Prophet Zachariah (AS)

  • Allah has commanded me five things to perform myself
  • And you should perform; He saidL
  • Number One: You worship Allah and you associate no god beside Him,
  • And the analogy of someone who's worshipping a God besides Allah
  • Is like one of you who bought a slave
  • And you paid for that with your money in gold or silver
  • And then you told the slave to work for you
  • So the slave would go and work and instead of giving you the harvest
  • He would go and give it to someone else
  • Sayyidina Yahya said: Who would accept that?
  • And then he said: Allah SWT is the One Who created you
  • And the one who is giving you; So you should worship no One but Him
  • Number two: I command you to pray
  • And when you stand to pray; Don't turn your face around
  • Because Allah SWT is facing you
  • And as long as you're facing Him; Allah will face you
  • And as soon as you turn your face away;
  • Allah will turn his face away from you
  • And then he said: And I command you to fast
  • And the analogy of that is like someone walking with a sack of musk
  • And everyone is able to smell it
  • And then he said: The smell of the mouth of the person who's fasting
  • Is better in the eyes of Allah SWT than the smell of musk
  • And I command you to give Sadaqah; Charity
  • And then he said: The analogy of that is like a man who is captured by the enemy
  • And they tied his hands to his neck; He's hopeless
  • And they forwarded him to execution
  • So this man during what he's going towards death
  • He's bargaining with them to release him
  • And he's trying to ransom himself with money until they release him
  • By giving Sadaqah and continuously giving Sadaqah
  • We are ransoming ourselves from Hellfire
  • We might be in a hopeless case; Hands tied to the neck
  • Give Sadaqah throughout the way until you die
  • Sadaqah; It's the easiest way to free oneself from Hellfire
  • And I command you to remember Allah; Make Dhikr
  • And the analogy of that is like a man who's pursued by the enemy
  • So he finds a very protective fortress
  • So he goes in it and he protects himself
  • And then Sayyidina Yahya says: And you are in the safest place
  • From Shaytan when you are remembering the name of Allah
  • And at that time there was a tyrant ruler from Bani Isra'il
  • And that leader; That king he fell in love with his niece
  • And his niece was a evil woman
  • And they say that she was also a prostitute
  • And when the king fell in love with her
  • She became also eager to become the queen
  • But how is she going to get married to him?
  • When it's Haram in their Religion
  • So she sent for a Fatwa to Yahya AS asking him;
  • Is it permissible for her to get married to her uncle
  • So obviously Yahya said: No; Haram
  • And some narrations say that Fatwa was also sent to Zakariyya AS;
  • And he said also it's Haram
  • And the narration says: That one night she was with her uncle
  • And she started to play on her uncle which is the king
  • And she tried to attract him; When he came near her
  • She said: No; It's Haram because Yahya says no; It's haram
  • She saudL I will not let you go near me;
  • Until you get me the head of Yahya AS as my Dowry
  • So that king with the hyped up desire and arrogance and pride
  • He sent his troops out to Yahya AS and they went behind Yahya
  • And they killed Yahya AS and chopped his head off
  • And brought the head of Yahya on a golden plate to...
  • The niece of the king as a Dowry
  • And they also; The soldiers of the king was sent
  • Behind Zakariyya AS to kill him
  • And Allah SWT saved Zakariyya in which
  • A tree opened up for Zakariyya when he was running in the jungle
  • He hid in that tree but Iblis LA as some of the narrations;
  • That some of the scholars say it's even weak
  • That Zakariyya AS hid in the tree
  • And Iblis LA grabbed the side of his cloth
  • And left it out in the open
  • That when the soldiers came; Iblis came in the form of a human being
  • And he said: Can't you see the garment?
  • Get a Saw and cut this tree open
  • And that's when they killed Zakariyya AS
  • So Zakariyya AS and Yahya were killed for the most evilness
  • For a niece that's wanting to get married to her uncle for the sake of desires
  • And that was the end of Yahya AS
  • As the scholars say: He passed away in the age of thirty
  • And Zakariyya passed away at the age of hundred and thirty
  • Allah SWT has given Sayyidina Yahya a very very interesting blessing
  • Allah SWT says: And peace be on him the day he was born
  • And the day he dies and the day he will be raised up again

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