Mohammad Badawy – Allah’s Qadar At Hudaybiyah
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Alright.
So first of all, I'm honored to be
back here with you guys. It's always a
pleasure and an honor, and I am grateful.
So let's go ahead and get started, InshaAllah.
We are talking about
what? Do you guys remember the title?
What was it?
So the the title of the Khutba was
The Heroes Will Handle It. And on a
slightly related note was
the lecture.
Hudaybiyyah. Right? Allah's Qadr in Hudaybiyyah.
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah more specifically. Right? And
we'll get we'll go in some we'll explain
the story of Hudaybiyyah,
and then we'll explain what what do I
mean by why am I focusing on Allah's
Qadr particularly.
So the goal right now is not just
to tell the whole story of Al Hudaybiyyah.
It's a very long story. There's a lot
of details, a lot of benefits
from different angles, spiritual, political, iman, tawakkul.
I'm gonna try to we're gonna benefit in
general, but I'm focusing on Allah's Qadr, the
role or our understanding of Allah's Qadr in
a circumstance like the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
So first off, Hudaybiyyah just refers to the
place.
It's the treaty was occurred at Hudaybiyyah which
is,
in modern day today, it's within Mecca. They
don't call it Hudaybiyyah anymore, but it's, it's
Mecca has expanded in our era, but back
then, it was right outside Mecca.
So the treaty between the Muslims, Prophet Muhammad
and the Kufar of Quraysh, which was led
by or the the the delegate was Suhail
ibn Amr, who later years later became Muslim.
But at that time, he was not a
Muslim. So that was the treaty. It happened
at that place, so we call it the
Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. Okay?
Okay.
The goal of us of this study for
the next hour or so is to understand
that Allah's is
always
active.
Allah nobody
changes Allah's qadr and the the patterns of
Allah as we talked about in the Khutba.
You will not find a change in the
patterns of Allah. And the cycles, the cyclical
nature of ups and downs, and the fact
that victory doesn't come all at once, and
the fact that there may be good
It
may be that you hate something, but Allah
may create
place a lot of good in it.
Allah knows and you know not. All of
these
fit into this story, and we'll see how.
So the goal is now to look at
a situation that appeared negative. It appeared difficult
to bear, which was the treaty, which we'll
talk about the conditions of the treaty, why,
it felt that way. But Allah created a
lot of good through it. Okay? That's our
mindset here.
How can a seemingly bad experience
actually turn out good? Right? That's our question
today. So first, let's give some background. When
did the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, receive
the very first aya iqra?
What age?
He was 40 years old. When did he
pass away, salallahu alaihi wa sallam? 63. So
the entire journey of his dua, salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, was 23 years.
Cut that in half about, the first 13
years was in Mecca,
and the remaining 10 years was in Madinah.
That's your 23 years. Right? Right about half.
So this already, we're taking a lesson from
here, but it's a separate lesson that the
the building stage or the initial foundation stages
take longer than when exponential growth happens and
you already have your foundation, you can do
a lot more in a shorter amount of
time. The 13 years,
was the foundational stage. So we're not talking
about Mecca now. Hudaybiyah occurred
6 years after the migration to Medina.
So 13 years in Mecca, they are forced
to leave Mecca. They go to Madinah. Now
you have 10 years in Madinah. 6 years
pass. So even past the halfway mark, we're
only 4 years away from the death of
prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam. That is
the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
So
the battle of Badr has finished,
year 2,
after Madinah. The battle of Uhud has finished
as well. The, the ayat,
making Ramadan wajib has already come down. Fasting
is already wajib at this point. What else
happened?
The battle of Uhudu mentioned that so much
happened. The Ummah grew exponentially.
The the nation of Madinah, it went from
being called Yathrib to being calm Madinah. 6
years, a lot happened. A lot of the
history that we are familiar with. It was
a very eventful and productive 6 years in
Madinah.
So Allah
now it's 6 years in ups and downs
and wins like badr, losses like Uhud,
heroes being shahid, like, hamza radhi laan, etcetera.
Notable people accepting Islam.
And yet Quraysh is still at war with
the believers. Right? Quraysh at this time, the
people who control Mecca are Kufar.
So it's very it's very bizarre to think
of Mecca as Darul Kufr, the place of
Kufr and Madinah. But that's what it was
at the time. And Madinah was Darul Islam
o Darul Iman.
Madinah was the place of Islam or the
home of Islam at the time. So 6
years into Madinah,
Allah commands His Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasalam to
perform umrah.
And of course, umrah is performed
in Mecca, which was in control of the
kuffar at the time.
So the Allah commands the messenger of sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam to go to Umrah, so
he informs the people, I will be leaving
to Umrah on such and such a time.
Those who wish to join may join.
And of course, the sahaba were ecstatic. They
were excited. Imagine me and you, anybody, someone
tells them, you get to make umrah with
the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam. They were
as excited as you and I would be,
especially because
many of those believers were refugees from Mecca.
They've been in away from their home that
the only home they ever known for 6
years now. They've never they haven't seen the
Kaaba, so they're longing for their homeland.
And then the believers of Madinah, their their
iman and their sincerity was strong enough that
they desire to go as well. So it
was a win win for both of them.
They were very excited. They prepared,
and and, and so on and so forth.
Keep in mind, of course, just just a
side note, but it's always good to reflect
on these things because it makes us really
grateful for what we have.
Mecca and Medina, how far are they roughly?
Sorry?
No. It's a bit more it's more than
60.
It's about 400 kilometers, about 250 miles.
Just I wanna put this to perspective because
we drive a lot. Right? 250 miles,
that's in our time, maybe by car, you
might take 3 hours, 4 hours
driving. If you anybody take ever taken that
the train recently? They they have a train
now. It's even less. 2 hours. Right? Michelle.
So for us, it's easy, air conditioned, you're
there in a few hours. For them, 250
miles, you're going by desert. Many of them
are on foot. They don't have a camel
or a horse or anything like that sort.
You have to get provisions. You have to
sleep along the you you know, weeks
weeks in the desert. So I just whenever
whenever I think about this story or any
of the travels of Nabiullah salaam,
I just take a moment to say, subhanallah,
we would do anything to to have traveled
one day with him, salaam,
and yet
and it was more way more difficult than
we could imagine.
The Sahaba were so excited to go. The
Prophet told them, salaam alayhi wa sallam, I'm
going to Umrah.
For us, a Umrah is almost like a
vacation. It's a vacation. It's exciting. You have
good hotels, you have airplanes.
It is a vacation. For them, it's still
they still had the heart and the longing
for it despite the fact that what he
just told them to do to get ready
for is a very difficult journey and desert
and sleeping and and any other there was
there was even, like, lions and there was
scorpions, and and the enemy could attack. There's
a lot of difficulty in that journey, and
they were still as excited as me and
you are to get on a plane. SubhanAllah.
We have it easier
between here and Mecca.
Allentown and Mecca is maybe 6,000 miles. I'm
I'm giving the estimate.
So we have to go so much further,
but it's a lot easier for us. Like,
if you set your mind now to go
to Mecca, you'll be there within 24 hours
or less. Right? You could book a plane,
a ticket, visas.
They, despite being so much closer,
would take them weeks. So, subhanAllah, it just
makes me reflect on the blessings we have,
and I pray that Allah allows us to
use the niam, the blessings He has given
us properly.
And yet, despite no hotels, no air condition,
none of that, the Sahaba were excited, they
prepared, and they they you know, he set
he set a date for travel, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and they they all prepared. So
there's still hostilities and tensions between the Kufar
of Makkah and the believers of Madinah. So
prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam wanted to
make it abundantly
clear to Quraysh that we are not here
for war, we are here for Umrah. And
it was the rule of Arabia that
nobody fights in the sacred lands. The sacred
boundaries of Mecca, this was the law of
Ibrahim alaihi salallam that Allah set
from 1000 of years prior, and even the
kuffar kept that law.
They would say this is prior to Islam
in the Jahiliyyah days. Even if a man
saw his father's killer
making tawaf, he could not touch him
because that was a sacred land. They understood
that you cannot touch anybody in this land.
So the prophet knew this and this is
the law and this is the 1000 of
years law. So he said there's nothing wrong.
Also, Quraish
did not forbid anybody from entering Mecca. That
was their bread and butter.
That was their their income. Right? They it's
doesn't make sense for them to to deny
anybody, and it was understood. But the prophet,
salalahu alaihi wa sallam,
because he's a noble man and he doesn't
do any treachery, he made it abundantly clear
to the Kufar, to Quraysh, we are not
here for any type of war. Number 1,
he chose a month from the sacred months.
There are 4 sacred months of the year
in which Allah forbid any type of war
unless you are forced. If you're forced to
defend yourself, it's a different story. But you're
not allowed to initiate war in those sacred
months. The kuffar of Quraysh, the in the
Jahili days, they they kept that those sacred
months as well. Right? And it wasn't just,
Islam affirmed them that these months are sacred.
So the prophet chose one of his travel
dates during the sacred months. To double down,
we're gonna be in a sacred boundary,
what's we call the Haram boundary, al Masjid
Al Haram. Haram here mean things are haram
that are not haram outside, one of which
is any type of warfare, even if it's
justified warfare, unless you're forced into it. So
sacred place, sacred time, he chose it specifically
to show the kuffar we have no interest
in in war. They didn't carry their weapons
on them. The prophet
commanded the believers, don't carry your weapons on
you. They obviously brought them with them. You
can't travel 100 of miles without weapons. It's
it's a foolish thing to do. But they
didn't they weren't wearing them and they weren't
prepared for war. And he told them to
wear their ihram clothing, which you guys are
familiar with. The men are dressed in towels.
It's not in any position to to to
perform to war to go to war.
And they brought finally, they brought their sacrificial
animals, Saqul Hedi.
When you go to war, you hide. Nobody
knows when you're leaving. The the general wakes
up the troops and says we're leaving right
now because even the troops could be spies.
Right? The and you leave from the south
when you intend to go north, and you
go right. That's that's that's war. He made
the he made the plans known in Arabia.
It reached Quraish ahead of time, weeks ahead
of time, and they went straight. No south
and east. They went straight in the direction
that they intended.
It couldn't be clearer to Quraish that this
was not any type of warfare whatsoever.
And so excuse me. They set out on
the journey.
And weeks go by, and then they finally
arrive on the outskirts of Mecca, Nabiullah and
the Sahaba
And then Quraysh sends the emissaries. They send
some delegates right outside of Mecca, and they
said, you can go no further.
And this obviously dismayed and and made the
believers very sad and frustrated.
And the prophet
said, let's send I will send some negotiators.
Now this part, I will leave out a
lot of the details. It's a very part
big part of the story.
The oth man named Nafan Odilon was sent.
There was rumors that he was killed. The
Quraysh killed him, and they took they killed
the messenger. You never do that. It's a
big story, but it's not relative to our
conversation today. I definitely recommend,
the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah is a very important
lesson in our history,
and you should definitely study it, and read
it, and maybe listen to a lecture on
it, when you get the chance. But I'll
if you don't mind, I'll skip these details
so we can not lose sight of our
our topic.
So the prophet sent negotiators
to see, like, let's find some way middle
ground. We came all this way with,
over a 1000 people.
And so they refused. They said, in no
way, shape, or form can we allow you
to enter Mecca. This would be considered a
disrespect, a humiliation for us. We would lose,
we would lose reputation in the eyes of
Arabia. You let your enemy in to make
umrah, they now because also, by the way,
the Muslims were growing year after year. Quraish
was stagnating, and they were the old they
were old news. So they were very
scared of, like, the changing world order. So
they said no. You know, they're making these
decisions based on their own arrogance and based
on you know the phrasing that we talked
about when I came here last? The pride
comes before the fall. Usually, when a nation
gets very prideful or when they're nearing their
end, they do these foolish decisions that are
just not backed by logic. They're backed by
pride. They're backed by,
hard headedness, and they actually end up causing
their own demise. Subhanallah. It repeats in history
over and over and over. They refused. They
absolutely refused.
So the messenger and the Muslims, they camped
outside as the negotiations negotiations were going on
and so on and so forth. Like I
said, there's a lot of details here.
Finally,
after all was said and done,
several days went by and
Suhail ibn Amr was sent out. Suhail ibn
Amr was one of the biggest diplomats of
Quraish. He was a kafir at this time.
Later, he became Muslim. Here, at this point,
he's a non believer
and he was one of the big men
of top men of Quraish, but he was
also known. He he was very well spoken.
So he was the delegate and the diplomat
whenever they wanted to make negotiations or treaties
or so on, they would send him. And,
and he was he was also like, anyway,
he spoke well of poetry, that kind of
thing. So this was his trait and his
talent.
So they sent him,
to speak with the prophet Muhammad, salawasalam, and
they say he said, okay. Finally, we've reached
the conclusion. We will let you in Mecca
to perform umrah
on the condition that you sign a treaty
with us, with Quraysh.
So the messenger of Allah said, let's hear
the conditions of the treaty.
So they said the following four conditions.
Condition number 1,
that you must go back home this year.
You will not perform umrah this year.
You are allowed to perform it next year.
That's the first condition. So the first condition
of allowing you to perform umrah is you're
not gonna do umrah. You can come back
next year. We won't prevent you. You have
to wait a whole, you know, 12 months.
Okay. What is condition number 2?
Condition number 2 is that there be peace
between Quraysh and the believers of Madinah for
10 years.
We we have a peace treaty for 10
years. No war between us.
Condition number 3, that during these 10 years,
anybody who leaves Mecca
to accept Islam and join the believers in
Medina,
they must be returned back to Mecca, to
the Kufar.
Anybody of the Kufar who becomes Muslim and
migrates to Medina must be returned back.
That's condition number 3. And finally, condition number
4, anybody of the people of Medina, the
Muslims
who leaves Islam, turns his back on Islam,
and wants to join the kuffar in Mecca,
they must be allowed to do so. We
will not return them back to you in
Medina.
So what do you guys think of these
conditions?
It's terrible.
It's so disrespectful, like, just it's so obviously
unfair. It's not even any type of diplomacy.
It's like we have the upper hand and
accept take it or leave it.
So the prophet
made dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He
received revelation from Allah to accept this
treaty.
So
first off, the the first condition that they
must return this year and come back next
year, it was strictly symbolic, because if they're
gonna if you can let them in, let
them in. But this was a show of
power again, show of arrogance. It was a
symbolic victory for Quraish. They wanted the the
the message to spread through Arabia.
We denied them entry. They'll come next year,
but we got the symbolic victory. That was
the message. This whole thing was about their
symbolic victory.
The second condition was the only one, that
wasn't unfair. It was a peace treaty. The
Muslims actually wanted a peace treaty too. They
benefited from it as well because both of
them were both parties, the Muslims and the
kufar were dedicating too much
resources to war and protection and defending yourself
and defending your caravans. 10 years of peace
would bring a lot of value to the
Muslims as well. That was the only condition
that was mutually beneficial.
The others were all in the favor of
Quraysh.
However, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
commanded his prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam to
accept this this treaty.
So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, you
know, he did not read or write. So
he told Ali Radu Anhu, who was one
of his scribes,
yeah. Ali. Oh, Ali. Write down. And Ali
was not
happy with these,
you know, conditions, but he's doing he's writing
on following the command of Nabiullah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
Word is going back to
the heads of the Sahaba as well as
the rest of them as well about these
treaties, and they are very sad. They are
very frustrated.
And they all had
predictable reactions. Like, they're only human, and they've
been they've been on this journey now. Imagine
how exhausted you are after weeks in the
desert, and now you've been waiting now outside
the door
for however long, and then you get the
final message, no. We're going back. You're just
dismayed. Everything is, like and we're humiliated on
top of that. We got disrespected like this.
It's not like we're going back because of
logistics. It's because of these people disrespected us.
Why don't we just fight them? And the
prophet said, no. We're not the believers are
not gonna be the ones who break all
kinds of sanctity and sacredness about the holy
months and the holy location. That's not gonna
be us to do that. They were going
to go to war when they thought Quraish
killed their messenger, Uthman Radilani, because that's a
justified reason. You never kill the messenger. However,
it turned out he was not killed. But
we were not gonna initiate war, for for
a reason like this. So the Sahaba were
very frustrated. Umrah Radilaha was super frustrated, and
he told the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
oh, messenger of Allah,
how could we accept the lower hand of
humiliation
and be disgraced by these people despite the
fact that we are on the truth and
they are upon falsehood?
And Nabi salalahu alaihi wasalam responded, I am
the messenger of Allah, and I will not
disobey Allah. Allah will help me. Allah will
if Allah commanded this, then this is good
for us and that you will see. They
will this will be ultimately good from Allah
During the negotiation,
while the their Ali Rudlana was writing and
they're signing they're about to sign the treaty,
a man from Mecca remember, this is
Hudaybiyyah is in present day Mecca, but back
then it was right outside. So it's like
the people of Mecca know what's going on
and they can see from far. A man
comes running,
and he had taken shackles off of his
hand. He he escaped from,
makeshift prison in Mecca. So what had happened
in the past few years, the believers have
been in Medina for 6 years. Some people
accepted Islam and they managed to make it
to Medina. Others accepted Islam and their families
caught them and tied them up and said,
you're not gonna escape to Medina.
So one one such person was a man
by the name of Abu Jendal.
Abu Jendal Radilawn, who was in his twenties,
he was a young man, and he had
been tied up with his family for a
number of years already. I think the estimate's
up to 4 years.
And he was actually it's no coincidence. He
was the son of the delegate, Suhail ibn
Amr,
the diplomat of Mecca. He was his son.
Abu Jandal came, and right in front of
his father who's making a treaty with Nabiullah
salawahu alaihi wa sallam, he said, O Messenger
of Allah, I broke free from the shackles.
You know, they didn't have an official prison
in Mecca. It was being held by his
own family, so he got free. His cousins
were watching him or whatever. They they he
broke free. He said, oh, messenger of Allah,
these people torture me. These people put me
through difficulty.
Please take me with you to Madinah. If
you're going back and you're not doing umrah,
that's fine. Just take me with you. So
the messenger of Allah told Suhail, before we
sign this treaty, before it becomes official that
we must return people to you, let let
Wajendal come with us. How long are you
gonna tie up your son? He's clearly a
Muslim. He didn't break in all these years.
Stop wasting it. It's your own blood. Let
him go.
Suhail
said,
I swear by Allah I will not let
it happen. I already lost one son to
you. So Suhail's eldest son was with the
believers for years now. He He accepted Islam
many years prior. He actually joined the believers
in battle against the kuffah. He's been a
resident and a citizen of Madinah for years.
So Suhail said, my second son accepted Islam.
Make it or break it. He's not going
with you guys.
So the messenger of Allah, salaam, told him
he took a word from Sahid that at
least you will not torture him anymore.
So he tried a few times and Sahid
said never. The
I he we will not let him go.
This is very personal to me. So the
prophet told him, at least he took a
word from them that they will not torture
him, and then then Sohil said that fine.
So he said,
Abu Jendal said, oh messenger of Allah, do
not return me to these people. I've been
imprisoned. And the messenger
told him,
be patient and Allah
will make a way out for you. You
will have a way out soon.
And Abu Jandal was very dismayed and very
dis you know, saddened, but he
this was what Allah had written for him.
So he went back and at least his
position was a little bit better than it
used to be. Even though,
he was still he has no idea when
Allah's faraj, when Allah's,
you know, rescue will come
inshallah. However, he took solace in the words
of the prophet
that Allah will free you Allah will give
you a way out soon. Alright?
So does the the prophet
signed the terms or he had Ali, you
know, officially sign it, and that's it. The
the treaty occurred,
and then the believers,
there's a lot more details about the believers
actually
resisting, and so they didn't wanna start moving
when the prophet told them, let's pack up
and leave, but it's part of a different
lesson that we'll talk about maybe another time.
Eventually, they leave and they make their way
very saddened and very frustrated back to Mecca,
back to Madinah. However, one Sahabi
stood out.
There was several, by the way. It wasn't
just one. It was Osama, Ali Raulana, and
several, but the one that stood out the
most was Abu Bakr Radialan,
who said
when Umar Radialan, who was so angry and
frustrated,
Abu Bakr
said, You see this man over here? And
he said, the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
I will follow this man wherever he takes
me.
And I command you and I advise you.
And and
He said,
hold on wherever his horse goes, hold on
to the reins and just follow. And that's
what I will do. Even if I don't
understand the exact details, I will follow this
man
wherever he takes me. That was Abu Bakr's
position on this. And it wasn't just him,
hamdullah, umus Salamah,
the wife of the prophet, salallahu alaihi salam,
had a very noble position and many others
as well.
Okay. So they return now to Madinah, and
it takes them a few weeks, and they're
sad. They take off their ihram and and
so on, and they're anticipating the next year
they can come to do umrah.
And now they are officially in the 10
year treaty,
and they're wondering where what comes next now.
So we're gonna talk about a lot of
the lessons we have time, alhamdulillah, plenty of
time. We're gonna talk about a lot of
the this the lessons of this of this
treaty.
But first, let's tell the story
of what happened next.
So a few weeks, if not a month
or 2, go by, and then all of
a sudden, a man
by the name of Abu Basir,
different believer,
shows up in Medina,
and he is excited. And he says and
the the Muslims knew him.
And he said, Alhamdulillah.
I am here. I am saved. And he
joins the believers, and he starts
to pray jama'ah with the people, and he's
amazed he has never been to Madinah. He's
amazed by the Masjid and and the and
everything. He's just he could not be happier,
Abu Wasir. He's a young man.
A few days after he shows up, in
fact, 3 days, 2 men from Mecca show
up, emissaries, and they say, take us to
Muhammad. They tell the the the people guarding
the gate, the Sahaba, take us to Muhammad,
and they get to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and they say, we are here
to collect a man by the name of
Abu Vasir. You know him very well. He
has escaped our shackles,
and he is forbidden to come back, and
we are beseeching you in the name of
our treaty. You are Mohammed. You are known
to keep your word.
You are keep your treaty, so send him
back to us.
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
brings Abu Vasir forward,
and he tells him, as you know, we
have signed the treaty. And Abu Vasir was
familiar with the treaty. He was aware of
it. So he said, as you know,
we have signed the treaty, and believers are
not people to go back on their word.
And, oh, Abu Basir, you know we have
signed a treaty with Quraysh, and we have
made a promise. And it does not befit
us to not to to betray our promise.
I have no doubt that Allah will show
you and the Muslims like you who live
amongst the polytheists a way out. And Abu
Basir shouted, oh messenger of Allah, are you
returning me to the pagans so that they
will torture me and make me leave my
faith? And the messenger salallahu alaihi wasallam responded,
Go with them, Abu Basir.
Allah will definitely show you and the Muslims
like you a way out.
So Abu Basir was sad and dismayed, and
the believers who are watching the sahaba, they
wanted to help. They said, We can kill
these 2 messengers easily. But the prophet, alsalam,
forbid it. He said this is nobody kills
a messenger and not Muhammad, alsalam. We're not
going to,
be the people to act in a betrayal
and a unbefitting manner, not the believers.
So he said, oh, Oba Abul Basir, Allah
will grant you a way out soon.
So Abu Basir took this to heart,
and there was another exchange on his way
out to Umar ibn Khattab
gave him a hint.
He just commented
on,
Abu Wasid, by the way, was a warrior.
He was a very savvy person, and he
was very clever, and he was,
a traveler. He knew the roads of Mecca,
and he knew the caves and the ins
and outs and the hills and valleys very
well.
So Umar on their way out as they're
taking him, so they tied him up, but
they're not, like, carrying him. He's walking with
them because, khalas, you're officially,
sent back. You're deported, if you want to
use modern terms.
So,
Umar
commented and said
something along the lines of I'm gonna paraphrase
here. Something along the lines of,
Abu Wasir, you don't belong to us,
in terms of he's giving him a hint.
You don't belong to us, and
these people
do not carry much value in your eyes.
He said something
along those lines, giving him a hint, and
then Abu Wasir continued
with them.
So Abu Wasir reflected on the words of
the prophet, sasil, Allah will grant you a
way out soon, and he reflected on the
words of Umar saying, these two guys don't
really carry much value in your eyes, and
you don't belong to us in Medina.
Obviously, he's not telling him you're not Muslim.
He has another
intention behind that. So Abu Abbasid reflected and,
you know, on their way back to Mecca,
they're sleeping, they spent a night and then
they continue. So one night, Abu Basir clicks
in his head.
He said,
I now know
how I will use my talents for my
way out. So when he when they were
when he caught his captors off guard,
he took the sword of 1 of them
and killed him.
And there was a struggle, and he killed
him. The other one abandoned his weapons and
ran for his life. They were closer to
Medina at the time, so he ran to
Medina,
knowing that he would have safety amongst the
Muslims.
So Abu al Masir now has 2 sets
of weapons and all their provisions,
and he follows him to Medina but keeping
a safe distance.
So this emissary of of of the Kufar
of Quraysh goes back to he says, oh,
Mohammed, and they they they let him in,
and Mohammed prophet Mohammed, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
shows up, and he tells him what's wrong.
He says, the man your man, Abu Vasir,
he killed my partner on the way there,
and had I not escaped with my life,
he would have killed me too.
And then Abu Basir is on the outskirts
of Madinah. He's there with all their gear
and perhaps their horse or their camel or
whatever they had, and he says, oh, messenger
of Allah,
you have nothing to do with me.
I'm not a citizen of Medina.
You have released me into their
I'm as per the treaty,
you have released me to them.
They it's their problem.
So the messenger of Allah Subha Sallalahu Wa
Salam observes the situation, and then he tells
the the emissary of Quraysh says, oh, Muhammad,
call him over so I can take him
back now again. So the messenger of salaam
says,
So it's an Arabic phrase
is like if you want the literal translation,
it means, may his mother lose him. He's
talking about Abu Basir. But it that's not
what the way Arabs used it, it means,
like, what a reckless man.
What a reckless thing that Abu Basir just
did.
Miss Arhar bin Laukana Lahu Ahad.
This this reckless man would would surely start
a war if he had people to help
him. And that's it. That's what the prophet
responded.
He said, oh, what a reckless man you
have on your hands. Good luck. I hope
you catch him.
It's not my problem. He's not a citizen
of Medina.
That's what Omar Ullano said earlier. You don't
belong to us. He's given him a hint.
You have nothing to do with us. You
are the citizens of Medina of Mecca, and
let them deal with you.
Whatever you do does not reflect on us
because the political treaty is you they forced
us to sign. Whoever
leaves Mecca to join Medina will be rejected.
He's not granted citizenship.
So on a political level,
we have nothing to do with this man.
So the emissary, it hit him right there,
and then he said, oh my god.
We just put ourselves in deep trouble. So
Abu Bosea left. And, again, he did not
enter Medina
to have this conversation. He was on the
outskirts. He he he's fully aware now. He's
a very clever man. He left before the
when he heard this from the prophet, salallahu
alayhi wasalam, because he's he's he's a noble
believer. If the prophet commanded him, he would
have done it. He would have let go
of everything.
He said the prophet did not command anything.
He said, that's my cue. He left, and
he went all the way back to Mecca.
But he's not a fool. He was not
going to enter Mecca. He set up camp
right outside of Mecca. Again, he this man
was a warrior. He knew the hills and
valleys top and bottom. He knew every road
in and out of Mecca. He found a
nice cave, and he set up shop there.
When the emissary
made it back to Mecca, he told the
story to everybody, and he became
it back backfired. Abu Wasir became a legend.
You know? The story that people tell, oh
my god. You see what he did? And
so on. So the story made its way
like wildfire around Mecca. The the leaders of
Quraish got together and said, what can we
do?
This is not war.
1 of our citizens committed a crime. It's
nothing to do with Medina as per our
treaty.
We can't breach these treaties. The law is
the law.
So we have to deal with this man.
So they sent several guys in every court.
They don't know where he set up camp
outside of Mecca. They sent in every direction.
Every time somebody would get get close to
him, he would shoot arrows. He had a
high vantage point. He was very good. He
was skilled. And they realized he's injuring or
or even killing anybody who comes his way,
so they said we have to do something
about this.
Now
let's see some more unintended consequences.
As the story went around Mecca,
the story reached who? Who was who was
in our story beginning?
The son of Suhail,
Abu Jendal.
Abu Jendal hears wait a second. He knows
they all know the secret Muslims no, they're
not secret anymore. They're imprisoned Muslims. They know
each other. He said, wait. Abu Vasir did
what? Anyway, he he didn't get he got
sent back, but he still found a way,
and he's right outside Mecca, like walking distance?
So Abu Jendal started to plan. As soon
as he got some you know, his cousin
or whoever was guarding him was, you know,
asleep or something, he broke his shackles or
broke away, took whatever provisions he could, and
went out to the outskirts of Mecca. And
he spent a while, maybe a few days,
I don't know the exact timing,
searching for Abu Wasser.
And and Abu Wasser saw him ahead of
time because he has a good vantage point
and he knows what he's doing, and he
recognized this man is alone. It's Abu Jandal.
He's a Muslim as well. He's been Muslim
for years. When he realized he wasn't being
followed, there's no trick here, he said he
called out to him, Abu Jandal, come. Okay.
Now it's 2 people.
So the Farajun Kalib, the free the the
the rest near rescue that the prophet told
them, Allah will grant you a rescue, here
it was, for the both of them.
And this story spread like wildfire.
Within a few days, if not weeks, it
was 5 people, and then it was 10,
and then it was 20. And they're all
young men with their weapons and with provisions.
And not only people who were imprisoned who
were already Muslim, people were accepting Islam, who
were already considering it, but now that the
circumstance allows it, they were saying, well, why
should I if I accept Islam now and
I go to Medina, I'll be sent back.
It wasn't you know, so the Shaitan convinced
them to delay. But now they said, oh,
the I don't have to go all the
way there. I can just join Abu Dhabi.
So they accepted Islam and joined him. So
the number grew and grew. It maxed out
at 80 people.
Eighty men.
Here's another unintended consequence. Because they had no
treaty with
anybody,
they were not a citizen of Medina, they
did not have a a treaty with Quraysh,
They said they had no nothing no rules
to follow, and they were very capable men.
So they did guerrilla warfare tactics.
They guarded the roads outside of Mecca. They
knew the,
the the trade routes,
and they did not let a single caravan
leave Mecca without attacking
it. And they started to collect,
all the economic goods that were leaving out
of Mecca. Word got around to Arabia, and
people said, well, the the roads are not
safe, even though they were not attacking other
people's caravans, just the enemies. By the way,
the Kufar of Quraish at that moment had
not only stolen the Muslims' properties
and and killed and tortured Muslims, they had
stolen the Muslims' houses. They were literally living
in the houses of the believers, the actual
physical house. So, like, that's
this is just payback for the economic,
theft that they had done. So Abu Basir
and and his 80 men, they were very,
very adept. And as you guys know from
our era as well, it's very, very difficult
even if you have a much bigger, much
more well equipped army. It's not as simple
as saying, well, I have a 1,000 men.
I'll be I'll I'll very easily deal with
80 men. We're seeing that in the world
today. Right? It's it that's just not how
it works. So guess how long this went
on for? Give it a guess.
6 months is a good guess. It's a
little bit more.
A year, one another is Yeah. A year
and a half. 18 months.
And for 18 months, the economy of Quraish
got devastated.
People were not sending caravans in because, like,
hey. The roads are unsafe,
even though, again,
Abusir
kept he has principles. We don't attack random
people's caravans. Quraish, yes.
So but, you know, nobody is nobody wants
to take that risk.
Mecca can't make any business, and there's
every few months, they send a message to
the messenger, sallallahu alaihi wasalam. Recall these men.
He said, recall who? Recall means they were
originally mine. You based on your treaty here,
they are not my citizens. You deal with
your citizens. You figure it out. Good luck.
After the 18 month mark, when it just
devastated the the economy of Quraish, they sent
a messenger to the prophet and said, we
beseech you in the name of our kinship.
They asked him, now it's full humbleness.
No more we demand you go back. Now
it's like, please, in the name of our
blood that we are we we we have
kinship. We have blood together. We are pleased.
Please take these men. And they fully groveled
and made a public humble display.
And they said, please,
not only that, we will remove these conditions
from the the
the the treaty.
So the last 2, they're gone.
Khalas, the first one, the Umrah, they did
the Muslims did Umrah next year. It was
done. The second one, which is the peace
treaty, they will keep that. So there's only
one condition left, the peace treaty.
No conditions at all. We are equals now.
So the prophet accepted that that they removed
these conditions, and then he
sent words to Abu Vasir, recall all of
your men, all 8 of you, and they
came and they joined Medina and they became
citizens of Medina, and that chapter ended.
So
in that time frame, subhanAllah, the unintended consequences
of,
of the actions of Kufar, they of Kufar
of Quraish, they thought they were being big.
They thought the word was going out to
Arabia, that they conquered the Muslims and they
showed them who's boss.
What actually happened was
word got around Arabia
that
the Quraysh is no longer Quraysh has a
10 year peace treaty with the Muslims, meaning
you no longer have to fear that you're
gonna make an enemy out of Quraysh if
you become Muslim or if you start to
have delegations with the, like, trade
partnerships and whatnot with Medina.
So the word did get around that this
treaty happened. And immediately, people from Northern Arabia,
South, they started to go and send emissaries
to Medina and and say, like, what's what
benefit can there be had with these Muslims?
Some of them came to accept Islam. Others
just came for, like, deals and and and
you know? Because business is business. Economy is
economy.
So it had a it backfired. People said,
we no longer have to fear Quraysh. There's
no political turmoil. Let's let's do this now.
Meanwhile, Quraysh was yeah, of course, they had
peace and it benefited them, but not even
nearly as much as it benefited the Muslims.
And you see the people enter into Islam
in droves. And it was just the Muslims
were able to dedicate so much more resources
to da'wah and to just prosperity instead of
all of it to war.
So, subhanallah,
it
it backfired on Quraysh in literally every possible
way.
And even the the
the the pride that they felt, we denied
them entry into Mecca, This made people lose
respect for Quraish. How could you deny people
entry into Mecca? They came peaceful. This is
not something that you're allowed to do. It
hasn't been done in many 100 of years.
It actually made them look lower in the
eyes of the people. It was a show
of power that backfired.
Every single oh, yes. And the final, the
4th one, the 4th condition, which was if
anybody leaves Islam and goes to Mecca, you're
not allowed to call them back.
How did that one backfire?
That's the only one left that we're seeing
if it's gonna backfire.
What do you think?
One more time?
So the 4th condition was if anybody leaves
Islam and comes us to us to Mecca,
you gotta let them stay. You can't recall
them back. You can't attack them or do
anything to them.
Say again.
It happened, but it's it's very rare, number
1, so it doesn't matter. But number 2,
we don't want any amongst us anyway.
If you're leaving Islam and you want to
leave, go.
What are you gonna force you amongst us
so you can,
cause poison in in within our ranks like
like we saw in the Khutba? We don't
want you. That's, like, perfectly fine.
Go. Be gone.
They don't forget, when you're a weaker party,
you have to force he was he,
Suhail
put his son Abu Jandan in chains for
4 years to try to force him to
go back to Kufr, and he wouldn't do
it. He every he's just looking for an
opening. As soon as an opening came, he
left. He'd rather live in the desert than
live at home if he gets to be
a believer. That's how powerful iman was in
the hearts of the people. The Muslims said,
we're not gonna chain anybody. You know? You
wanna be a kafir and join the kafar?
You're you're bad amongst us. We're sad. We'd
like to have you, but we're not gonna
force you. We want true believers amongst us.
So, subhanallah,
that backfired on them too. So every and
and then now you guys get the the
the hypocrites and the ones who go back
and flip flop. You get to keep them.
So it was a lose lose lose lose
on every way.
Allah revealed the Surah, Surah Al Fath. The
first aya,
It is the Surah of Fath. Fath mean
conquest or victory. We have Allah says we
have indeed given you a clear victory.
Now a lot of people assume that this
surah was revealed for Fath Makkah, the conquest
of Makkah, which was a short while later.
This was revealed before Fath Makkah. It was
about Al Hudaybiyyah.
So Allah calls this treaty that was confusing
to people. Allah says, it shouldn't be confusing.
It was a clear victory for the ummah.
This was the start of the end, the
beginning of the end for the power of
Quraish. Their reputation went down the down the
drain starting this moment.
Everything backfired on them from that moment.
People entered into Islam in droves. It was
that's it. There was no change. You could
not reverse this trend.
Abu Jendal became Muslim and became, part of
Adina. In the conquest of Mecca, his father
finally, Suhail ibn Amr, became Muslim, and it
was it was the beginning of the end.
So Allah
showed us that even some of the most
difficult times that the Ummah faces,
Perhaps Allah will make a lot of khair
in it.
Allah knows and you know not.
So I wanna make it very clear that
this story is not to promote vigilantism.
We're not trying to be vigilantes and that
that's haram. Right? The story
this story is to show us that
there's something called the law of unintended consequences.
When something
even if you think that the oppressors have
power over everything, they have saydara.
They control the the airwaves. They control they
can they can, you know,
spy on everything that you do. They control
the powers and the money and this and
that in the media.
SubhanAllah.
There's unintended consequences for everything. Nobody has full
control and full power except Allah
And the tighter they squeeze, the more mistakes
they make.
And the closer they get to loss, the
more arrogant they they become, and it actually
always backfires on them.
The fastest growing religion in the world is
Islam.
The freedoms that they they presented in the
media I'll give you one just one example.
Social media.
Social media is a tool that has a
lot of value, but it has a lot
of facade,
a lot of corruption.
And in fact, a lot of people intentionally
put corruption on social media to ruin the
children and ruin the generation. Right? There's a
lot of companies out there that intentionally put
facade because it makes them money because it
ruins the next generation of of good people.
These past 10 or 12 months have shown
us that the same tools that were intended
for corruption
were used to spread the truth
on social
media. Right? We we've I've spent many lectures
telling kids, stay off social media, reduce it,
delete it if you can. These past 10
months, I said, There
was a lot of coming out of it,
and then the people in charge
were scrambling to get it banned.
They passed a bill in congress. They they
started,
censoring and shadow banning, and instead of getting
10,000 views, you get 5, even though the
guy has a 1000000 followers. They really started
scrambling. The same tool that they were using
to cause corruption was being used to spread
truth, and they said, no. No. No. That's
not what we wanted.
So it backfired on them, and then you
you see this over and over
So you never know. This doesn't mean we
should accept oppression.
It means that when something happens and here,
it makes you very sad and the ummah
looks like it's got the lower hand and
we're being humiliated,
you still should see the hope.
You should still should plant seeds of good.
You should still say,
I'm still gonna
believe that Allah can turn this around overnight.
I'm still gonna believe that Allah can make
this backfire on the people who
are behind this oppression to begin with.
And the final lesson or on this issue,
we have a few more lessons, is that
you must be patient through the tough times.
Even when it appears really bad, hope is
right around the corner.
As you can see for Abu Basir and
Abu Jandel where the prophet
told them, Allah will make a way out
for you soon, and and Allah did.
Few more lessons.
There are always ups and downs like we
talked about in Jum'ah. Nothing ever goes up
in a straight line. Nothing ever goes down
in a straight line.
And the Umma went on to be a
superpower for the next 700 years.
If you told people
during Hudaybiyah that within 2 years, there would
be the conquest of Mecca, they would never
have believed you.
We would conquer Mecca, and it would be
the biggest power in Arabia, the Muslims, that
quickly?
How? How can we go from accepting this
very humiliating treaty to conquering all of Arabia?
But it happened with the with within
a blink of an eye. So and it
was peaceful too.
And even Suhayl ibn Amr, the one signing
the treaty,
became Muslim himself, and he used his his
talents for the ummah and for,
spreading khair.
During these ups and downs, here's another lesson
that you will be frustrated like the Sahaba
were. It doesn't mean that if you have
hope, then you won't have pain. You won't
have pain. And you'll you'll you struggle and
you'll be frustrated and so on, but you
must remind yourself and remind your children and
remind the people around you
The true believers, they remind each other about
the truth and they remind each other to
be patient.
Because it's a long road and sincerity is
needed. And, yeah, you can feel pain, but
you say, you know what? I trust Allah
and he will surprise me like he surprised
the people before us. And I've observed that
in my life.
And I think we we talked about this
before that
I did not expect this level of awakening
of people, Muslim and non Muslim, waking up
to the truth about Palestine
to this extent
in my lifetime. I didn't expect it to
happen this quickly. It happened over a couple
of months. And you see non Muslims
sometimes taking the forefront of spreading the truth.
And you say, subhanallah.
I wonder. I wonder how much more Allah
has in store if we just keep being
patient, we keep our hope, and we keep
planting seeds of khair.
Lesson number I think we're at 4 or
5 now. Right?
When you're being patient for Allah's sake, it's
not enough to just have hope. You must
keep working.
When the Sahaba and the prophet Muhammad and
Sahaba, they went back to Madinah for that
year waiting for the umrah next year, they
went back to work. They were building the
community. They were doing dawah. The prophet was
sending the Sahaba either to Yemen or to
other parts to do dawah. There was work
to be done. Because you never know
which avenue will pan out.
You never know which of the seeds that
you're planting are are going to grow into
the most fruitful see,
trees. So you keep doing work while the
hope is still alive. There's a lot of
work to be done.
Never next lesson is never lose hope in
Allah's plan. We spoke about that.
Next one is that Allah's plan may be
sooner than you think.
In 23 years, they went from having
5 or 6 believers in the first few
months to having a 100,000 at
the Hajjatulwada'a,
the farewell pilgrimage,
and that's 23 years. A whole gen one
generation or less, and the ummah changed. So
you never know. You never know. It might
come sooner than you think. Trust in Allah
Next lesson, we have only 2 more.
The most pivotal
times in our ummah,
the times that create the most positive change,
they are also the hardest.
They're the most difficult.
So you have to be ready. If you
want major changes, you must endure major difficulty.
Only Allah knows how it will show up,
but
know that with the greatest difficulties comes the
greatest change, and
the hardest tests are reserved for the strongest
believers.
When you read this after the fact, when
you read about Hudaybiyah after the fact, like,
for now,
it seems so amazing and, oh, wow. Look
how good it was. But it was so
tough for them at the time.
They had to endure that. And can you
believe this the prophet commanded the Sahaba to
shave their heads so so they can go
back without doing umrah, so they can go
back to Madinah, and they just didn't do
it.
These are the Sahaba.
They were so frustrated. They just he's commanded
them. They didn't they didn't want to ignore
him, but they were they're they're they're only
human. They just did not shave their head.
And the
prophet is looking at his people, and they're
not listening to their prophet.
And then,
the wife of the prophet,
they spoke privately and she said, oh, messenger
of Allah,
the people are sad, the people are frustrated,
they don't mean to disrespect you.
Why don't you call your barber and
stand in front of the people and have
your barber shave your head and don't say
a single word?
And the prophet listened to his wife. He
went outside
and he commanded the barber and he started
to shave him. And the narration mentions that
the Sahaba were rushing.
They were rushing to be the first as
if they woke up from a trance, and
they they wanted to be the first to
shave. As soon as they saw him do
it, they woke up, said, we just didn't
we just ignored the command of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. They just woke up.
They said, oh my god. And they all
start to shave their head immediately.
So
had kept a straight cool head during a
very difficult time, and she gave a great
piece of advice to her, the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Allah gave her that honor.
So, you know, imagine a test so difficult
that the Sahaba
did not listen to a command of the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
things happen, and be ready for difficulty if
you want the best,
the to be part of the most pivotal
moment. My final lesson is
use the freedoms that are afforded to you.
The people of Medina had different,
limitations. The people of Mecca had different limitations.
The people who coming from different parts don't
forget, at this time well, no. This is
after Medina. But prior to that, there was
believers in Ethiopia.
Right? Al Habesha. They had different freedoms. They
were they were much more free than the
ones in Mecca. Every there was Muslims in
different parts of of Arabia and and and
Africa and different parts of the world, where
everybody has a different set of circumstances.
And the way that I view this, personally,
what are the freedoms afforded to me,
is that
I'm ethnically from Egypt. I was born and
raised here, but
I know that my ethnic homeland, my cousins,
they don't have the freedoms that I have.
They can't amplify a message the way that
we do because they can get in trouble
and and, God forbid, arrested and this and
that. Also, the English language goes a lot
further than the Arabic language, online or or
this or that. Right? We also have you
ever given this reflection?
How many of your relatives
back home in Egypt or Pakistan or or
or Turkey or other countries, how many
of them of your relatives have ever witnessed
A She Hadda in person?
What do you think?
Probably 0. Have you ever given that thought?
We we are so spoiled. We see we've
seen maybe tens, if not 100, in person,
and you were there witnessing, subhanallah, this person
just took a shahada, they became a Muslim
at this moment. It's a historic moment. We
see it so much
on video, in person, that it's even in
person, you're standing right there. It's exciting. They
have never seen it.
I my cousins never, because everyone in Egypt,
most part, are Muslim. Right? It's maybe they'll
see it on TV.
So or on YouTube. So you say, subhanAllah,
like,
we have the freedom to go do dawah,
and people actually accept and accept Islam in
droves. Every single day, there's shahadas all over
America.
These are opportunities afforded to you.
You can speak to your colleagues. You can
speak about Palestine, about what's going on in
in many of our countries. You can there
there's many avenues and opportunities afforded to you
that you should utilize
to be part of positive change for the
Ummah,
and this is one of the lessons inshallah
that we take. So I pray that this
story was of value to you, and I
pray that the title
now we're starting to understand why we
I hope that the title made sense now,
Allah's Qadr during Hudaybiyyah,
something that appeared very difficult at first.
Allah referred
to it as No. No. It was actually
the most clear conquest or victory. SubhanAllah. So
with what's going on in the ummah today,
Allahu
Alam. Allahu Alam, what Allah has in store.
Allahu Alam, who
will change things.
Who will which of the non believers become
Muslim and make a great change. Who how
many of our children
will will be a source of positive change
and us as well. May Allah protect us
all, and may Allah use us for and
may Allah guide us to the truth.
And guys, I appreciate your attention and your
your involvement.