Abu Taymiyyah – The battle of Uhud When ONE sin caused Defeat Al Sharif Tours
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My brother and sister, as you can see,
we are here now where the battle of
Bahr took place. It's one of the major
incidents that took place in the time of
the Messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. So insha Allahu Ta'ala, I'm
gonna try and go through,
the battle from the beginning all the way
to the end and exactly what took place
insha Allahu Ta'ala.
When the battle or before the battle, my
brothers and my sisters, there was 1,000 of
the Muslims
that were heading towards this place that we
are currently at. There was 1,000 of the
Muslims. But what happened was, because amongst the
ranks of the Muslims,
there was that Munafir,
Abdulayl Ubay ibn Nasalul.
Okay? It caused a lot of doubt,
and he caused a lot of as they
say in the Arabic language,
and he was the reason as to why
2 thirds
of
those who were with the jayish, the army
of the Muslims at that time had ended
up leaving and going back. So you can
imagine now there's only 1 third remaining out
of the 1,000 that were there. As for
the mushrikeen,
they had 3,000 with them. They had 3,000
of those who were there ready to fight
these Muslims.
So also what happened at the at the
beginning of the battle was, the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
he commanded 50 of his companions
to remain on top of this mountain,
and he placed in charge a companion called
Abdul Mahb ibn Jubair.
A companion called Abdul Mahb ibn Jubair. And
he said to them,
Do not come down, even if you see
big birds coming
and smashing the Muslims from their heads off
the ground,
do not get off the mountain. Okay? No
matter what happens, whether you see the Muslims
winning, whether you see the Muslims Muslims losing,
do not get off that mountain. Okay?
So what happened was the battle started, there
was an individual from the ranks of the
Mushriks who was called Suba' ibn Abdul Iza.
There was a man called Suba' ibn Abdul
Iza.
When the Muslims were in their line and
the Mushriks, they were on their line as
well,
he came out and he wanted to have
a personal duel,
a combat with 1 of the Muslims.
Meaning, he comes up on himself, a battle
takes place, and then that's when the war
takes place or starts.
Okay?
So Hamza
ibn Abdul ibn Abdul Muttalib also known as
the lion,
he came out and he started fighting Subhaib
ibn Abdul Izzah,
and he ended up defeating him, and this
is when the battle has started.
This is when the battle started, the Muslims
and the Mushriks, they started fighting with one
another, and the Mushriks, they were being defeated.
The Mushriks were being defeated,
and they started running.
The Mushriks, they totally
started running.
And the Muslims, they saw Khalas, they are
about to win.
Then those 50 who were on top of
the mountain, guys,
some of them started saying,
War booty. War booty. So
they all wanted to make the decision to
go down, not all of them, but some
of them. So Abdul Aibla Jibril radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu, he started saying to them,
have you guys forgotten? The messenger salallahu alaihi
wa sallam told you guys don't get off
the mountain.
So some of them had already gotten off.
When Khalid ibn Walid,
who was a mushrik mushrik at the time,
saw them coming off, he was very smart
and intelligent.
He ended up going round,
and he came back and he started hitting
the Muslims
on the back. And this is when the
very sad incident took place of the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
His helmet was
crushed, his face was gushed, and his tooth
was broken.
All because of one sin that took place,
one commandment
that they had opposed to the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. So when that happened to the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said,
How can a people be successful?
And they have now injured the face of
their Prophet
while he's trying to
invite them to alaihis salaam.
And then this verse came down,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala started addressing the Messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam disciplining him saying,
this is not part of your affair. If
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to forgive them,
or
he wants to punish them, it's entirely up
to him. It's not down to you. For
you to make the decision whether these people
are going to be successful or not, it's
entirely down to Allah azza wa jal whether
he's going to guide these people. Also what
happened was my brothers and my sisters,
as I mentioned already, Hamza,
ibn Abdul Muqaleb, he defeated a man called
Subha ibn ibn Abdul Izzar. Right? This was
the battle in which he passed away. He
was killed in this battle, and he is
buried right here.
That place right behind you guys, this grave
here,
this is where Hamza
ibn Abdul Muttalib is buried.
Also, a very well known companion
called Mus'ab ibn Umayr,
he is also buried in this grave right
behind us here.
Okay.
What happened also was the other the number
of Muslims
that
were or had passed away were
70 of the Muslims,
okay, and 22 of the mushriks.
When this took place, as you can see
now, there's a number of them, there's many
of them who passed away, and there were
many pits and graves where you could bury
the Muslims.
So every time there was 2 people who
were brought to the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he would ask the question,
ayuhum
aktharu akhthanil Quran.
Which of them 2 knows more of the
Quran?
He will end up giving him precedence, he
will put him first into the grave. What
does that show us my brothers and my
sisters? Shows us the fallen of the people
of the Quran, how the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he gave them presidents and there's
many many
a hadith
which talks about the virtue of the person
who learns the Quran. The messenger salallahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he raises people
based on their attachment to the Quran with
regards to implementation,
with regards to memorization,
with regards to how much he reads the
Quran, and so on and so forth. So
here you find the the messenger salaam alayhi
wasalam gave precedence to to them. One point
I'm going to conclude with inshallah wa ta'ala,
and this is a very big lesson that
we take from the battle of Uhud.
As I mentioned to you guys,
50 of those who were placed on top
of this mountain behind me.
One commandment, my brothers and sister, that I
oppose which caused what?
Humiliation and defeat.
One commandment.
And Allah tells in the Quran,
another, that's exactly what took place. They started
arguing. They started disputing with one another while
they were on there. Some of them were
like, don't get off. Some of them were
like, stay on.
Or some sorry. Some of them said, don't
get off, and some of them said,
get off.
Okay?
And they opposed the messalallahu which led to
defeat.
A common question that people are tend to
be asking in this day and age, when
the Muslims today are so so weak.
Okay. Everybody is saying the Muslim Ummah is
suffering,
when is this suffering going to finish? What
is the solution to the problems of the
Muslim Ummah. Okay. And my brothers and sisters,
this is the lesson that we take. If
the Muslims were defeated because of one commandment,
if today we look at our mushtama,
our society
when it's so filled filled
with so many sins,
whether it might be shirk, whether it might
be bida'a, whether it might be sinful acts.
And the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
in 10 seconds
told us the solution of the problems of
the Muslim Ummah. The messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam he said,
The moment you start having
interest based
dealings,
Riba, you start being involved in such act.
And then the messes salallahu alaihi wasalam said,
and you start chasing the tails of the
cows.
Meaning you start chasing the dunya, warazitumbizara.
You become satisfied with the land that you
have. Meaning you become people who are so
busy with their dunya, they become satisfied with
that. Their religion doesn't become a priority,
and you also live a bal jihad.
Salallat allahu alaykum zulla. Allah azzawajal will send
down upon you a humiliation,
He won't remove this humiliation
until you come back to your religion.
And this is exactly my brothers and sisters
what we are seeing today. If the messenger
of Allah ahi wa sallam told us about
the major sin of Riba, which is what?
He told us about Riba, you're waging war
with Allah
You started a war with Allah, and this
is a major sin. And not only is
this major sin prevalent, that which is far
worse, we are finding that it's very very
prevalent in our mushima.
And some of you know about this and
we discussed this in hajj, calling on to
Avan Al Azza wa Jal, the shirk that
has become so widespread,
the innovation that also is so so prevalent,
and we hear this every week on the
mimbar.
The worst of the of the affairs are
the newly invented affairs that have been brought
into the religion. So the point of the
matter is, my brothers and sisters,
if we want to help the people in
Palestine,
we wanna help the people in Syria, we
wanna help the people in all these other
places,
it's upon us to start with ourselves.
If we,
ourselves my brothers and sisters, we've got problems
in our homes.
Our homes have become cinemas.
The salah is not being established, it's become
like a grave in our homes. Our kids
are so far away from the religion. Are
we going to help the people who are
suffering in other places?
And even if you look at Zaynab bin
Jaq,
the wife of the missus Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
she said,
will we be destroyed,
and amongst us are those who are righteous?
The prophet
said, no. Yes.
If evil becomes so widespread,
when the adab, the punishment of Allah comes,
he's not going to exempt so and so.
The adab is going to come and take
everybody. But obviously, the people who are righteous,
as the messenger of Allah has said told
us. They will have
or they will be resurrected based upon their
intentions
and how good of Muslims they were. So
like I said, my brothers, this is a
very very important lesson.
If the people, they looked at this lesson
of Badr al Bukhir, it would be so
simple. Wallahi, you look on social media, everybody's
giving their own opinion. People are saying, wallahi,
we need to be more into politics,
we need to protest more. They've tried everything.
And is the solution or the situation of
the Muslims becoming better or worse?
Everything's been tried.
And here the messes saw in the hadith
that I told you, in 20 seconds it
tells us what the problem is and how
to solve the problem.
So inshallah ta'ala,
as you guys know, normally when you go
to the grave, there's a du'a that you
read hoping
will be a benefit for the people in
the grave. They can't benefit benefit us, but
we can benefit them
as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us and
as the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam told
us as well. So the dua that we
read is,
as they came in some narrations.
Which basically means you're giving your salaams to
those who have already away, who are in
the graves from the Muslims and the believers,
and then you're saying,
we will soon be joining you guys.
I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for us,
and likewise you guys for well-being. Okay? And
this is something highly recommended for a person
to do, and I told you some of
you guys when we went to Masjid I
Nur Abu the other
day,
Be somebody who is excessive
in remembering the
destroyer of all pleasures, and that is what
almut,
death.
Something that really really my brothers and sisters
softens
of Allahu alaihi wa sallam, he told us
this in multiple hadith. You wanna soften up
your heart. You really wanna remember death, okay,
and you wanna forget about all the worldly
affairs because it could be any moment. And
I've said this time and time again, you're
not going to get a WhatsApp message or
a Facebook message telling you that death is
coming to you.
It will come to you unexpectedly,
and it could be any of us. Wallahi
us praying the jana'az that after every single
prayer should be a reminder to all of
us.
They just judge like you guys,
like us guys.
Every salah we are praying what is Janaza,
and any moment it could be any of
us.
You see, it could be any single one
of us. So
my brothers, you can check it out. We'll
stay here for another 5 minutes, and then
we'll
head back to the bus.