THE JOURNEY OF CERTAINTY Al-Isra & Al-Mraj’s DIVINE ODYSSEY
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The historical events of Islam are discussed, including the journey of the prophet from Mecca to Jerusalem and the importance of the night of 27th. They also discuss the significance of Jesus being the gateway to the world and the history of Islam, including its importance in the context of the global crisis. The importance of faith, knowing and being informed about the holy Bible, and avoiding false assumptions is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of trusting the Quran and being a rewarding person to achieve Islam's teachings. The potential for conflict between Muslim countries and peace between them is also discussed.AI Generated Transcript ©
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
we have certain
historic events in Islam
which are so fascinating,
and
they are
explained
so well in the sunnah in particular,
such as the event of Al Isra wal
Mi'raj,
the journey of the prophet
from Mecca
to Jerusalem to Baytul Mahdis at night,
followed,
by the ascension
to
the heavens.
This event,
although we know the night of 27th
is not confirmed,
that this is the night,
on which it occurred,
but because of the significance
of the event
and also the
relevance to what is going on to our
brothers and sisters in Gaza,
in particular,
in Palestine in general.
We are to address this subject today, Insha'Allah.
The point I wanted to make here is
sometimes we,
get,
engrossed,
that's the verb, or infested too much,
in the details of the event.
Like a typical
Khutba about Israel Miraj would be about,
the events,
the how the Prophet
started the journey,
and the fact that he,
rode, an animal called al Buraaq.
And so much so much details, so many
pieces,
which really,
takes away from the
structural benefit
of of the event itself.
I'm not saying the details are not important,
but sometimes
these details,
distract us or take us away from the
essence of the event.
Let me,
begin by saying,
normally,
the Quran comes
to restructure
that, to direct you,
to understand,
these events
in the way Allah willed for it to
be understood
or at least you start understanding these details
in light
of this,
overall, or
higher goals,
structure of the events.
Although
Al Isra'ul Mi'raj
is one event really
with 2 pieces,
It happened at the same time,
the same night, I mean.
And
obviously
there was a significance
for
the prophet
to ascend
from Jerusalem to the heaven, from Baytul Maqdis
to the heaven.
If
Baytul Maqdis was not important
in the
peace of the, the Ascension,
would have ascended
from Mecca,
from and
that would have been sufficient.
But, obviously, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
wanted his messenger to ascend
from Baytul Maqdis, from Jerusalem,
beside the journey.
Add to this look at this carefully.
After Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam ascended
and the 5 daily prayers were legislated upon
the Muslims, then he comes down.
Guess what was the qiblah?
Not Mecca,
Jerusalem.
For
the rest of the duration of of time
based on when Elisha Al Marai took place
in Mecca
before the Hijra,
the year of sorrow
debatable.
But the entire time in Mecca besides 16
or 17 month based on the narration in
Medina,
Muslims are facing
Baytul Maqdis, Jerusalem, not Mecca.
So obviously there is a significance
that the the the two events have to
be,
tied to one another. Let's come to the
Quran
and and this is where,
I'm telling you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala direct
you
to somehow,
somewhat
understand
this particular event in this manner.
You will find the Quran
presenting
the event
of Al Isra wal Mi'raad, which is
one event with 2 pieces
in 2 different chapters.
Not in one chapter,
in 2 different areas.
And and this is interesting.
Al Isra was addressed
or was presented
in a chapter that was called after the
event of Al Isra, which is Surah Al
Isra, chapter 17 of the Quran that comes
right before Al Kahf.
Was preset was presented in 53 chapter 53,
a chapter called the
the stars.
The star, a.
And briefly,
refer to in
That's one verse in Surah Al Taqwir.
What is the wisdom the Quran
separated them
although
they are one event?
Because each one of them
serves one
message.
Let's come to. What is?
Was taken
by debris
from Mecca
to
and coming back the same night.
Obviously,
at this time, this was a miracle
because
the mood of transportation,
whether it is
camels,
horses,
mules,
no way.
Even with the when the disbelievers,
started,
you know,
throwing a fit at it. They said, listen,
we beat the necks of the camels 30
days to get there and 30 days to
come back.
You wanna tell me that you went to
Baytul Mahdis last night and you came back
the same night? Come on.
So it was a miracle at the time.
But is it a miracle at our time?
No, it is not.
If you have your private jet,
you can go there and come back in
2 hours.
It's not a miracle. That means it's doable
for the
Ummah. Different to no
one can do that.
That is why brothers and sisters in Islam,
I'm telling you
Baytul Maqdis is a key,
the gateway
for that universality
Islam.
You see,
Islam is not a religion
for the Arabia.
Islam is a universal
religion.
We have sent you, oh, Muhammad
to the entire
humanity.
Now, the gateway
to the world is not Mecca
is not Mecca,
is Jerusalem, is Baytul Maqdis.
That is why Muslims
are required
to keep the custody
of this place.
And you will see always
a sign of weakness of Islam when it
is lost,
a sign of strength when it is under
their custodianship,
Poles.
Well, that one one of the scholars, it's
it's a statement that somebody,
Yani rebuked me because there is no evidence
for it.
Jerusalem, or Bayt al Maqdis is the thermostate
of empowerment in earth. Whoever owns it
is empowered,
is in control of earth
because he controls that area.
It's it's it's it's a key. That is
the message in Isra
is sending to the Ummah.
Although your messenger was taken on on an
animal,
which,
between
a mule and a horse,
And
he was taken there miraculously,
but yet you Muslims
must strive to go there.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam confirmed this
when he said in the authentic hadith hadith,
A Muslim should not leave his house to
go to pray
in another Masjid
except three places.
Other than that, no.
Other than that, no.
So you're actually supposed to get there, to
go
there.
Let's come to the Quran
which addressed Al Isra.
An amazing,
amazing,
just look, go home and look at the
first 9 verses of this chapter.
First 9 verses,
it's a manuscript
of how
to get there,
how to keep it.
The first three verses,
present
3
unique events in history of humanity.
The first one
is the event we're addressing, il Isra.
But somehow the verse
indicates that it's not about the Masjid.
You see, you can't just
be in control of the Masjid. You have
to
What?
Now the the the PLO they have they
have the control over the masjid,
but it's gone now. No.
Sham.
This area.
That's
Allah talks about that journey.
Then
what is so special about Musa was given
the book,
What is this verse?
You see,
this is the one time in history
the divine intervention
has shifted
from a complete
destruction
of the disbelievers,
of the opponents,
of the truth
through a punishment Allah would send
to
you
have to do the work, believers.
You have to initiate the work, and I'll
help you.
And that answers the many questions, where is
God from what is happening in Gaza?
Where are you from what is happening in
Gaza? Where are the Muslims?
You see that's the way it should go
now.
You see, prior to Musa, before
Jihad
Jihad, by the way, initially the word that
we're afraid as Muslims to say these days,
was initially
initiated in the Torah,
in the Old Testament. Just read the Old
Testament, bloodshed and where where,
Netanyahu gets that stuff killed, the children killed
the women from there, from the the
fabricated, the distorted, the old testament,
not the Torah.
Jihad was legislated
that is why is no longer.
You see, that is why the next verse
comes what? Noah. Noah.
You see from Noah
until the pharaoh,
what was the pa the the the the
pattern?
Allah would interfere.
Allah would send Nu'ah
say, believers get on the ship. I'll take
care of these guys. Flood.
Homosexual
The l b g t w x y
z.
The same thing.
But subhanAllah,
since the revelation of the Tawra that shifted.
We're giving Musa the scripture
after we have destroyed
the previous nations.
But that's the shifting, those are the 3
verses at the beginning.
Then the next 4 verses, we said 8
verses.
The first 8 verses 9 verses, I'm sorry.
The first 9 verses, we said 3. Look
at the next 5 verses.
Allah
presents to the
a nation
that was given empowerment in Baytul Maqdis
and taken out.
In and out.
Who are those? Bani Israel.
Now look and find out
why they were given it
and why were they taken out of it.
The same
system will apply to you.
If you're disciplined,
if you're showing,
serve it to Allah.
Umar really
Umar,
although the prophet
himself was not the one who was
handed over the keys of of of Ubayt
al Maqdis,
his successor,
second
successor,
but Umar
articulated this in a very
beautiful,
profound manner,
When he was
riding his
horse or camel,
Abu Ubaidah meets him,
and
he used to alternate with his servant. He's
the Khalifa. He's the emperor
but he used to take turns with his
servant. They had only one knew.
So Omar was walking,
said they came across a pool of water.
So can you imagine now, Omar,
he lifted his garment like this,
and he took off his
sandals or whatever he's wearing, and he put
it here.
And he's walking over the
imagine the the emperor is doing that.
We can do that here.
We can do that here. We cannot do
that here.
Those people really care so much about how
they
look.
Their their,
prestige
their prestige, their their
appearance.
He looks at, hey,
if someone else would have told me that.
We were the most
humiliated
human beings on the face of this earth.
Islam. I'm here because of Islam.
I came here because of being a Muslim.
Anytime.
Whenever
we pursue
honor,
status,
dignity and appearance and these things, Allah will
humiliate us. Allah will make this the source
of our humiliation.
That's
the way it is.
That's why we did like Bani Israel. We
were given it,
and then the crusades came and took it
away from us for a while.
And then Saladin got it back,
Then
the Zionist came and took it over.
Now we have to go back
to the source of our dignity,
Islam,
to get it back.
Allah is telling you that.
Look at these verses.
And if you neglect
that source of your dignity, I will humiliate
you again. That's
we call this Allah calls this
cosmic
rules cosmic rules, something that
system. You know, like the the the IT,
you know, a system that is set in
boot, output. You can change it. You have
to break the codes to change it. You
cannot change it.
But
look at the introduction of this
beautiful chapter about Isra.
What is your way to get there? Look
at this verse, verse number 9.
Verse number 9.
If you wanna get there, the Quran, the
revelation.
The Quran.
Study the Quran,
follow the revelation.
With this, the message of is done.
Let's shift to.
Very
interesting.
Very interesting.
You see, Al Mi'raj has a different complete
different climax like they say in the movie
system. Climax, you know, like
You see,
how we deal with the revelation
as Muslims
is very funny.
It's very funny.
And
there was an incident
regarding this particular
event
which took place, which the sunnah
collected.
You see when the prophet
returned from the journey,
this hadith, the Muslim ad Ahmed, Sheikh Al
Bani authenticated it,
and hadith of.
For the prophet
knowing that he has to let the people
know
that
he went last night to
to Jerusalem and came back.
He's very distressed. He's sitting down
in the Haram, very distressed. What I'm gonna
tell those people? You know you know that
I I always when I give lectures about
the subject, I I tell the the crowd
in front of me in a lecture, you
know. I tell them, okay, imagine I I
I come to you today and I tell
you, last night
the ceiling of my house opened and a
rocket came down, and I went to the
heaven, and I and I went to the
moon, and I came back.
That's exactly how it is.
It's exactly how it is.
Farasul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam hadith was sitting down in
distress. What I'm gonna do?
Who spots him? Abuja.
He said, there must be something wrong with
this guy, let me go and check him
out.
What's wrong with you, my nephew? That's how
they
approach you.
He said, well,
last night, I went to Jerusalem, and I
came back.
I said, really?
Okay. Wait a minute here.
Can you please stop. You know, you know,
like, when you when you wanna spot somebody,
let me get this broadcast. Let me can
can I call the people and you tell
them that what you told me, please? Wait.
Wait. You know? Wait. Can and he goes
and invites everybody,
and the prophet tells them that the the
Hadith, some of them did like this,
and and some of the some some Muslims
actually left Islam
because of this.
Although
in the hadith
they
requested him
to describe
to describe it.
Okay. I've been there to describe it for
us.
Rasul salallahu alaihi wasalam actually started describing it,
but at one point, he started being confused
because
he's not paying attention to it. So Allah
set the Masjid al Aqsa in front of
him like this.
He was just looking at it and describing
it to them.
They said, sadaq,
you spoke the truth.
Here's what I'm looking for, that's where Surah
Al Najm
addresses.
They went to Abu Bakr.
You know what your friend is saying?
He's saying to win to Jerusalem last night,
and he came back
and we beat the necks of camels
30 days to get there and come back.
One one way. 30 days one way, 30
days come back.
Here it is. What did the what did
the say?
Did he no. Verify first.
Verified it. If it is the Quran, no
verification needed. Sunnah, verified.
Did he say that?
Yes.
Khalas. I believe him.
I believe him in other things more than
that, far distant matters than that. That's
Surah Al Najm, brothers and sisters in Islam,
is coming
to assure you
the credibility,
the authenticity,
the sacredness
of the guidance that you believe in.
That is why it's begin it begins
1 by an oath.
I shared this with the brothers this morning,
Sahil Fajr.
While
Sahil Bukhari
is higher than any compiler of hadith.
The the people who compile the hadith are
many. You have a, you have a, you
have, you have, you have,
Al Bazar,
Muslim
why
ahead of Muslim?
Why?
Because
made it a condition to accept a narration
that the narrators have to meet.
Muslims said enough that they live the same
time,
provided that they don't lie. Look at the
other criteria.
They are truthful, they don't lie.
As long as
this person and this person,
it is affirmed that they lived at the
same time, that's enough. No. Said what? They
must have met one another.
The meeting.
Because sometimes you may live in the same
city and you don't meet certain people.
Likewise,
Rasulullah. Rasulullah
met Jibril.
He saw him.
He heard Allah.
You see that confirmation?
Trust the revelation.
Let me address this
with you in a different manner.
And this is what they call you.
The essence of faith.
They call it
What is
That you believe
beyond any shadow of doubt,
that you don't doubt. And I'm talking about
doubt that is permanent.
That occasional
insinuation of Shaytan, we understand. All of us
are hit with that.
As long as you resist
it, find the way out of it. But
I'm talking about someone who doubts and then
he goes out there and he speaks out
of his doubts. That's a different issue. We're
talking about
that. You see, when we talk about Yaqeen,
we can call this Tasdik or Yaqeen, certainty
Certainty.
There are 3 levels.
Three levels.
You become certain because of knowledge.
You become certain because you see it,
or you become certain because you live it.
I'll give you an example.
Some of you may not have visited Mecca.
May Allah send send us all
Right?
But you heard of Mecca. Right?
Why are you certain that
there is a place called Mecca?
Because everybody is
everyone says there is Mecca.
There is no way those people would collaborate
to lie.
So that's what
so you based your certainty on knowledge
that you heard
that you heard.
Now, what is next?
You engage the eye that you actually go
to Mecca
and you see Makkah.
What is next that you live in Makkah
for a week or 2?
Then things becomes what? Sorted.
All the messengers
all the messengers before Rasulullah
they conveyed their message to their people based
on hearing.
On hearing only.
Some of them asked
for an upgrade.
Musa asked in the in the wrong area.
Musa asked in the wrong area
because that eye of certainty,
I'm sorry, knowledge of certainty,
which leads to certainty,
seeing which leads to certainty,
or living it which leads to certainty,
normally in the area of the hereafter.
That's why it's always mentioned. The 3 things,
by the way, were mentioned.
They were mentioned in context of
But Musa requested it when
when he asked to see who.
Musa wanted the upgrade.
You see, he heard the law,
the hearing,
but he wanted to upgrade,
but in the wrong area because we cannot
see Allah in this world.
We cannot.
Ibrahim requested it in the right area.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim said to Allah, can you show me?
I wanna upgrade.
Some people by the way may assume that
Ibrahim doubted. La la la la la. Ibrahim
wanted an upgrade.
Wanted to move from the knowledge
to the eye. He wanna see it.
I will make you
do. You will call them and they will
come after you.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam was given that
privilege.
He was taken
up. He ended up alternating
between
What did he say on that journey?
Is
it here?
He wrote it.
There is a big difference
when you convey a message to your followers
after seeing it than hearing it.
And actually the prophet confirmed that in a
hadith
which was regarding Musa.
Being informed about something
is not like seeing it.
Why did the prophet say that? Commenting in
Musa.
You see, when Musa went to meet Allah,
Allah told him already that your people worship
the calf after you.
Musa did not oh, really? They did?
Yes. Because he was engaged in something else.
But when he returned and actually saw
the children of Israel going around the golden
calf,
and what did he sue? Fa'al what did
he do?
He grabbed Harun's
beard and and hair,
Arens.
Why? Because he saw.
Farasulullah
was given that upgrade brothers and sisters in
Islam.
He was made see made to see.
That is why
you are to trust the Quran and Sunnah.
And your attitude
towards it should be like Abu Bakr.
You shouldn't
employ intellect
like many Muslims do now.
Don't.
Well, there
there is a line out there that
I love.
The revelation,
which is the Quran and
This revelation which is the Quran and Sunnah
can be broken into.
Meaning matters of unseen.
Things that you're told
beyond
your senses. You cannot use your senses to
judge it.
All commands, do or do not do.
Regarding the matters of unseen, what should you
do?
I believe
it. Did he say that?
I believe
it. Because listen,
Allah mentioned
in the Quran that the revelation,
some of it is crystal clear
and some of it is
ambiguous.
Of this book of the revelation, there are
verses that has one meaning.
No 2 can disagree on it.
Establish the salah.
But there are verses that are what?
That can have multiple meanings.
Now,
Believe it.
What about the commands?
We hear and we obey.
Amazing Look at look at this beautiful
narrative here.
Allah
is assuring you
reassuring you as a follower of Islam of
the
of
Rasulullah.
Look.
Look.
You you you find no way but to
believe it. Then look at the shift. Look
at the shift.
What is that of
yours?
What is that?
These are names of Idols.
Where did you get that from?
This is our chain of narrators.
This is the chain. This is the credential.
Where did you get that from?
Listen.
Although
you're given it
mighty name, divine names actually.
Some of you may not know that
is one of the names of Allah,
A derivative.
The name of Allah Al Aziz.
Manat
from the name of Allah Al Manan
in Thabit.
Although they are giving these idols
divine names, but we know
who made them.
You know, like like in America,
they tell you what, the liberty,
you know, that thing that you come in
New York is what's it called? The Liberty.
Liberty. So you create an idol,
and then under this idol comes all these
wicked things, liberty.
Okay?
You can choose your gender now, liberty.
You can
oh,
America,
liberty.
That that's how it's done. You know, you
create an idol.
It's like what?
Israel,
Is what chosen people
anti Semitic,
an idol, you can come near it. Back
off. Back off. You can say. You can
criticize them.
Even if you criticize the Zionist now, they
can
associate you with
being anti Semitic, which is
a crime in Europe and here. But the
point I'm trying to make here is Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling
those
polytheists
that
these are heretical.
You made up these names
based on conjecture
and doubts.
What is this?
For this is the comparison, brothers and sisters,
in Islam.
As if Surah Al Isra
is
providing the
the manuscript,
which will take them
to travel the same way,
to get that
in order to convey Islam to the rest
of the world.
But the way to do it is to
trust this guidance,
to trust this revelation,
is to deal with it
granted.
That is why this matters brothers and sisters
in Islam,
we call them
in Islam.
Some of you hear that word.
What is? Is it not?
Something that you tie
and you don't even untie. You don't think
about untying.
I'm done with that.
This is the essence of Al Isra wal
Maharaj.
You need to understand all these details, beautiful
details that you read
in light of this
universal
structure
of these events.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
in the event of
there was that peace
when
was instructed
to command us
to pray 50 times a day.
50 times a day.
Can you imagine having to pray 50 times
a day?
That means every 28 minutes and some seconds
you have to stand up and pray.
So when he came down,
Musa
was in the 6th level.
The first,
Jesus and John the Baptist, Yahya the second,
Yusuf the third, Idris the 4th, Harun the
5th, Musa the 6th, and Ibrahim the 7th
in that
leaning his back to it.
Famuz has said to him what?
That is not gonna work. I was a
messenger before you.
Go back and ask for a reduction.
That establishes that we should
learn
from
the experience of
the past.
We lost Baytul Maqdis two times.
One time
when
corrupt
theology
engulfed
the Muslim world.
A sect which, unfortunately, I come from Egypt.
They used to teach us
that these guys were noble.
The Fatimids.
Those are botany. Botany meaning that they always
have
an apparent meaning and a hidden meaning. Ismaili
and
we fear,
so the Sufi brothers don't become upset at
the extreme Sufis.
That
theology
weakened the.
That is why study carefully
the biography of Saladin.
Saladin did not just come and liberate Jerusalem
like that. No. He spent
18 years
spreading the
authentic knowledge again in the Ummah.
Let's clear that.
But that's the first time.
When was the second time?
When the Ottoman Empire
falling apart,
And imagine the Muslim world is sitting down,
waiting for mister Sykes
and mister Biko,
probably don't know these names,
the prime minister of England and the prime
minister
of France to meet together
and divide the Muslim world.
Okay? You get France,
you get Morocco,
you get Egypt, it's like a cake.
And we're sitting down and
SubhanAllah,
the Zionist are threatening now to attack
Rafa Hadi is Masriya. There is a Rafa,
Egyptian Rafa,
and there is Raza Rafa.
It's the same Rafa.
But what
that's why you always find war between Muslim
countries over what?
We have a place between us and Sudan,
our brothers in Sudan.
We're having animosity because of this.
They left all with what?
Divide and conquer.
Divide and conquer.
And that's how they managed
to get in.
The Zionist
in the heart of the Muslim world.
If we are
to come back,
we have to break through those 2.
We have to go back to the source
of the deen,
the Quran and sunnah,
and promote that.
And we have to work hard
on our disunity.
intend.
intend.