Ibrahim Dremali – The Strangers
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Are you ready for this connect? Good kid?
Ready for this connect, my man? Yo. Yeah.
What's the deal? Yo. He said 200 for
an ounce. 200 an ounce? That sound kinda
cheap. This guy was on service and said,
he was like, yo. Where you from? Business,
everything. Nah, man. I don't trust this man.
I don't trust this man. This is 200
is too cheap. Cheaper than Colombians and Dominicans,
man. Nah. I trust him. He he he
doesn't lie. He's that's what he said.
Yo, but we got this, though. We got
this. We got this. Where you from? Washington
Heights. He says he's all serious. I don't
know about this kid, man. I don't trust
him. Yeah. Okay. So if we got this
connect, we're gonna be ballast. I got this.
No. Yo. I can't I can't be living
like this. Yo. If he's fighting it out,
man. If he's fighting it, it's over.
It's over. No, man. I gotta fight. So
are you gonna leave on me like that?
Not yo. Just trust me on this. No.
I'm saying I gotta go. I gotta go,
man. Yo. Why you leaving on this? It's
tough. Throw it in this together. Come with
me, man. Yo. I come with you. Yo.
Get out of here. I don't want all
that dope for myself. Come on. Leave me.
Leave. I don't give a crap. Yo. Come
with me. Come with me, man. Yo. Get
out of here. Alright. Thanks. Peace, kid. Peace,
son. Get out of here.
Do you do you do you own? Hope
you have a good life. Yeah. I will.
You're gonna get you're gonna like it.
How's it going, brother?
Fine. How how's everything for you? It's fine.
I'm sorry to bother you. Can I ask
you one question?
Yeah. I'm is Isha time. You know what?
Where the nearest is, sir? Yeah. Sure. I'll
tell you right now. Just go down the
trail and go to the gate. When you
get to the gate, just take a left,
and then we'll take
a right and go down 2 blocks. You
wanna go? Let's go. You know what? In
fact, I'm going there right now. You wanna
come with me? Sure. Sure. Yeah. Let's go.
It's time for Isha. I was going there
right now.
My boy's left out on me. I
can't believe this. Yo. What are my man?
Yo.
Who's this? Yo. This is your boy.
Johnstone.
Yo.
Yo. Run and pop. Run and pop. Run
and pop real quick.
How you checking me for, man? Chill with
that. How you checking me like that?
Chill with the fitter at least, yo. Chill
with that.
You good? Yeah. He's good. He's good. Yo.
You got the dough?
Yeah. I got the dough. You got the
stuff? Yeah. I got the stuff. Show me
the dough, nigga. Yo. I got the dough.
Relax. Just let me see the stuff first.
Yo. I got the stuff, bro. Out here.
My man, where's the stuff at? It looks
right here.
The topic
is a strange topic and the topic is
the strangers.
And when the brother actually called me last
month and he said, Can you come and
speak about the strangers?
And I felt,
and I was thinking about the topic I
say, I feel really a stranger in this
country. Even we are almost 10,000,000 Muslims in
America
but we are strangers
especially when you travel. You know, I travel
almost every weekend
and sometimes in the airport I feel myself
as the most stranger person in the airport
because I have to go through many many
procedures
just to take my car and to enter
the airplane.
But I I wanna
just share a hadith with you first before
I
proceed and that is
Suleyman alaihis salaam.
Ruyan Salayman the son of Dawud the son
of David alaihis salam
he was passing with his army
and the people, the human being in the
right side and
the jinn in the left side and the
birds,
the birds make like a shade in the
top Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And when he was walking
and
some of the monks, the people that were
shippers
and he said, Wallahi
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given you
a great kingdom.
He's a king.
The ibn Dawood, the son of David. Why?
What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
had given the son of David will be
gone.
But that tasbihaiya sir subhanAllah
that remain in the storage,
remain
in that storage
for you in the day which just means
you're not going to find your kingdom, you
whatever you own but you're gonna find
that Tazmih worship.
Of course, all of us my dear brothers
and sisters when we speak about the strangers
we remember the hadith,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he said,
Everybody
always remember the hadith of Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam saying that Islam
start as a stranger.
He's a stranger.
When he gathered the people in the sufah,
he calling the people come,
and he say to the people,
What do you think about me?
See, you are truthful person.
And he said, If I tell you there
is an army coming behind that valley, you
won't believe me. Would you believe me? And
he said, Majar raqdadariqaliba,
of course indeed we believe you. And he
said, Say it,
Say la ilaha illallah,
you will be the leaders for Arab and
non Arab.
Look at that, Abu Lahm falaatapalakaya
Muhammad alihada jimatala.
Say, He cursed the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
for this reason you just join or gathering
us.
He make all those Gods, only one God
strange,
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam strange
among those people.
And that's why the Islam start as a
stranger.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wasayahu
alaihi wa sallam wasayahu alaihi wa sallam wasayahu
alaihi wa sallam wasayahu alaihi wa sallam wasayahu
alaihi wa sallam wasayahu alaihi wa sallam wasayahu
alaihi wa sallam will also will come back
as a stranger.
But he gave a good news.
A good news. What is the news?
Say glad tidings, the Jannah, the paradise.
This that
special place
in for the strangers.
May Allah make us among those strangers.
That's why my dear brothers and sisters
said the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was,
He wanna just give us,
not in the town of the Prophet because
they're not strangers when they open in Madi
when they take in Madinah, and they come
in Muslims all over the Arabian Peninsula and
the surrounding area, they are not stranger anymore
but start as a stranger and he give
us the news but the Islam will come
back as a stranger.
The Islam will come back just like a
stranger but don't feel bad.
You should be feel happy because you are
among
those
strangers.
My dear brothers and my dear sisters,
we have two types of urba.
To feel stranger or strangest.
Urba, sometimes
you are in America,
ruled by non Muslim country as you know,
and we live among them,
and sometimes we have to live among them
then we feel strangers.
If you work in a company for example
and you want to pray zuhurur rasr and
it's happened to many people. If you are
in the position of sujood they will and
someone comes what happened to you? Are you
okay? But you are a stranger, you know
why? Because you are praying. You are in
a position of sujood. I was in Miami
airport
a few years ago
and I was praying and in sujood you
know I sit and I sit in the
Teshahood and Taha'at and then when I say,
Assalamu alaikum, Assalamu alaikum, I found a lot
of feet around
and people around. What's going on? Say, Do
you have an ID sir? Say, Yeah, I
have 2 IDs.
Become a stranger, the people look at you
stranger. That's mean this kind of stranger we
feel stranger when you are a man,
people does not believe in your religion, in
your deen,
in the way you believe in Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And sometimes
another kind of stranger,
when you are between the Muslims,
between the believers, Muslims just like you
but you feel sometimes because you are following
the Quran and the sunnah. You're already 5
time in prayer every day. Some people they
go to the masjid every day. What's wrong
with you? Are you okay?
You feel stranger. It's happened to many people.
If someone had a beard and he's young,
look at those Taimur and double Bilal and
they say, Young,
say, You're young.
So?
Young, young, I have to have a beard.
So you feel stranger. So my dear brothers
and sisters,
don't when you feel stranger that's mean you
are in the right path.
I wanna say something, when the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam he told Ibn Umar, and
this is a very famous hadith in al
Bukhari a Muslim,
O son of Umar,
be in this life in this dunya
just like a stranger.
Why?
Like a stranger.
Because my dear brothers and my dear sisters,
this dunya,
this life is a prison for us.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, pal adunya
sijnil mummin. This life, this dunya is a
prison for the believers. Why is a prison?
Because that prevent you to be in the
Jannah yet.
It prevent you to see Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You are here worship. Why you are
sitting here? You choose to be here right
or not? You choose by your own choice.
And I just heard someone selling ticket to
be here.
I I I I am not involved with
that.
But
it is some people they pay, they said
to listen that you it is your choice.
To feel a stranger for some people Why?
This is a concert, we pay for the
concert not for the lecture.
Is that you feel a stranger?
That's why the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
wa aljunya sijniil mumim is a prison
Pork, we cannot eat pork. Zina, we cannot
make zina. Drinking alcohol, we cannot drink. All
this preventing us.
Why? Because you know what?
You are longing for Jannah.
You are longing for Jannah. You belong to
the Jannah.
Why I belong to the Jannah? Yes. I
have to go back home. Home when Adam
alaihis salaam came from the Jannah, I have
to go back to the Jannah. This is
my homeland.
Not Palestine, not Pakistan, not Afghanistan,
or crossing by.
Our Abyr Rasulillah just leaving this dunya to
the dunya to the afterlife.
Why? Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Do you prefer this life? But you know
what? That life is everlasting,
never end, never end. That's why my dear
brothers and sisters, this dunya
is a temporary.
Very short period of life you live and
you live.
Listen to this hadith.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
alayhi wasallam.
He came to Prophet Nuh alaihi wasallam. Nuh
as you know, he lived more than 1000
years. In a matter of dawah, al Fassana
takillah kamsina ama. In a matter of dawah
only 950
years but Nuh he lived more than 1000
years.
Jibrailel came to know.
O Prophet you have the longest life, the
longer life.
How you find this life, this dunya?
I found this life, this dunya like home
house with 2 doors.
I enter from 1 door
and I exit from the 2nd door.
This is the dunya?
Yes.
With all those problems, these problems in our
life, trials, and tribulations, and fitan, yes.
Then we are leaving this dunya leaving this
dunya
with good deeds and with amal.
If you want to be happy in this
life,
who is what is the happiness?
The happiness all of us looking for happiness,
all of us searching to be happy.
The happy person in this dunya in this
life,
The one he leave the dunya behind him.
Discard the dunya behind him before the dunya
will leave him. Soon or later, the dunya
will leave us.
The happy person in this life, in this
dunya, the one he built his grave with
good deeds and good amal
before you live inside the grave.
The happy person in the dunya
The one he pleased his Lord Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala before you meet Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. This is the happiness.
This is the criteria of happiness.
Yes, my dear brothers and sisters, that's why
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Material life,
worldly things make you busy,
busy,
busy. And then He says salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, Youqulu bi Adam, The son of Adam
will say,
My wealth and my wealth. The son of
Adam would say, My wealth.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
What do you have from your
what you eat and sooner or later you
release it?
You wore the clothes and this clothes will
be recomposed.
Or you give sadaqa,
or a charity, or a good aamal, or
good deeds, and that is remain.
That deeds, it remain there my dear brothers
and sisters. So what we have? Our deed,
and we're gonna find it in the grave.
You're gonna find those good deeds
inside the grave.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make the grave
part of the jannah for all of us.
Ameel. That's why the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
Whoever wake up in the morning,
whoever wakes up in the morning and this
life is dunya,
the most concerned.
Some people they wake up just to keep
what we gonna do today?
It's not it's not a problem. You have
to work. You have to work. And you
must be rich
because we need your money as a Muslims.
We must. It's not a fundraising here. But
But my dear brothers and my dear sisters,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, Allah does not want you to be
worried about the dunya. The most, if you
put the dunya, the ultimate
concern,
the ultimate worries, Allah doesn't need that. But
you know what, whoever wakes up like this
Allah put in his heart
4 bad characteristics.
And if you have one of these things
you have to take it out of your
heart, out of, out, away, be away from
it. Number 1
characters.
Worries,
worry always worry and never cut off and
never stop thinking and worry about tomorrow.
My dear brothers and sisters,
when you were inside the womb of your
mother,
who took care of you?
Who took care of you?
Or maybe your mother? No. Believe me Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. One source of food, not
even from your mouth, from your your belly
bath, right or not.
And when you're born,
when you're born,
this milk in the breast of your mother,
Allah sent it.
And
now you eat and drink and do whatever
you want. Allah take care of you.
Allah is the provider so don't worry about
tomorrow.
If I live now, don't worry about after
tomorrow or tomorrow.
If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala provide you and
brother provide your kids, don't worry about your
kids. Allah is the best provider.
Believe me.
My dear brother and sister, number 1, ham
and worry. Always worry will never this will
never stop.
Number 2,
work and work and work never end. You
that person always have
unfinished business.
I have to do this. I have to
do this. I have to do that. I
have to do this. And always a sleep
and a dream and nightmares about tomorrow.
Hey, leave it for Allah.
Allah will take care of you. Number 3,
poverty. Always that person poor
and never feel that he is rich.
And
number 4,
And amal hope and hope to be a
millionaire, hope to be this or that, that
hope never be satisfied.
That person never have feel this kind of
satisfaction.
Yes. May Allah protect us from that. If
any of this in your heart,
you have to make sure to take it
away.
To take it away. Now my dear brothers
and sisters,
Adam alaihi wasalam,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Adam alaihi wasalam,
Eat from any tree you want,
any food you want except
that tree.
You know, for now in our life,
everything halal, everything halal except what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala told us, it's haram. You know,
if you read in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking about most
likely what is haram, don't eat but the
rest you eat. Look at suratul maid in
the top, in the top.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just report the
buddhist haram, but you know what? Other than
that you eat anything you want.
But Adam alayhi salam, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
told him, Eat anything, do whatever you want
except
that tree. Don't touch it,
don't eat from it.
You know what? Of course, you know the
story what happened, Adam, he ate from the
tree.
When he ate from the tree,
his
Awruz
exposed.
And him and then he start to cover
it, but you know when he ate from
the tree, his stomach also start to move.
He become like
earthy man, not like jannah man.
See that? And then when his stomach start
to move, he have to go to the
restroom just like a human, normal human bema,
and he start to go around the jannah
where he can just empty what is in
his stomach, relieve himself. He didn't know where
to go.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent an malak, an
angel to Adam alaihis salam,
Go and ask him, what do you looking
for? I'm looking for to release what is
in my stomach.
I wonder that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed
to that malak, to that angel and He
said to him, Tell him,
to read on Tada. Where you want to
relieve yourself?
In the top of the couches.
Or in the bed on the in your
beds.
Or next to the rivers.
I'm or under the shade of the trees.
Do you think
there is any place in the Jannah good
for this?
No, of course not.
Go to this dunya, go to the earth
and relieve what is in your stomach.
My Sheikh, May Allah give Ibrahim, he used
to tell me because that He sent him
to the earth to relieve himself, the first
things Adam did, he relieved himself, that's why
the dunya is a big bathroom that he
used to tell me.
Yeah, subhanAllah.
My dear brothers and my dear sisters,
Aliyah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Aliyah bihtali radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu. He said,
Whoever have
6 good characteristics
that person seeking for Jannah,
seeking to be in the Jannah and he
running away from the fire.
So let's see what Ali said radhiyallahu ta'ala
anhu to absorb it, to learn it, to
practice it in our life. Number 1,
Whoever know Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and obey
Allah Subhanahu
Let me ask you a question my dear
brother and sisters and I want you to
raise your hand
who
love Allah here? If you love Allah raise
your hand.
Seriously, I am in serious here. All of
you except 1?
All of you, I guarantee all of you
are gonna raise your hands. But let me
ask you a question,
how many of you understand not memorizing the
names and attributes, how many of us understand
and absorbs
the names and attributes of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala? Don't raise your hand.
I want you to think about what I
say, Not Allah
Good. But I said Say,
Not that, I want you to understand it.
That's why if you said, If you know
Allah,
if you know first Ma'arifah, then definitely you're
gonna love Him.
If you love Him, definitely you're gonna follow
the steps and the orders and the command
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Three things I
want you to remember all the time. Ma'arifah,
number 1, knowing Allah.
And then hub,
love. Of course,
if you know what is arrahman,
and arraheem,
and arab,
those things make you feel so good,
make you feel so good.
That's why you will love him. If you
love him really,
then you follow Allah, the command of Allah
and His Messenger Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There's number 1
if you have 1
those 6 things, number 1, marifa knowing Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 2,
wa'alivashaytan
fa'asa. If you know shaitan and what is
the purpose, what is the mission of the
shaitan
and you disobey him.
If you disobey him that mean you are
at the right path. By the way,
shaitan work with Muslims more than anybody else.
Truly work with the Muslims more anybody. Why?
Because the shaitan
his mission to deceive you,
to deceive you, to take you away from
the masjid, from the salah, from the ibadah,
from the worship. This is the mission of
the shaitan.
So it is in your hand to win
or to lose.
It is in your hand. So you have
to know who is your enemy.
Is it shaitaan?
Then you have to disobey him. Number 3,
and the one who know the truth,
and you follow the truth.
What is Ilhaqq?
The truth of Quran
and the sunnah of the Prophet
you know it, you have to follow it.
You cannot say, I take some ayaat and
leave some ayaat.
Do you believe in some ayaat? Do you
disbelieve in some ayaat? No. I know the
truth
and I follow the truth.
Number 4,
The one he know the falsehood,
the haram,
the evil
and you'll be away from that haram and
this evil.
Number 5,
and he know the dunya.
They will the dunya, the mission of the
dunya to deceive you, take you away. The
beauty of the dunya, the declaration of this
dunya
attracting the people to do bad things, and
haram things, and more and more, and you'll
refuse that.
Number 6 and the last one,
You know the akhirah,
and the jannah, and for those who are
illa, and you know the hellfire
of course, but you know the jannah you're
seeking for the jannah, for those who are
illa, for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
with the prophets.
All the prophets.
All the prophets.
And you are in the middle of them.
You love Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
of course I love him. Now you see
him. You love Prophet Ibrahim alaihis salam, of
course I love him, now you see him.
You love Prophet Musa alaihis salam, yes.
Now you see him. You are with him,
you sit with him.
If you know that, you have to work
hard for that.
That. Yes, my dear brother and sisters that's
why,
I am a stranger here, in fact I
am in in a test, in a exam,
I'm having my test.
Hard,
Hard. I'm telling you it's hard test because
you are a stranger.
You are gareem.
If you are a stranger
you always work hard.
And always the stranger rejected by the way.
Of course.
If you are following the Quran and the
sunnah very strongly,
even some Muslims they say, Why like this?
Why?
Because I am a stranger.
Yes my dear brothers and sisters,
that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say
about the dunya.
The example, the simulation of the dunya and
the akhir. The dunya and the akhirah. Just
like someone, he put his finger
in the ocean.
He put his finger in the ocean and
look at your finger. That with finger is
the dunya
and the ocean is the akhir.
By the way, the ocean always the water
in the ocean increase from the fresh water
to the salt water.
Does mean when you put your finger you're
not going to decrease the ocean,
you're not going to decrease it, in fact
it's always increasing.
So that with fingers you're doing in your
life, see how much is short.
That's why Jibreel alayhis salam came to Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, O Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, live as
long as you want, you will die.
I love anyone you want to love, you
will leave that person sooner or later.
It's happened.
And do whatever you will you want, you'll
get the rewards
for that.
You have to know my dear brothers and
sisters, this dunya
is running very fast.
The dunya is running very fast, you think
it's stable,
going slowly but believe it or not is
very fast.
So you have to work very hard to
reach that. Yes my dear brothers and sisters
that's why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
here, he makes a hadith that Isa Alaihi
Wasallam said, The
one he's seeking for the dunya only for
the dunya,
for this life, materialistic life, just like someone
drinking from the salt ocean.
Salinity ocean by the way as much as
you drink you get more thirsty and more
thirsty. The one he's singing for dunya,
he drink from that just drinking
from the salt ocean, you drink until that
salt ocean will kill you. The dunya will
kill the person. That's why,
You know, Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam one
day,
he was hungry
and thirsty,
and they found water.
They found
water.
And Abu Bakr
radiallahu ta'ala and and Umar radiallahu ta'ala and
Sahaba around.
And they start to drink from the water.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said, wallahi
that is
Allah will ask you
about this.
Even see before that you already ask this,
Allah will ask you about it. Are you
ready?
Are you ready to answer?
Allah Subhanahu wa'ala says another surah surah Surah
Al Azza wa'alehi asked Allah Sadeqeen
answered to him, You Allah, He will ask
the truthful,
the believers why you are truthful,
why you are a believer.
Are you ready for the answer?
It is in your hand.
That's why today afternoon lecture I said it
is your choice to be a Muslim.
Your choice to say La ilaha illallah. Of
course, Allah give you the hidayah. Say Alhamdulillah
is the greatest hidayah.
Wallahi, the best hidayah, the best things that
Allah sub give us, we are Muslims.
We are Muslims.
That's mean Insha'Allah,
if we die like this, we gotta be
in the Jannah Insha'Allah with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Fear Allah,
the true fear of Allah. Not only, I
fear Allah and you do whatever you want.
No.
No, my dear brothers and sisters,
I want you to always
remember Surat Qaf.
Ayah number 16,
if I am not mistaken.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
We create mankind,
and We know what His own self was
prescribed.
You Allah,
this means there is no secret in my
life.
Think about it. In fact the imam just
asked me about tomorrow morning, and we'll discuss
this tomorrow morning, inshaAllah, suratas, inshaAllah after fasharsalah,
inshaAllah.
My dear brothers and sisters, we'll proceed.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
What I want from this life?
What I want from this dunya?
I am insisting only
Gharib.
Another hadith,
Or
a rider
or a traveler,
he saw a tree, he sit under the
shade of the tree, resume under the shade
of the tree, and he proceed.
You know how long you gonna stay under
there?
Maybe he sleep, 1 hour, 2 hours, and
then what? You have to proceed your life,
you have to go your destination.
Yes, my dear brothers and sisters,
mu Khurba,
some people
they feel strange
after what happened in September 11
because their name Muhammad or Ahmad they changed,
some people change their names,
right? You know that.
Change their names, by the way you have
no right to change your name,
the name that Allah your father gave him
to you. Unless if your name is haram
you can change it, otherwise you have no
right.
The woman, some sister they get married and
they change their names under their husband's names,
is the make it is not correct.
She she should not change her name whatever
her father name we give it to her
and the last name that's what she should
carry not his last name.
But you feel strange after what happened.
You feel very strange.
And I don't blame you my dear brothers
and sisters. I really don't blame you. But
you know what? When you are a stranger
that mean you are in the right path.
So be a stranger,
be a stranger. Yes my dear brothers and
sisters,
but there is a big difference
between
the strangest
strange means
to be a stranger
now
and that time, the time of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But what is the difference between this stranger
here
and the stranger in that time?
The quality of the stranger.
The quality of the stranger is the only
difference.
There is
time you feel stranger
and they feel stranger.
13 years in Makkah.
SubhanAllah, look at this conversation.
The people of Quraysh,
they came to Abu Talib,
the uncle of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, definitely you know this hadith, just reminder.
And they told him, if your
nephew
he want to be a king, we can
make him king. He want money, we give
him money. He want women, we give him
women. What if he something happened to his
brain, his mind, we give him doctors.
But let him leave.
Let him leave what he's believing
or we're gonna kill him,
or we will kill him.
Abu Talib he went to his son, his
nephew the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
My nephew,
Inna Ummaka. Now your family,
your family they came to you
and
they told me so and so and so.
So
save me and save yourself, they wanna kill
us.
And it's too much for me. I cannot
do it anymore. That's what Abu Talib said
to Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's too
much, and truly it's too much, especially Abu
Talib he was not a Muslim, he's not
a Muslim. But he's still predicting the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And you know what,
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he cried
as you know in this story.
And when his tears dropped,
So my uncle,
by Allah,
if they give me the sun in my
right hand
and the moon on my left hand
to leave this matter,
I would not leave this matter or I
rather to die.
Allahu Akbar.
See my dear brothers and sisters,
firm,
he was weak.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam weak. There is
much
the sahabas start to get killed one after
the other. Embargo.
Shiahabibran bequare for 3 years embargo.
You cannot deal with the Muslims anymore.
You cannot speak to the Muslims.
You feel this situation
from some Muslim country is exactly the same?
It's stranger.
It's stranger me. See my dear brother, that's
what we're talking about.
Yes.
My dear brothers and sisters,
in the Taif,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will say, Let
me go to Ta'if,
maybe they will give me some support.
You Allah, when I read this story, and
I read it, I teach actually
at the University also, I teach the story
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the
lessons we absorbed. And when I come to
the situation
of Taif,
when he went to Taif,
and those kids,
they start to stone the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. You
Allah, start to stone the Prophet and he
was bleeding,
he was bleeding sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, say
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
he raised his hand to Allah
and he said,
Allahumma.
Allahumma
ilaikha Asku
waqillatahi
rasu
Only for you I complain.
Only for you until I'm weak. I
am weak.
But you are the most merciful one.
He said,
You are the Lord of all those weak
people, the poor, the needy people, and you
are
my
Lord.
You lead me to whom?
For those strangers
to insult me?
Or some enemies,
and my family, they have become my enemy,
and they are in control.
And in the end,
he's saying telling Allah,
Oh Allah,
if there is if there is if you
are not angry
with me,
if you are
happy with me,
not angry, then I careless.
But your afiyausa,
your mercy
wider than all this. And he start to
cry sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
That he left. Stranger anywhere he used to
go,
stranger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But brothers and sisters,
and also
the sahaba,
they
they have this kind of love to the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. In fact, I
I like to call it in Timah, in
Arabic language,
belonging.
They are belong to this deen,
belong to this religion,
belong to Allah,
belong to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
In the battle of Badr, you know, in
the battle of Badr is is is a
the Sahaba 313
and and and the kuffar,
998
almost 1,000.
And they have the kuffar, they have all
kind of tools, and equipment, a weapon.
And the Prophet
have nothing, almost.
A horse,
4 camels,
and they have 1,000 camels there,
and the sahaba hungry and they are not
in in the military
in the military,
understanding
doesn't make sense to the people, right or
not?
313
with nothing
or with the stones
and some sticks, and some sahaba that you
want just like fight by hands.
And those came with all kind of weapon.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
telling the sahaba now, Asshiru alaiya yuhanas.
Shura,
consultation,
give me
advice. And then Al Miqdad ibn Amrudayullah
that he stand up, Miqdad he's a Muhajir,
and he said,
You Rasulullah.
Now he's speaking
on behalf
Go. Proceed what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala show
you or told you to do. Just go.
We are with you.
We're not going to kill you just like
the people of Moses.
They go and you'll Lord and fight, and
we're gonna sit here waiting for you.
Indeed we're gonna tell you, oh messenger of
Allah,
Go on your Lord and fight and we
will be with you.
Then he said, Idhab,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he's telling the
By the one he send you with the
truth.
If you
climb those mountains,
very hard mountains in Yemen, if you wanna
climb the mountains, we're gonna climb the mountains
with you.
We're gonna strive and strive and climb the
mountain with you,
and
we're gonna fight you will find us in
your right side, in your left side, in
front of you, behind you, protect you.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he want the Mu'ansar to speak now, and
the Ansar, Saadiq Mu'adh radiAllahu ta'ala,
You want us to speak your Rasulullah?
Yes, I indeed You sad, I want
you to speak. And he said, You Rasool,
O my saint of Allah.
We believe in you,
we believe in you,
and we believe the truth about
And we bear witness what you brought to
us is the truth.
And we give you our covenant and our
promises.
Go, oh messenger of Allah.
Go whatever you want to do and we
are with you.
By the one he send you with the
truth.
O messenger of Allah, if you cross this
sea, the sea,
if you cross this sea, we will cross
the sea with you, not even one man
will be behind.
Look at this sense of belonging,
and this is in their city.
The people in Madinah they used to live
in peace, but the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam came and they make him live on
war for 10 years.
10 years.
My dear brothers and my dear sisters,
we're talking about the quality
of the strangers.
The quality
of the strangers,
this is what we're talking about.
Umar ibn Khattab
he was sitting
with the sahaba remembering
the time of Quraysh when we became Muslims.
And he saw Bilal
and he said, Bilal,
oh Bilal, you deserve this place to be
Khalifa.
And then
they asked him Bilal,
why in the desert
in the desert
They torture you and torture you. Why you
always said only ahadunahad,
ahadunahad,
ahadunahad?
And you know what Bilal answer he said?
And he said because this is the only
way the only word I know about the
hate.
This is the only word. And I know
they will be angry, if I know more
than that I will say it.
See, Bilal is a stranger, he can say
anything like Ammar for example, he cannot take
it,
Right or not? That's the quality of the
strangers.
You know who was sitting there, Khabab al
Umarat he was sitting.
Alaa amiran mumineen,
do you know what happened to me?
And before even he finished his statement
he showed his back,
the back of khabab.
And when Umar and the sahabar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu,
they saw
the back of khabab, they cannot even look.
Looks very very bad.
Burned
and holds
holds literally holds in the back of Khabab.
And
he said what happened to you?
Khabab.
What happened?
And he said, Khabab,
I was iron smith
or blacksmith.
He used to make swords, and arrows,
and spears.
For a woman.
For a woman he was a slave.
And
and then that woman, Umu Anmar, she found
out about it, that he become Muslim.
And she used to bring this
to to make a blacksmith.
He makes the iron
very red like fire, very very burning like
fire, and make it smooth.
And she used to bring this charcoal,
and they put she put the charcoal in
the top of his head and his back.
She used to put the charcoal on his
back.
And you know what he did not even
say aa
or aa.
He said because
I don't want her because she's so bright,
so arrogant, I don't want her to feel
good. And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
after that that he passed by and he
saw me like this,
Have patience.
And then
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Allahum Mansu Khababa,
Wa Allahiki Victory Khabab.
Not even one day, the second day this
woman she used to put the fire on
the top of his head,
what happened to her? She become have a
madness,
like a seizure,
and scream, and scream, and scream. And the
only military,
they used to bring the fire on the
top of her head.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala my dear brothers and
sisters, somebody were was unjust or unfair with
you, leave it to Allah.
I said, just leave it to Allah.
Trust the Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will predict
you. Do you know why? Listen to this
ayah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
Whoever fears Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Make Exits.
Every problem, every difficulty, every hardship, every sickness,
every problem regardless what the problem, Allah make
exit for the problem. Fear Allah, this is
the key, fears of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
My dear brothers and my dear sisters, that's
why
we have to have this kind of love
toward Allah. We are in need.
We are in need.
We have to fix the relationship with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We have to fix this relationship as soon
as possible.
As soon as possible.
Abdullah
ibn Khadaff As Sami,
Abu Lah,
ibn Khudaf As Sahmi Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, he
become a prisoner for for the Romans.
The the emporior or the king of Rome,
he really want to see a Sahabi,
he want to see a Sahabi.
Then when when Abdullah ibn Khuzafa he got
arrested And I know you know the story.
What happened my dear brothers and sisters, they
told the king there is a Sahabi, that
is one of the best friends of Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he said bring him,
bring him.
Now conversation between
Abdullah ibn Fadha al Sahami
and the King.
And He told
him,
What do you think if you become a
Christian
and I met you, I give you half
of what what my kingdom, what I own
I give you half. You become my partner.
Speak it to Abdullah, speak to someone else.
My dear brothers and sisters of Abdullah, he
said,
Say, If you give me what you own,
everything you own, and what all the Arab
owns.
Just to go back, to return back in
the from the deal of Muhammad,
blink of the eye. Blink of the eye,
I will never do that.
No, no, I'll kill you.
So what is the big deal? Kill me.
And you know what? That
man,
he brought
a a a pot, big pot with the
boiling water,
And he bring 2 prisoners
and he killed the prisoners in front of
Abdullah radiAllahu ta'ala.
To scare him.
He did not ignore. He felt sorry for
them.
My new brothers and my dear sisters,
they tied him up. They tied him up,
and he ordered the archer to shoot next
to his hands and his legs just to
scare him.
And he did not even blink.
He did not even blink.
And that's it. I got tired of this
man, go and kill him, take him and
kill him, put him in that pot, that's
it. He give up.
But then Abdullah
in his way to the pot, they wanna
put him in a pot, he cried.
When he cry,
they told the king he cried that's mean
he felt sorry, he's afraid.
Bring him back.
He came
back.
Become a Christian here.
I'm not going to tell you that.
You cry.
I cry. Why?
I told myself you're gonna die now,
and if you die what's gonna happen?
That's it.
But I was wishing
if I have soul, roosh, spirit,
I have soul equivalent to the hair of
my body
and every soul to die for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
My dear brothers, my dear sisters,
this man he become more mad, more angry.
I said that's it. He become everybody he
was he embarrassed him in front of everyone.
And what about if you kiss my head
and I release you?
Barla, if you I kiss your head, you
release me and you re release all the
prisoners.
He make conditions, imagine that in that situation
make condition,
I release all the prisoners.
And then he went and he kiss his
head.
My Sheikh used to tell me he spit
on his head. Allah
knows best. But anyway,
look at that sense of belonging.
They are a stranger.
They are a stranger.
The quality
of those strangers.
That's what we're talking about. My dear brothers
and sisters,
yeah. You don't see the this
woman when I read about and see the
I just I see.
She is superhero.
They said this is a Superman and a
Batman and a Spiderman, they are heroes.
They are their heroes.
You know my hero? Nasiba. This woman, she's
my hero.
In the battle of Badr of Istaghfirullah, Battle
of Uhud.
She was a nurse,
and by the way this woman she fight
all the fights with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, all the fights.
And even after that,
through the shayeedah by the way. And in
the Adul of Uhr, she saw the Prophet
sit down in the in the hood, you
know the story. And she saw the Prophet
in all the archer just shooting shooting. They
wanna kill the Prophet
She have made the sale.
Her son, her husband, her brother, 2 sons,
and 2 brothers. They fight in the Madhur
of Fahr.
She throw away the medicine.
She jump in the top
of those, disbelievers
and with a rock. A
rock hit hit and she killed it by
the
by rock. And she killed the sword and
she tried
to fight protect the prophet the prophet was
in that situation
in the horn, bleeding.
He looked and watching that woman.
Who doing something like this, You Muhammad?
Who is do who is the one doing
this? You Allah give you rahma, you and
your family.
Allah make me do and prophet SAWSAWH may
be doing that situation. Please smile.
Get there,
he brought the son,
and he know.
Must Habib.
Habib, he know what can happen to him
because Musayda is a a false prophet or
is a liar, a big liar, and he
know they're gonna kill him. But what he
did, my dear brothers and sisters? Musayl al
Nair told the Habib radiAllahu anhu.
Do you believe that Muhammad is messenger of
Allah?
I believe.
Do you believe? I am also messenger of
Allah.
I don't hear anything.
He repeat it again and again.
I can't even kill me. He start he
cuts his fingers.
Say it.
Step by step. He can say it.
And
Allah forgive me Allah, but no one's in
my heart.
He can say that many problems that just
told that we talk about that. That quality
of the strangers in that situation.
Even in the Muslim countries.
And always
a stranger
always worry.
You know what? Worry about the deen. Worry
about Islam.
Worry about Islam.
My dear brothers and sisters, I wanna share.
Of the Islamic discrimination.
I travel all over my states,
and I see the youth. I have borrowed
youth programs
all over the country and Canada. And, masha'Allah,
they know what they are doing masha'Allah. May
Allah bless them. And may Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala please their knowledge.
And believe me my dear brothers and sisters,
I teach at a university called American Open
University.
Have many students, all of them they have
majors in different universities like engineering and medical
school,
and they want also to study Sharia.
This is the hope.
I want you to be positive.
I want you to look at that beautiful
picture.
There is the hope is coming.
The hope is coming and with those youth
insha'Allah
and you will see that.
Islamic schools now
all over the country.
100 of Islamic schools across America.
And those Islamic schools
bringing external generation. They know.
And those group,
they will come and they will be,
Insha'Allah, one day, the leaders in the center.
And they will.
And I want to have hope.
Have hope and believe me when you have
the hope and support also. Not only hope,
you have to work hard.
You have to work hard to support those
youth, InshaAllah,
See