Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session
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Where he is now in Madinah,
and we spoke about,
spoke about some of the dynamics of Madinah,
what are the different groups that are living
in Madinah, and how the prophet
is dealing with multiple conflicts at one time,
multiple groups of people at one time. We
spoke about how the Arabs lived in tribal
societies,
and then even within tribes, they have multiple
tribes.
So for instance, we know that the Aus
and the Khazra are just 1 you know,
2 tribes living in Medina,
but besides that, they also have almost 30
to 50 tribes underneath it, sub tribes.
Then we have the Yahuds and, you know,
the Jews, they have 3 tribes
living underneath them, the Banu the Banu Nadir,
and the Banu Kaynuka.
And now a whole set of multiple different
tribes from the Quraysh comes, and the prophet
has to deal with all of this. So
how does he deal with it? We spoke
about how the prophet
he focused on 3 main points.
Number 1, when he went to Madinah, the
first thing he focused on
was to create a masjid. A masjid is
a place where people not just come for
sajda,
not just people come for Ibadah,
but also it's a community center where people
come to resolve their issues,
where people come to get, you know, spiritual
upliftment, where people come to get
and purification of the heart done, and people
come to have a center. So today, for
instance, we have a police station, we have
a courthouse, we have a city office, we
have, you know,
all of these different departments, different branches
we have at the time of the prophet
all of this happened in one place.
So even today when you go
to the Masjid al Nabawi, there's a place
called Riyadh al Jannah. As you guys know,
the Prophet he
said that,
That whatever is between my member,
the member that he would speak from, he
would lead salah from, from there until my
house,
which is where he's buried right now, that
is
So when you go there, you guys have
probably gone for umrah or Hajj. You see
that the place over there is carpeted,
with green carpet. So when you look at
some of the pillars,
till today,
on the top there's going to be written
Abu Lu Baba, and so there's 1,
one pillar,
it's called
to Usara, and that is when the prisoners
used to be brought, they used to be
tied up to this pillar. So you see
it's serving as,
you know, the masjid is serving multiple different,
purposes.
Now with the prophet
their establishing masjid is done. The second thing
that he establishes is which
is to bond between
the ansar and the and then the third
thing that he does is the constitution
of Madinah.
We started to talk about the constitution of
Madinah and we said that it's a very
lengthy, you know, topic. There's been articles now
written on it that we can go and
read about, but I want to speak about
something very simple today, something that we may
have already known, but it's important for us
to emphasize again.
And that is, you can have all the
constitutions,
you can have all the rules,
you can have all the systems set in
place,
but if there isn't a desire from within,
you will have all types of crimes,
you will have all types of misdemeanors,
you will have all types of immodesties,
and nothing will really get done. And the
proof is in the pudding,
how much time
and energy is put into the justice system
in America, the justice system in all over
the world. But even then, you see all
types of injustices happening.
When it came to the Prophet
one very important thing that he established
is that he established
love amongst the Sahaba.
He established a connection not just between the
Muslims,
but even with the with the with the
non Muslims as well. When you read the
constitution of Madinah, when you read the Prophet
said, the Jews.
They're also in Umma, their nation, their people.
The prophet
said,
with
with the believers. He didn't say that they're
somebody else, they're separate, we're separate, nothing like
that. It was establishing a system that they
are people,
they're gonna live,
and we are people, we are going to
live. This is how we have the rules
of the Quran and the hadith. This is
how we are going to live. They have
their own rulings, they're going to live by
that. So we see from the very beginning,
the prophet
establishes
these foundations.
And I think this is crucial for us
to understand.
The next thing we want to understand and
we want to emphasize
is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's personal example.
And that's important, more relevant to us over
here because all of us, we don't have
the system of the government in our hand.
So even if we wanted to create a
system or whatever, it's not really in our
hand. But there is something in our hand,
and that is our 1 on 1 individual
personalities.
We look at the personality of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it was such a
personality that despite having rules and despite having
a system,
he worked with everyone on an individual basis.
Everybody thought that they loved him. Everybody thought
that they're the most beloved person to the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And I think
that's so crucial. You may be a member
in the masjid.
You might have a constitution for the masjid.
You might be a teacher in a madrasa.
You might be at any capacity. There might
be straight rules even in your job with
your employees.
But then there's always this heart that you
have, this
this mercy,
this compassion that you have for the people
that you're dealing with, and this is who
the prophet
was. He had this compassion for all the
people that he dealt with. And so that's
why you see that, subhanallah,
you have the rules, but, you know, you
have people who's been enemies with the prophet
for years years, their whole life been spent
in the enmity of the prophet
And what does the rules tell us? The
rules tell us that, okay, you have enmity
with the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, get
rid of him. You have this, get rid
of him. You have this, get rid of
him. But look at the example of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam himself.
You see, Amr Abdel Asr,
he was one of the leading campaigners. He
was one of the leading advocates against Muslims,
a military man against Muslims,
a diplomat a diplomat against Muslims, all of
that against Muslims.
But when he accepted Islam,
he thought that he was the most beloved
person to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Why? Because this is how the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam dealt with him. This is
how the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam treated
him. He went to the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and he asked, he's like, O
Prophet of Allah,
who is the most beloved person to you?
He thought that it's him
because that's how the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam dealt with him. And the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam is like Aisha.
He's like, I mean in the men, who's
the most beloved person to you? He said,
Abu Bakr.
He said, yeah, I mean after him. He
said, Omar. Like, yeah, after he realized that,
you know, I think I'm just pushing my
luck over here. Right? So the thing is
look at how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's personality is.
Where the enemy that served
for the purpose of his demise his whole
entire life, now he accepts Islam, how is
he treating him?
And you see, this is the foundation on
which Madinah was built.
This is the foundation on which Islam was
built. And so you and I have to
ask ourselves,
where are we from this sunnah?
Where are we from this aspect of the
seerah?
Unfortunately, we have come to a level
that even for the sake of deen,
when we have division, we can't even look
at each other in the face.
Even for the sake of deen.
Within one masjid, there'll be 2 parties
and 2 parties cannot look at each other.
I mean, really, are you trying to do
the effort of deen? Because to me, it
looks more like an effort of ba'tal.
Because that does not look like the effort
of deen to me.
The prophet
has given us so many ahadith.
A believer for a believer
is like a foundation.
One strengthens the other.
Today, oh, it's not a foundation.
It's not a foundation to foundation. If you
have a foundation here, the other Muslim will
come in as a drill to drill to
make sure you fall fall back.
This is why we cannot build a Muslim
community. Yesterday, one of the students came to
me and he's like, you know, teacher, how
do we get influence in America? How do
we get into politics? How do we get
into this? How do we get into that?
I mean, really, it starts off
with one place.
It starts off with one place.
And trust me, that place is not Austin
and that place is not Washington, DC.
That place
is about,
you know,
a few inches
from your face. It's your heart.
It starts off over here.
If the Muslims rectify their hearts,
if they realize
that their one body,
And Muslim
Muslim believers, they're like one body in their
love, in their compassion, and they are dealing
with each other. If one part of the
body hurts,
the whole entire body is in pain.
This was the foundation of Medina.
So we can go on to analyze
the constitution of Medina and we can go
on to realize the constitution
of Irving Mas'id.
And we can go on to realize the
constitution
of America and start to feel apologetic that,
oh,
what's his name? Thomas Jefferson, you had a
Quran and he based the constitution of America
based on the Quran and all that as
if it's supposed to give us some, you
know, something. Like, we should feel confident enough
in our religion that Benjamin
Thomas Jefferson does not you know, we don't
need that to feel validated about our religion.
Right? So
we could go back to all these constitutions.
But at the end of the day, it
comes really to the hearts and that's what
the prophet
worked on. When you look at Madinah,
there was a sense of love amongst the
Sahaba.
When there's a sense of love from the
beginning,
realize
that when you do the effort of Deen,
and we spoke about the effort of Deen
from the very beginning when we talked about
Surah Al Mudafir, Allah says,
That if you're gonna do the effort of
deen, you're gonna study Islamic knowledge, you're gonna
give dawah, you're gonna become Islamic scholar, you're
gonna become a dahi, you're gonna become a
Muslim ambassador who is, you know, dealing with
other people, which by the way, every single
one of us should be doing over here.
If you're gonna do that,
you are going to receive problems, difficulties.
But then during those problems, during those difficulties,
if the brotherhood and the bond is strong,
then nothing can break you, and this is
what we saw amongst the Sahaba.
The prophet
built such a bond,
such a love, such a connection that when
they are in Badr and they are outnumbered
by by 3 times,
and they have all the equipments, all that.
Their love and everything is holding them like
one body that not the biggest army can
come overcome them.
That's why
Islam is built on this foundation to the
extent you guys hear the story that there
was a Sahabi,
and he was on the death bed. He
was about to die, and he needed water,
and a Sahabi goes, and he gives him
water to drink, and he's like, no, there's
somebody before me, give it to him. And
that Sahabi is like, somebody before me, give
it to him. By the time he went
to this person, he's dead, he's dead. When
he comes back to the first person,
subhanallah, you guys have probably heard the story
multiple times but I want to emphasize one
point. Do you know who that person was?
Do you know who that person was?
That person was Ikrimatubnu
Abi Jahl.
He was the son of Abu Jahl.
When he accepted Islam,
he became from this type of ignorance and
arrogance and jahiliyah.
He comes to the light of Islam
and he is about to die but he's
thinking about his Muslim brother. Go give the
water to him.
Go give the water to him. Today we
will cut we will cut relationships with each
other. We will ruin each other's reputations.
We will work against each other to make
sure that the other person in the Muslim
community does not go up.
This is where it starts from.
We realize a lot of different foundational factors
for Madinan society, but this is the one
thing that we do not talk about enough,
to care for each other,
to realize
that a society is that is built on
love for the sake of Allah,
a society that is built with Muslim brotherhood,
a society that is built with a connection
for the sake of Allah
is stronger
than any power can ever defeat.
Any power can ever defeat. Why? Because we
see that against the Prophet and
against the Muslims, there were all powers together,
came together, but they were not able to
separate between them.
This was what And, you know, to be
very honest with you, this is the strength
of America as well.
This is the strength of America because America
says for one thing that is united
States of America.
United.
This is the key point. Today,
you look at the Muslim ummah,
and if there's a word,
an antonym for united,
that is what you will look at the
Muslim ummah to be.
If you see 1 Muslim ummah, 1 Muslim,
country is trying to go up, immediately another
country will be like, okay, how do we
put them down?
This is what we see on a global
level and the reason for that is because
we see this on a local level as
well.
You will see Muslim Brothers, time for elections
come, you'll see.
Elections of a masjid for god's sake.
Time for a small little, you know, organization,
the smallest organization.
Done.
This is why because we don't implement the
seerah in our life.
What do we do rather? We just read
it as fairy tales.
We just read it as like, wow, it's
such a great story. The prophet
went to Madinah and everybody sang,
And after that, he went to
was out and what a great story.
But the point of reflection over here is
to recognize there was there
was brotherhood that the prophet
established. Where is that today?
There was a community in the masjid. Where
is that today? There was a connection with
the Masjid. Where is that today? There was
a concern for the effort of dean. We
spoke about Abdullah bin Zayed ibn Abdul Rabihi,
the one who Allah inspired
through a dream with the calling of adhan.
Where is that today?
And so these are points of reflections that
we need to think about, that we need
to bring into our life that let's clean
our hearts.
Let's
implement this sunnah,
which was a building block
which was a building block for establishing Madinah.
And once this building block is there, you
can build so much on top of that
that there will be no ever any decaying
in the foundation.
But other than that, you build anything you
want. It's not going to happen. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
dealt with every single person on individual basis.
He dealt with everybody on individual basis. There
was rules. There's khanun. There's constitution,
there's Quran, there's all of that.
But everybody meant something to him personally.
Everybody,
you know, he he went and spoke to
them. He didn't create these rules and it
was you give respect, you get respect.
The prophet
got respect from his worst enemies.
Why? Because he gave them respect.
People who were, you know, living their whole
entire life
to work against them, Those are the people
who became his right hand men,
all because of this one foundational
aspect of our society. So we ask Allah
to allow us to implement, allow us to
understand, and
next week, we will continue on as we
see that Islam, you know, the most of
the,
most of the rulings comes in Madinan period.
We see that it happens on a very
gradual level. There was no such thing as,
okay. Here you go. Here's all the rules.
Now start living by it.
So slowly, slowly, gradually, we will talk about
this. We're finishing about the 1st year of
hijrah. Inshallah, we'll go to the 2nd year,
see what happens, and each year we'll continue
like that.