Mustafa Khattab – The Prophets Night Journey 1
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The speaker discusses the Prophet's journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, including struggles in Syria and the loss of their uncle. They also discuss the importance of praying for others, particularly those who commit shir vi, and the significance of the Prophet's strength and strength in the face of persecution. The speaker provides examples of Allah's actions, including his ability to move the throne and give gifts, and discusses the importance of Islam and words in describing actions. The speaker also discusses the Prophet's punishment for those who commit suicide, and explains that the Prophet's actions were not based on success or ability to do something, but rather on the day of January.
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
who are worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I bear witness that Muhammad salallahu alayhi
wa sallam peace be upon him is the
seal of the prophets and the final messenger
to all of humanity. Whoever Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala guides, there is none to misguide, and
whoever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala leads to stray,
there is none to guide the right.
Aliyom insha Allah,
So this week we commemorate the Prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam's journey
from Mecca to Jerusalem then to Asama, the
night journey. But before we begin inshaAllah, we
would like to remind you of all the
suffering
and the pain of our brothers and sisters
in Syria, especially in Khalil Khalipu.
So make dua for them that Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, will make things easy for them,
and we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
protect them, and we ask Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, to give justice to those who persecute
and harm them. So may Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, make Syria safe. May Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, make Palestine
safe. Amen. And may Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
make India, Pakistan, and all Muslim,
countries where Muslims live safe and all the
world safe. Ameen Ameen.
So the prophet before
the hijrah,
he was going through a difficult time,
and he had a saba of rikhnahatul jisalaamiraj.
So
as we know in psychology when someone is
trussed out and they go through a difficult
time, they need to talk to someone and
they know they need to go somewhere else.
And this is precisely what happened.
So 1 year or a year and a
half before the hijrah, the the Prophet was
going through this difficult time.
The people of Mecca were giving him a
hard time, but at least the Prophet
was able to go somewhere else. But in
the case of our brothers in Syria, they
are being persecuted
and harmed, and there is nowhere they can
go. No one is there to help them
except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So his wife Khadija passed away,
his uncle Abu Talib passed away, and these
were his biggest 2 biggest supporters,
and the people of Mecca were by cutting
them, they were giving them a hard time,
no food,
no shelter, nothing,
so much so that in 3 years they
started to eat leaves
and grass. So this is how difficult it
was. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to comfort him, He revealed some Surahs of
the Qur'an. Surah Hud,
Surah Yunus, and Surah Yusuf
to comfort and console him and to show
him that the fate
of of the the the people who are
persecuting the prophets, this is their fate. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala would prevail at the end,
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there for
you, just like he was there for Yusuf,
just like he was there for Hud, just
like he was there for Yunus and the
different prophets mentioned in these, swords.
Sometimes it's it's difficult for us to comprehend
how it happened.
So sometimes it's hard for some people to
comprehend how can Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala move
the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wa Salam from Makkah
to Jerusalem into the heavens.
And we know that in Surah Naml,
in the blink of an eye, the scholar
in the story of Soleiman was able to
transfer or move the throne of Bilqis from
Yemen to Philistine
in the blink of an eye.
So this is a man, a man with
knowledge, as Allah subhanahu wa'ala says. So what
about Allah subhanahu wa'ala himself?
A 150 years ago, if you told someone
that you can't travel from
Karachi, Pakistan, or from Mumbai, India, or from
Istanbul, Turkey, or from Cairo, Egypt to Toronto,
in one day, they think you lost your
mind. You're crazy.
But now, you can pray
Fajr in Cairo, or Istanbul, or Karachi, and
you get in these places, and you can
pray Malayb in Toronto, the same day.
And we're talking about human beings moving human
beings from one place to another. What about
Allah
The time and the place don't mean anything
to Allah
He is the most powerful,
So
these things are beyond our comprehension, but nothing
is impossible for Allah
So Abdullah ibn Mas'ud Radiallahu Hazra'ala who has
reported in Muslim ibn Abdul Ahmed
and also in Al Bayhafi. When the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasallam
was,
moved from Makkah to, Al Quds Bayt Al
Maqdis and he was taken to the heavens,
he was given 3 things.
Number 1, he was ordered to pray 5
times a day.
And number 3, the prophet was given
the last 2 ayahs of Surat Al Baqarah.
We know that the ayat of Quran were
revealed either in Mecca or in Madinah,
or inside the Kaaba. One Ay in particular
is Surah 4, Surah Al Nisa was revealed
inside.
The rest of the Quran was revealed outside.
The majority of the Quran was revealed on
this earth, but these 2 ayat, the last
2 ayat of Surah Baqarah, Surah 2, were
revealed in the heavens during that night journey.
And the third thing, the prophet salam was
given this good news that whoever among your
Ummah does not commit shirk,
whoever does not associate anything with Allah, Allah
will forgive them and give them Jannah. So
this is a good news.
Now,
a little bit, we'll focus a little bit
on salah, why Allah subhanahu wa'ala gave the
order to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
to pray during that night?
Why did he not send Jibreel alaihi wa
sallam to,
to tell the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you have to pray 5 times a day
as he did with Zakah and Umrah and
Hajj sorry, Hajj and and fasting and so
on and so forth. Why salah is very
special? We usually give the analogy,
that you work for someone,
for a company,
and if your boss wants you to do
something, he would just shoot you an email.
If it is something more important, maybe he
will give you a call. And if it
is super important, he will just call you
and say, hey, I want you to come
to my office because I have something extremely
important. I want to talk to you in
person.
Now in the case, walillaiilmatul
a'la, in the case of zakah, or saum,
or Hajj, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would send
Jibril alayhi salam to the prophet salam and
tell him, this is what you need to
do. But in the case of salah, because
it's very important,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brought the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa salam all the way
to to Al Sadawatirullah
to give him the order directly.
This shows you how significant
and how important salah is.
Also,
during that journey, the prophet passed
by Jannah, and he saw some things in
Jannah, and he saw some things in in
Jahannam. So we'll take a look, a quick
look at some of the things that the
prophet
saw,
and this will give us a glimpse and
an insight on what it's going to happen.
Falamiyah SAW Hassan Adnaa rajlatil maraj
raaamashahih
fee,
fee aljannah
wakathalikauriya
mashahit finna.
So when the Prophet SAW Hassan
passed by Jahannam or Jahannam was shown to
him,
So the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam saw
some people in Jahannam,
and their heads were smashed with stones.
And when the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam
asked, what's wrong with these people? Why are
they being punished in this way? Then he
was told,
these people whose heads became,
heavy when it was time for salah. In
other words, they became lazy when it was
time for salah.
So they were running around,
doing their work,
basketball,
video games. When it was time for salah,
they didn't have time to pray, and this
is the punishment.
And the prophet
saw a group of people, and they were
eating dariyah, which is a thorny plant.
They were eating thorns.
And in the hadith, it says they were
eating like animals.
And the scholars say the reason that they
became like, they eat like animals, is when
they saw their brothers and sisters suffering,
they have nothing to eat, they were homeless,
they were being persecuted, they have nothing,
and still you treated them inhumanely. You didn't
feel anything for them.
You didn't give a humane treatment to them.
And this is why if you didn't give
them a humane treatment in this dunya, you
will be treat treated inhumanely in the next
life. So we get exactly the same treatment.
And the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam passed
by a group of people,
So the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam saw
a group of people, they were eating rotten
meat,
although there was good meat, fresh meat next
to them. And when the prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam said, okay, why are they getting
this punishment?
He was told, these were married people, they
had wives,
they had husbands,
but still they committed
They were dating someone, they were fornicating with
someone,
so they get a similar punishment.
And the prophet
saw a group of people, they were tear
tearing their faces.
They were tearing their faces, and the bones
were showing. And when the Prophet
asked, Why are they getting this punishment? He
was told, These are the people who used
to smile to your face.
They smiled, they put their screensaver on their
face, they did the big smile,
but behind your back
they they they stabbed you in the back.
They they used to backbite people. And this
is what happened, they smiled on their face,
and
they backbite you behind your back, then they
are tearing their faces. They get the same
punishment.
They had heavy loads on their backs, they
can't even walk,
they're kneeling down, they're crawling, they have heavy
weights, burdens on their backs, but still they're
taking more burdens and putting them on their
backs. And the prophet said, what is going
on? Why are they doing this? They they
they their backs, they have heavy loads on
their backs, they can't even walk,
and still they're taking more and putting on
their backs.
And he was told, these were the people
who were greedy for authority. They had greed
and hunger for authority,
and they were not even qualified. You can't
even hire one of them to to run
your candy shop. They don't have the qualifications,
they don't have the administrative abilities to run
a country or an office, but still they
were abusing people. It doesn't matter if they
kill 100 of 1000 or millions of people,
they don't really care. All they need is
that Kursi, this throne,
this high office, even at the bones and
the blood and the flesh of people, they
didn't care.
Whenever I read this in Rehlat Al Baraj,
Atavakar Al Abbas, Amin Nabi Usa Asal.
So Al Abbas, the uncle of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, his uncle.
I'm not talking about someone from another country
or someone who is not related to them.
We're talking about the uncle of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam himself.
He came to the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam and said, you Rasool Allah, can you
make me a governor or a mayor or
something? You know.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
No, no, no.
I know you have the desire
and as you know for anyone to succeed
at anything you have to have 2 things.
You have to have the desire to do
it, and you have to have the ability
to do it. So evidently, you Abbas radiAllahu
anhu had the desire, but you didn't have
the administrative ability. So the Prophet SAW said,
no. You Amma,
you don't have the administrative ability.
You you you cannot do it.
And this, if you take something that you
are not able to, to do, then on
the day of January, it will be a
source of disgrace for you. But those who
are qualified, no problem.
You know the story of Yusuf and Surah
Yusuf, he assumed
this high office in Egypt, but he was
qualified.
And the prophet didn't give him that,
that office to to run, because he was
not qualified.