 نحن نبدأ في عام جديد كل عام وانتم بخير يجب أن الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن نردنا في نفسنا في سيدي وفي سيدي وفي جميع السيدي نبدأ في المنزل المحرم الذي مرحب بفتاة أهجرة بفتاة عليه الصلاة والسلام كما نعرف يجعله محرم ونحن في محرم المنزل المحرم يبدأ في المنزل المحرم وفي محرم هنا are many good things that took place and also some tragical things and tomorrow I believe one of our colleagues will be talking to you about the virtues of محرم and the events in محرم and what acts of worship and the wafid that we can do in محرم so insha'Allah we'll leave this for him to cover those areas among the good things that that we enjoy in محرم is عشرة we all fast ashura as the prophet as-salam recommended for us and encouraged us to fast ashura and in the first 10 days of محرم also the tragic event of that took place where our master was butchered and killed and murdered today's khutbah however is about the hijra as a whole and not the hijra of the prophet as-salam but we wanted to look at the events that led to the hijra and talk about one particular hijra which is the first hijra that ever took place in Islam the first migration the prophet as-salam and just to mention one more thing the first one to use the hijra calendar was the prophet as-salam and in one document after he met with a delegation that came to him it was written in the document that this event took place people used to date things by the major events that took place in their lives so for example world war 1 is a major event world war 2 is a major event the year of the elephant is a major event and the Arabs used to date things and use the year of the elephant 10 years after the year of elephant 20 years after the year of elephant the prophet as-salam used in his document 5 years after the year of hijra this document was written سيد نعمر رضي الله عنه was the one that established the hijra calendar and he used the month of muharram because that's when the prophet allowed his companions to immigrate immigrate from Mecca to Medina and immigration is about sacrifice is about suffering is about enduring the tests that Allah has put on you is an example of sacrifice each and every one of us will have to sacrifice animals sacrifice mothers sacrifice the eagle mother sacrifice the mother cow sacrifices sacrifice exist in all species and suffering is not only limited to humans animals suffer too the prophet as-salam Allah revealed to the prophet that his companions should now begin the hijra 13 years after his message in the first 3 years of his message the prophet as-salam kept it secret it was private only his close friends his wife his servant his cousin his close friend our worker only his the closest people in his inner circle became Muslim and for 3 years preaching Islam and calling people to Islam was kept private then the divine call came he says make it public and the prophet as-salam started making the dawa publicly beginning with his relatives beginning with his family and he called everyone and told them what do you say about me they say you are a sadaq al-ameen said if I were to tell you an army was about to attack you would you believe me then he told them about his message and all of them denied said no we are not going to accept this they understood the message and they understood what it implies they didn't accept it and for 4 years after that there was a lot of persecution especially to the new Muslims that became new Muslims and the prophet as-salam enjoyed the protection of his grandfather then his uncle Abu Talib and then in the year number 7 the the pagans of Mecca started a new strategy and they started enforcing what we call today an economic sanctions and that economic sanctions but for 3 years from the year 7 until the year 10 and in the year 10 it was the year of sorrow when Sayyid al-Khadija passed away when Abu Talib passed away and all those who used to protect the prophet as-salam and give him and console him and take care of him and give him comfort have already gone all of them and there is a divine wisdom behind this because if Abu Talib was alive when the prophet became successful if Khadija was alive when the prophet became successful if Abu Talib was alive when the prophet became successful people might have said this is nothing but a Hashemi conspiracy he was only successful because of his grandfather and his uncle and his wife and people who supported him Allah SWT took everything away from him so that we realize that protection comes only from Allah SWT it's not because of his grandfather it's not because of his uncle it's not because of his wife protection care consolation and success they only come from Allah SWT and Allah SWT took care of it in year number 7 they became the economic blockade of the prophet and everyone that's a new muslim and the family of the prophet Banu Hashem and Banu Abu Talib and for 3 years you cannot marry from them you cannot trade with them you cannot exchange goods with them this usually if you live in a society where you cannot marry from other people I mean you're cutting ties with them they don't talk to you, you don't visit them there is no interchange there is no social visits anymore you cannot trade with them you cannot buy and sell and that became very difficult they used to eat leaves of trees for 3 years some people used to smuggle things for them but this happens once in a while during that period the prophet SAW told his followers apart from me there is a virtuous land called Al-Habashah called Abyssinia and he commanded them to go there initially a small group went to Abyssinia about 12 people 12 men and 4 women and amongst them was مصحب بن عمير amongst them was رقيا the daughter of the prophet عثمان بن عثان عبدو رحمان بن عور أم حبيبة the daughter of Abu Sufyan and her husband and her newborn baby and then later on a larger group left Mecca and went to Abyssinia about 80 people 80 plus they stayed there in Abyssinia for 10 years the people of Mecca who were persecuting the Muslims they became very possessive they wanted to persecute the Muslims but if you're persecuting us can't we leave no they didn't want them to leave and when they saw that they were leaving they weren't happy about this this usually happens even amongst families if my child offends me and they want to run away from home maybe they're gonna tell people about what's happening in the family I don't want my laundry to be exposed to everybody and the people of Mecca didn't want this so they sent 2 emissionaries they sent 2 of the most diplomatic and smart people amongst them عمر ابن العاص and someone else to encourage the rulers of Abyssinia النجاشي النجوس to give them back those people so they went to Abyssinia as dignitaries this is like 2 countries visiting each other and they brought with them gifts, luxurious gifts Mecca is a center where people used to come and trade so they have artworks they have leather things to Abyssinia to give to the النجوس but the way they framed it is by عمر ابن العاص who is a very sharp man he became muslim later on the way they framed it they said there is a number of people from Mecca and those people are the foolish the most foolish people amongst us they run away they run away from us they are disturbing our society they are creating problems in our society and our community they are troublemakers they are runaways and not only that they abandoned our tradition and our faith and our religion and adopted a new faith and a new religion all we are asking is that you give them back to us so that we can deal with them in a way appropriate to our manners and tradition and it sounds like a reasonable request and النجوس however the نجاشي was smart he is a man of faith the prophet A.S described Abyssinia as a virtuous land you are going to a place ruled by a king that is not unjust and under his dominion no one will face injustice نجاشي قال عمر ابن العاص that he thought to himself it seems that these guys are not criminals they are not murderers and it's not about you are not asking them back because of dispute like a land dispute or a blood dispute it's because they changed their religion and they changed the way they look at things I need to find out more because نجاشي is also a spiritual king the Christian morals is part of the Abrahamic morals and because he is a just king he said no I want to know the facts so he called the Muslims and the Muslims came and they found the king sitting and around him are the religious leaders the bishops and the emissaries from Mecca عمر ابن العاص and the other person عمر ابن العاص spoke and presented this case now the Muslims are being these refugees now the refugees in Abyssinia they are now in court of law and they are being judged after عمر ابن العاص spoke and نجاشي asked the Muslims to speak present your case you should present the case of the Muslims the Muslims chose عمر ابن عاص رضي الله عنه عمر الطيار عمر stayed in Abyssinia for over 10 years when he came back in the battle of Haibar the prophet was so elated and he said I don't know whether I'm more happy about the victory of Haibar when he was seeing جعفر الطيار جعفر ابن عبي طالب and he told him اشبهت خلقي وخلقي oh Jafar you resemble me physically and you resemble me in character so although his companions went to Abyssinia he sent with them someone who resembled him physically and resembled him in character why did he resemble him in character because جعفر ابن عبي طالب was so fond he's a fan of the prophet even before Islam he looked at the prophet as his role model this is someone I want to be like he emulated him in everything in all of his characters and just happened Allah created him in a way that looks similar to the prophet so جعفر ابن عبي طالب stood and presented the case a very short speech this is like an elevator pitch if you're presenting something in front of an investor you have to present, you have to give your pitch present your case and in his case he mentioned six things he says oh king عمر ابن العاص and the king says why is it that you left the religion and you run away why is it that this and this happen جعفر said oh king we were once a people now he's appealing to the king as a man of faith and as a just ruler he said oh king we were once a people living in ignorance worshipping idols who would accept to worship idols they're calling us foolish people is leaving worshipping idols foolish okay this is the implicit message worshipping idols eating the flesh of animals that had died without being slaughtered committing acts of abomination neglecting our kin and our relatives and our families treating our neighbors badly treating our neighbors badly this resonates with the christian message and allowing the strong among us to oppress the weak this resonates with the king being a just ruler جعفر رضي الله عنه he spoke fluently it flows he didn't even have to prepare because things happen suddenly thus we lived he said we lived in this in this in this way thus we lived until God sent us a messenger from among ourselves now he's describing the prophet that the man who came to us is not somebody that was parachuted we don't know where he came from and all of a sudden he started doing magic and we started following him as a cult it's not like that he said thus we lived until God sent us a messenger from among ourselves a man whose family origin honesty integrity and chastity were well known to us well known to us we know who he is we know how he lived for 40 years he was a sadaq al-ameel for 40 years people used to look up to he called upon us to worship God now this is the third point in his speech he called upon us to worship God to worship God alone to worship Allah alone and to do away with the stones and idols which we worshiped as our forefathers had done and to respect he instructed us to be truthful in our words to fulfill our promises to respect our obligations to our blood relations and he forbid us to commit abominations what's wrong with that then he told the king so we believed in him isn't it normal so we believed in him we believed him and placed our trust in him obeying the message which he had brought from God now he turned to response of the disbelievers in Makkah he said as a consequence however our people denounced us tortured us and did everything in their power to make us turn away from our religion and revert to the worship of idols is that acceptable to you okay is this acceptable to anyone now the king asked him like why did you leave Makkah and came to me why did you do this is it true what they said Jafar concluded by saying when they continued to oppress us wrong us we came to your land choosing you above all others as the one from whom we could hope to receive protection and be treated with impartiality to be impartial to us to be just to us the king said I will never give them back to you disbelievers of Makkah didn't like this they're smart the next day they came to the king said you know what they say offensive things about Jesus they're fighting back now the king says oh really what kind of offensive things so they made something up he called Jafar again and the Muslims what do you say about Jesus and Jafar says we say what the prophet told us about him he is a servant of God a slave of God to be a servant of God to be a servant to be a slave is in modern way in modern terms why because masters that took slaves they humiliated them oppressed them and it's for their benefit we are proud of being slaves of Allah because by being slaves of Allah it's for our benefit not for Allah's benefit the master does not benefit from me I benefit from the master while in modern slavery the masters are those who benefit from the slaves not the opposite the slaves are oppressed he is Abdul he is a servant of God he is a calima from God he is created by a special word from God and his spirit from God that was created and was cast into the blessed version Mary the king said he draw a line he says what you told me and what the gospels are telling me they come from the same source and then he told the people of Makkah go away they are going to remain in my land but being in Abyssinia is not easy because you are surrounded by the cultural norms when people came when they left Abyssinia and they came back to to Medina عمر told أسماب which was one of the people who went to Abyssinia he was like boasting a little bit and saying you were in Abyssinia while we were with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم persecuted tested and so on and so forth أسماء رضي الله وعنه didn't accept this from Omar and told him no we were in more difficulty than you you were with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to console you and take care of you and we were away and we were away from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's not easy to be away from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it's not easy to be away from revelation for 10 years away from revelation from guidance from the company of the prophet and the companions that were around him and she was so angry that she went to the prophet and told him and he affirmed what she said he said they only have one hijra and you have two hijras and that's what immigration is about immigration is about you endure some suffering for a higher cause you may leave something for something better or endure something until something better comes migration may take the form of moving from one city to another city just to protect your children and put them in an Islamic school as some people I know have done migration might be from one job to another job that makes your practice of religion more easy at the end those people knew what they identified them today people say I identified by this and everything they said is mainly in act no the Muslims they said my identity is my commitments and my religion and my belief in Allah and I said بله صلى الله عليه و على أاله وسلاة الله الله عز وجله اق suggests اللهم فصلِّ وسلِّمُ بارِك على سيدنا محمدٍ وعلى آلِ سيدنا محمدٍ كما صلَّيتَ وسلَّمْتَ وبرَكْتَ على سيدنا إبراهيمَ وعلى آلِ سيدنا إبراهيم كل عالمين إنك أحمدٌ مجيد ورضي الله عن السادة الخُلفاء الصحابة النُّجباء أبي بكرٍ وعمرًا وعُسمان وعليٍ وعن سائر الصحابة والتابعين وسائر القرابة يا رب العالمين وعن السيدة ثاطمة الزهراء وعن السيدة خديجة رضي الله عنها وعنها الحسن والحسين سيدا شباب أهل الجنة اللهم اغفر للمسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأحياء منهم والأموات إن كياموا لنا سميعٌ قريبٌ مجيبُ الدعوات عباد الله إن الله يأمرُ بالعدل والإحسان وإتائذ القربة وينهى عن الفحشان وإتائذ القربة يعيض رقم لعلكم تذكروا واقموا الصلاة