Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 11 Ramadan Late Night Majlis Best of Planners 03212024
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We reached this Mubarak 11th night of Ramadan.
Somebody one of the listeners from Toronto last
night
correctly pointed out to me that, I was
a day behind in my head.
So not the first time I was victim
to Rosa Brain, but,
you know, it happens it happens to,
I don't wanna say it happens to the
best of us, but it happens to the
rest of us for sure.
Allah
give us from his and his,
in
in these 10 nights
for the one who doesn't remember anything else
in these 10 days and 10 nights, doesn't
remember anything else to ask for. Let them
make the
dua.
My lord,
forgive
and have mercy, and you are the best,
of,
you're the,
you're the most merciful of those
who have mercy. Allah
gives to give us. And then on top
of that, this is the Mubarak night of
Friday.
Unlike some previous years,
we only have 4 Fridays in this Ramadan.
So these are very precious nights. There are
very few that are like it. Inshallah, Allah
give us, from their and from their barakah,
and give us also the tawfiq not to
waste them.
And I wanted to share something before starting
with today's reading,
which is a number of people have been
texting me, and they're like, Moana, do you
feel like this Ramadan is kind of a
drag? And, you know, we're not doing as
much as we should be, and this is
not happening right, and that's not happening right,
and blah blah blah. And the answer is
categorically no.
Allah's
Fable is with the Ummah,
and it's there from the beginning. It's there
to the end. It's our fault that or
perhaps
the fault of things that are
not in our control but somewhat close to
us in circumstance
that we chose to
settle in a place where
everything is,
you know, efficiently engineered to get a person
not to think about a lot.
But
those who are remembering are remembering.
Those who are benefiting are benefiting.
And,
like, in lockdown,
anyone who had even, like, a small amount
of fikr for their own islah, those were
the best Ramadans for them. And there are
other people who didn't even fast,
who would call or who would text or
who would,
cry and send emails and say, you know,
I haven't even started fasting yet because we
couldn't go to the masjid and whatever.
And good news to all of the above,
even if that's your situation right now. Imagine
that a person didn't even fast.
Well, there's always tomorrow.
You can always fast. You can always make
up the ones that you missed. If the
Mufti Sahib tells you how much kafara to
give, just give the kafara and move on.
And glad tidings to the person who, even
if they were messing around in the beginning,
they end well.
If somebody asked, I feel like it's a
low tide. I go behind the low tide
is the best time. The tide pools have
all sorts of you catch fish easy. You
catch all sorts of nama and all sorts
of barakah
and all sorts of blessing from Allah
When everybody else is sitting it out, then
you could shoot to number 1 with
a relatively lower amount of work. So if
that's what you're feeling,
good for you. This is the time to
to cash in and not waste it. And
if you've been wasting it so far, no
problem. There's still some time left Insha'Allah.
May Allah
give all of us
but never be of the
the mindset that things are not going right.
Allah
runs the heavens and the earth like he
always did.
So everything is, by definition, always going maximally
right all the time.
The actual fight. The army of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam pitched its tents behind
the trench and kept watch by day night.
Beyond the trench, the allied forces laid a
siege to the city,
but a stalemate continued for a few days
without any actual fighting between the two armies.
The enemy cavalry rode ahead and upon coming
near suddenly saw a wide ditch.
The unexpected find filled them with consternation.
A novel device, a deceptive ploy, they exclaimed
in amazement.
They asked one another how the ditch could
be traversed and decided to go around the
trench One
of
these,
was
the well known warrior Amr ibn Abu'ud. One
of these, was the well known warrior Amr
ibn Abu'ud,
who was considered a match for a 1,000
horsemen. After crossing the ditch, he stopped and
challenged anyone to a fight.
So that's, you know, Arabs to this day
are
expert writers.
When I say Arabs, I mean the actual
Arabs. I'm not talking about falafel shawarma pyramids.
Like, I'm talking about people of tribal lineage.
I remember I used to teach English in
the Faraj and I asked I kid you
not, I asked the kids in my ESL
class, like, what
what do you guys do for fun? And
they're like, we ride camels.
And I'm thinking, like, so funny because I
grew up, like, in rural, you know, like,
Washington state. So, like, you know, I'm I'm
not
unscathed from being called *.
But lo and behold, here's actual camel jockeys,
and they're doing it for fun. I go
stuff for that. You race for money and
or, like, bets. No. No. No. We just
do it for fun. We have our own
camels. We go hang out with our friends,
and we race camels for fun,
and, horses and all these other things. And,
I'm like, well, there you have it. So
a couple of them were able to actually
jump the ditch. Obviously, you can't pour an
entire army over because not every horse is
the same and not every horseman is the
same, and not every horse and horsemen get
along the same. But, here's Amr bin Abu
Wood who,
jumped the ditch
and challenged anyone to fight him.
He immediately sprang forward and said to him,
Amir, you declare,
to God if a man of Quresh offered
you 2 alternatives, you would accept one of
them. I mean, this is a boast of
his that look how generous I am. That
if I say no to one thing, I
won't say no to the second.
Yes. I did, replied Amir.
Then, said Ali, I invite you to Allah
and his apostle into Islam.
Amir replied, it's of you no use to
me.
Then I call you to face me, rejoined
Ali. Why? Said Amr. Son of my brother,
by god, I do not want to kill
you. However, retorted Ali, I do want to
kill you.
I don't know. Not maybe not gonna be
the next care bus ad. I don't know.
But here here you are. Here we are.
They came to destroy Madinah, and they hated
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And this is
a man who loved Ali
but Ali hated him for the sake of
Allah because of his enmity to Allah and
his Rasul.
Amir was flushed with anger. He dismounted his
horse and hamstrung it,
slapped its face, and then he made for
Ali. Meaning, he said that why would you
kill your own horse?
A, angry.
B, in order to show in order to
show that, like, this is it. This is
gonna happen. There's no running away from this
to show that he means business.
He slapped his face and then he made
for Ali. Amir fought and joined with Ali,
made thrust and parade,
but ultimately, Ali
cut Amir's head off with a sweeping dash
in his blade.
2 of his comrades who had stormed the
trench with him, Nofad bin Mughira,
being one of them, darted back in their
with their horses. So they turned around and
jumped the jumped the the the digit and
went back because they were so afraid of
the ferocity with which Said Nahri
Palestine, Ahmed Bin Abi,
would so you see again and again, Said
Nahri when
it comes to the Mubarazah,
like,
it's no joke. He he he he went
in with some ferocity. They didn't call him
the the the Haidar for no reason.
I mean, he he would really attack like
a like a lion. It it was something,
that the the enemies of Islam would see
and be fear fearful of.
The ardent zeal of the Muslim women say
that Aisha
mother of the believers
was then in the citadel of Banu Haditha
with the other Muslim women.
That was before the commander, Hijab, came down.
She said that Saad bin Mu'ad,
passed, that way. He was putting on a
coat of mail,
so small that his hands were fully exposed.
He was reciting some verses when his mother
told him, hurry up, lest he should be
late.
I Sayedha Aisha
said to his mother,
Musad, by god, I wish that his coat
of mail were longer.
The fear expressed by Aisha,
ultimately
proved well justified.
For Saad, who
was hit by an arrow in his arm
and died of excessive bleeding,
during the subsequent battle with Banu Pareda.
And someone says, how do you, like, die
from getting shot in the artery? If you
cut an artery, you'll lose blood quickly.
Divine,
Sikors, divine aid. The siege continued for about
a month or so. The Muslims were hungry
and wary while the besieging army was fully
provided with arms and provision.
The hypocrites showed their true colors, and many
of them asked for permission of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to return to Medina on
the pretext that they had to come in
a hurry, leaving the doors of their houses
unlocked. They simply wanted to pull out of
the battlefront. The Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and his companions passed their days,
in a nervous strain, harassed by the enemy
in front and worried about the menace of
the Jews in the rear.
Then suddenly, one day, Nua'in bin Mas'ud al
Asjai, who himself belonged to Hatafan, came to
the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and told
him that he had secretly embraced Islam, but
his own people did not know of it.
He, also offered to do whatever he was
bidden.
Where fear is Allah,
Allah gives them an exit from his problems.
No idea this was gonna happen, but one
of the noblemen of the enemy army that's
sieging you with 10,000 sold it's like one
of the largest armies that the Arabian Peninsula
has seen to date.
Something or another caused them to cross over
to what's the quote, unquote losing side and
say, hey.
I'm a Muslim and they don't know. So
what do you think? What what should we
do?
The Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, said, you are
the only man there, so remain with them
and try to help us, for war is
but artifice and deception.
After taking leave of the Rasool went
to Banu Qureid,
the the Jewish tribe that had broken their,
treaty with the prophet
treacherously
and sided with the enemy during the siege,
with whom he talked in a way that
they began to wonder whether or not they
had taken the correct decision in abandoning the
Muslims, their next door neighbors, for the sake
of distant tribes at Quraishin Qutafan.
He advised them that it would be wise
of them to demand some notable members of
Quraishin Qutafan,
as hostages
before joining the fight so that they got
a fair deal from their new allies. You
take some people kind of as collateral,
against,
against what? So that you don't so that
the your allies don't chicken out and flee,
the field of battle. Banu Poreida expressed their
gratefulness to Nuraim for this excellent advice or
seemingly excellent advice.
Nuraaim then went to the leaders of the
Quresh
and after assuring them of his sincerity, told
them that Banu Qureva, the the Jews we
had talked to before, were unhappy about taking
sides with them. They are now thinking about
demanding some of their nobles as hostages by
way of security on the pretext that the
promise made by them to the allied allies
would be broken.
He then said Banu Queda had actually already
sent word to Muhammad
that they would hand over to him a
few chiefs of the 2 tribes to prove
their sincerity to him,
so that he might,
cut off their heads. Nur Aims told the
same story to the Hatafan.
Thus, the seeds of distrust were sowed by
Nur Aims between Banu Queda on one hand
and Quresh Al Hatafan on the other that
made each of them cautious or and suspicious
of one another.
Abu Sufyan decided upon a general attack. When
he tried to move the Jews to participate
in the attack, they demanded hostages from operation
of Khattafam before putting, their forces together with
them. The stratagem that Nur Ain bin Mas'ud
had chosen proved a complete success. Quraysh and
Khattafan were convinced that the news brought by
Nooraim was entirely correct, and they promptly turned
down the demand of the Jews. Banu Pareda,
on their part, had now become dead sure
that their allies were not sincere to them.
The discouragement
suffered by the allied forces smashed their unity
and exhausted their patience.
We're pitching a tent for a month
outside of, a city, it's not an easy
thing to do for any of them.
Then on a cold and cloudy night, a
violent hurricane from the desert uprooted the tents
of the nomads and overturned their cooking pots.
The severe weather sent by god disheartened the
enemy. Calling his men, Abu Sufyan said to
them, oh, Quresh, it is no longer a
5th place to camp here. Our horses have
died. Banu Poreda have not kept faith with
us, and we have heard dead dreadful tight
tidings from them. You can see havoc caused
by the gale.
We have neither a cooking pot at its
place nor a fire to light nor a
standing tent, nor yet a shelter to rely
on. Get you gone for I have decided
to go.
He was so demoralized. The the captain should
go down with the ship, but he was
so demoralized, he was the first one to
leave the battlefield.
Abu Sufyan then abruptly got up and got
got on his camel, which was hobbled. He
mounted and beat it, and he did not
even free it from its hobble until it
stood up.
That's how quickly he got up to leave
is that he forgot to untie it properly.
When Ratafan learned that Quraish had departed, they
also vanished in the darkness of the desert.
Huvayfatubu Yaman, who had been sent by the
prophet to
spy the movement of the enemy, returned with
news of the enemy's departure when the prophet
was saying his prayers. He told the Rasul
sallallahu alaihi wasallam what he had seen. No
trace of the enemy was left by daybreak
when the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the
Muslims left their camp, not to the
trench, but to their homes in Madinah where
they had laid aside their arms. This was
a miracle worked by the mercy of God
as the Quran says. All you who believe,
remember Allah's favor on you when there came
against you hosts,
and we sent against them a great wind
and host that you could not see. And
Allah is ever a seer of that which
you do. And Allah repulse the disbelievers with
their wrath. They gained no good. Allah averted
their attack from the believers. Allah is strong
and mighty.
Then the billowy clouds that covered the heavens,
the billowy clouds that had covered the heavens
had disappeared without any rainstorm or thunder, both
leaving the sky, of Madinah clear as ever.
So the bad weather
disappeared. The Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said
this, companions of Quraysh shall not attack you
again after this year, but from now on,
it is you that shall attack them.
Seven Muslims gave their lives,
in martyrdom at the Battle of Trench as
well. 4 of the, infidels were killed by
the Muslims.
So this is the,
the Alamo Mital.
Some
18 looking figures smoking a cigar and saying,
I love it when a plan comes together.
Look at that.
They they they made their plot.
Made his plot,
and is the best of plotters.
The
important part was that a person has to
trust in Allah and
that a person tries their best. Just because
you try doesn't mean that you're going to
win in this world.
Oftentimes, people make the best of plans in
their mind, and Allah's plan is better than
that and it takes them in a different
route.
However, one thing that we can all agree
on is that you lose 100%
of the,
you know, you miss a 100% of the
shots that you don't take.
Obviously, this expression is now used kind of
more of the player
situation, but it applies across
across the board that that you lose a
100% of the shots that you don't take.
May Allah
give us tofief. May Allah give us Himma
and courage. May Allah
open doors of good for us, and may
Allah
whenever we, reach and stretch our hands out
in order to touch and in order to
contact, the good, in order to strive in
the path of good, and in order to
strive in his path. May he never leave
us hanging in this world nor in the
hereafter,
nor, our brothers who are struggling,
in everywhere,
in the world, including in Gaza, in order
to
protect,
in order to preserve, in order to
entrench their basic dignity, their freedom to live
as human beings, and their freedom to worship
Allah and fear nobody except for him. Allah
give all of them Tawfiq and Allah give
Tawfiq and blessings to those who would stand
up and aid them and those who would
say a word in their defense and those
whose prayers are with them and those who
love them. And may Allah
pour and drown in Laana and in curses
everybody who would fight them and everybody who
would, aid and assist those who fight them,
and everyone who would speak on favor of
those who fight them, and everybody who would
love or be pleased with those who fight
them.