Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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From The Spiritual Tree December 3, 2006

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Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 6482
Al-Sirah al-Halbiya, vol. 1, P. 405
Al-Sirah al-Halbiyah, vol. 1, p. 405
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 4770
Sirah Ibn Hisham, vol. 1, p. 296
Quran 7:22 · Al-A'raf
Sahih Muslim, Hadith no. 6483
Fi-Zilal al-Quran, vol. 1, p. 76
Quran 74:1 · Al-Muddaththir
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 4770
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the false sense of priority defined
“False sense of priority — humanity's whole-history mistake”
2 min 33 sec
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Plato, Marx and Indian leaders chose wrong priorities
“Look at Plato — where did he start?”
5 min 55 sec
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Prophet climbs Safa and delivers his first public warning
“Outside Mecca there was a rock called Safa”
43 sec
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hadith: you will die as you sleep
“By God, you will die just as you sleep”
2 min 24 sec
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Abu Lahab's insult and its real meaning
“Then Abu Lahab stood and cursed the whole day”
39 sec
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Mecca's demand for irrigation and the Prophet's reply
“Mecca's people asked him to remove the mountains”
45 sec
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all humanity is heading to hell, not just kin
“All of humanity is being hospitalized into hell”
57 sec
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Khadija tells Prophet to rest after revelation
“When revelation came, Khadija said rest — he couldn't”
5 min 13 sec
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Hakim Fazlullah forgives the man sent to kill him
“A man was hired to kill Hakim Fazlullah with a giant blade”
3 min 28 sec
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scholars abandoned dawah for politics and lost everything
“I think hadiths had prophesied this very thing”
4 min 22 sec
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from a horse at the ocean's edge to global media
“Uqba bin Nafi rode his horse to the Atlantic coast”
26 sec
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God's mercy rains on those who rise for dawah
“Whoever rises for God's work, His mercy rains down”
3 min 2 sec
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true democracy requires accepting electoral defeat
“Democracy's biggest requirement is accepting defeat”
3 min 48 sec
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why Muslim movements got structure before speed backwards
“False sense of priority applies most to Muslims themselves”
2 min 4 sec
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Hindu teacher refuses to teach without his Muslim student
“In Lahore, a Hindu teacher had a student named Mir Jafar”
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this life is a tiny fraction of eternal existence
“Islam's philosophy: life here is like an iceberg's tip”
2 min 32 sec
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hadith: the pampered man forgets all his past comfort
“Two men will be brought forward on Judgment Day”
2 min 55 sec
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clarifying obedience to parents versus kindness in Islam
“What is the concept of obeying parents in Islam?”