 The mysteries of Islam fascinate us time and time again This is no different from the life story of the Prophet Who was Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wasallam and Illiterate doesn't merchant who one day stumbled upon amazing Arabic rhetoric or was he the creation of Allah's greatest light? sent down to earth to pull man out of ignorance and bring them to the purest of truths I I Ali Burji I'm on a journey to discover the real story behind the Prophet The real story behind our religion the roots the beginning the cradle of civilization so doctor regarding the process of Creation of Nabi Adam the story goes or the facts mentioned that Allah SubhanAla ordered the Malayka and Iblis Satan To prostrate perform sujood to Adam Nabi Adam Now from what we've you've told me so far the question that comes up is since Allah SubhanAla Created Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam first and He's his position and his rank is Above and beyond anyone else within the existence Why didn't Allah SubhanAla order them to prostrate to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and they prostrate to Nabi Adam instead? Well the various Answers could be at least we can guess what the answers may be but At least Allah SubhanAla. He said that I have created this At least I want to create Adam when I create a faqaulahu saajudin. So I want you to prostrate to it and We get some hint in here and We have of course hadith that Allah SubhanAla when it created Adam we have the hadith that Allah didn't order The the the the the the 14 maasum to prostrate to Adam that is one it's in the hadith in the ayah in the Quran and Surah Saad It says Why didn't you Allah addresses? Eblis Why didn't you prostrate to Adam? Now that I've created him with my own hands Have you has pride taken over you or are you one of the? High exalted or one of the elite Asta kberta amkunta minal aaleen Yeah, Asta kberta Allah SubhanAla asked him Are you overcome? by pride You feel hokey and and that you don't want it or are you one of the Ali meaning that Allah? SubhanAla is indicating that there were some who didn't exactly there was some where I mean where the Ali They were exempt from this who were they? I mean, I mean, I know Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali salat was so loud So we have it in the Quran in here that Allah SubhanAla had not ordered them to Allah had ordered the Malayka to prostrate to Adam So what simple as that what was the person of the meaning of the prostration? What did it represent? Why would Allah SubhanAla order them to prostrate to Adam? It's gonna say that a cram and the Adam Ta'at and Lillah is to in obedience with Allah SubhanAla Allah's command They do sujood to Allah, but in honoring This new creation this Adam to honor Adam They did that first and foremost at least that that was first of all with the Allah SubhanAla order them to do to prostrate to Adam and They have to do that out of their obedience to Allah SubhanAla. Yes, and and of course this whole thing is to honor and to honor Adam, alaihi salam and and of course We have the story that out of the all the Malayka whom whom they prostrated for to Adam Eblis didn't and Allah asks this question Which of course is very interesting in the sense that Other than Adam is very clear other than Adam other than the Malayka other than the Jinn the chief of whom was if you like Eblis There were people who were regarded as a lean the high exalted or the elite Okay Probably the high exalted is if you like the term which they use in the English translation of the of the Quran for the word al-een as-saq-barte am-kunta min al-al-een. So Allah SubhanAla is is very clear in alluding to the fact that there are people over and above the Malayka the angels and Adam and the Jinn Who are referred to as the Ali. So when they say That Eblis for example out of his ignorance or arrogance or jealousy Did not prostrate so does that mean that he acknowledged and recognized the position of Rasulullah and his ahlul bayt alayhum as-salam and out of In jealousy towards them and not Nabi Adam meaning that he wasn't really jealous at Nabi Adam's Creation figure if I may put it he was he was he was jealous of No, he'll at least at least we go at face value is in here in the Quran says Khalaq to who Khalaq to me mennar wa Khalaq to humane You know, I'm not going to prostrate to him You created me from fire and you created him from clay or dust earth and in his opinion fire is superior to Clay or to earth Mud dust so his issue had to do so it's yeah with with Nabi Adam It's it's with Nabi Adam. It's basically he he has been instructed to pray it's like to do Sujood or prostrate to another being and Yeah, out of his arrogance You know, he couldn't he couldn't Accept that and of course out of his Disobedience he had that in him that he could manage to disobey the order of Allah's father because at least if you were worshipping If he was worshipping Allah if he were worshipping Allah he he should have Done so regardless Even if except Allah's order exactly what he likes to know and of course Allah Imam sadaq alayhi s-salam He refused this argument that Fire is superior to earth Saying that fire is from wood and wood comes from the earth When you have a tree growing out of the earth, so if you like the Priority if you like the main thing the source of this is the earth Which enables the tree the plant to grow and becomes a tree and then that tree is Used to Generate fire So ma'ma sadaq refused the argument in that way. He says this this argument is false But apart from that Where there is argument is right or wrong at least even if he had he was right in his Presumption that you know It's something that he you know I'm superior at least my the essence of my material is superior to Adams he should have accepted Allah's order, but of course He didn't and of course his argument is wrong according to the hadith from ma'ma sadaq alayhi s-salam but Yeah, it's to do it was to do with Adam and it was to show his His disobedience This proves that he is not really Obedient to Allah even though he was worshipping Allah and so on there are hadith that he did Frustration to Allah for 2,000 years and in one raka'a and so on and so forth all of that came to nothing when he managed To disobey the command of Allah swt Is there anything else to it other than just him disobeying Allah because his Jealousy towards the creation not recognizing it as the perfect creation of Allah Is there anything more to the sujood to Adam alayhi s-salam did it because I've read that Allah swt mentioned about the Khilafah The Allah swt has made Adam alayhi s-salam The caliph on this earth any John for the other caliph Some time placing a caliph Yes on earth and I may be you can see where I'm going with this no go on no So basically because I've heard I've heard before That the prostration Also had to do with not only Rasulullah's Message and prophethood, but also the will of Amir al-Mu'mineen alayhi s-salam. Is that true? They've been if you like Parallels drawn By the Imam even I think Fatimah Zara alayhi s-salam and where it has the masumine and saying that that Even though Iblees Worshiped Allah for thousands of years if Probably tens of thousands of years or even more if one one of his rack or his one of his sajda in sujood He spent 2,000 years in one of his sajda. So that means he worshiped Allah for much longer than that the Imam says that all of that came to nothing if If he didn't make Now that he made him he did not obey Allah's order in making sujood for making prostration to Adam the Imam says Those who worship Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and so on and they pray and fast and so on and so forth and Don't have don't obey Allah in Accepting the successor of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ta'ala comes to the same effect Allah didn't accept the worship and Of of Iblees because he refused to pray to sorry he because he refused to frustrate to Adam same thing in here that the Well acts of worship will not be accepted if you don't accept the The instruction of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala which is the point divine appointment of Imam Ali alaihi s-salam and the fourth and 12 Imam after the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ta'ala Is that clear Yeah, you I mean you could for example, I could pray fast Come Zaka hajj and all that. Yeah, but last of my life. I don't accept the will I offer Mirmumi alaihi s-salam With the will I which is divine which comes from Allah? Yes, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ta'ala on divine instructions Appointed Imam Ali alaihi s-salam to be his his successor to lead the nation After him and of course the other Imam's the other 11 of them. This was a divine instruction That the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ta'ala Implemented on the day of Adir if one doesn't accept that then All other acts of worship come to nothing same as the Iblis with the prostration Subhanallah, how how similar it is and so they've drawn such parallels and we have it in the Hadith of the grown such patterns So basically when Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala when Allah instructs you to do something you have to do it Your opinion doesn't count. Yes, you know your opinion doesn't count energy as And always Allah means best for you. So whether you don't get it now Eventually, you might get it later on that what he asked for you is what's best for you? Just as for example You pray Salat al-Subah the morning prayer to Raka. You pray the Maghrib prayer prayer through Raka Well, but I don't ask for Raka You don't come and change things You don't say okay. I'm gonna pray a Morning prayer through Raka as well. Well, well, I'm praying an extra Raka Well, no, you have to do the way you've been told to do Allah has instructed us to do it in this way My opinion doesn't count doesn't come into this into in the fundamental into the fundamentals of religion and the same way in here if That doesn't happen if if if Iblis doesn't do that then all of his acts but not but of course Iblis asked for when he was dejected if you like from From fathers, he said give me time he wanted time so that and on the day until the day of resurrection and Allah says Will give you a set time? in a young in Malum and Then he said I will do My utmost to try to deviate the descendants of this guy of Adam Of course He's been Unfortunately highly successful. Yes, indeed and and of course in various ways and in Various ways, I mean you you Let's keep it at that. Okay. Okay at the moment. There's a call a doctor. So we've pretty much covered and the Topic of creation the beginning what happened now? We've got Dunya. We've got Jannah and Nabi Adam has been sent to the world We know what happened with Harbil Qabil History took its course Fortunately man disobeyed the prophets Nabinooh, alaihi salam. We know what happened with the Catastrophe there the great flood and Basically, I want to start getting into Rasulullah's life Now obviously mecca mecca did not exist back then as as we know it now It's simple even the Kaaba I've heard that Nabi Adam, alaihi salam. What's the first? To construct the house of Allah Allah the holy Kaaba But Nabi Ibrahim as well was given this honor and duty with his with his son Nabi is Hawk alaihi salam. It's my smile. Sorry So How I want to understand here how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is building the foundation to create the background in which Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will come because Mecca did not exist so Let's say it's Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam the founder of Mecca. Is that correct to say or was was Nabi Adam the founder? in order for life to start not evolve But for example, we knew that in the hijjahs in that area that it was lifeless. There wasn't any life Nabi Ibrahim sent his wife Sarah No, sorry Hajj, yeah, and They were the first to live there Correct with her son. It's my smile. They were the first to live there and Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam was was instructed. Sorry was instructed to build the holy Kaaba now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knew obviously that Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will be sent to Mecca The construction of the holy Kaaba was the foundation of Mecca to be created, correct? Yeah now How how did it come to be how did it evolve that okay Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam builds the holy Kaaba and Arabs of the area get attracted to to the holy Kaaba did he talk to them basically The religion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Tawhid monotheism and told them that this is the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did actually Ibrahim alaihi salam informed them that one day the the great prophet Would be born here. Did he inform them? How did it begin basically what I'm trying to grasp here is a history of Mecca before the arrival of the holy prophet How did it all begin with mecca? Yes, as you as you mentioned that Adam alaihi salam was instructed to build the Kaaba if you like the the cubicle house of God That we have that who to build it in that location in Makkah and With Makkah being the if you like the most A favorite place if you like a specific places it wasn't a any By chance they place the Kaaba there. It was by design Okay, do we have any hadith so it doesn't mention the whole Quran regarding the importance of the yes, there are Hadith that if you like The land of Makkah was the origin when where from where the creation of at least the earth was created and informed so and and the The Kaaba if you like the bait was placed there and Adam alaihi salam when he came He was instructed to build the the Kaaba and of course Again for the purpose of Hajj and he performed Hajj and Tawaf There and of course when we see that Nabi Allah Ibrahim ala Nabi Nau alaihi wa alaihi salam He Built the Kaaba obviously show it goes to show that the Kaaba has been must have been if like Destroyed or damaged in the course between you know Adam and and Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam so he had to he had to do that again And of course we have in the Quran that with the help of his son Ismael whom he had brought along with his wife Hajar to stay there, which of course we can go into that later on But yeah, they build the Kaaba again at that time of course we have various In history that the Kaaba has has been damaged or destroyed as a result of either national phenomena like floods and so on or as a result of Deliberate acts of destruction like what Yazid Ibn Muawiyah did when he ordered his general to set fire to to the Kaaba and They the army of Yazid which invaded they catapulted fire Using Manjaniq. They catapulted the fire onto the Kaaba and destroyed it So either because of deliberate act The Kaaba has been damaged or destroyed or because of natural phenomena like flooding So that's if you like the shortest thing. So yes, Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam did it came to put right or rebuild the Kaaba again When it was his time and when he did that is that when people start traveling towards Mecca How did Mecca become inhabited? Basically, how what was the procedure of it once once Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam well when when according to the story that we have the narrations that there are that when Nabi Ibrahim alaihi salam left his Wife Hager an instruction from Allah swt and his son Esmael baby son there and of course they ran out of food and water whatever they had with them and Esmael was thirsty baby Esmael was thirsty and his wife his mother Hager started looking for water she went You know, she was looking at the distance She could see if you like it was a mirage, but she could see as if there were water there She went there. There was no water. She looked back and She could see again where she came from there was as if there were water because she could see this mirage so she went back and forth between These two in this valley that she was staying between Safa and Marwa what is what is now referred to as Safa and Marwa She went back and forth and it happened to be that seven times, but in the process or in the meantime apparently where baby Esmael was sitting or lying he was digging his feet in the In the soil water started to flow of course by the grace of Allah swt and that became known as the well of Zem Zem Which still exists and of course that helped them to survive and Obviously when you had water you have plantation and That was the first steps towards having a inhabitants there so people start to Migrate or try to converge there at least to use it as a stopover to go to other places, but gradually Mac Mac became a place to live With with this being the starting point the religions that the various prophets brought Was nothing but Islam Allah's plan they did those prophets whether it was Moses Jesus Abraham Noah and so on they were despised by Allah's plan to Allah as prophets and messengers to humanity and They came along with a message And with the religion and that religion is Nothing but Islam So the religion of all these women in the Dina and Allah Islam so Allah wouldn't send different religion to different different prophets and different people