Nouman Ali Khan – Road to Hajj #09 Fulfilling a Promise
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That's the 4th pillar of Islam. The 5th
pillar of Islam is Hajj.
In Hajj, we do tawaf of the house
built by Ibrahim alaihis salam.
We do
of the wife of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
We pelt
the shaitan
the way he pelted it on his way
to slaughter his son. We sacrificed the animal
fulfilling the dream of everything in hajj is
about who?
Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Ibrahim. And so the entire
our entire religion is actually directly connected to
Ibrahim
We are the Abrahamic faith.
And Rasulullah is the fulfillment. What was started
by Ibrahim is
actually being fulfilled
by Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Connecting all of these together is really important
for another reason.
Before starting this video series, head on over
to bayguna.comforward/lulhijjah
to download our free guided workbook on the
Prophet's road to Hajj to use and study
with as a companion to this Dhul Hijjah
video series.
I'm gonna repeat some things from before as
a quick recap
that will help you understand this session.
Part of the treaty of Hodeibiyah
was that we are going
to make whatever affiliations we want.
So
the
Muslims
became allies with Banuk Khuzaa,
and the Quraysh were they didn't have much
left because Islam was kind of spreading too
fast.
So they basically ended up making allies with,
Banu Bakr, which are both neighbors to Mecca.
But Banu Khuzha and Banu Bakr have a
long standing animosity against each other. K?
So,
essentially, what happened a little bit after,
the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
a couple of years down the road.
The,
the Banu Bakr who were affiliated with the
Ka'ab with with the Quraysh, they came to
Quraysh and said, listen.
We're gonna attack,
Hosuh at night.
We're gonna do we're gonna break the treaty.
Are you okay with that? Because they're not
gonna find out because it's gonna be late
at night.
So they go and tell the Quraysh this.
And
within the Quraysh, you remember, Suhail, the negotiator?
He said, it's a good idea. I'll supply
you weapons.
Don't worry about it. It's going to happen
at night. They won't know who hit who
hit him.
So the Quraish endorsed the idea, even though
they know this is gonna break the treaty.
Right, and supplied money and weapons too. And
of course, they supplied money and weapons because
they're thinking
when you attack them, first of all, they
wanna punish them probably for becoming allies with
the Muslims. How are you our neighbor and
allied with the Muslims? So you should be
punished for it. And 2, when you kill
and pillage,
then we're gonna get some of that back.
So you're gonna get a return on your
investment by supplying them weapons.
So they did this secretly to try and
steal some of their camels or whatever.
It didn't go that well.
They they got called out and the alarm
went off and people started making noise and
women and children started crying. And
usually, I told you they had some honor
among even bandits. So they'll steal your stuff,
but they're not gonna kill you. But this
ended up becoming a massacre. So they they
ended up killing 20 people including women and
children.
So 20 people were murdered that night in
Khuzah.
Right? And Khuzah is let me ask you
again. Khuzah is allied with who?
With the Muslims. Khuzah is allied with the
Muslims. Okay. So some things you should know
about Khuzah. In the in the ancestry of
Khuzah,
they used to be
the custodians of the Kaaba.
The Banu Khuzaa were the original, the earlier,
not the original, but the earlier custodians of
the Kaaba,
and then it was taken from them by
the Quraysh.
So the Quraysh had taken it from Khuzaa,
but there was a family tie between them.
The person who took it over on the
Quraish side, Husay, he was married to the
daughter
of the chief of Khuzah. So the ancestors
of the Prophet
from their mom's side are actually also connected
to Khuzah.
So they're distantly related to the Prophet
also, not just the Quraysh binuh Hashim. Okay.
Anyway, so they got attacked,
and one of the worst incidents that happened
is one of the people in Huza'a ran
away from the attack and he ran towards
Makkah and ran towards the haram. And he
ran to the haram because he knows nobody
gets killed in the haram. So he got
in the haram and he said, illahak illahak,
you know, your god, your god. You can't
kill me. I'm in the haram now. And
the the guy from Banu Buqar said, there
is no god today and killed him.
So that happened.
Now this incident
Khuzah who are going to take this issue
up with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. They're
gonna go to Madinah and tell the Prophet
what happened. So that's what I'm gonna read
with you. Kharaja Amrub Nisalim Al Khuzah. So
his name is Amar.
Medina. Until they approach the prophet in Medina,
This is one of the incidents that led
to the conquest of Mecca because you, of
course, you cannot invade Mecca if there's a
peace treaty. Right? So they're break they're breaking
the peace treaty.
And so he sat in the Masjid, Masjid
Nabawi,
and among all of the people, and he
started crying out. The leader of Banu Khuzah
started crying out. This by the way was
the old way of doing a press conference.
You start crying out in the middle of
a crowd and your press conference usually rhymed.
It was a poetic
press conference. Okay. So they would drop bars
in the middle of their crisis. So that
was their thing. And so
he starts doing that.
He says,
Oh my Rabb, I am calling on Muhammad
because we are standing with
an oath, a pledge we've taken that is
between our fathers and his father. Meaning, Abdul
Muqtaleb,
the grandfather of the Prophet had
made a treaty
with their ancestors
to become
1, to be united in all things. Right?
And the ancient treaty, the long standing treaty.
He says about the prophet
You were a child and we were the
parent.
What does he mean you were the child?
Meaning, our ancestry has a woman who's your
great great great grandmother.
So in that sense, we have parental rights
over you too
because our family includes
your great great great great grandma, 4, 5
generations removed.
And we were We accepted Many of us
accepted Islam, and we didn't raise our hand.
We didn't we didn't draw our swords.
In other words, he's saying, we haven't committed
the crime. We haven't broken
Huza are Muslim.
Islam has spread but hasn't taken over Huza.
Okay?
So help us and may Allah guide you
to help us in a way that is
immediate.
And call the servants of God, meaning call
your followers, the sahaba,
that they will come and provide aid.
Among them will be the messenger of God,
because they know he believes he's the messenger
of God. So he's calling him as the
messenger of Allah. Among them will be the
messenger of Allah who is already ready. Meaning,
I'm sure the messenger is ready to go
to war.
Right?
If he was if the messenger was implored
with humility,
he was his face would turn black with
rage. In other words, his face would turn
angry and dark with rage because
of what they've done. So if I'm coming
to you with all this plea, then I'm
sure it's gonna make you really angry, and
you're gonna take revenge on all of our
behalf.
Come with an army,
like a large army, like an ocean that
flows and makes frothy waves at the shore.
So like,
come on them like a tsunami basically is
what he's saying. Right?
Quresh has broken their treaty with you.
And they have broken, they have violated
the promise that they reinforced.
And they waited on the ambush site. There
was a hilly area. They waited there until
they could attack us.
And they were convinced
that I'm not gonna call anybody. They're convinced
that I'm not talking to you right now.
They don't even know I'm here.
Okay?
And they are more they are humiliated and
they are much less in number. They don't
they're not as big as they think they
are.
And they spent the entire night. He's describing
the event in poem. He's saying, they spent
the entire night by the river, by the
water area where the tribe has a water
reservoir. They waited there
all night staying up.
They killed us while many of us were
making ruku and sajdah. We were just praying
in the middle of the night and they
came and started killing us.
Rasulullah
says to him, you shall receive aid.
Then the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam saw
a cloud forming in the sky.
And he said,
He said, this cloud is a sign that
things are gonna become easy or we're gonna
easily take revenge against baniqaab.
So
or be able to help baniqaab.
This is really interesting.
Another person from the same tribe, his name
is Ibn Warqa,
came to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
His name is Budayl, actually. Budayl ibn Warqa.
And he knew one more thing. He knew
that it's not just Banu Bakr that attacked,
but Banu Bakr had the endorsement of
people inside Mecca, the leadership of Mecca when
they attacked. Okay? So,
so
So he told them what happened. He told
the Prophet what happened and he also told
them
that, oh, your Quraysh helped,
that Quraysh supported them. Now he's supposed to
go on a business trip and come back.
So he the Maqans think he went on
a business trip. But he took a detour
from the business
trip, talked to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and told him everything that happened, and came
back pretending he came from a business trip.
Okay?
Then they head back towards Mecca.
So Rasul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to the
people,
I have a feeling that pretty soon Abu
Sufyan is gonna come over here hoping to
reaffirm our treaty
because they violated the treaty. So Abu Sufyan
is gonna come here, try to negotiate if
we can still keep the treaty even though
they broke it.
Or give another extension.
So now they're heading back from their pretend
business trip,
and they run into Abu Sufyan in Asfyan.
And Abu Sufyan is like he knows what
happened in
in
the and he's really worried that the Prophet
will find out about it. Right? And now
he sees these people coming from the direction
of Madinah.
And he's
like,
The Quraysh had sent Abu Sufyan to make
sure the Prophet doesn't find out, and they
stay on the treaty.
So he Abu Sufyan is going to protect
the treaty,
and Budayl is coming after having told the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that they messed
up the treaty.
And they meet together in Asfan. Okay?
So when they meet each other, he says,
Where are you coming from, Buddha?
Where where are you coming from? And is
like,
I I left from I was just going
by the beach, You know, I was just
it was, and I was just spending some
time in this valley. This is nice valley.
You see that? It was pretty cool. Sunny
sunny out here.
So you didn't go see Mohammed?
He goes, This
much Arabic you know.
That's why everybody said nobody anybody speaks to
you in Arabic. You say, so you you
know this much.
And he says,
And
when went on towards,
you know, relaxed to go towards
So basically, Buddha is about to leave and
Abu Sufyan says to himself, if he has
certain seeds in his bag, it means he
had a snack in Medina and those seeds
are only found in
Medina.
So he quickly he checked his bag quietly,
and he found the seeds. He's like,
he was in Medina.
Like he found an empty bag of laced
potato chips and he's like, this he's been
to 711. This is bad.
So,
Now he knows that the prophet knows
Yeah? So now he comes to meet with
the Prophet
to see what's gonna happen. Now the reports
are different. I'm getting this from
Ibn Hisham's seerah. So he has a certain
sequence. Other scholars have other sequences. He met
with a number of people including the prophet
shalallahu alaihi wa sallam but the sequence with
who he met first and later differs. So
this is the one according to Ibn Hisham.
Okay?
So he says,
So the first person he went to is
the house of his own daughter, Habiba. Habiba
had migrated to Makkah,
Migrated to Abyssinia.
Habiba is Abu Sufyan's daughter. She became Muslim
and with her husband, they migrated
to, Abyssinia. And her husband then later converted
to Christianity. He left Islam,
and then he died. So she was living
alone in Abyssinia.
And the prophet got wind of that. He
found out about that. He proposed to her.
And Najashi, the king of Abyssinia who had
become Muslim
basically
provided the provided the ulima
for that and gave marriage gifts on the
behalf.
And so she was now married to the
Prophet
and she had come back after
and now she was living in Madinah. And
so he's he's like, my daughter lives here.
I haven't seen her in years. Maybe I
should go start with my daughter. That's the
easiest, you know, because some connection. You wanna
make a political move? You gotta have some
connections. Well, I know the Prophet's wife is
my daughter. I'll start with her. So he
goes to Habiba's house.
So when he came to the house, they
didn't have furniture like we have furniture nowadays.
Basically, what they had was some kind of
a straw mat,
like a straw mat. If you've been to
like South Asian countries, like outside, like
in Pakistan also, like a lot of masjids
have the straw musalas.
Right? And in in our this is not
the jarbay
material. It's like a rough material. Right? And
if you if you lie down on those
straw mats,
somebody's gonna think you got a tattoo because
it gets it leaves an imprint on your
on your skin. Right? So it's rough material.
So they have that, but then on top
of that, they put some cushioning,
right, to make it softer, and then they
relax on top of that. And it's it's
a floor based thing.
So he's about to sit there, but he
doesn't know that that is the seating where
the Prophet sits.
And in his own house, this is the
Prophet's house. It's his wife's
house. So he's about to sit there. She
says, wait wait wait wait wait. And she
folds up the mattress
and she says, you can sit on the
straws.
Okay?
And he's like,
my daughter.
I I I don't know.
Was I
too good for this mattress or was this
mattress too good for
me? So he's like,
which which is it? And she says,
No. That's actually the bedding of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And you're a man who's a mushrik in
your filth.
And I can't I can't I can't sully
the the couch of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with your
you can't sit there.
She's telling this to her father.
Okay?
And I didn't want you to sit on
the bedding of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He said, I swear to God my daughter,
something bad has happened to you after after
you left me.
You gone bad.
This is not what I expected.
Obviously he's not gonna stay
so he left.
So he came he met the prophet,
starts talking to the prophet,
And the prophet
The prophet didn't say a word back to
him.
He got the complete silent treatment from
the prophet
Okay. So that didn't work.
Maybe I should talk to some of his
companions.
He goes to Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
He
said, he talked to him. Can you talk
to the prophet? He won't listen to me.
He's not talking to me. Can you talk
on my behalf to your prophet? Who is
he trying to talk
to? Abu
Bakr. So so he says,
Abu Bakr looked at him and said,
yeah, I'm never gonna do that.
And I'll be fired. It's a very strong
negation.
I'm not doing that at all.
Just so you're clear. This is not a
oh
maybe. No no no. Not at all. This
is not happening.
So he's like, Oh, I guess I gotta
go to Umar.
So he
goes to
You think I'm gonna go make a case
for you to Allah's Messenger
If I didn't find anything but a pebble,
I would fight you with the pebble.
Why isn't he fighting him? Because they still
have a treaty.
Right? But he says, if I had nothing
but a pebble in my hand, I would
kill you with a pebble.
That's what he's telling him. You wanna negotiate
with me?
So now,
So he came to the house of Ali
radiAllahu anhu. And Ali is married to who?
Fatima. So this is the house of Ali
and Fatima.
And she's with
Fatima's home
and Fatima's playing with their child, the 5
year old Hassan.
So it's Ali, Fatima and Hassan. Okay? They're
they're at home. And now Abu Sufyan is
in.
A child that is playing between her hands.
You Ali, you are the closest relative I
have left
in Mecca.
I have come to you in a time
of great need.
I can't possibly go back the way I
came hopeless.
Don't send me back hopeless. That's not possible
for me.
Go make a case for me
to God's messenger.
He basically said, modern parlance, I'll say, what
is wrong with you, Abu Sufyan?
You are so done, Abu Sufyan.
He says,
The Messenger of Allah
has made up his mind about something.
We are not in a position to talk
to him about it. What's Ali letting him
know? Not only does the messenger know, he's
made up his mind on what to do
with you people.
So the news has reached him and the
prophets made up his mind. And there's nobody
who can say anything about it. Okay.
So he turns his attention to Fatima
and says, You Bintu Mohammed. You Bintu Mohammed,
daughter of Mohammed.
Could you
take you this this grandchild of yours, this
child of yours,
and tell this child to go talk to
your
to his grandpa because he knows how much
the prophet must have loved his grandson.
And so that way, people will be protected.
This is to protect the people.
This child will become the leader of the
Arabs if he can make this peace treaty
happen
until the end of times.
Oh, we need you to make him a
leader.
So she says,
She goes, My child is not old enough
to do that.
To make peace between people.
And nobody will protect anyone from the Prophet
of Allah
That's not gonna happen.
Then he turned back to Ali,
father of Hassan.
Things have become really hard for me. Listen,
this is not easy for me.
Can you give me any advice?
You got anything for me? Like I'm I'm
I don't know what to do here.
Listen,
I don't know what to tell you that
will be of any benefit to you.
You're in the kind of trouble you cannot
get out of and I got nothing for
you.
You are the leader of Mecca.
Is the nickname for people of Mecca, the
Quraysh.
You are the leader of Mecca.
You are their general. You are their governor.
Why don't you go in a public area
and ask the public to protect you?
I think I mean, nobody here is listening
to you. Maybe someone in the public will,
you know, I'm pretty I don't know this.
But I'm pretty sure alayhiallahu anhu is trolling
him.
I'm fairly confident that
like he's like, Just give me some advice.
He goes, Yeah. Just ask in public.
You know, we have good people here. Somebody
might be able to I can't think of
anything for
you.
Then you should go back home. After you
ask the people publicly then you should go
back home.
God. He said, are you sure that's gonna
be of any sort of is that is
that gonna work?
Is that is
that something that will get me out of
this mess?
He said, No. I
swear to God I don't think it will.
That's not what I think.
But I can't think of anything else.
That's all I got for you.
He says, Is your idea gonna work? He
said, No, it's not gonna work, but that's
all I got for you.
So Abu Sufyan went to Masjid Nabawi.
People.
I am coming to come to you to
have you cause make protection between people.
People didn't respond to him,
so he just got on his camel and
left.
Quresh then he finally got back to Quresh.
They said,
So what happened?
Tell us what happened.
He
said I went to Mohammed and spoke to
him.
He he didn't say nothing.
So I went to I went to Omar
Omar.
And
he said, I didn't find any good with
Abu Bakr. And when I went to Abu
Bakr, I found him to be the worst
enemy we ever had. Like, there's nobody worse
than him.
Well,
so
I did go to Ali. He seemed the
most receptive.
He told me to do something. I tried
it.
Now he doesn't say it. He just say,
he told me to try something and I
tried it and he's hoping they're not gonna
ask more.
So
and he says,
he says, I swear to god, I don't
know if it's gonna work or not but
I mean I tried it.
And they said, what did he tell you
to do?
What did he tell you to do?
He said, he told me to go seek
protection from people in public.
I did it.
Muhammad. So did Muhammad allow you to do
that? Like he just allowed you to make
an announcement in public and,
or he did he tell you to do
it? He goes, no.
How much more can somebody play with you,
man?
You guys so played
in public.
They said, whatever he's
this thing you said
is not gonna help you.
He said, no, no, no. I'm not a
fool, but I didn't have anything else I
could do.
This is Abu Sufyan,
the leader of Quresh.
The most powerful man in the region.
And he's terrified that the treaty is broken.
And he's come and he's been humiliated multiple
times,
multiple times.
This is the same Abu Sufyan who was
talking trash when the Muslims were heading up
the hill in the battle of Uhud.
This is the Abu Sufyan under whose watch
the bodies of the Muslims were mutilated.
The dead bodies of the Muslims were mutilated.
Aruhud.
Same of Usufiyah.
Now he's coming and begging.
Now he's coming and trying to be dignified.
And the first humiliation, if you take this
account of things, the first humiliation comes from
his own daughter. You're not even good enough
to sit on the same mattress.
You're not even good enough for that.
Why don't you go beg people for protection?
Why don't you become a beggar on our
streets?
And he took it.
He took it.
I want you to understand where we are
in the sila.
Way,
many years ago,
Many to almost 20 year 18 years ago,
17 years ago.
The Rasool SallAllahu Alaihi Salam was in Makkah.
And Allah revealed to him,
They called the prophet insane.
Yeah.
By Allah's blessing, you're not insane.
Allah said to the prophet,
soon you will see and they will all
see
who seems insane.
What Abu Sufyan did right now, didn't that
seem insane?
Right?
And Allah told the messenger of Allah
17, 18 years ago,
early in the sila, second revelation.
You'll see.
And this decade and a little more than
a decade because suratul kalam was one of
the first revelations,
one of the first revelations.
And now they're
seeing it with their own eyes. Mecca hasn't
been conquered
yet. Mecca has not It wasn't conquered immediately
after.
But the Quraysh are living in
fear. They're terrified.
Allah said another place,
We know what the earth takes away from
them.
Their borders are shrinking.
Their region is shrinking.
They're living in a state of anxiety.
When is the attack coming?
When is the conquest coming?
I wanted to share There's there's a lot
more that I want to share but I
I don't wanna skim it. I want to
actually go in great detail inshaAllah from here,
from this event all the way to when
Makkah was conquered.
And the account, at least in the ibn
Hisham account and the ibn Ishaq account and
some of the other accounts, just kind of
put together. And I want to read through
them with you. But this
series wasn't enough time for that. So I'm
going to hold that off for another time.
But I will take you somewhere else before
I conclude this series, at least for for
now.
And that is the connection I told you
early on to Ibrahim alayhis salam.
Ibrahim alayhis salam built this house so that
human beings from around the world would find
Allah.
And when he was building this Kaaba, he
was making that dua.
He was making that dua and Allah answered
that dua through Rasulullah
Ibrahim alaihi wasallam saw a dream
earlier on in his life
or later on in his life rather. He
saw a dream that he is slaughtering his
son.
And that dream
was then
fulfilled
by him slaughtering an animal instead.
And that son was Ismail.
And that's important because Ismail alaihis salam and
Ibrahim alaihis salam together started building the
Kaaba.
But Ibrahim alaihi salam had another son.
Another another son. Ishaq.
And Ishaq is in a different region, even
though he also knows about the He
knows about the Kaaba too. Ishaq's son is
Yaqub. Yaqub's son is Yusuf. Yusuf has his
brothers.
From their brothers come prophets.
They get prophets all the way until Isa
alaihi salam. But let's talk about Yusuf for
a second. Yusuf alaihi salam also saw a
dream.
So in the Quran, there are 3 dreams.
The dream the prophet saw that he's making
umrah. The dream that Ibrahim alaihi wasallam saw
that he's slaughtering
his son
and the dream that Yusuf saw that he
is
the 11 stars, the sun and the moon.
Yeah? 3 dreams. Okay.
Now Ibrahim
is the father of
Ishmael
and he is also the father in a
sense of Yusuf.
The first dream,
Ibrahim
dream of slaughtering the animal,
or which actually the interpretation was slaughtering the
animal, became the fundamental ritual of hajj. Yes
or no?
Okay.
So when we do hajj,
what marks that we've completed our hajj?
Slaughtering the animal and then completing the monastic,
you know, shaving our heads. Now we did
it. Okay.
When Rasulullah
saw this dream,
do you see how this dream is directly
related to dream of Ibrahim alaihis salam?
It's also interesting
that in his dream,
the Quran's description of his dream, the Prophet
saw a dream that they're going to enter
al Masjid Al Haram and they'll be shaving
their heads.
What's not mentioned? Slaughtering the animal.
But the slaughtering of the animal is mentioned
in the other dream. Which dream?
The dream of
Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Rasool alaihis salam by conquering Mecca
and which eventually happens, now it's on the
verge of happening,
he's actually fulfilling the dream of Ibrahim alaihis
salam.
He's actually fulfilling that dream.
And that dream involved Ibrahim alaihis salam and
who else?
Ismail.
Ibrahim and? Ismail.
And their
their mission together, their dream together is what
Rasul salallahu alaihi wasalam is fulfilling. And he's
the child of Ismail alaihi wasalam. He's from
that line. But Ibrahim alaihi wasalam had another
lineage
under him. Which lineage is that? Isaac,
Yaqub,
Yusuf. And Yusuf also saw a dream.
What was Yusuf's dream?
Eleven stars, the sun, and the moon will
do sajdah.
What did that dream mean at the end
of Surat Yusuf?
His brothers are going to be humbled,
and he's going to be in a position
of power over them. And he will say
to them, today, no harm shall come upon
you.
Today, no harm. So he will be able
to overpower his brothers
eventually
after they tried to kill him, after they
tried to expel him, after the all the
things he's gonna go through, grief after grief
after grief, and Allah will bring them back,
and they will be humbled before him.
Do you see, when the prophet conquers Mecca,
do you know he recited ayat of Surat
Yousaf?
And he said,
No harm shall come upon you today. Who
said these words before him?
Yusuf alaihis salam. And Yusuf said them the
day his dream was fulfilled.
So when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam fulfilled his
dream,
he was also fulfilling the dream of Ibrahim
and Ismail
and he was also repeating the dream of
Yusuf
alaihis salam by overpowering his brothers, the Quraysh.
And in doing so,
Rasul
is the complete embodiment
of both lineages
of Ibrahim
the Ismail
lineage and the use of and from the
use of lineage, what do you get? From
the use of lineage, you get Musa alaihi
salaam and you get
Isa
alayhi
salaam.
Right?
So this dream,
the fulfillment of this dream is actually the
completion
of the legacy of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
That's actually what this is.
This is why we call this religion, the
religion of our father,
Ibrahim.
This is why everything in our religion
goes back to Ibrahim alayhi salaam.
The 5 prayers are
that's a dua of Ibrahim alaihis salam. The
the is
actually the mission of Ibrahim alaihis salam when
he all the idols. By the way, Rasul
salallahu alaihi wasalam when he conquers Mecca, he's
going to go 1 by 1 as he's
making tawaf, and he's going to be destroying
what?
And who had destroyed idols before him? Which
Prophet do you know of that destroyed idols
before him?
Ibrahim alaihis salaam. He is repeating and fulfilling
the legacy of his father, Ibrahim
So amazing.
Is when he's destroying the idols.
From Ibrahim alaihis salam. You know the word,
the
Zakah? The first the earliest mention of zakah
in the Quran is from Ismail alaihis
salam. From Ismail alaihis salam.
He used to command his family to pray
and to make zakah, to give zakah. What
does the qulam keep saying?
And that phrase
is a reminder of Ismail alaihi wa sallam.
Where did Ismail learned that from?
Ibrahim alaihis salam. That goes
and now,
the
go back to Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Then there's Ramadan.
The 4th pillar of Islam. Ramadan. Fasting in
Ramadan.
Why do we fast in Ramadan? Because the
Quran was revealed
in Ramadan.
Why was the Quran revealed? Because Ibrahim alayhi
sallam made a dua, you Allah send a
messenger who will recite your ayat.
And 1000 of years later, Allah answered that
dua and the Quran started being revealed.
Ramadan is a celebration that if Allah answered
the du'a of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
That's the 4th pillar of Islam. The 5th
pillar of Islam is Hajj.
In Hajj, we do tawaf of the house
built by Ibrahim alaihis salam.
We do sai of the of the wife
of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
We pelt the shaitan
the way he pelted it on his way
to slaughter his son. We sacrificed the animal
fulfilling the dream of everything in hajj is
about whom?
Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Ibrahim. And so
our entire religion is actually directly connected
to Ibrahim alayhi wasalam. We are the Abrahamic
faith.
And Rasool alayhi wasalam is the fulfillment. What
was started by Ibrahim alayhi wasalam is actually
being fulfilled
by Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Connecting all of this together is really important
for another reason.
A lot of Christians and Jews believe
the Jews actually in their earlier literature, their
scholarly literature
were very clear that the son that was
supposed to be slaughtered
was in fact Ishmael.
But that was a problem
because if it's Ishmael, then Ishmael's lineage is
blessed.
But they don't want the the children of
Ishmael to be blessed. They want the children
of
Isaac to be blessed. So they had to
change Ishmael to what?
To Isaac.
But if Isaac is the son to be
slaughtered, the ritual of slaughter would have been
continued where?
With them.
And
the the the biblical account, there's there's a
book in Arabic. Those of you who read
Arabic, please get a hold of this book.
Arat yus sahihifimanhu
adhabih,
the correct position and who was slaughtered.
The correct position and who was slaughtered.
And Hamiduddin Farahi wrote a brilliant book on
this subject. The first part of this book
is just Jewish scholarship proving that it was
Ishmael.
The second part of it is historical evidence
and even quranic evidence proving it was Ishmael
alaihis salam.
It's it's it's some remarkable book. It's I
think some version of this has also been
translated. I can't remember the name of it
but I'll I'll post it up online inshallah
on my Facebook or something
Because some version of that has been translated.
Why is this important? Because Jews believed
that the chosen
child of Abraham
is Isaac.
And the curse descendant, the illegitimate descendant of
Abraham is
Ishmael. So they want Ishmael to look so
bad,
they're even willing to say their father had
an illegitimate
child. That's how badly they want Ishmael not
to be legitimized.
Even though when the bible says, sacrifice your
only son, the Bible also says, Ishmael was
14 years older than Isaac.
So there's no way that the word only
son could be used for
Ismail. So they said, No. No. No. This
means your only legitimate son.
And then when all the other places in
which the Bible actually describes the marriage
of Hagar of Hajar,
which means it's a marriage, which means he's
not an illegitimate son.
Let's just let's not talk about that.
And then they went to a valley of
they went to a valley where they ran
between
Shefa and Murrah.
It was a valley of burnt rock apparently
in Jerusalem. You see burnt rocks in Jerusalem?
Where do you see burnt burnt rocks?
By a well.
This is the biblical version.
Just change a couple of words here and
there, turn it into a different story.
The Quran is restoring the the original legacy.
And by by giving Islam victory,
by restoring the Kaaba, the house of Abraham
has been restored to its original place.
A message has been sent to all of
the Christian world and all of the Jewish
world
that if you are loyal to your father
Ibrahim,
this is the religion.
When
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
starting to send letters
to the rulers after
when he's starting to send letters to the
rulers, they're not getting years years of dawah.
They're just getting they're getting invited to come
look at Mecca.
That's what they're getting why? Because Allah has
proven his miracle. He has fulfilled the prayer
of Abraham that you know about in your
books all this time.
This was an invitation to the Jewish and
Christian civilizations.
Paganism has brought to an end.
Paganism came to an end
And by the end of this surah, the
concern isn't even the pagans.
How do we know the concern is no
longer the pagans at the end of this
surah? What's been referenced?
And That clearly means now this is internationalized,
and the Jewish and
civilization.
They're the ones being addressed.
Come see.
Come see what the the legacy of Abraham
actually was.
It's been restored not just in words, in
practice.
Come see what the sacrifice was all about.
Now what did this turn into? The Jews
did not want to acknowledge Ismail
because they knew the prayer that one Messenger
will finally come and he will be from
the line of Ismail,
and the favor is taken from them. They
feel like the favor was taken from them.
They're the chosen people. How could you choose
someone who's not from our descendants?
That
means we're not chosen anymore.
So our special status goes away, which is
the reason for rejecting Muhammad
I even know of rabbis now
that openly say, Muhammad is a messenger.
Openly, Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah.
Just not for us.
But He is a Messenger of Allah. No
doubt about it.
You'll see he fulfills all the sign. Of
course Quran is the word of God.
You know. And when you get your own
hand, look up Rabbi
Abramson on Facebook.
He's got a degree in hadith too. He
tries to correlate hadith with quotes in the
Talmud and Torah
all the time.
So that's there.
But on the other side,
what did the Christians do?
The Christians
in more recent times, they really wanna delegitimize
Islam.
Islam is the religion of the devil.
That's because it makes total sense because
he is the child of Ishmael and Ishmael
is the cursed child of Abraham, so that's
the cursed religion.
And all of this because the child that
was chosen for the slaughter
in Abraham's dream was Isaac, it wasn't Ishmael.
So the entire narrative that
Islam is cursed
is because
the one that was chosen to be slaughtered
was not Isma'il that was
This is their entire narrative, the entire all
the stuff happening in the Middle East right
now.
Every
when you look at some of the hard
line senators in the United States government today,
I said, we're just fulfilling the word of
God.
Bible says, that's what's gonna happen. It's go
it's going down,
you know.
Why are the Israelites chosen? Because
the
father of the Israelites, Isaac was chosen for
the sacrifice.
It's all about who was chosen.
For them it's all about who was chosen.
It's all about lineage.
The biblical worldview is all about lineage. The
Qur'an's world view is all about submission to
Allah, surrender to Allah,
humility to Allah,
Did the Quran care what the lineage of
the followers of the Prophet
This one's from Persia, this one's from Abyssinia,
this one's from this tribe, this one's from
that tribe, this one used to be a
rabbi, this one used to be a priest,
this one used to be a pagan.
Doesn't matter what lineage you come from because
the only thing that gives you, that makes
you blessed, anointed, if you wanna use Christian
terminology,
the only thing that blesses you is your
repentance.
That's it. Nothing else. There's no special status
of anybody.
There's no special status.
This is the message with which the Quran
came.
And this is what was established.
By establishing this victory on the Kaaba,
bringing this victory about in the Kaaba and
sending letters to international rulers and spreading Islam.
You know what the Quran did? The Quran
for the first time for the first time,
the religion was
2 things used to happen. Either religion was
an ethnic thing. So my tribe has this
religion, your tribe has that religion. That was
one way religion was. Or religion was a
government thing. This is the king's religion, you
better follow it.
So either it came from the tribe or
it came from the government.
That's how that's how religion was. For the
first time, religion is coming from conviction.
People are being asked to study, to look,
to think,
to explore.
Christianity
was dominating the world and you couldn't have
access to the Bible.
The rabbis didn't give the average believer of
the rabbinical tradition, the Jewish tradition, they didn't
give them access to their books.
There were asfa rolled up.
What did the Quran do? The
pen is gonna keep on writing. This will
become a religion that will spread literacy,
education,
civilization.
And that all coming back to one thing,
the Du'aib Ibrahim alaihis salam, the Kaaba is
ready. The center for the guidance of humanity
is ready.
When we you know, I I I haven't
gone to Amra in a couple of years,
but whenever I go,
there's 2 things on my mind when I
go.
1, 1, I'm just staring at the Kaaba
and I'm thinking about Ibrahim alayhi sanaal
and how there was a time where he
was standing here,
and it was just him and his son.
There's nobody This is just empty desert
and they're just bringing one rock at a
time and they're
putting it in its place
and he's done and he's making this dua.
The people will come here from all corners
of the world.
And for 1000 of years, Allah did not
answer that dua.
1000 of years that place was empty or
it was filled with people that are doing
shirk, isn't it?
And finally Allah sent his last messenger
and he opened that house.
He opened
the doors to Jannah got opened by the
doors of the Kaaba getting opened.
That those doors got opened. And now the
world can come and they can come to
the religion of Ibrahim alaihis salam. Why why
is Ibrahim alaihis salam so important?
Rasool alaihi sallam was sent to Arabia, right?
Which region was Ibrahim alaihi sallam sent to?
He wasn't sent to anywhere.
He went one place
then he went another place then he went
another place then he went another place.
He was an ummah by himself.
And when he built the Kaaba, did he
say the local people should come here, the
region? This is gonna be for the Arab.
Who's he making dua for?
With We made this a place for all
people. He was the first, you could say,
international messenger.
He was the international messenger. He was thinking
about the entire globe
connected to this house.
What an impossible idea.
Just just think about that for a second.
You're in the middle of the desert and
far far away from you are actual superpowers
and civilizations. The further away is the Indian
civilization, the Chinese civilization, the Russian civilization,
the European civilizations,
the
the, you know,
the the the not not the Arab, the
African nations.
They have their mighty powers, and then you
have this desert.
You're in the middle of a desert. And
he's like, No, this will become the spiritual
center and the spiritual capital of the planet
earth. Allah has revealed that to me.
And he's got just this one dua.
And Rasul
fulfills that dua. 23
years
of the sweat,
the tears, the blood
of the messenger of Allah, of the followers
All of that results in one thing, the
liberation of the house of Ibrahim so
humanity can be connected alongside
him,
we
send
salawat
upon Ibrahim alongside him, we send Ibrahim
Muhammad
This is what Allah gave us. This is
what Allah wanted us to have,
a concern for all of humanity, a message
for all all of humanity.
The the the Hajj
is a reminder every year of how this
message is for the entire earth.
Go to Hajj, go to Umrah and
what nationality will you find? Actually, the question
is what nationality will you not find?
You'll find every every color of skin,
every language,
all of them wearing the same ihram, all
of them saying the same
All of them reciting the same Quran.
All of them sending the same salawat on
the prophet
It's incredible, isn't it? We
take it for granted. Like, okay, we're Yeah,
it's had. Yeah, I've seen the pictures of
the ka'bah. You have like
those embroidered carpet things on your walls, and
you've got
like Kaaba background on your phone or something.
We just take it for granted.
This represents
something so
the greatest miracle in history is actually what
it represents.
The Kaaba is the greatest miracle in history.
How Allah proved that he will bring about
justice
in this world and his deen will win.
In fact, it even proves that judgment day
is real. This is the last thing I'll
share with you.
We go to the Kaaba.
Allah showed that He will bring his He
will make his deen victorious.
And the proof that Allah will make his
deen victorious is the ka'bah,
the history around that region, that entire history.
And through it, we know that Allah will
finally bring His verdict for all of humanity
too.
May Allah
allow us
to keep the spirit of of Ibrahim
slaughter an animal.
You shouldn't just be thinking about,
you know, Ibrahim alaihis salam and he was
commanded to sacrifice his son.
You should also be thinking about the sahaba
who went all the way to Hudaybiyah and
slaughtered their animals and didn't even get to
see the Kaaba.
And if they hadn't done that, we wouldn't
ever get to see the Kaaba
if they if they didn't do that.
So we have to commemorate
their
definition behind. This is my last message to
you guys.
And that is that
when when,
Arwah came to meet the prophet and
he saw all these different people of different
tribes. He was confused. How are these people
together?
What could possibly bring these people together?
And this was already an early indication,
these people are together because they're coming for
the house of Allah. Isn't it?
This is what binds them together.
That house represents their unity that is stronger
than any tribe, any history, any language, any
culture. It's more powerful than all of those
things.
It's like, you know,
we're we're we're fused together even though we
have different
flavors in our cultures, languages, and skin tones,
and heights, and all of that stuff,
but there's something that binds us that is
so much thicker than blood, And that's
That's Muhammadu Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
This is what could not understand.
I don't understand. You don't think of nationality?
You don't think of race and culture?
You're just thinking you're bound to each other
like this, with
just
And we're supposed to give this message to
all of humanity.
My last message to you is, how about
we start by giving that message to ourselves?
How about we begin
looking I look I start looking in myself.
Do I carry biases,
cultural biases, language biases,
grudges
against other ethnicities,
other people,
other nationalities.
Doesn't matter if they're Muslim. I don't like
them.
They're all this way. Those are all that
way. Those are all that way. Isn't that
Isn't that what that is?
And if we, if the Muslims are suffering
today, there could be many reasons but I
would argue this is one of those big
ones.
We are not a united people, not in
our hearts.
And we keep saying our governments aren't united,
our powers aren't united, our rich people are
No. But we're not united.
We're not united. We go to a Alhamdulillah,
in America we're a diverse community. So when
you're standing in salah, there's like 50 nations
in one salah,
right? 50 different countries.
How many people are talking to people from
outside of their culture and getting to know
What do you find after the salah is
done?
All the
Tunisi Amuls are by themselves, the Jazari Amuls
are by themselves, the Musris are by themselves,
the Bengalis are by themselves, the Afghan,
Right?
We don't reach out. We don't connect.
We don't bind ourselves as an ummah.
We don't do business with each other.
We don't
lend money to each other.
We don't do marriages among each other. We
don't go to each other's homes. You could
go to the same masjid for 20 years,
and you didn't go to anybody's house that
you met at the masjid.
And we're talking about 1 ummah.
And what are we upset about? Oh, we
they celebrated Eid on a different day, you
celebrated Eid on a different day. Ad Ummah
is so just united.
I don't care if you celebrate Eid 8
days apart.
That's not what shows if you're united or
not.
It's the uhhuwa among yourselves is what shows
that you're united or not. The sometimes went
to a village and they were still fasting
and they had already celebrated the That was
not the proof of unity or disunity.
That's how you prove unity and disunity.
That's these are fluffy metrics we've come up
with. Feel good for yourself. Yes, we all
had edam the same day.
Ah, the ummah's united.
Felt good.
Now what?
Like there was no higher objective
than getting Eid on the same day.
We have to practically make this happen now.
We have to practically create
among believers.
This is what it was. The description in
the Quran of that was
believing men and believing women are all uliya,
allies to each other.
They are allies to each other. They are
helpers of each other, protectors of each other,
men and women.
This is what it was supposed to be.
If I have a family problem,
I can come to you and you can
help me with my family problem, not listen
to my family problem and use it for
fun conversation in your next gathering.
Then you are not my wali.
Right?
Then you are just like eating my flesh
behind my back, my dead flesh, my carcass.
This is not a uliya.
This surah is so powerful. The message in
it is so powerful.
The victory that Allah gave was these people
that are
at the end ayah.
Right?
And you see them in sajdah before Allah.
May Allah make us ruhamah between us and
truly unite this ummah for the
powerful entity that it is.
And may Allah never allow us to be
to lose our conscious connection
to the legacy that led us to this
beautiful ritual of hajj. May Allah accept the
hajj of all those who are going to
go. May Allah protect them and bring them
back safely to their families. And those that
Allah will take, may Allah grant them forgiveness
and give them give them, his Jannah without
any hisab.
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