Lauren Booth – Visiting The Prophets Companion I Islamic Heritage Series
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The speaker discusses the story of the Prophet Muhammad Christina's burial at the burial place of Eyup volume one, where he eventually finds and becomes a believer. He recommends visiting April or October for the full peace, and gives a tour of the holy Mosque and Mausoleum, a place for w seekers to feed the poor and worshippers. The tour of the mosque is a great way to visit the place for faith reasons, with a lot of fear on the way but also a lot of fear on the way.
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I feel absolutely emptied out.
Muslims from the time of the companions of
the Prophet ﷺ exerted themselves, sacrificed themselves to
come here.
Assalamu alaikum, welcome back to my channel.
I hope this finds you well and blessed.
Where are we today?
Oh, there we go, another flag.
Alhamdulillah, we're in Istanbul and I am being
a tourist today.
I'm being taken on a tour of Eyup
Sultan, historic region and resting place of a
companion of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
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Let's go and see what Eyup Sultan has
to offer.
I feel absolutely emptied out.
Allahu Akbar.
We went to Dohur here and it is
so peaceful.
Everything is sort of muted and calm and
you feel like slowing down and just stopping
for a while and really considering what it
means to be a Muslim and a believer.
And then it's overwhelming really to consider the
closeness of Eyup al-Ansari to the Prophet
ﷺ.
I mean, I'm sure you know the hadith,
the story of how did the Prophet ﷺ
come to live with Khalid bin Zayd, Eyup
al-Ansari.
How?
Because his camel led him to his house
and just wouldn't move when he got outside.
And it was Bedouin tradition at the time
that if the person stopped outside your home,
you're dwelling from a horse or a donkey
or a camel.
The first person to reach their saddle and
take it inside had the honor of hosting
them.
And the beautiful, incredible, brave man who's buried
here, hosted our Prophet ﷺ for seven months.
So how do we know that Eyup al
-Ansari is actually buried here?
Well, it's an incredible story of enlightenment and
mystery actually.
His grave was lost or unknown for hundreds
of years until Fatih Mehmet Rahimullah, remember?
The 20-year-old conqueror of Constantinople.
He wanted to find out where it was.
It became something that was really important to
him.
And remember, this 21-year-old leader, he
was an inner reflective.
He was always thinking about the And his
guide was Akshamsuddin Mehmet.
You can see one of my other videos.
And so they came to a region not
far from this, perhaps this area, and they
were looking and trying to find it for
days, but they couldn't.
They couldn't see anywhere that might be the
grave of Eyup al-Ansari.
The truth has it because we have an
isnad, a chain that we trust when Muslims
say things to each other.
So the isnad of the story is this,
Akshamsuddin Rahimullah, he fell asleep on the ground
and he had a dream of exactly where
the burial place was of Eyup al-Ansari.
And so he got up and he put
his staff in the ground and he said,
this is the precise spot where he was
buried.
And then he went to make wudu.
Now remember all of this area, it just
would have been grass, nothing for miles and
miles, a hillside.
While he was making wudu, the young Mehmet
Fatih Rahimullah, a believer, but a young man
nonetheless, wanted to be sure, wanted to somehow
find out, is this a true dream from
Allah or a dream from shaitan, a misleading
dream.
So he took the staff out of the
ground and moved it a good distance away.
When the sheikh came back from making wudu,
he looked and he said, someone has moved
my staff and he put it back in
exactly the same spot.
And then they began digging and they found,
they found the burial place of one of
the best friends of the Companions, one of
the best friends of Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, fully intact, subhanAllah.
To honour the resting place of the great
friend of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
Sultan Mehmet II commissioned a grand tomb and
a vast complex, typical of the Islamic tradition.
The Ayyub Sultan Mosque and Mausoleum was made
as a place to feed the poor as
well.
The mosque has two separate courtyards, one with
a place for wudu and the other which
has an ancient sycamore tree in it, at
the point where a lot of royal ceremonies
were held.
In true Islamic style, the place has always
fed the poor and the worshippers on Fridays
and in Ramadan.
The animals I noticed are especially spoilt here,
with seriously friendly cats demanding cuddles every time
I sat down.
It's a nice thing to watch the pigeons
bathing in specially made bird baths around the
fountains.
And incredible to think that after the three
holy mosques of Islam, including Al-Aqsa compound
in Jerusalem and Palestine, that this is one
of the most loved places of faith to
visit for us Muslims.
I really recommend you come in April or
October, Spring or Autumn to get the full
effect of the peace that is so present
here.
This is Abu Ayyub, the namesake mashaAllah, and
he's been guiding us today, subhanAllah.
We're about to do Ziyarah and there's a
lot of fear sometimes for us as Muslims
going to places where our saints and our
special ones and companions are buried.
What do you have to say on the
topic of Ziyarah and why are we here
today?
Right, no, Ziyarah is, mashaAllah, it's a very
very beautiful beautiful tradition of ours and was
something that was encouraged by the Prophet ﷺ.
He encouraged Ziyarah for the sake of remembrance
of death, primarily for the remembrance of death,
but also for a means for us to
reflect on our own lives, to better ourselves
as Muslims, and then also take many of
the lessons that we can learn from those
pious before us, you know, the pious predecessors.
Just found this tiny place just outside the
courtyard of the mosque complex, and this is
whole other level.
There's a lot of bready stuff in Turkey,
but if you come to Ayyub Sultan region,
you have to try this.
This is whole other level.
I'd recommend the ones with spinach in.
And these simple places, don't go for flashy
places, always go a little bit off the
beaten track.
It's hit and miss, but alhamdulillah this one
is a miss.
Actually it's a hit.
What's missing is my brain.
I cried a lot during my visit to
this incredible mosque complex.
It is so profoundly peaceful and moving to
be near a companion, a friend of the
Prophet, peace be upon him.
You really must go.
It's a wonderful place.
Be spiritual in the morning, and then take
your family out in the afternoon.
I think the Turks have done a brilliant
job of maintaining this as a place of
visitation for faith reasons, and also to keep
families connected to the burial place of Ayyub
Ansari Rahimullah.
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Peace, Assalamu Alaikum.