Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #43
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The transcript discusses the struggles of working in small houses during the European period, including the need for support from the government to help people get out of them. A trainer named Qurra taught shrooms and quran to people, and eventually found work in a factory. The segment also touches on the importance of protecting vulnerable people and avoiding mistakes. The segment concludes with a discussion of the Bible and its importance for building an army and building an army.
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What I put up for you there is
a picture of the Wathiqa They call it
the Wathiqa and it's the constitution of Medina
which the Prophet, peace be upon him, drafted
with the people and he signed that he
had all of the parties within Medina signed
as well every tribe from all different backgrounds
Ansar, Muslims, non-Muslims, the Jewish tribes, they
all signed it and this constitution dictated how
people were going to experience their citizenship It
preserved everyone's rights, their civil rights, their human
rights, their financial rights their right to believe,
their right to have their own religions It
also explained how the city was going to
be protected and who was going to be
in charge and what the purpose of the
city was going to be So it's a
very early political document that we don't really
have a lot of other examples for and
it's an underestimated aspect of his seerah, we
don't talk about it a lot but it's
an act of genius, the Prophet, peace be
upon him, was able to let's bring everyone
together, let's agree how we're going to live
together how we're going to function as a
diverse group you're talking about a very heterogeneous
landscape of human beings it wasn't just one
group, no, people from everywhere and a lot
of different backgrounds, a lot of different belief
systems a lot of different value systems so
this constitution was explaining what was going to
be and everyone felt comfortable when they signed
it because they felt protected, they felt preserved,
they felt respected, they felt included and they
also understood what their obligations and rights were
going to be within the city and I
just think it's a really beautiful thing to
contemplate and hopefully you will take some time
in your life and read up about it
and learn more so let's talk about a
few things that happened so the first two
years, three basic things three basic elements of
his two-year plan, peace be upon him
building the masjid, which meant building the community
center which meant bringing people together, educating them,
supporting them and making sure that there was
a space within the city that everyone was
welcome in everyone could come to, and everyone
could be a part of the whole masjid
that he built was maybe a thousand square
meters maybe nothing more than that two and
a half meters high, it was open like
this masjid here there was no curtains, there
was no...
women played behind, men played up front men
were respectful, they didn't look back they waited
for the women to finish their prayers and
leave first and then they left after, there
was a certain system for it but everyone
participated everyone was a part of the masjid
and the fabric of what the masjid was
bringing them the second thing they did, he
did mu'akha he built the brotherhoods, peace
be upon him he figured out a way
to match people together that were compatible, and
whom would learn from one another people who
could build on each other's experiences an old
muhajir and a new ansari in terms of
when they accepted Islam they would mentor each
other and obviously it was a huge sacrifice
from the ansar to open their homes for
the muhajireen but it was also a huge
ask from the muhajireen to live in someone
else's home for a long period of time
they had to have the right ethics and
etiquettes if they didn't, the ansar would kick
them out if the muhajireen entered the homes
of the ansar and they were rude, and
they were filthy and they were messy, and
they lacked basic etiquette no one would have
been able to put up with this setup
it was because the ansar were selfless people
and the muhajireen were people of etiquette and
adab and good nature and good character that
this actually works, because it's a nightmare to
open your home and bring people who are
not family to live with you, it's very
difficult I tried it in my life, it's
really hard it's really hard, you'd be very
ashamed if you're ever put in a situation
where you have to do it and you're
doing it for the sake of Allah it's
not like you made your house an airbnb
and you're taking money, even that's difficult but
to have guests live with you, it's very
hard to do that and then the third
thing was signing the constitution building it, drafting
it, convincing people of it and then signing
it and actually living by it and those
are what happened in the first two years
of his time in Medina I'm going to
point out a couple of other stuff that
happened just so you understand a little bit
of what was going on the phenomenon of
al-sufa occurred and I think I gave
you an example, I showed you a few
pictures so al-sufa, they lived in the
part of the masjid that is covered they
lived inside the masjid and there were people
who had no other options they had nowhere
else to go, there was no place for
them to live they had to live somewhere
all of the houses in Medina were filled
except the murafiqeen who didn't take anyone in
the murafiqeen always came and told the prophet
oh our houses are too small we don't
have enough room they made a lie but
all the muslims and the ansar, they opened
their homes so all their homes had been
filled with families and the prophet didn't have
enough money to build houses for them so
they had to stay somewhere so the prophet
had them live in the masjid so the
masjid of the prophet not only was it
open like this and men and women and
children but also families living there people who
had very small curtains and tents and they
were living and sleeping and eating and everything
was happening in the masjid because they had
nowhere else to go and the issue was
that the prophet had to invest in helping
them get out so what he did was
is that he voluntold basically a number of
young sahaba who were skilled to teach ahlul
suffah skill sets so he would ask someone,
are you a carpenter?
what do you do?
a blacksmith?
a farmer?
what do you do?
and he would say, I do this ya
rasulallah can you go and find one of
the people ahlul suffah and teach them a
skill like teach them how to do this
so they can get a job so they
can make enough money to live and then
doing that on the side of that also
teach them quran because a lot of the
people who were ahlul suffah were new muslims
who just came accepted islam recently made their
hijrah to medina they came a little bit
late the whole place was there was no
vacancies anymore so what were they going to
do?
they needed to be supported so the prophet
made sure that the muslims who had wealth
and had skills supported them and taught them
and educated them and a task force was
created was born out of that a task
force and they were called al qurra and
i talk about them maybe in a few
months when we get to when we finish
the battle of uhud because this will come
up again and there were around 70 guys
like around 70 guys got together when they
saw the prophet a.s also trying to
do this work he was saying you see
this person here this person is new they
don't know how to get around the city
they don't know what to do can you
mentor them?
teach them?
what do you do?
i'm a farmer can you teach them how
to farm?
give them a job maybe?
teach them the quran that you know they
need support so the prophet a.s was
spending a lot of time trying to do
this for ahl as-sufa so these shabab
felt that okay he is already busy a
.s so maybe we take this off his
hands so they made a coalition and they
were called al qurra because they were all
shabab who had learned the quran well they
had memorized everything that was revealed up to
that moment of the quran and they had
a system every day the prophet a.s
brought new verses one of them or two
of them would take them and they would
teach everyone else and they would hold on
to the quran and they would do their
revision and muraja amongst themselves and of course
this was a big deal because at the
time the quran was not there was only
one or two maybe versions or written pieces
of fabric that put the quran on it
and everything else was going to be memorized
so these guys would spend these years just
doing that and it was because of their
efforts that a.s the numbers were maintainable
like it was maintainable it was manageable or
else if they didn't do this then the
masjid would have been blocked off basically with
the number of people that were coming in
so because they were able to actually take
these people educate them give them jobs teach
them the quran and then get them out
the masjid became the numbers in the masjid
were a manageable number the prophet a.s
was able to keep the masjid functional because
if the numbers get too high i remember
in 2012 just before i left 13 actually
it was like january or february i left
in april in april february i think in
2013 i was still working in a hospital
in damascus in the suburbs an area called
harasta and the hospital is called bayrouni it's
an oncology hospital and it was a very
heavily disputed area a lot of bombing was
happening and stuff so i would have to
sometimes to get back to get back was
very difficult to get home was extremely hard
if i missed the bus if i had
a patient who was sick and i couldn't
get in the bus i missed the bus
i would have to sleep sometimes i'd have
to sleep a full weekend and i remember
one day i was like i'm not staying
here for the weekend i'm leaving so the
long story that i'll share at a different
time because it was one of the most
insane days of my life but i had
to take like 4 or 5 public transportation
to get out of the area and i
didn't really get where i wanted to go
but i got to an area called al
mazraa and that's where the masjid al iman
is masjid sheikh al buta was there and
it was close to it was after maghrib
and i was going to miss maghrib if
i didn't pray so i went into the
masjid to make wudu and pray maghrib and
then make my way home it was another
hour and a half but i say pray
maghrib first so i opened the masjid and
this masjid is a very well known masjid
i've been there a hundred times i opened
the masjid and i was just the masjid
was packed just human beings families all of
the families who had to leave the areas
of war had moved into the masjid and
they had they had put down some curtains
and they were living inside the masjid and
you could not like the bathrooms were fully
occupied by the family there was nowhere to
go make wudu there was nowhere to pray
there was just one line at the front
of the masjid that you could pray in
that's it thankfully i had wudu i wanted
to go to the bathroom and make wudu
but i had wudu so i went and
prayed maghrib but i imagined to myself that
was the first time i kind of saw
something like that in my life where i
was actually you know i was able to
see it in person like it's very uncomfortable
by the way to walk into a masjid
and find people living there like even for
you as a person it's very uncomfortable you
don't want to enter the masjid at all
because there's people and imagine the prophet a
.s. masjid the ahl as-suffah were living
there you know this is a part this
is his experience a.s. the experience of
the sahaba that people were poor they didn't
have a place to live the masjid would
open its doors for them that's what the
masjid did great names of ahl as-suffah
was abu hurairah another great name was al
-miqdad ibn aswad al-miqdad let me i'll
tell you this funny fun story al-miqdad
would he was in the masjid ahl as
-suffah living there and the hadith is in
bukhari muslim you can go read it it's
a long hadith it's a very nice one
he's living in the masjid with two of
his friends from the ansar from not from
ahl mecca from another tribe but they're they're
living there in the masjid and they were
obviously starving they're shabaab alone and they had
nowhere to go and they said every evening
the prophet would come to them and he
would he would milk he would take them
to a place where they would milk two
goats right and they had them milk the
goats and then he would go and he
had some business to do and he would
come back at night and they would they
would all drink the milk together right that's
what they would do so al-miqdad he
was used to this at a certain hour
of the isha the prophet would take them
over to where the the goats are milk
them on the back he goes and he
comes back and every night they would sit
together and they drink the cups of milk
and that was what he lived in miqdad
lived on so one night the prophet was
late he was late really late al-miqdad
had drunk it was so late that they
drank their milk and they went to sleep
and they left the prophet and he's sitting
there and al-miqdad tells the story and
he put my head on the pillow and
shaytan came and paid me a visit what
are you doing why don't you drink the
milk this is for the prophet what do
you mean the al-sar probably have fed
him and given him al-shaytan he's late
he's probably having a feast somewhere he doesn't
need this he doesn't need the milk he
kept on poking at me shaytan so i
took the milk and i drank it once
i drank it it went into my stomach
what have you done al-miqdad are you
insane you drank the prophet's milk what are
you doing i put my head down to
sleep and i was worried the whole time
what if he comes the prophet he doesn't
find the milk and soon enough the prophet
did come so he comes to the masjid
so al-miqdad acts like he's sleeping he
hears the prophet come up look into his
cup and see his cup empty and the
prophet stood there for a moment he's going
to make dua about whoever drank his milk
i'm going to die this is allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is going to kill me
tonight because of this left and he didn't
say anything and i heard him as he
was walking away oh allah feed the one
who feeds us quench the thirst of the
person who quenches our thirst that's what he
heard i'm like ok perfect i have a
way out of my that i've just done
i drank his milk so he went and
he took a large basin a container and
he went to where the goats were and
he spent an hour just re-milking them
again milking until he was able to fill
enough in the in the container and then
he went over to the prophet and he
knocked on the door and the prophet opened
and he took out the milk what did
you do tonight never mind just drink what's
your issue nothing just drink so the prophet
took the cup and he drank the milk
and the prophet just fell on his behind
laughing what is wrong with you i got
your dawah ya rasulallah when you walked away
you said feed the one who feeds me
and quench the thirst of those who quench
my thirst so i got your dua i
did something between me and allah i did
i'm not going to talk one of your
shenanigans why didn't you call that your two
friends to drink with us the milk that
you as long as you drink and i
drink i don't care if they ever drink
in their lives again and he went back
into his home now the reason i'm telling
you this story is just because you have
to imagine what would it take if you
knew the prophet if you knew there was
a cup of milk or a cup of
water or something that was for him and
he was going to come and drink it
would you ever touch it would you touch
it would you take it and drink it
what degree of hunger would you have to
be in for you to consider doing that
and none of us are better than for
him to be able to be in a
moment of such hunger and thirst that he
would consider doing that and then do it
and you understand what i mean it was
not easy for ahlul suf it was not
easy and the prophet knew that he knew
that that's why when the prophet one day
met abu huraira he met abu huraira in
the middle of the day and abu huraira
was absolutely starving abu huraira was stopping people
in the middle of the road asking them
questions about the quran and about the hadith
questions he knew the answers to just hoping
someone would say come and have food and
no one was doing it and he's like
and the prophet is seeing him do this
and he's like ya abu huraira what are
you doing you're asking me about things i
told you about yesterday maybe one of them
will say or something come with me so
he went to the different houses of his
wives asking did anyone gift you anything today
any gifts of food or drink today so
he knocked on a couple of doors until
yes a picture of note was given to
us today so she did so he took
it they call it laban right and he
goes back to the masjid i'm saying to
myself where are you going and the prophet
is walking towards the masjid and i'm like
no where are you going ya rasoolallah i
want to say ya rasoolallah i want to
say and then he goes and he calls
ahl al-suffah come ahl al-suffah everyone
come and abu huraira is like khalas we're
going to nothing abu huraira get the cups
and start feeding the people i'm telling myself
i hope you never feed the people this
never goes anywhere because it's not going to
be enough it's only a picture there's like
50 of them it's not going to be
enough i kept on pouring and giving it
to them and pouring and giving it to
them asking myself will it not run out
the hadith in bukhari will it not run
out when ahl al-suffah all drank their
milk and were happy pour yourself no no
you take it he can't give a command
so he took i took the full cup
pour yourself another one ya abu huraira so
abu huraira took and poured himself another one
and he drank another one so he poured
a third one and he drank a third
i can't fight there's no space i have
no space for milk anymore give it to
me then he gave it back to me
and i looked at what was inside only
a little bit was gone from what we
had taken initially this happened in his life
multiple times and you'll hear the stories and
it's like he taught abu huraira a little
bit of a lesson don't be selfish ya
abu huraira drink drink keep on drinking don't
worry you'll drink you'll be fine drink don't
be selfish don't look around it's not nice
it's not nice being selfish it's not nice
drink drink drink until you have no more
space to put the milk ya abu huraira
it won't make a difference to you you'll
be fine you'll survive and they'll survive as
well i never felt like that again i
never behaved like that again i felt embarrassed
because alayhi salatu wasalam kept on drink until
you cannot find any space for it i
was worried the whole time that i'll have
enough or not anyways a group of people
who who life was difficult for but he
set up a system alayhi salatu wasalam for
people to educate them train them and then
get them out and he alayhi salatu wasalam
refused to eat he refused to eat until
he fed them with him whenever food came
to his home alayhi salatu wasalam he took
it out and he shared it with ahlul
suffah all his life alayhi salatu wasalam one
of the main reasons that he did not
accumulate any form of wealth in his life
alayhi salatu wasalam because whatever he had he
went and he shared with ahlul suffah to
the point where sayyidah aisha r.a i'm
sorry this is taking longer than i usually
spend time talking about this but there is
something there is a learning piece there is
a learning point here that's worthy of contemplation
and reflection the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam in
the hadith of tirmidhi where they gifted him
a meat a slaughtered sheep kharoof and that
was rare and someone brought it to the
prophet alayhi salatu wasalam home so alayhi salatu
wasalam here is so that of course aisha
is over the moon this is amazing so
the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam sat there with
the knife cutting pieces and sending it and
sending it over to ahlul suffah give me
another piece cut me another piece and aisha
is cutting it and she is getting slowly
aisha is getting more and more upset because
he is asking give me the leg give
me the back give me this give me
that and he is giving to ahlul suffah
and then he calls upon aisha say aisha
what's left of it what do you have
so i can give so he is asking
everything is gone except one shoulder and she
said it in a way where you can
tell she was upset so he entered the
house alayhi salatu wasalam he said no all
of it is left except the shoulder because
that is what we are going to eat
we are going to eat that now we
will eat it but no you are not
understanding this Not that I bet cool now.
It's all gone except the cut if no
it's all left all of it We're gonna
find all of it.
You'll be on my except the cut if
we're not gonna find that because we ate
it So the law how this life is
right?
That's that's how his brain worked.
That's how he saw the world, right?
It's a different different lens different lens He
wore on his thought was time to see
life that if we truly want to emulate
him on his thought was slamming we truly
want to be and we consider ourselves followers
of Sayyid al-khalq muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
I mean that we that we for sure
have to adapt or adopt to a certain
degree this These lens that he wore of
how he saw the world on his thought
was salam and that's that's how we treated
on the sofa on his thought was from
because any community is only as good as
They treat the most vulnerable amongst them Okay,
any community?
It's only as good as As the way
that they treat the people who are the
weakest amongst them so a community that is
prospering I mean visibly or apparently you see
sir, but then the poor amongst them the
mentally ill the elderly Those are the refugees
are struggling people are not taking care of
them That's the computer community has no baraka
in it and that community will fail It
will fail and the poverty circles that I'm
taught the Sahaba this that no no, he's
not going to give the Responsibility of caring
to other sofa just to a group.
He's going to care for a sofa himself
I like his thought was Sam himself He's
going to take on his own wealth and
feed them on his thought was Sam and
it's because of that that they loved him
it's because he cared for the see, there's
a Life as a hierarchy and there's always
going to be people that are just at
the end of the of the line just
at the bottom of the Of the pile
people who are always gonna get let get
things last We remembered last be taking care
of us.
It's always gonna be people like that and
the prophet I use a lot of them
He positioned himself in a way where those
people were under his eyes on his thought
wasn't he took care of them personally Personally,
I listen people who came and helped him
keep people took care of them Did that
based on one thing to be like him
out of his thought of the Quran?
They didn't they didn't do this.
He didn't tell them to do this They
just saw him spending all of his time
paying for them.
So they said we will now help you
Russell We'll train them and teach them you
need to rest and you need to be
able to do other things His wealth I
think he's a lot of us.
I'm a go-to I don't suffer so
we have Sahaba would say well if he
every time we give him something to eat
He's gonna give it on a sofa, but
maybe we should do that ourselves Because he
cared for the most vulnerable amongst his community
I mean we cannot consider ourselves a Muslim
community if we don't care for the most
vulnerable amongst us If we don't if we
don't make sure that we spend time caring
for those who are weak and poor and
those who are any Struggling enough challenges and
can't care for themselves.
He was always like that.
I saw to us that I'm you understand
that way before this Oh, this predates his
prophecy Khadija said this about him.
We ran down the mountain.
He was scared.
I got in there I tell you what
to leave him at home But to keep
him I don't want to be someone who
carries the person who cannot carry himself And
you give wealth to a person who cannot
support himself and you see and you and
you see Yeah, do you stand by the
person who had his worst moment?
Always how he always how he was on
he says and it's because of that in
my opinion that Allah I chose him for
prophecy because he was a leader who did
not distance himself from his people They didn't
he refused to distance himself from the most
poor amongst his group I don't know what's
it up and when they would come to
him I saw so I'm showing him and
then on story how do you value the
rated not too long ago?
No, it didn't be the they they pulled
up their their commutes They're gonna be and
they showed him the rock that was tied
on their stomachs because they were so hungry
But I thought of some smiled and he
pulled up his gonna be and there were
two rocks on his stomach tied out of
his Thoughts of them because he was he
was starving probably more than they were And
it's because of that they followed him and
there's because I told him that if you
walk into the into the sea will walk
behind You right because people who feel supported
even if you know They're sometimes communities don't
have the ability to support every person within
that within them fully But if there's enough
care and empathy then that'll mean something and
I don't think we have that problem I
think I think we're very much capable of
supporting the most vulnerable amongst us.
We have the wealth we have the expertise
We have we don't have the interest We
don't have the interest because we're behaving in
many ways like politicians do politicians don't care
about poor people You know, there's maybe just
maybe just before voting season because they need
their votes But after that there's no money
in caring for a pair, you know, you
don't get a lot of meat There's nothing
in it where people don't have a lot
of money to support you So they're not
gonna give it is a positive don't care
and then people just are forgotten and that's
why you have slums in every That's why
Monday for a clinic.
It's just absolutely I just take a walk
from Mount Sinai to Union Station I'm walking
on a side.
We're trying not to step on people's stomachs
or lie or we're lying on top of
vents to keep warm What is this?
How is our country going to be sick?
How can we see our country as a
successful one?
How is this a car?
How do we argue that with ourselves and
there are people who are starving and people
who don't don't have homes and people I
mean This is just a Capitalistic greed that's
what we're living in and the property is
thoughtless around me.
That's not how he that's not what he
taught That's not what he built Yes, you
work hard you make you get ahead for
sure, but but not but we don't but
as Muslims we don't forget the vulnerable and
we We Fight we channel in front a
lot of our energy and our wealth and
our resources to take care of them and
rehabilitate them Make sure that they're able to
take care of themselves.
That's about throwing money at people.
That's no money time It's not always what
that what's missing My body is a lot
of us that I'm in a a really
nice story one night a man would come
I need the Muhajir and you know, he
he looked at him and this person was
just you know, a step away from dying
He was Beyond thirsty he was beyond hungry.
He looked horrible.
He played a shot and he came to
the Prophet I need someone and the Prophet
had nothing in his home.
Nothing Nothing at all So he said I
think it's a lot of a slam after
saw it I shot a knight who will
take care of this man tonight and Everyone
was quiet because it was a the first
couple of years in Medina were very rough
financially on people Especially the most didn't have
a lot money.
We have had a little while ago Jenna
He gave the incentive One person put his
hand up I'll take care So he brought
I need the man to his house And
he told his wife I brought any prophet
had a guest and I brought the guest
of Rasul Allah I think he's thought to
us around with me tonight I'll call it
man.
Did I shake it?
No, no, no, I mean no time.
Oh, no, no, no We just have like
a small bowl of oats that we you
know The kids are gonna have before they
go to sleep.
So I know you mean put them put
them to sleep Make them forget about it
and then let them go to sleep.
So she put her kids to sleep hungry
But I don't know.
I'd be had the bomb like feel wacid.
This is not enough food for one person
How do we eat it with him?
I'll see you and miss Bach turn off
the the lantern and say that we don't
have we don't have anything left for the
lantern Yeah We'll use our Spoons or utensils
and we'll just bang on the thing as
if we're eating and he'll eat and he
won't know because it's pitch dark You have
no idea that we're not So she's they
sat together and the pot and the man
is eating and they're just kind of clink
clunking and clinking with their utensils I'm the
just do it and then the guy went
to sleep and they went to sleep They
come back to Fajr obviously in the morning
The man takes his guest and he goes
over a certain pleasure.
They place a lot of value to pop
out a sultan stands up again but Yafilani
calls upon the person in Allah But I
do that means funny.
You come out and tell was oh, Jessica
Layla.
Indeed Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala was in awe
And this is obviously a figure of speech
because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is not similar
to us and we don't draw similarities when
we speak About Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
So take it figuratively understand it without going
into details of exactly what it means But
I do that mean he was impressed.
That's what I do.
That means he was impressed There was an
off from what you did tonight to a
mother on us and they told people this
is what fool and did tonight even though
this person did not do it, you know
for For yeah, but he didn't do it
wanting people to you know, he didn't want
his guest to know this But the father
he saw some wanted with any Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala said give you to say this
man is what he did tonight Yeah, that's
what Allah is that the man who said
you'll take your guest that's how he treated
him so the father I told the Muslims
of the action of this of the gentleman
and his and his wife Another thing that
he that he would do at that time
is that he started to try he was
trying to figure out Self-sufficiency when it
came to a provision That was a big
part as you can tell with my stories
and I'm telling you the big problem in
the first couple years in Medina was how
he was going to make sure there was
enough to feed the people who are in
Medina Because there was a lot of welfare
and one of the main problems was water
One of the main problems is water you
can imagine living in the middle of the
desert water is a very very precious commodity
You're able to yeah.
I mean we don't feel that here because
we are this is the richest area on
the planet with with With pure water.
Oh, yeah, the richest area in the world
Yeah, so we don't really think about this,
but I can tell you yeah I mean
no one here has placed a lot of
this is Scott in this country.
Have you is this kind of country?
I say I did it five times in
the years.
I was there It's just guys I mean,
but because you would go to drugs and
there's not and no that would stop There's
no there's no water in the river anymore
People can't I can't feed their crop.
They can't irrigate their crops.
They can't drink people die farmers die So
they had a problem with water all of
the wells were owned by by the Jewish
tribes all of them all of them were
owned and they Charged money for the water.
So it was a financial burden upon the
Muslims for to be able to just drink
water and use water for clothes for washing
and Bathing and Cleansing themselves and clean their
clothes and whatnot.
So I brought out a slot to a
slam started a campaign You know on the
member to buy a well and he asked
people for and this how he did this
all the time I mean he's thought to
a slam and this is what I believe
the idea The form of Fundraising in our
community would look like either member.
It was the member.
It's very simple on the middle Here's what
we need Put the money before Jomar's over
people would play Jomar and the prophet would
wear on top of the commies that he
wore He would wear a burda or rida
and then he would take his rida off
and he would put it on the ground
and people Would come and put whatever they
had, right?
So they were putting something to buy the
wells are very very expensive like it's very
expensive and there was a well Wanted to
buy it's called the aroma because it was
just close was close enough to the message
and it was right in the neighborhoods Of
the Muslims and it was it would be
a perfect to be able to buy it.
This is a lot of water in it
and They're putting money in that and it
wasn't enough But if I got off matter
of the allah-u-anhu God if I
shall be allah-u-ajjala who will come
in muslimin That's not only allah-u-anhu
came and he bought the whole thing He
said you're so I keep the money do
something else with it And he went and
he bought the well on his own expense
and he made it off and he made
it to any Endowment and he didn't like
it.
It didn't even belong to him.
Well the allah-u-anhu and I put
the That I think I did It is
from there.
It is still there Yeah, still there There's
a bit and there's a lot of it
with mine.
You can go and see it There's still
water in it to 1400 years ago, he
bought it allah-u-anhu and he and
he made it Muslimin there is a a
deed with it a Deed with it that
was renewed during the earlier Othmani period of
it being an endowment for muslimin Still till
this day till this day the concept of
what?
The concept of endowments and what it's what
this on this our umma was built on
that financially the concept of walk Where you
you say this aspect of this part of
my of my life with this This part
of my possessions these hours that I work
over the sake of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
Whatever I make for them is for the
community is for the Muslims.
I pump it into the Muslim community Yeah,
you have you own things you make a
certain a certain portion of what you own
That's what you have a restaurant you make
one of the tables whatever you make that
table makes Couple of taxis you make one
of them walk for you.
Yeah, I mean you work You're on call
ten times a month one of those nights
walk for a lot This is how people
lived this how Islam this how the you
can't build a nation with no money When
when people when there's not enough wealth, you
can't do anything Now that doesn't mean that
you give wealth to people who are you
know, untrustworthy and there's no accountability and there's
no transgression No But you have to be
well There has to be wealth in the
community People to build to invest in people
and to invest in infrastructure and to invest
in Projects and in programming and in support
and to take care of the vulnerable means
we have to have wealth There's any money
that you can move around they can put
and that's and for us in the wealth
when the West where we are Yeah, I
need significantly more wealthy than most Muslims living
around the world It's like significantly more wealthy
a key Most of you send money back
home most of you send money to people
back home if on a monthly basis Most
people here, that's what they do.
They have to you know, wrap it up
and send it back home So you already
know that there's a huge difference in wealth
So for our community here to suffer but
not for us not to be able to
educate our own children Appropriately for us not
to be able to mentor them and make
sure that they know the Quran and their
Arabic language They're the language of the Quran
properly for them not to have a strong
identity for us not to have functional schools
for us not to have resource centers that
take care of the mentally ill and Help
with domestic abuse them with marriage and counseling
problems and for us not to have Yeah,
a fingerprint getting about on every and every
charitable institution in the city hospitals and yeah
I need any support centers and for us
not to be in that realm at all
But it's not to us not to have
these things and have them, you know functioning
well, and it's just very shameful Oh, well,
it's shameful.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't I can't I can't Excuse
it.
See I don't have the ability to command
older people to do something So this may
take a second only I people listen to
this they may do they may not to
make some time But I'm waiting for the
younger generation to grow up Yes, you have
money you will put your money in this
or I will come to your house with
a baseball bat Yeah, you will you will
put your money into the community I mean,
you know what?
No, you do this for you Do this
so that you you can you can argue
yourself argue yourself through Yom Kiyamah Do this
for yourself.
Yeah, no, you don't know one Yeah, you
know one always you anything you do this
when you put your wealth for the sake
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala You save
yourself.
You save yourself.
You said me something.
Okay.
I'm gonna ask you what you're gonna say.
Yes I always made sure there was something
for you and I supported my community.
I hope the vulnerable that wasn't stingy That
wasn't selfish with it.
You do it for yourself We all have
to offer something We all have to put
in our time our hours and our wealth
but in order for the community to stand
again Unfortunately, there's not an old shake of
the city to go yell at the elderly
people to put their money so that we
can make things happen But maybe you have
to wait until I'm a bit older I
can yell at all the younger people who
can do it because I don't know Anyone
else?
Well, I remember this.
I know I mean some of my teachers
were in an old shoe.
I watched it with my own eyes He
walked up to a you know, there's a
lot of in Damascus specifically in Syria.
There's two job meaning there are people of
Businessmen like like real to job people very
wealthy.
Well, I mean Subhanallah, I thought he's Some
of these stories are just you know, I
don't think I don't think will ever happen
again But she must have a dog money.
I mean, I was a kid at this
time and I was with you He walked
into this man's shop and he told him
I am NOT leaving Until you put down
the money to bet to build.
Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna stuff in this
in this place in a certain place I'm
standing here until you do it.
I Will not leave until you put the
full amount you or someone else But how
did I shake and he got up and
he went to me knocked on the door
of his of his neighbor the other name
when they came and they put together a
Million and a half lira and then we
shake took it and he put it in
and they built the most awesome And they
built like a small hospital that was required
in an area that Danny was that was
underserviced I've seen these things happen before in
my in my life And I don't think
that's needed unfortunately, but maybe maybe it is
But there you go 1,400 years you
can go stand there and just look at
that The father I saw to Islam asked
for we need we need so I put
his whole well his full wealth And this
is why I'm a man the new rain
What do you love on him?
You know this man you think about it
when I tell the stories of the prophet
I thought of sums like like there's not
a lot right think about it I got
a buckle a buckle is a lot at
the beginning of his life of his seal
out of his thoughts I'm he's there first
Muslim Dawa Defending him with him and then
he was there for hijab He comes up
every time My gosh It's almost like he's
saying Ali, but it's a nice man.
How many times does he come up?
How many times will it be three or
four times in the whole sera?
But every time he comes up he does
something that you know just silences everybody He
just does he doesn't speak much doesn't do
much But when he does something he goes
and he buys a well and he makes
an endowment and Muslims can drink that he
said We left forever Plus the prophet alayhissalaam
has a there's a real threat in the
north and they need they need wealth to
build an army He puts the whole money
the prophet alayhissalaam examples like three or four
examples.
He was a mother about this man What
could possibly harm this man in his life
after after he does all this?
I don't know what I can say Sometime
you don't have to sit in and he
give the rules and do sometimes you just
you just do one big thing Just one
big thing It'll stay with you on your
record for the You'll use it to argue
your way.
You'll make me think about it Think of
the difference between unison and the moose alayhissalaam.
Yeah, he was I said I made one
mistake It was a normal mistake.
He got upset with his people his people
wouldn't they wouldn't listen and a lot So
I told him tell your people three days
and punishment all I'm gonna die.
So he got so upset with him Why
did you do this?
Why'd you listen to me?
So he left out of anger with his
people because they wouldn't listen to Allah subhana
wa ta'ala But he wasn't allowed to
leave he was not allowed to leave without
permission.
He forgot that He spent the better the
better the better type of Aspect of a
month in the belly of a whale Right
save the moose alayhissalaam on the other hand
got mad one day.
He was carrying the Torah.
He threw it down He took his brother
by the way.
He pulled his brother's leg.
Yeah, he was yelling and screaming.
You don't find anything in the Quran But
Moosa, is that okay?
No, it's not.
Okay, but where's the punishment?
Where's the chastising for Musa?
Where is it nothing?
Why because Moosa stood in front of Pharaoh?
Moosa stood in front of it on Musa
Moosa can't do anything that will harm him
anymore.
Moosa had a moment.
That was absolutely historical Moosa I was was
tasked with with an act with an action.
That was almost impossible You was I was
a great man, but my buddy just a
lot of us don't see the units They
didn't have that one thing So when he
made a mistake there had to be a
way to fix it They had to be
like a punishment so that he would come
to a lot of clean, but Moosa alayhissalaam.
No Moosa It's not about There's nothing our
man can He can make mistakes later.
No, we'll make mistakes.
I will I'm telling you this because I've
man does make mistakes Right.
So if say no, it's man didn't know
right?
We'll make a mistake I'll point it out
to you when we come to talk about
it But it doesn't it doesn't make this
look like the Quran.
He means it says It's it's it's it's
pardoned not even forgiven.
It's pardoned.
Why because of this because this And this
type of contribution during this time During these
first two years salah Siyam and zakah would
become obligatory Right in there in their forms
like in their proper forms like salah in
the form that we have it where jumu
'ah Exists because jumu'ah, you know, he
was still something that was just being started
The first jumu'ah was led by a
side of his or rather During Came by
his command, but jumu'ah was still being
established as the anchor Yeah Any ritual of
the whole week that everyone showed up to
and it was like he was no excuses
He had to be there for that the
salawat in terms of the rakat four and
Four and three and four and two the
time all of the timings the exact timings
were were explained by the prophet alayhis-salatu
was-salam is zakah the concept of zakah
the 2.5 percent of your stagnant wealth
over Lunar year had to be paid if
you were pulling crops or fruit from trees
Then you had to pay it it was
over a certain amount if you had You
had a buck on and got him and
if you had camels and sheep and and
livestock then there you owed a certain amount
Of that zakat became the Siyam the first
Ramadan when the first second the second year
of his of his of his hijab alayhis
-salatu was-salam, so the rulings began to
come through There were the fiqh the fiqh
start to come through.
Are you you're committed to this?
You believe in la ilaha illallah muhammad rasulullah
good.
Now, here's here's what you need to do
Here are the details of it here's what
you exactly have to do in order for
you to actually make it across the finishing
line at the end a Really nice.
Oh, yeah, I'll end with this because I
think we're coming close to it.
Okay, so I'll tell this one story One
of the rituals that were built during this
time was an event There was no I
mean we take it for granted because it's
a part of our daily life We're used
to it the kids memorized as a you
know But at that time people just came
they knew when the Sun was in the
middle of Zenith come for Salah when it's
two times the Two times the height of
the actual thing come for awesome when the
Sun sets come from over there when there's
no light in the Comparison pleasure right before
the Sun when you see the first beam
of light on the horizon the true I
come for pleasure But they were saying how
do we like people are missing things because
they just oversleep or they don't notice or
they don't pay attention So they're talking about
what we need like we need a way
to And to let people know so they're
talking about it.
What do we do?
Do we get like a bell?
Do we get like what do we how
do we do this?
So a man by the name of Abdullah
Nusaid only Allah one who got really really
interested in this and he's this is the
only story we have for him Well, you'll
know and I've no other story for this
gentleman in the seal of the prophet I
think it's a lot of us around but
he was talking about what are we going
to do?
You know, how are we going to let
people know we need to figure out a
way to do this So he's sitting there
like yeah.
Yeah, this is a big problem So he
goes home and he's thinking about all night
And he sees a dream and the dream
he sees Yeah Bells right ringing and there's
someone telling him no or not That's not
a good idea and then he sees like
a fire being put a turn on a
certain time on the high I know that's
not a good idea and then He sees
a person dressed in a white and would
not come to him and teach him words
to say to be called upon which is
So he comes for pleasure and he's like
Absolutely ecstatic and he comes Who has a
to share he would do this often Until
the end of the This is it So
I always talk and talk about this, but
I don't think I have enough time.
So this guy came in.
Yeah, I know he came in ecstatic that
he he Found something that he felt was
it was a was a guy It's a
jackpot.
It was a bullseye This is going to
work because they were thinking about and it's
almost always like it's wahi.
It's not really wahi It's more intuition.
It's So he came into the prophet and
the prophet were all happy with this amazing.
This is perfect We have someone stand on
top of the manor.
We'll build a manor They'll stand on top
of the manor and he'll make his calling
for prayer So he brought this so he's
like, yes.
Yes.
I'll do it for the next salah and
he told him It's all you have to
do it.
He has a nicer voice So I can
only imagine this this gentleman feeling, you know,
but but I'm but He was snoring the
whole night.
He didn't see I saw this.
It's mine.
I'm the one who saw it.
He didn't No one in the seer and
I looked for this because I was very
interested to know how did he react to
that?
Like i'm interested in these silly things like
i'm how do people psychologically react to certain
moments?
So I always felt like this poor gentleman
Yeah, and he was being he would feel
cheated out of out of the opportunity to
make the first to raise the first public
event But he didn't no one in the
hadith of the seerah.
Did this man actually object or feel upset
or get mad?
He went to bilal and taught bilal how
to do it and then bilal would stand
on the And he would make the first
adhan in his beautiful voice As he did
all throughout the life of the prophet and
the gentleman Will continue to take the ajr
until yawm al qiyamah He will continue to
be remembered for being the person through whom
through whom allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brought
us the adhan He'll get the ajr every
time adhan goes up Sometimes you have to
be okay with Not being in the spotlight
sometimes you have to be okay with just
working behind the scenes Because everyone has a
different purpose and have a different skill set
and different role Not everyone has to be
up front.
It's okay.
Abdullah was okay with what he was given
which was just being the The vehicle through
which we would learn adhan and then bilal
being the muadhin of the prophet I always
thought that was interesting and if we all
learned to do that, by the way We
would live in a better world altogether along
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