Mohammed Hannini – Studies in the Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad #2
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The transcript discusses the differences between the CRO and the Hadid, as well as the relaxed approach to authentication in the birth of Rasool. The shia's rule was rampant and became the norm, leading to the loss of devout individuals and the spread of weekends. The shia's rule also affected the political and cultural context of the country, with some leaders being either in jail or facing charges. The shia's rule was used to support justice, not blood, tribal, tribalistic relationships, and to be proud of their own family members. The belief in being a strong person is discussed, along with the belief in not being afraid of war.
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Last time we were talk we talked about
the CRO.
What is CRO? The difference between the CRO
and the Hadid.
How the CRO
we
received the CRO.
We talked about the. We talked about the,
the metal, etcetera.
And we talked about how this is actually
the way that we function with our history
with the
and the Hadids.
All of them follow the the idea, the
concept of rewire.
And the rewire where you need to verify
the report the reports, the reporters as well
as
the content, the method of what's being reported.
And we said that the the Muslim scholars
apply the same rule to the stories about
even the news from before.
If you read, let's say, you know, or,
the you know, not the
but, the.
You will find that even in the stories
in the past, distant past, he will still
mention a quote
and how it was how it was mentioned.
So,
and we said that, however, in the in
the,
the
of hadith tend to be a bit more,
a bit more relaxed
when it comes to the authentication of the
report unless there is involved.
You know? So there there is if it's
if an event that took place that has
no,
ratification
in terms of Haram, Halal, Aqidah, etcetera, then
they are more relaxed with the,
you know, in in that particular report.
So,
when we talk about
and this is today,
We'll talk about the birth of Rasulullah Salaam,
but just very briefly, I will touch on
it because I'll keep visiting,
you know, later on.
When Rasool
was born,
the the reality of the Arabian Peninsula,
the Arabian Peninsula being mountains and deserts,
you know,
because of its location, because of its nature,
actually, it was saved from being colonized.
So Roman the Romans and the Persians were
the 2 superpowers at the time.
They had no interest in their independence with
the with the exception of whom the tribes
that were on the borders of each of
the superpowers
because they were, you know, doing some of
its work
there. But
if you talk about the as an example,
you know, and and that area, there there
was no presence for outside forces. So that
the nature of the environment, they had absolutely
nothing
to offer to the to these people. So
there was no interest in colonizing them or
taking over.
And but you find, let's say, the, let's
say, the region
of Bialyasham,
the entire what is known Bialyasham,
which is in English, they call it the
the greater Syria.
Do you know what it is?
What is?
Palestine, Jordan,
you know,
and Syria.
These,
what is known now as as the independent
countries, they were all.
And you have, of course, Iraq.
Iraq was this was actually with the with
the women's.
And you have the Iraq and you have
the other regions for Hassan and the the
Paris
that was all under
the the Persians or under the,
yeah, under the Persians.
They were not under the.
So you have and that stayed the case
until actually the time of
when conquered
Iraq as we know. You know? And it's
actually 2 of the Sahaba were there, one
after the other. First hand.
And after capturing it and moving on because
that's how they would do it, capture and
then move on, they were attacked from behind
so that,
you know, they were taken back by the
Persians.
And then
came back in the second one, and he
defeated them and that settled the land for
the Muslims.
But,
until then, it it was just the the
way that it was a, either
the both
were dominated, but the Arabian Peninsula itself, Hejaz,
was independent of that. Not that they were,
you know, just people who are busy with
their business. And, of course, when it comes
to Kuwait specifically,
their business in addition to the trade, the
hijab, going back and forth, which is what
Allah,
you know, talked about in the,
in that about the, you know, the job
the the the winter and the summer going
back and forth. Aside from that, the the
focus was the Hajj.
And the people, they used to come and
the life that used to come in with
the business also was the Hajj season. Because
as we know,
Hajj was a, a ritual that was practiced
in the time of Jahiliyyah before Islam.
However, when Islam came, modified some things in
Hajj where, for example,
At the time of Al Hajj al Jahiliyah,
some women would would make Bawaf naked,
you know, and that was some of the
practices.
They had about 360
idols around the Kaaba,
You know? And,
of course, when when Islam came,
the they stopped the, you know, the the
the the enforced the dress code
and removed the the idol worship, you know,
the idols and destroyed them, etcetera.
But as a Hajj, the idea of Allah
around the Kaaba, you know, the all or
the the some of these rituals were were
didn't exist.
And when so
when Islam comes and approves them,
that approval, that legislation
makes it an Islamic thing.
Meaning, it was not an imitation of the
pagans when the what they were doing in
prior to Islam,
but rather just like anything, business, just like
a ri ba dahat, etcetera.
The fact that Rasulullah approved it, it means
that now it is a part of the
deal.
Okay?
The Arabs, by the way, there's 3 types
of Arabs.
There are 3 types of Arabs, 3 categories
of Arabs.
They call them
the the Arabs who vanished or who
vanished. They no longer existed. And these are
the old Arabs, and some of them are
what they you know, like and Samud. These
are from some of the tribes that the
Quran talks about, but we don't really know
much about it. Then you have.
And
are the people who are coming from,
and these are the.
You know? Again, most people know who's
who is, you know,
and then the third the third one what
they call.
The are
those who are Arabized or the following.
And they are from the lineage of Ismail
alaihi sallam, and that's who Rasulullah
is from. He's from the lineage of,
Ismail alaihi
sallam.
In the Arab peninsula, of course, at at
that time, you have different ruling systems,
you know, because it was tribalistic.
So some of them
some of them had kings
and they such as the in Yemen. In
Yemen, they had actually kings.
And in Bahrain in Bahrain in Bahrain when
we say Bahrain, we don't mean the island
Bahrain.
Bahrain actually now, it's as part of the
what they called, you know, Bahrain at that
time. And in Bahrain at that time included
Kuwait, Qatar,
and, as well
as,
the Bahrain today up to the Bahrain today,
actually. And there was a, you know, some
some some,
any other other lands, but it was it
was not just,
you know, the island, Bahrain, as we know
it today.
Okay.
So in Yemen, by the way, which was
it was occupied
it was a a colonizer occupied by some,
people from Abyssinia,
And that was, you know,
then Abraha, if you you remember the name,
Abraha Rashon. Abraha actually is the one who
invaded the Kaaba with the elephant and the
one that Allah
alluded to in Surat al Fil. So
they, he,
he was actually a king of
Abyssinia
at that at the at that time. And
he's the one who tried, and the goal
was you know, by the way, Abyssinia was
Christian. Yemen was Christian.
You know? So they what they tried to
do is to destroy the Kaaba because he
saw that as a threat, as a competition
to what he had in Yemen. So he
built something similar to Kaaba in Yemen hoping
that people would come to it,
but nobody really,
I mean, nobody went there.
As if as if it was really the
reply or response to the dua of Ibrahim
Make let the hearts of people,
you know,
go for for this land. And
if you look now at Mecca, it has
absolutely nothing to offer.
There is no,
vegetation. It's mountains,
you know? Yet
look at how many people visited every year
because of the cover that the Bahrain Harris
did as a,
you know, as if it is really a
response
for all, you know, that Allah answered the.
Okay.
I'm I'm jumping around because I don't wanna
give too much about the,
the background.
Okay.
The the other thing is that, you know,
in in,
just one one something that about about the
Arab Peninsula.
Aside from Croatia, Croatia was very stable.
Aside from the Croatia,
it was the the Arab tribes were at
each other's throats. So they were in competition
who gets more land, who gets more of
the upper hand, who gets more honor, etcetera.
So they were at war with each other.
It was a, you know, there was a
great conflict amongst them, you know,
except again with Quraish, and Quraish was saved
again because of the cover and the role
that it was playing for the cover. It
was as a,
as if it was a broker where everybody
would come to the cover and rely on
them because the
like, and
the,
they used to have the the you know,
when the Hajjaj
came and look at the mindset of the
Arabs and Jari.
The Hajjaj would come.
So if they split who would feed them,
who would take care of Masjid al Haram,
who would, you know and this is before.
This is Jahri, not not in Islam. And
others where would we they would want you
know, they would give water to the to
the Khadija, to the people who are coming
to to, to do a full Hajj.
And they would put raisins and dates in
water and give it to them free of
charge.
How did they get the money
to do this? Actually, they embrace gambling.
So the the the was involved in gambling.
And the proceeds, whatever they whoever wins, they
would go to what towards the the maintaining
the the the the people who are coming
to do the Hajj. Okay?
It's,
it's really weird, but that that's what that's
what they were doing.
Okay.
Most of the Arabs and they will talk
about the religious affairs of the Arabs. Most
of the Arabs were following Ismail,
the religions of Ismail, and
so in other words, they were. They were.
Until,
you know, with time,
things started changing. A man called Amr Bilukaid,
right, is Huza'a. He's the head of Huza'a,
a tribe called Huza'a.
So he went to Syria.
Okay? He went he went to Syria and
Binad al Sham,
and he saw them worshiping idols. He liked
it.
So what did he do? He brought a
an idol called.
They he brought it to Mecca
and invited the people to pray to him.
They liked it too, so they started praying
to him. And where did he put it?
He actually put it in the cup.
Yeah. So that you're talking about the idol
was actually in the in the car. Following
the people of Mecca to issue idol worshiping,
it was the people of,
you know, because they are the people actually
who were
making, you know, taking care of better.
So they had idols, and they had major
idols and minor idols. So some of them
like Mana.
Mana was actually on the,
you know, west of Saradiyyah. That's in an
area called the, Khadid, close to an area
called Khadid, and they had Mana stationed there,
okay, on the on the Red Sea,
band.
And then you have, of course, another idol
that's called Ruzsa. Ruzsa was in a valley
called valley of the palm,
and which which was between Mecca and the.
And they had a lot, another idol. These
are the major idols
that that they existed, and they were in
in South Mecca in southern Mecca. And that's
maybe what Allah says,
you
know, in certain
talking about the, you know, the these idols,
and about them.
And the the idol
worshiping became rampant and it became the norm,
you know, with, within them. So as I
said, when Rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam conquered Mecca,
there were 360 idols, which he,
destroyed.
And they used to worship them, service them,
face them, asking them for help, asking them
for assistance.
And they all thought they knew that they
were idols.
But therefore, then they said they will get
us closer to Allah. Look at when the
when the mind starts playing where it's not
supposed to play, you know, it's not supposed
to function. They started saying
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is so great, and
I am nothing.
How can I pray directly to him?
I need something in between, especially
these idols were actually
they belonged or they were after righteous people
who existed in the in the past.
So we will worship them.
Then we will worship them and so that
they'll get us closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
We only worship them to get us closer
to Allah. So the Arabs in Jairiyah, they
were not the atheists.
They were idol worshipers, meaning they believed in
Allah
and they believed that idols can actually do
things on their own by getting them closer
to Allah
Okay.
So, of course, at the same time, they
had,
Judaism,
Christianity,
you know,
and those people were, you know because some
some of the Jews
had migrated to the Arabian Peninsula after they
were kicked out of Palestine,
and,
their their,
you know, they they
they settled where they settled in what's what's
called Yefrem. Yefrib was the old name of
Al Madina. It became Al Madina Munawwar after
Rasul migrated.
But Yefrib actually was the original name of
that of that area, and Rasulullah SAWA Shalom
called it Al Madina.
Okay. So you have the
also they settled not only there, they settled
also in Yemen. Until today, you will have
Yemeni Jews who live there, you know,
amongst the Muslims.
Christianity also came into the
as well into the Arab lands.
Why? Because of the I remember, Abyssinia. I
said and you remember the
the story when the Muslims migrated to, Abyssinia,
the first Hijra,
you know, and they met with Najashi, and
Najashi who was the king, and then Najashi
was a Christian.
You know? So it it Christianity what existed
in Yemen,
because of the the Abyssinians
occupying it, It existed in Abyssinia, of course,
as well, and Jewish, you know, Judaism existed
there, as well.
In,
Mecca, where Rasulullah
grew, there was no Christians.
There were no Jews.
What existed actually were at some, monotheists,
and they were the and the books of
Sira
report about 3 of them. You know, one
of them is who is the cousin of
Khadija
And we will talk about them. Why? Because
just when we talk about
take the information in the Quran
from these people because Warakah bin Nopad was
not just a Christian, you know, a a
worshipper.
He was actually a a knowledgeable person in,
Christianity.
So did Rasul
because that's that's what the,
people
some people claim. That Rasul
took the information from,
Warapa as well as the other, war hadith
who exist the other who existed. So we'll
address it in due time.
But, basically, that was the the the general
affairs in terms of the
ruling system, term the political situation.
And, of course, Paresh was different.
Paresh did not have a single leader.
It was not a king. He was not
a president. He was not the sheriff of
the people. Qalais had actually leadership, the influential
people of Ansar. The way the Muir Ra,
Abu Sufyan, Umayyad Al Khalaf.
These are the people, the big,
wealthy,
well established,
well known of their wisdom and of their
knowledge of their, you know,
of their I mean, they they had presence.
These were the leaders, but they were not
1 or 2 or 3.
You know, they were I, and that's why
they had a house down in that one.
That's where they would actually when they whenever
they wanted to discuss the affairs of Croatia
and what to do, what not to do,
they would meet in this location or down
at where certain location, and they will discuss
it. And then whatever they decide,
you know, as a group, that's what they
would go with. And,
and now I don't want to say it's
shura because shura now becomes I mean, Islamic,
it becomes a term
and it has details.
Not always that you run you function with
the majority or
collectively. Sometimes, the Rasool Salam, even though he
asked their opinion, he decided
on things without, you know, their.
You know? So sometimes he said, okay. Whatever
you want. And sometimes, alayhis salatu wasalam, you
know, not insisted on his opinion. You know?
So,
again, just the model is
that And, just to to put it so
that it's clear,
ask them their their opinion.
But once you make up your mind, then
you will depend on what island you go.
So there is a difference.
You know? It's not and that's what I'm
trying to say, and we'll come to it,
inshallah, and we'll talk about the battle of
of and then how the occurred,
occurred
because that's where the issue of shua, one
of the places where the issue of shua
comes in.
Social life, the the way it existed in
the Arabian Peninsula at that time.
So you had 2 types of women.
You had the, you know, a sharifa, the
one who's known to be from a, you
know, a good family tribe, etcetera.
These people were very these women were very
respected actually even in Jallian.
When I say respected, it means that they
there was no,
and even though
still they would in inherit her, meaning if
the father dies, his wife
would become, you know, the wife of the
the son without
say, she does not inherit, etcetera. But it's
still there were no, you know, there were
no mixing of lineage, etcetera. If you remember,
when Rasool
was taking the pledge of allegiance
from the woman,
Yeah. You know, who you believe or or
excuse me, prophet. If the women come to
you migrating,
test them.
1 of them one of the things
that Rasulullah
said
that the the oath that they took with
the Rasulullah that they do not commit zina.
They do not commit fornication or adultery.
So Hind binratbah. Hind was the wife of
Abu Sufyan.
She was so astonished by that. You you
are taking, an oath from us that we
would not commit adultery. It what did she
say? Said,
She was so surprised.
How could a free woman commit such an
act?
So the the non free women and the
people who are less than that, it was
very rampant.
Some of them actually, they were prostitution homes.
Excuse me. I mean, they were, you know,
with with flags hanging in in in Mecca,
you know, to show that this house, you
know, has such and such. And and that's
the the the the way that,
you know,
they were. And
talked about so many of the practices,
the social ills that the way they used
to practice.
You know, if if a,
if a woman wanted or a man
wanted that, you know, I you know, there
is this person who is smart, honorable,
good family, etcetera etcetera, had good traits. I
want to have son like him. He would
send his wife to him.
You know? The or
sometimes there would be 9, 10 men and
and then who they she if she gets
pregnant, then she decides, okay. This is your
son, not your son. I mean, this kind
of practice existed,
as well.
Divorce.
Divorce had no counts.
So he would tell her you're divorced, you're
divorced, you're divorced, you're divorced 3 times, 5
times, 20 times. You know, there is no
debate. And that's why when Islam came actually
limited to 3, it wasn't like it initiated
a new
a new rule that, you know, it was
actually limiting the number of divorce to 3.
So after that, it becomes, you know,
I mean, she becomes halal when she married
somebody else.
In terms of relationships amongst tribes, it was
well known.
Also,
You know, that you always the tribe will
support its members regardless what.
Whether they were just or unjust, you are
to support its blood, its its its tribe.
That's what the tribe is for. So it
doesn't matter whether you you actually my my,
cousin my cousin's cousin, whoever in my tribe
is actually committed something wrong,
you know, it doesn't matter. He's my cousin's
cousin's cousin, you know, or whatever. I'm going
to stand by him. And that's why when
when it was when Rasulullah
says also
The Sahaba, you know, support your brother whether
he is just or he did injustice.
So the Sahaba looked at the Rasulullah and
they said, you Rasulullah,
okay. Now we understand if he's,
something unjust done to him. But how do
we support him as when he is,
do committing injustice?
Because for them, Islam
stands for justice, not for your blood brother
and your tribal, tribalistic,
you know, relationships.
So then he
said,
that you would stop him from doing injustice.
That's how you support your brother.
You advise him. You stop him from doing
something that's unjust. Okay? And as I said,
financially, most of them were they were relying
on trade. Of course, in Madinah, what did
they rely on?
Yeah. But farms. So they were farmers, not
just dates. They had many fruits.
I mean, it was rich,
farming soil.
It had many problems. Later on, I will
talk about when, Biren, the Allahu, migrated.
He used to curse Yefrem,
you know, because,
it was known to be it was known
to be bad land.
It was known to be bad for your
health. We had had so many bugs. We
had so many, you know, diseases that, you
know, it wasn't in in in the best
situation.
And but it is with the barakah of
Rasool
and, you know, the way that he conducted
the life and and, you know, that things
changed. But Bilal used to hate, you know,
Yefir ibn al Sahaba used to they got
sick when they migrated, etcetera. But, yeah, the
idea is
that they it was a, you know, a
farmland
versus
Croatia and versus the Arab Peninsula,
which was the,
which was born into the into the business.
I mean, Mecca, if you've been to Mecca,
or
or Hejaz or the area around it, there's
nothing you can do with that plant. You
know?
Some things that some traits that are upset
because of their nature, because of the nature
of life that they lived, whether it is
when the mountains like in Mecca or,
you know, like if you remember the practice
that they had, the hamuth,
that they used to go and spend the
days by themselves
just to think,
just to get a clear mind.
Or those are the tribes who are in
the desert, and they're moving after water, no
lands. You know, the same thing. Their life
itself
gave them much deep,
you know,
thought, much
clarity,
and also
it gave them the the,
certain kinds of traits.
The idea of not being afraid to die
that existed amongst the Arabs in Jahili.
You know, the the
the their word was their bond.
If the if the word if I said
yes, it means it's yes and I'm not
going back. It doesn't matter what comes after
it. You know, they were very
proud.
They were very proud. Actually,
because of their pride
because of their pride, Aaron, when we talk
about the the Quran Kareem and how it
was revealed,
they opted to fight the Rasool Allahu alaihi
sallam, then believe in him.
You know? They could not could not to
the challenge of the Quran.
Bring one like it. They couldn't.
So what did they do? They actually fought
him. You know?
They were not afraid of of wars.
So you will find a war that erupted
a war that erupted over a ray a
camel race for how many years? 40 years.
This was something that is very common.
They were very you know, because of the
idea of who I am, who I am.
Everybody is full of themselves who I am.
The man the one of them would stretch
his foot in the road,
and he says, whoever is more honorable than
me cut my leg off.
Go ahead.
You know? So sure enough, somebody comes who
thinks that he's more of than him.
You know? And there you go. And now
a war starts.
You know? They
but at the same time,
there were people who were extremely generous.
You know? They were extremely
brave, helping the needy. If you remember Khalifu
Fudul,
that the the the the covenant of what
they call where they would help the prior
this is prior to Islam.
That they they,
collaborated that we will help the needy and
the one who is in need, you know,
the one who's who's
being oppressed, etcetera. And after Islam said, if
this offer was made to me after Islam,
I would have accepted it. You know? So
they had that, but at the same time,
they're also oppressed. And that's why it's a
mix that
They're also some of them oppressed like Abu
Jahl. You know, Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam,
Abu Jahl dealt with some people, you know,
with a with a an outsider.
Meaning outsider meaning you have no tribe to
protect you. Nobody to stand with you. You're
by you're on your own. So he comes
and he does business and does not pay.
And then Rasulullah
knocked on the door, you know, because he
said, yes. I will help you. I'll he
helped the the the person who was in
need and walk with him to the house
of Abujahed, knocking on the door, you know,
give the man his money. And Abujahed got
scared and gave and gave back, the the
money. But that practice also existed. And if
you could not pay, they would enslave you.
It had nothing to do with black and
white, by the way. The Arab slavery system,
it was not about black or white. Not
that there was no racism, but it was
not black and white. It was about, you
know, who's who's dominant and who is who's
not. You know, like,
Zayd bin Khalifa,
you know,
or Musaab, Osama bin al Musaab.
Salman al Faris. Salman al Faris was enslaved,
but he's Persian. He's not black.
You know? So what they used to do,
they used to if they they would give
you a a loan. If you don't pay
it, you're not able to pay it, you
become a slave. Basically, they're enslaved.
So that the that also existed.
You have a mixed baggage, and that's why
Rasoolullah
he
says I was sent to perfect
the morals.
He's not initiating new morals amongst the people.
So he would take the bad ones and
he would throw them away, and the good
ones he would build on them and make
them based on the of Islam.
That and that's what the action of the
Rasulullah. And that's why you find him saying
Islam or You know,
the best of you in Jahili are the
best in Islam.
Okay. If
they understand, meaning if they get again knowledge.
You know?
So you will find that this existed at
the same time. So they were very jealous.
They were,
they would react immediately. They were, you know,
that that was their nature, short-tempered.
And, by the way, if you've seen, Arabian
horses,
very similar.
Do it on on YouTube. Look for Arabian
horses.
They're very finicky. They're very,
very touchy. With their owners, they are fantastic.
With somebody else, they not everybody can write
them. Different from, let's say, a regular course
is a. I don't know. I I I
don't know.
Okay.