Lives of Sahaba 65 - Salman Al-Farsi - Sh. Dr. Yasir Qadhi

Samara no him so in shallow to honor today we're gonna be doing the sahabi salman al-farsi sad mother and father see and salman al-farsi is one of the most intriguing of the Sahaba I think all of us have heard of his names and because he's so intriguing because he's were exotic we actually have a lot of legends and a lot of stories about him that are Elohim probably not true and as usual we have a lot of scattered information about the Sahaba in general but especially about salman al-farsi we have even less information because obviously where did he grow up he grew up in Iran he grew up in the land of phallus and so obviously we have absolutely no information about him from any source other than what he himself told of his own life later on and what he narrated to the Sahaba but one thing that really makes Salman so intriguing and really one of the most exotic of the Sahaba isn't just his background after all he's the only person so happy that we know of and so really he is speaking fluent fantasy his lineage his demeanor and his looks all of it is pure Persian it's not just that he's Persian but the flip that happened the very very ironic and profound change that happened that he grew up in the pinnacle of Persian power seeing the glory of what is called the Sassanid Empire and he was a citizen and a member of the Sassanid Empire at a time when no one could ever have predicted that the Empire would be destroyed and wiped out and not only did he live to see that his own Empire the Persian Empire eradicated he was a part of the army that fought against it he was a part of the army that fought against the sassanids and eventually destroyed the sassanids and then and to me this is one of the most profound moments of the serie the entire whether or not the seer I mean the era of the Sahaba as you say because this happened after the death of the Sahaba but to me this more than anything represents the quick and drastic change that took place that Salman not only radi allahu ta'ala and conquers bin Laden Faddis persia he is then appointed the governor of tesla phone in arabic is called media in which was the capital of the persian empire and he eventually passes away in that city of telephone he passes away in villa del vallès so subhanAllah look from where to where look how he began and look how he ended and subhanAllah the fact that this is a person who we're not gonna see became the the Emperor because there is no Emperor but he is ruling from the palace he stayed in the palace where was he living he was living in the palace of the Emperor and the palace of the Emperor was where salat ajummas taking place is giving the whole Toba and that palace is still around to this day we're gonna get there inshallah next Wednesday this is a long helical feast it's not just one so just imagine you know somebody is growing up in a land and he knows this land is the pinnacle civilization and lo and before we behold before he dies he becomes the ruler and the governor of that land and he is ruling from the very bastion of power that he grew up seeing from afar but not ever seeing inside he grew up hearing of but never actually being a part of and now with Islam he comes in not only as a conqueror but essentially as a ruler and as far as we know as well he is the only Sahabi who was at one point in his life for his austrian as far as we know when our as far as from our limited knowledge of the serie no Sahabi in the time of the process of obviously so having the time the processor no Sahabi was as a rust rien other than him obviously after the assassin an empire is conquered then the rest reans convert and mass to Islam and of course Iran then becomes a land of Islam and those Austrians eventually flee and leave and they go to India where they were called these fallacies and to this day their descendants are there but the point is that in the time of the Prophet system there were no Iranians think about it there is no Iranian in Arabia other than Salman al-farsi so the only sahabi who is of Persian blood Persian ethnicity speaking Farsi and at one point in his life a Zoroastrian now obviously technically he did not convert to Islam from Zoroastrian ISM as we all know we're going to talk about today he converted from Christianity and there were a number of Sahaba who converted from Christianity at least five or six that we know that were Christian including the most famous idea how Tim was a very famous Christian including a TAS remember at das once upon a time we mentioned ad thus and thus is who is ad us yes the one in thought if who gave him the grapes right I des was an Iraqi from the man who cut of tribe and he converted as well so there are a handful of Christian converts not that many not that many my guesstimate would be less than half a dozen that we know from amongst the Sahaba meaning amongst the famous Sahab obviously we're not talking about the delegations and whatnot that came and therefore Salman al-farsi is one of those who converts as a Christian now today inshallah we'll mention half of his story and then we'll continue next Wednesday and inshallah do some of his many many hadith cassette modifiers quite a lot of a hadith and we'll do them in shall the next Wednesday what do we know about Salman al-farsi pre Islam we only know what he himself told us and alhamdulillah he narrated his story in quite a lot of detail in the first person to none other than Abdullah ibn Abbas so I thought I've been a bus being the curious young man that he is he's absorbing all of this information so even Abbas then narrates this tradition from Sandman and fantasy and it is recorded in five or six pages of a hadith it's not quite a hadith per se because it's Salman speaking but it has the process of in it so therefore it becomes aspects of a hadith and Salman al-farsi is narrating his story to Abdullah bin a bus in this hadith is found in muslin Imam Muhammad is a very long hadith and on this hadith basically all of the books about Salman are written all of the narrations come about Salman al-farsi so what do we know and the basically today's class are they going over that hadith and commenting on it Salman al-farsi was born in a village called G G or some sage a but most likely it is G and he says that it is close to the city of Rama Hormuz Rama Hormuz and Rama Hormuz it is still around today to this date it is a city in modern-day Iran and there's around 80,000 people in last census of Rama horn was a small little town and it is in the Xhosa Stan province of Iran now in one narration he says that he is from Isfahan and this is problematic because Isfahan is pretty far from Rama Hormuz so how do we reconcile this we say that perhaps he is telling somebody Isfahan means like the capital or like some large city that is known to this person because Rama horn was nobody knows so he mentions like New York or something even though he's not from New York because it's like at least a hundred miles away so it's not that far but at the same time it's not in the vicinity Allah knows best how we reconcile but he in the first person he says that he is from the village of G which is outside of the town of Rama Hormuz and he mentions that my father was a day on the Han is a Persian word that means landlord okay and if I'm not mistaken is still in languages of Punjabi and whatnot there corn pesto is still around right so this goes back to ancient Persia DeHaan and it means landlord right to this day to this date min landlord so this term the icon is very common in the books of history Islamic history it was a title and it essentially is a serf Lord okay as a person who owns lots of land and he then negotiates with the people to farm and they'll he'll get quite a lot and they'll get a percentage so he gets rich and you know the people work the land and whatnot so his father was a rich man a day on from outside of this village of G or in the village of G and he says that my father loved me more than anything else so much so that he would keep me in the house like little girls are kept means don't go outside and be a young man just be inside like little girls are kept so nothing else to do I continued excelling in worshiping in this Austrian religion there were the Austrians and until I became the keeper of the fire that is always kept alight and I made sure it never went out so his father being a rich man and because he's not engaging in trade he's not becoming a service man he's not doing anything so what else is he gonna do he just goes to the temple keeps on going to the temple until finally in the temple they make him a very prestigious person and that is the one who is in charge of the fire now this isn't quite a priest he has not gone to the training school of the priests but it is a priestly role it is a category that is very you know very noble and of course in the Zoroastrian religion you should all know the policies are the only major religion of the world the policies is what Indians call the Austrians and they're the only remnants of the westerns in our times really there are no more Austrians in Iran anymore pause their footnote there's a few left but pretty much if you meet a Zoroastrian 99.9% of the time will be from India okay and the Indians call them policies because they're coming from Persia father's policy and so they're called policies to this day they're called policies so the Zoroastrian religion is one of the oldest religions of the world and it goes back to zero to stress or as a roster and Zarathustra it's very difficult to see what his real theology there was a Llanos best was he an actual prophet of Allah or was he just a philosopher like Buddha or what not Allah knows best is difficult to say but their belief is that there are two primary gods and they are the only religion in the world that believes in two gods there are the only religion every other religion really believes in one major even Hindus philosophical even one God ultimate God the only religion that really believes that there are two actual all-powerful gods is the rest rien ism and this makes it very atypical and Allah knows best because of this my own inclination it seems bizarre to think that Rousseau would have been a prophet that's a bit too much of a deviation to go from one God to to all-powerful gods and of course they believed in that the god of good ahura mazda and the god of evil Hanuman and this world is a battle place between Ahura Mazda and a hurry man and judgement will come when finally Ahura Mazda conquers over a Hanuman when the god of good conquers over the good other God of evil and for them the God of good is represented by light light is not the God of good the God of good is represented by light and fire fire and the god of evil is represented by darkness and what not it is representation obviously not an actual and so when we say they worship the fire technically this is incorrect and a Zoroastrian would be insulted by this they do not worship from their perspective the fire they view it as being an embodiment of representation of God and the fire for them is a sacred element even in the house even in the house when you light a match it is something that is a ritual or something that is a holy thing meaning that it is something that is considered sacred but they have a special type of fire which is used in their temples and that fire according to them it goes back to the beginning of time the fire that is found in the temples it is a fire that has been lit from the beginning of time and so every time they open up a new temple they will light the fire of the temple from another temple you cannot just take a match and go like this ok they will light the fire of the temple from another temple so believe it or not I met as Austrian convert to Islam and I asked her about this issue as like how did you guys get the temple in America so they had to Commission a special plane to get a fire from a temple and bring it over here on extinguished right and they will keep it so that it is now then going to then be used to light a fire here and then once the fire is anyway here then the other temples can be used from that fire you understand right so that's the point of the fire being sacred so sad matter father sees job is to keep the eternal flame going it's a very big job okay he is in charge of that flame the one that they think is going back all the way so and to this day their temples have a permanent fire in them to this day that's the whole point there's always going to be a type of fire that is going to be I don't know the technicalities of it but that is their theology so salman al-farsi is in charge of this one day he says my father became busy in some type of project or construction in the house and he said to me son you see that I'm preoccupied so I need you to go to such and such a land to bring the rent back okay generally Salman never did this he was kept in the house because his father loved him so much you can tell that he was a one of those overprotective others right you can tell very very concerned and very rich you don't doesn't need his son to do it but in this case he goes look I'm really busy in this project and obviously when it comes to large sums of money you can't just send an employee you need to send flesh and blood so he says to his son Salman that well obviously we don't know his real name that's another thing Salman is his acquired name one can assume that his original name was something like Salman because when they would take their name Salman was his name pre Islam okay pre-islamic in Arabia so the Arabs could called him Salman so one can assume and there are theories and I there's no point going down that there are a number of names given what might be a Persian equivalent to cinnamon but the point is that Salman is his pre-islamic Arab name but not his Persian name clear so the pre-islamic Arab name is Arab aside from the Persian so his father says to him Salman whatever his name was go and collect the rent from that from that area from that province and do not be delayed to get back before sunset or else your delay will cause even more issues for me for you are more beloved to me than all the property or land that I have so he's very concerned about Sandman he wants to protect him so Sandman then goes to this other land and he said I happened to pass by a church and I heard their singing and the singing means the hymns we all know how they sound we all know they have a very unique way of doing their chants think of the Roman Catholic hymns right because that's going back it's going back all the way to that time and they're there they have a way of worshiping that is in its own way very eccentric and very you know it does have its own sonorous element to that singing so good I heard their hymns and I entered to the church to see what they're doing and he ends up spending the whole day in the church and he said I didn't go to my father's land I didn't go collect the rent so much so my father sent out search parties to hunt for me but he is now in the church we can imagine he doesn't say it we can imagine he's engaging in dialogue asking questions absorbing all that they're doing and he then decides to convert because he says that I felt that their way of worshiping was better than ours their table boot means not just way worse but overall their religion and religiosity was better than ours okay so he senses a truth in Christianity and there is no question that Christianity is much closer to the concept of God akira rissalah avenger austrians from our perspective even modern day Christianity how about Christianity one thousand five hundred years ago when Sandman is talking right so the Christianity of Salomon's time is really the closest ones we'll get to Islam so he appreciated it and he decided to convert so he said to the Christians where can I find the ussin of this theme where is the AUSA love this Deen they told me beloved Valletta sham now notice here at this stage we can assume he is a teenager okay because the story is just beginning maybe and his father would not have sent him to collect rent unless the bare minimum is 15 like 15 would be their hour 18 19 okay the bare minimum is 15 16 years old so he's now going to do this chore for his father so at this stage at the age of 15 16 he's not happy simply saying okay let me become a Christian he is saying where do I go to study the Osun of this theme like Salman is really and this is throughout the entire story he is a seeker of truth he is somebody who's searching for much more than just a superficial understanding I mean can you imagine not only is it a new faith not only he spends the whole day quizzing interrogating absorbing then deciding to convert at that stage he says tell me where do I find the source and the origin what is the US a-- love this Deen that I can go study so they told him bill at the sham Syria which means Jerusalem and Damascus all those as God that's where that's where our origin is that's where the Hustle is so when I returned home my father rebuked me yeah Bonet where have you gone where were you you were delayed I told you to come back immediately and he told his father and this is the naivety of a teenager thinking that his father's gonna side with him no matter what he does so he tells his father that I passed by the church a church and I was entranced with their religion and I felt that their religion is better than our religion so I want to enter their religion what's gonna happen will you abandon our faith in the faith of our forefathers surely our faith is better than theirs and a back and forth said man glosses over it again we can I can imagine you know shouting yelling match what not until finally when his father realizes he's gonna convert then his fault he said my father became scared for me and he tied me up and put an iron chain on my legs tied me and made me a prisoner in the house that you're not gonna go back to the church now one let's pause here for a second the year we don't know exactly however probably one can say around the time of the birth of the Prophet system or when the prophets ISM as a young man okay one of the things about Salma we don't know his age and lots of legends exist some say that he lived for 120 years some say 150 one even says 300 years any mammoth Ahab he says I doubt all of this most likely he died Mac 7075 and this is the fact that mythologies develop and people make a small thing and make it much larger and Salman takes on a mythical status and some Halawa we don't have any indications that he was somebody who was supernaturally long and living it seems to be an old man so by the time the Prophet comes to Medina he's maybe a little bit age wise older or maybe around the age we don't know exactly you know for sure he's not a young man but at the time the processing came he is still working in the date palms right which indicates that he has physical strength to work as a manual laborer as we're gonna see so maybe 60 years old at that time so therefore he is born roughly 550 let's say earliest - 560 which is roughly when you know the Prophet saws is one so around this point in time that we can assume that he is born so what is happening in Persia about Christianity very interesting point this is not mentioned in the books of ceará because again they're not looking at it the way that we or the Westerners would look at it from our perspective what intrigues me what type of Christianity is Salman exposed to in the 6th century CE II what christianity exists in Persia and little bit of research indicates that in Persia the only branch of Christianity that was flourishing was the branch that had been exiled by the mainstream Byzantine Roman you know the the the church which became Catholicism okay call it Neo Catholicism or proto Catholics ISM basically not Niels proto it's the original original Catholicism and that version of Christianity is called Nestorian Christianity okay in historians and then historians by the way believe it or not they're still around these days they're Iraqi historians okay because a roth is iraq was Iran back then right back then the province of Iraq was within Iran and historian Christianity is the earliest sect of Christianity that is still alive to this day the earliest set no sect that still exists goes back before Nestorian Christianity and they were formed 450 C e that is 1600 years ago that's when nestorianism is formed you can't compare with this Protestant Christianity which is two hundred five hundred years old or even Catholic Christianity which split from Orthodox 12th century 10th century CE II right so this Christianity is the earliest version of Christianity that is still around and they have a very unique belief which is considered to be heretical by all other sects of Christianity they believe that Jesus Christ has two distinct natures fully human and fully divine so Jesus is fully human according to the historians and he is eventually fully divine and many amongst them believed in something that was called adoptionism adoptionism is a christian term that means that Jesus was normal fully human then God adopted him to be his son you can see that this version of Christianity is definitely not anything like mainstream Christianity in our times you can see why Jesus is a regular human born human everything human at some point in time according to and again obviously just like every fellow cop they have Chisholm's within them so the main point of Nestorian Christianity to this day is that Jesus has two natures he is fully human he has a human aspect and distinct he's also divine the way that modern Christians say he is fully human and divine simultaneously he has one nature one will everything is one they're saying - and when you say - you're saying there's an element that is fully human is a normal human being okay and as you should all know in in you know by now you should all know this fact the whole issue of early Christianity is defining Jesus and Jesus's relationship with God how much human how much God what percentage how much will this and that the relationship all of the Chisholm's form boniface eyes divers as the whole thing so in historians they're definitely not Muslims they're definitely not more hidden but one fit amongst them has a very interesting theology that you know it's it's not Islamic but it's definitely not Christian the way Christians understand it from our perspective Jesus is human and he's not biologically the Son of God God at some point adopts him that's called adoptionism and when he adopts him then he becomes the son of God essentially metaphorically now obviously this view is way better from our perspective then the Trinitarian view that is now common so it's not a coincidence I'm trying to say what I'm trying to say is it's not a coincidence that salman found people that had views that were very close to islam and they're protecting this thing and they're going to get to islam so historia s-- was a priest who died for 50 and he was declared a heretic and you should all know that early Christianity is marked by a series of councils the Council of Nicaea the council is in that and one of the most earliest councils the Council of Chalcedon in 451 C E and in this council they declared nestorianism to be a heresy what does that mean politically if you are a Nestorian you must convert or die in the Roman lines in the Byzantine lands so what did the followers of historias do they fled where did they go you know Persia so they were K they came to Persia century before Salman and in Persia in Iran they were allowed their faith because the sassanids viewed them as being advantageous why why there are enemies of the church they're enemies of the church so this you know in those days in those days religious bigotry was the norm if you were not a part of the faith tradition of the land you weren't allowed to live there so generally speaking they wouldn't allow non-religious not people of other religions to come in this case the SAS has welcomed them and they allowed them to have their churches and worship as long as they're not you know preaching another but why because they represent a a a threat to the church right that the mainstream Church of Rome of Byzantine Empire this is a physical that considers them to be heretic so good let's house them let's let them come here let them flourish here because there's no threat to us we don't feel scared by them and we can use them against their own people later on okay now obviously what's going to happen in a hundred years forget your own people you become Iranian in blood and marriage and looks and what does what happens is the reality of you know intermingling and whatnot so this is one sin man and Pharisee is now coming to the picture and it is very clear when you hear the story of salman that this group of Nestorian 'he's their teachers their connections their knowledge even their Gospels and their books is totally separate from the other churches and again as Muslims many of us are very very unaware of Christian history and not that I'm an expert in a far from it I'm not an expert but one of the things we should all know is that again in the early in these early years all the groups are writing their own Gospels all the groups have their own holy books there is no one for honor of the Christians there's the Gospel according to this according to that according to this well at one point in time there are hundreds of according to s right and was only by essentially you know church decree and whatnot that the four were chosen those four were chosen based upon do they conform to our theologies not the other way around right they were chosen based upon this is our belief that I see in Creed which of the Gospels conforms to our Creed and the others will be destroyed that's the way they decided it's not the other way around so others were destroyed the point is one can imagine the historian churches have preserved curved statements of Risa this we know for a fact because of what we're gonna read and they have preserved Gospels that are unknown to their Western counterparts and this is a Las mother that Salman now gets access to this group of people okay so back to our story here so Salman is chained up so he sends them a message which means that like any rich person he has his employees he has his servants he has his people that love him and will do things for him as a favor he sends a message to the church telling them what happens and he says when there is a caravan that's going to Syria tell me which means I want to leave my parents house I want to go to Syria when they arrived he gets the message so he says tell me right before they depart so right before they depart he hears of their departure and he gets rid of the chains and shackles which again indicates that he was there just to please his father he doesn't have another plan he cannot run anywhere he is a Persian where is he gonna go he can't go anywhere unless he leaves Persia so he gets rid of the chain and shackles and he joins the Syrian Caravan to go back to balada sham now where did it go in sham we do not know we can assume Jerusalem we can assume if not Jerusalem Damascus these were the two major cities of sham these are the two bastions of Christianity at the time that he might have found what he wanted to but we don't know he doesn't give us the city's name so he said when I arrived I asked for the greatest scholar that they had so they informed me of the patriarch of the land so now subhanAllah from Persia he now gets to if not the most but one of the most powerful and influential Christians alive at that time okay and so he goes to the patriarch so that you can imagine the patriarch of the city you can imagine a person of great power and influence and informs him of his story so the patriarch allowed me to live in the monastery in those days if you dedicated your life to the church basically the church would then take care your food and drink and you could live and you become a monk he become a hermit basically or a monk you become a priest so they would take care of you and in return you will basically service them so he allowed me to basically enter the church now this allowance this entry essentially gave him entry to any other church after that because once you're dedicated to the life of service right so you can then go from any Church and this is what a la spada was that one of the most powerful people alive gave him that status that he needed is the acceptance into church service because once you're in that track then essentially you can transfer to any church which is what he's gonna do and it was a Las other and Allah works in ways that we'll never understand that this powerful man he needed the powerful man to get him in but sin man a Pharisee said this man proved to be an evil man this man proved to be an evil man he would order the people to give charity and then he would hide it and eat it himself he would steal the people's wealth and he had amassed seven chests of gold and silver and he was an evil man whatever else evil one can imagine you know typical as we can imagine okay and some heartless Allah scudder that this evil man was needed because he was the most powerful person and Salman needed to get into the system and that person had the power to do it even if he wasn't good overall and when he died they came to bury him and Salman said do you know the reality of this man they said what he said that he would ask you to give charity and yet he would keep it himself they said do you have any proof of this he said I will show you where all the money is kept now if you're a man of the church to this day by the way to this day everything you earn you give to the church if you are if you have dedicated your life as a priest to the Catholic or what not to any of the orders the bending or any order that you have the Jesuits any order you have to give everything you earn to the church and then the church you will have to justify this is my rent this so then you get back whatever you need to live and I know this because my own adviser was a Jesuit minister what not at the idea and he actually told me this that every paycheck that he got it goes there then what he needs he comes back and he has to write every expensive is that his own money that he earned it goes there then it comes back what is needed the rest all goes to the church okay so no church person can amass a wealth right this isn't the classical system these days some of the richest people in America are pastors and televangelists right they have their much other private jets and planes much others about Alcala and they think that that is their service so point being that he showed them the gold seven chests of gold and silver and it's clear that this is a man who would tell them to give to the poor and he would then take their wealth and eat it himself and so they became so enraged they said we will never bury his body and they put him on a cross as a dead man and they stoned him as a dead man okay and Subhan Allah this was his first priest and this was the largest Church of the city that he was in and it also shows us and we seek Allah's refuge every single religion has its hypocrites and sinners in their ranks of their clergy we ask Allah for refuge and Saddam and ask Allah for loss but this is the reality and it also shows us no one likes a hypocrite no one likes a hypocrite well they are the villa so when they discovered the reality of this man they then made a better job of choosing his successor and this was all Allah solder right so Sandman and Farsi said they then chose somebody I swear I have never seen anyone who doesn't pray five times more righteous than him meaning no Muslim apart from Muslims no non-muslim I have met was never righteous than him that's what he's trying to say okay leave aside the Muslims anybody in my life before meeting the righteous Muslims I have never met somebody more righteous than him and 100 Zechariah had a verse if you look at some other faith traditions and who they chose to be their leader without mentioning specific names but scandals are taking place in their version of their their teachings and they are desperate for legitimacy so they choose somebody that seems to be far better than his predecessors that we judge by outer appearance right this is the reality that when the corruption becomes so bad and rock-bottom they need to salvage genuine bona fide religiosity and the shows us sincerity shines through even amongst Middle s of Cofer you can be sincere as a kafir guys you can be sincere as a kafir and that sincerity because it is sincere it shines through so when this guy turned out to be so corrupt they did a really good job and they got somebody whom even salman says in my whole life before coming to Islam I've never met somebody better than him and he was not greedy of this world at all and he desired the Alpha and he was more upright than anybody I have met all day all night he was Muslim he was a person straight in his character and this is true Allah as ordered mentions in the Quran that there are those of the ind kitab that have that characteristic that they have hacia they have and this is before the coming of Islam so we hope good for his teacher at this point in time he seems to be a genuine good believing person and again it shows us that true religiosity it brings out this love in people look how much Salman said that in fact he said that I have never loved anyone at that time in my life more than him like obviously before meeting the prophets awesome I have never loved anyone more than I loved him so this shows as well that real religiosity it shines and it brings people's hearts when his death came on his deathbed I want him and I said you know my situation and you know how I came here and now by the other of Allah you are leaving this world so what do you advise that I do so the man said ya Bonet I don't know anybody in this city that is upon what I am upon other than one friend of mine in Mosul Mosin in Iraq and Muslim and the people have changed and the people have altered and the people have destroyed so go to that man so it's very clear what this priest is saying and this priest wherever he came from he is being brought to Jerusalem as a very high position and in this holy city he is saying the people have changed religion and the people have altered the religion of Jesus and the people have destroyed so there are Christians at this time they see what's going on with the councils they see the destruction of the books they see the turning away and they are fully aware and this is what allah azza wajal says they changed the Kadima and they know it right your Hedren can I go home yeah I know moon they know it Allah says in the Quran these days one can say the Christians don't know they don't understand when it is happening the righteous Christian see it and so sermons teacher is one of them and this also shows us as well and we're gonna see this again throughout all of his teachers that his version of Christian I mean the teachers version even though nestorianism was as a sect within nestorianism whatever this teachers upon a smaller sect it's almost gone so he's saying in this land there's people are gone go to somewhere else go to mostly and so he then went to mostly and he went to the church there the man that was supposed to be there and I stayed there as long as Allah allowed me to stay same question when I was about to die I asked him the question where should I go so he said my son I don't know of anybody following our understanding me and my Sahib other than a man in NASA beam and NASA beam is the English who is a missive is missus so go to him so I went to him told my story so now we have the so we have the initial Church guy then we have the righteous man that we have the mosul now we have missive in we're already on number four now okay so realize in these days as I said once you're in the track to go to another monastery at least your food and drink is provided so he doesn't have to worry about money and that's the color of a lot that he met the corrupt patriarch because he got in when it wouldn't have been the easiest thing to get in the corrupt guy despite his corruption was powerful so he wrote him the letter to get him in once he's in Hollis now he's a priest er he's a monk or whatever his track is and now he can go to all of these monasteries and transfer within the system so where does he go it is called miss abyss and miss abyss is in modern Turkey close to the Syrian border and Nyssa this actually has a very very rich heritage and I did my research about this city as well and it seems as if miss abyss was a bastion of early Christianity and one of the earliest churches of the world is still found there to this day one of the most ancient churches it is called the Church of st. Jacob and this st. Jacob lived 200 years before Sandman he is one of the signatories of the Council of Nicaea so this guy is one of the big guys st. Jacob and he then dies in this abyss and his church then became the most famous Church of that region you can imagine he's one of the signatories of of the of the Council of Nicaea and it became a place of learning as well so there would be priests who would teach and some say it is one of the first Christian seminaries in the world this is during the time of Sandman and fantasy so I put one plus one together this is not found in other books as much that it could be wrong I put one plus one together in the year 500 to 600 miss abyss was a bastion of Christian theology and this church of saint Jacob was where lots of priests would come and teach other Christians and I find it very reasonable to believe that the man mentioned would have been one of these people they goes there's a man in Mosul in the service excuse me who is upon this theology go to him so Allah knows best it might even be the Church of st. Jacob and unbelievably the Church of st. Jacob is still at least two three rooms of it are standing to this day because it was built in the glory period and you know very magnificent structure and so subhanAllah if what I'm saying is possibly correct maybe even their very rooms and chambers as a mattifies he lived in could still be standing to this day there are pictures you can go online the Church of st. Jacob in this abyss Turkey and this church is visited by Christian pilgrims because it is one of the oldest churches in the world that is still standing it goes back to 400 C II so think about that okay 400 C it goes back so when Salman is visiting it right this is the biggest Church of nyssa vez without a doubt it is the most famous Church of Annisa pused and it is the church where there's lots of famous intellectuals and thinkers it makes sense that the person that is being mentioned because these people are atypical these people are not sheep these people are thinkers the people that Sandman is meeting they're rising above the flock and typically speaking those people they are the profound thinkers the intellectuals they're not just going with the flow so Allah knows best this is my theory it could be that he is at this church of st. Jacob and therefore he goes to miss abyss and the same story he goes there for a few years this is his fourth guy now when he's about to die he tells Salman tells him you know my story the person I was signed to sent me to Sauron so he sent me to Sauron so now he sent me to you now you're at your deathbed where should I go so the the the priest says I swear to you I don't know of anybody of our group left except somebody in a moria number five no okay I'm Maria I'm Maria is in English amore amore iam so go to a movie go to a more iam and a more iam again I looked up as much as we can not much that we know about this city but one point before we get to the city one point there must be at this point in time there must be a few hundred you know at least maybe 100 million Christians or something if not more at this point in time and of them the vast majority are proto Catholic Roman Catholic okay and the fact that Salman is meeting not only you know the remnants of their stories but then within that sect he's meeting people that are essentially on a theology that is absolutely unique literally each one is saying I only know one guy that we're still believing in until finally he gets to the one guy that will lead him to the prophets listen him the question that I ask you is how on earth did he end up with those five people that are on that theology and what this shows us when you are sincere Allah will guide you when you want hidaya then a billion people might be wrong you'll find the one person who's right this is the blessings of sincerity and nicholas and TOA kun hua mian tehuacán allahi for high school whoever puts his trust in allah allah will find a way out for him and provide for him from places he never expected and so he goes now to a more IAM and the more IAM it was a famous town in the byzantine times it was built in the in the early Hellenistic period what I looked up about it you know the famous assi Opera sobs fables Aesop's fable fable a co-op was from this town of amore I'm the famous Hellenistic philosopher and a more iam was a fortress town that protected Constantinople so Constantinople was surrounded by towns all around it many distances away and amore was a very heavily guarded fortress to this day the fortress is still there but the city has long been has long been abandoned when Marija our Marya the the halifa first attacked the byzantine empire i remember we talked about this or talked about the earlier mayors when were first attacked the byzantine empire he attacked a maryam and he was not successful so he couldn't get to constantinople because again he didn't conquer concern what he attacked it so he got to a more IAM and he attacked a more so that shows you again thee so a more IAM is basically up north between the arab lands and constantinople now why did Salman end up there because he has to get down to Arabia so Allah Azza WA JAL is sending him to an outpost a Netherland in the middle of nowhere but it's close to the Arab peninsula so all Allah solder it's all Allah Scotty so now Salman ends up in a more iam and his six teacher is there and here he lives for a while so we can assume now he's 4050 years old at the bare minimum and he says that now I actually acquired wealth so now he's living a good life he acquired wealth he owns cows and sheep and basically he became a man of some property and now once again his six teacher is about to pass away and so he asks the same question now at this time you need to ask yourself why is he asking the same question over and over again I mean he must have graduated from the School of Christianity right he wants to finish like whatever studies he needed to do right because what was the first when he was fifteen he's like where is the UH cyl I want to go grind I want to go study okay he's gotten us back to those masters three PhDs now how much is he gonna study but see this shows us who Salman is Salman is a seeker and a seeker always wants more knowledge he's never satisfied at this stage there is no question Salman could have had his own patriarchy he could have opened up his own shop he could have just gone independent he has earned that right because he's been in the service of senior figures across but he's not interested in the power he wants knowledge at this stage he still hasn't heard of a prophet coming so he's not searching for a prophet so then why is he going from teacher to teacher to teacher because a truly humble man does not want the limelight a truly humble man wants to always benefit from those more knowledgeable than him a person who wants to learn will always want to teach her and a person who wants to be in the spiritual ambience will find a spiritual guide so this also shows us again the importance of being in the company of righteous the importance of studying with the people of knowledge now his six teacher finally opens up the door to the promised land of the prophecy what does the sixth teacher say he says ya Bonet my dear son no one is left as far as I know doing what we used to do our understanding is gone from the face of the earth Alouette chill out pause here this shows us how various sects of Christianity appeared one after the other okay people knew that this is a very small understanding they might know one or two or three people that have a similar understanding and then that's it is gone early Christianity saw hundreds of different villains and they were not supported by the dynasty by Rome Catholicism is the official Roman Christianity understand this right Catholic Christianity was called the kingly Christians right a mukhiya and the sadoglu Luke II it was called right literally the kingly Christians why why did Catholicism because become dominant because the the office of the Emperor supported it Constantine supported it the other versions of Christianity they're gonna dwindle away and that's why to this day in the story in Christianity is hardly anything I think maybe less than fifty thousand are left right Coptic Christianity survived because it was in Egypt and then the Muslims came and protected the cops if the Muslims had not come even Coptic Christianity would be gone the Muslims came and because of that Coptic Christianity is still around in eating which is another early non Catholic version of Christianity other than that the Coptics the historians and then you have the Maronites the three versions of Christianity other than that all of them and all three were in arable Arab Muslim lands by the way it's not a coincidence all three were in Arab Muslim lands because the Muslims really didn't care which version of Christianity you followed and ironically it was Muslims who protected these rather extreme understandings or I should not extreme but a typical understanding of Christianity so the sixth guy what is the sixth guy tell him he says to him I don't know anybody in the whole world that is still following our understanding but you are now close to the time of the Prophet who will be sent with the religion of Ibraheem so we know that in this version of Christianity there is mention of a prophet who is linked primarily with Ibrahim which is interesting because risa Adi his salaam is talking about a profit that is Abrahamic and not a prophet that is Benny is Haq vania hope when he is raw eel right so ISA must be telling some of his followers about a profit that is Abrahamic and this means none many is half the bani israel because they wouldn't mention in brahim unless it was of that nature so he says this man says he shall come from he shall emerge from a land he emigrated to it's not his motherland it's not the land that gave birth to him he left his land he emigrated to a land and he shall be based in a land that is not his okay so this is one of his signs one of his signs is that he is preaching Abraham's message one of his signs his land will not be the land that he was born in he has migrated to it and he will be based in that land and what is the description of that land it is a land of dates and date-palms outdoor ocula lots of date palms in between two planes of volcanic rocks now this is we all know the city of Medina and there is no doubt and this is an a hadith a Muslim environment there is no doubt therefore in our minds as Muslims that East Avenue Maryam is telling these signs to some of his disciples he is predicting right as allah says in the quran who a mubashir embarrassin ya t member ID is whoa ahem it this isn't the quran there's gonna be a prophet his name is going to be ahmed so there are signs that isa left with his followers and these are some of those signs then the monk says to sell man and the clear cut ayah that you shall recognize him by these are Shara there's ayat that you will recognize him by our three number one he will not accept sadaqa number two he will accept Hadiya and number three there is hartamanda war on his back these are the three ayats that you must test him with number one yeah Cola Sadako but number two I couldn't had to you and number three there's gonna be the hot Emunah buwa when you see the hata Manabu wa you will recognize it he didn't describe it okay he did not describe it now these signs are reported from other people as well in the serie and that's why we are certain that ERISA or the solo alehissalaam told some of his followers so when we did the Serie we mentioned the emissary from heraclius that came and visited him in a book and that emissaries name was the emissaries name was who where they first take the emissary's name was not known but he was known as the one from ten or a ten no he okay a tanuki yes our note-taker is taking good notes my shallots have our Cola but Google isn't working today apparently on his notes the one from ten north at 10:00 no he okay the one from at Anu do you remember his story guys a tanuki heraclea sent him with science and one of those signs was seal now here is the point Salman has never met her acquiesce Salman is not living in Constantine in Constantinople is he is not living in the Roman lands Salman has a whole different track of Christianity yet still Sandman is being told by somebody right in some small city in the middle of nowhere this is one of his science and we learned from the hadith that Heraclea is contacted one of the most learned clergy one of the most lurid clergy of constantinople istanbul at that time to get the signs of prophethood and that man gave some signs one of them was the seal so without a doubt therefore there is some connection whether it's the same person or the same tree right or maybe even maybe even some knowledge that was kept secret except to some groups of people and it was then lost over time but there's no denying that this knowledge was mentioned by Jesus Christ himself Reis oblivion so this man dies and Salman is now left without a ship without a teacher and Salman wants to get now to a land he has no idea where it is he has no idea which land even it is in but see here is a Las other Allah Allah Azure John has willed that he now ends up in this amore city right which doesn't even it's a small little camp I mean literally off the map all of this is Allah Scudder what is a moria it is the first stopping station for the Arabs subhanAllah well I he look at a loss other from where to where to where to where now he doesn't know where to go so in this fortress city a Arab Christian tribe called the Banu caleb and yes scattered like the caliber they were called the cult because in those days pre-islamic days the cut was considered to be like a fierce fighter right so some tribes viewed the cup in a positive way and so they would call somebody help so the founder of the cab tribe was called Kel by the way all of his brothers were also named after animals much other Tabarrok Allah so one of them is a wolf one of them is an eagle so you have like all of the callebs brothers yeah he called the guy called all of his sons animals that doesn't sound very good but he called all of a sudden animals so one of them was called Kelly and then that Cal founded the Banu Kaleb tribe okay and the Van Wyck help is an Afghani tribe from the one who killed by the way from the man who Cal is the famous Sahabi all of you know his name but none of you is registering now who is from the famous tribe of help guys the famous tribe of Kalpa who exactly who is he which one you know him ha the what a very good masha'Allah masha'Allah and I wonder why you remember him is there a connection you feel what it is like it the one that you really used to resemble yeah I'll cattle be there's the curve right there the hey al qalbi right by the way is a dip in Haditha was also from the kind of tribe the adopted son certain disease ever had so so the ban would help go come by and Salman is asking every tribe where they're from descriptions the Banu help described a land most likely it's in the Tabuk region most likely because that's where they were up there and they said lots of dates and whatnot there are no dates in a Maria okay so the first tribe that mentions dates said man's bells start ringing and he says look this is all that I have the goats the cows the sheaves this all that I have I'll sell them to you if you take me to your land so part of this was a loss other to get him to this little nondescript village okay so the man who took all of that property and he said as soon as we got to what the alcoa which is in Jordan or right under Arab land soon as we got to Waddell hora they tied me up they deceived me backstabbed me and they sold me as a slave and this was the standard issue the dangers of that era there is no civilization that's what you understand we have to understand the tribe your tribe is gonna protect you if that were to have happened to another person then what is as soon as it reaches the tribe the tribe is gonna attack how dare you do that that's the law of jahiliya there is no international law there is no 9-1-1 government that's the problem said man as a stranger what's gonna happen so there's no safety and security now what we really notice here is Subhan Allah one thing when I was reading this there's a famous hadith in Sahih Muslim that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said how i wish i could see my brethren my aqua and the Sahaba said yara saleh aren't we your brothers and he said no you are my us hab unto mas hobby you are not my brothers my brothers are those who will come after me and they would wish to sell all of their possessions just to see me the man a Pharisee quite literally sold everything he had on the desire to see the profit system even though he had never heard about him yet doesn't even know who he is look at what level of love that Salman had for the stranger he has not even met yet too willing to sell his whole life and then to literally become a slave he became a slave and as you know he was then sold into slavery as the man who to the burner pot either somebody from the Anoka rider purchases him now another thing that we notice over here is that once again Nomo Seba is Amos liebe if you have to occur in allah no mo Seba is a mo Seba if you have true to what good in allah the worst disaster is really a blessing in disguise if you have Iman use of being sold into slavery he would not have become the minister had that not happened Salman being sold into slavery he would never have ended up to be one of the most famous Sahaba if this had not happened no one is a loser if that person puts his iman and trust in Allah subhana WA Ta'ala so Sandman is sold into slavery and as a direct result of that as we know he ends up in Medina because who did the Baruchel sell him to the man who called cent sold him to basically somebody actually he went through somebody from the yahood and then this year who D sold him somebody from the Banu Qurayza so it was actually double okay so it wasn't one step even then so after six teachers now he becomes a slave to two people he goes to one Yehudi who then sells it to another one of the Banu Qurayza so now finally he ends up in medina and he says as soon as I saw Medina taya unto I had a clean this was the land that had been described to me so before even the coming of the prophecy at him he knows Allah is watching our trim and Allah and this is again what we expect from somebody with a strong Iman and he then comes to Medina happily and he says that Subhan Allah what a beautiful narration here he said that I became happy even though the condition I was in should not have been one of happiness do you understand what he's saying here and it will lie what Iman what Iman he's a slave and he says who would be happy being a slave but he goes looking at the land of Medina I became happy even though my situation was not one of happiness this shows us the strength of his Iman even before he had real Iman this is a man that is raw that is coming and if I'm a loss blessing without even having heard Islam and so insha'Allah Allah here on this melodramatic anticlimax this Shahar azad moment here marshal that the violet color for those who got that one we will pause over here and initially resumed the night Allah next Wednesday Salman story from Medina and we might even have to go three weeks I don't know because Salma has a lot of hadith and is also very interesting hadith as well we'll see in sha allah as allah knows personal shadow will pause you

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Published: Wed Feb 14 2018