 إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستالفره ونعود بالله من شروره أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا من يهده الله فلا مضللا ومن يضرب فلا هادي له وأشهد والناس يجدنا ومولانا وحبيبنا محمدا عبده ورسوله وأرسله بالحق بشيء ونهديرا بين يدي الساعة أما بعد يا عباد الله اتقوا الله حقا تقاته ولا تموت الله وانتوا مسلمون نحاول الله سبحانه وتعالى for giving us this day for giving us life another day to witness his oneness through our belief and through our action and our prayers and our fasting and I advise you and I advise myself to have tough while of Allah to have fear of Allah and to observe the limits that we do that he has placed down obeying the commands outwardly and inwardly and staying away from the prohibitions outwardly and inwardly Dear brothers and sisters, respected elders one of the things that Allah has given in this creation are sacred times, sacred places and even sacred numbers We are right now in a sacred time Ramadan where the rewards are increased if you do good actions and the sins are increased the punishment for the sins are increased if you do wrong actions we are in a sacred place, a message where if you do good actions your reward is increased and if you do prohibited actions your punishment would be increased and we ask Allah to forgive us for all of our sins on this day over 1400 years ago on the 17th of Ramadan on a Juma'a it fell on a Juma'a one of the greatest events that has ever graced the face of the earth occurred battle the battle of battle the greatest victory in all of history where the Prophet ﷺ took his first stance with the armies there were previous armies that he sent out but this was the first time he fought in the army and the clash was against Quraish and it wasn't just a clash of armies it was a clash of truth against falsehood Haqq against Papa and on that day Allah SWT gave victory to the Muslims and he gave victory to the entire Ummah and he showed all of the humanity what the truth is through battle event occurred but to us it's not just a historical event it's part of our belief we believe in battle it's in the Quran Allah SWT said in Surah Al-Alih لقد نصركم في battle Allah has given you victory in battle but you were few in numbers فتط الله and so have so that you may do shukr so that you can have shukr so that you can thank Allah SWT so he gave us this victory he gave us all of us if it wasn't for Bedib we wouldn't be here today day before the battle began the Prophet ﷺ raised his hands high and he started making dua to Allah on this day brothers and sisters this Juma'a the 17th of Ramadan making dua in the middle of the heat we think it's hot here fasting at 85-90 degrees imagine the Saudi Arabian Peninsula the Arabian Peninsula in the summertime and they're fasting about to engage the enemy and he's making dua and he's asking Allah that if you don't give victory to us then we will be wiped out and you won't be worshipped through this day through this faith and he kept making the dua and making the dua and making the dua and making the dua صلى الله عليه وسلم until his shoulder cloth his lidat fell down and his hands were held so high that the Sahaba could see the whiteness of his underarms raising his hands in dua to Allah SWT and Abu Bakr Al Siddiq who came and lifted up his lidat and put it back on his shoulders and he said you've done enough dua you've given enough you know the seriousness in your dua and one of the Sahaba later he said on that day he felt a wind so severe he had never felt it before and then it stopped and then another wind came but he hadn't felt anything as severe before except the wind that came before and then it stopped and then a third time the first was جبريل عليه السلام descending with 1,000 angels the second was مكائيل عليه السلام with another 1,000 angels and the third was إسرافيل عليه السلام with another 1,000 angels and Allah gave us 3,000 of his angels of his ملائكة to fight with the Muslims on that day and never before and never again will that happen the angels can come with the Muslims but they only fought at bedel and to the point that the Sahaba would look at a person and the person would be annihilated and nobody was around and some of the Quraish saw these men that they said these men of light coming in and one of the Sahaba later on afterwards one of the Bedri's one of the veterans of that great victory he said I'm blind now but if you take me to that battlefield I can show you the valid where they charge in from the angels coming to defend the Muslims and to defend this truth and to establish this deen so we can be here today to fast and to witness the oneness of Allah and to pray and to be Muslim from that small group of people given those angels that small group of people were 314 and this is a special number I mentioned in the beginning Allah gives sacred numbers 314 some say 313 but 314 what's that the number of as well the number of the messengers Allah سبحانه وتعالى has sent 124 or 125,000 prophets but only 314 were messengers the greatest of all human beings the messengers they numbered 314 it was as if there was one representative of each one of those messengers on that battlefield of bedah Allah showing the humanity those aren't just regular Muslims on that day they are each representing one of the messengers that number they are not regular Muslims and the Muslims took this to heart that those were special people and even after long after that the bedris were always known and they were given a stipend from baytulman he gave the bedri a specific stipend he gave the Uhubi a specific stipend but the bedris were always known to the point that it's mentioned when the last bedri was passed away and it's interesting because when the last bedri when the last of the surviving veterans from that day passed away the first muslim civil war began those people were special people that Allah سبحانه وتعالى had given us so that we could be here today 314 is also the number of the army of T'alut T'alut was the king who was chosen by the prophet at that time to lead Ben Israeel back into the land of Palestine to kill Goliath and T'alut and his two brothers were amongst that army the story is found in Surah Al-Bakr I encourage you to read it and read it to your children and understand it because it has the same exact meaning 950 Boreishi totally outfitted stallions money بشر Nozian NPC war war war war war war war بيبين نصر أنه قمت بفتحك في فتحك لم يكن لديك أحيانك لم يكن لديك أحيانك أرمي طاولوت كانت 70.000 ثم يقول إن الله مبتلكم بنهر الله يعطيك لك أرمي أرمي عندما أرمي يأتي طاولوت أليسلام قلت أنه ليس فتحك لكن يمكننا أن نقول رضي الله عنه وقلت أنه ينزلت هذا القرار من قلبي لا تتشكي منه إلا لديك أحد ونظرت أن فتحك ولكن من سنة 70.000 سنة كلهم يتشكي من قلبي إلا لديك إلا لديك لديك 314 ونوم ذلك حتى تتشكي منه ونرى جلائه جائه ونومه ونومه ونوم كل شيء ونومهم صغير ونمونا ونوم ونوم الذين يعتقدون أنه لديوا صعب كم من فئة قديلة كم من فئة قديلة كم من فئة قديلة كم من فئة قديلة كم من فئة قديلة يتشكي من قلبي ونوم ذلك 314 ونوم ذلك ونوم ذلك لدي المسلمين في طاولوط ونوم ذلك ونوم ذلك ونوم ذلك مستخدمة المسلمين المستخدمة إلا لديك هؤلاء and sisters this is the lesson that we should get from these stories they're not just stories these happenings these events these amazing events that have happened in society what we take from them are lessons الله سبحانه وتعالى is not mentioning these things in vain he's not mentioning these for no reason there is a reason for the mentioning of these stories there's a mentioning for the stories of the prophets why so that we can relate it to our lives and all of the stories of the prophets we can relate it to our lives and all of the seerah there are aspects where we can relate it to our lives that's why it's important to read the seerah much of the Qur'an is essentially seerah is Allah telling us what happened in Mecca what happened in Medina what happened with the movement of the deen what happened with the Sahaba what happened with the Quraysh what happened with the people of the book all of these things he's telling us these stories what happened with Yusuf A.S. what happened with Dawood how do we relate that to our lives how do we relate better that battle that victory how do we relate it to our lives one of the ways that we relate it to our lives is to remember that victory and success is from Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's not from our dunya it's not from our material possessions it's not from our achievements how many times has high school dropouts achieved to become millionaires or college dropouts become billionaires and the most educated people are on welfare how does that happen how do we relate that to us don't depend on your things we should not depend on our things we don't depend on our jobs for income we depend on our love for the world as soon as we depend on that HR or depend on that person that's supporting us then we've lost our إزة our dignity and we've lost our faith in Allah سبحانه وتعالى not totally but it's been diminished as soon as we think that the sustenance is coming from that person from that thing then where we've made a problem in our faith in our depending on Allah سبحانه وتعالى if the Muslims at bedel looked at their horses and they said we can't win with two horses we can't win with 70 camels 70 70 camels that's all we have two or three soldiers per camel can't win with a few swords with a few weapons some some armor when we're facing خوريش the top tribe the top city in the Arabian Peninsula's amongst the Arabs خوريش comes from the word which means shark that there just like a shark can go through the oceans and doesn't fear the other fish that's how خوريش used to go through the Arabian Peninsula and that's how they used to deal with people they didn't fear anybody just like the great white sharks swimming through the ocean and now this small group of farmers the unsolidware farmers with military experience but they were mostly farmers are going to face خوريش but it was because the victory came from Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when it comes to our lives when it comes to a point where we have to make a decision do I take that job or not we should make it based on an informed an informed decision an informed decision the informed decision is that we know that it's from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we don't have to take that job first and that will give us that will give us dignity so when we look at it we say I will only take this if Allah would be pleased with it and then when our peers tell us or our spouse tells us or our children tell us no no you can't leave that job you won't get an income the nasıl is from Allah victory is from Allah your income is from Allah or when it comes time of Ramadan and a common question that we experience can I break my fast to study for my exams can I break my fast because I'm in medical school and it's very hectic and the parents will say yes go ahead where is the nasıl where are they looking for the nasıl from where are they looking for the victory are you looking for the food the food is your victory then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will leave you to the food but if you look from Allah سبحانه وتعالى he will give you Barakah he will give you benefit from where you don't even see it just like the Bedouins on that day got reinforcements from the angels because they depended on Allah سبحانه وتعالى us too you too will get reinforcements from Allah سبحانه وتعالى if you depend on him and you follow his orders the Bedouins followed the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he gave them victory if we break our fast because because of a test where is our nasıl to coming from if we take off our hijab because people will look at us in a funny way where is our nasıl to coming from Allah will leave you to that you want to depend on the dunya Allah will give you to the dunya you want to depend on Allah Allah will give you everything you need when it comes time to pray we're on our job we're at our school but we don't want to get up and pray because oh those people might say something funny about me I don't want to go and do will do in the bathroom because people will look funny at me I don't want to put my foot in the sink because people will look funny at me if we even looked at it from a logical perspective you see people going out of the restrooms they don't have any who do they don't care but then Muslims will leave will do because of fear of what people would say about them and then leaving will do because you and then that will cause you to leave the prayer because people will say something about you or you're in your cubicle you don't want to stand up and say تكبيم so I'll pray at my desk and just do إيمان that's for the sick people even on the day of battles the Prophet ﷺ would split the army and have half pray in جمع and half face the enemy are in situations where we can break off we can go to a small corner but we will leave salah we will leave prayer because of fear that oh my boss might say something I don't get the raise I don't get the position I don't get this I don't get that we're not depicting on Allah when we do that so the lesson one of the main lessons is that we have نصف from Allah سبحانه وتعالى لقد نصركم الله ببدن وانتموا أذلها الله gave you victory when you were in bedan and you were small in numbers and so have تقوى أب الله then Allah immediately responds that he says have تقوى أب الله that's what you should do have تقوى أب الله اتقوى الله praise Allah الحمد لله and we sent the Prophet ﷺ and then have تقوى أب الله he didn't say get your weapons ready to get everything no Allah gives you the victory just do your تقوى do your part and then have شكر أب الله سبحانه وتعالى بسم الله و الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام و على رسول الله و على آله و صحابه و من وانا يا عباد الله تقوى الله and servants of Allah I advise you and I advise myself اتقوى أب الله سبحانه وتعالى to have تقوى أب الله سبحانه وتعالى and to remember the bedan is on this day this is the day the 17th day of Ramadan and it falls on a Juma and in that historical day it fell on a Juma and on the 17th of Ramadan fasting in the extreme heats of the Arabian Peninsula and they got their Nusra from Allah another victory or another lesson that we get from that victory is how the Prophet ﷺ interacted with his صحابه it's beautiful even in the way Allah has given his time he didn't call them his students he didn't call them تلامي or قولابه the seekers he called them صحابه the companions of the Prophet ﷺ and it creates a different dynamic in the relationship because yes they are his students and yes they are his followers and yes they are his soldiers and yes they will obey his commands but they are his friends his صحابه and Allah told him وشاويرهم في الأمر and seek counsel from them not because the Prophet ﷺ needs them because he can give instructions from the روحة أمين from جبريل عليسلام from Allah سبحانه وتعالى he doesn't need the people he doesn't need the صحابه صلى الله عليه وسلم but Allah is teaching us through him in showing that even the people around you the people that are lower than you include them in your discussions include them in your matter if Allah سبحانه وتعالى wanted he could have made the Prophet ﷺ beat and bend it by just a miracle a معجزة throwing some sands like he did but those sands could have reached the entire he could have wiped out the entire army with a handful of sand he could have wiped out the entire army of قريش with one دعا but Allah was making him go through the normal means of what human beings have to go through to teach us and in that process he did مشاورة he did counsel from the صحابه to the point that even the position they took in the battle when they got to the wells of bedir the battle was called bedir it's named after the wells and the wells are named after the owner of the wells who was a man named bedir when they got there the Prophet ﷺ began establishing camp one of the صحابه said is this position based on وحي or based on رأي is it revelation or is it your opinion because if it's revelation then we'll obey you but if it's opinion let's have a discussion he said this is just my opinion and so they said let's camp beyond the wells so we prevent the other army from getting to the wells and that was a big part of the victory because when the قريشي armies came they were thirsty and they needed the water from those wells and so that helped them in the victory but the lesson for us is that we have to do مشاورة with those around us we are not individuals we are part of an أمة so we don't go to our households and when our households the wives run the households without caring what the husband thinks we're making big decisions and making purchases and making decisions and anything without the husband's consent and information and the same thing for the husband he shouldn't be making purchases and decisions and things without the wife's consent and then even doing مشاورة with the children we're not dictators in our household to where no I have to show the عزة of a Muslim the عزة of the bedri and I'm going to establish I am the خليفة in my house that's not the way it works that's not the way the Prophet ﷺ did that's not Abu Bakr ﷺ that's not Omar ﷺ and all of the خلطات الراشدين رضي الله عنهم أجمعين they all did مشاورة so in our massage in our community centers we cannot create isolated groups of leadership and leave out the common people the general people I shouldn't say common people just the general the masses even in academia they realize that one of the most powerful forms of research is participatory action research where you go to the places and you involve the people that you're researching about you have to involve people this is part of our nature as human beings so we have to do مشاورة and include people in our decisions that we make so we ask Allah ﷺ to give us the توفير and success to follow the Prophet ﷺ in all of his actions and all of his words and just like صحابي who said if this is revelation we follow it and if it's your opinion we will discuss it with you when revelation comes to us through the Qur'an or through the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ سمعنا وأطعنا we hear and we obey one of the biggest onslaughts to our community from the top down from the scholars down to the average Muslims and this onslaught is coming from within our Ummah and from within out of our Ummah question your revelation question it it's open to questioning we did it the people of other scriptures says we did it we questioned our scriptures mind we follow our scriptures the Jewish community the people say we did it the Christian community said we did it the Hindu community said we did it now we want you to do it we want you to be part of our society now we want you to be involved with our society and help us pass these new laws that go against the law of Allah ﷺ and open up the Qur'an for interpretation based on our current situation but we say to those people like the صحابة if this is your wahi if this is revelation we obey it and we follow it without question to the point that on the day of bedar remember brothers and sisters when the Muslims first came to bedar the Prophet ﷺ had a pact with the Ansar and the pact was that you would protect me in Medina so when they went out to bedar they were going beyond their contract and the Prophet ﷺ said the battle is outside of Medina you're not bound to the battle at bedar based on your contract speaking to the Ansar you're not bound to the contract and one of the صحابة said if you ordered us to drive our horses into the oceans we would have gone and they went with him on that day of bedar and on this day over 1400 years ago the Ansar were part of that victory and so we have to have that firm resolution that that Ansari had when he spoke those beautiful words when people come to us in social media in emails colleagues at work fellow students employers employees friends anybody question your religion question your revelation no we follow this way regardless of what you say we follow the laws of the land we don't break the laws of the land but our religion we will never compromise on our religion and if the Prophet ﷺ told us to drive ourselves into the ocean we would have driven ourselves into the ocean and we ask Allah ﷺ to give us the توفين to follow the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ outwardly and inwardly and to give us a portion of the victory that he gave to the Muslims at bedar and we ask Allah ﷺ to remove hate and anger from between our hearts and to bring our hearts together like he brought the hearts of the Ansar and the Mohajireen together and like he brought the hearts of all of the Arab drives under the Prophet ﷺ and remove the hate and the anger that they have between them and remove the petty disputes that they have between them and give them victory through him ya Allah give us victory through you and give us victory ya Allah all over the world and remove the oppressive leaders that are putting pinning ourselves, pinning us against each other ya أرحم الراحمين