Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #44
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And the story of the hijra a lot
of the discussions will be about how he
was managing this new Reality that he had
on his thoughts and managing this new city
or this new country if you may that
he was ruling and and the Difficulties that
come with that so a lot of these
stories are going to be based on that
And the way I see it is that
that's what we're talking about and in the
midst of all of that there'll be battles
that I'll tell you the stories of so
that it's not really the battles that are
the The meat of the story, it's all
the management is what the prophet peace be
upon him his vision was It's how he
was trying to achieve that vision It's the
education and the mentorship and the dawah And
the change of the norms and the customs
and the amr al maroof and they had
in Munkar all these things that occurred in
Medina that I want to share with you
is these these etiquettes and and And characteristics
that he was instilling in people in front
of him and the the knowledge that he
was spreading but in the midst of all
of that Battles occurred and these battles had
to occur because he was not being treated
fairly out of his thought was said I
mean it was not being treated equally and
I'm gonna point that a little bit today
So even though probably 60% of the
time spent until the end of this series.
We'll be talking about battles Still the reality
of it is that that is not the
majority of what was occurring during his life
out of his thoughts It's just battles are
very extreme Situations so people tend to remember
details and in extreme situations There's a lot
to learn and the Quran would come and
talk about those extreme situations a lot of
depth which gives us that that Opportunity to
learn these lessons So it's gonna seem like
it's all battle.
There's really it isn't and What we've what
I've shared over the last maybe Number of
Obsessions, which is the prophet alayhi salatu waslam's
planning in the first two years We talked
about building the message.
We talked about the concept of a muakha
and we talked about the Constitution and naming
the city and actually building and Building the
infrastructure for this for this new country and
I went over a number of points that
are miscellaneous in that in that whole In
that whole vision that he was that he
was building on his thought was an M
And we talked about that last time and
I still have two more points I want
to point out and then I'll move on
inshallah.
Ta'ala another another occurrence that took place
within those first two years That was important
was the concept of the member and I
and I use that as my anchor example
But really what I'm talking about is jumu
'ah.
I'm talking about the the concept of Jumu
'ah this to us is a so what
is one of the pitfalls of the human
experience like in general outside of religion?
It's just things that occur With no break.
I mean the pattern that keeps on happening
you stop you stop thinking about it Like
you take it for granted becomes a maxim
and you stop even thinking about it And
just just accept it being there and this
is like a huge pitfall for human beings
in general whatever you're doing whether it's studying
or your It's work or with your family
or with your relationships Whatever it is, it's
the stuff that are always happening that you
tend to stop noticing you start taking for
granted You don't appreciate well and you mess
up in the long run like ends up
being completely messed up because you just stop
Being to be able to see what they
are until Allah Allah.
Yeah, I mean it's taken away from you
or You're threatened to lose them and then
you suddenly realize oh my god.
This is this is very important so you
start taking time to look at it and
hopefully you're smart enough to realize and Acknowledge
and recognize how beautiful these things are before
they're taken away from you And that's what
the Quran is huge about the Quran is
like the number one book that that just
does that it tells you can You please
notice that which is always occurring around you
and the example for it obviously, or the
clear and strong example is the Quran asking
you time and time again to Observe and
contemplate the Sun and the moon and the
movement of the earth and the mountains and
the rivers and the water coming down to
the earth And the earth bringing green and
and them dying again, and they can happen
resurrecting again And these things we just take
for granted because that's life That's life things
die and they live again and they die
and they live again And that's how life
is and we don't really think about it.
We don't we don't contemplate that but that's
really Technically what exactly we're supposed to be
thinking about and contemplating and we know that
in our own lives Because example example you
have your parents around and they're there So
every day you see your parents and whatever
like they're there and then somehow you lose
one and then and then it hits you
So hard and you start actually you regret
so much and then you start having the
ability to to treasure the one that's left
and The Quran is trying to get us
to notice these things before before you lose
them before you lose them and the example
that I have from this For this part
of the story is the concept of Jumu
'ah.
We take it for granted.
It's just that's the norm Friday You're going
to go find a Masjid and pray Jumu
'ah Yeah, we take it for it's a
part of our lives and we just stick
Jumu'ah was a huge huge Social change
that he brought alayhi salatu wassalam how just
think about before That Jumu'ah wasn't wasn't
the thing Prayed dhuhr and if you had
time pray dhuhr and then he came alayhi
salatu wassalam and Quran came and said no
And there's going to be from now on
the day of Jumu'ah specifically right chosen
by by God himself Dhuhr salah is going
to be different.
It's going to be mandatory for all men
residing in a certain area to come and
pray Well women are welcome, but it's a
mandatory for men to come Whatever it is
you're doing you drop you go So the
ayah says if we are called to pray
on the day of Jumu'ah then we
should go to the remembrance of Allah You
hear the calling you go to buy You're
selling you're buying like it's your livelihood But
yeah is how you make make a living
you're making a living you stop you go
pray Jumu'ah You're not told to do
that for the Asr of Yom Khamis, right?
You're not told to do that Isha on
the day of Tuesday.
No, if you come I don't know it's
good.
It's khair, it's barakah You benefit, but you're
not told to drop what you're doing and
come but Jumu'ah No, everyone drop be
there and it's not a normal a normal
prayer No, we're gonna we're gonna remove two
rakah out of the four and instead of
two rakahs someone's going to address you He's
not gonna be any person Now it is
today it is today It's just any person
but back then it's going to be the
leader The Prophet himself will address you and
then after he moves on it will be
it will be all the leaders And if
he said if he sent people to go
reside somewhere else the person who would give
their khutbah would be their leader the person
who was responsible for making decisions like the
The top of the pyramids in any in
any hierarchical structure structure Political or may it
be or social that's the person who's going
to actually make you do the Jumu'ah
So he started this concept out of his
thought was that I'm he Founded this this
system that was going to ensure that wherever
Muslims are on the planet Whatever time within
history it is no matter how few of
them there are They're going to figure out
a way to establish this ritual so that
they will have some form of leadership amongst
them This is what Jumu'ah was this
was a big deal because yeah I mean
it changed the way That community functioned like
the way the community that he had was
going to function from now on was different
Because of this of this installment of this
one day a week where everyone has to
show up if it didn't show up you're
either Traveling sick or dead if you're neither
Yeah I mean there's nothing there's nothing you
have to be there if you're a part
of the Muslim ummah and you're in this
you have To be you have to be
attending no excuses, and this was a big
deal because this allowed the Prophet alayhi salatu
wasalam to Not only know who he has
in his community but also address them with
next steps in a way that is formal
and Continuous and repetitive and allows for a
sequential form of learning that was going to
happen for the sahaba who are going to
attend this It was a big deal How
does an ummah get lost if every week
they gather once with their leader?
And they just they hear where they're going
like they fit Here's what's happened over the
last week, and here's what the next steps
are going to look like right.
It's impossible It's impossible.
It's actually not I don't understand It's one
of the Enigmas of reality for me for
the Muslim ummah how we how we managed
to be where we are when we have
this this tool Right it's not like Sundays
for for it's not the same thing by
the way like like for Christian and Jews
Sunday and Saturday are not the same as
You're not they're not we're not told on
actually the Sunnah on the day of Juma
is that you work It's not to take
the day off.
It's actually it's actually makruh in all four
schools of jurisprudence all four of them It's
makruh to take Friday fully off you understand
Like the way that they Saturday Saturday and
Sunday work for the other faith that you
have you can't work that day.
You're not allowed to work It was a
day, and they have these weird beliefs of
God taking a day off Jalla Jalaluhu Allah
wa hasha lillah and none of that for
us as Muslims.
You're not supposed to have Juma off You
should be working on Juma.
It's just when Juma happens you stop you
go attend Juma.
They go back again So actually you're living
the Sunnah in this country more than we
would back in the Middle East And we
know that all of my shukh would preach
this time and time again that Juma shouldn't
be off Like it shouldn't be the day
off take other if you're going to give
people Yeah I knew time off from governmental
work or from Or in ways to protect
the the employee from from the abuse of
the employer And you give them yeah, I
need about two days out of seven Oh,
don't make it Friday Friday people should get
up and go to work And then it
was Juma time they go attend Juma and
they come back and they continue their day
And then they go home or the end
yeah either day with Juma or however however
you want to look at it and And
that's why it the ayah doesn't say Whether
we'll be on the ayah in Surah Juma
is Assuming that you're working that you're selling
and buying in a Juma times you you
drop and you go So that all the
other Salat when Salah is over fantastic.
We'll feel ugly.
What about that?
Oh, I'm gonna follow that You're dispersed Into
the earth and go and ask Allah subhanallah
from his father I mean continue to work
and make your living and do what you
need to do Let's go to Allah and
now you someone has reminded you of God
and given you like some direction and do
that with the dhikr Of Allah, so you're
not supposed to say stay home all day.
That's actually not the point of it But
it was a system to make sure that
the community always had direction that they would
never get lost now This has been completely
butchered overseas.
I mean in majority Muslim countries by corrupt
political regimes completely butchered where The khatib gets
on the membrane And there's a piece of
paper that he asked to read because the
old class and determined this has been approved
by Political leadership and they just stands there
you read the that's why people yeah I
am a rahim or a be in certain
certain places Yeah, but this is the majority
of what's happening in the least and I
grew up there and this is not based
on hearsay I witnessed this In this country
don't have that problem We actually don't have
that problem meaning Juma can be treated as
it was And I and I'm using the
example of the member because the prophet alaihi
salatu wasalam when he started speaking He was
he started speaking in the message just up
front It's like the message I told you
of the prophet alaihi salatu wasalam was no
bigger than the place that we're sitting in
This is a very actually very good example
of how it was almost same.
Yeah, I mean space.
There's no Barriers and women would listen meant
everyone is in the masjid the doors were
better But but this is similar and the
prophet alaihi salatu wasalam would stand up front
and give the khutbah and then and then
it got People start sitting outside of the
boundaries of the masjid because so many people
were attending So so people sit outside and
they couldn't hear see him or hear him
anymore I think it's a lot to us
and I'm because because he was standing on
the same level So they built a mimba
but before they did the prophet alaihi salatu
wasalam would would stand and hold on to
a branch There was a tree in the
front part of the message.
I want you to imagine the masjid of
the prophet alaihi salatu wasalam There's a tree
right up front here an actual tree not
like a no natural tree and the tree
I'd you know a few branches the prophet
alaihi salatu wasalam when he gave his khutbah
he was standing hold on to the branch
He would put an arm on the branch
and speak and then sit down and then
stand up again and do the same thing
He did this for the first year or
more And then the sahaba said is to
it's we're not we need we need to
get you a little bit up higher so
that people Can hear you so I've been
oh, but that's what I mean Bara, so
they made a member for him He built
it out of wood with three steps He
would stand it go up three steps and
stand out of his salatu wasalam and this
Narration that I'm gonna I'm going to share
with you There's nothing to do with what
I've been talking about in terms of leadership
and all that other stuff It's just a
really beautiful narration that I want I want
you to hear is narrated by at least
Eight different sahaba and it's in all the
books that all the collections of hadith It's
a very it's a very authentic narration and
it comes in different forms in different ways
with different additions to each narration but but
they all agree to the following that the
father alaihi salatu wasalam on the day that
they made the member for him on His
salatu wasalam and when the jumu'ah right
after that he's going to use it Nobody
you saw Allah alayhi alayhi salam a member,
so he goes up his member for the
first time I'm a man.
He's got the alayhi salatu wasalam the moment.
He turned to start to speak, but Samina
Sultan The salty Nigel Kabuki Nigel, you know
the ever heard a calf like a cry
If you have to you have to have
like a farm or work at a farm
at some point in your life But animals
like babies like human babies will make sounds
that are similar to crying So they heard
a sound as if a calf was crying
a calf was screaming as a young a
young Yeah, any bull or a young camel?
If I thought of a different than us
people were looking around to see who is
who brought their camel Yeah, you're there or
their cow to the minute to the masjid
because they heard it But if I don't
know for either of the salty, you know,
who do we did in knuckle?
And we looked and what we found and
the sound was coming from the branch that
the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam Used to stand
beside Salt and the sound became very loud
to the point that people couldn't hear what
he was saying I don't use a lot
to assemble finesse.
Let me mean buddy.
He got down the member I don't know
that he'll do that.
He goes over to the branch I love
a mess.
I hardly he and he started to stroke
the branch I don't know who calamity saying
and he's whispering something to the branch.
I'll have to head a little jitter Had
to head until the jitter stopped making the
noise for calling.
Yeah, Rasul Allah Ma hadha Oh prophet of
Allah.
What is this?
What just happened?
The collar look at the hand and jitter.
Oh, you know, I got a hassle in
the home in the killer The jitter was
upset that it's losing what used to occur
at its sight from the remembrance of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala Meaning it was upset that
no It's no longer the host of all
of what you the prophet I don't he
thought was that I'm used to teach and
he used to say and now he's gonna
be standing over there and it's So it
began to cry It made a physical noise.
You're cool.
And if I'm not going to take all
the yaris will Allah What were you saying
the collar cool to Laha?
I'll go to the jitter it'll spit what
the cool room I feel Jenna be patient
and you will be with me in Jenna
The cool Lola.
Oh, I'd who'd be that For wallah, he
the Hannah.
Well, I'm not you know, you'll meet me
Emma And if I did not tell him
this you would have made this noise until
the Day of Judgment So Lala, how do
you sell them a branch of a tree
Yeah, he felt the The absence of his
presence.
I think it's a lot to us around
and made a physical noise that the people
were attending You know, this is this hadith.
The reason that it It's authentic is because
it happened on Friday.
The machine was full Everyone witnessed it all
of the Sahaba were saying they witnessed this
And that's why it's narrated to us through
all these different people who just point it
and they do a different do a different
Wordings for it because of what they saw
because they heard the sound of it at
the time I said now I'm hot Bobby
had to get to remove it.
No one knows where it is because people
would come in Itabarakuna it became it became
its own thing like the the jitter later
on years after it became its own thing
people come This is the jitter.
It was getting a little bit too much
human beings.
Unfortunately have this bad habit of You know
sometimes going overboard So they don't have to
remove it had to be removed And hidden
and no one knows where it was hidden
You know after the statement of a little
hop up did this out of the fact
that people were starting to misuse the you
know The interpretation of what happened But that's
the story of his member.
I mean he's a lot to us and
the jitter.
Yeah, I missed him But that member is
one of the reasons that his umma was
the way it was in this member is
the reason that The umma of the prophet
aleyhis salatu was salam for a millennium after
he passed away was able to maintain its
own It's how Muslim communities function if we
don't bring back the functionality of Yomi Juma
and the member of Juma again into our
communities Then we will continue to struggle when
we talk about leadership and communities in Muslim
communities a problem Is not lack of people
who do have leadership skills.
It's not it's not lack of No, no,
we have all of that and we have
what's more important is a day with everyone.
I I'm on a number of boards in
community.
Do you understand how hard it is to
get everyone into a room?
For a meeting.
Yeah, I mean, it's one of the things
that make me consider walking in front of
a bus Yeah, I mean on a day
on a bride just I could just end
this whole thing now There's no need to
continue to it's impossible to get people into
a room There's seven men just for a
meeting once it mustache is impossible Everyone has
something to do everyone is busy You have
to spend like a month just trying to
get people into a room then you have
Juma Everyone comes to Juma, right?
Everyone comes to Juma the prophet had a
weekly meeting whether they liked it or not
organized by God himself organized by Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala They all had to come so
he didn't struggle on his father's time with
getting people into a room to hear what
the next steps Are going to be and
then after Juma obviously people would come to
him on his father was saying you know
So what does that mean?
So what do we do whether it was
whether he needed funds out of his thought
to us that I'm to build something or
to Fund something whether I use a lot
of Sam needed more people to volunteer for
For a Saraya whether he needed people to
volunteer for opening their opening their homes for
those who'd I know sofa whatever he needed
I used a lot to us around or
whatever the challenge was Wherever there is Mashallah
that was required happened right after Juma on
the day of Friday And and that's if
you think about it, and if you understand
how difficult it is to run anything especially
when human beings are involved He just removed
on a his thought to us I need
to be the way this works Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala Removed for us the biggest burden
of all which is getting everyone in a
room Just make sure everyone is not just
in a room, but they're all listening You
can't you can't really any but be discussing
stuff in the middle of Juma now Can
you right it's very abnormal for you to
start yelling at the imam in the middle
of Juma it happens here and there But
it's not supposed to and we know that
right so the prophet Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
has taken care of that for him He's
assembled his community for him, and they're going
to listen so he can actually say something
That's a meaning that's meaningful and then after
Juma people have the chance to actually come
and talk about this This is how things
were so this is how he was so
efficient.
This is how it was so effective the
Juma And a lot of the time I
think about this when we talk about meetings
and meetings like Do we not pray Juma?
I'm tired of solution behind then half an
hour after Juma you meet you get your
things done you move on But of course
there's a hundred masjid and a hundred timing
so everyone's praying a Juma at a different
place in a different time so That we
ruined it again You understand that technically speaking
If you were to take a faqih from
you know I mean a thousand years ago
from any of the schools of jurisprudence Hanafi
Maliki Shafi'i Hanbali or even yeah I
need a lot of your others like the
stuff that don't exist anymore and ask them
about The setup that we have for Juma
they would say it's all wrong.
It's absolutely all wrong You're not allowed to
have more than one Spot for Juma in
a in one city.
You're not unless there is a physical problem
Meaning meaning the community is too poor to
actually buy a place that's big enough for
everyone to pray in it So they're forced
to take more than one spot They're forced
like yeah, and the place is too big
so it's too far The city that they're
in has become so big that people at
the end of the city cannot It physically
can't make it to this message We have
to have two so when you talk about
another Juma in a masjid or a Juma
in the city Then you're talking about something.
That's extremely dangerous It's a big deal, and
if it's not appropriately done Then it could
be baqal and it could be completely invalid
and it could be unacceptable So this concept
that we have in this community where every
couple of it's like I don't know It's
like we spot a Juma every every week
in a different spot like the more I
look at there's like a million Juma's running.
I don't understand what we know It should
be technically and I'm for it And if
we all agree, I'll close the Juma that
I have here down and I'll go attend
with everyone else It's one you got one
Juma two if needed if you absolutely cannot
fit everybody, but we don't have that problem
We don't lack funds and wealth to do
it.
We lack some degree of willingness to do
it and we lack any form of Unity
to do it But the truth of the
matter is that When it comes to this
issue specifically you can have musalliyat People pray
Isha and it's closer to their homes when
it comes to Juma, no It defeats the
purpose of Juma if there's a million of
them It defeats the purpose of Juma if
there's a lot of them.
There's no points anymore Because there's no the
community has no leadership unless all of the
khutbah Have a union or they come to
they agree beforehand and there's a specific message
that has been agreed upon by the leadership
of the Community that's going to be dispersed
and given and administered during that khutbah aside
from that then this is all I'm telling
you It's all wrong.
This is all wrong.
Everything about it is completely wrong.
It's not right.
I don't like it I don't agree with
it I've been talking out against it since
I came here I don't like it at
all because we have nothing to blame here
Like if you go back to the Middle
East, there's a lot of hindrances for people
to actually establish it appropriately They don't have
but we have nothing here.
There's no hindrance here This is just an
issue of people not wanting to work with
each other just want to have their own
little silos It's it's more entertaining for them
that way But Jummah is not built for
that.
Jummah is an issue of leadership.
Not a ritual you could pay for her
Actually, if you are traveling if you're traveling
to another city and it's Jummah time.
Do you have to go pray Jummah?
No No, and for the numbers So for
example Shafi'i you need 40 people right
needs 40 people to attend Jummah in order
for the TV Do you have enough 40
people?
So if you if there's 39 and you're
a traveler you come in you don't count
You don't count that's me 40 result of
people who are residing because it's not about
the ritual the ritual was This is about
a different thing This is about the community
having some form of organization and having some
form of leadership So they can actually take
make decisions and take steps and move forward
and what the way it is right now
It's not even it's not like that it's
not and that has to and that has
to at some point change if we're going
to Because he built for me one of
the accomplishments of those first two years for
the Prophet Was establishing the member This member
here.
This is his member.
I think it's not to a slam.
It's no one else's anyone who stands there
They stand on behalf of Muhammad.
I think it's not to a slam.
It's a big deal To give hot pot.
You have to be approved by at least
three of your scholars do it Some people
send me sometimes.
Oh, we don't have a khatib so We
need a khatib.
No, no, see that's not how this works.
You have a khatib then you have a
khutbah If you don't have a khatib, then
you don't have a khutbah.
It's like you have a khutbah, but you
need a khatib That's insane.
That's insane.
That is like that's crazy That makes no
sense at all Yeah I mean within the
way Islam is built it you don't understand
what Jumu'ah is like I'm going to
establish a Jumu'ah and they Go look
for a khatib.
No, no.
You need a khatib.
You need someone who has some form of
leadership in your community to actually give the
khutbah For you to actually when let me
give you one more This is my last
piece of the ranch and I'll move on.
I promise I'll move on.
It's actually not Sunnah and it's not permissible
for you to bring speakers from outside the
city to give Jumu'ahs They can give
halaqat, they can give durs, but not Jumu
'ah The Jumu'ah has to be given
by someone who is a leader in the
community This person that you brought from outside
is a traveler.
He's a traveler.
He can't give Jumu'ah You can't this
is why I don't do this people I
get every week there's someone can I come
into this and no no I'll come and
give you a lecture.
Maybe Five years from now when I have
time, but no definitely not Jumu'ah Definitely
not Jumu'ah.
Based on what do I get on your
minbar and speak to you?
I don't I don't know anyone here.
I have no idea what their problems are.
I have based on what?
This is in books of fiqh.
I'm not making go look for this if
you don't believe me go look for this
go learn Read yourself.
You'll see it.
You'll find it written in the book That
a khatib should not be traveling and coming
from outside to give no they can give
durs But the khutbah should be from the
person on the inside It was the khalifa
and the wali that gave the khutbahs back
in the day And if they didn't because
they couldn't then the scholar who gave it
the residing scholar who gave it gave it
after consulting with them To understand what's coming
next.
What are we doing?
Where are we going?
What's the problem and it was a and
it's a security It's a it's a security
valve because it's a way to make sure
that everyone behaves Because if you don't behave
then there's a possibility that on the minbar
your name will be called out And your
mistake will be pointed out.
So you have to behave if you want
to get same thing goes for the leadership
The minbar had power.
It had real power.
It kept society.
It kept everyone in line It made sure
that oppressions could not happen that transgressions could
not occur without that being exposed somewhere So
people they feared jumu'ah because jumu'ah
was like al-qaba'ah was like the
the judiciary system It was it was immune
It was protected so that so that the
the voice of truth so that justice and
freedom could be administered there So that people
and it was a way to keep the
society today Of course, they've infiltrated that so
khalas the khatib is old It has to
be and he has to stand there with
the paper and the moment he doesn't read
from the paper You don't see him again
for a couple of months He's gone for
away.
He comes back later on he sticks to
the paper And it's a problem that we
have also if you don't have it here
It'd be nice as Muslims if Muslims learn
if we learned really what what is that?
We what we have is the systems that
Allah subhana that I have given us and
how to use them appropriately The last piece
that I want to talk about his him
establishing out of his lot was seven these
two years was a jaysh He'd established it.
He's that was an army There was an
army an army was required see in Mecca.
No such thing in Mecca.
They weren't allowed to bear arms They were
allowed to carry Swords at all no matter
how horrifically they were oppressed Even if they
were oppressed physically, even if they were they're
going to be killed They weren't allowed to
fight back with with with weaponry ever But
now is different the prophet had established a
country.
This country needs to be protected and that
requires an army so he started building an
army on a his thoughts was seven and
Proven actually and providing training and getting people
in the right positions to bleed it so
that when it's needed They can go in
because he knew out of his thought was
someone's going to come you think the Neighboring
tribes and neighboring cities and Quraish are going
to allow Going to allow him I he
thought was that they know to build a
city and change the norms of society No,
and he so he knew that I used
a lot of wisdom Which is why the
army was it was a big need and
to fund the protection of the city required
obviously a lot of work At the beginning
maybe in the first two years the prophet
I saw some had less than a thousand
people who could bear arms There's a less
than a thousand So you're talking about maybe
seven hundred eight hundred people tops who can
bear arms We can actually carry carry a
weapon and go in Into battle because you
can't take children and you can't you can't
force them in and you can't force obviously
the tribe the agreement with the tribes of
Yanni and yahoo'd and the tribes of the
Musharrakeen that were living in in in yesterday
in Medina is that they didn't have to
go They would have to offer something they'd
have to help with some of the weaponry
And they had to stay in the city
and protect the city But they never had
to go out and meet an enemy that
the prophet I listen did not force and
they didn't have to they they were not
they were absolved From being a part of
the military if they didn't want to join
if they wanted to join they could and
some of them did His armies I saw
some would have I saw some numb people
from Medina who were not Muslim Numbers were
very small, but they were there because they
were not forced to do this but they
were forced to keep the city safe and
to help fund the army and This obviously
was a was a big step from him.
I think it's a lot to a slam
at the time And this rocked the boat
Yanni within Jazeera very heavily So these are
the things I wanted to share with you
that occurred Technically speaking within the first two
years of his of his of him arriving
in Medina.
I think it's a lot to a slam
Establishing this this new country These are story
pictures that I shared with you last time
with the message of the prophet.
I think it's a lot to a slam
This is this is an example of what
it looked like those houses that you see
over there Beside the mess you know the
houses of the prophet I think it's a
lot of slams wives and he would you
know, there's a door right into the message
from his home I thought to a slam
as you can see And this is technically
what the I'm going to I'm going to
share this with you a little bit a
bit more detail when we Come to the
battle of the conduct.
I'll use this Picture and I'll point out
for you certain things Getting a sense of
what the city Looked like and during the
time of the prophet is of some degree
of importance This is just not a very
good resolution picture.
So I'll do this in a different time
inshallah to Adam All right.
So let's talk about this for a second
because this is important Never ever as a
Muslim should you feel Ashamed or embarrassed of
this word or what this word means You
have absolutely no reason to the word you
had is an extremely important Concept within Islam
and it's something that you should be very
proud of actually the concept of jihad is
to strive That's what it means in Arabic
to strive against a difficulty then jihad comes
in many different forms One of those forms
is called combat One of those forms is
called detail one of them the majority of
different forms of jihad are not combat Now
actually, they're more difficult.
Yeah, did you had of?
Masia when you strive against sin or you
or she had the power you strive to
hold on to good deeds Well, you had
enough when you strive against the nest that
the soul that you have on the inside
All of these types of striving are happening
all the time and the concept of she
had Is an umbrella term that that encompasses
all of these?
But if we're going to use the term
to describe combat, which is correct, obviously in
many situations There's nothing that you should feel
Johnny uncomfortable about And I know today today
is much easier than maybe 10 years ago
10 years ago Hey, I need more or
more or 15 years ago closer The word
itself caused people to feel very uncomfortable and
scholars and speakers in the West and in
the East would stay away from the word
after yeah, I mean we were After it
was reclaimed from us after was taken away
after this word was completely removed from our
vocabulary and taken away from us And we
couldn't use it anymore Muslim sakes I thankfully
over the last decade have reclaimed the word
and brought it back to it into where
it belongs Within our within our within our
faith.
Do you know what to see now?
I mean Amiri as you had the peak
the pinnacle of Being a Muslim is being
in a state of jihad in a state
of striving ongoing striving You're always pushing.
You're always trying to be better.
You're always trying to improve things You're always
you're standing up against that which is trying
to push you backwards You are pushing against
that which is trying to take away from
you your identity or what it is that
you stand for or you?
Believe in and that comes in many many
forms you do that with your tongue You
do that with your with your heart with
your mind with your pen and you do
that also with your with your hands when?
You need to majority of you sitting here
myself included In our lives our jihad will
not be in the form of combat the
majority of people sitting here It's not going
to be in that form and I'm doing
a lot that is that's the case the
prophet I'll a sauce and would tell the
Sahaba you know any verbatim that the men
know We call it I do never never
hope for war never hope for combat never
never wish it on yourself Never say inshallah.
I've never well I can settle off your
ask Allah for our fear for wellness and
the other forms of jihad do them They're
easier, and they're less When your life's on
the line it's a different It's a different
conversation all together your jihad is going to
be through knowledge Through seeking of knowledge and
through distributing of knowledge or jihad is going
to be through your character through your advocacy
To our your ability to work to collaborate
and to cooperate with people around you to
your jihad is going to be bringing back
And and and uniting a divided umma is
uniting an umma that's been divided for a
long time and strengthening the core of that
Umma, that's your jihad.
It's very hard It's very difficult.
Those are the first 13 years of his
life out of his thought to us as
a prophet But there was combat obviously during
his life because as a country his existence
out of his thought to us that I'm
the existence of The Sahaba was Johnny being
threatened time and time again There are 29
battles in total 29 until all together you
put our everything even though the ones the
ones that he didn't attend The Saraya put
it all together 29 battles, that's it all
together the number of people who died was
somewhere around 400 That's it.
I'm giving you the numbers are exaggerated like
I'm taking from the books that gave the
highest number I'm putting the highest number for
you.
Most of the books see numbers much lower
than that Because the numbers were fighting were
much lower And we know in better And
in Malika better from the Muslims only 14
people passed and 70 from the Musharrakeen I
thought it was 70 of the Muslims and
a similar number from the Musharrakeen the small
numbers who passed who actually died in combat
400 in total from both sides and most
and all the battles if we remove more
test specifically because we don't know exactly what
happened On the other side like from what
does specifically we don't know the number of
those who died on from the Roman Army
at that Day is just we don't have
proper numbers for it.
So the numbers are very low And the
reason that he did this because of this
phrase that you read up there in Arabic
This is a phrase that you should keep
with you and always remember when you're talking
about his His what was he asking for
he was asking for this Let me speak
to people Let me explain Islam to people
allow people to make their decision about whether
they want to believe or not Don't hold
your sword over their heads and don't continue
to threaten me when I try to speak
All I'm asking is for my for the
ability to talk about this if they don't
want it that they don't want it like
Allah has a Dean there is no space
in Islam for coercion It's not it's not
even a time it talks about there's no
I we don't want anyone to accept this
time They don't want to accept it.
What's the point?
You you just create him enough You don't
need a moon after you don't need you
don't want to accept this fine Don't accept
it do whatever you want, but allow us
the ability to at least present it to
you Let me explain the logic behind it
why this is important And then if you
don't want it, you're fine for a she
said no You don't have the right to
believe what you believe you don't have the
right to speak to people and people don't
have the right to accept it and that's
That's trying a transgression against people's fundamental rights.
There's a fundamental human right that was taken
away You're not allowed to speak.
No, you're not allowed to be a Muslim
You're not allowed to speak to people about
it and they can't accept Islam What he
was asking for hello, baby.
Well, they know allow me stop being stop
putting yourself between me and people I want
to speak to people sit That's why we're
gonna I'm gonna show you a graph maybe
a couple of months from now Well, I'll
show you how the number of Muslims kind
of grumbled along Like it was a graph
where I just fear just basically put sometimes
even plateauing for a year a few people
and then there's a moment Where the graph
goes like this it just rockets up, right?
And then I'll ask you what happened there
and then you'll say yeah, it was sort
of Davia It was when it was when
the the Treaty of Hodeidah was signed when
there was peace When they stopped fighting when
there was agreement that no more war if
you wanted to accept this time you can
go ahead and do it if you didn't
want to do it you didn't have to
and The numbers of Muslims went from 1
,400 ti to 10,000 within a year
within a year because the prophet was able
to speak And people weren't scared the prophet
sometimes come to people and talk to them
over the stem and they would listen to
it and they'll yes it makes Sense, but
but no, I don't want to get in
trouble with the question.
I don't want to get I have all
these treaties Maybe maybe Once you become you
become stronger, then we'll enter a lot of
them a lot of people would say this
to him Literally, they would actually say that
well accept Islam once you become more powerful
But right now no, and this is why
the battles actually occurred.
So keep that in mind Another occurrence that
happened during this the second year, which I
think is something really really really beautiful And
this happened right before right before the first
battle occurred and it was a little bit
of a It was a reminder to the
prophet I have thought was a lemon to
Muslims about a certain thing about what the
goal was in case they forgot Now the
Muslims up to this moment that I'm I've
been talking to you for a couple of
months now about his life I think he's
thought to us around this year up to
this moment in his life when they pray
Aisha or Fajr they would face that way
well, not really because we're in Canada, so
we would just face that way a little
bit, but But if this was his message
that I use a lot to Islam and
this was the Qibla they were facing the
opposite direction They were praying to the north
And they were praying to the north Why
because the Qibla was in Masjid Laqsa.
It was towards Al-Quds.
That's what was the Qibla So when they
built the masjid they roofed the north part
the northern part Because that's where they were
going to be praying up front because they
were towards the north Yeah, and the Prophet
a part of him Always wished it wasn't
there and that it was the Kaaba because
the Kaaba is the first House of worship
that was ever established on the planet The
one who built the Kaaba was Adam alayhi
salam and his wife Hawa I did a
long series on this before Hajj like the
in the previous year The Malayka came and
told Adam about the house that Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala wants him to say that Allah
He wants him to establish and they would
help him with the rocks and Hawa would
carry them and the Sayyidina Adam would build
the Kaaba and he performed the first Tawaf
alayhi salatu was salam And this be and
we have evidence in our Sunnah that the
Nuh alayhi salam performed Hajj and that Musa
alayhi salam performed Hajj And that Yunus alayhi
salam performed Hajj from all the prophets So
this area the space that we talked about
in in Mecca is sacred As original as
any space will ever be because it goes
back to the beginning of the story of
the human race So the prophet alayhi salatu
was salam loved that piece and he wished
that This Islam as a as a faith
would be redirected to the origins of the
story Rather than something that happened years later.
Al-Aqsa was built a number of years
later Obviously, it's a sacred space as well,
but he always wanted to go back So
the ayah would come and say We see
the way that you look at the sky
every once in a while with a thought,
but then you don't say anything Meaning you
look up and then you look down again,
but you look up if you want to
say something.
They don't say something We see you we
see you looking up with a thought and
then then saying no, I can't ask for
that We're going to give you a direction
of Qibla that you will be satisfied and
happy with So turn your face towards the
bayt al-haram to the Kaaba Where ever
you may be on this planet And always
look for where it is and then face
You go in any place on the planet
wherever anywhere what you do you stand and
you look where where is the Kaaba?
Where is it from here?
And you start thinking you look at the
Sun you look at the moon look at
the stars you take out your phone put
on You look for it, and you figure
out where the Kaaba is and then you
direct yourself towards your Qibla This keeps you
grounded and this keeps you focused if you
have direction if you know where you're going
if you know What direction you're facing then
wherever you are on this earth you will
always be properly oriented.
You'll never be lost even if someone stands
you and and twists you around a hundred
times until you're You're Woozy and dizzy in
a moment.
You'll figure out where your direction is.
Where's the Kaaba?
That's my direction That's what this whole thing
is about.
It's about the human story It's about the
human race It's about the house that Adam
built That he built for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the concept of
the house a house that brings us all
together The house is where we come together
is where we is where we unite is
where we find love is where we find
the support And the aid and the closeness
and the calmness and the peace that we
look for in the world It's that house
that unites us all that that returns us
back to our Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala
And that's why I'm living and that's what
I'm trying to do.
I'm trying to bring people back to that
I'm trying to make sure that everyone in
the world understands where they came from why
they're here and what their direction is and
That's how Muslims never get lost because a
Muslim you should never be lost in life.
You should never be walking around aimlessly No,
you have a Qibla you have a direction.
That's what Qibla means You know where you
know where you face, you know, what direction
you're standing in front you stand and you
put your you know You do this in
Salah This is what you do during a
home run Hajj When you perform a home
run you go and you stand you and
you put yourself right beside the Hajj in
the last one and you Turn towards it
you say Bismillah allahu akbar and then you
go around and then you come to it
again Allahu akbar you do the seventh offer
and then I stand here in London, Ontario,
Canada I put my hand up towards the
cabin.
I say allahu akbar from here.
It's the same thing.
It's the same effect It's the same concept
same idea and people all around the globe
They find their direction of the Kaaba and
they say to the best of their ability
and they put their hands for you Allahu
akbar.
This is Taslim This this is in air
in in the Arabic culture when you put
your hands like this This is showing that
I'm not I'm not I'm not harmful.
I It's Taslim meaning.
I'm showing you that I'm with you.
I Accept everything that you say and that
you that you teach I have no objections
This is what this is the movement that
the Arab would do you put your hand
up Even now if someone puts a gun,
what do you do?
You surrender This is what it is You're
surrendering to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to the
direction to the house that started it all
the origin of everything Where Adam alayhissalam your
father and your mother they built that because
their Lord told them so and that's where
we all come from That's where we all
this where it all started So you stand
and you surrender to your direction and you
continue to accept it for what it is
It's a beautiful thing in our deen and
the fact that a prophet alayhissalam was you
say why didn't you start that way?
No, no, this has to happen.
This had to happen in his life.
This had this redirection had to happen This
redirection in the middle of his life alayhissalam
had to happen.
No.
No.
All right You've been doing this as the
prophets before you now redirect now redirect to
the origin of all of it Now go
back to the Authenticity to the authentic direction
that all the human rate all all of
humanity should to understand and should recognize and
acknowledge and appreciate and The message you see
up there is called message of the people
attain He was praying there on his thought
to us around The narrations and the public
ought to been sad and others as well
Where the prophet alayhissalam was praying and Jibreel
alayhissalam would come Wahi during Salah and recite
upon him this verse here God in Iraq
to follow by what you he kept his
summer we see You're wandering and looking up
to the sky with something in your you
want to say, but you're not saying it
But I knew when the end that we're
going to give you the We're going to
give you the Qibla that you want.
So what do you turn your face?
So he turned on his thoughts in the
middle of Salah In the middle of Salah
he would turn around in the sahabah would
turn around with him they go 180 in
the middle of Salah The next Fajr he
was he was sent during that day I
always send out the people to tell all
the other message it There's a lot of
message in Medina a lot of Muslim layout
were built for people to pray Jumu'ah
happened in one place Happen a message in
a be on his thoughts of Salam Jumu
'ah happen one place, but Salah happened in
many places.
So the people of Quba didn't know yet
So they also had to do that and
Fajr the per the person who could it
takes a while To get to Quba.
So the Prophet sent someone he got there
during the time of Fajr for the sahabah
And he said He recited the Quran so
the people there turned 180 And so it
happened like that as a form of redirection
know where you're going Know what you stand
for you have direction you you can never
come to as a Muslim I absolutely refuse
for you to come and say I don't
know what I'm doing with my life What
do you mean?
You have a direction you have a Qibla
you play towards it five times a day
What do you mean?
You're you're lost.
There's no such thing I can understand it
from someone who has no who has not
been directed But does not have a faith,
but as a Muslim you can't say that.
What do you mean?
You're lost you're aimless and you're purposeless.
Of course, you're not you have a Qibla
You face it every single day it reminds
you it grounds you it redirects you every
time of what you're living for where you're
going and What your energy should be focused
towards serving It's serving the the legacy of
that house the legacy of al-bayt al
-haram and what it means And that happened
right before you know Anything's got started to
get heated up till now in his the
first two years things are going swimmingly It's
going pretty pretty nice I have like 12
13 masajid that are built a lot of
Quran that's been revealed people are praying paying
zakah Siyam rumbled.
It's nice.
Everything is being established people There's a lot
of education mentoring people actually moving out of
the homes that they were living in Medina's
trying to flourish a bit.
There's a law there's rule.
There's like the wars no wars Oh, I
was in Khazraj haven't fought for two years.
No blood things are going really nicely it
had I need the homesickness that the Sahaba
had had kind of worn off The physical
illness that they all had when they moved
to the new city has started to go
away people started to feel better They were
they were planting trees.
They were building on things started to work
It was nice.
It was nice first year and eight nine
months.
It was going pretty well Yeah, but nothing
Nothing stays like that forever the prophet is
a lot to Islam when this redirection happened
He's trying to take some initiatives He took
a few initiatives out of his thought was
that I'm the reason being is that and
the reason why I'm saying this He's like
why are you saying that it's very easy
to get comfortable It's very easy in life
to get comfortable.
I'm a nice job nice house It's car
Friends a masjid Everything is nice.
You come in you pray you sit you
socialize you go.
Everything is nice.
It's easy to get comfortable It's easy to
get comfortable stop thinking about what actually needs
to be done It's easy for us as
Muslims the West to stop caring about the
status of our ummah It's easy for us
to stop caring about that It's easy to
start saying I have a loss the Aki
Yeah, and you've given us a headache Oh
my this and oh my that yeah, he
should go see your mother if you if
you miss your home Go see your mother
everything.
Oh my this you know, it's easy to
start feeling I why are you talking to
us about this all the time because we
can't afford Because we can't there's no there's
no you don't have the it's not an
option It's not an option for me as
a Muslim to sit to get comfortable in
my situation Some of the Sahaba they were
starting to get this is nice.
Life is nice.
I'm just getting better We're trying to make
money again.
We're surrounded by Muslims.
We're not in a minority anymore Any of
my neighbors are Muslims.
We all pay Fajr every morning We can
learn from them.
We were spending time with Rasul Allah.
I thought was I went more than he
wants Really?
What more could they want?
I don't blame them I don't believe if
I was living in the city where I
got to see the Prophet I saw some
a couple of times a day.
I wouldn't want much more I wouldn't have
much more that I was looking forward to
this.
Keep it keep as is status quo Don't
touch anything.
No, no, he knew that there was a
there was a There was a job that
needed to be done There's a mission that
he had not fulfilled yet out of his
thought to us around there was more that
need to happen So he started taking initiatives.
The first thing that he did that he
a consensus of Medina You realize that he
did this Never thought about that.
He did a Census sorry.
I said a census of Medina know what
census is when they go and they count
Yeah, when they go and they and they
count heads he did this he sent people
out and they counted heads How many people
do I have in this city?
How many of them are muhajireen?
How many of them are Ansar?
How many of them are Muslim?
How many men how many women how many
of them are over the age of 65?
How many of them are less than 15?
How many of them can actually bear arms
how many people are educated and can read
and write how many actually have a job?
How many are married?
How much how many children do we have
he did a census out of his thought
was to them We still don't have one
for this city.
That's appropriate.
We still don't have one 2024 and we
still don't I still don't know how many
people I have in this city and where
they live Despite our best efforts our best
efforts So despite the fact that we have
two or three groups trying to get this
done I still don't know exactly where them
was I have an idea obviously because you
were you drive around the city and you
see a lot of Arab and Pakistani kids,
you know, all right Here's where a lot
of people from our background live.
I don't know How many refugees do we
have how many people who are making less
than 20 or 30 K a year?
How many people are disabled?
How many people have mental illness problems?
We don't know.
I don't have a census So I'm up
there speaking and I'm shooting in the dark.
I don't know I don't know what I'm
doing is actually working or not But I
don't know who I'm speaking to because we
don't have a census even for our own
city He performed a census of Medina out
of his thought was Sam it allowed him
gave him the ability to plan accordingly He
planned appropriately for everything on a so because
he knew how many people he actually had
in the city That was something that Yanis
if that if you if you don't see
that as some so ahead of his time
I mean he's thought to us that I'm
really so ahead of his time that he
did this He actually had people do this
and bring back in the report.
He's looking.
All right.
All right.
I understand now He even understood how much
wealth there was How many trees how many
orchards there were there?
How much food can this place how many
wells of water how much water is made?
He knew his he knew his country.
I think it's a lot to us.
I'm so he was able.
Yeah, I need to all right He's giving
me the the evil eye.
All right, so we'll start with I'll stop
with that in Charlotte on him next week
There's a few more initiatives that he did
out of his thought was not talk about
and then we got to enjoy talking about
the First battle of which is battle of
bedroom.
So please make sure you attend it because
this is where yeah I mean the stories
are Enjoyable, so you have a good time.
He's not gonna look at some of them
I'm the show that you know, it's a
little bit.
It was a little I said, you know,
how many he was?
Assalamu alaikum.
What a cat to everybody.
I hope you guys are all doing Absolutely
phenomenal today.
We're gonna get started with our kahoot as
soon as we can Inshallah because check on
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So if we can get into the game
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get started Okay So the kahoot questions are
made by me in the corner over here
while Shahana is talking.
So hopefully everybody's paying attention Question number one.
What was one of the biggest social changes
in Medina social changes?
Was it the concept of Juma the economy
change in Medina the poverty levels in Medina
or the Ahlus Sufa living in the masjid
What was the biggest social change of Medina
Juma is correct Let's see the leaderboard for
the first question We have Salman first MHT
in second Jarrod acts of Rahim in third
and Masha'Allah Let's move to the next
question true or false.
You should take the day off from work
on Juma.
He only Juma Is that true or is
that false this is so easy if you're
paying attention, come on Don't shout out the
wrong answers or the right answers False You
should not take off the day it's considered
a macro and all form of that head
according to Shaikhan then Okay, we have a
new third place, which is vish.
Everybody else is the same.
We have Lada in fourth and Sara in
fifth Next question question number three who organized
the meeting to see if people agreed or
disagreed for Juma Rasul Allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Abu Bakr,
people of Quraish I can't believe I did
not make this question.
I didn't make this one The meaning was
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded that organization.
So we have a new leaderboard Fayyaz in
first, Saad in second, Mr. Halal in third
and Vish has the highest answer streak of
three Let's move to question number four What
was the creation that made a physical noise
during Jumaa?
This one is also very easy A
tree is correct The calf was the sound
it made like it was described to make
a sound like a young calf crying But
the creation that made the noise itself was
the tree Okay, next question quick because we
only have four minutes That's the leaderboard we'll
move to the next question Question number five.
What was established in Medina that wasn't allowed
in Mecca?
Agriculture Tim Hortons trade in business or the
army It might be Tim Hortons.
It might be The army is correct the
Jaysh.
Okay, next question quick We now have Zak
Arisa in first, Mr. Halal in second, Saad
in third.
Next question Question number six.
Multi-select Jihad means what?
Multiple of these are correct It could be
two, it could be three, it could be
all of them.
All of them could be correct Don't shout
out the answers They are all correct, so
if you selected all of them you get
more points than everybody else next question Oh
Saad is now in first, Vish in second,
Mr. Halal in third.
Let's quickly this Question number seven.
How many battles in total were there?
Total total number of battles Hopefully
you guys were paying attention to the number
29 is correct.
MashaAllah Vish first place MashaAllah.
By the way Tim Hortons gift cards for
the winners as usual.
Where was the first Qibla?
The original direction where they used to pray,
where was it facing?
Masjid al-Aqsa is correct The leaderboard remains
unchanged Second last question Masjid al-Qiblatayn is
the masjid that They had Jumaa in, they
slept in, they memorized the Quran in, or
they changed the Qibla in Which one is
it?
It's only one correct answer though, but the
main The main thing that the masjid is
known for Green Is correct Qiblatayn,
the two Qiblas Okay, Saad is in first,
Vish in second I don't know who's in
third.
Last question true or false?
Your Qibla is your daily reminder of who
you are every day Your Qibla Is that
true or is that false?
This is an easy question Please every please
everybody get this one, right?
All two people.
Okay, it's okay.
That is true Let's see the last final
leaderboard to see who wins their Tim Hortons
gift cards Question number, sorry, third place Ibrahim
and Mohammed.
Second place Saad and first place we have
Vish mashallah, Tabarakallah.
Thank you guys everybody for playing I hope
you guys all enjoyed it as much as
I enjoyed it and we will see you
guys next week