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In our short class last Wednesday, we mentioned some of the tortures and some of the trials that the Sahabah had to undergo in the early Meccan phase. Today, inshallah, we will continue from where we left off in our last class.
Yasir Qadhi discusses the physical and emotional tortures faced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions during early Meccan persecution.
Key Takeaways
- Prophet Muhammad faced both emotional and physical persecution during the early Meccan period.
- Divine protection was sometimes granted to the Prophet, as illustrated by the incident with Abu Jahl.
- The enemies of Islam had varying degrees of hostility, from honorable opponents to cruel persecutors.
- The Quranic revelations responded directly to the challenges and threats faced by the Prophet.
- Understanding the historical context helps appreciate the sacrifices and struggles of the early Muslim community.
What the video covers
- The lecture continues from a previous class on the trials and tortures endured by the Sahabah during the early Meccan phase.
- Focus on whether Prophet Muhammad himself underwent physical torture, alongside emotional and smear campaigns.
- Narration of incidents where the Prophet was physically harmed or threatened, including assassination attempts.
- Story of Abu Jahl attempting to physically harm the Prophet during prayer and being stopped by divine intervention.
- Explanation of the Quranic verses revealed in response to Abu Jahl's threat, highlighting divine protection.
- Discussion on the categories of opponents of Islam, distinguishing honorable opponents from ignoble ones.
- Narration of eyewitness accounts from Sahabah about the worst abuses the Prophet faced in Mecca.
- Insight into the social and political context of Mecca, including the role of the Quraysh and their parliament (Nadi).
- Mention of the lineage and background of certain Sahabah and their relation to the Prophet.
- Reflection on the wisdom behind when the Prophet was protected physically and when he was not.
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Speaker A
We mentioned the tortures of Bilal (RA) and many of the other Sahabah, especially the Sahabah who were not from the Quraysh, from the Maali, from the slave class, because of course those Sahabah were not protected by the society of Mecca. Now the question arises, what happened with the Prophet himself? Did he undergo any physical torture, any physical pain and suffering? There's no question that he underwent a lot of emotional, a lot of smear campaigns.
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But how about physically? Well, physically, no doubt that the Quraysh overall and the Prophet as well were relatively protected, but this does not mean that nothing happened to them. This does not mean that they were completely immune. Rather, we have a number of incidents in which the Prophet was physically harmed. Eventually, of course, they talked about assassinating him, and then they had multiple assassination attempts culminating in the grand assassination attempt that took place the night before the Hijra. Right? So even the Prophet (SAW) suffered physically, and we have a number of incidents that have been narrated from this early period of time. Sometimes Allah (SWT), in His Divine wisdom, protected him, and sometimes for wisdom, Allah knows, He was not protected. And this is for wisdom, Allah knows. Sometimes He is protected, and sometimes He is not protected.
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So of the times that he was protected, there was a time when Abu Jahl was boasting to his peers, to his colleagues in Quraysh. Abu Jahl said to the people that, "I swear by that if I see this man again one more time, the Prophet (SAW), I am going to put my foot on his neck," meaning when he's in Sajdah, "I'm going to put my foot on his neck and I'm going to throw sand onto him." Because the Prophet (SAW) was one of the few people who would pray in front of the Kaaba. Most of the Muslims would not pray in front of the Kaaba. Most of the Muslims would pray privately in their homes, but the Prophet was one of those few who would pray publicly in front of the Kaaba.
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And they got irritated at this, and Abu Jahl said that the next time I see him, I swear by that I am going to put my hand, my foot on his neck. The Prophet (SAW) came that day, Abu Hurairah narrated, and he started praying. And when the Prophet went into Sajdah, Abu Jahl came forward trying to, or attempting to, put his foot on the neck of the Prophet (SAW). But before he got to him, the people around him saw that he turned backwards, he started walking backwards, and he started pushing with his hands away, and they couldn't see what was happening.
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And when he returned back, they said, "What happened? What happened to your threat? Why did you walk away? We saw you putting your hand out." And so Abu Jahl said that, "I saw between me and him a pit of fire. I saw between me and him a pit of fire, and there were wings hovering above that fire." When the Prophet finished, he told the Muslims that this fire was brought by the angels. The wings were those of the angels, and had he taken one step closer, the angels would have shredded him to basically bits and shreds. They would have shredded him into bits.
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And because of this, Allah (SWT) revealed the conclusion of Al-Alaq. The first five verses are the first verses of the Quran, and then Allah revealed the rest of the verses. This is a reference here: "Have you seen the one who tries to stop the slave when he worships?" Meaning Abu Jahl. "Does he not know that Allah is watching him? If he doesn't stop doing this, if he doesn't stop coming close, we are going to grab him with strength from the nasiya." This is the nasiya. We're going to grab onto him now. This is an expression in Arabic for those of you who have any interaction with camels and the farms. If you hold on to the forelock of a sheep, a goat, or a cow, you are holding the animal; it is in your control, right? So this is an expression in Arabic which means he will be in our control completely.
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This is a head, it's a brain that is full of lies, and it is a wrong brain. It's completely deluded. Let him call whomever he wants.
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Nadiya, this is an allusion to the Nadi of the Quraysh. What is the Nadi of the Quraysh? It is the parliament of the Quraysh, and he was sitting in the Nadi of the Quraysh when he said this threat. When he said this threat, he's sitting in the parliament, in the Nadi, and he says to the people in this Nadi, "What is the parliament?" The parliament is one area of the Kaaba, one area of the Haram. This was where they would sit. Abu Jahl would have his high chair over there. That was the Nadi.
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And so Allah says, "Let him call these people that he's boasting to. We are going to call our helpers," and that means the special angels. "Don't worry about him. You do your right." So if you understand, the story comes completely into place here that the Prophet is doing Sajdah and he is praying, and Abu Jahl is trying to stop him. And this is why Allah (SWT) revealed in the Quran that all of this is a reference to Abu Jahl. In this case, Abu Jahl was unsuccessful. Allah, in a wisdom known to Him, wanted to protect the Prophet this time.
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It is also narrated, and as we said many times, Zu himself is not a Sahabi. He was born right after the death of the Prophet (SAW). His father is Zu, and that is the cousin of the Prophet. And his mother is Asma Abak, and that is a sister-in-law of the Prophet (SAW). And his aunt is... and his older brother is Abdullah Zu. He is the most famous in terms of lineage. Unfortunately, or Allah willed, he did not become a Sahabi because he was too young. His older brother by 30 years is Abdullah Zu, but he himself is much younger, and so he never met the Prophet.
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So Abdullah Zu asked Abdullah, another famous Sahabi from Mecca, "Tell me the worst thing that you saw happen to the Prophet (SAW) in Mecca." And this shows us, I mean, this is a curiosity. Imagine if you had been of that generation, you too would want to ask those who had witnessed, right? "What happened? Tell me." So he wanted to know, "What is the worst thing that you saw that the pagans or the mushrikun did to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW)?"
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So Abdullah narrates what he saw, and he says, "Once the Prophet was praying next to the Kaaba when he is one of those four or five who are considered to be the most dastardly, the most ignoble of the enemies of Islam." I have said multiple times that you can divide the enemies of Islam, the enemies of the Prophet, into two very general categories. Of course, there's a fine line, and it is sometimes difficult to place some people in the middle, but clearly there are two extremes amongst the opponents. There were those who were somewhat of a noble character, and they never stooped to low tactics. Low tactics meaning like this one: "I'm going to step on his foot, I'm going to throw sand on him," or what is one of the meanest characters, worse than Abu Jahl in his ignobility, right? This is really probably the worst, even worse than Abu Jahl. That's the other extreme.
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The first extreme, people like they are angry, they're nasty, but maybe even nasty isn't a good word. They're opponents, but they don't get nasty. In other words, they're honorable opponents. Their tactics are going to keep it above the belt, as we say, right? Generally speaking, those who kept it a little bit noble, Allah eventually guided them to Islam. Greatest example, Abu Sufyan. Greatest example is now these people. They were not followers of Islam from the beginning. They were enemies, and they did a lot of harm, but their harm was within the system as much as they could legally, using their tongue. Sometimes they got physical, but even that was not ignoble. They didn't torture innocent slaves like Umayyah did, right? They didn't do that type of stuff, whereas we had the other opposite category, and this category...
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had he taken one step closer the Angels would have shred him to basically to bits and shreds they would have shredded him into bits and because of this Allah subhana wa T revealed the conclusion ofah the first five verses are the first
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verses of the Quran and then Allah revealed the rest of the verses this is a reference here have you seen the one who tries to stop the slave when he worships and meaning AB does he not know that Allah is
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watching him if he doesn't stop doing this if he doesn't stop coming close we are going to grab him with strength from the nasia this is the nasia we're going to grab onto him now this is an expression in Arabic for
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those of you who are act have any interaction with camels and the Farms if you hold on to the for loock of a sheep a goat the cow you are holding the animal is in your control right so this
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is a expression in Arabic which means he will be in our control completely this is a it's a head it's a brain that is full of lies and it is a wrong uh brain it's completely duded let him call whomever he wants
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Nadia this is an illusion to the Nadi of the qur what is the Nadi of the qu is the parliament of the quray and he was sitting in the Nadi of the quray when he said this threat when he said this
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threat he's sitting in the parliament in the nadii and he says to the people in this Nadi what is the parliament the parliament is one area of the Kaa one area of the Haram this was where they would sit ABD would have his high chair
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over there that was the Nadi and so Allah says let him call these people that he's boasting to we are going to call our helpers and that means the special angelss don't worry about him you do your right so if you understand the
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story comes completely into uh place here that the prophet is doing s and he is praying and Abu jahal is trying to stop him and uh this is why Allah subhana wa tala uh revealed in the Quran that all of this is a reference to Abu
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jahal in this case Abu jahal was unsuccessful Allah in a wisdom known to him wanted to protect the proam this time it is also narrated and as we said many times Zu himself is not a sahabi he was born right after the
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death of the Prophet wasam his father is Zu and that is the cousin of the prophet and uh his uh mother is Asma abak and that is a sister-in law of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasam and his aunt is
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and his older brother is Abdullah Zu he is the most famous in terms of lineage unfortunately or Allah willed he did not become a sahabi because he was too young his older brother by 30 years is abdah Zu but he himself is much younger and so
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he never met the prophet so abdah Zu asked abdah another famous sahabi from mekah tell me the worst thing that you saw happen to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in mecah and this shows us I mean this is a curiosity imagine if you
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had been of that generation you two would want to ask those who had witnessed right what happened tell me so he wanted to know what is the worst thing that you saw that the pagans or the the mus did to the prophet Muhammad
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sallallah alaihi wasallam so abdah narrates what he saw and he says once the prophet was praying next to the Kaa when he is one of those four or five who are considered to be the most dastardly the most ignorable uh of the enemies of
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Islam I have said multiple times that you can divide the enemies of Islam the enemies of the Prophet into two very general categories of course there's a fine line uh and is sometimes difficult to place some people in the middle but
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clearly there are two extremes amongst the opponents there were those who were somewhat of a noble character and they never stooped to low tactics low tactics meaning like this one I'm going to step on his foot I'm going to throw sand on
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him or what is one of the the the the meanest characters worse than Abu J in his uh if you like ignobility right this is the really is probably the worst even worse than Abu jahal that's the Other
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Extreme the first extreme people like they're they're angry they're nasty but they're not maybe even nasty isn't a good word they're opponents but they don't get nasty in other words they're honorable opponents their tactics are they're going to keep it above the belt
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as we say right generally speaking those who kept it a little bit Noble Allah eventually guided them to Islam greatest example Abu sufyan greatest example is now these people they were not followers of Islam from the beginning they were enemies and
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they did a lot of harm but their harm was within the system as much as they could legally using their tongue sometimes they got physical but even that was not ignorable they didn't torture innocent slaves like um did to
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right they didn't do that type of stuff whereas we had the other opposite category and this category people like Abu J people like people like the famous poet the most famous poet of mecah right that he he wanted to keep
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his position so he invents lies and he knows it's a lie so that category of people by and large they were eliminated and they were not guided to Islam and so is one of them so abdah said that one day the prophet was
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praying in front of the KA when came from behind him and he took off his thob His Garment could have been like a type of shawl and he threw it around his neck The Prophet's neck and began to choke him
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began to choke him and the prophet was struggling with that choking and the people did not intervene at all until finally Abu Bakr was told that your companion is being tortured and so he rushed to the Masjid and he began
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beating up from behind now because now he's the process of being choked from behind and so he attacked uh and he said to him are you going to kill a person just because he said he says my Lord is God
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my Lord is Allah that's why you're going to kill him and Allah subhana wa T revealed verses in the Quran and to this day is in there this exact phrase of Abu Bakr Allah quoted him in the Quran and
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this verse is now a verse in the Quran and Allah Asel quotes Abu Bakr saying this in the Quran and this shows us Abu Bakr is not a regular sahi he is somebody whom Allah has explicitly mentioned is a sah
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right the only person whom Allah testifies is a sahabi by name basically not well not by name but by indirect name right when he says to his sahabi To His companion and Allah quotes Abu Bakr in the Quran and we said the only other
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sahaba who has been quoted by name is who Zade right so these are the two sahaba they are definitely at a different level than the other sahab and so in this time Allah will let Abu Bakr save the prophet sallallah alaihi
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wasallam and there are other examples of this nature where they physically uh harmed him sometimes the harm was not physical but rather emotional it wasn't that he was going to die like this time they tried to kill him but it was rather
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that it was emotional distress or it was something that uh a matter of prestige and this is of the worst that has been narrated in this case IB narrates and this version is inkari and it is mentioned in many books
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of Hadith uh IB Mas narrates and IB Mas saw this as an eyewitness and he could not do anything because IB Mas was of the slave class was of had he done anything his life would have been taken
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immediately uh and they had to leave it to the others to do so said that once the prophet was praying again in front of the Kaa look they're usually attacking him in public in front of the Kaa why to drive the point to make the
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point to embarrass him to humiliate him when Abu Jal and a group of his a group of his ilk of his peers were sitting around around uh each other and the day before a camel had just been sacrificed
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camels are not sacrificed on a daily basis once every few weeks somebody's going to sacrifice a camel so Abu jahal said who amongst you will go to the carcass of that Camel in the there's a dump area outside meca there's an area
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where you would throw your trash so who will go to the the carcass of that uh camel and bring the entrail the intestine the the the the guts that which nobody's going to eat it's been thrown away bring that and throw it on
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the back of the prophet of Muhammad when he is praying to his Lord who can do this it's a challenge it's a challenge that he's giving now who's going to do this and so the worst of them says the worst
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of them the one that we just mentioned the worst of them stood up and he went now can you imagine this is a nobleman of quray right can you imagine he must have been wearing his fine clothes he's he's
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considered to be of the leaders he goes to a dead carcass and he puts his hand inside this filthy decomposing body and he carries with his own two hands entrails blood this this disgusting uh sticky substance can you imagine the
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hatred that is even more disgusting than the body the hatred that it is in his heart for him to do this and he comes from that yard from that uh lot and he walks all the way into the City and the
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prophet is still praying because as we know the process in prayer was long it's not like our prayer 2 minutes and we're over literally if you calculate some some of his prayers would be 2 three hours sometimes minimum will be 10 15
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minutes right this is the prayer of the Prophet so he waited for him to go into s the prophet is unaware of what's Happening behind him and when he fell into s then came and he dumped all of
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the stomach and the entrails in the intestine this big it's a camel it's not a trivial animal you know and he dumped it all onto the head of the Prophet while he is in SJ and all of it fell
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onto him and and it the weight of it was so heavy that he could not lift himself up he could not lift himself off said the people began to laugh so hard that some of them had to fall onto their
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sides and others were hitting themselves you know how they do when they laugh like this and others were hitting themselves and I was standing from a distance looking but I had no way to help I didn't have meaning there was
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nobody that would have supported me I am IB these are Abu Jal and whatnot is like bad and others that they would have instantaneously been killed because they don't have any honor this is not their society they are slaves in this society
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and uh uh I was of those who were seeing him but I could not do anything and the prophet wasam remained s remained in s until some persons went to tell Fatima who at this time was probably around 8 n
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years old went to tell Fatima that your father needs your help somebody with some mercy we don't know his name whoever he went to Fatima the daughter of the prophet wasam and so Fatima was a j was a little girl is saying she was a
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little girl at the time and she began crying and running towards the prophet and helped him get this dead animal off of his back and the prophet s wasallam then stood up he managed to stand up and he turned and he faced them and he
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raised his finger up to Allah subhah wa ta'ala and when they saw him in this fashion they became quiet and he began making Dua against them by [Music] name and he mentioned every single one of them and he mentioned each of them
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three times until all of them had a deadly pale in their faces the blood drained from their face and the people that are mentioned here said and there was was a seventh and I forgot his name seven people were
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in this uh Nadi in this Gathering and then said so I swear by the one who sent Muhammad with the truth that I myself saw every one of these seven dead in the Battle of Badr the first engagement
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Allah took care of all of them the first engagement that took place every one of these seven as I said the the enemies that didn't have any nobility they were there's no point Point Allah did not save them they they don't have any good
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in them this is not this is this shows you have no humility no completely callous your hearts are sealed so every one of these seven said I swear I saw with my own eyes every one of these seven I saw them dead in the Battle of
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bad and I saw their bodies dragged into the well and thrown into The Well of bad and eventually of course the matters got worse than this and talk began of uh assassin ination it is narrated in is that once the news spread that they had
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planned to assassinate the prophet wasam and uh a neighbor told Fatima that a lady neighbor told Fatima that you know they're talking about assassinating your father and Fatima uh ran home and told the prophet that uh they're planning to
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assassinate you and the prophet said uh fear not Allah will take care of me bring me water and so she brought him water he did w he made Dua to Allah subh and he walked into the Masid and this is
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towards the end of the the makan era so I'm making incidents together this is not in the beginning towards the end of the me because the assassination talk only began uh in the eth 9th 10th year of the da right we're still technically
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we're still in the fourth fifth year but I'm just giving you some examples uh so uh they said we're going to assassinate him and they had their weapons prepared so he did w and he walked into the Masid
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and they had their arms and they were ready to kill him but not one of them could move they all became paralyzed they could not stand up and the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam took some sand and threw it at their faces while
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they're standing while they're sitting and looking at him and they were completely paralyzed and he said May these faces be uh cursed and in this as well the sahi says every one of these were of those who were killed in
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the Battle of Badr every one of these were of of those who were killed in the Battle of bad and there are many more incidents as well again we cannot mention every one of them because there's too many but the point I'm
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trying to stress the prophet himself was physically and emotionally uh tortured now the question arises based on last week's and this week's of all the torture all the pain all the suffering a question should come to the mind of
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every one of us we firmly believe that our Prophet Muhammad is the best prophet and all of them prophets are great prophets we firmly believe that his followers were the best followers we firmly believe that Allah loves the
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prophets and loves the followers of the prophets so why then were they tested in this fashion and manner what is the wisdom in such persecution in such hardship why why not just protect the Believers and and and and give them uh
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immediate Victory and caus them to have the Medina state in meccah immediately they let the people believe and in fact it's not just in our religion even Jesus Christ his followers were persecuted and they suffered from the hands of the Romans right and the
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prophets before them Moses and the followers of Moses suffered at the hands of of pharaoh why did the prophets and their followers undergo so much suffering when they are on the side of Allah they're on the side of God what is
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the purpose of the greatest men on Earth being tortured our Prophet Muhammad there's a dead carcass is being thrown on him why in response to this there are many reasons not just one first and foremost to remind them and through them
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to remind us that Allah did not create us to live a comfortable life in this world there is a purpose for Allah creating us and that purpose is the next World Allah says that he is the one who he has created life and death Allah
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says Allah is the one who causes you to laugh and causes you to cry every human being has good and bad things happen to him every human being laughs and cries you have occasions where you're happy you have occasions when you're sad so
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Allah reminds them and through them Allah reminds us that you are not created to just live and and live in this world you have something greater and that is the next World and therefore of the wisdoms is to
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earn in whatever way possible when I say earn here of course you don't earn Paradise but you earn Allah's Mercy that will get you to Paradise you have to do something to gain that Mercy from Allah Paradise is
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too precious to be earned by a lifetime of good no matter what you do it's too too much to be earned but Allah will magnify the small that you do and that will then give you Allah's blessings and
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that will then give you paradise and so so it is the wisdom of Allah to test mankind to see those who are pure and firmly believe in him and those who are worthy of being blessed in the versus
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those who are not and those who are not worthy of those blessings Allah subhana wa tala says did mankind think that they would be left without being tested without being tried verily we tested the people before them and through these tests
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Allah will show who are those who are true and who are those who are hypocrites Allah says in verse 24 do you think you're going to enter Jenna just like that do you think jna is going to be
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given to you for free and Allah has yet to test you in another verse and Allah and Allah has told you what has happened to the people before you they were shaken and they were Afflicted with hardships and with
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poverty until they called out when will the help of Allah come verily the help of Allah is indeed close and I already mentioned in last week's the one whose slave owner that lady Umar would take hot iron from the coals from
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the furnace and use it to torture him on his back she would literally take this furnace uh this coal the the the iron that was in the in the furnace and torture him with this one day he came to
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the Prophet this one and he said for how long for how long are we going to be like this you're the prophet of Allah aren't you how long for how long are we going to be tortured like this why don't you ask Allah to help us
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against these people and so the prophet was sitting against the Kaa with his back to the Kaa he came forward to show the importance he came forward to to show the importance of what he's going to say and he said indeed the people
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before you the people before you they would be tortured worse than this and they would have a comb of iron one of them would have a comb of iron that would strip his flesh off of his bones and another would have a saw or a knife
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cut himself in half so that he would be completely cleaved and still that would not turn them away from the worship of Allah verily I swear to you by the one who has sent me that Allah will perfect
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this religion Allah will perfect this matter until you will see a day in which a lady Shepherd a shepherdess will take her flock from to very far away two small villages or cities in Yemen right forget mecah from
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she's going to take a flock of sheep and she will only be scared of Allah and the Wolf to eat her sheep a Muslim lady will do this and she's not going to fear anything now that's exactly what
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happened many times in history the P the peace the security in Muslim lands was so much and the prophet said Allah is going to fulfill his promise but you are those who are being Hasty notice the prophet had full faith
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this religion will succeed but there's going to be trials in the beginning and you guys are being Hasty about this and subh these punishments that the prophet described of iron Combs and of being cleaved in half this is exactly what
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happened to the early Christians at the hands of the Romans right the Romans were Pagan Nation until Constantine converted as you know Constantine in 3 uh 321 or so he converted uh and and adopted Christianity until that time
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Romans were a pagan nation and they persecuted the Christians the emperor Nero burnt the Christians he used the Christians as light bulbs literally he DED them with petrol and he used them as light bulbs in his city of Rome they
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became the light bulbs for a few days because he got irritated at them for some reason they were persecuted much uh very severely in some cases worse than the early Muslims and so the prophet is saying there were Muslims before you
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because we believe these to have been Muslims at the time there were Muslims before you who were persecuted worse than this and they did not swerve away from the worship of Allah Allah is going to give you Victory
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but you need to be patient and therefore from this we learn and this is of the wisdoms of why they have to undergo so much hardships that the blessings of Allah are earned through trial and struggle they don't just come you need
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to earn them through whatever tests come your way with difficulty will come the ease with the difficulty will come the ease the will come with the there must be the the difficulty and then there will be the ease even the prophets of
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Allah are not handed the blessings on a silver platter they need to struggle to earn it they need to struggle to to to show it and in this is wisdom because a later person could come and say if they
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didn't undergo these struggles suppose and we 1,400 years later are undergoing struggles then we will say Subhan Allah they didn't have any struggles they're the prophet of God they came and Allah gave them peace and security instantaneously because because they
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suffered worse than us automatically we realized they were better than us this human nature and this leads us to the last point of uh some of the blessings here the Companions and even the prophet in his own way they through these struggles
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clearly demonstrated their superiority over us without any question they demonstrated you see it in their struggles it's not just speech of Allah that Allah is pleased with them they are pleased with him it's not just the speech of the Prophet that my sahabah
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are the best of all generations you see it in what they do and how they live their lives and even amongst the sahab not all of them are the same those who converted in meccah have a higher degree
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than those who converted in Medina those who converted in early meca have a higher degree than those who converted in late makah the earliest who converted they have a degree higher of the and then the so Allah gave them
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preference depending on their level of IM and the last point is that we so that we can have real examples shining lights of guidance such that when we Face trial and tribulation we can take comfort we can find Solace we can find Ro models
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and Subhan Allah there is no society that has undergone the type of persecution that the early musl Muslims of mecah did and therefore every persecution that takes place we can find some type of comfort when we look at
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what happened to the early sahab moving on to the next point in the S when the sahaba reached around we don't know the exact number but roughly a ballpark for around 20 or 30 of the sahaba were present the prophet realized
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that he needed a place to congregate because there was they couldn't do so in mecah in the in the Kaa because it was too public a lot of Muslims were secret Muslims they hadn't informed their relatives and Friends of
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their Islam especially some of the slaves who had converted they hadn't told their masters so they needed a place that they could congregate there was no mosque that they could pray in other than the Kaa The First mosque that
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was ever built in Islam was the M MBA was the first Masid ever built in Islam there was no Masjid before Masid Kuba the a physic mid and that's why Allah calls it right Allah calls it in the Quran the
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first house of worship built upon TAA meaning in Islam so there was no Masjid in Makkah uh the Kaa at this time is a holy land but there's Idols around it there's no Sanctuary so the prophet decided to choose the house of as you
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all know and his name is probably is his title his common name and so became the place where the sahaba would meet when did this happen we don't have any year but probably around we would estimate around the the middle of
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the 3D or the beginning of the fourth year in other words as soon as the da went public within a few months after that remember the da went public after 3 years right after 3 years the da went
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public before 3 years there is no public dawa so we don't have people converting that much after 3 years when the da becomes public all of this persecution Begins the prophet needs a place so he chooses the house of alam now question
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why the house of alam what is the wisdom behind choosing the house of alam the books of s do not mention this so we need to study who is this person where his house was and then we try to derive
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some benefit point number one he was from the noblemen of the qur but he was not from the tribe of Banu Hashim he was from the tribe of Banu makum who can tell me who is the most famous person from Banu
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makum Abu Jal is from Banu makum so by choosing somebody from the Banu makum automatically nobody's going to suspect that a makumi is going to help a has sh cuz there's huge rivalry between them right so the prophet is choosing
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somebody from the tribe from a tribe that is a rival tribe now Islam is more important to Muslims than makum and Hashim right but the Jah Arabs cannot look beyond their their their their their tribal their tribalism their Jah
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so the prophet number one he chooses somebody from the Mak so it's not going to be suspicious number two and was of the first people to accept Islam they say he was of the first 10 so clearly then he could be completely
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trusted cuz this is a secret place in mekah nobody's supposed to know about it so you need somebody that you can trust your life with and so he chooses somebody who is of the earliest converts and they know him inside out so he's of
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the first 10 converts to Islam number three according to one report Al had inherited this property from his father he was a young man probably in his late teens maybe even 18 19 years old and so once again this is
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added to the disguise that you wouldn't expect an 18-year-old kid to be such a brave of course 18-year-old for them was a young man for us they're considered kids still but for that age he was he was a young man nobody would think that
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an 18-year-old would risk everything to help uh the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam uh Point number four Accord according to another report Alam had not announced his Islam he had kept it secret and so yet another added if you like uh cover of secrecy that
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nobody would know that would be helping because they don't expect him to be a Muslim Point number five the house of alam was located behind the mountain of Safa now the mountain of Safa you all know where it is is that in the center
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of Makkah or is it out side of mekah the center of mecah so why would you want a secret meeting place in downtown one would imagine you would want a secret meeting place on the outskirts where nobody would see you
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right why would you want a secret meeting place smack dab in the middle of downtown meca which is behind Mount Safa who can figure this one out h and that would the least suspected place right I know they
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know true but there's another Point close close by to what Thea so how will that help them maintain secrecy because they all live nearby okay but there's still much more that's true uh but there's still a much more clearer point they can monitor
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maybe the they can monitor the qur you're not going to be able to Eaves drw from inside the house but maybe a point imagine if 40 people are walking towards a small house outside of meca yeah traffic traffic traffic everybody has to go to
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downtown every day meca everybody has has to go there every day that's what you do in the afternoon you when you when all of the chores are done you go and you sit in the Nadi or around the Kaa that's what
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you do for socialization so getting to that area walking to and fro is the most natural thing in the world and so as Dr Saab said is basically right under their noses that they're walking to a house that is smack in the middle of downtown
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because it's a Stones throw away from the KA you literally are attached to the basically the the area of the Haram right and so right before they they go into an alley and there's the house right there and so when they walk out
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it's as if people are going to think they're coming from the Haram or they're walking they're walking to the Haram so it's a location or an area that it would be very easy to explain why you're going in that direction and coming back from
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that direction and why there's so many people coming and going basically around the Caba because they would do that every day anyway and in fact they would probably we don't know this for sure but we could assume they would probably make
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sure they even went to theam after they went out of the house and then come back so that they actually were physically in the Haram as well for a while and so no suspicions are raised right and uh
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there's no doubt as well and this we can infer from the sources we don't again we have to when it comes to these s reports you need to be a little bit more analytical and thinking you cannot just
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uh just read it at a superficial level there must have been a very common sense reason uh and that is his house must have been large as well right because we had at least at least 40 people congregating in the house and 40 is a
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large number for mecah large number so for 40 people to be in a room clearly means that the house of Aram was a relatively larger house as well okay uh and it is and of course the house of
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this is where accepted Islam this is where accepted Islam this is where accepted Islam remember the story of we're going to come to that next Wednesday when uh when brought him when when he was going to kill his sister
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Fatima right and then he repented he changed his mind and so when he made sure that uh he's sincere brought him to's house and he gave the code word because there was you needed a code word to get in and he gave the code word and
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stared at him who have you brought here how could you bring I mean have you lost your find right so he's bringing Omar to the house of right and he explains him no there's a reason let me speak to the
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prophet and they bring Omar in and and he accepts Islam right so all of this is happening in the house of this is basically this the the Central Station of where the Prophet was and when you look at the reasons why this house was
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chosen once again you find a lot of wisdoms and you find clearly uh the prophet obviously was a high the most intelligent human being ever he's not just choosing any random house there's reasons why even this house is being
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chosen the next major incident that is narrated in the S is the first immigration to abisinia the first immigration to abisinia when these tactics of open intimidation of humiliation of torture continued the prophet sallallah alai wasam eventually suggested to to the
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sahabah that this land has become too constricted for you why don't you immigrate for those of you who want to why don't you immigrate to the neighboring land of abisinia for there is a Christian King there who is a just
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King and he shall allow you to worship without interfering in your worship and this announcement was made in in the fifth year of the da so the third year of of The Da he goes public less than a
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year and a half later so you can imagine now all of this torture we're talking about is happening in this year and a half all of this hardship is happening in this year and a half it gets so
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difficult in Raj of the fifth year of the Daw this is still 6 BH 6 before Hijra don't get confused don't think 5 ah no this is five after Da which is not anything in our calendar so we say six
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before hij cuz we have or actually seven before hij cuz the hij is in the 12th 13th year of the da right you guys following this right 13 years in Makkah or to be more precise 12 years and some
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months in mecah uh and so this is around 7 BH you can say before the Hijra so uh in the fifth year of the da in the month of rajab the Prophet wasam allows the sahab to immigrate to ABIA now for most
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of us dare I say all of us in this room we will not understand what hardships this would mean to immigrate to a new land especially us here in America we are so used to traveling from City to city and place to
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place most of us in this room most of us have lived in multiple cities in our lives I myself have lived in four or five cities for years at times and we're complet it's natural to us because the
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world has changed immensely from in this time so we don't understand that uprooting yourself from you know in even 100 years ago the bulk of mankind I think the estimate I read it somewhere was 90 something per they were
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they were born and they lived and they died within 20 mil of the radius of where they were born of their father's house this is the bulk of mankind that that's just the way it is you take over
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what your father is doing and you live the local line and you and you go on and in it was much more worse than this you couldn't even immigrate to another city because as we said the whole concept of
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tribalism as AI you had to be linked to meca that was your only way of survival if you want to even or medina the people there are not of your tribe and you are second third class you don't have any is you
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can be plundered raped looted Anything Could Happen nobody's going to protect you because there is no government there is no law there is no Society there is no civilization this is even within Arabia imagine going to a foreign
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land on top of that you don't have Bank transfers you're not going to take your wealth and then you know wire it to the different land no your property is your property you can't sell it at market price because you're not telling anybody
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you're leaving people are just going to take over it when they when they performed the actual hij to Medina the sahabah suffered a huge financial loss even sahabah who were Rich became poor in the migration because they couldn't
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take their money with them it's too dangerous to carry your your your gold and silver with you you cannot just carry it in a unarmed guard fleeing for your life and and and and property uh from Mecca and so when you're making
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Hijra what you're doing is you are entering into a strange world where you don't have honor you don't have protection you don't have a passport basically and you are at the mercy of those around you to make matters worse
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they are they have been told to go to a land where you're not even speaking Arabic where the people are not Arabs it's a different culture it's a land in Africa in modern day ABIA habas where the the
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culture the people everything is different so this underscores how difficult meca would have been for them to prefer going to abisinia over remaining in Mecca and therefore when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave this command 15 people immigrated 11 men and
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four women 11 men and four women amongst them the first to migrate wasan and afan was married to who was he married to the daughter of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and so the first couple to migrate were the
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prophet's own son-in-law and his daughter and he was followed by another famous sahabi and the famous sahi whom we're all familiar with who was the one who was made in the Battle of this is AB and his wife right Abu Sal would be the first
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sahabi to die in ABIA and um Sal would be left all alone without any support she's cut off from her relatives in meccah and now her husband has died in a strange and foreign land and she was under a lot of trauma it was a complete
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stress for her that she is literally cut off and so out of Mercy to her the prophet sent a proposal to um we're going to talk about that later on so um Sal was actually proposed to because her
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husband had passed away in uh in abisinia and uh a number of other uh sahabah so there was 11 men and four women now it is unclear whether they all of them secretly immigrated or was it known that they would immigrate some
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reports seem to indicate that they left secretly and they made their way to to uh Judah which is now called jeda uh they made the way to to to to the modern Port of jeda and then from jeda they
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took a ship to abisinia other reports seem to suggest that the news was spread amongst the qur and if this is true then there's nothing uh strange about that because imagine at this point in time the qur are not
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expecting them to immigrate and if the news has spread that they're immigrating because the quray have not uh there's no reason why they would have stopped them at this stage later on they will but if the news was public it's not
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it's not impossible it could also be the case that it was made public and there is one report in's which is one of the books of Hadith that seems to suggest that the news was made public and it is an interesting
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story because it involves and it shows a side of him that we're going to see later on and it involves one of the couples uh immigrating there was only four couples right four women so there was only four couples and the rest were
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all single male such as is not married at this time was never married he died a bachelor so these were all uh uh unmarried men so there were four couples one of these couples one of these couples was and his wife
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Le and his wife Le so in this book ofi uh it is narrated that Lea was packing her bags for ABIA and lo loading the camel so this clearly means that she's doing it in public loading the camel and taking whatever she can to the
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port of Judah and passes by and sees that they're traveling you don't load a camel you're packing your bags or putting it uh and so he asks where are you traveling to I mean this is not the season
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of or what traveling is a big deal for them it's not like I I travel every week somewhere every two weeks traveling is a very big deal for them know where are you traveling to what is this traveling
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for and you can imagine she's so irritated and so angry she's leaving her Homeland and she you know she's you know packing always makes you irritated anyway you know and so she just barks out at him in complete anger this is all
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because of you it's all because of you and your terrorizing of us and your persecution of us just because we want to worship Allah because of your persecution we have to go go somewhere else and find a land where we can worship Allah in so
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she basically snapped at him instead of getting angry Omar seemed to for the first time she saw in his eyes compassion and he said to her has the matter reached that level meaning I never thought it was that bad we're just
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torturing B on the streets I never thought it was that bad you know we killedar Y and I never thought it was that bad so he's not thinking has the matter reached that level and then he said may Allah be with
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you makes Dua for her and he walks on his way so she's completely flabbergasted that she sees a side ofar that they have never seen before so when her husband comes home she excitedly tells him guess what happened came by
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and you know he actually had some compassion her husband snorted in contempt and he said do you really think that he's going to be merciful to us and accept Islam W the donkeys of his father's house will Embrace Islam before
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he does right the donkeys of his father's house will Embrace hislam before does right now Subhan Allah what happened within two years is a Muslim and Subhan Allah what this shows us really is that as we all know this he had an outer
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hardness but inside he was a very soft man he had an outer strictness sternness but even in this stage inside and the same we see it in his Fatima's incident right he raises his hand and he hits his own sister as
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soon as she beds what happens we're going to talk about this next week I'm jumping the gun but you understand you all know the story right he has an inner softness in him that we expect from a good person and especially from one of
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the best sahab and it also shows that indeed Allah will guide whomever he Wills the sah never expected Omar to be a Muslim and he the utters a phrase which he is Forgiven for but he's so like you really think this guy's going
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to embrace Islam you know as we said in English pigs will fly you know hell will freeze over you know he just says this where like come on get real but Allah knows so this also shows us that we
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should never ever condemn people to hell we should never we don't take the it's not our job you know we leave it to Allah Allah knows who he will be guided Allah knows and so Sal narrated first person it's
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inkari said so we began to live in a good land with good neighbors and we were safe with regards to our religion and did not fear any persecution now number of points here notice that the immigrants all of them
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look at the names that I mentioned uh not Zu but Abu sald in fact Zu yes he did migrate what's common about all of them they're all quis they're Allis they're all high status people right why couldn't the low that is
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immigrate H they were slaves they were slaves they were slaves what Ali from the okay okay alhamdulillah um why were all of these from the noblemen of the qur because the slaves didn't have have the political luxury to immigrate right and this
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really shows us an interesting point Subhan Allah if you think about it the people who needed to immigrate the most couldn't do so bil could not immigrate Amar could not immigrate IB Mas could not immigrate Kabab could not
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immigrate right and the ones who were the most elite afan I mean he was he was the one they sent in h because they know the qur loved him so much they wouldn't dare hurt him right remember 10 years later
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this is they know that he is the most noble amongst them even Omar says you know me has a better position with them right so the elite of the qur who are Muslim immigrate and this shows us that Subhan Allah I mean the fact of
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the matter is that a person does have to take care of himself and if these people even though they're not as persecuted as the rest but they have an opportunity to have less persecution they should take Avail of themselves to the opportunity right
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there's no point in them remaining and being persecuted just because there are other people who are being persecuted worse than them you guys following this point here there's an element of take care of yourselves and there's nothing un Islamic about that that our
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Prophet is telling those who have the political capability go ahead and immigrate right even though there were people who needed to immigrate worse than them but what are you going to do so you make the best of a bad situation
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and this is in Arabic there's a a maxim uh I'm always scared using the word because you know of course means a legal Maxim a rule right uh and that's why those guys called it because it's the base right
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but we use the word all the time time uh the funny joke is that um uh when you teach the kids the Quran what is the book that they use huh it's like so there's a joke that if somebody sent an
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email that I need to teach my kid the right and so it was intercepted by the FBI and it caused a huge issue it's like you're going to teach your kids it's like no the is the you we teaching them the alphabet um so
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the point being that there's a Maxim in that says uh that uh you basically have to choose or the lesser of the two evils you always have to go with the lesser of the two evils you can't save everybody
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you can't does that mean that all of them suffer no well those who can go can go let them go and let them have a better life over there this also shows and this is a very important point this also
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shows that not all of the lands of the non Muslims are the same some of the lands of the non-muslims are peaceful you can live there and worship Allah and others are hostile meca and abisinia were not the
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same lands abisinia was a land they could immigrate to and live in peacefully mecah was not and this is a very important point that we especially need to extrapolate from in our times that not all of the lands are the
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same there are lands where freedoms are guaranteed and there are lands where people are persecuted and so in our religion we have the clearcut political notion that there are certain lands you are allowed to live in and you should
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live in what is the condition you have the freedom to worship Allah there and if we have that freedom then we remain law-abiding citizens of that land and this is I have talked about this in many lectures the
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the model of the Aban Muslims is a model that we here in America can benefit from I'm not saying it's exactly the same there's nothing no two things are exactly the same but I'm saying overall there is a model and that
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model is what you live as a minority in a majority non-muslim land and you obey the laws of the land and you understand that you are citizens you are under the government of that land and you don't intend to overthrow the
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constitution of the the the government the Muslims of ABIA were not plotting and planning to overthrow the Nashi were they right and they were not even allowed to do this they were entering on a Visa basically the equivalent of a
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Visa and that Visa allowed them to live and worship and participate in the community without any problems and therefore this is a model that we here in America America can basically emulate a lot of the extremists are on the uh
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Vibe of basically you cannot live in America it is Haram to live in America that is their opinion in response we say the Muslims were living in abisinia and their goal in abisinia was nothing other than the freedom to worship Allah correct right
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they had no political Ambitions none and they remained there for more than a decade and this is interesting the Muslims in abisinia way after Medina was founded in fact not just more than naked they remained there for 14 years
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for 14 years 7 years after the Hijra the Muslims were still in abisinia it was only after the battle of that the prophet sent them a letter to ja ja did not participate in bad and why because he wasn't there Jaa was in
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ABIA taking care of the Muslims over there only after the battle of and that's in the seventh year of the Hijra did the prophet send them a letter and tell them to come back and this shows that there was a
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community of Believers even when there was a Dar Islam in Medina there was a community of Believers living in abisinia even when there is a fully functioning Dar Islam how about when there is no Dar Islam in our time and
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there is no in our times how can it possibly be wrong to live in a land where we have the freedom to worship Allah subhana wa taala in also notice another Point here a very interesting point the prophet described Nashi of
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course his name uh Nashi is not his name Nashi is his title just like we say the Caesar the Caesar is not the name of one Emperor it is this title just just like we say the king of England it's the king the Caesar
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uh uh the the the the Emperor of Persia is called the the Emperor of of uh of abini was called Nashi or the neas in English and the Nashi his name actually was the actual name of his was the Nashi was a
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Christian king and the prophet said this is interesting he is a just King why is a just King because he does not persecute his subjects and he does not interfere in their religion notice allowing people the freedom to
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worship is considered to be a just Kingdom now there are some narrow-minded Muslims amongst us who think that an Islamic state is one a utopic Islamic State state would be one in which all freedoms are banned of religion you have to be a Muslim and if
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you're not Muslim then you have a million and one restrictions on you our Prophet is praising a Christian King calling him a just King why because you have the freedom to worship now is it possible that a Christian can be praised for this
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freedom and yet our sh tells us that we shouldn't have this Freedom think about I'm just asking you to think about it is it possible that a Christian King can be praised that he is a just King he has
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a why because he's not going to persecute you for your faith the government the government the Islamic government does not have the right to ban other religions talk we're talking about ideal Islamic government if it even exists in
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where of course it doesn't ex exist I'm talking about this utopic government that some of our uh more narrow-minded overzealous youngsters especially daydream about it's it's it's it's not a real vision and historically speaking we have always had non-muslim minorities
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living in Muslim lands always if that were not the case 10% of Egypt is still Coptic Christian 10% I mean do you think that for 14 centuries they have this freedom and it is UN Islamic to infringe on those freedoms now no doubt that the
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laws were slightly different there's no question about that but in essence the government cannot ban a religion it cannot and Scholars have differed does this apply only to uh Judaism and Christianity or other religions as well and the correct
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opinion it applies to any religion what is the evidence for this when the Muslims conquered Persia the prophet only said Jews and Christians it's true he said that when the Muslims conquered Persia the Persians were of what religion zarrian pares zarrian majus
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right and so they they by unanimous consensus and the majus are fire worshippers they are not right by unanimous consensus the Muslims accepted them as basically similar to right and therefore the correct opinion and mentioned this is that this applies to
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any religion even paganism that and this is of of course the Muslims of India the M of India they follow this position right that even if you're a pagan doesn't matter we're not going to we're not going to ban the
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religion no doubt there are different laws nobody's saying that you know you cannot prze clearly yes we that is you cannot prze to your faith but you cannot ban the religion you have the right to Worship in your centers of worship and
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do uh in your localities as you please and this is something that the Islamic Shar guarantees and this shows us that the perception that many non-muslims have of our religion and even some of our overzealous Muslim Brothers uh this
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is an incorrect perception the fact of the matter is we are guaranteed the freedom to practice uh our faith whatever that Faith might be in an Islamic State uh and the last point that will mention uh the wisdoms of why abisinia
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was chosen we already mentioned the number one wisdom in the process I mentioned it the number one wisdom is a just King it allows you the freedom of worship number two abisinia was familiar to the qur and to the Muslims because abisinia they had
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some trade agreements they would go and buy and purchase there and so they had some type of contact it's not as if he said go to China they have some type of contact number three it's easy passage you go to Judah which is
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literally a two-day day and a half walk not too far right uh and then in the relative scale of things is neighboring cities right and then from Judah you take a ship to abisinia and that ship is a five six seven hours again so
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basically within two days you could be in abis it's a very short distance it's not a far away distance it's much closer than even Yemen or Rome or any other place it's a very close Place uh number four that they are Christians they're
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not pagans and Christians are very close to us in fact Allah says in the Quran who are they you're going to find the closest of the people love to the Muslims right the ones who have the most love for the
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Muslims those who say we are the Christians the followers of Jesus Christ right and so generally speaking uh Christians have been more uh tolerant and open-minded than many of the other uh religions and that is why this king
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of abisinia it is also said by the way and this is a uh we're never going to find out for sure but there is a theory there there that this King he followed a version of Christianity that was
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not the common version of Christianity pause here for a second when Christan this is a a very interesting tangent but we don't have time I only have 3 minutes left so I'm going to really summarize this when Jesus Christ was raised up we don't
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believe he died as on the crosses you know when he was raised up his followers and the people around him were immersed in a huge confusion what happened to him where is he and within a generation the question
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came who is he what was he and so one group and these were the real Disciples of Jesus Christ like Barnabas and others they believed as we believe that Jesus Christ was a prophet and Messiah uh that he was a noble uh
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person that he obeyed the law he was a follower of the of the law of M another person came along by the name of Paul as you know and Paul had never met Jesus Christ and he he he pretends he claims
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to have met him we we think this is a lie but he says he met him and Paul begins teaching a version of Christianity which is a completely different version that you have to believe in the death and the
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resurrection of Jesus Christ and most importantly you have to believe that Jesus Christ came to abrogate the law you don't have to follow the law that's why the Christians don't have a they don't have a law the Jews do have
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the and the uh they circumcised themselves right the Christians for them these these version of Christians they have no they have no law even though Jesus Christ never ate pork and Jesus Christ was circumcised and Jesus Christ lived the life of a Jew
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but modern day Christians ignore this and they say well Paul says that he has basically abrogated the law and this controversy continued for 300 years we never had any equivalent in our religion of who is God because the
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question is who is God is Jesus Christ God or not is Jesus Christ is the Son of God or not how many gods are there some early Christians believe or not said there are two Gods Believe It or Not
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There are clear Christians that said there are two some says there are three some said there's one these are major questions and there was a lot of controversy one group of Christians remained firm modern day Scholars call them uh Jewish Christians uh or
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Messianic Jews that they considered Jesus Christ to be the Messiah which is what we believe right and these were the real Muslims one group of Christians were the Pauline Christians and they said Jesus Christ is a Son of
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God and he abrogated the law and eventually Paul never preached a trinity by the way eventually the Trinity was added to this belief that there's three Gods there are three that rule in heaven right you never find this anywhere in
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the Old Testament again even in the New Testament with a lot of difficulty you find some references uh to this concept you never find it in the words of Jesus Christ to make a long story short so Constantine the emperor comes along and
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this is in 3:21 he Embraces is Christianity right and Constantine makes a huge Council called the Council of NAA and he invites all the Bishops of the Christian world the first time ever that all the bishops come together and you have opposing
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factions some who say there's one God some who say there's three some who say is the Son of God some who say this and Constantine basically makes a decree and that is called the Creed the nyine Creed and this Creed the nyine Creed says
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there are three that rule in heaven but these three are not three but they are one go and there are three Essences of the same being three us oawi of the of the same being basically uh I'm not a
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Christian theology so I don't want to go too deep into this but basically 3 equals 1 in a very simplistic manner right this is the nyine Creed now the main opponent of the nyine Creed at the meeting was a man by the name of
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Aras and after this meeting Constantine says he has to be executed because obviously he doesn't agree with this Aras did not agree with the Trinity Aras was the main opponent of the nine creed Aras fled for his life and he fled down
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south what is down south somewhere well this is now the theory this is the theory now and Allah knows that he fled down and the nyine Creed spread to the official Roman Empire and every single version of Christianity afterwards
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there's three main branches in our times Catholics Protestants and Orthodox right and then there are the modern ones the 7th Day Adventists and the Mormons and that but the three classical branches Catholics Protestant Orthodox they all go back to the nyine Creed those that
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are pre nyine Creed have all disappeared there's not a single branch of Christianity that is existent in our times that was of the original pre n create christianities right but it is legend that some small versions of it
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survived in Pockets this Legend I believe it and you should believe it because it's mentioned in Hadith we mentioned some of these Hadi remember Sal fari remember Sal fari what was his story what did his priest tell him I
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don't know of anybody left Upon My Religion except that guy go to him remember that story right and then he goes and he goes until finally when he meets the last one what does that guy say I don't know anybody left Upon Our
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version of Christianity didn't he say that right and that version of Christianity was true Islam and therefore there is a theory that Nashi was influenced by aras's group and therefore when Islam came to him that's why instantaneously what did he say what
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did what did Nashi say this comes from the the same well as Jesus Christ came from right he instantaneously recognized it and this is the theory that because aras's influence was in that part of Africa we know this for a fact perhaps
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some of those influences remained and therefore uh Nashi was influenced by that final Point nashi's grave is a well-known grave uh in abisinia it's still known to this day where it was uh and sadly some people have taken as a
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shrine but it's a well-known grave and I know a number of people that have been there and seen the grave of Nashi inallah next Wednesday we have a very very interesting uh where we will talk about the quote unquote Satanic
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Verses and what are the Satanic Verses and so that is uh insh very interesting so make sure you come prepared with uh paper and Pen cuz that's going to be very academic as well unfortunately we don't have time for Q&A uh but
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