Shadee Elmasry – The Original Muslim Ban
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Today
we're going to look at the events that occurred afterwards
what happened was
that when Omar came into Islam
things changed. You could no longer head on, destroy these
people. You couldn't destroy them head on. We talked that there are
two ways to destroy people. Right?
When you're whenever you're at war, you go head on to someone,
and you fight them head on.
Right?
The second way, is that if you're too weak, what do you do if you're
too weak? To destroy your enemy?
You have to do a war of attrition.
Manhattan, aren't you in the Navy? Air Force, you're in the Air
Force. And they teach you war theory.
You ever hear of a war of attrition?
Maybe they have different names where
you cut the supply lines.
start closing down food supplies, attack the food supplies, attack
the oil supplies, attack the communication lines.
The Quraysh went on a war of attrition against the Muslims.
All right. So how do they do it though? Right?
They still there was some awkwardness in the situation. How
do you actually do it? What they did was they said if we weaken the
head
right, then we'll weaken the whole thing. So they had a war of
attrition on
the Benny Hashem
the Benny Hashem right the clan of the Prophet why hoping to put
pressure on Ebrill Talib?
Okay. And on the Prophet peace be upon him to the point that people
would say, the closer we get to the Prophet peace be upon him, the
worse our situation gets.
All right.
And what this brings about another subject, how is it that one man,
the conversion of one man, switch the scenario so much was because
the whole setup takes place in a small city in which the residents
of the city may be? Two to 3000? That's it. Right? Mecca, the
residents, some say up to 10,000. Right, if you include the outlying
areas, but the main people in the city, it's two to 3000 people
shifts from Don Bucha from Syria. He tells us He gives us a wisdom.
Why is it that Allah chose Arabia itself to send this message to
there are a number of wisdoms, but one of the wisdoms is that
the Arabs were such a simple people. There were simple people,
they could be changed easily.
Whereas the Persians were very advanced, very complicated, the
Byzantines, which are the Romans very complicated
to change, the Indians or the Byzantines or the Persians would
have taken generations. And there's no time for this. We need
people simple enough to change really quickly. Usually, when
Allah selects a people, right, a person, he selects someone who was
down and out.
When Allah selects people to do His work, He doesn't choose
complicated people. He doesn't choose people at the top, he finds
people that are very ready to change because they're already in
the gutter.
Right? Whenever our message of truth comes in, never goes to the
top, it goes to the bottom.
It goes to people who have been broken by their own misdeeds and
are therefore easily changed. Right. And so the people
Autumn, we're easily changed, right? And this is why the convert
the whole story, it's just a handful of people, right? And all
multiple tabs conversion resulted in
immediate change in the dynamic between the two.
And very quickly, the bene Hashem the Quraysh had to move and shift
to another type of war, which is the war of attrition. So, who
thought of this ban was Abu Jihad that we thought of the ban on the
tribe of Benny Hashem? Okay? The tribe of any other clan have been
actually a tribe consists of Clans. Okay, so Benny Hashem,
then were subjected to this ban. And some people call this the
original Muslim ban. Right? Okay, so
no one could buy from them, sell from them, or marry from them.
These are three conditions you couldn't buy, you couldn't sell,
and you couldn't married. Now, the result of this, alright, it had
three unintended consequences. And this is another wisdom and an
aside that people have to think about.
Okay, is namely that religion is a very tricky and slippery thing.
Such that as it's one of those things, that it's like a nature,
as soon as someone wants it, it's impossible to stop. As soon as
people whether a people or an individual wants it, it's
impossible to stop, right? Because when you try to destroy it, by
putting pressure on it, what do you do, all you do, is you weed
out the weak,
and you polish the stroke, right? When you put pressure on
believers, guaranteed two things are going to happen, the numbers
will decrease, the week will go those whose faith is weak, and who
come at a price, they'll go,
right, but those who stick around will become more polished,
stronger, shinier. And they'll become better ambassadors for
their religion. Right.
So that's why pressuring a religion, the believers have a
cause, especially a spiritual cause. All you do is make the
ambassadors of that religion more polished, and more strong.
Although you weaken the numbers, however, weakening the numbers is
not always a bad thing. When you decrease the numbers of a people,
you allow for better coordination amongst them. So if you have an O
of a million people, well, who's going to control a million people?
How could you bring a million people to work together? But if
you then put pressure on these people,
until that number dwindles down
to 500,000 400,000 300,000, to 100,000,
to let's say, 50,000. That means you took off 95% Well, now we're
only How much 50,000 50,000 people, you pick 100 leaders, each
one is responsible for 500 people, we can coordinate. Right? Loose
coordination could happen. We could all be on the same page.
Many times Muslims say, well look at the Jews. Look how the Jews do
it. Why are the Jews so coordinated? And we're all so
sloppy? Well, simple reason. How many Jews are there in the world?
Right? I don't even think there's 100 How many Jews are there in the
world?
How much? Yeah, that's what some ridiculously small number 10 to 11
million Jews in the world. It's not that difficult to establish
certain habits amongst them, right? Certain culture amongst
them. 10 million people. How many people are there in New York in at
night?
When everyone's left work, there's like 12 million people in New York
at night. 25 million in the day, when people commute for work.
20 12 million at night. There's more people in New York, right?
There are more Jews in New York and New Jersey than in Israel.
Right? Which is their country. Okay, so it's easy to coordinate.
So actually, when you put the religion and in a pressure cooker,
you eliminate the froth and the waste eliminated. This elimination
when you see people leaving the deen, okay. And you have pretty
apostasy movements. Apostasy means people just leaving the deed. It's
happening. But then you have another thing. The establishment
of pre apostasy movements were in other words, one stepping stone
away from leaving Islam.
You make so many changes to Islam, that if you pass that on to the
next generation, what is their motive? You've taken away every
motive for them to keep it. Right? Yep.
That's exactly what's happening right now. And
the result is when those people have kids, right?
And you tell them we're Muslim.
Is that okay? Well, what is Islam is like, there's nothing different
than what is the point of keeping it? Right? You've given me no
incentive to, to have it that has no value. If I'm saying, I got
this bottle of water, right? For 199, and then you go make my hedge
water, and you bring me the same bottle. And it's also 199. Why
should I get yours when I already have this? Right? So you remove
the incentive? Right, you move every differentiating factor, you
give the next generation, no reason to keep it. So the next
generation is a guaranteed loss. Right? So which, if you look at
religious traditions, which religious traditions lasts the
longest, the religious tradition that lasts longest
is that one, that makes it very clear where the religion is based
out of? So if you say it's based out of this book and nothing else,
right? It's very clear. Right? Then it's hard, because anything
that's not in the book, we have to reject, or whatever contradicts a
book we have to reject. So it's hard. Right? Not a lot of people
are going to want into it, but it's going to last. But if I say,
let's make it this book, and whatever else is going on,
anything difficult. Just leave it. And anything that you really want,
just take it at that point. Those religions die off in Judaism,
right.
In Catholicism and Christianity,
the one the religions that have a very clear barrier of what the
religion is and what the religion isn't, and they don't negotiate on
those points. Those are the things that last Orthodox Judaism,
Hasidic Judaism, last, right, Reformed Judaism is God, you'll
never find a family that says, I'm a reformed Jew. My dad is a
reformed Jew, my grandfather's reformed Jew.
You have one reformed Jew, next generation secular Jew, no, dude,
not a Jew at all. Right? Just by heritage. Okay. Christianity is
the same thing. Catholic, you can find many people. I'm Catholic,
mom's Catholic, my grandma's Catholic, great grandma's
Catholic. All Catholic. Why? Because Catholicism is very clear
what it is and what it isn't. Whereas the various Protestant
churches, like what is Protestant, anything not Catholic, is
Protestant. You can start up your own church, you can start up
Manhattan International, right? And make yourself the priest or
the whatever they call it. Right? The minister, whatever it is, you
can make your own Protestant church, anyone can make a
Protestant church. So when you go to Protestant churches, you're not
going to find father from grandfather from great
grandfather, great, great grandfather. As soon as you get
one in, you've already broken the line, you've broken the boundary.
Your next generation is God. Right? So the religion that keeps
it that is has very clear lines, and non negotiable, whether people
like it or not, whether we get big or small, this is it. This is what
it is. That's the religion that lasts a long time. Right? It lasts
a long time. So when people always look and say, Well, we're small
number, we're not reaching, people have more reach than us. Don't
forget, reach always comes out of costs. Your cost is your
longevity. Right? You're trading reached for longevity, right? So
we want a religion that fits for everyone. We are for sure, trading
your longevity. Okay, like in fighting. There are always two
things in fighting your reach of your enemy, but your own security.
When you study boxing, for example, if you look at my boxing
coaches, they look at two things, your attack, but also your
grounding. So if you're in a good position,
right, in order to maintain that spot, that position, even in war,
you might have to sacrifice how much you can attack the enemy. How
much you can reach others, because as soon as you go to reach your
enemy, what have you given up? You've given up your own footing,
your own grounding, now you're vulnerable. In Batman The first
one there's a scene where he's training them how to fight, right?
So
Batman is not Batman yet. He's just the guy
And he's, he's been trained by Rozell, gold, which is Arabic,
actually, right head of the monster. So Ra's al Ghul is
finally he's down. Rozell slips. So, Batman, what's his name? Well,
Bruce Wayne comes in to give them the killer blow, right? So he
stops, he said, Hold up, you're coming to give me the killer blow,
you don't realize you just sacrifice your footing. And they
were, they were on ice. So he breaks the ice and he falls into
the water, right? So you want reach, right, you're gonna
sacrifice footing. So you'll get reach, you lose your footing,
right? You only get a short term high. But you keep your footing,
you're guaranteed an overall greater reach. But in a different
way. You're not might not reach everyone today. But religions that
establish unclear boundaries and what the religion is and what it
isn't, right. And we all recognize that if we could be weak, that's
fine, we're weak, I'm not doing it. Well, that's fine. But we do
recognize what the religion is, and we don't change it. Right?
What you do is, you allow for families to grow inside of it. So
you won't have the same reach today, but give it 30 years,
right? Your kids are now 30 years old, everyone else's kids are 30
years old, and they're still in it. So the the religions that have
clear, that are clear what they are and what they aren't. Alright,
they grow slowly through birth, through marriage and children,
right?
Even more so than conflicts, right? So if we want to try to
appeal to everyone, you're guaranteed, you're going to move
away from that firm footing of being clear with the dean isn't
isn't. But if you stay on a clear path, right? What you do is you
guarantee family, right? You keep your family and guarantee you grow
through children, right? And children, any religion, any
movement that grows through family, it's very hard to break,
right? Because when your religion is intertwined with the memories
of your childhood, it's very hard to give up that religion. Right?
Very hard. And look, the amount of rituals that we have in Islam.
Right. All of them are extremely memorable. Everyone who grew up
Muslim, has childhood members have their first time we can offer
support. Right? All their tutta we come into the masjid eat. Right,
Amara hatch, right? Every child remembers the first time they saw
lamb being slaughtered. Right?
All right, in aid,
all these things? Okay, all these things. So now I'm a 20 year old
kid. Or I'm a I'm a 30 year old guy. Now I have my own kids, what
am I going to do?
Let's say I'm not a religious guy. But now I have kids. So I say
okay, how did my dad raised me? Right? Most people at the worst
case scenario, worst case scenario that are Muslim and Sunni or
whatever, even in Judaism or other religions, right? If they're
wayward, like they didn't have discipline, they don't want to do
it. As soon as they have kids, they come right back, right? Allah
has assumed that in this world, if you yourself couldn't bring
yourself to the masjid, to live on the straight path your kids will
force you to, because now I got kids, what am I going to do now?
I'm not going to deprive them of all those memories. Even a 30 year
old guy who didn't do anything, he still has good memories of
Ramadan. Right? So he's gonna want his kids to have those numbers
that he's gonna say he's going to be stuck. Alright, I bought them
here. I better pray myself. Right? Give it 10 years, the guys back to
being a normal Muslim. This is the wisdom of Allah uses the family to
rectify you to make you better. Right? Yep.
They didn't practice as far as possible when they had kids, they
became Yeah, you have no choice, right? So you're locked in. And
then you realize the wisdom of the whole thing. Some people realize
the wisdom early and some people realize it late. But alter the
nature of the religion and you have nothing to give to your kids.
Right?
So this is the wisdom that when you put pressure on a religious
people, okay, then you will decrease their numbers. That's not
a problem. That means we can coordinate even better with
smaller numbers. But you make them stronger and you make them pure.
And when you put pressure now remove pressure from them. They'll
grow by themselves. Right now you remove pressure from the Muslims
for from any religious people, people who have a desire they're
going to grow so now as soon as a people are on their Deen you as
the enemy
The enemy party is stuck. If they put pressure on them, they're
going to benefit. If I let them go, they're going to spread. So
what is really the only the only
tactic way to destroy a religious people, a believing people,
there's only one way. And it's not totally in the control of the
enemy. The only way to destroy a people who believe in a religion
is to present them with an attractive alternative, and only
hope that their hearts turn away from their God and their prophet,
to the love of this alternative. This is the only way the only way
a believer can be destroyed is he destroys himself by not loving God
and His Messenger anymore, that his Qibla is no longer Allah and
His Messenger his heart
is no longer attracted, attracted to Allah, His Messenger is hard as
attracted to something else.
Rewind about four or 500 years and you realize this is what happened
to the Muslim ummah.
Right. This is what happened to the Muslim. What was the
headquarters of the OMA. It stumble? That was the
headquarters. Right? Everything was coming from there. And
culturally and knowledge wise Cairo. Istanbul was close to
Cairo. Right. And this to Cairo, Wasco symbol. Istanbul was close
to Europe. So who's the new kid on the block 504 or 500 years ago,
was Europe. There are the New Kids on the Block. All of a sudden,
they're traveling around the world, all of a sudden, they're
going to different places, bringing back stuff. All of a
sudden, they're making stuff they're working. They're building
castles, they're building new European outfits. The Europeans
are moving. Right? What did the Muslims do?
They started looking at the Europeans go into the art history,
art. Art is an excellent way to study how people are thinking,
right? You go into Islamic art and architecture has a distinct vibe
to it. Very distinct vibe. You start hitting around 400 years
ago, around 16 1500 1600s of the Common Era, which is around 1000
plus of the
Hijiri era. Right? He started noticing tulips everywhere,
a craze of tulips. Tulips don't grow in any Muslim countries,
tulips only grown friends. Right? At the time, tulips only grown
friends. Start seeing tulips everywhere, right? You start
seeing that the flowers that the Ottomans would make all of a
sudden it's a tulip, right, which is very different flower than the
Ottoman flower. You look at any Ottoman that
like you go to iCj look at the crop. They have a very distinct
type of flower that grew in their land. Right? Very clear type of
flower. The tulip is a closed flower, round 1500 You start
seeing tulips everywhere. You start looking, the eating ways of
eating of the Ottoman started to change. What do you start seeing?
forks, knives, plates, everyone's got their own plate. Tables start
to go up, start sitting on chairs, the soltana Look at the outfits of
the Sultan's you can see these they have portraits, the outfits
of the Sultan, all of a sudden his turban is getting smaller, then no
turban at all. His beard is getting smaller. Right
here, his pants, the Turkish pants, start getting skinnier.
Until all of a sudden, the Ottoman Sultan, he's a European with the
fez cap.
That's it. That's it, eventually is no beard, even a mustache,
right?
So from the clothes from the art, you start to tell and see when
people's hearts shift. Why is art and clothes very important, right?
It just indicates what you love. It doesn't indicate what I
believe. Right? Right doesn't necessarily indicate what I
believe. It indicates what I love. And love is the informant of
beliefs. And beliefs are the informants of the laws. And laws
indicate where we're gonna go in the future. Love is more important
than beliefs. Why? You can be totally ignorant, but if you love
the Prophet, your future is going to be good. Because you're gonna
learn in the future you're gonna learn in the future, right?
Someone who loves Allah and His Messenger whose heart is in the
right place. You shouldn't worry about that person. Sooner or later
he'll learn sooner or later Allah will guide them to learn, but
you start loving dunya you start loving other cultures. The Muslims
have never
loved a culture except Western culture.
They never loved Indian culture. They never loved African culture.
They never loved Turkish culture. They never loved Persian culture.
They tolerated them. Right? And they allowed you can keep doing
whatever, but the Arabs whenever the Muslims went somewhere, they
went as themselves. And you saw those people start putting on
turbans start emulating the Arabs and the Muslims right. And
developing a unique culture that was driven by the Sunnah of the
prophets of Allah when he was setting them. There's only one
civilization which the Muslims got weak need and fell in love with
that civilization and started hating themselves and turn their
back on the prophets of Allah when he was setting them and that is
Europe and western culture. Yep, you mentioned
auditor.
You know, the phrase like
the last
straw that broke the camel's back, right.
Ataturk was really the last straw. But
a man like Ataturk,
canceled the Arabic language, stop the events, prohibited beards,
prohibited turbans, prohibited hijab.
This is commanded attitude, shut down all the schools, Islamic
schools, methods of producing Imams, and ended the caliphate.
Such a man could not exist if the rest of the people allowed it to
exist. Right? So the love of European culture had come in as a
disease way before this. Right? So
there was something called the Tanzimat Tanzimat came way before
editor in which the elites of Istanbul openly declared that we
want to Europeanized right, our lands. So they stopped, made a
number of Islamic rules, they canceled them. And they took
European rules and law systems of governance and started to apply
them. And this is way after it entered the hearts of people.
The heart is the most important thing, the direct what what you
are loving is the most important thing. And we have a science where
you could actually make your heart love something. Right? Someone can
make his heart turn to Allah and His Messenger, by reading Stories
of the Prophets, reading the Quran with thought, right with deep
reflection, making much thicker and moving your body. Like we know
what our bodies should do. Our bodies should be in the masjid.
Our bodies should pray on time. Our tongues should recite Quran.
And the heart is not in your control. But the body is in your
control. You keep using your body in the right way. What happens?
Allah says, you have proven yourself I'll take over and it
fills your heart with enough love to carry you. And now the worship
becomes easy. You want to do it, you will want to study FIP you
want to do all these things, that in the past, you could imagine
yourself doing it. Because your heart's not in it. Your heart was
loving something else. Right? This is how the science of engineering
your own heart, right to move it if your heart is stuck loving
something else. Right. So once the Muslims started to love European
culture is the only civilization that the Muslim large became weak
need and fell in love with and turn its back
on the prophets of Allah when he was sending every other culture
they had no problem with. But they didn't love it more than they love
the Sunnah. So they influence those cultures, right? So
this is the result of what happens, right? The only way to
destroy a religion is to present something more attractive,
something attractive and hope that they turn their hearts to it. And
this is what happens in the muscles. Otherwise, if a believing
people stay steadfast upon what they believe, then they will see
victory sooner or later. Right. And this is what we see happening
here. Once Omar came, they realized we can't fight these
people head on.
So what do we do? We make being Muslim unattractive. So the first
unintended consequence that they had, number one, a number of
unintended consequences of this ban is that it forced all the
Muslims to live in one area.
Right? All of the moved to one area. Okay.
They all moved to the area of Benny Hashem. So now you have a
prophet, a man claiming that he's a prophet.
You made a ban on the people, okay, on the bendy house, which
forced them all to huddle together their resources. If you have a
half a gallon of milk, and I have half a box, a box of oats, and you
have two bananas, the only way to reasonably survive is to pull all
our food together. So by doing this bed, all of the muscles move
to one area. So what are they doing every day? They're living
with the profit. Well, I don't have a job, because no one will
give me a job. I can't get married. So what do I do all day,
I'm sitting with the profit. So it was a very bad consequence for
them. They only got stronger. You're seeing the profit every
day, all day and doing nothing else. So that's the first
unintended consequence of the ban.
The second unintended consequence is that what is one of the things
that we can people?
Access and luxury weakens people, right? You want to weaken someone,
feed them five times a day. Give them the most luxurious dinner,
let them sleep in every day.
He's going to be weak.
You want to strengthen someone, tell him you want to eat, go work.
Wake up early and go to work. You're gonna find after five
years, you got a guy. He's sturdy. He's learned a lot of skills, his
body strong. He doesn't have an ounce of fat on his body. Because
you made him. You made him hungry. He made him work. This hunger. And
this boycott forced everyone to become stronger.
Sad. I mean, that'd be what God says. We were so hungry in the
time of the band, which lasted about a year or so.
I don't know he says here I think it lasted
maybe less than two years. Your one or two years.
Sad him? No. Because it we will be so hungry. That one morning, I
woke up came out of my door. I stepped on something. And I
realized
it's soft
and edible. So I shut my eyes, picked it up, threw it in my mouth
and swallowed it right away. Just so I could have something in my
stomach. It was probably like a sludge or something. That's how
hungry they were. They survived on leaves.
All right, and they would take leaves, divide up the leaves and
eat the leaves. Okay, so they became sturdy and strong. Who
would you rather fight against? A guy who is starving, right and
hungry? Or a guy who just had a steak and he's sleeping on his
couch. I'll take the guy who's just had a steak. That guy doesn't
know how to fight. That guy is weak. He has no desire, right?
Everything he wants he gets weakness. How does Allah
strengthen our Amen? Ramadan, go hungry, you become stronger when
you go hungry. So they became stronger, unintended consequence
number two, unintended consequence number three,
sympathy.
The oppressed always get sympathy human beings are human people are
people, right? In any time in place. Human beings sympathize
with the oppressed, right? They sympathize with the oppressed, the
prophesy. centum said, if you ever have a situation where you could
be the oppressor, or you could be the oppressed, be the oppressed.
Right? You gain sympathy from people. So now what happened? All
of a sudden? All right, all of a sudden, people now who never paid
attention to the Muslims before the thinking, what did these
people do to go hungry like this? Right? They pass by the Muslims
and they see them like rolling around on the ground, not able to
get up because he's so hungry. Think what did he do? Did he kill
anyone? Did he steal? Just because he doesn't want to worship your
God? Just because he's his religion. All of a sudden, people
came out of the woodworks to sympathize with the Muslims. And
how did they find loopholes in the ban? Well, who was the ban against
the Benny Hashem? All right, so you're a man from Benny Hashem,
but your wife is from another clan? Right? Your wife now, her
family's looking on? Well, what did our daughter do to get this to
go hungry? Right. So what did they start doing sending her food?
Right? My I'm not him. These people are saying we're not
Muslim, but our daughter has no reason to go hungry. Right? So
they would pack up camels
and hit the camel until would run into the air.
Where the bene has some live than any Muslim would catch the camel
and they would divide the food, then they would say, Hey, you
broke the bed. I didn't break the bed. I'm feeding my daughter.
She's not from Benny Hashem. Right? And it's not my problem
that she's gonna share food with her husband and her kids. So the
ban actually didn't even fully work. In that respect. You
couldn't starve them to death. Because every Muslim Benny Hashem
Muslim, Benny, Assam, he's connected to a woman, right, who's
not from Benny Hashem. So intermarriages, right, cause in
Islam, intermarriage is encouraged in Islam, because it makes the
Muslims impossible to pin down. If you want to pin if you're a white
nationalist group, you want to pin down the Muslims. The Muslims are
not black and brown. Right? The Muslim have their whites as well,
in France, they have a big problem. Because the in France,
they want to pin the Muslims to be the North Africans, Algerians
Senegalese, right? It said that if you go into any street in Paris,
or any street in France, if you yell mama do, three people will
turn around, right? Mama do is the Senegalese of Mohammed, Mohammed.
Right? three people, three guys will turn around. That's how many
Muslims are in France. But they have a problem. Now White people
becoming Muslim. So where do they put them? Right? How do you
categorize that type of person? And this is the power of a faith
that doesn't have geographical or tribal or racial boundaries. So
how do you pin it down? Right? You want to fight? Pakistanis, right?
You want to fight Egyptians and Arabs? Fine, you're gonna win that
fight American government, you want to we fight them, you're
going to win that fight? Well, guess what? 40% of the Muslims in
American or African American, you're not winning that fight.
That fight is done. You're not fighting African Americans, it's
over. Right? So you're not going to defeat them. They're 40% of the
of the OMA in America. Right? People don't know it. Because they
tend to when a Muslim when they want to depict a Muslim, they'll
find a Pakistani doctor, or an Arab engineer. They don't realize
Latino communities for those of Muslims too. So it's going to be
very hard to pin them down. Increasingly, now you have whites
become a Muslim, right? It's gonna be hard to pin them down. So this
one, this ban
made the Quraysh look bad. So when you're getting oppressed, don't
ever imagine that people aren't watching just because they're not
helping you. Doesn't mean they're not watching. And their heart is
turning to you. And away from your oppressor.
Right. You can see obviously, the more that the White House attacks
Muslims, the more all sorts of people sympathize, right? So
that's an unintended consequence number three, as a result,
the people started thinking, number one is not working. Number
two, we don't feel right about it. And number three
people are so we're making we're starting to look bad, right? We
look bad doing this. So one man came one from the pagans. He came
and he said, Look, I'm fed up with this. Right? But what are we going
to do? So another man said, hey, look, if you'll be the first one,
I'll be the second one. I don't want to be the first one. Right?
The no one could stand up to Abuja and by himself, but if you stand
up to Abuja, and I'll be I'll be a number two, right? So he said,
Okay.
Or he said, no one wants to be number one, I'll be, I'll be the
first guy to talk about it if you'd be my number two. So the
number two goes that I'll be your number two, but I need a number
three. So they went and they got themselves number three. Number
three said, I'll be number three, but I need to number four, right?
No one wants to be themselves until they got to the fifth guy.
He said, Alright, that's it. Five is enough. So they went. And they
have something called data network, which means, like their
place of assembly, and they're sitting there talking, and someone
strikes up the conversation. And the number one says, Look,
honestly, I'm fed up with this bed. It's making us look bad. And
what did they really do to deserve this to go hungry and die? And on
top of that, it's not even working because people find loopholes and
get food to their daughters. Right. So as before, Abuja Hello
can talk number two set. Yeah, I agree.
And as soon as Abijah has spoke up, number three said I'm with it,
too. I think we should acknowledge before Elijah who could say
anything number four spoke up. And number five, what finally Abuja
had said, this is plans. You all plan this right? And before he
knew that, a six man got up said, I'm going to get the the
disagreement that they had written up. They went into the cab, pulled
the agreement out before he came back. He was saying
He was shouting, because the whole agreement had been eaten up by
worms, except for the first phrase, which was their version of
the best one, or they used to say Bismack Allahumma. That was not
eaten up. Everything else of the agreement was eaten up by bugs,
because it was parchment, parchment back in the day. I mean,
that thing doesn't even last a year piece of parchment. Right. So
the bugs have eaten up except that port. And they said, that was it.
That's a sign right there. So basically, the announced that the
ban is an old and so right after Alma wore the head on war is over,
right? Now, what's next? The war of attrition, make their lives
miserable, harass them, ban them, et cetera. Now that's over. So now
they have a big problem. What next? Right. And of course, Aish
they got something what they would think is a blessing in disguise.
Because right now the enrollment is over. Were too powerful to
fight and head on. You just lost the war of attrition. It looks now
that the Muslims were going to turn a corner and really cold
start rallying the bulk of the Mexicans around them. But Allah
had another plan. It wasn't time yet.
That right after the annulment
Abu Talib died and Khadija passed away. When Khadija passed away,
the prophet became busy with his own affairs. He has four
daughters, Ali, Zaid, they all live with him Baraka all these
dependents, that the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam had to
attend to right. He no longer had his assistant. His number one was
Khadija, right? His number two was Abu Bakr is number three was Hamza
is number three was Ali. Right then Hamza, then Omar, now he lost
Khadija.
So
then shortly thereafter, I will tie the festival, I will tell him,
uncle, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa Salam
is difference of opinion on whether or not he entered Islam or
not. But for sure, there were not two witnesses to his Shahada.
That's for certain prophets, I said, and also said about I will
tell him that he is the least punishment on Yom Okayama. In the
afterlife, but some different disease is he being punished as a
Kaffir, or as a mood movement who refuse to say the shahada openly.
Because if he's his latter, than it's a small punishment, then he
goes agenda. But if it's the former, then it's eternal
punishment, and Allah knows best. But what we know, I will tell you
is the foster father, the prophets, I said, I will file is a
good friend of the Prophet. The Prophet took it right in, I will
tell him was the protector of the Prophet peace be upon. No one
could touch the Prophet during the time of Obatala. Now, the Muslims
are strong, the attack to cut their supply lines failed, and
they're just about to burst out onto Mecca, and win over the bulk
of the city. Whenever thought passed away.
As soon as that was passed away, now, any semblance of rule of law,
an honor of relationship between outside and the province I seldom
was gone. And it was open season on the Prophet himself. He had no
protection, because who became the chief now, Abdullah, Abu Lahab,
became the chief of Quraysh. When he became the chief of Quraish. At
that point, he gave the signal to everyone attack Muhammad himself
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so now, the semblance of
protection that existed no longer existed, right? So imagine like in
America today, there's still rule of law, right? There's still
civility. We haven't turned the corner. The most they could do to
Muslims is harass them, bother them, stop you at the border, ban
your your grandma from coming in, ban you from going out, stop you
at the airport.
Curse you in the supermarket. This is little harassment. But we still
have our massage and there's still rule of law, right? You can't go
beat up and most of them get away with it. Right?
We haven't turned the corner. But it could well happen something
like this, where the society turns a corner where rule of law has
fallen apart. If a judge rules something, it means nothing.
Right? And you have thugs going around freely. This is what
happened to the Muslims, once they reach that critical mass of
numbers.
Right that death of epithelium caused that now there's no rule of
law. Anyone
Anything is open season on the prophets of Allah. Allah was
Sunday. It's all open season, the Prophet was praying. They took the
recently slaughtered guts of an animal and poured it on his head
with the blood and the guts while he's making sensitive.
They came on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
would curse him openly to his face. Right? Direct abuse.
And right at that point, they realized, we're not going to get
mucked up. They were in position. They were in position, that Mecca,
the Quran could not do anything anymore. But the death of
epithelium and the rise of Ebola. And the abandonment of any of the
old tribal rules will have abandoned all the tribal rules.
Right that you could have said, No, there's my nephew go attack
him. Right. That wasn't the tribal rules, tribal rules, you couldn't
do that. Right? Even if he's Kapha. And he's a Muslim, right?
You couldn't attack your own tribe. You couldn't let someone
attack your own tribe. All that's gone. So now, the concept idea of
bringing the majority of Mecca into Islam is over. And what they
have to do now is make the hijra, and this is what's going to happen
next, very shortly after the to the what they call the year of
sadness I'm posing, right? The Muslims have to make hijra,
because now Abu Abu Lahab has broken all the rules. And anyone
who wants to
attack the Prophet directly has the green light to do so with no
consequences. So that insha Allah will pick up on the hijra, and how
the Hijra starts next week. But that's basically the summary of
how you get to from being weak. And in hiding and going to East
Africa for migration, then Omar comes then war of attrition, and
they they succeeded through that right up to the last thing, but I
will try to pass away. Now there's no rule of law. And I wouldn't
have is allowing everyone to attack this Muslims as they
please. So now they have to start going out and find a new home.
So any comments or questions?
Your cousin, yeah, what happens it?
So I'll give him a little bit
before you turn to God, but I feel like
I was wondering.
But at the same time, how do
you know?
Like, your slides to different without
making him like, here's the thing. It's very tricky situation. There
comes a point when Dawa inviting people is actually as a negative
consequence.
So it's like a cat prophesy. centum said, how do you call
people? If your animal ran away? What would you do? They said we'd
run after it. Right? He said, This is why there no one comes becomes
guided at your hands. What I do is I take what they like, I shake the
bag of barley.
And it comes at least if it doesn't come, it won't go further.
Right. So what you what a person should do. If someone is not
responsive to a call, then at least find another thing common
ground between you and them and establish that bond.
And then they'll once they come to that slowly, their heart may turn
but if their art is not in it, and they're not responding to one
call, second call third call, then you leave it because at that
point,
we may be without intention, making them scared to come because
I don't even want to see this person because they're gonna call
me and ask me to do something I don't want to do or I'm not ready
to do so we just leave them to
for their hearts.
To change by itself. And it could happen whenever Allah was up. But
in the meantime, you establish a different bond. Like, no one has a
problem eating. Right. So what are the prophets? I suddenly say,
if no one's answering your call to the dean, right, they will answer
your call to fruit. Right? So bring some food, and they'll come,
right and no talking about anything else just eating and chit
chatting. That's it. No discussions, no sandwich on the
slide Bible on the other hand, right, just leave them just let
them eat, and enjoy your company. Because we have another belief.
We believe that if there's no light in the heart of a person,
right, it spreads to other it reflects on other people, they
will feel that ease and comfort in the presence of a movement and
that may slowly have an effect upon them. So that's why
if someone's not answering the call to the masjid, or to the dean
in general, then you establish another bond and let them come on.
They're ready
what else we got? Anyone?
All right, so we could stop it here. So Allah subhanaw taala hum
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