The People of Gaza Are Undisplaceable | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

soon the group will be defeated and they will flee with their backs turned dear brothers and sisters as many of us have been seeing the news about the claim that the Palestinians will be displaced from Gaza that their land will be turned into Prime real estate and that the people should just go because why would they want to stay in such a scenario and essentially hopelessness and despair will continue to be manufactured until the people leave voluntarily and they occupy new homes While others come and illegally steal the rest of their land I know that

many of us saw that and probably thought to ourselves Subhan Allah the doors are closing it's becoming tougher for the people and what are the next few years going to look like and I wanted to actually take us back to the S of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because this is a verse from the Quran that has truly come to life in the last few weeks in particular when we saw the people returning to their destroyed homes in the north and I want to emphasize that the images of the people returning home was not that

they were returning to complete structures they were returning to destroyed homes where many of them would find the remains of their loved ones under the rubble and merely moved from tent to tent and have been through all sorts of unspeakable trauma now you would think with the joy that we witnessed with the way that we saw the people celebrating that they had just reclaimed everything that was taken from them but Subhan Allah no one can understand the people of Gazza except for the people of IM except for the people of Faith because the people of

Gaza are the epitome of the people of Iman and so our enemies don't understand us and and they don't understand why people would want to return to this type of rubble they don't understand why the unlivable conditions of Gazza have not yet run the people of Gaza out and I could not stop thinking about this verse this verse is one of the most profound verses to describe the conditions that we see today especially with the Sinister proposals that are being put forward by our enemies and I want to talk about how it landed with the

sahabah because this is one of the earliest verses that was revealed in the Quran this is not a later verse in the Quran imagine being in Mecca and you cannot even pray publicly without being beaten people are being killed people cannot Proclaim Allah's greatness in the streets and there is no sign of being able to overcome the monstrosity of what Mecca has put forward in any way through the likes of Abu laab and Abu jahal and this verse comes down and there's a psychological component to it as well Allah subhanahu waala reveals early on in

Mecca that soon their group will flee and they will flee away with their backs turned in defeat and we haven't even gotten to Hijra yet we haven't even gotten to the migration of Medina yet what does this mean and and what is this referring to and just like as we have pass through the discussions of and the Miracle of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam being taken from Mecca to Jerusalem to the heavens and back and the way that Allah subhana prophesies through the prophecy of the Romans coming back to defeat the Persians this too was

a remarkable prophecy here's how it landed with the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam imagine if shortly after the revelation of this verse some of the companions take to abisinia flee from the persecution of Mecca leaving behind their homes with their belongings so that they can get away from the torture of the people of Mecca towards them imagine how they were thinking about these verses as they were making hij to ABIA twice fleeing from persecution and indeed leaving behind their homes many of which were stolen and their belongings stolen by qur then imagine the

Hijra comes and not only is it a small group of people but the Muslims are collectively fleeing from Mecca with their backs turned towards Mecca with their belongings or whatever they could carry on their shoulders some of them fleeing in a situation in which they are Marked for Death so they cannot be seen at the time of their Hijra and of course at the head of that list is Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam who is A Marked Man for death and he leaves behind his home sallallahu alaihi wasallam he leaves behind his belongings and he makes

his way to to Medina and this verse is in their heads that one day their group will be defeated and they will flee away with their backs turned Subhan Allah what a test of what a test of trust what a test of Iman to have this verse in your Quran that you recite while you are living the conditions that it seems to indicate where you are fleeing and indeed in Mecca the homes of the Believers were stolen their goods were stolen Subhan Allah in fact not to go too much into detail but when fatah happens

when the conquest of Mecca happens there is a discussion about those homes that were now occupied by some of those who stole them from the Muslims and what if they now became Muslim too including those who inhabited The House of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam what do we do with the situation in this you know air of forgiveness and mercy but also Victory and the return of the oppressed to their lands so it's an interesting conundrum that they would face at that time but we're still early on in the hij imagine being amongst the Muslims

that fled Mecca and you have left behind everything and you still have this verse so when does the prophecy come true in fact when did they even realize it was a prophecy he says that I used to wonder about this verse whatam is Allah subhana talking about what group of people is Allah talking about we the ones who were forced to flee from Mecca first to ABIA and then to Al Medina who is this speaking about and then he said I realized it on the day of bad that this is the moment that Allah subhana

T was talking about you see there's a famous Dua of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam where he is saying before the night of bad oh Allah if you let this group of people die then you will not be worshiped on the face of the Earth but before that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was appealing specifically to what oh Allah give me what you have promised me what you have promised me and here is where it all comes to fruition says I saw the prophet sallam on the day of bad moving forward in the ranks because

our messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was not someone who would avoid the battlefield and send others to fight in his place rather the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself even In the Heat of battle when others would want to hide behind him the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was plunging forward and he said I saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam plunging forward on the day of bad and he was reciting this verse over and over and over again Subhan Allah and indeed he said I saw the meaning of that Ayah because I saw qu

turning their backs fleeing away from the battlefield in bad and I thought to myself this is the promise of Allah subhana waala as it has come true he says that between the revelation of this verse and between the Battle of bad was seven years and Subhan Allah you can think about what seven years looks like under that type of persecution what seven years looks like under two or three hijas if you consider both hijas to AB and then the after the murder of the likes of and the family of after the boycott of and the

death of after the year of grief with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam all of this happens within 7 years and Allah subhanahu wa tala's promise came true and the Believers got to see that on the day of bad on top of that Abu jahal who stole some of the homes of the Believers he was the of this um remember it was the of this um who stole some of the homes and the properties of the Believers in Mecca as he ran them out Allah subhah wa taala decreed that Abu jahal would be killed

outside of Mecca and the prophet sallallahu aliam would come back Supreme in Mecca along with the Believers who were run out and the many other believers who joined the way of the Prophet s. wasam Abu jahal would die humiliated and alone and despised and away from the very land that he ran the Believers out of similar to how did not die in his Palace he did not die in his land rather he died in the Seas drowned by the Seas and if I was to ask anyone do you know where the grave of Abu jahal

is today who would know and who would go visit him and Subhan Allah what a humiliated ending for him and so I want you to think about now the prophet Sall alai wasam and his companions and what this means today for the people of Raza we might find ourselves in a situation where you have more displacement after more displacement after more displacement the difference between the believer in this regard and the enemy is that the believer knows exactly why they are here and so someone who's on the outside of that simply does not understand what

it is about these people that keeps them coming back and make no mistake about it that those who make all of these bold claims about the realy of Gaza and those that make plans about the land of Gaza will always find that Allah subhana wa tala will foil their plans and they will live and die humiliated with absolutely no claim to our land and we as Believers know that whether it's tomorrow whether it's after a week seven days or after seven years Allah is always truthful in his promise I also want you to think about

how the very existence of the Palestinian people on their land is a form of striving for the sake of Allah subhana the fact that they remain in these places where their enemies have tried to make their conditions unlivable is in and of itself a miracle in and of itself a sign of resilience for us to admire and for us to express solidarity with them and we should rebuff any type of proposal or any type of suggestion even from other Muslims that says you know what why not just go ahead and give it up and let's

just build some nice homes for them in Egypt and Jordan that's not the way that this works that's not the way that this affair works the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did not simply say well alhamdulillah things are good in Medina and so we we you know relinquish mecah absolutely not it was always in the heart and mind of the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam and the hearts and minds of the Believers that what is being built in Medina will go back to Mecca and Beyond and so what has been generated outside of will go back to

and Beyond and we must have that same firm belief and that same Faith so do not be deterred do not be deterred do not be saddened do not be grieved you will be victorious so long as remain Believers and so whether it is this president or that President this evildoer or that evildoer retain your belief retain your faith hold fast to the promise of Allah subhana tala may Allah subhana tal grant our brothers and sisters in Gaza and festine full Victory and may Allah subh allow us to be alongside them e