Omar Suleiman – The Switch Of The Qiblah Story Of Masjid Qiblatayn Special Episode Al-Aqsa
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The upcoming video series covers the struggles of the first two versions of the series, including the return of women to their village and the return of a woman to their village. The Qibla of Jerusalem became a source of mockery during a prayer at Jerusalem, leading to the transition of the Prophet's actions and the importance of following Islam to stay in peace. The series emphasizes the difficulty of finding people who missed the first Qibla and the significance of the Prophet's subhanahu wa'ta'ala. Pranks and mockery towards the Prophet are also discussed.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, alhamdulillah
wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasool Allah wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala So
as we're going through the virtues of Al
-Aqsa and we're going through this blessed series
I wanted us to have the opportunity to
actually come to the place where Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala turned the page and it's
really beautiful that as you're reading through the
mushaf The very first ayat of the second
juz as if subhanAllah you are turning the
page The next chapter is sayaqul al-sufaha
'u min al-nasi ma wallahum a'n
qiblatihim allatih kanu alayha Qul lillahi al-mashriq
wa al-maghrib yahdi man yasha'u ila
sirat al-mustaqeem That the foolish ones will
mock the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam They
will mock the Ummah of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and say what caused them
to turn away from the Qibla that they
were on before What is behind me is
Masjid al-Qiblatayn and it's called Masjid al
-Qiblatayn now the Masjid of the two Qiblas
For a very obvious reason which is that
the switch happened from Jerusalem to Mecca here
But there's a story that precedes that when
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam first came
to Medina There are a few things that
happened number one when the sahaba were in
Mecca Even though they were facing al-bayt
al-maqdis in Jerusalem They would put the
Kaaba between them and Jerusalem as they were
praying And so now as they are in
al-Medina the Kaaba is no longer between
them and Jerusalem.
They are facing Jerusalem exclusively and that comes
with all sorts of Emotional challenges psychological challenges
spiritual challenges that their backs are essentially turned
towards Mecca And you can see this when
you come inside the Masjid that as you
pray towards Jerusalem here Your back is literally
towards Mecca And so this further alienated them
from especially the muhajireen from the place that
they had just left But there's also a
second thing that why was their Masjid here
in the first place?
The tribes that lived a distance from the
Masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
established their musallas And so they would pray
in their musallas But they would connect to
the central Masjid of the Masjid of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and behind me
This was Masjid Banu Salima Banu Salima is
a famous tribe.
It's the tribe of Jabir ibn Abdullah radiallahu
ta'ala anhuma Whose father Abdullah ibn Amr
ibn Haram was a famous shaheed of the
battle of Uhud Who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said Allah spoke to directly when
he was martyred radiallahu ta'ala anhuma and
Jabir radiallahu ta'ala anhuma tells the story
of this place That when the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam set up the Masjid, Masjid
Nabawi The people who were here wanted to
basically pick up and move closer to the
Masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Which is Banu Salima and it's about a
two-mile walk from here to the Masjid
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
you can imagine how hard it is to
make that walk every single day to be
with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
Here is the famous hadith where the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told the
people here Diyaarukum tukhtabu aathaarukum, stay in your
places because your footsteps will be recorded Every
single step that you take to the Masjid
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
going to be recorded with Allah subhana wa
ta'ala So don't abandon your places But
he would come out sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and he would pray in these various Musalas
and that was a way of keeping connected
to these tribes.
So it wasn't always them going to him
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Sometimes it was him
coming out to them Now, how does this
relate to the switch of the Qibla?
When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam got
here Of course, there were Jewish tribes people
of the book that were waiting for the
Prophet that was prophesized in their scripture But
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam didn't fit
the mold.
He wasn't from the children of Ishaq instead
he was from the children of Ismail and
Because of that many of them rejected the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
what made it more audacious to them and
a Source of mockery was that how is
it that this man alayhis salatu was salam
dares to face towards Jerusalem in his prayer?
Because that too was their Qibla that too
was their prayer direction and they said what
is it with him?
You khalifu dinana, he contradicts our religion, wa
yattabi qiblatana but he follows our Qibla and
so they were mocking the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and Herein Mujahid rahimahullah mentions that
the sentiment that the companions of the Messenger
of Allah had of Missing Mecca and missing
the Kaaba as well as being mocked for
facing Jerusalem as if it wasn't there Comes
together in this moment where the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam says to Jibreel alayhis salam
Yeah, Jibreel would Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow
us to face towards Mecca He was missing
the Qibla, Qibla to Abi Ibrahim the Qibla
that was built by his father Ibrahim alayhis
salam And Jibreel alayhis salam says to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam innama ana abdun
mithluk Look, I am just a slave of
Allah just like you and you are abdun
kareem You are a noble slave of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
You have a makan.
You have a place with Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala So go ahead and ask Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala and see what happens And this
is where the ayah comes qad nara taqalluba
wajhika fissama'i falanuwalliyannaka qiblatan tardaaha fawalli wajhaka
shatar almasjid alharam Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says
that we see you looking towards the heavens
and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
looking towards the heavens waiting for an answer
to his request to face towards masjid alharam
in Mecca and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala sent
Jibreel alayhis salam to switch the Qibla of
the Muslims towards Mecca as Anas ibn Malik
radiAllahu anhu says this was about 16 or
17 months into the hijrah of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam How does it happen
and what makes this masjid so special?
So in the masjid of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, if you look at the
initial construction It was facing towards Jerusalem.
So facing towards Jerusalem from Medina is not
different If you look at the original construction
of masjid Quba, they were facing towards almasjid
al-Aqsa But here in masjid al-Qiblatain
is the only place that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam prayed towards both Qiblas in
a single Salah it was salat al-dhuhr
or salat al-asr that the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was leading the companions here
and The switch came in the middle of
the salah and so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam turned Towards almasjid al-Haram and
it is literally in the opposite direction and
as the scholars mentioned the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and the men Switched with the
women and the Qibla entirely switched within that
single salah And so afterwards the message started
to go out the messengers went to masjid
Quba They went to the masjid of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to say we
swear by Allah that we saw the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Praying towards a different
Qibla a new chapter literally the first page
of the second chapter of the Quran for
the Muslims and When this happens as the
Qibla starts to change towards Mecca The same
people of the book that initially mocked the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for facing towards
almasjid al-Aqsa they came to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and they were grieved
as The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
no longer facing their Qibla and so they
didn't have that claim over him anymore And
some of them even said to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if you face back
towards Jerusalem Then maybe we will follow you
But Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala had made permanent
the place of the first Qibla and now
the place of masjid al-Haram as well
We have not lost the spiritual significance of
Jerusalem of al-bayt al-maqdis But at
the same time we face towards what Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala commanded us Which is almasjid
al-Haram and it is upon us to
follow the command of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
as he has given to us And Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala says وَمَا جَعَلْنَا الْقِبْلَةَ الَّتِي
كُنْتَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا لِنَعْلَمَ مَن يَتَبِعُ الْرَسُولُ مِمَّن
يَنْقَلِبُ عَلَىٰ عَاقِبَيْهِ That we did not assign
this first Qibla of Jerusalem except as a
test Because almasjid al-Haram is greater than
masjid al-Aqsa.
It's greater than the masjid of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam We assigned it as
a test to see who would indeed follow
the messenger of Allah who would indeed follow
the scripture Who would indeed follow the command
of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Because where Allah
tells you to face you face what Allah
tells you to follow you follow and just
like those companions Didn't ask questions when the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam turned around that
he faced the different Qibla They all turned
around سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا We hear and we obey
That was the message that was given to
the people of the book That was the
message given to anyone who claims to be
ready to follow the instructions of the Prophet
of Allah who claims to be Ready to
follow the scripture as it has been given
and so facing al-Aqsa was a test
Facing al-Aqsa was a virtue and Allah
combined for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
al-Qiblatain as a sign that he is
the Prophet to Bani Ismail and he is
the Prophet to Bani Israel and he is
the Prophet to Bani Adam as a whole
and that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
all of those things Together and by virtue
of that a place in the hearts of
the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
But one more question remains.
What about all those people who never got
to pray towards Mecca?
What about all those people who never got
to pray towards Masjid al-Haram?
The sahaba wondered what was the state of
their salah?
So I want you to think about the
fact that all of the shuhada of Uhud's
Passed away from this world Hamza radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu, Mus'ab radiAllahu anhu and beyond
and None of them knew Mecca as a
qibla for the time that they were here
all of their salah was entirely Towards al
-bayt al-maqdis and so some of the
companions came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and they said ya rasool Allah What
about ikhwan al-ladhina matu?
Qabla tahawla al-qibla what about those people
that died our brothers who died before the
qibla was changed and all of their salah
was towards Bayt al-maqdis was all of
their prayer in vain And that's why Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed wa ma kanallahu
li yudhia'a imanakum innallaha bin nasi la
ra'ufun raheem Allah will not let your
faith go to waste i.e. your salah
your salah has not gone to waste Oh
Hamza the great shaheed, Mus'ab the great
shaheed all of their prayers were towards al
-bayt al-maqdis But the same Lord was
being prayed to whether they were facing al
-bayt al-maqdis or they were facing Mecca
After that change Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will not lose our faith Allah will not
lose our efforts May Allah accept our efforts
for al-bayt al-maqdis and may Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala turn our hearts Towards
him and bring us near to him and
allow us to be neighbors of our beloved
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam fil firdaws al
-a'la with all of the prophets that
came before with the martyrs with the siddiqeen
and the salihin Allahumma ameen jazakum Allah khair
wa salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh