Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #12
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we're continuing in our, in his footsteps series, and we're
gaining insight, motivation, strength, spiritual strength and
emotional strength. By studying the Beloved of Allah, the Prophet
sallallahu either he was sudden,
and the series we're going through his life, the major moments, not
all the small details, but the major moments in his life and then
studying the small details or aspects of his character. And the
intention is, you know, some of the stories you guys have heard
since you were young children, Ma sha Allah.
You know, some of those first words were like Allah, you know,
the Leila love, Mashallah.
But you know, the stories don't change, but your life changes. And
so your connection to the story is different as you change and as you
grow. This week, this class, we're going to be talking about the
fifth, the fifth to eighth year or so, after the Prophet SAW, I send
and receive revelation. And then our last session, we talked about
how staunch and how strong the disbelievers in Mecca were against
the Prophet. So I sent them in the followers of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
And we talked about how the Muslims had figured, you know
what, we've had enough of this environment, we can't stay here,
because we can't practice our faith. And so the prophets of
Allah who it was salam, he ordered them to go off to Habesha to
Africa to Abyssinia. And he even called Abyssinia Abu sytropin, a
truthful land, right, he's spoken gave testimony that this is a
truthful land. And it's not the land that truthful, but it's the
people in the land that make the land truthful and make the land
good.
And so they came back because they heard a rumor that everyone had
become Muslim.
The persecution continues, guys, if you didn't have a big family,
if you didn't have influence, the persecution was continuing. If you
were known to be a Muslim, at that time, then it was going to be
difficult for you.
The Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallam, he didn't take the
difficulties of his followers lightly.
He didn't take the difficulties of his followers lightly it hurt him
a lot. And he was he was thinking what he was begging Allah and
using every means possible to make it easy for them. And in one
moment, the prophets of Allah who it was salam, he makes this really
profound prayer.
He says, Oh Allah, and the narration is from Ibn Oma. Allah,
Allah Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah whom Eisele Islam
be a hubby had entered Raju Lane II like be a B Jellybean Hashem OB
OB Ahmed even a kebab. The Prophet SAW Selim he made this dua he said
y'all Allah
ISIL Islam like give Islam is give Islam honor. Like don't make us so
low ya Allah make Islam strong. But how?
Bye, bye through one of two people, whoever you love most of
these two people, and he named Abu Jamal and Omar even a kebab Radi
Allahu taala. And now before I go forward, I think is really
important for us to understand
that the prophet of God who has complete reliance on Allah
complete reliance on Allah, no doubt about the promise of God.
One of the things that you know, I often say and one of my students
reminded me of this after last Holika is a lot of us we study
Sierra, like already knowing the end in mind. Like we already know,
we're like, Yo, chill, Fatima is coming, bro. Like, no chill, it's
coming. Just hope. But you gotta you gotta read Sierra, like living
like they don't know what's in front. You read the whole theater.
You heard the stories, you you watch why QR, you got the whole
thing. You know what's coming, but you got to read Sierra in the
moment. In this moment. There's 5060 Muslims, many of which are
low key, we don't even know because they're keeping their
Islam as quiet as possible. So they're not tested and by that
test lose their faith.
And so we don't know what's around the corner. And the prophet of God
who has the most trust in Allah subhanho wa taala, the Prophet of
Allah, so Allah He was telling me
He makes this dua. Oh Allah give us honor through one of these two
people. Now why that's profound is because our community typically
has, you know, two extreme responses when big celebrities
like accept Islam, when there's a big actor actress walking around
with a Koran in her hand, you know, there's two big responses.
The one response is, oh, we don't, Islam doesn't need anybody. Islam
doesn't need anybody. Islam is Islam, who cares if they accept
Islam? This moment tells us something different. This tells us
something that influential people that that that that understand our
cause, and are with us can have a profound impact on lifting us up.
But then we got the other extreme. My man just took shahada
Are you taking spiritual advice from? Nah, nah, be in the middle.
If influential people are accepting this, Dean, this is so
good for our dean. And the prophets I sent him in this
moment. He begs Allah, Oh Allah give us honor. Through one of two
people. On one hand, you have a blue jet, who has a lot of wealth,
a lot of wealth and a lot of clout and a lot of influence. And on the
other hand, you have omitted been a kebab. May Allah be pleased.
Oma read the Allahu Taala and doesn't have a lot of wealth.
But he has determination. He has determination and when his mind is
set on something, you can't shake them from it. He's on it, he stays
on it.
And we're going to read about this moment where Allah subhana wa Tada
chose to strengthen Islam through this personality. So he was
relentless before this moment, Omar Radi Allahu anhu, was
relentless against anyone he found out was a Muslim. He was in the
front line of torture. And I want you to embody what that means. I
want you to imagine that you're a Muslim, and you see what he's
doing. The feeling you should feel in the beginning, is like, I don't
like this person. This person is persecuting everyone known to be
Muslim. He's very big, very strong, very, very loud, heavy
voice. Very strong opinions. The moment he finds out, he's on the
front line, torturing, persecuting, beating up whatever
he can do.
Why was he so angry?
He was angry, because this message split up the unity of his
community. He was angry because when this Islam before Islam, we
were all good. Kumbaya, we all get together, everyone's fine. But the
moment this message change, all of a sudden, there's a division in
the community. So he doesn't even know what the message is. And I
think that's a very important point.
Because a lot of us think that people who are going against the
dean and I'm not speaking global right now, I'm just I want you to
personalize this. People going against anything we think they all
know it. They like know what the dean is, they're going against it.
But as we study the life of Omar, we're going to see something
really deep. So what was the thing that was bothering him the most?
The thing that bothered him the most, was that he saw unity of his
community as the most important thing. Islam came to say, if we're
united on injustice, our unity means nothing. Islam came to say,
if there's injustice, and we're all OK with that, we need to break
that unity. We need to speak up. We need to stand for the
oppressed. So many of us thought
he was upset.
What's the first narration about him starting the conversion?
So anyone who's converted, and I would say this, anyone who has
awakened to their Islam, because even if you didn't convert, you
were born. Aisha, I get it cool. There was a moment in your life
where there will be where you wake up, where you're like, Ah, she had
to Allah Allah, Allah Allah. Right. I said, there's a moment
you you he was born us it
but after college and he became an acid.
Yeah, I mean, I said Allah. Sorry to put them on blast. No, but
that, you know, so all of us in this room, there's a moment Yeah,
you Alladhina amanu aminu. That's Koran. That's not my words. Yeah,
you Allah Deena Amanu Oh, you who believe, um, you know, belief,
like make that conscious choice. So as we're reading about this
moment of conversion, doesn't matter if you're a revert,
convert. Same by the way, they're the same anyway. Doesn't matter.
big debate on whether you call this reverse or convert saw the
same hamdulillah we're here now. That's all that matters. So as we
read this moment, I want you to understand that conversions don't
happen like this. They don't happen like this. There's a
there's a process that's happening within sought inside. So the first
area
tion is profound.
The first narration is narrated by a woman by the name of Leila.
Leila the hola one. She says that
one day we were packing our bags we were out in the front packing
the U haul you could say getting our stuff ready to go.
Yet to get to Joe has a literal hit my Zoji ha she's getting ready
to leave. Why? She says because it's getting too bad here
as she was packing the U haul. Oh might have been a cathodic walks
paths Mara Bihar
and he says to her
in her interlock Yeah. Omar Abdullah. He goes Oh, you live
where you're going? You leave? She says Nam Yes, wala healer nahi
jana fill out the Abdullah. She says Wallah. We're going to travel
in the earth of God. Meaning this earth belongs to Allah. As I said
last week, doesn't matter what person European drew lines on a
map this earth belongs to Allah He gives it to you wills
she says we're going to travel I have a two Munna you have caused
us too much trouble. What got her to Munna you've put us through too
much.
And we're going to travel Hatha Yoga Allah Allahu Allah nama kraja
until Allah finds a way out for us.
She's ready to go wise because you're gonna preserve our deen.
She's ready to go, ready to leave Mecca, the only city she knows
Home Sweet Home, she's ready to leave.
At this moment, something happens. Omar looks at her and he sees this
family packing up, ready to leave ready to leave, give up everything
traveled to who knows where becoming pretty much refugees.
And he says something to her. He says cyber qumola He says May
Allah be with you.
Now, Leila, call it she says what are a two men who attend lamb
Hakuna Raha she said I saw a gentleness appear within him that
I never saw before. I never saw this before. Before I read more, I
want to digress for one second. This is all about the life of the
prophets of Allah. It was Sunday. We're here to celebrate him to
learn about him to to know how to be like him. But today's whole
Holika pretty much will be about OMA because in order to understand
a man you have to understand the man that the peep the men that
Allah put around that man
because the Sahaba were chose to be around him. So when you have a
deeper understanding for them, you start to get closer to him. Sub
allottee was Sunday.
Okay, so she says, what I ate too, I saw some gentleness in him that
I had never ever seen before. And then he left.
She says my husband came back
for kotula who I said to him? Oh, Abu Abdillah. Man, you should have
seen Omar right now. I saw some gentleness and remorse in him.
He says,
You think he's gonna accept this law?
You think he's gonna accept this law?
She goes, yeah, yeah, I think so.
This is a woman who has seen him torture at the forefront of
torture. But she sees a sign of mercy. Which when mercy and
empathy enters the heart of a person, that's a sign Allah
intends good for them.
The moment a person starts thinking that empathy and that
Subhanallah How many hearts right now in America and around the
world are feeling empathy for the Muslims?
How many people taking that shahada low key? How many people
because that empathy for the struggle of the believers.
So he says You think she's going to become a Muslim? She says Yeah.
And
he's a practical fellow. He's a practical guy. He's seen the
streets. He goes, fella, you're slim. Allah the rate. That man you
just saw, will never become Muslim. To his Hemara becomes
Muslim, his donkey he's cracking a joke on him like not that he's
stubborn. He's not going to accept Islam.
Few days pass a little time passes.
Oh my God many kuthodaw tells us himself first person about his
conversion. Listen to it from his words. He says control Islam about
it and I was distant from Islam
will come to saw he will come up. And he says I loved alcohol.
I loved alcohol. These are his words, not my words. He said come
to saw he will come in. That's what I did. I drank alcohol.
I covered up what was inside
myself i i saw Escapism through intoxicants. I didn't want to face
reality. I used intoxicants to get away from reality.
We'll talk about that a little bit more.
He says what Quinton saw he will come and Phil Jamelia. Oh hey boo
ha actually boy, I loved alcohol and I drank a lot of it.
I loved alcohol and I drank a lot of it
what couldn't Elena Jalis yes Timothy he Regina Quraysh as such
and such as house and we used to drink there the block
nevermind he said there was a place that we used to get together
and we would drink all the guys would get together we would drink
they're
all for courage to lay let's and one night I went out woody do
Judas say hola Erica. I wanted to go sit with my the guys who I used
to drink with the medulla see him galica He says I go to this place
which is normally lit
normally popping everybody's there he says I go for them I did fee
men whom I hadn't. I went in nobody was there like no one.
So he goes man that's weird. Like somebody's gonna be here
somebody's gonna be here
you guys don't get it when Allah intends clear for you. Like these
doors start opening up that only you who went through it were like
you don't get how much of a miracle that was.
You don't understand the things that everyone would gather here
every night. And this night for some reason. Everybody had an
excuse God take care of my mom God take care of this. Nobody's there
oh my god the Allahu Tada and he says for all too low and Egypt to
full and Kumar. He still drinks he goes alright, let me just go to
the the wine cellar myself. I guess I have to buy my own now.
Right. So I'll go
What can you be Ohama this person used to sell comer used to sell
alcohol. So he goes let me just go to him.
Before I go forward, I don't think you'll understand
the way shape on and I'm talking Shayateen an intelligent Shayateen
member I told you we think Shayateen horns spirits. Now
shoutings wear suits.
Three piece
they wear suits ya. Do you understand how much of an effort
there is to keep alcohol in the underprivileged Society of
communities in our country?
Do you know the effort that goes into that
ticket to break down the stability of the inner city and the African
Americans you understand how how alcohol clouds one's ability to
think properly? How you begin to want to give preference over this
escapism over everything else.
Do you understand what alcohol did to my people?
They
all might have been above the alcohol is not allowing him to
hear the message clearly.
And when corporations and politicians pump alcohol and other
substances is to certain Democrats
I asked you why.
But besides that point, those are the places Islam is starting to
spread the most now.
Whole neighborhoods coming in we want to take shahada
so this so he's he's stuck in this this addiction.
You know Subhanallah we should you know they say the addict
Subhanallah
we often look at addicts and with contempt. But I read one
psychologist that was like yo addicts are people who have
recognized that this dunya is fake and they just want to get out.
What if we could just give them this Deen to accept the dunya
What if we can just give them a Sajida such that you escaped the
dunya Allahu Akbar.
Subhan Allah.
So he goes let me just go myself to the commodity. The seller of
alcohol. I'll buy some myself Leadley Lolly IgD when the WHO
camera for Ashley Bowman Hmm He says for courage to I went and I
went to the store.
It was closed.
It was closed.
Friday night
9pm Not Dallas.
Everything closes here late.
I went there at the time it would normally be open and it's closed
completely.
Now he says something that for me and you will seem kind of weird.
He goes man, whatever low and Egypt will kava for tough to be
high. You know what I'm just gonna go to the kava do some toe off
now.
I know me and you were like what? Like?
Like, okay, no alcohol. So option three go do to off.
But you got to understand the kava has lost that reverence that it's
supposed to have. The Kaaba for them was walking through Central
Park, getting some exercise, it lost the reverence that it had.
And that's why Islam came back and cleaned it out.
Cleaned it. We'll get there in the Seto eventually. So he says, You
know what, there's no one out. None of my friends are where they
normally get together and drink. The wine stores closed weirdly.
Okay, let me just go and do two off. Just go walk around the Kaaba
Paul, he says, Forget to and Masjid I went to the Kaaba, what
do you do and a twofer Bill car but I wanted to do to us. He says
I walk in and I see Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam in the
city of wine, alcohol, prostitution and gambling. In the
middle of the night, the prophets lie Selim is standing in front of
the Kaaba reciting Quran
like like a pillar of righteousness amongst the
darkness.
So so he's, he sees him praying, and I want you to picture the
tranquility.
And to me, on a normal night, the prophet still would have been
praying, but all of the sins of the rest of the city would have
still been going on. But where was he at? At the Kaaba?
He says, Well Cana Musa Allahu Baynard working on us. What were
what the Amani he said he was praying on one side of the Kaaba
in between 100 us words, and the the Yemeni coroner, he was praying
there by himself.
And he said, I said to myself, he needed a tool, he says,
And when I saw him, I said to myself, well, Allah Hello Annie is
to match him and Mohammed Laila had the asthma or Maya Cole. He
says, You know what?
I'm gonna go listen to him. I want to hear this stuff that he talks
about.
I want to hear it. Now, before I go forward. I want us to
understand, I'm gonna go back just for a second.
A lot of us haven't truly truly truly understood how Salah becomes
our place of refuge.
For many of us, the Salah is still our obligation.
But the prophets of Allah was sending his teaching us know,
despite the the sin around you, the drama around you the chaos
around you, you find your peace and continue in that prayer.
Okay, so he says, Why don't I go?
And why don't I go listen to this message. This to me is profound.
Because it's the middle of the night. He doesn't have any
intoxicants in a system. That means he's hearing clearly
and he's by himself. He doesn't have the social noise
and that's what I want us to understand is happening and I
don't want to make this just about the inner cities but I want you to
understand if we could just keep you busy keep you distracted we
don't have to worry about you uprising is standing up for what's
right.
So will flood you with drugs will flood you with alcohol. You don't
see no liquor stores on the corner every corner in Plano
you don't see no check cashing places in Frisco
12% interest the check cash or check.
look deeply at what's happening in our own country.
Because when people's minds are clear, their hearts will see this
Dean and like Al Hajj Malik el Shabazz. You'll see people walking
into Islam and droves. And I'm talking white America and black
America. Because the same thing they do in downtown. They do in
the rednecks.
They do it everywhere. classism, keep people distracted.
So what So? So the prophets I sent him is praying and he says, Let me
go listen. Now here's the craziest thing for me and you what year in
this mission of the Prophet are we in right now? What year did I say
we're in?
fifth to eighth year, most likely almost accepted in the seventh
year of Hijra. It's been seven years of this message going around
seven years of Omar raised the alarm, torturing people, and he's
never heard the Koran yet.
Why? Because of the noise made about this religion around him and
the noise inside do that it did to the intoxicants. He hadn't. And
now what happens he goes, let's get into it. He goes, You know
what, why don't I go listen to him. My code
for call to
He says, I said to myself, if I come close to him, he might switch
up his words. If he sees me, he might start talking some other
stuff. So I want to listen to him in a way that he doesn't know I'm
there. So I'm gonna bring a cup up. He says, I went to the other
side of the Kaaba, the prophesy centum is on this side, between a
sweat and Brooklyn your money. And he says, I went to this side. And
he says, I got up under the curtain of the Kaaba
is funny Loki. He's like, I got up under the curtain of the Kaaba.
And he says, I started to like, Sidestep my way around.
Right. You know, I'm assuming what it was. It was his body wasn't
like sticking out, you know, I mean, but so he makes his way
around to the other side.
And he says, I got under the thing and I I'm sure you'd wait and I'm
walking slowly, had to come to benei the tablets he he Mulvaney
were Boehner who LFTR Bill Kava. He's like I was right in front of
him. And there's nothing between me and him except the Kaaba
curtain. And I'm listening, unbeknownst to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So he thinks maybe the Prophet Psalms
The prophets of allottee was setting them is standing, and he
says, what God is stuffed to her Sudha tell her
the Prophet sallahu wa salam, he starts reading Surah, two Harpa
surah. To haka.
Hakka means like, ultimate truth,
ultimate truth.
For this very strong personality, man. He needs a strong message,
and so on until halfa is powerful. It begins with the previous
nations and how they were destroyed.
Then it moves over to talking about the people getting the book
in their right and left hand about the armor that they have judgment
powerful versus, and the whole time Oh, man, this is his first
time hearing it with a clear mind and by himself. None of his
minions around him to kind of negatively influence and why are
you listening to that? He's by himself.
And his system is clean. And he's listening.
He says the prophesy said I've started to read for jazz to Astana
Al Quran. He's like, I started to listen. And a lot of people they
asked question, I get this question a lot. Someone came last
week and they're like, Yo, I have a co worker that I think's kind of
interested, can you come and talk to him?
Or he's like, What can we do? I was like, bruh, give him a call
the Koran, coming from someone who, for 18 years of my life,
tried to hold on to Christianity and study the Bible, the Quran,
it's different.
It's different.
For the one who converts, it's familiar, but it's, it's
different.
This is the message. All you got to do is get the message to
people. You just got to let them hear it. And Allah will do the
rest.
The words of Allah are the message, just get it in their
ears.
So he says, I began to listen, while I did mentaI, Leafy, the
structure of it was amazing.
The structure was amazing.
Going to be enough, see, he says I said to myself, This man is a
poet.
The Kure Shah right, this man is a poet.
And then the Prophet recited the verses the moment the thought came
into my mind. The Prophet recited the verses in hula, oh, Laura
suelen Kareem. Well, now who are being overly shy
and deeds, these these are the words of a noble prophet. These
are not the words of a poet.
Almost under the under the curtain probably shaking. Because the
Koran is, is responding to what I'm thinking.
In the hula boluda suit in Kadeem, while my hubby only showered these
aren't the words of of a poet. In that moment, he says to myself, I
said, this man is a soothsayer. He's a he's a fortune teller. He's
reading my mind. And the very next words will be Oh Lika hin, and
these aren't the words of a fortune teller.
What's going on?
Holly Isla mata karoun So the next question is what is it? What is it
then tunzi loan Mirabella me. This is revelation from God.
This Koran we have His revelation from God that's what it is.
He finishes the surah
and he says
Omotola the amount he says, Paula for walk by Al Islam physical be
cooler Mocha, under that curtain hidden from everyone. That's what
I say we don't know who people are. We don't know what people
have emaan. But they just can't show it yet. We don't know what's
going on inside the hearts. So he says Islam penetrated my heart
completely in that moment, completely.
When the truth comes to a lot of us, we like to run away from it.
Look in your own life.
When the truth comes in, hit you right in the face.
Sometimes your first reaction is to flee. I'll give you an example.
When Moses was on to the scene, and revelation comes at the
burning bush for law movie ran, he turned and ran. He ran
he ran he was there was worried they're scared if there's a
concern.
And I think a lot of us, there's people in this room considering
converting there's people in this room that are are ready to make
the change, but there's a fear.
And one of the fears that we have is that I won't be able to live up
to it.
You know, many brothers I've talked to and are like, Yo, I'm
ready to take my Shahada. But, you know, I can't. I'm not I can't.
That's like a lie. You believe? Yeah, I believe Okay, that's it.
Allah will do the rest. So, in what happens next,
we now come to the story that many of us have heard, which happens
after this moment under the curtain. A lot of us in our minds
were like, Wait, hold on.
I know right now what he's about to do next is he's sitting with a
group of Quraysh.
And they're all talking about the drama caused by Muhammad so I sent
him in his message. And finally, OMA Radi Allahu taala. And he he,
he got up angry. And he looked at the Abu Jilin, everyone, and he
said, You know what, I've had enough. I'm done with this. I'm
going to take his life right now. You know what he was trying to
kill his own demons.
Because his heart wanted it. But he was scared about what his heart
wanted. We do the same thing when we feel that poor towards you.
Righteousness pool, it's pulling you the masjid the Koran. The dean
is pulling you. Sometimes you attack the thing pulling you
because you're scared.
So what happens Subhan Allah
He gets his sword.
Cut a jig Yeoman with the Washington Shaffer. You read. He's
going straight to the prophets of Allah. He was sending them.
Someone told them they're all gathered together at this house
next to suffer.
He's He's full of anger. He's set his mind.
There's only 40 or 50 Muslims at this moment and he's walking with
full intent. As he's walking new ame bin Abdullah he's a Muslim but
he's low key he's a Muslim but he's low key
he sees the prophesy Selim, he sees Rama sorry. He sees oh my god
the hola Hawaiian and he yells out our home and he says oh man I in a
tweet I in a Thai image. lol Where are you going? He looks serious.
What's going on?
And oh my god, the Allah when he says leader, Mohammed ha the
slobby. I'm going to this guy who messed up all religion. I'm going
to take care of him. And let the baraka notice when he says the one
who split us up. That's all he can see.
I'm going to get him for Aktueller who
this moment he's this Muslim this. He can't stop Alma.
Homer is a force to be reckoned with. But I got it. I gotta get
time to protect the prophets of Allah. It was Sunday. So when this
moment he makes a critical decision.
He stuck between a rock and a hard place as my mom would say.
What is he going to do? He says, OMA, why are you worried about
other people? Why don't you take care your family? You can't say
that to people today, let alone Omar back then.
He says why don't you take care of your own family.
He says God's kind of suck. He says your your your your hearts
playing tricks on you. Almost like what you're talking about. He
says, you're trying to go kill Muhammad, but your own sister and
her husband had become Muslim.
And o'mara the Allahu taala. And he realizes how bad this looks for
his name, his family, everything he stands for.
He says,
I'm going there right away. He turns around and he heads out in
that directions.
In the house of Fatima, his sister
and her husband, Saeed bin Zaid,
they're sitting in the house and kebab bin rot
he's sitting there with a parchment a piece of leather with
the latest sorter that just was revealed.
Latest sorta
like today everyone gets hyped when the latest thing drops.
Quran ya connect to the book of Allah, the newest Surah drops what
was the source of bah Ha,
beautiful surah
the flow the the words the meaning.
And kebab is in the house having this low key gathering, and he's
teaching them the new sorta
This is how Islam was protected in difficult moments. You can just go
to the shelf and pick up ha ha.
They had to sneak hide and get together to hold the Quran Subhan
Allah.
So they're inside the house and they're learning sort of the
thought, Aha.
And as they're reading,
they hear the sound of someone at the door. They heard the sound of
someone at the door. Kebab and art is a small man.
Large and faith but small. He goes and hides in the closet.
You wouldn't did the same thing if Omar was at your door with a
sword.
Above says, I'm not even supposed to be here. He ain't gonna know I
was here. I'm hiding in the closet.
So he hides in the closet.
Fatima grabs this new Koran that was just revealed. She puts it
under her thigh
and tells her husband let him in.
He walks into the door.
And he says, Uh, what's this? mumbling I heard inside the house.
You know, reading Koran.
I heard some mumbling going on. Maybe y'all became Muslim.
And she goes up. She's She She's, she's heavy here. We cannot sleep
on the women and see it on that. They are powerful forces to be
dealt with.
In this moment, she doesn't even back up. She says.
But what if that religion is true?
Now the crazy thing is she doesn't know what happened to him the
night before under the Kaaba. She doesn't know that story. But she
just says to him what if it's true?
Oh my god, the Allahu Allah and his his art. His blood is boiling.
So immediately, he sees his brother in law. They're just
sitting there. And he jumps on it
begins to fight.
Obviously fought him about the hola Juana. She can't watch her
husband.
She can't watch him go through this. She jumps up and she starts
to see a whole tussle going on. And finally, the moment happens,
where he hits Latina, she falls to the ground, she's bleeding from
the side of her face. And in that moment, she loses it.
She loses it. She says, Yes, we're Muslim. Beat us as much as you
want. This is the true religion. We're never going to leave this
Dean.
Get that moment of truth. There's a moment where they push us so
much that we don't care about. We don't care to be polite, no more.
There's a point where you push so much that we're not going to be
polite, no more.
She just speaks up. Yes, we're Muslim.
Yes, we're Muslim. That's it. And we're not giving it up. Kill us if
you want to
kill us and he's in rage. She's speaking to someone that has the
capacity.
And now moment
this old feeling started to come into his heart. And they say it
was when he saw the blood on her face that he's seen the
repercussions of his actions. That's why we need to keep sharing
everything happening. So people see the repercussions of their tax
dollars of their policies. Maybe Oh, wake up a heart.
So he sees her and he says give me the give me the piece of paper
y'all was reading.
Now me and you would have been like okay,
she goes no, no, no, no,
you know, Sister vibes.
Sister vibes.
Mashallah, she goes Nah, you nudges
you ain't clean.
He goes, alright, what I gotta do.
She goes, You gotta go wash up real quick. cool him down.
Cool them down. Your heart ain't in the right place to read this
book. You got too many emotions flying around.
You need to come with a tranquil heart to this book of Allah was
shaytaan that's why we say when we start out
Well do bIllahi min ash shaytani R Rajim when you're angry that
hadith said shaytaan it's flowing through your blood. She says no,
you're not ready for this book. Put it down, don't do.
So he comes back he does will do he comes back.
She says give me your word you won't harm this document. Because
at this time every single piece of of Quran is sacred like yo,
this is classified document. Be careful with it. He says I give
you my word and people in those times word was everything. Word
was bond.
So what he says I give you my word, I won't do anything. She
gave it to him.
Just put it in his hands.
He opens it.
Oh my god Allah who was one of the people of Mecca who could actually
read not a lot of people in Mecca could read at the time. He reads
in in his starts Bismillah AR Rahman AR Rahim.
He goes Oh, my boy hero who thought you have
the beginning is nice.
Just Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Omar like I'm in yo. I'm in my
Bismillah Nana Rahim. That's powerful. In the Name of Allah,
the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. Love Like
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ma NS and Nolleke and the Quran Allah Tesh call this Koran wasn't
sent to make your life hard. It led to the Kira telling me this is
just a reminder for those who fear the Athleta
and then it talks about going all the way until it talks about the
names of Allah, the whole Asmaa will host
his heart just filled
and he began to weep right there.
He began to weep.
He says, Is this what the Kool Aid are running from?
When our country realizes what Islam is, so many people will be
saying, is this what we were running from all the time? Prayer
fasting, vicar, no Riba? kindness charity. Is this what we were
running from? That's what this Dean is.
He kept reading in Indiana Allahu La Isla Ilana Boonie while our
team is solid Olivia curry, his heartbroke he said his beautiful
my Asana huddle, Kalam or Quran do Lenny Allah Mohammed take me to
Mohammed right now?
Take me to Mohammed right now.
His sister says I thy God Allah, give me a promise. You only going
to be good to him. His heart is broken. He's already crying. Sis
has given supervise Mashallah.
A man's crying already, you know, but she said No, give me your
word. You're not going to hurt him. He says, Well, I'm not gonna
hurt I'm crying. I'm ready to go meet the man. The moment he said
yes, kebab jumps out the closet. Yo.
Literally, I'm reading the narration. I'm reading the
narration I'm making nothing up y'all. Fella Messenia kebab folder
Ahmed courage a minute minute he came out and he says will lie
yesterday. You won't believe what I heard almost right like where
are you coming from?
He says well Allah He yesterday I heard the prophesy send them say
oh Allah help this Deen with either Abuja or Omar. Omar is you
Allah chose you. That's why they say you never judge a person. Omid
was beloved to God when he was still worshipping idols. Because
what he would become
you can't judge anyone from this moment. Everything is judged by
the last moments.
You can't judge it by by right now.
Bob came out. He says it's you. It's you. You're the one
I heard the Prophet say this for Hola. Hola, yo, Omar. It's you.
Omar says do Lydia kebab. Take me down take me now I'm ready. I'm
ready. I want to take his butt Aslam. Kebab goes who if he
doubted outcome? He's indicted outcome. The house at the bottom
of suffer. They're there right now go.
Oh my god and a kebab. He picks up his sword because he had it with
him. And he puts it on. And he's headed to the prophet but he's
changed man.
He's He's He's allowed the hack to change him.
He's going and he gets to the house and he knocks at the door.
The Sahaba had already been warned that he was on the way by no aim
who distracted him and sent them the other direction. So now
everyone in the house is already anxious. It's about to go down.
They see him at the door he still has his sword. His face is
bloodshot red but from crying now.
Oh,
and he saying let me in.
And at that moment, they look through the peephole, Mahalalel
Bab, they saw his sword.
They go back to the prophets of Allah. It was Solomon. They're all
scared.
And he said, What are y'all scared of what's going on? They said Omar
is out the door. He has his sword. Hamza was in the house.
Soldier Hamza, the alpha two.
Hamza. He says something right now that gives me chills. Hamza goes,
if that was bad, he says, Open the door. In jail, you need to hide.
But then now if he came for good, we'll give him good. But if he
came for a shot, I'll kill him with his own sword
what a man SubhanAllah. He said Lata min the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
He says let him in.
When he came in the door, I want you to see it.
Forget everyone else. This is a moment between Allah and the
Prophet of Allah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, everyone else isn't
there. They're there but block them.
The prophesy centum stood up.
And he walked up to Oman.
And he grabs him by the collar.
And he shakes him. He shakes up.
And he says to him,
yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, man. How long? How long are you going to
hold back? The narration says in that moment, Omers knees gave out.
He was carrying too much for too long.
And Islam took the burden off. His knees gave out he fell in the
profits holding him.
And he said no, I came he's looking up at the profit now.
He says no, I came I came to accept Islam.
I realized the truth.
He's takes the shahada in that moment.
And Allah Subhana Allah Rasool Sai, salam, he says, Allahu Akbar,
and everybody else, they must have went to another room or something,
because they hear the Allahu Akbar. And they know what that
means. Everyone knows what Allahu Akbar means. That means somebody
just took shahada.
So when they heard the Prophet say, Allahu Akbar, everyone else
was Allahu Akbar. They say the masjid like because Sofia is close
to the Kaaba. They said, they said it so loud, we worked normally
quiet. He said, They said it so loud that the whole Masjid heard
like, oh, what's going on?
Or whatever and Cathar but at the Allahu Taala and I want to say
something.
There's a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, where
he said, See all of us in this room. Allah has blessed us with
certain capacities.
Allah Allah has given us all beautiful things within us. And
one Hadith Rasul Tsai said I'm set and NAS can imagine people are
like mines of gold and silver. Meaning within you there's gold,
silver and diamonds. But but it has to be pulled out, has to be
clean. Diamonds don't shine when they come out. Until someone with
an eye for the diamond cleans it up. That's what the Prophet did to
people. He brought them out in their worst form and brought the
best out of them. And he cleaned them up and you may be saying but
I don't have him. Yes, you do. You have his teachings.
Yes, you do. The prophets teachings will take what is best
within you. Pull that out, clean it up and make you shine
and make you shine.
He says the prophesy centum said fatal ConfigMgr Helia Fado confit
Islam.
Those of you who had great qualities in the days of
ignorance. Those same qualities can be used for this Deen when you
learn the deen
over and over the top Radi Allahu Anhu is Muslim now.
Everyone is shocked that this man who was the enemy of the Dean all
of a sudden is the
is on our side.
Never judge a person and never count yourself out. Never let
Shavonne make you think about anyone or yourself that he can't
change your state. No matter who they are.
What does he do after he converts?
Alma Radi Allahu Allah was no way he was going to keep his Islam
quiet.
That wasn't his nature.
Oh my god, the Allah when he says
he says people were quiet in those days.
But when he became Muslim, he made it loud. He made it known to
everyone.
He says up the first thing that I
I did
is I went to all of the people that hated Islam the most. The
first thing he does is go to Abuja when
he goes to Abuja, his house, and he knocks at the door
Abuja, * opens the door and he goes Mark Hudson, Vic Yama.
The first thing he says is I became Muslim.
I became Muslim. He says, like, don't do it.
He says, like up and don't do it. Paula Omar says go to the file to
do did it already.
So he closed the door in my face.
Omar says, and that was nothing.
Omar said, every place on this earth that I fought against Islam,
I want to be public about Islam now.
So he goes to each door of each leader and he goes, I did it. They
say don't do it. He said I did it. They closed the door in his face.
And what did he say? He's like, that was nothing man.
So he says, I had a plan.
He says I went to the Kaaba. Everybody was gathered around.
They used to sit in their little cliques around the cover. He says
there was a man by the name of Jimmy. He was known that he
couldn't keep a secret.
He was known.
Everyone knew he can't keep a secret. So Omar says, You know
what? He goes in the masjid. He sees Jimmy and he sits next to
him.
What's going on Gmail?
He goes, I gotta tell you a secret. But don't tell nobody.
Don't tell no one.
He says yeah, of course.
I won't tell anyone. What is it?
I became Muslim.
He didn't hold it for five minutes. He stood up walked a few
steps. He's a young ish.
He's become soggy. Now. Sabe was the derogatory term for someone
who became Muslim a meant to have no religion. He can't he says Saba
Oma. He's got no religion. Omar stands up he goes now he's lying.
I'm Muslim. Well, I can immediately see Omar was strong.
He can handle his own. But there's 20 there's 3050 people, they all
jump on. And almost ready alone. He says I fought they fought I
fought they fought.
And finally one of my uncle's comes over any points to his he
stands up and he points to his his
sleeve, which meant to say he's under my protection. They looked
up and they they saw it. So they backed off. And after that moment,
almost like yeah, that's what I was looking for.
That's what I was looking he he see and I told you, we can act
upon this. Please don't be silly. Okay. But what he wanted was he
wanted to go through a little struggle because he knew what he
had done to people. He knew the torture he gave. And he was still
seeing people go through it.
He was still seeing people go through it. So he said no man. I
want to feel something to
the narration says that.
They were in the house. He had been Muslim a few days. And he
says to
the prophesy Salem, ya rasool Allah. Let's go pray at the Kaaba
today.
The prophesy No,
no, we're not ready for that. It's not time. We're too weak to say
no, we're not. Let's do it. And Hamza was there. So Hamza stands
in one line. armor stands at the front of the other and the Prophet
in between, and all the Muslims line up, and they just walk into
the car.
And almost says, I just looked everyone in the eye one by one,
try something.
And they go and they pray at the COP. And he said before that day,
we never prayed publicly at all. We never thought of it.
Brothers and sisters.
Oh might have been, Bob was a man of powerful qualities.
And what the Prophet SAW Selim does to each and every one of us
is he teaches us how to use those qualities for God for the deen.
What's your knifes and shape on wants is for you to use that for
the dunya and everything else.
Let us get connected to the Prophet let us learn from him. Let
His ways clean us to make us people that use our best qualities
for the deen.
At the end of every session, we just read a few words about how he
was what time is McGraw.
I wanted to read about how humble he was and how he specifically
spent time with people that were you
not weak but seen as weak in the society we don't know who's
strong, but seen as weak.
Listen closely and think about himself, Allahu Allah. He was
certain. I will say he says I was sitting in a group of weak from
amongst them, oh hygiene.
Some of us had been reduced to just using shields to cover our
own nakedness. We were poor.
And someone was reciting Quran to us. So we were students, but we
were broke. We didn't even have enough money for clothes.
And the messenger of Allah sai said them he came in and he stood
next to us. As he stood next to us, the person reciting Quran
became quiet.
And then the Prophet said, Suriname, and he said, what, what
were y'all just doing?
We said, we were just listening to the book of Allah.
He says, All Alhamdulillah our praise to Allah, who has made from
my community, people who I have been commanded to sit with. And
then he sat down with them and he spent time with them, he sat down,
and he was at the same level as us. These are people who society
doesn't want. The Prophet says I was commanded to be with you all.
I was commanded to be here with you.
Then Then he sat with us they formed a circle facing him. And he
said to them, Oh, poor hygiene, oh, poor immigrants. And these
words will echo through history. Every time there is a group of
poor immigrant Muslims pushed around by the Earth and pushed
around by the world, the world these words should echo he says,
Oh poor, destitute, no hygiene.
Rejoice in glad tidings of perfect light. On the day of judgment. You
will enter into paradise a whole half a day before the wealthy
people 500 years before everyone else. You'll be in general chillin
already.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I just said he was a
humble man.
She says, the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam he used to sew his
own clothes.
He used to repair his own shoes. These are her words, and he would
carry out the tasks that men perform in their homes.
In another narration,
talking to the young men
take out the garbage bro.
Clean up, help out. That's the Sunnah
Lucha Akbar right once
Hamdulillah he would draw from the pale of the well himself. He
didn't ask anyone. She says he would clean his clothes.
Y'all heard me say before the mothers in the room stop pampering
your sons. That's not the Sunnah.
Make the boy do his own laundry. The brothers dying laughing why I
left?
What happened?
Salty now.
The Prophet would clean his own clothes, sal Allahu alayhi wa
sallam.
He would milk the goats himself. She says he would serve himself.
Some Allah who it was. And
she says that the Prophet said a lot. He was telling him he would
go visit the sick, attend funerals, and he would do so
riding on a donkey, meaning he did not care what he rode and didn't
matter to him. So he was
I'll read one more. The messenger of allah sallallahu Sallam used to
remember Allah a lot. And he would chat seldom he would lengthen his
prayer. But his speeches were short.
He did not look down on walking with a widow or poor people to
help them with their needs.
One day the Prophet went to get water from the well and they said
no, no, no, don't drink this. People put their hands in it. He
said, Give me what everyone else gets. I don't want nothing
special. Give me what everybody else gets.
And one example that hits me so strong Omotola the hola Hawaiian
who we just talked about? Omar was going on Omar.
The Prophet said as he left, Omar was walking out the door and as
Omar was leaving he stopped and he said your Alma Don't forget me in
your DUA, little brother.
He doesn't need Omar's dua, he said Omar said that words stuck
with me for the rest of my life. He called me little bro.
He called me little brother sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This
is our beloved Prophet Mohammed Salatu was Salam. May Allah give
us love of the Rasul? May Allah give us love of his companions?
May Allah allow us to make the changes in our life that we need
to change and become to become his true servants. May Allah subhanaw
taala alleviate the suffering and in the in the hardship in the
torture in the oppression that our brothers and Philistine are going
through. May Allah make us the mouthpiece of them that speak out
against injustice? May Allah subhanaw taala accept or do us for
them? Yahama Rahimi, y'all are those of our community who are
Take those of our community who are going through difficulties
Yola those of community who are going through family difficulties
we asked you your Allah to give them the best of this world and
the aka yada Hamra he mean Subhan Allah because Allah is He is He
was phenomenal masani with Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen She's like
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