Waleed Basyouni – Ramadan Khartirah 04-09-2024
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The scene that I wanna take you to,
coming from
going down
towards Madinah
after he camped in Qibat
for several weeks
And now he moved into Madinah,
riding his camel
and behind him in the camel, Abu Bakr
And the camel
coming, Sahaba Radiallahu in Medina heard that the
prophet moved him to Medina,
and now he's gonna live in Medina. He's
moving finally.
So every you know, it is tribes and
houses. So every house in Medina
was so excited,
kind of and
beauty in Medina.
So happy that the prophet is coming.
And each one of them would like to
host the prophet is sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So when he walking
the house of this tribe and the house
of this tribe and the house from that
tribe, everybody will come.
You know, come here. Here you will find
the good soldiers. Here you will find the
wealth. He the money that will spend for
on you and your your friends. Here we
will take care of you. He will do
this everyone
welcoming in the
Those who are on the side of the
wall of the road, they came out. Those
who live a little bit farther, they came
in in in cluster and they said,
everybody carrying their weapons, carrying whatever.
Making sign. Here, come to us. Come to
us.
And you can tell the whole entire Madinah
on fire.
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will choose for this camel.
When Nabi Sallallahu Salam send a message to
his Aqwal
Aqwal,
his mother's
family side. Okay? His uncles,
maternal uncles
from his mother's side, because his mother Amina
from Benin Najjar. So Benin Najjar
behind the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, carrying
the like an entourage with him and carrying
their weapons, showing that they are a good
household,
a strong, you know,
tribe as well, and they will take care
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But
did not say where he's going.
And the camel keep going.
The camel goes to an area where people
will gather their sheeps and, you know, like
an open area. Let's wait. Let's like,
you know, like, you see these guys, our
neighbor have, like, a a fence around an
open area where they use it for multi
use. Sometimes they put their cattles in it
like you put they put their cars in
the modern days. Okay? So when
he will pray where the, sheep gather, and
he said that's where the barakah is. Anyway,
he goes to this place,
and the camel, the she camel, settled.
But
did not move.
And,
she came out,
looking left and right.
Not subtle 100%.
Nabi
did not
get off yet.
Then all of a sudden, the shikamal stood
up
and start moving.
And now everybody's heart is like, you know,
maybe me next. Maybe this
is just leave it.
It goes around. It goes around. They'd come
back
to one specific spot in the same area,
and it's settled.
Sit down.
Yeah and it when it came down on
the ground,
it fully settled on the ground. The chest
all the way down.
Settle completely.
And when it did that,
took off the camel.
That spot where he took off, where that
camel
settled. Today, if you wanna know which one,
if you go to Medina
This the spot where you have the prophet
member that stand on to give the
Today, that's the spot.
In the Haram, in the Masjid today.
So get off. And now
the neighbors are burning the jar.
Everybody from them. There are multiple houses.
My house my house my house, come to
me come to me.
Right where is.
Abu
did not wait. These people
said come to my
He went and he carried the prophet
you know, uh-uh luggage
and his stuff, and he put it, and
he took it to the house. He didn't
even ask.
Then he said,
I already got your stuff in my house.
He said the
man follow his luggage.
He plucked and he said, I have to
follow my luggage. You know, I have to
follow my stuff.
And he goes there and he stayed
about 2 weeks,
and Abu Ayub let him sit on the
upper floor.
He said, I would not dare
to walk on the roof, and I feel
that
He said, I couldn't let him sleep downstairs
because I could not think of me walking
on the roof and underneath my feet, Rasuulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sleeping Wouldn't be
proper.
And
when
exactly the same day or the next day
he said
This is for who?
This is for who? This is for Sahal
and Suhail. They are 2 orphaned.
And I'm in charge of them.
Said we wanna buy it.
And transfer to a masjid.
He said, buy it. No, Don't
worry about it. We'll take care of it.
I will pay them something that make them
happy.
No. No. I wanna know what the price
of it. He said,
don't worry.
Will take care of it.
You just came to our city. You're not
gonna let you pay? Said,
no.
These 2 boys, 2 orphan boys, asked, what
is the value of their property, and we
will pay them?
10 dinars of the
hub and he paid them. And he wondered
why that Abu Bakr paid them?
The money.
He said,
can it had al Mirbat
has three things?
Palm trees that are old,
some life, some dead, you know. It's not
very it's it's not used, like no no
dates or anything in it.
And some pagans graves, like few graves for
pagans
from before.
It is basically
old buildings, abandoned buildings.
That's it.
And it is about
the size of this area is about
a 120 feet.
Okay? A 120
feet by a 150 feet.
That's it.
Or a 200
feet maximum.
Yeah.
Said, as for the building,
why Yeah. I need,
knock it down and level it.
As for the palm tree, cut it, and
we're gonna use
the trench to build the mustard with it.
And,
branches to build the mustard with it.
As for the grave, dig it and rebury
them somewhere else.
So he dug the grave and whatever around
the grave, cleaned it up, and leveled the
place. Anin Nabi said, now after all is
done, he said, let's start building the masjid.
Anil Nabi sa Salam
want to demonstrate
how he is part of building the Masjid,
from out from the first moment.
Take off the upper garment. He became the
upper part of his body
not covered, only the lower part covered. And
that's work.
He said,
let me carry it. He said, no. There's
another rock over there. You go carry it.
Everybody carries something.
Became
like as we say, excuse the the expression,
like in the steroid. You know, everybody is
so active and gathering the rocks,
and they start building the Masjid
piece by piece,
Rock by brick by brick.
In this excitement, they were like what? They
were like making,
they were singing,
you know, like poetries. And they would say
something
How come we sent and we see the
Prophet
working? We should work
does not know how to say poetry
even though he's very eloquent.
Not a single line, even when he quote
a poetry,
can't
only half,
a line of poetry. Or if you do
the poetry, it will not rhyme,
properly. There is something wrong in the in
the in the structure of it.
Subhanallah. That's why Allah salaam, subhanallah, when he
said, he does not say poetry. He's not
a poet.
Okay. So it's it's interesting with all this
because that's the the Quran. It is not
from his own. Anyway, so because
he doesn't knows he doesn't say poetry, what
would say
would say the last word.
The last word. You know? And that's how
he said.
So the last word he just repeated with
them, and they are excited.
Well, I
I can spend a long longer time just
explaining you and gather you the
that describe how Sahaba are so in interesting
in in
it. One of the beautiful scene in that
scene during,
is a big strong man, and he is
young. Okay?
So he's
good. Yeah. And he built.
People will carry barely one rock.
Will carry carry 2. And he would carry
like this on his head. What kind of
shadow
You know, he originally from Africa. He's a
strong man.
And his hair was kinky hair. It became
all dusty. And maybe some saw him at
the end of the day. And he's like,
you know, like double the work. You
know? So he said,
They killed me
with all the work. They're loading me so
much.
He said,
they killed me. And the Bismar said, no.
They will not kill you. You know who
will kill you?
The transgressor
group.
Subhanallah, this word,
he did not understand what it means
until
years
years decades later
in 40 Hijri or
39 Hijri when the war
was happened between Muawiya and Ali Raniyahu and
and Amar of Nyasa was in the camp
of of Alib Nabi Talib.
Then
he said, and
one of the beautiful scene there, you know,
can be.
He like to joke.
So
he said a poetry.
Is a very gentle man. He well dressed.
He take care of himself.
You know, when you're digging and building,
everybody is dusty, everybody carrying, you know, took
off his
He he hold the the the the the
rock far from his clothes like this
So he doesn't get dusty.
He wanted to keep his his clothes.
Ali radiAllahu and saw him like that, then
he said,
It's not gonna be like the one who's
so worried about dust to get dusty.
For Ifrahma radiAllahu and he heard him saying
this and you know he's like hitting on
him and he laugh and he laugh and
Nabi salallam smiling at them. Just
I want you I I give you these
just simple example
to to make you live the the the
the the scene, the
the feeling, the excitement,
the brotherhood,
the love
that what this message built with
Before it was built with rocks
and built with, you know, with,
the, with clays. It was build with love
and care. And from the day 1, the
first rock that would put in the ground,
it have brought
the hearts of the Muslims together.
This is genius.
Genius. And doctor Tariq, yeah, and he, I'm
sure he can comment on this as a
sociologist.
This genius, when you come to a society,
you wanna bring them together, you make a
project and you make them work together,
to accomplish something together.
That's a genius idea.
You're talking about
from a different tribe, different city
to Medina, and you wanna merge them together,
and he make that project together.
It's it's a long story,
but
what I want you to know that
build this masjid, and it's simple masjid.
Now anybody here can tell me, where is
the Qibla? North or south?
Medina is what?
Al Qumbla is south.
No. Al Qibla at that time was
north to Jerusalem.
So they build the masjid,
and what they did in the front,
there is no
they build
about
4 feet or or something like that, 3
feet, rock, solid rocks. Then after that, they
had,
clays
mixed with some sticks.
That's the wall.
123 in the front.
Okay?
And it has 3 doors
and 4 in the back. 1, the door
is an open area. I mean, the door
is, like, between this pillar and they're like,
let's say, it's an open kid area. No
no door to lock.
That's why the Arabi comes with his camels
all the way to the middle of the
Masjid.
You have the Masjid and somebody park his
car here.
So it has 3 opening. 1 of them
designated for women.
So,
the the south
is where the door and the two sides.
Kalas.
House where? In the south. The opposite of
the Qibla.
He
built his house next to it. And my
understanding also is
that that basically the the the the height
of the wall
is not connected all the way to the
roof. The roof is made from
the branches that they cut or the the
branches on some of the pieces they cut
from that these,
palm trees that they cut down. It doesn't
connect all the way to the roof. There
is a space.
Why? For air, for light to come in.
Okay?
But the roof is good to keep. The
roof
only cover
maybe 20% of the mast.
And the back or 30% of the mast.
1 third. And the 2 third as open
air.
So
I'm gonna wrap it up.
Now they stayed like this 18 months.
After 18 months, the change
From north to
south. Now they have to face south.
And that's why the prophet's
house ended up what? In the
Cause some people said it's weird, like why
the prophet's house in the It's actually originally
it wasn't. So what they did, they closed
the door in the south, and they make
a door in the
north, the opposite.
Did they make any improvement? Not yet. Nothing.
Comes 7 Hijra
and in
and improvement. The Muslim number increased tremendously.
So made an expansion
almost double the size of the original Masjid.
Just to wrap it up quickly.
Then something new happened to the Masjid.
And by the way, the expansion
was with the same exact material that it
was built with originally. 8 hijrah,
First time. What was it? A woman came
to the prophet and said,
Now after this expansion, which had done in
7th hijrah, now the masjid's big, huge, and
you're far away from the woman. We cannot
see you.
I have a carpenter work for me. What
do you think?
I will make for you something to stand
up, sir, higher which is the member.
It's 3 steps higher. So it carry you.
It will be strong enough to carry you
when you stand up and you will be
able to
basically
uh-uh
yeah and you will be able to see
you.
9 Hijrah, another new things happened.
Food.
Where all the people from all Arabia come
to visit the prophet,
representative from every tribe.
They did not know where is he, where
is he sitting, and sometimes became confusing.
So Sahaba, some of them is
like a
a platform, like a like a small little
stage
You know, it's like in in in in
culture I don't know what it's in in
other culture with an Arab culture.
It's like something made of wood. You know,
the the the chair or the couch that
you have it made of wood in your
backyard, in the front yard, in front of
your house,
the bench. Yeah. Something like that. But that
one was very small. It's like it's like
about 1 and a half feet above the
ground. That's it.
From clay.
So people will recognize him. It's
it is, but you you recognize him when
you look at him. See? But sometimes the
mix between him and other companions. Because in
the people
will think
If you can imagine the prophet coming, you
think that an old man with a, like,
white beard like Sheikh Ibrahim, you know. You
know.
But actually, he is more like doctor Noor.
Have no single white hair.
Yeah. Not single white hair in his face
for me.
I'm scared.
Right. So, you know, I need
I was able to count 20 white hair
in his face. That's it.
Because he used to dye his hair.
Like going back to the topic, so now,
this is a new improvement. Then after that,
he died. Abu Bakr, nothing.
Just,
just remodeling. Nothing expansion. Comes, he made a
huge expansion.
And this is the first time the member
you know where the is?
So he made a little bit of expansion
beyond the member.
And from the west he expand the mastiff.
Huge expansion in the west.
And the same material.
And and I have a point why I'm
giving you this.
Then
made a very interesting change
to the Masjid
and
the What is it?
Beside expanding it, he changed the materials.
What did he do?
He didn't use clay anymore. He used something.
I don't know what's the.
Cement. Yeah, cement.
It's like he used cement,
not
clay.
Cement is very expensive in that time.
Like stucco. Like stucco. Something similar to the
stucco. Expensive. This fancy.
Then the roof, it was mega what?
You remember?
The branches and the, the trench of the
a very expensive type of wood
and the rocks
he put,
a rock that it has some kind of
decoration in it, and it's it's some lines
and looks like, simply, and you know what?
There's gonna be 2 lines.
That's it.
And
When he build the masjid, he build it
similar to what the majority's houses looks like.
And now after Allah have blessed you with
all this and all the improvement happened to
your home,
I will do the same to
to the house of Allah.
And
he told him that and and became
the yeah. I mean, I don't I don't
mean to enter to the to the history
of the building of the Masjid, but I
want this to be because there is a
lessons from all this.
My brother and sisters,
I'll stop here.
But while I'm stopping here, I want you
to know there is so much happened in
this message.
This Masjid was not just a place
where Allahu Akbar assalamu alaikarhatullah. That's it.
They used to gather.
They used to talk. They used to shellise.
So
everything that every
tasks
used to be done in Masjid Rasulullah
Later on in time, moved out the Masjid
except
one
particular task.
For example, the masjid was in the time
of the place
for judge, to judge between people. Later on,
there is court
moved
out. The Masjid was a place for war
to be declared.
Later on, moved out.
And there is Sahib al Shurta
in history. You know, a police and, defense
ministers and a a man when a man
Al Bahrain came, when
the war booties came and money came from
Bahrain, do you know what the said? He
said, pour it all in the middle of
the masjid. Do you know how he distributed?
He said, everyone.
He stopped like
this. Fill it up.
Everybody take his
fill it up completely and take home.
It's like the treasury was domestic, later on
became the rasamta called treasury.
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That's why it is so important that our
Masjid never lose sight of this.
Never translate our society to be a social
club.
Or, you know, a community service area.
That's excellent. But the masjid has to stay
as a masjid.
The masjid has a message.
This is the message with people deemed they
come to worship Allah. They come to be
completely immersed in the
learn how the learn their deen.
Even later on there's schools.
And that task should always be in the
front of you when you have a Masjid.
That's the place where he unified the Muslim.
That's the place when people feel safe.
It's home.
And you feel safe at home. And nothing
like home. He didn't say places.
He said homes.
And I remember from day 1 when we
planning for this Masjid,
I mentioned this verse, and I said, this
place always has to to feel homey.
Next Ramadan, we can know more what happened
in that masjid.