Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #23
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sneaky.
Mohammed, WA Allah Ali, he was sahih wasallam Allahu, Ana,
salaka, ho Bucha, ask Allah subhanahu wa to make this a
gathering which is beneficial, a gathering by which we look back on
the day of judgment and say it was a gathering by which we got closer
to Allah. Through it may Allah subhanho wa Taala allow this
gathering to increase our understanding of the sunnah of our
Habib, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. We're in the
fifth year of the Prophet sallallahu sallam's mission after
migration to Medina, the fifth year of Hijra. And in this year
there was a turning point. There was a huge moment. And as I said
before, the reason we study Sira is not because it's just Tales of
Old, but rather it gives us a roadmap for how we go through what
we're going through right now, in the life that we're living right
now, connecting to the seed of the Prophet Sawai Salam, what happened
1400 years ago, because his lifestyle was so upright, because
Allah subhanahu wa put him through so much, we get A way to
understand how to handle our difficulties. In the fifth year of
hijra, something critical happened. Some of the yahud, the
Jewish tribes that had been exiled from Medina because they broke the
treaty. Some of those tribes they went to the people of Mecca, and
now we as Muslims for these last five years in Medina, year after
year, month after month. I mean, every three months there's another
battle, there's another enemy, there's another issue that we're
trying to deal with. There's little rest. And in the fifth
year, the people of Mecca, along with other tribes, they all gather
together and they say, you know, we're done with this, this new
wave of of Muslims. We're done with this new thing called Islam.
We want to wipe it out once and for all. And so the Quraysh, the
people of Mecca, they decide that's it. We're gathering
everyone. They send out word to all of the tribes around the
Arabian Peninsula, come and join us. Be on our side. We're going,
once and for all to wipe out Muslims. And the whole world was
against us. Quite literally, the world for us was against us, and
our backs were against the wall. There was no refuge. There was
nothing for us to do. An army of 10,000 people came to set out to
attack Medina, and in that time, that was the largest army that the
Arabian peninsula had ever seen. So quite literally, it felt as if
our world, the Arabian and Peninsula, the world, was against
us. And that's reminiscent of what we're going through right now. We
feel like there's no one for the people of Raza And subhanAllah.
The name of this, the name of this, these tribes together, was
Al Azhar, the Confederates, because they all allied with
themselves. They all allied with each other and said, We're going
to work together. We're going to all be together against this,
this, this trend of Islam, and we're going to wipe it out. But
what the Battle of the Trench, that was the name of this battle,
is called the Battle of the Trench. What the Battle of the
Trench teaches us is that it reminds us that the darkest point
of the night comes right before the dawn. It reminds us that the
moment that looks like everything is just going to collapse. That
right there is when the help of Allah subhanahu wa comes and for
our individual lives. There's times when it feels like
everything is just piling on us, bills, family, little brother,
sisters tripping. Got to take care of them. Mom's tripping too.
Everything's going crazy at one time. And what you have to do at
that moment is more than ever. You got to realize Subhanallah,
remember what I said three halakhas ago, the Sunnah of the
Prophet. So I said him is that he was smiling. He always smiled. And
when it feels like everything.
Is surrounding right there. You should smile. Why? Because you
know the help of ALLAH is coming next. Everyone's looking like,
bro. You should be tripping right now, bro. You should be, you
should be like, not okay, but you're on a different you're
operating on a different level. And that's, that's what the moment
learns from this moment. Um, Allah subhanahu wa speaks about this
moment. I was going to read this, this verse at the end, but Allah
subhanahu wa talks about this moment. He says, if the JA akum,
Min fokim, when they came to attack you, from above you, omin
esfala, minkum, and from below you, meaning, it was coming from
every direction, it's how it is in life. You sometimes you feel like
you can't get a break. As we say, is ja at Kum Juno then AF one with
Zagat ad, your eyes were looking left and right, meaning you were
confused. You didn't know what was happening well, balaga, hanajib
and you were so anxious about life, about what was going to
happen, that it felt like your heart was going to come out of
your own throat.
Wa tadunun abilahi dun Nuna, this is powerful. Allah. Subhanho wa
Taala says, And you started to think thoughts about God. Wa tadu
Nuna, bilah, you started to think thoughts about God. What's crazy
about this verse is it's being revealed about the companions of
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and these companions
passed the test. When we read through this, they aced it, y'all,
they aced it. But even them who aced it, even them, they were
human. Here's what I want to say. Calamities are meant to break us.
You're not supposed to be stoic through calamities. You're
supposed to cry, habibi. You're supposed to you know that that
saying, that's in our men don't cry. The strongest of men cried,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. And so in this verse, Allah says about
the Sahaba who aced the test, he says, what to do, Nuna, bilalhi,
do. Nuna, you started to think some stuff. Is Allah going to help
us? Am I going to get out of this? Is this ever going to pass? And
the thing that I was talking to one Sheik about this, and he said
something profound. He said that you got to remember there's more
after this. This isn't the end of the story. There's more. When we
read Sira and we get to year five, we're all chilling because we're
like yo, year seven is lit, though,
don't worry, year eight, yo, your eight is yaws year as you glow up
big time in year eight. But if you're living through this, it's
profound. So Allah subhanahu wa says, Huna Alika, same verse,
hunalika, ibul Munna, it was in that moment that the believers are
tested, the test comes in the hard moment. That's where it is.
Wazirla and shadida and the Muslims were shaken, a violent
shaking, meaning this is, this is, this is what being a mutt is
about.
Let me just hold on. Let's go. Ring
again. Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna pause on that verse right there,
so we could get into the to the thick of the story. So 10,000
soldiers are amassing and getting ready to attack Medina. A tribe
comes to a tribe comes to the Prophet, saw them in Medina, and
they inform him, and they say, Ya Rasulullah, we just want to let
you know the people of Mecca have gathered all the habesh, all the
tribes of Arabian Peninsula, and they're tired of Islam. They're
wiping this out. They want to end it once and for all, they're
coming with the largest army we've ever seen,
the Prophet sallallahu sallam. What does he do? He's a leader,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, but he taught us how to lead. He
gathers the companions to consult with them. Mashwara, talk with
them. What are we going to do? Remember what I said weeks ago,
Sahaba, say we never saw someone that did more consulting than the
Prophet, sallAllahu sallam, someone who has access to
Revelation. It's like, why would I ask? Why would I ask? You know, my
man, amen, welcome back. Havifi, why would I ask? Amen, if
revelation is coming, I'm just gonna, like, let me hit up.
Jibreel, when he comes back, la Dora Sultan is teaching us,
whenever something is difficult coming, you gotta consult. You
gotta talk to people, but not anyone. The Prophet saw them,
taught us you choose people of righteousness, because if you're
consulting people that don't have akhira in their mind, the whole
trajectory of the consultation is going the wrong direction. But
when you consult a believer, they'll just like, hold up. Hold
up. Allah. You like, yeah, yeah, okay, my bad.
Like, okay. But the other person will have you think, Well, did you
do this? Are you going to do that? Are you going to do this? But the
believer will be like, Yo, Allah, Allah,
so Rasul, sallAllahu, sallam, he gathers the Sahaba, and he gathers
them together. But this was a problem we never faced before.
What happens in our lives problems we never faced before and.
Sahaba are dumbstruck. We don't know what to do. 10,000 soldiers
coming to attack us. We don't know what to do. There's one man there.
He was a slave in Medina. His name is Salman al Farsi. He's not a
local. He's from Persia. Doesn't look the same, speaks a little
different,
and Subhanallah this highlights something for the tribal Arab at
the time unity came, because we were all the same blood. We were
all the same family. When the Prophet saw them gather people,
the people that gathered were all from different tribes. Bilal al
Habashi, Salman al Farsi, Suhail Rumi, one from Rome, one from
Persia, one from Abyssinia. His wetner, when they looked at this
crowd of different faces and colors, they said, these people
will scatter, because in their mind, the only thing that holds us
together is that we speak the same language and we have the same skin
tone. Islam came and said, Hold up. There's something deeper that
bonds people and that I'm going to repeat it upset his name three
times now in the last three Holocaust, Al Haj, Malika,
Shabazz, Malcolm X, that's what he saw when he went for Hajj.
That's what he saw when he because he was taught to hate. What's
different from you
he taught, he was taught to hate. But when he went for Hajin. He
sees blond haired, blue eyes, sitting, holding, sharing water
with him. His mind was blown. Salman Farsi. He goes, I got an
idea. Salman Farsi had just got freed. He was a slave, so this was
his first, like, free moment, like, Yo I could just be here. I'm
not looking over my shoulder, like, where should I be? So he
goes, I got an idea. He says, in that couldn't be Faris either. Who
said, not conduct, not he goes, when I was in Faris Persia, and we
were attacked, we would dig a trench around the city.
The Prophet saw was like trench. I never heard of this. This wasn't
something that the Arabs did ever for a Jebel who the Prophet, saw
them, loved it. So he says, Yo, we got to dig a trench over the next
15 days. Over the next 15 days, the Sahaba, the companion, set out
to dig a trench that is 10 kilometers long, 16 feet deep and
20 feet wide,
20 feet wide, and it's in the middle of the winter. Now, Arabian
Peninsula is hot, but have you ever been in Medina in the winter?
It's brick,
it's cold. Y'all still say that. Oh no, my bad. Okay. I gotta up my
I gotta be careful. Now, y'all be changing words on me quick. I got
in trouble a year ago.
Subhanallah, so, so it's cold and we're not wealthy yet. Y'all,
we're still in our grinding phase. We're still in our one one bedroom
and a half a room apartment. Days we don't have food. Food is
scarce. Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. He divides every 10
cubic meters for 10 people. You 10, you guys got this area. You
10, you got this area. But, but, but the Rasul salaried Salim. He
was never one to sit back and watch. He was down in the
trenches.
He was down in the trenches. When I hear that phrase, and I think of
him, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. He wasn't a leader that sat back.
He was right there. So they begin to work. But here's the deal. You
got to remember how complex Medina is. In Medina, there's hypocrites.
Remember, the hypocrites are like, Yeah, this is a phase. Islam is
gonna be wiped out. One day, we'll pretend to be Muslim. When it
comes to doing hard work, if you don't believe in the mission,
you're going to skimp on work. But when you believe in the mission,
that's why, that's why I tell people, when you get a job, Yo,
you got to somewhat believe in the mission. Man, because, because,
when you believe in the mission, you put in more work. Father,
sharaf na Habibi, come on in. Bismillah, make room when you
believe in the mission. When you believe in the mission, you put in
work. This is amazing, because Subhanallah, they would work from
sun up to sun down, and at nighttime, they would go home and
whatever little food they had, they would eat. But the entire
day, they would be grinding and grinding and trying to clear this
trench before this army arrives. The Quran tells us what the
situation was. Allah subhanahu wa says in Namal, meaning what a SULI
waidakan uma awala, Amaran, jam in LA Miata, buhata, yastad, yes,
that you know. But also Allah subhana says the true believers,
when they're with the Prophet, saw them and they're working that's
why. So you gotta believe in what you work for. When they were
working with him, they would not leave unless they asked him
permission.
You. So imagine you're working, but you got a family, you got
kids. You're trying to dig this ditch, but I gotta go help out
wifey real quick. I gotta go do something. So they wouldn't leave
unless they went to the Rasul and they say, Ya Rasulullah, I have to
go back home for a minute. I'll be right back. Rasulullah sai said I
would give him permission or not. The munafiqin. What do people do
that don't want to work? They just slide. I'll be right back. That's
why I say don't call brothers when you move in, bro,
when you move in, don't call the brothers, the bros. That one
dude's just gonna be sitting there talking the whole time. The one
dude's gonna run the Home Depot and not show up for the next three
hours. Yeah, y'all ain't smile because that was you. I saw a
brother when I said that, he stopped smiling. That was you
hungry. That was you. But when you believe, when that's your ace,
you're picking up every couch. You're picking up every table.
You're like, yo do you need me to get this? Should I pack this up
for you? But when you just show it up, then you're gonna slide out as
quick as you can and SubhanAllah. Everyone On the Job knows what's
real. Everyone on the job knows, bro, you just showed up to show
faith the moon after clean yet they would just back out and
disappear. Because we don't even believe in this mission. Loki,
we're not even a part of this so. But here's the deal, what
motivates us to put in work,
the belief in akhira. Yah, the belief in akhira. Listen, when the
muhajiri were, when they were working, it's beautiful, they
would be working. And they, I told you, the Arabs loved poetry. They
loved reciting poetry. And if you ever been on a manual labor job,
reciting something, singing, singing something can make it work
easy. So there's a whole list of songs that they would sing. And
one of the one of the lyrics is beautiful. They would say, Allahu
Aisha, I shall akhirah Fahl and sariwal muhajira. And they would
just say it back and forth, Allahu
Allah, the true life is the life of the akhira, forgive the
immigrants and forgive the helpers, meaning their focus while
working was akhira, and that's, how do you how do we get through
the grind of the nine to five and working hard? You gotta stay
focused on the akhira. You might say, bro, I'm doing a job, but I
can't make intention for Allah, yes, you can. Yes you can. What's
your intention when you're at work, I'm fulfilling the
obligation of taking care of my
family. Salam said, fadida 10, Botha, fadida, that's an
obligation. So now I'm not on the company's clock. I'm on a lost
clock. I'm not this ain't even about you Bob up in HR. You see
how I switch it to a guy now, right?
This ain't even about Bob and HR. I'm here for the sake of Allah.
I'm honest in my job for the sake of Allah.
That's what motivates us to work. People are like, Why are you
putting it out? Why do you work so hard? It's like, this ain't about
y'all. This is about Allah. So they would be working and working,
and they're digging this, this trench, I want to remind you, it's
winter, it's cold at night time and they're hungry. They're
extremely hungry. But here's the deal,
when our spirituality gets tested and we have a connection with
Allah,
food is a means for nourishment. Imma say this again, food, the
caloric value of whatever you eat, is a means for nourishment. Our
belief is Allah can nourish us without that means. And he could
take Baraka out of food. You could eat a lot of food and just feel, I
don't think, feel no energy from this. Barakah is the blessing that
God places in it. And so when they were working with just they would
have, literally, a handful of barley. They said we would eat it
and just chew it for as long as we could, and we would work with
that. So, so, so one, one moment, it's a beautiful moment. There
were many miracles that took place. There were many miracles
when Allah tests you and you show say, strong Allah opens up the
reality.
I shared it on Instagram. I'm just going to share it. One of the most
heart touching things I've seen from the people of Gaza was a man
last week who who said he was in prison. The Zionist Israelis had
him in prison. They weren't feeding him, and he made a DUA. He
said, I made a dua that, oh, Allah, the way you provided for
Mariam
when she didn't have when without it from nowhere, provide for me.
And he said, Wallahi, I would just do TASB and feel satiated.
I would feel, I would feel satiated. This is a man living in
our time. We read these things and we're like, Yo, that was so long
ago. Habibi, it's no, it's not, no, it's not so Rasulullah Sahib
Salim, one of the sahaba. He says, whenever we would get to a hard
point in the digging, we would go to the Prophet sallallahu sallam,
see he was approachable. They would go to Him with their
problems. Sometimes someone becomes the CEO. You can't even go
to him with a problem. People.
Why are you coming to
me? Why are you coming to me? Rasulullah Sahib, was not like
that. Any small thing. You came to him. They knew you could come to
him, so they came to him and they said, once, they said, Ya
Rasulullah,
there's a huge boulder in the way that we can't get through. Nobody
can break it.
And the Rasul SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. He goes, Ananias, I'm
coming. He That's enough, right there. Y'all like, like, Man
goosebumps. He says, I'm coming. But the sahabi says, when he stood
up, I could see he had tied rocks to his stomach. In their time to
alleviate the pain of hunger, they would take a small rock, and they
would take a Shaw and tie it so it felt like something was heavy in
front. And it would like balance them out a little bit, make it
feel like there's something in my stomach when there's nothing. So
he said, I saw the Prophet get up. He was dusty, and he had a rock on
his stomach. He says, Anna nazr, I'm coming.
So Salman Farsi and the other Sahaba, they say, Rasulullah sasam
came and we handed him the Mel, the pickaxe,
and when he first picked it up, he said, Bismillah, brothers and
sisters, if you're not saying Bismillah, before you start
anything, you're not getting the barakah of Allah. The first thing
he said was, Bismillah. Before anything, get in the car work. You
punch in at work. Bismillah. Bismillah. Brings spirituality
back into your life. Rasulallah says, Bismillah. It's a beautiful
story. So Rasulullah says he picks up the AX the pickaxe,
and he says, Bismillah, and he hits it one time.
And they say he hit it so hard that we saw like a spark fly off
of it, and a bit of it cracked. And then he said, bismillahini hid
it again and they saw, he said, like the meadow, a spark flew off,
and then it broke more. And then he hit it one last time, and it
broke completely. Salman Farsi was standing next to him, and Salman
Farsi was like Ya Rasulullah. What was that?
And this is amazing. Rasulallah, the Prophet of Allah, was always
seeing stuff that other people didn't see. He was seeing angels.
He saw Gabriel. He saw but he didn't know when they were seeing
stuff too. So Salmaan Farsi goes, Ya Rasulullah, what was that? So
he looks, he said, you saw that too.
Yo, that shocks me, because he saw it. But he was like, Oh, this is
something I'm seeing. Ain't nobody seeing this, but salimah first. He
goes, nah, yeah, I saw that. What was that? Listen to what he says.
He says, When I hit the first time in that spark, I saw that Allah
had given me the keys to the castles of Persia. When I hit it
the second time, I saw that Allah subhanahu wa had given me the keys
to the castles in Sham and he said, Beit with abiy AB the white
house
there was a different one. Y'all a different one. And then he hid it
again, and he said, I saw that Allah giving me the keys to the
castles in Yemen.
Now this is crazy. The munafiqin, the hypocrites, they hear this. I
want you to picture the scene. We're about to be attacked by
10,000 people. We barely have food. It's freezing cold. We
barely are. We're digging a ditch just to protect ourselves, and
this man is protecting, telling us that we're going to be conquering
Persia, the Roman Empire and Yemen. They literally said these
words. They said, ala jebuna, isn't this crazy? You had to come
while you money come. This man is telling you and promising you, why
do come with bottle? He's telling you all types of falsehood. He's
telling you you're going to inherit all this. Look what they
say. I hate to even repeat it. He goes, wala, testati, una and yet,
about razu, you can't even go to the bathroom right now because
they were working so much, they couldn't even, like leave to go
use their bathroom. He's saying, See, this is the difference
between the believer. The believer doesn't focus on the problem right
in front. They focus on the goal. They focus on Allah's a promise.
I'm a share a hadith, which is one of my favorite Hadith, because all
of us in this room are burdened with problems, and what shaytaan
does is make us focus on the problem right in front. But what
Allah says is stop looking at that. That's nothing. I got
something great for you in front. You just got to look ahead. Listen
to this hadith, menja, Allah, Humu, mahu, Hamman, Wahida ke
fahuahua
wa mente, SHA Ada,
la you. Balilati, ad halaqah, oh, come up. Rasul sai Salam. He said,
take all of your worries
and make them one. Worry. What Worry? Worry? Akhirah,
the job, marriage, family, make ends meet, put it all to the side.
Side and make your primary worry. How's my Day of Judgment going to
be? Take it all, put it to the side and make that the thing your
primary focus on. What does the Rasul promise? He says, kafaula,
Allah, subhana wa taala, will take care of everything. But then he
says, the other side, what meant to Shah Ada, but whoever gets lost
in problems. Listen to the end is harsh. La, you valid in halakah,
Allah. Allah doesn't care which problem you die chasing after.
Meaning I gave you the recipe, I gave you the the cheat code, I
gave you the way out.
So, so Subhanallah, the munafiqin, in this moment, they're looking at
the the next 30 days. Allah subhanahu wa is opening the
Prophet's eyes to the next 30 years.
And what's crazy is with a quarter of a decade, no, no, no, within a
quarter of a century, 25 years to the T every single one of those
places was Muslim.
Every single one of those places was Muslim. Within a quarter
decade, 25 years. Can you imagine that prophecy in that moment?
Like, hear me out. If he made that prophecy after Fatima, the
conquering of Mecca? Everybody like, yeah, legit.
Like, after Fatih Mecca, we just conquered Mecca. You're like, Yo,
we're gonna conquer you're like, yeah.
But to make that prophecy in the Battle of the Trench, when we
don't have food,
Subhan Allah SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam
Rasoolallah sai was one day working on the trench.
This, by the way, the trench took about 15 days to complete, 15 to
25 days to complete. He's working on the trench and jabber bin
Abdullah. He says, I was watching the Prophet sallallahu, sallam,
and I saw him extremely hungry, like I saw how hungry he was.
He goes. So I dipped out from the trench, and I went to my wife, and
I said to her, I said, I saw the Prophet, any Rasulullah come San
Shadi, then he's extremely hungry. He says, Do we have any a little
bit of food? She goes, Look, Listen, I got a baby goat in the
back,
right? I got a baby goat in the back. Baby goat was like, how many
pounds of lamb? That's nothing. Yo, nothing. I got a baby goat in
the back, and I got a little bit of barley so we can make a little
bit of bread.
She goes, you know, go slaughter it. He goes, I went and
slaughtered it. And she started to cook it. She was about to be
finished, and she says, go call the Prophet sallallahu, sallam,
and one or two more people. And then she stops him. She's like,
Don't embarrass me.
Don't embarrass me. You know, I'm saying you, wifey cooked
something, y'all know, but it's gonna happen to you. It happened
to me one day, wifey cooked something, and you, I'ma call all
the OGS over, and everybody pulls up. She like, bruh, why
you gonna embarrass me like that? So she says, she says, Don't
embarrass me. Prophet saw them is working. He's working. Jabber
comes and he whispers. He says,
I have some food. It's enough for you. And like two other heads,
please come real quick and eat. He didn't say heads, but he said two
people, all right.
He said two people.
He said two other people. Just come real quick. The Prophet sat
up because he was working. He said, ya ahila Khan duck
man SubhanAllah. He goes, Oh, the people of the trench. Jabber has
food. Let's go.
Subhan Allah. Jabber says, I tried to run home. He grabbed my hand.
He said, Ya Jabber, walk with me. SallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam.
Amazing man, amazing man. SallAllahu, alay wasallam, he
said, Jabber, walk with me. He said. He held my hand. I'm tense.
How am I going to feed these 1000 people? I had a goat in and for
the Arabs, you don't understand, for me and you were American,
we're about Yahoo, me, I ran out of food, so I come for the Arabs
to not host a guest is a man is i? The Arabs are like, Yo, what are
you doing? So you got to understand their culture, where
I'm America. I'm like, yo, my bad food ran out. Okay, there's a
halal spot down the street. Nah, not the Arabs Mashallah. They host
people. They host people. A man took shahada because the Prophet
saw them said he was a guest. He said, Wallahi, I won't eat any
food unless you say, La Ilaha. Then I was like, Lali, la, la.
And he ate. But he's like, there's no way you're going to come to my
house and not eat.
So he's holding jabbers hand, and right when they get a little close
to the house, the prophet lets his hand go, but before he goes, tell
her not to open the pot till I come like Don't, don't, don't
uncover it. Don't uncover it. Jabber runs in the house and she
said, he said he's.
Says, he says, the prophet is coming with everybody.
Now there's two narrations here. One narration says, she looks at
me and goes, bika, kada, WA kada, like this and that to you like she
gave him a mouthful. But the narrator just go, kada, kada, but
she gave him a lot. Another narration says, No, he was
tripping, and he's tripping. And she goes,
Did you tell him how much food we have? Hold on, hold on. He goes,
yes. She goes, Why are you worrying? He's the Prophet of
Allah.
That's the That's Wifey,
masha Allah, when she that's how couples need to be you remind each
other of iman, because we're not all going to be strong every
moment. So the couple is like, when I'm tripping, you remind me.
Allah, chill Habib and when she's tripping you, habibti, Allah,
Allah, that's the relationship. Allahu Akbar.
We not the ones that say, oh, last week you was tripping. No,
suffered. Allah. She reminds him. She says, Did you tell him? He
goes, Yeah. She goes, then why are you worried?
The Prophet saw them. Lines everyone up outside. He goes, I
want you to come in in groups of five or so. The Prophet saw them,
goes in. He told them, Don't uncover, don't uncover the place
where the meat is and don't uncover the tanur where you making
the bread. At the Prophet, saw him, comes near the food. He tips
it open, and he just, like blows into it. He just blows into it.
And he says, Tell five people to come in. And he keeps it covered.
See, ya, don't notice, ya. I think it's culture. This is sunnah Rasul
said, always keep food covered.
You know, I used to think about this. I
used to think about this, like, why keep the food covered? And
then I read that, that, that theory that says matter acts
different observed when it's not observed.
You feel me? What's it called? Y'all know this stuff,
yeah, whatever.
Like, like they studied matter and how, like, light waves were moving
and stuff, and when we observed, it acted different. When it wasn't
being observed, it acted different. Rasul sai Salam said,
keep it covered. Don't watch it. You know. Aisha the Allahu Aha,
tangent. Aisha radi allahuana. She had a bag of dates that she had
hung up on the wall, and she used to pick dates from it and eat. And
then one day, it dawned on her, she's like, I've been eating these
dates for months.
So she opened it and looked, and there was like, two left. She told
the prophet, do you know what he said?
He said, Ya Aisha, if you did not look at it, you could have ate
from it till the day of qiyama. Why did you look? Why did you look
like
Yama? Stop there, man,
a lot of us, we keep checking the bank account. We keep checking
you. Keep looking. Stop looking. Stop looking. Let the barakah
happen. Let the barakah happen.
Rasulullah sasam, he starts to dish out five come, next five,
come, next five come. The Prophet saith him, is just pulling out,
pulling out, pulling out the entire the entire army that was
digging the ditch, eight. Jabber says, when it was done, I was
curious. So I looked he was like it was as much as when I called
him the first time, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, finally the
Allah Muhammad. I just wanted
to stop in it, just to preach. Appreciate who the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was, and what these miracles
represented
in our toughest moments, we have to connect our hearts to the
Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and realize he's not here
with us, but his sunnah is with us. His ways are with us, and we
get barakah in our life by living that sunnah out, just grabbing one
little sunnah. And none of them are little, but grabbing one
little sunnah and bringing it in your life, you'll see so much
barakah in your life.
So we finish the trench, and right when we finish the trench, the
azab, the allies, the Allies arrive. Everyone allied with one
another, coming to attack the Muslims.
They arrive at the trench, and the first thing they say is, what is
this? We've never seen anything like this.
But it wasn't over. Y'all because we had to defend the trench. The
trench is something that, if you sleep on it, they can still get
over. So for the next 25 days, the Muslims are patrolling and
fighting and patrolling and fighting and constantly pushing
them back and pushing them back and pushing them back. You think
it gets easy from here, but it doesn't. Inside Medina, there was
a tribe called benoreda.
Banu qureda were Jews. We were allies with them. The Prophet saw
them. Loved peace. He came to Medina and made a constitution, a
treaty with every Jewish tribe in Medina. So they had our they were
supposed to have our back. You're with us. Yeah, you're not Muslim,
but we're on the same team here.
Bannoida, they sell us out.
They send word over to the Quraysh, to the Meccans, that
we're no longer with Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, we no longer
support him,
and we'll be with you.
And now is where the test came, because the munafiqin, they lost
it.
Allah subhanahu wa I want to read some verses of Quran, because
Allah, subhana wa Taala beautifully explained what was
happening in this moment,
wazoo and shadida
wa IDI Akuna, and now the hypocrites began to speak, and
those who had sickness in their hearts, mawa ad Allahu wa
Rasulullah, man, everything the Prophet promised us is lies. See,
they saw the hardship. They couldn't see past the hardship.
Look at the Cana la comfira, Suri LA. See, here's the deal. This is
why you need good people around you, because even the strong
Muslims were impacted by what the others were saying. When you hear
people saying like, Yo, well, it's over now, now you start to think
so. Allah directed the believers. Don't look at anyone else. Look at
the Prophet sallallahu, sallam. Laka dekhan, Allah, Kunti,
rasulatun, hasana in the Prophet sallallahu, Sallam is a perfect
example. Watch him. Watch him. Walla Mara Al munun Al Ahzab. This
is beautiful. Look at it. How Allah explains it. And when the
believers saw the allies in front of them, they saw the allies. They
realized, like, we're being attacked from inside now the
enemies on the outside.
Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala says, walemara al munun al Ahzab, qaloo.
Qaloo hadamah,
this is what God has promised us. Wait. Hold up. Hold up.
Did he promise us that we're going to lose war, and did he promise us
that we will give me wiped out? No. He promised the believers that
Allah will be with them.
But when they understood, and Ibn Kathir says this, they understood,
in order for there to be victory, there has to be a struggle that
happens first. So when they saw the struggle show up, they knew
victory was coming next. You feel me? They saw they saw the
hardship, and they're like, Oh, I know what comes next.
I know what comes next. Aluhada ma Waad, Allah wa rasulu wa Sadak,
Allah wa rasuluhu, and they said Allah, and Israel spoke true.
Wamaza de hum Illah, Imana, WA TAS Lima, their Imaan increased like
let me make this about you. When you're going through the hardship,
that hard one, when you're connected to Allah, you'll
realize, and we have seen this in Raza, your iman increases
and and they're, they're so strong that it even trickled down on us.
Does that make sense? Their Iman is so strong that even we started
praying, we started we're like, yo la,
ILAHA. Illallah, right? Because of their Iman. So this is so
beautiful. Wamazada home, Illa, Iman and what Taslima, you ask,
Allah, Oh, Allah, allow me to be someone when the test comes, my
Iman goes up. I mean,
so, so what happens now
in the Bucha now, Rama, here be our eu eduna, ILA, Fira, the moon.
Complain, Ya Rasulullah, I gotta go protect my family. The the Jews
of qures are gonna attack from inside. I gotta leave. I gotta
leave. The Prophet said, I told you where to be. Don't leave. But
the munafiqin are only worried about themselves, so they start to
ask permission. Let me go protect my family. Allah says, WA Mahi ABI
aura, their houses weren't exposed. What am I? What am I?
What is it?
What am I hereby doing? A la Fiora, they just wanted to run
away from the battlefield. What happens next? It's a beautiful
moment.
So
we think we got to understand Allah says, well, man to walk out
Allah for and he further down, he goes, WA yar Zuko hum, and haidua
tesib, here's what you got to truly believe. And may Allah give
us this reality. Whoever truly trust an Allah for who? Ahasu,
Allah is enough. WA, yar Zuko, who, and he will provide, provide
for you where you never expected. Check what happens. Naim bin
Masood, hummus. Taim
bin Masood, he's with the ghatfan, one of the armies attacking us.
Something happens in his heart, individually, he sneaks over to
take Shahada. Lahu Akbar got another Shah.
Adah in the battlefield too. Allahu, Akbar, he comes over and
he becomes Muslim. Now here's a message for new Muslims. It
doesn't matter how long you've been Muslim, you could get to work
right
away. Naim bin Masood, he goes, Ya Rasulullah. Nobody knows I'm a
Muslim. Can you allow me to end this whole war? Prophet's like,
yeah, sure,
yeah, that would be great. He goes, but I'll have to say some
stuff that might not be true. The Prophet's like, this is war. I
mean, be like, save some lives, please.
He goes back to qurayda. They don't know he's Muslim. He goes, I
just heard the Quraysh are about to dip. This lasted longer than
they expected. You might want to take some ransom from them just in
case they leave, but don't tell them. I said anything. Then he
goes over to the Quraysh. They don't know he's Muslim. We just
saw you yesterday. He goes, Yo, you know, I'm tight with qurayza.
They actually feel bad about going against Muhammad SAW and they told
Muhammad that they're going to get some of your men and to show them
how loyal they are to you, they're going to execute those men for
you. So when those two people meet, corres like, Yo, y'all might
dip on us. Can we get some men? Korey is like, See,
my man's right.
So now the stability is breaking up. The stability is breaking up.
Think
these people are allied, they're not allied. Kulu Boom shutta, they
all have different objectives, the evangelicals, with the Zionists,
what y'all together
for? Kulu boom, shutta,
hearts are completely different, bro. Y'all believe in different
stuff completely. Let's get back on the topic.
No, but for real, it fits perfect. I'm not holding punches back. Bro.
Subhanallah, so now the stability is breaking up
on one night. That's one way. What happens next? Wa harsana, alaihim,
rihan Allah says, I don't need your help to do anything. I don't
need you to do anything for me to help your cause. On one it's
freezing cold, Allah, Subhanahu wa sins, a wind, horrible storm,
tornado, hurricane, whatever you want to cause. But it didn't hit
the Muslims. It only hit outside the trench. Everything is blowing.
Their pots are turned upside down. Everything is a mess. Their himmah
is broken. Their resolve is broken. They didn't even expect to
be in a siege. They were expecting to attack. They didn't even bring
food for a siege in the first place. Now, after 25 days, the
weather is bad too. They don't have Iman. They're not in this
thick and thin.
They're ready to dip on the last night the Prophet saw them who
they've been. Yaman imma end with this hudayfah bin Yaman hudayah
was the secret keeper of the Prophet sallallahu. Sallam would
have been a khatfab said he used to know the names of the
munafiqin. Omar said, I would only go to a janazah if hudayfah went,
if hudafa went, I would go because he knew who the munafiqin were.
The Prophet saw them. It's a cold night. Hudefa says it was freezing
cold. We barely had clothes to cover up. We just gathered
together for body, body warmth. He goes. The Prophet stands up, dark,
pitch dark. It's dark out, he says.
The Prophet stands up and says, I need someone to go to the other
side and spy on them. Nobody moved. Now, these were Sahaba that
would do anything for the prophet, but it was so cold that in that
moment, Nobody moved. He says it a second time, nobody moves. He says
it a third time. It was cold.
Fourth time, he goes, hudayfah, who they was like, dang,
that's what he says. He's like,
he gets up. He's like, I'm shaking. I don't have clothes to
cover me properly. He's like, I go to the Prophet. And he says, I
want you to go to the other side. He says, I want you to listen what
they're saying, but don't do anything. And he can see him
shaking. And in that moment, the prophet touches him, and he makes
dua, may Allah protect you, keep you warm and bring you back safe.
Hudefa says, I kid you not. SallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam.
Hudayfah says, the moment he touched me, I felt a aura of
warmth around me.
And he says, I just it was gone. I just felt warm. I go to the other
side. It's pitch dark. I get to the other side. I'm in the other
camp, and I see Abu Sufyan, the leader of the other side. He's
giving a chutba. His chutba is basically like, I'm dipping. I'm
serious. He's like, I'm out. Y'all could leave. You could stay if you
want. Who they for goes. I saw him and I had my bow and arrow. So I
thought for a moment, like, I could end this dude right now. But
then he's like, I remembered what the Prophet said. So I put it
down. Abu Sufyan becomes a great Muslim later, yeah,
he becomes a great Muslim later.
What happens next? Abu Sufyan was a shrewd individual. He goes, I
feel like someone is here that's not us. Everybody, look to your
left and right and check who they feel is like, what am I going.
Do? He quickly goes to the guy on his right. He goes, who are you?
The guy says something. He looks to his left. He goes, who are you?
He says, he's like, All right, cool. Y'all good.
SubhanAllah. Subhanallah, huday, fab binyaman, comes back over. He
says, I come back over. I tell the Prophet. So I tell them, they're
all leaving. It's over, ya rasulallah, he says, the moment I
came back and I shook his hand and told him, he says, Wallahi, the
coldness hit me again.
He's like again. I was just shaking again. The barakah of the
Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa said, they wake up in the morning. The
whole army is gone. All of the azab allies have left. And we were
tested, but we passed the test. It's in our darkest moment that
light comes at the end now. Imma, end with this. The prophesies tell
him he ended the battle. There was over. There was a little battle.
There was someone hurt. Imma, go over it next week. The Prophet
saws tell him. He said, That's it, y'all, they're never attacking us
again. From now on, we attack.
That was it y'all. This was the moment that turned everything
around. But it was our hardest moment. If you're going through a
hard moment, Habibi, smile, because that means the help is
coming right now. May Allah accept from us. Inshallah,
Subhanahu wa siphon was Salaman. Allen musani, well,