Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #09
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The importance of learning from the prophets and finding a deep relationship with them is emphasized in the early years of Islam's life. The speaker emphasizes the need for shaking things up and investing in one's life, as well as the importance of being aware of the negative consequences of not being able to change one's religion. The speakers stress the need for progress and slow growth in society to protect against violence, and emphasize the importance of learning and growing in faith to protect against violence. The importance of protecting family members and the loss of loved ones is also emphasized.
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Smilla Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah
well Ali he was so happy he woman why Allah, Allah who may Inessa
Luca who Buck will help them and you help book will help the Ahmed
in your clutter Ivana e la Hibiki or hamara he mean we ask Allah
Subhana Allah to Allah to give us his love, we ask Allah Subhana
Allah to audit to give us the the love of the actions that will gain
his love. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to give us the love
of the people that he loves, I mean,
and most of all those that he loves, we know that there are
suicides that are suicides, Salem was the Beloved of Allah. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is Habib of Allah. And so
if we have his love in our hearts, then then Subhan Allah, one of the
scholars based on this hadith on would have been a kebab one day,
he said to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, he said the outer
suit Allah, I love you more than everything. I love you more than
everything besides myself.
And then also said Aloha day was salam he said to him, not yet Oh,
Omar, like you're not there yet. You haven't reached yet Oma.
And they say that, in that moment on whatever the cooktop he sat for
a moment, and then he looked down. And then a few moments later, he
looked up and he said, you know, sort of law. Now in this moment, I
love you more than my own self, the scholar and then there are
suicides and I'm looked at him and he said, on Yeah, Omar Al and
like, now you made it now you're there. And subhanAllah what's so
amazing, is as your Yaqeen or certainty about the Ophira. The
hereafter increases, the more you realize how much you've gotten
through the Rasul of Allah, who it was Allah, the more you have the
opinion and that's why the Rasul he said, in a beautiful narration,
law, you know, I had to come, none of you truly believes until you
love me more than you love your father, your son, when NASA G
marine And subhanAllah the scholars they highlight that the
beauty is when you realize how much you got through him. When you
realize what the Aleyda is, when you realize all of the things in
this dunya and akhira that were given through us through little
suicide Saddam and this where people don't understand because
the prophets I said them he said manlam Yes Quran Aslam. Yes, good
Allah. Like if you don't know how to be grateful to people, you
won't know how to be grateful to Allah subhanaw taala. And so if
this was the means by which Allah chose you selected, you guide it
you gave you levels in Jannah. How stingy and how ungrateful are we?
If we don't realize how much we should truly love the prophets of
Allah, they will send them what's crazy about the Hadith where he
said, even more than my own self, is Subhanallah your knifes your
knifes cause you to the things that will destroy you. And
Rasulullah sai sentiments calling you to the things that will save
you your knifes is calling you to everything every type of fire shot
every type of indecency, laziness addictions, all of this your
knifes is calling you to scroll constantly Rasulullah Salallahu
Salam is calling you to that which will free you. And so what O'Meara
the Allahu unrealized in that moment, is that if he truly loved
his soul,
then it behooves him to love that our suicide allottee was telling
him whose existence was the means by which his soul gained
salvation. So what are we doing whereas we're studying the early
years of the prophets of Allah, who it was salams life
and we are now in the first three years of his life, the first three
years of Nobunaga from the moment when Gabriel came and gave him the
message after the first revelation. The next message is
our sort of Muslim men and sort of Muslim male is all about priamo
Lail praying at nighttime. In the message there, it's right there in
the middle one of the surah after it talks about the virtues of
praying at night prayer at
Night is special. No one's around. It's that intimate moment between
you and Allah where no one sees. Allah subhana wa Tada says in
saloon they are like a coal and tequila, that we need you to get
ready. And in order to get ready for this message, we need you to
stand that night. And here's the deal, because
life is going to have trials. I just met her brother. He was like,
Yo, I'm struggling. I was like, join the club. Yeah, how many
brothers messaged me this week. We're like, Yo, we're struggling.
I was like, bro, I feel you post Ramadan and grind yo, be hard. I'm
struggling. But the idea is, we don't want to live without
struggles. We want to live with meaningful struggles. That's the
point. You know, there's no life without struggles. The one who's
chases a life without struggles, finds themselves addicted to every
type of thing. But the one who realizes that there's inherent
struggle in life, but what I need to get through that, to to storm
the weather is I need that deep, intimate relationship with Allah
subhanho wa taala.
And before I go forward, the only reason we didn't have Holika last
week, maybe some of you saw on social media, maybe some of y'all
pious ain't got social media mashallah
I don't encourage it. If you ain't on it, don't get on it.
But a close friend and shake of mine,
shake Tama
about 12 years ago, and I'm gonna get right to the seat, I promise
you but there's lessons in every moment for us a close friend of
mine when I first converted 22 years ago, he saw me in the masjid
one day, trying to fit in, you know, grow with the Muslims. And
he saw me and he kept seeing me in the masjid. ain't allowed people
to store you.
So he says to me one day he's like, Yo, why don't you go study
the deen?
I'm new Muslim just converted three months ago. Every new
Muslims dream and study the deen. That's it like Subhan Allah.
Long story short, He guides me to a place where I can study.
I give an application I'm hyped up I go in the room. I see all these
kids reading Koran and all these books written some ancient script.
You know, I mean, when you account for everything, it looks about
shoulder.
And then spinal there was tuition. Every school has tuition. When I'm
broke right out of high school, what am I going to pay?
His mother comes and says I'll pay your tuition
will lie he this woman for the next 10 years paid for all my
education.
Whenever I meet on timer, I say to her I say on time or how can I
beat you and Jana? Because everything I do you get it. She
just smiles like yeah, you know, I know how to invest. She's like, I
know how to invest. You don't even deny it. She didn't even deny it.
She's like, Yeah, yeah, no, you're right. Good investment, you know?
So she'll shake Tama 12 years ago, they went to Morocco, they adopted
a young boy
his name was Ilyas? No last name. No, no his parents. So he named
them Ilyas Islam
is Ilyas Islam and Helios mashallah he grew up near baton
Hasina.
He loved to wrestle. I have a video of his last wrestling match.
He loved to require on
they say he didn't like hips class, but he liked to read Quran.
Like they would just catch him in the masjid just blowing it like
reciting
well, about two weeks ago, a few days before the Holika Holika was
Wednesday, so this was Monday. So like on Saturday, he got an eye
infection he was totally fine.
Right after Ramadan he just told his dad they were gonna take him
to Morocco to visit he told his that he said Baba, I don't want to
go to Morocco. I want to go to Medina again.
I miss Medina.
On Monday, he passed away.
I infection spread to his brain and
he passed away
and what life I went to right away. So one reason we didn't have
Holika last week, I went right away.
And I was with Sheikh Tamar unknown this man for 20 years of
my life.
22 years of my life.
And Allah He He smiled. And he cried and he smiled and he cried.
But he said something so powerful. He sat there and he spoke to the
whole group of people in the masjid and he said, Well, Allah,
yeah, I'm happy with God's decree. He said, Well, Allah Yeah, I'm
happy with God, but it just hurts inside.
But in that moment, here's what I learned. You can be shaken but
still not broken.
And that's what a connection to Allah does. It allows you in this
world to be shaken life will shake you up. But it doesn't mean you
have to break with the calamities
And what I saw in OMO omit smile.
What I saw and shake tama is people that were shaking but not
broken. And they just kept saying and hamdulillah Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah
So, these early years of the prophets mission right after
revelation comes because the task at hand for the next 20 years is
going to be one that's heavy it's weighty. The first orders given to
the Prophet are stand at night because the prayer at nighttime
moments with solitude with Allah are what give you that anchor so
that when the waves are blowing, you stay settled.
I'm not saying it's not gonna get hard, it will get hard, but you
won't be broken by the calamities because your connection with Allah
is so tight and strong.
So the prophesy centum is giving Dawa and the numbers are growing.
The prophets lie send them close family Khadija, the Allahu Tada. I
lead the the daughters of the prophets of Allah is everyone
right around him, because they saw his beauty and every moment they
accepted right away.
And then the Prophet SAW Selim, he goes to someone very special, who
Allah selected to be with him. Say they say the same way Allah
chooses Ambia. Allah chooses the people that are around the MBR.
It's not a coincidence that aboubaker is where he is. He was
selected by Allah Subhan Allah to Allah, because Allah saw something
in his rule that made him be fitted to be with the prophets of
Allah, it was Sunday. So So the Prophet sighs to them cause Abu
Bakr Siddiq
and he says about Abu Bakr that the only person that didn't
stutter
the didn't like HeZI. hesitate.
Sorry.
The only person that didn't hesitate for a moment, the only
one when I gave him Dawa
was Abu Bakr Scindia now you can leave Khadija out because Khadija
was ready Allah waiting for no boy anyway. She's like it's supposed
to come now Right? Like, I knew you're a prophet. It was just
coming when was it coming? But from those who he called and gave
the message to no hesitation Abu Bakr Siddiq. What is Abu Bakr
Siddiq could do amazing Abu Bakr Siddiq because he knows people.
He's a businessman. He interacts with all of kudos, he knows people
so closely he immediately starts going to people who he knew would
accept positively and slowly but surely
a smile when I find all of these on the hand of aboubaker Zubair
then awam Abdullah man, Ben Oh, if we when we go through the Sierra,
you'll realize how great these people were. But the gateway for
them to get in was a bucket of deep calling them. That's why I'm
saying you have to remain grateful to the people that Allah chooses
to bless you through.
You have to remain grateful to the people that Allah chooses. You
can't say Oh, Allah would have gave it to me anyway. Why do I
have to thank you? Because the Prophet taught you let men lamb
Yes, Quran us. Let me ask it Allah, if you don't have the
capacity to be grateful to people in the means by which you're
blessed. In reality that's showing in gratitude God.
So even sad when it will cost still haven't obey the law, all of
these great people. So Islam is spreading. Islam is spreading but
it's not public. The prophesy Selim is walking up to individual
people who we trust, and he's giving them Dawa. He's like, I
want you to know this message. And people are responding. But who's
responding first, the poor and the slaves.
The message of Dawa like, like 15 years from this moment, I will
Soufiane who hasn't accepted Islam yet. He's going to be standing in
front of the leader of the Byzantine Empire. Miraculous. And
when he's standing in front of him, he asks a question to John,
he says, What are the majority? What what demographic? Are the
majority of the people that accept his message? Are they the wealthy
people influential people up Soufiane? He can't lie because of
the setup of the room. He says, no, they're mostly poor people.
And the message the response by this, this Emperor is, that's a
sign of a profit.
The lower people and the poor people in society are the ones who
don't have the arrogance in their heart, they see the message. And
when they see truth, they jump on it. They jump on it, they take it.
It was the simplicity of this message. It was the oneness of
God, the prophets of the light it was Saddam was saying, give up
these idols and just focus on God and he was speaking about the
social injustice is going on the oppression
We know this because when Jaffa goes to Hampshire and the king
Nejat she asked him, What's the message? What do you change your
religion for? He says we were messed up people. We oppressed
people. We didn't honor the families. We didn't honor Allah.
We didn't take care of neighbors until God gave us a prophet to
follow.
And that prophets lie Selim taught us to honor the family members
will lie he there was one message Sheikh Tamar, he said Elise used
to listen to every Wednesday.
He said he loved everyone's day Holika shake timer said one
message, love your loved ones dearly. Don't take people for
granted your life is too short to be petty.
Life is too short to be petty ya
hold your loved ones close. loved them as if it's their last day
because it might be
it might be so so when they asked Jaffa, Najafi says, Why do you
change your religion? He says, you know, you don't know we were
messed up people. We didn't hear what we ate. We didn't care for
our neighbors. The powerful consume the wealth of the poor.
And then Allah bless this and just changed everything for us. So now
the message is spreading. But I need you to understand how it's
spreading. There's no billboards, there's no public message is
spreading by individual word of mouth. But everyone is kind of low
key scared to publicly say it. Because they don't they know
there's gonna be repercussions to that message. So within the first
three years, there's 40, strong Muslims 4040, the US and the
prophets of the light is Salam said, Keep it low key. And this is
so important for me and you. Because in your journey, you have
to understand in the journey of Islam growth, there was a moment
when it was quiet an individual, your growth may have to be the
same way to
your growth may have to be the same exact way. It was quiet, keep
it low, you don't have to tell everyone. You don't have to
announce your changes can make them slow and keep them to
yourself. Why did Allah subhanho wa Taala choose and tell the
prophet to have this quiet phase so that we could get stronger so
that we can grow?
So what would they do? The prophesy Selim says study groups,
study groups are you got this guy? You got that guy?
Saeed bin Zayed is married to him would have been a cooktops,
sister.
And kebab is their study guide. He's in the house one day low key
like yo a new suitor dropped. I got you
got it on the manuscripts right where they can write it on.
And he's in the house and he's teaching them. I'm fast forwarding
but it's I want you to understand how the study groups worked.
See, see like the Holika is great. But sometimes and what I needed in
my first year of Islam was the individual teacher, someone that
would just sit there with me and talk to me about what I was going
through. So it was sort of lost I set them split everyone up. Aside
bin Zaid and OMA David Kotov sister Fatima they're in the
house. And kebab comes with a new suit as y'all keep it low. But
there's a new suit or what's the suit, it's called PA.
See, we take it for granted. But the Sahaba it was like, Oh, okay.
recited,
and he's teaching it to them, PA, resigning it beautiful. And
everyone's like,
and homework comes in, knock at the door and to be continued to
finish it next time. Because it's going to come. But my point where
there's the small groups,
and the dean was again, individual and secret. It was so sick, that
later people would say Yo, I was the 14th person to accept Islam
and other people like brah you were like 25
but they didn't know because it was low key. Everyone kept it to
themselves.
So what happened in this time, sort of start to come quickly.
But they're small suitors and and some scholars don't even like the
word small sodas. Because what's small of the Kurama of Allah?
What's smart, what's the what were small at but when we talk about
the the smaller sutras Subhanallah they all focus on one thing,
primarily, social reform. Clean your heart and a
strong belief in the Ophira that's the main message in Mecca. And
that's the main message for us who are beginning our journey back to
Allah. As I said, the more you're yet sincere certainty in the Aveda
here after becomes real, the more you love the prophets, Allah
Salatu was Salam. And that's what gives life to your dean. For many
of us, the Arcata is just, you know, subhanAllah I was with I
wasn't shake up the ramen, a shake up the ramen
from Detroit this weekend. And we were just talking about Aleta. And
it's not all my gatherings gonna be like this. This happened to be
like that. All right. I am just talking to offer to everybody,
right? You just happen to right.
So, so shake up, man. We were talking about death and something
and he said something deep. He was like there was this brother that
converted. Right? He's kind of from beats, they're from Detroit.
He's kind of from the streets. Right? And he had served the
masjid for a long time he was doing great work. And a close
friend of theirs who was also a part of the masjid passed away
suddenly.
And the young men who had converted, he said something that
stuck with a man and he shared it with me. When that meant that man
passed away, the young guy who had converted, he said something deep
and it's different because the vernacular language but the
Bedouin spoke so clear and clean. He Janna just got personal.
Meaning I got somebody there, I'm waiting to me. This whole game
changed now.
There's a Habibi that I used to pray with. That's in Jana now.
Heidi, Allahu Akbar, Jen that just got personal. And I know we were
like, that sounds weird. But if you listen to the heart and not
the words, you get what it means. So the mean so the early suitors
were all about our theta r theta, r theta, and shaker summit Uzziah
she says, what happened is these new Muslims these 40 Muslims begin
to walk around on earth but hearts in heaven
they're walking in a whole different world and I kid you not
when your heart becomes connected to the aka your bodies here, but
your mind and heart are the with the prophet and Allah and the
prophets.
So what happens?
These the Arcata becomes real for them. And the aka has to become
real because the moments of sacrifice are about to come. And
you won't be able to sacrifice until you have firm, firm, firm
certainty that gender is real and Hellfires real
so what are the suitors revealed? Was Shamcey what boo ha ha.
Beautiful.
What's the climax point of what Shamcey will do ha ha but the F la
hum Anza ca you're successful if you clean this heart out
either as soon as Xena till abuses Allah has revealed all about the
Day of Judgment How heavy are your deeds
and how come with the catheter the Saudis are coming now. But they're
all focused on the aka
moment something happens.
Created the buddy system.
And I said why do we need to know this? We need to know about this
buddy system for converts. Yes, but there's something else I want
to make us woke to Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam he said in the
Dean but a hurry. The dean started very strange 40 People misfits
kind of weird. What are y'all doing? Bowing down and stuff in
the Dean but as I read what's the oh do come up better? The prophesy
centum says and they'll come a day when it becomes strange again. But
then he said for to ballyhoura Glad tidings to the strangers.
Glad tidings to the strangers yo. You don't want to fit into a
profligate society. You don't want to be normal in a society that's
filled with sin. Now I'm different. I'm a little different
though. Rasulullah saw I said to him he taught us that when that
time comes in the deen is strange again. He taught us how to
preserve the deen buddy system. You'll
just meet up low key Where are you at? I'll teach you a new scenario.
I can't let my mom know Don't worry. I got you.
Worried
something happened? Saad bin Abby, what costs
one day him and a group of few months. They go out into a valley
into a valley they want to pray outside. Get some fresh air. So
they go out to the valley side but nobody will cos is teaching some
of the converts out
Pray and they're praying Psalm
and as they're praying salah the narration says either be GEMA
tenement And Moshe King. Yes hold on i They him well whom you said
Luna they're praying Salah and a group of young was a group of
young Quraysh start coming in that direction. You know youngsters man
making noise coming down the street. You can imagine the
picture here these Muslims are praying
Philomela to call home animals sneaking the machete cane they the
Qureshi boys, they start to mess with the Muslim because here's
what you got to understand. I truly want you to connect to this
word was spreading because these 40 Muslims were parts of, of
people's families. So word was spreading like yo, I heard there's
this new like, you're this new club. They're a part of, you know,
they're doing some weird prayers. They're reading this weird stuff.
And because there were so few everyone was like, Yeah, who
cares? It's a fate it'll go it will come and go.
So they see these Muslims praying
and abroad breaks out
and somebody hits Saad bin, it will cost and he falls on the
ground. And he picks up a bone of a camel that had died. He was just
found whatever he is and can reach for.
And he picks it up and he hits the guy. And the guy starts bleeding
and they run off. This is documented in Islamic history of
the first block of blood drop of blood shed in the path of God.
Now, a lot of y'all like, okay, yeah, fun fact. Cool. But you need
Subhanallah I remember in high school like, what's the shot heard
round the world?
Look at the Lexington. Hey, bro. I'm gonna pay attention to social
studies.
Subhanallah when we study, when we study history, when we study
American history, we know these things, but man, dang, that was
Paul Revere audit, right?
But when it comes to Islamic history, we're kind of just got
these vague understandings of things. So this in this valley
when these Muslims were praying, and a group of hooligans came
messing with them, and Saad says, I'm not going to take it.
I'm going to fight back in this moment, and he picks whatever he
could find and he hit some
and bloodshed in that moment. That was that was heavy.
Now that scared the Prophet sighs. They came back. Can imagine out of
breath, you know? Like you out of breath, hearts trembling. They run
back to the Prophet. It just went down. What went down? We had a
beef.
No, FurReal Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam when he found out
he said elitism and pollute. He said, That's it. Everyone stay
home. Stay home. We're not ready yet. Now I want you to understand
what I sort of lost I sent him was the most courageous of people.
When it's time to show bravery. There's no one that outmatches the
prophets of Allah who it was salam That's why they say if you want to
love him, what is there in him not to love.
If you love gentleness, you love him. If you love bravery, you love
him, and compassion you love him. What quality do you love that
anyone in this world has except that it's perfected in Muhammad
Sallallahu was suddenly
you know, bravery.
One day in Medina.
They heard this loud noise outside of Medina, you got to understand
Medina was always under attack. At any moment, something could
happen. So they heard this loud noise outside of Medina. And it's
in the middle of the night. It's not streetlights or nothing is
dark.
So all the men start to gather like yo, who's gonna go check it
out?
Here you go. You go.
I mean,
and in that moment, as they're still discussing, who's gonna go
check it out? The proper rides back in, meaning he already
dipped.
He didn't even wait for people. And he says Len Tada Hulan Tada.
Oh,
and it wasn't his horse. He just jumped on his horse. And he's like
whoever's horses fast.
And he was bare back on the horse.
Or a flute, allah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, beautiful,
they're still deciding. He's like, I'm already back. It's all good.
Nothing happened out there. Are they set up? So what I want you to
understand is as little suicides set them takes this, this path of
patience and take everything. Remember, this is a man that's
being forced to hold himself back when Allah says, go ahead.
You see what? bravery and courage he has within him.
So so so I sell him he got very worried at this moment.
It's not time yet. I haven't been told to go public. I don't want
y'all going through persecution on my behalf, I want you to stay
safe. So he told everyone we need a place to hide out in.
And I want you to realize in this moment that you have to use
whatever resource you have to help the dean, there was two young boys
outcome, an outcome and his brother.
They had inherited a house. And just so you understand this house
is right where suffer is right now when you do you and you do suffer
and Marwat. And you go up, suffer a little bit. Some of you, I'll be
going all around, you gotta go all around, just go
right on suffer, where we do tilaka and you go up right there.
That's where his house was.
He had a house,
the Muslims would, in the middle of the night, when everything
calmed down. And groups of two, three, they would go through the
alleyways and then come into his house, that our outcome becomes
the place of education, it becomes the place of learning, it becomes
the place where if you're a Muslim and you don't have nobody else,
sometimes you come to just to see a believer to
those of us that were in households where there is no
Islam, you just be coming to say someone or they go
you just come to the masjid just so I can say salaam to somebody be
around Muslims here something good.
So Dr. Arcam became that place, what place the place where people
could come together.
The prophesy centum says Everyone stay home until everything calms
down. Three years passed like this. And there's only 40 Muslims.
And something great happens. A moment happens.
Progress should be gradual, but you gotta keep progressing.
That's my next message. As we read this. The dean is all about slow
steps, increments. That's what we're learning right now. But
don't get stuck. Keep moving forward.
Move slow, but move forward. Keep growing in your faith.
So just as three years and we're getting comfortable with the low
key message, everybody's getting comfortable sneaking into doubt at
Arkham everybody's getting comfortable with their study
buddy. Allah subhana wa Tada says, no, no, no, this has to progress.
And two verses are revealed.
While I did Aashi that's at Cal carabin.
Allah subhana wa Tada says
and warn
and warn your close family members
another vs fuss doc Bhima to what I earn in machete King walk fifth
Jana Hakka little more meaning
first Dobby Mahatma
the words foster in Arabic. If you read the English translation it
says proclaim but the word foster actually means when you like
shatter glass. And the idea was that this message we had the How
about this we had to rip the band aid off. There was no easy way to
bring La ilaha illallah to society acceptable.
Yes, we stayed quiet as long as we could. But there was a moment
where Allah subhana wa Tada said, Yeah, Mohamed Salah who is ache
it's time to take the message out.
This was big.
The first one did I shouldn't take a look, Rob Acrovyn versus in sort
of Shuara.
It's in a sutra that is surrounded by the story of Moses.
That's heavy.
Because if you have a job to do, and this is what we all have to
understand, even he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam needed an example
to follow for inspiration.
Like the whole surah is about about Musa alayhis salaam saying
like how can I bring this message to Pharaoh? How am I going to do
this against the odds? How am I going to but over and over in the
sutra, he sees the help of God helping Moses. And so the lesson
for me and you is that in this Surah it says if Allah subhanaw
taala saying oh Muhammad, you can do this to just look at the ones
who walked this path before you and I'm saying that to me and you
because you know see the I miss O'Rourke. He says something deep.
He says if you want to make a change in yourself,
look at the righteous people. Now this doesn't fit for some of us.
Some of us are converts but the message is still beautiful. He
says look into your family, your your your the city you're from the
country you're from and look for the righteous people from from
your peeps. Why because you can gain inspiration
I, from that from you, from people from you. I kid you not
every like six months, I got to pick up Malcolm Mexico.
I'm feeling like come on and Hutch, let's read brah
you did it I could do it to
the story of Moses is telling the prophesy sudden, you're not alone.
Oh my beloved. You're not the first to walk this path. And why
am I saying that to you? Because walking on campus with a scarf on
you're walking in, in class with a whatever because you're praying in
public, I don't know what you're doing. You're repping the dean and
the what you feel is that you're alone and the first thing you got
to realize is you're not alone.
Siddhartha leadin animala who I am mean in the beginning was to
detain what you had done was sorry, he will have sooner Oh,
like Rafita this is the path of the truthful, the righteous, the
only other friends of God. And then Allah says at the end, well
Hasina hola Karateka
was the best people to roll with.
That's my translation.
That's what means that's the best company right there. You're not
alone on the path. Shape on want you to be alone. So this surah the
prophesy centum gets the command. It's time to make the take the
message out. Now before I go forward, you have to connect to
his heart. What I mean by Connect is understand his heart. You
understand what he was going through psychologically inside.
The narration is beautiful.
The narration says
this is narrated
by Jeff had been Abdullah por la Manasa. Let's Allenby what I did
as a theoretical accordion when the verse was revealed, y'all
rasool Allah, warn your family.
Now the Prophet knows I gotta take it public.
Abdulmutallab, his grandfather had 10 sons. That means the prophets
family is big.
And Allah has commanded him give them Dawa.
The narration says when he got this revelation, it said that it
was very hard on him. Well, vaca B he thought and he was very worried
he was, he was stressed.
The narration says for Mecca, shahada, and he waited one month
jadie sent the beta he sitting in his home, how am I going to do
this? How am I going to call them? What's the best method? What I
want you to understand is this was a man that was by nature shy. He
had to overcome in order to do what God wanted him to do. Like a
lot of us think like he just had all these things enemy was ready,
love, or suicide was extremely shy person.
But But when the command of God comes, and I truly believe in the
hereafter, it's the Mujahid the jihad, the jihad, of overcoming
the nups
so he sits in his home for a month
and thinking what am I going to do?
Some of the other Muslims came your suit Allah what's wrong? We
see you're not doing your normal movement. And he told them he
says, Allah subhanaw taala um, at any he's commanded me to tell all
of my family up till now, for three years he's never given Dawa
to the family publicly. Rumors are spreading people are saying oh, we
heard your your nephew Mohammed talking about some stuff. Some
Allah who it was sudden, but there's never been a public
moment.
What happens
the ration is beautiful.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
he he's worried about Abu Lahab he has this one uncle that's really
against him. He's heard the rumors. He sees the potential of
this message to mess up their economic well being he sees it
going against tradition. And this is the hard part for many of us.
Because becoming a practicing Muslim sometimes means going
against the family. The family the family sometimes you
move to toe
Oh no. And now you are pious now Okay, cool.
So the Muslims they say alright, call everyone but don't call Abu
Lahab the prophesy seems like that's a great idea. Let's do it.
He tells it because Ali's his young son like right, he says
Ollie, go slaughter a Go Go purchase the leg of Allah and
purchase some book and call my uncle's.
Call all my uncle's over.
And ants because Sofia was there.
About 45 People gather in the house of the prophets of Allah who
it was sending them.
The narration is beautiful.
wanna read the narration to you?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gathers everyone in the
home
was sad i Either he Abu Lahab Abu Lahab didn't get an invite, but he
still pulled up.
Hello to
everyone came in everyone came from the family Ben who has mental
Abdulmutallab. The prophesy Saddam has a job to do is difficult for
him, but he has a job to do.
The prophets of Allah who it was sending them, he has the food
served. And Ali, he tells us, he's like I'm serving the food.
And when I bought the food, I thought 45 people, I bought enough
for one person.
The Prophet said, Don't worry,
don't worry.
And they began to serve the food. And Ali says, Wallah you I saw a
man after man eat to his full, but what Allah He the time everyone
finished eating the food was just as it was before. He says, I saw
the miracle of the Prophet in my face. sallallahu alayhi wa salam,
then the prophesy son said, bring the milk.
He brought the milk and it says This is milk for one person.
The Prophet says Bismillah share the milk. And one by one, he gives
the cup to each person and they drink and they drink and they
drink. At least the last person. I'm not going to get anything to
drink. He says it was as if no one touched it.
In that moment, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
stands up for the Russell's. I Selim, you read it, it's a Kalam,
he's about to speak. And Abu Lahab jumps up.
Man, let's dip, whatever he's about to say. We don't want to
hear it. We're not here for that right now. We came to eat. We
don't have anything to do with this new trend you started. We
want anything to do with it.
And the moment he said that the rest of the uncle's got up and
they left the prophesy. Salam felt like I failed. I didn't get my job
done. Two, three days pass Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
He tells it call everyone back again.
Call everyone even if Ebola comes, call them off. And they all come
back.
And now as they're eating, I'm not gonna wait to finish this time
as they're eating and I want you to listen. Because what I'm about
to say is something you've heard before. But in the Islamic history
is the first time is being said. The Prophet saw what he was
telling me he stands up and what does he say? And hamdulillah Madhu
who are studying you know who will you know be? Well, so actually
watch her do Allah, Allah, then words we hear all the time.
I praise Allah.
I glorify Allah. I ask Allah for help. I believe in Allah. And I
trust in Allah.
I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and he has no
partners. Now listen to his first speech.
First moment, giving Dawa to me and you.
He says, in the raw eliaquim Allah.
He says the, the one cent ahead doesn't lie to his people. The raw
someone you send the head of the army to check things out and comes
back and says, yeah, it's all good. Let's keep going. So he
says, I'm like somebody that's been sent ahead.
I'm here. I saw what's in the office. I know what's ahead of
you're in the grave. I know what's coming. I know it already. I'm
just telling you what's ahead of you. And that's our reality.
What's in front of you for Aina Tez hub boom. Where are you going?
Where are you going? He says, let's listen to his speech.
The one cent ahead doesn't lie to his people.
Wallahi I swear by God low kids up to NASA Jimmy and if I was to lie
to all people, maca Deb to come, I would never lie to y'all.
Without rottenness Magara to come. If I was to trick everyone, I
wouldn't trick you.
Wala Hila de la ilaha illa who I swear by God and imagine these
words in the Rasulullah helium Cossington what Elena's CAFA 10.
He says, I swear by one Allah, that I am a prophet of God sent to
you specifically, but also to all of humanity. While Allah He
listened to this first eclipse by yah, well Allah he let her Mouton
Kamata Namo, Wallah, you're going to die the same way you go to
sleep every night, whether to buy iPhone Nicoma to stay up the
winner, and you will be resurrected the same way you wake
cup in the morning. Well, that's who has abandoned me my time I
don't and you will be judged for what you did in your life. Well,
that chooses a winner bit, son, son and and you will be rewarded
for the good with good and the evil with evil. And at that point
there anywhere in the halogen lead gen. Abaddon, I will announce it
on a button and it will be either paradise for eternity or the
Hellfire for eternity.
We're in the Kume the O lumen under you are the first ones I'm
warning. You know what's so beautiful. The message starts at
home.
The message starts at home y'all
spend time
first of all, if you have Muslim family members say Alhamdulillah
I don't care how pious they are how much they pray don't pray
cover don't cover I don't care that Leila
because what Allah He what I would give to have my family say Leila
will lie he that's so special.
Allah guide our families.
May Allah guide our families
the prophets Allah He was said to me, he says
my family were Matthew Conecuh methodology then what I do, he
says my, to us is like a man who saw the enemy already, who ran
back to warn his family. He's like, I'm just here to warn y'all
what I saw already.
Paula Abu Talib
so in this moment, there's silence. He says Will anyone
support me?
First thing he's calling is to believe in me.
Okay, no one wants to believe Okay. Will you support me? The
room is pin drop. Silence. Hamza is quiet. Abbas is quiet. A Bob is
quiet.
No one's saying anything.
And you know what the silence breaker is?
Young boy. 10 years old Isley. He says I'll support you your rasool
Allah.
I'll support you.
The uncle start laughing
Oh, you got your support their mom.
He'll help you conquer the world. He'll help you.
But it's a beautiful moment.
And that moment,
Abu Talib gets up.
And he says,
I'll protect you do what you gotta do. I can't give up the way of my
forefathers. But I won't let anyone bother you. Because right
before that, Abu Lahab. He said, I told ya, I told ya, we should grab
this man up before anybody else because he's our family members.
We should grab them. And I will thought if he goes no,
don't touch him.
My father said there will be a special state for this boy.
And then that prophesy centum everyone got up and they left the
room. He gave Dawa to everyone. He ripped the band aid off. And there
was another verse that was revealed at that time too, which
was
you start at home and go to the next verse. I just want us to
understand the value of family and that your Dawa and your kindness
and your goodness, all the goodness you have let the most of
that be Bibi be used on your family.
A lot of us give our goodness to the world and and the rest of the
family law. Let your goodness be for them. The responsibility
starts with them. But also the loss I set him was told to first
before you can give the message to anyone else. And subhanAllah look
at the stage. First he called Khadija close family. Ali close.
Then three years later, he calls his uncles.
They didn't respond positively. They didn't know what to think.
And now the next page
this narration is found in all the books of Hadith. And we'll
probably end with this one. It's a powerful moment.
I will hold ADA narrates that the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam
had received the revelation of warning the people
and the prophets of Allah hottie was Selim this shy, beautiful man
who three years ago was saying, are they going to kick me out of
the city they love me. This man who everyone knows as a sodic
Amin,
the one who if you need to give something and you need to protect
it, you give it to him because he will never never betray you.
He climbed Mount soft
He stands at the top of Mount suffer.
And he yells the alarm of war.
This message is serious. He pulls the fire alarm.
He yells the call for war.
Yeah, so I've AHA Yeah. So
everyone's like, what's going on? They all collect themselves at
the, at the at the bottom of the mountain. And not only that he
starts naming families. Yeah, Bill McClellan. Yeah. Abdullah, Benny
Hashem calling one by one. The whole city comes a city of
20,000 15,000 people, they all start, and the ones who couldn't
come came, they send someone, go figure out what's going on over
there. Muhammad is calling everyone
they gather at the foot of the mountain.
Imagine what the profit is going.
Are they set out to a set out.
And at the top of the mountain as everyone gathers for Giada Rajul
everyone started to come one by one. Abu Lahab his uncle came of
course and everyone else.
That was suicide. Saddam said some powerful words we should really
reflect on he says, in about to come and heyland taku. If I told
you that there was an army behind the other side of this mountain,
see what you have to understand is the word nubby means to be
elevated,
elevated on top meaning vantage point others aren't privy to.
And there'd be literally never, it means when something is elevated.
I see what you don't see.
The only thing here is whether you trust me or not. But everyone
knows for the last 40 years of his life. There's never been a man so
trustworthy as Muhammad sai said. They said it.
Building the Kaaba sadhika mean,
standing at the top.
He says if I told you there were enemy on the other side of this
mountain,
would you believe me?
They said
modul rubner Alagar kibin We've never heard you lie in your life.
And in that moment, once they've admitted that he says yeah, Masha
Quraysh save yourself from the fire for any law Agana and Cuming
Allah He che i won't be able to save you.
I won't be able to save you. He calls tribe by tribe and he says,
I won't be able to save you. I won't be able to save you save
yourself from the fire save yourself from the fire.
For in the LA family cooler coming Allah He che ah, it's whether you
believe in Allah or not. I can't help you unless you believe and
want to help your cells. And in that moment, Ebola, everyone's
quiet. What there's a moment when the truth comes to you. And you're
there to reflect on it and someone has to throw it off a little bit.
You know, everyone's thinking is really deep. And someone's like,
let me just break all this up.
So Abu Lahab yells, turbine luck, destruction to you. Is this why
you gathered us to here to talk about this heaven in this this
hereafter? What matters? Is this life. No other life is this life.
Is this why you gather us we were busy at work. And when I will live
says that everyone starts to disperse. The message got out. It
hit the hearts, the seed was planted.
And this is how the message becomes public to the people. So
beautiful beginning of the revelation. And from this point
on,
things change, because now it's no longer with times.
Okay, eight minutes, okay. From next week, we go through a
difficult moment in the prophets mission, where now anyone who's
known as a Muslim who doesn't have backing goes through tremendous
torture and difficulties for this religion. And it's important to
read these stories because you realize how much people sacrifice
for only one reason to hold on to this Deen. That was all they were
holding on to and when you read