Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah- Episode 45
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The speaker discusses the struggles of the Prophet Alayhi s unsalatu wa s and the importance of honesty and objectivity in protecting people's rights and avoiding confusion. They emphasize the need for honesty and objectivity in protecting people's rights and not giving anyone information. The speaker also touches on the history of his use of animals as symbols to signal his followers' presence, including his use of symbols to signal the presence of his followers' followers' followers.
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So tonight inshallah we continue from where we
left off last week and I'm trying to
Help you get a sense of what the
first maybe two years of or a year
and a half of the Prophet alayhi salatu
wassalam's time in in Medina it looked like
and it was a mix of having to
adapt to a new and different Climate not
just an Environmental one but also a social
one of economical one and a political one
and the Prophet alayhi salatu wassalam had a
number of things that he had to do
at the beginning alayhi salatu wassalam in terms
of building the masjid and writing the Constitution
and Establishing the brotherhood so that people could
live in you know, find places to live
make sure there's housing Mu'akha, you know,
it's a spiritual meaning but really it's housing.
It's making sure people had homes places to
live That was quite quite a challenge and
of course as it worked out and as
it was people got a little more stable
The sahaba started feeling a little bit better
about about this new transition and Medina's began
to thrive Began to thrive when I say
thrive I'm not talking about the economical thriving
that that would take that would take a
number of years after he passed away alayhi
salatu wassalam to actually occur at least in
the way that was noticeable But was the
spiritual thriving the social thriving that that began
and The Prophet alayhi salatu wassalam took a
few initiatives in the midst of all of
this and one of them was he performed
a census Of Medina, so he had all
the information and I talked about that last
time, but I think it's something that's worth
Keeping in mind.
It was a big I mean the fact
that he did this alayhi salatu wassalam to
me always stands out as Such a it's
called ihsa Such a forward thinking aspect of
his of his character that he's like I
need to know I need to know Who
I have in Medina how many people can
bear arms how many families how many people
are married unmarried?
What age groups are they how many children
people from different tribes?
How many are they?
Where are they living so alayhi salatu wassalam
had information knew what the people he was
working with alayhi salatu wassalam That allowed him
that helped him To plan accordingly so that
was the first one the second initiative was
that he he established intelligence groups Interesting it
is interesting that we taught we call these
mukhabara today, and they always have a bad
yani connotation Attached to them, but in the
prophet alayhi salatu wassalam time having uyun, having
people who would basically sweep The the peninsula
and bring back information was very important So
you had talha ibn ubaydillah and saeed ibn
zaid the two people who are responsible for
this For this aspect of things and they
they had a team of people and their
job was to make sure that the prophet
alayhi Salatu wassalam was well informed of any
movements that quraish was performing or any movements
that could be Possibly performed and what the
other tribes were saying and what was going
on in the periphery of Medina because back
then Communication was was obviously a challenge, and
it was not easy for you to gather
information So alayhi salatu wassalam always had these
groups talha and saeed That's what they did
and they brought reports to the prophet alayhi
salatu wassalam on a weekly basis And they
and they and they did this and I'll
give you examples of that because I'll show
you I got any moments when talha or
saeed would come back to the prophet alayhi
salatu wassalam and tell them This is what
we found and that would obviously you know
we're gonna.
We're gonna see an example of that in
a few moments And the third and the
third initiative are the scouting groups the scouting
groups Which is where he would send alayhi
salatu wassalam small groups of the sahaba with
a with a leader They were armed and
that was going to see and if they're
if the intelligence group said there's a small
gathering We're not exactly sure who they are.
We're not exactly sure why they're there, but
they're I mean 60 or 50 kilometers Yeah,
I mean west of the northwest of Medina
or southeast of Medina And we don't know
what's going on the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam
was set out scouting groups to see what
the issue is why?
Because he was trying to keep his borders
and periphery alayhi salatu wassalam safe He knew
what was going to happen.
He knew that Quraysh was not gonna Actually
the amount of anger that Existed in in
in Mecca after he made it out alayhi
salatu wassalam and began building this city was
off the charts The oppression that the sahaba
who were left behind Underwent was actually worse
than some of the stories that I told
you Yeah I mean the maybe a couple
of months ago at the beginning of of
his prophecy alayhi salatu wassalam is like Quraysh
failed to Contain this this is how they
look at it They failed to contain him
and his followers and now he's no longer
in Mecca He's outside of their control and
now they look bad in front of all
of the tribes of Arabia So for them
they took out all that anger on the
sahaba who are left there So that was
a big problem because the prophet alayhi salatu
wassalam still felt responsible for their safety And
wanted bargaining chips to be able to you
know ensure their their ongoing safety It was
definitely a difficult a difficult thing and the
one of the many scouting troops Actually, there's
too many scouting troops within Syria for me
to even begin to tell you the stories
of these too many things happen So and
a lot of them are very technical, so
I'm not gonna really go into too many
details I do want to tell you the
story or the the group or the troops
of Abdullah One of the Zaynab's brother who
was the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam's wife They
weren't married at that time But she would
later become his wife and Abdullah was was
one of the early sahaba and her brother
and Abdullah He's a muhajir.
He's from Mecca.
He's from Quraysh.
He's related to the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam
Closely related so the prophet alayhi salatu wassalam
sent with him eight people.
It was a small scouting group It was
not a large group and the prophet alayhi
salatu wassalam gave them instructions He said look
you go There's a there's a there's some
troops or a large gathering of people in
a certain area when you go scout them
out Find out how many don't cause any
trouble like don't don't get don't engage do
not engage with them just get me information
from them and just establish like a Protection
point so that they see you that they
know that they can't that this that they've
been scouted.
They've been seen For those of you like
me who are not militarily oriented and don't
fully understand the art of war These are
things that matter not that I fully understand
but it matters if there's a small group
that is camping in a certain area the
Outside of a city or outside the gates
or the borders of a country then the
country will go and establish a point for
Themselves and make themselves visible or at least
to make it clear to them that they're
there So that it's less likely that they'll
engage or that they'll move forward So Abdullah
took his group and he went and he
did that over one of and they were
supposed to stay there for a couple of
a couple of nights for a couple of
Nights, but up to over a week or
so Overnight one of those nights a few
of the people of that troop made their
way to the camp of the of Abdullah
and Some and there was a back-and
-forth and they were able to take a
hostage or two The narration is different.
Some of them say sad it may not
be what causes one of them Some of
them don't but they were able to take
one or two hostages So I'm the law
have the law on whose troops had gone
down.
He only had eight people now he had
six So he looked he knew that there
was a caravan that belonged to this group
a caravan of goods that was a part
of this group's tribe that was coming so
he went and he and his plan was
to Was to stop them to negotiate so
that we have their car again Give us
back our two hot our two people and
they do an exchange That was his plan
and the caravan wouldn't belong to a man
by the name of Allah.
I'm gonna hold on me He owned the
caravan.
So I'm the law who Anthony and get
tried to stop the caravan and It went
south The caravan was actually way more armed
than they thought There's at the beginning of
the intelligence movements of the Prophet Ali and
saw some groups So it was not pitch
for you.
It was not bulletproof yet He didn't know
how much it was actually heavily armed So
a little bit of a fight happened and
the the Muslims ended up killing someone The
on the other side I love me.
I ended up dying.
Well, that was all fine because this is
not an issue Yeah, it was it was
open combat.
So it's fine the problem with it And
this is what I'm the law.
I should not think did not notice is
that night?
was the first night of Rajab Anyone know
why that's important Yeah, it's got a lot
of harm right there's there are four there
are a number of a short little right
anyway You know what the issue of the
home are What are the four sacred months?
So the Al-Qaeda the Hijjah muharram and
Rajab right so so it's right it's right
there So Rajab was the first night of
it and technically Abdullah initiated this This this
problem with with the caravan So technically the
Muslims are the ones who started this at
the night of the first at the first
night of one of the sacred months now
The Sahaba argued that we thought it was
the 30th night of the of the of
the month before that was there It was
probably but but it didn't work the propaganda
spread it spread like wildfire Quraish said Mohammed
you have to know if it actually home
Muhammad is killing people in the sacred months
and that became the whole issue You know
I've been just because he was able to
hold the caravan was able to get back
sad and the hostage and go Back to
the prophet.
So technically it works, but there's a guy
who died They come back to the prophet.
I think it's not the sound the prophet.
I think it was very upset Telling him
I don't know.
Did I not say not to engage did
I not specifically say don't engage with them
and of course I'm the one who's you
know I knew he says that I was
the worst day of his entire life When
he's when he came back to the prophet
He thought those I'm and saw him how
angry he was with him because of what
he had what they had done And the
prophet had a sauce on paid the DIA.
I mean he paid the explanation for this
person that they killed I don't know how
to me they paid the DIA for him
and he chastised the Muslims for doing this
the Propaganda spread I'm from Quraysh that how
is it that mostly any Muhammad is killing
in the and it started they started using
this Incident to make the prophet and he
saw some of the Sahaba look bad as
if they are you know Transgressing at a
wrong time so the Quran would actually come
and address this the Quran would address this
yes I don't like a I need shaggy
al-harami Italian fee.
They're talking and they're asking about The sacred
month fighting in the sacred month one say
this Italian fee he could hear it's a
big mistake for someone to initiate combat and
transgress within the sacred month agreed Well, so
I don't answer be to Lahi Well, go
from B.
He will message al-haram.
We're glad you early.
He mean who Akbar and Allah however Pushing
back against the way of Allah Disbelieving in
Allah holding the message al-haram hostage kicking
people out of their homes is worse In
the eyes of Allah that's worse the oppression
that happened and the removal of people from
their homes and the and the refusal of
Of the prophet alayhi s-salatu wa s
-salam message that is worse in the eyes
of Allah It's worse than fighting in but
the Quran came and acknowledged that they made
a mistake And this is a really important
point when you study when you study this
verse in the Quran That the Quran came
and acknowledged and admitted that the Muslims were
wrong.
They were wrong now What the other group
did was worse, but you are still wrong.
We'll get down and see he could hear
It was a big mistake issue.
You should have not initiated combat at the
night within a short home this objectivity is
actually quite It's amazing actually and it's worth
worthy of our contemplation as Muslims Just because
you're oppressed does not give you a green
light to do whatever you want and for
you to be of to be seen or
considered as As blameless you cannot be blamed
because you're the oppressed or because you're the
weaker doesn't work that way No, if you
make a mistake, you still made a mistake
if you're oppressed and you made a mistake.
It's still a mistake It doesn't stop being
a mistake just because you're oppressed or because
you or you underwent an injustice However, that
that mistake that was made does not make
yeah It's not equal to the act of
oppression and injustice that actually occurred This is
a very difficult balance that I find Muslims
can't seem to figure out What we can't
seem to figure out this very clear Simple
balance that the Quran brought forward in this
example and we have many examples by the
way in the Quran to talk about this
The Quran could have come and said no
Abdullah is Made no mistake because Quraysh has
been oppressing you for a long time.
So it's all fair in in love and
war It's all fair because no Qul qitalun
fihi kabir Say no It's a big mistake
for you them for them to initiate combat
as the Prophet Alayhi Salaam said see the
Prophet Alayhi Salaam did not exonerate Abdullah and
his troop and say no, it's okay.
It's okay Huma kulluhum kafarah.
They're all misbelievers.
They're all enemies.
It doesn't matter.
You killed a couple of them No, the
Prophet Alayhi Salaam was actually upset and Abdullah
was demoted for a while Like Abdullah did
not lead another troop for a while He
had to prove himself back in order to
be given given that privilege again So he
was actually punished by the Prophet Alayhi Salaam
for the mistake that he made we have
to understand this as Muslims we absolutely have
to comprehend this basic term this basic concept
just because you are mistreated or you are
transgressed against or you are undergoing an injustice
or Does not give you a green tick
a green light or a free Ticket to
do whatever you want and that people all
have to accept because you were once mistreated
No, no, no, no, when you make a
mistake, it will be called out as well
however Mistakes can be weighed and one mistake
can be way worse and much heavier and
much more problematic than another one and And
that's what the Quran came and said wa
saddun an sabeelillahi wa kufrun bihi wal masjidil
haram wa ikhraju min ahlihi minhu akbara indallah
It's what the Quraysh has done what Quraysh
has done to you is way worse in
the eyes of Allah But still, qitalun fihi
kabir That was the first thing the Quran
didn't start with what Quraysh did wrong The
Quran came and admitted that the Muslims made
a mistake.
You shouldn't have went and initiated combat in
the Ahlul Hurum, period However, don't try to
equalize this the propaganda that you're using is
garbage the propaganda that you're using doesn't that
doesn't go anywhere Quraysh, no, no, what you've
done is way worse.
You want to play this ticket fine, but
it doesn't know That's not how this works.
What you've done is worse And actually this
verse became more popular than all the propaganda
that Quraysh put out This ayah became more
famous in Arabia then the propaganda that Quraysh
was trying to send out You know why
because it was honest People like honesty people
appreciate honesty It takes a big person to
admit to a mistake and not everyone does
that people are tired of Polarized narratives a
narrative that only tells one side of the
story Purposefully so most people have a reasonable
IQ and they can figure out they can
sniff it out That this is just your
narrative and you have no interest in acknowledging
any aspect of your own mistake at all
in this You're just gonna blame the other
group the other side altogether people know that
they they feel it.
They sense it They're not impressed by it.
They'll listen to it.
They'll listen to your argument if it suits
them They'll probably even pick it up, but
they know there's something missing everyone does what
what conflict in history ever existed?
Where one side was 100% wrong, huh?
Yeah, no, yeah your problems with your spouse
don't qualify either You're in the none at
no There is no problem in the history
of humanity where one side was a hundred
percent wrong And if you come and say
that I thought I tuned people like that
out immediately Like it takes two minutes of
talking if I start sensing that this person
sees no accountability They are not able to
see any aspect of their own mistake.
I Tuned them out wait for them to
finish.
They Monica.
Love people make draw out for you That's
the best I can offer Allah mark Let
my life slap you around enough to teach
you and they come back again and then
talk to me Talk to me with some
degree of logic Talk to me and talk
to me in a way that makes sense
No, there's no very rarely, but when I
say rarely as in like one in a
million You're not one of them.
Neither am I?
Any conflict or problem that exists out there
you always you're carrying some degree of it
Whether it's a small conflict or a large
conflict the Quran in the midst of Muslims
still being fully oppressed Muslims not being a
Muslim was not legal in Arabia if you
understand what I'm saying It wasn't allowed in
the midst of that that degree of basic
rights being deprived of Muslims at that time
The Quran still came and said we tell
you feel you should not done that.
That's your mistake and it started with that
It started with that it didn't come and
defend them.
It didn't come and justify their mistake didn't
rationalize what they did No, it came and
said they were wrong, but you are way
more wrong But when I sure way more
wrong, you don't get away.
You can't get away with just using what
they did No, it doesn't work that way.
That is a refreshing degree of honesty, which
is why this became much more famous Which
is why even the disbelievers?
Yeah That's interesting that Muhammad actually Because they
don't believe that this is the word of
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala the mushrikeen But then
Muhammad alayhi salatu wasalam held his own troops
accountable for their mistake and he paid the
DIA He actually paid the DIA When you
when you kill someone you there's an amount
that is owed right when it's by mistake
or it shouldn't have happened He paid it
alayhi salatu wasalam from because he said no
we should have done that you're wrong.
He didn't defend it He didn't justify it.
He demoted Abdullah We need that degree of
objectivity We need the ability to Hold ourselves
accountable This is the essence of my messaging
and I as a Muslim as a Muslim
speaker the essence of my messaging is that
before we point fingers at different parties and
groups and before I waste I waste time
honestly talking about the Dictatorships that exist in
the Middle East and the people who are
and who don't like us the people who
aren't cheating us fairly and those who are
yeah, I mean before I do any of
that before I What where's my where's our
accountability show me what we we have to
first of all figure out what we're not
doing, right?
And we may need to do that for
a couple of decades We may need to
spend the next few decades just doing that
Acknowledging where we went wrong Where we are
not performing at the level that we should
where we're not fulfilling our purpose appropriately And
then once we're at that level, you know,
what's gonna happen?
You're gonna find no point in pointing fingers
at any other other group you will find
that once you stop being the victim when
you stop seeing yourself as a victim when
you stop hoping for people to sympathize with
you and Empathize with you and clap for
you or weep for you or fight for
you when you stop doing that and you
actually take the Responsibility upon yourself and you
see what you're not doing you start doing
it You won't find any reason to actually
point fingers at those who are against you
because those who are against you are always
gonna be There they're never gonna go away.
They're always going to be there for you
to think otherwise is very naive It's very
naive to think that the other group somehow
is going to know they're not gonna change
They're not gonna start respecting you and they're
not gonna treat you fairly but do your
part This is what the Quran was about.
Yeah, the Quran was very clear.
You were wrong.
Don't do that again Don't initiate a combat
in Ashur Haram.
I don't care why don't do it again
It was your fault, but in the bigger
scheme of things Oppressors not you and you
are the oppressed the one is not interested
in also just chastising the Muslims No, the
plan was to balance.
I don't think we have that balance at
all I don't think we have that balance
at all as Muslims like not not even
a not even the smallest whiff of it
I don't think we have the ability to
see ourselves at fault.
I think we I think we see everyone
at fault I know that because I sit
with people and I watch them speak and
I listen to them and I hear them
Talk about things and I know that we
don't have the ability.
We don't have that mentality Everyone's at fault.
They the hookah match are at fault whether
in the Middle East or in the West
The organizations are at fault Either the system
is at fault.
The banks are at fault.
Big pharma is at fault The school is
off everyone's at fault, but God forbid me
I ain't at fault Everyone's like me the
world be good.
I'm perfect That is a very very ill
Mentality, that's a very ill mentality.
No, I can't control all the aforementioned groups
The only one I can't control is me.
Let me see what I should have done
differently Let me hold myself to the standard
that I should be holding myself to I
Tell you that once you do that once
enough of us do that.
We won't need to spend any time Complaining
about what other people are doing or what
other groups are how they are behaving or
how they're treating us I guarantee you this
I guarantee you this but we're not good
at that We there's this unfortunate Victim mentality
that we have grown up with it's not
healthy and I don't appreciate I don't like
it.
You're not a victim We're not victims We're
victims of anything or victims of our own
failures Have our own shortcomings.
I know that because that's what Quran taught
and that's what the Prophet Taught us.
This is a very hard reality to accept
Your nafs will fight against this You're probably
telling yourself that I'm full of it and
you're waiting for me to move on to
something else after it And that's alright But
I'm telling you that this is the realization
that you need to come to because when
you come to it and you accept it
And you are at peace with the fact
that you are not doing your part Appropriately
and that you are at fault and that
you are responsible to a certain degree within
the within within the limitations of your capacity
and you start actually looking towards what it
is that you could do differently and you
start owning this problem and you become a
champion of the cause then things change for
you and you Function at a different level
and you don't need encouragement.
You don't need people to remind you You
don't you stop complaining about small stuff and
you stop fighting with people you stop wasting
time with trivial issues because you have a
cause that you're Working towards and you're gonna
continue to work towards it Relentlessly until the
day you die enough of us did that
then things would be very different But we
don't have that.
We don't have that.
We have a two billion people sit back
and complain about stuff And want a free
card to say and do anything because we're
victims and we're not They didn't get to
they didn't they weren't offered this victim mentality
when they made this mistake He was eight
of them eight a troop of eight the
group they were scouting was 200 The caravan
had 80 men it was eight of them.
That's it And they didn't even they weren't
even trying to kill them.
They were just There's a million ways for
me to justify what happened and forgive them
for it and the Quran said no We
tell him fee could be you shouldn't have
initiated.
I'm not making this up.
Go back and read the Tafsir of this
Oh, yeah, there's no other Tafsir for this
I decide what I'm telling you like it's
one it's one story in every single book
because there's no second like some stories some
verses Some scholars say this is the story
some scholars say that's the story.
This is the only story for this.
Oh, yeah There's nothing else.
There's no steady yet to Abdullah.
He'd need you sit and that's what happened
and the Quran came and held them accountable
first Not missing the fact that Quraysh is
an oppressive regime in the region That is
denying Muslims their basic human rights, but still
holding accountable the Muslims who didn't make the
right choice We go back to that and
you'll see change you go back to that
as Muslim We have the when we when
we build the capacity to go back to
that to be objective to see things to
see things with the dimensions and the and
the Complexity that they have to point out
where mistakes have been made to own them
and acknowledge them to point and they can
to maintain The bigger picture and to continue
to hold ourselves accountable and to accept once
we do that You'll see that we start
to change and we don't have that capacity.
I live in this we don't we're not
right We're not even close which is why
my messaging will continue to be will continue
to be about self-accountability But our lack
of doing our role and I'm not gonna
go them and make you feel better about
yourself by you know By by calling out
the the president of the United States or
calling out the president of some other country
I'm not gonna do it.
You're gonna feel better if I do I'm
not doing it because I already know that
I don't expect anything else.
And if you expect something else, then you're
actually even more naive than I am If
you expect them to do if you expect
someone else to care for you If you
expect someone else to value your blood and
value your life and to bring you justice
Then you have no idea how the how
planet Earth works.
You have no idea How life actually functions
if you think someone else is going to
actually care about your future aside from you
And if we don't actually take that accountability
upon ourselves, we'll never get anywhere So that's
what I'm gonna continue to do Because if
the Quran at this time came and said
the Talon Fiji Kabir this Monumental ayah at
a time where there's a million reasons why
you could have just looked the other way
from this mistake It didn't Then I have
no reason to do that either Let's talk
about Let's talk about this cool cool thing
Like I told you the intelligence groups all
over But I can say I came to
the Prophet I said yes or Allah Abu
Sufyan.
This is what they told him.
Huh?
This is the degree of detail This is
the second year of his of his hijrah.
He saw to Islam towards just before Ramadan
Abu Sufyan took all of the wealth that
he stole that was stolen from your house
and stolen from Abu Bakr and all the
muhajireen and All the wealth that was stolen
was put in one caravan That they sent
with Abu Sufyan specifically so that he could
go grow that money and come back and
give it to the nobles of Quraish we've
been watching this money.
We've been monitoring it.
It's in Damascus and he's on his way
back He's on his way back with your
wealth with our wealth Ya Rasulullah now, they
didn't come and do that because they had
an agenda They did that because he told
them specifically to keep an eye out He
told them as you swipe you sweep the
area I want you to keep an eye
on the caravan that they're going to use
that they're going to send within our wealth
the wealth of the muhajireen and Talha and
Said at the beginning were like well, why
ya Rasulullah?
Why do we it's a caravan?
It's not just do it And tell me
when it leaves and tell me when it
arrives in Sham and tell me when it's
on its way back So they did they
gave the Prophet all his information and they
told him Just at the beginning of the
first Ramadan that he would run out of
his thought to a salam He would tell
they would tell him it's on its way
back And in 15 to 16 days is
going to be Close to us.
They're going to come by us So a
prophet had a saw some held on to
that information and the sahabah enjoyed their first
Ramadan Ramadan I wish was a beautiful time.
There's less than 100 days left, by the
way Until Ramadan comes by again So the
first Ramadan and the first time till we
first time like a lot of things and
one's a beautiful thing But the prophet alayhi
salam was counting the days Coming closer asking
for updates.
Where is it now?
Oh, it's Close to a taboo now where
it is.
Oh now it's close to this now Where
is it?
He's figuring out how far away it is
from Medina thousand camels Thousand understand a thousand
camels It's a lot Have you seen a
thousand camels before I have it.
They're not bear.
No, these camels are Packed with merchandise This
is a big caravan 40 guards 40 guards
on horseback This wasn't a small wasn't a
small caravan.
This was a strong and large and well
armed caravan Right on his way back 40
guards papa alayhi salatu wasalam would Find out
through his intelligence groups that this caravan Was
now maybe five six kilometers to the northwest
of Medina So the prophet alayhi salam gathered
quickly a group of people The number he
was able to gather was 313 and he
was the 314th person on his thought to
us.
And the idea was that they were going
to go out and And try and take
this caravan Retrieve what is theirs?
It's their wealth.
They want they want to take back what
there's you don't want You don't want to
whatever wealth is belongs to Quraish within the
caravan They just want their own and then
you have these verses in surah al-anfal
Now you can tell us what to tell
the story of the battle of Badr from
two distinct points of view you can tell
it from the point of view of the
Sahaba who Beautified the story after it happened
And you can tell it from the standpoint
of the Quran that didn't the Quran doesn't
sugarcoat anything It doesn't it doesn't beautify or
does it use a beautifying brush over anything
the Quran comes and talks about things as
they were as they Happened no no sugarcoating
of anything the Sahaba obviously after something occurred
would reflect and this is the human We
all do that anything that you go through
in your life You will tell me this
story after it's done After you reflected on
it if you've thought about it after you've
come to conclusions You'll come and tell me
this is what happened you leave out all
the times where you almost broke down Where
you almost lost hope where you didn't behave
according appropriately where you?
Almost lost yeah I need the interest in
doing this where you You are gonna tell
me that piece you're gonna tell me all
the things that especially if you succeeded It's
all gonna be about like all the hard
work that you put in not about the
failures and the mistakes So when you hear
the story of Buddha from the Sahaba, it's
beautified, and that's normal because they're people, but
the Quran tells it differently Come on Roger.
Come on book.
I mean Baytika bil-haqqa Well in a
ferry come in al-mu'minin al-karihoon as
your Lord Commanded you to leave Your home
bil-haqqa He commanded you to follow through
With righteousness, this is what this ayah means
there's a piece that is deleted here Come
on Roger come in Baytika bil-haqqa as
you were as you were forced to Leave
your home in Mecca as you were forced
to do that bil-haqqa He commanded you
to continue to seek Righteousness and to pursue
your rights, and he said alayhi salatu wasalam
to them that night We're going after the
caravan and the Sahaba are like what why?
What's in it our wealth the wealth that
was stolen from us, but you know so
Allah Yani, we we don't need it anymore
alhamdulillah all of us have Work now we've
a lot of dead and a lot of
hair on them I'll have them in there
That's what they said Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
has replaced us with better and more than
what he took from us whatever was taken
from us They thought it was it with
the money No, we're going anyways.
Yeah, I'll sit Allah, but why I'm doing
everything is nice.
It's been a year and a half It's
Ramadan For the first time we're not being
oppressed It's a nice community.
It's a beautiful time.
Why go poke the bear?
Why go poke Quraysh?
Why why start why start something?
Yeah, so let's count how many times the
word I'll recite the verse for you verses
for you And you count with me the
number of times.
He says the word haqq So come out
like a robber coming bait to cover the
haqq when the ferry come in al-mu'minuna
carry who you got it?
You know that I feel haqq But I'm
not a bayonet and I'm not you suck
on it.
I'll know what you want Unborn what is
the edukum Allah who is the party fatayni
anna ha lakum what I would do now?
I'm not here about a show cutty takuna
lakum where you read a lot.
Oh, and you hit the haqqa became a
TV Well, I'll carry him with you haqq
al-haqqa.
We will put a lot about it.
Well, I'll carry him with you six times
in three or four verses The haqq you
haqq al-haqq.
It's about righteousness.
It's about the truth.
It's about Doing the right thing.
It's not about the money.
It's not about the money The prophet had
no interest in wealth money himself.
The Sahaba were taught by him.
I'll a sort of not to be materialistic
So they weren't after the wealth But a
part of them didn't want to do this
because they were like why why start why
start something?
We're in the ferry come in al-mu'minuna
that carry who there was a group of
the believers who?
Absolutely hated this not the one I think
mean no No, no, no the mu'minin there
were no monotheism in that army and he
didn't call for this caravan Any of the
munafiqeen alayhi salatu waslam was only the people
who were committed, but even those who were
committed They didn't they didn't like this idea.
Why go and poke the bear?
Why don't just we're good?
Everything is fine.
Life is good.
Finally.
Finally, why go and do this?
We don't want the money who said anything
about money Who said anything about this being
to something to do with money?
This is about rights Your rights were taken
away from you.
You don't stop until you retrieve your rights
you get back.
What is yours?
You don't allow someone to oppress you and
then you walk away.
You never walk away from oppression You continue
to fight back until that oppression is removed
Then if you want to gift your wealth
or a gift to gift the land to
someone gift it Go ahead and gift it.
But if they took it away from you
in an oppressive manner, then you're going to
retrieve it You are going to continue to
fight until you retrieve it and that is
just basic human decency decency I'm not talking.
This is just this is a human value
that no matter where you come from or
what you believe in or what?
Ideology you follow is not only accepted but
it is encouraged.
You don't bend backwards You don't walk away
from an act of oppression and transgression and
just say I didn't want it Anyway, no,
no, no, you go back and take what's
yours You go I can fight for what's
yours and then when you have it if
you didn't want it give it back here
Give it back.
It's not about the thing.
It's about the right you Transgressed against me
you took away my rights And that and
that can't be oh, that's not okay We're
not okay with that.
We're not okay with our fundamental rights being
taken away from us And there's nothing that
makes up for a right that was taken
away.
I don't care what you offer in return
No, no, you give me back.
What's mine and then and then if I
don't want it, I'll give it to you
I'll give it to you out of gift.
I'll give it to you based on my
will not based on your oppressive approach Understand
this is an issue of is this is
an issue of integrity of honor of righteousness
of The Sahaba thought it was about the
money wasn't about the money.
That's why the ayah saying it's been hot.
It's Leo You daddy do when I got
feel hot they were arguing with you regarding
righteousness we got regarding for the hot regarding
rights Badama tabayana after it became clear Annama
you saw kuna illa Moti well whom young
boron after became clear that they felt that
they were being walked and marched towards their
deaths.
They were scared That's why this day was
a big day never in their lifetime had
anyone Opposed and defied Quraish like that.
No one no one dared because Quraish was
too powerful financially was too powerful Socially was
too powerful militarily.
It just didn't make any sense for anyone
to do they had too many they had
too many Any treaties with people and made
no sense and the Muslim country was way
too small And wait, it's way too weak.
The army had was only eight months old.
Yeah, there's almost no training done yet So
they were scared What is the I do
come on?
Lahu if the party fatiguing and now I
like him so far I'm told them to
make it easier for them Allah promises you
one of two things either the caravan or
that you are victorious against them What do
I do now?
And now I know that you show cut
it a cool look woman and everyone we're
sitting here listening to him We're hoping just
the caravan.
I just hope I get the caravan.
No, no war that you show Okay, it
is not when you're prickly when you feel
pain You're hoping that the one that has
pain and it doesn't happen Well, you read
a law who I knew hit by the
Hakkani calamity.
He way up a lot of your own
caffeine But Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala wants something
different Allah wanted for righteousness to be established
and And for the oppression and the Arrogance
of the disbelievers to be cut short.
Do you have a hot?
May he always subhanahu wa'ta'ala?
Establish rightness righteousness.
Well, you'll put a little bottle and establish
falsehood as in clarity in its clarity Well,
I'll carry him with Jimmy moon, even if
the if the criminals don't like it, it
doesn't matter That's why they went for but
but there wasn't about the caravan wasn't about
money.
It was about rights You were oppressed something
was taken away from you Against your will
your basic rights were you go back and
you stand up for yourself stand up for
yourself There's no oh, I forgave.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, you'll forgive after you retrieve it Retrieve
your right then forgive then forgive and offer.
What's that for in the market?
You're awful when you pardon someone is when
you have the ability When you have the
upper hand when you're no longer the lower
hand you're the lower hand you fight until
you are equal and then You can forgive
and then you can forgive.
This is an Islamic Principle, this is a
core Islamic value It's the integrity of a
Muslim has nothing to do with arrogance has
nothing to do with with with hunger for
blood or loving combat No, it has to
do with hook with rights with hot righteous
of the truth with doing the right thing
And the Sahaba for a moment there got
a little bit too comfortable It was easy
to get come to I would have been
comfortable to You're praying in the prophet Ali.
He saw Sam's masjid You pray behind him
in Salah every night.
He gives you adults every day.
You spend time with him.
It's safe People are getting along.
It's a beautiful community.
So what can a number of man?
I leave in Zubayr until Hannah side inside
amazing people.
Why would you want to go and poke
the bear?
Why rock the boats when everything is nice
and steady no, no, no, no, no, no,
then you never forget what is correct?
You never do we do we do six
weeks.
That's that's that's how far we'll We any
Muslima happens anywhere six weeks people get all
upset and then they forget about it How
do you think they were able to hold
on to that for 75 years?
How do you think this happens for over
a year now because we lose our our
passion within a couple of weeks We lose
our energy We lose our focus the day
that you're oppressed your focus is on fixing
that Removing that oppression until it's removed Until
it's removed.
There is no Raha.
There is no rest for Muslims until they
remove the oppression until they remove their oppression
and retrieve their rights Acknowledging their mistakes on
the right on the way and being objective
about it and not being scared of it
This is what what why would we study
his life out of his thoughts was never
not going to apply any of it Why
would we why study it if we have
no interest in applying it?
It's about applying these these teachings.
This is how if the saba went through
the same thing They were oppressed and they
were weaker and they were told no when
you make a mistake.
You made a mistake I'm not gonna polish
it up for you and cover it so
it doesn't look I know we're gonna say
it was a mistake and acknowledge and accept
and admit it and then you're going to
go even though you're afraid even though you're
lesser and numbers and lesser and an Arsenal
and everything you're going to go and you're
going to fight for your what what is
what is what is rightfully yours?
What is rightfully yours?
And that's what better is about so What
happened was I was so it was a
fiat is seasoned.
He's not a he's not some Any green?
No, no, I was a fiat is probably
one of the smartest men in Arabia at
the time and continued to be so, you
know He know that Muhammad alayhi salatu wasalam
had his eye on this You know, you
know that this was not a normal caravan
that he was taking So that's why he
took way more guys than he used to
and that's why he had his own intelligence
groups So once the they found out the
prophet had some intention.
He changed his route he changed his route
altogether and he went to buy the sahil
the sahil which is which is the By
the shore like he went close to the
to the sea Which is not the the
typical route a caravan with a thousand camels
would take but he changed his route altogether
To get as far away from Medina as
he could and he put a man he
had with him He took this guy with
him on purpose.
I was if Jan was not so smart
He took a guy with him.
His name was a more of a bum
bum.
So I'm more had only one job.
I'm more was a I'm gonna type of
person that if you didn't if you wanted
something to news to get around you told
him You want the news to get around
tell him news will get around So he
told I'm gonna bum bum you're gonna go
you're gonna gallop down to Mecca and you're
going to let Quraish know You're gonna tell
them that Muhammad has taken the caravan of
Abu Sufyan, which is a lie because it
didn't happen But that's what he did.
So I'm over he goes down This is
the narration that we have of how he
entered a lot of a duck a MacArthur
Colorful Janessa So usually you sit on your
on your camel with face forward so he
turned around on the camel By the way,
John I had Jamal and he he made
cuts on the on the camel So the
camel was bleeding and then he took off
his shirt and he painted himself in the
blood of the camel And he's on the
way in he's coming backwards.
He's smacking his face He's streaming, he's making
a scene, people look at him, what is
this, so all of Mecca come running.
What happened?
Muhammad has taken the Qafila, Abu Sufyan, he
has taken.
And of course the anger, the anger begins.
Abu Jahl immediately puts together the troops.
Abu Jahl stands and he swears that we
are going to go to where Muhammad is,
we're going to get back our caravan, we're
going to kill him and his people, and
they're going to stay there for a week,
slaughtering and eating and partying and drinking, that's
what he told people.
We're going to go do this, we're going
to make a, make a, and everyone has
to leave.
So all of the men in Mecca start
to prepare, to prepare themselves.
So, a little kind of caveat to the
story, it was a couple of days before
this, Atika, bint Abdul Muttalib, the Prophet's aunt,
Muslim, saw in her dream a man coming
and standing on Safa, which is the mountain
that the Prophet stood on when he announced
Islam, and of course when you do Umrah
you stand there.
She was seeing her dream, a man standing
on Safa, yaqul, yaa alaghadr maw'idukum ba'dathalath,
oh people of treason, people of betrayal, talking
about the people of Mecca, your time is
in three days, your time is in three
days, and she saw this dream a couple
of times in a row, every time the
days would go down.
So she went and she told her brother,
al-Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib, she told him,
don't tell anyone.
So, just as a side note, so if
you don't want people to know your business,
don't tell anybody.
Ever.
Like, no one at all.
The moment you tell one person, expect and
accept that within a little bit of time,
whether that time is a couple of hours
if you're unlucky, or a couple of years,
everyone will know this.
If you actually don't want anyone to know,
then keep it to yourself.
Tell yourself.
Stand in front of the mirror and talk
to yourself for a little bit and keep
your voice down so no one hears on
the other side of the door.
Don't tell anyone.
The moment your secret leaves your lips, it's
gone.
And don't get upset.
Well, I thought they would hold to it.
You did.
Again.
Miskeen.
You're miskeen.
You're very naive if you think, no, impossible.
Al-Abbas went and told someone, told him,
don't tell anyone else this is a secret.
By the end of the night, all of
Mecca knew and all of Mecca was holding
on to it.
And Abu Jahl came, because he heard it,
and he knocked on the door of Bani
Hashim, and he said, now your women are
also Prophets.
It's not enough that we have a man
who is claiming prophecy amongst you.
Now your women are also Prophets.
She has visions.
If nothing happens in the next three days,
we're going to write on a piece of
paper that Bani Hashim are the biggest liars
of all of Arab, and we're going to
hang it in the Kaaba.
And of course, something happened.
And of course, Amr ibn Bambam made sure
it was very clear that something happened.
So Abu Jahl would start preparing his troops.
As he's preparing everyone, two people decided that,
yeah, we're good.
Abu Lahab and Umayyah ibn Khalaf.
Abu Lahab said, I can't.
I can't go.
I can't.
I have a business, and it's my nephew,
so I can't go.
And he paid for someone to go on
his behalf.
Arab used to do this.
So if you had enough money, you could
pay someone to go fight on your behalf.
And Abu Lahab used the example that he's
my nephew, so I'm not going to go
and do this.
Abu Lahab, obviously, what would happen later, is
on their way there.
During the time that it took for them
to go for the battle and come back,
Abu Lahab would be hit over the head
by the sister of one of his servants.
He would slap a servant over the face.
The kid would go and complain to his
older sister.
She would come with a big branch, slap
him on the head, open up his head,
causing him an infection.
The Arab back then, medicine was not that
advanced.
They thought that what he has was contagious,
so he was quarantined into his home.
And people got scared, so they would send
his food tied to a dog.
They would tie the food to a dog
and send the dog into the house.
And then once he died, out of the
infection, they basically brought down the house on
top of him, out of fear of what
he had, as the Qur'an said, as
the Qur'an predicted, that no, it's your
hands that are foolish.
Your hands are the ones that are going
to be punished, not Muhammad.
And that's how he died, a person who
defied the Prophet seven times publicly.
And the Prophet, peace be upon him, not
once replied to him.
Never once did he ever say a bad
word to him, not once.
In all of his life, the Prophet, peace
be upon him, not once did he say,
never addressed his uncle in a bad way.
Never worry about people who mistreat you.
I'm not talking about oppression here, I'm talking
about day-to-day mistreatment.
Don't worry about people who don't treat you
well, forget about them.
Don't waste your energy and time with them.
What goes around in life comes around.
What goes around comes around.
All good in life and all bad in
life are boomerangs.
You throw them out, give it enough time,
it will come back at you.
You do good, all that khair will come
back at you.
You do sharr, don't worry.
Someone who mistreats you, someone who doesn't do
well by you, leave it, it will come
back, they'll pay for it in the future.
And Abu Dhab did.
The Prophet, peace be upon him, did not
have to lift a finger.
The other person who stayed back, and I'll
let you guys hear the gahoot, is Umayyah
ibn Khalaf.
You know why Umayyah ibn Khalaf stayed back?
Umayyah was the master or the owner of
Sayyidina Bilal al-Habashi, Allah be pleased with
him.
And he oppressed Bilal.
He used to put the boulder on Bilal's
chest and tell him, say, hubal, and he
would say, ahad, ahad, ahad, and the whole
story, right?
We talked about this.
So one day, Bilal came, Umayyah was torturing
him, and Bilal said, Ya Umayyah, wallahi inni
laqatiluk.
Umayyah, no, one day, the day will come
where I will kill you.
Faqala ma taqool.
What is this?
Did Muhammad tell you this?
Faqala naam, akhbaran ya Rasulullah.
The Prophet said, one day I'll come and
kill you.
Faqala akhbarak.
Are you sure?
He said this to you.
Qala famasakaha Umayyah.
Umayyah got scared.
And the day the battle happened, he's like,
no, no, I'm good.
I'm good.
Bilal was already in Medina with the Prophet,
so he's like, I'm not going.
So Abu Jahl and his friends would come
and bring bakhoor, you know bakhoor?
And they would walk around him with bakhoor,
saying, here, sit like the ladies.
Bakhoor, make a bakhoor.
Say it in Makkah.
Kind of mocking him.
You're chicken, huh?
Stay, stay, stay back.
Don't go.
Don't go with the men and fight.
Stay back.
And Umayyah would look at them and say,
oh Allah, you're taking me to my death.
You're taking me to my end.
I know it.
And he went.
And he went.
He eventually went.
And I'll tell you the continuation of this
story, inshallah ta'ala, next week.
Subhanakallah wa bihamdik.
Shalom.
La ilaha illallah.