Abdal Hakim Murad – The Prophetic Hajj A Pilgrimage of Mercy
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim hamdulillah or salat wa salam ala
Rasulillah while he was off the heat on her lap. So here at
Cambridge Muslim College we have been offering to the ALMA, at
least the Anglophone Alma, a series of lectures in which we've
looked at a range of the topics that seem to arise necessarily
when we consider the 10 best days, in which we now find ourselves and
the lead up to the hudge the combination of mostly media and of
Muslim life, I better to offer a form of worship that only needs to
be practiced once in our life. And one meaning of which, of course,
is that we need to make sure that we get it right or at least as
good as we can make it the first time around. We have plenty of
opportunities to pray and Assa that's better than the Zohar in
which we were distracted, but with the hudge, perhaps by Allah's
Leave, and his generosity will come again. But it's the first
hajj that is the obligation that we need to study it, to understand
it to recognize its subtleties. And that can sometimes be a
challenge for some of us raised in the west of ideas of pilgrimage.
And indeed, the forms that we see on the Hajj can seem very
unfamiliar, and indeed, unlike anything else that we find in
Islam.
So what I want to do is to look at some of the not the Atacama, the
formal rulings of the Hajj, but some of the as it were Deb
Curtis's, some of which have already been dealt with ably by
Chef Sohail in this series, but also to consider some of the, if
you like, ethical and political consequences and meanings of the
hij which helps us to answer this great question of why the Sierra
is possible. How it turns the improbability of a major world
religion being launched under such hostile circumstances into
something that brings us here today and bring so many millions
to the holy city every year, the miracle of the Sierra.
So I'd like to start with a few thoughts from him and look as
early not that today I'll be going through his book of hedge but I do
want to three, make that atmosphere fragrant a little bit
at the beginning of this session by referring to his works and I'm
going to be referring to a number of other classical works, Hadith
sera and so forth. So let's see how he begins his book Kitab
Estrada al Hajj
secrets of the Hajj Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem
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banal other you imagine that was Salah to Allah Muhammad in OB Rama
will say you will omit will either early he was off be God till
hockey was 30 Till Hulk was the limit as women cathedra. So this
is his de badger they call it is kind of embroidery,
and Exordium in quite emphatic and classical rather Baroque Arabic
rhyming prose that always, particularly for authors such as
emotional as it indicates something of the ethos or the
spirit of the topic. So let's translate this briefly. Praise be
to Allah Who appointed the word of Tawheed to be a protection and a
fortress for His servants. So Hajj directly relates to Tawheed
and made the ancient House a place of recourse for mankind and a
sanctuary
and ennobled mankind
by relating him to his own self, to honor Him, to protect him and
to bless him
and has made the visit to the house and circum navigating it a
philosophy, a protection, or a veil, between the servant and the
punishment.
and blessings be to Muhammad, the prophet of mercy, the savior of
the Ummah, and his family and his companions, the leaders of the
truth, the Lord's of creation, and protect them and bless them
abundantly.
So our first thought, is, why does the Imam choose these particular
qualities he begins by reminding us of tau heyde The Hajj is about
tau heyde.
About Ted you read that
This is a stripping aside all of our other attachments,
taking off the Rolex taking off all of the other treats and
putting on the simple garment, with which we approached the
symbol of the Divine eternity preexistence and everlasting
pneus.
And this towhead is a protection for us. So as we approach the
sanctuary, is no Thurber, this Amna, we find a protection in it.
So that's another thought. Allah subhanaw taala is the Joaquin he
is the more Haman, here's the Hafeez, that protector and the
baits the house represents that so when we claim sanctuary there, as
one could under classical Sharia,
it's a refuge, a sanctuary, a sacrosanct place.
And then Allah subhanaw taala
connected human beings and the ancient house to himself. He calls
the Kaaba, his house Baitul law
in order to, as the Imam says, Out of honoring, and protection, and
blessing.
And then he made it, visiting it and circumambulating it a
protection again, between that protects the servant from the
punishment,
and then blessings to the Holy Prophet. And his companions were
the leaders of truth and the masters of mankind, etc. So that's
the note on which the Imam wishes to initiate us into this sacred
journey and the outward, more armor based understanding of it,
it's about to fade. It's about protection. It's about blessing.
And there is a sense and we feel that the Imam has already touched
quite a deep point here, in which the entry to the Haram The
sanctuary and the proximity to the house. And for those who are there
the holding on to the star, the falls of the Kiswa represents the
human yearning for the protection of the Divine.
We seek Allah's protection.
So this is the Loan Manager while our manager Minca Illa de Lake. As
the Holy Prophet says in his famous there is no place of
rescuing and there is no place to flee but to you.
So we fleet to him for federal Ilan law. The Quran says the Hajj
is an outward enactment of that and so powerful in its symbols in
the Shah air and the air yet, the harem he ate on the unit, in it
are clear signs that a certain alchemy takes place in the soul at
a deeper level than one that we could really express. So the Imam
does indicate and the house greatness is predicated on the
fact that he talks us through the outward forms of religion in such
a way as to indicate something of the inward reconfiguration of our
fractured inner soles that those outward forms bring about. So
let's turn now to towards the end of the book.
And very briefly, list the main headings of his final chapter
where he talks about an adept at ducky while our Amal al Bottineau.
The subtle Curtis's and inner actions
to make an intention is actually an action even if nobody can see
you doing it, because it's something that we will. So they're
considered to be actions as well as interstates to, to take on one
of those interstates through an act of will is itself an act. So
he goes through these and there's 10 of them.
And I'll just summarize them very briefly.
I'll oh well. And they're cool enough aka to halala.
The first of the Curtis's of the hedge is that one's money that one
uses to pay for the hedge is halala.
No good saving up on the basis of the lottery scratch cards that
you've been setting in the shop in order to put a little bit aside
for your hedge and your family. This is important. In fact, the
Imam says it's the most important thing and this question of Halal
is really significant in Islam that are met, and I measure up our
food and our drink and our mescaline, the place we live in is
everything that sustains us in there.
Estonia must come from something that is lawfully ours, and that we
have not transgressed the rights of others in acquiring this is
something that affects the power of the prayer, the validity of
this cat.
All of these basic Arganda of the religion are predicated on this
worship, what is the traditional word for the virtue of
scrupulousness which mainly means making sure that what you're doing
and what you're spending comes from lawful sources and isn't
based on some kind of offending against our laws, rights or the
rights of neighbor or family and so forth. Number two, we're 30
Allah you are when other ALLAH SubhanA betta Salam in Max,
Muhammad SAW Dona and in Masjid Al haram in O'Meara maca well out of
this is something that has a rather different implication
nowadays. The second is that one should not support Allah's enemies
by paying any unlawful tax to them. Because these are people who
bar people from a masjid or huddle.
So whenever the custodians of the Haramain start to add additional
charges that all around the world with a free ala mat immediately
stand up and say, Well, this is exactly what the Imam is saying
you can't tax people's piety and price the poor out of this.
This is number two in a member of azelis List of 10. So, avoid those
obstacles are 30th to us who have a Zed or plead with Neff see Bill
Bradley will in fact mean very tactical Allah is rough.
So this means making sure that you have a balanced approach to your
provision and your arrangements. Nowadays, we might say your
ticketing hotel and so forth, do not
be too mean.
And the kind of people who save money by not having hotel in Macau
and just sleeping on cardboard along with many others just to
save money. This is not the way of honoring the 100 in the house. But
similarly to stay in the Royal Suites at the Hyatt Regency with
the view looking directly down on the Kaaba is not appropriate in
imamo Sally's view of Islam either
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number four is to avoid ugly language,
corrupt, obscene speech and argumentativeness. As the Quran
itself specified, specifies
follow Rafa wala for so Kabbalah G Delafield hajus Allah says in
other words, what you say when you're crammed together in the 120
degree heat on top of a lorry in minab that hasn't moved for six
hours, is not to jostle and to shout and complain and use bad
language because the Hajj is an ordeal it's an austerity routine
that Adam number five, that one should make one's hedge on foot in
federally for the legal of tall, so to the extent that you can go
on foot that is preferable. Nowadays, of course they don't
like you doing that. But it is a very beautiful thing because part
of the traditional spiritual transformation of the Hajj came
about from the fact that it took a long time maybe several months to
get there. So you were steadily acclimatized
to the spirituality of the harem, rather than one day being in
Harrods and six hours later being in Hara fat
the soul needs time to adjust. Service. Allah Yakubu Eliza
Millington, a mammal foliage 10 A pool
so this is that one should ride a beast with a light saddle and not
some kind of expensive complicated Peloquin that protects you from
the sun's rays and so forth. This relates to point number four
really that modesty and not not doing the five star Hajj that some
people seem to like doing you see people and arriving at Arafat and
helicopters sometimes I've seen this and they're doing the Express
hajj and they do an extra sacrifice and they're basically
just going to be there on artifacts and pay for the other
things that they've missed.
A Serbia in your corner rattle hater about thermal stick theory
Muna Xena. The seventh is that even though he has said, though,
don't go as a kind of tramp because that doesn't respect the
house that you should look scruffy.
Be dusty and not care too much about you
or appearance.
Number eight, and y'all for Kobe dabba fillet Johan Mila, Merlot or
tick
number eight is that one should be kind to the animal one is riding
and not make it carry too much. very characteristically Islamic
ethos of course, one would go on Hajj, to read about animals, 1000s
of camels, donkeys, mules, and whatever and part of the act of
the Hajj is kindness to animals. And of course, nowadays with
Islamic environmentalism, it's very often pointed out that the
Haram, for the hammer, which is around the holy cities, represent
places where animals may not be hunted.
Apart from snakes, scorpions,
rabid dogs, and so forth. There's six categories mentioned in in the
Hadith,
because the sanctuary is not just the human sanctuary, but is the
sanctuary for wildlife as well. It's the world's oldest Wildlife
Park, if you like. And this is a precedent for some of the attempts
that are being made nowadays to save rainforest in Malaysia and so
forth. A Tessa, number nine and your Takadanobaba rocketed them
were ylim, econ wajib and Ali, that even if it's not an
obligation for you, you should make sure that you participate in
one of the sacrifices at the end of the Hajj, because this is the
Abrahamic sunnah. And finally, Alicia, and you're gonna talk
about NIFS, being that unfuck a woman nataka.
So that one should be sweet hearted, literally, regarding the
expense, and the the tiresomeness of everything, that you shouldn't
regret it,
that hydro is really expensive. Because it's FISA vanilla, it's
the best journey that you'll ever take. So afterwards, and during
the process, don't feel bad about the state of your bank balance. So
those are the 10 points that I wanted to start with today.
Because I think that they convey something of the sense that the
Hajj is not just a series of outward practices, but it's about
a man belt in as the Imam says, and that is very much what I want
to talk about.
So following on from that, it is interesting to note that this
ishtiaq, Ill beat this longing for the House
that the believer feels that when they think well maybe I'll do 100
this year and then if the believer is really a believer there'll be
accompanying that a series of often quite overpowering emotions
that summarize not so much by the longing for artifacts was Delaford
Gemma art and so forth, but for the house itself. Remember her
Sally says that's the beginning of your Hajj, that's a sign of iman.
And that is of course the login for the divine Hodges all symbols
meta symbols
because the the Kaaba is a law's house,
and the pilgrims are allows guests to your full ramen, that we go to
the old Compassionate, The Merciful to the Divine beloved,
and Rama and Marhaba mercy He loved the describe two aspects of
a single virtue. So very often in our literature, we find the idea
of the Kaaba likened to that of a beloved.
So here's Dr. Dean heirarchy in his lemma arts as an English
translation of this knowledge, so he's a famous 13th century
writer and poet or do these pros, there's 28 of the sparks in the
VOC code. For instance, this is where he's talking about love.
The basic connection between creature and creator,
but not our intent, a few words explaining the waystations of
love.
in tune with the voice of each spiritual state as it passes, I
shall dictate them as a mirror to reflect every lovers Beloved.
But how high is love too high for us to circle the caliber of its
majesty on the strength of mere understanding mere words.
And very often, our scholars and our poets
remind us that the mystery of love itself, love for beauty and
therefore for for the Creator, is something that you really can't
put into words it famously transcends that it's something for
art for poetry that reaches to ishara not through a bar, not
through formal terms and somebody who has not experienced it will
never really be able
To know what one is talking about,
and that this is analogized to the mystery of the Hajj. The Hajj can
be really mysterious.
What is the meaning of the Kaaba? Why is it cubic? Why is the hedger
of Ismail though? Why seven dwarfs? What is the say? What it
everything seems to be unlike everything else that we do in the
religion
and for the poet's. This is because it's about love. It's a
journey of love and this ishtiaq, this longing for the house with
which it begins is an indication of that. So, throughout our
literature, this is the most frequently used metaphor for the
the journey of, of Mahatma and of Asia. But that's not actually what
I wanted to
talk about today. Instead, I'm interested in
looking at the role of the Hajj in the story of the Prophet's life
alayhi salatu salam, the Sera.
One of the problems I think the OMA has nowadays is that very
often, we memorize Quran perhaps we memorize Hadith, we learn FAAC.
But we don't engage I think as much as we used to in Sierra
although the Sierra is the kind of putting into practice of
everything else. It's through the Sierra that you get a sense of
where each part of the Quran was revealed, and in which context,
it's the Sierra that gives you the sense of where the great Hadith
were spoken. The theater shows you the film The Shetty out, and they
also put into practice the spirituality put into practice. So
you can't really study Islam unless Sierra is right at the
heart of it. And of course, it's the greatest story ever told. You
can neglect it for six months and then open a book of Syrah and
immediately it grabs you want to know what happens next. It has
that captivating effect when my children were little on long car
journeys. Yeah, the cassette back sometime in of Chef Hamza use of
sera series and they would stop fighting and stop yelling, sit.
What happens next company of the next gusto even though they were
small, it's it has a kind of captivating quality. It's an
iconic, ancient epic. So we shouldn't deprive ourselves of
that great story and think we'll look at Netflix instead or
something. Some story board writer, probably a committee of
about 10 people who are not really interested in providing human
enlightenment or upliftment, but simply have studied statistical
analyses of what makes people want to watch things, what kind of
violence what kind of * scene what kind of what did the actors
have to look like, is very stylized and very cynical. Why
should we prefer that over the story of
the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Hajj I think is
enriched for us. If we do recall, the pilgrimages of the Holy
Prophet salallahu, alayhi, wasallam, in their context, the
context of the hero in the context of the conquest, the context of
his life. So one thing that I want to look at
is
the conquest of Makkah, in particular.
In the context of the history of diplomacy,
we've been thinking about this recently, history is a story of
armies, clashing, and marriages, but it's also the story of
negotiations and coos of various cunning kinds. So
one place to look at this might be non Muslim writer, Montgomery,
what,
okay, little bit long in the tooth, now, he's been in his grave
15 years or so. But he has this book, which is a summary of his
longer book, Muhammad, Prophet and statesman.
What do you could say, Prophet and so many other things. He chooses
statesmanship
because of the staggering and inconceivable success of the
story,
which is now a quarter of the world's population having been
just
occur and Bilal and a few people hiding in the catacombs.
So there's a section towards the end assessment, the foundations of
greatness.
So there is circumstances and then he identifies three things.
Without a remarkable combination of qualities in Muhammad, it's
improbable that this could ever have taken place, etc.
So three qualities. First, there's Muhammad's gift as a seer. That is
to say, well we use a prophet or God is a prophet but seer. Okay?
Provision of such a framework involved with insight into the
fundamental causes of the social malaise of the time and the genius
to express this insight in a form which would stir the hearer to the
depths of his being. So it's the Quranic voice and the prophetic
quality which changes is difficult people.
Secondly, there's Muhammad wisdom as a statesman.
The conceptual structure found in the Quran was merely a framework.
The framework had to support a building of concrete policies and
concrete institutions.
In the course of this book, much has been said about Muhammad's
farsighted vertical strategy and his social reforms.
So his wisdom in these matters is shown by the rapid expansion of
his small state to a world empire after his death, and by the
adaptation of his social institutions to many different
environments and their continuance for 13 centuries.
14 centuries.
Yeah, the brilliance of the Sierra is that he laid down a form of
life quite a detailed form of life example as the immutable sunnah
which becomes the foundation of human life in so many very Arabian
places. So that's another source of greatness. Thirdly, there's his
skill and tact as an administrator and his wisdom and the choice of
men to whom to delegate administrative details.
Sound institutions and a sound policy will not go far of the
execution of affairs as faulty and fumbling.
When Muhammad died, the state he had founded with a going concern,
unable to withstand the shock of his removal. And once it had
recovered from this shock to expand at prodigious speed, the
more than one reflects on the history of Muhammad and of early
Islam, the more one is amazed at the vastness of his achievement.
Had it not been for his gift to see a statesman, an administrator
and behind these his trust in God and firm belief that God had sent
him? A notable chapter in the history of mankind would have
remained unwritten?
So statesman, so
you could say that there are several combinations to the
prophetic career, you could say, well, it's the hedgerow that's
defensible. You could say it's the mid Raj. defensible battle of
battle. Okay, beginning of Revelation, even better ye but
there's something quite Titanic about the conquest of Makkah,
Fatah Makkah, and the purification and the reintegration, not just of
the Kaaba and the sanctuary, but at the city of Mecca into the
religion. It's a work of statesmanship, of extraordinary
genius. Now, what kind of statesmanship are we looking at?
Well, his idea is the opposite of the Jay Haley idea.
Jahai The idea is tribe, not principle, that abstract ideas.
There's no universal code of right and wrong. You just act for the
tribe. And the key stabilizing mechanism in pagan Arabia is the
theater or the vendetta Revengeance casa nostra
somebody steals my camel, I go and steal a camel from his tribe. And
then maybe it's resolved. Or maybe it continues.
No statesmanship, really and that just skirmishing and vengeance.
So what we're looking at is something that is a radical
transformation. Insofar as
healing he is alayhi salatu salam triumphant ridding of cassava into
the Haram in Makkah, and his old enemies of watching, it's one of
the most famous scenes in history.
And this is another opportunity for him to show that the old idea
of
J. Jackie, Leah, is gone radically uncompromisingly.
Just as his entry into Medina, was marked by his establishment of the
sanctuary, the mosque in Medina,
a place where, to the astonishment of the Arabs, it didn't matter
what race you were, or what tribe you were.
The mosque was completely indifferent to that. Whoever
I arrived for the prayer first will be at the front.
That was it didn't matter about age, didn't matter about race
didn't matter if you spoke Arabic or not, didn't matter whether you
were from legato fan, or Tamim, or douse, or Hans Allah, it didn't
matter. This blew their minds.
And then when he
purifies the sanctuary in Macau, we find the anti Jay Haley
principle, once again established.
But this time not so much about overcoming tribalism, nationalism
is its latest version.
But the overcoming of the old idea of the lex talionis, stocky sauce,
the vengefulness resolving a wrong through tit for tat, an eye for an
eye.
And this is one of the most staggering moments of the ethical
revolution that Islam brings to Arabia and beyond.
So if we think about the whole generally sorry, history of human
conquests, and what is done with one's former enemies and
persecutors, it is not genuinely a very edifying story.
Jaya Hillier is not something from sixth century we're a bit
something's part of human nature really, and that monotheism tries
manfully to
overcome.
I was reading recently some Byzantines history
the 11th century, Basil the second
and he tries to conquer Bulgaria.
Bulgaria is ruled by King Samuel who are still remembered by
Bulgarian nationalists. So the Statesman
wants to defeat Samuel and simply gobble up his empire.
First move is he tells King Samuels brother Prince err on that
he'll make him king and he'll allow him to marry his Byzantines
Emperor's daughter.
Interesting offer. So he turns brother against brother.
But it turns out that the princess, who he sends to marry
Prince Aaron is actually an imposter. He dresses a woman up
and says, Here is my daughter and intense Prince err on to go
through this marriage ceremony and to turn against his brother, and
then finally turned out that he's actually married some circus
harlots and not married the Emperor's daughter, after all have
statesmanship.
Right That doesn't work. Samuel fights against the Byzantines
trying to hold on to his land for many years. And eventually there's
the Battle of clay Dione, one of the big battles and biozone time
history where the Bulgarians are finally smashed.
Okay, so the Emperor basil The second is now able to take revenge
is a hot tempered man. What does he do? There's 15,000 captured
Bulgarian soldiers. And what he does is to blind every one of
them, except one out of every 100 He leaves with one eye so that he
can lead the others back to Bulgaria.
And King Samuel when he sees this happening to his people a couple
of days later, he has some kind of heart attack or a stroke and dies.
So basil The second is called bulgur rock follows in about
Byzantines history, the Bulgars layer, basil, the Bulgars lair,
okay, so that's many examples of that in human history. And it's
often terrifying when the boss
decides that Revenge is sweet.
Another example of this, because this usually doesn't lead to
peace, but just to resentments that rankle. Still, if you look at
why the Bulgarians and the Greeks fought against each other so much
in the 19th century, is because of memories like that.
David Fromkin, more recently talks about the Treaty of Versailles.
This is his book, a peace to end all peace. It's really about 30
years old now, but it's worth looking at. Why is it that before
the end of Ottoman rules, Middle East was incredibly peaceful,
unlike Europe, and so many other places, and then afterwards, it
became a byword for
ethnic and national and sectarian mayhem.
What went wrong?
Well,
as Frumkin points out, it's because of the Treaty of
Versailles and subsequently
The racism, the chauvinism, the internal tribal rivalries between
the French and the British, sometimes the Americans produced a
Middle Eastern settlement without any consultation of the local
population that has turned out to be completely unstable and
destabilizing. Look at what's happened to so many of those
countries. 100 years later, they just the only way you can govern
them is through brute force.
Anyway, so from kins book is something that
all our ambassadors ought to read before people say, Oh, the
region's always been unstable. No, not the case. Look at the
prejudices of Lloyd George Churchill, Kitchener, Clemenceau
and those other people and the mess that they made drawing those
lines across the desert. Anyway, enough, Eugene Rogen, also the
fall of the Ottomans, again, the European desire to take revenge on
the Ottomans, because of the Battle of Kosovo in 13, something
they want their revenge.
The French General who conquers Damascus goes to salad ins to tomb
and knocks on it as a new song delay, tall salad, salad and we've
returned again, ego, tribalism, vengeance, we have to get our own
back after seven centuries, no forgiveness, no understanding
nothing. And the result of that has been the curse of the
instability and the catastrophe of the modern. Middle East is usually
in Rogan's book, the fall of the Ottomans is a very good and
melancholy account of that. But we thought, I remember talking to
somebody who is a minor official in the Turkish government before
2003. Americans were getting ready to invade Iraq. And we were kind
of saluting loyally behind that. And this guy told me, We ruled
Iraq for four centuries, and it was quiet.
We know how to do it. So I asked, how much have they been consulting
with you? Americans and British Tony Blair's people? They don't
want to hear from us. Of course, they know best. Tony Blair knows
best George Bush knows best bring all of those people they know
best. And the result of course vengefulness
chaos catastrophe, uselessness, that explosion of Jerr helias of
various kinds.
It's quite interesting to compare the speech with which we're going
to be closing today's talk Insha Allah, which is the Holy Prophets
address, which he gave on his final pilgrimage to the great
grandiose address, which Paul Bremmer, the American appointed
new governor of Iraq, gave to the Iraqi people.
He is a guy who really thought that he was the big cheese used to
compare himself to General MacArthur who was running Japan
for the Americans after 1945. But still a mess.
It's still coming up.
There's $9 billion that nobody knows work disappears to under his
watch. Well, there's a list of 8000 payees.
But they can only identify about 800 of those who are the others
will kind of
disaster.
Do you remember the vengefulness? Perhaps you remember, the pack of
cards who is the ace of spades, who is the king of clubs are they
really wanted to get the bath party members? Keep this in your
mind as you listen to the story of the Syrah. Here is the overturning
of the admittedly corrupt old order. What is to be done to bring
about reconciliation?
No, thank you.
Instead, they wanted their revenge because America's honor had been
offended. And the big right wing often pro extreme Zionist think
tanks
in Washington also wanted this done. So ha famously Executive
Order Number two, that's where Bremer disband the Iraqi army.
400,000 people with military training suddenly chucked out with
no pension, nothing.
Great, very smart.
Me every single bath party member, including 1000s of school teachers
and so forth. 10% of the population sacked no compensation,
their pensions canceled
vengefulness
foreign contractors not subject to Iraqi law, so any kind of body
guard outfit for a Minnesota can set up in Iraq and do what they
like to the local population.
But they can't be trained by Iraqi law. So that's why new green Newt
Gingrich
reach of all people called the Bremer the greatest American
diplomatic disaster in recent times.
So we're not looking at this statesman No, we're looking at a
disaster. And a million people die in the places still a catastrophe
is his his speech. Compare this to that Holy Prophets final address,
and to the way in which he addresses the the defeated elites
of Mecca. The Governing Council created the Iraqi special tribunal
to try those accused of grievous crimes during the past
administration, people like Saddam chemical ally and others.
As soon as the court asks us, the coalition will turn these
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you I pledge to give all possible assistance. As it prepares for
these trials, the United States will pay 75 billion for the court
annual budget will provide judicial training, etc, etc.
Revenge is sweet. Now they were clearly enjoying themselves. But
the result was such resentment with the aftermath of the victory,
that the peace to end all peace, it's still not peace, because this
hubris, this jehadi desire for
self righteousness superbia all deadly sins, resulted in just
horrible disaster anyway. So in our culture nowadays, there's
something disturbing
about the recrudescence of this idea of revenge.
The old idea of forgiveness in our format, Al Qudra, as we say, in
Arabic, to be able to take revenge, but to forgive people
doesn't really feature very much at the ending of most thrillers or
action movies, unfortunately. And again, this is a very standard
product. So John Claude Van Damme or somebody like that, Charles
Bronson
these types, Bruce Willis, very generic kind of action thriller.
There he is retired policeman. He's tired of it all. He has a
beautiful wife and children. But then somehow he gets caught up
again. In some mayhem. Of course, his wife gets killed tragically.
He's not able to rescue her and what does he want revenge revenge
revenge theater. And there's a certain series of very, there's
usually a bar fight. There's usually a kidnapping. He escaped
from the kidnapping. And then there's a final shootout. It's
almost always the same plotline. Usually the villain nowadays is a
Russian mobster, or evil Arab. Hollywood Arabs never looked like
any of the Arabs I've ever seen. But it's something that's in their
mind.
And
the final moment, of course, the villain is so bad that he can't
die quickly. No. Instead, there's a stupid fight out. But he dies
slowly, slowly enough to look into the eyes of Charles Bronson, who
gets his revenge by seeing the enemy slowly die. It's it's ego.
It's that ancient primitive thing.
And this is affecting our culture. If that's really our form of
entertainment, not forgiveness, not some kind of sense of justice
at turning over to the police. No, but but
kill him yourself. This generally attitude, hardly surprising that
Western societies have become so full of this new type of
terrorism.
Look at Wikipedia, if you can stomach it. There is a website
Wikipedia page called list of mass shootings in the United States and
2021.
Okay.
Right. And it says as of June the 30th 321 mass shootings fit the
mass shooting tracker project criterion, leaving 352 people dead
1331 injured for a total of 1683 total victims, some including the
shooter.
Now they're worried about Muslims occasionally doing outrageous
things. That's fair enough. But in Canada, all of the recent
terrorist killings have been done not by Muslims, but by in sales.
That's the new source of a fear there have been two major Insell
convictions in the U K. That what is that about is vengeful, isn't a
particularly contemptible, vengeful, listen, that it's
against women specifically or against men that are getting in
the way of one gratifying one's desires revenge and excruciating,
unethical, ugly behavior. The Atlanta spa shootings just a
couple of months ago, eight women killed by some maniac and it gets
more and more every year. There's something wrong with the culture
in its form.
have entertainment, and in its valorizing of the principle of
revenge, the idea that there is a healing in getting your own back.
And one of the glories of monotheism is that says, no, there
must be justice. And ideally, wherever you can, there must be
amnesty. So this is where we reconnect with the story of the
Sierra. We leave the horrible tragic Joe Hillier of the modern
American more murder and school murder scene. And we look at the
Syrah to see how the Chosen One alayhi salatu salam deals with his
enemies, those who have tortured his companions, those who have
driven him bereft from his own city, those who have tried to
assassinate him, those who have insulted and abused him,
etc. How is he going to deal with this? Will it be like basil's the
Bulgars Slayer? Or will it be like Bush and Blair, and Bramer? Or
will it be like the maniac teenager with an AK 47 in some
shopping mall,
we're talking about Revelation.
And so just as the medina revelation that
it didn't matter which tribe you belong to, in the mosque was
astonishing to people, what is going to happen in the conquest of
Makkah, also astounds people because they've never heard of
anything like this. So let's rewind a little bit and reconnect
with the story of the Sierra
after the Treaty of Han Abia and if you don't know this stuff, you
should because there's no greater story. There is the Holy Prophets
on there.
And after that,
the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu, Salam sends to add missionaries
out. And 15 of them are killed.
Mostly to the north, he sent another one to Buster, which is in
Syria, that's killed by local his killed by local tribe as well. And
then the famous,
not successful, but glorious campaign of Moto begins under
zayde. confronting an enormous
host, next to the Dead Sea, we have a certain amount of
information about this 3000 of the Sahaba, maybe 100,000. According
to some historians, we don't really know of the Byzantines and
these are kind of heavy cavalry of chariots and the whole Roman
thing.
Now, this also is a an indication of one of the things that Islam is
going to do historically, it's not just about
the pagan Meccans. But it already is indicating that it's going to
be fought and about everybody
in a relative way.
Muslims when they come to conquer
Syria, and Palestine and Egypt and so forth, leave the local
population alone.
And they are confirmed in their churches and their synagogues and
in the lives
unlike what the Byzantine Empire had done, if you look at Charles
Freeman's book, 381, heretics, pagans and the Christian state,
how did Christianity become Trinitarian Freeman's view, the
Emperor Theodosia said anybody who doesn't accept the doctrine of
Trinity is forfeit and can be put to death Nicene orthodoxy imposed
by law, and that meant that a lot of the other churches actually
welcomed the Arab conquests. And there's plenty of evidence for
this. But in any case, this is indicated by the famous dream of
Emperor Heraclius, which is narrated in a very early Hadith in
Sahih Bukhari where he hears about the qualities of the Holy Prophet
alayhi salam and his preference for the poor and his good
character. And he says to Abu Sufyan and CO who are describing
this, if what you are saying is true, so Yummly como de Panama,
yeah, time, he will rule the place where my two feet an outstanding,
which turns out to be exactly what happens it is through his
beautiful o'clock, that Allah opens these horizons to him in a
way that's never been given to any conqueror before or since in human
history and permanent because he doesn't make the Bramer mistakes
or the explosion the next day. We'll see what he does. So
back to the Sierra grayish break the treaty, there's an attack by
their allies Clausa, somebody's killed it turns out the operation
supplying arms
and
Sofia acknowledges that his side has breached the treaty and goes
to the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu salam to negotiate
unsuccessfully, and the Muslims secretly mobilize. They know that
hostilities are going to start again. And again, these little
incidents and it's good to get a book of Syrah that has lots of
detail. Because often, the beauty of it is in these little notes. Of
course, if you're mobilizing secretly, you want to keep it a
secret, but there's a spy hack tip Ansari sends or tries to send a
secret message to warn Quraysh
and he hides this in a woman's hair.
It's found the How to is brought before the Holy Prophet Ali slips
around that he confesses. Yeah, he's reasonable as a Muslim that
has been spying for the idolaters but he has family in Makkah and
Amara steps forward, is high treason.
And says era Salalah old report on Orca. Let me behead him here and
now.
But the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu. Salam hears his story at
sometimes sees who the person is and forgives him
as the editor before being a case in human history, or somebody
convicted read, handing of passing
secret information about the White House to the Chinese and just
being let off, but this we find interesting, again, and again. In
any case, 10,000 Muslims are marching on Mecca.
Other things and again the details are beautiful. This is the point
at which the famous incident occurs. Where Holy Prophet Ali's
let sit down with his army and harbor them hygiene and the
unsought
on the road there is a dog, a bitch giving birth.
Again, it kind of first in history, the Holy Prophet Elise
letters, name posts a guard to make sure that she's not
disturbed. 1000s of men are going to be marching past camels and who
knows what. But he wants to protect her and is again a sign
of his status as a blessing for the animal kingdoms as well as for
humanity.
900 Cavalry from another tribe and was named join him.
What are they going to do? They've been in luck, as quite sure. Are
they going to make a bid for Mecca?
Or will they attack tight if because sometimes it makes sense
to take an outlying town first. Abu Sufyan tries to negotiate the
Muslims camp near Mecca, and famously they like a gigantic
number of confires 10,000. So it looks as if the whole the whole
world is that
race debate, what are we going to do? And they send Abul Sophia out
to negotiate. So then Anita Abbas, who takes them to the tent of the
Holy Prophet, alayhi salatu, salam,
Abu Sufian, starts off and says, Yeah, Mohammed, not very
respectful. You've come with a strange assortment of men against
your own people. We know some of them but some of the unknown. So
again, He's appealing to tribalism to the pecking order the hierarchy
of the tribes and saying you, you're breaking this, you're not
doing our thing, shameful.
And that the Holy Prophet says, and you broke the terms of the
treaty, which we negotiated with you today via
you supported that attack on the niqab. And you've broken the rules
of custodianship of Allah's house in Morocco. So then Abu Sufyan
says, Well, you have this army, we don't mind if you attack the tribe
of houses instead, because we know you know that they don't like you.
Just leave us in peace, don't attack the holy city, but go for
houses in because they're less closely related to you. We are
your own people. How can you attack us? How was in a long way
from you in the genetic system of Arabia?
So the Holy Prophet replies, I hope that Allah will help me
against them also.
And then he says, I would now like to hear your shahada to the
Moroccan delegation.
So that kind of confounds them. We thought this was going about
politics, and I was bringing religion into it.
But then I've also found two sidekicks
who have seen something and this man that does not think tribally.
They'll say their Shahada.
So
both of his lieutenants have gone above Sofia is the Abu Sofia and
is able to c'est la ilaha illAllah. But on the second bit,
he says there's still a Toronto hesitation in my heart, so give me
time he says
So he stays in a lab as his tent for the night.
Very early the next morning is woken by a sound like but Allahu
Allah, etc. What is this?
Like the tourist in Dubai who picks the hotel next to the noisy
mosque?
What is that? He says how often do you say that prayer five times a
day? What lawyer the cathedral he says that's too much choice to go
back to sleep, but he watches the Companions making their will dope.
And with the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu salam, he can see something
strange is going on. They want to make their will next to him. And
he sees that it's because they want to be splashed by his water.
It's the idea of the barrack, who wouldn't want to be splashed by
the the blessing or the water of the Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam and he says, I've never seen a monk, sovereignty like
this.
The king of Byzantium, people aren't
looking for, to pick up his soap after his used, this is something
else. This is a different kinds of sovereignty.
And we know I mean, the Sahara, they didn't know that there were
blessings and also spiritual qualities attaching to the
wonderful, what is ablution? What is the water of ablution of the
Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and of course, they would
rush to conserve it. Alas, none has survived to our day. But
people did know him as a healer. So people would be presented to
him when they were suffering from forms of insanity. And he would
touch him on the chest or the hubbub be him, in other and
illness would depart he was known as a healer. What doesn't really
talk about this, but as well as a seer, a healer?
Well, now HERSA dzambhala Jabir Ian Walker and
Werner shatta hardtack Kanima Yemen equals Imana who, so neither
of these many stories, one of his companions, Jabir had a camel that
wouldn't go, Holy Prophet kind of prods the camel and the camel
suddenly springs to life and become so vigorous that it's
almost impossible for them to pull it back. There's something going
on with this man and this is one reason why these hard hearted
Arabs have been taking their shahada even on this this Hajj
journey.
So a bear says, you fall belief
at Apple, Sophia and says, Take me to him.
So after they finished the prayer,
Apple Sophia is taken to the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and he says La Ilaha illa Allah.
Muhammad Rasul Allah, Apple, Sophia and even herb himself has
taken his Shahada. That's like the Gates of Mecca, the city walls,
collapsing like the walls of Jericho is gone.
And then a burst and you can see that the prophetic wisdom is
shared by these great statesmen. And our best says He Allah, so
Allah, Allah, O Messenger of Allah, you know how much apple
Sofia and loves glory and honor, so give him some favor?
Because that's just how he feels he wants a Rolex or title, he
wants an MBE something that's just the class that is from.
And so it doesn't give him the MBE. But he says go back to your
people and say,
Whoever enters the house of Abu Sufyan is safe, whoever locked his
door is safe, who and whoever enters the Haram is safe. So it's
Abu Sufyan who is bringing to his people the knowledge that there is
not going to be a theater. It's not going to be basil, the
BullGuard killer or Paul Bremer. It's going to be
amnesty. And Abu Sufyan, of course has been won over by this because
his status is being maintained.
And before he leaves the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu salam again,
great statesmanship, make sure that his whole army processes
before Apple Sophia, each led by a standard bearer Khalid Ibn or
Walid is the new cavalry from Benny so lame, everybody making
that tech beer.
nibble. Sofiane says these people when he Sofiane, blue author fan,
these were his most furious enemies.
And Allah says God caused Islam to enter their hearts. All of this is
by His grace
and then the entry into Mecca. This is the city from which he has
been exiled.
In which Samia
others were horribly tortured to death, where people would sprinkle
thorns on his path where they knew he would walk barefoot, where they
would empty off all over his back as he prayed, where they tried to
kill him on the famous Night of the Long Knives on the eve of his
Hijra. The bad news.
Sophia is there in the huddle
and he says,
Your Rasul Allah,
Have you ordered your people to be executed?
And he says, this is the Yama Rama, the day of mercy the day on
which Allah has raised Quraysh
brilliant mercy and there's not going to be a bloodbath
and Quraysh now are going to be still eminent in the city. They're
not going to be toppled.
And the orders
that the standard be taken from sad.
So the field marshal the general is not going to be sad who is
known for being rigorous, but is given to sound son who is known
for being more highly more mild
cerebral Sofiane goes back to his people they're hiding in their
houses as his directed and says to them shouting
Yeah, hello Quraysh people of Quraysh Mohammed is here with an
arm you cannot resist 10,000 Men of iron that he is promised that
those who take refuge at my house shall be safe.
And then who comes out? The wife indepent author
and we know what she's done.
We know about Hynde.
She comes out and she says kill this slimy useless bladder of a
man
every kind of disgusting abuse. You are a pathetic guardian if
your people I will Sophia that will Sophia and says hold now to
everybody do not let this woman this era cloud your judgment. A
power has come against you which you are powerless to resist.
The Muslim army comes in from the Torah.
And still a place in America called Ottawa city seemed
deserted. Everybody's looking out from behind their shutters and
they entered the city.
A few decide to resist the Muslims are coming but they're not going
to
surrender without a fight a Kadima be gentle, soft one and Sohail
attack the Muslims but hardly defeats them
it seems that they are allowed to live because academical Safwan
just run away so he'll goes home locks his door, what's his sort of
way? And then by the cover the Holy Prophets red tent is put up.
He makes will do that he prays eight rockers
and he puts on his armor and his helmet and melts his camel.
Everybody's looking what's what's he going to do?
But he's they see his carrying in his hand, not a sword. But his
stuff. I saw his prophetic stuff.
When he goes to the Kaaba and with his staff, he touches the stone.
And he and everybody cries Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
And then he goes around the house seven times. With this stuff, he
points at each of the, they say 360 idols.
In turn, Golda, and hubco was called about, in about Allah
kanessa Who can say, the truth has come, falsehood has fled away,
falsehood will always
flee away, and each idol falls forward on its face. dismounts,
praise it McClung, Ibrahim, drinks from zamzam. The key is brought
and he enters the Kaaba.
And he orders that the images be effaced and then he stands on the
threshold of the Kaaba and he says Alhamdulillah Hilda, the sada
Kawada or Nosara Abda. WA has an aqua Zobo water which is part of
what we usually say as the ad tech be recalling that moment.
Which means praise be to Allah, who fulfilled his promise and gave
victory to his slave and defeated all of the factions alone. So it's
not claiming it for himself. This isn't Napoleon or Paul Bremer.
Look at us
Since Allah hasn't met after Abba, WA Tao who alone.
By this time, some of Quraysh can't overcome the curiosity and
they come out onto the streets to the karma to watch to see what
this drama is. And he says mother,
Tyrone, what do you think? What do you think that I will do with you?
And the fact I don't become
is the note with the sword but with the staff and the idols on
the ground.
And they say, a home Kareem webinar of inquiry,
generous brother, the son of a generous brother. So again,
they're still in this tribal mindset. They're thinking, well,
you're one of us. You're related to the Corleone family or
something, so you're not really going to go for us. That's the
logic that we're using. And then he says, I say to you, what use
have said to his brothers learned to three by Ali Kemal yo,
there is no blame upon you this day.
Extraordinary
an amnesty.
Those people who had wrought horrors, now feel the burden
lifted from them. One of them said it was as though I was climbing
out of my own grave on that day.
Other little incidents, he sees Abu Bakr is not there. And worker
is worried about his father who's old, he's gone to see him in his
house.
So he has been brought back to the mosque to see this historic
moment.
And the Holy Prophet says,
You shouldn't have brought the old man is sick and not well, you
should have left him in the house, and I would have visited him.
And Holy Prophet took the hand of
Abu Bakr his father, respectfully made him sit in front of him and
took his shahada, tiene la ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah.
And then what happens to
other criminal war criminals? Remember the story of Hynd bint
Akbar has been trying to get everybody to resist and to fight
the Muslims as they come into Mecca and to persist in insulting
the Holy Prophet salallahu. Allah He was alone.
Well
just remember, pinned is in her house while this is going on.
What has she done? Who was more beloved to the Holy Prophet than
his uncle Hamza? bin Abdul Muttalib. But we remember what
happened she had him assassinated by washi. That Ethiopian slave who
killed him with one spear thrust at the Battle of Oxford.
Right.
say she's kind of
commissioned or hid job
found an assassin. Here we find. Ibn is Huck's sera
describing what happened after the Battle of offered.
According to what salep and casein told me Hynde bent otter, and the
women with her stopped to mutilate the apostles did companions. They
cut off their ears and noses and hint made them into anklets and
collars and gave her anklets and collars and pendants to wash the
the slave of Jubail.
She cut out hamsters liver and chewed it but she was not able to
swallow it and threw it away. Then she mounted a High Rock and
shrieked at the top of her voice, I've slicked my vengeance and
fulfilled my vow you a wash you have assuage the burning in my
breast, I shall thank wash it as long as I live until my bones
locked in the grave. So this is the
horrible, vengeful, theater oriented J Lee woman
who we're looking at, but then we find
out that she is brought down Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam,
he finds it out to look at her after what she's done. But he does
not order that she'd be punished.
And she becomes eventually one of the recognized and respected
Sahaba yet there's a whole story which we don't have time to talk
about here. So this is the difference, the Holy Prophet with
his wisdom, His soul, seeing the rasa
can see that these are people who despite the horrors can be brought
around.
Washing
washing is also an attacker had been given his freedom but what's
that going to be worth now that only profit is there?
And he's known to be a hitman. What jobs does he have?
Is he going to be, you know, the seven of hearts or something? Is
he on the list of people to be taken down?
So he runs away from Macau to thought if
and then
he wonders whether he should flee to Syria or to Yemen. What's he
going to do that? But then in hiding in time, if somebody tells
him that the Holy Prophet is forgiving people,
something within him says that sounds right, despite what I've
done. So he goes to see him his shahada is taken and he is
forgiven.
Many of these people have done outrageous things particularly in
the aftermath of the Battle of Portland with a vengeance
mentality. A busulfan was seen to be kicking hands, his body,
laughing at it
difficult.
So, then we have
the siege of thought if
which fails and is lifted tight if is important. Also, it's mentioned
in the Quran, where it says,
middle Perea attain the two villages of the two towns in the
Quran refers to Makkah and dive.
Some people ask the Holy Prophet to curse the people of thought if
because of what they've done to him. But he says instead, Allah,
guide thuc EAFE bring them to us.
Luckily for the tribe of five,
so if we look at again, going back to Evan Hashem here, early Syrah
writer.
If you recall the incident in which, after
so many misfortunes have afflicted the Holy Prophet in Mecca before
the hijra,
that he goes to thief in order to seek help, maybe they're going to
help him against against Quraysh. So here is Ibn Hashem, in
consequence of the growing hostility of Quraysh. After Abu
Talib death, the Holy Prophet went to Thailand to seek help and their
defense against his tribe and he also hoped that they would receive
the message which Allah had given them, he went alone.
When the Holy Prophet arrived tight if he made for a number of
faculty who were at that time leaders and chiefs, namely three
brothers, Abdallah al Mossad, and Habib,
one of them had a Qureshi wife from the battle drummer.
The Holy Prophet sat with them and invited them to accept Islam and
asked them to help him against his opponents at home.
One of them swore that he would tear up the covering of the Kaaba,
the other side could not Allah have found someone better than you
to send. The third said by Allah don't let me ever speak to you if
you're an apostle from God as you say you are, you are far too
important for me to reply to and if you are lying against Allah
does not write that I should speak to you. So the Holy Prophet got up
and went despairing of getting any good out of
suck if
and then
they stood up their louts and slaves to insult him and cry after
him and stone him until a crowd came together and compelled him to
take refuge in an orchard belonging to offer than Robbie and
his brother che but the louts who had followed him went back and he
made for the shade of a vine and sat there while the two men
watched him observing what he had to endure from the local louts.
And then the famous dog,
which we can repeat here because it's so beautiful, your online
Allahumma to UI complain of my weakness, little resource and
loneliness before men are most Merciful. You are the Lord of the
week. And you are my Lord, to whom will you can find me to one afar
who will misuse me, or to an enemy to whom thou has given power over
me. If you are not angry with me, I cannot they favor is more wide
for me. I take refuge in the light of thy countenance by which the
darkness is illumined and the things of this world and the next
are rightly ordered less than anger descend upon me or thy wrath
light upon me. It is for the to be satisfied until now art will plead
La hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah.
So what he's saying in this dua to Allah subhanaw taala is not to
curse those people, but instead to ask a lot to protect him from his
anger from the Divine Anger
Yeah, it's a very this is the occasion when our desk converts to
Islam and when the Jinn of Mesopotamia convert to Islam and
that's another aspect of the Sierra the the beauty of his helm
Alayhi salaatu wa salaam which leads to the melting of hearts. So
what happened to Thief now that Maca is conquered the boots on the
other foot?
Among the things, okay, so he's now coming to thuc even saying,
Look,
now you must submit.
Among the things they asked the messenger was that they should be
allowed to retain their idle alette undestroyed for three
years, the messenger refused. They continue to ask for a year or
maybe two years, and he refused. Finally, they asked for a month
after they return home. But he refused to agree to any set time.
All they wanted as they were trying to show us to be safe from
their own fanatics and women and children by leaving alert.
And they didn't want to frighten their people by destroying her
until they had all accepted Islam.
The messenger refused this, but he said Apple, Sophia and l Mahira.
To destroy her for them. They also asked him that he would excuse
them from prayer, and that they would not have to break that idol
with their own hands.
The Holy Prophet said, we excuse you from breaking your idols with
your own hands. But as for prayer, there is no good in a religion
which has no prayers. They said that they were performed them
through they were demeaning
pride again. So here you see again, the wisdom the Holy Prophet
is not going to enter into negotiation, spare the life of an
idol. But he does wisely spare the worship of the idol from the the
duty of actually having to smash it themselves. And thus was
thought leaf and thought if one over to Islam until this day.
So this is all of this relates to the virtue of
our format, Al Qudra.
His forgiveness, despite being able to punish, now as the head of
a state and as a military commander, sometimes punishment is
necessary. Sometimes it is necessary to execute traitors.
Sometimes it's necessary to execute murderers to punish people
to imprison them. That law has to be that this is not going to be
some kind of anarchist community in which people can do what they
like and never be punished. But in this combination, which is
hopelessly associated with the Haram in Makkah, we see the
miracle of the prophetic wisdom of forgiveness, which the Americans
couldn't do in Iraq, and which the West couldn't do to the Middle
East at the Treaty of Versailles, and which basil the Bulgars layer
couldn't do the Bulgarian the usual human story of exacting
revenge when in a position of good luck, that his virtue Alayhi salat
wa salam was famously wherever he could to grant an amnesty to those
who had misbehaved. There's even a whole chapter on this. In America,
Sally's here in book 20 And the chapter is called ban or if we use
Allahu alayhi wa sallam or MA called rutty.
In which is expounded the Holy Prophets forgiveness despite being
able to punish
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well known Hadith Holy Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was the
mildest of men,
and also one who inclined most to forgive even when in a position to
punish once he was brought some jewelry of gold and silver, and
divided it amongst his companions. And then a desert man stood up and
said, Oh, Muhammad, Allah has ordered you to be just but I don't
see you being just
rude. Outrageous. The Holy Prophet says, Woe betide you who is going
to be just after me.
And when that man turned Holy Prophet said bring him back to me
gently reader, but he wasn't punished.
Another example and there's plenty in khazali section. This one is
from Bukhari and Muslim we just content ourselves with this
because it is Syrah oriented. So what can the US will
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story in Bukhari and Muslim Holy Prophet alayhi salatu salam was
in a skirmish. And the other side saw an opportunity to outflank the
Muslims. And a man came and stood over the head of the Holy Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam with a sword and said, Who's going to
save you from me.
But the Holy Prophet says Allah.
And the man dropped his sword.
The Holy Prophet picks it up and says, who's going to save you from
me.
And the man says, qualified to act is
the forgiving or kind of steady on now.
So this is the bit where Charles Bronson is about to kill the guy.
And the guy says, Oh, just let's talk a little bit and we can
negotiate. And
Charles Bronson, of course, bumps him off. So we're at that moment,
and the Holy Prophet says, c'est la ilaha illAllah. And that I'm
Allah's Messenger. And the man says, No. So he's brave.
But I won't fight you. And I won't join a people who fight with you
or against you. And the Holy Prophet lets him go. He grants him
the
amnesty.
Parole would say.
So he goes back to his people ascribe a hole. And he says, I've
come to you from one of the best of people or I've come to you from
the best of people.
And many other cases like this. So this is what we're looking at. On
the one hand, the statesmanship means that sometimes, traitors
have to be executed and that's just part of running a sustainable
polity, but as much as he can, and wherever he can the Holy Prophet
alayhi salam Salam is granting these extraordinary amnesties
precisely because he's overcoming the
the principal of the Jaya Helia so we should, we should end here. And
we end with that historic document which is
so foreign to the mentality of people like Paul Bremer and Lloyd
George and Clem also and other people enjoying revenge is a dish
served cold.
We have the Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam.
The next year, final pilgrimage, the Farewell Pilgrimage and this
is what happens and again this there's some details, which are
nice. In the beginning of the will cada
the Holy Prophet prepare to make the pilgrimage and ordered the men
to get ready.
Abdul Rahman Ibn Al Qasim reported from Arusha the Prophets wife that
she said that the Holy Prophet went to a pilgrimage on the 25th
of Takada.
Neither he nor the men spoke of anything at the Hajj, until when
he was in Sarajevo and has brought the victims with him. In other
words, the animals the sacrifice, he ordered the people to remove
their Pilgrim, pilgrim garments except those who had brought
victims.
That day my monthly courses were upon me and he came in to see me
as I was weeping and asked me what was wrong guessing correctly, what
was the matter? I told him he was right, is that I wish to God that
I had not come up with him on the journey this year because she
couldn't complete the 100. Because of this, because of the taharah
rules.
And he says, don't say that you can do all that the Pilgrims do
except the tawaf.
The Holy Prophet enters Mecca and everyone who had no sacrificial
victim and his wives took off the pilgrim government. When the day
of sacrifice came, I was sent a lot of beef and it was put in my
house. When I asked what it was, they said that Allah's Messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had sacrificed
cows in behalf of his wives, when the night that the pebbles were
thrown, duly came the apostle sent me, along with my brother Abdur
Rahman and let me perform the Amara at 10am, in place of the
Amara, which I've missed, and I like this description of the
beginning of the Holy Prophets final Farewell Pilgrimage, because
you can see, despite the fact that he's leading the state and is a
statesman, that this is primarily about his concern for his wife,
who is not able to do the Hajj. And so you see that he
is able to arrange for her brother to take her out when she's ready
to 10am so that she can at least do the ombre, just to show his
considerateness and books have been written about the Holy
Prophets, consideration for his wives.
Then Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he continued his Hajj
and showed the men the rites and taught them the customs of their
Hajj.
He made a speech by UniFi leanness in which he made things clear,
he praised and glorified Allah. Then he said, Oh, man, listen to
my words. I do not know whether I shall ever meet you in this place
again, after this year. Your blood and your property is sacrosanct
until you meet your Lord, as this day and this month or holy,
you will surely meet your Lord and He will ask you if your works. I
have told you He who has a pledge, let him return it to him who has
entrusted it with entrusted him with it. All usury is abolished,
but you have your capital. Wrong not and you shall not be wronged.
God has decreed that there has to be no usury. The user of Abbas bin
Abdullah mattala is abolished all of it all bloodshed in the pagan
period is to be left on avenged.
The first claim on blood i abolish is that have been Arabiya
Ebonheart has been Abdul Muttalib
it is the first bloodshed in the pagan period which I deal with.
The devil despairs of ever being worshipped in your land. But if
you can be obeyed in anything short of worship, he will be
pleased in matters you may be disposed to think of little
accounts so beware of him in your religion.
In the madness he was yet and Phil Cofer, postpone them that of a
sacred month this is from the Quran is only an excessive
disbelief, whereby those who disbelieve are misled, they allow
it one year forbid it another year that they may make up the number
of the months which Allah has hallowed.
And of Quranic quote,
time has completed its cycle, and is as it was on the day that God
created the heavens and the earth. And one meaning of this is that
the lunar year has come to an end. So don't mess around in future for
whatever reason with the calendar. This is how God has made the solar
system. Don't try and think that you know better.
The number of months with Allah is 12 Four of them a sacred three
consecutive, and the Rajab of mudhar, which has been between
Jumada and Shaban.
Know that every Muslim is a Muslims brother and that the
Muslims are brethren. It is only lawful to take from a brother what
he gives you willingly so wrong, not yourselves. Allahumma halben
loved Oh Allah, have I not conveyed?
I was told that the men said, Oh, god, yes, Bella. And the Apostle
said, Oh, Allah bear witness. There's different versions of the
final hotbar. But the essence of it is always the same. That is to
say he is making use of this opportunity when he's able to
speak not just to the people of Medina, but to the people have
come from all over Arabia on the Hajj, many of whom are really new
to Islam and learning this thing, that tribalism is no longer a
basis of solidarity.
That usury and money lending are a great evil.
That
the lex talionis the vengefulness the theater of the ancient Arabs
is at an end and the blood wit the D map is all canceled, for no more
tit for tat killings. The calendar is sacrosanct.
The Muslims are brothers in the moment we know honor ICWA.
So what we have here
is more or less the opposite of what Paul Bramer is saying, which
is all about who's going to get what punishment and how we're
going to kickstart the economy and
it's
the opposite of that. And it is based on
its hobble for Antimo Tanaka. He said this words goofy were three.
After everything they had done, they were free.
So it's very important that we understand that
This is a combination of the Syrah
that he's had and the conquest of Makkah a year before.
Which relates to the liberation of the great sanctuary of Haram al
Sharif will be to Latvia from the uncleanness of idolatry. And the
tribalism which was linked to the idol worshipping Pantheon, in
ancient Arabia, all of that is overthrown. So in a sense, he's
not just pointing his staff at the idols which fall over and are
broken, but he's also pointing it at the attitudes of the Jaya Helia
tribalism, racism, nationalism, chauvinism, all of these things
that modernity doesn't really seem, with all of its smartness
able to cope with if you saw the aftermath of the the football
match last week comes the racist jargon that seemed to be suddenly
popping up. Again, this is all abolished, abandoned, cancelled,
hateful to God. So the fact that the Muslims are radically together
and equal at the Haram in the great century is the great sign of
the combination of his mission. The Mirage is a combination, the
hijra, is a combination. But that what he does with the great
sanctuary in Mecca is also very much a combination that is not
just about the spiritual liberation of human beings, a
reminder that we're full of idols of various kinds, vices or idols,
if we
pay homage to them, but also
the divisions that exist amongst human beings and look at what's
happened to Iraq, because happened to Libya. Look what's happened to
so many places. Look at the disaster of human tribalism and in
Palestine, ethnocentrism around the world, it's a disaster. And
this is not what pleases Rabbil aalameen. So, you know, it's, it's
just one of the great climaxes and the amazing, memorable vignettes
that we find in the Sierra, but I think it's a particularly
important one, that in our divided, nationalistic,
chauvinistic, stupid, JAYLEE age, it behooves us to reflect upon, so
that this Alma insha, Allah can can hold the banner for human
mutual respect for the opposition to evil such as usery, the neglect
of wives all of these things that we've looked at the neglect of
animals, there's so much in this story. So in sha Allah may be we
may we benefit from this, may we always refresh our familiarity
with the Sierra and insha Allah internalize the message of the
Syrah and make it the basis of our own lifestyle. And in sha Allah
become beautiful people, luminous people. It said that the Holy
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one of he touched somebody,
that person's face would shine for the rest of his life, says in a
hadith so maybe we can be touched by some of these beautiful
stories. Maybe we too can shine in sha Allah, Allah is capable of
that. So they also have the intention of making the Hajj and
making the Amara, these obligations to Allah Subhana Allah
to Allah, may Allah accept the hydrofoil of the Hodges and the
thought of Arafat which now is tomorrow, and insha. Allah help us
to be with them, and except to walk off and accept the prayers of
everybody who's praying for what pleases Allah and His Messenger on
the plains of Arafat, and insha Allah make that feed MYZONE Hassan
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