Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah Episode 40
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So we continue insha'Allah tonight in the
seerah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
ajma'in The plan insha'Allah is to
keep this halaqah before isha even when the
time switches back to When they make the
silly switch that they do in November.
So right now isha is around 8, 7
.55 it'll once it hits 7.45 the
iqam, we keep the iqam at 7.45
until Technically March until they switch the time
back again And I used to keep this
halaqah, I used to put this halaqah after
isha once the time switched over But I'm
gonna keep it I'm just gonna keep it
an hour before isha, last year we did
that and it seemed to work better for
people who had children And wanted to bring
them and then take them home to go
to sleep So I think that'll be a
better way of doing it So just as
a heads up insha'Allah this halaqah will
always be between maghrib and isha and then
after a while It'll just be an hour
before isha because maghrib will become 4.30
so we're not gonna run a seerah halaqah
between 4.30 and 7.45 Even if
you came for it, I wouldn't I wouldn't
give it So the Prophet now in terms
of where he is or where we are
in telling his story He is now he
entered Medina, he entered Yathrib, it is still
called Yathrib At that point it still was
not the name had not changed Which is
what something we won't be talking about even
today, hopefully if we have time He enters
Yathrib and the moment he enters he builds
he builds a masjid He builds masjid Quba
and we talked about that That detail a
little bit and that's the masjid that we
have up there the picture of it And
he would spend around four days Building that
masjid with the people who were there the
people the the tribes that lived within that
area He built the masjid he prayed there
And then he and he told the people
of Medina of Yathrib to stay where they
were That he was going to come to
them Aside from Sayyidina Zubayr ibn Awam who
brought him some clothing Because he and Abu
Bakr obviously had been wearing the same clothing
for 14 days, and it was a very
very difficult journey So he makes his way
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ajma'een into Yathrib
And the way that was going on that
for the for the last two weeks now
or maybe maybe less maybe around a week
The people like Yathrib were going to the
outskirts of their of their territory or their
area Looking to the horizon to see if
the Prophet alayhis salatu wasalam is going to
is going to show up And they would
do that for a couple of hours a
day And then he wouldn't show up, and
they would go home, and they would do
that every day He would have people stand
on rooftops and on trees to see if
he shows up alayhis salatu wasalam and finally
on Monday Exactly two weeks since the day
he he left Mecca the Prophet alayhis salatu
wasalam Abu Bakr would appear coming from the
horizon and one of the young boys who
was on a a Palm tree Doing the
work of taking dates and whatnot he saw
the Prophet alayhis salatu wasalam And he he
called upon upon the people and he said
ya ahli yathrib hadha jaddukum jaa al madina
Jad is not grandfather here.
Jad means is Jad if you ever if
you ever made the du'a wala yanfa
'u Dal jaddi minkal jad and jad is
nasib meaning is whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala has decreed for you meaning the The
the bounty that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has written for you to be carrying in
your life So he said hadha jaddukum and
this is the this is what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has has Decreed for you
to have which is you know this man
who is coming to you so hadha nasibukum
hadha jaddukum Jaa al madina he has come
to the medina finally so the people of
yathrib Yaani started to run and everyone would
would gather In the area that he was
entering from alayhis salatu wasalam when he entered
Of course this this very known nasheed is
what this the Authors of the books of
seerah all put in their books.
We don't have an authentic Hadith that that
narrates this Incident but it's in every book
of seerah by far They all narrated and
it's become now such an embedded part of
Muslim Yaani of most of the Muslim and
mentality and the Muslim Muslim identity that I
don't think I don't see the point of
arguing the the actual Incidents or narrations themselves
in terms of authenticity or lack of it
because it doesn't really carry a hadith like
it's not within this story There's nothing he
didn't say anything out of his thoughts.
I mean he didn't start anything That was
yeah, he didn't give any fiqh or aqeedah
This was just an incident that was pointed
pointed out that when he came out he
saw to us and the people Yanni started
Singing a chant Al-Badru alayna min thaniyyati
al-wada' wajabash shukro alayna ma da'a
lillahi da'a ayyuha al-mab'uthu feena
ji'ta bil-amri al-muta'a ji'ta sharaft
al-madina marhaban ya khayra da'a These
eight pieces of poetry or eight verses is
what they would sing out and what it
says is that al-Badr is the full
moon So a full moon has come to
us and they're speaking about him salallahu alayhi
wa alayhi wa sallam ajma'een And thaniyyati
al-wada' is the area through which he
entered Yathrib alayhi salatu wasalam It's the easiest
and as I said the way as you're
gonna find out when we talk about the
battle of khandaq Yathrib is a very difficult
city to to access because on both sides
you have the harrah the harratan Which are
basically volcanic rock that are that is nothing
really can can can mobilize upon You till
this day you got no army can can
march on this on this volcanic rock It's
impossible to move move upon on ground So
you can only enter from the north or
from the south and the south is it
was closed Closed down back then by the
castles of bani khuraidah and other and other
and other tribes.
So you only had the the The northern
entrance that was possible.
So he entered from an area called thaniyyat
al-wada' was more to the to the
east Northeast and that's why they use that
term in the in the nasheed min thaniyyat
al-wada' Jita sharaft al-madina you came
and you brought the madina Yeah, you brought
our city a certain degree of status by
by by you entering it and that's what
the meaning of the of the piece of
poetry are but but that's how they They
greeted him alayhi salatu wasalam They received him
alayhi salatu wasalam with this nasheed with this
nasheed that and it's and I like telling
this story because it's a Nasheed that lived
on it's 1400 years later and still probably
the first thing your children memorize In every
Muslim house all across the world every Muslim
house by the time a kid is six
or seven years old They can sing tala
al-badr alayna along with any person who
starts to sing it even if they have
no idea Yeah, I mean what the words
mean at all And most people they sing
the song and they have no idea what
the actual lyrics are saying, right?
And and that tells you something this it
became a part of the Muslim consciousness This
yeah This chant of greeting the Prophet alayhi
salatu wasalam when he entered Medina the Yeah,
when he entered Yathrib that excitement that happiness
that joy people people People express joy and
happiness through song through chants through poetry through
rhythm This is the norm This is how
human beings express their their happiness and the
Arab weren't any different and during the life
of the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam That wasn't
different either Yeah, and you'll see this actually
you'll see this theme Repeated a number of
times over the next couple of months as
I tell you stories whereas they are doing
things they're chanting and they are singing and
and the song comes in form of poetry
and that form of art that existed back
then is Allowed them to build their identity
as Muslim because you have to understand that
the Arab and the people accepted Islam They
were accepting Islam all from all over Arabia
and from outside of Arabia as well So
it was like this mix It was a
day as I'm going to explain to you
today It is diverse mix of people that
were living in this city that came together
to accept Islam they had to have an
identity like if you were living 1400 years
ago in the peninsula your identity was the
tribe that you belong to and The sub
tribe that you were a part of and
the name of your father and your grandfather
That was your identity.
You knew who you were based on that
You knew I was from venue full-on
from a button a full-on a little
fuzzy full-on Yeah, these there are words
to explain of what you come from this
Juma Juma I mean imagine an Arab you
came from this large tribe and then you're
from this button from this bucket You come
from these these these sub parts and you
know Which part you belong to in that
and the part you belong to is how
you identify yourself and it's like a passport
is how you explain who you are and
The more people in your family in your
lineage and your forefathers and in the tribe
that you're a part of that have fame
And have status and have achieved things the
more you know, well-known you'll be the
more well-respected you will be This is
how it functioned back back then.
So now people were accepting Islam Many of
them were being we're having to move out
of their tribes.
They couldn't stay with their with their tribes
anymore They couldn't live with the people they
grew up with because they weren't welcome Their
fathers and their mothers and their uncles.
They didn't want them anymore because of Islam
So people were having to leave their homeland
leave their tribes and come and live in
this new city So what was the identity
that was going to put them all together
the identity that was going to allow them
to exist?
in harmony harmoniously and and and be and
be as one was the identity of Islam
and Islam as any identity requires a culture
To describe it it requires a certain culture
without culture.
You can't really Establish an identity and the
Quran is the rulings is the teaching is
the guidance is the is the Rahma is
the vicar the reminder The culture that will
define the identity has to come from People
has to come from the struggle of the
people from who they are from what their
collective experience is looking is looking like and
that piece would always present itself historically not
just for Muslims, but forever through art and
through poetry for the Arabs specifically and through
chanting and through song for for the Muslims
specifically and That became a big part of
the Islamic identity were these chants that they
that that they memorized the the the poetry
of Hassan Ibn Thabit and Kaaba bin Malik
and Abdullah bin Rawaha became Yeah They became
anthems that the Muslims Memorized and they would
sing in their in their in their settings
and they would repeat in in the message
of the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam in in
groups and as individuals it became a strong
part of who they were and For us
as Muslims today we need something similar to
To solidify our identities again, especially for young
Muslims who are growing up in parts of
the world Where the identity that they have
from their tribe from their cities and their
families is not as strong When you grow
up here, you don't grow up with you
know 13 or 15 or 20 uncles and
aunts that live all around you I mean
When I was moved back to my dad
moved us all back to Syria to his
village to the village that I and I
grew up there and We were there during
the summers and I started then I went
back when I was 15 and stayed there
until basically I came back Here in 2013,
so I spent 15 years there or more
Once you're living there You look up you're
surrounded by people who are related to you
heavily related to you very close Like it's
your father's siblings and your father's uncles and
aunts and so these people Yeah, not only
did not only do they have authority to
raise you Yeah, but some of them had
authority to raise my dad Like some of
them could yell at my father if they
wanted so I I had no you know
I didn't stand a chance at all.
So as a child you just you just
get in this becomes embedded inside of you
You just know who you're a part that
you're part of this.
This is the part of land This is
this is the land that all your forefathers
were born on These are the people who
you belong to and who belong to you
and that allows you to solidify your identity
as a person And if Islam is a
part of that identity if this family has
been Muslim for centuries upon centuries Then that
identity that identity of being a Muslim is
just you just handed it regardless of whether
the culture of being a Muslim at that
in that place or the understanding of Islam
is is Is correct or not which many
times it cannot it can be an incorrect,
but the identity is there Growing up in
the West you don't have that piece.
There's something missing here I just I'm trying
to get you to notice and acknowledge that
there's a missing link for people who grow
up here And if you think that your
children are gonna grow up the way you
did Because then you're wrong They won't because
you didn't grow up that way you grew
up where you were surrounded by people a
guy I would have my breakfast at my
house, but then my lunch was wherever I
got I ended up hungry Like whatever house
I was closer to when it was when
it was lunchtime That's where we had lunch
and I had dinner wherever house I was
I was at that when it was dinnertime
and then we just went home to sleep
But have a shower and sleep and then
you spent your spent your days that way
You don't get that here you don't you're
not raising if I made a mistake I
know knew very well that my uncle was
very happy to discipline me He had no
problem with that and I had no way
to go I had no way out of
it either So you don't they don't get
that here if anything if you leave your
kid outside the house What do you think
you come back with it with this with
strong Islamic identity if you let your kid
here in Canada in London?
wonder the wonder yeah the Complex or the
townhouses that you live in then it come
back with good understanding of Islam.
No You know comes back smelling like pots
and Yanni, but having just having a Low
Adam.
Yeah, come back with something that you Represent
you nor do you agree with at all?
So the 60% of raising children that
happened back then Just by existing within the
groups that you were a part of the
kids here.
Don't get it that 60% now is
on you Which is a lot for a
parent and I'm saying it's a lot like
it's way more than what you can Like
as a parent that's a lot of work
for you to do Parents you do 40
% and then 60% would be taken
care of by the streets, right?
But that the streets is more of the
community the environment the people that are surrounding
here.
That's not the pace That's not the case.
Sorry anymore so that 60% you have
to fill it in yourself or The Muslim
community has to fill in a portion of
it for you And in order for the
Muslim community to do that there has to
be a culture There has to be a
culture.
There has to be ways for children to
feel that they identify with their Dean and
For a lot of it was poetry poetry
was a part of that Was a big
part of that and for every ideology historically
it's always been a certain aspect of the
artistic mind that allowed identities to form and
It comes in the form of chance and
in poetry and song and and the Muslims
are no exception to that rule Historically because
why I leave saw to Islam was greeted
be Tala al-Badr alayna That this beautiful
this beautiful chant that we all memorize today
and that kids they sing together in groups
And I think it's important that not only
we I solidify that as a as a
part of their culture But also we allow
them to build their own We allow them
to express themselves in ways that there are
that that give them that room to build
their identity as Muslims Culturally in the way
that suits them so that they feel that
they belong to something that feeling of belonging
is Is really what ends up being missing?
and then if it doesn't exist by the
time they're 16 and 17 and 18 and
19 it's harder for them to build it
and They slowly start to disconnect and it
takes them years to find their way back
again And when they find their way back
they do but they still are washed by
a different culture.
So they're Muslim They're praying and they're fasting,
but they're not Culturally Muslim they are maybe
practitioner may be practicing Muslims and they love
Allah They love the Quran, but they're culturally
not a part of the Muslim Ummah And
that is and I see that missing link
all the time.
I observe it all the time It's always
there and I think it's an important piece
for us to you know to think about
and that's how that's how he was Greeted
out of his saw to Islam Tala al
-Badr alayna min thaniyyat al-wada Wajab al
-shukru alayna ma da'a lillahi da'a.
So we entered alayhi salatu wassalam and of
course when he entered People came running they're
singing and they're chanting people are Adduf and
everyone's singing and there's a lot of a
lot of human beings and they're all come
and there's two people There's a booker and
there's a prophet alayhi salatu wassalam Now the
people have met yesterday did not know either
of them So they weren't sure who was
whom so some people start to think that
Abu Bakr was the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam
Right, they start to see and some of
them start to go to Abu Bakr So
Abu Bakr is like no no, this is
not going to work So he thought quickly
what he did was and this is how
his thought is his thought process his quick
response He took off his burda many the
Arab used to wear like a commies Which
is what I'm wearing right now They put
a Baba or a burda on top so
he took off his burda and he put
and he held it upon the head of
the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam to Protect him
from the Sun just to make Clear to
people who is not so long who is
not because people didn't know and amongst the
confusion It was hard to establish a timeout
So that would look at just thought quickly
and he took off a burda and he
used it to To offer the prophet alayhi
salatu wassalam some shade some shade when people
saw him do that They also obviously figured
out that that was Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa
sallam ajma'im And that's the the the
humblest and also the quick thinking I said
no I can still be in a in
an awkward position where he doesn't want people
to have the wrong understanding of what's actually
going on And everyone is trying to take
hit on now, but Rasulullah alayhi salatu wassalam
They're all coming and trying to take the
reins of the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam's camel
Why because they want the prophet alayhi salatu
wassalam to come to their house And if
you're if you were back then and you
had a home you're like you're going to
be with my so the prophet alayhi salam
Would hold back the reins and he would
say da'uha fa innaha ma'mura tanzilu haythu
ya'muruh Allah Leave it leave the camel.
She is commanded and she will stop wherever
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala commands her to stop
So I'm not going to I'm not going
to this is a very smart move by
him alayhi salatu wassalam Because if he if
he chose a certain Neighborhood or he allows
someone to choose a neighborhood for him alayhi
salatu wassalam That was going to start a
story of nepotism right off the bat It
was gonna start some degree of animosities and
and lack of yeah I mean there's going
to be a problem right off right away
Just just by because people want him alayhi
salatu wassalam.
It's hard when you're being you know pulled
in different directions You don't want you're not
there to to to anger people or to
sadden them or to show or to choose
one group over the Other you want a
way where everyone can be treated equally and
you can establish your love for all people
in a proper manner So he told them
da'uha fa innaha ma'mura Wherever Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala tells it to stop it will
she will stop and that's where I'll end
So they left the the naqa away.
And of course there any waiting for him
alayhi salatu wassalam They're all greeting him and
they're still singing.
So so this naqa it wanders into the
neighborhood of bani najjar which happened to be
the the So if you remember you probably
don't but around a year ago or so
when I was talking about the prophet alayhi
salatu wassalam Early life.
I told you that his mother Asma Amina
bint wahab forgive me.
Well took him to visit the Uncles of
his father on his mother's side.
So this is just to confuse you a
little bit more So Amina when she lost
her husband Abdullah the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam
his father She wanted him to be introduced
to her husband's family Her husband Abdullah on
his mother's side had uncles and aunts from
bani najjar in Yathrib So she took him
alayhi salatu wassalam to go and visit them
This is the loyalty and the ethics of
his mother alayhi salatu wassalam that she her
father that her husband dies away Passes away.
She wants her son to know all of
the relatives of his father so that he
is properly connected So she took him to
Yathrib to be with bani najjar and he
would say alayhi salatu wassalam that that's where
I learned to Swim I learned to swim
in one of the Arabian wells within my
uncle that within the the lands of my
Relatives bani najjar.
That's how I was six years old.
I learned to swim.
That's how I learned how to swim and
on the way back from that from that
Trip is when Amina passed away and he
buried her alayhi salatu wassalam So this is
the relevance of the story.
So he had been in that neighborhood before
alayhi salatu wassalam His heart was that's where
he wanted to go because that's the only
place that he's familiar with right, if you've
been if you're coming to a new city,
then I The awkwardness and the familiarity of
it is a family of where you are.
It's something you're looking for So in his
mind in his heart He wanted kind of
to be within the space that he had
had some memories of and he had some
Some relatives there so the And the camel
went and wandered into the into into the
neighborhood a bit on the job So once
the knocker came to burn the jar, it
sat down for car alayhi salatu wassalam.
How would I mention?
This is where I'm going to be in
this neighborhood.
I want to say as as she as
she stopped now At this moment the prophet
alayhi salatu wassalam would stand and speak it
would get him a small podium something to
stand on After this the knocker sat down
he didn't he didn't like he refused for
people to give their khutbahs standing on animals
The Arabs used to do this all the
time Arabs used to give their khutbahs sometimes
standing on their animals So if they had
a donkey or a mule or a horse
or a camel they would stand on the
camel or the horse and give The khutbahs
and the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam would say
don't do that because it's harmful for the
animal So for him he when they told
me that was suggested he said no bring
me something to stand on So they brought
him like a small stool.
So he stood alayhi salatu wassalam and he
would deliver the first Sermon that was ever
recorded in in Yathrib There's the first thing
he said this first thing that he used
his first words to address The people because
all the people are there everyone showed up
and everyone is quiet.
They're waiting They've been waiting for him for
a while now There's people who are in
Yathrib who have been Muslim for three years
for three years And they had not met
him yet You know people have been Muslim
since Yeah, the six gentlemen on the day
in the tenth year of Hajj went back
to Yathrib and they performed some dawah Who
accepted Islam there and didn't come for bayat
al-aqab al-ula or al-thani They
couldn't make it and they were Muslim in
Yathrib waiting to meet him alayhi salatu wassalam
So when he's when he when he finally
arrived there was this anticipation For what is
he going to talk about was he going
to say how is he going to address
us?
And he would give alayhi salatu wassalam the
sermon that you see there.
That is literally Five Five sentences Five short
sentences he would and the question is what
type of sermon would he give?
What would be his first address to the
people of Yathrib?
He is arriving as a leader obviously into
the city And he's coming to a place
that he is not fully any familiar with
and he's going to be leading these this
population for the next number of years So
is his khutbah going to be political is
it going to be social it's going to
be religious spiritual is it going to be
Financial was he going to talk about alayhi
salatu wassalam So he gives the speech and
and you'll see in a moment kind of
what what he talks about So you stand
up there alayhi salatu wassalam and say ayyuha
al-nas Qala ba'da an hamidallaha wa athna
alayhi And every time you see a sermon
for the Prophet alayhi salatu wassalam know for
sure you know with certainty that before he
said anything before he actually delivered the meat
or the Actual content of the of the
sermon that he was begin always by praising
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and exalting Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala and Singing Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala's
glory and praise because it's a part of
how he spoke Alhamdulillahi nahmaduh, alhamdulillahi nastaeenuhu wa
nastaghfiruhu Alhamdulillahi nu'minu bihi wa natawakkalu alayhi wa
nashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa anna muhammadan
abduhu wa rasuluhu We always start with these
with you know with the remembrance of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala and the praising of Allah
And then when he was done with that
he would you know give the actual and
content of his message So he would do
ayyuha al-nas, O people and he would
give them five five commands number one afshu
salam afshu salam so salam is sometimes seen
as Or sorry translated as You know giving
giving salams, right well really that's not what
he means here Doesn't mean give salams to
each other more often No, that's not a
it's not I was talking about this piece
of the message is political is the politics
Salam in Arabic.
What does it mean?
It means peace means peace afshu salam spread
peace We need why because he's coming to
a group of people who have been fighting
for the last hundred years That day the
people who gathered to hear him were from
both al-aws and al-khazwanj Outside of
this context they don't really like each other
very much Outside of this context of them
being there They don't necessarily like one another
and there's a lot of blood and there's
a lot of Hatred and grudges that are
carried by many of the people who were
there like it's just a part You're talking
about a war that's been going on for
over a hundred years There's a lot of
people who have a lot of blood that's
been shed So there's a lot of Baggage
here like there's a lot of baggage in
the people He's speaking to all he's locked
with them So it's the first piece of
his message would talk about the politics of
the new order afshu salam spread peace amongst
you and I think Similarly to bayat al
-aqaba where you know, we're when I'm kind
of going through a series of khutbahs Just
talking about those articles.
This khutbah is really no no less important
Like what the articles of this khutbah as
are similarly important here I think it's thought
was I'm gave very precise messages that were
very short, but we're extremely profound and very
very meaningful the concept of spreading peace amongst
people The whole idea of the salamu alaykum
is to establish peace between you and the
person in front of you So when I
say salamu alaykum to you, what I am
doing is I'm establishing peace I am telling
you that you don't have to worry about
me.
I will not betray you I will not
bear arms against you and I will not
try and harm you Allah who?
Roamed the desert for a very long time
without order when two out of two people
came and saw each other from afar on
their horses in the middle of desert Right.
So now with you what do they do
now?
They're obviously both people on their horses have
their you have their swords and have their
bows and arrows and their faces all Wrapped
up with a kufiya not because they were
but because you're in the middle of the
desert So the wind will literally literally rip
the skin off your face if you don't
do this So you have to have your
face wrapped up and only your eyes to
see because you're roaming the desert So you
don't have no idea the person in front
of you could be your dad could be
your brother You have no idea unless there's
something that you have no and now you
don't know what that person is Like is
that person a hooligan?
Are they one of the criminals or thieves
of the land?
Is this a noble person you don't know
but you're not gonna risk this because they
could easily murder you here right in the
middle of nowhere take all of your wealth
and No one will ever find you like
no one will ever know anything about you.
There's no phones.
There's no internet there's nothing you would die
and be covered by the sand eaten by
the By by the carnivores of the land
and that would be the end of you
and the number of people who have been
lost in That desert it's called a rebel
Kali the empty quarter Empty it's not because
there's nothing in it.
There's actually a lot in it The empty
corner is not empty.
It's because so many people will get lost
in it It's like this empty opening that
you that people would just go into and
never come back and there's no way for
you to have Any idea where they are
anymore?
So the other but they met each other
in the middle of the desert.
The problem would be what do we do?
So what happened every time?
And this was just accepted was a duel
to the death I'm not good I have
I'm not going to play my I'm not
gonna roll the dice and act like you're
a good person and go around you Because
you just may wait for me to get
a little bit ahead Then you come behind
me and with one arrow into my back
you kill me and take everything I have
I'm not risking that and the guy in
front of me is also not going to
risk that So what we're going to do
even though both people very very likely that
both people have no interest of harming the
other person They just want to get through
their business.
Yeah, I mean without any trouble But they
can't trust the other person So 99%
of the time these type of meetings would
turn into a duel to the death The
concept of Salaam Was to establish that up
front if the person says Salaam alaikum I'm
offering you peace from my side the other
person alaikum was Salaam from the other side.
We're good We pass we pass because out
of all they had with it was their
word What you had you were known by
your word.
So you back then People kept their word
so they trusted it Well, you say well,
why didn't they just do that beforehand?
Well, the person who's gonna ask for peace
becomes a weaker person and no one wants
to show any weakness in the middle of
the Doesn't you don't want to you don't
want to be asking for something?
You don't you don't want to be asking
for some form of any of mercy or
some form of no No, you don't want
to show any vulnerability Salaam alaikum as a
chant as a as a greeting became an
Declaration that from my side no harm will
come to you from my side No harm
will come to you and then I come
with salams and they're on my side.
No harm will come to you So now
we have everybody each person gave the other
person their word and now they pass by
this is the concept of so when?
We say Salam alaikum.
It is Salam alaikum is taken from the
concept of spreading peace.
Not the other way around It's not that
they were done.
The the origin is not giving salams No
The origin is spreading peace from that we
came up with this greeting became our greeting
Because what we're trying to spread amongst people
is peace we came up with the greeting
of a salam alaikum peace be upon you
People don't seem to think about we keep
on you know, reverse engineering this when we
look at it It's not like that We
didn't it's not the greeting that came first
and then we learned from it that we
should spread peace No, no The goal was
to spread peace that people should not be
fighting that we should not build enemies We
should not make people our enemies and we
should be trying to spread peace amongst the
people in front of us And the way
we're going to do that is we're going
to Afshu salam, we're going to give a
lot of we're going to make sure that
people feel that they can be safe around
us Alhamdulillah, this is the majority but again
Again to be a little bit more accurate
about this term that he used alayhis salatu
was salam when he said afshu salam What's
the point if you are saying salam alaikum
to the person is shaking their hand But
then you're stabbing him in the back later
on and you're backbiting and you're working against
them and you're betraying them And what's the
point?
What is the value of your salam alaikum
and smile and jazakallah khair and all these
other terms that we memorized but then in
Reality you you you don't yeah, you don't
protect their their wealth.
You don't protect their health You don't protect
their integrity and you're actually Causing them harm.
What's the point?
There's no point there's absolutely no point When
you say salam alaikum, then that means by
by you say that word that you will
never ever work Against this person you will
never bring them harm in your life ever
And if you if you're not saying that
then you shouldn't offer salam You shouldn't say
it if you're not gonna do that That's
not what you're what you're doing.
If you're actually working on this bridge You're
trying to harm them then it's not money.
Come is a lie It becomes a false
a false claim that you're making and it
gives a false sense of security our Communities
as Muslims is bit are built on safety
and security Momenu And Muslim woman Salim al
Muslimuna Milly Sani he way I do you
a moment?
Oh, man, I mean a who knows this
is one of the most famous hadith that
we have a Muslim is the person who
all?
people are safe and Secure from his hand
and his tongue.
Well moment and a moment is is a
person who people Are secure around like they
don't they feel totally secure in their presence.
They don't they're not worried They're not worried
about this person never harmed me.
I don't need to worry about this person's
presence around me or So if that piece
is not there, then what's the point?
So his first command alias also and that
he's gonna come at me.
He's gonna give five commands Coulomb a file.
Oh, they're all verbs that are commanding to
one two, three, four or five.
This is what I'm here I arrived.
All right.
Remember the bayah we agreed.
There's a bunch of stuff.
We're going to change I'm gonna make some
make some changes here.
Number one.
I've just said I'm stop your wars Stop
fighting stop hating stop grudges.
Stop backbiting Stop working against one another I've
just said we need to spread peace in
order for our community to work.
It has to be a peaceful one and
Peace does not mean that it's quiet That's
just a that's just a usage of the
word that is that is meaningless It's not
you're not sitting outside in a beside the
tent and it's peaceful because it's quiet peace
means that there's a lot of work That's
happening.
It's actually noisy because work is going on
but it's peaceful people aren't harming each other
They're not bearing arms against each other not
yelling their voices aren't going up They're not
screaming at one another.
They're not trying it, which is which is
unfortunately I mean the the we have these
problems in our message is so often Where
people raise their voices in the masjid and
they scream out one another and they fight
over things.
Where's the peace?
This is not there's not peaceful anymore.
There are ways that honey to fix problems
and to Honey, but solve disputes and conflicts
that don't necessarily have to be Disrespectful to
Allah and to his house and to his
and to his umma The concept of after
salam spread peace amongst you.
So the people who are listening by the
way understood this I'm I'm giving you car
I'm not really I'm not doing anything aside
from just giving you the context of what
they're listening to Because for them when they
heard of Shustan and they understood they didn't
think oh I should start giving salams to
everyone beside me because he said a few
said no He understood what he meant because
they had the context of the time and
they they know what he's talking about But
for us sometimes we don't have that context
so we Under we and we end up
misunderstanding what he's saying So I want you
to make I want to make sure that
you understand exactly what he means by this
So the first command is political of Shustan.
I'm here peace from now on no more
wars Did a war happen after he arrived
on his thought or something?
Oh, so much a war no, no war
broke.
No, no war happened again They disagreed people
yelled at each other and there were some
conflicts that happened But no war like there
was never a lot mocha I need a
lot of talk about my walka being days
where two armies small or large met and
people fell And there was like the sword
and BP people died since with it from
the moment He arrived at a slot with
them not no more worse Not one happened
because he gave that first command of Shustan.
I'm we're done.
I am here There's not happening again, and
it never happened again number two up a
muttaham Up a muttaham a financial command feed
people the best way to back then obviously
to talk about Generosity and using your wealth
in the way that pleases Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala is a time of thought and nothing
is better than a time Of time even
till this day the best method of your
wealth is to feed a hungry mouth or
a hungry stomach always will be the feeding
of The the quenching of thirst and the
feeding of hunger will always be the best
the absolute best use of wealth Always will
be not just doing it directly, but also
doing it indirectly Meaning sometimes you can ask
you buy food and give it to them
and sometimes you can give someone a job
So that they can feed the mouths that
they have at home Or you can teach
them a skill so they can go ahead
and make a living they can feed themselves
But nothing nothing trumps up a muttaham from
a financial perspective because when people are Yeah
are no longer hungry They're not fighting for
their food And they're not worried about when
their next meal is going to come and
whether they have enough for that or not
the population is capable of critical thinking a
Population that has iman is capable at that
point of critical thinking and of organizing and
doing work Which is why this situation that
we're in as Muslims is very depressing Because
we are not worried about our next meal
yet We still don't seem to have the
ability to perform critical thinking and to figure
out ways to organize he I think it's
a lot To us, and I'm built a
country with people who are most of them
were hungry He built a country out of
you saw some with people where the majority
of them were not We're actually worried about
their next meals But I'll tell you what
time was the command to see we need
to we need to close those gaps We
need to close the gaps of poverty We
have to make sure that you have to
use your wealth to feed those who don't
have enough to feed themselves That's the second
command and we still applies today I mean
know the following there are people in this
city who are Muslim who don't Who can't
make ends meet at the end of the
month?
I?
Didn't believe it existed until I started to
actually look into this and it's there and
we do have a group in the masjid
that takes zakah from people and and distributes
it to two families of widows and Single
mothers and refugees and people who just have
too many children Don't have skill sets and
can't feed them and don't go around asking
me don't go standing in front of the
masjid at putting their Hand out they try
not to do that so we have these
people they exist in our own city, and
you Islamically just so it's clear to all
of you And I'll be talking about this
in the Jum'ah this week It is
not permissible for the money of zakah to
leave your city if the people if there
are people in it that need it Islamically
within the four school of jurisprudence You're not
allowed to take your zakah and send it
across outside of where you live if where
you live there are people who need it
and There's no disagreement on this issue The
disagreement is actually in the permissibility of sending
zakat money Elsewhere and the majority of schools
of thought of jurisprudence allow for that allow
for that under the condition That the zakat
money is first being used to Close the
needs of the people the basic needs of
the people who are living in the same
area in terms of food and drink And
clothing if that happens, and yes, you can
spend that money You can send it overseas
even though the majority of scholars still see
that that money staying in the community To
build facilities and to take care of to
love element take care of people who are
ill is more is better But you're allowed
to do it you're allowed to do it
But you're not allowed to do it if
there are people living in the city that
you're in Who don't have enough and that's
something that I think yeah we have to
talk about a little bit more because now
with the number of Muslims that have come
come up come from overseas and The change
in the financial climate of our country over
the last three years or so or four
Yeah, I mean we have to actually we're
looking at a different reality for people and
everyone I think here knows what I'm talking
about Does anyone feel that the financial climate
of 2024 is similar to that of 2018?
2018 very different If you were living in
the same 2018 was a different was an
all different economic economic Situation people were you
even if you worked a part-time job?
You were still able to have a car
and pay rent and have a little bit
left at the now people are now it's
nice Not even it's not things have doubled.
You know doubled since Kovac.
So there are people who struggle with that
Number two, I'll tell you Tom number three.
What's a little harm?
Sort of harm is to connect the relations
of Kim That's a social command Socially, you
need to start strengthening your relationships with one
another within family within blood Your relationship with
your parents and with your siblings and with
your cousins and with your answer with your
father And your neighbors and your relatives who
are farther away.
You need to start strengthening those Relations of
Kim if they were weak before if you
had allowed for severing of these relationships because
of disagreements in the past or Don't do
don't do cut out of him where you
don't talk to someone from your family No,
I don't know how you need to bring
back that social aspect Because he knows how
to use a lot of them in order
for this community to flourish people have to
start getting friendly again I've to Salaam is
peace political need to stop fighting stop animosity
Feed people if they're hungry financially put your
money socially start becoming a little bit more
friendly with one another strengthen those relations of
Kim and number four What's a little bit
lady when Sunni?
Um and pray at night when people are
are sleeping.
What's that one?
Huh ritual spiritual, right?
So all four he talked about the political
Financial social and the spiritual is also done
in fight in what five sentences.
That's it Use five sentences.
He talked about all four saluble a start
doing your p.m Start praying a shot
saluble a lot means in its essence pray
mother been a shot in federal Jamal because
blood and also a little more difficult because
you're sometimes at work You're sometimes outside in
the and the huckle you're working you're working
at your at your job So you don't
always have the ability to come to the
message to pray But these three usually you're
a home Mother a shot fighter usually you're
around like you're not working because you work
from the Sun Sun rises on set So
people can come to follow belay come when
people are sleeping and they're not doing what
they're sleeping literally or sleeping Figuratively come and
pray saluble a so pray your your mother
and pray your Isha and pray your special
That's number one And then if you want
to add to that p.m And great,
but when he was saying this I thought
I wasn't talking about p.m And late
no he was talking about the prayers the
three the three main prayers that occur in
the evening or at the night time That
should be a cook that should be in
congregation where people should be attending in high
numbers.
That's what he was talking to He wasn't
coming to people who just learned about Islam
and tell them about p.m. And late
as many people think no He's not talking
about p.m. And late He's talking about
the further Fault he's talking about specifically the
photos that exist during the times where you
are not busy where you're not working most
people aren't at Least we'll follow the lady
when that's me.
Yeah Tell you who's gonna tell you Salah
you will if you do all these things
then you will enter Jannah as I promised
You remember in battle Aqaba they asked he
gave them five and then they asked him
What do we get to return so he
said like a moon Jenna?
So the first thing he would talk about
when he entered met if it was a
reminder of that You remember I told you
to enter Jenna remember.
I promised you Jenna in order As a
reward for all these things, all right do
the following do these five shoes Salam well
team at the arm.
Yeah What's the other harm?
What's all over the lady when that's when
I am and then if you do these
things tell the cool Jenna Tell me Salam,
you'll enter Jenna peacefully.
It'll be quick.
It'll be easy easy access.
It won't be difficult You won't be stopped
time and time again.
You won't be asked a lot of questions.
It won't be a hard entry It'll be
an easy entry And I saw some connect
connected his words to what it was.
He talked to them about when he met
them a year before During Bayat al-Aqaba.
So that was his first sermon on a
new salat was them He established from every
within every aspect of communal living or of
living the political the financial The social and
the spiritual he established a standard He established
a standard of behavior.
We're going to spread peace amongst one another
We're going to feed the hungry.
We're not gonna let anyone starve in our
community.
No one starves in this community No Muslim
should be starving here.
Everyone should have enough food and we're going
to start being more friendly.
We're gonna start Kindling those relationships that have
been dead for a while We're gonna start
getting going back getting back on board with
our families and strengthening those family kin's those
family relationships And then we're going to also
come for the rituals I'm gonna pray at
a time where people are usually usually getting
ready to sleep.
We are praying Yeah, you know that in
the summer you're here praying is a ten
o'clock Most people are curled up under
the covers sleeping and you're praying a shot
Sometimes 1030 you're in the mess you're praying
a shot you come back at special for
four o'clock people are also Yeah I
doesn't know the least time people are awake
in the world is four o'clock in
the morning and you're here in the mess
You're praying why because this is a part
of your Dean because this is what he
said I think it's also first when he
talked about it.
I talked about how to enter Jannah peacefully
and with ease of access and That was
his first sermon I think it's a lot
of a slam and it left a very
this hadith or the sermon was narrated to
us by a lot of people it left
quite the impact on those who heard it
a lot of people found that to be
very meaningful as Once he finishes giving this
sermon people are listening quietly about you, but
I'm sorry Khalid even even Yazid or the
Allah on whom what he would take initiative
You see the prophet alayhi salam said that
the NACA would stop where in the neighborhood.
He was going to live in He didn't
say in which house, right?
So Abu Ayyub who is listening to the
sermon the sermons over and people are coming
up to the prophet alayhi salam to give
Salams, yeah, he takes the pot.
He picks up the prophet alayhi salam his
luggage Yeah, he didn't have a lot and
he throws it into his home He just
he tells us like open the door She
opens door he picks up is that he
puts inside the house and now the prophet
alayhi salam stuff is inside the house of
Sayyidina Abu Ayyub, he's like well It's in
there now.
So What are we gonna do it's already
inside he's gonna have to go after his
luggage It's not a different record.
I mean I'm not you know, I'm a
daddy.
So people got upset.
What are you to do?
He said well, are you going to separate
the man from his luggage?
Is that how you're gonna make him asleep
in a place and his luggage will speak
asleep in another place?
Kala wherever his mother I'd like to know
my mother He the man will have a
person will go wherever his his stuff are
Yeah, he didn't have a lot on he
saw some you had maybe an extra set
of clothing and yeah Is that what I'm
at the heart meaning the his sword and
the stuff that Arabs would travel with so
he threw into the house Of his own
home or the other into his own home,
but the allow on who say you know,
boy you know you it was a beautiful
beautiful name within our tradition for sure and
I always like to take a moment and
talk about him.
Yeah, I mean when we go into these
I'm not sure if I put something else.
Yeah Put yourself in his position.
I wonder if at some point he I
don't say regretted but Analyzed what he just
did and thought about it for a second.
Like what did I just do?
I just brought the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam to my home.
Imagine if he was your guest He was
going to be the guest of Satan about
you for for quite some time We've a
couple of weeks before he would leave the
house Before I tell you about this, I'll
let me tell you the story So once
he threw it in and people got a
little bit upset the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
Yeah, he He was impressed by a boy
who was initiative.
He liked he liked his way of thinking
I have to stay with my stuff.
It's here.
It's here.
So enters the house of Abu Ayyub al
-Ansari radhu allahu anhu and it's two it's
a two-layer house.
It's a two is it's a two-story
home So the Abu Ayyub is saying that
Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you'll be
on the upper Level and we'll be in
the lower level.
So he said alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
no people will come and visit me So
it's going to be very difficult for you
and your wife and for me if they
have to keep on coming upstairs So it's
easier if I'm downstairs where it's easier access
for the guests because it's gonna be guests
day in day out for a very Long
time and that way you and your wife
are nice and secure on top and Abu
Ayyub said ya sallallahu alayhi wa sallam No,
we can't we can't we absolutely can't we
can't be on top and you're under we
can't do it And the Prophet alayhi sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam insisted.
No, you have to you have to you
have to it doesn't make any sense for
me to be upstairs It makes no sense.
Why would I be upstairs if people come
and visit me all day long and you
guys it doesn't make any sense I'll be
downstairs.
You're upstairs Abu Ayyub goes speaks to his
wife.
They come back.
Ya Rasulallah we can't we can't we have
to be We have to be downstairs So
they they try and argue but the Prophet
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says no.
No, it doesn't make any sense You're upstairs.
I'm downstairs.
So Abu Ayyub not willingly says, all right,
whatever you command Ya Rasulallah downstairs downstairs So
they go upstairs Yakhulu Abu Ayyub fa ma
nimna He couldn't sleep kullama taharraka wahidu minna
qala lil aakhir ustsah Tawqid Rasulallah Every time
one of us move we tell the other
princess be quiet The Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam says wake him up now.
You make make noise Qala hatta kana yawmu
minal ayaam fa sakabat um ayyub ma'an
She tipped over a cup.
She spilled a cup of water on the
floor Qala fastalqayna alal ma' We couldn't find
anything.
We couldn't find a towel Also we lay
on with our clothing trying to absorb the
water So it wouldn't drip upon the Prophet
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's head And we
made a mess of the floor and we
fought with each other And the next morning
they come to the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam They both their eyes are this
big.
They've been yelling at each other all night.
They said Ya Rasulallah, please go upstairs Please
go upstairs.
We're going to hire.
We're going to get it.
We're going to divorce each other Let's go
upstairs He laughed alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
I said I'll go upstairs This much trouble
I'll go upstairs So he went upstairs alayhi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Just to make Abu
Ayyub's life a little bit easier And they
would send up food to him So they
would eat with him sometimes But the majority
of the time he had guests He had
people coming in from all the tribes Representatives
He was going and visiting You can imagine
it's a very busy time for him alayhi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So they would often
send food up to him alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam And then they would look When
the food came back Their interest is what
did he eat from What did he not
eat from Yaqul Abu Ayyub Hubban anna tatabba
'a Athara Athara ta'amihi alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam He wanted to eat from where
he ate alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He
wanted to go wherever he ate from To
eat from the same spot that he ate
from Qal fakunna idha wafa'ana lahu ta
'aman Feehi thoomun aw basarun lam ya'kul
And anytime Um Ayyub made something That had,
one minute, okay Made garlic or raw garlic
Or raw onions The food would come back
And he hadn't touched that at all So
they asked him Ya Rasool Allah Qala inni
unaji al malaika Wa inna al malaikata Tata
'adha mimma yata'adha minhu banu adam I
speak to the Jibreel comes and speaks to
me And it harms The scent from my
mouth harms them So I don't use it
alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So they stopped
making the food That had raw garlic and
raw onion So he would eat alayhi sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam I'm going to end with
that And I tell you the story of
Abu Ayyub Because Abu Ayyub Of course He
had the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
In his home He had that honor of
the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Staying
in his house for the first Period But
what I want you to do is imagine
If he was your guest Imagine if the
Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to
the city And stayed with you What would
have to change in your life For that
to be reasonable Would you be able to
have him in your house alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam Would you be embarrassed of having
him in your house alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Would you be proud Would you be
able to actually have him in your home
Think about that And I'll talk about that
inshallah In a little bit more detail next
week Assalamu alaykum Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
How's everybody How's everybody doing today Good hopefully
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minute inshallah There's ten questions And there's only
ten minutes until our So let's get in
as soon as we can inshallah Please and
thank you From
a show of hands How many people need
a little bit more time to get into
the game Okay a couple of people Let's
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are we ready Okay let's get started There
should be a little bit more excitement In
the room I feel Like I don't think
you guys know what's on the line here
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gift cards come on Okay yalla First question
True or false Without culture you cannot establish
identity Is that true or is that false
By the way everything here Culture is from
today I sit in the corner here and
I make the questions as shaykh And I'm
speaking Without culture you cannot establish identity Is
that true or is that false True So
said Mentioned multiple times at the beginning of
today's Sirah Let's move to the leaderboard Let's
see who's on the beginning of the first
leaderboard We have Nur, Jumanji and Hassan In
the first top three places Next question Question
number two When the Prophet entered Medina He
was with who Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman or
Ali Who was he with Initially So easy
come on Four people got this wrong Come
on Let's see the leaderboard Hassan is now
in first place Second place Zainab and third
place Heart MashaAllah Question number three Where did
the Prophet Learn how to swim If
you listen these are easy Where did he
learn how to swim Banu Najjar is correct
When he was a kid his mother brought
him there And he learned how to swim
In the wells of Banu Najjar Ghar Ghar
is like a cave So he didn't learn
how to swim in a cave First place
we have Mr. Hala, second place Jumanji And
third place Kulthum Kulthum Question number four I
believe Yes number four What did the Prophet
do as soon As his camel sat In
Banu Najjar What was the first thing that
he did Did he rest, did he pray,
did he give a khutbah, did he build
a masjid Give a khutbah is correct Okay
we have a new leaderboard We have Hasan
in first place We have Ashar in second
place Third place Zainab MashaAllah The first command
of this khutbah was what The first one
The khutbah he gave What was the first
command Was it perform salah, was it to
spread peace Was it to be kind to
others Or was it to give wealth to
those in need The first one, the first
commandment To spread peace That is correct Zainab
is now in first place Ashar in second
And Hasan in third place A.N.K
in fourth Khadija in fifth And Yusuf Bey
has a streak with five Correct answers MashaAllah
Question number six The concept of salam Changed
the interaction Of who There was an example
that Shaykh Anan Gave during the seerah What
was that example Was it for those who
met In the city, those in war Those
in Tim Hortons Or those in the desert
Tim Hortons is not correct Two people put
Tim Hortons The desert was correct A.N
.K is now in first Zainab in second
And Khadija in third MashaAllah Let's move on
to question number seven The second command Of
his khutbah, the second one Pay attention Was
what, was it to give wealth to those
in need Was it to perform salah To
spread peace or to be kind To others
Give wealth to those in need is correct
Leader but it's the same Except now Kulthum
is in fourth place MashaAllah Eight players just
hit answer streak of three Good job guys
If those Question number eight I think If
those in your city are in need It
is still permissible to Send your zakat overseas
Is that true or is that false Don't
yell at the answers Stop, these
questions are not the best Because Hamza Ahmed
didn't help me make them today But I
tried my hardest Next time Hamza Ahmed will
help Okay we have Khadija in first Zainab
in second And A.N.K in third
We are going to move to the second
last question The third command Of his khutbah
The third Command was To spread peace, to
give wealth to those in need To strengthen
Relationships with kin Or to be kind to
others The third command Of the khutbah Strengthening
relationships with kin is correct Zainab is now
in first A.N.K is in second
Khadija is in third Last question Last question
The fourth commandment was what Was it To
strengthen relationships with kin To spread peace To
give wealth to those in need Or to
establish the prayer at night Very
easy Just pay attention We almost got everybody
in Makkah with the answer Except one person
had to choose give wealth That's okay Next
time inshallah That is correct establishing the prayer
at night was the last command Of the
khutbah Now we'll move on to the final
leaderboard And we will see who gets to
win The Tim Hortons gift cards Third
place Khadija Second place A.N.K And
in first place Zainab MashaAllah to all the
winners After salah I'll go to the office
inshallah And I have the gift cards in
my pocket And I'll give them out to
you inshallah JazakAllah khair We'll have the adhan
We'll see you guys next week