Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1439 Ramadn Late Night Majlis 6 Tazkirah MashyikhiChist Ifk and the Battle of the Trench 05222018
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We continue where we left off describing the
5th year
of the Mubarak hijrah of the prophet,
that the messenger
married Sayda
And it is also in this year that
the
spread their slander against.
This episode was known as the episode of
Ifk.
In an attempt to assail her chastity and
honor, they spread an evil rumor.
Briefly, the incident happened as follows.
Seyda Aisha
accompanied Rasoolullah
on
one of his campaigns.
On the return journey, the army encamped at
a certain place. Said Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
went into the wild to answer the call
of nature.
On her way, the necklace broken was lost,
but she only realized when she had returned
to
her hodaj. The hodaj is a
a kind of like a boxed in or
tented,
room that's
on top of a camel that noble women
used to ride in, in the old days.
She immediately,
went back into the wild, in search of
her necklace.
She spent quite a while searching for the
lost necklace. By the time she had returned
to the camp, the army had departed.
She was very light in weight. Hence, the
bearers of her did not realize that it
was empty when they, foisted it back up
onto the camel.
She sat down covering herself and fell asleep
knowing that when her absence
was discovered,
they will return for her. The messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had appointed Sayyidina
Safwan radiAllahu
to trail behind the army. It was his
duty to retrieve any items that may have
been left behind or dropped by any members
of the party moving ahead.
When he had arrived at the place where
the army had halted,
and saw Sidaya Aisha
alone in the wilderness,
he loudly exclaimed in astonishment,
To Allah do we belong and to Him
shall we return.
The sound of his voice woke her from
her sleep. When she saw Sayna Safwan
she immediately concealed her face because of the
law of parda which had already been
revealed, which was a requirement that the Umaha
tul Munin,
be screened from the, the general public.
Observing the greatest degree of respect and honor
for her,
got off of his camel. He made the
camel sit, and then had Saydah Aisha
mount the camel,
And thus, they continued the journey with Sayida
Safwan
leading the camel on foot. According to the
narration of Bukhari, which is in fact narrated
by Sayida Aisha
Not a word of conversation passed between them.
Before midday of the same day, Saydah
reached the messenger of Allah. This is the
entire unadulterated
episode which had transpired.
However, the hypocrites taking advantage of this event
plotted to accuse Sayida Aisha of
having had an affair with Sayida
Safwan,
and 3 simple Sahaba
whom,
whose sincerity and integrity are unquestionable were also
unwittingly embroiled in this plot of the Munafiqeen.
2 of them were males, said Mustah and
saidna Hassan and Fabbat
and one female said
Hamnatubnu Jash or Hamnatubnu Jash,
Saydah Aisha
was blissfully unaware of the slanderous rumors which
were floating
around. However, the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi
wasalam
having heard the rumor was overcome with grief.
He consulted several companions on the issue. Every
one of them emphatically com proclaimed her innocence
and chastity chastity.
Say the
Aisha,
her servant girl, Barira
vehemently vouched for her honor and innocence.
In spite of these assurances,
the rumor, had been given such prominence that
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
affected by the lingering doubts.
On the other side, said Aisha
was being consumed by grief and sadness. She
could not fathom the reason that the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's disposition had
become colder toward her. The former love seemed
to have disappeared.
During this time, once she went out to
answer the call of nature, she was accompanied
by her friend who was also the mother
of the aforementioned mistak.
Along the way,
said Aisha
was informed of the rumor by her friend.
She
also apprised her of the scandal which was
raging
in regard to this throughout Medina.
The shocking revelation had a disastrous effect on
Seda Aisha.
Her already weakened body further suffered.
She was overtaken by severe fever. She came
home and wept uncontrollably.
When
came home, she requested permission to go to
her parents' home and he gave her consent.
When said that Aisha
had met her mother, she cried profusely. Her
mother tried to console her but to no
avail. She was heartbroken and distressed.
At her mother's home, she cried and sobbed
for a day and 2 nights without stop.
The messenger
visited her and said, oh, Aisha, if you
are chased, most assuredly, Allah most high will
exculpate you. And if you have erred, then
repent and Allah will forgive you.
Said
Aisha
turning to her father said, Abu Bakr,
said, father, answer on my behalf.
He replied,
what do I know? What can I say?
Said Aisha
had then turned her mother with the same
request. She too replied similarly.
Thereupon, said the had
said, I was a young girl who had
not yet learned the Quran properly.
Since the slander regarding me has settled in
your hearts, you will not even believe me
even if I proclaim my innocence.
Now I can say nothing other than what
Sayna Yusuf Alaihi Salam's father said.
That that that
I have nothing left except for to
bear with a patience
that allows no complaining.
And Allah Ta'ala is the one whose help
is sought, regarding, the fabrications
of the people.
On account of sorrow, grief, and anger, she
was unable to remember Sayna Yaqub's name. Therefore,
she said, the father of Yusuf Alaihi Mus
Salam.
After making this brave stand, her tears dried
up.
This is important because
many people,
due to the
the hara for the family of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they even find the mention
of this story
disturbing or difficult to
mention or difficult to hear.
It's definitely for me, I feel I feel
difficulty even,
repeating the
accusations
that have come and gone and been proven
wrong 1400 years ago.
Because nobody wishes to question the honor of
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
or say the Aisha radiallahu anha who was,
the beloved one of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
and so innocent. You can see that she
was she was just a girl at the
time. And people,
you know,
heap their accusations on her
very, very
viciously
and with very little concern for what effect
it would have on her.
And lest we think that these things are
not relevant, they're very relevant. We live in
the time of all those Me too and
all of these other movements which, you know,
although I I mean, I don't I don't
agree with every aspect of them and I
think that a lot of it is just
going to end up being
a kind of a
a a violent storm that brings,
little, conclusion or or helps neither to,
the victims nor to, you know, toward bringing
perpetrators to justice.
But
look at the, you know, look at the,
the same tactic that they used against the
family of the prophet
Let's say the Aisha
basically just the fact that she was a
woman was used as a
as a bludgeon against the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. And people had in their minds that,
oh, you know, she must be guilty of
whatever people accuse her of.
And that's why our deen has such
such strong rules on both sides that one
should neither
be allowed leeway in order to accuse another
of zina or sexual impropriety,
nor is one allowed leeway to allow themselves
to be subjected to it. And now, I
understand that,
you know, there are some cases in which
a person
is subjected to sexual violence,
by
circumstances that are completely
forced on them and by no fault of
their own. But there are a lot of
you know, between
what is completely right and what is completely
wrong, there's a lot of gray area in
the middle. And the gray area is where
most of life happens. And so you see
that, the dean, you know, rightly gives guidance
for
for, you know, what a person should do
in order to save themselves from what's in
the gray area. At any rate, here is
Sayid Aisha
who was
a,
she was a I mean, at this time,
she was just an innocent girl. She was
not, you know, she she was not anything
other than that. I mean, imagine that she
was just forgetful and she forgot her,
her, her necklace in the woods.
And now all of these hypocrites are heaping
all of these accusations on her. And if
you think about it, you know,
the fact that that that she had to
make this stand on her own, it in
of itself is a sign of her rank
in this ummah. Let's say that Aisha
the faba'il of which, you know,
it's a completely separate volume, and it should
be it should be said, it should be
spoken about.
Let's say the Aisha
if you look at the the the horrible
nature of this
of this, incident,
that she she loved her husband and he
was the messenger of Allah, and she used
to memorize the Quran from him, and he
used to teach her, and she used to
serve Islam through serving her husband and also
by teaching the other women of Madinah Munawwara,
what she learned from the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
because of her superior intellect. And if you
look at the answers she gives even at
the young age that she was at at
this time,
you can see that she has a superior
intellect. And you can see the signs of
that intellect, which will go on to become
one of the,
foundational,
legal minds,
for the the basis of the codification of
the Sharia
later on after the messenger
passes on.
But, you know, think about her having to
go through all of this at this young
age
and in the context of the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
That indeed
the those who are most severe in their
tribulations are the prophet salayahu alayhi wa sallatu
alsalam,
then those who are closest to them than
those who are closest to to them. That
she had to go through all of this,
you know, this difficulty,
And Allah Ta'ala brought great khair from it.
He brought great good from it.
When the inmates of the house were still
around,
the most noble prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was
then
brought the wahi. He was brought the revelation.
Allah, most high, is independent of all things,
and everything happens according to his wisdom. Hence,
a full month had passed without the messenger
of Allah, salallahu alaihi wasallam, receiving any divine
directive in this matter. Now the beads of
perspiration, a sign of the progression of revelation,
were forming on his Mubadik forehead,
said that Jibril, alayhi sallam appeared with 18
ayaat of Surat al Nur,
in which Saida Aisha radhiallahu ta'ala Anha's innocence,
purity, and chastity were emphatically asserted.
Upon the cessation of revelation, the messenger, Allah
salallahu alayhi wasalam, smiled and informed Saydai Aisha
of her innocence,
which was announced by Allah most high. Her
joy knew no bound, and in a state
of
ecstatic elation, she expressed her gratitude to Allah
most high.
Meanwhile,
the most noble prophet
took his pulpit and his masjid.
And after,
giving a a lecture to the companions, he
recited the verses which were revealed to proclaim
the innocence of Seda Aisha and the Sharia's
law of punishment for slanderers of chaste women
was also announced.
Thus the slanderers were each flogged 80 lashes.
And this is,
one of the great and mighty,
fortifications
of our holy and sacred sharia
that we don't have,
this kind of, schizophrenic attitude toward
sexuality
that seems to be
the
seems to seems to be the norm in
Western society.
That on one side, there is
wanton,
and gratuitous,
hyper,
over sexualization
of everything,
particularly using the female form in in order
to sell everything.
Anyone who's grown up over here knows that
in order to get the humor that people
you know, that's normal for people over here
in this country, you have to take every
expression and every wording and every situation
and assume the worst
mostly, in the sexual context.
Otherwise, you're not gonna get any of the
jokes. So many of the jokes of the
people over here and people overseas just don't
get it because their mind doesn't think that
way.
So you have that on one side. And
on the flip side, you have a a
hypersensitivity
to any sort of
transgression
of what are essentially arbitrary sexual norms,
to the point where,
you know, 2 people can enter into some
sort of consensual relationship.
But because there's a power differential between the
2 of them, that still can be classified
as abuse, which I
completely get that there are power differentials in
relationships. But the problem is that,
in such a case, then there are very
few relationships that are not abuse or not
prone or open to abuse,
which makes everything in life extremely problematic.
And it's a very impractical system, and it's
a very arbitrary system. And so look at
look at the, the the deen of Allah
that people have their own. Every human being
is different. They have their own personal lives.
And we don't,
you know, we don't scrutinize other people's,
most personal and private matters.
And the Sharia is,
the corpus of law that essentially introduces to
the world the concept of the right to
privacy.
Whereas, other legal systems, including that that in
the west, you know, they have the idea
of,
well, if you're not hiding anything,
then there's, you know, there's nothing to be
afraid of, in terms of the state or,
the public's intrusion into your own private space.
The idea is whatever happens inside of your,
you know, inside of your private moments,
those things are,
until and unless
some sort of super egregious and shameless,
something happens in which a person rapes another
person,
or a person commits an act of violence
against another person,
or, you know, something happens that that that
that, you know,
breaches certain,
objective,
standards.
Other than that, you know, people's private business
is their private business. If it's good, then
they should thank Allah, And if it's bad,
then they should repent and rectify it. But
under no circumstances are they too,
divulge it to the public nor is the
public supposed to ask all the way to
the point where
if 2 people commit, the optimum course of
action according to most of the is for
them just to quietly repent and not not,
confess to their sins in front of a
judge. And if 2 people commit and one
of them admits to it and the other
one doesn't, then the one that admits to
it will receive the lashes of and the
one who doesn't didn't
doesn't admit to it, that person will not,
will not receive those lashes. And the person
who admits to it, if they
give the name of the person that they
committed zina with and that person doesn't want
to
be known for that, for that act,
then unless they can bring 4 witnesses, they
have the added punishment of Qadaf, which is
of the false accusation of other people, Zina.
To my knowledge, I don't know of anybody
in the entire history of Islam
that could meet the, evidentiary standards
of having 4,
witnesses witness the act of * like the
thread goes through the eye of the needle,
which is what's needed, you know, what's needed
to
condemn a person to, zina without them admitting
it themselves in some way, shape, or form.
So,
the point is is that the Sharia,
there's a great mercy in it that it
covers these things.
And this, shara of Allah,
this commandment of Allah
of
not
accusing others of of of of of or
basically,
you know, using taunting them with regards to
their personal life, even matters that are dubious
in their personal life. There's a great mercy
in it because we can all now just
move on. Just get over it and move
on. That if someone did something
and it requires the,
the rectification of of of the law or
some legal remedy remedy
that is then carried out by a judge.
And the general public need not speculate about
people's,
personal life or worry about personal life,
the personal lives of people. Everyone has their
own,
you know, their own things in their life,
and we don't need people to, like,
you know, go and,
webcast what's, you know, the skeletons in everybody's
closet, especially with regards to these matters.
And so, say, the Aisha
by her
having gone through this difficulty,
she herself then,
is
the Mubarak occasion of,
Allah ta'ala revealing,
the the the sacred law with regards to
these things, which undoubtedly have helped a number
of people, helped millions of people,
over the centuries,
to not be subjected
to
taunts and to not be subjected to speculations
with regards to their personal life and not
be allowed to be the object of other
people's ridicule or political vector with regards to
speculation about their their their personal life and
to have legal cover and legal recourse
against somebody who,
spuriously does that. And, I enjoin
myself and my, brothers and sisters not to,
not to delve into people's personal lives, rather
leave legal issues to their
authorities and,
vouchsafe,
you know, the secrets that people have to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and tell and unless,
there is something, very severe that breaches,
certain objective standards,
with regards to violence and things like that.
So,
the most noble prophet
took the member in the masjid and after
a lecture that he gave to the companions,
he recited the verses which were revealed to
him to proclaim say the Aisha's innocence
and the Sharia's law
of the
of of the punishment for slanderers of chaste
women was announced. Thus, the slanderers were flogged
80 lashes each.
And that is the the the the Sharia
mandated punishment for anybody who
accuses,
another of
of basically, of committing Zina,
whether it's a man or a woman.
Any accusation of Zina that is not accompanied
either by
a, an admission from that side or by
4 witnesses that witnessed the, act, like the
thread,
the thread going through the eye of the
needle or
a husband's own imprecation of his wife,
other than,
any of those
any of those situations.
Anyone who commits any who accuses anyone else
of Zina,
is is subjected to this
this punishment,
under the purview of a a sovereign government
and a judge.
And, this is a great mercy for mankind.
And this is also has to do with
your tasawaf as well. One of the and
one of the foundational principles
of is It's a good hadith to
to memorize and it's a good hadith to
mention to one another.
The
great Maliki Faqih and Muhadith.
He mentions in his opinion that, the wisdom
of Islam,
can be summarized by 4 hadiths that are
like reins,
that are like reins that tie up the
wisdom of Islam. And one of those 4
hadiths he mentions was
From the beauty of the Islam of a
person
is they're leaving those things that don't
have any importance or relevance to them.
So don't speculate about people's lives. Don't worry
about people's lives. If it's good, if it's
bad, if it's ugly, if it's strange, whatever
it is, whatever happens in people's bedrooms,
they close their doors when those things happen
for a reason. It's not your business to,
get involved in it or speculate about it
or give your opinion about it or whatnot.
And may Allah
who himself is a satar,
the one who covers over the faults of
the creation. May he also,
cover our faults as well, each of us
as individuals.
And the person who's ashamed of whatever sin
they do behind closed doors rather than being
a bad person, the fact that they have
their shame is a sign of their iman.
And, whoever,
doesn't go out and openly,
declare and
proclaim their their their
and their indecencies,
like is,
the norm, in the time and the place
that we live in. That person, Allah ta'ala,
because of that shame, Allah will forgive them.
So don't try to pull the sitter from,
the cover and the hijab from other people,
lest Allah pull it from from you and
humiliate you as well. Allah protect us from
such a scary,
possibility.
Hazar Sheikh continues. He says that the battle
of the handak of the trench also took
place in this 5th year.
The Sahaba,
as well as the most noble prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam had themselves dug the trench.
It is for this reason it is called
the battle of the trench. The huge trench
was dug on the advice of Sayna Salman
al Farisi
The famous episode of Sayna Jabir's invitation happened
during the time the trench was being dug.
While digging, Sayna Jabir
noticed that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam had a stone tied to his
stomach, as did the rest of those who
were digging the trench because it was something
done on emergency.
And,
Madinumuwara,
they were in short supply of food anyway.
The fact that all of them had to
leave their, agricultural,
work and start digging the trench in emergency
mode meant that there was nothing to eat.
He had hastened to his house and instructed
his wife to prepare whatever food there was.
He explained to her the dire straits of
the messenger of Allah
hunger.
A goat which they owned was slaughtered and
some dough was kneaded.
Sayna Jabe radiallahu anhu then invited the most
noble prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for a meal
adding that 1 or 2 companions could also
come along. The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
inquired about the quantity of food when he
was told how much food there was,
he commented that that was that was
a great amount. The messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam then addressing all of the diggers
in the trench said Jabir had invited you
all, let's go.
He instructed say in Jabir not to remove
the pot from the stove until he had
arrived and
that the bread should not be baked until
he has arrived. The Messenger of Allah salallahu
alayhi wasalam then set off with all of
the Sahaba radiallahu on whom who were digging
the trench to Sayna Jabbir's home. Meanwhile, say
the Jabir ran home in anxiety.
He told his wife that the most noble
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was bringing along the
entire army to eat.
Full of concern, she said, I will be
put to shame in front of all. The
food is very little. She asked, did he
inquire about the quantity of food when Sayna
Jabir radiallahu anhu told her that he did,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and that the most noble prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam was apprised of the quantity of
food, she felt relieved and felt confident.
Soon thereafter, the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam arrived at the home of Sayidna Jabir
radiallahu anhu. He blew on the food and
on the dough. A short while later, the
food was ready to be served, and the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam advised them
to eat at leisure. A 1,000 guests ate
and there still remained food. This is indeed
a marjazah or miracle of the messenger of
Allah The the story,
in slightly more detail was that the messenger
of Allah
told them,
those who are preparing the meal
to,
not
look at the the food rather to have
the pot covered
and just keep pouring out food from it.
And to not look at the bread but
just have the the basket where the bread
was covered and slip their hand in and
pull keep pulling out bread. And,
then the army was invited in 10 at
a time. Each of them ate their fill
and then the next 10 would go and
then the next 10 would go.
And all of them ate their fill and
the the pots and the baskets were still
full.
And then the people of the house ate
their fill and then the pots in the
baskets were still full, and then they, distributed
the rest of the, the rest of the
food to the neighbors, all of the neighbors
on all sides, of the house. And there
are many similar muhajizat of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with regards to
a miraculous,
increase in food.
And this is the help of Allah ta'ala
and the barakah that comes when it's most
needed.
That,
literally,
the largest or one of the largest armies
that the Arabian Peninsula had ever seen,
had gathered together 10,000
strong in order to siege Medina Munawara.
Amongst them were
basically ravagers. They were just
Bedouins who were just basically there to,
loot and pillage,
the city,
in the case of victory.
And,
the trench held them off.
And it's very beautiful how,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was aided
by
Allah with the food.
He was aided with the wind that the
that the the the cold and biting,
dry desert wind
had completely, at some point, thrown the Mushrike
and his tents into chaos.
The messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
was
was aided by, one of the chieftains of
the Ahazab of the Confederate army that was
sieging Medina, that he had
quietly slipped into the Muslim camp and presented
his Islam to the messenger of Allah, salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and asked what service could
he be of. And the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told him to,
go back to the camp of the Mushrikeen,
and the Banu Qureba, which was a tribe
of,
Jews that was allied with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. They had forsaken in the
middle of battle. They had forsaken their, their
alliance with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and failed to appear in the defense of,
their neighbors in Madinah Munawwara. Rather, they stayed
neutral and allowed the Ahazab to siege Madinah
Munawwara.
So,
this chieftain
went
to
went to, Abu Sufyan, who was a commander
of the confederated army and said that, you
know, I suspect that the the Jews of
Medina are going to repair their relations with,
the the the Muslims.
So you should ask them
for,
you should ask them for some sort
of some sort of a guarantee that they
give, like, the sons of their noblemen to
you as a guarantee
that they're not going to betray you.
And,
then he went to the the Jews of
Banuk Qureba also
and, told them that I suspect treachery from
the,
from the Confederates. They're gonna ask you for
something for your sons, and they're gonna give
them up to the Muslims and just
sell you out. And,
basically, it broke their it broke their confederation
into pieces.
And,
it became so bad that at some point,
said Nachuday Fatublul Yaman, who the messenger of
Allah
sent in this completely cold
and completely,
hungry state to go and do reconnaissance on
the camp of the Mushrikeen.
He said that he said that the messenger
of
asked for a volunteer and
everybody was so spent
there, it was difficult for them to volunteer
for this mission. And, the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, isn't Hoseifa here? And
he said, yes, You Rasool Allah. He says,
why don't you go? He said that once
the messenger of Allah gave me the order
to go, he said, I no I no
longer felt, cold.
He said that I felt, I felt,
no longer weak and I no longer felt
cold. He said by the time he had
gotten to the the camp of the the
confederates,
he just saw Abu Sufyan,
in a rage and in a fury, that
he thought that the, Jews of Banu Koreydda
were, were going to betray him.
And so he angrily said,
I'm I'm out of here. You guys can
keep the siege if you want to. And,
he just broke camp, loaded up his stuff,
and was basically storming back to Makamukarama,
which is incredibly
incredibly harmful for morale
for the for the army to see their
leader, essentially,
abandoned camp,
having been
broken in his morale,
personally.
And this is all the help of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Islam
so many points Allah Ta'ala gave his help.
Islam was completely
weak in the world of Asbaab. They could
have overrun everything.
But when the help of Allah comes,
Allah sends it, and he he gives, like,
the expression in the Quran.
By through his armies, by his soldiers that
that that you're not able to see.
Meaning Allah makes all of these things come
together.
And,
this is all the signs of the providential
and miraculous
empowerment
that Allah gave to
the noble city of Madinah and its noble
people, the companions of the messenger of Allah
and its most noble
inhabitants, Sayedna Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And whoever,
whoever takes his oath of allegiance with that
prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that person
is in a Mubarak silsula, and that person,
whoever takes an oath of allegiance with the
prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, has taken hold of
the
of the the the the most,
the most firm,
of of of
of handholds,
that one that which will never that one
which will never break. Allah
give us dufiq to be from amongst them.
That we should also eat from the barakat
of,
Allah to Allah, especially Inaya with the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That we
should also make struggle and sacrifice in order
to,
in order to
advance the cause of this deen,
for which the Nabi
used to wake in in the morning and
sleep at night, and, for which he used
to cry and weep, and for which his
happiness, and for his which his anger, and
for which his
patience was. Allah
give all of us so much