Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session
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We're continuing the Sira
of the prophet
and alhamdulillah, we have reached
a very important part in the Sira of
the prophet
Such a part that we're talking about today
is, subhanAllah,
it was the change of history.
It was an occurrence that happened after 5,
600
years,
and it's something that happened for 23 years
and thereafter, it stopped till the last day.
There will be nothing like it.
Today, we're going to be discussing the Wahi
about
the Wahi of the prophet
when it started.
As we know that Wahi is only revealed
to a prophet,
and the prophet before the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam was Isa alaihi salam.
So it's been more than 500 years.
In more than 500 years,
how much has changed?
How much of the religion has changed?
Kaaba has become the place of holding or
placing idols
when once it was built
as a symbol of the oneness of Allah.
But today, it's no longer the symbol of
the oneness of Allah,
but it became
the symbol of idol worshiping.
And the people have no moral compass.
Nobody knows what's right, what's wrong.
Today, somebody wakes up and they feel like
this is the right thing, and tomorrow they
wake up and they feel like something else
is the right thing.
And so people are in complete darkness.
And darkness because when you're in dark, you
cannot know
where to go. Do I go left? Do
I go right? Do I go straight?
You go and you bump into something and
you realize that, okay, this is not the
way. You go to another direction, you bump
into that, and then you keep on going
like this.
This is how the condition of the people
was
right at the time,
right before Nabuah started.
So recovered all the life of the prophet
until he is about 37 years old.
And now at this age, the prophet
started to love to be alone,
to be away from people, to be away
from
all the noise
and everything that is corrupting because as people
sin,
it affects the whole environment.
As people say something bad, it affects the
whole environment.
Whatever people do, it contributes to the whole
environment.
And so the prophet
would want to seclude himself
from all of that.
And he would go all the way to
the cave of Hera. He would sit over
there away from people and just start to
think.
Think about the creation of Allah.
Think about how he created the creation and
for what purpose, and what is the creation
doing now. How much has the people gone
astray?
And he would be sitting at such a
position that he would be looking straight at
the Kaaba.
He would be able to see the Kaaba.
And as we know, the mercy of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, the tajalli of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala when it descend, it descends on
the Kaaba, and it's descending, and the prophet
is looking and trying to find the meaning
of life.
He started to go there for a few
hours then a few days, and a time
came where he would go there for months.
And he would just completely seclude himself, not
talk to anyone or anything. He would take
his food with him all the way there,
and he would just sit there and ponder.
And why? Because he had to prepare himself.
What he was preparing himself for was not
something small.
It was the Wahi descending.
Today, the closest comparison I was giving to
the students when we were covering this is
that when you have a runway in the
airport
and the plane is about to land,
they make sure that the runway is completely
clear and empty of every single small pebble
because every small move can make the plane
go left and right.
So this
Wahi is now descending to the heart of
the prophet
and this heart had to be prepared for
it.
And so he goes and he spends this
time contemplating,
thinking
so that the of Allah
could descend.
The wasn't something small
We have some narrations
That's how heavy the load of Wahi was.
When the prophet
would be going on a camel, the and
the Wahi would come, the prophet would
sit down. He would not be able to
tolerate it. It would be winter and so
cold, but the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam would
start to sweat.
This was the capacity of wahi. It wasn't
something small. It was something very, very heavy.
And so the prophet
had to prepare himself for this. And so
he would start to go, and
1 year, 2 year, for 3 years,
he is completely secluded himself in which he
is only
remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in disassociating
himself from anything else.
SubhanAllah, this is one of those sunnah of
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We have forgotten
to actually take time and just sit alone
away from people to think.
Some people say that this happened before the
Wahi was revealed, so we don't have to
follow this. But doctor Ramadan al Buti,
he
mentions
in he said that this was something that
continued even after Nabuah, and the example of
that is the Hajjul of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
The Hajjul is a time where there's nobody,
and you're just sitting completely alone with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and you're thinking about your
existence.
That is the time where you're actually able
to think.
Unfortunately,
today, society is based
on such dynamics that you're not able to
think.
Sometimes some people will say the best ideas
come to me when I'm in the bathroom.
I'm taking a shower.
The reason for that is usually because you
don't have your phone or you don't have
anybody that you're talking
to. If you were able to give that
time to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and sit
undistracted
from anything else, then even then things will
come to your heart.
So imagine if you were able to read
the Quran and then before or after you
were able to contemplate
for some time and think about what is
the message that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
trying to convey to you.
That is what's going to open your heart.
We have gotten into this busy life cycle,
this distracted life cycle,
this life cycle that allows for everything but
actually take time just to think about
what is to come,
just to think about what has already happened.
Think about how Allah created the world, and
think about what's gonna happen to you when
you're in your grave all alone.
And so the prophet
would start to think and think.
Now,
6 months before
the wahi is actually revealed, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam starts to get dreams.
And when he would get a dream, the
next day, it would become the complete reality
of that dream.
And this happened for 6 months.
And, of course, when all of these things
are happening, the prophet
is getting alerted.
But even then when the came,
the prophet
was in complete shock.
When this some scholars say that at this
time,
the rocks would say salaam to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so that's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said that true dream is 1
46th of Nabuah.
And the reason for that is 6 months
of the period of 23 years.
6 months divide by 23 years is 146.
Now today, we might get an idea that
if I get a good dream, am I
getting wacky?
For us, we can divide dreams into 3
categories.
When we get dreams,
it's either an inspiration from Allah It's
a good dream that's telling us something. That's
one aspect.
The second is that it's completely from shaitan.
And then the third is that it is
from our thoughts.
Whatever you think about, that eventually becomes
comes in your dream.
One time, a person went to a great
scholar,
and he
said,
oh teacher, t I wanna I wanna see
the prophet
in my dream.
And the scholar said, you really want to
see him? He said, yes, I wanna see
him in my dream.
He said, okay.
Come to me tomorrow.
And the next day when he comes, the
scholar invites him to come eat food with
him.
And in the food, he added a lot
of salt.
And he gave him instruction that you can't
drink water, and he told him that you
can't drink water till tomorrow.
But he added a lot of salt. What
does salt do to you? It makes you
thirsty.
So the whole time, this person is thinking
about
drinking water drinking water.
The next day when the person comes, the
scholar told him, he said, what did you
see in your dream?
He said, all I saw was water.
Because when you keep thinking about something, that's
what you're going to see.
So the prophet
if we want to, we need to get
more
in touch with his life.
Of course, this does not mean that that
should become our objective just to go see
the prophet
in our dream. The real objective is to
follow his way.
But the idea is that dream can be
either from shaitan
and those you say
and you dismiss them. Or they could be
an inspiration from Allah
and for that you can discuss it with
somebody that you know wishes well for you
or somebody who may be an Islamic scholar
or something of that. And 3rd is dreams
that just come from your mind just like
this one that I spoke about.
So the prophet
started to get these dreams.
And now
after 6 months, he's sitting in Gharihira.
And Jibreel alaihi salaam comes to him. Jibreel
alaihi salaam hugs him,
and the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is frightened.
He hugs him hard, and he said, ikra.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is.
He tells them again, he hugs them and
he said,
and he says,
I'm not a reciter. I'm not the one
to read. I can't read. And he tells
them again,
Right? And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam then starts to recite the Surah.
And so upon this, the prophet
is in so much shock
that he goes to Khadija Radiallahu Anha. He
goes to his house, and he tells Khadija
Radiallahu Anha,
cover me up.
A jinn has afflicted me, something has happened
to me, I don't know what's going on
with me. And Khadija
an amazing psychologist,
psychotherapist,
a person who is able to console a
person with wisdom, is immediately telling the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Allah
will never
forsaken you. He will never do anything bad
to you.
You say the truth.
You help people who are poor.
You help people who are weak and who
cannot lift their own burdens.
You are nice and hospitable to the guests.
Allah will not do anything bad to you.
She calms him down.
Then she tries to think of what's the
best thing to do,
and she realized that her cousin,
Warakatubnu Naufal,
he is actually
he's been talking about Christianity, and he doesn't
believe in this worship of idols and all
that. So she's like, he's the right person
to go to.
She goes and speaks to him. Takes the
prophet
and she tells him that this is what's
happening with your nephew.
The prophet
explains what happened to him in the experience
of the first one. And there,
he tells
him that if what you're saying is the
truth, then this is the same the
same archangel,
the Jibreel alayhi salaam that came to Musa
alayhi salaam.
Then be happy that this is from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and you will be the
prophet of this ummah.
And he says, I wish
that the time when your people are gonna
kick you out of Makkah, I wish I
was young and I wish I was able
to support you and help you. And upon
this, the prophet
was like, our
they're gonna kick me out? And the reason
why it's hard for him to believe is
because people love him, people respect him, people
honor him. So what is the reason that
people will kick him out? He says, yes,
people will kick you out because there isn't
a single
messenger
that comes with what you are about to
tell the people except that he will he
was kicked out by his people.
The prophet
says,
okay. He leaves.
After some days, Warakatul Noonoufal passes away.
It could be argued that Warakatul Noonoufal radiAllahu
anhu was one of the first
the first ones to accept Islam.
Later on we see
that the prophet
says
in hadith that I've seen
in white clothing Jannah.
Right? So then the prophet
comes And now for a period of time,
the wahi stops.
And this is called.
A scholar some scholar say that this was
3 days, some says it was 3 months,
some says 4 months, some even say 3
years.
Majority of the scholars says it was a
brief period period of time.
And so in this time, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, this experience happened, is now extremely
anxious.
He wants to know more. What's going on?
But he doesn't know that what he isn't
coming.
And he's in complete
anxiety that what is going on? Why isn't
it coming? Or what is it? What's what
happened and why isn't it happening anymore?
And he would go to the mountains
and he would start to look and look
left and right,
but there was nothing.
Then one day, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is like, as I look,
I see all I see is Jibril alaihi
salam.
And when I look left, it's Jibril. When
I look right, it's Jibril.
All of the horizon is covered with Jibril.
And he said that I am Jibril and
you are the Prophet.
And upon this, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam once again goes to the house, and
he's in this fright.
He's like, What is happening to me? And
he tells Khadija
once again,
cover me up, cover me up. I can't
take it.
And so, from there then,
the second what he starts and that is,
And inshallah, we're going to start
with next,
next session inshallah,
but this session I want to highlight a
few things.
One is the concept that we already covered,
which is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
taking the time
to seclude himself from everyone, to remember Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, to think about Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, how important that is.
The second thing is that, when the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gets the wahi,
some scholars say
that when he was hugged,
why was it so physical?
Because
even today in western academics, the orientalists, they
sometimes
will come and they say, oh,
the there's no such thing as This was
just a psychological state. It was psychosis. It
was this thing, it was that thing. But
subhanallah, the fact that it happened physically
is a proof that it was not a
state
of the mind, but it was actually something
real.
And so it proves to us that as
well.
The third is that, tells us when Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying
is to balance between
the knowledge of Islam, the knowledge of deen,
and the knowledge of this world as well.
And that's why we see
Islam was never divorced
from this world, in fact Islam is a
way of life,
and Islam's
contribution to global civilization
is unlimited.
Because the Muslims always took it as one
thing.
The next thing we realize is that when
the prophet
goes to Khadija radiallahu anha, we sees her
we see her excellence,
and we see how smart and wise of
a lady she was. And then we also
see that when she's consoling the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam,
she is talking about his character.
You, Allah will never let you down. Why?
Because you say the truth.
So today we ask ourselves,
what do people know about us?
Are we known for truth or not?
Unfortunately,
there are certain things that are very common
in our society and we don't take heed
to that. Sometimes just as a mere thing
we will say, sometimes we need money from
someone, and just as a thing, oh, just
give me this money for 1 month,
and then 2 months pass by, 3 months
pass by, and you do not return that
money.
What do you think a person should think
of you then?
Or you say something simple, I will be
there in 5 minutes.
And you're not there in 5 minutes, you're
there in 7 minutes.
What do you think this is doing to
your reputation?
Unfortunately, this is a common phenomena.
And the culture,
like, if they tell you the wedding is
at 7 o'clock, make sure you don't go
anytime before 9 because you'll just be wasting
your time.
Right? Where's the aspect of truthfulness
and sticking to your our word? The prophet
was known as Asadak.
When Khadija radhiallahu anha is consoling him, she
says,
you say the truth.
And so where is this concept in our
life?
Some of this thing has become so we
don't even pay attention to it. Like if
I tell somebody tells me, where are you?
And I'm just like, I'm 5 minutes away.
It's Nobody even thinks of it, like, oh,
that this is a lie.
Nobody even thinks that when I'm asking for
a favor from someone or I'm saying something
that, hey, I just need to use it
for a few things, and then you, you
take somebody's scar. I just need to you
make it one trip from here to here,
then next thing you know, you put 33,000
miles on it.
Right? Simple things, but these are all part
of the
that we need to, you know,
compare our lives to and see where are
we.
Then she goes on and she said that
you're helping the poor.
When was the last time I was involved
in an activity or something that helped the
poor, that helped the weak, and you take
care of your guests,
when was the last time? What do what
do people know about our hospitality?
So these are different things that we realize
from the life of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, from the akhlaqul nabua
that we need to start to instill into
our own life.
And so the first thing is to take
time out where it's just you and Allah.
Because even you can get inspired by Allah
Allah
can open your heart. Allah
can give you something to your heart, give
you the understanding of the Quran, or give
you understanding of a hadith that is not
understood by anybody else.
But in order for that to happen, you
have to clear your heart.
And the the the importance of that is
that you will see one gathering,
one person will take so much benefit from
it, and another person will take nothing from
it.
And the reason for that is what is
in your heart.
The prophet
some people became Abu Bakr and Omar and
Usman and Ali, and some people became
Abu Jahl and Otba and Shaiva and Ubayya.
They became them.
Why same people, same teacher, same message?
The difference was the heart.
And so today we have to make sure
that our heart is right.
Unfortunately,
today,
our hearts
are such that we find a reason
not to talk to someone, a reason to
hate.
But that is not from the character of
the prophet
And the only remedy to that is to
go take time and work on your heart,
focus on your heart, and rectifying that, and
then try to inculcate
the akhlaq and nabua. May Allah give us
tawfiq to understand the Sira of the Prophet
and bring all the lessons from the Sira
into our lives. And next week, I will
not be here. So, inshallah, and the week
after as well, we will be resuming this
from January onwards.
So,
inshallah, everybody is requested
to continue your
or at least these
in your, family discussions and everything like that.
But inshallah, we will be continuing,
from January.