[wvns] Prophet Muhammad's Dealings With the Jews
This is the first of a 6 part series of lectures that I will present
dealing with the Prophet Muhammad's experiences with the Jews of his
time. Even though about 1400 years have passed, the reader will see
that much of their behavior towards Muslims is the same today as it
was back then. Read and learn so that our eyes will stay open:
Prophet Muhammad's Dealings With the Jews
Nashid Khaaliq
http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/
"Many politically minded people without scriptural insight believe
that the aggression of Jews in the Middle East towards Muslims is due
to greed for the oil resources in Muslim lands and just a need to
fulfill the goals of Zionism by theft of Muslim lands. Especially
atheists and people who don't believe in any religion their claim is
that Jews hate Muslims because they want Muslim lands and Muslim
resources. They agree with Dick Cheney who said, "G-d gave the wrong
people the best resources." While some of that may be true, the deeper
historical hatred has yet to be understood.
What these speeches or sermons shed light on is some historical
analysis showing the hatred of Jews for Muslims to stem from G-d
blessing a Prophet to come from the Arabs and not from the Jews. The
Jews have had prophets and messengers from G-d for centuries. They had
sacred scripture given to them by the prophets. But instead of sharing
it with their ignorant Arab cousins who were living a backwards and
uncivilized life, the Jews corrupted the sacred scriptures and kept
all the good knowledge for themselves. They positioned themselves in
Arabia so that the prophesy of a final prophet coming from that area
would likely be through them. But when G-d blessed the ignorant Arabs
with Muhammad (saaw), it angered them. They instantly became haters of
Islam and Muslims. They felt that they as "chosen ones" should be the
only people through whom a prophet of G-d should come. They originally
rejected Jesus (pbuh) because he did not bring the kind of "kingdom"
to give them the superiority that their racist beliefs taught that
they should have. But when G-d blessed Muhammad (saaw) to come from
the Arabs and not them, their hatred intensified and Islam and Muslims
became their eternal enemy. As this article rightly points out:
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We're speaking about yahud (Jews), the same block of people who hate
because they know, they don't hate because they are ignorant- and this
is the problem we have with many Muslims who think that the animosity
against Muslims and Islam is because of the ignorance on the other
side. But when it comes to yahud, Allah is telling us, and He's making
it an eternal and public fact- the animosity and hatred generated by
yahud against the Prophet, Muslims and the Qur'an is because they know
what the Qur'an is, they know who the Prophet is, and they know who
Muslims are.
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"Fain would they extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God
will not allow but that His light should be perfected, even though the
Unbelievers may detest (it).
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Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem. Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on
Muhammad, his Noble Companions and Family.
Brothers and sisters, Committed Muslims…
In our ongoing endeavour to try and shed light on yahud (Jews), we
will take a look at the ayaat (verses) of Allah, the nifaaq
(hypocrisy) of these Jews, and then, we'll take a look at ourselves.
In one of the many verses in the book of Allah - that cannot be
approached by any fallacy or mistake from any direction- it is the
abundant truth, and it is the distilled truth- Allah Subhanah says:
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And when a scripture or a Holy book comes to these yahud (Jews)…
(Surah Al-Baqarah verse 89)
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Before this ayah (verse) was revealed, yahud would predict the advent
of this last Prophet of Allah to the kaafirs (rejecters of truth), but
when the Qur'an and the Prophet were no longer predictions, but
rather, now they were facts, as the Prophet (the person) and the
Qur'an (the holy scripture) was there, at that moment, they denied it,
they said: "This is not the Prophet and this is not the book."
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And when there comes to them a Book from God, confirming what is with
them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those
without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they (should) have
recognized, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of God is on
those without Faith.
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Let us try to get a feel for this ayah…
All the Muslims should know that the concentration of yahud in the
Arabian Peninsula was in Al-Medinah. There were three blocks of yahud
in Al-Medinah. But not many Muslims have thought out when did they
come there? Since when were they in Al-Medinah? There is some
information that indicates that they've been there since Dawud (David)
(alaih salaam). We know that the first Islamic state was established
by Dawud- in the Holy Land, in what can be described as the
far-fetched suburb of that Islamic state. Then, there's another
opinion that says that yahud always tried to make their presence on a
certain route from where Makkah and Al-Medinah are nowadays, all the
way up to the Holy Land, including what is called today Palestine,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon etc. anticipating that they are God's chosen
people, and if Allah is selecting Prophets, it is going to be in this
area, and they are going to be privileged by this selection.
They considered all other Prophets who were not from their clan and
did not agree with their racism to be outside of the history of God
and revelation. Hence, their presence coincides with their
anticipation of Allah's last Prophet, and they tell people all around:
"We are waiting for this last Prophet. This last Prophet is going to
be one of us, and he is going to be an enemy of you- the pagans, the
mushriks (idolaters) and the kaafirs (rejecters of truth)."
And then, finally, Allah chooses his Last Prophet, and that was
Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam). At this moment, the yahudi
psychology begins to spin- why? Because it appears to them that
Muhammad is not one of them- he has to be from Bani Israel, and
Muhammad (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) is not from
Bani Israel. To this spinning psychology, Allah says:
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And when a divine book is revealed, that confirms what they have- (the
Qur'an is not in contradiction with the Torah or the Zabur (Psalms) or
the Injeel, it endorses the Torah and the Zabur and the Injeel and the
rest of the scriptures that Allah has given mankind-)
(Surah Al-Baqarah verse 89)
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When this book (which they knew to be the book of Allah) was revealed
and it came to them, they said: "No! We don't believe in it, we don't
endorse it, we don't accept it, we deny it. It's not Allah's book."
Now, think about this psychology in two incidents...
The one incident relates to a scholar of yahud in Al-Medinah when he
became a Muslim. His name before he became a Muslim was Al-Husayn ibn
Salaam. He knew the psychology of yahud because he was one of them.
When he heard the Qur'an, and when he studied who this person in
Makkah was, upon the Prophet's arrival in Al-Medinah, he went to see
the Prophet, he spoke to him for a short while, thereafter, he stated
the Shahadah and became a Muslim- and he asked the Prophet:
"Please keep my Islam confidential, and have the rabbis, the ahbaar
(religious leaders), the learned elders of yahud in Al-Medinah come to
you, and ask them about me. Don't tell them that I'm a Muslim, but
when they come to you, just ask them about my character. And, after
that, tell them that I have become a Muslim, and see how they will
react."
Sure enough, within a few weeks, a delegation of Jews in Al-Medinah
came to the Prophet, and as is usual with them, they begin to ask
questions and make comment, and then, the Prophet (alaih salaam) said
to them:
"What is your opinion about Al-Husayn ibn Salaam?"
And they said:
"He is one of the best of us. He is a learned scholar who comes from a
learned family. He's a son of some of the best of us."
And, they spoke in terms that glorified this rabbi or learned scholar
of yahud. After they professed to this, The Prophet (alaih salaam)
told them: "He has become a Muslim." And immediately at that session
and at that moment, they began to curse and defame the same person who
a few minutes earlier they were praising. This is something that will
not appear in main-stream history. Why? Because it scores and it shows
the hatred that yahud had for Islam, the Qur'an and the Prophet
(sallalahu alaihi wa sallam.)
Another testimony to this yahudi psychology comes from another one of
them- a lady who used to be a Jewess, a yahudiyah, and from the cream
of the crop of yahud. Her father was Huyay ibn Akhtab, one of the
leaders of Bani Nadhir, and a very well known personality in
Al-Medinah. She said this about her father and her uncle after she
became a Muslimah and married the Prophet (alaih salaam). She
professes or confesses to the following…
"I was loved very much by my father and my uncle. Whenever they would
approach and I would be playing with my siblings- my brothers and
sisters and my relatives- they would come to me in particular to the
exclusion of the rest. That shows how much affection they had for me."
Remember, she was not a Muslimah at that time, but she recalls exactly
what happened. When the Prophet came as an exiled person from Makkah
to Al-Medinah, before he entered Al-Medinah, he stayed at a place
called Quba' and several yahud went to see him there. Imagine, they
could not wait for him to enter Al-Medinah, so they went to meet him
at the outskirts of Al-Medinah. She says:
"My father (Huyay) and my uncle (Abu Yasir) led the group of yahud who
went to see the Prophet, and they stayed with him for a long portion
of the day, and they came back very late. And this is what I heard
them say to each other.
When they approached home,
My uncle asked my father: "Is it him- is it the Prophet? Is it the
Apostle and the Messenger that we have been reading about in our
scripture?"
And then, my father says: "Yes, it's him by Allah."
Then, my uncle asks my father: "Do you recognize him? Can you vouch
for him, that he is truly the Prophet that we have read about in our
scriptures?"
And my father says: "Yes, indeed."
Remember, this is a young lady listening to what her yahudi father and
uncle are saying regarding the Prophet (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam).
And then, my uncle asks my father: "What do you find in yourself, or
how do you feel about him?"
And my father answers my uncle, and he says "It is animosity as long
as I live- Wallah!"
What does this tell you and me? These are yahud who went to meet the
Prophet and who had reason to believe that this is the Prophet. They
spoke to him at length, then they dismissed themselves and they came
back home, and they divulged their inner thoughts. They acknowledged,
they knew, they realized, they recognized that he is the Prophet of
Allah, and because of that, they hated him. We're speaking about yahud
(Jews), the same block of people who hate because they know, they
don't hate because they are ignorant- and this is the problem we have
with many Muslims who think that the animosity against Muslims and
Islam is because of the ignorance on the other side. But when it comes
to yahud, Allah is telling us, and He's making it an eternal and
public fact- the animosity and hatred generated by yahud against the
Prophet, Muslims and the Qur'an is because they know what the Qur'an
is, they know who the Prophet is, and they know who Muslims are.
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Quite a number of the People of the Book wish they could Turn you
(people) back to infidelity after ye have believed, from selfish envy,
after the Truth hath become Manifest unto them: But forgive and
overlook, Till God accomplish His purpose; for God Hath power over all
things.. (Surah Al-Baqarah verse 109)
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So it's not a matter of ignorance. Empty-headed Muslims:- know your
enemy; your enemy doesn't hate you because your enemy is ignorant, he
hates you because he knows exactly who you are.
These are a couple of testimonies from the Prophet's life that come
from within the pool of yahud. Al-Husayn ibn Salaam was called
Abdullah ibn Salaam, and Safiyyah bint Huyay ibn Akhtab also comes
from within yahud, and this is what they had to say about the yahudi
internal thoughts concerning the Muslims. Nowadays, if you listen to
what they print and broadcast they want us to believe that they are
against hate, while in-fact they are the conveyors and the generators
of hate. They couldn't take it- this lad from Arabia who is not one of
them is favored by Allah with scripture, this is something they have
to hate, and they have to stroke the ambers of hatred in other people
against the Prophet. This is what they have been doing since those
initial days and they continue to do now. What are some of their plots
and their subterfuge against Muslims?
We defy any Muslim, to right now as you listen to these words to
mobilize your memory to answer the question: "Do you know the name of
any yahudi/jew from the time and age of the Prophet who became a
nominal Muslim, a munafiq (hypocrite) Muslim, a hostile Muslim, or a
trouble-making Muslim? Ask yourself, do you know anyone? And more that
99% of you will have not even one name in your memory. This is how
effective they have been in cleansing the chapters of history and
purging the Muslim mind of those names that were actively trying to
cause havoc, instability, trouble, friction, feuds and wars among the
Muslims in the days of the Prophet. This is a double prone comment- in
the first instance, it says that yahud have been working hard to clean
their polluted image, and when not even a Muslim can recall who they
were when they were in positions of hostility to the Prophet, it
shows, they have gone a long way in disturbing the Muslim mind. On the
other hand (the blame is ours), why have we permitted ourselves to
forget the worst enemies of the Prophet in his day. The Prophet may
have enemies now, he may have had enemies generations and centuries
ago, but the fact is, he had flesh and blood enemies in his time, in
his city and in his neighborhood yet we don't even know who they are
today.
If we were to give you some names, you probably have not heard of
them, yet there are ayaats in the Qur'an that speak about these yahudi
trouble makers in the time of the Prophet. (Maybe it's better not to
mention names until a follow up khutbah (sermon), so that you will
think or read or look or investigate or research or do something).
Some of them became Muslim, not because they were convinced of Islam,
but because they wanted to undermine Islam from within. At the time
when the Prophet's camel was lost or it was not where it was supposed
to be, word got around to see where it is and bring it to the Prophets
domicile, and then one of these yahudis (who is this yahudi, none of
us know!) comes and says:
"I would have second thoughts, or I think about such a person who says
that he is receiving word from the heaven, but he doesn't know where
his camel is!"
Remember, he was a yahudi, who claimed to be a Muslim, but this is
what he said. That's why the ayaat in the Qur'an exposes such people:
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You can detect them by the way they present their ideas. The selection
of words that they use to express what they have on their mind exposes
them. (Surah Muhammad verse 29)
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Now, this may be a wiss-waass, a thought that is a spill over from
shaytaan into the Muslim mind- it could be, but true Muslims don't
express such thoughts if shaytaan tried to circulate such an idea in
their mind, but this yahudi came out and expressed it. Obviously, this
is a way from inside- if a yahudi or an avowed enemy of Islam says
something like this, it's easily dismissed, but when it's a nominal
Muslim who says something like that, it's going to do its damage
inside the Muslim house-and that's what yahud were trying to do. They
haven't given up, they're still doing it.
There's another collection of yahud, from Bani Nadhir who said that
they are "Muslim" at the time of the Prophet. They are Muslim by name,
by word and by appearance, but that's all they have. In order for them
to de-stabilize the internal Muslim house, this is how far they go.
This is yet another area of war-fare. If people hate Islam, it doesn't
mean that they're only going to drop a bomb at Muslims, there are
other ways of trying to damage Islamic morale, confidence, commitment
and momentum. The behavior and the plan of these yahud necessitated
eternal words from Allah to capture that moment of trouble-making
among the "Muslims" and to display it for the rest of the Muslims
until the end of time.
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Ye People of the Book! Why do ye clothe Truth with falsehood, and
conceal the Truth, while ye have knowledge?
A section of the People of the Book say: "Believe in the morning what
is revealed to the believers, but reject it at the end of the day;
perchance they may (themselves) turn back; (Surah Ahl-Imraan verse 71-72)
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Isn't this a real good description of what a liberal mentality is?
These yahud had enough courage to suggest to the Muslims: "It's
alright- you can be Muslims at one time and you can be of another
conviction at another time. It doesn't matter and it doesn't harm."
But this is done for a purpose:
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O ye who believe! If ye obey the Unbelievers, they will drive you back
on your heels, and ye will turn back (from faith) to your own loss.
(Surah Ahl-Imraan verse 149)
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Isn't this what is happening nowadays? But Muslims are not educated
enough, they don't have the theoretical knowledge to begin with, and
then they are way behind in their experiences. Today- we have people
who may have originally been yahud- let us give you an example of
this. There is free-masonry- the allegiance to the Masonic order takes
preference over all other allegiances, and there are people who go to
the Masjid, and to the Hajj, and who recite the Qur'an, but their
allegiance is to the establishment of the Temple of Solomon on the
ruins of Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa, because that is the higher purpose of
free-masonry. They are among us, and they tell us: "Why can't we do
this, and why can't we do that? And, they have "their thoughts" about
the Prophet if he has done this or if he has done that."
Yasser Arafat, the person who was supposed to be representing the
Palestinian people. We all know how close or central it is to the rest
of the Muslims in the world, it's not a nationalist issue and it's not
a patriotic issue- this is an Islamic issue first and last. He was
polished and presented by the powers that be to be the representative
of the Palestinian people and the Muslims of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the
Holy Land and the issue of Al-Isra and Al-Mi'raaj (The night journey
and the ascension of Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him). When we take
a closer look at the make up of this person, there's no doubt that on
his mothers side, he comes from a Muslim lineage, because his mothers
grand-father was the mufti of Jerusalem. But on his fathers side,
no-one is sure! The best information that is given about his father,
is that his father moved from Morocco and settled in the Jewish
neighborhood of Cairo. We know that there's a big Jewish community in
Morocco, but why would a Moroccan of unknown ancestry (go and look at
the origin of Arafat on his fathers side- you'll probably not be able
to come up with information, because this information is left on a
personal level- people who know him personally who know this about
him) settle in the yahudi section of Cairo, if you're not a yahudi
yourself from Morocco? Why do you come more than a 1000 miles, and
then settle in the yahudi section of a city, if you're not a yahudi
yourself? And then, one of the closest lieutenants to Arafat said:
"Yes, his father's side is a yahudi side." Do the rulers in Arabia and
the other countries of the Middle-east, do they owe their allegiance
to Allah, or do they owe their allegiance to shaytaan? Only with the
accurate and precise information that comes from Allah's book will we
be able to move forward and build the Islamic reality of tomorrow.
"Strive as in a race to achieve the
goal of excellence in all that you do."
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