WEBVTT 00:00.191 --> 00:03.734 [SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, many of you might be feeling trapped in your life. 00:03.814 --> 00:05.896 [SPEAKER_00]: In the same way Salman was trapped here as a slave. 00:05.916 --> 00:07.637 [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't go to what you wanted. 00:08.238 --> 00:14.803 [SPEAKER_00]: You might be stuck in a toxic job, you might be facing an unfair financial crisis, or dealing with the trauma of a deep betrayal. 00:15.343 --> 00:17.385 [SPEAKER_00]: You feel like your choices have been taken away. 00:17.625 --> 00:22.789 [SPEAKER_00]: And this reminds me of a psychological concept of something called the internal 00:24.991 --> 00:34.115 [SPEAKER_00]: When you have absolutely no control over your external circumstances, remember that you always have control over your internal beliefs and faith. 00:34.856 --> 00:36.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can take that away from you. 00:36.937 --> 00:40.599 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the way to fight external things that you have no control over. 00:40.899 --> 00:45.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Be can have conviction inside of you with absolute belief and certainty. 00:46.865 --> 01:05.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, my dear brothers and sisters, we are going to look at the psychological grit of Salman al-Fadisir al-Illahu Anhu and how to heal from cognitive dissonance by anchoring your life in evidence-based truth, inner strength and determination and true authenticity in the meaning of history. 01:05.511 --> 01:06.913 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to begin with his name. 01:07.533 --> 01:08.634 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, that is profound. 01:09.095 --> 01:11.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Salman, the Persian. 01:11.377 --> 01:15.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Rasulullah Isalala Isalam is to call him Salman Faryasi, all the companions called him that. 01:16.503 --> 01:22.429 [SPEAKER_00]: In the modern term, you would think, what doesn't he belong to the Muslim Ummah, like they had to call him by the name of where he comes from. 01:22.449 --> 01:25.292 [SPEAKER_00]: It almost seems racist in our time, but it was not. 01:25.632 --> 01:27.574 [SPEAKER_00]: What it meant was, in Islam, 01:28.255 --> 01:32.798 [SPEAKER_00]: It honors people's ethnicity and origin, because it's their identity. 01:33.358 --> 01:36.440 [SPEAKER_00]: But on top of that, it makes it even more profound and grand. 01:36.780 --> 01:43.784 [SPEAKER_00]: That even though you come from a different ethnicity and background, you become part of your Muslim community like as if you are one body. 01:44.465 --> 01:49.848 [SPEAKER_00]: As if you are from one family, even while the acknowledging your ethnicity in your bloodline. 01:50.348 --> 01:59.711 [SPEAKER_00]: Islam takes pride in honouring what Allah ﷻ has created, where Allah ﷻ says in the Qalaknaqum shrubang wa kaba illa litha aarifu. 01:59.951 --> 02:04.132 [SPEAKER_00]: We have indeed created you into many nations and tribes so that you may come to know one another. 02:04.792 --> 02:06.932 [SPEAKER_00]: In the Aqramaqum and the Allah he ad-tqalqum. 02:07.273 --> 02:13.454 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, however, the most honoured among you to Allah is the one who is most righteous and God-fearing in Allah'a alim al-Habir. 02:13.554 --> 02:15.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah is all-knowing, He is all aware of everything. 02:16.555 --> 02:24.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Islam does not base the importance of somebody based on where he comes from, ethnically, or by their color, their race or their gender. 02:24.820 --> 02:30.764 [SPEAKER_00]: But by their actions and conduct and their righteousness and God fearing, everything else is put as secondary. 02:31.364 --> 02:42.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Even Abu D'ar Al-Rifat, it'll be a law who I know and one of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, whenever he entered into battle and joined with the Prophet ﷺ and the Muslims as a believer, he held the flag of his tribe. 02:43.872 --> 02:46.893 [SPEAKER_00]: to show that Islam is a universal religion. 02:47.473 --> 02:50.594 [SPEAKER_00]: It encompasses and invites the entire world into its fraternity. 02:51.314 --> 02:54.376 [SPEAKER_00]: The story of Salman al-Fahrir is the rodea Allahuan. 02:54.896 --> 03:10.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Is a story which he himself tells us, in Sahih Muslim and others, when he met with his lovely companion and at the month of the most scholarly and educated cousins of the Prophet ﷺ Abdel Laib in Abbas, rodea Allahuan. 03:11.122 --> 03:26.454 [SPEAKER_00]: He sat with him one day, and I'd love an Abbasit in Yasel Man, tell me your entire story, because I'd love an Abbas, or still a little child, when Salman Ferrisi entered Medina, and he converted or reverted to Islam with the Prophet ﷺ. 03:26.474 --> 03:32.679 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's now sitting with him and he says, Yasel Man, tell me your story in detail, after I'd love an Abbasit grown up. 03:33.660 --> 03:49.227 [SPEAKER_00]: So he begins by saying, I was a Persian man from the people of Isfahan, Karinday, it wasn't called Iran in that time, it was called Persian Ferris, and Isfahan is still the Karinday Isfahan or Isfahan. 03:49.927 --> 03:51.968 [SPEAKER_00]: from a village called Jay. 03:52.929 --> 03:56.070 [SPEAKER_00]: My father was the chief of our village and I was his beloved son. 03:56.911 --> 04:01.593 [SPEAKER_00]: His love for me was so strong that he confined me to our home, like a captive. 04:02.093 --> 04:11.458 [SPEAKER_00]: If you ever heard of the obsessive love where parents, their love goes beyond reasonable healthy ways to a toxic, controlling, possessive way. 04:12.078 --> 04:30.377 [SPEAKER_00]: that is not healthy and I advise my dear brothers and sisters out there who are parents themselves, whether you come from the earlier generations or now you're in a new generation please understand the difference between toxic love and healthy love and this land does not promote a toxic love whereby 04:30.958 --> 04:42.549 [SPEAKER_00]: you treat your children like as if you possess them, even their property, their life, their belief, their everything that they have, and you have to decide on everything for them in their life where they have no say as if they are not even humans. 04:42.889 --> 04:50.737 [SPEAKER_00]: But you advise them and guide them and children respect your parents and take their advice but when you are an adult and you are able to think for yourself, 04:51.177 --> 05:00.283 [SPEAKER_00]: you're able to reason with your parents with dignity and respect, but you're not forced to take their opinions if their opinion is about you personally and your life and goals. 05:00.563 --> 05:04.706 [SPEAKER_00]: And so long as it's not hard on, of course, for your boundaries at Islam at the end of the day. 05:05.106 --> 05:13.752 [SPEAKER_00]: But parents, please, if you are one of those, or you know, any of them, I advise you be careful of toxic love where you think you own everything about your children. 05:14.112 --> 05:29.117 [SPEAKER_00]: for Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala has given them to us as a trust and yes we are guardians over them and yes they are ill beloved however there is a boundary and a point where it becomes possessive and haram and oppressive and when it becomes healthy and guiding. 05:29.997 --> 05:33.961 [SPEAKER_00]: So his father, he had this possessive love to the point where he held him as a captive. 05:34.001 --> 05:38.386 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I was engrossed in a religion called Zoroastrianism. 05:39.027 --> 05:46.234 [SPEAKER_00]: Zoroastrianism is an ancient religion which still today, some people, they take parts of it and they don't realise that they're following an ancient religion. 05:46.915 --> 05:50.419 [SPEAKER_00]: It's connected to astrology, which means that they called certain... 05:51.640 --> 06:01.246 [SPEAKER_00]: Celestial planets and stars in the sky and certain constellations, gods, and they thought that by looking up into the stars, it tells them their future. 06:02.086 --> 06:03.627 [SPEAKER_00]: And they used to worship the fire. 06:04.207 --> 06:05.948 [SPEAKER_00]: The fire was one of their gods. 06:06.929 --> 06:10.370 [SPEAKER_00]: They believed that it had divine power and it was a divine being. 06:11.070 --> 06:12.191 [SPEAKER_00]: So, there was a restraints. 06:12.651 --> 06:17.272 [SPEAKER_00]: They believed that the fire is the sign of eternal life and they had to keep it lit. 06:17.752 --> 06:27.175 [SPEAKER_00]: In Italy, every household and in the monastery where is an around you will see, in Persia, fire being lit and someone was in charge of keeping it alive. 06:28.235 --> 06:35.669 [SPEAKER_00]: If the fire all went out, especially in the main places, they considered about Omen and that the wrath of God was going to descend upon them. 06:35.949 --> 06:38.854 [SPEAKER_00]: So they believed in God, but many gods, and they made shirk with Him. 06:39.893 --> 06:46.177 [SPEAKER_00]: So this young man, Salman Ferrecy, he says, I was made to serve the fire, never letting it go out. 06:46.557 --> 06:47.257 [SPEAKER_00]: That was his job. 06:47.958 --> 06:53.200 [SPEAKER_00]: One day, my father was busy with construction and asked me to check on his estate. 06:53.441 --> 06:58.403 [SPEAKER_00]: As we said, his father was a noble, powerful, rich man respected imposure. 06:58.924 --> 07:00.585 [SPEAKER_00]: So Salman, he had everything. 07:01.405 --> 07:15.573 [SPEAKER_00]: So, if anyone was to say, oh my god, he left at all because of his whims and desires, it's actually against that, because all his whims and desires were met being with his father, except that he was, what, confined to the space of his father's control. 07:16.193 --> 07:23.538 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, one day my father was busy with construction, asked me to check on his estate, and while on my way, I passed by a church. 07:24.298 --> 07:29.801 [SPEAKER_00]: So this was a time before the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ even was the messenger. 07:30.241 --> 07:32.903 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't even know it's probably even before the Prophet ﷺ was born. 07:33.503 --> 07:35.244 [SPEAKER_00]: But it was way before the Qur'an was revealed. 07:35.884 --> 07:38.246 [SPEAKER_00]: So Christianity was prominent in that time. 07:38.366 --> 07:39.406 [SPEAKER_00]: And so as Judaism. 07:39.886 --> 07:43.148 [SPEAKER_00]: But in Persia there was strong Christian followers. 07:43.548 --> 07:47.510 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I went past the church one day for the first time in my life. 07:48.311 --> 07:51.413 [SPEAKER_00]: And I heard the voices and chanting of the people praying inside. 07:52.393 --> 08:01.121 [SPEAKER_00]: and curiously, I entered and listened and I was moved by their chanting and I was impressed by their worship. 08:01.561 --> 08:02.882 [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't seen anything like it. 08:03.042 --> 08:13.851 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I started thinking to myself because, you know, he was a young man who thought for himself, he analyzed and he looked at things objectively rather than with his desires and subjectively. 08:14.552 --> 08:18.555 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said to himself, I think their religion is better than my religion. 08:18.855 --> 08:19.755 [SPEAKER_00]: It makes more sense. 08:20.156 --> 08:24.298 [SPEAKER_00]: They have a connection to a one God and their hyemes and recitations. 08:24.658 --> 08:28.241 [SPEAKER_00]: They fit well with my natural human nature. 08:28.641 --> 08:31.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we know, you know, as Muslims, we don't reject all of Christian beliefs. 08:32.123 --> 08:38.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially in that time when it was closer to, you know, more purity than as it went along in time. 08:40.208 --> 08:45.772 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I thought that it was better than my religion, and I stayed until sunset, forgetting my father's estate. 08:45.792 --> 08:47.553 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I forgot all about my father's estate. 08:48.013 --> 08:50.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Something drove me to this divine, God. 08:52.264 --> 08:56.005 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, he insisted that their religion was better than mine. 08:56.045 --> 09:14.770 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went back to my father and I told him what I had seen and heard, hoping that my father would listen to me and maybe he would reason with me and accept them be happy with me instead my father got angry and he feared that I'm going to be following and joining the Christians and I'm going to leave him. 09:15.450 --> 09:19.752 [SPEAKER_00]: given his love obsession, reasoning and logic was out the window for his father. 09:20.352 --> 09:28.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Only emotions holding onto their tradition, culture, and his people is the only thing that came to his mind, and what were people think his father is an aristocrat and so on. 09:29.295 --> 09:32.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Very familiar with certain families and societies today. 09:33.503 --> 09:40.286 [SPEAKER_00]: So immediately my father snapped, and he disagreed and said, no, son, your religion is better than this. 09:40.966 --> 09:46.609 [SPEAKER_00]: But his father offered no reasoning, no logic, no objective argument whatsoever. 09:47.349 --> 09:53.192 [SPEAKER_00]: He based on the fact that we are the Persians, we are an elite power, the Christians are lower class, 09:53.752 --> 09:57.633 [SPEAKER_00]: and to follow our religion gives you more of a status and more of an importance. 09:57.833 --> 10:06.275 [SPEAKER_00]: He based on tribalism and just on the status of who is following the religion rather than the truth of the religion itself and studying it. 10:06.515 --> 10:20.338 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, my father got so scared for me when he saw that I was determined and I was intelligent to talk, but he dismissed my arguments and my reasoning so he bound me and tied me up with chains, 10:24.279 --> 10:28.621 [SPEAKER_00]: And this might be a brothers and sisters if you are parents and share a low-one day with those of you are not parents yet. 10:28.981 --> 10:36.104 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to lose your child to any ideology that is false, even alter atheism, then make the religion. 10:36.124 --> 10:45.027 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to lose them, make your religion dogmatic and ritualistic on the outside appearance as an object rather than letting them understand. 10:45.647 --> 10:53.994 [SPEAKER_00]: the spiritual meaning of that religion, the giving and taking, talking about it and allowing your children to ask the difficult questions. 10:54.394 --> 11:07.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, I hear people talk when they talk about the Quran among the Muslims today, which will lay saddens me a lot, not all of them, of course, with some Muslims who haven't given the time to research better and just carried whatever the ancestors gave them and went with it. 11:07.710 --> 11:12.115 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't look at the Quran as an actual curriculum and syllabus of life. 11:12.856 --> 11:15.899 [SPEAKER_00]: They look at it as a thing, just an object. 11:16.239 --> 11:18.402 [SPEAKER_00]: Just recite it, get your account right. 11:19.042 --> 11:21.345 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, respect it, kiss it, put on your forehead. 11:22.006 --> 11:22.726 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only time, 11:23.547 --> 11:25.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them would react is when the Quran is burnt. 11:25.948 --> 11:26.128 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 11:26.148 --> 11:28.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they think by burning it, you're burning an object. 11:28.189 --> 11:30.190 [SPEAKER_00]: Now of course, we don't support burning the Quran. 11:30.210 --> 11:31.571 [SPEAKER_00]: But that is not the essence. 11:31.931 --> 11:35.053 [SPEAKER_00]: If they burnt all the Quranes of the world, it will not make a difference. 11:35.073 --> 11:38.234 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear brothers and sisters, so don't react to their bait. 11:38.534 --> 11:39.415 [SPEAKER_00]: They burn it, they burn it. 11:40.055 --> 11:50.144 [SPEAKER_00]: The essence of the Qur'an is in our hearts and it's a guide in a curriculum and it will lie it hurts me that even in our Muslim schools they still separate religious studies from everything else as if it's two different worlds. 11:50.445 --> 11:56.490 [SPEAKER_00]: When whoever resides the Qur'an with understanding and reflection you will find I swear by Allah it is ahead of its time. 11:57.447 --> 11:59.549 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is what happened with the father. 11:59.589 --> 12:02.711 [SPEAKER_00]: He just ritualistic bound me to change. 12:03.492 --> 12:10.337 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I then asked my Christian friends to inform me if any trades arrived from Syria. 12:11.078 --> 12:19.664 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, he had written a secret letter and there was an open window and every time someone passed he would ask them, can you send this letter to such and such a church? 12:19.784 --> 12:22.646 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he got to know them and he established a friendship with them. 12:22.907 --> 12:26.970 [SPEAKER_00]: So he was able to get that letter to his Christian friends. 12:27.765 --> 12:28.248 [SPEAKER_00]: from there. 12:28.993 --> 12:31.774 [SPEAKER_00]: A caravan passed, heading off to Syria. 12:32.075 --> 12:32.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Why Syria? 12:33.335 --> 12:45.801 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he had asked the people on the church, where is your base where I can get the most knowledge of Christianity and I can dive deeper with great scholars of your religion and they had told him in Syria. 12:46.021 --> 12:48.302 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where the place of knowledge is of the Bible. 12:48.462 --> 12:58.267 [SPEAKER_00]: So he managed to get himself out of the chains in time and escape through the window and took that caravan which took him to Syria and finally escaping his father's clenches and his family. 12:58.467 --> 13:02.569 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to take a break here and make a little note just in case people don't get the wrong idea. 13:03.170 --> 13:08.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Brothers, this is the Salman did not leave his home to be edgy or to escape the rules. 13:09.093 --> 13:17.998 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a big difference between people rebelling against their family and parents because their whims and desires, and between following truth and authenticity 13:18.278 --> 13:21.540 [SPEAKER_00]: while respecting their parents and maintaining their tides with their family. 13:21.800 --> 13:28.645 [SPEAKER_00]: And a person who just wants to rebel, for the sake of it because they just want freedom to do whatever they want, even if it is hot arms, sinful, corruptive. 13:29.065 --> 13:34.689 [SPEAKER_00]: It's sad to see that some people have resorted to their desires and say, I want to escape my family because I don't want to pray anymore. 13:34.709 --> 13:36.830 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to escape my family because I want to take off my hijab. 13:37.110 --> 13:41.013 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to escape my family because I want to have a boyfriend and girlfriend and go with my lover, lover. 13:41.533 --> 13:46.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if it means that I leave my religion, so they become slaves to their desires and slaves to their lovers. 13:47.077 --> 13:52.479 [SPEAKER_00]: and that is true imprisonment, and that is true inauthenticity and not being authentic to yourself. 13:52.899 --> 13:53.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Cognitive dissonance. 13:53.980 --> 14:07.925 [SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, Salman, left a life where every comfort was provided because his intellect demanded objective evidence, objective, which means look at the evidence, and even if you don't like it, if it's true, you apply it to yourself. 14:08.285 --> 14:09.605 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what Allah says in the Quran. 14:10.386 --> 14:13.847 [SPEAKER_00]: He sought the highest verified scholars of the era. 14:14.753 --> 14:34.705 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't just follow, like, if he had TikTok in his time, he didn't just go on TikTok to listen to a 30 second, something of someone who doesn't know from somewhere, just talking their opinions, not knowing their qualification, not knowing if they're speaking through, and just speaking, just because it resonates with their own opinions and emotions. 14:35.086 --> 14:36.266 [SPEAKER_00]: So, the matter didn't do that. 14:36.567 --> 14:40.169 [SPEAKER_00]: He's asking for the source of authentic knowledge I really want to know. 14:40.449 --> 14:49.516 [SPEAKER_00]: So respect for parents remains always, but when parents block the right to fundamental pursuit of objective truth or become abusive and violent. 14:50.157 --> 15:00.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Threatening the safety and dignity of a person with their children is landplace a strong boundaries and rights for a child to seek avenues of safety on a side note day in day out. 15:01.185 --> 15:05.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we can we count just to make it a bit more so you understand that it's not exaggerating. 15:06.286 --> 15:24.030 [SPEAKER_00]: I get from youngsters who are silenced, they have family members who are abusing them in every way and the family tells them shush, accept it, they use family ties and they use the ayat of the Quran about connecting tie, they're family but they are being abused, they are sexually abused, they are physically abused. 15:24.382 --> 15:42.015 [SPEAKER_00]: They are abused in different ways yet when family becomes the threat itself where a child needs to find this safe haven where they're supposed to be protecting them and they are the ones endorsing an enabling that abuse a child grows up scared and terrified with traumas that never leave them 15:42.836 --> 15:44.617 [SPEAKER_00]: May a lost plant that I save us from being like that. 15:44.677 --> 15:58.161 [SPEAKER_00]: Forgive me, brother, the sisters, I am not saying that to point my finger or anyone here, where anyone who is listening, I am merely putting it out there because there is that world and it's happening sometimes even close within our communities and it's time to speak about it. 15:59.001 --> 16:03.303 [SPEAKER_00]: But other than that, we should never break our family ties. 16:03.683 --> 16:09.405 [SPEAKER_00]: We should always try to maintain our relation and every family has its shortcomings and ups and downs. 16:10.100 --> 16:35.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Selman was on a divine quest supported by his creator Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says in Hadith al-Qudsi If a servant seeks proximity to me by a handspan I go closer to him by a forearms length and if it comes to me walking I go to him running Sahih al-Buhari 7405 Allah was with Selman and anyone who is in the same position 16:36.793 --> 16:37.914 [SPEAKER_00]: So he heads off to Syria. 16:38.154 --> 16:44.357 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I escaped and went to Syria and sought out the bishop of Syria. 16:44.917 --> 16:48.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Expressing my desire to learn and serve in the church. 16:49.219 --> 16:50.620 [SPEAKER_00]: But something terribly went wrong. 16:51.261 --> 16:57.904 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I entered with him and he was a wicked man who urged people to give charity but horded it for himself. 16:59.125 --> 17:02.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Never giving anything to the needy as he told the people. 17:02.466 --> 17:03.247 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a scammer. 17:03.887 --> 17:08.269 [SPEAKER_00]: hiding in the disguise of religion, wolf in sheep's clothing. 17:09.050 --> 17:13.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they can be among those who look the most religious in the world. 17:13.793 --> 17:15.013 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll also pano at the island. 17:15.033 --> 17:16.594 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not look at your outside appearance. 17:16.614 --> 17:18.015 [SPEAKER_00]: It looks at your heart and your actions. 17:18.356 --> 17:24.522 [SPEAKER_00]: He amassed seven large jars filled with gold and silver and I despised him for what I saw. 17:24.562 --> 17:27.084 [SPEAKER_00]: So that tells you that Salman was a true authentic person. 17:27.304 --> 17:30.307 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't care what he looks like or his fame or what people say about him. 17:30.787 --> 17:33.190 [SPEAKER_00]: He knows he is a scammer, a liar. 17:33.390 --> 17:36.292 [SPEAKER_00]: He says when he died, the Christians gathered to bury him. 17:37.193 --> 17:41.660 [SPEAKER_00]: And I told them he was a bad man who ordered the charity meant for the poor. 17:41.940 --> 17:50.533 [SPEAKER_00]: They were skeptical, so I led them to the hidden treasure, and when they saw it, they refused to bury him, and instead they crucified him and stoned him. 17:50.860 --> 18:09.333 [SPEAKER_00]: So the people are also authentic and that is the consequence of no matter what position you have, you can be an e-mail, you can be a bishop, you can be the pope, you can be the teacher of every quote and every Bible and every good thing at the end of the day, all of that means nothing if a person secretly is an evil criminal. 18:10.165 --> 18:17.770 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, then they brought another man who was righteous, another bishop who replaced him, and I loved him greatly for his piety. 18:18.050 --> 18:22.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen Salman, choosing his words, he says, I loved him greatly for what? 18:22.353 --> 18:23.114 [SPEAKER_00]: His piety. 18:23.394 --> 18:25.835 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't look and say, I love the Naur on his face. 18:26.256 --> 18:29.518 [SPEAKER_00]: For example, his face is shining bright, many people shine bright. 18:29.958 --> 18:32.300 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of cosmetics today that you can make your shine bright. 18:32.880 --> 18:37.684 [SPEAKER_00]: This day and age, if you go bolt, the bolt can look shining like the star. 18:39.025 --> 18:40.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything can shine bright these days. 18:40.986 --> 18:42.247 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I looked at his piety. 18:42.668 --> 18:48.332 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't look at how many in modern terms followers he has, 3 million four million subscribers. 18:48.392 --> 18:48.552 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 18:48.877 --> 18:52.602 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't look at the views and the likes that the person has. 18:52.662 --> 18:55.505 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I looked at his priority in secret and in open. 18:56.146 --> 19:01.472 [SPEAKER_00]: And this tells us whether the system is not to worship or be obsessed with personalities. 19:01.853 --> 19:05.017 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter how religious they look, or how beautiful they look, or how not. 19:05.741 --> 19:08.162 [SPEAKER_00]: measure the priority and actions if you know. 19:08.442 --> 19:11.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, if you don't know, take it with a pinch of salt. 19:11.323 --> 19:23.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get too obsessed with the person and say, because what happens after that is that the moment that they disappoint you and do something, you're going to feel that even your religion has disappointed you. 19:23.028 --> 19:30.611 [SPEAKER_00]: I know some people they feel like that, but the problem is not the religion is because that person, they took certain figures too obsessively. 19:31.017 --> 19:38.240 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people have even come and told me that I saw this person in a dream after I did the hazard and based on that they say there must be pious. 19:38.460 --> 19:41.041 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not how you measure the piety of a person. 19:41.221 --> 19:47.544 [SPEAKER_00]: The shaitan can come to your dream and make you obsessed with someone knowing that that someone is going to corrupt you. 19:47.824 --> 19:54.146 [SPEAKER_00]: So please don't base major life decisions on dreams no matter if you even saw it while sleeping in front of the cover. 19:54.386 --> 19:55.327 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, 19:56.107 --> 20:05.135 [SPEAKER_00]: When he was close to death, I asked him who my should follow, and he told me to go to a certain man in a place called more soul. 20:05.455 --> 20:07.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Still modern day, more soul in Iraq. 20:08.037 --> 20:12.381 [SPEAKER_00]: So these are another centers of developed Christians in those days with great knowledge. 20:12.782 --> 20:15.003 [SPEAKER_00]: He was on the same path as he was. 20:15.104 --> 20:23.171 [SPEAKER_00]: He said my son, I don't know anyone else who was on the same path as I, except another priest or bishop in muscle in Iraq. 20:23.953 --> 20:25.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Salman keeps on going. 20:25.934 --> 20:30.757 [SPEAKER_00]: After he died, I went to that man and became a follower, eventually living with him. 20:31.278 --> 20:35.180 [SPEAKER_00]: He also passed away and I was directed to another righteous person. 20:35.640 --> 20:41.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Each time I found good companions on the same righteous path continuing to learn and grow in my face. 20:42.305 --> 20:44.326 [SPEAKER_00]: Immigration everywhere seeking the truth. 20:45.006 --> 20:45.367 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, 20:46.323 --> 20:55.186 [SPEAKER_00]: When he died and was buried, I joined the people of Ammoriya close to Iraq and told them my story. 20:55.466 --> 20:57.947 [SPEAKER_00]: In Ammoriya, they asked me to stay with them. 20:58.427 --> 21:06.170 [SPEAKER_00]: So I lived among a man who followed the teachings of his companions and I prospered until I earned cattle and wealth. 21:07.170 --> 21:26.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Then, when death approached, this learned scholar, whom I grew to love also, who was on the true path, I said, oh, so-and-so, I was with so-and-so, and he entrusted me to so-and-so, then he entrusted me to so-and-so, and then he entrusted me to so-and-so, then he entrusted the other last person entrusted me to you. 21:27.162 --> 21:30.464 [SPEAKER_00]: So, whom should I go now, and what do you command me to do? 21:31.245 --> 21:32.826 [SPEAKER_00]: He replied, my son. 21:33.874 --> 21:41.882 [SPEAKER_00]: By Allah, because even Christians those days, they said Allah, Allah is just the other name of the one true God, it's the Arabic name for Allah. 21:42.102 --> 21:51.812 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know of anyone who remains on what we were on, but there is a prophet who has come with the religion of Abraham, and he is in the land of the Arabs. 21:58.140 --> 22:01.004 [SPEAKER_00]: hills around it, and in between a palm trees. 22:01.605 --> 22:13.922 [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously this bishop and his scholar had read from the scriptures, the authentic scriptures that still were in that time, this particular prophecy of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and these were his descriptions. 22:14.391 --> 22:16.912 [SPEAKER_00]: He has signs that are unmistakable. 22:17.172 --> 22:18.673 [SPEAKER_00]: This bishop is telling Salman. 22:19.433 --> 22:20.354 [SPEAKER_00]: What are these three signs? 22:20.394 --> 22:24.876 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, number one, he accepts gifts only. 22:25.116 --> 22:26.957 [SPEAKER_00]: He does not take charity. 22:27.457 --> 22:28.318 [SPEAKER_00]: That's his second sign. 22:28.598 --> 22:34.661 [SPEAKER_00]: And a third sign, and there is a unique seal of prophethood in between his shoulder blades. 22:35.161 --> 22:40.904 [SPEAKER_00]: If you can reach that land, O Salman, then do so, and follow him, he is on the truth. 22:41.824 --> 23:04.544 [SPEAKER_00]: You're wondering Christianity and all that stuff, brothers and sisters, those who study the history of Christianity and the church and so on will understand that it wasn't always the same throughout history and that as time went on there was new information inputted into the scriptures and so from a Muslim belief and also scholars will tell you that it became corrupted in mix between truth and false. 23:05.022 --> 23:08.565 [SPEAKER_00]: not all of it is false, but not all of it is truth according to the Islamic belief. 23:08.585 --> 23:17.394 [SPEAKER_00]: So therefore, when we see information coming from the modern day Bible or whatever version they give you, we don't reject all of it's information. 23:17.454 --> 23:20.356 [SPEAKER_00]: If it contradicts the Islamic teachings, we say we don't believe in it. 23:20.596 --> 23:28.184 [SPEAKER_00]: If it agrees with it, we say this is truth and if it doesn't exist in our religion, then we say we don't believe it, confirm it nor deny it. 23:28.384 --> 23:29.485 [SPEAKER_00]: It could be true, it could be false. 23:29.865 --> 23:33.426 [SPEAKER_00]: This is how we, our relationship with the Christian Bible and the Jewish Bible. 23:33.626 --> 23:37.707 [SPEAKER_00]: In those days, there must have been uniterions to my best guess. 23:38.267 --> 23:40.968 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are still some of them alive today, I think. 23:41.148 --> 23:46.329 [SPEAKER_00]: Saman Ferry goes on, he says, Saman Ferry, then he died and was buried. 23:46.789 --> 23:49.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And I stayed in Ammouria for as long as Allah wished. 23:50.030 --> 23:55.131 [SPEAKER_00]: Afterwards, a group of traders from the Arab tribes called Benel Kemp. 23:55.911 --> 23:57.972 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, some people know what Kemp means, it means dog. 23:58.892 --> 24:04.837 [SPEAKER_00]: And they used the name after animals, and Galib was not a bad name those days unless you set it in different contexts. 24:05.257 --> 24:07.699 [SPEAKER_00]: But this was a legitimate Arab tribe called Banalkal. 24:08.040 --> 24:09.761 [SPEAKER_00]: Ironically, this is what they did. 24:09.961 --> 24:11.062 [SPEAKER_00]: They passed by, he says. 24:11.462 --> 24:14.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And I asked them if they would carry me to the land of the Arabs. 24:14.545 --> 24:19.929 [SPEAKER_00]: He had never met Arabs before, so he met this Banalkal, the Arabs, and he said, okay, take me to the land of the Arabs. 24:20.150 --> 24:23.172 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to now go to where Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is. 24:23.813 --> 24:26.295 [SPEAKER_00]: In exchange for my cattle and wealth, I'll give you everything. 24:26.815 --> 24:27.796 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't care about wealth. 24:27.996 --> 24:30.739 [SPEAKER_00]: He just wanted to connect with Allah and follow the truth through his heir after. 24:31.179 --> 24:33.121 [SPEAKER_00]: So they accepted and they took me with them. 24:33.902 --> 24:37.085 [SPEAKER_00]: But once they brought me to a place called where Dilqura. 24:37.446 --> 24:39.167 [SPEAKER_00]: I replaced but not near Medina. 24:39.388 --> 24:43.051 [SPEAKER_00]: They betrayed me and sold me to a Jewish man as a slave. 24:43.512 --> 24:44.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Why Jewish man? 24:44.993 --> 24:49.939 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Jews lived in that time near Yathribe Medina. 24:50.139 --> 24:53.063 [SPEAKER_00]: They were called Ban Okoraisa Ban Okainoka and Ban On Lodder. 24:53.363 --> 24:58.870 [SPEAKER_00]: So they were a bit of a tribe outside and they betrayed him and sold him to them. 24:59.637 --> 25:08.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're sitting here thinking, does Islam require me to lose my family, my well, for my freedom, just to be a sincere secret of the truth? 25:09.242 --> 25:09.882 [SPEAKER_00]: This is too much. 25:10.262 --> 25:17.405 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you this story brothers and sisters so that you can be like Salman in the sense of going and subjecting yourself to all of this. 25:17.486 --> 25:18.986 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no need for you to do that anymore. 25:19.166 --> 25:19.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah. 25:20.798 --> 25:22.841 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you an immediate peace of mind. 25:23.342 --> 25:24.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not. 25:24.424 --> 25:26.467 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to give up your family in wealth and everything. 25:26.847 --> 25:28.209 [SPEAKER_00]: That era is gone in shā'a Llāh. 25:28.490 --> 25:35.901 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Quraían, La yūqqa liful l-Lāhu wa nafsen illa wa sāhha Allah does not burden us all beyond what it can be. 25:37.002 --> 25:45.031 [SPEAKER_00]: But Islam does not demand that you romanticise trauma or seek out destruction. 25:45.251 --> 25:46.653 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't subject yourself to these things. 25:47.433 --> 25:50.296 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to be sold into slavery to show resilience. 25:52.120 --> 25:58.308 [SPEAKER_00]: You show Salman's resilience when you choose honesty in your contracts and agreements, for example. 25:58.468 --> 26:02.794 [SPEAKER_00]: You make an agreement with someone or a contract to do a job to fulfill a promise. 26:03.215 --> 26:08.722 [SPEAKER_00]: You show Salman's resilience to stick to what you promised when everyone else is a cheater. 26:09.563 --> 26:23.918 [SPEAKER_00]: you show his courage when you calmly stand up for your moral values, when enticed by peers and friends, by money, by social media popularity, by attention seeking, et cetera, or in meetings, even if when you feel uncomfortable. 26:24.379 --> 26:26.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Sandman's story is not a command to destroy your life. 26:27.582 --> 26:31.926 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an inspiration to elevate your integrity, right where you are sitting today. 26:32.386 --> 26:39.713 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't go and be enticed and destroy your values and morals in the name of money or gangs or whatever it is. 26:40.133 --> 26:44.157 [SPEAKER_00]: You hold yourself to your values and that's how you stand and be like Salman. 26:44.758 --> 26:46.119 [SPEAKER_00]: Salman was a pioneer. 26:47.180 --> 26:47.901 [SPEAKER_00]: A pioneer. 26:48.714 --> 26:53.176 [SPEAKER_00]: has to hack through the jungle with machetes to build a highway. 26:53.496 --> 27:08.781 [SPEAKER_00]: Since I said machete, the same thing we have youngsters today who are being enticed by these groups thinking that they've got a better life by going and doing crime in order to get a few flimsy dollars and to go into that world that is not the world you should be in, it is not worth it. 27:09.101 --> 27:10.542 [SPEAKER_00]: stand to your values and your den. 27:11.202 --> 27:25.148 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to go back into the jungle to prove yourself, you drive through that highway to show sincerity and gratitude, so you do not need to seek out suffering my dear rather than sisters to prove your love for truth and sell man already. 27:25.468 --> 27:26.809 [SPEAKER_00]: He paid that price for you. 27:27.029 --> 27:29.190 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why Allah chose those companions in those days. 27:29.510 --> 27:30.350 [SPEAKER_00]: The story continues. 27:31.031 --> 27:31.351 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, 27:31.951 --> 27:41.359 [SPEAKER_00]: While I was with this Jew who was my master now and I became a slave now, I saw the palm trees and hoped it was the land my companion had described but I had doubts. 27:41.699 --> 27:43.440 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, didn't look exactly like Medina. 27:44.001 --> 27:50.986 [SPEAKER_00]: While I was there, a constant of my master arrived from Medina from the tribe of Benl-Koreza and he bought me. 27:51.267 --> 27:55.630 [SPEAKER_00]: So now I became a slave, he says, to a tribe of Benl-Koreza. 27:56.171 --> 27:57.252 [SPEAKER_00]: But where is Benl-Koreza? 27:57.792 --> 27:59.013 [SPEAKER_00]: It's in Medina. 27:59.193 --> 28:02.734 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, the bishop is telling him, where do you find the Prophet ﷺ in Medina? 28:02.894 --> 28:03.914 [SPEAKER_00]: The Master bought him. 28:04.094 --> 28:09.715 [SPEAKER_00]: He's still a slave, but what is the objective and the guide that Allah wants to reach the Prophet ﷺ? 28:10.235 --> 28:16.076 [SPEAKER_00]: A temporary hardship even if it's in slavement to an triumphant goal in the end. 28:16.396 --> 28:18.717 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger ﷺ in this world and in the next. 28:19.217 --> 28:23.158 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I recognised that place by the description of my companions. 28:23.178 --> 28:23.938 [SPEAKER_00]: So I stayed there. 28:24.058 --> 28:24.618 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I thought, I 28:25.526 --> 28:27.789 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to be a slave here, that's okay, I accept it. 28:28.089 --> 28:34.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Allah sent His messenger who remained in Makkah for some time, and I heard no mention of Him while I was occupied with slavery. 28:35.258 --> 28:39.003 [SPEAKER_00]: After He migrated to Medina, while I was working at the top of a tree. 28:39.423 --> 28:43.348 [SPEAKER_00]: My master was sitting nearby when a cousin approached him and said, 28:45.190 --> 28:46.411 [SPEAKER_00]: curse the banal kaila. 28:46.892 --> 28:52.858 [SPEAKER_00]: They are gathering in Kuba over a man who has come from Macca today claiming to be a prophet. 28:53.259 --> 28:55.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Why was this Jewish cousin of this Jewish master sir angry? 28:56.322 --> 28:59.445 [SPEAKER_00]: Because the Jews in this scripture at that time, they were waiting for a Messiah. 28:59.926 --> 29:01.788 [SPEAKER_00]: But they thought he was going to be from the children of Israel. 29:02.068 --> 29:03.349 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's right in Israelite. 29:04.030 --> 29:07.593 [SPEAKER_00]: He came from the Arabs who they despised, because they said he comes from Ishmael. 29:07.893 --> 29:11.576 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a stepmother, whose hazard, we don't like them, has to be from us. 29:12.296 --> 29:13.677 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he came from the Arabs. 29:14.057 --> 29:21.223 [SPEAKER_00]: And to Allah, doesn't matter if you're an Arab or his leader, or whatever you are, as a railide, or you can be Chinese, you can be Japanese, you can be whatever you want, every can anything. 29:21.443 --> 29:22.564 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the messenger of Allah. 29:22.644 --> 29:23.965 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what the importance is. 29:24.205 --> 29:27.587 [SPEAKER_00]: And the truth that you have followed with the divine revelation of Allah's panotaily. 29:27.927 --> 29:32.050 [SPEAKER_00]: And your values in the moral, they stand by that should be just a sin truth. 29:32.991 --> 29:38.593 [SPEAKER_00]: So in Manfad, as he says, when I heard his cousin say that, I became so nervous and I forgot that I was his slave. 29:38.894 --> 29:45.977 [SPEAKER_00]: He said so I literally slipped down from the palm tree and I landed almost on my master. 29:46.697 --> 29:49.298 [SPEAKER_00]: I hit him and he almost fell to the floor out of my excitement. 29:49.818 --> 29:53.160 [SPEAKER_00]: So I grabbed his cousin by the shoulder and I forgot who I am and I'm going to be asleep. 29:53.380 --> 29:55.101 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said to him, what tell me again? 29:55.161 --> 29:55.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me again. 29:55.841 --> 29:56.461 [SPEAKER_00]: Who did you see? 29:56.721 --> 29:57.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me where he is. 29:57.442 --> 29:58.122 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you look like? 29:58.422 --> 30:07.028 [SPEAKER_00]: So my master, he goes, he slapped me to the floor, he beat me, and he said, shut up, just slave what the hell is wrong with you, get back up the tree, this is none of your business. 30:07.448 --> 30:16.334 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I went back up the tree and I started doing my work, but in my mind, I'm so excited on thinking, I can't wait to finish my day's job, I've got to go talk about and see this man. 30:16.474 --> 30:17.655 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, probably is the profit. 30:17.755 --> 30:21.157 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I was so overwhelmed with emotion and thought, I would fall on my master. 30:21.237 --> 30:29.223 [SPEAKER_00]: I climbed down from the tree and started asking my master's cousin all this stuff and I just wanted to confirm, I said to him, I just wanted to confirm what I heard. 30:30.144 --> 30:33.666 [SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, many of you might be feeling trapped in your life. 30:33.746 --> 30:35.848 [SPEAKER_00]: In the same way, Selman was trapped here as a slave. 30:35.868 --> 30:37.589 [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't go to what he wanted. 30:38.189 --> 30:39.750 [SPEAKER_00]: You might be stuck in a toxic job. 30:39.810 --> 30:44.734 [SPEAKER_00]: You might be facing an unfair financial crisis or dealing with the trauma of a deep betrayal. 30:45.254 --> 30:47.295 [SPEAKER_00]: You feel like your choices have been taken away. 30:47.535 --> 30:54.559 [SPEAKER_00]: And this reminds me of a psychological concept of something called the internal locus of control. 30:55.059 --> 31:12.009 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a deep psychological conviction that even when you have absolute control, sorry, even when you have absolutely no control over your external circumstances, remember that you always have control over your internal beliefs and faith. 31:12.749 --> 31:14.270 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody can take that away from you. 31:14.830 --> 31:18.491 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the way to fight external things that you have no control over. 31:18.792 --> 31:22.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Be can have conviction inside of you with absolute belief and certainty. 31:23.673 --> 31:27.695 [SPEAKER_00]: You will still choose how you respond to your suffering if you have that. 31:28.015 --> 31:31.316 [SPEAKER_00]: And Salman's external freedom was completely gone yet. 31:31.596 --> 31:35.278 [SPEAKER_00]: His internal focus on his purpose remained completely untouched. 31:35.983 --> 31:51.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an, when Yusuf Alayhi Selam says this in his audio, he says, In the name of Me, at the clean way, I'll speak in the name of Allah, You'll be able to enjoy my singing. 31:52.428 --> 32:00.010 [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, He who fears Allah and bears in perseverance, then indeed Allah never makes the efforts of the good and the pious people go lost. 32:00.290 --> 32:06.816 [SPEAKER_00]: Yusuf Ali Selam said, this is sort of the especially when circumstances are entirely out of your control. 32:07.097 --> 32:15.025 [SPEAKER_00]: So my dear brothers, this is not succumb to victimhood, but kept hopeful and optimistic, focusing on his goal of truth. 32:15.305 --> 32:18.708 [SPEAKER_00]: The proposal of our Selam said, how wonderful is the affair of the believer? 32:19.149 --> 32:22.952 [SPEAKER_00]: For nothing happens to him or her, except that he sees good in it and it must be good. 32:24.113 --> 32:28.396 [SPEAKER_00]: If good happens to them, they are grateful to a lion, if bad happens to them, they are patient and persevering. 32:28.697 --> 32:31.038 [SPEAKER_00]: And he bears it with patience, and that is good for him. 32:31.199 --> 32:32.359 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is only for the believer. 32:32.399 --> 32:33.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Saham Muslim. 32:33.845 --> 32:41.706 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, later, that evening, I took some of what I had gathered of dates and stuff, and I went to the messenger of Allah, not knowing that he was the messenger. 32:41.806 --> 32:44.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Took all back where he was staying for a little while before I entered Medina. 32:45.467 --> 32:50.448 [SPEAKER_00]: I entered upon him and I said to him, I have heard that you are a righteous man. 32:50.948 --> 32:54.269 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Salman now speaking to who, to the Prophet Salal alaihi wa salam. 32:54.509 --> 32:59.790 [SPEAKER_00]: He says to him, he says, I wanted to test him out to see if the three signs were in him as the bishop told me. 33:00.310 --> 33:01.670 [SPEAKER_00]: So I took these dates and I said to him, 33:02.410 --> 33:08.032 [SPEAKER_00]: I have heard that you are a righteous man and that you have companions who are strangers in need, like they hungry. 33:08.572 --> 33:13.574 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something I had set aside for charity, and I see you as the most deserving. 33:13.814 --> 33:15.795 [SPEAKER_00]: So please accept this charity from me. 33:16.015 --> 33:17.215 [SPEAKER_00]: What is Salman actually doing? 33:17.435 --> 33:22.437 [SPEAKER_00]: He's testing the Prophetsal Arcella with what the Bishop said that he does not accept what charity. 33:22.957 --> 33:38.129 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I brought it closer to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallallahu alaihi wa sallallallahu alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa sallallallahu alaihi wa sallallallahu alaihi wa sallallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi 33:38.249 --> 33:43.394 [SPEAKER_00]: He spread him out, Salman is watching, he stood back and he said to his companions, 8. 33:43.834 --> 33:50.220 [SPEAKER_00]: Salman said, and the Prophet ﷺ held his hand back and I did not see him touch anything of it. 33:50.821 --> 33:54.304 [SPEAKER_00]: So I said to myself, quietly, had he wa hada. 33:55.085 --> 33:58.308 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the first one, he doesn't accept charity. 33:58.768 --> 34:03.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Then I turned away from him and gathered something, and the messenger of Allah 34:03.873 --> 34:04.954 [SPEAKER_00]: moved to Medina. 34:05.054 --> 34:06.134 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I gathered another thing. 34:06.154 --> 34:07.755 [SPEAKER_00]: I was going to come and see him, but I couldn't get him. 34:07.795 --> 34:09.636 [SPEAKER_00]: So he went to Medina and I missed him. 34:09.856 --> 34:16.820 [SPEAKER_00]: But when he came to Medina after a few days, I went to him and I said to him, I saw that you did not eat charity. 34:17.480 --> 34:20.822 [SPEAKER_00]: So I brought you a gift this time to honor you with it. 34:21.202 --> 34:22.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you accept the gift? 34:22.783 --> 34:26.465 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Allah ala ala ala salam, then ate from the dates. 34:27.145 --> 34:29.626 [SPEAKER_00]: and ordered his companion to also eat with him. 34:29.986 --> 34:32.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Prozas, I've never accepted a gift and didn't share it with everyone. 34:32.228 --> 34:35.589 [SPEAKER_00]: He ate from it and shared it with one, with everyone. 34:36.069 --> 34:39.991 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought to myself, ah, her, the he, Thania. 34:40.332 --> 34:41.592 [SPEAKER_00]: This is too. 34:42.212 --> 34:42.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Too hot. 34:43.333 --> 34:44.274 [SPEAKER_00]: the second sign. 34:44.574 --> 34:45.795 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got one more sign. 34:45.815 --> 34:46.195 [SPEAKER_00]: What is it? 34:47.035 --> 34:51.638 [SPEAKER_00]: The special Prophethood Mark between his shoulder blade, which we know as Muslims every messenger had it. 34:52.239 --> 34:54.640 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet, Salam, was the seal of all Prophet the last one. 34:55.541 --> 35:00.024 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, well, he was in Al-Bakhir, Al-Gadakat, which means the cemetery. 35:00.624 --> 35:03.386 [SPEAKER_00]: He was wearing two cloaks, and this is after days now. 35:04.206 --> 35:13.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Sitting among his companions, I entered the cemetery and he was on the floor sitting with his cloak with his companions, but I couldn't see the Prophethood seal between his shoulder blades. 35:14.732 --> 35:18.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't want to sort of embarrass the Prophet or annoy him. 35:18.735 --> 35:20.036 [SPEAKER_00]: So I started moving around. 35:20.796 --> 35:23.818 [SPEAKER_00]: He's moving with his companions and I'm jumping from place to place. 35:24.458 --> 35:27.840 [SPEAKER_00]: All I wanted to see was what the seal between his shoulder blades. 35:28.120 --> 35:29.221 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd look up and I'd look down. 35:29.481 --> 35:30.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Who noticed him? 35:30.542 --> 35:32.323 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. 35:32.835 --> 35:39.380 [SPEAKER_00]: Now that's also how I said I've been watching him and he knows what's happening, but he's letting him be to give him the chance to find out for himself. 35:39.780 --> 35:50.608 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is something for us brothers sisters, you know when we give that what we want to tell someone about Islam, please don't jump onto them, please don't get an anxiety attack and think, oh they'll die if I don't tell them about Islam, just take it easy. 35:51.268 --> 36:05.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Show them dean with calmness and sometimes you don't have to speak always you can't and sometimes I've heard people they say if I don't tell them enter Islam You know then they're gonna go whatever so they go and they go I invite you to Islam And this is the quote out and read it. 36:06.072 --> 36:09.653 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the best thing and then they yeah You're turning people away that way calm down 36:10.797 --> 36:12.418 [SPEAKER_00]: There are many ways of showing good in. 36:12.959 --> 36:14.220 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet ﷺ left him. 36:14.580 --> 36:18.383 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't jump onto him and say, I'm the messenger of Allah, follow me and let him do his little research. 36:18.803 --> 36:23.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes you push people onto you, they've got gaps, they've got a lot of questions, and it's not going to be genuine anymore. 36:23.486 --> 36:24.167 [SPEAKER_00]: They might go away. 36:24.387 --> 36:25.908 [SPEAKER_00]: So what did the Prophet ﷺ do? 36:26.188 --> 36:39.478 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, when the Prophet saw misallahu alaihi wa sallam, he kneeled his neck down, he put his arched his neck down, and he uncovered his cloaks that I can see the seal of his Prophethood between his shoulder blade. 36:39.618 --> 36:41.059 [SPEAKER_00]: So he also did it subtly. 36:41.600 --> 36:41.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 36:42.220 --> 36:43.201 [SPEAKER_00]: He does want to embarrass him. 36:43.802 --> 36:45.543 [SPEAKER_00]: And he doesn't want the companions to jump on to him. 36:45.883 --> 36:47.345 [SPEAKER_00]: He left him at his own pace. 36:48.225 --> 36:49.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you understand brothers and sisters? 36:49.627 --> 36:53.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Those of us who have the passion of calling people to the dean at their own pace. 36:54.210 --> 36:57.233 [SPEAKER_00]: He then uncovered his back and I saw the seal. 36:57.693 --> 37:00.416 [SPEAKER_00]: I recognized it and I couldn't help myself. 37:01.196 --> 37:06.901 [SPEAKER_00]: I fell upon it, upon the seal and I started kissing it and I started to cry and weep. 37:07.181 --> 37:07.682 [SPEAKER_00]: That was there. 37:08.082 --> 37:10.243 [SPEAKER_00]: third sign, Allah, Allah. 37:10.764 --> 37:14.786 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Allah, Allah, he was so upset to me, turn around, turn around. 37:15.126 --> 37:22.491 [SPEAKER_00]: In front of his companions, and I turned around and narrated my story to him, as I have just told you, oh, have been a best. 37:23.151 --> 37:27.674 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Allah, Allah, I said to him, was pleased to hear that, and so were his companions. 37:28.806 --> 37:37.971 [SPEAKER_00]: So Salman says, then I became occupied in servitude to my master until I missed participation with the messenger of Allah and the Battle of Behduh and the Battle of Ahud. 37:38.571 --> 37:45.335 [SPEAKER_00]: So one day the Prophet ﷺ came to me and said, yes Salman, right to your master for your freedom, like ask him to free you. 37:45.615 --> 37:51.478 [SPEAKER_00]: So he wrote to his master, the Jewish man from Banyakwar, he said, I would like to seek my freedom, ask for anything you want. 37:51.738 --> 37:54.540 [SPEAKER_00]: And his master said, to free you, you need to pay me. 37:55.460 --> 38:08.126 [SPEAKER_00]: 300 date palms that I would plant that you would plant for me, so date palms seeds I want 300 and you're going to have to plant them with the help of a well until they grow. 38:08.386 --> 38:11.407 [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, I want 40 ounces of silver. 38:11.627 --> 38:13.288 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what his master said to free him. 38:13.868 --> 38:17.732 [SPEAKER_00]: So he went back to the Messenger of Allah, I said to him and he said, you are also like, this is what he asked for me. 38:18.092 --> 38:21.755 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet ﷺ turned to his companions and he said immediately, help your brother. 38:22.015 --> 38:22.996 [SPEAKER_00]: Help your brother. 38:23.156 --> 38:23.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is this brother from? 38:24.338 --> 38:24.918 [SPEAKER_00]: From Persia. 38:25.138 --> 38:25.759 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's Persia? 38:26.119 --> 38:26.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Arabs? 38:26.780 --> 38:27.781 [SPEAKER_00]: Dispise Persia. 38:27.981 --> 38:30.303 [SPEAKER_00]: Persia despised Arabs at that time. 38:30.503 --> 38:31.824 [SPEAKER_00]: What did the Prophet ﷺ call him? 38:32.084 --> 38:32.505 [SPEAKER_00]: Your brother. 38:32.785 --> 38:35.988 [SPEAKER_00]: In Islam, it is a fraternity of brotherhood and sisterhood system. 38:36.248 --> 38:37.129 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, help him. 38:37.429 --> 38:38.831 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an obligation to help him. 38:39.471 --> 38:41.912 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, then they assisted me with date palms. 38:42.152 --> 38:48.214 [SPEAKER_00]: One man provided 30 seedlings, another 20, another 15, and another 10, each according to his means. 38:48.554 --> 38:50.775 [SPEAKER_00]: Until I had 300 seedlings. 38:51.175 --> 38:52.956 [SPEAKER_00]: The messenger of Allah, Allah, I say untold me. 38:53.236 --> 38:58.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Go Salman and dig, go Salman and dig for your master. 38:58.517 --> 39:06.440 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you finish planting your seeds, come to me so that I can place, sorry, when you have gone and dug them up, don't plant the seeds, 39:06.700 --> 39:09.161 [SPEAKER_00]: come to me and I will plant the seeds with my hands. 39:09.941 --> 39:20.224 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, when I finished, I came to the Prophet ﷺ, the messenger ﷺ went out with me to them and he would bring the seedling to him and he would plant them with his own blessed hands. 39:20.764 --> 39:24.545 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, by the one in whose hand is Salman's soul, by God. 39:25.385 --> 39:39.651 [SPEAKER_00]: by Allah, none of the seedlings died because you know if you know about palm trees and seedlings, they're not easy to grow and the Jewish master he thought you know what he's going to fail so I'm going to ask him for more seedlings and I'll keep him with me for decades. 39:40.211 --> 39:46.014 [SPEAKER_00]: But none of the seedlings died, I fulfilled the planting and I had money remaining. 39:46.954 --> 40:13.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Then, a gold piece, as large as a hen's egg, was brought to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from some expedition, and he said, what happened to the freed man, the Persian, from sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam sallam s 40:13.755 --> 40:16.516 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, take it, a law will fulfill your debt with him. 40:16.696 --> 40:24.417 [SPEAKER_00]: So I took it and waited for them and he said, Wallahi, by Allah, it was forty ounces. 40:24.977 --> 40:33.659 [SPEAKER_00]: I paid them their Jew and I was freed and I then witnessed the battle of the trench with the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam marakadou handak. 40:33.899 --> 40:38.000 [SPEAKER_00]: In the battle of the trench, the Prophet ﷺ used a tactic that was known to the Persians. 40:38.780 --> 40:55.070 [SPEAKER_00]: And some, well, this is the historic revelation that Salman gave him the idea, but the authentic had it actually say that Salman did not give him the idea, the Prophet ﷺ thought of that idea, but it was not an idea known to the Arabs, which tells us that Islam is not a religion 40:55.950 --> 40:58.951 [SPEAKER_00]: that is just stuck with traditions and words on paper. 40:59.512 --> 41:14.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Islam encourages us to seek knowledge from all areas, and to expand their knowledge and go out of the box, and it welcomes new innovation from the outside world, and is not dogmatic to say if it's not in the Quran, I don't believe it. 41:15.258 --> 41:24.742 [SPEAKER_00]: No, the Quran talks about guiding you and why you're here and where you came from, how you connect with the lost planet, that tells you to look around you as a sign, but it's not the book which says every single thing is taught. 41:24.883 --> 41:33.406 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't teach you algebra, it doesn't teach you numerical analysis, it doesn't teach you linear relationships, it doesn't teach you about the forces of nature and gravity and atoms and all that stuff. 41:33.426 --> 41:36.708 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it just references them, but Islam is open to all of that. 41:36.907 --> 41:51.760 [SPEAKER_00]: I think about the psychological liberation, my dear brothers and sisters, in the statement where the Prophet ﷺ once sat down with Salman, and they said, oh Messenger of Allah, this is in Bukhari and Muslim, a messenger of Allah tell us about the future, he said. 41:52.440 --> 42:05.486 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an, wa'in tata wa l-Laway'a stebidin al-Kawman wa'yarakum thum malayakununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununun 42:21.564 --> 42:22.785 [SPEAKER_00]: the prophet peace be upon him. 42:23.465 --> 42:37.235 [SPEAKER_00]: He placed his hand onto the knee of Salman and Ferdicy, and he slapped it on his thigh, friendly, and he said, like this man and his companions for by the one in whose hand is my soul. 42:37.656 --> 42:50.585 [SPEAKER_00]: If faith was suspended among the plaits, the cluster of the seven stars in the constellation, which today calls Taurus, if you know about it. 42:50.885 --> 42:59.433 [SPEAKER_00]: the Prophet ﷺ knew about them, they were known and he said by Allah who controls them, the men from Persia would surely reach it if knowledge was in them. 42:59.733 --> 43:03.236 [SPEAKER_00]: Not a Persia of today, the Persia that the Prophet ﷺ is referring to meaning. 43:03.676 --> 43:07.100 [SPEAKER_00]: Although the original Muslims around the Prophet ﷺ in Arabia, 43:07.760 --> 43:09.601 [SPEAKER_00]: did not abandon the religion. 43:09.641 --> 43:11.002 [SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't, they didn't abandon it. 43:11.363 --> 43:31.177 [SPEAKER_00]: Rasussai'a Selam foretelling the great power of knowledge and faith that will soon come out also as an extension of what the Propsai'a Selam taught will come out of Persia and other foreign places will join the Islamic Umma and a powerful part of its body in religion, wisdom and technology, advancement and so on. 43:31.577 --> 43:43.886 [SPEAKER_00]: not as a lineage or ethnicity, but would be a second candidate that if the Arabs were to leave the messenger salais alam, the knowledge will be with the Persians and people like them because they seek knowledge. 43:44.667 --> 43:46.928 [SPEAKER_00]: And throughout time, my brother sisters, this came true. 43:47.549 --> 43:56.976 [SPEAKER_00]: Many scholars from there from all areas of knowledge, such as Imam Al-Buhari came out of Persia, Imam Muslim, Imam Anasari, Imam Sibawai. 43:57.836 --> 44:00.678 [SPEAKER_00]: Imam Al-Razali, in Hauarismi, was the mathematician. 44:01.019 --> 44:17.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Sina, the scholar of medicine, the revolutionized medicine, Abu Bakr ar-Razi, the great scholar of surgery, al-Bayrouni, the physicist and geographist, and so on, and many women who were astronomers, and so on came out from that area. 44:18.011 --> 44:25.096 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear brothers and sisters, and so Salman was called the son of Islam, and when he was asked about his lineage, 44:25.596 --> 44:33.102 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, who are you, O Salman, and his answer was, Allah blessed me with Islam, so I am Salman, the son of Islam. 44:33.122 --> 44:41.167 [SPEAKER_00]: In my conclusion, my dear rather than sisters, as we close, the epic journey of Salman or the Allah one who I want to look, I want you to look into your life. 44:41.748 --> 44:54.657 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are currently sitting in an environment that feels suffocating or if you are drowning in a cognitive dissonance of living a life that isn't yours, remember that the pursuit of true authenticity is a noble, beautiful path. 44:54.877 --> 45:00.381 [SPEAKER_00]: But remember Salman's map, real authenticity is never found by chasing reckless impulsive desires. 45:00.822 --> 45:10.389 [SPEAKER_00]: It is found by anchoring your mind in objective evidence-based truth, and if life has treated you unfairly, if you have been betrayed, let down. 45:11.190 --> 45:20.460 [SPEAKER_00]: or feel completely trapped by circumstances out of your control whether they are friend or foe family or any other people do not let your environment break your spirit. 45:21.100 --> 45:33.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Reclaim your internal locus of control, your external reality might hold you back right now but your internal sovereignty, your integrity and your purpose belong entirely to you and through a loss of 45:34.674 --> 45:48.383 [SPEAKER_00]: and Salman started his life locked up in a golden cage as an outsider in Persia and he ended his life as an honoured, integrated insider at the very heart of the prophetic household. 45:48.704 --> 45:54.908 [SPEAKER_00]: He proved that when you have the courage to walk towards the truth, divine guidance will always meet you running. 45:55.348 --> 46:01.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, my dear brothers and sisters for listening and May Allah SWT, I will preserve us all in goodness, health and e-manned. 46:01.914 --> 46:17.067 [SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT always make us among those who follow great pioneers and great people, like the companions of SWT, like the great Salman, Al-Farisi, Rahmatullahi Ali, who is buried in Iraq, Baghdad, in a place called Al-Madaen. 46:17.627 --> 46:32.094 [SPEAKER_00]: and he narrated over 60 Hadiths from the Prophet ﷺ and a man of great wisdom, who once said, make your life in parts, give your Lord His right, give your body it's right, give your family it's right. 46:32.695 --> 46:40.430 [SPEAKER_00]: And this was the balance that Rasulullah al-Salam Toras, that our deen encompasses all aspects of our life, not just one narrow area,