Mustafa Khattab – Bilal ibn Rabah part 1
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The speaker discusses the acceptance of Islam by the Sunni comprehensive system and highlights its success in America. They stress the importance of acceptance and respect for oneself and others, rather than race or status. The speaker also touches on the sad reality of Islam's negative impact on people, including discrimination against immigrants and respect for one's social status. The speaker describes how some countries have a bias towards immigrants and how it affects people, but also their social status. Finally, they touch on Bilal Alayhi's honesty, who told him to propose to a lady for his brother.
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So, today's Sahabi
is one of the, the first people to
accept Islam, and some scholars say that he
was one of the first seven people to
accept Islam.
So the prophetess salam told Bilal radiAllahu alaihi
wa'amu,
tell me about the best act that you
have done in Islam since you accepted Islam
because I heard
your feet steps in general, footsteps
in general
in front of me. So Bilal radiAllahu Anhu
said, every time I make Qudu
during the day or night,
I pray
whatever Allah
has written for me to pray.
So
Islam always appeals to the weak and the
oppressed.
Statistically,
for every 200
Africans
or blacks who accept Islam in the US,
one Caucasian accepts Islam. And for every 3
women who accept Islam,
one man accepts Islam.
So this is for a fact, and it
started it even started from the time of
the pro Sahar. Most of the people who
accepted Islam at the beginning
of daqours, slaves, and women, and the weak
people in the society.
To the slaves,
to the poor, to the weak, to the
orphan. Everyone has rights in Islam.
Islam gives equality to all people. All people
are equal before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So
persecution
because of his Islam. He was a slave.
He didn't have a family. No one was
to protect him. So, of course,
his slave master wanted to make an example
of him to deter other people from accepting
Islam.
So he would wait every day until the,
sun is scorching
when the heat gets to its worst and
he would take him out and put stones
on his stomach and his back and tortured
him hoping that he would leave his land.
And he would always say, I have an
eye on this role in one
So one day, Abu Bakr del Muhammed passed
by, and he saw the torture and the
persecution and
sovereign of Bilhava de Lava. So he offered
to buy him from his slave master,
Maya Bikhal.
And he offered 3 golden pieces.
So Maya said, this guy
is worthless. I don't need him.
And he started to laugh because he said,
if you offered me only 1 piece not
3,
I would have sold them to you.
If you had given me some dust, I
would have given them to you. And he
started to laugh.
So Abu Bakr Al Khairam who says, I'm
the winner here, not you.
This guy is so precious to me, so
much so that if you have negotiated with
me all the way to a 100 pieces
of gold, I would have made the 100
pieces.
So when Bilal joined the prophet
the prophet
made him the Mu'azzi, a caller to Salat.
Everybody knows that the prophet
loved Abu Bakr, he loved Muhammad, they loved
Osman, and Ali, and all of them
were from Quraysh,
from very noble families. They were rich, and
the prophet
loved them. He could have made any one
of them.
But technically or seemingly,
had
a better voice
than them.
And the prophet
you can look at the you you see
that the prophet
believed in specialization.
Everyone that was experienced in something or good
at something, the prophet would have him do
whatever he can do best.
Not because this guy from this tribe or
from this family or because he's rich or
because of his age, he would do this.
No.
If someone was qualified, if someone was good
at something, the prophet will get them to
do whatever they can do best.
Regardless of the age, regardless of the color,
and so on and so forth.
So your color has nothing to do with
you being respected in the society. This should
be the Islamic way.
Islam is color blind.
What difference does it make if you are
white or brown or black or yellow? It
doesn't make any difference.
Okay? What makes a difference as Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran chapter 49
verse 13,
Inna athlamakum 'indullahiatarq
that the most honored of you in the
sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is he
who is most righteous among you. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is he who is most righteous
among you. This is what makes the difference.
Okay?
Not your race,
not your age, not your status in the
society,
nothing. Your righteousness.
You being respectful
and kind and good to people, this is
what makes the difference.
If you look at the Sahaba Islam and
prophet SAWSAL, they came from different backgrounds and
from different races and colors.
Umar alaylam, for example, was from Qaysh, from
Arabia.
So Hayrab Rumi was a Roman.
Salman al Fazi was a Persian.
Bilal was a Abyssinian
from Habashat.
Maal the Cop was from Egypt. So they
came from different
nationalities,
and all of them were respected because of
their belief, because of their Islam.
Okay?
So in some countries, in some Western countries,
some people I'm not saying all of them,
but some some of them, they are they
discriminate against some people because they are immigrants.
Okay? If you look at the reality of
things, the only people in some countries who
are not immigrants
are the natives,
the native Indians of these countries. Everybody else
is immigrants. If you came from Europe, Africa,
Asia, they're immigrant.
So as I said,
you know, in some countries, there is discrimination
against people based on your race or color.
And in some Muslim countries and societies, we
have the same bias. Okay? And this is
the sad reality.
Islam came to fight all these days,
but in some countries, in some Muslim countries,
I'm not saying all of them, but in
some, and I've seen this with my own
eyes,
people show respect to you
the lighter color you have,
the more respect you get in some places.
I'm not saying all of them. I don't
get you wrong. Okay? But this is the
reality.
If you have a better social status in
the society, people show more respect society, people
show more respect to you. But if you
have a remedial job by a carpenter,
a a plumber, people look down upon you
in some places.
Some In some countries, they respect
women men more than they do men
based on their gender. Some people, they respect
people because of their age, and if they
are young, they don't show the proper respect.
In some countries in some cultures, if you
are young, it means you are wrong.
If you are old, it means you are
right.
Okay?
And so on and so forth. We have
this in these countries.
And he was planning to start a hospital
in in an Arab country.
Okay? So he was at the airport in
that Arab country
in the gulf area with his family,
his mother and his wife, and he had
many kids. Okay? Many kids.
So one of them lifted his back to
the side while he was standing in the
line. So the,
the airport officer came to him and he
started to yell at him and push him
around and stuff
Because he was from India,
and in in that particular area,
there are some brothers from, you know, Southeast
Asia. They do menial jobs. You know, the
cab drivers,
they do this, they clean,
they take care of hotels and stuff. Menial
jobs. Okay? And although there are so so
many of them that are doctors and engineers
and so on and so forth, but because
of the, stereotype,
that officer abused this brother just because of
his color, thinking that he is from India.
So this brother is a doctor,
showed him his American passport. Okay? And said,
you have used me. You owe me. I
need to talk to your
manager.
And I'm an American citizen, and I'm demanding
my rights as a citizen.
So they called the manager, and he came
here, and Masambir Abdul, and he he sold
them and cast them and told them, you
don't have to speak for me because I'm
Muslim.
You have respect for me now because of
my passport. Okay? If I don't have this
passport, you don't respect me. So this is
the sad reality.
We have to show respect to people regardless
of their passports,
regardless
of their jobs,
regardless of their age, regardless of their color.
Okay? This is Islam.
We show respect to everyone regardless
of anything.
Okay? There are so many things to learn,
we'll continue next time, but he's honest. He
was very honest. He was very sincere.
We mentioned before this story. I'm gonna mention
it very briefly.
So Bilal alayhi, speaking of his honesty, he
was very honest
by the book. Okay? He didn't, you know,
even if there was,
shade
or the slightest
light, anything would just leave it. Okay?
So his brother told him to go with
him to propose to a lady. So Bilal
went with his brother to to propose to
this lady for his brother. And that lady
was lady was originally from Makkah, from a
very noble family.
So Bilal had a
very short talk at the beginning, the shilva
for lika, the introduction.
So he said,
you know who we are.
We were slaves and Allah
gave us freedom.
We were poor and Allah
made us rich.
We were despised
in the society, and
Allah
exalted us in rank.
If you marry your daughter to my brother,
then Alhamdulillah. Oh, praise you to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. But if you reject us, if
you turn down our proposal, then Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is bigger and greater than you
and us.
As Nabil Najman told me to say. Steam
was coming out of his head, he was
so mad. He told him, I brought you
here with me
to tell him about
how great I am, the good things we
did with the Prophet
about us accepting Islam first,
migrating with the Prophet about
making jahaxi sabi alanat, about calling for Adan
for the Prophet