Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 17 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Irq 03272024
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We've reached this Mubarak 17th night of Ramadan.
Now the greater part of the month is
behind us in terms of number of days.
Allah knows what the greater part is in
terms of.
We ask Allah
to vouch safe for us, the
that we should reach it and that we
shouldn't do anything to blow it for ourselves
or for others. Allah
make it
for us on the day of judgment that
saves us from,
a bad and from a wretched fate. Amin.
The last 10 nights, as a reminder for
myself and for others,
our time on the messenger
would increase in his seriousness
that he would not only wake up himself,
but he would wake up his family members
in order to,
encourage them to pray.
Although, some of the say that this is
a,
an illusion to
abstention from marital relations,
but,
it also means to firm your resolve, like
like, to roll up your sleeves and take
that time seriously because those days, they're not
gonna come back, and you don't have other
days like it in the year. So for
us, what does that mean? That means if
you have vacation time from work, you take
it. If you have PTO
days, you take them. If you can delay
something,
you delay it. If you can delay something
at school, at work,
your hobbies,
your friends,
winning friends, influencing people, whatever,
like, normal
things in life people do.
Just push them down the river, procrastinate with
them.
I mean, everybody's pretty good at procrastinating.
Maybe someone who's not good at it, but
they're probably not here. So this is the
Fafir Khanna, the Darwish Khanna,
All of you guys are pretty good at,
putting stuff off,
and that's what one of the things I
suspect that brings us together here. So just
go ahead and employ those skills that the
Lord has given you for,
for a good purpose,
by putting off your dunya,
that you can take care of
in a week and a half time,
for something that you won't get again, in
the later part of the year. And like
quack
work,
walked through the door, and we're gonna start
talking about the conquest of Iraq.
That's Abu Bakr
who had dealt with the apostates bringing all
the Arabs to Islam, and
had united the Muslim community.
He now directed his attention to spreading the
justice and equality of Islam to other nations,
nations whose leaders thought themselves superior to their
subjects.
They considered them slaves who were powerless over
their own lives and would abase and tyrannize
them.
The greatest empires neighboring Islam at the time
were the Persian Empire to the east and
the Roman Empire to the north.
Abu Bakr commenced
with the Persian Empire.
The first contact between the Muslims and this
huge empire was the letter which the messenger
of Allah
wrote to Khosrow Parvez,
inviting him to Islam, their emperor
self proclaimed king of kings.
On receiving the letter, Khosrow tore it up
out of arrogance.
And this,
is a measure of the level of totalitarianism
and arrogance which marked the kings of that
time. The pure religion of Islam came to
destroy this very pride and arrogance.
It's important to
know.
Obviously, Kufr is Kufr.
But even for the standards of Kufr, this
guy was a bad ruler.
You don't put a spaz on the throne.
There's a certain amount of self restraint
and
aloofness and transcendence that the king should have,
which is also part of, like, the image
of kingship amongst the Persians,
which he obviously didn't have. He spazzed. He,
you
know, lost control, and he ripped up the
letter of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Now what was that letter made of?
Not paper because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
wasn't in China. What was it made of?
It was made of parchment. So to rip
it, you really had to be really upset.
It's made out of analytide.
And, the pieces of it,
it's claimed that the pieces of it were
then saved by one of the courtiers
who kinda saw the writing on the wall
and thought this maybe something we wanna hang
on to. And the pieces of parchment were
sewn
up.
But to rip the letter, it's I mean,
it means that he really, like, lost it.
Being a person who's lost it at least
once or twice in my life, I can
sympathize, but it's not a good thing.
It's not generally speaking, it's not taking me
places good places in life. Most people who
have this capacity inside of them,
oftentimes end up in prison or, in other
other places where the mouth writes a check
that the backside cannot cash.
So the
you know, like, in front of that arrogance,
Allah gave,
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wasallam's companions a, a,
a, a heavy hand up in order to
have victory over such people.
They're not worthy of ruling themselves,
much as ruling over the other nations of
the earth.
Barrez actually took the letter of the messenger
of
Allah quite seriously. By the way, the name
Barres, unfortunately unfortunately, including my own relatives, it
seems to be still
a name that's in use in the Indian
subcontinent. If your name is, you should probably
pick a better name.
Just, you know, change your name to Abdullah
and call it a day. Take the take
the w and call it a day.
This is my my my loving advice. There
was a man named Baraes who just died
not too long ago in Pakistan, and
he was following the sun of his namesake.
Anyway, this is not the time for that.
But Reza actually took this letter to the
messenger
of Allah quite seriously and conveyed
a a message to Badan, his government governor
in,
Yemen
to send 2 strong men to bring the
messenger of Allah
Can you imagine that they're gonna they're gonna
kidnap the ulterior Abu Dhabi laha Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
When the 2 reached Madina, the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam spoke to them saying,
Barbez was slain by his son this very
day.
And it was as he said, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Barbez's son,
Shiraway,
rebelled against his father with the help of
some senior subjects assassinating him and taking control
of the Persian Empire.
When the 2 men learned of the truthfulness
of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, they both embraced Islam.
Yemen was later conquered in the time of
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Badan embraced Islam and the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam appointed him governor. I
think this is probably a poor translation.
Yemen wasn't conquered at at least by force.
The Fatah of Yemen was not by force,
but they they accept themselves accepted Islam.
Thus, Yemen was the first Persian protectorate to
align itself with Islam. This was followed by
Bahrain and Oman, which were also Persian protectorates.
When the messenger of
passed away, Abu Bakr
completed his battles against the apostates and he
entrusted the sword of Allah, Khaled bin Walid
as the first person to lay the foundations
for Islam in the Persian lands.
This was in the beginning of Muhammad of
12th Hijri.
Abu Bakr
who ordered him to start with,
a border post belonging to the Persians on
the Arabian Gulf near the mouth of the,
the Tigris,
and sent Kaqa bin Amr to help him.
Abu Bakr
also appointed
to attack the Persians from the north asking
him to start with, Musayak
Musaiah Afon, a village on the Euphrates River
north, to the north of Iraq and said,
Abdul Yahuth bin, Abdul Yahuth and Hemriq Hemri,
to help him. Abu Bakr
who ordered,
both Khaled
and Yav to enlist those warriors who had
fought the apostates,
that no apostate should join them. Again, keeping
the ranks closed. He's not saying you're not
a Muslim,
but also when there's a job that you
need to get done and you don't need
to, like, mess it up,
you know, you gotta you gotta use some
common sense. This is a thing by the
way. This happens. Everybody everybody is like, you
know, somebody or another will always
see something or be something
depending on the case that that may look
shady. Having traveled all through the Muslim world,
I learned very quickly not to tell people
you're from America because everybody will immediately think
you're a spy and people think you're a
spy anyway. You tell them I left in
order to study the dean, they're like, yeah.
Right.
Converts have experienced this as well where people
accuse them of being an informant and and
it's fine, you know. Look, you have it's
the real world out there. Some people really
are informants.
So if, you know, some dude comes in
and, you know, looks informity and talks informity
and acts informity,
then, you know,
Krishna Advan
dictates that in your heart, you believe that
that person is not an informant, but it
doesn't dictate that you don't protect yourself or
you make common sense decisions. Nowadays, what are
the 2 extremes? Either that person is an
informant, kick him out of the masjid, or
on the flip side, they try to have
the guy give Khutba next week. Like, look,
you have to use some common sense.
Let people prove themselves. And this, again, like
I said, it's not a race issue. I've
dealt with it myself so many places in
the world.
You speak English, they're like, ah, this guy
is a spy. Because why would he come
to study the dean? Why would he give
up dunya and come to study the dean?
We never would.
So it's one of those things.
I give people space. I also learned to
like because this is one silly thing Americans
do is they just, like, open up and
they're very, like, open with people and they're
very, like, direct and forthright and sincere with
people right away. Like a dog's like, and,
like, trying to get petted and things like
that. No. Most people in the world are
far too scarred and frazzled for you to
be able to open up like that with
them
that quickly. It's actually quite traumatizing to them.
If you have to yeah. I learned these
things all these things the hard way. If
you give them time, open up little by
little, little by little, like, you know, in
order for them to be able to gain
your trust and you're not to be a
fitna for the those people. The point is
is all of this is real. Khosnadhan means
that inside your heart of hearts, you don't
believe bad about somebody without any proof. But
it doesn't mean that you don't, you know,
take measures to protect yourself from possible errors.
Again, here in in certain places, in certain
positions for certain jobs, he was keen that
we have to make sure that only the
people who are vetted,
should be put in positions of responsibility,
in order to make sure that we don't,
voluntarily
keep a catastrophe over our own heads.
Abu Bakr alaihiallahu anhu was of the opinion
that no one who had ever reneged on
Islam should be asked for help during a
battle.
The Battle of Ubula,
Khaz bin who
proceeded until he came close to the, to
Ubula and then divided his army into 3,
detachments.
He appointed Mufanna bin Harifa,
Shaybani
over the first detachment,
in the over the second attachment and kept
the third one under his own command. He
sent the first two divisions before him and
arranged to meet, them at, Hofer, a place
close to on the main road between Mecca
and Basra.
So, you know, that's amazing
when you think about it
Because they didn't have phones
to communicate with one another. They weren't constantly
on WhatsApp
communicating with one another.
They had to be of one mind, and
every single one of them need to need
to know, like, what was being said and
understand directions and be able to communicate forthrightly
and make much more properly with one another.
To be able to speak to someone and
to be able to understand someone,
very few people are able to do that.
Oftentimes, you ask somebody a question and they
don't answer the question you ask them.
That type of that type of inability to
communicate and inability to understand
is I mean, that's defeat is a foregone
conclusion when you have that. You have to
actually be on top of it. Not only
do you have to be able to understand
what someone's saying to you, you also have
to be
You have to be able to understand even
what the person is not saying to you,
which sadly, even a lawyer nowadays doesn't know
how to write English anymore. This is one
reason people should go go sign up for
Darul Qasim Darul Salaam. Go read your Nahu
Sarf Balaha, all of these things. Understand what
speech means. Because nowadays, speech is just a
set of trigger for feelings.
Nothing no words don't actually have any objective
denotations anymore.
Therefore, nobody can communicate. Whereas in the old
days, like,
we see you know, we split on the
road, and we don't know if we're gonna
see each other again, but they all trusted
one another to be able to carry out
whatever they agreed on and to be able
to agree on it properly first and then
to be able to carry it out,
and and make a stand. That's, like, really
I think that's really amazing. That's why it's
the companions of so few of them, but
they they, like, went through the Arabian Peninsula.
I imagine 1 army being broken into 11
detachments,
and each one of them is like a
a shared like a lion that charges into
a herd of sheep. There could be a
1,000 sheep, but they're all gonna flee. But
the problem is that if you can't get
to that point, then you can, you know,
now we're the flock of sheep.
And, it's not the way it's supposed to
be. Obviously, not all of us are because
there's a couple of guys in Gaza who
have tied up the entire,
quote unquote civilized world and seem to be
giving them a lot of hard time. So
not everyone is a sheep. If you want
to, you know, if you want to know,
something about about that, that's one of the
reasons that, we're reading the book is that
we should actually remember and wake that memory.
Somewhat of a tangential point. This is one
of the reasons that I,
I I praise our brothers in Jamat Ali.
Definitely has there's issues.
I personally
if you have issues with that, I'm not
telling you to, like,
overlook those issues if they're it's not working
for you. But in a sense, you should
appreciate this, that this is a, you
know and tariqas used to be like this
as well. Nowadays, they're just kind of like
a a a souped up like donation receiving
and halwa
consuming scheme.
There are exceptions. There are but many of
them sadly have become just this kind of
superstitious
hocus pocus club in order to, like, have,
like, 20 people wear the same Dolby or
whatever. But, like, it's sad but
true. But,
but what what is it in the old
days? The idea that when 3 of you
move, you should have an emir amongst you.
What does it mean? How do you make?
How, you know, how how how do you
agree on something?
How do you, you know, keep trust with
one another? How do you keep watch at
night? You know, how do
you how do you divide up things in
turns? You know, what what's the adab of
doing this? What's the adab of doing that
other than, like, just purely ritual matters? What's
the adab of eating?
People don't have adab when eating. And so
what ends up happening, you know, everyone will
become everybody's enemy when it comes time for,
you know, somebody says, you know, I wanna
eat like vegan vegan tacos and the other
guy says, I wanna eat, you know, like,
whatever beef ribs. And, how do you split
that? How do you eat that together? Nobody
knows any of these things. Why? They haven't
practiced any of these things before.
What do you do when a plan goes
sideways?
How do you fall back on different things?
This is stuff people should know they should
practice. If you wanna do it in,
go ahead. If you wanna do it in
in your whatever
or group, go right ahead. But people should
know these things. Your deen shouldn't just be
like something you do on Sunday and then
go home. Like, proverbially. Right? It shouldn't be
like that. It shouldn't be something that you
can apply through the rest of your life.
Otherwise, none of it is deen. If it's
the Allah ta'ala, if it's all for him,
it's all for him. And glad tidings to
you for Jannah,
on the day you meet him. If some
of it is for him and some of
it is for something else, then none of
it is for Allah Ta'ala.
And we should fear we should fear that
that day that, that we should be asked
that even one hair of the, you know,
of the bull should be considered for other
than Allah and
then the entire ship sinks
on that day. Allah, Ta'ala, protect us. So
I think that's amazing, The 3 of them
went in 3 different directions, and then they
met up again,
in Hofer between, Makamukhanam and Basra. The commander
of this border post post was a senior
Persian leader by the name of Hormuz.
The Arab abhorred him because of his constant
incursion,
incursions into them, and they were all hostile
to him.
When Khurmas heard of Khaled and his plan
with,
to meet, his 2 advanced parties at Hufayr,
he moved off to arrive there first. Khaled
diverted with his armies toward,
Kalima, an oasis
between present day Kuwait and Basra, but reached
it first. So the Muslims stopped over at
a place without water. Khayr
said, fight them for the water.
Surely Allah will give it to the more
resolute of the 2 armies. So it's not
like they were pushovers.
The guy was smart. He outflames saying the
Khaz bin will lead what? Twice.
You remember? Right? And he's already, like, made
a name for himself in, like, the late
night Ramadan late night series as the champion
up flanker, Ravi Allahu.
So it's not like it was, like, easy.
But what if they fight them for the
water? Surely Allah will give it to the
more resolute of the 2 armies.
Went forward in the middle of a rope
and challenged them to individual combat on foot.
Hormuz accepted the challenge and dismounted, and had
grasped him. When the Persians saw this, they
went to attack Khaled treacherously,
but this did not stop him putting Khormuz
to the sword.
Ta'aka saw this and attacked with the Muslim
army keeping the Persians back from Khaladur radiAllahu
anhu.
From there, the encounter escalated and the polytheists
were defeated.
This was the first battle between the Muslims
and the Persians. Khaled radiyaAllahu Anhu sent the
good news and 1 5th of the
war treasure to Abu Bakr
who after having distributed 4 5ths to the
soldiers,
3 allotted to the cavalry and one chair
for the infantry.
Called who dispatched
in pursuit of those who had retreated in
defeat. As Abu Bakr advised,
the Muslims did not harm farmers in any
way. The news of defeat reached the Persian
king, Azdashir,
who was,
at his palace in, Mada in Salukia
Tasfoun,
a place that belonged to the, Khosroos on
the Tigris River, south of modern day Baghdad.
Between the east and west and the eastern
side being where the famous iwan,
vaulted arch of Khosrow was situated.
The Persian king dispatched another army against the
Muslims under the command of a mighty general
by the name of Qaren
ibnu,
Karianis,
who rounded up all the defeated soldiers and
returned back with them to Fani,
a bend in the river near Basra.
The battle of Fenny.
Qarim bin, Parianis,
encamped here in Khad
who marched there as well. When the 2
armies met, Panin came forward and declared an
open challenge to 1 on 1 combat hoping
to avenge the death of Khurmus, a Muslim
cavalryman
by the name the footnote is, by the
name of Maq al bin,
Aisha ibn nabdash,
as listed by, ibn Athir and Kamif Tariq.
A Muslim cavalryman accepted the challenge and they
successfully put him to the sword.
Then the Muslim army attacked the polytheist army
and killed a large number of their warriors
apart from those who drowned in the river.
Khaled who
collected the jizya from the farmers
and entered them into dimma.
Again, he sent a message of victory in
1 5th of the war treasure to Abu
Bakr
As for the Persian king, he dispatched another
army to the Muslims under the command of
and
and another, after him under the command of
Jadaway.
Both armies,
encamped near Wallaja.
Inshallah, we'll
take up the,
we'll take up the narrative
of of the battle of,
tomorrow. Allah give
us the
of learning to
not just put aside our differences with one
another, but actually work with one another and
for one another.
I don't know if we're going to get
to that part of it because there's a
lot
to talk about. But eventually, he's actually
removed from command.
And so there's a number of things,
interesting things. I I don't wanna talk about
that too long right now, but there's a
number of interesting things to keep in mind.
One is that there's a lot of weird
propaganda against the the kind
of enemies of Islam against Ibn Khald bin
Walid and objections about things that he did.
But one thing is,
difficult for them to explain away, which is
why if he was a supreme commander of
the Muslim armies,
why is it that when he was removed
from command, he still,
participated as a normal soldier,
just as a normal soldier stripped of any
command,
in the.
And he fought all the way until he
passed from this world, and he didn't pass
away. He wasn't killed in battle.
Rather, he passed away of illness,
as his age had advanced, but he kept
fighting all the way until the end. These
are people. They did what they did for
the sake of Allah,
and they knew it. That's why their was
in the help of Allah
that it wasn't really for anything else. There
was no, you know, whatever stock options that
they're hoping to cash in later. But they
did what they did for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And also remember that
when you see,
you see when you think about Iraq today,
when when you think about Syria today, when
you think about these places today, Yemen today,
that this is this is only the work
of Shaitan and his
deputies that are trying to undo the good
that And look who look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
Look who's doing it. Look who's doing it.
And
look who look who's doing it.
Look who egged on and goaded the Iraq
war.
The entire idea was that this is gonna
somehow stabilize and even though Iraq there's not
one Iraqi had anything to do with 911.
Not one of Ghani Afghani had anything to
do with 911 either, but, you know, they
had nothing to do with it at all.
And, but they're just told the state department
was just told, hey. You know, it'll be
good for Israel's security. And so they trashed
an entire they trashed an entire nation. It's
okay. The enemies of God
did this, many times in the past, and
they'll keep doing it. But a person also
in their mind should know what the score
is, and they should also know that the
help of Allah ta'ala is there for the
one who wants to do something for the
sake of Allah ta'ala.
Allah ta'ala give us all