2011-06-08 Seerah pt.4 - Religious status of the pre-Islamic world - Yasir Qadhi

Mila rahmanir rahim alhamdulillah wa salatu was-salam ala rasoolillah he was ugly he was happy he woman wada am i bad we continue from where we had left off talking about the serie of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and we are still talking about the situation of arabia before the coming of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and in today's lecture inshaallah Utada we're going to shed some light upon the religious status of the arabic allah for the religious status of the arabs before the advent of the prophets asylum and in fact the religious status of the world and the reason why we need to illustrate this the reason why we need to talk about what people believe before the coming of the processor is to appreciate the blessings that the Prophet system came with when we understand pre Islam we will appreciate Islam just like we understand opposites when we understand black we understand white when we understand night we understand day we always look at opposites to appreciate each thing we contrast so when we understand jahiliya when we understand the idolatry paganism that was prevalent in pre Islam we will appreciate the blessings that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala gave through our prophet SAS at him by sending our prophets of the law of Allah he will send them to the world now we know that every nation had prophets Allah says no Quran wa in min Oh matin el allaha la Vieja Nydia every OMA had a prophet so the Arabs as well had a prophet and their prophet was of course the prophet ibrahim alayhis salam and his son is married and that is why numerous times in the quran allah mentions maleta a become ibrahim this is the religion of your for father Ibrahim and the prophet ibrahim alayhis salam had sanctioned many practices which remained for thousands of years until the coming of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so of the practices that ibraheem alehissalaam began was to consider makkah sacred what is it mean sacred we call Makka harem from the same word as Haram is the same word harriman Haram Haram is called Haram because many things that are hella outside the harem or Haram inside the harem this is what we call it the harem it's a sanctity so for example you're not allowed to hunt game in the harem you see a wild deer you cannot go hunt it this is a harem you're not allowed to pull a tree you cannot pull a leaf from the harem and everything that is natural it's a lust creation you cannot touch it Allah says in the Quran women - allahu kana amina whoever enters the harem is safe and this is a ruling we still apply in our sharia that if a criminal if any evil person does a crime and he runs to the harem seeking refuge then allah says he is safe because this is a harem and the jahaly arabs upheld this even abbas said we would see in the days of jahiliyya we would see a person would see the murder of his father doing Tawaf and he wouldn't touch a hair on his head you can't do anything this is the harem right so Ibrahim sanctioned the harem showing respect to the kappa rahim alehissalaam sanctioned them instituting the sacred months there are four sacred months in our Sharia in these sacred months all hostility has to cease you're not allowed to engage in any warfare everybody must be at peace and of course this is a boost to economy when you have warring tribes that Allah says no in these four months there must be peace doesn't matter what the excuses so this boosts the economy it brings about peace and society of the things that ibraheem alehissalaam instituted of course was the hedge with all of its rights and rituals doing Tawaf doing side between safa and marwah the the aspect of sacrificing animals around the harem the aspect of decorating animals this is a thing that a lot of people don't know but even in our Sharia when we assign an animal to to sacrifice people would take it from their villages from their from their cities and travel to Makkah with it those animals are decorated their garland did there put the decorations reported them so everybody knows that these animals have been dedicated to the poor of the harem so where did this come from from the prophet ibrahim alayhis salam quick footnote here many non-muslim researchers they say these aspects of Islam are taken from pagan culture because the pagans venerated the Kaaba as the holy sanctuary and the pagans had Toland the pagans did this and the pagans did that now this is all perspective is the glass half empty half full it's all a matter of perspective for the non-muslims they're not looking at the fact that this is coming from Ibrahim and they think that these are pagan rituals so the prophecies in him according to their perspective adopted certain things from paganism and then he added his own two cents for us we say no he resurrected the original teachings of the prophet ibrahim alaih-is-salaam and he cleansed away the paganism so if the Arabs had a prophet and if this prophet is ibraheem and ibraheem is teaching to heed where did paganism come from simple question Ibrahim is a Ponto he one God he doesn't have idols it's my one guy where does paganism come from our prophecies that I'm told us so then we have a historical fact because a prophecy said it our prophet saw some told us when and where paganism began and how it began hadith is and saw a Muslim he said I saw I'm even LaHaye al-husari he mentions one person am i blue hey al Hosea wandering around in the fire of hell with his entrails cut open behind him Mina's there very severe punishment I saw how many blue hey Hosea being punished in a humiliating manner why the prophecies Adam said he was the first to bed della Dina is smile notice he said Dean is mine it's Maria's religion Ibraheem and his men they had a deal they had a religion that is Islam the first person to change it was a medieval oh hey Eleazar and he was also the first person to introduce superstitions Allah says in the Quran masha'Allah min ba hairatan well si ability well I will say that in what a ham these are four types of animals and I haven't even memorized them because they're so complicated if the seventh female of a seventh female camel is born these types of weird superstitions in other words if you have the the second mail from a third female something like this weird permutation that particular animal has to be killed for the gods so you work out superstitions you work out charms you work out all of these pagan istic stuff he was the one who began this and it is narrated that I'm real oh hey travel to Syria and the Syria they had the Ahmadiyya the Amalekites they an allele and the Amalekites are mentioned in the Old Testament and they are an ancient civilization and they are a civilization the Old Testament Kazem of giants meaning there were tall people and they had structures and they had a civilization and when he visited the I'm a Leo the Arabic is called an American English in western language is called the Amalekites when he visited the Ahmadiyya he found them worshipping idols and he found them to be this powerful civilization so he said what are these idols so they said these are our sources of power when we're in drought when we're in hunger when the enemy attacks we pray to these idols and miracles happen so he said can you gift me one of these idols I'll bring it back home I want to take it back so they gave him an idol by the name of ho bell and so who Bell became the first Idol of the Arabian Peninsula and it also became the main Idol of the Quraysh and that is why hundreds of years later in the Battle of a hood when Abu Sufian thought that they had won he screamed out or aloo hooble hooble has won because he's fighting against the Muslims he mentions the idol that I made a blue halo sorry whoo Bell has won and so the profitsystem said respond back to him don't let this go by respond back to him so I OMA double hopped off said how do I respond back so the prophets have said that say that Allah is our protector and you have no protector allahu mallanna voila mola alaikum now the point being that I made Abdullah hai brought back this Hoban and he put it in front of the Kaaba and this was the first time that paganism started is also said that I'm a little high changed the talbiya for hedge and some people say it was changed a few generations after him so what was that BIA what is tell BIA we all know tell me we should not tell via Lebec allahumma labbayk this is what we say when we go for hedge what is the baked mean lebesgue means I am responding o Allah I'm answering the call why because Allah from the time of Ibrahim Allah announced hedge what a thief in a civil hedge there's an advance for hedge calling people for hedge so there's a eternal call come to hedge when we go to hedge we say 'la bake I'm responding to the call I hear the call the bake so Ibraheem Allison was the one who began lebay columella Baker Baker Eddy calacatta bake when this guy a menudo he'll came along he changed it he has to change it because part of the talbiya says la vega la sharika lak well he's changing the religion there are shedding shedding means partner there are shedding now so he changed it he modified it What did he say and this hadith is in Sai Muslim that the the Quraysh had a different tell via what was their talbiya labbayk allahumma labbayk Lebec allah sharika lak so far so good and then they say Allah there's an Allah accept this doesn't make sense here will you mean accept how can you have an accept you have no partner accept accept what Allah shadek and who elect am li kui Omar Malek except for a partner who belongs to you and you control the partner and you control all that he controls you have partners but you're the big boss that's according to them just like ancient Greek ancient Rome there's the big boss Jupiter's or Jupiter's use these the big people and then you have the minor gods so the Quraysh invented this new fangled interpretation now how many of little high when did he live I tried a lot to do research about we can can we find the date or not and of course the reality is we're not going to find the date because the Arabs did not record things in dates the were like the ancient Chinese they recorded things in occasions the year when the elephant attacked a midfield right this is how they record things they didn't have a calendar they didn't import the Roman calendar they didn't import the Persian can deter of course they didn't believe in the Jewish calendar until in rabbinical Bob began the islamic calendar the arabs did not have a calendar when you don't have a calendar how are you going to demarcate dates by big events this was the year when we had that battle so we remember that year and then a few years later something else happened so they remember that year in between they can say two years after the big battle three years before the incident of the elephant this is how they would have dates so obviously when it comes to translating when I'm done oh hi al Jose I lived it is impossible for us to fully comprehend however what I did was I went back to figure out what generation did he belong to and he belonged to a generation which is basically around the generation of fear who is the original founder of Quraysh so assuming that every generation is around forty years 45 years rough guess Ameer Abdullah hey Ilocos I was in the 1st century of the Christian era the first century of the Christian era and our Prophet SAW salam was born in the 6th century of the Christian era right 570 or so this is roughly the date seee when he was born we'll talk about that next week inshallah the day in the year he was born and the Christian equivalent around 570 571 C II of the Christian era our process Iran was born so around 500 years before the coming of our Prophet SAW said I'm Alma de Brito hi introduces Hoebel so it takes five centuries of pure paganism to spread to all of Arabia now question arises how could one man single-handedly change the religion of Ibraheem and Ismail this is a question that we should ask ourselves and benefit from in order not to fall into this trap one man can change the religion of their forefather Abraham and is married how so Allah who are them but I I think that we can summarize it in two factors first and foremost the inferiority complex that Amarillo hay had towards the advanced Amalekites America because the Amalekites were a powerful civilization they were civilization that had history writing architecture large buildings they were known to be undefeated and that's what the Old Testament also mentions that the Amalekites are the feared this is the the the the nation that is indestructible everybody is scared of them and they're described to be Giants meaning probably there may be six and a half seven foot tall the average person amongst them they're a generation there's a group of people whom the world looks up to so I'm going to know how I felt a complex that these are the mighty nation we should take from them and everything so because the Syrian society the Amalekites were so powerful I'm a liberal I assumed they must be correct in everything and it is very important that we take from this lesson things that we benefit from in our times simply because a nation is powerful doesn't mean it has the correct morality the correct ethics the correct theology simply because a nation has technology or a civilization or architecture doesn't mean it is better in everything yes it's better in some things but not in everything so here we have amativeness I was so astounded that these Amalekites can never be defeated they have this and that surely there must be upon guidance so he took from them their theology now suppose he did who is he to be accepted amongst his people here we get to the second factor so the first factor was that the Amalekites were considered to be so powerful and mighty there's an inferiority complex the second factor Alma de loja was not just a lay person he was the chieftain of huzzah who is huzzah you remember a few weeks ago I mentioned very briefly the history of mecca for 500 years very briefly just a few paragraphs and we mentioned that the descendants of isma eel were for a period of time kicked out of mecca until casaya came and re conquered Mecca right so for this period of time who was in charge Xhosa so in a way there's a matter of is they here the Quraysh did not introduce idolatry cause I did however we said Quraysh followed them so there's a negative there but what I did not introduce idolatry was that I did huzzah is another tribe not Koresh so Hosea was in charge of Macanudo Koresh an album delhi was their chieftain and this chieftain was considered to be one of the most respected chieftains of Arabia and it is said that he had a lot of power that he won a number of victories that he defended Mecca against foreign invasions that he was a generous man so his people loved him so when his people loved him and he imported a theology then the people followed and we can add a third reason here and that is that there must have been at least 2,000 years since the time of Ibrahim to Amarillo hey we talked about this in the second or third lesson how many years between Abraham and our time at least 2,000 years must have gone by between Abraham and Ishmael and a medieval high so we have now there for a long time where there's no guidance there's no prophets where the message of the prophets has become diluted where ignorance prevails and these are the three factors then number one inferiority complex you think that a civilization is better everything must be right about them number two the person who says it has credentials his prestigious and number three ignorance that will lie he these three factors we need to understand them right now as we speak in 2011 because well LA our religion is being bombarded by a lot of people and we have the exact same three factors people are saying very strange things people are wanting us to accept complete variations of our religion why well like the exact same three things number one is in Ferrari complex towards another civilization which might indeed be the most powerful technologically militarily might have the most civilization in some aspects but that doesn't mean that morally theologically ethically they are the leaders of the world we have is through our Quran and Sunnah and we have the truth and simply because a nation is more powerful than us militarily it doesn't mean that they are more closer to the truth in us number two we have people with lots of credentials people who are being promoted by others as being the Reformers and whatnot that these are the people we need to listen to these are the Martin Luther's of Islam that we're being told right and they have mashaallah PhDs and whatnot from the fanciest universities and they have the gift of the tongue and they have publications and they are famous and they're very intelligent just like a medulla I was accepted and number three ignorance the average Muslim does not know his religion inside out and then when somebody comes and speaks in generic slogans then it's very easy to be mesmerized it's very easy to fall prey and well it might not be may be as bad as but still we're facing an onslaught of changing of the faith and alhamdulillah hum did other people that are talking about this and against this and correcting these misconceptions but I think is very pertinent to discuss these three factors of amer aben Lou hi al Jose so how many blue hi as we said lived around four or five hundred years before the coming of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there are even narrations and Allah knows best these are simply found in the books of history we're never gonna know if they're short or not that shape on inspired him through a dream because Shaitaan also inspires by the way Shaitaan also sends why Shaitaan gives why and allah azza wajal also gives ye but the way of shape on comes from him and it is evil and allah is why he is pure and comes from allah subhanho wa taala allah says in the quran were in the shelter inna layer una era olia am Leo jeju-do come that chil teen inspire their people so that they can come and argue and debate with you so Shaitaan himself gives way so there are some books of history that mentioned that shape on inspired ie through a dream through whispering to a medieval Ojai the names of the original idols that first began idolatry on this earth and these are names mentioned in the Quran how did I dolla tree begin Allah mentions in the Quran the people of Noah were the first people to invent idolatry rock Allah la ilaha Tacoma voila you know what Dan voila sua and voila Yahoo tha yr oka when also five names and even Abbas mentions the story and this is you can imagine this is at a time when there's only one village on earth there's only one civilization and these five people complicated names but these are the original men what's who are you who they are open awesome these five people were righteous men good people and when they died the people built images statues icons of them to remind them of their piety and slowly but surely as generations kept on going instead of just looking at the statue to be reminded of the piety they began worshipping the statue it's a stepping stone as Shaitaan used it so it is said that shaitaan inspired a medieval high to resurrect these five idols and subhanAllah in ways we have to explain that these five idols were in fact worshiped in Arabia when the profitsystem came even though they had not been worshipped for millennia and yet when the profitsystem came there was one tribe that had wood one tribe that had sua one tribe that a yahoo that had not sold all of these were there how would these names resurrected some books of history say it was this man Alma did middle height al azhar and he put one stone in front of the Kaaba and this is the Hubble and then from this people began proliferating idols how so well the first thing that they did is that they began worshipping this is really interesting they began worshipping the stones that the Kaaba was built with how so we learned from the traditions that whenever a caravan left Mecca they would chip away and take a rock from the Kaaba and they would take this rock as being equivalent to an idol and whatever they went they would then put the rock there and then worship this stone what was the stone the building blocks of the Kaaba now we as Muslims this is something a lot people don't think about we don't consider the bricks of the Kaaba to be sacred and holy the bricks of the Kaaba are just clay and sand it is the location that is holy it's not the marble of the floor it's not the the silk covering of the Kaaba it's not the bricks that the Kaaba is used to built with it is the place that Allah created and the Kaaba a lot of people don't know this is rebuilt every few decades it's just like any structure how long does it building last you know the last reconstruction of the Kaaba who can guess when it happened the current gabba that we see now who knows one doesn't one was this cab a built the people who live and visit frequently know around ten years ago the current Kaaba is literally only ten years old that's it there is nothing holy about the Kaaba it is the area it is the land of Mecca that is sacred the Kaaba comes and goes and after another fifty years is going to grow weak the foundations are going to be crumbling they're gonna have to rebuild it but the people of the of the Mecca at the time they didn't realize this they did they let paganism seep in so they would take bricks of the Kaaba and then they would worship those bricks and of course this is the stepping stone to idolatry another Sahabi who accepted islam a barrage ax and rope oddity a mirage of authority mentions that before islam came we used to worship rocks and stones hadith is a Muslim we used to worship rocks and stones and if we found a rock that looked more beautiful than the rock we were worshipping we would throw that rock away and put the other rock in his place and if we were travelling in the desert and we couldn't find a rock listen to this we would gather some sand put it into a pile bring a goat squeeze some milk out of it to make the sand firm and then do pull off around that sand now well I it is mind-boggling to think intelligent people will do this but if you go to some countries on earth I'm not going to mention anything here because people might get offended but if you go to some places on earth holà hé every street corner you go to the middle of the the jungles and you will find people have built a mausoleum or a structure a pagan temple and you and you look and you see there is a rock with red painting or yellow painting on it just a rock and you find people putting meat in front of the rock and putting butter and putting you know sweets in front of the rock and it's mind-boggling that to this day people can act like this that they're gonna give their acts of worship they're going to prostrate they're going to lower their heads to a wood or a rock or a stone and when you read this you wonder subhanAllah but then you see it with your own two eyes and you say no this is still here and then we talk about those who do this in our own religion and our own culture there are some Muslims who do the same with graves what Saints with mausoleums the same thing you see it in many Muslim countries you go and you find Muslims literally bowing bowing their head down in front of the grave of a saint of a wali of appear doing toe-off around the grave and you wonder where is Leila in the law this is exactly what the jolly Arabs did one of the most disgusting stories to be honest is that of niala and herself not Allah and herself now illa and i staff were two idols now illa was put on sofa and herself was put on Marwa and so the Quraysh when they did go off they would touch now allah and i staff when they're going back and forth when islam came the muslims felt hesitant how can we do say when it's meant to commemorate now allah and i staff so allah revealed in the Quran the verses that we all know in no sofa while Murata min sha Allah Safa and Marwah are holy before now illa Ana staff were put there Safa and Marwah are from the signs of Allah before not at NSF became Safa and Marwah are from the signs of Allah so whoever does hedge then let him there is no sin on you if you do tow off is I between them there's no sin meaning don't feel guilty there's no evil in Safa and Marwah what is not NSF Aisha says that since we were children we were hearing the story of Nile and I serve the legends that they have not in an Asif may Allah forgive us for even narrating such disgusting things but this is what the books of history say there were two lovers male and female not in an ACEF the half is the melon and as the female there were two lovers and they could not find a place to be intimate because they were not married except the interior of the Kappa so they consummated their romance inside the Kappa and as a punishment Allah destroyed them and solidified and petrified them right then in there now when the Irish came across them they actually took them has a miracle and they put these two on Safa and Marwah and that is why the Muslim said how can we do this i between safa and marwah so Allah said look Safa and Marwah have nothing to do with nada and I said so this is the story of not NSF again it shows you the paganism that the Eid Arabs were upon and we also know that when the Prophet SAW said I'm conquered Mecca they were around 360 idols around the cab 360 idols of various shapes and sizes some idols were in the shape of full humans some were in the shape of animals most of them were in the shape of half-human half-animal and you know to this day the children's fairy tales have horse and half you know human and half lion and just like the Sphinx of Egypt or you know the the centaurs this type of theology we read in the books of history that most of these idols were humanoid a little bit of human a little bit of animal and they would then put these these statues around the Kaaba also we learn that the Quraysh had the theology that Allah has daughters and that these daughters are his angels and they would worship the Angels they would worship the angels thinking that these are the daughters of Allah so they would consider the Angels to be the daughters of Allah now the arabs did not have a specified theology they didn't have a creed you know we as Muslims we have a Creed we believe in Allah and the angels the day of judgment Qatar we have a Creed we need to understand that societies that are idolatrous pagan istic societies they don't have creeds for example Hindus are the most clear example of idolatrous religion Hindus don't have Creed's if you ask 10 different Hindus what their religion is you'll get 10 different answers right because there is no unified Creed there's no Athleta as we call it and one Hindu can worship one God another can worship another god and you can have six million Hindus worship being six million gods different and each one has a different perception of what his God can or cannot do this is all legit in their religion because there is no unified cream the same goes for the Arabs that there was no unified creed many of them believed in a day of judgment many of them denied it many of them believed this many of them did it there is no unified creed but the one thing that they all agreed upon is that we need to worship these idols to come closer to allah subhanahu wata'ala they have some form of idolatry does this mean that the entire society was idolatrous no history records that there were some exceptions to this rule and it is very interesting to look at these exceptions and to derive some benefit and wisdom from this and the books of ceará mentioned that they were a handful of people called Hanif who Natha plural kunafa singular Hanif and Hanif means Hanif means turning away from so the Hanif or hanifa are turning away from and turning to allah subhanho wa taala this is what Hanif means that they're turning away from and they're turning to Allah we mentioned some of the stories of the vanessa one of the most interesting hanifa which we only have literally four or five paragraphs of knowledge about this o Sieben sorry de tous eben sorry de tous eben Saida was not from the krrish he was from the Banu Yad a tribe that was far away in modern-day around Oman and behind that area and post eben Saida was probably around 80 90 of course the books generally exaggerate they say hundred hundred fifty some even say 300 but Yanni we can imagine him as an old man when the profitsystem saw him as a young man so the prophecies on a met host even Saida when he was in his 20s and roasted inside that would come to Mecca for the hedge remember the hedge is a universal it's a universal right people from all over Arabia are coming so I live inside they came from the venue yacht and he was preaching against idolatry and it is mentioned that he was one of the most eloquent of the poets and his poetry or his reges which is not quite poetry it's a manner of speaking some people have said it it is the most resembling of the language of the Quran and this shows us that he was upon the Fatah and the closest to the religion of Islam so for example he has and I quote some Arabic here yeah a Johannes isma'u wa'u who means to understand isma'u wa'u way the sameera to interfere in a menage a mad woman Matta fact well cool Ummah who were at in at and he goes on oh people listen to me and understand and when you hear then benefit because whoever lives of a surety will die and whoever dies has finished there's nothing more for him to do and everything that Allah has decreed will indeed come about and he has yah mashallah yad yad is his tribe Yashiro yad anetha mood wad Anil ABBA one edge dad Anil ma ruefully dilamuca valve Ullman didn't immune come Aqsa Oksana push Balaji in Nadella here adenine albumin Denis come hada o people of yard where is the mood where is add where are your father's and where are your grandfather's and who will reward the one who does good but he was never rewarded and who will punish the one who does injustice but he was never punished in other words do you think this is it do you think there's no Hereafter who's gonna reward the one who does good but he was never thanked and who's gonna punish the one who does evil but he was never punished he's referencing the day of judgment I swear by Allah that there must be a religion better than the religion you are upon he doesn't know it because there's no prophecy he doesn't know it because the prophecies amazed not yet been sent and it is said many many years later in the ninth year of the Hegira this is fifty or forty years after the process in the first meadows that when the Banu Yad came to accept Islam the Prophet sallam said where is course even yet who amongst you knows him so they said he died long time ago for decades or something ago so the prophets SM said I remember him on a camel a red camel and I remembered that he had mesmerizing a speech can anybody amongst you remind me of it so they reminded him of that speech and this is some of what I narrated to you right now so they reminded him of a cassette and the prophecies in him liked what host had said and this shows that there was some remnants of tawheed the most important her NAFA were for this is one of them but the fourth the more the most important were four and we have a number of details about them even Hisham narrates a very beautiful story he says that before the coming of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom the Quraysh held a huge festival outside of Mecca and they invited the entire city to celebrate with their idols and they exalted their idols they sacrifice they did to offer and their idols when the entire village or the entire city of Makkah left for people found themselves remaining behind and they realized when they found themselves remaining behind that they are all upon the same wavelength they're too embarrassed to tell people about this so they didn't want to go when they let the whole society leave the city is empty for a few days lo and behold they thought they're going to be alone four people were there so when the four people realize that we're all in the same wavelength here they said let us befriend one another and let us not tell our people about our affair that we disagree with this idolatry these four people were number one waraqa even no fan even I said who is waraqa even no Philemon I said well if we mentioned one more person khadija bint awaited even I said khadija bint khuwaylid even Asad waraqa bin nawfal eben I said so what a kind Khadija our cousin's waterken Khadija our cousins but what a powers around fifty or forty years older because his father was the oldest and hadiya's father was the youngest of the brothers so he is around forty years older than Khadija so number one what I've got a been offal number two rubella eben Josh obeyed Allah even josh is the prophet's asam's cousin through his mother so the prophets asanam his aunt is there a way that I'm the Josh mother aunt meeting abdomen thought of his daughter so Abdul Muttalib his daughter the prophets of Saddam's aunt is related I'm Josh smothers so he's the processor his cousin number two with my liberal awaiteth and number three zaid IBN amer aben no fail and he is the cousin of umar IBN al-khattab even no fail I'm gonna blow kebab and Satan amber amber Andrew and al-kitab are brothers so rumor is that first cousin of zaid IBN amer but once again zeta is like 40 50 years older than her MA so these are the four once again what I've been no fell robe Adel I have been Josh if my tablet awaited and they did Naomi W Dufresne so these four said let us befriend one another and not tell anybody about our affair we all know that our people are upon misguidance that they had left the pure religion of ibrahim are we going to do toll off around the stone are we going to sacrifice to a stone that can neither benefit us nor harm us let a search for the original religion of ibraheem alehissalaam let us search for the Hanafy ax and that's why allah calls abraham hanifa the Quran Allah says that a mill that Ibrahim ax hanifa in over eight verses Allah calls Ibrahim hadith and the Arabs knew that Ibrahim was Hanif and therefore these people are saying let's search for the honey fee of Ibrahim so they all split up and they all left Mecca for a while searching for the truth as for what Allah even nofa he eventually chose Christianity and he studied his books and he learned Hebrew and Aramaic and he rejected the religion of the people of the Quraysh and he was a convert to Christianity well of course we know his story that he was an old blind man in his 80s when the profitsystem at the age of 40 heard bismi rabbika alladhi Halak and everybody knew that this was a learned scholar he's a eccentric academic for the Meccan standards he reads and writes he's a genius if you can read and write in Mecca you're you're a tenured professor you're a big shot there okay he reads and writes and he speaks Hebrew and Aramaic so when if Korat came down Khadija held onto the hand of the press and said let's go to Morocco cuz he knows what's going on here he knows this stuff where this is not a part of our civilization we never seen this before let's go to war akka and so what Allah was the one who recognized yes this is what we've been waiting for and panel a is very interesting if you ask the average Muslim who is the first convert they say Abu Bakr people jump over no the first convert is water after Khadijah we can say the first male convert is what up before Abu Bakr because even before the Dawa began even before the process and realize he's a prophet what akka understood was going on because the possums didn't did not understand what did I see what was this entity that came to me and so what akka said this is the same entity who came to Musa came to Jesus this is Jubilee this is the namu she called him so it's the the secret companion he's the one whom Allah sends to the prophets and what about was Owen who said to him how I wish I were a young man I've been searching my whole life for the truth can you imagine can you imagine he must have spent 60 70 years waiting for the truth and now when he's just about to hide he hears the process in him so he regrets he said how I wish I were a young man now so that I could support you when your people persecute you and expel you and this was the first shock to the profitsystem my people will expel me my people are gonna oppose me and because what occur at this time knew the history of the previous nations he said yes never has any prophet come with the truth except that his own people opposed him so this is what a firebender fun and hadiza says family betta just a little while after this conversation he passed away the first Muslim who died in Mecca was waterFire been no fan obeyed alive in josh has the saddest story Roubaix dilemna josh converted to christianity and he was the cousin of the processer him so when the profitsystem began preaching he accepted islam and he married Oh miss ulema and they then migrated to Abyssinia so he was a Muslim but he became a mooted when he reached Abyssinia and he reverted back to Christianity and that was when of course a mr. LaMotte to leave him and he died shortly after that and then the Prophet system proposed an Domus enema became his wife and there's a whole story there about her widowed Emma Josh which we don't have time for but one simple benefit that we can derive from this and it's a very important benefit if you become more dead in a land that is not ruled by the Sharia this is your freedom doesn't you cannot do anything so the whole question I'm saying this now because our religion is being attacked you guys have a blasphemy law if somebody these are religion after cut his head off that's what we're told the response is very simple know our Sharia tells us that in lands that are not ruled by Islam or obey the lemma Josh converted back to Christianity nobody harmed a hair on his head there's this is the land of negus the land of nagashi do as you please it's not the land where the Sharia is going to be implemented so in lands other than the land of is there's no question that Shetty I would say that we don't implement that and of course whether we implement or not even in Islamic Lancers whole long conditions for them this is the second person or with the Lebanon is the third with my tablet awaiteth with my tablet awaiteth he too accepted Christianity so out of these four three accepted Christianity what eventually accepted Islam or within that accepted Islam that went back to Christianity earth man remained a Christian till he died and we don't know whether he ever heard the Prophet systems message because uber if my tablet awaiteth left Mecca never to return he left Mecca now when did this incident take place probably probably before the birth of the Prophet SAW Sodom or if it took place when he was like he would have been a little child because you do the math what Allah is in his 80s when the Prophet system is 40 so when did this took place maybe one was in his twenties so the Prophet most likely again this is all assumptions most likely this scattering took place before the processor was even born now earth manipulated travel to Rome and he eventually made his way up into Caesars Palace and it is said he became an interpreter because they needed Arab interpreters so he accepted Christianity and so he was given a lot of money a lot of prestige and he became a Christian and he died a Christian so these are the three out of the four the last one Zaid abominably to fail has the most interesting story and the prophecy said him had a number of encounters with him zadie been a little fade did not accept Christianity or Judaism because he was not impressed with either of them and it is narrated that he told both the Jewish rabbis and the Christian priests that he met that this is not the religion of Ibraheem and you know it this is not the religion of ibraheem and you know it so Zeta benamber returned back to Makkah and he told the people once he had now become mature and respected or people of Quraysh there is no one left upon the religion of Ibrahim in this whole city other than me all of you have rejected the religion of Ibrahim and a smart venti Abu Bakr the older sister of Aisha smiles around 20 years the nitrous is way older than Ayesha a smart binti abu-bakr I remember she was a very young girl so asma bint ABI bakr says that she remembers as a young child seeing as they did nam did a no-fail rebuking the Quraysh for worshipping idols for giving meat to the idols for trying to bury their daughters alive and in fact in some how how beautiful of it is this when any hora she wanted to kill his daughter Zaid would say give her over to me I will take care of her and I will bring her up she'll become my daughter so he would adopt all of the daughters that the Quraysh wanted to kill and this shows us his generosity and his kind heart and he forbade any daughter to be killed and said give them to me and I will raise them in my household and he refused to participate in any of their idolatry it is authentically mentioned that the professor said I met they didn't know fate when he was a young man when the process was a young man before the prophecy began and he asked him what is Masha look what is the matter between you and your people why are is there and why is there this animosity so somehow now this shows us the process and even as a young man he wants to study wants to know his inquisitive mind probably has a teenager we don't have an age here we can imagine maybe 17 18 the profitsystem is asking say there's this young child what is the matter what do you believe what do they believe and so as a tip now it would explain to him that I cannot worship idols I cannot do what these people are doing and the process would have found a kindred spirit because as we know the prophesies of himself never worshiped an idol he never bowed his head in front of an idol he never sacrificed me to an idol all of these things he himself did not do so they did not even know faith as we said he continued upon this religion and he died five years before the prophecies and began preaching to heed five years his son Saeed a bin zaid is one of the companions that unfortunately we don't we as Muslims don't know much about even though we should because say the bin zaid is one of the ten who were promised this is one of the big names but unfortunately we don't know much about him meaning we meaning this society not that we don't from the books side a bin zaid was one of the ten who are Asha Abu Bashar this is his son so one day he said o Messenger of Allah you know my father you remember my father and you remember what he was upon what will be his fate in the other you can tell me he's loving is he wants to know ya Tallulah what's gonna be the fate of my father in the affero so the Prophet SAW said I'm said he will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment his own Ummah he is a one-man Ummah without any prophet because he was such a pious person and when he went back from Israel and Mirage you know the famous journey we're going to talk about that he said to say depends aid I enter Jannah and I saw your father Allah had blessed him with not one but two gardens so this shows us that even before the coming of Islam people manage to enter Jenna because they rejected idolatry because they're fit throughout their innate nature told them that something is wrong so they a benalmadena fail is a one-man Ummah this is a trivia question which OMA is there without any prophet and we say the Ummah of is a divan I'm gonna do nothing okay this is an Ummah which is a one-man Ummah without any profit now this shows us the status of the Arabs how about the status outside of Arabia well we've already mentioned that the Roman Empire was upon Christianity and the the assassinate Empire or the Persian Empire was upon their west rainism as Austrians of course they have the concept of the god of fire and the God of Darkness Ahura Mazda an ayah demon so they have a perpetual fire that is lit and they worship that so those austrians are from the islamic perspective a type of idolatry a type of paganism how about the Christianity of Rome well again to make a long story short this is a whole interesting thing in and of itself after allah azza wajal raised the prophet s alehissalaam we can say that they were with thirty forty years there were three major strands of Christianity three major understandings of Christianity the first type is called Gnosticism which we're not going to talk about it's a completely philosophical ossifies understanding Gnosticism it's a very mystical understanding and they pretty much eliminate there's really no Gnostic Christians anymore the two major groups of Christians the first of them are called Jewish Christians this is the name that academics give Jewish Christians and the second some people call them pauline christians falling following paul right so there were Jewish Christians and they were Pauline Christians Jewish Christians they believed amongst other things that they are Jews that they have to follow the law of Musa that they have a Sharia kosher and kashrut and all of these laws that they have to be circumcised and either be our or kosher meat and basically be practicing Jews and that Jesus Christ was sent to the Jews and that he was the promised Messiah I either saz exactly what we believe it's exactly what we believe right now Paul who was never an actual disciple he claimed to be a disciple he claimed to see Jesus Christ in his vision Paul was the one who began a whole new theology what is this theology Jesus Christ has elements of divinity he's not just a man he's a super man some type of divinity Jesus Christ came to destroy the law or to obliterate law or not destroy is not a good word they wouldn't agree with that Jesus Christ came to make the law unfunctional he says he came to replace the law if you believe in Jesus Christ there is no Shetty out and there that the whole question of circumcision is discussed in the New Testament so he said you don't have to circumcise you don't have to do the Sharia anymore and then he began some elements of the Trinity he began this in that so this is called Pauline Christianity for 300 years Christians debated over what is the meaning of Christianity what is Jesus Christ is he a prophet is he a god is his son of what are the Bible what is this and that until finally and the Romans initially you know the Romans were pagan religion right they had the god Jupiter and they had this the Romans were the worst enemies of the Christians and they're these stories that they would find Christians and throw them to the lion pits and they would you know the the Emperor Nero burnt Christians alive he Allah he he made the whole city of Rome burning alight by Christian bodies he would light a Christian for the light bulb of the city so he was they were these were evil people and Christians were martyrs and they were persecuted so for two three hundred years Christians were martyrs until a miracle happen they were probably around three four percent Christians of the Roman Empire until a miracle happened from their perspective and that is the emperor converted to Christianity now the Ikuko equivalent would be in our times if the President of the United States converted to Islam because we are around five six percent and Christians were around five well some say he's already a Muslim we're not getting into that theory okay mr. Hussein Sahab we're not gonna talk about him but the equivalent would literally be you're a minority religion you're a five percent religion and then the emperor converts to your religion this is what happened with Christianity right Constantine was the first convert of the Roman Empire to Christian the first emperor sorry to convert to Christianity now Constantine isn't just some Joe on the street he's the Emperor so he's not gonna have these bickerings going on so he convenes a whole council all your Christians were fighting come let's let's have a let's have a dialogue and let's figure out what Christianity is and then he wanted a certain version of Christianity were just zooming this quickly through because he's a pagan from before so he wants a little bit of a pagan istic element of Christianity and so from that we get the 25th of December we get the concept of halos we get the concept of a Trinity we get this we get the Son of God because they had a son of God in myth right all of this is you know we all of this comes from from Constantine's a decision in 325 in the city of Nicaea which is now in Turkey he held a council called the Council of Nicaea in 325 sieep Constantine decrees official Jannetty is basically Pauline Christianity all other Christians we're gonna do to you what our ancestors did to other Christians we're gonna burn you persecute you kill you so there was a massive outflux an immigration a hijra of original Christians to other lands right and this is why it is said that some of them came to the new Joshi's Kingdom and so the new joshiy Kingdom had more Jewish Christians and others others went to Iran and so Salman al-farsi so we're going to come to is there but the Roman Empire officially banished Jewish Christianity and there was no such thing as Jewish Christianity officially in the Roman Empire so Pauline Christianity then became the standard from Pauline we got the Orthodox the Catholic the Protestant and that's basically 99.9% of Christians the original others are all completely gone now this isn't 325 the process M is born 570 250 years before so we have remnants little bit of references that some of the original Christianity was saved and the most interesting story we have is that of Salman al-farsi Salman al-farsi his story is a very long story is narrated in Muslim Imam Muhammad that it is authentic we'll summarize it and I want all of you to read his story in the books of ceará in more detail because it's simple it's it's it's you don't need you know you can understand it as it is I'll summarize the main points Sandman al-farsi was the son of the priests in Iran in Persia and his father was the one who kept the fire the rest reans they have to keep the fire lit 24/7 it's not allowed for the fire to be turned off and even when they build a new temple they have to import a never lit fire they cannot just light a match and put it there no they have to take the fire because they believe it's eternal they have they believe it's an eternal fire so any new temple that they built they have to take a fire from another temple that's already been burning and then they bring it to the new temple so I asked one of them what you do in America when you built your first temple I mean where'd you get the fire from they said we got a special plane we commissioned a fire to be brought from one of our temples in the plane because we're not allowed to just light a match and put the go into my tangent me stop here get back to the story okay Salman al-farsi Salman al-farsi what was his story Salman al-farsi was the son of the fire keeper so his father taught him how to keep the fire going and what not so he would go and take care of the fire and come back home that's his job that's that they are priests of the fire they're priests of the Zoroastrian or the Medusa's we call them and they're called in Urdu parses because when Islam came and conquered them they ran away to India and because they were from Persia they were called policies so policy means from Persia but anyway I again digress let me get back here so Seminole Farsi would go to the the fire and keep on lighting it up he said and he's narrating the story history himself he said on the way there on the road there there was a monk who had his small monastery you know the monks had a little cave they have a monastery and he would be worshipping singing his hymns praying all day and all night and it intrigued me that this person has a different religion and I passed by every day and I'd listened to his hymns I'd listened to his chantings so and it was mesmerizing and it attracted me so one day I had the guts the guts to basically go and ask him can you tell me about your religion and so the monk began to preach Christianity to Salman al-farsi and slowly but surely Samana farsi realized that what he's doing is idolatry and what the monk has is a version of tawheed and worship Allah and whatnot so he became attracted to Christianity he secretly converted he secretly converted when his father found out his father locked him up with chains what prevented him from leaving the house tortured him because he's the priest how can your own son convert to so it's a big matter of shame and attempted to exterminate him so salman al-farsi managed to escape from his own house and run away to syria which is the land of christianity and the monk had already told the monk had been executed because he converted the son of the priest so they killed the monk but the monk had told told him that go to such and such a monastery and you will find people of my thought my inclination don't go to any other monastery so we know that this monk was not upon Pauline Christianity because he's telling him don't go to the capital don't go to Rome go to this particular you know monastery I'll tell you which one this is where I come from and you go there so SIL manifest went there and then to make a long story short every time he went he became the disciple the main disciple of the monk and the monk taught him how to worship he remained a Christian when each one died he would tell him to go to another one and this happened four times when each one died he was he okay now you go to this guy so he went to that can he went there when he came to the fourth one you can imagine I was probably around 70 80 years old now Sandman a Pharisee has these legends that he lived for 300 years once again we understand a little bit of legends maybe he lived up to 100 hundred fifteen something he was the longest the oldest of the Sahaba in Medina and he was a very old man when he accepted Islam so when the fourth one when the fourth one is about to die listen to what he says he says but my companions who sent you eventually all over to me my group of people I don't know anybody remaining upon that understanding of Christianity all gone now this was the group that we had but I don't know anybody left upon our understanding of Christianity but you have come to a time when the Promised One is about to come we know this now this is a version of Christianity which is not Pauline so they have knowledge that is not found in the New Testament because one thing Constantine did and this is really sad but it destroyed his Christian history he chose the four books that are now part of the New Testament and he burned all the other books that opposed his theology all the Jewish Christian books you know the books of the Bible that we have right there's the four famous books Constantine chose them because they affirmed his belief and all the other works and writings were burnt in front of his presence so we don't have references a magical and that's why again let me just tell you when the Dead Sea scroll were discovered some of these people were actually Jewish Christians and that's why was such a big find that some groups were they were hiding in the caves of Qumran in in in Jordan the Dead Sea Scrolls you've heard of them maybe like when they were discovered these were some remnants of Messianic Jews which people thought were never there and they were living pre Jesus Christ so they're still have they're waiting for Jesus Christ to come so they have some knowledge and some of them it is said they accepted so again all of that is theory now where people are deciphering it through point being we don't have access to what beliefs they had but sin man and Farsi tells us an authentic hadith that they told him three things what did they tell him they said you're just about to come to the time when the man the Jesus Christ predicted is about to come we know it the signs have been met what are these signs we don't know but these people knew so they're telling Salman the signs have all come and his time is just around the corner so he told Sandman my advice to you is you go seek this man out go seek this prophet out how where am I going to go I will tell you three signs I will tell you three signs number one he shall appear in a land that is full of dates first sign go to the land that is known for dates number two he will have a physical mark on his back in Arabic we call hot teaming and you know the the hot time of the seal the prophecy I'll talk about this inshallah later on but it's a physical mound of hair they say and some say it's even a little bit of a protrusion of the skin the size of a pigeon's egg this small very small even smaller than this right it's a physical protrusion with with beautiful colored hair multicolored hair we've been described not just black multi colored hair coming from between the shoulder blades of the prophet sallallaahu either you set up it's a physical seal on his back this is the second sign number three he said that this man will accept gifts but he's never going to accept charity we will accept gifts but you will never accept charity to this day and our filter you cannot give charity to al Mohammed you cannot give charity to the senders of the process until this day it's not allowed so Salman asked his share died his teacher died this is the fourth shift now from his house so we can imagine you know he's already probably around fifty years old at this time so he asked what is the land that is the most well known for producing dates he asks in Syria he is told the land of there is no Saudi Arabia at that time Saudi Arabia's 1931 hiah hiah hiah which is close to yesterday so he asks around who amongst you is going to hire how can I go to hiber so he is told there are Arab caravans that trade in Damascus here get one of the caravans and go to Haifa now Salman is a monk he's a priest he has no money he has no prestige he has no clan he has no Society and so he says to a group of Arab traders are you going to high bar they said yes we're going to high ever come with us when they came when he joined their Caravan they kidnapped him meaning this they took him as a slave because he has again this is a lawless Society there is no 911 call there is no government and Salman and Salman is not a member of Rome he's not a member of Persia anymore he's in exile he doesn't have people who come and fight for him this is a lawless Society so Salman is taken as a slave and instead of ending up in high bar he is sold to a group of yahood who happen to live in here therapy which is later to be called Medina because he had that sincerity and so for decades he toiled in Medina as a slave as a 70 year old man Spinola as a slave he is toiling in Medina and rumors began to spread of a man claiming to be a prophet and rumors began to spread that he's immigrating to Medina and the who would began to be worried in trepidation because they thought this is the king of the Arabs who's coming and when the king of the Arabs comes and were in trouble and Salman he tells us a story that he was collecting dates from the top of the tree and he heard his to speak with his brother the master and his brother that the king of the Arabs has arrived this is the first Hydra the first day of the age of the king of the Arabs has arrived this he's been waiting for for the last 20 years he literally jumps down and he runs to his master and says what happen did he come did he come and the master slaps him across the head and says go back to your work were you worried about you're a slave get back to your work so Sandman goes back finishes what he's doing when he finishes the toy that are assigned to him he takes some of his dates which was his own food and he comes to the process and this is on the second third day that he's in Medina and he says that I heard that you're a stranger in this town here is some charity for you puts it in front so the prophecies in him tells us I have a Kulu eat but he doesn't eat anything the second day after his chores are over he brings another plate and he says today I have come with you with some dates and this is a gift to you so the profitsystem tells us I have a Kulu but he eats as well so Salman now his heart is racing this is a land of dates he's you know one sign has been met now what do I do to get to the third sign so he stands up and he goes behind the process and trying to take a peek if he can look into his shirt to see what he can do and when this old man goes behind the Prophet SAW Sodom and starts peering and peeking the process of understood so he unbuttoned his shirt and he lowered it he lowered it behind his back to literally show him the the the pigeon mark the the the the Hatem and when Salman saw this he began crying and he began wailing and screaming he came and he kissed the hands in the feet of the Prophet SAS at him and he told him his whole story and the Prophet SAW said I'm said we must help you for your freedom and the the people put in a ridiculous price on him when they knew the process and wanted him they said you must give us I forgot I was at 150 um dates 150 date trees date trees sand man says where can I get 150 date trees from so the processing said next time is the season to plant the seeds call me so the profitsystem came with his own hands he planted 100 hundred 50 of those those trees and within a year there was full tree so here's your here's your ransom Sandman you're free and Sandman became a free Muslim why because the profits hasn't paid for his ransom through that Baraka now the point being here that Salman story indicates what how few real Christians were left very few real Christians were left and we only have time for one more and then we'll have to conclude one more story that shows that there were only a few Christians left because the story that is mentioned in sahih al-bukhari and that is the story of the emperor heraclius the emperor heraclius the emperor heraclius was the Emperor at the time of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa seldom and unlike most politicians in the world he was an intelligent and educated man and he was a scholar and he was trained in Christianity and when the prophecies erm wrote a letter to the Emperor's in the eighth and ninth year of the hijra he wrote letters to the Emperor's he wrote one to Heraclius or to be more precise he wrote one to the governor of behind who was the governor of heraclius and so it reached Heraclius and Herakles at that time was visiting Elia which is Jerusalem he was visiting Jerusalem and so it was not supposed to get to him that fast it was supposed to go to the governor but he was in Jerusalem at the time so when he read the letter and the letter says that this is from mohammed rasoolallah emperor of rome aslim taslam accept islam you'll be safe Aslam you take Allah who is rocamadour attain accept Islam Allah will give you a double reward and if you reject Islam then you shall bear the penalty of your whole people because you are their leader so it was a give-and-take ie carrot-and-stick I mean incentive and threat in the letter that you have to accept Islam and what is Islam so the Prophet Heraclius said there's a long story in sahih bukhari again inshallah maybe one day we'll talk about in more detail here quizzed his Vizier are there any Arabs in town they said yes it just so happens that the caravan from Makkah detasheet Iowa's life the caravan from Makkah is in Jerusalem now call them right now to the palace now this is a trading caravan you can imagine the souk and the Emperor's Palace there they're not thinking they're going to come to the palace immediately the Roman guards come to the souk and they march with the Quraysh to the palace they're trembling what did we do what happened and lo and behold it is none other than Abu Sufyan so Abu Sufian gets to meet the emperor of Rome and correctly as an Abu Sufyan have a long conversation which was recorded in Behati maybe well maybe inshallah we'll talk about him next week or the week after that and at the end here at leas after quizzing him tells him that if what you tell me is true then this is the Prophet that our scriptures have predicted pause here there is no prediction in the current New Testament so there must have been scriptures that are hidden from the public and you know there's theories in the Vatican and the Gospel of Barnabas Llanos all of this stuff you know but clearly Heraclius has access to scriptures that the rest of the Christians don't have and of course this makes complete sense because he's the Emperor of Rome and to this day by the way the Vatican Library has books that are unpublished and in you know secret you know whatnot and so here a clea says this is the Prophet that has been predicted and I knew he was coming but it never occurred that he would be from your race I thought he would come from the Jews it never occurred that he would be from your race I didn't think he'd come from the Arabs and Heracles wrote to his confidant who was a bishop one of the highest bishops but we don't know his name unfortunately I wish you could look him up we don't know his name it just says he wrote to one of the bishops of Rome who was on the same wavelength as him and the bishop confirmed yes he meets all of the signs yet Heraclius did not accept Islam because he realized if he accepted Islam then he'd have to give up being the Emperor and when you're the most powerful man on earth then it's too tempting and heraclius refused accept Islam because he could not give up being the Emperor of in order to submit himself to a lodge panel with Dada and therefore he died upon his faith now we conclude by mentioning that in this dismal darkness our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sent and that is exactly what Allah says in the Quran that the process and says in a hadith that Allah in Nara be Amarone and wily mikuma Hylton min ma a lemony Yomi hada my lord has commanded me to teach you that which you were ignorant of and then he says and before his coming were in the law had a novel Allah al aliy family to whom out of my GEMA whom allah i mean idol kitab the hadith is and muslims i Muslim Allah looked at the whole world and he despised everyone mikata home is more than Korea who mr. a shed del Cara hides the most harshest he despised them because of idolatry because of jahiliya because of agonism from makhotin allah except for back ayah some remnants of the people of the book the teachers of salman right these are the only people in la jolla me Nikita so the profitsystem is describing how the world was and that is why we call it jahiliyyah utter jahiliyyah and with the coming of the prophecies and there will never be another jaliyah and that is why allah calls the prophets of nool and allah calls him ramitelli al-amin because after the coming of the process in him there is never going to be that type of jahiliyyah and this shows us that a number of benefits and si shall we conclude number one the first really major benefit from all of this and I want you to understand this point because well la it is so essential living in the current climate where our religion is being bombarded by foreign ideas by alien concepts we're being told we have to reform completely and change our tradition number one guidance only comes from Allah right from our intellect not from our philosophy not from our rationalization the world did not have a prophet or messenger for hundreds of years from the time of ASA to the time of the processor what happened no philosopher could conceive of the truth no theologian no intellectual could guide mankind Allah revealed or on to the prophecies and then Hidayah came the Quran is the hidayah the prophecy Sodom is the nor the Quran is the Shifa without a Las guidance there is no guidance and why is this important because modern mankind believes that guidance is the cumulative experience of what we've done we keep on modifying we keep on adopting we keep on changing what is haram today will become halal tomorrow what is had altitude become Haram tomorrow our grandfathers thought this was not cool we think it is cool so be it it is cool we're progressive we need to understand very firmly here our guidance is the Quran and Sunnah and that is the ultimate guidance we're not going to change the Quran and Sunnah according to the whims of the society according to the taste and the culture of a generation no eternal truth if mankind could not achieve guidance until Allah revealed it then how can we and if our prophet system Allah says in the Quran whoa whoa jeddak al Borland Fajada he could not be guided until Allah gave him the hidayah and Allah says in the Quran MA quantity team al-kitab won and Iman you didn't know this is addressed to the process in him what was the book what was Iman until we gave you the Quran our Rasul saw said I'm sitting in Rada Hirata's we're going to come to next week he did not know ultimate truth until gibreel came down is anybody gonna claim that modern philosophers are better than our prophecies that modern ethicists and and more or less theologians and whatnot can just sit there in a room and contemplate and then come forward with how men should live no Allah says I said in San Leandro Quezada were the ones we're gonna tell you how to live your life the second point of benefit will just mention through you have to ownership the second point to benefit we really understand subhanallah that most of mankind are like sheep in that they follow whatever the leaders say look at the Quraysh they knew that this is not the religion of ibraheem but because everybody's doing it it's just too difficult to break away deep down inside they know something is wrong but when all of society is doing a sin and advice it's easy to follow Allah says in the Quran huama octoroon a saguaro hasta be moot meaning most of mankind even if you want them they're not going to be believers and allah says in the quran if you follow the majority of mankind they will lead you astray majority wants to follow desires we have to be very frank here the majority of mankind wants to be animalistic hedonistic they don't want Sharia they don't want law they just want to follow their desires and Allah says no we have a law and that law will tell you how to be a better human and the final point that will benefit in the inshallah we'll conclude for this week the story of Salman tells us and they did not even do faith tells us a beautiful fact whoever is sincere will be guided if there's good and there's sincerity it doesn't matter if you're living in Jackie Lea it doesn't matter if you're in a pagan society and Iran it doesn't matter if you're surrounded by idols if your heart is pure and you have truth and you want to know the truth Allah will guide you to the truth Allah took Salman al-farsi out of the depths of jahiliyyah in a land which was not even a Christian land and one by one he came closer to the truth until Allah subhana WA Ta'ala brought him right in front of the feet of the Prophet Muhammad Sal Allahu alayhi wa seldom when we show sincerity to Allah Allah shows drama and guidance to us and with this inshallah tada we conclude for today unfortunately because I went so long we don't have time for Q&A inshallah we'll continue next Wednesday Bethenny da Dada and by the way we're going to be stopping these halaqaat for the month of July but doctor we shall be doing something else for that month a miniseries and then our Mabon inshallah we have to stop further so then we will be resuming after Ramadan so we have another three helices with me of Sierra and then we'll pause for a while and then resume after Ramadan which is a qualified on with said America muhammad sallahu owner catch you

Channel: Memphis Islamic Center (MIC)

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Length: 100min 33sec (6033 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 30 2011