1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:04,299 Stop. 2 00:00:04,299 --> 00:00:12,179 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 3 00:00:12,179 --> 00:00:16,179 A new challenge: Who am I? 4 00:00:16,179 --> 00:00:24,739 I am the poet of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and his companion. 5 00:00:24,739 --> 00:00:27,739 I am the master of the believing poets. 6 00:00:27,739 --> 00:00:32,740 I am the one supported by the Holy Spirit, Jibril, peace be upon him. 7 00:00:32,740 --> 00:00:35,740 I am from the Ansar, from the tribe of Banu al-Najjar. 8 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:39,740 The maternal uncles of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 9 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:44,770 I was born in Medina sixty years before Islam. 10 00:00:44,770 --> 00:00:48,659 And I lived in Islam for sixty years. 11 00:00:48,659 --> 00:00:53,659 When the Prophet, peace be upon him, arrived in Medina, 12 00:00:53,659 --> 00:00:56,659 The Quraysh satirized him through their poets. 13 00:00:56,659 --> 00:01:00,659 So the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to me: 14 00:01:00,659 --> 00:01:02,659 "Satirize them." 15 00:01:02,659 --> 00:01:05,659 But I feared that I might be struck by what they were struck by. 16 00:01:05,659 --> 00:01:09,659 So I said to him, "By the One who sent you with the truth, 17 00:01:09,659 --> 00:01:13,659 I shall extract you from them as a hair is extracted from dough." 18 00:01:13,659 --> 00:01:15,659 So I satirized them. 19 00:01:15,659 --> 00:01:19,659 Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to me: 20 00:01:19,659 --> 00:01:22,659 "You have healed [our hearts] and found healing." 21 00:01:22,659 --> 00:01:27,659 And the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to me: 22 00:01:27,659 --> 00:01:29,659 "Satirize the Quraysh, 23 00:01:29,659 --> 00:01:34,430 for it is more painful to them than a volley of arrows." 24 00:01:34,430 --> 00:01:37,430 The Prophet, peace be upon him, used to 25 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:40,430 set up a pulpit for me in the mosque, 26 00:01:40,430 --> 00:01:43,430 so I would stand upon it and defend him. 27 00:01:43,430 --> 00:01:47,430 And the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, would say: 28 00:01:47,430 --> 00:01:52,430 "Allah supports you with Jibril, the Holy Spirit, 29 00:01:52,430 --> 00:01:56,230 as long as you defend His Messenger." 30 00:01:56,230 --> 00:02:02,230 Al-Muqawqis, the King of Egypt, gifted two slave girls to the Prophet, peace be upon him. 31 00:02:02,230 --> 00:02:06,299 They were Mariyah and her sister Sirin. 32 00:02:06,299 --> 00:02:11,300 The Prophet, peace be upon him, kept Mariyah for himself, 33 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:13,300 and gifted her sister to me. 34 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:15,300 She embraced Islam while with me, 35 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:18,300 so I freed her and married her. 36 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:21,300 She bore me 'Abd al-Rahman. 37 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:23,300 Thus, my son 'Abd al-Rahman 38 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,300 and the son of the Messenger of Allah, Ibrahim, 39 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,030 were cousins. 40 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:32,030 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, passed by me one day 41 00:02:32,030 --> 00:02:35,030 while I was reciting poetry in the mosque. 42 00:02:35,030 --> 00:02:38,030 He looked at me with a disapproving glance, 43 00:02:38,030 --> 00:02:40,030 so I said to him: 44 00:02:40,030 --> 00:02:45,030 "I used to recite in this mosque while someone better than you was present." 45 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:48,099 'Umar replied, "You have spoken the truth." 46 00:02:48,099 --> 00:02:54,770 I have struggled alongside the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, with my soul and my tongue, 47 00:02:54,770 --> 00:02:57,770 and I witnessed every battle with him. 48 00:02:57,770 --> 00:03:01,770 I was never a coward for a single day in my life, 49 00:03:01,770 --> 00:03:03,770 contrary to what has been rumored about me. 50 00:03:03,770 --> 00:03:08,439 I have been favored over other poets in three ways: 51 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:11,439 I was the poet of the Ansar during the Age of Ignorance, 52 00:03:11,439 --> 00:03:16,439 the poet of the Prophet, peace be upon him, during his Prophethood, 53 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:20,439 and the poet of all of Yemen during Islam. 54 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:26,599 So, who am I? 55 00:03:36,819 --> 00:03:39,819 If Allah wills.