Lives of the Khulafaa (2): Abu Bakr al-Siddiq - Pre-Islam Life & Conversion Story (Part 2)

Exploring Abu Bakr al-Siddiq's pre-Islamic life, his curiosity, and conversion to Islam with insights into early Islamic history.

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Key Takeaways

Abu Bakr was a seeker of truth who never worshiped idols even before Islam.
Historical records from the early Islamic period are limited, with many Sahaba known only by name.
The Hanif tradition influenced early Islamic beliefs but was distinct from Islam itself.
Abu Bakr was the first adult male to accept Islam without hesitation and played a crucial supportive role.
Understanding Abu Bakr’s pre-Islamic life provides insight into his character and early Islamic history.

What the video covers

The video discusses Abu Bakr al-Siddiq's lineage, background, and tribe before Islam.
It highlights the scarcity of detailed historical information from the Meccan era and early Islamic period.
Abu Bakr is portrayed as curious, open-minded, and never an idol worshiper, always seeking truth.
The video introduces Z, a famous Hanif and first cousin of Abu Bakr, who rejected idolatry but did not embrace Islam.
The concept of prophethood was unfamiliar to Arabs before Islam, which influenced early acceptance challenges.
Abu Bakr's early exposure to Hanif beliefs and his eventual acceptance of Islam are explored.
The video touches on the social and tribal challenges faced by early Muslims, including Abu Bakr.
It covers Abu Bakr’s role as the first adult male to embrace Islam without hesitation.
The narrative includes anecdotes about Abu Bakr’s support for Prophet Muhammad during persecution.
The video emphasizes the gradual preservation of Sahaba biographies and the importance of Abu Bakr’s legacy.

Chapters

Who was Abu Bakr before converting to Islam?

Abu Bakr was a curious and open-minded man who never worshiped idols. He was influenced by the Hanif tradition and sought the truth before embracing Islam.

What is the Hanif tradition mentioned in the video?

The Hanif were monotheists who rejected idolatry but did not follow Judaism or Christianity. They sought the religion of Ibrahim but had not embraced Islam.

Why is there limited information about the early Islamic period and Sahaba?

Historical records from the Meccan era and early Islamic period are scarce because few details were preserved, and many Sahaba are known only by name without detailed biographies.

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Alh, in our last lesson, we began discussing the life of Abu Bakr, his lineage, his background, his family tribe. Today, we'll talk a little bit about what we know pre-Islam and his conversion to Islam, so a little bit of the stories that we know.

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the stories that we know uh and of course as we will discover uh if even with the prophet Muhammad wasam we have just a little bit of information from the mechan era as I have said so many times the M era even though it is only

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And of course, as we will discover, even with the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, we have just a little bit of information from the Meccan era. As I have said so many times, the Meccan era, even though it is only 10 years, and the Makkan era is 53 years total, we actually have almost double the amount of information for those 10 years than we do for the 53 years all combined because that's the nature of compiling information.

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more so for the so you will see that the fact of the matter we have very little information that has been preserved just tidbits and as we go on from sahabi to sahabi information will go less and less

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If this is for our, how much more so for the... So you will see that the fact of the matter is we have very little information that has been preserved, just tidbits. And as we go on from Sahabi to Sahabi, information will go less and less.

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correct who's going to record them it's gone so even from the names we have around maybe 5,000 names from those 5,000 of names that we have probably we only have stories enough to make a biography of less than 100 150 and even

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And less. For the bulk of the Sahaba, we only have their name, and for many of them, not even their name has been recorded. The masses of the Sahabah, more than 100,000 people saw the Prophet. Most of their names are not even known.

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emissary something interesting happened maybe we will do that so we will see less and less information what do we know about abak we know that he was always curious and open-minded he never worshiped Idols he was looking for the truth even as a

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Correct. Who's going to record them? It's gone. So even from the names, we have around maybe 5,000 names. From those 5,000 names that we have, probably we only have stories enough to make a biography of less than 100, 150. And even that, to make a class out of, probably I will probably end up doing maybe 30, 40, that's it.

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z who is z z his name should be known louder somebody from the back the most famous of the HFA the most famous of the HFA who's the H please tell me you all know the H the ones who never worshiped Idols

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These are the immediate names and maybe some interesting anecdotes from one, one anecdote from one person. He entered the life of the Prophet as an emissary. Something interesting happened. Maybe we will do that. So we will see less and less information.

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I don't worship any of these false gods I worship only Allah Asel I I turn to the god of ibraim you know I don't eat the meat given uh to the idols and whatnot so he was very angry at idolatry

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What do we know about Abu Bakr? We know that he was always curious and open-minded. He never worshiped idols. He was looking for the truth even as a young man. And AI reports in his tarikh, in his biography, a story that Abu Bakr himself narrated that he said that once in the days of Jahiliyyah, I was sitting in front of the Kaaba, and ZB was also there. Who is Z?

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left he was the most famous and by the way Z is a first cousin of okay so and are brothers so Zade and are first cousins but of course there's a huge age Gap maybe even 50 years or more or 40 40 40 years or more

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Who is Z? Z, his name should be known. Louder, somebody from the back. The most famous of the Hanif. The most famous of the Hanif. Who's the H? Please tell me. You all know the Hanif, the ones who never worshiped idols, right? The most famous of them was Z.

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we just mentioned his name very briefly in the and UMB AB was the most famous poet and Han from Theif tribe not the qur so the tribe ab and ab by the way uh he as well met the prophet sallallahu

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And I gave his story at the beginning of the... Our Prophet met Z, and he asked him, "Why do my people have a problem with you? What is going on?" And so he said, "I don't worship any of these false gods. I worship only Allah, As-Sel. I turn to the God of Ibrahim. You know, I don't eat the meat given to the idols and whatnot." So he was very angry at idolatry.

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rest of his life he continued to think about it until he died in a state of thinking about it means he didn't reject but he didn't accept and not accepting as rejecting in our religion right and our prophet said that as

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He had traveled the world. He had traveled to Syria and to Yemen and whatnot, and he had rejected Judaism and Christianity as being false. And he said none of you are upon the religion of Ibrahim anymore. There is no that religion left.

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this that that was his main issue that why should the prophet be amongst the qur and I'm from the uh and another another reason given is that uh he lost his closest friends at bad and he felt like it would be betraying their memory

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He was the most famous. And by the way, Z is a first cousin of Abu Bakr. So they are brothers, so Zade and Abu Bakr are first cousins. But of course, there's a huge age gap, maybe even 50 years or more, or 40, 40 years or more of an age gap between Zade and different generations. But they are first cousins, both from the Quraysh.

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false gods so Z who is the most famous hanif of the qur now uh AB is coming from T he's doing ta so the two of them meet and Abu Bakr is looking at them as a Young Man Abu Bakr is listening to

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So Abu Bakr is sitting there, and Z is there, passes by. Now you wouldn't know. We just mentioned his name very briefly in the... And UMB AB was the most famous poet and Han from the Thaqif tribe, not the Quraysh.

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saying that every religion uh was incorrect other than the religion of the which is the religion of ibraim then he said Z said Tob AB this Prophet that we are waiting for he will either come from My Tribe or

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The tribe AB, and AB, by the way, he as well met the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, as a prophet, and the Prophet asked him to recite some poetry. And he heard the poetry of IB AB, and he invited him to Islam. And IB AB basically said, "Let me think about it." And for the rest of his life, he continued to think about it until he died in a state of thinking about it.

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young man maybe even before he was born we don't know exactly when a group of people decided to travel in the world seeking the true True Religion and therefore they went to Syria they went to Yemen so Zade is one of them and they

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That means he didn't reject, but he didn't accept. And not accepting is rejecting in our religion, right? And our Prophet said that as for him, he was just so close to accepting Islam, but Allah knows best what was the reason.

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anyone called a prophet what is a prophet nebbi the word nebbi I had never heard and this is another theological point that the concept of prophethood was unknown to the Arabs it was not something they were familiar with and that is why the

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Some say that he wanted to embrace Islam, but he felt Jahiliyyah problems versus Quraysh. Some say this, that was his main issue, that why should the Prophet be amongst the Quraysh? And I'm from the... And another reason given is that he lost his closest friends at Badr, and he felt like it would be betraying their memory because the leaders of the Quraysh were his friends in the days of Jahiliyyah.

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we never heard of this soak said I didn't know what is a so I went to the most knowledgeable person in mecah who is the most knowledgeable person in mecah he was a person who thought about these things and looked into the books

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So the point being, he did not accept Islam, but he was also a Hanif, and he did not embrace idolatry. He did not worship the false gods. So Z, who is the most famous Hanif of the Quraysh, now AB is coming from Thaqif. He's doing Taa. So the two of them meet, and Abu Bakr is looking at them as a young man. Abu Bakr is listening to their conversation.

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people of knowledge and a book meaning we're not upon your religion we believe in a different religion we're not upon the religion of idolatry but we are all waiting for a prophet to come who is the best of the

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So IB AB basically says to him, "You know, how are you doing? What not? Have you found the truth yet? Have you found the truth yet?" And ZB recited some poetry back at him saying that every religion was incorrect other than the religion of the... which is the religion of Ibrahim.

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because the prediction was Banu is and the most prestigious of Banu is is the qur so was even certain it cannot be the it must be us and so Abu Bakr uh asked him what is a then and says a is the one

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Then he said Z said to IB AB, "This Prophet that we are waiting for, he will either come from my tribe or yours." So Z is telling IB AB that because they had both traveled in the land. If you remember the story I had given at the beginning of the SA, a group of people, maybe when the Prophet was a very young man, maybe even before he was born, we don't know exactly when, a group of people decided to travel in the world seeking the true religion.

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Injustice or cooperate with Injustice Abu Bakr then says so when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was sent I immediately believed in him and trusted him meaning these types of conversations had prepared him for the coming of the nebbi that he's searching for the the

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And therefore, they went to Syria, they went to Yemen. So Zade is one of them, and they come back, and each one goes a separate way. And Zade says, "We know there's a prophet coming. His prediction has been given. He will be from either my tribe or your tribe."

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deviant he's a heretic the fact that he's sitting there listening and IB AB comes and he's engaging in the conversation now he's a young man he doesn't he's not going to thrust himself in their conversation but he knows he

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So Abu Bakr is narrating the story. He said, "I had never heard of anyone called a prophet. What is a prophet? Nebi, the word Nebi, I had never heard." And this is another theological point that the concept of prophethood was unknown to the Arabs. It was not something they were familiar with.

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know of from before the coming of uh uh the prophet in his message that one one time uh many years later after the prophet began preaching in the in the med phase the prophet asked the sahabah who amongst you remembers the statements

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And that is why the Quran keeps on mentioning that a Nabi has come that they didn't get a prophet before, right? Nabi came to them before. And so many hadith mention that the Quraysh are asking, "What is a... what is a Nabi? We never heard of this." So Abu Bakr said, "I didn't know what is a Nabi. So I went to the most knowledgeable person in Mecca. Who is the most knowledgeable person in Mecca?"

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they would have competitions and they would have poetry contests this is the so the was an annual event the highlight of all of the Arabian Peninsula because this is the only time everybody's coming it becomes a fair a bargaining a selling

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He was a person who thought about these things and looked into the books, so had prestige amongst the people. I went to and I stopped him and asked him, "What is this thing called a Nabi? For I heard Z saying a Nabi is coming."

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40 our Prophet sallallah alaih wasallam met their uh this person by the name of is another one of those famous pre-islamic Arabs and came from uh T came from T and he only came once in the lifetime of the

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So he said, "Yes indeed, my nephew, we, the three of us, are indeed a people of knowledge and a book," meaning we're not upon your religion. We believe in a different religion. We're not upon the religion of idolatry, but we are all waiting for a prophet to come who is the best of the Arabs and your people. And of course, he's also AI.

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when I say this but the closest thing I can think of is rap the closest thing I can think of is rap what do I mean by this nothing is not poetry nothing is using words in a rhythmic

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So he's saying, "Our people are the best of the Arabs, so he will come from amongst us." So even said, "Not even from, he must come from us," because the prediction was Banu Is, and the most prestigious of Banu Is is the Quraysh. So even said was certain it cannot be the... it must be us.

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of and he was also a hanif he was also a hanif and uh he gave some phrases in the of that the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam was impressed by he liked what he had heard from and uh by the way he was from the

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And so Abu Bakr asked him, "What is a Nabi then?" And he says, "A Nabi is the one who tells others what he is told to say." It's a definition of a Nabi. In other words, Allah is telling him, and he will spread, and he doesn't do injustice, and injustice is not done to him, and he does not basically support injustice or cooperate with injustice.

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he had already passed away so the prophet remembered and he wanted information about him so he asks the sahabah who amongst you remembers what said to us that day the that he said the the talk that he said and so immediately

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Abu Bakr then says, "So when the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, was sent, I immediately believed in him and trusted him," meaning these types of conversations had prepared him for the coming of the Nabi that he's searching for, the truth.

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you see basically what I mean by by rap this is right translate sorry whoever is going to live is going to die there is no life without death right and whoever dies has gone perished nothing is left and everything that has been

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And this shows us again, this is just a tidbit, the fact that he's actually sitting behind ZB, and ZB was a pariah. He was a taboo person to go to because you're not supposed to be sitting with this person who is a deviant, he's a heretic. The fact that he's sitting...

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regard until Abu Bakr finished narrating the entire n now what is the show about Abu bakik great memory amazing memory that for him to Simply memorize all of this and be able to regurgitate it after listening to it

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once amazing memory it also shows that he's eager he's paying attention because in this poetry in this NE which I don't have I didn't write all the Arabic because there's no need going into that he also criticizes idolatry and he mentions the religion of

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ibraim as being the real religion soak sik is memorizing all of this and these are just some examples and there are so many other examples that are more trivial than this so I just Overlook them because the fact of the matter is

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we don't have that much we just have one or two small things here there so we don't uh so we don't know too much other than the fact from these stories we derive eagerness of Abu Bakr paying attention to theological discussions of

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his time so he's waiting for the truth and that is why when the truth came in the form of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam Abu Bakr sik did not hesitate one bit unfortunately we do not have the details of the initial

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conversation between the process and Abu Bakr we don't know because there was only two people there neither of them told us the details of that conversation however what we do know is that Abu bakar sik did not hesitate one bit I

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quoted the Hadith last week that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam one time when this issue happened between Omar and our Prophet alhi wasallam said that every one of you when I was sent to you and I told you Allah

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has sent me every one of you hesitated before accepting Islam other than Abu Bakr he did not hesitate and he embraced so we know then from this Hadith that the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam his call to Abu Bakr was

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immediately accepted without any hesitation and it is mentioned later on narrates maybe abak told her maybe her mother told her we do not know because she was not alive at this time when when Abu Bak converted AA narrated that when

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Abu Bakr converted the happiest person in all of was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that his best friend had converted and there is no doubt that Allah subhah wa ta'ala chose the perfect companion and the perfect helper for the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so many things in similarity their Natures their characteristics even their birth dates uh we don't know exactly when Abu Bakr was born but a year a year and a half younger than the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam so that's like a very comaraderie age so they grow up together basically aan similar age and they are the best of friends even before the dawa begins so Allah chose for our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the best of

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all helpers and what a helper he was just look at what he did immediately after conversion look at the list of his early converts one after the other it is a list of who's who's of Islam the most

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famous names of early Islam and of late Islam they converted at the hands of Abu Bakr ass sik beginning with zu andb andah and and abdb all of these are from the so five of the at least are

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converting by the hands of Abu Bakr Allah guides them through the hands of Abu Bakr imagine of the 10 best people Abu Bakr was the one Allah chose that five of them will be guided at his hands and of course others as well

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besides this as we know bil and and uh so the one who in whose house the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was meeting with the sah even Alam converted at the hands of Abu Bakr ass sidik and of course along with this his entire

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immediate family as well converted to Islam uh his wife um ran uh his son and daughter from his previous marriage and their names are everybody should no Abdullah and as and then his son and daughter from his current and they

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are is going to be born in a while so she was born in Islam herself says I never remembered my parents except upon Islam so she never saw the day of Jah as did and abdah did but not she was born

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into Islam and Abu bakr's servant so his entire household Embraces Islam as as I said last week the only household everybody Embraces Islam from the parents to the children to the servants is the household of Abu Bakr ass sik and it is unanimously agreed by

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all the scholars of Islam that Abu Bakr sik was the first adult convert to Islam from amongst the men this is unanimous there is the in for those who are non adults and non uh and females so who

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converted first Ali or Abu Bakr there's a bit of a cont controversy okay uh in terms of Khadijah everybody Khadijah converted first because the prophet came back to her and so z z so khad is definitely the first convert okay then

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there's a big controversy and in my humble opinion and many scholars say this this controversy is really insignificant in the larger scale of things it's really one group of Islam they want to like push their way and say

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he converted he converted in the end of the day it's really irrelevant it's a matter of of hours or days and if Ali was the first of the children who converted cuz his age now is probably 8 years old at Max 78 years old and he's

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living and I said the story before that when the prophet married uh Khadijah he told Abu Talib to give him one of the children so that he could raise because Abu Talib was a very poor man and so the

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process volunteered to raise one of the children so Ali grew up in the household of the Prophet Salli and this is a blessing w we give and we give much more than this there is this perception that we are miserly and stingy when it comes

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to praising alali and this is a lie we praise alali the way he deserves to be praised and we give him every single blessing that he deserves and of the blessings he grew up in the household of the prophet and maybe he converted

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before Abu Bakr or maybe abak before him but in the end of the day Ali was a young child when he converted and the conversion of a child who's living in the household of two people who are converted is not the same as the

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conversion of an adult friend and that has to be said frankly that even if Ali converted first and we don't know we don't know but even if he did the conversion of a young lad living in a house where both man and woman his uncle

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and aunt or his cousin and his cousin-in-law convert is not the same as the conversion of an adult friend who is offered Islam and he has to think about it and without thinking and hesitating he immediately Embraces so

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Ali might have been TimeWise earlier convert or maybe not we don't know but we all unanimously agree that Abu Bakr sik was the first adult male convert uh in Islam and along with converting all of these other people he also sacrificed

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much for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala financially and even of his own health and his own uh Jihad even in the Mak stage and one of the most most famous stories that I did mention uh 4 and a

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half years ago but now we have to repeat it because W it is befitting that AB Bakr sik be given this honor that one of the earliest stories that we have in IB is about Abu Bakr sik is that when Islam

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reached 38 men so they're counting and keeping track when Islam reached 38 men in Abu bakik suggested to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that it was now time to go public this was in the secret phase or the

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proper term is not secret but rather private da remember I talked about this right it's not good to say secret da we say private da everybody knows what's going on it's not a secret but it has not gone public yet soak sadik said we

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have enough people to go now public let us go to the Kaa and let me invite the people to Islam and at this point in time Allah subhana wa tala had not revealed to the prophet Muhammad to go

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himself public which Ayah was that that he could go public which ay is in the Quran this is the Ayah that could go public with this ay had not yet come down so the question is should Abu Bakr

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go public or not and I is not going to come down for that so the process was hesitant should I let you go should not let you go AB Bakr insisted I can do the job it's time we take this message

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public let's call the people so Abu Bak sik volunteered to become the first ever of Islam this is the first ever given publicly the first sermon the first in front of the masses because Allah has not revealed to the prophet Muhammad to

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go public yet right he cannot as we know prophets cannot undertake a step until Allah tells them right so Abu Bakr sik wants to do it and it's up to the process him to see whether he should let

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him or not initially he's hesitant and Abu Bakr insists I want to do this let me take on and so uh they agree on a certain time and place and all of the sahabah they go and they station

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themselves in their tribal Gatherings now what does this mean so remember every tribe had a place in front of the Kaa and that was their safe basically they're surrounded by numbers they're going to be protected by their people

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and the amazing thing is that even in their hatred of Islam tribalism reigned Supreme especially in early Islam that's why they couldn't harm the prophet for 13 years that's why they could not harm the elite of the sahabah and they took

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their anger out on bil andar and Y and sum right that's why this happened so abak sik volunteered and he went to the middle of the of the mid in front of the Kaa nobody there other than Allah asael

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to to protect him and he began giving the first in all the history of Islam so this is a trick question who is the first of Islam and the first one to give a public lecture it is abak and he invited the people to give

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up their idols and worship Allah subhana wa tala and believe in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam and of course everybody knows there's a new message right we know we said this but nobody has gone public yet and they surround

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Abu Bakr they began to curse him they began to tell to be quiet but he does not be quiet until the first one of them and we know his name and that is the infamous who has done so much so much to

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the prophet and he died at batt the Battle of bad he was one of those that the prophet pointed you know the seven people that did the incident with the uh the camel right so the prophet pointed and he mentioned by name oh Allah I put

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you in charge of this and he mentioned each one of them by name and so is one of the those people and in this we see his real character and nature that he was the one now everybody's worried

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who's going to be the first but you know when there's a mob mentality as soon as one thing breaks out what happens everybody jumps on him so took off his shoes and pounced on Abu Bakr with both hands and he began

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beating Abu Bakr with both hands and that was the Catalyst that the entire crowd just jumped on Abu Bakr sik and a complete mob chaos began so much so that eventually Abu Bakr fell into the crowd onto the crowd and the crowd began

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stomping and beating up on Abu Bakr until he lost Consciousness and his entire body was bloodied and bruised cuts on his face because of the the shoes that was being smacked across his face until finally his tribe the Banu

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were informed Abu Bakr is from the Banu of the quray I said that last week a small subtribe not as Elite as the Banu Hashim bayya and and yet of a good status of of the middle of them and so

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the tribe theanu tamim sorry not tamim Banu theim is another tribe the is the Banu come came running and they protected Abu Bakr and they had to carry him in a shawl of one of them so he was

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so injured they have to use like an ambulance basically to have to use something and his father thought that he would die because he was completely bloodied and unconscious and they brought him back to the house of his uh

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mother and they announced that if Abu Bakr dies we will kill okay and this shows us that Jah Tendencies had some advantages as well that they're so angry that they have harmed one of our own that they're going

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to declare war against one of the most conspicuous members of the qur and that is and his father abua is you know coaxing him on his bed you know he's in the house now back on his bed he's

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telling Abu Bakr wake up wake up you know that what we would do when he's unconscious and Abu Bakr is completely bloodied head to toe completely bruised and he opens his eyes up and the first thing that comes out of his mouth is how

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is s alai wasallam how isol means he's lost Consciousness and he thinks all of the Muslims have been attacked because he's in the middle of the mob right he does not know that the rest of the Muslims have not been attacked he's in

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the middle of the mob he thinks everybody has been attacked so when his father hears this from tenderness and love immediate 180 to cursing and getting angry and this really shows us the bizarre nature really of Parental love right that no matter what Abu Bakr

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has done in the end of the day he's a son right and so at this stage when Abu Bakr is dying abua is like wake up wake up as soon as he wakes up and he mentions Islam subh

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Allah all the enmity comes back in right and only a parent can understand this LoveHate relationship with with the uh children uh so uh when he hears this he just gets so angry and curses and he leaves Abu Bakr with the mother and Abu

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bakr's mother's name by the was that is her so he asks his mother he asked asks his mother how is the prophet Sall alhi wasallam and his mother now the mothers of course have a million times more love

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than the fathers right the fathers can they have much more of a different relationship now the mother saying eat drink and he says no until you tell me how is so his mother says I don't know what is the status of

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your friend I don't know what is his status I don't know I'm in the house you just come here I don't know what is his status so he says to her go to which is of course the sister of go

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to right now and ask her now because she's a lady so Abu Bakr has to send her to another lady cuz he cannot go to a man and ask so go to and ask her is the prophet Salli

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wasam all right and so what's she going to do she's a mother her son's not eating and drinking he's insisting to know so she puts on her garment and she goes right then and there to the house of J the sister of and of course um J is

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a Muslim but nobody's supposed to know that right it's secret everybody's a it's the whole point it's stage right so's mother goes to and says my son is asking about the status of muhammadd because she's not going to say she's not

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a Muslim my son is asking how is Muhammad abdah doing and J is now confused is this a trap is this a setup what's going on so she said I neither know your son nor Muhammad abdah meaning what have I to do with these two men

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like why are you coming to me of course she knows who they are of course she's Ki but she the point is like why would I have any information about Abu Bakr or Muhammad abdah okay so she said but he's

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insisting I come to you so she opens up a little bit she says look I don't know anything about the two of them what if I come back with you and speak to Abu Bakr directly maybe then I'll figure out what

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he wants from me okay so she's not she's worried that I'm opening up to a stranger and I shouldn't open up maybe this is a trap or or a setup so she goes to the house of Abu Bakr sik and uh when

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she sees the status of Abu Bakr and he falls into unconsciousness again and his whole body is limp and bloodied and broed and bandaged and swelling everywhere when she sees the status of ab Bakr she lets out a shriek and she

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says that whoever has done this to you may Allah curse him may Allah get revenges at him how could a people do this to anybody to their most noble person so in her voice now Abu Bakr then is managing to open his eyes and

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immediately he asks the same question how is s and J says your mother is here meaning I can't answer this question okay your mother is right there so Subhan Allah look there's so much like you know there's a uh secrecy this is

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privacy here like she's not supposed to know we're Muslims and Abu bakar sik says don't worry we can trust her so he knows his mother she's not a Muslim yet but everybody knows their mother's soft spot and ab Bakr knew my mother's not

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going to betray us okay don't worry we can trust our mother uh my mother and so says alhamdulillah he is is fine nothing happened to him so he said where is he so J said in the house of that's where

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we all congregated after what happened to you happened we're all over there so uh his mother said now eat and drink now you know your now look this is the Mother's Love doesn't matter she wants now let me so and he said W I will not

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touch food and water until I see with my own eyes that the prophet is fine so um what are they going to do now he's sworn by Allah he's not going to eat or drink anything so they wait until

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Darkness Falls this is now he's been bloodied and bruised the same day he does not want to eat and drink until he can verify that maybe she's just lying to me or or not lying I shouldn't say but you know just like you know kind of

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sifting over over so that I can eat and drink I want to verify that he is fine and so bloodied and battered and bruised when it goes dark one hand on his mother and the other hand on J right and of course at this time

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the laws of hij and what not have not been revealed in any case These are times of exceptional what are you going to do at this time he is dragged by the two of them he cannot even walk he is

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dragged by the two of them in the darkness of the night to the house of and when he falls when he sees uh the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam he literally falls upon him and hugging him and crying him uh crying in his arms and

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the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam is greatly moved and distressed and uh the Abu Bakr sidik Comforts The Prophet says I am absolutely fine don't worry other than and there were gashes from you know this was the shoes was being

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put there were gashes in his face other than this gash everything else is fine even though he couldn't even walk he was blood and BR imagine a crowd stomping or a crowd kicking him that's what they were doing until the B come at least 20

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30 minutes must have gone by and completely blooded and but he's consoling the process I'm fine other than this uh gash over here and then uh he says here is my mother now for the first time she's coming to right here is

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my mother and Allah has blessed you call her to Islam and make Dua that Allah guides her to Islam maybe Allah Asel will save her from and so the prophet Sall Al wasallam gives to and this is where she Embraces Islam

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so Abu bakr's mother Embraces Islam in the private stage of The Da the first two three years of Islam Abu bakr's mother Embraces uh Islam and Subhan Allah from this incident W and I mentioned this incident before when

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we're talking about the trials of the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam but we see so many benefits and blessings we see obviously the love that Bak sik has for the prophet Salli wasallam that he will not eat and drink until he

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physically has verified that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is fine and and safe and as well the prophet Sall wasallam his love for Abu Bakr sik we also see the intelligence of um J the sister of that she's trying to

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understand how much should I give how much should I not give and W it's a stroke of Genius when she says I don't know anything about your son or or or this man Muhammad but what if I spoke

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with your directly so she gets the excuse to get to the house of Abu Bakr everybody knows what's happened everybody know how is she going to visit Abu Bakr who is supposed to be an unknown man to her strange man but

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they're all Muslims in so how is she going to get information so she uses this line that maybe he's saying things let me listen to him directly and Subhan Allah bid by bid then all of the information comes out also we see over

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here the usefulness of even if some things go against Islam you can take advantage as as long as they're not Haram in N of themselves the the or the tribalism of the B and not just that the tribalism of the Banu

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Hashim to protect the prophet right Abu Talib why did he protect the prophet he's not a Muslim but there is this issue of my nephew My Tribe nobody's going to harm my tribe and there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of

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these issues and understandings because it's not Haram to take advantage of these things and the Abu Bakr sik is not saying no no I cannot take advantage of you because you're my tribe no and by the way the same thing applies with

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nation states with nationalities with our rights and privileges this is now we have our own issues of Rights and privileges nothing wrong with taking advantage of it and saying no it is my right to be treated in this manner and

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it is our right and it is Islamic to take advantage of our right soak sik takes advantage of his right I'm a member of the B you're not supposed to be beating me up his tribe protects him takes advantage of that and then nurses

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him back to to until he is healthy as well of course to me one of the most beautiful lessons we learn from this story is that out of tragedies come great blessings w we all know Abu bakar sik

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would have done this a hundred times if he would get his mother to embrace Islam correct he would have done this again and again and again and again if he were to get his mother to embrace Islam and

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this is what happened that after all of this the mother's heart was so softened she saw the reality of IM she saw what Iman does she saw how much AB Bakr believes she saw the of the Muslims she

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saw the prophet wasallam preaching and teaching for the first time because up until this stage she hasn't heard dawa directly right and so now after this tragedy she Embraces Islam was it not worth the tragedy for ab from Abu bak's

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eyes I'm saying right from his perspective he would have done a 100 times more to get his mother to convert and so every single tragedy has within it within it more blessings than the tragedy itself as long as we have our

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trust up there as long as we put our trust in Allah oh Allah something is happening I don't know why but I will know why soon that's the the attitude of the of the believer that Abu Bak sik

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used and Allah knows best maybe he's engineering it so that his mother goes to the proc right Allah we don't know what he's thinking maybe he's intending that I want my mother to come to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and

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get da from her oneon-one and that is exactly what happened and so Embraces Islam and another uh beautiful narration is mentioned as well in our books and this is a very famous narration which is found in some books

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of Hadith and some books of History very very beautiful narration and it's very pertinent because this narration is narrated from the tongue of In Praise of Abu bak sik and as I have said many many times before it is

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it is completely untrue unfounded ludicrous to be honest to claim that had anything against abak and it is there's not a shred of evidence and everything speaks against it every incident that we learn and study speaks against it this is a myth that you're

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reading in that Abu bak and they didn't somehow get along this is completely untrue everything speaks out against it including uh this incident that we're going to mention here which is mentioned in numerous uh traditions of ours and in books of

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History IB k for example his has this narration as well that once Ali was giving a amongst theah in kuf amongst the people when he was Theif when he was Theif he's giving a sermon or I mean some type of lecture maybe not the

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Friday but some type of sermon or and in the middle of it he asks them who do you think was the bravest of all people so they give various names until somebody one of them shouts out you are the most

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bravest of all people you are the most bravest so Ali who says it is true that I have never fought anybody except that I have won him but the bravest person was Abu bakar sik nobody ever beat me in a battle but

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bravery wise Abu Bakr sik was the bravest then he said I remember a day so he's going back to these times of early Daw when he himself was young when he himself was a young child maybe 8 nine

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10 years old I remember a day when the quray surrounded the prophet sallallahu alai was and began beating him and ganging up on him and not a single one amongst us could do anything because of the sheer quantity now this must be this

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must be towards the middle or later makan period because as we said they only turned physical on the prophet Muhammad s wasallam after really the sixth or seventh year of Da right before this time there was still some so you

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know they're not so to get physical really got uh uh bad and then with the death of Abu Talib that was when things really flipped Abu T Allah used him to be a big shelter and it is possible even

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this incident happened after the death of Abu Tali because said that the amount of of of of physical uh pain and suffering that the prophet had after the death of Abu Talib was was uh sorry before was nothing compared to what

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happened afterwards so maybe even this incident happened after the death of Abu Talib we don't know again nobody's recording the history but this incident is narrated is and I did mention the story but now we're hearing it from the

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tongue of Ali so is mentions the same story that the the qur ganged upon him and are beating him and abak comes to save him but this version is interesting cuz we're hearing it as an eye witness from a young child who was there at the

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time and that is Al so Ali says that on this day everybody surrounded him and began beating him and none of us could do anything but one person stood up and jumped into the the the crowd one person

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stood up and jumped in and that was Abu Bakr ass sidik and he rushed into the crowd pushing this one away defending this one hitting that one taking a blow on behalf of the Prophet from another one and and he kept on

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saying are you going to kill a man just because he says my Lord is Allah and this phrase Allah revealed it in the Quran and it is recited in the Quran to this day Allah are you going to kill a person

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just because he says my Lord is Allah that's why and he kept on defending uh the prophet sallallah until the crowd basically abated away and so Ali is giving this this this sermon and the images are coming back to him and he began to cry

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so much in the sermon that he had to lift up his his uh cloak and cover his tears with it and when he cried the entire uh audience began to cry as well then he said who is better

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the or now Allah mentions in the of you know this the the M you know you should know the story the the the one who was a believer in the family of it's mentioned in the Quran who is better right and he

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said by Allah Abu Bakr is a million times better because the M of Al kept his Islam secret and Abu Bakr made his Islam public and Abu Bakr made his Islam uh public and uh this clearly shows us the

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respect and love that Ali AB Talib had for Abu Bakr sik and of course as well uh so many other uh uh incidents mentioning that really demonstrate that demonstrate Ali's respect for abak by the way of them is an

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interesting interesting narration that uh I mentioned this I think two years ago and last week as we mentioned who did Ali marry Asma who was married before Ali to abak and before abak she was married to jaur right so uh Asma was married to

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jaali and Abu Bakr and Ali and she had children from all three so there are sons that are half Brothers same mother and so abak Andi Abu Talib they have children that are basically half uh siblings right what do you call them

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step or half Brothers as we get the point so one time one of the uh sons of uh jaur and one of the sons of right began teasing their mother when Ali was present they children family which shows us The Friendly nature that

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they all had and they said who was the best husband you ever had now you realize What's Happening Here Right This is a problem what is she going to say okay what is she going to say because whatever she mentions is

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going to be a problem correct look at the intelligence of Asma look at the intelligence of so she married jaur when she was young and jaur was young then of course she married Abu Bakr and Abu Bakr is 62

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years old okay so she said of the young men shab ja was the best and of the of the old ones Abu Bakr was the best so Ali said then what have you left for me I'm gone kalas you took the young the

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old I'm gone now so the point being now even this narration by by the way Subhan Allah what does it really show the family the closeness the Rel right I mean the claim W that there was hatred animosity it is just bizarre if

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you read every single narration it's nothing but actual love and respect for the uh for each other in any case back to uh the the point over here so AB bakik as we said therefore he was the first to call to Islam he was the first

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to suffer physically after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he was the first to give his money he was the first to advise the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he was the first to free slaves from his own money and he freed over 10

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of the early slaves that embraced Islam he freed over 10 of them and bil is just one of those names in fact he freed over 10 of them and when he embraced Islam he cut down his business dealings and

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therefore the the fact of the matter is that he no longer had the source of income that he had in the days pre-islam because he stopped traveling to Syria and back so from a limited amount of money he spent generously and freely and

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Allah gave him back because he had that trust in Allah subhanahu waala and uh we'll mention uh one more very important story uh and that is the story of and the hij of Abu Bakr so as we know in the fifth year of the

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Hijra sorry fifth year of the da not Hijra in the fifth year of the dawa our Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam allowed the Muslims to immigrate to abisinia and one by one they all began to immigrate and Abu Bakr as well decided to take

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advantage of this so he packed his belongings and with his wife and children basically made his way outside of Makkah and Allah willed that the the chieftain of the aabish now pause here uh the aabish are mentioned a number of

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times and they are considered to be the nomads of the quray outside of Mecca so you have the Dwellers of the city then you have the Dwellers around and the aabish joined the quray for many times for example the Battle of bad they gave

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a few hundred especially in the Battle of aab thousands of them marched with uh the qur to support the quray against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so the aabish are basically the surrounding nomadic tribes and they have a very

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strong relationship even bloodline a few I don't know I forgot how many but so many generations back obviously they go back with the qur so the quray and them are cousin or third cousin whatever types of tribes so the aabish are the

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outer dwellers and the qures are the inner dwellers and of course there is this com there's this notion that the quray are superior to them obviously you get the point cuz the habish are the nomads and the ones out there so AB Bakr

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passes by and is the chieftain of the and he sees all of the belongings and the camels and the bags and everything so he said where are you leaving oh Abu Bakr so Abu Bakr sadik says I am leaving my land in order to

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worship my Lord because my people have prevented me I can't be a Muslim and worship Allah properly I'm going to ABIA basically so says someone like you he can neither leave mecah nor can he be forced out of mekah and then he listed

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and I mentioned this last week the same things that khad said about our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam you are good to your relatives and you feed the orphan and you take care of the poor and you fulfill your promise and you uh do

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everything that the people need you to do you're loving to your your friends and relatives all of these descriptions she he actually used the same words or almost the same words that used to describe the prophet and he

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basically said you're too good to leave mecah I can't let you leave mekah let me go and negotiate with the qur so they went back right then and there and did that was the custom that whenever you entered Mecca you would do this is still

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our custom as well from our Shar as well that was the custom and then he called the leaders of Makkah he's the chief he has that right to you know make a proclamation and he said would you agree and allow me to

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give Abu Bakr the right and protection to stay in meca now remember so many times we have talked about this that the chieftain had the right to give visas basically and when you gave the Visa the amand when you gave the the Visa nobody

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could harm you without the chieftain getting involved and it becomes a matter of honor and pride that imagine now even in nation states right if an American citizen is mistreated then all of America technically should get involved technically should get involved and it

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should negotiate on your behalf and whatnot it's a matter of Pride that this was an American who was mistreated so similarly and so look at the open the passport you know the first thing that the barrier of this passport shall go

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without any so that's basically the Aman but instead of a passport you have the chieftain giving it so the the what this implies is that a time had come that AB bakar's father and the chieftain the Ban's Chie basically says toak you're no

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longer welcome with us so Bakr has to now leave so he doesn't have protection so then goes and says can I give him my protection will you honor my word and if the qur said yes then they are in

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trouble if they break it it's going to be war between the quray and the aabish not because of ab Bakr because of honor and pride because it's my word and you broke it okay so the qur said that is

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your right but we have one condition what was the condition he cannot read Quran out loud in public and he cannot pray in front of the KA that's our condition he can do whatever he wants in his house but he

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cannot read Quran or pray because we find the hearts of our children and our women are swaying and they want to embrace the faith the Su amongst us and our children and women they are being swayed by Abu

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Bakr and his recitation and is narrating and said and Abu Bakr he would always cry when he is reading the Quran he would be very emotional as he's reading the Quran and the people would be mesmerized by that

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uh crying and so uh Abu Bakr agreed said do you agree abak agreed that I'm not going to read in front of the Kaa and read out out loud on the streets so he then decided to build a small

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chamber a type of uh if you like storage room or whatever not a storage room but like an extension of his house where he could worship Allah like a mini Masjid that there's a shed okay Kal a shed okay

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little bit of a place where he could worship Allah subhana wa tala and of course space is limited so the direction of the shed was the direction of the road it's not as he has a big backyard so he has to go towards the road so he

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made a small chamber where there was space to pray and he would begin to recite the Quran and pray in there and people began gathering around that little chamber crying with the crying of Abu Bakr and being moved

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by the restation of Abu Bakr and so the quray sent an emissary to and said to him that either you tell Abu Bakr to destroy that shed right and go to the middle of his house so that nobody can or get rid of your protection

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so that we can basically deal with him okay so now is put in between in between these this awkward situation so he sends an emissary or he either goes or he sends an emissary toak actually one we don't know either he sends or he goes

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and he basically says to AB Bakr look this is what your people have said to me so you choose either you go to the middle of of your house and abandon your shed right or if you insist then I'm

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going to have to withdraw my protection and so Abu Bak s said that I take away my protection from you and I put Allah as my protector that Kal okay you go and Allah will be the one who gives me a man right

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and so after this he along with the prophet Muhammad the both of them did not have that Visa remember that that was why our Prophet was going places that there was no person after the death of Abu Talib basically for a while

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remember I said this for a few weeks uh ABAB agreed to out of Jah like I kind of have to but then even he said okay I cannot do this anymore and he withdrew the protection so it is so amazing that

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of all of the sahab so many similarities that ab bakik and the prophet the both of them they are living without a man under the Aman of Allah and it shows us the IM of Abu Bakr sik and the final thing that we mention and

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I'm not going to go into this in detail because alhamdulillah we went into this in an entire episode of the S so you can listen to the entire episode and that is the story of the hij of the Prophet sik

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I'm not going to go into that at all because it's completely we went into it in as exhaustive detail in is humanly possible we talked about the fact that AB Bakr wanted to migrate and the prophet kept on saying wait perhaps

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Allah has chosen a partner for you and he didn't click because he didn't he never imagined that he would be given that privilege but when it came remembered this one ofa's first memories and what did say the famous

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phrase I never believed that somebody could cry out of Happiness until I saw my father crying the day that the prophet told him you could migrate with me right so AA remembers she must have been four five at the time she remembers

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this is the one of her first first memories and the fact that AB Bak had two camels prepared that um his son Abdullah participated Asma broke you know the the she she broke her she tore her belt into two used one to tie and

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and gave his servant is in on the plot so really Abu bakar sik and his family engineer the entire Hijra the entire Hijra is really Allah chose abak to engineer the entire hij and uh when it include on this Ayah

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in the Quran which is in that if you do not help the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam then know that Allah has already helped him Allah has already helped him when the KU kicked him out expelled him the second of the

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two so Abu bakar sik has been called one of the two and by text of the Quran Allah has used Abu Bakr to help the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam if none of you help him then Allah has already

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helped him when the kufar kicked him out and he and his partner and therefore one of the titles of Abu Bakr is because he is the second of the two the one of them is the prophet the other one

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is he is the second of the two when the two of them were in the cave when he the prophet said to his don't worry in Allah is with us so Allah sent his down upon him and Allah helped him with an army

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that you cannot see now this verse is one of the most explicit verses testifying to the praise of Abu Bakr how so first and foremost as I said Allah is explicitly saying that Abu Bakr has been used by him to

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help none of you else did it but I have already helped him when the two of them so Allah is putting him with the prophet then Allah calls him no other sahabi has been called by Allah other than abak that doesn't mean

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they're not but it means it's an honor for abak to be called anybody who denies that Abu Bakr is a sahabi has rejected the Quran when he said to his so Allah has affirmed which is companionship for our

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Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as well Allah has demonstrated that the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam cares for Abu Bakr don't worry and you only tell somebody don't worry calm down when you care about them so Allah has a irm the

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love that has for the prophet Muhammad Sall alaihi wasallam is saying Allah is with the two of us can there be any praise higher than this Allah and the prophet and Abu Bakr Allah is with us and therefore this phrase in particular

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is the highest praise given to that on the tongue of the Prophet Muhammad he is saying Allah is with us imagine well I don't even need to explain to you how beautiful this is how powerful this is that Allah is telling

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us in the Quran is saying that Allah is with us and he said us Abu Bakr is him us he's putting Abu Bakr together that Allah is with us and then the ending of the Ayah so Allah sent down Sakina and when that

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Sakina came abak is there and Allah helped him and when the help came Abu Bakr is there and Abu Bak is being used as the help as well and therefore this verse in Surah is a verse that has full Praise of

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Abu Bakr ass sidik and with that in we come to the end of today's and inshallah next week we will continue and talk about inshallah we will do as much as we can about the life ofak sik before the and then after that

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we'll summarize some of the salian features of the as I said I went into some detail here but inshallah when it comes to the political issues of the we'll just have to zoom over a little bit uh and mention whatever we have time

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for for

Topics:Abu Bakr al-Siddiqpre-Islamic lifeconversion to IslamHanifearly IslamProphet MuhammadMeccan eraSahabaIslamic historyYasir Qadhi

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