Sajid Ahmed Umar – Blast From The Past – Season 2 – Episode 15

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala rasulillah who Allah
AlLahi wa sahbihi wa seldom at the Sleeman kathira en la Yomi been America.
		

			Salam alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
		

			Masha Allah,
		

			all praises belongs to Allah subhanho wa Taala and peace and salutations be upon the final messenger
Muhammad Ali Abdullah Saleh Allahu alayhi wa sallam, I bear witness that there is no one worthy of
worship besides one Allah and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is His Messenger. My dear
brothers and sisters. Welcome to episode number 15. Season Two blast from the past Sierra in the
21st century. We began two episodes ago the story of lasr and El Mirage, which is the travel by
night and then the ascension to the heavens, they traveled by night from Mecca to Jerusalem to beta
lock this and then the ascension to the heavens. And since then, we have been taking lessons from
		

			this great event in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		

			Yesterday, we discussed several lessons we'll learn
		

			from those lessons was the importance of Salah in our lives, given that it was a gift from the gifts
of Allah subhanho wa Taala to His Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam during that night during that
night. And just as a to reiterate
		

			the point and that point is always remember Salah is a gift. Always remember Salah is a gift, no
matter how hard shavon tries to make you feel it's a burden. Always conquer that.
		

			You know, Chapin's gooseberries by remembering it's a gift by remembering where Allah subhanho wa
Taala Allah gave it to his messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right? Remember the order of the
surroundings, the aura of the event in which the Salah was given to us. So it's a gift. It's not a
burden. And if anyone benefits from it, it is us. Right? Allah doesn't benefit from our sujood. It
is we who benefit. May Allah grant us the understanding. I mean, you're open. I mean, the last point
we discussed, and this is just the last two points Raja
		

			Salah was the second last one. And the last one we discussed was Allah being generous, and the
reality of Allah being Kareem, and how Allah rewards that you do so little, and he gives you a
reward that no one can reward you with. In fact, it's a multiplied reward, so cannot be an errand
and we get this from the fact that He rewards us 50 as if we have observed 50 Salawat
		

			for those who observe the five times daily, Salah so we observe five very rewards us as if we've
done 50 and this reminds me of a question which was asked the other day in one of the previous
episodes, I spoke to you about
		

			observing the Salah with the Imam until the Imam finishes and you get the rewards of praying the
whole night. So one of the questions came in that you know, are there any other ways to get the
rewards of praying the whole night? Perhaps this person wants to leave early. So we say no. The
other way is to stand the whole night and pray.
		

			But there is another way to end the rewards of standing the whole night because we learn from the
sooner that a person who reads selects the Isha in JAMA with the Imam, then Allah rewards him for
having prayed half the night and whoever then observed Salatu fecha with Gemma with the Imam, then
Allah rewards him for having observed the other half of the 19 prayer as if he stood the other half
of the night in prayer. So if you observe these two Salawat in JAMA, then Allah rewards you again
with the reward of having stood the entire night in prayer. Imagine you sleeping and you are being
forgiven. You sleeping and your agenda is becoming more beautiful, more palaces, more streams, more
		

			forests, whilst you rest by Allah who can reward you like this. We Allah grant us the understanding.
I mean, from the lessons, my dear brothers and sisters of this amazing event in this era is the
importance of having a system
		

			system and looking after the system and looking after the rules and understanding that rules are
meant to be followed and not broken. The Islamic concept is rules are meant to be followed I know
today, especially amongst the youth. It's meant to be broken. That's the exciting part about rules.
How to break
		

			The rules like
		

			this is this is not a slightly concept, the Islamic concept is to look after the rules, because the
Sherry Act came to bring about Muslims and benefit and increased benefits and it came to eradicate
and remove harm. This is what the Sherry I came down with the clear ol masala water clean Alma
fashion, what is reality? The Sherry came to make manifest and abundant benefits and muscle and
goodness and it came to remove and lessen harm, harm. Breaking the system induces harm looking after
it entails benefits. Traffic lights, for example, are a system a system there to look after life,
the sherea would definitely promote traffic lights. Yes, we know traffic lights is is
		

			something that came later on it wasn't there at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
But if someone asked the question that would the Sharia promote traffic lights? We'll say yes, this
is from a concept known as Masada and masala, the public benefits, right? those benefits that the
Sharia wants to promote. And we understand it by looking at the holistic structure of the Sharia.
Looking at the holistic values of the Sharia, one of the objectives of the Sharia is to protect life
and is to protect wealth. Traffic lights help us protect life and protect wealth hamdulillah. So
yes, the Sharia would promote traffic lines. This is what the Sharia is about. And this is just an
		

			example. Right rules at home must be looked after rules at school rules at work, rules of domestic
rules of organizations, Islamic organizations, especially follow the rules, government rules,
meaning country rules, follow the rules don't travel to countries without understanding what are the
do's and what are the don'ts because the law of the land must be looked after. And the law of the
land is not as forgiving. You see that child agrees with me Mashallah. The law of the land is not as
forgiving as the sherea sherea will forgive you if you didn't know. Genuinely I didn't know. So
ALLAH forgive the Sharia forgives you if you forgot, Allah forgives you, the law of the land now,
		

			you travel at 100 kilometres POW at at the policeman doesn't care if you are fasting today and you
are bit hungry. He's not going to say no, I'm fasting you know Muslims fast Ramadan, we fasting we
hungry. So, you know, without realizing we did 100 every day I drive at 80 This is the one office
sorry, this is the rules. You need to be fine. Right? You need to be fine. That is the law of the
land is not the same as the law of Allah. systems are there to be looked after. If you travel to a
country, understand the rules, understand the rules of the customs and immigration. What do you
require? What does your visa permit you to do? What does it permit you to do? Right?
		

			must understand this brothers and sisters because when you enter, you have agreed to comply to the
rules. And if you agree, then you must follow you must follow. Right? Because even if you don't use
them for number one and number two, your harm is going to spoil the name of Islam. People will say
this Muslims, you know, they don't follow the rules. So you are doing a disservice to Islam and a
disservice to the message of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam So, we learn from the surrender
we are asked to follow the rules where exactly do we learn this from? From how gibreel had to
announce who he was before he got entry into the heavens, how he had to sort of knock at the door if
		

			we could say that and seek permission to enter and the angel will ask who is with you? Yes we have
clearance for someone who has sent to mankind engine time. Is he the one with you? Yes. Okay. Now
you can enter
		

			we know you gibreel but this is the rules, who sets the rules Allah subhanho wa Taala we follow. So
the rules are meant to be looked after. And no one is meant to go against it unless the law says
that this particular person has a special clearance with regards to this rule. Is this clear? My
dear brothers and sisters. So promote this with your children, promote this with the teenagers
promote this at work at the masjid organizations. Look after the rules. May Allah grant us the
understanding. We also learned my dear brothers and sisters, the importance of establishing
trustworthy people around us trustworthy people, and removing if you allow me to say quote unquote
		

			the riffraff you know the riffraff people who are there.
		

			They breathe around you
		

			but they don't benefit you in any way.
		

			In fact, they might just cause you harm.
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala. Through this israa and through this mirage. Through this, he made manifest.
		

			He made manifest the pure from the impure. We had people like Abubakar, who said immediately,
whether it makes sense or it doesn't make sense. I'm paraphrasing. It's as if he said this, did he
say? They said yes. He said, this is what happened to him. He did this impossible thing of going in
a split second to wade through the muck of this and then from there to the seventh heavens remember
the operation? They didn't believe in the hereafter. So they didn't believe in this concept of
heavens and so on and so forth. So this is what he's saying. What did Abubakar say? If he said, I
believe
		

			Allahu Akbar. Doesn't matter what I think he said it. He doesn't tell lies. I believe it. This is
how you establish the trustworthy around you. Right? So I'm not saying we should start testing
people. But I'm saying be diligent and
		

			don't be in oblivion. Be diligent, and be careful and observe, learn from events, you traveled with
someone, a few things happened, don't take it for granted. Learn from it, put it into memory plus
that okay, I've learned this about my fellow friends. Right? Because not everyone is the same.
Sometimes, you know, in the city, when you together, they're the most easiest of people when you
travel, you see how fussy they are? It might be two o'clock in the morning, you tired? But no, they
went to a particular hotel. It happens, isn't it? Like this hotel? Because I'm tired.
		

			You know, we have a roof over our head a place to sleep? No, no, no, no, it was before stuff. Till
we find one no one's going to sleep hungry, learn how you learn, oh, you know, especially very
particular is very particular. Sometimes you find the person to be easygoing in the city. When you
travel with him, you say no, he's very particular, he must eat this type of food, the food must be
this temperature. And the taste must be of this sort of level, and this sort of quality, and so on.
And so you learn this, we learned this about each other. So we should be observant to these lessons.
Don't be oblivious, because experiences teach us about each other. Those who love Salalah alayhi wa
		

			sallam was taught here, this was a manifestation, right? Because the Buddha was always close. But
look how close he was now. Right. And these people from the parish we discussed yesterday,
yesterday, the reality. And in previous episodes, when we spoke about the types of people around us,
those who want to learn those who don't want to learn,
		

			they only want to waste time. So in your circle, also understand who's there that can benefit you
and who is there to waste your time and accordingly, allocate your resources, because you also must
be responsible for your development not so brothers and sisters, we must be responsible, right. And
also it makes life easier for you later on, you know, in corporate structures or in in the corporate
field, they talk about conflict management, right, this is this is a, this is a whole program, right
at the corporate level of conflict management. So you need to also engage yourself or engage this
concept of conflict management, by being aware and learning from your experiences. So you don't ask
		

			someone who's never going to help you to help you. Right? And you don't go with some benefit to
someone who's not interested in your benefit to share that benefit. So you don't waste his time and
you don't waste your time. Leola grant is the understanding. I mean, my dear brothers and sisters,
		

			from the lessons of this great happening, this is Aurora. And this Mirage is
		

			the lesson pertaining to
		

			what we discussed earlier and the fact that you know what, nothing is impossible for Allah. Nothing
is impossible for Allah. And the lesson that we also shared earlier. And I want to just reiterate it
because now we entering this period of ease, right, the lessons are not as intense as before, and
that lesson is that for every one difficulty, there is a minimum of two evils. And reward is
proportional to effort. The greater the effort, the greater the reward, right, the test of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was so intense.
		

			So look at the intensity of the reward of your sorrow. And look at that, you know, can you imagine
seeing the unseen being taken to Jenna, seeing the different levels, meeting the other prophets? You
know what, you know, we would call it a man boosting, but you know How refreshing that was for the
messenger salallahu alayhi wasallam. How refreshing that was, because imagine, he's going through
this difficulty and then he meets Moosa.
		

			Musa can share his stories he makes use of use of shares his stories he meets Lisa, he says, Don't
worry, just hang in there alone will get you through it. Right? If this is understand what you know
the intensity of this gift, the intensity of this ease, and indeed Allah is deserving of all praise,
and indeed allies upon all evil. With that my dear brothers and sisters, we come
		

			through the shrine Mirage to the you know, the events in the Sierra after it. And what we find when
we look in the books of Sierra is that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He toiled with the
Polish as we know. And now Allah gave him this mighty gift. He went to Thai, he had the boycott, he
lost his wife, he lost a father figure viktiga and greed support Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he realigned his efforts.
		

			He so when we use the word realign, we might say, you know, he came, you know, meaning he had the
way and he went off it, it came back and that's not what I mean. But let me not say realign, let's
say refocused or he changed focus, he changed focus.
		

			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam after this event, we see that he became more particular with
invite with propagating Islam to the visitors that came to MCC
		

			especially during the seasons of Orion hatch. Right. So, Lawson Allahu alayhi wa sallam after
obviously analyzing the time spent with the parish 10 years plus, what does he do? He changes focus
is not that he's given up that over to the parish. But he appropriately changes focus. Because we
know MCE had the caravan. And Mecca had developed. So it was natural that people from different
walks of life would pass through, either for water, or either for Amara, or either for Hajj. And
because of hombre and Hajj, it became a hotspot for trade. So people would pass by as well for
trade. We know this in business, right? We try and advertise with his foot traffic, right? Because
		

			it cuts down our cost of customer acquisition. For those who have businesses, you know this, right?
So if you come to Macau with your goods, it's a it's a great thing, because foot traffic is
automatic in this in this region. So Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, now took the
opportunity. And it was an it was an ample take to distribute the message or to focus in terms of
his resources, his time to put a greater focus on these people. These people coming from outside why
less baggage. They don't know what's happening in Mecca much. Secondly,
		

			you know, when people shopping and they go back home, they share travel experiences, right? What
bigger experience can you have than going home and telling people Oh, by the way, when I went to
Makkah, they said there's a messenger sent by God Almighty Allahu Akbar, this is this is breaking
news. Right? This is definitely something to discuss over dinner. Right? So definitely the the
message of there being a Prophet would go back to all these different places. And that's we see
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, giving Dawa to people who came from the regions close to
Persia, and the and the regions close to Rome, and the people coming into Mecca from the north, and
		

			the people coming into Mecca from the south. Right. And we find a plethora in terms of how they
received this message. Yes, the majority rejected the message that rejected the majority, were not
very pleasant with the message, but Subhanallah we find from them, people who accepted the message.
		

			And this was, again, how happy would Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi. wasallam be when a Shahada came
to be, right, we we've discussed this time and time again. So some people except that you had and we
also find from these people, those people who didn't accept Islam straight away, but the message
became incubated in their minds and their hearts as they went home, they were thinking about it, as
they live back with their people, they were thinking about it. And then the time came, when it
matured upon them, and they accepted Islam. So the result was an immediate, but it happened
thereafter. The seeds were planted when they came to Makkah and Subhanallah we also see that as a
		

			result of these people, accepting Islam with the people, then many people in the tribe started
accepting Islam and also a logical deduction is that when you go back to your city and it happens,
you know, sometimes you go on a holiday, you come back you say, Oh, you know, I went to the Maldives
and it was like this and it was like this and it was like that, what happens to the people you speak
to the seas of Panama inshallah, next trip will go to the Maldives or will go here or will go, you
know, this is a logical deduction based on human interaction.
		

			This is what happens, right? We benefit from people's experiences. So if somebody comes and says,
you know, they think there's a messenger from Allah, and he's situated in Mecca. Now there's a new
reason for people to travel. First people travel for trade over water, or for Oman, or for Hajj. Now
the traveling because of, you know, this, this this message, that there's a, there's a messenger
from God in Mecca, this is an attraction, because people by default, you know, we curious, and if
something now ticks our curiosity, we want to go forward, and we want to investigate right, human
nature. So now there's a new reason for people to come to Makkah. So a lot of sense. You know,
		

			there's a lot of sense in the focus of the hour shifting to this a battle, and these of these
individuals who came to Mecca, and these tribes that came to Mecca. And we spoke earlier about
strategizing, you know, revisiting your plan, how well is it working? What's my efficiency? Right?
This quarter? How efficient Have I been with the goals? next quarter? How efficient Have I been with
my goals? In 2014? First Quarter 75% efficiency hamdulillah this year, first quarter? 65%
efficiency? Why? What happened? We need a meeting, I need to meet my team. What went wrong? Did we
set too high goals? Were they obstacles? Were there things beyond our control? Right? Let's
		

			understand. So the next quarter, we get into the next quarter better? We don't have the same
mistakes from here, which reduces efficiency later. Does this make sense brothers and sisters, this
is how businesses are run. This is this is what we call efficiency, right? and sustainability. So
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is rightfully now allocating the resources, allocating the
resources. And you know what my dear brothers and sisters, I want you to hang on to every word that
I'm saying. And think about the hegira. every lesson we take Now, think about it. And in front of
it, think about the hedgerows. And I want you to join the dots. Because to Panama, that hijra which
		

			is considered the greatest opening for the Muslim Ummah, indeed it was because it gave the Muslims
finally a home that hegira These were the steps that would lead to that hegira happening. It was
this hour to this visit visitors coming in. And the points that I've shared, that you know
manifested and multiplied and grew and the intensity became more and more and more and more until
two panela the hegira became something which could be a reality, and inshallah we'll discuss that in
the upcoming episodes because we have the pledge of allegiance, the first Pledge of Allegiance the
second Pledge of Allegiance by our two lacava alula withania. inshallah, we'll come to it. So this
		

			is basically what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did.
		

			And when we look in the books of Sierra, we see that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to
go to the people. And he used to say, yeah, you are nurse kulula illa, Allah to flu, oh, people say
that La ilaha illa Allah and you will be successful. Right, this is what he would do. Now.
		

			We have the courage never stopped. Because as the poor he saw that his attention is focusing to
these innocent people coming in, or people who are not carrying the baggage, right? The baggage that
is present in Mecca, we find someone like Abu lahab, following the messenger, you know what they
call an escort, escorting him, while not escorting him to look after him. But let's call it an
escort. Let's call it a tale. He was a tale. He was tailing the property. So Haley, he was telling
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says this message,
a bola have shops on the top of his voice. Don't listen to this man. He's mad. Don't listen to this
		

			man. He's a liar. Then in some instances, we find the courage coming together. And they would go and
meet the heads of tribes, or bring the heads of tribes in and tell them look you are here. Be aware,
we have a bit of a recession here, we have a big problem. We haven't managed to sort out for 10
years or more. This problem is long lasting. There's this man, his name is Mohammed is going to tell
you ABCDE please from the outset, don't give him your time. And if you give him your time, don't
listen to his message. This is what they will do. So the propaganda was shifting to the visitors.
Right? In the fifth year. After Prophethood the propaganda was sent to Nigeria in Africa. That was
		

			another episode and that was the last episode of season one which inshallah you have the links now
and the DVDs will come to you Bismillah to Allah. Right. But so you know, propaganda. This is a
lesson which we need to sit down with my dear brothers and sisters, because we see Islamophobia
today, and the propaganda against Islam, and the rumors that that spread like wildfire, about the
message of Mohammed about Islam, about the teachings of Islam. May Allah grant us life to take these
lessons, but can you repeat
		

			The Sierra in the 21st century. Right? When you are fasting, you know, this is the situation My dear
brother, my dear sister The situation was was like that then as well.
		

			It was like that then as well, when Islam wasn't even established as it is established. Now, think
about it. A lot of the time we put our hands up and give up. Now, it's impossible. The problem is
too big. This is our problem. We globalize issues, we globalize matters, it causes us to
hyperventilate, and then we go unconscious. That's what happens is they call us nothing we can do,
let's leave it. Let's just you know, worry about ourselves, our family pay our school fees, you
know, we have three meals hamdulillah Buddha paid better, it's more peaceful to the heart, we cause
ourselves to hyperventilate, because we globalizing the problem, we fail to realize that earlier
		

			message I shared with with you all, that the the legacy of the hour was not given to one man, it was
given to an entire Ummah, which is you and i, you and i, we are part of the solution, you giving up
is only causing, you know causing harm to other people who are trying, because we are together in
this is not one person, we are together in this, everybody has his role to play, everybody has a
role to play you giving up is making it harder for your partner, the next person, the next Muslim.
		

			So a Buddha would go and tell the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and do this and the courage
to do this. But you know what, my dear brothers and sisters, this propaganda only cause some of the
people to become more curious. You know, there's some people who don't allow other people to walk in
their head with their dirty feet. They say look, if you want to walk in my head, clean your shoes
first. Right Thing your shoes first. So when the police were doing what they were doing, they would
go in go to the camera. And they would try and sit near the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and
when he's praying Salah, they would sit and listen to the Quran. See, what is he reciting? They're
		

			not speaking to him. They've been wearing saying let's just eavesdrop. You know, let's see what he's
saying. And then they'll say to Panama, this guy, these words are pure. These words are good.
Because as you will see some poets who are fluent in the Arabic language, they were the ones
listening to the Quran in saying, whoa, this is something, this is something else. What is this?
What are you talking about? Right? And we find from them those that accepted the message and went
back home and call people to the message Allahu Akbar. So sometimes propaganda is good. And
inshallah we'll, we'll, we'll discuss this when we take the lessons from the people that would, you
		

			know, become curious and go to the message to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Were people
like suede. Osama, right. He was an eloquent poet, and he came to Mecca for either Hajj or Umrah.
The books of Sierra mentioned either this or that. And the reality is we don't know if he accepted
Islam. But what we know is that he wasn't an opposition to the message. In fact, when he sat with
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam, it was a CODEL city from these people was up to fail. Even
Amara dosi, who was a senior figure in the tribe known as a dose, right, the dose tribe, he was a
senior figure, right. And this was from those that
		

			met Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and listened and accepted and went back and propagated
some kind of law. So my dear brothers and sisters, this is the region of the CRR that we want to
focus on. And as I said, I want you to hang on to every word that I say and tie it to the hegira
right because we have big events happening now. Tomorrow inshallah, we will discuss the lessons of
this Dao of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and then from there we will discuss the first
Pledge of Allegiance and then in episodes to follow the second and then I will
		

			add in our discussion,
		

			the discussion pertaining to one amazing sahab I won't tell you his name, but we will discuss in the
Shabbat because he was pivotal as well, in the hijra, becoming a reality. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala bless these words and bless us all, and May Allah preserve us with good health
		

			and strength to attend the masjid for the remaining nights during this blessed month of Ramadan,
especially since my dear brothers and sisters, the last 10 nights are about to visit us. Ramadan has
visited us. Another guest is coming, known as the last 10 nights so we ask Allah to grant a strength
so we can learn from the remaining episodes in season two of our series, and also search for the
night of power, the night of power those people who are diligent from
		

			Muslim,
		

			I'm sorry, Muslim fetcher
		

			during these last 10 nights, and it happens to be that night, then Allah will reward them the
rewards of having worship Allah, or the rewards, which are better than 1000 months, better than 1000
months, right? And seeking knowledge, my dear brothers and sisters is a bad is a bad. So if you come
and sit at our lesson in Asia and hamdulillah. So if you come and sit from Africa, Asia, you started
your search for later to Qatar in a mighty way, because from the mightiest ways of worshipping Allah
is through seeking knowledge. So make sure you spread it to your families, to your friends, to your
loved ones, so you help them also search for this night. My dear brothers and sisters, we had our
		

			morning session today. And one of the things that I shared with those who attended was that yes, we
search for Laila to toddler at night. But to prepare for the search, you have to be amazing during
the day. I'm just sharing with you some pearls here, pearls of wisdom. You know, if you prepare for
a journey and you're traveling from Missouri, you have to fix your car before marketing. Make sure
there's water in the radiator, make sure there's the right air pressure in the tires. Right? Make
sure the air conditioning is working. You can't just now from Muslim start and then you have
problems and then you you don't travel that that evening, correct to incorrect brothers and sisters
		

			logical progression. If you want to have an amazing night and catch later to make sure your days
amazing. Make sure you look after the tsunami. Make sure you look after the prayer. Make sure you
look after your tongue. Make sure you give charity be amazing with a line the day and Allah will
assist you at night. The Center for sorry, the pious predecessors, this is the last thing I'll say.
They used to be asked and how do you ensure that you stand up at night? And they used to say that if
you want to guarantee your standing with Allah at night, look after the Rose of Allah during the
day, look after the laws of Allah during the day and Allah will bless you to stand during the night.
		

			I leave you with these words. May Allah love us all. And may Allah decree from us the sighting of
the night of power I mean, Yoruba alameen, wa sallahu wa Sallim wa barik ala nabina Muhammad wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi Marine Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh