SEERAH OF THE PROPHET(SWS)

Slides based on Seerah Series done

by Yasir Qadhi

SLIDE#: SL4.2TOPIC: Religious Status of the World Before Islam

PART I(22:11 – 30:40)

• We as Muslims don’t believe the bricks ofKaba that are holy or the black covering or the tiled floors

• For us, the place is whats holy• Many people don’t realize that the

Kaba is rebuilt every few years. It is a building/structure like any other building/structure.

• There is nothing holy about the Kaba, it is the area that is sacred

• The people of Makkah at the time did not realize this. They would worship the bricks.

• The people were not sincere in their worship of the rocks/bricks either

• Many Muslims even today worship graves

• Idols were in different shapes and sizes, some were humans, some animals, most were humanoidà a little bit of human and a little bit of animal

• Quraish had the theology that Allah had daughter and the angels are the daughters

• They would worship the angels as daughters of Allah

• Idol-worshippers à they don’t have a creed, no unified creed ex. Hinduism

• Same for the Arabs, they had no unified creed but the one thing that they agreed upon was that they needed to worship the idols to get closer to Allah(swt). There were exceptions.

• There were a handful of people called Hanif (which means turning away from Shirk and turning to Allah(swt)

Questions

1. Describe our view of the Kaba vs. Arabs of the time.

2. What were the shapes/sizes ofthe idols like?

3. What did the Quraish believe about angels?

4. What is the one thing that Arabs agreed upon in terms of their beliefs?

5. What is Hanif ?

PART II(30:41 – 40:24)

• One of Hanif was Kus ibn Siyad.• Kus ibn Sayyida à not from Quraish, bani Iyyad. He was an old man when the Prophet met him as a young man. Kus would come to the Kaba for the Hajj. Then he would preach against idolatry. He was very well-spoken. He was very close to the deen.

• The most important 4 Hunafa was:– 1. Waraqah ibn Nawfal ibn Asad

(cousins w/ Khadija around 40 yrs older)

– 2. Ubaidillah ibn Jahish (cousins w/ the Prophet through his mother)

– 3. Zaid ibn Amer– 4. Uthman ibn Huwairish

• These 4 people befriended one another when they realized they were on the same boat

• They wanted to search the Hanifia ofIbrahim

• They all left Makkah for a while searching for the truth

• As far as Waraqah goes, he converted to Christianity

• Waraqah could read and write and speaks more than one language so he was respected and looked upto

• Waraqah is the one that understood what was going on

• Waraqah is the first male convert to Islam, not Abu Bakr

• Waraqah spent his whole life looking for the truth and so was sad that he was not a youth

• He wished he could help when the people would oppose the Prophet (sws)

• Waraqah was the first Muslim who died

Questions

1. Who was Kus ibn Sayyida ?2. Who were the 4 most important

Hunafa?3. What was the outcome of

Waraqah’s search?4. Who was the first male convert to

Islam?5. Who was the first Muslim to pass

away?

The complete lecture can be found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=ey7UAi_Emgs