Title: Letters to various Rulers Study the biography of the single greatest human being that ever walked the surface of this earth, whom Allah sent as a Mercy to Mankind. This lecture was recorded on 6th November 2013
Guys here is an interesting article on Arius by the Britannica . Arius, (born c. 250, Libya-died 336, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey]), Christian priest whose teachings gave rise to a theological doctrine known as Arianism. Arianism affirmed a created, finite nature of Christ rather than equal divinity with God the Father and was denounced by the early church as a major heresy. An ascetical moral leader of a Christian community in the area of Alexandria, Arius attracted a large following through a message integrating Neoplatonism, which accented the absolute oneness of the Divinity as the highest perfection, with a literal, rationalist approach to the New Testament texts. This point of view was publicized about 323 through the poetic verse of his major work, Thalia (“Banquet”), and was widely spread by popular songs written for labourers and travelers. The Council of Nicaea, in May 325, declared Arius a heretic after he refused to sign the formula of faith stating that Christ was of the same divine nature as God. Influential support from colleagues in Asia Minor and from Constantia, the sister of Emperor Constantine I, succeeded in effecting Arius’s return from exile and his readmission into the church after consenting to a compromise formula. Shortly before he was to be reconciled, however, Arius collapsed and died while walking through the streets of Constantinople. Beliefs Arianism is often considered to be a form of Unitarian theology in that it stresses God’s unity at the expense of the notion of the Trinity, the doctrine that three distinct persons are united in one Godhead. Arius’s basic premise was the uniqueness of God, who is alone self-existent (not dependent for its existence on anything else) and immutable; the Son, who is not self-existent, cannot therefore be the self-existent and immutable God. Because the Godhead is unique, it cannot be shared or communicated. Because the Godhead is immutable, the Son, who is mutable, must, therefore, be deemed a creature who has been called into existence out of nothing and has had a beginning. Moreover, the Son can have no direct knowledge of the Father, since the Son is finite and of a different order of existence.
SALAMUN ALAIKUM DAN ASALAM SILATURAHIM SEGALA PUJI HANYA BAGI ALLAH TUHAN SELURUH ALAM TIADA TUHAN'YANG LAYAK DISEMBAH DENGAN SEBENAR BENARNYA MELAINKAN ALLAH YANG MAHA PENYANTUN LAGI MAHA MULIA 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@BruceWayne-cf9qd I'm not a Quran ist but its important not to conflate the two. The hadith isn't the Quran and therefore open to scrutiny. Let's not just blindly believe in every single hadith.
AOA. Shaykh Yasir, Thank You so much for this detailed seerah. Question that came to mind: Didn't the treaty prevent any new convert from Makkah to go to Madinah? Was this an issue for both Momina (Prophet S.W. last wife) and Ammara (Orphan niece).
Mohammed Asadullah Sorry for the late reply. If I remember correctly, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi in a previous lecture said that the treaty said that the 'Men will be returned'. Of course, that meant anyone who converted to Islam from Makkah. But Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) didn't follow the spirit of the treaty but words. Since it said men, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) only sent back men not women.
There are some historical inaccuracies in the Sassanian part. Firstly, Yazdegard (the third) wasn't the son of Khosrow (the second). He was the grandson. Khosrow was killed by one of his sons, Prince Kavad (the second), in 628 CE. Yazdegard was the nephew of Kavad and the son of Prince Shahriyar, who was also killed by his brother Kavad. Kavad was killed later, Kavad's 8 years old son Ardhashir (the third) was the puppet King for a while who was eventually killed by a powerful Persian General, Shahrbaraz. Sassanid Empire was a mess, and marred in civil wars, so sometime later a powerful warlord named Rostam Farrokhzad brought Yazdegard out of hiding and installed him as a puppet King, who was also 8 years old. This was around 632, the year of the death of the Prophet. Khosrow was killed by his son Kavad who in turn was controlled by Persian feudal lords. They were mad that Khosrow almost lost Ctesiphon to Heraclius in 627 while getting screwed by the Turks on the other side, the east. The Muslims dealt the final death blow to a once glorious empire broken to pieces. Yazdegard's family survived somehow in China and perhaps his bloodline still survives to this day. His grandchildren married into Chinese nobility. Fun fact about Arius, he did preach the trinity but the nature of Christ was vastly different from the mainstream. He came back later to the Roman Empire, and Constantine embraced Arianism in his deathbed. And yes, Jesus IS divine in Arianism. But his divinity is lesser compared to Allah. In Mainstream theology, Jesus is equally divine. During the time of the Prophet, Arianism was popular in North Africa because the Visigoths (Spain) were Arians.
Episode 71 Notes: Letters to Various Rulers Following the Conquest of Khaybar, the Prophet SAW sent out emissaries to several rulers, informing them about Islam and inviting them towards it: 1. Letter to Najashi of Abyssinia This letter was the most successful and in it the Prophet SAW informed the Najashi about Islam and mentioned the similarities between Christendom and Islam. Najashi reacted positively to this letter and accepted Islam thereafter. According to At-Tabari, Najashi sent his son and 60 Abyssinians in response to the Prophet SAWs letter with gifts. However, the boat with the Najashi’s emissaries drowned and thus the gifts weren’t given. Regardless, the Najashi did become a Muslim and when he died, Salaat Al Gha’ib was prayed for him by the Prophet SAW in Medina. 2. Letter to Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire The Prophet SAW sent a letter via Dihya Al Kalbi RA to Bosra, which was a town in southern Syria. The Romans had retaken Jerusalem and thus the Prophet SAW wanted the letter to be handed to Heraclius via the governor of Bosra. Heraclius received the letter but didn’t open it immediately. Instead, Heraclius summoned Abu Sufyan and other Arab leaders, that were trading in Syria at the time, to answer some questions he had about the Prophet SAW. After Abu Sufyan had answered, Heraclius then told him that, the Christians were expecting a Prophet to come from the Yahud and not from the Arabs. Heraclius then read the letter and then dismissed Abu Sufyan from his palace. However, Heraclius did not accept Islam and died upon Christianity. 3. Letter to Khosrow II of the Sassanid Empire The Prophet SAW sent a letter via Abdullah As Sahmi RA to Bahrain. This letter was then given to Khosrow II via the Bahraini governor. When Khosrow II read the letter he became enraged and tore up the letter. When the Prophet SAW heard about this, he stated “May Allah SWT tear up his kingdom like how he tore my letter”. Khosrow II shortly after this was deposed and executed by his own son in a coup de tat. 4. Letter to Al Muqawqis of Egypt The Prophet SAW sent Hatib Ibn Abi Balta’ah RA with a letter to Egypt. Al Muqawqis read the letter and responded by sending gifts to the Prophet SAW mainly a mule and two slave girls, the first of whom was Maria RA who would eventually become one of the Wives of the Prophet SAW. 5. Letter to the leaders of Oman The Prophet SAW sent Amr Ibn Al As RA to the leaders of Oman to accept Islam. The leaders read the letters and peacefully accepted Islam. There Prophet SAW also sent letters to 200 other tribes. But, the above 5 are the most famous letters. Fun Trivia fact: In the 4 Fiqh schools, there are two views on who pays Jizya. Shafi’s and Hanbali’s limit Jizya to Ahle Kitab. Whereas the Hanafi’s and Maliki’s extend it to the non Ahle Kitab too. Fun Trivia fact: The letter sent to Najashi included no threat of destruction at the end of it, unlike the letters that were sent to Heraclius and Khosrow. Fun Trivia fact: None of the physical letters of the Prophet SAW remain. Any that are claimed to be are fakes. ========================================================== Disclaimer for my Notes of Sheikh Yasir Qadhi’s Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Series: Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh, these are my notes on Sheikh Yasir Qadhi’s Seerah series. Please note: I HIGHLY recommend that you all watch YQ’s Seerah series, as I DON’T cover every single detail the Sheikh mentions. I made these notes primarily for myself but, decided my fellow brothers and sisters may benefit from them too. I no doubt will have made mistakes in my notes. All the good in these notes is from Allah SWT and all the mistakes are from myself. But, I was very meticulous and tried my best to make sure everything is accurate as the Sheikh mentions it. You also will see I have added “Fun Trivia facts” under each of my notes. These FTFs are information YQ said that was off topic or not necessary to include in my notes for the episode. But, they were still worth mentioning hence the inclusion as FTFs. FTFs aren’t always HAPPY pieces of information. Sometimes they are very sad trivia. I just want to say that FTF is the phrase I used for them all collectively when making the notes. One thing I wanted to do but am too lazy to do is, maybe someone could take the FTFs from under each “Episode” and make an Islamic reminder/information IG/TikTok account and post them daily or something. Could be a great form of Sadaqah Jaariyah. Please keep me in your Duas and ask Allah SWT to forgive all our sins during this blessed month and beyond! Ameen
Isn't the Abu Sufyan mentioned in the story of Heraclius different from Abu Sufyan who became the leader of Quraysh. When Heraclius asked for the closest in kinship, then this Abu Sufyan came forward. Don't remember the details but have some memory of hearing this in another lecture
We need not be fanatics. Some of the letters and treaties survived. For a long time, a treaty with Prophet Muhammad in a church was known as the earliest Islamic document.
So far sheikh did great job, but only one question bother me why Dr.Yasir need to prove that our prophet was ordinary man(Naoozo billahah) , even quran said our prophet had high level of ahlaq. No doubt he was human like us but best of all human man Sheikh pl review your lecture.
Can you give examples ? I have watched all the seerah, and I am curious about those subtle things He even refused to resume the classes with the caliphates because of the fitna period and so that we dont have wrong ideas about some sahabas
The letters ending with spiritual reminders of the seriousness of the influence of rulers instead of physical threats proves Prophet Muhammad wasn't an arrogant tyrant who thought he could coerce conversions by threats of violence. Ashuma, the Najasi of Abyssinia and the Bahrain leader seems to be the only rulers who really accepted the faith based on these efforts of messages. Heraclius may have reverted to disbelief, but we can still trust the Greek accounts of how Prophet Muhammad neither practiced or taught ritual genital mutilation, but was one of those rare kids with reduced foreskin or reduced clitoral hood. Those children are more common where that anti-nature barbarism is practiced on a population for generation. Northeast Africa was where those horrid superstitions about males and females having parts that made them more like the opposite sex or dirty were most common. There was an area in Australia and some packets of peoples around the world without known influence from them. Monothelitism & Dithelitism and Monophysites & Diphysites must not have been positions Heraclius believed in, if he was trying to merge them. The Persians by and large accepted Islam, because the truth within Mazdayasnahe Zarathushtrahe (Kanuwn Zadosht)was incomplete, but Islam under Muhammad seemed to restore the faith of the Prophet Who Taught Islam to the Ancient Persians mentioned by Prophet Muhammad. Thew first step was that, with five serious exceptions of evil generals who openly violated central ethics of Islamic war, Al Mooslimeen treated the people of various faiths much better than groups taking turns oppressing the minority or weaker groups. Majuws are probably more people of the book than what is to be expected of Jews or Christians. The `Ibadi is the first conservative sect in the historical sense. They have narrations and such from the latter half of the 7th century of the Common Era instead of waiting till the 9th-10th century like most of what the Sunni and Shia turn to.
The Sheikh said that Heraculus was a kafir... but he was an Eastern Orthodox christian I believe; which would make him al-kitab/people of the book; I might be mistaking terms here. Did the Sahaba consider the byzantines kafir?
a kafir is someones who conceals the truth. majority of the people who do not follow islam in the world ARE NOT CONSIDERED kafirs. this is because they were not exposed to islam or they were not able to gain its truth through its exposure (i.e i doubt god will punish someone who genuinely had negative thoughts of islam because of the media). in this case, it seems heraculus had recognized the truth of prophet muhammad (s) but he chose not to follow. only allah knows the ultimate judgment
