Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #03
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah why
Allah Allah He was so happy woman. Voila. Don't pass it too far like
there's three subs, right? That stuff's expensive. hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah sallAllahu alayhi wa
sallam. I am so happy that we are studying the life of our Habib. So
Allahu Allah who is Sunday sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Just because it gives brings new intention to everything that we
do, whether it be a smile, whether it be a DUA, whether it be passing
around, it's a or perfume. We do it now with an intention that
we're following the hadith of Allahu Allah He was sundown.
And before we get into some aspects of the early life of the
prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I want to remind you to
listen with fresh hearts. I want to remind you to listen with a
heart that is eager to know more about your Habib sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. Your intention is to fall in love with him your
intention is to become in love with his sunnah sallallahu alayhi
wa send them but here's the deal.
They describe the prophet as such sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They
say his heart was the sound is of hearts. His sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam his speech was the most truthful of speech. And he was the
gentlest of all people and nature. Whoever saw him Now listen
closely, whoever saw him unexpectedly would be filled with
all like, if you just caught him real quick. You're like, Yo, who's
that? But whoever came to know him would fall in love with him. Now
this is heavy to me. Why? Because I think some of us we get a little
bit of stage fright when it comes to getting to know him better. So
Allahu alayhi wa salam, like because of who we're approaching,
but what Allah He I promise us that as we get to know him more,
you just fall in love with him. Salallahu Alaihe Salam, you just
fall in love with him. So Allahu alayhi wa salam. So in this
Holika, what we're doing is we're looking at his Shema, what he was
like, we looked at how he smiled. We looked at how he laughed.
I don't know if you remember last week, they say if he was smiling
sometimes and laughing He would cover his face. Maybe you did
that. And you thought, wow, that's the Sunnah. And I did it normally,
but now I'm doing it with a different intention because it's
the Sunnah it's the way of our Habib sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
Some of the things we're going to talk about are not to be acted
upon, but simply appreciate it. As we talk about what he looked like
Wallahi my only intention
is not that it's only so we can see him in our dreams. It's only
so that we can see him in our dreams. So I'm going to begin with
some of the descriptions of what he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
like,
the Messenger of Allah would act, act tenderly towards his
companions, soothing their concerns and inquiring about those
who are absent from his gatherings. Meaning if you didn't
show up for a bit, he was wondering where were you?
Where were you? Can you imagine how it would feel?
To have somebody hit you up and be like, Yo,
the Prophet was asking about you.
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, meaning he knew how to win
people's hearts by letting them know that he noticed them.
There was one time when there was a, a woman of dark complexion. Is
it still February represent?
There was a woman from Avicennia who used to clean the Masjid. She
used to clean the masjid.
And, for whatever reason, when she she she died in the middle of the
night.
And when she died, the Sahaba the Companions they felt that they
didn't want to trouble him. SallAllahu it was said
Hello. And so they did her janazah they washed her body they buried
her they even prayed on her.
And the next day the Prophet didn't see her.
And he says, What happened to Falana?
And they said, Jada Sula, masterfully she she passed away
last night. In the prophesy. Saddam got so upset. He said, Why
didn't you wake me up? Why didn't you? I miss her. I want to pray on
her. She's part of our community. He noticed people. He would often
say, the prophets lie Selim if he didn't see someone for three days
or so he would inquire. And this is beautiful. If the person was
absent, traveling, he would suffocate for the person.
Subhanallah when the common thing nowadays, if someone's not around
is maybe backbiting the sooner is when someone's not around or
suicides. Anyone say? May Allah bless them.
May Allah bless them.
So he would ask, if he was around, he would go see the person. And if
he was sick, then he would go visit him sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he would always go to his companions with a smile cheerful,
to each one of them thought that they were the most special person
in his face in his sight.
Another narration tells us that the prophets of Allahu alayhi wa
sallam never talked to anyone in a way that the person disliked.
Meaning he never approached you confronted in one narration, it
says he would not confront a person with something they didn't
like. In fact, if someone did something wrong, he would be very
general. The narration says he would never say what's the matter
with so and so why is he or she doing this or that? But rather, he
would say, man, you know, it'd be better if people didn't do that.
Just so that person felt never felt attacked.
When the messenger so the lady was setting them would see someone do
something inappropriate. He would not allow anyone to rush to censor
the person until he first taught the person with the gentleness and
care. Subtle Allahu alayhi wa sallam. How many people man like
they just don't know. And we as a community, just jump on them right
away? Don't you know what are you doing? That our suicide center
would stop anyone if someone did something wrong? Now here's the
beauty that a suicide allottee was setting them he kept the bounds of
Allah's Deen. He kept that that was his his role, his
responsibility, our loyalty is to God first. But that means he would
never push people away, but rather bring them close.
And then another narration before we start to look at some moments
from his life. And another narration it says that the Rasul
of Allah who it was salam used to say, and this is one of my
favorite Hadith. He used to say, let none of you tell me negative
things about other people. I like to come out with a clean heart.
Meaning I want to come out to the community with a clean heart. So
he's telling people, please don't bring your drama. Don't bring all
your, your garbage that's in your heart. Don't put that on me. Let
me meet people with a clean heart. Some of us feel that I gotta let
everybody know what this person did to me how I feel about this
person or suicide. Saddam said, Allah don't tell me because I want
to come out and meet everyone. So that's why they come.
So now
let's look at total suicide Allahu alayhi wa sallam in more detail.
We're going to look at some moments from his life.
Many moments that some of us in this room have heard since we were
young. But remember what I said last week, we reread the CETA over
and over again because not because he changes but because
we change and the same story we heard once before hits is
different.
We are studying Mohammed, the Basha Muhammad the man so that we
can appreciate Muhammad the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. Everything we're going to read about right now is well
before he becomes a Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but
why why? I mean, we follow him as a prophet. What does it matter?
Having converted from Christianity I want to put this in perspective.
Because I feel low key Muslims don't realize the treasure that
they have.
Low key don't realize, check this.
If you study from the Christian perspective, Jesus
the Bible tells you about when he was born, right
The three kings come and a whole bunch of stuff, right?
Then, then it goes blank for a while, Jesus disappears, his
mother takes him to miss her to Egypt. Because the Pharisees are
after him, they want to kill him.
So he runs off with, she runs off with Jesus and he disappears for a
long time. He comes back, once around the age of six or so, or
11, somewhere around there. And she's visiting family, Maria, or
they set out to a center.
And she loses him.
She's going crazy, because the yahood
always been wanting to draw on
the Yahoo, they were after Jesus. They were after Jesus. Let's keep
going. Let's keep going. They'll hold we're after Isa, I they set
out to a tsunami because they knew that this man is a problem. So
she's worried I can't find him. Where is he? And she's going crazy
looking for him. And finally, she finds him in the temple. Seven,
eight years old teaching. I mean, teaching the depths of *.
And she said, I lost you Where were you? And he said, Where what
else I'd be other than my creators home. That this is where I should
be. So the Pharisees find out he's there they you know, she grabs him
again, they go back to Mr. Do you know, we don't see him again. I
they set out to us and until he's in his 30s. And the mission
starts. And then the whole gospel of Jesus that we have is from the
age of about 30 to 33.
What I'm trying to tell you is that there's a slogan when I was
Christian, we used to say, What would Jesus do? You know what we
say? What did Muhammad do?
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you gotta guess when you don't have
his life, but when you have his life, you just have to study it.
They got to fill in gaps because they don't know what happened. And
so when I picked up a book, and I saw who Muhammad was, and I was
like, age eight, okay, deep age 12 word 15. More 25 Wow.
4041 4243 4445 up to 63. I'm like look at the treasure we have in
his life.
So I want you to understand, as we read through his life, that we are
blessed, because we have the Prophet's legacy right before us.
And not only that, not only that,
as an African American,
you know how long I had to look at a Eurocentric idea of picture of
who he was.
But here we have such a detailed, such a detailed breakdown of who
he was.
Listen to this.
Listen with love, listen, to appreciate, listen to relish
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Anna says was neither
excessively tall, nor very short. He wasn't very pale, pale, but he
wasn't very dark as well. His hair wasn't very very curly nor was it
straight.
He was of medium stature with broad shoulders. A Head Full of
hair I know right alive. You know what I find interesting. No matter
who reads it on the brother side we all think we look like him
you know as you listen you like me? Yeah.
And we look so different. But everyone in the room was like
yeah, you know?
sallallahu alayhi wa salam
so beautiful.
His his shoulders were broad.
I said that was like
his hair was his he had a full hair of head that reached his ear
lobes. He would grow it at different late nights.
They say that his his head was was wasn't small head at larger head
and his joints were full. And they they narrate this again, there's
nothing to imitate here is just to relish in who he was. You know,
obviously in the desert, they would work sometimes they didn't
always work clothed all the way they say that he had a long line
of hair that ran from his chest down to his navel. When he walked
he walked with purpose. He walked with intent and briskness with his
walk.
And he goes on and on. But again the beauty of who he sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was.
So what did we talk about last week?
We began this
story of the life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with
tribulation and calamity. Calamity. One that we read was
that Mata abou who his father died before he was even born. He didn't
have a chance to know who his father was. He only heard stories
about who his father was.
That's difficult.
We read last week that when he was six years old, his mother said, we
have to go to yesterday if I need you to meet your relatives. We've
all had that trip where our mother takes us to meet relatives we've
never seen before. They pinch your cheeks and stuff, right? I don't
even know who you is. And then you see them years later, there's I
remember when you as this.
I just want you to relate to his life. So he was six years old and
his mother who he loves so much, he said, I remember her so well.
And she loved him because she remembered the blessing she saw
when she got pregnant with him.
She said he didn't cause me any burden.
The Scholars say because he was Rama to lil al Amin. How could it
be painful to his mother? He was a mercy. She says these are her
words. I didn't know I was pregnant. I only lost my my head.
My period. That's the only way I knew I was pregnant. I didn't feel
the weight of him.
Halima, she says that, remember I told you he had a foster a milk
brother and sister Shamima.
Halima says Wallah he Muhammad only would drink from one side
and leave the other side for his sisters and brothers as an infant.
It was as if he was inspired with justice. That that's their Huck
This is my hawk. sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
So he goes to visit these relatives as we did last week and
he's there he says I learned how to swim there. Medina was fun.
Apparently it was like Florida or something. I don't know. He says I
learned how to swim in Medina. I had so much fun in Medina.
But it was time to leave.
Can't stay on vacation forever. So we start to head back. And halfway
between Medina and Mecca in a place called a bois. He says My
mother died.
It was my mother, me and only Amen.
Amen. Amen. was a black woman from Abyssinia. And only Amen is
someone she was probably was 1615.
She used to take care of him. Do you know throughout his life, he
used to say he used to respect this black woman.
He used to respect and love her. And he used to say, Here only by
their own man. That's my mama right there. After my mother
in a place called of war, this six year old boy
buried his mother
only Amen. She says I saw him standing behind the thing she was
laying on and he was weeping. He was crying.
Oh my Amen. Picks up Muhammad and continues the journey back to
Mecca.
When they arrive in Mecca, they go straight to his grandfather's
house and we did this last week but want to put it in perspective
for us.
They knock at the door of their his grandfather, a balloon pilot.
And the first thing I've done, McCallum says where's your mom?
And imagine that question after you lost her.
You just had time to kind of start processing and then someone asks
you again, you know, like, and it brings it all back.
Where's your mother?
But we learned something here.
Despite the fact that we lose special people in life we learned
something that, as I said before, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam had every reason to be a person that frowned his whole
life. He had every reason every excuse to be upset with the world.
But he found a reason to smile at everyone.
That's his sunnah.
Abdulmutallab. What does he do? Now? This is a lesson for me and
you have done what tele brings him close the narrations are so
beautiful. It says this is so amazing Kanna EULA Abdon mipela
Eros there was a special kind of like pillow, couch spot. You know
how granddad's be having a spot in the house. Okay, nobody sitting up
there. Tell him how to spot nobody sits there. Fee the little Kaaba
in the shade of the Kaaba. And he would sit there and his sons would
sit around him but no one would ever sit on that spot.
But a suicide tsunami is set
Seven year old boy.
And his grandfather knows this boy has lost everything. So I need to
bring him close. So yeah, T Hata. Yet, yeah, Julie's adding, he
would come and he would sit on his spot and all the uncles the UNCs,
by the way, hold up. I'm sorry to break the moment.
I'm gonna keep going, I will leave it.
The uncles, they stopped him, they would stop him. Get off granddad's
spot, that's his spot, have some respect.
And then
Abdulmutallab, he would come and he would say, leave my boy alone.
Leave that boy alone, and he would rub his head in his back. And he
said these words in the Benny harder the shot. Now this boy is
special. The signs of the prophets of Allah yd was salam. We're,
we're seeing slowly. And I want you to understand as we talk about
some of the things that were experienced, you know, Allah
subhanaw taala was preparing the world for this final Revelation.
Revelation is no small matter. Revelation is communication
between the Infinite Creator of the universe, a universe that we
can barely imagine the communication of that infinite
being, to us mortals. That is a phenomenon in and of itself. Allah
subhanaw taala was preparing this world for that final message. So
there's these flickers of light that keep appearing to get
everyone ready for when the real light shines.
So there were things that Amina saw she's like this boy special.
Abdulmutallab sees a dream, what name should we give him? He goes,
I'm feeling it's giving
my wife and using our joint more often, so it's, it's giving
Mohammed everyone's like, that's different. I've never heard that.
Mohammed means the one praised sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And
what's amazing is, this boy would be special, he would be different.
But where did Abdulmutallab get this different word from the
flickers of light we're preparing the world for when the light would
come full blast.
I'll do that it takes care of this young boy. I told you his mother
passed away when he was six.
Eight years old.
Allah reminds me and you that this life isn't the place to get
comfortable.
I'm gonna repeat that. Allah reminds me and you that this ain't
the place this ain't it, y'all. This ain't it. This is temporary.
So guess what happens at the age of eight he loses the one who
loved him the most. Abdullah
Abdullah Talib tells Abu Talib why double toilet? Because Abdullah
the father of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. And Abu Talib
had the same mother. So, he goes, You know what, you're gonna have
to look after this boy when I pass. If anything happens to me,
he's yours.
So that also said Allahu alayhi wa salam. The narration says Mohammed
bin Ahmed Al Asad me. He says that only Amen says I remember the day
he passed up the macula.
And I saw the Prophet eight years old boy
doesn't know his father lost his mother, and now lost his
grandfather.
He says that, um, I saw him sitting next to his grandfather,
weeping, weeping, weeping. And he was buried in June. This is still
a cemetery till today. We'll all saw I thought him had said, up the
motel about toto will tell him you got to take care of him. The
lesson that we have here there's a lesson there's a lesson it's not
storytime. It's reflection time. The lesson is, when it gets dark
know that Allah has something set up for you.
It will get dark it will get dark. It will be hard. No doubt if
someone tells you it's easy. They're lying to you. Our dean has
taught us our Prophet has set the trailblaze force. He's went
through calamity after calamity. But know that Allah subhanaw taala
has something great for you.
Now let's move forward.
This young eight year old boy moves in the home. Look at the
details we have Subhan Allah, he moves into the home of Apple
toilet, but guess what? Did he get his own room? I will tell him had
10 Kids
10 Other children of different ages in the home.
He's living there. He's with him.
But here's where we get our one deep lesson from him am sallallahu
alayhi wa salam as a man before he is a prophet
at the age of 12
He's having difficulty just
Being around the house.
I got to do something I got to be a part of helping this family.
And this is what I want all of us to reflect on. Some of our parents
worked hard y'all work hard, not passed, driving taxis working long
shifts.
I can speak from my own mother the hours she would spend standing on
her feet.
The prophesy centum teaches us something. You are not allowed to
be a passive receiver of the efforts of those who are working
hard to give you comfort, you got to take part in helping at the age
of 12. He goes to his um, he goes to Ableton Live and he says I want
to help. I gotta do something.
This is what are you going to do? You're 12 years old? What are you
going to do? He says, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go graze the sheep for
the people of Makkah and earn money.
Subhanallah look at look at the mentality at the age of 12.
And your question, here's my question to me and you how many of
us are just walking in the home kicking off our shoes?
You feel me Moss, how many of us are just walking in the home just
Bob has got it.
This is a 12 year old boy in this feeling of Masoli I have to do
something, I have to be a part of bettering the state of the people
around me and I'm speaking to the brothers and the sisters, everyone
here. So he took the the job he could find anything.
He found a job that Allah wanted him to have that we spoke briefly
about last week, which was, he was a shepherd.
Now
this was the pedagogy, the education that God wanted the
prophet to go through that his first job so the lady was setting
him was he was a shepherd. Why? To care for the week, to understand
different temperaments to keep the flock together,
to protect the flock from harm, to help the flock find the
nourishment they need, despite the fact that they keep trying to run
away and do their own thing. Does it sound like me and you?
Does it sound like me and you
keep running away want to do our own thing and the prophesy sounds
like
right here. This is what you need.
Later in life, the prophesy setting I'm used to look back,
it's upon Allah. If you talk to people who are in the dunya
successful, they often look back at these first years. And they
were like we grind it in those first years.
We worked hard, I did a hard job.
So the prophets of Allah today was salam continues this job. He's
around the age of 12. And for the next three or four years or so, he
continues to do this simple job.
Why? Because my uncle has a big family. And I can't, I can't just
let him take care of me. I have to do something. He's teaching me in
you
that allow the life of this world to be your school.
here and I feel me on this Hold on.
Let me go to the next one. You'll get it at the age of 15.
He goes to his uncle.
He says Uncle, I need to switch up jobs.
I've done this for three years now. But we need to make more
money.
And his uncle was like, Well, what are you going to do?
He goes well, I see you.
You're in business, you're in sales. You're in trade. I want to
get in business sales and trade SMU all day, right?
I want to get in business sales and trade.
From the age of 15, to the age of 25, a portion we're going to cover
tonight.
The next school of life that the prophet is being taught through is
the School of trade and business.
The first job he dealt with sheep of different temperaments. He
learned compassion and care.
And the next job
Allah subhanaw taala wants him to be a man of business and trade.
I heard one scholar say
he said, What is the hikma? What is the lesson? What does Allah
want Mohammed Salah Salem demand to learn that is going to help him
as the Prophet.
One of the scholars he says, um, you know, you know people in
sales, like let me be real today. I probably met like
two people I know since yesterday. The whole day like going to the
store shopping. I probably met like a person that I didn't know
the day before. Everyone I saw today I knew for the last like six
months, eight months, 10 months, whatever. But people in sales
How many people do they interact with?
Too many, too many.
And one of the scholars says, hit the A to Allah Allah shaxi. Yet in
us, Yanni, the beautiful thing, the beautiful thing about being in
trade is that the Prophet sallahu wa sallam was being taught about
how to recognize the different temperaments and people and how to
understand people on a deeper level. Man, you walk into like the
car dealership, they already peeped you out. Like, yeah, you
buy a used SUV. 30,000 miles. Yeah, that's you.
And you're like, how do you know?
Why? Because their deal and this is so beautiful. He first learned
compassion. Let me keep the flock together. But then the next job
was a job that required him to deal with 1000s and hundreds of
people over and over again, and to understand them on a deep level.
So we meet few people, the prophesy center was interacting
with so many people, how does it affect I need you to truly
appreciate this. Little Susa Allahu alayhi wa sallam was
learning in this part of his life fit Canarsie,
the thick of people
hold on, let's stop here. Hold up.
The prophets of Allah. Saddam is going to be given a message really
soon. Yeah.
And that message has to get to a certain spot. It has to get to the
hearts of people.
That means you got to have the key to open up hearts.
You got to you got to have the key to open up hearts. The Prophet
wasn't a mailman that just left it in front of your house. If you
like it, take it if you don't like it. He worked with you.
He worked with you. He understood you.
You don't believe me? I'll give you an example. Who kinda was a
wrestler? You know the story. Brucato was this guy in Mecca? Who
was known for wrestling. He was That's all he did.
The prophets I seldom saw him one day and he used to avoid the
Prophet because I don't feel like talking about religion, man.
So the prophesy center will be walking by I'm going the other
way. The Prophet doesn't cut him off.
Hey, what's going on?
Subhan Allah here he is. Here he is. Talks about what religion?
The prophesy centum says now how much about religion? Let's
wrestle.
Yeah, let's Russell.
I'm telling you Subhan Allah, the first thing he learned is just the
compassion for creation. Keep people together, keep them love
them care for them. The next one is just understand people. Why?
Not to manipulate but to elevate.
To elevate people. That's the objective. Some people understand
people that the only objective is manipulation. The prophetic
understanding of people and why we study people is to elevate people.
So open their hearts to what is good for them. So to suicide,
Selim, he says rukon a Yelets Russellville.
I liken this to the Imam that's got a good jumper
if the Imam got a good jumper, oh man, all the Shabaab coming to
Juma?
I was with a few movies I was with a who was away last week and I was
with obey the law Evans will start and move the Abdul Rahman from Mr.
Now move to the rock man has a big turban on looks like he just got
off who to Teresa villa.
And ya know, obey the law Evans. We finished the program and they
cleaned it up. It was in the gym. Well, what do dudes do when the
gym gets cleaned out? Where's the rock? He saw the ball and up
there, man. It's like, oh, Beto, let's go.
Yeah,
y'all won't believe who won.
I'm gonna just leave it at that.
I'm gonna get oh, they're gonna see this video. I'm being
troubled. The Imam that has the jumper speaks the language of the
people and this is Koran. Or my artist said and I met Rasul in
elaborately Sani Omi Healy you begging Allah home. Allah says We
never sent the prophet except they spoke the language of the people.
The prophesy centum was made to be a businessman because he dealt
with so many he had to learn different people. I'll give an
example one more before we go forward, I deep Inhotim you have
to look deeply at his life to appreciate how he used his
understanding to elevate people. Deep Inhotim was the son of Hatem
authority. I gotta give you the backdrop because you got to know
who we're dealing with. hakama thought he was the richest man of
the Arabian Peninsula. He was he was so rich, that if you wanted to
just joke that somebody's rich, you call them hot and
that's how it's him right there. That's how wealthy he was. I
didn't hurt him. I didn't hurt him. Finally, he you know, gets
the Tofik to come to Medina. And he's considering Islam
considering it, the prophets of Allah he was salam goes and meets
him. He walks to him and he shakes his hand
and the first thing he says to him is I was waiting for the day my
hand touch yours cuz I would have been done right there. I shall do
Allah Allah Allah and shadow Allah. Muhammad Rasul Allah.
You've been waiting for me Allah I'm done. That sees you got my
heart. It still a little, you know, I'm not sure. So he grabs
the profit side. So I'm grabs his hand, and he begins to walk with
Him, holding his hand, showing how close they are.
And while they're walking,
an elderly woman stops him I shared some of this before she
stops him. And she starts talking and talking and the Prophet said
the lady was telling them he cared about each of the sheep in the
flock. So he just sat there. Yep, Auntie.
Id ideas like Man, this is a big guy politically, how is he have
the patience for this? No leader would do this.
She finished his talking. And one of the most beautiful things that
I read about who he was, I want us to walk away from this night truly
understanding who he was. The narration says that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if you reached out his your hand to shake
his he wouldn't let go to you let go.
I'm here for you. As long as you want me to be here for
I'm here as long as you need
until you let go. He didn't let go until you turned away. He didn't
turn to Me.
sallallahu alayhi wa sunnah? They go home. They're in the masjid
outside the prophets house sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It
says we were sitting talking and he's giving me Dawa. It is a big
person in society. All of a sudden, a man walks in. He comes
to the Prophet sallahu wa salam and what does he do? He's like, ya
rasool Allah is dangerous out there. I just came from such and
such, there is no safety.
The prophesy syndrome, he looks at ID, ID as a man of wealth, his
assets need to be protected. And he cares about the general wealth,
welfare, the prophesy centum looks at ID. And he says, Trust me, the
day is coming. When a person will travel from Yemen, all the way up
to all the way up to Syria, and not fear anything. He's giving him
assurance. He never said anything ideas like madness, Mattos. Then
Then another man few moments later, another man comes in. And
he starts to complain about poverty, the prophesy some CS
idea, this is a man of wealth, he's concerned about his assets
being secure. The profit looks at it and he says, You know what?
This man is complaining about poverty. But I tell you, the day
is coming, when the Muslim woman will have so much as a cup,
there'll be so much wealth, there'll be no one to take
anything.
Inshallah, listen, the beauty I want you to understand is he was
looking inside ID, what I want us to get from being a shepherd, to
trade for herbal tonic. From these two moments, the prophesy Salam is
in the School of Life, The School of Life, learning from what life
has to give us. What I want us to take away from that is whatever
Allah is putting you through, there's a deeper thing you need to
learn. Let me break it down. It's going to hit you with this one.
Use of it. Sam is a prophet of God. You know his story, beautiful
story, I sent a Kasasa. Right, the beaut most beautiful of stories.
Now check this one of the scholars they say he was he was captured
and put into slavery. And he was put into the house of the Aziz who
Mr. The House of the one of the main ministers of the of missa.
But he's a slave. Do you know that one of the scholars they said it
was because of what he learned in that house? That years later, when
the Pharaoh was having a problem, he says is agony. Allah has ended
up in the alamin Hafeet. He says, Oh, I could do this job. I learned
this already. Where did he learn it from?
What I'm trying to tell you is that you may be in a place in
life, where you're the most upset that I'm here. But Allah is like,
you don't understand. There's a lesson here, that you're gonna be
so happy you learned down the road.
There's a lesson you got to learn in this moment. Joseph was a slave
in the house of the minister, but that slavery allowed him to when
the moment came, become the leader of Egypt. I could solve the
economic problems of this country. Where did you learn that you won't
believe the story?
Where did you learn that? You won't believe the story.
These prophets were put where they needed to be to learn what they
had to learn for the job they had to do in the future. The same with
you.
Now, the question is will we be able to pause and allow ourselves
to learn from the
moments that were in
the journey Allah has.
The other thing that the prophets of Allah was salam taught us is
that business and trade teaches you the reality of people.
Meaning, true colors come out.
True Colors. This was a man who had to learn people and people who
had to learn who he was. Because before he becomes a prophet, we
need people to know who he is. Listen to this story one time oh
my god, the Allahu Taala on a man came to Omaha. This is a well
known story. A man came to Omaha in a hubbub. And he's like, you
know, there's a situation and you know, I have this issue. And Omar
said, well, I need a witness. I need a witness for you to bear
testimony that you're upright person. So he goes i No problem.
I'll bring someone this man goes and get someone and he brings them
and he goes to Ahmedabad and he says, I know this guy. I know this
guy. He's a good guy and it football. Football, Oman and Qatar
says the Asia entirely football. How do you know him?
But Allah Bala he's like he's a good guy. A dialer with Favell,
he's fair, and he's virtuous. Almost says for who? Ajaan Oka Is
he your neighbor? He lived next door to you. You see him in and
out. You see him pull out his driveway. Middle of the night.
Where you going, bro? Do you see him? You live next to him? He's
like no, I don't he goes okay. All My name is Tom says Now this the
point I want you to highlight he goes from America bid dinar with
did Han? Do you trade? Are you a business person with him? Have you
done business with him? Meaning either traded with him or been a
partner? The craziest thing is that a partner of yours in
business knows you inside out.
They know the deepest parts of who you are. Because when money is on
the table, people change.
And so your business partner knows when you tell a person Yeah, I got
it for 20 bucks. He like knowing good.
This Okay, we're gonna split the profit in anyway. So
rasuu Soliday was or might have been a cutoff says, Have you done
business with this man? He goes.
And then finally he says
have you traveled with him?
See, I was talking to one of them a friend of mine. And he was like,
man, if you take these long flights, like overseas, and you
sit next to somebody, and if you start talking, man, by the time
that flight land, you know that person inside out
14 hours on a flight back home somewhere and you just start
talking. You know the person can you imagine back in the day when
they would travel months. Time for Hutch. That's why the word suffer.
This is interesting. The word Sephora in Arabic means to open
something up to reveal. And they said that's because when you
travel, travel, it reveals who you truly are.
It shows who you truly are. Why am I bringing this up? Because we
find a beautiful story about the Prophet SAW ice Adams life. When
in this time of being from the age of 15 to 25 as a businessman. It
was fun to him maca. Oh man, we're just going into the future. It's a
it's a mecca. It's the conquest of Mecca. This is the day.
And Sam if his name is Sam Evans, Radi Allahu Allah. He was brought
to the prophets of Allah it was salam.
He says of man been Athan brought me to meet him.
With Mondrian Athan thinks the Prophet doesn't know who this man
is salatu salam, so of man, then the fun begins to explain what
yada yada, yada he starts to praise him. Hey, y'all rasool
Allah, you know, this guy side. He's a great man. He's this is
that Russell cisilion. He stops Othmani says Latos law totally mon
EB don't tell me about him. I know him.
Everyone's like, how do you know him? He says he was my business
partner. Back when I was 2627. We were in business together. Now
Subhan Allah for many of us. If a business partner from when we were
2627 came in the room.
Were like man, please keep it low key man. I wasn't the best person.
But also sly Selim says about this man. Listen to what he says. He
says all a cool tuna arm he goes yeah, y'all hospitalized me. And
he says net Messiah he will contact you to we're such a good
partner. Remember, you got to understand how well partners know
each other. For all asset if
he said, The Prophet said OSA you know, the o'clock that you used to
have back in the day when we were doing business. Take that same a
flock and put it into your Islam.
That's beautiful. A lot of us who convert or even just have a new
birth of Islam you were born facciamo but you
You know, you kind of came into this. You had beautiful qualities
in you just keep those and put them into the dean.
Put them into the dean, just add that on to the dean. So he says,
he says up on the UCLA Kaka, look at your character that you had in
Jackie Lea and put it into Islam. You took care of the guest, you
took care of the orphan, and you were good to your neighbor. And
then saw it says to the Rasulullah, sallAllahu, wasallam
marhaba MBRP Mashariki because he knows Him from before. Everyone
around him knows him. But also so Isola. He's like I know you from
before. So he says marhaba and welcome my brother was Seddiqi and
my partner and then he says these beautiful words loud today he went
out to Maddie you know, you never cheated anyone. And you never
argued argue with me. I want some of us in business in this room to
think about your own partner saying, well, Lajitas man never
argued with me once.
It speaks to who said he said Allahu Allah He was selling them
was
at the age of 20. The School of Life is teaching Allah wants him
to learn certain things. So guess what happens next. A war breaks
out with the quotation another tribe.
It was called heaven for John. The war of treacherous nests because
it happened in the Haram and in the sacred months.
The Prophet sallallaahu Salam has to learn what he's going to need
for the future. And this is what I want you to understand throughout
this whole series. The Scholars say there's two sides of the
prophets, Allah to send them. There's digital. There's the
Jamaat of the Rasool the beauty, but then there's the GLL of
Rasool, for all the strain, like when was hurt is broad shoulders,
and he's like, there's the beauty and the all Rosu Salatu was Salam
wasn't weak. He was strong, he was courageous.
Real quick, it was the Battle of other and I don't want to stay out
of the order, but we need to appreciate his strength to
Ali says when the battle of brother kicked off,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was the closest to the
enemy. And we were behind him like
but he was the closest
courage, strength. So at the age of 20, little suicides sent him he
tells us post after he says a war broke out. I was about 20 years
old. And I participated. He says I used to shoot arrows. And because
I was younger, my my uncle's made me pick up arrows that would fall
on the ground and then clean them and give them to them so that they
could shoot arrows. My point is he was a part of every aspect. And
there's one more thing I want to talk about, which is a beautiful
segue to just us in our world today.
There was a man zubaid The man who baby is a tribe as a Zubeidi man.
He came to Mecca Mecca as a place of trade and trade and commerce.
He came to Mecca in order to trade and do business. He had a deal
with a person by the name of Osman while
he gives us the money for the merchandise and US stiffs him
meaning he doesn't pay him and he's like oh no, you heard
us ask him hey, I paid Can you please can we finish the
transaction? He goes I don't know you I don't know you I don't know
you. And he walks away.
This is obey the man starts to go around the different tribes of
Mecca and plea for help. I need help I need help I need help
please help me
and everyone goes who asked me what oh no him
much like today when someone who we know is wrong is doing
something but it's that them doing it it's them doing it so it's not
the it's it's we got to ignore the wrong.
whole world knows whole NACA knows that US is wrong. And he's
committing injustice. Clear as day. But everyone is putting their
head in the sand because OS is doing it.
Things don't change at all.
That's why we study see it so we can get encouragement. What
happens? This is obey the man has enough. He goes on the top of
Jebel abiquo base, which is interestingly the same mountain
the prophet will go on 1520 years from now and give the call to new
Booyah. He goes on the top of the mountain and he starts to recite
the most beautiful poetry. He says yeah, Ali Fahad Lima, lumen Billa
atta Oh, try buffer her. He's talking to the Kurdish What about
the oppressed person? Here in the button of Mecca that doesn't have
any house or P
Paul Martin, I'm in the State of Iran. I shot my hair is disheveled
lamb Jaco, the O'Meara I haven't even finished my O'Meara and I got
cheated. Yeah. Lee Radziwill ouabain. And he will have God will
help someone near the * to us what's in the higit will help me
in Al haram. In that haram, this haram, this place is supposed to
be a place of honor. There's no honor in this place anymore. And
that's how we feel about the world right now. Where's the honor left?
What happened in that moment? Zubair been Abdulmutallab, the
prophets uncle. He hears this and he stands up and he goes, that's
enough, y'all. He goes to all the tribes. He gathers them together
in the house of Abdullah bin Jadon.
And in that moment, they make a treaty a pledge
that we will always stand with any oppressed person against the
oppressed, regardless of who the oppressor is.
Man, don't we need that again.
Regardless, I don't care who it is. And the beautiful thing I want
you to understand how the butcher the man, Muhammad became the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam. There came a time when
the Prophet was talking about stealing. And he said, Oh, Fatima,
save Yourself if You steal the HUD will be on you. Fatima, his
daughter, His most Beloved.
Meaning, I've learned from this moment, that wrong is wrong and
right is right. And the believer always stands where it's right.
What happened, they signed the pledge, everyone got up, and they
rolled deep to Osman while they grabbed the stuff from him, and
they give it to the zoob ad. What's beautiful though, and why
scholars talk about this moment till today
is that the prophets of Allah was set them later in life. He used to
say locka Dasha hit to feed daddy Abdullah Judah on Abdullah Bani
Judah on health and I saw a day in Abdullah bin Jaya the ONS house.
We signed the treaty liquid he says MA or HIPAA, Anna Lee Hamid
and none. I wouldn't trade anything meaning nothing in this
world can be traded for justice.
If See, here's the deal.
There is no price tag on justice.
There's no price tag. You can't buy it.
Because whatever how high you put it, you still sell out.
There can't be a price tag on justice. He says I wouldn't trade
the world
for that treaty, meaning I would give everything to be in that
moment. And then he says something deep, which is good for me and you
today. He says well oh do ARB Heath in Islam. And as a Muslim
because he wasn't Muslim here. Well, he wasn't a prophet at that
moment. He always believed in one Allah. He's like, if I was called
to this in the time of Islam, I'd still sign up for such a thing.
The Scholars say about this. This tells us that don't it doesn't
matter who it is, whether it be a disbeliever or a believer to
pledge and be with people that will stand for justice is
something that the prophesy system is telling us we need to be a part
of.
And that brings me as we conclude our session, and these last five
minutes, we all understand how
how much injustice we are witnessing. And we have all felt
helpless, not hopeless. We felt helpless. But we as young
Americans, and I'm speaking to a room of average age of what 25 I
think
we have to be a part of change.
We have to be a part of change. We have to show this country that
we're not okay. We have to do whatever we can to show the
country that we're not okay, well, what's going on? And so, this
weekend, there's so much going on just from the perspective of of of
primaries ending
roll of deep row shows on stickers right here.
Be a part of that show this world that you've crossed the Red Line.
And the red line is the red blood coming from our brother's veins.
Be a part of the change. Do what you can.
I don't know how you do it. There'll be people that are way
more educated in the political arena to tell us how to come
together this weekend there are rallies a number of them I got
message of I'm gonna share them all on my socials show up. But
there's also a part to politically show.
I'm not okay.
And in some of our areas in Dallas, we roll so deep, so deep
we could push people out office
but we like oh man, whatever. They don't matter anyway law.
Law. There are people in other countries that wish you had they
had
The ability to do what you have, which is put your your name on
something and say nah, I don't roll with this person.
So be a part of that. Well, however it is. There are rallies
this weekend. There's primaries that are ending soon be a part of
the change. This moment right here was a moment from when the
prophets of Allah was salam was being taught to be on the side of
justice. And he said, when it came to signing treaties, with people
who aren't even Muslim, if they're standing up for what is right,
count me.
And that's what I want to share with you as we end. We are
learning about this beloved man, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
salam. My hope is that if we don't get anything from tonight, we just
said some Allah Allah wa salam ala
if that's all you got, and hamdulillah but if for a moment
you felt closer, if for a moment you felt love if for a moment you
felt you knew him better? That's all we need.
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