bismillah. mashaAllah! and jazak Allah khayr for the links to the HD edition. when i first clicked play, i assumed this was one of the treasures of IlmQuest. but learning that this speech took place at ISNA almost makes me want to go next year… or i can pray for more videos of the worthwhile content. :)

This is one the best speeches given by this Sheikh I have heard. I like his speeches, he sticks to the points, gets down to the basic nitty gritty (bottom line) and is not wavering nor distracting.

Zabardast indeed!

I WAS THERE!

Where is part 2?

cant wait for the second part…

Masha Allah, a very beneficial lecture.

At the universit I go to in Seattle, in the past couple of years there has been an increase in the number of orientalist “Islamic courses” being taught. The professor of many of these courses is supposedly a Muslim, but in class he repeatedly bashes Islam by cracking alot of jokes such as (a’udubillah) “the prohphet (SAW) had sex with his wives all in the same night”. Although as the Shaykh was saying in the lecture, this may be historically true from Islamic sources of knowledge, he says it in such a dirty, perverted, and jokingly way. My two sisters attended this class (titled “Muhammed” ) and they were abhored. I uterly dislike the fact that “orientalist Islam” is being taught at the universities, but they will never blow out the light of Allah with their tonges no matter how hard they try. And get this, this winter quarter, that same professor is teaching another class in the neareast (orientalist) department, this time about the Quran (titled:”Quran”). I shutter when I think about the corruption he will plant in the minds of non-muslims and muslims who will attend the course!

@Sister intellect 1429

This might be a good website to go to learn about our Prophet(PBUH) you know hadiths and such……….
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/bukhari/062.sbt.html

wassalam

Habeeby Muhammad

Mumajjad, Mu-ayyad, Muhammad:
Glorious, Victorious, Muhammad.
Ajmal min kulli jameel,
Lam yakun ’anhu badeel,
I love Muhammad.
Ask Hamza Hanson or Michael Jackson,
Ask Yusuf Islam or Ingrid Mattson,
What’s in the world sweeter than a word
From the mouth of Muhammad?
Ask Suhaib Webb or Yusuf Estes
Why they brushed aside
Shakespeare and Cervantes
And followed with pride
The words of Muhammad?
Ask Sheikh Qardawi and Sheikh Tantawi
What but Muhammad’s Light
Made them stars brighter than the cars
In New York at night?
Ask every new convert, be it Jane or Albert,
Is there a man of whom you’d be a fan–
But Muhammad?
Sallo Ya Nass,
Sallo ’Alalhabeeb Muhammad!

Muhammad

What can I say on your day
When every day is your day?
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafi’na on the Last Day!
From the day you stood to say:
O Man ! I’m but a man
Sent to save you, sent to tell you
The way that’ll lead you away
From the one who led you astray
To the One Who made you ’n the best way
And gave you beauty and bounty in every way
And will yet give you joy where you’ll stay
For ever and ever, as you say !
From that day,
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafi’na on the Last Day !
Men came to you on foot and horseback;
They said as you said
And prayed as you prayed
And when attacked, they fought back.
You lived in a shack
While your beauty was brighter than the moon ;
You ate with your hands
While one with your beauty would use a gold spoon ;
You sat on the sands
While one with your glory
Would build himself storey upon storey :
And that’s why your story
Has gone as far as Brunei and Zinjibar
And London and New York
Where people eat with a knife and fork,
They too say as you said
And pray as you prayed
And when wrongly questioned, they answer back.
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafi’na on the Last Day !
What can I say on your day
When every day is your day ?
From just a few those who came to you
Filled every hill, swamped every dale,
They made Time stand still till their tale
Made the mightiest kingdoms frail
And brought the Muslim flag as close as Prague !
The Arabian Nights tells of made-up knights
And of Harun al-Rasheed
Whose life the Truth of your Message
Made eed upon eed !
And yet someone came to draw
A pic of a man whose peer he never saw,
And papers and commentators
Seeking cheap money and fake glory
Made every story
Out of the Story of the man whose glory
Defies all Posts and all Tribunes and all Times !
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafi’na on the Last Day!
What can I say on your day
When every day is your day?
When your name has brought fame
To a Dane who became insane?
What can I say on your day
When night and day
Souls repeat your words
As if they were songs of jungle birds!
Peace be upon you and all those who followed your way!
O Muhammad ! O Taha ! O shafi’na on the Last Day!

I disagree with our beloved Ustadh Yasir Qadhi when he says that this has NOTHING to do with freedom of speech. I don’t think we should argue that line…even though yes, a person who says racist things against blacks is ostracized in America, the Americans would respond by saying: “Although I think what he is saying is horrible and racist, I will defend his right to say whatever he wants. Likewise, I have the right to boycott him with my words.” So they will say that Ustadh Yasir is not understanding properly the issue of freedom of speech.

I think a stronger line of argumentation would be to question the idea of freedom of speech altogether. We should say that we support freedom of good and wholesome speech, whereas we shun evil speech. This entire idea of freedom of speech is a horrible tenet of Western civilization. Yes, we tolerate the discussion of ideas, healthy debate, etc. But this does not mean that we should tolerate hate mongering, curse words, sexual lewdness, vulgarities, racist words, blasphemy, etc.

Salaam alaikum

Jazak Allahu kulli khayr ya Shaikh for your presentation on this topic of paramount importance for us in this time in particular. It was very beneficial and touched on a number of great points. I had one question though in regards to the issue of the marriage of Rasul-Allah (saas) to Zaynab (ra). I believe you said in the presentation that this story was found only in one source and not in books like that of Ibn Ishaaq.

From my readings, it was in fact mentioned in the illicit manner you described in the seerah of Ibn Ishaaq and this is one of the big platforms of attack from orientalists who say, “Look, its in YOUR books!” I believe that this story is also mentioned, albeit in slightly tamer language and description in Tafsir at-Tabari and al-Qurtubi as well as in al-Jawaab al-Kaafi.

The understanding I have of their usage of these declaredly weak narrations was their inference that his alleged statement (saas) of “How lofty is Allah who changes the hearts of men” was because he had known her since she was a child and had never had an interest in her and was in a way surprised when Allah informed him that she would be his wife. When he saw her, and a number of the narrations state only that he saw her in a decent manner (as opposed to those who state that he saw her in a sheer nightgown or otherwise), that love entered his heart for her and he left immediately. The orientalists with their perverted minds can only conclude that he said that because of “lust” he had for her although this was never mentioned in any, not even the weak and fabricated narrations (and a few of these narrations I think don’t even have an isnaad at all!). They all state that love entered his heart. So this is what I understand was the reason behind the fact that some of these very respected and honorable ulamaa in our history may have looked into these narrations at all, wallahu a’lam.

I have also read that even though it was mentioned as an aside in al-Qurtubi’s encyclopedic tafsir, that he concluded at the end that the best conclusion after investigation was the position that what the Prophet (saas) had tried to conceal from people (as stated in the noble ayah) was the prophecy that Zaynab (ra) would indeed be his wife and NOT that he fell in love with her after seeing her in a semi-dressed manner. Al-Qurtubi stated that this was indeed the view of the hadith specialists (who could investigate the chains of narration of these strange reports and thus reject them) like Az-Zuhri, Al-Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn Al-’Arabi and others.

As for the other mufasireen like Ibn Kathir as you mentioned alhamdulillah, they rejected them on a scholarly and not emotional basis. Ibn Kathir states, “Abu Hatim [al-Razi] and Ibn Jarir mentioned here some narrations from some Salaf that we ignored due to their lack of authenticity. Imam Ahmad also related a strange narration by Hammad Ibn Zayd from Thabit from Anas which we also ignored”. Ibn Hajar also stated the same thing. Ibn Kathir further stated in his great book of Seerah something to the effect of, “there are a number of baseless reports on this issue (the marriage of the Prophet to Zaynab) which we will not even mention here.

The way I have responded to those bashers who try to use these dubious narrations has been to point out the fact that even if it was in a book that the ulamaa of this ummah respect and take from (like that of Ibn Ishaaq), that doesn’t mean that we accept everything that was in it, and it doesn’t even mean that Ibn Ishaaq himself believed it. A number of the ulamaa at that time gathered narrations to either investigate at another time, or to have someone else who was more specialized investigate. The fact of the matter is that even if it is in these books, this is not what the consensus of the ulamaa are upon and we can see that even scholars like al-Qurtubi included them out of a sense of completeness only to state in conclusion that this is not their position or the position of the Muslim scholars on this issue.

This is what I have understood but please correct me if I have come to the wrong conclusion or have misunderstood or misquoted some of these references. And once again jazak Allahu kulli khayr for your efforts to teach this deen and to honor our beloved Prophet (saas).