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And he actually could recall when the Prophet Sysalam was born, some of the rabbis in Medina expressing objection or speaking about the coming of Ahmah that this Prophet had been born, that they had a feeling that this Prophet had been born.

So he remembered quite a bit and he was quite travel.

Now, his role, even as a young person, was to be a poet and Hassan al-Ilah al-Tal'anuh would do nothing but poetry.

And he had a very unique genre of poetry, right? And this is going to span by the way what he's believed to have lived of a total of 120 years.

Okay, 60 years before Islam and 60 years after al-Ilah al-Tal'anuh and his whole life is poetry.

So growing up, all he wanted to do was read poetry, attend poetry, festivals, write poetry.

And eventually he got so good at it that when he's traveling the world, whether it is Damascus or it is the rest of Hashem, Greater Syria or it is Yemen, he is meeting these empires and he's meeting these powerful people.

And they start to pay him to author poetry on behalf of the rulers of those areas.

And so what he does is he authors these poems, but as we said it was a unique genre, all he did was satire.

So if you wanted to ruin your enemies, then you would bring Hassan al-Ilah al-Tal'anuh and he would speak on behalf of the emperors in different places and that was enough to make him a very rich man, in fact.

He would be invited to poetry festivals around the world.

And if you really wanted to put someone down, you hired Hassan al-Ilah al-Tal'anuh to come and to author a poem on your behalf.

So he was actually hired by some of the hypocrites in Medina to go out and see the Prophet S.A.M. and he was older than the Prophet S.A.M.

and to author poems against the Prophet S.A.M.

Instead when it's that happening is he comes out, he sees the Prophet S.A.M.

and he's the most beautiful person he's ever seen. He is the most noble person he's ever seen.

And he falls in love with the Messenger S.A.M. and dedicates himself to being the Shahir of the Prophet S.A.M.

to being the poet of the Prophet S.A.M.

Now we know when we look at the Prophet S.A.M.

did not use to respond in like manner to people.

But Hassan al-Ilah al-Tal'anuh could.

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