Nouman Ali Khan – Road to Hajj #08 Our Islam is Not Strong Enough
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There's places in the world where Muslims have
bad blood with each other.
They don't like each other.
They have
history.
And this is at the larger scale but
at a smaller scale you have some problem
with your somebody's family or this or that
or the other.
Right?
And
our Islam
isn't strong enough to erase any of that.
With the companions.
Muhammad rasulullah walaadhinimaahu.
Muhammad rasulullah can be understood in 2 ways.
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
or Muhammad the Messenger of Allah. Meaning it's
not a complete sentence. Okay. And if we
look at the first implication, Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allah
and those who are with him,
and those who are with him are intense.
So that the
Ashida'u al Kuffar is about But
if you look at it as a fragment,
you would read Muhammad the messenger of Allah
and those who are with him together
are severe against the disbelievers.
This was an important statement to make for
multiple reasons. Usually we find,
Those who believed. But you don't find those
who believed here. You see those who are
with Him.
Those who are with Him. Those who believed
is an all encompassing term that includes Muslims,
the weak, the strong and even the hypocrites
because they also claim to believe.
So sometimes in the Quran,
even includes But
we already established
that the Muslims that came along with him
on this journey were only those who were
truly with him.
And they demonstrated how with him they are
in their loyalty to him. So the is
actually a really important part of the phrasing
of this ayah.
Then also Muhammad,
why why not just say, who are Rasulullah?
Why mention him by name in this way?
Right? This is unusual for the Quran. His
name is mentioned like this explicitly only 4
times. But what is it doing here? Why
particularly mention him here? Also, if you look
at the previous ayah,
He's the one who sent his messenger. He
didn't say Muhammad, He said His Messenger. So
the Messenger has already been mentioned in ayah
number 28.
And because He's already been mentioned,
you could say,
He and those who are with him are
a shidda because
any reader would know, any listener would know
that he refers to the rasool that was
already mentioned as a noun in the previous
ayah. So this is al idhar fi maqamil
idumar. This is usually using a noun where
you expect a pronoun. But even
as a noun, rasoolullahi
waladila maahu is enough.
But why Muhammadun Rasoolullah?
Because
this was a time where
somebody could have questioned whether or not he's
a Prophet.
Why? Because he saw a dream and it
didn't get fulfilled according to what you could
see.
So what's been re established, Muhammad in fact
the Messenger of Allah.
Muhammad the Messenger of Allah.
There's also a really beautiful
union between these two words.
Muhammad is the name of a man and
Rasulullah is the title of that man.
A man is represented, that human being is
represented in everything that he does. His sleeping,
his waking up, his family life, his friends,
his all of that.
But in a
before any of those other
activities or roles that he plays in his
life,
above and beyond everything else he is the
messenger of Allah. And I just want you
to appreciate the dichotomy between those two things.
Not everything,
before I say this, some of this some
of you might find this controversial for me
to say, but it needs to be said.
Not everything the Messenger said sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is revelation.
Not everything he said is revelation.
Sometimes he told people, Why are you grafting
the plants
this way?
Or sometimes he told somebody, sell me your
camel, or sell me your donkey.
And they asked, is this a command?
Meaning if this is a command, it's revelation.
And he said, no, it's not a command.
And he said, I won't sell you the
donkey
then. I won't do it.
Or
in Suratul Azab, he told Zayd
to keep his wife,
to keep Zaynab as his wife.
Hold on to your wife. What did Zayn
eventually do?
He divorced his wife. But the Quran never
says, he disobeyed the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Because he wasn't giving that advice in the
role of being Allah's
Messenger.
There are plenty of situations
in which the Messenger of Allah
is just expressing his opinion.
And this is important because
Allah wanted to demonstrate that Allah chose a
human being.
Because
if everything that comes out of his mouth
is dictated by Allah, then you're not thinking
of him as a thinking human being, he's
just a vessel to communicate, and Allah is
doing all the thinking for him.
Because then he has no autonomy of his
own.
Everything is just coming from Allah.
But no, he had his own choices, his
own character, his own
sometimes temper, his own decisions sometimes.
This is also demonstrated by the earlier part
of the surah, where Allah said, liyahfiralaqalahu
ma'takaddabamin
dhambik.
Right? So of the Messenger was mentioned early
on. If everything he does is revelation, then
there can't be any Then
there can't be any autonomous decisions.
Then there won't be any possibility that he
will let prisoners of war go, and then
revelation will come and say, Why did you
let them go? Or it won't be any
possibility
that he'll let some soldiers stay back during
the battle of Tabuk, and the Quran will
come and say, why did you let them
give them permission to stay back?
That wouldn't be the case.
So establishing the humanity of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam is extremely crucial.
But at the same
time, establishing that he is in fact the
Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam, which gives
him the highest status among human beings, is
also extremely crucial. You have to understand the
relationship between human beings and their prophets
is complicated.
It's complicated by Judaism, and it's complicated by
Christianity.
And Islam came to simplify it.
How did Judaism
complicate it? Judaism complicated it by making prophets
seem like just people.
They're just people. In fact, they're not just
people, they're usually messed up people.
The Old Testament almost goes out of its
way
to
describe how flawed
prophets are,
how messed up they are.
Okay? And there's logic behind that, their logic.
And their logic is, well,
they're messed up which is why we don't
follow them all the time.
So their disobedience to the Prophets is now
justified because, I mean come on, Nuh alaihi
salaam is being accused in the Bible of
wanting to have intimacy with his own daughters.
And things like these are the kinds of
things we don't even imagine them in the
Quran, but this is their tradition.
This is how they think of their Prophets.
Right?
And
Dawud alaihis salam is accused of wanting to
marry some one of his soldiers' wives, and
he gets him killed and then he marries
her.
Right? This this is this is their normal.
And so and and and my my favorite
one, these are the more extreme ones. My
favorite one is when
Pahlut
Saul,
Saul, Pahlut. Saul was in the Quran,
but he became the general of the Israelites.
Yeah. The Muslims. And they went by a
river.
Yeah. And he told them don't drink from
this,
right? And whoever
just jumps in it and start fishing in
it, in fact, Laysa minni, he's not from
my army. So this was the army's first
test of discipline. Right?
Interesting that in the Quran, the great test
of discipline was restraint even in the Israelite
example.
Right? And the final test of the Muslim
army was actually restraint
in this surah. Right? But anyway,
so he tells them,
Whoever doesn't consume
from this river is part of my army.
Except someone who just sips with their hand
like this. That's it. You can have this
much but don't take more than that. Okay.
The Bible version of this story,
it's so much fun.
What they have is, he told his people
not to drink from the water.
And they said, what are you talking about?
We need to fight the enemy. We need
energy. We're gonna drink from the water. So
they all drank from the water, and that's
why they won the battle.
So the way they tell their stories
is, prophets usually are mistaken or messed up,
and we question them and go against them
which works out in our favor.
Okay. So this this is the engineering
that happened in the Israelite tradition. In fact,
another dimension of that is
really interesting,
what they did with Yusuf.
Yusuf alaihis salaam
is disparaged pretty badly, and Musa is spoken
of highly.
So one Prophet they spare somewhat more than
others is Moses.
But Yusuf, they don't like. They say bad
things about him.
In the story of Yusuf, you'll find very
evil insertions in the biblical version. The Quran
doesn't have that, the Bible has that. Okay.
Why? Why why are you coming after Yusuf
like that? Well, Yusuf is the reason we
ended up in Egypt,
and eventually in Egypt we became what?
Slaves a few generations later. It's Yusuf's fault.
So they let out their their passive aggressive
anger on Yusuf. It comes out in the
way they tell the story of Yusuf
in the in the Old Testament,
how they modified the story.
And Moses is the reason we escaped Egypt,
so we speak highly of Moses. He's the
savior.
Right? He delivered us from the pharaoh. Right?
So this is the complicated relationship
the Israelites have had with prophet. The world
only knows about the Jews and Christians when
it comes to
prophets. More so the Christians.
The Christians have another problem.
The Christian problem is, Jesus is God.
Jesus is perfect.
And if you wanna really show how perfect
Jesus is,
well then you have to you can't say
He's like any other prophet.
Right? So what do you have to do?
You have to show that all the other
prophets are
messed up, and the more messed up you
showed them, the better Jesus starts looking.
You understand? So they're actually in agreement with
the Christian the Jewish
version of things because it helps them with
their doctrine.
No wonder God had to send Jesus, all
the other ones were so messed up.
And they started this with Adam alaihis salam.
The Christian theologians, they started this with Adam
alaihis salam. And what they did with Adam
alaihis salam is absolutely mind blowing. They said,
Adam was
in the image of God. You've heard this
before? I have created man in my own
image.
Right?
So the God is Adam is created according
to the Christian theologians,
Adam is created in the image of God.
So he was almost God like.
That's how they describe him. He's almost God
like. But then he ate from the tree,
and the image of God in him broke.
Like they describe it like the cracking of
a glass.
The image of God was shattered.
And now he had to he and his
wife, and the devil had to pay the
price. 3 people messed up, Adam, Eve and
the devil.
So
the devil was told, you have to crawl
on the earth like a serpent.
We're gonna turn you into God's gonna turn
you into a snake, you have
crawl on the earth. That's your punishment. Eve
was told, now man will own you.
You used to be his partner, now he
owns you. And you will have to suffer
pain when you deliver a child, the pangs
of birth.
Your punishment is, you're gonna almost, you know,
cry out of pain and almost die when
you give birth. That's your punishment Eve. Adam,
you're gonna have to break your back sweating
and laboring to make a living.
Okay. So you're these
are the punishments
for Adam, Eve and the devil in the
Bible. Okay. Now, they're sent on earth as
a curse.
They're sent as a punishment.
And the the problem was Adam wanted to
redeem himself. He wants to fix what he
broke.
You you know the policy, we know it.
If you break it,
you buy it. Or if you broke it,
you gotta fix it. Let me just put
it that this way. If you broke it,
you're the one who's gotta fix it. So
then the the theologians developed this new problem,
the Christian theologians. They said, well, if Adam
broke the image,
then the only one who can fix the
image is also who?
Adam. But Adam is completely incapable of fixing
his own image.
Human beings are No matter how much good
human beings do, they are vile in the
end. They cannot fix themselves. They're beyond repair.
But God is not going to fix it
himself because a human being broke it. So
a human being has to fix it. So
then God came up with a solution. He
sent His only son as a human being
to be sacrificed and that would be the
fix.
So they create the entire narrative
by putting Adam alayhi salaam down. And what's
the problem with Adam alayhi salaam? He is
too broken, he cannot be fixed.
And then when you say Adam cannot be
fixed, you're only talking about Adam or you're
talking about all of humanity?
All of What did the Quran do? The
Quran came and said, Adam alaihis salaam came
to the earth, made tawba.
Allah accepted his tawba.
Done. Fixed.
There's no complication.
And so it's done with,
Adam came into contact with the words from
his Rabb, and he accepted he made tawba,
you know, and Allah accepted his tawba.
Finished. Problem solved. No need for a savior
to come, and this and that. None of
that stuff.
What will save you? Your own tawba.
And that's why even in Islam, what's the
most important thing for you?
Tawba. Why are you going to Hajj?
Tawba.
That's why you're going.
It's simple.
So what I'm trying to say is the
relationship between people and their Prophets had been
complicated
and corrupted
by Jewish
insertions and
Christian insertions,
the final revelation is responding
Inji.
And it starts with Muhammadun Rasulullah. Muhammad is
a human being and he's also
the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We're
not gonna make him divine,
but we're not gonna treat him like any
other person either.
We're gonna keep him human,
but the best human.
And treat him with the respect he deserves,
that is that he is the Messenger of
Allah
'alaihi wa sallam.
And those who are aligned with him, those
who are loyal to him.
They are tough in their stance against the
kuffar. This is Allah reinforcing for the Muslims
that even though you negotiated with them that
did not mean that you're soft with them.
You're compromised with them. For the first time
the Muslims compromised, this doesn't take anything away
from your toughness towards them.
This
was a necessary part of the battle.
The ideological battle, the political battle is also
a battlefield.
Signing a negotiation and a treaty is also
part of war.
It's also part of dealing with your enemy.
You know people that are doing business deals
in the 1,000,000,000 of dollars sometimes?
They're all wearing suits and ties, but really
they are in a battlefield when they're in
that negotiation.
So even negotiations are a form of battle.
When lawyers are debating a course,
you know, a court case, they're battling.
And they might compromise, Oh, we'll reduce the
sentence by 10 years.
There might be some compromises.
Right? So,
They are loving and caring between themselves.
They have extreme love and care and mercy
between themselves. This is the description Allah gave
of those who are with the Prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam. This became a forever description.
We are tough in our stance against the
kuffar, we are merciful towards each other. Now
who are the kuffar? Allah already gave us
a nuanced
of who the kuffar are. The kuffar were
the people who were preventing us from coming
to Makkah. But the kuffar were not the
potential believers.
Allah put them in a different category. Kuffar
are not the secret believers
that we never even got to know. Remember
those people?
Kuffar are the adamant,
the open enemy, and denier, and rejecter of
Islam. We're taking a tough stance against them.
And then,
They are loving, merciful, caring
between each other.
This was it's easy to read that but
I want you to understand what this meant
for the Sahaba.
One of the great heroes of Islam is
Khaled ibn Walid.
Khaled ibn Walid spills so much Muslim blood,
it's hard to count.
A lot of people that are standing next
to Khayd ibn Walid, when they're standing in
salah, he's killed their family member.
His blood, his sword was wet with one
of their family member's blood.
That's Khaled ibn Walid.
And they're standing and praying next to him.
Let me tell you something from Khadib bin
Walid's perspective.
Khadib bin Walid's father is Walid ibn Muhira.
There is so much Quran humiliating Walid.
And Khaled ibn Walid, when he becomes Muslim,
is he reciting the same Quran?
Yeah?
He is reciting
insults to his father.
Maybe he's standing in salah and there's somebody
reciting
the ayat that are ripping through his father's
memory.
And then he's going to join those same
people in battle and take die for them,
ready to die for them.
Something happens when you're with the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Your love and your hate
gets realigned
by Islam
Islam is so powerful of a force that
it realigns
your loyalties and your biases
and your
grudges and your scars and your
emotional attachments. It realigns all. It's not just
a belief system. It's an entire emotional readjustment.
Ashidaaalal
kuffaruhama baynah
now if we were to apply that
metric
that standard
then
Pakistanis have dark history with the Bangladeshis.
The Afghans and the Pakistanis.
The Indian Malays and
the Malay Malays and the Chinese Malays,
right,
the Yemenis and the Saudis.
There's places in the world where Muslims have
bad blood with each other.
They don't like each other.
They have
history.
And this is at the larger scale but
at a smaller scale, you have some problem
with your somebody's family or this or that
or the other.
Right?
And
our Islam
isn't strong enough to erase any of that
Because
our alignment
is now there are other things that are
more that we align themselves with them more.
So you know how we saw before
and the and the kuffar placed in their
hearts a bias, a bias that existed before
Islam. What was the bias that existed before
Islam? It was a bias that I am
first and foremost a member of this tribe.
I'm a member of this race. I'm a
member of this nation. I'm a member of
this is who I am. This is my
and yes, that is a part of your
identity.
But the Quran did not come to erase
your heritage, or your history, or your identity,
but it did come to realign your loyalty.
Your ultimate loyalty is to Islam,
and to those who are with the Messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
It doesn't matter if that your father's killer
is next to you,
because you're with the Messenger, and He's with
the Messenger.
Put love between your hearts.
You know once Islam comes to Makkah,
Hind is going to accept Islam.
You know who Hind is, right? You know
what Hind has done, right?
And you know what's even wilder? She's gonna
be joking around with the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam in one narration.
How?
How?
You know what's even more intense?
Abu Sufyan.
Abu Sufyan. Abu Sufyan is the governor of
Makkah.
Abu Sufyan has led every battle.
Abu Sufyan was there when Hamza was killed
and the Prophet was climbing up the mountain
and he was at the bottom of the
hill and he was saying, You know,
exalted be hubal,
calling on their God. We
have Uzza, you don't have any Uzza. We
have our goddess, you don't have a goddess.
That's Abu Sufyan.
Abu Sufyan came in aghazab.
Abu Sufyan led the charge.
That same Abu Sfyan is about to accept
Islam, or before he accepts Islam,
but even after he accepts Islam. And by
the way, he is going to accept Islam
reluctantly.
He accepts Islam,
in his own words, it's reluctant.
You can tell explicitly you can tell, he's
kind of what choice do I have now?
I got no other play left.
You can come to Islam for the wrong
reasons
or reluctant reasons, and you can grow in
your Islam later, that can happen. And we
give him that benefit of the doubt, radiAllahu
anhu.
But he didn't come into Islam the way
that some of the other Sahaba came into
Islam. Not at all.
But do you think that people that saw
Abu Sufyan among the Sahaba didn't remember?
Most of which is Umar I would imagine?
You know when you
it's a later story but when Abu Sufyan
came to meet the Prophet
after
the night before Makkah was conquered,
The last night, Abu Sufyan came to meet
the Prophet accidentally
actually.
He ran into Abbas and Abbas said, let
me take you to the Prophet.
And the Muslims are
were camped out, were 10,000
soldiers
at night, lights out, like we're ready to
take over the city, and there's roughly about
2,000 people in Makkah, and there's 10,000 soldiers.
And Abu Sufyan,
Abbas says, listen,
let me have you talk to him. Maybe
he'll go easy on you.
So he Abbas had or had the Prophet's
donkey.
The Prophet's donkey means
if he is trusted,
so he is safe.
So he is walking with Abu Sufyan on
the donkey and he is only showing his
eyes.
Why isn't he showing his face?
Anybody will Abu Sufyan?
There's 10,000 people that will kill Abu Zafya.
And he's walking through their military camp. And
as you get closer to the tent of
the Prophet
the higher the security clearance gets.
Right? So you meet some of the newer
sahabah early,
as you get closer and closer, now you
run into some of the people that you
fought in battle.
Somebody's brother you killed, somebody's father you killed,
somebody's
you know?
And you're going going and he passes by
Umar.
And Umar sees his eyes and he goes,
Abu Sufyan.
He just looks at the eye, he could
tell.
And he Umar bin Khattab thanked Allah
that Allah brought you to me and there
is no treaty.
I won't go further into that story but
man,
man,
he accepts he didn't by the way, he
didn't even accept Islam that night.
He didn't accept Islam that night. He accepted
Islam
after Makkal was conquered.
He was so stubborn.
He didn't even not even that. He stayed
the night with Abbas radiAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam
spoke with him and then he actually he
was overwhelmed by the character of the Prophet
shalaihi wa sallam.
How nice the Prophet was to him.
I mean any other general, what would they
have done?
They would have walked into the city with
his head on a spike first,
just to send a message.
That's what any other general would have done.
You know what he said to him?
And you know what
Rasuul did for him? When he when he
took over Makkah,
he announced
whoever stays at home, in their own home,
is safe.
Whoever stays at the Kaaba
is safe.
And whoever walks into Abu Sufyan's house is
safe.
He still gave respect to Abu Sufyan.
This is called kill him with kindness.
That's what this is called.
And this is while, ashidda'u alal kuffar
or hama'a. You see how he was a
kafir,
but once he became Muslim,
the greatest of the enemies of Islam and
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is rahim to
him.
You will see them in ruku, in sujood
seeking the favor from Allah
and His contentment and His contentment
alone. This is not a description of conquerors,
man.
You will see them walking victorious with the
aid of Allah. No. No. No. You will
see them in rukuur, in sujood,
bowing, prostrating,
seeking the favor from Allah and His contentment.
You Allah, so long as You are pleased.
Isn't this a description of great humility?
Allah is describing the true victors of this
earth
are not the conquerors, they are the humble.
The Bible actually says something like this, the
meek shall inherit the earth.
The Quran is saying the ruqah and the
sujah. Should sujah inherit the Makkah, inherit the
Kaaba.
This is the description. It's powerful.
You will see
on their faces
marks of sajda. Meaning they've bowed before Allah
so much that their reverence for God is
just on their faces. This is not talking
about a tattoo on your forehead.
This is talking about
you've put your pride before Allah down so
much
that now you can tell this person is
only 1st and foremost they're humble before Allah,
and that dictates everything else. That dictates where
they get angry, where they get soft.
That dictates all of their emotions because they
live in a state of sajdah to Allah.
So he says, That
is their example in the Torah.
The Torah actually doesn't have this example.
And Allah says that is their example in
the Torah, meaning that was meant to be
their example in the Torah, but the Jews
actually removed sajdah from the Torah.
And InshaAllah, another session I'll I'll have with
doctor Saqib Hussain will actually look at the
closest thing to this in the Jewish literature
that Allah may be referring to.
Wa masaluhum filinjeel and the example they get
in the Bible, in the New Testament meaning
Jesus
by the way, by saying Torah,
Allah is calling on the memory of Moses.
By saying Injeel he's calling on the memory
of
Jesus.
Moses
was able to defeat Firaun,
and Jesus was battling against the Israelites.
Yes?
The the the pharaoh of Rasul's time is
who?
The is Abu Safyan.
And the Israelites
were the people of khaibar that were already
conquered.
Right? Darasul alaihi wa sallam is also dealing
with the kuffar and the people of the
book. Just like, you
know, Musa 'alayhi salaam and 'Isa 'alayhi salaam.
And actually by put them together in this
way, what has Allah done? Allah has shown
us that what started with Musa alayhi salaam
in revelation of a book and what was
complimented by Risa alayhi salaam is completed completed
by Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalam, and this
conquest that's coming, that will be the completion
of the missions.
And that's why the most
mentioned messenger of the of the Quran is
Musa alaihi wa sallam.
There's a direct connection between his and the
mission of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam.
I say this a lot of times but
it's relevant here too. Musa alayhi wasalam had
2 missions. One mission was in Makkah,
1 mission was in Egypt, then he made
Hijra,
and the other mission was with Banu
Israeel. That involved fighting.
Rasul alaihi wa sallam had 2 missions. 1
was in Makkah, then he made hijra, just
like Musa made hijra. And his second mission
was with the Muslims themselves, among them were
the Bani Israel too, and among them were
hypocrites just like Musa 'alayhi wa sallam had
to deal with hypocrites.
And it involved fighting in the path of
Allah. So the seerah of Musa 'alayhi wa
salam is actually superimposed
on the seerah of Rasool Allah SWALLAM.
It brings out a small blade.
Allah is describing
the example of the believers
in the injeel that is being fulfilled now.
As if,
just like
the Quran,
the injeel foretold the coming of Muhammad,
the Bible
foretold the coming of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the Bible also in a sense foretold the
coming of the followers of Muhammad
There will be like a small blade of
grass that comes out of the ground.
So this is akhwajashat
ahu, faazarahhu.
Then he reinforces it, thickens it,
it turns into a stalk, fastaghlavaai.
Then it becomes tough like a bark.
Fastawaaala
sukihi, then it stands on its own stem.
It stands tall, the stalk gets tall.
The crop has grown.
The rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam is being
compared to a farmer, and his followers are
being compared to the harvest.
A harvest
the farmer is truly successful,
has reached victory,
when the crop has matured.
And Rasool salAllahu alaihi wa sallam is being
told, you have achieved ultimate victory because clearly
your crop has
matured.
That was the example.
We saw the opening of the Surah was
describing victory. Now we're getting a description of
the ultimate victory which is the maturity of
the followers of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa
sallam.
It impresses the farmer.
It impresses the farmer.
Who is impressed?
Rasul salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Rasul salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam is not impressed with the conquest
of Makkah,
he is not impressed with the liberation of
the Kaaba. What's he more impressed with?
The Sahaba.
That's what gives him pleasure.
Because you know Ibrahim alaihi wasalam built a
Kaaba and it was pure at the time.
It was pure at the time. And what
was the danger
over coming generations?
You know,
idols will come, wajnubdiwabaniyahnaabudalaslam
keep me and
my following lineages
from ending up worshiping idols. And isn't that
what happened?
Rasul
can liberate the Ka'ba, But what if the
same thing happens again,
and the Ka'bah gets surrounded by idols again?
It happened before.
What's what is the gift Allah gave him
that will make sure that that will never
happen again?
That's a Sahaba.
They're mature.
Now they know how to create By the
way, when you grow a crop, is it
just one season or multiple seasons?
It's multiple seasons. You get the seed for
the next
year from this crop, and the next year
from that crop, and that crop, and that
crop. And it continues to grow and multiply.
Isn't it? And by the way, the next
seed is it just enough for this farm
or you can take it elsewhere and plant
it elsewhere too?
You could plant it elsewhere too.
So you could have seeds now
that their history started somewhere else entirely.
I come from South Asia.
My ancestry is,
Afghan,
apparently from the Yusufzai clan.
They weren't Muslim historically, they were probably Buddhist,
or some other pagan religion.
That's what they were. Somehow the seed of
the seed, of the seed, of the seed,
of the Sahaba reaches this region. Then somebody
accepts Islam, I'm Muslim.
And when they are children,
and somehow somebody made dawah to somebody in
America,
some, you know, some somebody who is from
Cuba originally. Their family is from Cuba. Somebody
is from Puerto Rico. Somebody is from, you
know, German origin.
And they never heard no Islam in their
history.
And all of a sudden, they take shahada
and now there's gonna be a generation of
Rodriguez,
you know, Abdul Kareem Rodriguez.
It's gonna be there,
you know. And maybe some of them will
be scholars of Islam,
maybe some of them will be huffad of
the Quran, maybe some of them will be
leaders of Muslims.
Right?
That's that's Allah's plan.
So he sees this crop and he knows
this is a continued Sadaqah. This is a
continuous investment.
The most amazing investment you can make
is into another human being. That's what Rasul
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam left behind. That's his
great victory. In fact, we are still a
byproduct of that victory.
We're a byproduct of that victory. And if
we don't continue
to create the next crop,
then we have failed this plan, then we're
not really with Him.
Because those who are with Him, this is
their description.
It's so timeless that even though it was
in the Bible it had to be refreshed
in the Quran.
This is gonna take a couple of minutes
for me.
So that it can
infuriate the kuffar.
The kuffar may be infuriated.
Allah did not mention that the the kuffar
will be infuriated because the Muslims will win.
Allah said, The kuffar will be infuriated because
the Muslims will be mature.
You can't bend them.
You can't break
them. You're not able to succeed with your
hearts and minds campaign.
You're not able to turn them away from
this religion.
That's what makes them angry.
When they see that the Muslim
women aren't taking off their hijab.
When they see young Muslim men still on
Friday night driving to the mosque,
while all their other college friends are driving
to the club,
driving to the mosque,
when
this bothers them.
Why are you like this?
You know,
you ever notice when you go to university
and you have Hindu friends and you
have Buddhist friends and Christian friends and Jewish
friends and all your friends,
Nobody sits with a Hindu and says, man,
you follow such a stupid religion. It's so
extreme.
And
nobody cares. Oh, you're a Hindu? That's cool,
man. Can I come to the temple sometime?
The other religions?
Yeah. Yeah. It's good. That's that's great. You
you you you believe in whatever God? It's
all good. You can believe in Kratos. You
can believe in
Thor. Just believe whatever you wanna believe. It's
all good.
But who do they come after all the
time?
Muslims.
Nothing else bothers them.
Nothing else.
This guy's this guy's worshiping an animal. Doesn't
bother me. That's pretty cool, man.
They
taste good too.
Like, doesn't bother you.
Will be enraged
by the maturity of the belief. Why aren't
they leaving?
Why aren't
they walking away from it? Why are they
sticking with it?
And you would think, oh, they just wanted
power. Right? They were power hungry. Why would
they be if they're power hungry, why are
they entering? Why is their leader entering in
sajdah?
Why is their victorious description, rukkah and sujjad
and yabdaghoona faddlam min Allahi wadhuana?
What kind of victors are these?
You
know. This is a victory of biblical proportions
quite literally,
you know.
This is where it gets scary.
The ayah didn't leave us without fear. Allah
said,
Allah has promised those who believe and do
good deeds from among them.
Wait. I thought they were all good.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, and those who
are with him.
This was all accolade and praise of the
believer. By the end, what Allah has promised
those who believe and
do good deeds among them,
as if to say, some people may have
a good start, but they might fall into
corruption.
It's also important to note that by now,
by the time these a'at are gonna be
recited over and over again, more and more
Muslims are gonna join Islam, isn't it?
And the new Muslims that are gonna join
Islam in these last 3 years of the
seerah, the new Muslims that are gonna join
Islam, they're not gonna get the personal time
with the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam, like
Umar Gad, like Abu Bakr Gad radhiyallahu anhu.
Some of these people will be second degree
tarbia.
Why? Because their tribe leader came and accepted
Islam, the whole tribe accepted Islam, but they
didn't sit and recite the Quran that way,
they didn't get cultured that way, they didn't
go through sacrifices,
they didn't have to go through any of
that. And they're like, My tribe just became
Muslim. Yeah, you're my tribe too. We're all
new Muslims. Let's have a new Muslim barbecue.
Does anybody know lafatiha? No, I don't know
it yet.
Right?
Because they're in the this is happening day
after day in the 1,000, so you can't
imagine that they're all like hufa of the
Quran now, or they know Islam in and
out now, or they know the struggles that
went through. They're all just fresh Muslims.
Barely any knowledge of what's going on.
Right?
So even though this is a great victory,
it comes with a great danger.
When you grow too fast in a business,
right? When you grow too fast, what's the
danger?
Quality drops.
You have a restaurant, they make the best.
Oh my God, the best shawarma.
SubhanAllah, I'll do hijrah for that shawarma.
And then they're so successful, what do they
decide to
do? Go for the 2nd location.
But the 2nd location,
they
got like a chef
who's not exactly like the first chef, barely
trained,
what happens to the quality of the second
location?
Drops. Now they're losing sales so they send
a better chef to that one cause this
one is already successful. What happens to this
big one?
Oh my God, the more you're spreading, the
more you're what?
The quality is dropping.
You know, the great fall of the Roman
Empire, if you study the logistical fall of
the Roman Empire, is because they got too
big.
It was too difficult to ship supplies and
get resources everywhere.
That's why they couldn't maintain control.
Expansion is not always a good thing.
Sometimes there's a community of Muslims, very small,
they're operating out of
what used to be a 7:11 but they
took it over and they turned it into
a masjid and
it's all good, close knit, everybody knows each
other,
you know, great great vibe, great positive energy
and they raise a lot of money
and they build a gigantic
center
and with gigantic centers come gigantic politics
and then new people come in the community.
Every week you see people you never saw
before,
right? And everybody with their own opinions, their
own ideas.
And even though it's much larger building,
and much larger
individuals,
their the quality of the community experience
was enhanced or reduced?
It got reduced.
It actually got reduced.
Islam just became victorious. This sounds like a
good good thing.
This sounds like a really good thing. But
this comes with the danger.
Not everybody is going to be able to
keep up with the expectations, even the minimal
expectations of Islam. So by the end of
it, it's not even about,
It's not about that anymore. It's about
even those who believe and at least do
good deeds among them,
they have also been promised.
Allah has promised them forgiveness and a great
reward also.
This is similar to what Allah will say,
If you keep obeying Allah and His Messenger,
Allah will not take away your good deeds.
So the sacrifices of those who led to
this is one thing, but the people that
are coming into Islam in the tens of
1,000,
those people,
Allah says, at least have faith and do
good deeds, and you'll also
have reward.
You understand?
So there's a difference in quality between
the 2.
And this is actually
the concluding statement Allah makes.
The final thing I'll mention to you is
Allah didn't just mention Maghfirah, Allah also mentioned
ajr.
And this is something that Allah has done
throughout the surah. 1st he said, you're gonna
you're gonna open up Allah has given you
a victory so Allah can forgive you and
Allah will give you great spoils.
And now in the spiritual sense we want
we want forgiveness from Allah, and we want
forgiveness is not enough.
You know, we want reward too, we want
both.
Let me give it to you by analogy.
Let's say you were in trouble with the
law, and the judge forgave
you. The judge forgave you. Okay. You can
go back to being homeless now,
but at least you're forgiven.
No, no, no. I don't just want to
be forgiven,
I want to be a millionaire.
I want the goods too. Just forgiven means
you're not in trouble.
But that doesn't mean you got into jannah,
that just means you're not in jahannam.
Right?
So now you're not in jahannam, and you
see other people go into the jannahay, you're
like,
Aww
Ashabul
a'raf, right?
They're not punished,
but they're also not what?
Rewarded.
They're also not rewarded.
So Allah says, Allah has promised them forgiveness.
Okay, okay. That means they're not punished.
But Allah also adds, wa ajrana alima, and
a huge reward also,
a huge compensation also.
And that's the that's the remarkable conclusion of
this surah. InshaAllah, I'll give you one more
session today,
after this break. And what I want to
read to you is some of the immediate
events
right after
this Surah.
Some of them I will skip for another
time, like the the Khaybar incident meaning the
russus salallahu alaihi wa sallam went back and
he conquered Khaybar
which were multiple forts. I won't go into
details of that
but I will go into details of how
the tribes
broke how the Maqans broke the treaty
which led to the conquest of Mecca. We'll
talk a little bit about the breaking of
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