The Legacy of Qaswa – The Camel of the Prophet Muhammad
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Today we will discuss an aspect of the Sierra that is hardly discussed, and inshallah we'll explain why we're discussing this. Today's entire quarter is about an animal. Which animal do you think I'm going to be talking about?
The camel of the prophets of Allah Allah who was sending Now why would I talk about the camel of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we will find out in sha Allah Allah.
This camel story is actually a summary of the entire Syrah.
And so many incidents happened on it, and as a part of its life, and few key rulings can be derived as we're going to discuss today, and theological benefits as well. So we have for example, from the very beginning of the story of the camel.
The first entrance of this begins when the Prophet system decided to migrate to Medina for 4050 years of the process of his life. He did not have the wherewithal to purchase a camel and he had no need for a camel. So the bulk of his life he did not own a camel. He did not have a camel. When Allah azza wa jal commanded him to migrate to Medina. That was when he needed a Campbell. And so he told Abu Bakr Siddiq to purchase two camels.
And Abu Bakr Siddiq understood Inshallah, that he's going to be the second person it wasn't clear yet, but he hoped this was the premonition that will be the second person so Oba could have said the purchase two camels from the tribe of bonobo shale, and the cost of these two was 800 did humps and he came to the Prophet Sall Allahu Allah, he was selling them. He said, This one is for you, ya rasool Allah, and it is a gift to you. And the Prophet CISM said, la be Semenya Abubakar. No, I have to purchase it with its price, I'm not going to take it for free. This was not the methodology of a process that um, to take advantage like this. So he paid 400 Did hums for the camel. I calculated to
the roughly would that would be in our modern US dollars is a little bit over $1,000. Now we will say $1,000. That's so little money. But for those who didn't have a steady income, for those who don't have a salary, the bulk of people 1400 homes was a mini fortune. So the process M spent the bulk of his money on that one camel. The name of the camel, of course is called swap. It is most likely that the tribe named the camel this why? Because camels if you don't know they actually are very intelligent animals. And they are trained to respond to their names, and they form relationships with their owners and masters very strong relationships. And so the name pasa was
given by the tribe before the process of acquired it, and it continued throughout the life of the prophet saw Selim. Now the name cassava does it mean a SWOT like most animal names it doesn't really have any type of noble meaning. It basically means a camel whose ear has been marked or signed, plus was ear had not been marked or signed. But it was just a name given to it. And it was also common to have rhyming names for the same animal. So a swap was also called a loud Baba. Very rarely, but the general name was a crosswalk. How old was a crosswalk when it was purchased? Some sources say four years old, some say seven years old. In the age of Camel years, this is like 1718 like fresh young.
Camels stay with their mothers for four to five years. So called SWAT was purchased right when it becomes an adult. Right? We say 1817 That age equivalent human years, right when it's able to be independent and have a new owner. That's what a swap was gifted to the Prophet sallallahu are they he was seldom and a SWAT remain the only animal the only camel excuse me that the process that I'm owned until he passed away, because sua was the animal that the Hijra occurred on. The Prophet system was hiding in Hadith owed and a SWAT was brought to him on the third day. And on the third day on crosswalk, he marched to Medina and the famous incident that took place between Soraka the
famous story of Soraka you know, the the bracelets, it happened on crosswalk and crosswalk was the camel that the people of the people of Uber saw when they saw the process of coming, they saw a crosswalk first in the distance. That was the sign the process had arrived in Medina. And when he walked into Medina on crosswalk, he's riding on crosswalk. Everybody tried to take the rain of cassava and our profits are some said Leave us alone for ALLAH is commanding cassava. The processing has owned cassava for two weeks and already
He is saying this is a special animal. This is a special animal leave us alone. Don't hold on to it. Everybody wanted to take cassava to their tribe. And the President said Leave it. Allah is commanding it in the hammer Mora and so called SWAT walk through the city of Medina until it stopped at what is currently the front entrance of Medina where the Imam enters from from the front of Medina haram Mr. Donham bus was stopped right there and the prophets have said this shall be our message it so we owe it to us well of course Allah commanded crosswalk must you the number we it's demarcation took place at the hands of should I say hands up proposal at what do you call her nose?
Campbell pot hooves mashallah we have here veterinarian better than me. Definitely hope is your right it is oops, isn't it right at the hooves of course. Well, of course Allah commanded obviously right? But it was a sua that parked or you know, not even parked what is it? Sat down. Now there must be a better word you huh?
What is it? No, no, there's this there must be a technical term. I'm not a veterinarian, but sat down is the term we'll use where crosswalk sat down. That is where must you the number we there was an empty plot there. And the President said we have to purchase this plot from the orphans and Masjid the number was built. And in front of that, or some reports say a swath traveled another distance and some reports in front of that a boy but on somebody's house or the process and lived for six months while his house was built, when the process of migrated on costs while the Quraysh used the name of swap in their poetry against Islam and against the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he
never owned a camel. He never owned a camel until the hijra, and he used the camel to leave maca. And so the worst enemy of Islam, one of the worst Rockabye and I'd be more ayat, do you know what Raka is? Raka is the one who threw the entrails of a dead animal on the Prophet system when he was in such that that is Akbar. When the process of migrated there will be more LTV versified and poetry. Yeah rocky banana cartel Casa Jharna ama Karelian Tehran Iraqi balfa Rossi we're in the room hey fi confirmed mon hero who was saved for Yahoo domain comm call them whatever see, oh, you who's riding on casa. Oh, you who's riding on crosswalk, meaning who are the prophets of Salaam, and who
fled away from us. Just wait. I'm Colleen. In a short period of time, you shall see me in my armor. And I will be sharpening my arrow and my sword riding on my horse, and you will find no refuge against me. So he threatened the Profit System. And he called him Sahiba rakibul. CASA, the one who's writing hotswap. Of course, the Battle of other takes place in the first year of the hero, and the second the second year meaning when you're after the hero. Of course, the hero takes place in one year. So the second year of the hero one year after the hero, the Battle of brother takes place. And the Prophet system is writing Casa in the Battle of butter. And on casa, the victory a battle
takes place and Cuba is captured. And all of the prisoners of brother are forgiven, except for three or four. And Cuba is number one on this list. This person shall not be forgiven for all of his past crimes and sins. And so Akbar was executed and CASA is right there looking at the entire surroundings. The battle a brother was the greatest victory up until that point in time, the prophets and wanted to inform the people of Medina of the victory. So he gave Casa to Zaid even Hadith and he said to his aid you ride my camel. Why? Because two reasons. Number one, his camel was the fastest camel and number two it is a positive omen. You recognize the camel of the Prophet
system and you see it coming back generally speaking, the custom was that if there's bad news the camel owner has died. The camel comes back empty into the city as a sign it as as token what not. When you have somebody else using that camel galloping quickly. This means the owner of the camel has sent the camel with good news. So the Prophet system sent Zaid ibn Hadith on cassava and he's marching in jogging and racing into the city. And he shouting out raka has been killed. Abuja has been killed for now and he goes over the entire list until some of the people thought Zaid has lost his mind. It's not possible that all of these 70 people have been killed and say this writing the
animal of the process and um, and the rumor accidentally or incorrectly spread stock for the law, but maybe the process is no longer and Zaid has lost his mind because
I'm delirious and he's writing casa. Because of this. They couldn't believe that burger was such a victory. But the point is the process of chose a SWAT to write in to the city of SWAT had a special pen that were the camels live close to buckler, genital Buckler Bella. And it's so happened in early Islam that a group of Bedouins raided the city and stole her SWAT along with some other animals. You know, in those days, you had the fear of enemy attacks, and you had the fear of bandits robbers. In this case, this isn't the Quraysh attacking Medina, this is bandits. This is highway robbery. So a group of people stole a swab, and other animals that were in the outskirts of the city, and there
was a female Shepherd shepherdess. They took her as well. And they took her and they fled outside the city, and Allahu Allah, what they would have done with her. So the Sahaba they become panicked their search for, for the lady for us what was going on. And in the middle of the night, the lady managed to Sahabi issues a Muslim a lady, she managed to loosen her bounds her ties, and she walked over to the area where all the camels that had been stolen work. And she wanted to ride a camel to go back into Medina. Every camel she came close to didn't recognize her. And so it made the noise of camels. What is the noise of camels? Is it an A? Is it a grunt? Is it a bark? Whatever it is, what
is the noise of a camel?
Camel noise Okay.
I think it is a grunt if I'm not mistaken. Hmm. Name is a horse. I'm not sure somebody Google that quickly and tell me, I think it's a grunt of a camel because you have technical terms for these. So the camel made that grunting noise because it didn't recognize the lady. And she kept on going camel to camel until Casa came up. She came across. She didn't know its cost why she did it. She's just trying to save herself, right. She's in the middle of the night. She wants to flee back. So she jumped on to the one camel that understood what's going on and allowed her to ride in the middle of the night. And that is a swap. And as she's galloping back into the city, now she looks back. She is
free. She knows she's made it. She says Alhamdulillah Oh Allah, I promise you another. I promise you an oath. That as soon as I get back to Medina, so she wants to thank Allah. What does she say she's going to do?
I'll sacrifice this camo. Yah Latif.
Instead of thanking the camel hugging the camel kissing the camel. As soon as they get back to Medina sacrifice this camel on your behalf. So she made another in the name of Allah subhana wa Tada. Right. When she went back to the city, this day breaks she tells the Sahaba where everybody is they go and they get rid of the bandits you know, take care of them get all the stuff back. The next day she walks into the Masjid. She says yeah rasool Allah. I need your Camelback.
He says why? She said it Nina Zara to another one I made another a promise for Allah subhanho wa Taala in the journey Allah if Allah says me and Hara nah, I'm gonna sacrifice you know casa. So the prophets for some smiled and said beat semis at her what's an evil thanks you have given back to her you know? Meaning as a joke don't say the word evil Annie. How unfortunate like the camel saved you and instead you are wanting to kill it right bit somehow Jazz at Howard a bad thing that you're rewarding the camel for and then he said and this is a principle from this incident that it doesn't say Muslim from this infinite we learned some basic filth. What do we learn? Our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said Lao Alpha Lynette and in female sia Tila when a female Yakubu Adam, there is no fulfilling of the Nether over something that you over something that is a disobedience to Allah, in this case is not a disobedience to Allah, and over something that you do not own. You couldn't have made this another because you don't own this camel. This is another that you cannot fulfill. You must give the kuffar of the another you cannot. So when you make another you must make another that is permissible. And that is something you're capable of doing. You cannot make another of the Haram or have something that's beyond your control. This Hedy Hizam Sahih Muslim, another incident
of a SWAT that we learn a lot of filth from, sorry, the minimal say you have said that a swab was the fastest camel and no camel could outrace a swab. Once a Bedouin came with
Another camel and a race was held a race was held in Medina of the camels. And that Bedouins camel won the race against cassava.
The Sahaba felt sad that cassava had lost paws here while law he What love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Isn't this mind boggling? It's an animal.
It's a camel. It's just a play race. But their love for the prophets of Sun was so much the Sahaba has Xenu they felt distressed and sad that the camel of the Prophet system had lost the race. So the Prophet system spoke to them to calm them down. Amazing, isn't it over a camel? He spoke to them and he taught them some basic theology that we all learn. And he said in the Hakuna Allah He, it is Allah's principle and rule that whenever something is raised up, Allah azza wa jal also brings it down.
Don't worry, this is life. Only Allah is dual jewelry when it kromm Only Allah is alcohol. As for every created object, even those are a beloved to Allah, the process of them had better than he had or heard. This is the reality of life. So he taught them a lesson in theology through cassava. It's no big deal. You don't have to read in just because a Bedouins Campbell one And subhanAllah what maturity by the way, and what beautiful aqidah as well. No human being, no creation of Allah is consistently winning. It's no big deal. Sometimes it'll win sometimes it'll lose. This is the reality of now from this as well. There's the issue of having competitions and races between
animals. This is completely Halal when there's no gambling. And our scholars have derived this right. The Haram is the gambling, but you can have races and it's fun to have races and whatnot no problem. So this is another filthy ruling as well. Another interesting story about a swap reported in the morning German a bit of a bubble Ronnie and him inside. Omaha's ever walked at that once crosswalk was nowhere to be found. Because you know, camels, they have a pen, but they're allowed to wander and feed on themselves. They're not like sheep. You don't need to, you know, once the camel is trained, the camel knows where to go back. So you don't always need a shepherd for the camel.
Unlike sheep and goats, you always need a shepherd. So one day a sweat was nowhere to be found. So the Profit System sent out people to find a swap one of the leaders of the hypocrites sitting in his house. Amongst the other one I feel Kuhn said
this man pretends yesterday and we assumed or he claims that Allah speaks to him from the heavens. And he can't even find his own Campbell on Earth. The whole Rapoza LaBella making fun of the prophecy center Gibreel came and told him what that will not fix it. So the process and stood up in the masjid and said you Hannahs oh people, it has reached me that some people are saying this and he knew who it was, but he didn't mention the name
for Wallah, he, I am just a bishop. And I know only what Allah tells me to know or allows me to know, I don't claim to have in my life. I know only what Allah tells me or allows me to know. And he has just informed me that cos wha is stuck in such in such a valley. It's rain has become entrenched to a tree. He said this in the masjid when the emissaries were still searching for crosswalk. So they went and they found exactly as described. Crosswalk was eating food and had gone around the tree and it's you know, it's rain, it's harness. It came in tangled so it couldn't have come back. And so Allah azza wa jal told him where CASA is to teach this one off, took a lesson, beautiful
lesson, our Prophet system does not know in Malay, but if Allah tells him he knows, whatever Allah tells him, and when somebody tried to mock the Prophet system in this manner, Allah azza wa jal told him a sua is over there. This is it another benefit from a SWAT
or SWAT was the camel that march to who they be as well. And when it was outside of Maccha, crosswalk just abruptly stopped in its tracks and refuse to go on.
And the Sahaba became irritated a crosswalk and they said go on hell hell, which means move on, on and on. And crosswalk did not do anything rather it's sat down. So somebody said, Goswami has become stubborn as being rude. Camels by the way, some of them it's well known
they have the capacity to be rude. If they don't like you, they will treat you rudely. This is well known. They recognize somebody who is mean to them and they treat them rudely. Our prophets have some defended the owner of a swap.
He defended the owner of a camel. And he said no, because sua has not become stubborn. And nor is this a hook that she has ever been guilty of this is not a swas manner to be stubborn. Rather, the one who blocked the elephants from Makkah has now blocked Casa as well. Meaning Allah subhanho wa Taala has told her to stay here. So this is a sign from Allah that I shouldn't proceed. And then where cos was stopped, that's where the Treaty of her they be, it took place. And that's where the entire incident took place where US was stopped and Allah azza wa jal told the process and to stay over there. The next year after her they be it was on pa swap that the prophecies and came back and
performed the Omura his first rumor, the rumor that will come out in the seventh year of the Hijra. And on a swap he rode, and he did the tawaf, he did the tawaf on casa. And from this, the scholars have derived that you may do throw off on a mound or an animal without any reason to do so it is allowed. It's not as if he was six or seven, he did throw off on a swap. And if you throw off a password later on and hydrated with that, as well, no problem. And you know, last century when the first king of that kingdom to power, he purchased a Rolls Royce drives it into Makkah, and he did throw off when the Rolls Royce around the cab, and the scholars were asked, how can he do this? And
the scholar said, Well, technically his job is a swap, did the off on the camel, technically shirt and these days some people use the buggies when they're sick or whatnot. You don't need to be sick, actually, it's allowed to do throw off sitting down you don't need to be standing up. We learned this from a swap swap multiple times. Allah revealed Quran on Casa
multiple times. Quran came down on Casa for example, after the treaty with her debut and the process was going back where a lot of the hip hop came up to him and spoke to him and he didn't respond and he thought maybe you know the process was angry with him. Then the Prophet system recited What did you recite?
In Fatah Han Allah cafard hum Medina this came down on a swab in the hydrogen water. Even Abbas said, I saw a swab sit down because Surah Thelma Ada was revealed and the weight of Sudha Telma Ada was so heavy, the process and him could stand it. Casa had to sit down as a human being the Prophet system could bear that. But the animal could not bear it. And Casa had to sit down. And one more verse we're going to come to at the end was also revealed. hotswap was the animal the Prophet saw some road on when he conquered Makkah, feta Makkah, and Ibn Abbas and Ennis and others say, we saw the Prophet system enter from coup de by the coup de, he entered right in casa, saying Allahu Akbar,
and his head was so low, it was touching the neck of Casa bobbing up and down, it was touching the neck of a swap out of humility. You know, when an emperor when an arrogant general conquerors of city, puffs his chest out, puts his head up, but that's not a Prophet SAW Selim. When he conquered Maccha his head was lowered so much so it was almost touching the neck of crosswalk.
And on crosswalk he marched through entire Makkah, until he entered the Kaaba. And on casa, he did toe off, and as the Sahaba are seeing the symbolic sign of tawaf in hedgetrimmer, Wada. The books of sera say, they began to say to Kabir so loud LA who Akbar Allahu Akbar, that Makkah began to tremble from the tepee rots. Can you imagine that scene? And when he finished the toe off on crosswalk, still on crosswalk, he took his staff and he walked to every single idol, and he tapped it and he said, which I, which I did he recite. John I'll help causa called Barton in Al Bartylla. Khan has a hookah and every time he touched an idol, it just collapsed and demolished and disintegrated on
casa, he's doing all of this. This is the Fatima QCCA taking place the eighth year of the hijra, right after Fatima aka The Battle of her name takes place two months after this and the Battle of Hernan if you remember they trap to the Companions those
to harbor, they had the arrows from the top there was a valley, they trapped so much. So some of the Sahaba didn't understand what's going on. And they fled naturally as human instinct, right? Because SWAT did not flee.
Or SWAT remained firm where it was because the process of did not tell it to leave. And in spite of the arrows and in spite of crosswalk stayed there, and from Casa de process and called out to the Sahaba, come back, come back. And when they heard His voice, they came back and they fought in her name, and they eventually won the victory of her name. It was on Casa that the Prophet says and went to weather and the famous incident that he had with him. Isley and Abbas or others say it depends on who you are. Some of the reports have different things that there weren't enough camels if you remember, but there there weren't enough camels. Three people were sharing every camel. And so the
Prophet system also had two people assigned. And they said to him, ya rasool Allah, I mean, what would you say? Ya rasool Allah, you right? And we'll walk so okay, we're young whatnot. The prophets smiled and said, No, neither are the two of you any younger than me, even though they were but he's saying, yeah, and nor am I in any less need of the agenda than you. I also need the agenda, we will share. And so even though he was the Rasul allah sallallahu, alayhi, wa sallam he shared, taking turns one out of every three, everybody, two people walk one person, and they keep on doing this, the entire journey of the book, this is a swap. And then, in the ninth year of the hijra, after two
book by two months, the prophet system sent Abu Bakr Siddiq to perform the only hedge in human history where Muslims attended and Moshe record attended at the same time, only time in human history. And he sent Abu Bakr Siddiq to lead a group of Muslims and to announce that after this year, no mushy raccoon can come for Hajj. So Bakr Siddiq was going and he's going towards going towards maca. On the way there, he hears the grunting of the camel.
And from the distance he says, this is the noise of crosswalk. Can you believe he recognizes crosswalk? And he turns around thinking the Profit System is coming. But it wasn't the Profit System. It was highly even
the Profit System had sent early on crosswalk the fastest Campbell in order to catch up to Ovako before he got to Makkah, and Albuquerque became a little bit anxious.
Are you substituting me am I being demoted? Like obviously it's human nature, the process and putting them in charge? This is a no doubt it's an honor. Then Ali is coming on Casa albacore fields. Am I Am I moving down? Are you getting in charge? And I literally Allahu Allah says no. Rather, the prophets of them sent me as his envoy to announce on our alpha, the first verses of Surah Toba but ultimate Allah so you can read the student sections right? And so a SWAT was used Why was Casa used to catch up to obika before he got to monka the fastest camel was crosswalk to get there and so on the day of alpha added the Allahu and recited these verses from crosswalk and the
final point of crosswalk the final incident for us a SWAT was the Campbell that the profits are some did the entire hedge on and there's literally and I'm not going to go over all of them 10 At least reports about Casa and hedge Jatoba from Minar tomb was that refer to our facts and cost SWOT features in every single, you know, episode of head Jetson Wada, and who was riding with the process of sometimes his job but if not Dilla, sometimes it's Usama Ibn Zayd, sometimes it's even a bus and each one is saying I was writing crosswalk and this happens I was writing a crosswalk and this happens. So crosswalk is an integral part of hedger to Awada, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So multiple things are filled with over this thing, for example, that in the hijacker, Vada the Prophet system was standing on was sitting on Casa and making dua on a SWAT and artifacts. So it's allowed to make dua when you're sitting on your in your car in your bus, you make dua as well, no problem. And this is really interesting. He used a SWAT to give the most famous hutzpah in all of human history. hot button Wada. A lot of you don't know this, many people don't know this. He gave that hook but at least portions of it on purpose while
standing on crosswalk. Like standing means he's going to stand up on the saddle, right? Not like you don't stand on the back of the camel but you stand up
On the saddle, standing on a swap, and he's addressing the entire crowd. And he gives that famous sermon that we've all memorized since we were children that was given on a swap. And it was during the last days of Hajj on Casa that Allah revealed one of the final sutras, in which the Prophet SAW Selim knew this was the end. Ibn Abbas says, even even Omar says, Excuse me, that this surah came down when the Prophet system was in the days of Mina after Hajj, and he was on a swap either job or not through law he was
certified that came down. And the Prophet sallallahu either he was selling for out of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the whole word.
The process of new this is it and then the Hadith goes on. So either Johannes Rolla, who will Fatah came down on casa, and from the Surah, the process of interpreted my end is near and as you know, when he came back on crosswalk to Medina, within a week, he felt sick. And few weeks after that few 10 days after that, he still Allahu alayhi wa sallam passed away, and the story does not end here. Casa was 1516 years old. 17 Max depends on which age he was purchased. And when the process and then passed away, casa, began to cry
until it became blind.
And in its grief, it stopped eating and drinking normally. And within a month, it passed away.
Even though cassava was 1560s sort of Camel lives 40 to 50 years, a camel on average lives 40 to 45 years. So a sua was the equivalent of like, 35 years old, human years, but without the Prophet Sasaram. He couldn't, it couldn't manage, and in grief, it couldn't live normally. In grief, it passed away less than a month after our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam passed away. To conclude here, why are we talking about a camel? Because our love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is so strong, that it includes those animals that associated with him, and those animals that he took, and those animals that loved him, our love for Him Salatu Salam is so strong, that we want to
know everything about him. And we want to know everything about the animals. And if a sua in his grief can or in her grief, I should say can become so overcome and distraught. Then how about me and you so every information about the process and including information about Casa brings life to our heart, and I conclude with this point that our our brethren are very familiar with a Motorola Dre Dre Leila or Kabiru LG daddy with LG dar Walmart hook booty outershell off Nickleby Well, I can hook boomin second Dr. Dre. This is why we want to talk about Pasqua. It's not the camel, it is the memories that come with the camel and what is associated with the camel and the love that the camel
itself had. That's what we are interested in. May Allah subhana wa Tada make the love that we all have for the Prophet system, our strongest love in this world that may Allah subhanaw taala united with our Prophet sallallahu Sallam in now Kira was sitting on
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