Mirza Yawar Baig – Seerah Solution Who are you willing to forgive
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The importance of forgiveness in Islam is discussed, including the Prophet's ability to solve problems and his history of helping people. The importance of forgiveness is also emphasized, with examples given of his ability to turn from forgiving to approaching forgiveness. The transcript describes a group of people discussing a situation where a Muslim man killed their uncle and refuses to kill anyone. The segment also touches on various narratives and actions during a Islam led mission, including Al-Wah Kumar's actions and the story of Hamza Radhella Anu and his death. practicing the se savis and bringing change to one's life is emphasized, and not disclosing one's identity is advised to avoid future embarrassment.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the messengers
and prophets.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings be upon him and his family.
Peace be upon you.
The second last of the qualities that we
are talking about is how the Prophet was
able to change the attitudes of people.
Every time I want to say the most
powerful of examples from the life of Rasulullah,
I find something which is even more powerful.
So this is the beauty of the life
of the Prophet, that everything about his life
is powerful.
We ask Allah to help us to emulate
him in every aspect of our lives.
And one of the most powerful things, or
the most powerful things, was his ability to
forgive people.
The Prophet could forgive anybody.
And that's why Allah gave him the title,
Rahmatullil Alameen.
Imagine, this is Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem, giving
the title of Rahmatullil Alameen to his Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him.
Sayyidina Aisha Siddiqa Radilana asked him, she said,
Ya Rasulullah, if I find, if I am
able to find Laylatul Qadr, meaning she's talking
about the last ten days, last ten nights
of Ramadan, the odd nights, and she says,
because we don't know exactly which night it
is, we don't know the exact date, the
Prophet said, it is, search for it in
the odd nights.
So she says, Ya Rasulullah, if I find
Laylatul Qadr, what dua should I ask Allah?
What dua should I make?
And Rasulullah said, Ya Aisha, say, Allahumma innaka
affoon tuhibbul affoon fa affooneen.
O Allah, you are the forgiver, you are
the one who forgives, you love to forgive,
so forgive me.
Allahumma innaka affoon tuhibbul affoon fa affooneen.
Seeking forgiveness.
Istighfar and tawbah are two separate words.
Istighfar means to apologise, it means to seek
forgiveness, and tawbah means to turn around.
So the two words, when they are used
separately, for example, Allah SWT said in the
Quran, fastaghfiru, thumma tubu ilayh.
Allah said, seek forgiveness of Allah, then turn
towards Allah.
So when the two words are used separately,
they mean separately individual meaning, but if only
one word is used, it automatically means the
other.
So anytime istighfar is used, it means istighfar
and tawbah.
Anytime tawbah is used, it means istighfar and
tawbah.
Because it makes eminent sense, if I am
regretful about something, if I am seeking forgiveness
about something, then automatically I am saying, I
will not do this again.
I am turning away from this sin towards
Allah SWT.
That's the meaning of it.
The power of istighfar and tawbah is something
to think about.
In the hadith of Musnad ibn Muhammad and
also in Abu Dawud, with a different meaning,
different words, Rasulullah said, the one who sincerely
makes istighfar.
So let us try to make istighfar, let
us try to say, I seek forgiveness from
Allah SWT.
Repeat after me.
I seek forgiveness from Allah SWT.
There is no one worthy of worship other
than Him.
I seek forgiveness from Allah SWT.
Other than Him, there is no one worthy
of worship.
He is the living and He is the
established.
And I turn towards Him.
This is the meaning of it.
I seek forgiveness from Allah, there is no
god but He, the Ever-Living, the Ever
-Sustaining.
Try to say this at least 100 times
in a day, and not just simply, I
seek forgiveness from Allah.
Sincerely sit down quietly in one place and
say, thinking of all the times that you
and I disobeyed Allah SWT.
And take each one and say, I seek
forgiveness from Allah, there is no god but
He, the Ever-Living, the Ever-Sustaining.
Sincere repentance, sincere tawbah with the intention of
turning towards Allah SWT.
The Prophet said, the one who does this,
Allah SWT will do three things for him.
The one who makes istighfar, Allah will do
three things for him.
Number one, Allah SWT will extract him from
his difficulties.
In another hadith, from his griefs.
Allah will solve your problems.
In any case, who can solve our problems?
Only Allah.
Allah is saying, Allah will solve it.
Allah is saying, I will solve it.
Allah will solve his problems, extract him from
his difficulties.
Number two, Allah SWT will provide him from
sources that he could not imagine.
Allah will provide him from sources that he
could not imagine.
And three, Allah SWT will become sufficient for
him.
Sufficiency with Allah means what?
In this dunya, I have no needs, and
in the akhirah, I have no needs.
Allah is sufficient for me, which means Jannah
is mine.
Forgiveness is mine, inshallah.
Because Allah is sufficient.
And the meaning of this hadith is reinforced
in the Quran, in Surah At-Talaq, where
Allah SWT said, Allah
said, for the Muttaqi, for the one who
is Taqwa.
Who is the one who is Taqwa?
The one who makes istighfar and tawbah.
Istighfar and tawbah is the sign of the
Muttaqi.
Allah said, the one who is the Muttaqi,
Allah SWT will, Allah will extract him from
his difficulties.
Allah SWT will extract him from his difficulties.
So, Allah SWT is saying in Surah At
-Talaq, The one who is Taqwa, Allah will
extract him from his difficulties.
And He will provide him from sources he
cannot imagine.
You think this is a wall.
No, this is not a wall, this is
a door.
Allah will open the door for you.
So, whosoever trusts in Allah, Allah is sufficient
for him, and He is the best trustee.
Now, as I mentioned to you, the Prophet
never reacted, he always responded.
He never, he forgave.
I mean, imagine the level of his forgiveness.
And this is the question I leave with
you and myself.
Who are we willing to forgive right now?
With Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he forgave everybody,
but some of the very dramatic incidents of
his forgiveness.
One was Abu Sufyan bin Haram, a man
who dedicated his life to destroy Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and his mission.
All the three big wars before Fatah Mecca,
Badr, Uhud and Ghazwatul Ahzab, Khandaq, were the
doing of Abu Sufyan.
In Badr, he did not directly participate because
the war happened because of him, but Uhud
and Khandaq, Abu Sufyan was very much there.
He was the one who led those forces.
He was the general in command.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forgave him.
Not only did he forgive him, he forgave
his wife, Hinda.
And he forgave her after she had mutilated
the body of Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, who
was not only the uncle of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, but he was the same age.
He was a milk brother of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam from the same mother.
And he was his very, very close friend
and companion.
He was one of the early converts to
Islam who gave a huge amount of strength
to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he was killed because of Hind.
Hind was the one who instigated and paid
Sayyidina al-Wahshi bin Harb to kill him.
Yet Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forgave him.
Wahshi himself, there were seven people after Fatah
Makkah.
In Fatah Makkah, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forgave
everybody.
As you know, the way he came into
Makkah, his blessed head bowed down completely.
There is no one worthy of worship except
Allah, who was true to his promise and
who helped his slave.
And he defeated the confederates by himself.
Wahida, by himself alone, without any partners.
He was saying this and he was reciting
that and he was blessed head was bowed
down completely.
But anyway, to make the long story short,
you all know the long story anyway.
He stood on the door of the Kaaba,
which as you know is raised up.
And he called the people and they all
came.
Because now there was a time when they
called the people and they didn't come.
But now he's at the head of the
army.
He's a conquering ruler.
Now the custom of the time was that
if a city resisted, if a city surrendered,
then usually they would kill some of the
prominent men and they would enslave the rest.
If the city resisted, then they would do
one of two things.
They would kill all the men and they
would enslave the women and children.
Or alternately, as in the case of Julius
Caesar in one place in Gaul, as in
the case of Genghis Khan and the Mongols
everywhere, they slaughtered everything in the city.
And the usual custom was for three days,
they said, we have lifted our hands, the
rulers, meaning do what you want.
So the army was let loose, do whatever
you like.
All kinds of * and plunder and burning.
So now Rasulullah is in Mecca and he
has the right to do either of these
if he wants.
Custom and practice of the time.
He has the reason to do it because
for 13 years he and his people were
mercilessly persecuted.
Only because they said, la ilaha illallah.
So what does he do?
He asked them, he said, what do you
say about me?
They said, you are our honoured brother and
you are the son of our honoured brother.
Same honoured brother they tried to kill.
Same honoured brother they banished.
But now the honoured brother is the commander
of an army, so you are our honoured
brother.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also knows this.
He said, go, you are all forgiven.
So that is why the people of Mecca
are called the freed slaves of Rasulullah.
Because technically, legally, they should have become slaves.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forgave them.
But among them there were seven people who
he passed the death sentence on and he
said even if you find them hanging from
the kiswa, the ghilaf of the Kaaba, kill
them.
Seven.
And those seven, one of them was Al
-Wahshi.
So Wahshi says, I left Mecca and I
went off to Taif.
Then there was the battle of the Ghazwat
-ul-Fartaif, Battle of Hunayn.
And he said after that, I had no
place to stay, so I decided I will
go to the coast, take a ship and
go off somewhere.
Go to Africa or Egypt or somewhere.
He said on the way I met a
friend of mine, my friend said to me,
where will you run, how far will you
run?
Because you have been proscribed, your name is
on that list.
Somewhere some Muslim will find you and kill
you because this has been ordered by the
Rasul.
So he said, what shall I do?
He said, if you want to accept Islam,
go accept Islam.
Because he, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam promised to forgive
everyone who accepts Islam.
So Al-Wahshi said, I decided to do
that.
So he said, I covered myself, I put
on a turban, I put the tail of
the turban on my face like this, so
just like a woman in niqab, only two
eyes are visible, everything else is covered.
He said, I went like that.
I went into the Majlis of Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam from the back and I came
and sat in front of him and I
gave my hand and I said, Ashadu an
la ilaha illallah wa ashadu annaka Rasulullah.
He said, I bear witness that there is
no one worthy of worship except Allah and
that you are the messenger of Allah.
His hand wasn't the hand of the Nabi
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw his hand
and he said, who are you?
So Al-Wahshi said, I took off my
face covering, he saw me.
So he didn't call people and say kill
him, no.
He accepted Islam.
He accepted Islam.
Then he said to Al-Wahshi, tell me
how did you kill my uncle?
Al-Wahshi said to him, Ya Rasulullah, I
had nothing against your uncle.
I had nothing against anybody.
But I was a slave and I was
promised that if I kill your uncle, my
owner would free me.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, you are never a
slave, you don't understand what it means to
be a slave.
And therefore you do not understand what it
means to be free.
So for me this was everything.
So he said, I took my spear, he
said, I'm very good with the spear.
He said, I took my spear, I went
to the Battleground Awadh.
He said, I hid behind rocks and so
on.
He said, I had only one aim which
is to fight Hamza, nothing else.
He said, I did not harm anybody, I
did not kill anybody, I was not fighting
anybody.
He said, I quietly tried to sneak up
and he said, I found Hamza Radhella Anu
fighting one of the warriors of the Quresh.
Hamza Radhella Anu was ambidextrous, he never carried
a shield, he carried two swords.
He was very rare people like this.
Said that Ali was another one who used
to fight with both hands.
So he said he used to fight.
So I said, I'm seeing Hamza, he said
he was like a lion in the middle
of that.
He said he was like a huge male
camel who was very, very dangerous, lethal.
And he's fighting and he said he hit
the man, he said he made a stroke
like that.
And the man said to Hamza Radhella Anu,
he said, you missed.
Hamza Radhella Anu said, take a step forward.
He said the man took one step forward
and his head fell off.
Hamza Radhella Anu's stroke was so fast and
so the sword went through his body, the
man didn't feel it.
He said at that point Hamza relaxed, Radhella
Anu.
When she says Radhella Anu, I saw my
chance, I stood up from behind my rock
and I threw my spear.
He said my spear entered his chest and
went down like this into the ground, it
literally anchored him there.
He said Hamza turned towards me and he
said I was terrified.
But he said the wound was massive, the
whole spear in his body, he couldn't move,
he fell down.
He said even when Hamza was down on
the ground, when she says I was afraid
to go near him.
So I waited for a long time to
make sure he was really dead.
He said then I went there, I pulled
out my spear and I went home.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, I did not mutilate
him, I did not touch his body, I
just took away the spear and I went
home.
And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was crying through
this whole narration.
He said he wept and wept and wept.
And then see the mercy of the Rasulullah
Alaihi Salam.
He says to Wahshi, he doesn't say to
Wahshi, disappear, get out from my face, never
come back.
No.
He says to him, if you come to
my Majlis, sit in the back where I
cannot see you.
Because if I see you, it opens up
the wound again.
He does not deprive Wahshi Adel Anu from
the barakah of the company of the Rasulullah
Alaihi Salam.
So you can come, but don't sit in
front because looking at you, again reminds me
of my uncle.
So sit at the back.
So I want to close with this and
ask you this question.
Ask myself, who am I willing to forgive
right now?
Think about whoever is in your heart.
No matter what you think they did to
you, believe me, at least for the normal
average Muslim, there is no one who has
done him more harm than the people did
harm to the Rasulullah Alaihi Salam.
But Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in Mecca, he
went, he forgave them all and very interestingly,
he never even demanded compensation for what he
and his Sahaba lost.
That would be very fair, no, and correct.
You took away my land, give it back.
You took away my house, give it back.
You took away my money, it was so
much money, give me back.
No, he never asked them for anything.
Not only did he not ask them, the
Sahaba didn't ask them.
The Muhajirun never asked them.
This was the waqar of the Muslims.
That's why the problem with ghaibah, backbiting in
this religion which is such a big thing
because it creates enmities.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la hides the fault of
the one who hides the faults of others.
So become the covering of Allah, become the
lihaaf of Allah.
If your brother has something, your sister has
something wrong with them, go tell them.
Don't tell the world.
Don't tell somebody else, you know what I
saw so-and-so doing?
No.
Hide it, cover it.
But if you are interested in correcting them,
go tell them.
Please don't do this, this is wrong, whatever,
whatever.
But don't tell anybody else.
Right?
InshaAllah, Jazakumullah Khairan.
I ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la, and that's why I say here the
Sahaba took action.
They acted, they didn't just talk.
So let us make this niyyah to bring
the seerah alive in our lives, to practice
the seerah, to live by the seerah, and
to try to bring about some change in
our lives.
At the end of these two days, something
in my life must change, no matter how
small.
May Allah enable us to change more and
more, but no matter how small.
Let's try to do that, InshaAllah.
Jazakumullah Khairan.
Jazakumullah Khairan.