Nouman Ali Khan – Lessons from Uhud to Hajj #01 Prophet Muhammads Road to Hajj
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The church's actions were designed to ensure the stability of the church's society, but the conflict between the democrats and the republicans is a political and political crisis. The conflict escalates to a point where the Iranian people are no longer fearing and are no longer motivated to run or lose. The speakers discuss the use of animals in communication, including hunts and animals for reinforcing spirituality, and the consequence of the Prophet's announcement and its history of " 80 kills" as a way to create chaos. The discussion also touches on the history of the idea of " 80 kills" and its use to cause harm, including its claims to be a powerful man and its use to grab people's beards.AI: Transcript ©
What makes you proud of your tribe? Who
my father was, and who his father was.
Well, you go far back enough, who's everybody's
father?
Adam alayhi wasalam, which means we're all essentially
from the tribe of humanity. We're all equal.
You see? So tribal superiority becomes a serious
problem. You cannot claim superiority based on race
if all human beings are equal. They have
they they have fundamental equal rights.
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I'd like to start by welcoming all of
you for this evening's program. Some of you
that survived tonight will also be here tomorrow
morning and the day after. Inshallah,
we have quite a tall order ahead of
us. I wanted to give everybody some perspective
of what I'm going to try to cover,
this evening. I usually start with a very
optimistic
ambition that I'm gonna finish up until a
certain point. I never end up getting there,
but I'm gonna keep hope alive. Inshallah.
So the the intention behind this,
this series,
is actually in respect and in in light
of the coming of the Hajj season.
And, of course, this is one of the
2 main events of the year, the spiritual
year for every Muslim, the the month of
Ramadan
and the season of Hajj,
where we commemorate certain things. And,
you know, there are several lessons to learn
from both of those. And particularly when it
comes
to Hajj,
we ascribe
the the lessons of Hajj and the legacy
of Hajj to Ibrahim alayhis salaam. Right? And
of course, he's the one who built the
Kaaba and the sacrifice and the rituals, all
of them are tied directly to Ibrahim alayhis
salam. So you'll find very commonly among Muslims
the khutba, the talks, the reminders,
of the legacy of Ibrahim alayhis salam surrounding
the events of Hajj.
But I think there's a piece that needs
to be added to that equation.
In fact, we will be talking about Ibrahim
alayhis salam, but we'll talk about him at
the very end of this series.
What I think where we where I think
we should begin
is
the life of the Prophet himself
and the I call this series the road
to Hajj, the Prophet's road to Hajj, Hajj
sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
because
we need to understand
how we got here. How did we get
to the point where we get to make
the Hajj?
Right? And that is, in a sense, you
can think of it as the entire one
of the main objectives, if not the main
objective,
in the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. His mission was to actually establish the
Hajj, which actually meant establishing Islam itself.
So
in order for Hajj to truly be established,
the idols obviously had to be destroyed.
And in order for the the goal of
Hajj to be established, that is the reason
for which Ibrahim alayhi salam built the house,
and our messenger, sallallahu
alayhi salam, is from the descendants of Ibrahim
alayhi salam and Ismail alayhi salam, and he
came to finish
what
Ibrahim alayhi salam started 1000 of years ago.
Right? So in a sense, his objective
is actually the same objective as that of
Ibrahim alayhi salam, And Ibrahim alayhi salam had
made a dua that people should come here
and come to this house from all corners
of the world.
You know?
From every nook and cranny, every valley, every
open road, people should come here. But that
didn't happen for 1000 of years. Ibrahim alayhi
salaam built that house, and this was not
a place where people were coming to worship
Allah and Allah alone for 1000 of years,
maybe more than 4000 years.
And in fact, if you were born at
that time, around the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you would not think
of the Kaaba,
as a place where Allah alone is worshiped.
In fact, you would think of it more
as a temple,
where multiple idols are. It's a it's a
multi religious
temple. What that means is people of different
religions,
some people believe in Laat, some believe in
Manat, some believe in Uzza, some believe in
other idols.
Whatever idol you believe in, this is our
central place to keep all of your religious
idols, and you can perform. There are some
rituals they have in common and other rituals,
each of their religious preference is their own,
and they do their own religious sort of
preferences. So it's a it's a Pali religious
society.
You ever seen, like, in in airports nowadays
in America, very little I've seen 1 or
2 in in England, but they'll have, like,
a multi faith prayer room in the, airport.
Right? So they'll have, like, the book of
Mormon and a bible and the Quran and,
like, the Vedas from the Hindus and all
that stuff sitting on the side. They won't
put anything on the murals. They'll keep it
neutral. So whatever you wanna do, you can
do. So you could be praying
while somebody is imploring Jesus, and somebody else
is calling on Saint Nicholas and somebody else
is, you know, you know, speaking to their
Hindu god, etcetera, or multiple gods all in
the same room at the same time. This
is what the Kaaba had become,
and it had been that way for many,
many centuries
until the coming of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. So
the the I have many, many objectives in
front of me. The first of them is
something particularly when I've come to Fort Worth,
I've talked
to you guys about this particular piece of
the sira. So I'll I'll start with that.
It should take me about 10 minutes. But,
really, what I wanna get into is
the last
3 or 4 3 3 to 5 years
of the prophet's mission.
We're gonna take a closer look at that
and a particular surah that's zooming in on
the objective of the Prophet
in that time,
and understanding that history is really, really essential.
It's
because of another reason that I'll explain in
about 30 minutes from now, and that is
how does the Quran
record history?
Like, the Quran does many things. One of
the things it does is it records history.
So we're gonna get to that in about
30 minutes. But before then, I wanna start
with some things about the
the the the landscape
in which the
Prophet
receives revelation. We all know he receives revelation
at the age of 40,
and he's now delivering this message early in
Mecca to the Quraysh.
And what was something that's not very commonly
known is that the main opposition to the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was not the
average people.
It was not what you call nowadays the
lower class or the middle class.
The opposition of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam was the political class and the upper
social and economic class. The billionaires, the the
multimillionaires
and the billionaires of the time, and the
politicians of the time, these were the main
opponents of the Prophet
So you'll if you hear names, you even
growing up as Muslim, you'll heard the names
Abu Lahab, Abu Jahal, Atwabaynu Rabi'ah. Right? You've
heard these names before. Each one of them
is either from the billionaire class or they're
from the political class.
Right? And they're they're both both together. So
the a quick comment is important about the
relationship between power and money. Because some of
these people are in power, and some some
of these people have a lot of money.
Right? And these two things, power and money,
have always been married to each other even
though they're not always in the same hands.
So in some cases, they're in the same
hands. So you'll have, for example, in some
countries in the world today, you'll have the
royal family.
They've got majority of the money, and they've
got all the power. Right? So kings concentrate
money and power in 1. Right? And then
you have other places in the world, like
it's becoming clear now about the country in
which we live,
that there is the facade
or the pretend that it's a democracy. But
in reality,
there's only 2 things in power. There are
people with political power, and there are people
with money. And, actually, more so, it's the
people with money that control the people with
political power, and everybody else likes to pretend
they're living in a democracy where everybody's vote
counts equally. Right? So it's a pretend society.
But in reality, those two elements
have always been there throughout history, and they're
always gonna be there. Right? That's that's just
the nature of how power structures happen in
society. Just some nations are more honest about
it than others.
That's all it is. Right? So
you might have, for example, the power belongs
not just in the hands of politicians, the
power belongs in the hands of the military.
And there are countries in the world that
if and if you come from one of
these countries, you already know. They'll have elections
and a different president will come in, different
prime minister will come in, different party will
come in, But everybody knows it's really the
military that runs the country.
Everybody know. Look. We're all pretending that it's
voting and elections and who's the prime minister
and president, but behind it is big brother
who says, hey, by the way, toe the
line or you're not gonna be around for
the next election or somehow there's gonna be
some charge against you or whatever or you
might disappear. Disappear. Right? So it's really the
politicians that are in power. Right? Now
this is by the way, this is the
the same is true of the Catholic church
and the Roman
Empire. Right? The Catholic church and this was
a third dimension, actually,
which I also wanna introduce to you. So
there's money, there's power, and then there's religion.
So I'll introduce the third factor, money, power,
and religion. So what happens in society is
they kings needed a way to make sure
that the society remains loyal to the king.
Right? The society must remain loyal to the
king. So what kings usually did was they
kept a priest class. Like the pharaohs had
their magicians and their priest class. Or in
the in the time of Yusuf alaihi salam,
he had the people that were interpreting the
dream for him. Remember?
These were the spiritual saints or whatever they
were, the mystics of that time, the religious
class, the clergy,
just like the Roman Empire had the Catholic
church.
Right? So there's this religious class, and their
job is 2 things. Their job is not
just to teach religion to the people, but
through teaching the religion, they're teaching people to
do 2 things. 1, give charity.
Give charity not to each other, not to
the poor, give charity to the church.
Right? Number 1. And 2, pray for the
king
or pray for the queen. God save the
king. God save the queen. They got 2
jobs. They gotta collect money from the people
for the sake of their salvation,
and they've gotta make sure people remain loyal
to the king because God has blessed the
king to be king. God God has endorsed
the king. Right? So the religion,
its role was to make sure people stay
in line.
That that was actually its role.
Now it's interesting what's happened in our times.
Religions become largely irrelevant for newer generations. Right?
So their parents were much more church going,
temple going, even masjid going, and the next
generation is not.
So, you know, the the power structures had
to figure out a new religion. How do
they congregate people? How do they get people
to be loyal? So the the new religious,
entity actually became media.
Media has an in a sense, social media
or, you know, mass media, entertainment media, in
a sense, started replacing religion in our in
our society.
So you used to have religious structures that
are constantly feeding a certain kind of message
to the people, but now it's media entities
that are, you know, spreading a certain kind
of message to the people. But that's a
discussion for another time. Coming back to the
seed of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
where we get all of this from.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
when he first declares his message, la ilaha
illallah,
this is a huge religious problem, number 1.
Because if you're saying there's only 1 God,
all of the religion
all of the religious
varieties inside the temple of Kaaba,
all of them are gone. None of them
can they you cannot coexist with there's only
one God.
Every other one of those religions are okay
with the coexistence of other religions in this
locality.
They're okay with, you can believe what you
want, you can believe what you want. You
can have your idol, you can have your
idol, you can have your idol, but the
prophet is coming with something that doesn't accept
any other idols.
It doesn't accept any compromise on God. There's
only 1.
And he's claiming that this house pretty early
on, he's claiming that this house was never
meant to be a temple at all. It
was built by Ibrahim alayhi salaam for the
worship of 1 true god, so you're actually
violating the sanctity of a masjid,
basically.
Right? So that's that's one of the there's
a big religious problem here. There's also a
political problem.
The political problem is Islam is coming and
saying things like, we're all children of Adam,
alayhis salaam, and all children of Adam, alayhis
salaam, were honored. Well, if we're all children
of Adam, that means
quite literally
all of us are genetically equal.
Even though we're genetically varied, you can come
from this tribe or that tribe or the
other tribe, and you what makes you proud
of your tribe? Who my father was and
who his father was. Well, you go far
back enough, who's everybody's father?
Adam alaihisam. Which means we're all essentially from
the tribe of humanity, we're all equal.
You see? So tribal superiority
becomes a serious problem. You cannot claim superiority
based on race if all human beings are
equal.
They have they have they have fundamental equal
rights.
So this was another problem. Now now the
Quraysh cannot claim superiority. Even within them, they
had hierarchies, and they can't claim that anymore.
There were other problems. They were you know,
and these problems started emerging as the Quran
progressed. For example, when Allah was saying, you
know, early revelations are talking about someone who
pushes the orphan
and doesn't feed the poor. This is not
talking to poor people. This is talking to
rich people.
This is talking about the rich people that
are pushing the orphan around, that are manipulating
the poor in society,
that are cheating people in business.
Right? They're so the Quran is coming after
economic corruption, which is not done by the
poor, actually. Poor,
actually. The poor barely have any money to
be corrupt with anyway. It's going after the
very, very rich of society. And by the
way, when you when you make rich people
angry, then they don't just take it quietly.
They don't take it. They
then they don't just take it quietly.
They don't take it. They they have a
direct connection to the government.
So rich people take their complaint to the
authorities, and the authorities say, hey, we'll we'll
take care of it for you. We'll get
some thugs after him. We'll get him beat
up on the street. Don't worry. Your name's
not gonna get sullied.
You you'll you'll stay out of it. We'll
take care of it for you.
Right? We'll have indirect ways of working this
out. So money, religion, power, all married to
each other, and the Quran comes and it's
cutting through all of it from the very
beginning.
There's something that, just again from the historical
landscape, you must understand
is that the Quraysh
freshly came out of an incident that's called
Amal Fil,
right, the year of the elephant,
and Abraha
saw a problem with Mecca.
Why did Abraha in Yemen see a problem
with Mecca?
Because the the Kaaba was a religious center,
so all the tribes in the region,
when they wanted to show their religious respect,
where would they go?
They'd go to the Kaaba. And because of
that, the Kaaba became
a center of religious tourism.
You can call it that, religious tourism. So
a lot of people are coming there, staying
there, doing their worship there, which means their
hospitality industry, their hotel industry, their restaurant, they're
making good money by people coming in from
everywhere.
And he's not able to get anybody to
come to his center
because this is the religious center. The other
reason is because it's the religious center, all
the trade runs through
Kaaba, actually. Through Makkah.
So they're they're buying and selling in Yemen,
and they're going through Makkah, and they're gonna
go they're gonna buy and sell the the
the products they bought in Yemen. They're gonna
go sell them there in Syria.
And then they're gonna buy from Syria, and
by by the way, Syria then connect it
to Europe. Right? So European products also. They're
gonna buy all that. They're gonna come through
Mecca, take it to Yemen, and sell it
to the from Yemen all the way to
the Africa's. So the Africa, Asia, and Africa,
Europe trade is run through the canal which
is Makkah.
And the only reason that works is all
the idols are there. That's the only reason
that works. So when Islam comes and the
Quran comes and Rasool salAllahu alayhi salam says,
there's only there's no God worthy of worship
except Allah, This is a huge not just
a religious problem, this is an economic problem.
This is a political problem because if we
destroy all the idols,
all the tribes in the region will become
our enemy.
They'll all hate us because we we attack
their idols.
Then we cannot go do our business the
way we normally do.
We can't do it, so our economic pipeline
will die, and nobody will come visit this
house, so no more tourism money coming in.
So our we will go bankrupt overnight and
people will kill us and people will kill
us. So now they had to preserve that.
Now Abraha wanted to replace the Kaaba with
his own center, so he brought an army
of elephants. And we know what happened with
the army of elephants and what did that
do for the region? Everybody in all their
tribes in Arabia,
their mythology that the Arabs are holy people,
the Qurayshis are holy people, and the Kaaba
is sacred and it's protected by God, meaning
these are the rightful custodians of the Kaaba,
and that's why they should be in power.
Their power got even more validated by the
miraculous event of
the the army of the elephants. Even the
elephants couldn't mess with these people,
so you better watch out. Right? So everybody's
leaving them alone
until the coming of the Messenger
And so when this conflict, this ideological conflict
begins, it eventually escalates to a point where,
as you all know, the prophet
is nearly killed and he has he's exiled
once.
All he goes to Ta'if and that happens.
Even before that, he was exiled once before
then. And when the the final attempt on
his life also happens, he makes a secret
Hijra all the way to Madinah along with
some of the Muslims that had already made
their way to Madinah before him. Right? So
now Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is in
Madinah.
And within the 1st year,
the Quraysh already know this is gonna become
a bigger problem because we couldn't contain this
problem. Now because he's in Madinah, he might
have free room to operate.
Some other tribes must might start becoming Muslim.
So the Quraysh weren't sure. Should we fight
the Prophet? Should we fight Muhammad? Kill him
and his followers? Follow them all the way
to Madinah and kill them? Or should we
they're not our problem anymore, they left, so
it's somebody else's problem now. We don't have
to deal with it. So there were 2
opinions in Mecca.
Should we go after them?
Or should we leave them leave them alone?
And if they become more powerful,
well, that's also good, because we're kinda related.
So it's one of our guys that became
powerful anyway. So there was these debates going
on between the democrats and the republicans in
Mecca.
Right?
And in the middle of that debate,
what the Arabs were doing,
the Qurayshis were doing, they were still conducting
business as usual.
They were still they had their trade caravans,
and the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
commanded
as he prepared a small coalition of of
Muslims,
he commanded that these trade caravans should start
getting attacked.
So their business is starting to get attacked,
which is completely justified because you expelled them
from their homes and stole their properties. You're
just fighting back to get what was yours.
So now the prophet
is attacking the economic lifeline
of Makkah.
It's almost like you're trying to get in
the way of a gas pipeline nowadays,
or an oil pipeline nowadays
or a or a sea route nowadays. And
you're you know, if somebody messes with a
sea route or tries to block some ships
or stops the gas pipeline, what happens next?
F sixteens get released.
Right? Drone strikes start happening. Isn't it? The
this is war. This is serious war. So
they were still debating, should we go after
Mohammed or not? When they found out a
couple of caravans got attacked
oh,
then we can't have this. This is this
has gotta go.
So now they're the the the hawks,
you know, the the aggressive ones won this
this debate whether or not we should attack
the Muslims, and they come out to attack
the Muslims in what became the battle of
Badr.
Right? So this happens very, very quickly. The
escalation
happens very, very quickly. You guys know already,
I don't have to give you a review
of the battle of Badr, but the Muslims
gave them a pretty humiliating defeat in the
battle of Badr.
And as a result of that defeat, now
the Quraish
have 2 problems.
1,
the entire region knows they lost.
They didn't even lose to elephants,
and they lost to a couple of people
they call
rafraf,
homeless people,
criminals,
outlaws, slaves, weak,
stupid people,
and they're they lost to them.
This is looking pretty bad for them.
On top of that, the Arabs had a
culture which I don't think exists anywhere anymore.
Their women would humiliate them a lot.
So,
of course, you don't know anything about that.
So
so they came home and they're like, oh,
what kind of man are you coming back
defeated?
Should've stayed home like the rest of us
women. What difference did it make? So now
they're hearing these, like, really sharp,
scathing. Women back then had really sharp tongues.
They knew exactly what to say to get
to your pride,
and they're getting they're they're getting roasted when
they get home. Right?
And they're burning with the desire for revenge.
Like, there's this is this is bad. So
they don't go after losing Badr, they don't
go home happy. They go home with rage.
And they're no longer filled with fear. They're
filled with the desire for revenge.
So they don't come the next time with
a 1,000, they come with 3 between
34,000.
Right? And they even actually brought their women
with them on the battlefield for Uhud. The
reason they brought their women on Uhud is
they said, even if we get scared, and
we're trying to run, the women in the
back are gonna taunt us, are you gonna
run?
Right? And if they run, their women can't
run as fast. So the our women are
gonna get taken by the Muslims, which is
a questioning of our manhood.
So if we're real men, we ain't scared,
we're even gonna bring our women out. So
they brought their women out that are singing
and dancing in the back and they came
in the front. That was the military of
Uhud
that that came to attack.
Again, I don't have to go through the
big long details of Uhud, but one thing
you should know, in the beginning,
the the Muslims handed to them really good.
It was kinda like the playoff game last
night. Okay? It was it was what what
the what the nuggets experienced last night is
what they were
experiencing on the battlefield. So when when that
was happening, the Quraysh actually ran to the
hills,
But who was in the back?
They're women.
But they they dropped their their armor because
they couldn't run away from the Muslims fast
enough. So they dropped their armor and their
shields because that's heavy stuff, and they started
running for the hills, and the women are
standing there, and they passed by the women,
and they even beat their women to the
hills, and the women are like, wait for
us. And the women can't run as fast
as those men, so they're running after them.
And the Sahaba report, as we were running
after the enemy, all we could see was
the back of the heels of the women
that were holding up their dresses and running
to to the mountains.
Like they didn't even see the soul, and
this is the this is the first half
of Uhud. Then of course, you know when
Muslims saw the the the shields and swords
lying on the field, they left their posts.
Some of them left their posts and Khardib
al Walid, who wasn't Muslim yet, came around
and basically backtracked on them, right, and flanked
them. And that's when the prophet was almost
killed. He was he was, injured in 3
places in his face. He was bled unconscious.
There were multiple attempts on his life in
that time, and this was the first
kind of victory of the
of of the Quraysh, kind of sort of
victory. And they talked a lot of trash
by the end of that. You know,
We have Uzza, their false
god. The Uzza, by the way, is the
feminine form of Al Al Azz from Aziz.
Or Allah's name, Al Azziz. Right? Al Aziz
is the one with the most might. Al
Uzza is the female goddess with the most
might.
That's where Aziz comes.
Right? And Allah responded with an eye of
the Quran.
You know?
Allah is the and they have no.
Right? So anyway, so they they left. They,
of course, they also mutilated the body of,
Hamza
They did all of this, 70 of the
very important sahaba were were killed.
You have to understand the the the key
point here that I'm that I'm kind of
trying to lead myself to for you guys.
And that is that
the the majority of the funds of the
battle because, you know, for battle, you need
funds.
The majority of the money was coming from
the Ansar. You guys know who the Ansar
are?
The helpers in Madinah. Right? So the Muhajirun,
the Maqans, they came basically with almost nothing.
So they didn't they didn't come with me.
So all majority of the money and the
majority of the numbers
were actually coming from the?
Ansar.
When
the major numbers of the Ansar are killed
in Uhud,
each one of those people that's killed was
the head of a household,
and each head of a household was basically
the main source of income for their family,
and the main source of income for even
the that they were supporting.
So 70 of the breadwinners
and income earners
have died overnight.
They've died.
And the the swords and the shields that
were left behind of the Muslims,
each sword and each see shield is the
equivalent nowadays of you purchasing a house.
In other words, your life savings go towards
a shield.
Your life savings go to a couple of
swords. So when the Quraysh picked up the
swords and the shields of the Muslims, the
Muslims lost enormous amounts of wealth
and they lost their breadwinners all in one
go.
So this is already a poor society.
The Quran tells us that the Muhajirun, the
the Ansar, the helpers in Madinah, they were
giving the Muhajirun preference over themselves even though
they themselves were starving.
They were and now on top of that,
there's massive bankruptcy.
The so the the the Muslims are now
debilitated.
They're deeply injured.
Like Allah describes, even after a deep injury
struck them. In Arabic means when the injury,
the arrow goes through your skin and penetrates
the bone,
gets through the flesh and gets to the
bone. That's called a kar. Any injury is
called a or a
But a deep injury that penetrates the bone
is called a karr. Allah uses the word
karr to describe what happened in Uhud. Now
so this this has happened in Uhud. Now
the Muslims are injured.
Because the Muslims are injured, the Quraysh go
back,
they feel good but then they feel kinda
stupid too.
They're like,
man, we should've just finished them off.
They were down.
We could've just ended Islam altogether.
I don't know why we got because they
got scared in the end again, and they
ran off, actually. That's what happened. But now
they're starting to question, man, we could have
just ended this problem once and for all,
but we're not gonna take that risk again.
We're not gonna go after them by ourselves.
Because they knew in a in a sense
from the from the perspective, from the perspective,
they actually got lucky.
They were losing that battle too. It's just
that the Muslims made one strategic mistake, otherwise,
they had lost that battle too. They know
that. They're not gonna risk going after the
Prophet
by themselves again.
So what do they do?
They start
having conversations with the Ahbash and the different
tribes in the area
and saying, hey. Look. Islam is a problem
for us. We've already gone to war with
these people twice, Mohammed and his followers.
We say
they don't. Right?
The him and his followers, they become a
real problem, but
soon they won't just be our problem, they're
gonna become your problem too.
So if you want,
we should all join hands
and go and finish this problem together. We
should we we can overrun them with our
numbers.
We'll have 2 we'll make coalition,
a United Nations of Kufr,
and we'll
get up.
And we're gonna come and just hit them
all at once. Right?
So we're and because we'll overrun them with
our number. And by the way,
one reason they gave was, oh, this is
gonna be a problem for you later.
Another reason they gave was, listen, we fought
them on the battlefield twice. I don't think
we should go into the battlefield.
I think we should go attack the city
itself.
Which city are they talking about?
Madera.
Now when you when you engage in military
action in a city, it's completely different than
when you engage in military action on the
battlefield.
On the battlefield, who's gonna die on both
sides? Soldiers.
Who's gonna die in the city?
Men, women, children, innocent civilians, casualties, this is
gonna be a genocide, and they're okay with
that. They're like, listen, let's go into Medina
and kill every last man, woman, and child.
Let's end all of this, and then we
have an entire city that just came into
our spoils, and we can distribute the wealth
easily. By the way, they're already injured. They're
barely able to defend themselves. We have a
lot of their weapons that they had anyway,
so this is a good time to attack.
And a lot of the tribes in the
area are like, this is easy money.
Yeah. Count me in.
I I think I'm gonna I'm gonna vote
for this. You know? We'll send some of
our troops too.
You know,
they they will call it to their public.
You know what they're gonna say? We're trying
to save our way of lives,
because Muhammad is a threat to our way
of life.
We're trying to save freedom in the Arabian
Peninsula.
We're trying to save the democracy of multiple
gods.
That that's what they're gonna say to them.
But in their actual meeting, what is this
about?
Money from the beginning to the end.
That's all it's about. That's the only incentive.
Right? You can go if you study modern
history, you're gonna find
compare the actual events
and the actual history with what the media
was saying about those events.
The media was saying we're going to Iraq
to spread democracy or we're going to Afghanistan
to spread democracy and human rights and all
that fun jazz. Yeah?
Because these people need to be brought in,
and we're gonna bomb them into, you know,
into
because bombing people makes them modernized.
That's that's how modern education,
fast track education, explosive education. Right? So
so that that's how we're gonna do it.
And and but what was the reality? The
reality was, oh, well, you know, there's there's
a Russian neighbor here. There's pipelines there. There's,
you know,
gas reservoir, oil resources, and what happened with
the oil prices at the time. If you
study oil prices and resource prices during the
Iraq war,
Right? And some of the strategic
alliances in the region, and the economic impact
of the Iran war, and you'll find this
wasn't about national security,
and this wasn't about, you know, democracy. It's
none there was none of these things.
In the end, it was all about just
resources, and that's what wars have always been
about. And this is what the Quraysh are
thinking about. It's a very simplistic reading to
think, Oh, this was Islam versus Kufr. Their
ultimate Kufr was their Ibadah of the dirham,
It was a worship of money. That that's
what it actually
was. So now getting to the point,
they are getting ready for a massive assault
made up of multiple tribes.
Each tribe, you can call a group or
a faction. A group in Arabic is called
Hizb.
The collection of them are called Ahzab.
So commenting on the legions that were collected,
that came together to kill all the Muslims
in Madinah itself, this was the battle of
Al Aghzab, and commenting on it also came
Surat Al Aghzab.
Surah number 33 of the Quran is commenting
on this situation. I'm gonna give you some
brief pointers on what happened in this situation.
So first of all,
they came some reports say about 10,000 men
were coming now.
So 10,000 soldiers are coming. You know that
Salman al Farisi's suggestion was to build a
trench that kind of barricades them from entering
so easily. Right?
Because the Madinah is kind of fortified in
the back with mountains and all the sideburn
mountains, so the front trench has to be
dug. And this trunk the this trench had
to be dug in 6 days
6 days. So the in a sense the
entire city was building
busy
digging this trench under the instruction of Rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Okay? So now
this happens, this is about
the 5th year of Shawwal, and Allah mentions
this in the Quran.
Those of you who have iman, remember the
favor of Allah done on you.
When armies came to attack you, not one
army,
armies came to attack you.
So here's what happens,
you know, in the ancient times when you
try to attack a fort
or a fortified city, you just build a
camp around the city.
You don't try to attack it because they're
fortified. Right? What's gonna happen eventually inside, they'll
run out of food.
They'll run out of resources. They'll start starving
and they'll give up. So you just stay
outside and wait for them to drown themselves
or starve themselves, and then they'll give up.
This is how fortresses or or encampments were
were conquered in the past. So the Quresh
are thinking, we're just gonna camp outside.
Sure. We can't get through the trench we
tried. We failed a few times. We'll just
wait this out. They're gonna run out of
food, water supplies. They're gonna have to come
out sooner or later, and when they do,
we're gonna get
them.
So they're waiting, but are the Quresh alone?
Let me ask you now. Are the Quresh
alone?
They've got lots of tribes with them. Don't
they?
All of those tribes have spent a lot
of money to come and camp here.
Setting up a military base is expensive.
Setting up the tents, feeding the animals, feeding
the soldiers, keeping the, you know, keeping everything
secure,
cooking the food, making the you know, setting
up the makeshift
hospital if somebody gets sick, all that stuff.
They have to set up an
entire makeshift city,
and they have to set that up for
weeks weeks weeks
while the Muslims are stuck inside the city
of Madinah. And what does Allah do? Allah
says in the Quran,
We sent a wind against them. So windstorm
comes in the desert, what happens? The sand
goes in people's eyes,
The sand goes in the people's mouth. They
go it goes in the animal's eyes. It
starts turning over the fire that they were
cooking the food in, and the tent goes
on fire, and the horses go running away,
and the the the camels are running wild,
and, like, they can't control this.
It's getting out of hand to the point
where the some of the tribes started giving
up like this. I mean, I thought it
was gonna be easy money. You know, I
think I'm gonna go home.
And some of them start trickling away. And
eventually, Koresh realized this ain't gonna work,
so they go back home too.
The the the the war actually never happened.
The entire campaign failed. There was a campaign
for genocide. They were okay with genocide.
Right? Because they're gonna go inside the city
and engage in military
combat,
but that campaign failed and now they left.
Now what happens as a result?
The Quraysh look really, really bad
Because now, not only have they lost to
the Muslims three times,
they cost the other tribes a lot of
money too. Y'all are the ones who talked
me into going with you because it was
gonna be easy money.
Easy money.
We just went outside in the desert and
barbecued ourselves for a few weeks, and then
came went back home.
And it cost me all that money too.
If you ever have another request, go talk
to somebody else. I don't wanna talk to
Now they've lost face.
They've lost street cred with the people that
you used to respect them as the high
and mighty Quraish. You understand?
So this this is a a huge,
you know,
diminishing
of the power of Quraysh and the political
capital of Quraysh in the region. Now
with all of that said,
we now have to now
take the next step, and this is really
what I wanted to talk to you about.
All of what I just said to you
was setting the stage for the history that
I really wanna share with you that leads
up to our our study of sultan, inshaAllah
sultan fat. A little bit of this Surat
Al Fati which will be tomorrow, InshaAllah.
But the Prophet
about a year and a few months later
sees a dream,
And he sees the dream that he's making
Hajj making Umrah.
He's making Umrah, and he's shaving his head.
And he shares this dream with the Muslims
telling them,
I've seen this dream. We're gonna go make
umrah.
And the problem is you go make
and
the people of and the people
of a little over a year ago, maybe
14, 15 months ago, they were at your
door
thirsty for the blood of every last one
of your men, women, and children.
They were genocidal maniacs.
And now you've seen a dream
that you're gonna go there and perform
The
thing is the For the Arabs,
wearing a sword
is like putting your clothes on, like you
feel naked without your sword. So it's not
like they're they don't even consider it armed.
It's kinda like when you go a little
bit outside of Dallas Fort Worth in Texas.
You know? It's it's you know, you shouldn't
assume that someone is unarmed.
Right?
Like, I've taken a few road trips and
my favorite thing about the gas stops here
is the sign that says we don't call
the cops and it's a picture of a
gun.
Right? This is the Arabs of the time.
They gotta they gotta carry their sword.
But when you go for war, you're you've
got shields, swords,
arrow, you know, bow and arrow, spears, you
got the whole 9 yards. But when you're
going for Hajj, you're only carrying your self
defense weapon, not much more, and you're wearing
a haram. Once you pass the you're wearing
a haram. So you're basically exposed,
and you're taking
animals for slaughter
in the in the 100.
In fact, the report tells us 1400
Muslims
agreed to go with the prophet
for this journey,
knowing that where they're going,
the people there want each one of them
dead
and don't care about who's innocent and who's
not. They they don't care about any of
your pet.
So the prophet
sees this dream, the Sahaba are ready to
go because if the prophet sees a dream,
it might as well be revelation.
It is it is revelation. So they they
they've all agreed. Now the hypocrites,
which were also in Medina,
they were really happy about this dream.
They were actually really happy about this
dream because they're
like, oh, they came to kill you here
and they couldn't. Now you wanna go get
yourself killed yourself.
This is awesome.
Because they thought Islam and Madinah is also
a problem for them.
They thought their life was good before Islam
came to Madinah. So if the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam gets killed, the munafiqun are
very happy about it.
So they were really happy that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, he saw this
dream and they're gonna go make a umrah.
They're like, yeah, Rasul, alfmarruq,
make dua for you.
You know? And the and Surat Al Fath
will see a commentary on that too. Allah
will actually talk about that, that they were
happy about it. Anyway, the rest of the
so so what that tells us is for
the vast majority of the people,
almost all 1400 of the people that went
were true believers,
except one person. We'll we'll get to the
story of that one person later on. Right?
But they all now they've they've decided to
leave. So they reach Miqatil Madinadun Khulayfa, where
the Prophet
consecrates the animals. Now these animals are marked
for Hajj,
and he makes the the the turakah. Now
it's officially known. By the way, the Quraysh
have gone to war 3 times, but war
is not just about the battle and fight,
war is also about intelligence gathering, isn't it?
So if you're if you're moving 1400 people
and you're getting all these animals ready and
you've left Madinah, what's that gonna show the
the Quraysh? It's gonna show they're coming,
and they're headed our way.
So the Quraysh
wants to make sure that they never reach
Mecca.
They got wind of it, and they wanna
make sure they never reach Mecca. Why is
that important?
It's important because
if the Muslims
reach Mecca,
Makkah is sacred land,
not by Islamic standards,
also by Mushrik standards.
So the Mushrikun
are not allowed to kill each other in
Mecca, and this is one of the things
that gives Quraysh their status, whoever comes here
is safe.
So if the Muslims reach, cross the border
into Makkah,
then they won't be able to kill them.
So the best the only chance they have
to kill the Muslims is when they are
on
the road, when they're on the way to
Mecca, That's what they have to do. So
they get wind
that the Quran that the Muslims are coming,
Rasulullah
sent Busan bin Sufyan al Khuzai as a
scout from our side, also somebody was sent
with a fast horse to go check what
the Quraysh are doing, and he comes back
and he said and, you know,
he comes back and says they're actually getting
ready for war. So the prophet he
leaves directly from Makkah anyway, he reaches a
place called Rusfan, which is kind of a
stopping point. He reaches there, and
the the Muslim scout who was gathering intelligence,
he came running back, and he says,
He said the have gathered everybody they can.
They're
ready.
And they've gathered some of them the the
tribes that are around the area that are
known for their assassins.
So some of their violent tribes, they've gathered
be be able to gather as many thugs
as possible, basically.
They are going to fight you. They're gonna
prevent you from getting to the house. They
will stop you at all cost.
They are determined. Okay.
So at this point, Rasulullah SAWSAWA Lamb says,
Yahweh hakuresh.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gathers
the 1400 Muslims that have come. Now they
didn't come for war. They they have left
their house because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, dreamed that they're gonna make umrah.
So he's talking to his crowd, the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he says, what
is wrong with the Quraysh? It's like war
has consumed them.
Why
why can't they leave me be with the
rest of the Arabs? Like, I'm not even
in their face anymore.
I'm not even bothering them anymore. Why are
they keep why they keep coming after me?
So
Allah, He says, and if they attack me,
which is what they want to do, then
that's what Allah wills, Allah will give me
victory against them.
And they could have just entered Islam easily
without any fight, They could have just done
that, but why are they so bent on
fighting?
He said, I swear by Allah, I will
keep struggling for this mission that Allah has
sent me with
until Allah either gives me victory
or
this gets separated.
That's what the prophet said
So he's making this, basically, this declaration to
his people that even though I told you
we're gonna go for Hajj,
I as your leader, am ready to get
killed.
I will go because Allah has given me
this mission, I won't stop. And if they
want to kill me, that's their business, Allah
will deal with them, but until my head
is my neck is still connected to my
head, I'm gonna keep going.
That's the that's what the leader is telling
them. What message does that send to all
of the followers? Right?
You know, So then
but but then he he told them, Why
don't you tell me people? I wanna hear
from you.
Because there's the Meccans, and then there's the
neighboring tribes of the Meccans that they're sending
ahead to attack the Muslims.
So kind of like,
you know, you've got you've got the main
city and then you've got smaller towns on
the outskirts. Right? So those smaller towns are
the ones that are gonna come attack. So
the prophet
said, what do you people think? Should we
attack these smaller towns?
And
because they're coming to attack us, so we
should do you know, a risk retaliatory strike
against them. And that way we will dwindle
the numbers of Quraysh support, then Quraysh will
be all by themselves.
Right? Should we do that?
Because if those people attack us, those side
tribes, we can overpower them still, and Allah
will have cut one of the it's like
blindsiding the mushrikeen, they won't have as much
support as they normally have.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
basically testing the crowd and saying, should we
go to war? What do you guys say?
I think we can take the some of
these side scrubs that the Quresh
gathered,
you know, the bench players.
So we take the bench out of the
way, but we only got the 8 players
left to to deal with. What do you
people say? Abu Bakr as Siddiq spoke up.
He's actually realized that the prophet
is testing the sentiments of the crowd.
And why is the why is the crowd
being tested? Because they've gone to Quraish they've
gone to war with Quraish 3 times.
So the immediate answer is, yeah, of course,
war.
Right? Because that's the enemy and we fought
them 3 times.
Abu Bakr as Adid speaks something and says,
Messenger of Allah
you left with the intention for this house.
Which house is he referring to?
The Kaaba.
You don't wanna kill anybody.
And you don't wanna make war with anybody.
I know you. He's not saying don't do
it. He says, I know you don't want
to.
He's saying, I know you don't want to.
You're just saying this to see what people
want,
but you don't want this.
Then focus your attention towards the Ka'bah itself.
And whoever stops us, then we will fight
them. So we shouldn't preemptively strike, if they
fight us then we will fight back.
Says, March in the name of Allah.
March in the name of Carry on in
the name of Allah. So this is the
now the consensus decision, we're marching in the
name of Allah. Okay.
What I'm trying to why this history is
important?
Is Rasulullah
the first time we decided to make according
to revelation,
to visit the house of Allah, make tawaf
of the house, do the sacrifice the shave
the head, sacrifice the animal, all of that,
all of those rituals that we now
constitute as Hajj.
The first time that was going to happen
was a life risking venture,
and all of them were subject to being
executed just for making that intention.
And the
Munafiqun were extremely happy over that decision.
And the Quraysh were sharpening their knives over
that decision.
This is important. The prophet
now knew they're coming this way. He's in
Aswan,
and he said we have to take an
alternative route because they're gonna intercept us, their
military will intercept us, war will be inevitable.
By the way, who's leading the charge on
the on their side? They saw them from
a distance, their scout,
as it was Khaled ibn Walid.
Who already caused this major damage when?
In Uhud. Who's the only one who got
through the trench?
He got through the you know the trench
that the Quresh couldn't get through? The only
one with a small few that got through
the trench to attack the Muslims is
So he's their most successful general.
Right?
He actually
it's either him or one of his scouts,
they saw the Muslims in Asfan,
and they saw that they put all their
shields and not their shields, their their swords
and everything down, and they're making dhor salah.
And he had this brilliant idea. He's like,
yo, when they're praying is the best time
to kill them all. How often do they
do this?
And somebody told them, I think their next
salah is Asr.
They got another prayer called Asr.
So this was
Right? He's like, man, I missed the opportunity.
I'll kill them all at
Asr.
So he's getting ready and Allah reveals to
the Prophet
a prayer called salatul khawf, the prayer of
fear.
In between duhr and Asr was salatul khawf,
revelation.
What is the revelation? Some of them will
pray with the Prophet while others will stand
guard, and they'll finish half their prayer finish
their prayer and the other will join with
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That was
revealed in this time. He comes back for
us and he's like, yo, that's that doesn't
look like the same prayer. What happened?
They're ready.
So he's like, I gotta I gotta re
strategize. We gotta rethink our our our strategy
here. So he goes back to Makkah to
re strategize.
By the time he comes back, the prophet
has left,
Khos Asfam. He's headed towards a place called
Hudaybiyyah.
But to get to Hudaybiyyah,
you have to go through burnt jagged rock.
I don't know if you guys have been
to, you know, many desert, you know, or
or or burnt rock areas. Like Mecca, when
you're driving, if you ever gone to Amrara
or something and you're driving between Mecca and
Medina, you'll see the rocks in a distance.
And they're mostly, like, they're ameless. They're very
smooth rock from a distance.
But, you know, you might have places like
that in New Mexico. I think I've seen
some here. And some places in California,
you'll have rocks that are, like, very sharp.
Like, you can't put your foot on it.
It'll cut right through. Right? And it's coming
on both sides, and it's not meant for
like, you can't go through their, you know,
1400 people and their animals.
But they knew that's the only way they
can make it at least to.
Is right on the border of the neutral
zone. Neutral zone means you're in Mecca. You
can't be attacked. Right? So to get to
Hudaybiyah, which is not normally where you wanna
go,
but to avoid the main road to Mecca,
they took this road. And in that road,
they bled. In that road, they they got
injured. And in that road, the sultan even
told them,
This is whoever crosses this valley and goes
to the hill of Mirar,
whoever's going through this, you know, 1400 people
and their animals going through this journey,
they are going to go through what
go through when Allah told
them, enter the
door. Right? So this is your test, like
the Israelites were tested when they were to
enter the door.
And he also promised everyone of the people
who went to the journey, Jannah, except one
person.
And they were like, 1 per and he
said the one with the red camel.
He said, one person with the red camel,
and they're like, who's this guy with the
red camel? And turns out, all the way
at the back of the caravan was a
guy who said, have you seen my red
camel?
And they said,
I think we heard about you.
I can
I'm pretty sure you should ask the prophet
to pray for you.
And he said, I'm not interested in your
friend's prayer. I'm more interested in my camel.
And that showed you that he wasn't really
there for genuine reasons. He was the only
munafiq there, and the prophet was given a
revelation about him.
Right? Which also indicates that everybody else who
was on that journey were the truest of
believers,
which will also be confirmed by Surat Al
Fath, the surah that was revealed at the
end of this entire adventure. Adventure. So now
they're going, and they're they're traveling.
Khaled ibn Waleed comes back with reinforcements
at Asfaan,
nobody's there.
They left.
They've gone the unusual route towards what location?
Hodevia. So now he's gonna rush back to
see if he can cut them off before
they get there, but they're already there. They
already reached Hodeibia. Hodeibia was a well, a
little bit of a hump, like a hill.
Right? And the the well was dried up.
So when they get there,
Raul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
you know,
his camel stops. Actually, I wanna read that
to you.
His camel just wouldn't move past Hudaybiyah.
Their plan wasn't Hudaybiyah. Their plan was Mecca.
It goes through Hudaybiyah, but their plan wasn't
to stop at Hadebiya, but his camel stopped
moving.
So the people started telling the camel
because in Arabic, you speak to animals, and
you have words for speaking to animals.
So
some people speak to animals in different ways.
The Arabs actually had a full on vocabulary.
Is how you speak to a crow. Now
if you say that loud enough, you'll know
why.
Right? That's right? To get a camel to
get up.
Get up. Get up. They have different words
that may hey. You know? People have different
I've seen actually videos on this, how how
to speak to animals
because, because the Quran makes reference to this
in
the Quran. So I want you to know
something about it. Different animals respond to different
sounds,
And you have this, like, shepherd who'll be
like
or something,
and all the sheep show up. And somebody
else tries it, and they're all they're like,
no. Not you, bro. Try again.
So so they said, and the camel won't
move. Now sometimes a good animal, a good
domesticated animal, like like a horse or a
camel that usually obeys the master,
becomes stubborn. And when it becomes stubborn, it's
like, you know, transmission failure. Like, it's no
good, man. They don't listen no more. So
it's not responding the way I wanted to.
I'm pressing the accelerator. It's not moving, so
there's something wrong. Time for some barbecue. You
know? You know what I'm saying? So so
so the people said this, this
was the name of the Prophet's camel
and he was actually very attached to this
camel, had a very friendly relationship with Kaswa.
So they said Kaswa has gone bad, Kaswa
has lost its mind.
The prophet says, no, no, no, no, no.
There's nothing wrong with
And it doesn't act this way at all.
That's not it. That's not her character.
So
the prophet knows the character even of an
animal.
Right? That's how intimately he knows the animal.
Walakan haba saha habisunfi
really beautiful hadith in Bukhari.
He says, but the one who stopped the
elephant has stopped her.
Now
which which elephant?
The elephant in the time of the army
of Abraha. Abraha wanted that elephant to charge
and crash into the the the Haram, and
the elephant refused to move.
And Allah is saying the same one who
stopped
that elephant from moving is the one who's
stopping
from moving. What is Allah telling the Prophet
If you go to Makkah now, there will
be war, and just like Allah prevented violence
from happening at the haram with the elephant,
Allah is preventing violence from happening with aswad
stopping now, we will not proceed further, we
will camp here.
That that was the instruction.
It's so remarkable that Allah protected the sanctity
of the Kaaba with that elephant the same
way He protected the sanctity of the Kaaba
with
by stopping her at that moment.
Okay. So now,
We were 1400 with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And
the Khudayhi was basically there was only one
well at Khudayhi
at So we drank from it a little
and pretty quickly there was not even a
drop left.
Was not even a drop left to drink.
So this news reached the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
So, the Prophet sat
at the mouth of the well.
So, he asked for
a small pot of water and he made
a wudu
with a pot of water,
then the Prophet garbled some of that water
and poured it into the well.
So we left the well, and not much
long much later,
And then it started overflowing, the wells started
overflowing,
and all of us drank and all of
our animals drank. 1400
people drank the water,
and camels, horses that came with 1400 people
drank the water and the water wouldn't stop
running.
And this was one of the miracles of
the prophet and this was also kind of
a way of, you know, reinforcing the iman
of the believers who came at this time,
who otherwise the Munafiqun were thinking are going
on a suicide mission.
Right? But now they're getting the feeling Allah
is on their side, and now they're seeing
these small miracles happen also. Like the the
one in the the, you know, the the
red the guy with the red camel, it's
a small miracle that happened. And then making
them to the Khudibi and the water coming
out is another small miracle that's happened. So
one after the other, these miracles start happening.
The Prophet SAW Allahu Alaihi Wasallam said something
very strange in this moment.
So right now they're feeling this miraculous gift
from Allah has come, the water has poured
out of the well, and in this moment
the Prophet said, I swear by the one
who holds my life in his hands, meaning
I swear by Allah.
They will not ask me for anything
unless it violates the sanctity of Allah. I
will give it to them.
Now listen to that again. Basically, I'll put
it in my own words.
They will ask me whatever they want and
I will give it to them so long
as it's not haram.
That's an easy words now. So long as
it's not haram, I will give it to
them. Who's the they?
It's the Quraysh. But nobody knows right now
that there's going to be a negotiation,
Nobody knows they're gonna ask for anything. In
fact, the Khuresh have never asked for anything.
They've only wanted to kill you.
Right?
But he knows already there's go they're going
to be making an ask. They're going to
be making an ask. And he's already letting
he's saying something none of the understood
at the time. Whatever they ask me so
long as it's not violating the sanctity of
Allah, I will give it to them.
I will give it to them. And in
this moment when the sahaba are filled with
iman because of the miracle of the well,
right now they're hearing something that's eventually going
to test their iman.
Right? Eventually, they're
when when when the time comes and the
Quraysh are gonna ask for stuff, it's gonna
boil their blood,
And this will be helpful
in lessening that blow, you know, making this
more more,
digestible.
Okay.
Before I go on, how are you guys
do you guys doing okay?
To finish this part because we got so
much to cover this weekend. So I just
wanna get through some of the material without
doing injustice to any of it. So
So what happens is they've reached Hudaybiyah. If
they cross Hudaybiyah even half a kilometer,
a quarter of a mile, if they cross
that much, they're in the safe zone.
When they're in the safe zone, what's what's
not possible anymore?
They can't be attacked.
The Quraysh are like, this is serious, we
gotta end this problem now. One idea is
because they're just sitting there, feeding their animals,
relaxing in Hodeibia,
How about we send 80 assassins,
we turban them up so their faces are
covered,
and go and kill a few of them
and create stir up some problem, and the
animals will scatter, and these people will scatter,
and we'll have dispersed them. So 80 is
not enough to kill 1400, but it's enough
to create chaos, isn't it? Like, in a
in a civilian environment, when there's an explosion
or gunfire or violence, then everybody flees. Right?
So they're hoping to create that kind of
mass chaos
by creating this anarchy. And one of the
ideas also is if we get lucky, we
we might even kill the messenger.
So this is also in a sense an
assassination attempt against the Prophet
So these 80 men from jibatul 'aim, they
descend onto Khudaybiya, all of a sudden masked
up, and they start trying to kill as
many as possible,
They wanted to stir up the Prophet and
his companions.
So the the narration describes, he grabbed the
prophet was able to capture all of them
safely, meaning no one got hurt, not they,
not us,
and then he allowed them to live, unmasked
them. Oh, because why were they masked? Because
then it would be we found out that
they're from Quraish, which is bad PR for
Quraish.
People came with their sacrificial animals, and you're
trying to kill them. This is bad PR
for them. If they're masked up, they could
look like any bandits, because Arabia and bandits.
You know? So they, you know, we don't
have they're not gonna be incriminated. They didn't
get caught on camera.
But now they're all caught on camera, and
they're all tied up. And the prophet takes
all their weapons
and then sends them back to Mecca.
And this is something Allah describes in the
Quran.
He is the one who stopped their hands
from reaching you and your hands from reaching
them right at the heart of Mecca, right
at the belly of Mecca. Right? Okay.
Now
the Mecca is the main area and the
Quraysh are the main area, but there are
other tribes that are adjacent to Mecca.
K? When I used to live in New
York,
of course, next to New York is New
Jersey, and on the other side, there's Connecticut.
Right? There are states that are connected to
New York, but we don't think of them
as much. We don't think of them as
human civilization
in New York. New York has this pompous
self right, self arrogant, self lofty image of
itself, and everybody else is the outskirts.
You know? So when you when you say
I'm going to the boonies, it means you're
going to Connecticut.
Right? That's when you live in live in
New York. Right?
The idea is Mecca is the main city,
but there's Banu Khuzaa and there's other tribes
that are in the area. They're all is
there. It's a it's a second big city.
Right? It's not quite New York City, but
it's Jersey City.
You know, it's it's something.
Those tribes start getting nervous. They're like, Quraish
might be able to defend itself,
we're not gonna survive these Muslims, man.
We better go figure out our situation for
ourselves.
We better try to go negotiate with these
people. We they also know that the Muslims
have reached Hudibiya.
So,
or rather, he's from Khuzaa, so one of
the neighboring tribes of Mecca.
A third he's not Mecca itself. He's not
Quresh itself,
and he came
to try to talk sense into the Muslims.
So you he wants to ask to meet
with the prophet
and he makes a pitch. Here's his pitch.
Listen.
I left behind Kaab and Amir, sons of
Lu'ay. What does that mean? Kaab and Amir,
sons of Lu'ay are like their legend warriors.
Right? So they're like theirs they're they're they're
Hercules or whatever.
Right? They're great legendary warriors.
And when they say somebody's getting ready to
throw down and somebody's getting ready to kill,
then I have left Ka'ab Ibn Lu'ay and
Amr ibn Lu'ay. So his way of saying,
you don't understand. Those people in Mecca, I
I just saw what I saw. Those people
are ready to kill all of you. And
then he
said,
they're almost at the waters of
and they have brought the pregnant camels with
them. What that means is they're even bringing
their pregnant women with them or women and
children with them. You remember the logic behind
that? They're ready to kill. They don't care.
Like, they're they're they're not gonna turn back.
This is all out war. You're not in
a position to negotiate. That's what they came
and tried to tell him.
Or he tried to come and tell him.
Listen. They will fight you. There's no way
you're getting to the house of Allah.
That ain't gonna happen. You need to know,
most likely what's gonna happen is you guys
are gonna get killed.
Fakala Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the prophet responds
to him,
We didn't come here to fight anybody.
But
we came here to do
but
somehow war has become become an obsession for
them.
And it's only caused them harm, which is
a really cool thing for the prophet to
say. It's caused them harm. What's he it's
a very subtle way of taking a shot
at y'all didn't learn it better.
Y'all got whooped the first half and
then you remember when you came all the
way in Aqzab and then you went back?
It's caused them a lot of harm.
So,
and
the pro Look at the courage of Rasulullah
He's in the mouth of the lion and
he's saying, If they want, I can give
them a little extra time,
I can give them an extra time out.
They can leave,
meaning he's gonna do for 3 days. They
can go up in the mountains and have
a barbecue. If they don't wanna see my
face, they can just leave if they feel
nervous around me.
I'll give them extra time to pack their
bags and get their tent ready. They can
go, and I'm gonna go do
He's not speaking from a position of weakness.
He's speaking from a position of power.
And then he says,
and if they wanna stand up, stand firm,
If they wanna go somewhere where people usually
go, wherever
and if they don't wanna do that, then
they're the ones being stubborn.
When if they refuse,
that I swear by the one whose life
is in my hands.
I I will fight them. I will I
will establish this mission. I will complete this
mission until this,
remember this statement before,
until this is gone,
until this is separated,
or Allah will make this matter happen himself.
Like, either you you deal with me or
you might have to deal with the wrath
of Allah himself,
but that's just what's gonna happen. This is
a negotiation response.
So he hears this. He says, so when
He says, okay.
I'm gonna get I'm gonna go tell them
what you said.
He's not from Quraish. Remember, he's from Khuzaa,
but he's gonna go tell who what they
said. The Quraish. So he's gonna go to
Quraysh. So he left until he reached Quraysh.
He says, hey, we've come to you from
this man. Who are they referring to this
man?
Rasool SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And we heard him say something,
They said, if you want us to tell
you what they said, we'll do it.
He's saying, look. It's none of my business.
It's between you and you and Mohammed.
We just wanted to go figure things out
for ourselves, but they told us some things
even though it's none of our business, if
you wanna hear what he told us, we
can tell you.
Some of the idiots in Macca said, we
don't need you to tell us anything about
him. We can take care of ourselves.
What what what he said, what he didn't
say doesn't matter.
And the people that were smart among them,
the politicians, they said,
Hey.
What did he say?
So some of the angry angry ones, the
thugs, like, you don't need to hear what
he said? And the other one said, no.
No. No. Let's hear it.
So,
So he told them everything the Prophet said.
Now the Quraysh know the Prophet's not playing
around. He's not here to negotiate in the
sense that he's not gonna be turned back.
Okay.
Now the Quraysh still have too much pride.
They are not going to let
the Prophet
go to Makkah,
and they don't wanna dignify him by speaking
to him directly.
They still won't talk to him. They're still
trying to figure out what to do. In
the meantime,
is a one of the tribes in Taifs,
neighboring city.
Right?
He says, you know what? I'm gonna go
talk to them. And they're okay with that
because they save face. Right? They don't have
to deal with him directly. They send somebody
from Taif to deal with him. So Urwa
goes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And Urwa, you should know, is a is
a multimillionaire.
He's a very rich person, and at some
point, he needed to borrow some money, and
he had borrowed money from Abu Bakr, which
tells you how what kind of money Abu
Bakr used to have,
because if one of the leaders of 5,
big money 5,
is borrowing money, they're borrowing money from
Abu Bakr. So that's not no $20.
Okay? So that's serious cash that he borrowed
at some point, and he never paid it
back.
He didn't pay it back. We'll we'll get
to that.
Muhammad. So, he's a politician. He's a big
deal in the city. He talks like he's
a VIP and he sees Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and he's not gonna talk
to him like he respects him.
So he says, hey, Muhammad.
This is how he speaks to him.
You really think you're going to uproot your
own people?
Have you seen anyone among the Arabs do
this to their own family?
This is how he starts talking to the
Prophet because he's saying you're an embarrassment to
the Quraysh, you're hurting your own family, how
are you uprooting your own people, you're not
loyal to your own people.
One of the reasons he's also saying this
is because he sees around the prophet
people from all different tribes, and he sees
slaves, and he sees people that have never
been together, and he sees people whose families
have been at war with each other for
centuries, but now they're brothers praying together and
eating together. And he's like,
who are these people? What is this?
And you're going against your family for these
people?
So,
He says, Man, I don't know what you're
doing here.
Listen,
I see people around you,
I see people around you, and I see
the variety around the colors around you
that if push comes to shove,
if if it gets real, if the if
the battle heats up, these are the people
that are gonna run away from you.
They're about as diverse as a bus stop.
Right?
Because in his mind, who's loyal to you?
Your tribe.
Who's what people that wear your flag. People
that have your background, your lineage, family first.
That's the tribal way.
Right? These people are from different nationalities,
different tribal backgrounds, even some of them different
previous religions. They all have different histories. Some
of them didn't even like each other for
a long time. Some of them may have
been on opposite ends of the battlefield before,
and now they're standing next to you. He's
not gonna be loyal to you. He doesn't
understand what Islam does to people.
He doesn't He's never seen it. For 1000
of years, the Arabs have never seen it.
No nation had seen it. Everyone's loyal to
their own people.
And for the first time, these people
have forgotten 1000 of years of tribal history,
and the the thing that bonds them is
thicker than any blood, is Islam.
It's it's not something he can comprehend, he
does he doesn't get it. He can't understand
it. So when he does this, he says
this
spoke out,
and I'm not gonna read what he said,
but he said something really, really offensive.
He said something rated r.
K?
And he said it, and it's it's, there
are some some kids in the audience I
see, but it's also a masjid. So out
of respect,
I'm not gonna say it, but it was
basically, if it would be said, it would
be bleep bleeped out. Like, beep beep beep,
basically.
And this is Abu Bakr as Siddiq,
the nicest, quietest, calmest
Sahabi of all. And he hears this man
talk to Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
these people are gonna follow you.
Shame on you.
And he says, boop, boop, boop. And he's
like, we're gonna leave him. We're gonna run
away from him.
This is what the out of his rage
said,
he said, who said that?
Because it's a crowd. Right? Abu Bakr is
in the crowd, but he didn't see who
said it. He's like, who said that?
Abu Bakr. They said Abu Bakr said it.
Because even everybody else must have been like,
Abu Bakr, like,
what is this?
He said, I swear by the one whose
life is in my end. Meaning, I swear
to god,
if I didn't owe you money, I woulda
answered you.
Remember you borrowed money before?
And basically, he considered, now we're even. I
ain't gotta pay you back now because you
you paid me with this,
you know, I paid I paid you by
listening to you cuss me out in front
of everyone. Right?
So
Listen to this carefully.
Farwa is a politician,
like a governor.
Back in the day when the elders were
speaking to each other,
and when when they're speaking to someone lesser
and they they don't feel like they're not
listening,
they would grab the beard of the one
who's not listening and say, hey.
Listen to what I'm saying.
This was their way of negotiation.
This was come and the ones who were
elites
were used to doing this and getting away
with it.
Right?
So,
he's speaking to the prophet
and he tries to what?
Grab his beard.
Now Muhira
Muhira radiallahu anhu
is got a he's got a helmet on.
I'll I'll read it to you.
Is standing right at the head of the
prophet, and
his head is covered.
He's got a helmet over his head, so
you can't see his face.
So he's a warrior, guard a guard. His
name is Muhira. He's standing behind the prophet
every time he tried to reach for the
beard, he would take the butt of the
the bottom of the sword handle and smack
his hand.
And he's like,
and a few minutes until the negotiation, he
reaches his hand, he gets his hand smacked
again
2, 3 times. The third time he said,
get your hand away from the beard of
the Prophet
before it can never reach him reach even
yourself.
Keep your hand to yourself or you ain't
gonna have a hand left.
And what nobody's ever spoken to Urwa in
this way before. These guys, you know you
don't talk to them like that. They're the
elites.
So he says,
When was
humiliated
and furious,
he says,
are you sir?
Can this is this really happening?
Who are you Muhammad?
He's basically saying, who do you think you
are?
And then he says,
Who's this that dare to do this to
me among your companions? Who's this behind you?
Who hit?
Tafkalla Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said,
This is your nephew, Mughira bin Shaba
because he had a helmet on
her. Hey, uncle.
So
he he says, you have you're a traitor
to me. I will never forget this.
So he's really, really upset.
He knows this negotiation is not going anywhere.
First of all, he got cursed out by.
Then he got smacked down by his own
nephew.
He was like, I just I can't I
can't I have no I have no clout
with these people. I have no way to
get ahead with these people.
So he goes back
to his people.
We're gonna stop with this one. He says
people,
He said, I have been an ambassador to
kings in the world. I've traveled the world.
I've been an ambassador and emissary in the
courts of kings.
I've seen the Roman king, and I've seen
the Persian king, the great superpowers of the
time.
And the Abyssinian King.
I have never seen in my life any
King.
I have never seen any people of the
King
honor their King, aggrandize their King,
deem their King's great regard their King's greatness
the way Muhammad's followers
consider his greatness. I've never even seen this
in the courts of Kings.
This is him exaggerating in poetic speech, but
you get the point. He said even if
this man was to spit, it would land
in one of his followers' hands. They wouldn't
let it touch the ground.
And if a drop of sweat fell from
his skin or his face, they would catch
it with their hands.
And if when he commands them to do
something, they're competing with each
other, who's gonna follow it first?
When he washes his face, it's like they're
gonna kill each other to catch the drops
of water from him.
And when he speaks, they humble their voices
before Him,
and none of them even raises their eyebrows
and bulges their eyes at him because they
think of him so great. They don't even
make aggressive eye contact with him. Even the
way they look at him, the look has
humility in it.
Listen, he's giving you a good suggestion, just
take it.
This is telling them, listen.
He's making sense. He's not talking crazy.
But he didn't just say that. He said,
look. His followers
too strong, bro. And if push comes to
shove, I don't see you guys keeping your
followers. He'll he's gonna keep his. Your people
will run from you. His people aren't gonna
run from him.
So he says,
he
says he says to them, listen. Whatever he's
offering,
take it. I'm on your side here. What's
good for you is you listen to what
the what Muhammad is saying.
Because I'm scared that when it when it
comes to it, you're not gonna help you
need. You're not gonna have the help you
need to fight against him.
He says he's a man who came to
this house just to show respects to the
Kaaba. He's gonna come. He's gonna slaughter the
animal, and he's gonna leave.
It's just it's that simple. And they said,
I'll leave you guys with this, they said
to
him, They said, Abu Yafoor is his nickname.
They said, don't talk like this, come on,
we respect you. Why are you
breaking
like
this?
If somebody else was speaking like this, we
would have dealt with him differently. But we
respect you, how can you talk like this?
They
said, Okay, okay, okay, fine. You know what?
He's not coming this year, but maybe next
year we'll let him.
So already the Quraysh are starting to break,
isn't it?
Cause we started with, they will never let
you even see the Kaaba, they will fight
you, they will kill you, they've got
their swords sharpened, their women, their children are
ready to die, and now they're like, okay,
not this year, next year. Okay?
And so there the the the weakness is
starting to show, there's * in the armor
starting to show. We'll take a break here.
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