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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Faqala ta’ala inna allaha wa malaikatahu yusalluna ala nabi ya ayyuhal ladhina amanu sallu alayhi wa sallimu taslima.
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ahli Muhammad kama sallita ala Ibrahim wa ala al Ibrahim innaka hamidun majid.
Allahumma barika ala Muhammadin wa ala ahli Muhammad kama barikta ala Ibrahim wa ala al Ibrahim innaka hamidun majid.
I remind you and myself that leaders come from the people.
The leader is not sent from heaven.
Leaders come from the people.
If you have good people, you get good leaders.
If you have a gang of bandits, you will not get Omar bin Abdulaziz as the leader of that band.
Right?
You will get the biggest.
Bandit who will be the leader of that bandit of that gang of bandits.
So when we look at leaders and we criticize leaders that of course our leader, our leader, mashallah, are worthy of all criticism.
But the point is that before we criticize them, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror and say, this is my leader because I am who I am.
And I did not say this.
Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib said this.
A man came to him and he said, how is it that in your time?
There is so much fitna when there was no fitna in the time of Abu Bakr and Umar.
Radhi Allah anhu ma.
Sayyidina Ali radhi Allah anhu said.
The reason there was no fitna in the time of Abu Bakr and Umar.
Radhi Allah anhu ma.
Was because the followers were like me.
And the fitna in my time is because followers are like you.
Huh?
So let us think about this.
As any Muslim today, what is the biggest problem of the Ummah today?
And they will say the biggest problem of the Ummah is lack of leadership.
Right?
Anybody.
Lack of leadership.
We don’t have good leaders.
My submission to you is that, yes, that is a problem.
I agree with you.
But equal.
If not equal.
But bigger problem is lack of followership.
Not only leadership.
Lack of followership.
And I will tell you what that means.
It is not only lack of leadership.
Let me explain to you what is the meaning of followership.
By two examples.
Now take yourself back.
Take yourself back.
To the 13th year of prophethood of Risala.
622 CE.
It is in the Ayam-u-Tashriq.
Days after Hajj.
Dark night.
And some people are gathering.
In groups.
Twos and threes and fours.
And moving very quietly.
They are collecting in one place.
And Kaab-in-Malik Radhialanu narrates this whole story.
And he said that in the night we slept in our camps.
And then when the third of the night had elapsed.
So roughly middle of the night.
We began to leave quietly.
And we came to this Hilak.
Which today we call this place Aqaba.
And there were 73 men and two women.
And the two women were Umm Ammara Radhialana.
And Umm Muni Radhialana.
And we waited there.
And the reason they did that was because quite literally their lives were in danger.
The Quraysh were looking out for people who were.
Ready to support Muhammad and they would have attacked them.
So they gathered there.
With their lives at risk.
Just think about that.
This Deen began.
With people ready to put their lives on the line.
For the Deen of Allah.
This Deen began.
With people ready to put their lives on the line.
For the Deen of Allah.
By supporting Muhammad .
Just reflect on this fact.
They did not hesitate.
They didn’t say hold on a second.
I mean I’m not going in there.
This is a dangerous meeting.
What happens if I get caught?
So they gathered.
They gathered.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
They were all in the same place.
And Rasool came with his uncle.
Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib.
And we don’t know at that point whether he was Muslim or not.
Because he had become Muslim and he was hiding it.
We don’t know whether it was before this or after this.
But anyway he was the supporter of Rasool .
So Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, he came.
And when they got there,
where al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib,
he addressed them first.
And he said,
in effect,
he said that my nephew,
Muhammad,
he’s here,
and he is willing to join you,
and you have invited him to go with you
to your town,
but
take him with you only if you are ready
to protect him and defend him.
But if you are going to take him and then abandon him,
then don’t take him.
Because here he is with his family,
he is protected, he is honored,
and we don’t want him to go to your place
and then he has nobody to help him.
So Ka’bin Malik says,
we heard him and then we said to him,
we have heard your words,
and now,
Ya Rasulullah ,
you speak to us and tell us what pledge you want us to make.
Take from us any pledge you wish.
Now, before I tell you,
what he asked them,
understand the situation.
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His life was in danger in Makkah.
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After the death of his uncle Abu Talib
He had no more support in Makkah.
Life itself was in danger in Makkah.
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He had tried to seek the help and support of the different tribes of the Hajjahs
and also elsewhere when they came for Hajj.
He went from tent to tent, tribal tent to tribal tent.
And various, if you read the seerah, it’s a very interesting part to read.
Different people gave different reasons, but effectively they said,
sorry, we can’t help you.
Except the people who came to be called Al-Ansar, the people of Yathrib.
So in the first year they came, few of them, second year,
which we know as the second Bayatul Akhaba,
73 men and 2 women, 75 people, they came.
So here is Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He’s asking them for help.
And in a material way, if you think about it, he has nothing to give them.
They don’t need him.
He needs them.
But see what he’s asking them to do.
They said, give us, let us know what do you want from us?
He says three things.
He says, pledge.
He says, give us your promise.
Give me your promise that you will obey me.
Whether you like what I say, you agree with what I say, or you dislike or you disagree,
you will obey me.
Think about this.
You will obey me, whether or not you like what I say, whether or not you agree with what I say.
Give me your promise.
And pledge that you will obey me.
Unquestioned.
Number two.
Pledge and promise that if I ask for assistance, material assistance.
He said, pledge and promise that you will give me in times of plenty,
and you will give me in times of scarcity.
You will give whether you have it or not.
Find it from wherever.
Give it.
And number three.
Pledge that you will protect me like you protect your own women and children.
Which means, put your life on the line.
Die for me.
Obey me.
Give me whatever I ask you, whether you have it or not.
And get ready to die for me.
This is in short what he’s asking.
Now think for yourself.
Does it even make sense?
Does it even make sense?
You are going to people.
You need them.
If they tell you, Salam alaikum, we are not interested, you got nowhere else to go.
Because you tried everything already.
What does it tell you about where his own Tawakkul is?
Does anyone who actually depends on those people, if he in his mind and heart, if he is depending on those people,
do you think he will?
Does he tell us this?
This pledge, in my opinion, is one of the many, many evidences of
This pledge makes no sense.
This pledge makes absolutely zero logical sense.
Nobody who needs somebody will go and dictate.
You can’t dictate terms like this to that person.
You will say, man, you have no leverage.
What are you talking about?
You can’t dictate terms to me when you got zero leverage.
You talk like this when you have power.
You don’t talk like this when you are asking me for help.
Unless, unless you are incidental.
I am not asking you.
I am giving you an opportunity to earn something which you cannot get.
Unless.
Unless you give this.
I have come to give you.
The Rasool does not ask.
The Rasool does not need.
Because his Rabb gives him.
He came to teach us to take from the Rabb and give to the people.
We became beggars.
We became beggars.
We became beggars.
We go to the people with our hands like this.
Please help me.
Please help me.
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
You stand here on the Musalla and you recite
Iyyaka na’budu wa Iyyaka nasta’eel
Then you go to the makhlook for istiyanah.
Junaid Baghdadi says,
He said I was a small boy and I used to go to the mother’s side.
My hair grew long.
So one day my ustaz said to me,
Tomorrow come have a haircut.
Don’t come without a haircut.
So he said now I have no money.
I have got nowhere to go.
My ustaz says cut your hair.
Otherwise don’t come. What do I do?
So he said I went to the Babar shop and the Babar was giving somebody else a haircut.
So I went and stood outside there.
The Babar asked me what happened.
He said to him, please can you give me a haircut for the sake of Allah.
Can you give me a haircut?
Can you give me a haircut?
For the sake of Allah.
He said the Babar immediately stopped cutting the hair of the man he was cutting.
He told him please sit here.
On the side he called me.
He made me sit in the chair.
He kissed my head.
And he gave me a haircut.
And Junaid Baghdadi said I was, he did it.
He said I was very happy.
I thanked him and so on and I went my way.
Several decades passed.
Maybe 20 years, 30 years, whatever.
Now Junaid Baghdadi is Junaid Baghdadi.
He is a great Sheikh and a great Alim and he is a great.
He has got hundreds and thousands of murids and he is you know.
And he said I remembered that suddenly one day I took a haircut from this guy and I never paid him.
I should pay him.
So he said I went to his shop.
And he said the man was there.
Obviously he was not an old man.
He said the man was there.
I made some money.
I said I will give you a haircut.
I said I will give you a haircut.
I said I will give you a haircut.
I said I will give you a haircut.
He said the man was there.
I made salaam.
I told him I don’t know if you remember one day I had come to you and I asked you to give me a haircut for the sake of Allah.
And you gave me the haircut.
And I never paid you.
So I have come to pay you.
And he offered him some Hadeeah.
Sayyidina Junaid
says
the Babar laughed at me.
And he says
Ya Junaid.
He says you have become such a big Sheikh.
But you haven’t understood the first principle of Allah.
He said what is that?
He said what is that?
He said what is that?
He said when you do something for the sake of Allah.
He said what is that?
He said when you do something for the sake of Allah.
You do not take from the Wakhluq.
He said go.
I cut your hair for the sake of Allah.
I will take from Allah.
I don’t take from you.
So I said
So if Junaid Baghdadi does not take from the makhlukh, do you really think that the Rasul
is asking for help from the Anzar?
Hey?
Our problem is we don’t teach the seerah, we don’t learn the seerah, we don’t reflect
on the seerah.
He’s not asking for help.
Understand this.
He is the one who received.
We only recite it, he received it.
How can he ask for help?
He know he’s the one who knows.
No one can benefit except Allah.
He is giving them an opportunity.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not asking for help.
And the sahaba understood this.
This is what sets them apart, Valai.
That generation is that generation.
There’s nothing like that on the face of the earth.
Gavin Malik said, Radhe Alanu, we listened to this.
And he said, we asked him,
Ya Rasulullah, what will we get in return?
He says, before
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam could reply,
before he could reply,
Asad bin Durara,
one of the great Sahaba of Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he said, hold on.
He said, ya Ansar,
hold on.
Before you go further,
understand what will happen here.
He said, if you accept this,
and if you take Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with you,
every sword in Arabia
will be raised against you.
And those swords will punch into your body.
Every tribe
will be raised against you.
Every tribe in Arabia will become your enemy.
It is not simple.
So what did they do?
They said, shut up, sit down.
They said, keep quiet, sit down.
Now before you think that Asad bin Durara
was a bad man, he was not.
He was one of the first of the Ansar
who came to Islam.
He was the cousin of Sa’ad bin Mu’adh.
Radheel Anhu.
He was the one who was the host of
Musab ibn Umair, Radheel Anhu in Medina.
He was the one who took Musab bin Umair.
One day he says to Musab bin Umair,
I am going to take you to a place.
There is one man there.
If you can convince that one man
to enter Islam, the whole tribe will enter Islam.
But that one man is very tough.
So Musab ibn Umair, Radheel Anhu says,
okay, take me.
He takes him to the garden of
Sa’ad bin Mu’adh, Radheel Anhu.
And they go sit under a tree in that garden.
And Sa’ad bin Mu’adh, Radheel Anhu
is standing on the other end of the garden
near the house with another friend of his.
Now, Asad bin Zurara was Sa’ad bin Mu’adh’s
first cousin.
The two mothers were sisters.
He was first cousin, like a brother, very close.
So these two, Musab ibn Umair and Sa’ad bin,
and Asad bin Zurara sit under the tree.
Some other people collect around them.
And Sayyidina Musab, Radheel Anhu,
is giving them da’wah.
So this friend of Sa’ad bin Mu’adh
says to him, he says to him,
Yaseh, what is happening?
You are the head of the Banu house.
This is your house.
This is your garden.
And this religion of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is coming here.
And this man is coming from Makkah.
So Sa’ad bin Mu’adh says,
don’t worry, I’ll settle that in one minute.
So he comes, he walks.
And they say,
he was carrying a spear.
He pumps the spear into the ground.
He comes right there.
He stands there.
He was a big warrior.
He was a huge, big man.
He’s armed because they were all armed.
He stands there and he says to Asad bin Zurara,
he doesn’t even look at Sa’ad bin Mu’adh.
He looks at Asad bin Zurara.
And he says, the only reason you are alive
is because you are my cousin.
Otherwise, I would have started with you.
He said, now,
take your friend and get out.
Leave.
You cannot come here without my permission.
Go.
Now, Musab bin Umair is a little kid,
according to our current language usage,
because he was 17, 18 years old.
Imagine, look at his courage.
Look at his confidence.
Look at his firasa.
Look at his diplomacy.
Look at his wisdom.
He says to Sa’ad bin Mu’adh,
he says, we are ready to go.
No problem.
He says, I’m sorry.
We came here without your permission.
We’re ready to go.
But if you don’t mind,
just listen to what I have to say.
That’s it.
Then we leave.
So Sa’ad bin Mu’adh is now thinking,
this is the hikmah.
He is not saying, I won’t go.
So no conflict.
You want me to go, I leave.
No problem.
Just listen to me.
Two minutes.
So now you take away the need to oppose.
So it’s okay.
All right.
So what do you have to say?
He recites Quran.
That’s it.
He’s not explaining anything.
He recites Quran.
Sa’ad bin Mu’adh listens to that.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala,
as Sheikhs were saying,
what comes from the heart reaches the heart.
The one who was reciting Quran
is the one who before that
gave up everything.
Literally even the clothes on his body
for the sake of that Quran.
And for the sake of Muhammad,
salallahu alaihi salam,
everything.
His mother threw him out of the house.
And he said, even your clothes belong to me.
Take them off.
She gave him one wrapping sheet to cover his nakedness.
And she said, get out.
The wealthiest, the most beautiful,
the most privileged of the youngsters,
an icon among the youth of Makkah.
The wealthiest one is coworkers.
They feel he.’s saying,
if Muhammadyu,
if he was upon them,
President reporting about giving is required,
is required of us,
we fold our hands and get ready for it
and pray to Allah.
Now, this is the Resurrection,
the Resurrection of the Prophets
like syrup on the donkey.
sit, drink
with Allah.
In His presence,
He will make his people preach the Quran or you do
anything by Allah.
In His presence,
I said bin Zura says I’m looking at my cousin’s face and I can see his face changing just listening
when he finished he said what do I do to enter your religion
that’s it he said say I shall do that
he said that and he said do your work
you have a protection
and he turned and left and his friend says
the man who went was not the man who returned
different man
and then don’t try this
because you have to have Saad bin Muad’s power to do that
his dawah very simply called all the people
he said I have accepted Islam
I have accepted Islam
I have accepted Islam
the religion of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Whoever loves me, accept the religion
of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And if you don’t do that, I don’t talk to you.
Go. Don’t try it unless you have that level of love that people will love you. If you
say I won’t talk to you, they say fantastic. Alhamdulillah. Ameen. Ya Rabb. You accepted
my dua. They say that by the time the sun set, the entire Banu Aus became Muslim. This
is the same Asad bin Zurara who’s saying, hold on a second. Don’t be quick to promise.
Because this is not simple. And the Ansar said, no, no, hold on. You sit up. And they
said, Ya Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we heard you.
We understood what you want. Now tell us, what will we get in return? And Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam replies with only one word. Jannah. That’s it. Jannah.
That is not the bottom line of the story. The bottom line of the story is the reaction
of the Sahaba. They said, Subhanallah, what a bargain. What a bargain.
If you buy a Ferrari for a million dollars, it’s not a bargain, it’s a deal. If you get
that Ferrari free or if you get that Ferrari for $10, that’s a bargain. A bargain is where
you spend very little and you’re getting huge returns. For them to give up their lives and
to give up everything they possessed for the sake of the Sahaba. That’s a bargain. That’s
an absolute bargain.如果
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of this day. They value the product of Jannah. What I am giving up is not mine. I will give up anyway, because when I die, I don’t take it.
So I’m giving up something which I would have given up anyway.
I’m getting something which I may not have got and I get that forever.
This is a bargain.