 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له نقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد آخر الأنبياء في الدنيا عصرا وأجلهم يوم القيامة شألا وذكرا صلى الله وملايكته والصالح لمن خلقه كما واحد الله وعرف به ودعى إليه أما بعد أنا لا أستطيع أن أقوم باستخدام إليه فإن شاء الله إذا كنت أشعر كثيرا فأنا مستحيلة المتحدة التي سأتحدث عنها إن شاء الله تعالى هو فضائل الشام ورد الشام في القرآن والسنة ما هو الشام حقا لنا؟ هل كلنا هنا نعرف ما هو الشام؟ نحن نعرف ما هو الشام، right؟ الشام هو سوريا مالذي؟ فلسطين، هل؟ لبنان، جودن، هل؟ بارسة تركيا even بارسة سعودي-اريبيا تبوك and that land all of it they fall under the sham so sham is all of that land so I'm talking about the virtue of that land as an introduction I wanted to bring to your attention إن شاء الله تعالى we know Allah is فعال لما يريد Allah does whatever He wills however He wills لا يسألوا عن ما يفعلوا وهم يسألون no one can ask Allah what He does, why He does it you can't question Allah He's the one who does what He does what he does from His names is عزيز عزيز means الغالب في أمره that things happen according to how He wants it no one can stop it that's what the name عزيز means so what we realize is that يبار from what He does and He wants to do no one can stop it as for you you do things it might happen it may not happen you might come with the effort and the hard work it may happen it may not happen الله سبحانه وتعالى chose to give particular lands on the earth virtue over others فعال لما يريد the one who does whatever He wills and He chose to give sham virtue over other lands such as where I'm from Somalia originally my country doesn't have the virtue that sham has sham means more to me than my own country why لأن الله فضله الله gave it virtue سبحانه وتعالى so what I want to bring to your attention as the first speaker إن شاء الله وتعالى is you guys have to realize the value of this place and what is taking place in sham should really hurt you the bloodshed and everything that's happening there and this place that's getting torn apart it should be something you feel it should take away your sleep you should cry about it when you remember your صلاة in the sujood أقرب ما يكون لعبدل ربه ووساجد a time when you're the most closest to Allah you're remembering those innocent people who are dying there and the land that's honorable both it's got two things so let's take some understanding regarding a sham the first إن شاء الله وتعالى virtue that I'm going to start with is الله سبحانه وتعالى referred to sham as a blessed land الله referred to it as blessed he referred to it as blessed and as a blue team رحم الله يسأل in his مجموع الفتاة the 27th volume page 44 he says وقد دل القرآن العظيم وعلى بركة الشامي في خمس آيات five verses الله has shown that sham is a land of barakah and we'll understand what barakah means I'll break it down for you إن شاء الله the first verse is صورة الإصلاة الله سبحانه وتعالى says سبحان الذي أصلا بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقص الذي باركنا حوله لنوريه من آياتنا إنه هو السميع البصير this verse الله is talking about the night our message was ascended up the night of إصلاة والمعراج which we all know in Islamic history the message صلى الله عليه وسلم was taken up high above and this is where صلى الله عليه وسلم was made obligatory and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he made other messengers صح where was the place in which the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم went to where was he taken from was Makkah right he left Makkah and where did he go to الأقصة حرره الله may Allah free it it was taken to what الأقصة the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم الله refers to look at it he's talking about بيت المقدس and he's talking about the lands that are close to it which is what which is all Sham الله says إلى المسجد الأقصة الذي باركنا حوله we place Barakah in all of the surroundings of it الله said we gave it a Barakah what is the Barakah that's given ابن جديل الطابر he's a scholar of Tafseer so he's going to explain to us what Barakah means what Barakah was given to Sham what Barakah he says is لسكانها في معيشهم the residence that are there their life was blessed and insha'Allah I'm going to touch more on it what it means by how their lifestyle was good they had good provisions and good lifestyle also he goes on to say وحروثهم ووروسهم their agriculture and their land الله blessed it for them you guys all know the trips that the Meccan people used to have what was it رحلة الشتائل رحلة الشتائل it was safe right in the Quran where was that رحلة from where was it coming from where was it going it was between the Meccan and who Sham and insha'Allah I'm going to touch him our messenger never left جزيرة العرب except to Sham our messenger the only place he went to after leaving جزيرة the Arabian Peninsula was to where was Sham in the second ayah الله تعالى he says ونجيناه ولوطا إلى الأرض التي باركنا فيها للعالمين referring to again الله is using التي باركنا that which replaced بارك ابن جرية طبري he says هي أرضو الشام the verse الله is here saying The land we made باركة is Sham and it's a view taken by مجاهد ابن جبن حسنا البصري قتادت من دعامة السدوسي and others it's a view prominent also the third verse الله سبحانه وتعالى he says وليسليمان الريحة عصفة تجري بأمره إلى الأرض التي باركنا فيها The land we place باركة over again this is Sham based on the opinion of شيخ الإسلامي ابن تيميا he said وإنما كان تجري إلى أرض الشام التي فيها مملكة السليمان he said it's Sham because سليمان's kingdom was in Sham نبي الله سليمان the fourth verse صورة العراف الله سيز وأورثنا القوم الذين كانوا يستضعفون مشارق الأرض ومغاربها التي باركنا فيها all of these times الله is using the same word باركة باركنا باركنا to emphasize to a Muslim that this place is not a normal place for us the fifth verse الله سبحانه وتعالى he says وجعلنا بينهم وبين القرى التي باركنا فيها قرن ظاهرة وقدرنا فيها السير السير إلى آخر الآية ابن كثير السيز مجاهد حسن البصري سعيد ابن جبيل قتادي دعامة الضحاك ابن زيد and others they said يعني ورشام so from the first virtue that we learnt is Sham is a land which is blessed how is it blessed in the lifestyle and the living that these people had إن شاء الله يتعالى the speaker later will he touch more on it that this land that Allah is saying I gave Baraka to it how did it now become one needs to analyze and look Baraka خير and good not one time Allah is saying it once it's more than enough isn't that the case but Allah chose it to say five times repeat the same wording to show you how virtuous this place is also the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم made dua and we all know the prophet's dua is going to be accepted he said صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith إمام البخاري and Tirmidion the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم it said according to the authority of عبد الله بن عمر that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said اللهم بارك لنا و الله plays Baraka over what في شامنا for Sham for us look at what the prophet did he said في شامنا our Sham attributing it to who to himself and look he started with Sham and insha' Allah later we're going to look at the qawla of the Imam القرطبي that the starting of a Sham shows is virtuous over all the others that he's going to mention اللهم بارك في يمننا و الله plays Baraka over Yemen and we see the situation that's taking place in Yemen but one would want to know how this changed what happened for them to lose this Baraka and everything it's important اللهم بارك the prophet a second time he said again اللهم بارك لنا في شامنا اللهم بارك في يمننا اللهم بارك لنا في شامنا اللهم بارك في يمننا 3 times he said it on the third time the sahabas they said or the fourth time the narrator he he didn't know which it was the third or fourth he said that we said to the prophet يا رسول الله و في عراقنا and add Iraq to it as well and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن بها الزلازم عراق has earthquakes و الفتن trials and tribulations are full of that و بها يطلع عقرنا الشيطان and this is where the الشيطان's horn comes from the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام he prophesized that for Iraq شيخو الإسلام ابنه تيمي commented on this حديث and look what he said telling us what the baraka means he says و الباركة تتنى و الباركة في ديلي و الباركة في الدنيا the baraka that شام has and the virtue that it has is baraka in its religion and baraka in its worldly affairs and it's in its religious those are the two things الله has placed باركة over الشام he says in his لطائف المعارف of course I told you the statement of العز من عبد السلام he says that the prophet started the dua with who with what country with what land الشام and he says the fact that he started with الشام دل على تفضيل الشام على اليمن الشام is more virtuous than Yemen this is our the second virtue the second virtue after speaking about the baraka that شام has is the angels they protect and they look after الشام as the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه he told us based on the حديث he says when زيدي بنوطابط رضي الله عنه narrated that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن الملائقة الرحمن الله is the angels باصطة أجنحتها عليها the angels of Allah they have their wings over الشام protecting it then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه he said in another يا طوبا للشام يا طوبا للشام يا طوبا للشام يا طوبا للشام meaning the word طوبا means good life for the people of الشام a good life for the people of الشام a good life for the people of الشام the third virtue that شام has based on the that الله is pure people the purest of people the most honorable of people are from شام and Allah طبارك و تعالى placed on himself to protect sham تقفل الله طبارك و تعالى بحفظها و بأهلها and its people الله said I'll protect them سبحانه و تعالى but Allah's protection is with a condition Allah protects you based on a condition if you fulfill your part of the condition Allah will fulfill his but when a people break their side of the condition then you can't question Allah for why he didn't do what he what he would have done if he were to follow the condition the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said based on the حديث of رضي الله that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said يسير الأمر إذا ماتوا الهد إلى أن تكون إلى أن تكون the matter will lead to and it will head and it will go on and on until what until there's going to be جنودا مجندا جندن بالشام و جندن باليمان و جندن بالعراق look at the prophet prophesizing something very powerful the prophet actually telling us that the Muslim world is going to break up he's telling us they're going to be different leaders because why would he say an army in Yemen and an army in Sham and an army in this when in reality the Muslim world only used to know what a Khalifa one Khalifa who governs the whole Muslim world does that make sense so from this the and others they said what we take from this is what وقوع الفتن trials and tribulations will take place و تقاسيموا بلاد المسلمين and the lands of the Muslims will be broken into parts and every different إلى أجناد armies each now pay attention to this particular hadith the prophecies of the prophet and I'm not placing the prophet's statement on a قضية to Ain a specific scenario I can't do that we don't do that with the hadith of the fitan we don't apply it on a particular scenario that requires it requires a divine law but generally speaking if you look at the situation you see that happening and taking place so what ابنو حوالى the narrator who is the companion he said to the prophet يا رسول الله in ادرق تودالك if I reach a time where there is an army in Yemen and there is an army in Sham which of those shall I be from خرني he says خرني means اخترلي choose for me يا رسول الله or message of Allah choose for me ادرق تودالك if that time comes and I'm alive so the prophet said to him عليك بالشام be part of the army of Sham be with the people of Sham فإنها خيرت الله because they are the elite people they are the best of people من أرضه from the people of the land that day فأما ان ابيتم if you then refuse what I put forward the prophet saying if you don't take that and you don't stick to the people of Sham and you don't go for their army you don't aid them وصقوا من وضريك فإن الله فإن الله توكل لي بشاني وأهلي then Allah has promised me that he's going to protect the people of Sham and its land if you choose not to aid them and go and help them الله has promised سبحانه وتعالى that I will protect it and its people so this Sahabi was commanded by the message عليك so to aid and support them صلوات الله و سلامه علي in another way احمد يبن حمبن narrated that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said عليك بالشام أبن you is Sham help those people aid them, support them عليك بالشام help and support them فمن أبا anyone who refuses فليل حق بيمن he then stick with Yemen help the people of Yemen then so this shows us what that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم specifically told us that the people of Sham with or without you الله is going to aid them سبحانه وتعالى so we say يا رب الله سبحانه وتعالى the one who created the heavens and the earth who owns everything in it الله او الله show us in Bashar and his regime عجائب قدرتك يا سبحانه وتعالى الله محسيم عدد وقتلهم بدد ولا تغادر منهم احدة الله count each and every one of his armies الله put a figure to it and I destroy each and every one of them الله can we ask him to do that سبحانه وتعالى to save those innocent people who are dying every single day أبو إدرس الخولاني who is from the scholars who lived in Sham he said when he narrate that حديث he would say من تكفل الله به anyone who Allah promises to aid them and help them and support them فلا ضيعة عليه then there is no one who is going to come and destroy them they are not going to be forsaken any people who Allah has placed on himself to protect them then inshallah will not forsake them and inshallah Allah will not forsake the people of Sham Allah will not الله will protect them on and for them الله تبارك وتعالى will protect their blood for them الله will aid them بيدني الله الكريم إبراهيم ابن أدهم إبراهيم ابن أدهم he said from عطاء الخرساني رضي الله تعالى عنه he said pay attention this is the virtue of Sham إبراهيم ابن أدهم he said عن عطاء ابن يساء عطاء الخرساني I set him لما هممتوا بالنق التي عطاء الخرساني he said I wanted to move I wanted to find a place where I can reside I want to spend a I want it somewhere where I can spend my life with my family and my children شاورتو بيها من أهل العلم and so I consulted the people of knowledge I went to them and I said to them I am going to I want to learn to go to with my children and live there and grow and nurture myself what advice can you guys give me where do you see that I should place my kids each and every one of them said أشام شام go to Sham so he said I went okay ثم أتيتوا البصرة and then I went to بصرة which is in Iraq فشاورتو من بها so I consulted those who were in بصرة أين تروني أن أنزل العيال where should I take my children and where should I reside فكلهم يقولوا لي each and every one of them said to me أشام أشام go Sham stay reside in Sham ثم أتيتوا الكوفة and then I came to كوفة and I consulted the people of knowledge and I asked them أين تروني أن أنزل العيال where should I take my children and each and every one of them said to me عليك بالشام upon you الشام stay there ثم أتيتوا المدينة and then I came to the city of Medina فسألتو من بها من أهلي العن I asked the people of knowledge in Medina and then I said this is Medina the city of the prophet عليه صلاة وسلم I came and I asked him أين تروني أن أنزل عيال where should I take my children where should I reside and they said to me عليك بالشام go to Sham and they said the people of مدينة my beloved brothers and sisters عامة الأنبياء all these prophets count them all these prophets I'm going to name إبراهيم لوط إسماعيل إسحاق يعكوب يوسف موسى هارون يسع شعب يوشع يوشع يوشع يوشع يوشع يوشع يوشع يوشع رادة the majority of the prophet were from them as Ibn Rajab says عامة أنبياءي بن إسرائيل the majority of the prophet of بن إسرائيل كانوا من الشام they were from the land of Sham this and I said before our messenger never left the Arabian Peninsula and never went to any other land except Sham that's the only land he ever went to عليه الصلاة وسلم with his uncle not only once but twice و لذلك إمام ونطيم رحم الله he says رحم الله و إليها هجرة إبراهيم و إليها مصر نبينا و منها معراجه و بها ملك و عمود دينه و كتابة و طائفة منصورة من أمته و إليها محشر و المعاد even the resurrection the day of judgment is going to happen in Sham the gathering that everybody is going to gather together is going to be in Sham where we all stand in front of a Sham nowhere else و الله تباركوا إتعالة here so this is what it was this is the value and the my time is short so I'm going to conclude this is the final virtue which is the fourth and I had up to 20 virtues of it this one and in sha Allah another final point the other thing is this hadith which really is something that a believer who believes the statement of the prophet to be Haq a divine law who believes it's true when he hears this particular hadith يهتز قلبه his Ha'u move and he can't hold himself but get emotional and that is the statement of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم which is the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this companion he said that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said إذا فسأد أهل الشام فلا خير فيكم if the people of Sham become corrupt and destruct destroyed then there's no good in you if the people of Sham are facade and corruption happens to them then there is no good in you this is something that the scholars of hadith took it very serious to just sometimes even had a chapter based on this particular hadith ابن حبان رحمة الله for example إني الصحيح he chapter whole chapter recorded ذكروا الأخبار على أن الفساد إذا عم في الشام يعمد يعمد ذلك في سائل المدن the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said he said the chapter in it is the infinerations pertaining to if corruption hits Sham then it's going to hit some Muslim land it's going to spread the first one of the domino effect if Sham falls everything else will fall with it so this can be taken as since there's some Muslim lands who is still not fallen then Sham is not corrupt yet there's some still present in them a bit of fear that Allah has given them سبحانه وتعالى لا شكة there is harm there is problems that have happened from the people سبحانه وتعالى with his divine wisdom which he and I can never comprehend and every single thing that Allah does there is always a wisdom behind it I'll tell you a story of something that I remember and this story helps me a lot because it shows me the issue of wisdom Somalia when the youth and these groups were fighting and whatnot and suicide bombings were being done Alhamdulillah things have slightly settled down now I went a couple of years after all of that chaos and I went there and I met a man and so we were talking about the issue of if Allah wills something it will always happen how he wills sometimes you wait you may not know the wisdom behind why Allah did something to you you might have taken a child from you you think that's bad but you don't really know if this child grew up grew up he could have been something bad he could have caused you harm he could have caused he's dying probably was a bigger better than him to be alive you wouldn't know that you're just seeing the side that you've lost this child so he told me a story which stuck with me and it helped me in the course of my life to always remember that Allah who سبحانه وتعالى is divine wisdom what he told me was that he had a he met a man who said to him because he was a taxi driver he was a taxi driver so he said to the the man said to him can you drive me from this point to this point and I'll give you 100 dollars now the destination is very close and 100 dollars is not that right it's too much but he said I got very excited and happy when he said that to me so he said no problem 100 dollars no problem the only issue is I've got a little no so he said sorry he said I brought him into the car I drove him and I said can we just can we pull over to the petrol station and I'll put petrol into my car so he put petrol into his car and when he put petrol into his car the man couldn't wait while he was busy with the petrol and everything and paying off the petrol the man just got out of the car and left so when he came back all he saw was the man going into another car and just driving off so in his heart he just lost a 100 dollars so he said I got angry so he said I took my car I jumped into my car I drove after this individual and I was shouting at him bring back the man you took from me this is little you know trying to get so he said what's happening is that the driving is that he's getting more and as the time went by he said the car exploded he went to the scene to see what had happened and he found out that the man was a a suicide bomber he was what he said الحمد لله 100 dollars I don't want it I don't want the 100 dollars did Allah سبحانه وتعالى show me the wisdom now he knows now he knows why Allah chose him not to be the one who drives him so brothers everything has a wisdom everything Allah does sometimes you might know what it is and sometimes you when he came to the and khadir were together and they were walking and khadir took the head of a child and he killed the child صح what was khadir looking at what was he shown he was shown that this child is going to live and he's going to be a what if khadir never had told Musa this what would he look like a murderer right a cold murderer a bro day light just kill the child but Allah has wisdoms like that when he does things always say to yourself قدر الله ورشاء فعل everything Allah wills and he chooses to do it like that so what's happening in this in Aleppo right now and what's happening in Sham and everything من قدرة الله تبارك وتعالى Allah is قدرة we don't question Allah's aid and rahmah and His mercy we all surrender all of that to His what His wisdom I am just speaking from the angle of what's happening now as for what led to it and what caused it I will leave it for the brothers who are going to be speaking after me my final point that I'm going to conclude with is and there's a lot of points that I could have mentioned that I had but I just wanted to mention brothers and sisters there are over 50 scholars that I have fit their names and due to the time and I want to be a person who follows follows the time I only have a couple of seconds and what I left is that there are over 50 scholars by name who I have here who are all of them from Sham they're the علماء of Sham some of which you know and some of which you may not know from them ابنه كثير ابنه تيمي ابنه عبد الهادي ابنه حجاج الميزي اشيخ محمد ناصر الدين الالباني and others all of those being علماء عبد الغني عبد الواحد المقدسي ابنه قدام المقدسي وضياء المقدسي all of these are أرض من Sham و الله he was from فلسطين غزة غزة today that's بومي امامي شفع was born there and others in large amount so this place is something to all of us so don't be heedless of it don't look at it as wow okay another place another Muslim land لأ it hurts you and you need to play your role my beloved brothers this is if Allah has given you money and you have money that you've send that money towards the people who are there they're in hunger and they're food you give that money والله and also you make dua for them and you pray and whenever you go to the Sujood and that's the closest time you are to Allah you remember those brothers and sisters of yours who are now going through winter who are dying because of the cold dying because of the cold and the land that you make dua for them and Allah lifts up this for them and we ask Allah that he lifts from the people of Sham the hardship that they are going through والله تبارك وتعالى is the enemy of Islam and the Muslims اللهم أرنا فيهم عجائب قدرتك والله show us in the people of Sham the Basharan his army a quick quick quick results اللهم أرسم عليهم طيرا أبابيل والله send him from the sky rocks to destroy all of his armies the Babad his battle everything Allah has the ability to do so and this is something we need to do privately and we need to do it and we pray take that time out to specifically designated for the people of Sham سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدوا الله إله إلا الله أستغفرك وتوب إلي