Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #10
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We ask Allah subhanaw taala to alleviate the suffering of our
brothers and sisters and Philistine. We ask Allah subhana
wa Taala to give strength and protection to all of our brothers
and sisters who are protesting the oppression and feel the sting. We
ask Allah subhana wa sallam to protect them, to strengthen them
to fortify them and keep them strong. We ask Allah Subhana Allah
to Allah to alleviate the suffering and Sudan. And what may
Allah subhanaw taala bring peace and justice back to Sudan as well?
May Allah subhanho wa Taala always keep us on the side of hock and
truth. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala allow this gathering to be a
gathering by which we increase our love for our Habib sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, because our love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa salam, it will give us the ability to go through the
difficulties that life will give us. Last week I mentioned that
life is not about having no struggles. It's about having
struggles that are worth struggling for. And and if we look
at the lives of the Sahaba the people around the Prophet peace
and blessings be upon him and if we look at total suicide Saddam
himself first, we see someone from that the moment this message was
given to him the moment he got it. And Allah subhana wa Tada set the
tone for and from that moment, he stood up and he warned people, but
it wasn't easy, because whenever you're bringing truth to people,
there are some people that don't want to hear it. They don't want
to hear it because it's going to upset their lifestyle is going to
upset how they're living. And so last week, we were talking about
this moment where the prophet said a lot he was telling them receives
revelation while under Ashida to Cal carabin. Allah subhanho wa
Taala told him now it's time for you to warn people publicly. So he
gathered his family and he gave Dawa to his family. And none of
his family was ready to accept none of them were ready to help
him. The only people ready to support him were his uncle Abu
Talib, and Adi Radi Allahu Allah, and it was only eight years old.
He was only eight years old. And then right after that, well,
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has given the verses first
that the MA took mother that take this message public, like it's
time for this message to go to everyone Rasul Allah sigh send
them goes on the top of Mount so far. And he gives this first clip,
but he gives this first lecture this first talk this first dollar
to everyone. And from that moment, people started to come into Islam
very slowly. And by the time three years had passed, there was a
handful of Muslims only about 40 Muslims. And what we mentioned,
which was critical, is that in the beginning stage, in the beginning
phases, the message was a quiet message. It wasn't everybody out
in the open. It was that people stayed to themselves because there
was too much aggression outside there was too much difficulty and
hardship that would come to accepting Islam.
But word got out. The moment the prophets a lot, he was setting
goals on that mountain, he gives the message publicly, from that
moment on everyone now is hearing about this message. And so within
a short time, there wasn't a single house in Mecca, except that
somebody had taken the Shahada. Somebody had connections with the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
And so what happens? The Quran at first they were like, you know,
who cares about this small group of people, these youngsters they
were all young. They were all young. Because when the when the
when the young see oppression, when they see wrongs, when they
see things in society that needs to be changed. They had that
energy to change it. It's the uncles you know, you
I don't even look at me like that.
It's the angst that don't want to change. It's the angst that like,
man keep it the way it is. Huge Ottawa. Yeah. Where are you going
over there?
Where are you going? Just chill out home, stay home, no need to
go.
No need to go just stay at home. But the youth were like, No,
there's wrong in society and, and what this message brings, it not
only brings the change, but it brings the motivation behind the
change. See, what we have that others don't have is that we're
doing this because this is God's message. We're doing this because
this is revelation that Allah subhanaw taala told me to stand
for justice.
Most I've been on air
tonight is all about sacrifice. That's all it's about. It's all
about sacrifice. And the message that I wrote this down as I was
taking notes, and the Sahaba
they would never sacrifice this Deen for every anything. Because
for the deen, they sacrificed everything.
They would never there was nothing you could give them to tell them
yo, skip a prayer. Nothing you could give them to be like, Yo,
just give up on this. Why? Because of what they went through in those
days. They went through everything and because of that, Allah
subhanaw taala then realized that they were ready. They were a *
as the word ahead means you're suitable you fit the bill, they're
ready now.
And then Allah subhana wa Tada gave them control gave them power.
And then when given power, they were just because they went
through that must have been even Oh, man.
He's a young man and Maccha
1718 His mom is very wealthy,
very wealthy.
And he hears rumors like yo,
there's this there's this new like little movement. Little woke
movement.
Right, the all the uncles hate. See, the uncles didn't realize by
hating it, they were bringing more attention to it. The more they
preached against Islam, the more they spoke negatively about the
profit side settler. People were like, And subhanAllah it's so
beautiful. I'm someone who converted after September 11.
And it was nothing but CNN like Oh, Islam is this Islam is that
and I'm like, Alright, let me see. You open the Koran and you're like
Allah the light shining out the book.
So most I've been oh man, he's a young man.
And he heard the narration is beautiful. It says that
Canada 10 Fatah Mecca. He was the they don't even said a young man
of Mecca. They said he was the young man of Mecca. Like he was he
was he was him. Right? He was the one
chef and Jim Allen, handsome, striking.
And, and not only that beloved to his parents, they loved him only
son only kids, they loved him.
His mother was wealthy. So she made sure that he had on the
nicest clothes all the time. And not only that, they say kinda I
totally I totally reject. He had the best perfume best cologne. He
walked by they say we knew most I would walk by. He was on the
street a few minutes ago because we could still smell the beautiful
smell. But here's the deal. For the people that were older, wealth
was stopping them from accepting this message. See, the reason why
people don't want to go against the injustice even though they
know us injustice is because anything that messed them up
economically, that's the bottom line. That's the bottom line. And
so the people of Makkah, Abu Jahad, well, even leader, all of
these people we're going to talk about in a moment. The real reason
why they didn't want to accept this message was not that they
didn't know he was true. They knew he was true. When they were by
themselves, they were be like, Yo, like, he's the hug. Yeah, but we
can't accept it. And why couldn't they accept it?
Because the money ran too deep.
The money ran too. And if it sounds like I'm speaking about
today,
it's because our lessons for our lives today lie in our seat of the
prophesies.
If anyone thinks that he's not relevant, you haven't understood
how relevant Muhammad is to your life. either. He stood out to us
and I'm in every moment of his.
It doesn't change the stories of his life, but our lives change and
bring new meaning to it.
So they feared this message and I'm gonna get back to Musab in a
minute but I want you to understand why they oppose him.
They oppose him because they said we're the center of idolatry.
We're the center we produce weapons I mean, we produce
as idols,
we produce the idols. And so if if, if this new religion that
teaches peace and no war, I mean, oneness of God. If this new
religion comes,
our whole economy is going to crumble.
Our whole economy is going to crumble. And they said, so they
said, we have to do whatever we can to make sure this little woke
movement doesn't spread.
And so they did whatever they could. And so the first thing they
did, the first thing they did, is
they, the first thing that they did I want to go in the right
order. The first thing that they did is Abuja had Walid bin Mahira,
Abu Lahab, a few others of the notables.
They got all together, and they're like, this, this man, Muhammad, so
I sell him He's persistent. He keeps passing on this message. So
what are we going to do?
The first thing they do, it's a tribal society. And so in a tribal
society, you just got to go to the uncles of the family to take care
of the youth. So the first thing they do is go to Apple Flyknit. I
thought it was high on the rank. They can't touch Muhammad sai
Salim was able to live there.
So they approach I will call him
and they say some words to him.
And they tell him like this man is cursing our idols. He's spoiling
the minds of our youth.
He's teaching them the alcohol is wrong. He's teaching them women
have rights. He's teaching them about prayer to one God.
He's spoiling our youth.
So Abu Talib, they leave.
I will call him because the prophets of Allah who it was
Sunday.
And he says these words that I wrote verbatim what he said,
because it really allows you to connect to the heart of the
Prophet. So I sent him what was he satellite instead of going through
as people are following him and the numbers are growing, but
things are getting difficult. What's his heart going through? So
I will call him because the prophets I send them and he says,
you have an RV. Hey, nephew,
your people have come to me. And they said, Kedah they said this
they said that.
So he says for about the I lay Yeah, well Allah enough sick. He
goes, take it easy on me. And take it easy on yourself. Do not put on
a burden on me that I can't bear.
In this moment, the prophets of Allah he was salam had fear. He
was worried because it sounded like Abu Bakr lives tone was
changing as if he was going to forsake the prophets I sell them
and not support him. Up until this moment, I will Talib said, Don't
touch my, my nephew. He special Don't touch him. So in that
moment, the prophets I said, I'm thought I know Kedah Bedelia. And
he feels
like he thought maybe his uncle had changed his mind. And then he
would hand them over to the code ah.
Now don't forget a few years later, he passes away and now
liquidation sale was fair game now. And things changed for the
profit sighs but at this moment, he's alive. So he says these words
before we go forward. One of the things that's very difficult in
this moment is that the Prophet sallallaahu Selim wants ease for
people. He was so gentle in his heart. He never there was one
night, there was a day when one of the prisoners there that he they
were in the masjid sleeping, and he was in the bed. This is way
later in the season, but I need you to connect to his heart before
I finish this story.
He the Prophet was tossing and turning next to Aisha, and she
finally is like, Yo, you like what's up?
What's up? And he says, No, I'm sorry. But I'm worried about the
prisoners that they're not too tight and that they're
comfortable. He's losing sleep over people. This man was deeply
connected as easily either he might I need to. This is Koran.
He's deeply hurt by what pains you.
Now, on top of that, I need you to understand that people are going
through torture, punishment, physical abuse, emotional abuse of
every time that we will read in a moment, and it's all because
they've accepted what La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool Allah and
now his own uncle goes, Can you take it easy on me? This is being
said to a man whose heart was already gentle. But here's what
you need to ask Allah. Oh Allah make me strong for your sake, and
weak for my own.
Oh Allah make me strong where you want me strong? See a lot of us we
were strong when when our knifes wants to get strong. When
something goes against us, we yell out we throw a tantrum, we're
vocal.
But we want to have that same energy.
We want to have that same energy for Allah for the dean, not just
for my knifes. So he looks at his uncle who, who just said, Can you
please take it easy on me? So I want you to understand how that
empathy he must be feeling in that moment. What does he say? He says
yami Oh, Uncle
Wallahi
if they placed the sun in my right hand and the moon in my life,
if they gave me everything in the world, and asked me to give up
this religion give up this transformative way of life, that
will bring clear to everyone around the world for 1400 years me
and you sitting today gaining benefit from all Allah, all of us
who the words that he said, he said, if they gave me everything,
in order for me to give up this Deen.
He's like, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to die in the process.
And then the narration says to start, though, may start about
Arasu. Then he choked up, some Allahu Allah, he was setting them,
because he's talking to his uncle who he knows is going to have to
as long as he's living, put up with the difficulties coming from
this message. But here's the thing, this is a non negotiable.
This isn't negotiable. I have to give this message. And guess what
he had to give it and the ones who take it. They took it and said we
can never let go of it.
It's a non negotiable you could do what you want. But I'm never given
up this Deen.
So what happens to Rebecca and he starts to weep. He sal Allahu
alayhi wa sallam broken that moment in front of his uncle. He
wasn't made of stone.
He wasn't made of stone. His heart was soft. But he had resolve and
he asked Allah to give them resolve. And that's what we need.
ask Allah to give you that.
Then he turned around, the Prophet got up, what can you say?
What could he say? So Melania sentiment, there's nothing you can
say. So he gets up, he stands away, and he starts to walk away.
tears rolling down his eyes. So the Allahu alayhi wa salam.
And as he's walking away, his uncle calls him he says, Come
back.
Come back. He looks at him and he says, Keep going
on, never hit you off. Keep going, do what you have to do. Do what
you have to do. I'll be there for you. The prophets I sent him his
giving this Dawa. The prophet is public. But the Muslims are low
key. Some of them. There's a story of a few people, I want you to
connect to them. So you understand what they went through in the
early days.
Before I go forward, who they thought he was one day sitting
with a bunch of people after so these are tabs and these are
people who never saw the profit slice i love.
And so they're sitting with him. He saw the profit side. He lived
with him.
They said, What was it like having him around? They were students.
And then they said, man, if he was with us, he this profit, we would
have carried them on our backs. His feet wouldn't have touched the
ground. And right there who they first said Jota Jota.
He said something deep, I want you to hear, he said, never wished to
be present where Allah kept you absent from you don't know how you
would have turned out there.
That's heavy. That's heavy. Because they're like, yeah, if I
wasn't Sahabi you know, Oh, he didn't being out of it handled out
to be right there.
If I was there, I you know what I would have done that's what they
were thinking. A lot of us we look back at the civil rights of, you
know, 1970s we look back at different times, and we're like,
Man, if I was there.
I was there bus boycott man.
Who they first says no, don't ever wish you were in a place that God
kept you from why? You don't know how you would have been turned out
you think you would have been able vaker you may have been able Jad
you fill me. You fill me No, seriously. So so never. And
sometimes before I go forward, sometimes we read these narrations
about when the digital comes. And we know the Prophet taught us at
the time of the Jazz is a very difficult time. And someone you're
young, you're kind of like
in a weight room. Got those new sheet on you know?
And you're like when he comes and the Prophet said love. Don't wait,
don't ask for that. Because you really don't know how you will do
in that. Yes, brothers and sisters, when Allah puts us
somewhere, we hold firm and we asked a lot to make his patient
but never asked and wish that you were put in a place because you
don't know how you would have turned out
So
who they have in Yemen. He said, he just corrected him. And so I
want to read these narrations of what the Sahaba went through in
this moment. What did they go through?
The Quraysh had to come up with a plan. Because how much time was
coming? Hutch time means all of the tribes of the Arabian
peninsula are going to be flooding into Mecca. They did Hajj before
Islam. So they will all be flooding into Mecca. But there's a
problem in Mecca. Our young boy Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is spreading these ideas. And we don't want outsiders to
know what's going on in the family.
We don't want that trouble spreading.
So we'll even movida Abuja has all of the head. People that were
against the Prophet, they sat in a room.
And Allah tells us about this in the Quran in a community, Holy
machteld. They didn't know what to say.
One of them they say, you know, why don't we say?
Why don't we say he's a poet?
Because
I mean, it was it was it was beautiful. The Koran was
beautiful, they couldn't deny it.
They would get caught listening to him in private.
Some of the above Soufiane and others, they would agree make sure
everyone stands away from him stay away. And they would catch each
other at nighttime by his door listening what you're doing here
what you were doing here.
But they would be listening to the Koran because it was it was
addictive. It was so beautiful.
So they said let's call him a poet.
Well, he had been Mahira.
See, everyone's trying to give a narrative to who we are, right?
Everyone's trying to write our narrative.
The prophets I send them they said, let's call him a poet. While
he'd been a leader. He goes now hold on. Yeah. You know, I know
poetry the best. The art of they loved poetry. Sometimes when they
were bored, they would just sit in big circles. And one person would
start,
start freestyling basically. And then they would just pick it up
and keep going. And once you if you couldn't keep it going, you
lost you got to get out the circle.
I'm just telling you what they used to do. So they loved poetry.
When even a lady goes I know poetry. This man isn't a poet,
because now this is deep. Arabic poetry has meters in certain
styles. And the Koran was breaking every style but more beautiful
than any style. So they would hear it and they be like it doesn't fit
in this style. You remember and this is our mashallah you remember
those different type of English Paul? Hi, cool is that whatever.
That's a you know, any other types?
Whatever, anyways,
they would listen to his poetry. It's like it doesn't fit any
patterns. But it's so different. He goes, we can't call him a poet.
He's not a poet. Everyone will receive through that. They go,
Okay, let's say he's crazy.
When he goes, You can't call him crazy. You look how he is. There's
nothing about him that's out of ordinary. He's completely
composed. He's completely thoughtful. He's nothing about him
speaks insanity.
So finally was when he sits back.
And they're like, Well, you tell us he's like, I've been thinking
about this for a while. I know what we can say.
Now, I want you to listen to this. He goes, what is the effect of his
message?
They were like, well, it kind of breaks up families. He's like,
exactly. Now before I go forward, I want you to understand, the
youngsters were accepting Islam. The youngsters, the young people
and different people, not just youngsters, but people were
accepting Islam. But their families weren't necessarily
accepting right away. And so whenever a family member would
find out that their son, their daughter, their cousin had become
Muslim. They would go hard against them. They will do everything they
could. So it's not Islam that breaks up families. It's people's
response to truth when it comes that breaks up families.
That's what was break. So they said he breaks up families with
this message. He said exactly. Les tell everybody that this man is a
magician. His words are so powerful. They'll do magic on you
and cause your family to break up. So they said that's it perfect.
How much time and they hatch time comes
and they set a person I want you to understand in the home your key
doing okay though i ke do Qaeda. Allah subhanaw taala says they
plan. They have their alliances. They plan why key to Qaeda, but I
have my plan.
They they plan for the love fans. So they set up somebody at each of
the valleys into Mecca with only one job. Everyone that comes by
you gotta warn them about Maha
Minutes lie so now
they don't realize Loki they're doing Dawa, for us
to fail banana.
He says, I came to do Hutch.
And as I walked into the city there was someone there. He's
like, Excuse me, sir. Welcome to the great city of Mecca. Come on
in. He goes, but hold on, let me tell you something, we have a kind
of an issue, there's a guy. His words are very magical. You're
gonna want to stay as far away as you can.
To fail, when armor goes, we're all that's dangerous. He took out
cotton and he stuffed it in his ears.
He says I want to go do to off. I'm doing so off. And I see
Mohammed standing there.
And just serenity. You can imagine his wife though, standing there.
And he's praying was such serenity. Despite the chaos in the
world. Make sure your cave is your prayer.
Make sure you never lose connection with salah. The world's
gonna get crazy. But you got to be able to go a law of Cuba
and put it all behind you. That's where you run to. That's where you
flee to. That was his son that anytime he got worried, Allahu
Akbar.
He says I see him praying.
And it must have been just a striking image because he said in
that moment, I realized he said, I'm a smart man.
He's getting set up.
A lot of us convert and it was this Allah just set us up. He
says, I'm a smart man. I know right from wrong. I know good from
evil. Me take this cotton out of my ear.
And he walks over. And he says, I sat behind him. Because I didn't
want him to change up what he said for me.
And he said, the moment I listened to the Koran, I realized, Oh, this
isn't magic. This is this is from Allah. He says I followed him
home. And I walked in I knocked at the door as soon as he went home.
And he said the first thing I said to him was Can you recite more to
me anymore that
and then he asked him and next thing you know to fail is
accepting Islam. A dulci his whole tribe becomes Muslim. He has a
whole story. We'll talk about it later.
There was another man I want you to connect to what they went
through the struggles of that first generation. Before I go
Mossad we didn't finish myself did we?
This young man striking beautiful best it's a
one day he follows the Prophet sallallahu Sallam into doubt or
outcome. The young people men
Subhanallah doubt our outcome was owned by a young 16 year old. But
that became the markers that became the place of gathering
quietly to plan and teach teachings right?
Most I've been Omar once goes to doubt or outcome.
He enters and he accepts Islam. But listen what he did for ketema
Islam. He hid his Islam from his mother. He hid it.
One day, he was praying somewhere that he thought was by yourself
and somebody saw him.
Somebody saw you don't understand until you go through this. Like
sometimes people convert. And they're praying and closets y'all.
So the rest of the family don't know. They're hiding it.
One day somebody saw him and he told his mother, his mother
immediately snatches everything away. All the enter the clothes,
the wealth, the money. And not only that she shackles his his
legs to a pole in the house.
And I kid you not for the next two years or so he stayed shackled.
Until the Muslims migrated to Abyssinia. He snuck away and got
on the boat and went to Abyssinia to Africa.
Abu Bakr Siddiq one day
he was shackled for the dean in his own home.
Abu Bakr Siddiq.
Abu Bakr was one of the people that was public with Islam,
because he had the backing of Beto Tang. So he was a little bit open.
But thugs are thugs. Ya. thugs are thugs. They'll do what they they
do, despite the rules, but despite the laws,
so the number that the narration says there were 38 Muslims.
And Abu Bakar is endowed with outcome with the prophets of Allah
Who are they he was salam.
And he's, he's, he's really really putting pressure on the Prophet.
We got to go public. We got to go and pray in public. We got to go
in front of everyone. The Prophet was open he was open but so many
of the Muslims were low key. The prophesy Saddam says Ya bucket
Enoch Khalil. He says Yabba buckler, we're only a few there's
38
have us but Abu Bakr kept pressuring ya rasool Allah let's
do it.
The prophets I said them said, Okay, let's go.
Let's go. They come into the Masjid. The narration says, For
the Farakka, Muslim moon, all of the Muslims because there's 38
They, they go into the where the Kava is, and they all sit with
their own family so they're not together.
And Abu Bakar stands up. And I want you to imagine the courage
that this man is having in this moment. He stands up and this is
the first hutzpah given, by the way,
in Islam, and the prophesy centum is sitting
and he stands up, and he gives this first hotspot to Allah, and
to the prophets of Allah. It was salam. And the moment he starts
getting this giving this cookbook, all of the clans they just jump on
him for booty boo, fina wa Hill, Masjid, Durban Chedid, and they're
beating him. Well, what the? He was he was being stomped shed Eden
and AKBA been one of the leaders, both Rabindra BIA he comes in he
takes his sandals as Arabs always do, right. And he's hitting him
and he's heading up
until they say his his face rather Allah one was unrecognizable. I'm
I'm showing you what made who he became. I'm showing you that there
was struggle always in the beginning of our OMA there's
nothing new here. So they're beating him to the point. And he's
been being beaten and stomped by everyone. And then someone goes
and tells his clan like aboubaker is being beat in the masjid by new
team shows up in the moment his clan shows up, everyone disperses.
They all back up.
They pick up aboubaker In a sheath, he can't move. He's
unconscious, they pick them up in a cloth, and they take them back
to his his his home.
And they knew he was dead. They said we were just waiting for him
to die.
They take them back to his home.
And the whole day he was unconscious. Finally at the end of
the evening, after five or six hours of being unconscious from
this horrific
beating. He opens his eyes.
And the moment he opens his eyes, he says How is Mohammed doing?
How is Mohammed doing?
All of the men who tamed they're not Muslim, they start cursing
him. This man put you through this and you're asking us how he's
doing. The moment you wake up, he's the only one you care about.
Then his mother's standing there her name was omega Claire.
They said feed this man. Give him some water.
aboubaker looks at his mother and he says How was Muhammad doing?
How was Muhammad? So I said I'm doing he striving for the dean. He
striving This is activism par excellence. You can't beat this
but his connection with little suicides and walls with some of
the protesters and I hugged them and I held them and I said just
kidding keep sending salam ala Nabi.
help of ALLAH is what you keep sending salam ala Nabi SallAllahu,
said
he looks at his mother, his mother is trying to feed him this
compassionate woman who is looking at her son in this horrific state.
I want you to picture it and imagine it. She's trying to feed
him and he keeps saying, How is Rasulullah? How was Muhammad? And
she finally says, well, Allah He my ailment mighty and when we saw
him at five IQ, she says, I don't know anything about your friend. I
don't know anything about your friend and he says, he says Mom is
heavy on me, Jimmy. Go to on me, Jimmy. She's another sister. Go to
her. The sister of automotive in a kebab, a whole nother story. Go to
her and ask her how he's doing.
A mother cares for her son more than anything. I just want my son
to eat. Let me go talk to his friends. She leaves the house and
she goes to omit Jimmy. She knocks at the door. Only Jimmy opens the
door. Hey, oh my god. How you doing? What brings you here? She
goes, my son is asking how Mohammed bin Abdullah is doing.
Omar Jamil goes Mohammed who?
I don't know No, Mohammed, because we're low key right now. strange
woman coming up to my door asking me about the prophesy. Salam. She
goes, I don't know who he is. My article. I buy Bucher while I'm
Ohama she goes first. I don't know who aboubaker is. And I don't know
who Mohammed is. She goes but if you want me to go see somebody
who's sick, you could take me there. She's smart.
So she comes into the door. Her mother, mother of Abu Bakar brings
her in the door in the moment. She sees aboubaker space in his body.
She breaks down and she screams she falls next to him and she
starts to cry.
She's angry
She's like, these wretched, oppressive people. She's cursing
them. She's saying, May Allah destroy them, May Allah destroy
them
as all of us would say.
And that moment of a worker's focus is one thing.
His beloved his source of goodness, His Prophet. He goes,
Stop worrying about me. He goes, How is Mohammed doing?
Oma Jamil goes your mother's right here.
Meaning we can't let our secret out. She ain't Muslim yet.
She goes, your mother's right here.
Abu Bakr says, Don't worry about her right now. Just tell me how
he's doing.
And finally he gets the peace of mind. He wanted. She goes, sadly,
one saw early on, he's good. And well, he's fine.
He's not he can't it's not enough. He says, I know who.
where's the
where's the app? She goes, he's indata Arkham where else would he
be right now.
He says I'm not going to eat a bite of food until you take me
until my eyes see him.
They carry him he can't walk.
They carry him. They wait for everything to calm down and
everyone has sleep at night. And they carry him to doubt or
outcome.
And they bring him into the door and the moment he is brought into
the door. He sees the Prophet sitting there and he falls on the
Prophet he begins to kiss him and hug the prophets I saw them and
the prophets heart is broke. He's crying, weeping, looking at his
beloved friend.
And the prophet is crying he's crying. It's that moment Right.
And Abu Bakr looks at the prophet and he says, I swear by Allah
rasool Allah.
I don't I don't feel nothing. I don't feel nothing. I'm good. My
face is okay. It ain't as bad as it looks.
But then something happens the Pecos in this really touching
moment. He says yeah Rasulullah
This is my mother by the way. I'd like to introduce you
you're a blessed man. You're also with Allah.
Can you make dua for her? She might become Muslim.
Maybe Allah will save her from the Hellfire just a dua
Amin in that moment the prophets I set up just raises his hands and
he makes dua O Allah guide who may fare guide who may help guide her
for Acoma, Arasu la si Salam. In that moment, he looks at her in
talks to her. And she says I'm ready to take shahada to,
I'm ready to take shahada to. It's hard to understand what it's like
to have a parent that's not Muslim. But in this moment, it is
so beautiful that after such sacrifice,
he must have felt no pain by his mother accepting Islam.
Abu Bakr Siddiq was one of those who, despite his status went
through so much.
So many more.
The narrations tell us about others who struggled for the sake
and I'm going to read some of their narrations because they're
all beautiful.
Zubair Ben awam. He was 18 when he accepted his snub
18 When he accepted Islam,
and when he accepted Islam, his uncle,
he took a
rug, you could say, and he would roll it up, and he would get his
uncles to, you know, overpowers who they had been a one.
And they would put them inside of this rug, and then they would
light fire under it so that the smoke
would suffocate. It would go through the rug, and he's rolled
up in the rug.
And they would do this over and over and over again. And they
would say we'll stop once you give up Islam.
And they would say, No, we can't give up this Deen.
Again, these people are people that gave up everything for it. So
therefore, later on, there's nothing they're going to sacrifice
for their Dean. Dean is everything to them.
Bilal Radi Allahu Tada. And what can we say about beloved
villa was one of the people who didn't have protection. So he was
fair game anyone could do anything they want it to be law.
But as the narrator's say about the law, they say something
beautiful. They say that Bilal was someone who hands early enough so
he considered himself nothing for the sake of God.
I'm nothing for the sake of Allah. I'll go through anything. This is
for the Dean Abuja. He used to put a collar around his neck and tell
the young youth to drag him around the city
as they tortured him and mocked him
All he would do is say one word over and over again, as if
focused, nothing else matters. He would say, I had one. There's one
God, I had one. There's one God. I had one, there's one God. The
Scholars say it's only be fitting that he became the one who caused
the dawn now
it's only be fitting that after you being the one screaming, I had
an I had one.
The other leaders of the codebase they would take Bilal and they
would put iron
armor on him. And then the son of Medina, they Mecca they would lay
him down on the sand until it was as if he was cooking inside of the
armor.
And they would say just believe, disbelieving and Mohammed and
believe in the idols and as if in a trance and focus, he would just
keep saying the same thing. I had a hard time I had that's all he
would say over and over and over again.
A mod vinyasa?
Him and his mothers who made it wasn't just men that were tortured
at all. So Maya was the first martyr of our deen a woman was the
first martyr of the deen. Anyone that's murdered after her is
following her sunnah.
She was the first martyr.
The narration says that
one day that they were
they were torturing a mob vinyasa.
And he went through it for weeks and weeks and weeks.
And then one moment he couldn't take it anymore. They let him go
because he said what they wanted him to say, due to torture.
So he comes running to the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. See, every
one would run to him. That's where they found Pisa. That's where they
found serenity and that's where they got the strength to keep
going on.
So they ran to he ran to the prophets of Allah who Adi he was
salam.
And his face is he's crying. He's a mess. He's in pain. The Prophet
holds him and he says my water UK. What went on back there? Tell me
about it. Talk to me about it. What happened? Amar says Sharon,
ya rasool Allah, evil happened it no words for what they did to me,
Sharon.
And then what happens? He says, My truck my truck to hurt Daniel to
Minka. They didn't leave me until I was cursing you Yasuda Allah,
the One who he loves the most. They tortured him to a point where
he begins to curse the prophets of Allah it was salam.
And I spoke good about their idols. And in this moment, the
prophesy son looks at him and perhaps with a smile. He says,
How's your heart though?
Forget what your body did. You can't control your body in the
moments of torture like you can't you don't know what you're doing.
How's your heart feel? He goes my heart loves you and loves Allah
more than anything.
My heart my heart loves you ya rasool Allah.
As you do kalbi Mahatma in number II man, my heart loves the deed.
Listen, listen. This is after being tortured. When someone asks
you how you love your deen and he says, I love it now more than
ever. You lose a job, you lose a loved one, you go through
sickness, you go through hardship.
After that Ammar goes, I love Allah more than ever now.
What our sacrifice Where's ours?
When you go through that sacrifice, it's preparing you God
is preparing you to raise you to a higher level.
God is preparing you to put you somewhere higher, but you just
weren't ready yet.
So he says, How's your heart? He goes, my heart's good. My heart's
okay. My heart loves Allah loves a little suit. And I just want to
stop because we will all be tested. This is life. You will be
tested. But the key is when you're being tested, if you're still
pleased with Allah and pleased with this rule, I'm pleased with
this Dean, you've passed the test.
You've passed it. Flying Colors. You're good graduation day. Yeah.
valedictorian. You made it.
You made it. He says, How do you feel? How's your heart in that
moment? What does he say? I love Allah I love that. Also, the
prophesy said and he says for in order for Lloyd. He goes, You know
what if they taught you against say the words again?
funada if they taught you again, say it again. You're okay say
whatever you need to say. Islam was spreading was in every home.
They're trying their best. They set up these people around the
outskirts. What happens? There's a man by the name of Abuja.
I will definitely fati.
He had this like,
desire for worshiping Allah purely before Islam. And then he hears
because the kudos keeps spreading
it, he hears about this man in Mecca, who's teaching some new
things about one God. So he sends his brother, bro. Amen.
I need you to go. Go find out any news you can
about this man.
His brother comes back.
He goes, What did he say? His brother gives them half the story.
You know you send your sister to do some and show and do it
properly. I mean, he sent his brother to do it. His brother came
back with half the story. He goes, Man, you can't do anything. I'm
going myself.
He goes to Mecca.
He comes into Mecca. And he thinks Mecca is a jolly place. Everyone's
happy to this new prophet is there. So the moment he walks in,
he goes, Hey, where's that new prophet that
everybody looks at?
Now, you didn't just bring that up.
And they start getting in his face. He's Oh, my bad. I'm sorry.
He says for for 15 days.
I laid low in Mecca, waiting for one opportunity just to see
Mohammed. I didn't know what he looked like, but I figured I would
recognize him.
He goes after about 1516 days.
I'm sitting around the Kaaba. And this young boy maybe 12 years old
or so I leave.
He walks past me and he looks at me.
And he keeps going.
The next day comes.
Ali walks past he looks at me. Are you hungry? Because yeah, I'm
hungry. I haven't eaten since I've been here. No one's hosting me.
Because he was mentioning the profit. No one's gonna host them
now. He says come I'll give you some he feeds them. He goes, he
leaves goes back to the copper. On the third day I'll even be talking
if he's only 12 years old. He walks past them. And he goes, Man,
it's time for a man to realize where he's supposed to be at by
now. Like you're just sitting around you should be somewhere.
He says I'm looking from 100
It looks at it. He says he's the truth.
He's the truth. I'll take you to
I'll come back tonight.
Night time comes everything chill. Ali Radi Allahu and comes back.
He goes, Listen, I'm going to take you. I want you to follow me from
a distance. And if you if I see something worrisome, I'm a bend
down on the time I shoot. You just got to play it off like you're not
following me and just follow me.
I leave the other one takes them slowly to daughter outcome.
Finally, that moment comes the moment that you first lay eyes on
Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And he asked him, What is Islam?
Prophet teaches them this worship one Allah, Be good to your
parents, be good to your neighbors. Love people care for
people don't oppress people take care of him and he teaches them
the basics.
And this mess is this is what I've been looking for my whole life.
I've been searching for a pure connection with God without any
confusion, just me and Allah.
He takes shahada right there.
He's from a very powerful tribe.
So he has a bit of a strength too. He goes I'm gonna go public.
Everyone and daughter otter comes like
also sigh some says is dangerous out there. Don't do it.
Because I'm going public.
I'm gonna let everybody know.
I support Palestine Let's go.
I'm going public.
Prophet says do you go I'm not going to stop you. I can't stop
you. I hate you informed and don't do it.
What happens? He goes right to the middle where the Kaaba is and he
stands up.
I said to Allah, Allah man.
The moment he starts speaking, they know he said, I'm a Muslim I
shout to Allah Allah they jump off, beat him down same way they
did Abu Bakr How dare you allow this religion to spread? No, we
don't want this. We don't want this spread. Are you coming from
out of town accepting this now? No. They're beating and beating
finally a basket. My boss isn't a Muslim is the uncle of the
Prophet. The Prophet uncle sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
becomes Muslim. Later, Abbas jumps and he says stop. This man is from
lifan
Why did he stop? What did I tell you? The only reason they were
scared of this message because it messes up money. It messes up
economics and messes up ways of life. We don't want to change I'm
comfortable the way I am. I'm comfortable the way I am in my
political career.
attributions where they come from. I'm comfortable, don't change
nothing, though. Our boss jumps in and the only thing that stops him,
them from beating him to death is he says he's from the far they'll
stop our trade route. Everyone backs off.
Okay?
Let him go.
Be in bruised, he's dragged back to daughter outcome.
Nobody says anything.
The next day, he says I want to do it again.
I want to do it again.
I want to go again.
See, after giving up so much for this dunya there comes a time you
want to give for the sake of Allah.
I don't want to go out of order. But this feeling of wanting to
give for the sake of Allah was not unique to him. When on would have
been in Qatar became Muslim, it was have a special day for that.
When Omar became Muslim, he said that I used to beat Muslims. I
used to torture Muslims. And now I wanted to go through some, okay,
I'm gonna preface this time I'll hold up.
You are not allowed to act on anything I'm about to say.
Disclaimer, we're only allowed one is about to say is not allowed
even in this video.
For us,
he goes, I want to I want to feel some of what I went through.
Everyone else got to struggle and suffer for the dean. I want to
suffer too. So he goes to the roof slit of the roughest people he
knows. And instead of hiding it, he goes and knocks at their door,
they open the door. They say, Oh, how you doing? He knows I'm a
Muslim now. And they would shut the door. He's like, Man, I didn't
get hit.
I'm serious. You're not allowed to do this. By the way. Please don't
quote me out of context. Don't be doing dumb stuff either. But Omar,
he has this desire to, to go through something for the sake of
D.
Because we were so used to we sacrificed so much for dunya.
Finally, when you're connected to Allah, you're like, I want to do
something for Allah.
And the person would close the door in his face. And he would say
Lashay that's nothing man. And he will go to another verse and go to
another verse and go to another person, until finally he said, I
know what to do.
He says, I went to the Kaaba.
And I went to a guy that I knew had a really big mouth. And I went
up to him, and I said, Don't tell anybody, but I just became Muslim.
And that guy was like, okay, he took five steps. He's like, Yo,
Omar just became Muslim. And he said, Everybody jumped. And he
says, I was fighting back, they were fighting back. And finally I
said, I've done something for the team, you can act on that. And I'm
saying, Please,
I just want you to understand their desire to to go through
something difficult because they understood that through
difficulties, they were lifted and elevated, and Allah was creating
something within them
without a Fati, then he goes back home, and the prophets of Allah
was salam. He says, Okay, you had your public moment, I want you to
go home, but you can't come back until you hear about this message
being victorious.
Let's pause for a moment. There's 40 of us, were weak, were beaten
down. But with competence, he says, in a few years, we're going
to be leading everything come back then, without a blink of an eye
without any doubt without any hesitation. He tells him that day
is coming Allah is already promised it. When that day comes,
I want you to come back, and then we'll spend some time together.
These were the early days of sacrifice. There were so many
stories I had to select just a few moments of sacrifice in the life
of the hob we looked at Apple Buckers sacrifice we look at below
are the Allahu and we looked at most I've been Omar Radi Allahu
taala. And so Mejia was the first martyr read the Allahu anha. And
she was she was she was stabbed and killed.
And little su sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I want to share one more
thing.
The prophets I said and walked past one moment when they were
being tortured. And he came close to them. He couldn't stop it. He
didn't have the power to stop it. And he said to them, Saba and
Alia, sir,
this is the moment of patience. There are moments in our lives
that are going to be moments of patience, y'all. But understand
those moments of patients are to lift us up and take us to the next
level. They became the Sahaba because of those dark moments,
that's where Allah was making them who they were.
With that said, the message goes forward, the torture continues.
And it reaches a point where more influential people are accepting
Islam. And we'll look into that next week, inshallah.
to Isla, as we look at the
horrific bombing and genocide and Philistine, a lot of us we wonder
sometimes like, why this OMA goes through so much difficulty? This
is the beginning of our Oma. All this means is that there's light
right after the darkest part of the night.
That's all it means. That's all it means. So may Allah make us
patient? May Allah make us of those who do what we can. But May
Allah make us people who are able to see deeply spiritually at what
Allah wants to teach us as a OMA through every moment. That's the
key that if you have the spiritual insight and you're processing it
through prophetic lens
before we stop
what we were doing before
what were we doing, we were studying the Sierra and then we
would read a little bit about him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
because the purpose of this Holika honestly was just to increase our
love for Him. Salida Sana.
So I'm just going to share just some words about his courage, his
courage.
Our leader Radi Allahu Allah. Once he described the Prophet saw, I
saw them and I want you to picture him as we read it. It said that
the Prophet of Allah had the sound is in strongest of hearts, and the
boldness of hearts. His speech was the most truthful, but he was also
the gentleness and kindness of people to his companions.
One day, there was some danger around Medina. And everyone got up
in the middle of the night to see what happened. And as they were
getting ready to go out to see what happened. They see the
prophesy southern riding back on the horse *. And he's
riding back in and he's saying, lento learn tonight. Don't worry,
don't worry. Don't worry. Everything's okay. Meaning he went
and came back before everyone had even got up to go.
On either the low Tyler and he says, When times became hard, and
eyes became red, hard moments, we would seek protection from the
prophets of Allah, he was salam. He says in battle, no one wouldn't
be closer to the enemy than the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. He says on the day of Brother, we saw the prophesy
centum shelter like we were like hiding behind him because he was
so brave and in front of everyone.
But often as if he used to say, the brave men amongst us, was the
one who was able to stay closest to him.
Because that's how forward he was. He wasn't in the back. He was in
the front.
In the moment of who name there was a battle, it was a difficult
moment, arrows were showering down. Everyone was running, even
Muslims. And in that moment, the prophets I seldom was advancing on
a mule, neither concerned nor hesitant. And he just kept saying,
and an Vela kid, I am a prophet, no lie. I am the son of of the
milk believe.
There are many more narrations about his bravery.
One more narration, that the prophet the patience of the
Prophet slice of them, for the sake of Allah, Allah's Cause was
beyond that of most patient people. And his forbearance he
showed in the face of persecution was beyond other people's, anyone
else's personal perseverance. There was a moment
there was a moment that
Subhan Allah, how to have been hard at he says, I was with my
father around in Mecca. And a big commotion broke out people jumping
over each other.
And, and he said, This is a tribe who has gone against their own. We
went down closer to the gathering. And we found the Prophet right in
the middle. And he's talking to people about that Isla illallah,
about al Qaeda, and they're all in his face and they're yelling at
him and they're persecuting him and yelling at him.
He says, this happened for two hours almost until a woman came
carrying water will stop right now.
And when she brought water, she gave it to him. And he looked at
her and he said Daughter, don't worry, it was Xena. bringing water
to her father, who was just going through an afternoon of
persecution just for giving this message. Our dean began with
sacrifice, but after the sacrifice come ease May Allah subhana wa
Tada. Allow us to understand the Prophet on a deep level. May Allah
allow us to be patient whenever we are tested, May He give us
tranquillity and Aafia but when we are tested May He make us of those
who are patient and forbearance? May Allah give us love of his
prophet size? Hello, may Allah Allah
As to emulate him in every way possible Apollo Foley how that was
started hola hola Connie Saddam Hussein for Sofitel and a whole
lot of other things