Yusha Evans – Zubayr ibn al-Awwam The Promissed Ones Series

Yusha Evans
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The Prophet's story of Al payments for death and acceptance of Islam is discussed, including struggles with acceptance and hate speech during the pandemic and the importance of acceptance in society. The segment also touches on Al's death and acceptance of Islam, including his use of slavery and deceptive deeds. The importance of learning to pay for slavery and not giving up one's concerns and leaving one's affairs to Islam is emphasized.
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We'll be talking about Abu Abdullah al-Jubeir

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ibn al-Awwam, another one of the great

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companions of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Another one that's, of course, all of these

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on this list are on my short list.

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Al-Jubeir ibn al-Awwam is one of

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those ones who I have true love for

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and also another one that we'll be talking

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about next week or the week after, inshaAllah.

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And then once we finish this series, I

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have to, we are going to start talking

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about some different companions, but I'm also going

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to talk with Iman Majid because he's doing

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Heroes of Islam, correct Abu?

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He's doing Heroes of Islam and I want

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to make sure that we don't conflict with

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what we're talking about, inshaAllah.

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I will try to restrict what I'm doing

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to the companions and the ta'di'in, inshaAllah,

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and the scholars of Islam.

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One series we have will be on the

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imna of this ummah.

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We will go deeply into the story of

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Imam Abu Ahmed, Imam Al-Shafi'i, Imam

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Abu Hanifa, and Imam Majid, inshaAllah, and then

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their students because the only reason we have

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what we have from them is their students.

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So we will go deeper into that, inshaAllah,

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but I will confer with Imam Majid to

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make sure that we don't conflict and say

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the same thing over again, inshaAllah.

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His name was Ibn Khuwaybid, Ibn Asad, Ibn

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Abdul Uzza, which we know was a name

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that the Meccans gave themselves after the gods

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of the Quraysh.

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Ibn Qusay, Ibn Qilad.

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Qilad, by the way, do any of you

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know what Qilad signifies?

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It's an old Arab tribe.

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It's a very, very old Arab tribe of

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the Quraysh, and actually my son was named,

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my oldest son is named Qilad.

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His name is Qilad, but in English it's

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Caleb.

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A lot of people are like, why are

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you named Caleb?

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Two reasons.

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It's an old Arab tribe.

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Number two, if you read the story of

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Yusha Ibn Nun, Yusha Ibn Nun, who was

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the successor to Musa Alayhi Salaam, he's also

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mentioned in the Qur'an.

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He's the boy with the fish.

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How many of you know that story?

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He lost the fish.

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That's Yusha Ibn Nun.

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Yusha Ibn Nun, if you study not only

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the Old Testament, but historical documents, the same

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way that Musa had Harun, Yusha Ibn Nun

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learned from him, and he had someone who

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he had as a companion who was very

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close to him, and his name was Qilad.

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That was his name.

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More English, Caleb.

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So, since the fact that I was named

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Yusha, I decided to name my firstborn Caleb.

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It does not mean dog.

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I've had some Arab brothers go, why did

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you name your son Caleb?

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I said, no, I didn't name him Caleb.

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I named him Qilad.

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And there's some brothers that do know that.

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Yeah, that's an old name of an Arab

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tribe.

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And it was also the name of the

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companion of Yusha Ibn Nun, who stood next

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to him when he conquered Jerusalem.

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Because we know that Musa never made it

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back.

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Musa died in the wilderness, correct?

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But Yusha afterwards was the one who conquered

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Jerusalem from the giants of the time.

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They were known as giants.

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But he was the only prophet we also

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know that Allah stopped time for him.

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He was about to win the battle.

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This is just a side note, by the

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way.

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He was about to win the battle, and

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the sun was about to set.

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It was past the time of Asr.

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And he looked at the sun and said,

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you and I both answer to the same

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Rabb, stay where you are.

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And the sun stayed exactly where it was

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in the sky until he won the battle,

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and then the sun set.

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Just a really quick side note, inshaAllah.

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His mother was Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib, the

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messenger of Allah's ﷺ aunt, who joined Islam.

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Al-Zubayr was amongst the early Muslims.

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If you've noticed that a lot of the

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Ashr Mubashireen were amongst the early Muslims.

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Because to accept Islam at that time, to

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accept Islam at that time was very difficult.

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It was very difficult.

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You were going to be subjected to hardships

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and difficulties.

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It's like becoming a Muslim in the south

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in a Christian family.

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You know what I mean?

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Like you're going to accept difficulties.

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I deal with a lot of new Muslims

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who are going back to families who are

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not going to be nice to them.

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I've dealt with one sister, maybe last year,

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who literally was kicked out of her house

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for accepting Islam.

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And her family used to actually dump dead

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pig carcasses on her front door because of

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her acceptance of Islam.

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But Allah ﷻ had guided her.

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She's a strong Muslim now, married with children,

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alhamdulillah.

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But this is the reason why you see

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a lot of these early Muslims were given

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favor by Allah ﷻ.

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Because later on, right, later on in Medina,

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accepting Islam, I'm not saying it was an

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easy thing.

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Allah guided people to Islam.

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But you were a part of the Muslim

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community.

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You had support.

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You had protection.

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You had all of these things.

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But in the early days of Mecca, to

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accept Islam meant that you went against family.

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You went against tribe.

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You went against your entire culture.

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You went against your entire culture.

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Just like I had a debate with a

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brother.

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This is just another small side note.

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I had a debate with a brother in

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2020, right, during the pandemic.

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When there were the riots happening in Minnesota.

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How many remember all of that?

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Remember the riots in Minnesota?

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I was living there at the time.

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They burnt down much of the city.

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I live on the outskirts of Minnesota just

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like I live on the outskirts of here.

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I like to stay as far away from

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cities as I can.

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But I made a statement online because there

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was a video that came out of one

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of the protests where there were some of

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our sisters out there.

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And I made a statement that this is

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unbecoming of a Muslim sister, right?

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This is unbecoming of our daughters to be

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put out in this because, number one, they're

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out there being very flamboyant, very loud.

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The police arrest them.

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They're going to put their hands on them.

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They might take them to prison, search them.

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This is just something I would never have

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for my daughter.

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Oh, my God.

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Because of the simple fact of the color

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of my skin, apparently I was not allowed

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to make that statement.

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I was not allowed.

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And I was lit up on Twitter.

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For those of you who are too young

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to know how Twitter can get, I was

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lit on fire on Twitter.

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And I had a couple of conversations with

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a couple of brothers because I'm not the

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type of person to argue online.

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I don't do it.

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I just don't.

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I'll message you personally, right?

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So there's a couple of big personalities within

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the African-American community in America.

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May Allah bless them.

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But I reached out to them, and I

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tried to explain to them this fact, that

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they're like, you don't understand oppression.

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You don't understand what it's like to be

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disliked.

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You don't understand what it's like to be

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hated.

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I said, look, where I'm from, some of

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the people I grew up around, if I

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were to come out clear as a Muslim,

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and these were the old days, right?

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Like where it was the Wild West.

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I said, if they lined us up, do

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you know who they would hang first?

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If they line the Muslims up, and I

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was part of that, do you know who

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they would put the rope around his neck

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first?

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Me.

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Because I'm a traitor.

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I was literally called a traitor.

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I was literally called so many things because

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I left my way of life and left

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my religion.

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So I was like, yes, I understand.

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This is what the companions of the Prophet

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ﷺ were doing.

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They were leaving.

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They were traitors to their family.

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They were traitors to their religion.

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They were traitors to their culture.

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And this is why Allah ﷻ praised them

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so heavily and why you see many of

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the ones who were promised paradise be from

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amongst the early Muslims.

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Finally, we came to a good agreement, alhamdulillah,

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but I had to explain that to them.

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Like, look, they'll string me up before they

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strung you up simply because I became something

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that I should have never been.

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I am a traitor.

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But that's fine.

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He became a Muslim at the age of,

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does anybody know?

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Eight.

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He became a Muslim at the age of

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eight years old.

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For those of you who have children, know

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how much intellect an eight-year-old has

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to have to understand this concept and accept

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religion.

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Another one that accepted the religion at that

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early age who was also promised paradise is

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Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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It's said that he was either seven or

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eight years old when he accepted Islam.

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So, al-Zubair ibn al-Awwam, radi Allahu

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anhu, accepted Islam at the age of eight.

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Some say that he was 16.

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I looked deeply into that.

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If you look at his life and his

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death, it's more sound that he accepted Islam

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at the age of either eight or nine

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years old.

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His uncle returned him with, excuse me, his

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uncle tortured him with smoke to force him

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to leave Islam, but he did not.

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And there's a longer story where al-Zubair

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says that his uncle locked him in a

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room and filled it with smoke.

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Filled it with smoke and said, I will

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not allow you to be out of here.

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I will not release you until you relinquish

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Islam.

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And he refused, and his uncle refused to

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kill him.

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Like he wanted to push him, but he

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wouldn't kill him.

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He migrated to Abyssinia both times, and he

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did not miss any battle with the messenger

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of Allah.

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I've said this a few times.

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They migrated to Abyssinia twice.

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Why?

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Remember, by the way, I don't ask rhetoricals.

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Why was there two immigrations to Abyssinia?

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The first time they escaped torture.

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Why did they come back?

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Yeah, there was some misinformation that was sent

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to Abyssinia that Mecca had accepted Islam.

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And there were a large number of Muslims

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who came back.

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And when they came back, they realized that

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the situation was quite different.

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Musa ibn Umair was actually one of them.

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But Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam was one of

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them, and he also then went back.

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So the ones that came had to go

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back because they realized that not only had

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Mecca not accepted Islam, it was actually worse.

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It was actually a worse situation than when

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they left.

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So they migrated back to Abyssinia.

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And one of the—and I'll check with Imam

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Majid and make sure it's not in his

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list.

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Another story I will talk about is those

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immigrations to Abyssinia and the story of Najashi.

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The story of Najashi, which is not very

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much well told, but he is a big

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part of this religion.

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He's a big part of the seerah of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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Because we know that he was so beloved

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by the Prophet that the Prophet ﷺ made

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Salat al-Janaza in absence for him.

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When he heard about his death in Medina,

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he made Salat al-Janaza for him.

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He was the first to unsheathe a sword

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for the sake of Allah ﷻ on the

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day of al-Badr.

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If you remember the day of Badr, if

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you remember what happened on the day of

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Badr, the first thing that they said was,

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send us your best warriors and we'll send

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you our best warriors.

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That was kind of like the battle of—it's

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been like that for thousands of years by

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the way.

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Send us some of your best and we'll

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send us some of our best.

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I'm not gonna give you all the names

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of whom the Prophet ﷺ sent, but Zubayr

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ibn al-Awwam was one of them and

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we've already talked about Ali ibn Abi Talib,

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he was one of them.

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All of them struck down their enemies, but

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Zubayr ibn al-Awwam was the first to

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pull his sword on the day of Badr.

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And that is an honorable feat because they

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were really, really outnumbered.

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He had a yellow band on his hand

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and he was in the right wing.

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The angels descended in the same order.

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He stood firm with the Messenger of Allah

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ﷺ on the day of Uhud and he

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pledged to put his life on the line

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in the defense of the Prophet ﷺ.

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He was a fair-skinned and tall.

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It is also said that he was neither

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too tall nor was he too short.

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So he was of a good stature.

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His body was relatively light.

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It is also said that he was dark

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-skinned with thick bodily hair and light facial

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hair.

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His children.

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We also know that they all had a

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lot of children.

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This is the list.

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He had Abdullah, Urwah, Al-Mundhir, Asim, Al

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-Muhajir, Fadijah, Al-Kubra, Um Al-Hasan, and

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Aisha.

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Their mother was Asma bint Abi Bakr.

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So the daughter of Abu Bakr as-Sadiq

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ﷺ.

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He also had Khalid, Amr, Habiba, Saudah, and

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Hind.

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Their mother is Um Khalid whose name was

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Um Khalid bint Sa'id bint Al-As.

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He also had Mus'ab, Hamza, and Ramla

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from Rabab bint Anif bint Ubaid.

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He had Ubaid and Jafar from Zainab.

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He had Zainab and Um Khuthum bint Uqba

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ibn al-Muyayt.

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He also had Khadijah al-Subara from Halal

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bint Qais.

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Abu'l Aswad said about Al-Zubair.

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He said, Al-Zubair ibn al-Alwam joined

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Islam at the age of eight, and he

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migrated to the city of the Prophet at

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the age of 18.

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His uncle used to hang Al-Zubair inside

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of a straw mat and light fire beneath

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him while saying, return to your disbelief.

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We just talked about that.

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That was his story.

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That's how he would hang him in a

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room, light straw under him, and try to

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get him to leave Islam.

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But Al-Zubair said, I will never disbelieve.

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I will never disbelieve.

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Abu'l Aswad Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman ibn

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Nawaf conveyed that Al-Zubair became a Muslim

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after Abu Bakr, and he was the fourth

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or the fifth person male to become a

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Muslim.

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He was one of the first ten to

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become a Muslim at the time of the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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Abdullah ibn al-Zubair narrated that his father

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said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned both

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his parents to me on the day of

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Uhud.

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Ubaidullah ibn al-Zubair said during the Battle

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of the Trench, the Battle of Ahzab, the

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Battle of Khanda, however you want to call

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it.

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Umar ibn Abu Salma and I were in

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the fort where the Messenger of Allah ﷺ's

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women were barricaded along with Al-Hasan.

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You can still see some of the little

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forts that were built on the day of

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Ahzab if you do ziyarah to what is

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known as Masjid al-Sabah.

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How many of you have been to Masjid

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al-Sabah?

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You've seen the little forts that are set

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up on the hill, right?

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Those forts were to protect certain very important

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people to the Prophet ﷺ, and some of

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that was his family members and his wives

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because it was very hard to get to

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them.

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So he was protecting them along with Hasan,

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the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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We carried each other alternatively.

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When he carried me, I recognized my father

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as he passed towards Banu Qurayza.

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He was battling with the Messenger of Allah

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ﷺ in the Battle of the Trench.

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And when the Messenger ﷺ said, who will

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go to Banu Qurayza and fight them?

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When you passed towards Banu Qurayza, he said,

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O my son, by Allah, Allah's Messenger mentioned

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for me both his parents.

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I said, let my father and mother, meaning

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that the Prophet ﷺ is mentioning both of

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the parents of al-Zubayr ibn al-Arwan

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to him.

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And what was his response?

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His response of many companions, let my mother

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and father both be sacrificed for you.

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Let my mother and father both be sacrificed

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for you, O Prophet of Allah.

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This is what it meant by they loved

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him more than they loved themselves.

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Because the person to whom we should have

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the most love after Allah and His Messenger

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are our parents.

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Our parents, we love them, we love them

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dearly.

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But the companions would also say many times,

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may my mother and father be sacrificed for

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you.

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That was to show him ﷺ that they

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love no one on this earth.

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No one on this earth after Allah more

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than him.

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And this is narrated in Bukhari and Muslim.

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Jabir ibn Abdullah r.a said on the

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day of the Battle of the Trench, the

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Prophet ﷺ wanted somebody from amongst the people

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to volunteer to do a scout.

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Al-Zubayr volunteered.

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He demanded the same again.

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And then al-Zubayr volunteered again.

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He repeated the same third time.

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And al-Zubayr volunteered once more.

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And then the Prophet ﷺ said, every Prophet

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has a Hawari, a disciple.

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As we know that Allah speaks about the

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disciples of Egypt, Isa as the Hawariyoon.

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He said, every disciple has, every Prophet has

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a Hawari.

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Allah sends every...

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We see this, if you look back in

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the stories of the Anbiya, Allah always would

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send with them a Hawari.

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Always he had Musa and Halun, Yabush and

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Caleb.

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It goes on and on and on and

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on and on.

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He said, every Prophet was sent with a

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Hawari, and my Hawari is al-Zubayr.

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My Hawari is al-Zubayr.

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And this is narrated also in Bukhari and

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Muslim.

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Sadiq ibn al-Musayyib said, the first to

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unsheathe his sword for the sake of Allah.

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That means the first ever, ever in the

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history of this religion to pull out a

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sword for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala was al-Zubayr ibn al-Rawan.

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While he was in Mecca, he heard his

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voice saying the Prophet ﷺ was killed.

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So he came out bare chested, wearing no

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robes, holding a sword unsheathed.

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And the Prophet met him face to face

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and said, what is the matter with you,

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al-Zubayr?

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Excuse me, this is another story about him

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in Mecca.

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I forgot about this story.

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He did pull out his sword in Mecca

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as well.

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And the Prophet ﷺ approached him and asked

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him, what are you doing?

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You know, like calm down.

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We've not been given permission to fight.

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Put your sword away.

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He said, I heard that you were killed.

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He does it.

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He's like, I heard you were killed.

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I whip the sword out.

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I'm ready to go.

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He said, what were you going to do

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with it?

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He's like, okay, even if I was killed,

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what are you going to do?

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You're whipping out your sword.

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What did you think was going to be

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the outcome of this?

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He said, by Allah, I wanted to slay

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whomever I met of the disbelievers.

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Whomever I met.

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Whomever I met that put you into this

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tragedy, I wanted to put them to the

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sword.

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Thereupon the Prophet ﷺ made du'a for

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him.

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Allah made du'a.

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He made du'a for him.

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Amr ibn Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr said,

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al-Zubayr fought with the Prophet ﷺ at

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the first time when he was only 12

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years old.

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He fought in the battle with the Prophet

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ﷺ at the first time when he was

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only 12 years old.

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Again, I don't know how accurate this is

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based on the times and the accounts.

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But this is coming from this is coming

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from Imam ibn al-Jawzi.

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This is his take on this from Imam

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ibn al-Jawzi.

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And it does not come from anybody else,

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this narration.

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It comes, it's a sole narration from al

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-Dahabi, al-Dahabi, insha'Allah.

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And he used to charge at the infidels.

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Now he said that al-Zubayr had 12

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,000 slaves who collected du'a owed to

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him, not a single dirham which ever entered

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into his house.

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He always donated, meaning that he had large

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number of property, a large number of slaves.

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This was known back then, slaves then were

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not slaves now.

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So when we mention slaves, we always have

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to make the understanding that slaves at the

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time of the Prophet ﷺ were not the

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modern idea of slavery.

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The Prophet ﷺ had specific rules even for

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slaves at his time.

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He made sure, he said, your slaves must

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eat the food you eat.

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They must be clothed with the food that

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you're clothed with.

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You must treat them with respect.

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We know one time that one of the

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companions slapped one of his slaves and she

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came and complained to the Prophet ﷺ.

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We know this is the very famous one,

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right?

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He asked her, where is Allah?

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She pointed up, he looked at him, he

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said, she's a Muslim, free her.

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And also one of the greatest acts in

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Islam at that time, we don't have modern

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slavery like we do now, back then, but

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trust me, slavery still exists.

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For those of you who don't know, you're

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not really tuned into the world.

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Slavery still exists, it just doesn't exist with

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people in chains and bondage or slaves to

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a lot of things.

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But one of the greatest acts was to

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free a slave.

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It is also considered one of the rulings

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in Islam that if you violate certain principles

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of the religion that one of the things

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that you can do to pay kafiyah for

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it or expiation for it is to free

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a slave.

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So the whole goal was to end slavery.

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The whole goal of the Prophet ﷺ was

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to end slavery.

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But part of that understanding was that, let's

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say, and some people have asked me this,

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okay, so if that's the case, why didn't

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the Prophet ﷺ just abolish slavery?

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Because then you would have thousands and thousands

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and thousands of people who had nothing.

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Who had nothing.

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No home, no job, no food, no clothes,

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no nothing.

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It would have made very little sense.

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They were supposed to be treated well, but

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to free them was the best thing.

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And then to give them jobs, et cetera,

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so on and so forth.

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But he would have all of these slaves

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bring dues to him, but not a single

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one of them, and it's the same thing

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we talked about last time.

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Not a single one of those dirhams would

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stay with him overnight.

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He would distribute them all.

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The companions were very very conscious about sleeping

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with wealth in their accounts.

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Because they knew, as I said last week,

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that that did not belong to them.

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But when they donated it for the sake

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of Allah, it belonged to them.

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It was theirs, they owned it.

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This is what one of my first scholars

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told me, Shaykh Muhammad Zakiruddin Sharfi, may Allah

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ﷻ grant him the highest ranks of Jannah.

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He used to tell me that, Yusha, the

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money you keep belongs to you.

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The money you spend to eat belongs to

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you.

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The money you spend on clothes belongs to

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you.

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The money you donate to Allah ﷻ, it

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belongs to you, meaning that you've used it

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here.

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He said, but the money you give to

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Allah ﷻ belongs to you in the next

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life.

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You'll see it again.

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The money you spend here is gone.

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That's it.

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If you ate a good meal, it was

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a good meal.

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It's gone.

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If you bought a nice shirt, it's gone.

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If you bought a nice hat, you better

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enjoy it.

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Because once it's gone, it's gone.

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But the money you give to Allah ﷻ

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belongs to Allah ﷻ and it will be

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held for you on the Day of Judgment.

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Juwairiyah said that Az-Zubair sold a house

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for 600,000 dirhams.

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So he was told, O Abu Abdullah, you

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have been duped.

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You have been duped.

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Somebody told you, you've been duped.

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You've been tricked into this.

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He said, no, by Allah ﷻ.

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You must know that I was not duped.

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I did it for the sake of Allah

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ﷻ.

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He sold it for a very cheap price

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for the sake of Allah ﷻ.

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Ali ibn Zaid said, I was informed by

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those who saw Az-Zubair that he had

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eye-like wounds in his chest from sword

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stabs and arrows and piercings from standing beside

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the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the battlefield.

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Qais ibn Abu Hazm narrated that Az-Zubair

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said, whoever amongst you could attain a harvest

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of good deeds, he should do so.

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Whoever amongst you can harvest good deeds in

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this life, he should do so.

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Brothers and sisters, we are planting seeds in

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this life.

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We're planting a harvest.

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That harvest might not ever grow in this

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life.

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Sometimes the seeds we plant are not harvested

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in the next life.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, that if you have

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a seed in your hand and you're about

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to plant it and you were to see

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that the day of judgment were about to

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start, what did he say to do?

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He said, plant it.

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What does it matter?

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Is it gonna grow?

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No.

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But it will grow in the next life.

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Why?

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Because I've told you, it doesn't matter where

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you go in life.

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It matters where you intended to go.

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Allah will judge you on where you intended

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to be.

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Not where you make it.

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Because where you make it is up to

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Him.

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Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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But if your intention was to get to

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a certain place, let's say you gave money

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to build a masjid in Indonesia.

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And for some reason, that masjid never got

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built.

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Allah will reward you as if the masjid

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was built.

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As if people prayed in it, etc, so

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on and so forth.

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Allah rewards the intent, not the end result

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of the act.

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Al-Zubayr was killed as the companion we

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talked about last week.

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Who did we talk about last week?

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Falha.

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Al-Zubayr was killed in the same battle

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of Thamd.

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He was killed in the battle of Al

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-Jamal.

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Battle of the Camel.

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Fighting beside Ali ibn Abi Talib رضي الله

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عنه.

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These men were true.

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They were true because they understood the standing

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by...

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I'll talk to you about this battle one

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day.

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We are going to have a discussion on

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this.

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Standing beside Ali on that day was obeying

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the orders of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Because he commanded, he commanded everyone after him

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to look after his family.

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He commanded them to look after his family.

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His family was part of him.

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They were him.

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They were part and parcel to the sunnah

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of the Prophet ﷺ.

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I told you there's an authentic narration.

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He said, I leave behind you two things.

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The Qur'an and my family.

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Follow them and you will not go astray.

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So they knew that standing by the family

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of the Prophet ﷺ, Ali ibn Abi Talib

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on that day was the right thing to

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do.

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He died on the battle of the Camel

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at the age of 75.

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This is one there's no question about his

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age.

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75.

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Anybody in here 75?

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No?

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75?

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Imagine standing on the battlefield today at 75.

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He stood on the battlefield at 75 years

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old.

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There was no cut off they couldn't.

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As long as they could walk, they were

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there.

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As long as they could move, they were

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there.

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If they could pick up a sword, they

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put it in their hands.

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So al-Zubair ibn al-Rawam at the

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age of 75 years old stood beside Ali

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at a time of great turmoil and he

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lost his life in the battle of Camel.

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He was killed by ibn Jamruz.

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Zir stated ibn Jamruz requested permission to enter

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upon Ali while I was with him.

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So Ali said, give the killer of the

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son of Safiyyah the glad tidings of health.

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He said, give the killer of the son

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of Safiyyah the glad tidings of health.

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Then Ali said, I heard the messenger of

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Allah ﷺ say, every prophet has a disciple

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and my disciple was Zubair.

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So when the man who killed him after

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the battle asked to come and talk to

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Ali, look at the response of Ali.

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He said, go and tell him, tell him,

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give him the glad tidings.

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I've given the tidings that the killer of

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the son of Safiyyah, the tidings of health.

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He will burn for it.

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Because I heard the prophet ﷺ that every

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prophet has a disciple and the disciple of

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the prophet ﷺ was Zubair.

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They were different.

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And Ali, if you study the life of

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Ali, he held no forms.

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He never held his tongue.

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He stood firm all the time.

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Abdullah ibn al-Zubair, رضي الله عنهما, said

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on the day of the camel, who is

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Abdullah ibn al-Zubair?

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His son.

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We just talked about this, right?

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One of his sons.

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He said, he kept asking me regarding his

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debt.

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Look at this, 75 years old, on the

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battlefield.

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What is he asking his son about?

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What about my debts?

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Do I owe anything?

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Debts are major in Islam.

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If you owe a debt and you die

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with it, you are held accountable for it.

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So he's asking his son, what about my

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debts?

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If you are unable to pay any of

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it, seek help from my master.

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By Allah.

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I did not understand what he meant.

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He's saying he's a master.

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What are you talking about?

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He said, I did not understand what he

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meant until I asked, O father, who is

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your master?

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You run the show.

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Who is your master?

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He said, who did he say?

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Anybody know?

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He said, Allah.

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He said, ask my master.

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If you can't find the resources to settle

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my debt, ask my master.

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And he said, father, who is your master?

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He said, my master is Allah.

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Ask Allah to settle my debts for me.

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Whenever I face difficulty in repaying a debt

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of his, I used to say, O al

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-Zubair's master, settle his debts.

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So he would settle it for me.

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Allah does not leave those who put their

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dependence on Him in despair.

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Ever.

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Ever.

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Never does Allah leave those who put their

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affairs in His hands without.

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One of my earliest teachers used to say,

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a hand that is outstretched for Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala never returns empty.

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Hands that are outstretched depending only on Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala never return empty.

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Remember that, brothers and sisters.

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They never return empty.

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The debt he had was that a man

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would come to him with money to entrust

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it to him and al-Zubair would say,

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No, it's a debt because I am afraid

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that I might lose it.

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It wasn't even a real debt.

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A man would come to him and say,

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Safeguard money from me.

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And he would consider that a debt.

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Because he said, if I lose it, if

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

something happens to it, I owe it to

00:31:51 --> 00:31:51

you.

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So he used to consider that as a

00:31:53 --> 00:31:53

debt.

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He calculated the debt that he had and

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found it to be 2,000,000 2

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,000,000 and 200,000 dirhams.

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2,000,000 and 200,000 dirhams.

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However, he was killed without leaving behind one

00:32:11 --> 00:32:16

single dinar or dirham except for two land

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estates.

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So I sold them and began repaying the

00:32:19 --> 00:32:19

debt.

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The children of al-Zubair radiallahu anhum said,

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

Divide our inheritance among us.

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I, Isa Abdullah, said, No.

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By Allah, not until I publicly call out

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during the season of Hajj for four consecutive

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

years.

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Meaning that he would go to Hajj for

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four consecutive years and say, If there is

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anyone who is owed a debt by al

00:32:45 --> 00:32:47

-Zubair, come and claim it.

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He held on to that money.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:50

He said, I will not give none of

00:32:50 --> 00:32:53

it until I have cleared his debt because

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

he made me promise him.

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And he would say, Whoever al-Zubair has

00:33:00 --> 00:33:03

a debt with, come forward and we will

00:33:03 --> 00:33:03

repay it.

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He kept doing that every season and after

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four years, he distributed the inheritance amongst his

00:33:09 --> 00:33:09

children.

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Al-Zubair had four wives alive upon his

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

death.

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Each one got 1,200,000 dirhams.

00:33:19 --> 00:33:23

His total fortune after the calculation of his

00:33:23 --> 00:33:27

death was 50,200,000 dirhams.

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And this is related exclusively by al-Bukhari.

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These men were different.

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Different.

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And I'm going to end with this lesson.

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Their concern was where?

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Where was their concern?

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

This life or the next?

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Their concern was the next life.

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When your concern is the next life, Allah

00:33:55 --> 00:33:58

takes care of you in this one.

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Allah sorts this one out for you.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:04

Their concern was the next life.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:08

Allah owns this world.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:10

He owns this universe.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:13

He owns everything in it.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:17

They knew that if their concern was the

00:34:17 --> 00:34:20

akhirah, Allah will sort out this life for

00:34:20 --> 00:34:20

them.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

They did not worry about those things.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:26

But the Prophet ﷺ said, when your concern

00:34:26 --> 00:34:31

becomes only this, you lose this and you

00:34:31 --> 00:34:31

lose the next.

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So that is our lesson for today.

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InshaAllahu ta'ala.

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Make your concerns about the affairs of the

00:34:38 --> 00:34:38

hereafter.

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Leave your affairs of this world to Allah.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:45

And I promise you, you will never find

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

that Allah will abandon you.

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

Because Allah has promised, He does not abandon

00:34:49 --> 00:34:52

those who put their reliance and their trust

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