Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Most Imp Action
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You
call
one
jihad.
Callah
ina
at all of Aylan and Jihad Allah
ina akbal, Ahmad Illallah Abu
Asmaa. Allah is the wide
Imam. Ahmad Naresh kambara bin Abu Asmaa, Hu Taala anhu,
that once we were sitting in the company of rasulallah and
he posed a question to us
that which rope
or which Senate of Islam
is the most important and the most strong,
which we cannot possibly do without.
So our response was, we said, Salah,
Allah Islam. Said, definitely, Salah is very good, but I was not
referring to that.
So then we responded, the pastor of Ramadan,
he said, that also is very good, but I was not referring to that.
Then we said, jihad.
He said that also is very good, but I was not referring to that.
And then the sudden, last time, said that the most effective, most
important constituent rope of Iman and Islam is that you should love
for the sake of Allah, and you should hate for the sake of Allah,
abuzawadi, Allahu. Qalam narrates
that one occasion rasulallah Sallam
came to us and he posed the question,
that which Amal? Which action is the most beloved inside of Allah?
Subhanho, wa taala? Someone said, Sara. Someone said, zakat. Someone
said, jihad.
Thereafter, rasulallah responded and said that the most beloved
action in the sight of Allah, Subhanahu wa is to love for the
sake of Allah and to hate for the sake of Allah.
Authors of pranaya, muhammadun, Asmaa, RadiAllahu Qala,
rasulallah, dunya, famed bisa ifI Kaala,
Muhammad rasulallah,
Muhammad bin maslamah, jahid Bihar, Sayyidina, lahat
igaray, taminanda, srime, Hajar, hadhu summa
* ane qadia,
Muhammad
kabarani, nares, Muhammad bin maslam, Ara Yallah SallAllahu said
that when you see
my ummah begin to fight with one another over this dunya,
then take your sword and look for the biggest Mountain. Thereafter,
break your sword on that mountain, cease fighting. Sit in your house
until
that person who unjustly wants to harm you comes to try and take
your life or
the time of your death comes till that point, remain and wait
patiently. Muhammad Bin maslam Al Asmaa said, I did what rasulallah
ordered me to do. Another narration. Muhammad bin masala
Malayalam says that Ravi salaam gave me a sword and said, Ya
Muhammad, fight with the sword in the way of Allah until you see my
ummat breakup into groups and stuff.
Fighting with one another. Thereafter,
go with the sword to the mountain, break it and thereafter, do not
get involved in the conflict. Hold back your tongue and your hands
until someone comes and tries to harm you and take your life or
someone comes to hurt you. He says, When the shahada of Asmaa,
Allahu, Taala nu took place, and thereafter the Muslims started
fighting amongst themselves and carried out what rasulallah saw
ordered me to do, and broke my sword upon a mountain.
Ahmed Narayan that I heard a person in the Janas of uzaypa
rahuta Anu saying that I heard uzakara, the Allahu talano say
that there is no doubt in what I have heard from rasulallah sallam,
that when my ummah breaks up into factions and groups and starts
fighting with one another, that I should enter my home, and if
anyone comes to Me to harm me, I should say to them, Go ahead. Do
whatever you want to do, carry my son and your son
respectfully, as we can see from these various narrations and
vivaya,
the emphasis the rasulallah Ali asallams placed
on mutual unity, love and affection being preserved at all
costs in the Ummat,
one famous incident,
on one occasion, a camel came to rasulallah Salami Sallam and
complained of the conduct
that it was receiving from its master,
Allah SWT sent for the owner of the camel, and NaVi salaam
asked, requested him to gift the camel over to him. Allah sallam,
obviously request coming from him. Sahabi exceeded to it, and he
gifted the camel to NaVi salami. And then NaVi salaam told the
camel that you are free to go. Your days of trouble are over. He
comes in, the rewired for Ava Ratan, he
came and made a sound Allah said, Ameen thereafter, a second time,
third time,
each time, he said, Amin the fourth time. Allah rasam starts
crying.
So Sahaba asked what had occurred.
So NaVi salaried said that this Tamil made dua, the first dua, may
Allah free you from your fears, as you have freed me from my fears.
So I said, Ameen, second dua, may Allah protect your ummat from
being completely annihilated from a plague. I said, Ameen, may
Allah. The third dua, may Allah protect your ummat from being
completely annihilated by a tyrannical ruler
so on. This also Navis, alas is an Amin and the fourth Zoa, the May
Allah, protect your ummat from breaking up into groups and
factions,
their hearts becoming disunited and fighting with one another.
This sahabathi Nabi Sasha started crying because Jibreel had come
and informed him that this dua will not be accepted by Allah
subhanaw.
Taalama explained another meaning in the studies that if they laugh
differences of opinion,
people going in different directions. Kabiri Ji is a it is
something that is part of human fitrit in nature.
What to say that there must be no difference of opinion, to say that
there must be no
disagreement that is in conflict with human nature, disagreements
will occur. If the laws will occur, differences of opinion will
occur. But what our reaction is at the time when a dispute arises
there, we have to keep the director of the Shariat in front
of us. You see in the first narration Allah Sahabah that that
rope which will bind Islam and Iman greater than anything else.
They responded salah. They responded fasting. They responded
jihad. He said, No, what was bind by ummat, and what is the most
effective thing we should keep this ummat together and keep Islam
and Iman alive, is that our loving and our hating should be for the
sake of Allah that is in our mutual relationships. We have to
swallow our anger, swallow the dictates of our loves, keep Allah
in front of us, and for the sake of Deen, for the sake of iman, for
the sake of Islam, and especially in the work of dawat and Kabul,
for the sake of the work and the effort of rasulallah. Whatever we
find unpalatable, whatever we dislike, whatever we see in front
of us that he is causing us to become aggressive, or is a
situation of conflict to preserve the unity at all costs, we have to
digest this for the sake of Allah. Our love has to be for the sake of
Allah. Our hatred and our dislike has to be for the sake of Allah.
Kala. This is that which will preserve unity.
The next narration.
Is
this narration where Allah
Aj is mentioned, incident, Muhammad bin maslamah.
Before this, Abdullah bin Abhi ohadi, Allahu talanu, and after
that, husay Khara Yallah. There is no time to read all the various
vivaya, but you see basically one message coming across that Allah
is a so salaried. In the first instance, he told Muhammad bin
maslama, the day is a sword. Use it. Fight in the way of Allah.
Strive in the way of Allah. But when the time comes that my ummad
breaks up into groups and factions at that time, break your sword,
break your sword, and then sit in your home. And then when any of
the groups come to you to attack you or to get you to side with
them, then what must your response be? Go, be it me or itch.
Melamine, ashabina, radalikazaw zalini, this refers to the verse
of the Quran,
wherein
the first dispute, the first argument that took place in
humanity, that entire incident,
is mentioned in detail in the Quran, in Surah Baqarah, and for
us to understand and appreciate what directive was given to the
Sahaba kiram, very briefly, we have to look at that incident
which occurred between the two sons of abiyel very,
very briefly. Habil,
by trade,
used to tell animals and kabiel by trade, was a farmer.
The system of procreation at that time
was that Allah. Allah made it such that Adam and hawali Musallam,
father and mother humanity. Every year, a pair of twins would be
born, male and female.
The next year another pair of twins.
So in order to ensure the continuity of the human race,
there was one difference in the Sharia of Adam and esalam, that
brother was not allowed to marry sister that was born with him, but
the next year is one, they were allowed to marry
another. Made such that the twin that was born with Kabir was very
beautiful, and the one that was born with habe was not so good
looking. So Kabir became infatuated by the beauty of the
sister that was born with him,
and he wanted to marry her.
So this thing got to such a situation that the dispute came
before Adam and ERISA, Allah, talam, Waheed, they tell both of
them,
both your sons, must put forward some kurwani, some sacrifice,
and thereafter we will decide in their matter, Habil a lot of
Taqwa. So he looked for his most prized animal, and he presented
that Habil
the system in those days where you were not allowed whatever satyaka
You gave, you were not allowed to derive benefit from it. So
whatever it was animal or crop or whatever it is, would be taken,
put on a high ground, and they would wait for a flame to come
down from the heavens. That flame came down and it was burnt. It was
a sign of acceptance. So Kabir copter himself is going to get
burnt anyway to look for his most interest. Most inferior crop. I'm
cutting the incident very short. So the animal of Habil and the
crops of Kabir were placed on the high ground. The fire came down,
and obviously the animal of habeel was accepted by Allah and was
taken up to the heavens.
So Kabir became even more intense now that
even his sadhaka has been rejected.
So he picked up a rock and one divided comes a staff,
and he went toward his brother,
raising his calf in order to attack his brother.
So what?
In other words, a conflict situation had arisen. Quran
mentions this incident in great detail,
for certain reasons. First and foremost, you have to understand
that this conflict arose between two brothers in this is ishara, an
indication that generally in the ummat. First and foremost,
conflict will occur between family members,
and this is something we have to be very, very careful about.
In fact, preservation of family ties is something
when Hadith becomes that Allah Tala has given family ties
physical form and the VISTA Assam said in the Rahim allahumble Ash
and family ties is attached to the ash of Allah
nada every day family time addresses Allah and makes dua.
Holding on to the harshallah, the Allah, that person who will
preserve me, you preserve him also. And that person who will
break me and destroy me, you break and destroy him also.
So one is ishara, an indication that generally, when disputes
occur, it will be between family members.
That's where disputes will start.
And secondly, by the reaction of each of these brothers,
sunnatullah is explained, an
example is put in front of us. You are given a choice when a dispute
arises, choose the role or the road of habeel, or choose the road
of Kabil, become the oppressed one, become the Muslim, or become
the zalim or oppressor, and your outcome will be determined
according to what you do.
So when Kabil raised the staff threateningly towards his brother,
what was the response of Habel, lahim, Basak,
talani, Mahana, Viva city, YALI, that, Oh, my brother, if you raise
your hand
to harm me, I will do nothing to harm you. I am prepared to become
oppressed. I will not raise my hand against you. But be warned
and be cautioned that if you continue like this, if you
continue to oppress me, if you continue with the direction that
you have chosen, then you will carry my sin and you will carry
your sin. But the kuna mean ashabina And your abode will
become Jahannam vadhanika, jazau zalimin, and this is how Allah
kala rewards or recompenses or gives the retribution to the
zalimin those who are oppressive.
Khabib didn't listen to the warning. He went ahead. What was
ALLAH sunnat with the zali with the oppressive one when it comes
to his family members, or in a larger context, when he comes to
his Muslim brothers, the one who is the oppressor, the one who will
break down ties, the one who is the aggressor. What is Allah? SWT
that from then till Qi, Ahmad, the curses of Allah descending on
Kabir, every murder that will occur till Qi Ahmad, the sin and
the guna for it falls on Kabir, and his abode will be Jahannam
habeel. On the other hand, Allah dala raised him. Allah exonerated
him. This entire incident is mentioned in the Quran in the
honor of habeel, and to such an extent Allah meant Ali mentions
that that Qurani animal that he put forward that was carried to
the heavens, Allah dala ordered the Malaika to tend that animal in
Jannat, and at the time when Sayyidina Ibrahim alaihi salam, a
ransom was required,
as shidia for his son Ismail Ali Salam, that same animal of Habil
was sent down to the dunya to be slaughtered by Ibrahim alaihi
salam. Such honor Allah Tara gave habeel When in this dispute he
chose to become the oppressed one. Allah the Suraj said, mantara,
kalmira, Awa, mukhitul, Bunya, Rahu, beithan, privad, Jannah,
that ummati of mine, who will walk away from a dispute, especially
when it is family members or even general ummed. I remember a few
years ago in India, there was one court case
where one brother was taking another brother, or someone one
relative was taking another relative to court, and dispute,
obviously would be over dunya, I don't be over anything else.
There was a Hindu judge before
he could start in his introductory speech, he said, Today one Muslim
is fighting with another Muslim. There is no winner. There is only
one loser, and the loser is Islam a Hindu debt center.
Nowadays we find
court cases, disputes, arguments, brother, not talking to brother,
cousin, not talking to cousin. Whole, whole family is breaking
down.
Years and years of Taliban now, with words of Deen, also, water is
being thrown over it when we open the door to disputes, when the
hearts become disunited, when we allow ourselves to break up into
groups and factions and become supporters of one against the
other. This colors our thinking and this colors our efforts. And
automatically, the help of Allah Aj is taken away because Allah
Yadu, Lal, Jamaat, Allah's hand is on the Jamaat when there is unity.
So in the case of disputes, this directed so many Sahaba Huey
paradiallahu, Muhammad bin masa
Abdullah bin Abu par Adi Allahu qu said, when my
ummah breaks up into groups, then become the oppressed one.
And directly, Allah is quotes directly from the Quran. In other
words, although the names are not mentioned, what is the ishara
become habeel,
you don't become the Zhang and you become the Muslim. And what
guarantee Allah has given Rahi Sala Islam said, Maza, the Allahu
Abu. And prescription from Muhammadu Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, that if you want honor, if you want honor, if you
want is that if you want respect, Allah Azza has guaranteed it to
you when, when in a dispute with your brother, you become the
Muslim one, he said, become the oppressed one. Let him have the
other hand. Don't demand your right and Muhammad Sallallahu,
Islam guarantees you. Allah will give you Islam. Allah will give
you respect. Allah will give you dignity in this world you want.
Hadith comes and Isla, Islam said, Man ahaba, and you Wassa Allahu
Hanyu, Madhya, Mufi, omorihi wa Yuasa allahufi, richtihi wa Tamu,
tasu
Allahu. But these are things which every person wants. Ravi salasam
said that person wants wealth. He wants his dunya to increase. He
wants Barkat in his rose in his sustenance.
One thing he wants long life. And
when it comes to long life, one interpretation, what am I given
that? What does long life, that his life should be lengthened mean
in this hadith, you see one interpretation is that even after
he leaves this world and he goes into the cover, he will still get
the reward of his good deeds,
if he wants long life, if he wants increase in his risk, he wants to
become wealthy,
and if he wants his name to be raised after he leaves this world,
to be looked as a person of honor and dignity,
such great returns. Allah, AJ says, What is the Nusa? What is
the prescription Rahima? He said, hear Allah and never be a cause of
dispute occurring in your families.
Become the Muslim one, become the oppressed one.
Coming back to this incident,
Muhammad bin maslamah anhu, is amongst
those Sahaba, ikiram Who amongst Sahaba, among Sahaba, it was well
known that there was a group of Sahaba where each Sahabi was
regarded as equivalent to 1000 people. That
when it came to fighting in the way of Allah, each of the Sahara
would be regarded as equivalent to 1000 people. In fact, when Ahmad
bin Asra, the Allahu taala,
was facing the Egyptian army, his army numbered 4000 the Egyptians
were over 100,000
so he sent a message to Umar, the Allahu talahu, that I want
reinforcements.
Umar was Amir at that time. Umar the Allahu talanu wrote a letter
Muhammad bin as citing the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu. Sallamin
ravishla said, lay you Beloved. Ifna Ashra al Khan in pillah. He
said that no army of my ummad that numbers 12,000 will ever lose a
battle because of lack of numbers. So if you number 12,000 if you
lost a battle, it is for some other cause. He sends this letter,
and what does he send with it? He sends another 4000
so Ahmed bin ah said, 4000 Omar sent another 4000 8000 so where is
the 12,000 with the 4000 he sends another four. Sahaba, two from
among the muhajireen, zubayd bin awam RadiAllahu talaga, bin
asmaadi, Allahu Taala hum, two from the ansa, Oba DAB bin Samit
and maslab bin
muqallud. Omar says that each of these, each of these four, are
equivalent to 1000
so in other words, I have now sent you 12,000
and with 12,000 you cannot lose because of lack of numbers. There
were other Sahaba also that were regarded as one being equivalent
to 1000
madikari, Allahu, Taala and who they have been, kuwali RadiAllahu,
Taala and Hu zubayd bin awam RadiAllahu Taala and Hu dharab bin
Abu RadiAllahu Tala, Hus bin Abbas RadiAllahu talaan Hu
these. And there were others also, and one of them was Muhammad bin
maslamah RadiAllahu Tala. Why am mentioning this? It was to
understand the extent of nuksan and harm that is caused in ummat
when disunity will occur that that sword, which was equivalent to
1000 also, Allah SWT says to him, break the sword when my ummat
breaks up into groups, and my ummat starts fighting over a Raj
and dunya, at that time, Muhammad.
Have been Muslim also is told that person who is equal to 1000 is
told to break your sword and become habeel and allow yourself
to become the oppressed one, and you no longer fight in the way of
Allah. So we can see the greatest cause of the downfall of the
Ummat, of the strength of this ummat being diminished, is when
the hearts will become disunited. That is why so much of emphasis
Allah rasoo, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam placed on unity to refine
my respected brothers way out in the path of Allah subhanho wa
Taala to the effort of doubt in tablig. Very, very important
amongst our six points of tablig, the fourth point which teaches us
to engender unity, engender love, become a source of unity and
become a source of drawing others closer towards us.
For that, my respective brothers, we have to understand whenever,
whenever a dispute arises, we should not be taking sides
this incorrect utilization, utilization of the tongue,
rebirth, back biting, slandering, opening the faults of others.
These are things which breathe disunity, which breathes the
breaking of the hearts of others. So we have to develop this within
ourselves. This is from Makani as from the development of a class
that in our homes, also, whether it's our wife, whether it's our
children, teach them,
don't listen to HEB and don't make rebut. Don't listen to the faults
of others and don't mention the faults of others. They make this
art upon ourselves. Really very special brothers, this is the
shortcut to Jannat, not Jannat. This is the shortcut to Jannatul,
till those the highest Jannat more valuable than tahajjudra Every
night and fasting every day. Walla is if you can develop this
quality, not to make vivad of anyone, or listen to vivad of
anyone, not to mention the faults of anyone, or listen to the faults
of anyone. It's just this much we can do. This is more valuable
Allah than fasting every day for the lifespan of nuwale Salaam and
making tahajjud Salah every night for the lifespan of nuwale Salaam,
to develop this within ourselves love for Allah's sake and never,
ever to be a cause of disunity, be a cause of the unification of the
hearts, this we have to develop within ourselves. Mentions. He
says
that this level of development of akh in character is directly
linked to the effort of Iman and Sahabah made the effort of iman
correctly, he says a Jamaat of 30,000
a Jamaat of 30,000 would leave Madina manovara
In such circumstances and situation where the ration was one
day today, 10 people sharing one camel, arduous journey, lack of
water, boiling sun of the desert every you. Every invitation
was present for arguments to occur, for tempers to play. Yet in
such circumstances, it was conducive towards infighting.
30,000 would go and return. And not one person would have insulted
another one. Not one person would be angry with another one. Not one
person would have hurt the feelings of another one. And he
says, nowadays, 10 people go, 10 people go with the best of
provisions, with all the soul as an ease for a few days in the path
of Allah. And already we are fighting with one another. Already
we are hurting the feelings of one another. This is because of the
level of iman being so low. That is why more and more effort we
have to make, more and more we have to raise the level of our
Qurani and sacrifice so that radhala endows us with these
aspects of akhlaq in character. Radhala Give us a