Kamal El-Mekki – From Rejection to Mercy – The Prophet Muhammad – Journey To Al Taif
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The Prophet sallam's death is related to sadness and his actions are criticized. His actions were criticized, but his decision to use the "has" meaning he is too low to speak of, and the importance of not letting people know of his actions during busy seasons is emphasized. The Prophet is considered a valued friend and should be considered a valued friend. The speaker provides examples of the impact of the Prophet's actions, including cities and people, during the time of "will."AI: Transcript ©
I'm about
I forget what we call this thing.
Something something it's basically about a Taif.
Has to put his poetry touch in there.
What was it called?
Ish. Rejection to
ish?
Mercy. I like it. It's good. Rejection okay.
Let's start over. Welcome to
rejection to mercy. Yes. The story of Ataif.
Alright. So let's look at some of the
events that led the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam
to leave Mecca
and go try to find another city to
give dawah to, which will be Al Ta'if.
We have a number of events just to
give us some context here. First of all,
the we the Muslims had just come out
of the the 3 years
in what are known as shia'ab I Talib,
the ravines
where they were banished by nihashim. Muslim and
non Muslim were sent out
and to and they lived in the ravines,
starvation.
They were no one was allowed to to
sell them anything or deal with them in
business until the boycott ended. Shortly thereafter,
the uncle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, Abu Ghareb,
is dying. And then Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
sallam comes to him,
and
he's going to
give him to try until the last moment
to call him to Islam.
So when he comes, the bad news is
there are people there,
and amongst them is Abu Jah. So now
he's not obviously, he's not gonna let him
give him dawah without any interference or any
interruption.
So the prophet tells
his uncle, he says, You am.
So the uncle, say.
In one narration,
this word if you say it, I will
argue your case in front of Allah
Just say la ilaha illa Allah I will
argue your your case in front of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And then
what what happens of course Abu Jair is
not just gonna be there sit sit there
quietly.
So he says,
He doesn't even like Abdul Muttalib. But he
does he just wants to say anything to
make him not leave his religion. So it's
as if he's saying,
would you leave the religion of the great
Abdul Mutayb?
And he doesn't even like him, but just
anything to get him to stay upon what
he's upon.
And the prophet is trying and Abu Jahl
is, you know, countering
and then the last words of Abu Talib,
he says alamilati
Abdul Muttalib.
I'm meaning I'm gonna die upon the belief
or the religion, the creed of Abdul Muttalib.
And, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, first
he says that he's going to he he
says
I'm going to
make seek forgiveness for you so long as
Allah does not
prevent me. And then the ayat came down
preventing
making dua and istighfar meaning for the
the kufaro of deceased.
And so the prophet of course didn't do
that.
And you imagine,
Abdul Mutayb raised the prophet
like his like his own son. He grew
up in his household after the death of
his grandfather,
the prophet grandfather,
Abdul Muttalib.
And you would imagine how much he would
have liked to make dua
for his uncle in the place of his
father, but he was forbidden, so he stopped.
And the the ruling is super clear
that you're not allowed to make dua for
non muslims once they pass on. When they're
alive, you can make dua for Allah to
guide them all that. But once they pass
on, khalas.
And now every time some celebrity or some
singer dies, you see Muslims posting,
rest in peace, peace mean.
Just stay out of it. Just stay out
of it. People come to you and, like,
oh, you know, my neighbor, he was such
a good man. He was our neighbor for
10 years. We grew up seeing him and
everything, and then he died. Now can I
make dua for him?
Look, you wanna be merciful?
It's too late now.
The manifestation of your mercy is that you
you invite them to Islam while they're alive.
Mush, 10 years he's your neighbor, you ignore
him just, hi, how are you doing? And
then after he dies, now you wanna be
merciful. Can I make dua for him? Tell
him, no. Oh,
that's kinda brutal, isn't it? No. I told
you it was brutal. Being his neighbor for
10 years and not saying a word. That's
brutal.
Every time someone does, rest in peace and
Alhamdulillahallahuallaha
illaamun sikhtulmugrifa.
The point is,
the point is
Abu
Talib
dies.
Now,
some of the some of the scholars
said 3 days later,
others said 2 months later, others said within
the same year. Either way, it's very close.
Khadija Radiullah Anha dies. So Abu Talib was
the one offering the protection to the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So his protector outside
of the house. And then his main supporter
inside the house Khadija Radiullah Anha dies. So
within a short period of time, and this
became known by the historians, this became known
as the year of sorrow or sadness, am
Alhusn. They refer to it as a year
of sadness
because it was just sad event after sad
event.
After the death of Abu Talib,
anybody could attack the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Anybody.
Before,
you know, you had to be someone of
standing in order to attack the prophet physically
or throw something at him but now anyone
even no name riffraffs will attack the prophet
He said
he
said,
he said,
something to me that I hated until Abu
Talib died.
So and nobody one time came, and he
just poured dirt on the head of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is like one
of the ways to insult someone you pour
dirt on their head, sandy, honey.
And he goes home and his daughter, if
you can imagine it, his daughter Fatima
is cleaning the head of the Prophet
while she's crying.
And the Prophet is telling her
Don't cry, O daughter, indeed Allah is with
your father.
And then it comes to the point where
the day when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
is praying at the Kaaba.
And we have the leaders
of the Kufar of Quraish
from, Abu Jahal and
and, the the sons of, or,
yeah, and Shayb of
Nirabi,
all of them are sitting there.
And then Abu Jahl says, which of you
will go get
salal jazur? Which
is
the which would be the intestines of a
camel
or probably the placenta of a camel that
gave birth. And either way it's a camel,
so it's gonna be huge. Right? Who will
get that and put it on the back
of the Prophet
while he's making sujood?
And then Uqbab Nabi Mu'ait got up
and he brought this material.
Whether it's at the intestines or the placenta,
it's still a lot. Yeah. And if someone
put the intestines of a baby goat on
your back while you're making sujood, how bad
is that? Camel,
and then that slimy worm material is coming
down, sliding down like this,
and they're laughing.
The eyewitness
is ibn Mas'ud.
And you can feel the pain
in
when ibn Mas'ud is speaking. You can feel
he can't do anything. If you remember Ibn
Mus'ud radhiyalaan,
he's the one that does not have a
strong tribe to protect him. He's the one
who was the 1st to publicly recite Quran,
recite his surah al Rahman
and then they beat him so much that
they couldn't tell his nose from the rest
of his face. Meaning his face was so
swollen, they couldn't see his nose from the
rest of his face.
So that's one thing, he didn't have a
strong tribe to protect him. The second thing,
ibn Mas'ud, what about him physically? Do you
remember? He likes. Yeah. He's very skinny. Like
he's a small and and skinny. Like
there's a narration at the battle of Badr
at the end of the battle. When he
went to speak to Abu Jahl, who was
dying, he had to climb on top of
him to talk to him. And how big
is this guy and how small is the
other guy? Right?
So
so Ibn Mas'ud says,
He said, and I'm just I'm watching,
and there's nothing I can do. He says,
and if I just had some people with
me, if I just had some men, I
just had some bodies with me to do
something but I can't.
And then he says
So they start to laugh and to lean
against each other. You know when people are
sitting there laughing real hard, what happens? They
start to lean on each other like this
they're leaning on each other laughing at this
while the prophet is still in sujood and
that material is still on his back Sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He says until someone
told Fatima,
Fajaaat wahiaa juwairiyah. She came while she was
still a young girl. Some of the scholars
said she was about 10 years old
and she removed it from the back of
the prophet while she's crying and she's trying
to insult them and say something to them.
Then the prophet finished his salah
and this is a moment
that we have never seen before and up
until this point.
Prophet finished the salah
and he put his hands up and everybody
can hear him. Those guys who were laughing
and leaning a minute ago they can hear
this.
And Nabi
says, Allahumma'alaika
be Quraysh.
Allahumma'alaika
be Quraysh.
When they heard the dua,
they all got scared. Because first of all,
they understood the dua at the Kaaba and
what that meant,
and they revered the Kaaba.
2, they know this is an honest man
and they've never seen anything except righteousness from
him salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and they know
that they wronged him. So when he started
making dua, Allahummaalaika
bu Qurish they all got quiet, they all
got scared. Then by name he says
There were 7,
the narrator says,
and I forgot the 7th one. But from
other narrations we know that it was Ammar
ibn Walid.
So and then the the narrative says, I
swear by Allah that I saw the ones
the prophet made dua against dead in the
well after Badr. Remember they threw the leaders
of the kuffar in a in an abandoned
well
after the battle of Badr. He says these
7 the prophet made dua against by name,
I saw all 7 of them in that
well.
What's interesting here is what the scholars say
like look how long it took for the
dua of a prophet of Allah
who was dealt with unjustly
at the Kaaba to be answered.
It happened years later after the prophet moved
to Madinah, migrated and then
the battle took place and then these 7
that he made dua against by name were
killed. And so the lesson is you never
rush the dua. And as the prophet also
said
your dua will be answered and responded to
so long as you do not become hasty,
you rush.
And and they asked him
he said he says the person says, I
asked and I asked, and nothing happened.
So it's not instant. And today, we always
expect things to be instant. Yeah. And you
you finish making dua and there's a package
there.
Khalas. Just Amazon Prime. Oh,
Alhamdulillah.
Takes time. Sometimes it takes years. And sometimes
it will never be answered.
But either way, you can clearly see now
that everybody is able to attack the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa salam. He has no defender,
he has no supporter from within the house.
Everything is indicating
that it's not working out in Makkh.
It's not working out, and you have to
go somewhere else.
So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
chose to go to
aqa'if.
Now
the thing is that, you know, a lot
of times you just hear that it was
the the city nearby.
Taif was just nearby.
But there is more to it than just
that. So
we've got a couple of things.
Number 1, it was the 2nd largest city
after Mecca.
And then it has a great place in
the heart of the Meccans.
Why is that a big deal?
Meaning, imagine the prophet is gonna go give
dawah to
a city that's hated by the Meccans.
Would that encourage them to become Muslim?
No. We hated those guys anyways, and now
we hate them and their new religion.
But if it's a city that has a
place that in the heart of the Meccans,
this might encourage them and soften their hearts
towards Islam. Makes sense?
What's the proof?
Allah says in Surah al Zukruf
They said
this Quran it should have been revealed to
a great man from either of the 2
cities.
What two cities? Mecca and Atayf.
Means
that Atayf was so special to them that
they said we would accept
this Quran if it were sent to any
man, a great man from Mecca or a
great man from Ata'if. That shows you that
Ata'if had some some meaning to them.
So that's why it makes it a good
place, the 2nd largest city
and it's nearby. Yeah, it's an advantage
and it's a city that has a great
place in the heart of the Meccans. So
if they become Muslim, that will soften the
Meccans hearts towards Islam. So it's not just
because it's nearby. There's more intelligence there.
Also it has the tribe of Thaqif.
Tribe of Thaqif is a very strong tribe
to the point that after the conquering of
Mecca, the Muslims went to try to attack
Ta'if and and Taqif
and they laid siege to them and it
was unsuccessful and then they left them and
then they came into Islam by themselves.
So it's a strong place and a strong
tribe and of course that's an advantage. If
that strong tribe becomes Muslim, what's the advantage
to Islam? A great advantage.
There was also
some
competition between Mecca and Ata'if.
So what does Mecca have? It has the
Kaaba.
At Ta'if had
what did Ta'if have?
Allat.
Allat was from At Ta'if.
So and you know the Meccans would swear
by a lot and al Uzza. So they
respected a lot. That's from a Taif.
So why is that a good point? Because
now it's an opportunity
for them to be able to surpass Mecca.
Like we could never beat the Meccans because
they have the Ka'bah.
But if we follow the prophet of Allah,
that's an opportunity to surpass them. So that
might be something that will motivate them to
become Muslim.
And then,
a lot of the
the nobles
and the leaders of in Makkah, they actually
owned land
and property in Ataif. So from Bani Hashim,
from Bani Abdashams, from Bani Mahzoum, they all
had wealth and property
in attaif. Why is that a good point?
Because if attaif becomes Muslim that's a serious
blow to them, a financial blow to them.
All these are things
why and explanations why the Prophet chose Utaif.
It wasn't just it's nearby.
All strategy, all
planning.
So in the according to these narrations in
the same month as the death of Abu
Talib and Khadija,
And, they say this was around May or
June. So May or June in Arabia, what's
the weather like?
Hot hot. Very hot. Right?
And the prophet
went on foot
and
he only took Zayd ibn Haritha with him.
So one of the things we always say
in the Sira, when you find the name,
you pause for a minute. Like why did
the Prophet just take Zayd ibn harithah? And
why did he go on foot? Like he
had camels, mules, donkeys, horses. He could have
ridden and he could have taken
so many of the companions.
He could have taken Abdul Umar ibn A'awf
and Talhabnu Ubaydala, and Uthmar ibn Affan and
Abu Bakr and Ali and and he could've
had Al Ta'if broken up into different quadrants
and you give dawah in this area and
we'll do this area and we'll do that
area and now I have protection.
But he just took Zayd ibn Haritha.
And what do you know about Zayd ibn
Haritha?
He used to be
the
and he goes on foot, does it look
like he's leaving town?
Does it look like he's traveling? It just
looks like a man and his son
going somewhere nearby.
So what does that tell you? It tells
you that the prophet
had to go to a ta'if
like under the noses of the Quraysh. Meaning
meaning
that
the Quraysh we're not gonna allow him to
just go out,
give daw in another city. Yeah, go ahead,
leave, give dua in another city and maybe
they'll accept and then he can come back
and lay siege to us and block our
trade routes.
Sure. Go ahead.
So he had to sneak away for lack
of a better term.
And that's why he went on foot even
though it was May or June, and it
was hot. And that's why he only took
Zayd ibn haridah and didn't take all the
other companions with him.
Okay.
So when they get to aqa'if,
whom
whom should he approach?
And as you know when you read the
stories of the Prophets in the Quran, you
always find a dialogue to be between
the prophets of Allah and a group known
as Al Mala. Al Mala, these are the
movers and shakers, the people who control
the power, the wealth, the money
and it's always a discussion between the malah
and the prophets.
And that's the shortcut
that anyone's da'iya would do. So if you
go into ata'if, are you gonna start calling
people in the street
or will you go straight to the leadership?
And if the leaders become Muslim,
perhaps that will encourage everyone else to become
Muslim.
And of course the answer is, yeah. You
go after the leaders. And there's a lot
of evidence for that. We already gave one
that the prophets always spoke to Al Mallah.
Because you affect them, you affect everyone else.
But
and there there are other arguments as well.
But look at this one.
Khaled ibn
Walid was such an intelligent man. He was
incredibly
intelligent.
And one of the companions, this is later
on,
he's looking at Khaled bin Walid, and how
smart this man is.
And he says, You Khaled, you are such
an intelligent man.
Why was your Islam delayed so much? Khaled
became Muslim after the conquering of Makk.
But he's so clever, he should have been
one of the early Muslims.
And then Khaled gives him the reason and
from this reason you can see the effect
of the leadership on people.
Look at what Khaled Radul Anil says, he
says there were men in Mecca
and he's talking about Abu Jahl and Abu
Lahab and Abu Sufyan and others. Abu Jahl
will always laugh at him and make fun
of Abu Abu Lahab will make fun of
him like you know? But he said there
were some men in Mecca,
we used to equate
their brains to the mountains
We used to equate their brains to the
mountains.
So when they said Islam is no good
and there's no khair and it, we never
even bothered to look for ourselves. We trust
them so much.
We trust their leadership, we we trust their
decision, their estimation so much that I never
bothered to look into it. Can you imagine
someone as brilliant as Khaled radiAllahu anhu.
If that doesn't show you the effects of
of the leaders
then what will? So the leadership has an
immense effect on people. So the shortcut when
the Prophet enters a Taif is to go
after the leadership. If he can effect change
with them and then that change will trickle
all the way down to the common folks
in the street.
So the Prophet
goes to the 3 sons of Amr ibn
Umayr Athaqafi.
He goes to the 3 sons of Amr
ibn Umayr Athaqafi, Abdi Alayl and Mas'ud
and Habib.
And he told he's he gives them the
message. What's their response?
So Abdi Alayl
he says that he will tear the covers
of the Ka'bah
if Allah sent him and if Allah sent
you as a Prophet
in objection to this choice of you as
a prophet, I will go and tear. I'll
do some damage to the Kaaba. I will
tear the covers, the curtains of the Kaaba.
That's how much I will object to Allah's
choice of you as prophet of Allah.
And Masrood says
didn't Allah find anyone besides you?
That was his answer.
And he had didn't Allah find anyone else
to entrust him with this message? And what
kind of question is that? What do you
think? Allah has access to everybody, and He
chose this man Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So what
do you mean? Didn't Allah find anyone? But
yeah, He did. But He chose me because
I'm better than the rest. What do you
think?
So then Habib
like gave probably the worst answer. He said,
if you truly are a prophet of Allah
you are too great for me to speak
to. I mean I'm
too lowly and far beneath speaking to a
Prophet of Allah.
And if you are lying
then you are too low for me to
speak to. If you're someone who has the
audacity
to lie and say you're a prophet of
Allah then you're too low for me to
speak to.
And what kind of logic is that type?
So then what should Allah send you?
This man, a Habib, what should Allah send
you? A hamster, aani? Well,
the prophet is too good, the liar is
too low. So what should what do you
want?
It doesn't make any sense. Right? But basically,
they're just refusing. So the prophet tells them,
So if if this is your decision, if
this is what you're gonna do, then at
least do me this. Just keep this between
us.
One explanation says don't go around telling people
of ata'if, hey, there's somebody here and we
don't listen to him. Just keep this between
us.
Other scholars
say it means
don't spread the news because I had to
sneak away from Mecca. Don't let them know
that I'm here giving dawah in your city.
And both have
a good good argument.
Prophet spent 10 days in Ata'if,
and after 10th
or on the 10th day they sent him
out of the city.
And they had their slaves and their youth
stand on the sides of the road like
this with rocks in their hand.
And as the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
and Zayd bin Hartha were walking out of
the city, they started to pelt them with
rocks. And the narrations specifically say that they
threw the rocks at their feet.
Okay. But we said Tif is the 2nd
largest city in the area.
Now we don't have a number of how
many
of the youth were there, how many of
the slaves were there. But the 2nd largest
city,
what do you imagine? There's no wrong answer.
In your imagination, what what do you see
in that scene? Do you see, like, 5
or more?
Several.
Several dozen. Several dozen. Several dozen.
70, 80?
Yeah. 60,
50,
even 40? More than that,
Okay.
And there's no right or wrong answer here
but you would imagine that if it's the
2nd largest city and they it says they
had the the slaves
you know the servants, and the youth line
up on the sides of the road, kiddah.
You cannot imagine that there are just 10
or 12 of them.
It's it's a bigger number.
So you've got let's just can we just
just go with 35 for example? Just 35.
It's enough for you to imagine
the constant shower of rocks coming at their
feet.
So this person takes it throws and picks
up the next one and throws and picks
up the next one and throws. And then
there's 34 other guys doing the exact same
thing. So that means it is a steady
shower of rocks nonstop.
But here's where it's crazy.
And they followed him out
for 5 kilometers.
For 5 kilometers.
And after 2 kilometers you turn around and
say,
really?
It's enough Allah. And how far are you
gonna follow me? 5 kilometers.
And it's just a constant shower. And that's
why the feet of the Prophet were so
bloodied.
Now the blood dries, he's wearing these sandals.
And the blood dries
to the the point when he later removes
the sandals,
it tears, it makes that
sound.
That's how much blood there was and you'll
see more of how fatigued the prophet looked.
But
I wanted to pause on an interesting point
here. Why is it the narrations mentioned that
they threw rocks at their feet. They threw
rocks at their feet. And typically in class
here, I would ask you, but just for
brevity of time, we're just gonna skip ahead
here. But I would ask you, like, why
specifically at their feet?
And
and I've personally never seen this point discussed
in any seerah book. Like, why why their
feet? But there's some interesting things you can
come up with. The first thing is, they
didn't wanna kill them.
Because if you have a constant shower of
rocks at your head
that's called stoning,
right? That will kill for 5 kilometers,
35 peep, even 20 people, just a constant
shower of rocks,
that would kill you. So they didn't want
to kill them, they want to send them
out of the city.
2,
they were they knew that they came in
walking and they're leaving walking.
And now every step back is gonna hurt.
Yeah?
Also,
your feet
will hurt more. Your feet, very bony.
Right?
What are we? Who are our doctors? The
the metatarsals, right? Those bones on your feet.
Your feet are very bony
and every blow will hurt. Whereas if you
were just throwing at shoulders, like shoulders can
deflect their fleshy,
Stomach some stomachs absorb the rock,
gone.
But here it's gonna hurt, every even if
it misses, it's gonna hurt.
And then they also can't run and protect
their feet.
Like, you can run and protect your head,
but you can't run
on your feet and also cover them, so
it'll be the most uncovered area.
And
other possible reasons
that they didn't wanna hit their friends, they
stood on different sides of the road. If
you're aiming for heads, you miss the head,
you hit your head friend on his head.
So they're aiming downwards, it's safer,
and it could also be a way to
get them out of the city to leave
faster. When you naturally, when you're aiming at
someone's feet,
they run they move faster. Right? If you
don't believe me, watch any western when they
get the guy out of town.
Alright. Thank you, Kahari.
Yes, sir. Dance. Right?
Oh, boy. But
look. Yeah. I need you know,
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he goes through
all this.
And you know,
from the mushrikeen in general, from the kuffar
in general, you know what the Quran tells
them?
Allah tells them in the Quran
Not
Minhum
It's not saying don't be sad because of
them, don't be sad for them.
What a great man, are you feeling this?
No?
Sisters?
Thank you.
What? You're not feeling this? After all they
did to him, Allah is telling him don't
be sad for them. Because after all they
did to him, he feels bad for them
That's a great man
Great man. He feels sad for them?
Allah, man, if it was me.
Abi Allah
destroy them
and give them that thing
that you gave the people of Lut. And
don't give me the don't turn around. I
wanna see the whole thing. And then after
that, I will flip them over again and
I want some hail and about bill birds
and I want,
everything,
and I wanna watch it.
But the prophet was amazing.
He's sad for them after what they did
to him.
Don't be sad for them.
Amazing, O Allah. Not don't be sad from
them.
Anyways
So now the prophet
and Zayd ibn Haritha and Zayd did his
best to protect the prophet as much as
possible, but how possible is that? So now
they're going to walk back. So imagine how
slow the walk back is going to be
and how painful every step is going to
be. And there's the hadith or the narration
which has weakness in it of when the
prophet made dua to Allah azza wa jal.
And what's beautiful about it even though the
weakness and narration but because it's Sira you
can mention things that have weakness in narration
so long as you don't make a ruling
out of it or an act of worship
out of it. But it's beautiful that he
didn't wait till he got
back to Makkah and then made dua.
He made dua right then and there.
Just learning to quickly turn to Allah azzawal
in your time of need. Now once you
get home and make dua for this situation
and
Allah to ease my heart. So he made
du'a
instantly
until they're going now, they're walking until they
get to a vineyard
that is owned
by Utba
and Shaiba, the sons of Rabia.
Utba and Shaiba, the sons of Rabia.
Remember these names?
Okay. This is one of the other techniques.
You focus on names and you'll see things
that you've never seen before.
Who are they?
A few days ago the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam made dua against them by name
and they heard it.
He made dua against them by name.
Is it fair to assume
that this is probably
the worst point
in the relationship of the Prophet with these
2 men?
Is it fair to assume that? Has he
ever made dua against them at the Kaaba
by name? And they know that now he's
openly making dua against them. So is it
fair to to say this is possibly the
worst time in their relationship?
Yeah?
Okay.
So even though
this was the worst time in their relationship
and a and a number of days ago,
they heard him make dua against them by
name at the Kaaba. And they had done
the worst thing they had ever done to
him. As far as the humiliation and laughing
at him,
they felt bad for him.
You understand?
It's almost now because of because of this
point that we focused on, it's as if
you can see
the state of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
That his enemies in the worst point of
their relationship felt bad for him. Can you
imagine now what he looked like
The the bleeding,
the sweat, the fatigue, him and Zayd
to the point that the enemies at their
worst point felt bad
and they sent him some grapes with their
servant adas.
And so
the Adas, this young boy, he comes with
the grapes and he hands them to the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And the Prophet
took
some grapes and he said, Bismillah,
and he ate.
Anything strange?
Nothing. Right?
No. This is the other technique we use.
Anytime you you wanna feel
the situation, put yourself in the place of
the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam or whoever
is the story is happening to.
Now put yourself in the place of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
What a great man that he ate the
grapes. What a humble man.
What a man that does not hold grudges
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because let me tell
you something, If it was me and I'm
resting in the vineyard, and then the servant
comes and he says, suatba and shayba there
sent you dates. What?
Wait a minute. You tell me this is
their place? Like first of all, I wouldn't
have rested here if I knew this belong
to these 2 punks. Alright?
And the second thing is you wanna send
me grapes,
Yeah. And you wanna have mercy on me,
think I want your grapes?
This is all your fault, Aslan. If you
didn't overstep your boundaries in Mecca, I wouldn't
have come to Ata'if. And now you want
to send me some of your grapes? Take
the grapes, oh masha'a. Yeah?
But the prophet was such an amazing man.
He just said
and he ate.
Okay. I'm starting to to be convinced that
I am easily blown away by things. Because
when I share it with people, everyone's just
like
yeah.
That's cool.
I know. You're jumping up and down internally,
but you just have to maintain your composure.
What for? I don't know but okay. You
Allah, maintain your composure.
So the young man was blown away.
He's because he heard the bismillah, the bismillah,
which is another point the prophet didn't hide
the bismillah. He wasn't ashamed of who he
was. Subhaa salaam. He said, basmela.
You know? I had this friend. We'd be
we'd be walking together.
This was like in in in DC.
And he would be speaking to me in
Arabic. The minute he sees a non Muslim,
he switches to English. Like, are you ashamed,
Jahabib?
You ashamed?
Taheb. The prophet said, bismillah halas.
So Adaa said
This what you just said,
the people of these parts they don't say
that like I've never heard someone say Bismillah
before eating.
So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam even
though he's
hurt,
he goes to dua mode immediately.
He's naturally in dua mode. I would have
been like, Yeah. Okay. I'm just tending to
my wounds.
Yeah. These Khalass, may you give me the
grapes? I
said,
Khalass, you give me the grapes. Leave. I'll
eat them. La, I'm just looking at my
wounds. No, the Prophet goes into Dawumud immediately.
He tells he asks them, what is your
name and where are you from?
So he tells him that his name is
Adas and that he is from Nainawa,
Nineveh in Iraq now.
So
a number of interesting things. The name
is is very important in dua. We always
talk about ask for the name. When you're
giving dua to someone, ask them for their
name, remember their name, and use their name.
Why? Because it makes the dawah very personal
and Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he
came to Uthmar ibn Affan he said
I am the messenger of Allah
sent to you for
the rest of mankind.
But you see how special? I was sent
to you you Uthman and then to everybody
else.
Makes it personal and special.
And you can also figure out a lot
from someone's name.
So if their name is Levi,
you know they're Christian. If their name's Christian,
you know they're Jewish. If their name is
Singh,
you know that they're Hindu. And if it's
Ram, you know that they're
sikh.
Okay. Everything was reversed. Okay. Everything was reversed.
Alright. You some some folks caught that.
But you understand a lot. You you get
such an advantage when you know someone's name.
And now the prophet said, what what religion
or what city you're from? In another nation
he said, what religion are you? So he
said he's a Christian from Nainoa. And the
prophet
knows something or 2 about that city.
And how do you feel when you've been
in an area and nobody knows where you're
from, and then somebody knows where you're from?
It feels special.
It feels special. And that's,
like, you know, for me, when I people
ask me, like,
where are you from originally? I would say,
Sudan. It's right below
Egypt. Because it's America, nobody knows geography.
So if it's right below Egypt, oh.
Also in Egypt you don't know it. But
Khalaf Mashiya. The point is that
But then sometimes you tell someone from, from
Sudan, oh, from Khartoum or Omdurman. Look. Wait
a minute.
How? How do you know this? No white
people know this.
You
want serious? We'll be serious.
Prophet answered.
He said, he is my brother.
He was a prophet
and I am a prophet.
So adas
got up and began to kiss the hands
and feet and the head of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam in another narration.
And then,
when he goes back,
they
said, why did you do that? Actually, it's
funny. Uthba and Sheba, when they were watching
that,
they go they tell they look at each
other and like, look at this. We sent
him the boy to give him some grapes,
and he corrupted the boy.
Because from the distance, all they see is
in a few moments, just a few exchanges,
and now he's
kissing the hands and feet of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
they said, why did you do all that?
Then Adas says, there is nothing
on this earth
that is greater than that man Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
He has told me of something that only
a Prophet would know.
And
they tell
him,
Don't let him take you away from your
religion for your religion
is better than his. I didn't even know
his religion. Anyway, once asked him about it
and now they tell him, I'm sure it's
better than his. Anything but his, that's the
point. Then the prophet
and Zayd got
up and they began to walk back.
Now, here's an issue here. We've got this
narration.
Alright?
We're basically now from a Ta'if, so if
if you're looking at a map,
let me from your vantage point, Mecca is
here
and Al Ta'if is like here. So it's
kinda like to the east
of, Mecca,
but a little bit southeast, but not completely,
but just a little bit Kiddah. Alright?
And and the prophet now is gonna walk
back to Mecca. And you imagine,
every step
hurts. And he's walking and human beings walk
at the speed of about
6 kilometers per hour.
So if you're walking a distance of 60
kilometers,
that's 10 hours of walking. And if your
feet are injured,
that could be 11, could be 12 hours
of walking or more if you need to
rest more. Right?
So we've got this issue here. We've have
an we have a narration
where
Okay. Let's just read the narration and then
I'll give you
3 different explanations for it.
Aisha Radiallahu Anha,
she said,
I asked the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
if he had ever experienced
a day
worse than Uhud.
And he answered
that he,
that he had suffered a lot from those
people, the ani, the idol worshipers,
but the most painful was on the day
of Al Aqaba of Aqaba.
Okay. Wait a minute. So anything strange now?
There's something amazing here, but it's all in
the details.
Something really amazing.
Aisha
automatically assumed
that Uhud must have been the most difficult
day on the Prophet
70 of his companions including his uncle Hamdulillah
anhu which he was very saddened over besides
the disfiguring and everything.
And he was injured and he was bleeding
for more than one place. So she was
certain that Uhud
was the worst day in his life.
But
there was a worst day and she never
knew it.
What's the special thing?
He didn't complain.
He didn't complain.
Ask ask any married man, what's go go
to any woman, what's the what's the worst
day in your husband's oh, he always talks
about this. It was the day this, this,
and that happened.
What's your wife's favorite day? I mean worst
day every day with
me. You know you hear about it. You
know the worst day. You know about her
worst restaurant experience.
You know about your husband's worst restaurant experience,
worst day at work.
Right? The prophet
actually had a day worse than Uhud
and he never spoke about it. What a
great ma'am,
never complained.
We have to hear it. We gotta rate
it on Yelp and thumbs down it and
post about it on Facebook.
They brought the hors d'oeuvres before the appetizer.
It was really horrible experience. Really?
So look at this narration.
He said
that he had suffered a lot from those
people, the idol worshipers, but the most the
day of Uhud was bad, but the most
painful day was on the day of Aqaba.
I went seeking support from ibn Abdi Alayl
and ibn
Khilal
but he spurned me
and I set out wearied and grieved heedless
of anything around me until suddenly I realized
I was at
or I believe. Yeah? The the
because,
yeah. He says, there I looked up and
I saw a cloud that was casting its
shade on me and Jibreel was addressing me.
Jibreel alayhi salam said Allah has heard your
people's words
and sent you the angel of the mountains
to your aid.
The latter meaning the angel of the mountains
called
and gave me his salaams and asked for
my permission
to
he
said
and Utbika alahim al akhshabein.
So he says if you if you like
I will
crush them between the 2 mountains,
alright.
And then the prophet said,
He said, I hope and I expect that
Allah will bring from their loins those whom
who will worship Allah alone and not associate
anyone with him. He's saying, no thank you.
Because may if they disbelieve maybe from their
offspring there will be people who say la
ilaha illallah and do not worship anyone with
him. So that's why he rejected.
So then what
who
who who is the what's the offer for?
We've got 3 different explanations.
One is that
as most of the time and most of
us have heard that the angel of the
mountains came and offered to crush the people
of atta'if
between the two mountains.
That's what we mostly hear. Just show of
hands who has heard that before.
That he was offered to crush the people
of attayf. There's no way it's just 5
people. No way.
That's like this is the predominant,
you hear this in every tape and most
books will say, yeah he offered to crush
the people of Atayf between the two mountains.
And the prophet out of his mercy said,
no. No thanks.
Alright.
The the other opinion which is the one
I was gonna present today, but today I'm
gonna present the third one. Initially this was
my position for the longest time or not
my
position. The position that I follow. Not my
position. The one that I follow, just so
we're clear.
And
is that he did not the off the
angel of the mountain of the angels
the angel of the mountains did not offer
to crush the people of between the two
mountains.
He offered to crush the people of Mecca
between the two mountains.
And there are a lot of arguments for
that. A lot of arguments for that.
First of all
there's some arguments you cannot refute.
He said
Fold collapse upon them,
crush them between
Google it right now.
Where are Al Akshabayn?
There are only 2 mountains on the whole
planet that are referred to as Al Akshabayn.
Means
rough and if you've been you've been to
Mecca, Umrah, Hajj and you looked at these
mountains and they're so rough right
Just not even soft sand just jagged rock
not even cacti,
not cactus nothing on it just rocks
rough mountains.
So Al Aqshabein
are the 2 rough mountains
around Makkah.
They're the only 2 mountains on the planet
called Al akhshabein, Sarrah.
They're the only 2 in the world called
Al akhshabein. Google it, yahoo it, bing it,
whatever you wanna do. You will not find
any other 2 mountains. And they're the 2
called Al Hashabain.
And I see brother Kabir is
testing me.
I'm just kidding.
They are the mountain of Abu Qubais. Why
is it called Abu Qubais? Because nobody lived
down that mountain. One day a guy by
the name of Abu Qubais, he takes his
stuff, he starts building a house there. So
they naturally refer to it as the mountain
of Abu Qubais cause he lives on it.
And then the other mountain
is
known as or used to be known as
Jabal Al Quai'il Quran. Al Quai'il Quran.
These are the two mountains they're known as
Al Aqshamein.
So that's the first reason why the Angel
was not offering to crush ata'if between the
two mountains, he was offering to crush the
Meccans, Mecca between the two mountains because they're
the only ones surrounded by the 2 mountains.
The second strong point is that a Ta'if
is not between 2 mountains and sometimes I
will hear people say that. Go into
Google Earth or whatever and look at a
Ta'if
And and maybe some of you visited a
Ta'if and everybody knows a Ta'if is an
elevated area. It's on top of a mountain.
It's not between 2 mountains. There's no way
you could tell me it was Ta'if.
So we were saying that,
the are the 2 mountains around Mecca.
The Ta'if has no mountains around it. It
is on top of a mountain.
Then we said, then there are other things,
meaning, for number look at this.
Ataif
the prophet left Ataif.
So if we accept this narration,
meaning that it's referring to the journey of
Alta'if. Is 45
kilometers
away
from Alta'if.
So, how long do you take to walk
that distance?
We're looking at 11:12
hours.
So,
11:12
hours later,
is the Prophet concerned about the ta'if or
is he concerned about Mecca?
If he's concerned Okay. He's concerned about Mecca.
Why?
Because they know that he left the city
under their watch and he's trying to give
dawah in another city. And they're waiting for
him very angrily
and he's got no protector. So who is
he worried about?
Mecca.
You want more proof?
Zaid says, You Rasool Allah how are we
gonna go back into it when you're not
welcome there or they kicked you out? So
he's worried about Mecca, not the city that
11 hours ago. And one is do you
ever remember a time the Prophet is holding
on to something that happened in the past?
Adas came, Prophet ate the grapes, gave him
dawah, he's never holds on to the past
Saharillah.
So what are the odds? 12 hours later
the angels gonna come and say, Hey, that
what happened 12 hours ago? I'll crush them
for you.
It was about Mecca.
And you might say, Well, wait a minute.
How could the angel offer to crush Mecca
when the companions and his daughters and his
family,
they're there?
There is no way he would offer that.
Yes, there is.
Because he's making the offer, that's just the
offer. And if he accepted the offer, what
do you think would be that would happen?
There will be an
an extraction plan.
Just like when the angels came to Ibrahim
alaihis salam, they said we're gonna go destroy
the people of,
the village of Lut. He said there there's
a like a righteous man in it. They
said no we'll take him out.
So this is the big plan, then this
is the extraction plan or
whatever the you wanna call it. So
he's making the offer to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Because he's not worried about
Ta'if, he's worried about Mecca coming up onto
Mecca. And there are other arguments, There
are, like I've got 3 or 4 other
arguments
that it's he's talking about Mecca and he's
not talking about Al Ta'if.
I mean here there's also,
but subhanallah, this was my opinion for or
the opinion I followed for a long time.
And just today, I found a third opinion
that makes more sense to me.
First of all,
this narration by the way it's Sahib Bukhar
in Muslim. This narration never says Mecca nor
Ta'if.
But people assumed it was talking about Ta'if
because he just came out of it. They're
the ones who mistreated him. And the other
group analyzed it a bit more
geographically and what have you, and they said,
no. No. It can't be about al Taif.
It's about Mecca.
Alright? And that's what I thought was correct
for the longest time. But realistically,
there were always issues
that kind of stood out to me. Number
1,
why did the prophet called the day of
Atayf the day of Aqaba?
That never made sense to
me. And then he says to Aisha,
where is it?
When he says yeah. Well, actually, he does
say that to Ashu, but he says,
the angel said, Jibril said Allah has heard
your people's words, your people's words. And who
are his people? The Meccans or Atayf?
And if you're gonna argue Atayf for his
people, you're gonna have to make a strong
case. The Meccans are his people. Quraysh are
his people.
So
there's a scholar who did a
a kind of a study on this. First
of all, he said, the day of Aqaba
and we know the place of Al Aqaba.
You've heard of the first pledge of Al
Aqaba. You've heard of the second pledge of
Al Aqaba.
Why do people think this narration has to
do with Alta'if?
Because
Abdi
ibn Abdi Alayl,
he's from ata'if.
So people would see this narration and think,
oh, this is after the day of ata'if.
No.
He saw this is at Hajj at Mina
at Al Aqaba where the Prophet took the
first and second pledge from the Madinians. Later
on, he was there calling the different groups
to Islam and they all rejected him. And
so he left that area feeling worried and
concerned and grieved
and he was not aware until he found
himself at Qarn al Manazil
which is
3 kilometers away. Does that make more sense?
That he was at Mina and then he
was just not thinking and he's so concerned
that he didn't even realize he was at
Khanal Al Marazoo which is 3 kilometers away?
That makes sense.
And then, yeah, his people not the ta'if,
they're not his people. And then what's another
piece?
Look,
he says, I noticed a cloud
that was giving me shade. Which means what
time of the day of the day was
it?
Allah, what time of day was it if
the sun is and if he clouds Bilal
shading you,
the sun was out. But wait a minute
when did he leave a Taif?
Be as creative as you want. Yeah and
he
he at least prayed fajr and left a
Taif. Let's just go. He left right after
fajr which I find it to be unlikely
that all the people came out and they
lined up and stuff. They probably left at
midday or or 10 or 11 o'clock later
in the in the in the morning. But
for the sake of argument let's say he
prayed fajr and he left Taif immediately.
And then he went and rested in the
vineyard. Then he got up and walked 12
hours with rest and everything after resting at
the the vineyard and made it toqaral almanazil.
What sun?
There will still be sun and shade?
There wouldn't be.
Taban, feel free to disagree.
Like I always say, I'm okay with people
being wrong.
I'm kidding. But the point is that, yani
this is going against something we've been hearing
for many years so it's hard to swallow
in the beginning. But this makes a lot
of sense.
Makes a lot of sense. Why would the
sun still be up?
Like a 13, 14 hours of of traveling.
Even if he left at Fajr there would
be no sun. It makes a lot of
sense that this was on the day of
Al Aqaba and the Prophet called it the
day of Al Aqaba which is at Mina
which is only 3 kilometers away from Khan
al Thalib which makes sense that he suddenly
found himself there and it was still daytime.
The only reason we think it's about at
Ta'if or after at Ta'if is because of
ibn Abdi alayh because he's from Ta'if so
we thought oh for sure this is after
the day of Ata'if.
Taif. And there are many seerah books that
mention that the angel offered to crush the
people of ata'al, Mecca between the mountains, and
some here and there that mention
either way feel free, I need to
to take whichever opinion you like.
But the point is that the Prophet
now is heading back into Mecca, and let
me try to wrap up before the salah,
and Zayd Radhala Anhu says
how are we going to enter a mikkah?
That's their concern, mikkah not a paifah it's
in the rearview mirror from 12 hours ago
half a day ago. He said, how are
we gonna enter it and now that they've
sent you out? You're not welcome to go
back, and they're all angrily awaiting you.
So the Prophet said, and listen to the
certainty in his voice salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He said,
That
Allah
is going to give
an ease and a way out for what
you see here, for our situation.
And indeed Allah is going to give victory
to his religion and He's going to give
victory
to his Prophet.
So the words of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam, do you feel the confidence in
them or not?
Absolutely, right? Very confident.
He's telling him Allah is gonna find us
a way out and He's gonna make his
religion victorious and He's gonna make his prophet
victorious.
But despite all that, despite the confidence he's
teaching us you still have to seek out
the means.
And so the prophet knows that he needs
to be under the protection of someone. And
there are narrations that after Abu Talib died
he was under the protection of Abu Lahab
which is now the next guy in charge
of Bani Hashim. But it didn't work out,
it just lasted a few days and that
was it. And how do you how long
do you think Abu Lah will give him
protection? So now the prophet has to go
and get under the protection of someone, take
advantage of the ijara
laws the juwar where you're under someone's protection
and it cannot be a Muslim because if
it's a Muslim it becomes us against them
So it has to be one of the
mushrikeen.
So the prophet
goes
first he contacts
Al Ahnath
ibn Shuraik.
And Ahnath ibn Shuraik makes an excuse. He
gives him some kind of lame excuse why
he won't do it. So then he goes
to Sahib na Amr. And Sahib Nambra gives
him a very
a
very weird and invalid excuse.
He says
basically saying I would love to offer you
the protection but you know the rules.
Bani Aamer
cannot give protection to Bani Kabud Nulay. The
Prophet Bani Kabud Nula'i. He said we know
Bani Amr can't do that. There was no
such rule whatsoever. He just made it up
right then and there.
But the prophet sallam
understood it as a no
and went away.
You see?
He got immediately salaam
that the guy is essentially saying no. He
didn't say what? Where is this? And I
read the bylaws and there's no such rule
and actually Bani Amr can give protection to
Bani Ka'bib Nuhllah. He didn't do that. He
understood the man saying no.
Okay? And sometimes we need to be able
in our life, fiyani, to benefit from the
seerah, to be able to take a hint.
Yeah?
Your
friend you ask someone, can you give me
a ride to the airport on Tuesday?
The guy says,
oh, I can't. My car overheats.
Halas, he's saying
no. Don't Maybe it does overheat, maybe it
doesn't like you.
But don't try to offer solutions. Oh, no,
I have like 5 or 7 jugs, we
will have cool water and we will stop
every and add water to the radiator.
He didn't ask you for that.
He's just saying no.
Let's get it. Don't oh, no. But we
can fix it. Sometimes you say no to
people. Why? Wait. I thought we can do
I have got duct tape.
Alright, people.
Then he goes to he sent to Al
Mutaim ibn Adi,
one of the leaders of Mecca. But there's
something about this name. The boycott against Bani
Hashim,
he is one of 3 people who ended
the boycott.
So it makes sense to go to this
guy because this is a a man that
has,
nahama o neshwa'u.
He has,
you know? He's got those values and he
doesn't like injustice. He's one of the ones
who ended the boycott and he's not Muslim.
Do you think there's a chance he might
accept? Yeah. There's a chance he might accept.
Why would he accept? He's not Muslim. Yeah.
It could be a chance him to flex
flex his muscle,
to assert his place in leadership,
you know.
So he accepted and he ordered his family
and his children and his his people to
put on full armor and bring all their
weapons and they all marched with the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam until they got to the
Kaaba, then they stood in different corners of
the Kaaba.
And I want you to imagine this scene.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam comes,
what is the first thing he does?
He prays
2 rakat at the Kaaba.
He would always go to the Masjid first
after a journey. But there's something very significant
about these 2 raka'at.
It's telling all these people who heard of
what happened in Ata'if and Ata'if was not
successful and the Prophet was you know, they
threw rocks at him and he was injured,
but he's telling them,
I am still a prophet of Allah. I
am still upon this religion and still upon
this da'wah. And that's and they got that
message just from seeing him pray the 2
rakaat.
And then Amut Al Mu'addi stood up and
he said that he's offering that Muhammad salawas
alayhi wa sallam is under his protection that
anyone who touches him it's like you touch
me and then they escorted him with their
soldiers
all the way to his house. And what's
beautiful, we're done with this story but what's
beautiful is
immediately afterwards and when the hajj delegations come
to Makkah, the Prophet starts to try to
find a place to go. Why? Because he's
smart enough salaam alayhi wa sallam to know
that how long will a mushrik give me
protection? And as they start to put pressure
on him, how long can he withstand that
pressure? So he knows it's not gonna last
long so he has to find another solution
and hajj brings all the people from all
instead of traveling to them they're all there
in one spot, and the pro Muslim actively
starts going out to different groups
to see
who would take him and the believers
in
into their city.
So we'll stop here, there are a number
of interesting things,
maybe after Eishah I could tell you one
interesting thing, but basically
there are many many lessons from the story
of Ata'if. I've got 3 minutes. Let me
fire off as many as I can. We
said there was well, first we saw at
least 4 or 5 different wisdoms in choosing
a ta'if. It wasn't just luck or that's
just close by let's just go there. It
was strategically a good place to go. We
see
that the Prophet did not carry his losses.
He was injured, he was fatigued and tired
but he gave dawah to adas. He moved
on immediately,
didn't carry his losses.
We see that Allah
test those that he loves the most.
We see that the Prophet went to the
nobles first and didn't just start giving dua
in the streets but he went to the
people in charge.
And,
we get a practical example of ease coming
after hardship, a practical example of
the patience of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
and not retaliating against people, not retaliating against
the Quraysh or the people of Ata'if or
later on against the Meccans or later on
against the people of Ata'if
and you see that you can expect well
of people. The sons of Rabia, they were
at the peak of their animosity with the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but
they still felt their heart softened towards him.
So you can still expect good out of
people and sometimes you can expect good,
out of the enemy as well. Again, I
think this more applies to the old days.
You know, the hadith of the best generations.
The scholars said this hadith
is saying that even the kuffar at the
time of the were better than the the
kuffar
today. Anyways,
we see that Atayf was genuine.
Atayf was a genuine city because it later
came to Islam through what?
By themselves.
No warfare. Nothing.
We see the forbearance if you take the
narration of the mountain, the angel of the
mountains, you see the forbearance and forgiveness of
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We see that this is a genuine prophet
Because if this is one of the more
difficult times in his life,
this is when the impostor would have quit.
True or false?
This is when the impostor would come and
say, listen you guys.
We're done with this. Let's be buddies again.
Right?
The jinn became Muslim. I skipped that part
of the story.
So two great things happened. Number 1, Adas
became Muslim.
If Allah guides 1 person through you, it's
better for you than the best of wealth.
1 person became Muslim that trip was worth
it. But then
millions of jinn from that time until today
are upon Islam
because on the way back the jinn became
Muslim.
We see that the Prophet had a busy,
he had a household, he had mouths to
feed, he had daughters that were young,
but the du'at
forced time for dua. And the du'at aren't
the ones that have free time so like
let's just give dua. They force time, they're
busy, they have work, they have a family,
they have things to do, but they force
time for dawah. And the scholars said from
the story of Ata'if, Rasulullah
is forced time for 10 days to go
stay in Ata'if.
And then running through it quickly,
the Prophet knew he was going to be
victorious,
but he still
thought sought
the means, al isbaab and he still went
and got the protection. He didn't just walk
into Makkah, you know, and sometimes you find
Muslims like they don't take the they're just
the khalas Allah is with us lahabe.
The prophet was careful and he was cautious
and he took precautions.
I don't have any evidence for this,
but you tell me if it's reasonable.
Do you think maybe
when
Islam came to a Ta'if later on,
that maybe some of those youth who threw
rocks at the Prophet
that made them feel more guilty at that
time
and it led them to become Muslim faster
because of the guilt.
It's I don't have proof, but is it
possible, is on? I'm asking.
It's possible.
Prophet took advantage of the non Muslim laws
of the ijara, the protection, and he got
to protection. It was today, people like, oh,
this is non Muslim law.
Does it agree with the principles of Islam?
Yeah. If it does, then what's your issue?
It's not in the Quran. It has to
be in the Quran?
Traffic loads in the Quran?
Anything wrong with stopping at a red light?
I think it makes a lot of sense
to stop at a red light.
Right?
Prophet didn't hide his Islam when he said
Bismillah.
Du'a du'a is a tool and being used
in dua
and du'a being used immediately not later or
the idea of turning to Allah Azzawal quickly.
The humility of the prophet accepting the grapes
and even resting under the shade of those
people that were his enemies.
What if if you accept the narration? I
got some of these old points when they're
all based on the narration of
you know. But if you accepted that narration,
if the prophet destroyed
Mecca
between the two mountains,
would that
What kind of effect would that have on
the other cities?
And maybe they would become Muslim just to
not be destroyed.
And then how genuine would their Islam be?
I got you.
3 minutes,
I'm gonna pull a sheikhwaleed on you guys,
okay?
That was actually the last point.
Putting your trust in Allah,
taking the hint.
So I've got about
28, 29 different
lessons just from
the journey of Ata'if.
Got another like 12 different lessons from why
Abu Talib died a non Muslim. There's got
to be some benefit. Why would Allah allow
that? There's got to be some benefits. The
seerah is loaded with benefits. You just have
to look at it in detail.
For listening attentively
and for coming.
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