Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Urwa Ibn Masud – The Chief Who Resembled Isa
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So tonight, I'm gonna actually, inshaAllah ta'ala, start
with the most noble man from Ta'if
to embrace Islam
that we know of, and who played a
crucial role in the life of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, predominantly
on the other side of the Messenger Sallallahu
So a late convert. And the thing about
these people is that every single 1 of
them has an extraordinary entrance into Islam. They
all have very unique stories. There isn't a
simple conversion story here. All of them have
very complex ways in which Islam came to
them and in which they embraced Islam. And
through that, we see the wisdom of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and we also see
that Allah will reward the heart of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam who did not destroy
the people
that caused him the greatest amount of harm.
No 1 hurt the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
more than these people. Now, I want you
to sort of sit with that for a
moment. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had a
lot of bad days.
He had people spit on him. He had
people knock his teeth out. He had people
humiliate him in front of his family. He
had people run him out of his home.
He had people kill his family in front
of him. I mean, he's been through a
lot of bad days. But the prophet said
the worst day of his life was what?
The day of Taaf. That's the worst day
of his life. The most humiliated
he has ever
been, the most harmed he has ever been,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And those
that humiliate the most honored creation of Allah
are in fact humiliated
themselves.
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
a heart for them. Just as he had
a heart for Abu Sufyan and he had
a heart for Ikramah and so many of
these other people, he had a heart for
them, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So inshallah, we're going
to start with 2 major personalities.
And the irony of these 2 personalities that
we'll start with is that they're actually related.
The main tribe
that you interpret Ta'if through
is a tribe by the name of Banu
Saqif.
Remember these were people that identified
by tribe
not as much by city.
So the tribe is called Banu
Saqif.
Okay?
And the most noble man of Thaqif
and a man who will die a companion
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is a man by the name of
Now if you think about the geography of
Ta'if
and the geography of Mecca. Ta'if is not
very far away
from Mecca. It's about 70 miles. They're considered
some of the noble ones
as well. There's a lot of intermarriage. There's
a lot of connection.
There's a lot of respect, mutual respect between
these 2 cities of Ta'if and Mecca.
And those that are considered noble there are
considered noble here as
well. And Urwa
comes from
a lineage that mixes the best of Ta'if
and the best of Mecca. So his father,
Mas'ud of Taqafi, was considered the most noble
man of Takif,
of the most noble man of Takif.
His mother
was a woman by the name of Subayyah
binta'Abdishams
ibn 'Abdi Manaf.
Sumayya bint 'Abdishams' ibn 'Abdi Manaf.
And she is 1 of the most noble
women of Quraysh.
So his mother is from Quraysh,
his father is from Thaqif.
Therefore, he is in good with both of
these towns. Right? He has a lot of
credibility
in both Mecca
and in Ta'af.
And his mother actually was noted for her
intelligence.
So she's noted for her nobility
and she's noted for her intelligence.
So Urwa could recall as a child a
very specific incident happening.
There was a battle that took place
known as the Battle of Fijar, which was
when many of the tribes in Arabia killed
each other off in the days of ignorance.
Right? There was a massive war and battle
that took place in that area.
Urdua remembered from his mother's intelligence
was that she saw that they were gonna
get caught up in the violence.
She went and she pitched a tent,
and she basically told the Uruwan, he was
a very young child on that day, and
his brothers, look. Go and offer this tent
as refuge to anyone that's fleeing about.
Let them in, and she would care for
them, treat the wounded, bring them water, and
basically
and that escaped death that day always felt
indebted to the family of Subayah,
Binta Abdi Shams, and by extension, her children
as well. So it actually earned her a
position through
her snap judgment in the middle of that
craziness
to go and to pitch a tent and
to take care of the wounded and to
basically
avoid in that process
the crossfire.
On top of that, as Urwa grows up,
Urwa himself
establishes himself in Mecca by committing a noble
act, which is basically
in order to avert a battle
between tribes,
Urwa paid some of the diya, some of
the blood money that was due in those
battles to bring peace back to Mecca from
his own pocket. He said, you know what?
I'm gonna earn. I'm gonna spend for myself.
I'm a man who travels. I'm a merchant.
Some of the wealthy people in this community
will come together, and we will pay off
and compensate
the injured and compensate all of these tribes
so that we can restore peace in the
city, peace and calm in the city.
And this is a debt
that he's going to still be paying off
according to some of the historians until the
day of his death.
So he starts this off in Jahiliyyah, and
he earns a position, a noble man, someone
who likes peace, someone who likes to bring
tribes together,
Not someone who's hostile. Not someone who seeks
to pit his tribe against others. Not someone
who brings Ta'if
against Mecca.
We also see, and this is just for
those who are taking notes, Insha'Allah Ta'ala, because
I know that the names can get become
overwhelming, but it is very interesting.
He marries into the nobles of Mecca as
well.
So his sister, Barzah bint Mas'ud
is married to Safwan ibn Umayyah.
RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu of course is 1 of
the last people to embrace Islam from Mecca,
but a very noble man.
He also marries the daughter of Abu Sufyan
ibn Harp. So his wife is Maimouna
bint Abi Sufyan
ibn Harp.
And,
through Maimuna, bint Abi Sufyan ibn Harp so
obviously we know who Abu Sufyan is in
terms of being a chief in Mecca and
what it means to marry the daughter of
Abu Sufyan ibn Harp.
He had a son that was named Dawud,
and Dawud would marry
his maternal cousin Habiba,
the daughter of Habiba.
Alright. So so you don't get lost, let's
kind of walk this back a bit. Habiba
is the wife of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
the daughter of Abu Sufyan.
Habiba
was born in Abyssinia
to a different father, to R'baidullah Abu Najash
who died in Abyssinia.
So this daughter is the stepdaughter of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and she will marry
the son of Uhruwah
and Maimuna bint Abi Sufyan. So he's very,
you know, much embedded
in the society
in Mecca,
and he has a reputation
for wanting to bring people together. And it's
very useful that when you kind of look
at the early skirmishes with the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam, some people pulled certain tricks.
Some people were particularly nasty towards the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam. Some people employed treachery. In
fact, most of the people in Mecca completely
lost their morals and their ethics
in the process
of combating the mission of the Prophet, salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam. Even things that the Arabs
took pride in as non Muslims,
they completely threw that out the window when
they wanted to shut down the Prophet They
started to lie and cheat and steal
and plot and do all sorts of things
that were otherwise foreign to them because they
saw themselves
as a noble people. Rurba is someone who
you don't actually find
engaging in those types of attitudes.
Okay?
Now let's talk about what he looks like
because he has 1 of the most unique
looks
of the companions.
In 1 sentence,
Irrawad looked like Jesus.
Irrawad looked like 'Isa, alaihis salaam.
You're like, wait, where did that come from?
That's completely out of left field when you're
describing a companion of the prophet, alayhi salaam.
The prophet, alayhi salaam, said an authentic hadith.
He
said,
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the
prophets were shown to me on the night
of Al Isra'ul Mi'raj,
and Musa Alaihi Salaam looked like 1 of
the men of Shanua, and 1 narration of
Zut, which means Musa
was a man with dark skin.
Right? Musa was a man
with dark skin. So the prophet described
Musa alayhis salam that way.
And he said,
He said, and I saw Jesus, the son
of Mary, Alayhi Salaam,
and the person who resembled him most
is Arwa ibn Mas'ud. If you wanna know
how Isa Alaihi Salaam looked,
look at
He said, salallahu alaihi, alaihi. He said, salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and I saw Abraham, peace
be upon him.
And the person who resembled him most was
who? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam himself.
And SubhanAllah, if you take the Shamael of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the description, the
physical description of the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, and you take what is collected
through some of the early biblical sources even
of a description of Abraham peace be upon
him, very similar descriptions between Ibrahim Alaihi Salam
and Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam. And of course,
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam is a descendant of
Ibrahim, alayhi salam,
Dihyah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He said, I saw
Jibril alayhi salam, and the person who resembled
him most was
Dihyah.
Okay? So a few things here,
Risa, alayhis salaam is described with extreme beauty.
Right? Risa, alayhis salaam had
a certain look,
which was a beautiful
and powerful
look. Now someone says, well, what does he
look like?
I want you to take the image of
Jesus that you see in the churches today
and in the movies today. And I want
you to go to Ta'if
and tell me if you find a single
human being in Ta'if
that looks like that.
Problem solved.
So, Isa, alayhis salaam, and
or Irwa bin Mas'ud looks like Isa alayhis
salam,
has a powerful,
look, has a beautiful look, has long hair,
a strong build, a position with his people,
noble characteristics.
And SubhanAllah, he is mentioned in the Quran
initially
in in a very interesting way.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
That they said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam when he first came to them with
Islam,
why didn't the Quran descend upon 1 of
the 2 great men or the the 2
men from the great towns?
Okay? So how come it came to you?
Meaning,
the prophet was not wealthy, the prophet was
an orphan, the prophet
Right?
They compared him to Irwa,
ibn Mas'ud
and Al Walid ibn Mughira.
Al Walid ibn Mughira, the father of Khaled
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu from Mecca.
Rurwa bin Mas'ud al Saqafi from Al Ta'if.
How come
the Quran didn't come on 1 of them?
Why did the Quran descend upon you instead
of them? Now, I wanna show you how
precise and how beautiful and profound the Quran
is.
Allah
did not threaten
these 2 men here.
Allah did not say, that
we're gonna punish these 2 people, and we're
gonna show them how little they are on
the day of judgment. Allah did not then
go into the punishment of these 2 men.
He simply quoted
what was being said in Mecca because all
they could think about was tribe, and wealth,
and power, and prestige. They said, how come
if God is talking to us, why doesn't
He reveal to alwadeedunmugira
or arwabun mas'ud in Ta'af?
But then Allah is silent about the 2
of these men. Some of the scholars say,
subhanallah, look how beautiful and profound.
If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would have proceeded
to speak about the punishment of these 2
men, that means 'ur was done.
But Ur was gonna become Muslim in 2
decades.
Compare that to Abu Lahab,
who would have had the better chance, because
he's the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's uncle. He's
very close to him, and it could have
woke up from his senses. Right? If you're
talking about a judgment,
Abu Lahab has the better chance to wake
up,
but Allah sealed it for him.
Abu Lahab could have disproved the Quran,
right, to a lot of people by coming
out and saying, I'm a Muslim now. So
what happened at Tabatiya dahi Abi Lahab been
what happened?
But Allah knew what his fate would
be. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the precision of
describing the enemies. Now, alwuid almugira is described
in many ways in punishment. But here in
particular, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is condemning the
sentiment,
but Allah does not decree the fate of
these 2 men, and that is a bushwa,
a glad tiding
of the eventual repentance
of
come up in the Seerah?
You have to see Ta'if as basically a
place
that largely ignored
Islam.
Right? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came to
them.
They were not interested.
They sent the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam away,
humiliated him, alayhis salatu wa sallam, stoned him.
Right? Did what they did.
Largely, this affair
remains between, in terms of geography, Mecca and
Medina.
Ta'af kinda stays out of it, except for
some of the tribes that are used as
mercenaries
that help Quraysh at times
in a military sense to try to
suppress the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in his
mission and his Diwa.
But largely Ta'if is out of this. And
so,
doesn't really show up in the Sira
until a very important inflection point, which is
the point of Hudaybiyyah,
the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is coming from
Medina
in peace.
He and the companions are wearing their Ihram.
They're coming to make umrah. They're coming to
Mecca to do the pilgrimage. They're not armed.
Mecca is in a dilemma. If we kill
them, then we violate our own rights and
rituals. What will that what will it look
like upon us? But if we let them
come and do this pilgrimage,
we're also humiliated. So they're obviously trying to
figure out a way to stop the Prophet
and stop
the Muslims
from coming into
Mecca.
And so, hence, the negotiation starts.
Right?
The first negotiator,
the Meccan sons
to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was a
man by the name of Hulais,
Hulais ibn al Khum, and Hulais was actually
Makkim, so he's 1 of them.
They sent him, he failed.
Eventually, we know that suhayd ibn al Amr
is the 1 who comes in RadiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu and at that time an enemy again
and he seals a deal with the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
But in between,
this is where Urwa ibn Mas'ud
actually
comes in. So the negotiators were Hulais and
then Urwa and then Mikraaz and then Suhail.
Okay?
Urwa,
he comes to the people of Mecca
and he
says to the people of Mecca,
am I not to you
like a son?
Or Are you not to me, oh, leaders
of Mecca, like a father is to a
son? And am I not to you like
a son to a father?
What is he citing here? His mother. Like,
I'm I'm I'm 1 of you as well.
Look,
I work these types of treaties.
I'm a diplomat.
I'm well traveled.
I know how to bring people together
in the midst of these types of disputes.
So am I not to you like a
son? Are you not to me like a
father? And this is of course in the
Arabic language, you know, playing on the sentiment.
And they say, of
course. Right? His mother is 1 of their
most noble and they know Oduah very well
and he's a leader and he's senior,
polished,
powerful,
everything that you'd want. And Urdua says, do
you have any doubt in me?
And they say absolutely not.
No doubt in your integrity. No doubt in
who you are. He says, Fada'uni
adhabu ilayhi wukalimohu. Let me go speak to
him.
Let me go try my hand with the
prophet I
think I can intercede.
I'm far enough, but close enough. He knows
me. I know him. I don't have the
bad blood that you all have of him.
I don't come from, you know, your exact
tribe. There's enough of a distance. I think
I'm the perfect person to go negotiate
with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Now Urwa is going to try
some different tactics.
Alright? So he's not gonna come in necessarily
and just play the sweet card.
1st, he's gonna try a little bit of
a rougher
approach with the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and see how that goes.
So he comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
with his man, he enters upon him
in Hudaybia
and he looks around
kinda sees the situation
and he says,
So, oh, Muhammad, all I see around you
is a mixture of a bunch of different
people. This is actually 1 of the most
beautiful descriptions of the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Your community is full of people of different
races,
different tribes,
different social classes.
They're not really united by anything that we
know. Right? We know something very different. We're
a people of tribe.
So I see around you all of these
different people. Right? I mean, think about the
image in that society.
You've got everybody around the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Every shape,
every type of person around the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. So he said, I see
this mixture of people, but he's not saying
it in a praiseworthy way. He says, have
you ever heard of a man from us,
from the Arab, who destroyed his own people,
who turned on his own people and destroyed
his own people? So you're gonna take this
group of people,
and you've got a Persian amongst you, an
Abyssinian amongst you, a rich man, a poor
man. You're gonna take this group of people
and you're going to attack Quraysh.
You're gonna destroy your own people like if
Allah gives you victory.
What type of victory is that?
Right?
And then as he's saying this
and the companions are listening
and
companions have a lot of restraint,
but he says something that strikes an earth.
He says,
Listen. He says, I see all of these
people,
and
it's a derogatory term, this mixture of people
around you, is.
If they came if Quraysh came to them
with their numbers and with their strength,
These people all flee away from you.
Okay.
There's a famous narration here
from Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
got so angry with that statement like out
of all the accusations
that you would make,
how dare you claim
that we would leave the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
So he said, Anaknu Nafiru Anhu unsos Badrulat.
He said, you think that we would leave
him? And then he said something extremely vulgar
to him.
Alright. Which I'm not going to translate.
But he basically said something that is very
unlike Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu in all
of the narrations.
And it became the source of chapters, and
chapters, and chapters in books. How is it
that Abu Bakr radiAllahu
uses that type of language?
Vulgar language cursing him
and telling him to get lost.
And it's not like Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu to do that. And so the the
scholars will write chapters about this and they'll
say, look, there are exceptions to the rule.
A person who's not honest to the tradition
is someone who takes the exception and makes
it the norm, which is every time you
get into a Dawah debate with someone, you
immediately curse and you become foul and you
start to talk to them in the same
language. The asl, the default is, Itra'bildatihiyahassal.
Respond with
better. Don't be agitated.
Don't use the same types of language that
they use against you. But sometimes,
even the prophet
when he's doing tawaf,
1 time he says, look, I'm coming for
you.
Sometimes people need to be responded to in
like manner. Bullies need to be put in
their place sometimes, but it's the exception,
not the norm. And that way when the
exception is important, it's like, woah.
So I want you to kind of imagine
the scene when Abu Bakr said that it
took the air out of the room literally.
So 'uduah was shocked.
'uduah was 1 of the most respectable men
in his in his tribe amongst his people.
Like someone using that type of language to
him
is a major, major, major violation.
Right?
So, Ed was like, who said that?
He's asking the people around him,
who just said that to me? Like, who
dares use that type of language towards me?
And they said, Abu Bakr.
And, Urwa,
and this is powerful,
he responds and he says,
powerful language.
Urwa says,
if it wasn't for a favor that you
once did for me way back in the
day,
I would have responded to you in like
manner.
But he said,
now, 1 for 1. We're even. I'm not
gonna respond to you with that language
because I owed you something from way back
in the day. You did a favor for
me way back in the day, and I
did not feel like I sufficiently paid you
back. So I'm gonna let that go from
you, Abu Bakr. Even though with the Arabs,
like, you don't go that low. Those are
fighting words, literally fighting words. And Abu Bakr
is looking for a fight because you don't
tell the companions that you would abandon the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's the greatest
insult to the companions, that you would leave
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Pause here. Some of the scholars say, subhanAllah,
look at the nobility of this man. What
was he speaking about?
Some of the scholars mentioned that when Urduah
took on
at a younger age that diya, that blood
money to sort of solve the problems, Abu
Bakr pitched him
because Abu Bakr is a noble man and
he wanted to aid in a noble endeavor.
So 'irwa remembered that and that's alwatha, that's
loyalty.
That's not forgetting things that were done for
you. SubhanAllah, like I've seen Masha'i cry over
this narration because they would say that that
man in his jahil in his jahiliyah is
better than a Muslim today.
Remembering something that someone did for him years
ago that might have been very small but
to say, you know what?
I owe you 1.
I'm gonna let that go because you did
something for me a long time ago. That
loyalty is a characteristic of Islam.
Not forgetting the favors that were done for
you, but forgetting the favors you do for
others
is a is a trait of Islam. It's
a noble trait. And Islam came to
refine those types of traits, not do away
with them. So Urwah has that type of
trait
with Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu here and
he says, you know what?
Have the hibitilq.
1 for 1.
Or even now. Meaning if you say it
again, we'll fight.
But for now, Abu Bakr,
you use those words and I'm not gonna
respond to you in like manner.
Now the next part of this narration,
Rurwa
then goes close to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. So this grandstanding is not working.
This strategy failed.
Strategy number 2.
He comes close to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
He starts touching the beard of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And I know that customs
can seem very weird, like, when you're talking
about, like, you know, like someone stroking your
beard is like, come on. Like, let me
talk to you, like, closely. It wasn't grabbing
the prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam, but it was
like, look,
let me talk to you and let's sort
of work through this.
So while he's doing that, there was a
man who was in full armor.
And we're going to revisit this insha'Allah ta'ala
in a little bit because we're going to
talk about who this man is. There's a
man in full armor
who takes his sword and he takes the
back of his sword
and he knocks the hand of Arwa off
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's beard.
And Ur was
like, okay, first double Beqif,
and now this guy who's armored. Right, who's
who's wearing his metal from top I can't
see anything,
like a bodyguard,
moves my hand away.
So Urwa says that I was about to
put my hand back on the beard of
the prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, like whatever.
And the man said, kuf a yadaka kabbla
anna tasilalek.
He said, if you want your hand to
come back to you,
don't touch the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Hurrah was like,
man. So he said, Mandaiya Muhammad.
He asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
who's that? Na Afadlahu akhladahu. Like, what a
rough
and an unnecessarily
abrasive man he is. So the prophet smiled
and he said, Ibnu Akhik, that's actually your
nephew.
That is literally
the son of
your brother,
Al Mughir ibn Sharba.
And Urwa looks at him and he goes,
This is a statement we're gonna come back
to when we come to Mughira,
which basically like, you traitor,
I still have been cleaning up your mess
up until last night. Like, I'm still cleaning
up the mess that you left behind. This
is something only between Muhira
and his uncle, a nephew and his uncle.
But this is again, it's dawning upon him,
like, all right, like, I'm not gonna come
here and bully the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And this was the tactic of Quraysh. They
wanted to show the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that because you're unarmed,
we can bully you. We can push you
around.
So that tactic is not working.
So Uruwa
is watching
the situation
and the prophet says
to him, listen.
Nan ureduqital.
We didn't come to fight.
We're not coming for war. We're not coming
for battle.
Like literally, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam
is saying, we're coming in peace. It's
those people that are causing a situation. Just
let us do umrah.
Let us go back to Madinah.
No 1 gets hurt.
Right?
So Urwa kind of takes a step back,
and he's watching the situation
and Urwa realizes he's completely out of his
element.
As he sees
the love that the companions have for the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and he says that as I'm watching the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
as the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, calls for
his wudu, they bring his wudu, they don't,
you know, they don't look at the Prophet,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in a certain way, they
listen to the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the
love and the honor that they have for
the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is something unlike
I had ever
seen
before.
So he leaves. He leaves Hudaybiyah.
He goes back to the people of Mecca,
and he says,
oh people,
said, listen, O people,
I have entered upon the kings of the
world. I have, as a diplomat,
entered upon the kings of the world, and
he mentioned the 3 most powerful men in
the world at his time.
He says, I have been in the Palace
of Caesar.
I've been in the Palace of Kisra.
I've been in the Palace of An Najashi
in Abyssinia. I've seen it all.
And he says, wallahi maraaitu
maricankatu
azzimuhu
ashabuhu ma you azzimu ashabuhu Muhammadin Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. I've never seen
a man,
a King, who is more adored
by his people
than the way that this man is adored
by his people. It's different. The prophet, salAllahu
alaihi wa sallam, doesn't dominate them by clothes
or by anything pompous. He's dressed just like
them. He lives in a house smaller than
the rest of them. He eats less than
them. It's different.
He's not abusive towards them. But there is
a ta'aleem, there is a love and an
awe that they have with the
prophet that I have never seen with anyone
else.
He said that, I saw the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
inyatanakamlukhamah.
If the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was to
spit, I mean, this is just he's just
talking about, like, how much they adore the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Like, they would catch
his spit
because of how much they love him. And
he says,
And if the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wasalam gave them an order, then
they immediately responded to his order.
And when the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam would
make wudu, it's like they would fight
for his wudu, sallAllahu alaihi wasallam.
And if they spoke, khafalu aswatahumaindahu,
they lowered their voice in the presence of
the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And they wouldn't even like look at the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam face to face out
of glory for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
how much they honored the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And he said, wallahi laqadraitu
qaman
He said, Look, I just saw a people
that would not give him up for anything
in the world.
Remember he was the 1 that said these
people are going to flee you. He's going
back to Quraysi saying, never going to happen.
These people will never give up the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. They will indeed stand by
him. And he said, and on top of
that,
he says,
that he basically has given to you sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
fakmaluha, like he's given you a fair deal.
Like he's not
he's not trying to do anything that's out
of the ordinary. He's not trying to treat
you in a certain way. He's making a
very fair argument here. Accept what he's saying.
Like, I'm telling you there's no reason to
fight him this way,
and
that is what I believe. Give this up.
Stop fighting him. Unfortunately,
Quraysh did not listen, so Urwa basically said,
I'm out.
I tried and I'm telling you that the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is making a fair deal. Unfortunately,
they continue
to be aggressive.
They agitate.
Eventually, Sur Hudaybiyyah happens. The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
happens and of course the Meccans violate the
treaty
and their aggression against the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam marches upon Mecca
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam does not
come in the spirit of revenge. He comes
in the spirit of mercy as we've said.
He forgives people Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but he
comes with such an overwhelming amount of people
with him, Alaihi Wasallam,
that they don't they're not gonna fight him.
They can't fight him anymore Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam treats them
in the most noble of ways.
And the rest of that part is history,
forgiving the people of Mecca
overlooking what they had done to him SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
But then
we talk about Hunayn, and we talk about
Ta'if,
right, and what transpired after
that those groups then started to arrange forces
to attack the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because
Mecca is gone.
And so they wanted to attack the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and this is where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam proceeds towards Ta'af.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
surrounds Ta'af and places Ta'af
under siege.
Now here's the saying. It's very interesting subhanAllah
what happens with Ta'af.
The prophet
didn't want to destroy them. He had a
heart for them sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
So yes,
he is carrying out his due diligence as
a military leader as well
because he's leading a community here. He has
to do what he has to do, Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, but at the same time,
in the heart of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he wants these people to become Muslim.
He wants these people to be guided.
So what happens in Ta'af is that a
lot of those tribes, and and we know
how difficult Hunayn was, a lot of those
Bedouin tribes had basically fallen into Ta'af,
and they're really difficult to deal with, very
difficult to deal with.
So when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam surrounds
Thayf,
it's a pretty
strong siege that he places on Thayf,
but he doesn't charge insallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
So in that siege, there are negotiations that
are taking place with the leaders there.
Obviously, the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasalam is not
forcing people to become Muslim,
but the siege is getting tighter on them.
And the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasalam was there
for a month
outside of Ta'ath
with the Sahaba, many of them from Mecca
now that had joined.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
after being there for some time and speaking,
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Inna Qafirun Avada.
He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
we're gonna leave in the morning.
We're not gonna go in.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu in his enthusiasm and
some of the companions, they said, You Rasulullah,
why not? I mean, let's go, like we're
ready.
So the prophet
said, fine. In that case, go ahead and
fight. Give it a shot.
So the next morning,
some of the Sahaba attempted
to basically get into to start a battle.
And
clearly the people of Ta'af and those tribes,
like, they had their tricks.
So the arrows and different stuff started to
fly out there, and those Sahaba came back
exhausted and hurt.
And the Prophet
said, Inna Qafirun Adhan, we're going back in
the morning.
And no 1 said anything.
Falahee kar Rasoolallahu alaihi wasallam, the prophet laughed
like if you would have listened to me
yesterday,
you wouldn't have got yourselves hurt.
Khalafs, we're done. Like, let's go back to
Madinah. We don't have to we don't have
to carry forward now. We're good.
And SubhanAllah at this point,
and by the way, the du'a of Safar
was narrated as the prophet taught them what
to say returning from Ta'af to Madinah. So
the narration of dua, Safa, the dua of
travel,
is taught in this
context. Right? And you can think about it.
That we're going back to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, repented
as a 'Abidun, as worshippers.
To our Lord, we return. Right? This idea
that we're Alhamdulillah, we're good.
Now before that happens,
Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said that some of
the Sahaba said to the Prophet
You Rasulullah,
they struck us with their arrows.
Fadirullahalayhim,
make dua against them,
Make du'a against them. SubhanAllah, 20 years before
or not 20 years, but say about 13
or 14 years prior to that in Ta'if,
the angels said,
I can finish them.
The Prophet said no.
So when they said just make Dua against
them, the Prophet said, Allah, Mahdi Saqif
and bring them to me. So he made
dua'a for their guidance
instead.
He called out
that if anyone
would like to escape and who was he
speaking to? Particularly the enslaved.
If anyone would like to come back with
us and join us on our way to
Madinah, you can come out.
Alright?
But the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam left
them.
Now SubhanAllah while this is all happening, where's
Urwa bin Mas'ud?
Was a military leader, a a diplomat. He
was actually in Jaros and he was basically
working on weapons, learning
tricks of weaponry, learning how to use catapults,
manufacturing, and there are, of course, simple ways.
Right? Different weapons of war. He actually wasn't
in thought when the siege happened. He actually
was out.
So he wasn't there when this all happened.
But SubhanAllah,
when he found out what had happened and
he kind of becomes
updated by the Fatah Makkah and what has
happened with the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasalam's amnesty
and his forgiveness.
Word is spreading, right, that the prophet sallAllahu
alaihi wasalam did not create a bloodshed,
a bloodbath with the people that literally oppressed
him for 20 years.
Rarwa decides to go to Medina to become
Muslim.
So he himself goes to Madinah
to embrace Islam voluntarily.
So he goes
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was extremely
happy to receive him. So it's like a
completely different,
a different attitude altogether. Like it's not Hudaybiyah.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stands up.
He embraces him,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Like I knew from Hudaybiyyah you are a
prophet.
I knew from that whole interaction that you
were different,
but I'm here to embrace Islam.
Abu Bakr
threw that nasty
language at him? Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu said,
you're staying with me?
So Ur was gonna stay in Abu Bakr's
house.
And then Mughira ibn Shurba, who's his nephew,
says, absolutely not. He's staying in my house.
And he insists
until Urwa stays in his house instead of
Abu Bakr. So Subhanahu you see the interactions
of Hudaybiyyah,
the atmosphere, the mood completely
changed.
And Urwa says to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
You Rasoolullah,
I'm gonna go back to my people and
call them to Islam.
This is actually very profound here.
The prophet says,
they're gonna kill you.
They'll kill you. I'm worried about you.
Your people aren't ready for Islam.
Like I know Tawf, I've been through it.
I've been through that that harshness. I've been
through all of that torture and all of
that devastation.
Your people
are gonna kill you.
And look what he says. He says, my
people, he says,
like, my people love me so much. If
my people saw me asleep, they wouldn't dare
wake me up. That's how much my people
love me.
SubhanAllah. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is a
man
who when he received revelation, his people loved
him too. And when Waraqa told him, your
people will kill you and run you out,
the prophet said, me?
So it's like the prophet is saying, look,
I know how this goes.
I know you think that your people won't
hurt you and that your people love you
and that they'll embrace you, but Islam is
different.
You tell them to abandon their idols, things
are gonna go south
very, very quickly.
And Urwa insisted, he said, You Rasulullah,
let me try it. I know my people.
I'm gonna bring them back to you as
Muslims.
I'm gonna go to Ta'if, and I'm gonna
bring fakif back to you as Muslims.
SubhanAllah,
he goes back to Fati'if. He's been gone
for some time.
They come to him in Ta'if,
and they give him a greeting
in a way that they used to greet
each other in days of ignorance.
Right?
He responds and he says, instead I'll give
you the greeting that the people of Jannah
give the people of paradise. Peace.
They
said, are you serious?
He said, yes.
I'm a Muslim.
I want you all to be Muslim.
I went to
Medina. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is a
prophet of Allah. There is only 1 God.
Now what happens in his home, and this
was nighttime, so he got back and this
was at nighttime.
They got into a little bit of a
fight.
Right? So harsh words,
some hands are thrown. It's a skirmish of
sorts in his house, but not like death.
Right? Just anger.
Right? So you can imagine someone putting their
hands on a shirt or pushing him and,
like, trying to yell at him. And he's
all alone. Urwa has no 1 with him.
He's by himself,
but he's like, my people love me. I'm
the chief of these people. They're never gonna
hurt. Right?
They left the house angry.
Rurwa thought
by now
it would have settled in.
So SubhanAllah,
he stands up on the rooftop
at Fajr,
and he starts to call the Adhan, Allahu
Akbar, the first Adhan in Ta'af.
Allahu Akbar
And what do his people do?
They shoot him with arrows.
So he gets hit by arrows
from 1 of the subtribes of Ta'af, Ben
U Malik.
And he doesn't die right away, but this
did not turn out the way that he
thought it was gonna turn out.
So he comes down struck by arrows.
And,
you know, at this point now,
this became a tribal thing.
His people come to him,
and the first thing they're thinking is, we're
gonna kill 10 leaders of Ben Umali because
they killed our leader. Like, yeah, we don't
like your religion, but we don't like that
they struck you with arrows.
See how these people think?
Right? So we're gonna take revenge, and we're
gonna kill 10 of their leaders.
He says, la'taktru
Rufiyyah, don't kill anyone in my name.
My blood is charity.
There needs to be peace. I don't want
that between you.
And he said,
but
When I die,
bury me with the martyrs
who died outside of Ta'af
before they left you.
So SubhanAllah,
Urwa
dies
giving adhan amongst his people, a shahid,
and he's buried with the shuhada from Hunayn
and Taash.
It says, take me out there
and bury me
with them.
When this news came back to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
is like the man in Surah Yaseen.
He called his people and they killed him.
You know, the man,
when he goes back to his people and
he calls them to Islam, he calls them
to submit to 1 God,
and they murder him,
and Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la tells us what
he says after he's murdered. If only my
people knew better,
How my Lord forgave me and he made
me from those
who were considered
or those who had the generosity and the
grace of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bestowed
upon them. So Urwa RadiAllahu
Ta'ala Anhu
passes away as a shahid, a man who
resembles Ayesha Alaihi Salam
and a man RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu who the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam likened to the man
in Surah
Yaseem.