Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 10 Ramadn Late Night Majlis The Battle the Trenches 03202024
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
We reached this
Mubarak night,
night of Ramadan.
The first
is almost over.
Allah
give us to
seek from it,
Allah's mercy and whatever other things that we
seek from it. Really, every night night is
unique and every night is important.
If a person doesn't know
what else to ask, let them ask this.
There's, of course, an entire,
there's an entire,
knowledge
and skill of knowing what to ask and
how to ask.
And the
the principle around which that skill,
revolves
is in showing your slavehood because that's the
point of asking.
And when you ask,
the benefit is what? That you make your
relationship with Allah right, and you also get
stuff you ask for.
So there's a lot of benefit in that.
So if you don't know how to ask,
if someone's like you know, someone doesn't understand
how to ask, then sit with the people
who know how to ask. They'll teach you
the of how to ask. Everything there's a
right way of doing it. If you want
to go to Harvard,
you don't just walk walk onto the campus.
Like, I don't know why the * anyone
would wanna go to Harvard. But I'm just
saying, if you wanna go to Harvard,
right, you're like, hey. Let's hobnob with, like,
rich, like, crony capitalist class, like, warmongering cappers.
Okay. There's a way of doing that. Right?
First of all, you don't walk up to
them and say rich capitalist, chronic class, day
stage. Whatever. You don't say that. But you
go you you you
figure out what is the deadline for the
application.
You submit your application months ahead of time.
You know, talk about, you know, when they
ask, like, what was the one time you
got over adversity?
You know, you probably wanna talk about, like,
how
difficult it was for you to, like, overcome
a disability
rather than that one time, you know, you
didn't like a kid at school. And so
you, like, laid a trap from him, beat
him up, and broke his leg. Right? Both
of them are actually inspiring tales, but the
adab of asking in one
context is different than, you know, in in
another. And so the person who knows what
those adab are will get you what you
want.
And, with Allah,
it's no different. Rather, Allah is Jameer Ribal
Jamal. The person who teaches you how to
ask in a beautiful way is usually gonna
be a beautiful person, and
learning this will also make you beautiful as
well. May Allah give all of us.
So we read today the
the the chapter regarding the khandaq, the battle
of trenches.
The battle of trenches or clans, the hazab,
as it is sometimes called.
The word hazab,
is also the name of the Surah,
of the Quran.
In the,
it's
written that
originally the Surat Al Ahab was actually longer
than Surat Al Baqarah,
and much of it was abrogated.
And it's a it's a surah in which
there are a lot of kind of heavy
things that are discussed.
Many of them having to do with with,
obviously, with,
war and all of these other things. Many
of them having to do with
person of the prophet Many of them doing
with having to do with the noble household
of the prophet
It's the Surah in which Allah gives,
this beautiful, gift to the
So the battle of trenches or clans that
is some as it is sometimes called took
place in the month of Shawwa
in,
5 Hijra.
The battle was accompanied with great difficulties and
overcome with great, and comparably great courage.
It forged and tested the fortitude and patience
of the Muslims,
that was to prove of immense benefit to
them, not only in winning over the Arabian
Peninsula to their faith, but also in taking
its message to distant lands. It was a
decisive conflict between Islam and Kufr,
between light and darkness,
whereby the Muslims were put to the most
severe trial,
worse than anything that they had faced from
before.
And then he translates from the, from the
Quran. When they came upon you from above
you and from below you,
and when the eyes grew wild and the
hearts reached to throats,
and you were imagining vain thoughts concerning Allah.
You know, like, Allah thought maybe he abandoned
us so he's not here for us or
whatever.
That you were imagining vain thoughts concerning Allah.
There, the believers were sorely tried and shaken
with, mighty shock.
So the reason that it's in the
the the,
Hezbollah and the
of people because people these moments come over
people.
You feel like, what have I got myself
into? What is all of this? You know?
Now, you know, now I'm in trouble and,
whatnot.
Those are the things that those are the
the the the words of Allah. They bring
strength to the hearts
and, they describe the state of the companions
or the Allah and whom.
Treacherous,
tribes from amongst the Jews of Madinah were
the real instigators of hostilities leading to the
battle of the trenches.
Certain people belonging to Banu Nadir and Banuwa'il,
who made no secret of their desire to
see the Muslims uprooted, called upon the Quraysh
of Mecca and invited them to extirpate the
Muslims altogether.
At first, the Quraish did not show much
interest in the venture for they had already
twice measured swords with the Muslims, but the
Jews painted a rosy picture of,
the affair and promised support of all Jewish
settlements in Arabia for getting rid of the
Muslims once and for all. The Quraysh ultimately
agreed to their suggestion.
The Jewish deputation went,
then
with,
the great desert tribe of Hatafan.
Again, these Bedouin tribes similar to the,
similar to the ones that, killed the that
we talked about, previously,
and urged them to join the expedition for
the destruction of Yathrib.
Yathrib being the old name of Medina.
They called upon all the clans of Qutafan
assiduously
inviting them to join,
Quraish in their combined drive against Islam.
An alliance was thus formed between Quraysh, the
Jews, and Ghataffan to wage a total war
against the Muslims.
An important clause of the agreement was made
for the venture,
that Al Khatafan would muster 6,000 soldiers for
military operations while the Jews would give a
whole year's harvest of Khaybar,
to compensate for the expenses that they would
incur. So they would finance the operation, and
the Bedouins would provide the muscle. The Quraysh
on their part, agreed to contribute 4,000 combatants.
An army of 10,000 strong was thus mobilized
with Abu Sufyan assuming the command of the
combined force.
This is something interesting. It's very interesting. Obviously,
this book was written,
you know,
in
1991 on the day of Jumuah waiting for
the Mubarak,
hour of the prayer.
He had finished
the Surat Kahf, and, he was just waiting
in his room adjacent adjacent to the masjid,
and he started reading.
And his attendants say that, when he got
to,
for Bashir,
he passed to Allah.
But
interesting how he says
he said it was a decisive conflict between
Islam and Kufra and between light and darkness.
Reminds me of something Netanyahu said. Right? The
children of the light.
They're the children of the light,
but, in the same
meaning of the the the name that the
Nasara give to Iblis of Lucifer.
You know what Lucifer means? Means angel of
light.
Why? Because that's how he kind of marketed
himself. He thought of himself. Right? The word
loose. Right? It's the same word for
light in in in Latin and romance languages.
So it's funny how those things work out.
Wisdom, a lost property of the Muslims. When
the prophet
heard news of their design to wipe the
Muslims out of existence, he conferred with his
companions
about how to meet the threat. It was
decided to fight a defensive war, resisting the
attack of the enemy on the city, instead
of facing the coalition in a pitched battle
outside of Medina. The Rasul
assembled a force of 3,000 men at arms
for the defense of the city. It was
the Persian companion, Salman al Farisi
who advised the Muslims to dig a trench
on the side of Madinah that laid open
to cavalry attack. This device was well known
to the ancient Iranians.
Salman has reported radhiallahu anhu radhiallahu anhu to
have said, oh, Rasul of Allah,
when we feared charge by the cavalry, we
would dig trenches to keep the invaders at
bay. The Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, agreed to
his suggestion and decided to have a trench
dug in the open ground lying north of
Madinah. The city was exposed only on that
side and was well protected to the west,
south, and east by dense plantations,
rocks strewn volcanic plains, and granite hills presenting
considerable obstacle to the
marked the
planned ditch and assigned assigned 40 cubits, of
digging to every batch of 10 men.
So about 60 feet, of digging.
The length of each of the trench was
about 5,000 cubits. Its depth varied between 7
to 10 cubits, and the width was around
9 cubits or a bit more.
The cubit being the literally
in Arabic means, like, a forearm. So the
the
the length from the tip of the elbow
to the tips of the fingers of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Enthusiasm
and the cooperative spirit. The Rasool sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam himself helped the parties digging the
portions of the trench allotted to them. So
he was there
in the in the workforce himself.
Although the winter season had set in and
it was extremely harsh, the impoverished Muslims had
but little provision to satisfy their pangs of
hunger, and work proceeded smoothly owing to the
enthusiasm and perseverance of the volunteers.
Abu Talha, who is stepfather of Said Anas
bin Malik, radiallahu anhu,
relates that once
when he was exhausted by hunger, he complained
to the messenger of
Allah and showed his belly to which he
had tied a slab of stone to allay
the hunger pains. The Rasool
then showed him his own belly to which
there were 2, slabs of rock tied.
But everyone was happy and cheerful in spite
of these privations.
The Rasool sallallahu alaihi wasallam's companions sang songs
of pride and chanted,
praise to Allah to keep themselves busy in
their task without a word of complaint from
their lips. Anas radiates
that, once the prophet
came to the place where they were digging
a trench, he saw the Ansar and Muhajirun
working hard to complete their
work despite the biting cold of the morning,
for they had neither slaves nor servants to
dig the ditch for them. Seeing how they
were laboring with their empty stomachs, the prophet
said, oh, Allah, life is true, the life
of the hereafter. So pardon the Ansar and
the Muhajirin.
Overjoyed to hear the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, invoking forgiveness for them. The people present
there said in reply, it is we who
have pledged to Muhammad
to fight in jihad, until the
spark of life is imbued.
Anas
further says or said that if one of
them happened to procure a handful of barley,
he would grind and mix it with a
little fat so that it could be shared
with everyone even if the smell and taste
were
agreeable. So barley ground raw barley ground and
mixed with fat doesn't sound
appetizing, but it is nutritious and so they
would share with one another. A miracle predicting
a bright future.
A large rock was causing great difficulty in
digging the trench for it could not be
broken by the pick.
The Rasul
was informed,
and then he dropped down into the trench
and gave such a blow with a pick
that 1 third of the rock was hewn
asunder. Thereupon, the prophet
said, glory be to Allah. The keys of
Sham have been given to me.
With the second blow of the pick, the
prophet
broke off another third of the rock, Said,
glory be to Allah. The keys of Persia
have been given to me.
By god, I see the white castle of
Mada'in of,
Tisfoun,
the imperial Persian capital.
In the 3rd attempt, the remaining portion of
the rock was broken to pieces. The prophet
then said, glory be to god. I've been
given the keys of Yemen. By God, I
can now see the gate of San'a.
At that time, when this prediction was made,
no prophecy could have been more remote from
the way things were. The Muslims were then
emaciated
by a meager diet and bleak weather and
an army advancing against them.
The not too well fortified city was threatening,
to deal a death blow to its defenders.
So this is an important
rule as well. When you're most down, when
you're most out, when things are looking the
most bleak, that's the time you should make
a lot of dua.
One day worth of hunger, one day of
pain, one day of fear, one day of,
of of of injury,
one day of illness
that's so severe,
because of a person's patience in the suburb
and
end up with
Allah because of that a 100 days, a
1000 days, you'll eat and drink and be
successful in this world, and
a number that's beyond count
on the, day of judgment.
Indeed, the people of patients are
have their their their
wages fulfilled, for them, for the patients that
they had without any sort of account.
Some more miracles. The
companions witnessed a number of miracles while digging
the trench. Whenever they
felt any difficulty
He then prayed to Allah to Allah as
he willed him to pray and ordered to
have the water sprinkled on the rock, which
was pulverized like a heap of sand. Very
often, they say a little food sufficed for
a large number of persons or even the
entire army of 3,000 workers. Jabir ibn Abdillahi
said, when we were digging at the trench,
a huge pile of rock appeared as an
obstruction. The people went to the and told
him that pieces of the rock had obstructed
their work,
saying I shall go down. He stood up
while he had a stone tied on his
belly, for we had been there 3 days
without tasting any food. The
Rasul then took the pick and struck it,
and it became a mound of sand pouring
down. I then took leave of the prophet
and went to my house. I asked my
wife if she had anything, for I had
seen the prophet
extremely hungry.
Yes, she said. I have a little barley,
and we put the meat in a pot
for cooking while the meat was being cooked
and the flour
was,
being kneaded. I went to the rasul sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and told him secretly that
I had a little food for him so
that he might come over with 1 or
2 more persons. The Rasool
asked how much food I had, and I
told him I had enough for the guest.
The Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam replied, it
is good and sufficient.
He then asked me to go back and
tell my wife not to take off the
pot from, the fire nor bake the dough
until, he had arrived. The Rasul, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, invited all of the people, the Ansar
and Muhajidin, who all came with him. I
went back to my wife and told her
if she knew that the Rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam had invited all the people, the
Mujahideen and the Ansar, and everybody present there
was coming with him. She said, did the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam ask you about the
food available? I replied in the affirmative. Then
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wasallam came and told
the people to enter the house.
He took the pieces of the loaves and
placing meat on it, gave it to the
people turn by turn
and kept the oven and pot covered with
a cloth. In this way, he pulled,
loaves from under the cloth and poured meat,
out for all of his companions from under
the cover until everyone had eaten their fill.
Then he asked me and my wife to
take food and give it to our neighbors
as well and to have it ourselves so
that we were not without food for several
days. In another version,
narrated of the incident by Jabir,
he went to the prophet
and told him in a whisper that he
had slaughtered an ew, a
baby lamb,
that had a little barley,
which had been ground so that, he might
come with a few persons and partake with,
of the food. But the Rasul said
aloud, oh, you who are working at the
trench, Jabir has prepared a banquet.
The hadith is in the real of Salihim.
This is not one of the narrations of
the Sira. You know, some of the Sira
narrations, the chains are not as strong as,
as as others.
But this is actually like a Sahih Hadid.
This is the miracle about, the multitude being
fed,
from Sayidina Jabir's house, and the iman of
his wife is also noteworthy that she asked,
well, you know, did did he say it
or did you tell him to say it
or did he say it on his own?
He said he said it on his own.
He said, don't worry. Everything will be okay.
The fiery ordeal, the Muslims had hardly finished
work on the trench when the Quresh arrived
and camped outside of Medina.
They had 10,000 well equipped warriors with them.
Ratafan had come with a confederate tribes and
made their camp with Quresh.
The Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, assembled his 3,000
men to face them. The trench intervening between
the camps of the 2 armies.
Banuk Qureva, the Jewish tribe of Medina, who,
by the way, were still under treaty to,
come to the aid and assistance of the,
Rasul and of the other people of Medina
in which they had lived.
Banu Qureva had made a treaty with the
prophet
for the defense of the city. However, Huyay
bin Ahtab,
the chief of Banu Nadir, had departed earlier
from the city and coaxed Banu Qureva into
breaking the pledge made by them.
The Muslims were placed in a desperate position.
An air of insecurity and fear enveloped the
city. The faint hearted hypocrites now showed their
pale feathers,
sowing seeds of discontent
amongst the rank and file. The prophet
immediately realized the dangerous plight of the Muslims
in general and that of the Ansar in
particular who had always had to bear the
major brunt of war with the Kafirs.
The Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, therefore, proposed
that it might be worthwhile to make peace
with Ghatafan
by giving them 1 third of Medina's date
harvest. This is the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He didn't like anyone to,
suffer misfortune on his account.
Although it was his right also to say
that I'm the messenger of Allah, you pledged
to me not fulfill your pledge. Don't don't
peter out.
But, this was his he wasn't callous to
other people suffering. He said that, what do
you think? We'll just promise them their mercenaries.
We'll promise them a third of the the
date harvest of Medina and, you know, maybe
they'll accept it and they'll go away.
But the Rasul
did not want the Ansar to have any
more trouble for his sake.
But Saad bin Mu'ad and Saad bin Ubada,
2 chiefs of Osil Khazraj, did not agree
to the suggestion.
They said, oh, messenger of Allah,
when we and Hatafan were polytheists and idolaters,
neither serving Allah nor knowing him, they didn't
get even one of our dates except for
as a guest or by paying for
it. Shall we give them our property now
after Allah has honored us with Islam and
with your guidance?
No. By Allah, we shall not give them
anything but the sword until Allah decides between
us.
As you please, the messenger of Allah
said, giving up the idea.
It's difficult not to love the companions of
the And remember,
we love them because
this is who they were.
Don't be weak sauce in your own life.
Be like when you're watching, TV or reading
a book or whatever, you're all cheering for
the companions
or you're cheering for whatever the Jedis or
whatever the heck weird things you're watching. But
then when it comes to the thing, you
know, you're like the little imperial peon. You
know? You're like the little in the back
saying, oh, if we don't do this and
that, then it's this is gonna happen. If
I pray more, I'm gonna die. If I
fast more, I'm gonna die. If we eat
halal, we're gonna die. If we're this is
gonna happen, we're gonna die. If that's gonna
happen, we're gonna die. If I cover my
head, I'm gonna die. If I grow a
beard, I'm gonna die. If this happens, I'm
gonna die. If that, okay. But one day
you'll die anyway.
Just don't be weak sauce about it. I'm
not saying we're fine. There's the Mufti will
tell you. Sometimes there's a dispensation for something.
I remember one time someone ripped out a
brother on Facebook for, not having a beard.
Then I DM ed him. I said, you're
a complete jerk. The guy just went through
chemo. It's a cosmo.
Okay.
So maybe you have a good reason not
to have a beard. Right?
And just say, okay. Fine. If something is
gonna you know, there's dispensations for things. But
in general,
those are exceptional
circumstances.
The rule is what? In general, these things
are not gonna kill you. It's just Shaitan
gets into your head and, you know, it's
people like Ramadan. Shaitan is locked up. Shaitan
has, like is, like, little, like, implanted, like,
little routines in people's head,
that are running again and again that if
you do anything for the sake of Allah,
you're gonna die.
And it's nothing could be further, from the
truth. You know, people are naming their children
after the companions
1400 years later.
And more than anything else, I promise you,
if you tell the story to anyone, the
most Kafirist Kafir,
someone is like, you
you know, crossing themselves and, you know, Jesus
Christ, the Norwegian, like,
30 year old or whatever, you know, like,
bowing in front of him right now. But
you tell them the story, they'll be like,
that's awesome.
They'll be you're going to * anyway, but
still that's you know, it's hard not to
love someone like that. Don't be don't be
weak sauce. You know, at least love it
inside of your heart. The first rank of
wilayah is what? Is that you make
that you bear witness and you witness
yourself to, you witness yourself the rank of
the wale of Allah.
Someone does something good and you're like, you
know what? That's good. That's not normal. That's,
like, amazing. That's amazing.
You're now of Allah. Entry level.
Basic basic package.
Right? What's the gold star package? The gold
star package is then you when you do
it when you do it yourself, when you
become like that yourself, then gold star package.
What's the platinum package?
That the heat of that thing generates inside
of you so much that then when you
meet somebody else, that person also then,
you know, that person also then has this
process start. They also become a member. They
sign up to to become a member of
this. So don't don't be intimidated. It's hard.
I know it's hard. It's hard to, like,
you know,
straighten your straighten your back out and be
hard nosed in the face of what are
real dangers,
and what are real threats and what are
real, liabilities and what are real,
sometimes harmful harmful things.
So at least accept that this is a
good thing inside of your heart. Plant that
seed and let it grow. You never know
where, where it will take take you. Maybe
one day you also wake up and, you
know, you find that you're
beloved as well. May give all of
us by the words is Quran in this
month,
and the the later that's inside of it
and this fasting and this, salat and tarawee
at night
and by all other things that that are
sacred and holy.