WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.359 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:12.919 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:17.480 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:30.300 The negotiations of Quraysh with Abu Talib regarding the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:35.500 When Quraysh realized that their oppression of the vulnerable among the Muslims, 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:37.380 and their hostility toward others, 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:41.740 did not turn the people away from responding to the call of Allah, 00:00:41.740 --> 00:00:45.740 they resorted to the method of negotiation once again. 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:50.219 They went to Abu Talib again and said to him: 00:00:50.219 --> 00:00:51.979 "O Abu Talib, 00:00:51.979 --> 00:00:55.780 you possess age, honor, and status among us. 00:00:55.780 --> 00:01:00.700 We have asked you to restrain your nephew, yet you have not restrained him from us. 00:01:00.939 --> 00:01:05.260 By Allah, we can no longer endure this insulting of our forefathers, 00:01:05.260 --> 00:01:08.700 this mockery of our intelligence, and this disparagement of our gods, 00:01:08.700 --> 00:01:11.019 unless you restrain him from us, 00:01:11.019 --> 00:01:13.939 or we shall fight both him and you regarding this matter, 00:01:13.939 --> 00:01:16.980 until one of the two parties is destroyed." 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, 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. 00:01:28.620 --> 00:01:33.859 He sent for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and said to him: 00:01:33.859 --> 00:01:37.700 "O my nephew, your people have come to me, 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:40.180 and they have said such-and-such," 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:42.340 referring to what they had told him. 00:01:42.340 --> 00:01:44.739 "So, have mercy upon me and upon yourself, 00:01:44.739 --> 00:01:48.780 and do not burden me with a matter I cannot bear." 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:52.340 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, thought 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:55.780 that his uncle had reached his limit regarding him, 00:01:55.819 --> 00:01:58.579 and that he was going to abandon him and hand him over, 00:01:58.579 --> 00:02:02.730 and that he had become too weak to support him or stand by his side. 00:02:02.730 --> 00:02:06.489 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: 00:02:06.489 --> 00:02:08.050 "O my uncle, 00:02:08.050 --> 00:02:10.849 by Allah, if they were to place the sun in my right hand, 00:02:10.849 --> 00:02:13.009 and the moon in my left, 00:02:13.009 --> 00:02:15.569 on the condition that I abandon this matter, 00:02:15.569 --> 00:02:18.810 until Allah makes it manifest or I perish in the process, 00:02:18.810 --> 00:02:20.689 I would not abandon it." 00:02:20.689 --> 00:02:25.930 Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was overcome with emotion and wept. 00:02:25.969 --> 00:02:27.490 Then he stood up. 00:02:27.490 --> 00:02:29.090 As he turned to leave, 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:32.009 Abu Talib called out to him and said: 00:02:32.009 --> 00:02:34.009 "Come back, O my nephew." 00:02:34.009 --> 00:02:38.409 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, turned back to him, 00:02:38.409 --> 00:02:39.689 and he said: 00:02:39.689 --> 00:02:43.169 "Go, O my nephew, and say whatever you wish. 00:02:43.169 --> 00:02:47.090 For by Allah, I will never hand you over to anyone, ever." 00:02:47.090 --> 00:02:48.770 Then he said: 00:02:48.770 --> 00:02:52.289 "By Allah, they shall never reach you with their collective might, 00:02:52.330 --> 00:02:56.169 until I am laid in the earth, buried." 00:02:56.169 --> 00:02:59.849 "So proclaim your command; you have nothing to fear. 00:02:59.849 --> 00:03:04.560 Rejoice, and let that bring coolness to your eyes." 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.919 In a narration by al-Hakim in his Mustadrak with a hasan (sound) chain, 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.879 on the authority of 'Aqil Ibn Abi Talib, he said: 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.479 "Quraysh came to Abu Talib and said: 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:20.199 'Your nephew is harming us in our religion and in our assembly, 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.439 so forbid him from harming us.' 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.240 He said to me, 'O 'Aqil, 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.280 go to Muhammad.' 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.800 He said: So I went to him, 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.919 and I brought him out from a small room." 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.919 Talha said: "A small house." 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.879 It was at midday, due to the intense heat, 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:39.919 and he was seeking the shade, 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.599 walking in it because of the intense heat of the sun-scorched ground. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.280 So we came to them, 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.199 and Abu Talib said: 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:53.000 'Your cousins claim that you are harming them in their club and in their assembly, 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.099 so refrain from that.' 00:03:55.099 --> 00:04:01.780 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, raised his gaze to the sky and said: 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:04.259 'Do you see this sun?' 00:04:04.259 --> 00:04:05.900 They said: 'Yes.' 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:07.099 He said: 00:04:07.099 --> 00:04:10.979 'I am no more capable of abandoning this than you are 00:04:10.979 --> 00:04:14.259 of lighting a flame from it.' 00:04:14.259 --> 00:04:16.259 Abu Talib then said: 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:19.100 'We have never known my nephew to lie. 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:21.620 So go back.'" 00:04:21.620 --> 00:04:26.750 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 00:04:26.750 --> 00:04:31.579 Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-'Azim, 00:04:31.579 --> 00:04:38.470 and presented by the Mawaddah Society in the Kingdom of Bahrain. 00:04:38.509 --> 00:04:45.350 If the longing of the worlds for one another grows long, 00:04:45.350 --> 00:04:52.379 the longing for you has no fathomable end. 00:04:52.379 --> 00:04:59.029 May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised, 00:04:59.029 --> 00:05:07.040 and as long as lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.