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Muhammad - unquestionably the most controversial name in 2019. Many people love him, others hate him. The example of Muhammad is, you know, as just an exemplar of the faith.
He was a warlord. Who is the man? And more importantly, is he really a true prophet sent by God? This is The Hot Seat. Brothers and sisters, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you and to introduce you to a brand new show and a brand new podcast called The Hot Seat.
To understand a little bit more about The Hot Seat, we first have to understand the context of the modern day world we find ourselves living in, in the year 2019. It is a world in which perhaps, perhaps there are more doubts, misconceptions and misinterpretations that are thrown around about the religion of Islam than in any other period of time in the history of mankind. The internet is the number one source used by people globally to acquire information on any topic and it is riddled and full of false notions and erroneous ideologies about the Deen of Allah.
Our kids, ourselves are being exposed to this kind of information on a daily and if not daily, then at the very least weekly basis. And whether we know it or not, whether we choose to accept it or not, it is having an effect on ourselves, our hearts, our minds and ultimately our understanding of this beautiful religion. To further complicate the problem, many of us find ourselves living in Western societies where the governments and the social norms and pressures are constantly trying to redefine what is good and what is bad, what is accepted and what is rejected, what Islam is and is allowed to be and what Islam is never allowed to be.
All of this, my brothers and sisters, ultimately leads to confusion, it leads to ignorance and if Allah permits, it can lead to misguidance. The hot seat has therefore been designed, with the permission of Allah alone, to counter these kind of modern day, contemporary issues head on by using the knowledge and the guidance of the Muslims of the past, the early generations of Muslims, the best of generations. There is not a single Muslim on the face of the planet today that would doubt the fact that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala completed our religion for us over 1400 years ago and that that completed, holistic, perfect religion is just as applicable now, in the year 2019, as it was back then.
We truly do have classical solutions for contemporary problems. However, this isn't your normal, average Islamic lecture series. First of all, it's not a lecture, it's a discussion between two parties, often opposing parties, in an attempt to reach the truth bi'idhnillah.
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But for now, without any further ado, let's get into this episode of The Hot Seat. I'm once again joined on The Hot Seat by Ustadh Abdur Rahman Khafidullah. Ustadh, how are you doing today? As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Wa alaykum as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I'm doing good, alhamdulillah. The votes have been counted once again.
On the website, we had another three options, and the public have voted for the topic Was Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, a false prophet? So that's the issue that we're going to be discussing today. And as always, I want to start with an opening question. As we're talking about prophethood, I want to talk about the concept of prophethood before we move on to Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
What makes somebody a prophet? الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوا لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد When it comes to talking about the issue of a prophet, the scholars, they mention that there are four things that a person has to agree or acknowledge. And without these four, the concept of prophecy or prophethood cannot be really discussed properly. The first thing that we need to affirm and accept is المخبر المنبئ المرسل The one who sent this prophet, the one who the message is being conveyed from and that is Allah عز و جل So the person has to believe in Allah.
You can't be an atheist and talk about a prophethood. The second thing that needs to be accepted also is المخبر المنبئ The one that was sent and that's our discussion today. The third one is المضمون النبوء What does the prophecy contain? What's it talking about? The message basically.
So the first one is Allah عز و جل The second one is the messenger and the third one is the message itself. So the sharia and the legislations that he's going to come with and the fourth one is the intermediary. الواسطة The intermediary can sometimes be directly with Allah عز و جل so there's no one between Allah and the prophet and sometimes there is the angel Jibreel who is an intermediary between Allah and the messenger.
So those are the four pillars of when it comes to discussing prophethood. As the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah mention a prophet is not something a person can come with by effort and hard work. You can't pray so much عبادات and worship Allah a lot and come with good deeds and then reach prophethood.
Like you can reach righteousness and piety. Prophethood is not attained by hard work. It's a gift from Allah عز و جل.
Allah chooses who he wants to make the prophet. As Allah said in the ayah الله أعلم حيث يجعل رسالته Allah knows where he's going to place this message and who is he going to give it to. And so Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said إِنَّ اللَّهَ نَظَرَ إِلَىٰ قُلُوبِ عِبَادِهِ Allah looked at the heart of his creation and he chose Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and all the other prophets from amongst their people.
So they were chosen, they were selected, they were picked by Allah عز و جل. Also what we believe is that prophets are male not females. There are some scholars who took a strange opinion, an obscure opinion, and it's a fringe, it's not the mainstream belief that a female can be a prophet.
Those three scholars are Abu al-Hassan al-Ash'ari and also al-Imam al-Qurtubi رحمه الله and also Ibn Hazm. These three scholars, they said that a female can be a prophet. They specifically mentioned the mother of Musa عليه السلام because Allah said in the ayah وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَىٰ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ أَنْ أَرْضِعِ وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَىٰ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ We sent a wahi on the mother of Musa.
So they said, look, she's a prophet. But here it meant al-ilham. Allah directed her to do this particular thing.
But that wasn't a revelation. And the mother of Isa بن مريم they said that Jibreel came to her and so this is what a prophet is, right? Jibreel comes to. But the scholars, they responded to that that the prophet is a male, not a female.
So, summarized and quick, this is what a prophet is. Okay, so essentially we're talking about Allah, the creator, speaking to a human being whether directly or indirectly. Why do you even feel like this is possible in the first place? So, the concept of the adillah, the evidence is and I really want to focus on the rational evidence.
الأدلة العقلية على إمكان النبوءة I want to focus on the rational evidences that there can be a prophet. Before we even say Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is a prophet from Allah let's first of all prove that there can be a prophet. So inshallah there are five ways to prove there are many more but just five for this podcast that there can be a prophet.
There is a rational argument for the plausibility of a prophet. The first one is دليل القلق والقدرة وقياس الأولى Allah created سبحانه وتعالى and creating is more complicated and hard but nothing is hard for Allah عز وجل. That's more complicated but for Allah there's nothing complicated or hard.
If he's done that then sending a prophet and a messenger is nothing hard to him it's very easy as Allah said in the ayah وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَخْتَارُ Allah is the one who creates and then he's the one who chooses. So Allah chooses who he wants to make a prophet. Allah chooses how this universe and this world is run سبحانه وتعالى.
In another ayah Allah says رَفِيعُ الدَّرَجَاتِ ذُو الْعَرْشِ يُلْقِ الرُّوحَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ عَلَى مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ Allah created everything سبحانه وتعالى and he chose from his slaves a prophet. In another ayah Allah says اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ حَيْثُ يَجْعَلُ رِسَالَتَهُ Allah knows he has the power, he has the ability, he has the strength he knows who he's going to give this message to. So the first rational argument for there being a prophet is the fact that Allah created سبحانه وتعالى and it's a logical absurdity that someone would put effort in something and nothing is effort for Allah عز و جل but I'm just trying to give us a human if someone went into the kitchen وَلِلَّهِ الْمَثَالُ الْأَعْلَى We can't compare anything to Allah but I'm just trying to bring the information close to the listeners if someone went into the kitchen and they cooked food and they made food and then as soon as they cooked it they chose to just throw it into the bin or they just left it there and they walked away from it and then the next day they came and they did the same.
You'd say this person is insane, why would you do this and then just get rid of it or just dismiss it or not do anything with it وَلِلَّهِ الْمَثَالُ الْأَعْلَى Allah is a great example. How is it possible that we say Allah تبارك وتعالى He created this creation He brought it to existence which brings me to my second point Just before we move on to the second point even though Allah has the ability and the power to send a prophet it doesn't necessarily mean that He did it doesn't make it true. Allah has the ability to do everything, yet He didn't do everything there's certain things He did, certain things He doesn't do.
I mean Allah does everything سبحانه وتعالى and everything He can do سبحانه وتعالى, we can't restrict Allah's ability. But that brings me to my second point, which is دليل العناية والحكمة It goes against Allah's wisdom سبحانه وتعالى that He will create this whole entire universe, He will create the creation inside it and there won't be no aim and objective behind their creation Allah says وَلَقَدْ بَعَثْنَا فِي كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ رَسُولًا أَنِي عَبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَاجْتَنِبُوا الضَّاغُوتِ We send amongst every nation and every people a messenger worship Allah alone and stay away from associating partners with Him. In another ayah Allah says أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانُ أَيُّتْرَكَ سُدَى Did mankind actually think and assume that He will be left aimlessly, no purpose nothing behind His creation so it's wisdom that it's a wisdom from the wisdoms of Allah عز و جل that He created us for a purpose.
In another ayah Allah says أَفَحَسِبُتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقَنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا أَفَحَسِبُتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقَنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا Did you think that we created you for joke that we just created you for nothing The third argument for it is دَلِيلُ الضَّرُورَةِ وَالإِفْتِخَارِ وَالحَاجَةِ وَالإِفْتِخَارِ وَالحَاجَةِ That we are in need of Allah عز و جل Like Allah سبحانه وتعالى We are hungry, we need to know our Creator. We want to know this world that we're in, who brought us here There's that حاجة and that hunger inside us that makes us want to know who our Creator is So you're in front of two paths, not a third The first one is to say Allah تبارك وتعالى He did not clarify anything to us To say إِمَّا أَن يَتْرُكَ اللَّهُ عَزَ وَجَلَى النَّاسَ إِمَّا أَن يَتْرُكَ اللَّهُ عَزَ وَجَلَى النَّاسَ Allah leaves the people سبحانه وتعالى دُونَ أَن يُبَيِّنَ لَهُمُ الطَّرِقَ إِلَيْهِ And He doesn't clarify to them the path to Him. He just creates them and He doesn't make a path for them Or you come to the second one which is You say Allah تبارك وتعالى يُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الطَّرِقَ Allah clarified the path for them بِأَقْوَاءَ الْأَذِلَّةَ وَالْبَرَاهِينَ He clarified the path to him in the most clearest and the most apparent manner there could be.
He clarified everything for us. Those are the two you have. Why do you feel like this is a proof for I'm not sure I'm making a connection why you feel this is a proof for prophethood.
Okay Allah created us and He from His wisdom He creates us for a purpose. I'm with you on that and He would tell us what that purpose is but do you not believe in the concept of the fitrah that we already know without having a messenger sent to us what is right and what is wrong. The scholars they categorize the fitrah into two.
The fitrah of wanting to have a religion. It's in us all It's something Allah placed inside every one of us that we want to have a religion. We want to be slaves to Allah عز و جل.
We want that ultimate creator, that divine being that we will go back to It's placed inside us. Allah said in the ayah Turn yourself to Allah عز و جل. And then look what Allah said He said The beginning of the ayah Allah said Turn yourself to Allah and then Allah mentioned the concept which is the fitrah.
I was watching a debate that took place between the militant atheist Richard Dawkins and the debate was between him and John Lennox If you go to YouTube and you type in the fixed point foundation I think it's called and the debate is on the god delusion that Richard Dawkins wrote and subhanallah the debate before it unravels and the discussion starts Richard Dawkins says something that subhanallah it really shocked me He said Einstein felt it We all of us share a kind of religious reverence for the beauties of the universe for the complexity of life for the sheer magnitude of the cosmos, the sheer magnitude of geological time and it's tempting to translate that feeling of awe and worship into a desire to worship some particular thing, a person an agent, you want to attribute it to a maker, to a creator That's fitrah That's the fitrah that Allah is referring to here that you want a religion, you want to believe in your lord. The second type is fitriyat al tahseeni wa al takbeeh You see, the concept of evil and good There is a universal good that we all know Before legislation came, we all know lying is bad. We all know killing and oppressing another person is bad That's innately built in us That's there But when it comes to the detailed types of good that cannot be attained except through what? Through legislation That's the fitriyat that Shaykh al-Islam Taimu called it al tahseeni wa al takbeeh and that is why Allah said in the ayah وَمَا كُنَّا لِنَهْتَدِيَ لَوْلَا أَنْهَدَانَ اللَّهِ لَقَدِ جَاءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِالْحَقِّ What does that translate to? It means, وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ They said praise to Allah Azawajalla, the one who guided us to the good وَمَا كُنَّا We were not ones to be guided if Allah did not guide us And look what they said after that لَقَدِ جَاءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِالْحَقِّ The messengers that came from our lord have truly told us the truth Telling them to stay away from that which is evil And also you know the ayah where Allah says سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعَقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ Before that Allah says سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعَقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ Before that Allah says سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعَقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ Before that Allah says سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى So yes the fitrah is also another evidence that the prophets exist Also another thing that it's a strong evidence to prove the possibility of a prophet the possibility of a prophet is the concept of Allah's justice Allah can't just create us سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى when He brings us to this universe He punishes us the day of judgment without having to send on to us a prophet This goes against Allah's justice سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى Allah says in the Quran وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولَهُ We are ones who won't punish them unless we send a messenger for them Wouldn't it be more just for Allah just to speak to all of us directly I mean He had the ability to do that right He did سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and that's the concept of the fitrah right The fitrah is already something that's already placed inside you It's there already Even the detail aspects of good and bad why couldn't you have just spoken to us directly Why is it conditioned for us to believe in a man to attain salvation Why can't we just believe in God As I said at the beginning of the ayah وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَخْتَارُ مَا كَانَ لَهُمُ الْخِيْرَةُ We have no choice Allah تبارك وتعالى لا يُسْأَلُ عَمَّا يَفْعَلُهُمْ يُسْأَلُونَ Allah has never questioned why He does what He does He does it because of wisdom that He knows that we don't know necessarily سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى See we only have the pixel and Allah has the whole picture So we don't really understand the intrinsic of issues and matters But going back to the point I was saying Allah's justice سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and how fair He is is that He can't punish us the day of judgment without sending us a messenger and a prophet to guide us وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا لَهَا مُنذِرُونَ ذِكْرًا وَمَا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ Allah said that there was no nation or no village or no town that we destroyed except there was a warner that came to them to warn them Allah says وَمَا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ We were not oppressors, we were just In another ayah Allah تبارك وتعالى says رُسُلًا مُبَشِرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ Prophets, what did the prophets do? Two things They glad tidings and those prophets they warn and then Allah says لِأَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ الرُّسُلِ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا Allah sends messengers with two things they warn and they give glad tidings and then Allah تبارك وتعالى He says لِأَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ الرُّسُلِ So we don't have no proof after the prophets and the messengers come There's no proof for us That's it, everything was clarified to us The final verse that I want to mention is Allah says in another ayah وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ بِعَذَابٍ قَبْلِهِ لَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا لَوْ لَأَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولًا فَنَتَّبِعَ آيَاتِكَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنَّذِ اللَّهُ وَنَخْزَى They say وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ Allah says if we were to destroy them with our punishment before we send a messenger to them, they would have said Oh Allah, why didn't you send a messenger to us? They would have said, Oh Allah, why did you not send a messenger to us so we can follow the things that he calls us to and that we can stay away or we can be saved from Those are the points that prove the possibility of a prophet Final one, just a final one is historically prophets came Isa Ibn Maryam is historically proven that he came Alayhi Salatu Wassalam Historically prophets came and this is an evidence of the possibility of prophets It's not like something that didn't happen, it's actually something that did happen When the disbelievers, Quraish the Arab pagans, they tried to dismiss that because they knew that if they proved that there never came a prophet before that they could probably put a question mark under the prophet So this is what they said مَا سَمَعْنَا بِهَذَا فِي الْمِلَّةِ الْآخِرَةِ إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا اخْتِلَاقٌ We've never heard of this in the previous religions in the previous nations, we've never heard this before This is made up And then Allah responded to them He said to them وَمَا قَدَرُوا اللَّهَ حَقَ قَدْرِي إِذْ قَالُوا مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى بَشَرٍ مِنْ شَيْءٍ قُلْ مَنْ أَنْزَلَ الْكِتَابَ الَّذِي جَاءَ بِهِ مُوسَىٰ نُورًا وَهُدًى لِلنَّاسِ تَجْعَلُونَهُ قَرَاطِيسًا تُبُدُونَهَا وَتُغْفُونَ كَثِيرًا وَعُلِّمْتُمْ مَا لَمْ تَعْلَمُ أَنْتُمْ وَلَا آبَاؤُكُمْ إِلَى آخِرِ الْآيَةِ Allah says who is the one Who sent on Musa the book This is historically taking place It has actually happened So these five that I just mentioned I'm quickly going to go over what those five are The first evidence to show The rational evidence To prove the plausibility Of their being a prophet Is number one دَلِيلُ الْخَلْقِ وَالْقُدْرَةِ وَقِيَاسِ الْأَوْلَةِ Allah created and He has the ability And I gave the evidences for that The second one is دَلِيلُ الْعِنَايَةِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ Allah's consideration and His wisdom for His creation Number three دَلِيلُ الضَّرُورَةِ وَالْحَاجَةِ وَالإِفْتِقَارِ The need that we have for Allah We need to know our creator We are in hunger to know Who He is Number four دَلِيلُ الْعَدْلِ وَالإِلَهِ Allah's justice That He doesn't punish His creation Without sending them a prophet And the fifth one is دَلِيلُ الْإِسْتِقْرَاءِ التَّارِخِي Historically, we know there came prophets before us That have walked on the face of this earth Okay, before we move on I've got a few questions on those five The fourth one you mentioned Is Allah's justice What do we believe about the prophets? Do we believe that they are guaranteed paradise? Yeah, prophets are promised paradise So now you have someone who Like you said, didn't work Hard actions To attain the status of prophethood Rather they were chosen by Allah And this person gets a free ticket into paradise Whereas we have to work for our ticket into paradise How is that fair? Prophets is not a gift Prophecy is not a gift Prophecy is not a gift Meaning it's something Allah Azza wa Jalla gives it to whoever He wishes Like in working for Jannah It's something that everybody has to come with Working for Jannah It's something that everyone has to come with Everyone exerts their effort towards The only thing is Prophets will always be ones that work for Jannah They will always do that It won't happen a prophet Who will what? Not work for Jannah And not put in the efforts And rather, prophets get it even harder than the Other ordinary creation Meaning there are things that were obligatory on our prophet That weren't obligatory on his creation That he had to do That we don't have to do Because of his station and his position That's not the only person we believe That's going to enter Jannah We know other creations of Allah Who were alive and they were informed That they were going to go to Jannah as well Which weren't prophets The second question I want to ask I get the impression that your main argument is For the reason why Allah sent prophets Is to teach us our religion You mentioned That we don't have any female prophets This is a stronger opinion, the opinion that you hold Are you of the belief that Men and women have been created the same? If not, because I don't believe you think that If not, then how do women know how to live their lives? I understand that male prophets Were sent to teach men how to live their life Aren't women different? And if they are, then why weren't there any female prophets To show them how to live their life? You see, the difference between men and women is the biological side of it But the spiritual side If a woman does a righteous action And a man does a righteous action In the eyes of Allah, it's the same It's the intention and the hard work And the way that they do it In accordance to the Sunnah That's what's looked at, not their gender But biologically, I'm not the only one who believes that A feminist will say the same Of course Biologically, men and women are not the same And so Allah doesn't want to Subhanahu wa ta'ala From his wisdom, it's to pressure And put this burden on women Women have times within the month They can't Handle these responsibilities Where she will not be praying the Salah And the people need an Imam to lead them For the prayer And many other things So, you see, what we have to understand Is the relationship between And I always say this, the relationship between The creating And the legislation Allah's legislations are always In accordance to the agenda of the person And their ability And their capability It's not The legislation, it observes that Because no one can observe The laws that are passed on you Except the one who knows you greatly And that's only Allah Okay, I think you made a strong claim For the reason why Prophethood in general can exist And the proofs for that I'd now like to take the conversation specifically To the Prophet Muhammad As we know And you mentioned at the end that there were Many Prophets that have come in history We've also been told that there have been false Prophets In the past, or people who claim Prophethood And in the future as well There's going to be people who claim Prophethood How do we know that Muhammad Is not one of these people? Okay, It's very good now Now I have to prove and give a strong argument For al-Barhanat al-Sidq al-Nubuwati Muhammad The evidences and the proofs For Nabi Muhammad being a Prophet From Allah This is after I've proven that The possibility and the plausibility Of there being a Prophet There are eight points I can mention If the podcast allows me to go through Each and every one of them, that's good If not, then Inshallah I might do another session on it The first one is Dalalat ittasaf al-Nabi ﷺ Bikamal al-akhlaqi ala nubuwati The Messenger's Characteristics And who he was As an individual Is an evidence that he was a Prophet from Allah And there are many attributes and characteristics Of the Prophet ﷺ that point towards Him being a Prophet But I'm going to stick to the most important one for the podcast And that is He had Kamal al-Sidq He was completely Truthful ﷺ And I want to prove this concept of him being truthful From two angles Number one I want to mention That he was completely truthful And the impossibility Or that it's It's impossible For him to ever have lied Or to be a liar Those are the two angles I want to tackle this from Let's first of all look at What the people Who were most closest said to him Not his followers, not his disciples Not his companions I'm talking about his staunch enemies I'm talking about His staunch enemies who lived Close to him who were looking for any reason To not believe in him What did they say about him? Quraysh when they saw Nabi Muhammad ﷺ And he even addressed them And he spoke to them and he preached to them They said to him Another riwayah says And another riwayah says Muhammad we've never known you to lie It's one thing We've never known you to lie Abu Talib the prophet's uncle He has a poetry Where he praised the prophets He said Our son is known It's affirmed That he's not one to lie And I'll tell you something very shocking That I came across That proves his honesty And his truthfulness ﷺ The battle of Badr When it happened And Abu Jahl came together This is when the two armies met one another The prophet's armies on the other side Of Quraysh and Quraysh is on the other side They're facing one another He said to Abu Jahl When the two armies saw one another He said to him Do you think Muhammad lies? These are two non-muslims They're looking at one another This is the battle They're getting ready for the Prophet ﷺ Abu Jahl said How would he lie about Allah When we used to see him as the truthful one And the reason why we called him the truthful one Is he's never lied to us This is the Prophet ﷺ So this is a testimony From a man who wants to wage war with him now He's going to fight with him He's in the front row And everyone who read the history Would know Abu Jahl was the one who Pushed the battle of Badr Another example I want to give you From the people of the scripture A Jew man Quraysh is his people who knew him Forty years before he became a prophet Allah wanted them to get to know Muhammad The name they gave him was Muhammad Al-Amin That was his name The second point I want to bring is A Jew man Abdullah ibn Salam He said When the messenger came to the city of Medina The people they rushed to him They wanted to see him Abdullah ibn Salam said I rushed to him so I can see him I wanted to know him I wanted to get to see who this man is Because I've heard about him I want to know who Muhammad is He said I came When I looked and I observed And I got the chance to look at his face When I looked at his face I realized this is not the face of a liar The first thing that he said I heard him say was The first thing I heard him say was Spread the greetings He came to Medina Jews are living next to him Look at his character And his Morality And he said Spread the greetings Give food And pray Pray whilst the people are sleeping You will enter Jannah in safety and peace So these are the people who were most close to him That said he was truthful If Nabi Muhammad now And I want to go to the second part It was impossible for him to lie Because if he was a liar And he lied about Allah Allah Made a covenant and an oath That he will destroy anyone who lies Allah said in the ayah If Muhammad was to forge things against us And he was to make it up We will grab him Allah is saying We will destroy him and humiliate him And annihilate him In another place Allah says And if you leave a little to them We will make you double in life and double in death And you will not find a helper for us That you were They wanted to come to you Muhammad And try to get you away from the legislation That was sent on to you They were trying to sway you away If you did go their direction and you followed them And you did what they wanted And you distorted our religion We would have destroyed you Muhammad And you would never find anyone help you and aid you So he couldn't have lied It is impossible for him to lie How could he then be a liar When he was Saddened for his people Whenever his people didn't follow him He would be sad and emotional about it Allah said in the ayah When they did not believe in your message Muhammad You were close to Sacrificing yourself so they can believe Allah said Don't let your nafs go in Regret and sadness Because they are not believing in you So all of the people at his time Obviously they believed him to be a truthful one They all accepted the religion then The people that came in contact with the Prophet They didn't all believe in him They rejected his message They didn't want to take it from him But the rejection of the Prophet's message Had to do with something else It had nothing to do with him not being truthful Or him not being honest Why was it that they didn't want to take the Prophet's message What was the reason One of the reasons is Hasad, jealousy towards him Allah said in the ayah They wanted you to Turn away from your belief and your faith And not become believers They had jealousy in their heart towards you So they had jealousy towards the Messenger It had nothing to do with The concept that he was a liar The second point that I want to mention is The Prophet was an Ummi He was illiterate He was illiterate, he couldn't read Nor could he write And I want to prove this from two angles The rational evidence Rationally, it makes sense that he was illiterate Why? Because he was from a land and a people Who were known to be illiterate historically The Arabs They were not known to be readers or writers They were known for memory And memorization So that's a Rational evidence Proof to show that It makes sense, he was in the middle of the desert There were some who could write though Very little, and they were pointed out Those writers, they were known The words people wrote Waraqat ibn Nawfal was a writer And he could read, he could read the previous scriptures But even if you look at the narrations that came Regarding him, it would state And it categorically mentions that he was a reader Because it was a unique characteristic Not many people could do that And Allah mentioned that the Prophet was illiterate in the Quran وَالَّذِي بَعْتَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولًا مِنْهُمْ And Ummi is the one Who is illiterate, he couldn't read Nor write The second evidence to show is The ayah that I just mentioned So there was a textual evidence I gave you وَالَّذِي بَعْتَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولًا مِنْهُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابُ وَالْحِكْمَةُ وَإِن كَانُوا مِن قَبْلُهُ لَفِيهِ ضَلَلٍ مُبِينٍ And the fact that It was a It was a historical reality Because if you go back and you look at the time Let's go back to the ayah you mentioned What does this translate to? So Allah SWT he set down Amongst the illiterate Amongst the illiterate as a plural Him including But he's really talking about He didn't just mention that the Prophet SWT himself is illiterate Ummiyeen is a plural So he's talking about the people at the time Which is my argument at the beginning The Arabs were illiterate The majority of them couldn't read or write Do we have any proof that him himself Textual proof that the Messenger SWT himself We're talking about the condition of the people Allah says Allah says Literate prophet Okay, why does him being illiterate Prove his prophecy? Because he came with something Arabs were Shocked with وَإِن كُنتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَىٰ عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا بِسُورَةٍ مِن مِثْرِي وَدْعُوا شُهَدَاكُمْ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ He came with a miracle He came with a Quran They were Mind boggled, they were gobsmacked They Shocked with what he brought عليه الصلاة والسلام What is this? And that's another point I'm going to come to when I speak about The Quranic miracle The Quranic discourse The linguistic power In the Quran Illiterate He was illiterate so he couldn't read Things before him How was he telling us, which is another point I'm going to come to Of the unseen and how could he talk about Previous nations, because he wasn't a reader If he read then he could have got those all From, he could have gathered it from other places What about the argument that He was well travelled He worked with his first wife Khadija In her business So he met different people And he interacted with Jews, he interacted with Christians And that's how we got to learn about the Former scriptures, about the former religions and cultures To say that the messenger Was a traveller Is actually a big mistake The reason I say that is because The messenger Never left the Arabian Peninsula Only that he went to Sham So he didn't travel much, he only travelled to one place That was Sham, only No other place, so that's a mistake That many people fall into Number two is, the prophet Came with detailed knowledge He came with great Detailed knowledge That the information that he came with And that which he told us about They were Future events that were going to happen Things that haven't even happened That are going to happen And he told us Things that already happened in the past Let me just give you Some of the examples That he spoke about He talked to us about Nabil Isa He says وَأُنَبِئُكُمْ بِمَا تَأْكُلُونَ وَمَا تَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَا آيَةً لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ Isa Ibn Maryam And how he would tell How he would tell The people about what was Stored in their houses And what was there, he told them Rather, if you look at the bible Or the Christian scripture They don't have the historical Events of Isa When he was young He couldn't get it From anywhere else But there's no way of verifying whether this is actually true information If it's not anywhere else But if everything else is true Then why would you say this isn't true Because everything else is accurate What if there are some things that aren't accurate Like for example In the hadith in Sahih Muslim Where the messenger said I and the last hour have been sent like this And he joined the forefinger with the middle finger I.e. very very close And this is something quite common If you look at modern day false prophets Like Joseph Smith From the Mormons He claims that the end of the world is coming Didn't the messenger fall into the same problem 1400 years later and we're still here Okay, in another hadith The prophet said Anyone who dies then his day of judgment has come So if you die Then that's it And we know that the ummah As the prophet said in another hadith The life span of my ummah Is between 60 to 70 And little go overboard So he Anyone who dies That's the hours come He said birth to And I told you The hour means the hour He didn't say In another hadith he said Qiyamah and sa'ah is the same Anyone who dies his qiyamah has happened Because there's the questioning Starting there for you You've now moved on to the next world The next dimension The next place Another thing is when he said this Which is another response This doesn't say that it was 1000 years If he did say 1000 years and it didn't happen Then you've got a point But when he did this He means that as a prophet Compared to all of the previous prophets My one is the closest when it comes to the hour The hour The hour is very close But close what do you mean How close are we talking about here Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So when he spoke about previous prophets He mentioned them Look for example when he spoke about Nabi Musa He said The story of Nabi Yusuf He even spoke about the Romans and the Persians When they were fighting He already prophesied this And he said What does that mean The Romans have been conquered He prophesied all this And it happened They were fighting no one knew And the Romans won Rather Abu Bakr had a bet on this issue He betted on it And he beat the man he betted on Because he heard it from the prophet Also the prophet He told And this is one of the most Shocking Evidence that I came across It really touched me especially when I read it from Sheikh al-Islam Taimi's Kitab al-Nubuwat Which is Abu Lahab Abu Lahab was alive And the prophet s.a.w. told him while he was alive Abu Lahab He was told he was going to be in hell fire while he was alive He could have disproven the prophet s.a.w. In all of it Just by saying He would have proven that the prophet is a liar He would have proved everything But he became even more stubborn in his disbelief Which just proved even more That what That he s.a.w. was talking about something That is inevitably going to happen Last evidence to show that he Told things that were not going to happen Sorry that haven't happened He prophesied it before Is when he talked about The conquering of Mecca Allah said in the ayah The Ru'ya here was The Wahi that was sent on him To tell him that he is going to conquer Mecca So he prophesied things Things that he couldn't have actually known And they actually came to pass The other thing that many prophets in the past bring is Miracles, did he come with any miracles? He did, he came with two miracles The first miracle that he came with was He split the moon As the hadith goes The people of Mecca said, Muhammad okay show us something And what he did was He showed them the splitting of the moon And that's why the ayah says So he split the moon Another miracle he came with Is the Qur'an that we have And the Qur'an Is one of the strongest The most strongest Proof and evidence That he came with Because you have to understand something Every prophet, the miracle that they came with It died with them His miracle still Today stays Every prophet came with a miracle And every prophet's miracle went with him Like it all went Except who? Except Nabila Muhammad His miracle still stays Until the day of judgement it's going to stay Which is the Qur'an This Qur'an, it's either poetry Or it's not And you know what's amazing Is that the Qur'an came out Into a people who reached the pinnacle Of eloquency Every nation Whatever they were good at, the prophet was given that Nabila Musa His people were magicians So the prophet was given something to Counter that magic Which was a miracle, Nabila Musa was given the stick Isa The people reached medicine That's what they were into So what was he doing? He passed them in that He was bringing people out of the dead With the permission of Allah Arabs They were eloquent They reached the pinnacle Of speech and eloquency And the ability to articulate their words And so Allah gave Nabila Muhammad The Qur'an This Qur'an And this Qur'an was not poetry And that's what even shocked them The eloquency, and it wasn't poetry I want to give you an example Of a man who knew poetry He was one of the greatest poets His name is called Unais al-Ghifari He's a brother of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari His brother He knew poetry, he was a master of poetry He was one of the Seniorest poets So he said I heard the speech of the fortune tellers I just heard them This man's speech is not The speech of a A fortune teller or a magician No, it's not And I've placed His speech Next to the speech of the poets By Allah I swear His speech doesn't Go in line with the speech of the poets Nothing like their poetry Allah Muhammad is truthful And they are lying about him By what they are saying And Allah claimed that all for them He said In another ayah Allah said It wasn't poetry I'd like to do a separate episode I think On the Quran itself, and why it's a miracle exactly What is the next point That you'd like to bring after that Another proof to show that he was a prophet Sent from Allah is The fact that he was The times that he needed He needed revelation He needed support Nothing was coming to him for a period of time And this helps us because If it was all coming from him Before I go into this point There was a point I just wanted to mention The scholars This is one of the things that really showed The truthfulness of the Quran The Quran that he came with If you compare the speech that he came with How can it quickly change into this eloquency And when he spoke it was slightly different to it And the rhythm and everything was different It shows you They were coming from two different One was from him And the other one was from who Allah Azzawajal And we're talking about the wording here not the legislation The Quran when he read it, it was a way It was in a pattern It was in a particular structure Amazing But when you look at the His own speech His own eloquence It just never reached the Quran Coming back I think it's probably appropriate to bring here There is an alternative doubt That some people bring And that is like you mentioned It's clear that the Quran was different to his normal speech So he was clearly not getting it from himself Fine, some people say we agree with that But why do you believe it came from Allah Why couldn't it have come from the devil For example So some people say And there are some things known as the satanic verses And it's mentioned in Where he talks about an incident Where Muhammad Actually Believed or mentioned That he was revealed From Satan What do you have to say about this So the issue of the The story of Al-Gharaniq Scholars they approve The weakness of it So that is fabricated It's no basis to it That's a simple answer without going into too much details It's weak, it has no basis, there is no evidence for it And rather Allah He tells us The relationship between the Prophet I'll give you an example Allah says Allah says The shayateen they only descend on a liar And I just proved to you the Prophet is not a liar Because what did he say It comes down on every affak A forger A person who lies and fabricates things You see The majority Of them are liars Muhammad wasn't a liar The Quran said There was no shayateen In relation with him Coming back to the other point The Quran delayed from him When there was need for it Let me give you an example of the issue of Hadithatul Ifki When the Messenger of Allah's wife was accused of This is his wife, this is his honour If it was all coming from him And we all know When something happens to you personally You like to react fast and quick You want to get an answer For one month he had no answer The hadith mentions Aisha said He stayed for a month No revelation was coming down on him Regarding my affairs There was nothing that was coming down on him So he had nothing to say to her For a whole entire month He didn't Another example is the issue of the turning away from the Qibla Allah says He was looking at the sky Because he wanted to turn away from Baitul Maqdis Because he was turned away from Mecca For a period of time And he wanted to go back to Mecca and face Mecca to pray So he kept looking at the sky Why is he looking at the sky Why doesn't he just give the answer And say I'm turning away from it Say that this is from Allah And many other examples The treaty of Hudaybiyah And how it all happened All of it was a revelation He was waiting Let's do this And to be honest Nabila Muhammad had the wisest people around him He had Abu Sufyan The leader of Quraysh Abu Bakr The position of Quraysh These people could see through a liar A fabricator A fraudster A charlatan Don't play around with our minds What if we look at some of the What if we look at some of the things That he came with that we know Was different to the legislation There's an argument that's out there That he actually lied for personal gain He wanted wealth He wanted power He wanted fame, he wanted women And one of the things that they bring specifically with this regard Is that we know in our religion You're allowed a maximum of four wives Yet he had more than this So he's actually breaking the rules for his own personal gain What do you have to say about that If Nabila Muhammad wanted women At the beginning of his message Quraysh presented that to him They said to him if you want money We'll give it to you If you're looking for fame We're going to give it to you If you're looking for women We'll give it to you Just stop this and just help us Don't split us, don't split our ranks Quraysh clearly said that to him Rather Anyone who looks at the Prophet's history Will realise he didn't gain no money And he lived a very poor life Anyone who looks at the Prophet's life He was shunned by his community They made him leave Mecca He turned his back to Mecca Before he left Mecca to Medina He turned and looked at Mecca And he said Mecca I love you And if it wasn't for my people I would never have left you He left his own hometown This doesn't go in line Psychologically In accordance to a person who's looking for fame Rather he got everything else done to him His sahabas were killed, his followers were killed As for the concept of marriage As I said to you There were things that were obligated on him Mandatory on him to do That we would find hard if we were told to do it So why is it that we don't look at that as well Last but not least Is my Evidence would be The Prophet was scolded by Allah On many different occasions in the Quran He was scolded Told off in things that he did Let me give you about three examples There are more than that The first one is The issue related to Zaynab Zaynab bint Jahsh Who was the wife of Zayd ibn Harith You see Zayd ibn Harith The Prophet took him like his own son And he tried to attribute himself to Zayd And tried to say You are called Zayd ibn Muhammad And then Allah He said Call your Call your Your fathers only Now Zaynab bint Jahsh and Zayd ibn Harith Went their separate ways And broke up And the Messenger of Allah was informed that It will be written for him to get married to Zayd And he felt shy He felt very shy Regarding that and he didn't want to talk about it And Aisha said Look what she said If the Prophet of Islam was Kateem and shaytan If he would have ever concealed a verse in the Quran He would have concealed this verse Which verse is he talking about If he would have ever concealed something He would have concealed that verse What does that verse tell him That are you scared of the people Are you not scared of Allah Are you scared of them Allah is the one you should be scared of Tell the people That Zayd is going to be your wife Don't be scared of it Another thing Another example is When he asked forgiveness for his uncle And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala scolded him for that He said It is not befitting for our Prophet And those who believe It is not befitting for our Prophet and the believers To ask forgiveness for the disbelievers After they have died upon that state Also the booty that they took from the battle of Badr That the Prophet subhanahu wa ta'ala The 70 booty that they took Spoils of war The Prophet subhanahu wa ta'ala used it He got told off for doing that He utilised it By trying to take it back to the people of Quraish To get money from it And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said You see It is not befitting for our Prophet To have captives and try to make money out of it Do you want the dunya And Allah wants the akhira So your argument is that because he was rebuked It shows that nobody would rebuke themselves Openly and publicly Exactly No one would shame themselves And show themselves to be in the wrong Especially at a time when you have the whole region You have the whole Arabian Peninsula Everybody is coming to you and taking their faith And they are believing in you It doesn't make sense to show them that you do mistakes Ok and I think you might have touched on it just now When you are talking about his message being coherent And making sense One of the other questions that some people say is that Ok you proved that he wasn't a liar He was truthful I am with you on that But what if he genuinely believed he was receiving revelation But he was just deluded The concept of being deluded And It is a mental health issue That cannot be It is not consistent with his biography The way that he prepared his army The way he controlled And he ran his private affairs The way he ran the public affairs The way his Physical Pain that he went through When revelation came down on him All of that does not go in line With his biography What about certain things in his biography That might appear to be strange Do you genuinely believe that he flew on a winged horse Into the seven heavens I mean surely that seems like to be a delusion That somebody That someone will go to the seven heavens Yeah he is claiming that this is what This is what he did Unlike the previous miracles Like when Musa A.S. split the Red Sea open He had witnesses When he says A.S. brought people back from the dead But with the permission of Allah he had witnesses Whereas this is one man claiming that he went On a night journey to the seven heavens With no other witnesses Does this not sound like delusion to you Do you genuinely believe this happened Of course I believe it happened Let me explain something to you Again that being said goes in the context of who he is His life His biography This man has never lied before There was no accusation prior to Islam Before he became a prophet No one accused him of Being mentally deranged No one did Or had any mental health issues Not to mention Sorry people didn't claim he was possessed Before he became a prophet Not before sorry afterwards But this happened afterwards After Islam they said that because they had their reasons Because they are adversaries to him They are against him And so they would say Anything that they could accuse him of Or they could throw him at But do you think A deranged lunatic for example Could come up with all of these points that I mentioned For example he mentioned some scientific things That are proven today to be scientific The concept of embryology For example when he spoke about it in the Quran He spoke about The sensory and where the pain comes from If you get burnt Scientists have now proven that the pain Comes from the skin And it's the skin That feels the pain and the warmth So this All of this can't come from a derangement He's bringing facts to the table He's bringing things that are You know mind boggling It's shock the world Do you believe that There's going to be another prophet after him? No He's the final and last prophet So because I believe him he's truthful And I believe him in everything else And his biography And the things that he's brought to the table I definitely believe there will never come a prophet after him At the start of this podcast you mentioned That one of the reasons why Allah sends prophets Is to show mankind how to live their lives We know that there are always New things coming up in the modern day world There are always new things Do we not need clarification from Allah On how to deal with these new things Allah has already done that for us Allah has given us the way forward For every single thing that we need Nothing has been left Everything has been given to us It's been explained to us You're right the Quran doesn't talk about The you know Detailed issues like that And that's why we believe There are general principles in the Quran That there is never going to come anything In the future Except that it's been explained for us But in what way like in In details Case by case No general Principles were given And those general principles they apply Till the day of judgement So for example at the time of the messengers Alcohol was prohibited And now drugs have come And other types of substances have come That intoxicate the mind and that's it We'll keep bringing it back to the alcohol Bring it back to that Ok before we wrap up this episode Can you just give us a summary Of your main points And your main arguments So first of all dealing with the concept of prophethood And why it's even possible in the first place So I mentioned five And that was that Allah created It's called Allah created And Allah He has the ability And it's more befitting for Allah To create and to also Command His creation The second one is It's the wisdom of Allah That he would create a creation And he'll command them and he'll prohibit them Number three is That the creation Is in need of Allah To know their creator Who is he, where is he The creation are in need of that Number four is Allah's ultimate justice That he brings us And sends us a messenger Who will clarify everything to us Or else Will come the day of judgement we'll get punished And we didn't have a messenger sent to us That doesn't go in line with Allah's justice And the fifth one is Historically Prophets came That's a fact, it's a brute fact After I've proven The rational Evidence Of Nabila Muhammad Of the plausibility Of being a prophet Before I move on to the other point I want to say that the aqal The rational plausibility The aqal itself And I think we should make a podcast on that as well The relationship between Reason and faith But the aqal As the poet Ibn Al Qayyim said The aqal will not be independent Without the guidance of revelation Without detailing Like a branch without light It is not perceptible Until it sees it in the morning And when the prophethood Has not reached its light The aqal will not guide you The light of the prophethood Is like the light of the sun To the sighted eye So take it as evidence The ways of guidance You will not find that evidence What many people don't understand is That the aqal has got a place in our religion But the aqal is like the eye Your eye Your eye can see But it needs light to see You have to put the light on then you can see The eyes by itself can't see The aqal by itself cannot see It needs light and the light is the revelation And we'll talk about that in more details Inshallah Ta'ala When we speak about the relationship Between reason and faith But that was my five Aqal Evidences of the plausibility Of a prophet Then I mentioned seven evidences That Nabila Muhammad is a prophet son from Allah The first one is That the messenger Had the utmost Moral conduct And I only mentioned one of that Which is truthfulness The second one I mentioned was Dalalatul Ummiyah Dalalatul Ummiyah That the messenger of Allah was He was Ummi He was illiterate The third one was The complete legislation that he came with And how complete this religion was I mentioned that And I talked about it from the two angles of And That everyone There's an innate ability built inside us To want to be religious And to connect ourselves to Allah And it's also built inside us To want to know what is good From what is bad And we can't know every good and bad Unless we have religion I also spoke about The fact that he told us of the unseen That he talked about the future That is going to happen And many of them he prophesied And he was right And he also told us about the past I also mentioned the Quran And how that was a miracle that he came with The sixth one was He was scolded by Allah And how he was told off And I gave about three examples for that And last but not least I spoke about that the Quran Was delayed in coming down When the need was really there for him He really needed it Okay, just to wrap up What is your advice for somebody who Doesn't accept Muhammad As the final prophet They believe in all of the other prophets But they don't accept Muhammad What is your advice for these kind of people? Does he believe in Jesus? Yes Well then Isa Ibn Maryam already told us Of Nabila Muhammad coming And that's one of the evidences of his prophecy as well That Nabila Isa Told us That Nabila Muhammad is going to come And that itself is in the Bible And Allah knows best I hope you enjoyed and benefited from that discussion Please do share it with your friends and family members If you feel like they might benefit too And don't forget to hit that subscribe button below So you're notified of any new episodes Check out www.thehotseatpodcast.com That's thehotseatpodcast.com On there, you'll find a little bit more information About the podcast And you'll also have the chance to vote For which topic you'd like to see Discussed on the show You can also ask questions on the website To the speaker himself about these contemporary Modern day issues Until next time Fee amalillahi wassalamu alaikum Warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
