Wasim Kempson – The Night Journey

Wasim Kempson
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The importance of establishing a connection between events during Darrow and establishing a connection between the two events is emphasized. The speaker discusses the importance of reading the Prophet sallam alaihi wa sallam, which is a blessing and mercy given to the Prophet. The journey of honoring the Prophet sallal Ali bin respective was a blessing and mercy given to the Prophet. The importance of feeling like one is part of the story and finding one's true love for Allah T ser sent to them is emphasized. The importance of learning from the church's teachings and finding one's true love for Allah T ser is also emphasized.
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Indeed, all praise and thanks is due to

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Allah. May the peace and blessings of Allah

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be upon his final messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam.

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Assalamu alaikum Warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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So Alhamdulillah, I'm

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I also feel very blessed and very happy

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to be here

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in

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the one of the houses of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala amongst my beloved brothers.

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I ask Allah subhanahu ta'ala to bless every

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moment that you spend in this masjid. I

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ask Allah Jala Wa'ala to grant us all

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beneficial knowledge

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and also the ability to

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act upon that beneficial knowledge. Allahumma ameen.

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Now the conference, however long you have been

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here,

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as it been advertised, it is the seerah,

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the life of our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam and you.

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And I think that

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establishing a link between these two

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is really important

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in the life of every Muslim,

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because we don't want to feel separate

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from the life

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of the greatest man, alaihissahu salam, who ever

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lived.

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We don't want to feel as though there

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was a gap between his teachings,

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what he gave to us,

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the

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guidance that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave to

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the prophet alaihi sallallahu alaihi sallam and ourselves.

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We don't want to feel that there's this

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big chasm or this big gap between the

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2.

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We want to bridge

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that gap or whatever feeling that you have

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between the 2.

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You want to be able to read about

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the life

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and understand the life of the Prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam

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so that it means something a great deal

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to you. That it impacts your life, it

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raises your iman,

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you're able to pass on that noble and

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beautiful knowledge to your family and so on.

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So establishing that connection between the two

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is really important. And I think it's really,

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masha'Allah, for an excellent

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title

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for the conference.

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And I hope that, insha'Allah to Allah, throughout

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the duration

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of the two and a half days or

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so,

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that whatever time that you spend here,

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at the very end, you, inshallah,

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are able to,

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you know, strengthen your link

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to the beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Now I'm not sure if the lectures or

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the advice that's been given to you is

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done chronologically, that is done in order, historically

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in order.

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But nonetheless,

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the reminder of the time that we have

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here together insha'Allah ta'ala is about Al Isra'u

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Wali Mi'raj.

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The night journey and the ascension.

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And Al Isra'

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is one part of the journey and the

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Mi'raj

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is the other part of the journey. You

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can call it one journey if you like,

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but they are 2 different

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realities

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in what we are talking about here.

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Unlike everything,

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context,

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perspective

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is key.

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It's very important

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so that when you read

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about this incident,

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because it is one of the most important

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incidents,

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I think, Allahu'alaam,

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personally in the life of the Prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam.

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No doubt

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when the revelation first

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it first started with the prophet alaihis salam,

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everything changed for him alaihis salam, no doubt.

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And the years that followed

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with the revelation coming to Him, alaihi sallam,

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things were changing.

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The trials, tribulations.

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But the isra and the miraaj, the night

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journey and the ascension into the skies and

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heavens,

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if you look at the

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timing of it

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and we try to imagine the impact

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that that would have on a human being,

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more so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, it

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allows us

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to understand

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somewhat

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how blessed and virtuous

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was. And also

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how much Allah Jallahu Alaihi wasallam loved His

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Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Now us, as when we go through the

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Seerah

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and we read through the events and they

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are essentially when you're reading the seerah, the

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reading is life, alaihis salaam, you don't want

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it just to be a set of facts.

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This year this happened. This year that happened.

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This year this happened. Although that's important for

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you to know,

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but you want to feel engaged with the

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story.

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You want to feel engaged with the events,

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even though you've read it before.

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Because there are many books that you read

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and you don't read it ever again.

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You read an autobiography of a certain individual,

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the life story of another person, you read

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it once and that's it.

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But the life of prophet alaihis salaam, you

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want to read it again and again and

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time after time.

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And that each time that you read it,

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you want to feel emotionally engaged

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even more each time that you read

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it. That's one of the goals, one of

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the objectives that we want

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in reading about the life of the Prophet

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alaihis salatu wa sallam.

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11, 11 and a half years have passed

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since

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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first

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received

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the first revelation

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in the Cave of Hera.

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11, 11 and a half years have passed.

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So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has

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gone through a number of trials,

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tribulations,

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unimaginable.

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But nonetheless, you will read them and you

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will see what these trials and tribulations are.

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The journey itself,

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it is a matter of iman for us

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to believe in, to accept,

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to have certain and conviction

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upon,

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as opposed

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to orientalists,

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as opposed to have or those who have

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doubts about Islam will question this and question

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that.

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Even

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from the,

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I don't even want to give that title,

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but amongst their own circles, from the greatest

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of minds

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that they have.

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The greatest or not necessarily the greatest, but

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the most well known atheists.

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And that they talk about

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in discussions

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that you believe

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that a man went on

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what was an animal

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and traveled

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from Makkah

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and almost flew

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and made that journey

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to Masjid Al Aqsa and then returned,

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Not before going up into the skies and

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the heavens and returning that

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you believe a man made that journey.

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The person says this in a flippant way,

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in a mocking manner, that how can you

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believe such a thing? The same individual,

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the same individual who believes that they have

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such a great mind, who believes nothing created

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nothing and then that nothing created everything.

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So those disbelievers who have this approach

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will mock

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at times

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and have this doubtful approach

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concerning

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this particular and amazing journey that the Prophet

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alaihis salallahu alaihis salallam, he went on

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You may have more nuanced arguments concerning that

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here,

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I'm not talking about specific Orientalists,

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Montgomery Watt and Muir, These

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are names you may or may not have

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heard of.

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These are orientalists,

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British orientalists who existed or lived maybe more

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than a 100 years ago looking carefully at

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the life of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam

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and looking

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at the verses of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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saying that

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In the Quran it says

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Masjid Al Aqsa.

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Okay, let's Where's Masjid Al Aqsa? There was

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no thing as that you can a masjid

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at the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam, islam had not reached those lands.

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What Masjid are you talking about? There was

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no Dome of the Rock.

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There was no, as you might know, Masjid

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Qibili or Musa Al Maghribi. All these Masjid

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that are in the compound of Al Aqsa

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at the moment. What Masjid

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are you referring to or is the Quran

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referring to? This would be the approach of

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the orientalists.

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Now not to go too much into the

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rebuttal of these

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shubuhat

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or doubts that the Orientalists brought about when

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talking about this journey.

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But for us as Muslims, alhamdulillah, answering and

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understanding this journey

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is first and foremost beginning with the Quran

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that we have iman, certainty and conviction in.

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And similarly more than 22 companions of the

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Prophet

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narrating the story in detail from different perspectives.

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And when they're all brought together,

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give us a beautiful

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detailed

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picture

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of every step of the incident.

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We don't need to question anything.

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But nonetheless, that they have brought up these

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false shubuhat,

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and not understanding that for something or a

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place to be called a masjid doesn't necessarily

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mean that you need 4 walls and a

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roof.

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That the compound itself is a place

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which was a place established

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as or for Ibad.

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Whether you look at the narrations

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saying that it was obviously built after Masdud

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al Haram by Arba'un al Sena of 40

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years,

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whether it was

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Adam

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or Ibrahim

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this was a place of worship

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and the fact that

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this place may not have looked like in

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its original form, but yet nonetheless is still

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a place of worship. It's still a masjid.

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So refuting such

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shallow arguments, alhamdulillah, is easy for the Muslim.

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But when we look at the incident itself,

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well, as I said, the backdrop is really

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important. If you look at the

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alayhis salam

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and the journey that he had gone through

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his whole life

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and how Allah

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had protected Musa

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even as a baby.

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Being thrown into the river,

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into the small basket, whatever it was that

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he was placed into the river then to

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be subhanAllah saved and to be brought up

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in the house of Firaun,

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subhanAllah,

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the one who wanted to kill him.

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Musa alaihis salaam went through a number of

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stages in his life

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until

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then when Allah

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saved Banu Israel,

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them

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in front of the sea.

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To enter the sea would be, of course,

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destruction for them to be drowned

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and for them to turn back facing the

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army of Firaun.

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But no Israel saw 2 outcomes, of course.

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Destruction in the sea or destruction at the

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hands of Firaun on the land.

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And when they

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almost raised their hands

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in surrender,

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that's it. We've been caught. We've been captured.

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That Musa alaihis salam in his response, so

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powerful,

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No.

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That my Lord is with me and He

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will guide.

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He will give us a solution.

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If you look at again the backdrop to

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the story of Musa alaihis salam

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and all that he had been through, how

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Allah

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had protected

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Musa

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time after time after time. The level of

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iman and conviction

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for him to say that at that time

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only Musa alaihis salam would understand

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the certainty of faith in saying such a

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statement.

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But as a Muslim, when you read the

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story and you understand the backdrop and how

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he when it reaches that stage, you have

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an appreciation

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for that particular statement of Musa alaihi salatu

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wasalam.

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Likewise, when we look at this incident,

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when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

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upon first receiving the revelation,

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calling His people,

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and they rejected Him.

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In fact when he first received the revelation,

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alaihis salatu sallam, he was in a state

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of fear, no doubt, in a state of

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fear.

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But the first person he goes back to

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is his wife Khadija

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and she is there to console him.

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The wife of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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for more than 25 years,

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the mother of 6 of his children.

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An emotional

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support

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that none will know the reality of,

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except the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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She was there for him from the very

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start, the first one to believe in him.

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To be the emotional support

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that he needed, alayhis salatu salam.

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And this was the rahmah, no doubt, of

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Allah

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to give that support

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to the prophet

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And it's key for us to know this.

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Why?

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It's key because this incident of al Isra

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wal Mi'raj

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occurs

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not too long after

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the passing

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of Khadija.

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Radiallahu anha. She passed away.

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The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not

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marry anybody else

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while Khadija was alive radiAllahu anha.

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And throughout them years that came after

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that Aisha radiAllahu anha mentioned,

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She said there was no one that I

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was more jealous of

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than a woman that was no longer with

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the Prophet and that was khadeeja, khadeeja radiaallahu

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anha.

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The attachment and the love that the prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had for Khadeja.

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So she has passed away maybe a year

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prior to this incident, radiAllahu

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anha.

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Added to that,

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that Abu Talib,

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the uncle

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of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

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the full brother of his father.

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His father, Abdullah,

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the one who was most like his brother,

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his father was Abu Talib.

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And upon the death of Abu al Muttalib,

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who is the grandfather

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of the prophet who has looked after the

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prophet for a couple of years, between the

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ages of 6 8,

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upon his deathbed

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he said that my son, Abu Talib, will

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take custody

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of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, 8 years

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old.

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And so

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the one whom was

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more like a father figure

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in the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam more than anybody else would have

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been Abu

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Talib. He was a non Muslim.

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He did not accept Islam.

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But throughout the years he was there to

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support him,

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to educate him, to do what he could

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for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And

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even upon receiving the revelation,

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he

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stood by

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He stood

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by his nephew.

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He made sure best he could that no

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harm, no physical harm would come to him.

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So far we're looking at what more than

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40 years,

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more than 40 years,

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42 years, 43 years, he was there, stood

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by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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as that kind of outer support,

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fatherly figure support

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for the prophet alaihi wasallam.

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He also passed away at a very similar

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time to Khadija, radiAllahu anha,

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both in the 10th year

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after the mission, or the first time that

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the Prophet had received revelation.

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Amun Husun, it is named in the seerah,

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the year of sadness.

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Because

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both Khadija

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had passed away

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and Abu Talib, upon ghayd alayhis salam.

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The prophet would have felt that.

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That somebody so much That natural love he

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had for his uncle died upon

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disbelief.

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And if anyone who has experienced somebody very

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close to them to die upon disbelief,

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that will impact your heart like you can't

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imagine.

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That you cannot make du'a for them. You

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cannot do nothing for them.

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Added to that, from the closest people

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that were to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, the poorest of people, the most vulnerable

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of people,

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were killed for their belief.

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They believed in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam and they were martyred for that.

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No doubt this would have

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played very heavily

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on the heart

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of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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That they were banished out from their people

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for more than 3 years.

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They were boycotted for more than 3 years

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between the 7th 10th year.

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So the Muslims and specifically the prophet alaihi

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sallallahu salam

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had gone through

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trials like you can't imagine.

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His first two sons, Al Qasim, Abdullah,

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both died as young children, that he had

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to bury them both.

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For a father to bury 1 of his

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children,

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nobody can explain that,

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but the one

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who experiences that, if they are able to

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put that in words.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did that for

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2 of his sons.

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Prior to the israelah and the mihraj, and

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I think this is important to mention and

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when I'm saying context,

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because it will make you appreciate

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this particular journey so much more.

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That after these incidents,

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his people rejected him The emotional support,

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that very close emotional support of Khadija radhiyalaan

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was no longer there.

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The protection

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after Allah

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of Abu Talib amongst the other tribes, again,

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was no longer there.

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He goes to Ta'if sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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to speak to Banu Taqif,

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the closest people, tribes to Makkah.

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They humiliate the prophet

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in calling the children,

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the young Shabaab, to pick up stones and

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whatever they could choose to hurl and throw

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at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam to run

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him out of Taif.

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And that the prophet alaihi wasallam

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along with Zayd ibn Harid

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radiyaan

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that his legs and his arms were cut

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due to the

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stones that were thrown at him

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Eventually, he returned to Makkah

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and if he was to return to Makkah

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straightaway,

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no doubt the Quraysh,

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they were ready.

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They were absolutely ready to do what they

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could to kill the prophet, alaihis salam.

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But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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sought protection and a non Muslim,

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mutir ibn al Adi,

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he gave protection to the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam for him to return.

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And this continued

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up until one particular night.

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So this is in brief

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what the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had

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faced

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from the very start of the call.

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Loss of life,

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loss of beloved ones,

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people attacking Him,

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losing beloved friends.

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You cannot imagine.

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It's like he, alaihis salatu salam, had gone

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to all or

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done whatever he

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could

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to proclaim the message

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of La ilaha illallah.

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Worship Your Lord alone.

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Quite simple. Leave off these false gods

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and worship the 1 Who created you.

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Worship the 1 who sustains you.

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Worship the 1 who is deserving of all

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worship. La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasool Allah. That

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is the simple call,

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but they did not accept that.

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And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

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in a time where it's probably the lowest

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time that you can imagine up until this

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time now,

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that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has gone

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through,

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at this stage

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is what left to do.

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The people of Makkah,

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they don't accept Islam apart from a few.

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The closest people, at ta'if,

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they are ready to kill the prophet

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What is left?

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Who is left there for you?

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And in a situation in your life possibly,

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where

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no medicine can help you,

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Your parents can't help you.

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No money can help you.

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No worldly matter that is presented in front

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of you. If the whole world, they came

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together to help you,

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the help that you need

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is not a help

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that can be given from anything or anyone

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on this earth.

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The only help

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that can help you is the help of

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Allah

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That is the only thing that can help

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you, And that there may be periods and

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times in your life that you will recognize

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that.

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That the only thing that can help me,

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the only one that can help me,

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because you realize

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that this everything that is in this dunya

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is restricted,

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has limits,

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and can only go so far

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that the true help

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is the help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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So at this time,

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the prophet is

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sleeping in the house of Umihane, his auntie,

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Close to the Haram, close to the Kaaba.

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He is awoken.

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Jibril

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comes to the prophet

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and wakes up the prophet alayhi salatu salam

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and takes him close to the Kaaba.

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And

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there, his chest is opened

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and his chest, his heart is cleaned

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and filled with Hikma,

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with wisdom

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and knowledge and

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iman.

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Allah

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sends Jibril.

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And what do you know about Jibril, alaihis

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salam?

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The one who delivers

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the wahi, the revelation to the prophets

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The one whom informed

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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that the one who delivered the message to

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you was the same one who delivered the

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message to Musa alaihi wasallam.

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So Jibril,alayhis salam,

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he takes the prophet,alayhis salaam, to salam

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on a journey.

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Al Burak,

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an animal which is

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larger than a donkey, smaller than a horse

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And there it is brought to the Prophet

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alaihis salam. Here the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam

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is awake.

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He is not dreaming, he is not sleeping.

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This is a physical experience for him, alaihi

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salaahu alaihi wa sallam.

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When did it happen?

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Allahu'alaam.

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There is no fixed and certain knowledge as

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to exactly when this Isra wal Mi'raj happened.

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Sorry to,

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because then you may not know, I want

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to celebrate this night. We don't celebrate this

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night because we don't know the date

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and it is not something that is really

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celebrated inna al Islam.

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So we don't know exactly when it was,

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whether it is in the Rajab, or Rabbi

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Athani in Ramadan, Allahu Alam. Allah knows best

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when it was, but it occurred, of course.

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So this animal there, Al Boraq

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Have you heard of Al Barak before?

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Bark is what? It's lightning, right? This animal

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is called barak.

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This animal moves so quickly,

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as the prophet alaihis salam describes

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that the journey or the movement is that

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when it

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moves forward its hoof, it moves like the

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distance that you can see upon the horizon.

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That's how fast it moves. SubhanAllah.

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So just as the prophet, alayhis salam, is

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about to get onto this animal,

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it rains itself up.

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And there Jibreel

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says, Usput,

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that stay still.

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That there is one who is going to

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ride you, no one better than him,

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meaning the Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam.

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So it calms down

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and it goes on this journey,

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and it takes the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam from Makkah, Masjidul Haram.

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As I mentioned earlier, the first verse in

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Surah Al Isra,

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Glory be to Allah

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The one who took the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam at night time.

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The servant, the slave

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of Allah

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meaning al Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam. From

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the Masjid that we all know in Makkah

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to Masjid Al Aqsa.

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Which is the distance of at least a

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month.

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It takes at least 1 month

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for any normal person on a caravan, on

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a camel or a horse that you have,

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to travel from Makkah

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to Al Aqsa. It takes a month.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam went on this

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journey and returned the same night.

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The same night.

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So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has taken

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to Masjid Al Aqsa.

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Here we can see

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that the prophet

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being asleep in the house of Umihaneh radiAllahu

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anha.

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Who knows what is going on in the

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mind of the prophet sallallahu alaihis salam at

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this particular time?

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The trials and tribulations that I mentioned to

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you that they occurred,

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he is living under first and foremost the

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protection

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of Allah

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That Allah

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will protect you from the people.

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And that Allah Azzawajal allowed that this individual,

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muti ibn Abi, would be there with his

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tribe

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to ensure that no harm would come to

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So it's

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almost like a temporary

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stay of execution, you might say,

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for the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam being there in Makkah.

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And so then the prophet al Islam goes

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on this journey, is taken to this

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Masjid Al Aqsa,

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but at the time is under the rule

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of who? The Byzantines,

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the Romans,

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the Christians.

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And so there when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam arrives,

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the animal, the buraq, is tied up.

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And there the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam arrives

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in this

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sacred

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and blessed

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sanctuary.

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Al livibaarakna

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hawla.

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As Allah

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tells us, in this sanctuary which is blessed

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all around it,

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a place,

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al aqsa and the surrounding areas,

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sham

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is mentioned in many ahadith.

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Many narrations.

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Certain

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and important incidents

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will occur

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in this in this place.

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The ad dajjal,

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the greatest fitan to afflict Bani Adam in

00:27:45 --> 00:27:47

the future will occur one day,

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but in this area will be the place

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that he will be killed

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by 'Isa Banu Mariam alayhis salam.

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But that is yet to happen.

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So we're talking about an extremely important place,

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a place that with iftar salah is offered

00:28:01 --> 00:28:02

in this sanctuary

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is equal to 250

00:28:04 --> 00:28:05

salah.

00:28:07 --> 00:28:10

So there the Prophet alaihi sallam arrives in

00:28:10 --> 00:28:11

Al Masjid Al Aqsa.

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Now you may know this story

00:28:15 --> 00:28:17

and many of the narrations, it is at

00:28:17 --> 00:28:18

least understood

00:28:19 --> 00:28:21

that here the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:28:22 --> 00:28:23

led the anbiya

00:28:24 --> 00:28:26

led the prophets in salah.

00:28:28 --> 00:28:30

There is also a second understanding

00:28:31 --> 00:28:34

that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam leading the

00:28:34 --> 00:28:35

prophets in prayer

00:28:36 --> 00:28:37

did not occur immediately

00:28:38 --> 00:28:40

upon arrival of Masjid al Aqsa,

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but rather

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when the Mi'raj,

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when the ascension

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finished and that the prophet after

00:28:47 --> 00:28:48

meeting the prophets,

00:28:49 --> 00:28:51

then came back to earth,

00:28:52 --> 00:28:55

then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam led

00:28:55 --> 00:28:56

the prophets in prayer.

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So whether it occurred

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at the beginning before the ascension, before the

00:29:01 --> 00:29:03

Mi'raj or after the Mi'raj,

00:29:04 --> 00:29:05

does not really impact anything,

00:29:06 --> 00:29:07

doesn't change the ruling

00:29:08 --> 00:29:09

on anything.

00:29:10 --> 00:29:11

But it is important to mention

00:29:12 --> 00:29:14

that the prophet alaihis salam did lead the

00:29:14 --> 00:29:15

prophets in

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in prayer.

00:29:18 --> 00:29:19

Now remember

00:29:19 --> 00:29:22

that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:29:22 --> 00:29:24

had gone through all of those trials and

00:29:24 --> 00:29:25

tribulations,

00:29:26 --> 00:29:27

But this journey

00:29:28 --> 00:29:29

is a journey

00:29:29 --> 00:29:32

of honoring the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:29:33 --> 00:29:35

It is a great reward,

00:29:35 --> 00:29:37

a great virtue, a blessing,

00:29:38 --> 00:29:40

a mercy given to our beloved Nabi

00:29:42 --> 00:29:43

that no human being had ever gone

00:29:44 --> 00:29:46

and will ever experience such an experience.

00:29:47 --> 00:29:48

The things that he

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that he saw, that He experienced.

00:29:54 --> 00:29:55

That upon returning,

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that when He salallahu alaihi wa sallam would

00:29:58 --> 00:30:00

hear the verses of the paradise,

00:30:01 --> 00:30:03

would hear the verses of the Hellfire,

00:30:04 --> 00:30:06

after seeing their reality,

00:30:08 --> 00:30:10

can you imagine how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:30:10 --> 00:30:11

wasallam would feel?

00:30:12 --> 00:30:12

You know when

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you have

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read verses and you read things in the

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Sira,

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and then for the first time you go

00:30:18 --> 00:30:20

to Makkah and then the first time you

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go to Al Madinah.

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You see the Haram with your own eyes,

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you see Madinah for the first time, You

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may go to Uhud

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and you can see this is where the

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Sahaba, where they were. This is where the

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Prophet

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where he fought.

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Is it the same

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when you were just reading the stories

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and the sierra in a book, when you

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went there and to see it with your

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own eyes?

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And then you return back to your home

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and the next time that you read the

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Battle of Uhud,

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how much more engaged you will be when

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reading the story of Uhud. Why? Because you

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were there.

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You saw where the Sahaba

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from them Hamza

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where he was buried, and Musa'ib ibn Umayr

00:31:03 --> 00:31:04

They were buried there. You saw it with

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

your own eyes,

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

the feeling and the the increase of your

00:31:08 --> 00:31:09

conviction certainty,

00:31:10 --> 00:31:12

because you saw it with your own eyes.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:16

So here the prophet alaihis salam is blessed

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

on this particular journey with so many things

00:31:19 --> 00:31:20

and some of them we will

00:31:20 --> 00:31:22

describe. Now because the journey is so vast,

00:31:22 --> 00:31:24

so many things for us to mention, we

00:31:24 --> 00:31:25

of course cannot do it in such a

00:31:25 --> 00:31:28

short time. But we take lesson from it,

00:31:28 --> 00:31:29

we take some benefit from it, in the

00:31:29 --> 00:31:30

hope

00:31:30 --> 00:31:32

that the next time I go to read

00:31:33 --> 00:31:34

about the story

00:31:35 --> 00:31:36

of Al Isra wal Mi'raj,

00:31:37 --> 00:31:38

maybe I can take that much more benefit

00:31:38 --> 00:31:41

from it. Because I sat in a gathering

00:31:41 --> 00:31:43

where I heard some things that maybe I

00:31:43 --> 00:31:45

didn't hear before or there was a take

00:31:45 --> 00:31:46

on the story

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

that I didn't hear before. I wasn't I

00:31:48 --> 00:31:50

didn't hear it like that before. And this

00:31:50 --> 00:31:51

is how Allah allows you to benefit

00:31:52 --> 00:31:53

from beneficial knowledge,

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

sound authentic knowledge.

00:31:57 --> 00:31:58

So the prophet

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

saw signs of Allah

00:32:07 --> 00:32:10

As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in Surat

00:32:10 --> 00:32:10

Najm.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

Now we know that the great signs of

00:32:15 --> 00:32:15

Allah

00:32:17 --> 00:32:17

were shown

00:32:18 --> 00:32:19

to many prophets,

00:32:20 --> 00:32:23

to Ibrahim alaihis salam, to Musa alaihis salatu

00:32:23 --> 00:32:26

salam, similarly our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

Moreover, the signs and what he saw and

00:32:28 --> 00:32:28

experienced

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

like nobody else.

00:32:32 --> 00:32:34

So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:32:35 --> 00:32:36

is

00:32:37 --> 00:32:38

taken up

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

into the the skies, the heavens,

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

Not the jannah that, insha Allah ta'ala, everybody,

00:32:43 --> 00:32:45

we hope, will be there. We ask Allah

00:32:45 --> 00:32:47

jalala to make us from its inhabitants, I

00:32:47 --> 00:32:49

mean. But the skies and the heavens in

00:32:49 --> 00:32:50

that

00:32:51 --> 00:32:52

Allah created.

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

And that at each level

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

of the skies or heavens that we are

00:32:56 --> 00:32:57

talking about,

00:32:57 --> 00:33:00

that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

00:33:00 --> 00:33:01

he met a Prophet,

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

that he saw a Prophet.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

And so for example,

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

as the hadith of Anas radiAllahu anhu,

00:33:10 --> 00:33:11

and there are many, as I mentioned, more

00:33:11 --> 00:33:12

than 22 companions

00:33:14 --> 00:33:15

that they mention

00:33:15 --> 00:33:17

this particular incident from

00:33:17 --> 00:33:18

from different

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

perspectives

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

and different

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

viewpoints.

00:33:22 --> 00:33:23

So in the first, Jibril

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

goes up with the Prophet

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

and nobody enters any of these skies or

00:33:28 --> 00:33:29

heavens

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

except with permission

00:33:31 --> 00:33:34

that each of these heavens, they have horas,

00:33:34 --> 00:33:36

they have gods, they have malaykal.

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

And that they, sought permission

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

that they go into that and that they

00:33:42 --> 00:33:43

enter that, and they said, who is seeking

00:33:43 --> 00:33:44

permission?

00:33:48 --> 00:33:49

It is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What a

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

blessed individual, a blessed Prophet,

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

allow permission.

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

For the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam then to

00:33:54 --> 00:33:55

be introduced

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

to Ab al Bashar,

00:33:58 --> 00:34:00

the father of humanity.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:03

Adam

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

and that they exchange salems,

00:34:08 --> 00:34:10

They exchange words with one another.

00:34:12 --> 00:34:13

And the same

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

occurrence

00:34:14 --> 00:34:15

happens

00:34:15 --> 00:34:16

in each of the heavens,

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

that permission is sought

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

to go into the next heaven,

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

2nd meets Yahya

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

and Isa and in the 3rd, Yusuf

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

and in the 4th, Idris and in the

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

5th, Harun

00:34:33 --> 00:34:34

and in the 5th Harun

00:34:34 --> 00:34:37

the 6th, Musa and in the 7th, Ibrahim

00:34:38 --> 00:34:40

Now the order of the prophets in these

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

levels is not in terms of the order

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

of who is greater than the other.

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

This is not the case.

00:34:48 --> 00:34:49

But on each occasion that the Prophet

00:34:50 --> 00:34:51

meets each of the prophets

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

and exchanges salaam between them.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:58

And here it is explained that the prophet

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

meets the arwah, meets the souls

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

of these Prophets,

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

whom Allah

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

allows for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

meet and to greet.

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

Except for

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

except for Isa, alaihi wasallam.

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

For there, Isa, alaihi wasallam

00:35:16 --> 00:35:16

is there

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

physically in his body,

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

because he alaihis salam did not die.

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

They did not kill Him nor did they

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

crucify Him, but

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

it was made to appear to them so.

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

So Isa

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

did not die

00:35:34 --> 00:35:35

and was alive,

00:35:35 --> 00:35:36

and did the Prophet

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

met Isa physically.

00:35:40 --> 00:35:42

So on this journey,

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam had

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

a meeting with these great prophets.

00:35:48 --> 00:35:51

Again looking back as we mentioned, what the

00:35:51 --> 00:35:53

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam experienced before.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:54

Here Allah is

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

giving a great mercy and a blessing

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam to

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

see this.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

Is this a journey of khawf

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

up until now? Is this a journey of

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

fear?

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

Yes, it is a journey of the unknown,

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

but here

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

the lesson for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

is not of punishment and fear,

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

but it is one of expectation.

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

Of one

00:36:19 --> 00:36:22

of intrigue to know what is happening next.

00:36:24 --> 00:36:26

And we also know that on this journey,

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

00:36:30 --> 00:36:31

beyond

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

the 7th heaven,

00:36:35 --> 00:36:35

is shown

00:36:36 --> 00:36:37

Baytul Ma'amur.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:41

The place of worship where 70,000

00:36:41 --> 00:36:41

angels

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

that they enter and they worship Allah every

00:36:46 --> 00:36:47

single day.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:48

70,000

00:36:49 --> 00:36:52

enter Baytul Mamur to worship Allah jalawala

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

and then the next day 70,000.

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

That those angels will not get another opportunity

00:36:59 --> 00:37:01

to come back because of the sheer amount

00:37:01 --> 00:37:01

of

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

Each day there are so

00:37:06 --> 00:37:06

many

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

angels that they won't have the opportunity to

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

come back.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

That Allah

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

allowed the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

see that.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:15

And to go to

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

that low tree upon which that no human

00:37:18 --> 00:37:19

being

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

will go beyond.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

That beyond that was a light.

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

And it is here that when the Prophet

00:37:25 --> 00:37:27

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was asked, did he

00:37:27 --> 00:37:29

see his Lord? He said,

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

It is light that I saw.

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam reached a

00:37:35 --> 00:37:36

place, a stage where no

00:37:37 --> 00:37:39

human being could go beyond.

00:37:41 --> 00:37:42

And that on this journey that the Prophet

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

sallallahu alaihi wasallam received

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

the

00:37:46 --> 00:37:50

command to establish the 5 daily prayers. Khamsu

00:37:50 --> 00:37:50

Allah salah.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

Fifty prayers.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:58

Then went on return to to meet Musa

00:37:59 --> 00:38:01

and then you may well know the story

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

that Musa

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

asked the Prophet

00:38:04 --> 00:38:07

what been what had been obligated with regards

00:38:07 --> 00:38:07

to salah

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

and that the prophet salallahu alaihis salam had

00:38:09 --> 00:38:10

accepted 50

00:38:11 --> 00:38:14

without any debate, without any questioning, 50 salaah.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:18

But then Musa alaihis salaam said that your

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

people will not be able to bear 50.

00:38:20 --> 00:38:22

I was with the people who could not

00:38:22 --> 00:38:22

bear that.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

Go back to our Lord and to ask

00:38:25 --> 00:38:25

for takfiq,

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

for a lessening,

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

for a lowering of the number.

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went

00:38:31 --> 00:38:33

back to Allah, rubbu alalameen.

00:38:34 --> 00:38:34

Jalluwala,

00:38:35 --> 00:38:36

to lighten the load of the salawat,

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

it was lowered lowered down to 40.

00:38:39 --> 00:38:41

Only to go back to ask for a

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

lightning

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

lightning in the number of salawat.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:46

And this happened a number of times until

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

it reached 5.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:49

Then Musa

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

said go back to ask for takthif,

00:38:52 --> 00:38:53

a lowering and lightning of the load.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

But the prophet

00:38:56 --> 00:38:57

said, I cannot ask for any more.

00:38:58 --> 00:39:00

So the 5 salawat was then incumbent upon

00:39:00 --> 00:39:02

the Ummah, until

00:39:03 --> 00:39:04

the end of time.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:07

But on this journey, as I mentioned a

00:39:07 --> 00:39:08

little bit earlier,

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

shown aljannah

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

walnar,

00:39:15 --> 00:39:15

the paradise.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:17

It's naeem, it's blessings.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

The hellfire,

00:39:19 --> 00:39:21

the punishment of the hellfire.

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

The punishment of all those who are involved

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

in certain sins,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

like backbiting

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

or Erkil or Riba or the one who

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

consumes Riba

00:39:32 --> 00:39:34

or the one who commands everybody with good

00:39:34 --> 00:39:35

and forgets himself.

00:39:36 --> 00:39:38

And the punishment of the one who fornicates.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

So, Allah showed

00:39:42 --> 00:39:42

these things

00:39:43 --> 00:39:45

that this is what would happen

00:39:46 --> 00:39:47

to the disobedient

00:39:48 --> 00:39:48

servants

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

in the hereafter.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:54

So when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

in the hadith

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

of Aisha radiAllahu anha,

00:39:59 --> 00:40:01

in a hadith which is Rawahul Bukhari.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:03

When he sees his companions

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

sitting amongst each other.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

And they are, they're talking, just as people

00:40:08 --> 00:40:09

talk.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

And some of them they begin to laugh.

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

And so here the prophet alaihis salam,

00:40:14 --> 00:40:15

he says,

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

That if you knew what I knew,

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

if you knew what I knew

00:40:27 --> 00:40:29

That you would laugh just just little

00:40:30 --> 00:40:32

and that you would you would cry so

00:40:32 --> 00:40:32

much.

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

Now we can understand in light

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

with what the prophet had

00:40:38 --> 00:40:38

experienced

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

on the Isra wal Mi'raj.

00:40:41 --> 00:40:41

Something

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

that the prophet alaihi sallam would never forget

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

for the rest of his life.

00:40:45 --> 00:40:47

What he had seen and what he'd experienced,

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

no human being had seen or experienced.

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

When he would tell his companions

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

about fearing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

staying away from the punishment of Allah Subhanahu

00:40:59 --> 00:41:00

Wa Ta'ala.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:02

The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had seen that

00:41:02 --> 00:41:02

punishment.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

And that to have hope in Allah subhanahu

00:41:05 --> 00:41:06

wa ta'ala,

00:41:08 --> 00:41:08

to have

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

reliance and trust

00:41:11 --> 00:41:13

upon Allah jaluwala. He had seen the reality

00:41:13 --> 00:41:16

of that. That in the darkest and most

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

difficult of times,

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

in that very difficult situation as we had

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

explained, that the

00:41:23 --> 00:41:25

that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then gave that

00:41:25 --> 00:41:26

great blessing.

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

Took him out of that and granted him

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

this journey.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

So in times where as I mentioned to

00:41:32 --> 00:41:32

you before,

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

where all seems lost,

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

don't feel that the all is lost.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:39

That there is no impossible.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

That just around the corner,

00:41:42 --> 00:41:44

just a short time away,

00:41:44 --> 00:41:46

there is something waiting for me.

00:41:46 --> 00:41:48

There is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

will help me out of this situation.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:51

And

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

in a similar narration,

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

in a narration which is narrated by Abu

00:41:56 --> 00:41:57

Dhalil al Ghifari

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

in hadith in Sunun al Tir Midi, wahasinun

00:42:02 --> 00:42:02

alalbani rahimahullah,

00:42:04 --> 00:42:06

that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,

00:42:09 --> 00:42:11

That I because I've I seen or I

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

see that what you don't see.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

That I hear what you do not hear.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

That the

00:42:24 --> 00:42:24

earth

00:42:25 --> 00:42:26

is

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

moaning and groaning

00:42:28 --> 00:42:29

because of what

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

has happened, and it has a right to

00:42:31 --> 00:42:32

do so.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

And that there is no place that 4

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

fingers that they can be placed on the

00:42:42 --> 00:42:42

floor

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

And that there is no placement like this,

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

except that there is an angel prostrating itself

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

to Allah

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

If you knew

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

what I knew,

00:43:05 --> 00:43:06

that you would laugh

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

less frequently

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

and that you would cry

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

more frequently,

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

That you would not even If you knew

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

what I knew, you would not enjoy the

00:43:17 --> 00:43:18

time that you have with your wives

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

in in that private time.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:23

You would not even enjoy that, because of

00:43:23 --> 00:43:24

the reality that I know.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:27

Walakharajtumillasuadati

00:43:28 --> 00:43:28

tajra'uunillah.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

That you would go out onto the plains,

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

you would be calling upon Allah

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

to save you,

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

if you knew what I knew.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:42

Now in light of what the prophet alaihi

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

wasallam experienced on this journey,

00:43:45 --> 00:43:47

one can only imagine the conviction

00:43:47 --> 00:43:48

of such a statement.

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

And I think

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

how to bring that example close to us,

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

And I think I've already mentioned

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

it. That each time that you go to

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

Al Haram, each time you go to Makkah

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

and you go to Madinah,

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

maybe there are personal times that you have

00:44:03 --> 00:44:06

there, that you are looking at the Masjid,

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

or you're looking at Jabal Uhud, or that

00:44:08 --> 00:44:10

you're looking at the the Masjid,

00:44:10 --> 00:44:13

and you try to think about what happened

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

there once upon a time, and that you

00:44:15 --> 00:44:16

are walking in the same footsteps,

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

the same air that you are breathing,

00:44:21 --> 00:44:23

that people gave their lives for Allah Subhanahu

00:44:23 --> 00:44:23

Wa Ta'ala.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:25

You can somehow

00:44:26 --> 00:44:29

There's almost a tangible feeling

00:44:29 --> 00:44:30

of what you have right there.

00:44:31 --> 00:44:32

This is a worldly experience.

00:44:33 --> 00:44:35

This is maybe the best kind of example

00:44:35 --> 00:44:36

I can mention.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

And of course what the prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:44:39 --> 00:44:41

wasallam, of course we don't want to bring,

00:44:41 --> 00:44:43

there's nothing in line with that at all.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:46

But again, the sierra and you.

00:44:47 --> 00:44:49

The life of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

and you. We want to bridge these gaps.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

We want to be able to, when we

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

read the sierra,

00:44:55 --> 00:44:57

to experience and walk through

00:44:57 --> 00:44:59

as though I am with the prophet sallallahu

00:44:59 --> 00:45:00

alaihi wa sallam.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

As though I am there with Abu Bakr

00:45:02 --> 00:45:04

as Siddiq, as though I am there with

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

Umrahman Al Khattab.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:06

That when

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

is in the house of Al Arakan

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

with Sahaba

00:45:15 --> 00:45:17

and Hamza radhiallahu anhu that they hear a

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

knock on the door.

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

And then they said who is at the

00:45:19 --> 00:45:20

door?

00:45:21 --> 00:45:21

And they says

00:45:22 --> 00:45:24

Umre Blakatab is at the door

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

And he has his sword with him

00:45:27 --> 00:45:29

And when Umar radiAllahu anhu, when he has

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

his sword with him,

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

that can mean only one thing.

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

He want to feel what is happening here.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

He want to have that emotion about how

00:45:37 --> 00:45:38

the Sahaba would

00:45:39 --> 00:45:41

feel. Only for them to hamza to say:

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

If he's bringing something,

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

we will bring like it as well.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:46

He has brought something,

00:45:47 --> 00:45:48

we will bring the

00:45:48 --> 00:45:50

same. And so we see the prophet alaihis

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

salam ask for the door to be opened,

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

and not for the sahaba to surround the

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

door.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:57

But But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to

00:45:57 --> 00:46:00

walk toward, walk towards Umar ibn Khattab himself.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

For him to be the one to face

00:46:03 --> 00:46:05

what is going to be faced. Yabnal khatab.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

O son of khatab, what is it that

00:46:09 --> 00:46:11

you have? Only for him to declare his

00:46:11 --> 00:46:11

al Islam.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:16

So when we take these these incidents,

00:46:16 --> 00:46:18

knowing the backdrop and everything about it,

00:46:19 --> 00:46:21

one finds themselves wanting to read the story

00:46:21 --> 00:46:22

again

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

and again

00:46:23 --> 00:46:26

and again, because you feel yourself immersed in

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

it.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:29

You want to feel part of it.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

You want to somehow

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

feel as though that you are

00:46:34 --> 00:46:35

part of the story somewhere.

00:46:36 --> 00:46:38

Because the sierra of the Prophet alaihis salam,

00:46:38 --> 00:46:39

yes,

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

it finishes at the time when the Prophet

00:46:41 --> 00:46:42

alaihis salam passes away.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:47

But holding up the liwa over Islam, or

00:46:47 --> 00:46:49

riot to Islam, holding up the flag, if

00:46:49 --> 00:46:50

you want, of al Islam,

00:46:50 --> 00:46:53

or the flag of La ilaha illallah does

00:46:53 --> 00:46:54

not end there.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:55

But it continues

00:46:56 --> 00:46:58

and you want to feel as though that

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

you are carrying that as well.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:02

More than 1450

00:47:03 --> 00:47:04

years later,

00:47:04 --> 00:47:07

that you are part of Islamic history,

00:47:08 --> 00:47:09

That you are part of those

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

that want to be mentioned

00:47:11 --> 00:47:13

They stood up for La Illa Illallah Muhammad

00:47:13 --> 00:47:14

Rasulallah

00:47:15 --> 00:47:17

That reading such incidents

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

are not just things that are to be

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

read in the books and that when you

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

close the book and then it stays there.

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

But these are, is a continuing living story

00:47:27 --> 00:47:28

for us.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:30

Did you see yourself

00:47:30 --> 00:47:33

as somehow a peace in that story that

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

came much

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

much later?

00:47:37 --> 00:47:38

And I ask that Allah

00:47:39 --> 00:47:40

allows us to be from those people who

00:47:40 --> 00:47:41

truly uphold

00:47:42 --> 00:47:44

the reality of La ilaha illallah

00:47:45 --> 00:47:47

And to know what it means to make

00:47:47 --> 00:47:47

a sacrifice

00:47:49 --> 00:47:51

in living by La ilaha illallah

00:47:52 --> 00:47:55

And that Allah protects us from Adulallah, from

00:47:55 --> 00:47:56

misguidance.

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

That Allah protects us from inharaf

00:47:59 --> 00:48:02

in in all these forms of misguidance and

00:48:02 --> 00:48:02

misinterpretation.

00:48:03 --> 00:48:05

We ask Allah to protect us from an

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

ifaq, from hypocrisy.

00:48:06 --> 00:48:08

We ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la to protect

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

us from al jahl.

00:48:10 --> 00:48:12

That, you know, the darkness of al jahl

00:48:12 --> 00:48:13

and ignorance.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:15

Imagine a person doesn't know

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

the reality

00:48:17 --> 00:48:18

and the story

00:48:19 --> 00:48:21

of the greatest man to ever live, the

00:48:21 --> 00:48:23

prophet Muhammad alaihi sallam,

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

who shaped and formed, by Allah's permission,

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

the world that we are living in now.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

Allah

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

decreed

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

that the coming of the Prophet alaihi salaam

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

would shape and form the rest of humanity

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

and would be the source, by Allah's permission,

00:48:43 --> 00:48:44

of us knowing

00:48:45 --> 00:48:46

alhaquwalbatil,

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

of that what is truth and that what

00:48:49 --> 00:48:49

is falsehood.

00:48:50 --> 00:48:51

And being able to identify,

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

being able to know that what is beloved

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

to Allah and what is hated by Allah

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:49:00 --> 00:49:01

So the seerah anew,

00:49:02 --> 00:49:04

the life of the Prophet alaihis salam was

00:49:04 --> 00:49:05

taught to the Sahaba.

00:49:06 --> 00:49:08

Just as they would learn the Quran, they

00:49:08 --> 00:49:09

would teach their children,

00:49:10 --> 00:49:13

their young children, the story of the Prophet

00:49:13 --> 00:49:14

sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:16

To know your Prophet.

00:49:17 --> 00:49:18

To know your Messenger,

00:49:19 --> 00:49:20

to know the Most Beloved.

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

For him to be the Most Beloved to

00:49:23 --> 00:49:24

you, alayhi salatu salam,

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

then you must know him.

00:49:26 --> 00:49:28

To know Him is to love Him,

00:49:28 --> 00:49:30

and to be ignorant of Him means to

00:49:30 --> 00:49:31

be far away from Him.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:33

To be ignorant

00:49:34 --> 00:49:36

means that you cannot truly have

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

a true love

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:47

If you want to gain the love of

00:49:47 --> 00:49:47

Allah

00:49:49 --> 00:49:50

If you are serious,

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

truly serious,

00:49:54 --> 00:49:56

you want to be a serious Muslim.

00:49:56 --> 00:49:57

I don't want to add another word, a

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

serious Muslim. You want to be a Muslim.

00:49:59 --> 00:50:01

Another phrase, another thing. You want to be

00:50:01 --> 00:50:02

a Muslim?

00:50:02 --> 00:50:05

You want to gain, achieve the love of

00:50:05 --> 00:50:06

Allah Tabarakahu ta'ala?

00:50:07 --> 00:50:09

Then you need to follow and know the

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam. They cannot be

00:50:10 --> 00:50:11

separated.

00:50:12 --> 00:50:13

Don't believe that you can achieve a path

00:50:13 --> 00:50:14

to Allah

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

without knowing and following the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:50:18 --> 00:50:20

wa sallam. They go hand in hand.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:24

You follow and love the prophet alaihi wasallam,

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

you will gain the love of Allah to

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

Barakahu ta'ala. We ask Allah

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

to make us from those who truly love

00:50:30 --> 00:50:32

and follow the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And

00:50:32 --> 00:50:34

we ask Allah to barakah

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

to make us from those who achieve

00:50:36 --> 00:50:38

and have the love of Allah to barakah

00:50:38 --> 00:50:39

to a'la.

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

It almost sounds like an ending, but I'm

00:50:43 --> 00:50:43

not finished.

00:50:44 --> 00:50:46

I want to finish insha'Allah in

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

that when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

and there's so much more to mention,

00:50:52 --> 00:50:53

he returns to Makkah.

00:50:54 --> 00:50:57

And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam without

00:50:57 --> 00:50:58

any hesitation,

00:50:59 --> 00:51:02

he tells his people. He tells Umwehane

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

He tells the people around him the journey

00:51:05 --> 00:51:07

that he went on just last night, which

00:51:07 --> 00:51:08

takes more than a month to get there

00:51:08 --> 00:51:10

and a month to come back.

00:51:11 --> 00:51:13

And the Kufar of the Quraysh rubbing their

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

hands in glee and happiness

00:51:16 --> 00:51:17

that we used to claim

00:51:18 --> 00:51:18

insanity.

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

But we will have an argument for it.

00:51:22 --> 00:51:24

Now they believe they have an argument to

00:51:24 --> 00:51:25

say,

00:51:26 --> 00:51:26

indeed,

00:51:27 --> 00:51:28

Muhammad alaihi sata salam

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

has now gone insane to make such a

00:51:31 --> 00:51:31

claim.

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

Abu Jahal, Abu Allahab, they come together.

00:51:37 --> 00:51:39

They go to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

and they follow him around going to the

00:51:41 --> 00:51:41

Muslims

00:51:41 --> 00:51:42

and the al nazthalatih

00:51:43 --> 00:51:43

to Aqsaam.

00:51:44 --> 00:51:45

The people are of 3 types.

00:51:47 --> 00:51:49

The first type are those,

00:51:49 --> 00:51:50

aladinakazebu,

00:51:51 --> 00:51:52

those who denied it.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:56

They denied what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

00:51:57 --> 00:51:58

what he claimed.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

And then there were al mutaradidun.

00:52:02 --> 00:52:04

There were those who were a little bit

00:52:04 --> 00:52:04

doubtful.

00:52:04 --> 00:52:06

Hadith al Islam, they were new Muslims.

00:52:07 --> 00:52:08

They weren't sure.

00:52:08 --> 00:52:10

Really? Is this being claimed?

00:52:10 --> 00:52:11

Some of them may be very few in

00:52:11 --> 00:52:14

number. Said, no. We don't believe that.

00:52:15 --> 00:52:16

And

00:52:17 --> 00:52:18

the 3rd group,

00:52:19 --> 00:52:20

Al Mu'minoon Haqqah.

00:52:21 --> 00:52:22

Those true believers.

00:52:26 --> 00:52:27

The believers who truly believed,

00:52:28 --> 00:52:30

no doubt about what had happened.

00:52:30 --> 00:52:31

And at the head of them

00:52:32 --> 00:52:34

was Abu Bakr as Siddiq.

00:52:35 --> 00:52:36

So they go around and they're looking for

00:52:36 --> 00:52:37

Abu Bakr.

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

If Abu Bakr denies,

00:52:39 --> 00:52:41

if Abu Bakr has a doubt, the rest

00:52:41 --> 00:52:42

will fall like dominoes.

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

Because we know that Abu Bakr is

00:52:46 --> 00:52:48

the closest of companions

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

who was like a pillar that could not

00:52:51 --> 00:52:52

be shaken.

00:52:53 --> 00:52:56

So they went to Abu Bakr Sadiq radiAllahu

00:52:56 --> 00:52:57

anhu.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

Do you know what your

00:53:02 --> 00:53:03

your companion, he is claiming?

00:53:05 --> 00:53:08

He says radiAllahu anhu. And what is he

00:53:08 --> 00:53:08

claiming?

00:53:09 --> 00:53:11

He is claiming, and Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

that he went from Masjid al Haram

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

all the way to Aqsa, went up into

00:53:17 --> 00:53:19

the heavens, only to return and to come

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

back. He

00:53:22 --> 00:53:23

does this in one night.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:26

He said

00:53:28 --> 00:53:30

If this is what He says I believe

00:53:30 --> 00:53:30

Him

00:53:31 --> 00:53:32

without hesitation,

00:53:33 --> 00:53:34

without a question,

00:53:35 --> 00:53:36

without a fluttering.

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

And as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

concerning Abu Bakr,

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

Abu Bakr

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

he said he was an individual when I

00:53:45 --> 00:53:46

showed him al islam,

00:53:46 --> 00:53:49

he was an individual the very least who

00:53:49 --> 00:53:49

showed

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

any form of doubt or questioning. The moment

00:53:52 --> 00:53:54

I said to him, I showed him at

00:53:54 --> 00:53:54

Islam,

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

he says I follow You You Rasulullah.

00:53:58 --> 00:54:00

Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu was that individual and

00:54:00 --> 00:54:03

because of this mokkifa, because of this incident,

00:54:03 --> 00:54:05

which is mentioned in the Sahih al Al

00:54:05 --> 00:54:06

Hakim

00:54:07 --> 00:54:09

That for this reason here the prophet sallallahu

00:54:09 --> 00:54:10

alaihi wasalam said, Abu Bakr

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as Siddiq, the truthful one.

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This was the incident that Abu Bakr

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attained, was given the name

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as Siddiq,

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the one who affirmed the truth.

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Because he believed, as he mentioned, radhiallahu anhu,

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I believe in something which is far greater

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than that. That he receives revelation

00:54:30 --> 00:54:30

from a sama'

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even further than that.

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So if this is what he claims I

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believe in it.

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And then shortly after this,

00:54:40 --> 00:54:42

as we know that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:54:42 --> 00:54:43

wa sallam

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

made preparations

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

to meet with the people

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

who came at the time of Hajj,

00:54:50 --> 00:54:53

especially from the people of Al Madinah.

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

That the first agreement of 'Aqaba,

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a number of people that embraced Islam,

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12 of them.

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And then the following year they brought more

00:55:02 --> 00:55:03

of them, 70.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

And that they were there to support the

00:55:06 --> 00:55:08

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:55:08 --> 00:55:09

We have believed in

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

you. We believe there's 70 of them.

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

And an agreement was set up.

00:55:15 --> 00:55:16

An agreement was set up. And I'll finish

00:55:16 --> 00:55:17

with this inshaa'aat.

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That these,

00:55:19 --> 00:55:21

the Ansar, as we know them,

00:55:22 --> 00:55:24

that they had an agreement that they would

00:55:24 --> 00:55:26

protect the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:55:27 --> 00:55:29

and they would do everything to help the

00:55:29 --> 00:55:30

Prophet, alaihi wa sallam, if he moved and

00:55:30 --> 00:55:32

lived with them in Al Madinah.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

One of them he said, before we sign

00:55:36 --> 00:55:36

this agreement,

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

before we sign this agreement,

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

I have one question.

00:55:42 --> 00:55:43

That when we sign this agreement with you,

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

we will become the enemies of everybody.

00:55:47 --> 00:55:50

Everybody in Makkah, outside Makkah, we will immediately

00:55:50 --> 00:55:52

become their enemies because we are with you,

00:55:52 --> 00:55:53

Rasulullah.

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And when it is the case, it is

00:55:56 --> 00:55:58

and victory is going to be given to

00:55:58 --> 00:55:59

you insha'Allah.

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

That when you are given victory,

00:56:02 --> 00:56:03

that you will leave us and you will

00:56:03 --> 00:56:04

go back to Makkah.

00:56:06 --> 00:56:08

They had just embraced Islam and they were

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

thinking, this individual,

00:56:09 --> 00:56:11

if we make this sacrifice,

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

we want to be with you for the

00:56:13 --> 00:56:14

rest of our lives.

00:56:14 --> 00:56:15

We want You to stay with us in

00:56:15 --> 00:56:16

Al Medina.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:19

And so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

upon hearing this, he smiles.

00:56:24 --> 00:56:26

He says to them: A demo done. He

00:56:26 --> 00:56:28

said: Blood is blood.

00:56:28 --> 00:56:30

And he said: After everything,

00:56:31 --> 00:56:33

after everything is all over and is given

00:56:33 --> 00:56:34

to us by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:56:36 --> 00:56:37

I am from you

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

and you are from me.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:41

I from you and you from

00:56:41 --> 00:56:42

me. Medina will be my home and I

00:56:42 --> 00:56:44

will never leave you.

00:56:44 --> 00:56:46

And you can see that the Ansar radiAllahu

00:56:46 --> 00:56:48

anhu, the support that they gave to the

00:56:48 --> 00:56:50

prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So after this isra

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

wal miraj,

00:56:52 --> 00:56:53

after all preceded

00:56:53 --> 00:56:55

how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed the prophet

00:56:55 --> 00:56:57

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:56:58 --> 00:56:58

But as you

00:56:59 --> 00:57:00

well know, that the ending

00:57:01 --> 00:57:03

of the Makkan period is not the ending

00:57:03 --> 00:57:04

of the life of the prophet alaihi wa

00:57:04 --> 00:57:05

sallam.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

We have another almost 11 years

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

to go through in seeing some of the

00:57:09 --> 00:57:12

most severest times and trials and tribulations that

00:57:12 --> 00:57:14

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that he

00:57:14 --> 00:57:16

went through. The Battle of Badr, the battle

00:57:16 --> 00:57:18

of Uhud, the battle of Kandak,

00:57:19 --> 00:57:20

the treaty of Hudaybia,

00:57:20 --> 00:57:21

Fathu Makkah,

00:57:22 --> 00:57:23

and the list goes on.

00:57:24 --> 00:57:25

So we ask

00:57:25 --> 00:57:25

Allah

00:57:27 --> 00:57:28

to grant us beneficial knowledge.

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