Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #77 The Conquest of Makkah – Part 5
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Last week we went over
some important
key events that took place while the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was still in Mecca
after the conquest of Mecca.
And so we mentioned he remained in Mecca
for 18
to 19 days before heading back to Madinah.
And so we covered the story of the
the the woman from Banu Mahzum who was
caught stealing
And we also spoke about
how
Rasulullah
he salallahu alayhi wa sallam had sent for
the major idols
around Mecca in the Hijaz
for them to be destroyed.
And the story of the tribe of Banu
Jaleema
whom Khalid ibn Walid
was sent to invite them to Islam
and what ended up happening,
the misunderstanding
that he had,
and so he ended up killing all of
them.
And so we now cover some remaining
key incidents
related to
the aftermath
of the conquest
of Mecca.
When we talk about the result
of the conquest of Mecca,
the aftermath.
We see that the most outstanding
result
from this major event in the Sira was
how it opened up the floodgates
for
people to enter into Islam.
This was the number one event
that caused
people to enter into Islam
en masse.
And the reason for this was
that
you had this long war
between
Quraysh and Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And now it had come to an end
with the victory of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam.
And Quraysh,
they had a certain status among all the
Arabs
that no other Arab tribe held.
They were respected. People used to look up
to them.
And so now when they were subjugated
and they had no other choice,
Quraysh had no other choice but to accept
Islam,
then all the other tribes
around Mecca and further away,
they had now seen that,
well, we also have no other choice now
except to
enter into Islam.
And so this
is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned.
This was what Allah
mentioned
in Surah.
Which Surah?
Surah
nasurullah. He won fatih.
When Allah's victory and conquest, the fatih comes,
This is referring
to the conquest of Mecca.
And you see the people entering
into the religion of Allah
in huge numbers, in multitudes.
Then when that happens,
glorify the praises of your Lord and seek
His forgiveness for certainly he is the one
who accepts repentance.
So this Surah, Surah Al Nasr,
was the last
entire Surah to be revealed to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as an entire Surah. It was the last
one to be revealed.
That doesn't mean nothing else was revealed to
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam of the
Quran after this. No. There were ayaat revealed
from different surahs,
but the last entire surah to be revealed
was this surah.
And so this was a sign from Allah
that the mission of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam was about to come to an
end
and that he would soon bid farewell to
this dunya.
In Sahih al Bukhari,
ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu. He says,
he's talking though much later after the death
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. In the
khilafa of Umar ibn Khattab.
He says, Umar used to bring me to
the gatherings
with the old men who had participated in
the Battle of Badr.
However, it was as if some of them
felt uncomfortable
with me being around. Why?
Because ibn Arbas was young.
Right? He was young.
And these other companions,
they had fought in the Battle of Badr,
and they are much older now.
So Ramar radiAllahu anhu,
they said to him,
why do you bring this young man to
come and sit with us when we have
children like him, his same age?'
and so Umar radiAllahu anhu he said,
'He is the one you know. You recognize
who he is. He's not like the others.'
Then,
Umar radiAllahu anhu,
one day
he calls them
to come sit with him and he calls
Ibn Abbas.
Ibn Abbas says here that,
I had a feeling that Umar
had planned this out for me to come
on this day.
And so he said, Umar radiAllahu anhu asked
these elders
from the Sahaba. He asked them, What do
you guys say about
Suratul Nasr?
What does it mean? What does this surah
mean?
So some of them said,
Here, Allah commanded us to praise Him and
to seek His forgiveness
when He gave us his victory.
Others they remained silent
and didn't say anything.
Then Umar radiAllahu anhu said to me, ibn
Abbas.
He said, Is this what you also say,
O ibn Abbas?
I said, no.'
He said, 'Then what do you say? What
is your opinion about this Surah?'
I said,
it was
signaling the end of the life of the
Messenger of Allah
that Allah was telling him about.
Allah was telling the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that that's it.
Now your life is about to come to
an end.
And so Umar Radiallahu Alaihi said,
whatever you have said, this is the same
thing that I know about this surah.
And so this shows us the status of
Abdullah ibn Abbas
radiAllahuwani. And that's why he was who he
was in terms of knowledge of the Quran
and the tafsir of the Quran.
He was the Mufasir
of
from among all the companions.
Him along with others, but he was
known as being the
top scholar
of the Quran from among the companions.
Now, Amr ibn Salama,
this companion was not from Mecca.
He belonged to a tribe outside of Mecca,
and he was a young boy
when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came and
conquered Mecca.
He describes the situation
of the Arabs prior to
Fath Makkah, prior to the conquest of Makkah.
And this hadith is
in Sahih al Bukhari.
Amr ibn Salama,
he says,
We used to live
at a place
where the caravans would come
along the road, along their travels.
We were at a place where travelers would
frequent
and the caravan used to pass us
and we would ask them,
What is wrong with the people? What is
wrong with the people? Who is this man?
So the news
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was all
over Arabia.
This was the news of the day.
So these people,
Umar ibn Salam,
his family, his tribe,
would ask the travelers about
the latest news of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Ahmad radiAllahu anha says,
they would say,
he claims that Allah has sent him as
a Prophet.
That he has
been divinely inspired,
and that Allah has revealed to him such
and such.
He says, I used to memorize that
and I feel as if it was
ingrained into my chest.
So
these travelers,
they were up to date.
They
would tell
they would mention
the latest
ayat of the Quran to be revealed to
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so Amr,
who was a young boy at that time,
he was from this tribe,
he would hear these ayats
and remember them
even though
his people were still Kufar at this time.
Mm-mm.
And, and, and, and, and,
says
the Arabs
other than Quraysh,
they had delayed their acceptance of Islam until
the conquest.
Until
the conquest of Mecca.
They used to say,
leave him, leave Muhammad
and his people Quraysh.
We're talking about all the other tribes.
If he
overpowers them,
then he is a true prophet and we
will follow him.
And so
all the Arab tribes who until now had
not accepted Islam,
they were watching and they were waiting.
They were watching 2 parties in conflict.
Quraysh on one side and Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam on the other.
And they were waiting to see the result.
Now Amr says,
so when Mecca was finally conquered,
every tribe rushed to embrace Islam.
And my father hurried to embrace Islam
before
anyone else from our tribe.
And so he went to Mecca, his father,
he embraced Islam, and then he came back.
Now Amr says, when my father returned,
he said, by Allah I have surely come
to you from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he has instructed
to pray such and such salah at such
and such time.
And when the time for salah comes, one
of you should give the adhan,
and then the one who knows the most
Quran should lead you in salah.
So his father went, met the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, embraced Islam, and and then
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave him
these instructions. He taught him how to pray
and he taught him the times of salah
and he gave him these instructions.
Let someone give the adhan, and let the
one who knows the most Quran among you
to lead you in salah.
'Amr says,
so they looked for the one
who knew the Quran the most among us.
And they didn't find anyone except myself
because of what I used to
memorize,
what I used to hear of the Quran,
these ayats,
I used to hear them and they just,
you know, settled in my heart.
And so I had memorized many ayats
this way.
And so they made me their imam. He
says, at that time
I was only a boy of 6 or
7 years old.
He says, I was wearing a garment
and it was time for me to lead
salah.
And this garment
was so small, so short
that when I would go down into sujood,
my my backside, it would become exposed.
So a lady from the tribe,
she said,
Won't you cover
the backside of your reciter?
She said, you know, his aura is showing
when he goes down into Surud.
Won't anyone is there anyone among you gonna
cover it for us?
So he says, they bought me a piece
of cloth
and made a shirt for me, a long
shirt. He says, I had never been so
happy with anything
before as I was with this shirt.
And so this was a story of
Ahamr ibn Salama.
We learned from this
that
the conquest of Mecca was a turning point.
That's it.
Anyone before this who was hesitant,
who was,
you know, on the fence,
on the sidelines watching
this conflict,
that's it. Now it was over
and now they started rushing to embrace Islam.
And that's exactly what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says.
And after
the conquest of Mecca when you see the
people entering
into Islam
in multitudes.
Now,
let us look at the Islam of
certain individuals
who until now we have not mentioned them,
certain prominent
members
of Quraysh.
Remember, we previously mentioned
that
when it came to the leaders of Quraysh,
some of their prominent
leaders
who were known for their
enmity
for the Muslims.
We see how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam did not spare them. When he entered
Mecca,
he gave a general amnesty,
a general pardon for everyone,
but then he had a blacklist
of certain people who he was not gonna
pardon
because of what they did.
And so they were executed.
However, there were some
who
were not, and so let us look at
their stories.
The first
is Suhail ibn Amr.
Suhail
ibn Amr.
After the conquest of Mecca,
most people had taken refuge in their homes
because the Prophet
when he entered Mecca, he said,
'Whoever
stays in his home, he is safe.'
So there was like a curfew in Mecca.
Whoever stays at home, he's safe.
And whoever
stays at the home
of Abu Sufyan, he's safe.
And whoever
takes refuge by the Kaaba, he's safe.
So now,
after some time, people started coming out of
their homes when they heard that the prophet
shalallahu alaihi wa sallam had now given
pardon
and amnesty
to everyone.
However, there were some
who didn't come out of their homes
because they thought
that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam would
not forgive them because they were at the
forefront
of the war on Islam and the Muslims.
And Suhail ibn Amr was one of them.
Suhail ibn Amr was one of them. Remember
that he is the one
who Quraysh had sent
to bargain
with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to
negotiate a truce with him.
And that ended up as
Sulhul Hudaybiyah.
And he is the one who when the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw him coming,
he took it as a good sign.
Because Quraysh was sending 1
envoy after the other,
and they were all coming back to Mecca
empty handed.
But when Suhail came, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wa sallam took it as a good sign.
Why? Because Suhail was different than the others.
He was known for his wisdom. He was
wise and intelligent.
And that's exactly what ended up happening.
He ended up bargaining and negotiating a truce
with the Prophet SAW.
And that is the truce of Hudaybiyah.
Suhir he says,
when Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam entered Mecca and
was victorious,
I raced home.
I entered it and I locked my door.
I then sent my son Abdullah
saying,
go and ask Muhammad
to give me
a guarantee of safety,
for I fear
that I will otherwise be killed.
I then started
to contemplate over all of the things that
I had done to Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa sallam and his companions.
There was no one who had a worse
record than myself.
I had met Rasulullah
Hisallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of Hudaybiyah
and I had some very objectionable
and offensive things to say to him
as I was the one who negotiated
the terms of the treaty with him.
And I had fought alongside Quraysh
at Badr and Uhud.
In fact, every time Quraysh went out to
fight against the Muslims,
I was present among them.
So his son,
he goes
and he meets the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam and he asks him, oh Messenger of
Allah,
do you grant my father's safety?
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Yes.
He is safe
by the guarantee of Allah so let him
come out.
Then he said to his companions who were
with him,
whoever meets Suhayl ibn Amr
must not look at him
with a sharp stare.
Don't give him looks.
And then he said, let him come out.
He is a man who possesses both
nobility
and intelligence.
Someone like him should not be ignorant of
Islam.
Someone like him should be wise enough
to accept
Islam, on his own.
And so
Abdullah ibn Suhail,
he went home to his father and gave
him the good news.
When Suhail heard
what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had to
say about him,
he said,
by Allah,
Both when he was young and while he
is old, he has always been righteous and
faithful.
He was talking about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
However,
he was still
hesitant about accepting Islam.
And so he did not accept Islam right
away.
It was not until the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam went out
for the next battle from Mecca.
He
went
out for the Battle of Hunayn,
which is the next event that we're gonna
talk about.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam left Mecca
for
the battle of Hunayn. And it was after
this battle
that Suhayl ibn Amr, he finally accepted Islam
and he became very committed.
He was known for doing
extra good deeds
in the form of, you know, salah,
and fasting, and,
extra sadaqa.
Because
Allah
tells us,
You know, someone who has a terrible past,
he's done all kinds of things,
all kinds of sins
and crimes against Islam as in, you know,
this example.
The way to have all of that
compensated for, expiated
is by doing good deeds. Because
good deeds, they erase bad deeds.
It is said that he would fast in
the day and pray at night
until his face turned pale.
And he would cry a lot when he
would hear the Quran
being
recited.
So this was the story of Suhayim
ibn Ahmad.
After that, we have
another prominent member
of Quraysh
and that is
Safwan
ibn
Umayyah
Safwan
ibn
Umayyah.
He was one of the leaders of Quraish,
and
he
became a leader
after the death of his father
in the Battle of Bedou.
And many of his family members were killed
in fact.
His uncle, his brother,
Because
most of his family members were with Quraysh
against the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
So when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came
to Mecca,
he fled.
He ran away knowing
what awaited him.
And so
he had a very close friend from his
days
in Jahiliyyah
and that is
Umayr ibn Wahab, we mentioned him previously in
Nasira.
He was the one who Safwan
had sent
to assassinate the Prophet
And we mentioned how
when he arrived in Madinah,
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told him
about his own plan,
that you have come here to assassinate me.
And he told him with precise detail
his entire plan.
And so this came to him as a
shock.
Right?
That this was a secret plan of mine.
How did how does he know?
So he immediately
accepted Islam on the spot. This was
Umair
ibn Wahib.
So now on the day of the conquest
of Mecca,
Umair ibn Wahib
who is a
Muslim, he went to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam and told him, O Messenger of Allah,
Safwan is the leader of his people
so grant him immunity.
This was his old trend.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave it
to him. He said, I give him immunity.
I give him protection.
But Humayik said,
O Messenger of Allah, I want a sign,
a token
because he's not gonna believe me.
Give me a sign,
a proof.
So the Prophet
said, Here is my turban, take it.
So he took it as a sign
that the Prophet was giving Safwan
immunity.
So now, Umayr,
he took the turban of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
and went after Safwan ibn Umayyah.
Safwan ended up by the coast,
by the seaside
where he was planning to catch a boat
to flee.
And so when he saw Umayr ibn Wahb,
he said, Stay away from me. He thought
he had come to kill him.
He said, Stay away from me.
Rumayr
ibn Wahb he said,
I have come to you from the Most
Merciful,
compassionate and forgiving man.
His kingdom is yours,
his possession is yours, and his honor is
yours.
He was telling him that Rasulullah
is
your relative.
And any good that happens
to him is good that it's gonna happen
to you.
He said,
and Rasulullah He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has given
you immunity.
He has guaranteed your safety.
He couldn't believe it.
He said, no, you're lying.
So
Umayr he said, Here is the turban of
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Do you recognize it?
Safwan said,
yes. This indeed is a turban.
So then
he was able to convince Safwan
that the Prophet
was indeed giving him protection.
So he left and he went back with
Wahb.
And when he went to the Prophet
he said to him,
this man, pointing to Umayr, he said, this
man is claiming that you forgive me and
you give me immunity.'
The Prophet
said, 'Yes.'
Safwan said,
'Give me 2 months to think about it
before I become Muslim.'
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, 'I give
you 4 months.'
Safwan ibn Umayyah, he eventually
did become a Muslim. Again, he didn't become
Muslim right away,
but it was right after
the battle of Hunay. Again,
right after the next major event in the
Sirah
when the prophet wa sallam leaves Mecca for
the battle of Hunay.
After it, when they were coming back to
Mecca,
Safwan ibn Umayyah,
he
became Muslim. How did he become Muslim?
Basically, he had left with them. He accompanied
the Muslims to Hunayn
while still remaining a kafir.
And then after the battle, the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam
offered him a lot of the spoils,
the booty of war, the zanima.
As a result,
Safwan he
says, only the soul of a Prophet could
be so content
to give so much away in this manner.
And so right then and there, he said
his shahada.
And so what brought him to Islam
was the generosity
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. How
generous he was
in, giving,
so much wealth to Safwan ibn Umayyah.
Next, we look at
the Islam of another very, very prominent member
and leader of Quraysh,
and that is,
After the death of his father,
Abu Jahl,
who was killed in the Battle of Badr.
And we all know who Abu Jahl was.
He was the Kingpin of Quraysh.
He was
the mastermind
of
the war that Quraysh
had ignited against
the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam and the
Muslims.
And he was killed
in the Battle of Badr.
After his death,
Bayaykalimah, his son
continued from where his father had left off.
And he assumed
a leadership role in Quraysh.
In fact,
'Aikrimah
had only one goal in mind,
and that was revenge
for the death of his father.
And so whenever he would go out and
fight against the Muslims, it was with this
in mind.
So now when the Prophet
had finally won and conquered Mecca,
UHikurima
knew what awaited him.
So he fled.
He ran away, he went to the coast
of the Red Sea
where he was planning to catch a boat
to take him to Yemen.
Meanwhile, back
in Mecca,
his wife,
Hakim,
was among the women of Mecca
who willfully
came to accept Islam.
She was one of the women who gave
her pledge to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and accepted Islam.
Then she said to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
O Messenger of Allah,
a
hikirima
has run away from you and has gone
to Yemen.
He feared
that you would kill him.
So grant him immunity.
Guarantee for him his protection and safety.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, He is
safe to return.
Hakim,
she had no idea how far Ikrimah had
gone,
but she was determined to catch up to
him
and to find him and to give him
the good news.
So she left in search
of her husband
until she managed to find him
by the seaside,
and he was already in the boat, and
he was ready to leave.
One of the men on the boat,
he said to 'Akilima,
Save yourself.'
'Akilima
said, What should I say?
He said,
Right Kirima said, It is from these very
words that I'm running away.
And then his wife,
she said to him,
my cousin,
I have come to you from the best
of people,
the most faithful of people,
and the kindest and most generous of people
to his relatives.
Do not destroy yourself.
I have secured a guarantee of your safety
from Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
He asked her, are you sure?
And after verifying that truly,
you know,
she had actually gotten him
immunity from the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he decided to return with her
to Mecca.
Now on the way,
the hikrima, he wanted to have intimacy with
his wife,
but she refused.
And she said,
you are a kafir and aayam a Muslim.'
And so when he heard this, he said,
that which prevents you from being intimate with
me
must be something serious.
You know, it's not something light. It's not,
you know,
a light matter. This is something serious.
So anyways, they continued on their way back
to Mecca.
Before they reached the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam already knew that he was on his
way.
So he told his companions who were with
him,
'Aikirima
ibn Abi Jahil is coming to you as
a believer and a muhajir.
So do not curse his father
for indeed a curse made against the dead
only serves to harm the living
while it will not reach the dead.
So he was saying, yes, Abu Jahl did
what he did but now there's no point
in
you know, cursing him
as long as his son is coming,
you know, to embrace Islam. When Aikirama
finally arrived,
he went to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam
and he said, O Muhammad,
she has told me
that you have granted me immunity.
The Prophet
said,
She tells the truth.
You are safe.
Then 'Aikirimah asked the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam about Islam
and what exactly is he inviting to.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam then explained
to him
the pillars of Islam, the shahadah,
salah, etcetera.
Then 'Aikirima' he said,
'By Allah,
you only invite to the truth and that
which is good and beautiful.
By Allah, even before you started
inviting people to Islam, you are the most
truthful among us in speech and the most
faithful and the most righteous among us.
Then
he said his shahada and he embraced Islam.
And then after that, the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam
reaffirmed his marriage to his wife, Hakim.
And so
as long
as the husband is a kafir,
Islam does not recognize such a marriage.
If the woman accepts Islam,
her marriage to her kafir husband
is annulled.
It is not recognized.
However, if he embraces Islam,
then
the the marriage is
valid. And so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam
reaffirmed
his marriage to Hakim.
After that, Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said to,
'Aikrimah,
anything that you ask me for
that I plan on giving to someone else,
I will give it to you. So ask
me.
Ask me for whatever you want.
He said,
in that case,
I ask you to ask Allah to forgive
me for every time I showed enmity to
you, for every journey that I took to
oppose you, for every time I met you
in battle,
and for every false word I said to
your face or behind your back.
And so look at how 'Aklima,
he could have asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam for anything of the dunya, but he
didn't.
This shows us
how sincere he was in accepting
Islam. The Prophet
said,
O Allah,
forgive him for every time he showed enmity
to me and for every journey that he
took to a place
intending to extinguish Your light and forgive him
for attacking my honor, both when he did
so to my face and when he did
so behind my back.
Then Iqima said,
I am pleased, oh Messenger of Allah.
Whatever I used to spend in order to
hinder people from the path of Allah,
I will spend
twice as much in the path of Allah.
And whatever effort
I had spent
fighting against the Path of Allah, I will
now spend twice that amount
in
the path
of Allah.
And so hikrimah,
he remained true to His word
until
the end.
And so he took part in many important
battles and fought
courageously in them
with the Muslims.
He continued to do so after the death
of the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
until he finally
fell as a shahid
in the battle of Yarmouk.
In the battle of
Yarmouk which
was in the khilafa, during the khilafa of
Umar
ibn
Abdul Khattad radiAllahu 'alai.
And so these were some of the prominent
leaders of Quraysh
who finally
embraced
Islam.
And so with that, we conclude our discussion
of Fath Makkah, the conquest
of Mecca.
In the next major event in Nasirah
will be 2 major events
that go together and they are
the battle of Hunay
that we mentioned and the siege of Abu'if.
And so that occurs before the prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam returns
to
Al Madina.
And so that we will cover in the
next class in
So we conclude with some of the lessons
that we learned
from tonight.
The first lesson that we learn
is that most people,
they are not bothered to accept the truth.
Most people are not bothered to even search
for the truth.
We see this
from the description given by
Ahamr ibn Salamah radiAllahu an.
When he was describing the state of the
Arabs
prior to the conquest
of Mecca.
He said that, The Arab tribes were waiting
to see the outcome,
and only if the Prophet was victorious
would they accept Islam.
And so this is how most people are.
They don't
search for the truth,
but they look at who is more powerful,
who is more influential,
and then they follow
they follow them.
And this is not the correct attitude to
have.
But unfortunately, this is how most people are.
They sit on the fence.
They sit on the sidelines
and they watch from a distance
while carrying on with their lives.
But then this is also why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give more reward
to those
who actually
went out of their way to search for
the truth,
and those who accept the truth when they
see it.
This is why Allah
would reward
the suhabah who accepted Islam before
the conquest of Mecca,
when it was difficult to accept Islam, more
than those who accept Islam after the conquest
of Mecca. As Allah says, insukatul hadid.
Those who stent
of their wealth and fought
before the conquest
and those who did so afterwards, they are
not equal.
Those
who did so before the conquest, they are
far greater, higher in rank
than those who did so afterwards.
However, Allah
says,
But for both, Allah has promised a reward.
For both,
Allah has promised
a reward
and we're gonna come back to this point,
shortly.
The second lesson that we learned
is
being grateful to Allah for His blessings.
At the end of Surah Al Nasr, what
does Allah
ta'ala say?
Surah Al Nasr, Allah tells the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam of the great victory,
the fatih,
And that is the conquest of Mecca.
Allah says that it is his victory, it
is his Fatih.
Attributing it to Allah, not to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. And then at the end of the
surah,
Allah commands the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to
glorify Allah, to seek forgiveness from Allah.
Then glorify the praises of your Lord and
seek His forgiveness.
And so the surah concludes in this way,
reminding us of what we are supposed to
do when Allah blesses us with blessings.
If you want any blessing to remain with
you
and you want it to grow
and increase, then you have to praise Allah
and be thankful to Him. This is what
Allah was teaching him. In this very very
short surah,
Allah was
reminding the Prophet
that this victory,
it is a blessing from Allah.
Therefore, what should you do?
Glorify Allah. Be grateful to Allah.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he tells us,
And when your Lord proclaimed,
if you are grateful, I will certainly increase
you.
If you are grateful for Allah's blessings, I
will increase you in your blessings.
And this is exactly
what happened
in the in the
this is exactly what happened in the context
of
the surah.
What happened?
After Allah granted victory to the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam and his companions,
The conquest of Mecca.
It was only a matter of a few
years that this blessing increased so much
that in the time of Umar radiAllahu anan,
Islam had spread east and west,
to the far east and the far west.
Why?
Because
they were grateful for this blessing.
They they were grateful to Allah for this
blessing. And so Allah increased them
in that.
Aisha radiAllahu anha, she says
that after Suratul Nasr was revealed,
whenever the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would make
rukuah,
or sujood,
he would say, so
the He would glorify Allah. 'Glory be to
You, O Allah. And praise be to You,
O Allah forgive me.
She says,
He was basically
implementing
the command of Allah in
this ayah.
And so he would
say,
Right? And so
the the Prophet
SAW,
he practically
implemented
this ayah.
The third
lesson that we learn
is giving generously
to attract the hearts
of the people to Islam.
This is one of the
8
outlets of zakah
mentioned by Allah in Surat Al Tawbah.
Who are we supposed to give zakah to?
There are 8 categories of people. Allah mentions
them in 1 ayah,
in Surat
And the rest.
Allah says, the Zakah is only
for the poor, the needy,
those employed to administrate it,
and to attract the hearts of those inclined
to Islam.
And we see how the prophet
did this
on the day of the conquest
and even after that.
He gave generously
to those who he wanted to attract their
hearts to Islam.
He wasn't gonna force anyone to accept Islam.
Right? Even though he could have, he was
now the victor.
He had been victorious.
Now everything was in his control
but he gave these people time, samadah,
like Safwan ibn Umayyah.
Look at how generous the prophet was to
him.
First, he guaranteed his safety.
Then he gave him 4 months to decide,
you know, what he wanted to do.
And then after the battle of Hunay,
he gave him a large amount from the
Hanima.
And this was what eventually led Safwan to
embrace
Islam as we mentioned. In Sahih Muslim, Safwan
he says, this hadith is in Sahih Muslim.
Safwan he says,
by Allah
Rasulullah He SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave me what
He gave me at a time when He
was the most hated person to me.
And he continued to give me until he
became the most beloved of people to me.
And so look at how
this generosity of the Prophet
changed the heart of Safwan.
From,
you know, making his heart to look at
the Prophet as the most hated of people
to the most beloved
of people to him.
And so
we shouldn't forget that
the outlets of zakah,
where we can spend our zakah,
you know, there's a lot of flexibility. Sometimes
we only look for the poor, the needy,
but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has told us
that there are 8 different categories
of where we should give our zakah. And
one of these categories are
Those who their hearts
are attracted to Islam
and if we give them, perhaps this will
be the cause for them to embrace
Islam. Finally, the last lesson that we'll mention.
How should we look at the companions
who accepted Islam later on?
Such as
after the conquest of Mecca.
We see from the examples that we mentioned
tonight
that some of the worst
enemies of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
were spared
from being killed, and they were granted immunity.
But even then,
some of them, they didn't they didn't accept
Islam right away.
But eventually,
they all ended up accepting
Islam.
Right? Even though some of them were still
hesitant.
And so some people,
they may think, okay, these people,
they just accepted Islam simply,
you know, just to show that they were
Muslims
or because they were forced, they were pressured.
But when we look at these examples, we
see that is not the case.
You know, like your Aykulima.
Yes. Initially, they were hesitant. They didn't want
to accept Islam. They were running away.
However, in the end,
their hearts
actually
embrace Islam.
And
they all ended up attaining
that status of
suhda, of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sih,
which
is a huge status.
Right?
A Sahabi
is anyone
who met the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, saw
him
even for a moment
and met him and
embraced Islam
and died upon Islam.
Right?
Even if he lived in the time of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam but never
met the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he's
not considered
a sahabi.
But these people, they attained that status.
As such, it doesn't matter what they did
in the past
nor can we question their Islam
or think of them in any evil way.
Whether it be,
whether it be,
ibn Abi Jahal.
Whether it be Sufyan, Abu Sufyan.
Whether it be his son Mu'awiyah.
RadiAllahu
anhum, they are all
companions of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so
they have the praise of Allah. Allah praise
them as a group in the Quran.
In so many different ayaat, Allah praise them
as a group
And no one among them is excluded from
that group.
As Allah says in the ayat that we
just mentioned,
they are not equal those who spent and
fought before the conquest and those who did
so after.
Right? They're not equal. Yes.
Those who accepted Islam before
have a greater status than those who accepted
Islam afterwards. But then what did Allah say?
And both of them, Allah has promised them
a great reward.
This is because the Sahaba have a special
status that Allah praised them for.
Whether they were,
you know, the close companions
who were with the Prophet
from the beginning,
in all the thick and the thin, and
the battles and the sacrifices,
or whether
they embrace Islam when it was easy to
do so, towards the end of the life
of the Prophet
We look at them and respect them
all
in the same way.
And so we conclude with this, SubhanakAllahu
wa bihamdik.