Suhaib Webb – Uqud alJum’an of Sheikh alIslam, Selim alBishri (Lesson Nine) A Great Miracle of This Umma
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We praise Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We send
peace and blessings upon our beloved Messenger, Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and upon those who follow
him until the end of time. Welcome back
to our reading of Ulqul Juman, fiyaqul I
aalil iman.
The section on Anubuwet.
Islamic Theology
studied in 3 ways.
Things that are related to God, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. What we have to believe, what
we have to deny, what's possible.
Number 2, Anubu Wat.
What we believe about the prophet
and the last
the
unknown, the hereafter, what happens in the grave
and all of
those
things.
Prophecy
and prophets
by sending the final prophet.
You know, one time I was on a
college campus and some of the people from
the Ahmadi community, we had to be very
careful
that we disagree with the Ahmadi community.
We don't support any people being mistreated or
their rights being violated, of course.
But also we have to be careful that
this is not used to try to make
us bend and accept them as Muslims. They're
not Muslim.
Just like the nation of Islam, we don't
consider them Muslim
because they don't believe in the finality of
the prophethood of Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam
or the day of judgment
and also things about God, in particular the
nation of Islam.
They're the nation of Islam.
They're the Ahmadi community.
And as I told those Ahmadi's like, if
you want to be Muslim so bad, then
be Muslim.
But one of them told me in Surat
Al Ahazeb, Allah
says,
so therefore he used this, the the the
the passive participle,
ismathrul,
to insinuate that the meaning here is not
finality.
And I said so what what would what
would the word be that that would make
it
halas? He said
so I said
As Sayyidina Shatibi mentions one of the 7
Imams.
His rewaiyah is not
So I said there it is.
Khatima nabi'i.
So now, hayya,
tayal,
aslim. And then he got angry at me.
We don't have to respond
if we learn and if we understand and
we equip ourselves properly
we don't have to get emotional. Usually we
get emotional when we don't know because we
get insecure, but when we know we can
stay calm and cool.
So don't fall into this trap, particularly with
this community,
and argue with them
at.
Argue in a better way. And one of
the best ways to do that is to
learn.
The culmination of prophethood was saying Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, the imam of guidance.
That's why Medha said that
Mariki we have what's called Sunnah Al Huda.
Right? Certain practices of the prophet are
sunnahs that are
going to directly bring someone in a state
of being guided. Bi iznila.
Waqa'id al ghuri almuhajjaneen
of course this is the hadith of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that describes his Ummah and the hereafter as
having illumination from wudu. Wurra al Muhajaleen.
Right. We ask Allah
When you make wudu, right, it's a very
important thing because you are building your your
light for the hereafter.
And this is very important contextual
dawah.
Allahu Akbar. And that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
aided and assisted
every prophet with a miracle
which was befitting
his the context of his people.
What his people understood and knew.
It's very important, so I like to ask
students, what is the most important thing in
your community today
that you can use to make dawah relevant
to them without sacrificing the principles of dawah?
Just last night I was reading the news,
a Travis Scott concert.
People were the swelling crowd, large number of
people were killed,
Some reports are saying children.
How do you how do you then frame
something happening at this degree? You could say
to someone like, is this really how you
want to be when you die? What kind
of society allows this to happen?
Right?
I'm not blaming the artist, of course.
But the point is, people are dying in
situations like this.
Where people in this country,
you know, are doing things which are egregious,
natural, moral violations. And right in front of
them are people, for example, living in the
streets, living in tents.
So many challenges, right? What what can you
use to contextually
adjust your dawah
so that it impacts people without sacrificing the
haq?
So the sheikh, he says,
That that that surpassed
what they knew. So, like, the prophet brings
the Quran and surpasses their their their their
understanding of literature and poetry. It's beyond
it. Right. It sticks out.
The time of Sayidina Isa people practice medicine.
It surpasses his miracles, surpass what they know
to be the laws of normal
human beings, physical law. Sayyidina
Musa
in his time magic was huge, right? So
Allah
Right? Suddenly it becomes a stick and those
magicians know this is this is not something
that any normal person can do.
They make they repented for their magic. It's
proof that you can repent for magic and
they fell in prostration.
Right? Beyond
anything that they could
muster.
And his hand that was illuminated
and he split the sea
and other things.
And the people who knew, people of knowledge,
they knew that this is beyond anything we
have the ability.
Right? Beyond their ability.
As he said, and they knew that that
was something that
was beyond their ability.
And that, and this is very important, that
anything which is beyond our ability is coming
something from something other than us. And this
goes back to the idea of Allah being
Qadir
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Mu'id and Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that whatever he
wants and whatever we see
of his power and authority,
We if we think about it, we immediately
know that this is beyond our ability. And
since it's beyond our ability, it's not coming
from any of us or anything in the
material world. Therefore, that deserves to be worshipped.
And that's why those magicians, I just read
the verses in the Quran, they immediately fell
into sujud and they affirmed their belief.
In Sayidina Musa.
Satan Isa sent at the time of of
of great medical
advancements,
but he brings things like
causing the dead to come to life by
the will of Allah, curing the leper by
the will of Allah that the intelligent people
around him knew this is beyond our ability.
Quran.
The prophet sent at a time where there's
incredible eloquence in language
as well as,
magic and sorcery.
And that it was the level of the
eloquence of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
the Quran was such that if all human
beings and jinn gather together
and and some of them were stronger than
others, they would not be able to reproduce
the Quran.
But the Prophet continued and he continued to
teach and call to the Haqq
until the Haqq became Alhamdulillah
dominant.
And
that
the light of Allah became clear and began
to shine.
Those disbelievers around the prophet,
they knew that this was not the speech
of a human being.
But this is the
the the communication
of the all powerful,
the one who decrees all things and controls
all things.
Faamin ubi. So they believed in the prophet.
Except for those who it was decreed they
will die as disbelievers and they will deserve
the punishment.
And
whose,
you know,
sadness
and whose,
displeasure
was written meaning decreed before creation.
Next time Insha'Allah we're gonna talk about
mashallah up until this point, the Sheikh frames
the roles of prophets. This balance between gurus
of glad tidings and warners,
calling to faith and obedience, warning of disbelief
and sin, and then noting that they were
contextually appropriate for their time. A lot of
times Muslims like to ask, we're so far
away from prophecy. What is the miracle of
the Ummah of the prophet after the Quran,
of course? What is going to help us
stick out as a community
and center people back on prophecy is character.
Our character is our miracle.
That's why the prophet said,
I was sent to complete good character.
So