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