Alhamdulillah, in the preceding Ramadans, we collected money for 16 boreholes in The Gambia,
and we are now continuing that. So, I'm gonna put the link in the description. Ramadan is here,
so let us start donating and contributing to these projects that are going to help and
make our hereafter. Assalamualaikum, guys, and welcome to another episode of Smile 2 Jannah.
A couple of days ago, I was scrolling through Twitter, and I saw this post:
"You share a strong faith, how does that help you on a night like tonight."
Erm it's everything, Christ's resurrection is everything
Not just his life, but his death and Resurrection. So, this was posted on the official NCAA Wrestling
page, and the guy that's talking is called Aaron Brooks who won his match. As you heard, he was
bigging up his beliefs, but as some Christians failed to see, and they were saying, "why was that
video taken down?" well because of this bit, mate. His death and Resurrection, you can only get
that through him, Holy Spirit only through him. No false prophets, no Muhammad, no anyone else, only Jesus
Christ himself. Yeah, so he's bigging up his faith at the expense of Islam, and because it's
at a big scale, naturally, it's going to cause issues and rifts. And to be fair, I've never heard
of a Muslim that, in a big event like this, will put down any other religion or religious leader.
And you know what's amazing about Islam? Islam is right in the middle. On the one hand,
the Jews do not accept that Jesus has come. On the other hand, the Christians raise Jesus to the
rank of God. In the middle are the Muslims who say that Jesus was one of the mighty
Messengers sent by God. But anyway, I wanted to deal with his claim that Muhammad peace be upon
him was a false prophet. If I reduce your answers, you'll come to three points, which is number one,
the prophet was a liar; number two, he was deluded; and number three, he was just a legend.
Let's deal with the fast claim that the prophet lied for riches. Well, that can't
be true because Utbah Abul Waleed actually offered him riches, leadership, and even exorcism. But the prophet,
of course, rejected that. Number two, he was boycotted, which is counterproductive to somebody
that is seeking riches, so his prophethood would have set him back mate from worldly gain. And
number three, he lost his family, namely his father, his daughter, his grandfather,
his uncle. And not to mention, let's look at this Hadith of Bukhari 6450 that the prophet
never ate at a table or ate fine bread until he died. Does this sound like somebody that's in
it for the riches? And here is the narration, and let me show off our chain of transmission,
how we preserve the prophet's sayings as well. Abu Ya'foor heard from the prophet, Sufyan Ibn Uyaynah
heard from Abu Yafour, and Ahmad heard from Sufyaan Ibn Uyaynah, who narrates from Abdullah bin Abu Awfa,
who said that he participated in six expeditions with the prophet in which they ate locusts. In
another narration Anas ibn Malik heard from the Prophet, Humayd At Taweel, heard from Anas ibn Malik,
Hushaym heard from him, Ahmad heard from him, and it's told to us that in Uhud,
the Prophet's tooth broke and he had a head wound covering his face with blood. And that's why
Montgomery Watts concludes that calling Muhammad a liar creates more problems than it solves.
Let's go to deluded. When
The Prophet (peace be upon him)'s young son Ibrahim passed away. It happened to fall on
the day that there was an eclipse. People used that to say, "Oh look, this proves that he's a prophet
because even the heavens are reacting to the death of his child." And if the prophet was deluded,
he could have used this. However, he did not, and he said that they have absolutely no connection.
Also, bear in mind that as the people would ask the prophet (peace be upon him) questions,
Revelation would descend, so it was circumstantial. Surely, if he was deluded,
they would have failed. And lastly, not to mention his prophecies which you guys can read
in a book called "Forbidden Prophecies" by Abu Zakaria. It's free to download.
Lastly, the accusation of him being a legend, which is refuted by the fact that we have
the manuscripts in the University of Birmingham carbon-dated by the University of Oxford. We have,
as I gave the example when I was narrating, chains of narration, historical biographies,
the grave of the Prophet, coins with insignia that verify the historical accuracy of the Prophet,
i.e. the Hijra markings on stones and rocks which date to the time of Arabia as well. So,
this accusation of the Prophet being false doesn't really hold true. What
could be the conclusion? That he is indeed who he claimed he was.
What's unique about the Prophet (peace be upon him) is that even his enemies held
him to a high esteem, even though they were ready to assassinate him. Namely,
Abu Jahl, who says, "I don't say you're a liar,
but what you're preaching is untrue." Let's leave it there, guys, until next time Asalaamu Alaikum.