Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #17
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The speakers stress the importance of surrounding oneself with people who are grinding for the d Chip and creating a sense of connection. They also discuss the holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy, emphasizing the importance of purification, respecting people, living in the heart of the city, and the holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy. The transcript describes a woman who wants to add a theater to her sister's "feel warm," and the importance of community, fellowship, and fellowship in spreading acceptance and connection. The call ends with a prayer request from a church.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu
salam ala Sade in our Navy and our Maulana Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi wa salam Allahumma Inanna sadaqa hubback will help them and
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Rahim in ya Allah we ask you to make this a gathering by which we
increase in our love and understanding of your hubby
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah, Allah we ask you
to make this a gathering by which our hearts are healed from any of
our spiritual sicknesses that we have within our hearts y'all
Muhammad Rahim in your Allah we ask you to give give us your love
your Allah, Allah we ask you to give us the love of your Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam that a love for him that
outweighs every other love and y'all Allah we asked you your
Allah to give us a love of all the actions that will gain your love
yet Hamid Rahim in and Yahama rahimian We beg of you yet Allah
to give Afia give us here and tranquillity that people are
Philistine and the people of Sudan and the people all over the world
Muslims who are suffering Allah, we asked you to give them I feel
ya allah Algeria, Mohammed Rahim to cover Allah, this Mala ramen or
him. So we're studying for the last 14 or 15 sessions in his
footsteps, a series in which we are going through aspects of the
life of our Habib Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam with
the intention of appreciating who he is loving him understanding
Him. And learning more about him is B aka che the scholars, they
use the same manner Habashi Academy indicati they used to say
that there's two effects of mentioning something they say when
you fall in love with something, or any one, you start talking
about them a lot. But the scholars they say it's kind of like a
mutual relationship, because the more you talk about something, the
more you love it. But also an effect of love is that you talk
about something more. And so when we look at the Sahaba, what we
find within them, and what we strive for the Companions, that
who are with the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him is that they
loved him so much, right? They loved him so much. And there's a
narration that I'll begin with that we said before, but it's a
very powerful one. And the narration is that one time oh my
god, the hola Hawaiian, he's just sitting there. And this is a man
who has sacrificed everything to be with the Prophet peace and
blessings be upon him. And he looks at the Prophet alayhi salam
and he says, ya rasool Allah, I swear that I love you more than
everything except myself. And the reason he said except myself is
because it was a love for his own self in his Aveda and where he
would end up that led him to the prophets of Allah they were
sending him it's when you care about your your your soul, not
just your external form, right? When you truly care about
yourself, your soul, where am I going? What's my end? Where will I
be 20 3040 years from now or even shorter than that? When that care
really penetrates within your heart then that leads you to seek
out the prophet that leads you to seek out Allah Subhan that leads
you to learn more about the deen so almost about the Allah one in
that moment he says, I love you more than everything in LA FC
except in myself. And in this moment the prophets of Allah they
were Selim taught us something profound. He said Not yet. Oh,
Omar, meaning you haven't reached yet you haven't perfected yet. You
still got some work to do. And that's amazing in and of itself,
because everyone in this room, even your man, right, everyone in
this room has worked to do on our souls. No one here has has reached
their goal. Right. And that's the beauty of always looking at people
who have done more than you and the dean, people who have excelled
more than you because you always look up that I can become better,
I can become better. Like you start getting on your foot. You're
on time summer months to low Excellent. You start getting on
your foot, you're on time next thing you're like, Oh, I'm good.
Then you look over at your guy and he's like, Yo tahajjud was sweet
last night. You're like, oh, okay, I guess we got to strive more I
guess we got to push ourselves more. And when you surround
yourself with people who are spiritually not above you, but
striving then you yours
elf create that grind within you as well. Similarly, if you create
surround yourself with people who are grinding for the dunya Oh,
before you know it, you're like, How can I put in more hours? How
can I how can I move forward? Someone in the gym more than you
before you know it? How can I protein creating, what can I do?
You're always trying to advance by people that are above you in any
way that you surround yourself. So Alma Radi Allahu Allah in that
moment, he's always trying to get better. And so the prophesy Saddam
doesn't say to him, good job, you made it you're good. You love me
more than everything else except yourself. Way to go. He goes,
nope, you haven't reached yet. Because he knows within almost
that competitive nature, I want to be the best. We know that's his
nature, because we saw it in another incident. He wants to get
to the top. So he goes, you still have to love me more than you love
yourself. And this is heavy, because our knifes our self is
sometimes gonna say, I don't feel like doing this. I don't want to
do this. And that's the moment where you go, it doesn't matter
what you feel. It doesn't matter what you want. We're doing this
for the sake of Allah, like it or not, you're coming along for the
ride. And so he says to him, No, you don't truly believe in to love
me more than everything, including yourself. And that's big in our
time. Because self worship is one of the things that we struggle in
our time more than anything else. And so he says to him, No, and so
on our pauses in a moment. He like he like something that would take
us weeks or months or years to figure out he just pauses and he
hangs his head.
And then he looks up and he's like, I got it. I love you more
than myself. And right there the Prophet said, you got it now. You
got it, but you got to hold on to it. And so the purpose of this of
this of this class over the last What 14 sessions I think, is to
increase in our appreciation. Last week we talked about the Hijra the
migration of the prophesy southern from Mecca to Medina, and it's
hard to do it justice, but it's it marks the calendar, it marks the
calendar of Islamic dates and we just started a new mashallah
started a new year. And this marks the beginning of the New Year of
the Islamic calendar. And we talked about how the prophesy
Saddam went on this journey. We talked about him in the cave of
Abu Bakar. We talked about them being chased and on the way we
talked about them getting right outside of Medina and then being
stopped by Buddha in a group of 70 people. And then we talked about
how he comes into the city and I want to pick up from right there.
And it's been Matic he says that there was no day there was no day.
He says that I remember the day in NA Aina Yama dalla Nabi al Medina,
he says I remember the day that the prophets of Allah who it was
Selim came into Medina. Now when they come into Medina, this is
where we left off last week. So when they came into Medina, I said
before that Abu Bakar was well traveled. He traveled a lot around
the hola one. So people recognized him he was a businessman, he was
always moving, right? And the prophesy centum was less well
known. When they got to Medina, there were so many Muslims that
had accepted Islam that had never seen the Prophet size of them yet.
So I want to pause for a moment because here we are, you know,
1400 years later, we love him. We care for him. We follow his
sunnah, but we've never seen him and the prophets of Allah Azza wa
sallam in one of my most favorite Hadith. He was sitting with a
group of companions. And he goes, I wish I could be see my brothers.
I wish I could see my brothers and sisters, and the sahaba. They say,
like,
ya rasool Allah right here. And he goes like, No, you're my
companions. My brothers are the ones that will believe in me, but
they haven't seen me and they will wish they could sacrifice anything
to see me. They wish to it. So I love that hadith, because that's
that connection between us and Him. So these companions in these
unsought, they had never seen Rasul Allah Salatu was Salam.
Right, and some of them had never seen aboubaker before either. So
when the prophesy centum gets to Cuba, so Cuba, as many of you
know, some don't, is it was a city kind of outside of Medina. Today,
it's kind of considered inside of Medina, the Saudi government made
this really nice path. You can ride your bike down the path, you
can walk the path, it takes, like 30 minutes, but back in those
days, it was considered outside of the city. So the Prophet arrives
in Cuba. And the first thing he does is he sits down he's been on
a 13 day like journey, his life was being a hunted, he's
exhausted. So he sits down and everyone is coming over to greet
him. Everyone is coming over if you guys can slide over a little
bit because the brothers come in and inshallah just a little bit so
big barrier. You could you know, I mean, just like
So
so so everyone is every one is a Subhanallah everyone is coming to
meet the prophets I sent him. And remember, there's people who never
saw him or aboubaker before. So aboubaker Radi Allahu, and he
cares nothing except about the prophets I seldom, that's all
that's on his mind. So people come to start greeting and aboubaker
stands up and start shaking their hands. Now everyone's thinking,
they're meeting the Prophet. They're reading somebody come
there, shaking his hand, and he's shaking his head. He's keeping his
lips quiet. He's shaking their head and the prophets lie. Selim
is just sitting next to him. And his mind, he's like, I just need
my prophet to relax. You're gonna He's tired. You guys love him.
You're gonna be all over him. I need him to relax. So I'm going to
fend you off. How am I going to send you off, I'm just going to
greet ya. I didn't say I was the prophet, but you thought I was. So
he's shaking their hands, he shaking their hands. He's shaking
their hands. And finally, finally, as time is going, the sun moves a
little. And the light of the sun starts to hit the prophets face.
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, now just just be in the heart of
Abubaker for this moment, in that moment, aboubaker looks and he
sees the sunlight like hot sun. I mean, we were in Dallas, we
understand the hot sun, you got to get in the shade. So he sees that
light. And immediately he talks. He takes his Shah, and he begins
to just serve as the umbrella. And in that moment, they say, oh,
everyone realized they were like, oh, that's Abubaker that's the
prophets I send them I wanted to share that because it just goes to
show how deeply in love aboubaker was with the prophets of Allah why
they he was salam. So they enter underspin Matic because I remember
the day they entered. And he says, and these are his words, till
today, we call it Medina to Munawwara. We'll know what it
means it's enlightened, it's filled with light. What does that
mean? I honest, says, I remember the day that he came to the city.
He says, and these are his words of Aquila, che, the city got
enlightened, there was a light in the city. And we lived in that
light for the next 13 years, we 10 years, we just live in that light
we were and you know what light does light if you're in a dark
room, light lets you know what's around you. But light also gives
you an awareness of yourself. When you're in a dark place, you can't
even see yourself. And this is amazing. Why am I saying that? Is
because when they were close to him, they grew a deeper
understanding of who they were.
And that's why I love this Dean. Because the closer I stay to this
Dean, the more I understand myself on a deep level.
And he says, and I remember the day that he passed away, he says
of limit. He says we didn't even cover him with dirt in this city
started to get dark. He says head and cutting out and fusina He's
like,
you know, you know, like, you know, as time goes on, you ever
look back at a picture from like, 10 years ago. And you look at that
person you like, I remember being that dude. I remember being that
person. You look back, maybe it was Jamelia days, maybe you were
doing whatever, you look back at a picture and you're like, I
remember that guy. And you're different today, you're almost a
different person.
And may Allah always make our tomorrow or our today better than
yesterday. That's gonna be everyone's goal today is just
better than my yesterday, not someone else's yesterday, my
yesterday, not competing against no one in this room, competing
against my former self. So he says we had just placed them in the
ground. He says had an uncanny knack and fusina We started to not
recognize our own hearts, meaning we had just buried him but we
started to change. And within the course, you know, we look at a
picture of five years ago and I'm like, I'm a different guy. They
buried him and five minutes later, they're like, Yeah, I'm a
different person.
I'm a different person. Because closeness to him. And I know a lot
of us think, you know, he's talking about stuff, but that was
for them. No, it's for you and me today. Because when Allah He by
studying this stuff, we get close to him.
By studying this and learning about him, we do get close to him.
So he says we had just placed him in the ground, and minutes were
passing. And we were looking like I don't even recognize who I am
anymore. I'm changing. So honest Ben Malik. He says that the
prophets of Allah who it was salam, I remember the day he came
into Koba, as I said, Kuba is outside of Medina.
And the prophets of Allah today was salam. He stopped there. He
was tired. It was a long journey. And he's in safety. Now he's in
he's not going to be pressed
suit anymore so he can relax. The prophets of Allah had a was salam
he stays in Masjid Kuba. Oh well, it's not a mushy sorry. He stays
in Cuba for four days. And what is the prophets of Allah today was
salam do when he arrives in Cuba? The first thing, and this is
beautiful before I go for it, I want us to understand something.
From a social political perspective, we are studying how
our prophets of Allah holiday was salam, the greatest statesman
began his society. We're looking at what he started in the
beginning. As all of these nation states are going through all of it
on so much turmoil, I heard someone say we better celebrate
Fourth of July hard this year because it looks like 90 will say
it but whatever.
Who knows? The point being that we should always connect ourselves to
how he so I didn't get to how he said, Allahu Allah, he was setting
them began this this Islamic dolla, this Islamic civilization.
So what did he do? He arrived in Cuba
and the very first thing he does
you already know. He starts to build in the masjid.
He goes yo, we got to find a place the narration is beautiful. I send
the besides seven feet telecoil muda four days he just got there
and what's he doing already setting up setting up
spirituality? Setting up spirituality you know, I I've been
traveling lately more right over the last like five years that
sometimes we go to these like cities in the middle of like
nowhere like middle like Kansas, right? If you from Kansas, my bad,
bro. Like middle of nowhere, right? And we'll do a program. And
people will come from like three months or 333 hours away. And one
thing I'll hear is there's no Masjid in our area. What do we do?
And sometimes I keep it real. I'm like, move to where there is a
masjid.
People are like, What do you mean? I say well, hold on when you
picked your house. Did you look at the school zone for your kids?
Oh, y'all y'all y'all y'all don't even know.
They like what you don't
know when we pick in homes. When you try to move the first thing
mom and pops do is what's the quote schools online?
Then you look for is there a hospital? Is there this is there
that? I said would you move to an area that had no school at all?
Like not? I mean, really nice home? No, like, well, what are we
going to do there? So how do you choose a community that has no
Masjid?
How do you make that conscious now is everyone in the choice have the
privilege to choose No.
But when you do have that privilege, and you're about to
start a family, you don't have the excuse for your children to say,
Oh, we grew up without a masjid.
Like, oh, there's no hospital for 100 miles now we move in there.
They give him free land away in West Texas, right?
Literally, like two bucks an acre and no one's moving. Because
there's nothing to preserve life. What if there's nothing to
preserve spiritual life?
Would you move there? No. So what does he do? The prophesy cinema
arrives in Cuba or days. He's only there for four days. And what does
he do? He takes his staff and he outlines the Masjid.
This is the Masjid. Let's start building. And the narration is
beautiful. The narration he says
lemma. Nessa are suicides mencoba when he got the cover.
I tell who Allah Who all the people of Cuba the area around
there, they came to give him some time. So he said Yeah, I left Cuba
or people of Cuba, Tony B. Jordan. mean how did how did it everyone
started bringing rocks. Everyone started bringing stones we have to
build the Masjid. The first thing we're doing we're going to work
we're going to build this masjid for Juliet's, endo jawed
cathedral, they all brought what they could. So he took his staff
for Hector tableta. He marked the tabler which was Jerusalem at the
time. Jerusalem is in our blood from the very first moment as
Muslims, it's part of who we are. Never forget that. So so he he
marks where the fibula would be the aka the HUD urine. And this is
where you appreciate him sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he
picks up the stone for what the i Who and he put it down. Now I know
what you're saying. There's a lot of CEOs that come in, put that the
shovel in the ground, step on it, we broke ground, right you dipped
after that bra? You didn't break nothing. You You know symbolically
put a shovel in the ground and dip
or cut the tape. Right? Well Rasulullah sallallahu is sending
me he picks up the first one and he places it and then he begins to
tell everyone let's go let's build so one companion comes over for
aka the nuts everyone starts to start Bill
doing now. Once the hobby His name is Shu moose
he narrates she narrates now though to Illa rasool Allah, I saw
him for eight to who I saw him picking up stones picking up
boulders and moving them and I could see the whiteness of the
stones on his chest. Meaning he was someone that did not mind
getting dirty.
He was someone if you got a flat tire, he's there fixing the tire,
bro. He's there it doesn't matter.
You can wash clothes, you can't wash your heart and it takes
humility to get on the ground and fix that tire. There are suicides
Sanam is picking it up and she goes, I can still see the
whiteness of the stone on his clothes. sallallahu alayhi wa
Salam Fayyad theological. She says a guy would come from the
companions and they would say be a be until only ya rasool Allah,
they would say my mother and father be sacrifice for you. Y'all
y'all rasool Allah give me the stone and raw suicide Salam, he
would say, Love hood. Mithila. He was saying don't take this. Go get
another one, bro. Like, if you take this there was another
narration I wanted to save it. When he was building the other
Masjid. He said to a man, he said, You're not stronger than me. Nor
do I need reward less than you. Can you go get another stone
please.
Look at that. Look at him. sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
someone comes to take he goes, go get another stone. We got work to
do here. And here's the here's what's amazing. The Sahaba didn't
work for him. This was worked for Allah.
They weren't working for him. And he wanted them to know this isn't
for me. This is for Allah. And so there's a beautiful, there's a
beautiful, see, you know, when you when I say I gotta behave. So when
they would work, the Sahaba the Sahaba were used to poetry, okay.
And so they would always recite poetry.
Because, you know, poetry and shanties, they make work go along
easier, right? You ever see like the chain gangs? You know what I
mean? Like, singing something kinda melodiously can help the
work pass faster. So they wouldn't work in silence. They would kind
of recite poetry. And one of the poems I think I saved to here, la
Aisha Illa, I should ask, you know, they would recite this poem
and the prophesy, Saddam would say one part and then they would
recite the other part, but the poetry was beautiful, they would
say, La Aisha Illa. Aisha Akira. There's no life except the next
life. Allahumma FAAC. Fitzalan, sartwell muhajir, Allah, Oh, ALLAH
forgive the unsought and the Maha Mudra. And, and the immigrants
forgive us all. And they would keep reciting and read, and they
sent in not met when maybe you thought it, if we work, if the
prophet works, and we're sitting, that is the most disgraceful
thing. These are poetry words, they would recite. What's crazy to
me, is that the motivation is a poem about akhira. And that's
deep, because whatever you're doing in life, if the motivation
is athlete, and you keep on theta here, you keep grinding, you keep
pushing, but if the motivation is the dunya, you'll find the
motivation dips a lot, you know, it dips a lot. So while they're
working, picking up stones sweating, while they're going
through all of that, what are they saying? They're saying a poem.
Why? Because there are poetry people first of all, and secondly,
to make the work lighter, but the meaning of what they were saying
and listening to what's deep.
Now you could connect that to your life on your own. Because we
listened to stuff too to make stuff easier.
But it had meaning.
It focused them back. So I thought it was just a beautiful, a
beautiful moment. But as soon as last I said to him, he's working
with them. And
a verse is revealed. And this is really powerful for me.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says
they must be doing or Cseh Allah Taqwa mean a what a young, a haco
and tecoma Fie, fie. hiri Jaiden. You a buena and your papa huddle.
They're working in this community. He's building this machine in his
versus revealed. The verse says La masjid and Officer Allah taqwa,
the Masjid that its foundation like the first stones were Taqwa
consciousness of God. I mean, we just saw they were just literally
singing poetry about acela, a Haku and Tacoma fee. That is the best
masjid for you. Oh, Mohammed, you to pray in. Here.
You hear a genuine, there's people in this Masjid. You have buena and
yet Tata huddle, they love to be pure. They love to be clean. When
this verse was revealed the prophesy Saddam he goes to a group
of the people of Cuba. And he asked them, he says these words he
says in the words of adequate to Allah, Allah subhana wa Tada has
asked, and they can Cena has praised you regarding your
purification. What is it that you do? That is so unique? What is so
special about you?
So this is profound
because if you travel throughout anywhere except America, there's
bad days everywhere
I saw I gotta keep it like as nice I got showed respect me. I saw
commercial for Charmin like thing. And I was just like,
a bad day, bro.
Like, what will it take? for y'all to get that civilized?
I'm sorry, let me get back to the point is connected. I promise you.
I promise you is connected.
The Prophet of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says, Indeed,
Allah has praised ya.
You know, real quick.
I saw a young man with his baby, right? And it reminded me I heard
one brother he converted and and he was talking about the concept
of his Thuringia, cleaning yourself with water. And he was
like, they do it for babies wet wipes. Why did they stop when they
got older?
And I was like,
I might drop bruh.
Like, did you just grow out of needing water? Like what happened?
So the prophets I send them he says to them, there's a
connection. There's a threat. He says, Indeed Allah subhanaw taala
has praised ya in this verse. The Hedy Jana you a boon Oh, there's
people in this budget that love to be clean. He says, what is it that
Cha do to my harder to hold? Elodie Yetta? Tata Tata Tata
Hello? Tata Hodor? Behave? Sorry, the tongue twister, what is it
that you're doing? That you're purifying yourself with the coil?
Do ya wala he outta suit Allah. They said, My nan,
che and Illa. We don't know, except that we used to be around
these your hood because Medina had a lot of your hood. We used to be
around these your hood. And we learned from them that whenever
they would defecate, they would always clean themselves with
water. So we started to hold on to this and we never let go of it.
I want to I want to stop here.
I want to stop here. Because we always talk about purification. If
you've come to any Halacha, before, purification of the heart
is something we always talk about. But what we have to understand is
purification of the heart has steps before it it starts with
purification of the body, it moves on to purification of the mind,
and then it becomes purification of the heart.
purification of the body is at the beginning. I kid you not and to
any convert in this room. When I learned about a stranger, my mind
was blown.
And intimidated. Kind of like, Can we move on?
But I can't because it was so profound to so many of us. And it
had such a deep meaning you can't understand what it means to be 21
years old and realize you've never actually learned how to clean
yourself after you defecate.
And I know many of you are kind of like, Man, this is like weird. No,
I'm gonna talk about this. I'll tell you why. One time a man came
to sell man and Farsi.
A man came to Salmaan in Farsi.
And he said to him,
peeler who looked at the Allameh comb, Nabil konkola, shaken hat.
He says, Your Prophet has taught you everything. This guy is making
fun of Selma. This guy, this prophet of yours, has taught you
everything had even how to defecate. And in that moment,
Salman Farsi taught us something for many of us. And what he
thought would happen to Salmaan was he would get shy like, oh,
yeah, he had to teach us this. He stands up proud. And he goes numb
agenne a gel Lakota and ohana. He told us we shouldn't face the
tabler when we urinate and defecate, he told us that we
shouldn't use our right head. He told us to not use this, this this
and he started to list all of the ideas of how to relieve oneself
meaning Salman Farsi was being made fun of because your Prophet
taught us
We think and he said, Yep, I have a prophet that taught me
everything.
You don't know when you come from Christianity, and they say what
would Jesus do? Bro? We don't know.
David in my life, we don't know. How did he walk? What did he wear?
When did he brush his teeth? Did he like it?
What was he like with his wife? What was he like with children?
What was he like when he came in the home? How did he joke? How did
he smile? How did he cry?
They don't know. And here we are with a prophet sighs Salam that
has taught us everything. We got to see every aspect of his life.
Does watching Mahara say we saw him in the home will tell you what
he was like our home.
Sahaba saw him here. They saw him there. They saw every aspect. And
he said a lot it was setting them taught us regardless of who you
are. And whenever you convert, and whenever you learn this thing, he
taught you how to purify yourself. And I'm sure there's doctors that
could talk all about the you know the medicinal benefits of proper
Stenger.
The medicinal benefits,
but they took pride in that. You know what he said in the same
narration when he taught them how to go to the restroom. He said NLL
calm Cal wallet, O Alamo, calm. And then he taught him about a
stranger. He said, I am like a father to you. I'm here to teach
you. And then he taught them about a stranger. Now I'm gonna say one
more thing.
As a convert 20 something years ago, I came in with a blank slate.
I don't know anything.
So there was no shyness about asking how to do stuff.
Because I don't know anything. Nothing. I walk in the bathroom.
There's a pot on the ground.
I'm like, bro, y'all gonna have to let me know what's up with the
pot?
What is that pot for?
And they're like, let us show you the beauty of this Dean.
Y'all laugh but you don't know how paradigm shifting it was. You
can't teach me about worship. If you can't even you never even
taught me how to clean myself.
Now, I'm gonna say something else here too.
A lot of us grew up Muslim. But we never learned the odd job of some
stuff. And we got older and we got shy to ask.
We got shy to ask.
Because if I ask, they're gonna be like, Yo, you 25 And you word.
I promise you a nobody gonna judge you.
They're gonna be like, I get the reward for teaching bra.
Learn your dean, regardless of your age. And don't let shyness
stop you. Because guess what the older you get, the more shy you're
gonna get.
Because you're gonna be 40 years old. I'm like, bruh I never really
learned this.
And it is something that the prophesy said, I'm not gonna spend
2030 minutes on a stranger, I promise you, I
promise you like, what was he talking about? He still was there
the whole time.
I just want us to realize the importance of purification and
what it meant for some of us who learned it. It was just mind
blowing. And so the prophets of Allah who he was salam, he praised
them and he asked them, What did what did the what did you What do
y'all do? That God said this about ya? And they said, Well, this is
our sunnah. This is what we do. We always we always, always, always.
Excuse me, we always use water after we relieve ourselves and the
prophesy some said that's it. And from this moment that became his
sunnah he never gave that up. The profit slice add on one more thing
every Saturday.
One of the suddenness is that the Prophet, generally speaking, the
Sunnah is the prophet never forgot people. If you were there in a
moment in his life, he never forgot you. He always remembered
your face. He always remembered you and he always showed you
respect.
Every Saturday for the rest of his life.
The prophesy centum would walk to Cuba. Pray to the car in that
Masjid Saturday morning, after his talk. He would walk and have the
Saudi government made this beautiful trail you get coffee on
the way. I mean, everything is beautiful. Every Saturday morning,
he would walk to Cuba. Walk back if we wanted to write a book on
his exercise to
his habit of walking every morning for what I think is like three,
four miles or so. That was his thing every week and he got those
miles in and then he would come back. So Allahu alayhi wa salam
For four days the Prophet sallahu wa Salam is in for days but we
have to get to Medina. He's in Cuba which is in today in Medina,
but at that time it wasn't Medina. He has to get into Medina. So on
the fourth day it's Yeomans Juma. It's the day of Juma and this is
going to be the prophets I send them is first hooked by ya. There
were a clip was happening before because people in Medina were
already Muslim, but there were no quick was in Mecca. They barely
wanted to hear Quran recited How can you pray chutzpah? How can you
gather everyone? So the prophets that Allah has sent him is leaving
this epic moment. He's leaving Cuba. He sends word to the people
in Medina, Ben Hoonah jawed and all of the tribes, that I'm coming
into Medina.
And this is when everyone comes out the unsolved they come with
their weapons, and they surround the prophets that Allah de was
salam. He's on his camel, but also rely they set out to sit on his on
his camel. The answer come from every direction, because he's
coming in now. And they all have their weapons and you have to
understand what this means. For the last 13 years. No one has
outwardly shown love for this man. No one was there supporting him.
No one was holding up weapons to protect him. And now a whole city
is coming out and surrounding him. Can you imagine what he felt like
inside?
So they surround him
and they're guiding him in. And this is where we hear the
narrations. So that is why Lena menthone Actually without all of
the people are singing and they say John rasool Allah Jah rasool
Allah, the Prophet is here, the prophet is here, the little kids
running around. The Prophet of Allah is here, the prophet is
here. There's people on the top of their houses watching this escort
come, I want you to see it, the joy in Medina that day. So they're
going and it's only like six, seven miles, five, six miles, but
it's a slow parade. Because there's a lot of people and as the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is, is coming in, see the
people of Medina, they lived in tribes. And these tribes were like
larger condoms, you know, like 20 3040 people, per family. And so
every time he Salatu was Salam would pass by, like, a someone's
like houses. They would stop him. And it's a beautiful narration.
They would stop him and they would say, Ya rasool Allah, come and
stay with us. Stay with people of strength, protection, and honor.
And this is a well known moment y'all all know, the prophesy
centum in this moment, he let go of the reins of the camel. He let
go, he let go of the reins of the camel. And they would all come and
they would grab the reins and the prophets. I said him he would say
doc, ooh Ha, leave my camera all alone in Maha Mudra. This camera
will be ordered by Allah where to go. Now you have to understand
this is brilliant.
Medina before the Prophet came there were two major tribes both
coverage
they were at war. bloods Crips they was at war. They was at war,
The War of Art had just ended.
And they still have this up this John Healy animosity, they're
living together. But any Spark is causing battles. This guy killed
him. So now two people from there. I said gangs on purpose because
that's what was happening in the prophets of Allah. They was
telling him was coming and he had to heal that. When Al Hajj Malik
el Shabazz went for Hajj. He came back and he said if anything can
solve the problems in America is ls la
the race problem the gang violence problem what LF obey in a cool
movie him Allah says about us and cousin EJ they were at war. Allah
says what ended up obeying glooby him that Allah brought their
hearts together Lo and factor market are the Jimmy and Matt I
left a bein equilibrium Allah says if you spend all the money in the
world you couldn't bring those hearts together what I can Allah.
Allah for Bina home what does this mean? Hearts coming together isn't
amount isn't a matter of financial resources.
This verse of Quran says hearts coming together as a matter of
Imam
the prophets I send them
he lets the camel go. Why?
Because this is deep. Any group that he selected will
automatically cause beef in the other groups
because they had John Healy they had the ignorance the moment they
got him they have like your see he chose us because you know
because we're this, and they still have that hamir To DJI Helia this,
this arrogance from DJI Helia. so brilliantly the prophets Allah He
was telling me he goes, nope, I won't choose and you won't choose.
Allah will choose where I go.
So he's passing by one tribe. Now. Now ceremoniously. The Prophet
would stop. But he would let the camel go. So he goes to Ben who if
he goes to bento Salim, he goes, he's passing by all of these
different tribes. And the moment he gets close to their doors, all
of their men would come out to the front and they would say Ya rasool
Allah, stay with us. Give us the honor of hosting you. Stay with
us. We have strength. We have this we have that and the prophesy
seven would go down. Oh Ha, ha ha, Mount mudra. Leave her leave her
wherever she ends up she ends up slowly but surely, the camel makes
its way down to the area of banana job before that one second.
On it's on his way in.
They pass by the tribe
of a man I'm gonna say his name right now and his name is
important. Abdullah bin obey bin Sulu.
His name is important.
He stops in front of his house. Because the prophesy centum has
been told by people. Hey, this guy's important. Make sure you
stop. He always kept people who knew the local on the ground. So
this guy goes make sure you stopping and greet him. He's a
leader. The Prophet stops. And he's expecting the customary
greeting of welcoming. Like, come stay with us. And I'll read you
the narration. The narration is Subhanallah it's profound. He
stopped at his house for walkoff I let him be. The Prophet stopped
right in front of his area. Yeah, untethered. And yet Oh, who Elon
Elon Manziel. He stopped and waited for Abdullah to invite him
because if I just roll pass, you're gonna be like, Oh, why
like, that's shady. Right? So the Prophet stops. And he waits will
hola yo might even say he will hostage. He's the leader of one of
those two tribes. Remember, I told you there were two tribes. On that
day. He was the leader.
For God, Abdullah. Abdullah sees him.
He sees the Prophet he doesn't move. He sees the prophet and he
knows what he's waiting for. The prophet is waiting for him to say
hey, come and they would ask and the prophesy centum would say you
don't know I'm gonna just keep going wherever the camel ends.
Abdullah doesn't go along. He goes under a Latina Tao aka funzionale
him. He goes man find those people that called you here. Call them
you know those people are called you find them they go stay with
them. Why are you standing here?
I will
prophesy Salam is taken aback. What just happened? So that God
Allah sauce I sent him the Nephilim phenomenon saw as they
keep moving. The Prophet leans over to a group of unsought he
goes what just happened what was going on?
And they look at him and they go yada SUTA learn that's Abdullah
bin obey bin saloon and they say Ya rasool Allah in our law here
rasool Allah, we swear by Allah Ya rasool Allah, La Casa de Hakuna
Kabbalah de Hassan, Allahu be he Minka. Before ALLAH blessed us
with you. Were men now are they in a bid to do MC before he gave us
your honoring tool coming to us? We were about to make this man the
king of yesterday.
He salty because you took his leadership away.
This is powerful. This man doesn't change his whole life.
His whole life, he spends the rest of the 10 years of the Prophet
slice of his life going against the Prophet. So the lady was
Hello. And we'll study in a few weeks the things that he does. I
mean this alone, he looked in the prophesy centum his face and he
said, go to those people that called your way you stand in front
of my house now the villa. May Allah protect us. And that's why I
said that one time. Don't wish you were in that time.
Don't wish you were in another time you never know.
Here's the thing.
The scholars have to So wolf, the scholars of Tez Kia cleaning the
heart. They say one of the most destructive things in your life
spiritually is hopefully ESA, Allah for leadership.
Allah for leadership destroys your progress. The whole problem with
Abdullah bin Obinze salute, he could not benefit from the
presence of the Prophet of God. Sung Allahu alayhi wa sallam and
the primary sickness is hobo Reesa love of leadership. I got to be in
the front. I got to be calling the shots. How dare you take my spot
from me?
How dare you remove that from me? I read it. I wrote down a
narration
it's such
Got a beautiful narration and someone in this room one of us
someone here needs this narration because we're struggling with I
should be on the top. I mean you know why did why did Julie get the
promotion not me. Yummy. Why did Abdullah get the promotion? Right
I switch this and I'm Becky no more as Julie right? Because
Becky's in HR y'all forgot. All right, whatever whatever to valley
opted Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this is a beautiful
narration Guba glad tidings to the servant. He don't be a nanny
Pharisee I'm going to explain the exact words and we're gonna break
it down. He says he's holding on to the reins of his or her her her
horse FISA BD law fighting in other words, grinding, doing the
work of Dean, whatever it is, however you do the work of Dean
grinding, grinding, grinding working
as razza hair is disheveled meaning I'm so preoccupied with
with helping this Deen helping the community. I don't even have time
to take care of myself. But most Budington a cadet Mahieu feet are
covered with dust that just means busy constantly grinding. Listen
to this part. We're in Canada Phil how porosity Canada Phil how Ross
city when cannabis Sokrati cannabis circuity are suicides.
Saddam says this person. If the leader puts them in the front,
they're in the front. If the leader puts them in the back,
they're in the back. In other words, they don't care about being
in control. They care about doing the work of deed.
I'll share you a narration Khalid bin Walid safe Hola. Safe hola
Khalid bin Walid read the Allahu Taala I'm not going to go too deep
into that. I just need you to see this. During the time of Oman and
Qatar rumors, the leader Khalid bin Walid was leading armies and
he's winning a battle after battle battle battle after battle. The I
mean, this was who we wish we had that strength today. Khalid bin
Walid is winning battle after battle. Omar is deep almost read
the law Hawaiian is worried maybe people think that we're winning
because of Khalid.
So on would have been a kebab. See he cared about the hearts too.
He sent
will be dementia raw. I think it was a Boveda Ventura forgive me. I
forget who he sent. He sent us a hobby that I want you to go to the
army at the at the front of the battlefield 1000s of miles away.
And while Khalid bin Walid is standing, talking, I want you to
go up to him. Whisper this message in his ear and pull him down in
front of the army. Not in the back room. Like pull them to the side.
Tell him later that in front of everyone.
The narration is so profound. Can you imagine this man's heart as
I'm about to tell you what he did? He's on this member. He's standing
in front. There are hundreds of 1000s of soldiers who all look up
to him. This companion comes they can see he's a messenger coming
from OMA, he comes up he whispers in his ear. Then he takes his a
mama takes it off. He puts it around his neck and he pulls them
down. He doesn't yank them down. He's not there. It's hard but they
love each other. But he pulls him down.
And then he goes up and he gives the announcement that he's no
longer the leader.
You know what we would do?
I'm going to Medina.
Now now, it's not that go home. It's worse than that. For us. It's
fine as a regular soldier.
It's fine as a regular soldier. The people who you are commanding
yesterday, you're right next to them today. Where are we going? I
don't know. I'm waiting for him to tell me.
But he did it. Because day one was for Allah leading was for Allah
and fighting was for Allah. It doesn't matter if I'm in the
front. Can you imagine that?
Hope a Reesa love of leadership is detrimental. There's only a few
examples where the prophesy Salam the Quran speaks of someone saying
I'll lead use of how they set out to
other than that the prophesy centum said if you want it that
that you maybe shouldn't have it.
Maybe you don't deserve it if you want it that bad.
More time, nine times out of 10 people who realize the
responsibility of the position, whatever it is, they're like, Yo,
I Loki don't want that. And that's why you go Yeah, that's why you
deserve it, bro.
Because that means you actually understand what this takes on.
What this means.
Why am I bringing this all up? Because I've done love and obey
Vince saloon for the rest of his life. He fights against the
Prophet slice i love and it all came back down to one thing. He
was just about to get promoted when the prophesy Salam came to
Medina
No, and he could not swallow that.
He could not swallow that.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
the Prophet prays being unknown you
the Prophet praised being unknown.
He praised the person that don't no one know. But their spiritual
level was through the roof.
He praised that.
So the Prophet SAW Salem he continues to go into Medina, every
tribe is welcoming, welcoming him, the children are singing, everyone
is, you know,
welcoming him and happy.
And they reach the tribe of Barona. John.
What's amazing is that the Prophet sallahu wa salam, his mother, when
he was a young boy passed away on their way back from Medina, the
Prophet was six years old, right? They had went to Medina, why did
they go to Medina yah, to visit her family.
Her family was from Winona Jah. So the place that he should have
ended up anyway, low key was with his family. But if he had chosen
them from the beginning, everyone else is gonna get salty. So the
Prophet loves to keep people's hearts clean.
He was he see, look, here's what we do.
Was he justified in choosing where he wanted to stay? Yeah.
But did he realize that if I did that it might harm someone's faith
or make them feel something? Yes. So he's dealing with people on a
level to protect their hearts. How often do we do that? Especially
siblings.
Yeah, yeah. Everyone in here was like yeah, I said, Sybil, you're
like not a different
No, no, that dude. No, no, that sister law. How many times? Do you
keep in mind their hearts reaction when you do something? That's
prophetic.
That's prophetic.
So Rasul Allah sai sedums camel. It arrives in the area of banana
jaw.
And the prophet the camel sits down one time.
Right
now Allah subhanaw taala is hikma is is his hikma.
So you could think that, oh, this was coincidental.
So the camel gets up again. But anyone who dares hype, they're
like, yes, he's gonna be with us.
But camel gets up and walks a few steps and comes back and sits in
the same spot
across from Abu IU and Saudi is home
about a human Saudi. His life has changed from this moment. He knows
that I'm going to be his host.
So Ebola you grabs his luggage, the profits luggage, and he takes
it into his house.
And everyone starts saying from banana Giardia Rasulullah stay
with us stay with us stay with us. And the prophesy some says as well
Ma Ma, a man has to be with his stuff. My luggage is there.
The Sahaba they say the very first words that we heard him say on
this day are you already it's the beginning of a new civilization.
It's the beginning of you know Muslim Spain and Turkey and
everywhere. North Africa to the east as far as you can go China
even this is the beginning. This is the epicenter. These are the
first words he's gonna say on this epic journey of Islam. Till Dallas
yo. What are his words? The prophets of Allah do sedums words
are this.
Yeah, no,
I'm sure Salah here's the thing. It's the beginning of society. Are
they going to be political? Are there going to be social political
words? Are they going to be purely religious words?
A bit of everything. What does he say?
off just sit down first thing he says for things
of Shia Salaam. This was a group of people that were at each
other's throats months ago.
The smallest thing could set them off.
smallest thing could set them off. First thing he says up just
center. spread peace. Send them why they come send them why they
come sit on why they come Wallah. Y'all understand how powerful
sinarmas Zoo
and what's crazy is when when I'm going back in my files, man when
you convert and you learn the code word Salam you know I mean like
it's a coat. Yeah, don't get it right. It will get it like you
You feel like you en David gets it. When you learn and you get the
rahmatullah wa barakatuhu. Oh, you're done.
When you learn this phrase of greeting someone
you feel like
included. You feel a part of the Muslim community. You know what
hurts the most. When they don't reply to you
when they don't reply to you, due to how many converts I've had to
hold who are crying, and I'm not picking on no one because I want
to say something back to the
Muslim sister. She comes in Salam wa de como
yo, please
Afshar Sena. Stop Pause. Why they can sell on Warahmatullah Octi
why they come I'm talking to sisters the sisters obviously why
they come sit down what I'm going to love Brother How are you? Are
you from what's your name?
This Salam is heavy.
Or suicide. Salem. He said when you say salaam you get 10 Good
deeds, Rama to Why would I care to 20 Rahmatullah 20? What about a
character who 30 You might want to add one theater to who would you
add to it?
No, it's beautiful. And I remember, it's a funny memory. But
I remember being a convert, where I converted and seeing a Muslim
sister in the distance and I'm like, sit on what Hey, come with
Allah. And she's just like,
row because I didn't know.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know the etiquettes but But you felt so powerful, like
empowered to have these words of Salaam and the most crippling and
debilitating feeling is when someone don't give you the salam
back
aren't we Oh aren't we as a community mature enough to realize
that Muslims come in all colors by now don't we get that all
backgrounds all everything
you don't have to assume someone is a new Muslim just because they
like from a different part of the world I noticed is a walk group I
get it but I gotta say it
how many times a brother from African descent you meet them and
their alien when you become Muslim dudes like Yo my father's like a
PA the Yo
my father's a fucking I didn't convert
like these are things as a community like we have to be aware
by now.
And that means sometimes you got to go out of your way to say a
Saddam like sometimes I see something happening and I'm
running over to save rescue x and I want to come bro How you doing?
Oh sorry go because I need that person that felt felt and
recognized and feel that they are our part so the prophesy system
set up just set up first thing he said spread peace spread Salam say
it Allah
number two
what up amo pa
feed each other.
feed each other.
You know the MO hygiene we're coming empty handed. They needed
people to help them
the prophets I send them he said eat together a flour mill mill
bomb is I was eating with this Yemeni wood long time ago and we
were eating the food and he said this phrase I'll never forget he
said a bomb Oh Miller he said the food is salt.
Why? Like us being together is the meal the food is salt on the meal
the food at I don't matter about the food the food brings us
together but when we sit and we break bread
the Prophet said well after a month bomb
what's the little our ham join the families together. Please y'all
squash the beef within the family. Small little arguments over
anything Laborat stop Life is too short.
We are watching our brothers and sisters in houses families being
broken apart. You're choosing willingly by choice allowing your
family to be broke apart.
There are people wishing they had their cousins again. You still
arguing with your cousin?
Your brother or your mother or father?
That join the family together. Do what you got to do that takes
humility. We all had that one. You know
we all everyone in this room got that cause
and some of us are that cause
it takes humility yes you're right cuz Oh, I'm sorry.
Sister you right? I'm so sorry. And you mean it you're not
patronizing you?
meaning, what sealed our hand keep the families together. You know
what's amazing? I never understood this. My mother is actually
visiting she's in town right now. So the word or hum. In Arabic, it
means the womb, the womb.
And we translate it as join the families. But what it actually
means is like, bring the womb together and now I get it. The
number of times my mother says to me and my sister I hate when y'all
argue I can't stand it. I love for nothing more to see all together
now I get it but the Prophet was saying
to the mothers in the room, how does it feel when you're when
you're when your children are together?
When they're all good? How does it feel when they're separated?
It tears you apart. So the Prophet use the perfect word, Senator RAM.
That kindness to your sibling is not just for the sibling that's
for mom.
That's for Dad
is deeper than you habibi. That has a deeper implication.
Don't let shaytaan disunite us.
And last but not least,
the spiritual fuel for the society. We are not just a secular
society. We're not feeding people. Just because we're feeding people.
We're not saying hi to people just to be nice to people. We're not
joining the families because of some material secular reason law.
We believe in Asita the Prophet sighs Selim he says, What suddenly
when was Saliba? Layli? When NASA Nia and pray right this pray at
night when other people are sleeping for advices the prophesy
Sam says you need quiet worship when no one's around.
No one is there. No Instagram posts with your prayer mug rug in
front of you with a little candle so everybody knows it's nighttime.
It's crazy how everything is opposed to us now. I can't be the
only one. Maybe I'm exposing myself. But I do that for the last
six years. I don't care. Everything is a post. You got
apartheid you like?
Nah,
it's for Allah.
We need quiet time. We need nighttime worship. It's
summertime. Nights are short. Before you go to sleep.
Before you go to sleep. There has to be an end of the day. You can't
scroll until you fall asleep, please. There has to be an end of
the day where you like, if the day is over. I retire for the day.
Aloma this week, I'm Will to
set that time. And five minutes before that time you sit on your
prayer rug. Whether you're praying or not praying, you sit on your
prayer rug.
And that's your time to work with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Start off
with five minutes.
Before you know it's gonna be 30 minutes. Yeah.
And you will need that time you will you will look forward to that
intimate moment. The same way you look forward to intimate moments
with people that you love.
Same way, if not deeper,
the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, he gives this advice.
Spread Salem feed each other. Now I want to add something.
I feel like we're our community is moving forward. And I say
community I mean young Muslims in Dallas and young Muslims in
America in general.
Please, please find those people that don't feel like they have a
community even though they have become Muslim.
Find them. When you're after the Holika people meeting. Develop
eyes that see the outliers.
Develop a heart that's like
and go to those people go to
meet them greet them. One thing low key I'm gonna keep it real.
One thing that the church does amazing, is fellowship y'all.
You walk in there, man. The don't walk in.
And one thing that an unhandled allow we have forward thinkers
like routes and start developing communities that people feel
welcome in and this is spreading around. I don't care whatever you
podcasts are says, When you see hearts that are healed in that
place, that's real.
When you see hearts that are healed in that place, that's real.
My point is develop a heart and eyes that see those outliers.
They're not going to wave. They're going to come and try to dip and
you go hey, I've never seen you before. What's your name?
Okay, see you next week. Okay, cool. And before you know it now,
you brought joy to that person.
Since heart, they will remember that how many of us I want you to
think about a moment somebody like like gave you notice you and you
remember it till today.
You could do that for somebody today.
You could be that person. So the prophesy sentences spread peace,
feed people food. What's the load or harm, keep the family tight.
That takes humility
and pray at nighttime. When other people are sleeping. That means
nobody knows it's just you and Allah. May Allah Subhana Allah
give us love of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, may
he connect us to his heart? May He allow us to benefit from these
gurus in these learnings and keep our hearts connected to to His
Prophet? May Allah subhanaw taala bless all of our brothers and
sisters and Philistine, may he alleviate them you're humbled
right? I mean, we beg of you, for Althea, We beg of you frothier We
beg of you for tranquility and peace Yahama. Allah He mean Yahama
Rahim in Subhan Allah because Allah is merciful no Salman, Alamo
Sunni well Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen Jazak Allah.
I will call the Adan right away inshallah.