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MUHSEN (www.muhsen.org) I think most people would be surprised to know that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam actually did not want to be anywhere near the Ka'bah growing up. And that's not because he had
a problem with the Ka'bah, but because everything that
was happening around the Ka'bah was everything that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam hated. It was idol worship, it was the place for all
the festivals took place. And in those festivals you
had all the obscenities, all the displays that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not want to see. All the alcohol, all the boasting
about who your tribe was, and the blood money, and all these things that Rasulullah SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam shunned because of the goodness that
Allah had put inside of him. But once the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam knew who he actually was， when Allah bestowed the message upon him, then it became clear to him that this place was a special place, and his attachment to
it as a result of that would grow for the rest of his life. (ethereal music) Even the people of Mecca
didn't really understand what it was about the
Ka'bah that was so special. They believed in multiple gods. They didn't really
believe in an afterlife. They didn't know what
was protecting the Ka'bah but they knew something
was protecting the Ka'bah because many of them
had witnessed Am al-Fil. They witnessed the year that Abraha and his
army had been destroyed trying to attack the Ka'bah. And so there was this general
respect for the Ka'bah even by the polytheists, and of course it became
the central location for everything else that they did anyway and they used the idols
to give themselves power, and to give themselves a
certain status in Arabia. However, five years before the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam receives Prophet hood. So he was 35 years old. There was this flood that came to Mecca and it really damaged the Ka'bah. There's also a narration about a woman that wanted to put some
incense on the Ka'bah and she ended up burning a part of it. So the Ka'bah was damaged,
the structure was damaged and they knew they had to reconstruct it. But knowing what happened
to Abraha's army, they were afraid of how
they would go about that. So they're trying to decide, do we take a part of it and fix it? Do we remove the bricks
altogether and then rebuild it? How are we supposed to rebuild the Ka'bah? So Al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah, he stands up, and it's ironic knowing
the wickedness of Al-Walid pointed to in the Quran later on. He said, "Look, are you people
trying to destroy the Ka'bah, "or are you trying to rectify it?" Are you Mufsidun or Muslihun, right? The language that we know in the Quran. Are you people that are trying to corrupt or are you trying to rectify? They said, we're just
trying to fix the Ka'bah, we're trying to repair it. He said Allah, and of
course, they refer to Allah amongst all of their other gods. He said, "Allah won't
destroy the Muslihun." He won't destroy the people that are trying to fix the Ka'bah. So he takes an ax himself and he starts to repair the Ka'bah. He starts to do away with some
of the bricks of the Ka'bah. And he says, "See, nothing happens." They said, okay, let's wait a whole day and night to make sure that
your hand doesn't fall off or lightning doesn't strike you or something terrible
doesn't happen to you. So nothing happened to Al-Walid. So they get together and they say, okay, let's rebuild the Ka'bah. But Abu Jahl has an announcement. He says, "Let's only use "the pure money that we have earned". So we're not gonna use any of the money that has gone towards gambling, that has gone towards prostitution, that has gone towards alcohol, that has been attained
through wronging people, none of the usury or the riba. We just wanna use our
pure sources of income, which of course would
be a problem for them because they didn't have enough then to rebuild the entire Ka'bah properly. So they're starting to rebuild the Ka'bah and they're saying Allahumma
la nuridu illa khayra. Oh Allah, we only want to do good, please do not destroy us as
we are repairing this Ka'bah. And as they rebuilt the Ka'bah, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told Aisha radiAllahu
ta'ala Anha years later, that your people rebuilt the Ka'bah wrong. It used to be a rectangle shape when Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam built it. And the door was to the ground
so that people could go in the Ka'bah and come out. But they ran out of money, so
they built it as a cube shape and they raised the door
so that only the elites of Quraysh would be able to enter in and they'd be able to govern who was able to go into the Ka'bah and who would be prohibited. So they rebuilt the Ka'bah wrong, but that was what their
money allowed them to do. And of course, the door
represented everything else that they did with the idols
and with their concept of God at the time and religion at the time. But then came the dispute, who's going to put Al-Hajar Al-Aswad the black stone in its place. Because all of these
things that were retained after Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam, they maintain some of the
status of those things. And it was understood Al-Hajar Al-Aswad the black stone was special. They didn't know what
was special about it, but it was special. And whichever tribe was
going to take the black stone and put it back, was going to have a status
that would be unrivaled from that point onwards. So they argue about it. Who's going to be the
tribe that gets the honor of putting the black stone there. Some of the tribes, they stake the claim based
upon, you know, their wealth based upon their power,
based upon their prominence. Some of them claimed to be
there for a longer time. Some of them said, well, we're
usually the ones that serve the people that come for
Hajj or come for Umrah, so we should be the ones to do it. So every tribe is making a
claim and it got so intense that by the time a week passed, they were about to fight
each other in the Harram. So these tribes were actually
now getting their weapons prepared and they were
about to turn on each other. Then at that point, a man by the name of Abu
Umayya Al Makhzumi stands up. And this would be the future
father-in-law of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
even though he wouldn't live to see his daughter marry the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. This would be the future father-in-law of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So who is he? Well, I'll give you a clue. He's the father of a woman who helped the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in a similar predicament
during Hudaybiyyah. And that is Umm Salama radi Allahu ta'ala
Anha who would famously advise the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam on on what to do when they were unable to move forward for Umrah in Hudaybiyyah. So this is Abu Umayya Al Makhzum. He's also a very wise man clearly, and you can see that Umm
Salama radiAllahu Anha inherited some of that from him. He says, "Listen, we're not gonna solve "this amongst ourselves. "All the tribes are going
to make their claims, "but let's agree that the
first person to walk through "that gate of Bani Shaiba",
which is known as Bab as-Salaam, "whoever comes through that gate, "we're gonna give them the
choice to put the black stone "as they see fit wardhal bihuqmihi "and everyone be pleased
with his judgment". So they said, okay,
fine, that makes sense. So let's keep it random. So they sat down and they're
staring at that gate to see who's going to come through. And Muhammad, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam walks through that gate. He was not a rich man, he
was not a powerful man, but Al Amin, radina they said, he is the
trustworthy one, we're pleased. He is the trustworthy one,
we're pleased.They knew the character of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so they were happy that
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going to be the
one to carry out that task. Now, the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could have made a claim at
that point for Banu Hashim. And Banu Hashim had their
status in society already, and were known for their generosity. He could have said, all right,
Banu Hashem let's do it, and every other tribe too bad,
you agree to the condition. But instead the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the spirit that would come in Islam as well. He says, "Give me a thawb "and put it on the ground" a cloth and put it on the ground. "and let's place the black stone "in the middle of that cloth". And then the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam called for every tribal head to come and to grab one side of the cloth. So all of the tribes came together, they picked up the black
stone in that cloth and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, "Follow me to the Ka'bah". They went to the Ka'bah,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he picked it up and he
put it in his place. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not know at that point
that this was the stone from al Jannah the stone from paradise subhanAllah all those narrations would come later. But he saved them
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from bloodshed. He saved them from taking that time, which was supposed to be
a unifying moment in Mecca and turning into a divisive moment. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam also, once again, solidified
his reputation in society as a man not just of high moral character, but a man who always wanted
good for the entirety of Mecca, not just his people. Now, after that, the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he didn't used to do
ibadah around the Ka'bah, he didn't use to worship
around the Ka'bah. As we said, he really didn't
care for the festivals or the obscenities. He did take part
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in rebuilding the Ka'bah because that was a good thing to do. Just like Hilf al-Fudul, the pledge where all of the tribes would
agree upon something noble. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam goes to the Ka'bah for that. But in rebuilding the Ka'bah, there's an incident there as well, where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protects the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from something that is not
befitting of the Prophet. SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would put the stones on his back as he was walking to the Ka'bah, because he did not want to
partake in what the others would do, which was to
take their bottom cloth and lift it up and hold the stones, thereby exposing their private parts. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam out of his modesty did not want to expose his private parts which was common at the time. And as the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is carrying the stones on his
back Al Abbas radiAllahu Anhu and who says to him, "Oh my nephew, "why don't you do what
everybody else is doing? "Just lift up your izath" lift up your bottom garment, "put the stones there and will
protect you from the heat". Just as the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam gave into that and he started to do that, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la caused the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
to fall unconscious. And Allah protected the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from ever exposing his aurat ever exposing his private parts again, which was a common practice
of the people of Mecca. Now what about after that? When the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam receives revelation and the people of Mecca are
carrying on with their Hajj. Yes, they had a Hajj, but
it wasn't like our Hajj. They had all types of practices, all types of ways of
enforcing tribal superiority, all types of innovations, but still Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has received revelation at the age of 40. And he knows that the Ka'bah
is the house that was built by Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam to
revive the message tawheed of which he would be the
reviver of that monotheism. And he's witnessing
this on an annual basis. So would the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam take part in the Hajj? There's a narration from Jubayr ibn Mut'im radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who took a long time to become Muslim. He says that in the days
of ignorance, he says, "adth laltu ba'iyrani" he said I lost one of my camels one time. "fadhahabtu athlubuhu yawma arafat " So I went looking for that
camel on the day Arafat. "fara aytun Nabi
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallama waaqifan fi Arafat". So I saw the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam standing in Arafat. And Quraysh would not go to Arafat. They used to send the
poor people towards Arafat and they stayed within the Haram. So he was confused why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was standing in Arafat and he knew the insistence of their ways. So he said, "I thought to myself, maasha'nuhu haahuna" what is he doing over here? But I didn't ask him
anything at that point. So what do we know about the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam's Hajj? You might be surprised
to know that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
indeed did multiple Hajjs before the Hijrah, before
the migration. You have the narration of Jabir ibn Abd
Allah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who would says two Hajjs for
sure before the migration. And some scholars say that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did the Hajj every single
year between prophethood and the migration. However, he would avoid the
things that Quraysh would do. The idol worship and such. Just like the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam would do tawaf around the Ka'bah, just like he would pray
in front of the Ka'bah, but he would not pay heed to the idols that were around the Ka'bah. So the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam would do Hajj on a regular basis even before the Hijra. And it was in fact, in those
last few years in Mecca, where one of the most defining
incidents of the Seerah would happen during the days of Hajj. It was the 11th year after prophethood, the year after Am al-Huzn the year after the year of grief that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is going out and he's
meeting the various tribes that are coming from outside
during the nighttime, so that the people of
Mecca would not know. And he's introducing them to Islam. He's trying with, everybody SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's trying with the small
tribes, the known tribes, the large tribes, the unknown tribes. He's just going to find anyone that, or he's attempting to find anyone that is going to believe in his message. So he goes out at night and
he has with him Abu Bakr and Ali, may Allah pleased with them. And he talks to these different groups. And suddenly he passes by
this group of six young men. And these six young men are there in Mina and they heard the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam talking to some of the more known tribes. And they were curious about what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam had to say as well, because these six young
men were from Yathrib. And they had been exposed to Jewish tribes that told them about tawheed, that told them about monotheism. And that also told them about
a Prophet that was to come. And so the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam sees these six youth from this place called Yathrib. And they're interested in hearing what the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam has to say. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam never overlooks anyone when it comes to da'wah. So the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam says to them, "Are you the allies of the
Jews?" and they say, yes. He says, "Well, why don't
you sit with me and listen "to what I have to say?". So there they are in Mina on the 11th day of the Dhul Hijjah in the 11th year after prophethood. And that conversation with six
young men, As'ad ibn Zurarah, Auf ibn Harith, Rafi ibn
Malik, Qutba ibn Amir, Uqba ibn Amir, Jabir ibn Abd Allah. That conversation with those six young men was going to change the entire course of
history as we have it. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam presents Islam to them, and these six young men, they say, what you're saying makes sense. And the Jews have already told us about a Prophet that is to come. Why don't we hasten and believe in you before it gets back to them. And we will go back and
call our people to Islam. And they say, "May it be through
you that Allah reconciles "our differences, brings
our hearts together "and establishes us upon
this beautiful message of monotheism that you have brought". And indeed, that would be
the society of Al Medina. In these days as we exert ourselves with all sorts of good deeds that our Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam taught us. We invite you to spend in the way of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, so that we may all further
ourselves along this journey and draw closer to him. (ethereal music)
