# Jerusalem to Constantinople: The Promised Conquests | Signs of the Hour Ep. 7

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Signs of the Hour
**Published:** 2026-06-16
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/AldYIGPktDc
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/signs-of-the-hour/signs-of-the-hour-episode-7
**Topics:** Afterlife, Faith

## Description
Do you believe in “impossible” victories? The Prophet ﷺ foretold several conquests that would occur before the emergence of the Dajjal. Many have already happened. The timing of Ghazwat al-Hind (Battle for India) is debated. And in between are other events he ﷺ predicted, such as the Mongol...

## Transcript
**[0:00]** I want to welcome you all back to our class on the signs of the hour. Alhamdulillah, Rabbul Alameen. We had the break of Dhul Hijjah, I ask Allah Aza wa jal to accept the hajj of the hajjis

**[0:17]** and the ibadah, the acts of worship from all of the Muslims all around in these blessed months and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us amongst those who observe all of his sacred days and sacred times in the best of ways, Allahumma ameen. And we come back to this class, and this is going to be the last feel-good session for

**[0:38]** a long time when we're doing this subject. Why? Because as I'm thinking about how to build this subject as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam framed it to the companions, I want to be faithful to the mechanism that he's

**[0:53]** giving to us salallahu alayhi wa sallam and so a lot of it as we said is prediction and we talked about the prophecies in regards to things that would happen during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam and then we talked about the deaths that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam predicted or prophesied with precision.

**[1:12]** So he's telling all of the companions that you will die here, you will die here, this is how you will die, this is what will happen. But the reason why I say this will be the last feel-good lecture is not because it's motivational in its nature and not because it doesn't have a behavioral component as

**[1:28]** I promised, but because it's about futuhaat. It's about the prophecies of the openings of Islam around the world, conquests that would happen, lands that would come into Islam, the spread of Islam. And the reason why I bring it here is because it caught my attention that Imam Muslim rahimahullah

**[1:47]** actually connects al-futuhaat, connects conquest to the Day of Judgment. So it's actually something that I want you all to know, those of you that intend to embark on your journeys of knowledge, Imam al-Bukhari rahimahullah has the most authentic book of

**[2:02]** hadith that exists in history. The most authentic book after the Qur'an is Sahih al-Bukhari, right? Imam Muslim rahimahullah, the author of Sahih Muslim, which is right up there next to Sahih al-Bukhari, he's known by scholars of hadith and the sciences as the most brilliant in

**[2:21]** how he chaptered and categorized the hadith of the Prophet. So it's not just how rigorous the authentication of the chains was, but also the way that he chaptered his abwab, he chaptered the book itself. And in his Kitab al-Fitan, in his book of tribulations, he actually titles Bab Ma Yakun

**[2:43]** min Futuhaat al-Muslimeen Qabla al-Dajjal, it was my first time noticing it by the way. The chapter of what will happen of the conquests of the Muslims before the Dajjal comes out. And then that took me on another journey, which was to trace every land that the Prophet

**[3:00]** salallahu alayhi wa sallam would say would come under Islam to the end of times and subhanAllah, the coherence is there. Every place that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said Islam would reach and Islam would become powerful in that place. When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam talks about the end of times, he talks about

**[3:17]** the deteriorating of that very same place. So there's a complete correlation between all of these places and what happens in the beginning of Islam and Islam going to all of these places. And then he talks about the tests that are to follow. And in that is a direct correlation to the hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

**[3:36]** that Islam started off as something strange. And it will go back to being the way that it started. It will go back to being strange.

**[3:52]** So glad tidings to the strangers. What that tells you is Islam starts off strange. We're in persecution. There aren't many Muslims. There's certainly not much in terms of worldly protection or power that represents Islam, right? You're a very vulnerable population and you're the outlier, you're the outcast and you will

**[4:10]** be persecuted. And then it will go back to being strange. So there's a period where Islam is not strange. There's a period where Islam is victorious in many parts of the world, where being righteous and leaning into your Islam and producing through your Islam is actually the norm of

**[4:31]** your society. But it will go back to being strange. So the end of times resemble the beginning of times in terms of persecution, in terms of difficulty for the Muslims. And that's why the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam so frequently compares the first

**[4:47]** generation to the generation with Isa alayhi assalam, that generation with the Messiah himself, right? The virtue of those two groups of people. But let's talk about this systematically and cover how the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned these in the capacity of the signs of the Day of Judgment, because this will

**[5:06]** be extremely important when we come back to the collapse as the Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about it. And so the first sign is one, subhanAllah, that always gives me goosebumps because I like to imagine myself being a companion of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and

**[5:23]** receiving it in that context. The Muslims go out in Tabuk. Tabuk is a very interesting expedition in Islamic history because it is the expedition that exposed the hypocrites and it did not actually result in a battle, right? What happens?

**[5:45]** The Muslims are in Medina, the Byzantines, right, being the Roman Empire, seem to aggress upon the Muslims and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam gathers the Muslims in Medina to march towards Tabuk. People are comfortable.

**[6:00]** They don't want to leave their homes in Medina. They don't want to go out in this battle. It's hot. It's in the summer. Is it really like Mecca? It's not as in your face as it was in Badr and Uhud, like, wait a minute, Ya Rasulullah, and they start making these excuses.

**[6:17]** So the hypocrites sort of exposed themselves as falling away from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and people are affected by the munafiqeen. They're affected by the language of the hypocrites. In the meantime, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam gathers up a large army. They march in the heat and what ends up happening is not a full out battle whatsoever with the

**[6:33]** Byzantines, which would come later. So the whole exercise, the whole expedition becomes an exposure of sorts of where people are in regards to their iman.

**[6:49]** But Auf ibn Malik, and I mentioned this hadith in the first lesson, but I want to mention it specifically for the second part. Auf ibn Malik, he said that I came to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in his tent in Tabuk. So imagine you're in the middle of the desert.

**[7:04]** You're about to come face to face with the harshest empire or one of the two biggest empires of the time. And you're definitely going to be outnumbered. You're definitely going to be in unfamiliar territory. You're very vulnerable. You're very weak.

**[7:20]** And you come to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and you're in his tent. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam says, count six things before the Day of Judgment that will happen. So I mentioned this hadith in the beginning, but I want to mention it from a different dimension.

**[7:36]** The first sign he said, my death, mawti, my death, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Then he mentioned, Thumma fathu Bayt al-Maqdis. And then the opening of Jerusalem, Bayt al-Maqdis. And then he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, a plague that would seize you like a disease

**[7:54]** that kills sheep. And then he mentioned, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, wealth that would come into the houses of the people and wealth in abundance. So a person would be given a hundred dinars and he'd still be unsatisfied, meaning people will become so wealthy and they're so ungrateful that no matter how much money you give them,

**[8:13]** they're still ungrateful. And then a fitna that will enter the house of every one of the Arabs. And then he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, a treaty between you and Bani Asfar, being the Roman empire or what follows, that will betray you and then come against you under

**[8:28]** eighty banners, beneath each banner, 12,000 troops betraying the Muslims. This hadith from A'uf ibn Malik is one of the most central hadith in talking about the signs of the Day of Judgment.

**[8:45]** And subhanAllah, one of the things that the scholars mentioned is that if you look at every sign of the Day of Judgment, it's a sign of signs to come. So my death, what follows my death is the death of the companions as well. Mawt al-Sahaba, the death of a generation of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

**[9:00]** What follows, fathu Bayt al-Maqdis, the conquest of Jerusalem. Because if you're thinking about Jerusalem being conquered, that definitely means that the Roman empire has fallen as well. Like Jerusalem is the heart of the Byzantine empire. So if al-Quds falls, that means that everything else falls as well by extension.

**[9:17]** And then trial, when he talks about Amwas, the plague, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, ta'un Amwas, that many different types of diseases and trials will strike you as an ummah. And then abundance, when he talks about a lot of wealth, he's also talking about a lot

**[9:34]** of time, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. He's also talking about a lot of riding animals. He's also talking about a lot of palaces, but people lose gratitude for everything that they have. And so they lose barakah, which is a whole genre of the signs of the Day of Judgment.

**[9:50]** And then he mentioned fitna that hits every home. And then he mentioned fitna that hits every home. And this is as the ulama mention, social collapse, that there's a whole genre of the signs of the day of judgment when fitna cannot be escaped.

**[10:06]** It comes into your home through your phone. It comes in through your home, through your computer, it comes into your home through different ways, but you can't escape fitna anymore. It's in every single household. And then the last one, betrayal. And Islamic history is full of betrayals, and we only fall when there's betrayal.

**[10:24]** So basically it's the brilliance that these six signs the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam actually all opened the doors to a bunch of other signs that fit the exact same theme of what the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is mentioning. But let's talk about futuhat, the second sign.

**[10:40]** So we talked about the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the death of the companions. And now we talk about Fathu Bayt al-Maqdis. May Allah Aza wa Jal liberate it once again, Allahumma ameen. Al-Quds is the heart of the Byzantine Empire, as we said.

**[10:57]** It's the religious center, and in some ways the political center, not in every way, but in some ways as well, merged into the political center because it represents where the religious narratives of power are being generated that hold the empire, right, of the Byzantines

**[11:13]** that hold the empire of the Romans at the time. But it's also, Subhan'Allah, where turning points happen. What do I mean by that? If you look at the seerah, al-Isra wa al-Mi'raj was the turning point for the Prophet Sallallahu

**[11:28]** Alaihi Wasallam. When Allah brought the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to al-Quds, and he led all of the prophets in prayer, and Allah Aza wa Jal ascended him through the heavens and back. This was the turning point of the seerah. In many ways, historically, the turning point of the companions was also that moment of

**[11:47]** entering into al-Bayt al-Maqdis under Umar ibn al-Khattab Radi Allahu Ta'ala anhu. When Umar Radi Allahu Ta'ala anhu came to Jerusalem, this was the chapter in which everything else around Jerusalem truly falls as well and comes into Islam as well for several reasons.

**[12:08]** Number one, Subhan'Allah, just like it was the emotional and mental turning point for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, being with all of the prophets, this is the first time in a long time that all of these sahaba that went out for futuhat in Persia, futuhat

**[12:24]** in al-Sham, in different places, they're gathering in al-Quds. Like this is the first time Umar ibn al-Khattab is seeing Bilal Radi Allahu Ta'ala anhu in years. This is the first time they're coming together, and you can imagine how they're feeling when Umar Radi Allahu anhu is entering into al-Quds, the khalifah of the Muslims is entering into

**[12:41]** al-Quds, and people are looking at him with admiration. He's just, he's fair, he's merciful, he's not pompous. He's wearing a garment with fourteen patches with a servant on the camel instead of him. He's ordering that the churches be respected.

**[12:58]** He's bringing back Jewish families to Jerusalem that were expelled. He's making it a point to respect everything and everyone around him, the sanctity of the city, and the Muslims are growing in honor. We're a people that Allah gave izzah to through Islam, we're a people that Allah gave honor

**[13:18]** to through Islam, and when we seek it through something else, Allah humiliates us. So we're honored right now, and can you imagine how you would feel being in al-Quds the day that Umar Radi Allahu anhu entered, and the first jama'ah, the first congregation that's prayed with all of the Muslims there in al-Quds in Jerusalem?

**[13:37]** So al-Quds, that turning point represented so much of what would spread of Islam under Sayyidina Umar Radi Allahu anhu, and it's where moral victory meets that political superiority

**[13:53]** after vulnerability, after everything that they've been through, right? So it is a turning point, and again, it's a lack of a triumphant nature, but it's the fear of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and humility, even in power, and it shows you that Allah Aza wa Jal sees people in terms of their worth and their value, not in terms of how much

**[14:13]** land they conquer, how many people are under them, but in how they carry themselves, how they behave. And so we admire Umar Radi Allahu anhu for how he behaved, we admire the sahabah for how they dealt with that special city in that regard. So that's the first fatah that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions, even

**[14:33]** though it's not the first fatah, it's not the first conquest of the futuhaat from a chronological perspective, but it's the most consequential one in terms of where the Muslims go from there. And Subhan'Allah, until today, al-Quds is the heart of the ummah, al-Quds is the beating

**[14:53]** heart of the ummah. No matter how much they try to generate in terms of faith-washing and reducing the sanctity of al-Aqsa and reducing the sanctity of Jerusalem, and all the propaganda wars and all the political wars, you cannot rip al-Aqsa out of the hearts of the Muslims, it remains the beating heart

**[15:12]** of the Muslims. And when we think of victory, when we think of freedom, when we think of liberation, our minds and our hearts always go there before anywhere else. What does al-Aqsa look like? What does al-Quds look like at the time? So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, you'll get there, you'll have your

**[15:27]** moment of victory. But then he said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, something else. And so this is sort of why the ulama mention this genre. It falls under impossible victories. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,

**[15:43]** Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.  Like, I want you to think about the two most powerful empires of the time. All right, like right now you're talking about the equivalent if you're talking about America, China and Russia.

**[16:03]** And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has got this small community in the middle of the desert in Arabia. And he says, not only will these two empires fall, there will be no Kisra after this Kisra. There will be no Caesar after the Caesar.

**[16:19]** This is the end of both of these empires. If you're a companion, are you looking at the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and going, I don't know. Sounds great, but I don't know. And then he goes a step further, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says,

**[16:36]** He says that, I swear by in whose hands is my soul, you will spend their qinoos, you will spend their treasures, in the path of Allah. These two empires will fall. And he's saying it, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, with yaqeen, with certainty. And that's actually the point.

**[16:54]** That empires seem permanent until they're ended. Every single arrogant empire in history seemed invincible at some point. And this is one of the core poisons and diseases that we have as Muslims, is that we're so shackled

**[17:11]** by our present circumstances that we can't even imagine some of the stuff the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking about. Because we're so, we look at it and we're like, everything seems too dominated. Everything seems too stuck. Everything, it seems like the evil of the world is too cemented.

**[17:28]** It's too embedded. You add this to this and this. And Allah Aza wa Jal is showing us through the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and through the companions, that none of these things are as invincible as they actually seem. So he says, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that the Byzantine Empire will fall and the Persian Empire will fall.

**[17:47]** These two empires have been fighting each other for over seven hundred years and they were the two dominant forces in the world. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, they're both going to fall at your hands, to a small group of companions in the middle of nowhere in Mecca.

**[18:03]** Okay, so first he mentioned Fathu al-Bayt al-Maqdis. Then he mentioned Persia. Out of the two empires, Persia was, the Persian Empire was far more aggressive, far more pompous,

**[18:18]** transgressing against the Muslims. Right? And there's a reason why Quraysh allied themselves to them because they look like they were the dominant force. When we talk about Surah al-Rum, that they look like they were going to destroy the Romans and that this thing was finally going to come to an end.

**[18:34]** Right? And we spoke about the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he's being chased in the desert by Suraqa ibn Malik, Radi Allahu Ta'ala anhu. Suraqa has a bounty that he's trying to gain by capturing the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

**[18:51]** And instead, he falls off of his horse. He comes to the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, asking the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, for protection. And the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, says, Kayfa bika ya Suraqa idha labista siwaara Kisra? How will it be, O Suraqa, when you are carrying the two bracelets of the most powerful man on earth, Kisra, of Persia?

**[19:12]** You imagine he's a refugee, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's fleeing political persecution. He's so vulnerable that he doesn't have an army in the middle of the desert, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He could be killed. And he's telling the man that came to kill him so he could get some camels. That you will not kill me. One day, you will have in your possession the golden bracelets of the most powerful man on earth, Kisra.

**[19:38]** And that was a sign that the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, mentioned. On the day of Khandaq, I'm going through this very quickly because we already know these from different sessions. So I'm just kind of zooming through. On the day of Khandaq, when he strikes the stone, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

**[19:53]** and the Muslims are in the midst of a genocide, and he sees a light, and he says, I see, I've been given the keys of the palace of Kisra, and that which is around it. And I see Yemen and Habasha and al-Sham, Qaisar. I see the lights going to all of these different places of the world.

**[20:17]** So these are things that are happening to the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, regarding the empires. So first you have Jerusalem, that he prophesizes specifically, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And when he talks about Kisra, he talks about the wealth, the palaces, the prosperity of the Persian Empire,

**[20:38]** the bracelets of Kisra, the White Palace. It's not the White House, by the way. It's Qasr al-Abyad, the White Palace of Kisra, because he literally had in Medan the most pompous palace in the world. And he talks about all of that, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam, coming into the possession of the Muslims.

**[20:56]** So you had al-Quds, by extension, al-Sham. Then you had Persia. And then you had Yemen, which has one of the most fascinating stories behind it. Because Yemen, in the time of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was under who?

**[21:14]** Who governed Yemen? It was a client kingdom to which empire? It was very important. Persia. Abraha's gone. Talking about the time of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they've moved on now. They're governed by Persia. Kisra has a client kingdom in Yemen.

**[21:34]** And when the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, sent the invitation to Islam, to the ruler of Persia, to Kisra, and the letter came to Kisra, what did he do? He tore it up. He tore up the letter. He was so offended.

**[21:53]** The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, wrote him the nicest letter that you could write from a leader to a leader, in terms of respect and diplomacy. From Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, to Kisra, the 'Azim of Faris, the Great One, the Mighty One of Persia.

**[22:11]** By the way, this is one of the fiqhi rulings, that you can address someone by their title, even when they're wicked.  So when the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, calls him the 'Azim of Faris, does he really mean he's a great man? He's a wicked man.

**[22:28]** But if you call someone President or King or this or that, you're acknowledging their title, and that's a form of softening their heart, hopefully, when you talk to them. That I'm acknowledging your title, I'm acknowledging the respect that is due to your position.

**[22:43]** And he called him to Islam, in a very beautiful way. And Kisra said, He dared to start with his name before my name, from Muhammad to me. He should have said, to me, and then from Muhammad.

**[22:59]** And he tore up the letter, and he threatened 'Abdullah ibn Hudhafah, the messenger of the messenger, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and told him, basically, like, I'm coming for your guy. I'm coming after him. You better go back, turn around, and I'm coming for you.

**[23:16]** Right? And he was serious. So follow this part of the story. Some of you have heard this in other lectures, but I'm going to go to the end of it, as it fits this. So Kisra sends a letter to Badhan, the king of Yemen.

**[23:31]** Badhan, the king of Yemen. And he says to Badhan, send your two most capable men, go to Medina, bring this man, who claims that he's a prophet of Allah, and handle him.

**[23:47]** Send two thugs, and basically, let's get rid of him. Right? So Badhan sends two men. He gets the letter from Kisra, in Yemen. Follow the letter, right? The letter goes to Yemen. Badhan sends his two men to Medina. 'Abdullah ibn Hudhafah comes back to Medina.

**[24:04]** Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, says, what happened to what I sent you? He said he tore up the letter. The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, May Allah tear up his kingdom. May Allah tear up his kingdom. The two men arrive in Medina,

**[24:20]** and the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, apprehends them, brings them to him, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he says to them, by the way, go back to Badhan, and let him know,

**[24:35]** that I've been informed, My Lord killed his lord last night. How profound is this? So when they came to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

**[24:50]** there are different narrations. They said, we're coming on behalf of Malik of Yemen, who is operating under Malik al-Muluk, they would call Kisra, the king of kings. Kisra, from the king of Yemen, Badhan, we're on his behalf. Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, go back to Badhan,

**[25:05]** tell him that I've been informed, Jibril al-Islam told the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that last night, your lord killed their lord, who they practically worship being the ruler of Persia. This pompous ruler that's been reigning over Persia for decades.

**[25:24]** Now here's the thing, how would he have gotten the news, salallahu alayhi wa sallam? There's no social media at the time, there's no way to get rapid news, there's no rider that's going to come and say, last night something happened. And SubhanAllah, it's so beautiful, because if you think about the way that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, receives the news,

**[25:40]** it's the same usage when he said, last night, a righteous man passed away in Abyssinia, in Habesha. Jibril al-Islam informed the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, what was happening in the world? Najashi, radiallahu anhu, died in Abyssinia last night,

**[25:55]** so he prayed janazah for Najashi. Likewise here, the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, is seeing these two hit men, and he's saying, by the way, last night, my Lord killed your lord. So he said, go back to Badhan, and tell Badhan, that Islam will reach Yemen.

**[26:14]** And he should precede Islam reaching Yemen, by embracing it instead. And that way, he doesn't just have the reward of being a conduit of goodness reaching the place, but he'll maintain everything that's under him, in terms of his possessions.

**[26:30]** And this is a man who clearly Allah 'Aza wa Jal wanted good for. So the two men get back to Yemen, they get back to Badhan, and Badhan receives a letter from who? From Shiraway, Shiraway, who's the son of Kisra, who killed him.

**[26:49]** Right? Letting him know that, by the way, there's a new person in charge of Persia. You now report to me, you're now my subject. I wanted to let you know that Kisra's gone, and you now report to me. And the date of the letter matches the exact date, the exact time,

**[27:09]** that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, told his two men, that last night, my Lord killed your lord. Do you understand how profound this is, in terms of signs? So Badhan says, he's truthful, he's a Nabi, he's a prophet.

**[27:24]** There's no doubt about it, he's a prophet. Badhan sends back a letter to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, letting him know that he embraced Islam. And SubhanAllah, what's happening in Persia, by the way, is that Shiraway, who's the son who killed Kisra,

**[27:39]** after that happens, the throne just keeps on changing repeatedly in Persia. So Persia, which had a stable leader for decades, now son kills father, daughter kills son, it goes from this person to this person, it just keeps switching hands every few months.

**[27:54]** And so the empire suffers internal chaos within. So Badhan says to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, I've embraced Islam, and he starts to prepare the Persian outposts by basically telling the tribes that by the way,

**[28:10]** now we've embraced Islam, we are Muslim at this point. And that's when you start to have a correlation of people that are going to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam to embrace Islam as well. Badhan dies before the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, or rather slightly after the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

**[28:27]** and he was succeeded by his son. And his son was actually killed by Al-Aswad Al-'Ansi, who was one of the false prophets. Okay, he's one of the victims of Al-Aswad Al-'Ansi, one of the false prophets that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, mentioned. So Yemen comes under Islam.

**[28:43]** So think about a map, like Islam going east and west, so it's like I'm talking about how it's going to spread. Al-Sham will enter Islam, and there will be no Caesar after this Caesar. Jerusalem enters into Islam, the heart of it.

**[28:58]** Then he says Persia will enter into Islam, and the possessions of the most pompous man on earth will be spent in the way of Allah. And one of the most beautiful signs of the Muslims, by the way, is that when they saw the palace of Kisra,

**[29:16]** and they saw all of the carpets and the furniture and the jewelry and all that he had, that they didn't loot it, they didn't get excited about enriching themselves, they brought that back to be spent in the way of Allah.

**[29:32]** So they weren't tainted by the wealth, they weren't tainted by the material that came into their possession, but they spent it in the way of Allah. And that's what the excitement was in regards to this great possession coming under their hands,

**[29:48]** is that it didn't enter into their hearts. Then he mentions Islam as one of the signs of the Day of Judgment, Egypt, he mentioned Egypt. And we just talked about this in the Seerah of Mariyah al-Qibtiyyah. By the way, funny historical tangent,

**[30:06]** Shiraway had a Byzantine wife, Shiraway the one who killed Kisra, named Mariyah, just something that was very interesting. We're talking about what the name means. So the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, mentions that innakum sataftahuna Misr You're going to open Egypt, you're going to conquer Egypt.

**[30:23]** wa hiya ardun yusamma fiha al-qirat And it's a land in which the qirat is mentioned. And he said, fa idha fatahtamuha fa ahsinu ila ahliha When you conquer Egypt, treat the people well, because we have with them dhimmah and rahimah.

**[30:39]** We have protection and we have a blood relationship with them. Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam's ancestor, being Hajar, alayhi assalam, the bondwoman of Egypt. And of course, as we mentioned, some of the scholars add to that, Mariyah, radiallahu anha, the bondwoman of Egypt. So they're family to us.

**[30:55]** So treat them well and do not harm them. Okay, now, so far we've mentioned all of these places. And this is the map basically coming into Islam. And as I said, you will notice in the hadith,

**[31:11]** when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talks about the end of times, he talks about all of these places being taken away, and places of deprivation and hardship as well. Then he mentioned, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Cyprus.

**[31:26]** How does he mention Cyprus? The hadith of Umm Haram bint Milhan, radiallahu anha, the aunt of Anas ibn Malik, radiallahu anhu, where she said the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was sleeping in my house and he had a dream. And he woke up and he was laughing, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and she said, "Ya Rasulullah, may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala keep you happy.

**[31:48]** What is it that caused you to laugh?" He says that it's a group from my Ummah that were displayed before me, going out in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, riding on boats or riding on ships on the sea, like the first people from my Ummah that will be on the sea. He says that it's a group from my Ummah that were displayed before me, going out in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, riding on boats or riding on ships on the sea, like the first people from my Ummah that will be on the sea.

**[32:19]** And he said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, I saw them like kings upon thrones, like they have crowns upon them. A group from my Ummah on the water, the very first naval fleet of the Ummah. And Umm Haram, radiallahu ta'ala anha, she said, "Ya Rasulullah, make du'a that I'm amongst them."

**[32:37]** Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made du'a that you will be amongst them. And Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, what happens is, years later, the Byzantines used to use Cyprus as an attack point against the Muslims because they had their naval fleets.

**[32:52]** And the Muslims were very hesitant to even dare fight back on the water. Right? How do we even fight back in this regard? Because, I mean, at the end of the day, they're used to land. They're people that were in the desert.

**[33:07]** They're not used to riding ships and fighting on the water. But eventually, under the time of Uthman, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, the first naval fleet goes out and it's under Ubadah ibn Samit, who is the husband of Umm Haram, radiallahu ta'ala anha.

**[33:26]** So Umm Haram is like 75 years old. And she insists that I want to go with you to Cyprus. I want to be on the first naval fleet that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw in his dream that day when he was taking a nap in the house. And Subhan'Allah, they get to Cyprus.

**[33:41]** And as soon as they get there, she falls off. She dies. She is shaheedat al-bahr, the martyr of the water, the martyr of the seas. And the exact place that Umm Haram, radiallahu ta'ala anha, died, she's buried there.

**[33:58]** And it's still marked until today when you go to Cyprus. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be pleased with her. So Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is predicting now that he saw the first naval fleet. And he's telling them what's going to happen there. So you have the Persian Empire, which includes, by the way, Iraq.

**[34:17]** Because it's very important to understand that Iraq is actually, at that time, the center of the Persian Empire. I know a lot of times we think in terms of constraints of modern geography, but it's not the case. Iraq is the center of the Persian Empire. So the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, Cyprus, Egypt, Yemen, all of these places coming into Islam.

**[34:42]** But then he didn't just mention Islam spreading there, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He mentioned safety and security. And this is a very important point that the ulama mention. That with Islam comes justice, with justice comes security.

**[35:01]** Okay? Comes safety. How do we know this? First and foremost, Adi ibn Hatim's hadith. He says that while I was with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, a man comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he complains to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam about poverty.

**[35:24]** And another one comes to him. Another one comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he complains about a highway robber. Another one complains about this. Another one complains about that. People are coming to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and they're complaining about difficulties, hardships, robbers and thieves and poverty and things that happen along the way.

**[35:47]** And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he is receiving these complaints, he says to Adi, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, "Ya Adi, have you seen Al-Hira?" Adi, have you seen Al-Hira? Al-Hira is a place in Iraq at the time close to Kufa.

**[36:05]** You know Al-Hira? Adi was a tribal chief. So he knows the areas, but he doesn't know that specific geography. He says, "Ya Rasulullah, lam araha, I've never seen it. Wa qad umbitu anha, but I've been told about it. I know about the city, but I've never been there."

**[36:22]** He said, "Fa in ta'alat bika haya. He said, if you live long enough, you will see a woman going all the way from Al-Hira,

**[36:39]** You'll see a woman come all the way from there to Mecca, to the Kaaba, crossing all these difficult terrains. Fearing no one but Allah. Meaning what? There's no more robbery. There's no more stealing.

**[36:55]** There are no more attacks. In the hadith of Khabbab, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. When Khabbab complained to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam about the persecution of the Muslims. Like we're being killed, we're being lashed here. Ala tad'u lana, ala tastansur lana.

**[37:11]** Will you not make du'a for us? Will you not seek safety for us? Will you not seek victory for us? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions that the people that came before you, that were cut into two, because they said "La ilaha illallah." Wa lakinakum tasta'jilun.

**[37:27]** But you're very hasty. In one narration the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned, "Wallahi, I swear by Allah. Layutamanna Allahu hadhal amr. Allah Aza wa jal will see this affair through. Hatta yasira al-rakibu min Sana'a ila Hadramawt. Until Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will allow for a rider to go from Sana'a to Hadramawt.

**[37:45]** Think of Yemen. The desert of Yemen, between two major cities. La yakhafu illallah. And is not afraid of anyone except for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Wal dhi'ba ala ghanami.

**[38:01]** And maybe the wolf attacking his sheep. That's it. So it's the spread of safety, security. And this is an extremely important point for us to understand that there's a direct connection between our righteousness and Allah giving us victory.

**[38:18]** And there's a direct connection between establishing justice and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala putting safety in a society. Adi ibn Hatim, he's thinking like,

**[38:33]** look, I know my people and I know how highway robbers work and I know how difficult the terrain of the desert is. And you know, it's a little bit like skepticism. Like, could you imagine a person walking all alone, a woman walking all alone in the desert, not fearing anyone attacking her in any way whatsoever from city to city?

**[38:52]** And then Subhan'Allah, the scholars mentioned that we saw that, we witnessed that in the time of Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, rahimahu Allah. That Umar ibn Abdul Aziz established so much justice, so much equity. He returned the trust to the people.

**[39:11]** He didn't let the greedy feast on the weak ones, on the downtrodden. He distributed the wealth fairly. He distributed the zakah fairly. He took up the cause of the oppressed, so much so that they couldn't find people to receive zakah anymore in certain areas of the Ummah.

**[39:27]** And a person could travel, a woman could travel from city to city, not fearing anyone. But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and it was so much justice that the wolves stopped attacking the sheep in the time of Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, rahimahu ta'ala. In fact, as Malik ibn Dinar and al-Shafi'i, they both narrate this about,

**[39:43]** al-Shafi'i didn't live, he's narrating this, about the time of Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, that they knew that Umar ibn Abdul Aziz died when the wolves attacked the sheep once again. That there was so much barakah, so much blessing that came with the spread of Islam in its true sense.

**[40:00]** Because the spread of Islam meant the spread of justice. That safety and security were assured. And the greatest thing that Allah Aza wa jal can give to a people, as a whole, after righteousness, is their safety and their security.

**[40:16]** Not just their sustenance. Right? بِإِلَٰهِ إِلَيْهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتَاءِ وَالصَّيْفِ لِيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هَٰذَا الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَآمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ Allah mentions about Mecca. The One who gave them sustenance and gave them security. And Subhan'Allah, I remember one of my teachers when he was teaching this hadith,

**[40:34]** he said that the measure of Islamic civilization is not how far the map travels, it's not how far the armies travel, but it's whether or not a woman can travel safely from place to place, not fearing anyone but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

**[40:53]** not fearing anyone but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and the oppressed can trust that the people in authority will take up their cause even better than they would for themselves. That's when you know that Islam is spreading. So when you think about Islam spreading,

**[41:08]** you're not just talking about Muslim governance and Muslim this and... No, you're not talking about it in terms of domination. You're talking about it in terms of upholding divine ethics, and that was established. And of course, after the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam comes Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, Rahimahullah Ta'ala,

**[41:24]** and of course, the greatest time that will come after of justice is the time of Isa Alayhi Assalam. So you had Iraq, the Persian Empire, Jerusalem, Yemen, Egypt, you have safety between these places.

**[41:40]** Now I want to talk about conquests that the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam talked about that would come after the Sahaba, but they did happen. So Islam would eventually spread from the coast of Spain all the way to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula.

**[42:00]** We're talking about a spread east and west. But there are two places that in this literature, when the promise of Allah is spoken about, are very interesting. And that is Constantinople, Konstantiniyyah, and Al-Hind, India.

**[42:21]** And bear with me, because when the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam mentioned these things to the Sahaba around him, there is an understanding that be patient, the promise of Allah is true.

**[42:36]** Sometimes these prophecies are not going to happen in your life. So some people witness the fulfillment of that promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Some people understand that they're part of the preparation

**[42:51]** of that promise from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And then some people are at the tail end. They're the fulfillment of that promise of Allah Aza wa jal. Everyone is rewarded in the process. It's like when you talk about Al-Quds, Nur ad-Din al-Zengi did not march in with Salah ad-Din into Jerusalem.

**[43:07]** But he's part of the process, a huge part of the process, a huge part of the promise. These people believed that it would be liberated and they were happy with being in the middle section of the promise of Allah Aza wa jal to be fulfilled.

**[43:22]** So do you have any doubt that Al-Quds will be liberated? You should have zero doubt that Allah Aza wa jal will liberate it. And you should not succumb to pessimism. But you should also understand that the promises of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala are on His time, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

**[43:40]** And true yaqeen is believing in those promises without having to see them fulfilled in your lifetime. So what does the believer ask themselves? The believer asks themselves, how do I play a role in this promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?

**[43:56]** And I want to mention Constantinople because it's one of the most profound examples that's given in the literature of the Muslims. Okay, when we talk about these prophecies that would come true. And I start with a hadith that's not as familiar.

**[44:11]** But it's a hadith of Abu Qubayl or Abu Qabil. He says, kunna inda Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As. We were with Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As. Radiyallahu Anhuma. Wa su'ila ayyul madinatayni tuftahu awwalan?

**[44:26]** Al-Konstantiniyyah or Rumiyyah? He was asked, which of the two cities will be conquered first? Constantinople? Which is modern day Istanbul, of course, right?

**[44:43]** Or Rome? So while we were with him, Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As he brought forth a sandooq. He brought forth a tray and he took out some writing. Why? Because if you remember the biography of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As,

**[45:00]** he wrote the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. Sahifah as-Sadiqah, and he kept it called the truthful tablet. He wrote the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ by hand. Right? So he pulls it out and he starts to read.

**[45:15]** And he says that we were with the Prophet ﷺ one day and we asked the Prophet ﷺ ayyul madinatayni tuftahu awwalan? Which of the two cities would be opened first? Constantinople or Rome?

**[45:31]** So the Prophet ﷺ said madinatu Heraclius tuftahu awwalan, ya'ni al-Konstantiniyyah. That the city of Heraclius would be opened first, would be conquered first, meaning Constantinople.

**[45:46]** Constantinople is the jewel of the Roman Empire. How many of you have been to Istanbul, by the way? Alright. It's historically, probably the most fortified city in the world.

**[46:01]** Historically, it was the most fortified city in the world. It was an impossible city. Right? It's defended from all directions, fortified from all directions. And when you're thinking about this city,

**[46:19]** SubhanAllah, you're thinking about a magnificent history, a magnificent terrain. Even when you go there today, right? When you're in Turkey, it really dawns upon you like you're walking in something that's deeply historical, that has deep roots.

**[46:34]** And civilizations, the stories of so many civilizations are told through that. Now why do I mention this in this subject in particular? Because there's another narration where the Prophet ﷺ mentioned lataftahanna al-Konstantiniyyah

**[46:49]** wa lani'ma al-amiru amiruh wa lani'ma al-jaysh dhalika al-jaysh. The narration that the Prophet ﷺ mentioned that Constantinople would be conquered and what a blessed leader, the leader of that army

**[47:04]** and what a blessed army that army is. Now the narration, there is a difference of opinion about its chain, right? So al-Hakim al-Dhahabi and others, they classified it as authentic. Some of the scholars like al-Albani find weakness in its chain. I'm not going to debate the hadith chain right now

**[47:20]** or talk about the narration from that perspective. What I do want you to think about is certainly the Prophet ﷺ prophesized Constantinople. And this is where Muhammad al-Fatih, Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih, Rahimahullah Ta'ala,

**[47:36]** who one day I will do a full biography on, Bi'idhnillahi Ta'ala, right? Because it deserves its full biography, comes in. You have this young man who spends his entire, basically adolescence and childhood, thinking how do I be that guy?

**[47:54]** But it's so deeply profound to think about a 14-year-old that's reading about the fortification of a city that hasn't been penetrated in centuries, right? And strategizes and rides his horse and says, you know, one day I'm going to be the amir.

**[48:13]** It is so deeply profound and then does it at like 20 years old. It truly is something. And SubhanAllah, when you go visit there, obviously you visit the masajid and you visit the grave of Muhammad al-Fatih, Rahimahullah Ta'ala, this young man.

**[48:28]** And even if a person says the hadith is not authentic, ni'mal amir. What an incredible leader, what an incredible group of people he had. Because he studied the deen and he basically obsessed over, you know, how he can be the actualization of this thing that the Prophet ﷺ is talking about.

**[48:48]** Similar to how you think about Salah ad-Din, Rahimahullah Ta'ala, growing up and like putting in his mind, this isn't like a kid that's talking about one day I'm going to make it to the NBA. One day I'm going to make it to the NFL. One day I'm going to do this. One day I'm going to be a millionaire. No, one day I'm going to be part of those that liberate Jerusalem, Bi'idhnillahi Ta'ala.

**[49:04]** One day I'll be amongst those that liberate al-Quds, Bi'idhnillahi Ta'ala. That's elevated thinking. Not one day I'm going to go to this college, one day I'm going to go to that. All of these are okay aspirations, by the way. But this is the way that these people are thinking. And SubhanAllah, he studies and he becomes a student of knowledge. He becomes a student of the arts, a student of military.

**[49:29]** And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opens up Constantinople on his hands and he becomes one of the most successful leaders in world history in his early 20s. Hundreds of masjids, hundreds of educational institutions. Again, deals with justice and fairness towards the people.

**[49:46]** Sets up these civilizational infrastructures and architectures that maintain honor of a previous people, but at the same time, right, preserve the dawn of a new era. Legal structures that are studied until today by the most sophisticated legal jurists, right.

**[50:06]** It's unbelievable what he's able to achieve. So he read the prophecies and he said, I want to be a part of doing something great. I want to be a part of that promise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so Muhammad al-Fatih rahimahullah ta'ala is part of the realization of what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that was written in that goal.

**[50:28]** And the next part of this is very interesting because this is what happens if you read this literature wrong. There's another hadith where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that the hour will not come until you fight a Turk, until you fight the Turks. So it's like, wait a minute, you know, like you got the whole history and I hate to break it to you all, but Ertuğrul is not history. I'm sorry.

**[50:50]** Like the whole, yes, he's a real person and yes, there's a lot that's there, but I don't want to break your hearts. All right. There's a lot there that's glorious and fits frameworks, but it's not like actual preserved. Like I didn't watch the whole thing, so I don't know like who the characters are and stuff like that, but just don't attach yourself too much to the specifics there.

**[51:11]** Certainly a glorious story of the Ottoman Empire and what came out of that. But then you read a hadith like, all right, you have Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih and then you have the hour will not come until you fight the Turks. Right. So let's read that hadith properly.

**[51:27]** The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said this, hadith Abu Hurayrah radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. La taqūmu al-sā'ah hattā tuqātilū qawman ni'ālu-hum ash'ār. The hour will not come until you fight a people who wear shoes with hair on them, shoes with hair on them.

**[51:46]** And he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, sighar al-a'yun. So he mentioned them to be Turkic, Turks, small eyes, reddish faces, that they have flat noses, as if their faces are like flattened shields.

**[52:07]** That's the description. He gives a very specific physical description, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is not referring to Turks as we understand it in the modern sense. Who is this referring to?

**[52:23]** Turkic people, you're talking about the Mongols. And subhanAllah, when you look at the Mongols and you look at how they were dressed and you look at how they looked, indeed, they had shoes that had leather shoes that had hair on them, right?

**[52:38]** And they fit the physical description of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And of course, the Turkic people from Central Asia, that sort of range in that broad sense from Central Asia to the Byzantine territories, that wreaked absolute havoc on the Muslim world under Genghis Khan and his descendants, of course, murdered millions of people,

**[53:01]** wreaked havoc on the libraries of the Muslims, stacked the skulls of the Muslims, destroyed much of the intellectual literature, burned the books of the Muslims, disposed of so much of our history, especially when they entered into Iraq.

**[53:18]** And Imam al-Nawawi rahimahullah ta'ala, who lived under this time, so this is under the Tatar, their invasion, right? SubhanAllah, he mentions, he says, we have seen them in our time and we are fighting them right now. And I'm like, wow, Imam al-Nawawi rahimahullah was writing the sharh of this hadith and he's like,

**[53:36]** actually, we're living this right now, like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam told us that there would come a time that we would fight these people and we're living this right now. And then Imam al-Nawawi rahimahullah writes, we ask Allah to give us victory over them. Like we're struggling at the hands of these people right now, because of course, we know that the Tatars,

**[53:54]** that the Mongols entered into Muslim lands and with complete brutality and cruelty, did the worst types of crimes against the Muslims. And subhanAllah, what ended up happening, of course, is that the Mongol and the Turkic dynasties

**[54:11]** embraced Islam, which is like a stunning turn of historical events. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protected them from being wiped out. And indeed, the Ottoman Turks are descendants of Turkic peoples. But they grew into a new civilization out of that civilization,

**[54:30]** to establish that empire of the Daulah al-Uthmaniyyah at the time, right? Which shows you, subhanAllah, that things can switch in ways that we can never anticipate. If you were to tell a Muslim back then, that these people, Genghis Khan's descendants, would actually embrace the religion of the people they conquered

**[54:49]** and brutalized in the millions and destroyed the traditions and the history of in so many ways, would actually embrace Islam, they would look at you and they would think you're crazy. This was one of the prophecies of the Messenger, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

**[55:06]** All right, the last one, which is one of the more controversial ones, is what's known in literature as Ghazwat al-Hind, right? The battle of India. And this comes, there are a few narrations.

**[55:23]** The authentic narration is Hadith Thawban, radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. If you remember Thawban, who we spoke about. Thawban, radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, said that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, that there are two groups from my ummah that Allah 'Azza wa Jall has guaranteed protection from the fire.

**[55:46]** A group that would be a part of Ghazwat al-Hind, taghzul Hind. So the group that would, now if you use the word conquer al-Hind,

**[56:03]** what did India mean back then compared to what it means right now, right? India is, al-Hind is speaking about a region, more so than a specific geography as we know it today, right? But that group, that army, and the army that would be with Isa alayhi assalam,

**[56:22]** the army that would be with Jesus peace be upon him, that these two groups are two groups that Allah 'Azza wa Jall has guaranteed the protection of from the fire. The controversy over this narration is whether it's something that already happened

**[56:37]** or something that will happen, okay? Something that already happened or something that will happen. Why? First and foremost, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, and he didn't send fighters or warriors to al-Hind,

**[56:53]** realized the Muslims were aggressed upon and they responded and there was transgression coming from the Romans, there's transgression coming from the Persians. It's not like you have a conquest that's happening in that grand sense with al-Hind in the time of Khulafā' al-Rāshidīn.

**[57:09]** Now, what does end up happening, if you go to the year 92 after Hijrah, and there are some incidents that precede this, where you do have, for example, a ship of hajj that was attacked at the time,

**[57:29]** people going to Hajj, women and children looting and things that happened at the time, that represents some sort of transgression, but you have the first conquest of territory that would be considered part of al-Hind in the prophetic sense at that time

**[57:49]** in the year 92 after Hijrah, also by a young man. What's his name? Muhammad ibn al-Qāsim, 17 years old, right? Also a young, brilliant, you know, commander who is able to particularly penetrate into the kingdom of Sindh.

**[58:09]** India, al-Hind is region, not place in the more defined sense. It's also not empire. It's many different empires, many different rulers at the time. So the kingdom of Sindh is around Karachi, right? In the modern day sense, and he's able to penetrate

**[58:27]** and at that time conquer a significant portion. So some 'ulama say this prophecy has been fulfilled already by Muhammad ibn al-Qāsim and those that were with him. Some of them say that it could also be referring to the man known as Yamīn al-Dawlah, Mahmūd al-Ghaznawī.

**[58:46]** And this is about three centuries later, right at the turn of literally like the year 1000 Gregorian, okay? Where, you know, there was a significant battle at the frontier of what is al-Hind at the time

**[59:03]** and a significant, you know, victory that some of the 'ulama would say, perhaps this is referring to it. And many of the scholars say this is referring to something at the time of 'Īsa alayhi assalam, not just in terms of the category of the hadith, but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is also indicating that this happens around the time of 'Īsa alayhi assalam as well, right?

**[59:23]** The point is, I'm only mentioning this, that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about the righteousness of that group of people. He spoke about the righteousness of people that would be worthy of these various battles, these various frontiers,

**[59:38]** and he gave the Sahaba this map of the world coming into the light of Islam. Where do we go from here? Now, the next set, insha'Allah ta'ala, from a historical perspective,

**[59:54]** we'll just talk about the natural disasters the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned, some of the specific historical tragedies that he said would happen alayhi assalatu wa assalam, and then you go to the behavioral trends, the various trends. So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam talks about corruption of the ummah and the specific ways that we have to avoid

**[1:00:11]** falling into that corruption as an ummah. But the point that we take from all of this, number one is sadaqa Rasūlullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam told the truth. And so any Muslim that gives into pessimism is not reading the history of their Prophet

**[1:00:27]** alayhi assalatu wa assalam. And just as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam prophesied impossible victories back then, we should not feel like when we're reading about victories today and we read about coming out of a state of oppression and vulnerability today that there is any doubt whatsoever.

**[1:00:44]** So we should have faith in what our Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us. Number two, that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about these victories in terms of moral victory, in terms of not being oppressors, not being tyrannical as those that were tyrannical

**[1:00:59]** and oppressive towards us, and that everything follows in terms of barakah, in terms of blessing after that. Number three, where are you in the promises of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when it comes to this ummah? When it comes to the victory that Allah 'azza wa jal

**[1:01:18]** has promised to this ummah coming out of the shackles of oppression, not to become oppressors in any way whatsoever, but to be agents of righteousness, agents of divine change. Are we thinking in the same ways

**[1:01:33]** that Saladin used to think, that Muhammad al-Fatih thought before him? Are we thinking in the same ways that they are thinking in that process? We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow us to not be predictors of the collapse of the ummah

**[1:01:52]** or agents of corruption within the ummah, but to allow us to be people that the promise of Allah 'azza wa jal and the righteous things that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam promised are achieved through their hands. We ask Allah 'azza wa jal to make us vehicles of truth. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

**[1:02:07]** to not make us signs of the hour, but instead to make us ambassadors of the Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam and extenders of his light alaihi salatu wa sallam. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to remove from us the diseases of cowardice, the disease of comfort,

**[1:02:24]** the disease of being paralyzed, the disease of materialism and abundance, the disease of loving the world too much and not looking towards the hereafter. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to remove from us the fear of our enemies and to put in us instead

**[1:02:40]** the awe of Him subhanahu wa ta'ala and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect our deen and to protect our families as the fitna unfolds. Allahumma ameen. Insha'Allah ta'ala as I said, next time we'll cover some of the historical instances

**[1:02:56]** that happened that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned of collapse and then the trends that will follow from there and we'll spend quite a bit of time with the trends, the genres of trends that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned of the signs of the hour. Barakallahu feekum. Subhanakallahu wa hamdik. Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah anta. Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayka. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

**[1:03:15]** you

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