Crisis of Followership – #3

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Faqala ta'ala inna allaha wa malaikatahu yusalluna ala nabi ya ayyuhal ladhina amanu sallu alayhi wa sallimu taslima. Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ahli Muhammad kama sallita ala Ibrahim wa ala al Ibrahim innaka hamidun majid. Allahumma barika ala Muhammadin wa ala ahli Muhammad kama barikta ala Ibrahim wa ala al Ibrahim innaka hamidun majid. I remind you and myself that leaders come from the people. The leader is not sent from heaven. Leaders come from the people. If you have good people, you get good leaders. If you have a gang of bandits, you will not get Omar bin Abdulaziz as the leader of that band. Right? You will get the biggest. Bandit who will be the leader of that bandit of that gang of bandits. Abu Dahad al-Ansari. On a side note, I'll come back. Abu Dahad al-Ansari. He was sitting in Majid Nawawi Sharif. And he says, I saw a small boy who came to me. He was crying. He was weeping, tears flowing. And he came here. I want your help. Nawawi Sharif was, I mean, he's, there's no. When Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, What do you say about his Rama? What do you say about his heart? Allah is the one who is witness to that. This boy comes, he's crying. He says, Ya Rasulullah, I need your help. He says, what happened? He says, Ya Rasulullah, my father gave me, I'm an orphan. My father died. I left for me a small, you know, dead garden. And I want to build a wall around it. And there is a dead, big dead tree in the way of this wall, which belongs to my neighbor. And the neighbor is being difficult. He won't let me take the wall around the tree. I told him, give me the tree. He does not give me the tree. I said, sell me the tree. He doesn't sell me the tree. So now I don't know what to do. So now we saw that Salim said, who's the neighbor? The neighbor was Abu Lubaba. Who's also, he was not one of the manafiqun. He was a good sahabi, Mashallah. But you know, people are people. So, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called him. He called him. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to him, why don't you give this boy the tree? You've got a big dead palm garden, one tree, give it to him. He said, no. This is my haqq, my right. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, okay. He said, no. Sell that tree to me. Sell that tree to me. And I promise you a tree in Jannah. I'm trying to show you what kind of people these were. He said, sell me the tree and I promise you a tree in Jannah. May Allah protect us from ourselves. This sahabi who was one of those who in one Ghazwa actually shared a mount with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's not a manafiqun. But human. He said, no. What is the meaning of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam promising you a tree in Jannah? What does it mean? He's promising you Jannah. Okay. You're not going to be sitting in Jannah and selling your people there. You know what? I got a piece of a tree in the Jannah. No. You go to sell. He said, no. And he left. Now Abu Dada, this is not Abu Darda. This is Abu Dada. Abu Dada is sitting, listening to that. As soon as the man left, he came to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and said, Ya Rasulullah, if I get that tree for you, will you promise me the same thing? Yes. Yes. Now he said, I said, yes. So Abu Dada went behind his man. By the time he caught up with him, he's in the middle of the market of Madinah on his way home. Abu Dada caught up with him and he stopped him and he said, Salaam. He said, I heard this conversation in the masjid and I came to ask you, sell me that tree. So he said, I did not even sell the tree to the Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Why will I sell it to you? He said, no, no, no, hold on. I will tell you the deal. He said, my deal is, he said, do you know me? He said, of course I know you. Who are you? Who am I? He said, you are Abu Dada. What do you know about me? He said, everybody knows about you. He said, what is that? He said, you have the most valuable piece of real estate in Madinah. You have the most beautiful date palm garden with 650 bearing date palms. Wall around the whole thing, a well of sweet water and a house inside. He said, yes. He said, what I am proposing to you is, sell me that tree and I give you this whole thing. The whole garden, well, water, house, everything is yours for one tree. So he said to her, you nuts, are you crazy? What's wrong with you? What kind of thing is this? You are joking with me? He said, no. I am not joking with you. I am not joking with you. I am not joking with you. Are you serious? I said, yes. He said, you want to back off and say, no, no, I didn't mean. No, no, no, I will not do that. No, by the way, imagine, this conversation is happening. People have gathered around. They are listening to what is this funny happening. He said, then all these people have witnessed it. Yeah, people have witnessed it. He said, okay, take it. The tree is yours. Abu Dada, radiAllahu anhu, says to him, tree is mine, thank you. The garden, everything is yours. He goes to the house, to his own house, stands outside and says, Ya Umudada, come outside. His wife comes out. He says, bring the children. We are leaving. We are going. She said, where are we going? He said, I sold this garden. She says, to who? He says, to Rasool Allah, sallAllahu alaihi wasallam. She says, for how much? He says, for one tree in Jannah. And that's not the bottom line. The bottom line is her reaction. She says, Alhamdulillah. What a bargain! He just sold the roof from over her head and her children. He just made them homeless. Here was this woman who was sitting like a queen in a fantastically valuable property. And he just made her homeless. And she says, Alhamdulillah. What a bargain! Hey, these were the people. So, they said, what a bargain! Alhamdulillah. But Allah is Allah. So, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tests. Fast forward now to the eighth year of Hijrah. This is happening in the first year, thirteenth year of Risalah. Bid'ah. Before Hijrah. Fast forward to eighth year of Hijrah. Sulayh-ud-Dabiyyah. Rasool Allah sees a dream. And the dream of the Nabi is Haqq. The dream of the Nabi is Wahi. And based on that, he announces, I am going for Umrah. Whoever wants to come with me, come with me. We go and make Umrah. So, roughly thirteen, fourteen hundred people gather with him. They go. The long, beautiful story. When we have time, InshaAllah, we can talk about that. I don't want to bust my time limit now. I don't want to bust my time limit now. Now, they reach Hudaybiyyah and you know the whole story. They were not allowed to go and so on and so forth. Then Suhail bin Amr comes and they are writing. Now, he's proposed this very humiliating and very one-sided and very unfair agreement. And to everyone's great surprise and horror, Rasool Allah is agreeing to all of that. Including, for example, the title of it. Baina al-Khuraish wa baina Rasool Allah. La la la la la la. Ma huwa Rasool Allah? Baina al-Khuraish wa baina Muhammad bin Abdillah. We know Muhammad bin Abdillah. We do not know who is Rasool Allah. If we believe you are Rasool Allah, then there is no dispute. We don't believe you are Rasool Allah. We believe you are Rasool Allah. He says to Sayyidina Ali, write it. He says, this is against my Iman. How can I write this? All this is happening. Sayyidina Ali wrote this. In psychology, we say, it is the voice of the unconscious, which is the one person speaks. But when that one person speaks, don't imagine it's only one person. That person is vocalizing what's in the hearts of all the people. Right? Sayyidina Muhammad bin Khattab comes, he says, Ya Rasool Allah, are you not the Rasool of Allah? Yes, I am the Rasool of Allah. Are we not on the Haqq and these people are wrong? Yes, we are on the Haqq, they are wrong. Then why are you agreeing to this? He says, I do what my Rabbis told me to do. He goes and says, Ya Babakar, is he not the Messenger of Allah? Yes, he is the Rasool of Allah. Are we not right and they are wrong? Yes, we are right, they are wrong. Why is he doing that? Abou Qadr Siddique says, stop talking. Stop arguing. Hold on to his stirrup. His Rabb will not abandon him. Many years later, Abou Qadr Siddique finished. He passed away. Sayyidina Omar's Khalifa few years have passed. He's walking in the street. Some people are sitting and talking. Some people are saying, you know, SubhanAllah, we have this Khalifa, Omar ibn al-Khattab, he is the best. He is much better than Abu Bakr. He stops. He says, what did you say? They said, we were praising you, Ameerul Muminin. We are saying we are so happy with your Hukum and so forth. And we are saying you are even better than Abu Bakr. He said, don't you dare say that. He said, Allah is my witness. My life and the life of all my family is sacrificed on one day and one night. He said, the night in the life of Abu Bakr. They said, which day and which night? He said, the night in the Ghara and the day of Hudaybiyyah. He said, everything, all my deeds and all the deeds of my whole family are sacrificed on Abu Bakr's one day and one night. You compare me with Abu Bakr? He said, there is no comparison. Allah brings about Hudaybiyyah. He says, you are a test for the Nabi himself. Because here is the Nabi. His word is the word of Allah . He is promising them you will make Umrah. But when they go there, they cannot make Umrah. So, himself, imagine. It's almost like saying, Ya Allah, you are letting me down. If it was in your Qadr that you are not going to make Umrah, why did you bring us here? He could have said all this. He did not say anything. He just said, you are a test for the Nabi. He said, you are a test for the Nabi. He is the test of the Nabi. He is the test of the Nabi. He is the test of the Nabi. On top of that, he is signing this very humiliating treaty. Test for the Nabi himself, Ali . Test for the Sahaba. Test of Aqidah on the Nabi.