The Story of Jibreel Part 1 - The Angel Gabriel - Omar Suleiman

So when we're talking about the angels the prophet saw islam was asked particularly on the night of allah you know there were some people that questioned that journey how he made that journey there are some people that just wanted to know what it was like and a group of companions came to the prophet saws and they asked the messenger What did it sound like you know what did you see and what did it sound like i mean as you're traveling through these galaxies with rapid speed what is it that you heard out there and the

messenger he says he says look i see things that you are incapable of seeing and i hear things that you are incapable of hearing he says said the heavens are creaking means they are shaking Violently and there's a reason why the sound of it is like it's shaking violently the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said because there isn't a space of four fingers except that there is an angel that is that has been created in prostration to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that is doing nothing but declaring his praises so he described the sound of vibration

okay i want you just to listen Quickly to what it sounds like in outer space nasa actually had a recording from outer outer space they put up 16 years ago right before the turn of the millennium and the name of the research was our universe is not silence because there was this idea that if you went out to outer space you wouldn't hear anything except for the moving objects just listen to what it sounds like in outer space Obviously you know that's good enough you guys can't hear everything um but if you get a chance

to listen to it it's actually quite breathtaking and actually one of the researchers who published that research said that it sounds like a billion men doing gregorian chants all simultaneously at the same time subhanallah when i heard that i remember this hadith Of the messenger sallallahu salaam look i see things that you don't see and i hear things that you don't hear and that's a sign of hope for us as well because we're always paranoid about jinn being everywhere and shayateen being everywhere the number of angels compared to the number of jinn is dramatically different

there's a huge difference between how many angels there are out there and how many jinn and devils there are Out there so this is a magnificent creation they you know belief in them is the second pillar of our faith and subhanallah he says the reason why it's the second pillar of our faith is because of jibril because the only reason for example we don't necessarily have well we have to believe in the jinn but it's not necessarily a pillar of faith right can you be a believer without believing in the Jinn no you can't it's

in the quran but it's not a separate category of the pillars of faith the reason being that all of the pillars of faith have to do with the integrity of the message and so the reason why a pillar of faith there's a separate pillar of faith of belief in the imalaika is because of this angel jibril that brings the message to the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam so it Clarifies the integrity of the messenger to the messenger which helps us fully appreciate this message as well and obviously you know allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us many

things about these angels and the thing is is that it's in every culture and every theology you have some form of belief in the angels right in judeo-christian thought you have a belief in in the angels as being a creature A creation that you know can make mistakes they've been reduced to fallibility they can fall so you have a concept of dark angels lucifer the devil and in fact they don't actually separately believe in a category of jinn they're simply demons and dark angels so they do have that category they do have that belief and

within christianity you'll find many different beliefs about Who the specific angels are and what their roles are so for example in mormonism gabriel is actually noah right so you'll find different beliefs as to who they are within christianity and within judaism you'll find that uh in judeo-christian thought as well the angels are created from fire whereas the prophet saw some told us they're created from what from light and that excludes all forms Of impurity and as-says allah chose to create them from the most beautiful creation which is light because that is the cre that is

what he chose to create his hijab from his veil as the prophet saws said allah speaks from behind a veil of light so it's the most beautiful creation and it excludes all forms of impurity And it's a testimony to their infallibility now do they have physical presences as well do they have a physical presence or are they just light right they do have a physical presence and they have a pretty dominating physical presence right and you know a lot of times when you see portrayals of angels because again you'll find them even in in the

thought of confucius there's a belief in Angels even the pagans of mecca believed in angels but they called them what the daughters of the most merciful so if you looked up a wikipedia entry of gabriel for example and you saw the portrayal right and you see the portrayal of most angels in in you know in drawings and in sculpture you'll find that they look like babies and diapers right they're very weak small creatures Right whereas the portrayal that we find in our religion is that this is a strong creation a huge creation of allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala that do as they are commanded that exclude all forms of faults all forms of flaw all forms of impurity just as we testify that the messengers of god all of them abraham noah jesus moses david peace be upon Them all just as we testify that they are all infallible and that they do not commit those those mistakes the angels as well are completely infallible and do not disobey allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with anything that's been given to them as allah tells us that they do not disobey a single command of allah wa ta'ala

they do exactly as they are told however do they love Certain things do they hate certain things do they have characters yes they do they're not robots right so you'll find numerous narrations which talk about what offends the angels and what causes them to come near arguments or debates amongst the angels the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment and jibril as well having a character now what do they look like all right Allah tells us they do have wings not those two little weak feathery wings that you see they do have wings some

of them have two wings some of them have three wings some of them have four wings and allah increases them as he wills now that automatically tells us that they're of different sizes but what would an average angel look like just an average medic All right to give you an idea of just an average angel uh safan abner he narrates that no one enters into his salah this is just you praying in your room thinking that no one's around you thinking that you're all alone except that there are angels the size of mountains that are

praying there with you you think you're in your room all by yourself You've got angels creatures the size of mountains that are there praying with you that are there glorifying allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with you all right what about an angel that has a bigger task then an angel that that you know that belongs to a more elite group of angels how about the bearers of the throne right we mentioned them in our supplications You know we we call them to bear witness at times allah praises this group of angels what do they look like

the prophet salallahu sallam he says i've been given permission to tell you about just one of those angels one of the angels who bears the throne of allah he says said the distance between his earlobe and his shoulder is a journey of seven hundred years That's just from here to here and the narration of ibn khuzeimah the prophet saws said a bird could fly that journey in 700 years so it's not just you walking and taking breaks if a bird just was flying continuously for 700 years he'd only make it from here to here on

one of those angels so how do we even determine who's a bigger angel and who's a smaller angel and what does this have to do with Jibreel says the greater the task the angel has been given the greater the size of the angel so that tells you right away that jibril alaihissalam is even bigger than that he's the biggest of the angels and the greatest in size because he has the greatest of tasks okay jibril alaihissalam also belongs to what's known as the most elite class of The malachi al-mukasimati the scholars traditionally called them as

they are mentioned in the quran those who apportion the command of allah subhanahu ta'ala and they are four the first of them and he is the angel that through him allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it's very beautiful how the scholars classed it they said through him the life of the heart why because he Brings revelation and through revelation our hearts live so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala apportions through him okay so each and every single prophet that received the revelation received it from jibril what's the other thing that does what else does he deal with every nation

that rejects the revelation is also dealt with so anytime you read about a nation and of course allah [Music] that we destroyed them when they oppressed when they transgressed allah never sat jibril to destroy a nation simply because they disbelieved allah sends jibril to destroy a nation when that nation becomes aggressive with the prophet that's been sent to them and the believers that's when allah sends jibreel and jibril deals with them in a mighty way The entire uh pe the people of loop ali that entire city was destroyed by the tip of one of jibril's

wings they were lifted up and they were destroyed by the tip of one of his wings so it shows you the strength of jibril his salam and in that he says that in that is a sign that these angels you know though if allah commanded him to bring the revelation jibril doesn't argue Or debate with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and allah says okay now these people are done they respond to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so when allah tells jibril enough then it's enough all right but through him the the life of the heart spiritual life

who's the second angel that you often hear even mentioned with physical life is a portion that's how The scholars describe him in that sense provision a risk okay provision sustenance uh rain winds is the angel that allah has chosen to move them in certain ways when allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands him to do so so it's a very famous hadith in sahih muslim where a man is walking and he hears a voice coming from the clouds and it says go in water the garden of so and so and the man follows that cloud and Water

would not come out of it until it reached a particular garden and it fell on this man's particular garden that's okay the third the next two actually have to do with death so two of them are in relation to life two of them are in relation to death the next two is who is deals with the taking of people's souls massively or collectively okay Taking the souls collectively how allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created this great angel with one task and one task alone and that is to blow the horn and the prophet saws i

lost my appetite for this world when i saw israel with his lips already puckered to it his eyes gazing at the throne of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fixated like stars waiting for the command meaning the Entire world rests on and that's it and the prophet saws said i lost my appetite any appetite i had for this world i lost it when i saw israel the fourth one deals with the taking of the souls individually what's his name actually that name doesn't exist the angel of death he's only called the angel of death allah and the

messenger sallam referred to him as the angel of Death who's been assigned to you to take your souls when allah wa ta'ala decree so so this group of angels they are al-mukas those that apportion the command of allah they're the most elite class of the angels and the most elite of that class is now what's jibril's name what are how can you say the name of jibril islam what are some of the ways to pronounce His name jibril those are five ways that have been narrated through the various all right okay now obviously the name

is not from an arabic origin right or it's not something that that you know you can you can dissect uh simply by using the arabic language so you go to the origin of that name now what do you keep on hearing you tell Me what you keep on hearing is what do you keep on hearing there's no dispute there about the meaning of the first part of the name though has caused a lot of debate right what does jibra mean what is meka mean the traditional opinion which has been traced to the sahaba tibin abbas

and hussain and many others is that jibra means Means servant the slave of allah subhanahu ta'ala that's the one that you'll find in tafsir tabari and so on so forth that jibra il is abdullah okay and allah which would be the smaller abd you know in in the amongst the companions you'll see abdullah has a younger brother named allah or abdullah has a son named allah that's The traditional opinion however when you study the root of jibra it comes from the root of jabar which means strength which also ties into another description that allah gave

him the one who allah gave a massive amount of strength okay allah allah praises his strength two times allah calls him he possesses a mighty amount of strength so it could either be that Abdullah or the one who's been given an amazing amount of strength from allah subhanahu ta'ala all right so that's his name and that's the meaning of his name now what are some ways that the prophet saws and allah subhanahu ta'ala refer to him this is truly interesting when i started my research the very first day my eyes got big because i started

off with al-bukhari i said first i'm going to take all the Hadith about jabri from al-bukhari the very first hadith i pulled from al-bukhari that mentioned jibreel the prophet saws i was like what i studied kitab the book of revelation a million times and i never paid attention to that when the prophet salallahu was which obviously we usually refer to jibreel as may peace be on to him but the prophet peace be upon him invoked Salawat on him as well prayers upon him as well as the scholars say to show his status amongst those that

the prophet saw islam was referring to the only person that you see the prophet saws do that with other other than jibril or the only creature that you see the prophet saws do that with other than jibril on a frequent basis which was traditionally understood again To show the position of ibrahim alaihissalam or sallallahu alaihi wasallam in our faith right so jibreel sallallahu alaihi wasallam sometimes the prophet saw islam would say that all right another thing the prophet saw islam often doesn't even say his name you know how he refers to him he says the

one who's with my lord right to show how close he is to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah refers to him in multiple ways and i can't go through each and every single time allah refers to jubilee islam it's too extensive of a study inshallah in the future we'll be able to get to it but just the common themes the most common theme that you find is the word spirit or soul okay allah calls him the holy spirit allah calls him the trustworthy spirit the truthful spirit allah calls him Our spirit right which is a means

of veneration in the arabic language when you when you attribute something to yourself it's a means of venerating it so when allah says bait allah the house of allah it's a means of venerating the kaaba likewise allah says about jibril islam our spirit as a means of venerating uh now what does that mean Why is jibril constantly being referred to as the spirit and there is so much beauty to the explanations that are given all right one of them is that jibreel brings what gives a person a soul what settles the heart right in essence

you know anima says allah says weren't you dead and allah gave you life god gives life through what Revelation so in some of the scholars they said that he's called that because he brings that which gives you a soul in the first place which gives you life right and if you dissect where the root letters uh of then it's the same route as raha which is to comfort which is to settle just as the soul settles the body jibril islam brings that which settles the hearts so he's called another one is that The spirit of

something means in the arabic language the best of something it's allah praising the purity of jibril islam like he's the cream of the crop a third one which is the most interesting one and the one that associated chooses and the one that has the greatest evidence to it and it's quite fascinating is that jibril is the first living Breathing creature of allah he is the first creature that's ever been given a soul without any parents without anything without anything to you know any prerequisites to it he was simply brought into existence and he was the

first thing brought into existence with a soul how is he brought into existence you know when babies are born they make all these noises and they Figure things out right they're cute noises sometimes and they're not so cute noises at other times they make all these noises and they start getting to baba and mama or whatever it is that they get to right what about the maraca what about jubilee islam when he was brought into existence what did he say right said as the angels are brought into existence they say There is no power or

might except that of god we have none so as jibril was brought into existence this first soul he said and as these angels are constantly being created because they're perpetually being created they have no gender they have no desires they have nothing to distract them from worshiping their creator they all come into existence saying So that's one interpretation is that he's the first and there's some evidence to that inshallah ta'ala which hopefully i'll get i will get a chance to mention inshallah in a few minutes also allah calls him what rasulullah that he's a noble

messenger just as the prophet that's been sent to you is a noble messenger the messenger that's been sent to him is Also a noble messenger allah says allah says he possesses mighty strength and why would he need to possess mighty strength i mean think about it allah speaks to him directly with revelation and then he has to guard that revelation from anything that tries to interfere and then he deals with those that reject revelation so he has to possess a mighty amount of strength and allah says He is stable in his position with the owner

of the throne the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that resides directly under the throne of allah so he's stable in his position allah says he is obeyed lovingly and he's trustworthy and subhanallah some of the scholars even connected and ameen together Okay what is it that made the prophet slight song so beloved to people before being a messenger of god his truthfulness his trustworthiness so some of the scholars say likewise none of the angels you'll find this in the dynamics of the conversations between jibreel and the rest of the angels they love him they obey

him they trust him they don't question him they recognize that he is their leader And he's beloved to the rest of the angels they know his position with allah and so they all love him and they all obey him allah also says about jibril that he is completely free of fault and even if allah was to praise a certain quality of jibril then you could still have all of those impurities that have been associated to him by other people so allah decided to defend jibril by just simply saying he is free from All imperfections so

he embodies perfection in body mind and soul his size and his beauty right and there is absolutely no deficiency in jibril islam allah has created him with absolute perfection the last name that i'm going to give you guys and then we'll move on because of time is not necessarily a name from allah or The messenger sallallahu alaihi sallam it's from the cousin of khadija when the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam went to khadija and then khadijah said let's go to waraqah who knows the bible and he knows the scriptures before and let's see what he says

about this encounter of yours this is who was sent to musa now the word namus is an interesting word It's interesting that he chose that word what does the word jazoos mean in the arabic language billionaire students none of the being a student said anything that's that all right jesus means spy okay jesus means spy all right is there anyone in here jesus you know he used to say allah and the angels send their prayers on the second row not the first row because all the jealousies all The jesus are in the first row all

right no offense guys in the first row all right now jesus is a spy what is the technical meaning of jesus it's a person who carries an evil secret all right jesus is someone who has an evil secret why did waraka call him namus namus is someone who carries a beautiful secret he's concealing a beautiful secret Which is the secret of revelation so those are the ways jibril islam is referred to in the quran and the sunnah what did he look like now jibril took on multiple forms right he took on a human form sometimes

he take on an angelic form but it wasn't his full form so the prophet saws would see a light and he would hear the voice of jibril likewise the prophets before but they weren't seeing jibril in his full form What does he look like when he's in his full form the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says and he had 600 wings not two or three or four 600 wings not only that the prophet saws said he filled up the entire horizon and he was sitting on a throne that allah provided for him and the prophet saws

said not only are those 600 wings spread out He said there are constant rubies and pearls falling from his wings it's just a plethora of rubies pearls and all of these precious things falling from the wings of jibril in a narration ahmed the prophet saws the color of his wings are green and the souls of his feet are green can you imagine how beautiful of a of a sight that was for the prophet saws and Of course a horrifying sight as well because of house how huge jibreel is the prophet saw islam only saw jibril

in this form twice it's a very hard sight to grasp it is a very magnif you know it's it's a huge thing to grasp jibreel in his original form that's what he looks like in angelic form all right unparalleled by any of the angels okay what does he look like in human Form now jibreel can assume multiple human forms he can look different okay but when he came to the prophet's life in him he had a consistent human form now i'm going to give you guys the full hadith from because it's beautiful how the prophet

saws is explaining to the companions after isla after islam how they look he said i saw musa and he said musa islam looked like a man from shanu ah Or azot two tribes shanu ah what is the prophet's license i'm talking about shanu ah and azut are two african tribes not only are they african tribes azult were were a tribe that had darker skin than anyone else the prophet's saws is speaking to a people who are emerging from one of the most racist societies on the planet and he's telling them that look musa doesn't look

like christian bill All right looks like one of those people that you guys actually used to look down upon the man who allah spoke to kalimullah directly the man who's mentioned more times in the quran than anyone else is a dark black man deal with that if you're racist right so the prophet saws says that's what moosa looked like and actually in one narration he pointed to al-badi he Pointed to some of the bedouins said look that's what musa islam looked like all right so that you get a good idea of it okay secondly he

says islam and he said isa looks like he pointed to masood and he said isa resembles and then he said ibrahim and i saw ibrahim who did ibrahim look like he said i've never Seen a man that looked more like me than ibrahim never and subhanallah what's so profound about that if you go and you look up the physical description of abraham from purely judeo-christian sources here's how he's described obviously the samara of the prophet saws the descriptions of the prophet peace be upon him are far more extensive but what did abraham look like from

Judeo-christian sources broad shoulders long black hair that almost reached his shoulders a thick black beard that had gray hair sprinkled throughout it and deep black eyes that's a description of abraham the prophet saws he saw uthman of the allah and he told the wife of uthman who was his daughter he said no one looks more like your father Rasulullah and your grandfather ibrahimo islam than your husband uthman if man looked like the prophet saws who looked like ibrahim okay and subhanallah actually you know if you read in the history of the footprints in ibrahim some

people actually commented that they matched the footprints of the prophet saws so even his foot size would be the same as ibrahim okay Then he said to jibril and i saw jibril and he said jibreel looked like [Music] you guys are like who is that ibn is a very interesting man how many of you have heard of before right not many of you is not a household name all right from the companions of the prophet saws but he was there in all of the razawat he served in all of the battles with the prophet sallallahu

Alaihi wasallam he was there at the time that jibreen presented himself to a large group of companions which completely puts to rest anyone saying that derek was posing as jibril he was there when jibril came in human form amongst many of the companions of the prophet salallahu jabra islam didn't look exactly like derek but if you saw him up Close all right he looked almost like him but you could tell if he was in front of you directly in front of you that he's not but who is deria all right why is it that jabril

chose him was called the yusuf of benue what did yusuf islam what did the women comment about yusuf islam that had the melakun kareem this is a noble this is a beautiful angel right so dichya was called the yusuf of Benue women could not keep their hands off of deja vu all right which is why dirhya used to stay away from public sight for the most part because women would throw themselves at the allah and the prophet's life sallam in his wisdom you know if and i happen to come across this actually i found de

he has mentioned the prophet salallahu sent Him to hiraculus okay and even allah said because of how handsome derek is when he went to heraculus in jerusalem to the romans he caused the ruckus in the city everyone came out to see him right so everyone wanted to know what the messenger of the muslims looked like what the messenger of the messenger salallahu salaam looked like so deria is a really really good looking man all right And jibreel islam does he have the form of i mean how close is it it's so close that um one

time i was sitting with the messenger's license and all of a sudden i didn't you know she didn't even hear the door open and close she just saw her sitting next to the prophet saws so she said i just left right and then the prophet saws you know he came to me And i didn't hear the door open or closed again so it's not like he left again he came to me and he says mother ate what did you see she said i saw dehyah so she said that the prophet saws he smiled then he

caught then he stood on the on the men but he stood on the pulpit and he said just came to me and she said that's when i realized that that wasn't Right so he looked strikingly similar to the however how is it did you always look like de here so when he went to maryam did he look like deja when he went no when jabra was sent to a prophet he would resemble the most beautiful person of that prophet's people so if he was sent to an african prophet he resembled the most beautiful person from

that people when he if he was sent to an asian prophet He resembled the most beautiful asian man that was amongst those people he resembled whoever was the most beautiful amongst them subhanallah as a sign of his nobility so it's not a consistent form but when he was sent to the prophet saws in human form this is what he looked like just that absolute perfection the most beautiful man that was amongst the arabs of that time now how old is Jibreel islam what is his age right we said that one of the opinions is that

he is the first creature that's been given a spirit what is the evidence for that statement it's the authentic hadith of the prophet salallahu when allah created paradise and hellfire he sent jibril to go look at jannah which tells you that jibril was there before jannah or hellfire even Existed now obviously human beings and jinn don't come don't come into the picture until after the creation of heaven and hell all right and obviously jibril is the chief of the angel so it makes sense that he's the first of them that's created so this is our

first encounter now that we see between jibril and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allah creates paradise and hellfire and he sends jibril to go look at Paradise and he says he says go look at it and see what i've prepared for the inhabitants of it now there aren't no one's been created yet but allah says go look at it and see what i've prepared for those that will eventually enter into jannah and subhanallah what's profound about that you know that new car smell that new house smell right now with janna obviously it always Has the new

gender smell it always is new right it just never gets old right but jibril is the first one to feast his eyes on that place with its rivers and palaces and mansions and subhanallah everything that he saw so jibril comes back to allah subhanahu ta'ala with a sense of excitement and he says he said i swear by your glory oh allah no one's going to hear about this place Except that they're going to enter it i don't care who they are what kind of creation they are no one's going to know that a place like

this exists and miss out on it right then rasool allah said allah surrounded jannah with obstacles hardships it's not that easy he wanted to show jibril it's not like that he sends jibreel back to jannah to look at it again jibreel comes back the first time he was Excited the second time he's word he says he said i swear by your glory now i'm afraid no one's going to get into jannah right how are they going to get past these hardships and these obstacles then allah salaam to look at hellfire and he said look at

it and see what i prepared for its inhabitants jibreel came back to allah and he says He said i swear by your glory no one's going to hear about hellfire and enter it when people know what hellfire is like they're going to make sure that they avoid the things that would cause them to enter into it so no one's going to enter hellfire then allah surrounded hellfire bishop with desires and ease tests trials in a different way right with goodness jibril goes and he looks At it and he comes back to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

and he said he said i swear by your glory now i'm afraid no one's going to be safe from hell fire now what this shows you right away by the way is that jibreel has a love for the people of iman he has a love for the people of faith before they've even been created how did allah put jibril to ease allah the believers have succeeded those who Have humility in their prayers the secret of your success was already put in the moment that hellfire and paradise were created before you were created salah was made

the determining factor your prayer allah tells jibril no not everyone will enter into hell fire the believers who have humility and their prayers they will enter into paradise they will be saved and they will enter into paradise subhanallah it Starts from there but this tells us something about jibril from the very start right what he's like his character in that regard his love for iman now what is the relationship then between allah and jibril number one he is he is the one that allah speaks to from the angels now you might be thinking to yourself

doesn't allah speak to all of the angels no Just as there are particular human beings that allah speaks to directly there are particular angels that allah speaks to directly so he speaks to al-mukasimati umrah all four of the angels we mention that apportion the command of allah there are narrations of direct communication between allah and them but allah always speaks directly to jibril so for the other angels allah might send jibril to them right Even the others of al-mukasimati amra those that apportion the command of allah allah never sends another angel to talk to jibril

allah speaks to jabril directly then jibril goes out and delivers the message to the rest of the angels so he is kalimullah from the angels with the prophets and we see that frequently and many hadith will cover Allah calls right whereas never the opposite where someone else was sent to judea with the other prophets of allah there is not a single prophet of allah that you study except that there is a mention of jubilee seriously just go through the stories of the prophets you'll find the mention of jibril in some way shape or form he's

got to be there because he has been sent to 124 000 prophets In the hadith of in muslim imam ahmed there were 124 thousand ambiya amongst them 315 were messengers he has been sent to each and every single one of them to teach them to raise them to support them to protect them he was there he's got a first-hand account what is another title that he has with them he is not he's the one who supports the prophets he aids the prophets he doesn't just aid them by bringing Them revelation he plays a multitude of

roles in all of their lives in fact if you go through them quickly like where are the narrations that mention islam i'm not going to go into detail with any particular prophet story but just some highlights to get an idea and then we'll move on to the prophet sallallahu alaihi with adam alaihissalam there are narrations that mentioned jibril was the angel that allah sent To gather the dirt that would be used to create adam are any of them sahih in and of themselves no but that shows you where the mentions of jibril come that early

on in the very creation of adam when adam alaihissalam was expelled from paradise did allah communicate directly with adam anymore did he no now jibril becomes the the the intermediary between allah And admiral in jannah adam al-islam was spoken to directly that actually is probably a greater blessing that was taken away from him than jannah that adam used to be spoken to directly from allah when he left paradise allah started to send jibril to him only jibril became the means of communication to adam one atom passes away they didn't know what to do with his

body obviously Because human beings had never experienced death before allah and a group of angels they washed the body of adam al-islam so he's there from the very start even with adam you also find the narrations obviously that mention him with idris who is enoch the son of sheaf the grandson of adam and adries what you can take from the narrations about him is that he's a man With he's a man with high ambitions that you know is very prone to calling people to good and forbidding evil aware of the first one to write with

a pen and so on so forth a person who loves dawah there's a very famous narration about that idris wanted to know how much time he has left why did he want to know how much time he Has left because you know you know for people for most people it's that you know you want to party it up until the last day like if you know the date of your death well okay you know i'm gonna party it up and then on that day toba right just have it on your calendar repent then die right

it doesn't work that way right is that why there's wanted to know the date of his death No drisa islam wanted to know the date of his death or he wanted to know how much time he had left because of his aspirations of dawah because of his he wanted to know how to adjust his goals accordingly so he tells jibreel to find out for him and the reason why i mention this narration right now is because one thing to note about djibril as well he is the only one that can take a prophet through the

heavens and bring Him down he's the only one that can ascend or descend with any of the prophets of allah through the heavens he takes idris salam and he ascends with him and in this you know and in these athar which are primarily from the people of the book he meets the angel of death in the fourth heaven and in the fourth heaven jibril islam asked the angel of death That this is the servant of allah idris and he wants to know how much time he has left and the angel of death says you know

i was amazed when allah told me to take this man's soul in the fourth heaven so he dies in the fourth heaven even who obviously is the most strict of hadith he says that these narrations are strengthened and corroborated by the evidence from the prophet saws in them that when The prophet saws and then went on the night of the islam where did he meet idris in the fourth heaven so idris is the only man that ever died in the heavens right and allah and that's one of the interpretations of what of that we raised

him to a high position and biblically enoch dies in the fourth heaven okay so it's corroborated by the Evidence from the messenger as well so you find that mention of jibril responding to the request of a prophet taking him through the heavens to meet allah or to meet the angel of death to help him to answer his requests the most the most mentions of jiber islam with any previous prophet are with ibrahim and his family so ibrahim who is subhanallah mentioned so highly By the prophet salallahu this is this is the middle of ibrahim this

is the religion the way of ibrahim salam you'll find the mention of jubilee islam with ibrahim on numerous occasions you find it from the moment that ibrahim was thrown into that fire now ibn abbas says when ibrahim was to be thrown into the fire all of the angels wanted to help him was waiting for a command from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to put the fire out I mean allah could have easily just caused it to storm and the fire goes out all of the angels are waiting and wondering why there is a delay in the

command to do away with the fire or to protect ibrahim islam so jibril comes to ibrahim and he says is there anything you want me to do for you ibrahim knows why jibril is asking that question he says he said look if it's from you i Don't want anything from you he said if it's from allah then okay he recognizes that jibril was not given a command from allah to put the fire out so if it's from allah then i'll take it if it's from you jibril look allah has a plan right so jibreel is

telling ibrahim lima why don't you just ask him just ask allah it'll all be dealt with allah knows my situation his knowledge of my situation Makes it irrelevant for me to ask now that's not for us that's for the prophets of allah meaning allah knows god knows what's happening right now so abraham knows that you know what allah is going to make a way out of this all right so jibril islam wants to help him and that's actually the origin of the words according to of the love and masood and many of the companions of

has to be Allah that ibrahim was the first one in that situation to say allah is enough for me and he's the best of protectors and obviously the plan of god the plan of allah was what that the fire wasn't going to burn abraham kuni bardan was cool and peaceful on ibrahim islam so we see it there right we see it from that moment in the fire ibrahim islam moves on He goes to you know hajj ali islam comes into the picture isma'il is born then obviously allah commands ibrahim to leave them in the desert

then comes the very long one of the longest hadith actually in sahih al-bukhari is this hadith where the prophet saws mentions hajjar running from you know from from safa to marwah running around carrying her baby ishmael looking for Anyone to help her she's in an abandoned place there's no one there right and the prophet saws says all of a sudden she heard a fakalet akbil in canada she said come forth if you have anything good to offer so the prophet saws says suddenly it was jibril then the prophet saws did this all he did was

this he struck the ground with his heel This is called hadith which means a hadith that has a signal in it hadith that has he just struck the ground so every narrator of this hadith had to do that by the way even abbas said he just did this and sure said he just did this and every single narrator says he just did this when jibril did that the water obviously started coming from the earth And in in you know in huge loads zamzam comes bursting out of the ground and the prophet saws may allah have

mercy on the mother of what she did was she carved out the well because she was afraid that the water would go all over the place and nothing would be left and the prophet saws said had she not done that then the entire earth would have been touched by zamzam Each and every single part of the earth now subhanallah think about the miracle of zamzam right you know how big it is in dimensions eight by three it's only eight by three if any of you have ever seen zamzam ever gotten a chance to actually go

down there and see it it's only eight by three it's a very small well if you see how they fill the coolers now in the haram they've got literally they've got hoses That are connected to zamzam and they're constantly filling up the coolers all of that till today you are drinking from the foot of jabra from that moment that jabra did this with his strength allah has caused that well to constantly produce talk about a wonder of the world now scientifically i need to mention this because this is phenomenal zamzam is only eight by three

and in an official research that was done on Zamzam it pumps 8 000 liters per second 8 000 liters per second that means 691 million liters per day think about how many millions of gallons i mean you know subhanallah people are constantly drinking from it it has never dried up that's just from the strike of judea's foot okay you're still drinking from it till now so that's your connection to jibril Until today subhanallah now obviously that's what this is so he bails them out ibrahim alaihissalam on the other hand has settled now with sarah and

they've come to this acceptance that you know what we're just not going to have kids was 100 years old around that age sarah his wife was 10 years younger than him so that would make her about 90 years old And they've kind of just they've accepted now that we're not going to have kids they've they've settled they're okay with it she's barren that's that's it it's the father of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now obviously ibrahim lives a very long life extreme historically speaking ibrahim al-islam outlived his wives he outlived his children he outlived many of

his grandchildren He resettled in philistine in khalid okay he got married again over there he had six children and he's buried there so if you were to put a timeline on abraham's life on ibrahim's life it's a very very very long life that he lived okay now what happens in this situation now as they've kind of settled and gotten used to this allah says The noble guests of ibrahim come to visit him who are the noble guests of ibrahim they definitely included jibreel according to most of the scholars it included mikhail and malik the angel

of death as well so it's israel because israel has another job to do but a group of guests some angels come to visit ibrahim They don't announce themselves they don't say that they're angels but they just appear to be strangers just walking through wayfarers ibrahim sees them as they come is they say ibrahim doesn't say who are you right islam says which according to is like if someone says to you when you say he greeted them with an enthusiastic salam like go ahead come on in guys have a Seat right it wasn't like you know

nowadays you don't say salaam to someone unless you know them right it's one of the signs of the day of judgment and you know what's a greater sign of the day of judgement is new york where you don't greet someone unless you know them right you can't even say hi how are you to someone unless you know them okay but salaam is something that's taken away Allah is showing us the adab of ibrahim he tells these guests come on in have a seat guys he goes and he tells sarah we've got guests carrying this huge

meal this huge roasted cow right cooked done well you know a huge portion he puts it on the table and you know this is his his generosity towards them but what happens The true definition of awkward silence they just look at him these angels cannot eat they physically cannot eat even when they appear to be human beings allah has completely taken desire away from them completely taken food and drink away from them so what is islam do you know in some cultures the appropriate thing to do there are some parts of the world that where

they actually put the food on the Table and the hosts leave and they let you finish the food and come back so that you're not shy and in some cultures primarily arab desi culture they open your mouth and just force it down your throat right no takara right just eat right and you actually have to like hide or you got to eat at a really slow pace unless you want to eat like four plates of maklov or biryani right it's it's a bit shameful if you don't do That right he has good adap he has

good manners so he doesn't do that he just he just pushes the tray closer to them they still didn't touch the food it's still an awkward silence he says aren't you going to eat now in that situation was there a conversation that took place according to the allah narrations from him and said and others at that point the angels In order to make an excuse for themselves they said look we don't eat things unless we pay for them so ibrahim said fine go ahead and eat it and then pay later they said what's the price

how much does it cost he said that you start bismillah in the name of allah and that you end in the praise of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so there is an apparent way out right for ibrahim islam that he Made so the angels now say nothing at that point what does allah say i mean think about if you were in the place of ibrahim islam you just serve the generous meal and they're just kind of looking they're looking at you like can't do anything about that right at that point ibrahim alaihissalam became scared on the

inside notice finepsy he didn't say anything it was inside of him at that point the Angel said okay fine don't be afraid on top of that they gave him the glad tidings of a knowledgeable young son this old man and his old wife by the way allah has the knowledgeable young son that's on the way this is something to take place in the future in fact many of the scholars say the angels were not going to give him the bushra at that time they weren't going to give him the glide tags at that time But

to put them to ease bashar will be okay now sarah is listening in from the other room because she's getting scared too now because these guys aren't doing anything so they must be up to no good as soon as they say that what happens she comes screaming hysterically slapping her face he's old how that badly he can't have kids i can't have kids What are you talking about how's this happening you know what's going on here now jibreel is the one who's speaking now because jibril is the one who gives the bushra of the child

in the first place so jibril always answers with one word first cadalic look it's just like that and alcor to be says because that's the terbi of the malaika that's how the angels were raised They don't ask those types of questions how is this happening allah decided it's going to happen it's just going to happen cathartic look it's just going to happen that way and they say to her that your lord is hakim he's most wise and most knowledgeable usually it's most knowledgeable most wise but it's switched around because the scholars say she wasn't questioning

the knowledge of allah she's questioning The wisdom of why this is happening now why now after all these years hazard comes into the picture then she's left behind with this man why now look it's that's the way it goes now notice ibrahim didn't do anything right at the most the narration say he said alhamdulillah he praised allah he thanked allah but there is no flipping out like oh my god i got the news of a kid Yes finally this is happening none of that nor is there how's this happening why is this happening he's watching

his wife argue ibrahim over why this is happening ibrahim is is calm and how calm is he he notices something that you really wouldn't notice in a moment of shock like that he says that's nice but what are you angels really up to because ibrahim recognized that if this was a bushra of A child if this was the glide tyings of a child it would have just been jibreel what are the angel of that what's the angel of death doing here and what's the other angel doing here why the other angels now el cortobia says

something beautiful here he actually noted why ibrahim islam did not say anything or did not flip out and and you know lose it he says that ibrahim He was used to strange things happening to him in life he knows people that sit on roller coasters and nothing phases them right they've been on every roller coaster in life anyway right ibrahim has been thrown into a fire and it didn't burn him right he was to slaughter his son and his son turned into a realm he's seen so much in his life that he has this tawakkud

and allah this trust In allah that you know what it is what it is alhamdulillah and he was used to it so he simply says what are you really up to and they said inna ur sidna ilaq we have been sent to a transgressing people we have been sent to the people of lotari his nephew the only person that believed in the prophet saw islam that believed in the prophet ibrahim ali Aside from his wife who went out and subhanallah i mean he's like when the prophet saws called out to his people and he said

i'll support you ya rasulullah luth supported ibrahim very early on and he grew in his own ambitions and he went out to do da'wah in another town nearby so when ibrahim heard that that they were sent to the people of lut what did he do he forget about the child right now he started Arguing with the angels on behalf of islam and they said what look we know loot is there we know the believers are there they're going to be fine it's those that have transgressed and those that have oppressed a beautiful lesson we take

from this by the way as well notice that on the way to destroy a nation they just gave the goliath tidings to ibrahim alaihissalam Of a child that's going to produce nations one of the largest nations on earth bani israel right and in that as ibn al-qayam says if you turn away allah replaces you the irony they're on their way to do away with the nation and they're giving the glide tidings of one child that's going to produce one of the largest nations on earth subhanallah a nation of prophets a nation of ambia and so

on so forth Okay so he plays that role with ibrahimo islam finally when ibrahim and isma'id finished building the kaaba and ibrahim said arena oh allah show us the rituals the prophet saws did the hajj with ibrahim step by step he took him through the monastic of hajj right he walked him through it the same hajj that you do the same heads that was revived by the prophet saws he walked Them through it and one shaitaan tempted him from the places where the jammarat are today jibril is the one who told ibrahim to throw stones

at him and we do that today in commemoration of that moment that jibril told ibrahim throw those stones at shaytan so subhanallah look at that tradition look at that rich legacy that we have from that moment that jibreel is the one who taught ibrahim The hajj in the first place now sometimes the mention of jibreel is not as prominent not as pronounced so for example in the story of yusuf do you ever associate yusuf al-islam with jibril you don't i mean you don't see you could listen to an entire series on yusuf alaihissalam and jibril

never comes into the picture but he is there right and you know one of the scholars he pointed out he said Subhanallah if you look at even the way that allah describes yusuf this is a tafseer tidbit that i can't go into detail with allah says about musa islam that when moses peace be upon him reached his age of maturity with stella which according to muslim scholars 40 years old meaning at that moment that's when allah subhanahu ta'ala gave him uh knowledge and wisdom okay allah gave Him those things done his prophethood started when he

was at that stage of maturity yusuf alaihissalam the ayah says when he reached his age of maturity we gave him wisdom and knowledge to show that yusuf's prophethood started at a much earlier age his journey with allah and jibril islam starts at a much earlier age Where is his first encounter with jibril you know where it is when his brothers threw him into that well and yusuf ali his salam went plunging to the bottom he landed in the hands of a man that he's never seen before jibril caught him to make sure that the fall

was not too harsh on him and subhanallah you think about that comments on that in that is a sign that The creation never catches the ropes except that the creator catches you allah does not lose you allah does not let you go to waste from the moment his brothers cut the ropes he was caught whether jibril even spoke to him at that point whether that's the meaning of that you will one day that we revealed to him that you will one day you know inform them of this affair and you will one day this will

one day come Back to them whether that's the meaning of it or what he was just inspiration here allah it seems to be the latter but still jibreel caught use of islam so sometimes it's very subtle though you don't hear it prominently being mentioned that's a pretty significant role that yusuf did not go crashing to the ground instead allah sent jibril to catch him sometimes you see the Mention of jibril not necessarily with the prophet that's being spoken about in the story but with the enemy of that particular prophet so with musa now realize waraqah

said this is the angel that was sent to musa and there are multiple reasons for that one of them that the prophet saws in them would challenge a tyrant a fir in his own um and would challenge a regime he would challenge a system of Oppression the politics of that time just like muslim did this wasn't about theology this was about replacing a system of corruption and when you do that you're going to be turned out just like musa islam was another one ibn al-qaeda allah says out of all of the prophets and messengers musa

received the most extensive revelation the torah and its origin Was the most extensive it was the greatest revealed in the sense of volume of any book that allah had ever revealed to a messenger the quran was made easy for memorization it is not as thick as the torah was all right so obviously jibril taught musa a lot he was with musa a lot but the most of you know the narration that we see an authentic mention of jibreel in the story of musa is actually With his enemy it's with firaoun and it's authentic hadith that

jibril came to the prophet saws and he told the prophet saws you should have seen me the day that firaoun died now why would jabed even be telling him this is it's a you know like you want to know what i did to fit on the day he died no it's to show the prophet's life i'm like look abu jahad is a mini fire wait to see What happens to him don't worry you should have seen me the day for aunt died prophet salla islam said what happens islam said as he was drowning in the

bottom of the sea he said i went and i found him and i started kicking dirt into his mouth so because i was afraid that he would say la illah that he would repent and allah would have mercy on him what does this hadith tell you about More than jibril islam allah right who knows allah better than jibreel and jibril knows that allah is so merciful that even has a chance and he was afraid that with that one moment of repentance allah would void all of those years of corruption and tyranny and by the way

you know i know that you know we like to compare modern-day dictators to fraud rightfully so But firaoun is the worst right you've got to understand that you know i know and this is the consensus of the scholars right that firaoun is the worst human being i mean he combines all of the worst qualities in a person that's ever been created you know through mankind he's here right and he's the worst of them all and a lot of times people say well this dictator is worse than firaoun no he's Not worse than firaoun sisters come

up and they're like my husband's worse than pharaoh and i'm like a sister once told me that before and i was like dude your husband's gonna cut you up into pieces you better run away if your husband's worse than number one you need a divorce number two you better be scared right your husband's not worse than far own no tyrants worse than firaoun jibril is worried that firaoun has a Chance with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now did you ruin his fate did you really mess it up for him no allah told jabri i swear by

my glory and my honor that lowest if he would have sought forgiveness from me sincerely i still would have forgiven him your putting dirt in his mouth would not have stopped it okay i still would have forgiven him now Here's the thing you might think well why the dirt in the mouth when wicked people die anyway the malay could do what the angels do what ya'ldribuna will do they're hitting them in the face jibril just gave an extra kick to freon like he really hated firaoun why did jibril hate firaoun so much was it because

jabril one day when he was talking to musa islam like you and that angel that Comes to you is that why no listen to what he says to the prophet saws he said i hated him the day i heard him say i am your lord the most high when pharaoh had the audacity to stand up and say i am your lord the most high the the hatred that gibril developed for pharaoh was unprecedented and subhanallah that shows you something about jibril and in Hadith literature sometimes when jibreel came to the prophet saws he did not

say allah says he said the most high says the most high has done which shows the status or or the regard that jibril shows for his lord subhanahu wa ta'ala so sometimes we see it that way lastly with the family of imran sometimes you see it not necessarily with the prophet but with the family of prophethood now We know the story of maryam alaihissalam when maryam was worshipping allah subhanahu ta'ala in her mihrab in her area in the masjid and zakaria alaihissalam every time he got in there he found fruits he found food that was

out of out of season and he doesn't know where this is coming from right and lucky allah gives what he wills to whom he wills when he wills Okay what happened there hunal started to call upon his lord at that moment and he starts to call upon allah showing his weaknesses and things of that sort what does allah say happened the angels actually cut them off here and jibril is the one who gives the bushra is the one who gives the glad tidings gives you the glide tidings of a son not only that he's already

been named he has this quality that quality that quality Allah starts to mention his character his qualities zechariah says wait how is this happening how am i supposed to have a child when i'm old and you know my wife is barren how's this happening what's the answer kadalik number one look don't ask those types of questions allah has decided it it's going to happen and allah creates whatever he wills Okay and in surat maryam i created you in kabul before well you are nothing nothing is beyond allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's power this is what's happened

now you have a child that's going to be born to you now maryam she goes out and she goes out where mccann and sharkriya she withdraws to the east and she would leave that she when she would leave the masjid once a month She would go out to the east and many of the scholars they say that was to appreciate the sunrise she would go and she would watch the sun rise and she would do her thicket and remember allah subhana wa and she would put up a hijab a curtain she'd put two stakes in

the ground and she put up a curtain so that even when she was out in the open it was clearly signified that this is my territory right don't come near She's a young lady 14 to 18 years old you know that's historically speaking if you really want to look at it she's a teenager right and she's worshipping allah alone remembering allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone and what does allah say we sent to her none other than our spirits we didn't send to her any angel we sent to her our jibril [Music] basharaan appeared to her

like a completely proportional beautiful human being you know they measure beauty scientifically through what symmetry right allah says a true a a completely symmetrical human being jibreel was perfect in every sense he appears in the form of a young man now does maryam look at this young man This woman of purity and whatever it is and modesty and say oh man assalamu you know i can't believe he's here right now i don't know who you are but i'm sorry you know i'm worshiping allah can i finish worshiping a lot then i'll come talk to you

she doesn't do all that what does she do before jabril could even open his mouth she says i seek refuge in the most merciful from You if you have any fear of allah i mean if you have any decency inside of you turn around and go away and let's not even talk let's pretend this never happened before just go seek forgiveness from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so sisters if a brother approaches you in the hallway try that with them all right watch what happens even if he doesn't understand arabic he's going to be like all

right i'm not touching that Sister you know but seriously go back to that story and you wonder well why did mariam start talking to jibril after that if she just told him go away and i don't want to talk to you and if you have any decency inside of you just let's pretend this never happened you know why because when she answered jabril with that statement jibreel islam assumed an angelic form jibril Islam in tough he left his human form and he assumed not his full angelic form we said this he assumed an angelic form

a light with a voice whatever it may be and he continued the conversation with her innama rasulullah i am a messenger of your lord that's been that's come to you to give you the glad tidings of a pure son when she starts to argue and says you know how am i supposed to have a son How am i supposed to have a child right i've never even been touched by a man i've never been impure the answer is what allah has decided it's already done cadalic he will be a sign for the people and a

mercy from us and look this is already happening means the execution of the decree the execution of qadhaf Kana amran makhdiyah means what you're already pregnant it starts now this is not from the future it starts now she conceived him fantaba she hides away from her people for a time and she and she stays away from as the pregnancy develops when the pregnancy starts to get to a point where she's going to deliver realize she's a young girl she doesn't have Anyone around her to help her she's never experienced pregnancy before when she's driven to

the trunk of the tree what does she say i wish i would have died before this and been completely forgotten now the uh say the part about wanting to die right because some of you say well can you ask allah that you want to die actually the prophet salla islam said if you're dying you can ask allah and you a believer can Ask allah to speed it up that's permissible and they say that since maryam never experienced pregnancy and pregnancy delivery pushes a woman and the women are like yeah we know right we have no

idea right we just see how women are when they're giving birth okay since pregnancy delivery pushes a woman to the brink of death maryam actually thought she was dying that's one way of looking at it that she was in so much Pain she thought she was dying when she says kuntu nasi and mancia i wish i was completely forgotten why is she saying that because you know people are going to mock the people of iman they're going to mock the people of faith this they're going to mock a family of prophethood they're going to say

look at what she was look at what she was like you know so maryam calls out just Wishing she never existed who starts to talk to her says to her don't you dare grieve don't be sad he starts coaching her through her pregnancy you know you think that you want to you think that you will have a disgraceful mention actually there's a revelation that's coming that's going to say with kitab make mention in the book of maryam You have you have something awaiting you and you have no idea what allah is going to make out

of you allah has and rejoice you know your children your spouses and your children are supposed to be they're supposed to be the coolness of your eyes look at your child not with not with a feeling of regret but with a feeling of happiness Then the next test comes to her that you're not allowed to defend yourself when your people approach you but maryam had full confidence at that point that allah was with her so one maryam approached her people she didn't know how allah was going to defend her she didn't know what allah was

going to do but she had been coached properly and her tawakkul kicked in here her trust in allah that you know what Something is going to happen and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewarded her with that that's when isa ali is sadam spoke in her defense so jibril assumes here now pregnancy coach with maryam he coaches her through her pregnancy reassures her reaffirms her and finally before we break for us with their isa ali salaam allah subhanahu ta'ala mentions numerous allah says We supported him with the holy spirit and allah even mentions it as a favor

favorite i supported you with us with the holy spirit i can't go into detail with that meaning but obviously isa al-islam was supported by jibril islam throughout his life not only that the scholars say the only angel that could take a prophet and ascend and Descend through the heavens is who so when the plot was made to crucify him the angel that was sent to him to take him through the heavens and to place him there until allah subhanahu ta'ala decrees that he returned was jibril okay and that's why subhanallah you know i kept looking

for the meaning of why allah chooses to mention in surat maryam one attack that we do not come down Except with the permission of your lord what is that ayah the prophet saws would grieve when jibril did not visit him for a long time and jibril islam tells the prophet salla islam look we only come to you when allah decrees we can't come when we decree on our own okay we don't make that decision and it's made very personal like it's jibril speaking we don't come unless your lord decrees Why in surat maryam many of

the scholars mentioned because jibril played a prominent role in every single prophet that's been mentioned there think about it zakiriya maryam then it went to isa then it went to ibrahim right then it went to musa then it went to idris then it went to isma'il all of these people jibril played a very prominent role in their lives and so it said to the prophet saws look We only come down when allah decrees and it's with wisdom and when jibril comes down you will be fulfilled and you will be satisfied insha'allah the rest of the

seminar is jibreel with the prophet saws