Mirza Yawar Baig – Jewels from the Seerah – Lessons from Sulah Hudaybiyyah – Session 2 by

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The success of peace is due to actions of the people, and living peacefully with neighbors is crucial for achieving long-term goals. Short-term goals are not necessary, and following Islam requires trusting oneself and others. The challenges of respecting leaders and obeying leaders are discussed, along with the importance of building credibility and trust in situations. It is crucial to protect the Muslims' lives and their community.

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			Having talked about the events
		
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			of Libya, I quickly want to summarize and look at the lessons that we learn from who they were some
of the lessons we've already mentioned as we were talking about the event, but just to quickly
summarize and put them all together in one place. There are eight main lessons that we can take away
from today. The first one
		
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			is the effect of peace.
		
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			And how this helped Islam and the Muslims
		
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			in alhaja, Alaska, Allah Allah,
		
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			who he quoted him our summary, or Delano around Talalay, who was a teacher of Imam Malik been Anna's
and was a student of Abdullah Omar.
		
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			So even though Hydra Kalani in his book, fertile bury, which is the commentary on say Buhari, he
said that Imam Zuma, he said that there is no victory greater than the victory of Abia, including
the victory of Allah. Now, this may sound like a strange statement, because we are saying here that
we are used to thinking of butter as the greatest victory. And indeed, it was a very great victory,
no doubt about that. But it was loaded onto Lally saying that the victory of the baby and remember,
he's not saying defeat, he's not saying even the treaty, he's calling it a victory. So is it a
victory of the Obeah is greater victory than any other victory that the Muslims had, including the
		
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			victory about it, because of the consequences of it? And he said, as a consequence of Davia, Islam
spread the fastest after whatever, because of the effect of peace? Is it because of the effect of
peace? People from who are not Muslim, were able to see the lives of ordinary Muslims up close.
Muslims were able to recite Quran to them, they were able to ask questions with the Muslims answered
for them, and so on. And the result was, again, the words of Imam Azula Talalay, he said anyone who
could think became Muslim. Now imagine this is the
		
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			this is the commentary of one of the greatest scholars of this OMA great Hadith. And the teacher of
the likes of Imam Malik when Anna's artillery who was himself one of the greatest trapeze, one of
the greatest jurists, and the founder of the Maliki school,
		
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			Maliki Messiah. So here he is saying that who the Obeah was the greatest victory because of its
consequence. So it's not. The lesson for us here is that you don't just look at an incident of what
happened at that point in time. You also see what was the result of this incident? What were the
outcomes of this incident? What were the consequences of this incident, as a result of which, then
you are able to look at the incident and decide whether this incident was good, or to what extent
was good. So it was a great victory. And the greatest proof of this was that, if you remember I said
to you that 1400 People went with Ross Ross, and I sell them for ombre at the time of who they were.
		
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			But two years later, when the sorcerer went to market with an army because the correlation broke on
the GT and we look at all of that in the next lecture or whatever.
		
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			Two years later, in ATDD, when Russell was meant to Makkah, his army consists consisted of 10,000
people. So we had 1400 People in the first instance, we had 10,000 People in the second instance.
And all of that conversion happened within that two year period. So if I was already said that in
these two years, more people came to Islam, then had come in the 19 years preceding Arabia. So they
were in 6313 years in Makkah, which makes it 19 years since the announcement of the result of Salah.
And in that process of 19 years, the number of people who came to Islam, the people who came to
Islam two years after they were exceeded that number, which came to Islam in the 19 years preceding
		
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			who they were because of the atmosphere of peace, and that's the reason why it shows us the
importance of harmony, importance of living peacefully with neighbors. And you know, here we are
talking about peace between Muslims and non Muslims very clearly, Muslims or non Muslims. Most of
the non Muslims were qualities they were idle worshipping people. There were some Christians there
were some Jewish people, but other than that they were all non Muslim people, yet they live together
in harmony. As a result of which the Muslims were able to press
		
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			Islam, and people came into Islam not because of force not because not by the sword, not because of
any bribery or anything, but purely because they saw the life of an ordinary Muslim up close. I also
remind myself and I asked you this question, how many people how many non Muslim friends do we have,
we have plenty, and lots of non Muslim friends. We have non Muslim people working with us on a daily
basis in our businesses in our employment, places and climate. We have non Muslim employees with us,
in our homes in elsewhere, people who help us run the house and so on and so forth. How many of them
come to Islam because they look at our lives.
		
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			And we aren't any Muslims in our story did not say that Muslim people came to Islam because they saw
the life of Muhammad Salah salah, he said people came to Islam because they saw the life of ordinary
Muslims up close. He's talking about the lives of farmers of carpenters of, of people who were
herdsman and people who are shepherds, people who were ordinary Muslims of the time, their lives
were so beautiful, their lives were so full of goodness, that non Muslims who came and met them, who
dealt with them, who did business with them, who met them in the marketplace, they were attracted
towards Islam. So this will they be and this comment of Imam was around a lot, it is a indicator,
		
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			and it's a lesson for us to learn in presenting Islam, not by lectures, not by other means, but by
our own personal behavior, conduct and manners. So this is a beautiful example from this era.
		
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			Now, second, very important point. Second important lesson in who they are,
		
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			is who they are, is a classic lesson about the importance of sacrificing short term goals for long,
long term results, importance of sacrificing short term goals for long term gains.
		
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			It's like one of my friends, I remember telling me once, he said, If you want an arrow to go far, if
you want an arrow to go far, you have to draw it back. So if you draw it this much, it will fall
here to draw it all the way back, then it goes far. So sometimes you have to accept a position
		
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			which apparently looks like defeat, apparently looks like loss, but it's not lost. In the wrong
term, that position is far better for you, rather than if you had pushed through at that point and
used aggression or something else to get your
		
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			to gain your to get what you want whatever you wanted at the time. So even though the short term
goal might be a good goal, you know, very desirable, but you give it up in the interest of long term
gains. Think about it in a very small and simple example, almost on a daily basis, where you do not
argue with somebody, you do not engage with somebody in a an argument which might result in the
breaking or straining of a friendship. So you don't want to win an argument and lose a friend. That
is a very small and easy to understand example of sacrificing short term goals for long term gains.
I don't want to win an argument and in the process, I have lost a friend because of this argument.
		
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			So similarly many other things. Let us examine our own lives and say, in today's lives, what are the
short term gains that we are holding on to as a result of which we are sacrificing our long term
goals? Horse before Josh, Josh, which is passionate and so on, very important in life, you must have
that. Without passion, you can achieve anything, but you also can't achieve anything without wisdom.
Horse is understanding it wisdom, you can't and you cannot achieve anything without that. And if you
try to give resilience to the passion or the wisdom, then you end up in loss because you can out of
sheer passion. You take an action which is unwise, as a result of which it results in a lot of loss.
		
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			And again, may Allah protect us. There are enough examples of this in our lives, both personally and
collectively as the Muslim community. Third one, the challenge of obedience to Rasul Allah is Allah
Selim, and I'm talking about specifically about Ceridwen, where the Sahaba had this opportunity, and
they were given this chance of obeying prasad was a wrestler, and the point of obedience was obey to
do what obey to do whatever is in your heart. Yasser Allah. So it's not even a question of obeying
because I understand and I agree, and it's something that I would like to do No, you are obeying
Blind Eye
		
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			obey. And I give you my Baba Yaga, Salah Salem to do whatever is in your heart. Now what is in the
heart of the processor? Do people know? They don't know? So how do they use where they give this via
because of one thing only, which is that they have the trust and faith that rasa Salam will never
ask them to do something which is harmful for them. So this is a test of leadership, where do your
followers trust you to the extent where they know that I can blindly give my allegiance to my
leader, because I know that my leader will never tell me to do something, which is detrimental to
me. So I can. So it's not really black blind trust, if you look at it, it's trust with understanding
		
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			the leader. It's not blind, he's not You're not trusting somebody you don't know. You're trusting
somebody because you know them. And that is the beauty of the leadership of great leadership lesson
for us to say that as a leader, how do I inspire this level of trust in the people who follow me
that they are willing to follow me, apparently or seemingly blindly, but this is not blind. They are
following me because they know who I am. They trust me completely. And implicitly third point,
number four,
		
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			the challenge of Ryda, Bill Kedah even when your good intention fails. Now in the case, as I
mentioned, of the Sahaba of Saudi Arabia, the intention was to worship Allah subhanaw taala. The
intention was to make the off of the Kaaba, the intention was to sacrifice in the name of Allah
subhanaw taala. The intention was to make say and to make over all good intentions, but these
intentions, at that instant fail, they were not able to fulfill what they had set out to do, yet
they were the Sahaba accepted this
		
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			decision of Allah subhanaw taala is the color of Allah and they accepted the color of Allah and they
with, with with, they were pleased with the color of Allah subhanaw taala. So risiville is to be
pleased with the color of Allah, Allah, Allah Allah who not only accepting it, but to be pleased
with it when what Allah has decreed goes against what we want, even though what we want is something
which is good. And this is something which is not only in this case, but also being pleased with
Allah subhanaw taala when the color of Allah subhanaw taala apparently involves a loss in our lives,
any bereavement, any loss of property of money, loss of health, children, whatever the loss might
		
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			be, to not only accept this loss, but to accept it with happiness. This is really the bill being
pleased with a cover of Allah subhanaw taala and that's the reason why Allah subhana Bacara Allah
subhanaw taala said what another one accomplish a mineral hope he will joy 1x in mineral Umbra
unworldly when I'm 50 vasara wobei share is RBD al arena EDA Assa Tomasi baton Carlu in Atilla here
in LA here as your Willa EAGALA. Him salvato mera beam Rama, what will become more matado Allah,
truly And verily, We will test you with fear with hunger, with the destruction of property with the
destruction of a bit loss in your property, with loss in your in your children, in loss in your own
		
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			health mean in in yourself as well as your your Samarra. We will test you with all of these things.
And Allah said glad tidings and great Bashara for those who in the middle of this Messiah, Allah is
not saying their blessing. But the in the middle of this, these are the people who say, we belong to
Allah subhanaw taala and to Allah is our return in Allah He Rajan, and then Allah subhanaw taala
said for these people, there is a Latin salam from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada we like it him Salah to
Mirabai let's monitor that on them is Allah from there rub rub him, but we like the whole motto.
		
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			And these are the people who are rightly guided. Now imagine what is the value of this, think about
this, whatever loss we have is temporary, it is something that we would have lost anyway. Because
everything in this world is for the for the sake of party, everything in this world eventually goes
whether it goes now whether it goes later one day it goes but for this loss, when we see this as an
IP Tila as a test from Allah subhanaw taala and you accept it and you are pleased with it. Then this
loss results in Salah Avasarala it results in the in blessing from Allah subhanaw taala I mean
amazing we will what is the what is the what if somebody understood the value of this that you would
		
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			wish that you lose everything if it results in the blessing of Allah subhanaw taala this was the the
position and the state of the Sahaba
		
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			The
		
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			fifth lesson from celebrity via five out of the eight is the challenge of obeying Rasulullah Salah
Salem, even when he when what he ordered went against what they wanted to do what the Saba wanted to
do, and what were what they wanted do was actually bad. So how do you trust and and obey your leader
still, even though what he's saying goes against your grain you do not want to do it, but you still
do it and this was a test with the past. And it was as it as we explained, it was not an easy test.
It was a very, very difficult test, but they passed this test and they said Allah subhanaw taala
give them maca as the reward of passing this test. Point number six, again, which is an extremely
		
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			delicate point, which was the challenge of faith itself, the challenge of faith itself in the
leader, when that leader did not deliver what he promised. Right. There was a certain promised for
them to make Amara and he took them to make Amara when he took them to make Amara that did not say
we are going there. We may or may not make Amara this year. I'm not saying to you that come with me.
But we may not make ombre this year. He didn't say that. No, no, no, no qualifiers. He said Allah
subhanaw taala has showed me this dream. And we will go to make Amara. But when they went there, we
know what happened. Actually, they could not make ombre they had to return. So you will see this was
		
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			a huge challenge of faith itself, where the Sahaba were challenged with this fact that here was a
leader and is not any ordinary leader. This is the Navi This is the one that they have accepted
Islam, at whose hand they accept Islam. This is the one who believe in home is the pillar of Islam.
I shall one that Muhammad Rasool Allah. Yet here was a situation where apparently on the face of it,
that we sort of sort of promised something, but he was not able to deliver on this promise. It's not
his fault, is not to say that he promised the needy, he deceived the knows will, but he was not able
to deliver. So how do you deal with that? And if you think about this, this is perhaps the greatest
		
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			challenge that any leader can ever face where he promises something, but he is unable to deliver yet
how did the Sahaba deal with that? They did not lose faith in the process of a Salam. Allah subhanaw
taala said this actually resulted in an increase in the Rhema. How did this happen? Believe me, this
only happened for one reason. And that reason is that the faith in the messenger Salah Salem, the
faith in the leader is not based on one incident, the faith in the leader is based on an entire
lifetime of building credibility. It was Muhammad Rasool Allah salams entire character that the
Sahaba had before them, and therefore any one incident did not shake their faith did not shave the
		
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			Imam is one of the greatest reasons for studying the Syrah. A similar incident, if you remember,
happened four years before this, or three or three or four years before this, which was the issue of
which was incident we saw Mirage, same kind of thing, where here was the leader here,
		
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			saying that he had done something which on the face of it appeared to be completely impossible. How
does somebody travel in the heavens? How does somebody go from Mecca to Jerusalem in one year, in
one night, and come back and so on and so forth? But what was the answer of Abu Bakr resilience of
the law? No, he said, If he said it, I believe it. If he said, I believe it, again, the same thing
that you are not basing your trust and belief on one incident on one statement, you are looking at
the entire character of the person. And you are saying this is not a person who can tell a lie. This
is not a person who will break a promise. So if apparently the promise was broken, it was actually
		
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			not broken. There is the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala behind this, and this is exactly what
happened. And of course the ayat which came thereafter proved and confirmed all of this, to say that
the dream that he saw was, in fact, where he from Allah subhanaw taala. And in fact, Allah subhanaw
taala was going to make this come true. And Allah subhanaw taala deliberately sent them to Libya,
because this was the exam. This was the test. It was they were not going to Arabia in order to make
Amara, they were going to Libya to sit for the exam, the final exam, and after that, Allah subhanaw
taala was not sending them for Barabara. Allah was going to give them McCann itself, but of course,
		
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			obviously, when you're going to the exam, you don't know all this. All of this is hindsight, all of
this is post facto, but at the time of going you go with this trust and faith in the one that you
brought Iman on, and that is point number six, point number seven.
		
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			I last ran out eligibility level.
		
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			And I mentioned before in the incident itself, Allah subhanaw taala called who they were for
automobile. Enough Hatanaka porta
		
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			Viar toe movida, Allah subhanaw taala called this photo movie, he called his the manifest and clear
victory. And Allah said we gave you this victory. Now imagine here once again, very, very
		
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			Important point here.
		
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			Allah did not say you achieved this victory. Allah said, We gave you this victory. So what is the
victory, the first thing is the victory is this desire is also a prediction for Hatanaka victory in
who they be itself was the victory of, of obedience over personal desire. But Allah is drawing
attention even to that and saying that you were able to achieve this, not because of your great
strength and your great Iman and so on and so forth. But because Allah helped you, because of the
help of Allah subhanaw taala, you were able to do this. And that's the reason why we need to always
ask Allah subhanaw taala as help in order to strengthen our humanity, in order that we stay with him
		
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			throughout our lives, and in order that we may be lifted and brought to Allah subhanaw taala in a
state of human final point to close is that, as I mentioned before, how they B was the exam, and
maca was the price. And this is what the Sahara is
		
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			achieved. So all of this points to the issue of the importance of peace and harmony, the importance
of living together with people with openness, with friendship, with helping with allowing them into
your homes, into your massage, being close to them, and letting them see the beauty of Islam. The
importance of obviously, if you're willing to do all this, the importance of following Islam very,
very clearly, not being apologetic and hiding under the table, but showing and following Islam
clearly and openly, not only in prayer and so on, but in our dealings in the most important thing to
understand. Our dealings. It is our dealings, it's our matters of o'clock, which convince people of
		
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			the goodness of Islam, not anything else, worship with worship we do for Allah subhanaw taala people
are interested in and what does it mean for me? How are you dealing with me? So therefore, in
dealings, the importance of that, the whole day, we also teach the teachers the lesson of
controlling our passions of controlling our anger, controlling our frustration, not letting it loose
to create even more damage than whatever incident was the reason for our anger and frustration
today, there's a big problem, we we end up our reactions are worse than the incident which caused
our anger in the first place. So even if people are willing to say, look, after all, why are people
		
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			troubling these people, they're angry, but the reaction to our anger is comes out so badly, that
then the there's no excuse for whatever has happened. So controlling emotions, controlling passion,
controlling anger, in such a way that this anger does not actually create, and make the problem
worse, instead of solving the problem. And finally, always and always, always, to be completely and
totally obedient to Allah subhanaw taala obedient to His messengers or Salah and to have our call on
Allah subhanaw taala that in sha Allah Messiah, Allah subhanaw taala will help the help of Allah
will come, there is nothing Allahu Corrib there is no doubt about this inshallah. It's our job to
		
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			ensure that we do the right things for this help of Allah subhanaw taala to come for us. Ask Allah
subhanaw taala to help the Muslims in every way to protect them from all forms of oppression, to
protect them from all those who are bent on causing them harm. Ask Allah subhanaw taala to enable
the Muslims to present the actual beauty of Islam to the world to show the life of Muhammad Salah
Salem to demonstrate the beauty of the life of Muhammad Salah sir so that the people who today hate
Bahasa will love Mohamed Salah Salem because they will see the life of Muhammad between in front of
their eyes because of the way they deal with the neighbors because of the way they see the Muslims
		
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			of the communities that they live in masala Nabil curry while he was IVIG mine where I have to go
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