Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Addas (Ra) Of TaIf The Brother Of Yunus AS
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I wanna welcome you all to
this special set of episodes that we're going
to be doing on the first
and particularly looking at the companions
who embraced Islam out of the place known
as.
May Allah
send his peace and blessings upon our Messenger,
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and be pleased with all of his companions.
Allahum Amin.
So I want to kind of walk back
to where we left off. We talked about
Arwa ibn Mas'ud Asa Kafi
and we talked about Al Mughirah of Nushuraba
who also,
from the tribe of Taqif.
Now these 2 men who are the most
prominent figures
from Ta'if,
ironically,
their stories
don't actually intersect with the most famous incidents
of the rejection of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam from Taaf. Right? If you kinda go
back and look to how both of them
find their way to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
it's a very different pathway
for both of them. Right? And subhanAllah,
a strange beginning,
a strange ending. And as I said,
every single person that we have a story
about
from Banut Taqif, which is the main tribe
of Ta'if,
every single person enters Islam strangely
and then dies in a strange way. SubhanAllah.
And so we covered those 2.
And Muhirb ibn Shurba radhiallahu ta'ala Anhu, of
course, comes to Al Madin Al Munawwara
after literally murdering 13 of his companions in
Egypt
and making tawbah after looting them
and coming to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in Madinah to embrace Islam.
Urdua bin Mas'ud al Saqafi,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, embraces Islam after Hudaybiyyah,
and he wasn't present, as we said, in
the siege of Ta'af because he was out
in Jarash
actually learning
how to use al manajik and and, you
know, when they say adabbabaat,
the tanks of the day and the catapults
of the day, obviously,
they are
very
primary
ways of looking at these types of devices,
these, you know, military devices back then. But
the point is he's out he was out
learning
how to defend, how to fight, and then
he came to the prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa
sallam, again to Madinah
to embrace Islam.
So here's what I want us to do,
inshaAllah,
as we go through the next sort of
5 sections here
of Ta'af.
I want you to imagine being the Prophet
in Madinah
after almost 2 decades have passed,
and then looking back
at what has transpired
since the worst day of your life. You
talk about trauma, you talk about a devastating
moment in your life. The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said, the worst day of my life
was that day in Taaf.
Right?
Now, as we start, Insha'Allah,
the way we're going to do this over
the next 5 sections is we're going to
look through
how the fruits of Ta'if showed themselves to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam over time,
starting from the earliest
Muslim in Ta'if. Does anyone know who that
is?
We're talking about him tonight,
Starting from the earliest Muslim
until the last known Muslim
who embraced Islam
from Ta'af at the hands of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So we're kind of
going back now. We've covered, Arwab bin Mas'rud
al Sakhafir and Mohir ibn Shurba. May Allah
be pleased with them. As the Chiefs of
Saqif, we're kind of going back now to
the Prophet
and walking through
how this wisdom all unfolds.
And from the wisdom of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
is just as much as the Prophet
did not expect
anything to come from Al Madin al Munawura,
from the city known as Yathrib at the
time.
He had lofty expectations
of the city
of Ta'if. And from the wisdom of Allah
that the 2 most prominent men to embrace
Islam from Ta'if
were not directly tied to the incident of
the Prophet going to Ta'if himself to give
them Dawah.
So you think about that, subhanAllah, that you
truly do your part
and
then,
You do not guide who you love.
And by extension, as the irah not mentioned,
you do not guide
when you love and how you love. Allah
chooses
how to guide,
when to guide,
who to guide. And each one of these
people, subhanAllah, it is aajeeb, a strange path
towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, towards the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So let's walk back
to the Prophet
going to give da'wah and Ta'if
for the very first time and how,
inshaAllah, this will all unfold with the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
1st and foremost,
what is the city of Ta'af? Has anyone
in here ever been to the city of
Ta'af, by the way?
Alright.
Masha'Allah. 1 person,
2 people. Ta'if is
probably the most beautiful
and stunning city that you will see
in that entire area.
Fa'if
is an incredible place. It is in the
mountains.
It doesn't look like the rest of Arabia.
I mean, you go there and you're like,
subhanallah, what am I looking at? You see
greenery, you see trees, you see rivers flowing.
It has seasons,
so it's not just hot all the time.
The way that Mecca would be hot all
the time, they actually have a winter in
Ta'af, so they have seasons.
It's one of the most pleasant atmospheres that
you can be in.
And it's a place, subhanAllah,
that is full of fruits.
All types of fruits grow in Ta'af. All
types of flowers grow in Ta'af. Right? So
the most famous perfume, and in fact,
you know, the greatest exporter, one of the
biggest exporter of roses in the world is
Ta'af. And so what's the perfume called?
Ta'af.
Right? You hear it when you're reading in
the Shamal of the prophet, the
rose of Ta'af, that famous perfume, that scent
that comes from Ta'af because Ta'af actually produces
literal roses.
So it's a beautiful place.
Roses.
They say
that they used to give examples about Ta'af.
Its raisins were the size of its tamar,
were the size of its dates.
So people loved the raisins of Ta'af. And
plus the scholars say, there were no fruits
that came to Mecca except from Ta'if.
So Ta'if was the food
exporter, the fruits exporter,
and all of that came to Mecca.
So the types of people that live in
Ta'if
are supposed to be
the richest and and the most affluent and
the most thoughtful people in that sense. Right?
And in that they are truly elites, and
that's why despite their distance from Mecca, they're
looked at in a certain way. And that's
why, by the way, their idol who is
their idol named? What was their idol? We
talked about the idol being destroyed by Mughira.
Allat. Allat was huge,
humongous
idol,
all sorts of jewelry on it, decked out
with all of the rubies and the pearls.
And by the way, subhanAllah, side note,
we talked about Uruwah ibn Mas'ud
when he was killed
by his people. When he came out and
he made adhan and takif, some people shot
him with arrows, killed him. And the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, likened him to the man
from Surah Yacin,
right, Who came to his people and he
said,
Right? This person who saw and called his
people to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The son of Urwa, Mullayi, when he came
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for
permission to pay off some of the debts
of 'Uruaa ibn Nas'ud
from the jewelry of Allat.
And it was about 200,000 dirhams, and the
prophet allowed it. Like, take that jewelry, the
gold,
and pay off some of the debts of
Irwa bin Mas'ud ath Takafi, the righteous chief
from Banu Thaqif.
So everything in Takif is elaborate.
Everything is beautiful and powerful in in Ta'af,
and that's what it represents to the people
in Mecca as well.
So no wonder why when the prophet
saw the dream
of
a place with greenery,
his mind, salallahu alaihi wa sallam immediately went
to Ta'if
and not to Yafrib,
not to Al Madinah.
Because geographically speaking
and socially speaking,
Ta'if is the place to go. And can
you imagine, subhanAllah, if Ta'if would have embraced
Islam,
how many Muslims would visit Ta'af every single
year? If the prophet was taken in by
the people of Ta'af and buried,
how many people would go there? How many
people would enjoy the geography of Ta'af and
enjoy the city? But, subhanAllah,
the fortune, the rizq,
the sustenance was to the Ansar. Rabi halbayr,
Rabi halbayr.
The transaction was successful.
Look what Madinah became,
and how many Muslims visit Ta'if. Right? What
is Ta'if in the history of the Muslims
as a city? Still, again, a place where
Muslims came out, a city that bore greatness,
but not like the greatness of Al Madinah
Al Munawwara. So Ta'af is the place
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam thinks he's
seeing in his dream.
Khadija radiAllahu Anha is dead. Abu Talib is
dead. There is no one to protect him
alayhis salatu was salam and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is sending the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
an image, a vision
of a place that should embrace him now.
Furthermore,
the prophet, salAllahu alayhi wasalam, is smart enough
to make connections, alayhi Salatu Wa Salaam, before
he goes to a city.
So in Al Madinah, he has his maternal
relatives from Banu Najjar.
As far as Ta'af, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam knew a Qurashi woman,
who was Jumahiyah. She's from the tribe of
Jumah and she was
a wife of 1 of the chiefs of
Ba'af.
Alright? So an elderly woman who was Qurashiyah,
and the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam thinks he has a connection
there to make things easy because she has
a soft spot for the Diwa of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
to sort of ease his way in.
So what happens?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam goes to Ta'if
with high expectations
and in the lowest point of his life,
aam alhuzun,
the year of grief.
Those two things together can be absolutely paralyzing.
Why is Allah doing this to me? The
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam does not ask. He
simply goes with it, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam.
And he goes to the 3 chiefs
at the time, and they were known as
the children of Amr ibn Umayr.
Amr ibn Umayr
and their names.
I want you to write down the names
InshaAllah Ta'ala.
Abdi Alil
and Rabia
or Masrud. His name is either Rabia or
Masrud, and then the third one is Habib.
Okay?
So 3 children, Abdi Alil, Mas'ud,
Ur Rabia and
Habib,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam meets them,
and he says to them from the very
start, Alaihi Salat Wasallam,
that what I'm coming to you with
is a call to embrace Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, to embrace Al Islam, to embrace the
message of the oneness of Allah. But
the Prophet
is already stipulating,
or he's putting in some contingencies in his
da'wah.
He said, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, if you don't
accept the Dawah itself,
then at least you take me in and
you grant me safety
until
until Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala makes a situation
a way out between me
and my people, and the Quran
completes
its descent upon me.
Meaning, let Allah
descend whatever is left of the Quran while
I'm here in Ta'if. Let me cultivate my
da'wah from here.
So basically give me a habeshah like situation,
Abyssinia.
Right? I'll take that. If the only thing
that we have now, because Mecca is a
terrible situation,
that we can be situated here
and that we can cultivate our da'wah, this
can basically serve as HQ with the protection
and the leaders of Ta'if are respected by
the people of Mecca, then give me that.
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, if
you don't embrace
these two things, at least.
SubhanAllah, such a small request.
At least don't tell the people in Mecca
that I came to you seeking shelter.
Why? Because things are already on the edge
in Mecca.
They have already made life absolutely
unbearable for the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So at least
don't tell Abu Jahl, don't tell the leaders
of Quraysh
what I am doing here so that they
don't cause me more trouble than I already
have.
Now, subhanAllah,
the response could not have been worse.
And truly,
the response
from these 3 men
was possibly more hurtful to the Prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, than the stones themselves
that would cause him to be drenched in
his own blood Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as
he ran away from Taif.
The first one and they wouldn't look at
him. They kind of, you know, when you're
in the room, but you're not in the
room, that's how low you are. That's how
low they're making you.
The first one, he says,
Like couldn't
couldn't God find someone other than you?
You?
Like couldn't Allah find someone other than you
to send? It's kind of how degrading.
Right?
The second
one, he says
that if you
are the 1,
he said that he is going to tear
up Theaaba Al Kaaba. He'll
go to the Kaaba
and tear up
the clothes the cloth of the Kaaba and.
If you're the one that Allah chose,
the arrogance. Right? Like, you're the one? I'm
gonna go protest at the Kaaba and tear
the cloth of the Kaaba
because I don't like you being the messenger
of Allah.
Right? And the third one,
he
said, I swear by Allah that I will
never speak to you.
He said, I'll never speak to you. If
you are who you claim to be a
messenger of Allah,
then you're too great for me to have
a conversation with you. I can't respond to
you because you might actually be a Messenger
of Allah.
You're too small for me in one narration.
If you're not the messenger of Allah, you're
too small for me to talk to you.
So you're either too great for me to
talk to or you're too small for me
to talk to
but I want nothing to do with you.
So the 3 men all gave the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam this disgusting response.
On top of that, right,
they sent the message to Mecca
and the Prophet said, 'uktumu'ani, please don't tell
them what I did if you're not going
to accept me. They sent the message to
Mecca to let them know that the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam had come to them
seeking that type of refuge.
On top of that, they gave the Prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wasalam, that disgusting
parting punishment where they lined up the children
and the slaves and the hoodlums,
right, of Ta'af,
the fools of Ta'af.
And they said, form 2 narrow lines,
and as he's on his way out, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
stone him, kick him, spit on him, make
sure that he has an unbearable exit.
Contrast that
exit to the entrance into Madinah and Quba.
Right? SubhanAllah. Like, contrast
the exit of thought and how bitter the
taste that'll be left in your mouth,
where people who don't even know you won't
speak to you. They hate you so
much. They're punching you, spitting at you, wounding
at you, alayhi salatu wa sallam wounding you
and doing all these things to you. And
you don't even know why they hate you,
they don't know why they hate you. And
the people of Madinah, of course, will embrace
the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, not even knowing
how he looks.
And they're further from him than Ta'afis to
Mecca. But they'll embrace him SAW ASAM later
on and they will take him in and
love him more than they love themselves. So,
Iman is a rizq. Iman is faith and
it is rizq. It is sustenance that Allah
gives to some people and He doesn't give
to others.
SubhanAllah, I'm actually gonna start with,
one thing here. The reason why I told
you to memorize the names
of these three people in the very beginning,
can you imagine
if in that delegation of Ban al Thaqif
that came in Amal and Amal Wafud in
the year of the delegations,
if one of those chiefs was there?
Oh, God.
You gave me
the worst treatment
in my entire life.
Well, guess what?
One of them,
Habib,
was actually in the delegation according to some
of the narrations.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam accepted his
Islam
and forgave him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. SubhanAllah. So
it's there's the story of forgiveness here, which
is the story of Fatih Makkah as well.
Right? It's a story of forgiveness. It's a
story of dawah.
On the one hand, it's a story of
how magnificent the heart of the prophet salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam is to forgive people who
really have no business
from just a human perspective of being forgiven.
But it's also a story of Dawah.
Right? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying,
Allahumati Saqifan Watibihim. O Allah, guide Taqifan, bring
them to me after all that they did
to him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And not punishing
them under siege nor taking revenge,
or at least giving him a little bit
of a shake up and reminding him.
Right? Like, when you come to my city
now,
then I will, you know, at least hey,
remember when I came to your city, what
you said to me?
Remember what you did to me?
Prophet, 'sallai alaihi wasallam, left him alone.
He was the oldest member of the delegation
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam accepted as
Islam. It's another dimension to Yusuf
alaihi sallam. Yusuf alaihi sallam, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi sallam recalled him when he entered into
Makkala.
I will forgive you the way that Yusuf
forgave his brothers.
But remember, Yusuf also received his brothers
in a new place and he forgave them
there as well. Prophet SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam
let it go. So there's a story of
forgiveness
that's embedded in all of this,
but there's also the story of
of the people embracing Islam and the fruits
starting to show themselves over time with the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
that I was beaten
and spit on or I was humiliated until
I didn't even know where I was.
Some of the historians say that the span
of torture, how far out if you trace
where the prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, ended up
from the place that it started,
it's about 14 miles.
It's a long walk
to be
beaten, to be trashed, to have someone come
out and and, you know, throw another word
of humiliation.
And you know, subhanAllah, you don't forget that
type of stuff. Right? Like, you'll remember every
word that was said to you. You'll remember
everything that happened to you. But the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, said that by the
time I got out of it, I didn't
even know where I was.
I found myself in
a place called Parnath Sa'ad,
which was an area outside of Ta'af. So
it's like he's coming down from the mountain
area.
Right? Beaten up,
stones all in his sandals, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I mean, you imagine trying to run down
downhill a mountain. Right? So the stones are
collected in his shoes, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So
he's bleeding from the hits
and he's bleeding from the stones that have
been collected in his sandals, salallahu alaihi salam,
and the rapid pace at which the beating
and the humiliation is coming, the Messenger of
Allah SAW ASAM does not even have a
chance to pick the stones
out of,
his
out of his sandals sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So this is the rate at which the
torture
of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is coming.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he passed
by
this Qurashi woman
and she felt so bad. Right? She was
the wife of the chief because she wanted
to do something
and the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, simply
said to her,
What did we find from your family?
It was nothing but beatings
and rejection
and humiliation.
Right?
And this is where
you find
that the stories start to come. The fruits
start to show themselves.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is
in his lowest low,
right?
And he has no one to go to.
And he is sitting
under a tree
in this garden,
and the garden happens to belong to
2
men from Makkah,
Utbah ibn Rabia
and Shaiba.
Utba
might sound familiar to you, by the way.
He's the father of Hind
bint Uthba,
right, the wife of Abu Sufyan who wants
the revenge, takes revenge on Hamzal radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu and staunch enemy of the prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam until she actually embraces Islam at
Fatimaqa.
Why does she want all of this revenge?
Right? SubhanAllah, look what happens. Urtba and Shaiba
are both 2 evil men
who would die
in the Battle of Badr fighting the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
SubhanAllah. So this is just the fate.
But they're looking out at the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
covered in blood,
sitting under a tree
in the garden,
weeping, Alayhi Salatu Wasallam,
making du'a to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
with absolutely
no friend, no support,
no one to help him Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
So at that point,
as they look out to him and they
see him in this way, SubhanAllah, even
the most evil and wicked men can sometimes
have a moment, an opening where they could
change.
Something can happen to them.
Right?
They don't go to him sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and welcome him into the house,
Say, come clean yourself up and at least,
you know, due to our familiarity with you
and our history with you, we'll take care
of you after all of this. This is
a beating that you never had.
No.
To show their idea of nobility
was
called a slave,
who was named Adas
and tell Adas to take some grapes to
him.
Just go take some grapes to him. Give
him some food.
That's their idea of sympathy to the prophet,
salAllahu alaihi wa sama, in this moment. Not
to go and comfort him or give him
solace, but to send Adas,
to them with grapes.
Adas
comes to the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
with these grapes,
and he enters upon the Messenger of Allah,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
gives him the grapes.
And you can imagine, subhanallah, the risk how
Allah drives people, sustenance, how Allah drives people.
What brought Adas
to Ta'if at that moment
to be the slave of those 2 men,
to end up being the one who will
meet the Messenger of Allah, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
in the garden at those moments.
Adas
brings the grapes to the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
He hands
the grapes to the messenger of Allah SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Bismillah
in the name of Allah.
SubhanAllah, the same
Bismillah,
Bismillah,
it sparked the curiosity.
If you remember in the story of Abdullah
Mas'ud radiAllahu Anhu was a slave on the
outskirts of Mecca.
Right? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
Bismillah and he put his hands on the
udders of the sheep and he said,
What is it that you said?
What is the special
prayer that you just made?
But in the case of Adas,
it's different.
Adas
sees the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say Bismillah,
And
this is a sign, SubhanAllah, that Bismillah opens
doors. When we talk about Bismillah opens barakah,
opens blessing.
He says to the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he says, the people around here don't say
those words.
People in this part of the world, people
in these lands don't say these words. Adas
has never met
a Muwahhid, a monotheist
in that entire area
where he's at. How many years has he
been living in slavery there? Where did he
come from in the first place? But Adas
hears Basmanah,
right, the Basmanah being recited, and he says,
people here don't say those words. Where did
that come from?
And the Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
instead
responds
to the question
with a question.
He asks,
Adas,
where are you from?
Right? If people in this land don't say
these words, where are you from?
And he says, I'm from Niinowi.
This is Nineveh
in Iraq.
And the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he says after he says that,
The land of my brother, Yunus Alaihi Salaam.
Adah says,
How do you know who Jonah is? How
do you know who Yunus Alaihi Salaam is?
How do you know he's a prophet?
Who are you?
Adas was Nasrani. He was a Christian man
as bin Hajj Rahim Allah says he was
a Christian from Iraq.
Right?
How do you know? He's a prophet
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he says,
That is my brother.
He is a prophet and I am a
prophet.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent us all
with the same message to call people to
the oneness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Adas
is with the Prophet SallAllahu Wa Ta'ala and
Utba and Shaiba are watching
from the house,
an interaction happening between Adas and the prophet,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And they could see
Adas changing. His eyes getting bigger. His curiosity,
like, what is going on here?
The next thing they see
is Adas getting down to kiss the hands
of the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
to attempt to even kiss the feet of
the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, to prostrate towards
him, just admiring the Prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and treating the Prophet
entirely different.
And they said,
you know, they called Adas back, and they
said this man even poisons our slaves.
Said what are you doing?
He said
no one knows what he knows except that
he's an Nabi of Allah, except that he's
a prophet of Allah.
And they started to laugh at Adas and
they mocked him,
and they sent the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
away.
SubhanAllah,
this moment
of Allah Azza wa Jal sending the first
man to embrace the Prophet
in Alfa'af to be adas out of all
people,
who the Prophet
comes across
by accident
in the midst of his greatest pain,
in the midst of his humiliation,
who wasn't even the direct audience of the
da'wah,
who belongs to the lower class of society,
the lowest class of society, the most inconsequential
from a material perspective,
is one of the greatest beauties
of how this dua actually works. Right? Of
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
puts this particular
message in the hearts of people
as a result of whatever Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala deems fit to be the perfect situation
by which a person would embrace Islam.
So here you have, and the ulama mentioned
a few things. Think about the journey of
Adas radiAllahu anhu, who we have nothing
about him except for the moment that he
embraced Islam. What happened to him afterwards? Where
did he go? Who were his children? Did
he ever get married? All of that is
unknown to us.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is sending a
person all the way from Niniwa in
Iraq,
to end up in the presence of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam serving him and
acknowledging his risala. So think about the sincerity
of adas
and sometimes Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala brings people
to Islam Bis Salasil in chains.
Salman al Farisi radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was that
sincere seeker who was brought to Al Madina
after being enslaved
13 to 19 times. So I passed behind
the hands or I passed through the hands
of 13 to 19 slave owners before I
ended up in Madinah to be in the
presence of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
to acknowledge his risala. So what did Allah
Subhanahu see in this young man, Adaa salAllahu
anhu, to choose him
to come to this moment, to meet the
Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wasallam and to have Islam
gifted to him. The second thing is that,
SubhanAllah, in every single society,
Islam
did not start with
the elites,
started with the mostaduafin.
It starts with the weak ones. It starts
with the vulnerable ones. That is the way
that this De'awah spreads, and that is of
the ethos of the Deen, and that's one
of the most beautiful things about it.
That it wasn't a top down message from
the elites.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, find me
amongst the weak ones, find me amongst the
downtrodden.
You're given support and victory through your weak
ones. And SubhanAllah, the message of Islam resonates
with the weak ones of society first
because they have the least barriers
in terms of material and worldly barriers between
them and Islam. So this was the religion
of the Bilals and the Hababs.
And in Madina, it was the youth of
the Ansar and some chiefs, but they were
young enough that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala opened
their hearts to this message about Islam
that caused these people to embrace Islam.
Now, for the Prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, to
see the fruits,
what else do we take from this?
One of the most beautiful
lessons that we take from it is that
of all the prophets
who Allah sent him a follower a follower
of to embrace Islam and Ta'af,
Allah sent him a follower of Yunus Alaihi
Salam.
Not a follower of Musa Alaihi Salam, not
a follower of Isa Alaihi Salam in that
sense from the states, the place of 'Isa,
alayhis salam. Not Ibrahim, alayhis salam, not the
rabbis of Medina first.
A follower of Yunus. How rare
are followers of Yunus, Alaihi Salaam,
and why Yunus, Alaihi Salaam?
The very first
Prophet
who Allah revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam in the order of the revelation of
the Quran was Yunus Alaihi
Be patient
with the command of your Lord and don't
be like the companion of the whale when
he called out to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
as he was swallowed.
So SubhanAllah, the first message to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the first time a Nabi,
a Prophet was mentioned to the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam was Yunus Alaihi Wasallam because Yunus
had
a unique experience. What was it? He gave
up initially.
He walked away from his people
before Allah gave him permission to. That was
something that only he did. Now, no one.
No one should degrade Yunus of Numata or
say that the prophet
is better than him in terms of belittling
Yunus alaihi salam or taking him down from
the Prophets. Why? Fajustabaahu rabbu fajalum minas sala
alayhi. Allah chose him and made him from
the righteous. So his station
at the end of the ordeal
was greater than how it started. But he's
the only prophet
that gave up on his people at some
point and walked away from his people prematurely.
No one else. And the first message to
the Prophet
about the Prophets was, don't walk away prematurely
from your people.
You don't know
who your people are and what's going to
come out of your people. And so for
Allah to send the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, someone like that in Ta'if of all
places,
where he just got the worst reception
and the blood is still fresh from the
wounds. And any one of us
would say, forget these people, crush them.
Right?
Make du'a against them for the rest of
our lives.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends him
a follower
of Yunus
alayhi salaam.
And I'll give you one more narration, inshaAllah
ta'ala, then we'll move on to the next
section of this.
It's a narration of Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhuma.
And I think about this,
when I go to Mecca, when we go
for Hajj or we go,
for Umrah. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow
us
to be amongst those who have accepted Hajj
and Umrah. It's
a narration from Ibn Abbas
It's an authentic narration.
He says,
That we were with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam between Makkah and Madina, and we passed
through a valley.
So
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
What Valley are we in right now?
They said, we are in the valley
of Azraq.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
who's the narrator.
He says that
it's as if I'm looking at Musa, 'alayhis
salam and the Prophet
described the length of his hair.
He said that he had his fingers
in his ears and he was raising
his voice.
He was raising his voice alayhis salatu wassalam
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala saying,
Passing through this valley.
What does that mean?
Musa Alaihi Salaam at some point in his
life made
a pilgrimage,
Umrah or Hajj to Makkah.
Musa Alaihisra made that pilgrimage there and Allah
showed the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a
vision of Musa Alaihi Wasallam passing that valley.
Saying,
The pure talbiyah.
So that's number 1.
Then
Ibn Abbas,
he continues.
And then we went on until we came
upon another valley. So the Prophet
said,
What valley is this? So they said,
this is
the valley of Harsha or left, another valley.
The prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
He said, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's as
if I can see Musa alaihi salam
on a red she camel, and he's wearing
this cloak of wool,
and he's holding the reins of his she
camel.
And it is woven from the fiber of
palm, and he's passing through this valley saying,
Labayk Allahum Malabayk. Here I come, O Allah.
Here I come. Here I come, O Allah.
Here I come. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam saw
Yunus Alaihi Salaam, or Allah showed the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam a vision
of that same Prophet
who at some point walked away from his
people
and showed him a follower
from
that Prophet, alayhi salam,
and then showed him a vision, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, of Yunus, alayhi salam, proceeding to the
same place that he was expelled from, saying,
Labbeik Allahumma
Labbeik, here I come, O Allah, here I
come.
And so there is a special connection
that's established between the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Yunus Alaihi Salaam, and it was the
Qadr of Allah
that the first follower
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would see
is from Yunus, Alaihi Salaam. Then go back
as well in Mecca, when the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam went to
Warakah Nunnofal. Warakah
said that the one who has come to
you is a Namuz, Jibril Alaihi Salaam, who
came to Musa Alaihi Salaam.
The one who came to you is the
angel that came to Musa.
So Allah
is preparing the heart of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam and showing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam
that you are upon the way of the
prophets before you, both in terms of the
message that you're delivering,
but also
the process
that you have to go through
is similar to the process
that all of those prophets,
had to go through. And so the first
fruit
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
saw in the midst of his torture
was
Adas Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, and we don't know
anything else about him except that he was
a Christian
who embraced the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on
the spot from Niinawe in Iraq, from the
name
of
the Eunice Alaihi
Salam.