Musleh Khan – Al-Ahzab Unveiled Class 3

Musleh Khan
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The challenges faced by Islam's people during the conflict in Afghanistan, including accessing Northern and Southern entrance, maintaining spiritual health, and protecting people's spiritual aspect, are important challenges. The movement has created a trenching strategy to gather opinions on the future of the fight against Islam's invasion, causing chaos among Muslims and leading to loss of life and social security. The split between the people and the world is due to the split of the conflict between the realities of the people and the world, leading to a split of the conflict between the people and the world.
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Okay, okay.

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I got this chair feel, it makes me

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feel so short.

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How is everyone doing?

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Alhamdulillah, good, good.

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So, as we wait for the rest to

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arrive, we are now at verse number six,

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is that correct?

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Okay.

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So, this verse that you're looking at.

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So, we are at verse number six.

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Today is going to be a session in

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which you're going to see even further, and

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some of the challenges that the Prophet Alayhi

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Salatu Wasalam had, and the companions were faced

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with once the battle of Ahzab began.

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So, we've talked about this battle.

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We've just talked about briefly sort of an

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overview of what the battle is, why it

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started and so on.

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So, today you're going to study all the

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ayat of this surah that deals with this

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specific battle.

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And what's important as you go through it

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is to focus on what Allah focuses on

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in times of war.

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Okay.

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Because one of the prime lessons that I

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want to achieve in today's session is a

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problem lots of Muslims have, that when something

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grand or serious or there's a major tragedy

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within the ummah, that many Muslims have, they

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make a mistake and they exclude and ignore

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all of the important priorities in their life

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to focus on one tragedy.

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So, a prime example is the challenges that

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we're facing today, right?

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No doubt these issues happening to our brothers

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and sisters around the world are major and

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they're really important.

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And every single Muslim should try to find

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their own way of being engaged to try

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to keep the awareness, to try to keep

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truth and to continue with conversation and support

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in whatever way, shape or form that he

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or she is able to do.

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But at the same token, it should never

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come at the cost of forgetting everything else

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in your life.

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That's not the Sharia method.

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That is not the Islamic way.

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And that is certainly not the way of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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There isn't a single battle that took place

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where he told the companions, I want all

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of your energy and time here and any

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other questions and any other problems, throw them

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out the window.

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Right.

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We're not going to talk about your house,

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your children, your marriage, your business, your life,

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your personal life, your feelings, your emotions.

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We're not going to talk about any of

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that.

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We're just going to focus on its battle,

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its war, and that's all we're going to

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talk about.

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It never happened.

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And you're going to see examples of that

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in some of the ayat that we will

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go through today.

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So this particular verse, This is

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the verse that affirms that the opinion of

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the Prophet ﷺ, when he makes a decision

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on any matter, when he gives a ruling

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on anything, that takes priority than everything else

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in your life, any other person in your

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life.

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If only Masajid would have this ayah printed

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on the walls of where they have like

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board meetings, because you know how when you

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sit in like a meeting with the administry,

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everybody's got, no, we should focus on this.

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No, the funds should go here.

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No, this is wrong.

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No, we want the future to look like

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this.

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The way we're doing it is wrong.

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And every person has their own outlook on

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how things should be.

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And if there's no consensus, then we all

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have heard the stories of what happens in

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situations like that.

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And what ayat like this remind us is

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that when there is disagreement, you always come

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back to the constitution of Islam, which is,

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what does the Quran and what does the

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Sunnah say?

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What does Islam tell us is the most

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appropriate way to deal with this subject that

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we're all fighting and arguing about.

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So An-Nabiyu Awla, the Prophet has a

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stronger affinity, Bil-mu'mineena min anfusihim, to the

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believers than they do themselves.

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So he takes priority.

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Why did this verse get sent down?

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This verse is sent down because battle of

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Ahzab is happening where the odds are not

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in the favor of Muslims in any way.

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And aside from, you know, in terms of

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numbers, 10,000 versus 3,000, you also

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have issues internally amongst Muslims, amongst the companions.

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The year that this particular battle took place,

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between the fourth or the fifth year after

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the hijrah, it was said that that same

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year, the temperatures dropped tremendously.

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All of their crops and their foods and

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things like that started to die out.

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And just being outside was torturing.

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I don't know how many of you have

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been in the desert in the winter season.

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It's a different kind of coldness.

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It's a coldness that it penetrates through your

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skin.

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But you would say to yourself that, okay,

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if I was in Toronto around the same

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time of the year, I'd be in my,

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you know, jacket, scarf, gloves, and I'll be

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okay.

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But somehow the temperature and the coldness when

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you're in dry places just hit very different.

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So you just need a little decrease in

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temperature, and everybody starts to feel the coldness

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and the bitterness of the weather.

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That's what was happening to companions during this

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time.

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So internally, there was a lot of struggle.

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And when the Prophet ﷺ still ruled, no,

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we have to keep firm and keep our

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stance.

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After building these trenches, we have to keep

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our stance where we are and continue until

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the Quraysh realized there's nothing that they can

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do.

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So you understand the scenario.

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That's why this verse is sent down.

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Because companions started questioning, like, is this really

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a good idea?

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What are we doing here?

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There's a massive trench in front of us.

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They're outnumber all of us, 10,000 to

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3,000.

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We have no food.

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We live here in the city of Medina,

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and all of our food is dying out.

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We're all getting weaker.

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One companion complains to the Prophet ﷺ, Ya

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Rasulullah, I haven't eaten anything in three days.

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And the Prophet ﷺ lifts up his garment

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and shows this companion that he has a

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bunch of rocks and stones tied all around

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his stomach, which is to highlight that he

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understands, but at the same time, he, the

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general, the leader, hasn't eaten for longer than

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three days.

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And that was just a way to kind

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of restrain your hunger, is you would tie

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these stones around the stomach and put some

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tension on this rope and just to hold

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and firm the stomach to a point where

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when you're inhaling and exhaling and you're sort

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of breathing, you're not doing it to the

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full extent.

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So that was ways of how they used

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to deal with this problem back then.

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When I hear stories like that, it's very

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sad.

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It's extremely sad that the leader of the

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ummah, khayru khalqillah, the best of Allah's creation,

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doesn't even have food to eat on a

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consistent basis.

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Like this is just a really unfortunate, sad

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situation, especially for the one that deserves the

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entire world and more.

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So, an-nabiyyu awla bil mu'mineena min anfusihim.

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One last thing.

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What does this mean?

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When the Prophet ﷺ says that his opinion

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and his hukum and his ruling should be

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prioritized over you and yourselves, that's exactly what

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the scholars all agree on.

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That it's talking about the rulings that the

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Prophet ﷺ issues to you and to the

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companions.

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That is awla.

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Prior to this, they could question him.

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Ya Rasulullah, that's not the right way to

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do it.

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Ya Rasulullah, that's not our culture or tradition.

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Now all of that is squashed.

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Wa azwajuhu ummahatuhum.

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And his wives are their mothers.

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So the Prophet ﷺ's wives now become ummahatul

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mu'mineen.

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So they become the mothers of the believers.

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This all has become official with this ayah.

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So these are phrases that we use all

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the time.

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So at least now you know in verse

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number six of this particular surah that these

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now have become an official ruling and an

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official hukum in Islam.

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You know I have in front of me

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here a tafsir of al-Baghwi.

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And he mentions that, believe it or not,

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there have been instances where, like for example,

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who was Aisha radiallahu anha's sister, what was

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her name?

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Asma bint Abu Bakr, right?

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Asma was married to whom?

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Zubair radiallahu anhu, right?

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So there was a time where now that

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he had married the sister of Ummul Mu'mineen,

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the mother of the believers, when they have

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children, they're supposed to call Aisha radiallahu anha

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auntie, right?

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This happened and immediately Aisha radiallahu anha says,

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no, you can't refer to me as, okay,

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now she is my auntie, she's the auntie

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of all the believers as well.

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She's the mother, now she's an aunt, so

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she's the aunt of all the believers.

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What the point I'm trying to make is

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that that is the only title that they

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are given, is Ummul, mother of the believers.

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So even if they are an aunt to

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these kids, they will never, and it is

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haram to refer to them as anything but

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the mother of the believers, understand?

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So even if they're an aunt, you can't

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say, oh, aunt of the believers, no.

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They always carry this one and only exclusive

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title, and it comes from this ayah.

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As ordained by Allah, blood relatives are more

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entitled to inheritance than other believers and immigrants,

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unless you want to show kindness to your

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close friends and associates, in a way that

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is known to be decent.

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Here's the third thing that happens in this

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ayah now.

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This ayah now has made official that these

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categories of people, blood relatives, now are entitled

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for inheritance more than the tribe leader, the

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tribe members, your neighbors, your best friends, your

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teachers.

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They all now become secondary.

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So the priority is blood relatives, right?

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So that is something we practice till this

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day.

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This is the ayah that makes it official.

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Then the other believers and migrants.

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So other believers, immigrants, everybody knows who that

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is?

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The muhajirun.

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So those who migrated from Mecca to Medina,

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what happened is that the Prophet, peace be

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upon him, when he arrived in Medina, does

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anybody know what was the first task that

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he took upon himself and upon those who

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followed him from Mecca to Medina?

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What was the first task they took on

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as soon as they arrived in Medina?

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Does anybody know?

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Was it building a masjid?

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Was it to establish jumrah?

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Was it to like, okay, we need to

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create a board or an administration or a

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government for Medina?

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No.

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You know what the first thing he did,

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peace be upon him?

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Lots of Muslims don't know.

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The very first thing he establishes is a

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brotherhood amongst the locals of Medina with those

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who arrived from Mecca.

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The very first thing that he does is

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he creates a system, a support system, especially

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for those who don't have any support.

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Why are we emphasizing this?

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Think about what is the first thing that

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masjid and institutes and Islamic institutes across the

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world, what are the first things they start

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to think about when they establish themselves in

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any community?

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It's usually, okay, we need to get this

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program going, we need to get this halaqah

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going, we need to get these classes going,

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we need to get the marriage services, the

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counseling, and, and, and, and, and.

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But, you know, programs that really keep society

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together, counsel people's struggles, problems, building families, those

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kinds of support systems are either secondary or

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they don't even exist at all.

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They don't exist at all, which is a

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really big problem.

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So these ayat highlight to all of us

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that despite war is taking place, look at

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the reminder all of them are receiving.

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Now put this ayat into today's context.

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النبي أولى بالمؤمنين من أنفسهم It's pretty easy

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to question the validity of Islam and the

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believers being the chosen ones of Allah Subh

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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

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Because all you have to do is just

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look around and see how Muslims are, how

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they're being treated, how they're being portrayed.

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There's almost zero to nothing positive about us

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in front of the world in terms of

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our image, our religion, what a Muslim is,

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what they represent.

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There are tons of studies that have been

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done over the years looking at social studies

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of people walking in the streets asking random

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people, what do you think about a Muslim?

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What do you think about Islam?

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And some of the answers, not even some,

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most of the answers are terrifying.

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They're terrifying.

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I don't even want to repeat any of

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them.

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So you have on the one hand that

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image and on the other hand we're being

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told, no, no, no, no, listen to the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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No, no, no, no, make sure that your

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family is taken care of.

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If you die, make sure that those who

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deserve or who need the money, wealth and

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inheritance, the right people get it.

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So this another reason why it's given it

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to them now is, you know, after Ghazwatul

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Ahzab, many more battles will take place.

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More and more companions will start to die.

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More and more will die.

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One of the first verses revealed in Medina

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was a verse we all know.

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What do we say when somebody dies?

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What's the verse we recite?

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إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَجْعٌ Yeah.

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So one of the first verses revealed in

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Madani Qur'an.

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Why?

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Because most of the battles happen in Madani

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Qur'an, that Madani phase.

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So it was all preparation for them of

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what is to come.

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And beloved relatives are more entitled.

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Inheritance, believers, immigrants.

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Unless you want to show kindness to your

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close associates.

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So the exemption of this, this rule still

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applies today, is that if inheritance needs to

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be distributed, but the family, the relatives, the

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siblings, spouses, they're all well off.

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Everyone is okay.

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In this case, they are allowed to say,

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I don't want any inheritance.

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As a matter of fact, our neighbors down

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the street are struggling.

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And they don't have to be Muslim to

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inherit the wealth of a Muslim that's passed

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away.

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Okay.

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So you are allowed to give inheritance to

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people who are close to you.

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You know them.

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So the one rule with inheritance is that

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you're never allowed to give it to just

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random people.

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It's not like Sadaqah.

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Inheritance is very strict.

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It's very precise.

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The recipients of inheritance are clearly mentioned in

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another surah, Surah An-Nisa.

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So in this case here, to show your

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kindness, to show your love and support for

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all people, close associates, So, The word that

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is used to describe people that are close

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to you is awliya from waleen.

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So some of the scholars also say that

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you are somehow supporting that family or trying

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to help them out in some way.

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So you already have a relationship with whoever

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this family is.

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And they've been struggling.

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So you've been trying to do your best.

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If somebody in the family passes away and

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they leave a ton of inheritance, you don't

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need it.

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Other recipients have no need of it.

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Then in this case, this ayah allows you

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now to share that inheritance with close family

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and friends, which would otherwise they would not

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qualify to receive.

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Inheritance is a big deal.

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And it is the most complicated section of

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fiqh.

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The most complicated section or study of fiqh

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is the fiqh of inheritance.

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If they want to test anybody on their

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knowledge of fiqh and their ability to give

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fatawa and rulings with wisdom and knowledge, the

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first chapter they start off is, they're not

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going to ask, okay, tell me all the

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opinions of where you should fold your hand.

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Is it up here?

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Is it down here?

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Is it down here?

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And give me all the proofs.

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They're not going to start with that.

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The first thing is like, okay, mother and

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father, three kids, one of the medium kid,

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the one in the middle, second child dies.

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And he's 20 years old.

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And he left us a million dollars cash

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in his savings.

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Plus he has this card.

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He has this, these assets.

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Now I want you to calculate who gets

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what and what should be distributed to whom.

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It's a science by itself.

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It's a science by itself.

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And scholars, they study and they have degrees

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specializing only in inheritance alone because it's incredibly

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complicated and comprehensive.

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Right.

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I just know an overview of it.

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But for something like this, you need someone

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very specialized in this area, which are very

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few in this city to give fatawa with

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respect to inheritance.

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So students, what does mean?

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What does this word mean?

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This is one of my favorite words in

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the entire Quran.

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If you, what is it?

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Okay, let me start it off and let's

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see who's going to finish this.

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Okay.

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I always have taught that the best way

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to translate this word is universal.

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A universal standard.

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Okay.

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Write it down.

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Ma'ruf.

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M-A-R-O-O-F.

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Ma'ruf.

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M-A-R-O-O-F.

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Ma'ruf.

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Memorize this word.

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This word is used throughout the Quran several

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times.

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In Surah Nisa, Allah says, that you live

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with your wife based on ma'ruf.

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That you give and care for your children

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based on ma'ruf.

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That you get along with each other based

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on ma'ruf.

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Ma'ruf is always used as a universal

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standard.

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Why is this important?

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What does that even mean?

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Very quickly, kindness is just an aspect of

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ma'ruf.

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It doesn't capture what it's trying to say.

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So when you say kindness, kindness for people

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in Toronto is different culturally than, you know,

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people in Guyana, people in India, people in

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Europe, in the Middle East.

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They would look at kindness at a totally

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different way.

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So there are some countries, which I will

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not name but I'm sure some of you

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would know, where they don't see a big

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deal to call their children like dogs or

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shaitan.

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Come here you little shaitan, come here, come

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eat your dinner.

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Now when some of you hear that, I

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could see your facial expression from here.

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That expression, that's offensive to you.

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But into another culture, that's perfectly okay.

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Here to call your husband or your wife,

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you know, a name like you just say,

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man, you know what?

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I think you're stupid.

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Is that rude?

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Or is that like, oh, no big deal.

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Don't, don't tell you.

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That's extremely rude, right?

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There are some countries, they would laugh at

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that.

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It's offensive.

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So many people are stupid.

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So what if I say to my spouse,

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all of that was abolished with this one

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word.

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So to get out of this problem where

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I don't think it was rude, you take

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it rude, but I don't think it was

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a big deal.

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You hear that quite often, don't we?

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Right?

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Whether it be in marriage or with communities

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and friends, why did they take it so

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personal?

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I didn't mean it that way.

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Well, if they take it personally and they're

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offended by it, that's their problem.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no,

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no, or any culture or country around the

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world, the vast majority of people, when they

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hear a husband and wife talking to each

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other this way, they will say to you,

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that's not right, man.

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That's not healthy.

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That's not good for the marriage.

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That's called ma'ruf.

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Do you see what one word, how much

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problems it can solve?

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Just this one word.

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So Allah says that if you're gonna distribute

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this inheritance to people outside of the list

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of recipients, if you're gonna do that, then

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you're going to do it in a way

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that's ma'ruf.

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So in other words, if you go to

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a family in that community and it's known

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that the first recipient should be the children,

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they should be taken care of first, what

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do you start off with?

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The children, right?

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And then you work your way down to

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whoever else is there, right?

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So, and you start off with those that

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you are acquainted with.

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And you know something about, before you get

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to families and communities in whom you don't

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know anything about, right?

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So you go down the list.

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So ma'ruf is used in that same

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context here as well.

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kana thalika fil kitabi mastura.

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This is decreed in the book of deeds.

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kana thalika fil kitabi mastura.

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It is recorded and preserved, meaning now it's

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legislated.

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Remember this, in Arabic, every time something is

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acknowledged that it's been written down, that means

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it's now been become wajib or compulsory.

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Another example is fasting.

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ya ayyuhallatheena aamanu O people of iman, kutiba

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AAalaykumus siyam.

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It's been written that you must fast.

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The ayah doesn't say it's now wajib for

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you to fast, or furida AAalaykumus siyam, or

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it's been made fard that you should fast.

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What's the word that's used?

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From kitab, to write down, to preserve.

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Why?

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Because in Arabic, when you say you write

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down something, it means you're trying to preserve

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that thing.

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You want it to be permanent.

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So when Allah says that now everything mentioned

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in this ayah has now been preserved in

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a book of deeds, in a book of

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righteous deeds, in other words, now it becomes

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official law.

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It is legislated in Islam.

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What has to happen with respect to inheritance?

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Mastura, it's been like, comes from the word

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satr.

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So this is one of just like unique

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words in ayat that I, you know, every

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now and then I will try to point

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out to you.

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So satr, mastura, okay?

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It means that it was outlined crystal clear.

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The hypocrites continue to talk against the Prophet

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AAalayhi salatu was salam.

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How did they do that, students?

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With respect to this ayah, look what Muhammad

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did to you guys.

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He set you guys up.

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3,000 to 10,000, you guys got

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no chance.

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Who was the leader of the hypocrites of

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Medina, students?

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Abdullah ibn Salul, okay?

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Abdullah ibn Salul, memorize his name.

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He comes up all throughout this surah, or

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not come, but he's referenced to.

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His name is not mentioned, but he's referenced

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to in this surah.

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Abdullah ibn Salul, Salul, S-A-L-U

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-L, Salul.

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This is the leader and mastermind of all

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the hypocrites of Medina.

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This is the general, this is the man

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in charge.

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This is the man that sparks the rumors,

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that sparks the insults, that tries to degrade

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and embarrass and bad talk, backbite and lie,

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and all the works against the Prophet, alayhis

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salatu was salam.

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Do we have hypocrites today?

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We do?

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How do you know?

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There are reasons why I'm asking this, by

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the way.

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So how do you know?

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Are we all guilty of that at some

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point?

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So are we all like we have some

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hypocrisy in us?

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Every human being will, at some point, say

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one thing and do something else.

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So what's the separator?

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It depends on what you're saying.

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So for example, you're saying something that sparks

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off a big problem for everybody else.

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Okay, so we'll take that same point and

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say the separator is two things, okay?

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Before I tell you what this is, nobody

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should ever go to somebody and call them

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a hypocrite.

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That is a major, major accountability or claim

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in the sight of Allah, major.

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No Muslim has the right to go to

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another Muslim and because of something they said

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or did that contradicts their actions or what

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they've proposed to you, they do that, well,

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you're just being a hypocrite.

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What you can do is you can point

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out actions that are hypocritical.

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What you're doing right now are the actions

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or the behavior like a hypocrite.

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That's from the hypocrites.

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But to say you're a hypocrite, I know

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it's a loose term that's thrown around and

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it's pretty much lost its weight to an

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extent.

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But only scholars, if you really wanna be

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serious about this it's only ulama that will

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come together.

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Like just listen to how this is done.

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Listen to how this term of being a

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hypocrite is thrown around in this day and

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age.

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And Islam, you have to have a group

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of scholars come together and the person that

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is in question that could potentially be a

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hypocrite.

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These ulama will come and discuss this individual,

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study him, talk to him, understand him, his

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family, his surroundings, his friends, his employees, everything

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to get a good insight of who this

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individual is.

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And after however long it takes, then they

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will determine that this individual is indeed a

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hypocrite.

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Because if you take and throw around this

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label to anybody, in essence, you know what

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you're saying about them?

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You're literally saying that person is worse than

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a disbeliever.

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Because only one group, Allah says, innal munafiqeena

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fiddarkil asfali minal naar walantajida lahum nasira That

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the hypocrites are the ones that are not

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only are they going to be at the

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bottom of the hellfire, the base of the

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fire, but they will be in the pit

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of the base of the fire.

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Fiddarkil asfali, imagine you put a bunch of

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firewood together, you light a fire.

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Fiddarkil asfali is while this fire is raging

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and blazing, you stick something underneath this wood

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that's extremely hot, it's on fire, you dig

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a hole underneath that and you stick things

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in there and then you bury it while

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this fire is going on.

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That's fiddarkil asfali.

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That's where Allah says that the munafiqoon will

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be.

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So munafiqoons are really, really, they are the

00:31:41 --> 00:31:42

most hated in the sight of Allah.

00:31:44 --> 00:31:47

Surah An-Nisa has about 60 plus ayat

00:31:47 --> 00:31:48

only talking about hypocrites.

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

Then you have Surah Tawbah, which is probably

00:31:51 --> 00:31:55

the surah that is the most strict and

00:31:55 --> 00:31:57

harsh on hypocrites.

00:31:57 --> 00:31:59

Then you have this surah as well, but

00:31:59 --> 00:32:03

they also have a surah called Surah Al

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

-Munafiqoon.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

So there's a whole chapter that is designated

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

to talk about this group.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

Why?

00:32:10 --> 00:32:13

As all of you rightfully have said that,

00:32:13 --> 00:32:16

there are hypocrites amongst us, no doubt.

00:32:16 --> 00:32:20

And every Muslim should learn and understand some

00:32:20 --> 00:32:22

of the qualities of hypocrites.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

Does anybody wanna just share a couple with

00:32:24 --> 00:32:25

us real quickly?

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

What are some of the qualities of hypocrites

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

that Islam has taught us?

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

When they say something, they lie.

00:32:29 --> 00:32:32

When they even trust something, they break the

00:32:32 --> 00:32:32

trust.

00:32:32 --> 00:32:34

They break the trust, they lie to you

00:32:34 --> 00:32:34

and...

00:32:34 --> 00:32:35

The third one is...

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

That's the third one?

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

So when they speak, they lie.

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

When you trust them, they betray that trust.

00:32:44 --> 00:32:48

And when you have a contract with them

00:32:48 --> 00:32:50

or an agreement with them, they break that

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

agreement, like they won't fulfill the agreement to

00:32:52 --> 00:32:52

its fullest.

00:32:53 --> 00:32:57

There are several ahadith talking about different things.

00:32:57 --> 00:33:00

Surah Al-Baqarah starts off, wa idha qeela

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

lahum la tufsidu fil ardi qalu innama nahnu

00:33:02 --> 00:33:02

muslihoon.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:06

Here's one of the first, first indicators, alarm

00:33:06 --> 00:33:09

bells, that you're talking to somebody that has

00:33:09 --> 00:33:12

hypocrisy in them, tendencies in them.

00:33:18 --> 00:33:18

No, no, no.

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

That wouldn't be counted as hypocrisy.

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

Backbiting.

00:33:23 --> 00:33:23

No.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

But this ayah in Surah Al-Baqarah, one

00:33:26 --> 00:33:28

of the first things that is very obvious

00:33:28 --> 00:33:32

and apparent with hypocrites, whenever you confront them,

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

qalu innama nahnu muslihoon.

00:33:35 --> 00:33:36

They will say, oh, I didn't do nothing.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

I didn't do nothing.

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

It was all them.

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

They're involved in the problem.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

They've been with it beginning to end.

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

I didn't do nothing.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

This problem's been going on for 27 years,

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

but I didn't do anything.

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

When somebody starts off a conversation like that,

00:33:55 --> 00:33:58

and they're deeply rooted into an issue, a

00:33:58 --> 00:34:01

problem, that's one of your first alarm bells,

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

this kind of step back.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:02

You're like, okay.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:03

So you didn't do nothing.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

Okay, let's figure this out.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

So that's one of the first things Allah

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

tells us about hypocrites in the Quran.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

The very first page in Surah Al-Baqarah,

00:34:13 --> 00:34:15

this ayah is found, that one of the

00:34:15 --> 00:34:17

first things Allah teaches us about hypocrites is

00:34:17 --> 00:34:20

when you confront them, they will deny, deny,

00:34:20 --> 00:34:22

deny, and say, actually, we were just trying

00:34:22 --> 00:34:23

to do the right thing.

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

qalu innama nahnu muslihoon.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:26

We were just trying to do the right

00:34:26 --> 00:34:26

thing.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:30

ala innahum hum hum al-mufsidoon walakin la

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

yash'uroon.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:33

And Allah responds and says, no, no, no.

00:34:33 --> 00:34:36

They're actually the troublemakers, but they don't feel,

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

they don't have any guilt in them.

00:34:37 --> 00:34:38

No remorse.

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

la yash'uroon.

00:34:39 --> 00:34:42

They don't feel anything by lying to your

00:34:42 --> 00:34:43

face and saying, oh, I didn't do anything.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:44

It's all them.

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

Hypocrites are dangerous, man.

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

SubhanAllah.

00:34:49 --> 00:34:50

Yeah.

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

Oh, yes.

00:34:52 --> 00:34:53

Yes, absolutely.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

Yeah, yeah.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

Well, what I'm saying is, are you dedicated?

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

I understand what's hypocrisy, but would they be

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

dedicated to be afraid of Islam?

00:35:05 --> 00:35:08

They would look more Islamic and more Muslim

00:35:08 --> 00:35:09

than a genuine Muslim.

00:35:10 --> 00:35:11

You know, some of the hypocrites of Medina

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

would come for Fajr.

00:35:13 --> 00:35:13

You know where they were praying?

00:35:14 --> 00:35:15

Right behind the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

the first line.

00:35:18 --> 00:35:18

All right?

00:35:18 --> 00:35:22

So that's why he was most afraid of

00:35:22 --> 00:35:25

them than anybody else, because you can't figure

00:35:25 --> 00:35:25

them out.

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

You can't detect a hypocrite, really.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

So they pray like you.

00:35:30 --> 00:35:30

They fast.

00:35:31 --> 00:35:31

They grow beards.

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

They wear long thongs.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

They wear niqabs.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:35

They have the whole works.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:37

You'll never know by looking at them.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:39

But these are some of the things that

00:35:39 --> 00:35:42

are highlighted in Quran for us to sort

00:35:42 --> 00:35:43

of look out and to be conscious of

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

for him.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:47

So the hypocrites continue to talk about the

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and saying, oh, don't

00:35:49 --> 00:35:49

listen to him.

00:35:49 --> 00:35:50

He's crazy.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

Sort of, what does Allah do?

00:35:51 --> 00:35:55

Al-Nabiyu awla bil mu'mineena min anfusihim That

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

he is priority, even from yourself.

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

So that's why another reason why this ayah

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

is given.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

The hypocrites just continue.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:03

You know, it's amazing to me that the

00:36:03 --> 00:36:07

battle of Ahzab is happening and they're so

00:36:07 --> 00:36:11

outnumbered by the Quraysh, yet still these guys,

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

they just add more fire to fire.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

Like this is already a crisis situation.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:20

Just add more problems and more crisis.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

So one of the first, so remember I

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

told you that today you're going to see

00:36:24 --> 00:36:27

internally what the Sahabas are dealing with as

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

this battle is going on.

00:36:29 --> 00:36:30

This is number one.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:33

The hypocrites continue to be the troublemakers of

00:36:33 --> 00:36:34

society.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

And this battle did nothing different.

00:36:36 --> 00:36:38

It just, they continued with it.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

And who was the leader?

00:36:39 --> 00:36:41

Abdullah ibn Sulul.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:43

Remarriage should be a big deal.

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

Marrying should be encouraged and welcomed in family.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

So when we're talking about inheritance as well,

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

so what ends up happening, why I put

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

this term here is that also, you know,

00:36:53 --> 00:36:56

many of the companions, their spouses would pass

00:36:56 --> 00:36:57

away, right?

00:36:57 --> 00:37:00

Especially the wives, their husbands will pass away

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

and are killed.

00:37:01 --> 00:37:07

So this taboo started to come out and

00:37:07 --> 00:37:10

become more and more prevalent in Medina society.

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

What was it?

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

She was married before.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

So go.

00:37:17 --> 00:37:18

Yeah.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:22

And there are cultures that have that same

00:37:22 --> 00:37:23

attitude till this day.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

There are cultures that carry the exact same

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

taboo, the exact same narrative is pumped out

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

where, oh, she was married before.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

And I'm saying she, she, she, because 90

00:37:34 --> 00:37:38

% of the time, unfortunately, the sisters are

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

the victims of that.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:44

Where they're labeled, they're written off, they're pushed

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

aside, they're ignored because, oh, she was married

00:37:46 --> 00:37:48

before, she has three kids, don't even bother,

00:37:49 --> 00:37:50

that sort of thing.

00:37:50 --> 00:37:53

And that is not only un-Islamic, it's

00:37:53 --> 00:37:56

just plain and simply wrong.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

It's haram to do that, right?

00:37:58 --> 00:38:01

And most of the wives of the Prophet,

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

alayhis salatu was salam, were all married at

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

some point prior to him, okay?

00:38:05 --> 00:38:09

So this issue of remarriage is, there's a

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

section in Surah Al-Ahzab where we will

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

discuss that inside and out.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:16

Speaking about contracts, now, here's another one.

00:38:16 --> 00:38:19

Wa idha khazna minan nabiyyina misaqahum wa minka

00:38:19 --> 00:38:23

wa min noohim wa ibraheem wa moosa wa

00:38:23 --> 00:38:26

isa bani maryam wa ahazna minhum misaqan ghalidha.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:30

Students, remember this word before you look at

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

the translation here.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:33

Remember this word?

00:38:35 --> 00:38:36

Misaq.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

So this is the second M that I

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

want you to memorize.

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

The first M was ma'ruf.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:47

The second M is misaq, okay?

00:38:47 --> 00:38:49

What is misaq?

00:38:49 --> 00:38:50

This is what misaq is.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

It's literally a covenant.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:58

Both parties fully understand the seriousness of the

00:38:58 --> 00:38:58

agreement.

00:38:59 --> 00:39:04

What makes a misaq singled out from other

00:39:04 --> 00:39:08

types of contracts is misaq will change your

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

life.

00:39:09 --> 00:39:12

Your way of life is impacted in some

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

way, shape or form.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:21

So marriage in Quran is also called, it's

00:39:21 --> 00:39:22

also called misaq.

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

We all know that marriage is a contract.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:29

It's an agreement between the husband and wife.

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

We're gonna be married.

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

That's why we have as part of one

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

of the things that have to be done

00:39:34 --> 00:39:37

when a nikah is done is ijab and

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

qabul, a proposal and acceptance.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

That's the contract.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:44

Once they both agree that they will come

00:39:44 --> 00:39:46

together as husband and wife in accordance or

00:39:46 --> 00:39:49

the teachings of Islam, that's called a misaq.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

The misaq now is solidified, it's complete.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:55

What I want all of us to take

00:39:55 --> 00:39:58

from this word is the word is the

00:39:58 --> 00:40:01

same word used, take a look at it.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:06

And remember when we took a covenant from

00:40:06 --> 00:40:12

the prophets, the contract or agreement that prophets

00:40:12 --> 00:40:17

make with Allah, oh Allah, you decree on

00:40:17 --> 00:40:20

me, you order me to give the message

00:40:20 --> 00:40:22

to so and so, to give the call

00:40:22 --> 00:40:27

to call this nation, this people to you.

00:40:27 --> 00:40:30

I will do that and I will fulfill

00:40:30 --> 00:40:32

that responsibility.

00:40:33 --> 00:40:36

They, that's agreement between the prophets and Allah

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

is called a misaq.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:42

The agreement, a treaty agreement between two countries

00:40:42 --> 00:40:48

is called a, so when you look on

00:40:48 --> 00:40:51

the grand scale of how this word is

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

used, come back to home now.

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

Marriages are called misaq.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:03

That alone, just by that title, highlights how

00:41:03 --> 00:41:04

serious marriage is.

00:41:06 --> 00:41:07

So when there's a problem, it's like, okay,

00:41:07 --> 00:41:07

I'm done.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:12

I meet couples like this all the time,

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

who are like the first two and three

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

years, like, I just, I can't stand him.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

I can't look at his face when he

00:41:18 --> 00:41:18

brushes his teeth.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

Oh my God, there's so much mess he

00:41:20 --> 00:41:20

makes.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

And then he'll say something, she'll say something

00:41:23 --> 00:41:23

else.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:25

Oh my God, you gotta see how he

00:41:25 --> 00:41:25

eats.

00:41:25 --> 00:41:28

The way he eats, it's like a bear

00:41:28 --> 00:41:30

that was just released and just went crazy.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

And it's annoying.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:34

And then the clash, I didn't grow up

00:41:34 --> 00:41:34

this way.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

You didn't grow up this way.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

My mom taught me never to do this.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

This was all that we did in our

00:41:40 --> 00:41:40

house.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

And the clash happens quickly.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

Now you should know.

00:41:43 --> 00:41:46

What's the first step in resolving these differences?

00:41:46 --> 00:41:47

Go back to the first M.

00:41:50 --> 00:41:54

What is the best way to bring these

00:41:54 --> 00:41:58

two lifestyles and cultures and background together on

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

one platform?

00:41:59 --> 00:42:02

Forget what you grew up with, forget what

00:42:02 --> 00:42:03

you're used to.

00:42:04 --> 00:42:07

Let's do what's right and best for the

00:42:07 --> 00:42:08

both of us.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:12

So you grew up in a palace, you

00:42:12 --> 00:42:15

grew up on the streets, but in this

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

city, if we can get like a two

00:42:17 --> 00:42:19

bedroom apartment, that's a great start.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:20

So let's aim for that.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:23

Not, I don't care if you work at

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

Walmart, get four more jobs and get me

00:42:25 --> 00:42:26

the palace that I'm used to.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:27

Can't do that.

00:42:28 --> 00:42:29

You see what Ma'ruf does?

00:42:29 --> 00:42:32

How it bridges these two different worlds.

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

Now, when you come to Miithaq, this is

00:42:35 --> 00:42:39

going to address those who trivialize the relationship

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

and trivialize with marriages.

00:42:41 --> 00:42:44

Have you heard a Hadith that Allah gets

00:42:44 --> 00:42:47

angry when a divorce happens, right?

00:42:47 --> 00:42:50

This is not an authentic Hadith, but the

00:42:50 --> 00:42:54

wisdom in the Hadith is authentic, which is

00:42:54 --> 00:42:57

it's referring to the people who take divorce

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

carelessly.

00:42:59 --> 00:42:59

Like, you know what?

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

I don't care, go.

00:43:01 --> 00:43:01

I don't care.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:02

I don't want to see your face anymore.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

Do whatever you want.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:05

Like that kind of attitude.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

I understand in the heat of the moment

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

in the argument, maybe they talk to each

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

other that way, but you've got to let

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

the waters come and then come back and

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

be like, are you serious?

00:43:13 --> 00:43:15

Do you really want me to leave?

00:43:15 --> 00:43:16

Do you really want me to pack my

00:43:16 --> 00:43:16

bags?

00:43:16 --> 00:43:19

You really want to end this 30 years

00:43:19 --> 00:43:19

of marriage?

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

You just want to throw it out the

00:43:20 --> 00:43:21

window now?

00:43:21 --> 00:43:22

Are you really serious?

00:43:22 --> 00:43:25

So that's why Allah says every step of

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

the way when it comes to these kinds

00:43:27 --> 00:43:27

of relationships.

00:43:27 --> 00:43:30

So you have marriage, you have caring for

00:43:30 --> 00:43:33

children, and you now have da'wah, the

00:43:33 --> 00:43:36

responsibility of prophets to carry the message of

00:43:36 --> 00:43:36

Allah.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

All of it is called mithaq.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

So that's first, prophets.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

Number two, as well as from you, O

00:43:43 --> 00:43:47

Prophet, the Prophet himself Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

being taught and reminded, you also have the

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

same responsibility.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:53

Why is he being reminded?

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

Doesn't he already know that?

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

He's already been doing it for 10 plus

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

years.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

Why is Allah telling him, you already, yeah,

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

you made an agreement with me.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:07

Why is Allah telling the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

00:44:07 --> 00:44:07

Wasallam this?

00:44:08 --> 00:44:10

He already knows his responsibility.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

So why tell him?

00:44:12 --> 00:44:18

And it's not a reminder, okay?

00:44:18 --> 00:44:22

To stay steadfast, because what's happening to him

00:44:22 --> 00:44:23

right now?

00:44:25 --> 00:44:29

He's being challenged, his reputation's being attacked.

00:44:29 --> 00:44:32

Remember the whole Zaynab and Zayd issue?

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

So rumors about him that he's up to

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

no good.

00:44:36 --> 00:44:39

So his image and his reputation is constantly

00:44:39 --> 00:44:42

under scrutiny and it's constantly being attacked.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:48

But that would take the soul out of

00:44:48 --> 00:44:50

any leader, right?

00:44:50 --> 00:44:53

Our version of this is like, when people

00:44:53 --> 00:44:57

attack us like online, like leaders go through

00:44:57 --> 00:44:57

that all the time.

00:44:57 --> 00:45:00

They get the abuse online like there's no

00:45:00 --> 00:45:01

tomorrow.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:05

And it's really tough sometimes to say to

00:45:05 --> 00:45:09

yourself that despite every out of 5,000

00:45:09 --> 00:45:14

comments, 4,998 of them want you to

00:45:14 --> 00:45:14

die.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:18

To say to yourself, no, I gotta keep,

00:45:18 --> 00:45:20

I gotta do the next video.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

I gotta do the next live.

00:45:22 --> 00:45:24

This is really, really tough.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:29

So the Prophet Alayhi Salaam, when Allah singles

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

him out from all the other prophets and

00:45:30 --> 00:45:33

said, and even you, it means like, I

00:45:33 --> 00:45:34

know what you're going through.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:38

10,000 and you're 3,000 and Abdullah

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

ibn Sulul doing his thing.

00:45:39 --> 00:45:41

Then Medina is all dried out and it's

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

freezing.

00:45:42 --> 00:45:44

Companions are starving to death.

00:45:44 --> 00:45:46

Resources are drying out.

00:45:46 --> 00:45:49

And this war, this battle seems to like

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

not have an end in sight.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:54

Day after day, after day, after day, the

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

Quraysh aren't retreating.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:57

You guys can't go back to your home.

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

Everything's at a standstill.

00:45:59 --> 00:46:02

You, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, remember you made

00:46:02 --> 00:46:02

an agreement.

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

You better stick to it.

00:46:05 --> 00:46:07

Wa min Nuh wa Ibrahima wa Musa wa

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

Isa bani Maryam.

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

All of them did the same.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:13

We did take a solemn covenant from all

00:46:13 --> 00:46:13

of them.

00:46:14 --> 00:46:15

What a reminder, SubhanAllah.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:18

This is the kind of reminder you need

00:46:18 --> 00:46:18

in these times.

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

No matter how much we are hated or

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

scrutinized or targeted, to just hold on.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

That's called Ghalitha, by the way.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:31

So Allah describes Mithaq Ghalitha.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:36

Ghalitha is describing this, what a Mithaq is.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

And Ghalitha means something that is so, this

00:46:40 --> 00:46:41

is the priority, basically.

00:46:41 --> 00:46:44

Ghalitha, this is the priority, that at the

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

end of the day, you have got to

00:46:46 --> 00:46:49

continue to push forward with your message.

00:46:52 --> 00:46:56

Li yas'ala as-sadiqina AAan sadaqihim.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:01

Li yas'ala as-sadiqina AAan sadaqihim.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:04

Wa aAAadda li alkaafireena AAadhaaban AAaleema.

00:47:04 --> 00:47:07

Oh, that he may question these men of

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

truth about their delivery of the truth.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

And he is prepared.

00:47:11 --> 00:47:15

He has prepared a painful punishment for the

00:47:15 --> 00:47:16

disbelievers.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

So what happened here?

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So that he may question these men of

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

truth about their delivery of the truth.

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

So all the prophets and messengers will be

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

asked about their responsibilities.

00:47:27 --> 00:47:30

And if they did it with the utmost

00:47:30 --> 00:47:33

honesty, connect this to the previous one.

00:47:33 --> 00:47:35

The previous one, it's happening in a war

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

zone right now.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:39

They're being reminded to stay steadfast and commit.

00:47:39 --> 00:47:42

This is your contract with you and Allah.

00:47:42 --> 00:47:46

And Allah then says, so that you are

00:47:46 --> 00:47:47

going to be questioned.

00:47:48 --> 00:47:51

And if you have done this, and you

00:47:51 --> 00:47:53

have done this with all truth and honesty,

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

meaning you did it sincerely.

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

So put that together.

00:47:58 --> 00:48:01

You wanna know one of the ways to

00:48:01 --> 00:48:06

test if you have true, honest, worthy, acceptable

00:48:06 --> 00:48:09

Iman in the sight of Allah, is you

00:48:09 --> 00:48:13

look at and assess your Iman in times

00:48:13 --> 00:48:16

of stress, in times of pain, in times

00:48:16 --> 00:48:16

of hardship.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:20

How you respond and how you live and

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

react to moments of difficulty.

00:48:22 --> 00:48:23

Why?

00:48:23 --> 00:48:27

Because this word is used, Sadiqina from Sidq.

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

Allah says, you're going to be asked how

00:48:29 --> 00:48:30

honest and sincere you were.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

Sidqun is also used to describe sincerity.

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Because you can't be sincere without being honest,

00:48:37 --> 00:48:37

right?

00:48:38 --> 00:48:41

So they're both words that compliment each other.

00:48:42 --> 00:48:47

So that's something that is exceptionally important, especially

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

for the Prophet Alayhi Salaatu Wasalaam in this

00:48:49 --> 00:48:49

moment.

00:48:50 --> 00:48:52

Wa a'dalil kafireena a'adhaban aleema.

00:48:52 --> 00:48:55

Allah will deal with the disbelievers and all

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that they're doing to them.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

So more on the battle of Ahzab.

00:48:58 --> 00:49:01

Ya ayyuhallatheena amanoodhkuru ni'matallahi alaykum.

00:49:02 --> 00:49:07

O believers, students, what is ya ayyuhallatheena amanoodh?

00:49:09 --> 00:49:10

Like who?

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

Like is that, so is there a difference

00:49:13 --> 00:49:15

between allatheena amanoodh and somebody who's like a

00:49:15 --> 00:49:16

mu'min?

00:49:17 --> 00:49:18

We should all know this.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:24

Why not, ya ayyuhallatheena amanoodhkuru ni'matallahi alaykum?

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

Why did Allah say allatheena amanoodh?

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

Reminder for all of us, okay?

00:49:29 --> 00:49:35

Allatheena amanoodh means somebody who acknowledges the truth,

00:49:35 --> 00:49:37

but they don't necessarily practice it.

00:49:38 --> 00:49:39

But they acknowledge it.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:42

They're like, yeah, yeah, I know I need

00:49:42 --> 00:49:42

to pray.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:44

But you know, I'll get there one day.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:45

But I know it's important.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:46

I know it's from Islam.

00:49:47 --> 00:49:48

That's allatheena amanoodh, okay?

00:49:51 --> 00:49:53

Mu'min, it's a quality in their life.

00:49:53 --> 00:49:56

Not only do they believe, but they practice

00:49:56 --> 00:49:57

what they believe.

00:49:58 --> 00:50:00

So salah and all the other rituals and

00:50:00 --> 00:50:02

things like that, it's a quality in them.

00:50:02 --> 00:50:05

If you take that out, they can't function.

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

Like they're not gonna be able to move

00:50:07 --> 00:50:11

another second until they continue practicing their deen.

00:50:12 --> 00:50:14

So Allah is speaking to all believers, meaning

00:50:14 --> 00:50:18

all of you that recognize Iman and recognize

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

this truth.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:23

Allah says, udhkuru ni'matallahi alaykum.

00:50:24 --> 00:50:28

Remember Allah's favor upon you when armies came

00:50:28 --> 00:50:28

towards you.

00:50:28 --> 00:50:33

idh jaatakum junoodan fa arsalna alayhim reehan wajunoodan

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

lam tarawha.

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

Now specifically, who is it talking to?

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

It's talking to the companions.

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

You know what's amazing about this?

00:50:39 --> 00:50:42

There are some companions that are mu'minoon.

00:50:42 --> 00:50:44

There are some companions that have accepted Islam,

00:50:44 --> 00:50:47

but they're still at allatheena amanoodh.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:50

So Allah doesn't want one to feel left

00:50:50 --> 00:50:50

out.

00:50:51 --> 00:50:54

So every mu'min is allatheena amanoodh.

00:50:54 --> 00:50:57

But not every allatheena amanoodh is a mu'min.

00:50:57 --> 00:51:01

So if Allah said, yaayuhal mu'minoon, it would

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

exclude allatheena amanoodh.

00:51:03 --> 00:51:06

But because allatheena amanoodh is talked to, it

00:51:06 --> 00:51:09

automatically includes the believers as well.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

So yaayuhal allatheena amanoodh.

00:51:12 --> 00:51:15

Remember Allah's favor upon you when armies came

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

towards you.

00:51:16 --> 00:51:17

So you know what's happening in the battle

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

now?

00:51:19 --> 00:51:23

So there are stories, so many, many, many

00:51:23 --> 00:51:29

stories of where some of the Quraysh would

00:51:29 --> 00:51:34

try every possible way to scale through these

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

trenches and get onto the other side.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

So here's what I want for all of

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

us to understand before we continue with this

00:51:40 --> 00:51:40

verse.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:41

Take a look at this, right?

00:51:42 --> 00:51:44

So this is happening approximately the fifth year

00:51:44 --> 00:51:45

of Medina.

00:51:45 --> 00:51:48

Two major battles have already been taking place.

00:51:48 --> 00:51:49

What are the two, by the way?

00:51:50 --> 00:51:52

The two previous battles, the two major ones,

00:51:52 --> 00:51:52

what were they?

00:51:53 --> 00:51:56

Badr and Uhud, right?

00:51:56 --> 00:51:56

Are done.

00:51:58 --> 00:52:00

Banu Nadir, which we've talked about, this Jewish

00:52:00 --> 00:52:05

tribe has committed treachery, meaning they, without obviously

00:52:05 --> 00:52:07

the Prophet Alayhi Salatu Wasalam, privately amongst themselves,

00:52:07 --> 00:52:10

other tribes in the Quraysh, came together to

00:52:10 --> 00:52:14

plot finishing off the companions, assassinating the Prophet

00:52:14 --> 00:52:16

Alayhi Salatu Wasalam and being done with this

00:52:16 --> 00:52:16

movement.

00:52:17 --> 00:52:20

They are expelled from Medina, which we've already

00:52:20 --> 00:52:20

talked about, right?

00:52:20 --> 00:52:23

Now, when they get out of Medina, they're

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

just like at the edge on the outskirts

00:52:25 --> 00:52:26

of Medina.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:30

Obviously, they're sitting there, it's embarrassing, it's humiliating,

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

they're feeling horrible about the situation.

00:52:32 --> 00:52:33

So what do they do?

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

They end up going to the Quraysh of

00:52:36 --> 00:52:38

Mecca and say, hey, look, this is what

00:52:38 --> 00:52:39

happened to us.

00:52:39 --> 00:52:41

Why don't we just team up and create

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

one massive army and then go and just

00:52:43 --> 00:52:46

try to finish off these guys in Medina?

00:52:46 --> 00:52:48

So that's where this all began, right?

00:52:49 --> 00:52:54

This man, Abu Aamir Rahib, he's a famous

00:52:54 --> 00:52:54

name.

00:52:54 --> 00:52:57

His name is always associated with the Battle

00:52:57 --> 00:52:57

of Ahsab.

00:52:57 --> 00:53:00

So remember, write down this name, Abu Aamir

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

Rahib, who was a Christian leader.

00:53:02 --> 00:53:05

And in the beginning, he hated the Muslims

00:53:05 --> 00:53:06

with a passion.

00:53:07 --> 00:53:11

Abu Aamir Rahib, who hated the Muslims with

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

an absolute passion.

00:53:13 --> 00:53:19

This individual was also one of the most

00:53:19 --> 00:53:24

profound warriors or soldiers from the Quraysh, okay?

00:53:24 --> 00:53:27

He was part of a one-on-one

00:53:27 --> 00:53:27

battle.

00:53:27 --> 00:53:29

What he ended up doing is this.

00:53:30 --> 00:53:33

Gets on his horse, they're in Medina, he's

00:53:33 --> 00:53:35

on the side of the Quraysh, gets on

00:53:35 --> 00:53:37

his horse and just says to the horse,

00:53:37 --> 00:53:37

charge.

00:53:38 --> 00:53:42

And the horse charges through the trench and

00:53:42 --> 00:53:44

gets out on the other side in front

00:53:44 --> 00:53:45

of all the Muslims.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:52

So when this happens, Ali radiallahu anhu stood

00:53:52 --> 00:53:55

up and says, you have three things to

00:53:55 --> 00:53:55

do.

00:53:56 --> 00:53:56

It's coming here.

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

Okay, let me see, I'll make sure.

00:53:59 --> 00:54:00

Well, yeah, okay, okay.

00:54:01 --> 00:54:02

Hopefully we'll get to that.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:04

So you have three things.

00:54:04 --> 00:54:05

What are these three things?

00:54:05 --> 00:54:06

I wanna talk about each of them, but

00:54:06 --> 00:54:07

once we get there, I don't wanna jump

00:54:07 --> 00:54:08

the gun.

00:54:08 --> 00:54:10

But just remember this individual, Khair, okay?

00:54:12 --> 00:54:16

Medina is between two mountains from North and

00:54:16 --> 00:54:16

South.

00:54:17 --> 00:54:20

Only possible entrance is through East and West.

00:54:20 --> 00:54:21

Now take a look at these images.

00:54:23 --> 00:54:24

Here's Medina.

00:54:24 --> 00:54:27

Everybody see this white dot in the center?

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

That's the Haram, okay?

00:54:30 --> 00:54:31

That's the Prophet's Masjid.

00:54:31 --> 00:54:32

So this is all Medina.

00:54:33 --> 00:54:36

Everybody see these dark stones?

00:54:37 --> 00:54:37

See that?

00:54:38 --> 00:54:42

Medina on the Northern side and the Southern

00:54:42 --> 00:54:46

side is protected with two massive mountains that

00:54:46 --> 00:54:47

are volcano mountains.

00:54:47 --> 00:54:50

And they have, once upon a time, erupted

00:54:50 --> 00:54:51

several times.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:55

And remnants of these eruptions still exist till

00:54:55 --> 00:54:58

this day, especially when you enter Medina.

00:54:58 --> 00:55:01

When you're entering Medina driving from Mecca, you're

00:55:01 --> 00:55:04

going to come across these lava and volcano

00:55:04 --> 00:55:07

stones that are literally scattered as far as

00:55:07 --> 00:55:10

the eyes can see, about maybe two or

00:55:10 --> 00:55:13

three kilometers before you get to the entrance

00:55:13 --> 00:55:13

of Medina.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:16

You'll start to see black stones everywhere.

00:55:17 --> 00:55:20

So the problem with this is that the

00:55:20 --> 00:55:24

Northern and Southern entrance of Medina is impossible

00:55:24 --> 00:55:28

to scale through because lava stones, if you

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

ever see them, they're incredibly smooth, they're difficult

00:55:31 --> 00:55:31

to climb.

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

Animals can't navigate through them.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:37

Horses and camels can't get through them, right?

00:55:37 --> 00:55:40

So it poses an enormous challenge.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:44

So the Quraysh had written off Northern and

00:55:44 --> 00:55:45

Southern entrances.

00:55:45 --> 00:55:49

Now what's left is West End, the Eastern

00:55:49 --> 00:55:50

side of Medina.

00:55:50 --> 00:55:53

That's where the entrance point was, which is

00:55:53 --> 00:55:54

on this side here, okay?

00:55:54 --> 00:55:57

On this side and more towards this area

00:55:57 --> 00:55:59

here, okay?

00:55:59 --> 00:56:02

So somewhere in this vicinity on both sides

00:56:02 --> 00:56:03

is where they start to scale in.

00:56:03 --> 00:56:06

And the companions, they narrate that they could

00:56:06 --> 00:56:10

see like these horses trickling down, coming down

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

from all sections.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:14

When they look this way and they look

00:56:14 --> 00:56:17

that way, it was quite a scene, right?

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

Here's another image.

00:56:19 --> 00:56:22

Now you have roads and highways that are

00:56:22 --> 00:56:25

built on this lava field, but it's still

00:56:25 --> 00:56:28

there, you know, hundreds and thousands of these

00:56:28 --> 00:56:29

scattered everywhere.

00:56:29 --> 00:56:31

You cannot miss it.

00:56:31 --> 00:56:33

When you see it, you will always see

00:56:33 --> 00:56:34

it, okay?

00:56:35 --> 00:56:37

So this gives you an idea now where

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

this battle is coming from.

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

So once that's been said and done, let's

00:56:43 --> 00:56:44

go back to this now.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

The first thing Allah reminds them, now this

00:56:49 --> 00:56:51

battle is starting to take shape.

00:56:52 --> 00:56:53

Udhkuru ni'matallahi alaykum.

00:56:55 --> 00:56:56

Because what did Allah do here?

00:56:57 --> 00:57:00

The ni'mat that Allah wants the companions to

00:57:00 --> 00:57:01

be reminded of.

00:57:02 --> 00:57:04

Idh ja'atkum junood.

00:57:04 --> 00:57:08

Allah favored upon you when armies came towards

00:57:08 --> 00:57:11

you, we sent against them a bitter wind.

00:57:12 --> 00:57:16

Fa arsalna alayhim reeha wa junoodan lam tarawha.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:18

Two things happen.

00:57:18 --> 00:57:21

Number one, so when these armies started coming

00:57:21 --> 00:57:24

towards you, we sent a really strong and

00:57:24 --> 00:57:25

powerful wind.

00:57:25 --> 00:57:26

So put that all together.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:28

Now you have the Quraysh.

00:57:29 --> 00:57:32

It's even more tough for them because at

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

least the Sahabas, this is their city, this

00:57:34 --> 00:57:35

is their home, right?

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

But these guys had to pack enough food

00:57:39 --> 00:57:43

and supplies and so on to travel to

00:57:43 --> 00:57:45

make the three week journey to get to

00:57:45 --> 00:57:45

Medina.

00:57:45 --> 00:57:48

So almost one month, they needed supplies just

00:57:48 --> 00:57:49

to get there.

00:57:49 --> 00:57:52

Then now when they arrive there, 10, 15

00:57:52 --> 00:57:55

days go by of the battle of Ahzab,

00:57:55 --> 00:57:58

they need food and they need other supplies

00:57:58 --> 00:57:58

as well.

00:57:59 --> 00:58:01

They need to, if anybody gets injured or

00:58:01 --> 00:58:03

sick, they need to treat all of these

00:58:03 --> 00:58:03

individuals.

00:58:04 --> 00:58:07

So their supplies are running out fast.

00:58:09 --> 00:58:10

And what does Allah do?

00:58:11 --> 00:58:14

To add to that, Allah sends these fierce

00:58:14 --> 00:58:14

winds.

00:58:15 --> 00:58:17

Anybody ever seen a sad storm before?

00:58:18 --> 00:58:18

They're terrifying.

00:58:19 --> 00:58:20

They're absolutely terrifying.

00:58:21 --> 00:58:24

It almost looks like the desert came alive

00:58:24 --> 00:58:26

and stood up in front of you.

00:58:26 --> 00:58:29

It's just, it is absolutely terrifying.

00:58:30 --> 00:58:32

It literally looks like a beast pushing its

00:58:32 --> 00:58:36

way to you and it'll cover the city.

00:58:36 --> 00:58:40

So sometimes this desert storm would just come

00:58:40 --> 00:58:41

randomly from all places.

00:58:42 --> 00:58:44

And sometimes it would originate from one area

00:58:44 --> 00:58:46

and it just, it would start to travel.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:49

These high winds pushing the sand and literally

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

burying the entire city.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

So with all the challenges they have, now

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

they have this problem to deal with.

00:58:55 --> 00:58:58

And then in addition to that, wajnoodan lam

00:58:58 --> 00:59:02

tarawha and we also sent forces you could

00:59:02 --> 00:59:03

not see.

00:59:04 --> 00:59:05

What is that talking about?

00:59:10 --> 00:59:14

How did they, did companions know that Allah

00:59:14 --> 00:59:15

had sent angels?

00:59:16 --> 00:59:19

They couldn't see them, but they saw the

00:59:19 --> 00:59:21

after effects of them.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:23

So they would watch like one of the

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

Quraysh, right?

00:59:24 --> 00:59:25

You know, like one of the plaintiffs sitting

00:59:25 --> 00:59:27

on top of their horse, just relaxing.

00:59:28 --> 00:59:30

And all of a sudden the horse gets

00:59:30 --> 00:59:32

up and makes a run for it on

00:59:32 --> 00:59:36

the opposite and just literally escapes with that

00:59:36 --> 00:59:37

Qurayshi on top.

00:59:37 --> 00:59:40

And it looks like the horse has lost

00:59:40 --> 00:59:40

its mind.

00:59:41 --> 00:59:45

But stories state that how angels would come

00:59:45 --> 00:59:48

and sort of like pat or disrupt the

00:59:48 --> 00:59:50

horse from the back and would cause it

00:59:50 --> 00:59:51

to run away so it'll get scared.

00:59:51 --> 00:59:53

Camels will do the same thing.

00:59:54 --> 00:59:57

All of them will randomly and just chaos

00:59:57 --> 00:59:58

broke out on that other side.

00:59:58 --> 01:00:03

So Allah reminds the companions then that, despite

01:00:03 --> 01:00:07

how much you're outnumbered, that Allah will take

01:00:07 --> 01:00:08

care of the believers.

01:00:12 --> 01:00:13

Oh yeah.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

And the companions are watching this.

01:00:16 --> 01:00:19

And so these ayat are being revealed to

01:00:19 --> 01:00:22

the Prophet Alayhi Salaam And he's explaining all

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

of this as this is unfolding in front

01:00:24 --> 01:00:24

of him.

01:00:25 --> 01:00:27

So here's the thing.

01:00:29 --> 01:00:34

What is Allah trying to tell us by

01:00:34 --> 01:00:36

giving us this information?

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

What can Allah who be met?

01:00:38 --> 01:00:41

Allah is all seeing of what you do.

01:00:41 --> 01:00:43

What's the message here?

01:00:47 --> 01:00:48

That's pretty amazing.

01:00:48 --> 01:00:51

So what do companions do when they see

01:00:51 --> 01:00:51

this happen?

01:00:51 --> 01:00:54

They're like, oh, Alhamdulillah, we can just sit

01:00:54 --> 01:00:56

back and enjoy the show because Allah got

01:00:56 --> 01:00:56

us here, man.

01:00:57 --> 01:00:57

Allah is taking care of us.

01:00:57 --> 01:00:58

Just relax, watch.

01:00:59 --> 01:01:03

Or is that supposed to translate into something

01:01:03 --> 01:01:04

for the companions?

01:01:04 --> 01:01:05

What are they supposed to do when this

01:01:05 --> 01:01:06

is unfolding?

01:01:09 --> 01:01:10

How?

01:01:10 --> 01:01:11

They're stronger in what sense?

01:01:15 --> 01:01:18

Have you heard khutbas these days of speakers

01:01:18 --> 01:01:21

saying our Iman is supposed to be strongest

01:01:21 --> 01:01:24

now than ever before in the context of

01:01:24 --> 01:01:25

what's happening?

01:01:26 --> 01:01:28

It's ayat like this that we get it

01:01:28 --> 01:01:28

from.

01:01:29 --> 01:01:30

This is where we get it from.

01:01:31 --> 01:01:35

The times where it seems impossible to hold

01:01:35 --> 01:01:39

on are the times Allah expects us to

01:01:39 --> 01:01:39

hold on.

01:01:40 --> 01:01:44

And he's reminding the companions, look at what

01:01:44 --> 01:01:45

you have.

01:01:46 --> 01:01:48

You may not see it, you may not

01:01:48 --> 01:01:51

understand it, but this is my promise to

01:01:51 --> 01:01:51

you.

01:01:52 --> 01:01:55

Stay committed, hold on, trust me, and I

01:01:55 --> 01:01:56

will protect you.

01:01:58 --> 01:02:00

This is, so when people ask, what can

01:02:00 --> 01:02:02

we do in this part of the world

01:02:02 --> 01:02:03

to help our brothers and sisters and the

01:02:03 --> 01:02:05

innocent suffering everywhere?

01:02:06 --> 01:02:07

This is our battle.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:11

Our battle is a spiritual one here in

01:02:11 --> 01:02:12

this part of the world, right?

01:02:12 --> 01:02:13

Nobody's gonna get up and go into the

01:02:13 --> 01:02:14

battlefield, right?

01:02:15 --> 01:02:16

So what's our responsibility?

01:02:17 --> 01:02:18

It's the spiritual part.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:20

It's to hold on to our faith.

01:02:20 --> 01:02:23

And what that would do for us, I'm

01:02:23 --> 01:02:25

not talking about the personal things.

01:02:25 --> 01:02:27

You sure it might get you up for

01:02:27 --> 01:02:30

tahajjud every night, but all of that would

01:02:30 --> 01:02:35

translate to you when an organization is collecting

01:02:35 --> 01:02:39

money for so-and-so cause to feed

01:02:39 --> 01:02:41

orphans or to feed those in need or

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

hospitals were destroyed.

01:02:43 --> 01:02:45

So to provide supplies for those in need,

01:02:45 --> 01:02:55

your iman immediately, without hesitation, participates, responds, no

01:02:55 --> 01:02:56

hesitation whatsoever.

01:02:57 --> 01:02:58

You know, it's a tough thing to teach

01:02:58 --> 01:03:00

this day and age.

01:03:00 --> 01:03:02

Like if you just pull this ayah out

01:03:02 --> 01:03:04

of the surah and just start giving a

01:03:04 --> 01:03:10

khutbah or talk about it, not surprising to

01:03:10 --> 01:03:13

grasp the concept and the wisdom behind and

01:03:13 --> 01:03:15

the deeper lesson in this is a tough

01:03:15 --> 01:03:16

thing to do just one off.

01:03:16 --> 01:03:18

You have to really go through battle of

01:03:18 --> 01:03:23

Ahzab to understand why nine verses later, okay,

01:03:23 --> 01:03:24

now Allah tells us.

01:03:24 --> 01:03:27

There's all the other ayat were about, remember

01:03:27 --> 01:03:28

the prophet's the priority.

01:03:29 --> 01:03:31

Remember you're gonna be asked about, so make

01:03:31 --> 01:03:32

sure you stay committed to this deen.

01:03:32 --> 01:03:35

Remember the prophet, his rulings, that's all that

01:03:35 --> 01:03:35

matters.

01:03:36 --> 01:03:38

Remember when it comes to money, all those

01:03:38 --> 01:03:40

who are gonna die now, remember you take

01:03:40 --> 01:03:42

the wealth, you distribute, you be honest with

01:03:42 --> 01:03:42

that.

01:03:42 --> 01:03:45

So you took care of their spiritual aspect

01:03:45 --> 01:03:45

of their life.

01:03:45 --> 01:03:47

Make sure their iman was dedicated.

01:03:48 --> 01:03:51

Mithaqan ghaleeza, this covenant was real, it's profound.

01:03:52 --> 01:03:55

Now you can see what's happening and this

01:03:55 --> 01:03:58

should start to preserve and protect and continue

01:03:58 --> 01:03:59

to encourage you.

01:04:00 --> 01:04:02

Abu Amr, okay, so let's continue.

01:04:02 --> 01:04:04

The prophet Alaihi Salatu Wasalam seeks counsel from

01:04:04 --> 01:04:06

others on how to deal with this situation.

01:04:09 --> 01:04:14

So the prophet Alaihi Salatu Wasalam goes around

01:04:14 --> 01:04:19

and seeks counsel from others on how to

01:04:19 --> 01:04:20

deal with this situation.

01:04:21 --> 01:04:22

So what does he do?

01:04:24 --> 01:04:25

What's happening here?

01:04:26 --> 01:04:29

Two things happen, okay, so write this down

01:04:29 --> 01:04:31

because this also happened in the battle of

01:04:31 --> 01:04:32

Uhud as well.

01:04:33 --> 01:04:35

So the battle before this, the same thing

01:04:35 --> 01:04:35

happened.

01:04:36 --> 01:04:39

The leader of the ummah did two things.

01:04:40 --> 01:04:44

When he got the message that the Meccans,

01:04:44 --> 01:04:48

the Quraishis have mobilized and they're making their

01:04:48 --> 01:04:51

way to Medina for the battle of Uhud

01:04:51 --> 01:04:55

as well as Ahzab, the first thing he

01:04:55 --> 01:04:59

does, Alaihi Salatu Wasalam, he goes to the

01:04:59 --> 01:05:01

youth and the young people of Medina and

01:05:01 --> 01:05:03

asks them, what do you guys think we

01:05:03 --> 01:05:04

should do?

01:05:04 --> 01:05:05

How do you think we should respond?

01:05:06 --> 01:05:08

What do you think the youngsters said?

01:05:11 --> 01:05:13

What do you think the youngsters would have

01:05:13 --> 01:05:13

said?

01:05:15 --> 01:05:16

Do you think they would have said, Ya

01:05:16 --> 01:05:20

Rasulullah, let's just wait, let's think this through

01:05:20 --> 01:05:22

or Ya Rasulullah, let's fight right now, I'm

01:05:22 --> 01:05:23

going to Mecca first.

01:05:24 --> 01:05:26

Yeah, they jumped the gun.

01:05:26 --> 01:05:29

Ya Rasulullah, let's just fight, let's be ready,

01:05:29 --> 01:05:31

let's try to put as much resources together

01:05:31 --> 01:05:34

and let's just fight it through, which reminds

01:05:34 --> 01:05:36

us of something about young people, right?

01:05:37 --> 01:05:39

Of just kind of jumping the gun, not

01:05:39 --> 01:05:42

thinking things through, just jumping and inshallah, khair,

01:05:42 --> 01:05:43

you know?

01:05:43 --> 01:05:45

So that exact same reaction happens.

01:05:45 --> 01:05:47

Doesn't the Prophet Alaihi Salatu Wasalam already know

01:05:47 --> 01:05:49

that about young people?

01:05:49 --> 01:05:52

Doesn't he already know, okay, I'm not going

01:05:52 --> 01:05:55

to probably get the wisest or most comprehensive

01:05:55 --> 01:05:59

response to this, so why bother asking?

01:06:07 --> 01:06:10

Okay, keep them involved, be part of the

01:06:10 --> 01:06:11

decision, anything else?

01:06:13 --> 01:06:16

Who are the future sahabis that are going

01:06:16 --> 01:06:18

to be in battle after him, Alaihi Salatu

01:06:18 --> 01:06:18

Wasalam?

01:06:19 --> 01:06:20

Them.

01:06:21 --> 01:06:22

So what does he do?

01:06:23 --> 01:06:25

He gives them an opportunity to participate in

01:06:25 --> 01:06:28

this leadership by sharing some opinion, whether it's

01:06:28 --> 01:06:30

good or bad, he will decide that, Alaihi

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

Salatu Wasalam, because why?

01:06:31 --> 01:06:33

You saw the verse now, An-nabiyu awla

01:06:33 --> 01:06:35

bil mu'mineen, like his ruling is going to

01:06:35 --> 01:06:37

be final, but he's going to listen to

01:06:37 --> 01:06:38

everybody, this is the first thing.

01:06:38 --> 01:06:40

So specifically with the youth, it was to

01:06:40 --> 01:06:43

kind of just put and plant a seed.

01:06:45 --> 01:06:53

Also, it was to get an understanding from

01:06:53 --> 01:06:57

all of the followers, all of his followers,

01:06:57 --> 01:06:59

no matter how young or old.

01:06:59 --> 01:07:02

So you're basically going around to as many

01:07:02 --> 01:07:05

people as you can, get as much information,

01:07:05 --> 01:07:11

gather as much opinion, and people, their suggestions

01:07:11 --> 01:07:12

of what you do, get as much of

01:07:12 --> 01:07:13

that as possible.

01:07:13 --> 01:07:15

And then you go and you decide back

01:07:15 --> 01:07:18

with the rest of the senior and leaders

01:07:18 --> 01:07:20

amongst the companions, then you go back and

01:07:20 --> 01:07:20

discuss it.

01:07:21 --> 01:07:22

So it's also to gather as much as

01:07:22 --> 01:07:23

possible.

01:07:24 --> 01:07:26

Okay, the second thing that he did, Alaihi

01:07:26 --> 01:07:28

Salatu Wasalam, is he went to the senior

01:07:28 --> 01:07:29

companions as well.

01:07:30 --> 01:07:31

And he did the same thing.

01:07:31 --> 01:07:34

The senior companions are the ones who came

01:07:34 --> 01:07:41

together and said, Ya Rasulullah, Ya Rasulullah, let's

01:07:41 --> 01:07:43

just think this through, okay?

01:07:43 --> 01:07:44

We have to come up with a strategy.

01:07:46 --> 01:07:49

Salman Al-Farisi is amongst the senior group.

01:07:50 --> 01:07:53

He suggests, so he is the one that

01:07:53 --> 01:07:55

came up with this idea of digging a

01:07:55 --> 01:07:57

gigantic trench, okay?

01:07:57 --> 01:07:59

The name is Salman Al-Farisi, which we

01:07:59 --> 01:08:00

mentioned last week, right?

01:08:00 --> 01:08:03

And what this will do, the goal, I

01:08:03 --> 01:08:05

don't think we mentioned this, but the goal

01:08:05 --> 01:08:10

behind this trench was to split the Quraysh

01:08:10 --> 01:08:12

army into bits and pieces.

01:08:12 --> 01:08:15

So like, some will go in, some will

01:08:15 --> 01:08:16

hesitate, some will go and get stuck, some

01:08:16 --> 01:08:18

will go and get back out, and it'll

01:08:18 --> 01:08:18

just be chaos.

01:08:19 --> 01:08:22

So if whoever is able to make it

01:08:22 --> 01:08:24

across this trench to the other side, 3

01:08:24 --> 01:08:27

,000 plus companions can deal with that, because

01:08:27 --> 01:08:29

now you have a massive army that's completely

01:08:29 --> 01:08:31

split up into pieces now, right?

01:08:32 --> 01:08:34

So the strategy was genius.

01:08:34 --> 01:08:36

And it worked, okay?

01:08:37 --> 01:08:39

I need to go back and make one

01:08:39 --> 01:08:39

retraction.

01:08:40 --> 01:08:44

This name here is not the story that

01:08:44 --> 01:08:48

I told you of the person that dug

01:08:48 --> 01:08:50

through the trench and came to the other

01:08:50 --> 01:08:50

side.

01:08:50 --> 01:08:51

That's a different name.

01:08:52 --> 01:08:53

It just came to me, so just make

01:08:53 --> 01:08:54

sure you make that correction.

01:08:55 --> 01:08:56

Keep this person's name.

01:08:56 --> 01:09:02

This man's name was the person that came

01:09:02 --> 01:09:04

up with an interesting idea.

01:09:05 --> 01:09:07

He came up with this idea.

01:09:07 --> 01:09:09

He went to the Prophet, Alayhi Salaatu Wasalam.

01:09:09 --> 01:09:11

So later on, this man became Muslim, right?

01:09:11 --> 01:09:13

And he went up to the Prophet, Alayhi

01:09:13 --> 01:09:16

Salaatu Wasalam, and he suggested that, why don't

01:09:16 --> 01:09:17

we, he says to Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

01:09:17 --> 01:09:20

that I have experience with battles and experience

01:09:20 --> 01:09:24

with tribes and leaders having problems with each

01:09:24 --> 01:09:26

other and tension building amongst each other.

01:09:26 --> 01:09:27

I have experience.

01:09:27 --> 01:09:29

I understand, I've seen this happen before.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:31

So he says, yeah, Rasulullah, would you allow

01:09:31 --> 01:09:35

me, let me go to this Jewish tribe,

01:09:35 --> 01:09:37

Banu Nadir, that's sitting on the outskirts of

01:09:37 --> 01:09:37

Medina.

01:09:37 --> 01:09:39

Let me go to them and see if

01:09:39 --> 01:09:43

I can stir up something between them and

01:09:43 --> 01:09:45

the Qurayshis of Mecca and see if there

01:09:45 --> 01:09:48

could be some kind of disconnect because that

01:09:48 --> 01:09:49

would be to our advantage anyway.

01:09:49 --> 01:09:51

So the Prophet, Alayhi Salaatu Wasalam, gives them

01:09:51 --> 01:09:52

permission to do that.

01:09:52 --> 01:09:56

He goes to the Quraysh leaders.

01:09:56 --> 01:09:58

So he goes to Mecca and he sits

01:09:58 --> 01:10:00

with some of the leaders of the Quraysh

01:10:00 --> 01:10:01

and he says to them, he said, listen,

01:10:03 --> 01:10:05

the last two battles you guys had with

01:10:05 --> 01:10:06

the Muslims.

01:10:07 --> 01:10:08

Well, he starts off, he's like, so how

01:10:08 --> 01:10:10

do you guys feel about Ahzab, you guys

01:10:10 --> 01:10:12

preparing and so on, they're sharpening their swords,

01:10:12 --> 01:10:13

they're getting all their shields ready.

01:10:14 --> 01:10:16

So you guys feel, you guys have 10

01:10:16 --> 01:10:17

,000, they have 3,000, how you guys

01:10:17 --> 01:10:18

feel about this?

01:10:18 --> 01:10:20

They're like, well, it's done, it's in the

01:10:20 --> 01:10:20

bag.

01:10:21 --> 01:10:22

We got this.

01:10:22 --> 01:10:24

There's no way they can be victorious.

01:10:24 --> 01:10:27

So what he does is he says, just

01:10:27 --> 01:10:30

like how you're victorious in Badr, right?

01:10:31 --> 01:10:34

Just like how you guys managed with Uhud.

01:10:34 --> 01:10:36

Yeah, Uhud was devastating, 70 plus, but they

01:10:36 --> 01:10:38

still put up an unbelievable fight.

01:10:38 --> 01:10:40

If it wasn't for that last part of

01:10:40 --> 01:10:42

Uhud, where the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, put

01:10:42 --> 01:10:45

those companions on that little mountain, Mount Aina

01:10:45 --> 01:10:46

in the mountain of two eyes and told

01:10:46 --> 01:10:47

them stay there.

01:10:47 --> 01:10:49

If that didn't happen, the Muslims had already

01:10:49 --> 01:10:50

destroyed you guys.

01:10:50 --> 01:10:52

So looks like your strategy has been working

01:10:52 --> 01:10:53

pretty well so far, right?

01:10:54 --> 01:10:57

And then they stop and like, wait a

01:10:57 --> 01:10:57

minute.

01:10:58 --> 01:11:00

So then even though we got the numbers,

01:11:01 --> 01:11:03

this might still turn out as a loss

01:11:03 --> 01:11:04

for us.

01:11:05 --> 01:11:07

So he comes up with a suggestion and

01:11:07 --> 01:11:08

he says, listen, I got an idea.

01:11:09 --> 01:11:12

Why don't you send a couple delegates to

01:11:12 --> 01:11:15

go to Medina and live and try to

01:11:15 --> 01:11:18

like integrate with society and stay there for

01:11:18 --> 01:11:19

a while, right?

01:11:19 --> 01:11:22

So that way you already have sort of

01:11:22 --> 01:11:25

like an arm in Medina and hopefully they

01:11:25 --> 01:11:27

can gather some intel.

01:11:27 --> 01:11:29

They can see the movements of the Muslims,

01:11:29 --> 01:11:31

what their next step is, and you'd get

01:11:31 --> 01:11:33

this information and that would be to your

01:11:33 --> 01:11:33

advantage.

01:11:33 --> 01:11:34

Like it was a great idea.

01:11:35 --> 01:11:36

So what do you think they did?

01:11:36 --> 01:11:39

They sent a bunch of delegates to Medina,

01:11:39 --> 01:11:40

settled in there.

01:11:40 --> 01:11:43

So this man, Abu Amir, goes back now

01:11:43 --> 01:11:46

to that Jewish tribe that got kicked out

01:11:46 --> 01:11:49

of Medina and says, you know what happened?

01:11:50 --> 01:11:54

Those Qurayshis in Mecca, instead of sending you

01:11:54 --> 01:11:56

guys back to Medina because you guys lived

01:11:56 --> 01:11:58

there, they took one of their own people

01:11:58 --> 01:11:59

and sent them back in there.

01:12:00 --> 01:12:01

So they're in there right now.

01:12:01 --> 01:12:02

How does that make you guys look?

01:12:03 --> 01:12:08

So now this tension started to boil between

01:12:08 --> 01:12:10

the Qurayshis themselves, right?

01:12:11 --> 01:12:12

What do we call this today, by the

01:12:12 --> 01:12:12

way?

01:12:12 --> 01:12:19

There's a name for this kind of, I

01:12:19 --> 01:12:23

wrote it down here.

01:12:25 --> 01:12:28

Anyhow, there's a specific name for this.

01:12:29 --> 01:12:35

And the point is, is that he basically

01:12:35 --> 01:12:37

created propaganda.

01:12:38 --> 01:12:40

Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.

01:12:40 --> 01:12:43

He created this propaganda and everyone started to

01:12:43 --> 01:12:44

believe this.

01:12:44 --> 01:12:45

And that's it.

01:12:45 --> 01:12:47

Everybody started to believe the Qurayshis now are

01:12:47 --> 01:12:49

going against this tribe when they're supposed to

01:12:49 --> 01:12:50

be on the same team.

01:12:50 --> 01:12:51

And now who are these people in Medina?

01:12:51 --> 01:12:53

And it just created this disconnect.

01:12:54 --> 01:12:55

So now they have tension amongst themselves.

01:12:56 --> 01:12:58

You know, all this, do we have the

01:12:58 --> 01:13:02

same strategy amongst Muslims from everyone else around?

01:13:02 --> 01:13:04

Is that also being used against us today?

01:13:05 --> 01:13:07

You know, one of the, I don't like

01:13:07 --> 01:13:09

to get into politics, but I mean, one

01:13:09 --> 01:13:13

of the reasons why most of Muslim countries

01:13:13 --> 01:13:17

are constantly being invaded and there's this disruption

01:13:17 --> 01:13:19

and things of that nature is to create

01:13:19 --> 01:13:22

this chaos, right?

01:13:22 --> 01:13:24

One of the reasons why, and this is

01:13:24 --> 01:13:25

happening since the time of the Prophet Ali

01:13:25 --> 01:13:26

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

01:13:26 --> 01:13:29

When you can go into a people that

01:13:29 --> 01:13:33

have always cooperated and got along with each

01:13:33 --> 01:13:36

other, with their neighbors and the extended community

01:13:36 --> 01:13:38

and other countries and go and flip that

01:13:38 --> 01:13:40

upside down and disrupt it.

01:13:40 --> 01:13:42

Now, when it comes time for them to

01:13:42 --> 01:13:45

come together, to defend, to protect, to provide,

01:13:45 --> 01:13:47

it's absolute disaster.

01:13:47 --> 01:13:49

The entire government system has collapsed.

01:13:49 --> 01:13:52

The political system has been completely collapsed.

01:13:52 --> 01:13:56

We see examples of that all day, every

01:13:56 --> 01:13:56

day.

01:13:57 --> 01:14:00

Just think back of every Muslim country, you

01:14:00 --> 01:14:03

know, and just think back of all that's

01:14:03 --> 01:14:05

happened, what it's caused.

01:14:05 --> 01:14:07

Like, I mean, again, like there's obviously much

01:14:07 --> 01:14:09

more to it, but just on this one

01:14:09 --> 01:14:12

point and relating it to this situation, it's

01:14:12 --> 01:14:15

all, it's very interesting, but not new.

01:14:16 --> 01:14:17

So the crops are low.

01:14:18 --> 01:14:18

We talked about this.

01:14:19 --> 01:14:19

Weather is freezing.

01:14:20 --> 01:14:21

Times are extremely tough.

01:14:21 --> 01:14:24

The Sahabas were reciting these poems while they're

01:14:24 --> 01:14:25

digging the trench.

01:14:28 --> 01:14:31

We are those who have sworn allegiance to

01:14:31 --> 01:14:33

Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

01:14:33 --> 01:14:35

You know, they're saying this in Arabic, but

01:14:35 --> 01:14:37

this is just the meaning that I, just

01:14:37 --> 01:14:39

look at the wording.

01:14:40 --> 01:14:41

We are those who have sworn that we

01:14:41 --> 01:14:44

will support the Prophet Ali Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

01:14:44 --> 01:14:46

in this struggle, in this battle of jihad

01:14:46 --> 01:14:48

forever, as long as we live, we will

01:14:48 --> 01:14:49

give our life for him.

01:14:50 --> 01:14:51

The Prophet Ali Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he

01:14:51 --> 01:14:54

hears that, he replies, Oh Allah, there is

01:14:54 --> 01:14:55

no life except the life of the hereafter.

01:14:56 --> 01:14:58

So honor the Ansar and the immigrants, the

01:14:58 --> 01:15:00

Muhajirs with your generosity.

01:15:00 --> 01:15:01

Just give them more.

01:15:02 --> 01:15:06

So this, you know, militaries always do that.

01:15:07 --> 01:15:09

Like they'll be chanting different slogans.

01:15:09 --> 01:15:11

One, two, three, four.

01:15:11 --> 01:15:13

Who's the best of them all?

01:15:13 --> 01:15:15

And they'll just have like these slogans and

01:15:15 --> 01:15:17

different things to get everybody all riled up,

01:15:17 --> 01:15:19

to get everybody in a certain like mode

01:15:19 --> 01:15:21

and a certain focus.

01:15:21 --> 01:15:23

So it's kind of like a similar thing.

01:15:23 --> 01:15:26

But look at the words that they're chanting.

01:15:26 --> 01:15:28

You know, it's all about love for Allah,

01:15:29 --> 01:15:30

love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

01:15:30 --> 01:15:31

We're in this, we're in this this day.

01:15:32 --> 01:15:34

We all know that stories, was the Prophet

01:15:34 --> 01:15:36

Ali Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also part of digging

01:15:36 --> 01:15:37

the trench?

01:15:37 --> 01:15:38

Yeah.

01:15:39 --> 01:15:41

The Prophet Ali Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in

01:15:41 --> 01:15:43

the trench working with the rest of them.

01:15:45 --> 01:15:48

So this was also the media propaganda.

01:15:49 --> 01:15:51

So the same name that we shared with

01:15:51 --> 01:15:51

you earlier.

01:15:53 --> 01:15:57

And this trench strategy was extremely successful.

01:15:57 --> 01:15:59

How much of the Muslims were lost in

01:15:59 --> 01:16:01

the battle of Ahzab, students?

01:16:01 --> 01:16:04

Yeah, about five or so, or even less,

01:16:04 --> 01:16:06

excuse me, even a little more, five to

01:16:06 --> 01:16:06

seven, right?

01:16:06 --> 01:16:08

And how much of the Qurayshis?

01:16:09 --> 01:16:11

Yeah, two or three.

01:16:12 --> 01:16:13

That's it.

01:16:13 --> 01:16:15

So in terms of loss of life in

01:16:15 --> 01:16:17

comparison to all the other battles, it was,

01:16:18 --> 01:16:20

they were able to keep that and hold

01:16:20 --> 01:16:21

that together.

01:16:21 --> 01:16:23

This is the name that I wanted you

01:16:23 --> 01:16:26

to write down of the one who confronted

01:16:26 --> 01:16:26

Ali.

01:16:26 --> 01:16:30

Amr ibn Abdul-Wad, Amr ibn Abdul-Wad.

01:16:31 --> 01:16:34

He was also called Waddan and Waddun and

01:16:34 --> 01:16:34

Wud.

01:16:34 --> 01:16:36

Doesn't matter, all of it the same.

01:16:36 --> 01:16:37

This is the name, okay?

01:16:37 --> 01:16:39

So don't mix the two that I did,

01:16:39 --> 01:16:41

just hopefully that's clear.

01:16:41 --> 01:16:42

So this is the individual.

01:16:42 --> 01:16:43

Look how old he was.

01:16:46 --> 01:16:47

He was a beast.

01:16:52 --> 01:16:52

No, no, no.

01:16:52 --> 01:16:55

That was the one who was sent to

01:16:55 --> 01:16:57

Mecca and did all of that propaganda.

01:16:57 --> 01:16:58

Yeah, that's one.

01:16:59 --> 01:17:00

And now this is a second name.

01:17:00 --> 01:17:01

This person here, yeah.

01:17:03 --> 01:17:03

Yeah.

01:17:09 --> 01:17:11

Yeah, so this was, yeah.

01:17:12 --> 01:17:15

No, no, this was all prior to him

01:17:15 --> 01:17:17

before he became Muslim, right?

01:17:17 --> 01:17:19

But he was somebody that was not an

01:17:19 --> 01:17:20

enemy to them.

01:17:20 --> 01:17:21

Just because he was a Muslim doesn't mean

01:17:21 --> 01:17:22

that he wasn't an enemy.

01:17:23 --> 01:17:26

He recognized the leader of the Muslims and

01:17:26 --> 01:17:28

he would refer to him as Ya Rasulullah.

01:17:28 --> 01:17:30

And all he did is like, would that

01:17:30 --> 01:17:30

be okay with you?

01:17:30 --> 01:17:31

I go to them and I just talk

01:17:31 --> 01:17:34

to them and see, this would be in

01:17:34 --> 01:17:37

your, this would be an option to you.

01:17:37 --> 01:17:39

It'll be a benefit to you.

01:17:39 --> 01:17:40

So okay, Ya Rasulullah, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

01:17:40 --> 01:17:41

gives them, okay.

01:17:42 --> 01:17:43

This is the one and only time this

01:17:43 --> 01:17:46

ever happened anywhere in Islamic history where one

01:17:46 --> 01:17:47

person was allowed to do this.

01:17:47 --> 01:17:50

Media propaganda and creating that sort of thing

01:17:51 --> 01:17:54

is something that scholars discuss in great detail.

01:17:55 --> 01:17:57

And obviously it has a lot to do

01:17:57 --> 01:18:00

with the whole honesty factor and how much

01:18:00 --> 01:18:03

you can bend certain things in order for

01:18:03 --> 01:18:06

defense and protection for yourself and people, right?

01:18:06 --> 01:18:07

Which is a separate subject by itself.

01:18:08 --> 01:18:10

But Amr ibn al-Wad, this is the

01:18:10 --> 01:18:10

man.

01:18:10 --> 01:18:13

I'm glad I wrote it down here.

01:18:17 --> 01:18:17

No, no, no.

01:18:17 --> 01:18:19

That's the other name that I gave you.

01:18:19 --> 01:18:20

This person here.

01:18:21 --> 01:18:24

Amr al-Rahe, Abu Amr al-Rahe.

01:18:25 --> 01:18:26

Yeah, yeah.

01:18:26 --> 01:18:30

This was prior for him becoming Muslim.

01:18:31 --> 01:18:34

But just because he wasn't Muslim, it didn't

01:18:34 --> 01:18:35

mean that he was an enemy to them,

01:18:36 --> 01:18:36

right?

01:18:37 --> 01:18:40

We don't know anything about this individual except

01:18:40 --> 01:18:41

this name.

01:18:41 --> 01:18:43

This one story seems to be a tribute

01:18:43 --> 01:18:43

to him.

01:18:44 --> 01:18:45

When I did research on it, I found

01:18:45 --> 01:18:47

several other versions, but they were all very,

01:18:48 --> 01:18:49

they were very strange.

01:18:49 --> 01:18:50

So I don't wanna use them, right?

01:18:50 --> 01:18:52

This would seem to be one of the

01:18:52 --> 01:18:54

more common versions of this story.

01:18:54 --> 01:18:56

So I will leave it at that.

01:18:56 --> 01:18:56

It's very long.

01:18:56 --> 01:18:59

I think I came across maybe, this was

01:18:59 --> 01:19:02

months ago, maybe six or seven different versions.

01:19:02 --> 01:19:04

Some of them very long, and they mentioned

01:19:04 --> 01:19:07

all sorts of things that we don't need

01:19:07 --> 01:19:08

to talk about.

01:19:09 --> 01:19:14

So this individual now, Amr ibn Abdulwad.

01:19:15 --> 01:19:17

He is the one that verses Ali radiallahu

01:19:17 --> 01:19:17

anhu.

01:19:17 --> 01:19:20

Amr is a 98-year-old warrior.

01:19:20 --> 01:19:22

So this man was extremely tough.

01:19:22 --> 01:19:25

And he is also the leader of all

01:19:25 --> 01:19:28

of the warriors of the Qurayshi then, okay?

01:19:29 --> 01:19:29

He's the leader.

01:19:30 --> 01:19:32

Like this is their most powerful guy.

01:19:33 --> 01:19:34

It's amazing.

01:19:34 --> 01:19:38

Out of 10,000, a 90-year-old

01:19:38 --> 01:19:39

is their guy.

01:19:40 --> 01:19:41

So he was a beast.

01:19:42 --> 01:19:47

So when he confronts Ali radiallahu anhu, it

01:19:47 --> 01:19:51

was said that Ali had a beard that

01:19:51 --> 01:19:55

extended from one shoulder to the next, okay?

01:19:56 --> 01:19:59

He was also a large, big man.

01:20:00 --> 01:20:04

And he was also the guy that the

01:20:04 --> 01:20:06

companions would turn to.

01:20:06 --> 01:20:09

The stronger, the more brave, the more powerful,

01:20:09 --> 01:20:10

all of that stuff.

01:20:10 --> 01:20:13

There's a story of Ali radiallahu anhu who

01:20:13 --> 01:20:14

one day stood in front of all of

01:20:14 --> 01:20:18

his friends, the other companions, and said, and

01:20:18 --> 01:20:19

they were wrestling backwards.

01:20:19 --> 01:20:22

He's pinning everybody down with ease, throwing them.

01:20:22 --> 01:20:24

Not the wrestling you see like WWF.

01:20:24 --> 01:20:25

That's not real.

01:20:25 --> 01:20:25

That's not wrestling.

01:20:26 --> 01:20:29

Wrestling in its classical sense was that you

01:20:29 --> 01:20:32

push and shove and you try to drop

01:20:32 --> 01:20:34

the person to the ground and pin them

01:20:34 --> 01:20:34

there.

01:20:34 --> 01:20:35

Once you drop them, you're done.

01:20:35 --> 01:20:38

But it's all about brute strength.

01:20:38 --> 01:20:40

You're not doing like pile drivers and swing

01:20:40 --> 01:20:41

them and stand on a rope and fly.

01:20:41 --> 01:20:42

None of that stuff, right?

01:20:43 --> 01:20:45

So Ali proved that he was the guy.

01:20:45 --> 01:20:47

And he started to boast one day.

01:20:47 --> 01:20:49

He's like, nobody can pin me to the

01:20:49 --> 01:20:49

ground.

01:20:49 --> 01:20:50

I got all you guys.

01:20:51 --> 01:20:55

So there's a person there, the Prophet alayhi

01:20:55 --> 01:20:55

salatu wasalam.

01:20:56 --> 01:20:58

And he asks and he says, did everybody

01:20:58 --> 01:21:01

have a chance to wrestle you?

01:21:01 --> 01:21:03

So Ali said, yeah.

01:21:03 --> 01:21:05

So the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam says, no,

01:21:05 --> 01:21:05

no, no.

01:21:05 --> 01:21:07

There's one more person that hasn't had a

01:21:07 --> 01:21:08

chance.

01:21:08 --> 01:21:09

So Ali got all tough.

01:21:10 --> 01:21:12

And he's like, okay, who's this person?

01:21:12 --> 01:21:13

Bring him to me.

01:21:13 --> 01:21:14

So the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam says, listen,

01:21:14 --> 01:21:17

tomorrow after dhuhr come under a certain area,

01:21:17 --> 01:21:19

he pointed to an area under a tree

01:21:19 --> 01:21:22

and said, come after dhuhr there, and you'll

01:21:22 --> 01:21:23

meet this person.

01:21:23 --> 01:21:26

Next day, Ali is there right after dhuhr.

01:21:26 --> 01:21:28

Staying, waiting, real pumped, ready to see who's

01:21:28 --> 01:21:30

this guy that would be his first challenge.

01:21:31 --> 01:21:32

And this man comes up to him and

01:21:32 --> 01:21:34

his face is all covered.

01:21:35 --> 01:21:37

And the man just looks at Ali and

01:21:37 --> 01:21:39

says, al-ula, round one.

01:21:40 --> 01:21:42

So they shove and push back, and the

01:21:42 --> 01:21:44

man pins Ali to the ground.

01:21:45 --> 01:21:47

So Ali gets a little confused, gets back

01:21:47 --> 01:21:47

up.

01:21:47 --> 01:21:48

He's like, okay, let's do it again.

01:21:48 --> 01:21:51

So the man says, al-thani, round two.

01:21:52 --> 01:21:54

Back and forth, back and forth, pins him

01:21:54 --> 01:21:55

to the ground.

01:21:55 --> 01:21:57

So Ali is like, who are you?

01:21:57 --> 01:21:59

Gets up, do it a third time.

01:22:00 --> 01:22:02

And after the third time he gets pinned

01:22:02 --> 01:22:05

to the ground, he's begging, please tell me

01:22:05 --> 01:22:05

who you are.

01:22:05 --> 01:22:06

This is crazy.

01:22:07 --> 01:22:07

Guess who it is?

01:22:10 --> 01:22:12

The Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam.

01:22:14 --> 01:22:16

So Ali was the man, but there was

01:22:16 --> 01:22:18

a man above the man.

01:22:18 --> 01:22:21

So the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam, and they

01:22:21 --> 01:22:23

had a big laugh about it, actually.

01:22:24 --> 01:22:25

It was narrated that you could see the

01:22:25 --> 01:22:28

Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam's molar teeth, how he

01:22:28 --> 01:22:30

smiled, and they enjoyed that moment.

01:22:30 --> 01:22:32

Which, you know, there's so many things that

01:22:32 --> 01:22:33

come out of situations like that, but the

01:22:33 --> 01:22:36

point is, is that it highlights Ali was

01:22:36 --> 01:22:36

the guy.

01:22:37 --> 01:22:40

So Ali radiallahu anhu, when he saw this

01:22:40 --> 01:22:42

90-year-old crossing the trench, and he

01:22:42 --> 01:22:44

got out in the front, and he started

01:22:44 --> 01:22:48

to chant, ha, ha, ha, who's gonna step

01:22:48 --> 01:22:48

up to be who?

01:22:48 --> 01:22:50

And he started doing this, boasting in front

01:22:50 --> 01:22:50

of them.

01:22:51 --> 01:22:53

So Ali does this, there's the three.

01:22:53 --> 01:22:55

So I'll give you three options.

01:22:55 --> 01:22:56

Number one, become Muslim.

01:22:56 --> 01:22:58

Because if you become Muslim, what's gonna happen?

01:22:59 --> 01:22:59

It's done.

01:23:00 --> 01:23:02

Or number two, go back.

01:23:02 --> 01:23:04

Or number three, fight me.

01:23:05 --> 01:23:07

So he's like, number one and two, forget

01:23:07 --> 01:23:08

about it.

01:23:08 --> 01:23:09

Let's go at number three.

01:23:10 --> 01:23:12

So you have the best on one side,

01:23:14 --> 01:23:17

the best on this side, and Ali kills

01:23:17 --> 01:23:17

him.

01:23:18 --> 01:23:20

Radiallahu anhu, Ali kills this man.

01:23:22 --> 01:23:22

Yeah.

01:23:24 --> 01:23:27

So the Quraishis now, when they see their

01:23:27 --> 01:23:33

best was finished, Allah sends these powerful, strong

01:23:33 --> 01:23:33

winds.

01:23:33 --> 01:23:35

This is all happening in the midst of

01:23:35 --> 01:23:37

this, Quraishi resources, which we've already talked about.

01:23:38 --> 01:23:42

So now this is when panic really set

01:23:42 --> 01:23:43

in for the Quraish.

01:23:44 --> 01:23:46

Now they really like, what are we gonna

01:23:46 --> 01:23:46

do here?

01:23:47 --> 01:23:48

So look what Allah says next.

01:23:48 --> 01:23:52

Idh ja'ookum min fawqikum wa min asfala

01:23:52 --> 01:23:53

minkum.

01:23:53 --> 01:23:56

I call this a satellite view of the

01:23:56 --> 01:23:57

battle of Ahzab.

01:23:59 --> 01:24:02

Ken, if you're standing on the Northern side,

01:24:03 --> 01:24:07

okay, of any city, are you able to

01:24:07 --> 01:24:08

see what's going on on the Southern side

01:24:08 --> 01:24:09

just by standing?

01:24:10 --> 01:24:10

No.

01:24:11 --> 01:24:14

Now, today, we have technology.

01:24:14 --> 01:24:16

You can send drones and you can connect

01:24:16 --> 01:24:18

a satellite and you can get intel and

01:24:18 --> 01:24:20

you can know not only what's happening on

01:24:20 --> 01:24:22

the other side, but what's happening anywhere else

01:24:22 --> 01:24:23

in the world without being there.

01:24:24 --> 01:24:26

So they don't have this, but you know

01:24:26 --> 01:24:28

what they do have, the companions?

01:24:28 --> 01:24:31

They have Allah giving them ayat about this.

01:24:31 --> 01:24:33

So look what Allah tells them next.

01:24:34 --> 01:24:36

Idh ja'ookum min fawqikum.

01:24:36 --> 01:24:38

Remember when they came at you from the

01:24:38 --> 01:24:38

East and West?

01:24:40 --> 01:24:42

So they came at you, the Quraishis, and

01:24:42 --> 01:24:43

they entered.

01:24:43 --> 01:24:45

Remember we said the entrance point of Medina

01:24:45 --> 01:24:47

from the Eastern and Western side?

01:24:47 --> 01:24:51

So remember when they came, when your eyes

01:24:51 --> 01:24:53

grew wild in horror.

01:24:54 --> 01:24:57

So what ended up happening when the companions

01:24:57 --> 01:24:58

saw all of this?

01:24:59 --> 01:24:59

They're humans.

01:25:00 --> 01:25:04

So this sense of like fear, they got

01:25:04 --> 01:25:05

really frightened.

01:25:07 --> 01:25:08

And look what happened.

01:25:09 --> 01:25:11

So they get this aerial view now from

01:25:11 --> 01:25:14

Allah that they're coming between these two ends

01:25:14 --> 01:25:15

of the city.

01:25:15 --> 01:25:17

Now we have technology that does this.

01:25:17 --> 01:25:19

Now we break down the ayah.

01:25:20 --> 01:25:22

When the companions saw this, they were scared,

01:25:22 --> 01:25:24

but they were well-composed.

01:25:24 --> 01:25:26

They did not get out of their mind,

01:25:26 --> 01:25:27

lose their focus.

01:25:27 --> 01:25:29

They knew exactly what they were doing.

01:25:29 --> 01:25:31

When they were building the trench, that was

01:25:31 --> 01:25:35

the benefit of constantly chanting those phrases, right?

01:25:35 --> 01:25:37

To re-inform and to stay strong when

01:25:37 --> 01:25:39

the moment becomes the moment.

01:25:39 --> 01:25:40

What ends up happening?

01:25:41 --> 01:25:44

Remember amongst the 3,000, there are who

01:25:44 --> 01:25:45

amongst them?

01:25:46 --> 01:25:48

The troublemakers of Medina, right?

01:25:49 --> 01:25:51

So now you have these hypocrites.

01:25:52 --> 01:25:55

They are the ones that lose their mind.

01:25:55 --> 01:25:57

So look what happens to them.

01:25:57 --> 01:25:58

The first thing they ever gets away, the

01:25:58 --> 01:26:01

zaghat al-absar, when their eyes rolled up

01:26:01 --> 01:26:02

and they're petrified.

01:26:02 --> 01:26:04

You know when somebody gets really scared, they

01:26:04 --> 01:26:07

kind of do this and they freeze.

01:26:08 --> 01:26:10

That's what zaghat al-absar.

01:26:10 --> 01:26:12

It's like their eyes roll up and they

01:26:12 --> 01:26:13

just can't see.

01:26:13 --> 01:26:15

They can, they're so fearful.

01:26:15 --> 01:26:16

They see trouble coming.

01:26:17 --> 01:26:19

They know it's gonna hit them and they

01:26:19 --> 01:26:20

just can't even look at it.

01:26:20 --> 01:26:22

So naturally, sometimes what happens?

01:26:22 --> 01:26:24

The eyeballs literally roll up.

01:26:24 --> 01:26:28

Then number two, wabalghat al-quloobu al-hanajir.

01:26:28 --> 01:26:31

Their hearts were reaching into their throats.

01:26:31 --> 01:26:36

Hanajir, so just before you, when you swallow,

01:26:37 --> 01:26:38

you make a slight sound.

01:26:39 --> 01:26:42

Once you've swallowed something, that little gulp sound,

01:26:42 --> 01:26:44

that's called hanajir.

01:26:44 --> 01:26:47

What ended up happening with these munafiqoon, their

01:26:47 --> 01:26:50

hearts reached into their throats, which means like

01:26:50 --> 01:26:53

they were so scared that it felt like

01:26:53 --> 01:26:55

their heart was gonna come out of their

01:26:55 --> 01:26:56

throat out of fear.

01:26:57 --> 01:27:01

The companions would have never known this.

01:27:01 --> 01:27:04

It's only through the Prophet Alayhi Salatu Wasalam

01:27:04 --> 01:27:09

that they knew, wait a minute, amongst us

01:27:09 --> 01:27:14

3,000, there are people who are here

01:27:14 --> 01:27:16

and they're not here for the right reasons.

01:27:17 --> 01:27:20

So this situation might turn a lot worse

01:27:20 --> 01:27:22

than it already is.

01:27:22 --> 01:27:27

So now the split happens where the true

01:27:27 --> 01:27:29

companions, as opposed to the hypocrites, now become

01:27:29 --> 01:27:30

clearer and clearer.

01:27:31 --> 01:27:33

In the midst of all of this, guess

01:27:33 --> 01:27:36

who's still shouting and whispering to this person?

01:27:37 --> 01:27:38

See, I told you he'd set you up.

01:27:38 --> 01:27:40

I told you this was gonna be a

01:27:40 --> 01:27:40

disaster.

01:27:40 --> 01:27:41

Who's doing that?

01:27:42 --> 01:27:47

Abdullah ibn Salul, still there doing this.

01:27:47 --> 01:27:50

He did the exact same thing in Uhud.

01:27:50 --> 01:27:57

Uhud, 300 plus companions fell to the rumors

01:27:57 --> 01:27:59

that Abdullah ibn Salul started.

01:28:00 --> 01:28:02

So it went from about 1,000 persons

01:28:02 --> 01:28:04

amongst the Sahabas in the Battle of Uhud,

01:28:05 --> 01:28:08

and it decreased to about 700 or less.

01:28:08 --> 01:28:11

300 plus fell into the propaganda of this

01:28:11 --> 01:28:11

guy.

01:28:12 --> 01:28:13

And so they all just like, you know

01:28:13 --> 01:28:13

what?

01:28:14 --> 01:28:14

We're out, gone.

01:28:15 --> 01:28:17

Here though, this is the second round.

01:28:18 --> 01:28:18

They didn't do that.

01:28:18 --> 01:28:20

They didn't say, look, we're gonna go back

01:28:20 --> 01:28:20

home.

01:28:20 --> 01:28:22

We're gonna hide under the bed or something.

01:28:22 --> 01:28:23

They didn't do that like they did in

01:28:23 --> 01:28:24

Uhud, the hypocrites.

01:28:24 --> 01:28:26

What they did this time is like, look,

01:28:26 --> 01:28:28

and we learned the first time we got

01:28:28 --> 01:28:28

caught.

01:28:28 --> 01:28:29

Everybody knew who we were.

01:28:29 --> 01:28:30

We can't let that happen.

01:28:30 --> 01:28:32

So let's just go along with this one

01:28:32 --> 01:28:33

and let's blend in.

01:28:34 --> 01:28:37

But Allah calls them out and Allah points

01:28:37 --> 01:28:37

out.

01:28:37 --> 01:28:38

Here's the third.

01:28:38 --> 01:28:40

Watathununa billahi thununa.

01:28:40 --> 01:28:43

What kinds of bad assumptions they had about

01:28:43 --> 01:28:43

Allah.

01:28:44 --> 01:28:46

So this is to add that if it's

01:28:46 --> 01:28:47

not the prophet, it's gotta be this God

01:28:47 --> 01:28:49

of his, this creator of his that he

01:28:49 --> 01:28:51

keeps talking about that's gonna protect him.

01:28:52 --> 01:28:54

And look what he set us up to

01:28:54 --> 01:28:54

do.

01:28:55 --> 01:28:59

Hunalika bituliyal mu'minoona wa zulzilu zilzalan shadeeda.

01:29:00 --> 01:29:03

Then and there, the believers were put to

01:29:03 --> 01:29:06

the test and were violently shaken.

01:29:07 --> 01:29:08

What's the test here, students?

01:29:11 --> 01:29:11

What's the test?

01:29:13 --> 01:29:15

What's the test that Allah is putting, is

01:29:15 --> 01:29:16

making reference to here?

01:29:18 --> 01:29:20

It's the battle itself, but there's something else.

01:29:23 --> 01:29:27

It's their faith, their commitment, their trust that's

01:29:27 --> 01:29:30

still being trialed and tested.

01:29:30 --> 01:29:31

Because why?

01:29:31 --> 01:29:33

Everything, like we talked about, everything is just

01:29:33 --> 01:29:33

against them.

01:29:34 --> 01:29:36

It looks like they're just losing more and

01:29:36 --> 01:29:36

more.

01:29:37 --> 01:29:40

Wa idh yaqoolu almunafiqoona walladheena fee quloobihim marald.

01:29:41 --> 01:29:43

This is one of the only ayat that

01:29:43 --> 01:29:46

this happens to where Allah does a distinct

01:29:46 --> 01:29:48

separation of two things.

01:29:48 --> 01:29:52

When they're hypocrites, that's one group, but then

01:29:52 --> 01:29:55

there is, and those with sickness in their

01:29:55 --> 01:29:56

hearts.

01:29:59 --> 01:30:04

Munafiqoon are people who are sick, spiritually sick

01:30:04 --> 01:30:04

in the heart.

01:30:05 --> 01:30:10

But this ayah is now singling out another

01:30:10 --> 01:30:10

group.

01:30:11 --> 01:30:13

So who is this group?

01:30:14 --> 01:30:16

And remember when the hypocrites and those with

01:30:16 --> 01:30:18

the sickness in their hearts said Allah and

01:30:18 --> 01:30:21

his messenger has promised us nothing but delusion.

01:30:23 --> 01:30:25

Who's the second group, the sickness of the

01:30:25 --> 01:30:25

hearts?

01:30:26 --> 01:30:27

Who's this group?

01:30:30 --> 01:30:34

Think about who the munafiqoon are trying to

01:30:34 --> 01:30:36

talk to and influence.

01:30:37 --> 01:30:41

The ones who fall into that influence and

01:30:41 --> 01:30:43

they believe what the munafiqoon said.

01:30:44 --> 01:30:47

Allah says that those individuals, you see what's

01:30:47 --> 01:30:50

amazing is that Allah did not call those

01:30:50 --> 01:30:53

who believe the hypocrites, he didn't call them

01:30:53 --> 01:30:54

hypocrites.

01:30:55 --> 01:30:56

Everybody understand?

01:30:56 --> 01:31:01

When hypocrites came to them, said your prophet

01:31:01 --> 01:31:03

is this, the battle is this, you're destined,

01:31:03 --> 01:31:04

you're doomed, it's all over.

01:31:05 --> 01:31:06

And they said, you know what?

01:31:07 --> 01:31:08

You're right.

01:31:08 --> 01:31:10

This is gonna happen just like what happened

01:31:10 --> 01:31:11

in Uhud.

01:31:11 --> 01:31:13

So I'm out, I'm going, okay.

01:31:13 --> 01:31:14

Thanks for letting us know.

01:31:15 --> 01:31:18

Allah didn't call the ones who fell into

01:31:18 --> 01:31:19

that propaganda.

01:31:19 --> 01:31:20

He didn't call them hypocrites.

01:31:21 --> 01:31:24

He called them those who have a sickness

01:31:24 --> 01:31:26

in the heart because it is something still

01:31:26 --> 01:31:30

very important and it's a tragedy with respect

01:31:30 --> 01:31:30

to their faith.

01:31:31 --> 01:31:36

That that commitment and trust with Allah and

01:31:36 --> 01:31:39

his messenger was not fully there as yet.

01:31:41 --> 01:31:45

Wa illa ghurura, except that they've started saying

01:31:45 --> 01:31:47

and they continue to spread the same message

01:31:47 --> 01:31:49

to others as well, that this was all

01:31:49 --> 01:31:49

ghurura.

01:31:53 --> 01:31:56

We will just start this one and pause

01:31:56 --> 01:31:56

here inshallah.

01:31:56 --> 01:31:59

Wa ithqala atta'ifatum minhum ya ahla yathriba

01:31:59 --> 01:32:01

la muqamalakum farjiroon.

01:32:01 --> 01:32:03

Remember when a group of them amongst the

01:32:03 --> 01:32:05

hypocrites, they said, all people of Yathrib.

01:32:06 --> 01:32:07

What was Yathrib?

01:32:08 --> 01:32:10

We used to be the old name of

01:32:10 --> 01:32:10

Medina.

01:32:10 --> 01:32:11

What did the prophet Ali Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

01:32:11 --> 01:32:12

do?

01:32:12 --> 01:32:14

He changed it to Medina tul al-munawwara,

01:32:14 --> 01:32:15

the city of lights.

01:32:16 --> 01:32:19

The munafiqun still kept calling Medina what?

01:32:20 --> 01:32:21

He said the people of Yathrib.

01:32:21 --> 01:32:23

This is the only ayah in the entire

01:32:23 --> 01:32:26

Quran where Medina is referred to by the

01:32:26 --> 01:32:28

old name, this ayah alone.

01:32:28 --> 01:32:31

Which means, what are they still trying to

01:32:31 --> 01:32:31

do, the hypocrites?

01:32:32 --> 01:32:35

They're trying to call on the people's emotions

01:32:35 --> 01:32:37

and make the city Yathrib again, rather than

01:32:37 --> 01:32:38

Medina.

01:32:38 --> 01:32:40

Do we see a version of this today?

01:32:46 --> 01:32:48

Instead of calling it Palestine, you call it

01:32:48 --> 01:32:48

what?

01:32:50 --> 01:32:52

Do you see, we see the same thing

01:32:52 --> 01:32:53

today.

01:32:53 --> 01:32:54

So they're doing the same thing.

01:32:55 --> 01:32:57

They're like, oh, people of Yathrib.

01:32:57 --> 01:33:00

Forget this whole Medina, it's Yathrib now, okay?

01:33:01 --> 01:33:02

It's always been Yathrib.

01:33:03 --> 01:33:04

Same exact thing.

01:33:04 --> 01:33:06

This is one of the reasons why this

01:33:06 --> 01:33:09

surah is so important in today's world, right?

01:33:09 --> 01:33:12

So they're doing this to get to the

01:33:12 --> 01:33:13

emotions of the people.

01:33:13 --> 01:33:15

There's no point in you staying.

01:33:15 --> 01:33:17

So, la muqamalakum farji' Go back.

01:33:17 --> 01:33:19

So go back to where you came from.

01:33:19 --> 01:33:20

Go back to your homes.

01:33:20 --> 01:33:21

Go, just don't waste your time here.

01:33:22 --> 01:33:28

wasta'dhino wayasta'dhino fariqun minhumun nabi Another group of

01:33:28 --> 01:33:30

them asked the Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam.

01:33:32 --> 01:33:34

So the hypocrites are encouraging.

01:33:34 --> 01:33:35

Some of them leave.

01:33:36 --> 01:33:38

Some others, they're like, okay, you know what?

01:33:38 --> 01:33:39

Hypocrites, just wait a second.

01:33:39 --> 01:33:41

Let me go ask the Prophet, alayhi salatu

01:33:41 --> 01:33:42

wasalam, is it okay to just leave?

01:33:42 --> 01:33:43

I don't wanna participate in this battle.

01:33:44 --> 01:33:45

So a group of them asked the Prophet

01:33:45 --> 01:33:48

to leave, saying our homes are vulnerable.

01:33:49 --> 01:33:50

So this is some of the excuses they

01:33:50 --> 01:33:50

came up with.

01:33:51 --> 01:33:52

How do you go to your leader and

01:33:52 --> 01:33:54

be like, okay, listen, I don't wanna take

01:33:54 --> 01:33:55

part in this battle, but I don't want

01:33:55 --> 01:33:57

you to think that I'm a coward.

01:33:57 --> 01:34:01

So listen, somebody's gotta be back in the

01:34:01 --> 01:34:03

homes and protected and make sure the Quraishis

01:34:03 --> 01:34:05

don't get into our homes and steal our

01:34:05 --> 01:34:08

children and our food and our wives.

01:34:08 --> 01:34:10

And so somebody needs to, I'll take it

01:34:10 --> 01:34:12

upon myself, Ya Rasulullah, to protect this village,

01:34:13 --> 01:34:14

protect this community.

01:34:15 --> 01:34:16

So that's what they said.

01:34:16 --> 01:34:17

Our homes are vulnerable.

01:34:19 --> 01:34:23

wayaquluna inna buyutuna awrah wama hiya bi awrah

01:34:23 --> 01:34:26

in yuriduna illa firara While in fact, they

01:34:26 --> 01:34:27

were not vulnerable.

01:34:27 --> 01:34:29

They only wished to run away.

01:34:29 --> 01:34:31

So Allah exposed really.

01:34:32 --> 01:34:34

Awrah, we all know this word, which literally

01:34:34 --> 01:34:36

means like a hole in the wall, something

01:34:36 --> 01:34:38

that should be covered or shielded, and now

01:34:38 --> 01:34:39

it's exposed.

01:34:39 --> 01:34:42

So that's why the privates are referred to

01:34:42 --> 01:34:46

as awrah, because they should be covered, but

01:34:46 --> 01:34:49

now in this case here, they are exposed.

01:34:49 --> 01:34:53

So Allah says, buyutuna awrah, which is one

01:34:53 --> 01:34:55

of the names of houses in the Quran

01:34:55 --> 01:34:55

as well.

01:34:55 --> 01:34:57

It's also called awrah, right?

01:34:57 --> 01:35:00

It should be shielded, it's private, but in

01:35:00 --> 01:35:01

this case here, they were saying, no, no,

01:35:01 --> 01:35:03

no, it's vulnerable, it's exposed.

01:35:03 --> 01:35:04

The Quraishis could get in there.

01:35:05 --> 01:35:07

And Allah said, no, no, no, they were

01:35:07 --> 01:35:07

not vulnerable.

01:35:08 --> 01:35:11

They were completely safe.

01:35:12 --> 01:35:13

They only wish to use that as an

01:35:13 --> 01:35:14

excuse to run away.

01:35:15 --> 01:35:16

And let's pause there, inshallah.

01:35:17 --> 01:35:21

Subhanakallahumna wabihamdika sharwallailahilalatastaghfiruka watubu ilayk.

01:35:22 --> 01:35:23

Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

01:35:24 --> 01:35:24

Anybody have any questions?

01:35:25 --> 01:35:25

Go ahead.

01:35:29 --> 01:35:29

Yeah.

01:35:30 --> 01:35:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:35:33 --> 01:35:33

Yeah.

01:35:33 --> 01:35:38

So in verse 11, you see he said,

01:35:39 --> 01:35:40

in this verse, he said...

01:35:40 --> 01:35:40

Yeah.

01:35:42 --> 01:35:43

Very good.

01:35:46 --> 01:35:48

So two things could have happened here.

01:35:49 --> 01:35:52

Either Allah is talking to the elite amongst

01:35:52 --> 01:35:56

allatheena aaminoon, or now allatheena aaminoon have also

01:35:56 --> 01:35:57

become mu'minoon.

01:35:59 --> 01:35:59

Yeah.

01:35:59 --> 01:36:03

So they have now also become, yeah, they

01:36:03 --> 01:36:03

stood firm.

01:36:04 --> 01:36:05

So now they are all counted as one,

01:36:05 --> 01:36:07

which the latter is the most correct opinion

01:36:07 --> 01:36:08

about, right?

01:36:08 --> 01:36:11

So now they are all considered allatheena aaminoon

01:36:11 --> 01:36:11

believers.

01:36:11 --> 01:36:12

Now they are all one together.

01:36:15 --> 01:36:15

Okay.

01:36:15 --> 01:36:16

Very good, guys.

01:36:17 --> 01:36:19

Inshallah ta'ala we continue next week.

01:36:19 --> 01:36:20

JazakAllah khair.

01:36:20 --> 01:36:21

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.

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