Arabian Peninsula before Islam full 10/06/24

  • Queen Bilquees

    • Biggest leader that Saba had

    • Queen of the people of Saba

    • From the time of Suleiman (AS)

    • Mentioned in the Quran

    • Extremely cleaver

    • Calm

    • Collected

    • Took Islam

  • One bird(hoothoot) missing story

    • Had to come with news or would be punished by Suleiman (AS)

      • Came with news that he went to a place where a woman was ruling these people

  • Letter from Suleiman(AS) to Bilquees

    • When she read letter she said give me a verdict on this matter to her "House of commons"

      • They said to take Suleiman(AS) out

      • Bilquees understood that if Suleiman(AS) came then he would destroy everything

    • Letter to invite her to Islam

  • Kingdom of Himyar

    • Tried to replace Saba

    • King Dhu Nawas

      • Embraced Judaism and he was scared that Habasha will take over Yemen so he started to force Judaism

      • Good Christians from Yemen who held onto Tawheed

    • Ariyat came with army and took over Yemen

      • Abraha removed him and took control

  • Arabian Peninsula - Jazeeratul Arab

    • Al Hijaz

      • Makkah, Medinah, Al-Ta-if

    • Tihama

    • Najd

    • Riyad

    • Ar-Arudd

    • Yemen

  • (advice) You can change things in your→community

  • Makkah

    • Ibrahim (as) migrated from Iraq to Sham to Egypt

      • Started by calling father to tawheed

        • Did not embrace Islam

        • Only 3 people believed

        • Lut, Him, Wife

    • Sarah - Very Beautiful lady

      • King of Egypt had bad rep with claiming women

        • Allah paralyzed him everytime he tried to touch her

        • King gave gift of Hajara to Ibrahim (AS)

      • Sarah said to marry Hajara and have children as she was getting old

        • Ibrahim (AS) married Hajara and gave birth to Ismail and Sarah got extremely jealous

    • Ibrahim (AS) left family in the desert

      • Makkah had no greenery

      • Hajara ran 7x between safa and marwa because she thought she saw water

        • Zamzam gushed out

          • Jurhum came by for water

            • Ismail (AS) started to learn Arabic from them

              • He was so eloquent

    • Ibrahim (AS) came back and started building Kabah with Ismail

      • They had a strong father-son relationship

    • Makkah became land of Tawheed

  • Arabic is the language→of every single Muslim

  • Water is the best→Sadaqa

  • Door lock story

    • Ismail (AS) divorced 1st wife and kept 2nd wife

  • Amr Ibn Luhay brought idols from Sham and brought them to Makkah

    • They started to do shirk

    • They believed

      • All is created by Allah

      • Idols will get them closer to Allah

      • Worshipped angels and jinn

      • No ressurection

      • no messenger

      • they could legislate haram and halal