Mohammad Elshinawy – Dont Just Have Faith The Glaring Truth Of Islam
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Allah azza wa jal
called my attention to some personal reflections
on something that I have been involved in, especially in the
last 10 years of my life, or so on and off, I have been involved or
dedicated to collecting
and communicating what I'm assuming are some of the best
arguments
for the truth of Islam,
for the miraculous nature of the Quran,
for the prophethood of Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam,
being undeniable
and of what I realized reflecting on this past decade is that some
of the greatest things I've overlooked in this project are
some of the most basic and straightforward accounts
related to Allah and His messenger and his book. Because naturally,
as human beings, we dismiss what's basic as trivial, unimportant,
when sometimes the most powerful truths are the plain and simple
basic truths. And I'd like to use this khutbah as a demonstration of
that
there is hardly a Muslim that does not on one level or another, know
of the story of how revelation began and came to our Prophet,
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam. We may think of
it as old news, entry level stuff, weekend school content,
but this was an epic event, and even that would be an
understatement. I mean, this was the last time revelation would
come to the world before Allah gathers humanity for their final
reckoning. This was the beginning of the end.
And so it had to be extra special, and we have it established in the
most authentic book, after the Quran Bukhari and elsewhere. Of
course, our mother, Aisha radiAllahu anha, walks us through
this window that we don't look through enough.
She says the very first thing to happen to the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, was that he would see true visions,
and they would come about. They would materialize. He would see a
dream at night. In his sleep, Allah would inspire something to
his heart before he was a prophet for six months straight, and as
clear as day it would unfold on the ground when he woke up.
Sallallahu alayhi, wa sallam,
and this by itself, she's just getting it started. He hasn't even
met the angel, yet this component, by itself, is enough brothers and
sisters to conclusively establish the truth of Islam
and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad,
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. You know why? Because the amount of
times the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has spoken
specifically about the future and never once has it come about
contrary to what he said, it always happened exactly as he
said, or has not happened yet, but has never taken place contrary to
what he said, This is something no human being can ever pull off,
because the the unseen, whether it's the past or even the future,
this is the domain of the Divine. This is solely the lot of Allah,
the lot of God, no one can have this. This is what removes the
Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam and the prophets of Allah
in general, from being compared to psychics. These are no psychics.
You know, Allah, Azza wa jal says, Ali Mullah Alaihi, ahada ilaman al
Tada Rasul only. He is the Knower of the unseen, and he does not
permit for anyone to have access to the unseen except a messenger,
whom he is in approval of. He gives them snapshots, disclosures
from the unseen to prove that the Knower of the unseen is
communicating to them. How is that different from psychics. Psychics
don't do this. Psychics speak in ways that are not specific, and it
still catches up with them. They still get tripped up eventually,
whereas the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would speak so
specifically and it he was never wrong. Sallallahu alayhi.
Salam and the amount of times he did this were a shoreless ocean.
It's an unending stream. 100 khutbahs would not be enough to
unpack it, but perhaps we will unpack it in future appointments
together. But Allah has forbidden. Just keep that in mind that anyone
know the future but him and the small exception to prove to the
world that these prophets and messengers were really sent by
him, there's actually a good book a Muslim author wrote, If you are
interested in the subject, called forbidden prophecies. And he gives
you this very clear look at all the Nostradamus and the
soothsayers and the psychics of old and new who claimed to know
the future and how they were all wrong, and how we forgotten so
many of their blunders, because one time they coincidentally may
have possibly been correct, but it's a forbidden prophecy. Why?
Meaning? Allah has forbidden that anyone have a prophecy about the
future except his prophets and messengers. That is the idea. He
has forbidden that anyone get it right.
But with the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, for six months
straight, as clear as day it will unfold, the Hadith continues, the
basic Hadith, she says. And then Allah made dear to his heart to be
alone from the evils of society. So he would go for days and nights
at a time, after supplying himself with some rations, some resources
from home, food, drink, water, he would go off to the cave, the
famous, now cave of Hira, and he would ask Allah, however he knew
how to guide him to the truth and to guide him away from the
corruption and the mischief of wider society,
until the angel was sent to him, the angel, Jibreel alaihi salam.
And he comes to him, as you know, and he grabs him over and over
again, making it clear to him, this is not a dream, right?
And he says to him, read. And he says, I cannot read, read. I
cannot read. Read. I cannot read.
And that also by itself, without the proof I just mentioned before,
it of true visions or any proof I will mention after, it is enough
stand alone as a proof that he was a true prophet. And the Quran is
from Allah,
and the Quran is his word Allah said to him, irk Bella, recite in
the Name of your Lord, and then through reciting in the name of
his Lord, the one who never recited anything in his life,
never recited a single couplet of poetry. Came from a whole society
that was majorly illiterate, unlettered, he brings about the
greatest book that shook the world and the likes of which humanity
has never seen. This is why elsewhere in the Quran, Allah says
Wa makunta, Tatum in kabli, he mean Kitab in wala, takhtu, hubi
Amini ke even lar tabal mubatilu, and you O Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam never recited any book before this day, and you
never etched anything. You never penned a single letter, a letter
like an alphabet, letter, not a letter. You've never etched
anything with your right hand, even la rotrido. If you had, once
in your life, done any of that, those who call you false would
have had a small reason to doubt. In other words, they don't even
have one in a million reason to doubt. How can it be? Where did he
get it from? Even when some people temporarily and they stopped doing
this, because it's embarrassing to even try to argue that. But
momentarily they argued maybe someone spoon feeding him from
other books, from other scriptures, from a Bible, or
something. Allah subhanahu wa responds in the Quran elsewhere.
And he says, we certainly know that they are saying in NEMA you
alimuh, who Bashar, that some other human being is just spoon
feeding him what to say. Allah Azza says back to them, Lisa
Mubin, this language that they're claiming that he's stealing from,
he's plagiarizing from, is a non Arabic language, like, let's say
he got it from elsewhere, okay, got it from Latin or Greek or
Hebrew or something. But this is an Arabic Quran. How did he still
get it into being the masterpiece of the Arabic language,
the greatest masterpiece, the most recited book, the only memorized
book on the planet by 10s of millions of people. Doesn't make
any sort of sense, right?
So him simply saying, I cannot read. And then it becomes the most
read because of Bismarck, by your the Name of your Lord, and even
us, by extension, on a lesser level. Now we are not prophets,
but we also recite the book How Bismillah I Rahman Al Rahim, in
the name of our Lord subhanahu wa taala. So that
factor of this book that we are fortunate to be believers in was
enough to prove his prophethood. And then he sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is finally released by the by the.
Jail,
and he runs back home. And he runs back home to his wife, Khadija,
Allahu, anha, and he says to her, famously, Zem miluni, ze miruni,
wrapped me up. Wrapped me up. He's shivering.
Wallahi, a Khadijah to Ala NFC, oh, Khadija. I feared for myself.
Thought I was going to die far. I was going to go crazy. I feared
for myself. That statement I feared for myself by itself is a
truth, is testifies, declares openly to the truth of Islam why
he did not enter his home. SalAllahu alayhi wa sallam Abu.
Imagine just the imposter theory, right? Imagine someone wanting to
argue that there is an impostor in the personality of Muhammad,
sallAllahu. Alayhi wa sallam, you would come forward with
confidence, right? You would walk into the house and say, it is
time. It's time for what I am, the prophet of God, and you must all
follow me. He didn't do that. Alayhi Salatu wasallam. It was so
sudden, even for him, that we know it wasn't him. SallAllahu, alayhi,
WA Alam. Does this make sense? The fact that he said, wrap me up. I
don't know what to do. I'm scared. I'm unsure. This proves that it's
true. The suddenness, the overnightness, the instantaneous
way that it began, proves that it's true. You know, in fact,
brothers and sisters, there is
a a Scottish philosopher. His name is Thomas Carlyle, from the past
century or a century and a half ago. He has a book called Heroes
and hero worship, people, personalities and human history
that people consider larger than life. And he's he argues in his
chapter on Muhammad, he said, Listen, we need to figure out a
better explanation. And he's just some imposter. And he breaks it
brings two things to lie. He says, first of all, what's the motive?
You know, when someone's doing something shady, you look for a
motive like, why would they kill? Why would they lie? What? What did
he get out of it?
At his success, at his prosperity. At the end of his life, he
maintained the same humility and the same simplicity as his earlier
days. The closest people to him are testifying that, you know, his
his private life was perfectly in keep with his public life. What's
the motive? He says, you know, the man developed the title Amin the
trustworthy and worked so hard for the first 40 years of his life to
get nothing but the good reputation and opinion of his
neighbors. And he was satisfied with that. He said, How does it
make sense that he would jeopardize risk all of this
reputation that he clearly cared so much about, and set off on some
career of ambition at the latest phase of his life when he couldn't
even enjoy it. He just doesn't make sense, right? He said, When
you get so old that the most life can give you, right now, the best
life can offer is what just some peace, right? That's when you're
going to start your career of ambition. He said, it doesn't add
up. He said, In the second problem is, look at the outcome. He said,
Carlisle very important about the overnightness of it. He says,
Listen,
you don't need to be an expert to know that someone is acting a
fraudster. Someone comes to your house and says, you know, I'm a
Mason. I'm a brick mason. I'm going to build you a shed outside
for this amount of money, the moment he starts dabbling with
every with the tools. You know, this guy has never touched a
hammer in his life, has never mixed water and cement in his
life, immediately you'll be able to call him out, right? He said,
an imposter brick mason can't even build a little house. How can an
imposter profit? He's not Muslim, by the way. What he says, like,
how can impostor Prophet create a religion? He is the most imitated
man in the face of humanity, in history of humanity, 1500 years
and counting. How does that work?
And so what's the motive? And how did he build more than anyone has
ever built surrounded by endless deserts, isolated from the How did
he do it?
And so Khadija RadiAllahu Taala anha responded to the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam,
and she said to him, la
Wallahi, Lahu abada, I swear absolutely not Allah will never
disgrace you.
She said, You keep ties with your family no matter how difficult
things get, you always keep ties. You speak the truth, you honor
your guests, you uplift the downtrodden, you come to the
rescue of people during calamities, Allah will never
disgrace you. And that statement of Khadijah Radi Allahu anha
attesting to the character of the Prophet salallahu, alayhi wa
sallam, and his consistency upon his principles is proof that he's
a prophet of God. Her statement alone would be enough.
Allah inspired you to say, because you cannot you can trick some
people who are naive and gullible for a short period of time, you
may be able to trick the whole world.
A little bit of time. But to trick everyone forever is impossible,
and the people you live behind closed doors with know you better
than anyone. So for her to say that, it means he was that
SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, immaculate in his integrity,
Salawat, rasala mu Ali and Shaykh Islamia, Rahim Allah, he has a
useful reflection on this. He says, Listen, it's not it's not
complicated to figure out whether Islam is true and Muhammad's a
true prophet, and the Quran is God's word. He said, listen, any
person that has ever claimed to be a prophet has been one of two
people. He's either been the scum of the earth, because that's the
worst kind of liar. Imagine someone who lies. That's bad. If
you lie about your parents, that's even worse, right? Imagine someone
who lies about God, he said, and you find out eventually they're,
like, exploitative, they're, you know, they have agendas and
they're ignorant and they make mistakes and they're they have
double standards, all of that they become. They're the worst of the
worst, or they're the best of the best. There's no gray area. So
when someone claims they're the Prophet, just check their
character. If they have good character, there's no room for
confusion. They must be a prophet, because if they weren't, they
would not be average, they would not be gray area, they would be
the other end of the spectrum, only a quota. Call it
Alhamdulillah.
While,
while each of these lines tells an epic story, brothers and sisters,
and there are so many Khadija Allahu Anhu brought it over to her
cousin, who was a blind man that was an expert in like Hebrew
Scriptures, and also the revelation interrupted a few short
days later. That's another sign that he wasn't in control.
SallAllahu, alayhi wasallam people tell him, where's Quran? Tell us
more Quran and he couldn't do it. That means it wasn't him, right?
It wasn't in his hands. He was simply the agent of the Almighty
Subhanahu wa taala. But I do wish to make one final stop,
which is that when she brought him to her cousin, he said to him,
that was the messenger angel that came to Moses, and I wish I was a
bit younger so I could defend you. When your people throw you out, he
said, throw me out. I'm el Amin. I'm sort of from the noble house
of Quraysh. I'm from Benu Hashim. I'm the trustworthy they come to
me in arbitrary me, of all people, he said, nobody ever came with the
likes of what you've come with, except that they were turned into
an enemy. And you know, they didn't drive him out. This is the
point to understand, to realize how this could be a proof they did
not give him an eviction notice on a piece of paper. They killed his
companions in the street and strangled him in broad daylight,
and they had his daughters humiliated and divorced and and
the struggles of his own personal life, and then driven out of his
home. And this is not even for a year, but this is for 13 years
before he's left, he's driven out of Mecca to Medina, the people of
Gaza. How's this?
We are still reeling from the pain, but also just
admiring the resilience for a whole year. Do you know where the
people of ghaza get it? They get it by reflecting on the life of
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. He is the endless supply
of resilience, because nobody went through what he went through. If I
could read to you and I with it, I close a short poem, one of the
good Mashiach here in the States, she hamara Shukri put together.
Regarding this
in English, he says, You never saw your father's face and you hardly
ever felt the warmth of your mother's embrace, and then your
grandfather's heart would burn with concern, and then death would
come to him in turn. Abdul Muttalib, he said you had no one
to look up to. He was a child, no one to look up to. So you cast
your visions to the sky.
When you live to speak the truth, it hurts that much more. It cuts
even deeper when they say you lie,
doesn't it? Yet you move on and you take it all in stride. The
honest prophet who by His own people, was belied with only two
pillars of support,
an uncle and a perfect wife, and in the same year, both of them
would lose their life.
Jibreel, the Archangel, would send Khadija his salaams and promise
her of a house in paradise. But then another angel would come to
your house, the angel of death, to collect its price, to take
Khadija, radiAllahu anha, and you had to go to a Taif to seek
support for the mission you must spread.
And yet they laugh at you, and they send their kids after you,
and they stone you until you bled, and then at Uhud, you're struck
with Vicious blows, he says, the poet,
and rumors are spread by your about your beloved Aisha that
caused pain. Allah only knows.
Jesus and the absence of your cousin Jafar finally ends. And
from Abyssinia he would come, and on the same day he's martyred
alongside your
alongside Zayd, your adopted son, and now his children and Ruqayyah
would pass away and as well. And you held Ibrahim in your arms with
a heart that breaks and eyes that swell
death, would take permission, would take permission from you to
take your soul, but would not seek permission to take the souls of
those you love. Yet you never once expressed objection to the test
that came from up above. The trials only made him stronger.
SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallallah, the trials only made you stronger.
And for Allah's Perfect company, you would yearn for. It is to
Allah that we belong, and to Him is our return. That's who he was,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Drive him out of anywhere you couldn't
drive the true faith out of his heart. And that is a declaration
to the truth of this faith in its entirety. May Allah Azzawajal fill
our hearts with love of our Prophet, salallahu, alayhi wa
sallam, and allow our youth to never waver, and our adults and
elders to never waver in our conviction Allah and his great
book and his final prophet, May Allah guide us and guide with us
and make us a means for many to be guided in the future.
Abu