PROPHET (ﷺ) TOLD US ABOUT THIS WAR | Omar Suleiman

Dear brothers and sisters, if you have been following the series on Al-Aqsa that we have just started,

we are about to come into the chapter of the Fala'il of Asham, the virtues of Asham and its people.

And Asham refers to in the broad sense, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

And to panel out one of the things about this chapter, about the people of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan,

the people of Asham, is that it struck me as the genocide began and as I was looking into these Ahadith,

that these people were not even Muslim yet, when the Prophet ﷺ was speaking about very specific

virtues that they had. I want you to just imagine that for a moment. And of course, it's not only the

people of Asham that the Prophet ﷺ spoke about. He spoke about the Fala'il of the people of Yemen,

for example, the virtues of the people of Yemen. These people were not Muslim yet, and the Prophet ﷺ

is in Al-Madina Munawwara, and he's talking about a territory that is under the control of the

Romans, and he's already talking about the future Muslims that reside in that land, and how blessed

they are, and how much he loves them ﷺ. Now, why is this relevant to us, and what did I want to

focus on here? Today, that I can't necessarily focus on in the second lecture of our Al-Aqsa series.

It actually brings us to a very interesting genre of Ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ, where there are

a number of Ahadith where the messenger of Allah ﷺ will say something like the nations were

presented to me, or he would say, ﷺ, ﷺ, ﷺ. My nation was presented to me, or he would say,

ﷺ, I saw a man from my Ummah, and the Hadith continues in that way. The point is,

there's a genre where the Prophet ﷺ is talking about future nations, future peoples, and Subhanallah,

you can find him talking about the Ummah, and it's good times to come, and it's bad times to come.

You can find him talking about very specific, blessed people to come, and very specific people of

fitna to come. You can find him ﷺ crying over incidents that would happen 40, 50 years after him,

like the murder of Al-Hassain, Allah the Almighty, you can find him talking about all sorts of

things, the leader of Al-Khawarich, you can find him talking about, ﷺ, the global events to

happen. And you can find him talking about things that would happen to people from his Ummah

in their graves, and you can find him talking about people on the day of judgment, and you can

find him talking about very specific scenes in Al-Jannah and An-Nah. So he has this vernacular,

that's been given to him by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that he sees things, right? Now where do

we read ourselves into that? So I want to take you to a Hadith that's very famous, then we can get

into some of the specific categories here. When the Prophet ﷺ said, we did too, oh how I wish

an arah adabi, oh how I wish to see my beloved ones, and the Sahaba of course, hearing that from

the Prophet ﷺ, they said, Ya Rasulullah, who are you talking about? Are you talking about the

Muhammad ﷺ, or are you talking about the Ansar? Are you talking about the people that came

from Makkah, or are you talking about the companions from Al-Madina, and the Prophet ﷺ says,

no you are my companions, I'm talking about people that have yet to come from my Ummah,

and the Prophet ﷺ is praising these people, and he's saying, Al-Ladina am-Nuhbi wa lam-Yarani,

those who believe in me, and they have not yet seen me, and they would do anything to be able

to come to Al-Madina, and to see the Prophet ﷺ, and to be with the Prophet ﷺ,

and the Prophet ﷺ is saying, Hum Ahbabi, Hum Iqwani, may Allah make us amongst them, they are my

beloved ones, they are my brothers, so the Prophet ﷺ is talking about a group of people to come,

and he's very specific, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that he loves us, and I say us with a hopeful

tone, that we would be counted amongst them, that he loves us, because the Prophet ﷺ

knows that he has an Ummah that is to come, that loves him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

and he perceives us in that Ehsan al-Alihi Salat waslam, in that excellence of loving us before

we were even born, as he knows we are to come, and that we will reciprocate that love to him,

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and then love has categories, right?

Qul-in-Kuntum tuhibbu-un-Allah, Fatab i-Uni i-Hibibbu-um-Allah, right? Say if you truly love Allah,

then follow me, and Allah will love you back, right? So you can't claim the mahabb of the Prophet ﷺ,

you can't claim the love of the Prophet ﷺ, nor the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

if you don't follow the Prophet ﷺ, so there are very specific categories of it-Tibaa-Nabi

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what it means to follow the Prophet ﷺ, then to qualify for his love,

now here's what I want us to do, build on this very well known narration where the Prophet ﷺ

is talking about people that love him that are yet to come, and then look at the people that he

described from these different regions and in these different eras, and the qualities that he

assigned to them. So for example, when the Prophet ﷺ talks about the people around al-Aqsa,

the people around al-Bait al-Makdis, the people that are from atahif al-Mansura,

the victorious group that are around the area of asqlan, which is where raza is today.

The Prophet ﷺ doesn't just talk about them from the perspective of blood or nationality,

and in fact, let's just be very clear, you could be a fadjir kafir from Palestine,

and you could enter into the lowest pit of hellfire. In fact, some of the scholars say if you fall

within one of the blessed regions or one of the blessed categories, and you're a fadjir and you're

a disobedient person, that makes it that much worse, because just like if a blessed season comes

upon us like Ramadan, and you are sinful even in Ramadan, then that's worse for you. So if you're

from ahil al-Bait, what's better than being from the lineage of the Prophet ﷺ, from the family

of the Prophet ﷺ, and you're still disobedient, and you still disobey the soon of the messenger

of Allah ﷺ. That's a proof against you, not for you. And so this is not a source of nationalistic

pride that, oh yeah, I'm from Palestine, I'm from Suria, I'm from this place in that place,

therefore I qualify. No, no, no, in the Lord of the worlds, the earth does not make anyone holy,

right? You're Amal, your deeds make you holy. So the Prophet ﷺ would mention qualities.

So when he says, wahirina al-Hak, li'aduhuhim qahirin, right, that they are manifest upon the truth.

Okay, there's a very specific manifestation of that truth in Reza right now, and there's a very

specific manifestation of that truth in Suria, for example. But are you someone who is manifest

upon the truth in your own circumstances? When you think about the Prophet ﷺ saying, li'aduhuhim qahirin,

right, that they are a thorn in the side of their enemies. Are you someone who's a thorn in the

side of the enemies of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by your insistence upon righteousness, by your

insistence upon justice, where you are, when the Prophet ﷺ says, li'aduhuhim qahirin, man qahdarahum,

wa la man qahirahum, that they are not affected or impacted by those who take them as enemies,

nor by those who betray them. Are you one of those people? So you have to look at the qualities.

So when the Prophet ﷺ mentions, for example, the people of Yemen, and he mentions,

bi rikkatikulubi him, that they have surpassed by the softness of their hearts. You could be from

Yemen, but not have a soft heart. And you could not be from Yemen, but have a soft heart. And you

would qualify for all of the virtues of that reward, because it's the qualities that you pay

attention to. So the Prophet ﷺ loved people for the righteous deeds that were to come,

and the Prophet ﷺ happened to mention, the prevalence or the prominence of those righteous

deeds, perhaps through specific episodes of history, in very specific regions, but you can

qualify for those righteous deeds. So when Allah SWT says, may you are tada min kum'a-dinihi

fa saufa yattilahu bi kum'a, you hibbuhum wa yuhibbuna, azzillatin al-mukminin, azzatatin al-khaafidin,

you jahi dunafis habililahi, wa laya khafoon al-aumat alaam, where Allah SWT mentions a people,

that if you were to turn away, if you were to turn away, and the Prophet ﷺ say, this is referring

to the Arabs, right? If you turned away, fa saufa yattilahu bi kum'a, you hibbuhum wa yuhibbuna,

Allah will bring about another group of people, that love him and he loves them. And so it's not

region specific, it could be the Persians under Salman al-Farassir al-Diyallahu ta'ala anhu, it could be

the people of Habasha, under Bilal al-Diyallahu ta'ala anhu, it could be people all over the world,

that embrace the qualities, and you'll find that there's alignment between the qualities that are

mentioned in these ayat, and the qualities mentioned by the Prophet ﷺ. So for example,

where the Prophet ﷺ says, la ya l-dulruhum man khadalahum wa la man khalafum, that they are not

deterred by those who take them as enemies or those who betray them, compare that to wa laya khafoon

al-aumat alaam, they don't fear the blame of the blamers, they're manifestations of the same qualities,

but the point is, do you actually manifest that quality? Now here's where we get to subhanallah,

something very profound, and they are from this genre of ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ.

When you actually sit and you think to yourself, was I one of those people, perhaps, that the Prophet

ﷺ saw on the night of it is not in marriage, and that made him happy? Was I one of those people,

like was the Prophet ﷺ one day having a dream, one night having a dream, where he saw what was

happening in Raza, where he saw some of the turmoil around the debates in Makdus, and then he saw a

group of his ummah standing up and rising to the occasion, could I have been one of those people,

right? Or if the Prophet ﷺ talked about a group of Muslims rising from the lands of Kufr,

could I have been one of those people? You have to actually have that ambition to say, maybe just

maybe I could be one of those people, what if I fell in the sight of the Prophet ﷺ, alaihi was

and I could have made the Prophet ﷺ proud, and the other side could also be true, what if I

disappointed the Prophet ﷺ, right? What if the Prophet ﷺ described me as someone from the ummah

as a disappointment, like look at these people from this area, look at these people with this quality,

look at the people that do this and do that, and they are from my ummah and the disappointment of

the Messenger ﷺ, spare us from that disappointment, may Allah not make us amongst those who the Prophet

ﷺ will complain about on the day of judgement, may Allah make us amongst those who the Prophet ﷺ

will reach and he will be proud of alaihi sallallahu wa sallam. And of course, greater than that, may Allah

make us amongst those who meet him and he's proud of us, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, that Allah,

as the OJ, praises us for these qualities, as alaisees, even what the Prophet ﷺ could not see,

alaisees everything and he sees the hearts and he sees every single detail because he decrees every

single detail, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So let's look through some of these Ahadith, one of them,

SubhanAllah is the Ahadith of Umharam, bintum al-Han, radiya Allahu ta'ala anha, and she is the

Khala of Anas ibn Malik, radiya Allahu ta'ala anhu, and she narrates, Khalat Atana Rasulullah,

he sallallahu wa sallam that the Prophet ﷺ came to us one day and he went to sleep at our house

and the Prophet ﷺ was related to them. Fastayqada sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa huay al-hak,

the Prophet ﷺ woke up from a nap in our home and he was laughing, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

And when you read that the Prophet ﷺ was laughing, that should make you happy because you love

the joy of the Prophet ﷺ just as you cry when the Prophet ﷺ cries as you're reading these

episodes of the Syirah. So imagine he woke up in your house and he was laughing,

wa sallam. Fakultu ya Rasulullah, bi abi wa ummi, ma al-Hakaka,

by my mother and my father, may my mother and my father be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allah,

what caused you to laugh? And in one narration may Allah keep you laughing, right? May Allah keep

you happy. These people love to see the Prophet ﷺ happy. And the Prophet ﷺ says,

meaning the first marines of the Ummah. And the Prophet ﷺ says,

they were like kings, right? Like there is something so deeply profound that the Prophet ﷺ

is describing this first group, this first batch of his Ummah, their desert Arabs that will go out

on the seas, Fisabidullah, and they're like kings on their thrones. And Umm Haram radiallahu

ta'ala ana said, Ya Rasulullah, immediately she said, Udru Allah ya Jalla ni minhum,

make du'at that I be amongst them. And the Prophet ﷺ made the du'at, he says,

fa inna kiminhum, you are from them, you are from them. So it was not only a du'at that you would

be amongst them. The Prophet ﷺ said, you are from those people, Thumma, Nama, Thumma

wa huwa yadahak, then the Prophet ﷺ went asleep and he once again woke up and he laughed,

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and I asked the Prophet ﷺ what he saw, so the Prophet ﷺ saw

an extension of that dream. He saw more, Allah gave him more in his dreams, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

And he once again affirmed with the Prophet ﷺ, Ya Rasulullah. Am I one of those people you're

seeing in your dream and the Prophet ﷺ said, enti minhum, you are indeed amongst them. And the

second time he said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, enti minal awwaleen, you are from the first,

you are from the first people that are amongst them. And SubhanAllah, what happened is that

Umharam bintum al-Han, radiallahu a'nha married, Rabadatub Nusamat, radiallahu a'nha,

and they were on the ship to Cyprus. She accompanied Rabadah, radiallahu a'nha, on the ship to Cyprus,

and just as they got off the ship, she fell off of her animal and she broke her neck and she

passed away of all the al-Lahu a'nha and her grave is still in Cyprus. Now this is a very

well-known story SubhanAllah, but just think about the vision here, right? How many more episodes

of the Prophet ﷺ see, but no one was there to narrate the dream, or he didn't share the dream

with anyone else? What did the Prophet ﷺ already see of what's happening right now,

in these consequential times in history? And where do I fall into this? Now what I want to also

come to an conclusion is that a lot of times we're thinking once again these major major major

qualities, these major deeds, right? Stepping up to the plate and indeed we should be an umma of

himma, we should be an umma of ambition, and we should try to step up to the plate and we should

try to do great things and not settle for us. But it's also the small things too. So I want to leave

you with these two Ahadith. One of them as the Ahadith of Abu Dhabr radiallahu a'nha that he says

that the Prophet ﷺ said the Prophet ﷺ said that my umma was presented to me with its good

deeds and with its bad deeds. So I saw the good, the bad, the ugly, the Prophet ﷺ is saying I saw

the trajectory of this umma and that's why the Prophet ﷺ would talk about the things that

unfortunately we'd fall into, right? Of gluttony and greed and deceit and lying and becoming

inconsequential despite our numbers and rebranding and renaming evil things and all of these things that

unfortunately become qualities of the umma despite its large number because the Prophet ﷺ said

I saw it's good and I saw it's bad. But then he says,

I saw something from its good that someone removing something harmful from the road. So remember when

the Prophet ﷺ said I saw man strolling in paradise because he removed some other,

something harmful from the road. So the Prophet ﷺ is saying that something so small enters a

person into gender. So I saw something so small from my umma to come. And he said to the ﷺ

what I ate to Fisei Ahamaliha, what I ate to Fisei Ahamaliha, he said to the ﷺ that I saw from

its evil deeds that there is not in the masjid that is not buried. Now, SubhanAllah this gives you

something to think about, right? Back then they didn't have carpets in the masjid. So if you saw

something like snot or you saw something that wasn't great, you buried it in the dirt at that time.

SubhanAllah. So he's saying to the ﷺ I saw these very small good deeds, these very small bad deeds,

these very small qualities of good and bad that maybe we don't pay attention to. Another narration

the Prophet ﷺ said, Arabic that verily the rewards, the ajr, the ujr of my umma were shown

to me and he said, Arabic I'm giving this example to say that it could be a small deed that you do

that actually put you in the vision of the Prophet ﷺ. But what you have to do is you have to

place yourself in the vision of the Prophet ﷺ. You have to place yourself in some of those

qualities that the Prophet ﷺ mentions. And not just to say, I don't belong to this category

or that category and think about this. Someone says, well, I'm not from alibati nabis alaihi

salam. I am not from the people of Asham or the people of Yemen or the people that the Prophet ﷺ

was mentioning there. I'm not from, maybe I'm not even an Arab, I don't even speak Arabic, right?

So I can't read the Quran in a certain way or I can't do this in a certain way or maybe I'm not

rich. So I can't give a lot of Sadaka. So all these things about people of Sadaka, I don't fall in

that category. Maybe I'm not an Arab, I'm not a scholar. So I don't fall in the category of these

people of alib. So you degrade yourself to a point that you don't aspire to be of any of those

categories that the Prophet ﷺ mentioned. And that's not what Allah is or done, demands from us.

Instead, we are a great umma because we are the followers of a great Prophet ﷺ. So aim high

and go into this genre of Ahadith and think about it. Could I have been from the dream of the Prophet

ﷺ? Could I have qualified for one of those qualities that the Prophet ﷺ praised and saw in the

umma to come? And then suffice yourself at the end with anta marman ahbatt, you are with those

whom you love. And so you express your love for the Prophet ﷺ and on the day and night of Friday,

you increase in your salawat on the Messenger ﷺ and you seek to be amongst the people,

even though you do not have the deeds necessarily that put you in their ranks, but through your love

of them may Allah is or judge make us amongst those who truly love Allah and who truly love the

Messenger ﷺ and who love the righteous until their righteousness becomes infectious in a good

way. And it takes over us and our deeds start to resemble them. I may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us

amongst those who are raised up on the Day of Judgment from As-Saa bi-Kun al-Awwaloon from the first

in one of these blessed categories. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us in these consequential

moments to rise to the occasion ahead of us and to be amongst those special followers of the Prophet ﷺ.