Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah 24 January 2024
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The speakers discuss the stages of Islam, including the first phase where individuals are given a private da clarity until they receive their statement, the second phase until age 75, and the third phase when individuals are taught by the prophet. They stress the importance of not delaying one's decision and being held accountable for their actions, as it is crucial to protect oneself and others in public settings, and to avoid struggle. The speakers also emphasize the importance of Deen and de la clarity to avoid struggle and the importance of working on deen and clarity to avoid struggle.
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Accept Islam.
Male adult to accept Islam was Abu Bakr
radiallahu anhu.
And the first person from
the Hunafa, and Hunafa, as I said, were
a set of people
who did
not worship idols.
They were on the faith
of true Christianity
or Judaism,
but they were basically trying their best to
follow
whatever remains they had. And so one
of the was and
was the cousin of Khadija
So when
Khadija took the prophet
to him, he knew that all of that
was written
in the Bible
about the prophet coming. So immediately, he said
that you are a prophet, and he believes.
So what the first Hanif you could say
who believed in him was Warakatubnu
Nofal. The first Muslim male to believe in
him was Abu Bakr
The first female to believe in him was
Khadija
And the first young child
or youth to believe in him was
And the 1st freed slave to believe in
him was Zaydub Nuharitha
So these are the very very first people
who accepted Islam.
Now from here, the prophet of Allahu alaihi
wasalam
isn't giving
right away.
In fact, many of the scholars have staged
the into different phases, and most of them
say it was about 4 to 5 phases
of.
The first phase
was 3 years. From the time he got
prophecy,
he was, for 3 years, calling people privately.
He wasn't going and making announcement.
He wasn't going and making,
you know,
open this, you know,
announcements or, you know, calling people out loud.
Rather, he was going individually to people and
he was telling them about Islam. So that
was the private dawah.
This phase lasted for 3 years. The second
phase lasted till Hijra. And this is the
stage in which the prophet
openly taught,
and taught the com the companions and everybody.
And at this point, you know, when you
start to openly teach something,
that's when you start to receive opposition.
And then the next phase is from the
Hijra until
until
And then after that, the next phase from
the
is still
the some say till and some will say
till the death of the prophet
So that's how the scholars basically,
distinguish it. So now we're in the first
phase where the private the dawah is completely
private. The prophet
is going to people
who he knows will not make it a
problem,
who he knows will not make it into
an issue. And so therefore, even the people
that are going to give dawah, they're also
going to very hand selected people. So Abu
Bakr radhiallahu anhu, when he finds out,
immediately the next day, he goes and gives
Dawah and brings back 4 people.
And these 4 people are the pillars of
Islam.
Every one of them we can talk for,
you know, days about.
But, you know, I'll mention these 4 people
that got that accepted Islam on the hand
of Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu. The first was
Othmar ibn Affan.
Othmar ibn Affan
is from the
tribe, from the Umayyad tribe,
and he's from a very noble
tribe, but Othmar ibn Affan, subhanallah,
was such a person
of modesty,
was such a person of pure heart
that the prophet will
tell him that even the angels are shy
of Othman radiAllahu anhu. One time the prophet
was sitting with Omar radiallahu
anhu, with Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu, and a
little bit of his leg was showing, his
shin was showing, and they were just sitting
calmly talking.
And a few people came, the prophet
was remaining how he was.
And then, Usman
who came and immediately, the prophet
got up and covered his shin. And they
were asked that, oh prophet of Allah, different
people came. You didn't change your posture.
Why is it that when Osman radiAllahuan who
came, you changed? He said because even the
angels have of Osman radiAllahuanhu.
So the status of Osman radiAllahuanhu
is something that can be talked about for
so such a great period of time. But
one thing we can for surely see is
that the people who accept Islam
in the very very beginning
are those people
who have completely clean heart.
Those people who are away from the filth
of the society.
And so when you work on the cleansing
of your heart, when the goodness comes, it
goes straight into your heart. And that is
basically what happened with
So who now accepts Islam as we know
who is known as He is one of
those who married
2 of the daughters of the prophet
And later on, he goes on to become
the Khalifa. And subhanallah,
you know, when you read the history of
and
then you learn how he passed away,
where people came and they were, you know,
when they were about to kill him, his
his wife,
Nai'ilah, jumped on him and said that you
could kill me first, but you can't kill
him. He was in his very old age,
and they chopped off his her fingers as
well. Immediately,
when they kill Usman
who his blood is on his muzhaf.
And then such a person of status.
But the people, the rebels at that time
were like, you cannot bury Uthman Radiallahu one
here. And at that today, we see the
grave of Uthman Radiallahu in Jannatul Baqir. It
has the black pebbles.
But at that time that part was not
even considered
as They were like bury him in the
outskirts, but don't bury him over here. So,
subhanallah, you see sometimes these people of great
status Allah
test them till death.
Test until death. So while we are living,
never think
just because
we are over here and we are in
the masjid of Allah, and we have iman,
and we have all that.
Never think for one second
for one second that Shaitan has left his
work to
fulfill his promise of
that I will misguide all of them. He's
trying and he will keep on trying till
our last breath. So Usman radiAllahu 1 who
was the first person that Abu Bakr radiAllahu
goes to. The second person that,
Abu Bakr radiAllahu 1 who goes to was
Sadhu Abu Bakr radiAllahu 1 who is
subhanallah
You
know, when you say, may my mother be
sacrificed for you.
May my father be sacrificed for you.
Or
in Arabic you say. He is the first
person that the prophet
said to him.
He said, may my father and mother both
combined be sacrificed for you. For Sa'd ibn
Abi Oqasadillahu Anhu. He was the shield of
the prophet said Allahu alaihi wasalam. And all
the different battles, he would stand in front
of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam and
protect him with his own chest.
Let the arrows come to me but not
near the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
subhanallah, you would be shocked to know
at what age he accepted Islam?
At what age did he accept Islam? Today,
subhanAllah,
we have this thing that, oh,
small, young kid, this, that.
RadiAllahu one who accepted Islam when he was
16.
When he was 16 years old and at
that time
the test starts from that time. His mother
told him that listen if you don't come
back to the religion of your forefathers and
leave the religion of Muhammad
I'm not gonna eat, I'm not gonna sleep,
I'm not gonna brush my hair, and I'm
gonna sit out in the sun.
He's like, my mother, I will do anything
to please you, but I'm not leaving this
religion.
And he did it and did it and
did it until what happened? Until his mother
was pleased and said, okay, whatever.
Right? But
that's what you see
then. Don't ever think that we are not
going to be tested
for our faith. We will be tested with
our faith in different ways. So maybe from
our job,
maybe from different sources. But remember that if
you're on, you will be tested. And so
that was
The next one is
is actually the cousin of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. His mother's name is Safiya.
Safiya and Abdul Muttalib were siblings.
And so Zubayr radiAllahu anhu also the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said
Every prophet has a disciple and my disciple
is Zubayr ibn Awan radiAllahu anhu who stayed
throughout his life protecting the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam in every incident possible. And then the
next person that accepted Islam was Abdul Rahman
of Nafar radiallahu anhu. Abdul Rahman of Nafar
radiallahu anhu is the companion
who was so rich that subhanallah,
one of his camels was in Madina and
the other was in a completely a whole
different city. They said that when he passed
away,
they started to chop off the different bricks
of gold
to distribute to different people.
He was so rich that even today if
you were to calculate his wealth, he would
be one of the richest man alive today.
Was a
companion that went to Madinah with nothing. And
a Sahabi told him, hey, listen.
I have this. You get half. You get
half. He's like, I don't need your half.
Tell me where the market is. He went
to the market, started to do business in
Tijara, and next thing you know, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gives him such amount of wealth,
such amount of wealth that, you know, he
has and
The prophet
even him, he told him, he said, Uthman,
you're going to be a little bit delayed
in coming to Jannah.
And he was very sad about that. He
said, why?
And he said, because you're going to be
giving accountability for all the wealth you have.
And subhanAllah, he was a type of person
to anytime a call came for the path
of Allah, he was the first person to
give all his wealth in the path of
Allah. But even then the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam told him that one day
you are going to be held accountable for
this.
You are going to be held accountable. You
are Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to
be asking you about this. So that is
Abdulrahman Umra'aw. Now, subhanAllah, when you look at
these guys, Usman ibn Affan,
Abdulrahman Umra'aw.
Right? What
great status people who's getting all their word?
Abu
Bakr
That is the beauty of dawah.
That is the beauty
of not delaying the good. When you have
an opportunity,
go
talk to someone,
convince someone to become a better version of
themselves.
And then whatever they do inshallah, you will
be getting the reward. 100 and 100 of
people accepted Islam on these four people's hands.
Saad Abi Waqqas became a great general at
the time of Omar Radiallahu Anhu. In fact,
he became a such a general that he
was it was under his army that had
they had the major battle against the Persia,
the battle of Qadisiyah.
And
he went to Rustam and he said, what
are you guys here for? What does your
Islam teach you? And that's when he said
that we have been sent
to take the people from the darkness into
the light. To take the people from the
stress of this world into the hereafter
and to take the people away from worshiping
the from worshiping the creation to worshiping the
creator Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right? So this
was,
this was the message of Islam subhanallah.
Now from here onwards,
these are people of great status and all
that. But from here onwards, majority of the
people who accepted Islam were all poor people,
were all peasants,
were all slaves, or all just who became
free.
For example, the story of Abdullah bin Masood
radiAllahu anhu. Abdullah bin Masood radiallahu anhu was
in the outskirts of Mecca. He was grazing
the sheep and the camels and all that
for
And he was grazing the camels and one
time Abu Bakr radiallahu and the prophet was
walking. And they were like, you know, can
we have some milk? And he said, well,
this isn't my, you know, my sheep or
I can't My goats, I can't really give
it to you. So
the prophet of Allah Now you told the
clean cleanliness of his heart. Right? He's like,
listen, it's not mine. I can't give it
to you. So that that shows the cleanliness
of the his heart, the purity of his
heart. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells
them, which of these sheep do not give
any milk at all? He's like that one.
He pointed at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam goes and he cleans the udders of
the of the goat and then he says,
and he takes a bowl and he starts
to milk the goat and now so much
milk comes out.
This is their job. They're always with sheep
and goat and all that. They're like, how
the heck is this happening?
What are you, a magician? You said just
some words and the milk came out of
a goat that we could never expect.
How did this happen? He's in complete shock.
Right? And at this point he's like, I
need to know what you said. And the
prophet
said,
I said,
And he said the explanation of this. And
after this, Abdullah bin Masood
stuck with the prophet
for the rest of his life. And he
was known as Sahib Ushir. He was known
as Sahib Nalayn. He was known as the
one who knew the secrets of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam. The one who would carry
the slippers of the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
He was such that the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam's house In order for you to enter,
you would need permission for Abdullah bin Masood,
the Allah, one whom he was part of
family. That's how the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam considered him. And subhanAllah, even us, you
know, majority of the people in this masjidist,
they follow the mother of Imam Abu Hanifa
Rahimahullah.
And
the is completely based and taken from Abdullah
bin Masood radiAllahu anhu. Why? Because he try
he went to Kufa. He said after the
prophet said, allahu alaihi wa sallam passed away,
he said, I can't stay in Madina anymore.
Because my heart hurts.
My heart hurts that I the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam is no longer with us.
I go look left and I'm reminded by
him. I look right and I'm reminded of
him. I can't stay here. He goes to
Kufa. In Kufa, he starts to teach. And
then from there, one student, another student, from
there, Imam Abu Hanifa, and from there the
whole entire madhhab is developed.
So this is how he became Muslim. Then
we have other stories, people coming from other
places as well. One of them is Amrub
no Abbasa. He came from Yemen to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He heard and
he said, what are you teaching? When the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told him that
this is what I'm teaching, he said, I
accept and now I wanna start calling to
Islam. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
I don't want you to call to Islam
right now. Don't you see the situation?
If the people find out that I'm doing
this, they're gonna go after me and you.
Don't accept Islam. Go back to your town,
and whenever it's time, I will tell you
to come back, or you come back to
me whenever you hear about me later. Now
you see, subhanAllah, we hear we we see
a few things from this. The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam knows 100% for a fact
that he's a prophet.
And by extension knowing that he's a prophet,
he knows
that he has the protection of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So why is he calling people privately? Why
isn't he just calling people openly?
Why isn't he just going from day 1?
Why is there this first phase? The phase
of 3 years in which Dua is completely
private.
Because the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam subhanallah,
it's at a mercy for you and I
today.
And it's from the Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
mercy because the prophet
didn't just come to give Dawah, but also
came to teach Dawah.
Didn't come just to give Dawah, but also
came to teach Dawah. Now the prophet said
Allahu alaihi wasalam is protected
by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But today are
is can we say every single one of
us is protected?
Of course, Insha'Allah the help of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will be with us, but we
have to be wise and that's why we
look at the surah of the prophet said
Allahu alaihi wasalam. How was he giving dawah
in different phases?
He could have went out right right from
the beginning calling people openly all that, but
he's doing everything strategically so that you and
I can do it strategically and you and
I can have ease in our life.
That you and I don't have to put
ourselves in danger.
That you and I don't have to put
our necks out to be cut off.
That's why. So that's why there's the hikmah
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that there are these stages that it's happening
little by little and slowly.
Right? And so Allah
is teaching us that it's out of compassion
for us
that we are gonna get different times. And
subhanallah, we get it. For example, let's say
our brothers in China, the Uyghur brothers,
do you think they could go and openly
start calling to Allah?
And if they do call openly to Allah,
let's say this was the Farooq. The prophet
said Allah
called from the 1st day openly,
then it would have been upon us to
do it the same way or no? And
if let's say we did not do it
in a condition where we when it was
tough for us, what would be? We would
be sinners.
We'd be accountable.
But in situations
like the Uyghurs, in situations where you're not
allowed to express
any part of your deen, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's messengers
example
shows us that it's okay. You can do
it very privately,
You can do it very quietly and you
can protect life.
Islam has the preservation
of life
as priority
over anything else.
Life comes before anything else. That's why the
prophet said, Allah, alaihi wa sallam, we will
read. He sent his companions to Habasha.
Why? Because life was more important.
Life was more important than numbers.
Life was more important than just having this
and that. So, the preservation of life is
the most important
principle in our deen and we see that
through the different phases of the dawah of
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We see that
over here. The second thing I'll mention and
then we'll complete inshallah is that
we see a few people except
from the influential people, Abu Bakr
But then majority of the people
that accept after that are all slaves,
are all poor people, are all peasants. Why
is that?
And subhanAllah,
when you look at the dawah of every
single prophet,
you will see the same exact theme. You
see, Nuh alaihi Salam, what was the complaint
of his people?
He said, these people are believing in you?
If they're believing in you, then we don't
wanna believe in the same person.
Ibrahim alaihi Salam, same thing. Musa alaihi Salam,
saying these Israelites, they're believing in you?
That that was
right? He had this thing. No. Then we
can't do it. So we see the same
exact thing now. That is the humble people.
That is the poor people. It's the presence
of society. Why is that?
The reason
is that they don't have any status.
They status as in, you know, ego
to protect.
They don't have anything
like status quo or a specific position or
anything like that to protect that they're holding
on to so strongly
that they're not going to give it up.
In fact, they're already tired of the system
that's going on.
They're tired of the people who are having
the status quo that we are leaders,
everything our way. So those people, it's very
hard for them to give give up their
status, give up their power, give up their
position, give up all of these it's very
hard. But for people who are not attached
to anything
and their hearts are free from all these
strings, it's very easy for them to get
Hidayah.
It's very easy for them to do anything.
And so today,
we have to learn from this. 1 of
the
one of the you could say the the
methods that we see today of modernity.
Right? Of the society that we see today
is to get us attached to possessions.
Get us attached to materialistic
means. So, today we'll be attached to a
car, to a house, to money, to a
place and all of that and because of
that it's hard for us to accept
the truth. It's hard for us even if
it goes against a little bit against our
comfort zone, we're not ready to accept it.
If a scholar comes today and tells you
that, hey, listen, I want you to
give 5 hours every single day for this
specific work of deen.
You'll be like, this is, I can't do
that. Why? Because you're attached.
You're attached to one thing, another thing, another
thing, another thing,
and because of that, it's hard for you
to give it up.
If you have a status in society, such
status that, you know, you cannot, you will
give up, you know, I can't do that.
I have to protect my honor. I have
to protect my status. I have to protect
my finances. I have to protect all of
that. And so this doesn't mean give up
your jobs.
It doesn't mean give up your positions in
society or community. It doesn't mean don't get
involved.
As we have explained and will continue to
explain
how the Prophet
was so involved even before Islam in his
community. Like the we explained. The Prophet
was involved.
But there must be a balance
and the balance is that it cannot become
egoistic.
What the positions were in are the things
that we're in, we must not become so
attached to it that it becomes more important
than our deen.
So long as the deen is our priority,
so long as humility is the way we
work.
If it's if we have the humility, we
will be good. But as soon as the
humility goes away and we start to think
that we are something in life, then we
have that feeling to protect and that feeling
sometimes will make us blind to the
and that's exactly what happened.
With the poor people, they didn't have that.
They didn't they were not blinded
by their status quo and by their, you
know, the strings that were attached to them.
So for them it was very easy to
accept. And so for us it's very important
to realize that the priority must be Deen.
The priority must be Deen and we have
to make sure
that whatever we get involved in, whatever we
do, if it's for the sake of Deen
that we are ready to sacrifice
anytime.
When you are at that level, then you're
good. Abdulrahman
what did I just say? He was very
rich. Right?
But when it came time that you have
to travel from Makkah to Madinah, did he
say, no my wealth?
He left or no? He left. When it
came time for the different expeditions to give
up your wealth and go out, did he
give it up or no? He gave it
up.
Right? He was You know so many different
opportunities came in front of him, but he
gave it up. So, the question today is
anytime you find yourself
struggling between a choice of deen and dunya,
that means
you need to work on iman a little
bit more to make sure that there should
be no struggle actually. It should always be
that the the deen comes, it's right away.
We're ready to go. And so once we
are at that level that inshallah, we will
continue
to receive the good. Anytime there's good, we
will benefit from it. And anytime there's bad,
we will stay away from it. Otherwise, what
happened to the Quraysh?
The Quraysh, they had something to protect and
the leaders and all of that. So because
of that, they were blinded. They never accepted
Islam and the poor people they did. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the ability
to understand our deen and to allow us
to bring the sunnah of the prophet
in our life.