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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. All praise is due to Allah, the one and the unique.

It is He alone that we worship and it is His blessings that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed

and the one who answers the du'a of the weak. We were continuing insha'Allah with a'ala in our series

about the prophets, al-Ambia wa Rasul. And before I go on, the last lecture that I gave I had mentioned

some of the main figures that are mentioned in the Quran by name and also some figures that are

disputed. Over the course of the last week a number of emails came about the fact that I had forgotten

a person. Actually the list was not conclusive, the list was not comprehensive or exhaustive

and I did not mention this person on purpose because I viewed the controversy as being what I

call a dead controversy, a controversy that is not a tangible one and that person was Lukman al-Hissalam,

and Lukman of course is mentioned in the Quran by explicitly my name and yes it is true that one

or maybe two authorities in their very first generation of Islam, the generation of the tabir

own that they mistakenly considered Lukman to be a prophet but in reality pretty much the definitive

statements from the giants, you know even from the sahab, even Abbas and others is very clear

that Lukman is not a Nebi but rather a Hakim, a wise man and that's why Allah says that we gave Lukman

al-Hikma and his advice is generic good advice and so Lukman technically if there's an exhaustive

list then he should be on that one and therefore if you want to add him that there has been a

controversy, I'm not aware of anybody who held this view throughout the last 12 centuries, maybe

there's one or two but the main stream Mufassirin and the scholars of Hadith and those that

comment on these issues, they have come to the conclusion that Lukman was a Hakim, a wise man and

by the way there are some fabricated Hadith about Lukman or Munkar like very very weak and all of

them mentioned that he was a man from Africa, a man from the Nubia and he lived some say that he

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