Mufti Menk – Abu Bakr’s Search For The True Religion

And there was a time just before that

when he used to search for the right

religion. Because as we said, he was not

from those who bowed down or worshiped

the the idols. He did not bow down

to the idols nor did he worship them,

and he always searched. Whenever he traveled, he

would ask people of different faiths, what is

it that you believe? And he would compare

it with what his people believed. And he

would try to figure out what was more

correct. He knew the most about Christianity

compared to other religions.

And he always was in search of the

truth, so much so, that one day he

had seen a dream,

and he asked

a certain man

in a sham

regarding the interpretation of his dream. It is

reported that it is the same

monk that Muhammad

had

was told, or his uncle, or his grandfather

was told at the time that, You know

what? Be careful, this young man

is actually going to be a prophet later

on. He told Abu Bakr as Siddiq

Where are you from? He says, I'm from

Makkah. Which tribe are you from? He says,

From Quraysh.

He said, Is this the dream that you

saw? He said, Yes. If that is the

case, there will be a Prophet from amongst

you, and you will be one of his

prime companions.

May Allah grant us ease and goodness. This

was one of the things that Abu Bakr

as Siddiq

made mention of later on. So as he

was searching,

he was seated near the Kaaba.

And with him was a man known as

Zaid ibn Umar ibn Nufayl.

And suddenly,

a certain poet passed. The poet's name was

Umayyah ibn Abhis Salat. He was a well

known poet at the time, and he was

an upright individual.

He did not engage in evil. Umayya ibn

Abi sallat, his poetry is so powerful that

the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said, he would

have been a Muslim. May Allah

grant us all the true acceptance of Islam

in a way that not only do we

utter it with our mouth, but we actually

follow it.

So Abu Bakr as Siddiq was

seated, and he looked at Umayyah ibn Abhis

Salt. And they had communication

between the two of them because they used

to search for the truth. So

Umayyah asks him, Have you found anything, any

goodness? He says, Well, I am upon goodness,

but we have not yet found the goodness.

So, Umayyah

then made mention of

the fact that there will be a Prophet

coming from amongst you,

either from your tribe or mine.

So Abu Bakr as Siddiq radhiallahu anhu was

impatient.

He ran to Warakah bin Naufal.

Warakah bin Naufal, the man whom Khadija bintu

Khawwailid

took Muhammad

too, when prophethood had come to him. So

when Abu Bakr as Siddiq

went to Warakah bin Naufal, he asked him,

this is what Umayyah is saying,

I don't know that there is going to

be a Prophet from amongst us, Abu Bakr

says,

So Waraqa says, according to the books and

according to the previous revelations,

there is supposed to be a messenger that

will come from this particular place.