Yaser Birjas – Be Patient And Do Not Be Hasty
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So how many of you believe that it's
easy to be Muslim today? Raise your hands.
Anyone believes it's easy to be a Muslim
today?
Come on, put your hands down, Ajamal.
Of course, it's not easy.
It's hard. But how many of you believe
it's impossible to be a Muslim today? Raise
your hand. It's impossible to be a Muslim.
Hamdulillah, look at you.
Regardless of what we go through, regardless of
what they throw on your way,
and at you as a Muslim or even
labeling Islam with anything negative,
we still insist.
It's a resilience in this faith that keeps
it moving forward, alhamdulillah,
and we've seen that every single day and
every single night in Gaza.
We've seen it in Surastin al Quds Al
Aqsa,
these places, alhamdulillah.
We've seen it in Kashmir, we've seen it
in a different place in the world. No
matter what they try to do, the word
will persist to exist.
But how difficult was it for the sahabr
how much patience
you need to endure
in order for you to be part of
this solid movement of keeping this faith and
this Deen alive.
Hadith number 41
in the in the other salihin in the
chapter of As Sabr, chapter of patience,
He said we complained to the prophet
regarding the persecution
inflicted upon us by the by the disbelievers
while he was lying in the shade of
Al Kaaba.
Let me put the story for you in
context again.
So, there were 3 of them, that was
Khabab,
Bilal
and the third one was,
what's his name,
Sohayi Berumih Radillahan, Sohayi Bin Sinan,
Khabab ibn al Arat,
Bilal al Araba, and sohaib ibn Sinan.
Anyone knows what is the common thing between
these three people?
They were slaves or former slaves,
which means they were what?
The most vulnerable.
They have no support,
no family to protect them, no clan, no
tribal system to guard them from this, so
they were free game.
And that's why, unfortunately, most of the persecution
was inflicted upon these weak and vulnerable in
the community. Why is that?
To make lesson for the strong one to
be afraid of, and that's why what's happening
in Palestine Gaza, it's a show of might
and power against the most vulnerable.
But imagine the people of Gaza have an
equal might against these people who are trying
to execute them. Imagine what would happen,
people fighting with sandals at jama'ah
and and and causing so much pain in
one of the mightiest militaries of the world.
So, here the same thing, they go to
the weak, Khabab al-'Arat,
Bilal,
and Sohayb, they were former slaves, and they're
taking advantage of them.
But
there was a moment when even this sahab
as much as they enjoyed being Muslims,
as much as they enjoyed
the luxury
of being alhamdulillmuhadid
in a moment of difficulty and hardship,
Still though, it was painful.
So one day they went looking for the
Prophet
and they found him lying down in the
shade of Al Kaaba.
What's on their mind right now
when they see the prophet
lying down in the shade of Al Kaaba?
What do you think comes to their mind?
He's safe,
he's from Banu Hashim,
he's from Quraish,
and no one's going to touch him so
he's not going to go through what we
go through.
So, yeah, that's why he finds luxury
in lying down the shade of Al Ka'bah,
like unfortunately many of us doing in this
society over here, lying down in the shade
of our homes,
feeling safe.
So, this sahab came to the prophet
So, the prophet was using his clog as
a pillow
resting in the shade of Al Kaaba.
And, that shows you the humbleness of the
prophet
the humility of the Prophet
how natural he was.
He wasn't
someone looking for prestige or name or fame
or
creating a flamboyant
culture for himself to be followed. No. He
was just like anybody else.
So, Sahaba look at him, Rasool Allah, peaceful
in that moment.
So he said, O Messenger of Allah,
why don't you sublocate for
our prevalence over the opponents? Why don't you
pray for our victory against them?
Shouldn't you be calling Allah to give us
victory against our enemies?
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he sat up.
He fixed his posture, he sat up and
he started looking at him, having a conversation
with him now. And then he told them
something, Faqal, he gave them the answer by
creating a parallel. He didn't say yes or
no,
but he created right now a parallel for
them. He said
He said
among those people before you,
like basically if you think it's hard on
you,
listen to this. Because those who were before
you, a man would be seized
and held in a pit dug for him
in the ground,
and he would be sold he would be
sold into 2 halves from his head,
like they would be splitting him into halves.
And we've seen what happens in Gaza right
now in Islam.
Not just halves, into pieces.
And they have
all the support of the world for this
for this genocide and this crime of Allah
and Muslim.
But still the people of Ghazda, they say
we're here, this is our land, we go
nowhere.
And they say Allah
has his hikmah, his wisdom.
And here, and
here's another example.
Says others,
his flesh torn away from his bones with
an iron comb like they removed their flesh
off their body, basically tortured.
And the first one would be dead instantly,
but this one is gonna be tortured. And
he said All of this he said in
spite of this
he would not win away from his faith.
And then he said
and has given salallahu alayhi wa sallam the
good news for the future.
He
said I swear
I swear to you
by Allah,
Allah will bring this matter to its to
its consummation until
a rider will travel from San'a to Hadhramaut
in Yemen feeling none except Allah and except
the wolf for his sheep.
He said
So here the prophet has given the good
news with absolute
confidence
Because look, I swear to God, I swear
to you, it's gonna be come, it's gonna
come, it's coming.
Like victory is coming until, he said
a traveler alone, a solo traveler will be
traveling from San'a to Hadramaut Al Yaman.
Anyone knows why the prophet
chose Sana'a and Hadhramaut? They're
both areas, regions in Yemen,
and Yemen is in the southern belt,
southwest of the Arabian Peninsula. Anyone knows why
Sana'a and Hadar Amout
in particular?
Very rough
until today, Ajamal. Fear about Jaman right now.
Until today, one of the roughest terrains in
the Arabian Peninsula, mountain area, so hard to
get up there.
And
in our time and age, there are certain
areas in that region that cars cannot go
to.
So, it's very difficult and rough, and these
2 are protected by natural, of course, kind
of terrain,
and it was always been dangerous. He said
to Allah, the day will come when a
traveler will be traveling alone, fearing nobody but
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Like if there's no
highway robbers or being killed or being harassed,
fearing only Allah with
and the wolf to prey on his sheep,
which is a natural predators basically in the
forest and so on.
But then the prophet he
says,
but, he says you are into you are
in too much of hurry, like you're just
being so hasty.
What does that mean Ajima?
It requires a lot of patience.
The question for you right now, did this
promise of the prophet come true?
Did it come true?
Absolutely. At the time when the prophet described
that about Yemen, Yemen was a territory of
what? Which region? Anyone knows?
The Persians.
Actually it was for the Persians. It was
a settlement for the Persians.
I don't know if you know that but
back in those days
when the Christians came and took the area
from the Jews,
and the Christians, their allies were the Romans,
and the Jews from before were allies with
the with the Persians.
So, the the south held from the Persians,
the Persians, they came and drove the Christians
out out of it after Abraha failed his
attempt
in in Mecca. So it became a Persian
territory for a very long time,
and it seems to be the same thing
until this day, al Amaztam.
So, eventually,
it became a settlement until the prophet
sent his invoice Muadh radiallahu ta'ala
to be governor of Yemen, and he sent
them a messenger to invite them to Islam.
And the 2 governors at that time over
there
from Persia,
they became Muslims,
They became Muslims and the prophet kept them
their governors until he said
Just a historical thing, I don't know if
you remember but when the prophet
he sent his messengers and his envoys to
invite the kings of the world to Islam,
he sent a message to Yemen, a message
to Persia,
the Persian empire,
to the Romans, to Egypt,
and major basically places.
So, when the Persian,
Kisra, he received the
prophet invoice and message to invite him to
Allah
What did he do? Do you know what
he did to him?
He ripped the letter,
so insulted, like how dare this Bedouin from
the desert come and talk to me like
this. So he rips the letter and he
kills the envoy.
Now technically, even until this day, if you
cut an envoy for different state or different
nation, what does that mean?
It's an act of war.
It's an act of war, which is why
the prophet
he became at war with the Persians.
But that did not happen until when? After
the prophet
passed. Ubaka Sadiq, he took the offense on
the Persians at that time. So when this
happened, the Persian, Kisra,
he sends to his governor in Yemen, he
goes go and bring me that Bedouin and
bring him to attend before me.
So, he sends him 2 of his
invoice from there. They come to Madinah looking
for the prophet
They thought they're gonna be easy and they're
gonna be taken as a prey and bring
him to their king. And when the Prophet
he saw them,
they were clean shaped by the way, he
goes, who told you to do that to
yourself?
Because that's our tradition, Rabbonah.
And the prophet
said, well, I can rub me, command me
to grow my beard and trim my mustache.
And eventually, he says,
So, if it's not
the law or at least
the the the the obvious decency that you
don't kill envoys,
I would have killed you for just even
daring to come and ask me escorted to
your king.
So he let go of them. Eventually, later
on, Yemen became a Muslim territory,
and what the prophet promised that would happen
happened.
He became safe,
relatively speaking, for a very long time.
And all the things the prophet promised when
he was in Mecca,
when he was in Medina came to be
true.
So what we learned from this hadith al
jama'ah,
whatever we go through these days,
the online harassment, you know the Islamophobia,
people yelling at you, insulting you, even sometimes
trying to be physical and so on, all
of this
for being Muslim.
The question that you ask yourself, why?
Why they have so much hate
for for you being
Muslim? I believe
it's because of the main principles of Islam
that is running contrary to their values. And
what I mean by that? You see, when
the prophet he first received
he barely received read in the name of
your Lord who created, nothing more. There was
no yet instruction of abandoning alcohol, don't commit
zina, don't do this, don't None of these
things were revealed yet, just that you are
going to be a prophet. That's it.
And he went to Warak ibn Nawfal.
What did Barakah Munawfal tell the prophet
about the future? What did he tell him?
He said I wish I was young
enough when your people drive you out of
your town, I would be there for you
to support you. And the prophet was shocked.
He goes, oh,
like my own people?
Living in a tribal system that everything about
the blood ties is the most sacred thing
for them. He couldn't even imagine that his
own people will drive him out of his
own hometown.
So the prophet was told in the moment
No one ever brought message like yours to
the people
but they will gain their hostility.
What does that mean? Your message
running against their awful values
because the value of the dunya, the value
of the nafs is what? It's low values.
It's all about living this life
and no boundaries, no haram,
and that's why you see people flourishing on
what?
Entertainment industry, all the kind of haram you
can imagine, and people making 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000
of dollars out of this.
You come and tell them this is haram,
you can't have banks that that charges interest.
What happens here? The whole world collapses.
The financial system, those people who get bonuses
by the 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars, it's
gone for them already.
Fairness and justice,
weapon industry collapses,
you know, because you can't exploit these nations
just for the sake of selling, you know,
arms and so on. All these things, of
course, they don't want you to be there,
to be dominant, to be ruled.
That's why
sometimes it's very easy just to show that
hostility
and unfortunately, usually it shows it comes out
in a form of ideology,
although it's much more than just ideology. But
here the prophet
is telling them
look, be patient.
Be patient. He said, I promise
you Allah
will give victory to this faith. And I
promise you today, regardless of what we see
in our time, how weak the ummah is,
how vulnerable it is, Allah
the promise of Allah will be fulfilled.
And Allah says to
prevail over all other
religions or other
ideologies because that's the ideology of justice. And
the first thing is to worship 1 and
only 1 Allah
and then give respect and justice to mankind.
May Allah
protect us from any fit in of this
dunya
and and give us true patience as we
go through in Mirallaha.
Any questions?