Mustafa Khattab – How to Respond to Attacks on the Prophet PBUH
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And I've been with this to Muhammad, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He's the seal of the
prophets and the final messenger
to all of humanity.
Whomever Allah
guides, there is none to misguide.
And whomever Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, leaves to
go astray,
So as you probably heard this week,
a movie was released in the US.
Actually, it's not a movie. It's just a
trailer. About 15 minutes, I saw the trailer
of the movie. It's a low production,
low quality
junkie movie. This is what they call it.
Just a few guys in the camera.
No story. No production. No nothing. Okay?
So the movie came out.
The makers of the movie are Egyptian Christians,
and
the director is an Israeli
guy.
So a lot of people in the Muslim
world, they took to the streets, and they
attacked the embassies of the US, and they
killed some diplomats in a Muslim country. And
in one of those countries, the people looked
for the US embassy. They didn't know where
it was, so they burned the German embassy.
Okay? As they say in Somali, pushqilawin.
Big problem.
So the attacks on Islam and the prophet,
sasool, were not new. We read this in
the Quran. The prophet, sasool, himself
was attacked according to the Quran.
The Quran was attacked according to the Quran,
and the Sahaba were attacked.
So the
prophet in the Quran is called a liar,
a magician, a poet, and a sorcerer. This
is what he is called in the Quran.
The Quran is called a pack of lies
and
a fabrication from the previous books of the
Christians and the Jews. This is what the
Quran says in Surah Al Quran.
The early Muslims, the Sahaba of the prophet,
the prophet, were called the fools, the foolish
ones. In the first Quran, the second page
of Surah Al Baqarah, this is what it
says. Should we believe as the fools believe?
So it is not something new.
You read in the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam how he was attacked,
how he was tortured and persecuted with his
Sahaba. 13 years in Mecca
and for another,
few years in Madin.
When the prophet, salaam, came back to Mecca,
and he was victorious and the city surrendered
to the prophet, salaam,
thousands of people accepted Islam
at that moment.
We are told in Nasirah, in Bukhari and
Muslim and other books of Sunan,
that some people tried to kill the prophet
in one case, as in Bukhali, tried to
kill the prophet with a sword, and the
prophet
forgave him. In another example,
a lady tried to poison the prophet, she
put the poison in the meat,
and the prophet
found out through Waha, the evil plan, and
he forgave the land. This is what it
says in the books of Sira and the
books of Hadid. I'm not making this up.
Islam. So every time somebody attacks Islam, they
make cartoons, they make movies,
demonizing Islam, and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, the number of people who accept Islam
doubles and triples. Why? They call it,
negative,
publicity.
Negative publicity. So people go and buy Qur'an
and read here on the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, who will go to the Internet,
read about Islam
to find out more about these evil people,
and they accept Islam.
And I have seen many people accept Islam
because of this.
Hamza.
The
reason Hamza, the uncle of the prophet accepted
Islam is because Abuja
insulted the prophet
and he tried to humiliate him. This is
why he accepted Islam. So it is not
something new.
So while Muslims
protest
every time, there is an attack on the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam or Islam.
This is a sign of their love to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and Islam.
And you don't expect Muslims,
when something is being said about the prophet
and they said, I don't, and they go
to Tim Horton, and I'll drink coffee and
tea, and just like they pretend like nothing
happened.
It doesn't happen like this. Even the Muslims
who are not practicing,
those who will pray or fast or do
anything.
If the prophet, salaam, is attacked or smeared
in the media, they are the 1st in
the line to protest.
Okay? So this is a sign for the
love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and a sign for the love of Islam.
So this is not
something new.
The prophet has been attacked and smeared for
over
1400 years.
And this didn't detract
from his
greatness in any way.
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world. Islam is the largest religion in the
world. Catholicism
is number 2. Okay?
So it didn't detract in any way from
the greatness of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. People who tell this day love him,
and the name Muhammad is the most common
name in the world.
People love the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Okay?
We are told in the Quran,
wallahi
asimu kabinal ness
Allah says it in the Quran. Every time
someone attacks you, Mohammed,
we'll take care of him. We'll fix him
up. This is what the Quran says.
And Allah will protect you, Mohammed, from the
people.
So those who study Arabic, they know that
the verb protect
using the Quran means
continuous,
which means that Allah will protect him in
his life and after his death.
So we'll give a couple of examples
of how Allah
protected the prophet in his life and after
his death.
Those who attack the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, are not detracted from his greatness. If
you look at the sun
and you spit at the sun, what will
happen is good will come back on your
face. This is what will happen. It doesn't
say anything about the prophet. It says everything
about you.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protected
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in his
life and after his death. His Sahih Muslim
Abujaq
was mad at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, so he said, does Mohammed still come
to the cafe and pray with his face
on the ground? So they said yes. So
he said, if he comes tomorrow, I'm gonna
stay with my foot over his neck and
crush his head like a cigarette butt. This
is what he said. The next day, when
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to
pray, so Abu Jahan tried to get close
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, something
happens. He came back terrified to his friends.
And this is his saying was
so he said, what happened? He said, when
I tried to get close to Muhammad, I
saw a trench full of fire and I
saw wings and terrible and
tremendous things.
This is why he came back, and he
was doing like this, trying to protect himself
from something. And the prophet
said,
they these were the angels. If he came
close to me, they would have snatched him
organ by
organ.
So protecting the prophet
after his death, there are so many stories,
and one of them is reported in authentic
and reliable sources
by historians.
So
Nur ad Din Zekki was the ruler of
Egypt
550 years after the hijrah of the prophet
He had a vision. He saw the prophet
asking him for help. And the prophet
was saying in the dream, protect me from
these two men.
So
he saw the dream 3 times, so he
invited people to interpret the dream, so they
said go to the Madinah and the prophet
SAW Salam behind the way. He took a
lot of money with them.
So when he went there, he called the
people and he said, come to me and
I'll give you money as a charity from
Egypt.
And he gave money to the people, but
he didn't see the 2 guys he came
for. He said, is there anyone left that
I didn't give money? They said, yes. There
are 2 guys, Kamil and Farjad. They're sitting
next to
the grave of the prophet and making salah
and stuff, so he said, bring them here.
When they came, he said, tell me your
story. And they said, we have Farjad. We
came, you know, to make umrah and visit
the prophet
and whatever. He went to their tent, he
looked, and he couldn't find anything.
There was a a mat on the floor.
He removed it, and there was a tunnel
leading to the grave of the prophet, sasil,
and they tried to dig, so they can
go
and unearth the grave of the prophet and
taken away for a price. They were promised.
So he
made iron, like,
around the prophet, like, had fins or a
wall to protect the grave of the prophet,
ta'ala, and Abu Bakr Al Umar so no
one would ever come close to their grave.
So this is from the protection of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, unless Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
you're an imanam imanam,
and that's salamat.
Islam.
Why do they attack Islam and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the Quran? There
are several reasons I came across in my
studies about the image of Islam and Muslims
in the American media, in my PhD dissertation.
With
Masaj.
So number one reason
people would like to get famous and rich.
They don't care about Islam. They don't care
about Christianity or any other faith. They wanna
be rich. And the easiest way now the
quickest way to get rich is not to
sell drugs and
weed and dope and cocaine. The easiest way
is to attack Islam and the prophet, This
is what they do. All religion in general.
And haptah, there is a guy in the
US.
His name is Serrano.
Back in 1987,
he he's an artist, an American artist. He
took a photograph
back in 1987.
He called it,
peace Christ.
What he did basically,
he brought a crucifix
across with the body of Jesus Christ on
it, and he put it in a glass,
and he filled it with his urine. And
And he took a picture of it, and
he sold it in 1999
in London for
a $162,000.
It's all about money. They don't care about
religion or Islam or Christianity or anything.
So this is number 1.
Number 2,
in the summer of
The second reason
is Islam is the fastest growing religion in
the world. More people are accepting Islam than
any other faith, and some people are not
happy about this.
So instead of highlighting
the positive aspects in their faith, they couldn't
find any. Now the easiest way is to
sneer and attack Islam to drive people away
from Islam. So this is what they do,
basically.
Number 3.
They know that they love the prophet, sahabi,
so much.
And they know
if they do something stupid
to smear the prophet, sahabi, that Muslims will
take to the street and some of them
will give violence,
and they will use this in the media
to show Muslims are violent people. So they
use it against us.
So Al Mustafa said, you have to do
something. You cannot remain idle and the prophet
is attacked. You have to do something.
Number 1.
Number 1, to ignore
these movies and these cartoons and not to
share them with the people.
Don't send them to your friends through Facebook
or Twitter or the social media. If
If no one sees them, these people will
run out of business, but we made them
famous and we made them rich.
Just ignore them, leave them alone.
This is what the Quran says.
Ilamrithani
ad Dawah. Tariqin Islamu aluslilwah.
Number 2, we have to make Dawah to
the people. If we don't make Dawah to
the people, they will make Dawah to us,
and they will attack
us.
Number 3, to support
all movies and artistic
productions to highlight the greatness of Islam. And
I remember till this day, the message movie
1976.
More people accepted Islam because that one single
movie than all the dawah efforts by talking
that were given over the past, 2 decades.
Number 4, there's nothing wrong with peaceful
protesting.
You can go to the streets and show
people
that you hate what has been done, because
don't kill people
and don't destroy property. This is not the
Islamic way.
Number 5, and this is the last one
for today, we have to work
with politicians and governments, if we can,
to pass legislations, to make it a crime
punishable by law,
to smear religions, and to verify and profane
religions. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And, also,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.