Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #25

Mikaeel Smith
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The transcript describes a series of conversations and narratives about the importance of Islam and not giving up on one's opinion and beliefs. The speakers discuss various topics such as the importance of spending time with people, finding people who accept the message of Islam, and not giving up on one's opinion and beliefs. They also touch upon the narratives of the Prophet sallua and its actions, including his visit to Afghanistan and actions to protect people from domestic violence.
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People are able to come and go and

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move around.

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And subhanallah, one of the immediate impacts of

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this treaty is that people who were in

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Mecca, because a lot of people in Mecca

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were relatives of the Muslims in Medina.

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We forget they were all really close to

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one another.

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So now that there's peace, oh, let's take

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a trip to Medina real quick.

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We can go see Qazil.

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You know, Qazil, I mean, OK.

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I'm chilling too much.

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My wife, I was on my way, my

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wife was like, just have fun.

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I was like, all right, chill.

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Have fun.

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All right.

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Like, people are coming to visit Medina, and

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it's not a big deal.

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And we see so many examples.

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Today, we saw a hadith where Asmaa bint

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Abi Bakr, right?

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Asmaa, the daughter of Abu Bakr, she comes

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to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and this

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is right after Hudaybiyyah.

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She says, ya Rasulullah, my mother has come

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to visit.

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Hiya raghima.

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She doesn't want to become Muslim.

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Hiya raghima, raghiba.

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But she wants to be close to me.

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And Asmaa's like, can I kick it with

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her?

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Can I be good to her?

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And the Prophet was like, sali ommik.

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Be good to your mother.

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Like, this is how da'wah happens.

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Be good to your mother.

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Be good to your mother.

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So those opportunities for cross-pollinization weren't happening

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prior to the treaty.

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But there was something even bigger, y'all.

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See, by then, up until now, we weren't

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worthy of sitting down at a table with.

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Up until this point, we weren't able to

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be talked to.

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We weren't able to be considered.

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We were a ragtag group of a problem

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in the side of the world.

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But now that they sat down at a

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table with us and they signed, they recognized

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us.

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They recognized who we were.

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They recognized that by even agreeing to these

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slanted terms, you've signed and shown that we're

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someone.

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You've recognized who we are.

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And that's profound.

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Because in the Muslim community right now, globally,

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what we want is recognition.

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We want to recognize who the people of

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Palestine are.

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Recognize those things.

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This was a big moment.

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And so this treaty was amazing.

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It allowed for there to be peace.

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And I told you at the end that

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Umar ibn al-Khattab, he was flustered.

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He did not know how to handle this.

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Because we're Muslims.

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We don't take the short end of the

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stick.

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And so he spoke really courageously, you could

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say.

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Almost, we could say, boldly to the prophet,

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in that moment.

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And later he said, that moment was so

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cringe for me that I gave sadaqa for

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the rest of my life to make up

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for that moment.

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Every time I would flash back.

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So now here we are, right after leaving

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and coming back from the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.

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What would be on the prophet's mind?

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Like, we have peace with the Quraysh.

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We still have a few problems of a

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few other tribes.

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But what's on his mind?

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From day one, the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam, asked Quraysh one thing.

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He said, can you just get out of

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the way so I can give this message

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to humanity?

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This is a message for everyone.

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So you know what he did the moment

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he came back?

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He said, all right, I want to start

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sending letters to all of the empires around

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the world.

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All of the empires.

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Now, this is crazy.

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Because the pragmatic side of us is like,

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you know, Shaykh, we haven't conquered Mecca yet.

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We haven't accomplished the goal in Mecca yet.

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But the prophet is like, the goal of

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Islam is not political.

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It's changing hearts.

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And now I have an opportunity to take

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this message to the four corners.

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So the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he

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goes, all right, I want to send letters

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to the major empires around.

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The major empires around.

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They say to the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam, the companions, they say, ya Rasulullah, these

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kings have protocol.

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They don't take letters unless there's like an

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official seal on them.

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The prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is like,

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okay, cool.

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They made him a ring, a silver ring.

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And on the ring, it said, Allah Rasul

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Muhammad.

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It said, Allah Messenger Muhammad.

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And it's actually backwards if you read it.

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But because of his adab with God, he

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didn't want to put his name on top.

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So he put Allah Messenger Muhammad.

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And the letters began to be written.

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The first letter that was written.

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I felt like with this letter, he wanted

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to start off with a W.

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You know, like when you want to get

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momentum going, sometimes it's best to start with

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like the easier win.

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Wallahu alam.

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So the first letter he sends is to

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Africa.

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Is to Africa.

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Allahu akbar.

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I would go deeper, but I think you

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guys will accuse me of being too whatever.

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I go too hard on Africa, mashallah.

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So the first letter he sends is to

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Abyssinia.

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To the King Najashi.

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To the King Najashi.

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And it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful letter.

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And it's a beautiful kind of dialogue of

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what happened.

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So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he calls a

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person.

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Now he always chose a person that had

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traveled to that part of the world because

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they know their culture a bit.

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Like look at the leadership of the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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He's choosing people that, okay, who's been there

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before?

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Because you know how they walk, you know

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how they talk, you know what they do,

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you know their customs.

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So the first person he calls is Amr

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ibn Umayyah.

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He says, all right, I need you to

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go take a letter to Najashi.

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This was the first one that he sent.

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And there were two things.

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There were two like letters that he actually

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sent.

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The first letter that he sent with him,

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he said, I want you to send all

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of the people who migrated like 10 years

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ago, tell them to all come back to

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Medina now.

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Like guys, you know what this means?

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This means the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's cousin

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Jafar, who he hasn't seen in over eight

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years, maybe nine years, send all of them

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back.

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Why?

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There's peace now, they can all come back.

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And then the other part of the letter,

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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent this message.

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This is a letter from Muhammad ibn Najashi,

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the King of Abyssinia.

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Salaam, peace be upon the one who follows

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guidance.

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Peace be upon the one who follows guidance

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and the one who believes in Allah and

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his Prophet.

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And the one who bears witness that there's

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only one Allah with no partners.

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And he doesn't have any wife or any

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children.

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And the one who bears witness that Muhammad

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is his servant and messenger.

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I call you with the call of God.

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Fa inni ana rasool Allah.

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That's it, clear.

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Aslim taslim.

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Accept Islam, you'll be good.

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You'll be safe.

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You'll be in peace.

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And then Quran.

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Oh, people of the book, come to a

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word that is shared between us.

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Come to a word that is shared between

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us, that we won't worship except Allah.

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We only worship Allah.

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Wala nushrik bihi shay'ah.

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And that we won't make each other gods.

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Mindoon illa.

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And then he says at the end, fa

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inna bayt.

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If you refuse, the sin of your people

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is on you.

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What happened?

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Some say, he also, there's more to the

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letter.

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He says, wa ashhadu anna isa.

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He says, and I bear witness that Jesus,

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the son of Mary, is the spirit of

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God and the word of God.

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That he placed in the virgin Mary, the

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chaste Batool, Maryam.

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Fa hamalat shibi, conceived Isa.

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Fa khalaqahullah.

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Allah created him from his spirit, like he

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created Adam with his hand.

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I call you to Islam.

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What happened?

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The reason we study these letters is we

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show how simple the dawah of the prophet

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was.

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It wasn't very complex.

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It was simple.

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Sometimes we get too deep, y'all.

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We get too deep.

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Like, just give the simplicity of, the beauty

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of Islam is its simplicity.

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And then we make it complex.

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Well, there's like four madhhabs, but you don't

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gotta choose one of those.

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Chill.

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La ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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What happens?

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The letter is given, is read to Najashi.

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He takes it.

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And he takes the letter and he places

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it on his eyes.

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He takes the letter and he places it

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on his eyes.

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Wannazala ansareerihi.

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He got off of his throne and sat

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on the ground.

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Like, I'm not a king right now.

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This doesn't befit me to be sitting up

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here, reading this prophet's letter.

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He sits on the ground.

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Nazala ansareerihi.

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Jalasa alal alq, tawaduan.

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He sat on the floor out of humility.

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Thumma aslama.

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Becomes Muslim.

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He takes his shahada.

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And then he says, if I could, I

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would go to him right now.

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And he wrote a letter back.

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And this is the letter that he wrote

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back.

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It's so beautiful.

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He says, bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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He's already using the Muslim lingo.

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Inshallah.

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The new Muslim, you call them up and

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they're like, salamu alaykum.

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You're like, yes, yes.

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And then they hit the, mashallah, it's over.

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I got you.

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Alhamdulillah.

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He says, ila muhammad rasulillah.

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To Muhammad, the prophet of Allah.

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Min najashi asham.

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Salamun alayka, ya nabiya Allah.

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Peace be upon you, oh prophet of God.

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Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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Got the whole thing.

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Min Allah, la ilaha illa hu.

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There is no God except Allah.

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Allathee hadani ilal Islam.

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The one who guided me to Islam.

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Amma ba'd.

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He says, I got your letter, ya rasulullah.

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And I saw everything you said about Jesus.

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And he says, by Allah, the Lord of

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the heavens and earth, Jesus is not more

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than what you've said.

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He's not more than, you know when you

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eat a date and there's that little piece

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of the date seed, that little skin on

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the date seed.

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He said, he's not this much more than

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what you said.

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Meaning he's exactly what you said.

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I believe in it.

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Inna ma kama qult.

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As you said, we've recognized your truth.

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Wa ashhadu.

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And he says, and I bear witness that

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you are the prophet of Allah.

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And he sent you with truth.

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And I pledge my allegiance to you.

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And I submit to the Lord of the

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universe.

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Then he says, and this is important because

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we're going to see how others respond to

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it.

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He says, wa inshitta ana atika.

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He goes, if you want, haadir, I'll come

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to Medina right now.

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So he sent his son and he sent

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60 other courtiers to go.

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And he sent them with gifts and everything

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with this letter.

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Ibn Ishaq, they say that, subhanAllah, life happens

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while the son and the other courtiers were

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in the ship.

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They were crossing the sea and they drowned.

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A storm came, they drowned on their way

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to go see the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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Shaheed, shuhada inshallah ta'ala.

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The key here though, the key here, what

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one quality we have to notice with the

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people of Abyssinia and one quality that we

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have to notice from Bilal and Najashi and

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the people of Abyssinia is humility.

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Humble, humble.

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The humble heart is the one that gets

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hidayah.

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But the moment you get that arrogance inside,

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there's hadith that said, knowledge doesn't come to

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the arrogant heart.

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It doesn't come.

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You have to humble yourself.

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And what did he do?

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He literally got off his seat and he

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sat on the floor.

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And that's where the hidayah came from.

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Two years later, Najashi passes away.

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Two years after shuhada.

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Two years later, he passes away.

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The prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he gathers the

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sahaba on the day he died.

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And he said, mata alyawm rajulun salih.

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A pious man died today.

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Let's gather together, we'll pray.

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There are so many people that died in

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his absence.

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This is the one time in his life

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he prayed salatul janazah gha'ib.

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Meaning he said, we're in Medina, but we're

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praying for his janazah.

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Let's pray his janazah.

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The only one in the seerah where the

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prophet prayed salatul janazah, the prayer for janazah

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when someone passes away, but he prayed it

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in his absence, far away, miles and miles

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away.

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Only one was this African king who accepted

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the message.

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Radiyallahu an.

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If you're from those places, if you come

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at all through that lineage, how much do

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you owe to this man?

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How much do you owe to this man?

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And his ability to not let power blind

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him from accepting the truth.

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That's huge.

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Why?

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What happens next?

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The next is a long one, but it's

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beautiful.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam sends a

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letter to the king of the Byzantium empire,

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Hiraqal.

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This is a very interesting one.

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He sends Dihya al-Kalabi.

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Dihya al-Kalabi was a very handsome man.

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Extremely handsome.

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Like he used to cover up.

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I'm not even joking.

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He's like, if I go out and not

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cover, I'm fitna.

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He was so handsome, subhanallah, Jibra'il used

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to come in his form.

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Jibra'il used to come in the form

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of Dihya al-Kalabi.

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All y'all like, yeah, I kind of

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look like him too.

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You know what I mean?

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That's how we are, subhanallah.

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Chill out, relax.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam sent Dihya

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al-Kalabi.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam wrote the

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letter.

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He had it sealed.

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He gave it to Dihya al-Kalabi and

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he told him, I want you to take

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this to the leader of Busra because Hiraqal

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was the leader of the Byzantium empire, Rome,

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you can't walk to him.

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You can't just knock at the White House

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door and ask whoever to talk to you.

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You have to go through procedure.

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So he sent him first to the leader

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of Busra and that leader of Busra was

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going to take the letter up higher if

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he saw fit.

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Now, ironically, this is amazing.

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Nothing in life is by coincidence.

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Everything by the taqdeer of Allah.

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At this, when the Byzantium empire defeated the

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Persians, Hiraqal had said, I take an oath

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by God.

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He was a very religious man, extremely religious,

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tapped into Christianity, like tapped in.

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So he made an oath that if we

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beat the Persian empire, I'm going to walk

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to Bayt al-Maqdis and do pilgrimage.

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I'm going to walk, I won't ride, I'm

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going to walk as a gratitude to God.

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And we know the seerah tells us they

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beat the Persians.

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And so he happens to be in Bayt

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al-Maqdis.

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He happens to be in Iliya'a, in

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Bayt al-Maqdis.

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He's in Bayt al-Maqdis and he wakes

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up one night after having this terrible dream,

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actually a great dream, but for him it

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was terrible.

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And in this dream, he saw that this

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new king had risen and taken his empire

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away.

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He wakes up the next morning and all

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of his courtiers, they're like, something's wrong with

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you.

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What's wrong?

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And he was into astrology a lot, retrograde,

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all that stuff.

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He was into astrology a lot.

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So he said, I saw a dream and

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I've been looking into the stars and that

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final prophet is supposed to come.

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Everyone's like, what are you talking about?

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He's like, I think he's gonna come from

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the Jews.

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He sends out this order that I want

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all of the Jews that are in our

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kingdom, I want them killed.

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While that's happening, lo and behold, someone shows

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up from Busra, letting him know, hey, there's

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this thing happening down in the Arabian Peninsula.

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We just got a letter of someone that

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wants to talk to you claiming he's a

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prophet of God.

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His mind is blown.

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What's going on?

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Everything's happening at the same time.

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He sends word back to a priest in

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Rome that this is what's happening.

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Tell me what you think.

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He's waiting to hear back.

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In that time, in that time, Dihya al

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-Kalabi is brought forward.

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Dihya al-Kalabi is brought forward, the handsome

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man, right?

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And he finds out that these people, he

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says, is there anyone from this man, this

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man who's claiming prophethood, is there anyone from

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his people in this area?

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Qadrullah mashaa.

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Guess who was in the same area, y

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'all?

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Abu Sufyan.

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Abu Sufyan was the arch enemy of the

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prophet his whole life.

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His life has been dedicated to going against

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the prophet.

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He's up in Jerusalem, Bayt al-Maqdis doing

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business.

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He said, I was in a group at

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a table selling something.

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All of a sudden, Byzantium soldiers surround me

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and they say, come on, you have to

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go to the Hiraqal.

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Hiraqal?

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Well, I'm nothing.

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He's brought forward.

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He's brought forward.

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In the meantime, the letter comes.

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The letter comes.

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Dihya brings the letter.

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The letter is presented to Hiraqal.

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What does the letter say?

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Listen to the words of the prophet that

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he wrote.

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He said, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.

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And obviously they had translators.

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Min Muhammad Abdullah wa Rasulihi ila Hiraqal Azeem

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al-Rum.

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He said from Muhammad, the prophet of Allah,

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to the great king of the Byzantium empire.

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You know what scholars say?

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Look how he respected his position.

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Look how he said Azeem al-Rum.

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He didn't say like, he respected him.

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He didn't say, Anzil al-Nas.

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Because the prophet's sunnah is treat people according

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to their level.

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Understand people.

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Treat them according to their level.

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Salamun ala man ittaba al-huda.

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May peace be upon the one who follows

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righteousness.

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Amma ba'd.

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I call you, same words.

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I call you with the call of Islam.

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Accept Islam, you will be in peace.

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will

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give you your reward double.

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But if you turn away, then you have

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the sin of all your people.

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He reads the letter.

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He reads the letter and he's struck.

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He saw the dream.

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He's been looking at his stars.

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He has priests and courtiers that he's communicating

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with.

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This last prophet is supposed to be coming.

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And here the letter is in front of

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me.

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But I need you to understand something.

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He's at what point, what moment in his

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life is he at y'all?

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He literally just defeated the Persian empire.

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He's at his high point of his career.

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He just got promoted to, you know, executive

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board.

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I don't know.

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He's at that point where it's like, I

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finally made it to this spot.

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I'm at the top of the world.

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And this letter comes to this religious man

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who's been, knows this knowledge of prophecy.

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So he calls the Abu Sufyan to come.

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Abu Sufyan comes forward.

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But Abu Sufyan, there's a group.

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He didn't come by himself.

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There's five or six other people from Mecca.

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It happens every halakha, right?

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My bad, y'all.

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There's five or six people from Mecca that

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are with him.

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He brings them forward.

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And when he brings them forward, he's sitting

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on his throne in Baitul Maqdis.

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May Allah free it.

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So he's speaking through translators.

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The Hadith tells us he's speaking through translators.

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And what does he say?

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He's looking at this group of 10 people

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from Mecca.

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They're sitting in front of the superpower of

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the world.

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What are they gonna talk to us about?

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What is he gonna say?

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He says, which one of you is closest

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to this guy who claims he's a prophet?

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Abu Sufyan's like, oh my God, that's what

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this is about?

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We thought this guy was like nothing.

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And here I am in front of Hiraqal

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and he's bringing this up.

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He says, which one of you is closest

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to this man?

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Abu Sufyan says, I am, I am, I

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am.

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I have the closest lineage to him.

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Hiraqal says, bring him close and bring those

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other people up a little bit too.

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He says, I want you, Abu Sufyan, to

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stand in front of them.

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And I want them to stand behind you.

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Everyone looking at me though.

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And he says, I'm gonna ask this man

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some questions.

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And if he lies at all, I want

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y'all behind me to tell me.

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I want y'all behind me to let

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me know if he lies.

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So he starts to ask some questions.

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Abu Sufyan, he goes, well, look, Allah, I

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would have lied.

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I would have lied about everything he said.

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But I didn't wanna be known as a

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liar amongst my people.

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That shows you how the Arabs were.

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Why did Allah choose these people for where

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the prophet would come from?

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Even though they were on kufr, they had

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the most beautiful qualities.

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He's like, I did not want to be

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known as a liar.

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There's no way I could go back and

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these people go back to Mecca and say,

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yeah, he's a good guy, but he lies.

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He said, so I was forced to speak

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the truth.

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He says, I'm gonna ask you some questions

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and I want you to be true to

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me.

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And then he says, what do you say

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about this man?

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Right away, Abu Sufyan has his chance.

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He goes, he's a magician, he's a liar.

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You don't wanna know anything about him.

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He's horrible person.

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Hiraqal is intelligent, he's read a lot.

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He goes, I don't wanna hear your ad

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hominem remarks.

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I don't wanna hear your curse words.

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I want you to answer my questions that

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I ask you.

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Abu Sufyan goes, okay, I'm in front of

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Hiraqal, what am I gonna do?

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Question number one, he says, what's his lineage?

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Like what type of family does he come

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from?

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Abu Sufyan says, well, he has a high

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lineage.

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He's from a very noble people.

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He says, question number two, did anyone from

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y'all people ever make this claim before

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that they were a prophet?

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Abu Sufyan says, I said, no, no, this

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was, he's the first.

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Number three, he says, was his father a

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king?

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He goes, no, he wasn't.

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He says, do the wealthy high class posh

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people follow him or the weak poor people

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follow him?

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Abu Sufyan goes, no, it's poor people following

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him.

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It's weak people following him.

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He said, are they increasing or decreasing?

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Abu Sufyan, I can't lie.

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He goes, they're increasing.

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He says, does any one of them turn

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away from this deen after they have truly

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accepted it and spent time with him?

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Do they turn away and leave the deen?

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He's like, no, they never leave.

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They're stuck.

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You know, when I accepted Islam 20 years

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ago, my mom, she came to, she went

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to a friend of mine, right?

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And she said to her, she said to

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the friend, is this a phase Michael's going

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through?

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And this friend was like, nah, this ain't

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no phase.

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Alhamdulillah, may Allah keep us strong.

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May Allah keep us strong.

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May Allah keep us strong, right?

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But once you taste that sweetness, I want

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you to taste that sweetness of the deen.

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So he says, he asked him more questions.

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He says, do any of them leave?

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He goes, no, none of them leave.

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He said, have y'all ever accused this

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man of lying before this?

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Sufyan, how can I answer?

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He goes, no, he was Sadiq Al-Amin.

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Like nah, he never lied before.

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He said, has he been treacherous to you?

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He goes, no, but we're in a treaty

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right now.

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I don't know what he's gonna do.

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Abu Sufyan says, that was the only time

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I could slip something in.

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Like, has he ever cheated you?

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He goes, no, no, but we're in a

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treaty.

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I don't know what's gonna happen in the

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future.

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He might.

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He says, have y'all fought?

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He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we fight a

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lot.

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Like, yeah, that's what we've been through.

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What have we been doing?

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He says, yes, we've been fighting quite a

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bit.

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He says, how often do you win and

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they win?

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Abu Sufyan goes, al-harb-sijal, we win

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some, they lose some.

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Irafah's like, oh, okay.

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And then he says, what does he tell

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y'all to do?

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What is he ordering his people to do?

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And I can't imagine Abu Sufyan, I could

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see Iman slipping into him as this dialogue

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is going on.

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He goes, he tells them to worship Allah

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alone.

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And don't worship these idols.

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And he tells them to pray, give charity,

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be chaste, and join family ties.

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Abu Sufyan kind of like, why am I

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against this again?

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And he actually is thinking that, we'll see

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at the end.

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So then, Hiraqal says, that's the questions.

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Let me tell you why I asked each

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one.

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He's a man of scripture.

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He says, I asked you if he had

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a high lineage.

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Because Allah always sends his prophets from good

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lineage.

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He says, I asked you if anyone ever

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said this before, because I would say he's

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just imitating what somebody else said.

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But you said, no.

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I asked you if his father was a

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king, because then I would say, he's just

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trying to get his father's kingdom back.

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Now, you know what I thought about?

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Let's digress for a moment.

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Can you imagine if this letter went after

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Fatih Mecca?

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This letter went before Mecca was conquered.

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There's no political, we haven't gained anything yet.

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Can you imagine what Hiraqal may have thought

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if this happened after Fatih Mecca?

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Oh, this is a king trying to expand

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his kingdom.

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But by the wisdom of God, in between

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Hudaybiyyah and Fatih Mecca, the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam, acts upon those sparks that he saw

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in the trench, and he sends the letters

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out.

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He says, I asked you if the posh,

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wealthy people are following him, or the weaker,

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dhu'afa, poorer people.

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And you said the poor.

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He said, hum atba' al-rusul.

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Those are the people that follow the Prophet.

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Those are the people that follow the Prophet.

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This is heavy, because we see that the

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Prophet had an extremely tight relationship with the

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weak of the community.

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He always had an eye out for the

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weak.

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And he used to tell people, you want

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to find me?

00:28:04 --> 00:28:05

Find me with the dhu'afa.

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Find me with the misakim.

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The Quraysh, they one time in Mecca, they

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came to the Prophet, they said, we'll sit

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down to listen to you, but we can't

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sit with them.

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We can't sit with them.

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Do you know verses came down?

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Verses came down.

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Wa la ta'du aynaka anhum.

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Never turn away from these people.

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These are your people.

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You know, what's amazing about this?

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There's no, there's nothing wrong in the deen

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with having wealth.

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But you know what's beautiful?

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There's no extra fadhilah for being rich.

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You don't get more barakah, but there's so

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many hadith on the virtues being weak and

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poor.

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There's not one hadith that's like, if you're

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rich, you'll get in the Jannah like that.

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Sahaba had wealth.

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Don't get me wrong.

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You've heard those khutbas before.

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You heard that.

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But hiraqal is like the people who accept

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this message are the people that see the

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change and the positive that it could bring.

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But the leaders, they don't want the change.

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They don't want the change.

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They don't want society to change.

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Because that means I got to have a

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two state, you know, I got to like.

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I got to give up some of this

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real estate.

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I got to stop this haram business.

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I got to stop this thing.

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The wealthy don't want, they don't want that.

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And so the Prophet SAW taught us one

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of the most profound things on the Shabaab

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is to spend time, spend time, spend time

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with the underprivileged.

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These are the followers of the Rusul.

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And not to create these country clubs of

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just wealth.

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Reach out, y'all.

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Reach out.

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The Prophet SAW saw a dream and he

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saw Uthman bin Affan or Abdurrahman bin Auf,

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forgive me.

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Abdurrahman bin Auf.

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It was the day of judgment and they

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were moving.

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But Abdurrahman bin Auf was trying to catch

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up.

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They were like moving forward and he told

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them the dream and Abdurrahman like, yo, this

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shocked his world.

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He said, why was I catching up?

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He's like, because you had still to do

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a lot of accounting for your budget, for

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your wealth.

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You just had a longer Hesab.

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In that moment, he gave everything away.

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But he was so blessed, they say if

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he picked up a rock, he'd find gold

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under it.

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No, he was just Baraka.

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There was just Baraka in him.

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Baraka.

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So the so Hiraqal goes, the followers are

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the weak people because those are the followers

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of prophets.

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Those are the followers of prophets.

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That's why our inner city Dawa has to

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be on point.

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That's where the underprivileged inner city, rural areas.

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Dawa.

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He says, I asked you, are they increasing

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or decreasing?

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You said they were increasing.

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He says, that's how Iman grows.

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I asked you if any of them leave

00:31:01 --> 00:31:03

the religion after they have accepted.

00:31:03 --> 00:31:04

You said, no.

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He says, kazalika al-iman kheenatu khaaritu bashaatata

00:31:08 --> 00:31:09

quloob.

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That's faith when it penetrates the heart.

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When when faith penetrates the heart, that's it.

00:31:18 --> 00:31:19

It stays.

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I asked you if you ever accused him

00:31:23 --> 00:31:25

of lying ever, and you said no.

00:31:26 --> 00:31:28

He says, because Allah never places this message

00:31:28 --> 00:31:29

on a liar.

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And he goes through all of these.

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How here's the one that really hits us.

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He says, I asked you if you all

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fight.

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You said yes.

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And I asked you who wins.

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You said he wins and you win sometime.

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He says, this is how it is with

00:31:44 --> 00:31:44

prophets.

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They don't just keep winning every war.

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They don't win every battle.

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They take L's because in L's we learn

00:31:51 --> 00:31:51

lessons.

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That's what L stands for, yo.

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Tweet that, yo, I like that.

00:31:59 --> 00:32:00

I didn't plan that, but whatever.

00:32:02 --> 00:32:05

No, seriously, we think like the prophets, I

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

said, had a had a camel.

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

He had a camel that kept winning.

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

They used to race camels, right?

00:32:10 --> 00:32:11

Like it would be racing cars.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:13

They used to race camels and the prophets.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:14

No, no ideas, bro.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

No, no.

00:32:15 --> 00:32:18

The prophets, I said, I'm Camel kept winning,

00:32:18 --> 00:32:19

kept winning.

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

And everyone's like, yes, that's the one time

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

it lost.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

Everyone was just heartbroken in the profit.

00:32:24 --> 00:32:25

I said this last week.

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

The prophets, I said to him, he said,

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

Allah doesn't raise anything except that he lowers

00:32:28 --> 00:32:30

it to he lowers it to.

00:32:30 --> 00:32:31

So I was.

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So here it goes.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:33

That's prophets.

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They win.

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They lose.

00:32:35 --> 00:32:35

They win.

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They lose.

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But then he goes, well, I'll give it

00:32:37 --> 00:32:37

to.

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But the outcome at the end will be

00:32:39 --> 00:32:40

their victory.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

That will win, will lose, will win, will

00:32:43 --> 00:32:45

lose, but the outcome at the end will

00:32:45 --> 00:32:47

be with the people of Allah subhanahu wa

00:32:47 --> 00:32:47

ta'ala.

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So what happens here?

00:32:50 --> 00:32:51

I got here.

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

He tells Abu Sufyan to leave.

00:32:55 --> 00:32:57

Abu Sufyan goes in that moment, I realized

00:32:57 --> 00:33:01

that this issue with my nephew wasn't going

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

away.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

He said, I realized this thing was serious

00:33:04 --> 00:33:04

now.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

Islam is not a joke.

00:33:06 --> 00:33:07

This is it.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

I realized that at that point.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

In that moment, Hiraqal is is is confused.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:16

He sends Abu, he sends Dihya al-Kalabi,

00:33:16 --> 00:33:17

the one that brought the letter.

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

He says, I want you to go to

00:33:19 --> 00:33:22

this bishop in the city, Daqtar.

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

Go to him and tell him everything you

00:33:24 --> 00:33:24

told me.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:25

See what he does.

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

He goes out.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

Hiraqal is trying to figure stuff out.

00:33:29 --> 00:33:30

He's still waiting to get news back from

00:33:30 --> 00:33:33

his other scholars in Rome and other places.

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

He goes out to Daqtar.

00:33:35 --> 00:33:36

He gives him this news.

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

He's talking to this bishop.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:40

These are people who knew the true Christianity.

00:33:41 --> 00:33:43

The narration says he's wearing black.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

He changes his clothes.

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

He puts on white.

00:33:47 --> 00:33:49

He says, Ashadu anna, what you're saying, I

00:33:49 --> 00:33:49

bear witness.

00:33:49 --> 00:33:50

What you're saying is true.

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

He comes out of the church and he

00:33:52 --> 00:33:55

says the glad tidings of the final prophet

00:33:55 --> 00:33:56

Ahmed have come to us.

00:33:57 --> 00:33:59

I bear witness that this man immediately is,

00:33:59 --> 00:34:00

as he's speaking, the whole crowd just pounces

00:34:00 --> 00:34:01

on him.

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

He's killed Shaheed right there.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:04

Killed Shaheed right in that moment.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:07

Hiraqal doesn't know what to do.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

He doesn't know what to do.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

He heads back to Homs, Homs in Syria,

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

because he has a bunch of courtiers there.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

By the time he gets back, he got

00:34:16 --> 00:34:17

a letter back from Rome.

00:34:17 --> 00:34:19

This is the prophet we've been waiting for.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:22

He gathers all of his courtiers in a

00:34:22 --> 00:34:23

room.

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

He locks the room.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

These are all the bishops, heads of state,

00:34:27 --> 00:34:27

everyone.

00:34:28 --> 00:34:31

And he says this speech, and I'm going

00:34:31 --> 00:34:32

to paraphrase it so we can get through

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

these lessons.

00:34:34 --> 00:34:40

He says, Oh, people of Rome.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

Would you like success?

00:34:45 --> 00:34:45

Rushd?

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

Guidance?

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

Would you like to keep your kingdom?

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

If so, let's follow this prophet.

00:34:53 --> 00:34:54

Everyone goes crazy.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:56

The whole room goes crazy.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:58

They ran for the doors.

00:34:59 --> 00:35:00

He had locked them.

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

No way to leave.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

He sees their reaction.

00:35:05 --> 00:35:07

And he makes a decision in this moment.

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

And this is a decision that all of

00:35:10 --> 00:35:11

us have to make in different parts of

00:35:11 --> 00:35:15

our life, that will we sacrifice this fleeting

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

world for the truth?

00:35:17 --> 00:35:20

We don't have a kingdom that's at stake

00:35:20 --> 00:35:23

here, but we have our own things that

00:35:23 --> 00:35:23

are at stake.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:27

He made a choice in this moment that

00:35:27 --> 00:35:31

he could not give up his position.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

It was too good.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:35

I'm at the height of my career.

00:35:36 --> 00:35:37

They'll kill me the way they killed that

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

bishop out there.

00:35:39 --> 00:35:42

He calls them all back, and he says,

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

Listen, I was testing you.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:48

I was testing you, and you all passed

00:35:48 --> 00:35:48

the test.

00:35:49 --> 00:35:50

Hold on to Christianity.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

Never, ever let it go.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:55

They leave.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:58

He comes back to Dehia, and he writes

00:35:58 --> 00:35:58

a letter.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:03

He writes a letter, and he says, I

00:36:03 --> 00:36:07

want you to tell your prophet that I,

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

he says to him, listen to his words.

00:36:10 --> 00:36:15

He says, He says, I know your man

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

is a prophet.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:20

He's the one we were waiting for.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

I'm scared.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:28

And I don't want to lose my kingdom.

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

You know, when the Dehia al-Kalabi came

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

back, he also said, like I believe in

00:36:34 --> 00:36:37

him, this, and the prophet said, he said,

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

he's lying.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:41

If he believed, he would have did what

00:36:41 --> 00:36:42

Najashi did.

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

What I want you to notice is the

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

contrast between Najashi and Hiraqa.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

Look at the humility.

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

Look at the ability to just give up

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

all of that for truth.

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

And look, and we look at Hiraqa, and

00:36:57 --> 00:36:58

we go, man, really?

00:36:59 --> 00:37:01

But we sell out the deen for a

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

lot less, y'all.

00:37:04 --> 00:37:06

Just be real with yourself.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

If I was Hiraqa, I would have.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:09

No, please.

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

Please don't say that.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:12

I would have.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:16

Just look at what Allah is asking us

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

to sacrifice.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

A lot less.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

A lot less.

00:37:25 --> 00:37:28

So, he sent a few more letters.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:30

It's almost time for Maghrib.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

I wanted to do one more letter that

00:37:32 --> 00:37:32

he sent.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:36

He sent a letter to Egypt.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

Misriyeen, mashallah.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

He sent a letter to Egypt.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:46

Muqawqis, the king of Egypt, who's also Christian.

00:37:47 --> 00:37:48

Very powerful letter.

00:37:50 --> 00:37:52

Actually, actually, I'm gonna do a different letter

00:37:52 --> 00:37:54

with just the remaining few minutes I have.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

He sent a letter to the Persian king.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

The Persian king, at this time, their whole

00:38:00 --> 00:38:02

kingdom, they had just lost to the Byzantium

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

Empire, but their kingdom also covered Yemen.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

And if you're from that place, listen to

00:38:07 --> 00:38:07

this story.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

It's powerful.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:13

He sent Abdullah bin Hudhaifa to take this

00:38:13 --> 00:38:18

letter to the Persian king, Khosrow, Kisra.

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And when he got there, he brought the

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letter forward and the messenger began to read

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the letter.

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And the moment the man said, من محمد

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رسول الله إلى كسرة, Kisra stopped him.

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And he said, why is his name above

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my name?

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He took the letter and he ripped it.

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He ripped the letter right there.

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I don't wanna hear anything else.

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Get out of here.

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Leave from this place.

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He sent the messenger back.

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When that messenger reaches back, the prophet says,

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this is weeks later, it takes time.

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The prophet says, he didn't rip my letter,

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he ripped up his kingdom.

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He ripped up his own kingdom.

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That's what he did.

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In the meantime, this emperor, this king, he

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sent a letter to Baadan.

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Not too many names, but just for a

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moment.

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He's the one in charge of Yemen.

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If you're from Yemen, listen to this story.

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He sent the letter to the king of

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Yemen, who's under him.

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And he said, I want you to go

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and bring that man to me.

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Bring that man to me.

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So the king of Yemen, who's under Kisra,

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he goes to Medina.

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He goes to Medina.

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He actually passes through Mecca.

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Five minutes.

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He actually passes through Mecca.

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And as he's passing through Mecca, these messengers

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are coming, entourage, all the pompous of courtiers,

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of high people.

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Everyone's like, where are these heads headed to?

00:39:38 --> 00:39:38

Right?

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Oh, we're going to get Muhammad, the king

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of Kisra wants him.

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And the people of Quraish are like, oh,

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

it's over for this Islam.

00:39:46 --> 00:39:47

It's over now.

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The superpower of the world wants him.

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It's over now.

00:39:50 --> 00:39:51

They make it to Medina.

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And they come to the prophet in the

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masjid.

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And the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, does not

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have any guards.

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He doesn't have any protectors.

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The prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, was on another

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level of tawakkar.

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And these people walk in with all of

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their assumed strength.

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And the narration is powerful.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

I want to read what it says.

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They arrive.

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And they come in.

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And they said, our king, Shan Shah, like

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king of kings.

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They said, our king is summoning, summonsing you.

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

And he wants you to come.

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And if you don't come, you know our

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power, we will destroy this whole city.

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Da, da, da, da, da.

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You know what the narration says?

00:40:37 --> 00:40:38

Fattabassam Rasulullah.

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The prophet smiled.

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He smiled.

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You know, someone at work is tripping.

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

I'm going to cancel your contract.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:49

And he's just like, my risk is in

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the hands of Allah.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

You don't stop me from eating.

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

He smiles.

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He smiles.

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And then he gives them dawah.

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I want you all to become Muslim.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:00

Like, like what?

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

Did you hear what we just said?

00:41:03 --> 00:41:06

The king of this, one of the largest

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

empires in the world is calling you.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

He's like, yeah, whatever.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

We want you to accept Islam.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:15

And he's talking to them.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

They had cut their hair in an interesting

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

way.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

And he commented on that.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

And he said, I'll talk to y'all

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

tomorrow.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

Let's talk tomorrow.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

Okay.

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

Let's talk tomorrow.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:33

The next day, Gabriel comes down.

00:41:33 --> 00:41:33

This is amazing.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:37

Gabriel comes down and he informs the prophet

00:41:37 --> 00:41:41

that Kisra has been killed by his son.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:45

The prophet comes out to these two leaders,

00:41:46 --> 00:41:47

these two guards.

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And he says, listen, I have been informed

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

by God.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

Listen to this narration.

00:41:55 --> 00:41:58

Tell your king, because they were sent by

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

the king of Yemen, who was sent by

00:42:00 --> 00:42:01

the king of the thing.

00:42:01 --> 00:42:05

He said, tell your two leaders that, My

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

Lord killed your Lord.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

The prophet's strong.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:11

Not holding back.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

He's strong in this moment.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

He said, go back.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:15

Go back.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

Your orders don't exist anymore.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

And this is what happened.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:21

On this night, at this hour, this is

00:42:21 --> 00:42:22

what happened to him.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

The two guards, we'll wrap it up now.

00:42:24 --> 00:42:26

The two guards go back to Badan.

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

He's the Yemeni king.

00:42:28 --> 00:42:31

The Yemeni king goes, this man is different.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:34

This man isn't normal.

00:42:35 --> 00:42:37

He goes, he asked the guards, he was

00:42:37 --> 00:42:38

like, what was he like?

00:42:39 --> 00:42:41

The guards were like, he didn't care.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:44

He wasn't worried about us.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

He had no guards around him.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:51

Specifically, he says, I'm going to end with

00:42:51 --> 00:42:51

this.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:54

The two guards, they said, he didn't fear

00:42:54 --> 00:42:54

anything.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:57

May Allah give us that.

00:42:57 --> 00:43:00

When you have that in Allah, where you're

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

like, I'm good.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:03

I have Allah.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:08

He says, no one protecting him.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

So finally, within the same day, a few

00:43:12 --> 00:43:16

days later, Badan gets word from the son

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

of Kisra that my father's dead.

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

I killed him.

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

And as for those orders for that man,

00:43:22 --> 00:43:23

delay those orders.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

Badan accepts shahada right there.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

If you're from Yemen, you owe something to

00:43:28 --> 00:43:28

Badan.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:32

He accepts Islam right in that moment.

00:43:33 --> 00:43:35

Sends word to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam saying,

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

I'm sorry for everything I did in the

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

past.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

I'm your follower now.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, now you're

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

the king of Yemen.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:43

Take care of it.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:44

Be just.

00:43:45 --> 00:43:47

And hold up Islam there.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

Brothers and sisters, this was a beautiful moment

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam's life.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

Where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam proved to

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

us and showed us.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

This wasn't about political power.

00:43:57 --> 00:44:01

This was about spreading la ilaha illallah to

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

every heart that he could.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:04

And the moment the Quraish got out of

00:44:04 --> 00:44:06

his way, the first thing he did was

00:44:06 --> 00:44:09

send a letter to different corners of the

00:44:09 --> 00:44:12

world so that me and you in 2024

00:44:12 --> 00:44:16

in the corner of Dallas, Texas, could say

00:44:16 --> 00:44:18

la ilaha illallah Muhammad rasulallah.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:20

That was his mission.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:21

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept.

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

May Allah give us that fearlessness.

00:44:24 --> 00:44:27

May Allah give us the humility of Najashi

00:44:27 --> 00:44:31

and protect us, protect us from the arrogance

00:44:31 --> 00:44:34

and the heedlessness of Hiraqal.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

to be the best custodians of this message.

00:44:38 --> 00:44:41

Subhana rabbika rabbil izzati amma yasifoon, wa salamun

00:44:41 --> 00:44:45

ala al mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

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Alhamdulillah,

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Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,

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Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,

00:49:54 --> 00:50:04

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,

00:50:04 --> 00:50:04

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.

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