uh in the last uh uh lecture that we had
about the S we had discussed the
demographics of Medina and we had just
started talking about roughly uh the
population of each of these demographics
remember we said that there's three main
groups of Medina number one is the uh an
number two are the mun number three are
the yeh these are the three main groups
of Medina we talked about where the yeh
came from the theories about where the
yahood came from uh roughly how many
people are we talking about here we know
that uh each of the three yahudi tribes
had around 700 men each of the three
tribes
the and the had around 700 men roughly
so this means that roughly the three
Jewish tribes had 2,000 men
and on average on average that's how
demographics works at the time they have
a figure of for one man there's three
women and children so you multiply that
by three so you get around 6,000 uh yeh
over there 6,000 of the yeh uh we also
know that in the conquest of Mecca in
the conquest of Mecca there were around
4,000 of the ansar participating in the
conquest of Mecca 4,000 men so four
times again roughly three you get 12,000
ANS so roughly for every one Jew there
were two Arabs in Medina right roughly
at the time for every one yahudi there
was two Arabs now the mun were the
smallest of the uh lot and we know for a
fact that in the Battle of bad pretty
much all of the uh mun participated
except Forman and a few handful right in
the Battle of bad every one of the muhaj
went out and they were exactly 82 in
number okay so uh apart from one or two
who weren't able to go so roughly then
there were around uh 3 to 400 uh mun
women and children and Men right so look
at the statistics the the mun are
clearly the small
quantity the bulk of the Muslims are the
ansar the bulk of the Muslims are the
ansar and of course uh in our religion
we firmly believe that the mun occupy a
higher level than the ANS and whenever
Allah mentions the two of them in the
Quran Allah always prefers the muhaj
over the ANS
right Allah says in the Quran always he
mentions and then he mentions
the so clearly even though the muaj were
less in uh quantity their quality is
higher in the eyes of Allah subhanahu wa
taala now uh and by the way that's why
of course the whole issue came with the
process and passed away one group of the
ansar felt it's natural for them to take
over right because they felt that we are
the majority and you know we have been
supporting uh and uh this is
what felt remember the we'll get to that
many months later inshallah maybe even a
year or two later maybe even three years
depending on how much time we spend but
we'll get there eventually inshallah uh
that
uh he felt Lo logistically it makes
sense for us to be in charge because we
have the most quantity and that was the
tension a little bit of tension arose
between the M between Abu Bakr andar and
the other an because they're outnumbered
like literally by a factor of 1 to four
by that time right and yet Abu Bakr and
with their eloquence Allah subh opened
the truth at their tongues and So
eventually the leadership was given over
to the minority despite the fact that
they were the minority uh now at this
stage Hijra was obligatory on every
individual Muslim down to women and
children it
was on every single Muslim to immigrate
from Mecca and come to Medina and the
prophet was considered to be the last of
the Muslims to immigrate uh other than
alali because he had left Ali in mecah
to uh return the amounts and the items
that had been given entrusted to the
prophet the Amat right I had already
explained before many weeks ago that uh
there is no bank account there is no
security deposit there is no safety uh
box what are you going to do when you
have a precious item you're traveling uh
or even if you don't want to keep it in
your house for personal reasons you give
it to a trustworthy person and so Subhan
Allah despite their animosity to the
prophet despite their hatred of him and
his message still when it came to
entrusting what they needed to entrust
his house was the safety deposit his
house was where a lot of these amanat
were kept and so the prophet had to
leave somebody to return these and that
was alali otherwise he was basically the
last one to immigrate to Medina now
Allah subhah wa ta'ala then revealed the
Commandments stricter and stricter there
are many verses we don't have time for
every one of them we can say around
eight or nine verses in different suras
every one of them is getting more and
more stricter about you have to
immigrate if you don't immigrate you are
going to be of the uh uh people who are
or sinful and Allah subhana wa tala
encouraged them and he threatened them
both he encouraged them to immigrate and
he threatened them against immigration
meaning if they don't immigrate they
will face punishment so for example inah
andah was a Surah that was revealed some
say even during the hij some say even
during the hij but it is one of the uh
middle suras some say some verses in
mekah others in Medina some say during
the hij in Allah
says whoever immigrates for the sake of
Allah and then they are killed or they
will die Allah subhah wa ta'ala will
give them the best of all rewards and
indeed Allah is the one who gives the
best rewards Allah will cause them to
enter into the best of all places and
they will be pleased with this
and this is encouragement there's no
threat here this is one of the first
verses of hij right fast forward like a
year or
two came down uh we can say some of it
pre some of it
so that's two three years down the line
right one of the strictest verses that
if you don't immigrate you are in
serious trouble and this is the Sunnah
of Allah that laws don't come down and
smack you have to do it it's always
gradual the first one is encouraging
enticing and then there's many more we
don't have time to get into every one of
them and then one of the last ones that
basically says if you do not immigrate
you are a major sinner you have
committed a major and it is possible
Allah will punish you if you don't
immigrate now and this is in Allah says
that Allah says those people whom the
Angels take their souls while they are
committing sins against themselves the
angels will say why were you in this
state and the reference here is why were
you in Makkah they will say we were
persecuted in this
land and the angels will not accept this
excuse and the angels will say wasn't
the land of Allah a vast place that you
could have immigrated somewhere else did
you have to remain in Mecca couldn't you
have gone somewhere else and I Abbas
makes a t of all of this IB Abbas says
that a group of Muslims had converted
but they kept their conversion secret
now now there's two groups of people
here the first group are those who were
Muslims when the prophet immigrated we
don't have any particular names of these
people uh the sahabah did not record
their names we don't know who is being
referenced here but there were some
people who were Muslims but they didn't
immigrate when the prophet immigrated
then there's the second batch and we
have some of their names and they are
those who convert in meca while the
prophet is Medina right remember the da
of Islam will continue still people will
convert in me in Mecca even though the
process is is in Medina even though they
have been with him for 13 years but
eventually the light bulb goes off in
their heads eventually they say Okay
Islam is the truth right and we have
some references to these people as well
that they converted in Mecca after the
Hijra and Hijra was made obligatory on
them so IB Abbas says that a group of
Muslims remained in meca both of these
categories right and in the Battle of
bad they didn't tell tell their Islam to
the people I.E they were scared of
telling the Islam so they kept their
Islam hidden they were closet Muslims
for lack of a better term right they're
not coming out of the closet they're
scared of announcing their Islam why
because they're scared of persecution so
in the Battle of bad they were forced to
participate on which side the wrong side
right but they didn't actually fight
they kind of sort of you know they kept
in the back or they did whatever they
did and some of them were killed by the
Muslims because of arrows because of
things cuz they're on the wrong side
they're on the wrong side and so Allah
revealed ACC uh theah verse uh for this
group of people that you were killed on
the wrong side and the angels will ask
you what were you doing how could you be
fighting against the Muslims and they
will say we were weak we were forced to
fight right and so the angels will say
you weren't forced to remain in Mecca
you could have left and you could have
gone to Medina you could have gone to
another place so they were told IB Abbas
is speaking this is abbas's they were
told by Allah they have no excuse to
immigrate and this verse ofah was sent
to them now this shows us a little bit
of a glimpse we get here that there's a
secret correspondence going on between
the Muslims of mecah now obviously the
processor knows who are the Muslims cuz
they have informed him right so there's
some messages being sent by the prophet
to these Muslims in mecah so Abbas says
they were sent this verse that you have
no excuse you need to come to Medina and
some of them tried to immigrate IB Abbas
is telling us but the pagans prevented
them they put some pressure up the word
used is and fatan means they could have
hurt them they could have persecuted
details are not given and so they stayed
put again they didn't immigrate and so
Allah wa
reveals which is even stricter now right
andab says that uh that they are those
who say they
are there are those who say we are
believers we believe in
Allah this is verse 9 10 11
of when they are now the word UD is
beautiful it means irritated and it
could mean persecuted but means the
slightest irritation so Allah is saying
that they could have just been verbally
rebuked we don't know it's a broad
term when he's irritated or hurt by the
people he considers the FNA of the
people to be as bad as the punishment of
Allah I.E he has no priority a little
bit of a pressure and he collapses
that's what Allah is saying right little
bit of a pressure and he he cannot take
it and Allah subhana wa ta'ala uh then
says that but when the help of Allah
comes any victory for the Muslims comes
they say oh we're actually Believers in
other words they want to have their cake
and eat it too right they want to be in
mecah because why would they want to be
in mecah remember this is a world where
your property your wealth are around you
they cannot take this property and
wealth to Medina okay if they were going
to leave they can only take what their
camel is going to carry the bulk of
their possessions the bulk of their they
will not be able to take it and so
immigration automatically means poverty
this is the point for them right so
Allah subh is describing this is a small
group we don't have any numbers but
probably five or 10 people is a small
group here but Allah is being very
strict with them that they are
preferring living in mecah uh for their
for the sake of their uh their wealth
over immigrating to Medina so Allah says
when any blessing
comes oh we are believers we should
share in this blessing and Allah says
that that verily Allah subh knows what
is in the hearts of the Believers Allah
subana wa knows who's the True Believer
and who is not the True Believer and we
have the story of one of these sahabah
who converted after the prophet
immigrated right he converted after the
prophet immigrated immigrated his name
is
tells us that when was
sent so this also shows us by the way
that anytime a Quran was revealed they
would get it there was as we said this
the secret Emissary or this message is
being transferred anytime Quran came
down the Muslims of mecah would be sent
it that's what Abbas said that the verse
was sent to them and this shows us many
things of of them is the importance of
the Quran of them is that the Muslims
need to study the Quran and so even the
Muslims of mekah are hearing every new
revelation so when the verse of Nissa
was sent and the verse of Nissa what
does it say Those whom the Angels come
to and they are wronging themselves the
angels will ask them what were you doing
and they will say we were weak in the
land we were persecuted in the land and
Allah will not accept this excuse unless
Allah goes on and
says except for the really weak and
we're going to get to this point it was
because of this
was so elderly and so weak he was in
fact blind and he could not walk he
could not even walk but when this verse
came down he said I am not of those who
have an
excuse I can immigrate to Medina how
he's blind and he can't even walk but he
goes I don't have an excuse I will not
spend another night in this city I'll
will not spend another night in Mecca
and so he commanded his servants to lift
him up on his chair or on his bed s is
like a couch if you like you could not
walk and to walk with him outside the
city that he'll find some way to get to
Medina that's basically he cannot stand
another night in mekah and it is
interesting what would have happened and
he was blind he cannot even walk but
Allah subhana wa tala was merciful to
him and he died right then and there at
which is outside of Makkah right he he
met his death right outside of Mecca and
uh it is said that while he was dying
and the pangs of death are coming so
literally that was his last day on Earth
when the verse came down he said I have
no excuse and he went outside telling
his servants just to take him and leave
him there he'll figure his way out when
he was on this his death bed he put his
right hand in his left hand and he said
oh Allah this is my toam meaning I
couldn't do it in person I couldn't do
it in person this is my this is my oath
of allegiance that giving uh to the
messenger of Allah upon what he wanted
me to do in other words I don't have the
opportunity to do it in person whatever
I can do oh Allah accept from me and he
died right then and there in which is
what we call M now that place outside of
mecah he died over there and he was
buried over there and uh when the news
of his death came uh the sahabah said
basically how unlucky he almost made it
right so they were so strict with him
they weren't even willing to give him
like he didn't make it to Medina and at
this Allah revealed the next verse OFA
for us is the next verse remember verses
came down sometimes one and then the
next came down a few weeks later we put
it together the next verse of
is except for those who are genuinely
weak of the men women and
children that they cannot find a way out
nor can they find a passage to get to
Medina for these people subh even then
Allah says
perhaps now by the way whenever Allah
says AB says every for Allah's sake is
certainty this is abbas's statement for
Allah's sake he will do it but still it
was given like a bit of a grudgingly a
bit of a reluctance that there not an
open blanket but still they will be
forgiven right to show what the severity
now they are forgiven that's what Abbas
is saying but to show the severity of
those who don't have a genuine excuse
for remaining in mekah right so this is
one of those sahabah that Allah
basically said he's forgiven them
because he even tried to get out of
mecah uh and he he wasn't able to do so
but Allah basically took his soul at
that point in now by the way just as a
point of benefit and remember the
purpose of our s classes over and over
is to derive practical benefit that's
what we want to do it's not just stories
of old it's stories of living Islam in
modernity and the whole issue of hij and
living in Islam and all of these is of
course a very very relevant topic for us
here in North America and it is worthy
of a long discussion I I don't think
it's appropriate to go into that long
discussion but I will summarize one or
two points and that is
that uh the ruling of Hijra the ruling
of Hijra from MEA to Medina it was for
the Muslims of that time now after the
battle
of after the battle ofab in the fifth
year of the Hijra when it became clear
that the Muslims are the more powerful
laxity began that the ruling began to be
a little bit more LAX and then after the
conquest of mecah this ruling was
abrogated and so the prophet said is
there is no after the conquest of mekah
this is a famous wellknown
Hadith there is no after the conquest of
mecah meaning what does this mean there
is no hij nobody can do Hijra after the
conquest of meccah no the Hijra with a
capital H in English right the from
Makkah to Medina has now been
nullified and if anybody immigrates now
that's their personal business they're
not going to get the rewards of the
Hijra right now that Makkah is also in
Islam well then if somebody wants to
live in Medina they're not going to get
the rewards that Allah promised in the
Quran for that immigration
also means the Commandment to to
immigrate to Medina is now abrogated you
don't have to immigrate to Medina you
may live anywhere uh you want Makkah
Medina or anywhere else now now this
then led to a controversy in
later amongst the four Ms about is it
permissible for Muslims to voluntarily
and willingly live in a land that is not
a land of Islam and just to point out in
medieval Islam when there was a Dar
Islam when there was a real Islamic land
uh there were two opinions on this issue
maybe even one can say three opinions
the first opinion which is the majority
of the Hani and the hamali opinion and
also the standard shaf opinion is that
it is permissible for a Muslim to live
in uh lands that are not Dar Islam with
some basic conditions and of these
conditions is that the Muslim is secure
in his religion he's not being tortured
he's not being forced to do Haram and he
can live an Islamic life that's
basically the Gen General conditions and
they base this on an authentic Hadith
which is as explicit as possible so this
is also my position as well it is a
Hadith of thei known as F we don't have
his full name f is all that we know and
uh towards the end of the prophet's life
after the conquest of meccah f came to
Medina and he was not from mekah or
medina he was from Central Arabia he
came to Medina and he
said the people are saying that whoever
does not do Hijra will will be
destroyed whoever does not do Hijra will
not be destroyed and in one version he
said my people are upon sh My Tribe has
not yet all accepted Islam but I'm a
Muslim and so I have been told that I
have to make
hij so this is basically as explicit as
you can get his land is not a land of
Islam I.E his tribe his village whatever
you want to call it is not a land of
Islam so people are telling me that I
have to immigrate so so the prophet
said oh F establish the Salah and avoid
the sins avoid basically and evil deeds
and live with your people wherever you
like this Hadith is reported
in's now this Hadith is as explicit as
you can get because F's people were mush
he accepted Islam he comes to the
prophet to ask the question because
people are telling him his Islam is not
valid because he's living with people
that are committing shik and the prophet
says as long as you are praying and
living a good life then live with your
people wherever you want you don't have
to live there you you can want live here
but if you want to live there you may
live with your people as well uh the
Maliki school was the strictest School
in this regard and generally speaking
they considered it to be impermissible
for a Muslim to willingly and
voluntarily give up living in Islam and
go and live inur and the reason that
they were the strictest in this regard
is because of what happened to the
Maliki school and the Maliki Scholars
and the Muslims of the Maliki regions in
the famous land of andalo right
Andalusia really changed their
perspective about Muslims living in
kufur because Andalusia was Maliki Spain
was Malik
and of course the greatest Maliki
Scholars and all of their all Maliki so
uh when Spain was reconquered and the
Reconquista began and the Muslims began
being persecuted tortured more and more
rulings they were forced to stop saying
Arabic in public stop wearing Islamic
dress the women was forced to take off
the hijab bit by bit if you study
especially post Inquisition post
Inquisition what happened uh with the
Muslims of Spain is very very sad and
it's something we hardly ever hear about
but it is very sad they were forced to
eat pork they were this and that so many
things one after the other and it wasn't
immediate it took like a 100 years right
cuz initially I mean I'm going into a
whole different tangent if this is not s
related initially when the uh Ferdinand
and Isabella uh conquered uh the very
last Kingdom of Granada they initially
promised freedom for the
Muslims and they said we'll only deal
with the yah don't worry about you guys
you're the majority after all they're
the majority right so ferdin and
Isabella promised freedom but within 100
years basically there were no public
Muslims anymore in Andalusia they had to
hide their Islam or they had to
immigrate or they were forced to convert
the inquisitions then began torturing
them first it was only the yehud and
then the Protestants then they began
torturing the Muslims as well and they
began sending secret police to spy on
you check if you actually have a mus in
your house it was a very sad time so the
Andalusian Scholars basically said this
is what happens to those who remain inur
basically right and so they became very
strict on this issue and in their M
predominantly uh the fatwa is that it is
not allowed to live
inur now the fact of the matter though
is that we also have to think about how
realistic is it for us to import these
fwa from 500 years ago a thousand years
ago when there was a Islam and there was
a and there was all of this whereas now
there is none of this right and this is
one of those areas where we do need to
in exercise independent and go back to
the books again and see how realistic
even if those who follow the Maliki
position and of course the majority uh
for the aand they didn't believe that it
is W to immigrate there are still people
who say to this day there's still a
small minority who say Muslims should
not be living in any non-muslim land but
Subhan Allah I mean this is such a
theoretical fatwa let's get realistic
here in India alone India is majority
Hindu in India alone there are how many
120
million 200 million every day there a
few Millions increase you know 200
million Muslims right where do you
expect these 200 million Muslims they
are a minority they are a minority
obviously right 25% or something like
this 20 25% right one out of four or
less where do you expect them to go in
China how many tens of millions but they
are also minority right if you just do
the math you will get literally over
half
a billion Muslims that's basically half
of the um living in minority lands who
whoever says that it is W to immigrate
with all respect to these Scholars
they're not really being realistic okay
in Western lands alone there are 40
million Muslims in Western lands alone
if you include uh America uh Canada
Australia uh France all of these lands
in EUR European lands you have over 40
45 million Muslims this is in Western
lands yeah
who is going to accept these so the
point being most of us living here have
moved Beyond this theoretical fatwa the
reality is we are now here to stay so we
have to basically have you know some
basic understanding of our religion and
and whatnot the point being and the
reason I I go back to this issue here
even in the time of the Prophet wasam
Hijra was W because of the circumstances
of mekah and Medina
therefore I have to say this if any land
becomes difficult to live in and
practice Islam in like in mecah of that
period Then yes we will bring forth
these rulings and we will say you don't
have to live in that particular land go
find somewhere
else and every Muslim land or every uh
um sorry every land will be the
responsibility of its Scholars to judge
when the situation gets difficult and
when it is doable this is for the local
Scholars of that land to judge right
when is it that difficult when is it not
that difficult this is something they
have to judge clearly alhamdulillah
there there should be no two opinions
that in America we have uh every freedom
we need to practice Islam in our daily
and personal life there really can be no
scholarly debate about the issue of
Living in America and practicing your
religion alhamdulillah it's very clear
that we are not persecuted to that level
uh and it's not an issue for us to worry
about nonetheless theith of f is an
important one and memorize this one that
the prophet said to him y f
as long as you're praying and you're
avoiding the sins you're living a good
Muslim life right and uh you're you're
establishing Islam you may live wherever
you want and I say this many times that
those people who are the most worried
about the Hijra should they immigrate
should should they not immigrate they're
the ones that need to remain cuz they're
the most religious and those who are the
least concerned about hij and where to
live because they're totally involved in
sins they're really the ones they
shouldn't be living in environments
where they pollute their IM right it's
actually the opposite way around those
who are the most worried should actually
remain CU they're the best ambassadors
of the religion and those who are
involved in every major sin and they
couldn't care less they need a pure
environment they should be thinking
about a pure environment for themselves
and their uh children in any case
getting back to the uh the the the the S
here uh and this and uh the issue of the
Hijra we already mentioned that the
prophet arrived in Medina now we don't
have an exact date
the date of the 12th of R by the way do
understand as an academic I have to
point out everybody loves to quote 12th
of for everything for the birthday of
the Prophet for the first time the Quran
came down or the which cannot be true
because the Quran came down in Ramadan
anyway right but there are still some
opinions that said 12th of is when came
down which is absolutely cannot be true
because came down in the month of
Ramadan
right and the 12th of is when the
process have entered Medina and this is
a little bit of a Superstition we don't
know the exact date because nobody was
recording calendars remember there was
not even an Islamic calendar when all of
this is happening
remember instituted a calendar you know
probably 10 years after uh the hij more
than 10 years sorry 14 15 years after
the hij of the Propet so this is now
being backtracked we are reading in the
dates in terms of years the years are
not there the months by the way are
there remember how did they monitor time
by the famous incident in that year the
Year of the elephant let's say right the
year of the drought the year of this
that's how they remembered years every
year would have a particular title to it
so the year of the Hijra became first
Hijra basically right the year of the
Hijra became our first year the month of
the Hijra yes it is most likely the
first week of most likely the month of
the
is um and this corresponds to September
of the Year 622 CE so 622 is when one
Hijra
begins and already we already went over
the story of the Prophet entering Medina
he entered Medina Medina at that time
was composed of like most villages in in
places of the world today there's not
one Center of gathering there are small
pockets of people separated by small
distances right and the whole
conglomeration is basically called
Medina Medina is not like uh a major
Metropolitan City Medina is not
continuously populated of course now it
is back then Medina had small pockets
and every tribe it was in its own small
area and some of these distances were 5
minutes walks others were like an hour
walk for example so the very first
settlement of these small settlements of
the entire city was that of Kuba this
was the furthermost settlement outside
of what we now call Central Medina and
in our days the city of Medina is so big
that it goes even Beyond Kuba in our
days the city of Medina has become so
large that from the central Medina you
work your way keep on going of course in
the time of the Prophet as we said there
were small settlements and these were
separated by either desert or by large
date uh plantations right tree trees of
dates hundreds and thousands of dates so
the prophet when he arrived we know he
arrived in Kuba and he waited there
for to come and he waited probably
around a week again we don't have exact
dates uh probably around uh a week and
they also waited fora and
the daughters of Abu Bakr and Abu Bakr
had arranged for them to come via
another uh guide and so the two of them
also came and so Ali and as when they
came that was when the prophet wasam
entered the city of Medina and it is
said that he entered the city of Medina
on a Friday and the ansar heard that he
was entering Medina and so the ansar all
gathered together as a delegation they
dressed up their armor and in those days
you would dress up in the armor just
like the military parades when you want
to basically honor somebody then you
dress up in your armors you put on your
your fighting swords and everything so
they dressed up and over 500 of them
they went as a delegation to Kuba and
they accompanied the prophet back into
Medina by the way here is where again as
you know me I'm an academic I don't give
you just the fairy tales I have to give
you the bad news as well sometimes the
academic stuff is not as romanticized if
you like uh you know the famous story
that we are all told that uh the little
girls were
singing right this story uh for sure it
did not happen at uh the hij this is
impossible right for many reasons the
most important is
that has nothing to do with the road to
Makkah is the road that is the exact
opposite side of Medina and if this
incident occurred there's a little bit
of a doubt about his authenticity but
even if it occurred it occurred at the
Battle of
tabuk it occurred at the Battle of tabuk
right because many reasons but uh the
most important one there are internal
evidences but the most important
one
right where
is is the exact opposite side of where
Kuba is and it is the northern side and
Kuba is the southern side cuz Medina uh
is due north of mecah so when you're
walking up south of Medina you will be
Kuba right is literally on the opposite
side the prophet never saw when he's
walking into Medina from Makkah right so
as I said I have to be a little bit more
academic here uh if that story is true
then it took place at uh the Battle of
tabuk so it didn't take place over here
what we do know what took place over
here the the the sah the an accompanied
the prophet wasam in into Medina and uh
here is also the famous story which is
which is inshallah an authentic one that
every one of the sahab of an was trying
to ask the prophet to stay with them and
the prophet wasallam said let the camel
be because Allah has taken charge of it
let the camel go where it is going
because Allah subhana wa tala has taken
charge of it and the camel sat down at a
particular place and the prophet
understood this was the the place that
Allah had decided will be his Masid
right where the camel sat down it was a
small uh plane not a plane is not a
right word it was a small uh Plantation
if you like that was used by the people
to dry their
dates it wasn't a full date Plantation I
it wasn't densely populated by dates
there were a few trees but it was an
open ground by and large that was used
by the local uh villagers to dry their
dates so they would lay the dates on the
floor and they would dry the dates in
this area and uh when the camel sat down
the prophet wasallam said whose house of
our family members is the closest to us
from here now Subhan Allah what does
this mean remember the prophet had
distant cousins in Medina correct right
his great grandmother is Medan right his
great grandmother is is from which tribe
who can
remember the B Sal is her name the tribe
is the benar and so when he's saying who
amongst us from the B basically is the
closest to this camel here is
where also known
as he
said he's from
the he's from the and he's basically uh
I I looked this up to try to find an
exact number I couldn't figure out
exactly but roughly he's like a sixth
cousin to the process right so like six
Generations up basically their lineage
meets now remember the Arabs memorize
their lineages and genealogy like we
memorize all of our cell phones and
house phones and all of these numbers
together if you put all these numbers
you get like 30 numbers M we know them
the ANS the all of the Arabs they know
their ancestry like we know our phone
numbers and house addresses right so Abu
says
I am the closest in lineage to you
basically from your camel my house is
the closest uh to this area and so the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam uh
decided because of this ancestry
basically right because of this local
genealogy and they shows us again the
rights of relatives that he felt the
most comfortable with his closest
relative whoever that might have been
and it was like a sixth cousin but
that's what he felt the most comfortable
with right that who amongst our family
members is the closest to here so that
was Abu Al
anari now uh Abu anari we only have a
few narrations about him in his
house the prophet lived there according
to IB for half a year he lived there for
half a year and he did this because he
didn't have a house to live in obviously
and he's waiting for the Masjid and the
house to be built and abari of course
everything is planned by Allah Abu was a
relatively upper middle class man he had
a house that was of two stories which
was not common it wasn't uncommon but it
wasn't common either right and so Allah
had basically wielded that abu's house
also had two stories in it which would
make it possible for the prophet uh and
Abu Bakr and some of the sahab to live
with Abu a and so Abu a and his wife
moved upstairs and the prophet AB Bakr
were living uh downstairs IB Hisham
mentions IB hisam mentions a story that
occurred one night that uh in the middle
of the night Abu turned over in his
sleep and he knocked over the water
bottle and those days they had jars of
water right he knocked over the water
bottle and he became worried that the
water would seep from the second floor
basically and drip onto the prophet as
he was sleeping and so he woke his wife
up and the two of them they spent the
entire night soaking their own blanket
with the water making sure dreading
basically that maybe one drop of water
would possibly irritate the prophet
wasam they spent the whole night awake
using their BL their beds and their
blanket to basically soak up the entire
uh water uh it is also narrated in
Hadith inmed that uh one day uh Abu was
with his wife upstairs and then
he realized basically he realized and he
said to his
wife we are
walking above the head of the Prophet
Sall alaihi
wasallam right he just realized that his
feet are above the head of the Prophet s
wasallam and so and he realized this in
the evening and so him and his wife
spent the night cramped next to the
sides now Subhan Allah like a few weeks
go by and then they realiz iiz that our
feet are above the head of the Prophet
so they sit with their feet withdrawn in
for the entire night because they just
realize that they're doing something
that isn't appropriate right for uh for
for respect and the next morning they go
back down to the prophet sallam and they
Sayo you have to move up the prophet
said the bottom floor is easier for me
meaning you have more privacy I have
guests coming in here I mean I don't
have to climb the stair obviously the
bottom floor is easier for me right you
understand that when the prophet is
having guest or anything's happening you
know you are separate it's easier for us
there's one entrance to the house let us
be here
said we can never
ever uh be on top of you on a roof that
your head is over we cannot be on top of
you on a roof that your head is over and
they refuse to obey what the prophet is
begging them to do they said we cannot
do this so they made amazingly disobeyed
him out of respect if that's possible
right so they insisted that he go to the
roof and so the prophet then for the
bulk of their time actually moved
upstairs right so only for a few weeks
they were downstairs and then they moved
uh upstairs it is also narrated that one
time uh Abu a he would always cook the
food him and his wife and they would
send it up to the prophet then he would
eat the leftovers like he would send
them the full dish it's not as if he
took some for he would send them
everything he has and it's obviously too
much for them so the and the prophet
would not eat much anyway as you know so
he would then send whatever is remaining
down Abu would ask where did the prophet
eat from which place of the plate and
wherever he ate from he would ate from
that particular portion he would eat
from it one day the food came down
untouched Abu panicked what have I done
and he rushed upstairs and he said Y
what have I done what is wrong is there
anything that uh you know the food was
not suiting you what happened the
prophet said no but it has garlic in
it Abu said is
garlic and the prophet said no but I
speak to Those whom you don't speak
to I speak to those who you don't speak
to which means the Angels now a lot of
people have misunderstandings here us da
people are going to be in big trouble if
we make garlic makru right and we cannot
cook food without garlic so look this is
uncooked garlic okay calm down breathe
with relief alhamdulillah alhamdulillah
your Biryani my Biryani is still Halal
don't worry this is uncooked garlic if
you put it in the food then it will have
a very bad after smell okay if you cook
the garlic and you grind it and whatnot
as we do then that removes the odor
anyway so this is not even if you ate
raw garlic it is halal as the prophet
wasam said right unless somebody thinks
he's speaking to angels in which case
you have another bigger problem than
garlic but uh even if you eat raw garlic
this is halal not a problem uh but the
prophet said whoever eats garlic should
not come to the Masjid because the
Masjid is the place of angels right so
if your breath is smelling really bad
with garlic then in this case you wait
until uh the breath goes um the bad
smell goes away but the point being here
garlic is no problem if you cook it I
don't know of any culture in our times
that eats raw garlic so we don't have to
worry about this in any case now so this
is all that we have reported by the way
from Abu a and his wife just two or
three incidents in these six months all
of the rest of the details we don't know
about getting back to the story of the
Masjid itself as we said the camel sat
down in a small area of land that was
not used for date palms it was used for
drying the dates so it was only a few
trees were there the prophet said who
does this land belong to they said that
it belongs to uh so and so and so and so
they are orphans their father owned the
land now they have inherited this land
because they're orphans they hadn't done
anything that's probably why it was
still relatively empty that's probably
why the local neighbors were using it to
dry the dates right they're still young
kids so they haven't been able to plant
dates themselves yet so it's just a
little bit of empty land so uh the
prophet said call them here we're going
to build a Masjid here so we need this
land so when the orphans came uh
according to one one narration their
names were sah and when the or an came
and they figured out what the prophet
was doing they were already Muslims they
said this is a gift to Allah from us
this is a gift to Allah from us the
prophet
said no I will only take it with his due
price we don't operate the prophet did
not operate like this with Charity we I
will only take it with his due price and
he negotiated a price with them and he
paid them uh the money to purchase the
land from them and he ordered that the
few date palms that were there there
were probably less than a dozen we don't
know exact number but it wasn't
cultivated is the point he ordered that
they all be uh cut down and there were
one or two graves from very old still
over there of the pagans uh 50 100 years
old he ordered that those corpses be
buried outside and this shows us that it
is permissed permitted in Islam to dig
up Graves and move the bodies if there
is a legitimate reason to do so right
right uh this also shows us a point that
one may cut down the Trees of the Haram
for legitimate needs if you have to
build a building for the H or something
generally speaking Makkah and Medina are
harams and we already mentioned this
before you're not allowed to hunt you're
not allowed to destroy cultivation
you're not allowed to pluck a leaf or a
flower from Makkah and Medina if you
pass by you see trees you see leaves you
not allowed to take a grass and pluck it
out that's how sacred the Haram is right
there's a number of exceptions one of
them is this one that if you're a
construction worker if you're a builder
what are you going to do if you have to
build property right so in this case the
prophet uh cut the trees down and he
used those very trees to form the walls
of the Masjid talk about being green in
conservation the very trees that were
cut down he used them to to make the
walls of the uh Masjid and uh the the
front and the back walls were made with
those trees and the side walls were made
with the clay bricks that they had in
Medina at the time so two of the sides
of the Masjid were built with date palm
uh Trunks and two of the sides were
built with uh bricks that the sahabah
constructed themselves and the prophet
participated along with them in the
construction of the mid he physically uh
there was a whole line going the S B
from the Quarry to the Masjid and the
prophet became a part of that line and
when one of the sahab tried to make him
uh sit down and work and do the work the
prophet refused to basically sit down on
the side and cooperated with them and uh
it is said that the prophet began uh
saying lines of poetry at the time along
with the an and the mun and those lines
of poetry are recorded in as they're
building the Masid
now these are you know when you're doing
manual labor and you're all of the men
are doing working together it's good to
just just like when soldiers hum along
or drum along and where other people do
manual labor they have this Rhythm so
they're all saying this together just to
get the time go by and they're passing
the bricks to one another so this is
what they're
saying oh Allah there is no good other
than the good of
the so have mercy on the an and the m
and it is narrated
in that it took almost 2 weeks to build
the mid almost two weeks to build a
Masjid and for its time it was extremely
large to this day if we go to Medina you
when you go to the actual we call the
the the the Blessed Sanctuary you get an
idea it's a pretty large place even for
our times it's pretty large uh it's at
least you know two three times larger
than this mid and that shows us that for
that time it was a pretty large place
and Allah but some Modern estimates have
said around 100 by 130 ft this is one
opinion that I've tried to look up what
were some of the uh Scholars
understanding how large this is 100 ft
by 130 ft uh uh a large Masjid so it's
more of a square than a rectangle it's
not as much of a rectangle as the modern
Masjid is also we learned that there
were at least three main doors at least
three main doors one on the uh South
Side that's the bab one on the West Side
that's called bab jiel and one on the
east side and that is called B and the
reason why it's called bab is that a few
years
later suggested that men and women
should not enter with the same door and
so the prophet said okay that East door
is the door for women so it was called
and to this day if you go to the har in
in Medina you look at the pillars you'll
see in one pillar it says b and that's
where used to be another pillar says bab
that's where the bab J used to be these
were the three main entrances of the
Masjid in addition to these three main
entrances there were also a number of
small entrances that were private
entrances these were the three public
ones they were at least half a dozen
private what are private entrances
realize in those days the walls were
such a luxury item that people would use
the same wall for both sides right so if
you build a wall here the other side
would automatically be taken by a house
and so whoever is living on the other
side of the wall would have direct
access to the Masjid right and so there
were at least half a dozen we know of
maybe even up to a dozen who had
entrances directly from their house they
would take a step out and they're in the
Masjid right so that door imagine this
door imagine this door imagine these are
private entrances for whoever managed to
build a house right at that time of
course as the population increases those
those those Choice real estate
properties are taken right so we know
for a fact that Abu bakar was one of
those whose house was attached to the
Masjid right how do we know this because
on his deathbed the prophet sallam said
every single door of these private doors
shall be locked and sealed from now on
except the door of Abu Bakr why did he
do this to emphasize that this person
will be the next Khalifa after me right
there shall be no door in to the Haram
other than Abu Bakr Abu Bakr will be the
leader that's a indirect analogy that no
one has the prerogative other than Abu
Bakr so this this clearly shows that
there were a number of doors that the
sahaba would use for their private
houses that would come into the Masjid
uh and of course the main one that we
know for sure is the propheta right's
house was literally attached to the
Masjid such that the only thing
separating it was a curtain it was
actually a curtain not even a physical
door that it was just a curtain and this
was a private entrance the house had a
public entrance on the other side right
the prophet's house had a public
entrance on the other side uh we also
know from one narration from Hass albas
that the roof of the Masjid was actually
very low that if he put his hand up he
could feel the roof of the Masjid so
this shows us therefore that the Masjid
was not a massively tall structure the
roof was very uh low and uh we also we
also know
that initially the prophet sallam only
covered one area of the Masjid with a
roof only one area of the Masjid and
this was the southern portion of the
Masjid which at the time uh was the one
facing the sorry the northern side which
at the time was the one facing the right
uh and that's towards Jerusalem so at
one time the front portion of the Masjid
was covered by uh thatched Palm leaves
okay when the Direction Changed exact
opposite right so that portion remained
sheltered and that was called what was
it
called right because anybody who wanted
to spend the day there would obviously
have to spend it under the shelter right
otherwise this gets too hot
so for the first few years there was no
roof in the Masjid of the Prophet
towards the middle of the medini period
we don't know exactly when the prophet
wasam ordered that a roof be built over
the whole Masjid not just the
bab we'll talk about next Wednesday
stories of and the concept we'll talk
about next Wednesday and so the prophet
eventually built a roof but it was a
roof that was only to protect them from
the Sun not from the cold and not from
the rain it wasn't even waterproof it
wasn't airproof and we know this for
sure because in it is narrated that on
the 22nd of Ramadan probably in the 8th
year of the Hijra it rained and the
entire Masjid was
flooded and the the the flood of course
made it muddy because it's not carpeted
it's all mud and so basically they
wondering what are we going to do now in
this s how are we going to do s on this
mud and Malik said I saw the prophet s
wasallam uh prostrate into the mud and
he came up and there was the mud on his
forehead and his nose meaning that when
you're doing SJ to Allah there is
nothing to be embarrassed about however
it is you will do sjah because that is
your true worship and servitude of Allah
subhana wa taala that you lower your
face which is your most noble portion of
the body you lower it in front of Allah
regardless of what is there as long as
it's not nus and sand is not NES and so
the prophet lowered it and he's saying I
saw
the the the traces of mud on the
prophet's forehead and nose when he put
it into the sand and this shows us that
the roof was leaking it's not a solid
roof and by the way just
FYI uh Abu Bakr did not change the Masid
at
all was the first one to solidify it a
little bit put pillars of wood and a
real uh rain protected roof right a
waterproof
rain was the who did it and he expanded
it by 105 rows not that much and then by
the time ofman he really had to expand
it uh and so he may maybe by around 50%
he expanded it soan did a a major
expansion uh when uh man's distant
cousin the next khif a few Generations
down
abik aldik Theif uh in around
96 97 Hijra if I'm not mistaken in 97
was the one who destroyed the entire old
mosque and he built what we would call a
proper structure uh which was very
decorated and very like fully uh
expensive structure for the time and he
was the one by the way who Incorporated
the grave of the prophet in the house of
AA into the Masjid right because the
house of AA was outside the Masjid this
this is a common misconception or myth
the prophet was not buried in the Masjid
he was buried in his house and his house
was outside the Masjid it was connected
to it but it was outside it and for
almost 100 years that was the way things
were it was only in the time of
aldik that he literally more than
doubled the space of the Masjid in all
four directions and he is the only
person in in our entire history to do so
no one before or after him did this and
the expansion that we have currently in
the direction of the and in the
direction of the grave of the Prophet
that expansion is the expansion
ofik because all of you who have been to
Medina know where does the Imam stand
not where the Prophet used to stand like
15 rows ahead right where does the IM
stand he stands now the is given exactly
where the Prophet used to give it so IM
when he gives theba he actually has to
walk the distance of this Masjid
literally he gives theba there and then
he walks through the crowd to lead the
Salah right cuz they didn't want to move
the MIM that's a blessed member place
but Alik for reasons that are beyond the
scope of this class he decided to expand
in all four directions so he expanded in
the direction of the he added basically
105 rows he also expanded in the
direction of the houses of the prophet
wasam and so he Incorporated all of the
houses and sadly he demolished uh all of
the houses of the sah and the even the
prophet other than the house OFA right
because that's where he's buried and it
did cause a little bit of a controversy
at the time a number of there were no
sahab alive when this happened all the
sahaba are gone right a number of
objected some of them because of them is
he objected because he said you are
including the grave inside the Masjid
and Grave should not be inside masjids
this is speaking one of the great it's
called the seven Scholars of the S is
number one of them and he objected
because islamically speaking Graves and
Masjid should be two separate things as
we know right and he felt very
uncomfortable about doing this and uh
usually politics goes and wins over a
religious clergy so this is what
happened and others objected as well
because they said you are destroying the
heritage of uh the prophet wasam and the
the the the wives of the belie the W the
mothers of the Believers excuse me let
these buildings remain so that people
see how simply the prophet lived now
Subhan Allah even within a century
luxury began even with the century the
clothes and the money and the buildings
and the structure we know this by
numerous narrations even the later sahab
their lifestyle was 10 times better than
the earlier sahab we know this by
numerous narrations right it is this is
amongst the sahab how about in the um
times so a group of the scholars said
you should leave those buildings so that
the Muslims see how simply the prophet
lived uh but Alik had his reasons and so
all of the other houses were destroyed
other than the house of AA and uh it was
included inside the uh Masjid and of
course the blessings of the Masjid are
welln we don't need to get into this uh
it is one of the three sacred masjids in
Islam Makkah Medina and Jerusalem these
are the only three sacred lands in our
religion by the way there is no other
land that is considered holy in and of
itself other than meca Medina and
Jerusalem there is no other land that is
considered holy and sacred that one
should travel to other than these three
lands we all know as well that a prayer
in
Mas is equal to a thousand prayers
anywhere else we also know that the
prophet said what is between my house
and my mimber notice he said house a lot
of people say between my grave and my
mimber this Hadith doesn't make any
sense when the prophet is speaking he
doesn't have a grave there right this is
not a proper Hadith the proper Hadith is
what is between my house and my member
not my grave and my member this is how
the masses say it that's not the
says what is between my house and my
mber is is one of the means the Lush
Garden Scholars have different what does
this mean one interpretation is that
that very land will be transferred to
Jenna and that's not something that is
impossible for Allah to do a more common
interpretation is worshiping Allah on
that land will get you to Jenna right so
once you enter Jenna there basically if
you are worshiping Allah there properly
and you pray to Allah there then you
have a good a better chance of getting
to Jenna uh however please note that the
blessing of the Thousand prayers is to
the entire Masjid and not just the this
is a common misconception as well the is
blessed for other reasons
Dua but the Thousand prayers the prophet
didn't say the he said the Masid and so
whatever constitutes the Masjid of the
Prophet that will be uh the place where
the Thousand prayers will be uh will be
blessed uh one final point about the
Masjid is that uh we know that in the
beginning uh in the early portion of the
Medina period one of the stumps of the
tree the prophet wasam used it for his
MIM and it was rather large uh uh and he
would sometimes in oneith inkari it is
said he even prayed his Salah on the
stump to show the an how to
pray so he prayed basically you know few
feet above them until he had to do SJ
then he cannot do SJ so then he stepped
down he did s and then he went back up
onto the stump right so for a few years
he would give the on this stump remember
the trees were cut down one of those
trees was used as his M then in in s
Muslim we learn that uh one time the
prophet wasam told one of the Ansari
ladies
there who had a slave who was a
Carpenter so she had a slave that was a
carpenter the
prophet said to her that tell your
Carpenter to make for me a
member tell your Carpenter to make for
me a proper member a proper pedestal and
so the carpenter made a member of three
steps made a member of three steps and
this Hadith is in sah Muslim in sah
bukari and S Muslim both say this this
narration the the Prophet the first he
gave on those three steps basically the
three steps were placed uh away from the
the the trunk basically so the trunk
obviously is there and the three steps
are over here that during the First on
those three steps the sahaba said we
began to hear a wailing a crying like
that of a baby
camel and we found that the source of
this noise was the tree this stump and
the prophet interrupted his and came
down and hugged the tree Subhan Allah he
hugged the tree and it sniffled and
stopped crying basically Allah subhana
wa taala allowed us or the sahabah to
hear the emotions of the tree this is
what the miracle is right and the uh an
Malik reports that uh the prophet wasam
said if I didn't hug it if I didn't if I
had hadn't hugged it it would have cried
until the day of
judgment and he ordered that the tree
that then then be uplifted and uprooted
and then dug underneath his actual M so
that it's still over there obviously the
tree is jealous that the prophet has
left him for uh uh for another another
another member right and it's uh jealous
that the knowledge that it used to have
the blessings used to have now it has
gone away so the prophet wasam gave the
tree Wish by putting it under the uh
mimar and at this alassan alas said
after narrating this Hadith he said oh
Believers look this was a tree that was
crying because it wished to be with the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam is it
not more befitting that those of us who
are men should cry even more to be with
him this is what Hassan albas said that
here is a tree that is crying because it
missed the prophet wasallam where are
our hearts and why cannot we cry to be
with the prophet s. wasam in any case
inshallah tal we will have to uh stop
over here and we will resume inall next
week still talking about the Masjid and
the concept of the Masjid and the the
important point that deserves the whole
talk is the concept of
the in the Masjid and what else occurred
in these first few weeks of the Prophet
moving and uh Subhan Allah the beautiful
thing here which again we'll emphasize
next week again the Prophet did not even
build his own house until the house of
Allah was built this is just
mindboggling W to think about he did not
even build his own house and because of
this he did not live with his family
he's living with Abu Bakr because he
wants to First build the house of Allah
and then after the house of Allah is
built then attention is turned to his
own house and we'll elaborate insh next
week about the building of his own house
and what happened
in those first few weeks uh we have a
few minutes for question answer and then
we have a special guest who will address
us and then we'll break for
Sal this is about the
when in staying
in did he build the first M the first
M I'm we going to get into this
controversy next week it's a controversy
Allah says in the Quran
uh this
is and is this m or is this
mam it's a controversy so we don't have
time that's why I intentionally left it
till next week yes you talk about the
Muslims who um converted but did not
make the yes we have a few references to
them yes did any of them stay and
survive up to so what time the prophet
treat did any stay and survive till the
conquest of Mecca there is only one
person that we know of who uh did this
and that is the uncle of the Prophet
wasallam Al Abbas right and the theory
goes that the prophet wasallam had told
his uncle to remain in Mecca to give him
the news of the people of meca this is a
modern day Theory
it's not the classical opinion the
classical opinion is that he converted
late but we know that he gave the
process information whether he was a
secret Muslim or whether he was not yet
a convert his heart was with Islam right
so from this a modern theory is that Al
Abbas is actually uh intentionally left
behind in meca because he's one of the
seniors in the elders he's not like some
lowly figure here right he is of the
upper echelons he's of the the elite you
know of the qur so you need somebody
like him to inform you he's the one
telling them that for example right he's
the one who tells them other things so
but this is a modern day theory that
abas remained by the command of the
Prophet sallam right any question from
the
sisters brothers anything yes talk about
G this is interesting so over the 8
month period of his St that was the only
one or the first incident where he had
to he was exposed to God in a cooking
format which it was an uncooked that's
the point so it was an uncooked garlic
so this is not traditionally eaten that
the Arabs do not I presume eat uncook
garlic Arab Cuisine has of course
evolved in the last 14 centuries as has
their customs and manners and language I
mean the I understand that the point I
was thinking about is because this is
this reflected this also represents
everything else that smells it because
not just garlic but you don't come to
the mid and so this so modern
would say that a smoker with bad breath
first he should give us smoking for his
own sake but if he is smoking he should
not smoke before he comes to the Masjid
any after Ramadan meals all the meals
after after Ramadan meals is also
problematic but if we were to prevent
people from coming here then the mid
would be empty so that's another problem
that we have to deal with just just add
extra in Ramadan you know we should we
should add some system within the
ventilation system to take care of it
inshallah yes I know you mentioned
thatd yes some
reason but he must
reason
destroy well this is a very
controversial issue what is the reason
of why aldik would
incorporate the uh the houses of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
one one reason is that he just did so
ignorantly because aldik is not in
Medina Alik is in Damascus right in
Medina it's ABD at the time who's the
governor at the time it's ABD right so
one interpretation is that he's just
acting like a typical politician who has
no clue about what to do and he wants to
build a legacy look all politicians want
to leave legacies and they leave
legacies that the people like and in our
days in Muslim lands always building M
or printing Ms or this this is what
politicians do so this is one thing but
there is a another interpretation which
actually makes a lot of sense and uh it
requires a little bit of detail um I
don't know if I have time to get into it
let me just say it was basically to oust
out the opposition from
the because the um's biggest threat was
from the the Proto not the Shia these
people the Proto the original sh which
we have said the original
sh were not theologically different from
us they were politically different we
said this before right they were
theologically the same and the
descendants of the Prophet genuinely
viewed themselves as being more rightly
uh entitled to the and this is a
legitimate opinion I mean it's not going
to make anybody uh deviant or incorrect
this is a position and they didn't
consider yazid and the others to be
valid so
he wanted to basically expel them from
they used to still live in the houses of
the Prophet wasam right where are they
going to live they've inherited the
houses down so they used to still live
next to the Masjid and they used to
still have access to the grave of the
Prophet one Theory basically has it that
by doing this he forced them to go far
outside the city and he basically forced
them to not have the the weight of of
the of the grave of the prophet in the
background basically right which is a
very interesting Theory actually makes a
lot of sense actually makes a lot of
sense and Allah Knows Best in final
thing then we have a guest
to now the uh the flag of the prophets
like almost house you know is built was
it built like that before was it just a
regular grave know anything
about the grave of the Prophet is well
documented uh nobody has been inside the
actual Chambers OFA for at least at
least 11
centuries and nobody should go inside
there are still keys to get you to some
inner Chambers but not the innermost
chamber the actual house of the Prophet
wasallam was not bigger than uh you know
10 ft by 10 ft let's say a very small
room this was not a large Mansion H and
yet the modern day grave is at least
what 60 ft or so you know or something
it's massive right if not more than 60
ft actually right it's a massive place
what happened was over the centuries
people continue to build walls and
barriers uh between the original House
of AA and the external grave or the
external people excuse me uh when ABD
Malik ABD Malik uh built the
extension the the the who were
alive did not want the grave to be in
the direction of
the because then you'd be facing the
grave when you prostrate so they built
three walls around it and then facing
the they built two walls I.E a pentagon
a pentagon totally and the two walls
were not in the middle mixing they went
a little bit astray so that anybody
facing it was facing a slanted wall
basically so psychologically they're not
facing the grave this was built in the
time of
right and this was the time as well that
when they were building the wall one of
the walls of's house collapsed which
shows you of course it's a human
structure it's not going to last forever
right and they saw two exposed
feet and everybody
panicked they were completely
undecomposed completely fresh everybody
panick cuz they felt this might be the
feet of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam
and they called the Elders of the
community and they figured out no this
is not him this
is so the wall that wasar side fell down
right so they covered that up with sand
and then they built as I said the
pentagonal structure this is
inik then over the course of the next
centuries the pentagonal structure was
then another large room and then another
room and then an octagonal structure
roughly in this fifth century uh and
then the automans built a Grail a large
Grail a massive Grail and then the
Saudis came and they put a curtain and
then they built another Grill around the
curtain and therefore if you actually
look in you will firstly not see
anything other than what your
imagination tells you you are seeing
right but secondly if you could actually
Flash and I have lived there for 10
years so I know this I have been there
plenty of times I have seen if you were
actually could see inside all you would
see is a green covering a cloth that is
covering another Grail there are in fact
two Grails both built yeah by the
Ottomans basically uh uh one of them is
an inner older Ottomans and others an
outer ottoman uh and the Saudis have
basically let that stand uh and the
green Dome on top was built by Subhan
Allah the name is in the tip of my
tongue
uh who was the
mamluk Sultan of Egypt in 6
72 or so hij right around 672 or so
uh he was the one who built the green
Dome ironically the Dome was not green
when it was built the Dome has gone
through at least half a dozen
colors from white to Yellow to Black uh
to Green was actually pretty recent in
the grand scale of things I think only
200 years or so ago right uh and so the
Dome was not green originally it was
white uh but the Dome was added on
pretty recently in the grand scale of
things I 600 years ago uh not a thousand
years ago so the point being that in our
times there there is even uh in our
books of History it says that one of the
uh one of The Sultans and that is nin
zangi n zangi he actually built a moat
of
iron around lead sorry LED around the
Grave by a distance because and again
these are stories Allah because it is
said that two people non-muslims tried
to steal the the the body of the proess
by digging a grave uh there so he built
this moat uh around it and he then
fortified it again so nurudin was one of
those who built yet another fortified
wall so in our times one of my teachers
tells me that he has been inside not the
grave but there is still a number of uh
structures you can go inside you can go
inside two or three structures basically
and they they go back maybe 600 years
right so he has been inside and he tells
me that in fact you have to go down at
least 20 ft which actually makes
complete sense for those who know
geography and geology right lands go up
and down and so the actual house of the
Prophet is probably not even in the
level that we think it is it's actually
down right and in throughout all of
these centuries we've just built on top
on top on top uh and uh this is what he
told me that he had to go down
staircases and and go into uh and then
they stop at a certain point they stop
and they're not allowed to go uh Beyond
this
point we have to conclude here