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Home is home.
And people have connections to their places of birth
and their places of childhood
for so many different reasons.
And sometimes, others can't even understand it.
It's the food, it's the memories, it's everything about it.
At SubhanAllah, that's for people
who still can connect to their homeland.
But when it comes to refugees,
people that are violently forced out of their homes,
and are not able to return, that connection to home is deep.
And that's why Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
even likens people being forced out of their homes to death.
anna oqtuloo anfusakum awi okhrujoo min diyarikum
It's the same thing as death for some people.
Now for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and some of those companions in Mecca,
all they knew was Mecca.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam only left Mecca twice
on a trade route.
And for them to be forced out this way
was very difficult upon them.
And Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would not only connect to Mecca in a deep way,
but he empathized with those
who were in a similar situation.
Both those were forced out of Mecca,
as well as those who would be made refugees
until the very time that we live in now.
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Mecca is not a place
that has any particular beautiful beaches or oceans
or any particular greenery
and most people who have seen Medina and Mecca
in terms of just the nature of it
would say Medina is far more beautiful than Mecca.
But it was still home to the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, it's all that he knew.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam now knows
how special and blessed this place is.
And so there's this heartbreaking moment
where you see that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
literally rises from a cave as he is in the beginning
of his hijrah.
And he looks back at Mecca and he talks to it
for the last time before being run out of it.
And he says to Mecca, these famous words,
maa at yabaqi min baladin wa ahhabbaqi ilaihya
How beautiful, how pure and blessed of a place are you
and beloved to me.
And in one narration, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
says beloved to Allah
wa lawla Anna qawmi akhrajooni minki maasa kantu ghayrah .
And had your people not run me out,
I would have never lived in another place.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is basically saying to Mecca, I would never leave you
had your people not driven me out.
And there was something about even the way
the Quran was revealed
to console the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and console the Muslims when they first migrated to Medina
The verses in Surat al-Baqarah
ith yarfaAAu ibraheemualqawaAAida mina albayti wa-ismaAAeel.
When Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam and Ismail Alayhi Salaam
are raising their hands after the construction
of the ka'bah.
And they're asking Allah for acceptance,
and they're asking Allah that Allah honor the house
with the believers who come from all over the world.
So you have all of these verses
about Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam making du'aa in Mecca
that were revealed to the Muslims
when they first migrated to Medina
as a form of comfort to them.
And also letting them know that one day,
the promise of the father Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
will indeed come true.
Then there's this narration from Aisha radiAllahu Anha
where you have to balance the love
that the Sahaba had for Mecca.
And then obviously what would come of Medina later on.
And realize we're experiencing Medina
in a very specific way these days.
This is a narration from Aisha radiAllahu Anha.
She says that I went to visit my father Abu Bakr
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
after the migration to Medina.
Why, because they had fallen extremely ill.
And Aisha radiAllahu Anha says
that Medina was known as a place where people get sick.
It was something in the water, whatever it was
when people would get to Medina, they would always get sick.
And so the Sahaba almost all got sick.
And her father Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu was sick
and Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was sick.
And she describes the scene that they're both laid out,
stretched on their backs.
And they're sweating from the fevers that they have.
So she says, I spoke to my father and I said,
ya Abati kayfa tajiduk? oh my father, how are you?
Ya Bilal kayfa tajiduk? And O Bilal, how are you?
So as for Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
he responded in the following way.
He said kullum ri'in mu sabahhun fi ahlihi wal mawtu adna
minshi raaqi na'lihi.
He said, a man wakes up every morning amongst his family
and death is closer to him than his shoelaces.
Basically to say what's after Medina, except for death?
After this hijrah, after this migration,
I doubt we're even going to make it in this place.
So surely we're going to die because of this illness.
As for Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
his poem is a lot more complicated and complex,
and he reminisces, even though he was a slave in Mecca
for so long and did not enjoy Mecca
the way that others would enjoy Mecca,
still a deep attachment to Mecca.
As for Bilal, he gets up and Aisha radiAllahu Anha
said he said he would rise to his elbows.
So imagine him stretched out on his back.
And he comes to his elbows.
He can't even sit up right all the way. And he said
alla alayta shi'ri hal abitan nalaylatan biwaadin wahawli
idh khirun wajalilu wa hal aridan yawman ya hama jannatin
wa hal yabdu wanli shaamatum wata filu
It's a beautiful poem.
And if you don't know Mecca and surely we don't know Mecca,
the way that he's speaking about it,
then it doesn't make much sense
until you start to break it down.
But he says, how would it be,
oh, will I ever get a chance to spend the night again
in the valley?
And what's the valley?
It's Mecca.
With idhkhir and jalil,
these were particular types of vegetation or grass
that would grow in Mecca around him.
And he said, and I wonder if one day I'll get to drink
once again from the water of Majanna
And I wonder if one day I'll see the mountains
of Shama and Tafil.
And these are two particular mountains
that are on the outskirts of Mecca,
which you can actually see today.
They're very beautiful and they're unique in the surface
and people used to go
and they used to take their animals there.
So Bilal radiAllahu Anhu is imagining sitting
on the outskirts of Mecca on Shama and Tafil
watching the people let their animals graze
and enjoying that place.
So Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is missing Mecca to the
point that he's starting to talk about the specifics.
And in one narration, he then starts to curse
'Utba and Shaiba and Umaiya and these people that ran us
out of Mecca to this place of Medina,
that at that point they could not stand.
So Aisha radiAllahu Anha says I went back
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and said Ya Rasulullah, I don't think
your two companions like this place very much. So Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said why, what happened?
She said, I went to them and this is what they're saying.
This is the poetry that they are chanting out
out of their longing for Mecca and the hardships of Medina.
So then she says Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
raised his hands.
And what I'm about to share with you
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam raising his hands.
Those of you that love Medina
may Allah make us all amongst those that love Medina
trace it back to this particular du'a, where
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam raises his hands.
And he says
Allahumma habib ilai al Madina ka hubbina makkah aw ashad
O Allah, make Medina beloved to us
as much as we love Mecca or more.
wa sahih ha wa baarik lana fii saaiha wa mudiha
And rectify it and bless us with its sa and its mudd.
These are two measurements.
The mudd is when you carry two handfuls of something.
And the sa is basically like a liter,
it's four times the mudd.
So bless us with its weights, bless us with its fruits,
its measurements, everything that comes from it.
Wan qulhum maha fajaalha bin juhfa
Take away this fever from us and all this illness
that we are struck with.
So from that day onwards,
when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam makes that du'a
for us to love Medina, know that we are still benefiting
from that particular du'a.
And that's why if you've been to Umrah or Hajj
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la write it down for us
Allahumma Ameen,
you might feel a connection that's deep to Medina.
One that you might not even feel when you go to Mecca.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
brings the prayer of Ibrahim Alayhi Salam together with his,
he says inna Ibrahima harrama Makkah wa da 'ali ahliha.
He said that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam sanctified Mecca.
And he prayed for its people.
Wa inni harramtul Medina takama harrama ibrahim wa makkah
wa inni da aw tu fi saaiha wa mudiha bi mithlayh ma da'abihi
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam li makkah
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam prayed for Mecca,
and they still experienced the blessings of that
to his day and till now.
And he said, and I have sanctified Medina.
And I have prayed for it to be twice as much as
what Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam prayed for the people of Mecca.
In another narration from Anas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
allahumma ja albil madina ti da' fayh maa ja alta
bi makkahta minal barakah
Will Allah place in Medina twice as much of the Baraka,
of the blessings that you have placed in Mecca.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
prayed for us to love Medina the way we love Mecca
and more, he prayed for Medina to be as blessed as Mecca
and more in every single little detail.
And so what that meant was of course,
just like Dajjal can't enter Mecca for example,
he cannot enter into Medina
and it becomes a haram,
It becomes a sanctified place.
But on top of that, when you go to Medina
and you realize that you are in the presence
of all of these places that were
in the presence of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Al Qadi Iyaad Rahimahullah
He said in a shifa
know that there is not a tree in al Medina,
except that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
either touched it or prayed under it,
or received revelation under its shade.
And that's why Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
when he walk in Medina, he would say,
it might be that my footstep will fall
in the footstep of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And so we love al Medina from the du'a
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And we love Mecca from the du'a of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
And of course, both of those places along with Jerusalem,
because Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has sanctified those
places and made them beloved to the hearts of the believers
for all time.