Yasir Qadhi – The Incredible Saga of Salman Al Farsi – From Slave to Believer

Yasir Qadhi
AI: Summary © The Sira culture in India is the oldest Christian faith system in India and the conversion of the Sira to the church of Jesus Christ is the oldest Christian faith system in the world. The importance of religion in achieving goals is discussed, including the use of religion as a means of achieving their goals and the importance of trusting Islam in achieving their goals. The discussion also touches on the history of the conflict between the royal family and the military community, as well as the importance of planting 300 date palms for free.
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One of the most

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interesting

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stories of the sahaba, in my estimation, it's

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all relative obviously, Some people find different things

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interesting. Out of the stories of the sahaba,

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one of the sahaba that really resonates with

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me, a very intriguing story,

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is the story of Salman al Farisi. Now,

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obviously, most of us have heard his story.

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I wanna just bring about certain aspects of

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it that I find very

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powerful, very intriguing.

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Salman al Farisi, as you all know, Farisi

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from Persia.

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And we don't know much about his early

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life because nobody was a Sahabi in Persia.

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In fact, Salman al Farisi is the only

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convert who was Farisi, the only Sahabi that

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we know of who was Persian,

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and also the only convert from the religion

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of the Majus, you know, Zoroastrianism.

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None of the Sahaba that we know of,

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and not a single one of them. We

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have Christian converts, we have Jewish converts, you

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know, 4, 5, 6, 7 Christian converts, 2

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or 3 famous Jewish converts. But as for

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Majus or Zoroastrian,

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only one. Only one companion who is from

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the,

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Zoroastrianism. And of course, I don't want to

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go into but it is one of the

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most ancient religions in the world,

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meaning it is around, what, 4000 years old?

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And it is also one of the smallest.

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There's only

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1,100,000 people left. That's it. Very small faith

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tradition left. It's very ancient and very, small.

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And the, the Zoroastrians, the Arabic word majus,

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it comes from what we call in English

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the the Magi. The same thing we call

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in Magi,

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this Magus, because the priests of the Zoroastrians,

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they're called Magis. And so the Arabs called

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the religion after their priests, the Magus.

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And, of course, very briefly, Zoroastrians are the

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only religion in the whole world that actually

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believe in 2 eternal gods. It's the only

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religion. There's only one faith that actually believes

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in 2, even, believe it or not, Hinduism

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actually believes in 1 supreme God, and then

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many many gods, one ultimate.

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As for Zoroastrianism, they're the only faith that

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actually has 2 gods, the God of good,

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the God of light. Right? And so they

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have Ahura Mazda, they have Ahriman, and there's

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a constant battle between them. So God creates,

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Ahura Mazda creates us, and Ahariman

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creates evil, darkness,

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scorpions,

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lizards. Ahariman creates. I'm not even joking. And

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Ahura Mazda creates good. Anyway, so Samad al

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Farsi is born

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in this Oh, by the way, of course,

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for India and Pakistan, you know what the

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Russians are called in our language. What do

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we call them?

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Why do we call them Farsis for Persians?

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Because when the Muslims came to Iran, when

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the Muslims conquered Iran,

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100 of 1000 of Zoroastrians

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fled.

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And they fled not to Christian lands who

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had persecuted them, they fled to the closest

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polytheistic

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nation, which is India.

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So they fled to India when the Muslims

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conquered Iran. And when they came to India,

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the Indians called them Persians,

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Parsis.

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And so because of this, we still know

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them as Parsis.

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And obviously,

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those of us from India, Pakistan, we know

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their most strange habit when it comes to

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burial.

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You know this?

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Yes, you know. Right? Those that are it's

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one of the most bizarre rituals in the

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whole world.

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They believe when a person is alive, he's

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good, he's pure. When he dies, he converts

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from the God of good to the God

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of evil. His body becomes filthy. When he

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dies, he cannot be buried because his body

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is so evil, the physical body, because the

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soul is gonna go back to God, the

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body cannot be touched or buried,

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and so they are not allowed

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to have the earth touch the body. So

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what do they do? They have special towers

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all high up, and they put the body

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on top of the tower,

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and they allow vultures to go and eat

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from the body until there is no more

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body. SubhanAllah. This is one of the more

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bizarre things. Anyway, I didn't want to talk

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about Zoroastrianism. So, mala al Farsi. The only

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convert that's born in

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Persia, and he's raised up as an Austrian.

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And then as you know the story, he

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was from a noble family. I'll not go

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over the whole story. It's a very I'm

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sure sure everybody has heard of this. It's

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one of the most famous stories of the

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Sira,

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of the conversion of Samal al Fassi, that

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he saw a Christian, heard a Christian, and

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the Christian

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was from another sect of Christianity called Nestorianism,

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all of Allah's Qadr. Nestorianism

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is also going to a bit of a

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tangent here. It is the oldest sect of

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Christianity that is still around. It's only in

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Iraq, 50,000 people as well. And when the

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emperor Constantine

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became

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Christian, he adopted a version of Christianity that

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is trinitarianism.

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3 gods, 31, 3 equals 1. One version,

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Nestorianism

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said, no, Jesus was human, and then he

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became God, or he was adopted by God.

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I have a bizarre belief that Jesus was

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human and then God adopted him. He's not

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the actual son, whatever. So it's a strange

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movement now, but it is the oldest sect

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of Christianity. And Allah's qadr, that when Constantine

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banned all other versions,

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Nestorians fled to Persia.

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And so the only version of Christianity

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in Persia was closer to Tawhid,

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because they believed in one ultimate God and

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Jesus was born human, and then he's adopted.

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He's it's a different belief here. So Salman

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al Farsi, again, Allah's Qadr, when Allah chooses

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you cannot, Salman al Farsi then passes by

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one of these Nestorian monks.

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And the story, as you're all aware, he

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is attracted to tawhid. He leaves the nobility

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of his father. He gives up his life

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and his wealth, and he joins, you know,

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Christianity, but his father wants to kill him.

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And so he flees

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Persia,

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going wherever the Christians can take him. He

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gave up his wealth and his fame. And

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this is what we see here. I'm gonna

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come back to this point here. When you

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give up something for Allah, Allah blesses you

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with more than what you gave up. He

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left his land with nothing,

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and he gave up everything he had, his

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nobility, his status, and he traveled to the

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closest

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land in the lands of the Christians, and

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he went up to the priest, the highest

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priest, and that priest adopted him because he

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was an exotic Persian convert. The priest adopted

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him. The story is very long. I'm not

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gonna go there. He goes over a series

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of 5, 6, 7, some reports say 12

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priests, one after the other. He goes

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over wanting to study and search for the

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truth, wanting to be a scholar and a

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worshiper of Allah. And he meets good priests

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and bad priests, but, subhanAllah,

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even when he meets corrupt priests, his iman

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in Allah is never shaken, which shows you

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how strong. You know, usually when a convert,

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you know, when they have a Muslim who

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does bad to them, understandably,

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they feel what type of religion is this,

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and they leave the faith because of the

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actions of a Muslim, astaghfirullah, be careful, all

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Muslim, especially when you do with converts.

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Salman al Farsi, the priest who adopted him

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turned out to be an evil and corrupt

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man, but it only increased his iman and

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Allah. He could understand the difference between the

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priest and between Allah and religion. And when

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he exposed the priest, the Christians admired and

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respected him, and so Allah blessed an outsider

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to become an esteemed insider because Salman was

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true, and Salman lived up to the ideals.

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And he asked

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one of his mentors of the historians, who

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can I go to to study with? I

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don't want to study this Trinitarian Christianity. I

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want the real teaching. So the mentor said,

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there's one person I know you can go

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to him. And the story goes on, every

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person he was with 2, 3, 4 years,

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when he's about to die, he sends him

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to one person. But, subhanAllah, when you look

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at the map, and I did this when

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I was doing the longer series I did

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a few years ago,

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literally from Persia,

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he goes from city to city to city

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to city, and Allah's Qadr, he makes his

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way to the borders of Arabia. Wallahi, this

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is all yaani Allah's Qadr. How? From where

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to where? Slowly but surely, every priest that

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sends him forward, he sends him closer to

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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, not even

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knowing that that is going there. Until the

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final priest that he studies with, the final

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priest says, I don't know anybody who is

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remaining upon our version of Christianity. They're all

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gone.

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But

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you are now at a time when the

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one whom our teachers told us about when

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Jesus predicted,

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the one that we predicted is gonna come,

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we feel I feel he's gonna come. And

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I will tell you the signs we know.

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By the way, these signs are not found

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in the other version of Christianity. So we

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know that Isa alayhis salaam taught his followers

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certain signs, and some sects of Christianity preserved

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those signs. He said, I'm gonna teach you

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three things. Number

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1, one of the signs of this prophet,

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he will not accept charity.

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He doesn't accept charity.

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Number 2, he will accept a gift.

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And number 3, there is a special seal

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on his body, that when you see it,

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you will recognize he is

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khatamun.

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Khatamurusrul,

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there's gonna be a khatam, a physical seal

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that's gonna be on his body. And he

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said, The only thing I know, he shall

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be in a land of date palms. That's

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what we know, that he's gonna come in

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that land. I don't know what city it

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is, in a land of date palms. So

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Salman al Farsi then decided, at this time

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he has wealth, he has crops, he has,

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you know, he decided to sell everything

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and go to the land of date palms.

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He asked, where is the closest land of

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date palms? He was told Tabuk

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because he was close to probably in around

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Jerusalem area. So Tabuk is the closest date

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palms. So he sold everything,

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he found an Arab tribe, he goes, I'm

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gonna pay you money, can you take me

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to Tabuk? They said, Sure, no problem. They

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took his money. Soon as they left the

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Roman Empire, khalas. They captured him and they

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sold him into slavery. You know, this is

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what happens when you didn't have civilization,

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when you didn't have a global world. There

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is no police to call. What's he gonna

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do? He doesn't have a passport. Right? This

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is the dangers of traveling back in the

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day. They literally

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betrayed the trust and captured him and sold

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him to into,

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being a slave. By this time, he's probably

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around 40, 50 years old. We don't know

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his exact age, but he's probably like already,

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you know, in a you know, past the

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prime of his life because he's been with

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10 different priests going up his way. And

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then

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Allah's qadr, the one He sells him to

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happens to be

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a yahudi

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from yathrib.

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He sells him to yahudi from yathrib. All

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of this is Allah's qadr. And so he

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comes back all the way to yathrib, and

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he is now he has no option, he

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has nowhere to go, he cannot flee, because

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again, in this world, can you imagine? If

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you run away as a slave, you will

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be executed. Right? So what can you do?

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So he becomes working. And when he says,

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the report goes, When I saw yathrib, when

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I saw the date palms,

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it came in my heart that

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Allah has sent me to this place. Look

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again,

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he gave up everything. He becomes a slave.

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His iman is still strong. Look, subhanAllah, this

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is just mind boggling. He says, soon as

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soon as I saw yathrib, I realized this

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is where. And this is one of the

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main benefits of the story of Salman.

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When you desire Allah's blessings, you will get

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Allah's blessings. When you are sincere to Allah,

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Allah will be sincere to you. When you

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put your trust in Allah, Allah will do

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whatever needs to be done. Even as a

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slave, he didn't lose his iman in Allah.

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And he's he was hopeful, I'm gonna meet

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the prophet. As you know, eventually, you know,

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the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to

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Yathrib, and he wanted to test him as

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a slave. So he said that,

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I took some of the dates he's a

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date he's, you know, the slave in the

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date palm,

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you know,

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the date palms that were there, he would

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be harvesting the dates. He said, I took

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some of the dates and I presented it

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to the prophet and I said, this is

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sadaqa. This is charity for the poor. This

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is charity. And I put it in front

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of him. So the Prophet asallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam said to the people around him, Come,

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eat from the charity. And Salman said, I

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saw his hand did not touch a single

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date. So I said to myself, this is

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one of the three signs. Okay? Then I

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worked more and more because he has to

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work his own money, and then I presented

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another date a few days later, I said,

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this is hadiyah.

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This is a gift to you. And he

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said to the people, come eat, and he

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ate as well. So Salman said, this is

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the second. But then he goes, how am

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I gonna see the third? How am I

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gonna get the this seal over here? So

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he said, I kept on being in the

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company of the process of every occasion to

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see, and once he went to the Baqir

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al garka, the the graveyard. And there was

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a burial taking place, and he was gonna

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go inside the the the cupboard to put

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the body, and he was wearing an izaar.

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You know, an izaar is basically 2, you

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know, the ihram type of garment. He's wearing

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a upper and top garment. So I realized

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this is my opportunity.

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I walk behind him, but he had the

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izaar on, the ridaar on very tightly, and

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he's not. I wasn't able to see. So

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I'm saying, what can I do now? I'm

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walking behind, what can I do now? And

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the Prophet saw me behind, and so he

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lowered,

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he lowered the

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rida so that he can show me. By

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the way, what is the khatam? The khatam

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is a

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special outgrowth of hair

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that is small like a pigeon's egg, right

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in the center of the back. Right in

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the center of the back, and they say

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that it is like multicolored.

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So, it's different colors that are, you know,

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not normal

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on most people. This is a special sign

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that right over here, there's just a small

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outgrowth of hair that is different colors and

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is shaped like a pigeon's egg. It's a

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physical sign.

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And the fact that the prophet shalallahu alaihi

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wa sallam lowers his garment, this is not

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the only time in the seerah.

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Multiple times he has noticed people walk right

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behind him, wanting to see something. And so

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he himself is

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is aware that this is a sign that

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some people have been told, because he did

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not preach this sign.

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He did not tell sahaba about it. Rather,

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this was a sign that Musa and Isa

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had told their followers.

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And so multiple times, for example, in the

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Battle of Tabuk,

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one of the priests came from Roman Empire,

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and they call him a tanuki. And the

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same thing, that he wanted to see the

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sign, and in the conversation he literally stands

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up and walks behind the prophet alaihi wasalam.

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Nobody does that. Right? Because he doesn't know

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what else to do. And the prophet alaihi

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wasalam realizes it, and he does the same

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thing to him as well. Right? So Salman

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al Fasi as well, he does this. And

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when Salman al Fasi saw this, he burst

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into tears, and he crushed to kiss the

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Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he rushed

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to hug him. And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam understood,

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this man's story is not typical,

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because nobody knows this sign except the sil

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silah from Jesus Christ. Nobody knows this sign

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except So he says, What is your story,

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O Salman?

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Right? So by the way, every time somebody

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converts, and we say, What is your story?

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We're following the sunnah, guys. Okay? Don't worry

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about it. Because we love to hear convert

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stories. We love to. It makes our own

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iman strong. So the prophet himself said, What

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is your kisas? You must have a kisas.

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This is a deeper story. So Salman tells

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the entire story from the beginning to which

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I'm summarizing. And the prophet said, come to

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the masjid, you will tell your story to

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everybody. And so he literally had Salman

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narrate the whole story. And so when Ustad

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stands up and says, how? Why did you

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convert to Islam? He's following the sunnah. He

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wants everybody to get the story because it

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validates our iman. We like to hear, you

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know, what was the story of your conversion?

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And so

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Salman gives the whole story. And then the

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Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says to him,

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Oh, Salman,

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ask your master for a price, we will

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help you pay it.

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We will help for you. Ask your master

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for a price. Then when he went to

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his master, the master said, I don't want

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to sell you. But he insisted, so the

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master gave an exorbitant price, exorbitant. He said,

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you must plant

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300

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date palms

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for free, and

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you must wait until those 300 are now

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able to give

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their own dates, which is gonna take 5,

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10 years. Right? And on top of that,

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give me 40 uqiyyah of silver, 40 grams

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of silver. Like, that is a phenomenal price.

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Like, very expensive,

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far above the average price. But what can

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you do? So he went back to the

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Prophetess and I'm sad. Said, You Rasulullah, my

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master is not budging. 300

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date palms,

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not even just planting, until they are able

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to be now, you know, harvested or you

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know they're gonna become trees, then you can

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leave along with that 40. So he said,

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don't worry. And then he stood up and

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he gave a fundraiser for Salman. This is

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one of the few times the prophet himself

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does the fundraiser. And he says, O people

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of Madira,

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bring your date palms

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to Salman. Whoever is able to give sadaqa,

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the sadaqa wasn't even money, it was date

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palms. And it was to the farmers of

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Madinah that donate

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not the seed, but dig up an already

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planted,

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you know, what do you call it? Sapling.

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Right? Dig up those seeds that are already

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sprouting, those small baby ones, so that we

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already expedite the process. Right? Don't just plant

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it, dig them, and whoever wants to give

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sadaqa, give sadaqa to Salman. And so, 1

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by 1, you know, people, the farmers began

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coming until they had 300, you know, saplings

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in the masjid of the prophet shalallahu alaihi

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wa sallam. Then he he said to Salman,

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Okay You Salman, go and dig 300 holes.

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That's on you. You have to do the

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physical labor. You do the 300 holes, but

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don't plant them. I will plant them. So

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Salman went and he spent the whole few

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days digging 300 holes, then the Prophet shalallahu

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alaihi wa sallam took a team of people.

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SubhanAllah. Willa, amazing how much work to free

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Salman. Right? The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went

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with a group of people. They're all carrying,

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you know, the 300. And then he, with

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his own hands, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, planted

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300

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date palms. Can you imagine? It's gonna take

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at least 4, 5 hours minimum, bare minimum

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of manual labor. He did it himself, and

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he made dua every time when he planted.

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He made du'a. Of course, the sahaba are

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helping to get to him. You know, there's

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a whole teamwork going on here, but each

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one of them, he's making special du'a and

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planting it. And, subhanAllah, of course, this is

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the barakah. Then that seed comes out, and

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within a few weeks or months, all of

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these 300 have now gone, years, you know,

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that all of this has happened. And so

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that is done. How about the money? What's

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gonna happen? That we don't have 40 grams

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of silver. So once,

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a man came and said, You Rasulullah, I

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found some

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little bit, you know, amount here, and, this

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is fisabilillah,

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sadaqa. This is I'm giving you, to give

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to somebody. So the prophet got this small

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amount

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and he said, ein alfarisi. Where's the Farsi

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guy? Ain al Farsi. Where's the Because there's

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only 1 Persian in all of Bandina. So

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he was a slave, they went and called

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him. So the Prophet said, Here, this is

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for your freedom. Salman said, You Rasulullah,

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this is not gonna this is not he

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wanted 40 grams, it's not gonna work. SubhanAllah,

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listen to this. The Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa

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sallam took that silver,

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he put it on his tongue,

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and he went back and forth and he

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said, Go tell your master to weigh this.

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Go tell him to weigh it. And it's

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a small amount. It's Allah's we don't see

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how this is a different world. This is

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not our world of ulmulghayb.

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So He takes this small amount as if

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it is a large amount, and he says

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to the man, this is the amount you

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wanted. The man just takes it, weighs it,

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and turns out to be 40. Like in

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his eyes or whatever, it is that amount.

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Right? So he said, khalas, you are free

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then. And this incident took place

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a few weeks before the battle of khandaq.

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So Salman, when he's narrating as a much

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older man, he said, because of this, I

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was not able to attend Badr and Uhud,

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and that is my biggest regret. He regrets

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that he was a slave, so he couldn't

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participate in Badar Uhura, and he's making an

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excuse. I'm sorry, guys. You know, I really

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wanted to, but it's not my I couldn't

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have done anything. So he's freed before the

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baalal khandaq. You all know he was the

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one who gave the advice for the khandaq

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because he's bringing in new technology. And again,

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this shows us the spirit of Islam. We

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are always willing to take knowledge from people

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outside of our faith that is not related

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to Allah and His Messenger. This is one

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of the characteristics of the Muslims from the

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beginning of time. We're always willing to engage

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with

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outside technology, civilization,

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fakafah. No problem. As long as it's not

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about, you know, iman and what? Yes, we

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can take from them. So Salman benefits in

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this regard. Long story short, I don't go

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over every single detail. There's one point that

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is really so profound to me, and that

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is, of course, there's many ahadith praising Salman,

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many many blessings of Salman. By the way,

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in the battle of khandaq, one other thing

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before we get to the end, the ansar

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and the wahajirun. Salman is neither muhajir nor

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ansari. Right? He's neither muhajir nor ansari because

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he's a slave that was freed in in

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Medina. He's not Madani,

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and he's not Maqih mahaaja. So, during the

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battle of khandaq,

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when the sahaba split into 2 teams to

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dig, and they're, you know, digging for the

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khandaq,

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Each team said, Salman, just come join us.

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We want you to come. Right? It's like

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a competition. You're come on. You migrated your

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Makkah. No, no. You were here in Madinah.

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You're Ansari. So they're teasing each other in

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a, you know, halal, gentle Islamic brotherhood competition.

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Each one is praising Salman, join us. And

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Salman stuck, which side do I go to

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to help? And then the Prophet shalallahu alaihi

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wa sallam came out. He held the hand

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of Salman, and he said, Salman

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is neither Muhajir nor Ansari, Salman minna Ahlalbayt.

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He gave him a VIP upgrade, the only

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sahabi that's not Ahlalbayt,

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that was upgraded to Ahlalbayt status. That and

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that's why Salman could never accept sadaqah till

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he died, because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam upgraded him to Ahlulbayt status. Like, he

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is considered amongst us because he he doesn't

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have anybody else, we will adopt him, and

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he'll be considered from my Ahlulbayt, from the

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Ahlulbayt. It's one of the blessings of Salman

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that no other companion outside of the actual

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Ahlulbayt

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got. And so Salman was given a special

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status in this regard. Anyway, long story short,

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much can be said here. One of the

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things that to me is the most mind

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boggling and profound

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is that after the prophet passed away, Salman

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is now participating in the battles, and he

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joins the battle of Qadisiyyah

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with Khaled ibn al Walid and,

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and, Sadame Broukha, sorry. And he joins the

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battle of Qadisiyyah.

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The battle of Qadisiyyah was against whom?

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His own peoples.

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It was against the Persians.

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And so now he is one of the

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commanders

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in the battle of Qadisiyyah

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that is meant to free his own people

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from the paganism

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and to invite them to Islam. And he,

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of course, is one of the main leaders

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and generals. Qadisiyyah is a massive victory,

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and the Persian Empire is conquered, and Salman

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al Farisi is amongst the first of the

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people who enter the very land that was

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his once upon a time. He's the only

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Persian Sahabi. Right? And now he enters

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the very palaces

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of the land that he could not go

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in as a citizen.

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You cannot walk into, you know, the powers,

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the palaces of the people when you're a

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citizen. Now he comes from a slave, from

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leaving

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as somebody that gave up everything, right? Now

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Allah blessed him to walk into the most

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magnificent

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palace, you know, of,

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the the the emperor of the Sassanid,

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empire. By the way, the palace that, is

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at Tessaf al Mada'in, it is still standing,

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and it is considered to be one of

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the wonders of the world. It is a

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magnificent palace. It's like an arch that goes

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up like this. The remnants are still there.

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That very palace, Salman al Farsi, literally that

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exact same palace is still there. Salman al

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Farsi walked into it, and subhanAllah,

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the amir said to Salman al Farsi,

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you shall be the leader of or the

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governor of your land here.

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SubhanAllah,

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to me, this is mind boggling.

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Wallahi, look from where to where? Right? He

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left his land

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fleeing,

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persecuted,

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and he comes back more than 50, 60,

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70 years later. We don't know exactly how

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long. He comes back after all of these

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years,

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and he becomes

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the, not the ruler, because obviously the ruler

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is Abu Bakr as Sadia, but the governor.

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He basically becomes the de facto ruler and

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the governor of his own province and land,

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subhanAllah.

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This really shows us the blessings, and he

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passes away there, and his kabr is over

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there. SubhanAllah, he left the very land, and

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now he comes back, and he becomes the

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one in charge. What a what a beautiful

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anecdote and story that shows us when you

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put your trust in Allah, and when you

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realize Allah will take care of me, indeed

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Allah takes care of you. Salman got deen

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and dunya. Salman By the way, he got

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dunya, but he never ever lived

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in a lavish way. In fact, it is

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said he would not sleep in the palace.

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He would sleep under a tree because he

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didn't His whole life, he was monastery and

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Christianity. His whole life was, you know, zuhd

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and ibadah and whatnot. So he didn't like

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the palace. So he went and slept on

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a tree. The people would say to him,

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You have the palace. He goes, This is

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more beloved to me, just to sleep on

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the ground and whatnot. Until finally somebody said,

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I have to build you a house. He

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came to Semayi, I beg you, let me

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build you a house. Salman said, How large

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is it gonna be? The man understood. So

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he goes, it will be so large that

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when you stand up, your head is gonna

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head hit against the roof. And when you

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put your feet out, you won't have

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you know, the space to fully spread it.

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He goes, okay, that's fine then. So he

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built him a small little hut, and that

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was his house. And it is said once

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the books of history that Salman would dress

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exactly the same, no entourage, once a merchant

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came from another land

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to sell his goods, and he needed help

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transporting from the camel to the bazaar. He's

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looking for some cheap laborer, right? And he

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sees Salman, but he doesn't recognize him. So

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he goes, Hey, you, enter. Can you help

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me with my goods? He wants to find

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somebody, you know, that you can find like

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some comfort in. So Salman comes up, starts

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helping the goods from the man's camel to

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the bazaar. When the other people see, he

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said, You Amir, you know, let us help

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you. So the man said, Who is this

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guy? He goes, This is the leader. This

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is Salman al Farisi. He said, I'm so

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sorry, I didn't recognize you. And Salman said,

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So what? You asked me a favor, and

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I'm doing it. What's the big deal? You

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want me to be help? I'm helping you,

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and I So he tried to insist, and

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the man said, no. It was my niyyah

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to take your goods from

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your place to your bazaar, and I'm gonna

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finish this. SubhanAllah, the humility of Salman al

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Farsi. And of course, he passed away and

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he's buried over there. Our Prophet shalallahu alaihi

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wa sallam said that if Iman were in

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one of the northern stars,

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then this person from Persia would have gotten

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it. This is a hadith. If Iman were

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found way up there in the skies, then

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the farisih would have found it up there.

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His niyyah was so strong, he wanted hidayah

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that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed him to

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go city by

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city, mentor by mentor, until finally he meds

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to the very city of the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam. Whoever puts his trust in Allah,

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Allah will take care of him. May Allah

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have

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mercy on Salman al Farsi, and resurrect us

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with him.

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