WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.259 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The story of Maryam, daughter of ‘Imran, peace be upon her. 00:00:10.259 --> 00:00:20.199 ‘Isa ibn Maryam defends his mother. 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:23.920 After the people of Maryam said what they said about her, 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.440 they waited for an answer from her regarding their accusations. 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.199 Yet she did not speak, 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:33.719 because she was complying with the command to fast from speech. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.560 Therefore, she used the method of gesturing to respond to them. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.679 She directed the answer to the infant in his cradle. 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:44.640 She pointed to him, 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.960 intending by this gesture: "Ask this child," 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.240 "for he will answer you." 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.520 Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:56.719 Allah, the Exalted, says, 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.039 "When her people said that to her," 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.239 she told them what ‘Isa had commanded her to say to them. 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.370 Then she gestured to them toward ‘Isa, that they should speak to him. 00:01:08.370 --> 00:01:11.609 They were extremely astonished by this. 00:01:11.609 --> 00:01:16.209 They were angered by her silence and her referring them to an infant in the cradle. 00:01:16.209 --> 00:01:17.569 So they said, 00:01:17.569 --> 00:01:22.140 “Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?” (19:29) 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.939 Ibn Kathir, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:01:24.939 --> 00:01:27.819 Meaning, they were suspicious of her affair, 00:01:27.819 --> 00:01:30.099 and they denounced her situation. 00:01:30.099 --> 00:01:35.819 They said to her what they said, implying accusations and casting slanders upon her. 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:40.099 On that day, she was fasting and silent. 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:42.379 So she referred the speech to him, 00:01:42.379 --> 00:01:46.090 and gestured to them to address him and speak to him. 00:01:46.090 --> 00:01:48.569 They said, mocking her, 00:01:48.569 --> 00:01:52.569 thinking that she was belittling them and playing with them. 00:01:52.569 --> 00:01:56.670 “Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy?” (19:29) 00:01:56.670 --> 00:01:59.469 Here came the great sign, 00:01:59.469 --> 00:02:04.150 signaling the innocence of Maryam from what they suspected of her. 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:08.439 Allah caused ‘Isa ibn Maryam to speak while he was in the cradle. 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.840 “He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet,” (19:30) 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.520 “He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet,” (19:30) 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.919 "And He has made me blessed," 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:24.439 "wherever I may be, and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakat," 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.639 "as long as I remain alive." 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.879 "And [made me] dutiful to my mother." 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:34.960 “And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath not made me arrogant, unblest.” (19:32) 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:39.879 “Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!” (19:33) 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.430 "And the day I am raised alive." 00:02:43.430 --> 00:02:46.129 Al-Sa‘di, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:02:46.129 --> 00:02:50.090 ‘Isa, peace be upon him, said while he was an infant in the cradle: 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:52.250 "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah." 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:56.129 “He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet,” (19:30) 00:02:56.129 --> 00:02:59.330 He addressed them by describing himself with servitude, 00:02:59.330 --> 00:03:04.210 and that he possesses no attribute by which he deserves to be a god, 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:06.090 or a son of a god. 00:03:06.090 --> 00:03:11.330 Exalted is Allah above the statement of the Christians who contradict ‘Isa in his saying: 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:13.210 "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah." 00:03:13.210 --> 00:03:16.009 And those who claim his agreement [with their false beliefs]. 00:03:16.009 --> 00:03:18.129 "He has given me the Scripture," 00:03:18.129 --> 00:03:21.370 meaning, He decreed that He would give me the Scripture, 00:03:21.370 --> 00:03:23.569 "and made me a prophet." 00:03:23.569 --> 00:03:26.370 So he informed them that he is the servant of Allah, 00:03:26.370 --> 00:03:29.050 and that Allah taught him the Scripture, 00:03:29.050 --> 00:03:32.250 and made him one of His prophets. 00:03:32.250 --> 00:03:35.169 This is from his perfection for himself. 00:03:35.169 --> 00:03:38.729 Then he mentioned his perfecting of others, saying: 00:03:38.729 --> 00:03:42.330 "And He has made me blessed wherever I may be." 00:03:42.330 --> 00:03:45.810 Meaning, in any place and at any time. 00:03:45.810 --> 00:03:49.610 For blessing is what Allah places in one who teaches goodness, 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:52.650 calls to it, and forbids evil, 00:03:52.689 --> 00:03:56.449 and calls to Allah in his words and deeds. 00:03:56.449 --> 00:03:59.449 So everyone who sat with him or gathered with him, 00:03:59.449 --> 00:04:01.210 attained his blessing, 00:04:01.210 --> 00:04:04.030 and his companion was happy because of him. 00:04:04.030 --> 00:04:08.389 “And hath made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive,” (19:31) 00:04:08.389 --> 00:04:11.629 Meaning, He enjoined upon me the fulfillment of His rights, 00:04:11.629 --> 00:04:13.949 the greatest of which is prayer, 00:04:13.949 --> 00:04:15.830 and the rights of His servants, 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:18.069 the most noble of which is zakat, 00:04:18.069 --> 00:04:20.189 for the duration of my life. 00:04:20.709 --> 00:04:23.750 So I am complying with the commandment of my Lord, 00:04:23.750 --> 00:04:26.870 acting upon it and implementing it. 00:04:26.870 --> 00:04:30.389 "And He has enjoined upon me to be dutiful to my mother," 00:04:30.389 --> 00:04:33.430 so I treat her with the utmost kindness, 00:04:33.430 --> 00:04:35.829 and I fulfill what is due to her, 00:04:35.829 --> 00:04:37.990 because of her honor and virtue, 00:04:37.990 --> 00:04:43.430 and because she is a mother who has the right of motherhood and its consequences. 00:04:43.430 --> 00:04:45.870 "And He has not made me a tyrant," 00:04:45.870 --> 00:04:50.149 meaning, arrogant toward Allah, or haughty toward His servants, 00:04:50.149 --> 00:04:54.110 or wretched in this world or the next. 00:04:54.110 --> 00:04:56.470 He did not make me such, 00:04:56.470 --> 00:05:00.230 rather, He made me obedient to Him, submissive, humble, 00:05:00.230 --> 00:05:03.750 lowly and modest before the servants of Allah, 00:05:03.750 --> 00:05:06.470 happy in this world and the Hereafter, 00:05:06.470 --> 00:05:09.100 I and those who follow me. 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:13.420 With this, ‘Isa ibn Maryam, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:16.899 has cleared his mother of what they suspected of her, 00:05:16.899 --> 00:05:20.180 because the speech of a child in the cradle is not customary 00:05:20.180 --> 00:05:21.579 among humans, 00:05:21.579 --> 00:05:26.540 except in the case of a miracle and a sign from Allah, the Almighty and Majestic. 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:30.139 Such as what happened to Maryam, peace be upon her. 00:05:30.139 --> 00:05:35.180 When the people of Maryam, peace be upon her, saw this great sign, 00:05:35.180 --> 00:05:38.449 they became certain of her innocence and her truthfulness. 00:05:38.449 --> 00:05:41.410 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has informed us 00:05:41.410 --> 00:05:44.370 about three who spoke in the cradle, 00:05:44.370 --> 00:05:46.730 among them ‘Isa ibn Maryam. 00:05:46.730 --> 00:05:50.129 On the authority of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: 00:05:50.129 --> 00:05:54.050 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 00:05:54.050 --> 00:05:57.529 "No one spoke in the cradle except three: 00:05:57.529 --> 00:05:59.370 ‘Isa ibn Maryam." 00:05:59.370 --> 00:06:05.810 He said: "There was a devout man from the Children of Israel called Jurayj. 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:09.449 He built a hermitage and worshipped in it." 00:06:09.449 --> 00:06:14.689 He said: "One day, the Children of Israel mentioned the worship of Jurayj. 00:06:14.689 --> 00:06:17.009 A prostitute among them said, 00:06:17.009 --> 00:06:19.689 'If you wish, I will tempt him.' 00:06:19.689 --> 00:06:22.529 They said, 'We wish.' 00:06:22.529 --> 00:06:26.129 He said: 'She came to him and exposed herself to him, 00:06:26.129 --> 00:06:28.449 but he did not pay any attention to her. 00:06:28.449 --> 00:06:30.649 So she offered herself to a shepherd 00:06:30.649 --> 00:06:34.810 who used to shelter his sheep at the base of Jurayj's hermitage. 00:06:34.810 --> 00:06:37.850 She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. 00:06:37.850 --> 00:06:39.850 They asked, 'From whom?' 00:06:39.850 --> 00:06:42.329 She said, 'From Jurayj.' 00:06:42.329 --> 00:06:44.649 They came to him, brought him down, 00:06:44.649 --> 00:06:46.649 insulted him, beat him, 00:06:46.649 --> 00:06:48.769 and demolished his hermitage. 00:06:48.810 --> 00:06:51.009 He said, 'What is the matter with you?' 00:06:51.009 --> 00:06:54.889 They said, 'You committed adultery with this prostitute, 00:06:54.889 --> 00:06:56.930 and she gave birth to a boy.' 00:06:56.930 --> 00:06:59.370 He said, 'Where is he?' 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:02.129 They said, 'There he is.' 00:07:02.129 --> 00:07:05.889 He stood up, prayed, and supplicated, 00:07:05.889 --> 00:07:07.970 then he went to the boy, 00:07:07.970 --> 00:07:09.930 poked him with his finger, 00:07:09.930 --> 00:07:13.129 and said, 'By Allah, O boy, 00:07:13.129 --> 00:07:14.689 who is your father?' 00:07:14.689 --> 00:07:17.769 He said, 'I am the son of the shepherd.' 00:07:17.769 --> 00:07:19.649 They rushed to Jurayj, 00:07:19.649 --> 00:07:21.850 and began to kiss him, 00:07:21.850 --> 00:07:25.930 and said, 'We will build your hermitage out of gold.' 00:07:25.930 --> 00:07:29.410 He said, 'I have no need for that. 00:07:29.410 --> 00:07:32.850 Build it out of mud as it was.' 00:07:32.850 --> 00:07:38.290 He said: 'While a woman was holding her son in her lap, nursing him, 00:07:38.290 --> 00:07:41.370 a rider of noble appearance passed by her. 00:07:41.370 --> 00:07:45.930 She said, 'O Allah, make my son like him.' 00:07:46.850 --> 00:07:49.810 He left her breast and turned to the rider, 00:07:49.810 --> 00:07:54.399 and said, 'O Allah, do not make me like him.' 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:58.889 He said: 'Then he returned to her breast and began to suckle.' 00:07:58.889 --> 00:08:00.689 Abu Hurayrah said: 00:08:00.689 --> 00:08:05.329 'It is as if I am looking at the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:08:05.329 --> 00:08:07.370 imitating the action of the child, 00:08:07.370 --> 00:08:10.009 and placing his finger in his mouth, 00:08:10.009 --> 00:08:12.230 and he began to suck it.' 00:08:12.230 --> 00:08:14.870 'Then a slave girl passed by, being beaten. 00:08:14.910 --> 00:08:19.750 She said, 'O Allah, do not make my son like her.' 00:08:19.750 --> 00:08:23.629 He said: 'He left her breast and turned to the slave girl, 00:08:23.629 --> 00:08:28.370 and said, 'O Allah, make me like her.' 00:08:28.370 --> 00:08:32.529 He said: 'That is when they discussed the matter.' 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:36.690 She said, 'A rider of noble appearance passed by, 00:08:36.690 --> 00:08:40.570 and I said, 'O Allah, make my son like him,' 00:08:40.570 --> 00:08:44.809 and you said, 'O Allah, do not make me like him.' 00:08:44.850 --> 00:08:47.850 And this slave girl passed by, and I said, 00:08:47.850 --> 00:08:51.090 'O Allah, do not make my son like her,' 00:08:51.090 --> 00:08:55.250 and you said, 'O Allah, make me like her.' 00:08:55.250 --> 00:08:58.250 He said, 'O mother, 00:08:58.250 --> 00:09:02.649 the rider of noble appearance is a tyrant among the tyrants, 00:09:02.649 --> 00:09:05.809 and this slave girl, they say she committed adultery, 00:09:05.809 --> 00:09:07.250 but she did not commit adultery, 00:09:07.250 --> 00:09:08.370 and they say she stole, 00:09:08.370 --> 00:09:09.970 but she did not steal, 00:09:09.970 --> 00:09:13.330 and she says, 'Allah is sufficient for me.''" 00:09:13.370 --> 00:09:16.320 Narrated by Ahmad and al-Bukhari. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.600 The speech of ‘Isa in the cradle 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.279 is a sign from the great signs of Allah, 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.639 indicating his prophethood, 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.080 and the truthfulness of his mother, 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.669 and Allah's choosing of her. 00:09:28.669 --> 00:09:30.669 And the speech of the child of the prostitute, 00:09:30.669 --> 00:09:32.350 the companion of Jurayj, 00:09:32.350 --> 00:09:34.950 is a sign from the signs of Allah, 00:09:34.950 --> 00:09:38.549 which Allah made as a miracle for Jurayj the devout, 00:09:38.549 --> 00:09:40.309 indicating his innocence 00:09:40.350 --> 00:09:43.669 from what was attributed to him of adultery with the prostitute. 00:09:43.669 --> 00:09:46.029 It is an indication of Allah's support 00:09:46.029 --> 00:09:49.379 for His allies and His defense of them. 00:09:49.379 --> 00:09:52.460 And the speech of the infant with his mother 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:54.820 is a sign from the signs of Allah, 00:09:54.820 --> 00:09:57.299 which Allah made as a lesson for us, 00:09:57.299 --> 00:10:00.419 so that we weigh matters with their legal scale, 00:10:00.419 --> 00:10:03.539 and not be deceived by glittering appearances, 00:10:03.539 --> 00:10:05.179 and so the mother may learn 00:10:05.179 --> 00:10:09.370 how to direct her wishes for her child. 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:14.129 For the details of the story of Maryam, peace be upon her, 00:10:14.129 --> 00:10:18.809 were not known by many of the rabbis of the Jews and the Christians. 00:10:18.809 --> 00:10:23.129 It is from the unseen which Allah, the Glorified and Exalted, revealed 00:10:23.129 --> 00:10:26.529 to His Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 00:10:26.529 --> 00:10:28.529 Allah, the Exalted, says: 00:10:28.529 --> 00:10:36.649 "That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you." 00:10:36.809 --> 00:10:41.970 “This is of the tidings of things hidden. We reveal it unto thee (Muhammad). Thou wast not present with them when they threw their pens (to know) which of them should be the guardian of Mary, nor wast thou present with them when they quarrelled (thereupon).” (3:44) 00:10:41.970 --> 00:10:46.889 "Which of them should have the custody of Maryam." 00:10:46.889 --> 00:10:52.990 “This is of the tidings of things hidden. We reveal it unto thee (Muhammad). Thou wast not present with them when they threw their pens (to know) which of them should be the guardian of Mary, nor wast thou present with them when they quarrelled (thereupon).” (3:44) 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:56.309 Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:10:56.309 --> 00:10:59.950 These tidings are from the tidings of the unseen, 00:10:59.950 --> 00:11:02.389 meaning from the news of the unseen. 00:11:02.389 --> 00:11:04.309 And he means by the unseen, 00:11:04.350 --> 00:11:07.190 that it is from the hidden news of the people, 00:11:07.190 --> 00:11:12.070 which you, O Muhammad, did not know, nor did your people, 00:11:12.070 --> 00:11:17.950 and it was not known except by a few of the rabbis of the two Scriptures and their monks. 00:11:17.950 --> 00:11:23.470 Then Allah, the Exalted, informed His Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:11:23.470 --> 00:11:27.669 that He revealed that to him as a proof of his prophethood, 00:11:27.669 --> 00:11:29.789 and a confirmation of his truthfulness, 00:11:29.789 --> 00:11:35.710 and a cutting off of the excuse of those who deny his message among the disbelievers of the two Scriptures, 00:11:35.710 --> 00:11:42.470 who know that Muhammad did not reach the knowledge of these tidings despite their hidden nature, 00:11:42.470 --> 00:11:46.750 and did not attain knowledge of them despite their obscurity among their own people, 00:11:46.750 --> 00:11:50.190 Except by Allah informing him of that. 00:11:50.190 --> 00:11:52.549 Since it was well-known among them, 00:11:52.549 --> 00:11:58.629 that Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was unlettered and did not write so that he could read books, 00:11:58.669 --> 00:12:02.230 thereby attaining knowledge of that through books, 00:12:02.230 --> 00:12:07.379 nor did he associate with the People of the Book to acquire his knowledge from them. 00:12:07.379 --> 00:12:10.179 Ibn 'Atiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:12:10.179 --> 00:12:15.980 "In this verse is a clear proof of the prophethood of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:20.740 for he brought them tidings of the unseen that none could know except one who had witnessed them, 00:12:20.740 --> 00:12:23.100 yet he was not present among them, 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:26.500 nor had he read of them in the books of the People of the Book. 00:12:26.539 --> 00:12:32.379 Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was unlettered, from an unlettered people, 00:12:32.379 --> 00:12:34.980 or [he knew them] because Allah informed him of them, 00:12:34.980 --> 00:12:38.919 and that is indeed the case, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him." 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:40.679 Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:45.399 has recounted to us in the Qur'an the story of Maryam in its full detail, 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.960 and made it a proof against the Jews and the Christians, 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:55.299 so that they might believe in the prophethood of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 00:12:55.299 --> 00:12:56.899 We, likewise, 00:12:56.899 --> 00:13:03.139 ought to relate the details of this story to the Christians around us, 00:13:03.139 --> 00:13:05.799 so that they might believe. 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:11.830 But what is the stance of the Jews and the Christians regarding Maryam, peace be upon her? 00:13:11.830 --> 00:13:15.350 We shall continue in a future meeting, if Allah wills. 00:13:15.350 --> 00:13:18.190 And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. 00:13:19.379 --> 00:13:22.220 The story of Maryam, daughter of 'Imran.