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first of all i want to welcome you all that are joining either through youtube or facebook
Alhamdulillah I mean I'm very excited about our webinar tonight and of course
more excited about the series insha'allah that we have prepared for you that is coming out
which is season two of the angels series now some of you may have noticed a title change
the first season was angels in your presence the second season is angels
in their presence and so many have asked what is the difference and the difference is that
angels 2 is going to be about angels with the sahaba of the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
which of course is a form of miracle something that allah bestowed upon these righteous people
some of them their names are well known to us other Allaha their names are not really that well
known to us and some of them are actually unnamed in the text however the narrations about them are
authentic so Allah Azza honored many people from that generation with certain interactions with
the angels and we can draw lessons from all of those interactions with allah so i want to remind
you before i get started tonight insha'allah to please sign up inshaallah ta'ala for the series
and invite others to sign up as well in sha la ta'ala it will be exclusively streaming
for those who sign up insha'allah so sign up and there will be some other things that we'll
talk about towards the end so why this particular topic about the miracles of the oliya is it just a
catchy subject that we wanted to do a webinar on no i actually wanted to go over the subject
to set the theological basis for this idea of the miracles of the olia the miracles of the righteous
the companions being the most righteous of the righteous as a generation okay and in doing so
insha'allah this is not just going to be a webinar with some stories there are certainly some stories
that we will go over in the webinar itself before the season starts but also you know set some
basic concepts in sha Allah that can help us also refute some of the misguided notions of miracles
right in the misguided tools of deception or rather misguiding tools of deception that
abuse some of these concepts that we find in our tradition insha'allah so we're going to separate
between what is authentic according to the quran and the sunnah of the prophet salallahu
and what has been innovated over time and how we can make sure that we can
distinguish between the two and of course from a japanese perspective in terms of certainty
those who believe in the unseen and so these are things that involve both the unseen and the scene
because they connect the two as the scholars mention when it comes to miracles there is a a
transition between the unseen and the scene that is unusual and in that insha'Allah is something
for us to reflect upon so I actually want to start off with a story insha'Allah and then
we'll get into the concepts and this is a story about one of the most famous karamat one of the
most famous miracles that we find in our tradition and it involves a man by the name of abu Muslim
a muslim was a tabari he was not from the companions of the prophet saws but rather from
the second generation and he lived in yemen and when the prophet salallahu passed away
there were multiple false prophets that arose of course the most famous one is muslim al qaeda
muslim the liar who certainly wreaked the most havoc upon this ummah and you know there there
was much bloodshed and uh even worse than that a lot of delusion and deception that took place
because of muslim there's another man by the name of anzi and he was in yemen at the time
and claiming prophethood actually even before the prophet saws passed away
and then of course extended that and went on to be a brutal leader and someone who
employed all sorts of tactics to make his claim to prophethood and so he had this mysterious aura he
called himself you know he was called vulchimar the veiled prophet because he used to be behind
the veil at all times and you know his his tactics and his tricks involved uh doing things with his
donkeys you know allowing his donkeys to respond to certain commands and so his nickname became
the one of the donkey why because that was you know the extent for the most part of the
quote-unquote miracles that he was performing so you have the false miracles of a false prophet
and then you have a person who refuses to believe in him by the name of abu muslim
as he claimed prophethood he commanded Abu Muslim being a great scholar to testify that he was also
a prophet of god and when abu muslim refused to testify to his prophethood he ordered that
a fire be lit in front of the people and that he would throw abu muslim into the fire rahim allah
so it sounds very similar to what the test of ibrahim and of course this was the way of these
false prophets right they were masquerading as prophets for the sake of political power
and so they used you know political force and and harm to try to coerce people into following them
and so he brings forth abu muslim and he has him thrown into that fire and abu muslim
walks right out of that fire completely unharmed and so some of the ministers
about as you of course know that he's a false prophet they tell him listen if you don't expel
him from this place if you don't get him out of Yemen then he's going to be a fitnah
for the people he's going to be a tribulation he's going to basically foil the plot for us
and so we have to get rid of him so he expelled him out of yemen he told him get out of here
made his way to the medina of the prophet SAW the city of the prophet
and he goes to al-Madinah and when he gets to medina he simply gets off of his camel
and he enters into masjid and nebui the masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
when he starts to perform prayer um at the time he sees him so he comes to him and he says to him
where are you from and he says from Yemen he said have you heard about the man who the kathab who
the liar threw into the fire so Abu Muslim in his humility in his righteousness he says to him yes
his name was Abdullah so he doesn't tell him that that was actually me he says his name was Abdullah
say to me by Allah are you that man are you actually that man so he said
that he is that man and um
who never who never met him before he embraces him and he starts to cry
and he says to him alhamdulillah all praises be to allah who did not take
my soul until I met a man from this ummah to whom was done what was done to Ibrahim
so I met a man from the umm of Muhammad sallallahu aladoingwasallam who was afflicted in the way that
Ibrahim al-Khalil Islam the friend of God was afflicted and given a miracle
like the miracle of Ibrahim al-Khalid salaam and actually this was in the time of abu bakr sadiq
that this happened in medina the point being that um who knew that there would be something like
this and he was informed by the prophet SAW and so he wanted to meet this man
and when he met this man this is what happened, of course, we know of a similar story with Owais
who the prophet saws gave the Bushra about gave the goliath's headings about and um would meet
him later on so there's so much to extract from the story to actually lay the foundation for
the concepts you had a false prophet that was using false miracles the illusion of miracles
to delude the people okay and you have a righteous wali of allah one of the only one of the righteous
who had a miracle that was done for him by Allah, there was no deception here
there was no verbal you know illusion it was just Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessing this
righteous servant of his and he did not use that miracle to attain anything of
this dunya he wanted nothing from this world as a result of that miracle not even fame
in the sight of the companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi he could have boasted to um
I am that man from Yemen and this happened to me but instead he was a humble servant
of allah ta'ala who chose to hide his miracle but because of his righteousness
the same righteousness that Allah bestowed a miracle on him for Allah subhanahu ta ala
caused his miracle to be known by the companions of the Prophet SAW
so with that let's get into this idea inshallah ta'ala when we talk about the miracles of the
awliya the miracles of the righteous let's be clear that there are two extremes when it comes to
the understanding of visible miracles and there's a good book that I used and i'll mention some
of the quotes from that book that was written by the imam and Tamir rahima called al-furqan
the criteria or the distinguished the distinction between the awliya of the friends of
the friends of the most merciful and the awliya of the shaytan the friends of the devil and so
he talks about the difference between the types of people that receive these miracles the difference
between true miracles and false miracles the plots of the past and the indications for
the future and it is a very good book uh in which he distinguishes between
the two and so yes in an era specifically now where you have more tools of deception
and you have more deceiver each page their site of each word brings closer the winds of
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