Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 17 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis The Breaching of the Gates ESA
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The speakers discuss the upcoming column on theissical revolution and the importance of not taking things for granted. They also talk about Islam's leaders and actions during the previous year, including the actions of immediate cause of MACU-RA, the Gobi's destroyed desert, and the loss of the city of sources of worship and education. The loss of the entire race leads to chaos and chaos, leading to rebirth and rebirth of the entire world. The speakers emphasize the importance of following guidance and following strong focus on the people who have bar bills.
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Alhamdulillah, we've reached this Mubarak 17th
night of Ramadan.
Now people are coming up onto the Surah's
that they
that they know and they may have memorized.
I guess some of you are so
that was like that from day 1. But
for the like myself,
you know, we're starting to get to places
that we,
we've memorized some tract. And, like this, it's
a reminder from Allah
that all blessings in this world,
that are
that are of this world and related to
time. They have a beginning and an end.
And, that we need to use them, and
we need to get what we need
out of them. The purpose of this Ramadan
is like the purpose of your life and
my life, and it's the purpose of our
iman,
which is that we have a limited amount
of time here,
and we need to do something, whatever it
is.
We need to do something,
because of which Allah
will say that this is my
my slave, and I love him. This is
my slave woman, and I love her.
And,
then it's time to go. Then there's no
real point hanging out here anymore.
The Dunia is kind of like the Denver
Airport,
A place to change planes on your way
from one side to the other,
and definitely not a place to stay longer
than you need to.
So,
you know, right now the second flight is
about to board.
Our time at the, at the airport is
coming to an end.
So whatever we need to do, let's let's
get it done
because the person, the Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said that the one who
reached Ramadan
and, still wasn't forgiven by Allah
for
the that that person has gone very far
away.
And that's what the shaitan the word shaitan
is
a,
and,
you know, it means it means, the one
that's gone far away. Yeah. I mean, far
from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The one who's buried from the mercy of
Allah ta'ala, which is the same meaning of
lana, of curse. Meaning of curse is to
be outside of the pale or far far
away from the dail of the circle of
Allah's mercy.
And that's not what we wanna be. So
if you have some money in the bank
you wanna give charity, go and give it
now.
If you have,
you know, the ability to read the Quran
and you wanna read it, go ahead and
read it now. And if you have the
ability to fast, fast now because,
so many people now are complaining about their
sicknesses and illnesses, and they're not able able
to fast anymore.
And, they took it for granted, and now
it's gone.
And, whatever it is you wanna do, whatever
you're able to do, volunteer,
fix something, help somebody,
you know, save a stray dog, whatever it
is. Whatever it is you wanna do for
the sake of Allah, go ahead and do
it. And if all you can do is
come to Allah Ta'w with your brokenness
and your inability to do anything right.
Then now is the time to
ask Allah for his father,
because the most beloved act in his court
is for a person to be broken in
front of him.
And for a person who's not even able
to do that,
that person can't can't even do that right.
They make dua like a person who's on
ship that's sinking.
And nobody puts a petition in that court
while he has breath inside of his lungs
or her lungs,
and that petition is turned away unfulfilled.
But you have to go ahead and do
it.
And Allah doesn't accept. He doesn't require you
to do something huge or dramatic or traumatic,
but he does require that whatever is done
for his sake is done with sincerity,
with purity for his sake and not anyone
else,
with him because Allah has
he has no
partner in anything including the deeds that he
accepts.
So if you have anything left in the
gas tank, now is the time. Go ahead
and go ahead and spend it. There's no
no need to wait for tomorrow because tomorrow
all of these blessings will pass. And those
people who are dust yesterday will become dust
again tomorrow.
And,
Allah
might give a chance to somebody else, but
our chance is gonna be over.
So we continue reading from,
description
of
the Muslim world on the eve of the
Mongol conquest and, through the Mongol desolation of
the heartlands of Islam.
So we read from the subheading, the follow
folly of the Khwarazm Shah.
The immediate cause which paved the way for
this calamity was that Genghis Khan sent a
message to the Khwarezm
shah that since each of them, headed a
vast empire, it would be in their best
interest to encourage trade between their subjects.
He wanted that the traders should be allowed
to move freely between the two realms, purchasing
and selling their goods without any undue restriction.
The Khwarezm shah agreed to the proposal of
Genghis Khan, and tradesmen began to ply freely
between the two kingdoms.
The interchange of traders, however, was soon followed
by an act of folly,
which has been graphically described by, Harold Lam,
whose accounts agree with those left by Muslim
historians. He says,
but the Mongols' experiment
with trade came to an abrupt end. A
caravan of several 100 merchants from Karakorom.
Karakorom is,
is the the capital,
if you can say, of the Mongol Empire.
The Mongol Empire was a very interesting setup.
It was very different than most other empires.
It was divided through tribal,
through tribal units of administration,
and chieftains
connected to other chieftains in a in a
kind of more tribal hierarchy that doesn't resemble
a
state like that of the Romans or or
the Persians.
But Karakorom was the the capital, not in
the sense that all,
orders went through it or that there's direct
administration from it.
But,
was basically the place where the grand
would happen,
which is, on the death of an emperor
or on some major,
issue that required mutual consultation between,
all of the the top level chieftains. That
that's where
the would be held.
My understanding,
in Turkish to this or Turkic language, this
day means black and Korominsand.
And it's a name it's a name for
a lot of different stuff. There's a lot
of stuff in Pakistan named as well,
and it's all the legacy of the Mongols.
So the caravan of several 100 merchants from
Karakorum was seized by 1 in Aljuk, which
itself also a Turkic name,
the governor of Utrar,
a frontier citadel belonging to the to the
Shah.
Reported to his master that spies were amongst
the merchants, which may have were very well
been the case.
Mohammed Shah, without considering the matter over much,
sent to his governor an order to to
slay the merchants,
and all of them accordingly were put to
death. This, in due time, was reported to
Chinggis Khan, who dispatched envoys at once to
the shah to protest.
And Mohammed saw fit to slay the chief,
of the envoys and burn off the beards
of the others.
Good lord.
When the survivors of his embassy returned to
Genghis Khan,
the master, of the Gobi. Gobi is not
Gobi like this. Gobi, which is cauliflower, but
the the desert of Mongolia.
When, they, his embassy returned to the Chinggis
Khan, the master of the Gobi,
went apart to a mountain to meditate on
the matter.
The slaying of a Mongol envoy could not
go unpunished. Tradition required revenge for the wrong
inflicted.
There cannot be 2 suns in the heaven,
the Khan said, or
2 on the earth.
2 upon the earth. 2 great grand in
the earth.
And so he received his,
you know, he received his answer,
in, in that, and, he decided that, he
needed to impose order on the earth, where
none was there before.
The Tartaric invasion.
Thus, the storm burst in 616,
Hijri.
Bukhara was first raised to the ground, and
its inhabitants were put to the sword.
Samarkand was reduced to ashes, and its entire
population passed under the sword.
Other important,
populous cities like Rai, Hamadan,
Zanjan,
Paswin,
Maru, Nishapur,
all met the same fate.
And, if you knew, by the way, all
of these cities,
you know, what it means for them to
be destroyed,
it would make you cry.
Amongst,
other things amongst the other things was the
city of, obviously, Bukhari,
a great number of great and
Also a great city of.
City of ibn Majah,
amongst others. Maru was the city,
in which the rebat the 2 rebats, I
should say, of
of Abdullah
bin Mubarak,
Raimo, Allahu Tabarak,
Nisha Pur, which was the city of Imam
Muslim,
and the city of Fariduddin Athar.
These were bastions of civilization.
These were cities that that held Madaris and
arts and crafts and,
trades
and
places of worship and places of seats of
education and learning that, once they were destroyed,
the Muslims were never able to recreate them
again.
Moana continues. He says the forces of, Khorasan
Shah, the most powerful Muslim sovereign in his
day, were simply swept away by the tempest
of mongol arms.
The Khorasan Shah was himself hunted from place
to place by the Tartars with a ruthless
pertinacity.
Mohammed Khorasan
Shah ultimately took refuge in an unknown island
in the Caspian Sea where he died brokenhearted,
alone, and abandoned.
Khorasan Shah had already dismembered the independent
Islamic kingdoms of Iran and Turkestan. Therefore, none
had remained in the east to check the
the onslaught of the Mongols after his defeat.
This is what happens. Sometimes we spend so
much time,
both as individuals and as small organizations and
also as Muslim states.
So much time beating up our internal enemies
that we basically put everything, clamp it into
a vice grip, and sap the life out
of it so that when an external enemy
comes, the capacity to be able to resist
is completely gone.
And, that's sadly what's the what the case
is in much of the Muslim world and
almost all of the Arab world.
He said that,
he said that, that that none of none
had remained in the east check the onslaught
of the Mongols after his defeat.
The Muslims were so seized with the terror
of the Mongols that often a lonely Tatar
attacked a 100 of them, but none of
them had the heart to defend himself. Every
one of them was killed by the Tatar
without being opposed by a single Muslim.
Once a Mongol woman dressed as a man
plundered a house and killed all of its
inmates, excepting one captive. It was only after
this that the captive somehow came to know
that the marauder was a woman, and then
he could muster the courage to kill her.
It often happened that a Mongol caught a
hold of a Muslim and asked him to
wait until he brought a saber to slaughter
him, and this poor man did not have
the courage to run away in absence,
in the absence of the Mongol.
This, by the way, is
very, very true.
A story like this is reported by the
great,
historian
world historian
and great
who also wrote a world history like Ibn
Khaldun and and like,
Babari and
like, Ibn Kathir.
Ibn Athir, who actually witnessed the destruction of,
the destruction of Baghdad,
himself was so depressed that, he didn't wanna
write about it. And it took him quite
some time to gain the courage even to
write about what he saw. And, essentially, that
was the case that there were so many
civilians in Baghdad that that were killed by
the Mongols. It's such a small army and
so many people to kill that basically each
Mongol was handed, handed, like, 50 people and
killed them. So they just stand in a
line, go one after the other, and kill
them. It never occurred to any of them
that we can, fight and overwhelm,
this mongol, 50 of us, even if we're
unarmed.
And,
basically, he says that he was just waiting
in line to get killed, and the guy
next to him in line they looked at
each other, and they're like, well, if we
run away, what do you think would happen?
And so, well, you never know. We could
try. And so they just ran away. And,
obviously, 1 man
can't chase after 2 people. It's like 48
other people to kill.
But this is the the state of brokenness
that that overwhelmed the Muslim world.
And, sadly,
this type of mental
and,
you know, emotional defeat,
has taken and seized grip of many of
the people in the Muslim world,
at this time as well, if if if
not worse.
And it has seized hold of, many of
our leaders as well. Just like, the Khorasan
Shah died,
hiding in an island
in,
in the Caspian Sea. Many of them are
complete cowards,
and they're emotionally
gutted of any courage because of this defeat
that's inside, which is truly a punishment and
a curse of Allah. May Allah
keep the honor of the inner sanctum of
the heart of every believer that we should
never be broken like that ever.
The scourge of God was the greatest of
calamities before which almost the entire Muslim world
was, swept away,
by a torrent.
It left Muslims astounded and terror stricken.
The Mongols came to be regard regarded as
so invincible that, in Arabic proverb, gain currency,
which meant that if anyone tells him that
the, Tatars have suffered a defeat, don't believe
him.
Death and destruction was a foregone conclusion for
all the lands
through which the Tatar hordes passed.
Palaces, mosques, mausoleums
were all leveled to the ground and trampled
into
dust. Historians
are normally prone, to be objective in their
assessment of the past,
and its events, but even such a cool
and temperate historian as Ibn Athir could not
help,
shedding his tear over the havoc and ruin
caused by the savage order,
of the Mongols for * and slaughter.
Speaking of these, events in a harrowing strain,
Ibn Al Athir says,
these events are so frightful and heartrending that
for several years, I was in a fix
whether I should narrate these happenings to you
or happenings or not. I have, however, pen
these facts most reluctantly.
In truth and reality, it is not easy
to recount the tale of carnage and atrocity
atrocities perpetrated on the Muslims, nor can one
bear with equanimity
the abasement to which they were subjected.
I only wish that my mother had not
given birth to me.
Oh, that I had died before I had
to relate this tale of woe.
Some people, from my friends had insisted that
I should record these events, but I was
still irresolute. Later, it dawned on me
that it was of no profit to forego
the task. The invasion of the Tatars was
one of the greatest calamities and the most,
terrible visitations of which there is no parallel
in the annals of the world.
This calamity fell on all nations, but on
the Muslims more than any of them else,
which is true.
The Mongols definitely fought and killed others, but
nobody took the brunt of their
destruction like the Muslims did.
The calamity fell on all nations, but on
Muslims more than all. If one were to
claim that the, that the world, since God
created it to present times, was never so
afflicted, one would speak truthfully for history records
no other event,
which approaches it, and perhaps the world may
not see it's like again, except the calamity
of Gog and Magog,
till the dawn of doomsday.
The Tatars put to the sword all men,
women, and children cut open the bellies of
pregnant women and trampled babies to death. Verily,
unto God do we belong, and to him
shall we return. There's no power nor might,
but from Allah, most high and most great.
This was an affliction which overwhelmed the entire
world like a severe torrent, and it suddenly
swept over all of the lands,
So, end quote,
the author of Mirzad
Al Abad,
who belonged to Hamadan
and was born in Rey.
Rey is,
basically,
the ancient city.
One of its suburbs is Tehran, the capital
of, the modern state of Iran.
Tehran is a suburb of Rey that that
basically gets built up and takes it over
later on after its destruction.
This is the author of Mirsadu
Abbad,
who belongs to, who belong to Hamadan
and was born in Rey and was thus
an eyewitness to the Mongol invasion has left
the following harrowing account.
In the year 600 17 after Hijra,
which shall ever remain conspicuous in the annals
of the world, the hordes of the heathen
Tartars,
gained ascendancy over the Muslims.
The way they ravaged the countries, killed people,
and plundered and burnt the cities has a
parallel neither in the days of Jahiliya nor
thereafter.
It is enough to mention that in Rey,
where I was born and lived in Turkestan,
and in the lands extending from Rome to
Syria, more than 700,000
persons were either put to the sword or
made captives.
The calamity befalling Islam and its adherence is
beyond description, and the holocaust is rather too
well known to require any detailed enumeration.
God forbid, none of the monarchs and sovereigns
of Islam felt the urge to defend the
honor of Islam, nor were they alive,
to their duty of coming to the rescue
of their subjects, although they were,
like a shepherd unto their own people,
and that they would have to render
an account in regard to their safety on
the day of judgment. They were like a
shepherd unto their people, meaning they're responsible to
take care of their flock, and they will
have to render account in regard to their
safety on the day of judgment. It was
their duty to have strained every nerve and,
to strengthen Islam and defend the faith as
God had ordered. Go forth
light armed and heavy armed,
and strive with your wealth and your lives
in the way of Allah.
They should have sacrificed everything they had,
their lives, riches, dominions for the honor of
Islam.
This would have given heart to others and
fired a frenzy of enthusiasm amongst the Muslims,
which would have contained and turned back
the onslaught of the heathens.
But now nothing remains except for to seek
refuge,
in Allah. Whatever of Islam is still visible
as exposed to the danger of being completely
effaced and leaving no trace, of it whatsoever.
Allah protect us. That was a very real
danger that Islam would be completely destroyed
from the world. Allah check their advance, otherwise
God knows if they had reached the Hadamani
Sharifin what they would have done. And
Allah, forgive us and protect us. Who knows
who's saying these things, these very words about
the rulers and the people, of privilege of
which we should include ourselves if we're listening
to this, late night Majes on SoundCloud.
That what the people, our poor brothers and
sisters in internment camps,
in, Eastern Turkestan,
or in other,
you know, in other
difficulties and
places of desolation,
like Sham and other places what they're saying
about us now. Allah protect us and give
Himmat to those people who
have in their hand that they're they should
be able to do something about these things.
And
not the Muslims alone, but the entire civilized
world trembled before the savage Tatar hordes.
Their atrocities had caused a flutter even in
those far off corners of the then world
where the Tatars could hardly have been expected
to carry their arms.
Edward Gibbon writes in the history, of the
decline and fall of the Roman Empire,
the Latin world was darkened by this cloud
of savage hostility.
A Russian fugitive carried,
the alarm to Sweden
and the remote nations of the Baltic,
and the ocean trembled at the approach of
the Tatars, whom their fear and ignorance,
whom their fear and ignorance were inclined to
separate from the human species. They didn't even
think these people were human.
The maddening frenzy, for death and destruction aroused
by Genghis Khan amongst the Mongols,
and the significance of this upsurge had been
well summed up by the authors of, Cambridge
medieval history.
Quote, unchecked by human valor,
they were able to overcome the terrors of
vast deserts,
the barriers of mountains and seas, and the
severities of climate, and the ravage of famine
and pestilence.
No danger could appall them.
No stronghold could resist them. No prayer for
mercy could move them. We are confronted with
a new power, in history
with a force that was to bring,
to an abrupt end,
as a deus ex machina.
Many dramas that would otherwise have
ended in a deadlock or would have dragged
on, to an indeterminable course.
Harold Lam continues on the impact of Chinggis
Khan.
This new, power in history, the ability of
one man to alter human civilization began with
Genghis Khan and ended with his grandson, Khubilai,
when the Mongol Empire,
started to break up. It has not reappeared
since.
And, you know, there's there's a lot here
that,
a lot here
that that he'll he'll describe
further,
when describing the
destruction of Baghdad, which we'll say for tomorrow.
I think it's it's already it's been too
much,
for one day.
But,
you know, to see the masajid,
you know, destroyed and the ulama killed in
front of everybody
and mocked before, the destruction, the killing of
women and children.
These things, they they they broke the nerve
of most people. And And it's important to
remember that there were very few people
who were able to,
do some work and keep some vision and
make some plans
and to, you know, struggle and to to
try,
to resist.
And,
it's always a few people with whom the
barakah is
and always a majority of people who are
completely
heedless.
And sadly, oftentimes, even the people who are
empowered
to,
to do exactly that, to save people's honors,
their lives, their properties,
They themselves become complacent, and this complacency is
something that every human being has to check
their own nuffs against because
the capacity for it is is really in
all of us, that a person should not
become lazy and happy with what they have.
But they constantly have to struggle and strive
to keep themselves on their toes,
and to keep themselves sharp and to always
have inside of their heart that if they
were ever called to render their trusts back,
their Amanat back to Allah Ta'ala that they
they would be willing to do so.
But,
you know, it's it's important it's important to
remember that there were people who struggled and
fought back.
This is not a book of history in
the kinda normal
sense, and so there's a lot of detail
that he passes over.
But, the last Khorasan Shah wasn't Muhammad Shah
who died desolate and broken.
Actually, on the eve of a great battle,
in which his Turkic forces were very well
armed and matched, the Mongol forces.
Basically,
right before the battle,
the Khorasan Shah something
put something in his heart. He saw something
in the Mongol forces that caused him to
panic
and, lose heart, and he fled as a
coward from the battlefield.
And it caused his entire army to, break
ranks and to, go into chaos, and the
Mongols destroyed them. And that army was basically
the only thing that could check,
the advance of,
the Mongol hordes from,
from from their homeland all the way to
Baghdad and beyond it.
But, one of his sons,
who was not
a prince invested in,
invested with authority,
nor somebody who is seen as
a power player in politics,
a very heroic figure by the name of
Jalaluddin.
He would harass
and,
do guerrilla tactic
tactics in order to harass the Mongol army,
for quite some time after,
the
royal army of the, the imperial army of
the Khorasan Shah was dispersed,
with very few people.
And,
he is known as a, kind of a
symbol of bravery. He checked the advance of
the Mongol army for quite some time. It
was very difficult for them to deal with
him. But, alas,
they overwhelmed him as well.
The point is is this. It's not that
your enemies are invincible, whoever you are, whatever
you are. You know, we're not not everyone
is a warrior. Not everyone here is, like,
fighting people or whatever. Some people are in
business. Some people are in academia. Some people
are, you know, just trying to, you know,
pass their tests at school. Whatever it is,
It's not that that anybody else don't ever
look at another human being and think this
person is invincible or magical or whatever.
The only thing that is invincible is the
help of Allah when it comes to a
person, and it can come to all of
us.
All you have to do is pick a
right
path and try your best and keep asking.
And,
Allah's help comes to everybody in the and
it comes to most people who seek in
this world as
well. Allah
give us a in these precious couple days
of Ramadan.
That, we also shake the chains of this,
kind of fear
of invincibility
of the people of Batil, that there's nothing
magical about being a materialist.
In fact, it makes you a jerk. There's
nothing magical about
drinking or committing zina. In fact, it it
it, causes you diseases in your liver and
in your
private parts.
There's nothing magical about
not praying. It makes your heart hard.
There's nothing magical about all of these things
that, you know,
these kind of weird imperial forces, imperialist forces
from,
the shores of China to Europe,
and what's in between. There's nothing magical any
of them have.
And there's a lot of soft power money
put into somehow making people believe that there
is. And there really isn't. They're human beings
like we're human beings.
They feel pain like you feel pain. But
the difference between you and them is that
you have hope from something from Allah that
they don't have hope for.
At least until they repent, they have no
hope for it.
So whatever it is you're doing, if you're
just trying to, you know, do do a,
you know, fundraiser in order to pay off
your local neighborhood masjid or you're trying to,
like,
whatever it is, big or small. Don't look
at your enemies or your antagonists or your
adversaries or the difficulties you have to face
as insurmountable.
Rather, dig deep
and follow the way of those people who
have barakah.
The Baraka wasn't generated by them because they
were born lucky.
Nobody's born lucky.
The Baraka was what? Because their connection with
Allah
and their willingness to struggle
and their willingness to be patient.
That Allah made them imams of the people
of guidance
be.
Because of their because of their patience and
their steadfastness.
It's easy to say and it's very hard
to do. It's soul crushing and heartbreaking to
do. But the person who can do it,
it's not rocket science, to know how and
person who can do it really is a
Mubarak person. May Allah
bless us with their in this world and
the hereafter.