Salim Morsy – IMRI Community Seerah Halaqah Episode 1
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Yeah. I know we
of the Arab peninsula before prophet Muhammad
This is the reason I choose the map
and to take a look
about
the Arab peninsula.
You know, this is Saudi Arabia now, but
they called Arab Peninsula.
Ship
means has water from 3
directions.
You know, if you have
water from the old directions, they call. But
if you have water from the
but only has water from 3,
directions,
from
from,
west
and from east
and from
south.
But from north, there is no water.
And when we look at
the time
from
our prophet Ibrahim
or even before that,
before
when we look at this area, they called
Yemen.
They called Yemen. And this area, Iraq.
And this area,
Bila dushan.
Bila dushan means
it it include Palestine,
Jordan, Lebanon,
and Sir
What?
Syria. Syrian.
Anyway,
when we look at the world of Arab,
Arabs,
it came from
The word of Arab.
Arab. It's came the root of this word
came from the land has no water,
waterless,
and has no
plants,
which is,
you know, very good
description for Arab Peninsula.
Has no
has no,
agreeing at all.
And
the word of Arab, we have 3 different
kind of
Arabs.
The first one,
an Arab, Al Bayida.
Bayida means
they
they did not believe in their messengers
and the prophets, and Allah eliminated them.
Allah destroyed them.
They called Al Arabil Bayida.
For example, like, like, Al Abd
with Hamud,
Wafiraun,
all these
these nations it was before,
and they did not believe in their messengers,
and Allah destroyed them.
They called Al Arab al Bayida.
Already, they gone.
No one remained from them after that
because any
any village or any nation did not believe
in their messenger, and Allah
punished them. Allah destroyed them. Allah eliminated them,
and you can see their villages
and their cities, but there is no anyone
from them
remained after that. This is the first kind
of Arab.
The second kind of Arab,
Al Arab,
Al Ariba.
Al Arab and Ariba
means they are Arabs, and they stay
in their tribes.
They have their offsprings,
and they stay
in in their places.
And those Arab and Araba,
they
they related to.
They related to.
This
is, you know, the father of an Arab
al Araba.
And when we look at Al Arab, Al
Musta Araba
means
they weren't Arab
but they came to the area of Arab,
and they
live in the same area, and they studied
how to how to speak, how to talk,
how to live as a Arab,
which is
the the the the the Arab related to
Adnan.
You know, when we look at this area,
it's came from our prophet Ibrahim
with his son,
Ishmael
Ishmael,
peace be upon them.
You know, prophet Ibrahim,
peace be upon him,
he was here in Iraq
in the beginning, and he moved to Palestine.
And he visit Egypt one time
with his wife. What is the name of
his wife?
Sarah? Sarah. Yeah. Masha'allah.
And
pharaoh of Egypt,
he tried to do something bad with his
wife.
When he tried to come closer to her,
Allah
protected her,
and his hand
couldn't move.
And he apologized to her, and she asked
Allah
to return,
you know, his power into his hand again.
In the he he he repeated
so many time. In the end, he gave
up,
and he gave
her
a servant
as a gift.
And some narration I I just I figured
out
today.
Some narration said, it's not a servant. It
was a daughter of a hero.
It's a new information for myself.
I I was surprised.
There is,
a researcher,
explained
that
the lady that pharaoh gave to
Sarah, the wife of Sayidna Ibrahim,
she wasn't, she wasn't a a slave lady.
She was a daughter of pharaoh, and she
he gave to her as a gift
to to please her and to make her
happy with him. Anyway,
Sayeeda Ibrahim came back again to Palestine
with his wife Sarah.
And his wife, she did not
have
children,
and she suggested
Ibrahim alaihis salaam to marry
who?
Hajar. Hajar.
Hajar.
Even if she is a servant
from pharaoh or the daughter of pharaoh. Anyway,
we
have Hajar now with Sayyidna Ibrahim in Palestine
in this area.
And
Hajar,
Ibrahim,
get married
with the Hajar,
and she become pregnant.
And Sarah become jealous. Subhanallah. This is this
is the Allah's plan for all of us,
you know. You see this area before
before Sayyidna Ibrahim and Sayyidna Ismail, it was
nothing.
It was few tribes
and they are fighting, they are killing each
other. And look at Middle East today,
it was worse than today.
This area,
you know, so many tribes.
We have only
the the 2 kingdom, the biggest kingdom in
the world in that time, which
is Aruman
and Alforce.
Aruman
was here Arum was here in Bila De
Sham, and Alforce was in Iraq.
The one who will ship fire and force
was in Iraq with this area,
Iran and all this area.
And the other kingdom was there down there
in Yemen,
ma'am, like it's Sabah.
The kingdom of Saba. But the rest of
Arab Peninsula,
there is nothing
was there.
Only some people,
and we will study inshallah about
the religion that they have
and how they changed
it
until they
they had
360
idols.
It was
the religion of Ibrahim and Ismail,
but they changed it later on, and this
is also for a wisdom and for a
purpose. We're gonna figure it out
Now the prophet Ibrahim,
when he
got married from
a Sayeda
Hajar,
she become pregnant,
and Sarah, peace be upon her, become jealous
because she's a human.
And Ibrahim alaihis salam,
you know, suggested
that Sarah, he will take Hajar
somewhere else.
And he took
her with her son
to
Mecca.
You following with me?
To Mecca.
And the story is very, very, very,
famous story. She asked him, why you leave
us here?
Did Allah
command you? And he said, yes. He commanded
me. And he said she said,
He will not leave us alone. Allah will
not leave us alone. Anyway, he left some
dates and some water with her and her
her her baby, and he left bed.
And after a few days,
the food was written down,
and there is no water. And the story
you know, it's very famous story in our
history,
and she tried to
to
search
for any other tribe, for any other caravan,
for any other group passing by the area.
Nothing was there.
And she used to go up on the
mountain of Asafah and go down,
jog in go down to as
the mountain of Al Marwah. She did this
7 times
searching for
she said, if I go up, I might
see
any other tribe or any other caravan or
to ask just to have some water. She
never thought,
you know, she will be
in this area forever, and people will come
for her from every week. Anyway,
when we go to Hajj,
we make Sa'ibil Safa ul Marwan,
and we become tired. Even we have, masha'Allah,
very nice place, very cold, very
prepared, very well. But she was
jogging
from Asafah
to Al Marwah
and from
all this way outside
in the heat and very, very hard by
herself.
Anyway, to make the story story short,
Allah
sent Jibril
to help Isma'il
to to
open Zamzal
for him.
And when she
looked at the water underneath Isma'il,
she came and she used to to put
the sand around the the the well and
to say,
means stop in this area.
Do not go away.
And the prophet Muhammad
said, may Allah have mercy with our mother
because if she did not say, zing me
for zam zam, you know, the water will
spread everywhere.
But when she said zing me, Allah
protected the water of zam zam until today.
When you go to Haight and Umrah,
we're gonna go in in end of September
in the end of December, and you will
see zamzam. You will drink from it. It's
very delicious water
Now
when when
when you have a water, you have everything,
especially in Arab Peninsula.
The tribes used to to kill each other,
to have the source of the water or
the source of the greens
for their cattles or their animals.
Now
she has a water,
and there is a big tribe called Jurhum.
It they they they used to live here,
down there, near to Yemen.
When they
they used to move from area to area,
searching about the water or any any other
place
to have some water for their cottons, even
for themselves.
When they saw a bear, you know,
fly above this area, they figure out there
is some water over there. When they came,
they they thought there is, you know, a
big tribe in this area, but they found
Hajar
with her baby,
and they asked her, can we share with
you? Can we stay next to you to
to benefit ourselves from the way that she
said? Of course. Yeah. You can.
And now,
Ishmael, alaihis
salam,
grow up with this tribe,
and he learn
the Arabic language from them.
But in the beginning, he wasn't Arab
because he learned this is.
Like, now I will give you example. Now
when we came from our countries
to to America
and we have children,
we get married from them, and we live
with them, and now we become Americans.
But in the beginning, we weren't Americans.
And this is the the same idea
Isma'il alaihi salam, he learned from the the
tribe of Jurhum,
Arabic language.
And even he he got married from them,
from the the the leader of the tribe.
And
in that time,
Ibrahim
alaihi
salam used to live
up north in Palestine.
And he returned back back to Mecca how
many time in his life?
How many times did Sayida Ibrahim visit Mecca
to visit his son?
How many time?
The Quran talked about 2 times,
and
al Bukhari talked about other 2 times.
The total, 4 times, Sayyidna Ibrahim visited his
son, Ismael, in Mecca.
The first time
when Allah
explained, when he saw a dream
that
he saw that he's slaughtering his son,
and this is one time. And
And
Allah commanded you. You will find me among
patients.
This
is one time. And the other time,
when
Ibrahim alaihi
salam came to
Mecca
and Ishmael wasn't there,
and he asked his wife,
how are you doing?
And she was complaining
about she said, we did not have enough
food. We did not have had this, this,
and he gave her a a sentence to
tell his son, Ishmael.
But what did he say to her?
Yeah. To change,
what what he called?
Doorsteps.
Doorsteps?
Yes. You know, he told her
when Ishmael
come back,
tell him there is one man came to
visit you, and he just leave a message
for you
to change
the doorstep.
Correct?
Yeah. And he understood what what that what
that means, that his wife is not good
enough to be a wife of
the prophet, and he divorced her.
And he married other women from the same
tribe.
And Sayyidina Ibrahim came other
time,
and Ismael wasn't there. And he asked her,
how are you doing guys? She said,
we are doing great.
We have we have to be thankful to
Allah
and Ibrahim
was happy with her and told her till
Isma'il when he came back
to keep
the doorsteps
for this time,
and he keep keep her.
And the 4th time now,
when Allah commanded Ibrahim
to rebuild
the house, the Kaaba. Yes. And Allah mentioned
in the Quran. You we have two times
in Sahih Bukhari
when he was
telling the the wives of Isma'il
to divorce one of them and to keep
the other one. And we have two times
in the Quran
that Allah
mentioned
that he visit
Isma'in, and when he saw the dream that
Allah commanded him to slaughter his son.
And he asked his son, what do you
think about this command?
And the second one in the Quran
also, when Allah commanded Ibrahim to rebuild
the foundation of the Kaaba.
We appealed
the foundation of Kaaba for
Ibrahim.
Remember when Ibrahim
and his son, Ishmael,
raised
the foundation of the Kaaba.
And this is four times that Sayyidah Ibrahim
visited his son, Ismaeel,
in Mecca. In that time,
Ismaeel alaihi salam, he got married,
and he had
12 children.
And this is 12 tribes
from Sayyidna Ismail
related to an Arab, Al Musta'ariba.
Now how many kind of Arab
was in Arab Peninsula?
An Arab,
they disappeared
already. Like,
or.
All these,
you know, tribes or all these cities,
Allah
destroyed them. And we heard in the Quran
all these stories
about Al Arab and.
It's already done. And the second
kind of Arab, an Arab Right. And.
The original Arab.
They stay in the in the in the
place.
They stay
like
or other other tribes in Arab Penancia.
And the third one, which is the important
one, an Arab Al Musta'ariba.
They weren't Arab but they learned.
We are we we we we we weren't
Americans
but now we are Americans.
This is Al Arab Mustaribah. And we're gonna
start from this point.
Al Arab
just I made this inter introduction
to see
how Allah's plan was there for this area.
And when you look at this area, this
is and jazeera.
It
has
very unique
position.
You see?
Has
from
west the Red Sea the Red Sea,
here.
This is Red Sea.
And
here,
this is Bahl Arab
in this area.
Khalija Arabi
in this area also.
And here,
when you look, this is Afriqiya.
This is Africa.
And here,
this is Europe.
And here,
this is India.
Yes.
India and China,
you know, Asia. Asia.
You understand now? And
the 4
you know? And Allah
gave them
2 trips,
1 up north
during
summertime,
and one go down for
Yemen
during wintertime.
And
they control
even they they did not have this power,
but
no one can attack
them. No one can
conquer the Arab Peninsula.
And Allah choose
look at the whole man,
subhanallah. Allah choose this area,
this specific area
for a purpose.
All these as
the preparation for
prophet Muhammad because
he will be born in this area. And
Allah
made everything around
Arab
Peninsula
to have or to to be ready to
receive
our beloved prophet Muhammad
And now
for,
the Red Sea,
go
up to this area and,
go to
Africa.
And here, they they connected with Europe,
and here, they're connected with Asia.
And, oh, they they have very,
very unique,
place
among
the world.
And also,
the other other other, wisdom,
when we look
at Mecca
by itself,
Mecca is
in the in the center
of the land.
In the center. Exactly.
Because Allah mentioned in the Quran,
We sent you, oh, Muhammad, to warn the
mother
of cities.
Mother of the cities means
Mecca.
If you have
big bigger circles
around Mecca, you will reach
the whole world
around Mecca,
subhanallah,
from all the directions.
They told their
and Allah choose
this. You know? Even when we look at
the mother of Ishmael,
when she was jogging
between Safa and Marwa,
she never thought
that her son will survive.
Her son will Allah will protect him
because from his offspring
will be
the last final messenger
from Allah
which is prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, she never thought about this,
about this way.
She was running just to have some water
to
to save her life and her son's life.
That's it. But she never thought that Allah
has a plan, and this is for our
ourselves,
all of us.
When we have a hard situation sometime,
we cannot see
outside of the circle that we have.
Have. But if we go back few steps
and look at the whole circle, we will
we will be we will understand
the wisdom of Allah subhanahu
wa'ala. Why we have hardship time in that
time? Why? This is by
Allah's plan, by Allah's wisdom.
Now when we look at
the Arab bin al Salat also, we talked
about
the different kind of Arabs,
the 3 different kinds of Arab.
And when we look at
the religion of Arab Peninsula,
how many religion was there?
In the beginning, it was only one religion.
When you look at this area, there is
no other religion in this area except
Al Hanafi
from our prophet Ibrahim
and his son, Isma'il,
for long, long, long time.
But after
a
while
after a while,
like I mentioned in the beginning,
there is this area,
has a lot of Christians.
Christian here because this is the the the
area
around,
Bayt al Mahdas
in in Palestine
has a lot a lot of prophets and
they're assenters.
And a lot a lot of
revelations came in this area
for all the prophets and the messengers before
prophet Muhammad And
now the Arab Peninsula, they used to hold
the religion of Ibrahim
with his son, Isma'in.
But after a while,
there is man, his name, Am Ibn
Lohayb.
This man,
the people of Mecca
used to respect him too much. He was
a really a religious person,
and he used to travel
up north
for business or for other trip.
And one day,
he found
a stash
in this area, in Biladishel,
called
what is the first
idol
was a pro to Mac?
Hubel.
Hubel.
You know, they used to even even for
for the the movies, they used to say,
in the time of
of battle. You know? The mushrikeen, they used
to say,
how he will he will raise himself and
his his stone.
And the prophet Mohammed
told the companions to say to respond to
them to say,
Allah. Allah is the most
highest.
Make sense? And this is the first
stash or the first idol
was brought to Mecca
by
Amr
ibn Ghayb. He brought it to Mecca and
the people of Mecca because they trusted him,
and this is very, very dangerous.
When we trust somebody,
that person should be really religious,
should be
very careful
when he say
a word,
You know? To make some think lawful or
unlawful,
it's not easy job at all.
Because if you gave fatwa
by your own
self
and the fatwa was wrong, and the people
will follow-up your fatwa.
You will take the sense of all those
people that they followed
you. And this is the danger here.
Am,
when he went up and he brought the
idol,
even
the narration said
that the hand of of this idol
was broken,
and
the idol by itself was made from.
Aqib means,
you know, the red stone,
it's, you know, they put it in in
the
it it's very, very expensive,
stone. They called an aqib, the red
stone. And the people of Mecca,
when they found the hand or the arm
of the idol broken,
they made a new one from the gold,
you know, just to see if the the
Satan really,
whispered to some some people, they will do
something really abnormal.
Anyway, this this is was the first item.
They they called it.
And after that,
day after day,
you know, each tribe, we try to
choose one idol for them.
And the idea is
because the people of Mecca,
they were religious,
and all the Arabs,
they trusted them
like Amr ibn al Hayd. You know, the
people of Mecca trusted him,
and all Arab Peninsula, they trusted the people
of Mecca
because of the house of Allah was in
Mecca. And this is the reason why Allah
reminded
them
by
was
sight
when
a tribe of
Quraysh or the people of Mecca
travel up north or go down
south,
no one of other tribe can stop them.
No one can attack them.
You know why? Because all Arabs
should go to
pilgrimage
every
year. Even before Islam, long, long time, from
the time of Ibrahim alaihi salaam,
when Allah when Allah commanded him
to call out people to come for pilgrim.
And when he called out for people to
come to perform Hajj,
and the Arab,
they took this issue
for themselves,
and
they used to travel up north or going
south.
No one can stop
them because if any tribe
attacked
the people of Mecca,
their tribe will go to Hajj,
and they will hunt them over there.
And
all Arab Peninsula, they used to be respectful
for the people of Mecca
because they are religious and they have the
house of Allah, and all tribes should go
to perform sheikh
over there.
And when when Ham bring this this idol
and all the tribes try to imitate the
people of Mecca, why we do not have
special idol for our tribe?
And they started.
You know? And they added after that how
many idols, how many stashes,
how many?
The first one was.
And what else?
Good. And what else?
What see, before before because
Even some narrations said,
when the the other tribes
asked Amri
to find idols for them, and the the
the narration said he used to receive some
inspiration from Jinn.
And Jinn told him that
the 5 idols from the time of Nuh
alaihi salam
was bear were buried in Jeddah.
And
they dig over there, and they figure out
the 5
idols. How many? In Surat Noosh?
There are 5.
Wood,
Sua,
Yahuth,
Ya'amuk,
Nasrab.
They are fine. And he distribute
them. SubhanAllah.
You know, I I really I tried to
repeat this
this issue more,
more time for all of us to understand.
When we go
in the correct path,
we should not
look around us.
We have to concentrate
a 100%,
and we have to
to watch
our footsteps.
Where we gonna put our foots?
And this is just the the the the
idea
to make sure
we will not change
our mind. We will not
start
something in you, in our religion.
We will not
imitate
any other person
different than prophet Muhammad
or his companions.
This is the just the whole point. I
tried to repeat it just to make sure
that we got
the point.
And after that,
the and he he put
the idol in in in in in in
in the beginning
in in front of the door of the
cabin.
And in
and after after a few years,
you will find
every
single day has
a special
item
for
360
days.
Somebody would say, why why not 365?
Why?
Because Arab Peninsula
used to go with
the lunar calendar.
And lunar calendar, it's less than lunar calendar,
almost
5 or 6 days
and depend depend on
on the the the
the the moon moon cycles.
And now
they have so many
different religions.
They have
even for
this area,
you know,
if we have if we have a map
only for for this area, you will find
so many
different
tribes.
So many.
A lot of them. And there is no,
one rule for all of them.
Every single tribe, they have their leader
and their
own way of life.
It's it's too hard
to control them.
And even, you know, in in in in
this area,
they try to attack attack
our peninsula
even for the
Abraham Ashraf.
You know? You know that story of Al
Qulais?
Al Qulais was here in in Yemen.
It was big church
called.
When
when the king
look at the Kaaba and every everybody going
to Kaaba every year to perform Hajj, and
he said,
I will build a big church, and I
will force people to come to make Hajj
here.
And there is
an Arab person,
just
Arabian.
He
heard about this king, and he went
over there during the night. And what he
did,
he peed
inside
the the the the the the church,
Al Qullais.
When they figure out in the following day
that,
an Arab person came and he did his
business
inside the the the holy place for them,
and they be they become mad,
very mad.
And they and he commanded,
you know, the the Abraha
to to be a leader for the army.
And
they sent
the whole army
for what? To destroy Gaza
destroy Gaza?
And even when they when they found the
camels of the grandpa of prophet Muhammad, his
name,
Abdul Muttalib.
You know? And they took his camels,
and Abdul Muttalib,
he went to the the the the the
guy and asked him. You know? The guy
was afraid of him because he is the
leader of Mecca,
and he was
preparing himself to hear some, you know,
some,
threaten or some warning or and he's he
told him, you know, I I I came
here just to take my my comments back.
And he looked at him, and he said,
I was expecting that you came to to
ask me not to not to destroy the
Kaaba. And he said, you know, I am
the lord or I am the owner.
And the house has a hood,
and its lord will take care while they
protect
it.
And this is the story. When when
he came close to to to Makkah,
Allah sent the birds. We have a story.
The shataru of elephant.
And
Allah sent the bird,
They throw the birds throw them
by
the stones
of fire,
and
all of them get killed.
Even the leader of the army,
he got one stone,
and
he did not die until he
reaches back to his king
to send the message out.
No one is able to to destroy this
area.
No one is able to
attack this area. No one is able to
control to to
occupy this area except Arabs,
because
this is the the the introduction
for for prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
born
in the same
year of what?
Habil. Of Az Havel Fil,
the the the people of Erevent.
Why?
To have
very big
event
in the memories of people to remember.
He was born in the same year.
And for everybody,
when you when you mention
the year of of elephant,
everybody,
it was known every week.
And
Allah
aside that prophet Muhammad
will be born
in this year
that Allah destroyed
the army of Abraha
to make it
clear for everybody
that
this area
is waiting
for
the one who will guide them
and the one but people people didn't know
yet.
It's for them unseen
because we're still looking for
40 years after
that moment.
40 years because prophet Muhammad was sent as
a prophet
after 40 years. But now
he was born
in the same year of
the, the the the the army of Abraha
that
Allah destroyed them by the birds.
Allah
even revealed one chapter
for Muslims to recite every time
to remember
that
time that Allah
prepared for his beloved prophet Muhammad And
there is a lot of darkness
in that area
and a lot,
a lot of disputes.
Even,
you know,
the tribes between themselves,
they came from the same source.
But when they grow up
and they start fight each other who
has more power
to
to take, you know, the, the the
the
the other other tribes' lands or the waters
and just
this is was
their life
before Islam, before
the birthday
of prophet Muhammad
I think we we we should stop here
today
because the the event already passed. I heard
the adhan.
But this is as introduction
for today
to
realize,
you know,
how our binance,
look like
before
Islam, even before prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, and how prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam really gather all of them.
They be they they become,
you know, as a as a as a
one body.
And he
he succeeded, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Recording. To
change the mind of those Arabs.
They used to fight, and next time, we're
gonna we're gonna figure out. They used to
fight years
years,
you know, for like Harbin al Basus
or the other other
22 horses.
You know? Just,
you know, one
one tribe, they have their horse,
and the other tribe
just
told
a man
to to to bother the the horse, and
the horse lost the race.
They started a war for
40
years
because because what of what?
Islam. Subhanallah. They are they were crazy.
Look how prophet
Muhammad
really gathered those people together,
and
we will figure out how prophet Muhammad, you
know,
was succeed
to change the mind of those people
and to change their heart
and to change their way
of life.
And this is just as introduction for today,
may Allah
accept our good deeds, and may Allah forgive
all of us. Allahu'ma Ameen, I promise you
will enjoy
studying Sira, the life of prophet Muhammad
but just, you know, come. We have every
other week
until we finish the Sira.
We have the 1st week of the month
and the 3rd week with the 3rd Saturday
of the month
until we finish
the the whole book of.
If
you would like to purchase the book or
if you would like to have it in
your device, it's it's available online in English
and in Arabic.
file, It's easy to have it,
and a good idea
to take a look about
the session that we will
have for next time. You know, you will
you will enjoy more
when you read it before you come here.