 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? An 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 So Nabi Ibrahim alaihi sallam was instructed by Allah upon to Built the holy kaaba to rebuild it correct now. We we are aware that Arabs and Jews originate from Nabi Ibrahim's offsprings, which is Nabi Ishaq alaihi sallam and Nabi Ismail and Arabs originate from Nabi Ismail and Jews from Nabi Ishaq correct Well some of the Arabs some of the arms. Would you like to clarify? Well the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi is amongst the descendants of Nabi Ismail alaihi sallam Just as like Moses and Jesus are the descendants of Ishaq Alayhim sallam as ma'in and They the descendants of Ismail obviously grew in In Makkah Because this is where they started Ismail started his his life there as a young boy or an infant probably and and Amongst the descendants of Ismail where The likes of Hashem Abdul Muttalib Abdullah who are the ancestors forefathers of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi We can go into talking about these individuals who are if you like and and Sort of the role and in the society that they had and the status that they had In Charlotte just to shine light of course. Yeah on the Assisters of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi So the holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam His family Descend from Nabi Ismail alaihi sallam Through them are there any Who are prophets among the descendants of the holy Prophet are there any who are pointed by Allah's power to to and run let's say Mecca the holy Kaaba and I read Regarding the holy Kaaba that Benny Hashem which is the tribe of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. They were in charge of The holy Kaaba Is that correct and that that the Hajj pilgrimage existed from before Before the beginning of Islam the birth of Islam now that Hajj. Was it connected to monotheism? Certainly. Yes. So was it taught by Prophet Ibrahim alaihi sallam? Yes So the Hajj was was it the same like we know it now like taught by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I haven't sort of researched that to see exactly the details of the Hajj at the time of beginning from Adam alaihi sallam through various prophets alaihi sallam until Abraham and from there onwards, but Obviously, we know that people like Hashem Abdul Muttalib Who are who whether if you like the guardians of the Kaaba at the time they performed Hajj and they were Hajj coming around Coming every season to the Hajj to Makkah, and that's why they were the guardians of the they were taking care and they were providing services I will come to The fact that why Hashem is called Hashem and the service that he was doing But so yeah people used to come for Hajj. Hajj was known even from before At the advent of Islam at least which the Islam which started with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I say Islam all the religions The religions that the various prophets brought Was nothing but Islam Allah, they those prophets whether it was Moses Jesus Ibrahim Noah and so on They were despatched by 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 people in the Dina and Allah in Islam So Allah wouldn't send different religion to different different prophets and different people and The Sharia may be different the laws may be slightly different, but the religion is a is the same religion and if you see now that we're getting into this if you see The teachings in the Quran the references are made that Is it Islam or Muslim Muslim is used frequently for the followers of various prophets One which I cite on because we don't want to go into this if we can so if like we can I can make a presentation about All these verses in the Quran which refers to Muslim for various prophets Nabi Yusuf ala Nabi Nawa alaihi wa alaihi as-salam Says in the Quran Tawafani Muslim While happy the Salihin Oh Allah Make me die a Muslim Tawafani Muslim While happy the Salihin So that I can join and and give me the success. I join the Salihin meaning the pious meaning Muhammad Wali Muhammad The the Salihin in here or the intention of Of Nabi Allah Yusuf ala Nabi Nawa alaihi wa alaihi as-salam Are Muhammad Wali Muhammad the by the point is Tawafani Muslim So his wish was that he dies a Muslim and So all the prophets were Muslim The religion Islam their followers the true followers of all the various prophets If you like where Muslim with lowercase M and so they did have the Hajj and And and as I said if you see the hadith and so on at the time of Hashim He used to provide if you like services in terms of food and drink for the Hujjaj Okay So yes, they they had they had the Hajj They had pilgrimage downstairs to the questions that they did they were Hujjaj They were people who were coming for Hajj during that time With regards to what we know as today as the clan of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is called bani Hashim Now this originate we always know that they take the the tattoo bani Hashim They add it to the originator of the tribe. Let's say was Hashim the great grandfather of the Holy Prophet Yeah, and he was the originator. Where did he come from? Well, if you like they bani Hashim has a fair to after him are taken after him because because of his status And standing in society and because of the services he provided because of the virtues he had they all followed the religion of if you like Dean Abraham as they say So they followed the Sharia and the teachings which had they had received in accordance with Dean Abla religion of Rahim, alaihi sallam Hashim became known Hashim Hashim is from the word Hashem When you break dry bread, you know and make food to give to the people basically there were famine in Makkah and Hashim he arrived and realized that there's famine and so on he had he ordered that his Camels are killed slaughtered So that they are there the meat is cooked and given to the people of Makkah now How many thousands were there? I don't know So he went out of his way to make sure that people You know eat the food that they require they receive the food that require and as I said He slaughtered his camels to do that and he continued to do that Okay, and that's why people looked up to Hashim Obviously he he he provides such a great service to them. He basically he If you like he saved them from probably a certain death at least for a large majority of the people So he became unique in that sense and that's why when they people started referring to the Descendants of Hashim they say Benu Hashim means sons of Hashim these guys are the sons of Hashim because he became a Standing point he became a Major figure if you like in society Not only that as I said earlier he used to make provision of food and drink and water and so on and And and bread and whatever for the Hujjaj So he he was part of his responsibility to offer the pilgrims and if you like He taken up on himself to do that if you like this is this is very similar to what we have in our time That people do for the Zawar of Imam Hussain alayhis salam on the occasion of our bias so Hashim did it At that time Not only when they was famine, but also when According to certain reports when they were during the Hajj season So that proves that of course there was happy people were coming to Hajj Yes, it was Jahiliya and More and more Jahiliya become prevalent. That's what I wanted to ask you but monotheism was there and people who said that Idol worshipping is wrong. They were there people who strayed Sorry, who stayed on the path of the religion of Ibrahim is the right path and make sure they didn't stray They were there most notable were the likes of Hashim abdul mut talib and abdul mut talib and Of course, Abdullah who is the father of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam and of the forefathers of the Prophet so People like Abu Talib and of course indeed we have that And there are reports which is in Bahar and various other books I took out of the Sadoq as well that Abdul mut talib was a hojjah The hojjah of at the time and his wasi Was Abu Talib alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam. So Abu Talib was the hojjah of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam on earth at that time and of course, it's not surprising because we have had ease that low quality of Ardham in Hojjah lasakha the Ardha be ahliha if For blink of an eye there is no hojjah on earth earth would implode it will lose its stability and This this this hadith is Throughout you can really find anything at that time at the time of Abu Talib and At the time of abdul mut talib abdul mut talib Was the hojjah and his wasi was Abu Talib alayhi wa sallam So how beautiful how Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Views his his plans and wisdom now the thing that comes if if this is so I want you if Abul mut talib was the hojjah of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Now What I'm trying to understand is that during that time it was a young jahiliya so we had Mu'minin believers of Allah's pattern and also a hojjah of Allah's part and he was in charge of the kaaba How did they end up in that area with idol worshippers? How did they end up having all these idols surrounding the kaaba? Idol worshippers coming from Yemen from Syria From Africa to perform the pilgrim which obviously if they as well were performing a pilgrimage It had changed since the time of Nabi Ibrahim alayhi wa sallam But if if abdul mut talib was then the descendants as well from Hashem himself and before that How was it possible that because they were teaching the people as well They were informing them because if you're a hojjah that means your job is to keep the message alive How did the people? Deviate and just became so ignorant so bad to the extent that Allah spent a lot saved the best of the best Prophet Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for the worst of the worst Me in the Quraysh How did that happen? How is that? Well like Under any other circumstances when you have a prophet and there are a lot of people who are deviant From the prophet in fact they fight the prophet In the case of for example Nuh alayhi sallam He was preaching to them for nine hundred fifty years according to the Qur'an He was preaching to them for nine hundred fifty years and yet he the majority of his population of his people Were against him and apparently those who believed in him were something like in the of the order of 80 people or so so Even though he was a hojjah the prophet Nuh ala nabiyah alayhi wa sallam But despite that and he was a prophet but despite that The majority of the people didn't listen to him the same thing in here we had people who were mu'mineen Muslimin who were following the religion of Ibrahim if you like and but The majority of the people didn't follow and there is no coercion he abd mu'tal couldn't go along and sort of force people To believe in him or to practice the teachings of Islam or the Dean of the religion of Ibrahim alayhi sallam there were those who did And there were those who didn't and it became more widespread this jahlia and the people who had straight from the Right path the religion of Ibrahim became more and more to the extent that they started putting idols in the In the Kaaba and so on And there was nothing they could do about they just allowed them as much as what Nuh could do and it was just what Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi could do he stayed 13 years in Makkah and there were about Something like between Let's say about maximum 200 people who believed in him there isn't The Prophet himself Khatim al-anbiya the final messenger he came to Makkah and he stayed with them for 13 years He couldn't get he couldn't get The majority of the people of Makkah on his side he got apparently between hundred or 200 people at most To his calls to his religion so the same would be or even to a lesser degree at the time of Al-Hujjah Abdul muttalib says Abdul muttalib was Hujjah and Wawasiyuh Abu-Talib Before before the birth of the Holy Prophet peace be upon him and his holy progeny did they Built the foundation did they prepare the people for The coming of the holy prophets of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam whether were they were they informed themselves To inform the people as well or they didn't know they they said to themselves they were informed I haven't seen Anything to the effect that they had a if you like a Campaign or a mission that to inform the people of the final messenger don't know there was I haven't seen something like that But they certainly knew there were some people knew Even if you like Other religions Jews and Christians and so on knew there will be a messenger coming and so on according to their teachings and to their Books and so on But nothing more than that Jews and Christians knew that someone would be coming Final for the the the last messenger will be coming and people like Abdul muttalib Abu-Talib and so on knew who This baby will be this Muhammad will be even when he He was a teenager they knew they could see signs and so on but they Didn't have a specific campaign to inform the people about it is it has become known that They refer to Omeya as Omeya ibn abdshams Omeya the son of abdshams scholars and researchers who Published their works and so on they say they have proven that Omeya was not the son of abdshams and In fact, he was a roman slave who was adopted was like both by abdshams and then he freed him and He adopted him as a son