Significance of Hijrah in Islamic History

Alright, Hijrah to Medina. Hijrah to Medina. Different things that we learn from the Hijrah. So the Prophet ﷺ was 13 years in Mecca, right? And then, you know, the issues became intensified. And they plotted to kill the Prophet ﷺ in the end. As the Muslims started traveling for the Hijrah, they said that we can't let the Muslims go like this. And they thought to themselves, you know, they sat in a gathering. And they said, what can we do? Right? So one person says, let's imprison him. And they said, no, we can't imprison him. Someone else will say, let's follow his religion. They're like, no, no, we're not going to follow his religion. They go through all these different options. And Shaytan, in the form of an old man, came into this gathering. And so as they're going through the options, then finally the suggestion was made to kill the prophets of the life system. Why hadn't they killed the prophets of the life system so far? The reason they didn't kill him was because he had a tribe defending him. And basically the tribe would not allow for the Prophet ﷺ to be killed. It basically would tear all of Mecca apart if the Prophet ﷺ was killed. So now Iblis, who's sitting in the gathering, it's like the suggestion is giving, what if you have a son, like a key person, from each of these different tribes. And all of them participate in the assassination of the Prophet ﷺ. If that's the case, they all participate in the assassination, and then when Quraysh... wants to seek and fight with the people who killed the Prophet ﷺ, they will not be able to pinpoint which specific tribe it was. And thus, they will have to. They won't have any other choice except the blood money. Except blood money and that would be the end of the Prophet ﷺ. They agreed to this and this was the plot to kill the Prophet ﷺ. Those people who did hijrah, the Prophet ﷺ, permission was granted to perform hijrah. So, Abu Bakr was known to be one of the first people to do any of those good deeds. Abu Bakr immediately wanted to perform hijrah to Medina. When we say the word hijrah, it means like migration, right? Emigration, it's to leave from one area to another, hijrah. Abu Bakr wanted to go immediately, and the Prophet ﷺ told him to be patient. He said, for perhaps Allah will give you a companion to travel with you. The Prophet ﷺ never told him that it would be him, but he said, perhaps Allah will give you someone to travel with you. And so Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, in his preparation, the whole time he had like two camels prepared, he had, you know, food enough for two people. Everything that he had was in preparation for two people to travel. He didn't know who the other person would be, but he was hoping that it would be the Prophet ﷺ. Some people traveled in secret. And actually a lot of the companions would travel in secret. Umar was very strong. When he became Muslim, basically he came to the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ said, Isn't it time for you to become Muslim? And Umar said, This is the reason that I came. Umar used to torture the Muslims before. Umar used to torture the Muslims before. Not only that, but he used to voluntarily torture other people's slaves. So like, not only is he torturing his slaves that would become Muslim, but he's going to other people and saying that if you become tired from torturing them, let me torture them for you. That's how much Umar was harsh against the Muslims. And when the Muslims are traveling to Abyssinia, Right, there was a moment where, you know, some of the relatives of Umar, they're traveling and Umar asked them, it was like late night, he saw that, you know, they're getting ready to leave. Umar like felt sad and he said, you know, may you go in peace. So one of his relative said to Umar, said to her relative that I think Umar might become Muslim. And then her relative said in response, he said, No, Umar's donkey will become Muslim before Umar becomes Muslim. Like, it's not happening. You can't imagine that someone that would be so tough against the Muslims, so harsh, would become Muslim. And yet this was the case. Umar r.a. decided to kill the Prophet s.a.w. He'd had enough, no matter what happened, he was gonna kill him. kill the Prophet ﷺ on his way. Then one of the companions saw him, and he's like, well, why don't you start with your sister first? And he's like, my sister became Muslim? And to divert Umar ﷺ from the Prophet ﷺ, to give this companion time to warn the Prophet ﷺ. He went to his sister's house. They were like reading Qur'an, and he came in. He slapped his sister, and you know, hit her husband. And his sister said in response, well, maybe you don't have the truth, Umar. And then Umar ﷺ, When he saw his sister bleeding, he calmed down and he said, let me, you know, share with me what you've been reading. And he read from Surah Taha. Taha, ma anzalna alayka al-Qur'an al-litashqa. Surah Taha, and then Umar radiallahu anhu then went to the Prophet ﷺ. Hamza radiallahu anhu is there. And they said, if Umar radiallahu anhu comes and if he tries to do anything, we will kill him with his own sword. We're not even going to kill him with our sword. We'll take his sword and kill him with it. And Umar radiallahu anhu came, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam grabbed him, and he said, isn't it time for you to become Muslim, O Umar? Umar radiallahu anhu said, I've come for no other reason except this. And he became Muslim. La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah. Then Umar radiallahu anhu asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, aren't we on the truth? And he said, yes. He said, aren't they on the falsehood? He said, yes. And he said, then why are we hiding? And so, subhanAllah, if you read the biography of Umar r.a, he said the day Umar r.a became Muslim, that was a conquest for the Muslims. It was like one of the greatest victories for the Muslims was the day he became Muslim. Like, imagine someone that powerful. And the companions say that we were never able to pray publicly until the day Umar became Muslim. Umar went public. Umar would go and pray in public. He doesn't care who watches him. Nobody could say anything to him. And so the other companions were able to pray. pray publicly after that because of Umar radiallahu anhu in fact Umar radiallahu anhu there was like this person amongst the mushrikeen that he was like you know the gossip monger guy and Umar radiallahu anhu know everybody knows this is the gossip monger his job is to like go around gossiping about everything and so Umar radiallahu anhu he's the blabber mouth when given to divulging you know all this information Umar radiallahu anhu he's like did you hear what happened um he's like, what? He's like, I became Muslim. And then this guy is like, he didn't even answer, he's like, everybody, Omar became Muslim. And, you know, news started spreading in Mecca about that. He went to Abu Lahab's house, knocked on the door, and he's like, you know, hello, hello. And then he's like, you know, did you hear what happened? He said, no, what happened? I became Muslim. And Abu Lahab, like, slammed the door in his face, and he's like, you've ruined my day. And Umar radiallahu anhu went to the Kaaba and he announced to everybody, I've become Muslim. And they all started beating Umar radiallahu anhu. They got into a fight. All these people ganged up on Umar and he fought all day long with them. And he kept doing that and SubhanAllah, leading up to this point in Hijrah, when Umar radiAllahu anhu is doing Hijrah, this is his announcement to everybody. He goes out to the Ka'bah in front of everybody and he says, tomorrow I'm going to do Hijrah from, you know, such a direction. Whoever would like their mother to cry over their dead body, you can meet me over there in that direction. And that was it. So nobody, they're like, you go. And Umar radiallahu anhu went. And Islam was supported. This is in the history of the khalifa class. Umar radiallahu anhu, just kind of like a side point about Umar. His characteristic was that he loved people to criticize him. Remember we're talking about criticism and everybody's worried about criticism and so on and so forth. If someone criticized Umar, he would be thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that someone wasn't scared of him and like went beyond the fear factor and yet told Umar. what he felt was the truth. Right? So, Umar's statement was, رَحِمَ اللَّهُ أَهْدَى إِلَيْنَ عُيُوبَنَا He would say, May the mercy of Allah be upon the person who gives as a gift to us our mistakes. There was this guy, one time I was doing a Jum'ah khutbah, they asked me to give an announcement, right? And actually there was a Maghrib class, like the next, actually that night. And they said, oh, there's a bunch of announcements going to go around in the city and so on and so forth. At the end of the Jummah Khutbah, I forgot to give the announcement. They wanted me to do it during the Jummah Khutbah. At the end of the Khutbah, I forgot the announcement. Okay, so like no big deal, right? after the jama'at khutbah, this guy comes up to me, like mafia style. He's Egyptian. You know how Egyptians get this mafia look, right? They're just so angry. And I was like shocked. I was like freaked out at him. He's like, why didn't you say the announcement? I said, I forgot. And he looked at me with like such disgust. And he left me. He didn't, he didn't say anything. He left him. Then I got an I emailed the next day, and he basically, he said, you know, oh, you know what, all these announcements happen in the city. He said, except in such and such a masjid, and because it failed is because of Muhammad al-Sharif. And he said, Muhammad al-Sharif was a disgrace to this, to what we were planning to do, and he's a failure, and, you know, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. So, it's not only he's emailing me, he's emailing all the leaders in the community. And he wrote this, like what does that do to you? Someone writes that to you, right? You're a disgrace. Because they asked you to do an announcement and you forgot. Okay, so I'm flexing my muscles, I'm ready to punch him out. Do like a Jackie Chan. on the guy. At the end of, and you know what the class was that I was preparing? It was the history of the khalifa and I was preparing the life of Omar at that time. And at the end of his email, he said, Brother Muhammad, I hope you're going to I hope you don't take any offense. That's a good one, right? I hope you don't take any offense because Umar radiallahu anhu loved to be corrected. And then Umar radiallahu anhu loved to be corrected and this is just a correction for you and so on. So, you know, my heart's beating tough, the Jackie Chan thing, the whole, you know, ready. And actually, I learned a lesson from there. Whenever someone writes an email to you like that, how many people get crazy emails like that? people hating on them by email. The rest of you do too, you're just not raising your hands. If you get those crazy emails, write a response in a Word document and save it. Don't email back. And then the next day, wait at least 24 hours. And this is where I made up that policy. I said, I'm going to wait like 24 hours, and tomorrow if I still feel like sending it, I'll send it. It was like I was going to destroy the guy on the return email. But I didn't. Alhamdulillah, I never did it. And believe me, in hindsight, I'm so thankful to Allah I didn't send that email. And so I went back to studying and I'm opening the books of Umar radiallahu anhu and reading his history. And I said, he was right. Umar radiallahu anhu really did love to be corrected. If you study his life, someone would say something to Umar radiallahu anhu. And you know what, he would just be so happy that in the Umm of Muhammad, there wouldn't be people who would be afraid of him to the point where they wouldn't tell him the truth. truth. Such as when he became the Khalifa in Salman al-Farisi, you know, when Umar radiallahu anhu said, you know, if I do anything wrong, correct me. Salman radiallahu anhu said, we'll correct you even if we need to do it with our swords. And Umar radiallahu anhu is saying, alhamdulillah, that, you know, there's people like that in Ummah Muhammad that are not afraid. And he's saying, oh Allah, you know, don't let their fear of me, you know, hold them back from telling me what is the truth. And so on. This is the quality of Umar radiallahu anhu. And then the more I read from him, I felt so honored that he compared me to Umar radiallahu anhu. And then, so when I did respond, I looked back like a day or two later, this was like a Friday, and then by about Sunday, you know, I calmed down and so on and so forth, and I said, at the end of your email, you compared me to Umar radiallahu anhu. And I said, I am so honored that you did that, and I will not let you down. I will do what Umar radiallahu anhu did, and thank you for sharing my mistakes. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive me, and hopefully, inshallah, I can do better in the future. And that was it. That was it, that's the end of the email. Now subhanAllah, I learned another lesson in all of this, and that is the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. When someone is attacking you, the angels are defending you. There was an incident where this person was cursing Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu in front of the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet ﷺ was quiet. Then Abu Bakr is confused, he's quiet and he's smiling, and then Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu then starts answering the people back. When he started answering the people back, the Prophet ﷺ stopped smiling and walked away. And now he was really confused. And so the Prophet ﷺ said that, when they were saying these things to you, the angels of Allah were defending you. Of course, Abu Bakr is more beloved to Allah than this person, like saying these bad things about Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu. But when... you like took it on yourself to respond, then you didn't have like that, the angels, they stopped responding on your behalf. So what happened in this email, like between those two, three days, even though I didn't see it, remember I said that all the community leaders were CC'd on that email? Every single one of them defended me. Every single one of them had wrote an email and probably 10 times more harsher than, you know, than what this guy wrote to me. Saying that, no, you're the one, like, don't say this about Muhammad and so on and so forth. They all defended me in that email. And that's why I say, in hindsight, they didn't CC me on those, like, defense emails. If I had CC'd them in my email, I would be like... that kidnap bee, right? I have all the sympathy and all of this stuff until I decide to defend myself and then there's no sympathy left, right? Anyhow, that was Umar radiallahu anhu. Lessons that we learned from the hijrah. The hijrah... to Medina, was the Prophet ﷺ just escaping and running away because they were plotting to kill him? And the answer is no, that's not the case. That's not the case. In fact, it's a strategic location. The Prophet ﷺ was moving to Medina to become a political leader there. And their plot to kill the Prophet ﷺ, the hijrah had actually started. The companions were already doing hijrah before the Prophet ﷺ left the city. did hijrah himself. Or before they plotted to kill the Prophet ﷺ, they were already doing hijrah. So understanding that. So sometimes a person might say something like, Oh, the Prophet ﷺ ran away from Mecca to Medina. It's not running away, but in fact it's carrying on the message of Islam in soil that's more fertile. This hijrah to Medina... That throughout time, there will always be this race against like good and bad and so on. And so this race, and they went to Medina, the Prophet ﷺ was continuing in. Like these people are insisting on, you know, the evil and the Prophet ﷺ is insisting on enjoying the good. Nothing can stop that. A person goes to another area, keeps going to another area, another area, until the message of Islam is established. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُوا بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُوا بِكَ means and when they're plotting against you يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوكَ right? to either kill you or expel you وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُوا اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرٌ مَا كِرِينَ but they plot and Allah plots and Allah plans and Allah is the best of planners. So they're plotting and when someone is like the head of a dawah, right? Head of a dawah organization, someone is asking about leadership skills. One of the key leadership skills is making sure to build other leaders. leaders. Because if you have a leadership or an organization that's built on one leader, what do you need to do to like finish off the organization? You just snip out that leader and everything collapses. And that's the case in a lot of organizations. It's a bunch of followers under one leader. When the leader is gone, that's it. Nobody is ready to take it over and nothing is prepared and so on and so forth. And here's actually a side point to that. Sometimes a leader prepares the next leaders to be leaders, but doesn't prepare them to prepare. prepare other leaders. So maybe they're smart. Yes, they have prepared another leader, but that leader will last for about two, three years, and then they have to go, and then everything collapses because they were not taught to prepare leaders from day one. So this is what you do. When you're preparing the next leader, you prepare the next leader and the leader after that as well. The leader and the leader after that, and you make it a policy that two leaders are prepared at a time each time, that always two leaders are prepared at a time. So they were trying to kill the Prophet ﷺ Take out the head of the da'wah And with that they were hoping that the da'wah would collapse You'll also see that they would invest money And they invest a lot of money to fight the da'wah Billions and billions of dollars To fight the da'wah So when the Prophet ﷺ was traveling from Mecca to Medina When they found that they had lost him And he had escaped from Mecca They put out A ransom for the Prophet ﷺ, a hundred camels. And I was asking a brother like how much a camel costs. In today's money, it's like thousand dollars. Right, so it's like a hundred thousand dollars. Maybe even more than that. A hundred camels is a huge amount of wealth. And so you see someone like Suraqa. Who later became Muslim himself, radiallahu anhu, Suraqah is saying that he wanted the bounty all to himself. And he went out searching and trying to find the Prophet ﷺ, and he actually did find the Prophet ﷺ. Okay? And we'll talk about that in a while. You'll see the utilization of the youth. Utilization of the youth. So youth in this, in the Hijrah, You had people like Ali r.a who slept in the bed of the Prophet s.a.w. and he was in his teenage years at that time. You had people like Asma r.a This young girl, the son of Abu Bakr ibn Ariqat, who was like the guide, and you have another person by Amr ibn Fuhairah. These are all youth in the community that helped in the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ to Medina. I actually wanted to, because a lot of times people mention that, oh, the youth, the youth, the youth. The key people that moved the da'wah forward, the key people that moved the da'wah forward, We're people in their 40s, okay? So pay attention to that. People in their 40s. Where do we find people in their 40s? Where do they hang out in our Muslim community today? Where do they hang out? What's that, the cafes? They're at home, that's right. They're at home watching TV. I find in the Dawah scene, people in their, between their like, you know, 40s, 50s and so on, people who are very important in the Dawah. you will find them at Jum'ah Khutbah you'll find them at Jum'ah Khutbah the Jum'ah Khutbah crowd of people that come for Jum'ah Khutbah in the past they were the ones who were closest to the Prophet ﷺ they were the ones who learned this deen they were the leaders and in fact you'll see for example in the battle of Badr one of the Muhajireen is standing and he sees two youth from amongst the Ansar and he says to himself I wish I had some older men standing beside me. He's like, he got a little scared because these youth are just, you know, they're just young in the battle and so on and so forth, and they're not experienced in battle. So meaning that these older men, again, a footnote to this, we have amongst our older, we call them older generation in comparison to us, but... They are like the Shabab, right? They're people in their 40s and 50s. In the past, in our communities, they're the ones who established the masajid. Would you agree to that? So all these masjids that you see around town, most of you had nothing. to do with it. It was what we call the uncles. The uncles did it. So here's an uncle and he's like, we'll get a masjid. It will cost 500,000 pounds. But let's take a loan. And you're like, are you crazy? Jay-Z, you take a loan and you're always in debt and so on and so forth. Our generation doesn't do that. They were like, I could never ask anybody for money. I can't. And so it's like the uncles that go around asking everybody for money, always asking, doing fundraisers and stuff. Do you guys do fundraisers all the time? Do you guys do fundraisers? How many people organize the fundraisers? Yeah, that's what I expected. You got like three people here. It's the uncles that organize the fundraisers. Okay? So being just. There is that group of uncles that are concerned with building foundations. All these masajid built and all these halal butcher shops and stuff like that. These fundamentals are built by them. But now we need more from that generation. More to do inshallah ta'ala. And I think that they're excited to do stuff. It just needs maybe some good leaders amongst them. Inshaallah ta'ala. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The statement in Arabic is called, أخذوا بالأسباب It's to take advantage of the causes Or to make sure all the causes You have put in effect Or sorry You've put in place all the causes So let's say for example A brother wants to get married Okay Brother wants to get married What have you done to get married? No let's say Give you an example A brother wants to have children But he doesn't want to get married Or doesn't want to do any haram Or something like that How are you going to have a child? Like I don't know But I just want it Right? Or someone's like, what have you done to get married? And you're like, I want to get married. What have you done? You know, there's nobody who wants to marry me. What have you done? So you've not taken any steps forward that, you know, these steps lead to marriage. Like, as they say, like, you know, there's clues. If someone has done something before, you can find what they did. There's a recipe to get that. How this person got married to such and such, and how this person made a million dollars, and how this person was able to open this organization. Anything that you want, guaranteed someone has already gotten that. They already have it, so all you do is go to them, what are the asbab, what are the causes that led you to this effect? And I remember in Medina, even in this trip, he was saying, what do you think is the main problem of the Muslims? He asked the question. What is the main problem of the Muslims? And so his conclusion was that the Muslims do not pay attention to this. الْأَخْذُ بِالْأَسْبَابِ They don't pay attention to the causes. So if you want to build a Muslim empire and you want Muslims to rise up, everybody's like, let's just make dua. But dua, if you're sincere in your dua, you will know, sincere from Islam, that you have to take steps, you have to, you know, give scholarships to students, you have to build universities, like how many universities are you going to have to build if you want to, you know, build like a renaissance of knowledge and so on and so forth. forth. You have to build buildings, you have to do this. There's so many things involved and that is al-asbab. Those are the causes. So you'll see in the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ that he followed the causes. He followed the causes that would lead to the effect. Now, just because someone has all the cause in place doesn't mean that they'll get the effect, right? So someone may, for example, oh, they've been to all the, you know, they've been to like nasib.com, they've been to shadi.com, and they've told everybody that they want to get married and so on and so forth. They've done everything, and in the end, they're still not married. What's the reason? They're like, it's got to be jinn, right? It's not jinn. There's an ingredient and that is that even if a person puts all their causes, they still might not get the effect. So you don't place your trust in the cause. You place your trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that means that like, if you prepared everything, you built a university in your country, you've, you know, trained and you've led and you've done all these, and so on, and you're making dua that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings honor and nobility to the Muslims, you've done all your causes, the effect may or may not happen. And so you never desist from making dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make that cause lead to the effect, right? And if it doesn't lead to the effect, you're like, there must have been something wrong. You go back, readjust your causes. is you're making dua to Allah SWT placing your trust in Allah and so there's examples of this in the hijrah of the Prophet SAW one of the causes that they know if they leave Mecca and they're being chased everybody would go in the direction of Medina because they know that's the direction of the Prophet SAW so what the Prophet SAW did is he actually camped out in a cave that was very near to the Kaaba In fact, I would say if you walked from the Kaaba to where Ghaari Thoor, where the Prophet ﷺ is in the cave that they spend so many days therein, it is about, I would say, maybe a 45-minute walk. A 45-minute walk from the Kaaba. Maybe it would have been longer at that time because they have tunnels now that go through the like the mountains You're talking about 45 minutes an hour walking by car. It's about five minutes By car, it's about five minutes to that cave. So they would immediately like race out in that direction, but they wouldn't thing to check, you know, just like right next door. So everybody is racing, racing in that area. But even still, they still check. They climbed up the mountain. They went to like every cave. And they came to the cave where Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu and the Prophet ﷺ were. And so, And so things could have broken down at that point. And you'll see that the Prophet ﷺ, they placed their trust in Allah ﷻ. And the effect was in the favor of the Prophet ﷺ. You'll also see the role of women. We were talking about the role of women in the seerah. There were women involved in this. So, for example, like Asmaa, her nickname, ذات النتاقين, was from the Hijrah, right? The owner of two belts was her nickname, رضي الله عنها, because with her belt, she ripped it in half and used part of it to like take the food to the Prophet ﷺ and her father, and with the other half, you know, she wrapped her garment. And so because of her effort in the Hijrah, that she had this special nickname. The hijrah also is narrated by Aisha radiallahu anha. And you see other of the women, you know, they would go out and they might be separated from their husbands, such as Umm Salama radiallahu anha. And yet, you know, her husband went to Medina and she's crying and crying every day going out until finally they felt sad for her and they let her join her husband in Medina. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in the planning for the hijrah, she said, Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu, till the last moment, didn't know when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is his best friend, and he doesn't know when he's doing hijrah, and like how he's doing hijrah, all of that wasn't known. Just as we said, Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu was told that perhaps Allah would give him someone to do hijrah with. So Aisha radiallahu anhu narrates that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came at a hot time of the day, right? So it's a hot time, usually at a hot time, everybody's like sleeping. at the hot time, or they're just taking rest. It's not a time that you go and visit people. That's when the Prophet ﷺ came to visit Abu Bakr r.a. And he told him, you know, like, you know, the family members, you know, asked them to go away. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, you know, they're just like your family members. And the Prophet ﷺ said to him that, Allah has granted me permission to do hijrah. Abu Bakr's immediate reaction to that was, As-suhbah ya Rasulullah. Which is like, together O Messenger of Allah. And the Prophet ﷺ responded by saying, As-suhbah, we will go together. And Aisha said, that I've never, you know, she heard of people, she heard of people saying that, it is... possible for someone to cry out of happiness. And she said, I never understood what they meant until that day when I saw my father crying out of happiness. That he would get to go with the Prophet ﷺ and perform hijrah with him. And so the Prophet ﷺ, that night they left. That was the night that they came to assassinate the Prophet ﷺ. So in the bed of the Prophet ﷺ slept Ali r.a. In defense of the Prophet ﷺ. So this bed basically, they're planning to kill the Prophet ﷺ. Prophet ﷺ, Ali r.a. might be killed that night. His face is covered, they don't know who it is. And at any time in the night, they could come and kill him. And so Ali r.a. went to sleep in defense of the Prophet ﷺ on his bed. giving the Prophet ﷺ the head start throughout the night to travel and travel and travel. And again, they didn't travel in the direction of Medina, but rather they went to Ghar-i-Thawr. The cave that they went to was called Ghar-i-Thawr. The cave of Thawr. As we said, it's about a five-minute drive from the Kaaba. In their travels, they actually had planned, when they went to the cave, the Arabs were expert in footprint reading. So this is basically what Arabs could do. If there's a camel walking by, they could tell where the camel came from. So if the camel, for example, through the dung of the camel, would you say dung? Through the dung of the camel, they would look like, let's say they see the dung and there's some date seeds in it or something. They'll say, oh, this camel came from the direction of Medina because they have dates in Medina. And dates are so precious. Only in Medina, where there's so many dates, would they give it to the camels. And so they would know that, okay, this animal is coming from Medina. But they were also able to, you know, if they're looking at the tracks, they could tell that this camel is like the mother of this camel. Right? They could tell who's related to who. from the camel tracks. So the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr, they could trace their tracks. So Asma'i radiallahu anhu, they had sheep and after the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr had escaped, she then took the sheep and went in their direction to wash away their tracks so they couldn't be read. So that was Asma'a r.a doing that, bringing out the sheep. And when she would bring the sheep as well, she would take it to that area and milk it and give milk to her father and give milk to the Prophet s.a.w. One of the shaykh was mentioning as well, is that in the path of the hijrah, how comfortable do you think the cave was? How comfortable do you think the cave was? It's not very comfortable, right? You know, sometimes in Hajj, it's so tight and there's so many people in the valley of Mina that you're like, if only I could go up to the mountain and just go sleep up there on the mountain. You know, we're used to just having lots of space. When you go up into the mountain, how would you like to sleep on rocks sticking to your back, right? Your head on a rock. Jagged rock and in your back and so on and so forth. It's not very comfortable. But yet the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr, they took residence in this cave for the sake of the Da'wah. So it's a reminder when things aren't so comfortable, realize that people before you had suffered much like harder than what you've suffered for the sake of Islam. When they traveled to Medina, they also had a guide. They had a guide, and it's very dangerous traveling in the desert. It's not some simple matter. You could get lost. If you get lost in the desert, you'll die in the desert, right? And there's also... there's snakes, there's all these different things and so on that a person needs to be protected from. So you would have to have an expert guide. The guide that was with them was not Muslim. The guide that was with them was not Muslim. Why would they take a non-Muslim guide? Obviously he was trustworthy, but he wasn't Muslim. They say that because he knew the roads better than anybody else. Which is something that I found to be a recurring theme in the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ, that they... They often chose expert people. And examples of that, like really quickly, Bilal radiallahu anhu, there was a companion who saw a dream of the adhan. He went to the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ adopted it as the adhan and he said, teach it to Bilal because he has a better voice than you. And someone might say, but I saw the dream, I'm the one who saw it, I should be able to say the adhan. Bilal radiallahu anhu is more expert in saying the adhan. And so he was the one who got to say the adhan. And there are other examples of that. This example where they took a mushrik guide, even though, you know, You know, he wasn't Muslim, but he knew the land better. In the building of the masjid, of the masjid Nabawi, there was a Yemeni person who came, and he knew how to build bricks. But he wasn't like from the muhajireen and so on. And he thought, maybe I should let the muhajireen build it. And the Prophet ﷺ said, no, you build the bricks for them because you know better how to build the bricks. So it's like putting expert people in the positions of their expertise. Wallahu ta'ala. Allah, all right give you a break inshallah

Alright, Hijrah to Medina. Hijrah to Medina. Different things that we learn from the Hijrah.

So the Prophet ﷺ was 13 years in Mecca, right? And then, you know, the issues became intensified. And they plotted to kill the Prophet ﷺ in the end.

As the Muslims started traveling for the Hijrah, they said that we can't let the Muslims go like this. And they thought to themselves, you know, they sat in a gathering. And they said, what can we do?

Right? So one person says, let's imprison him. And they said, no, we can't imprison him.

Someone else will say, let's follow his religion. They're like, no, no, we're not going to follow his religion. They go through all these different options.

And Shaytan, in the form of an old man, came into this gathering. And so as they're going through the options, then finally the suggestion was made to kill the prophets of the life system. Why hadn't they killed the prophets of the life system so far?

The reason they didn't kill him was because he had a tribe defending him. And basically the tribe would not allow for the Prophet ﷺ to be killed. It basically would tear all of Mecca apart if the Prophet ﷺ was killed. So now Iblis, who's sitting in the gathering, it's like the suggestion is giving, what if you have a son, like a key person, from each of these different tribes. And all of them participate in the assassination of the Prophet ﷺ.

If that's the case, they all participate in the assassination, and then when Quraysh... wants to seek and fight with the people who killed the Prophet ﷺ, they will not be able to pinpoint which specific tribe it was. And thus, they will have to. They won't have any other choice except the blood money.

Except blood money and that would be the end of the Prophet ﷺ. They agreed to this and this was the plot to kill the Prophet ﷺ. Those people who did hijrah, the Prophet ﷺ, permission was granted to perform hijrah.

So, Abu Bakr was known to be one of the first people to do any of those good deeds. Abu Bakr immediately wanted to perform hijrah to Medina. When we say the word hijrah, it means like migration, right? Emigration, it's to leave from one area to another, hijrah. Abu Bakr wanted to go immediately, and the Prophet ﷺ told him to be patient.

He said, for perhaps Allah will give you a companion to travel with you. The Prophet ﷺ never told him that it would be him, but he said, perhaps Allah will give you someone to travel with you. And so Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, in his preparation, the whole time he had like two camels prepared, he had, you know, food enough for two people.

Everything that he had was in preparation for two people to travel. He didn't know who the other person would be, but he was hoping that it would be the Prophet ﷺ. Some people traveled in secret. And actually a lot of the companions would travel in secret. Umar was very strong.

When he became Muslim, basically he came to the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ said, Isn't it time for you to become Muslim? And Umar said, This is the reason that I came. Umar used to torture the Muslims before. Umar used to torture the Muslims before. Not only that, but he used to voluntarily torture other people's slaves.

So like, not only is he torturing his slaves that would become Muslim, but he's going to other people and saying that if you become tired from torturing them, let me torture them for you. That's how much Umar was harsh against the Muslims. And when the Muslims are traveling to Abyssinia, Right, there was a moment where, you know, some of the relatives of Umar, they're traveling and Umar asked them, it was like late night, he saw that, you know, they're getting ready to leave.

Umar like felt sad and he said, you know, may you go in peace. So one of his relative said to Umar, said to her relative that I think Umar might become Muslim. And then her relative said in response, he said, No, Umar's donkey will become Muslim before Umar becomes Muslim.

Like, it's not happening. You can't imagine that someone that would be so tough against the Muslims, so harsh, would become Muslim. And yet this was the case. Umar r.a.

decided to kill the Prophet s.a.w. He'd had enough, no matter what happened, he was gonna kill him. kill the Prophet ﷺ on his way. Then one of the companions saw him, and he's like, well, why don't you start with your sister first?

And he's like, my sister became Muslim? And to divert Umar ﷺ from the Prophet ﷺ, to give this companion time to warn the Prophet ﷺ. He went to his sister's house. They were like reading Qur'an, and he came in.

He slapped his sister, and you know, hit her husband. And his sister said in response, well, maybe you don't have the truth, Umar. And then Umar ﷺ, When he saw his sister bleeding, he calmed down and he said, let me, you know, share with me what you've been reading.

And he read from Surah Taha. Taha, ma anzalna alayka al-Qur'an al-litashqa. Surah Taha, and then Umar radiallahu anhu then went to the Prophet ﷺ. Hamza radiallahu anhu is there.

And they said, if Umar radiallahu anhu comes and if he tries to do anything, we will kill him with his own sword. We're not even going to kill him with our sword. We'll take his sword and kill him with it. And Umar radiallahu anhu came, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam grabbed him, and he said, isn't it time for you to become Muslim, O Umar?

Umar radiallahu anhu said, I've come for no other reason except this. And he became Muslim. La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah. Then Umar radiallahu anhu asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, aren't we on the truth?

And he said, yes. He said, aren't they on the falsehood? He said, yes. And he said, then why are we hiding?

And so, subhanAllah, if you read the biography of Umar r.a, he said the day Umar r.a became Muslim, that was a conquest for the Muslims. It was like one of the greatest victories for the Muslims was the day he became Muslim. Like, imagine someone that powerful. And the companions say that we were never able to pray publicly until the day Umar became Muslim. Umar went public.

Umar would go and pray in public. He doesn't care who watches him. Nobody could say anything to him.

And so the other companions were able to pray. pray publicly after that because of Umar radiallahu anhu in fact Umar radiallahu anhu there was like this person amongst the mushrikeen that he was like you know the gossip monger guy and Umar radiallahu anhu know everybody knows this is the gossip monger his job is to like go around gossiping about everything and so Umar radiallahu anhu he's the blabber mouth when given to divulging you know all this information Umar radiallahu anhu he's like did you hear what happened um he's like, what? He's like, I became Muslim.

And then this guy is like, he didn't even answer, he's like, everybody, Omar became Muslim. And, you know, news started spreading in Mecca about that. He went to Abu Lahab's house, knocked on the door, and he's like, you know, hello, hello.

And then he's like, you know, did you hear what happened? He said, no, what happened? I became Muslim. And Abu Lahab, like, slammed the door in his face, and he's like, you've ruined my day. And Umar radiallahu anhu went to the Kaaba and he announced to everybody, I've become Muslim.

And they all started beating Umar radiallahu anhu. They got into a fight. All these people ganged up on Umar and he fought all day long with them. And he kept doing that and SubhanAllah, leading up to this point in Hijrah, when Umar radiAllahu anhu is doing Hijrah, this is his announcement to everybody. He goes out to the Ka'bah in front of everybody and he says, tomorrow I'm going to do Hijrah from, you know, such a direction.

Whoever would like their mother to cry over their dead body, you can meet me over there in that direction. And that was it. So nobody, they're like, you go.

And Umar radiallahu anhu went. And Islam was supported. This is in the history of the khalifa class. Umar radiallahu anhu, just kind of like a side point about Umar. His characteristic was that he loved people to criticize him.

Remember we're talking about criticism and everybody's worried about criticism and so on and so forth. If someone criticized Umar, he would be thankful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that someone wasn't scared of him and like went beyond the fear factor and yet told Umar. what he felt was the truth.

Right? So, Umar's statement was, رَحِمَ اللَّهُ أَهْدَى إِلَيْنَ عُيُوبَنَا He would say, May the mercy of Allah be upon the person who gives as a gift to us our mistakes. There was this guy, one time I was doing a Jum'ah khutbah, they asked me to give an announcement, right?

And actually there was a Maghrib class, like the next, actually that night. And they said, oh, there's a bunch of announcements going to go around in the city and so on and so forth. At the end of the Jummah Khutbah, I forgot to give the announcement. They wanted me to do it during the Jummah Khutbah.

At the end of the Khutbah, I forgot the announcement. Okay, so like no big deal, right? after the jama'at khutbah, this guy comes up to me, like mafia style. He's Egyptian.

You know how Egyptians get this mafia look, right? They're just so angry. And I was like shocked. I was like freaked out at him.

He's like, why didn't you say the announcement? I said, I forgot. And he looked at me with like such disgust. And he left me.

He didn't, he didn't say anything. He left him. Then I got an I emailed the next day, and he basically, he said, you know, oh, you know what, all these announcements happen in the city.

He said, except in such and such a masjid, and because it failed is because of Muhammad al-Sharif. And he said, Muhammad al-Sharif was a disgrace to this, to what we were planning to do, and he's a failure, and, you know, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. So, it's not only he's emailing me, he's emailing all the leaders in the community.

And he wrote this, like what does that do to you? Someone writes that to you, right? You're a disgrace.

Because they asked you to do an announcement and you forgot. Okay, so I'm flexing my muscles, I'm ready to punch him out. Do like a Jackie Chan. on the guy. At the end of, and you know what the class was that I was preparing?

It was the history of the khalifa and I was preparing the life of Omar at that time. And at the end of his email, he said, Brother Muhammad, I hope you're going to I hope you don't take any offense. That's a good one, right?

I hope you don't take any offense because Umar radiallahu anhu loved to be corrected. And then Umar radiallahu anhu loved to be corrected and this is just a correction for you and so on. So, you know, my heart's beating tough, the Jackie Chan thing, the whole, you know, ready. And actually, I learned a lesson from there. Whenever someone writes an email to you like that, how many people get crazy emails like that?

people hating on them by email. The rest of you do too, you're just not raising your hands. If you get those crazy emails, write a response in a Word document and save it.

Don't email back. And then the next day, wait at least 24 hours. And this is where I made up that policy.

I said, I'm going to wait like 24 hours, and tomorrow if I still feel like sending it, I'll send it. It was like I was going to destroy the guy on the return email. But I didn't. Alhamdulillah, I never did it.

And believe me, in hindsight, I'm so thankful to Allah I didn't send that email. And so I went back to studying and I'm opening the books of Umar radiallahu anhu and reading his history. And I said, he was right.

Umar radiallahu anhu really did love to be corrected. If you study his life, someone would say something to Umar radiallahu anhu. And you know what, he would just be so happy that in the Umm of Muhammad, there wouldn't be people who would be afraid of him to the point where they wouldn't tell him the truth. truth.

Such as when he became the Khalifa in Salman al-Farisi, you know, when Umar radiallahu anhu said, you know, if I do anything wrong, correct me. Salman radiallahu anhu said, we'll correct you even if we need to do it with our swords. And Umar radiallahu anhu is saying, alhamdulillah, that, you know, there's people like that in Ummah Muhammad that are not afraid.

And he's saying, oh Allah, you know, don't let their fear of me, you know, hold them back from telling me what is the truth. And so on. This is the quality of Umar radiallahu anhu.

And then the more I read from him, I felt so honored that he compared me to Umar radiallahu anhu. And then, so when I did respond, I looked back like a day or two later, this was like a Friday, and then by about Sunday, you know, I calmed down and so on and so forth, and I said, at the end of your email, you compared me to Umar radiallahu anhu. And I said, I am so honored that you did that, and I will not let you down.

I will do what Umar radiallahu anhu did, and thank you for sharing my mistakes. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive me, and hopefully, inshallah, I can do better in the future. And that was it. That was it, that's the end of the email.

Now subhanAllah, I learned another lesson in all of this, and that is the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. When someone is attacking you, the angels are defending you. There was an incident where this person was cursing Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu in front of the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet ﷺ was quiet. Then Abu Bakr is confused, he's quiet and he's smiling, and then Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu then starts answering the people back. When he started answering the people back, the Prophet ﷺ stopped smiling and walked away.

And now he was really confused. And so the Prophet ﷺ said that, when they were saying these things to you, the angels of Allah were defending you. Of course, Abu Bakr is more beloved to Allah than this person, like saying these bad things about Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu. But when... you like took it on yourself to respond, then you didn't have like that, the angels, they stopped responding on your behalf.

So what happened in this email, like between those two, three days, even though I didn't see it, remember I said that all the community leaders were CC'd on that email? Every single one of them defended me. Every single one of them had wrote an email and probably 10 times more harsher than, you know, than what this guy wrote to me.

Saying that, no, you're the one, like, don't say this about Muhammad and so on and so forth. They all defended me in that email. And that's why I say, in hindsight, they didn't CC me on those, like, defense emails. If I had CC'd them in my email, I would be like... that kidnap bee, right?

I have all the sympathy and all of this stuff until I decide to defend myself and then there's no sympathy left, right? Anyhow, that was Umar radiallahu anhu. Lessons that we learned from the hijrah. The hijrah...

to Medina, was the Prophet ﷺ just escaping and running away because they were plotting to kill him? And the answer is no, that's not the case. That's not the case. In fact, it's a strategic location.

The Prophet ﷺ was moving to Medina to become a political leader there. And their plot to kill the Prophet ﷺ, the hijrah had actually started. The companions were already doing hijrah before the Prophet ﷺ left the city. did hijrah himself. Or before they plotted to kill the Prophet ﷺ, they were already doing hijrah.

So understanding that. So sometimes a person might say something like, Oh, the Prophet ﷺ ran away from Mecca to Medina. It's not running away, but in fact it's carrying on the message of Islam in soil that's more fertile. This hijrah to Medina...

That throughout time, there will always be this race against like good and bad and so on. And so this race, and they went to Medina, the Prophet ﷺ was continuing in. Like these people are insisting on, you know, the evil and the Prophet ﷺ is insisting on enjoying the good.

Nothing can stop that. A person goes to another area, keeps going to another area, another area, until the message of Islam is established. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُوا بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُوا بِكَ means and when they're plotting against you يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوكَ right? to either kill you or expel you وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُوا اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرٌ مَا كِرِينَ but they plot and Allah plots and Allah plans and Allah is the best of planners. So they're plotting and when someone is like the head of a dawah, right?

Head of a dawah organization, someone is asking about leadership skills. One of the key leadership skills is making sure to build other leaders. leaders.

Because if you have a leadership or an organization that's built on one leader, what do you need to do to like finish off the organization? You just snip out that leader and everything collapses. And that's the case in a lot of organizations. It's a bunch of followers under one leader.

When the leader is gone, that's it. Nobody is ready to take it over and nothing is prepared and so on and so forth. And here's actually a side point to that. Sometimes a leader prepares the next leaders to be leaders, but doesn't prepare them to prepare.

prepare other leaders. So maybe they're smart. Yes, they have prepared another leader, but that leader will last for about two, three years, and then they have to go, and then everything collapses because they were not taught to prepare leaders from day one. So this is what you do. When you're preparing the next leader, you prepare the next leader and the leader after that as well.

The leader and the leader after that, and you make it a policy that two leaders are prepared at a time each time, that always two leaders are prepared at a time. So they were trying to kill the Prophet ﷺ Take out the head of the da'wah And with that they were hoping that the da'wah would collapse You'll also see that they would invest money And they invest a lot of money to fight the da'wah Billions and billions of dollars To fight the da'wah So when the Prophet ﷺ was traveling from Mecca to Medina When they found that they had lost him And he had escaped from Mecca They put out A ransom for the Prophet ﷺ, a hundred camels. And I was asking a brother like how much a camel costs.

In today's money, it's like thousand dollars. Right, so it's like a hundred thousand dollars. Maybe even more than that.

A hundred camels is a huge amount of wealth. And so you see someone like Suraqa. Who later became Muslim himself, radiallahu anhu, Suraqah is saying that he wanted the bounty all to himself.

And he went out searching and trying to find the Prophet ﷺ, and he actually did find the Prophet ﷺ. Okay? And we'll talk about that in a while.

You'll see the utilization of the youth. Utilization of the youth. So youth in this, in the Hijrah, You had people like Ali r.a who slept in the bed of the Prophet s.a.w. and he was in his teenage years at that time.

You had people like Asma r.a This young girl, the son of Abu Bakr ibn Ariqat, who was like the guide, and you have another person by Amr ibn Fuhairah. These are all youth in the community that helped in the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ to Medina. I actually wanted to, because a lot of times people mention that, oh, the youth, the youth, the youth. The key people that moved the da'wah forward, the key people that moved the da'wah forward, We're people in their 40s, okay? So pay attention to that.

People in their 40s. Where do we find people in their 40s? Where do they hang out in our Muslim community today? Where do they hang out? What's that, the cafes?

They're at home, that's right. They're at home watching TV. I find in the Dawah scene, people in their, between their like, you know, 40s, 50s and so on, people who are very important in the Dawah. you will find them at Jum'ah Khutbah you'll find them at Jum'ah Khutbah the Jum'ah Khutbah crowd of people that come for Jum'ah Khutbah in the past they were the ones who were closest to the Prophet ﷺ they were the ones who learned this deen they were the leaders and in fact you'll see for example in the battle of Badr one of the Muhajireen is standing and he sees two youth from amongst the Ansar and he says to himself I wish I had some older men standing beside me.

He's like, he got a little scared because these youth are just, you know, they're just young in the battle and so on and so forth, and they're not experienced in battle. So meaning that these older men, again, a footnote to this, we have amongst our older, we call them older generation in comparison to us, but... They are like the Shabab, right?

They're people in their 40s and 50s. In the past, in our communities, they're the ones who established the masajid. Would you agree to that?

So all these masjids that you see around town, most of you had nothing. to do with it. It was what we call the uncles. The uncles did it.

So here's an uncle and he's like, we'll get a masjid. It will cost 500,000 pounds. But let's take a loan.

And you're like, are you crazy? Jay-Z, you take a loan and you're always in debt and so on and so forth. Our generation doesn't do that.

They were like, I could never ask anybody for money. I can't. And so it's like the uncles that go around asking everybody for money, always asking, doing fundraisers and stuff.

Do you guys do fundraisers all the time? Do you guys do fundraisers? How many people organize the fundraisers?

Yeah, that's what I expected. You got like three people here. It's the uncles that organize the fundraisers.

Okay? So being just. There is that group of uncles that are concerned with building foundations.

All these masajid built and all these halal butcher shops and stuff like that. These fundamentals are built by them. But now we need more from that generation.

More to do inshallah ta'ala. And I think that they're excited to do stuff. It just needs maybe some good leaders amongst them.

Inshaallah ta'ala. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The statement in Arabic is called, أخذوا بالأسباب It's to take advantage of the causes Or to make sure all the causes You have put in effect Or sorry You've put in place all the causes So let's say for example A brother wants to get married Okay Brother wants to get married What have you done to get married?

No let's say Give you an example A brother wants to have children But he doesn't want to get married Or doesn't want to do any haram Or something like that How are you going to have a child? Like I don't know But I just want it Right? Or someone's like, what have you done to get married?

And you're like, I want to get married. What have you done? You know, there's nobody who wants to marry me. What have you done?

So you've not taken any steps forward that, you know, these steps lead to marriage. Like, as they say, like, you know, there's clues. If someone has done something before, you can find what they did. There's a recipe to get that. How this person got married to such and such, and how this person made a million dollars, and how this person was able to open this organization.

Anything that you want, guaranteed someone has already gotten that. They already have it, so all you do is go to them, what are the asbab, what are the causes that led you to this effect? And I remember in Medina, even in this trip, he was saying, what do you think is the main problem of the Muslims? He asked the question.

What is the main problem of the Muslims? And so his conclusion was that the Muslims do not pay attention to this. الْأَخْذُ بِالْأَسْبَابِ They don't pay attention to the causes. So if you want to build a Muslim empire and you want Muslims to rise up, everybody's like, let's just make dua. But dua, if you're sincere in your dua, you will know, sincere from Islam, that you have to take steps, you have to, you know, give scholarships to students, you have to build universities, like how many universities are you going to have to build if you want to, you know, build like a renaissance of knowledge and so on and so forth.

forth. You have to build buildings, you have to do this. There's so many things involved and that is al-asbab.

Those are the causes. So you'll see in the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ that he followed the causes. He followed the causes that would lead to the effect. Now, just because someone has all the cause in place doesn't mean that they'll get the effect, right? So someone may, for example, oh, they've been to all the, you know, they've been to like nasib.com, they've been to shadi.com, and they've told everybody that they want to get married and so on and so forth.

They've done everything, and in the end, they're still not married. What's the reason? They're like, it's got to be jinn, right? It's not jinn. There's an ingredient and that is that even if a person puts all their causes, they still might not get the effect.

So you don't place your trust in the cause. You place your trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that means that like, if you prepared everything, you built a university in your country, you've, you know, trained and you've led and you've done all these, and so on, and you're making dua that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings honor and nobility to the Muslims, you've done all your causes, the effect may or may not happen. And so you never desist from making dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make that cause lead to the effect, right?

And if it doesn't lead to the effect, you're like, there must have been something wrong. You go back, readjust your causes. is you're making dua to Allah SWT placing your trust in Allah and so there's examples of this in the hijrah of the Prophet SAW one of the causes that they know if they leave Mecca and they're being chased everybody would go in the direction of Medina because they know that's the direction of the Prophet SAW so what the Prophet SAW did is he actually camped out in a cave that was very near to the Kaaba In fact, I would say if you walked from the Kaaba to where Ghaari Thoor, where the Prophet ﷺ is in the cave that they spend so many days therein, it is about, I would say, maybe a 45-minute walk. A 45-minute walk from the Kaaba. Maybe it would have been longer at that time because they have tunnels now that go through the like the mountains You're talking about 45 minutes an hour walking by car.

It's about five minutes By car, it's about five minutes to that cave. So they would immediately like race out in that direction, but they wouldn't thing to check, you know, just like right next door. So everybody is racing, racing in that area. But even still, they still check. They climbed up the mountain.

They went to like every cave. And they came to the cave where Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu and the Prophet ﷺ were. And so, And so things could have broken down at that point. And you'll see that the Prophet ﷺ, they placed their trust in Allah ﷻ. And the effect was in the favor of the Prophet ﷺ.

You'll also see the role of women. We were talking about the role of women in the seerah. There were women involved in this. So, for example, like Asmaa, her nickname, ذات النتاقين, was from the Hijrah, right?

The owner of two belts was her nickname, رضي الله عنها, because with her belt, she ripped it in half and used part of it to like take the food to the Prophet ﷺ and her father, and with the other half, you know, she wrapped her garment. And so because of her effort in the Hijrah, that she had this special nickname. The hijrah also is narrated by Aisha radiallahu anha. And you see other of the women, you know, they would go out and they might be separated from their husbands, such as Umm Salama radiallahu anha. And yet, you know, her husband went to Medina and she's crying and crying every day going out until finally they felt sad for her and they let her join her husband in Medina.

When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in the planning for the hijrah, she said, Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu, till the last moment, didn't know when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is his best friend, and he doesn't know when he's doing hijrah, and like how he's doing hijrah, all of that wasn't known. Just as we said, Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu was told that perhaps Allah would give him someone to do hijrah with. So Aisha radiallahu anhu narrates that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came at a hot time of the day, right?

So it's a hot time, usually at a hot time, everybody's like sleeping. at the hot time, or they're just taking rest. It's not a time that you go and visit people. That's when the Prophet ﷺ came to visit Abu Bakr r.a.

And he told him, you know, like, you know, the family members, you know, asked them to go away. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, you know, they're just like your family members. And the Prophet ﷺ said to him that, Allah has granted me permission to do hijrah.

Abu Bakr's immediate reaction to that was, As-suhbah ya Rasulullah. Which is like, together O Messenger of Allah. And the Prophet ﷺ responded by saying, As-suhbah, we will go together. And Aisha said, that I've never, you know, she heard of people, she heard of people saying that, it is... possible for someone to cry out of happiness.

And she said, I never understood what they meant until that day when I saw my father crying out of happiness. That he would get to go with the Prophet ﷺ and perform hijrah with him. And so the Prophet ﷺ, that night they left. That was the night that they came to assassinate the Prophet ﷺ. So in the bed of the Prophet ﷺ slept Ali r.a.

In defense of the Prophet ﷺ. So this bed basically, they're planning to kill the Prophet ﷺ. Prophet ﷺ, Ali r.a.

might be killed that night. His face is covered, they don't know who it is. And at any time in the night, they could come and kill him.

And so Ali r.a. went to sleep in defense of the Prophet ﷺ on his bed. giving the Prophet ﷺ the head start throughout the night to travel and travel and travel.

And again, they didn't travel in the direction of Medina, but rather they went to Ghar-i-Thawr. The cave that they went to was called Ghar-i-Thawr. The cave of Thawr. As we said, it's about a five-minute drive from the Kaaba.

In their travels, they actually had planned, when they went to the cave, the Arabs were expert in footprint reading. So this is basically what Arabs could do. If there's a camel walking by, they could tell where the camel came from. So if the camel, for example, through the dung of the camel, would you say dung?

Through the dung of the camel, they would look like, let's say they see the dung and there's some date seeds in it or something. They'll say, oh, this camel came from the direction of Medina because they have dates in Medina. And dates are so precious.

Only in Medina, where there's so many dates, would they give it to the camels. And so they would know that, okay, this animal is coming from Medina. But they were also able to, you know, if they're looking at the tracks, they could tell that this camel is like the mother of this camel. Right?

They could tell who's related to who. from the camel tracks. So the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr, they could trace their tracks. So Asma'i radiallahu anhu, they had sheep and after the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr had escaped, she then took the sheep and went in their direction to wash away their tracks so they couldn't be read.

So that was Asma'a r.a doing that, bringing out the sheep. And when she would bring the sheep as well, she would take it to that area and milk it and give milk to her father and give milk to the Prophet s.a.w. One of the shaykh was mentioning as well, is that in the path of the hijrah, how comfortable do you think the cave was? How comfortable do you think the cave was?

It's not very comfortable, right? You know, sometimes in Hajj, it's so tight and there's so many people in the valley of Mina that you're like, if only I could go up to the mountain and just go sleep up there on the mountain. You know, we're used to just having lots of space.

When you go up into the mountain, how would you like to sleep on rocks sticking to your back, right? Your head on a rock. Jagged rock and in your back and so on and so forth. It's not very comfortable.

But yet the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr, they took residence in this cave for the sake of the Da'wah. So it's a reminder when things aren't so comfortable, realize that people before you had suffered much like harder than what you've suffered for the sake of Islam. When they traveled to Medina, they also had a guide. They had a guide, and it's very dangerous traveling in the desert. It's not some simple matter.

You could get lost. If you get lost in the desert, you'll die in the desert, right? And there's also... there's snakes, there's all these different things and so on that a person needs to be protected from. So you would have to have an expert guide.

The guide that was with them was not Muslim. The guide that was with them was not Muslim. Why would they take a non-Muslim guide?

Obviously he was trustworthy, but he wasn't Muslim. They say that because he knew the roads better than anybody else. Which is something that I found to be a recurring theme in the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ, that they...

They often chose expert people. And examples of that, like really quickly, Bilal radiallahu anhu, there was a companion who saw a dream of the adhan. He went to the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ adopted it as the adhan and he said, teach it to Bilal because he has a better voice than you. And someone might say, but I saw the dream, I'm the one who saw it, I should be able to say the adhan. Bilal radiallahu anhu is more expert in saying the adhan.

And so he was the one who got to say the adhan. And there are other examples of that. This example where they took a mushrik guide, even though, you know, You know, he wasn't Muslim, but he knew the land better.

In the building of the masjid, of the masjid Nabawi, there was a Yemeni person who came, and he knew how to build bricks. But he wasn't like from the muhajireen and so on. And he thought, maybe I should let the muhajireen build it.

And the Prophet ﷺ said, no, you build the bricks for them because you know better how to build the bricks. So it's like putting expert people in the positions of their expertise. Wallahu ta'ala. Allah, all right give you a break inshallah

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Significance of Hijrah in Islamic History