how much do you love the prophet's
license do you
actually love him more than yourself
more than your family more than your
wealth this was a question that you
would have to ask yourself
many many times if you lived with the
prophet's saws
right if you are going out in bed and
you are greatly outnumbered you have to
ask yourself
whether you love the prophet saws more
than your family more than your wealth
more than yourself
if you are going out in uh you have to
ask yourself that question if you're
struggling in handok and you're about to
be massacred
do you love him more than your family
more than your wealth more than yourself
that's what the hadith says
that you love him more than your wealth
more than your child more than your
parents
more than yourself when you look at the
ansar
they had proved this time and time again
that they
loved the prophet's life and more than
they loved themselves
and so you have to wonder what is going
through their minds
after the conquest of mecca when their
entire
lives have revolved around the prophet
saws over the last decade
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so after fatah mecca in the eighth year
after hijrah
as we said the prophet salam pitched the
tent and he clearly was still assuming
the posture of a traveler he had not
taken a home in mecca
and the assad were afraid to ask the
prophet slice on what he was going to do
and there was really a lot of
uncertainty surrounding that event at
that point i mean there is a lot that
just happened with fatah mecca
now the meccans as they are dealing with
this new reality
the tribes that the meccans already had
enmity with in takrif and hawazan it
wasn't just the muslims by the way they
had
enmity with but there is a historic
rivalry with some of these bedouin
tribes and with the people of mecca
those tribes got wind of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
coming to mecca and they thought that
now would be the perfect time to get rid
of all of our enemies in one shot
now we can attack them while they are
unstable while they're fighting amongst
themselves so the hawasian
and the people of takriff started to
prepare themselves
and this became the makings of the
famous
the battle of hunain which is named in
the quran one of the few battles is
actually named
in the quran so the prophet salla sallam
he knows that they
are now preparing themselves to attack
the muslims and the people of mecca as a
whole while fatah mecca is unfolding
while the conquest of mecca is unfolding
and so the prophet saw sallam amasses
his army immediately after fatah mecca
to head to the fight them instead how
many people did the prophet saw some
come to mecca with
ten thousand how many is he going out
with now
twelve thousand because he now has the
new converts of quraysh
in his ranks sallallahu alaihi islam and
you can imagine that this is a very
risky move for the prophet saws to
include them because if they are
insincere
then they might betray him and use this
as an opportunity
but the prophet saw some sees the bigger
picture
he sees this is an opportunity to
immediately unite
those muslims that have been muslim for
a long time and those who had just
become muslim against a common enemy
that was after them and when the prophet
saws puts his trust in these new
converts
they will not disappoint him so they
head out
to the areas where these bedouin tribes
are planning
to attack them and the muslims are
looking around and they've been through
so much already and this is the first
time that they outnumber their enemies
so they're looking around they're saying
well
we're not going to lose this time
because we have more
army men than they have right we have
more soldiers than they have so
surely this is going to be a piece of
cake and that's why allah first
describes her name
when you were deceived by your large
numbers
you thought that hey we have a lot of
people and so
this is going to be an easy battle for
us and at the end of the day
allah says it's just the pleasure of
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so it's not
about your numbers
it's about whether allah is pleased with
you or not it's whether you are
following the order of allah and the
messenger
and his blessing being with you so don't
be deceived
by your numbers they were deceived by
their numbers though
they went out to these rough areas
and what they saw was that these bedouin
tribes had prepared
all sorts of surprises and ambushes for
them and they had to go through these
narrow valleys in hunain
with their large armies so when the
arrows descended upon them and all the
traps
came out and all of these attacks
happened all these skirmishes happened
and they were taken by surprise most of
those men actually fled the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam
so he was left with once again just a
handful of followers
and in fact such a small amount of
people that were with him in the center
of the battle
at that point some of
would become a martyr in that battle but
you also had guess who abu sufyan
who did not flee as a sincere muslim at
that point
they stayed with the prophet salallahu
and they fought
and the muslims won but this was a
lesson for them to not take victory for
granted
and just as they were not you know
despondent because of their lower
numbers which they usually had when
fighting a greater enemy
they should not be deceived by their
higher numbers or power
instead keep themselves connected to
allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala so they won
the battle
and of course now you have this new army
that was assembled you know seemingly
overnight of people that used to fight
each other
of the ten thousand that came from
madinah and the two thousand new
converts in mecca
what does the prophet say some do this
was the largest
share of spoils of any battle the
prophet saw some ever had
why because these were tribes that were
in the mountains they had many animals
so the prophet saws suddenly had
at his disposal over a thousand sheep
hundreds of camels
hundreds of all sorts of livestock he
has all sorts of spoils of war
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
from this unexpected battle of hunain
what does the prophet saw isam do he
gives these large
shares to the converts of mecca large
shares of the spoils of war to the
converts of mecca and even they
were stunned by the generosity of the
prophet saison was showing to them i
mean they were grateful first that he
just didn't kill them
in fatah now the prophet saws is giving
them hundreds of camels and animals
to satisfy them as spoils of this first
battle they fought as muslims
so what's happening now the ansar are
watching this unfold
and the prophet saws does not give
anything to the ansar
and they're starting to feel left out
not only that
but these whispers are starting to take
place wait a minute
is the prophet salallahu now going back
to the people of mecca is he attached to
them again has he forgotten
everything that we did for him you know
when there was war we were always there
but now
there are no spoils for us what's
happening here and so even some of the
young people from the ansar they said
may allah forgive the prophet salallahu
he gives them and he leaves us out even
though
our swords were always covered with
blood for his sake
who was from the ansah he comes to the
prophet saws and he tells the prophet
sallallahu island what's happening what
the ansar are saying because now these
murmurs are starting to
grow amongst the ansar and the prophet
saw some says to him
and what about you o sad what do you say
assad
say allah allah and he says i'm just a
man of my home i'm a man of my people
meaning what
i have the same doubts inside of me now
i have to be honest with you
that all of us are starting to get these
doubts about
what these actions really translate into
with you spending on the people of mecca
this way
so the prophet saws he says i want you
to gather
all of the ansar in one place in one
tent
and he said do not invite to this
gathering anyone but the ansar but i
want all of them there
so sadly allah and who goes and he calls
the ansar
and they all gather in this one tent for
the prophet saws until in fact there was
no space in the tent
so people surrounded the tent the ansar
surrounded the tent
to listen in to this conversation that
was going to take place
between the prophet zlas salallahu and
the ansar and there is a lot of anxiety
so the prophet saws says
he says oh people of the ansar what is
this
statement or what are these words that
have reached me
about you and they're silent they're
they're shy with the prophet saws
the prophet saws says
didn't i come to you as you were people
who were astray
and allah guided you through me
and you were poor and allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
allah gave you through me meaning
through you taking me in
allah provided
brought your hearts together in one
narration it says be through me so it
was through me
that your hearts were brought together
as well so
they responded and they said bella ya
rasulullah
they said yes o messenger of allah and
allah and his messenger
deserve all thanks and all praise so
they
they responded to the prophet saw some
shy right
that to allah subhanahu ta'ala and the
messenger salla sallam a man
that you deserve all praise you deserve
all grace you deserve the right to say
this to us
and it all belongs to you anything that
comes from you is bounty and
we're pleased so the prophet saws as he
says this they're too shy to respond to
the prophet's life of them
he looks around them and he says
aren't you going to answer me oh ansar
they said what do you mean will be
madden
what will we answer you with
until allah and the messenger belong the
praise belong
the the the uh the rightful thanks and
the bounty ya rasulullah what are we
going to answer you
and the prophet saws
he said to them if you wanted to o ansar
you would say and you would be telling
the truth and i would acknowledge
that you are telling the truth
you came to us o messenger of allah
belied
and we considered you to be truthful
and you were abandoned and we supported
you oh messenger of allah
and you were kicked out and we supported
you we took you
in and you were
you know poor you also didn't have
anyone to support you you had no wealth
and we spent on you so the prophet saws
saying you could say all of this back to
me
if you wanted to and i would say you're
telling the truth subhanallah now the
prophet salla islam is mentioning
the favors of the ansar upon him
and they were so mu'dab they had such
such manners that they couldn't say
those words themselves
but the prophet's license says let me
say it for you
you did so much for me and i will never
forget what you did for me o ansar
so now what's going to happen with this
meeting the ansata are crying at this
point
right i mean this is an emotional
conversation the prophet saw
it seems like it's farewell right like i
did this for you you did this for me
like didn't we get
out of each other what we saw you sought
from me the following
and you got it and i sought from you the
following and you gave it to me yeah
ansar you supported me and i supported
you and they're crying at this point
and the prophet salallahu as they're
acknowledging that to the prophet slice
unto allah and the messenger's license
and belong
all praise all grace all the bounty the
rights to say these things
the prophet salla islam says to the
ansar ya ansar
yamashi al-ansar the people of mecca
were new to islam
so i wanted to spend on them so that
their hearts might be reconciled towards
the faith as for you i know that your
hearts are already full of iman you're
full of faith
and then he says
that the people will go back and they
have their sheep they have their camels
they have all of these things that were
given to them
but you return and rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam is amongst you
so now they were so excited
so happy they said
we are pleased with the prophets islam
is our share we are pleased with the
prophet salallahu we are pleased with
the prophet salam as
as our share and they started to cry so
much out of joy because now
their worst fear which is that the
prophet saw islam now got mecca back he
was going to stay in mecca
that was done away with and the prophet
saison gets to come back
with us or rather we get to go back and
rasulullah
is amongst us and so they start to cry
and they start to say ya rasulullah
that's all we wanted we're pleased we're
pleased and the prophet saw islam looks
at them and he says
i swear by the one in whose hand is my
soul
had it not been for the hijra i would
have chosen to be from the ansah had it
not been that i was forced to be a
migrant from mecca
i would have chosen to be one of the
ansar wallow
and if the people all went one way was
and the ansar went another way
i would have gone where the ansar went
so if everyone went in one direction
and the ansar went in another direction
i would choose to go with the ansar
and the prophet saison raises his hands
and he says
o allah have mercy on the ansar
al-ansar and the children of the ansar
well
and the children of the children of the
ansar fa beca
and the people started to cry so much
until their beards were soaked with
tears
from the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam assuring them
that i am coming home with you and
showing them his gratitude sallallahu
alaihi wasa and showing them his love
and choosing them over the rest of
mankind
and so the love of the ansar is the love
of the prophet saws
and the love of the prophet saws is the
love of allah and so it is from
iman it is from faith that we love the
ansar who were so
loved by the prophet sallallahu islam
that he chose them
over his homeland even after allah
subhanahu ta'ala opened mecca to him
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