Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps – Class 29
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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us his love.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us the love of the actions that
will gain his love.
And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to give us the love of those people
that he loves.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through
this halaqa to give us the love of
the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
In our last halaqa we were able to
witness, as we talked about it, we could
witness it, see it with our own eyes.
This moment that the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam
had been waiting for for so long.
This moment where he could come back to
Mecca.
He could come back to Mecca and free
Mecca from the idolatry and all of the
wrongs and shadows that had been happening in
Mecca.
And we looked at how the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam elevated the status of Bilal radiyallahu
ta'ala an.
And how people were looking at Bilal and
him being black and from Abyssinia.
They couldn't deal with the social change that
had happened due to this message.
But nonetheless the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he
told Bilal when it was time for prayer
the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him
he said, oh Bilal go up on top
of the Kaaba and call the Adhan.
And it's so beautiful because the same Bilal
was the one that 12 years prior he
was being tortured in Mecca and he was
being dragged around on the sand of Mecca.
And they were torturing him just so that
he could say I don't believe in Allah.
And all he would say is Ahad, Ahad,
there's only one God, there's only one God.
And here he is the same person Bilal
radiyallahu ta'ala an at the top of
the Kaaba now calling out the call of
the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And we witness how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam he taught us that power doesn't have
to corrupt.
He taught us that if the heart is
clean, the heart is pure, then when blessings
come a person remains cognizant of Allah.
The person remains aware of Allah's blessing upon
them.
And so as they elevate their humility elevates
with them as well.
And so when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
came into Mecca on that day, the victor,
the conqueror of Mecca, the freer of Mecca.
On that day when he came in, he
didn't come with his chest up and his
head up, he came in with his head
hanging low because he was witnessing God's blessing
upon him.
And whenever we see God's blessing upon any
of us, it should make us humble.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam remained in Mecca
for the next 19 days.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, we would
think that, oh this is the end of
the story, everything is good.
No, there's still more trials, there's still more
mujahidah, there's still more struggle.
There was a tribe, two tribes actually, that
were neighboring Mecca.
The tribe of Thaqif and Hawazin.
And if you remember the tribe of Thaqif,
they're from Ta'if.
It's the same city that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam had went to to give da
'wah and he was ruthlessly kicked out.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he heard that
the tribe of Hawazin has gathered 20,000
troops because they saw what happened in Mecca
and they think they're next.
So they preemptively are setting out to attack
us.
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam only had 19 days
of enjoying the blessing of Allah before another
trial came.
And for me, that's a lesson that there
will be ups, there will be downs, but
we have to always keep struggling and striving
because in the struggle is where we find
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
In the struggle.
In the struggle.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he talked to the
Sahaba and they said, Ya Rasulullah, we shouldn't
wait here, we should go out to them.
So now only 18 days, 19 days after
staying in Mecca, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam says
to all of the 10,000 soldiers that
came with him, these 10,000 companions that
came with him to Mecca, he says to
them, we have to go forward now.
But things were different.
It was a little different now.
And the reason it was different is because
now there were new Muslims that joined the
ranks from the people of Mecca.
New Muslims who had never had any time
with the believers whatsoever.
And not only that, there were even some
because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught us, la
ikraaha fid deen, there's no compulsion.
So when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam came into
Mecca, he didn't make everyone accept Islam.
There were still really high people in the
society of Mecca that had not accepted Islam.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he allows 2
,000 people.
And these are new Muslims, new Muslims.
And when I say new, they're not just
new, but they actually saw the writing on
the wall and converted.
They saw the victory.
They saw the success of Islam.
Islam had created this culture, and they were
like, well, we want to roll too.
We want to roll with the Muslims.
They're the ones that are victorious.
Like my man, Fudala, y'all remember him?
The one giving dawah to his friend on
his way back?
Yeah.
The culture had changed, and now there were
so many new Muslims, but a lot of
them did not accept Islam because of what
it meant.
They accepted Islam because they saw the writing
on the wall.
And this is important because Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in Surah Al-Ujurat, قَالَتِ
الْأَعْرَابُ آمَنَّا That the Bedouins now, they accepted
Islam, they said, آمَنَّا.
We believe, we're mu'mins.
قُلْ لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا Allah says to the Prophet,
say to them, لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا You're not a
mu'min yet.
وَلَكِنْ قُلُوا أَسْلَمْنَا You're Muslim, you took shahada.
I was talking to a sheikh about this,
I was like, how do we understand that?
He said, look, Islam happens in a moment.
You come, you say, أَشْهَدْ وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا
اللَّهُ But to be a mu'min, you gotta
work on it every day.
To be a mu'min, to be a believer,
we're all, inshallah, all Muslims, right?
Except for the one head in the room
thinking about it right now, inshallah.
Inshallah, you too, right?
But to be a mu'min, a mu'min is
a higher level, which we all strive for,
and that takes work every day.
So the Quran said, these people were coming
and they were saying, yeah, we're mu'min.
Allah said, O Muhammad, tell them, كُلَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا
وَلَكِنْ قُلُوا أَسْلَمْنَا وَلَمْ يَدْخُلُ الْإِيمَانُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ
The iman hasn't yet come in.
So, this is important, because as they became
Muslim, it's important to understand, not everyone comes
into Islam for the same reason.
Imam Malik says this, this is profound, because
a lot of us judge people based on
why they accepted Islam, and what we learn
from these people, it doesn't matter why you
came in, it matters why you stay.
It matters why you stay.
Imam Malik, he used to say, دَخَلَ بَعْضُ
النَّاسِ الْإِسْلَامَ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَةِ Some people
entered Islam due to the dunya.
There was a dunya reason.
Wanna get married, dude's like, I'm thinking about
Islam, mashallah, mashallah.
I remember a funny story, I'm trying not
to joke too much today.
I remember a funny story, we're in Buffalo,
Buffalo's kind of hood, right?
And the masjid was right in the hood,
mashallah, that's the best place for masjids to
be, because the first people to accept Islam
are always the people who are underprivileged, because
the upper class feels like, well, yeah, I'll
think about it, after pickleball, you know what
I mean, like, I'm just trolling, I play
pickleball too, I'm just trolling, I'm just trolling.
Masjid should be in the rough areas because
that's where people need the spiritual upliftment and
the social wellness and reform that Islam brings.
So we were in the masjid and this
young man comes in, and he's like, yeah,
yo, I wanna be one of y'all,
right, I wanna be one of y'all,
and we're like, mashallah, we're used to it,
we bring them in, we're talking to them,
we're like, so what brings you, you know,
we're waiting to hear, like, you know, the
oneness of God is just my heart, I
heard about the prophet, he goes, man, y
'all's cars is nice.
The parking lot is like, I wanna be
like y'all.
And he took his shahada, right, but if
you look at him now, he's up there,
Imam Malik, he says, there are some people
that will accept Islam due to a dunya
reason.
He wanted to get married, so what, why
are you hating?
Allah wanted to bring that person into this
deen by any means necessary.
He wanted to pull him in or her
in, and now they're here.
But look what Imam Malik says next.
ثُمَّ أَسْبَحَ الْإِسْلَامَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا
فِيهَا They enter Islam because of the dunya,
but then Islam becomes more loved to them
than anything in the dunya.
And so these people became some of the
greatest companions of the prophet ﷺ.
We're mentioning them till today, so we don't
have to focus so much on what brought
you in.
And I'll share something about my own life.
When I first converted, I converted after September
11th, where nothing, everything in the news was
negative about Islam, completely negative.
Nothing compared to now, it's way worse.
But you know what was in me as
a black man in America?
My enemy's enemy is my friend.
Y'all hate this Islam, it must be
nice.
Y'all hate Islam, must be something good
over there.
And I'll be real, maybe that first week
or two or that beginning search, that beginning
search had not the best motivation behind it.
But as I sat with people like y
'all and I learned more, I was like
this is the most beautiful thing.
Who cares how Allah brought me into this
message, I'm here now.
And so let us never judge people and
how they came in.
I'll tell you one more funny story.
I told this many halaqas ago.
There was this one brother who took shahada,
he was like 25 years old.
And he was preaching to his father who
was like 65 years old.
And he was giving dawah to his father
constantly.
And he was even teaching him stuff about
Islam.
So he taught him like, yo, dad, when
I'm praying, just don't walk in front, you
know, the angels don't like that.
He taught him something crazy.
So one day, they were in the living
room.
The father was sitting on the couch, and
the brother was praying.
And while the brother was praying, there was
an ant crawling on the floor.
Remember the story?
There was an ant crawling on the floor.
And as the ant was walking, right when
it was about to cross the brother, the
ant stopped and then went in a different
direction.
Okay, chill.
So after the prayer, the younger brother, he
looked at his dad and his dad said,
yeah, I saw it too.
Take me to the masjid.
They're doing beautiful now.
But an ant crawling on the floor was
the reason that brought him into the masjid.
And so we never judge, never, ever judge.
A lot of people, they say, oh, you're
marrying a Muslim, oh, so you want to
take your conversion.
Oh, that's why.
And we start to think all of these
things.
La, Imam Malik says some people come into
this deen because they want the dunya, and
then this deen becomes more beloved to them
than the entire dunya.
But here's the thing.
This army had 12,000 people with it.
And 2,000 of them had just become
Muslim in Mecca or they weren't even Muslim
yet.
And the Prophet, he knows they're new, but
he's creating a community of inclusiveness.
He's creating a community of inclusiveness where it
doesn't matter if you just came in, you're
going to roll with us.
Come on.
And so I want you to understand that
a large number of this army that was
going out to deal with another problem, many
of them were new.
And some of them weren't even Muslim.
As they were going, a mentality started to
creep up.
Because up until now, brothers and sisters, this
was the largest army that had ever fought
under Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalam, 12,000 soldiers.
This was the largest army ever.
And so a feeling started to creep up.
One of the new Muslims, he said, we
can never lose today due to numbers.
We can never lose today due to numbers.
Now the deep believers understand something profound.
We never win based on numbers.
We never win based on material.
You being pushed forward in life, the successes,
the W's that you get in life was
never based on material.
It was only from Allah.
And the deep believers, they knew this.
This was embedded in their heart.
But guess what?
Because of the number of people that were
new and even non-Muslims with them, this
mentality started to spread.
What mentality?
We can't lose today.
Look at our numbers.
There's too many of us to lose today.
And this is important to understand because I
don't care how high you get in spiritual
like ranks, I don't care how high you
get, company will always affect you.
Company will always affect you.
And what's amazing is the Sahaba, the companions,
they never said with their tongue, oh, we'll
never lose because of numbers.
But the mentality crept in.
And what's crazy is because iman is all
about having the right mentality.
Iman is always, iman, deep iman is about
the right mentality.
And company is what shapes mentality.
Company is what shapes mentality.
Sit with somebody who's killing it in business
for like two hours, bro, your YouTube stream
gonna change like crazy.
All of a sudden, it shifts.
Company is not that company affects your actions.
You're like, yo, whenever I'm around such and
such, I still pray.
I still do this.
I still do that.
But my question is, but do you think
the same way?
Do you think the same way?
Because low key company, what it affects is
thinking and thinking is iman.
I was talking to a friend today and
he called me and this friend, mashallah, man,
he, mashallah.
He was talking and he was like, I
could feel like he was on some other
level.
Right.
And he was like, bro, I was just
chilling with Sheikh such and such.
And life looks different now, yo.
I was like, did you talk to him?
He's like, no, I was just near him,
bro.
I was just around him.
And he told me this today and I
was preparing for the talk and it was
just, it's just company shapes who you are.
And these were sahaba.
These were people that had spent 10 years
with the best of company.
But the, but having those mentalities around was
very detrimental.
So the sahaba never said it.
And I'm going to share this hadith.
The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he said, al
mar'u ala dini khalilihi, fal yanzur mayyu
khalil.
That a person will always be on the
religion, the way of life, the mentality of
the person that they are friends with.
And then the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
fal yanzur, look closely at who you khalil,
that you keep company with.
You keep company with.
So my, what I gained from this is,
it doesn't matter how high you go in
spirituality.
You always have to watch the company because
they shape how you think.
So what happened?
This mentality started to seep in, yo.
Oh, we can't lose today.
It's 12,000 of us.
We won in Badr with 300.
We won in the battle of Muta, which
was 200,000 versus the numbers we had.
We can't lose today.
Company impacts us, how we think.
So this mentality is creeping in.
And they continue to travel.
They're traveling to the place where they're going
to confront the enemy.
And on their way there, because there's a
lot of new Muslims.
They pass by a tree, and this was
a big tree.
And this was a tree that was, had
different things hanging on it.
And there was a superstition from the Arabs
that if you wanted to get something done,
you go hang a ribbon on it, you
put a sword on it, you make a
dua, you slaughter an animal, you do something
like that near this tree, your prayers will
be answered.
We're Muslims, we don't do that.
And we know that for many years.
That's not how we roll.
We want something, we turn to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, that's it.
But we have new company with us.
So they're passing by the tree and they
look at the Rasul.
And they say to Rasulullah, Ya Rasulullah, it
would be nice in Islam if we could
have a tree like this too.
You know, a tree we hang stuff up.
Rasulullah ﷺ, he gets angry, he gets upset.
And he says, you're saying the exact same
things.
He says, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
قُلْتُمْ وَالَّذِى نَفْسِ مُحَمَّد بِيَدِي He says, you're
saying the same thing, I swear by God.
You're saying the same exact words that the
people of Moses said when Allah freed them.
Real quick history lesson.
Bani Israel was freed from servitude, slavehood and
everything they were going, and oppression under Pharaoh.
But the moment they got free, they said
these words, اِجْعَلْ لَنَا اِلَٰهَا كَمَا لَهُمْ آلِهَا
They saw these people worshipping something.
They said, Moses, you should make something for
us to worship too.
You should make us something.
And so the Prophet ﷺ in this moment,
he gets angry and he says, والله, our
ummah, and listen closely, our ummah will walk
step by step in the same footprints of
the previous ummahs before us.
This is profound because it teaches you to
study the history of the previous religions because
the Prophet ﷺ is saying, these are cycles
that the message goes through.
And whatever the Jews went through, our ummah
will go through too.
Whatever the Christians went through, our ummah will
go through too.
Be on guard, be aware of that.
Walk the straight path, but understand, we will
follow through the same things that they went
through.
Study history.
And here's the thing, they were new Muslims,
they were stuck in an old mentality.
They were stuck in this mental construct of
shirk.
Like this is what we do.
And the Prophet ﷺ is saying, look, it's
new now.
You have to get rid of all that.
You have to let go of that baggage
and move forward.
Get rid of what was behind you.
The Prophet ﷺ, they arrive.
They're getting close to the battlefield where they
expect the tribe of Hawazin to be.
And as we're getting closer, it's early morning.
And in order to get to the battlefield,
there's like this deep valley that they have
to descend into.
I want you to picture it because this
is a very profound moment in the life
of the Prophet ﷺ.
They have to descend into this valley, the
Muslims, this army of 12,000.
And it's very steep, so it's difficult to
go down.
But in order to get to where they
need to, they have to go through this
valley.
And so as they're going down into the
valley and as everyone starts to get into
the valley, all of a sudden, from the
sides of the valley, from the front of
the valley, the tribe of Hawazin attacks.
This is different.
They never experienced this type of surprise attack
before.
This never had happened before.
Normally, the armies would line up.
Two people would come out, fight each other
first, and then the war would begin.
This was completely different.
And so the entire 20,000 soldiers that
were against them attack them all at once.
While they're in this valley, from above and
from in front, they were caught off guard.
In this moment, everyone starts to flee.
Everyone.
They all start to run.
All of the new Muslims, they've just been
Muslim 19 days.
They've just been Muslim 19 days.
They don't have Uhud under their belt.
They don't have Badr under their belt.
They don't have these things.
They start to run.
The mushrikeen, the non-Muslims who are with
us, they've been dibbed.
They've been dibbed.
I didn't sign up for this.
And they all start to flee.
The Prophet ﷺ, he stands firm.
This halaqa began by studying who he was,
by looking at his character, how gentle he
was, how soft he was, how loving he
was, how compassionate he was, how brilliant he
was ﷺ.
But he wouldn't be complete if he didn't
have the quality of bravery.
He wouldn't be complete without the quality of
bravery.
And in this moment, the Prophet ﷺ, he's
standing in this valley as arrows are showering
down.
And as the army in front is trying
to push forward.
And everyone is fleeing.
There's only a small group.
Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali.
There's only a small group staying with the
Prophet ﷺ.
Abbas, Abu Sufyan.
And the Prophet ﷺ, he calls out, إِلَيَّا
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسِ He says, come back, come
back everyone.
Come back.
أنا رسول الله.
I'm a Prophet of Allah.
Why are y'all running?
I'm a Prophet of Allah.
Don't run.
Come back.
No one turned back.
They keep running.
Again, we notice something.
The Sahaba never ran before, y'all.
But when everybody else starts running, if you,
like me, other black people do, like, what's
going on over there?
Nah, you run.
Sorry, I had to.
No, when everyone else around you is running,
even those who are strong, they start to
have, again, company affects mentality.
And mentality affects actions.
So everyone starts fleeing.
The Prophet ﷺ in this moment, I want
you to imagine this army in front of
him.
I want you to imagine the arrows coming
down from every direction.
I want you to imagine him seeing the
companions in this massive army of theirs fleeing
and running away.
And in that moment, the Prophet ﷺ, he's
on a mule.
He's not on a camel or a horse.
He's on a mule.
And he's pushing forward.
He's pushing forward.
And as he's pushing forward, our Habib ﷺ,
he's saying, أنا نبي لا كذب.
أنا ابن عبد المطلب.
He goes, I'm a prophet in the face
of this fearful thing.
He says, I'm a prophet.
أنا نبي لا كذب.
This isn't a lie.
أنا ابن عبد المطلب.
I'm the son of...
You know what's crazy?
What's crazy is, by him saying his name,
he becomes a target more.
Because he's the one they want.
But he knows who he is.
He's confident in the help of God.
And so in this moment, with arrows flying
past in every direction, Rasulullah ﷺ is sitting
there chanting, I'm a prophet of Allah.
لا كذب.
I'm the son of Abdul Muttalib.
And he's moving forward.
And the scholars say, this is nothing but
pure trust and tawakkul in Allah.
And pure bravery.
The Sahaba they say, when war used to
get serious, we used to...
We used to...
We used to use his bravery as a
shield.
Sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
So this same man who would be in
the masjid rolling on the ground with his
grandchildren, this is him.
This same man that would go and hug
people and cry, hold on one second.
This is the man, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, who
someone came to Medina looking for him.
And they said, where is the guy who
kisses his grandchildren at?
He was so different because of his love
and affection.
But by no means was he scared.
By no means was he soft.
In this moment, he's pushing forward.
Abbas is holding the reins of his mule.
And Abu Sufyan is holding the back.
And the Prophet is urging them forward, keep
moving forward.
He gets down from the mule.
And as he's getting down, he makes a
dua, O Allah, nazil nasrak.
O Allah, give us your help.
O Allah, give us your help.
O Allah, if you want, you won't be
worshipped anymore.
Meaning, if you want to wipe us out,
we'll be wiped out.
But there'll be no more believers on this
earth.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam see
this beautiful man.
He began to fight with his sword.
With everyone fleeing and running back except for
a few, 10, 12, 15 people around him.
He's fighting.
يقاتلوا والصحابة الذين ثبتوا And those who stayed
with him, they're next to him fighting as
well.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, there's a man, his
name is Shaybah.
Shaybah bin Uthman.
Shaybah bin Uthman came with the 12,000
from Mecca.
But he wasn't Muslim.
And Shaybah bin Uthman, his father was killed
in Badr.
He has emotional trauma, deep emotional trauma.
He said, I'm going to Hunayn, I'm going
to this battle for one reason.
I'm going to kill Muhammad when I get
a chance.
That's it.
That's the only reason I'm going.
He tells the story, it's a profound story.
He says, اليوم اليوم أدرك ثأرة من محمد
Today is the day that I get my
revenge from Muhammad.
A deep, deep emotional trauma.
This man Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam is the
cause for my father being dead.
Everyone is freeing and he sees, he sees
an opportunity.
He goes, this is the perfect time.
But when he looks, he sees Abu Bakr
in front.
He sees Umar on the side.
He sees another Sahabi on the side.
He sees someone else on the side.
He sees that on every direction there's someone
surrounding the Prophet while they fight.
And he thinks and he says to himself,
فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ مَمْنُوعٌ Ah, I knew in this
moment this man was off guards to me.
I couldn't get to him.
And he says, while I was thinking this,
it's in the middle of the battle and
I'm thinking this.
He says, التفت إلي رسول Rasul Sallallahu alayhi
wasallam he didn't looked at me right in
the eyes.
والتفت إلي And he says, يا شيبه يا
شيبه Middle of the battle, things are intense.
He looks this man in the eyes.
Who he never met before.
And he calls him by his first name.
يا شيبه يا شيبه ادنوا مني Come close
to me.
فَدَنَا He came close to the Rasul Sallallahu
alayhi wasallam.
Got through, got close to him.
The Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam touched him on
his chest.
Touched him.
This man with emotional trauma.
This man who has lost a father.
This man with so much going on in
his heart.
Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam understood something that till
today we struggle to understand how powerful touch
is.
How powerful touch is.
There's a shab in this room right now.
Every time I see him, he gives me
this hug.
Wallahi, the hug is curing.
Wallahi, and you probably know who he is
because he hug you the same way.
You get that hug, you're like, yeah, okay,
alhamdulillah.
Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam understood the power of
touch.
He says, Shaybah, come here.
I know you.
I know what you're going through.
You need someone to touch you.
You need someone to let you know you're
loved and things will be okay.
And so he places his hand on Shaybah's
chest.
And he says, اللهم أذهب عنه الشيطان He
says, oh Allah, take Shaytan away from this
man.
Shaytan has him trapped in that trauma.
Let him out.
Let him free himself from that trauma from
years ago.
Free him, ya Allah.
Shaybah says, I, my head was, I was
looking down.
And he said, فرفعت بصري إلي He says,
as he touched me and then said that,
mind you, in the middle of a war,
ya Allah.
In the middle of the battle.
This man is healing hearts.
In the middle of a battle and you
don't got time to pick up your friend's
phone call.
Your friend's having trauma, having some issues, needs
someone to talk to.
You see the call, you're like, nah, that's
gonna be like 20 minutes right there.
لَحَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَةَ إِلَى بِاللَّهِ Pick up that
phone call.
Pick up the phone call.
Allah is helping you when you're helping someone
else.
Rasulullah ﷺ was in the middle of the
battle, surrounded and fighting.
He sees this man with trauma and issues
inside.
He says, Shaybah, come here.
Shaybah says, how do you even know my
name?
He says, come here.
Proximity.
I need you close to me.
I can't heal you from a distance.
I need you close.
Shaybah comes close.
Rasulullah ﷺ touches him.
He needed to be touched.
He needed to be touched.
The Arabs in that time, they didn't touch
for affection.
They didn't touch for affection.
And that's why when they saw the Prophet
hugging children, kissing children, they said, what's up
with this dude?
But he taught us something, the power of
touch.
And then he says, oh Allah, remove Shaytan
from him.
Meaning you can have trauma and trauma is
real.
Trauma is real.
But Shaytan lets it stay.
Shaytan keeps you focused on it.
And you need someone to help you release
that.
He says, I was looking down.
And then I lifted my eyes.
فَرَفَعْتُ إِلَيْهِ بَصَرِ I lifted my eyes and
looked at him.
And he says, وَلَهُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِن سَمِعِ
وَبَصِرِ وَنَسْسِ He says, I looked him in
the eyes.
And in that moment, I loved him more.
It's ajeeb.
He goes, I loved him more than my
hearing, my sight, and my own self.
وَأَذْحَبَ اللَّهُ مَا كَانَ لِي And all the
trauma that I was feeling, I was free.
It was gone.
The Prophet ﷺ looks at him.
And he goes, ya Shaybah, go fight.
We ain't got time for this right now.
I just helped you.
You're good.
Can you help me fight?
He says, ya Shaybah, فَاطِلَ الْكُفَار Go fight,
bro.
But look, subhanAllah, subhanAllah.
Shaybah says, after the battle, we're still in
the battle, but you got to see Shaybah's
story.
Shaybah goes, after the battle, I went to
the Prophet's tent.
So obviously we won.
I mean, y'all already know we Muslim
today, so you know we won.
But if there was a cliffhanger, you know.
So he goes, I went to the Prophet's
tent after the battle because I just wanted
to see his face again.
He goes, he's not Muslim yet, y'all.
In that moment, that whole thing, he didn't
become Muslim.
He didn't become Muslim.
He goes, I just wanted to see that
face, that face that helped me in my
moment get over my trauma.
I wanted to see that face again.
He goes, I walked in the door and
the Prophet looked at me.
And he said, قَالَ He said, أَلَّذِي أَرَادَكَ
بِكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا أَرَادَ مِنكَ النَّفْسُكَ He
said, the thing that God wanted from you
was better than what your nafs wanted from
you.
Like your nafs wanted something.
It wanted to kill me.
It wanted to do wrong.
It wanted to dwell on the trauma and
thinking that revenge would remove the trauma.
But Allah wanted something better for you.
In that moment, finally Shaibah goes, Can I
take the shahada now?
Can I become Muslim now?
I've seen it all.
I got it.
And he takes shahada in that moment.
He takes shahada in that moment.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is fighting still,
back to the battle.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in the
thick of fighting.
But the Sahaba, many of them have run
away.
Their flight instincts kicked in.
Rasulullah tells Abbas, his uncle, who's holding on
to his mule.
He says, Abbas, Abbas had a very deep
and loud voice.
He says, Ya Abbas, call out, O people
of the tree.
Call out, O muhajireen.
Call out, O ansar.
Hold on one second.
This is profound.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he called,
he said, Everyone come back.
But no one came back.
So the Prophet tells Abbas, I want you
to call these people by a moment in
their life that was profound.
Ashab al-Shajarah are the people that took
a pledge on the Prophet's hand, Bayat al
-Ridwan.
It was under the tree of Hudaybiyyah.
They pledged that we'll fight for you no
matter what.
So instead of calling them generally, he calls
them by a moment in their life that
was transformative.
So Abbas calls out, O people of the
tree, come back.
And then he calls out, O muhajireen, come
back.
O ansar, come back.
They heard it and they started to turn.
They started to turn and come back.
Labayk, labayk, we're coming.
One of the Sahaba says that the fighting
was so intense that when I tried to
turn my horse, my horse wouldn't turn because
the horse is not going to go back.
So he says that I grabbed my armor,
I threw it on my shoulders, I jumped
off the horse and I start running.
Abbas says, the moment he says, فَوَاللَّهِ لَكَ
أَنَّ الْأَطِفَهُمْ هِينَ سَمِعُوا صَوْتِي أَطِفَ الْبَقْرَ عَلَىٰ
أَوْلَادِهَا He goes, when they heard me call
them by this call, it was just like
a cow who hears the bleating of its
calf and how it just instinctively runs to
it.
See what's amazing?
Their flight instincts made them run, but their
ruh turned them around.
Their soul, their ruh brought them back.
And so they all start to come back.
They were reminded, wait, wait, why are we
running?
We don't run.
They all came back.
As the Sahaba all come back.
As the Sahaba, hold on, there's another side
story.
As I told you, there were a number
of non-Muslims and many of them were
leaders of the non-Muslims.
When everyone fled, they kind of hit off
in the cut.
And they actually just started watching.
Because they had just 19 days earlier been
conquered.
So they're talking like, oh, today they'll lose.
Today it's over.
Finally, all the magic of Muhammad is over
today.
Ikramah bin Abi Jahl.
Ikramah, the son of Abu Jahl.
Abu Jahl is the nemesis of the Rasul.
He is the pharaoh of this ummah.
His son is Muslim now, but he's only
been Muslim for 19 days.
But just because you just became Muslim doesn't
mean your iman isn't through the roof already.
He looks at them and he says, are
y'all crazy?
They're gonna win.
They'll always win.
Because they're fighting for Allah.
Even if they lose, they'll come back and
be victorious again.
Because this isn't about Muhammad.
It's not about Mecca.
It's about Allah.
I share that story because throughout the story
we were saying, oh, the new Muslims cause
this, the new Muslims cause this.
This was a new Muslim.
His iman was in 19 days.
It was up here.
So the Prophet ﷺ, everyone comes back.
And this is one of my favorite moments
of the Rasul ﷺ.
The sahaba come back.
And now the fighting intensifies.
I don't know if you're able to appreciate
it.
Maybe I appreciate it differently.
As all the sahaba came back and now
the fighting actually begun.
And it's intense, intense.
The Prophet ﷺ stands in the stirrups of
his mule.
And he stands up.
So he's looking over the entire battlefield.
And he goes, الآن حمي الوطيس.
He goes, now it's lit in here.
Now it's going down.
Now let's go.
I don't know, for me, I get goosebumps,
man.
At who he was.
So gentle but so strong.
So compassionate but so, but so, but so
firm when he needed to be firm.
And so as the battle intensifies, where does
he go?
Oh, it's hot in here now.
Let's go.
It's go time.
It's like you're playing ball and it gets
like lit.
No, whatever, yo.
I need some pickleball examples.
Y'all might get it or something.
Oh no.
The Prophet ﷺ, he comes down from his
camel because he's hyped now.
It's going down now.
We're not running, we're fighting.
We're standing up for لا إله إلا الله
محمد رسول الله Everyone came back.
The Prophet ﷺ, he picks up sand.
This was a miracle of the Rasul.
He did this multiple times in his life.
He takes the sand and he throws it
in the direction of the battle.
And all of the kuffar after the battle,
they say, all of our eyes.
We immediately have to start rubbing our eyes
because there's sand in our eyes while the
sahaba continue to fight.
رضي الله تعالى عنه He picks it up
and he says, وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ Be defeated by
the Lord of the Ka'bah.
Be defeated by the Lord of the Ka
'bah.
Rasulullah ﷺ, the Quran tells us that after
that, the angels were sent down to support
and help and to assist the believers.
The Hawazin, when they came for this battle,
they brought a lot of spoils of war
to this battle.
More than had ever been seen before.
And the leader actually brought it because he
said, our soldiers will fight more if they
see all of the money and their possessions.
If they see it here, they'll fight more.
And so Rasulullah ﷺ, the battle is over
and Rasulullah ﷺ tells everyone, gather all of
the spoils of war and take them over
to a place called Jiarana and gather them
there.
We'll deal with it later.
Before I go forward, I want to highlight
what the Quran says.
وَلَقَدْ نَصْرَكُمُ اللَّهُ فِي مَوَاتِنَ كَثِيرَ وَيَوْمَ هُنَيْنَ
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, there's only two
battles mentioned in the Quran by name.
The battle of Badr and the battle of
this battle we just talked about.
Badr was special because we dug deep.
You know why this one was special?
Because something happened to us that never happened
before.
Vanity.
إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ Allah says, this is Quran.
إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ The day when your numbers
impressed you.
In Arabic this is called Ujjab, vanity.
And it's one of the most destructive, destructive
spiritual diseases a person could develop in themselves.
Yes, you have to be confident and know
that Allah is blessing you.
But here's the deal.
Your wealth, your health, your job, all of
that is from God.
It's not you.
What's the solution to Ujjab?
You feel it creeping in.
You start, you get in your car, you're
like, yeah, you know, I'm kind of like,
yeah, nah.
How do you fight that?
Number one, whatever blessings you have, Allah gave
you blessing because He wants to see them
on you.
There was a man that one came, once
came in front of the Prophet.
So I said, you know this Hadith.
He came in front of the Prophet and
he wasn't like dressed in an appropriate way.
And the Prophet, so I said to him,
I said, do you have money?
And the man goes, yeah, I have money.
He said, what type of money?
He says, I got all types of assets.
No, seriously.
He goes, I got cows, I got camels,
I got like, he says, Allah loves to
see the sign of His blessing on the
servant.
Now all y'all gonna get new cars.
So I'm worried about sharing these Hadith.
He said, Allah loves to see His blessing
on you.
Allah loves to see His blessing on you.
There was a Sahabi who came to Rasul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he said, he wanted
some nice sandals, kicks, right?
And he said, is it okay that I
get this?
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ
يُحِبُّ الْجِمَالِ Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.
Rock the kicks.
He didn't say rock the kicks.
He said, Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.
But here's the deal.
What happens is, listen closely.
When you start to look at the blessing
too much, you start to forget the blesser.
That's it.
When you start to look at the car
too much, you forget who gave it to
you.
You look at the job too much, you
forget who put you through school, who gave
you that intellect.
You look at your beauty too much, some
of y'all think y'all fine.
Every time you look in the mirror, you
walk through, you stop.
You know, you be walking, you like...
Right?
You know what's funny?
We're laughing because everybody does it.
You walk past the mirror, come back.
Like, why you coming back, bro?
Like, Allah blessed you with beauty.
Alhamdulillah.
We look at the blessing too much, forget
the blesser.
And so the lesson in this moment and
what was the cause of the temporary loss,
it was a loss in the beginning.
Everyone fleed.
They fled.
Why?
Allah said, إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ And my other
advice around ujjab, vanity, surround yourself with people
that will motivate you, but keep you grounded
by reminding you it's from Allah.
You don't need haters.
Who needs haters?
You need people that love you for the
sake of Allah.
They'll motivate you, but the moment you start
to get...
That's what you need in your life.
That's the people that you need around you.
So this was the lesson that was being
taught in the battle of Hunayn.
Before we conclude, I want to share one
more beautiful thing that happened right after Fatih
Mecca.
When the Prophet, the Prophet ﷺ, he grew
up in Mecca.
He loves Mecca more than anything, right?
When he left for Hijrah, he looked back
at the city and he said, How pure
are you?
Speaking to the city, he said, How pure
are you?
Wallahi, I would never leave you if they
didn't make me leave you.
He loved Mecca more than anything.
Now when he comes back to Mecca and
they conquer Mecca, some of the Ansar from
Medina, the youngins, they started to say some
stuff.
They started to say, You know, do y
'all think he gonna stay here now?
You think he's gonna, he's gonna stay here
and not come back with us?
I mean, I mean, Mecca's conquered, his home.
He can come back here now.
This is his home.
And words started to spread a little bit
like the Prophet ﷺ called the Sahaba, called
them together.
And he said, I heard what you guys
were saying.
He said, My place of death is your
place of death.
My life is your life.
I live with you, I'll die with you.
I'm staying with you no matter what.
I'm not going anywhere.
They said by the time the Prophet was
done speaking, they had tears in their eyes.
Had tears in their eyes.
After Hunayn, the soldiers that were fighting us,
they fled.
And they went different places.
But the primary place they went was Ta
'if.
Now y'all gotta remember what Ta'if
is.
Ta'if was the hardest day in the
life of Rasulullah ﷺ.
It was the day he went with no
support after his wife had died, Khadijah.
And after Abu Talib had died, his uncle.
He went to Ta'if looking for support,
looking for someone.
And not only did they not give him
the hospitality that was customary for all Arabs,
they kicked him out of the city stoning
him.
With his foster son right next to him.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he moves all of
the soldiers to Ta'if.
Ta'if was a major city.
It was surrounded by a fortress.
There was no way to enter.
The people of Ta'if had food for
a year inside.
Food for a year.
The Prophet ﷺ stays there for 15 or
16 days trying to conquer Ta'if to
get them to come out.
And there's no success.
A few things happened in that moment.
Ta'if, subhanAllah.
Ta'if also in the tribe in between
these two cities, there was a tribe that
may be familiar to us called Banu Sa'd.
If it doesn't ring a bell, it's the
tribe that he was suckled as a baby
in by Halima.
And it was in these days that he
was in front of Ta'if that lo
and behold, two people show up to meet
him and take shahada.
His mother Halima who raised him at the
age of four to seven to eight.
She raised him.
She took care of him.
She called him son.
She comes, she's taking shahada.
But first, who comes first?
Halima's daughter, Shayma.
Because in order for her to be a
wet nurse, she has to have milk, meaning
she has to have a baby, right?
So she had a daughter named Shayma.
And Shayma comes.
And she goes, do you know who I
am?
And this is 40, 50 years later.
And she shows a mark on her neck
up here.
Or on the shoulder, I can't remember exactly.
And he remembers.
When he was a baby, he bit her
while they were playing.
So Halima, she comes and she takes shahada.
Shayma, she comes and she takes shahada.
Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam, after a few days,
there was no way to get into Ta
'if.
So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam said, let's leave
Ta'if.
They tried, they tried.
They tried very hard.
They were leaving Ta'if.
And the people, they said, ya Rasulullah, make
dua against them.
Because at the end of the day, if
we can't win, we have a prophet of
Allah.
So like, more jizas, miracles can happen here.
So they're leaving.
And they say, ya Rasulullah, just make dua
against them.
Make dua against these people.
This is the second time in his life
he's being given the opportunity to make dua
against these people.
What do you think he's going to say
now?
He raises his hands.
They think it's about to come down.
He raises his hands.
And he says, oh Allah, bring them with
mercy and guide them, ya Allah.
Bring them with mercy and guide them.
Bring them to me guided, ya Allah.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, they head back
to Ja'rana.
When they get to Ja'rana, you have
to understand, as I said before, there are
thousands of new Muslims and hundreds of non
-Muslims that were just in this army.
And it comes time for the prophet to
distribute all of the spoils of war to
everyone who participated.
This is a big moment.
I know we only have a few moments
left.
So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, the amount
of spoils in this battle were unprecedented.
Nothing like this had ever come before.
So what does the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
begin to do?
He begins to give thousands, hundreds of things
to individual people.
So he calls one person, Oyeyna.
He calls him and he says, لك ألف
جبل.
He calls Abu Sufyan, for you a thousand
camels, for you a thousand this, a thousand
that.
And so he's giving all of this massive
amount of wealth to people who are either
not Muslim yet or just had converted.
And they're all coming and they're saying this
man gives like someone who doesn't fear poverty.
This man is different and he's giving and
he's giving and he's giving.
Now I want you to imagine something.
We'll conclude with this.
You've been grinding with the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam for the last 18, 20 years.
And now my man who just took shahada
20 days ago just got 50 grand, just
got a thousand camels, which till today is
worth a lot.
He's just giving and giving and giving.
So just like you thought, the young Sahaba
from Ansar, they start thinking the same thing.
They go, he's given to them and he's
going to be back with his people.
He's not coming back with us.
He's giving to these people.
They're young and they start spreading it around.
I'm going to conclude.
They start spreading this around.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam gets word.
Sa'd bin Ubadah comes and he says, Ya
Rasulullah, the Ansar are saying this.
The prophet looks at him and he says,
What do you say?
He goes, I'm one of my people.
You know what I mean?
Like, I can't understand why you're giving these
people so much either.
20 days ago we were fighting against them.
Today you're giving them everything.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Please gather
all the Ansar in one room and tell
me when they're all there.
Listen closely.
They come, they say, Ya Rasulullah, the Ansar
are all gathered together.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he comes into
the room and he says, Is there anyone
who's not an Ansar in here?
They go, No, we're all from Ansar.
And the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he says,
You supported me when no one supported me.
You believed in me when the whole world
disbelieved in me.
You gave me a home when I was
homeless.
I had nothing.
You gave me everything and if you told
me that you gave me everything, I would
confirm it in front of the entire world
that you supported me when no one was
there.
And he says, What is this that you're
saying?
Are you angry at me that I give
people sheep and goats so that their Iman
gets stronger, so that they get stronger in
faith, so that they say, Oh, Islam is
so nice, look how rich I got.
Are you angry with me that I gave
them things of this dunya to make their
Iman stronger?
He's like, and this is the part and
we'll end.
He says, Does it not please you that
they go home with sheep and camel and
you go home with me?
Does it not please you?
All of them, they said, We're happy, Ya
Rasulullah.
He said, I trust that your Iman was
strong.
I gave them all these things because they
were weak.
You're strong.
You don't need goats and sheep to stay
Muslim.
You don't need money.
You got me.
But these people are new.
We got to win their hearts over.
And after that, the entire room was weeping.
And they said, We're happy, Ya Rasulullah.
We're happy, Ya Rasulullah.
We misunderstood, Ya Rasulullah.
We misunderstood, Ya Rasulullah.
So this was a major moment in the
life of the Rasul, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
We gather to appreciate the beauty, the strength,
the qualities that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
had.
We gather in order to read these verses
of Quran that remind us about these spiritual
diseases.
And we hope and we beg and we
ask Allah to give us these qualities in
our hearts that make us more like him,
salallahu alayhi wasalam.
We ask Allah to give us company that
helps shape our mentality in a prophetic way.
We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
protect us from the company that will negatively
influence our mentality and our thinking.
We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
place in our lives people that will touch
us and help us heal the same way
Shaybah was touched and healed by Rasulullah, salallahu
alayhi wasalam.
Subhanak Allahumma wa bihamdik.
Nashhadu la ilaha illa anta.
Nastaghfiru wa tubu ilayk.
Subhanarabbika rabbil-izzati amma yasifoon.
Wassalamu ala al-mursaleen.
Walhamdulillahi rabbil-alameen.
Jazakumullahu khair.
May Allah accept from us, inshallah.
This masjid prays at 8.45, inshallah ta
'ala.
May Allah accept.
Assalamu alaykum.