Mustafa Khattab – Bilal ibn Rabah part 1

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