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