Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb RA

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The speaker discusses the complex history of the Prophet's name, including his military career and daughter, and highlights the importance of his actions, such as protecting Islam and loving religion. The history of the Battle of BPD, including the loss of Muslims and the return of the Prophet's son, is also discussed, along with the return of the Prophet's son and potential consequences. The importance of finding a solution to racism and tribalism, showing respect for the Prophet's actions, and balancing forgiveness is emphasized. The history of the Prophet's actions, including forgiveness, is also highlighted, along with the need for discipline and ethics in leadership positions and show respect for his actions. The end of the Islam era is also highlighted, with the need for discipline and ethics in leadership positions and the importance of showing respect for the Prophet's actions.

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			Welcome back to the first, I ask Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			to accept all of your Ibadah in Ramadan.
		
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			May
		
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			Allah allow all of our deeds that we
		
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			perform to be accepted. Forgive us for our
		
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			shortcomings in Ramadan and after Ramadan.
		
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			So tonight,
		
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			we're going to be looking into probably one
		
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			of the most complex
		
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			companions of the Prophet
		
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			in the entire Sira.
		
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			Because when you think of him, you always
		
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			think of him on the opposing side of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			And I have to admit that I was
		
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			once going to give a hutba.
		
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			A few years ago, there was someone who
		
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			was a high profile convert.
		
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			This was maybe 6, 7 years ago, and
		
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			I was thinking to myself, we should name
		
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			the Khutbah the Curious Case of Abu Sufyan,
		
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			because the Prophet
		
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			treats this man in such a way
		
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			that is so unfathomable when you consider
		
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			the profile of Abu Sufyan and his enmity
		
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			towards the Prophet
		
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			for 2 decades.
		
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			From the very beginning
		
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			all the way until Fatiha Mecca, he's not
		
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			just one enemy of the Prophet
		
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			He's always the ringleader. He's always there amongst
		
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			those that are conspiring against the Prophet
		
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			and it would not be an exaggeration to
		
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			say that this might have been the most
		
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			hated man to the Muslims if you think
		
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			about the cumulative seerah of the Prophet
		
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			when you said the name of Abu Sufyan
		
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			in Madinah, it evoked a certain sentiment
		
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			because this was the man that was always
		
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			organizing against the
		
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			Prophet And so SubhanAllah, as we talk about
		
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			him, you don't just come to appreciate the
		
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			end of the story.
		
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			You come to appreciate the mindset of a
		
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			man who somehow is won over to the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			and who somehow the Prophet
		
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			can tolerate
		
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			despite everything that he's done against Islam.
		
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			And his history is rich and believe it
		
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			or not, SubhanAllah, this is actually one of
		
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			the harder
		
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			lectures to pack into 1 hour because of
		
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			the depth of the story
		
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			of this man, Abu Sufyan
		
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			So his name, first and foremost,
		
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			is Sahar ibn Harb
		
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			ibn Umayyah nai'Abdishams.
		
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			So Sahar is his actual name, which means
		
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			rock, right? Sahar
		
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			ibn
		
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			Harb, the rock, the son of war. That
		
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			would be the translation of his name, and
		
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			subhanAllah, how fitting of a name it actually
		
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			is to him. His name Abu Sufyan
		
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			is actually a kunya that his father supposedly
		
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			had. So there's debate about where he got
		
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			the name Abu Sufyan from because he doesn't
		
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			actually have a name or a son named
		
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			Sufyan,
		
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			right?
		
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			So either his father was named Abu Sufyan
		
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			and he wanted to carry
		
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			the kunya, the nickname of his father,
		
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			or Sufyan,
		
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			which means swiftness. It could mean like a
		
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			storm, represents a certain character in battle, right?
		
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			Someone who moves like a storm, or it
		
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			was a characteristic
		
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			that Abu Sufyan
		
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			wanted to be named after. So his name
		
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			is Sahar ibn Harl.
		
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			He has two nicknames,
		
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			Abu Sufyan, which is his most famous nickname.
		
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			And then the other, Kunya, is the one
		
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			that is actually after his oldest son, which
		
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			is Abu Hanvalah.
		
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			So his actual technical name is Abu Hanvalah,
		
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			after his oldest son.
		
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			As I said, the most hated man to
		
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			the Muslims and SubhanAllah, when you think about
		
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			the Hadith of the Prophet
		
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			about the man who killed 99 people from
		
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			Bani Israel and then killed a 100 and
		
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			still found forgiveness from Allah,
		
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			this is probably the only men or one
		
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			of the only people in the Sira that
		
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			you can pinpoint and say, he actually killed
		
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			a 100 Muslims.
		
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			And so this hadith actually has to apply
		
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			to him, and he didn't just kill any
		
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			99 or 100 people. He killed a 100
		
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			of the best people on the face of
		
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			the earth, the best of the generation of
		
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			the companions
		
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			of the Prophet
		
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			Yet somehow Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will spare
		
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			him until the very end and until he
		
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			has an
		
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			opportunity to convert to Islam. So he obviously
		
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			comes from a very powerful family,
		
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			and his reputation in Islam
		
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			of being a warlord is inherited from his
		
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			father.
		
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			So his father,
		
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			Harb, whose name is War,
		
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			was actually the leader of Kinana in what's
		
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			known as Harb al Fujar,
		
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			the early,
		
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			wars of the days of ignorance, the tribalistic
		
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			wars. His father was the main leader
		
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			of Quraysh,
		
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			and his father is known for being a
		
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			warlord.
		
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			And his father is also sort of looked
		
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			at amongst the generation before him as the
		
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			successor to Abdul Muttalib in terms of being
		
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			the leader of Mecca.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan is inheriting
		
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			nobility, is inheriting
		
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			power. He's inheriting war. He's inheriting the responsibility
		
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			of 1 of the 3 archtribes of Mecca,
		
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			Benu'Abdishamps.
		
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			He is being groomed to be the leader,
		
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			and he's literally a copy of his father.
		
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			Now because his father dies before Islam, it's
		
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			harder to get much information about him, but
		
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			it seems to be that everything about Abu
		
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			Sufyan that you learn is true of his
		
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			father
		
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			as well. And he comes from this rich,
		
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			noble, powerful
		
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			tribe. Benir Abdishams
		
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			was known not just for their ability in
		
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			war, but they were known for running the
		
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			caravans,
		
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			all of the trade to Hashem, right, which
		
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			which Abu Sufyan will be famous for. Who
		
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			is
		
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			Who are the richest companions that come to
		
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			your mind from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's
		
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			companions?
		
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			Uthman ibn Affan, radiAllahu anhu, was the cousin
		
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			of Abu Sufyan. He's also from Banu'Abdashamps,
		
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			right? So you think about the aristocrats of
		
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			Makkah, the people who have all the money,
		
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			the people who have a concentration of power.
		
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			His father-in-law is Utba
		
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			ibn Mabi'ah, who's one of the chieftains of
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			And we learned quite a bit about him,
		
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			and he's one of the staunch opponents of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			as well.
		
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			And
		
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			it's too hard to talk about his whole
		
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			family, because Abu Sufyan had 7 wives in
		
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			total and way too many children to count.
		
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			So children and grandchildren,
		
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			plentiful.
		
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			7 marriages total. His 2 most famous wives,
		
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			the first one
		
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			is Hind bint Uitba, who we're going to
		
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			talk about. Hind bint Uitba ibn Rabia.
		
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			Hind being the woman who was famous for
		
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			what?
		
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			For chewing the liver of Hamzah
		
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			Right, so this is the wife of Abu
		
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			Sufyan
		
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			and his other
		
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			wife, Safia bint Abilaas,
		
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			who's the aunt of Uthman and the mother
		
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			of Habibah
		
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			the wife of the Prophet
		
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			Abu Sufyan's sister, I'm not going to go
		
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			too much longer in the family tree, I'm
		
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			just going to move on inshallah. His sister
		
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			Arwa is the wife of Abu Lahab
		
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			And some of the scholars of Tafsir say,
		
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			the woman carrying the wood is actually speaking
		
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			to
		
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			the sister of Abu Sufyan,
		
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			okay, who's the wife of Abu Lahab. Right?
		
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			So one of the wives of Abu Lahab
		
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			is the sister
		
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			of Abu Sufyan
		
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			He's known as
		
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			that in the times of war, when the
		
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			banner was handed to the senior amongst them,
		
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			when things became difficult and everyone had to
		
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			retreat, Abu Sufyan
		
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			is the head of Quraysh, the amir of
		
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			Quraysh that the people always retreat to.
		
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			So he occupies
		
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			this lofty position
		
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			in the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			He's also older than the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. And this is one of the interesting
		
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			things that's narrated about him. It's narrated that
		
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			he was 20 years he was born 20
		
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			years before the Prophet
		
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			and he died 20 years after the Prophet
		
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			So he lives an extremely long life, anywhere
		
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			from 10 to 20 years older than the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			And basically,
		
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			he was most famous for
		
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			his
		
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			caravans,
		
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			the large amount of trade that he used
		
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			to do with the world around.
		
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			So he used to go out to a
		
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			Sham frequently, to Palestine, to Syria,
		
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			frequently.
		
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			He used to go out to Yemen frequently.
		
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			He used to run the marketplace of Mecca
		
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			during the pilgrimage seasons.
		
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			So when you think about all of the
		
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			leaders, the Abu Jahalas and Abu Lahabs of
		
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			the world, Abu Sufyan is the one that
		
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			kind of has the smarts of the caravans
		
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			that go out and how the caravans come
		
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			in. The merchants that come from Yemen and
		
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			that come from Syria know Abu Sufyan as
		
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			the point person, and Abu Sufyan knows them
		
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			when he goes to Yemen and Asham.
		
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			And he's someone that has a lot to
		
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			lose when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam declares
		
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			his Islam.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because military power, he's afraid of losing.
		
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			His wealth, he's afraid afraid of losing because
		
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			all the exploitation, all the Riba, all of
		
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			the interest and usury and the power that's
		
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			occupied there.
		
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			And of course,
		
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			beyond that, seniority. He's looked at
		
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			as occupying this point between the eldest of
		
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			Quraysh, the eldest leaders of Quraysh, and then
		
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			the younger generation. He's kind of situated between
		
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			the 2 generations.
		
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			And so he's the natural
		
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			next leader
		
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			of Quraysh.
		
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			And as soon as he sees the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam declaring Islam,
		
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			despite knowing everything he knew about the Prophet
		
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			like Abu Jahal, he immediately thinks, bani abdishams,
		
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			We can't do it.
		
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			I'm going to fight you.
		
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			There is no way that I can concede
		
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			that you are a prophet of Allah
		
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			because if I concede that you are a
		
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			prophet of Allah, then I lose my position.
		
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			This is all just to give you a
		
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			little bit of a background before we get
		
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			personal, insha'Allah,
		
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			in the life of this man,
		
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			Sahar ibn Harb Abu Sufyan
		
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			Now, what happens?
		
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			When the prophet
		
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			announces his prophethood,
		
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			Abu Sufyan
		
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			is not someone who takes the immediate violent
		
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			reaction of Abu Jahl.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is someone who's trying to think
		
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			of the most diplomatic way
		
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			to strategically undermine the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and that speaks to a little bit of
		
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			his mind.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He's a lot less volatile
		
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			than Abu Jahal is. So he's not someone
		
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			that you see pouncing on the Muslims, pouncing
		
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			on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, suddenly
		
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			pulling out his sword and fighting people. He's
		
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			someone who's constantly planning in the background and
		
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			scheming
		
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			as to how to stop Islam
		
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			from growing
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			And they used to say that the 3
		
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			wise men of Quraish who all became idiots
		
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			when Islam came to Mecca, Abu Jahan, whose
		
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			name was Abu Hakam, the father of wisdom,
		
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			Rutba, the father-in-law of Abu Sufyan, and Abu
		
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			Sufyan,
		
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			they all took,
		
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			subhanAllah, things that were completely
		
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			opposite
		
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			of what their stances would have been in
		
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			the days of ignorance in regards to the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So everything was counterintuitive
		
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			about how they responded to the Prophet
		
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			But still, in keeping true to his character,
		
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			he's someone who schemes against the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam. And he's someone who will incite
		
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			the violence, but who rarely be actually seen
		
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			holding the sword and actually
		
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			abusing
		
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			people in public, because he's kind of trying
		
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			to maintain a reputation.
		
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			He's also someone that continues his trade routes
		
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			even during the first several years of Islam.
		
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			So many of the the Meccans go on
		
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			high alert. Right? They're like, we have to
		
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			we have to solve this rebellion from the
		
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			inside and squash this message.
		
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			Abu Sufyan still goes to Yemen. He still
		
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			goes to Hashem. He still carries on growing
		
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			his business and growing his trade
		
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			while he's scheming against the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			Now one of the things that happens
		
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			is that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tests
		
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			each and every single one of these men
		
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			by someone of their own family, their closest
		
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			relatives becoming
		
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			Muslim in the earliest batch.
		
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			So his daughter,
		
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			Habiba
		
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			RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anha,
		
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			is considered to be the 2nd
		
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			person from Banu Umayyah to embrace Islam after
		
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			Islam
		
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			She's the second from the tribe
		
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			to embrace Islam. She's one of
		
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			one of the first Muslims, his own
		
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			daughter.
		
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			And this caused a lot of trouble to
		
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			Abu Sufyan. It was embarrassing to him.
		
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			Now she's married
		
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			to Ubaydul Abnu Jahsh, so she's not technically
		
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			living with him, but it's still a huge
		
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			embarrassment that his own daughter would embrace the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's message at a very
		
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			early point of the call to Islam.
		
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			And of course,
		
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			his own daughter, as well as his cousin
		
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			Uthman, are both amongst those that migrate to
		
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			Abyssinia to escape the persecution
		
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			of Mecca.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan's daughter embraces Islam,
		
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			along with her husband,
		
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			along with her cousin Uthman.
		
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			They flee the persecution
		
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			of the likes of Abu Sufyan and Utbah
		
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			and others,
		
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			taking place in Mecca.
		
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			Now Abu Sufyan, this is to give you
		
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			some important context to the Battle of Badr.
		
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			To him, all of the wealth of the
		
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			Muslims was fair game,
		
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			including his own family.
		
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			So once his own relatives
		
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			go to Abyssinia, he confiscates their homes, he
		
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			sells their homes, he includes it amongst his
		
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			caravan.
		
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			So he's actively stealing the wealth
		
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			of the Muslims, including his own relatives,
		
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			and consuming that and making it part of
		
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			his caravan and basically making his caravan
		
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			larger and larger and larger and larger. The
		
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			reason why this is so important is that
		
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			when you get to the Battle of Badr,
		
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			it all starts with the caravan of Abu
		
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			Sufyan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And you can imagine
		
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			what precious wealth is in the caravan of
		
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			Abu Sufyan, who shows no regard for the
		
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			wealth of the Muslims, including
		
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			his own in laws. And there's a very
		
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			famous story about Abu Ahmed Abd ibn Jaish
		
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			and his home, which was considered one of
		
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			the best of Meccan. He was a blind
		
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			man. His home being stolen from him,
		
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			sold, and then included in the caravan, the
		
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			money being included in the caravan
		
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			of Abu Sufyan.
		
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			So he takes these caravans, and how does
		
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			Abu Sufyan basically save face?
		
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			So I want to give you just this
		
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			this high level. When you read about the
		
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			Munafiqun, I'm sorry, when you read about the
		
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			kuffar, the disbelievers of Mecca spending money
		
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			in charity and expecting a reward,
		
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			it's usually talking about Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Because the way Abu Sufyan covers for all
		
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			this exploitation
		
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			and the way that he covers for all
		
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			of the stealing and all of this abuse
		
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			with his wealth is that he gives a
		
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			lot of money and charity.
		
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			Right? He finances many of the military endeavors
		
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			and the tribal endeavors of Quraish.
		
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			He does a lot that earns him face
		
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			amongst his people, but subhanAllah, all of it
		
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			is being spent, fee sabidha shaitan, in the
		
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			way of the devil. Right, and to actually
		
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			oppress
		
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			and to actually
		
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			harm.
		
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			Now with all of that,
		
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			Abu Sufyan
		
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			comes to learn
		
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			that his daughter, Habiba,
		
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			receives a marriage proposal from the Prophet, sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Think about this marriage,
		
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			because Habiba's husband dies in Habashah, and we
		
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			talked about her
		
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			already in this series.
		
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			Habiba is in Abyssinia, a widow.
		
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			The prophet is in Madina.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is in Mecca.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			sends a marriage proposal to Habiba
		
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			in Abyssinia.
		
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			The news of that reaches Abu Sufyan, who's
		
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			trying to kill the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			in Madinah. Talk about an international, like this
		
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			is before Zoom to cash were even a
		
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			thing. Like
		
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			this is all happening international across borders
		
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			in very different political climates.
		
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			But to give you an idea of the
		
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			mindset of Abu Sufyan,
		
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			and the way that he thinks, and how
		
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			tribalistic
		
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			of a man that he was,
		
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			when he heard that Habiba
		
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			received the marriage proposal from the prophet, Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			he said the words,
		
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			that that is a noble stallion who should
		
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			not be rejected.
		
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			You know what? I'm trying to kill the
		
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			man,
		
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			and I can't stand him. But at the
		
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			same time, the Prophet comes from a noble
		
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			lineage.
		
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			And so at the end of the day,
		
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			my daughter is marrying someone from a noble
		
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			lineage. I'm okay with this. I'm still gonna
		
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			try to kill him,
		
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			but I'm okay with this. At the end
		
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			of the day, my daughter is in good
		
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			hands now. She's now part of,
		
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			again, the continuation of a noble lineage. So
		
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			he's got a very strange tribalistic
		
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			mindset, and he enters into this arena of
		
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			opposition to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			from these very base places.
		
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			Right? It's not like
		
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			a noble type of opposition.
		
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			Right? It's
		
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			tribe
		
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			and money.
		
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			Tribe and money, tribe and money.
		
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			Now after the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam escapes
		
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			and flees to Mecca, this is where the
		
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			story now really starts to take shape.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is still now in the second
		
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			tier
		
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			of the main opposition to the Prophet because
		
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			his elders are still alive.
		
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			Right? So Abu Jahal is still alive, Abu
		
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			Lahab is still alive, Utbah is still alive,
		
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			Omayyah is still alive, Alwalid Mughira is still
		
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			alive, Al Aas is still alive. Right? These
		
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			are still sort of the elders to Abu
		
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			to Abu Sufyan that are opposing the Prophet
		
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			Abu Sufyan is in their group, but he's
		
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			still slightly younger than them.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he flees
		
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			to Madinah,
		
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			he commissions
		
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			these raids on the caravans
		
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			to try to intercept some of what was
		
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			stolen from the Muslims. And so as the
		
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			caravans are going out to
		
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			Assam and as they're going out to Yemen
		
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			and they're returning, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			is trying to intercept some of those caravans.
		
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			So what happens with the Battle of Badr?
		
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			Camels
		
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			and over 50,000
		
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			dinars worth of goods. It had much of
		
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			the consumed and stolen wealth of the Muslims.
		
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			And so the prophet
		
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			sends a battalion,
		
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			not an army, a battalion
		
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			to try to intercept that, which which explains
		
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			why you had such a small number of
		
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			people on the side of the Muslims that
		
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			weren't equipped for a battle
		
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			when bad that happened. They didn't have camels.
		
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			They didn't have horses. They didn't have their
		
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			full armor. They had things that could keep
		
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			them light in the desert, right, while they
		
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			tried to intercept
		
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			the caravan of Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Abu Sufyan hears about the plan of the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So he diverts his caravan, his huge caravan,
		
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			and he has
		
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			40 guards to that caravan. So you can
		
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			see how much he treasures that wealth.
		
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			So you got a whole
		
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			army of sorts
		
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			protecting the caravan,
		
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			and he takes a different route.
		
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			He alerts Abu Jahl and the leaders of
		
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			Mecca,
		
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			and then they go out to meet the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			and that small group of Muslims
		
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			around the area of Badr. And that's how
		
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			the Battle of Badr is going to take
		
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			place, right? So Abu Sufyan
		
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			escapes the Battle of Badr technically because his
		
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			job is to actually safeguard his caravan from
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			and from the Muslims
		
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			before the Battle of Badr.
		
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			However,
		
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			most of the leaders
		
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			of Quraysh are present in the Battle of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			Some of them didn't wanna go out,
		
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			including, by the way, the father-in-law of the
		
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			prophet the father-in-law of Abu Sufyan himself, Ritzba.
		
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			He really didn't feel like it, but Abu
		
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			Jahl was insisting. In fact, you have narrations
		
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			of Abu
		
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			Sufyan saying, look, we've got the caravan safe.
		
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			There's no need to to engage in battle
		
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			now. Abu Jahl is the one who's insisting
		
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			on trying to wipe out the Muslims while
		
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			we have them vulnerable.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan, his job was to protect
		
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			the caravan.
		
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			Abu Jahal is shaming the other leaders to
		
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			go to battle with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam and take advantage of the situation and
		
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			to kill their own sons,
		
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			right, in this battle
		
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			and has a vengeance to him that everyone
		
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			else is just kind of going along with.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is not participating.
		
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			However,
		
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			his oldest son Hamdullah and another one of
		
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			his sons participates in the Battle of Badr,
		
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			as well as his father-in-law
		
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			and essentially all of his in laws,
		
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			from the side of Hind bin Tutba.
		
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			Now I want you to think of the
		
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			commencement of the Battle of Badr.
		
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			As the Battle of Badr is getting started,
		
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			if you remember, in the beginning of the
		
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			battle, there's a duel.
		
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			The duel that starts off the Battle of
		
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			Badr, where you have 3 Muslims come forward,
		
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			and 3 of the opposing side come forward,
		
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			the duel on their side
		
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			includes the family.
		
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			All 3 of them are the family of
		
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			Abu Sufyan's in laws.
		
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			You have Uthba bin Rabia, his father-in-law.
		
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			You have Shaiba,
		
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			the brother of Uthba,
		
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			and you have
		
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			Walid.
		
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			I'm sorry. Yeah. Walid. So you have Walid
		
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			ibn Utbah, Shaiba, and Utbah.
		
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			All of them
		
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			are from the same family coming out to
		
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			fight the Muslims.
		
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			And between Hamza
		
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			they finish all 3 of them.
		
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			Okay. So all 3 of them are killed
		
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			in that battle.
		
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			Meaning
		
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			that by the time Hind
		
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			hears this, you can understand now where that
		
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			vengeance is coming against Hamzah
		
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			that you killed my father and you killed
		
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			my brother.
		
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			Right. She wants revenge on Hamza because Hamza
		
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			technically is the one
		
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			who killed her father and her brother in
		
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			those duels.
		
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			As for Abu Sufyan himself,
		
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			his oldest son Hamdullah died
		
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			as a kafir on that day. He died
		
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			as a disbeliever fighting the Muslims that day.
		
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			So he's one of the casualties on the
		
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			side of the mushrikeen.
		
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			He had another son who the prophet, sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam, had as a prisoner,
		
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			but the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, let him
		
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			go. So he's one of the captives of
		
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			Badr who was let go. All the captives,
		
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			of course, were let go at some ransom
		
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			in hopes that it would soften the hearts
		
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			of the people of Mecca. It didn't soften
		
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			the heart of Abu Sufyan or Hind at
		
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			all. Right? That his other son was let
		
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			go, even though the aggression
		
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			was coming
		
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			from their side.
		
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			Hence comes the Battle of Uhud.
		
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			Now the first
		
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			war, the first battle that Abu Sufyan is
		
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			going to
		
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			appear
		
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			as
		
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			the leader, the absolute leader of, is the
		
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			Battle of Uhud.
		
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			He's going to lead Uhud against the Prophet
		
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			and he's going to lead
		
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			Handak,
		
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			the siege of Madinah,
		
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			and the Battle of the trench against the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			So he is the core leader, the supreme
		
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			leader
		
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			of both of those battles
		
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			because everyone else that was of that level
		
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			had already perished in Badr.
		
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			So all of his colleagues, all of those
		
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			that were at his level or senior to
		
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			him had died in the Battle of Badr.
		
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			And now they are coming
		
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			to Uhud
		
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			with a sense of pure vengeance and hatred
		
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			towards the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and there is none that has more hatred
		
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			in her heart than Hind Mint Urtba, than
		
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			his wife Hind,
		
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			who wants revenge
		
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			for the murder of her father and the
		
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			murder of her brother.
		
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			I mean, she's the one bringing out the
		
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			women to the battlefield. She's got the war
		
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			drum. She's authoring poetry.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Basically
		
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			saying to the men that if you
		
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			lose this battle, then don't come home, right,
		
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			then we will not accept you back into
		
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			our homes if you flee from this battlefield.
		
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			She is the one who is leading the
		
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			group of the insiders,
		
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			right,
		
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			in the Battle of Uhud
		
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			and demanding the mutilation
		
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			of the companions of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, specifically
		
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			Hamzah
		
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			And she's the one that promises Washi
		
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			his freedom.
		
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			If he kills Hamza and brings to Hamza,
		
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			the, brings to her the liver of Hamza
		
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			so that she could chew the liver of
		
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			hamza, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, as an act of
		
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			humiliation.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			as this battle takes place, I want you
		
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			to just imagine the Qadr of Allah. Because
		
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			when we talk about, like, why me? There's
		
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			a lot of why me's in the family
		
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			of Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Both Abu Sufyan and Hind almost got killed
		
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			on the day of Uhud.
		
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			SubhanAllah, how Allah spared them.
		
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			As for Hind,
		
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			if you remember
		
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			the story of Abu Dujana, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
		
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			When Abu Dhujana radiAllahu anhu cut across the
		
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			battlefield,
		
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			he made it so quickly through the lines
		
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			of the believers that he got all the
		
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			way to the women that were beating the
		
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			drums and singing the song, and he was
		
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			cutting so fast and slicing so fast,
		
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			he ended up and he said, I had
		
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			my sword right on top of a woman,
		
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			and she gasped.
		
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			And Zubayd is watching this whole thing,
		
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			and she was singing the lines of incitement.
		
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			And who was it? Hinds bintur'utba.
		
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			And Abu Dujana had his sword,
		
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			then he pulled the sword back.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			Az Zubayr, and by the way, she's an
		
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			active participant in this battle, if you think
		
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			about it. She's going around beating the drums,
		
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			telling them to go forward and to kill.
		
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			And you're in a moment of heat.
		
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			As Zubair asked Abu Dajjana what happened,
		
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			and he said
		
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			that when I reached her or when I
		
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			was going through and I realized that it
		
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			was a woman that was under me,
		
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			I found the sword of the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam too noble to use it to
		
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			strike a woman. I wasn't going to use
		
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			the sword of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			to strike a woman, so he spared her.
		
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			Now you would hope that that would have
		
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			softened her heart a bit, right? It didn't.
		
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			The vengeance was still consuming her. And SubhanAllah,
		
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			it was her, and it was the wife
		
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			of Amr bin 'as, and it was the
		
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			wife of Ikram Abin Abi Jahal,
		
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			and all of these women who would become
		
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			Muslim one day, who were beating the drums
		
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			and calling for the body parts
		
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			of the companions of the Prophet
		
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			in revenge for those that were killed
		
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			in the Battle of Badr.
		
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			So Hind survives
		
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			due to an act of nobility
		
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			from
		
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			Abu Dujana
		
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			As for Abu Sufyan,
		
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			SubhanAllah, it's actually really interesting.
		
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			The very famous
		
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			hamdullah, who's known as
		
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			the one who the angels washed.
		
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			The very famous hamdullah, the young man
		
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			he actually got to Abu Sufyan on the
		
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			battlefield, and he managed to knock him off
		
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			of his horse.
		
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			And he was just about to kill him,
		
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			but then, Shaddad ibn Aswad killed him from
		
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			behind.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan was on his back about
		
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			to die on the day of Uhud. What
		
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			a miserable fate it would have been, right?
		
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			And instead,
		
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			Allah spared him.
		
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			Was martyred, and hamdulillah was taken up to
		
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			the heavens and washed.
		
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			And by the way,
		
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			and subhanAllah,
		
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			the irony continues.
		
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			The son of Hanbalah
		
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			that was born
		
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			from that night, meaning this, you know, his
		
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			wife was pregnant that night,
		
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			The son of Hanbalah that was born would
		
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			later on go on to be martyred by
		
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			the grandson of Abu Sufyan, Yazid ibn Muawiyah.
		
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			So it's
		
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			just the twist of fate
		
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			happening over and over again, right?
		
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			So Hind was under the sword of Abu
		
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			Dujana.
		
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			Abu Sufyan was on his back, hamdala, over
		
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			him
		
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			and both of them somehow by the Qadr
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala survived that day.
		
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			Right?
		
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			As time goes on,
		
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			as Uhud commences, Abu Sufyan was commanding the
		
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			middle,
		
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			Ikrimah on the right, Khaled on the left,
		
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			and we know that Khaled radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
		
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			was able to,
		
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			carry out the defeat of the Muslims with
		
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			his strategy.
		
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			After
		
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			that massacre of the companions takes place,
		
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			The most famous conversation after Uhud is between
		
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			UHd
		
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			and Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Abu Sufyan chanting
		
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			with Khalid
		
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			and Ikrima
		
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			and Amr bin Ahas
		
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			calling out
		
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			and asking while the prophet is covered in
		
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			blood and barely alive,
		
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			Muhammad. Is Muhammad amongst you?
		
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			And the prophet says, Laatul Jeebu, don't answer
		
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			him.
		
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			Is Abu Bakr amongst them? The prophet says,
		
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			don't answer.
		
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			Is Omar amongst them? The prophet says, don't
		
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			answer.
		
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			Abu Sufyan celebrates.
		
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			That means we killed them. That means we
		
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			won.
		
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			We won. We killed Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			We killed Abu Bakr. We killed Umar.
		
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			And that's when Omar responds and says,
		
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			You've lied, oh enemy of Allah.
		
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			Allah has preserved that which causes you disgrace.
		
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			And that's when the
		
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			slogans start to come out.
		
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			And
		
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			Abu Sufyan calls out to Omar,
		
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			and he says,
		
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			We have ursa, and you have no ursa.
		
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			We have Lat, we have starts to call
		
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			out the names of their gods.
		
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			Prophet says, respond and say,
		
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			Lakum. Allah is our protector. You have no
		
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			protector.
		
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			Or'luhu
		
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			Hubal. He's calling out, may Hubal be exalted.
		
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			The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to Umar
		
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			radiAllahu anhu respond to him and say, Allahu
		
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			a'la wajal.
		
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			Allah is higher and more exalted.
		
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			Abu Sufyan says, a day for a day.
		
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			Our dead for your dead.
		
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			Prophet says, you can respond and say,
		
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			your dead are in the fire, our dead
		
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			are in paradise.
		
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			So Rousseffian
		
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			is flustered
		
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			and frustrated on the battlefield
		
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			because we're supposed to win here, but this
		
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			doesn't feel like a win.
		
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			Right? The Muslims still have such moral clarity,
		
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			it doesn't feel like a win, and SubhanAllah,
		
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			he survives the Battle of Uhud. As for
		
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			Hind,
		
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			she carries out
		
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			that despicable act.
		
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			And I just want you to think about
		
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			that, SubhanAllah, Sayyidushuhada.
		
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			The master of the martyrs on the day
		
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			of judgement, Hind is the one who had
		
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			his chest cut open, who took his liver,
		
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			who chewed his liver and spit it out.
		
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			And, subhanAllah, she dies a Muslim.
		
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			We talk about people meeting in Jannah.
		
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			What a meeting.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Aren't you the woman,
		
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			you know, subhanAllah, that chewed out?
		
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			Allah
		
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			knows best. This is how the Qadr of
		
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			Allah works. Right? People that repent and redeem
		
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			themselves later on.
		
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			In any case,
		
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			after Uhud,
		
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			actually, if you think about it, all of
		
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			these stories have showed up in different salhabah,
		
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			but when you put it all together in
		
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			a narrative,
		
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			massacres of Marouna and the massacres of Arrojir,
		
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			the massacres of more companions that were ambushed
		
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			than the total companions that were martyred in
		
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			Uhud.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is the one
		
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			who is torturing Khobayb ibn Adi,
		
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			And as he's being crucified
		
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			and he's being cut limb by limb and
		
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			the blood is dripping from him, Abu Sufyan
		
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			says, bring him down. Let me ask him
		
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			a question.
		
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			Think about Abu Sufyan,
		
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			psychological
		
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			torture,
		
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			and he stands in front of Khubaib,
		
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			and he says to him,
		
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			if Muhammad
		
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			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could be in your place
		
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			right now, would you accept it? Wouldn't you
		
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			rather that instead of you taking this beating
		
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			and being cut up into pieces like this,
		
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			wouldn't you like that Mohammed SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			be in your place?
		
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			And Khubaib said to him, Wallahi,
		
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			I would not even accept
		
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			a thorn pricking the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam in place of what I'm going
		
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			through right now.
		
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			Abu Sufyan,
		
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			he said,
		
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			So I've never seen a man in my
		
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			life
		
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			who is loved the way that Muhammad is
		
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			loved by his companions. I don't get it.
		
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			This doesn't make sense.
		
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			Meaning, if you kind of follow the logic
		
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			of Abu Sufyan,
		
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			all of what he thought,
		
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			he knew in terms of how human beings
		
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			and societies function is falling apart.
		
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			In the aftermath of Uhud, we were supposed
		
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			to win, but we didn't win.
		
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			We really didn't feel like we won.
		
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			I'm torturing this man and breaking him down.
		
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			He's being cut up into pieces and crucified.
		
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			And he still has this clarity,
		
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			and it drives him crazy.
		
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			What is it about you?
		
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			And Muawiyah, who was a child at the
		
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			time, he says that when Khubaib made the
		
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			dua,
		
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			Oh Allah, count them and kill them all
		
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			1 by 1 and don't spare a single
		
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			one of them. Mu'awiya says, Abu Sufyan,
		
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			my father, because I was a kid, he
		
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			threw me to the ground to my back,
		
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			and he laid down on his back,
		
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			worried about something coming down from the heavens
		
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			to strike him.
		
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			That was the power of the dua that
		
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			was made against him.
		
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			Somehow he survives.
		
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			He doesn't wake
		
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			up. SubhanAllah, look at the stubbornness
		
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			that takes place.
		
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			Abu Sufyan is in Mecca.
		
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			Abu Jahl is gone, Abu Lahab is gone,
		
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			all of them are gone. He is the
		
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			one who now says,
		
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			Let us lead a siege on Madinah.
		
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			And let's end this once and for all.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan is the leader
		
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			of this effort now
		
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			to carry out a genocide in Medina, to
		
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			remove the Muslims from the face of the
		
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			earth
		
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			and wipe them all out. He is the
		
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			one who's galvanizing
		
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			the Bedouin tribes,
		
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			galvanizing all of the Meccans, and he says,
		
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			I will personally put all of my wealth
		
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			on this. Whatever it costs,
		
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			we have it. And that's the thing, he
		
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			was being praised for his sadaqa. How ironic.
		
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			He was being praised for his charity in
		
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			Mecca. Look at how noble Abu Sufyan is,
		
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			he puts his money where his mouth is,
		
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			right? Puts all of his personal money into
		
00:35:05 --> 00:35:08
			this noble effort of trying to wipe out
		
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			this group of people.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan
		
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			leads the largest army in the history of
		
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			the Arabs
		
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			against Medina
		
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			and places Medina under siege
		
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			for
		
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			that month of tribulation.
		
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			Subhan'Allah, in this, by the way,
		
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			there's something to pay attention to, which is
		
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			that his daughter was not in Medina. She
		
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			was still in Abyssinia, right? So that's something
		
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			to keep in mind here.
		
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			Second thing is,
		
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			Hudayfah ibn al Yamam
		
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			has the narration about how difficult things are
		
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			becoming. So you're always getting this peak of
		
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			Abu Sufyan on the other side,
		
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			as he's leading these efforts against the Prophet
		
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			Hudayfa was the one, radiAllahu anhu, the Prophet
		
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			commissioned to go and to find out what
		
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			they were planning as the Dua of the
		
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			Prophet SAWS for wind to blow upon them
		
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			and for difficulty to come upon them was
		
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02
			making it too difficult for the army from
		
00:36:02 --> 00:36:03
			Mecca to survive
		
00:36:03 --> 00:36:05
			outside of the trench. Eventually, the frustration was
		
00:36:05 --> 00:36:06
			growing.
		
00:36:06 --> 00:36:08
			So Hudifah was sent on this mission
		
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			to basically go and spy
		
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			and to get the news. It was a
		
00:36:13 --> 00:36:15
			very difficult mission. So he goes out at
		
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			night,
		
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			and he pretends to be one of the
		
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			Meccans. So he crosses the ditch,
		
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			pretends to be one of the Meccans,
		
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			and he says,
		
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			Faqam Abu Sufyan ibn Uhar Abu Sufyan stood
		
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			up, and Abu Sufyan was a large man.
		
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			Huge man, huge in his posture,
		
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			right? Similar to the way that Abu Jahl
		
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			is described and Khalid is described, radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			He has a huge posture, and he has
		
00:36:40 --> 00:36:41
			a booming voice.
		
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			And he says that Abu Sufyan stood up,
		
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			and so I, you know, I looked as
		
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			if I'm receiving orders. I'm in the ranks
		
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			of the Mushrikeen.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			Every one of you, check the person that's
		
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			next to you. He had a sense that
		
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			he was infiltrated.
		
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			Abusafian is smart. He's like, something feels off
		
00:37:03 --> 00:37:03
			about this gathering.
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:06
			We've got a we've got a spy in
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07
			the gathering.
		
00:37:07 --> 00:37:09
			So Abu Sufyan says with a booming voice,
		
00:37:09 --> 00:37:11
			everyone check the person that's next to you.
		
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			So Hudayfa, he's smart.
		
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			He says,
		
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			he said, so I took the man next
		
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			to me and I said, man, man, man,
		
00:37:18 --> 00:37:20
			who are you? Who are you? I started
		
00:37:20 --> 00:37:22
			shaking up the man next to me. And
		
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			I shook him up so much that he
		
00:37:23 --> 00:37:25
			didn't even ask me who I was. Like
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:27
			I said it with such confidence in my
		
00:37:27 --> 00:37:28
			voice that I was one of them. Who
		
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			are you? Tell me who you are.
		
00:37:30 --> 00:37:31
			Subbu Sufyan,
		
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			he asked, he said, Are we all clear?
		
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			Everyone said, We're all clear.
		
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			So Hadayfa said, subhanAllah, and this is so,
		
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			so much.
		
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			He said, and then I had a clean
		
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			shot of Abu Sufyan, Like, I was standing
		
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			right next to him, and I could have
		
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			killed him.
		
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			And he said, and I thought about it,
		
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			but then I remembered that the prophet, sallAllahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam, said, don't cause any commotion. So
		
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			he said, I went back and forth with
		
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			myself because I was there. I crossed and
		
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			I was right next to him. I could
		
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			have easily just taken him out right then
		
00:38:00 --> 00:38:01
			and there. It's another
		
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			time.
		
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			Your life is right there.
		
00:38:05 --> 00:38:06
			And he said, No, but I remember the
		
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			Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, don't cause the
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08
			skirmers.
		
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			So he said, you know, I decided to
		
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			put my weapons away,
		
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			cross back the handuk.
		
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			I came back,
		
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			and he said that I was absolutely exhausted.
		
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			I went back to the Prophet
		
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			and the Prophet was was in salah. He
		
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			was praying,
		
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			and the Prophet
		
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			threw me a shawl, basically as a blanket.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And he said that, I immediately, I wrapped
		
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			myself in the shawl of the Prophet I
		
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			knocked out, I went to sleep, and the
		
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			Prophet woke me up and said, Kumya, no
		
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			man. Get up sleepy head. Wake up.
		
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			Noman was literally a nome.
		
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			He was
		
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			making fun of his name, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
00:38:45 --> 00:38:47
			but basically as a means of lightening it
		
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49
			up, right? And telling, tell me what happened.
		
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			So Hudayfa explained to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:38:51 --> 00:38:53
			Wasallam what happened with Abu Sufyan. Says, You
		
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			Rasulullah, I had a clean shot,
		
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			but you told me not to cause commotion,
		
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			so I left him. So Saba Sufyan survived
		
00:39:00 --> 00:39:02
			Badr because he was protecting the caravan.
		
00:39:02 --> 00:39:05
			He survived Uhud on his back.
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07
			He survived the dua of Khubayb.
		
00:39:07 --> 00:39:09
			He survived Khundak right in the reach of
		
00:39:09 --> 00:39:12
			Hudayf ibn al Yamal. Allah is clearly sparing
		
00:39:12 --> 00:39:14
			this man for a reason.
		
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			Because otherwise,
		
00:39:17 --> 00:39:18
			his fate should be like the fate of
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:19
			everybody else.
		
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			Why is all of this happening?
		
00:39:22 --> 00:39:25
			Then comes afterwards obviously, Hudaybiyah,
		
00:39:26 --> 00:39:28
			the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. So he's led these
		
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			two
		
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			attempts to wipe out the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. It didn't work,
		
00:39:33 --> 00:39:35
			right? At least not a total wipe out
		
00:39:35 --> 00:39:36
			of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the
		
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			companions.
		
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			Soon Hudaybiyah happens, the Treaty of Hudaybiyah.
		
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			And when the Treaty of Hudaybiyah happens, it
		
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			gives Abu Sufyan a chance to basically resume
		
00:39:47 --> 00:39:49
			his caravans, and the Prophet's like him to
		
00:39:49 --> 00:39:50
			resume his da'wah.
		
00:39:50 --> 00:39:52
			Right, so the peace treaty
		
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			allows the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to send
		
00:39:54 --> 00:39:56
			his letters to different parts of the world
		
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			to do da'wah,
		
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			and Abu Sufyan is going to take a
		
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			break from war, or so he thinks. He's
		
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			going to take a break from battle and
		
00:40:02 --> 00:40:04
			get back into his wealth, get back into
		
00:40:04 --> 00:40:04
			trading.
		
00:40:05 --> 00:40:07
			Right? We have a truce for now.
		
00:40:08 --> 00:40:09
			So Abu Sufyan,
		
00:40:10 --> 00:40:11
			he tells this story.
		
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			He says, so I went on and this
		
00:40:13 --> 00:40:15
			is in Al Bukhari. It's actually one of
		
00:40:15 --> 00:40:17
			the first ahadith that you find in Sahih
		
00:40:17 --> 00:40:19
			al Bukhari, the book of faith,
		
00:40:19 --> 00:40:20
			in the beginning of Revelation.
		
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			He says that
		
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			I got to Jerusalem.
		
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			And SubhanAllah,
		
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			as he arrived at Jerusalem
		
00:40:29 --> 00:40:31
			with his companions, may Allah
		
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			liberate Al Quds, Allahumma Ameen.
		
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			Harakal,
		
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			who was the leader of Rome,
		
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			had just received the letter of the Prophet
		
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			calling him to Islam and it caused him
		
00:40:42 --> 00:40:42
			panic.
		
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			Why? Because Harakkil saw a dream
		
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			that indicated that the Prophet had come,
		
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			and he was a devout Christian,
		
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			and that the son of the circumcised one
		
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			had come, meaning someone who's reviving the way
		
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			of a.
		
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			S.
		
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			And things had just settled down with the
		
00:41:01 --> 00:41:02
			Persians, so
		
00:41:03 --> 00:41:05
			the Romans just defeated the Persians. They'd recovered
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:08
			their city. They'd recovered their cross. They'd recovered
		
00:41:08 --> 00:41:08
			all of their
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:10
			sort of heba, their nobility.
		
00:41:11 --> 00:41:13
			And now he receives this letter
		
00:41:14 --> 00:41:16
			calling him to Islam.
		
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			And it really startles him because it coincides
		
00:41:19 --> 00:41:20
			with the dream that he has. And on
		
00:41:20 --> 00:41:22
			top of that, it happened to be in
		
00:41:22 --> 00:41:22
			trading season.
		
00:41:23 --> 00:41:26
			So Herakar says, is anyone here from Mecca?
		
00:41:26 --> 00:41:28
			So he said, Abu Sufyan just showed up
		
00:41:28 --> 00:41:29
			with his 2 companions.
		
00:41:30 --> 00:41:32
			So Herakkil says, bring them to me. So
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:34
			Abu Sufyan thinks he's getting a break
		
00:41:34 --> 00:41:37
			from all of what's happening right now. He's
		
00:41:37 --> 00:41:39
			pulled to the court of Heraclius,
		
00:41:40 --> 00:41:41
			of Heraclius.
		
00:41:42 --> 00:41:44
			And Heraclius says, which one of you
		
00:41:45 --> 00:41:46
			is
		
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47
			the closest
		
00:41:47 --> 00:41:48
			to the man who claims to be the
		
00:41:48 --> 00:41:49
			Prophet?
		
00:41:50 --> 00:41:52
			So Abu Sufyan says in terms of lineage,
		
00:41:53 --> 00:41:53
			it's me.
		
00:41:54 --> 00:41:56
			I'm technically a distant cousin of the Prophet
		
00:41:56 --> 00:41:58
			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
00:42:00 --> 00:42:01
			So harakr says,
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:03
			come here, stand in front of me.
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:06
			And he told the companions of Abu Sufyan,
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:09
			come back, come behind him. Stand behind him.
		
00:42:09 --> 00:42:11
			I'm gonna ask him some questions.
		
00:42:11 --> 00:42:14
			If he tells a lie, let me know.
		
00:42:14 --> 00:42:15
			I'm gonna take his head off.
		
00:42:16 --> 00:42:17
			So you're gonna tell me the truth.
		
00:42:18 --> 00:42:19
			You guys are gonna make sure that he's
		
00:42:19 --> 00:42:20
			telling the truth,
		
00:42:21 --> 00:42:22
			or else he's
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24
			dead. Right? Saba Safyan
		
00:42:24 --> 00:42:26
			has to tell the truth about the Prophet
		
00:42:28 --> 00:42:30
			or else he risks death. So he's like,
		
00:42:30 --> 00:42:32
			if it wasn't for the fact that these
		
00:42:32 --> 00:42:34
			2 men behind me might actually indicate that
		
00:42:34 --> 00:42:35
			I told a lie,
		
00:42:35 --> 00:42:37
			then I would have said some things differently
		
00:42:37 --> 00:42:38
			about Muhammad
		
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			but I had
		
00:42:39 --> 00:42:40
			to be honest.
		
00:42:41 --> 00:42:42
			So he says
		
00:42:42 --> 00:42:44
			that the questioning then commenced, so he asked
		
00:42:44 --> 00:42:45
			me, and it's a long hadith.
		
00:42:46 --> 00:42:47
			I won't go into the details because in
		
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			and of itself is a beautiful
		
00:42:49 --> 00:42:49
			narration.
		
00:42:50 --> 00:42:51
			What is his
		
00:42:51 --> 00:42:53
			family status amongst you? And Abu Sufyan said,
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:55
			He belongs to a noble family
		
00:42:56 --> 00:42:59
			amongst us. Heraclius says, has anyone amongst you
		
00:42:59 --> 00:43:01
			ever claimed to be the same before him?
		
00:43:01 --> 00:43:03
			Abu Sufyan says, no.
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:06
			Has anyone from was anyone from his ancestors
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:07
			a king? No.
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:10
			Heraclius says, who follows him, the elite ones
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:11
			or the downtrodden?
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:14
			Abu Sufyan says it's the downtrodden.
		
00:43:15 --> 00:43:16
			And he said, are his followers
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:18
			increasing or decreasing?
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:21
			Abu Sufyan says, Belyazidun, they're increasing.
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:24
			Like he's having to swallow every single answer.
		
00:43:24 --> 00:43:25
			He has to just say what it is.
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:28
			And he says, and SubhanAllah, this is so
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:31
			powerful. He said, does anyone leave his religion
		
00:43:31 --> 00:43:34
			out of being dissatisfied with his religion after
		
00:43:34 --> 00:43:36
			faith enters into their heart? Meaning,
		
00:43:36 --> 00:43:39
			it's understandable if you persecute people out of
		
00:43:39 --> 00:43:40
			Islam, like you fight people until they leave
		
00:43:40 --> 00:43:41
			Islam,
		
00:43:41 --> 00:43:43
			or you make it so difficult that some
		
00:43:43 --> 00:43:45
			people leave Islam. But are you finding mass
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:48
			apostasy amongst them because the religion just didn't
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:49
			turn out to be what we thought it
		
00:43:49 --> 00:43:49
			was?
		
00:43:50 --> 00:43:51
			I said, no.
		
00:43:52 --> 00:43:54
			Everyone that's becoming Muslim is staying Muslim.
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:56
			Right? In fact, despite the persecution,
		
00:43:57 --> 00:43:58
			they're insisting
		
00:43:58 --> 00:43:59
			more.
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:01
			And Heraclius says, have you ever accused him
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:03
			of telling lies before he made the claim
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:05
			to prophethood? So no, we knew him as
		
00:44:05 --> 00:44:08
			Asadah Al Amin. He was trustworthy and truthful.
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:09
			Never told a lie.
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:12
			Did he ever break promises before? Nope. He
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:14
			never broke a promise.
		
00:44:14 --> 00:44:16
			So he said
		
00:44:16 --> 00:44:18
			that with all of that,
		
00:44:19 --> 00:44:21
			you know, what is it? He said, well,
		
00:44:21 --> 00:44:23
			right now, subhanallah, this is really interesting. So
		
00:44:23 --> 00:44:25
			he never broke a promise. So Abu Sifiyan
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26
			thought of something. He said, but right now,
		
00:44:26 --> 00:44:28
			we have a surah. We have a truce,
		
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			and we still don't know how he's gonna
		
00:44:29 --> 00:44:31
			behave with that truce. So he might break
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:32
			this promise.
		
00:44:33 --> 00:44:34
			So we still have to wait to see
		
00:44:34 --> 00:44:36
			the verdict is still out,
		
00:44:36 --> 00:44:37
			on him.
		
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			And Heraclius says, have you ever had a
		
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			war with him? You ever been to battle
		
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			with him? Abu Sufyan said, yes. Heracl said,
		
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			what happened with those battles? He said, sometimes
		
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			he's victorious and sometimes
		
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			we are victorious.
		
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			And haraqib said, and what does he command
		
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			you to do?
		
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			He said he tells us to worship Allah
		
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			and Allah alone
		
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			and to renounce the way of our,
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:01
			ancestors.
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:05
			And he orders us to pray to speak
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:05
			the truth,
		
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			to be modest, to keep good relations with
		
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			our families.
		
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			And so Heraclius, he's asking the translator
		
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			to basically give him. So there's a mutarjum.
		
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			There's a translator between him and Abu Sufyan
		
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			as he's getting all of this.
		
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			Heracl goes back, and based on his theology,
		
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			his understanding of Christianity,
		
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			he basically says, all 10 ways that you
		
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			just answered prove to me that he's a
		
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			prophet of Allah.
		
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			So he went 1 by 1,
		
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			and he said, I asked you this and
		
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			you answered this way.
		
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			And this is the way of a prophet.
		
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			So you could look up the long hadith
		
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			of Abu Sufyan in Heraclius.
		
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			The point is, at the end of it,
		
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			Abu Sufyan said that, I told the 2
		
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			guys that were with me,
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:49
			I said,
		
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			the way of Muhammad is becoming so compelling,
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:55
			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that he's got kings
		
00:45:55 --> 00:45:57
			of the Romans afraid of him. Like he's
		
00:45:57 --> 00:45:58
			become the conversation.
		
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			We thought this was just an affair between
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:02
			us and the desert.
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			But he's got the kings of Rome
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:06
			talking about him.
		
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			And he said, At that moment,
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:16
			He said, I knew from that day
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:17
			that
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:19
			he was going to attain victory until the
		
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			day that Allah would enter me into Islam.
		
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			Like, that's when I kind of knew that
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:23
			this was not going to go well for
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:24
			me.
		
00:46:25 --> 00:46:25
			SubhanAllah,
		
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			what ends up happening?
		
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			Who broke the treaty, the Meccans or the
		
00:46:29 --> 00:46:30
			Prophet
		
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			The Meccans broke the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35
			And Abu Sufyan
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:37
			is a smart man,
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:40
			and he recognizes that the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:46:40 --> 00:46:42
			Wasallam's Ummah has grown because in this period
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:44
			of Dawah, so many more people have become
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:45
			Muslim.
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47
			We can't afford to go to battle with
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:49
			the Muslims right now. This isn't the same
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:50
			Muslim community
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:52
			from
		
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			the year before.
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:57
			Right? They've grown. There are thousands that have
		
00:46:57 --> 00:46:58
			been added to their ranks.
		
00:46:58 --> 00:47:01
			So Abu Sufyan wants to salvage the truce
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			even though it was an ally tribe to
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:05
			him that attacked an ally tribe to the
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:07
			Muslims and broke the truce.
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:09
			So he panics, and that's when he comes
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:10
			begging,
		
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			and he starts going to different people. He
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:14
			tries to speak to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:15
			Wasallam, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam turns
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:16
			away from him.
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:19
			Abu Bakr turns away from him. Omar turns
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21
			away from him. Khaled and Amr, his 2
		
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			former companions turn away from him, like you're
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:25
			not getting it yet. You're not waking up
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:26
			yet to the reality
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:28
			of Islam. He tries with Fatima.
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:31
			Fatima has nothing to do with him. He's
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:32
			going and he's pleading with people, but he's
		
00:47:32 --> 00:47:34
			trying to use the same diplomacy,
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:37
			and the Muslims in Medina don't have the
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:38
			appetite for it anymore.
		
00:47:38 --> 00:47:40
			It's like, look, we're not doing this anymore.
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:42
			We're not playing this game with you anymore.
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44
			So then he went to Habiba, his daughter,
		
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			because remember,
		
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			after Handak and Khaybar, the Muslims from Abyssinia
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:51
			came to Medina. So he's gonna meet his
		
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			daughter for the first time
		
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			in almost 15 years.
		
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			She fled persecution that he was part of.
		
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			And
		
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			he knocks on the door,
		
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			and Habiba
		
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			is sitting in her home,
		
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			and she's sitting on the mattress, the one
		
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			mattress that they had in in the house
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:10
			of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			And she quickly folds it up and she
		
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			sits on it.
		
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			Meaning you're not sitting on this mattress.
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:20
			So he says,
		
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			Is it too noble for me or am
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:28
			I too noble for it? Like, what's going
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			on here? Why can't I sit like you
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31
			on this thing?
		
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			And she
		
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			said, this is
		
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			the bed of the Prophet
		
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			and you're not worthy of sitting on the
		
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			same bed as the one of the Prophet
		
00:48:42 --> 00:48:43
			subhanAllah, to her own father.
		
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			Talk about a slap in the face, like,
		
00:48:45 --> 00:48:48
			you're talking about nobility and, you know, trying
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:50
			to preserve something of your dignity and trying
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			to preserve your honor, your own daughter says,
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			you're not worthy to sit on the bed
		
00:48:54 --> 00:48:55
			of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59
			And he's realizing, subhanAllah,
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			that it's not just Khubaib.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:03
			It's not just harakal. It's not just a
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:05
			few of these Muslims, his own daughter.
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:06
			This affair
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			of Islam is growing to a point that
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:11
			it becomes completely irresistible.
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:13
			Now, Habiba, by the way, they said that
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:16
			the longest two Sajdas that she made were
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:17
			the day that her father and her brother
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:19
			became Muslim. So she loved her father and
		
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			will find a relationship that returns after Abu
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:25
			Sufyan becomes Muslim. But right now, Abu Sufyan
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:26
			is rejected.
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:28
			He comes back to Mecca.
		
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			Basically, the Prophet is making plans
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34
			for Fatiha Mecca in Ramadan,
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37
			and he really knows that he doesn't stand
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:38
			a chance.
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:40
			At that point,
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:42
			he goes to his old front,
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:43
			Al Abbas
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:47
			Al Abbas is the uncle of the Prophet
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:48
			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			He hid his Islam for many years.
		
00:49:51 --> 00:49:54
			It's uncertain when he actually embraced Islam, publicly
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:55
			embraced Islam, but he lived in Mecca. He's
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:57
			involved in the marketplace. He has an old
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			relationship with Abu Sufyan.
		
00:49:59 --> 00:50:01
			Abu Sufyan comes to Abbas,
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:04
			and he's confiding in the Abbas, that he's
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:05
			basically running out of options.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			Al Abbas is telling him, listen, just embrace
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:09
			Islam and give it up.
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:11
			Just stop.
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:14
			Like, you've gone too long. Allah has given
		
00:50:14 --> 00:50:15
			you too many chances.
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:17
			Stop. It's time for you to wake up.
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:18
			It's time for you to embrace Islam.
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:21
			You're still not getting it.
		
00:50:21 --> 00:50:23
			But Abu Sufyan still is plotting, still trying
		
00:50:23 --> 00:50:24
			to find a way
		
00:50:26 --> 00:50:26
			to intercept,
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:28
			to salvage, to preserve.
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31
			So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:31
			to Abbas
		
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			as he's camping on the outskirts of Mecca,
		
00:50:34 --> 00:50:36
			as he's making preparations to enter into Mecca.
		
00:50:38 --> 00:50:40
			So the Prophet tells us that,
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:43
			you know,
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:45
			invite Abu Sufyan to your house,
		
00:50:46 --> 00:50:48
			let him stay with you and then when
		
00:50:48 --> 00:50:49
			the morning comes, bring him to me.
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:52
			Bring Abu Sufyan to me.
		
00:50:52 --> 00:50:55
			So Abbas says that Abu Sufyan came to
		
00:50:55 --> 00:50:57
			my home. He spent the night in my
		
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			home,
		
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			and then I told him, let's go see
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:01
			Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, let's go see the
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:03
			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
00:51:04 --> 00:51:05
			So he says,
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:07
			so when we got to the Prophet
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:09
			when the Prophet
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:11
			saw Abu Sufyan,
		
00:51:11 --> 00:51:12
			he said,
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:15
			Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan.
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:20
			Isn't it time for you to realize that
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:21
			there is no God but Allah?
		
00:51:22 --> 00:51:24
			Isn't it time for you to figure this
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:24
			out?
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			Come on, enough.
		
00:51:27 --> 00:51:28
			Isn't it time for you to realize,
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32
			Subbu Sufyan responded to the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:32
			Wasallam, he said,
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:35
			Kindness. He said,
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37
			by my father or may my father and
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:39
			mother be sacrificed for you.
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			What a noble and kind man that you
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:45
			are. Right? He's praising the Prophet
		
00:51:45 --> 00:51:45
			manners,
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:47
			and he says,
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:54
			He said, you know, at this point, to
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:55
			be honest with you,
		
00:51:55 --> 00:51:57
			I'm starting to think that if there
		
00:51:57 --> 00:51:58
			was
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:09
			Allah, So he's basically telling the Prophet look,
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:10
			ask for La ilaha illa Allah,
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:12
			it's making sense to me now. I'm starting
		
00:52:12 --> 00:52:15
			to get it that you have one God
		
00:52:16 --> 00:52:18
			that is guiding you to this path.
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:19
			Then the Prophet
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:20
			says,
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:28
			Woe to your Abu Sufyan.
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:30
			Isn't it time for you to realize
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:32
			that I am the messenger of Allah?
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:33
			And he says,
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:36
			He
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:40
			said, listen, to be honest with you, until
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:40
			now,
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:42
			it's not settling with me.
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:44
			So So he's still being stubborn with the
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:45
			Prophet He's saying, till now,
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:47
			I can't say it.
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:48
			Al Abbas,
		
00:52:49 --> 00:52:50
			he says to him,
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:55
			He said, Just go ahead and become Muslim.
		
00:52:56 --> 00:52:56
			He says,
		
00:52:58 --> 00:53:01
			before your neck gets struck. Right? Because Abbas
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03
			recognizes that this situation is tense, and he
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			doesn't know what the Prophet is planning to
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:07
			do in terms of forgiveness. Right? This general
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:08
			amnesty.
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:10
			But, like, you fought him so much, you've
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:12
			committed so much harm.
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:13
			Come on.
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:16
			Stop. Just say, la ilaha illallah, Muhammadan Rasoolullah.
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:17
			So in any case,
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:18
			Abu Sufyan
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:19
			said it,
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:23
			but he still wasn't really there.
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25
			He said it just in the situation.
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:28
			But in his mind and his heart, he's
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:30
			still plotting. He's still,
		
00:53:30 --> 00:53:32
			I'm not really there yet.
		
00:53:32 --> 00:53:34
			So he kinda said it in a moment
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:35
			of just the situation
		
00:53:36 --> 00:53:38
			and to save himself in the situation.
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:42
			Abbas calls the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			This is a really,
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53
			like, subhanallah, if I could say that there's
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:55
			one lecture that
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:58
			people of da'wah and leaders need to understand,
		
00:53:58 --> 00:54:00
			and honestly, as a community, who's redeemable and
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:01
			who's not,
		
00:54:02 --> 00:54:05
			This is a really important lesson here. Prophet
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:06
			could say the heck with him. I'm done
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:07
			with him anyway.
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			Who's gonna What are the repercussions if I
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:11
			do away with him?
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			And Abbas is saying, You Rasoolallah,
		
00:54:13 --> 00:54:16
			Abu Sufyan likes to be praised. Like
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18
			he likes to be recognized in a gathering.
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:20
			So he says, give him something, like throw
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:21
			him a bone
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:23
			as you're coming into Mecca
		
00:54:24 --> 00:54:26
			so that he can feel better about this
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:28
			entire situation. The Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, could
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:29
			say, 'arudhubillah,
		
00:54:30 --> 00:54:33
			this man fought the Muslims, he killed Muslims.
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			He's an enemy of Allah. I don't care
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:36
			about his feelings. Why do I care about
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:37
			his feelings?
		
00:54:37 --> 00:54:39
			It's the day of victory.
		
00:54:40 --> 00:54:41
			But the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, takes
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:42
			into consideration.
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:44
			He says, okay.
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			For the sake of Allah, for the sake
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:48
			of Islam, for that bigger picture,
		
00:54:49 --> 00:54:51
			I'll do it. Even though this is technically,
		
00:54:51 --> 00:54:53
			isn't it playing to
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:55
			some a disease in his heart? I mean,
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:56
			it's pride.
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			But there's a bigger play here.
		
00:54:58 --> 00:55:00
			If I win over Abu Sufyan,
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:04
			that's going to dramatically change the tensions in
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:04
			Mecca.
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:06
			The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is after the
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:07
			heart of Abu Sufyan,
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:10
			and he's looking to the bigger picture. He's
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:12
			not going to succumb to that moment. And
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:15
			someone, a young person out of purity might
		
00:55:15 --> 00:55:17
			say to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, right?
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			How could you? You Rasulullah, why are you
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			showing respect Abu Sufyan? Forget Abu Sufyan. Isn't
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:23
			that the whole context of like, why are
		
00:55:23 --> 00:55:24
			you giving the spoils of war to these
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:26
			people in Mecca? Why don't you treat these
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:28
			elites of Mecca the way that they treated
		
00:55:28 --> 00:55:29
			us? This, this and that. Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:30
			Wasallam says, fine.
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:34
			And until the last moment, Abu Sufyan is
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:34
			still
		
00:55:35 --> 00:55:35
			not sure,
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:37
			and he still kinda got it in him,
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:40
			and Abbas is saying to him, woe to
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:41
			you, Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Stop.
		
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			Right?
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:45
			Admit it.
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48
			Come to terms with this. He is Rasulullah.
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:51
			Then the Prophet says,
		
00:55:53 --> 00:55:55
			as he's coming into Mecca, the famous words,
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:05
			This is the announcement of the prophet
		
00:56:06 --> 00:56:08
			Whoever enters into the house of Abu Sufyan
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:09
			is safe,
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:12
			and whoever enters into the Haram is safe,
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			and whoever closes his door is safe. Can
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			you imagine Abu Sufyan like, woah.
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:19
			Think about that recognition.
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:21
			He recognized me like that?
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:23
			So the prophet, salAllahu alaihi wasalam, said that
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:25
			to him, and Abbas is saying to him,
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:26
			give it up.
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:28
			Stop.
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:30
			Right? Allah spared you and gave you an
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:31
			opportunity.
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			Now SubhanAllah, if you think about how many
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36
			tensions the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has to
		
00:56:37 --> 00:56:38
			has to navigate here, because this is not
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			just about attaining a military victory.
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43
			While this is happening, Sa'ad ibn Ubada
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:45
			from the Ansar, one of the greatest of
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:46
			the Ansar,
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			he's walking in and he has the banner.
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:49
			And he says,
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			Today is the day of slaughter. Today is
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:55
			the day of revenge.
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			Today, we will make halal the Kaaba, meaning
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:01
			we're going to come back and we're going
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:03
			to do to these people what they did
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:04
			to us. Abu Sufyan
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:05
			complains to the
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:06
			prophet about that.
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:08
			What does the prophet
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:11
			do? He doesn't say your problem, not mine.
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:12
			Abu Sufyan
		
00:57:13 --> 00:57:15
			takes the banner away from Sa'd ibn Ubada
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:16
			that today is a day of mercy. Today
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18
			is not a day of slaughter.
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			Today is a day that the Kaaba is
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			honored. Today is not a day that the
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:23
			Kaaba is made halal. No, no. This is
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:24
			not what we're doing today.
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:27
			So Sa'ad ibn Ubada, and remember the name
		
00:57:27 --> 00:57:28
			because Sa'ad ibn Ubada is one of the
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:29
			earliest ansar.
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:31
			He has that He could have been a
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:32
			caliph of the Muslims, by the way. He
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34
			has the banner taken away from him, and
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:35
			the Prophet
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:37
			is easing the tensions.
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:38
			There's another
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			Or there are several skirmishes that take place.
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43
			Abu Sufyan still has a lot of jahl,
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:45
			a lot of ignorance in him, the way
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:46
			he's going to act.
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:49
			Bilal radiAllahu anhu gets up on the Kaaba,
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:52
			Abu Sufyan is like, I You know, I'm
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:53
			not You know how they they have that
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:54
			saying, if I speak?
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:57
			He says, I'm not gonna say anything
		
00:57:58 --> 00:57:59
			because if I do, the heavens and the
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:02
			earth will testify against me, but he's disgusted.
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:05
			Basically, that racism, that tribalism instills aside him.
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:06
			He's looking at Bilal
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:09
			standing on the Kaaba calling the Adhan.
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			And according to many of the scholars, that's
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:13
			where Ya'iuhan Nas,
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:20
			the verse of the quality was revealed at
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:21
			that time.
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:23
			So Busufian swallows it,
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:26
			but he's still messed up, like he still
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			has some some concepts that are not right.
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:31
			This is not an easy Islam here. This
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:32
			is a very
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:33
			complicated case of Islam.
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:35
			Then what happens?
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:37
			Bilal
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:39
			Amar ibn Yasir
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:41
			Suhayb Ar Rumi,
		
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			they walk past Abu Sufyan
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:45
			on the day of Fatih Makkah.
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48
			And they look at him,
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:50
			and they say to him
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:51
			that,
		
00:58:52 --> 00:58:53
			We swear by Allah,
		
00:58:58 --> 00:58:59
			The swords of Allah did not reach the
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01
			neck of the enemy of Allah like they
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			should have.
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:04
			Like Abu Sufyan, you're lucky
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:06
			we didn't get to you before the prophet,
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			salallahu alaihi wasalam, let you go. Now by
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			the way, I mean think about this. One
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:12
			of the beauties of this, subhanAllah, moment,
		
00:59:12 --> 00:59:15
			all of the tortured slaves of Mecca
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:18
			lived to see the conquest of Mecca. They're
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:19
			there in Fatih Makkah,
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:20
			subhanAllah.
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:22
			And they're seeing the day of victory. And
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:25
			now the elites that survived are under their
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:26
			power.
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:29
			Look how complicated this gets.
		
00:59:30 --> 00:59:31
			Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu was thinking like the
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:33
			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam about settling things
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:35
			down, calming down tensions. We need to win
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:36
			people's hearts to Islam here. We need to
		
00:59:36 --> 00:59:38
			solve problems.
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:41
			We can't let this happen. So Abu Bakr
		
00:59:42 --> 00:59:44
			he says to Bilal and Suhay bin Amma,
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:46
			he says to them,
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:52
			Are you saying that to the leader of
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:53
			Quraysh, the Elder of Quraysh
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:55
			and their noble one?
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:58
			So when that happens,
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:00
			Abu Bakr comes to the Prophet and he
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:02
			tells the Prophet what happened. So do you
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04
			understand what happened here? Bilam
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:07
			Amar Suhayb, who were honored on the day
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:09
			of Mecca, on the day of Fatih Makkah,
		
01:00:10 --> 01:00:12
			just threatened Abu Sufyan, who the prophet sallallahu
		
01:00:12 --> 01:00:13
			alaihi wasallam forgave.
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:14
			Abu Bakr
		
01:00:14 --> 01:00:15
			admonished
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			Bilal and Suhay bin Ammar for speaking that
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19
			way to Abu Sufyan. What do you think
		
01:00:19 --> 01:00:21
			the Prophet is gonna do here?
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:24
			The prophet sallaihi wasalam says to Abu Bakr,
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:35
			O Abu Bakr, you may have upset Bilal,
		
01:00:35 --> 01:00:36
			Suhayb and Amar.
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:39
			And if you upset them, you may have
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:40
			upset your Lord.
		
01:00:41 --> 01:00:43
			SubhanAllah, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is trying
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:45
			to win the heart of Abu Sufyan, but
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:48
			he's not going to diminish today Bilal and
		
01:00:48 --> 01:00:49
			Suhayb
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51
			and Ammar and those early. And this is
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:52
			the wisdom of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
01:00:53 --> 01:00:54
			the generosity of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:55
			that
		
01:00:56 --> 01:00:57
			we're not replacing
		
01:00:58 --> 01:01:00
			We're not replacing these firsts who became Muslim
		
01:01:00 --> 01:01:03
			and sacrificed everything with these leaders of Quraysh.
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:05
			Brothers, if you can move in, InshaAllah, to
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:06
			as much as possible so that those that
		
01:01:06 --> 01:01:08
			are coming in can sit inshallah. We're not
		
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10
			going to replace them this day.
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:12
			But at the same time,
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:13
			the Prophet
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			is trying to win their heart. So Abu
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:18
			Bakr goes back to Bilal and Ammar and
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:20
			Suhayb, and he says to them,
		
01:01:23 --> 01:01:23
			Did I,
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:24
			Did
		
01:01:25 --> 01:01:27
			I make you upset? Did I anger you,
		
01:01:27 --> 01:01:27
			oh my brothers?
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:29
			And they said,
		
01:01:31 --> 01:01:32
			May Allah forgive you, oh our brother. You're
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:34
			Abu Bakr. Of course, we're not mad at
		
01:01:34 --> 01:01:36
			you. So Abu Bakr, Alhamdulillah. So he had
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:36
			to
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:38
			make sure that he didn't upset Bilal and
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:40
			Suhayb and Ammar because the prophet
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:44
			understands what? That what Bilal and Ammar and
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:44
			Suhayb
		
01:01:45 --> 01:01:46
			underwent at the hands of the likes of
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:48
			Abu Sufyan is not like what Abu Bakr
		
01:01:48 --> 01:01:49
			underwent at the hands of Abu Sufyan.
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:52
			These are different people. The Prophet
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:55
			understands that these are different types of emotions
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:57
			that he has to navigate.
		
01:01:58 --> 01:02:01
			So SubhanAllah, after that, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
01:02:01 --> 01:02:02
			Wasallam enters into Mecca.
		
01:02:03 --> 01:02:05
			Fatiha Makkah takes place.
		
01:02:05 --> 01:02:08
			The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam attains his victory.
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:10
			Abu Sufyan's heart
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:13
			is settling into Islam. Why? Because
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:15
			he's seeing that the Prophet
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:17
			all the skepticism he has about him is
		
01:02:17 --> 01:02:20
			going away. In one narration, he says to
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:20
			the Prophet
		
01:02:21 --> 01:02:22
			and Ibn
		
01:02:22 --> 01:02:23
			Abbas
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:25
			says that the Muslims
		
01:02:27 --> 01:02:29
			The Muslims would not even look at Abu
		
01:02:29 --> 01:02:30
			Sufyan, like he was disgraced on that day,
		
01:02:30 --> 01:02:33
			even though the Prophet forgave him. He still
		
01:02:33 --> 01:02:35
			was kind of humiliated like everyone hated him,
		
01:02:35 --> 01:02:36
			right? He was the chief enemy of the
		
01:02:36 --> 01:02:37
			Muslims for all these years.
		
01:02:38 --> 01:02:40
			So Abu Sufyan came to the Prophet
		
01:02:40 --> 01:02:42
			and he asked the Prophet
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:43
			three things.
		
01:02:43 --> 01:02:44
			He said,
		
01:02:45 --> 01:02:48
			you know, to affirm the marriage of Habiba,
		
01:02:48 --> 01:02:49
			which the Prophet
		
01:02:49 --> 01:02:50
			did
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:51
			to
		
01:02:51 --> 01:02:52
			take,
		
01:02:52 --> 01:02:54
			Muawiyah, his son who was young at the
		
01:02:54 --> 01:02:55
			time
		
01:02:55 --> 01:02:57
			to serve as a scribe, tajalu katibin bayni
		
01:02:57 --> 01:02:58
			udayk, he did.
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:00
			And he said, You Rasulullah,
		
01:03:01 --> 01:03:02
			and make me a commander
		
01:03:03 --> 01:03:04
			in the Muslim army so that I could
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:06
			fight for the Muslims the way I fought
		
01:03:06 --> 01:03:07
			against the Muslims.
		
01:03:09 --> 01:03:10
			Prophet said, Lakadalik.
		
01:03:10 --> 01:03:11
			Okay.
		
01:03:12 --> 01:03:13
			And even the narrator of the Hadith says
		
01:03:13 --> 01:03:14
			that the Prophet
		
01:03:15 --> 01:03:16
			would not have given that to him had
		
01:03:16 --> 01:03:18
			he not asked that the Prophet did not
		
01:03:18 --> 01:03:19
			want to respond
		
01:03:20 --> 01:03:20
			negatively
		
01:03:21 --> 01:03:23
			to his asks. The Prophet
		
01:03:23 --> 01:03:26
			is conferring and he's seeing the situation as
		
01:03:26 --> 01:03:28
			it's taking place in this regard.
		
01:03:29 --> 01:03:31
			Hind Mint Utbah comes forth with the
		
01:03:32 --> 01:03:34
			wife of Eikhram Abi Jahal. Hind
		
01:03:34 --> 01:03:36
			is terrified of what she's going to find
		
01:03:36 --> 01:03:37
			from the Prophet
		
01:03:38 --> 01:03:40
			She spit out the liver of his uncle
		
01:03:40 --> 01:03:41
			Hamza and no one was more beloved to
		
01:03:41 --> 01:03:42
			the Prophet
		
01:03:43 --> 01:03:43
			than Hamza
		
01:03:44 --> 01:03:46
			I mean, put yourself in that situation. Like
		
01:03:46 --> 01:03:47
			you think about Yusuf
		
01:03:47 --> 01:03:49
			and when the Prophet said,
		
01:03:51 --> 01:03:53
			and he's repeating the words of Yusuf, he's
		
01:03:53 --> 01:03:55
			also emanating the spirit of Yusuf. Like this
		
01:03:55 --> 01:03:57
			is deep. This is not just like some
		
01:03:57 --> 01:03:59
			people that did some bad things to you.
		
01:03:59 --> 01:04:00
			This woman
		
01:04:01 --> 01:04:03
			carved out and spit out the liver of
		
01:04:03 --> 01:04:04
			your uncle.
		
01:04:05 --> 01:04:06
			And you know what? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
01:04:06 --> 01:04:08
			Wasallam received her with warmth, marhaban.
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:09
			Welcome.
		
01:04:11 --> 01:04:13
			She said, You Rasulullah, I seek your forgiveness
		
01:04:13 --> 01:04:14
			for all that I've done in the past.
		
01:04:14 --> 01:04:16
			I bear witness that there is no God
		
01:04:16 --> 01:04:17
			but Allah and that you are the messenger
		
01:04:17 --> 01:04:17
			of Allah,
		
01:04:18 --> 01:04:19
			Prophet immediately accepted it from her.
		
01:04:20 --> 01:04:22
			No blame on you today. It's over.
		
01:04:23 --> 01:04:24
			We're not gonna have to go through this
		
01:04:24 --> 01:04:25
			ever again.
		
01:04:26 --> 01:04:29
			Subhan'Allah, Abu Sufyan is forgiven, and he's starting
		
01:04:29 --> 01:04:30
			to realize
		
01:04:30 --> 01:04:33
			he's forgiven. Hind is forgiven, that this is
		
01:04:33 --> 01:04:35
			not a game, that there's no loopholes to
		
01:04:35 --> 01:04:38
			this, that there's nothing that is actually out
		
01:04:38 --> 01:04:40
			of the ordinary to this. And he comes
		
01:04:40 --> 01:04:40
			to the Prophet
		
01:04:41 --> 01:04:42
			and he says,
		
01:04:52 --> 01:04:53
			says
		
01:04:55 --> 01:04:56
			to the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, may
		
01:04:56 --> 01:04:58
			my mother and my father be sacrificed for
		
01:04:58 --> 01:05:00
			you. He said, what a noble man you
		
01:05:00 --> 01:05:00
			are.
		
01:05:01 --> 01:05:02
			I fought you,
		
01:05:02 --> 01:05:04
			and what a noble opponent you were in
		
01:05:04 --> 01:05:05
			battle. And then I made peace with you,
		
01:05:05 --> 01:05:07
			and what a noble man you were in
		
01:05:07 --> 01:05:07
			peace.
		
01:05:09 --> 01:05:12
			May Allah reward you with good. What does
		
01:05:12 --> 01:05:13
			this translate into?
		
01:05:13 --> 01:05:15
			All of this, and again, you could have
		
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17
			a lot of people said, why are you
		
01:05:17 --> 01:05:18
			treating Abu Sufyan like this? He's an enemy
		
01:05:18 --> 01:05:20
			of Allah. We have to take revenge.
		
01:05:20 --> 01:05:23
			What's gonna be the outcome of this?
		
01:05:23 --> 01:05:26
			Immediately after Fath Makkah, Hunayn happens, the Battle
		
01:05:26 --> 01:05:26
			of Hunayn
		
01:05:27 --> 01:05:28
			and these Bedouin tribes
		
01:05:29 --> 01:05:31
			who are gathering up ambush
		
01:05:32 --> 01:05:33
			a much larger army of the Muslims, but
		
01:05:33 --> 01:05:35
			it gets very, very severe
		
01:05:36 --> 01:05:36
			in battle.
		
01:05:37 --> 01:05:39
			And guess what? As the Hawazan
		
01:05:41 --> 01:05:43
			ambushed and many people fled the battlefield,
		
01:05:44 --> 01:05:44
			The Prophet
		
01:05:45 --> 01:05:46
			looks to his right and to his left,
		
01:05:46 --> 01:05:48
			and who does he find on the battlefield
		
01:05:48 --> 01:05:50
			fighting right next to him? He finds Ali
		
01:05:51 --> 01:05:52
			He finds Al
		
01:05:53 --> 01:05:53
			Abbas
		
01:05:54 --> 01:05:56
			He finds Abu Bakr and Omar. He finds
		
01:05:56 --> 01:05:58
			Usam Abu Nuzayd, and then he finds Abu
		
01:05:58 --> 01:05:58
			Sufyan,
		
01:06:00 --> 01:06:02
			refusing to leave his side on the battlefield
		
01:06:02 --> 01:06:04
			and fighting courageously.
		
01:06:06 --> 01:06:06
			You know, the
		
01:06:11 --> 01:06:13
			Respond to evil with that which is better.
		
01:06:13 --> 01:06:16
			Your severe enemy will become your loving friend,
		
01:06:16 --> 01:06:18
			your protective friend. This is the
		
01:06:18 --> 01:06:20
			ayah. Abu Sufyan is a man of loyalty.
		
01:06:20 --> 01:06:23
			He's got a certain mindset, a psychology to
		
01:06:23 --> 01:06:23
			him.
		
01:06:23 --> 01:06:25
			If at this point, Islam hadn't settled in
		
01:06:25 --> 01:06:27
			his heart, and if at this point, he
		
01:06:27 --> 01:06:29
			would have seen something from the prophet that
		
01:06:29 --> 01:06:31
			was to his previous moral self, he would
		
01:06:31 --> 01:06:32
			have been like, forget this. This is an
		
01:06:32 --> 01:06:35
			opportunity. I'm gonna join those guys. Go back
		
01:06:35 --> 01:06:35
			and take Mecca.
		
01:06:37 --> 01:06:39
			But he stands guard with the Prophet Sallallahu
		
01:06:39 --> 01:06:41
			Alaihi Wasallam, despite, by the way, being almost
		
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			20 years older than the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. So he's old right now,
		
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			and he fights until the very last moment
		
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			warding off the attack.
		
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			After Hunayn,
		
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			Ta'if happens.
		
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			This is really gonna blow your mind.
		
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			In Ta'if,
		
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			he's next to the Prophet
		
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			fighting,
		
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			and he loses an eye in Ta'if.
		
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			Abu Sufyan,
		
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			who fought the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, all
		
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			these years had an eye that was plucked
		
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			from him.
		
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			And he comes to the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam,
		
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			with an eye completely destroyed.
		
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			And he says, ayna usibatfisaabilayahu
		
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			Rasulullah.
		
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			My
		
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			eye was cut for the sake of Allah,
		
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			O Messenger of Allah.
		
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			Prophet
		
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			says,
		
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			If you want, I'll make du'a and Allah
		
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			will bring back your vision.
		
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			He says,
		
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			Abu Sufyan, if you desire,
		
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			instead of this eye of yours, you'll get
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			He said, Al Jannah.
		
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			I'll take Jannah.
		
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			See the shift in mindset?
		
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			Same Abu Sufyan,
		
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			shift in mindset.
		
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			I'll take Jannah. And the Prophet
		
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			gave him
		
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			a 100 camels.
		
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			And the Prophet gave him 40 uqiyah of
		
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			gold, a lot of the spoils of war.
		
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			Now this will give you another perspective, another
		
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			lens. Who did the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			take the banner away from when they were
		
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			coming into Mecca? Sa'ad ibn Ubada, the leader
		
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			of the Ansar.
		
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			That famous incident.
		
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			Sa'ad ibn Ubada is the one who comes
		
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			to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
		
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			says, You Rasulullah,
		
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			look, some of the people are saying
		
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			stuff.
		
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			What is it? You Sa'ad, and he said,
		
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			some of the Ansar are saying that now
		
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			that you've come back to Mecca, you're going
		
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			to leave us behind
		
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			because of the spoils that you're giving to
		
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			the people of Mecca that were, you know,
		
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			it's done. And that's the famous gathering where
		
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			the Prophet gathers the Ansar.
		
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			And he assures them that these people go
		
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			home with their camels, with their sheep, with
		
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			their money. You go home with Rasulullah
		
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			This man
		
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			successfully managed and won the hearts
		
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			of the Ansar,
		
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			Abu Sufyan, Abu Bakr, Bilal, Suhayb, all in
		
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			the same
		
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			incidents,
		
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			that in and of itself is a sign
		
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			that he's the Messenger of Allah. And when
		
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			Qur'an says that if there was no other
		
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			proof of the Prophet Prophet except for his
		
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			Sahaba, that's enough of a proof. This is
		
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			it.
		
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			And of course, greater than that is the
		
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			Quran. He managed to settle all of them
		
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			and to get them all on the same
		
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			page.
		
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			I'm going to move forward, insha'allah,
		
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			towards
		
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			the end of this,
		
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			which is Abu Sufyan was commissioned to destroy
		
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			Allat,
		
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			The same man that was shouting in the
		
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			battlefield, hubal Allatuluzah.
		
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			He's one of those who goes and who
		
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			destroys Allat, the idol that he was once
		
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			beating his chest over.
		
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			Abu Bakr
		
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			appoints him as a leader of Najran,
		
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			Abu Sufyan fought against the Muertadeen, those that
		
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			apostate it. Again, if the Prophet hadn't treated
		
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			him that way, if Islam didn't settle on
		
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			his heart, don't you think he would have
		
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			took it as an opportunity and just joined
		
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			the ranks of the apostates and tried to
		
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			retake power in Mecca? Fought against them.
		
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			Then comes the time of Umar radiAllahu anhu,
		
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			and again, it gets complicated.
		
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			Umar radiAllahu anhu doesn't like to play politics,
		
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			doesn't really care much about your feelings.
		
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			So when the lines would take part in
		
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			front of Umar,
		
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			Umar
		
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			would arrange the lines in front of his
		
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			house in accordance of what?
		
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			The earliest
		
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			people to embrace Islam get preference. So when
		
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			you show up in front of the door
		
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			of Omar, he literally judges the line by
		
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			Asabih Khan al Awun, by the first. So
		
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			all of you that became Muslim later, to
		
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			the back of the line. I don't care
		
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			who you are.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan shows up to the door
		
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			of Amir ul Momineen, and there's a relationship.
		
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			There's lineage there. They're from that same sort
		
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			of elite class,
		
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			and Umar sends him to the back of
		
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			the line, Bilal, Amar, Suhayra all upfront.
		
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			And Abu Sufyan is grumbling
		
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			about being sent back to the line, like
		
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			this is he's still not used to this.
		
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			This is new.
		
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			And that's when Suhail ibn Amr
		
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			said to him,
		
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			You guys should just be mad at yourselves.
		
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			That they were called and we were called.
		
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			They rushed to accept Islam. We were slow
		
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			to embrace Islam.
		
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			They took the door. We shut the door.
		
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			Therefore, we have no one to be mad
		
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			at except for ourselves,
		
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			except it.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan still has to kind of
		
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			get used to this new reality.
		
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			With that being said,
		
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			what is the end of his life?
		
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			And I'm sorry, I went over time, SubhanAllah,
		
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			but it's truly profound.
		
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			He went out to a Sham
		
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			as a Mujahid fi Sabilillah. He's one of
		
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			those people who just knows the battlefield. He
		
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			knows
		
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			he's a leader. He has to be a
		
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			leader. The prophet gave him a leadership position.
		
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			Abu Bakr gave him a leadership position. Umar
		
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			gave him a leadership position in the battlefield.
		
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			But he was very old.
		
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			And he's fighting in the Battle of Yarmouk
		
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			under Khalid,
		
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			this battle where all of those leaders of
		
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			Quraysh, subhanAllah, are going many of them will
		
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			die as shuhada, will die as martyrs. Their
		
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			akhlaq have been completely refined. Their noble manners
		
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			are now on full display.
		
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			And Abu Sufyan,
		
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			on the Battle of Yarmouk, was fighting under
		
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			the banner of his son,
		
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			Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan. Not to be confused
		
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			for Yazid ibn Muawiyah, Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan.
		
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			And as he was fighting under the banner
		
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			of his son,
		
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			he was calling out, he was seen calling
		
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			out on the day of Yarmouk You Nasralla
		
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			Ik Tarib, O victory of Allah, come near.
		
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			Allah, Allah, Innakum Ansarul Islam.
		
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			Allah, Allah, you are
		
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			the helpers of Islam, the pride of the
		
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			Arabs. These
		
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			people are the helpers of polytheism
		
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			and the pride of the Romans. Allahumahadayawmun
		
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			min ayamik Allahummaanzin
		
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			nasraq.
		
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			Oh, Allah, this is a day from your
		
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			days, oh, Allah.
		
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			Let your victory come upon us. Let your
		
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			help come upon us.
		
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			And the Muslims won, but guess what?
		
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			Abu Sufyan was struck in his other eye.
		
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			So, SubhanAllah,
		
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			both of his eyes
		
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			were struck, Fis Abilillah.
		
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			Same man that used all those years of
		
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			his life planning against Islam.
		
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			And when he passes away,
		
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			he dies close to the age of a
		
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			100 years old
		
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			in the khilafa of Uthman
		
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			his cousin,
		
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			in Al Madinah.
		
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			His daughter, Habiba
		
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			the wife of the Prophet
		
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			is the one who
		
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			basically
		
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			carried out the rituals surrounding his death
		
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			and that,
		
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			you know, taught through her own experience how
		
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			to grieve the loss of a parent.
		
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			And here he is in Madinah now, Salatul
		
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			Janaza in Madinah on Abu Sufyan.
		
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			It is one of the weirdest moments in
		
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			history for people.
		
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			Think about it.
		
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			Abu Sufyan held this city under siege and
		
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			tried to kill us all.
		
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			And now he's being preyed janazah upon in
		
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			Madinah and being buried in Al Baqir.
		
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			Abu Sufyan, who once was shouting out like
		
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			a maniac just a few miles away in
		
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			Uhud, Uhulu hubal, may hubal be exalted,
		
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			has Uthman saying, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu
		
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			Akbar,
		
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			and bearing him amongst the companions of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			What does it show you, dear brothers and
		
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			sisters?
		
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			The power of redemption,
		
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			the wisdom of the Prophet
		
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			You Mukallib al Karoo Fabbid Qalbi A'ar Adinik.
		
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			May Allah turn may Allah keep our hearts
		
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			firm on his path
		
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			and turn the hearts even of people that
		
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			we think are impossible to have their hearts
		
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			turned. And that's why you don't give up
		
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			on your and you show your noble ethics
		
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			with that
		
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			And next week,
		
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			we're actually going to talk about the other
		
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			Abu Sufyan. There's an interesting thing that some
		
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			of the sahaba, when they're named after someone,
		
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			like Uthmar ibn Madruun and Uthmar ibn Affan,
		
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			they get overshadowed.
		
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			There's another Abu Sufyan that we'll talk about
		
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			next week, inshaAllah, who is actually closer to
		
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			the Prophet