We Have Made You a Moderate Nation - Shaykh Hanif Mohammed - Muslim Group 2015

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[0:00]audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim bismillahi rahmani rahim alhamdu lillahi rabbil alameen

[0:07]what's a lot of assalaam o allah sayyidina wallah demon our Habiba

[0:13]can open our shafi on a full sinner I bill car see

[0:20]me Mohammed a la nube de touhina toe arena Massimino saw the

[0:26]king I'm about them if I can have one favor someone could

[0:32]just turn the microphone down just a little bit because I don't

[0:35]want to scare anyone I get a little loud and excited when

[0:41]we're talking about our Prophet Muhammad Saleh wats a las vanuatu Allah

[0:50]says in the glorious quran bismillahir rahmanir raheem la cara con and

[0:57]the confit Rasool Allah he and sweatin sana sana colossal Galilee lavigne

[1:02]certainly in Rasulullah you have the most excellent of examples I was

[1:10]asked to speak about we have made you a moderate nation and

[1:17]before I begin I want to give you the synopsis that I

[1:22]was giving so that it will give a nice understanding of what

[1:24]it is and why it is that I'm going to approach the

[1:27]subject in the way that I'm going to approach it the synopsis

[1:32]that I was given was we have made you a moderate nation

[1:36]so that you will be witnesses over the people and the messenger

[1:44]will be a witness over you our faith is steeped in a

[1:47]long tradition of seeking balance and moderation in all aspects of life

[1:50]this lecture is intended to explore the qualities of balance and moderation

[1:54]as they are found in the person of the blessin jur and

[2:00]how those lessons can be applied in modern times the religion of

[2:05]Islam is a religion of moderation and what is meant by moderation

[2:14]is that we have a balance between excessiveness and negligence this also

[2:19]includes the fact that as Muslims we are prohibited from going to

[2:24]extremes we must prohibit aggressions oppression extravagance or harshness in this instance

[2:34]when we are talking about moderation we're actually going to discuss the

[2:40]treats of rasulullah sallallahu alayhi whining or something our prophet was and

[2:52]is the most balanced and moderate individual that has ever walked the

[2:59]face of this earth now I love the fact of how it

[3:05]is they put this verse in that we have made you a

[3:08]middling or moderate nation the question becomes why was this verse revealed

[3:15]what's the backdrop of this verse I can give you what I

[3:21]feel that I should give you about us being a moderate nation

[3:26]but when we understand why this verse was actually revealed to Rasulullah

[3:30]then we get an understanding the widest we are middle a nation

[3:34]this verse was revealed after allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala had changed the qibla

[3:42]our direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca when this occurred this

[3:48]was a happy time for our prophet but to have the prophet

[3:56]face towards Jerusalem was a test for our profit in this test

[4:00]lasted for over 13 years while the Prophet was in Mecca those

[4:05]who follow the Prophet they said ok profit you told us to

[4:10]turn towards the ruling them to pray there's no problem for us

[4:13]in doing it but when the Prophet made his Hydra to medina

[4:20]to a place where you had a very large Jewish population it

[4:24]became problematic for the Muslims why did he become problematic for the

[4:29]Muslims it became problematic because the Jews began to ridicule our prophet

[4:33]and him turning towards dead Kibler to pray they began to say

[4:41]to our prophet that what you're bringing is something false because you

[4:47]don't have your own direction the believers who are around at this

[4:51]time they also heard the Jews saying these things about our prophet

[4:56]and the faith of our prophet our prophet was steadfast he didn't

[5:02]worry about what the Jews were saying but the Quran says he

[5:08]would frequently look into the sky he would look towards a loss

[5:11]of hano otago why because the commentators of this verse that says

[5:15]know that our prophet always knew that the directions for prayer for

[5:22]the Muslims would be towards Mecca and not Jerusalem but he had

[5:26]to have patience until the loss of Hannah wat Allah allow this

[5:30]change to occur after this 13 years our prophet could have done

[5:41]a multitude of things our prophet could have become upset and began

[5:44]a war with the Jews because he didn't like what they said

[5:47]this would be extreme and it would be wrong our prophet could

[5:55]have stopped praying all together or he could have accepted the religion

[5:58]of the Jews because they said that it was right this would

[6:01]have been negligent our prophet took the middle role in this situation

[6:05]he continued to believe in Allah subhana Allah and go the cost

[6:11]at a loss vanuatu Allah had already set for him and because

[6:14]of this and he showed us how it was that we were

[6:19]supposed to deal with adversity he was on the middle road and

[6:22]if we follow his example we too will be in or on

[6:29]the middle road our prophet show the individuals how to do this

[6:39]they were watching but other people were also watching because our prophet

[6:45]was steadfast a las vanuatu Allah rewarded him by changing the Qibla

[6:49]but when he changed the Qibla something else happened now the part

[6:54]of the verse that I'm going to talk about now was a

[6:57]part of the verse that wasn't given in the synopsis but I

[7:00]also believe that it's important for us to understand how it is

[7:02]our prophet showed us how to be on the middle role the

[7:08]verse says it continues that says and we did not make that

[7:14]which you would have to be the Qibla but that we might

[7:17]distinguish him who follows the messenger from him who turns back on

[7:25]his hills and this was surely hard except for those whom Allah

[7:28]subhana Allah has gotten a right and Allah was not going to

[7:31]make your faith to be fruitless well surely Allah is affectionate merciful

[7:39]to the people in this verse at the end of it it

[7:42]brings the believers into focus the Jews have already been dealt with

[7:48]but a loss of her know what Allah tells us that even

[7:53]when the Qibla was changed that it was going to be a

[7:57]test for those people who said that they were going to be

[7:58]with the Prophet it is a test for those of us who

[8:03]are living today because there are many of the traits that the

[8:04]prophet has there are many of the traditions that the prophet has

[8:09]that we don't agree with and because we don't agree with it

[8:13]we remove ourselves from being the middle and people we go to

[8:19]the extreme and anytime we go against Allah his rasool the Quran

[8:23]and the debate we all become extremists or some form or another

[8:28]the end of the verse lets us know that those who are

[8:36]with the Prophet they witnessed everything that the Prophet went through and

[8:40]it was a test and i'll promptly concrete that test and he

[8:43]let us know the b2 and conquer the test a lot fun

[8:47]or thailand lets us know about our prophet that it's very important

[8:50]in this situation that he was a man and he was a

[8:56]man in every way he was not a god he was not

[9:00]a son of a god that the things that we fear the

[9:04]things that we go through our prophet would also go through him

[9:07]and because he went through them first and we were witnesses to

[9:10]the things that he went through we should know that we can

[9:16]conquer the things that he conquered we find that our off it

[9:19]just to show that he was really a man think about his

[9:23]birth and think about the hardships that he went through before he

[9:28]was born his father died in his development his early childhood development

[9:34]when he was beginning to learn how to have attachments to people

[9:38]when he was beginning to have trust in people the people who

[9:46]he trusted his mother and his grandfather also died he could have

[9:51]been extreme as an orphan and just said I'm not going to

[9:57]do anything with my life how many of us started our lives

[10:00]in such extreme circumstances if the Prophet lived in our times and

[10:08]he was born under these same circumstances we will find our prophet

[10:15]somewhere receiving some type of therapy because how do you lose your

[10:20]mother how do you lose your father and still get along to

[10:22]be great no one would predict that after living those circumstances that

[10:31]our prophet would be destined for greatness but lots of hannah wattala

[10:36]plans and his plan is better than ours our prophet let us

[10:40]know that regardless of what your situations are what your surroundings are

[10:45]that if you have faith in allah subhan allah tala that he

[10:50]will sing you through whatever you need to get through for those

[10:55]of us who think our prophet had it easy there's a beautiful

[11:01]verse in the Quran that we read and we hear it a

[11:03]lot but do we apply it to our prophet the verse says

[11:08]and this is an sort of baccarat and we surely and we

[11:14]will surely touch you with something of fear and hunger and loss

[11:19]of property and lives but glyph glad tidings to the steadfast patient

[11:24]ones who want a calamity befalls them they say surely we belong

[11:30]to Allah until law is our return our profit was not exempt

[11:35]from this and sort of doha a lots of Hunter what Allah

[11:40]says did we not find you an orphan and give you shelter

[11:43]and give you care as an orphan as a eight-year-old child if

[11:51]your parents have died and they left you alone would you feel

[11:56]there's so many different theories you would have the next person that

[12:01]is given authority over me who will take care of me are

[12:06]they also going to die and my destined to be in this

[12:12]world all by myself these are fears our prophet had this fear

[12:15]but a lots of Hannah wat dollar strengthened him through a batala

[12:21]not only that he strengthened him but he protected him when the

[12:28]people of courtiers had come to our prophet to try to overtake

[12:36]him to try to snuff out the message of Islam it was

[12:38]Abu Talib who stood in their way and made sure that nothing

[12:44]would happen to our profit while profit was growing up learning but

[12:48]was right and learning but was wrong it was a batalha who

[12:54]was there to help him out instead of him saying I am

[12:56]going to just dwell on the bad things that happened in my

[13:02]life I'm going to trust in allah subhan allah tala when abu

[13:07]talib died our prophet may I felt a little alone but a

[13:13]loss of her no atala he strengthened his back with the son

[13:19]of Abu Talib Ali it may not be at all over lace

[13:20]a lot or salam so again our profit does not exempt from

[13:31]the things that we deal with he's going through him and he's

[13:36]shown us the way to make it through the last one what

[13:42]Allah in the same verse he talks about people being hungry and

[13:45]people haven't loss of property answer do ha a lots Manawatu allah

[13:50]mentions that he made the Prophet independent he was once dependent and

[13:57]he made them independent now we realized that a law did make

[14:03]rasoolallah independence so that he wouldn't have to rely on anything but

[14:08]the Islamic community was dependent the Islamic community needed a benefactor the

[14:13]benefactor that we all had as Muslims came from BB Khadijah and

[14:21]because her property and the prophets property was all together they lost

[14:27]their property and BB Khadijah it is said that she died because

[14:31]she was malnourished all the Muslims at that particular point in time

[14:36]they experienced hunger again our prophet just like us he lost everything

[14:46]there be Muslims who lose their homes who lose their businesses who

[14:53]will lose their investments and many of the people who lose those

[14:56]things they say I'm going to walk away from Islam but if

[15:00]you walk away from Islam you are not following the example of

[15:04]the Prophet because he lost everything yet he did not walk away

[15:07]which would be extreme he did not stop preaching its long which

[15:14]would have been extreme but he held horn and he was steadfast

[15:17]and a loss of hundred other rewarded him for that last one

[15:25]of what Allah tells us again in this verse that you will

[15:29]be tested with loss of lives our prophet lost so many lives

[15:34]as we lose lives and what we find was our profit is

[15:41]in one year he lost the man who raised him and he

[15:48]also lost the love of his life his wife the prophet called

[15:52]this time in his life the year of sorrow because how do

[15:59]you go through that what would can we even begin to enumerate

[16:03]or put a value on the benefits that we received from both

[16:16]BB Khadijah and from Abu Talib as Muslims we can but our

[16:20]prophet he dealt with this but it increased his faith he was

[16:27]balanced he did not let this thing sway him for one side

[16:29]to the other when people moves their wives when they lose their

[16:36]loved ones some of them also lose their religions there's nothing like

[16:44]fortitude that helps to build patients and our Prophet had more hardships

[16:50]than anyone else so he had great for the tools our prophet

[16:54]understood for in the my own yessiree eucerin so verily with very

[16:59]difficulty there is ease at our profit loss Abu Talib and BB

[17:10]Khadija the verse continues it says and you'll be tried with loss

[17:16]of fruit our prophet mohammed also lost children brothers and sisters many

[17:23]of you may know many of you may not know my family

[17:28]and now we lost our oldest son in January of this year

[17:35]and it's a very very difficult situation it makes you cry that

[17:47]makes you question a whole lot of things our prophet he didn't

[17:52]just lose one child he lost more than one child he went

[17:59]through with my family and I went through on a number of

[18:01]occasions yet our Prophet did not step back and say hola you

[18:11]took away my child I need to walk away from you he

[18:16]was strengthening his resolve and he showed us what it truly meant

[18:19]to have faith in the law and know that the plan of

[18:25]a las olas vanuatu la was going to always move forward our

[18:29]prophet had all of these extreme things happened to him yet he

[18:36]did not go to any of the extremes the way my family

[18:41]and I were able to make it through this is because of

[18:46]loss of Hunter what Allah told the Prophet to tell us give

[18:50]glad tidings to the steadfast patient ones who want to become when

[18:56]a calamity befalls him they say in na de la he or

[19:02]in our alayhi rrg own solo I please so how does those

[19:14]experiences help us to remain a midland community because of what our

[19:21]prophet experienced it allowed him to become empathetic empathy means or is

[19:28]defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

[19:32]and this is essential and this was an essential component of our

[19:38]profits personality if a person does not have this trait of being

[19:48]empathetic this individual will not be able to go out and oppose

[19:53]the oppressed the oppressors nor will they be able to speak out

[19:58]against injustice 'as it makes me happy when I see that the

[20:06]Islamic community has been empathetic towards the brothers and sisters in Nigeria

[20:12]during this hard time for she is x aqui mashallah hamdulillah it

[20:16]makes me feel good when we can protest about the things that

[20:23]are happening in Syria with our good brothers and sisters it warms

[20:28]my heart when we stand up and we speak out against the

[20:31]injustice 'as that are happening to our brothers and sisters and Palestine

[20:35]but all of these individuals that we have a tendency to be

[20:40]empathetic towards are only Muslims our prophet was not only empathic towards

[20:48]Muslims but he was empathetic towards all people at this time I'm

[20:55]just going to digress just a little bit imma keep it on

[20:59]subject but we had there's a problem here in America and you

[21:07]guys will be infected as me and my people were affected soon

[21:12]enough because we live here in America you have to be empathetic

[21:17]towards the vations are people living here in America over the past

[21:23]couple of years there have been quite a few African Americans who

[21:28]have been killed unjustly no weapons no reason for being killed but

[21:34]they died how many of us showed empathy towards them now in

[21:43]this society there was a propaganda campaign ran against the Browns the

[21:49]Browns that i'm referring to would be the blacks and hispanics what

[21:54]they did in this propaganda was back in the 70s whenever there

[21:59]was a crime committed on the news they will show you who

[22:04]committed the crime and where the crime was white black brown during

[22:08]the 80s when they began to report crime they would only report

[22:13]crimes of whites they wouldn't show the faces there tell the crime

[22:19]if it was a heinous crime then they will show the face

[22:21]but every crime that was committed by a Hispanic or black they

[22:24]will show the face eventually they didn't report on white crime so

[22:31]you didn't think that there was any white crime but white crime

[22:34]still existed the people that you look towards for crime would be

[22:37]the Hispanics and the blacks so whenever something happened to them people

[22:42]said they deserve it the propaganda machine is at work with the

[22:48]Muslims because every time they show the Muslims now there's a bombing

[22:57]there's a terroristic attack all types of bad things are happening so

[23:02]that when bad things happen to Muslims people say okay don't matter

[23:05]they deserve it let me give you some examples of what I'm

[23:10]talking about right here in North America in Canada and in these

[23:13]United States muslim women wear the chemo have been attacked who stood

[23:18]up for them did the people have empathy for them no why

[23:27]because the propaganda machine did its job he didn't they villainize the

[23:32]muslims mosque have been fire bombed how many people stood up to

[23:38]say something about the firebombing of these mosque no one if our

[23:45]Prophet was here and he saw the injustice 'as against any people

[23:48]regardless of the race the ethnicities what would our prophet have done

[23:53]he would have stood on the side of the oppressed if you

[23:58]cannot be empathetic towards people how can you expect for people to

[24:03]be empathetic towards you this was the trait of our prophet this

[24:07]is how he became or he remained on the middle path our

[24:15]prophet when he was living he lived in a time that was

[24:17]not as so much different than ours our prophet lived in a

[24:23]pluralistic society where people had different life styles and different religions our

[24:27]prophet did not force aslam on anyone someone needs to write to

[24:34]Isis ago tournament tap him a little bit and say hey look

[24:36]you know our prophet didn't go kill people because they didn't want

[24:43]to become Muslims on the contrary our Prophet was the governor he

[24:50]was the ruler of a nation that had Christians Muslims Jews and

[24:55]others for the Jews and the Christians how did he room on

[25:06]the things they did through that book he wasn't trying to take

[25:10]people away for what it was that they were doing but he

[25:12]did practice I'm going to build my own or not here no

[25:16]moon card and because of this he was just and everything he

[25:22]did our prophet has shown us in order to stay in middle

[25:26]road we must be tolerant of others and of their lifestyles but

[25:34]to help them along by letting them know what is right from

[25:38]wrong and then we've done our job our Prophet tells a lot

[25:43]to know Allah tells us again about our prophet that he is

[25:47]only sent our prophet as a mercy towards all the world's not

[25:51]to just the Arabs not to just the Muslims but to everyone

[25:57]in this whole world one of the essential elements of mercy comes

[26:03]in the form of forgiveness and who forgives like our prophet when

[26:09]we think about all the things that happen to our prophet and

[26:14]all the people who did wrong towards our prophet it's amazing to

[26:19]me that he still had the capacity to forgive people sometimes if

[26:25]someone steps on our foot and it hurts how told we hate

[26:31]them we don't want to forgive them at all but think about

[26:35]the things that happen to our prophet and what he was able

[26:39]to forgive people for our prophet was able to forgive washing who

[26:44]killed his uncle Hamza and embrace him as a brother in islam

[26:54]our prophet was able to forgive those who came into his home

[26:57]and who were ready to kill him on the night of Hydra

[27:03]he forgave them and his with in His mercy he was not

[27:06]vengeful when he went back to conquer Mecca not one blood not

[27:14]one ounce not one drop of blood was shed when he conquered

[27:17]mecca he sold mercy towards these people even towards the people who

[27:22]lied on them and who started Wars with him if our brothers

[27:29]don't call us if our sisters don't text us sometimes it's over

[27:35]when we cut you off our profit showed mercy towards people who

[27:46]argued with them history lessons know that prominent companions or people who

[27:51]peep other people think of as being prominent will argue with the

[27:54]prophet and they had no problem was shown that the Prophet that

[27:57]this pleasure that they had with the profit that our prophecy off

[28:04]with their heads that our prophet push him away no the Prophet

[28:09]kept them right there with him how many of us would have

[28:13]accepted if we're the Prophet people criticizing us second-guessing us telling us

[28:20]that is something that's wrong with our head I'll profit allow people

[28:25]to disagree with them and kept them within the phone what happens

[28:33]in our community are we following the example of the prophet and

[28:37]our communities if I have an argument with you you don't like

[28:41]what it is that I have to say you decide I'm going

[28:47]to leave this community and I'm going to break off and I'm

[28:50]going to start my own community yes we're all familiar with that

[28:54]and when you leave the community not only do you leave the

[29:02]community with ill content but you have malice in your heart towards

[29:08]your brothers syedna talked about Senator ahem saleh tura him also extends

[29:15]to your muslim brother it's not the same but you cannot the

[29:21]Prophet says you have to be in constant contact with your brother

[29:23]you should not let three days go without being in contact with

[29:26]your brother but when you have this balance in your heart and

[29:31]you break this tie then what happens you're committing a sin our

[29:38]prophet the part of the verse that I read to you that

[29:40]wasn't in the synopsis it says those who will turn on their

[29:45]heels the prophet had to deal with hypocrites who lived amongst them

[29:49]our prophet let us know he showed us how it is that

[29:54]we had to deal with these hypocrites believe you mean if we

[29:58]believe that everyone is a hypocrite that is extreme if we believe

[30:01]that there are no hypocrites then there's something wrong with us up

[30:03]here our prophet let us know that we have to be weary

[30:11]of the hypocrites but we don't know everybody's intentions if we find

[30:15]them out to be hypocrites we push ourselves away from them and

[30:21]we pray for them but if we cannot quantify our qualifier why

[30:24]they are hypocrites then we have to treat them as our brothers

[30:27]how many of us would have the patience like our prophet to

[30:38]deal with that our prophet was also humble who can say anything

[30:44]against the humility of our prophet our prophet he was a rest

[30:51]of the law he didn't necessarily have to take the advice of

[30:56]anyone he could have gone out and did things the way he

[31:01]saw fit because it would be a loss of hundred wat Allah

[31:03]who was actually given him his direction but rasulullaah in his humility

[31:10]when someone else had information good information he entertained it and when

[31:18]it was good he actually used it salman al fasi Elmohamady the

[31:23]battle of the ditch everyone's running around what are we supposed to

[31:28]do what are we supposed to do with a lot with what

[31:33]Allah have given the Prophet the solution of course but when Salman

[31:37]said you know well from we dig a ditch in it works

[31:41]our prophet did what alhamdulillah we were going to dig the ditch

[31:44]sure what that although he's Russell law he's open to people with

[31:51]their ideas during the battle of other when he was about to

[31:54]set up can a man who knew the camp area better than

[31:59]ur rasoolallah he gives Rasulullah the advice don't build your camps here

[32:04]build them there our prophet was the arrogant no he said okay

[32:10]if this is better I'm going to build my camps we're here

[32:12]how many of us have this um bonus so we're especially those

[32:19]who are in charge of even of leading groups and leading communities

[32:22]how many of you have the humbleness to accept the advice from

[32:26]other people our prophet was an excellent communicator he spoke to people

[32:35]in the way that when they heard that when he talked to

[32:41]them he didn't speak over their heads he didn't eat it in

[32:44]use language that were confused to people he didn't use language that

[32:52]the people didn't understand when he spoke he spoke in a way

[32:56]that everybody could get what he said and that there wouldn't be

[32:59]any ambiguity so like I said in the beginning what is it

[33:06]that we're really what we talked about we be in the middle

[33:09]nation what are we actually talking about I'm going to give you

[33:16]three terms and I'm going to close this thing out micro meso

[33:20]and macro micro small Rasool Allah he's that one individual he gave

[33:28]us the example to his life he went through his hardships and

[33:33]he showed us how to deal with those hardships mezzo would be

[33:37]the Islamic community all of us as one family it is up

[33:43]to us to teach everyone with the Prophet talk to us so

[33:45]that we can affect the macro the greater community at large and

[33:52]if we do this then in all truthfulness we would be the

[33:57]example to the whole of society we watch over them because we

[34:04]followed the example of the prophet and he's responsible for looking over

[34:10]us so what are the traits in the personality of our prophet

[34:14]that'll help us remain this middle in nation there the fact that

[34:18]he's patient he showed us how to persevere he showed us fortitude

[34:27]he showed us that fastness he showed us what mercy was he

[34:31]showed us how to forgive he showed us how not to be

[34:34]vengeful he showed us how to be humble and he also showed

[34:40]us not to be um belittle people in their ways to be

[34:45]spoke to him thank you very much I pray that the talk

[34:49]was beneficial anything that was good it comes from Allah Allah Allah

[34:52]any mistakes that were made with my own shikon gisela salaam alaikum

[34:56]warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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