Mohammed Hijab – Intellectual Seerah #21 Tabuk & The Death of The Prophet Muhammad
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The host of a virtual podcast discusses the upcoming episode of the intellectual Sira series, including a mission to surah, the influence of the Prophet Muhammad, and the war between the Roman Empire and the Church of Jerusalem. They emphasize the importance of understanding the connections between Tabuk and events surrounding it, preparing for conflict, setting out in hot weather, and following Islam. The importance of being authentic and real in order to avoid anger and confusion, and the importance of following the message of Islam. The speaker also discusses the loss of the prophet Muhammadal and the importance of peace be upon him, as well as a news story about a woman being brought to the speaker's house.
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And so we've reached near the end, and
today we're going to be talking
about Tabuk all the way to the death
of the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And that will be the last thing that
we
mention.
So
Tabouk
was an expedition towards the Romans
and
we've already mentioned that there was a war
that we've discussed already
with the Romans,
which was that
that we have discussed?
Motta. Yeah. Motta. Motta. Yeah.
Beautiful. So what happened in Motta?
So
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
sent an expedition
to Hassanitz,
And then they asked for the help of
Romans. Romans sent some armies to support them,
and they were,
vessel type of people
supporting,
working for, Romans.
And then,
that turned out to be,
a success in for Muslims.
And then,
of the that that was a type of
to send a message for the Romans to
get ready for the next coming, which is
Tabukan
starting after that too. Mhmm. Defeat Persia, Romans.
Mhmm. Absolutely. I mean, that's a very nice
summary. And I wanna thank you as well
for being part of this series. And we'll
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pleasure to be in this class. We have
learned a lot of stuff here about the
Seerah of the beloved prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
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your contributions have been phenomenal, fantastic.
Yes.
That is a good, thing. And this so
this is the second engagement with the Roman
Empire. Okay? The first engagement,
it was not really a Hazbah though. It
was a sariyah and the reason why is
the prophet did not engage in it himself.
He didn't go in himself.
This time,
he's going to it himself.
Okay. And
don't forget at this stage, dominance has been
established in the entire Arabian Peninsula.
You know, subhanallah,
like you know, look at the story.
From the persecuted minority that they were,
From Bilal's time where they were being whipped
and had on a had and Sumaya when
she was being killed and martyred, that we
went through in the persecution times. To now,
that the Muslims have taken over the entire
Arabian
Peninsula and dominance has been garnered. And instead
of relaxing and resting, and being complacent, we're
talking about in the previous session.
Couple of weeks,
2, 3 weeks,
20 days in Mecca, and then
we'll go again. Now, we're not just going
to,
some tribe in the Arabian desert, we're going
to the biggest empire in the world. We're
going to the Roman Empire.
What does that show you about the mentality
of the Prophet and Islam?
This goes beyond the ambition.
I I'm I'm pretty positive that if these
states of events were to be presented to
a historian,
most of them would consider us to be
foolhardy,
reckless behavior.
I mean, you've just established control over an
entire region.
Why now risk all of that by going
into one of the world superpowers?
But this is in fact one of the
great evidences that this is not being
strategized by the prophet himself, but in fact
is being told to him
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It's not his choice.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the majority
of this army, and we'll come to see
with some prominent examples, would have wanted to
just enjoy
the conquest and enjoy the booty that they
had,
gone from Hunain and Taqif and Kais and
this one, that one.
They would have liked to enjoy it and
relax.
They've they've been working hard. Now they have
to go and face the most formidable force
in the world, one of the most formidable
forces in history.
The whole of Surah Tawba chapter 9 of
the Quran,
a lot of the passages
are related to this
to this particular battle by the way. So
a very famous,
passage which is mentioned by a lot of
the orientalists and the is anti Islamic apologist
is
You know,
or chapter 9 verse 29.
That fight the Jews and the Christians
from the ones
who don't believe in Allah in his last
day.
And they do not have the true faith
until they bring
or they
are compelled to pay the jizyah, and they
are subdued.
And some say that this shows you it's
a religion of expansion, so on,
you know. And the answer is yes.
You've you've said it correctly. This is a
religion of You see, it is a religion
of of course.
What do you mean, is it? What do
you want us to do? You've got the
Roman Empire that they've been spending millennia expanding,
and now you're so you're so fragile and
weak, and you're so scared and angry that
you have another force that are deciding to
do the same thing to the Romans that
the Romans have been to doing to everybody
else.
You think this is one this is meant
to be the this is meant to be
one of the greatest controversies of Islam,
because you have an empire
which has been doing something to people for
a 1000 years, and a people who've established
themselves in a region and decided to do
the same thing to that empire that it
has been doing to all the world for
a 1000 years, and you're upset about that,
and you're angry, you want us to apologize
for that.
So maybe we should just wait until that
empire comes and overtakes our lands as they
as we know they do now.
Maybe we should have just let those,
great empires, the Sassanids, and the the Persian
empires, and so on, and the and the
Roman empires just do their thing and expand.
They can fight each other. No. We want
a piece of the pie.
You have no moral quandary,
0
moral quandary dilemma
when it comes to the Roman Empire overtaken
other
places.
I have not I've not seen one of
these orienters ever say,
well, it wasn't the Romans
right to come into the United Kingdom.
For example, the Roman Empire, it went all
the way up here to the United Kingdom.
It wasn't their right to take, Alexander. It
wasn't their right to take this place. It
wasn't their right to it. That conversation's never
had when it comes to what they've overtaken.
But you see
pictures on social media of the Muslim empire
overtaken the Roman Empire. Well, if you wanna
take Israel back,
then let the Muslim colonists
take give all of this back as well.
Israel back and then colonist this and that.
What do you mean Muslim colonists?
This is not colonialism, the like of which
you engaged in,
Planned at the world and stealing the people
and kicking them out of the house and,
forcing them to really, like in the Alhambra
declarations. This is not that that
race based slavery is all that.
I've never met a Muslim who's complained
about the fact that the Spanish
reconquered
Spain from the Muslims
and refer to Spain as occupied land.
Never seen that. But I have met Muslims
who have and historians
who have complained about the way in which
the Spanish has on that.
With the Alhambra declarations and the kicking out
the people and stretching them out on the
stretchers and the Jews had to run away
to the Ottoman Empire.
So the point is is that their strongest
argument
we know what the the the the the
main arguments against Islam are. Number 1, age
of Aisha. Now this become very popular in
the running. Number 2, the violence of Islam,
which is the classic orientalist argument.
And then with the violence of Islam, the
expansion of Islam, Islam was spread by the
sword. That's it. That's your strongest arguments
against Islam. Even the new atheist movement, that
was
their books were basically talking about that.
No one talking about God's existence. They were
talking about
the violence in Islam and so on.
And this is the first time we see
actually
an event, a war where the prophet was
actually being preemptive, where he's being expansionary. It's
the only one. For everything else, it could
be considered to be defensive or reactionary. This
is the only one that's purely expansionist.
You could you could argue this is the
only one. Tabuk is the only example of
pure expansionism on behalf of Islam and the
prophet, and
it set the tone for what happened with
this Sahaba, the companions,
because they continue the expansion.
They did, do that.
So, this happened in 9 8th. It was
the largest army of about 30,000 people
and,
so sorry. You know, here it says, Mohammed
doesn't say, prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam or
that because I used GPT to summarize some
of my notes and they didn't, they didn't
they did not put P P
U
H.
But you can see in that particular,
you can see,
what was going on there.
Now, the the numbers of the army of
the opposing side, we don't Some say 50
1,000, some say 40,000, some say, I don't
know, even more than that, of how many
Roman and how many Roman soldiers came to
attack to fight the Muslims.
We don't know how many Romans. No. Once
again, we go back to the issue of
numbers. We don't know how many of them
there were. But there was not really,
that number that you could imagine. Right?
And, there wasn't This is not actually a
situation where there was
fighting that was happening, a lot of fighting,
you know.
And instead, what it was is that they
were they stationed in that place, the prophet
salamander,
he shortened his prayer and
he does a lot of a lot of
speeches. Now, you can see this in your
own time. It's not really
I mean, you could spend a lot of
time just talking about what happened in Tabuk
in terms of what speeches were given, what
sermons were given, what kind of hadith, a
lot of hadith there actually.
But they're not relevant to the story of
the Sira and they're not necessarily relevant to
the intellectual Sira, which is why I'm skipping
over a lot of it now.
They're not necessarily right. What is more relevant
in terms of what you and I are
gonna face
is gonna be, and I'm gonna,
mention this.
The Ayahs that in the Quran
that are connected
to the event of Tabuk.
You need to be aware of which airs
they are,
and you need to be aware of the
connection,
because now you know the context of Tabuk.
I've already given you one area, which is
929,
which I've mentioned, Tabari mentions that this is
connected to Tabuk, for example,
but maybe we should spend a bit of
time,
okay, just looking at maybe 3 or 4
areas,
each 2 or 3 is lot of heirs,
by the way, that are connected to the
battle of Tabuk and come back and discuss
it. And then afterwards, we're going to speak
about
the story of
Kabab and Melech, because that is the real
story of Tabuk. I mean, it's a person
who's didn't have a valid excuse, who did
not go to
fight in Tabuk
and he he wrote this first person experience
which, you know, is many pages long in
Bukhary.
Maybe about 2 pages depending on the size
of the book
and we wanna look at that a little
bit because it gives you a lot of
insight as to what happened in Tabuk and
then we're gonna move on to the tail
end of Nasir after that. So, the what
we're gonna be doing for the next 5
minutes is just looking at some of the
areas that connected
to, Tabuk.
Alright. So, Shekar, what kind of aos you
have here?
There's a couple. Okay. Just how many?
How many,
Just a couple. Just a couple. Yeah?
So there's a few. Obviously,
with, Tabuk, there was a lot of fit
now, but because it was, like, it was
a long distance for them to travel. If
it
was,
if it was a close destination,
when it was said on Kase, and like,
like,
sort of like a pinpointed
objective, or like that the place where you're
going to was precise, that they would have
followed you. When I came out, it's a
name was Shoka. But the difficulty,
sort of the strenuous nature of the task,
was overwhelming for them.
So they were, in a sense, exposed in
the Quran, like, you know, I think it's
Surah Tawba, if I'm not right, if if
I'm not in Precioushaq that it's called, like,
alfabiha or, like, it has another name, the
Surah. Alfabiha.
That is like, it's a Surah that exposed
a lot of the munafiqun because they were
exposed to a lot of this stuff. So
there's this a and related to that that
Farihah Mokhaleh Boonamakaddimiklaffarasulillah.
Those who stayed back were happy with the
fact that they were, you know, they stayed
back from Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And eventually
they said,
and they told other people not to go
out in the heat of the of the
battle because it was a it was a
hot summer months.
That they were that prophet was told to
tell them that tell them that the the
fire of Jahannam is is a hot time,
that it's more severe in heat. So again,
it's Allah,
bringing the malafukun to account. Mhmm.
There's some other ayat,
that go out,
when light or heavy and fight in the
path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, with yourselves
and your wealth.
There was incident,
that some of the Munafiqun, when money was
being raised for this expedition,
they, they began to come make comments as
people giving money. So, Abdul Rahman Al Hawf,
he came and he gave,
so as he mentions 4,000, I'm not sure
4,000 of what, but he gave a lot
of money.
And, they the the began to speak and
he said, this is the riyat, that this
is, he's showing off its arrogance, its pride.
And then Abu Akayl came and he gave,
like, a sign in the tamil, like, a
small amount of dates. And so they began
to mock him and they said that Allah
is is free of neither this charity man
is giving. And so Allah,
said that, Sakhr Allahumminum. Allah mocks them.
And
they have a painful punishment.
So, again, it's this dynamic of, like,
the Surah is consistently calling the people to
strive with whatever they have,
and,
those who have a lot and they give,
they're you know, they're commended for it, and
even those who give a little, they're commended
for it. And you have that that page
which speaks about
it's actually a very interesting lesson that's on
that page because Allah is talking about,
basically people that have an excuse and people
that don't,
and the nature
of it.
Those who are weak,
those who are sick, and those who don't
have anything to give, they're not blameworthy if
they are sincere
to
Allah and His Messenger and that Allah forgives
us for giving.
And also those people that genuinely have nothing
to give.
But specifically about these people, they had nothing
to give,
but
they were reduced to tears when they realized
that they didn't have anything to contribute to
the cause, which is really a shit I
think, especially in times of tribulation.
If people are ambivalent,
if someone has genuinely has nothing that they
can do within their means then
okay they have their excuse in terms of
action.
But
if they're ambivalent and they don't care, and
they're just going about their business and not
even thinking about it, and they're not shedding
tears because they can't do more, then this
is a shahid against them. And then Allah
says in a message
that blame is exclusively upon those people that
ask your permission to sit out whilst they're
wealthy.
That you have means and you decide not
to do it. It's that then a couple
of told you in another place in the
same sort of that. Those people of means
ask for permission to sit out. So it's
an interesting parallel that very often
people that have nothing,
are
more willing to sacrifice in times of tribulation.
People that have something have something to lose,
they're they're clinging on to things. You know?
There's the justification about my worth here, about
this and that, this other thing that I'm
doing. Why not?
So yeah. There's other airs as well, but
I've mentioned a couple.
Very, very good summary, ma'am. Thank you so
much for that.
It's
the the theme that comes from your presentation,
but also from the Iyad that you've mentioned,
is the theme of excuse making.
Yeah. Yeah?
And excuse making can either be,
you know, legitimate or illegitimate. And all these
examples are showing you,
where illegitimate excuse making is is made.
And,
and when we go through the story of
Cap, we'll see
how how beautiful and refreshing it is when
he owns
everything. And that's something which we're not seeing
in today's society. Omid Allah, would you,
wanna add to that?
Yeah.
One of the ayah,
which is mentioned here,
So it's the same,
type of excuse that which show that Allah
encourage
Muslims to go far forward and to,
participate.
There are some couples couple of other ayahs.
And, also,
I think it's,
revealed in the
the book,
and,
the highest mentioned.
Very good. That was excellent.
I think that is a good summary of
some of the main areas, and we've also
mentioned some of the other areas as well.
A lot of them about about
the behavior of the
the hypocrites and so on, and a third
cast will be about believers who make excuses.
After the break, we are going to talk
about
the believer who didn't make an excuse, which
is Kaban Malik,
whose testimonial
was very very refreshing to see,
and
it gives us a a blueprint
as to how to own one's mistakes.
Okay. So,
now we've reached the stage where we want
to read out actually the story of Kabi
Malik.
Sean, you have it in one of the
slides, can you read out for us the
story of Kabi Malik
in, English?
The hadith Actually, you can do half of
it and then, Chenburi, you do the other
half. Yeah.
Which one is it? The bell points?
No. So The hadith. The hadith.
Yeah. I got it. I got it.
I never remained behind Allah's Messenger
from any expedition which he undertook except the
Battle of Tabuk and that of the Battle
of Badr.
So far as the Battle of Badr is
concerned,
nobody was blamed for remaining behind Allah's Messenger
and the Muslims
did not set out for attack but for
waylaying
the caravan of the Quraysh.
But it was Allah who made them confront
their enemies without their intention to do so.
I had the honor to be with Allah's
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam on the night
of
Aqaba when he pledged our allegiance to Islam,
and it was more dear to me than
my participation in the Battle of Badr. Although
Badr was more popular amongst people as compared
with
that Taboo.
And this is my story
of remaining back from Allah's Messenger
on the occasion of the Battle of Tabuk.
Never did I possess means enough and my
circumstances more favorable than at the occasion of
this expedition. Just pause here. It's very interesting
already. So this is Khabib in Malekiah,
and he is explaining why he stayed behind.
He didn't go and fight in Tabuk
and he's giving a bit of a background,
a very interesting. This could be, you can
make a film out of this. I mean,
honestly you can make a film just out
of this story.
But he's saying, look this is my past
you know,
with better you know, I didn't go to
that but I had legitimate excuse.
I never I used to go to all
the fights. I've not been known for this
and then he starts off by saying, look,
I've I'll be honest, I've never had better
means
than in this situation of He's gonna say,
I have 2 she 2 she camels and
whatever it maybe.
Right? Continue reading.
And by Allah I had never before this
expedition simultaneously
in my possession two rides.
Allah's Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam set out
for this expedition in extremely hot season. The
journey was long and the land which he
and his army had to cover was waterless
and he had to confront a large army.
So he informed the Muslims about the actual
situation they had to face
so that they should adequately equip themselves for
this expedition.
And he also told them the destination where
he'd intended to go. And the Muslims who
accompanied Allah's Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at
that time were large in numbers,
but there were no proper record of them.
Ka'ab further
said: Few were persons who wanted to absent
themselves
and were under the impression that they could
easily conceal themselves and thus remain undetected
until revelations from Allah, the exalted and glorious,
descended in connection with them.
And Allah's Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam set out
on an expedition
when the fruits were ripe and their shadows
had been lengthened.
I had weakness for them,
and it was during this season that Allah's
Messenger
made preparations and the Muslims too along with
them.
I also set out in the morning so
that I could make preparations along with them,
but I came back and did nothing and
said to myself,
I have means enough to make preparations as
soon as I like. And I went on
doing this, postponing my preparations,
until people were about to depart. And it
was in the morning that Allah's Messenger salallahu
alaihi wasallam set out and the Muslims too
along with him, but I made no preparations.
Mhmm.
Which shows you that if you're gonna engage
in a conflict,
you need to have an intention of that
for.
You need to have preparations. We spoke we
spoke about the 2 things.
What's really interesting as you're reading, I was
thinking to myself,
who on their right mind
would want to go and fight in the
hot weather
and go and travel for all this distance?
I mean, it really Who would want to
do that
without
revelation or something really pushing them towards that?
And and prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam, he's
deciding to go just like that,
you know. No one's telling him to do
that, no one's pressuring, there's no societal pressure.
So why is he doing this? This is
another evidence that he
and
he doesn't speak from his own desires.
Keep reading.
I went early in the morning and came
back, but I made no decision. I continued
to do so until they, the Muslims, hastened
and covered a good deal of distance.
I also made up my mind to march
on and to meet them. With that I
had done but that
with that I had done that but perhaps
it was not destined for me. After the
departure of Allah's Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as
I went out amongst people I was shocked
to find that I did not find anyone
like me but people who are labelled as
hypocrites or the people whom Allah granted exemption
because of their incapacity and Allah's Messenger
took no notice of me until he had
reached Taboo.
Okay. This is a good one,
Thank you for that. Shamir, can you continue?
Yes.
One day, as he was sitting amongst the
people of Tabuk, he said, what has happened
to Kaab, ibn Malik? A person from Banu
Salama
said Allah Allah's Messenger that the beauty of
his cloak and his appreciation of his sides
have allured him and he was thus detained.
Mawad ibn Jabal said woe be to though
woe be to that
Thereupon Allah's messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam may he
said
may he be
Abu
k Tamar. And lo, it was Abu k
Tamar al Ansari.
And he was that person who contributed
a sire of dates and was scoffed at
by the hypocrites.
Khabib Malik further said
when this news reached me that Allah's Messenger
was on the way back from Tabuk I
I was greatly perturbed. I thought of fabricating
false stories and asked myself how
I could save myself from anger on the
following day.
In this connection I sought the help of
every
prudent man from amongst the members of my
family
and when it was said to me that
Allah's Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was about to arrive,
all the false ideas vanished from my mind.
So he's saying I I proposed all these
excuses,
but when the prophet of Salam came he
said, you know, forget this, I'm not gonna
do
this. I'm not gonna make any excuses. He
went natural with all the prudent men in
his village
and none of them
convince him enough to to do to do
this and and there's something really refreshing about
that. I don't think we can read the
whole thing because it's it's How how long
we got left of this?
About even halfway. Yeah. There's a lot there's
a lot left.
But he continues and, basically, you know, he's
forgiven by the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as a Muslims, you know, there was a
large punishment,
of Hajar that was enacted upon him that
he was,
but you know,
boycotted for for a certain period of time
and then afterwards,
the prophet and the Muslims
forgave him and the repentance was forgiven. But
this is very interesting, it's refreshing because he
starts to own everything now.
What are some of the, lessons we go
in social media or otherwise that would you
would wanna decipher from that, Saba? People love
someone being authentic,
someone being real, someone saying I'm vulnerable,
I can make mistakes, I'm a human I'm
a human being. They hate fakeness, they hate
covering up things, and it's basically gets far
worse for you when you cover up things,
And in this particular case,
he's actually doing something that people around him
got away with. So earlier
in the story what we realize is that
there's about approximately 80 people
who go to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
They seek excuses. The prophet
seeks forgiveness for them. That's it.
But with him, he's willing to be the
only black sheep and say,
I'm strong.
Mhmm. Sound really powerful about that.
Yes, it is. And often to see something
which is,
very very,
well people are they flock towards it. You
know, people love
it. Something which is fake is identify
Even kids know when something is fake by
the way. Someone's being fake or disabled. Yeah.
Can I just add something? That's
on social media if you do that, people
come out, they clap. But in in real
world scenario like this particular scenario,
the negative consequences he wasn't aware of, what
could have happened. So it wasn't something that
he thought he's going to be celebrated for.
It's the opposite. It's a it's a really
beautiful story and it tells you a lot
about what kind of thing
Tabuk was.
But because of, we need to move on,
One thing I wanted to do is
talk about now the prophet Mohammed Hassan. So,
it's a book happened at 9
And the most important event within that was
the farewell speech of the prophet Muhammad SAWSALAM.
Now unlike
Kaab story, this can be read in this
entirety. Although some parts of it, I was
looking at the, you know, different hadith, some
parts of it are weak, some parts of
it are strong.
Nonetheless, the hadith are generally
okay for for for this, particular So Shekhar,
do you wanna read this out? Yeah. It's
on It's number 7.
This is the famous farewell speech of the
prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
After praising and thanking Allah, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
began with the
words,
oh, people lend me an attentive ear for
I know not whether whether after this year
I shall ever be amongst you again.
Therefore, listen carefully to what I'm saying and
take these words to those who could not
be present here today.
Oh, people, just as you regard this month,
this day, this city as sacred,
oh, and this city as sacred, so regard
the life and property of every Muslim as
sacred trust.
Return the goods entrusted to you to their
rightful owners.
Hurt no one so that no one may
hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet
your lord and that he will indeed reckon
your deeds.
Allah has forbidden you to take usury. Therefore
all interest obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your
capital is yours to keep, you will neither
inflict nor suffer any any inequality.
Allah has judged that there shall be no
interest and that all interest due to our
burden and muttallib be waived.
Every right arising out of homicide in pre
Islamic days is is henceforth waived,
and the first such right that I waive
is that arising from the murder of Rabi'a
ibn al Haritha.
Oh, men, the unbelievers indulge in tampering with
the calendar in order to make permissible that
which Allah forbid and to prohibit what Allah
has made permissible.
With Allah, the months are 12 in number.
4 of them are holy, there are there
are successive or they are successive,
and one occurs singly between the months of
Jumada and Sha'aban.
Beware of Satan for the safety of of
your religion. He has lost all hope that
he'll be able to lead you astray in
big things, so be aware of following him
in small things.
Oh, people, it is true that you have
certain rights with regard to your women, but
they also have rights over you.
Remember that you have taken them as your
wife's body under Allah's trust. This is very
topical, isn't it? Today, it's like, you know,
it's the prophet was giving us direct advice.
This is on the final things the prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned.
As look, you can see these these are
the most important topics
that the world is now And first of
all, we're talking about what? Economics.
First of all, we're talking about Allah,
morality,
and then we go into economics,
criminal law, and then straight into family law.
Keep going.
Oh, people, it is true that you have
certain rights with regard to your women, but
they also have rights over you.
Remember that you have taken them as your
wives only under Allah's trust and with his
permission. If they abide by your right, then
to them belongs the right to be fed
and clothed in kindness.
Do treat your women well and be kind
to them for they are your partners and
committed helpers.
And it is your right that they do
not make friends with anyone whom you do
not approve as well, never to be unchaste.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Oh, people listen to me in earnest worship
Allah, say your 5 daily prayers, fast during
the month of Ramadan, and give your wealth
in zakat, perform Hajj if you can afford
it. All mankind is from Adam and Eve.
An Arab has no superiority over a non
Arab, nor a non Arab has any superiority
over an Arab. Also, a white has no
superiority over a black, nor a black has
any superiority over a white except by piety
and good action.
Learn that every Muslim is a brother to
every Muslim, and that the Muslims constitute one
brotherhood.
Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which
belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was
given freely and willingly.
Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember
one day you will meet Allah and answer
your deeds. So beware, do not astray from
the path of righteousness after I am gone.
O people, no prophet or apostle will come
after me, and no new faith will be
born.
Reason well, therefore, o people, and understand words
that I convey to you. I leave behind
me 2 things, the Quran and the Sunnah,
and if you follow these, you will never
go astray.
All those who listen to me shall pass
on my words to others and those to
others again. And may the last ones understand
my words better than those who listen to
me directly, Allahumma Ameen.
Oh, Allah. Be my witness that I have
conveyed your message to your people.
And this is the end.
Beautiful.
Honestly, this is one of the best speeches.
I mean even though some parts of it
are weak and stuff like that in terms
of Hadith,
the speech itself is probably the best speech
I've I've ever seen actually. Islamic law for
Islam. Yeah, but because it's it's it's covering
every single social and religious
topic. It's it's covering economics,
it's covering
criminality, it's covering racism, it's covering the gender
issues,
it's covering absolutely everything
people have struggled with in the last 5000
years of human civilization.
And that's why the prophet as salam,
he said, I have been given the most
comprehensive speech.
And
it's beautiful. And the the the thing which
I would say it's most similar to in
the bible
is what you would refer to as sermon
of the mount.
And this you'll find in the book of
Matthew's chapter 5 verse 7 chapter 5 to
7. Chapter 5 all the way to 7.
But this speech
talks about so many things that the sermon
of the mount, which is considered to be
the best speech of Jesus,
which I
also think is a beautiful beautiful part of
the bible.
Right? Does not cover. It covers economic realities.
It covers
racism.
I mean, there is no verse in the
new testament that comes across
That even go comes near to this, you
know, there's no superiority for white man or
black man or black man or white man
or Arab or none or none. That stuff
is not there in the in the entire
corpus of the bible.
So
you could argue And it's just the way
If you look at just the rhetoric of
this speech as well, rule of 3, repetition,
calling out to the people, asking them questions,
rhetorical questions, rhetorical devices,
And you can imagine if the prophet did
that in front of a group of people,
how that would have sounded and how that
would have been like. So right now, what
we're gonna do is we're gonna summarize the
last days before the prophet wasalam's death.
So let's go was it day 5,
5 days before?
The start of the disease? Yeah.
On Monday,
the the 29th
of Safa, in 11th year of Al Hajra,
he participated
in a funeral rights in Al Baqiyah.
On the way back, he had a headache
and his temperature
rose so high
that
heat effect could be felt over his
headband. He led the Muslim in a prayer
for 11 days.
Though he was sick,
the total number of his sick days were
either
13 or 14.
The last week.
When his sickness grew severe, he asked his
wives,
where shall I stay tomorrow?
Where shall I stay?
They understood
what he wanted so they allowed him to
stay
m s a n I u 304?
Yeah. That might be the number the page.
This is, by the way, from sealed nectar.
This is this is why. Whatever he wished,
he moved to Aisha's
room leaning
while he was walking
on
al Fadlib
al Abbas
and
Ali ibn Abi Talib. It means he put
his arms over them. Mhmm.
Headbands
as he was,
he dragged his feet till he come into
her abode.
It was there
that he spent
the last week of his life. During that
period
Ayesha used to recite 'Al Mawizzatayn'
chapter 113
and 114 of the Quran
and other supplications which he had already
taught her.
5 days
before the death. Okay. Tara, can you read
that one? Thanks, sir.
On Wednesday, 5 days before he died, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's temperature
rose so high,
signaling the severe the severeness of his disease.
He fainted and suffered from pain.
Pour pour out on me 7
kebab,
waterskin pots of various water wells so that
I may go to meet the people and
talk to them.
So they seated him in a container,
usually used for washing,
and poured out the water on him till
he said, that's enough. That is enough.
Then he fell then he felt well enough
to enter the must in to enter the
Masjid.
He entered it, band headed,
sat on the pulpit and made a speech
to the people who were gathering
around him. He said,
the curse of Allah falls upon the Jews
and Christians for they have made their prophets
tombs,
places of worship,
Sayyid Bukhari.
He then said, do not make my tomb
a worshiped idol.
That's from Imam Malik. And then he offered
himself
and invited people to repay any injuries that
might have,
in inflicted
on them saying,
he whom I have ever lashed
sorry. He whom I have ever lashed his
back, I offer him my back so that
he may avenge himself on me.
Him who he whom I
have ever blasphemed his honor, here I am
offering my honor so that he may avenge
himself. This is so powerful. I I mean,
the prophet Muhammad alaihis salaam here,
he wants to, because of humility, he's saying
that, if I've taken any of your rights
away, physically or otherwise, come and take it
from you now.
It is
unbelievable
really.
And it's the same kind of,
it's the same kind of thing that, Amun
Khattab did before his death as well. He'd
look into it, pay off all his debts
and make sure everything's clean before he goes.
Yeah.
Then he descended
and performed the noon prayer.
Again, he returned to the pulpit and sat
on it. He resumed his first speech about
enmity
and some other things.
A man then said, you owe me 3
dirhams.
The prophet, peace be upon him, said, pay
him the money. He went
on saying,
I admonish you to be a good
I sorry. I admonish you to be good
to,
the helpers. They are my family. And with
them, I found shelter. They have acquitted themselves
credibly
of the responsibility
that fell upon them. And now
there remains
what you will have to do. Sorry. Forgive
me. It says,
they they have acquitted themselves credibly
of the responsibility
that fell upon them. And now there remains
what you have to do. You should fully
acknowledge and appreciate the favor that they have
shown
and should overlook their faults.
So what about other people? He's just trying
to give credit,
to other people. He's trying to make sure
that anyone anyone else
who owes he owes anything to South Salam
that they
are looked after. Sean?
4 days before his death.
On Thursday, 4 days before the death of
the messenger of Allah,
he said to the people,
though he was suffering from a severe pain,
come here. I will cause you to write
something so that you will never fall into
error.
Upon this, Umar ibn al Khatab said the
prophet of Allah
is suffering from acute pain and you have
the Quran with you. The book of Allah
is sufficient
unto you.
Others, however, wanted the writing to be made.
When Muhammad
heard them debating over it, he ordered them
to go away and leave him alone.
Bukhari 2 673
637. Sorry.
That day, he recommended 3 things.
1,
Jews, Christians, and polytheists should be expelled out
of Arabia.
2, he recommended that the delegations should be
honored and entertained
in a way similar to the one he
used to do.
3. As for the 3rd,
the narrator said that he had forgotten it.
It could have been adherence to the holy
book and the sunnah.
It was likely to be the accomplishment
and the mobilization of Osama's army or it
could have been performance of prayers and being
attentive to slaves.
In spite of the strain of disease and
suffering from the pain, the prophet, peace be
upon him, used to lead all the prayers
till that Thursday,
4 days before he died.
On
on that day he led the sunset prayer
and recited.
By the winds or angels or the Messenger
of Allah sent forth one after another.
Quran 77 verse
1,
were narrated,
Mishkat
Al Masabi
1 1002.
In the evening, he grew so sick that
he could not overcome the strain of disease
or go out to enter the mosque.
Aisha said, the prophet, peace be upon him,
asked, have the people performed the prayer?
No, they haven't. They are waiting for you.
Put some water in the washing pot, said
he.
We did what he ordered. So he washed
and wanted to stand up but he fainted.
When he came round he asked again,
have the people prayed?
Then the same sequence of events took place
again and again for the 2nd and third
times from the time he washed to the
time he fainted after his attempts to stand
up.
Therefore he sent Abu Bakr
to lead the prayer himself. Abu Bakr said
then led the prayer during those days, Bukhari
199.
There were 17 prayers in the lifetime of
Muhammad, peace be upon him. 3 or 4
times Ayesha talked to the prophet, peace be
upon him, to exempt Abu Bakr from leadership
in prayer lest people should despair of him.
But he refused and said, you women are
like the women who tried to entice Joseph,
Yusuf, into immorality.
Conveyor my request to Abu Bakr to lead
the prayer.
A day or 2 prior to death oh,
yeah. You go ahead. Mhmm. He said continue.
Yeah. So
this is a day or 2 prior to
the death of the prophet,
and in this hadith, which says on Saturday
or on Sunday,
the Prophet felt unwell,
to perform the prayer or it said he
thought that he was well enough to perform
the prayer. So he went out,
leaving on 2 men in order to perform
the noon prayer.
Abu Bakr, who was then about to lead
the prayer withdrew,
when he saw him coming by the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he made a signal to
say to him to say where he was
and then he said, seat me next to,
Abu Bakr.
And then he said
then they seated him on the left side
of Abu Bakr
and then the prophet
he led the prayer and Abu Bakr followed
him and raised his voice
at every Allahu Akbar because obviously the prophet
voice was not as loud it was when
he was well
so that the people people may hear him
clearly
and then a day before his death, the
prophet he set all his slaves free.
He gave 7 dinars of charity that he
owed
and that he gave all his weapons,
as a present to the Muslims
and that when night fell,
the, Aisha,
they she decided to borrow some oil from
the neighbor to light her
her lamp.
And then, this is an interesting
point where,
his armor was mortgaged
as a security
with a Jew for 30
cubic measures of Bali.
And then, yeah, that's that's pretty much it.
Mhmm. Sheikh, I wanna finish it.
I think
Oh, sorry. So so how many is it
how many, slides are there left? Few more
slides. Few more slides. Oh, okay. Yeah. Go
on.
Goodbye.
The last day life
in the last generations, Bin Maliki said, while
the Muslims were performing the dawn prayer on
Monday led by Abu Bakr, they were surprised
to see the messenger of Allah
raising the curtain of Aisha's room
he looked at them while they were praying
a line properly
and smart cheerfully seeing him, Abu Bakr withdrew
to join the lines and give him
way to lead the prayer for he thought
that the prophet wanted to go out and
pray.
And I said the Muslims who were praying
were so delighted that they almost threw in
rapture that their prayers. The messenger of Allah,
so so as salam, made them a gesture
to continue their prayer,
went into the room and drew the curtain.
Messenger of Allah did not lift for the
next prayer time.
When it was daytime, the prophet
peace be upon him, Qifatma told her something
in secret voice that made her cry, then
he whispered to her something else which made
her laugh.
Aisha inquired
from her after the prophet's death as to
weeping and laughing to each father replied,
The first time he disclosed to me that
he would not recover from his illness and
I wept.
Then he told me that I would be
the first of his family to join him.
So I laughed.
He gave Fatima glad tidings that she would
become the lady of all women of the
world.
Fatima witnessed a great pain that afflicted her
her father so she said what great pain
my father is in
to these words the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
remarked
that he will not suffer anymore when today
is over
He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked that has asked
that Al Hassan and Al Hussain be brought
to him.
He kissed them and recommended that they be
looked after. He asked to see his wives.
They were brought to him sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He preached to them and told them to
remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Pain grew so much severe
that the trace of poison he had at
Khaybar came to light. It was so sore
that he said to that, Insha'Allah,
I still feel the painful effect of that
food I tasted at Khaybar.
I feel as if death is approaching.
He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered the people to
perform the prayers and to be attentive to
slaves. He repeated it many times, Alaihi Wasallam.
When the pangs of death started,
Aisha
had led him against her. She used to
say one of Allah's bounties upon me
is that the Messenger of Allah SAW died
in my house whilst I was alive.
He died between my chest and my neck
while he was leaning against me. Allah makes
his saliva with mine at his death. Abdur
Rahman, the son of Abu Bakr came in
with a siwak
in his hand while I was leaning the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam against me.
I noticed that he was looking at the
Siwaq. So I asked him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
but I knew that he wanted it. Would
you like me to take it for you?
He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam nodded in agreement.
I took it and gave it to him
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as it was too hard for him. I
asked him, shall I soften it for you?
He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam nodded in agreement. So
I softened it with my saliva
and he passed it on his
teeth. Another narration, it is said, so when
he brushed his teeth as nice as he
could, there was water container available in his
hand with some water in it. He put
his hand in it, wiped his face with
it, and said, and his narration is carved
for me that the other boys have it.
That's the end.
He said,
You know, he said that, you know, he's
he chose Allah,
And,
that was a very moving, you know,
end of what we
just,
done.
And we've just concluded the series.
With that,
I say this, finally now, we conclude.