Biography of the Prophet- Salman's Islam Part 2 - Hamam Nassereddine

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This is a lesson from a series of lessons conducted by Hamam Nassereddine @ Mahad Rasul in Imam Hussain Foundation. The lessons focus on main events that took place throughout the life of the holy Messenger of God, Mohammed. (peace be upon him and his family).

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[0:52]in our last lesson we mentioned the tradition by imam that mentioned

[1:00]that the period between the advent of isan is of 500 years

[1:14]half of that period during half of that period the proofs of

[1:22]god the people who were representing allah during that time were in

[1:27]reba they were in hiding the tradition mentioned that there was no

[1:32]prophet during those 250 years and that the scholar meaning the divine

[1:40]scholar the scholar appointed by god the infallible scholar uh were what

[1:46]weren't vahreen they were not apparent so they were what they were

[1:50]in occultation in hiding and we mentioned that based on that tradition

[1:59]salman would travel from one place to another and would go from

[2:09]one scholar to another in search of what in search of the

[2:14]truth and in search of rasulallah muhammad then we read a tradition

[2:23]we began with the with the lengthy tradition regarding salman's islam which

[2:28]is found in the book we mentioned that on a day of

[2:40]on a day in which his people were celebrating for some sort

[2:49]of reason um he was walking with his father and he heard

[2:55]someone call out from a monastery i testify that there is no

[2:59]god other than allah that isa is the spirit of allah meaning

[3:05]the special spirit created and chosen by allah and muhammad is allah's

[3:17]beloved when he heard he was attracted to him and as a

[3:37]result he would not enjoy his food or drink after that after

[3:44]that incident salman was thinking uh constantly about the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[3:50]such that he would not enjoy his meals he would not enjoy

[3:56]his drinks etc now the tradition mentioned that at a certain point

[4:03]his parents the parents of salman realized that he switched religions or

[4:10]to be more precise that he was not following their religion and

[4:15]so they chose to do what to place him in a well

[4:20]so that they may kind of put him under pressure and as

[4:27]a result of that pressure he may return to their religion or

[4:33]may admit that he believes in their religion and he stayed in

[4:40]the well for some time finally he supplicated asking allah to um

[4:47]relieve him from what he was going through to to to help

[4:53]him and pull him out of that predicament so a man came

[4:58]to him and he helped him out of the well then he

[5:01]was uh he went to a monastery and over there he found

[5:08]a monk he found a monk he served that monk for a

[5:18]few years and then finally it was time for the monk to

[5:23]leave this world so when that happened salman rahmatullah asked him he

[5:30]said who will take care of me after you the monk of

[5:35]course believed in what salman believed it so they both shared the

[5:39]same belief the monk was he believed in allah he believed that

[5:47]isa salam was a prophet of god he wasn't the son of

[5:50]god and he believed this is where we stopped as i remember

[5:59]uh let me just recheck the tradition yes this is approximately where

[6:13]we stopped so we'll continue from there i sent you the uh

[6:17]the hadith or part of the hadith on the chat section it

[6:21]says so when the monk was about to die he told salman

[6:29]i am about to die for allah will take care of me

[6:37]after you he said he told them i do not know anyone

[6:48]who has the same belief meaning anyone who has my beliefs except

[6:53]for a monk in antakya antakya is a city in turkey he

[7:24]says when he died i washed his body i shrouded it and

[7:28]i buried him and then i took the tablet then i went

[7:37]to where to antakia so he traveled he traveled all for the

[7:43]sake of what for the sake of finding rasulallah the embodiment of

[7:50]truth and also preserving his faith he says when when he reached

[7:59]antarctica he he reached the monastery and then he began saying i

[8:12]testify that there is no god other than allah that isa is

[8:17]allah spirit which we explained previously we explained the meaning of this

[8:22]term previously at that point the monk who was inside the monastery

[8:39]looked at me from above so he was at a specific point

[8:44]that was higher than where salman was standing he told them are

[8:55]you rosba we said is the name of salman in persian that

[9:00]was his initial name here what do you understand you understand that

[9:04]the the monk was waiting was awaiting salman somehow he knew that

[9:12]he was going to meet this person he was going to meet

[9:17]salman so he was waiting for him i said yes for qala

[9:26]he told me come up so i went up and i went

[9:32]to him and i served him for two complete years he says

[9:40]he was about to die he told me i am about to

[9:44]die the same story happens here the same exact story thus i

[9:55]said at that point who will take care of me after you

[10:02]it he told him i do not know anyone who holds the

[10:13]same beliefs who holds the same beliefs meaning he believes in what

[10:18]i believe in except for a monk in escandaria which is alexandria

[10:25]a city in egypt and give him this tablet so again the

[10:45]monk that was on the brink of death gives a tablet to

[10:49]to salman so he excuse me so we can give it to

[10:53]the next monk when he passed away i washed him shrouded him

[11:04]and buried him and i took the tablet and i went to

[11:11]the monastery so here salman crosses thousands of kilometers again in search

[11:21]of rasulallah in order to preserve his faith this is how salman

[11:27]teaches us to sacrifice for our faith to sacrifice and to exert

[11:37]all effort in searching for the truth and maintaining our belief in

[11:42]the truth when he got to the monastery he says i began

[11:51]saying i testified that there is no god other than allah and

[11:55]that is allah spirit and that muhammad is allah's beloved here the

[12:01]monk in the monastery looked at me from above and he told

[12:08]me antaros or you rosba so i said yes he said come

[12:15]up so i went up i went to him and i served

[12:19]him for two complete years when he was about to die he

[12:31]said the same thing when the monk was about to die he

[12:38]told salman i am about to die for i told him who

[12:42]will take care of me after you this is what salman let

[12:48]me send you the um next segment from the tradition uh my

[13:12]son were talking about salman al-muhammad salman al-pharisi and the journey he

[13:18]went through in order to find the prophet what did the monks

[13:27]say this time surprisingly he told him i do not know anyone

[13:37]who holds the same belief who believes in what i believe in

[13:45]so he didn't tell him that there is a monk somewhere else

[13:50]go to that monk he has the same belief no he told

[13:54]him i don't know anyone in this world who has the same

[13:57]belief here a question comes to mind and that is well there

[14:04]were people who had the same belief at that time like like

[14:13]assad [Music] these pure people from vanu hashem or who were related

[14:24]to banu hashem they had such belief so how come he's saying

[14:35]the answer to this question is quite simple see he didn't say

[14:40]there is no one in this world who has my belief all

[14:45]he said is i don't know anyone who has my belief makes

[14:51]sense so him not knowing the presence of someone else who believes

[14:56]in the same beliefs doesn't mean that someone else does not exist

[15:00]also keep in mind that it seems he's not talking about the

[15:06]next proof of allah remember last week we said there's always the

[15:11]proof of god allah on earth the proof of allah is a

[15:18]human being who represents allah he's either a prophet or a successor

[15:23]of a prophet salawatullah obviously he's not talking about what he's not

[15:35]talking about the next proof of god or the proof of god

[15:42]who's living during his time because obviously that proof of god has

[15:46]the same belief the proofs of god do not hold contradicting beliefs

[15:52]they believe in the same thing they believe in the same god

[15:57]same prophets same successors they believe in the day of judgment etc

[16:02]but he tells him to follow it he says the prophet's birth

[16:33]is going to take place very soon very soon what's interesting here

[16:42]is that he refers to the prophet's grandfather as malik and we

[16:49]know the prophet's grandfather was called so why does he call muhammad

[16:58]possibly this is another title for abdullah or it could be a

[17:06]mistake done by the narrator not by the imam the imam is

[17:08]infallible rather by the narrator there was a mistake or by someone

[17:12]who wrote the tradition you know there was a typo possibly but

[17:18]again it could be a second title for abdul muttalib uh bear

[17:23]in mind before we continue that his name wasn't abdul muttalib that's

[17:30]his title it was a title given to him by people his

[17:35]name was why was he called abdul muttalib because his uncle al-muttalib

[17:44]his uncle al-muttalib took him with him to makkah when he took

[17:49]him with him to mecca people thought that was the slave of

[17:59]muttalib so they would call him what the slave of muttalib in

[18:03]reality his name was shaiba al-hamdu shallah means the white hair of

[18:12]praise that's the literal meaning of shaiba telham he was called shaibatal

[18:17]ham because when he was born he had one white hair on

[18:24]his head one white hair so he was given the name so

[18:33]here the monk tells salman that soon say when you meet him

[18:50]when you meet the prophet convey him my my salam and give

[18:56]him this tablet give him this tablet salman says when he passed

[19:12]away i washed his body i shrouded him i buried him and

[19:18]i took the tablet and left now salman was finally on his

[19:24]way to meet the prophet wasn't he on his way to meet

[19:30]him from the beginning yes he was but he had to go

[19:33]through what through several checkpoints before reaching rasulallah here we see a

[19:41]resemblance with what abu dhabi went through if you remember abu dhab

[19:44]had to go through also checkpoints before meeting the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[19:49]wasallam so this is uh this is a uh a point of

[19:55]resemblance between the two uh pertaining to the two stories the story

[20:00]of salman's islam and the story of abu dhabi's islamic was on

[20:20]he went on a journey he began a journey and he was

[20:25]on his way towards the prophet now he says he he met

[20:31]people and he wanted these people to be his companions during his

[20:35]travel so he told them he told them if you provide me

[20:44]with water and food i will provide you with service so in

[20:48]other words he's telling them how about we travel together and all

[20:54]serve you but you'll have to give me what food and water

[21:00]food and drinks he says when they wanted to eat they attacked

[21:17]a sheep a sheep and they began striking the sheep until they

[21:24]killed it realize they did not kill it by slaughtering it rather

[21:28]by doing what by striking it so they kept on striking the

[21:33]sheep until it died he says they used part of the the

[21:46]meat of the the sheep and turned it into kebab and they

[21:49]also you know um cooked other parts of the sheep and they

[21:55]were about to eat salman says i refrained from eating they told

[22:02]me he told them that i am a person who basically who

[22:14]worships allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in a monastery i'm a monk and we

[22:21]monks we people who worship god in monasteries we don't eat meat

[22:26]we don't eat meat here there are two possibilities pertaining to what

[22:37]salman is saying either he's saying that the monks at that time

[22:42]weren't allowed to eat meat or it was better for them to

[22:51]refrain from eating meat hence he did not want to eat or

[22:53]the second possibility is when he says we don't eat meat he's

[22:59]not referring to all kinds of meat rather he's referring to unlawful

[23:02]kinds of meat maita is unlawful right even in islam now remember

[23:14]recall how they killed the sheep they didn't slaughter it they kept

[23:21]on straight striking it until they did what until it died according

[23:26]to our shariah to our set of laws uh such an animal

[23:33]will be haram you can't eat its meat so possibly salman had

[23:39]the same hukum during his time he had the same ruling in

[23:42]his what in his sharia in his set of laws the set

[23:46]of laws of esa so possibly when he says they don't eat

[23:51]meat he's talking about the the unlawful meat not every type of

[24:01]meat he says at that point they hit me and they were

[24:09]about to kill me yeah subhanallah the man didn't do anything he

[24:14]just refrained from eating meat and they were about to kill him

[24:27]one of them said or some of them said don't kill him

[24:31]wait wait give him some time don't kill him wait until uh

[24:37]we bring [Music] our beverage what's the beverage that they're talking about

[24:43]they're talking about wine as you will hear wait until we bring

[24:50]our beverage for you will see that he will not drink he

[24:53]will not drink what we drink when they brought that specific beverage

[25:00]they told him drink fakultu salman says you told them i am

[25:12]uh a man a monk who worships allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in

[25:19]a monastery and we monks we do not drink wine at that

[25:31]point it says they attacked me and they wanted to kill me

[25:36]from this segment when he says that they offered him wine and

[25:42]he said i don't drink wine we monks don't drink wine we

[25:46]we understand that when they offered him meat and he said that

[25:55]he does not eat meat it's very likely he was referring to

[25:58]what to unlawful meat not to every single type of meat do

[26:17]not do not kill me and don't hit excuse me do not

[26:21]hit me for i will consider myself to be a slave of

[26:33]yours so here we see that was kind of forced into slavery

[26:39]he's not a slave he wasn't a slave he's a free man

[26:43]yet he had to consider himself to be a slave for one

[26:48]of them for the sake of i considered myself to be a

[27:10]slave for one of those people one of the companions of salman

[27:14]that individual who became salman's owner took him and sold him to

[27:22]a jewish man for 300 silver coins so now salman is owned

[27:27]by who by the jewish man but realized salman is not a

[27:34]slave he was enslaved he's not a slave he's a free man

[27:44]muhammad the jewish man asked salman about his story what happened with

[27:55]him and so salman told him that i haven't committed any sin

[27:59]i did not commit any sin or any injustice the only sin

[28:05]i committed to deserve this treatment is that i loved muhammad and

[28:11]his successor which is not a sin obviously it's a virtue but

[28:16]people considered it to be what a sin unfortunately he said that's

[28:21]my only sin that i love muhammad and his successor realize how

[28:29]he loved amir al-mu'min here the jewish man said let me send

[28:48]you the next part of the hadith the jewish man unfortunately was

[29:12]was a ruthless man that jewish man specifically was ruthless he hated

[29:18]the prophet as you shall hear hence he said now why would

[29:39]he hate salman salman hasn't done anything to him because salman admitted

[29:43]that he loves rasulallah because this man hated the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[29:50]wasallam he began hating salman you might ask why would he hate

[29:59]rasulallah sallallahu alaihi wasallam unfortunately there were certain jews in the past

[30:08]who had such behavior they would unfortunately you know um take a

[30:17]stance against the prophets of god salawatu and would even get to

[30:21]the point where they would kill the prophets of god and quran

[30:26]speaks about it clearly for example they killed yahya they killed zakaria

[30:32]they wanted to kill isa and they even claimed that they killed

[30:37]isa salaam allah but allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala decreed to save isa hence

[30:44]he was saved he was lifted to the sky and someone else

[30:48]who resembled isa was crucified as for isa he was saved from

[30:54]crucifixion and from being killed but the attempt was there the attempt

[31:00]was there now we're not saying all the jews are like that

[31:03]no that's not the case some of the jews were very pious

[31:10]and very religious they were mu'minin and they are they are our

[31:14]brothers in in islam because they believed in the prophets of their

[31:19]time and or the successors peace be upon them and they also

[31:24]believed in so on the day of judgment such jews will be

[31:29]what will be in in heaven you call them jews but in

[31:32]reality they are the muslims of their time they are the muslims

[31:37]of their time so they are our brothers in faith again they

[31:40]believed in the prophets of their time and the successors and or

[31:44]the successors i am saddam and they were righteous but unfortunately there

[31:55]were other types of jews who weren't too religious in fact they

[32:00]would you know um attack the prophets and even kill them so

[32:09]this jewish man here he says he took me out of his

[32:32]house and i saw that there was a lot of sand in

[32:35]front of the door of his house in front of the entrance

[32:39]of his house falcao by allah if you do not move all

[33:02]of this sand from here from this place to another place i

[33:28]began working lifting the sand during the whole night i was working

[33:35]lifting the sand taking it from one place to another taking it

[33:44]from the the the entrance of the house to another place until

[33:48]i was exhausted when i was exhausted and i was unable to

[33:51]work anymore i lifted my arm or my hand towards the sky

[34:03]and i said my lord you instill the love of muhammad and

[34:09]his successor in my heart hence i ask you allah for the

[34:21]sake of rasulallah and his successor for their sake hasten my salvation

[34:30]and relieve me from what i am going through and the wind

[34:47]basically carried all of the sand they carried it from wherever it

[34:53]was it carried the sand to the other place the place where

[35:01]the jewish man wanted the sand to be he says that morning

[35:11]he saw the jewish man saw that all of the sand had

[35:17]been transported or transferred to the other place uh he told him

[35:32]salman you are what you are a magician but i did not

[35:37]know that you are a magician hence i will pull you out

[35:43]of our village lest you destroy our village so he became somewhat

[35:51]scared from salman it seems from the tradition that there was a

[35:55]lot of sand just too much sand to be transferred from point

[36:02]a to point b in one night by only one person so

[36:07]when he saw this when the when the jewish man saw that

[36:10]it actually happened he accused salman of magic or salamiyah here the

[36:29]jewish man took salman and he sold him to a lady who

[36:34]was from a particular tribe he says she was salmia or salamiyah

[36:40]that lady surprisingly loved salman she when she met him she loved

[36:49]him and she had immense love for salman khan so she tells

[37:10]him this gordon is yours this garden is yours meaning that you

[37:15]are allowed to make use of it in however way you want

[37:20]she tells him eat from the crops or the vegetables or the

[37:26]fruits of this garden and you can you can give uh crops

[37:37]or vegetables or fruits or other things that grow in the garden

[37:42]to whomever you like you can also use its crops or whatever

[37:48]grows in it and give it to people as charity the choice

[37:53]is yours so here we realize that went through a state of

[38:01]ease after all of that difficulty he went through what through a

[38:08]state of ease such is this world at the end of the

[38:14]day every difficulty has what has an end every difficulty will end

[38:21]sooner or later you go through states of ease then states of

[38:26]difficulty then states of ease then cease of difficulty and that's how

[38:29]the world works until one passes away he says i remained in

[38:44]that garden for quite some time for an amount of time however

[38:48]one day when i was in the garden i saw seven individuals

[38:57]coming forth [Music] surprisingly there was a cloud shading these seven individuals

[39:09]there was a cloud that was shading them so there was a

[39:13]cloud following the seven individuals and shading them i think by now

[39:22]you know who was amongst those seven individuals he said i told

[39:38]myself i swear by allah all of these people aren't prophets as

[39:47]in not everyone amongst them is a prophet however there is a

[39:51]prophet amongst them the seven people aren't all prophets but one of

[39:55]them is a prophet salman says they came forth and they kept

[40:05]on marching until they entered the garden while rama the cloud was

[40:15]following them this was one of rasulullah's miracles a cloud would shade

[40:20]him and would follow him he says when they entered i saw

[40:41]that rasulallah was amongst them imam ali was amongst them were also

[40:48]amongst them who was adopted son was also amongst them and his

[40:56]brother and hamza imam ali's uncle the prophet's uncle they were also

[41:02]amongst the seven people realize salman is saying this he's saying the

[41:12]story to who to imam ali if you remember after rasulallah so

[41:21]at that point possibly salman didn't recognize that this person in front

[41:28]of me is rasulullah but later on he will definitely have that

[41:31]certainty that this is the prophet and then they began eating from

[41:52]what they began grabbing are basically dates that that are um in

[42:03]in bad shape that have bad quality so dates with poor quality

[42:08]uh dates that are uh dry and uh that draw that uh

[42:17]draw become dry before they actually ripen before they ripen so they

[42:24]began grabbing these uh dates what rasulullah the dates that we just

[42:46]spoke about that have poor quality and do not spoil any parts

[42:53]of the garden because this garden belongs to certain people and you're

[42:59]not allowed to you know spoil other people's wealth correct so it

[43:04]says do not spoil any parts of the garden give me just

[43:13]one second sorry here a question might come to mind and that

[43:57]is the tradition says that they began eating the dates with poor

[44:04]quality but it doesn't mention that they took permission to eat those

[44:09]dates so isn't someone supposed to take permission you know before uh

[44:18]using other people's wealth or other people's money or eating from their

[44:26]food if that's the case why doesn't why doesn't the tradition mention

[44:30]that you know rasulullah and his companions took permission to do whatever

[44:36]they did number one we say yes when you want to use

[44:39]other people's money or wealth or you want to eat their food

[44:43]you need their permission you need their permission however the tradition here

[44:49]possibly omitted that part as in we have several possibilities number one

[44:56]it's possible that the tradition didn't mention that the prophet and his

[45:05]companions sought permission to eat those dates although they didn't so the

[45:10]first possibility is rasulallah and his companions ask permission to eat those

[45:15]dates with poor quality permission was given to them but it was

[45:23]not mentioned this issue was not mentioned in the narration this happens

[45:26]sometimes where certain parts of the incident are omitted that's one possibility

[45:32]the second possibility is since the gordon was for the lady who

[45:42]owned salman and she gave salman authority over that gordon so she

[45:47]gave him the authority to do whatever he wants with the garden

[45:50]and rasulallah knew that salman was completely pleased with you know with

[46:00]him and his companions eating for the the the dates uh he

[46:05]did not take permission as in he did not take explicit permission

[46:10]from salman because he already knows salman permits him to eat the

[46:17]dates makes sense salman permits him to eat the dates so again

[46:21]the second possibility is because the lady gave salman authority over the

[46:27]garden she told him you can do whatever you want with it

[46:29]you can you know give its crops to other people you can

[46:37]give certain crops as charity to people etc you can eat from

[46:40]it because she said that knew that salman was completely pleased with

[46:48]him and his companions eating from the garden they ate without taking

[46:53]permission an example that clarifies this issue is you for example entering

[46:59]upon your friend your friend's house and you know that your friend

[47:06]allows you to for example uh to eat from his house he

[47:12]even allows you to go to the fridge open the fridge and

[47:14]take whatever you want out of the fridge and eat it so

[47:17]you do that without asking him for permission in this case are

[47:23]you doing anything haram no you're not because you already have permission

[47:29]you know your friend allows you to do that so your knowledge

[47:33]of his permission your knowledge that he gives you that he does

[47:39]give you permission is enough for you to go and eat from

[47:42]the food without uh taking explicit permission from your friend that's the

[47:52]second possibility a third possibility is the third possibility is um these

[48:02]dates called hashafin nechel are dates of poor quality dates with poor

[48:08]quality possibly at that time people wouldn't use these dates they would

[48:14]just throw them away because as i told you they're dry dates

[48:17]that become dry before they ripen so possibly people would not use

[48:23]them they just take them off of the palm trees and throw

[48:28]them for example um so here rasulallah and his companions would be

[48:36]basically eating something that people are going to throw in all cases

[48:43]people won't make use of these uh of of these dates hence

[48:50]there's already permission given to the prophet and to his companions to

[48:56]eat those dates there's what implicit permission if anything people might thank

[49:07]the prophet and his companions that they actually took these dates off

[49:11]uh the palm trees or out of the garden in short in

[49:23]short we know rasulullah is infallible and wouldn't do anything unlawful or

[49:30]improper he wouldn't do anything unlawful or improper hence whatever he does

[49:37]is what whatever he's he does is correct whatever he does uh

[49:46]corresponds perfectly or goes hand in hand perfectly with allah's laws in

[49:54]fact he is the musharrah meaning meaning he is the one who

[50:00]teaches us the laws of god subhana we learn the laws of

[50:04]god through what through his words and through his actions and through

[50:08]what he approves of so we are certain that the prophet did

[50:19]not do anything he was not supposed to do all right if

[50:32]that is clear we'll continue the tradition he says i entered upon

[50:51]my mistress meaning the lady who owned him and i told her

[50:55]my mistress um grant me a tray of humid dates are basically

[51:03]humid dates that are soft focaled she told me you can have

[51:10]six trees not just one tree six trays of humid dates he

[51:21]says so i came and i held a tray that had uh

[51:26]humid dates back i said to myself if there is a prophet

[51:45]amongst them that prophet will not will not consume any food that

[51:53]is given to him as a form of charity he will not

[52:03]make use of any money that is given to him as a

[52:06]form of charity however if food is given to him as a

[52:13]gift he'll consume it if money is given to him as a

[52:16]gift hadiya he'll take it and and such was rasulallah rasulullah wouldn't

[52:23]accept sadaqah he would not accept sadaqah because sadaqah meaning was unlawful

[52:30]on the prophet and banu hashem it's unlawful for a hashemite to

[52:37]use the zakat of a non-hashemite what we call but the prophet

[52:50]would accept what he would accept gifts if you give him a

[52:52]gift he'll accept it is there a difference yes there is there's

[52:58]a big difference between a gift and between zakat next week inshaallah

[53:05]if we're still alive we'll continue with this beautiful tradition we're almost

[53:08]finished with the tradition of salman once we finish it inshaallah we'll

[53:12]continue where we left off with the biography of rasulallah foreign

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