Mustafa Khattab – The Sahaba 4 4

Sha'ala

is the 4th

part of our discussion about the sahabah and

the greatness of the sahabah

Whether you are from Palestine,

from India,

Morocco,

Egypt,

Turkey, it is because of the Sahaba that

you are now Muslim, because it was the

Sahaba who conveyed the message of the Prophet

It is because of the efforts

of the great Sahaba of the Prophet SAW

Alaihi Wasallam that the hadith were collected, the

sunnah of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam is

reported to us in our time.

It is because of the great endeavors of

the Sahaba of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam

that we have the Qur'an in its pure

and pristine form as it was revealed.

So the Sahaba, they sacrificed their money, they

sacrificed their lives to protect the Prophet

and to spread the message of Islam.

They traveled 1,000 of miles. Imagine the Sahaba

traveling from Mecca or Medina all the way

to Spain,

or to the borders of Istanbul and Turkey,

or to India, to Persia,

to Africa, and other places to convey Islam

in the same form that was revealed to

the prophet Sasa.

Some of them lost their lives,

they lost their money,

and they made a lot of sacrifices. In

one just one battle, as reported in the

books of,

Madinah,

and their shoes were torn,

and they lost their nails, their fingernails

because of the rope, the stones, and it

was so sharp and the distance was so

long, they have to tie clothes around their

feet to protect it, and they were bleeding

all the way.

That is not to gain money

or to become presidents and leaders in some

places or to become famous, you see, they

become celebrity, they didn't do this for them.

They did it to convey the message of

the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to the people.

So I'm saying basically that the Sahaba didn't

force anyone to accept Islam.

And as a proof for this, the historians

say that it took Egyptians, for example, 300

years

after the opening of Egypt by Muslims to

accept Islam,

totally.

Because they were accepting Islam individually and in

groups, and 300 years Islam became a Muslim

country after the entering of the Muslim army.

If Muslims were forcing people, or if the

Sahaba were forcing people to accept Islam,

Egyptians could have been Muslim in in 5

minutes,

you know.

The second reason is, if Sahaba were forcing

people to accept Islam, how come that till

this day, there are at least 25,000,000 Christians

living in Muslim countries? In Egypt, in Jordan,

in Lebanon, and in other places.

The third reason is,

the Muslim Country, 57 countries

to be exact,

throughout the past 1400 years, they were occupied

almost by everyone.

The fresh came and they stayed for 100

of years, in Algeria, Morocco,

in Lad Shem, and also the English, they

came, they stayed in Egypt, in India, in

other places,

and the Italians, they occupied Libya for a

very long time. So if Muslims were forced

to accept Islam, how come that they didn't

leave Islam

when they were ruled by the Christians,

from France and from

Italy and from,

and from the UK? So this is another

reason.

So I conclude with these questions. Okay. Now

we spoke about the efforts of the great

Sahaba,

and the hardships

they have been through, and all these sacrifices

they made in terms of their lives, in

terms of their money or families.

So what about you today?

When you think of all these sacrifices and

all these iffas,

and now imagine you are sitting at home,

doing nothing or walking around aimlessly like a

zombie, I'm not talking about everyone, I'm talking

about a couple of guys.

And you don't pray on time.

Is this how you compensate

the Sahaba for all the great difference they

did,

and all the sacrifices they made, and all

the thousands of miles they traveled to convey

the message of Islam, you don't pray on

time?

Is it okay

if you are an Arab for example, and

you don't even know how to recite Quran

properly,

and we sit in the Tajweed Halakhah in

the morning and we see the brothers from

Somalia and from Ethiopia and other places, they

recite beautifully

with all the Tajweed Jews and everything.

So you have to push yourself a little

bit harder

to to be in that position, to be

the khalifa of the sahaba of the Prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam. Do your kids pray?

Or are they now in their twenties, and

they they don't know even Fatiha, and they

don't know how to pray? Is this how

you pay the Sahaba for all their efforts

and all their sacrifices?

Do you convey the message of Islam? I'm

not telling you to take a mic and

go to a church on the square and

start giving to people.

I'm asking about at least dua by your

actions, by your manners and aflav.

Do you do this? Oh, you do like

the guy?

Are you conveying the message of the Sahaba

purely and sincerely for the sake of Allah,

or are you just like a guy that

would told me about a few years back,

one of the brothers who was in the

masjid, the volunteers,

he said he was leaving the masjid,

and he found a Muslim brother talking to

a non Muslim lady in, you know, in

the parking lot in the back, and when

they saw him, the lady started to run

away, and the brother was confused and he

said, what are you doing here? He said,

I'm

I'm showing her the light, I'm I'm giving

her dua. So the brother said, why do

you show her the light in the dark?

Okay? You should go to the masjid, talk

to the imam and and make dua to

her the right way. So make dua to

the people by your manners. Talking is no

good, you have to show people what it

means to be a Muslim, by your manners,

by your aflab. And we'll continue inshaAllah in

the future, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

to forgive our sins and fix and fix

our evil deeds.