Mubeen Kamani – Family Seerah Night Lecture#3
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In our last week's class,
in our last class we're talking
about 2 different incidents
that led into one another.
We talked about how there was a king
in Yemen
whose name was
what was the king name?
Zunuas.
Zunuas. And this king, he had this special
advisor and the advisor's job was,
he was some sort of magician and through
his magic, he would look into the future
and advise the king accordingly.
This advisor was getting old and the king
said that, look, you needed
someone to follow and advise me after you're
gone.
They found this young boy, the smartest young
boy in the town. This person, he would
teach this young boy every day his
his his art.
This young boy one day on the way
to the palace, he stops by and he
see that there are people talking about the
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And he begins to learn through them and
he understands the religion of Christianity.
One day he puts this to the test.
How? Because one, he saw a lion
and he picked up a stone, threw it,
and said, bismillah. The name of Allah
threw it and the lion fell dead.
People came to him rushing to him that
what kind of magic do you know? Can
you cure me? I had this trouble. I
had that trouble.
And the boy said, no. I don't know
any magic, but all I know is I
believe in one Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
the people begin to convert to Christianity, which
was the correct religion.
The
king, he tried many different ways to put
it into this boy. He tried to throw
him off of the mountain. He failed.
He tried to drown him in the middle
of the ocean. He failed.
Finally, he asked the boy and the boy
says, the only way that you can kill
me is take
a bow and arrow and before releasing, you
say in the name of Allah The king
overpowered with rage. He does this and kills
a boy. And he's at this
point, he's
thinking to at this point, he's
thinking to himself that
this will show my power that I put
it into this boy.
However, everybody
sees that the king could do on his
own accord, but when he said the name
of Allah, that's when it happened.
And
everyone there accepted
Christianity as their religion.
Now, the king,
what he end up doing is he built
he dug these gigantic trenches and he set
fire in the trenches.
And you would call everybody from the whole
town asking him, do you believe in the
king as your lord or do you believe
in
Christianity? If you believe in Christianity,
they threw them in the fire.
But if they believed in
the king, they were let free.
We made mention of a story of Raul
alaihi sallam. He talks about a mother who
came to this point,
and she was worried that what will happen
to my child,
that I will go into the fire, but
what about my baby that I have?
And the baby spoke out and told his
mother that look this fire that you see
here, this is actually the jannah of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Don't worry. Go ahead and
jump in and I'll come with you.
This news of this massacre reached the people
in Sham, who are Christians,
that your brothers of faith are going through
this type of trial.
The king of Sham, what he did is
he wrote a letter
to the king of where?
This this whole instance happening in Yemen. So
the people in Sham find out. So you
don't just
so you have I wish we had a
map here, but Yemen's here. Sham is north,
and he sent a letter to the king
of Hagsha,
which is just south.
The king was called. It's a title for
their kings. Letter to the Najashi of that
time that, look, our brother of the faith,
you're Christian as well. We're Christian. And our
brother of the faith, they are being killed
in Yemen, put together an army, and deal
with this.
The Najash at that time, he put together
army and he made 2 people in charge.
What were their names?
Ashama
and Abraha. Ashama and Abraha.
And Abraha. They led this army to Yemen.
They wiped out
and his people.
And and
Abraha, now there are 2 people, one kingdom.
There's no king. Abraha. He kills and he
takes power as the king of Yemen.
So Abraha,
the famous Abraha which is mentioned in Surafil,
he is actually
a Yemeni king, but originally from
Habshah.
Now we then talked about how Abraha in
return What he did is he had this
new kingdom,
but the economy is down. So many people
have been massacred and killed.
And to bring up the economy, he builds
this gigantic
church. This Kanesa.
And this church now attracted people to come
to worship at this church, and the attraction
to Mecca came down because this Mecca was
a second city that had a huge monument
of worship.
The Quraysh people found out about this. 2
Quraysh's
were traveling through Yemen.
They stopped in this Ganesha, this church, and
at the time of leaving in the morning,
they burnt the church down.
Abra, out of age, what he does is,
he puts together army, and he leaves his
army by
elephants.
The reason why he used elephants, because
the, you know, the aspect of,
surprise, as well as the size and the
power that these elephants came with.
Now, Abraha, he began as he got closer
to Mecca to Makarama, he began to destroy
every city that he came past, except for
What city?
Thayef. So he's getting close to Makkah, and
he starts to destroy every city. But when
he comes to Thayef, the people of Thayef
say, Do You want Don't destroy us. Let
us join you. We know the ins and
outs of Makkah, and we can help you
conquer Makkah.
Abra agrees.
And Abra, when he reaches the outskirts of
Mecca, he sees that there are a
a huge number of camels. He takes these
camels.
Some of these camels belong to who?
We talked about it last week.
Hashim passed away.
Hashim was great grandfather, one generation down,
Abdul Muttalib.
Abdul Muttalib comes to Abraha and says,
that give me my camels.
Again, Abraha is offended that, look here I'm
about to destroy your city, and you're asking
about some camels. Abraha Abdul Muttalib says, that
the camels belong to me that's why I
worry about the camels.
The Kaaba that you're talking about destroying, that
belongs to somebody else, and he will deal
with you.
And then we find out the next day
when Abraha begins to march towards how
the the elephants first day didn't stand up.
Especially the leader of the elephants with whose
name was Mahmoud.
Every time they face him for Makkah, he
sat down. Every time they face him the
other way, he got up. Finally, after beating
the animals, they begin to march to Makkah
and Makkah. Allah
says, Have you not seen?
Now if you look at this verse, Allah
is talking to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at this
time, he wasn't even born.
But he says, have you not seen?
How could the Prophet
see if he wasn't born?
But this is the way a teacher teaches.
Allah subhanahu teaching Rassalla salallahu alayhi wasalam, that
is so sure that it happened. It's as
if it was in front of your
eyes. Did Allah did Allah
not take their plan of destroying the Kaaba,
and turn it around against them into a
darkness, into misguidance.
And we talked about last week how so
many times people plan and plot against Islam,
but then Allah
they plan and Allah
plans.
And Allah is the best of planners.
We then talked about how he sent these
birds, and the birds that actually came down
were small
sparrows.
Abraha brought animals
elephants because of the size and the strength
and the, you know, the power that they
had.
But Allah in return uses small sparrows, showing
that Allah does not need
he's not he's He's
not dependent on something big. He is not
dependent on someone powerful.
Allah
can use the smallest of things
to fulfill his purpose.
Whenever Allah wills, all he has to say
is
He says, be and it will be.
And we learned that these animals, these sparrows
came in huge flocks.
And they threw down these stones
made of unbaked clay.
Alright. We're going to we're going to a
little bit of here. Why? Because there's beauty
in the word Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses.
He says,
stones.
And these stones weren't just regular stones, but
they were made out of unbaked clay.
Now let's say you have a brick, and
the brick is baked.
That makes it
more solid.
Allah said, it wasn't even baked. Someone might
think that it was the stones that killed
these elephants.
Why? Because you know, stone has some strength
and power, some mass to it, but Allah
says, I used stones that were made of
unbaked clay you could break with your hands.
And when this happened,
the stones will come down, hit the rider
on the head, go through the elephant, and
out the bottom.
Stronger than any bullet that you can think
of.
Now some people might say that what what
did the elephants do to deserve death here?
Right?
This is so inhumane.
But you understand that the elephants survived, and
someone might say that the elephants were so
strong that they that Allah
punishment could not reach them.
So this was the punishment Allah
So Allah
made them like
hay that has already been eaten from. You
know, you get a a stack of hay.
It has some presence.
But once the hay has been eaten from,
there are a couple strands here, a couple
of strings there, a couple pieces there. There's
no existence at all. Allah subhanahu wa'ala completely
wiped them
off. We then talked about the second
the second miracle the third miracle that was
given to Abdul Muttalib, and that was
the saving of,
his son, Abdullah. How Abdul Muttalib, he sacrificed
a 100 camels in exchange
of Abdullah.
Now the incident of the elephant was so
great
that the people of Mecca, the people of
Arabia, what they did is they named that
year
after the incident.
So this
this year was called Amul Fil. The year
of the elephant.
The year that the big incident took place
where Allah destroyed these elephants.
The prophet
was born roughly around 50 to 55 days
after the incident of the year of.
Now
we previously talked about the the prophet
father of Abdullah.
Now moving on to the prophet mother,
Amina.
Her full name is Amina Bintawahab.
Amina
Bintawahab.
And she was initially from Madina to Munawah.
Abdul Muttalib found out about her. He had
her brought, and he had her married to
his son, Abdullah.
Now moving on to the birth of Rasulullah
You know,
if we were to find out somebody special
is coming,
maybe to our homes, or to the masjid,
as special as that person is, the more
preparation is made for the arrival of that
person.
You have guests coming to each other kids.
Vacuum the floors.
Fix the pillows.
Pick up these clothes.
Right? If someone really special is coming, you
know, put some flowers. Make it smell nice.
Someone really special coming. Cooks some really good
food.
So as special as a person is,
the greater the preparation is for that person's
arrival.
If there's a king coming or a president
coming,
first the entourage comes and make sure everything's
up to cold.
They block off the roads.
They make sure nobody else can enter. Why?
Because somebody special is about to arrive.
And in the world at this time,
the arrival of Rasulullah
is about to happen.
And the preparation was not made by a
father or or a or a president or
his entourage.
The preparations were made
by Allah
And Allah
began to do things in the world that
told us the final prophet was coming.
Amina,
her pregnancy of Ruzu Raul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was roughly
18 months.
Double the normal pregnancy.
Ibn Kathir writes this in his book,
from the beginning
all the way to and the book's name
is from the beginning of time all the
way to end of time. And Ibn Kasi
makes mention that Amna's pregnancy was 18 months
long. Mister prophet
Now, the woman might say, wow.
I can't imagine something like that.
18 months.
But the prophet
pregnancy was something unique.
Amina says, that I heard about how difficult
pregnancy is.
How painful and how uncomfortable it is, and
the, you know, the hardship that a mother
has to go through. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
a person comes to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, and he says that I performed tawaf
around the Kaaba with my mother on my
shoulders.
Have I fulfilled her rights? And Rasulullah
replies
back, not even
the amount of one shout that your mother
gave at the time of your birth.
Not even the amount of one shout, one
scream that your mother gave at the time
of your birth. But
pregnancy was unique. Amna says that I heard
about all these, you know, horror stories and
how difficult it is. But my pregnancy, there
was no pain at all.
There was no trouble. No hardships.
It was as it was as if Allah
did not want the Prophet
to be a burden even on his own
mother.
She said, my pregnancy was smooth.
She said, at night
I would see a dream, and in my
dream I saw that a light came out
from my stomach, and it spread across the
whole world.
She said, in the daytime
I walked past the valley,
and the valley said salaam to me. I
heard a voice that said,
I stopped and I began to look around.
Who's here?
Nobody's here.
I walk past.
The next day I'm walking past the same
valley, and the valley once again says, Asalaamu
alaykum You Amina. She begins to look around.
Who's here?
She says, but then the voice carried on.
And told me that Aminah, the child that
you bear right now is no ordinary child.
This child is so special that Allah
has chosen him to be the final prophet.
He will be the final prophet of Allah
Abdul Muttalib says,
that I was traveling on business to Sham,
to Syria.
In Syria,
a rabbi
a priest there
saw that there was a caravan from Quraish.
He called us,
and he told us that
the time has come close that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala sends his final prophet amongst you.
You're from Makkah?
The final prophet is gonna come in Makkah
to Makkah.
And let me tell you his name. He
said his name will be Muhammad.
Abdul Mutrib says that at that time I
promised myself I made an oath, and we
know that he's good with his oaths.
He said that I I took oath that
the next child that is born in my
family, I will name him Muhammad.
Right? So the final Prophet is in my
family.
Now,
Amina in her dreams,
she saw something very similar.
She was told in her dream that your
child that is born named Muhammad.
Abdul Muttalib, he begins to see dreams that
your grandson that's gonna be born named Muhammad.
Allah
is laying out the preparations.
Now you might say to yourself, what is
so great about me?
If you backtrack a little bit,
we previously talked about the uncles of Rasulullah
And from the uncles of rasulullah salallahu alayhi
wasalam, there were 4 people 4 uncles
that we know about that lived in life
of rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam, and their names
were?
Abu
Talib?
Abdul
Talib's
real
name
was
Abdul
Manaf.
Right.
Number
2?
Hamza
Number
3?
And
Hamza?
Abu Lahab.
Abu Lahab's name was Abdul Uzza.
And the 4th the 4th is?
Now if you look at these names closely,
Hamza,
Abbas.
Hamza lion, and Abbas had nothing to do
with worshiping an idol. The name has no
connotations towards worshiping any type of idol.
On the other hand you have Abu Lahab
and Abu Talib.
Abu Lahab's ruling, Abdul Uzza, and and Abu
Talib's ruling, Abdul Manaf.
Manaf and Uzza were idols at the time
in Makkadu Al Qaraim.
Now if you look at this even closer
you see the 2 who had no shirk
in their name,
Allah subhanahu later on gave them Islam. Hamza
he accepted Islam, and Abbas
the 2 uncles who didn't have shirk in
their name,
Allah chose Islam for them.
And the 2 uncles
who had shirk in name of Abdul Uzza
and Abdul Manaf, we know neither of them,
excepted Islam.
So 2 uncles with shirk, 2 uncles without
shirk, and one of Abdul
Mutrib Abdul Mutrib's son had the name Allah
in it, and that was
Abdullah.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to him.
So from this we learn
it is important to choose our children's name
wisely.
Don't just randomly choose your child's name.
The name of a person has an effect
on a person.
We previously said that Omar
said
that the rights that a child has
on his father.
The father has to do these things.
And one of those things were that he
chooses a right name. A good A righteous
name. A pure name for his child.
Something free of shirk.
Something free of a ill meaning.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, whenever
somebody would come to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam with a name that had shirk
in it or had an a a bad
meaning to it, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam would change their name.
For example,
there was a companion who came
whose name was Abdul Kaaba,
the worshiper or the slave of the Kaaba.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam changed his
name. Some people say his name was Abdulrahman.
Other people say his name was Abdullah,
but we know him as Abu Bakr radiya
atalhan.
The Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasalam, a lady comes
to the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasalam and her
name is Barra.
And Barra which means good, but is also
used for
the stars in astro astrology.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam changes her
name. Why? Because,
you know, the sciences of the stars is
a form of shirk.
He changes her name from Bara to Juweria,
which is when the mother when when the
wife of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So again, once again, we learned that when
it comes time to when it comes time
to choosing our children name,
the best names
are names that are linked with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or the names after
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. After this,
you have the names of the prophets. After
this, you have the name of the companions.
And the purpose behind this is we hope
that this name has an effect on them,
that they become like their namesake.
A lot of times people want to choose
unique names.
I had this person in Chicago.
After Jumu al Salahi, he says, Sheikh, I
have an important question.
Can I get your number?
I gave my number.
He texted me two names.
I have no idea I I I have
no idea what those names were. I don't
remember right now. He said, can you find
out the meaning of these names?
I opened an Arabic dictionary,
looked, couldn't find the root words, couldn't find
the meaning behind it. I asked other scholars,
sent it in 2. 1 scholar from California,
1 scholar in Chicago, here, there.
Everybody come back empty handed.
I reply back to her brother, look, I
I've really tried,
but I can't find anything.
He says, perfect.
I said, perfect? What do you mean perfect?
He said, I want a unique name, and
if you can't find anything, I mean, nobody
has his name.
He named the child after, you know,
Allah and what it meant. No meaning behind
it. A lot of people, what they do
is they open the Quran, and they just
put their finger on it.
Right? There was one
one person in our town in Kentucky,
they named their child Iyana.
From Iyana.
And Iyana means only us.
Right? And, again, if anybody has one of
these names, I apologize.
Beforehand, you know, I'm not trying to hate
on anybody's name, but we just learn from
There's
a name
from it.
No meaning no meaning behind it. There's a
name Shabana. You know? Our teacher,
he's always hate on the name Shabana. It's
a very common name.
And the meaning behind it is a lady
that walks around at night.
The name Samir. Samir
means someone who talks at night, and usually
somebody who talks at night is
immoral talks.
So again, when we choose a name, we
choose it properly.
And we see the name that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala chose for Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wasalam was Muhammad.
And the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam talked to
many hadith about his name.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam, one hadith says, and
we mentioned this before, whoever has 3 sons,
and doesn't name one of them Muhammad, he
has done them wrong.
And another hadith
says, on the day of judgment,
Allah
will say,
Muhammad. Muhammad stand up.
Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihi wasalam says, that everybody with
the name Muhammad will stand up.
Allah Subhanahu replied back to him, I wasn't
talking to you.
I was talking to my Muhammad,
Habibullah.
But then Allah will say, it is beyond
my mercy that once you stand up I
make you sit down. Go enter Jannah.
And everybody will be given Jannah.
Now you might say, well Sheikh, that's kind
of
unfair.
What if there's a Muhammad that's very evil
or that, you know, kills people that that,
you know, barely acts upon Islam?
And we understand that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in the Quran, he himself says, that what
will I benefit by punishing you?
I don't want to
punish you. Allah is just looking for excuses,
and one of the excuses that he will
use is the connection
to Habibullah,
his beloved.
So Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was given this name, Muhammad.
Now the king
in Caesars, the Caesars at that time, the
Roman King,
one day while he's in his palace at
night, he sees
that
the 11 to 4 there's a 12 to
14 idols that they have in the palace,
they all of a sudden fall down.
So they have these huge statues,
and all 12 to 14 of them fall
down that one night,
and he's never seen this before.
The next day, he calls gathering. He says,
last night, something very weird happened.
These idols that we consider as our Lord,
last night, they fell down.
Now, in his gathering was a person by
name Mubadhan.
Mubadhan says, last night I had a weird
dream.
In my dream, I saw
that from the Arabian land, there were so
many camels coming out. There were camels coming
out of the Arabian lands, and these camels
began to walk and cross all across the
whole world.
Now the kesir says, let's find
Bring me the biggest call that we have.
The biggest caller comes and his name was
Abdul Masih.
Abdul Masih. And they said, Abdul Masih, this
is what happened last night,
that
the the the the idols have fell, and
we'll be done, saw this dream.
At that moment,
somebody came from Persia,
the king of Quesem.
And
said that for 1000 of years, we had
a fire that was burning. Persians were,
people that worship fires. And So for 1000
of years, we've had this fire that has
been burning, and we make sure at all
time that the fire is burning,
but last night that fire was extinguished.
Has anything weird happened here?
Now Abdul Masih says, that I can find
out what's happened if I go to Sham.
I have an uncle who's more knowledgeable
than me. Let me go and ask him.
So okay. Abdul Masih leaves
Rome. He begins to travel. He gets to
Sham, and as he gets to his uncle,
Satir,
his uncle, Satir sees him and says, Abdul
Masir, let me tell you why you have
came.
You have came
because of the idols that fell in the
Roman Empire.
You have also came because of dream that
has seen,
and you have also came because of the
fire that was extinguished in Persia.
He then says,
the person that we have been waiting for
has arrived.
The person that we have been waiting for
has arrived,
and that person was none other than the
Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Now the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam was
born on
Monday.
Right? There's no there's no in that. In
one hadith, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he narrates this on the offensive of,
ibn Abbas.
He said that was was
born on a Monday.
He was given prophethood on a Monday.
He left Makkah and started a hijrah on
a Monday, and he came into Madinah
on a Monday,
and the prophet
passed away on a Monday.
So there's no ishqah, there's no, you know,
difference of opinion that Rasulullah
was born on a Monday.
Now the date that Rasulullah
was born on,
and there's difference have been here. The most
common date is
12th of Rabi'i.
However, that is the weakest.
The the historians,
they sat down with
the events that took place, the time, you
know, some of the stuff that was going
on, and they said the 12th is the
weakest. However, the most strongest of opinion is
the 9th of Rabir Awil.
There are other opinions of 10th 11th,
but the reason why 12th has became the
most famous
is because that we know that Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam passed away on
The prophet passed away on Monday, and the
date was 12th Rabi'awal.
So it makes for a cool story
that he passed He was born on the
12th Rabi'ul. He passed away on the 12th
Rabi'ul.
However, the most authentic narration is that Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was born on 9th.
Now the month that we said was Rabi'ul,
And this was the best of months according
to the Arabs.
Why? Because this was a beginning of
spring.
Right? They had some really hot weather,
and now they're shifting, or they had some
really cold weather, and now they're shifting into
summer.
So they consider this to be a very,
you know, the best time of the year,
spring.
Yes. So the concept of the months were
before
to the point that even they had the
sacred months before
as well.
The beginning of the calendar,
that that started at
Now,
when the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
born,
in that room there were 2 people. Number
1, of course, Amina,
and the second was Fatima bint Abdullah.
And Fatima bint Abdullah,
she makes
She mentions the birth of Rasoolallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
She says the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
when when he was born,
he first fell onto his knees.
As soon as he came into the world,
he fell onto his knees,
and then he fell onto his hands.
As if he's doing sajdah.
And he grabbed a fistful
of the earth, of the sand that was
there. So Fatima Binabullah, she makes mention how
Rasoolah is someone who is born. He falls
onto his knees, and then onto his hand,
and he grabbed the fistful of the earth,
and then he looked up
to the sky. You can just imagine a
baby Rasoolah
They've probably never seen this happen.
Look up to the sky, and Fatima Bint
Abdullah says that when this was happening, a
light came from the forehead of Rasool Allah,
and it covered the whole room. The whole
room was just illuminate.
Aminah says,
that the time of the birth of Rasulullah
the roof
Allah
gave it so much light,
that I couldn't see this The roof.
That the stars it looked like the stars
were coming closer.
We're coming close to this room.
Fatima said,
was born circumcised, and the prophet
he was born without any filth on. There
was no blood or no no,
any any type of filth on Rasool Allahahu
alaihi wa sallam. He was born
pure, pure and clean.
Now,
after the birth of Rasulullah
there
are 4 women who nurse Rasulullah
There are 4 women who nurse Rasulullah
First of them, of course, is
Amina, his mother.
The second
to nurse was
a lady by the name of Swaiba.
Swaiba
was the slave of Abu Lahab.
And what happened with Swaiba was, she heard
this news of the birth of the Prophet
She quickly rushed to her master, Abu Lahab,
and she said to Abu Lahab that your
brother your your deceased brother, your late brother,
they just had a child,
and the name Mohammed.
Abu Lab was so happy by this news
that he was wearing some jewelry around his
neck. He took it off and gave it
to Thwaibah, and he said that you're free
from now.
As a slave, you're free. You're free to
go. However,
go and nurse Rassalallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And Thwaibah went and nursed Rasalallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Now this now Thwaibah, she also nursed 3
other babies. So 4 babies in total.
First of course, Rasulullah
The
second to be nursed by Suwaba
was
Hamzah
The uncle of Rasulullah
Now,
the reason why we make mention of this
is this shows
the bond that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had
with hamza.
The more relationship a person has, you might
be a person's You know, a person might
be your cousin, but if they're also your
neighbor, that bond is even more strong.
So Rasulullah Hamza was Rasulullah is an uncle.
He was Rasulullah
radiya wasalam's brother. Why? Because they both were
nursed by Thwaba. And also, he was the
cousin of Rasulullah radiya wasalam. Because Amina had
a sister, and Abdul Muttal at the time
of marrying his son to Amina, he got
married to Amina's sister, and they had a
child.
Hamza.
So three relationships. The Hamza had with
The third of these babies were was was
a person by name of,
Abu Abu Salma. Abu Salma
His wife is known as?
Abu
Salma, his wife was known as.
And
later on became
the wife of Rasulullah
from amongst
the mothers of the believers.
K. So her first husband,
before he before he passed away, he was
a brother of Raul
to nurse her. And then, Suayba, she had
a baby by the name of Masur.
The 3rd person to nurse Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was
also a slave by the name of Uma
Eiman.
Uma Eiman whose real name was Barra.
And Uma Eman
was actually the slave
of Abdullah,
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's father. But when
Abdullah passed away, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
inherited
the slave lady, Uma Eman,
and she's gonna play a huge role later
on. We will talk about her.
The 4th woman to nurse Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was Halima Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. Halima Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Halima Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Now, when you have a city,
or you have people of different backgrounds,
different languages, different cultures,
we usually call this a
melting pot
that everybody mixes into one another.
Parts of their language, we will pick up.
Parts of our language, they will pick up.
Parts of our culture will be shared, and
parts of our characteristics
and our morals will be shared, and we
will inherit some of their
culture and their characteristics as well.
And this
destroys or, you know, it kind of waters
morals and characteristics.
For example, if you go up north to
New York,
which is a melting pot, people of all
different backgrounds are there.
People are generally
harsh.
Right? They're harsh. They speak in a rough
way. They they act in a rough way.
Like this, Makkadu Mokkarama
was a melting pot.
In Makkadu Mokkarama, you had people from Habshah.
Later on, we hear about Bilal, and Washi.
You had people from Yemen. You have the
family of, Aliyasir, who was from Yemen. You
have people from Rome, so,
Suhel Rumi.
You have people from, Persia,
Salman Farsi.
So you had a You have a society
which was built with
many different backgrounds,
and this affected
the language
that the children would speak in. Sometimes when
we're talking we might be we might mix
in
certain parts of Spanish
because, you know, our cultures are integrated.
So
to prevent children from learning anything but pure
Arabic,
what the people would do is they would
send their children off
to the surrounding
villages,
to deserts.
So outside of Mecca, there was a tribe
by the name of Banusad.
And the women of Banusad from time to
time, they would gather together and make a
caravan,
and come into and
find the houses that have babies,
and then go and offer their services that
let us take your baby,
and we will raise your baby
in our home
for 2 years, and we will teach your
baby pure language.
We'll teach your baby good manners and characteristics
and morals,
and then we'll return your babies.
In return,
the family would give some sort of gift
back, some monetary gift back to the women
for their services. It wasn't a contract, but
it was an unspoken rule.
At this time,
there were a total of 10 women
that came from Banu Sad
to Makkadu Makarama.
And one of those 10 women were Halima
Sadia.
Halima Sadia
when she was traveling to Makkadu Makarama, with
her was her husband,
her own baby.
She had a very weak donkey and a
very weak camel with her.
And the reason we make mention that they
were very weak
is that when they were traveling to Mecca,
because the animals were
were were malnurtured,
the animals of Halima Sadia were all the
way in the back.
They were slow.
And
the women of Banu Sad, the other 9
women, they reached
first.
And they scattered out all the babies,
and they went to the homes,
took the babies.
Finally, Hanima Sadia reached the
and she asked, is there any babies left?
And there's a baby over there in the
house of Amina,
but the father of that family has passed
away.
Halima Sadia actually came to the house of
and she saw the prophet
and after seeing the prophet
she passed
on
She said, you know what? Let me look
for other babies. Why? Because if the father's
alive,
the monetary gift at the end of the
2 years would be hefty.
And here she's thinking that if I take
this widow's child, then what am I gonna
get in return?
But finally when there were no babies, Halima
Sadia, she comes back to the house of
and she says to Amina, instead of going
back empty Let me take your baby. Instead
of going back empty handed, you know, if
I can't make 1,000, I'll make 100. I'll
make something.
Let me take your baby.
And the agreement was said that Halima Sadia
would take
for 2 years.
Now, when the prophet
came into the care of Halima Sadia, everything
for Sadia began to change immediately.
On the way to Mecca,
her camel and donkey were all the way
in the back.
On the return from Mecca,
her camel and donkey were all the way
in the front.
Halima Sadia, who didn't have any food for
herself,
was not producing milk, or hence, her baby
was crying, her baby was malnourished.
But now Halima Sadia is nursing Rasulullah
and
she's nursing her baby.
And from this, we learn a very beautiful
concept
called.
Allah
gives blessing in things.
And in our life sometimes,
we do things to earn blessings from Allah
For example, we say Bismillah at the beginning
of something. Why? Because Allah
will give blessings in it.
Instead of this much happening,
more will happen for you. Instead of your
business
doing good, your business will boom.
Right? For example, we ask our elders for
mashura. We ask our elders for their opinions.
When a young when a young person about
do something, they ask their elders and Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in return puts
blessings in
what they're doing.
So in Islam, we have this concept
of blessings,
a and here we see this that Allah
showers the his upon and
her family immediately as
comes into
her care. In jal, next week, we'll talk
we'll carry on. We'll talk about the time
that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam spends with
Harima Saadi and the and the great event
that took place at that time, and how
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam went back to
his mother.
We went over some of the lessons that
could be learned
from the class that we had before
In today's class, one of the important lesson
that we learned is
when the name of
came, it was chosen in a particular manner.
It wasn't just a random name.
Why? Because it was unique or after somebody
that was a sportsman or after somebody who
is engaged in
But Rasool Allah
teaches us that when we choose names for
our children,
choose it with a meaning and a reason
behind it. And we and we pray that
Allah,
he
blesses our children with the characteristics of
and the companions.
Now
the second lesson,
at the time
there was a dispute amongst 2 companions.
A dispute amongst 2 companions.
And this dispute got so heated that one
of the companions
said to the other one
that
what have we came to?
Is somebody that's a child of a black
lady gonna tell me what to do now?
You
know, because these are people that are Arabian,
and they were proud of their, you know,
their their brutes.
So he says that, you know, who are
you to tell me what to do? You're
you're the child of a black lady. Get
out of
here. Came through
complained on this this companion.
He said, you, Rasulullah, so and so companion
called me the child of a black lady.
Called
him, and the prophet
was very angry.
And the prophet said to him that I
am
the son of a black lady as much
as I am the son of an urban
lady.
I am the son of a black lady.
The prophet said, I am the son of
a black lady as much as I am
the son of an Arabian lady. And
finally said to him, you still have the
traits
of within you.
Now in today's
class, we said that prophet
was nurtured by how many women?
4.
Number 1,
his mother, Amina. Number 2,
who was actually a slave lady, and she
was from Africa.
So
who knows,
she was African.
Number 3 was,
and
as well
was an African lady.
And number 4 was Halima Sadia. So
2 of the 4 women who nurtured
they were African.
And
respected
them as his own mother.
And he says, I am the son of
a black lady just as much as I'm
the son of a Arabian lady.
And this shows us that Islam
eliminates
racism in our religion 1400 years ago.
Now, people are now saying, you know, you
know, black history month. And now they're beginning
to come into, you know, bringing people together
and distinguishing
racism.
But Islam took care of this many, many
years ago. But, again, inside our hearts, we
look ourselves and
we ask ourselves.
Deep inside, it does still exist, unfortunately.
Pakistani's group of Pakistani's Indian group were Indians.
And then you get the, you know, the
new Muslims who are just left behind. So,
again, once again, from the
we learned that this was eliminated, and we
have to clean our hearts from this now.
And the third lesson that we spoke about
in the ending is the concept of blessing
that Allah
gives us upon doing certain
things. Sometimes we can mention the name of
Allah and Allah
will give
in what we're doing.
He'll make it even better.
Or sometimes we can include other people out
of respect for them. Maybe somebody knowledgeable. Maybe
our parents, maybe somebody that's older than older
than us, or maybe somebody with experience.
We include them in what we're doing, and
Allah
will give in what we're doing
just because of our inclusion in them. So
we understand this concept of in Islam that,
you know, if you have $10 and Allah
puts
in there, it's not like you're gonna have
11, $12.
You're still gonna have $10, but with that
$10,
it will go
a long way, a further way. So we
understand the concept of Barakah, including our our
elders and what we do, mentioning the name
of Allah
You know, when we eat, we say,
Oh, allah.
Give us Barakah and what you have given
us. And
what you have given us.
And save us from the fire of jahannam.
So this concept of in America usually is
lost.
People will do what they have to do.
And when you say, do you wanna do
this? And you what is the? I don't
need it. Just let me do the.
Again, from the from the
we learned these three important,
lessons.