Mohammed Hannini – Studies in the Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad #10
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The speaker discusses the confusion surrounding the actions of Islam's prophet Q iP equaled and his followers. The message is not a formal message, but rather a series of legends and parables. The speaker emphasizes the importance of consistency in language and setting up a coherent message for the people. The speaker also discusses the impact of the Quran on their understanding of Islam and encourages them to learn the Arabic language and not listen to anyone.
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Today,
we're gonna focus on one aspect,
of the
second phase of dawah where the prop the
the prophet
went public.
And it took a very aggressive,
you know,
way of conveying Islam,
you know, by when the people,
rejected him, etcetera.
When I say aggressive,
I mean,
you know,
idea for idea. You know, he did not
try to compromise with them on any part,
and this is what we will see today
tomorrow today.
So today, what we are focusing on is
the reaction of Quraish.
Well, how does a Quraish
react to that call of Islam that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam brought? So, of
course, they they have followed different tactics, different
approaches.
One of them was, what they started with
was to try to put pressure on his
uncle, Abu Talib. So they went to Abu
Talib, and we mentioned this before.
You know? And they were this when we
say they went to Abu Talib,
we were talking about the leadership of the
society, the leadership of Quraish. This is the
the
the
creme of the creme, as they say.
You know? So these were they came to
to to his uncle and said,
your nephew has cursed our
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of our gods,
ridiculed our way of thinking,
you know, and
made fun of our our beliefs, etcetera, etcetera.
So stop them. By the way, before I
stop, just as a comment on the side.
You know,
because Allah,
you know, when our Rasul
started cursing their gods, and they said, if
you don't stop, we're gonna curse your god.
You know? So Allah Ta'ala,
revealed
the that do not curse
the what the others worship aside from Allah
so that they would so that they don't
curse Allah
in aggression or in,
and without knowledge. Because if they know, they
would not be cursing the creator.
So,
from this, by the way, this area
as well as the hadith,
and just as a side note, as I
said, you know, which is in Bukhari,
that Rasulullah
SAWS says,
cursed be the one
who curses his parents.
So they said,
How does the father how does the man
how does the one of us
curse his parents, his own parents?
You know? He said,
you know, that
that the person would curse somebody's father, and
the other person, you know, curses his father.
And you curse his mother, and he curses
your mother. So you caused it, in other
words.
The the, by the way, they use these
2, the and the hadith,
you know, not exclusively. Now there are others
to show that whatever leads to haram is
haram.
So cursing their their father their their gods
is gonna lead to cursing Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
You know, that is leads to haram. So
it become the curse in their gods becomes
haram.
Even though it in itself,
you know, it's fine. You're cursing idols. You
know,
they're they're there's they're not living
beings.
You know?
But since it leads to something that's haram
becomes haram, and that's one of the the
rules of.
You know, what leads to haram is haram.
This is from the, the evidence that they
use.
So, anyway, they they said that he ridiculed
our way of thinking, our gods, our beliefs,
etcetera.
So either that you, you know, you you
tell him to stop,
you know, or
let us handle him, meaning stop protecting him.
And and Abu Talib returned them, you know,
sent them off to, you know, kindly, basically,
without any commitment from him.
But then they made they started ridiculing Rasulullah
salam
and belittling the prophet
and calling him a liar. Now he's a
sadaq al Amin. He was known all his
life to be the truthful and the honest.
You know? So all of a sudden, now
we're calling you a liar. You know why?
Because he brought a message
that is not suitable for their society from
their point of view,
that it's going to change
the the,
you know, the setup of the society itself.
And that became that's threatening to their interests
and to their
leadership, their benefits, their leadership positions, etcetera. So
they confronted him,
not because they were not convinced that he
was a prophet. Because as Allah Ta'ala says,
waja Haduha
waja Haduha wasaikhanathanfusuhumbulmanuwa'aluha.
That they denied it. They rejected the message,
but internally inside, they had the absolute belief
that it was a message from, from Allah
Ta'ala.
Ta'ala? Why did they reject it?
Injustice as a act of injustice and arrogance.
Arrogance. Arrogance plays
huge role in the in in deviation,
in in not accepting the truth in you
know, because, you know, I somebody tells me,
Mohammed, you have just did something wrong. You
know,
me, I told by you, who are you
to tell me? You know,
and this is this is the arrogance that,
misled them.
So they made fun of our Rasool SAW
A'la
Is this, you know, if the if the
disbelievers see you, they take you as a
mockery, as a.
They make fun of you.
Is this the one who is
talking critically about your gods? He's he's the
one who's talking about your, your gods?
And if they see you, they start making
fun of you. They mock you.
Is this the one whom Allah Ta'ala sent
as the messenger
to all mankind? This is the person that
Allah chose out of all mankind
so that he would choose him?
Again, mockery and belittling
him, etcetera.
But of course,
you know,
his reaction,
and this is the reaction, you know,
and this is the
the the the what makes the the prophet
somebody can who can be imitated, emulated,
Is that his dua was done on a
human level.
It wasn't
angels protecting him. It wasn't, you know,
doing things in a supernatural way. All of
a sudden, he floats in the air and
and he conquers Mecca like that, and he,
you know
whatever he did, alaihis salatu wa sallam, can
be followed by his followers.
And that's why you what was his reaction
to this Bakri and to this patients?
He did not whether whether,
you know,
and Allah gave them the opportunity like he
did with the. Later on, we'll talk about
the the the that phase of Dua. But
whether Allah gave him that opportunity to go
and destroy them all or not. It doesn't
matter because at the end of the day,
he did not act on it.
You know? So it was left as still
what do you do when there is harm
inflicted on you? It's patience.
So Allah Ta'ala comforts him by saying,
And other messengers before you were mocked and
were made fun of. You know?
What to happen to them, to those people
in the past?
Whatever they were making fun of actually caught
up with them. Meaning they said the punishment.
Whether the punishment during their life or the
punishment in the in the graves after they
died or whatever, however, Allah
destroyed them.
And now they did not, you know, look
at how what they they kept on
they became coherent
in trying to describe the Quran.
They didn't really know what to say about
the Quran. So
they said, oh, this is just dreams.
You know? So the fact that the prophet
can speak
the way he speaks the Quran,
This
speech,
Abhathu Ahlam, this just the the matters of
a dream. Baliftarah, it's made up. Balu Hashar.
No. No. No. It's poetry.
You know? He's a poet.
Or
when they
said,
are we going to leave our gods
for a crazy poet?
For a crazy poet, somebody who is the
most insane of of, the most sane of
all of
them, you know,
to be described as
insane
and,
shayr even though the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and this is just a matter of
fact. He was not a poet.
He had no poems.
He had not not before the message of
Islam, not after. He had no lines of
poetry that were written or documented
that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam made
up.
The closest that he came to,
you know, is what they say which the
Arabs used to say that he would recite
during weddings. You know,
and that that, you know, just some rhyme
that others used to to do, but that
was not his own making anyway.
So Rasool Sallalahu alaihi wa sallam was never
a poet.
He they all knew that he was not
a poet,
and still they would describe him as crazy
poet. You know?
Or they said, okay. He's the poet, and
we'll just wait for him until he dies.
He's gonna die at some point. So just
just wait it out. Wait him out.
And they said this is this speech is
nothing but fabricated speech, meaning not not from
God. It is something that is,
sorry.
This somebody who is
now you're saying that his speech is fabricated.
It is falsehood.
And this is the person for most of
his life,
was called the truthful and the honest. From
truthful to honest to now, a fabricator of
speech.
You know?
That would have to keep to to have
an impact on the person.
And Allah
often responded to them.
And and when they when they when they
said that, you know,
then Allah
says
I am admonishing you. I am advising you
to do one thing.
That you stand up for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, meaning to obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Do it 1 at a time, 2 at
a time, cons consult each other, but, you
know,
didn't think.
There is no madness in your with with
with this man. I mean,
madness
is something that can be manifested, can can
be shown.
You can see a person who is insane,
you know, the way they behave. They are
they are erratic. They are incoherent. They are,
you know
where is the incoherence in the message of
Islam? Where is the incoherence in the in
the in the behavior of the prophet himself?
And emphasizing
and when as Allah says,
And this is very interesting because they're saying
that,
Allah described them.
They're looking at you so sharp as if
they are going through you. You know? When
they hear the remembrance, meaning when they hear
the Quran,
and they say
that he is a madman, he's crazy.
And Allah ta'ala look at this, Despite the
position that the prophet
says is in,
people are calling you crazy, people are calling
you insane, people are calling you mad, people
are calling you fabricator, etcetera. And he says
from that
point, he's talking about that this remembrance is
for all mankind.
Meaning,
he did not even
restrict himself to Quraysh
or to Makkah or to the Arabs or,
you know,
no. The message from day 1,
from those the early stages
telling them that this message is for mankind.
This is not, you know
and,
the the big gap,
And when you say it, a person whom
his companions are being,
you know, tortured, punished,
he's being, you know, the
all of the machinery who's working against him,
he's against the society,
you know, and then he's still saying
and this is a remembrance to mankind.
That shows that Rasool salarahu alaihi wa sallam
made the message of Islam the source of
his view and the source of his direction,
not
the reality as seen by the human being.
Meaning the human being comes and says,
man, you're alone. How many people believe in
you? You know, look at what they're piling
up against you. You are they're calling you
even crazy. They are, you know, they are
they look what they did to Bilal or
they did to Khabab, and we'll talk about
them in more,
in in next week. But
that's the human mind.
The human mind works within
the around them. What, you know, what is
possible, what I can do, and often
succumbs or or or,
gives in to what he sees or what
the the person sees as this is what
I can do. I cannot do more.
The one who puts the deen,
puts the iman as the foundation
goes beyond that, becomes guided by the message,
not by what is quote unquote allowed in
the society, what's not allowed in the society.
And that is that is when we say
I mean, despite all of that, the prophet
insisting
this message is for mankind.
So, I mean, there are many ayats, by
the way, talking about the same thing and
the responses.
Now,
you know, Al Bukhari reported that Abu Jahl
came mocking the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And what did Abu Jahl said?
Say, Abu Jahl said, Allah
Oh, Allah. Remember,
the the Arabs were idol worshipers. They were
not,
atheists. So they believed in Allah. They believed
in God.
So they say he said Abu Jahl. He
said, oh, Allah,
if this were the truth from you,
you know, let stones be rained upon us
from the sky or rush us with a
severe punishment.
You know, if this is
true, we need you know, and Allah
revealed the Ayat,
you know, I I
really repeating what Abu Jahl said verbatim.
And after that, he says,
And and Allah Ta'ala
is not going to punish them while you
are amongst them, while the prophet is amongst
them. And Allah Ta'ala will not punish them
while they ask for forgiveness.
They,
made fun of the prophet saying
that you're only a human being. You know,
when he say when so what they said,
How come that this messenger look at the
way they it's presented.
This messenger,
you know,
who claims he's a messenger.
He eats food, meaning like us.
And he works in the markets just like
us.
Why why didn't he have an angel on
his side so he would be warning the
people as, alongside them?
Or Allah Ta'ala would would give him a
a treasure
or he would be given a garden.
That he would eat from that garden.
And the mean the unjust people, the unfair
people said that you are following a man
who is bewitched, who is under a magic
spell. So now he's not a magician, he's
not a magician,
he's under a magic spell.
Okay. Make up your mind which one is
he? Is he a poet? Is he crazy?
Is he a magician? Is he under a
magic spell? It everything goes.
And Allah ta'ala continues with the See how
Allah ta'ala how they gave you the examples
that the the issues that they're raising.
So they went astray, and they cannot find
their the straight
path for them.
It became as a it got to a
point where it became, you know, things that
are,
absolutely ridiculous.
Look what Allah ta'ala documents. Remember we said
the best source of the Sira is in
the Quran Kareem.
Allah
documents what they said in Surah Al Isra.
They said,
We are not going to become believers until
you bring a,
a spring from the ground.
Or that you will have a garden
made of palm trees and grapes,
and you the the water will be gushing
out from them, you know,
from the the from the garden.
Or let the sky fall upon upon us
in pieces.
Okay. Meaning the sky is gonna crumble. We
want you to crumble the sky and let
it fall on us in pieces.
Or you bring Allah himself.
Allah even Allah
is not enough. You bring the angels as
well.
With him.
With Allah bring the angels.
Or that you have a a house made
of gold.
You have a house made of gold.
Or that we see you ascend in the
heavens.
Then. But even if you ascend to the
heavens,
we're not gonna believe
until you we're not gonna believe that you
actually went up until you bring us back
a book that we can read. They could
not read. They're only ill.
There are people who are
unlettered.
You know? They're saying bring us a book
from the heavens for read it. And what
was the response? Subhan'a rabbih. Allah tells them,
say, praise be my Lord.
Am I only am I nothing am I
anything but
a human messenger?
He's a human being and he's a messenger
and all of this nonsense that they're listed
we want this, we want this, we want
that,
You know?
He brought them the Quran.
He brought them a proof to show that
he's a messenger. Why don't you think of
that? Why why do you need the mess
a book to to come back? Why do
you need to see Allah ta'ala? You believe
in him anyway.
The problem is not with Allah. The problem
is not with the angels because they believed
in the angels, but they said that they're
females, but they believed in the angels.
So
why do you need all of this? What
you need is to examine what the person
what this man is bringing.
But all of this is
just to stir,
just empty challenges or or things just to
to,
to be argumentative.
Now, of course, another
thing that they started, by the way, is
to start spreading news,
start spreading falsehoods about the the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Okay. And about the Quran,
about his personality.
So
all of that so that they would prevent
the people from actually listening to what the
man was saying.
You know? So they started saying about the
Quran.
That these are the, the legends of the
past.
Okay. Meaning that he he brings legends. Other
people bring other legends, meaning there's nothing special
here. So this is, these are the legends
of the the
predecessors.
He had them written for him,
and then they are being given to him
in the morning and at night.
And what did they say?
This is nothing but fabrications
and lies which he made up, and he
was assisted with others for it.
Then they said
they said actually, again, the the the discrepancies
and the conflicts in what they are
they they they have an incoherent message in
how to deal with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
So finally, they said, okay, he's being taught
by
by a human being.
The human being was actually a Roman boy,
a Christian boy
who was a blacksmith.
And Allah Ta'ala is in response to them,
he said because he's teaching them. So the
Quran is coming from them.
The this is the per that the person
could not speak Arabic. When you talk about
inconsistent, incoherent
response,
the person could not speak Arabic properly.
So they say Allah is saying the the
language of the person they're referring to is
Ajami, non Arabic.
You know? It's it's not Arabic. But this
Quran,
this is a clear Arabic tongue, a clear
Arabic language.
And, of course, the Quran, al Kareem, would
comfort him all the time. You know? And,
you know, and that's one of the hikam,
one of the wisdoms
why the Quran was revealed over 23 years.
It accompanied the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in all of his journey. And that's why
anybody who needs to carry the Quran or
to carry the the dawah of Islam,
to communicate with with the people about Islam,
The the Quran
is should cannot be separable from him
because the Quran, even though it's comforting Rasool
salaam, it comforts the believers
and the person you will see many things
and the Quran is always should always be
in the company of anybody who carries the
dua.
Just look what Allah says.
Other messengers were called liars like you, so
you're you're not different in that aspect.
Other messengers were called liars before you.
And they exercised patience. They showed patience
when they were called liars.
And they were harmed.
They were harmed.
Until our victory came to them.
And look at the the Arabic language, by
the way. When he says he did not
say
You know, example, until victory came. He said
and he did not say
that until my victory
came. He said until our victory came. The
he's speaking in what they call the
majesty, the nun of the majesty.
That you're not Allah Ta'ala. Yes. He's alone.
But at the same time, in his majesty,
the victory, our victory is coming to to
you.
Look at how comforting it is. This is
the the the wisdom of Allah Ta'ala, the
the sunnah of Allah Ta'ala,
and the the the victory of Allah Ta'ala
is set.
You know?
And you have the news from the previous
messengers,
and that's what you find the ayat in
Mecca. Many ayat referring to the messengers, to
the previous messengers
and how they were, you know,
you know, some of them were,
you know, they're mistreated and some of them
were killed and some of them were abused
and, you know, etcetera etcetera. So,
Allah comforts
them with that.
So now they had,
a season of Hajj was coming, and this
was actually in the early stages of the
of the public dawah.
So the season of Hajj came, and they
said that we wanted to have a coherent
message
to the people because Rasool Salam
now is calling for Islam,
and the Hajj season comes because, remember, the
Hajj actually was a ritual from the time
of Ibrahim alaihi sallam. And then it changed.
What Abu Shirkin knew, the the idol worshipers,
they changed aspects of it. You know? But
still in in the as a concept of
Hajj, go into a Kaaba and doing the
and all of that, you know, that was
actually that existed before Islam.
And, of course, just as a side note
again,
anything that existed before Islam, and the Rasool
salallahu alaihi wa sallam approved
by either verbally
or seeing it being practiced and remaining quiet,
you know, automatically becomes part of the sharia.
And for example, contracts,
how you buy, sell, what you buy, sell,
The the the the silence of the Prophet
on some of the transactions from Jahiliyyah,
actually that's how they became
Islamic. That's how they became Islamic contracts.
Because the Prophet
by definition, he would never be quiet,
you know,
when there is a need to be to
speak.
So if the if Allah forbid such an
action, for example,
Riba
Riba Usury is made haram. So
Rasoolullah Sallam says the, you know, all try
all usury, all riba is under my foot.
That was his expression. It's under my foot.
It's an Arab expression meaning that it's null
and void. And the first is the Riba
of Rebbas, his uncle.
In the first Riba is the Riba of
Rebbas. So when if there are a transaction
that's haram, he's gonna stop it. A practice,
for example, in Hajj,
some women used to do Tawaf naked
around the around the Kaaba that was in
the Jahiliyyah.
You know? And,
Rasul SAWSOLAM, of course, forbade that. So things
that are,
the the the the fact that the Rasul
Salam remains quiet, it means that they are
approved. So the Hajj the people who are,
Quraish is preparing for the season. People are
coming from for Hajj.
What are we going to tell
the the people about
Muhammad alaihis salatu wasalam. So Waleed bin Mughira
is one of the leaders of Quraish.
He is the one who initiated the discussion.
He said, you know, the people are coming,
so we need to do to say something
unified
meaning have a unified opinion, a unified statement.
It's a political statement you have to issue.
You have to to to get it out.
It has to be one statement.
And what he says,
you know, and do not disagree with each
other. Do not have different statements where you
start actually calling each other liars.
Meaning what? We all know,
you know, we all know that we are
making up a lie. But we have to
be consistent when we lie. We cannot you
know, you lie this way, I lie that
way. We have to be consistent with the
lie. And that's really exactly what he said
and what he did as well.
You know? So what did they they said,
okay.
So
tell us what to say. You know, they
told them.
They said, no. You go ahead to the
saying.
You say it. I will listen.
We
will say that he's a priest.
He's a monk, priest.
He
said, No. By Allah, he's not a priest.
You know?
You know? That we see how the priest
talk. You know? They mumble and they they
whisper things and like that.
They call
it The person who just say,
you know? And you don't know what they're
saying. You know?
Saying and sometimes when they say it and
they make things rhyme, he said, well, Assadrad,
this is not the the speech of a
a priest or a, you know, or nor
is it a a rhyme of a priest.
They said, okay.
Nakul Majnun
will say he's crazy
because now it's the the official position.
So Walid ibn Maghirah said no, Jabal Majnun,
he's not crazy crazy, he's not mad.
We know what what craziness is and we
know the symptoms of craziness, madness,
you know.
It's not the way that crazy person, insane
person acts.
So they said, okay. We say Shahar,
you know, because there are different types of
Arabic poetry. He said, we know what poetry
is,
and this is not one of them. This
is not poetry.
They said, okay. We say a magician, Sahar.
He said,
And you know
he said, do we know he's not a
magician?
We know what magicians do and how they,
you know, one
They they, you know, with the, one practice
of Jahiliya and or amongst the the,
the the,
magicians in the Jahiliya,
or even after Islam,
they used to take a string,
you know, and they would
tie a knot with a string and say
things on it, and tie another knot and
make things on it, and, you know, say
things on it like that. So this is
actually what what Surat Al Falak refers to.
You know?
The one who blows and whispers on the,
the knots.
So that was that was a practice that
they used to do. So they said that,
you know,
this is not he this he said, this
is not a
he's not a magician.
So he's they said, come on.
What do you want us to say? Enough.
You know? So he said,
by
Allah,
that his speech has sweetness,
and its roots
are deeply rooted. You know? The the adak
is like the palm tree that's very deeply
rooted.
Well, in
the and the branches of it is full
of fruit.
Meaning, when you read the Quran, the Quran
al Kareem is not only solid so that
there are no errors. It's very well established
language. It's very, you know, eloquent, etcetera. But
even the meanings and what you get out
of it is in abundance.
And if you say anything,
what you're suggesting,
whether he's a poet, he's a crazy, he's
separating between men and, you know, and that
man and his family and all of this,
they will know that you are lying. It's
falsehood.
And the closest
that you can say, he's a magician. Why?
He bewitches people's minds.
How does he bewitch them? How does he,
you know, because and we'll give a couple
of examples inshallah before we close on.
He recites the Quran Al Kareem and the
people are mesmerized.
A person who is now a kafir all
his life and a disbeliever,
etcetera, all of a sudden he says, I'm
a Muslim. On the spot,
he just
the speech the speech
is is like magic. The speech of a
Quran.
You know?
In another, by the way, in other
in other reports, actually,
when they said, okay. Tell us what what
what you want us to say. He said,
let me think.
So he went home thinking,
you know, how what am I going to
say about Rasool SAW? And that's the sort
of the first, I think, 16 ayah from
or excuse me, from 11 to 16, about,
5 ayahs were revealed about him. You know?
He thought,
estimated.
Woe to him or death to him, how
he estimated.
Then woe to him how he estimated.
Then he thought.
Then he frowned. And then he, you know,
he describes even the movements that the man,
was
was was doing.
Then he turned
and became arrogant. He
put himself upon above the truth.
He said this is nothing but magic.
You know?
This is nothing but speech of a human
being.
So anyway, they they decided on that.
They decided on that decision that this is
what we're gonna tell the people, he's a
magician.
So now everybody who's coming to the season
of Al Hajj,
you know, they would do what?
They as soon as they arrive,
Quraish,
the leaders of Quraish would take them. They
go to their where
where they land. They they used to come
and pick different spots
and you know, where they they bring their
camels and their, you know, their,
stuff
for Hajj. So they started going to them,
and nobody would pass by without them selling
them telling them what to be careful of
the prophet. And the leader of that
campaign
was Abu Lahab.
The leader of that campaign was his uncle,
and both of his children, by the way,
as if you remember, we mentioned this. Both
of his children,
Otba and Utayba, were married to the daughters
of Rasulullah SAW.
He's a so not only his uncle,
but also
in laws,
you know, and he was the one who
was leading.
And just,
by the way, Abu Lahab,
unless I'm I'm mixing him and actually then
let me confirm the the report because I
might be mixing him with Abu Jahal. But
Abu Lahab was walking after him in the
in the markets,
and he they would say,
Do not follow him because he's somebody who
left his the religion of his forefathers,
and he's a liar.
You know? And imagine that. In the other
reports, there are other reports where he was
actually also stoning his feet,
walking around, grabbing, you know,
stones and stoning his feet while he was
walking,
around.
So and but what happened as a result?
Actually,
that added publicity to the prophet alaihis salam.
It backfired
because now
he the prophet alaihis salam did not have
to go to to every person who came
in to for them to even hear that
he's there.
People other people were doing the campaigning for
him.
So they actually, in a way and that's
why some people say there is no nothing
called,
you know, bad campaign or bad you know,
there's a the campaign is always good campaign.
It's always you know? Ali, I'll I'll example,
the most the most confrontation that Islam received
in the west in America
was after 911.
The most you know, I mean, they started
talking about the terrorists next door and, I
mean, really, they went all out. So what
was the reaction,
to to that to that campaign, which was
not done by Muslims, was not it was
done by non Muslims.
What was the the reaction? The most
so the the Quran was sold out in
the bookstores.
There were no copies of the Quran
In any I mean,
now does there mean that does that mean
that there is actually no negative consequences? Of
course not.
But but still,
you know, actually,
you listen to some of the stories about
people who embraced Islam.
It was the the interest became after 911
and after the the, you know, the media
campaign and
the negative campaign against Islam and, you know,
making it
any,
barbaric religion and backwards and violent and all
the terrorists and all of that. And and,
actually, in in many ways, it backfired.
And they used to also, by the way
and you look at the just, one of
their their their campaign against the Rasool,
you know, they would go to any person
of of honor, of any of influence.
You know, they would they would say, be
careful. Don't there's there's this guy who's calling
for this. He's a liar. Don't follow him,
etcetera. And he's a he's a magician. He
will bewitch you. One of them was Tufail
bin Amr Dawsi. You know?
Tufail ibn Amr, and he was a poet,
and he was known to be a smart
man. You know, people knew that he was
very smart, very intelligent, and
he was a poet. So, you know, and
he was the head of Kabir al Dawes,
the the tribe of Dawes.
He came to Makkah for Hajj.
So the people before he even arrived,
you know, they met him
and greeted him and come for you know,
honored him, etcetera.
And they said,
yeah. You came to our land. You came
to our country.
And this man who's amongst
us, you know, he's giving us problems. We
don't know what to do with him. He
divided our
our group,
and he dispersed us.
And his his speech
His speech is like magic,
you know. He separates between the man and
his father
because if the father, let's say, is a
mushrik, non Muslim,
and that's a Muslim, that's it. You you
join the Muslim camp, so to speak.
It's it's not about severing
ties,
but they viewed
they viewed,
you know, your support, your loyalty is with
with your family always, and Islam does not
put that. Islam does not break the family.
You still have if your mother, your father,
your daughter, your cousin, whatever, they're non Muslims,
you still keep good relations, good family ties.
And you you in any worldly affair, you
take care of your mother, you take care
of your father, etcetera. But at the end
of the day,
you know, you're doing that because you are
a Muslim order to do that.
You know? So it's not, you know, just
because, you know,
truth or falsehood, I'm gonna be with with
my parents. No. You take care of your
parents,
but if they tell you to do something
that against that's against Islam, you do not
do that.
If they strive you, if they pressure you
to associate partners with me without knowledge,
then do not obey them
and be kind to them in the worldly
affairs.
So, anyway, so they're saying he's separating between
the between the man and his wife, etcetera.
So do not talk to him, do not
listen to him, be careful, you know, this
man is it's like he's gonna, you know
so Tufayl says for Allah
That
but they kept on pushing me until I
I made up my mind. I'm not going
to hear to hear him out. I'm not
gonna listen to him. I'm not gonna talk
to him,
to the point where I put cotton in
my ear in my ears. That I I
don't wanna listen to him.
But when he said,
when I went to the Masjid,
you know,
it it somehow
I found them standing making salah near the
Kaaba because the Rasulullah
used to pray
right in front of the people in the,
in in, you know, in front of the
Kaaba.
So I went and I was I was,
you know, got up and I was close
to him.
So Allah Ta'ala,
you know, like,
decided or or
had it written that I would hear some
of what he said.
You know?
I heard good things.
You know? That's the problem. He's got caught
and he's got not listening, but he said,
I heard good things
until he said and
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam recited, you know, offer
you know, presented Islam to him.
Quran, you know, and recited the Quran. And
what did the profile says?
That I never heard anything that is better
speech than the Quran.
And,
and nothing more just or fear than what
this message
came, so I became Muslim.
The
you know,
the actually
was a somebody who's to,
do spells to for people who are under
magic.
Okay? That was his job, and not I
I I don't know, but he that was
what he did in Jahadir. You
know? Padima Makkah, he came to Makkah, and
he heard from some of the people said
that Muhammad is crazy,
stay away from him.
So he said if I want, you know,
he's crazy,
maybe I can cure him.
Maybe I can do something because, you know,
I can do something to him that would
cure him And Allah would cure him
because of me. You know? So I went
he said,
Falakhi.
So he said,
oh, Muhammad,
I do the the, you know, the rukhiyah,
the the, you know, the magic,
spells and and the I help people like
that. You know?
Do you want me to do that to
you?
So what did the Rasulullah responded?
He said,
This is a speech the prophet
still is about to start.
All he said,
he said that indeed
all praise belongs to Allah. We thank him
and we seek his help. Whomever Allah guides,
nobody can take astray.
And whomever Allah Ta'ala leads astray, nobody can
guide him. And I bear witness that there's
none worthy of worship but Allah.
No. With no partners. And I bear witness
that Muhammad is his messenger his slave and
messenger.
Now he's about to this is what they
normally say as the introduction.
He's about to speak.
So he said, the Mahd said,
You know, repeat, say it again.
So Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said exactly
what he said before a second time. He
said,
Ayd,
3rd time, say it again.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam recited it
when he recited, he said,
you know,
I heard the speech of priests, and I
heard magicians, and I heard poets,
but I have never heard words like these.
You know? Give me your hand, and I
will I will shake it so, you know,
give you the the pledge of allegiance that
I will become a Muslim, and he became
Muslim on the spot.
Again,
and it the the,
honestly, I this we we say this in.
You know? Who does not say this?
This is the intro. And but nobody thinks
of it that it is such a, you
know, mind blowing,
statement.
But for somebody who understands
the Arabic and understands the the the intricacies
of the Arabic, the meaning, the structure, the
the eloquence,
all of this for them, this is something
that's out of the world. I mean, for
somebody says, just tell me, and all of
a sudden, okay.
I'm a Muslim.
Like that? Yes. Like that.
You know? And that's why the the, the
major crime that was committed against Islam
in the 20th century, and still, of course,
the the the crime continues,
is
against the Arabic language and teaching the Muslims
the Arabic language.
Without the Arabic language, you will you and
I will never appreciate the Quran in as
it should be appreciated.
Without the Arabic language, there is no Islamic
knowledge. You'll always know what others said. You
can never reach it yourself. You can never
perform yourself.
Because without the the Arabic language is a
medium of communication.
The power, the impact,
yeah, of the Quran. When people when when
Allah Ta'ala
or when when Rasulullah would read assorted Tawba,
you know, to to the people who are
about to to to go to war. The
impact of this of of this ayat
is, you know, will transform you, but if
you don't know what they mean, they just
recite
nicely like Abdul Samad, Adar Baha'i, Abdul Basel,
Abdul Samad or Hosahi or somebody like that.
But what they mean the impact,
is not appreciated.
Because of time, InshaAllah, we'll stop here
and, we'll continue InshaAllah for another technique
that they followed to try to,
stop the message of Islam from spreading, InshaAllah,
and that will be next week.