Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 12 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis The Land Is Inherited By My Righteous Slaves Addison
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The promise of Islam to be the master and creation of the world is true for individuals, not for groups, and is crucial for achieving goals such as eventually being the one that leads to deification. The importance of wartime and the holy month is emphasized, as well as the importance of not engaging in illegal activities and not wanting to be the one that goes against the grain. The history of the Middle East is also discussed, including the rise of Muslim nationalism and the loss of faith in the Bible, as well as the appointment of a Greek nationalist as a witness and the use of the Greek nationalist as a stepping stone to the throne of the new Middle East.
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We reached this Mubarak,
12th night of Ramadan.
One of the ayat that was read, at
least in the taraweeh prayer that I'm attending,
was
from the Surah Al Anbiya.
Says that we had decreed
in the in the zabur,
the Psalms which were revealed to say Nadawud
alaihis salam
after
the thikr,
which is the revelation of the Torah,
that the land will be,
inherited by my,
by my
slaves and my worshipers,
that are that are
means unbroken,
unspoiled,
the ones that work the way they're supposed
to. So we translate,
a rajal as salih as like a righteous
person,
but the point of salah is what? Is
that it's a person who
everyone, Allah Ta'ala, has created them and Allah
is the master and the creation is
Allah's slave.
And when a slave is broken, he's musad,
he's spoiled.
He no longer obeys the master. He no
longer performs his function
properly.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said and he
commemorated after giving the stories of the prophet
that this is a promise
and a decree that he
informed the creation of in the Torah and
in the
Psalms that the land will be,
inherited
by my righteous slaves.
What does that mean? And this is, something
that I think we need to we need
to understand because Muslims have an idea, and
it's actually part of our that every generation
will be more
more ruined and more spoiled than the generation
before us.
But
that doesn't mean that this precept that the,
the land will be inherited by the righteous
slaves of Allah
is incorrect.
Rather always,
the people of Taqwa, the people of God
fearingness,
they're the ones who will win in the
end.
And that is
for individuals correct
in the hereafter as well as for the.
But it's also correct for the in this
world as well.
Certain individuals
may or may not,
see victory,
but this Ummah will always see victory as
long as people are people of salah. They're
not broken people or they're not ruined people.
They're not people who are mischief makers,
in the earth.
And this is a promise of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And just because
every generation
will be,
will be less righteous than the generation that
came before it, it doesn't mean that this
promise isn't true,
that the people of righteousness will always win.
But why is it that they'll always win?
In this world, one of the decrees that
Allah made is that those people who plan
for tomorrow
will do well tomorrow, and those people who
don't, it's a toss-up. They may do well.
They may do poorly. And the person who
makes a bad plan,
a plan that will necessarily,
cause some sort of harm to themself or
to others, that harm will be realized tomorrow.
There are
exceptions to the rule, but the exception,
doesn't do anything except for prove the rule,
is the rule itself.
And we don't fixate on exceptions. Rather, we
try to learn something from the rule.
And the rule is what? If you
live properly,
if you take care of one another, if
you're kind to one another, if you trust,
one another, if you don't cheat one one
another, that you
necessarily have
a a a unit, whether it be an
individual or a family unit or a community
or a neighborhood or a city or a
county or a state or a country or
a world, you'll necessarily have one that is
successful.
And part of the
kind of nonsense and Bakwah's propaganda
of modernism is that,
somehow it is
very rational and objective,
and religion is somehow,
something that's, like a fairy tale made up
whatever.
Well, Well, look. We follow religion. Our religion
is the most religious. It is the deen.
Literally refers to it as the deen. And
when people come after religion, they say that
Islam is the one that they're going to
come after first. The communists always come after
the Muslims. Whoever hates deen nowadays, they don't
come after Christianity. Christianity Christianity has been a
joke in its own civilization for 200 years
or more. They come after what? They come
after Islam.
Even haters,
non Muslim haters, they come after Islam first.
Even the religious people come after Islam first.
Why? Because they know that Islam is a
very viable alternative to their belief system, their
way of life. Why?
Because
Islam is not
a bucket of mythology.
Rather, a bucket of mythology is believing that
there are, like, whatever,
57 genders each with their own sets of
pronouns.
That's not viable. That has no future.
You know, having a society that's driven around
people indulging themselves, that's not viable. There's nothing
nothing good is gonna come out of that.
It's something that you enjoy for some time
and you do the math, you know the
in the future, it's it's not gonna really
pan out. What did Allah say? He said,
Allah
made this decree and he informed,
the prophet
of this decree and the umam of this
decree, those that came before us in our
Ummah as well, that this
earth, that this world will be inherited by,
God's,
righteous,
and functional,
functioning slaves.
So
in this is
a balaag. What is balaag?
It's what gets you to the next level.
Right? It's you what's sufficient for you. It's
what benefits you.
This promise Allah reminded us of it, that
you're not, you know, the things that you
do to tire yourself out. You're fasting when
other people are not fasting. You're not engaging
in,
illicit relationships with people that are only gonna
degrade yourself and degrade others. You're not engaging
in illicit ways of making money that are
harming yourself and harming others. You're not going
to,
engage in those activities which harm you.
Watching those things with your eyes which completely,
like, you know,
shatter your the the the integrity of your
soul. They completely
poison the the health of your heart, not
listening to those things that do those things.
Sometimes it becomes tedious because a human being
doesn't wanna be the one that goes against
the grain. The problem is this. Yes. There's
discomfort in going against the grain,
but there's also discomfort in completely destroying yourself,
your family, your, you know, people,
in this world, and then doing the same
thing, repeating the same thing in an even
more tragic fashion in the hereafter.
Indeed, in this promise of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
there is
a balaq. There is there is a a
kifaiah
and a manfa'ah
for the the the those people. There's sufficiency
and there is a benefit,
for those who worship Allah ta'ala. And Allah
ta'ala says then
we didn't send you, oh, Muhammad
except for as a mercy,
for all of the world. Now this ayah
is quoted why when it's time to have
a mooled and everybody is gonna wave the
flag and show how much they love the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and, mashallah, they
do.
But it's also helpful to understand why.
The
love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and the celebration of his mercy.
I'm not talking about a website. I'm talking
about the actual, like, mercy of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The celebration of the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's mercy and the happiness and the love
of it has to do with what? It
has to do with the understanding that only
in following his sunnah, alayhi sallahu alayhi sallahu
alayhi sallam are
you going to be from the salihin
and only from that are you going to
inherit the earth after its people after after
the facade that happens, that every generation will
have its fira'aun, every generation will have its
Abu Jahl, Every generation will have its Hitlers
and its Stalins and its Maals and all
these crazy messed up people.
And some of them, we can mention. Some
of them, it's politically right now not viable
for us to mention them and something that's
recording posted to the Internet. But the people
who have some understanding will understand what and
who those people are.
That after all of that, you're going to
win. They're all insurmountable odds but with the
rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with this message
of wahi and with the rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam was a superlative,
iteration of that mercy.
That's how you get the balag. That's how
you make it to the next level.
And if you're going to
wave the flag and sing the songs, but
you're not going to put the sunnah into
your life.
It's inconvenience for you to put the sunnah
in your life, whether it's a large thing,
which is forgiving
your enemies and forgiving,
those people who who harmed you,
or something, you know, a difficult thing like
sharing your money with other people,
that that have need for it or, you
know, paying for those things that the society
needs that other people are going to benefit
from, for taking care of your relatives, taking
care of your parents when you don't want
to. Those are big things. Or whether it's
something small like pulling the cuff of your
trouser above your ankle or growing your beard.
Those are easy things to do. If a
person doesn't wanna do any of those things
and they're just gonna wave the flag out
afterward and say that, oh, look,
that's not that's that's that's I mean, there's
still khair in it. I'm not gonna say
there's no khair in it, but you're kind
of missing the big picture which is spelled
out for you. And so a person who
says, well, you know, like the entire zamanah,
the entire age is fasid
and it's mischief and it's spoiled and we
can only wait until,
the Imam Mehdi comes or whatever. The the
Quran itself says what? If you're from the
Salihin, you'll win.
As an individual, you'll be a good individual.
As a family, if you're from the Salihin,
you'll be a good family. You'll be strong.
You'll be powerful.
You know, Jim is gonna marry his boyfriend
and you're gonna have, you know, 12 kids.
And, guess what? Jim's house, his boyfriend's house,
no matter how wealthy they are, in a
100 years, they're not gonna be around. Your
kids are gonna be working living in the
houses that they work to build.
Literally,
they'll be the heirs of
all of the wealth that they gather together.
You know? But you have to you have
to be from the salihin,
in order to do that. And even even
the yomotiyama people say, well then, if that's
the case, then how's the yomotiyama gonna happen?
The last, act of the normal course of
human existence in human society is what?
Is that after the Dajjal comes, Allah
literally sends Sayidna Isa Alaihis salazar Dazar Aqida.
He'll send Sayidna Isa Alaihis salam
who will who will
abrogate the dean of the yahud and the
dean of the nazarah,
had to the point to the point to
the point where even all of them are
going to accept Islam and accept the deen.
And he will rule.
Islam will be established. He'll rule. And then
after him, his successor will rule.
It comes in the Afar that it will
be a person by the name of Muqadd.
For some set number of years, he'll rule,
and things will be just fine like they
were during the life and reign of Sayedina,
alayhis salam. And then after that, what will
happen?
A wind will come and it will take
the souls of all the righteous people, and
then no one will be left in the
earth except for people who are completely,
who there's no good in them at all.
They turn left, right, front, back, up and
down, rich, poor. No good will ever come
from them. And those are the people on
whose heads the will be established.
So what does this mean? Nobody unless you're
one of those people who's left behind,
nobody has the right to give up hope
and say that there's, nothing good that we
can do in the future.
Rather, still, the promise of inheriting
the the the land
is still there like it was there for
Banu Israil,
those who fought
after Saidna Musa and Saidna Harun alayhim Musaam,
Saidna Dawud, Saidna Suleiman alayhim.
It's still there. The promise is still there.
Allah said that, you know, that that there
is one Taifa, one group of people who
believed in Sayyidna, alayhis salam,
even though they believed incorrectly, but at least
they cast a lot in with him.
And there was one group that cast a
lot against him.
And so Allah says that we gave victory
to the ones that cast their lot in
with him until over their, antagonists until the
day of judgment.
That that is still there, and it is
unbecoming of a believer
to
work themselves in some sort of depression
and some sort of defeatist mentality
that, oh, well, you know, this is not
gonna all get, sorted out until the Imam
Mahdi comes and whatever. And it's, you know,
it's, you know, too much for us to
reverse any of this thing. And, oh my
god, there's, like, you know, all these people
who, are marrying their boyfriend and somehow, you
know, they're gonna overwhelm us or whatever or
whatever other weird thing it is. You know?
Like, all these people believe in riba. People
are so
are so impressed with, like, the capitalist system,
and $1,000,000,000
went here and $1,000,000,000 went there. It's all
hocus pocus, almagokas.
That amount of money doesn't even exist.
It's all imant that people have inside of
their hearts.
My father is very fond of saying that
the that when he came to America,
the dollar had an extra line on it.
They said that something like the bearer of
this note, you know, can present it in
exchange for gold or whatever. It was a
gold certificate.
And he said Nixon took it off of
the
took it off of the off of the,
currency, the the US dollar.
Since then, the entire dollar functions on iman.
And you tell me that's that that God
is an imaginary friend of ours? God is
a rational necessity for the existence of the
universe. This dollar, this is your imaginary friend.
The 1,000,000,000 of dollars, you think, oh, there's
so much this and that put into, you
know, going against Islam and going against this
and going against that and we'll never be
able to overwhelm it and none of it
exists. You guys all know none of it
exists.
This is the reality is what? Is that
Allah gave us his promise.
Allah gave us this promise, this balar,
for the people who worship him that the
the the the the the earth will be
inherited by,
Allah ta'ala's,
righteous,
slaves.
And, Allah Ta'ala when he sent his messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a mercy, the mercy
is what?
There will be people who will implement that
righteousness in their lives and Allah will give
them victory over the corrupt and the wicked.
And so
even the weak sauce who are like just
waving the flag afterward, as long as you
say,
you'll get some benefit out of it But
it should be clear to people which thing
is the maqsud, which thing is the thing
that we're supposed to be doing, which is
what follow, implement the sunnah in your life,
have some faith in Allah
that no matter how many, 1,000,000,000 of dollars
and pounds and euros and bitcoins and
Ethereum and whatever other things that Marshall,
Bhaewacem is,
you know, selling or buying right now. But
whatever it is, it's it's not it's not
gonna overwhelm this promise. This promise is built
on very solid fundamentals,
and it remains valid until the day of
judgment. So don't don't don't give up hope,
and don't let shaitan defeat you inside your
heart. Shaitan, don't let shaitan don't let
the kufr defeat you inside of your heart.
There's no army that can come inside of
your heart. There's no,
you know, they can't water waterboard the inside
of your heart. They can definitely waterboard your
face.
They can definitely torture your body.
They can definitely,
freeze your bank accounts and revoke your citizenship
and do all sorts of put you in
a concentration. We can't do that inside the
heart. That's the one place where everyone is
undefeatable.
That's the one place where all of everyone's
rocky, Marshall. Everyone's a champ.
Nobody can harm you in there. So don't
let them defeat you there. Whatever happens on
the outside happens. And the promise of Allah
is true though, that if we if we
as a if we return salah, Allah will
give us more. This is one of the
reasons that we I like reading
books like this and reading about the,
the
the sira of the mashaikh in the past
who saw a really messed up situation and
said, let's do this. And they they they
made
a lot of out of it. They fixed
it and they made a lot of good,
come out of that situation. Creating something from
nothing is something only Allah can do. And
so it is a really miraculous thing to
to witness. So we continue with,
the the the story of the life of,
the sheikh, Izz, Ibin Abdus Salam
And so Moana Abu Hasan Ali Naddui,
gives the,
subheading the courage of the
Malik al Ashraf was succeeded by Salih Ismail.
Malik al Ashraf was the one, who, Isabel
gave him advice,
we mentioned in the last
reading. But he was succeeded
by Sal Ismail
who sought the help of the crusaders against
the impending danger of invasion from Egypt.
Meaning what?
The Ayubis ruled Egypt and they ruled Syria,
And so they were fighting with each other.
And so the the brother or cousin from,
or uncle from Egypt was going to,
invade.
And so he sought aid from the crusaders
in order to protect himself.
In lieu of the aid promised by the
crusaders in the city
of Saidah.
Saidah is
the city in Lebanon, Sidon, and it was
a crusader stronghold for quite some time.
Faqif and a few other, forts were ceded
to them. They just gave it to to
the crusaders
in exchange for in exchange for the promise
of protection.
The friendly relations thus established by Sala Ismaila
encouraged the crusaders to purchase arms and ammunition
from Muslim traders in Damascus.
Isudin deprecated these deals as the arms purchased
by the Crusaders were likely to be used
against Muslims and therefore,
when the arms dealers asked for his legal
opinion, his fatwa, on the matter, he advised
that all such bargains were prohibited in the
Sharia.
This was not all. Izzidine gave up benedictions
for the king in Friday sermons and started
invoking the wrath of God,
on the enemies of Islam.
This matter was brought to the notice of
the king who ordered,
him imprisoned.
After some time, He was transferred to Jerusalem,
from his Damascus jail. It's one of the
things you gotta love about the the old
school translation. It's spelled jail,
g a o
l. It's the old, like, archaic spelling.
I mean, like, to stop reading reading the
name of the
to stop reading the name of the king
in your is basically,
an automatic prison sentence in most, Muslim countries
again,
to this day.
And,
have mercy on our people. There's a time
that the ulema used to speak up. Now
all the are completely strangle hold,
holded in most Muslim countries. This is one
thing, we should be proud of in the
Indian subcontinent. No matter how thing bad things
get,
Our still say what they need to say
at Jummah.
Otherwise, there are most of the countries in
the Muslim world, they're not they're not allowed
to do that. Or if they do do
it,
they will, they'll end up in in prison
and nobody will come to their aid.
Allah
have mercy on this ummah.
In the meantime, Sal Ismail along with his
allies, Al Malik al Mansur,
the king of Hymps, and a few, Christian
crusader monarchs converged at Jerusalem with the intention
of invading Egypt.
Although Sal Ismail had imprisoned Izzaddin, he was
feeling guilty in his heart of hearts and
wanted to set him free provided that Izzaddin
was prepared to give him an excuse for
the same. He therefore gave his handkerchief to
one of his trusted counselors with the instruction
that he should present it to Izzaddin and
tell him courteously that if he so desired,
his previous position would be restored.
The counselor was also directed to present
before the king in case he agreed to
the suggestion,
with the highest respect, otherwise to imprison him
in a tent beside the king.
So
he wanted him to,
to kind of come to heel, and he
was just gonna lighten the bargain, but still
to come to heel.
The counselor did what he had been commissioned,
paid his compliments and related admiration of the
king for the sheikh, then said, everything will
be set right and your previous position will
be restored in no time if you just
kiss the hands of the king and show
courtesy to him.
I think, Masha Allah, whether people have read
this or not, given that Molana wrote about
him in the book, you can probably anticipate
what
the outcome of this story was.
Moana continues. He says history can perhaps offer
few such striking examples of fearless expression. For
Izzardine replied,
what a fool you are. You expect me
to kiss the hands of the king while
I would not like my own hands to
be kissed by him?
My friends, you are living in a world
other than that of mine. Praise be to
Allah that I am not a prey to
the temptations which have captured your soul. The
counselor then told him in that case he
had orders to imprison him again. The sheikh
was accordingly placed under confinement in a tent
beside the kings who heard him daily reciting
the Quran. The king once, one day told
his Christian ally that the person who he
heard reciting the Quran was, at the moment,
the chief pontiff of the Muslims.
But he had been divested of his post
and honors and kept under confinement because of
his opposition to the cessation of cities
and forts to the crusaders.
The Christian monarch, however, replied that if he
were to have such a man as his
bishop, he would have felt honored to sit
at his feet.
That true virtue is the thing that is
attested to by one's enemies.
Shortly thereafter, Salih Ismail was defeated and killed
in an encounter with the Egyptian forces and
Izzudine was honorably taken to Egypt.
While on his way to Egypt, Izzudin passed
through the principal Principality of Qaraq,
which is non modern day Jordan. When the
governor requested Izzudin to settle in Qaraq, he
replied, this, small city of yours is not,
does not benefit is not
befitting of my learning.
Izzaddin in Egypt.
Izzaddin
was received by the then Sultan of Egypt,
Al Marikasal,
Najmuddin
Ayyub with great reverence and honor.
He was
appointed khatib in the Masjid of Amr bin
As as well as the Qadi of Egypt.
The Masjid of Amr bin As who
is, like the the the first Jarmat Masjid
of,
of Egypt,
Saidna Amr bin Asr
who was the general, who was the architect
of the conquest of Egypt. And to this
day, I'm told,
that, to pray
over there requires getting to the Masjid sometime
before Asr.
And,
Mashal, the Egyptians, they they love the Quran.
They really love the Quran a lot. That's
why they produce some of the best reciters
in the world. And
they have tarawi, a very long tarawi over
there. It's not like us. Like, we try
to get through it. We've mentioned
the some of the
of the, India and Pakistan.
Not doing it, like, excessively speedy, Tarawi, unfortunately,
is not always one of those.
So the Egyptians like to listen in that
place. So it's a very prestigious place. It's
a very Mubarak place,
and he was also made the Grand Kadi
of Egypt.
He was also entrusted with the task of
looking after the rehabilitation
of deserted mosques and the professorship of Shafi'i
Jurisprudence
in the Madrasas Alihiya, which was founded by
the King.
The fearlessness of.
A man by the name of Fakhruddin Uthman,
who was an attendant,
of the palace had come to wield great
influence over the king.
This man got a drum house constructed over
the roof of a masjid.
When Azadeen came to know of it, he
ordered the structure of the drum house to
be pulled down.
He declared Fakhruddin Uthman as an unreliable witness,
mimikus,
for the purposes of tendering evidence in a
court of law and also resigned from the
post of chief justice as a mark of
protest against the blasphemous action of Fakhruddin Uthman.
Izzardine continued to enjoy the esteem of the
king who, however, did not consider it prudent
to appoint
Izzardine as Grand Qadhi for a second time.
Notwithstanding this decision of the king, juristic opinions
tendered by Izzaddin were acted upon with the
same respect as before.
During this period, Al Malik Salih Najmuddin Ayub,
sent an embassy to the court of the
Khalifa in Baghdad.
When the Egyptian envoy was presented before the
Khalifa, he inquired of the envoy if the
Sultan of Egypt himself had commissioned him to
convey the message. On being told that he
had been, charged to convey the message by
Fakhruddin Uthman on behalf of the sultan, the
Khalifa replied since Fakhruddin Uthman had been declared
an unreliable witness by Izzaddin,
no credence could be placed on the message
conveyed through him. This envoy had to return
to Egypt and
obtain the orders of the Sultan afresh.
Meaning as a scholar, he was renowned even
in Iraq, a place that
he had no
influence or whatever, but the Muslims already knew
about him and his piety.
And they, they basically,
shut down and blocked
out, Fafruddin Uthman,
from carrying the message of the king.
There is yet another incident which bespeaks of
Izzardine's fearlessness.
The Sultan who was holding, Darbar. He literally
wrote Darbar.
He's holding court,
on the occasion of Eid, was seated on
a throne, in a large reception hall with
the princes and chiefs of state ranged on
his right and the courtiers and dignitaries,
on the left. In front of the Sultan
stood
all the people entitled to enter and salute
the sovereign
when a voice was suddenly heard addressing the
Sultan by his first name.
Ayub,
what would be your reply before God when
he would ask you whether the kingdom of
Egypt was given to you so that you
should openly indulge in drinking bouts,
and that you should enjoy public receptions.
It is, blurted out the Sultan who was
taken aback. Is it a fact?
Yes, came the reply from Izzaddin.
Wine is being freely sold and consumed in
the city while people indulge in other vices
too.
Surprised as the Sultan was, he replied, but
it's not my fault, sire, for it has
been happening from the time of my father
and the time he held reins in this
kingdom.
Then you are one of those, admonished Izzardine
Hussain,
that we found our fathers acting on this
manner.
The Sultan immediately gave orders to stop the
sale of wine in his realm.
While returning from the court, one of the
pupils of Izzedine asked why he had raised
the question on that occasion.
Izzardine replied, when I saw the Sultan
surrounded by
that pomp and show, I thought he himself
might give airs and become a slave to
his baser self. Meaning, he was afraid that
he was himself gonna get drunk at that
occasion.
And, he says that I therefore thought it
necessary to admonish him publicly.
But,
were you not seized with fright? Demanded the
disciple further. Oh, no, replied Izzedine.
I was much seized by the on glory
of Allah,
the almighty that the Sultan appeared to me
meek as a cat.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, open our eyes and
fill them with the light of his awe
and his glory
and make thee
little cellar rats
and little
scurrying
furry creatures of this dunya
look to us
as powerless,
as they actually are. Allah
give us first the boldness to rectify ourselves
before going around and smashing other people's,
wine cellars.
Allah give us the the the to rectify
ourselves
and that
we should as individuals and as a community
rectify ourselves. And then Allah used that rectification
and that salah has a balar
for the qaum of Abideen for those people
who worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala use us also
to be a branch from the rahman that
Allah Ta'ala sent when he sent the Prophet
that we should also
be one footnote in the
book of the mercies that Allah sent down
on the worlds through him