How Islam spread

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And what is next? Imam Zuhri, one of the great Muhadiths, and also one of the teachers of Imam Malik, he said that Islam spread the fastest after Fatah Makkah because for the first time, the non-Muslim was able to see the life of an ordinary Muslim up close. Let me repeat that. Imam Zuhri said that Islam spread the fastest after Fatah Makkah because for the first time, a non-Muslim was able to see the life of an ordinary Muslim up close. Now please notice, he did not say that Islam spread because for the first time, people were able to come and listen to these great Khudwas and these great Bayans, and they were able to see Rasulullah up close, or Abu Bakr al-Siddiq , or Umar ibn al-Khattab , and so on. No, no, no. Ordinary Muslim. Islam spread because of the non-Muslims. Islam spread because the person looked at the carpenter, and he looked at the barber, and he looked at the farmer, and he looked at the shepherd, and he looked at the ordinary person who he was dealing with on a daily basis, and the Islam that he saw, the Islam that he saw was so beautiful that... Please come, please come. The Islam he saw was so beautiful that people came to Islam. Islam was spread by the winning of hearts, not by the sword. Islam was not spread by the sword because what happens if you are successful in a battle? You live, the other one dies, right? Now how many people can make a dead body say, , nobody. Islam spread by the winning of hearts. How did it happen? Because the ordinary Muslims saw the life... Ordinary non-Muslims saw the life of an ordinary Muslim up close. They were able to go to their house. They were able to talk to them. They were able to see them. They dealt with them in business, and this converted them, converted their hearts. Now you might say, what relevance does that have to us here in Lake George? Tell me, why is it important? Why? Yeah. To make an example. To make an example. To make an example. To make an example. To make an example. To make an example. To make an example. To be a good example, right? Here, remember this, whether you like it or not, whether you think it is fair or not, people are going to look at you and they will say what? There goes a Muslim. They don't know who is Zuhair. How do they know who is Zuhair? There goes a Muslim. There goes a Muslim. Now that picture, that impression, they will carry away. They will know, they will carry away. They will not even check that with you. They will not even ask that with you. They are not going to come to you and say, you know what? I saw you behaving like this, but is this how your prophet used to behave? You think they would ask this question? No. As far as they are concerned, this is what a Muslim does. If it is good, alhamdulillah, mashallah, great people, man, look at this. What if it is bad? Same thing. Oh, this is what Muhammad taught them. This is what Muhammad taught them. So, we want to make sure that we give people the right impression about Islam. And that means no matter where you are. Point I'm making is that we must be very clear. You are in the hotel. They are looking at you. People are watching you. You go out of the hotel. How you park the car? What you do with the car? You go to the, now you're going to go to restaurant. You're going to be in the restaurant. You will order your food. You go upstairs. You should, you're going to sit and eat and so on. I'm not saying don't have fun. Right? Of course, have a, have a half week, came here to have fun. So we'll have fun. But when you have fun, make sure that that fun is responsible. Right? According to decorum, not screaming and shouting and yelling and disturbing people. None of that stuff. And as I told you, two jobs. What are the two jobs? What is the first job? Do the right thing. What's the next job? Help others to do the right thing. All right. You're talking about how people, their actions won their hearts to Islam. The many stories in the Sira. And that's why studying the Sira is very, very important. It's a beautiful story. The Sira of this man in the market of Banu Nadir, which was the market of Medina. It is Jewish guy. He comes to the market and he comes to one of the Muslims shops and he asked for something and he examines it and he says, okay, this is good. Can you, how much is it? Is it so much? So, okay, give me. Now, this salesman, the shopkeeper, the shop owner, he says to this man, I got a request for you. He said, what? He said, see that shop in the corner? Other end of the market. That shop? He said, yeah. He said, that guy has the same thing which I have for the same price. Right? Please buy it from there. Go there and buy it from him. This guy said, this is strange. I mean, I'm a customer. I come to your shop. You have the thing. Right? Why are you sending me somewhere else? He said, no, I'll tell you why. He said, because, he said, that guy in the corner, I have been seeing, I've been watching him. For the whole day today, he did not get any customers. So, now, in a little while, the market is, because it's shut in the evening. So, he said, now, in a little while, the market is going to close and he will go home hungry. I don't want that to happen. So, he has the same thing, same price. Just go buy it from him. You know. So, I said, okay. He goes there. He gets the thing. Then he comes back. By the time he comes back, this guy, the first one, he has some other customer. Because, see, if Allah wrote his rizq for him, he's got to get it. So, when somebody came, he didn't take it. So, Allah will send someone else. So, the second, there's somebody. He's transacting with him. He's talking to him. But he sees the man standing there. So, when he finishes the transaction, that customer is gone. He asked the man, what happened? You didn't get it? You didn't get the thing? He said, no, I got it. I got the thing. He said, then what? He said, but I want something from you. He said, what's that? He said, give me the thing which made you send me to that man. Give me the thing which made you send me to that man. What is that thing? Islam. Concern for a neighbor. This man said, the Jewish man says, that guy is from my tribe. He's a Banu Nadir Jew. You are a Muslim. You sent me to a Jewish man to buy because you are concerned that that Jewish man will go hungry. You don't want him to go hungry. So, what is in your heart? I say, there is no God but Allah. I say, there is no God but Allah. There is no God but Allah. There is no God but Allah. The second story. Same Medina market. The Banu, the shopkeepers, he had gone somewhere. So, as he is coming back to the market, one of the, he sees a man carrying a bolt of cloth and he knows that this cloth was from his shop. People recognize, you know, shopkeepers, they recognize their products and so on. So he stops the man. He says, where did you get this from? He says, Sanjay sir shop is okay. What did you pay? So he says, I paid so many dirham or dinar. He says, you paid too much. So man says, who are you? I mean, I got what I wanted. I'm happy with it. I've got to go. You are telling me I paid too much. He said, I am the man who owns the shop from which you bought this. I had gone somewhere for something. My son was there. He's a young boy. Maybe he didn't know the price. So he overcharged you. So please come with me. I will give you a refund or I will give you something of that value. So this guy said, you know, I appreciate your honesty. I don't have time. So I paid you some more money. Good for you. I'm going. He said, no, no, no. So no, it's not good for me. You come with me. It won't take long. I will give you a refund. Take the money and go. This is how they did business. This is how they did business because as said, and whatever Khattab Dharan used to say before. Before a man trades in the market of Medina, he must learn the usool of trade from the masjid. How is trade to be done? Final story. And then we can spend some time in Dhikr and today's Friday. So Dhruv Sharif and so on. And those of you have not read Shozul Qaf, read Qaf. Final story is from the life of Junaid Baghdadi Rahmatul Ali. One of the great people. He was a great man. He was a great man. He was a great man. He was a great man. He was a great man. He was a great man. He was one of the great sheikhs and scholars. Junaid Baghdadi Rahmatul Ali says, and this story focuses on, Junaid Baghdadi says, I learned the meaning of ikhlas. I learned the meaning of sincerity from a barber. Guy cutting my hair. He said, when I was a little boy, I used to go to the mandir. And my hair grew. So I had long hair. And my teacher said to me, tomorrow when you come, cut your hair. This kind of long hair is no good. Cut your hair and come. So Junaid Baghdadi says, I was very poor. I had no money. So I went to the barber shop, but I know I can't pay for this thing. So what shall I do? So he said, I was standing outside. The barber called me. He said, what happened? He says, I need a haircut. Will you cut my hair for the sake of Allah? I asked him, he said, will you cut my hair for the sake of Allah? So the barber, he said, he called me, made me sit down. He was, he was cutting somebody else's hair. He said, please wait five minutes. He made him sit down. He says, he kissed my head. And then he cut my hair. Story over? Little Junaid Baghdadi, though he was not Junaid Baghdadi in those days. He was a little kid going to school. He's very happy. He got his haircut. He was a little kid going to school. He was very happy. He got his haircut. He was a little kid going to school. He was a little kid going to school.