Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #13
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You
know Margaret
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man are human Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen
wa Salatu was Salam ala so you didn't know when a Vienna Maulana
Muhammad Ali he was so heavy he was salam Allahumma inanda Luca
hubback will help a man you have book will help. I'm telling you
Padre guna Isla hovick Er hamara he mean, we ask Allah subhanho wa
Taala to give us the love his love. We ask Allah Subhana Allah
to Allah to give us the love of the people that he loves, and give
us the greatest of love the love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
And we asked Allah subhanaw taala to give us the love of those
actions that will gain his love. This halacha series we're doing is
in his footsteps. And the intention behind this Holika was
to rejuvenate our love for those who sort Allahu alayhi wa sallam
to rejuvenate our connection with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam. Because we all know like, intellectually, that we want to
love him more than anything else. But until we study his life, until
we look at his life until we appreciate his struggles, then we
can't truly, truly say that we love Him. And so we've been just
going through his life taking lessons, many of the stories some
of us have heard these stories before. But as I said many times,
and I'll repeat that, the stories don't change, but our life
circumstances change. And so now when we hear the story, it may be
different for me now, and I connect to it on a deeper level.
Today, we're going to be talking about a very difficult moment in
the life of the prophet peace and blessings be upon him. I mean, his
whole life was a life of sacrifice, for the sake of Allah
subhanho wa taala, from the beginning of this message, he was
he was he was struggling and sacrificing to give this message
to whoever would take it. And because this message had a
profound impact on society, because it uplifted the poor,
because it shifted the social structure, people didn't like it,
those in power didn't like the message. And because they didn't
like the message, they left no stone unturned, and tormenting
him, and torturing him and mocking him, ridiculing him, and
preventing him however they could, from this message.
Getting out. So one of the things that happened in about the seventh
or eighth year of the prophets, mission, peace and blessings be
upon him
is that the Quraysh had run out of they had run out of things to do.
They had already gone to the Prophet himself, and they offered
him leadership, like will make you the King will make you the leader
just chill out for a bit. But he said, No, I'm not about that. This
message isn't for power. This message is for liberation. And
when we say liberation, it's not the liberation in the secular but
liberation of souls. Souls that had been been been locked up for
too long in the slavery to things a slavery to wealth, a slavery to
status. So he didn't take the power. They offered him money. He
didn't take the money, he couldn't use the resources to move the
message on but he didn't touch it. Because the message had to be
purely for one reason, the message of la ilaha illAllah. That was the
only incentive he wanted people to know there is no God except Allah,
and that he was the final messenger of Allah. And so they
now they came to another method. They spoke to Abu Talib, his
uncle, and as you all know, Abu Talib, he didn't believe in the
message. But he had this kind of familial bond, which forced him to
say, You know what, nephew?
Doesn't matter. I got your back. I got your back. I'll be here for
you all stand in your corner. So he had Khadija in his home, which
was his spiritual rock inside. And he had Ableton Live outside that
was standing behind him saying if you touch my nephew, watch the
whole Benny Hashem and our family will be after you.
So now the Quraysh they see, they see that Islam is growing. Hamza
Radi Allahu Allah had just become Muslim. Last week we spoke about,
remember, even in Qatar becoming Muslim, these were influential
people. They were powerful people. Islam is spreading.
And they're running out of things to do.
The narrations in the books of Sierra they tell us that once they
saw Islam was spreading. And the second thing we'll talk about is
we made another migration to Abyssinia, Ethiopia, or presents
My brothers in sha Allah. We made another trip but we're going to
talk about that in the second portion. I want to start off with
what was happening in Makkah. They said look, these Muslims have
migrated to Africa. And they got protection in Africa.
They're growing in numbers. influential people are accepting
Islam. It's overnight now we'll do it.
They come to Abu Talib one last time. And they say to Abu Talib,
listen,
you either stop him, or we're going to kill him.
And I will thought I was like, Wait, how dare you do you know my
status in the community? You can't say things like that to me.
The Kure say, Well, you either hand them over to me, us, or we'll
take care of him.
At this moment, what happens is deep.
The Quran gathered together.
And all of the notables of all the tribes. They come together. And
they form a treaty, they form an alliance. They form an alliance
and what is this alliance say? They wrote an alliance that nobody
can interact. Nobody can marry into the family of Benny Hashem,
and Benny multiling. Nobody could sell them any goods. Nobody can
interact with them. Nobody can visit them. No one can sit with
them. No one can have any interaction with them. It was an
open air prison in the valley of Benny Hashem, Benny Hashem, if you
look at the topography of the land, Benny, Hashem, ironically is
right at the their tribe was located right at the mouth of a of
a valley, like a Col de sac.
By the color of Allah, that's where they were from before. So
all the leaders they gathered, they say, You know what, this is
it. We need everyone to agree. If you're a part of this alliance,
that's for the well being of of our country, then you won't
interact at all with vendo Hashem.
Now the thing is this, this is DPR. Now all bento Hashim were
Muslim.
Not all of them were Muslim.
But I will tell you that he stands up and the narration is clear. He
stands up in front of his whole family.
And he says, I need everyone from our family to join forces. We're
going to now back up into this case this this share this valley
and we're going to protect Mohamed so I set them with everything we
have.
And that's what they did.
I will Abuja has a leader of the aggression against the Muslims.
He made sure no one did any business and interaction with the
Muslims.
One narration tells us that Hakeem been his arm. Just remember
Hakeem, how came he becomes Muslim later, but he was the nephew of
Khadija. Now remember, you can't take any food in it sounds
familiar? Right? You can't take any food in No, no food is allowed
in until they hand over Mohamed salah. And the prophets of Allah
Azza wa sallam he says, he says and I quote I She says that the
Prophet said to me, well, Allah, he the only food we ate, was
whatever Bilal could hide under his armpit. Beloved, wasn't bento
Hashem, so he wasn't a part of the blockade. So he would go to visit
see they let people go up here and there. But you can't take anything
in. So Bilal would take a piece of bread something small, and he
would put it under his arm. And he would just walk in and I should
tells us later she says, the Prophet says there were nights
that the only thing I ate was whatever be loud, the Allah who
could smuggle into the valley.
It goes on for not months.
Not a year.
The boycott goes on for three years.
For three years and I want to read the narrations because it's so
profound. For three years was said the I lay him fee him as Bella
will judge, it was very difficult upon them. The kurush cut off off
food or resources, the Kool Aid cut off the open markets.
I'm telling you, we don't study Sita, because this is some dead
part of our history. This is living in the world today. And
unless we connect to the sera, sera, we won't gain that spiritual
inspiration to keep pushing through the trials and
tribulations that we as an ummah are going through
to canula through kunafa prom and they didn't let any food come into
Mecca, except that they would buy it all up first.
To make sure none of it gets to that in Hashem
Abu Lahab he went to some of the business people and he said,
Listen, I know you're all about profits, but how about this? If
you promise us You won't sell to
if you pry
Emma says you won't sell Tabasco Hashem will pay you double price
just don't sell it when they come when they come, say the price is
higher, say the price is higher, but don't sell there.
And they were about money so they did it.
The narration tells us that J del mcmeen on the believers of bento
Hashem and the tribe of Banu Hashim went through struggles
woman my home Jew and they were hungry, or the yarn and no clothes
No one's buying and selling three years.
Hakka Soumya, a sua to slip Yanni him in water shed to the point
that I told you that their Valley was a cold the sack and so the
sounds that were big inside the valley would reverberate through
Mecca. And so the authors they say the people of Mecca used to hear
the crying of the children have been Hashem but they did nothing
for three years.
It speaks for itself I don't even have to make the connections your
hearts make the connections.
The whole world sees what's happening. The whole NUCCA saw
well heard what was happening. They heard the cries of children,
but nothing stopped.
Well, Theroux Isla, they were forced, who are Habib said Allah
who it was selling them. Now I want to stop for a moment. Before
I read what's next? I want us to stop for a moment and think about
who we're talking about here. In the sight of God. Who are we
talking about here? His chosen Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam his final messenger say he did a wedding with
the Chosen of the of Allah and he's going through three years
of boycott starvation and oppression
so what did they say? What Theroux Isla alkaline water szegedi We
were forced to eat the leaves of trees was julu then we would eat
animal hide? Well Halochem in human halacha and some people
passed away sad Ben Abby Well, cos I mean, sad Ben Abby will cost is
amazing fighter when the time comes. But right now wasn't the
time to fight right now was the time for patience and to build
fortitude to build us to who we would become. And this applies to
all of us in our lives in our smaller trials. All of us have
smaller trials. And we expect that when we raise our hands the help
of God is going to come tomorrow morning. You like yo I got a job
interview on Friday. I'm praying tahajjud Wednesday Thursday I'm
good.
With a third that's good was a Thursday is enough lo Akbar.
515 Get up. I'm good. 505 Now you get that? Nah, nah, la ya Chabad.
I'm speaking to myself and you as well.
It takes patience.
It takes patience. Hatha Yoga Kula rasool Allah Deena Ma Ma, who my
TA Nasir Allah.
Because Because here's the deal.
Was Zulu. Zulu, Allah says that he shook up the believers. He shook
it up, he shook them up. But you got to understand why the shaking
happens. Because when you shake a cup, it only spills with what's
inside. So people see the reality of these believers. People see
who's true and who's not.
There's no way you would have stayed with the believers if you
didn't firmly believe La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool Allah,
you'd be like, Nah, man, I gotta eat.
I gotta eat.
So what did sad been? I'd be what cost said. And I mentioned sod
because I want you to understand these aren't weak people.
There's that these aren't weak people. But hear me and you in the
last thought Amina Mina and Fusa home while I'm while at home the
another homeowner Jana. Allah has purchased my life, my wealth and
everything that is mine. So they they this was the time for
patients so they were patient, when Allah allowed them to stand
up and fight back. Oh,
they came through
Saad bin Abi Waqqas, he says, and it's cringe worthy, but I'm going
to read it
because it's a reality. Bar the courage to Mina Lael, abou he
says, I went out one night to urinate while either an asthma I'm
walking in the middle of the pitch back Black Desert, it's dark out,
I can barely see anything but I'm going outside so I can relieve
myself. And he says I was walking. And as I began to urinate, I heard
as if like it wasn't hitting the ground. It was like my urine was
hitting something else. As if there was like a
leaf or something on the ground
for a doctor to jilted by it, he says I realized I looked under
myself and what was it there was a piece of the height of a of a
camel.
That's got caloric value for a starving person. That's caloric
value.
He says to her, I grabbed it.
And you think he's telling us this story with with with pride you
remember your your your grind days, your hard days, when you
barely paid bills, you look back at those days, like you don't know
how hard it was. He's telling the story. And he goes, I took it. I
washed it. I heated it up a little bit. And I grinded it down, so I
didn't have to just bite leather till I made it into like a powder.
like oatmeal type thing, grinded it down.
And then I took water and I took the thing that I picked up off the
ground and I ate it.
Fuck he says, fuck all we had to be Hatha laughing. He says for
three days I felt strong.
He says for three days, I felt like I had energy.
The boycotts and the sanctioning of believers for no other reason
than they want to stay on their land. They want to stay where
they're at. They want to worship Allah is nothing new.
And I want you to understand, and I mentioned this before, we don't
read the theater, thinking like we know what's happening next. Don't
read the seat of the life like yo, hold up. Wait, you know what's
coming. Now they don't know what's in front. Right now. They're
living in the moment they're living in. So it was difficult.
Food is running out. They're barely eaten eating whatever
people could smuggle in
to the point now that the oppressor started to feel pity on
them a little bit. Despite the fact that they kept oppressing
them.
Nobody had the ability to send food in.
But it started to break y'all started to break. What did there's
a point
there's a point where people have enough of oppression.
Hakeem wasn't a Muslim yet.
He's the his aunt is Khadija.
One day he's walking with his servant and he has food he's
openly with food.
And he's taking it into the valley in Abuja. He's made it his job to
stop every truck coming in past the checkpoint.
No, where are you going? Hakim's like making on my way. I'm taking
food to my aunt. He's like, No, you not that don't go down over
here.
Another man comes over by the name of Abu Buck Teddy. His name is
important. We'll talk about him in a minute. He sees the whole thing
going and I told you people were hearing the screams. They saw the
oppression and it was hurting them it was getting to them. So
aboubaker Teddy is a third party he comes over and he's like Bucha
Why don't you get off the way let them and take food to his arm.
Bucha has like a rule is a rule. International law states.
International law states we can't I'm sorry. I feel sorry for him.
But
this becomes a little scuffle,
Abu Bakr, he he picks up something off the ground and he hits a Bucha
hole in the head.
hamdulillah Hamdulillah.
I'll say some about to get myself in trouble.
He hits him. And Abu JAL is about to fight back. But from the valley
Hamza is in the valley watching the scuffle. And he's happy. Yeah,
let's go. So Bucha has baxa Like I don't want to, I don't want them
to see me bleeding and struggling and make them happy. He backs up
when the food comes in.
So what happens slowly, but surely, emotions start to change.
And I want us to understand this in the context of today.
A group of people starting with he sham bin Ahmed.
He's tired of it. It's been three long years
of the persecution of death of the torture of the starvation.
Hey, Sham, he comes over to Zoo had another leader. I won't throw
too many names at you just a few today. He comes over to him and he
says zoo head. How long are we going to put up with watching this
happen? At the end of the day? These are humans. These are our
people. How long are we going to put up with this? Zuhair says
something deep he goes yeah, I'm with you. But I'm only one person.
What can I do?
He goes no, no, there's two people. He's like who he's like me
and you.
He goes no, no, I need a third. He's like
Sure I'll bring a third. And one by one. He gathers six people out
of the city of 15,000 people, 20,000 people, he gathers six
people that have had enough with the oppression.
They gather one night. What do they do? They sit together they
said, This is enough is enough guys. How long can we watch our
fellow people go through things like this?
What are we going to do? says alright, tomorrow I'm going to go
to the Kaaba. I told you the Kaaba was in place, everyone kind of
gathered together. He says, I'm gonna go to the Kaaba. And I'm
gonna hold up though, before we go forward, like notice the planning
the organization.
Notice the thinking, how are we going to break this down?
He says, we're gonna go to the Kaaba tomorrow, and I'm gonna do
too often, I'm gonna stand up and give a talk. And I'm gonna give a
talk and I'm going to speak up for social justice. This is a non
Muslim. I'm going to speak up for social justice and say, enough is
enough. But the moment I stand up, each one of y'all or five other
y'all in your different areas, each one of you stand up and say,
yeah, he's right. Yeah, he's right. Yeah, he's right. So then
the next day, Hakeem comes in, he comes into the Masjid.
He does toe off. He put on some new clothes actually. And he
stands up and he starts to give this beautiful talk.
And he goes, how long are we going to let our people he says yeah,
hola. Maccha
non Muslim speaking up. Not cool. Tom. Are we going to eat food?
And that's this the I wear new clothes.
And Ben will Hashem is sitting here die.
No, no one does business with them. No one can enter no
resources in or out.
How long are we going to let this happen? We have to rip up this
treaty we have to we have to break this alliance. Abu Jamal is in the
gathering.
He goes You ain't gonna do nothing. Sit down.
Conductor. Conductor Wallah. He lied to shut up. He says you're
lying. You're not gonna break anything. Sit down. Right when he
says that in one corner.
One man stands up. No, no, no, I'm with him.
A Bucha head looks like hold up.
But moments later in the next corner, another person stands up
now I'm with him to
a Bucha who is looking around, hold up what's going down? Next
corner. Somebody else stands up. Yeah, me too. Before you know it.
Six people are all standing up saying this has to be done with
the narration says Abuja *.
He looks like he can't say anything because the pressure is
too much. That's why we have to keep speaking. That's why we have
to keep spreading awareness because the Abuja * of today is
gonna get silenced.
The Abuja love today is going to get silence. So the Abuja * of
that tie. He looks up and he says something kind of funny. He says,
haha, I'm gonna call the a belay. He goes now this wasn't, this
wasn't coincidental. This was something that was plotted before
today. Now at the same time, something else happened. The hand
of God, the Hand of Allah is always there. We can't forget that
we strategize. We move. We think we do whatever we can. But we
never forget our spiritual strength that help of God is when
the help of God comes.
The prophets of Allah they was salam, one of these days right
after this whole incident came out. He pulls his uncle to the
side and he says Uncle
He says uncle.
He says Uncle gotta tell you some.
What is it Mohamed, what do you have to tell me? He says,
and Allahu Allah, Allahu Allah, I'm gonna decipher. He says UNK,
Allah subhanho wa Taala has told me something about the the
contract the treaty that they signed.
He goes, What are you talking about? He goes Allah subhanaw
taala has told me that the treaty is gone. The ants or termites have
consumed it. And the only thing remaining of the piece of paper is
the name of Allah at the top of it.
abou toilet This is crazy. This is crazy. Everyone's journey to Allah
is different. Everyone's journey to Allah is different, even though
at times, we're right next to each other.
Abu Talib he looks at his nephew. And he says rabuka Akbar aka
Bihar.
Did your Lord tell you this fall and na homicide Saddam says to his
uncle who doesn't believe but we'll talk about that at the end
today. He says for call Abu Talib law with the work of maca Deb
tinny he goes I swear by the stars. Son you never lie to me. I
will tell them gathers all of Bani Hashim.
They go down to the Kaaba and when they see when Abu Jamal sees Abu
Talib coming out of the valley with his whole clan. They think
that they've broken
them, they think that they broke them and now they're gonna hand
over the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. So Abu Jaya, this height finally we broke them.
I will tell them comes he says I think we need to meet and discuss
everything. He says, of course let's discuss. He goes, No, no, do
me a favor, can you please bring that the treaty that you're signed
cannot bring it and just put it on the table? It was rolled up, it
was in some type of thing. He said, Sure. Sure. They brought in
they put it on the table.
I will tell him in that moment, he goes on.
My nephew here has told me that that treaty doesn't even exist
anymore. By a miracle of God, that treaty don't exist. So you got to
understand something. You know, when slavery when we got close to
ending slavery in America, there were a lot of, you know,
control yourself here.
There were a lot of good white folks that would say, slavery is
wrong. But it's the law.
Yeah, you're right. It's just wrong. But you know, it's the law.
Well, we got to do.
It's the law. Yeah, you know, BTS is good, but it's the law. We
can't you know, it's the law. So the hearts had changed, but not
really, they needed that actual document to be gone. So there was
no more relying on that document anymore.
So so the hearts were ready to quit. But they had that little Oh,
but the law, the law.
So he says, Now, before we open this treaty,
I want to make an agreement with you. If this treaty remains
intact, I'll give you Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him.
I'll give him to you. You do what you want with him.
But if the treaty is as my nephew says, this boycott is over Abuja
* don't believe in no miraculous stuff. He don't
sounds like fairy tales to me. I will Jehovah says, Of course.
Of course, I agree to that. And lo and behold, they unroll this, the
thing that has it and the moment Subhanallah
the moment they see it as he spoke,
they yell out Saharsa magician magician. He's doing magic on us
again, getting doing magic on us again.
And I ended the boycott.
As I reflect on this, this, this boycott brothers and sisters,
I can't help but be motivated and know that Allah's help is with the
people of Philistine in Sudan.
But we have to stay spiritually connected to Allah, all the
organization, all this all that we got to do it, but your heart has
to be connected to Allah because we will be shaken.
You will you gotta have it in your mind. Like I already know.
I already know I'm gonna be shaken.
But I know the help of Allah subhanaw taala is right after
that. Now at the same time, when the boycott began, I said there
was another aspect we had to talk about. When the boycott began.
The prophesy Selim said things are getting serious now. They're
trying to kill me. I don't have free access to move around. lives
are at stake here. The Prophet said a lot he was setting them he
said, Whoever can leave, it's time to do hedge.
hedge or again move. What is his on a hold on before we go forward?
What does it mean to make hedge Hijra is a term that means
migrate. It means leaving everything that you know normal,
everything that you have.
And for the sake of God, not for a job, not for economic status. For
the sake of Allah in the preservation of your deen, you
pick up and you go somewhere else. Why? So that you could worship
Allah. Now think about us who give up on prayers, Salah everything
else without any pressure and think about the people who
migrated just so that they could practice what we give up so
easily.
You know, I knew this. This Russian kid who converted when he
was 15
his name was uh, what was his name? Always missus name, Tao
wound.
That's the name he chose.
And his parents had just come from Russia to like first generation
Orthodox
and this boy he used to walk
two miles to the masjid
two miles to walk.
And we will be like, bro, you need a ride.
Be like nah
I'm getting reward for each step.
I'm good.
His father realized that he's Muslim.
He will watch prayer times don't pray.
If I catch you pray
no first thing is father did was he I guess he learned some FIPS
he's like, Oh, y'all gotta wash up to pray.
So I Fajr time if you heard him in the bathroom,
cut it. Nope.
Da who got the fatwa you could do TM bro.
You could do TM, though it was like I could do TM is over. Was
Baba going through now.
What I'm trying to tell you this that I watched him from the age of
1415 1617 when he hit 18, we throw party
but he held on.
He held on
hijra, meant I'm giving up everything I know. For one reason,
so that I can hold on to my prayer my salah, my Allah, Allah is
Allah, my Koran all of that I'm leaving it at six Muslims
get up and leave.
Have man been a fun one of them?
of mine been a fan comes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
He says Ya rasool Allah
for Hegira tuna hula we made one Hijra. Well how did you know we
made another we're making another one? And he goes well Lester Manna
but you're not with us. What I want you to understand is one of
the hardest things for them is that I have to leave the prophesy
center. Well, Lester, man, you're not with us. How am I gonna go I
don't know when I'm coming back. See again, me and you read theater
and we're like yo with mature you're gonna be back in like four
years.
La he doesn't know this is this is a one way ticket to Abyssinia.
There's no idea of when I'm coming back.
He says for call Rasulullah sigh Salam and to muhajir una illallah
wa la.
This is profound. He goes no, no, not with mine. You're doing Hijra
to Allah and to me to? It's for me. Yes, we're physically distant,
but our hearts are closer than ever of the man. And who was with
us man who who was of man's wife at the time. The daughter of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This wasn't him sending
other people Yeah, go. This was him separating from his own
beloved ones.
The prophets that Allahu Allah he was setting them he sends
80 some odd Muslims who have no choice but to flee for the
protection of their Deen. And he sends them to a country where he
said it is a out of the soil. It is a righteous land.
It is a righteous land. And he said that there's a just king who
wasn't Muslim. But he was just, oh, I wish we had just leaders
today.
I don't care what religion you are. Just if we had justice,
either.
So he sent them. This was their second Hijra
the Quraysh. Now you would think guys, that the cool Aish we've
been a thorn in their side for so long. For the last eight years,
we've been a problem for them. Our presence bothered them. Our
prayers our Koran are thicker, it bothered them. You would think
that they would have been happy that good riddens
misery loves company. They couldn't bear the sight of us
being peacefully comfortable in a place. So what do they do? They
send to people not trying to throw a lot of names at you but they
send to people they send I've been asked, he becomes Muslim later.
hamdulillah he's fatty hold mister. he conquers missa and they
sinned. Abdullah bin Abdullah br Now this story has to really be
closely looked at.
The Muslims had arrived in Abyssinia. They were welcomed.
They were brought in. They were given comfort.
The curation these to people go after them and make sure you bring
them back here. Before they go, they take a lot of
wealth. And they take a lot of different special things from
Mecca. They knew that Modjadji really loved that Mexican leather.
So they took some extra leather for him.
When they arrive in Abyssinia, they don't go to the Joshy first
they go to
His counsel the people around him, and they flood them with political
contributions, I mean gifts.
They give them all of these gifts.
And as they give them the gifts, they say these words, they say,
you know, here we bought something from, you know, mecca for you.
And hey, by the way, there's some youth from our city that have
sought refuge in your country. They've left our religion but
they're not even Christian by the way.
You know, tomorrow, we're gonna go talk to Nigel he, maybe you could
put in a good word for us.
I mean,
they just got the gifts How you gonna say no.
Brussels I sell them he taught us al InSign Abdul SN.
A human being is always a slave to the good that was done to them.
Allahu Akbar.
Brothers and sisters lobbying?
Do we need to spell it out?
They came with all the gifts. They gave it to all the congressmen.
And they said, Hey, we're gonna bring this up. But we need you to
tweet about it.
We need you to speak up on this issue and be on our side. And once
they had the gifts, how can I say no now?
They said, Yeah, we got your back.
The next day, they arrive at the Palace of Najafi these two bounty
hunters you could say.
First thing they did when they went to the Joshy they bowed down
in front of them as was customary in their culture. And they brought
forward all of these gifts for an adjuster he
and he accepted them. They gave him height and a horse in a silk.
So and they spoke saying these words and I'm gonna read it
verbatim so we could take lesson. They said you had malloc or you
had Malik. There's a group of young people. They're ignorant.
They have left our way of life but they're not even Christian.
They've started some new Deen. We don't know what it is. You don't
know what it is either. Our country have sent us to bring back
these. These people.
We want to bring them home. Their families know how to deal with
them correctly.
At that moment, they're quiet. The Councilman speak up sadaqa you
have Malik? Yes, yes there right now Jassi there, right what
they're saying. We need to send them.
He said can you give them to us? For love the button a Joshy
ah, justice for gazebo. He got angry. And he said How dare you
just want me to make a decision on a people without hearing their
side. What is amazing about oppressors is they always want to
silence the oppressed.
They always want to stop your stop your voice from coming out. They
don't want you telling your story. They want to tell your story for
you. And justice is that
the oppressors speak for themselves.
That's what justice is. So that Joshy he goes la Ah, how dare you
bring them to me and let me talk to them.
Now this is a tough moment, y'all.
We've never been on the international stage before.
This leader of a kingdom of Africa is summoned seeing the Muslims to
come and represent themselves.
So we all showed up.
And the Sahaba they met before and they said what are we going to
say?
They say we speak the truth. And whatever happens happens. These
are their words. Cat you know my Kana whatever happens happens. And
the Joshi says
my Harvard Dean and Lady Gaga farak, tune V OMAC. What's this
new religion you're practicing?
Fine.
relative of the Prophet close relative of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. He steps forward in this moment and I want you to
picture it. He steps forward and he gives the most beautiful speech
about how Islam transformed them. He says oh king, listen closely,
could not Bowman Alger he Lee
and for the converts and for those who had a rebirth of your Islam,
listen to his words. He goes oh king. We were people that lived in
ignorance.
Not Buddha. us now. We were
worshipped idols,
things that we made like crosses and statues, we worship those
things. I remember that life.
We worshipped it.
We're not called Mater. We ate things that weren't clean.
We're not till for wash. We did all types of indecent acts.
We had no moral character should have saw us before.
We're nocturnal arhaan.
We didn't care about family.
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We cared not for the neighbor.
And the weak of us, was consumed by the strong.
Hold on. The strongest thing that will make your eemaan strong and
mighty man strong, is just compare and contrast.
Compare and contrast the lifestyle of the men, the believer
and the one who's lost? May Allah guide all of our families. Compare
that this is why even Kamal Josie, he says something deep. He says,
you know why? Do you know why? It doesn't have to be the state, but
sometimes you go through Jackie Lea, and I'm not talking only for
converts. I'm talking for anyone who's gone through a giant you
need a time, some time of ignorance when you didn't know.
See the reason Allah puts you through the Jahai Lea, is because
you sometimes don't know what light is until you've seen
darkness.
And now when you see light you like oh, it's lit in here.
Everybody else is used to the light. Ramadan comes Quran vicar.
They like oh, it's normal. You like nice bright up in here. Your
shine and like angels. We just normal
event payment Josie he says Yanni Haqiqa. To che he goes Who's the
one who actually knows what something is? He goes, if you look
at something only from outside, you only have one perspective. But
when you've gone inside and come outside, then you have the true
understanding of what something is.
The Convert on would have been the cooktop who spent nights.
I mean, we read it last week.
He spent nights of his life before
drinking alcohol.
So when he sees a night of prayer, is that Allahu Akbar, Allahu
Akbar.
May Allah help us see the beauty of this without going through the
dark?
And may Allah allow some of us in this room to take the other
people's word for it.
That wasn't a strong I mean,
that wasn't a strong I mean,
so he talks about how they were. So what does he say? Let's
continue what he said.
For Kwinana, Allah daddy, that's how we lived our life.
Sexual indecency. No care for ethics, worshipping whatever we
want it to worship. He goes hot bath Allah, Elaine, that offsuit.
And then he said until God sent a prophet for us. We knew his
lineage. We knew his truthfulness. We knew his uprightness, we knew
his character. We knew this man.
For the ANA Illa. Allah He called us to Allah. That's what Islam is
about. There's people in this room right now considering converting.
What is this message about what is what is the message of Muhammad
all about? It's about a relationship between you and Allah
and nothing in between, and following the Prophet Muhammad
sigh So that's it.
Not worshiping anything else, but Allah. That's what it's about.
He says, This man called us and he called us to new Wahida. Who to
make Allah one and worship Him. Were Nakhla, my canon that book
and to give up completely everything that our forefathers
worshipped, it was gone. He told us to be truthful in speech. Like
truly truthful.
He told us to fulfill the trust that's given to us. Whatever trust
you have in your life, your job, your family, your your children,
your elderly parents who build the trust. He taught us that we have
to do that.
Well, Senator Romney taught us to connect the family bonds.
He taught us to be good neighbors. He taught us to avoid harm and
bloodshed.
Avoid bloodshed.
When Ahana and for WA has, he stopped us from indecency. Look at
the beauty of the deen y'all
He stopped us from speaking lies and statements that weren't true.
He stopped us from eating the consuming the wealth of orphans.
He stopped us from accusing Chase women of X they didn't do.
He told us to worship want Allah praise Allah give charity. So we
believed in him he sang all this in front of this king. We believed
him we followed him.
And when we did that, we made halal what he said was halal and
haram what he said was haram
you know a lot of us we like the rational reasons for why Halal is
halal and haram is haram. My kids, right?
So awesome. We were making turkey bacon. Okay, don't be looking at
me funny. We were making turkey bacon and possum goes dead. Why is
pig haram right? This was just yesterday. So Karima goes, because
it's a dirty animal, right? I'm like, no, because Allah said is
haram is it? And then Chris was like, No, it's a dirty edible. I
was like, no, just stop, stop. rationalize it everything else
because God says so. Fajr Yeah, but you're Why are you waking up
for Fajr?
Better be waiting for Pfizer?
Why? Oh, because it's good to start your day early. Come on.
If God didn't tell you, you wouldn't be doing it. That's the
bottom line. I'm the servant of Allah. He told us to face baits
and muck this and pray. We prayed. Then he said change direction.
We'd like some Yeah, no. Well taught No.
We changed direction. It didn't matter. It didn't matter. The
order is from God. That's it. I don't need to rationalize it. I've
rationalized my belief in God. I've rationalized my belief in the
prophet but I don't rationalize what he brings me.
I don't rationalize what he brings me.
So I hope Qasim is here. He heard what else
so Subhanallah he says we made halal, what Allah made Hala. And
what the Prophet told us was haram. We stayed away from it.
So what happened to us five, the Buena they punished us, they
tortured us. They forced us They did whatever they could to make us
go back to our old lifestyles, even though they saw our lifes
were better. How many people have seen your life after you became a
practicing Muslim? And they know you're better. But still.
So then
the Joshi listens, and the Jassi is struck.
Because in the jazz she still believes in the Oneness of Allah
in the trueness of Isa Jesus as being a servant.
So in the Joshi, he says,
Do you got any of that Koran?
You got any of it with you?
And Jaffa says got him? He didn't say that.
But he's like God.
He says, can you read some of it to me?
And look how selective he was. He didn't read like a body metal
body.
Either. Zillah chill out the ZIL Zala. Law. He read sort of Maori
young
setting him up.
Such a beautiful surah and within the first page just talking about
Yeah, John, the Baptists, Zachariah, Mar young ASA.
And by the time he finishes reciting the jazz, she is weeping,
weeping and all of the councilmen who had been given their
donations, they're weeping to it hit him. That's why I said a lot
of us they're like, you know, people ask how do I give Dawa open
the door but give the Koran let the Koran do the work
are they killed beloved, your job is to give the message not to
convince that's it.
So they're weeping and in that moment and the Joshy
cleaned himself up? He looks at armor been off he goes Can y'all
bring the gifts that they gave me please
take your gifts
leave these people go You guys are fighting to stay in this country
as you wish everyone disperses
Ahmed bin ISIS intelligent
he goes to Abdullah bin a bit at River a br He goes no we're gonna
go tomorrow back we want to ask for another meeting. But I'm gonna
really push it now. Abdullah goes What are you going to say? He goes
on to tell them him. Najafi that they don't believe in Jesus.
Now Abdullah, he goes yo chill. This is our family at the end of
the day. He
goes now, I'm going all out. This is not right.
Next day comes
and what happens?
You know, he, he comes back, and he tells them exactly that. He
tells him, hey, they don't believe in Jesus. And in that moment, I
may have mixed up one part, this reciting of sort of mme the second
day. The second day, sorry. Yeah, my bad yo.
It was a little shaky. You trippin. Alright. The second day?
Um, I've been asked, he comes in. He's like, they don't believe in
Jesus. And it was in that moment, because Jaffa knew what was about
to go down. So we asked Sahaba he asked others he's like, What do we
say? And they this is what I put a note on this show. He says,
we're going to speak the truth. Cat in my cannon. Whatever happens
happens. And for me, and you the lesson is principled. We have to
be principled, y'all.
They were principled they in this moment, they said, We're speaking
the truth, regardless of what happens. he recites sort of Medea,
when you recite sort of Madame de jiashi, he picks up a small stick
or something off the ground. And he says that there isn't this much
difference between what I believe and what you've come with. We're
on the same Dean. We're on the same religion, we're on the same
way. Then he takes all the gifts and he gives them back and he
sends them away.
This was a tough moment. But we see what justice does and this
time in our lives as Muslims in America. This story resonates with
us so beautiful. I said the boycott lasted three years. The
boycott lasted three years.
The boycott was hard on us, emotionally, economically for
sure. But physically the boycott broke us down.
By the time the boycott ended,
we were free. But we weren't done struggling.
About a month after the boycott.
Abu Talib becomes very ill he's in his 80s Now I need you to connect
to the heart of the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him.
Our job in this in this Holika is to connect to his heart so Allah
Allahu alayhi wa sallam. He's come out of this boycott. And the man
the figure that has been standing up in the face of people
protecting him despite his age, he has status
has been able to live
Abu Talib gets really sick and it looks like his his last days.
The prophets of Allah Who are they he was salam.
He walks into the room where Abu Talib is laying this will be his
last bed that he he passes away on.
And then when when the Prophet SAW Selim walks into the room, he sees
Abu Jamal standing there and Abdullah bin Abi omega, two
relatives.
The Prophet walks into the room, they can't stop him. That's his
uncle.
He says withdraw excuse me so I can talk to my uncle.
They said no, we're staying here.
For those of us who understand what that what happened in that
moment. They didn't want the prophet to have a lonely moment
with Abu Talib when he didn't have the influence of people around
him. So they stayed there.
They won't leave the Prophet and looks over to his uncle.
He's lost everyone right?
His mother father passed away before he was born. His mother
passed away when he was only six years old.
His grandfather brought him in but he passed away. I will thought it
has been there for every moment protecting his secure base. His
who he gets strength from and he's laying on his deathbed. But
there's only one problem he hasn't believed yet. He hasn't accepted
Islam yet.
The prophets of Allah who it was selling them he leans over in
Abuja, Hollis right there and Abdullah live in the Omega is
right there. And the Prophet leans over. He says, I am me.
Oh my uncle,
hula Ilaha illa Allah.
Just say the words La Ilaha illa Allah that you believe in one
Allah.
Kelly, mutton. Aha Juliaca behind the law. You say this word and I
will fight for you on the Day of Judgment. To say this word I
believe in one Allah. One Allah I'll fight for you on the Day of
Judgment. The prophets of Allah who it was salam he said that that
that as Johanna is being
The Hellfire people are coming out of hellfire. Allah subhanaw taala
will tell the believers go into hellfire and pull out whoever you
know that was a believer.
Whoever you know that had any little ounce of belief go and just
pull them out, pull them out, pull them out.
Pull them out to hellfire because they believed in Allah.
The prophets of Allah they was salam he sang. Just say these
words for me.
In that moment, Abuja Hall is sitting right there.
He leans over and he says, Are you going to give up on the
on the on the religion of your forefathers?
The prophets, I send them he's ignoring the negativity because
this man is passing away. I can't focus on him right now. I have to
focus on him. So he kept giving him Tao. He kept calling him I'm
me. I'm me. I'm me, please. And his final words.
As he said, c'est la ilaha illAllah. abou thought I've looked
at him and I want us to really understand what this meant. He
said, If it wasn't for the fact, that Qureshi would, would would
mock me.
They would say that I was scared of death. That's why I said it. If
it wasn't for the fact that they would mock me, I would have said
it just for you.
But I can't say it.
Brothers and sisters.
One of the most detrimental spiritual diseases
is the disease that people thought I've had in this moment, and over
concern for what people think about you.
And over concern for what people think about you.
There are people who I care what they think about me, because
they're believers we share the same standard.
We share the same standard.
Amen, amen.
hits me up like shake ICU, I Fajr. I'm like yo,
I care because we share that standard. But there are other
people. We're not on the same map. We're not in the same direction.
And we have to understand that this disease, the sickness, this
preoccupation with what people think, think about us, will stop
us from so much good that we could do in our lives. There's a hadith
I want to share with you. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam he said,
for Allah that one fell Afghan there are three attributes. Men
could Nephi he is second Allah Eman. Whatever man or woman has
these three attributes. Their eemaan is perfected their faith is
perfected. Number one, Leia Hapuna Loma tele and they do not care
what haters say. They don't care what people think. I will find him
is dying, but it's so ingrained in him that he's thinking about
people what people will say after he passes away.
How many of us and we're sitting here and we're like, Man, that's a
really petty reason. How many of us give us a lot for what people
say.
How many of us will give up a prayer because of people watching?
And we're looking at Abu Qatada right, man you couldn't just like
say Hola Hola. Hola. And I'm looking at myself. I'm not talking
to you. I'm talking to myself. I'm looking at myself like Miko you
just couldn't get up and pray to recap for people you're never
going to see again.
That's our reality.
So this hadith says the first thing
Liahona Loma Tala. If
you don't, you don't have fear for what the haters say.
Number two, what I Yura e be shaman Amelie he the second
quality, nothing you do in your actions you do accept purely for
the sake of Allah.
I don't care what anyone sees me, it doesn't matter. It's only for
the sake of Allah.
Doesn't matter who's watching.
And number three,
either Arada who a moron when two options are presented before you
and one of them is for the dunya. And the other one is for the al
Qaeda. You give preference to the aka
you give preference to the IRA,
the prophesy Salam he said that if these three things exists within
us, then our Eman will be complete. I wanted us to
understand in this moment that Abu Talib did not accept because of
his fear of what people will say. And I question myself how many of
my actions are being predicated by my fear of what people are going
to say?
One thing that we've all gained over the last seven months is less
of that though.
One thing we've all gained over the last seven months is less of
that. We're less caring about what people say because we see how
hypocritical people are
Be True Hold on, and may Allah make it easy for us.
If this moment of verse was revealed we're gonna wrap it up at
this moment a verse was revealed.
Allah subhana wa Tada revealed in Surah two buses a verse regarding
this moment in Galatia demon Baba wala Qin Allah Hi yah de Masha.
Allah revealed the verse of the Prophet indeed you Mohammed cannot
guide who you love,
which tells us he had immense love for Abu pilot.
You know, a lot of us in this room, some of us in this room have
family members
who aren't Muslim.
And it's difficult
to deal with a family member who's passed away.
But the only solace that I could give in that case is that I might
have been some Allahu alayhi wa sallam went through the same
thing.
My Prophet alayhi salatu salam went through the same difficulty
he struggled with that too. And that makes me that much closer to
him. That makes me that much closer to him.
In Nicoletta demon, Bab Tala can Allah Yeah, he may Usher
I will call it passes away.
But that's not it. Yeah.
Two months after Abu Talib passes, Khadija passes away.
They say that Allah wanted his heart to be only connected to him.
So every other connection was taken away, so that his heart
would only be for Allah.
When he lost Khadija his heart broke, his heart broke.
I mean, you've been with someone for the last 40 years. 2025 years.
And not only that she was there in your toughest moment. When you
came down the mountain quivering, she held you and strengthened, do
you when you thought you were forsaken? She told you cannot
allow you Zika Allah didn't know you got this. She was his inner
support.
The narration tells us very clearly. What Godot Waje Dada SUTA
la sigh suddenly thought the Khadija the Prophet sighs and his
heart was broken, broken at the loss of Khadija. And he never
forgot there was suicide Salam if he loved you, he never forgot you.
There was one time after the Battle of budget that his daughter
sent a necklace to ransom her husband, who was a captive of war.
So she sent the necklace because that's what she had. She sent the
necklace in order to pay for her husband to be free. When the
necklace came, the profit broke down. Because he was flooded with
memories of who she was. And he just said to everyone, can you all
just free these people for me? These people are too close to me.
Can we just freedom, just freedom. He never forgot to Dejah he talked
about Khadija so much.
I showed the yellow one.
She kind of like you know, like you keep talking about that. Oh,
lady. That's what she said. And the prophesies are chill.
He said to her No, Allah has not replaced her with better.
She holds a position that no one can take an eye she said I'm
sorry, my bad. I didn't mean to. Sorry. Because she was there when
nobody was there for me. And I wasn't making those words. She
used the word abuser. She used that word. So that's why I said
those words.
Well, let's see my beta who the Hadith says that the prophets I
send them he didn't leave the home. He stayed home for a few a
few days, a few a week at least he stayed home he didn't come out
with a curl hood. What I want you to understand is this man
salAllahu alayhi wa sallam wasn't some stoic that just was built out
of steel, he hurt. And when he lost people close to him, he felt
that pain and that pain was visible. People saw that.
I want to end as we always do.
With just the description of him and his lifestyle.
I chose a section that speaks about the simplicity of him.
And we're going to end with this I'll read this and it'll be time
to pray.
I'm gonna read something about him and I just want us to reflect on
who he was as a person.
The description of the prophets of Allah who it was salams lifestyle
and bred
the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa salam would mostly
consume dates and water.
Aisha Radi Allahu anha
I said we the family of Mohammed would remain for an entire month
without turning on the fire. We only eight dates in water.
Tell her Abu Talhah reports. One time we complained of hunger to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and lifted from our stomach, showing him stones they used to
tie stones on their stomach to kind of make them feel satiated.
We lifted our stomach to show him the stones. And then he lifted his
stomach and showed two stones around his.
One day the prophets of Allah had a was son of experienced intense
hunger
and took a stone and fasten it around his stomach. I behold eight
out of the Allahu Taala and he says and we'll end with this. Abu
Hodeidah said the messenger of all sides. Salam came out one night at
a late hour in which he normally didn't come out. And at a time
when he would not use the meat other people
have boubakeur happened to come out at the same time.
The Prophet bumped into him in the middle of the night 11 o'clock
late, the prophet bumps into aboubaker and he says to him, what
brings you out aboubaker aboubaker said, I came out to meet the Rasul
and gazed upon his face and give him salaams.
Moments later Omar just showed up, just showed up.
The Prophet looked at Omar he goes, Why are you outside at this
time? Omar kept it real he said I'm hungry.
Which tells us Abu Bakr was hungry to win. He didn't say it. He goes
I'm hungry. Ya rasool Allah, I'm hungry. The prophesy centum said I
too am experiencing some of that too. I'm hungry. They went out to
the house of Abu Haytham.
He was a man who owns many date palms and sheep, which goes to
show there were other people that were wealthy, but they chose a
lifestyle of simplicity.
Right down the street, I will tell her had food.
But the prophet chose a lifestyle of simplicity. He didn't want to
get accustomed to just eating all the time and taking everything. He
chose a lifestyle of simplicity.
They came to his house and they knocked at the door.
And his wife came and she said, he went out to go get some water
A short while ago hate them return and he had water and he walks into
his living room and he sees the Prophet of Allah aboubaker in
Oman. And he says, My father be sacrifice for y'all. Like Subhan
Allah.
He brought them to his garden, and he laid out dates in front of
them.
And the prophets of Allah who it was salam noticed that they were,
it's time for Salah, the other two minutes, okay.
So if you put the dates out there eating some of the dates and they
had cold water, the prophesy centum began to eat the dates.
And he says, I swear by Allah, all of these things, we have cool
shade, ripe dates, cold water. These are the bounties that we
will be asked about on the Day of Judgment.
My point brothers and sisters is that Allah has blessed us with so
much. But if we connect to the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, we appreciate the simplicity of his lifestyle. And
if we just adapt a little bit of simplicity out of our imitation in
sha Allah, Allah will reward us for following this grace on May
Allah subhanaw taala accept. May Allah give us a deep connection
with the prophets of Allah who Allah he was setting them. May
Allah guide our family members who have not accepted Islam, may Allah
give them the Tofik to c'est la ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool
Allah, may Allah take out of our hearts, any deep concern for what
people think about us such a concern that stops us from doing
what God wants from us? Subhanallah we gotta realize that
the mIRC phone was turned on when it was sunny. Well Hamdu lillahi
rabbil aalameen