Life of Prophet Muhammad | 3 | Prophethood & the Israa & Miraaj (edited & with Arabic subtitles)

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Hussain Makke
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In this session we discuss the beginning of the prophetic mission and the controversy surrounding the first revelation in Ghaar Hiraa. We also look into the issue of whether the Prophet was illiterate or not. In the second half of the session, we discuss the most important journey of the Prophet's life, the night journey to Palestine and his ascension into the heavens.

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[0:00]one man we have began the third chapter of our series on

[0:56]the life of prophet muhammed here we will be speaking about a

[1:02]great day in the history of islam the day of mabath the

[1:05]day in which prophet muhammad received the revelation at 40 years old

[1:10]this is actually a very controversial topic because there are so many

[1:15]differing opinions when it comes to this day and all the discussions

[1:19]that come out of it for example did the prophet really know

[1:24]that he was a prophet otherwise what was he going into the

[1:27]cave of hera for um what was his reaction once he received

[1:33]the revelation how did he receive the revelation what did the people

[1:38]say could he read or could he not read this will be

[1:41]the main discussion for this chapter as well as the day of

[1:46]maharaja or rather the night of maharaja in which prophet muhammad visited

[1:51]the heavens and was in the presence of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala so

[1:56]as we mentioned rasulullah had known he was a prophet and the

[2:00]imam ali islam tells us that he was guarded by an angel

[2:06]that would teach him and protect him throughout his youth after his

[2:11]marriage to sir khadija by a couple of years when he was

[2:16]40 years old after it was a habit for him of going

[2:20]into her going to contemplate and going to meditate in solitude when

[2:26]it comes to certain mainstream narratives that many of us may have

[2:30]encountered in our lives most notably on the bbc documentary when it

[2:37]narrates the story of prophet muhammad it goes by a certain narration

[2:40]that if we look to the chronology of events and we combine

[2:44]different parts of the life of the prophet together we realize it

[2:50]cannot be true and the mainstream narrative of the way in which

[2:55]prophet muhammad receives the revelation is that on the 27th of rajab

[3:00]as he was in on his own the angel gabriel descends upon

[3:10]him and he hears the word and the prophet does not know

[3:15]what's happening does not know where the voice is coming from and

[3:18]this is the narration that most of us i'm sure are acquainted

[3:24]with ikra and he says i can't read he says his i

[3:29]can't read until gabriel squeezes him and even in some reports strikes

[3:34]him and here prophet muhammad feels that he is going crazy that

[3:39]he may be delirious he was going to jump off the cliff

[3:44]at the time for allah to commit suicide he panics he doesn't

[3:47]know what's happening and where the voice is coming from and it's

[3:51]too heavy on him and he runs down from the mountain and

[3:53]he runs to his wife khadijah and he tells her what happened

[3:57]and say the khadijah tells him you're a prophet she knows and

[4:02]he doesn't know and she takes him to her cousin who also

[4:06]reaffirms and tells him you're a prophet so even her cousin knows

[4:11]and he doesn't know and it seems like everyone knows that rasulullah

[4:15]is a prophet except rasulullah well of course we stated that prophet

[4:21]muhammad had known that he was a prophet from the very beginning

[4:24]and he was simply awaiting for his command when he would go

[4:30]up to harahara he was waiting for the revelation he was awaiting

[4:34]the word of god and he was awaiting his mission to begin

[4:37]and indeed it began on that day on the 27th of rajab

[4:41]when he was alone in the gabriel finally descended upon him and

[4:48]told him to begin his mission but did not tell him it

[4:54]because the first words of the quran were not revealed in rajab

[4:58]rajab is the day of mabath the day of the baatha the

[5:03]day of the mission begins but the quran was not revealed on

[5:08]this day and i'll get to that point later on so prophet

[5:10]muhammad now begins his official mission our report tell us that he

[5:16]exits the cave and he comes down from the mountain and the

[5:20]trees and the plants and the rocks and the stones they begin

[5:24]to whisper and speak to him of course in the language of

[5:28]the unseen saying assalamu alaikum and he comes down and islam tells

[5:34]us that the prophet was mustafa he was smiling he was calm

[5:39]and happy he was waiting for this moment there was no panic

[5:44]there was no aus willa a feeling of suicide or jumping off

[5:48]a cliff or not knowing what's happening especially you know an angel

[5:51]going to strike him he comes down and imam ali alayhi salaam

[5:58]who had already known about the mission of the prophet muhammad according

[6:04]to many narrations that he had spoken to him about this the

[6:08]prophet speaks to say the khadijah and he speaks to imam ali

[6:12]salam and they are the first to enter into the fold of

[6:17]islam in its official official standing and then began what was known

[6:23]as the secret calling there was a secret calling to islam and

[6:29]there was a public calling to islam in the secret calling rasulullah

[6:35]only chose those who he completely trusted to tell them of islam

[6:40]for the public calling is when he spoke out against the idols

[6:44]and spoke out against quraysh publicly this is why for the first

[6:48]three years of the battle the first three years after the prophet

[6:52]began his mission the people of quraysh had no issue with the

[6:55]prophet there were rumors that perhaps he speaks to the skies or

[6:58]he thinks he does at least is there a way that we

[7:02]can benefit from this if there is there we can make financial

[7:06]gain from this that's what the people of quraysh would think in

[7:08]mecca at the time there was no problem they had no problem

[7:12]with muhammad at that time in fact there are reports that tell

[7:16]us a man a businessman who later on had become a muslim

[7:18]he tells us that he had once visited mecca in one of

[7:22]these years of the secret calling and he was with the uncle

[7:27]of the prophet abbas and he saw a man come next to

[7:33]the kaaba with a young boy and the woman to his side

[7:36]and he was looking into the sky and his eyes were twinkling

[7:40]he waited for a certain time and then he raised his hands

[7:45]up to his ears and he began to say words and whisper

[7:50]words and recite and likewise the young boy would and the woman

[7:53]behind them would too and then they would bow down but they

[7:57]weren't facing the kaaba of course we know that at that time

[8:00]the the qibla was in palestine and he says he asked abbas

[8:06]who are these people who are these three people and he says

[8:09]this is my nephew muhammad and this is my nephew ali and

[8:16]that woman is muhammad's wife and he says that he is upon

[8:22]a religion and there is no other than these three upon this

[8:24]religion it seems the prophet had spoken to abbas at the time

[8:28]but it was still part of the secret calling now at best

[8:33]did not become a muslim early but what this business man says

[8:37]is i wish i had joined him in prayer on that day

[8:39]no what was happening and i would have been the fourth to

[8:42]enter into the fold of islam so this secret calling lasted for

[8:47]three years and this secret calling did not have revelation during its

[8:54]time period the revelation was revealed for the public calling just prior

[9:00]to it as we mentioned on the 27th of rajab the day

[9:05]of the mabath there was no word that came down by the

[9:10]context of reed of ikra because as we know the quran came

[9:17]down in shah ramadan shahrukh ramadan quran that the quran came down

[9:28]first of all in the holy month of shah ramadan so it

[9:31]could not have come down on the day of mabath which again

[9:35]goes against that mainstream narrative and the way in which the prophet

[9:39]muhammad received the revelation of the quran he would receive it in

[9:43]two ways there's no problem in saying that he receives it in

[9:46]these two ways usually scholars differ on these two ways in which

[9:50]she receives it but we say a combination of both that he

[9:53]would receive the quran at times in stages through gabriel that he

[9:59]would res he would recite it to him in stages he would

[10:02]receive the revelation in stages and another way is when he received

[10:09]the entire truth the hakika of the quran into his heart there

[10:13]were times that there was no intermediary when he received it at

[10:16]stages so in stages he receives the quran as words as the

[10:23]words we know in the book that we carry the words that

[10:25]we recite the quran that we know and as a truth it

[10:30]came down into his heart in one goal it came down on

[10:33]le little qatar in that way likewise on leila in three years

[10:41]after the battle three years later is when ibrahil came down and

[10:47]told rasulullah to ikra it happened after the time of the secret

[10:53]calling had been completed or almost had been just completed now if

[10:59]we look to the quran and we realize as you mentioned that

[11:05]the first chapter of course is iqra afterwards the second chapter agreed

[11:09]upon by all muslim scholars is either muddaster or sword and in

[11:18]both chapters in the beginning of both chapters there is talk from

[11:22]the people of quraish against rasulullah he has now made enemies in

[11:29]this in these chapters they detail the events that occur where a

[11:32]man by the name of waleed what he would do is he

[11:36]would tell the people in mecca to stand around the different parts

[11:41]of the town so that whoever was coming into the town wanting

[11:43]to listen to the word of the prophet they would say to

[11:47]those people put your fingers in your ears do not listen to

[11:51]this magician do not listen to this poet and this trickster this

[11:55]man by the name of waleed ibn mohirah the quran itself speaks

[11:58]about him and he realizes and he turns away and in the

[12:03]ayat of these chapters they speak about these events of walid as

[12:09]well as the negotiations that took place between the people of quraish

[12:12]and the prophet when they realized that he was causing a problem

[12:16]for their finances now if he was to come up and speak

[12:18]against their idols and so they would negotiate and they would say

[12:22]one year we worship your god in one year we worship our

[12:26]god of course this could not have happened in the time of

[12:30]the secret calling so these two chapters could not have been revealed

[12:32]for the first three years and again this aids the idea that

[12:37]the day of mabath there was no quran revealed to the prophet

[12:44]muhammad it was only three years later that the quran was revealed

[12:46]and these ayats were revealed firstly in secret and then when surat

[12:52]al-tuha was revealed to the prophet and allah subhanahu tahala tells rasulallah

[13:00]this is when he's telling him to speak of the bounties of

[13:06]your lord this was when it was ordered to rasulullah to begin

[13:10]the public calling and so he goes out into the town and

[13:13]he calls the people and he begins to speak about the religion

[13:18]of islam publicly now now publicly denouncing the idols and publicly inviting

[13:22]the people and now there was a bull's-eye on his head by

[13:27]the people of quraish as someone who had betrayed them and betrayed

[13:31]the religion of their forefathers and a danger to their economy and

[13:36]their reputation and they did not accept what he would say about

[13:40]heaven and hell and one god who was immaterial who you could

[13:44]not see but who created the entire universe of course this is

[13:49]when abu lahab his uncle began swearing at the prophet and creating

[13:54]a movement against the prophet and this is when the mission officially

[13:59]began in his public form now one controversial discussion that we must

[14:05]attempt to tackle is the question was the prophet muhammad illiterate because

[14:12]many times we are told that he was illiterate and that this

[14:15]is part of his miracle in that how could someone illiterate in

[14:19]the middle of the desert in the middle of arabia 1 400

[14:23]years ago bring forward something of the quran and in its magnitude

[14:28]and content and style now if you were to speak to any

[14:34]arab arabian poet even modern arabian poets who have some knowledge of

[14:38]the poetry of jahiliyyah they would tell you of the miracle of

[14:43]the quran and the language of the quran many of us are

[14:45]not acquainted to it and it wouldn't need the prophet being illiterate

[14:50]or not illiterate but in any case if we are to consider

[14:55]that prophet muhammad had the keys to the unseen and we are

[14:58]to consider that this quran revealed the word of allah subhana wa

[15:02]ta'ala and we are to consider that the prophet muhammad is the

[15:07]most perfect of all of god's creations and that even his inheritance

[15:11]is the imams the akhil bait we believe that they can speak

[15:15]several different languages if we see that someone like nabi suleiman could

[15:20]speak to the animals and someone like nabi musa could speak to

[15:26]allah directly for us to think that prophet muhammad could not read

[15:33]i would say as many scholars would also say that we are

[15:38]looking at a lacking attribute in the prophet and so we are

[15:43]insinuating that he lacks some sort of perfection now this is not

[15:46]a debate between sunnis and shias because there are several shia scholars

[15:50]who believe that the prophet was illiterate and with all due respect

[15:55]to that opinion there are several other historians and scholars who believe

[15:59]that this is impossible now what we want to do is we

[16:04]will provide the evidence and the conclusion as to why prophet muhammad

[16:07]could not have been illiterate for at least his entire life first

[16:13]of all people go by the slogan and that these phrases are

[16:21]scattered throughout the sacred texts that the prophet who is illiterate however

[16:25]if we look at what omi actually meant in that time the

[16:31]jews were people who had a book and they were all over

[16:36]arabia they were known as kitab whereas the arabs had no book

[16:40]and no prophet and so they were known as people who did

[16:42]not have a book they were not from abu kitab and so

[16:46]the jews called the arabs of the time al-ummiyun and you see

[16:56]how imam sajad alayhi salam refers to the prophet um allah he

[17:05]is mentioning different ethnicities the arab the from the tribe quraish so

[17:10]umi mentions it in the siak in the context of it being

[17:16]an ethnicity above anything else not necessarily meaning that he is illiterate

[17:21]or that all the arabs were illiterate because the arabs many of

[17:24]them could indeed read now if we look towards the narrations there

[17:28]are several narrations that point to the literacy of the prophet muhammad

[17:34]least of all in on the day of hudaibiyah which we'll speak

[17:37]about inshallah in a few chapters when the prophet muhammad himself rubs

[17:40]out his own name or just before he passes away and he

[17:44]tells his companions to give me something by which i may write

[17:48]so you may never go astray after me if he can't read

[17:52]how can he write if he can't read how would he know

[17:56]where his name is and rub it out himself likewise rasulullah was

[17:59]known to have released a prisoner by the condition of him going

[18:04]and teaching 10 people how to read and write how could he

[18:09]value something like literacy so much that he would release prisoners because

[18:12]of it through it yet he himself would not read or would

[18:18]not even exert any effort into learning how to read so we

[18:21]have several narrations alluding to this truth there is one narration in

[18:27]which prophet muhammad is sitting down by the sand and he is

[18:29]crying and he is reciting inna anzal as companions come and say

[18:35]ya rasulallah why are you crying why are you crying so profusely

[18:40]and the prophet says i'm crying because of what my heart and

[18:43]my eyes are seeing right now and they say what is it

[18:50]seeing and so he brings a stick and he begins to write

[18:54]into the sand tennessee in which the angels are descending and he's

[19:08]writing that down into the sand if he couldn't read how could

[19:13]he write in this end and these are all separate narrations so

[19:15]when we look at the life of the prophet and we want

[19:20]to say that he is illiterate the most one can say if

[19:23]he wants to believe that the prophet was illiterate is that the

[19:29]prophet was illiterate up until at least he received the revelation of

[19:35]the quran because when how can the prophet say i can't read

[19:40]either allah has to make him read in that time so that

[19:46]it can be a fair and just order from allah otherwise allah

[19:51]would be asking him to do something that he cannot do as

[19:54]if he was asking me to fly fly and i say i

[19:58]cannot fly and allah orders me to fly of course allah would

[20:00]never order me to fly because i can't fly unless allah gives

[20:03]me the power to fly and i can fly so if allah

[20:07]granted him the power to read at that moment that remains to

[20:11]be seen and it very well could be but it would be

[20:16]unjust for rasulallah to be demanded to read when he could not

[20:19]even read unless allah gave him that gift at that moment or

[20:24]he could from the very beginning read anyway there's no problem in

[20:28]combining them but the most one could say is that he was

[20:32]illiterate up to the time of the revelation but even that may

[20:36]insinuate some knocks some weakness some lacking in his attributes that many

[20:43]would not accept now not long after the batter or the revealing

[20:51]of the quran another great event occurred in the life of the

[20:55]prophet and this is debated in terms of the time and context

[20:59]some believe it was five years after the baather some believe it

[21:04]was eight years after the battle we are by our timeline going

[21:10]to agree with those who believe that chronologically it was when the

[21:13]prophet was 45 years old so it was five years after the

[21:18]batha and this event was the event of israel an event that

[21:25]many muslims until today have a very difficult time grasping because of

[21:32]the world of modernity and the reign of science it is difficult

[21:36]for us to imagine that prophet muhammad went on the journey of

[21:41]israel maharaja a spiritual journey and encountered the heavens and the prophets

[21:47]and even was in the presence of allah yet the quran speaks

[21:54]to us and tells us that if one is indeed a muslim

[21:59]then they have to believe in at least the israe which is

[22:05]the beginning of the journey and this happens around five years after

[22:09]the battle when the prophet is 45 years old and the ayah

[22:16]in the quran allah says glorified be he who went took his

[22:34]servant his slave abd not not the soul of his servant but

[22:41]his servant which is a body and soul movement in the night

[22:49]time from masjid al-haram in mecca to masjid al-aqsa in palestine of

[22:53]course there are differing opinions about it being a completely physical journey

[22:57]or a completely spiritual journey or a physical and spiritual journey what

[23:04]we are claiming is that at least the israe which was the

[23:09]movement of rasulallah in his physical body from mecca to palestine was

[23:15]a physical journey and this is mentioned in the quran however the

[23:21]maharaja is not but the maharaja is known as the completion of

[23:27]what happened after the israel and it occurs whilst the prophet was

[23:32]in palestine after he goes there and he goes through this at

[23:36]the very least spiritual journey however some scholars even believe that this

[23:41]itself was also a physical journey pacing through the laws of physics

[23:48]now if someone is to find a difficult time grasping at least

[23:54]the israel let's leave the maharaja aside for a moment but at

[23:56]least the israel how could he a man randomly in the middle

[24:01]of the night in mecca move to palestine without any modern day

[24:08]technology and this just goes to show the thinking of one who

[24:13]is completely overtaken and has his mind conquered by the world of

[24:16]technology that now we have planes so it makes sense but one

[24:21]thousand four hundred years ago we didn't have a plane so it

[24:23]doesn't make sense yet allah is he was powerful over all things

[24:27]and all things happened through him now if we look even just

[24:33]at the earth itself and the way in which it rotates 1000

[24:36]miles per hour and orbits around the sun 66 000 miles per

[24:41]hour all this movement that we don't feel whilst we are protected

[24:44]yet when we are in a car moving at 100 miles per

[24:47]hour in our own cars we feel unsettled yet on the earth

[24:51]we do not feel it because of we are protected by the

[24:55]layers surrounding the earth this is why there was a miracle creature

[25:01]that was sent to the prophet by the name of al-buraq it

[25:07]is a winged horse it is the way in which he traveled

[25:12]by and if you notice the great prophets of allah subhana tahalla

[25:15]each have a merkab a means of travel the way in which

[25:18]ibrahim travels through the fire and it becomes cold for him the

[25:23]way in which moses travels through his stick which becomes a snake

[25:27]the way in which noah travels through his ship the way in

[25:33]which eunus travels through his whale rasulallah traveled through the burak this

[25:39]winged horse physically from mecca to palestine and as a report that

[25:45]even abu talib realized the prophet was missing from mecca on that

[25:51]night and he ran out and he believed that the quraish may

[25:53]have taken him may have kidnapped him and so he had warned

[25:57]them and threatened them to return him or that he was going

[26:00]to attack them and wouldn't allow them to see the mourning if

[26:03]it was simply a spiritual journey why would abu talib want to

[26:07]threaten the people of croatia in this way thinking that they had

[26:09]kidnapped his nephew it was a physical journey from mecca to palestine

[26:17]in which the barak took rasulallah to where moses had spoken to

[26:27]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he took him to bethlehem the birthplace

[26:33]of sunnah and it was almost like a pilgrimage for the prophet

[26:36]going through the footsteps of his predecessors before leading prayer and the

[26:44]maharaja beginning and the beginning of the maharaja he begins to hear

[26:48]the words recited by eve to him of the adhan and this

[26:54]is when the adam was first taught to rasulullah on the maharaja

[26:58]and so after he is now physically in palestine the maharaja begins

[27:03]and rasulullah enters into a completely different dimension and here he begins

[27:11]to travel through different skies and different heavens meeting different states and

[27:18]prophets jibril is guiding him through this journey and rasulullah now is

[27:21]seeing the unseen world he sees the gate keeper of hell and

[27:27]he asks about him and his hideous face and all the angels

[27:32]around him wary of him he sees a figure sitting down on

[27:39]his own with his shoulders drawn forward and his head bent looking

[27:47]sad with a board in his hand not looking left and right

[27:52]and this creature is described as being melting in what he is

[28:01]doing in taking the souls so the prophet muhammad asks ibrahim who

[28:10]is this ibrahim says this is medical malt and so the prophet

[28:14]sees the angel of death and he walks towards the angel of

[28:17]death and he sends his greetings and the angel of death he

[28:22]looks up from his board at rasulullah and greets him and the

[28:28]prophet asks the angel of death about what's happening about what he's

[28:32]seeing about what he's doing and the angel of death says all

[28:40]day all dunya all of the world in the universe is like

[28:42]my hand a coin in the hand of a man i see

[28:47]it in all its sides and i see all the people and

[28:52]i see them the way they which they live their lives and

[28:56]i visit each house five times a day and i constantly take

[29:01]from these people their souls and i notice the people surrounding them

[29:05]how they cry and how they grieve and i tell them don't

[29:11]cry because each and every single one of you will meet me

[29:16]eventually and i keep coming back to visit them every single day

[29:23]here the angel of death points out the truth of this attachment

[29:30]we have to the physical world and there's a reason why this

[29:35]meeting especially was mentioned in the narration of maharaja because death is

[29:41]one of the focal points of the human being's life ironically in

[29:45]that the prophet has said the love of this world is the

[29:53]head of every wrong everything that we do there's a transgression against

[29:59]ourselves against others is from a love of this world the love

[30:02]and greed for money and for power and for fame and reputation

[30:07]and this growth of one's ego to the point that they are

[30:12]completely conquered by the illusion of the dunya however the cure for

[30:18]hubbard dunya is the krulmoth the cure for the love of this

[30:23]world is the remembrance of death because when one remembers their death

[30:28]and remembers that every single one of us is going to die

[30:31]and that every single one whom i think i am attached to

[30:35]right now is a limited being one day won't be in this

[30:40]world then why must i be attached to this person or attached

[30:42]to this dunya the reason why so many of us suffer when

[30:45]we die is because we are so attached to the physical world

[30:48]we know nothing of the spiritual and metaphysical world so as death

[30:53]approaches we are going into the complete and absolute unknown and we

[30:57]don't know what to expect and we fear that we are going

[31:01]to become extinct we are so attached to the physical world or

[31:03]a physical person that leaves us that we are completely conquered when

[31:07]they die or when we are about to die and we are

[31:10]not prepared whereas our religion came to us and prophet muhammad has

[31:14]told us to die before you die that this path was the

[31:21]path to allow us to be ready for this moment of death

[31:23]all these years is you becoming ready for the moment of death

[31:28]in that if you remember death and you realize you're going to

[31:32]end up in a small box underneath the ground and after all

[31:36]the tears are done they leave you and you remain there on

[31:41]your own and all of this reality is the reason why the

[31:45]angel of death is the way that he is in his stance

[31:50]and his perception of the universe and he sees how a person

[31:56]works his entire life in order to gather a sum of wealth

[32:00]only to die and leave it to his inheritance for it to

[32:04]be split and for his children to fight over the inheritance and

[32:07]for the worms to eat the body all of this comes from

[32:12]the remembrance of death that shows you the worthlessness of this dunya

[32:15]and to work for the afterlife but of course imam sajad al-islam

[32:21]comes and he says i run away from you in fear of

[32:28]you but who can i run that can protect me from you

[32:29]i run to my protector who is only you so i run

[32:34]away from you to you and as allah has promised us in

[32:38]the quran in allah those who have transgressed against their souls he's

[32:47]talking to those that maybe now as they hear these words and

[32:51]this remembrance of death feel fear he says do not fear if

[32:56]you have transgressed against your soul because allah subhanahu wa will forgive

[33:01]all sins do not feel despair do not feel that you must

[33:07]give up because of how far you've gone i will always take

[33:09]you back and so it's never too late for us to make

[33:13]amends before the angel of death visits us for the final time

[33:20]then takes rasulallah through the heavens heaven by heaven meeting the different

[33:25]prophets meeting yusuf meeting idris meeting nebiasa meeting musa meeting haroon until

[33:33]finally he meets nabi ibrahim alaihissalam his ancestor his great great grandfather

[33:38]and he sees the rivers of kauthar and he goes and bathes

[33:44]and does russul in it and jabra gives him a very special

[33:51]fruit and he tells him this is the fruit of paradise and

[33:53]you must eat from this fruit and you must spend the night

[33:58]with your wife khadijah and so rasulallah takes from the fruit and

[34:03]eats from the fruit then they reach a stage by which jibrael

[34:10]and his temperament begin to change as they start pacing through the

[34:18]veils ibrahil tells them ya rasulallah i can't go forward anymore the

[34:21]veils 500 veils 500 years between each veil and the light coming

[34:27]from the end is so powerful that jibreel closes his eyes and

[34:31]begins to cry he begins to cry and weep he tells rasulallah

[34:36]to go on without him he can't carry on so rasulullah bewildered

[34:41]by the reaction of ibrahim carries on on his own and as

[34:46]he travels through the veils the light becomes more and more powerful

[34:51]to him that he himself becomes so overtaken and overpowered by this

[34:57]light he closes his eyes but then he says my heart began

[34:59]to gaze upon the light until he reaches here there is nothing

[35:13]except rasulullah and allah subhanahu wa and of course this is not

[35:17]a physical gen and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not a physical

[35:22]being though he is in the presence of allah and he is

[35:26]melting in his presence [Music] and seeing with his heart and so

[35:33]he approaches and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes the state of rasulullah

[35:39]in this moment [Music] of he was so close so close then

[35:51]this closeness that he was even closer than two bows lengths at

[35:56]the distance of allah by two of those lengths or even closer

[36:01]than this that no one had ever been this close to allah

[36:05]subhanahu wa ta'ala this is the closest anyone has ever been and

[36:09]rasulallah is melting in the presence of allah and he begins to

[36:12]speak to him and asks him ya allah my lord rabbi you

[36:18]gave moses the gift to speak to you and you gave abraham

[36:22]the station of being your friend and what do you give me

[36:28]and allah here speaks directly to rasulallah and says i speak to

[36:32]you as i spoke to moses and i have taken you as

[36:36]a friend as i took abraham as a friend but what i

[36:40]am going to give you i have given to no prophet before

[36:42]you i have given you the fatiha and i have given you

[36:47]the end of this book this quran that no one has ever

[36:52]received and this greatest miracle and i have given you the earth

[36:55]and that your descendants will also lead off to you and then

[37:02]rasulullah sees 12 lights on the arch on the throne of allah

[37:07]and begins to ask about those lights and allah tells him of

[37:12]the lights and tells him of the twelfth light [Music] and that

[37:18]he would be the one to complete and finalize this mission and

[37:23]that he has made the name of the prophet join his own

[37:27]name is me your name and my name will always remain together

[37:40]and your name came from my name so that whenever i am

[37:45]glorified you are also glorified and whenever one wants to say the

[37:48]shahada they do not say my name without saying your name and

[37:51]so rasulallah begins to speak in the narration there's a very long

[37:56]narration by imam assad which tells us of this conversation until finally

[38:00]the prophet says he revealed things to me that i cannot say

[38:03]but then i return he returns to the dimension of the earth

[38:09]and rasulullah then takes the barak and returns back to mecca back

[38:14]into the house of his aunt before fajr and he sees her

[38:20]wake up for salat and he tells her my aunt last night

[38:24]i played maghrib asha with you and now i'm here before you

[38:29]but in between i travel to palestine and i traveled to the

[38:32]heavens and of course she was a muslim but she told him

[38:38]don't say this to the people no one will be able to

[38:41]believe this or accept this but of course rasulallah told the people

[38:43]what he had seen it was now time of the public calling

[38:47]and this was his miracle perhaps the greatest miracle of his life

[38:51]of course the people of quraish did not accept what rasulullah was

[38:55]saying and he even told them that he had seen a caravan

[39:00]that was a few days away from them in mecca and he

[39:04]described the caravan in all its details and even the colors of

[39:08]the camel until the people of quraish saw a few days later

[39:12]this caravan approach and that there was no way the prophet could

[39:16]have known about it approaching had he gone and come back in

[39:20]the same night yet people still disbelieved many muslims at the time

[39:24]left islam because they couldn't believe something like this however many muslims

[39:30]became stronger in faith and many came to the religion because of

[39:34]this great miracle on a final note nine months after is born

[39:50]from the fruit of paradise and it was why ibrahim gave him

[39:56]that fruit and that's why prophet muhammad whenever he missed paradise whenever

[40:01]he missed the scent that he had smelt on maharaja he used

[40:05]to go to fatima and smell her hair and kiss her hands

[40:09]because she herself came from paradise

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