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everyone alhamd we are finally at the most asked about companion since we have started the series which is and as I've mentioned to you uh the reason why it took 120 something episodes to get to is because we were trying to cover the companions that embraced Islam in terms of their order and obviously Embraces Islam uh much later so I wanted to inshallah T begin with with the significance of just in the title that gives him he is uh IM calls him the sword of Allah subhanahu waala the hero of Islam IM Mah Abu the

great IM the great general of the mujah the great leader Abu Ali Al Ali he is his nickname or his is Abu from from from and he is the son of uh or he is the the uh nephew the maternal nephew of the mother of the Believers the wife of the Prophet S.I wasallam and so we have here a man who is extremely special who is extremely beloved to the Muslims who many of you have been named after or who you have named your children after and for good reason and who is without any dispute

the greatest General in the history of Islam after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who remarkably only lived a few years after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but the man who we know as being responsible for bringing the two greatest empires in the world to their knees within one year and dying only a few years after the Messenger s now is going to take at least two classes so we're not going to be able to cover him all in one class what I wanted to do tonight inshallah tal is focus on the background up until the

point of his becoming the sword of Allah sa Allah and then we'll take another lesson in to talk about his contributions and his legacy in that capacity and we basically have to go back to his tribe we have to go back to his parents and there is lengthy discourse about his tribe and his parents before we get into who he is and we start with the tribes is from the tribe ofu benu makum is the greatest competitor of Banu so when we talk about benu Hashim and their generosity and what they were known for with

the pilgrims with those that were within Mecca and those that would come to mecca for whatever reason for the pilgrimage it is benu hash and benu makum that are competing in generosity it is benu hash and benu makum that are looked at as rival tribes as well as which is the parent tribe of so you've really got three major tribes that are competing for the leadership of qur and the leadership of Mecca and of course the most famous man from benu makum is none other than Abu jahal the cousin the first cousin of KH and

we know that Abu jahal his entire holdup with the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam was simply that he is hashimi he's not one of us we cannot concede a prophet to this tribe or else benum will forever be less than Banu Hashim if we acknowledge that they have a prophet of Allah amongst them so basically he's coming out of this tribe of mum which was very hostile to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and hostile to Banu Hashim competitors in generosity competitors in status competitors in power and his father happens to be the chief of that tribe

so is the chief of he is the wealthiest man in Mecca he is one of the most eloquent men in Mecca he is a person who qur will default to in terms of his opinion he's the oldest of the chiefs of qur okay so he's also the oldest one amongst them the oldest one the richest one the one that people will defer to in terms of opinion and someone that the prophet s wasallam really wanted to become Muslim really wanted to become Muslim wasam would direct many of his efforts towards this man becoming Muslim because

if this man becomes Muslim much of the heartache much of the trouble of Mecca would not happen and of course Allah's was that the prophet s alaihi wasallam had a much longer route with his mission that involves the story of Medina the story of the ansar and the story of coming back to uh Mecca Victoria so let's talk about his father uh for a moment and his father I'm just going to give you one family connection through his father all right Al is the brother ofam mam is the father of Abu Jal so if you

got Abu jahal is his real name Abu jahal and KH their fathers are first cousins right and so this affair of banum is a serious one when the prophet alai wasallam announces his prophethood so let's talk about the father for a moment Al for a moment Al as we said is the wealthiest man in Mecca extremely generous but for all the wrong reasons and this is something Subhan Allah that's important to speak about when we talk about ulterior motives of people if you met you'd say masallah this man operates practically you know every hotel in

Mecca for The Travelers he literally had homes that were just for the guests and the visitors that would come through Mecca fully lit and people would be fully fed he owned half of the real estate from Mecca they said all the way to every other house was owned by his generosity to the pilgrims was exemplary on top of that he had the nickname of wahed of one alone alone in what and Allah is going to make a play on this nickname in Quran he was alone in what qur used to replace the cover the Kwa

of the once a year the same way that they do today but of course for them it was idolatry right for them this was a part of their idolatry they had you know this was the tourism business right so you got to replace the kiswa once a year every tribe would pitch in for the cost of the cover of the Kaa one year and then Al would take every other year all for himself so you understand the concept I'll pay for the whole thing one year and then everybody else can get together collectively and they

can pay for it the next year so it was almost showing off his wealth that his wealth is the equivalent of everybody else in Mecca that I'll take care of it one year alone and you all take care of it the other year and basically what ends up happening is that when Islam comes to the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam there is a strong Defence immediately to what is going to do what is this man going to do and the amount of Quran that is going to be revealed about him disparagingly because of his rejection of

the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam is significant and so we start to go through this when Islam comes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he goes to Al and he asks him to sit with him and to listen to him recite the Quran Al is a smart man he sits with the prophet Sall wasam and he hears the Quran and he says I am a poet and I know poetry this is not poetry I've never known you to lie so you're not lying to me he said you don't have the looks of a kah a sorcerer

I don't see any Hoops or claws around you or any type of sorcery going on with you I know what Sorcerers look like he said let me think about what you are saying to me but along the way he's putting some some obstacles as well to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam one of them is I don't like the types of people that are starting to follow you the poor and the disabled and and the uh the people of low class the slaves and I don't like this initial batch of of early Muslims and so he

is according to many of the the one who was too proud stop paying attention to that man pay attention instead to this man has a problem he has an arrogance problem and so that's the first thing he starts to kind of put a little bit of that I don't like the type the type of people that are around you and the prophet Sall wasallam is trying to accommodate as much as he can without forsaking the mission to try to talk to him one on one Al hears the prophet wasam recite the the H of the

Quran which abdah said are The Gardens of the Quran it was his favorite section of the Quran cuz it was early Mecca beautiful powerful all about IM all about faith all about the Hereafter Al is clearly moved by the Quran he goes to his people and in private what is Al saying he saying I am hearing something so beautiful from this man and he said it is not the words of in or Jin it is not the words of a human being or the words of a devil so he's clearly moved now as he's going

to the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam a few times and he's he's listening to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Abu jahal who is his what how is he related to I want to see if you guys caught at least that connection he's his nephew his nephew right ibam Abu J's real name is so this is his uncle Abu jahal is a professional at obstructing people from embracing Islam Subhan Allah you think about why he has so much sin on his shoulders he obstructs Abu Talib he obstructs Al he obstructs he obstructs every single powerful person that

could help the prophet sallahu alaihi wasallam Abu jahal basically customizes a way to stop that person from embracing Islam while also being the first person to insult the prophet s alhi wasall in public in in a very particular way while also being the person to to First kill people the the weak ones like for embracing Islam this is the Pharaoh of this um for a reason so Abu jahal he has to come up with a way to approach his uncle so he goes to him and he's really sad so says what is it what is

it oh my nephew why are you so sad he said well don't you hear the rumors about you he said what rumors well they said that you keep going to the house of Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam and you know why they say you're going to the house of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam Al said why he said they say they say it's always they say right they say you're a stingy person and you're going to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam for his food and his money you see he's a he's a rich proud man right so the

way to really break him and get get to his mind play with his mind a bit is to say you're financially corrupted you're going to him because you need his money you you think that there's some financial gain to gain out of this new religion so he stands up he says are they really saying that about me he said that's what they're saying about you and then he insults the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam he says this man can't even feed himself why would I go to him for food right he starts talking about his money

and starts talking about his power so Abu jahel he said oh so you're not going to him for money are you going to him because you follow him now you follow his religion now says no way no I don't follow his religion I was just listening to him I was hearing what he has to say so Abu J wanted to get Al to this point where will say so what should I do like how do I dispel the rumors and Abu Jal says that your your people will not be satisfied until you say about Muhammad

sallallahu alaihi am what we say about him you have to say about him what we say he said well what are you all saying said started to throw out all the insults about the prophet s alhi wasallam he's a liar he's a poet he's a magician he's a sorcerer Al says I know a liar and he's not a liar I know a poet and he's not a poet I know the sorcerers and he's not a sorcerer and so Abu jahal says to him hasn't it occurred to you he's he's going back to play on his

pride you are the leader of your people you're the great one of your people how come prophit Hood came to him and not you another verse in for Allah says they said how come the Quran did not come to one of the two great men of the two great towns the two great men are and in so basically why is it that it's not coming to one of these two people why is it coming to a a ler person in wealth and Status than Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was why is it coming to him why not

you so he basically says you know listen let's let's sort of talk about this right let's go and let's let's gather everyone together and let's talk about a plan to the prophet sallu Ali wasallam da he said I've heard him it's a powerful message that he has so Abu jahal goes and he calls this assembly Al is there Al starts to play through the different scenarios of what will work to delegitimize the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam so he goes through it he says listen no one's ever going to believe the man's a liar Prophet s

has never told a lie in his life wasam which by the way shows you the importance of having the moral High ground with what you preach he doesn't lie he's we know poetry what he has is not poetry this is too powerful to be poetry We Are The Poets of the world he's not a sorcerer no one's going to believe because aahan looks a little weird and you know Sorcerers kind of have have have a vibe to them so as he's walking around and pacing and I want you to imagine visualize this is the father

of comes back and he says you know what it is it's a magician or he's got some sort of magic that deludes people it overcomes people but at the end of the day it's the word of a man look at Abu jahal Abu jahal says is that what we're saying he says because I want to go tell everyone that says all this is is Magic that overcomes people you see is different from source in a way right can come through different practices and different ways and it's less obvious than a than than a a sorcerer

or a suser that people go to so says that's what we're going with at that point Abu jahal goes out and he says that all it is all this is is Magic that overcomes people and what ends up happening is that that basically becomes the way by which they delegitimize the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam now listen to what Allah reveals because it basically comes down as a play bypl of what was doing in Allah says now you now you know where the play is on the word Allah says leave me to the one I created

all by myself he and I will have an have our time the prophet s wasallam is being told by Allah that this person who Allah privileged in a singular way will be punished in a singular way and I granted him abundance wealth that just extends and extends and extends and extends and he had children always around him has a lot of siblings we're going to talk about them we don't even know all of their names the man had all sorts of siblings and I made his life so easy for him and then he wants me

to increase him like he's not satisfied Al is a rich man he's the richest man in Mecca and he's not satisfied with his wealth Allah says verily he was stubborn with our Revelation and Allah subhana says I am going to make his fate unbearable now this is where it gets really interesting Allah basically gives us a preview of the room that was in when he was talking to everyone he was walking around and he was thinking and may He be perished how evil was his estimation as he's walking around the room with the leaders of

qur and he is going through these things and then he he looked out and he thought to himself and he he frowned and then he you know he looked again so he's basically talking about his pacing then he turned his back on the truth and he filled up his chest with all sorts of arrogance he said all this is is some magic from the old times that the prophet Salli wasall is polluting us with all this is is the word of man Allah says soon I will Scorch him in the fire and the verses continue

about his punishment in Hellfire Subhan Allah this was a play byplay of what Al had done and you have to think about the father if he was someone who knew that this was coming from the heavens and now this is about him this should shake him to the core but his arrogance keeps overtaking him and so he becomes even more insolent with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam more committed to delegitimizing the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam Allah reveals another set of aat about him Allah says do not obey every vile foulmouthed person someone who uh always

creates Scandal and passes on tales and falsehoods this is a person that hinders all sorts of good a sinful transgressor and this is where I I mentioned this in the some time ago where Allah subh mentioned how arrogant he was and then said and by the way he's a he's a child of Zena he's a child of adultery Al goes to his mother he says to his mother he said Allah just described me with nine traits he said the first eight I think are true like he he has a little bit of self-awareness you know

what I am arrogant I am vile I do talk down to people I curse people uh I have this pride in me but he said the only one that I can't accept is zanim I'm a Child of adultery how am I a child of adultery so imagine Allah just revealed a play byplay of what he was doing with the chiefs of quray and now Allah just said and by the way you're a child of adultery and his mother tells him that your father is not actually your father his mother tells him that basically your father

was unable to con we were unable to conceive and she says that she committed Zena that she committed adultery narrates that it was one of the other core enemies of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so imagine the the humiliation that Allah just exposed these people with that you're so proud about your tribe and you're so proud about how you boast over the people with your money and with your children and this is who you really are Al Subhan Allah uh after that he continues and he becomes more aggressive with the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and

one of the things that he does because he has a lot of children one of his children was a man by the name of or was basically one of his prized children super handsome also very wealthy very skilled he had them trained in the Arts one of the things that he decides to offer what they go to to Abu Talib with to offer he says to Abu Talib you know what how about this let's make a deal I'll give you Amar you give me Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam let's trade kids you can have amarah prized

child of qur everybody loves him super good looking uh very good at trade you know let's make a trade Abu Talib he says to him so you want to give me your son who I will feed and care for and I give you my son so you can kill him absolutely not right cuz they're still trying to operate at this point of The Da to try to crush the prophet sallai wasallam within their existing mechanisms not violate the system that gives them the power that they have so let's make a trade I'll give you my

son give me your son and let me handle him let me take care of him so Al uh basically fails at all of these different things and he is someone who's going to die a very interesting death so what ends up happening with him after some time he was one day walking and this is immediately after the Hijra so this is before bad immediately after the Hijra he doesn't die in bad if you actually look at the sources you find that he dies a very interesting death he was walking one day and he was an

older person at this point and there was a man from benu who used to make Spears and arrows he basically had this area where he would make his Spears he'd make his arrows and he'd plant them in the ground put them in piles and stuff like that and accidentally stepped on one of them and when he stepped on one of them it caused a major split in his foot major wounds the wound gets infected and basically that's what's going to cause his death so this proud man subh Allah look how Allah showed him his worth

in such a way so is on his death bed and you can see the the mentality that is going to grow up with with his with his parents here with his father here in particular is on his death bed and he calls his children to him and he says I have three three things to give you as was as my will so number one uh go and take my Dia take my blood Money compensation from Ben now the reasoning is is that if you don't he actually likes B he doesn't want an all out War

if he dies as a result of this some of his tribe might go wage war on Ben and these two tribes are going to fight each other but he says just go take my blood money from them compensation from them the man didn't mean to kill me it was accidental but then number two he says Ben owes me a lot of money from RBA a lot of money from loans a lot of interest in Usery is he going to say forgive it he said no he said go and take every single Durham that they owe

me and bring it back to us I don't want Ben to have any of my money subh he's still thinking about his money even as he's dying look how Allah describes the person so perfectly like a mindset an attitude so perfectly number three one of his daughters was divorced by a man by the name ofb ABI IB and divorced her and basically it was a nasty dispute and did not like the way he divorced his daughter so he basically said I want revenge I want revenge onb for what he did with my daughter go go

take revenge from him these are his last three Commandments or his last three Wasa on his deathbed and Subhan Allah as a result of that they they did they took the blood money from they also went to and they tried to take all the money back and it ended up leading to all sorts of problems between Ben and and and Ben and Abu sufyan had to basically avert like a war because it led to all sorts of skirmishes and bad blood andham so had a son named hisam he has a brother named who's the father

of Abu Jah one of his sons is named Al he went and he killed started basically a mini war between benu makum and his people and Abu sufyan had to go and clean that one up too so it just shows you Subhan Allah vindictive foul um man who was deluded by his wealth deluded by his tribe and who Allah subh humiliated in so many different ways and this is the man who has as a father now with all that being said is his youngest son and at the end of the day loves his father right

very generous with his family I mean his children did not have to lift a finger to work he took care of everything right so he's very generous with his family and who loves his father um but this is who his father actually is and we'll come back to how that actually affects later on as for the mother of I'm going to put up this chart on the screen uh all right I want you all to memorize that in 5 seconds all right if you go back and you watch the lecture on Lu we actually did

a whole lecture on this chart um the the mother of abdah Abbas can you actually put it back up the mother of abdah ABB is the older Lua and you'll see all the way at the end of that chart she's also so there are two the big one and the small one the mother of khed is the sister of the wife of the Prophet later on but what's significant about this chart when you go back and you watch the lecture about lubaba is that all these people on here become khaled's cousin through his mom all

right so Abdullah Abbas is his cousin and it goes on and on and on and on as to the types of relationships that are made through his mother so khed is related to a lot of people he's he's literally like everybody's cousin all right just to give you a little bit of the mindset he's also cousin through his father's side Omar's mother is the first cousin of Khaled so he's khaled's second cousin through his father's side um or or Omar's mother is's first cousin so he's related to that way the point is is that is

someone who has a lot of Blood Ties in qur he's someone that has a lot of power there really aren't many ways to disadvantage this man in AI society and just for the sake of time I won't go through all the implications of the mother since we've spoken about that already in a previous lecture he has everything that you could possibly want in terms of tribal superiority in terms of power in terms of money as for siblings they are too many to name we're only going to talk about um one or two of them in

in in the process of his story so let's get to himself is the last child or one of the last Children of the Dynamic of that is that you know he has a lot of siblings that have already enjoyed the privilege of their father he has a lot of first second and third cousins that are within that realm of power and he is someone who is going to receive all of the riches and all of the luxury that comes with being the last child of the most powerful man the richest man in mea but when

he was born he was born very distinguished he was huge physic all right so the description of is that he looked like the twin of that's everything you need to know physically in stature extremely tall and extremely muscular they said that there was not uh you know a pinch On's body it was all muscle literally made of muscle extremely handsome extremely poetic and someone who is going to grow up loving War loving the Arts of War loving the Arts of battle so him and om are cousins they're basically known as the two strongest youth of

Mecca khed is by the way 20 years younger than the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam there's a significant age gap between him and the prophet Salli wasallam he's a young man you know he's not someone who's at that level of Abu sufyan and and some of these older people when they're disputing with with the prophet he's a young person and him and are the two wrestlers the two strongest men in Mecca and they have a deep and profound relationship with one another and they're always in competition so he's known for his skill in wrestling and he's

known for his deep intelligence and particularly how he manages to master every single one of the Arts of War so his family sent him out to basically learn some of the harshness of the desert Subhan Allah one of the narration about him in his biography is that he actually almost died as a child from small poox but Allah subhana wa tala spared him from that and you can imagine that in that desert climate a lot of children uh would have died under those conditions and he grows up only caring about war only caring about the

skills of War could not care less about buying and selling could not care less about trade and his father had all the money he needed anyway so he really did not even have to exert himself in learning anything about being a merchant or anything about trade he went to different parts of the world with his father with his siblings where they would take their Caravans but while he's traveling the different parts of the world all he's doing is he's learning the stories the heroic tales of the of the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire and

all of these epic stories about some of the commanders and the great military minds of the world at the time and they say about KH Subhan Allah and this is very significant that most people can Master One skill and they might be sufficient in the others was the best in archery khed was the best in spear throwing khed was the best in horseback riding Khaled was the best in camel back riding Khaled was the best sword fighter Khaled was the best strategist he was absolutely unmatched in terms of his military genius even as a kid

no one could come close to him and he trains other young people in that so his physical strength his mind everything surrounds the idea of battle and that's all that he wants to do as he grows up he is though as we said uniquely intelligent deeply intelligent and he knew poetry and by the way this was a a description of as well was literate he could read and write and he knew poetry knew poetry was learning about history was learning about the world around him and all of that is significant to his development now when

does his interaction with the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam first take place and this is where he start to see the family influence on a man when the Battle of happened's father was already dead so he's not like his cousins and and Abu jahal you know who's of course also his cousin he's not like safan he's not like the others that are his age whose fathers went out in bed and were killed dad was already dead and tended to be the seniors of qur going out to fight the the Muslims who had fled to Alina comes

back to Mecca and he missed bad because he was on a trade route so when he comes back he finds out that one of the people that has been taken as a captive by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was his brother Al we'll talk about later in so says well I've got to go free my brother from captivity now the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam of course took 70 captives from bed and the prophet s wasallam showed them Mercy he ransomed them in accordance with what they were able to do they went out to kill them

the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam found a way out for the captives and the prophet sallai was assigned different ways and he said that show theman show them Excellence do not chain them too hard feed them what you eat clothe them what you clothe yourselves don't be rough with your prisoners the prophet s understands that this is the first battle between the Muslims and those that persecuted them and caus them to flee this could soften their hearts as well so the prophet s says show theman show them excellence and the prophet s wasallam sets ransoms in

accordance with the capacity of the families of the prisoners all right so if this person comes from a tribe that the prophet s knows can only afford a few Dirhams the prophet sallam sets The Ransom as that and if they come from richer families the prophet Salli wasallam sets The Ransom a little bit higher and if they have nothing to pay at all what does the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam do he says let them teach people how to read Subhan Allah he gives them that option to teach people how to read to go free so

he's putting things in accordance with who they are who do you think had the highest Ransom Al why because his dad is the guy his dad's the richest man in meca so his Ransom is 4,000 din that's a huge amount of money at the time so he's by far the most expensive prisoner to free really when the prophet was starting his Ina he's one of the youth he's kind of aloof to this whole thing and that is the best way to describe him and that's a mindset a psychology when you go back and you read

history that some people were not necessarily like charged maybe it's their status maybe it's just their interest he was kind of aloof he wasn't someone that was really fighting the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam like his father was so he doesn't have too much beef with the prophet s alaihi wasallam but he's focused on his military genius he comes to Medina alongside and he basically brings the 4,000 dins to free his brother so his meeting with the prophet s in Medina is to give him the money he's treated with respect so just to let you know

I he did enter into Medina paid for his brother's Grom took Al from him right Al who of course fought against the prophet s wasallam and then they left Medina now they camp out at how many of you been in here most of you in some of you just don't want to raise your hands I understand but is where the mik is right it's where the the station is where you make your intention for om so he takes his brother to that night they go to sleep he wakes up in the morning and his brother

leaves him a letter the letter is by the way I've become Muslim and I went back to Muhammad s in Madina so it's like wait a minute you made me come all the way from Mecca put myself in danger to free you from the Captivity of the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam that huge amount of money to bring you out all so that I could just take a few miles out of Medina and then you go back to the prophet s alai wasallam and he leaves in that letter and khed was very close to Al anded

were were and were close brothers and in fact subh they're going to maintain communication throughout the years even as is a Muslim and KH is trying to kill the Muslims there's letters that go between them throughout and communication that remains says to look I saw saw from the character of the Muslims and the character of their Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam what I have never seen from qur and I wanted to embrace Islam as I saw their their character you see Subhan Allah the way the Muslims treated their prisoners was enough to win the heart of

Al but he said this is a proud people he said I didn't want to embrace Islam in my chain so that they would say he only embraced Islam to get himself out of captivity I wanted to come back and embrace Islam as a free man so he didn't wait to go back to mecah and subh just shows you the of these people because he's going to be doing for the next decade until KH Embraces Islam wanted to come to the prophet wasallam as a free man and so imagine the joy of the Prophet when comes

back to Medina right after the night after being freed and says the prophet was so happy with his Islam and by the way the prophet loved and there's one Nar Subhan Allah that when passed away cuz he died in the time of the Prophet wasallam that who's from that tribe she asked the prophet s wasallam can I cry over him like she's holding back her tears and they're trying to understand the rulings of Islam am I allowed to shed tears over that and the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam says go ahead go ahead and cry over

him so she said you know oh I cry over and suffice it from a people to have amongst them a man like because he had a son named Who The Prophet by the way changed his name to Abdullah because there's too many Weds in a chain so the prophet changed his son's name to Abdullah but this was the nobility of this man in the life of the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and this is the man who's going to start doing to his brother calling his brother to Islam then comes is going to be the first

time that brings his military genius as a strategist against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and where unfortunately will make his name amongst the mechans carrying out the most devastating tragedy against the Muslims in one shot right is this battle of so Abu sufyan is the one who's commanding the Army and he divides the two sides of the army between and and are cousins remember they're both from right and they're both very skilled in battle has a bone to pick with the Muslims because his father's Abu Jal right so in particular really hates the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam really hates the Muslims KH has a bone to pick with the Muslims but he's really interested and carrying out his Brilliance and showing it on the battlefield so in Abu sufyan commands the center he puts in charge of the right flank and he puts KH in charge of the Left Flank the Left Flank naturally aligns with ja okay ja which is the famous mountain of The Archers so is coming in from this side and he's got his eyes on the mountain of the archers where there are 50 archers that the prophet Salli was

commands to be on that mountain to watch the backs of the Muslims in so he takes the left side and obviously the Battle of ensues and in the Battle of we know the famous story that the prophet Sall alaihi wasam commanded the archers not to come down from the mountain even if they think the Battle Is Over the Muslims won the initial battle the prophet said do not come down until I tell you to come down 40 of them saw that it seemed like it's over now they're just collecting the spoils I mean there are

a lot of shields a lot of horses a lot to be collected from The Spoils of War 40 of the 50 run down is watching from the other side this all happening and so comes up with the strategy which was to make it seem like we are retreating but to circle around and to attack from the back because now the main protection of the Muslims was gone which was The Archers himself goes and he takes out the 10 archers that are remaining and he says he glorifies h and he says take it from me and

I am Abu his name was Abu because his oldest son was so who takes out the remaining 10 archers and basically ambushes the Muslims from behind and this of course was the first time that the Muslims had experienced tragedy at that level and khed comes home to Mecca to a hero's wcome because ultimately it was his strategy that won the Battle of for the meccans and keep in mind that the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam was saying what in the Battle of oh Allah forgive my people they don't know anything any better so if it wasn't

for taking that position I just want you to once again understand the the Journey of redemption of a human being Abu sufyan and were shaken by the initial Skirmish they were ready to retreat KH was the one who planned this Counterattack and that won the battle for the mechans so this is the first battle of against the Muslims and he's a hero next comes the battle of the battle of the trench now what the the Muslims had done in the battle of the trench building that trench around Medina it really is a bulletproof strategy so

long as they don't give up any part of the trench was given the Subhan Allah when you think about like history he was given the assignment of assassinating the prophet s alaihi wasallam he's actually the most skilled assassin the most skilled General his job is to go into killed the prophet Sall alai wasallam is an expert in verion tactics and we're going to see this throughout the the life of military genius especially next week that was able to create images and to create alertness in different parts of the battlefield even in the way that he

uses the animals Subhan Allah even in training horses to act in a certain way at certain times so that he can divert your attention as the opposing Army so that you don't know which point to attack khed is an expert at that and that is the way that he's going to win many of the battles for the Muslims in the future right is diversion tactics so is the one who actually creates enough diversions at some point on theand to penetrate and to cause somewhat of a lapse in khandak but at the end of the day

we know that Allah subhana T sent the powerful winds and turn the mechans back to fromand then comes uh the prophet of course is coming to make from Medina peacefully with the Muslims was given the instruction of blocking the way of the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam from Mecca and the prophet s alaihi wasallam basically uses khalid's tactic on him which is that the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam sends a smaller group on the traditional route while he takes the Muslims on another route on a side route all the way to hudia which is only by the

way about 10 miles away from Mecca so was outsmarted by the prophet sallallah alai wasallam with his own type of tactic and this was actually to a sign not just of the Prophet s Ali's genius a sign of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam being a messenger of Allah so was watching obviously the treaty ofia is settled the Muslims will return back and they will come for they will come for the make up the next year on the condition that they're not going to be harmed in exchange for other things and we're not going to go

through the Treaty of again throughout this time he basically says that I was considering Islam multiple times so his brother stays in communication with him and KH is an intelligent man he knows something special about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but he speaks through a series of incidents that ends up happening that really convinces him for one he talks about watching the prophet and during that trip and he Witnesses them in the prayer of fear the prayer of fear allows for the Muslims to pray in a very unique way right one group does uh another

group comes in and stands up one group does and then they leave and they guard the ranks another group comes in and does facing the is not necessary the IM prays in the middle of the ranks not in the front of them I mean there's all sorts of things that happen in may Allah protect us from ever being in a situation where we need to do that but it's a it is a prayer that basically allows for the Muslims to be smart during battle while still fulfilling their obligations the beauty of it is that it

shows that you can't give up your prayer even in that situation even in battle even when you're afraid that there's an enemy that's going to attack you so is watching and he he said I thought I just thought to myself you know what if I just take him out during Salah so he said I watched them pray and then I waited for them for he described the prophet praying in the middle and then all of these different things that are happening and he says he said just it it really occurred to me at that point

for whatever reason said this man has some truth that came to him why because the religion takes into consideration things that I've never seen before so it's further convincing him of the intelligence of the dean of Islam then he now takes the story himself he says when Allah wanted from me what he wanted from me of good he said Allah put in my heart suddenly a love of Islam this is a new feeling that I have suddenly I had a love of Islam couldn't explain it that landed in my heart and I found guidance coming

to me and he said I said to myself every single one of these situations youve witnessed of the Prophet sallai was and every single time Allah made a way out for him the man is divinely protected I know that he's divinely protected otherwise I would have got to him so he said in my heart I knew something was there he said and while I was thinking that my brother wrote me a letter says to him Al says there is nothing in the world that perplexes me more than you're not embracing Islam and you have the

brain that you have you're too smart to not recognize this is the truth and he says by the way the prophet asked me about you and the prophet s was came to me and said where is and I said to the prophet s wasallam Allah will bring him to us and the prophet Salli wasallam responded and he said a man like khed is too smart to not become Muslim so is telling about this conversation he had with the prophet s wasallam that the Prophet s said you're too smart not to be Muslim and KH is

saying that this is corresponding to Islam suddenly being in my heart and the sudden Newfound love that I have with the dean so he said that my brother said to me think oh my brother about all the good you've missed out on and I expect to see you here in the ranks of the Muslims that's why one more thing this increased me in my desire to be Muslim by the way we're going to go a little bit later tonight in so I apologize to all those that are coming uh for he says he said that

that made me want Islam even more and I was pleased that the prophet Salli wasallam asked about me like wait a minute like the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam is not vengeful towards me he's not vindictive towards me the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam actually wants me to become Muslim he cares about me right I have a chance this is coming from a man who's the son of his dad who's basically giving hit hit jobs on his deathbed like I have a chance then remember the story of the Prophet s married her in accordance with his coming

into Mecca and used this as a way by which he could soften the hearts of the tribe and bring them to the wedding the prophet Sall invited the non-muslim relatives to the wedding To The Feast he's trying to show a connection is the nephew of and this further softens his heart then he said I had a dream so he sees the wedding of Muna khalid's heart is completely now overwhelmed by Islam says I had a dream said I saw in a dream as if I am in this tight land this constricted land it was dry

and Barren and it looked miserable he says he said so I went to this expansive Green Meadow so in my dream I exit out of a dry desolate Barren Place tiny place and I go to this wide beautiful garden and he said later on he said I woke woke up and I said this is a this is not just a dream I know what dreams are this is not just a dream this is a vision and he said I asked later on and said who that Abu Bakr said to me that this was Allah taking

you from disbelief to Islam the constricted place that was your sh that was your polytheism so like that was the last dream I had so said so now I kind of wanted to float the idea with some of my friends about possibly becoming Muslim so I went to sufyan I'm sorry sfan safan and safan as I said KH is related to everybody and he has a lot of brothers and sisters safan is not just the son of the famous uh who was killed by after he tortured him safan is also his brother-in-law he's married to

a sister of KH named na so he said I told safan you know I'm thinking about becoming Muslim we know that he's on the truth we know that Muhammad wasam has the truth why don't we go and embrace Islam safan stood up and he swore by he swore by the idols he said if all of qur embraced Islam except for one man I'd be the one man who doesn't Embrace Islam by the way who embraced Islam later on but he said if everybody in quray embraced Islam I'll be that one guy that doesn't Embrace Islam

he said he killed my my father he killed my brother these are people by the way who were responsible for as well the massacre of so he said okay I left safan alone and he said I kind of made an excuse for him I said look he lost his father he lost his brother it was a little too personal for him he wasn't ready yet so then I went to was his best friend and is his cousin and also is the son-in-law of his sister f they're all related right so his sister is's mother-in-law he's

his cousin he's his best friend says we know that Muhammad has some truth we all know it what are we waiting for says you want me to follow a man who killed my father Abu jahal you want me to follow a man who killed my father absolutely not no way and he says I told myself you know I I can't really blame him too much because at the end of the day he lost his dad it's still personal to him I left him alone now goes and he talks to Abu sufyan Abu sufyan is now

the last of sort of the elders in this in this entire space and the Rumor start to spread that our prized military General is asking what do you think if we become Muslim so Abu sufyan basically at the at the request of at the rumor come from he goes to KH with a group of the Elders of qur and Abu sufyan says oh I'm hearing that you're considering Islam is that true KH says yeah it's true abuan was expecting him to lie and hide it KH is not afraid of anybody I mean everybody around him

these people kill Muslims for a living said yeah it's true what are you going to do about it right so it gets rough Abu sufyan draws his sword they start they start to basically get a little bit tusty who started the whole problem in the first place he stands next to KH and he says khid has a right to become Muslim if he wants to if he wants to become Muslim I'll become Muslim with him and he ends the entire Skirmish why because Abu sufyan is not from banum at the end of the day you're

from know your lane get out of here so who started the Skirmish kind of ends it because he doesn't want KH to be killed he said I didn't bring you here to kill the man I brought you here to talk him out of it and you people escalated this too quickly that night he says you know what that's everything I needed to see to basically make my last determination to become Muslim I'm done with these people Allah put it in my heart he felt alienated from his own people's like come on like please stop this

don't you see what's happening is like move on so says that I gathered my stuff and I went out at night to go meet the prophet Medina and he said and I thought to myself I'd really love to not be alone in this he said Subhan Allah I found remember the woman that wanted to drink out of the the skull ofit that's her son and I bumped into and I'm not afraid of anybody I told him exactly what I was going to do and he responded and he said you know what I'm going to do

the same thing I'm actually on my way to Medina to embrace Islam so says so I said alhamdulillah I got I've got a companion now so said you know we we made our way to Al and he said once we got to the outskirts of meca he said we bump into and says welcome to the to to my brothers welcome to these people they said and you as well he said where are you all going and they said we're going wasam we're going because we want to meet the messenger of Allah Sall alaihi wasallam says

you know what I'm going to do the same thing has a story which we're going to talk about by the way he went back to Aba it's another Journey for him altogether but now Subhan Allah remember the Dua of the Prophet s with the blood running down his face in now these three men and are making their way to Medina not under any pressure to embrace Islam and so says that we entered into Medina can you imagine being in Medina and just look up and you see just walking in casually into Medina like what are

you doing here right but Subhan Allah they clearly came with different intentions and he said we walked to the prophet Salli wasam and he says it was the first day of saf on the eth year after hij he says when I looked at the prophet wasallam I gave Salam to him recognizing his prophethood think about the prophet he now saying so he says the prophet wasam responded to me with a big smile on his face and the prophet sallai wasallam said has given us its insides I mean at this point now what's left like who's

here and he said I said to the prophet wasallam seek forgiveness for me oh messenger of Allah everything I did everything I did to prevent people from the path of Allah ask Allah to forgive me and the prophet wasallam Embraces says Islam does away with everything before it and then the prophet wasallam said oh Allah forgive all became musl and he said W from that day the prophet never gave anyone preference to me it was like it was like bygones were bygones like the prophet s loved me as if I Was His companion forever Subhan

Allah like as if never happened as if no enmity ever happened between us and the messenger Sall alai wasallam now I want to mention something here that's very important these three men are considered by many scholars to be the last three people who have the status of the M now why because the prophet wasam said there is no more migration meaning you don't get the status of being from the M after there's a decreased status there at that point but these three men came to the prophet Sall alhi wasallam before before the prophet s marched

back on meca on their own Val so there was that that that desire to be with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and they earn the last three spots of the status of being M now Subhan Allah how does he become the sword of Allah and I'll end with this inshallah with just a few more things and then we'll call a night and we'll continue next week knows one thing and one thing only War battle so he's like put me to work I'm ready to go like I don't need training I'm is not the person who's

going to sit in the Masjid now and memorize the Quran he's not the person who's going to go learn a Hadi from Abu and Abu mus and and and you know Abu no no he's ready to go to war the Battle of mut happens less than two weeks after that the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam sends out 3,000 companions to go and to fight on the outskirts now of where Jordan is and you know we actually have a documentary which you can watch about the Battle of you can search it on our channel the martyrs of

M cuz I actually filmed their on site thousands of miles away where they have killed an ambassador of the Muslims and they are now going to engage the Roman Empire with 3,000 people khid goes out as a foot soldier not as a general he's y put me to work I'm ready to go I don't need any training I don't need anything to delay this was sent out to the Battle of M and the commander of that Army was and the prophet gave the order that Z is the first Commander if Zade is killed then takes

the banner if J is killed abdah takes the banner and if those three are killed then give the banner give the leadership to someone that you choose amongst you the prophet s alhi wasallam is standing on the men in Med and he's watching the Battle of mut happen through divine revelation thousands of miles away way and this battle turned out to be 3,000 against up to 100 150,000 Roman soldiers in their allies you talk about being outnumbered and the prophet s wasallam sees Z fall in the battlefield his son right the prophet says his voice

is quivering and he said just took the banner and he said jaur has been killed and Abdullah just took the banner abdah has been killed and the prophet s is weeping as he's seeing three of his most beloved companions pass away his family pass away three of his most beloved companions what ends up happening next is that the Muslims are looking around and one of the seniors of the he picked up the banner and he starts to call the people towards him and then he goes up to think about you're KH you just became Muslim

like a few weeks ago your whole life is being an enemy to the Muslims you've killed some of these people's parents and siblings right there's obviously going to be a level of warming up that has to be here right and KH understands that and he's he's sincere for the sake of Allah he's just there to support andit goes up to him and he tells him take the banner says no you have greater right to it I'm not going to take it he says you have so many more years in front of me in Islam you

you're one of the people of B like there is no reason why I the new convert should take the banner so says take it take it take the banner and khed is hesitant not because he's afraid of the battle but because he knows the feelings and the sentiments of the Muslims I'm the new guy here andit says to the rest of the ansar to the rest of the people are you all gathered upon KH and they say yes unanimously so Subhan Allah he takes the banner of the Muslims in this consequential battle and then goes

to work what does he do creates a strategy because his entire he he has a brain that far surpasses the strategies of using his sword attaches something to the animals he creates a diversion tactic to where the Roman anticipate from different directions that the Muslim Army is 10 or 15 times greater than its size and so they go and they start to attack basically ghost armies so KH devises in real time an entire strategy to spread his 3,000 men out into different places and attack at different times of the day so the Romans are perplexed

we're fighting desert Arabs here we don't expect this they're perplexed and KH plunges through the byzantines broke nine swords he broke nine swords and pulled out his tenth and basically cut through the heart of that Army and then gathered the Muslims out and then took them back to Medina in safety and the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam as he is speaking from the men and seeing what is happening he says said just took the banner and khed is a sword of the swords of Allah so it was the first time the prophet s called him the

UN sword of Allah subhah waala and the Muslims come back and is now the hero of Medina he's the hero of the Muslims imagine his mindset Subhan Allah in this regard and I want to end Subhan Allah on this note with two different things the man does not go into the recitation of the Quran the man does not go into the memorization he immediately is thinking about how he can now use what Allah subhana gave him to benefit the Muslims in fact narrates or it's narrated that mentioned that three people were withholding some of what

they possessed and the prophet Sall wasallam responded to and he says that as for he said you're actually wronging him he said everything that everything that he's holding back he's basically making weapons with it he's preparing himself for battle KH is in total you know battle mindset so KH does not withhold anything for the sake of Allah subhana tal the man is not his father he's not thinking that way he's thinking how he can continue to support the mission that was now given to him from the prophet Salli wasallam and you only have like a

handful of that are narrated from one of them says that he was eating in the house of my aunt remember his aunt now so he was eating in the house of Muna with the prophet Salli wasallam and they brought uh what was known as du is a desert lizard now lizards you think of the little tiny ones in Texas it's actually think about like a crocodile style big old desert lizard it's different it's like a full animal um and sees it and doesn't know anything so he noticed the prophet s wasallam does not eat from

it so the prophet sallai wasallam is asked by can I not eat from this and the prophet said no it's not I just don't like it so says so I ate it that's his that's what you get from KH in terms of a you're not getting other than that other than that you have the greatest General in the history of Islam after the prophet Salli wasallam and you have to stick with that but I want to end with this from sa Allah and then we'll continue next week inshallah can you imagine how difficult it was

for him to read all of the verses in the Quran about his father you talk about hard on the heart how difficult it is how many verses in the Quran are about his father this was tough now who by the way only memorized like a few suras of the Quran until his death he actually mentions that on his death bed he didn't have time he was focused 100% on Battle and strategy would lead over 50 campaigns for the Muslims in 4 years he knows what he's doing goes to it's one of the most painful conversations

you'll see here in this regard and he says to Sal Salam is of course a famous reciter of the Quran the prophet s wasam mentioned from take the Quran from four people he mentions Salam as one of them and he goes to Sal and he says is anything of the Quran left off like how does this work Salam knows what he's about to ask him like do I have to recite the verses about my dad do I have to know these I don't know much of the Quran knows where he's going with this and insists

he says recite to me the verses about my father so I can repeat them why does he want to repeat them Subhan Allah look how look how dedicated he is to Islam he's saying I will not have IM like my faith is not going to be complete unless I can do this so repeat them to me or say them to me and I will repeat them and and he repeats those verses from until I will punish him subh has to do this with a quivering voice but it's tough on him he dedicates his life to

helping and supporting the prophet s and his father was dedicated to fighting the prophet s. wasallam but his his sincerity is going to show for the next few years in a way that is as beautiful as the strategies and the campaigns that he would devise to bring the two empires of the day to their knees and this is how he becomes sa the sword of Allah may Allah subhana waala be pleased with for all of his sacrifices for Islam may Allah subhana T reward all of the companions of the messenger Alat send his peace and

blessings upon our messenger and his family next week we will continue with the story [Music] of