Prophet's Last SermonIt was there that he, while sitting on his
camel, delivered his sermon in a loud voice to his people. He began by
praising God and thanking Him, and then turning to the people, he said:"O
Men, listen well to my words, for I do not know whether I shall meet
...you again on such an occasion in the future. O Men, your lives and your
property shall be inviolate until you meet your Lord. The safety of your
lives and of your property shall be as inviolate as this holy day and
holy month. Remember that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that He
will indeed reckon your deeds. Thus do I warn you. Whoever of you is
keeping a trust of someone else shall return that trust to its rightful
owner. All interest obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your capital,
however, is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer
inequity. God has judged that there shall be no interest and that all
the interest due to `Abbas ibn `Abd al Muttalib shall henceforth be
waived. Every right arising out of homicide in pre-Islamic days is
henceforth waived. And the first such right that I waive is that arising
from the murder of Rabi'ah ibn al Harith ibn `Abd al Muttalib. O Men,
the devil has lost all hope of ever being worshipped in this land of
yours. Nevertheless, he still is anxious to determine the lesser of your
deeds. Beware of him, therefore, for the safety of your religion. O
Men, intercalation or tampering with the calendar is evidence of great
unbelief and confirms the unbelievers in their misguidance. They indulge
in it one year and forbid it the next in order to make permissible that
which God forbade, and to forbid that which God has made permissible.
The pattern according to which the time is reckoned is always the same.
With God, the months are twelve in number. Four of them are holy. Three
of these are successive and one occurs singly between the months of
Jumada and Sha'ban. O Men, to you a right belongs with respect to your
women and to your women a right with respect to you. It is your right
that they not fraternize with any one of whom you do not approve, as
well as never to commit adultery. But if they do, then God has permitted
you to isolate them within their homes and to chastise them without
cruelty. But if they abide by your right, then to them belongs the right
to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat your women well and be kind
to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers. Remember
that you have taken them as your wives and enjoyed their flesh only
under God's trust and with His permission. Reason well, therefore, O
Men, and ponder my words which I now convey to you. I am leaving you
with the Book of God and the Sunnah of His Prophet. If you follow them,
you will never go astray. O Men, harken well to my words. Learn that
every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims
constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim
which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and
willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to your own selves. O God,
have I conveyed Your message?"When the Prophet finished his
sermon, he dismounted and waited until noon, at which time he performed
both the noon and the midafternoon prayers. He then mounted his camel
and proceeded to al Sakharat where he recited to the people the
concluding divine revelation: "Today I have completed for you your
religion, and granted you the last of my blessings. Today I have
accepted for you Islam as the religion." [Qur'an, 5:4] This
short clip was taken from the Film "Al - Risala" May Allah bless all the
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