Waasief De Vries – The Hijra
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Why
That you can live
Respected elders, beloved brothers and sisters,
As always, we acknowledge that all praise is
due to Allah
our creator, our nourishing, our sustainer,
the one who will resurrect us on the
day of and question us on how we
conducted ourselves
in this world.
And And we thank Allah
for sending us the greatest gift that he
can bestow upon man,
a guide, a leader, and a mercy.
Our prophet and our master,
Muhammad
may Allah shower him with the choices, peace,
and blessings
upon his family and upon his friends,
and upon all those who adopt the
or the the way of Islam until the
day of.
We ask Allah
on this blessed day of Jumuah,
like how he has brought us out of
our homes
and gathered us in this beautiful
house of Allah
as how he's also gathering many other Muslims
all around the world on this very auspicious
occasion.
May Allah
likewise
gather us in a far greater and blessed
gathering on the day of in
the company of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Amen.
In a few days' time, we will be
coming to the end of the
Islamic year, and we will begin the new
year.
And every year, we are reminded
about an event
that took place,
an event that will mark
the start
of the Islamic calendar.
When Umar ibn Al Khattab, decided
as to when are we going to start
this calendar,
how we're going to date
events.
The Sahaba gave various views.
Some of them said, look, we can take
it from the birth of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Some of them said,
well, it gave me various views.
You know, we can make it at, you
know,
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam, received.
But they agreed that this event
has to be the start.
It has to signify something very significant,
something that surpasses all
other opinions,
and they agree that we are going to
settle on the hijrah of the prophet
and that will mark
the the hijra,
mark the difference between
haqq and,
between truth and falsehood.
It would mark the difference between and,
the difference between when the Muslim is a
minority
and when the Muslims are a majority.
It would show the difference between
striving and reaping the benefit.
It would show the true meaning,
the true meaning of what it means to
sacrifice in the path of Allah
Many, many lessons
we can take from this.
So we want to mention a few today
in the very short time that we have.
We we'll try to mention some events that
took place prior to the, what led up
to the, and we'll take 1 or 2
lessons from there. May Allah
grant us the understanding and open up our
hearts, Inshallah. Amen.
To start off, let's look at the meaning
of the word hijrah.
Let's look at the meaning of the word
hijrah.
Allah says,
those who have built a home.
And they're fortified and they're built iman
from before them,
referring to the Ansar,
the people, and the inhabitants
of Yathrib at that time.
They love those who made hijrah to them
before
the Muhajirun,
before those who were expelled out of Makkah,
they were fleeing for their lives and they
were fleeing for Islam. Before they even got
to Madinah, they were loved before they even
reached there. Allah
praising
the Ansar, those who will help the
those who will receive
the the
So the word
Hajar and Hajar,
it's 2 different verbs. The one Hajar means
to migrate from one place to another place,
but there's another factor.
Either they were forced
or it was from a command of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Hajar on the other if If we say
the prophet made Hajar wrong,
then this means he left Mecca
and there was a hatred. There was something
he disliked in Mecca and he fled.
There wasn't another factor. You're running away from
something you dislike. Allah
mentions this with regards to a husband and
a wife when they are in dispute.
Those females who you are afraid,
you feel that they are trying to break
the marriage. They are trying to do things
to disrupt the marriage.
Speak to them. Then Allah mentions a verb.
Make
Hajjara from them. Hajjara from them. That is
the command. Not Hajjar but Hajjar. Moving away
from factors you dislike. You make Hajar.
So it is not permissible to say the
prophet made Hajar from Makkah because that would
give us the impression that he disliked Makkah.
We rather say Hajar.
He he made hijra. Why? Because there was
a factor
aiding this Muhammad when
he when he was leaving Makkah to Mukarama.
His homeland, the place that he loved, this
is where he was born.
His whole life was spent there.
Khadija
and his children, this is where he spent
his life with them.
He turned back and he looked at Makkah
and he said,
You are the best of cities.
You are the best of the earth of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
To Allah, you're most beloved and you're the
best in the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. In another narration, you are the most
beloved to me as well.
If it wasn't that my people
forced me out
from you, Minky,
I would have not left you.
This is the the prophet
speaking to
and
it is not far fetched at this time
to realize
that the love of the prophet
is something extremely real. It is something very
powerful.
Bring to mind when the prophet
stepped off the stump,
and he made he gave a khutbah on
on on a member that they constructed for
him, and all the sahaba heard this. They
heard
crying, they heard crying. And then the prophet
stepped off the member and he went to
the stump he used to stand on and
he hugged the stump.
The stump was jealous. The stump longed
to be stood on by Muhammad
out of love of that stump,
the prophet
said that the stump must be put under
the member so he can feel quiet.
This is the love inanimate
things has for Muhammad
And what love should we have for Muhammad
So when he turned from Mecca, he looked
at Mecca and he said, you are the
most beloved
places. So we say
Muhammad.
He made a Hajjara. He didn't leave because
he hated Mecca. He lived out of he
didn't even flee for his life.
He left because Allah
had commanded him to do so. He left
because he told the Sahaba,
I've been shown the place of Hijra.
Then he gave the command, you need to
make Hijra now to Madina
to As for Madina, the place to where
the prophet
is making Hijra.
What did he say about those place? Many
are hadith. Just to mention too.
That which is between my house and my
member is
It is a is it is it is
a part of Jannah.
Either this will actually be a part of
Jannah in the day of Qiyama or Allah
considers a part of jannah right in this
very time.
Says Nabi Muhammad
Whoever wants, let him die in
I will make intercession
for whomever dies in Madinah.
So this is an incentive
of the love of Muhammad
for these two lands.
Every one of us should make an intention
to visit and
Madina
as much as we can.
At least if we cannot do that, Allah
will
reward us. There's a love in our hearts
for Mecca. There's a heart love in our
hearts for Madina.
And we love the people of Mecca in
a hole. And we love the people of
Madina as a whole. Because this is where
Muhammad
came from. May Allah place love for Muhammad
in our hearts.
Just to give you an idea of the
place,
Mecca
versus Madina in terms of the place.
Mecca is is a has a very low
altitude.
I checked it up as well, like 270,
right, altitude, height above sea level. As for
Madina, that's like 620.
And that translates in as follows. Mecca is
a very hot place. It's a very dry
place. Very difficult for things to grow there.
The water is not that sweet. It's not
that plentiful besides the water of Zamzam.
In Madina, Madina is an oasis. The water
is sweet. The ground is fertile,
and
there's a there's a there's a correlation between
the people that stay there. The people in
Mecca was Muta Asim. They were very fanatical
about their ways.
Madinah, as we will hear, the the the
environment was a bit different. They were a
little bit more accommodative
than those people in in Mecca.
So
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
after 10 years
of of striving and sacrifice,
after 10 years of striving and sacrifice, where
did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, what
was he doing? You know, the the hijrah
took place in the 13th year. But the
Muqaddimah, the introduction of the hijrah,
the the direct influences of the hijrah, what
led the prophet
to leave Makkah, it happened in the 11th
year. Now if you look at the the
career of Muhammad
from 40 to 63, 23 years, and you
divide that into 2, it's 11a half.
That gives you 23.
So you find in that year,
in the in
more more or less in the center of
the career of Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the prophet meets the unsolved for the first
time. But before we get to that meeting,
let's understand
what happened and what led to the meeting
of the unsolved. So for 10 years, for
a decade, the prophet
goes out every year
to with the with the Hujaja are coming
to Makkah and he goes to the marketplaces.
And he stays there for 30 days meeting
the delegations as they are coming in.
And he calls them to Islam.
1st year, nobody answers. 2nd year, nobody answers.
3rd year, for 10 years, the prophet is
being ridiculed.
He's being
rejected. Why? Because the marketplaces that he's going
to, he stayed by for 20 days, then
he stayed by for
10 days, then he stayed by a place
called for
for a few days,
which is basically in the time of Hajj.
So almost a month, he would go out
to the marketplaces at the time of Hajj
and give the dawah. And as he's giving
the dawah,
then
and the rest of their gang, they already
devised a plan. What are we going to
tell the people when they are coming in?
And they thought they thought, look, let's, let's
you know, if we are going to disagree,
some people's going to say he's a poet,
and some people's gonna say he's a soothsayer,
then we're going to reject these others, and
then we're going to reject one another.
And then they're gonna know we are lying.
So they asked
the elders amongst them, Waleed, ibn Muhira, what
are we going to say?
So he said, you guys will say in
our either accept and I will reject. So
they said,
let's say he's a soothsayer.
Let's say that Muhammad is
a soothsayer.
Let's say he's a fortune teller. Let's say
he's a poet.
Let's say he's bewitched.
And they give various opinions and he's saying,
no, he cannot do that. He cannot say
that because they know a person that is
bewitched, he acts a bit crazy. Or someone
who is a poet, we know poetry. They're
going to know we are lying. But he
says the best thing we can say, that
he is a sahir,
he's a magician, he's a sorcerer.
Why did they settle at that? Because they're
scaring the people.
They're scaring the people to close their ears
because his words is going to be magic.
His words is going to be magic,
and he's going to separate
between your families, between father and son, and
the people as they are coming as the
prophet is speaking,
they are they are they are casting the
prophet
out. But the prophet never gave up for
10 years, year after year, the prophet came
out and he was rejected.
Up until one meeting.
And this meeting was it happened in the
11th year. He meets a group of 6
individuals.
Those 6 individual
was
6 individuals. The prophet approached him and and
he says, where you guys from?
And he says, we from,
we from Madinah. And he says, oh, you
guy and then the prophet
says,
you guys are connected to the.
Then he asked him, won't you please
just sit down with me?
I just want to say a few things
to you. You know what led up to
this? In this 10 years before this meeting,
where did the and the come from? They
come from a place called Yemen.
They play come from a place called Yemen.
The and the were 2 brothers, and they
had families and then, you know, progeny after
progeny is still they were huge 2 tribes
from Yemen. A flood happened there, and they
moved to Madinah. Many moved to Madinah. In
Madinah, the Jews were there. They were waiting
for a prophet
to be raised amongst them because they saw
all the signs, and Madinah was one of
the designated spots that the prophet will be
raised here.
So they worked for the Jews. The
the
the and the,
Nabeel. Those were the 3 tribes of the
Jewish tribes that were in Yathrib at that
time. And they worked as farmers and they
did various things for the for the Jews.
Then something happened.
The crusades
came into Madinah and they attacked Madinah, and
they humiliated
the Jews.
They disgraced they wanted to disgrace the Jews,
so they put the
the Oz and the Khazraj in charge of
them. So they become the leaders of the
city now. So therefore,
the Jews had a thing going with them
from a long time ago, and they sowed
seeds of enmity between the and the Oz
and the Khazraj. They wanted them to fight
amongst each other until they did.
5 years
prior
to, to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's
meeting with the with with this, in 11th
year. 5 years prior to that, the O's
attacked the Khazraj. There was a battle.
To the extent they were almost they almost
wiped out the Khazraj tribe.
And then they wanted to burn the Khazraj
in their homes, those who are still alive.
And they decided not to because some says,
look, these guys are better than the the
Alib. They are better than the wild
foxes, animals referring to the Jews. This was
the hatred amongst them.
So when these six people are coming there,
the and the,
the Jews used to make fun of them
because the Jews are Ahlul Kitab. They know.
They they have knowledge of the book. And
the Aus and the Khazraj,
the Arabs, they were unleaded.
And they wished they could also have a
prophet, also have a leader so they could
be learned just like the Jews. They were
hoping that there could be a leader amongst
them that can bring their people together
because they learnt one thing when they were
almost wiped out. The Gralib and the Maglu,
both of them will be losers. The one
who is victorious and the one who lose,
both will be losers
because they will be killing their cousins.
We take a lesson from this.
Pick your battles. Look with who you are
fighting with. Brother and sister are fighting for
years on end, And then we're fighting with
their children as well.
What happens if you win? You won a
battle with your brother and your sister?
And the silatul Rahim Allah
has placed barakah
in joining family ties for the sake of
Allah
So they almost wiped each other out. So
they're speaking to the prophet
And then the prophet speaks to them,
and he presents to them Islam.
And as the prophet
is speaking, they look at each other and
he says,
he know who this is. This is the
man that the Jews are constantly speaking about.
This is the foretold prophet
because the Jews,
when they were fighting amongst each other, they
said when the prophet comes, we're going to
wipe you out because they were fighting amongst
each other as well.
So they said this we know this is
the we can see that the the signs
of truthfulness in his face.
And the prophet presents to them Quran and
he presents to them Islam.
6 individuals.
And they promised him that we're going to
come back next year. And when we come
back next year,
we will bring whoever we can, whoever believed
us. So they spread the word in Madinah.
And there wasn't a house in Madinah in
that year from 11th year to 12th year,
except the news
of Muhammad
spread in every household.
Some were accepted and some were rejected.
And the next year,
happens.
When it was the Muslim Hajj Hajj season,
12 come now. Not 6 anymore, they were
doubled.
10 of the o's and 2 of the
Khazraj.
Sorry. 10 of the Khazraj and 2 of
the o's.
And they meet the prophet
by the jamaratul
Aqaba.
And,
they already accepted Islam. And that night, they
took a bayah by Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa
sallam. They take a bayah this is in
the 12th year. The bayah is a pledge.
The prophet
says that
don't make
And the rest of the pledge will go
through that.
So what lessons can we take from there
in this very short time?
Lesson number
1. Signs
that our ending is going to be good
and beautiful.
Is that we
that we turn to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
and that we are with Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala at the beginning.
Now we're making mention of this because there's
a false understanding
that that we might have
due to a misunderstanding
of a hadith of Muhammad
And that hadith is
the hadith of Jibreel.
Not the hadith of Jibreel, the hadith where
it speaks about the development
takes the qasam
by whose by the one whose soul is
in my hand.
Any one of you are acting like the
people of Jannah until he's almost at the
end of his life and he does something
like the actions of Jahannam and then it
causes him to enter Jahannam
and vice averse as well.
So, we find that collaborated
with other
ayaat.
This is what you have been promised, Jannah,
for everyone who's returning to Allah
protecting their life,
protecting their deen. So these hadith and these
ayaat, it gives us the understanding that how
we leave this world is extremely important.
And this belief we have is true.
But what
this implies might not be true, that the
beginning is not true. How we live our
life
at the beginning doesn't affect affect how we
how we end our life. So we can
as we are young, we can do what
we want. We can indulge a little bit.
And as we get older,
then we will change our life. As a
matter of fact, not as we get older,
the last moments of our death, even, then
we're going to change our life. We're going
to learn Quran.
We're going to start performing salah and we're
going to make tawba.
Is that the correct understanding?
The answer is no. Because there's another narration
on this hadith that puts everything in perspective.
How can that be true? Because that is
unfair. Because Allah says
those who believe and they do good deeds.
We won't waste
the reward
of those who do good.
So how can it be that those who
does good at the beginning and at the
end, they make a mistake and Allah
wipes away everything?
It doesn't make sense for our good deeds
to be wiped away, and only the end
makes sense.
So the hadith which we should actually take
note of is the one
in that which is apparent.
So in other words, a man does an
action of a people of Jannah. He goes
to, to the mosque
and he gives zakah, and he's the best
of people.
In that which is apparent. We don't know
what is happening in the heart.
Then as he approaches death in the book
of Allah,
it overtakes him because he never had sincerity
and he becomes the people of Jahannam. Elder
protect us. Likewise, you see a sinner,
and you see he's doing actions of a
of the people of sinning in that which
is apparent.
But every night, he goes home and we
don't see that. And he cries to Allah.
He says, I'm trying to leave his action.
May Allah help me, and he's crying and
he's crying. Allah
forgives him every night. To such a degree,
he returns to Allah
with no sin, and he becomes from the
people of Jannah.
So this is what the hadith means. And
how does this relate to the hadith of
Muhammad
For 10 years, can you imagine our prophet
standing in marketplaces,
going to every tribe? And as he's speaking,
his uncles are speaking saying, don't listen to
this crazy fool.
He's calling you to break up your family
ties
year in year out for 30 days on
1 in the marketplaces.
But the prophet
had ikhlas.
The prophet
was doing what he was doing with sincerity
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
irrespective
of the results.
So especially those who are in their youth,
those who are young today,
do not have this wrong perception that one
day I'm going to change.
The beauty of living a life
with the fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
when we're young is a guaranteeing factor that
when we are old, we are going to
leave this world in a beautiful state despite
what people might think of us.
Because we try from the beginning till the
end. As a matter of fact, at the
end, we give out all our effort. That's
where we give the last bit of effort
more than we ever gave before. So this
is one lesson we learned of the life
of Muhammad
prior to the Hijra and just at that
particular time at the Bayatul Aqaba.
The second
lesson,
that we can take from there is that
the prophet
never made excuses.
This Makkah is a difficult place. I can't
practice my Islam in Makkah. You know, I
need to move to a different country, an
Islamic country. If there there was an Islamic
country at that time, I need to move
to a better place. Then I can actually
practice my salah. I can't be in university
and I can't be in school and it's
the wrong family that I'm in, that's why
I cannot practice my Islam. It's the job
that I have.
We have all these excuses the prophet
had. What excuses did the prophet actually make?
Remember this one hadith. I'll leave you with
one more
point. The prophet says,
the one who is successful is the one
who he first submits himself completely to Allah
And this is at the beginning till the
end, complete submission to Allah
Then
he is sustained with not the best,
but he has enough.
He has enough.
Then
Allah makes him content with what he has.
So the prophet
whatever he had at his disposal,
he used that to preach the deen of
Allah
He used that to practice the deen of
Allah
We, in our own capacity, we come from
various places. We have various jobs, various occupations,
and various families.
That little that Allah
has given to us, if you want to
be successful,
realize that that is enough to practice this
deen of Allah.
Then secondly, the dua we must make is
that Allah makes
us contented with that with that little that
we have. We don't have to make excuses.
What we have is enough to attain
not just success in this world but success
in the as well.
May Allah protect us and guide us. If
I may, I have 2 more minutes. Just
one more lesson that will bring up to
3 lessons up until this point.
If you look at the that took place
on the on the
when the twelve met the prophet in the
12th year. Remember, the next year would be
Hijra. But in that 12th year, they pledged
to the prophet
and the prophet sent with them Musa Abi
Binu Umay to teach them Quran. The next
year, they would come back with 70. But
in that first pledge,
what was that pledge about? You must do
this and you must do that. No. It
was a lot about leaving all things. I
like
to don't make shield with Allah
We might think that's the easy thing. But
remember, they are contending with their culture.
Their culture is to worship worship idols.
Can we contend with our culture today?
What is the west? What is our environment
forcing us to do that is against Islam?
Can we contend with them? Or do we
fall by the first drop
of peer pressure that comes our way? Do
this, do that, and we just want to
go with the flow. Muhammad didn't just stand
against 1 person, but against an entire nation.
An entire nation, notwithstanding
everything, an unbroken and unstoppable force in the
way of Allah So
don't make shit with Allah. Then
don't make zina,
don't steal,
and don't commit a sin. If you do,
Allah will take you to account in this
world, then it's good for you. If not,
then your math is with Allah
in the day of.
The point I want to drive home is
at this very
beginning stages. Remember, they they, man, has to
be strong. The Islam has to be strong.
And if you look at that pledge, it's
about
insak, a nafs, keeping back the nafs from
its hawaa,
pulling back the desires.
And this is so important. The true worth
of a Muslim
is judged not in his ability to perform
salah, his ability to perform Hajj, but his
ability to hold back his desires
when confronted with his Hawa, to to down
to look down
when he's confronted with a an attractive female.
Or there's an attractive male in front of
her, she looks down.
To stop where
Allah has placed boundaries within our workplace,
that is the true worth of a Muslim.
That is the true strength of a Muslim.
Was these, few words, these three lessons that
we have taken from this great struggle of
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. May Allah sow
the seed of appreciation
of what Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went
through in those years and the sahabah. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala place love in our
hearts for Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
the Sahaba. And may Allah
give us the encouragement and the strength we
need to face the onslaught of desires when
we are faced with that, to pull back
our desires.