Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #80 Events after Hunayn
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In our last class we
spoke about
what transpired
after
the Battle of Hunain
And so how the Muslims were victorious
in that battle
and then the enemy
fled
with the larger force
fleeing to the city of Aqba'if
and locking the gates
of the fortified city.
And then how Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam chased
after them
and
laid siege to Abba'if.
But then in the end how he ended
up
you
know leaving
after he was met with
a fierce resistance
from the people of Abaif
so he decided to leave them and go
back to Mecca.
And we also looked at how on the
way back to Mecca,
he stopped
at the place where he had left the
spoils of the war,
the battle of Hunain.
And we mentioned how there were a lot
of
the the
spoils
that were left behind were a lot in
terms of wealth, in terms of women and
children and
animals.
And so we looked at how the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam distributed all of that.
We spoke about how he divided
the spoils
and
who he decided to give to
and who he decided not to give to.
And so we looked at how,
you know, he
did not give to
some of those who actually stood with him
at the time of need, the amsar,
but he gave to
the people who had fled
and they were those who had recently embraced
Islam from the people of Mecca.
But we mentioned the reason why he did
that. And so we looked at all of
that in the last class.
And so the Battle of Hunayn
took place
in the beginning of Shawwal
of the 8th year of the Hijra,
right after the conquest of Mecca.
So now by the end of Shawwal
of the 8th year, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was returning to Medina
from Mecca.
And so we mentioned previously, although the Prophet
SAW Alaihi Wasallam
conquered his hometown of Mecca,
he decided not to stay there. He could've.
This is his hometown.
He was expelled by its people.
He could've stayed there
but instead, he decided to return with the
Ansar,
those who stood with him, those who for
all these
last years,
they helped him and supported him.
And so he returns
and we will now cover
some scattered events that took place
in the remaining of this year, 8th year,
and the beginning of 9th year of the
Hijra
before we move on to the next major
event in Nasira
which takes place in Rajab of 9th year.
So we'll look at all the events that
took place,
prior to Rajab of 9th year. Just a
few scattered events that we'll be covering today
Insha'Allah.
The first is
when the prophet
returned
to Al Madinah,
the first
one of the very first things that he
did
was
he immediately started working on
having
an organized system
to handle
the finances of the Islamic State,
specifically
collecting Zakah
from individuals and tribes
and then distributing
it to those who deserved it.
So now
you have
so many different tribes who have accepted Islam.
Not all the tribes of Arabia yet,
but the vast majority of them. So you
have all of these cities and towns and
tribes that have accepted Islam,
and zakah is
mandatory for them to give their zakah.
And for this, we need people to go
out and collect it.
So
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he started selecting certain individuals from the companions
and he trained them for the job
and then he sent them out in Muharram
of 9th year
to the various cities and towns and tribes
to collect the zakat.
Now
these
collectors
were not free to act as they wanted.
So
their work involved money
which means that they had to be watched
carefully
with close scrutiny
and you know to have tough
rules that are imposed on them.
For example,
they were not allowed
to accept
anything in the form of a gift
from those who they collected the money from.
So if they go to a tribe and
they collect the zakah,
the people from the tribe can't give them
anything extra and say this is for you
personally.
And so
in a hadith in, Bukhari and Muslim,
one day
one of these collectors he returns to Medina
and he announces to the Muslims
this is for you. Meaning all this is
a that he had collected. This is for
you guys
and this was given to me as a
gift. One thing he said this was given
to me as a gift.
So when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam heard
about this,
he got angry
and he went on to the member
and after praising Allah,
he said, what is the matter with this
worker
who I had sent out,
who has come back and said, this is
for you
while this gift was given to me.
Should he not have remained seated in the
house of his father or the house of
his mother
and then waited to see whether or not
he would be given a gift
by the one in whose hand is the
soul of Muhammad,
none of you will wrongfully take anything from
it
except that he will come on the Day
of Judgment
carrying it on his neck.
Meaning,
whoever takes something extra,
he will be punished by that thing that
he took
and it will come on his neck on
the Day of Judgment. The Prophet says,
'If it was a camel, it will make
the sound of a camel. If it was
a cow, it will make the sound of
a cow. And if it was a sheep,
it would make the sound of a sheep.'
In another hadith
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
'Any worker who I appointed
and for whom I allotted a specific
amount of rizq provision.'
Meaning
a specific amount
of payment because it's a job.
You're gonna get paid for this work.
The prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
Whoever,
any worker who I appointed
and I gave him a certain amount
whatever he takes exceeding that amount
it is considered
ghul.
It is considered
ghul.
Ghul is the crime of
taking something from the ghanina,
from the spoils of war
before it has been distributed.
So when the Muslims go out and fight
and they collect the the wealth,
the spoils,
no one's allowed to touch anything from it
whether it's weapons,
horses, whatever it is.
Even if you killed someone in battle, you're
not allowed to take anything before the imam
and the leader comes and distributes it among
the fighters.
And so it is a major sin in
Islam
and we spoke about this previously.
There was a story
of 1 of the fighters
in one of the battles, he took something
but the sahaba didn't know and they were
praising this
mujahid and he died as a shahid.
So the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said
you don't know that he's in the hellfire.
And then he explained
that it was something that he took from
the ghanimah.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
It is not appropriate for a prophet
to illegally take something from the spoils of
war and whoever does so it will be
held against him on the Day of Judgement.
So here
Rasulullah He SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam equated taking something from the Zakah
that has been collected from the people. He
equated it to what?
The crime of Ghalul which shows us
how serious it is.
After that, we move on to
the Islam
of 1 of the famous poets
and that is
was one of the
poets who used to use
their poetry
against.
And so in those days
poetry was the media.
Of the day that Quraysh would use in
their war
against the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and
to basically
dissuade the people from accepting Islam.
His father was also a poet.
So Zuhayr, his father, was one of the
well known poets of Arabia.
And one of his poetries
was hung on the Kaaba.
From among
the 7
poetries that were hung.
And so the Arabs used to have
competitions who can,
you know, come with the best poetry
And whoever wins, they would have their poetry
hung on the wall of the Kaaba. And
they were 7, that's why they're they're known
as
Al Mu'alaqaat As Sabah. The 7
hung poetries.
So after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam returned
to Medina from Mecca,
Kaabi bin Zuhair, his brother
sent him a message
telling him that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was executing the poets who used to speak
against him.
So you either come to him as a
Muslim
or you run away before you're killed.
So Kabir and Zuhir obviously he took this
seriously
and he said okay I'll give it a
try
and go to meet the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. So he went to Madinah
and
he met the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He approached him. He sat in front of
him
while the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
never saw him before.
He only heard about
him but he had never seen him before.
So
he comes but he doesn't recognize him. The
Prophet shalaihi wa sallam does not recognize who
he is.
So
he says,
O Messenger of Allah
has come asking you to grant him safety.
He has come repentant
and as a Muslim,
will you
accept it from him?
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, yes,
let him come.
So he said, I am Ibn Zuhair.
Now when he said that, some of the
companions, one of them, one of the unsar,
he jumped up at
and he said, O Messenger of Allah, allow
me to take care of the enemy of
Allah.
Allow me to chop off his neck.
Because we have to understand, this is not
some ordinary non Muslim.
You know, this was a man who led
a media campaign against Islam,
against the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said to
him, leave him alone
for he has come repentant
and
he has accepted Islam.
Then Ka'bib al Zuhair he
stood and he delivered
a poem
praising
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
It was such a beautiful poem
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was impressed
and he took off
his birdah, his cloak,
and he gave it to him as a
gift.
And it is mentioned that
later on, Mu'awiya radiAllahu anhu,
he wanted this cloak.
When he became a Khalifa, he wanted
it. And he offered 10,000
dinars
to Kabib and Zuhir. The Kab, he said
I would never give up the cloak of
Rasulullah, he salallahu alayhi wasalam, to anyone.
So when Kabib and Zohir passed away,
Muhaawiyah sent
20,000 dinars to his
family,
his ears
who are gonna inherit from him
in exchange for the cloak
and they ended up giving it to him.
And then this cloak, it is mentioned in
narrations that
it was passed down from 1 Khalifa
to the next.
All of them wearing this cloak on special
occasions and on Naid.
All the of
and
then after that, the
of Bani Ambas.
But he
casts doubt on these narrations
and he says you know.
These narrations may not be that authentic anyways.
With the Islam of
Kaab ibn Zuhayr,
we can now safely say
that all the poets
who had opposed the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in the past
and wage that media campaign against the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasallam
had now changed sides
and we're now Muslims.
They were now part
of the and
now they were using their talents
and their skills
to serve Islam.
And so their Islam
was yet another benefit
of the many benefits
of the conquest of Mecca.
We have all of these people
who were
using their talent and their skills to wage
a war against Islam.
Now they have flipped and they're using their
talents and their skills
to serve
Islam and to serve the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
We now move on to
some of the Soraya,
some of the expeditions
or military campaigns that took place during this
period of time after
the conquest of Mecca, after
the Battle of Hunayn
and before
the next major event which is the Battle
of Tabuk.
During this period of time,
the beginning of 9th year of the Hijra.
The first
that we'll take a look at is the
of
The prophet
sent him
to the tribe of Banu Al Ambar,
which is
a subtribe
from the big tribe of Tamim.
And this was in Muharram
of 9th year of the hijrah.
He sent him with 50 horsemen
without a single member of the Ansar or
the Muhajib.
So this was unique.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent him
with some
50 men
but there was not a single member from
the Ansar or from the Muhajirun
in this contingent
and in this expedition.
So when they reach their destination
and the enemy spotted them,
the enemy they fled, they ran away.
But Arulayna, he managed to capture 11 of
their men
and many of their women and children.
And he took them all back with him
to Medina.
When they reached Medina, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam ordered for all of them to
be held in a one of the houses.
So now the tribe of Banwal Ambar,
they sent some of their leaders
to negotiate the release of their captives.
So
this delegation,
they arrive
and
those women and children who were captured, they
saw them and they start crying.
So these men, they then rushed to,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. They went to
one of his houses
and they started shouting at him.
They started shouting for him to come out.
They were saying, oh Muhammad, come out to
us.
Uqrojilayna.
And they were raising their voice.
At the time.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam happened to be
resting
and now it was time for salah.
So he comes out
and Bilal radiya allahu anhu,
he calls the uqama
because the houses of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam where each of his wives used
to live, they were attached to the masjid.
So he would just come out and he
would be in the masjid. So Bilal radiAllahu
anhu sees him so he calls the uqamah.
But these men, they rushed to him
and
they hold him back
and they start talking to him and begging
him to release
their women and children.
The prophet salAllahu alaihi wasalam stood listening to
them
then he went
and he led. It was salatul Dhuhr
and then after salah he sat there
and these men again came to him
and they started talking to him. In the
end,
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he released all of their captives
for a ransom.
So they were released
for a payment, for a ransom.
Now this story it is mentioned
that
the ayat from Suratul Khudurat
were revealed concerning these men
where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Allah says,
Most of those
who
call out to you, O Muhammad, who shout
at you
from outside of your
houses, your private quarters, your hudurat.
The hudurat
were the rooms
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam where he
used to live with his wives.
Allah says, Most of those who call out
to you from outside of your private quarters,
they have no understanding.
They have no understanding of manners
and deen.
Allah says,
Allah says, Had they been patient
until you came out to them that would
have been certainly better for them and Allah
is All Forgiving,
All Merciful.
And so this is a story of
this expedition.
The next expedition is
the suriyyah of Qutba ibn Amir radiAllahu anam.
And so in Safar,
in the month of Safar of the of
9th year of the hijrah,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent
this companion, Kutba ibn Amir,
with 20 men to a region
of Khatham
by an area close to Atfarif.
And so they went with 10 camels
which they took turns riding.
When they reached their destination,
they captured a man and interrogated him,
but he wouldn't say anything.
Then all of a sudden he starts yelling.
What was he doing?
He was
sounding the alarm bells for his people.
Right?
So the companions, they killed him.
Then they hid and they waited until
the people had gone to sleep and then
they launched their attack
and there was intense fighting
resulting in many people being wounded on both
sides. Nonetheless,
the Muslims managed
to take
captives
and
cattle,
sheep and
horses
back to Madinah.
However,
what happened was that the enemy regrouped
and started chasing after the Muslims.
So
a miracle happened.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent a huge flood
which came between them and the Muslims.
So the Muslims were driving the the cattle,
the sheep and the captives while the enemy
was looking on they couldn't do anything. They
couldn't cross the water
until the Muslims had left.
After that we have the sari'ah of Abdullah
ibn Hudhafa
As Sahni radiAllahu an.
This
expedition
became well known
due to an incident that occurred
that is a very famous incident
and it's even mentioned in Sahih al Bukhari
and Sahih Muslim.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi was appointed
Abdullah ibn Hudhafa
as the leader of this
this
expedition,
it is mentioned that Allah revealed the following
Aya. Oh, you who believe,
obey Allah
and obey the messenger
and
obey those in authority among you.
Those in authority among you.
So what happened was
some of the men of this sariyah,
they did something that really angered their Amir.
So
he asked them,
didn't Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam order you to obey me?
They said, Yes.
He said,
Then go and gather some firewood for me.
So once they did,
he came and he said,
Light a fire.
So they
did. Then he said,
now I want you to jump into
it. Jump into the fire.
So some of these men,
they
were about to follow his instructions
because they're obeying the orders of the amir,
which they were told to that they have
to do.
He told them to gather firewood. They did.
He told them to light a fire. They
did.
Now he's telling them to jump into it.
So some of them were ready
but then some others, they said,
we ran away.
We ran away from the fire.
We fled to Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in order to save ourselves
from the fire, meaning
the fire, the hellfire.
So why should we now throw ourselves into
a fire? Doesn't make
sense. So eventually
eventually,
their Amir, Abdullah ibn Hudhafa, he calmed down
and the fire also
it extinguished
and then they returned to Madinah.
When they met the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
they told them what happened.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what did
he say?
He said
if they had entered into it
they would not have come out from it
until the Day of Judgment.
And then he said,
Obedience
is only
in that which is good.
And so the prophet was saying,
if they had obeyed him
and done what they what what they were
instructed with, they would have been punished until
the day of judgment.
And then he said, obedience is only
in that which is Halal, not that which
is Haram.
After that, we have
the sariyah of Ali ibn Abi Talib, brother
Yallaahu An.
In Rabi Al Akhir
of 9th year of the Hijra, The Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent to Ali ibn Abi
Talib
with a 150
men
to a place called
Al Fuls,
which was in Central Arabia
to destroy one of the idols
of the tribe
of Pite.
So when they reach their destination,
they destroy the idol
and they made away with
captives
and camels and sheep.
Among the captives that they had captured
was
the sister
of a prominent man from the tribe of
Tayl.
The sister of
Adi ibn Hatim,
Who was the son of?
Hatim Akpa'i.
Hatim Akpa'i
was a man
who was known for his generosity.
He was a poet but he was more
known for his generosity.
Until this very day, Arabic literature, when you
read it, you see how they mention him.
He's mentioned as an example of generosity.
If you want to say that, you know,
someone is very generous,
you say he's more generous than Hatim
This man he lived in Jahiliyyah
before Islam.
And now
his daughter is taken as captive.
As for his son, Adi,
ibn Hatim,
he managed to escape
and he fled to a sham.
And he happened to be a Christian, you
know the religion he had adopted was Christianity.
So anyways
when the Muslim force they returned to Medina,
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam saw
that they had the sister
of Adi
ibn Hatim.
So he honored her
and she eventually
accepted Islam.
And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he gifted her with clothes
and other things and supplies
so that she could safely return back home
because now she's a Muslim. She's
free.
So she left
but instead of going back home,
she decided to go to a sham
to meet with her brother.
And so she goes there
and when she finds
him, she tells him about the good treatment
that she received from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
and
she told him you too should go
and visit him and meet him. There's no
reason for you to run away from him.
So from here what we'll do is
we'll let Adi ibn Hatim tell his own
story of what happened next.
Adi ibn Hatim he says,
after hearing my sister's experience,
I too felt the urge to go to
Madinah
and understand the facts for myself
before making any further conclusions.
When I went to meet him,
I had hatred
and strong enmity in my heart
against the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
However,
I remained open minded.
I was willing to hear what he had
to say.
I said to myself,
if this person is a true prophet
then I will not hesitate to accept his
religion.
But if he is not
then I will refuse to accept Islam.
He says the moment I entered Madinah,
some people they notice me.
They recognize me.
So they came to me and they honored
me and they treated me well.
So then
he says, I went and I met the
Prophet
and he too welcomed me
and he said,
Adi, accept Islam
and be safe.
Aslim Teslam.
Accept Islam and you'll be safe from the
punishment of Allah.
So Adi, he said,
but I'm already a religious person.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said to
him,
'I know your religion
very well
or I know it more than you.'
So Adi he says, 'I was wondering how
the Prophet SAW wasalam could know
about my religion
better than me.
And so Adi asked the Prophet
SAW wasalam 3 times if he actually knew
his religion, meaning Christianity.
Do you actually know my religion?
So the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam answered yes.
Then there was a discussion that occurred
between the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam and
Al Hadih radiAllahu an where
the Prophet
was trying to prove to him
that
this religion that you're following,
it's no longer
the true message of Allah. It's been distorted.
And in order to do that, he,
you know, mentioned certain things that you Christians
follow which are not there in your scriptures.
And then after that, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam shared 3 prophecies
with the hadith.
3 things that would happen in the future
that
are prophecies
that no one can know except a prophet.
So all of these things that were happening,
right? This entire discussion,
it was causing Adi to become closer and
closer to Islam.
In the end, he ended up embracing Islam.
In the end of this conversation with the
prophet SAW Allahu Alaihi Wasallam, he accepted Islam
and he said his Shahadah.
Later on,
after the death of the prophet SAW Allahu
Alaihi
Bin Hatim, he says,
'I have seen
2 of the prophecies
come true that the Prophet told him about
and mark my words that the 3rd prophecy
too
will become
fulfilled
very soon.'
And so this was the Islam of
Adi ibn Hatim
Radiallahu An
and also before that the Islam of his
sister
both of whom come from a very prominent
noble family.
Right? And this was,
you know,
a huge benefit
and advantage for the Muslims especially
for the people of their area.
And so this caused a lot of other
people to also
accept Islam from their tribe.
And so these are some of the Saraiyah
that took place, some of the expeditions that
took place during this time.
We conclude with just a few other scattered
events that took place
during this time.
During this time, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he married a woman
by the name of Fatima Bint of Baha'ik,
Ibn Sofian Al Kalabi.
This was in the of
the 8th year when he returned to Medina.
This woman,
however,
she was not she didn't appreciate
marrying who she married
and she sought refuge in Allah from the
Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam.
She said, I seek refuge in Allah from
you.
So the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam he
divorced her.
So this woman for that reason, she's not
counted as
one of the Ummehatul mumini.
The mothers of the believers.
The mothers of the believers
are those who
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam married
and they remained his wives
until either their death or his death.
Also during this time, in the month of
Dhul Hijjah
of 8th year,
the Prophet
had his son
Ibrahim.
And he had her
he had him
from
who? Who is the mother of Ibrahim?
Maria.
Maria.
We mentioned her,
previously. She was taken as a captive
from the Jews of
or no,
not from the Jews. That's Sophia.
She was the one gifted by,
Muqauqas,
the leader of Egypt.
So she was Coptic.
She was gifted as a slave.
And so the prophet had
Ibrahim
through her
and this caused
his other wives to become jealous
because
he was given a son.
Nonetheless,
later on,
as we will mention later on,
Ibrahim ended up passing away.
Also in the 8th year
we have the death of
Zainab,
the daughter of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who was married to,
Abu Az. And
Zainab
the daughter of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
she was born
10 years
before the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam became a
Prophet.
So that was with who? With Khadija
RadiAllahu Anha.
And
she accepted Islam
and the Prophet used to love her a
lot.
And
she
also migrated.
She migrated before her husband
had accepted Islam. We mentioned this the story
of her migrating
to Madinah
and leaving her husband who was a kafir
leaving him behind. And then how he came
and he accepted Islam and the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam returned
him to her.
And
when
she passed away,
the prophet
told the other female companions
how to wash her.
And
from this we learn
how
a person's body is washed in Islam
through the actions of the Prophet SAW himself
and through his instructions.
So the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
instructions because he himself couldn't wash our body
but the instructions he gave were narrated to
us. And so in Bukhari a Muslim the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said to them
wash
her,
in an odd number of times,
3 or 5
and then
make the last wash to be with some
scent of kafur.
So these were some of the
scattered events that took took place
during this period. We now move on to
some of the lessons that we learned from
what we went over tonight.
The first lesson
is the importance
of having oversight
and scrutiny
when it comes to people who work for
the state,
civil servants, people who work for the government,
especially those managing
financing,
the finances of the state.
And so
people who work
for the government
whether at top levels or lower levels,
they need to be disciplined
as they have access to the wealth of
the public in their hands.
And that's why the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam made sure to warn these people
who he had sent out to collect the
zakah
about the danger of taking anything from that
wealth that they had collected.
That's a major sin.
And he warned them that whatever you take,
it's gonna come on the day of judgment
and it's gonna be a source of punishment
for you.
But for that generation,
the generation of the companions,
giving them such warnings of the punishment of
Allah was sufficient.
Unfortunately, today
that is not the case.
Right? This is why
we see,
you know, our Muslim countries in the state
that they're in,
right?
We see the kind of
systematic corruption
that our Muslim countries are suffering
at all levels starting from the top all
the way down
where you have people who do not fear
Allah.
And
you know, they act freely with this money
that is in their hands
which is a
a trust in their hands.
But they don't look at it as a
trust
and they have no taqwa of Allah
And so you have you know
the state of affairs of our Muslim countries
the way they are today.
And every now and then you know they
become exposed.
And so the only solution
for our societies
is for them to return to the deen
of
Allah. Right?
That's the only solution
for for them to return to the deen
of Allah and for everyone to fear Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and to have the taqwa of Allah
especially for those in such positions.
And so we see how the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
took this matter seriously
and warned these people who were working for
him
about the danger of,
corruption basically.
The second lesson that we learned
is that
the media war against Islam
is bound to fail.
And so we see that in how all
of the poets
who used to use their poetry
to discredit Islam, to discredit the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
How either they were all killed
or they eventually
embraced Islam.
And the last of them we saw was
Kab
ibn Zuhayhi.
And so the enemies of Islam,
they use the media
to win the hearts and the minds
of the masses.
In the past,
it was in the form of poetry.
Today, it is in the form of the
media
whether it is written
or
voice or audio or
video,
right?
They're using the media
and they're spending
in the 1,000,000 and the billions
to
avert people away from Islam.
Without their media campaigns,
people would easily accept Islam
because it is the religion of the fitra,
Right? And it makes sense.
We see
today
that
people are accepting Islam
quickly
even with
even with this, you know, opposition
and this resistance and this
these media campaigns by the enemies of Islam.
So what would be the case
if Islam was left alone without such resistance?
And so the lesson we learned from this
is
that their media campaigns,
yes, they may have some effect
but in the end of the day
they are bound to fail.
As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
that, you know, the kuffar
and what they spend,
right? It's all going to be a source
of regret for them
in this life and in the next.
The third lesson that we learn
is that obedience
to the leaders
is conditional.
We learn this from the incident of
the sariyah of Abdullah ibn Khuzafa radiAllahuhan.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the
end of the hadith, what did he say?
Obedience is only in that which is good,
meaning that which
is halal,
not that which is haram.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
in another hadith,
There is no obedience to a created being
if it is in disobedience
to the Creator.
And so this is a general rule for
all those whom Allah and His Messenger have
made it wajib upon us to obey
whether it's
the leaders,
whether it's our parents.
We have to obey certain people.
However, obedience to them is conditional
to them commanding us
to do something halal and permissible.
If they command us to do something haram,
here
we do not obey.
Here we do not obey.
Right? So here,
Abdullah
ibn Hudhafah, he told his men to jump
into the fire. Is that halal or haram?
What is it?
It's haram. It's suicide which is haram.
And they didn't do it. And the Prophet
SAW told them if they had done it,
they would have been punished.
Right?
So
we don't obey the leaders and the rulers
if they command us to do something haram.
But if they command us to do something
which is in line with Islam, then we
do it.
So if
there is a ruler of a Muslim country
who passes a law
that Muslim women have to remove their hijab.
Should they obey?
The answer is no.
If the ruler tells the Muslims,
I don't want you to fast Ramadan
because
it
affects
the productivity.
You know, people become lazy and they're sleeping
all day.
How is the country gonna function?
Right? So he's justifying.
He's justifying
to not fulfill one of the pillars of
Islam.
Should the Muslims obey him?
No.
If the ruler tells the Muslims
to be loyal to the enemies of Islam,
and to the Jews and the Christians,
and to fight against those who are upholding
the deen of Allah,
should they obey Him?
No.
Right? So obedience is only as the prophet
said,
in that which is good, in that which
is halal,
in that which is permissible.
And there is no obedience
in that which is haram.
The final lesson that we'll learn that we'll
mention
is the importance
of clearing misconceptions
about Islam.
And we see this in the story of
Adi ibn Hatim embracing Islam. How did he
embrace Islam?
He came being very skeptical
thinking that
this religion of Islam is false.
And that my religion that I follow, Christianity,
is the truth.
So what did the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
do?
He worked on clearing these misconceptions.
And he proved to him that the religion
that he followed was false.
How did he do that? One of the
things that he asked
Adi ibn Hatim.
He said, do you take 1 fourth of
the earnings of your people
for yourself? Do you take 1 fourth of
the earnings of your people?
Adi said, yes.
And he explained how that is part of
my religion.
Right? This is what my religion teaches me.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he told him
to go and check his own scriptures
to see if this was allowed or not.
And so he was proving
to Adi radhiallahuhan
that your religion is distorted.
Right?
And
Islam is a truth.
And so he cleared up any misconceptions that
Adi had
and this led to him embracing Islam.
He says,
I then realized that he was indeed a
true prophet.
And so in the same way we need
to do the same thing.
The majority of the kuffar out there, they
have
misconceptions in their minds about Islam.
One of the reasons for that is as
we mentioned,
you know, this media campaign
painting a false picture about what Islam really
is.
And so we have a job to do
and that is to clear these misconceptions.
And the way we will do that is
by educating ourselves about Islam first and foremost.
We need to learn
about what Islam teaches
and then we need to go and clear
the misconceptions are in the minds of these
people.
Because this is the number one reason why
most people are not accepting Islam today.
Right? It's not that the message hasn't reached
them
like in
the past. No. Today,
who hasn't heard about Islam?
But the problem is they have heard about
Islam in a distorted way.
So who's gonna clear up that distortion in
their minds?
You know that is a huge
responsibility
on our shoulders and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam
he was a role model in this.
This was not the only time he did
this
but he did it on many other occasions
as well.
And so this is,
where we will stop.
The next major event in the Sirah is
up next
and that is
the Battle
of Tabuk.
The Battle of Tabuk which takes place
in the Rajab
of 9th year
of the hijrah. That is what we will
move on to next week insha'Allah
ta'ala.
Subhanakallahu
alayhi wa sallamu alayhi wa sallamu
alayhi wa sallamu alayhi wa sallamu alayhi wa
sallamu alayhi wa
barakatuh.