Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session
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The speaker discusses the story of Abdul Muttalib, a famous man who created doors and closed doors of the Kaaba, and was a center of business at Makkah. The conflict between the two leaders was due to lack of trust between them, and traffic was directed towards Makkah. The group trying to convince people to buy water from the Kaaba is seen as a significant event, but they are losing their faith and power. The importance of trusting the Prophet and following his teachings is also discussed.
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Inshallah, we're gonna continue on with our series
of Seerah.
Seerah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Even though
we get to study the Seerah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
once every week, but subhanallah,
you know, the past few weeks have been
extremely rough for Muslims.
And Muslims look left and right to find
relief,
to find
a breathing room, to find and say that,
you know, inshallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
going to help us. And at times, you
just
lose hope.
But you know it's a seerah of the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam subhanAllah
that at least for me every time I
felt hopeless,
every time I felt guilty that
what can I do, every time I felt
something,
I knew that I had an answer back
in the seerah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam? And subhanAllah,
so many different instances
where I just felt pain and an incident
I would remember
from the seerah of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam and subhanallah.
Not only would my pain be gone, but
I would be the most hopeful person. So
InshaAllah as we go on and we hear
about the seerah of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam we will also collect
what will help us throughout our lives
throughout our lives and be with us at
time of pain,
be with us at time
of grief.
And so last time, we spoke about the
lineage of the prophet
and we specifically focused
on Hashim,
the great grandfather of the prophet
and we talked about how he was
a main figure who brought economic
stability
to the Quraysh, who brought economic stability
to the Arabian Peninsula,
even to the extent that Allah
reveals a whole Surah, Surah Al Quraish
in which he talks about how Allah has
blessed
the Quraish with
with the journey of the winter and the
journey
of the summer, and that was basically a
summer trip in which they would go a
a for,
it was a business trip in which they
would go, bring back stuff from either Syria
and from Yemen, and have a stable economic
situation.
Then we spoke about how he had a
son
and that son
ended up being Abdul Muttalib, and we're specifically
focusing today, inshallah, on Abdul Muttalib.
We spoke about how Abdul Muttalib
was actually His name was Sheba.
And Shaiba basically because he had white hair.
When he was born he had white hair
over here, so his parents named him Shaiba.
His uncle Muttalib went from Makkah, brought him
back, and people started to call him Abdul
Muttalib, the slave of Muttalib because people didn't
know that he was actually
the nephew, people thought that it was actually
the slave
of,
Muttalib.
So he comes and subhanallah his father
already had a great status in the Arabian
Peninsula within the Quraysh.
So, he automatically
comes into a prestige,
comes into a family of honor. And one
of the honors that they used to host
the who used to come, because
the was still established.
The was still established.
Was built by Ibrahim alaihis salam long time
ago. So people used to do
So now people who was the custodian,
today, subhanallah, when you pick up the mushaf,
right? Till today this is something that is
taken as a pride. When you pick up
the mushaf and if it's printed in Saudi
Arabia, it's going to be It's it's going
to say small on it from the custodian
of the Haramain Sharifain.
From the custodian, from the one who's taking
care of the Haramain. The Haram al Mecca,
Haram al Madina. So even today it's considered
as a honor.
The king of
Saudi Arabia
considers himself a, you know,
a a great status that he's able to
gift out to people these and that's why
he writes that. So this prestige goes all
the way to the great grandfather of the
prophet
and it's just been passed down and down.
So Abdul Muttalib takes over this,
amazing
hospitality
and this amazing prestige of taking care of
the people.
Abdul Muttalib now has a few incidents
that are very very important for us, and
especially today,
I want as many people that can stay
because it's a really a story of hope
today.
Story of hope that gives us even hope
in the situation that we are in today.
I'm gonna mention 3 main stories of Abdul
Muttalib today and that's going to give us
an idea
of who Abdul Muttalib was. The first story
of Abdul Muttalib, right, Shayba,
is the story of what happened in rediscovering
the Zamzam.
Remember, Zamzam came all the way at the
time of who? Ibrahim alaihis salam, Ismail alaihis
salam.
So what happened to it? It has been
buried. Nobody knows where it is, and Abdul
Muttalib would be used to rediscover that. The
second story
is the story
of
the
the people with the army of elephants,
they are coming all the way from Habasha.
They're coming to destroy the kaaba,
And the third story
is the story of the sacrifice,
the vow to sacrifice
one of his sons, and that son was
the prophet
He made intention
that he would sacrifice and slaughter him for
the sake of Allah. So these are the
3 stories.
The first story is the rediscovery
of the water of Zamzam.
As we know that Zamzam holds a very,
you know, honorable place in every Muslims heart,
and this honor has been given to Zamzam
from day 1, from the time of Ishmael
alaihi salam because Zamzam's
finding itself was miraculous.
When they found Zamzam in a place where
there was no vegetation, no water, it was
a sign of hope. It was a sign
of life. So Allah
brought life into the Arabian Peninsula
because of the Zamzam, because of the water
itself. It has been buried for 2, 3,
400 years.
Nobody knows where it is, and one day,
Abdul Muttalib starts to get a dream,
and he's told to go and dig in
this specific spot,
and the next day he gets a dream,
and the next day he gets a dream,
and he realized that something is up. So
he tells his oldest son, his oldest son's
name was Harith, let's go we have to
dig this one spot. As they start to
dig,
people are starting to mock them, make fun
of them. What? You think that you're trying
to find
You're trying to find what? And remember, water
still there is so valuable. Different statues that
were made of gold. So now,
people jump and they said, oh, we have
a portion in this as well.
But obviously he goes back and forth in
the fight and saying, no, this is not.
He continues and he uses actually this gold
that he finds. He uses them to make
the doors of the Kaaba, and he's the
first person to create
the doors of the Kaaba
out of out of,
out of gold. And so he goes on,
continues to dig, and now he finds the
water. When the water is found, everybody goes
and say, we also have Haqqan this because
we're also from Quraish. This is all of
our water, this, that, and Abdul Muttalib is
like, no. This is this is for me
because I've been given the dream, this has
been going on in my family and all
that. People are literally fighting
To the extent that people said, we're gonna
get on to a fight, and we're gonna
die for this. So somebody comes and say,
hey, we don't have to die for this.
Why don't we go to a to a
soothsayer? And back then, they used to believe
in fortune tellers and soothsayers
that they used to go and tell them,
hey, we have this problem, can you solve
it for us? There's no cops, there's no
court system, there's none of that. So the
only place to go to is to these
soothsayers
and say that we need your help. We
need you to decide for us. So they're
on their way to the soothsayer,
and in the middle they get lost.
And now, they don't have a way to
go back or a way to go forward.
And subhanallah, not only are they completely lost,
they have no more water now.
To the point where they lost hope. They're
about to die. All the leaders, they're about
to die. So the one of them is
like, hey,
at least let's dig up our own graves.
So that when we die, we will have
a grave to go into.
So they start to dig up their own
graves, and subhanallah,
Abdul Muttalib once again hits
a spring of water.
And at this point people realize
that you know what? This is from Allah.
Allah is teaching us that he's giving him
the water which means it belongs to him.
Obviously they drink, they find a way back,
and they give the prestige of the water,
they give the ownership of the water, they
handed over to Abdul Muttalib,
and that's why it stayed in the family
of the Prophet
So Abdul Muttalib basically through all of these
becomes
different incidents, but through all of these he
becomes the default leader of the Quraysh.
A strong, tall, handsome man
that anybody says something
goes back to him and he has to
make the decision. So he's basically the leader
of the Quran now.
So what happens is,
now
a major incident, and this major incident is
last time when we discussed the economic and
social situation of the Arabian Peninsula,
we established that Makkah became
the center for business. The center for business.
Why? Because
people would come here
for
doing tawaf around the Kaaba, and at the
same time they would bring the merchandise from
Yemen, and they would bring the merchandise from
Syria, and so it became a trading center
as well. Now while all of this is
going on, all of the traffic is directed
towards Makkah.
And
there's
a, a a a governor of Yemen.
Governor of in Yemen, and he is basically
his name is Abraha.
He decides that I want the traffic to
come here.
I want to gain people's confidence that we
are economically strong.
We want people to invest here. We want
the traffic to come over here. And so
how are we going to do that?
Because before that there was a conflict, and
of course in a 20 minute series we
can't get into the details. There was a
conflict between Abraha and the king before, and
the king before got killed. So now it
was time for Abraha to prove to people
that he can lead, and he was a
decisive
and strategic guy, he wants to show people
that he could bring money, he could bring
people, he could bring all of that into
Yemen, into his place.
Right? So he's basically saying that I need
to prove to people. Now,
he, in order to do that, says that
people are coming there for religious purposes because
of the Kaaba, so what I'm going to
do is build a big church, and it's
gonna be beautiful,
gigantic, it's gonna have everything, and people are
gonna start to come to this church instead.
He goes and he, subhanAllah, puts in so
much effort that he tells the workers that
if you're not here by sunrise,
your hand will be cut off. So they
put all this effort in to build this
beautiful church, and now he's calling people, the
Arabs and the non Arabs and everybody, you
guys have to come to this church and
worship God over here.
1 Arab
Bedouin, he goes
and he realized what the heck you're calling
people over here? So he sits there,
does relieves himself,
and takes his in one narration, he says,
takes his his
his number 2 and rubs it rubs it
on the wall of the church.
Now this is extreme disrespect to the church.
Is fuming with rage.
He's angry, and he's like this can no
longer this this cannot be tolerated and I
have to take full revenge.
So what does he do? He realizes this
Arab came, Bedouin, now I gotta take revenge
from them. So he goes,
gathers his army
and
goes to the person who takes care of,
elephants and says that, hey listen, I need
your elephants with me, and I need a
huge army, and he starts to prepare and
prepare and prepare, and they start heading towards
Makkah. Today we're going to destroy Makkah. This
is We're going to destroy the Kaaba, this
is what we're going to do. They're going
On the way, there are people that are
realizing that, hey, this isn't right. That's the
house of Allah.
They they can't just go and destroy that.
So some people gain the courage to go
fight him, but his army was so strong
that he would completely wipe them out. And
he goes to another place,
wipes them out. Another place, wipes them out
till the point that he goes all the
way to Taif, and now Taif is the
outskirts
of Makkah. He reaches there and out in
Taif, the people told him, no, no, no
king, whatever you want we are with you.
We're even gonna give you this guy, He's,
you know, he's gonna navigate you. He's gonna
take you exactly to where you need to
be. Right? So, obviously feeling cowardly and all
of that, he's like, we don't have an
issue with you going and destroying the Kaaba.
We have our own idols over here, we
worship them, and you could do whatever you
want. We will help you, no problem.
They all gather, and they start marching towards
there. Before they even reach in the outskirts
of Mecca, there were some camels of the
Quraysh.
And he takes away all these camels as
well. And now, he's like, listen. I don't
wanna create any bloodshed and I don't wanna
do all that. But listen, I've come for
a mission. My mission is to destroy the
Kaaba.
And anybody comes in the way, I'm gonna
destroy them. He's like, okay, but you know,
you have to talk to the leader. The
leader is who Abdul Muttalib. So he sends
a messenger to go speak to Abdul Muttalib.
Abdul Muttalib hears what's going on. He's like,
okay. Let me go with you. He goes,
Abdul Muttalib, strong man, tall, handsome. When he
goes into the room,
Abraha is like, wow. This guy is a
real leader. I know why he's a leader.
He's, subhanallah, today whatever he asked, I mean,
that's it. He's gonna get
it. So he's like, what do you want?
He's like,
I I he's like, I've come here to
destroy your Kaaba
and other than that if you want something
we could work it out, but you know
I'm destroying the Kaaba. Like, okay, you're destroying
the Kaaba? Okay. So what she's like, so
you wanna work with me? He's like, yeah.
What's your terms? What do you want? I
just want my camels back.
And Abraha is like, what?
You're the leader?
I thought of you as something that you're
going to come
and fight me and tell me I want
to protect the Kaaba and I want to
do this and this. And your mere request
is just give me the just give me
your my camels? That's it? He's like, yeah.
And he's like,
listen.
I am responsible for the camels.
These are my my ownership.
As for the house of Allah,
it has an owner. It's Allah. He will
take care of it. We will leave it
to him.
And so, he leaves it just like that.
Abraha tells his army the next day, go.
Completely flatten out everything.
And so, as they start to march,
the elephants that are supposed to go, the
Kaaba is this way. If the elephants are
supposed to go this way, the elephants are
not going. They would just sit down and
say, uh-uh, I'm not moving forward.
If they would be turned this way, they
would start moving. If they would be turned
this way, they would start moving. But going
straight to the Kaaba, they're like, nope. We're
not moving.
And subhanallah from there Allah
sends the birds called
And that's where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals
the whole
subhanAllah,
the whole surah. And you know, the reason
why I told you
that you find so much within Sira is
because you realize the Quran is eternal. The
Quran is supposed to be guiding us till
the last day.
The Quran is supposed to be guiding us
till the last day.
So
why is there the story?
Because it's supposed to give us hope.
It's supposed to make us realize the qudra
of Allah.
It's supposed to make us realize
that when you have no power,
when all the people around you are cowards,
when nobody could stand up, when nobody is
going to defend,
when nobody is going to do that,
remember Allah is still there.
And remember when the power of Allah comes,
it doesn't matter if it was the biggest
army, or if it was the biggest equipment,
or if it was the biggest anything. When
the power of Allah comes,
it's a done deal.
And this is where we realize the power
of Allah
When the birds of Ababil comes,
and they have 1 stone in their mouth,
and 1 in one claw, 1 in another
claw, and they start to throw,
they would penetrate through the people and be
dead right there and then. And people are
running back and people are trying to protect
themselves.
And this became the talk
of the whole entire world.
That
something as big as this happened that somebody
go went and try to attack the house
of Allah but
Allah
sent such an army that he destroyed
all of them.
Even to the extent that they say, Abraha
wasn't killed right there because Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala wanted him to return to his people
so they could see him.
And they said that he was so afflicted
that part of his body would be dropping
every single day.
And that kept on happening until his neck
was left and it fell, and he was
completely gone. Allah kept a few people.
A few people Allah
kept as examples.
Even to the extent that Aisha radiAllahu anha
says, that the person who came with them
from Ta'if to guide them,
that person
we saw later on in my young childhood,
I saw him blind.
He would go around, he was people would
treat him as a crazy person.
Allah
showed to the people that number 1,
those people
who tried to mess with Allah, Allah's house,
and the places that are
sanctified,
Allah destroyed those people. And then Allah
kept some of them as an
as a lesson learned for the people alive.
And then Allah
brings it in the Quran and brings it
in the of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. For you and I to learn, for
you and I to be hopeful, for you
and I to have our trust in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
and know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
his hands is what a human cannot imagine.
And this was why why was this incident
happening at this time?
Because this was the year the prophet was
born.
And these were all precursors
to show the people that something big is
happening this year.
And that was the birth of the prophet
and subhanAllah
more and more signs come
about the arrival of the prophet
and inshallah we're going to cover
even the last story I planned on doing
today, but it's already getting late. InshaAllah we're
gonna cover
the life of the Prophet Prophet
father, his mother, and we will continue on.
But the minimum we can take from today,
story is to know that
when you have your faith in Allah
then
trust me,
no power,
no
nothing can come in the way of that.
Allah
has a true power
and when he wishes, when he wills,
but the only thing that's left is our
on him.
Allah
and the prophet said Allah
tells us to call Allah
and you are assure of dua. You know
100%
that your dua is going to be accepted.
Unfortunately,
today,
these have all come become fairy tales for
us. They became stories for us. So we
hear them, but we don't believe in them.
We make
but we don't believe in it.
And until we come out of that state,
the state of negligence, the state of
where we are just hearing these stories as
the sake of stories,
until we bring them into our life and
know that my is
stronger than
whatever this world has and whatever it contains,
until we come to that belief, we will
always feel like peasants. We will always feel
like we are the ones at the lower
end. We will always feel like we have
nothing. But once you have the dua and
understand the power of dua,
and know that Allah will accept it, then
you know that you have the upper hand
anytime,
any day, at any circumstances.
May Allah allow
us to really understand
this religion, the beautiful religion of Islam, understand
the life of the prophet
and implement his sunnah in our life.