Nouman Ali Khan – Road to Hajj #07 5 Hajj Lessons Revealed
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The physical conflict between the United States and the Muslim world is causing tension and confusion, leading to political and cultural conflict. The speaker emphasizes caution and caution against getting dirt on people, as well as the importance of spiritual state and unification of things in religion. The transcript describes the history of Islam, including the use of sakinah in the Surah and the implementation of Islam in the present day. The speaker discusses the use of weapons, security, and the importance of avoiding accusations of seeking to "will" and "will" to assert their rights. They also discuss the importance of religion and the need for sponsorship for students.
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These numbers mean nothing for them. There's a
different scale.
It's a different scale of one of the
largest empires on earth, and we're about to
clash with them.
We're actually about to clash with them. And
Allah describes that clash how does he describe
it?
Once again everyone, Assalamu Alaikum.
Actually one of the things I misspoke about
yesterday I wanna correct is a
lot of scholars hold of you and I'm
actually found that more convincing also.
When he said there's other land that you
haven't been able to acquire yet you haven't
been able to access it yet
it's actually they argue that this is referring
to Makkah itself
that Makkah is just just the other land
that you haven't been able to access because
all this time we've been at war we've
been expelled from Makkah and we are not
able to go back to Makkah, but Allah
has that covered for you.
Right?
So this is what Allah is giving giving
them an indication and there's always smaller signs
before the greater signs. Right? So one of
the things that we won't talk about detail
in detail,
in this session, but Insha'Allah at some point
in the future I will, is that they
agreed that you can come back next year.
But Mecca was not conquered the next year.
So, they're still in the state of peace
treaty,
and
the Muslim influence continues to grow,
and you know the political landscape is kind
of a cold war situation.
Right? So there is tension but there is
no conflict.
Right?
And so while in that state the Prophet
actually made them live up to their
agreement and he showed up for umrah
the next year and it's called Umratul Qaba.
Umratul Qaba means the umrah that was owed
like salah is kaba right? You you owe
a prayer and you make it up. So
this was owed from the year previous.
So he came and made it up. And
2,000
sahaba actually made umrah.
And people some reports say people closed their
doors and people got nervous because the Muslims
are all the way inside the heart of
Makkah making Tawaf. But one of the things
I want you to think about is from
the Muslim perspective, not just the non Muslim,
the Qurayshi perspective. From the Muslim perspective, they
are doing tawaf and they are doing the
right rituals of salah,
but but the idols
are still there.
The idols are still there.
This is pretty serious because
the Muslims when when, the Prophet salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam moved to Madinah,
Allah revealed early on that the direction of
prayer will no longer be Jerusalem,
the direction will be the Kaaba. Right?
So our direction changed.
And in order to pray towards
Jerusalem, the Prophet
has to have his back to Makkah
because it's
Makkah,
Madinah,
Jerusalem. So, if you're facing Jerusalem,
you are facing away from Makkah.
And if you are facing Makkah, you are
facing away from Jerusalem. And Allah had not
revealed yet
that you should be praying toward Makkah. You
should be praying towards so he continued to
pray towards Jerusalem. So when he was praying
towards Jerusalem, his back was to
Makkah and he felt bad about that. He
didn't like to turn his back on the
Kaaba. And Allah
revealed, you know,
we saw your face turning towards the sky,
so we're turning your face towards the direction
that makes you happy which is the the
Kaaba itself. Right? So Allah revealed that this
was actually because of the feelings of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. You know, even
though we know the grand scheme, this was
always meant to be the mission, but Allah
described it as something that was meant to
give calm to the heart of the prophet
alaihis salatu wa salam. So you'll notice even
in this surah, tranquility in the heart is
really important, isn't it? Like, here we're talking
about a military conquest,
and you know, a political strategizing,
and armies amassing, and affiliate tribes, and all
this other geopolitical
stuff. And in the middle of it is,
sakinah fiqulubin muminim. Like,
why are we having the spiritual conversation about
tranquility in the hearts in the middle of
this political discourse. Right? Because in our minds
the in the secular mind
in the secular mind, subjects are separated from
each other. Different parts of life are separated
from each other. So, you got your professional
life, you got your you got your work
life, you got your, you know, personal time
life, you got your family life, you got
your your your friends life, and you have
these parts of your life that are sectioned
off from each other. And it's you're almost
a different person in these different states. Right?
But when it comes to the Quran, it
doesn't take this
sort of sectioned off, boxed off approach
to life
and to engagement.
So here we are dealing with a political
situation, but at the same time it's a
spiritual state.
It's a spiritual matter also. So there is
this unification of things in our religion and
it extends not just to the Surah but
actually in across all matters in life.
So actually, you know,
your business life, your family life, my my
my life with my friends,
all of them are actually spiritual states too.
All of them. There none of them are
like, oh, this is duniya that's deen. No.
All of it's deen actually. All of it
is deen. So when you're together with your
friends and somebody starts talking badly about somebody
else and you refrain
and you even stop that conversation from happening,
you're in a spiritual state. You just did
irbadah.
That that was an act of worship
and that was a reminder of Allah in
that state. When when somebody came and offered
you, you know,
you know, illegal money,
for example,
right, under the table, and you refuse the
deal even though nobody would have found out,
you know, nobody would have known,
then that's that's you actually
being mindful of Allah
when you have dirt on somebody because nowadays
is a there's a whole culture of getting
dirt on people. Right? Getting getting the load
out information on people. You know? Oh, I
got this stuff, man. If I get this
out there, this person's gonna be destroyed. This
person what do you think I should do?
You don't like him either. Right?
So what do you think I should do?
And you're like well,
one thing you could do is just do
whatever you gotta do, bro. I don't don't
keep me out of it. And that's that's
your way of saying please do it.
Right?
But instead, you say no. You wouldn't want
that to happen to you. Why would you
do that to anybody else? It doesn't matter
if you like the guy or not, or
it doesn't matter if you like her or
not. If you wouldn't want that to be
the way you should be dealt with, you
shouldn't be dealing that with in that way
with anybody else.
Right? So there is this like,
taqwa that
permeates every situation.
But coming back to
some of the concluding comments in the surah,
one of the things I didn't mention in
in more detail, I did refer to the
fact that there was tranquility inside and above.
Right? And the tranquility inside
referred to deeply seated penetrating anger
that resides inside.
But actually when they took the bay'a, when
they were about to go get killed, there
was also a matter of fear, and fear
overshadows you. So the sakinah overshadowed the believers.
Right? So there's the to address the anger,
the sakinah was put inside the hearts, and
to address the fear, the sakinah was poured
on top of them
because the fear hovered on top of them,
right, of of, you know,
possibly being being being slaughtered.
Now,
Allah is making reference to the event that
already occurred. Now, so it's it's just interesting.
The Muslims in this surah
as they're traveling back, they're being made to
think about things that already happened and things
that are going to happen. So the future,
the past in the future, the past in
the future, we keep oscillating between the 2
in the Surah. So now we're actually
going to the back because Allah was talking
if you remember towards the end of yesterday,
Allah was talking about lands that you're going
to acquire.
Right? So that's in the future. And then
immediately after that, he started talking about he's
the one who kept your hands from reaching
them and their their hands from reaching you.
And that might even be a reference to
when those AD assassins came to try to
stir things up and no casualties and they
were put that was all put to rest.
Even though you Allah says, Bin Badi al
Afarakum alayhim in the ayah. Even though you
had your claws all over them. You know
when a lion has the prey under its
claw and it's just got it grabbed, it
hasn't killed it yet. So the deer is
there and the deer is going, oh dear.
And the lion, you know, and the lion
is like, it's just sitting there like, you
know,
I'll I'll bite your head off just not
yet.
You know? So
this is the description Allah gave of when
the Muslims
had those assassins or those those those thugs
captured and they were basically under our claw
and then you release them. Right? And so
Allah says, and and
after you release them, there was this anger.
Why did we release them?
And so Allah actually sympathizes with those who
wanted to go to war. Like I was
telling you yesterday, Humulladhinakaforoo.
They are the ones who disbelieved. If you
think about,
you know, large groups that can break out
into violence, we talked about that yesterday, but
large groups that break out into violence, all
it takes really is a spark.
Right? So this is why crowding, you know,
in legal terminology, even if you've done high
school level constitutional law, or, you know, American
history or whatever, you know, screaming fire in
a crowded theater.
Right? You heard about that before, right? So
that's considered a crime because you're endangering people.
You're endangering false alarm, you can cause a
stampede, people can die. So when you create
chaos situations, then that's actually gonna create a
lot of death. So
the chaos situations could have erupted at any
one of those moments. When they got to
Hudaybiyyah, they were almost attacked.
Actually, before Hudaybiyah, there was an attempt to
kill them, and Khaled ibn Walid was just
waiting for the next prayer. So, when they're
praying, they can be he can attack them.
Then, they had to take the treacherous road
to get to Hudaybiyah.
Then when the negotiations started, the Prophet salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam was being insulted.
And then when finally the negotiations
came to pass,
or even before then the rumor that Uthman
has been killed,
and one of the negotiators of the Muslims
went in there and got beat up, Jirish
got beat up. Right? So there's multiple sparks
that could have erupted the the violence
at any moment, but Allah kept that from
erupting
time and time and time and time again.
And then finally, they're actually ready to go
to war, and on the verge of walking
into Makkah ready to die
to avenge Uthman, and Uthman comes back right
in the right second. Imagine if he came
2 minutes late.
Right? Even if he came 2 minutes late,
3 people would have saw him, the other
1400 wouldn't have seen him.
They would have
gone and fought whoever they would have fought.
Right? So the violence could have erupted in
that. So Allah keeps bringing
the
the Muslims to the edge of,
you know, explosion.
And he keeps pulling back and then right
to the edge and then back and then
right to the edge and then back. I'm
a I'm a big you know, part of
my psyche is watching a lot of cartoons
when I grew up. You ever see those
cartoons when they have the TNT and it's
and
it's reaching the thing that's gonna explode.
So it just it keeps getting right to
the edge and then it gets put out.
Then it gets you know.
Atfaa Allah. Allah keeps putting it out. Right?
And so so Allah says,
and even though Allah put it out every
time,
it's not because those people don't deserve it,
they deserve it. They're the ones who disbelieved.
They are the ones who stopped the animal
from shabwa. Well, you know, so, walhadia ma'akufanaan
yabilugamuh Mahallahu. And the last thing I spoke
to you about yesterday
was how there are actually secret believers inside
Makkah. And there are also potential believers inside
Makkah
which teaches Muslims forever,
we don't know who the secret believer is
and we definitely don't know who the potential
believer is.
Actually, I was giving a lecture on this
surah 10 years ago
in in London,
and that's recorded on Vayina TV in more
detail than what I'm covering with you guys
here.
And
in one of the breaks, a sister came,
and she took Shahada.
Right? And she she accepted her Islam, and
then she continued to attend the program. And
I I referenced her in the lecture itself.
And I was like, well, if she had
come, but she came with her non Muslim
friends, she's been thinking about Islam for a
while, 30 minutes ago we wouldn't have seen
her as a Muslim.
But Allah did.
Allah did. You know Christians came to meet
the Prophet
at another time, earlier time.
These Christians came to meet the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and before they and he
just recited the Quran. That's all he did,
he recited the Quran and Allah says,
you are going to see their eyes start
rolling with tears,
like they are just hearing Quran and just
bawling.
Right? And then one of the declarations they
make
is, We were already Muslim before this.
That's what they say. In the Quran they
say, We were already Muslim before this. Meaning
in the sight of Allah and in their
hearts they already had Islam.
So there's an Islam you and I can
see and there's an Islam you and I
cannot see.
There is there is a, you know,
there is the appearance of Muslim and then
there is the state of the heart that's
that's, you know, on the way to Islam,
you know. And you will never know. You
you simply will never know, you know. So
this not being able to judge and therefore
forget if you can't judge, then you can't
consider them an enemy. If you can't consider
them an enemy, you can't consider them as
combatants in war. So there's this kind of
trickle effect between these things. But that doesn't
mean we don't have enemies.
This is that's one side but that become
that can become an extreme. That just mean,
oh, don't judge anybody.
They're shooting at you. Don't judge though. You
don't know what's in their heart. They're shooting
at you bro.
Right?
So I don't wanna judge anyone. No. No.
No. No. No. This is not We're not
hippies. We're not That's not that's not It's
all good in the hood. It's it's not
like that. It's actually there's
there is yes. There is not blanket judgment
on everybody
but there are individuals that will be judged
and there are situations that need to be
judged.
And one of those situations
which occurs in Suratul Mumtahala remember I told
you about, Suratul Mumtahala before,
which is that, you know, the the women
that came
from
from Makkah escaping to Medina and how they
got patrioted into society. Right?
And they got quickly married off too.
The men were paid off paid, their previous
husbands, and they got quickly married off and
which is also amazing. They were married to
a pagan, but that wasn't a smear on
their character.
So what?
You know what they call that nowadays? You
come with a lot of baggage.
Right?
There's there's no baggage.
Islam erases everything and it's all good. These
are honorable women to marry. Right? But part
of that Surah was also
the opening of the Surah.
Those of you who believe, those of you
who have faith, don't take my enemy and
your enemy as awliya. Awliya is a term
I've already familiarized you with. Yes, allies, close
ties. Don't make allies with enemies.
That's what Allah says in the opening ayah.
This is important because
this surah came after Hudaybiyyah, after this surah.
Okay.
And this surah came actually right as the
Prophet was about to conquer Makkah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Why is the Quran waiting all all this
time to talk about the enemy?
You would think
a surah about the enemy of Allah would
be revealed when we're about to go to
Badr
or Uhud
or Hazab.
Right? That's when you hear you wanna hear
the word enemy.
But you're going to Makkah. Now you're about
to conquer Makkah. And
you don't need they don't you don't need
any more alliances with them.
But so you're and we all know the
conquest of Mecca by and large is a
peaceful endeavor.
Right? So even though it was a military
advance, there was no war that broke out.
Right? So this was a peaceful takeover of
Mecca essentially.
Right?
But Allah still used the word enemy in
that case, which is unusual because we expected
enemy in the war cases and he used
it in the non war
situation. Why?
Because when you even if you're at peace,
you should know who your enemies have been
and you cannot let your guard down.
Whether or not we judge if they have
faith in their hearts is a different thing.
But if someone's Firaoun, whether Firaoun has an
ounce of faith in his heart or not,
that's not up to me to judge. But
if he's acting like Firaoun or he's been
acting like Firaoun,
then I'm gonna tread with caution.
And I'm still going to see him as
an enemy.
And to the point where I will not
make him an ally,
like cover me and he's got a gun
and with I think he's gonna shoot at
the enemy behind my back and he might
be shooting me in the back of the
head. Right? So I can't do that. I
can't be naive.
And so there's the story of Hatib ibn
Baltah
associated with Surah al Buntaha,
But Insha'Allah, I'll talk to you about that
in a minute. Let's let's come back to
this surah.
So towards the end of this surah, now
Allah is going to describe how
when those who disbelieved
placed in their hearts
bias. Hamiyya. Hamiyya means strong tribal bias.
Hamiyya tells jahiliyah. Then Allah reinforces that word
with altanab
and He says a bias that was based
on extreme ignorant emotion. And the jahiliyah can
also refer to the kind of bias that
only existed in the times of jahiliyah before
Islam.
So hamiyatul Jahiliyah could be hamiyat aasr in
Jahiliyah.
Now what is this referring to?
1st and foremost,
the the Quraysh could not accept
that someone other than their own tribe
is going to have that kind of power.
So this was a tribal pride thing
that they they carried with them. But they
also wanted to stir up the Muslims by
making them
prideful.
So they try to agitate the Muslims anyway
they can. So
is not just and
they tried to stir up, they stirred up
their own tribal pride but they wanted to
get the Muslims aggravated too. They wanted the
Muslims to actually engage in some kind of
mistake,
some kind of aggression because when the Muslims
if the Muslims
engaged in any kind of aggression, then they
have a right to say, we have the
right to defend ourselves and that's why we
killed all of you.
So they're trying to stir the Muslims up
so that the Muslims will make a misstep
and then they'll justify their behavior. This is
what they were doing early on in the
Sira too. When the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's message was getting
was spreading quickly,
then, you know, the the Quraysh started beating
up Muslims in the streets, and torturing Muslims,
and engaging in violence against Muslims openly in
Makkah. Right? But Allah will describe another place
in the Quran commenting on what was going
on in Makkah. Allah says that you
were told, kufu aidiakum,
hold your hands back.
Hold
your hands back. Don't be violent in your
resistance
to the kuffar.
So in Makkah, there was actually a policy
for the Muslims. Don't fight back.
Just preach the message. Don't compromise on the
message.
You know Bilal is capable of fighting.
Bilal has fought in battles.
He's capable of fighting. But in Makkah, he's
just gonna say, ahad, ahad, ahad.
He's not gonna fight
because there's why not? It's natural human instinct
to fight back.
Why not fight back? You know,
the the reason for that
is
There was a policy revealed by Allah that
Allah told us about in the Quran later
in Madinah, which was hold your hands back,
remain nonviolent.
In Makkah the policy was remain nonviolent.
Now there are lots of wisdoms in that
because if the Muslims did become violent, imagine
that Umar, who is very capable,
you
know, just decides that somebody messed with the
Prophet he's gonna go take their head off
or he's gonna go, you know, gut
them. If he did that, the Quraysh would
have justification
to say, Look, we told you these Muslims
are killers,
they are not just preaching some kind of
message, they are here to murder you, look
this person got murdered. They're not gonna tell
you what happened and what was the consequence.
They're not gonna give you the backstory. They're
gonna spin it into a story of their
own. The kuffar are masters of spin.
The Prophet was already told, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, these people are very good at creating
smear campaigns. That's actually what
boils down to.
Right? They're they're they go around creating different
kinds of criticisms of you and spreading rumors
about you, scandals about you. So if you
give them 1 inch, they'll turn it into
a mile. You give them a small, the
small enough hole that can fit a nail,
they'll turn it into the Grand Canyon.
Right? So this was actually a propaganda war
in the beginning.
And one of the great objectives was to
offend the Muslims enough that they will do
something that will go against what Allah wants.
And this was
we and the days of holding back are
long gone. That was in Makkah. And And
then we moved to Madinah and Allah finally
said,
The people who were wronged have now been
given permission to fight back. So now in
Badr we fought back, in Uhud we fought
back. Now we can fight back, we're a
military now. We're not gonna take it quietly
anymore. Those days of da'wah and just sabr
are over.
That's over with. But now when we get
to Hudaybiyah,
it's like we have to go back to
sabr again. No, no, no. We're
good at fighting.
We already crossed the desert.
You know, and we got swords now on
us too. It's not the policy of sabr,
but also So they're trying to stir them
up
to, you know, get them to fight back,
to get them to do something. And Allah
says,
Then Allah sent down his calmness,
his own calmness, meaning a special calmness that
comes from Allah. Before we saw as sakinah,
now we're seeing sakinah tahu,
as calmness that comes specially from Allah.
He sent that onto his messenger and onto
the believers. Meaning the one who was offended
more than anyone else was actually Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. We look at the silah event,
right? And we see that everybody got stirred
up and everybody got upset and who was
calm?
Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam was calm. What
we don't know is what Allah tells us.
Nobody was more angry than the Prophet of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and that was
on the inside.
That was on the inside. He was raging
over what was being done, what was being
said.
But he has to He is more in
control over his emotions than everybody else.
His one control over himself
is more powerful than 1400 people in their
rage.
Just can you imagine,
first of all, the people that are angry,
you're angrier than them,
but you have to act calmer than all
of them.
And then they're thinking, why isn't he mad?
Why isn't he angry? So
it's such a frustrating situation to be in,
and Allah says, this required a special calmness
that can only come from Allah.
And
then And He set this tranquility
onto those who have iman. So they eventually
calm down also, and I would read this
sakinah also here as the surah itself. The
surah is the thing that calm them down.
If you read the seerah account,
nobody was calming down until finally, okay, yes,
they obeyed the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
begrudgingly, quietly
after he, you know, he slaughtered the animal
and shaved his head, but really there was
still
an anger in the atmosphere and a frustration.
There was no sakinah until the Quran came.
And then like describing Umar bin Khattab, the
Quran, the the the seerah account says, his
his inner self was calm now because the
surah came.
So now,
listen to these words, he committed them, Allah
committed them
to the word of taqwa.
So let's add this is sounds ambiguous. He
committed them to the word of taqwa.
Them not fighting, them holding
back, them
quietly obeying the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, them slaughtering the animal
and delivering the animal for the Quraysh to
eat,
them now quietly walking back,
all of them not even getting to see
the Kaaba.
Can you just, I want you to empathize,
because empathy is a hard thing.
It's a difficult thing. We're reading about something
that happened
a millennium and a half ago from people
that are historically far removed from us. As
much as we love and respect them, the
situation is hard for you to relate to.
I want to give you an example.
Say that you were, you know, if you
live in a country like, let's say, Indonesia,
for example, with with Americans, it's a lot
easier. If you want to go to Hajj,
you can just go to Hajj.
Right? Just find a company or whatever, apply,
and they have plenty of room for you,
and you can go. And And if you
didn't get to go this year, you could
easily go next year. But in a largest
Muslim population in the world, Indonesia, they can't
just go to Hajj whenever they want. They
have to apply, they have to have a
waiting list, Then eventually, a young man who
may be 18, 19 years old applies and
he might get a chance to go when
he's almost 40.
That can happen too. And they're gonna get
that one chance. That's it. That's that's all
they're gonna get.
So now they get to finally get to
go. They've been saving up all this time,
and they finally get to go to Hajj
when they're 40. They were all these years.
And they, you know, they they board on
the plane super excited. They they make kids
a saudiyah
super excited and then at you know they
they they land in Jada,
and before the mikat has been done, they
put the Ihram on, everything's ready. They're they
got their dua, little dua book, and you
know, and the Indonesian they go in groups.
Right? They got the whole the elbow thing.
Right? So they got the elbow practice down,
the rehearsals rehearsals done, everything's ready. They're in
Jannah excited,
and they get the announcement. Yeah. The Indonesians,
all of your Hajj visas are canceled. You
must go back now.
Right?
Or even better, they're driving labayk Allah, hama
labayk, labaykala sharika labaykla labayk. You you get
all the way and you could see the
pillars of the haram
and then the police stops you and says
go back, we can't have you in here.
No explanation.
Just go back.
Just imagine the pain of that,
of the frustration of the pain.
Like the level of sabr
that what what are the things over which
we lose sabr?
The flight's been delayed 3 hours.
The AC is not working,
Isn't it?
Hey. Who took the orange juice from the
fridge?
The stuff we lose sabr over.
Those people's sabr is that must be a
different caliber of sabr that's being tested.
And they didn't get there in a, you
know, in a business class seat or an
economy seat with extra leg room,
and they didn't have a flight attendant giving
them peanuts
from 1987.
They they didn't have any of that. They
went through the Hejazi desert. Have you taken
the road trip between Mecca and Medina? Have
you ever taken that road trip without air
conditioning in the car?
Have you ever walked that trip?
Have you ever tried 30 minutes of that
walk?
10 minutes of that walk?
What kind of walk would that be
under the
glaring sun
with animals
exhausted,
carrying all your luggage. Nobody's carrying your luggage.
You're not checking it in.
Some of your luggage on the animal but
the animals can't carry everything. And then you
gotta push the pull the animal too. It's
not the car where you press the accelerator
to move. Sometimes the the the camel says,
I am moving. What you gonna do about
it?
You know?
And you're you're taking that trip and at
the end of it, you got turned back.
Go back. And your prophet is saying, yeah,
we're going back.
Not to mention all the other emotional
like roller coasters they went through. And Allah
says, how has He described this situation where
they held on to their composure?
Al zamaahum
kali matat taqwa He committed them to the
word of taqwa.
That is the word of taqwa. The word
of taqwa here is you're going to follow
your messenger whatever he says.
That's the demonstration of taqwa. And kalima is
the kalima means instruction also. The instruction of
taqwa like Allah committed them to it. They
were able to demonstrate restraint.
And these were the people that were more
deserving of that word of taqwa and they
were more rightful of it.
Which are synonyms in a sense.
But the suggestion there is this is not
something easily given. This is a great honor
given to someone who truly deserves it in
the sight of Allah that they can have
that kind of composure.
What we are learning is our ability to
restrain ourselves and to control our emotions and
not let our emotions dictate what we are
going to do
even for Islam.
Even for Islam our emotions cannot dictate what
we do. That's izam karima tatakwa
and these are the people that deserve it.
So this is not an easily deserved title.
This level of maturity is not easy to
acquire.
And so he says,
and Allah had always known everything. Allah had
known all along this would happen. Allah had
known all along they'd be turned back. Allah
had known all along there was gonna be
frustration.
All of this was designed by Allah.
The same Allah
who designated
the construction of the Kaaba in the middle
of a desert 1000 of years ago by
Ibrahim alaihis salaam and commissioned for the perfect
timing of the coming of the the final
messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
who would be the answer to the du'a
of Ibrahim alaihi wa sallam also planned every
one of the sequence of these events. Allah
had known everything all along.
And speaking of Allah knowing everything, the great
frustration of the Muslims was the Prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam saw a dream that they're
going to make umrah. And they came to
make umrah and they didn't get to make
no umrah.
So Allah says, laqad sadakAllahu
rasoolahurruya
bilhaqq.
Allah has spoken the truth to his messenger.
The vision was real.
The vision which So Allah was true to
his messenger with the vision that was given
to him with purpose and in reality. So
the dream was true.
Now, the the prophet, you believe him and
even if Quran didn't come, you believe him.
Right? We have iman and Allah,
But Allah is adding to that
his own word.
Now imagine for a moment even if this
ayah did not come,
weren't we already obligated to have iman in
in that dream?
We were.
So this is our iman was already there,
but there was an added reinforcement of iman.
Yes?
Now look at the language in the beginning
of the surah.
Allah sends sakinah on the hearts of the
believers.
So they can increase themselves in iman along
with their iman. So there's an iman and
there's an additional iman. There's the iman in
the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
when he says I've seen a dream and
now on top of that there's an iman
in the ayah that Allah says that dream
is true.
You are absolutely
going to enter the sacred Masjid
Insha'Allah,
if Allah were to will. Now, if Allah
were to will means
maybe, maybe not. Not for us, it means
maybe, maybe not. But that's not what it
means here. It actually means if Allah if
Allah wills here means, maybe it's not for
you.
The entrance will happen, maybe it won't be
you.
So you still depend on Allah's will in
the end.
You're not entitled,
you're dependent.
So Allah adds that insha'Allah.
But He adds something new this time, amineen
in a state of peace. You remember Umratul
Qaba already happened. Umratul Qaba is when they
did do tawaf and
the idols were there. When the idols are
there, are the Muslims feeling even though they're
doing
the umrah, are they feeling like this is
mission accomplished?
No.
It's not. This masjid is the masjid built
by Ibrahim alaihis salaam is still being held
hostage by pagan idols.
So even though I'm getting to make tawaf,
it doesn't feel good.
And there's something missing.
And it's right in front of my eyes.
And every time they're doing tawaf, and they
pass by one of those statues, what are
they what are they imagining in their head?
What are they gonna break first?
That's what they're imagining in their head. Now
imagine when I told you that when the
the direction of prayer changed, didn't they know
that they're facing something that right now is
a is a pagan temple,
and they're facing it?
So didn't they know that the fact that
the qiblah has changed
necessarily
means that that qiblah has to be cleansed.
You know one of the first things Allah
told Ibrahim alaihis salaam when he told him
to build the to raise the Kaaba foundations.
You know what he said? He said, wa
ahidna ilaibrahima
antahira
baitiya. We took a promise from Ibrahim alayhi
salaam and Ishmael alayhi salaam
that you will purify my house.
You will purify
my house.
Now, we pray to purify ourselves.
But before you purify yourself also
one of the objectives is you will purify
my house. Now Ibrahim alaihis salam built the
house with pure intentions and purified the house,
But generations later they contaminated the house. Didn't
they?
So when the Muslims heard that ayah after
the change of qiblah that Ibrahim was told
to purify the house, what's on everybody's mind?
We're gonna have to purify this house.
And even in Umrut Al Qaba the next
year, they're not in a state of amin.
They can't do as they please.
And the Quraysh can back stab them now.
By the way, when they're doing tawaf, they're
basically unarmed.
Right? Those 2,000 that were doing tawaf in
Amrutul Khadah the year after Khudaybiyyah,
they're basically unarmed. So the the the Quraysh
could set up archers on top of their
houses, point them all at the Muslims,
and be done with it.
And it's not you can't it's not too
far fetched that they could do that.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Isn't it?
Sometimes you have corrupt governments engage in,
civilian casualties of their own on their own
territory
And then make it look like it was
somebody else's fault.
Like they'll do an orchestrated
terrorist events.
Right? In some countries that have military rule
and they're fighting for democracy,
Even nowadays, there's military rule, they're fighting for
democracy. Right?
As soon as the the military let's just
say the military is very popular
among the people.
But because of the democracy campaign, the military
starts
declining in their popularity and now more people
are saying, no, maybe we should have a
civilian government.
You know what happens? Conveniently, a terrorist attack
happens.
And the military comes in and has to
provide security and then, yeah, we really need
the military.
And if the military ratings are going down
again,
what's coming up?
Some bomb blast is coming up somewhere.
Some bus is gonna explode. Some some plane
is gonna crash. Something's gonna happen? Oh, now
we need the military again. So So it's
not far fetched that the Quraysh could say,
hey, they were a security threat. They were
gonna destroy all the idols. We didn't wanna
offend all the other tribes. We looked for
the greater good so we killed them all
in while they were doing their Tawaf, could
have happened. What I'm trying to say is
even though they made Tawaf
and by the way, interestingly,
some people started talking trash. They said, oh,
these these,
Muslims that went to migrated to Madinah, they
didn't have enough food, so they all starved.
So they all got skinny and scrawny. Like,
you know, you get those, like, hostages or
people stranded on a boat, and they're, like,
anemic,
and they got like their bones sticking out
of their bodies, right? They're like this is
what they've become, this was the rumor spread.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told
the Muslims when you're making tawaf, show your
shoulders
and say talbiyah loudly, show your muscle
and say Labayk Allahumma Labayk loudly
and say your Takbiraat loudly, and march faster,
almost jogging,
almost jogging. Why? Because you wanna
show these people This is not a state
of Aman. Even though the off is happening,
this is not a state of peace. Now
let's listen to this ayah. Allah said, Allah
told His Messenger the dream was true. You
will absolutely
enter al mashid al haram
in a complete state of peace,
amineen.
So they have entered once,
sort of,
safe.
But now this promise is even bigger than
Umratunkaba.
It's bigger than that.
You are going to be shaving your heads
and cutting your hair. You'll have both options.
Now, before this ayah was revealed,
we know that most people shave their head
and some people were mad and they only
cut their hair. And the Prophet
made 3 times according to some narrations dua
more for who?
The ones who shave their head and because
the ones who cut their head, you know
he they were they were complaining.
Right?
Now Allah made even the ones who cut
their hair not blameworthy
and He acknowledged them.
Right. So they feel better now. Because even
if they were kind of forced to make
dua, right. So, you know, Allahu Muhammadu Mukaseer,
you know,
so make sure
give rahma to
eventually. Right? So it's kind of like okay
fine.
But Allah Allah didn't make it like okay
fine. Allah gave them a relief also by
saying
So those Sahaba that cut their hair, didn't
shave their hair, now they feel relief also
coming from Allah.
So that reinforced their iman, gave them sakinah
also.
He then says, la taghafoon,
you are not going to be in a
state of fear.
Allah has given you a promise, you will
absolutely enter the Mashil Haram
in a state of fear, and when he
says you're going to be shaving your head,
shaving the head is the last ritual. Right?
That means you will not be interrupted.
All of your rituals will be completed and
you will get to shave your heads.
And up until at that until that very
end there will be nothing to fear.
Then Allah has always known what you will
what you never knew.
Allah has known what you never knew. This
was a this was the grand plan from
Allah.
This was designed. Hudaybiyah
and the tragedy of Hudaybiyah was not an
accident. It was designed
so this revelation could come. The most valuable
thing human beings have is the word of
Allah.
And Allah creates the situations
for the word of Allah.
It's not the situations
caused the word of Allah to come down.
No, the word of Allah
was the cause for which Allah created the
situation.
Human beings needed the Surah until judgment day.
They needed the guidance from the Surah until
judgment day. So Allah created the wuruf that
will allow for this Surah to come. This
is the eternal word of God.
Right? But so so the world and its
reality was planned
the word of God, for the word of
Allah. In fact, all of the prophets of
Allah that have come before from Ibrahim alaihis
salam through the line of Isaac,
meaning the Israelites all the way to Jesus,
all of that is pre planning for the
coming of the Quran. All of it.
It all just connects to the Quran at
the end.
So he says,
He knew what you couldn't have known.
And other than that, Allah has given a
nearby victory also.
This could be referring to a number of
things. It could be referring to the conquest
of Mecca, which is coming soon. It could
be referring to additional territories that are gonna
come in the hands of Muslims. It could
be referring to the the victory we're going
to have for the first time against the
Romans because actually the first engagement with the
Roman Empire, we suffered devastating
losses and the Muslims actually had to retreat
the first time. And this was within the
lifetime of the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
famously known as the Battle of Muqtah. And
some of the most closest sahabah of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam were killed in
that battle.
Right? So the Battle of Muqtah was very
serious and the Muslims did not actually achieve
victory and the only reason they survived was
Khaled ibn Walid was finally given charge even
though he was a new Muslim at the
time. He was given charge and he was
able to find a way to maneuver the
Muslims back without all of them being slaughtered
because they were completely overrun in numbers.
But so the and then the second engagement
with the Romans is going to happen at
Tabuk,
and that's when the the Romans themselves are
gonna refuse to engage.
They're they're gonna they're gonna pull back.
So so this this was a and I
want you to put things in perspective. The
Arabs militarily forget about Islam for a moment.
The Arabs militarily
against the Romans
is like
a rock against a tank.
That's what I want you to understand.
There's there's no comparison.
Those people have centuries
of international
combat experience.
They've come they've conquered territories all over the
world and learned the best military tactics and
practices
of different civilizations from around the world.
They've been training their warriors from childhood
to be warriors.
They have a hierarchy in their military that
is that is to this day,
based on which
militaries around the world to this day model
themselves after much of the structure and the
hierarchy of the Roman militaries.
They're one of the most organized forces on
earth in its history.
Right? And the Muslims
have some camels
and they have a few swords
And they have some they've had some fights
with each other.
That's that's what they've had. They're they're not
this this is not a oh, the Muslims
fought the Romans. It's not that simple.
This is this is really not that simple,
you know.
This is this is like the the United
States
versus like a small
village in,
Mexico.
That that's that's what this is.
And so just just you're just putting that
in perspective,
I need you to understand like us fighting
with the Quraysh was a sounds like a
big deal.
But if the Roman generals were looking at
what was happening in Makkah, I'm like,
kids fighting.
Look, there's nothing for them.
We came with 313. I was like, What's
313? I got 313 soldiers in my backyard
doing my doing my lawn right now.
313?
These are your numbers?
These numbers mean nothing for them.
There's a different scale.
It's a different scale of 1 of the
largest empires on earth and we're about to
clash with them.
We're actually about to clash with them. And
Allah describes that clash. How does he describe
it? Well, in this surah He did describe
this as, ulibaasin shadeep.
These are people you're soon going to come
into contact with them and they possess
great might, great power of war.
They have military strength.
You shall be fighting them, which is interesting.
Allah didn't say they'll be fighting you. He
said you'll be fighting
them as if you're initiating.
It's as if you're the instigator.
Oh, you snimoon or they will surrender.
They will surrender.
This is the description in the Quran.
And you know, for the same sahaba who
could never have imagined that Makkah will be
toppled,
Quraysh will be toppled,
then now the Iman is built. Right? So
Allah
gives one sign and that leads you to
the next sign, to the next sign, and
to the next sign, isn't it?
So he says the dream
was come was to come true and he
made a victory that comes nearby,
he already put that in place.
Why is all of this conquest happening? Because
He sent His mess He, Allah, is the
one the same Allah who made this dream
come true is the one who sent his
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with guidance and
with the religion that gives justice,
It's
the religion of truth but alhaqq also means
giving everybody their rights.
So religion that made sure that people get
their rights. This is actually one of the
most powerful descriptions of Islam, Deen al Haqq.
Because al Haqq means truth,
al Haqq also means purpose,
which means this is a religion that gives
people purpose for living.
It makes their lives purposeful and meaningful.
Then alhaqq also means right or justification.
So
or it's deserving of me when you deserve
something. So women deserve a piece of the
inheritance,
or men deserve the following rights, or a
father deserves this, and a mother deserves that,
and a brother deserves this,
You know? The neighbor deserves this. The business
partner deserves this. The employee deserves this.
All of our
lives are actually based on transactions where we
must get what we deserve, and we must
give what others deserve.
And Allah gave us a deen which ensures
that we get and give what is deserved.
And the expression for that is dinulhaq.
So he sent
his Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with guidance
which is our personal journey to Allah.
So that's
my relationship with Allah is Alhuda.
My relationship with everybody else is what? Been
Alhaqq.
So you have fakuqullah and fakuqullayvaad.
Bilhuda wadeenalhaqq.
Liuth
so it can overshadow,
overcome,
so it can overtake
all of the other deen.
This is actually the call of Allah that
no other deen will be able to stand
when you measure it against Islam when it
comes to giving rights.
When it comes to giving rights, nobody will
stand.
Nobody will have a chance.
I've repeated this a few times now, but
I'll I'll mention it to you guys too.
I was looking at one of the most
common criticisms of Islam,
and Islamic law is the rights or the
lack thereof,
in regards to women. You're probably familiar with
that. Islam is oppressive to women,
and Islam doesn't give women rights.
Women did not have any property rights in
the United States until very recently.
Women did not have a right to get
a divorce if they wanted to until 1970.
They couldn't. They had to prove that the
husband is cheating on them, and if they
couldn't prove it, they couldn't get a divorce.
By the way, if a woman wants a
divorce and she could just file for a
divorce, it's called a no no fault divorce.
Meaning, she has no issue, but she still
just she doesn't wanna be with the guy.
She doesn't like his mustache
or something.
That's why she wants it. That's fine. She
doesn't have to explain why she could just
get a divorce. That's called a no fault
divorce.
The United States initiated no fault divorce in
Reagan's era.
The British
the United Kingdom brought it about in 1969,
the year before.
And before then,
neither men nor women could actually get a
no fault divorce. You know when the Quran
introduced and the Sunnah introduced no fault divorce
from men and from women?
Since the beginning.
The entire Quran, the most the most talked
about law is divorce, and there's there's no
mention of which fault
because the Quran is is justifying no fault
divorce.
The
first divorce recorded from a woman who wanted
a divorce,
Badira,
is a no fault divorce.
She came to the Prophet and said,
I got no problem with the guy. His
character is great. His religion is great. The
fairki?
This ain't Punjabi.
Right?
I got he got I got no problem
with his religion. I got no problem with
his character.
You didn't come and say, he's an abuser,
he's a narcissist, he's toxic, He's bad for
my mental health.
Nothing.
I got no problem with him.
And then she says,
Islam. But I'm afraid of kufr. I'm afraid
of disbelief after Islam.
And what she means by that is I'm
not attracted to him, and I'm getting thoughts,
and those thoughts are kufr because I'm married
to him. I don't wanna do that to
myself.
This
is
if if she came to, some some religious
person today
and said, I want a divorce from my
husband because I don't like him.
Sabr.
This duniya is about,
you know, sabr, and we have to compromise.
We have to
I know a Muslim counselor. Oh, I think
you need rukia.
Oh, I think
did the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam send
her give her counseling? Did he give her
ruku? Did he
tell her you should be ashamed of yourself?
What are you doing? You're breaking a family?
You're destroying the home? What kind of woman
are you? What is wrong with you? You
should seek Istighfar?
No. He called her husband and said, hey,
she doesn't like you. Let her go.
That sounds too liberal for some of you
people.
You're
far more Islamic than Islam.
Right?
Islam was liberating.
It was in in fact, it was liberating.
What we've done in our cultures
is we have made things haram
that were never haram,
and we have made things halal
that were never halal.
And we are more committed to our definition
of haram
and we're willing to make whatever Allah made
halal haram
openly.
And the things that Allah has made haram,
we are more committed to making them halal.
Openly. Now it's not even just quietly in
the openly making them halal. Openly.
We're even proud of it. And then we
expect there will be no consequences on Muslim
civilization.
We're not going to be humiliated,
and subjugated, and overpowered
because when the Israelites played with God's law,
buribat aalayhimudhillah
walmaskana waba'ubiradhu bay min Allah. Humiliation was slapped
on them, they were powerless
and they kept receiving the rage from Allah.
That's when they used to play with Allah's
laws.
And here we find ourselves
multiple
as societies playing with Allah's laws and thinking
there's not gonna be any consequences. It's one
thing to be sinful. We're all sinful.
We can make Istighfar for our sins. Nobody
is an angel, but it's another to just
openly defy Allah
and make that into a cultural norm.
To make that into a norm,
it is unbelievable to me. It
is quite remarkable.
Allah says, just to give you an example,
Allah says that when you give your wife
something,
right?
Don't take it back.
Don't take anything back that you gave your
wife,
especially if you're getting separated,
if you had given her something. And
especially Mahr.
The mehar that you give, married or if
you're married or not married anymore, you cannot
take a penny of the mehar back.
If you give her a gold necklace for
her mehar,
can't take it back. You know what I
found out in my beloved country of Pakistan?
Pakistan
You You know what they do? They'll give
the girl a jewelry set
and then they'll take pictures with it, and
then the mother-in-law will come, no. This is
for your sister in law's wedding.
This was just for photos.
And they'll take it back or they'll say,
no. You know, you're you're young. We'll hold
it for you
until judgment day.
Long term savings
collected in the asherah.
Is this not openly, openly violating ayat of
the Quran?
And then they say, well, we should move
to an Islamic country.
I mean, you're slamming it, but you're not
Islamic.
What? I don't know I don't know where
the Islam is in that.
The laws of Allah being played with openly
in society and we say no no we
don't have Sharia courts that's the real problem,
we're not cutting enough hands.
But that's that's the real issue.
Lot of mockeries, SubhanAllah.
Anyway,
so Allah says, He sent His Messenger
with guidance and the religion that provides everyone
their rights, din al haqq. So it can
overtake
on all other religion. This doesn't
necessarily refer to * and maybe one day
it does.
But what it definitely refers to is the
huja of Islam.
Nothing will ever compete with Islam in giving
its rights.
Nothing will ever stand before Islam. Allah did
not for example, if you look at it,
Islam didn't overcome Christianity. Christians are still a
larger population than Muslims.
Islam didn't overcome Hinduism because Allah says,
So 1400 years, if you if you believe
this ayat to mean all other religions will
be eliminated,
then Islam for 1400 years is a failed
project.
And you're hoping one day it will succeed.
But until then we're all failed.
No. That's not what this means. 1, it
means in the region of Arabia, no other
religion will remain.
In the land that was meant for the
worship of 1 God alone,
designated by Ibrahim alaihis salaam, no other religion
will remain.
And by extension,
no other religion will be able to make
a case against Islam. Nobody
nobody will have an ideological chance against Islam.
Christian doctrine will not stand a chance against
Muslim doctrine.
The Quran's arguments will not be overrun by
Hinduism.
Hindus in droves will accept Islam. Christians in
droves will accept Islam. Muslims are not going
to go into 1,000,000 and 1,000,000
and accept Christianity. That's not going down. It's
not the other way around.
And Allah is enough as a witness.
This
this was a guarantee that the deen was
going to be victorious.
And from then on, the deen was going
to spread. And its its its its evidence
was going to spread all over the earth.
Now, before I InshaAllah, we'll take the next
session to talk about,
the last ayah of the Surah.
Just a quick comment about the nadham of
the Surah, the beauty and the sequence and
the organization of the Surah. In my previous
lectures, I described this as having 11 sections,
the Surah having 11 sections. I won't talk
to you about the 11 sections, but I
will talk to you about the first section,
the middle section and the last section
the first section of this surah mentioned forgiveness
Allah has given you a victory so that
he may forgive
The last section of the surah, if you
look at the last ayah,
Allah will mention forgiveness at the end of
the surah. And the middle ayah of this
surah
is Allah says,
Allah mentions forgiveness in the middle of the
surah.
So he mentions forgiveness in the beginning, he
mentions forgiveness in the middle, and he mentions
forgiveness in the end of the surah. Why
is that why is that tied to the
subject matter of the surah? Because the only
reason you go to Hajj,
the reason people should come before Allah and
say
is because they're preparing for judgment day where
they're supposed to get forgiven.
They're trying to get forgiven.
Don't forget the larger objective. There's a there's
a worldly objective of conquest,
but there's a much larger spiritual objective which
is forgiveness. So the Surah begins,
centers and concludes with the larger objective which
is
forgiveness. Right? So inshallah after a break I'm
gonna share with you guys, some things about
the last ayah of this surah.
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and we're able to share the meanings of
the Quran and the beauty of it the
world over.