Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #15
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Okay, Mr. manleigh one hamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah or
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curry buena de la hubback Yahama Rahim in your Allah we ask you for
your love. We ask you for the love of those actions that will gain
your love. And Allah we ask you for the love of the people that
you love Yahama rock I mean, y'all are most of all we asked you y'all
love to give us the love of your hubby Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa salam, we asked you to make this a gathering by which our iman
is increased, a gathering in which our love for the Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam increases. We asked you your Allah to give us
knowledge which is beneficial and to benefit us by our knowledge of
Mohammed Rahimi. Smilla rahmanir rahim. Okay, so last week we were
talking about this really low moment in the life of the prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We were talking about this really low
moment in the life of the rasool Allah He set out to was Suriname.
And it was, it was a really tough moment because prior to going to
the city of thought if traveling to the city, the prophets I send
them had lost Khadija and Abu Talib. And so emotionally he's at
a low point, and he's lost that protection. And so last week, we
talked about window to Sudan, Suriname, he went to this
neighboring city and his his mentality was that I need support.
I need someone to back me up I need, I need help. I need people
with me. And he only went with his son Zaytoven Hadith. And we read
and we spoke about how he was met with so much
violence, so much violence, and how he made his way back and but
there was a glimmer of light, there was a glimmer of, of hope.
When the the the servant, the young servant men, he he
recognized the signs of Prophethood endosseous of Allah,
he was setting him and he accepted Islam. He accepted Islam because
he saw inside that Azusa Allahu alayhi wa sallam, everything that
proves to him who he was. And before we go on into today, I want
us to understand that even the people that were around those who
that were going against him, they were seeing inside of him all of
the characteristics that they knew he was truthful, they knew who he
was. He was a sodic Amin. What's ironic is that at the same time
that they're going against him with full force, they're
entrusting their goods to him for safekeeping. Meaning they know how
upright he is. But because of the societal pressure because of the
peer pressure because of the implications of this message on
their way of life. They're going against the Rasool satellite so
them so hard. One of the things that I wanted to mention last
week, but time didn't allow us is at the same time that Rasul Allah
said a lot he was telling them when to thought if Abu Bakr
Siddiq, he asked the prophets of Allah, they was salam permission
to migrate to Abyssinian. So the situation is that Mecca isn't
suitable for Muslims anymore. It's too difficult. It's impossible to
worship Allah subhana wa Tada. And for the Sahaba, they understood
that if it's if it's worship of Allah over anything else, I'm
going to put the worship of Allah over anything else. And so that
means if I need to migrate, I'm going to migrate to another place.
And so the narration is interesting. In his talk, he says
that Abu Bakr Siddiq, when things got very difficult against the
Muslims and the prophesy, Saddam had went for the thought with Abu
Bakr Siddiq had come to the prophets of Allah who it was
salam, and he asked her suicide Saddam for permission to make
migration or Hijra to Abba Centium.
The Abu Bakr Siddiq was given permission to prophesy centum said
yes, go ahead and nothing wrong with that. Abu Bakr Siddiq begins
to leave had to either Bala Baraka Mohammed, he's on his way
traveling, he's on his way out. He has all of his things. And as he
reaches a certain point, he mentioned he meets a person by the
name of Ibn Ibn dilemna. Now even the one that he knows, he knows
that are suicides Solomon, he's a well known person. He knows Abu
Bakr Siddiq. So he says to Abu Bakr Siddiq, I need to read your
Abubaker about Abu Bakr Where are you going? Like you're packed up I
can see you're moving out * Abu Bakr Ragini call me he says My
people have kicked me out. I can't stay here anymore. My people have
kicked me out. For ot do an RCA fill up. I'm just going to travel.
I'm going to live as a traveler. Well, Abu Dhabi, but I'm going to
worship
My lord, meaning over everything else, if I have to live as a
traveler, I'm gonna live as a traveler, but I'm going to worship
Allah. And that's the mentality. That's what we we need that over
all else is the worship of God.
Pada Evans Ohana but the one that he says these words. And I
remember studying this hadith about 15 to 17 years ago with my
teacher, and I never forgot these words, even the one that he looks
at him and he says, For in the Miss laka la Rouge Wallah, your
courage. He goes, No, no, no, no, no. Now he's not a Muslim. He's a
leader of Quran in a way he has influenced so to speak. He sees
Abu Bakr Siddiq, who's well known as a Muslim as well. We're already
in the ninth year of Hijra. Everyone knows Abu Bakr Siddiq,
who he is he's been open about Islam for nine years almost. He
says in them, it's laka, La Jolla, you courage. He says no, no, no,
someone like you doesn't leave or shouldn't be forced out. And
what's amazing about this is Abu Bakr Siddiq character had built
such a social capital amongst the non Muslims, that the non Muslims
who were like he's leaving, you can leave. You can't you can't go
anywhere. Meaning the idea was like, you know, if you put a for
sale sign on your house is Jane Doe who's next door Suzanne, I got
Suzanne next door. Is Suzanne gonna come knock at your door like
Miko, you're leaving? No, no, no way. Those neurons are too good.
You can leave know what for many of us, we have no connection and
no social capital. And I'm going to digress for a moment here but
hear me out. Right after September 11. Right after September 11. The
Muslims needed a lot of social capital because everyone was was
upset with us to say the least. It was the African American Muslim
community inner city that had already built up social capital.
They were the ones removing drugs from the inner city. They were the
ones taking care of the homeless. They were the ones on the inner
cities, they had built social capital. And here we are in the
burbs No, no social capital. And it's just something for us to
think about. This man is leaving but a non Muslim comes and goes
no, no, you can't leave. Now here's what's so beautiful. May
Allah give us the ability to build that social capital with people
around us investing in the place. I've read some interesting
literature on the fact that you know, one of the things is if you
see a place as home, you automatically invest in that
place. But if you see a place in somewhere where I'm just going to
be for a short time, I'm gonna go home later, then you don't invest
socially in the groundwork. You don't invest in the grassroots of
that place. That's something for us all to think about. So even the
one that he says taboo bucket, he says Miss laka Yaga baccala Yahoo
Raj meaning should never leave while I you courage and should
never be forced out. Now. Here's what's amazing. Look what he says
next. And for those familiar with the Arabic and I'll translate it,
it should ring a bell he says in Nikka tech Cebu and my doom what
Tassilo rom WhatsApp me will kill WhatsApp Can you obey? What's your
ino Allah Allah wa evil hawk?
He says indeed you you earn for the one that has nothing. The one
who is broke has nothing you earn for that person you you help them
out. What tuxedo ROM? You keep families tight? What time it'll
tell you take on a burden for others. What took that it will
bathe you take care of the guest. What to a new island? It will help
and you always help in the difficult matters whenever
something is hard in the community. You're the first one
there where did we hear this before? Y'all
these yes said the exact words when revelation came down and the
Prophet sallallahu wasallam was like am I going crazy what's
happening? She goes love LA you Zeke Allah Allah then Allah will
never forsake you. Why she said the exact same things what
scholars say and this is so important. The items have a
sentence or saying a saw a saw sir him a saw hip sir hip. Saw hip
means a companion, sir have means when you pull that the companion
pulls you to they say if you ever want to know who someone is just
look at their friends.
Just look at who they're from. Who do you find affinity affinity
with? Who are you connected with? That's who you are. Who do you Who
do you when you're like, in a moment, just want to hit up and
you call? Yo what's going on? Hey, Tim, Sabra How you doing? Like who
do Who do you find that connection with? Because those so why did Abu
Bakr Siddiq have the exact same
inequalities, that total suicides that them had nine years prior.
It's because they call it in kiosk. It's like they spent so
much time together, that they became like one.
I don't know if my wife is here, you know, some people, they
sisters don't meet my wife, right? This stuff will be going global.
Now, I can't be saying this stuff. And they'll say they're like you
from New York. And she liked I'm from New York, Washington,
Baltimore. But but the Sahaba Yeah, I mean, you put 12 years, 11
years together, you start to complete each other sentence, you
start to resonate, well, you start to become one, right. And so Abu
Bakr Siddiq is brilliant, it's beautiful, because even the one
that never heard Khadija his words, he was just looking at what
he saw in him. And what he saw in him was an image of the prophets.
I send them prior to Revelation, these beautiful quality. So my
lesson for us here is an Mattawa Dini Khalili, a person will be on
the way of life of their companion fairly young daughter may you call
him so look closely to who you the word in Arabic for Khalil is like
intermingle with like, who you roll with who you're when the
Prophet size set him in this hadith he says Just be careful and
for me what it is, I checked myself of who I feel like being
with
Does that make sense? Like if I feel like being with the certain
crew, that's a sign that maybe Allah is putting me with them. If
I feel like being with a good people, if I feel like being
around them, that's a sign for me that inshallah I'm going in the
right place. So this is a beautiful moment. So Abu Bakr
Siddiq, so even the one that he goes for Angelica Jah, for
Angelica, gr I got you, I'll be your protector. The way this
society works is if one person with prestige said this person is
protected and off limits, nobody could touch the person. So even
the one that goes Angelica Jr, I'm your I'm your guardian. Let's go
back into the city. Interjet thought Bucha Rebecca be balletic
go back let's you can worship your Lord in your city. Your social
capital is so much I can't let you leave even though I don't like
your religion.
So beautiful. So he says Faraja Abu Bakr Siddiq came back Okay,
cool. That's fine. I got some protection. What the * am I
have been to one? I will do one that does toe off at nighttime.
For call Ella home in Alba baccala Yeah, he looks at all the kudos
the leaders. He says the same things. He says someone like
aboubaker should never be forced to leave. This guy is too special
for our community. No way. He says how are you take kicking a man out
who takes care of the poor and he lists all the same things that he
said before.
And no one said anything because everyone recognized that Abu Bakr
Siddiq, they recognize the character that the Muslims had,
they just could not swallow the religion they couldn't swallow the
change that it would force upon them.
So the Quran they say okay, he's under your protection mode. Other
bucket fill Yabba Drogba who feed daddy, they say to him, Okay, I
will bucket is protected under you no problem. But tell him to make
sure he prays that Salah you know that prayer they pray where they
recite that those words that Koran tell him to pray in his house for
the Abu Dhabi he mean and don't bring that out to the Kaaba. Let
me tell you why. When Abu Bakar would pray when Muslims would
pray, they would pray in public places. And when they were to
recite the Koran they would recite in public places. And the Koran
had this effect and that's why they called the Prophet a
magician, because it had an effect. And so they don't want
that effect. They don't want the effective people listening to the
Koran. So they're saying you can have your religion but just don't
bring it out into public. Just to keep it keep it at home. We don't
want to see it in public. We want you to do what you want at home.
Subhanallah it's amazing how they want religion to be in the home
but sin to be out.
They want sin to come out the closet but we gotta go in the
closet.
It should be the other way.
I'm praying re Allahu Akbar called the Adan open wherever Allahu
Akbar so they say tell him to pray in his home value Salafi highway
Accra Masha he could pray at home. He can recite whatever Quran he
wants at home. We don't care what you do at home. What are the NABI
Gatica but don't bring it public. Well, I just started Lindy. Don't
make it public. Don't make it public. Hide the religion. Hide
the Koran for in a nutshell. You know we fear he's going to cause
look at the word they use fitna to our children
fitna
to call them to the oneness of God, to bring them to a religious
life that goes against the ills of your society. You're calling that
what? Fitna, so they say, tell them.
So, Abu Bakr Siddiq. He's an intelligent man, Abu Bakr Siddiq.
He goes cool.
I need to make this message public. But at the same time, I
need to obey kind of what they asked me to do. So the narration
says Duma, but daddy IV bucket, Feb 10, I must eat and be thinner,
a Dotty he, he built an extension on his front porch.
So, you know, his house was his house, but he built a front porch
with the open patio.
And what did he do? aboubaker What did he do? He started to value
Salafi. He built that front porch. And when he built the front porch
what can you sell the fee? He would pray Salah on his front
porch.
Pray Salah on his front porch. Well you're not gonna Oh Quran. So
and he would recite Quran and as he's reciting, because the Quran
was so fresh and it was just coming in. He does Zillertal
elbows Zala these verses are coming with fluid when that Jim so
they were crowds would gather around him. And aboubaker was
unique. Abu Bakr was a soft hearted man, extremely soft
hearted. So when he would recite
he could not control the tears. He could not control the tears. And
so he would be standing on his porch and he would be reciting but
the effect of it was hitting him so hard that he wouldn't be
reciting with all of his heart and he would be weeping. And so crowds
would coalesce around him well him yeah boom I'm in Hawaii. I'm going
to LA what can I aboubaker Rajan and the care and he would just cry
cry you know like you know who's a crier, masha Allah
was that you? Are instead of the ramen mashallah soft heart. You
can feel when it's coming to it's like your, oh,
may Allah give us soft hearts. It's a blessing. It's a blessing.
It's a blessing to have a soft heart. Mashallah, so check with
Nasir always be roasted. And for those funny
ly Yum, look, I know who I know he is when he would recite he could
not control his eyes.
So now, there's a spectacle. He's obeying the law, but it's still
public.
The Quraysh get upset for ourselves. They go to a one to
one. And they say quite frankly, in Hakuna agenda. Now we respect
it your protection
that he would do this privately. But look what he's done. He's
built a porch in front of his home and now he's praying publicly and
people are seeing him
in Nakata, cucina. We fear that he will if Tina abana Anna, he's
going to cause fitna on our on our families and on our children.
fan who stopped him, stop him fit in a heartbeat if he stops and
just prays in his home father, so be it.
For Inaka Kareena we don't want to break your alliance. We don't want
to break what we gave you your protection, but we can't allow
this to happen.
I shall the Allahu anha. She's telling the story after about her
father. She says it been the one that he went, he comes to Abu Bakr
and he says you are the Olympian let the attack to luck. You know
what agreement we made with one another. He says, either you stop
praying publicly, or I have to take back my protection from you.
What do you do in this moment?
What do you do in this moment? Where you're being told not to
show your Islam publicly not to openly express your Islam or give
up the protection of certain individuals?
Abu Bakar acidic for color for in the outro de la caja Joe, Eric. I
give you back your protection. I give you this is the EMA. This is
the lesson that was embedded in his heart over nine years of
struggling for the dean. Nothing is sacrificed for the dean. We
sacrifice for the Dean everything. Nothing aside.
We sacrifice everything for the Dean we'd never sacrifice the dean
for anything. Well out of law, Beija God Allah, and I'll be
content with the protection of Allah aboubaker Staden and Maccha
after that they didn't seem to trouble him after he still went
through the same persecution. But I thought this was a beautiful
moment in the Sierra because number one I wanted us to see the
impact of, of Sahaba of being with someone close to someone. But I
also wanted to see
What social capital does, how it impacts those around us,
regardless of what their religion is, when you have built those
connections when you have invested authenticity authentically in the
community that you're a part of people recognize that and they'll
be there for us. But in the case that they're not Abubaker, into
this moment, strong, and in the moment where he's told that he
can't publicly worship Allah, He says, I give the protection back.
Because I have Allah subhanaw taala
I want to move on
to a beautiful moment in the seat of Rasul of Allah Who are they he
was suddenly Salam.
But if hard moment, hardest moments in his life, stones from
head to toe covered in blood,
asked later by his daughter, his wife, Aisha, what was the hardest
day of your life he said, thought it was the hardest day of his
life. Rejected kicked out of PT if not able to get back into Mecca.
This is what we talked about last week. But there's a lesson that
must be understood by all of us. In my last three use in the last
three years,
with every hardship comes the ease, with every hardship, comes
the ease. Scholars used to say when the hardship comes, the ease
has already started to come. When the hardship comes, the ease has
already started to come.
In the 10th year of hijra, the prophets that Allah had he was
sending was blessed with the best gift in his life that he could
possibly be given the Islam and marriage.
The Islam the Night Journey to Bates will mock this Jerusalem,
may Allah free it. May Allah free it. In the 10th year of hijo the
prophesy Solomon we as OMA were taught that this place Jerusalem
Baraka now Hola. Allah says the whole area is blessed. The
prophets of Allah it was Saddam was sleeping and resting it around
the Kaaba. He's resting there and the narration is is beautiful, and
I'll read the narration.
Malik even saw saw he says that the Prophet himself told me the
story and he said they and I'm not I'm Phil Hatim. I was sleeping in
the how team that area that is the lower side of the Kaaba has the
lower wall. The round part. I was sleeping there
is a tiny attend. An angel came we know it was Gabriel, and I needed
to understand what's happening. This man said Allah He was telling
was that his lowest point no acceptance, no acceptance from
people. No acceptance from people. But in this moment, Allah subhanaw
taala gave him the greatest gift. The Israa and Mirage, what
happened? He's sleeping in the Hatim he's resting. It's
nighttime. Some narrations say that he started in the house of
Omani. He was in Omaha nice house sleeping on the bed. And the angel
came and brought him out to the heartsine.
The angels lay him down and they washed his heart. For a second
time. His heart was washed once as a child, but he's about to go
somewhere that everything needs to be cleaned before you go. So they
wash his heart again. They bring my zamzam and they wash the
prophesy salams heart and the narration is beautiful. He says
Gabriel then brings an animal he says it was banal Buckler with him
on it was in between a donkey and a mule and was pure white. And he
brings this animal called Buraq. The word boondock is interesting
because a Barak is like a flash of light.
And when Rasul Allah sai Saddam described how fast this animal
moved, he said, where my eyes went, that's where it's for. Its
for its front hooves went meaning it's it's traveling the speed of
light. Before we get there, Gabriel brings the animal and when
the animal was brought,
he tells the prophesy Selim it it kept it a cat. Get on get on the
Buraq
the Prophet SAW Selim, he goes to get on and the Buraq kind of
it gets agitated for a moment.
And Gabriel Gibreel he says to the Buraq he says, do you do this with
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam you know when you picking
somebody up in your car, and they got a little bit of prestige and
on that day the car don't want to start or it wants to start making
noises. And you like today Habibi, like today to alternator gotta be
making noise today. So Buraq kinda like agitates a little bit.
And Gabriel goes a bit of SUTI lice I sell him Yeah. falou with
with Mohammed, you do
link this with Mohammed. He was the conveyance for all of the NVR
and the narration says that when boondock realized who was getting
on him, he began to sweat more.
Gabriel and and Rasulullah Seisen and both mountain Buraq.
And
this is because Allah subhanaw taala describes this Subhanallah
the Asra the Abbe de la isla Meenal Masjidul haram, Elan
machine, Aqsa,
beautiful Allah subhanho wa Taala says Glory be to the one who
lifted up or traveled by night with his abs. Now I want to stop
here for a moment.
Because he didn't say with his prophet, he didn't say with
Mohammed, he says be Abdi he, the scholars Hi, this is deep. They
say that Allah subhanho wa Taala is highlighting the primary
quality that the prophesy centum had built within himself, which
was the quality of idea what is idea? I'm a slave before Allah.
But see, here's the deal if you're a slave, if you're a true slave of
God, that means I let go in the hard times and let go in the good
times. It's all from Allah subhanho wa Taala see thought if
he was an ABD and he went through it because Allah was in control.
But now comes the elevation. What I'm trying to highlight here is
the idea isn't just when you're in a hard time, but the idea the
quality of being Abdullaev Allah subhanaw taala you gotta recognize
that he will elevate you as well.
Scholars highlight this moment is so critical for us. Men Tawana,
Isla Rata a Hola. were meant to cut butter whether our hola
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, what did he say? He said
anyone who humbles themselves for the sake of Allah humbles
themself. They're not searching for status, they're not searching
to be on the top. They're not trying to just put themselves
above everyone. They don't mind they humble themselves for the
sake of Allah. And that's what thought if was Rafa hola hola will
elevate that person. But the opposite is true. If you try to
lift yourself up above people, if you try to put yourself above
people called goon fit own Jad with a whole Hola, Allah subhanho
wa Taala will bring that person down.
What is idea? Idea
to be a servant, a slave. One of my teachers, he said something
that I think all the brothers go and get one of my teachers he
said, idea is how you act when you sit in the barber barber chair.
When you in the barber chair, he says put your head down, you
turn to the right turn,
turn a little more.
You'd be holding a shake and everything like you, you're gonna
stay in that position. You're not gonna say why? You're not gonna be
like, Nah, you shore.
Because you want a tight cup.
You want to look good. And you know, there's a wisdom in that
term. There's a wisdom. There's a reason why you're telling me to
turn this way or not. Wait. I don't know what you're doing back
there. I have no clue. But I've submitted myself. When I heard
that from my teacher will lie. That's the first time I truly
understood what I do was complete disregard for my own will. Because
I know the one behind me is looking out for me good
is trying to lift me up to my best thing. It doesn't make sense. I
don't know. Example for the sisters, my bad. You all know what
it's like. But you get the point. But the barber shop is beautiful
because you just listen. Some of our thought. The idea here is that
the quality that we have to bring in ourselves is the quality of the
idea. And idea means that in the hard times I'm like I don't know
why, but it's from you. I'm a servant. But you have to trust and
know deep inside. That with the low comes the rest the elevation
too.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He's mounted the Buraq.
The Buraq is traveling with him from Masjid Al haram. Al Al Masjid
Al Aqsa.
And the reason why it's Masjid Al Aqsa is so that this becomes
embedded in our minds that Masjid OXA is intrinsic to our heritage
of who we are. This is the place of the MBR
no matter what anyone says Masjid oxide is in our blood.
Allah subhanaw taala
Gabriel on the Buraq arrived with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam to Masjid Al Aqsa.
The narration say that they dismount from Buraq rock is
relieved because this very important host that he was hosting
is now off he's done his job. But ironically the prophet does
something interesting. He takes the the the rains, and he ties it
to a rock outside Masjid in OXA the scholars they say, This animal
is mood commanded by God it Gabriel's. It's trained it knows
what it's doing. Why did their suicide Saddam tie it? Because
he's teaching us that no matter what. Taking care of the ASVAB are
the means is a part of our deen.
Taking care of the means doesn't go against trusting in God. We are
a nation of trust for trusting God. But despite that Rasul Allah
sai said, and what did he do? He took the reins of Buraq and he
tied it up. He tied it up, only to teach us that no matter what your
trust in Allah doesn't mean that you ever give up striving and
doing your part. So beautiful lesson and we know later on the
Rasul he actually said it explicitly, someone came and they
said, yo rasool Allah, should we you know, leave the camel or tie
the camel? Should we trust in Allah or tie the camel? He said,
Yeah, kill what was what?
He says tired, and then trust in Allah subhana wa Taala This is the
beauty of the believer because it allows us to be so engaged in the
dunya but our hearts so distant from the dunya
our actions are engaged as if our actions are all that matters. But
our heart is disconnected because in the end, we know it's only up
to Allah subhana wa Tada. It's so beautiful.
But also the last I sent him arrives at the doors of mushy dill
Aqsa, which, ironically, at the time, we know wasn't in the hands
of Muslims.
He arrives at the doors of Masjid Al Aqsa,
and Gabriel opens the doors. And it's beautiful because this man
all doors have been closing in his face. All doors have been
metaphorically closing in his face right? Type doors closing in his
face makin doors closing in his face. All these doors have been
closing in his face. But now Gabriel is here saying Who cares
what doors the world closes to you. If Allah opens doors, what
have you lost?
What have you lost? So the doors open.
And the machine is Milan. It's full.
It's full.
And Rasulullah sai Selim is brought in by Gabriel and he asked
Gabriel who are these people?
And he says, These are the MVR our Rasul. These are all the prophets.
These are all the Prophets and Messengers. He's seeing Adam. He's
seeing Noah, he's seeing no, he's seeing Musa he's seeing yaku he's
seeing you Brahim. He's seeing isa he's seeing Jonah he's seeing all
of the um, the one of the scholars he says there's never been a more
blessed gathering.
Never a more blessed gathering.
And they're gathered in order to, to host and to meet the last
prophet of Allah subhanho wa taala.
The iqama is called all of the MBR they stand in rows to pray.
They stand in rows to pray.
This wasn't a prayer of tech leaf like they didn't have to pray
there. They've done their job. They've gained their agenda. This
was a prayer of honor.
And Gabriel brings Sayed in Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam
brings him to the front and tells him to lead the MBR this man was
alone coming back from pa life just him and his son. But now he's
been shown who he is reminded who his company is sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam given honor after disgrace
the prophets of Allah who today was salam, he greets the MBI he
leads the prayer.
And
after the prayer
immediately after the prayer, Gabriel brings over a tray and the
tray has a glass of wine, a glass of water and a glass of milk and
he brings the tray to the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam and he says if I choose now remind you at that time, comer
alcohol wasn't haram
but his character was such that he had never touched alcohol prior to
Nobu and of course not after. So he reached for the milk.
The this you know the first thing that you
Heil drinks when he comes into the world, he grabs the milk and he
drinks it. And Gabrielle says, a huff, tell FITARA you've, you've
grabbed what is natural, your own MA and you will be guided
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
the prophesy Salam assumes that my, my, my honor, is that this is
the night the night is over, I'll be taken back. But the night isn't
over. Gabriel says No, Allah wants to show you more. And this is
where the Mirage happens. The the elevation through the heavens
happens.
And Gabriel takes the profits of a latte with Salomon. They arrive at
the first heavens as the Quran tells us seven heavens above us
beyond outer space. You're way beyond all that. Seven Heavens
above us. They arrive at the first heaven and they get to the door.
This is crazy. It's amazing. They get to the door and Gabriel knocks
at the door of the first heaven.
And there's a gatekeeper at the door and he says who's there? And
he says Gibreel he says hello Monica. Aha, Dawn. Is anyone with
you? He says now Mohammed. Now you think now because I've been the
special guest. The gatekeepers gonna just go Oh, come on in. He
goes * Odyssey La La he was he called?
Gabriel goes now. Then the gatekeeper opens the door. He says
Mahatma Gandhi he will island for net metal Maji Ajah. This is
beautiful words. What a great. We are honored by your coming. You
got to connect it back though. By the one who when he went to
thought if no one honored him. The gates and heavens are honoring
him. Come on in. Come on in. He comes to the first heaven who does
he meet?
Adam, he meets Adam. I they set out to a Salam and he describes
them what he was like and what he saw.
Gabriel then says come we have to keep going. I have more to show
you. They go to the seventh have the second heaven. They knock at
the door. He says I see isa there and he said isa had hair that was
hanging down and his face was shining with with lights and his
hair looked as if it would have just been he had just come out of
the shower like water dripping but there was no water dripping. It
just looked that way. Isa and yeah, two cousins they were there
in the second heaven.
And he goes in he greets them. And they said might have been the
soil. When a B Assad. They say Welcome Oh Brother of ours member
when he was talking to Adonis and I docid How do you know Yunus? He
says That's my brother. Now he's being taken to the heavens and the
prophets themselves are saying, my brother, welcome. Welcome.
Then he's taken to the third heaven any meat use? And he says
use of what could he say about usage he says he was given half of
GMan. Half of all beauty, like all of the beauty of creation was
given to the rest of the world but Joseph was given half. But that
wasn't what his honor was. His honor was he was a prophet. He was
given hikma he was given wisdom.
The beauty was just extra. The true honor was the knowledge of no
boy that he was given
the fourth heaven he meets Idris the fifth heaven he meets Harun,
and in the sixth heaven, he meets Musa meets Musa and he describes
the state of the the look of Musa
darker complexion, shorter hair. And he said, Musa looked at me and
he welcomed me but he cried.
And he asked him, Why are you crying? And he said, I'm crying
because there will become one after me, whose OMA will be more
vast than mine. And he was talking about Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa Sunnah
the prophesy Selim goes on to the seventh heaven and he meets
Ibrahim.
He says that when I was allowed into the seventh heaven, I saw
Ibrahim leaning against what's called Bay to the Moon Bay told me
more is the Kaaba of the angels.
Bay told me more And subhanAllah the narration says this is
amazing. The narration says that he was leaning against it.
I heard one scholar say something so profound. We have this concept
in Islam that says a jism and Jin Salah Ahmed, meaning the reward
always matches like how the action was. So his reward at this point
is that he's in Raha are against Bates with more because he was in
so much effort building the actual decarb on Earth. So the reward is
that he's at beta on my mod which is the cover of
above the prophesy. centum says I was allowed to enter into this
Kaaba. He says I saw 70,000 Angels doing toe off
and he said these angels only get one time to do to walk in. It's
amazing. We're reading this right now, as many of our brothers and
sisters right now
are doing the Hajj getting ready doing to off millions of Muslims.
The prophesy said them he said every day 70,000 Angels do toe off
of Bates would mount more but they only get one time in their
creation. They never come back they get one moment. The bake
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At this point, the Prophet SAW Selim has been given to the beat.
He's been reaffirmed of who he is.
He thinks that the journey is over and Gabriel goes know
you've been asked to go further.
And as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam goes forward. He's
taken to a point called Sidra Tillman Taha, the furthest extent
of all creation, Gabriel assumes his actual forum when he reaches
this point. And he says, I saw Gabriel humble himself and lower
himself. And he pushed the Prophet forward and he said, go forward, I
can't go beyond this point. If I step an inch further, I will be
burned by the note of Allah, I will disintegrate, I won't exist,
but you can go forward. And he pushed those who said Allahu
alayhi wa sallam forward and at that moment in the UK, just
Siddhartha ma Yaksha at that point, the note of Allah came down
upon the, the Sidra Tillman Taha, and it was at that moment that the
Prophet was given something special
brothers and sisters, at that moment, the prophets I send him
was given a gift for all of the effort for all of the 10 years of
struggle for the stones that were hitting his ankles. He was given a
gift in that moment, and I want you to listen close me close to me
really closely with your hearts open. He was given something
special. And that moment the prophesy centum was given the
salah
he was given the Salah, the narration says that he was given
50 prayers
and he took this gift and he returned back and when he passed
by Musa Musa stopped him and he said, Wait, what were you given?
He said I was given 50 prayers that was my gift he gave it to me.
He goes no go go back. I know people I've dealt with the OMA ask
him for tuck feet ask them to lessen it some narration says it
was 510 Nonetheless he goes back and forth until it reaches five
Salah even at five Musa was like bro go back
is your people can do a go back.
And also some said a star. Yeah, I I asked until I can't ask any
more. I asked him so I can't ask anymore. The Scholars say the
intention. Allah subhanaw taala already had written for us five
salah. But he wanted us to realize the full Leela and the warlord of
the five Salaam.
The prophesy seven comes back, they descend through the heavens,
they go to the beta and muck this again, they get on the boardwalk,
and they're on their way back. And it's critical to understand that
way back, because on the way back when I sort of lost I said to him,
he saw a caravan that was headed back to Jerusalem. And he stopped
by the caravan. And on the way this is this is amazing. He
stopped and he saw this caravan. And he said that there was a
bottle of water or a bowl of water that had been covered. But when
when we were traveling on the Buraq, I asked Gabriel to stop and
I stopped and I drank the water and left it uncovered. And then he
said I also saw one of the men off to the side like looking for
something. This is critical when we get back to the story later.
Before we go forward, ya, I want us to understand and really
reflect on what Salaat means to many of us in this room.
How critical how important is Salaat to us? And do we see it as
a burden or do we see it as a gift?
I can remember the day 20 something years ago that I
accepted Islam and I can tell you there was no more freeing feeling
did not first such that I ever did
that such that that first set the it felt like it solved every
problem. It clarified everything
because it was submission and it was connection. And what's what's
ironic is the prophesy Selim, he taught me and you met a solid
Mirage will movement that that the Salah is our Mirage, it's our way
to go on that journey. It's our way to ascend the heavens and have
that intimate dialogue
along with Allah Subhana Allah so Allah is crazy young get it
because y'all been violent and Prince and she was like four
three, right? So Eliza is crazy, because Salah is not just verbal.
It's not just in your heart. And it's not just body only. It's this
amazing combination of your heart, your your your speech, your mind,
and your body, everything coming together.
When I first converted, I used to be like go to my family members.
And I'd be like, Yeah, we pray five times a day.
And they've like, well, I pray all day.
If you ever gave Dawa, ya know what I'm talking about? I pray all
day. I was like, No, you do zikr we press a lot like this Salah is
different. Because this Salah periodically throughout the day, I
remember. And I'm sorry to keep going back to my first days but
like, I remember how it used to keep me in check till the next
salah.
Like if you just prayed us or and you know you got Maghrib in like
two hours.
It has a way of keeping you connected. If you just prayed
Muslim and you know you got Asha in a few hours. It keeps that
connection. And what we don't realize I think sometimes when
we're young, we don't realize how critical that connection is for
your spiritual and your mental health.
That Allahu Akbar, what does it mean to you? That's my question.
That Allahu Akbar. It can be femme chop troubles with your wife or
your husband or your mom or your dad, Allahu Akbar. It can be
financial drama, Allahu Akbar.
Can be emotional problems. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allah is
greater than all of it. Allah is greater than all of it, but also
to Lhasa. And this is why this is why now we understand on a deeper
level, here's the here's the concept. But as soon as I said
them, he says, they say either has about who am a further illustrata
When ever the prophets of Allah it was set them got worried about
anything started to like, what am I going to do? He would flee to
prayer.
May Allah make us like that.
But here, let me share something though.
Notice how we were given the prayer in the 10th, year of Naboo.
We were given prayer in the beginning, but the five prayers
were given 10 years in why is that? That's because for the first
nine years the Imam was being built. The faith in the aka the
faith in the Hereafter, the belief in hellfire, the belief in Jana
that was being built. So when the order of Salah came Sahaba just
jumped on it. They Allahu Akbar, Hamdulillah we have five prayers
Hamdulillah I needed a break from this dunya I needed a break from
this dunya I needed a break. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam either, he said In another Hadith, and we want to ask a lot
of give us this. He said, God Allah Cora tiny, the Salah, the
coolness of my eyes had been placed in prayer. And so here's
what I want you to do.
Whenever you are, I learned this from one of my colleagues.
Whenever you're praying and before you're praying, you get this
feeling of being rushed. It happens to all of us, right? You
get this feeling like, I gotta watch the game. I don't know weird
stuff, man. Subhanallah feel pressured. I want you to remember
one thing.
I was created to do this.
I was created to do this. This will my cultural agenda will
entail Ali Abu doon. When when you're praying.
At that moment you're doing exactly what God created you to
do. That is you're fulfilling your hustle MCSA your hustle mindset,
what you were truly created to do.
There's a hadith that really helps me keep focus in prayer, which
says that and I'm paraphrasing the Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. He said, there are some people that they pray,
they get, you know, 1/10 of the reward, some get two tenths of the
reward 310 14 spices and he went all the way up. And the prophesy.
centum said it all had to do with how much your heart was in that
prayer. How much your heart was there, how much you were dedicated
to that prayer? Another Hadith that comes to mind y'all is a
Hadith that whenever you're praying and your mind goes away,
there's a hadith that Allah says, Where are you going?
Where are you going? Can you imagine if you were talking to me
after and every time you started talking? I was just like
yeah, maybe twice you'll put up with it. But third time you have
like my mouth bruh
I don't want to scare us, but I want to scare us. How many times
you say Allahu Akbar. And the moment you
Start
you're all the way over there you're somewhere else.
The hadith is beautiful because it says that when you ill taffeta
when you turn away Allah it's like Allah pushes your chin back like
where are you going? What else is there you need but me
what else do you need but me
and maybe it is that we got to taste all the dunya and we got to
get to 4050 years old before we realized that dunya Amen. I'm
telling you right now the dunya is not it. What's it is your
connection with Allah Subhana Allah to Allah.
Allah be thinking in light thoughts my nan Kulu
truly it is the remembrance of Allah that will bring contentment
to your heart. And what's beautiful is when you have a
connection with Allah, it brings true baraka and everything else.
Everything else becomes enjoyable, we will because of that connection
with Allah subhanaw taala.
The prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, he comes back, he on the
way back, he drinks that water, and he sees that person that was
looking for their camel, and he's brought back and it's still
nighttime. The narration says this is amazing. The narration says
that when he went back into the bed, the bed was still warm from
his body heat of leaving it.
Meaning he was traveling the speed of light. So the time that passed
on Earth was was seconds.
His bed was still warm. He wakes up in the morning.
And there's a few narrations here.
And this is where the test comes.
He wakes up in the morning.
And the first thing is he tells on my honey. He tells on the honey,
everything that happens in Omaha Annie is listening. You went to
Jerusalem last night, and you're here today.
She's She's a Muslim, but it's hard. It's hard.
He goes Yes, yes.
And she goes, Are you going to tell anyone?
Are you going to tell anyone? Because I baby you just told me
and we keep it low?
He goes, yes. She goes she actually grabs them. She says
don't please. And this was hard because the prophets I sort of
knew the reaction. The Prophet knew the reaction. So he yanks His
cloth from her. And he goes no, I'm going and he yanks he he comes
out the house. She says she goes when he yanked His cloth. I saw
some light from his chest. And it caused me to like look away and by
the time I looked back up he had already walked out the door but
that shoulder something she realized, Okay, let me leave him
alone. He comes out
and Abuja *. He was he was he
he did everything he could to harm the Prophet sallahu wa salam, Abu
JAL just use the walk up the prophesy said him and be like,
what's new Mohammed? You got anything fresh that came in?
mockingly
so he's walking past the prophets. I send him the morning after the
morning after. And he says a Mohammed anything new to tell us?
He goes actually, yes. Oh, really? What? He goes, I went to Jerusalem
last night and came back. I will apologize. He tries to keep his
composure. Because he's like, a really? Okay, will you tell people
this? He goes, of course, I'm going to tell people that he goes
Okay, let's go to the Cava. Let's go tell everybody.
I Bucha * walks with their walk into the club. And the problem is
I'm telling anyone no matter what.
I know the reaction, the visceral reaction that you'll have when you
hear it.
So I would like everyone be quiet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he has something to say.
The prophesy seven tells him the whole story.
They're rolling over in laughter they're hitting they're hitting
the ground running around laughing, you know? They're just a
mess.
So one of them more time.
He says
and word starts to spread. Some people just leave the gathering
and they go telling other Muslims.
They go to Abu Bakr Siddiq
Abu Bakr Siddiq. They say, hey, we have to tell you something.
Your companion says that and one night he went to Jerusalem last
night and he came back.
You still believe in him? He said immediately. He goes in order for
the sadaqa. Now he didn't say yes. Because y'all could be lying. So I
don't want to say yes. But if he said it, he said I believe him.
I believe him. And he said something here that has truly
always stuck with me.
He said
Why do you find that difficult? I believe something far greater than
traveling a long distance in a few hours. My teacher used to say they
they disbelieved in something that now we could do easily.
With our knowledge today we can easily one night from Mecca to
Jerusalem, how many hours in a flight look it up Google three
hours.
Well, my daddy kala Hibiya Aziz. So he so so so he goes, Why do you
find that weird, I believe something far greater than what
you're saying. I believe that Allah, the Creator of the seven
heavens, talks to this man.
After that, everything is easy for me. After that, everything is easy
for me. And this is what our teachers have taught us is our
uncle our intellect has led us to him. But I don't use my intellect
to judge him.
What do I mean? My intellect has told me that the man with these
qualities is true.
What who he is his lifestyle. The message that he brought. My
intellect has led me to him that he is sorted and Amin and a
prophet of God, but my intellect does not come over the revelation.
My intellect led me to him. But when I get what he gave me, I
submit to it.
I had one shake, say, why would it be submission? If everything of it
made perfect sense? Where's the submission?
Where's the submission? Two plus two is four. There's no
submission.
submission is in the message. But my uncle has led me to himself.
Allahu Allahu wa salam.
So they began to pressure him.
Give us a sign, give us a sign, but they're not sincere, because
they've seen signs before. And whenever he gives a sign they say
magician, he did magic on us. Give us a sign. Give us a sign. What's
the first sign they asked for? They say describe Bates would mock
this. The prophesize setting was like and the scholars say he goes
I don't know what it looked like I didn't go there. Like how many
doors? How many windows? I was praying with the prophets. I I
went there for a reason I didn't stop to analyze the architecture.
The prophesy centum says they asked me to describe it but I
didn't memorize the number of doors this and that. The prophesy
centum says Allah subhanaw taala in that moment allowed me to see
it so clearly. And I began to describe the entire Bateson month
this month I'm been ID and a few others were the only people local
that had travelled everybody else hadn't traveled before. So I'm is
listening to him describe it. And based on memory, he's going sadaqa
sadaqa sadaqa sadaqa sadaqa He's true.
They said okay, okay. You did some type of thing. They said what
about our caravan? When is our caravan coming back? In those days
based on where it is in location, you know, how many days is going
to show up in they say yada yada? Oh Mohamed, tell us when the
caravan is the prophesy southern said your caravan is arriving and
this number of days exact number. And by the way, when they get
here, ask them about the water that they had covered. But then in
the morning it was probably already drunk already and asked
him about the guy that night that was looking for a camel. The
caravan arrives on that day that he said they asked him the
question and everything is matching up perfect. What do they
say Muhammad did magic on us again.
I'm gonna did magic on us again, man. We can't believe anything. Or
Sudha la sala sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
in this moment has given us and been given. We have been given
through him the gift of Salah
one night the Prophet was traveling. And when he was
traveling, it was time for Asha the prophets of Allah to set him
he said Yeah, but you
know, this soda Bill was the marathon. So he said yeah, I'd be
like,
nah, this salah, give us tranquility through the prayer
meaning I'm tired of this dunya I'm tired. Can we get some raw
have some peace and tranquility through the prayer. Tonight I
wanted us to really analyze and think about our connection to the
salah.
I want us all to make dua that the salah becomes something that we
find contentment and not something that we rush through. When Shavon
is telling you to rush through it you must speak back and you must
say I was created for this reason. This is what I was created to do.
Everything else is extra. This is what I'm here for.
This is my break from the matrix from this dunya it's my
reconnection with Allah Subhan Allah to Allah.
May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to connect to the salah. May Allah
allow us to it to be you know, I
See these pictures of the people of Gaza? Praying their Salah
amongst rubble?
And I think to myself, That's it that's the answer we need the
other answers to those will come those victories will come.
But there's a deeper answer there. Because there will be times when
you feel like there's Rubble all around you, not physical but
another type.
Things ain't working out marriage, this that in a third job that are
you able to in the middle of those, that noise, find
contentment through the prayer.
Because that's where it is.
I wanted to read some of the qualities of the prophets of Allah
Who are they he was salam so that we can try our best to emulate him
in his ways and will conclude inshallah to Allah.
Listen and imagine him said, Allahu alayhi wa salam, the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa salam never behaved
coarsely with anyone, even if a person acted in a way that would
merit coarseness, and he would never accept, he would accept the
excuse of the one who begged his pardon even if the person did what
he did. When the Messenger of Allah had to endure some annoyance
and injury from people, he would say, May Allah show mercy to my
brother Musa, he suffered much greater than this, and he was
patient. The Messenger of Allah would watch permissible games and
did not disapprove of them. And when voices would be raised in his
presence, uttering boorish words, he would tolerated and not take
people to task. Whenever the prophesy centum was asked to make
dua against someone, he wouldn't turn, it turns from making a dua
against them and make dua for the person.
The prophets of Allah who I showed the Allahu Tada, she says, I never
saw the Messenger of Allah, exact revenge for a personal injustice
done against Tim. So long as the sanctity of Allah were not
violated. It wasn't about him, it was about Allah.
And if any of Allah subhanaw taala sanctities were violated, he would
be the angriest of people.
He was never put in a position to choose between two things, except
that he chose the easier of the two. Unless the easier one
entailed sin. In that case, he would be the furthest removed from
it.
The messenger of allah sallallahu wasallam never got angry for
himself,
or exotic revenge for himself. He would only become angry. If the
hoodoo of Allah, the sanctity of Allah were violated. And nothing
would settle his anger until he established what was right. What
was right. I want to read one more small section about how the
prophets of Allah Wa Dae was salam with sleep. And I read this
because a lot of us we want to emulate him in his heart, right?
We want to emulate him in his character, right? But we also want
to emulate him and how we did things. Right, that that's a part
of who we are. We want to do the small things that he did. The
small things that he did are special. There's a newer, there's
a Baraka in them. And it can be the simplest of things.
So as you listen to it, and you think, Oh, this is mundane, don't
think of it mundane. Think of it as something he did some Allah
holiday was seldom just him.
So Subhanallah the prophets of Allah who it was salam
would not go to sleep until he brushed his teeth first. MashAllah
we teach our kids that right.
He would not sleep during the night or day except that he would
brush his teeth upon waking up, so he would go to sleep he would
brush his teeth. And the reason is, he saw the mouth as this tool
for vicar. He said your mouths are the total of the Quran, keep them
clean.
So he would brush his teeth a lot.
He did not go to sleep except with the toothbrush, or miswak ya know,
would be near his head. And when he would wake up, the first thing
he would do is he would brush his teeth.
He would brush his teeth frequently. When the messenger of
allah sallallahu wasallam wanted to go to sleep, he would place his
right hand under his cheek and he would say three times Oh Allah,
please protect me. Save me from your punishment on the day you
resurrect your servants. Save me from the punishment on the day you
resurrect your servants. Save me from the punishment on the day you
resurrect your servants. When he would retire to his bed he would
place his hand or nurse cheek and he would say in your name
Allahumma Bismillah r mu to in your name, or Allah do I live and
then you're done.
aim to IDI and when he would wake up in the morning. And this is
something you have to ask Allah to give you because the first thing
that you say when you wake up, it just it's about what's in your
heart. He would wake up in the first thing he would say is all
Praise to Allah Who gave me life after he was dead. And I'm going
back to him.
The prophets of Allah who Allah He was salam Aisha says that every
night he would recite the small three small suitors, the quills,
and he would blow in his hands and he would rub it over his face, the
front of his body, he rub it on the back of his body. The Prophet
Salatu was Salam. Whenever one of his wives wished to go to sleep,
he would tell her, say subhanallah 33 times Allahu Akbar 33 times and
then Hamdulillah 33 times. Another sunnah that my family always
reminds me of, is the prophets of Allah. He was setting them
whenever he was about to get into the bed, he would take a cloth and
he would, he would kind of like dust off the bed. Because the
Hadith the Prophet says you don't know what got in the bed after
you. You don't know what spider crawled in there. You don't know
what thing crawled in there. So the prophesy centum he would brush
the bed off and then he would get it how small of a sunnah. But if
you did it only for the sake of following his sunnah. How much
reward would you get for something so beautiful and simple? May Allah
subhanaw taala accept from us in sha Allah to Allah? May Allah
subhanho wa Taala accept from us May he accept from us May He give
us a connection with Salah so deep, so deep May Allah subhanaw
taala make our primary concern our connection to the prayer May Allah
make us see the beauty of the prayer May Allah give us meaning
in our prayer. May Allah make us of people who the our connection
with Allah is all we truly want. May Allah subhanaw taala alleviate
the suffering of our brothers and Philistine. May Allah alleviate
the suffering of our brothers and Philistine. May Allah alleviate
the suffering of our brothers and Philistines Sudan. May Allah
alleviate the brother the suffering of our brothers brothers
and sisters equally McCann and everyplace yeah Allah we turn to
you, We beg of you Yahama rahimian for your mercy Yahama Rahim and we
asked you to accept from us. We asked you to forgive us your
camera he mean our brothers and sisters who are in * Allah we
asked you to protect them except their Hajj and bring them back
safely to ser Hamid Rahim Allah Subhana Allah because there is a
Tmic was salam ala animosity, but hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen.
So just some real quick housekeeping