Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 18 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Hrah 03282024
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We reached this Mubarq 18th night of Ramadan.
For those of you who are in the
area, Inshallah, we will
we are planning to read the on the
night of 21st Inshallah.
So that will be Sunday night. That will
be
the 31st
March.
So if you're in town and you're feeling
you're, more than welcome to attend. Obviously, you're
welcome to attend before that as well. And
if you come after that,
don't be surprised if much of the festivity
and fanfare is done. Although that's really not
all that much over here as you can
see. We try to keep it focused.
But,
I thought I'd let everybody know so that
they can they can come if they wanted
to. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from
all of the people who recited, who listened,
to the recitation of the Quran,
in this Ramadan, and those before, and those
until the day of judgment, Amin.
So we
ended yesterday
Or at any rate, we finished, I think,
recounting the battle of Fani, and we'll start
with the battle of Waleja.
As for the Persian king, he dispatched another
army to the Muslims under the command of
Andar Zarr,
and another one after him under the command
of Jadaway.
Both armies camped at Walaja.
Khaled
advanced toward these 2 commanders, and the Muslims
engaged them in fierce combat until the Polytheist
army was defeated, and the commanded commander, Andar
Zahar, was killed. Khaled also captured some people
from the tribe of Bakr bin Wa'il, put
them to death.
Bakr bin Wa'il,
I believe, was a they were
in
in,
in Jahilia.
And
I think there was a that was actually
the occasion where the Quresh broke their
their treaty with the, or ceasefire armed Muslims,
which triggered the events
leading to the
Fath, which was that Bakr was
Khulafa of
Quraysh
and Khuzaa were Khulafa of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And some men of Bakr had killed some
men of Khuzaa.
And,
I believe I believe this is the same
Bakar. I guess we can
research for tomorrow and
and confirm.
But,
say the who
also captured some people of that tribe and
put them to death.
Some Christians from this tribe
became angry at the rally that Ullis,
then wrote to the Persian king for help,
with an army to fight the Muslims.
So,
this is Jahiliyyah. Don't be too
surprised when you see the kings, princes, generals,
prime ministers, presidents of the of the Arab
doing this.
This is the worst the worst of the
calm. The best of the calm is who?
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his companions. The
Mujahidun and the Ansar,
the. These people are the best of the
companions of the messenger of Allah, the best
of the Arab and the best of mankind
after the prophet salam.
The rest of them were also there too.
They had to contend with them as well.
Just like the best of this, has to
contend with them now.
And so what what was their, what was
their thing? Instead
whom between them?
Or better yet, just keeping their word in
the beginning and not fighting against them after
they had entered into a treaty with them.
What did they do? Let's write to the
Persians and get outside help.
It's not a very chivalrous move, but whatever.
As the she wrote to Bahman
Jadaweh,
the other commander who was defeated at, ordering
him to go to the Christians from Bakr
and join them in the fight against the
Muslims.
When the letter came to him, he sent
Javan ahead as his deputy
while he himself,
went to Azdashir in order to consult with
him
and gather information. But he found him ill
and remained with him instead of joining the
battle.
The battle of Ullis,
as for Jaban, he reached
the army of Bakr and camped with them
at Ullis,
on the river Euphrates.
Khad
who advanced toward them with the squadron
walked in the very center of the battlefield
and issued a challenge for a duel.
1 of the leaders of Bakr stepped forward,
said Nkad radiallahu ta'alaan, who felled him,
and then the Muslims attacked the Persians.
However, they remained quite resolute because they were
anticipating the arrival of Bahman Javed.
The Muslims on the other hand on the
other hand also held rank
and remained resolute so that the word of
Allah may reign supreme.
By midmorning, the Persians fled after having suffered
great losses.
Once again, Khawl distributed
the soil the spoils of war and sent
word of victory with 1 fifth of the
war treasured to Sayid Nabu Bakr Siddiq radhiallahu
anhu.
This battle took place in the month of
Safar,
in 12th year after Hijra.
The conquest of Hera.
Khad
then proceeded toward Hera, the capital of the
Arab kings representing the Persians, which was located
to the west of the Euphrates near Kufa.
So
amongst the Arabs that were,
I guess, more civilized mostly in the north,
but including Yemen and other places,
they had entered into
treaties with,
either the Persians or with the Romans.
There's no such thing as a Byzantine Empire.
This
expression Byzantine is an expression that historians coined
later on.
Otherwise, it was just the Eastern Roman Empire,
and they consider themselves to be the actual
Roman Empire and for good reason because they
they kind of were. The
Roman,
imperium splits into
a a a tetrarchy at some point and
then into a a a into a dual
kingship. 1,
being held in Rome and one being held
in,
Constantinople,
and the one in Rome collapsed.
So
after that, the Roman state, the reigns of
it are most legitimately,
attributed to the
to the the emperor in Constantinople.
At any rate, Herah was the
capital in the east northeast of Arabia
belonging to those
Persianized
Arab tribes that were allies of the Persians.
To say that they're allies is a little
bit, I think, of a stretch. It's more
that they were like client states of the
Persians. This is what happened
is that the Romans, when they would make
it, alliance with people, obviously, it's a lopsided
alliance. And so what happens is that those
people would become clients of the Romans. They
would just basically do the bidding of the
Romans and stay in their good graces and
in return for it, they would have access
to the markets of Rome and to the
benefits of citizenship. And if someone else attacked
them, then the Romans would come to their
aid and things like that. But it wasn't
like, oh, look, you know, we're allied with
one another. It was a relatively lopsided,
lopsided relationship.
Who was sailing along the river when the
vice
Azadiba came out toward him and encamped outside
of the city and ordered his son to
cut off the water from the Muslim ships
by diverting the,
river water down various other canals.
Thus, the ships were grounded and unable to
sail.
Khad rode out to Azadiba's
son and slew him, at Forat,
by Dakhlaar.
Then
proceeded toward Hera,
where the vice chair, Azadi Bar, had fled
the city by that point.
Khaled advanced toward Hurrah,
where the vice jurit Azadiba had fled from.
Khaled surrounded all, the different castles of the
city.
The white castle, the castle of,
Ghariyayn,
the castle of ibn Mazan, and the castle
of ibn Bukayla.
He invited the leaders of these castles to
embrace Islam and gave them the respite of
a day and a night but they refused.
The Muslims began to open the doors to
the monasteries. The monks and pastors shouted out
to the people in the castles to make
peace with the Muslims.
The castles,
and their leaders announced we shall indeed accept
one of 3 options, either Islam, jizyah, or
war. And so the Muslims desisted from fighting.
The leaders then approached Sin Khalid
with Omar bin.
Abdul Masih has,
their spokesperson.
Khaled
meaning the the spokesperson of the, people of
Khaled asked him, are you here to make
peace or declare war?
To make to make peace, he replied. Khaled
asked,
what is the purpose of these castles? He
replied, we built them for imbeciles.
We keep them restrained here until a responsible
person is able to look after them. Khayyid
radiyaahu,
made peace with them in return for jizya
which was set at 190,000
dirhams.
As was the habit with the Persian kings,
they presented him with many gifts, which he
sent on to Abu Bakr
with the news of victory.
Abu Bakr accepted them,
and included them as part of the jizya
ordering. Khaled also
to do likewise.
This is the nature of Islam. Our first
Khalifa did not agree to take something which
the Persians used to give, to their king
seeking favor. In fact, nothing was taken from
them except for that which the Sharia had
stipulated.
Meaning what? He didn't neither Khad
nor Said Abu Bakr Siddiq took the gifts,
which is interesting. That's also the law in
America as well as well as in a
number of different countries. Is that for example,
if you're like secretary of state or you're
some diplomatic
agent of the state and gifts are given
to you, you have to go and give
them. If it's, like, below a certain value,
they let you keep it. If it's above
us and we have to just register it,
if it's above a certain value, you actually
have to give it to the state department.
Although, they give you the right to buy
it if you want to with your own
money from the state, but it belongs to
the the state department if the effect is
of some sort of personal value or whatever
to you.
And so that's that's what he did.
They didn't allow the gifts of,
the the Persian clients to influence them personally
nor did they take them as their own,
which is really interesting.
You know, people do this like people will
accept gifts and it's like a type of
bribery.
During the life of the prophet
one of the Zakat collectors, you know, he
he was a broke person. So he's walking
around with some,
with with some nice gear. And the prophet
asked, like, where did you get this from?
And he goes, oh, it was a gift
someone gave to me. He's like, yeah. Was
it a gift that you got from one
of your relatives or was it maybe something
else that you got in the line of
your work and he chastised him?
And,
he he made it clear that this is
not acceptable that when someone is on official
business that they allow people to,
that they allow people to ingratiate them.
This is one of the reasons actually whenever
I go to a Hafsa certified place,
I refuse to take I refuse to take,
anything for free, and I refuse to take
even a discount.
You can give me all the free things
in the world if I catch something in
your store that's not halal,
I'm not gonna let it slide. But still,
just so that there's
no, that there's
no, shubha about it. I don't I don't
accept. I I pay, or I I'll just
get up and leave. I'll be like, okay.
You know, go I can see the order
is made right now. People insist insist insist.
They won't take the money. I'll say, okay.
I'm just leaving. I'll see you later. You
can do whichever food or whatever you want.
They're like, fine fine fine here. Why don't
you go and pay? And to be sure,
like, I don't think, like,
local
whatever x y z, hello, spot is, like,
trying to bribe me or anything. They're just
trying to show respect, but still, you have
to be above board. You have to keep
your to keep your nails clean.
Otherwise, it it opens the door for all
sorts of other bad things. We're on the
pay of the king. He's the one who
pays us. Don't take your don't jib yourself
and, like, cheat yourself by taking a pittance
early and then
deprive yourself of the real reward on the
day of judgment.
That was.
I'm sure I probably told you guys this
story like a 1000000 times, but I love
it and I'm proud of them. Those are.
I'm proud of them. The of the of
the Muslim in.
That after India received its
freedom from colonial rule. There was a big
ceremony in order to
recognize the leaders of the the struggle for
freedom.
So they called him and they called him
up to the stage and they gave him
a, like, a, like, a medal and they
gave him
you know, a cash,
award, and they gave allotted him a stipend
for life,
a pension, and, they allotted him
a house
and a government,
housing scheme. And they allotted him a lifetime
rail pass, and they, like, gave him all
these other things. And so he took the
award. It's like a token.
And, he says, as for the rest of
it, we're we're, you know, he returned all
of them in front of everybody.
And he says, that we we struggled,
for the sake of Allah ta'ala,
and we expect our reward from him.
Now what's the problem with people that they
themselves, they see that the the deen that
they have is cheap
and the work that they have is cheap
and the struggle that they make is cheap.
And they wish for all of these, like,
cheap,
recompenses for it in this world. Whereas only
Allah knows what the a man imagine a
man steps out in the path of Allah
ta'ala.
Yeah. Other it was one of
thousands of people who fought. I know his
name, but we don't know the names of
the other people. It doesn't matter. Allah knows
their names. Allah ta'ala knows all of their
names. India is not the only place that
went through difficulty.
Every time from the time of the prophet
until this time, every land, Tunis, what do
you think there's no struggle over there? You
think there's no struggle? You know?
Even in even even even in, like,
amongst the Aztecs, you know, Cortez said that
there were massages over here. I wouldn't be
surprised if there were Muslims if they put
them to the sword first and nobody ever
heard about it. Well,
Allah knows best. You know? But the point
is is that is that what? It doesn't
bother. It shouldn't matter to somebody if,
you know, others don't know their name. Allah
knows and Allah ta'ala the value of it
is very great. One step in the path
of Allah ta'ala is so so great. Imagine
a person who struggled and, you know, went
through so much difficulty for the sake of
Allah. Don't cheapen these things
by making yourself feel feel cheap and like
your deeds cheap. They mean a lot to
Allah to Allah. And even if you didn't
do it perfect. Even if it wasn't like
glorious and glamorous
like made for TV movie, level, amazing. Even
if you screwed up in the way or
you felt like you could have done better,
Allah ta'ala forgives those things and overlooks those
things and the person who's sincere and who
loves them. Allah ta'ala accepts from them the
best of what they do. And by the
barakah and blessings of Tawbah, Allah overlooks people's
mistakes as well.
So don't don't don't sell it out, before
it's time.
Beyond hira.
When the men of political importance,
beyond Hera saw the actions of Khayad radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu, they made peace with him on
the basis that the region of Hara between,
Falalij and,
Hormuzjard
would be guaranteed protection in exchange for the
payment of 1,000,000 dirhams
excluding, taxes that were paid to Khosrow.
Khaled
then sent off his commanders who traversed the
region beyond
this one, all the way up the banks
of the Dajila, the Tigris. And he wrote,
a letter addressed to the Persian kings.
He says in the name of Allah, the
most beneficent, the most merciful,
all praise is due to Allah who put
an end to your rule, forwarded your plan
and divided your ranks. Had we not done
so, things would have been worse for you.
Embrace our religion and we will leave you
and your land,
for another people. If not, you and your
land will be conquered by force at the
hands of the people who love death as
much as you love life. And he will
leave it to you.
It's not like we're not here to take
your stuff. We're just here to what? To
make the word of Allah supreme. If you
don't want to accept it, at least respect
it.
If you don't want to respect it, then,
you know, this is this is this is
this is what's up.
He also addressed a letter to the provincial
governors.
All praises to Allah who has broken your
power, scattered your ranks,
frightened away your families, and nullified your strength.
Embrace Islam and you will experience peace. If
not, entrust me to grant you protection in
exchange for jizyah. If you refuse to pay
jizyah, I come to you with a people
who love death as much as you love
to drink alcohol, which is probably a lot.
It was at that time that serious setbacks
befell the Persians which only weakened them further
and increased the strength of the Muslims. This
was in relation to their internal differences after
the death of the king al Shirk and
the absence of somebody from the family of
Khosro to take the reins of power. So
it's a gross,
succession struggle.
When
the letters of Khayal bin Walid
reached them the wives of Khusrau agreed to
appoint one of the Persian governors
Farahzad,
Al Bandawan,
until,
such a time that they found someone worthy
of being king from the family of Khosrow.
The conquest of Ambar. Now, Ambar, you only
hear about it, what?
You know, because of,
you know, George w Bush and, his, his
his Khalifa, Barack,
not Hussein Obama,
and their stupidities that they've done. Trump is
a complete, he is what he is. Why
should I say anything? You know, and you
feel like what he is, so fill in
the blank. He is what he is. But
one of whatever you wanna say that is
or don't wanna say that is. Smart guy
who's like, maybe fighting around in the backwoods
of, Iraq is not a good idea. I
promise you it's not a good idea. If
you need to know why, just come to
the masjid and hang out with my Iraqi
friends, and you'll understand within 5 minutes why
there's no American interest in these places, and
you should probably just pack up and go
home.
Good for them.
Meanwhile, Qadr
proceeded from Hayra to Ambar, a city on
the banks of the Euphrates,
to the north of Kufa.
Shirzad, the ruler of Sabah, was the commander
of the army there. The Muslims engaged them
in combat. When Shirzad realized he did not
have enough strength to fight the Muslims, he
expressed the desire of peace but on terms
unacceptable to khaad radiallahu anhu.
So he sent back the,
envoy.
Then slaughtered the weak camels of the army
and threw them in
a trench that the polytheists dug and charged
over the dead camels,
on,
across the trench to them. When he saw
this, he sought peace with Saidikad
on his terms.
They had accepted and,
sent Shirzad to a place of safety until
he later joined Bahman. So he basically he,
like, left the the theater and then joined
with his
with his army again.
Yeah. Just they piled up the ditch so
that they could, make make a bridge over.
The quest of Aynat Tamar.
Khad
who, advanced toward Aynat Tamar 3 days journey
from Ambar after,
appointing,
Zibir Khan bin Badar over Ambar.
After reaching Aynid Tamar, he found a huge
army of Persians
under the leadership
of Miran bin Bahram,
Joe Bain. And a huge number of Arabs
from the Namar and Taghlib tribes,
who were living in those areas under the
rule of the Khosro of Persia.
The Persians placed the Arabs in the front
lines because they knew better how to fight
the Arabs.
Charged their leader while he was straightening the
battle lines lines and captured him.
Imagine the Jorah'a like the just the
guts that that he must have had. As
the commander of the army Just whoop. Just
sweep, grab them underneath their noses and and
and nab them. That's it.
He captured him. The people surrendered immediately without
a fight.
When Mehran saw this, he and his army
also fled and abandoned the fort. The defeated
soldiers sought refuge in the fort and asked
for an armistice who refused.
He then sent news of the victory and
1 5th of the war treasure to,
Sayed Abu Bakr Sadiq
So inshallah, we'll read tomorrow inshallah the
the conquest of and
probably finish,
this book's recounting of,
the fight with the Persians, at least the
Arabs,
that were the clients of the Persians.
Allah
protect the the efforts and the struggles and
sacrifices that were
made by the companions of the Allah on
whom in order to keep these places in
the lands of Islam.
May Allah aid whoever
supports,
their protection
and their,
custodianship.
May Allah curse anybody who seeks to revoke
it or who seeks to weaken it.