Omar Suleiman – Roman Emperor Who Almost Became Muslim & Conquest Of Jerusalem #07 Al-Aqsa
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Asalamualikoum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh once again audhu billahi minash
shaitanir rajim bismillahir rahmanir raheem alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen
wa la ilaha illa allathalameen wal aqeebatu lilmuttaqeen
Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka la abdika
wa rasulika Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira
where we left off dear brothers and sisters
is the return of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam from that momentous, miraculous journey of
al-isra wal mi'raj and the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam standing in
the courtyard of the haram in Mecca and
showing, or being shown rather an image of
al-Quds and explaining to everyone around him
what he saw on that night every corner,
every pillar of Jerusalem as he said sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam rufi'at li it was
presented to me and I was able to
explain to the people of Mecca every single
place that I had witnessed even things that
happened on the way from Jerusalem, from al
-Quds back to Mecca on that night as
time goes on the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam finds what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala has promised him in the hijrah
the Muslims move to Medina they continue with
their Qibla towards al-Aqsa they continue facing
Jerusalem in prayer until Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala switches the Qibla for them 16 or
17 months into al-Medina and if you
go to the playlist of the series you'll
actually find that I recorded when I was
in Umrah at Masjid al-Qiblatain the history
of that Masjid and the history of that
switch of the Qibla to explain how exactly
it happened and some of the wisdoms that
the scholars mentioned of the changing of the
Qibla towards Mecca but let's go back to
a Jerusalem lens and I want you to
think about the da'wah to Palestine and
it sounds weird because you don't imagine Palestine
as a non-Muslim place but if you're
thinking in terms of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam's seerah you always start from this
place of how did the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam initiate the da'wah
to the people of that land what was
it like when the letter of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam arrived what was it
like when the first messengers of the messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam arrived to that land
what was the political climate and what took
place in terms of magnificent prophecies and you
can see how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is moving the world all to fit the
call of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and that takes us back to
the Romans and the Persians and we spoke
two lectures ago about Hiraqal and Kisra Hiraqal,
the leader of Rome and Kisra, the leader
of Persia and these two empires that are
embroiled and their stories intertwined with the story
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
as we mentioned the promise of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala came true ghulibat al-rum
fee adna al-ard wahum min ba'di ghalabihim
sayaghliboon fee bid'a'i seneen lillahi al
-amru min qabl wa min ba'd wa yawma
idha yafraha al-mu'minoona binasri Allah yansuru man
yasha wa huwa al-aziz al-raheem Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala gave victory to the
Romans over the Persians.
What did that victory actually look like?
So first you have beating the Persians back
into their own territories and reclaiming what was
lost in those few years where Hiraqal took
the kingdom of Rome the same year that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam received revelation
610 and Kisra capitalized on the political instability
of the Byzantines and started to plunge deep
into Roman territory so part of that was
beating the Persians out of Roman territory and
now even penetrating into Persian territory.
But there is going to be a specific
focus on the year 629 and subhanallah it's
magnificent when you read history from their perspective
and then compare it to the books of
Sira where we read about history from the
lens of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and the Muslims so focus becomes on the
year 629 Hiraqal who started off as a
leader who was immediately undermined because the Persians
almost defeated the Roman Empire now is rising
to fame amongst his people because this is
his first real political win.
He's a scholar of the Bible, he's an
astrologer so he's someone who actually has some
pretty peculiar views related to Western Christianity and
is actively participating in some of the debates
about the divinity of Jesus, of Isa alayhi
salam and now his reputation is growing his
name Hiraqal not Hercules, the Greek mythology of
Hercules Hiraqal and his name also by the
way is Qaysar, he's referred to as Qaysar,
Qaysar means Caesar and if you read in
the books of the Romans they say because
Julius Caesar was the first Caesar was the
first C section Caesarian and so that's where
they say that the word came from and
it became the imperial title and this became
a way that the Caesar would say that
I came from the stomach of my mother
while everyone else came from a dirty place
and I am elevated above you and I
am a miraculous birth because this was the
first time this was known in the history
of man, of course that's in the books
of the Romans, so they would pass on
the title of Qaysar Caesar, so he's referred
to as Qaysar and Hiraqal by his name
why is the year 629 so special read
it from their perspective the darkest day in
Jerusalem was a decade before that where Kisra
marched into Jerusalem and massacred 90,000 Christians
and flooded the streets of Jerusalem with blood
now they had rescued what was known as
the true cross which is the cross that
they believed that Jesus was crucified upon so
this is Hiraqal's big moment a decade later
to have the cross that they believe that
Jesus himself was crucified on, come back to
Jerusalem and he's thinking about the ceremony of
victory in receiving the true cross once again
so Hiraqal, Heraclius puts on this massive glorious
ceremony and he dons the imperial robes of
the Romans of Caesar, of Qaysar and he
puts on a parade of triumph and as
he ascends his horse, by the way I'm
talking about from Christian history now, I'm not
reading this from Islamic history, from Christian history
as he ascends the horse he initially comes
out carrying the cross in a sign of
victory and then he is told by the
patriarch that it would be more befitting if
you cast your robes aside and you walked
barefoot and you carried the cross the way
that Jesus peace be upon him is depicted
to have carried the cross and carry it
back to the sepulcher and so it would
be a display of humility instead and he
follows that advice so Heraclius puts on this
display, whether it's sincere or not, is besides
the point of humility and the people who
have been subjected to the tyranny of Kisra
the most pompous ruler in the world are
now seeing a display of humility a deeply
devout ruler from the Byzantines carrying the cross
on his back barefoot and Sophronius, who is
a very important name, Sophronius the patriarch he
writes a poem in ceremony and he says
Jerusalem was bathed in golden light as the
emperor crowned in splendor carried the victorious cross
upon his back, the banners of Rome waved
high, incense filled the air and hymns of
praise resounded from the mouths of thousands with
each step the city rejoiced for the cross
once lost had been restored so you can
imagine the environment in Jerusalem the environment in
Quds, the environment in Bayt al-Maqdis in
Palestine where the cross has been restored the
glory of the Romans seems to rise and
this new leader seems extremely popular because of
what he was able to achieve after being
immediately undermined when he took the throne.
Why did I say focus on the year
629 and subhanAllah this is probably one of
the most astounding characters in the seerah that
we don't study is Hiraqib 628 is Surah
Hudaybiyah the treaty of Hudaybiyah where the Prophet
ﷺ enters into a ceasefire of sorts, a
negotiation with Mecca that allows for the messenger
of Allah ﷺ to now spread his da
'wah beyond.
So for 10 years, a truce for 10
years, Mecca and Medina as political centers will
not fight, this enables the Prophet ﷺ to
do his da'wah and so the Prophet
ﷺ sends letters to every leader in the
world that he can access, he sends a
messenger to them that fits them, calling them
to Islam with very friendly terms the Prophet
ﷺ was not declaring war on people, the
Prophet ﷺ was inviting rulers, inviting leaders around
the world to embrace Islam and so we'll
come to the hadith of Hiraqib and if
you were to open up Sahih al-Bukhari
and this shows you how central this story
actually is to our faith because Imam al
-Bukhari was brilliant in the way that he
categorized his hadiths the 6th or 7th hadith
of the very first chapter Bad al-Wahi,
the beginning of revelation, I believe it's the
7th hadith in the book, it's the last
one of the first chapter, is the hadith
of Hiraqib the hadith of Hiraqib why?
because 628 Hudaybiyyah happens Rihlat al-Saif, the
summer travel, the trade to Asham, resumes Abu
Sufyan is the one who leads the caravans,
remember Badr was to try to recover the
lost goods from the caravan of Abu Sufyan
so Abu Sufyan can take a break from
attacking the Muslims and can now go back
to Sham in the summer, Yemen in the
winter his first trade route he goes out
to Asham that display that I told you
about of Heraclius carrying the cross according to
Christian sources or western historical sources took place
in March 629 so it's perfect timing where
this is all happening and the narrator explains
that Ibn al-Nathur was the governor of
Ilya which was the Roman name for Jerusalem
and Hiraqib was the head of the Byzantines
of Asham and while Hiraqib was visiting Ilya,
he was visiting Jerusalem he woke up in
a really bad mood very sad and so
some of the priests asked him why did
you wake up in this mood?
you're at the peak of your game what's
wrong?
and Hiraqib was a scholar he was also
an astrologer, he was someone that studied the
stars, he was someone that studied the scripture
he's always looking into dreams he's looking into
every sign and he said that I saw
a vision as I was looking into the
stars that the leader of the circumcised has
appeared the leader of the circumcised has appeared
and that to him refers to the person
that will take his throne okay so he
said that I saw that this has happened
so it's very similar if you go back
to the story of Isa the massacre of
the innocents where Herod sees a dream that
someone is going to take his kingdom similar
to Firoun, seeing a dream that someone's going
to take his kingdom, so he thinks that
practicing circumcision is a practice of the Jews
so he says who practices circumcision?
and they say it's the Jews that practice
this so they say you might as well
just go ahead then and kill every single
one of them that you can find, now
why does this match the Roman behavior at
the time because the Byzantines hated the Jews,
the Romans hated the Jews there was bitterness
between them, the Jews were allied to the
Persians and so the easy answer was do
what we always do, just kill every single
one of them so that you can by
process of elimination make sure that none of
them will unseat you while they're having this
conversation, this is all in the subtext of
Al-Bukhari by the way, in the 7th
hadith in Al-Bukhari while they're having this
conversation the messenger from the king of Ghassan
comes with the letter from the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam to Mi'raqal and so they're
sitting and they're discussing what to do about
this vision that he just had and Mi
'raqal, as he comes to learn there's a
man who's claiming prophethood and he has a
letter and is calling you to his faith
calling you to his way he inquires, he
said does this prophet and his people, do
they act upon this practice, the circumcision and
it's confirmed that they do so Mi'raqal
says to himself that the power of the
Arab the mulk of the Arab that their
era has appeared something big is about to
happen and so what does he do he
leaves Jerusalem initially and he goes to Homs
and in Homs he calls all of Uthma
'a he calls all of the leaders of
the Romans, especially the religious scholars amongst them
and he gathers them in a palace in
Homs, in Syria sunna amara bi abwabiha fa
ghulliqat, and then he says close all the
doors, I have to talk to you about
something so he speaks to his generals he
speaks to his priests and before he had
this meeting it says in the subtext of
Ibn Nadhur ibn al-Bukhari that he spoke
to a scholar who some of the scholars
say is Sophronius, the patriarch and basically confirmed
that this is the prophet of Allah that
Muhammad matches all of the signs that are
present of the one that is to come
so he calls out to his people in
this castle of his and he says ya
ma'shar al-rum halakum fil falahi wal rushdi
wa in yathbuta mulkukum fatubaya'u hadhan nabi
he said listen, he's speaking to them in
a way that they understand oh people of
Rome ya ma'shar al-rum if you want
prosperity and guidance, my advice to you is
to follow this prophet very interesting Qaisal, the
Caesar speaking to his generals and priests and
saying listen, I know my scripture, the patriarch
knows his scripture, let's follow this prophet because
if you follow him and the prophet's his
letter said as much you keep your kingdom
and you enter into rightful guidance, you enter
into divine rightful guidance when he says that,
he senses from his generals right away that
they're about to kill him he senses the
commotion and the discomfort in the room and
he senses that things are about to go
south, now subhanallah Najashi radiyallahu ta'ala anhum
in Abyssinia, Christian leader as well he knew
what his generals will do, so he kept
it secret and he benefited the Muslims to
the side while concealing his actual iman, Najashi
is a mu'min is a believer, Haraqal is
saying we should embrace this prophet and goodness
will come to us as a result when
he saw the commotion I'm still reading from
the subtext of the 7th hadith of Bukhari
by the way, when he saw the commotion
and he saw that they were about to
turn on him he says, inni qultu maqalati
anifan akhtabiru biha shiddatakum ala deenikum, he said
listen, I just said that to test you
in your faith, I wasn't serious, I was
testing you to see how much you would
hold on to your own religion fasajadu lahu
waradu anhu and so they prostrated towards him
and they were pleased with him, so he
managed to convince them in the moment, that
actually I'm just kidding, I'm testing you in
your faith we stay upon our faith of
Christianity there is a new call that we
should be aware of, there's a prophet who's
gathering power a man who claims prophethood that's
gathering power and we should be aware of
this but at the same time I was
just testing you in your faith move on
to the summer of 629 Abu Sufyan and
this is the hadith from Ibn Abbas that
Abu Sufyan was in Jerusalem trading from Mecca
and then he's called by a messenger and
told that Haraqal wants to see him so
Haraqal calls Abu Sufyan and two of his
companions and while they enter into the palace
of Haraqal in Ilya, so you can imagine
the pacing Jerusalem to Homs, back to Jerusalem
now Haraqal says, which one of you is
closest in relationship to the man who claims
to be a prophet, meaning in terms of
lineage, so Abu Sufyan says, I am the
closest to him in Quraysh, I'm the closest
relative to him but then Haraqal throws an
angle at Abu Sufyan that he doesn't know
how to deal with, Haraqal says to the
other two companions, he said stand behind him,
I'm going to ask him some questions if
he tells a lie, signal to me and
I'm going to take his head off so
he has to tell the truth no deception
and then he goes on in the very
famous hadith and he has a translator, Abu
Sufyan mentions the translator between them and Abu
Sufyan says, I was afraid that one of
my companions might betray me and expose me
as a liar if I told that lie
and so he said that he then proceeded
to ask me these questions he says about
this prophet of yours what's his family status
amongst you and he said he belongs to
a noble family amongst us, he says has
anybody else ever claimed to be a prophet
like him, before him in that area, I
said no, was anybody amongst his ancestors a
king I said no, meaning was he handed
this through some sort of power grab no,
do the nobles or the poor people follow
him Abu Sufyan says it's the poor people
who follow him he says, are his followers
increasing or decreasing Abu Sufyan says they keep
on increasing and I asked him Heraclius asked
him does anybody who embraces this religion leave
the religion out of dissatisfaction with the religion
notice he didn't say leave the religion, he
said leave the religion out of dissatisfaction with
the religion and Abu Sufyan says no meaning
some people might leave the religion out of
persecution but it's not like people were changing
their minds because they lost certainty the more
you got to know the prophet the more
certain you became in your faith the more
yaqeen they had in their faith so that's
not happening and he said, have you ever
accused him of telling lies before this claim
of prophethood he said no, he said was
he ever known to break a promise I
said no and he said, but right now,
Abu Sufyan said the one opening I had,
he said but right now we have a
sulh with him, we have a truce with
him so let's see how he acts meaning
if he's going to break a promise, we're
going to see right now because we're testing
him with this truce that we just entered
and he said, have you ever had a
war with him I said yes, he said,
what was the outcome of the battles, he
said, sometimes he wins and sometimes we win
and Heraclius said, what does he order you
to do he said, he tells us to
worship Allah and Allah alone and not to
worship anything besides him and to renounce all
that our ancestors used to worship he orders
us to pray, to speak the truth to
be modest, and to keep good relationships with
our kith and kin now when Heraclius heard
this Abu Sufyan said, Heraclius turned towards the
translator and he said to him tell him
I asked him, or I asked you about
his family, and your reply was that he
belonged to a noble family and all of
the prophets of Allah came from noble families,
and I asked you whether anybody else claimed
what he has claimed and you replied in
the negative, and had it been in the
affirmative, I would have thought that he's just
copying a false prophet before him and I
asked you if it was a kingdom that
he came from and you said no, because
if he was from a kingdom I would
have thought that this was just a power
grab or he's trying to take back his
ancestral kingdom, and I asked you was he
ever accused of lying and you said no
and then I asked you if the rich
or the poor follow him, and you said
it's the poor that follow him and all
of the prophets are followed by the poor
initially and I asked you if his followers
are increasing or decreasing you said they're increasing,
and that is the way of faith, that
despite all of the persecution, they keep increasing
in numbers and I asked you whether he
has ever betrayed, and you said no, he's
never betrayed, and the prophets never betrayed, and
then I asked you what he ordered you
to do, and you said that he ordered
you to worship Allah alone and he ordered
you to not worship the idols and he
ordered you to pray, and to speak truth
and to be modest and then he says
this is where the political shift comes and
the interesting psyche of Haraq al-Khams he
says Haraq al-Khams says to Abu Sufyan
if what you have said about him is
true it's only a matter of time before
he will possess the land that is right
under my two feet I knew a prophet
was coming, I just didn't think he was
going to be from you guys I didn't
see him coming from the Arabs then
Haraq al-Khams said give me the letter
that the prophet sent me and that was
a letter that the prophet sent with Dihya
who Jibreel used to look like, the most
beautiful man amongst the sahaba to the leaders
of Busra where the light of the prophet
initially shines the gate post of Ashan so
he said bring me the letter and then
Haraq al-Khams in front of Abu Sufyan
he reads the letter he says from Muhammad
to Haraq al-Khams from Muhammad to Haraq
al-Khams the great one of Rome from
Muhammad the messenger of Allah to Haraq al
-Khams peace be on to those who follow
rightful guidance what proceeds I call you to
the call of Islam aslim taslam submit and
you will find salam aslim taslam if
you embrace Islam Allah will give you twice
the reward your Islam and the Islam of
all of your people and if you turn
away then you will bear your own sin
and the sin of al-arisiyin al-arisiyin
are the poor people amongst the Romans the
peasants amongst the Romans arbaban
min doonil laa fa in tawalloo fa qooloo
shahadoo bi anna muslimoon."
Subhanallah, Abu Sufyan is here in Quran read
in Jerusalem by the Caesar of Rome.
Say, O people of the book, come to
this agreement between us and you that we
will not worship anyone besides Allah until the
end of the ayah.
When he said that, Abu Sufyan says that
if I was there, if I was there
with him right now, I would have believed
in him and I would be washing his
feet.
An expression of iman, an expression of faith.
By the way, the same words were used
from Najashi radiyallahu anhu to Ja'far radiyallahu
anhu in private.
If I wasn't, if I didn't have a
responsibility here with my kingdom, I would have
come to him to carry his shoes.
He said if I could be, if I
knew that I could reach him.
He's telling Abu Sufyan in front of his
own people.
And this is the thing, Abu Sufyan is
witnessing this.
I would go to him, I would wash
his feet as a sign of adoration and
obedience.
Abu Sufyan says that when he said that,
when he said that, people started to lose
their minds around him.
So then the voices start to get loud,
the discomfort, the tension in the palace grew.
And he says that basically, that the voices
were raised, an argument took place and Abu
Sufyan said we were thrown out the palace
so they could continue their argument.
And Abu Sufyan said it was at that
moment that I told my companions, I said,
this man is going to rule the world.
We have no chance.
SubhanAllah, like we're sitting here trying to fight
him in Mecca and Medina.
What a surreal experience to see the Caesar
of Rome reading to us a letter from
him and saying we would, I would wash
his feet.
And he said at that moment, I knew
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was going
to be granted victory until Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala entered certainty into my heart.
Now, SubhanAllah, so much to talk about here
and decipher, but I'm not going to go
too far into the lessons.
But I just want to point out the
way that Imam Al-Bukhari structured the book.
What's the first hadith?
Always we talk about it.
The importance of sincerity.
And some of the scholars of Al-Bukhari
in their explanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari, they
say that it is a sign that what
gets in the way of sincerity is prosperity.
What gets in the way of sincerity is
the fear of losing this dunya.
SubhanAllah, think about the journey of this man.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala just gave him
an improbable victory.
He started off his kingdom on the run
from Kisra, a brutal tyrant.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala humbled him, humiliated
him.
And then Allah gave him victory.
And he had that moment in front of
his people where he grew in their eyes.
And he's a scholar of religion.
And he knows that this Prophet is the
Prophet of Allah.
What got in the way of him and
clarity with the truth was his castle.
He couldn't believe in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam publicly because he didn't want to lose
his palace.
It was all about his throne.
It was all about his dunya.
And so the lack of ikhlas, the lack
of sincerity in what he knew was the
truth is what stopped him from affirming the
truth.
But imagine the turn in history if Haraq
al-'Azim al-Rum would have embraced Islam.
And that would have been one of the
stories, right?
A man who actually embraced Islam.
This also has to factor into the prophecy
to come that when Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu would enter into al-Bayt al-Maqdis,
on his watch there was a sense of
prophecy.
They knew that something was coming.
He told Abu Sufyan, one day these two
feet, the land under these two feet will
belong to that man Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And it's also important to pay attention SubhanAllah
that the other man that's with him, Sophronius,
was an incredibly well-versed theologian from Damascus.
He was an elder in the church.
He was the patriarch of Jerusalem.
He's a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and
some of the Catholic traditions.
He's the sermonizer of Jerusalem.
And he knows that something big is about
to happen, that a shift is about to
come with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
the Muslims.
And it would in fact be that in
the year 633, Sophronius would assume the role
of rule over Jerusalem, the patriarch of Jerusalem,
the same year that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam passed away.
So there's a recognition of Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala Anhu that's to come as well.
The circumstances under which Jerusalem will go to
this Prophet of Allah, who Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has sent.
Move on.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent, as we
said, the letter to Kisra.
He sent the letter to Raqid.
Kisra was the man, subhanAllah, who when the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent him the letter,
he had an opposite reaction.
Right?
He read the letter.
He said, bada bi ismihi qabla ismi.
How dare he say from Muhammad, Rasulullah, to
Kisra Azeem al-Rum.
Like he should have switched the to and
the from.
How dare he put his name above my
name in the letter.
Who does this man think he is?
And Kisra is a man who's just been
rattled by a sudden defeat by the Romans.
And he wants to prove his power due
to his insecurity.
And so what does he do?
He tears up the letter.
He threatens the messenger of the messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, and he says that I'm going
to kill the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for
even daring to call me to Islam, even
daring to address me in this way.
So what does he do?
He sends to Baazan, who was the governor
of Yemen.
And he tells Baazan, the governor of Yemen,
who operates under the Persian Empire, he says,
send two of your best hit men to
Medina and kill this man who sent me
this letter.
He actually set up a plot to kill
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Baazan commissions his two men.
The two men are on their way to
Medina.
Abdullah ibn Hudhafa, the messenger of the messenger
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam returns back to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he says, what happened
with the letter?
He said he tore it up.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, may Allah
tear up his kingdom.
The two hit men arrive in Medina, the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam immediately has them apprehended.
They come to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, I
just got news, more or less, I just
got the news that Kisra has been killed
by his son.
May Allah tear up his kingdom.
This arrogant ruler of Persia has just been
killed.
The news would have been divine because there's
no way to receive the news of Persia.
But at this moment, Kisra was just killed,
not by the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but
by his own son, an internal coup and
a rebellion that would tear up an already
fragile Persian kingdom.
So what happens?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, go back
to Badaan in Yemen and tell him, Aslim
Taslim, embrace Islam and you will find Salam.
And he said, and there is a time
when Islam will come to Yemen, precede Islam
reaching you by reaching Islam and become a
conduit for Islam instead.
Badaan accepts Islam.
And SubhanAllah, starts to set the stage in
Yemen for Islam before Mu'adh ibn Jabal
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu comes and takes the
job and solidifies Islam in that region.
And Allah would decree that Badaan would die
of an illness a year before the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his son would be
a shaheed fighting a false prophet in Yemen
Al-Aswad Al-Ansi.
So he embraced the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He died as a Muslim at the advice
of the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Islam is spreading in Yemen.
Allah SubhanAllah decrees that the Persian empire is
being torn up due to internal dynamics before
the Muslims will come and will finish the
Persian empire.
And listen to this hadith of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This hadith is in Sahih Muslim.
Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says that
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said.
Kisra will die and there is no Kisra
after him.
And when Caesar perishes there will be no
Caesar after him.
And he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
I swear by
the one whose hand is my soul that
you will spend the treasures of Kisra and
Caesar in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is commenting
on the political dynamics in these places from
Medina with his small set of followers.
The prophecy continues to unfold.
The Muslims defeat the Persians first.
And they were considered the more arrogant of
the two empires.
And then the Romans as well.
And this is post battle of Qadisiyah, the
most important battle with the Persians.
You now have the battle of Al-Yarmouk
in Ash-Sham.
The Muslims have defeated the Persians and the
Muslims are in the heart of Byzantine territory.
Khalid R.A. is advancing.
Abu Ubaidah R.A. is advancing.
Haraqal is on the run.
The same man that didn't embrace the faith
is on the run with his own.
And Subhanallah it's even narrated that he said
after Yarmouk.
Subhanallah think about this.
He said farewell Syria.
You will never be ours again.
After Yarmouk.
This is it.
Subhanallah you got to think about this.
Like this wasn't his first go at defeat.
He was run out from the Persians before.
But he's saying this one feels different.
This is divine prophecy.
This is not a ruthless arrogant tyrant.
This is divine prophecy taking place.
And so he bids farewell to Syria.
May Allah protect our Syria.
Allahumma Ameen.
He bids farewell to it as he leaves
the area of Ash-Sham.
And he says you will never be ours
again.
And he withdraws to Constantinople.
The same place Istanbul today.
The same place that he withdrew when the
Persians were advancing upon him.
So it was the heart of the Byzantine
Empire.
So he withdraws to Constantinople.
Amr Ibn Aas Allah Ta'ala Anhu is
in Rafah.
And he conquers into Egypt.
The Cots.
Also part of the Christian Empire.
So Jerusalem is being surrounded from all different
directions now.
With defeat of the Roman Empire.
And the Sahaba that are popping up in
the land of Palestine.
But they don't want to spill blood in
Al-Bayt Al-Maqdis in Al-Aqsa.
And so there's a prompting that takes place.
A negotiation that takes place.
Which is to surrender the city without bloodshed.
And when is Jerusalem ever surrendered without bloodshed?
Surrender the city without bloodshed.
Maintain the sanctity of this place.
We don't have to go down that route.
The siege around Al-Quds lasts for about
four months.
So you have the Dawah from the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And now you have the prophecy coming true.
Saffronius who is in Jerusalem.
He offers terms of surrender.
And he offers to pay a Jizya.
And he says that the only condition is
that the Khalifa himself will come and sign
a pact.
And accept the keys to the city.
Now SubhanAllah when this takes place.
The Sahaba are kind of in a bind
here.
What do we do here?
Do we surrender Jerusalem?
Or do we just fight him anyway?
Or do we go ask Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala Anhu to come?
Surah Habib Ibn Hasanah.
Surah Habib radiAllahu Anhu says, just bring Khalid
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and tell him he's
the Khalifa.
He looks like Umar radiAllahu Anhu.
And maybe we can just pull it off.
Just to get it over with.
But that wasn't going to work.
And Saffronius when he meets Amr ibn Aas.
Some of the narrations mention that he asked
him what his name was.
And when Amr asked him for the keys
of Jerusalem.
He said that we know of the one
that will take the keys that he'd have
three letters in his first name.
So Amr, Umar.
There's something there.
But he said you're not the one.
There's something missing about Amr ibn Aas that
did not allow Saffronius to hand over the
keys to him.
And so Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is
back in Al Medina.
And I have a much more detailed lecture
on the conquest of Jerusalem through Umar radiAllahu
Anhu.
I'm just going to mention for the sake
of the flow of the lecture.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is back in
Al Medina.
And there is precedence for treaties that were
unprecedented before.
Where churches are being protected in Syria.
They're being protected in Egypt.
Christians are being given the right to worship.
Khalid radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Abu Ubaidah radiAllahu
Anhu, Amr ibn Aas radiAllahu Anhu are all
making good on their promises of covenant under
the direction of Umar ibn Al Khattab radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
So there is hope that there is going
to be a historic type of protection that's
offered to the inhabitants of Jerusalem with this
surrender.
But Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu takes shura.
He asks Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu what
he should do.
Uthman radiAllahu Anhu says it's too risky for
you to go out.
Don't go out.
Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he actually says
that it's important for you to go out.
Because this is a historic occasion and it's
unlike any other conquest.
And so it's befitting and inshallah you'll be
protected and we can protect Medina as well.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu takes the request
of Abu Ubaidah to come and the advice
of Ali to go and some of the
other senior companions.
He doesn't take an army.
He doesn't take a posse.
He goes out subhanAllah with one servant and
a camel wearing his imamah.
He's not wearing his full armor or anything
like that.
He has a thawb with 17 patches in
it.
17 patches in it because of how beat
up it is.
And just enough for the journey and he
makes his way towards Jerusalem.
SubhanAllah how relevant history is today.
As he's arriving towards al-bayt al-maqdis
before he gets there he stops in the
area of al-jabiya which is today the
Golan Heights.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala free it
from occupation.
Allahumma ameen.
So Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu actually stops
in what is today the Golan Heights and
starts to coordinate with his other commanders from
the sahaba the entrance into al-bayt al
-maqdis.
And that's where we find that momentous occasion.
We're on his way Jerusalem.
Now Jerusalem is set and there is a
lot of curiosity.
There is a lot of uncertainty because these
people have been traumatized by the Persian empire.
They've been through a massacre not too long
ago.
Less than two decades ago at the hands
of another ruler.
What's this going to look like?
So you have the muslims that are lined
up.
You have the inhabitants of the city that
are lined up.
Everyone is waiting to see how Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu is going to behave.
And we know the famous story that he
took turns with his servant.
He said half the time of the journey
you're on the camel.
Half the time I'm on the camel.
The half that he was on the camel
happened to be the half that they were
entering into Jerusalem.
He said to Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
let's switch.
Umar said no justice.
We said half half you stay on the
camel.
On top of that Allah tested Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
Umar fell into a mud puddle.
So the already 17 stitched thawb is now
covered in mud and they don't have Clorox
or anything to get the stain down at
the time.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu has to walk
into Jerusalem with a thawb of 17 patches
to receive the keys to the most glorious
city from the Roman empire of all people.
Right?
With this look and he doesn't bat an
eyelid.
Remember subhanAllah 10 years before that Heraclius put
on the display of humility with the bare
feet and shedding the imperial robes.
This was just Umar being Umar living out
the ethics of Islam.
What the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam taught him.
And so before he comes we know the
famous story Abu Ubaidah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
goes out to him and he says come
on.
Really?
Like ya ameer al mu'mineen couldn't you you
know switch this up a bit just for
the occasion?
And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said I
wish someone other than you said it.
We're a people who Allah honored through Islam
and if we seek it through anything else
Allah will humiliate us.
So he was upset with Abu Ubaidah radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu saying that to him said
let's proceed.
Now here's the thing.
So Franius is waiting with the keys of
the city to hand over the keys to
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and it's a
stunning sight.
What a change from Qisla, Azeem al Fars
to this coming to Jerusalem.
And prophecies are of two types because I
want to give you a framework.
As it relates to the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam there are prophecies of faith, prophecies of
character, prophecies of name, prophecies of appearance, prophecies
of geography.
If you look at the prophecies about the
messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam.
So when it came to his name Ismuhu
Ahmad.
When it came to the geography they knew
that he would arise in that land that's
why the biblical you know scholars the the
tribes of Bani Qurayza and Bani Nadhir and
Qaynuqa are waiting there.
They know that it's coming in that area
as the hadith of Salman al Farsi radiAllahu
External signs you have the seal of prophethood
on the back of the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam.
Faith is he preaching a faith that is
consistent with the prophets that came before him.
Character is described thoroughly in the scriptures before.
Sophronius seems to have something about the person
who will receive the keys of Jerusalem.
His character but also the letters in his
name being three letters or even the amount
of stitches in his garment is something that
some of the books mentioned.
But he's carefully analyzing Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anu.
And I give a hadith from Abdullah bin
Amr al-As as an example here where
he mentions that shall I tell you how
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was mawsoof in
the Torah.
How he was described in the Torah.
And he says that it was the same
type of description as the Quran that there
was something in there where it would be
said And
then he goes on to say till he
says la ilaha illallah and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala opens the doors for him.
So he says that the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam was described in the Bible as a
man that was that would be sent as
a warner, as a bearer of glad timings,
as the prophet and servant of Allah.
Someone who is not arrogant or harsh hearted.
Someone who doesn't raise his voice in the
aswaq, not in the marketplaces.
Someone who would not leave this world until
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave victory to
him.
And he made straight the crooked in regards
to the affairs of the religion and brought
forth la ilaha illallah with victory.
So that was the way the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam was described.
You have to think Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu has a description to him.
So when Umar radiAllahu anhu comes in the
patriarch cries as he hands him the keys
and he says a leader like you will
never be defeated.
A leader like you will never be defeated.
And he says to a person like this
the keys of Jerusalem are given.
That you are what we expected you to
be.
SubhanAllah you then have what Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu does.
He takes the keys and he takes some
of the uh you know the the belongings
of power.
Now keep in mind Sophronius historically when he
knew that the Muslims were closing in he
actually sent the cross and he sent some
of the most famous relics of Christianity to
Constantinople to be protected just in case the
Muslims would do to them what the Persians
did.
What does Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu do?
Umar radiAllahu anhu receives the keys to the
sepulcher.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu holds it in
the family of al-nusayban.
To guard the churches.
To hold on to the keys and until
now those keys are maintained by a Muslim
family.
The keys to the holiest churches in Christianity.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu signs the pact
of Umar al-Umariyah which is the protection
of Christian churches and Christian sites.
The protection of their right to worship.
Just governance for all of the religious communities
and on top of that Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu brought back the Jews that were
expelled from Jerusalem to Jerusalem because of the
bitterness between the Christians and the Jews between
the Romans and the Jews due to the
Roman and Persian dispute.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu situates 70 families
Jewish families back in Jerusalem giving them their
protection as well and the story goes on
and on of course subhanAllah which you know
if you remember this and I've said it
many times and I'll just mention it in
brief.
When Sophronius is giving Umar radiAllahu anhu the
tour of the city of Jerusalem of al
-bayt al-maqdis and the call for prayer
is made there in the church of the
holy supplicant.
It's the time for dhuhr and Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu is offered by the patriarch
who is seeing the the beauty of the
justice of Umar to pray there.
Umar radiAllahu anhu says no no no if
I pray here Muslims are going to come
later on and say this is a masjid
they're going to say Umar prayed here and
they're going to take it from you let
me step out and pray and subhanAllah if
you just look at the image Umar radiAllahu
anhu stepped out and he prayed and that
is masjid Umar right next to the church
of the holy sepulcher that is the fatah
that is the opening the basira of Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to where he could
see.
Now I want to say this subhanAllah to
really conclude here in terms of the prophecy
and in terms of how this is all
coming forward in some of the lessons.
In that same place you now have Bilal
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu calling the adhan in
Jerusalem as he called it in Mecca and
Medina the first muezzin in Mecca the first
muezzin in and now the first muezzin in
Jerusalem.
You have Khalid and Abu Ubaidah and Amr
ibn al-As and Abdurrahman ibn Auf and
Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas and the greatest
of the companions all present in that moment
and when Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was
told to make the adhan and he didn't
want to make the adhan Umar said to
him this is one of the days of
Allah this conquest of Jerusalem is one of
the days of Allah and Bilal radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu makes that adhan leaving the sahaba
weeping in this regard.
I want to give you a sight the
most miraculous salah in jama'ah was the
Prophet ﷺ leading all of those prophets in
salah a decade prior and now you have
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu leading hundreds if
not thousands of the companions in salah in
al-bayt al-maqdis and think about how
improbable that sounded in Mecca during the time
of al-asr al-miraj like if you
were to say in Mecca in the year
620 that less than two decades from now
about 16, 17, 18 years from now all
of us are going to be praying in
Jerusalem having conquered the Roman Empire and praising
and declaring the greatness of Allah ﷻ while
we're being suffocated in the streets of Mecca
people would have laughed and called you crazy
and Allah ﷻ just as he made the
miracle of al-asr al-miraj the gathering
of the prophets was followed by the gathering
of the sahaba.
There's another thing about that milk that was
given.
Remember in the night of al-asr al
-miraj Jibreel ﷺ presented the Prophet ﷺ a
glass of milk and a glass of wine
and the Prophet ﷺ drank the glass of
milk and that was a sign of fitrah
and milk represents in a dream al-ilm,
faith, knowledge and the Prophet ﷺ once had
a dream that Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
was catching the milk from his hands but
he was catching the milk from his hands
and so subhanAllah imagine that in that same
place where Jibreel ﷺ gave the Prophet ﷺ
that drink of milk as he led the
prophets in prayer Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
an extension of the light of the messenger
of Allah ﷺ is leading the salah in
that very same place Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu cleaned up the place as did the
companions because it was essentially relegated to what
was almost a dumpster at this point when
it came to where the dome of the
rock is today and of the fadha'il
of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was that
the first time the Muslims could pray in
public in Mecca was when Umar became Muslim
and this is now the first time they're
praying in public in Jerusalem is behind Amirul
Mu'mineen Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu so he
led the salah there in Jerusalem he read
surah Saad and in it were the verses
of Dawood ﷺ and then in the second
raka'ah Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu read
what surah surah al-isra the prophecy continues
imagine the early Muslims who heard that surah
revealed in Mecca and now Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu was reading that in tears thinking
about what this meant in the moment I
want to give you some of the narrations
in this regard al-walid ibn muslim radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu he said that 10,000
eyes that beheld the prophet ﷺ died in
ash-sham 10,000 eyes that saw the
messenger of Allah ﷺ what a beautiful way
to describe it died in ash-sham whether
it is Bilal and Ammar or Ibn Mas
'ud and Abu Dharr the initially persecuted Muslims
that either died in ash-sham or visited
ash-sham or visited that place this became
the gathering place and if you think about
the day of judgment the people will rise
from al-madinah the sahaba will rise from
their graves and they will proceed to ard
ash-sham these companions already proceeded their companions
to ard ash-sham and if you think
about the amount of sahaba that visited this
place and if you class them the early
Muslims like I said like Bilal and Ammar
and Ibn Mas'ud and Abu Dharr the
weak ones and the oppressed ones or you
have Abdullah ibn Abbas and Abdullah ibn Umar
the scholars from the children of the companions
Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu as
we said he would travel from Madinah to
al-Quds to pray two rak'ahs in
masjid al-aqsa and he wouldn't even take
a sip of water out of fear of
losing out on the reward that is mentioned
in the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ from
the dua of Sulaiman ﷺ that no one
will come to this place and pray two
rak'ahs seeking only the pleasure of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and be denied the
forgiveness of their sins it's the place where
al-Abbas walid al-nabi ﷺ who they
used to call the father of the Prophet
ﷺ the uncle of the messenger of Allah
ﷺ with all of his haybah with all
of his glory came into Jerusalem and they
thought he was the khalifa when he entered
by the way when al-Abbas entered into
al-Quds he had so much haybah so
much awe I mean this is the this
is the the family of the Prophet ﷺ
that the people of Jerusalem thought that must
be Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu imagine Abbas proceeding into Jerusalem you have
a weak hadith from Um Salama radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu and Abu Dawood that whoever puts
on the ihram from Jerusalem and makes his
way to Hajj or Umrah will be forgiven
for all of their sins and guaranteed Jannah
and Abu Dawood says may Allah have mercy
on al-Waqi' ibn al-Jarrah he went
to al-Aqsa and he did ihram and
he went to Umrah again just so he
could try to to gain the reward so
think of all the people that went there
from Mecca and then made their way back
for Umrah and this was also narrated about
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
the sites where ibn Umar radiAllahu was seen
in Masjid al-Aqsa praying Salat al-Fajr
and then staying until ad-Duha remembering Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and then getting on
his camel and making his way back to
Madinah not to speak to anyone else Muadh
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu he would do i'tikaf
in that masjid three days fasting and praying
and then turning to his companions and saying
now we can hope that Allah has forgiven
us for everything in the past so let's
pay attention to what is in the future
Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who came
to al-Bayt al-Maqdis Tamim ibn Aus
al-Dari radiAllahu anhu the Palestinian companion Tamim
radiAllahu anhu who came from Palestine and came
back to Palestine and is buried in Palestine
in Jibril which is occupied Khalil.
Ubadah ibn Samit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu the
Qadi of Palestine who is buried in the
Bab ur-Rahma cemetery where multiple companions are
buried and the list goes on and on
and on i'm going to give you two
that i thought were relevant to this lecture
about prophecy inshallah and then we'll conclude for
the night who was the wife of the
prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam that was a jewish
convert who was the wife of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam our mother that was a
jewish convert and we say it with pride
i know it's cold but you can i
can hear you Safiyya bint Huyayy radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu a woman who was mocked with
her lineage bint al-Yahudi right they called
her the jewish woman to try to mock
her Safiyya radiAllahu ta'ala anhu our mother
who embraced islam and came from that and
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that you
are the daughter of Musa alayhi salam the
niece of Harun alayhi salam and the wife
of muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam there is no
shame in what you have imagine Safiyya radiAllahu
ta'ala anha when she visited al-bayt
al-maqdis she was extremely moved her father
was a rabbi was a leader of his
people and was supposedly waiting for her husband
muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam to arise as a
prophet and as a result of his rejection
ended up in medina and dying upon disbelief
whereas she is now in jerusalem with the
muslims Safiyya radiAllahu ta'ala anha and she
went around palestine and she starts to recount
all of what she learned when she was
jewish before she became muslim and she stood
on the mountain of olives and she said
this is where we were told is the
place of yom al-fasr the place where
the people of jannah will go and the
people of hellfire will go and this is
the place where the messiah would rise she
starts to recount what she learned before she
became muslim as a jewish woman and who
was the chief rabbi of medina before islam
abdullah bin salam radiAllahu ta'ala anhu hussein
bin salam abdullah bin salam radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu also came to jerusalem and in fact
subhanAllah he was one of the troops of
umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who opened the
area of al-jabiya which is golden heights
and then proceeds to al-bayt al-maqdis
and can walk around jerusalem the former chief
rabbi of medina as a muslim who came
there and can talk about the rich prophecy
and the rich lineage and rich history of
that place may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
allow us to be a continuation of that
prophecy and as allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
blessed those 10 000 eyes to set sight
on the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and then
to die in asham may allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala grant us the ability to see
our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam on the day
of judgment while he is pleased with us
and may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant
us a noble death and may allah include
in our life story the opening of al
-bayt al-maqdis may allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala remove from us the barriers between us
and these noble promises and may allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala forgive us when we let
our sins hold us back from the good
that is in front of us and may
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from
being blinded by our prosperity or our wealth
the way that hirakl was blinded and may
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open our hearts
the way that he opened the hearts of
the likes of umar and may allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala give peace and victory to
the people of al-bayt al-maqdis barakallahu
fikum inshallah ta'ala we'll see you all
next week