Mohammed Hijab – Intellectual Seerah #18 Battle of Mutah
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The speakers discuss the importance of the " crucial" approach to the life of the prophet Muhammad Sallallavi Alaihi Wa caught, which is focused on employer's Insurance approach to the life of the prophet Muhammad Sallallavi. The success of Muhammad's approach to the fight against the new arrival of the new army of the Muslims is attributed to his success in expanding his mission and expanding his mission, and the interviewer discusses the importance of acknowledging achievements and not just acknowledging them, as well as the theory of the holy city and the confusion between political views. The central point is that the three greatest general of all time is the third, which is the success of Muhammad's approach to the fight against the new army of the Muslims.AI: Transcript ©
How are you guys doing? And welcome to
the next session of the critical
or the intellectual
where we employ the interdisciplinary
approach
to the life of the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa Salam.
And last episode, we spoke about,
whereby the prophet
had a particular,
if you like, antagonistic relationship with particular Jews
in Haibar. We talked about the
end game there. Today we're going to be
speaking about Motta.
And Motta is a place, in fact, which
is located in current day Jordan.
Okay?
Near a town called Karak.
And this was
a battle.
Many of the serial writers referred to it
as a Hazwa, but in reality it is
not a razwa because a razwa is really
defined as a battle wherein which the prophet
Muhammad SAW A'SAW Salam engages in himself.
So it's Israeli,
but these are just expressions
and they don't really
detract from the fact that this is actually
a very important battle in Islamic history.
If you think about it in sports terms,
okay, if you think about it in sports
terms,
it's the first time
the Muslim army
was now tested
against international opponents. It's like you have for
example the country league,
where all these teams are playing each other
and then now you have the world cup.
And it wasn't any kind of opponent, it
was indeed
the most formidable opponent in the world in
the day. So putting it in a football
context is like playing Argentina in the first
match.
And Saudi Arabia has a good record doing
that. I mean,
in the recent World Cup. But this was
a significant
escalation
and serious
tests of the military might of the Muslim
polity.
And so
the first thing we wanted to cover here
before speaking about was
in fact
something called the Amr Al Khadda. Now, Amr
Al Khadda
was, if you remember, with Hudaybiyyah,
they went out
in order to do pilgrimage,
the minor pilgrimage, the Amra,
and they didn't do that, they shaved their
heads
upon the instruction of prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
They all shaved their heads and they went
back. They didn't complete a Umrah in that
regard.
And so what Amrit Al Khaddad really is,
was Khaddad means a makeup
act of worship,
to make something up. So this was to
make up for the umrah that they missed.
And they went there with weaponry. Usually,
they would have small weapons that they would
attach to their garments, the inner garments.
This time,
they actually used the kinds of weapons
that they would or they brought with them
the kinds of weapons that they would take
to a war.
In which case, the Qurasis were very alarmed,
and said, why is it that you are
taking these weapons
when we have a treaty in Hudaybiyyah?
And what the response was was
that the prophet said, salas alam,
that he was not bringing them into the
precincts
of the holy
Kaaba and to the middle Haram.
But indeed he was leaving it outside with
people to guard them, which is interesting because
we spoke about the importance of upholding contracts
in Islam.
And if you look at the very fine
details of the contract, the technicality if you
like the contract,
there was nothing saying that you couldn't use
armory outside the precincts.
And so this was,
exploited
by the Muslims
because when you're dealing with a with a
very
harsh enemy, then you have to exploit every
single technicality.
So long as you're not at least going
against
the wording of the contract. There are different
ways
the Sharia seems to
correspond
with different types of people.
So a contract with a Muslim,
the Sharia wants you to be more charitable
with a Muslim, more concessionary with a Muslim.
Like for example, in the Quran it says,
That if the person was someone
who had difficulty,
then you should look, Allah says in the
Quran,
to a way to make ease for him.
If this person was someone who has difficulty,
try and make it easy for them. But
these people are not in that category. These
people are creating difficulty for us.
Now with current events, one could say
and I had a conversation with,
who is considered to be one of the
great scholars of the day. And I won't,
repeat, exactly what happened because it was a
private discussion.
But he was, he's a Hanafi scholar in
Pakistan. I went on to,
Darla'alum,
Karachi.
And I had discussion with him on the
on the status
of the Islamic treaties
with Israel.
You know, you have many countries that have
treaties, camp David of course and so on
with Israel. Now he had a particular view,
which I think he's voiced public, you can
take a look at it.
But it took the same principle of
not being charitable with people, who are not
charitable with you. Especially those who have a
track record
of breaking their contract in the first place.
So it depends on who you're dealing with,
who you're contracting with.
The idea of contracts in Islam is
a whole animal in and of itself that
needs to be
analyzed, understood.
For example, we've spoken before about what the
Quran mentions.
Where it says that if the people continually
break their contract,
it says
If you have a people that continually break
their contracts,
then
then basically nullify the contract with them. So
it can be the same. So it can
be even.
So it can be even. What's the point
of having an asymmetrical relationship with somebody? I'm
upholding my side of things.
You see?
If you're not upholding your side of things,
then I don't I no longer
need to uphold my side of things
because you're betraying your word.
So the response
to someone betraying
their word
is for you
to nullify the contract.
This This is very interesting, very important, but
obviously the general rule
is,
oh you who believe,
fulfill the contracts. Al Muslimona Allah assured to
him that Muslims are upon their conditions. These
are very important things in Islam. We're talking
about contracts with enemies. Nevertheless,
the prophet,
also married Maimouna, and I think he was
she was the last
person
that
he married, salaam alayhi salaam, in the Sira.
Might be incorrect, but I have to double
check that.
She was married to,
ibn Abdul Azza before, and then the
Actually,
the matchmaker was the sister-in-law
of Al Habes, who's the uncle of the
prophet Muhammad SAWSAWA.
So these are some of the things
that took place
before.
Another thing which you you should know, actually,
the conversion stories
and I was looking at the book of
Sira, of the Sira Sahiha
by Muhammad
Al Ali
or Ibrahim Al Ali, I think his name
is. Ibrahim Al Ali Ibrahim Al Ali.
And he's, he puts he has a whole
section
of the conversions
of these people, and so there are Sahih
Hadith that are connected to them. The first
one is, Amr ibn al-'As, how did he
convert?
Well, it says that he became it became
clear to him that Mecca would be conquered
next,
and so he said, I'm gonna go to
Abyssinia
to be under Najashi
interestingly
and Najashi
obviously being a Muslim started giving him dua
It's
Hajib, isn't it? You run away all the
way from Islam,
and then
Islam finds you in the place you run
away.
It's unbelievable, really. And I've seen this phenomena
with a lot of people that come from
the Muslim world to the West.
When I was in Pakistan recently,
the guys I I speak into a lot
of the guys then they were saying to
me, look. I said, where did you become
practicing stuff? I became practicing in the United
States. I I lived in I lived in
Pakistan and then I went to the United
States.
And there was a Muslim community there and
I became practicing in the United States. Hajiib
is is weird. But the reason
why that can sometimes happen is because
sometimes you feel like the environment
should put you in a certain place. When
you come out of the environment, you're certain
in the same place. It's a divine message
That wherever you're gonna go, the
the guidance will find you. And Khaldun Walid
saw Ahmed bin Nas. Now Khaled as you
can imagine,
who's gonna be a huge figure in Islam.
And he told him, Amr told Khaled that
he was going to be a Muslim.
Now Khaled himself were very interestingly,
and I saw some narrations to this effect.
He stated that,
if you remember he there was an Uhud,
he was kind of
tactful, and he was the reason why the
archers were defeated.
In the Hazab, he was the only one
to come through the defenses of the trenches,
and then he went back because there was
not much,
there to help him.
But
in Hudaybiyyah,
he was outmaneuvered
by the prophet Muhammad SAW. He was put
in a certain place,
and he stated that this
is something he felt overwhelmed
with. Now this reminds me of a hadith
of Ruqanah. It's a weak Hadith, but interestingly
some people have made
to have seen of it. Roqana was this,
expert wrestler, freestyle wrestler. And he had a
wrestling match
with the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam defeated
him. 3 times. Yeah. 3 times. He said
this is not possible that this could have
been,
like, from a man that's, you know, he's
not he's not living the life of a
wrestler,
you know, because these things take a lifetime
to accomplish.
Likewise, Khaled and Waleed, I think he realizes
that I cannot be outmaneuvered.
How is it possible that someone of my
level
can be outmaneuvered with a man who hasn't
lived that life? And we were talking before
on paper,
it's, you know, the Prophet had a novice
record, a novice military record.
How could he
outdo someone like Khanan Walid? So in the
mind of people like that, because they realize
the kind of sophistication, the kind of skill
that is required.
In order to get to that level, they
realize that for someone to get to that
level, they must be divinely
helped.
I've seen this many times
in sports
and in other places,
where
someone
knows the level of somebody else because they
know how how long it takes to get
to that level.
It's not possible.
So the point I'm making to you is,
Khal Mawlid decided
to become
Muslim, but not just because of this incident.
There was another thing, Al Waleed m Walid
because
he had a brother called Al Waleed m
Walid.
Yeah. He sent him a letter telling him
that it's time to become Muslim and so
on. Don't forget Alwaleed was
a prisoner of war in the battle of
Badr.
And he was taken by the Prophet by,
the Muslims.
And Khan al Nawlid freed him, and then
he went back to the Muslims.
So
when Khalil Mwaleed saw the loyalty
that Al Waleed and Waleed exhibited to the
Muslims, he said there's something about this religion,
which outdoes even tribal, family,
ties, everything.
So there's 2 things you could see Subhanallah.
How Allah uses different kinds of methods to
bring different kinds of people to Islam.
But Khaled will be, of course, important in
this battle.
Now, this is the only battle against the
Romans that the Muslims engaged with directly.
The prophet Muhammad did not participate in this
one, and we had 3
commanders,
and it was referred to as Jaishul Umara,
or
the army of the leaders.
And Mu'ta is the name, as we mentioned,
of a small village in present day Qaraq,
which is not far away, actually, even
from Amman, the capital city of Jordan. I
think it is somewhere
in the distance between the two places.
And don't get confused. Amman is a country.
Amman is the capital of Jordan. These are
2 different different things.
People get confused because this especially in English,
you know, people get confused between the two
things.
So what happened? What happened in the
preamble to this particular war was that you
had an individual called Alharath Al Asdi,
who was the ambassador of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
sent a messenger
or, someone the postman or mess an ambassador
with a letter
to the Hasanid tribes.
Now the Hasanids
were a vassal tribe,
who was subordinate to the Roman Empire. They
were Christian,
hence their allegiance to the Roman Empire, because
Romans were Christians themselves.
And they were vassals, so they were probably
receiving in fact, they were definitely receiving monetary
compensation
from the Roman Empire themselves.
It's interesting that the Romans decided not to
conquer,
but instead to put in place some kind
of vessels that could take care of their
interest.
Because why didn't the question would be, why
didn't the Romans or the Persians decide
to conquer this land? Maybe they thought the
the natural resources weren't enough.
The,
the temperature was too hot.
It was a difficult place to manage. All
these kind of things maybe went into their
mind. And so why buffer state. They used
it as a buffer state. They use it
as a buffer state. Do you you wanna
expand on that? Yeah. Basically, because the the
territory territory
was, very on inhospitable.
It wasn't worth,
you know, fighting over. So because it was
very hot and arid land.
They used it as a natural buffer between
the two empires.
So the Persians on one side and the
Romans on one side, and these and the
Arabs were in the middle. So it was
a it was a natural buffer state in
between. That's a very good point. Demarcation for
both empires. Yeah. Maybe they didn't they didn't
see them as a threat. They didn't see
them as a friend. Also, they had these
tribal issues. They just keep fighting each other.
Mhmm. Maybe they just leave them to let
them resubmit. Mhmm.
Sure. So they have this of
the gasanids,
who, as we say,
the vessels for the Roman Empire.
And, this guy
who's called,
Shahrabi,
he was the leader of the Ghassanids. And
what he done was some narration show that
this ambassador came and he he killed the
ambassador. Now in ancient medieval
custom, to kill an ambassador would be seen
as one of the most dishonorable things you
can do. Even nowadays, actually,
is seen as a very dishonorable thing to
do.
Of course, the Israelis are
dishonorable people by nature.
Or their politics is just completely dishonorable,
I should say.
Before anything
is said
and and so therefore, they do stuff like
that. So
here we have
a Hadith, which is interesting, when the prophet
was establishing. It's in Bukhari.
He was establishing the leaders.
And as the Hadith mentions,
that,
the first
person
was
that was established
was Zayd bin Harith. And I'll just give
you a member
who this
person is.
Okay.
Zayd bin Harissa,
who is he? Actually you tell me who
who who is he?
Who is Zayd bin Harissa?
He's
a son of,
a freed slave.
What was the relationship between him and the
father? He's the adopted,
grandson of the prophet. Adopted son? Adopted son
and Osama is the grandson. Yes. Yeah. So
what was the relationship between him and the
prophet?
Father son. It was like it was like
a son.
I just imagine this because let's let's pause
here for a second. Imagine this. Yeah? Now
you have the prophet Muhammad SAW Salam. Yeah?
There's a military expedition.
The person who is going to be the
leader,
as we're going to see,
is clearly the one who's at most risk.
Not least because they have to actually physically
hold the flag.
We're gonna see that this is the case.
The person who is the leader is at
the most risk. The prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Wa
Salam,
if you remember the story between him and
Zayd bin Haritha,
in the Meccan period, now it's going back
a few sessions now.
What what kind of events took place? Do
you remember?
Let's let's take us Let's go back into
a time machine a little bit, and think
about
in whose house did did in Hadithah
live?
Yeah. With who?
With Khadija.
Khadija.
Okay. And then what happened with his father?
Does anyone remember what happened?
His father came to buy him back,
and,
he was given the option to stay with
his father, or to stay with the prophet
SAWSAW, and he decided to stay with the
prophet.
Yes. And he decided to stay with the
prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So that
shows you the the love that he had
for the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Zaid
is the only
Sahabi
mentioned in the Quran by name.
Okay?
Is the only Sahabi mentioned in the Quran,
Surah Al Hazab, by name?
I'm trying to think of the
But this Zaid is the only one mentioned
in Quran,
from all the Sahabis.
Now, he was really close to Abu Asa.
He was like a son.
You know, the love that he had is
is immense.
Imagine your own father coming back as a
as a young person,
and you are choosing
this man, Mohammed SAW Salam, over your own
father.
Now
you are elected
as the leader of an expedition
against the single
most dangerous force,
not just in the world until that day,
but potentially and arguably
that humanity has ever known, which is the
Roman Empire.
At least one of the top 3 or
the top 5.
You are going to fight the Romans,
and so
you are chosen as a leader.
And the second person to be chosen as
a leader is whom?
Is Jafar ibn Abi Talib. And who remembers
him from the Seerah?
What yes.
Cousin of prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, brother of
Ali radiAllahu. Yes.
Give me an event that happened in the
Sira before Muhtar, before this particular event. What
what thing happened
with Jafar?
Jafar? And I'll just give you
a memory.
Think about when they were sent to Abyssinia.
What happened? What did Jafar?
What was the role of Jafar ibn Abi
Talib?
Oh, he was speaking to the leader of
Yes. Of Yes. Basinie. Yes. What did he
say?
Najashi. Najashi.
He was,
he he had an argument
Mhmm. About the other messenger that Christ sent.
Mhmm. And he stood up and he said
that, he said, how tell me about your
prophet, and he said that we were people
and we had this and that, and then
we have been sent here to seek a
refuge here.
And then, what did he recite from? What
number?
What Surah? Yeah. Surah.
Yeah. Surah. Yeah. Surah. Surah.
Yeah. About the Jesus. He spoke about the
Jesus. Yes. And then the guy was impressed
that the same we we believe the same.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
So here you have number 1, you have
Zaire ibn Haqq, who is like the son
of the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam. He
was appointed as the leader.
Then you had Jafar.
Okay. Jafar,
there's something that shows the love of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Yeah. When when
Khaybar was conquered, Jafar returned from Abhishek.
So the prophet
tell told us, Abba, I'm not sure whether
she'll be more joyful
of the conqueror of Khaybar or of the
return of Ja'far. Alhamdulillah. So it shows that
level. Yes.
Yes. That is a very
it's a very beautiful point. Where did you
return from, sir? From Habsa.
Oh.
Oh, so when cyber happened is when they
were Yeah.
To where to Medina?
The third person was.
Okay. Who knows anything about?
Abdulai.
Yeah.
What I didn't know,
when I was preparing for this, and I
was reading some of the shav that he
has he's proper very, very good poet, you
know. Yeah.
You know, if well, maybe maybe we'll do
this, maybe we'll just spend like, not now,
but when we get to the point,
some of the main poetries of Abdullah ibn
Waha.
It's amazing how this guy spoke.
But you'll see that Abdullah ibn Waha,
he was one of the guys that You
can really see the human side in him.
Because one of the poetries And I'll try
and read the the way he said it,
it's very powerful. One of the poetry is
that he was saying when he got to
the battlefield,
and he now has the the flag was
that, you know, he's trying to he's speaking
to himself.
He's saying that why why why you yeah.
He are you are you scared now? And
that let's see. I will see it, but
he said it in such a poetic and
beautiful way. I don't wanna try and butcher
it with
with this. One amazing thing about his poetry
was was mentioned later on. I think Muhammad
bin Sirid mentioned this.
That mainly there were 3 posts of the
prophet
that were insulting Quraysh at the time. You
have Hassan al Thabit, Uqab, ibn Malik. So
both poets
would attack Quraysh on matters of lineage
and genuine matters. Abdullah would attack them in
his forms based on worshiping
idols. Mhmm. So at the beginning, Quraysh didn't
care about Abdullah Raaha's insults and they cared
much about Kab. They've been Malik and Hassan
al Thabit.
Later on, when they became Muslims,
they felt the heat of the poems of
Abdul Abruwaha way more severe than what's Ka'b
Malika has mentioned later
on. Because
And what you know what's really beautiful about
from my perspective?
As I'm looking at a man here
who's a warrior at the highest level, but
he's also a public speaker at the highest
level.
No. It's true though, isn't it?
It was a the
Quran. But he was so he was known
with his poetry to defend.
That's interesting because some people come and say
that when it comes to,
dawah, is is it tawkefir? Like, that that
you cannot it's only done in a specific
way. So can we come and say that
we can do dawah through poetry?
Or was it was it dawah, was he
defending them? I know. But you see, the
problem now, the other party will say that
the prophet,
it happened during his time, so he agreed.
So it wouldn't refute the point of whether
or not,
the means of Dawah must be or not.
You see? Oh, so you're saying that they
cannot say it's Tawkeefi?
It's it's an uncorrect statement to say that's
beside a dawah, the means of dawah or
talk if he. It's not correct. But I
don't see that you can refute that point
on basis that Abdul Abruha during the time
of used these means. Because the other part
will simply say, okay. This is within
the means of Islam. Because of Islam. Powers
in the middle of it. I think it's,
also narrated that once
he was
having a poetry
or, let's say, he was saying a poem
in front of the prophet, and somebody said,
oh, here's the prophet. Stop it. And the
prophet asked him to stop because
his words are more hard to courage than
swords.
Think there's,
that's Hassan.
Think,
Abdul. I I because,
yeah. I don't know if it was mortar
or any other pattern. So the prophet, I
think Hassan
was present,
given some poetry. So one of the companions
told Hassan,
in the house of Allah, a zujan,
and in front of the prophet, are you
doing this? Yeah. He mentioned in poetry. So
the prophet
intervened and said,
meaning that
what he is,
delivering is way severe.
I think this is such a good point,
Sheikh. I think maybe we should bring Ali
Dua in as well and everyone else,
because, subhanAllah,
it shows you that the harp of the
war,
the Islamic war, is not just a physical
one. Mhmm. It really is.
When the prophet Muhammad SAW Salam said
that struggle with the the enemy, the disbelievers
with your
be with with yourselves,
with your physical selves. And then it says
that with your monies and then with your
with your tongues as well.
Yeah. And the scholars say that this is
the Quran. Yeah. Yeah. So you've got these
things, but then this shows you it's it's
very interesting because if you look at there's
a whole chapter in the Quran called
Surah Surah Surah, the chapter of the poets.
It's chapter 26 of the Quran.
And the only place where the Surah are
actually mentioned
is in the last page, maybe in the
last 5 a's, really. 5, 6 a's, 7
a's, something like that.
And
in the beginning, a lot of the poets,
when these these verses came down, were very
upset
because they were poets. You see, they have
a creative ability
to engage the people on a public level.
You know? It's,
No. They do.
No. They do. But but so they were
upset because there was them. There was there
was this praise.
But the last ayah of the of that
particular Surah,
Yeah. This one
that accept for the ones who believe and
do righteous deeds.
And that and they mention Allah Allah, 3
things, religious. And then, one
and they seek retribution
after they have been injured.
That's what it's saying.
What is it talking about? It's talking about
the poets.
What is seeking retribution?
Some of them professors and exegetes say, it
is seeking retribution with poetry against those who
attack Islam and the Muslims with poetry.
Which means now in our times, when someone
on social media
attacking Islam and the Muslims
with prose and discussion
and videos and all kinds of things.
And if if the nonconformist
or the ones who don't wanna engage because
they're saying this is bidah
or this is whatever. They they they take
to that. Really, I would say that they're
deprecating and abasing
from
the and
objectives of Sharia.
Because if the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was allowing
a people,
the poets,
to respond in kind with poetry,
then my Baluk, or what would you say
of the one who
would respond in the age of technology, and
videos, and
rational argumentation with the same thing?
So poetry in and of itself is a
tool that can be used for good, and
is a tool that can be used for
bad.
Just like the Internet and technology is a
tool that can be used for good
and a tool that can be used for
bad.
So long as the hada and the objective
is, we are responding
with this creative output
with this creative output
in order to
respond.
Like, nowadays, you have a lot of people
writing stories,
fictional stories.
And they have their narratives
inside of those fictional stories.
And there's a kind of impervious
reality
to a story. An argument, if you say
premise, premise, conclusion, it's easy to refute.
Premise premise conclusion. If it's wrong, I can
refute it. I can refute the pre pre
presupposition of the premise. I can refute the
premise. I can refute the
sequence of the premises
and the conclusion. It's pretty easy.
Arguments are important. That's why Allah
These are the arguments we gave Abraham
against his people, and we raise and rank
whoever we want.
But Allah doesn't say
that we're gonna give you the best arguments.
It says, We are going to narrate to
you the best of stories.
Why? Because it's it's Quran,
and Islam realizes that
there's something about stories.
Think about what people do with their time
today.
What people do with their time when they're
relaxing is watch series.
If I had to guess, I would say
90 to 95%
of the
watches Netflix or watches some kind of series
on Disney or some other thing or have
watched it at one point in time or
movies.
So it's it is the case that, yes,
we do need to respond
with arguments against arguments.
But if you try and use arguments against
stories,
it's it's bringing a knife to a gunfight.
It doesn't matter if your arguments are correct.
Like, if you are trying to respond to
poetry
with physicality,
Because there was an output for physicality,
and there was an output for poetry. You
have to beat them on both fronts.
It has to be a multifaceted,
multipronged
approach.
And the next stage of the dawah, looking
at this example and other examples,
should be to use all the halal means
possible to us and at our disposal
to respond in kind to the kind of
damage that's
Many of you have children. I have children
as well, and they watch cartoons. Okay? We
try and give them the Arabic cartoons, you
know, with the subtitles and, you know, the
dubbing and all this kind of thing. They
watch. You cannot. Trying to separate a child
in the 21st century from cartoons
is like trying to separate a fish from
water.
It's ridiculous.
Now you can have the nonconformist and say,
well, turn the, off and this and that.
But because of the convenience of how easy
it is for a mother to shut a
child up or a father to shut a
child up, watch this pepper pick for 1
hour whilst I just sit and relax for
a bit. Cartoons are always gonna pervade the
houses of the Muslim people.
And if cartoons are always gonna pervade the
houses of the Muslim people, why is it
that we have not been able to produce
cartoons at the same level as they guy
they have been doing it? Islamic ones. Now
we have been able to produce some, and
I've I've seen some of the Islamic ones.
There's some very good initiatives.
But the kind of money that's being spent,
the kind of effort that's being put,
it's non comparable.
100 of 1,000,000 in budget. Why do you
think Peppa Pig has tens and 100 of
1,000,000 of budget? Why?
Because they know the power of creativity.
Just like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and the Muslims at that time, they knew
the power of poetry,
and they invested in it
and they encouraged it
and they facilitated it.
This is Dawa.
Dawa
22024
and over
and beyond is when you start thinking creatively
now.
This is this is what Islam is saying,
creative.
Where is where do you fit into that?
Because many people are watching this series. I
don't wanna make this into a a theoretical
exercise.
Many people have different talents in the Ummah.
Some people are.
We have many IT specialists. They don't know
what to do. They love Islam, but they're
not great public speakers, for example. Not everyone's
meant to be a great public speaker.
Leave it to Mohammed Hajab.
Leave it just to him.
Leave it to Abu Ahmed and to Ali
Dua. No problem. And the Sheikh Ham, there's
a few people. See,
these guys.
Just leave it to the Sapiens Institute.
Just fund them. Okay?
I'm I'm on a kid. But not
everyone has these same talents. Some other guys
are like, my god. These guys can make
a a a program overnight
on a phone.
How the question is, how is how is
your program gonna respond to the narratives of
the opponent?
That's Dawa now. 3 d Dawa. 4 d
Dawa.
I'm a make a AI Dua. Now I
got AI machines talking.
I watched the video today. I'm telling you
just today, I was having my lunch.
I was watching a video,
and it was
I clicked it. It was Joe Rogan. For
the first time I've heard in my life,
Joe Rogan is speaking
like a historian about a
a wrestler called, Abdulhaman Sadulev. And he was
telling his whole story and stuff. At the
end of it, well, you know what I
realized?
It wasn't
him. It was AI.
He was a voice over the whole time.
I was thinking, my God, it sounded
just like him.
So how can you make that with AI?
How can you make dawah with track gbt?
How can you make dawah with cartoons?
How are you gonna get into the literary
thing? How are you gonna do series?
How are you gonna do this? How are
you gonna do that? Recently this year, I
tried to do a share a series. Horrible.
They put 1,000,000 of money
to no avail. Subhan Allah.
No. I'm just saying,
and they were attacking, and they made the
the the bad guys into black guys. It
was like the on go, man. It's sorry
to say it was horrible.
It's actually
it's isolating everyone from them.
But nevertheless, at least they're giving it a
a good shot.
We're living in the west. We have opportunities
that most of the Ummah does not have.
So I don't know why when there's this
huge tangent, but I think it was a
beneficial one considering that because Abdullah Al Nduaha
is a poet, and you'll see some of
his poetry
as well.
So many contingents came in, and the Some
of the serial rights says about a 100,000
people.
A 100,000 people doesn't seem to be
I mean the thing is that we were
just talking about this. When the numbers are
mentioned in the Hadith,
70
1,000, 100,000.
Do we take this as an exact number?
And it let me give you an example.
I don't know who was Mokhira. Was it
Mokhira Moshaba? It says
that had a 1,000 wives.
Now I love these hadith.
The first time I said I was gonna
post it, I was gonna I said a
1,000 wives. Let's think about this for a
second.
It's it's actually impossible for him to have
a 1,000 wives.
Could not have a 1,000 wives because if
he had 4 wives at one time, and
he kept
divorcing them with the Ida is he would
not be able to exhaust a 1,000. We've
done the maths, and I found this impossible.
So the only thing that you can
say is that the word a thousand means
a lot.
Otherwise, you're in trouble.
Because it becomes, mathematically impossible.
Now in the Arabic language, the word 70
is usually that which means a lot.
And it's mentioned in the Quran, you know,
that if you, you know, if you
if you do for them or not,
forgive them or ask Allah to forgive them.
70 times.
So is the 70 mean 70? Yani, is
it 70 like that?
And we were talking also about the Hadith
of the,
which we'll have a series in the future,
We're gonna go through the eschatological stuff, and
I wanna I wanna hear all the new
age theories and we'll deal with them. I
wanna do this.
But, one of the one of the hadiths
is that
for every 1,000 of
such and such will be one of you.
Every 1,000 of them will be one of
you.
And I saw some shuruhat of the hadith.
And some shuruhat
say that it's, my jersey. Some do. Some
classical ones. I came across it. So a
1000,
100,000,
and these kind of things, it doesn't need
to be taken very literally.
It doesn't need to. Because if you say
a 100,000, how are you gonna find a
100,000?
100,000 is like a modern day, Yani.
Modern day number, actually.
It's very unlikely that they even had,
in that area, a 100,000 to go and
fight them, sorry to say.
Yeah.
I was reading here that apparently one of
the, historians of Byzantine history said Yeah. At
that time, 7th century, they had a total
of a 100,000
number of men in the army, and they
probably only had 10,000 at.
The University of Shalala, this this Yeah. I'm
So I'm just saying that the these these
numbers, we have I think we have to
look at
that when in the hadith, it's mentioned a
1,000,
like, there needs to be a bath, a
proper research on these numbers.
A 1000, a 100000,
70, 700, all of that, like a proper
you'll see there's difference of there is difference
of opinion
as to how to interpret
this and in what context. 1,000 for that
terrain
in that heat. And and what they the
the the the Romans wore,
it's it's not I don't know. It's it's
In the Quran, there's a 100,000 is mentioned
only once in my understanding.
Yeah. About that. About about Yunus's people. I
cannot remember where this is now,
but it's,
that's where a 100,000
is mentioned. But the Quran,
it says a 100,000 or more.
Plus. Yeah. So a 100,000 plus.
But the way it's mentioning 100,000 in the
Quran
is like a ballpark figure. It's clear. Because
if it wasn't a ballpark, why did he
say, oh, Yazidun?
Is that right? Is that the area? Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's like it's meant to be ballpark.
It's not meant because if it was not
more ballpark, then why is it more than
that?
Do you know what I mean?
The, the current size of the British army
is only 75,000.
75,000.
Yeah. Maybe that's active personnel, not the re
not the reservist. Yeah. Is that it?
75,000.
Yeah. Are you are you sure?
I think they have reserved for Maybe 250.
Check it check it out. No. No. No.
No. No. Country. 100,000. Something There there is
there is more there is more people in
prison in this country than
active
prisoners. Well, they probably could do more damage
as well, actually, if you brought brought them
out, the the those prisoners. 75,000. Is it
75? Wow. But that's understandable. No. Where the
UK army 75,000.
I might be surprised though. They don't fight.
No. Because Hamas is, like, 50,000. They're asking,
but they don't fight with men these days.
Back in those days, they did. Now they
have rockets. They No. But men is very
important still, though, man. 75,000 is a very
So back in those, it's understandable. It's a
100,000 because it's you there's war happening there
like these habitats, and you don't have rockets
flying from, there to there. I had no
idea because it's a big country. It's about
6 67,000,000
people, bro. Like island has about 2,000 Yeah.
I checked that. 6000, they said, active personnel
in Ireland,
which is
They have they have NATO, though. So it's
That's why they're all all of them are
depending on NATO. Right? On the Americans. They're
they're all depending on them. There are some
countries with no army. Like, I went to
Iceland,
and there's no army in Iceland. They they
have 0, not even one one person because
they're all depending on because they're quite close
to both the UK and the US. They're
in the middle of both.
And so I don't have an army, so
they depend on, other other countries to to
fight for them really.
But, yeah. 75,000 is a very low number.
So it's like we're saying what there's there
was more people in the UK army that
went to Moqta. I don't think so.
So I think that we need to look
at how these numbers are being used in
the in the Quran and Sunnah properly. I
think there is a Pakistani general Yeah. Who
looked at this mountain every other battles, and
he said he concluded that there were 10,000
people because Really? The Hassan is themselves and
the people, the tribes around them, they were
not that much more to exceed 10,000.
Or let's say as much as the Romans
sent. The Romans themselves fighting Persians, they didn't
have
100,000 people in their conflicts. See, that makes
sense. Yeah. Makes sense. So how can they
send for Arabs? Because Yeah. They didn't think
of Arab that there will be a big
army. So a thousand
people participated from Romans.
Mhmm. Think You said 10,000. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
It's totally 10000. Yeah. That makes sense. Hassan,
it's another. There were allies around it. Yeah.
That makes that makes sense. And that's still
quite that's a huge that's a huge figure,
probably, the 10,000 deals. I think the Ittifaki
opinion is 10,000.
Mhmm. That sounds like exaggeration about 100 times.
Is difficult to be able to count anyway.
You're you're fighting. How are you gonna cut?
Okay. Let's let's do a quick count here
to see how many That's why they say
that Yeah. Exaggeration is because if you have
few 1,000 let's say 100
people here,
so and you see the media report about
a protest, they will say someone will say
there were 500, some will say that because
they will look at the,
number of people from their own perspective. So
that's why Yeah. I think looking at numbers
can be a bit misleading as well. Yeah.
Because if you take a 1,000 SAS soldiers
and you take 10,000,
say, Pakistani troops or troops from Bangladesh or
whatever,
right, you can't compare the 2. The Romans
had centuries
of
battlefield experience,
tactical units, their armory, their,
their formation.
And if you look at the Arabs, the
Arabs just had these skirmishes that they had.
Their weaponry was very weak. It wasn't as
sophisticated. They imported it from, you know, India.
They had those types of weapons. So
even if the numbers were equal,
it would be a massive disadvantage for the
Muslims because of the battlefield experience the Romans
had. So this particular battle, people get lost
in the numbers when it's actually to do
with a if you imagine a superpower
with sophisticated,
battlefield experience
versus people that are just beginning to experience
warfare.
Yeah. Yeah. That's good. That that's why,
when
Muslims,
they were informed that Romans will participate in
this battle because they thought that only Hassan
it will be. So they hesitate it a
bit. They stop and they wanted to send
the messenger to pro prophet to ask for
his opinion.
And then, Ibn Rawaha, he encouraged everyone, and
he said that why we came here. We
came here for even Shahadah
or or victory, and this is time. Then
he encourage everyone in this start fighting. Mhmm.
This is really powerful.
Another thing that I came across which is
really powerful and one of the great miracles
of Islam that is mentioned in the story
is the fact that the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam was in Medina,
and he was narrating as the story was
happening everything that was going on. And I
came across this hadith as an authentic hadith
and it was saying exactly what was happening.
And to the point where they started grieving
for when
the main players were were were were being
martyred. Yeah. He he and he was crying
because of it. Now this for me is
a great evidence for Islam.
Not only that. You don't know Muslim. I
don't know who was I don't know if
it was Edward Gibbons. The actually, there's a
historian that actually wrote the fall of these
individuals.
I don't know. I I heard it from
someone. I look into it. I'll put in
the description. Oh, oh, yeah. I've got I've
got some of the Roman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
They they basically said, yeah, that they they
had this rule. I think mentioned by name
that he fell, and then another person grabbed
the
they they mentioned it. They mentioned the specific
incident. There is Roman historical information, which I'll
show you at the end of this. That's
Yeah. Yeah.
But you see, the this the fact that
the prophet was making these telling us what's
going on when they were complete so far
away from each other.
You know, they were 700 kilometers. Is that
how long is Yeah. Wow. So I mean,
it's now between Jordan and Saudi Arabia. But
just to say devil's advocate. Go on. You
need to understand that he did mention this
to them before they went
out. He did say if he falls, then
you should grab it. So it can be
a self fulfilled prophecy
because he did mention what to do in
that instance.
And then, yes, you're talking about, for example,
when it happened, he was narrating how it
happened. But someone can say it was so
for example,
At the end of it, when the 3
Yeah. And they said then then Leaders. I
want to pick, Then then,
it was taken by
So Khalil Muhri was not signed by the
prophet in the first instance. They chose him.
But in the when the prophet was mentioning
what was going on,
he he he mentioned.
Okay. So, when when you're seeing that when
the incident was going on, so when they
were
there, then, the prophet mentioned that, in that
gathering. He didn't mention
by name, but
was chosen by spot on spot.
Exactly. So are we seeing Sheikh Abdul, in
the gathering when he was telling the people
that he has fallen? Yeah. And then in
that instance, he mentioned Khaled and Walid, which
could not have been known.
Okay. That's interesting because then
it it dismantles this the other for Mussof
Allah got the flag. Yeah. And now they
will Yeah.
Got the flag.
And he was
transcribing the event Yeah. Time. Strategic,
thing where he made it seem as if
there's reinforcements coming in? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll
come to that in a sec. So let's
let's take let's go through the battle now
because, as we mentioned, the first thing that
is very interesting is that Jafar dies first
of all in the battlefield and,
he loses both of his arms, so you
can imagine what kind of fighting he must
have been. I mean, first of all, if
he loses both of his arms, that must
mean he was fighting with one arm.
So he lost one arm and then he
held the flag with the other one and
well, that must have been very difficult.
And then fighting again with another arm, and
then losing both of his arm, and then
being killed.
This shows you the level.
Now this is a very, very, very high
spiritual and warrior
level. And of course, we believe that,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us that
Jafar
was will be flying around in heaven because
it'll be replaced with those 2 arms with
with wings
in heaven.
But,
what was
quite sad about this situation is that when
the prophet of Salam announced
that Jafar died,
his wife at the time was Asmaq Bintu
Umase.
If you remember, Asmet Bintu Omis married Jafar,
and then she married Abu Bakr Sidiq.
4 people. And Ali Abi and Ali Abi
Tabi Tabi. 3. Yeah. 3 from.
So the the family
there's a hadith in Bukhary,
which shows that when the prophet was announcing
what was happening, like, giving these,
this breakdown of what's going on at the
time,
that they were they were wailing, they were
crying, and so the women were very sad
about this
because he was a very strong figure. He
was always been like the the provider for
them, the backbone of the community. He was
a very seriously he was a massive figure
in the community.
And for him to die, his his wives
were crying and stuff like that. Aisha went
back to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, and she told him that, you know,
this is how they're reacting.
So he told them don't do that.
He so he told them to kinda calm
down a bit here because it can destroy
the morale of the Muslims,
but they continued anyway, and so he just
left him.
But Ayesha herself from this was very affected
emotionally from the situation.
You can imagine now.
But what happens next is even more sad
in my opinion
Because what happens
next after that is
Well, first you have,
Zayd.
Okay.
Zaid
is
like a son to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And now he grabs the flag
and he starts to fight in the thick
of the bow. It's actually Zayed first in
Jafar.
Is it Zayed? Yes. Zayed Oh, sorry. Sorry.
I didn't mention Zayed first. So Zayed.
And you imagine now Zayed has been like
a son to the prophet Hazaras Salam.
And all of the all of the hadith
that we come across.
Now he dies
in the battlefield.
Imagine what kind of emotional response prophet Muhammad
will have to that.
It's very
just like your own son. The prophet did
not have any sons that were adults.
And this he had a very serious emotional
connection with him.
So the fact that he died in the
battlefield like that,
and he couldn't even be there to see
him to see him
or to bury him.
It's one of the most painful things for,
you know, like a father to bury a
child.
The grief that this must have been the
saddest thing that happened to the prophet, as
Salam,
since the
death of Khadija.
It must have. And sometimes we skip over
this,
like but, emotionally,
this is probably one of the biggest calamities
of the life of the prophet Mohammed SAW.
And while he was informed, he sat down
because of the heaviness of the grief, and
he sat down.
He sat down,
and Aisha saw how sad he was. And
we have a Hadith and Bukhari to corroborate
that. Ibn Rawah, as we mentioned Sorry,
Ja'far dies as well, and then his families.
And then you have Ibn Rawah.
And that's where I I came across this
If you can find the poetry, some some
of the poetry
of Ibn Rawha and Mutta,
where
he's basically
saying to his own self,
what are what are you scared now? Not
to get into heaven?
Is this making you because he Remember, he
just seen 2 people die, like, and the
chances of him dying is very very high.
Because he's seeing that this is like a
machine, it's churning everyone up. The Romans, their
expensive material,
they destroy they're destroying everyone that goes in
there with the flag.
So he knows that he goes in there
with the flag, he's he's next.
And as he does his poetry, he goes
in and no doubt, he dies
as well.
All 3 of them are dead,
and the Muslims are in this panic mode
now because it's very important for them to
to have a leader.
So they want to appoint somebody.
And there's back and forth and at the
end of it, they realize the prowess of
Everyone knows the prowess of Khalil Ulyd, but
don't forget Khalil Ulyd has just converted to
Islam.
His loyalty has not been tested.
He's a newcomer.
So he he grabs the flag,
he leads the army,
and he the companion.
When Abdulawur Rawha was killed,
one of the companions
was a Bidri who fought with
in Bidr. He held the flag.
So then he asked the Muslims, appoint
a leader for you. So they asked him,
you become a leader. So he told them,
I'm not a leader.
Appoint a leader. Then the people chose Khal
Moi. Mhmm. So that's
Oh, thank you for that, Sheikh.
Absolutely.
So Al Muwiddie now he has the flag.
And he does what you were talking about,
Ali, is he starts to
give them the illusion that there's more of
them that there are than there actually are.
But then the best they can hope for
here
is
that they couldn't continue this fight with the
Romans. The Romans were too strong. You You're
not gonna invade the Roman Empire with that
numb those numbers of people. So Khaled, knowing
this with his military experience,
decided to cut his losses
and take the army back
and fight another day. This is how the
battle ended.
I had great that's what I'm gonna say.
It was kind of a victory because he
had great significance,
before the conquest of Mecca. Like, imagine
the the the new Muslims are fighting the
biggest power. It's a big, reputation.
Imagine you have a group of and and
you're fighting America
even it's it's like, for example,
you know, a person like
somebody who's just mediocre boxer and is fighting
someone like, I'm not Khabib, but let's say
McGregor.
Even if it's a draw, it's that probably
the fact what you fought did you get
it? So the the the the the reputation,
around the Arabian Peninsula was like, these guys
just went to war with, the Roman Empire.
No. That is a good point. And so
so it was very significant to the conquest
and the ripple effect. Because what it does
is psychologically,
it's,
making people like one. Okay. Hold on a
second. There's, you know, there can be truth
to this cause. You know? So it had
it had it was open the pathways. This
was like interesting, like in in Hudaybe when
Allah says, and we have granted you a
clear victory. Mhmm. But you don't see the
victory then, but there's a It was a
tactical It's a tactical victory. Mhmm. I'm I'm
good with those, actually. I've done it once
in my life. Mhmm. I'm
tactical victory. Mhmm. I'm I'm good with those,
actually. I've done it once in a while.
3 opinion about the
whether it's a victory, whether it was a
draw, whether it was not victory. Mhmm. I
think it's called as a true opinion on
that. We've got it here on the 10th
slide.
So there is a difference opinion.
States that there was
a victory because he says that there's a
lot of war booty that was, gotten taken.
Not many people died, actually. Yeah. He he
says that, well, you do not lose that
many people.
The first thing the prophet
mentioned, I remember that
When Khadwari took the flag,
then yeah. And it is say Khadwari took
the flag and
Allah made him victorious.
So that's a motivator
to look
at from that angle and that perspective,
that it's a victory.
So now we need to define what does
it mean that they were victorious.
Absolutely. So that if we go with the
modern day kind of analysis of what is
fulfilling the political objectives,
and what was the you go ask yourself,
if you wanna know what is a victory
or loss, what were the political objectives?
The political objectives, the reason why they went
to war with them in the first place
was because the ghazasenids.
And those ghazasenids attacked,
And so this was a retaliation. It was
a retaliatory strike. It wasn't meant to be
an invasion.
If you really think about it, it was
what was has ever been declared
that the Muslims wanna take over the Roman
Empire at this stage or a part of
it. It wasn't. If it was declared that
the the Muslims wanted to take over the
the Roman Empire and they didn't achieve that,
it would be seen
in modern day understanding of military for warfare
as a loss.
But the the worst I think anyone can
go with this is to say it was
a stalemate, but it was a show of
military power Yeah. On behalf of the Muslims
with losses that are attached to it. Exactly.
I don't think you could say it's a
loss because there wasn't any military objectives that
the Romans had the Romans weren't even
interested in the Muslims. Didn't even know of
their existence, furthermore.
I mean, they might have known through and
so on, but they didn't really they weren't
on the map for them. It's all the
situation now with, you know, Israel,
and they were like, yeah, we're gonna go
and destroy Hamas.
They they they they losing the battle, all
grounds because they they have most certainly not
destroyed Hamas.
So you can see that, you know, that
it might seem like Hamas been defeated but
they're not. And that's why when when the
a lot of them came back
to continue the story,
some of his companions were smearing them and
saying you are Forar. You are the ones
who ran away. And the prophet said, no.
No. They're not Forar, but they are the
ones who come back. Yeah. So he adjusted
the framing here because there is sometimes
there is reasonable
kind of there's a reason not to engage
with an army that's 10 times, a 100
times bigger than you, whatever, maybe 30, 50
times.
And Khaled Nwali knew that.
And the fact now Khaled and Waleed had
established himself as what he established himself.
You could argue that this was the point
where because of this situation that we saw
how Khaled reacted to that,
that Khaled would have his
reign
as what he became.
And because of that so in in many
ways, this it's like putting Messi on the
pitch for the first time.
The manager is able to see. Okay. Wait
a minute. We've got someone here that can
run like this, can be so it might
not be like, let's say, for example, Barcelona,
Messi in his heyday, were playing Real Madrid,
and we didn't know anything about Messi, and
then we put him on the pitch.
It was a one one victory. He scored
the goal, though. Messi scored the goal for
Barcelona. But when he scored the goal for
Barcelona,
the manager's like, the way this guy has
been playing throughout the day
has made me realize that we're gonna start
winning a lot of matches. Now you might
not have won that match. It might have
been a one one. But nevertheless, the fact
that you had Messi the pitch and you
can see his capabilities,
that's the Fatima. That's the Fatima maybe is
being referred to here because it's just it's
the beginning of something huge. And Khalil
Uwalid, because of him, Islam spread to a
lot of a lot of the world. Now
100 of millions, actually, billions of Muslim
throughout the years have become Muslim because of
Khale Muwalid.
One man that Allah he put in a
certain position in certain place, and it all
started with this. Look. Think of it this
way.
If the only thing that we wanted to
establish
was the prudence of Khaled and Waleed from.
Then that would have been enough of something
to establish for a victory for the Muslims
in the future. And, obviously, hindsight is 2020.
Someone will say everyone's a fortune teller after
the event.
Right? Everyone's a fortune tell, but we have
the hindsight perspective.
We look back and we say, look.
He look what he done.
If it if he wasn't discovered at this
time.
Because when you have talent around you,
it's a the biggest tragedy is not to
discover it.
You might have people around you in your
own day to day life.
This person, that person, and they may be
good at something you don't know.
It took 3 generals to die
for us to know, and it 3 had
to die.
But imagine, Subhanallah, those 3 that had to
die and became martyrs, some of the biggest
and most important martyrs of all of Islam.
They facilitated the way. If you think about
from a cause and effect perspective, for 100
of millions of people become Muslims
because of Khaled and Waleed. It's interesting as
well because, you know, once they they said
in the back where they said, we're either
come today for martyrdom or Yeah. Victory. They
got both because they got the martyrdom and
they got the victory.
Through the free companions, they got the martyrdom,
and they got the victory with Khalil. Al
Muwali. Abs absolutely. And Khad Al Muwali, as
I say, he established a legacy for himself
that now non Muslims we said, what was
that guy's name that that done the the
lecturing? Is it Yale or It was professor
Roy Casagrande.
Yeah. He's done a fantastic lecture
on Khalebn Walid, and he named him as
the 3rd
greatest general of all time.
Unbelievable. After,
Alexander Thuthmosis, and then third third number is,
Khaled. Who who do you have number 1
as what? Alexander,
then Thuthmosis
of Egypt. Oh, okay. Then 3rd he had
Oh, he had them he had them before,
Napoleon?
Yeah. No. Napoleon's
way behind. Oh, really? Yeah.
This is the top 3. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Now that shows you though,
if you you have outsiders saying that this
guy is the best, and that he himself
is saying, no. Actually, I was outsmarted by
the prophet Muhammad alaihi wasalam.
That shows you pound for pound
that that wallahi, this is for me, if
there was if from a secular perspective, you
have to say he was a great general.
And by the way, when I say from
a secular perspective, you have to say he's
a great general. I'm gonna show you at
the end of these slides who did say
that. Because I was going through today the
works of 1 Montgomery Watt.
Okay?
Now he wrote a book. Montgomery Watt is
an orientalist, 1900, and he wrote a book
called the life of the prophet or
something like that. It's a seal of the
prophet Muhammad,
about 250 pages. In the last 5 pages
of the book, he has an assessment.
And in fact, he names it,
is is Mohammed a true prophet? He names
that's the name of this something.
And then I was go I was expecting,
like, the right wing stuff we see nowadays
on Twitter or something to be there in
the book. He was so charitable. I didn't
even know whether he believed in Islam or
not. By the end of it, you can
see he does not believe in Islam,
but
he rubbishes all the arguments against it. If
you kind of read that last 5 pages
of Montgomery Watts,
very interesting.
Completely concessionary compared to what we see today.
That's number 1. Number 2,
Montgomery, what one of the things that he
mentions, just like like William Hart, that a
100 most influential people, of all time, and
he puts Muhammad as number 1. Montgomery also
mentions after mentioning, by the way, after mentioning,
he mentions he is absolutely and we'll read
exactly what he says.
He's shocked at the level
that that prophet has reached when it comes
to military
warfare.
How could he reach this level? He's, gobsmacked
by
dumbfounded by the whole thing.
How could you how could you have a
man, a novice that has reached this level?
Well, we said already, the secularists of today
are saying Khaled is number 3 of all
time.
Is saying, Mohammed is burdened me.
Number 1.
So
the secular result of today are saying is
number 3 of all time. They're not even
Muslim. And then is saying, no. No. He's
I could this could not come from
one of the greatest arguments for Islam's truth
is the way Islam spread.
And do you know why they keep I
think the reason why,
you'll find a lot of the right wing
attacks on Islam is to do with the
conquest and expansion. It's because they are most
insecure about that and most unsure about that.
And the and in fact, they know that
that's an evidence.
That's why you, look at you. They have
to try and twist the narrative, a pivot
move to try and say, oh, look. He
was so it was violence. It was violence.
Everyone was doing violence. How comes we were
so successful at it then?
It was successful violence.
There's also a historical nuance which is important.
In the past, whenever battles were won,
the people believed whoever won, god was with
them. And people converted when they saw people
who are victorious. And just to add to
your point about the prophet being so successful,
how old was the prophet when he first
raised the sword in his life?
How old is he? Like, 50 50 50
what? Old? How old is he? 55.
When when was Badr? What year? Was it
3 a h?
So
it was definitely
after the migration. So what? 56? So we're
talking about between 53 56. Onwards. So that
means
his first battlefield experiences at that age, yet
he was the greatest general in human history.
Unbelievable, isn't it? I love it. Yeah.
That's that is shocking,
you know?
There's something that I think you mentioned because
you mentioned something that when the army of
the Muslims came back to Medina,
the
women of Medina, the children, we labeled
them, those who fled the battle.
Bin Kathir has a different approach. Bin Kathir
mentioned the following.
For bin Kathir, it's not,
it's a bit problematic to say that Al
Madin will take that approach of that army
after hearing the prophet
mentioning
that Haduwadeed was victorious.
So they should
have a bit, tilted
opinion that, it was a victory,
not going against the word of Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
So he digs a bit, bin Khidr digs
a deeper and finds that there is actually
an authentic narration that a group of the
Sa'aba, those companions
of the during the battle,
they actually fled.
And they were scared so scared
to the point that they didn't come to
their senses until they reached the sea.
And among that group was Abdullah ibn Umar.
So when they came came back to their
senses,
they were a bit confused. What should we
do now? Then at the end of the
day, we have to go back to Medina.
So they went back to Medina. Mhmm. So
when they came back to Medina,
the children of the women will come out
and say,
So that's
a really that's I don't know. That's a
good thing that in the Sheikh, isn't it?
That's a really good nugget there that we've
we've got. Another good nugget
is if you Yeah. You wanna say something?
I didn't understand that. Oh, yes. This one.
Yeah.
What the Sheikh said is that basically, as
we mentioned, when they came back Yeah. Some
of the companions, some of the women in
the in the Medina were saying you guys
ran away from the battlefield.
So
then,
the the let's just call it the conventional
narrative is, the prophet said they didn't run
away. They're just gonna they're just regrouping to
come back. The word means running away,
means to come back. Okay. So he he
changed the wording.
What what
the Sheikh was saying in said is that
actually there was a group of them who
genuinely ran away.
Oh. And that they are the ones who
are being, abused by the the companions in
Medina.
So that so because the question would be,
why is it that they are being abused
by
in this way? So even Khati was saying
it makes sense that some of them, and
he gave some examples of certain companions that
did so, and they were running so fast
and hard. As I'm sure you're aware and,
that they they were so, like, you know,
that they just keep running to the sea,
you know.
So, that was something. Do you wanna say
something? Yeah.
This,
expedition also
show a wisdom behind it. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam is in his
lost of his age,
and then he is
doing some type of experiment Yeah. To send
the Sahaba far away Yeah. And to
give them feel that they can do whatever
they That's a that's a really good point.
Yeah. Because because the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
Yeah. Send them without he participating,
and then the Sahaba is having an experiment
with the Romans
and So he's teaching them how to be
independent? Yeah. Yeah. And then later on, that
mission is expanding because the prophet SAW Salam
is going You've been you've been on fire
today. What did what did you drink before
you came in it?
And it's whatever cover you're having, I need
to have the same one. That's Jesus. Excellent.
Yeah.
That's a really good point. That is really
good point. I was gonna say one thing
I was reading. This is from Montgomery Watt.
Yeah. So I was reading this is really
powerful. This come from orientalist.
Yes? A 19th century English orientalist. He says
the following.
The more one reflects on the history of
Muhammad's,
slide 13, by the way. Yeah? The more
one reflects on the history of Muhammad,
and of early Islam.
The more one is amazed at the vastness
of his achievement.
Circumstances
presented,
him with an opportunity
such
as few men have had,
but the man was fully matched with the
hour.
Had it not been for his gifts
as a
seer statesman
and administrator,
and behind these, his trust in God and
firm belief that God had sent him, a
notable chapter in the history of mankind would
have remained unwritten.
This is a orientalist.
Yeah. Sometimes these orientalists come up with some
of the most powerful things about the prophet
Muhammad.
He's saying that he dealt with every situation
in a manner that was befitting.
And he he has to acknowledge. This is
a guy who's a non Muslim, who spent
his whole life studying the prophet Mohammed in
Islam.
He has to acknowledge.
He's He's come to the level where he
has to acknowledge
the achievements are undeniable.
Nowadays, you have these propagandists that just saying
smear words and your profit was this and
your this and that and morality and stuff.
He refused this, by the way. I've put
the slide if you wanna see. He he
says that the re all the moral arguments
you have
are based on our standards, morality of our
day.
His people didn't see it like that, and
it wasn't seen like that. What this is
Montgomery what?
Which is why it's quite important to see
the works of the orientalists.
Because already,
when we say orientalists, we think, oh, we
we have a preconceived
prejudgment of them. We say, certainly, they're they're
gonna say something negative. But you could be
surprised.
Some of these orientates will come from a
non Muslim perspective.
They're able to see the prophet objectively
in their understanding of objectivity,
and they say stuff like this.
Where's that text? Can you put in the
blue? It's all in it's all in the
slides. It's on the slides? Yeah. Of course.
Another thing which is on the slides, which
I think you'll need even more than the
previous slide, and everyone here will be needing
as well, is this particular thing. Because actually,
Moza was one of the events that was
scribed
and penned
by the historians
of Rome.
And there is one particular historian called Theophanes,
who's written a book
called The Chronicles of Theophanes.
And this book, The Chronicles of Theophanes,
is the book which is used by Abu
Zakari and others in the Forbidden Prophecies book
to prove
that the Romans had defeated the Persians in
3 to 9 years, the prophecy that's mentioned
in the Quran.
In the same book,
Theophanese mentions,
and I've written all this. He he bay
he basically mentions this thing. Now the mistake
Theophanese
makes is that he thinks prophet Muhammad has
died at this stage, because he doesn't understand.
He thinks Abu Bakr is the one who
sent these guys, but he mentions the 3
the same story that you'll find in the
Hadith
of the 3 generals and so on, you'll
find in the Roman texts.
With the same areas and the same fighting
power, and that they were outmatched and all
the kind of because someone will say, well,
I don't believe in all this Islamic stuff.
Yeah. You know, I don't believe in your
sources.
Why isn't it so convenient then that we're
able to find other sources that are confirming
and triangulating the same event?
We don't believe that the Muslims actually had
a fight with the Romans. Okay. Well, let's
take a look at what the Romans themselves
say about the matter.
Because they even mentioned.
They even mentioned the word,
and he refers to it as.
You'll see it in the slides. I can't
read the whole thing. But he mentioned that
there were 3 generals, all of them died.
This which, by the way, this goes beyond.
This whole thing goes beyond. This idea
that you have a story in Islamic history,
yeah, which is corroborated by a completely different
source.
And that geographically, it happened far away from
the Islamic,
area
shows you that whatever
historical
preservation method that existed for Islam
has now been corroborated by outside of Islam.
So which means that you know those individuals
that attack the Hadith,
whether it's the Hadith reject us from within
the so called Islamic circle, which actually not.
Or they're the ones who are
who who are like the the new age
pop
historian
revisionist.
And he wants to make a name for
himself in academia because he couldn't make it
another field, so he comes to Islam because
he said he believes it's a niche market,
and he can make some money out of
it, and feed his family. So he can
go do some wine tasting in southern France
and get slapped in the face,
academically or intellectually.
Those individuals,
okay, where they will attack the Hadith and
say, well, it's completely unreliable and so on.
Blah blah blah. If it's so unreliable,
why is it being corroborated by other sources?
And if this is the level of corroboration
from a source that is completely independent,
which by the way is in lieu
of it.
What do you wanna say about that now?
Oh, about the Hadith?
Oh, about this? Oh, about that? The Hadith
are it's not worth the paper that it's
written on. It's not even written on paper,
therefore. It's a Chinese whispers. It's whatever. But
the hadith is corroborating everything you're Roman your
white man is saying.
But when the white man says it, no.
No. Theofinist said it.
And has has.
Now the truth has become you only want
the white man to write history, don't you?
That's the real truth, isn't it? That's why
you've rubbished African history and, Latin American history
and this and that. Because the white man
is the only one with the authority
to write down history. You've got a colonial
reasoning.
But what happens when the white man writes
the same thing down?
Then you realize that our guys are not
as illiterate as you think the thought they
were. Race, realists,
theories, and this and that. Get the *
out of here, mate.
He's narrating the story in the same way
as we are hearing
in the Hadith.
And this book, by the way, I looked
at it. You can get it now. It's
it's, 800 page book. The Chronicles of Theophanies.
And many of there's many
scattered references to Islam
and Muslims in that book.
With that, we will conclude.
I hope you've had a good time. We
have here in the office. Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi
Wa Rahkass.
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