 Once the messengers, along with a group of his companions, were returning from an expedition. They had gone up for a battle and then they were returning back home. So remember this would take many days to get back home. And most of it was just by foot. So as they are traveling, they overcome with tiredness and so they decided to take a small break. Tired to take a rest. So the Prophet ﷺ, this is a sunnah by the way, is like a midday nap. Not like for five hours, but just for a short nap. So in the Mi'ala ﷺ, he takes a siesta and he sleeps underneath a tree and his companions are sleeping around him. Before he does so, ﷺ he takes his sword and he hangs it over a branch on the tree. And then he lays down ﷺ and he goes to sleep. As the Sahaba are there and everyone is sleeping, a man sneaks into the camp. No one is aware. He's undetected. He comes in, comes to the Prophet ﷺ. He knows who he is ﷺ and he grabs the sword and he unsheaths it. And the Mi'ala ﷺ wakes up and he sees the man standing over him. With the sword in his hand pointed at him ﷺ. So he stands up, the Prophet ﷺ, and he addresses the man. So the man asks him a question. The first question he asks him is, Atakhafuni? The man asks him, are you afraid of me? What do you think your Prophet ﷺ's response is? La. Looks him right in the eyes, dead in the eyes. No. Imagine the courage of the Prophet ﷺ. The bravery. In today's parlance it would be like looking down the barrel of a loaded gun. And the Prophet ﷺ looks at him straight and says no. And so the man obviously, you know, has a question that immediately comes to mind. Why isn't he afraid, ﷺ? So he asks him, Mi'ala ﷺ, who will defend you from me right now? Like, why aren't you afraid? I have a knife right here, a sword right in front of your face and you're not afraid? And the Prophet ﷺ, what do you think his response is? He doesn't say, hey, man, try me. I'm the Prophet of God. Try me. See what happens. He doesn't say that. He doesn't say that. Why don't you look around? We've got hundreds of companions here. You try anything. See what they do to you. He doesn't say that either. What is his response to the Prophet ﷺ? He said, who will defend you? Who will protect you? He said, Allah. That's it. The moment he says the name of Allah ﷺ, the man's sword drops from his hand. Look at the conviction the Prophet ﷺ had just in that one word. The strength of the Prophet ﷺ's faith and his Iman, his Yaqeen, his certainty. That if Allah went to Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, he could suspend cause and effect right there. This guy's got a sword in his hand. Allah can turn it into a drop of water right then and there. And so the man drops the sword. The Prophet ﷺ reaches over and he grabs it. The man is paralyzed. He can't move. He can't move. The Prophet ﷺ grows and he grabs the sword and he points it at the man now. And he says to him the same thing. Who is going to protect you from me now? The man is like, what do you think he's going to say? He has no one around him to defend himself. No one around him. So he looks at the Prophet ﷺ and he ignores the question. He ignores the question. He says something totally irrelevant. He says, be the better of the two guys. Be the better of both of us. And so the Prophet ﷺ looks at him and he says, okay. He doesn't strike him ﷺ. And then he asks him a question. He says, He says, do you bear witness that Allah is the only one worthy of worship and I'm the messenger of God? What do you think the man's response is? No. And he says, no, the guy doesn't accept Islam. He's like, no. You think, man, this is the Prophet of war, right? He should be striking the guy down right now. What does the Nabi ﷺ do? He looks at him. He says, okay. The man says, Okay, I won't accept Islam. However, I'll tell you one thing. I will never fight you. I will never wage war against you. Nor will I ever support any group of people that ever fights against you. I promise you have my word. And the Prophet ﷺ takes him at his word and he says, okay, no problem. The man goes back to his people and he comes to them and he says, man, you're not going to believe this. What happened? I have come to you from the presence of the greatest human being I've ever met. In this hadith, there's so much to be taken and so much to be learned. But we'll lie two things. Number one, you see how to behave, how to act when you are in a position of supposed inferiority. When someone else has power over you, when you feel like, man, what am I going to do? And then on the flip side, when the power comes into your hands, what do you then do then? How do you deal with it? And not just with any other person, but the same one who was threatening you, who made you feel inferior and ostensibly weaker. How do you deal with that person? Our Prophet ﷺ showed us exactly. And today, in light of everything that is happening, we have to think, how can we bring that into our own heart? Because the Prophet ﷺ didn't look at the means. He didn't look at the asbab. He didn't look at the world around him. He looked beyond that which is Allah. He says, yeah, I have a lot of strength. I have a lot of power. But at the end of the day, that's nothing. Yeah, my companions are here. But at the end of the day, that's nothing. What can they do? It's only Allah who can do anything and everything.