1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,359 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:03,359 --> 00:00:12,919 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. 3 00:00:12,919 --> 00:00:17,480 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:30,300 The negotiations of Quraysh with Abu Talib regarding the Prophet, peace be upon him. 5 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:35,500 When Quraysh realized that their oppression of the vulnerable among the Muslims, 6 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:37,380 and their hostility toward others, 7 00:00:37,420 --> 00:00:41,740 did not turn the people away from responding to the call of Allah, 8 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:45,740 they resorted to the method of negotiation once again. 9 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:50,219 They went to Abu Talib again and said to him: 10 00:00:50,219 --> 00:00:51,979 "O Abu Talib, 11 00:00:51,979 --> 00:00:55,780 you possess age, honor, and status among us. 12 00:00:55,780 --> 00:01:00,700 We have asked you to restrain your nephew, yet you have not restrained him from us. 13 00:01:00,939 --> 00:01:05,260 By Allah, we can no longer endure this insulting of our forefathers, 14 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:08,700 this mockery of our intelligence, and this disparagement of our gods, 15 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,019 unless you restrain him from us, 16 00:01:11,019 --> 00:01:13,939 or we shall fight both him and you regarding this matter, 17 00:01:13,939 --> 00:01:16,980 until one of the two parties is destroyed." 18 00:01:16,980 --> 00:01:22,019 It weighed heavily upon Abu Talib to be estranged from his people and to face their enmity, 19 00:01:22,019 --> 00:01:28,540 yet he could not bring himself to hand over the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, nor to abandon him. 20 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:33,859 He sent for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and said to him: 21 00:01:33,859 --> 00:01:37,700 "O my nephew, your people have come to me, 22 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:40,180 and they have said such-and-such," 23 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:42,340 referring to what they had told him. 24 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:44,739 "So, have mercy upon me and upon yourself, 25 00:01:44,739 --> 00:01:48,780 and do not burden me with a matter I cannot bear." 26 00:01:48,780 --> 00:01:52,340 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, thought 27 00:01:52,340 --> 00:01:55,780 that his uncle had reached his limit regarding him, 28 00:01:55,819 --> 00:01:58,579 and that he was going to abandon him and hand him over, 29 00:01:58,579 --> 00:02:02,730 and that he had become too weak to support him or stand by his side. 30 00:02:02,730 --> 00:02:06,489 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: 31 00:02:06,489 --> 00:02:08,050 "O my uncle, 32 00:02:08,050 --> 00:02:10,849 by Allah, if they were to place the sun in my right hand, 33 00:02:10,849 --> 00:02:13,009 and the moon in my left, 34 00:02:13,009 --> 00:02:15,569 on the condition that I abandon this matter, 35 00:02:15,569 --> 00:02:18,810 until Allah makes it manifest or I perish in the process, 36 00:02:18,810 --> 00:02:20,689 I would not abandon it." 37 00:02:20,689 --> 00:02:25,930 Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was overcome with emotion and wept. 38 00:02:25,969 --> 00:02:27,490 Then he stood up. 39 00:02:27,490 --> 00:02:29,090 As he turned to leave, 40 00:02:29,090 --> 00:02:32,009 Abu Talib called out to him and said: 41 00:02:32,009 --> 00:02:34,009 "Come back, O my nephew." 42 00:02:34,009 --> 00:02:38,409 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, turned back to him, 43 00:02:38,409 --> 00:02:39,689 and he said: 44 00:02:39,689 --> 00:02:43,169 "Go, O my nephew, and say whatever you wish. 45 00:02:43,169 --> 00:02:47,090 For by Allah, I will never hand you over to anyone, ever." 46 00:02:47,090 --> 00:02:48,770 Then he said: 47 00:02:48,770 --> 00:02:52,289 "By Allah, they shall never reach you with their collective might, 48 00:02:52,330 --> 00:02:56,169 until I am laid in the earth, buried." 49 00:02:56,169 --> 00:02:59,849 "So proclaim your command; you have nothing to fear. 50 00:02:59,849 --> 00:03:04,560 Rejoice, and let that bring coolness to your eyes." 51 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,919 In a narration by al-Hakim in his Mustadrak with a hasan (sound) chain, 52 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,879 on the authority of 'Aqil Ibn Abi Talib, he said: 53 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:15,479 "Quraysh came to Abu Talib and said: 54 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:20,199 'Your nephew is harming us in our religion and in our assembly, 55 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:22,439 so forbid him from harming us.' 56 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:25,240 He said to me, 'O 'Aqil, 57 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,280 go to Muhammad.' 58 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,800 He said: So I went to him, 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,919 and I brought him out from a small room." 60 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,919 Talha said: "A small house." 61 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:37,879 It was at midday, due to the intense heat, 62 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:39,919 and he was seeking the shade, 63 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:43,599 walking in it because of the intense heat of the sun-scorched ground. 64 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:45,280 So we came to them, 65 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,199 and Abu Talib said: 66 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:53,000 'Your cousins claim that you are harming them in their club and in their assembly, 67 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,099 so refrain from that.' 68 00:03:55,099 --> 00:04:01,780 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, raised his gaze to the sky and said: 69 00:04:01,780 --> 00:04:04,259 'Do you see this sun?' 70 00:04:04,259 --> 00:04:05,900 They said: 'Yes.' 71 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:07,099 He said: 72 00:04:07,099 --> 00:04:10,979 'I am no more capable of abandoning this than you are 73 00:04:10,979 --> 00:04:14,259 of lighting a flame from it.' 74 00:04:14,259 --> 00:04:16,259 Abu Talib then said: 75 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:19,100 'We have never known my nephew to lie. 76 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:21,620 So go back.'" 77 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:26,750 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 78 00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:31,579 Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-'Azim, 79 00:04:31,579 --> 00:04:38,470 and presented by the Mawaddah Society in the Kingdom of Bahrain. 80 00:04:38,509 --> 00:04:45,350 If the longing of the worlds for one another grows long, 81 00:04:45,350 --> 00:04:52,379 the longing for you has no fathomable end. 82 00:04:52,379 --> 00:04:59,029 May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised, 83 00:04:59,029 --> 00:05:07,040 and as long as lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.