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I think most people would be surprised
to know that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
actually did not want to be anywhere
near the Ka'bah growing up.
And that's not because he had a problem with the Ka'bah,
but because everything that was happening around the Ka'bah
was everything that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
hated. It was idol worship,
it was the place for all the festivals took place.
And in those festivals you had all the obscenities,
all the displays that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not want to see.
All the alcohol, all the boasting about who your tribe was,
and the blood money, and all these things
that Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam shunned
because of the goodness that Allah had put inside of him.
But once the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
knew who he actually was，
when Allah bestowed the message upon him,
then it became clear to him
that this place was a special place,
and his attachment to it as a result of that
would grow for the rest of his life.
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Even the people of Mecca didn't really understand
what it was about the Ka'bah that was so special.
They believed in multiple gods.
They didn't really believe in an afterlife.
They didn't know what was protecting the Ka'bah
but they knew something was protecting the Ka'bah
because many of them had witnessed Am al-Fil.
They witnessed the year
that Abraha and his army had been destroyed
trying to attack the Ka'bah.
And so there was this general respect for the Ka'bah
even by the polytheists,
and of course it became the central location
for everything else that they did anyway
and they used the idols to give themselves power,
and to give themselves a certain status in Arabia.
However, five years before the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam receives Prophet hood.
So he was 35 years old.
There was this flood that came to Mecca
and it really damaged the Ka'bah.
There's also a narration about a woman
that wanted to put some incense on the Ka'bah
and she ended up burning a part of it.
So the Ka'bah was damaged, the structure was damaged
and they knew they had to reconstruct it.
But knowing what happened to Abraha's army,
they were afraid of how they would go about that.
So they're trying to decide,
do we take a part of it and fix it?
Do we remove the bricks altogether and then rebuild it?
How are we supposed to rebuild the Ka'bah?
So Al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah, he stands up,
and it's ironic knowing the wickedness of Al-Walid
pointed to in the Quran later on.
He said, "Look, are you people trying to destroy the Ka'bah,
"or are you trying to rectify it?"
Are you Mufsidun or Muslihun, right?
The language that we know in the Quran.
Are you people that are trying to corrupt
or are you trying to rectify?
They said, we're just trying to fix the Ka'bah,
we're trying to repair it.
He said Allah, and of course, they refer to Allah
amongst all of their other gods.
He said, "Allah won't destroy the Muslihun."
He won't destroy the people
that are trying to fix the Ka'bah.
So he takes an ax himself
and he starts to repair the Ka'bah.
He starts to do away with some of the bricks of the Ka'bah.
And he says, "See, nothing happens."
They said, okay, let's wait a whole day
and night to make sure that your hand doesn't fall off
or lightning doesn't strike you
or something terrible doesn't happen to you.
So nothing happened to Al-Walid.
So they get together and they say,
okay, let's rebuild the Ka'bah.
But Abu Jahl has an announcement.
He says, "Let's only use
"the pure money that we have earned".
So we're not gonna use any of the money
that has gone towards gambling,
that has gone towards prostitution,
that has gone towards alcohol,
that has been attained through wronging people,
none of the usury or the riba.
We just wanna use our pure sources of income,
which of course would be a problem for them
because they didn't have enough then
to rebuild the entire Ka'bah properly.
So they're starting to rebuild the Ka'bah
and they're saying Allahumma la nuridu illa khayra.
Oh Allah, we only want to do good,
please do not destroy us as we are repairing this Ka'bah.
And as they rebuilt the Ka'bah,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
told Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha years later,
that your people rebuilt the Ka'bah wrong.
It used to be a rectangle shape
when Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam built it.
And the door was to the ground so that people could go in
the Ka'bah and come out.
But they ran out of money, so they built it as a cube shape
and they raised the door so that only the elites
of Quraysh would be able to enter in
and they'd be able to govern
who was able to go into the Ka'bah
and who would be prohibited.
So they rebuilt the Ka'bah wrong,
but that was what their money allowed them to do.
And of course, the door represented everything else
that they did with the idols and with their concept of God
at the time and religion at the time.
But then came the dispute,
who's going to put Al-Hajar Al-Aswad
the black stone in its place.
Because all of these things that were retained
after Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
they maintain some of the status of those things.
And it was understood Al-Hajar Al-Aswad
the black stone was special.
They didn't know what was special about it,
but it was special.
And whichever tribe was going to take the black stone
and put it back,
was going to have a status that would be unrivaled
from that point onwards.
So they argue about it.
Who's going to be the tribe that gets the honor
of putting the black stone there.
Some of the tribes,
they stake the claim based upon, you know, their wealth
based upon their power, based upon their prominence.
Some of them claimed to be there for a longer time.
Some of them said, well, we're usually the ones that serve
the people that come for Hajj or come for Umrah,
so we should be the ones to do it.
So every tribe is making a claim and it got so intense
that by the time a week passed,
they were about to fight each other in the Harram.
So these tribes were actually now getting their weapons
prepared and they were about to turn on each other.
Then at that point,
a man by the name of Abu Umayya Al Makhzumi stands up.
And this would be the future father-in-law of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, even though he wouldn't live to
see his daughter marry the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This would be the future father-in-law
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So who is he?
Well, I'll give you a clue.
He's the father of a woman who helped
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in a similar predicament during Hudaybiyyah. And that is
Umm Salama radi Allahu ta'ala Anha who would famously advise
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on on what to do
when they were unable to move forward
for Umrah in Hudaybiyyah.
So this is Abu Umayya Al Makhzum.
He's also a very wise man clearly,
and you can see that Umm Salama radiAllahu Anha
inherited some of that from him.
He says, "Listen, we're not gonna solve
"this amongst ourselves.
"All the tribes are going to make their claims,
"but let's agree that the first person to walk through
"that gate of Bani Shaiba", which is known as Bab as-Salaam,
"whoever comes through that gate,
"we're gonna give them the choice to put the black stone
"as they see fit wardhal bihuqmihi
"and everyone be pleased with his judgment".
So they said, okay, fine, that makes sense.
So let's keep it random.
So they sat down and they're staring at that gate to see
who's going to come through.
And Muhammad, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
walks through that gate.
He was not a rich man, he was not a powerful man,
but Al Amin, radina
they said, he is the trustworthy one, we're pleased.
He is the trustworthy one, we're pleased.They knew
the character of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so they were happy that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam was going to be the one to carry out that task.
Now, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
could have made a claim at that point for Banu Hashim.
And Banu Hashim had their status in society already,
and were known for their generosity.
He could have said, all right, Banu Hashem let's do it,
and every other tribe too bad, you agree to the condition.
But instead the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the
spirit that would come in Islam as well.
He says, "Give me a thawb
"and put it on the ground"
a cloth and put it on the ground.
"and let's place the black stone
"in the middle of that cloth".
And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
called for every tribal head to come
and to grab one side of the cloth.
So all of the tribes came together,
they picked up the black stone in that cloth
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, "Follow me to the Ka'bah".
They went to the Ka'bah, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
he picked it up and he put it in his place.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not know at that point that this was the stone
from al Jannah
the stone from paradise subhanAllah
all those narrations would come later.
But he saved them SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
from bloodshed.
He saved them from taking that time,
which was supposed to be a unifying moment in Mecca
and turning into a divisive moment.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
also, once again, solidified his reputation in society
as a man not just of high moral character,
but a man who always wanted good for the entirety of Mecca,
not just his people.
Now, after that, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he didn't used to do ibadah around the Ka'bah,
he didn't use to worship around the Ka'bah.
As we said, he really didn't care for the festivals
or the obscenities.
He did take part SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in rebuilding the Ka'bah
because that was a good thing to do.
Just like Hilf al-Fudul, the pledge
where all of the tribes would agree upon something noble.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam goes to the Ka'bah
for that. But in rebuilding the Ka'bah,
there's an incident there as well,
where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
protects the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
from something that is not befitting of the Prophet.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would put the stones on his back
as he was walking to the Ka'bah,
because he did not want to partake in what the others
would do, which was to take their bottom cloth
and lift it up and hold the stones,
thereby exposing their private parts.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam out of his modesty
did not want to expose his private parts
which was common at the time.
And as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is carrying the stones on his back Al Abbas radiAllahu Anhu
and who says to him, "Oh my nephew,
"why don't you do what everybody else is doing?
"Just lift up your izath"
lift up your bottom garment,
"put the stones there and will protect you from the heat".
Just as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave into
that and he started to do that,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la caused the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to fall unconscious.
And Allah protected the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
from ever exposing his aurat
ever exposing his private parts again,
which was a common practice of the people of Mecca.
Now what about after that? When
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam receives revelation
and the people of Mecca are carrying on with their Hajj.
Yes, they had a Hajj, but it wasn't like our Hajj.
They had all types of practices,
all types of ways of enforcing tribal superiority,
all types of innovations, but still
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
has received revelation at the age of 40.
And he knows that the Ka'bah is the house that was built
by Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam to revive the message tawheed
of which he would be the reviver of that monotheism.
And he's witnessing this on an annual basis.
So would the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
take part in the Hajj?
There's a narration from
Jubayr ibn Mut'im radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who took a long time to become Muslim.
He says that in the days of ignorance, he says,
"adth laltu ba'iyrani"
he said I lost one of my camels one time.
"fadhahabtu athlubuhu yawma arafat "
So I went looking for that camel on the day Arafat.
"fara aytun Nabi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallama
waaqifan fi Arafat". So I saw
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam standing in Arafat.
And Quraysh would not go to Arafat.
They used to send the poor people towards Arafat
and they stayed within the Haram.
So he was confused why the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was standing in Arafat
and he knew the insistence of their ways.
So he said,
"I thought to myself, maasha'nuhu haahuna"
what is he doing over here?
But I didn't ask him anything at that point.
So what do we know
about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's Hajj?
You might be surprised to know that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam indeed did multiple Hajjs
before the Hijrah, before the migration. You have the
narration of Jabir ibn Abd Allah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who would says two Hajjs for sure before the migration.
And some scholars say that
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did the Hajj every single year between prophethood
and the migration.
However, he would avoid the things that Quraysh would do.
The idol worship and such.
Just like the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would do
tawaf around the Ka'bah,
just like he would pray in front of the Ka'bah,
but he would not pay heed to the idols
that were around the Ka'bah.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would do Hajj
on a regular basis even before the Hijra.
And it was in fact, in those last few years in Mecca,
where one of the most defining incidents of the Seerah
would happen during the days of Hajj.
It was the 11th year after prophethood,
the year after Am al-Huzn
the year after the year of grief
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is going out and he's meeting the various tribes
that are coming from outside during the nighttime,
so that the people of Mecca would not know.
And he's introducing them to Islam.
He's trying with, everybody
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He's trying with the small tribes, the known tribes,
the large tribes, the unknown tribes.
He's just going to find anyone that,
or he's attempting to find anyone
that is going to believe in his message.
So he goes out at night and he has with him Abu Bakr
and Ali, may Allah pleased with them.
And he talks to these different groups.
And suddenly he passes by this group of six young men.
And these six young men are there
in Mina and they heard
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam talking
to some of the more known tribes.
And they were curious about what
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had to say as well,
because these six young men were from Yathrib.
And they had been exposed to Jewish tribes
that told them about tawheed,
that told them about monotheism.
And that also told them about a Prophet that was to come.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sees these six
youth from this place called Yathrib.
And they're interested in hearing
what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has to say.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
never overlooks anyone
when it comes to da'wah.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to them,
"Are you the allies of the Jews?" and they say, yes.
He says, "Well, why don't you sit with me and listen
"to what I have to say?".
So there they are in Mina
on the 11th day of the Dhul Hijjah
in the 11th year after prophethood.
And that conversation with six young men, As'ad ibn Zurarah,
Auf ibn Harith, Rafi ibn Malik, Qutba ibn Amir,
Uqba ibn Amir, Jabir ibn Abd Allah.
That conversation with those six young men
was going to change
the entire course of history as we have it.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam presents Islam to
them, and these six young men,
they say, what you're saying makes sense.
And the Jews have already told us
about a Prophet that is to come.
Why don't we hasten and believe in you
before it gets back to them.
And we will go back and call our people to Islam.
And they say, "May it be through you that Allah reconciles
"our differences, brings our hearts together
"and establishes us upon this beautiful message
of monotheism that you have brought".
And indeed, that would be the society of Al Medina.
In these days as we exert ourselves
with all sorts of good deeds
that our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us.
We invite you to spend in the way
of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
so that we may all further ourselves along this journey
and draw closer to him.
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