Omar Suleiman – The One Child Pharoah Didnt Kill
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The first one, he does so as a precaution. As Mufasa Dean
mentioned that Firon saw a dream. One narration of that dream, he
saw a fire that came from Al Bayt, Al maqdis, that came from
Jerusalem
and that overtook every single home in Egypt, except for Beni.
Islayed. In another narration, he saw a child from Beni Islam rising
to take his throne. On top of that, some of the Mufasa Deen
mentioned that Ibrahim Ali, his salaam,
had prophesied that a child from his descendants would overthrow a
Firon.
And Faron gathers at his time, as we all know, the Sahara, the
sorcerers, the fortune tellers, the magicians, and he tells them
about this dream. And to a tyrant, all children are disposable. There
is no regard for human life. And he says to his advisors, from the
soothsayers and the fortune tellers and the magicians, what am
I to do with this dream?
And they say to him that the safest way to deal with this is to
murder each and every single child from Bani, Israel, kill all the
boys that were born this year,
and spare only the girls. And so
I want you to think about the operation as it takes place.
Imagine the horror of every mother who already went through the pain
of childbirth when the soldiers of Ferron show up at her house and
are completely stone cold to any type of plea from the mom to
please spare This child of mine,
and one by one, they murdered each and every single boy that they
could find. Some mothers tried to hide their children, but these
soldiers were ruthless and SubhanAllah. Some of the
narrations say 2030, 40,000, boys were killed,
and as they go through, Allah subhanahu wa mentions the
inspiration that he gives to the mother of Musa Ali his salaam to
take her son and to put him in the Nile River. But that's not all
that Allah subhanahu wa says, happens. Allah subhanahu wa says,
Wa Al qay to a mahabatamini and I placed upon you a special love
from me what it is, and kept you under my watchful eye. Now,
subhanAllah, in this situation, let's take a step back as the
mother puts the one child that survives this genocide into the
Nile River. What are the chances of the survival of that child
going into the Nile River? Allah subhanahu wa says two things,
other than the promise to bring him back, other than the promise
to let that child be the source of victory, and that child actually
be the nightmare that Faron had. Other than that, Allah subhanahu
wa
I dressed you with my love, and there's something very beautiful
about this expression in particular. And I want you to
think about the children of Gaza, and I want you to think about the
people of ghaza, with all of the propaganda, with all of the
Islamophobia, with all the anti Arab racism and xenophobia that
we've we've seen fester over decades in movies and in press
with all of that. A decent human being looks at these people in
Gaza and says, that doesn't look like a terrorist to me. A decent
human being looks at the people that are being martyred and says,
that's not the type of person that I can find justified, even with
all of your propaganda to dismember into pieces the way that
you have
they look at the children of Gaza. And some people's hearts have been
brought back to life, and some people are starting to find a
connection to a cause that they either had no idea about all these
years, or
that they used to stand on the opposite side of Wale to aliqu
mahabhata Mini I placed upon you love I mean Abbas, what the Allah
says, meaning Allah subhanahu wa loved him, Wahab, Baba Hu ilahahi
And Allah subhanahu wa made Him beloved to the creation, meaning
what, as Qatada Rahim Allah Taala says in ikramah Radi Allahu Ahad,
no one would look at Musa alaihi salam, not knowing anything about
where he was from, not knowing anything about the propaganda. A.
Of the children that would be born that no one looked at Musa alaihi
salam, ILA AHA Bahu, except that they immediately fell in love with
him.
Everyone looked at Musa alaihi salam because Allah dressed him
with the love and immediately loved him. Meaning you could say
everything you wanted about Musa alaihi salam, but even when the
magicians of firam saw him the first time, something was already
in their hearts, because Allah subhanahu wa dressed him in a
certain way, and that's nothing that a tyrant could interfere
with.
And Allah subhanaw taala said, and I kept you under my watchful eye
this entire time, he remained under the protection and the sight
of Allah subhanahu wa even when no one else could watch him. I see
some of these children from Raza
that walk through the ruins of their camps and have had every
single member of their family taken away from them, and I remind
myself when I look at that, as much as I want to pick that child
up, that Allah subhanho wa Taala is watching that child, and that
Allah azza wa jal has a plan for that child. What about all the
other children that their own killed? That one or this one?
All of them were sent to their Jannah.
They were sent to their paradise. And that's what makes the believer
different. We can see the ugliness of murder and the beauty of
martyrdom in the exact same scene. We can see how nasty it is on this
side, and we have certainty in how beautiful it is on the other side,
without in any way diminishing our outrage over what has happened
here, nor losing trust about what is happening there. Allah had a
plan for them, and Allah subhanaw taala had a plan for Musa alaihi
salam and of the Makar of Allah subhanahu wa against the Faron is
that not only would one child survive his genocide, but that
that child would grow up in his palace, under his eye, on his
watch, and overthrow him and drown him in the sea by the permission
of Allah subhanahu wa the faraon actually tried this again, and
this is what the scholars mentioned, that there's a second
incident where Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about it in Surat Al
araf, where Faron mentions San Luca, Tiru, abna Abu Asmaa home wa
in a heron that we're going to kill all of their boys and we're
Going to spare their girls, and we will usher in an era of complete
dominance over them. And this was after Musnad Ali Salam had
believers with him for their own son. I know how to deal with this.
I'll just kill all of their children. I know exactly how to
deal with deal with this. I have the playbook murder their
children,
but the one child he couldn't murder, the one child he missed
became the reason for his complete downfall, because Allah subhanahu
wa does not miss.
La yon Saron, they will not be victorious. Say it from the heart,
the same heart that's heartbroken over the murder and that has faith
in what comes after martyrdom, hamim la Yom Saron, they will not
be victorious, because Allah subhanahu wa will not miss.
Is it one of the amputees that has been thrown away into a bordering
country where he or she is not wanted? Is it one of the children
who is growing up in the refugee camp and who now has a sense of
purpose when their childhood was stolen away from them as to what
they want to live the rest of their life doing and what they
want to meet after death. What is it? Allah subhanho wa Taala has a
plan,
and the tyrant always misses someone. The tyrant always misses
a detail. Allah subhanahu wa never misses, and Allah subhanahu wa
never loses sight of the details, dear brothers and sisters, it's
hot outside, so I'm going to wrap this Qutb up in sha Allah to spare
the people that are sitting outside.
There are times where we're going to get hit hard, we're
going to cry a lot, we're going to feel a lot of pain, and we're
going to wonder now what
and those are the times that it becomes that much more important
for you to lean back on the Promise of Allah subhanahu wa and
to remember that It was not your victory to start with,
and also that true victory is found in the willingness to
sacrifice for Allah subhanho wa taala, and the willingness to
stand up. And that idea of sacrifice, that idea of freedom,
that idea of standing up, is resonating now around the world,
not just in the ghaza strip, in ways that it never has before, Al
baradi, Allahu taala, and who says Kala and tumul Fat hafat hamaq, he
said that you people consider the victory, the conquest, to be the
conquest of Mecca, wakat Khan of fat. Wakat Khan a fat hum, fat
Han. And indeed, the conquest of Mecca was a victory.
Wanach, Bey Atul rudwa, As for us, we see the true victory having
come under the tree when we pledged with the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, in the midst of negotiations that
some people saw as a humiliation for the Muslims and a sign of
weakness, it was in that that there was a willingness to
sacrifice that Allah subhanahu wawarded And that doors were
opened that they could not see, even if it wasn't the ultimate
door that they wanted to be opened.
There's something I want to remind you of with the death and
destruction Subhanallah, the man who said this quote,
a man by the name of Medgar Evers famous civil rights icon in the
1960s he has a famous quote that says, you can kill a man but you
can't kill an idea. It's actually a quote that was on the funeral
program of Al Haj medica Shabazz al ima Allah, who was murdered at
the age of 39 who we're still talking about today. He would have
been 100 years old next year.
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. If you go to the
driveway of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi,
the blood from when he was shot still stains the driveway, you
actually stand in the blood of a man. You can kill a man, but you
can't kill an idea.
And that is the mistake and the miscalculation of every single
tyrant, of every single Pharaoh. You can kill a man, but you can't
kill an idea. Alhamdulillah for an idea that is so potent, that is so
pervasive, that it has spread throughout the world, and that we
are bidnahita nurturing in the hearts of our next generations.
Alhamdulillah for that,
and when we see the pain, I leave you with this dua of the Prophet,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, as Abdullah mentioned, he said that
we went out on the day of Badr, that the Prophet SAW Yama badrin,
he went out on the day of Badr, and he had 315 people with him,
and he made the following dua, Allahumma ina hum, hafatun O
Allah, they are naked. O Allah, they are barefoot. Famil hum,
allahumatun O Allah, they are barefoot, so provide for them.
Mounts. Allahumma ina hum, ratun FAQ suhum, Oh Allah, they are
naked, so clothe them. Allah. Ina hum Ji, aun for Ash, Barum, Oh
Allah, they are hungry, so feed them. Allah. Ina ham fatun, fah,
Minh hum, Oh Allah, they are barefoot, so give them something
to ride upon. Allah ina ham RAM FAQ Suh hum, Oh Allah, they are
naked, so clothe them. Allah. Ina hum Ji, aun for Ash, Barum, Oh
Allah, they are hungry, so feed them. And he says, radi Allah, for
Fatah, Allahu, Alabama, lahini waktaso washabiru. He said that
the prophets, why some left the Battle of Badr, and not a single
person that was with him came out of that battle, except that he had
a camel or two camels, and that he was fully clothed and had extra
accessories, and that they had something to fill their stomachs
with.
And so we complain to Allah subhanahu.
WA, our people are hungry, so feed them. Oh Allah, our people are
naked, so clothe them. Oh Allah, our people do not have clean
water, so provide them clean water. Oh Allah, our people are
under the most mischievous and evil tyrant that we have known in
our lifetime. Oh Allah, so grant them victory. Oh Allah, our people
are desperate, so give them hope. Oh Allah, our people are feeling
neglected. So, Oh Allah, Be with them. Oh Allah, our people are
sad. Oh Allah, grant them happiness. Oh Allah, our people
have been betrayed. So, Oh Allah, Be their guardian. Oh Allah, our
people have been cut off. Oh Allah, place us in solidarity with
them. Oh Allah, grant our people in Raza and the oppressed all over
the world. Victory, Allah. Ameen Abu Asmaa, Kami, Sala.
Muslim, Allah,
a mujahi.
Rabbana,