Suhaib Webb – Life of the Prophet II For Teens (Enroll Now!)
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The importance of learning about the prophet Muhammad's life and his impact on their personal and political experiences is discussed, along with the historical context of his teachings. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being a good person and being prepared for things, as well as the importance of prophetic teachings and being a good person. The speaker also provides information on the importance of diverse experiences and community in building successful businesses. They also mention a study on the community's mosque and offer a free Google Classroom for those who don't have access to the Google Classroom.
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Here for our life of the prophet Muhammad.
To summer session.
And we are, of course, using the book
by doctor Miraj Mohideen. Next week, we're going
to jump back into the book and start
reading again.
But today, because we're entering now a very
important time
in the life of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Before
I jump into that, though, I wanted to
ask you guys a question. What was your
favorite
part
last semester?
What was the favorite the most favorite thing
you learned? Like, what was the thing that
impacted you the most
about the life of the prophet
that we went over? Right? We covered quite
a bit of information.
SubhanAllah, like the tribes, the different groups, the
different,
you know, people involved in the prophet's early
life.
What was the thing that you remember that
impacted you the most
as we learned about his childhood,
alayhi salatu as salam, his family,
the different tribal relations that existed before his
lifetime,
the story of his
family coming back
into prominence in Mecca and then again
going through some difficulties, and then, of course,
his birth,
alayhi salatu salam,
and then his marriage, his childhood,
his marriage,
and then the beginning
of prophethood.
What was someone's favorite
thing they learned last semester? Yes, Israel.
That people will,
like, disagree with what you are trying to
come across with. But if you stay strong,
people will believe you at some point.
Right. You you the importance of perseverance.
And again, wanna encourage people to turn on
their cameras,
if they can. Who else wants to share
something that they learned,
last semester
about the life of the prophet
that really impacted them
or touched them in a profound way. Anyone
else. I remember I really
yes, Ali. Yes, sir.
Yeah. So,
the most interesting thing I think I learned
was how the extensive,
trade trips that the prophet
went on during his childhood. They, helped expose
him to different cultures
which, helped make him a mercy to all
of mankind.
Yeah. How, like, you see
Allah grooming
the prophet
by giving him these experiences.
And
that also allows us, right, as we look
at our lives to see
how we're being prepared for things.
That's an excellent reflection. Who else,
wants to share,
really quickly
something that they learned last semester about the
life of the prophet
that really impacted them?
I like how the prophet never thought of
being a prophet, but he handled it very
well. Yeah. That's a that's an incredible point,
Bilal. Like, can you imagine, like,
that's a heck of a promotion.
You know, you go from
a shepherd
to someone that's involved in trade and business,
and then
you're a prophet. You're not only a prophet.
Like, you're the greatest prophet. You're the final
prophet.
That's a lot to handle
in a quick moment. And remember
his reaction as we noted, of course, the
narration about wanting to throw himself off a
mountain, we noted how that's not actually authentic.
It's actually related by Imam Zohri,
but and so on and so forth. Muhammad
Ali Singh, I like learning about the history
of the prophet
and how he yeah. That's very interesting. Like,
he was from the most
Muhammad Ali. Right? He his family are people
who became Arabs.
Said Ismail
was not a pure Arab. He's
and
he his family, his DNA.
And I thought that was really cool, especially
because how the prophet has sent to all
people.
So, like, there's this idea that the prophet
is the prophet for humanity.
I appreciated how gradually Islam came about so
that people were given a chance to learn
at their pace. Yeah. We're gonna talk about
that more,
as well. I mean, this is gonna be
a really good class, man. We have a
lot to do. It may take
a year or 2 to finish, but
someone's saying, I like learning how much of
an impact the different tribes had on the
prophet's life. Yeah. That's something that a lot
of people don't realize that some of the
animosity,
the hatred, the haters
around the prophet
are historical haters.
And we talked about the
and we talked about how those people who
refused to engage in the some
of them were those who refused to engage
him as a prophet. The Banu Marzum.
Right? The tribe of Abu Jahal
had always had kind of a beef with
Bani Hashim.
It carries over as we'll we'll we'll study
in the next few weeks. These are excellent
points.
Any other points,
about,
things that we learned? I love how no
matter how much difficulty he went through, he
was still kind to everyone. Yeah. It's incredible.
And and and you recall, we talked about
how
the early life of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi,
wasalam, is very tragic.
It's not and and and let's think about
it
within the context of his time
to be a child with no father and
no mother.
Like, that really
stacks the odds against you for social utility
success. Right?
Allah says,
like, we found you as an orphan,
and we took care of everything for you.
And Allah says,
Allah
reminds him, so don't turn away from the
orphan. Just as we took care of you,
you take care of
others. Take care of others.
These are great reflections. Who else?
I feel like I did a good job
now. I was worried.
Alright.
Thank goodness. Starting to get a little bit
worried there.
And when we have our Swiss restorative retreats
in person,
Gonna do a lot of this together as
well. Anyone else wanna jump in and share
something that they learned or heard
from
last
semester
about the life of the prophet
that really impacted them
in a positive way.
Amazing.
Last time, we
well, there's 2 things. Before the last time,
we talked, we went through the fur the
second hadith in Sahih al Bukhari,
where
the wife of the prophet, Sayda Aisha,
went into this extremely detailed account
of how Revelation started. And then we talked
about some of the first
portions of the Quran
sent to the prophet. Right? So we know
the Quran was sent to him
Surat al Mu'dathir
Surat Muzammil
Suratul Qalam.
Different chapters are sent to him.
There's an opinion also sholeto Fatiha comes very
early. There's the opinion that the first entire
chapter sent to prophet Muhammad
was Fatiha.
Because as we talked about just
few minutes ago on our tafsir class, household
of Fatiha is really giving the foundations of
Islam.
And then we know that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa'alehi
wasallam, and this is where we stopped in
the book also,
He starts to tell people.
He doesn't tell people publicly
because he's not allowed to.
And here we see the discipline of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
If you knew you were a prophet,
like, if you really like, if an angel
came to you. Right?
You're playing PS 5,
suddenly the angel appears or, you know, you're
in the garage or you're out in the
woods or something or whatever,
you're a prophet.
Say it really happened, hypothetically.
How many people
would not try to put that on the
gram?
Like, you know what I mean? Like, if
somebody Angel Gabriel came to them, they will
pull out their phone immediately and show everybody.
They would wanna tell the world.
So here we learn something really, really miraculous
about the character of the prophet, sallaihi, sallam.
He doesn't run and tell everybody
because he
realizes as a prophet,
I'm not allowed to do anything until Allah
commends me.
Even something that, like, it's good.
Tell everyone you're a prophet.
So in the beginning, we learn something about
the character, the fidelity, the honesty, the integrity
of the
prophet and his trust in Allah.
That even good things, I'm not doing it
till I'm commanded.
So who knows? Who are the people he
tells first?
Who are those few
people who gather around the prophet
in the very beginning. His
wife. Right?
Absolutely.
Not only Miriam. It's nice to see you,
Miriam.
Miriam is in the house. I have not
forgotten your email.
I promise.
His wife.
What does that tell you about somebody?
If the first person to follow them is
their spouse,
that tells you they're good people.
When the prophet died, it's very interesting. Right?
When the prophet died,
people went to say to Aisha.
What do you think they ask her?
They ask her,
how did the prophet alaihi salatu sallam act
in the house?
Why would they ask her that? Because that's
the only thing they didn't see.
Because when you learn about someone
and how they act behind closed doors, that
really tells you
how good they are. We can all be
nice on a Zoom. Once the camera goes
off, we could become bad people. God protect
us.
And say that,
Aisha said,
he used to serve us.
That's why you should serve your parents, man.
This is sunnah.
Yesterday, I was at a
a a birthday party for my brother in
law's brother.
And there was a old man,
very old man sitting next to me, and
he was eating. And I realized he didn't
have any any anything to drink, so I
just went and got him a drink and
brought it in. I didn't ask him.
My wife yesterday, I saw my wife. It's
good when your husband's brothers do these kind
of things.
Like, I know that my wife, she doesn't
like ice in her drink. I know that.
So I went, say, here you go. Here's
some water. She said, oh my gosh. Oh,
no ice.
You you Imam Malik, he said, you should
be the person that everyone in your house
loves the most.
So the first follower of the prophet, say,
sis,
just remember this, Isra
and Maryam
and asthma and asthma. I got 3 asmas
in this class. We have asthma,
plural.
The first person to follow Muhammad
is a woman.
So never let anyone tell you you don't
have a place in Islamic work. If you
go to an MSA and like, oh, we
don't work with girls. Tell them, You wouldn't
work with Khadija?
Or if you go to a masjid, oh,
we don't we don't let girls in the
masjid. You wouldn't let Khadija in the masjid?
And brothers, you remember this, to support our
sisters.
If you're on an MSA, if you're in
a masjid, if you're working in a religious
group,
and people try to invoke gender
to militarize
people. That's unacceptable.
What would have happened
if Sayedid Khadijah said, I believe in you.
He said, no. No. No. No. No. No.
No girls in in in the group.
To embrace Islam is Khadija. For our sisters
here, have you ever had someone treat you
bad in the name of religion?
Have you ever had someone
mistreat you in the name of religion?
How does it feel? I want our brothers
to hear how this feels.
Because when they hear how this feels, they
will remember that they have to be prophetic
in how they treat
sisters.
Who wants to share?
Either you can type it
indirectly or you can jump on and share.
It's degrading, man.
And you know what's scary, Muhammad Ali, about
this, man?
Other religions, they'll they will welcome Muslim women.
Let a Muslim woman go to church. They'll
be, oh, welcome. Welcome, oh. Welcome, sister. They
let her wear hijab, man. And
we, if we're not careful, will actually push
the Khadijas, the the the the daughters of
Khadija. All these girls are daughters of Khadija.
They are the spiritual daughters of Khadija. They
are the spiritual daughters of Fatima.
Suhey,
you kicked my daughters out of a masjid,
or Suhey,
you mistreated
some of my spiritual daughters
and wouldn't let them be involved.
Allahu
Akbar, man.
Allahu Akbar. That's an incredible story. Someone says,
once somebody tried to take off my hijab
because it showed I was oppressed in their
eyes.
That individual says, I told him this is
my choice. That's why and we have to
remember, Muslim sisters that are wearing hijab, they're
facing pressure from non Muslims,
so we have to be there to keep
them strong.
So the first
first
Muslim
is Sayid Al Khadija.
Then after that, there's a difference of opinion.
Who's first?
Abu Bakr, Sayidna Ali,
Said Nabilal,
But what's interesting is this.
Think about this for a minute. When you
wanna work in your community,
oftentimes, people make a mistake.
They only wanna work with people that are
like them,
and that's why, usually, they don't succeed.
For example, if the prophet
had only worked with 40 year old men
that were from Benny Hashing.
How many followers would he have he had?
Small number.
But look how Allah surrounds
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam with a woman,
with a successful businessman,
with a slave,
and with a youth.
That is every
social group in Mecca at that time.
Either they're successful,
either they're slaves,
either they're women, or they're young. So the
first
instances
of prophetic
start with everyone being represented in the community.
So when you wanna do work
in community, you may feel like, oh, I
can just do it on my own. It's
easier to work with all my friends,
but to be prophetic in your work needs
to work with as many different people as
you can within the community.
It's actually really remarkable.
Sayiduna Abu Bakr,
Sayiduna
Ali,
Sayiduna Bilal.
Each one of them represent an important group
in Mecca.
And, also, if the prophet had only been
followed by the rich,
that would not have been strategic. If he
had only been followed by the poor, that
would have not been strategic. Allah blesses
him with every
type of person
in Mecca
so that his
job can be facilitated
and impactful.
That takes us to one more discussion insha'allah
before we stop,
And that is what is the first thing
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam does
with this group of people? Do we know
Sayna Uthman becomes Muslim?
Sayna Abul Rahman ibn A'uth becomes Muslim? Abul
Rahman sayna Uthman brings, like, 8 people back.
Right? He he brings them. Abu Bakr brings
Uthman. Uthman brings, like, 8 people. Those 8
people become very influential people.
So now you have around 12 people to
14 people who are Muslim
in the early, early days.
And at that time, they start to pray,
not 5 times a day, but twice a
day
in secret.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam does
something.
The first institution
ever opened in Islam. Did he open a
masjid? Or did he open something else? Who
knows?
What does he open?
The first
institution
in the life of the prophet
masha'Allah
ari kohar
is a school.
Why?
Why not a masjid?
Why not start with the masjid?
Yes, ill, yes.
I love all these pants going up, man.
Maybe because, like, how, like, not not that
many
or how you said there's only, like, 14,
15 people.
So
I think I'm here. I'm wanting more people
to learn it.
Good. I oh, yes. Good job, man.
Elias out there
slaying the answers.
Who else wants to add to this?
Why a school
first?
Okay. So think about this, Bilal.
It wasn't only young people learning in that
school.
There were people in their thirties and forties
in that school. Isra has her hand up.
Yes.
I think he start at it. He started
his school first because,
why go to the masjid and pray if
you don't know why you're praying? Oh, Akbar,
Isra.
Has her hand up. Yes,
Don't put the hand down, I saw you.
I I feel like opening a school would
be better
than a masjid because,
because you had to learn about everything first.
If you're able if you just open a
masjid, they barely knew how to read the
mosque first.
So
we needed to, you know, teach them first
how to read the Quran, yeah,
and everything else.
Excellent. Isha and
Elias and Ottawa
and Adi. Everybody's onto something here.
If you don't know how to use a
Blender,
why would I give you a Blender?
If you don't know how to use something
and I give it to you, like, here
you go. It's really nice. I swear to
god. It's so expensive. It's priceless. It's amazing.
It's yours.
You don't know how to use it.
You may use that blender to, like, make
udu, chop off your fingers.
So it's important that you think about this
right now in your own life.
Before you can have a masjid in your
life
as a metaphor,
you have to have knowledge.
Before you can have, say,
a religious life,
you have to learn first.
So we learn something really, really important here.
The centrality of learning. That's why it's so
amazing
to see so many of you here. We
thought after COVID, everybody was gonna quit.
We're like, should we keep doing these programs
for young people?
But keeps
growing.
Because
the importance of learning
learning
came before the mosque.
So anything in your life,
if you wanna follow a general
sunnah,
a big sunnah,
is knowledge comes first. Have you ever tried
to play a video game?
You ever tried to play a video game
and you didn't take the time to do
the instructions
or read how to play it? And you're
like, man,
this game is horrible.
And then you go back and you watch
some of those YouTube
tutorials
or you read the instructions and you play
it like, man, this game is amazing.
So the point is you gotta have instructions
before you can have an outcome.
So what did we learn today as we
finish The
importance
of knowledge
and the importance of community
and the importance that our community
is most successful when it's diversified.
Have you ever been
to a city in America and heard people
say, oh, that's the Arab mosque.
That's the Pakistani
mosque.
That's the black mosque.
That's that one white guy mosque all by
myself.
Have you heard that before?
People say that kind of stuff.
No.
The mosque is for Allah,
and we have one of the most diverse
communities
in
who is that, Orla? What's going on?
They're my cousins. They think you're really cool,
by the way. Nice.
Sign up at Swiss, cousins cousins. Tell cousins
sign up at Swiss, man.
But don't give me your password. Can you
hear me? Don't give me your password.
But
when we are most diverse
and that's why MSA is an amazing time.
Right? That's why even high school MSA is
amazing. Why? Because you bring all these different
people together
from different backgrounds, from different talents. That's very
important, man.
You know, subhanallah, I was an imam in
Boston, home of the greatest basketball team in
the history of the universe.
Boston Celtics.
We're so amazing that our arena is called
Jannah,
the garden.
It's true.
So
when I was imam in Boston, there was
a woman. She was a brilliant black woman
who lived in my neighborhood who was running
for mayor.
She was, man, she was sharp, man. She
had, like, 10 brains, man.
10 she could use, like, 18 syllable words,
like, phew.
You know?
So
she came to the mosque that I served
in,
and she asked me to endorse her
for mayor
as the imam.
And I said to her, I'm sorry.
I cannot endorse you for mayor.
The community
I serve has to endorse you first, so
you gotta visit
the community.
Then she said to me something crazy.
She said, we have done a study of
your church
mosque. Right?
You have more than 91
ethnicities
in this mosque. That's incredible, man. 91
ethnicities.
She said, do you know what that means?
I said, yeah. That's a headache.
Especially at Iftar, man. At Iftar time, some
people want a spicy. I want achar.
I don't want achar.
I want my Persian food. I want my
Afghan food. I want my white American burger.
It's a mess.
She said, listen to what she said to
me. Remember this story.
She said, no. That means power.
I was like, what?
She's like, that's power.
91
different
ethnicities
in one church house?
That's power.
I said, subhanallah, here's a non Muslim
who appreciates
our diversity
more than we do,
who appreciates our unity
more than we do,
who appreciates community
more than we do.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam,
his time as a prophet begins
with a small but powerful group of loyal
followers,
Community.
Allah says to the prophet,
we helped you, but we also helped you
with these people
and knowledge.
All that came before the masjid.
Now we build masjids,
and we hope that that will lead to
knowledge and community. We do it backwards.
Was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
community,
knowledge,
masjid. And the masjid won't come for how
many years later?
13
years later, man.
So what should we make a product? Doesn't
mean that, of course, we wanna build mosque,
I'm not saying we don't build masjids,
but we have to focus on community
and education.
Any questions
before we let everybody go?
45 minutes,
in and out
with the quickness.
Next week, we continue with our book. The
same Google Classroom that we've been using will
remain
this
class's
Google Classroom. If you do not have access
to that Google Classroom
or you have cousins
who have not enrolled in Swiss,
you need to tell them right now,
go and enroll in Swiss.
Then what you need to do
is you need
to email me there.
If you go and look on the previous
recordings, look at last semester,
because I don't remember off the top of
my head. You'll see the syllabus, but you'll
see the last class, what pages we were
using.
So if you don't have that Google Classroom
link, you can
email me here, and I will send it
to you.
I'm sharing it now.
This horrible stuff.
Any other questions?
Yeah. I saw your email.
Another thing is that you also need to
if you want a copy of
the English translation of Quran and the Swiss
survival kit,
you need to email me also here
and put Quran
Swiss
survival
kit. And let me get the Google code
for you quickly.