Kamal El-Mekki – From Rejection to Mercy – The Prophet Muhammad – Journey To Al Taif

Kamal El-Mekki
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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."
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I'm about

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I forget what we call this thing.

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Something something it's basically about a Taif.

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Has to put his poetry touch in there.

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What was it called?

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Ish. Rejection to

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ish?

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Mercy. I like it. It's good. Rejection okay.

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Let's start over. Welcome to

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rejection to mercy. Yes. The story of Ataif.

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Alright. So let's look at some of the

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events that led the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam

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to leave Mecca

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and go try to find another city to

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give dawah to, which will be Al Ta'if.

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We have a number of events just to

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give us some context here. First of all,

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the we the Muslims had just come out

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of the the 3 years

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in what are known as shia'ab I Talib,

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the ravines

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where they were banished by nihashim. Muslim and

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non Muslim were sent out

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and to and they lived in the ravines,

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starvation.

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They were no one was allowed to to

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sell them anything or deal with them in

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business until the boycott ended. Shortly thereafter,

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the uncle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, Abu Ghareb,

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is dying. And then Nabi salallahu alaihi wa

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sallam comes to him,

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and

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he's going to

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give him to try until the last moment

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to call him to Islam.

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So when he comes, the bad news is

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there are people there,

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and amongst them is Abu Jah. So now

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he's not obviously, he's not gonna let him

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give him dawah without any interference or any

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interruption.

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So the prophet tells

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his uncle, he says, You am.

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So the uncle, say.

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In one narration,

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this word if you say it, I will

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argue your case in front of Allah

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Just say la ilaha illa Allah I will

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argue your your case in front of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And then

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what what happens of course Abu Jair is

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not just gonna be there sit sit there

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quietly.

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So he says,

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He doesn't even like Abdul Muttalib. But he

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does he just wants to say anything to

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make him not leave his religion. So it's

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as if he's saying,

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would you leave the religion of the great

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Abdul Mutayb?

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And he doesn't even like him, but just

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anything to get him to stay upon what

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he's upon.

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And the prophet is trying and Abu Jahl

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is, you know, countering

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and then the last words of Abu Talib,

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he says alamilati

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Abdul Muttalib.

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I'm meaning I'm gonna die upon the belief

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or the religion, the creed of Abdul Muttalib.

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And, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, first

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he says that he's going to he he

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says

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I'm going to

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make seek forgiveness for you so long as

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Allah does not

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prevent me. And then the ayat came down

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preventing

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making dua and istighfar meaning for the

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the kufaro of deceased.

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And so the prophet of course didn't do

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that.

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And you imagine,

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Abdul Mutayb raised the prophet

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like his like his own son. He grew

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up in his household after the death of

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his grandfather,

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the prophet grandfather,

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Abdul Muttalib.

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And you would imagine how much he would

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have liked to make dua

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for his uncle in the place of his

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father, but he was forbidden, so he stopped.

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And the the ruling is super clear

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that you're not allowed to make dua for

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non muslims once they pass on. When they're

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alive, you can make dua for Allah to

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guide them all that. But once they pass

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on, khalas.

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And now every time some celebrity or some

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singer dies, you see Muslims posting,

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rest in peace, peace mean.

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Just stay out of it. Just stay out

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of it. People come to you and, like,

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oh, you know, my neighbor, he was such

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a good man. He was our neighbor for

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10 years. We grew up seeing him and

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everything, and then he died. Now can I

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make dua for him?

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Look, you wanna be merciful?

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It's too late now.

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The manifestation of your mercy is that you

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you invite them to Islam while they're alive.

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Mush, 10 years he's your neighbor, you ignore

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him just, hi, how are you doing? And

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then after he dies, now you wanna be

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merciful. Can I make dua for him? Tell

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him, no. Oh,

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that's kinda brutal, isn't it? No. I told

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you it was brutal. Being his neighbor for

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10 years and not saying a word. That's

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brutal.

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Every time someone does, rest in peace and

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Alhamdulillahallahuallaha

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illaamun sikhtulmugrifa.

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The point is,

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the point is

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Abu

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Talib

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dies.

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Now,

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some of the some of the scholars

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said 3 days later,

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others said 2 months later, others said within

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the same year. Either way, it's very close.

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Khadija Radiullah Anha dies. So Abu Talib was

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the one offering the protection to the Prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So his protector outside

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of the house. And then his main supporter

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inside the house Khadija Radiullah Anha dies. So

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within a short period of time, and this

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became known by the historians, this became known

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as the year of sorrow or sadness, am

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Alhusn. They refer to it as a year

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of sadness

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because it was just sad event after sad

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event.

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After the death of Abu Talib,

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anybody could attack the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa

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sallam.

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Anybody.

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Before,

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you know, you had to be someone of

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standing in order to attack the prophet physically

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or throw something at him but now anyone

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even no name riffraffs will attack the prophet

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He said

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he

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said,

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he said,

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something to me that I hated until Abu

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Talib died.

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So and nobody one time came, and he

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just poured dirt on the head of the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is like one

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of the ways to insult someone you pour

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dirt on their head, sandy, honey.

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And he goes home and his daughter, if

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you can imagine it, his daughter Fatima

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is cleaning the head of the Prophet

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while she's crying.

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And the Prophet is telling her

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Don't cry, O daughter, indeed Allah is with

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your father.

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And then it comes to the point where

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the day when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam

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is praying at the Kaaba.

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And we have the leaders

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of the Kufar of Quraish

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from, Abu Jahal and

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and, the the sons of, or,

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yeah, and Shayb of

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Nirabi,

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all of them are sitting there.

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And then Abu Jahl says, which of you

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will go get

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salal jazur? Which

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is

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the which would be the intestines of a

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camel

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or probably the placenta of a camel that

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gave birth. And either way it's a camel,

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so it's gonna be huge. Right? Who will

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get that and put it on the back

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of the Prophet

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while he's making sujood?

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And then Uqbab Nabi Mu'ait got up

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and he brought this material.

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Whether it's at the intestines or the placenta,

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it's still a lot. Yeah. And if someone

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put the intestines of a baby goat on

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your back while you're making sujood, how bad

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is that? Camel,

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and then that slimy worm material is coming

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down, sliding down like this,

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and they're laughing.

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The eyewitness

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is ibn Mas'ud.

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And you can feel the pain

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in

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when ibn Mas'ud is speaking. You can feel

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he can't do anything. If you remember Ibn

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Mus'ud radhiyalaan,

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he's the one that does not have a

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strong tribe to protect him. He's the one

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who was the 1st to publicly recite Quran,

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recite his surah al Rahman

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and then they beat him so much that

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they couldn't tell his nose from the rest

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of his face. Meaning his face was so

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swollen, they couldn't see his nose from the

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rest of his face.

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So that's one thing, he didn't have a

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strong tribe to protect him. The second thing,

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ibn Mas'ud, what about him physically? Do you

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remember? He likes. Yeah. He's very skinny. Like

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he's a small and and skinny. Like

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there's a narration at the battle of Badr

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at the end of the battle. When he

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went to speak to Abu Jahl, who was

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dying, he had to climb on top of

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him to talk to him. And how big

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is this guy and how small is the

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other guy? Right?

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So

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so Ibn Mas'ud says,

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He said, and I'm just I'm watching,

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and there's nothing I can do. He says,

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and if I just had some people with

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me, if I just had some men, I

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just had some bodies with me to do

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something but I can't.

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And then he says

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So they start to laugh and to lean

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against each other. You know when people are

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sitting there laughing real hard, what happens? They

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start to lean on each other like this

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they're leaning on each other laughing at this

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while the prophet is still in sujood and

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that material is still on his back Sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam. He says until someone

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told Fatima,

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Fajaaat wahiaa juwairiyah. She came while she was

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still a young girl. Some of the scholars

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said she was about 10 years old

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and she removed it from the back of

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the prophet while she's crying and she's trying

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to insult them and say something to them.

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Then the prophet finished his salah

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and this is a moment

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that we have never seen before and up

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until this point.

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Prophet finished the salah

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and he put his hands up and everybody

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can hear him. Those guys who were laughing

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and leaning a minute ago they can hear

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this.

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And Nabi

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says, Allahumma'alaika

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be Quraysh.

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Allahumma'alaika

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be Quraysh.

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When they heard the dua,

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they all got scared. Because first of all,

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they understood the dua at the Kaaba and

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what that meant,

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and they revered the Kaaba.

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2, they know this is an honest man

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and they've never seen anything except righteousness from

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him salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and they know

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that they wronged him. So when he started

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making dua, Allahummaalaika

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bu Qurish they all got quiet, they all

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got scared. Then by name he says

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There were 7,

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the narrator says,

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and I forgot the 7th one. But from

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other narrations we know that it was Ammar

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ibn Walid.

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So and then the the narrative says, I

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swear by Allah that I saw the ones

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the prophet made dua against dead in the

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well after Badr. Remember they threw the leaders

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of the kuffar in a in an abandoned

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well

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after the battle of Badr. He says these

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7 the prophet made dua against by name,

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I saw all 7 of them in that

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well.

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What's interesting here is what the scholars say

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like look how long it took for the

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dua of a prophet of Allah

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who was dealt with unjustly

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at the Kaaba to be answered.

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It happened years later after the prophet moved

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to Madinah, migrated and then

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the battle took place and then these 7

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that he made dua against by name were

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killed. And so the lesson is you never

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rush the dua. And as the prophet also

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said

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your dua will be answered and responded to

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so long as you do not become hasty,

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you rush.

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And and they asked him

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he said he says the person says, I

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asked and I asked, and nothing happened.

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So it's not instant. And today, we always

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expect things to be instant. Yeah. And you

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you finish making dua and there's a package

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there.

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Khalas. Just Amazon Prime. Oh,

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Alhamdulillah.

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Takes time. Sometimes it takes years. And sometimes

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it will never be answered.

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But either way, you can clearly see now

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that everybody is able to attack the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa salam. He has no defender,

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he has no supporter from within the house.

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Everything is indicating

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that it's not working out in Makkh.

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It's not working out, and you have to

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go somewhere else.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he

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chose to go to

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aqa'if.

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Now

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the thing is that, you know, a lot

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of times you just hear that it was

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the the city nearby.

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Taif was just nearby.

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But there is more to it than just

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that. So

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we've got a couple of things.

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Number 1, it was the 2nd largest city

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after Mecca.

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And then it has a great place in

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the heart of the Meccans.

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Why is that a big deal?

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Meaning, imagine the prophet is gonna go give

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dawah to

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a city that's hated by the Meccans.

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Would that encourage them to become Muslim?

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No. We hated those guys anyways, and now

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we hate them and their new religion.

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But if it's a city that has a

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place that in the heart of the Meccans,

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this might encourage them and soften their hearts

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towards Islam. Makes sense?

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What's the proof?

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Allah says in Surah al Zukruf

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They said

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this Quran it should have been revealed to

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a great man from either of the 2

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cities.

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What two cities? Mecca and Atayf.

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Means

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that Atayf was so special to them that

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they said we would accept

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this Quran if it were sent to any

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man, a great man from Mecca or a

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great man from Ata'if. That shows you that

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Ata'if had some some meaning to them.

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So that's why it makes it a good

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place, the 2nd largest city

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and it's nearby. Yeah, it's an advantage

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and it's a city that has a great

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place in the heart of the Meccans. So

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if they become Muslim, that will soften the

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Meccans hearts towards Islam. So it's not just

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because it's nearby. There's more intelligence there.

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Also it has the tribe of Thaqif.

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Tribe of Thaqif is a very strong tribe

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to the point that after the conquering of

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Mecca, the Muslims went to try to attack

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Ta'if and and Taqif

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and they laid siege to them and it

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was unsuccessful and then they left them and

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then they came into Islam by themselves.

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So it's a strong place and a strong

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tribe and of course that's an advantage. If

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that strong tribe becomes Muslim, what's the advantage

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to Islam? A great advantage.

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There was also

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some

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competition between Mecca and Ata'if.

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So what does Mecca have? It has the

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Kaaba.

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At Ta'if had

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what did Ta'if have?

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Allat.

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Allat was from At Ta'if.

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So and you know the Meccans would swear

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by a lot and al Uzza. So they

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respected a lot. That's from a Taif.

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So why is that a good point? Because

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now it's an opportunity

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for them to be able to surpass Mecca.

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Like we could never beat the Meccans because

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they have the Ka'bah.

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But if we follow the prophet of Allah,

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that's an opportunity to surpass them. So that

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might be something that will motivate them to

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become Muslim.

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And then,

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a lot of the

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the nobles

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and the leaders of in Makkah, they actually

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owned land

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and property in Ataif. So from Bani Hashim,

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from Bani Abdashams, from Bani Mahzoum, they all

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had wealth and property

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in attaif. Why is that a good point?

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Because if attaif becomes Muslim that's a serious

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blow to them, a financial blow to them.

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All these are things

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why and explanations why the Prophet chose Utaif.

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It wasn't just it's nearby.

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All strategy, all

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planning.

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So in the according to these narrations in

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the same month as the death of Abu

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Talib and Khadija,

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And, they say this was around May or

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June. So May or June in Arabia, what's

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the weather like?

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Hot hot. Very hot. Right?

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And the prophet

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went on foot

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and

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he only took Zayd ibn Haritha with him.

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So one of the things we always say

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in the Sira, when you find the name,

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you pause for a minute. Like why did

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the Prophet just take Zayd ibn harithah? And

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why did he go on foot? Like he

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had camels, mules, donkeys, horses. He could have

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ridden and he could have taken

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so many of the companions.

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He could have taken Abdul Umar ibn A'awf

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and Talhabnu Ubaydala, and Uthmar ibn Affan and

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Abu Bakr and Ali and and he could've

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had Al Ta'if broken up into different quadrants

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and you give dawah in this area and

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we'll do this area and we'll do that

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area and now I have protection.

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But he just took Zayd ibn Haritha.

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And what do you know about Zayd ibn

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Haritha?

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He used to be

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the

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and he goes on foot, does it look

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like he's leaving town?

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Does it look like he's traveling? It just

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looks like a man and his son

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going somewhere nearby.

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So what does that tell you? It tells

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you that the prophet

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had to go to a ta'if

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like under the noses of the Quraysh. Meaning

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meaning

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that

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the Quraysh we're not gonna allow him to

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just go out,

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give daw in another city. Yeah, go ahead,

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leave, give dua in another city and maybe

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they'll accept and then he can come back

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and lay siege to us and block our

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trade routes.

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Sure. Go ahead.

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So he had to sneak away for lack

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of a better term.

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And that's why he went on foot even

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though it was May or June, and it

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was hot. And that's why he only took

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Zayd ibn haridah and didn't take all the

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other companions with him.

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Okay.

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So when they get to aqa'if,

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whom

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whom should he approach?

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And as you know when you read the

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stories of the Prophets in the Quran, you

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always find a dialogue to be between

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the prophets of Allah and a group known

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as Al Mala. Al Mala, these are the

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movers and shakers, the people who control

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the power, the wealth, the money

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and it's always a discussion between the malah

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and the prophets.

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And that's the shortcut

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that anyone's da'iya would do. So if you

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go into ata'if, are you gonna start calling

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people in the street

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or will you go straight to the leadership?

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And if the leaders become Muslim,

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perhaps that will encourage everyone else to become

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Muslim.

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And of course the answer is, yeah. You

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go after the leaders. And there's a lot

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of evidence for that. We already gave one

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that the prophets always spoke to Al Mallah.

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Because you affect them, you affect everyone else.

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But

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and there there are other arguments as well.

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But look at this one.

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Khaled ibn

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Walid was such an intelligent man. He was

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incredibly

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intelligent.

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And one of the companions, this is later

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on,

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he's looking at Khaled bin Walid, and how

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smart this man is.

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And he says, You Khaled, you are such

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an intelligent man.

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Why was your Islam delayed so much? Khaled

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became Muslim after the conquering of Makk.

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But he's so clever, he should have been

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one of the early Muslims.

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And then Khaled gives him the reason and

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from this reason you can see the effect

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of the leadership on people.

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Look at what Khaled Radul Anil says, he

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says there were men in Mecca

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and he's talking about Abu Jahl and Abu

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Lahab and Abu Sufyan and others. Abu Jahl

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will always laugh at him and make fun

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of Abu Abu Lahab will make fun of

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him like you know? But he said there

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were some men in Mecca,

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we used to equate

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their brains to the mountains

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We used to equate their brains to the

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mountains.

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So when they said Islam is no good

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and there's no khair and it, we never

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even bothered to look for ourselves. We trust

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them so much.

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We trust their leadership, we we trust their

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decision, their estimation so much that I never

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bothered to look into it. Can you imagine

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someone as brilliant as Khaled radiAllahu anhu.

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If that doesn't show you the effects of

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of the leaders

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then what will? So the leadership has an

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immense effect on people. So the shortcut when

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the Prophet enters a Taif is to go

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after the leadership. If he can effect change

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with them and then that change will trickle

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all the way down to the common folks

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in the street.

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So the Prophet

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goes to the 3 sons of Amr ibn

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Umayr Athaqafi.

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He goes to the 3 sons of Amr

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ibn Umayr Athaqafi, Abdi Alayl and Mas'ud

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and Habib.

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And he told he's he gives them the

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message. What's their response?

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So Abdi Alayl

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he says that he will tear the covers

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of the Ka'bah

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if Allah sent him and if Allah sent

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you as a Prophet

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in objection to this choice of you as

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a prophet, I will go and tear. I'll

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do some damage to the Kaaba. I will

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tear the covers, the curtains of the Kaaba.

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That's how much I will object to Allah's

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choice of you as prophet of Allah.

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And Masrood says

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didn't Allah find anyone besides you?

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That was his answer.

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And he had didn't Allah find anyone else

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to entrust him with this message? And what

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kind of question is that? What do you

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think? Allah has access to everybody, and He

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chose this man Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So what

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do you mean? Didn't Allah find anyone? But

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yeah, He did. But He chose me because

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I'm better than the rest. What do you

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think?

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So then Habib

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like gave probably the worst answer. He said,

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if you truly are a prophet of Allah

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you are too great for me to speak

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to. I mean I'm

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too lowly and far beneath speaking to a

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Prophet of Allah.

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And if you are lying

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then you are too low for me to

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speak to. If you're someone who has the

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audacity

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to lie and say you're a prophet of

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Allah then you're too low for me to

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speak to.

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And what kind of logic is that type?

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So then what should Allah send you?

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This man, a Habib, what should Allah send

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you? A hamster, aani? Well,

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the prophet is too good, the liar is

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too low. So what should what do you

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want?

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It doesn't make any sense. Right? But basically,

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they're just refusing. So the prophet tells them,

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So if if this is your decision, if

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this is what you're gonna do, then at

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least do me this. Just keep this between

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us.

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One explanation says don't go around telling people

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of ata'if, hey, there's somebody here and we

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don't listen to him. Just keep this between

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us.

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Other scholars

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say it means

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don't spread the news because I had to

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sneak away from Mecca. Don't let them know

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that I'm here giving dawah in your city.

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And both have

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a good good argument.

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Prophet spent 10 days in Ata'if,

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and after 10th

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or on the 10th day they sent him

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out of the city.

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And they had their slaves and their youth

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stand on the sides of the road like

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this with rocks in their hand.

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And as the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam

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and Zayd bin Hartha were walking out of

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the city, they started to pelt them with

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rocks. And the narrations specifically say that they

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threw the rocks at their feet.

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Okay. But we said Tif is the 2nd

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largest city in the area.

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Now we don't have a number of how

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many

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of the youth were there, how many of

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the slaves were there. But the 2nd largest

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city,

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what do you imagine? There's no wrong answer.

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In your imagination, what what do you see

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in that scene? Do you see, like, 5

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or more?

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Several.

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Several dozen. Several dozen. Several dozen.

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70, 80?

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Yeah. 60,

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50,

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even 40? More than that,

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Okay.

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And there's no right or wrong answer here

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but you would imagine that if it's the

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2nd largest city and they it says they

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had the the slaves

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you know the servants, and the youth line

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up on the sides of the road, kiddah.

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You cannot imagine that there are just 10

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or 12 of them.

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It's it's a bigger number.

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So you've got let's just can we just

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just go with 35 for example? Just 35.

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It's enough for you to imagine

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the constant shower of rocks coming at their

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feet.

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So this person takes it throws and picks

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up the next one and throws and picks

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up the next one and throws. And then

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there's 34 other guys doing the exact same

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thing. So that means it is a steady

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shower of rocks nonstop.

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But here's where it's crazy.

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And they followed him out

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for 5 kilometers.

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For 5 kilometers.

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And after 2 kilometers you turn around and

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say,

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really?

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It's enough Allah. And how far are you

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gonna follow me? 5 kilometers.

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And it's just a constant shower. And that's

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why the feet of the Prophet were so

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bloodied.

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Now the blood dries, he's wearing these sandals.

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And the blood dries

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to the the point when he later removes

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the sandals,

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it tears, it makes that

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sound.

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That's how much blood there was and you'll

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see more of how fatigued the prophet looked.

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But

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I wanted to pause on an interesting point

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here. Why is it the narrations mentioned that

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they threw rocks at their feet. They threw

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rocks at their feet. And typically in class

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here, I would ask you, but just for

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brevity of time, we're just gonna skip ahead

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here. But I would ask you, like, why

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specifically at their feet?

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And

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and I've personally never seen this point discussed

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in any seerah book. Like, why why their

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feet? But there's some interesting things you can

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come up with. The first thing is, they

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didn't wanna kill them.

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Because if you have a constant shower of

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rocks at your head

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that's called stoning,

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right? That will kill for 5 kilometers,

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35 peep, even 20 people, just a constant

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shower of rocks,

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that would kill you. So they didn't want

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to kill them, they want to send them

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out of the city.

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2,

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they were they knew that they came in

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walking and they're leaving walking.

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And now every step back is gonna hurt.

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Yeah?

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Also,

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your feet

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will hurt more. Your feet, very bony.

00:27:03 --> 00:27:04

Right?

00:27:05 --> 00:27:07

What are we? Who are our doctors? The

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the metatarsals, right? Those bones on your feet.

00:27:10 --> 00:27:11

Your feet are very bony

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and every blow will hurt. Whereas if you

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were just throwing at shoulders, like shoulders can

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deflect their fleshy,

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Stomach some stomachs absorb the rock,

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gone.

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But here it's gonna hurt, every even if

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it misses, it's gonna hurt.

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And then they also can't run and protect

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their feet.

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Like, you can run and protect your head,

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but you can't run

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on your feet and also cover them, so

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it'll be the most uncovered area.

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And

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other possible reasons

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that they didn't wanna hit their friends, they

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stood on different sides of the road. If

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you're aiming for heads, you miss the head,

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you hit your head friend on his head.

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So they're aiming downwards, it's safer,

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and it could also be a way to

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get them out of the city to leave

00:28:01 --> 00:28:04

faster. When you naturally, when you're aiming at

00:28:04 --> 00:28:05

someone's feet,

00:28:06 --> 00:28:08

they run they move faster. Right? If you

00:28:08 --> 00:28:10

don't believe me, watch any western when they

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get the guy out of town.

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Alright. Thank you, Kahari.

00:28:14 --> 00:28:15

Yes, sir. Dance. Right?

00:28:17 --> 00:28:19

Oh, boy. But

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look. Yeah. I need you know,

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Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he goes through

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all this.

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And you know,

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from the mushrikeen in general, from the kuffar

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in general, you know what the Quran tells

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them?

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Allah tells them in the Quran

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Not

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Minhum

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It's not saying don't be sad because of

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them, don't be sad for them.

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What a great man, are you feeling this?

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No?

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Sisters?

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Thank you.

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What? You're not feeling this? After all they

00:29:05 --> 00:29:07

did to him, Allah is telling him don't

00:29:07 --> 00:29:09

be sad for them. Because after all they

00:29:09 --> 00:29:11

did to him, he feels bad for them

00:29:13 --> 00:29:14

That's a great man

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Great man. He feels sad for them?

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Allah, man, if it was me.

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Abi Allah

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destroy them

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and give them that thing

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that you gave the people of Lut. And

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don't give me the don't turn around. I

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wanna see the whole thing. And then after

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that, I will flip them over again and

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I want some hail and about bill birds

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and I want,

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everything,

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and I wanna watch it.

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But the prophet was amazing.

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He's sad for them after what they did

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to him.

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Don't be sad for them.

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Amazing, O Allah. Not don't be sad from

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them.

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Anyways

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So now the prophet

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and Zayd ibn Haritha and Zayd did his

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best to protect the prophet as much as

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possible, but how possible is that? So now

00:30:02 --> 00:30:05

they're going to walk back. So imagine how

00:30:05 --> 00:30:06

slow the walk back is going to be

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and how painful every step is going to

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be. And there's the hadith or the narration

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which has weakness in it of when the

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prophet made dua to Allah azza wa jal.

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And what's beautiful about it even though the

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weakness and narration but because it's Sira you

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can mention things that have weakness in narration

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so long as you don't make a ruling

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out of it or an act of worship

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out of it. But it's beautiful that he

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didn't wait till he got

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back to Makkah and then made dua.

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He made dua right then and there.

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Just learning to quickly turn to Allah azzawal

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in your time of need. Now once you

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get home and make dua for this situation

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and

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Allah to ease my heart. So he made

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du'a

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instantly

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until they're going now, they're walking until they

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get to a vineyard

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that is owned

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by Utba

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and Shaiba, the sons of Rabia.

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Utba and Shaiba, the sons of Rabia.

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Remember these names?

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Okay. This is one of the other techniques.

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

You focus on names and you'll see things

00:31:07 --> 00:31:08

that you've never seen before.

00:31:10 --> 00:31:11

Who are they?

00:31:11 --> 00:31:13

A few days ago the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:31:13 --> 00:31:16

wa sallam made dua against them by name

00:31:16 --> 00:31:18

and they heard it.

00:31:24 --> 00:31:26

He made dua against them by name.

00:31:27 --> 00:31:29

Is it fair to assume

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that this is probably

00:31:31 --> 00:31:32

the worst point

00:31:33 --> 00:31:35

in the relationship of the Prophet with these

00:31:35 --> 00:31:36

2 men?

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Is it fair to assume that? Has he

00:31:39 --> 00:31:41

ever made dua against them at the Kaaba

00:31:41 --> 00:31:43

by name? And they know that now he's

00:31:43 --> 00:31:44

openly making dua against them. So is it

00:31:44 --> 00:31:46

fair to to say this is possibly the

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

worst time in their relationship?

00:31:48 --> 00:31:49

Yeah?

00:31:50 --> 00:31:51

Okay.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

So even though

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

this was the worst time in their relationship

00:31:55 --> 00:31:57

and a and a number of days ago,

00:31:57 --> 00:32:00

they heard him make dua against them by

00:32:00 --> 00:32:02

name at the Kaaba. And they had done

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

the worst thing they had ever done to

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

him. As far as the humiliation and laughing

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

at him,

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

they felt bad for him.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:10

You understand?

00:32:12 --> 00:32:14

It's almost now because of because of this

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

point that we focused on, it's as if

00:32:16 --> 00:32:17

you can see

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

the state of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa

00:32:19 --> 00:32:19

sallam.

00:32:20 --> 00:32:22

That his enemies in the worst point of

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

their relationship felt bad for him. Can you

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

imagine now what he looked like

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

The the bleeding,

00:32:29 --> 00:32:32

the sweat, the fatigue, him and Zayd

00:32:34 --> 00:32:36

to the point that the enemies at their

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

worst point felt bad

00:32:37 --> 00:32:40

and they sent him some grapes with their

00:32:40 --> 00:32:41

servant adas.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:42

And so

00:32:44 --> 00:32:46

the Adas, this young boy, he comes with

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

the grapes and he hands them to the

00:32:48 --> 00:32:50

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And the Prophet

00:32:51 --> 00:32:51

took

00:32:52 --> 00:32:53

some grapes and he said, Bismillah,

00:32:54 --> 00:32:55

and he ate.

00:32:56 --> 00:32:57

Anything strange?

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

Nothing. Right?

00:33:00 --> 00:33:03

No. This is the other technique we use.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

Anytime you you wanna feel

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

the situation, put yourself in the place of

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam or whoever

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

is the story is happening to.

00:33:11 --> 00:33:12

Now put yourself in the place of the

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:33:23 --> 00:33:25

What a great man that he ate the

00:33:25 --> 00:33:27

grapes. What a humble man.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:29

What a man that does not hold grudges

00:33:29 --> 00:33:30

salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because let me tell

00:33:30 --> 00:33:33

you something, If it was me and I'm

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

resting in the vineyard, and then the servant

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

comes and he says, suatba and shayba there

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

sent you dates. What?

00:33:39 --> 00:33:40

Wait a minute. You tell me this is

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

their place? Like first of all, I wouldn't

00:33:42 --> 00:33:45

have rested here if I knew this belong

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

to these 2 punks. Alright?

00:33:47 --> 00:33:49

And the second thing is you wanna send

00:33:49 --> 00:33:50

me grapes,

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

Yeah. And you wanna have mercy on me,

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

think I want your grapes?

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

This is all your fault, Aslan. If you

00:33:55 --> 00:33:58

didn't overstep your boundaries in Mecca, I wouldn't

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

have come to Ata'if. And now you want

00:33:59 --> 00:34:01

to send me some of your grapes? Take

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

the grapes, oh masha'a. Yeah?

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

But the prophet was such an amazing man.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

He just said

00:34:07 --> 00:34:08

and he ate.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

Okay. I'm starting to to be convinced that

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

I am easily blown away by things. Because

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

when I share it with people, everyone's just

00:34:16 --> 00:34:16

like

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

yeah.

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

That's cool.

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

I know. You're jumping up and down internally,

00:34:24 --> 00:34:26

but you just have to maintain your composure.

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

What for? I don't know but okay. You

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

Allah, maintain your composure.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:34

So the young man was blown away.

00:34:34 --> 00:34:36

He's because he heard the bismillah, the bismillah,

00:34:36 --> 00:34:39

which is another point the prophet didn't hide

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

the bismillah. He wasn't ashamed of who he

00:34:41 --> 00:34:44

was. Subhaa salaam. He said, basmela.

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

You know? I had this friend. We'd be

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

we'd be walking together.

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

This was like in in in DC.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

And he would be speaking to me in

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

Arabic. The minute he sees a non Muslim,

00:34:54 --> 00:34:56

he switches to English. Like, are you ashamed,

00:34:56 --> 00:34:56

Jahabib?

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

You ashamed?

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

Taheb. The prophet said, bismillah halas.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

So Adaa said

00:35:06 --> 00:35:07

This what you just said,

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

the people of these parts they don't say

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

that like I've never heard someone say Bismillah

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

before eating.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:14

So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam even

00:35:14 --> 00:35:15

though he's

00:35:16 --> 00:35:16

hurt,

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

he goes to dua mode immediately.

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

He's naturally in dua mode. I would have

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

been like, Yeah. Okay. I'm just tending to

00:35:23 --> 00:35:23

my wounds.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:25

Yeah. These Khalass, may you give me the

00:35:25 --> 00:35:26

grapes? I

00:35:28 --> 00:35:28

said,

00:35:30 --> 00:35:33

Khalass, you give me the grapes. Leave. I'll

00:35:33 --> 00:35:35

eat them. La, I'm just looking at my

00:35:35 --> 00:35:37

wounds. No, the Prophet goes into Dawumud immediately.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:40

He tells he asks them, what is your

00:35:40 --> 00:35:42

name and where are you from?

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

So he tells him that his name is

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

Adas and that he is from Nainawa,

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

Nineveh in Iraq now.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

So

00:35:52 --> 00:35:55

a number of interesting things. The name

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

is is very important in dua. We always

00:35:57 --> 00:35:58

talk about ask for the name. When you're

00:35:58 --> 00:36:00

giving dua to someone, ask them for their

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

name, remember their name, and use their name.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

Why? Because it makes the dawah very personal

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

and Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

came to Uthmar ibn Affan he said

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

I am the messenger of Allah

00:36:09 --> 00:36:12

sent to you for

00:36:14 --> 00:36:15

the rest of mankind.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

But you see how special? I was sent

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

to you you Uthman and then to everybody

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

else.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

Makes it personal and special.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

And you can also figure out a lot

00:36:24 --> 00:36:25

from someone's name.

00:36:26 --> 00:36:27

So if their name is Levi,

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

you know they're Christian. If their name's Christian,

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

you know they're Jewish. If their name is

00:36:32 --> 00:36:32

Singh,

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

you know that they're Hindu. And if it's

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

Ram, you know that they're

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

sikh.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:42

Okay. Everything was reversed. Okay. Everything was reversed.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

Alright. You some some folks caught that.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

But you understand a lot. You you get

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

such an advantage when you know someone's name.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

And now the prophet said, what what religion

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

or what city you're from? In another nation

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

he said, what religion are you? So he

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

said he's a Christian from Nainoa. And the

00:36:58 --> 00:36:59

prophet

00:36:59 --> 00:37:02

knows something or 2 about that city.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

And how do you feel when you've been

00:37:04 --> 00:37:06

in an area and nobody knows where you're

00:37:06 --> 00:37:09

from, and then somebody knows where you're from?

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

It feels special.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

It feels special. And that's,

00:37:14 --> 00:37:15

like, you know, for me, when I people

00:37:15 --> 00:37:16

ask me, like,

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

where are you from originally? I would say,

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

Sudan. It's right below

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

Egypt. Because it's America, nobody knows geography.

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

So if it's right below Egypt, oh.

00:37:27 --> 00:37:29

Also in Egypt you don't know it. But

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

Khalaf Mashiya. The point is that

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

But then sometimes you tell someone from, from

00:37:35 --> 00:37:38

Sudan, oh, from Khartoum or Omdurman. Look. Wait

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

a minute.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

How? How do you know this? No white

00:37:41 --> 00:37:42

people know this.

00:37:43 --> 00:37:43

You

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

want serious? We'll be serious.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

Prophet answered.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

He said, he is my brother.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

He was a prophet

00:37:57 --> 00:37:58

and I am a prophet.

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

So adas

00:38:00 --> 00:38:02

got up and began to kiss the hands

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

and feet and the head of the prophet

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

salallahu alaihi wa sallam in another narration.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

And then,

00:38:10 --> 00:38:11

when he goes back,

00:38:12 --> 00:38:12

they

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

said, why did you do that? Actually, it's

00:38:15 --> 00:38:17

funny. Uthba and Sheba, when they were watching

00:38:17 --> 00:38:18

that,

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

they go they tell they look at each

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

other and like, look at this. We sent

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

him the boy to give him some grapes,

00:38:23 --> 00:38:24

and he corrupted the boy.

00:38:25 --> 00:38:27

Because from the distance, all they see is

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

in a few moments, just a few exchanges,

00:38:29 --> 00:38:30

and now he's

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

kissing the hands and feet of the prophet

00:38:32 --> 00:38:33

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So

00:38:34 --> 00:38:36

they said, why did you do all that?

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

Then Adas says, there is nothing

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

on this earth

00:38:41 --> 00:38:44

that is greater than that man Sallallahu Alaihi

00:38:44 --> 00:38:44

Wasallam.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:47

He has told me of something that only

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

a Prophet would know.

00:38:50 --> 00:38:51

And

00:38:52 --> 00:38:52

they tell

00:38:53 --> 00:38:53

him,

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

Don't let him take you away from your

00:38:55 --> 00:38:57

religion for your religion

00:38:58 --> 00:39:00

is better than his. I didn't even know

00:39:00 --> 00:39:03

his religion. Anyway, once asked him about it

00:39:03 --> 00:39:04

and now they tell him, I'm sure it's

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

better than his. Anything but his, that's the

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

point. Then the prophet

00:39:08 --> 00:39:10

and Zayd got

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

up and they began to walk back.

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

Now, here's an issue here. We've got this

00:39:16 --> 00:39:16

narration.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

Alright?

00:39:21 --> 00:39:24

We're basically now from a Ta'if, so if

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

if you're looking at a map,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

let me from your vantage point, Mecca is

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

here

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

and Al Ta'if is like here. So it's

00:39:32 --> 00:39:34

kinda like to the east

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

of, Mecca,

00:39:36 --> 00:39:39

but a little bit southeast, but not completely,

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

but just a little bit Kiddah. Alright?

00:39:43 --> 00:39:45

And and the prophet now is gonna walk

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

back to Mecca. And you imagine,

00:39:47 --> 00:39:48

every step

00:39:50 --> 00:39:52

hurts. And he's walking and human beings walk

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

at the speed of about

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

6 kilometers per hour.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

So if you're walking a distance of 60

00:39:58 --> 00:39:58

kilometers,

00:39:58 --> 00:40:01

that's 10 hours of walking. And if your

00:40:01 --> 00:40:02

feet are injured,

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

that could be 11, could be 12 hours

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

of walking or more if you need to

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

rest more. Right?

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

So we've got this issue here. We've have

00:40:10 --> 00:40:11

an we have a narration

00:40:12 --> 00:40:13

where

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Okay. Let's just read the narration and then

00:40:16 --> 00:40:17

I'll give you

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

3 different explanations for it.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

Aisha Radiallahu Anha,

00:40:22 --> 00:40:23

she said,

00:40:23 --> 00:40:26

I asked the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:40:27 --> 00:40:29

if he had ever experienced

00:40:29 --> 00:40:30

a day

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

worse than Uhud.

00:40:32 --> 00:40:33

And he answered

00:40:34 --> 00:40:35

that he,

00:40:35 --> 00:40:37

that he had suffered a lot from those

00:40:37 --> 00:40:39

people, the ani, the idol worshipers,

00:40:39 --> 00:40:41

but the most painful was on the day

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

of Al Aqaba of Aqaba.

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

Okay. Wait a minute. So anything strange now?

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

There's something amazing here, but it's all in

00:40:52 --> 00:40:52

the details.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

Something really amazing.

00:40:56 --> 00:40:56

Aisha

00:40:57 --> 00:40:58

automatically assumed

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

that Uhud must have been the most difficult

00:41:00 --> 00:41:01

day on the Prophet

00:41:02 --> 00:41:05

70 of his companions including his uncle Hamdulillah

00:41:05 --> 00:41:08

anhu which he was very saddened over besides

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

the disfiguring and everything.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:13

And he was injured and he was bleeding

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

for more than one place. So she was

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

certain that Uhud

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

was the worst day in his life.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

But

00:41:20 --> 00:41:23

there was a worst day and she never

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

knew it.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

What's the special thing?

00:41:27 --> 00:41:28

He didn't complain.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

He didn't complain.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:34

Ask ask any married man, what's go go

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

to any woman, what's the what's the worst

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

day in your husband's oh, he always talks

00:41:37 --> 00:41:38

about this. It was the day this, this,

00:41:38 --> 00:41:39

and that happened.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

What's your wife's favorite day? I mean worst

00:41:42 --> 00:41:44

day every day with

00:41:46 --> 00:41:48

me. You know you hear about it. You

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

know the worst day. You know about her

00:41:50 --> 00:41:51

worst restaurant experience.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

You know about your husband's worst restaurant experience,

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

worst day at work.

00:41:56 --> 00:41:57

Right? The prophet

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

actually had a day worse than Uhud

00:42:01 --> 00:42:03

and he never spoke about it. What a

00:42:03 --> 00:42:03

great ma'am,

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

never complained.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

We have to hear it. We gotta rate

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

it on Yelp and thumbs down it and

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

post about it on Facebook.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

They brought the hors d'oeuvres before the appetizer.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

It was really horrible experience. Really?

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

So look at this narration.

00:42:24 --> 00:42:25

He said

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

that he had suffered a lot from those

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

people, the idol worshipers, but the most the

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

day of Uhud was bad, but the most

00:42:31 --> 00:42:34

painful day was on the day of Aqaba.

00:42:34 --> 00:42:37

I went seeking support from ibn Abdi Alayl

00:42:37 --> 00:42:37

and ibn

00:42:38 --> 00:42:38

Khilal

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

but he spurned me

00:42:40 --> 00:42:44

and I set out wearied and grieved heedless

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

of anything around me until suddenly I realized

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

I was at

00:42:52 --> 00:42:54

or I believe. Yeah? The the

00:42:55 --> 00:42:55

because,

00:42:56 --> 00:42:58

yeah. He says, there I looked up and

00:42:58 --> 00:43:00

I saw a cloud that was casting its

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

shade on me and Jibreel was addressing me.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

Jibreel alayhi salam said Allah has heard your

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

people's words

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

and sent you the angel of the mountains

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

to your aid.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:13

The latter meaning the angel of the mountains

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

called

00:43:14 --> 00:43:17

and gave me his salaams and asked for

00:43:17 --> 00:43:18

my permission

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

to

00:43:22 --> 00:43:22

he

00:43:24 --> 00:43:24

said

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

and Utbika alahim al akhshabein.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

So he says if you if you like

00:43:31 --> 00:43:31

I will

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

crush them between the 2 mountains,

00:43:34 --> 00:43:35

alright.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

And then the prophet said,

00:43:45 --> 00:43:48

He said, I hope and I expect that

00:43:48 --> 00:43:51

Allah will bring from their loins those whom

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

who will worship Allah alone and not associate

00:43:53 --> 00:43:55

anyone with him. He's saying, no thank you.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:58

Because may if they disbelieve maybe from their

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

offspring there will be people who say la

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

ilaha illallah and do not worship anyone with

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

him. So that's why he rejected.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:05

So then what

00:44:06 --> 00:44:06

who

00:44:07 --> 00:44:10

who who is the what's the offer for?

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

We've got 3 different explanations.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:14

One is that

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

as most of the time and most of

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

us have heard that the angel of the

00:44:19 --> 00:44:22

mountains came and offered to crush the people

00:44:22 --> 00:44:23

of atta'if

00:44:23 --> 00:44:25

between the two mountains.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

That's what we mostly hear. Just show of

00:44:27 --> 00:44:29

hands who has heard that before.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

That he was offered to crush the people

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

of attayf. There's no way it's just 5

00:44:33 --> 00:44:35

people. No way.

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

That's like this is the predominant,

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

you hear this in every tape and most

00:44:40 --> 00:44:41

books will say, yeah he offered to crush

00:44:41 --> 00:44:43

the people of Atayf between the two mountains.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:46

And the prophet out of his mercy said,

00:44:46 --> 00:44:47

no. No thanks.

00:44:48 --> 00:44:48

Alright.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

The the other opinion which is the one

00:44:51 --> 00:44:53

I was gonna present today, but today I'm

00:44:53 --> 00:44:55

gonna present the third one. Initially this was

00:44:55 --> 00:44:57

my position for the longest time or not

00:44:57 --> 00:44:57

my

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

position. The position that I follow. Not my

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

position. The one that I follow, just so

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

we're clear.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:04

And

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

is that he did not the off the

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

angel of the mountain of the angels

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

the angel of the mountains did not offer

00:45:12 --> 00:45:15

to crush the people of between the two

00:45:15 --> 00:45:15

mountains.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:18

He offered to crush the people of Mecca

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

between the two mountains.

00:45:19 --> 00:45:21

And there are a lot of arguments for

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

that. A lot of arguments for that.

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

First of all

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

there's some arguments you cannot refute.

00:45:28 --> 00:45:29

He said

00:45:32 --> 00:45:34

Fold collapse upon them,

00:45:34 --> 00:45:35

crush them between

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

Google it right now.

00:45:39 --> 00:45:40

Where are Al Akshabayn?

00:45:41 --> 00:45:43

There are only 2 mountains on the whole

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

planet that are referred to as Al Akshabayn.

00:45:48 --> 00:45:48

Means

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

rough and if you've been you've been to

00:45:51 --> 00:45:53

Mecca, Umrah, Hajj and you looked at these

00:45:53 --> 00:45:56

mountains and they're so rough right

00:45:56 --> 00:45:59

Just not even soft sand just jagged rock

00:45:59 --> 00:46:00

not even cacti,

00:46:01 --> 00:46:04

not cactus nothing on it just rocks

00:46:05 --> 00:46:05

rough mountains.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:07

So Al Aqshabein

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

are the 2 rough mountains

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

around Makkah.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

They're the only 2 mountains on the planet

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

called Al akhshabein, Sarrah.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

They're the only 2 in the world called

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

Al akhshabein. Google it, yahoo it, bing it,

00:46:19 --> 00:46:21

whatever you wanna do. You will not find

00:46:21 --> 00:46:23

any other 2 mountains. And they're the 2

00:46:23 --> 00:46:24

called Al Hashabain.

00:46:24 --> 00:46:26

And I see brother Kabir is

00:46:27 --> 00:46:28

testing me.

00:46:29 --> 00:46:29

I'm just kidding.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:32

They are the mountain of Abu Qubais. Why

00:46:32 --> 00:46:35

is it called Abu Qubais? Because nobody lived

00:46:35 --> 00:46:36

down that mountain. One day a guy by

00:46:36 --> 00:46:38

the name of Abu Qubais, he takes his

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

stuff, he starts building a house there. So

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

they naturally refer to it as the mountain

00:46:42 --> 00:46:44

of Abu Qubais cause he lives on it.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

And then the other mountain

00:46:46 --> 00:46:47

is

00:46:47 --> 00:46:49

known as or used to be known as

00:46:49 --> 00:46:52

Jabal Al Quai'il Quran. Al Quai'il Quran.

00:46:53 --> 00:46:55

These are the two mountains they're known as

00:46:55 --> 00:46:56

Al Aqshamein.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:59

So that's the first reason why the Angel

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

was not offering to crush ata'if between the

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

two mountains, he was offering to crush the

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

Meccans, Mecca between the two mountains because they're

00:47:05 --> 00:47:07

the only ones surrounded by the 2 mountains.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

The second strong point is that a Ta'if

00:47:09 --> 00:47:12

is not between 2 mountains and sometimes I

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

will hear people say that. Go into

00:47:15 --> 00:47:16

Google Earth or whatever and look at a

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

Ta'if

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

And and maybe some of you visited a

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

Ta'if and everybody knows a Ta'if is an

00:47:21 --> 00:47:24

elevated area. It's on top of a mountain.

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

It's not between 2 mountains. There's no way

00:47:27 --> 00:47:28

you could tell me it was Ta'if.

00:47:31 --> 00:47:32

So we were saying that,

00:47:33 --> 00:47:36

the are the 2 mountains around Mecca.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:38

The Ta'if has no mountains around it. It

00:47:38 --> 00:47:40

is on top of a mountain.

00:47:41 --> 00:47:43

Then we said, then there are other things,

00:47:43 --> 00:47:45

meaning, for number look at this.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:46

Ataif

00:47:46 --> 00:47:48

the prophet left Ataif.

00:47:49 --> 00:47:50

So if we accept this narration,

00:47:51 --> 00:47:54

meaning that it's referring to the journey of

00:47:57 --> 00:47:58

Alta'if. Is 45

00:47:59 --> 00:47:59

kilometers

00:48:00 --> 00:48:00

away

00:48:01 --> 00:48:02

from Alta'if.

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

So, how long do you take to walk

00:48:04 --> 00:48:05

that distance?

00:48:06 --> 00:48:07

We're looking at 11:12

00:48:08 --> 00:48:08

hours.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:09

So,

00:48:10 --> 00:48:10

11:12

00:48:11 --> 00:48:12

hours later,

00:48:13 --> 00:48:16

is the Prophet concerned about the ta'if or

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

is he concerned about Mecca?

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

If he's concerned Okay. He's concerned about Mecca.

00:48:20 --> 00:48:21

Why?

00:48:21 --> 00:48:24

Because they know that he left the city

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

under their watch and he's trying to give

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

dawah in another city. And they're waiting for

00:48:28 --> 00:48:29

him very angrily

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

and he's got no protector. So who is

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

he worried about?

00:48:33 --> 00:48:34

Mecca.

00:48:34 --> 00:48:35

You want more proof?

00:48:35 --> 00:48:38

Zaid says, You Rasool Allah how are we

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

gonna go back into it when you're not

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

welcome there or they kicked you out? So

00:48:42 --> 00:48:45

he's worried about Mecca, not the city that

00:48:45 --> 00:48:48

11 hours ago. And one is do you

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

ever remember a time the Prophet is holding

00:48:49 --> 00:48:51

on to something that happened in the past?

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

Adas came, Prophet ate the grapes, gave him

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

dawah, he's never holds on to the past

00:48:56 --> 00:48:56

Saharillah.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

So what are the odds? 12 hours later

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

the angels gonna come and say, Hey, that

00:49:00 --> 00:49:02

what happened 12 hours ago? I'll crush them

00:49:02 --> 00:49:03

for you.

00:49:04 --> 00:49:05

It was about Mecca.

00:49:06 --> 00:49:08

And you might say, Well, wait a minute.

00:49:08 --> 00:49:11

How could the angel offer to crush Mecca

00:49:11 --> 00:49:14

when the companions and his daughters and his

00:49:14 --> 00:49:14

family,

00:49:15 --> 00:49:15

they're there?

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

There is no way he would offer that.

00:49:17 --> 00:49:18

Yes, there is.

00:49:19 --> 00:49:21

Because he's making the offer, that's just the

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

offer. And if he accepted the offer, what

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

do you think would be that would happen?

00:49:25 --> 00:49:27

There will be an

00:49:27 --> 00:49:29

an extraction plan.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:33

Just like when the angels came to Ibrahim

00:49:33 --> 00:49:35

alaihis salam, they said we're gonna go destroy

00:49:35 --> 00:49:36

the people of,

00:49:37 --> 00:49:40

the village of Lut. He said there there's

00:49:40 --> 00:49:42

a like a righteous man in it. They

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

said no we'll take him out.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:45

So this is the big plan, then this

00:49:45 --> 00:49:47

is the extraction plan or

00:49:47 --> 00:49:50

whatever the you wanna call it. So

00:49:51 --> 00:49:53

he's making the offer to the prophet sallallahu

00:49:53 --> 00:49:55

alaihi wa sallam. Because he's not worried about

00:49:55 --> 00:49:58

Ta'if, he's worried about Mecca coming up onto

00:49:58 --> 00:50:00

Mecca. And there are other arguments, There

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

are, like I've got 3 or 4 other

00:50:03 --> 00:50:03

arguments

00:50:03 --> 00:50:06

that it's he's talking about Mecca and he's

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

not talking about Al Ta'if.

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

I mean here there's also,

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

but subhanallah, this was my opinion for or

00:50:15 --> 00:50:17

the opinion I followed for a long time.

00:50:18 --> 00:50:20

And just today, I found a third opinion

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

that makes more sense to me.

00:50:23 --> 00:50:23

First of all,

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

this narration by the way it's Sahib Bukhar

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

in Muslim. This narration never says Mecca nor

00:50:30 --> 00:50:31

Ta'if.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:33

But people assumed it was talking about Ta'if

00:50:33 --> 00:50:35

because he just came out of it. They're

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

the ones who mistreated him. And the other

00:50:37 --> 00:50:38

group analyzed it a bit more

00:50:39 --> 00:50:40

geographically and what have you, and they said,

00:50:40 --> 00:50:42

no. No. It can't be about al Taif.

00:50:42 --> 00:50:42

It's about Mecca.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:44

Alright? And that's what I thought was correct

00:50:44 --> 00:50:46

for the longest time. But realistically,

00:50:47 --> 00:50:48

there were always issues

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

that kind of stood out to me. Number

00:50:51 --> 00:50:51

1,

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

why did the prophet called the day of

00:50:54 --> 00:50:55

Atayf the day of Aqaba?

00:50:56 --> 00:50:57

That never made sense to

00:50:58 --> 00:50:59

me. And then he says to Aisha,

00:51:02 --> 00:51:03

where is it?

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

When he says yeah. Well, actually, he does

00:51:06 --> 00:51:08

say that to Ashu, but he says,

00:51:10 --> 00:51:13

the angel said, Jibril said Allah has heard

00:51:13 --> 00:51:16

your people's words, your people's words. And who

00:51:16 --> 00:51:18

are his people? The Meccans or Atayf?

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

And if you're gonna argue Atayf for his

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

people, you're gonna have to make a strong

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

case. The Meccans are his people. Quraysh are

00:51:25 --> 00:51:25

his people.

00:51:26 --> 00:51:27

So

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

there's a scholar who did a

00:51:29 --> 00:51:32

a kind of a study on this. First

00:51:32 --> 00:51:34

of all, he said, the day of Aqaba

00:51:35 --> 00:51:36

and we know the place of Al Aqaba.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

You've heard of the first pledge of Al

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

Aqaba. You've heard of the second pledge of

00:51:40 --> 00:51:40

Al Aqaba.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:42

Why do people think this narration has to

00:51:42 --> 00:51:43

do with Alta'if?

00:51:44 --> 00:51:44

Because

00:51:45 --> 00:51:46

Abdi

00:51:46 --> 00:51:47

ibn Abdi Alayl,

00:51:48 --> 00:51:49

he's from ata'if.

00:51:50 --> 00:51:51

So people would see this narration and think,

00:51:51 --> 00:51:53

oh, this is after the day of ata'if.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:54

No.

00:51:54 --> 00:51:57

He saw this is at Hajj at Mina

00:51:57 --> 00:51:59

at Al Aqaba where the Prophet took the

00:51:59 --> 00:52:02

first and second pledge from the Madinians. Later

00:52:02 --> 00:52:05

on, he was there calling the different groups

00:52:05 --> 00:52:08

to Islam and they all rejected him. And

00:52:08 --> 00:52:11

so he left that area feeling worried and

00:52:11 --> 00:52:12

concerned and grieved

00:52:12 --> 00:52:14

and he was not aware until he found

00:52:14 --> 00:52:16

himself at Qarn al Manazil

00:52:16 --> 00:52:17

which is

00:52:17 --> 00:52:20

3 kilometers away. Does that make more sense?

00:52:21 --> 00:52:23

That he was at Mina and then he

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

was just not thinking and he's so concerned

00:52:25 --> 00:52:27

that he didn't even realize he was at

00:52:27 --> 00:52:29

Khanal Al Marazoo which is 3 kilometers away?

00:52:29 --> 00:52:30

That makes sense.

00:52:31 --> 00:52:34

And then, yeah, his people not the ta'if,

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

they're not his people. And then what's another

00:52:36 --> 00:52:36

piece?

00:52:37 --> 00:52:38

Look,

00:52:38 --> 00:52:40

he says, I noticed a cloud

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

that was giving me shade. Which means what

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

time of the day of the day was

00:52:45 --> 00:52:45

it?

00:52:48 --> 00:52:49

Allah, what time of day was it if

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

the sun is and if he clouds Bilal

00:52:51 --> 00:52:52

shading you,

00:52:53 --> 00:52:55

the sun was out. But wait a minute

00:52:55 --> 00:52:56

when did he leave a Taif?

00:52:57 --> 00:52:59

Be as creative as you want. Yeah and

00:52:59 --> 00:52:59

he

00:52:59 --> 00:53:01

he at least prayed fajr and left a

00:53:01 --> 00:53:03

Taif. Let's just go. He left right after

00:53:03 --> 00:53:05

fajr which I find it to be unlikely

00:53:06 --> 00:53:07

that all the people came out and they

00:53:07 --> 00:53:09

lined up and stuff. They probably left at

00:53:09 --> 00:53:12

midday or or 10 or 11 o'clock later

00:53:12 --> 00:53:15

in the in the in the morning. But

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

for the sake of argument let's say he

00:53:16 --> 00:53:19

prayed fajr and he left Taif immediately.

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

And then he went and rested in the

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

vineyard. Then he got up and walked 12

00:53:23 --> 00:53:26

hours with rest and everything after resting at

00:53:26 --> 00:53:28

the the vineyard and made it toqaral almanazil.

00:53:29 --> 00:53:30

What sun?

00:53:31 --> 00:53:34

There will still be sun and shade?

00:53:35 --> 00:53:36

There wouldn't be.

00:53:36 --> 00:53:38

Taban, feel free to disagree.

00:53:38 --> 00:53:40

Like I always say, I'm okay with people

00:53:40 --> 00:53:41

being wrong.

00:53:42 --> 00:53:44

I'm kidding. But the point is that, yani

00:53:44 --> 00:53:47

this is going against something we've been hearing

00:53:47 --> 00:53:48

for many years so it's hard to swallow

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

in the beginning. But this makes a lot

00:53:50 --> 00:53:51

of sense.

00:53:51 --> 00:53:53

Makes a lot of sense. Why would the

00:53:53 --> 00:53:54

sun still be up?

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

Like a 13, 14 hours of of traveling.

00:53:57 --> 00:53:58

Even if he left at Fajr there would

00:53:58 --> 00:54:00

be no sun. It makes a lot of

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

sense that this was on the day of

00:54:04 --> 00:54:04

Al Aqaba and the Prophet called it the

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

day of Al Aqaba which is at Mina

00:54:06 --> 00:54:07

which is only 3 kilometers away from Khan

00:54:07 --> 00:54:10

al Thalib which makes sense that he suddenly

00:54:10 --> 00:54:12

found himself there and it was still daytime.

00:54:12 --> 00:54:14

The only reason we think it's about at

00:54:14 --> 00:54:16

Ta'if or after at Ta'if is because of

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

ibn Abdi alayh because he's from Ta'if so

00:54:18 --> 00:54:20

we thought oh for sure this is after

00:54:20 --> 00:54:20

the day of Ata'if.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

Taif. And there are many seerah books that

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

mention that the angel offered to crush the

00:54:29 --> 00:54:33

people of ata'al, Mecca between the mountains, and

00:54:33 --> 00:54:34

some here and there that mention

00:54:35 --> 00:54:37

either way feel free, I need to

00:54:38 --> 00:54:40

to take whichever opinion you like.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:43

But the point is that the Prophet

00:54:43 --> 00:54:45

now is heading back into Mecca, and let

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

me try to wrap up before the salah,

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

and Zayd Radhala Anhu says

00:54:49 --> 00:54:51

how are we going to enter a mikkah?

00:54:51 --> 00:54:53

That's their concern, mikkah not a paifah it's

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

in the rearview mirror from 12 hours ago

00:54:55 --> 00:54:57

half a day ago. He said, how are

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

we gonna enter it and now that they've

00:54:59 --> 00:55:01

sent you out? You're not welcome to go

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

back, and they're all angrily awaiting you.

00:55:05 --> 00:55:07

So the Prophet said, and listen to the

00:55:08 --> 00:55:10

certainty in his voice salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

00:55:10 --> 00:55:10

He said,

00:55:25 --> 00:55:25

That

00:55:26 --> 00:55:27

Allah

00:55:28 --> 00:55:29

is going to give

00:55:29 --> 00:55:32

an ease and a way out for what

00:55:32 --> 00:55:33

you see here, for our situation.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

And indeed Allah is going to give victory

00:55:36 --> 00:55:38

to his religion and He's going to give

00:55:38 --> 00:55:39

victory

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

to his Prophet.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:41

So the words of the Prophet salallahu alayhi

00:55:41 --> 00:55:43

wa sallam, do you feel the confidence in

00:55:43 --> 00:55:44

them or not?

00:55:45 --> 00:55:47

Absolutely, right? Very confident.

00:55:48 --> 00:55:49

He's telling him Allah is gonna find us

00:55:49 --> 00:55:51

a way out and He's gonna make his

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

religion victorious and He's gonna make his prophet

00:55:53 --> 00:55:54

victorious.

00:55:54 --> 00:55:57

But despite all that, despite the confidence he's

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

teaching us you still have to seek out

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

the means.

00:56:01 --> 00:56:03

And so the prophet knows that he needs

00:56:03 --> 00:56:05

to be under the protection of someone. And

00:56:05 --> 00:56:08

there are narrations that after Abu Talib died

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

he was under the protection of Abu Lahab

00:56:09 --> 00:56:11

which is now the next guy in charge

00:56:11 --> 00:56:14

of Bani Hashim. But it didn't work out,

00:56:14 --> 00:56:15

it just lasted a few days and that

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

was it. And how do you how long

00:56:17 --> 00:56:18

do you think Abu Lah will give him

00:56:18 --> 00:56:20

protection? So now the prophet has to go

00:56:20 --> 00:56:22

and get under the protection of someone, take

00:56:23 --> 00:56:24

advantage of the ijara

00:56:24 --> 00:56:27

laws the juwar where you're under someone's protection

00:56:27 --> 00:56:30

and it cannot be a Muslim because if

00:56:30 --> 00:56:32

it's a Muslim it becomes us against them

00:56:32 --> 00:56:34

So it has to be one of the

00:56:34 --> 00:56:34

mushrikeen.

00:56:34 --> 00:56:35

So the prophet

00:56:36 --> 00:56:36

goes

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

first he contacts

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

Al Ahnath

00:56:39 --> 00:56:40

ibn Shuraik.

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

And Ahnath ibn Shuraik makes an excuse. He

00:56:43 --> 00:56:44

gives him some kind of lame excuse why

00:56:44 --> 00:56:46

he won't do it. So then he goes

00:56:46 --> 00:56:49

to Sahib na Amr. And Sahib Nambra gives

00:56:49 --> 00:56:50

him a very

00:56:51 --> 00:56:51

a

00:56:52 --> 00:56:54

very weird and invalid excuse.

00:56:54 --> 00:56:55

He says

00:56:55 --> 00:56:58

basically saying I would love to offer you

00:56:58 --> 00:57:00

the protection but you know the rules.

00:57:00 --> 00:57:01

Bani Aamer

00:57:02 --> 00:57:04

cannot give protection to Bani Kabud Nulay. The

00:57:04 --> 00:57:06

Prophet Bani Kabud Nula'i. He said we know

00:57:06 --> 00:57:08

Bani Amr can't do that. There was no

00:57:08 --> 00:57:09

such rule whatsoever. He just made it up

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

right then and there.

00:57:11 --> 00:57:12

But the prophet sallam

00:57:13 --> 00:57:14

understood it as a no

00:57:15 --> 00:57:16

and went away.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

You see?

00:57:20 --> 00:57:21

He got immediately salaam

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

that the guy is essentially saying no. He

00:57:24 --> 00:57:26

didn't say what? Where is this? And I

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

read the bylaws and there's no such rule

00:57:28 --> 00:57:30

and actually Bani Amr can give protection to

00:57:30 --> 00:57:32

Bani Ka'bib Nuhllah. He didn't do that. He

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

understood the man saying no.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:36

Okay? And sometimes we need to be able

00:57:36 --> 00:57:38

in our life, fiyani, to benefit from the

00:57:38 --> 00:57:40

seerah, to be able to take a hint.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:41

Yeah?

00:57:41 --> 00:57:42

Your

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

friend you ask someone, can you give me

00:57:44 --> 00:57:45

a ride to the airport on Tuesday?

00:57:46 --> 00:57:47

The guy says,

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

oh, I can't. My car overheats.

00:57:50 --> 00:57:51

Halas, he's saying

00:57:52 --> 00:57:54

no. Don't Maybe it does overheat, maybe it

00:57:54 --> 00:57:55

doesn't like you.

00:57:55 --> 00:57:57

But don't try to offer solutions. Oh, no,

00:57:57 --> 00:57:59

I have like 5 or 7 jugs, we

00:57:59 --> 00:58:01

will have cool water and we will stop

00:58:01 --> 00:58:03

every and add water to the radiator.

00:58:04 --> 00:58:05

He didn't ask you for that.

00:58:06 --> 00:58:07

He's just saying no.

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

Let's get it. Don't oh, no. But we

00:58:10 --> 00:58:12

can fix it. Sometimes you say no to

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

people. Why? Wait. I thought we can do

00:58:14 --> 00:58:16

I have got duct tape.

00:58:18 --> 00:58:19

Alright, people.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:22

Then he goes to he sent to Al

00:58:22 --> 00:58:23

Mutaim ibn Adi,

00:58:23 --> 00:58:25

one of the leaders of Mecca. But there's

00:58:25 --> 00:58:28

something about this name. The boycott against Bani

00:58:28 --> 00:58:29

Hashim,

00:58:30 --> 00:58:31

he is one of 3 people who ended

00:58:31 --> 00:58:32

the boycott.

00:58:33 --> 00:58:34

So it makes sense to go to this

00:58:34 --> 00:58:37

guy because this is a a man that

00:58:37 --> 00:58:37

has,

00:58:38 --> 00:58:39

nahama o neshwa'u.

00:58:39 --> 00:58:40

He has,

00:58:41 --> 00:58:43

you know? He's got those values and he

00:58:43 --> 00:58:45

doesn't like injustice. He's one of the ones

00:58:45 --> 00:58:47

who ended the boycott and he's not Muslim.

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

Do you think there's a chance he might

00:58:48 --> 00:58:50

accept? Yeah. There's a chance he might accept.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

Why would he accept? He's not Muslim. Yeah.

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

It could be a chance him to flex

00:58:55 --> 00:58:56

flex his muscle,

00:58:56 --> 00:58:58

to assert his place in leadership,

00:58:59 --> 00:58:59

you know.

00:59:00 --> 00:59:02

So he accepted and he ordered his family

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

and his children and his his people to

00:59:04 --> 00:59:07

put on full armor and bring all their

00:59:07 --> 00:59:09

weapons and they all marched with the Prophet

00:59:09 --> 00:59:12

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam until they got to the

00:59:12 --> 00:59:14

Kaaba, then they stood in different corners of

00:59:14 --> 00:59:14

the Kaaba.

00:59:15 --> 00:59:17

And I want you to imagine this scene.

00:59:18 --> 00:59:19

And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam comes,

00:59:20 --> 00:59:21

what is the first thing he does?

00:59:22 --> 00:59:23

He prays

00:59:24 --> 00:59:25

2 rakat at the Kaaba.

00:59:26 --> 00:59:28

He would always go to the Masjid first

00:59:28 --> 00:59:30

after a journey. But there's something very significant

00:59:30 --> 00:59:31

about these 2 raka'at.

00:59:32 --> 00:59:34

It's telling all these people who heard of

00:59:34 --> 00:59:36

what happened in Ata'if and Ata'if was not

00:59:36 --> 00:59:39

successful and the Prophet was you know, they

00:59:39 --> 00:59:41

threw rocks at him and he was injured,

00:59:42 --> 00:59:44

but he's telling them,

00:59:44 --> 00:59:47

I am still a prophet of Allah. I

00:59:47 --> 00:59:50

am still upon this religion and still upon

00:59:50 --> 00:59:52

this da'wah. And that's and they got that

00:59:52 --> 00:59:54

message just from seeing him pray the 2

00:59:54 --> 00:59:55

rakaat.

00:59:55 --> 00:59:57

And then Amut Al Mu'addi stood up and

00:59:57 --> 00:59:59

he said that he's offering that Muhammad salawas

00:59:59 --> 01:00:00

alayhi wa sallam is under his protection that

01:00:00 --> 01:00:02

anyone who touches him it's like you touch

01:00:02 --> 01:00:05

me and then they escorted him with their

01:00:05 --> 01:00:05

soldiers

01:00:06 --> 01:00:08

all the way to his house. And what's

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

beautiful, we're done with this story but what's

01:00:10 --> 01:00:11

beautiful is

01:00:12 --> 01:00:15

immediately afterwards and when the hajj delegations come

01:00:15 --> 01:00:18

to Makkah, the Prophet starts to try to

01:00:18 --> 01:00:21

find a place to go. Why? Because he's

01:00:21 --> 01:00:22

smart enough salaam alayhi wa sallam to know

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

that how long will a mushrik give me

01:00:24 --> 01:00:27

protection? And as they start to put pressure

01:00:27 --> 01:00:28

on him, how long can he withstand that

01:00:28 --> 01:00:30

pressure? So he knows it's not gonna last

01:00:30 --> 01:00:33

long so he has to find another solution

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

and hajj brings all the people from all

01:00:35 --> 01:00:37

instead of traveling to them they're all there

01:00:37 --> 01:00:39

in one spot, and the pro Muslim actively

01:00:39 --> 01:00:41

starts going out to different groups

01:00:41 --> 01:00:42

to see

01:00:42 --> 01:00:45

who would take him and the believers

01:00:45 --> 01:00:45

in

01:00:46 --> 01:00:47

into their city.

01:00:48 --> 01:00:49

So we'll stop here, there are a number

01:00:49 --> 01:00:51

of interesting things,

01:00:52 --> 01:00:53

maybe after Eishah I could tell you one

01:00:53 --> 01:00:55

interesting thing, but basically

01:00:55 --> 01:00:57

there are many many lessons from the story

01:00:57 --> 01:00:59

of Ata'if. I've got 3 minutes. Let me

01:00:59 --> 01:01:01

fire off as many as I can. We

01:01:01 --> 01:01:04

said there was well, first we saw at

01:01:04 --> 01:01:07

least 4 or 5 different wisdoms in choosing

01:01:07 --> 01:01:08

a ta'if. It wasn't just luck or that's

01:01:08 --> 01:01:10

just close by let's just go there. It

01:01:10 --> 01:01:13

was strategically a good place to go. We

01:01:13 --> 01:01:13

see

01:01:15 --> 01:01:18

that the Prophet did not carry his losses.

01:01:18 --> 01:01:20

He was injured, he was fatigued and tired

01:01:20 --> 01:01:21

but he gave dawah to adas. He moved

01:01:21 --> 01:01:22

on immediately,

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

didn't carry his losses.

01:01:24 --> 01:01:25

We see that Allah

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

test those that he loves the most.

01:01:28 --> 01:01:30

We see that the Prophet went to the

01:01:30 --> 01:01:32

nobles first and didn't just start giving dua

01:01:32 --> 01:01:34

in the streets but he went to the

01:01:34 --> 01:01:35

people in charge.

01:01:35 --> 01:01:36

And,

01:01:36 --> 01:01:39

we get a practical example of ease coming

01:01:39 --> 01:01:41

after hardship, a practical example of

01:01:42 --> 01:01:44

the patience of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam

01:01:44 --> 01:01:48

and not retaliating against people, not retaliating against

01:01:48 --> 01:01:50

the Quraysh or the people of Ata'if or

01:01:50 --> 01:01:52

later on against the Meccans or later on

01:01:52 --> 01:01:53

against the people of Ata'if

01:01:54 --> 01:01:56

and you see that you can expect well

01:01:56 --> 01:01:58

of people. The sons of Rabia, they were

01:01:58 --> 01:02:00

at the peak of their animosity with the

01:02:00 --> 01:02:02

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but

01:02:03 --> 01:02:06

they still felt their heart softened towards him.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:08

So you can still expect good out of

01:02:08 --> 01:02:10

people and sometimes you can expect good,

01:02:10 --> 01:02:12

out of the enemy as well. Again, I

01:02:12 --> 01:02:14

think this more applies to the old days.

01:02:14 --> 01:02:16

You know, the hadith of the best generations.

01:02:16 --> 01:02:18

The scholars said this hadith

01:02:18 --> 01:02:20

is saying that even the kuffar at the

01:02:20 --> 01:02:22

time of the were better than the the

01:02:22 --> 01:02:22

kuffar

01:02:23 --> 01:02:24

today. Anyways,

01:02:26 --> 01:02:28

we see that Atayf was genuine.

01:02:28 --> 01:02:30

Atayf was a genuine city because it later

01:02:30 --> 01:02:32

came to Islam through what?

01:02:33 --> 01:02:34

By themselves.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

No warfare. Nothing.

01:02:36 --> 01:02:38

We see the forbearance if you take the

01:02:38 --> 01:02:40

narration of the mountain, the angel of the

01:02:40 --> 01:02:42

mountains, you see the forbearance and forgiveness of

01:02:42 --> 01:02:43

the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

01:02:44 --> 01:02:46

We see that this is a genuine prophet

01:02:47 --> 01:02:49

Because if this is one of the more

01:02:49 --> 01:02:50

difficult times in his life,

01:02:51 --> 01:02:53

this is when the impostor would have quit.

01:02:53 --> 01:02:54

True or false?

01:02:54 --> 01:02:55

This is when the impostor would come and

01:02:55 --> 01:02:57

say, listen you guys.

01:02:59 --> 01:03:01

We're done with this. Let's be buddies again.

01:03:02 --> 01:03:02

Right?

01:03:04 --> 01:03:06

The jinn became Muslim. I skipped that part

01:03:06 --> 01:03:06

of the story.

01:03:07 --> 01:03:09

So two great things happened. Number 1, Adas

01:03:09 --> 01:03:10

became Muslim.

01:03:14 --> 01:03:17

If Allah guides 1 person through you, it's

01:03:17 --> 01:03:18

better for you than the best of wealth.

01:03:18 --> 01:03:20

1 person became Muslim that trip was worth

01:03:20 --> 01:03:21

it. But then

01:03:22 --> 01:03:24

millions of jinn from that time until today

01:03:25 --> 01:03:26

are upon Islam

01:03:26 --> 01:03:28

because on the way back the jinn became

01:03:28 --> 01:03:29

Muslim.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:32

We see that the Prophet had a busy,

01:03:32 --> 01:03:34

he had a household, he had mouths to

01:03:34 --> 01:03:36

feed, he had daughters that were young,

01:03:36 --> 01:03:37

but the du'at

01:03:38 --> 01:03:40

forced time for dua. And the du'at aren't

01:03:40 --> 01:03:42

the ones that have free time so like

01:03:42 --> 01:03:44

let's just give dua. They force time, they're

01:03:44 --> 01:03:46

busy, they have work, they have a family,

01:03:47 --> 01:03:49

they have things to do, but they force

01:03:49 --> 01:03:51

time for dawah. And the scholars said from

01:03:51 --> 01:03:53

the story of Ata'if, Rasulullah

01:03:53 --> 01:03:55

is forced time for 10 days to go

01:03:55 --> 01:03:56

stay in Ata'if.

01:03:57 --> 01:03:59

And then running through it quickly,

01:04:02 --> 01:04:03

the Prophet knew he was going to be

01:04:03 --> 01:04:04

victorious,

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but he still

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thought sought

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the means, al isbaab and he still went

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and got the protection. He didn't just walk

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into Makkah, you know, and sometimes you find

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Muslims like they don't take the they're just

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the khalas Allah is with us lahabe.

01:04:18 --> 01:04:20

The prophet was careful and he was cautious

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and he took precautions.

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I don't have any evidence for this,

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but you tell me if it's reasonable.

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Do you think maybe

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when

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Islam came to a Ta'if later on,

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that maybe some of those youth who threw

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rocks at the Prophet

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that made them feel more guilty at that

01:04:39 --> 01:04:39

time

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and it led them to become Muslim faster

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because of the guilt.

01:04:44 --> 01:04:46

It's I don't have proof, but is it

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possible, is on? I'm asking.

01:04:48 --> 01:04:49

It's possible.

01:04:51 --> 01:04:54

Prophet took advantage of the non Muslim laws

01:04:54 --> 01:04:56

of the ijara, the protection, and he got

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to protection. It was today, people like, oh,

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this is non Muslim law.

01:05:00 --> 01:05:02

Does it agree with the principles of Islam?

01:05:03 --> 01:05:06

Yeah. If it does, then what's your issue?

01:05:06 --> 01:05:07

It's not in the Quran. It has to

01:05:07 --> 01:05:08

be in the Quran?

01:05:10 --> 01:05:11

Traffic loads in the Quran?

01:05:12 --> 01:05:14

Anything wrong with stopping at a red light?

01:05:14 --> 01:05:15

I think it makes a lot of sense

01:05:15 --> 01:05:16

to stop at a red light.

01:05:17 --> 01:05:17

Right?

01:05:18 --> 01:05:20

Prophet didn't hide his Islam when he said

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Bismillah.

01:05:25 --> 01:05:27

Du'a du'a is a tool and being used

01:05:27 --> 01:05:28

in dua

01:05:28 --> 01:05:31

and du'a being used immediately not later or

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the idea of turning to Allah Azzawal quickly.

01:05:35 --> 01:05:37

The humility of the prophet accepting the grapes

01:05:37 --> 01:05:39

and even resting under the shade of those

01:05:39 --> 01:05:40

people that were his enemies.

01:05:42 --> 01:05:44

What if if you accept the narration? I

01:05:44 --> 01:05:46

got some of these old points when they're

01:05:46 --> 01:05:47

all based on the narration of

01:05:48 --> 01:05:51

you know. But if you accepted that narration,

01:05:51 --> 01:05:53

if the prophet destroyed

01:05:54 --> 01:05:54

Mecca

01:05:55 --> 01:05:56

between the two mountains,

01:05:57 --> 01:05:58

would that

01:05:58 --> 01:06:00

What kind of effect would that have on

01:06:00 --> 01:06:01

the other cities?

01:06:01 --> 01:06:04

And maybe they would become Muslim just to

01:06:04 --> 01:06:05

not be destroyed.

01:06:05 --> 01:06:07

And then how genuine would their Islam be?

01:06:08 --> 01:06:09

I got you.

01:06:10 --> 01:06:10

3 minutes,

01:06:11 --> 01:06:13

I'm gonna pull a sheikhwaleed on you guys,

01:06:13 --> 01:06:13

okay?

01:06:17 --> 01:06:19

That was actually the last point.

01:06:22 --> 01:06:24

Putting your trust in Allah,

01:06:26 --> 01:06:27

taking the hint.

01:06:28 --> 01:06:29

So I've got about

01:06:31 --> 01:06:33

28, 29 different

01:06:33 --> 01:06:34

lessons just from

01:06:35 --> 01:06:37

the journey of Ata'if.

01:06:37 --> 01:06:40

Got another like 12 different lessons from why

01:06:40 --> 01:06:42

Abu Talib died a non Muslim. There's got

01:06:42 --> 01:06:44

to be some benefit. Why would Allah allow

01:06:44 --> 01:06:46

that? There's got to be some benefits. The

01:06:46 --> 01:06:48

seerah is loaded with benefits. You just have

01:06:48 --> 01:06:50

to look at it in detail.

01:06:51 --> 01:06:52

For listening attentively

01:06:52 --> 01:06:53

and for coming.

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