Seerah | Keys To The World | The Prophet Inspiring Hope | Mufti Abu Layth

Let's share a uh something from the s and then which ties in with today's uh session really of resilience and then I'll share the link and people can come on and this is a hadith that you have okay keys to the world but with this in

I want to share a snippet from the s of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Something to inspire you. Okay. When that ties in with this with resilience in life but also with vision with ambition and with seeing dreaming and aspiring to achieve big in life.

Okay. Many of us know the the incident of kandak. Okay. And what had happened is um the Quraysh who were against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had formed an alliance a coalition with many large tribes.

Okay. those from um from and others like Bunn and they had several large tribes that were also considered some of them from the kind of jamatra those that were standalone tribes had come formed this coalition known as alab which means the coalition so and there's a surah in the Quran surah alab which discusses some of this as Well, now the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam heard about this as did the Muslims in Medina

that this coalition had formed and they were getting ready to come and attack the Muslims and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was very disturbed by this. Suddenly, you know, in a heartbeat, the the joyous laughter of the children in Medina, the the kind of chattering of the people in the markets in Medina, the the everyday life, what was

the kind of heart throbbing away, pulsating in this city, in this town was within a split second brought into compromise. It it's it's no I mean it's there's no doubt on what would happen to all these people should this coalition be successful and the coalition was a mighty one.

The tribes of Ratan are huge. This was a huge tribe very powerful as well. Now the prophet was concerned that what do we do? So it's at this point that Salman al- Fari advises the prophet and this is very well known that he tells the prophet that look from the legacy or the tradition or the technique tactics of the Sassinids because he was Persian and and I've got another video explaining where um about Salman al Farc about the battle of Badr and the angels and that's a a different discussion and I speak about that and

alternate theories and but how Salman al Farc's background ground I mention in that and he was somebody that was he wasn't just anybody from Persia he was a significant person that um had also held a high accomplishing uh military role in his life as well but he was also somebody a deep philosopher as well in search of faith and truth so he advises the prophet of the trenches we would dig trenches where the um the invading armies couldn't traverse them because how do how do you get past

the trenches in your horses and camels? You can't. And if you jump into them, you can't really climb out on the other end. And if you do, you know, you you you're exposed. So, so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam takes says that that's an excellent idea. This also goes to show for on a side note that how taking from other cultures is something that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam encouraged.

Now they start to dig the trenches and normal life has come to a standstill and the days go by and they're digging these trenches and the armies are approaching the the coalition armies. So the people in Medina are very kind of shaken.

They've be they're also not just shaken because of the fear which they naturally are but also the physical threat which is not not just war but hunger because see they've had to be just working and you're digging a trench around the whole entire town. Nobody's out there getting food or harvesting or trading or people are beginning to get hungry and people are beginning to really it's getting to them.

It's weakening them and now that you're weak, you're not really feeling your yeah, you know, we can take them on. You're not feeling mighty. You're not feeling you're despondent. You're And then they're thinking, damn. And these rumors had already spread had or some rumors had spread that Bunni Nad and and Bunni that these Jewish settlements which were really on the outskirts of the town because when you're digging trenches they can still they can still penetrate them that they had a secret uh treaty or an agreement

to betray the Muslims of Medina. these rumors had started to spread and something that the Muslims also uncovered later on because they actually did they actually had an opening because the trench cuz the bunny um settlements were had access still to Medina the town. So all of these things are going on. People are thinking, damn, you know, they're looking at their children who are hungry, who also, for all we know, within maybe a day's notice or two days may be massacred or killed.

And and there's just this this fear. And this is looming in Medina. And what happens is during this time, the coalition has arrived by the way, but they can't traverse the trenches because they were like huge trenches. So they've just setting up a camp. They're just setting up camp. And they think, well, you know what we'll do is we will lay siege.

We'll starve them out. No food can go in. And they did for something like just under a month. But whilst this is happening, the Muslims are fortifying these trenches. Now, what happens is there's a a rock, a boulder, a huge rock under. As you're kind of digging deeper on certain parts of this trench, there's a boulder that the companions, they're hitting it.

They've got their axe pick. They can't break it and they just stop. They look at each other and then they go to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and they say Allah there's a boulder there's a rock

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam looks at them looks into their eyes. It's not the boulder. It's not the rock people. It's the calamity. It's the despondency. It's the creeping despair.

The prophet can see that these people are losing the spirit. That losing is an actuality that has appeared to them in their hearts and minds. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, how does he respond?

He immediately gets up. He says, "Come with me." Smiles. He says, "Come with me." The companions outside see the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam approaching. He he takes the axe pick from one of them, smiles, shoulders up, come straight up to this.

They're looking at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He just seems to be positive, undeterred. He looks at them. He says says this rock. He picks he raises the ax pick. And the prophet says bismillah with the first and he strikes down at this rock.

Strikes it with his might. and a portion of it chips away. And the prophet says, "Allah abbar," he smiles and he says, He says, "I have been given the keys to Rome." He says, he says, "It's as though I can see the palaces draped in red."

Cuz that's how the Romans had decorated some of their palaces. They look at the prophet. He raises the axe pig, slams it down second time and you see this crack appearing in the boulder and the prophet says he says Allahbaris he says I've been given the keys to the kingdom of the sass.

to kiss. He says that it's as though I can see they were known they had this white palace in this city called Madin and it was white and he says it's as though I can see the I can see the white beaming palace of Madin belonging to and the prophet smiles at them.

He raises for the final time. Third strike the ax big slamming down onto this rock and it cracks open. And the prophet says Allahbar he says it's as though I can see from where I stand.

Allah Akbar. The people cried out Allah Akbar. The coalition that are standing there. I mean they they've kind of laid camp. Obviously they they can't understand what what the high spirits are about these people. In the days that follow, they are struck with a sandstorm that becomes so out of control that they have to they have to kind of dissipate and disappear and and and then the tribes give up with them.

Say that, you know, Kathan says, "Oh, we haven't got time for you." And they leave them and they eventually break away and this siege is broken and this these this coalition dissipates and disappears. But this point coming to this lesson see that's the the history side the lesson is that you see the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he sees that these people their hearts are being struck with the potential for failure and he rises he smiles

in the face of adversity He goes out. These people are facing a threat from who? Coalition of tribes. Coalition. It's a big tribe. These people. Yes. You've got Bunn. You've got these people. You've got Yes, it's big. Relatively speaking in front of you.

It's big. Who are the super super empiric the empire kingdoms the dynasties of the world surrounding surrounding those people the Sassinidate Empire the the Persians the Roman Empire the southern Arabian Hemiite sorry the Hemi or the Heirite dynasties The dynast the kings the empires that have the legacies they claim for over a thousand years in southern Arabia.

The Hemier kings kingdoms have been going on for centuries. The Romans have been going on for centuries. The uh Persian Sassinid have an aged ancient dynasty and an empire and heritage. These are huge huge galactic relatively speaking prospects or just landscapes.

The immediate threat is these tribes and so on. these things. The prophet what he sees when he sees the dispondency in the eyes of some beaming positivity. He strikes down on each strike raising their ambition setting this vision in their eyes that yeah, you're talking about this.

I've just seen You're talking about this Rome has fallen to us. It has opened up for us. People are thinking what is the prophet? What is he saying striking down Kisra and the wealth and the opulence of the Sassinid empire has opened its doors to us.

What are you talking about? The final strike. Not only does the rock split apart, the prophet says Yemen, these theirse dynasties, this legacy of centuries of these kingdoms, southern Arabian kingdoms, they've opened their doors. It's as though I can see it. He puts the vision, the seed of the vision in the minds and hearts of those around him.

And from that moment it is set into motion. When they're at the lowest of the low, that's when you should aim the highest because you're rock bottom anyway. This was the the the character of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that when the people around him they needed leadership not only did he show them that yeah he could the prophet could have said yes don't worry don't worry you know we're going to be okay we're

going to be okay but don't even look set your aim even higher Yeah, you know that the the poem that we had that the you know leave it

that this is that and really it goes to show how the the true leadership wall you know these things people they they they cite they do cite the battles they do cite these things But these gems priceless gems that we're the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam yes they've got all this threat but he is he is he is helping he's cultivating their spirit and raising the bar of ambition saying yeah you're worried about and these people There's the you know we've got the whole world ahead of us and I can see it already.

Don't you see it? This is the resilience that whatever you're facing in life, you can take heed, you can take a lesson from the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that look, you know, maybe like and it goes back to what we were saying earlier on. You could be at the lowest of the low and you know what, since you're rock bottom anyway, I'm going to at this state envvisage the highest.

I'm going to see it in my mind's eye. I'm going to do a visual dua. Going to see it. You're talking. I'm like, "Oh, I've seen 10 times 10 times better than what I was or what I was expecting. I've already seen it. Do you not see it?" Ah, these this is I wanted to share that from the s of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

May it be of some benefit to us