathrib he went from Mecca
to Yathrib the leader board is still the
same, mashallah question number six, true or false
your plans won't always go how you set
them to be, it's common sense why?
true there's no explanation necessary for this top
three are still the same question number seven
in the Meccan period Islam was identified as
what that brings what pay attention it was
identified as rituals that bring a message that
bring a reform reform that bring a message
or messages that bring rituals blue is correct
ok, top three still the same, mashallah question
number eight, also multi-select pay attention to
this one as well the prophet's planning skills
were what proactive, unique, intelligent and strict one
of these could be correct two of these
could be correct, three of these could be
correct or all four could be correct but
pay attention the last one, strict was supposed
to be flexible you paid attention we now
have question nine generations are raised by fathers
true or false raised
raised by fathers true or false it is
false, that's incorrect as sheikh adan said we
are doomed if the mothers in the society
don't understand the rule ok, we now have
question number ten the most important thing you
need as an individual as well as an
ummah is what right now this was mentioned
at the very end hope, charity, unity or
honesty don't yell at the answers yes final
question hope is correct as an individual as
well collectively as an ummah hope third place
Zainab second place Jumanji first place noor,
mashallah I'll give you guys the prizes after
isha inshallah everyone for playing and we will
see you next week