Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 19 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Shaykhs Triumph Where Armies Fail Masjid Raqb Baton Rouge
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By Allah's father, we've reached this
Mubarak.
Now what? 19th month of 19th 9th night
of Ramadan.
And,
tonight's,
Majlis is coming to you from
Masjid Abdul Radeeb in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Baton Rouge for most of my life was
a place I only knew as the capital
of Louisiana, and I had no idea what
Louisiana,
is or was. But here we were,
our gracious hosts,
from originally of Dearborn and,
2 of our elders, in the work
of of Deen in the effort of Dawah,
And Moana
Moana,
as well who is a former student of
the Darulum in New York and,
a graduate of the Darulum in Trinidad and
Tobago.
All esteemed elders,
members of, the African American community.
And,
they're holding the post here in Baton Rouge.
I asked them if
there's any such thing as halal gator in
these parts. They,
they laughed at me as they well should.
But,
keep hope alive, as they say.
One day soon.
Yeah.
That's right. Sheikh, you ever met
Yeah. All that old crowd from that time,
from Bangladesh, from other to disease.
So
name,
I mean, just I can't quite remember a
lot of them right now, but, yes, most
of those sheikh I would say the
of Mulana is is.
Was also a great sheikh of our tariqah
and, he was also the
emir of the effort of Tablih
and a man who was constantly engaged in
and dua.
And, I don't know, you know, if people
met
the, brothers, they probably like me,
turn them away from the dean or whatever.
But those were the actual. They were not
like
they're not like us. And so that's why
I say that that
the, brothers like Sheikh,
Haif Farooq, you know, these are elders because
in our deen, we say that the person
who receives is the one who, you know,
gets it from the person directly. And so
my father never met any of these, but
my father did. And, you know, being Desi
doesn't, you know, doesn't serve you unless you
use it. And so so these are the
people Allah gave them this and that's why
they're the ones who are favored with holding
the light in in these places.
Allah
make it and
Allah
plant it firmly and make it overwhelm, the
darkness as is the quality Allah put in
light. So
we continue reading from,
Saviors of the Islamic Spirit
in which he was quoting
a relatively
antagonistic
kafir by the name of,
by the name of, Arnold,
who, was narrating the story of
how it is that the different commanders and
chieftains of the Mongols entered into Islam.
So we left off in the middle of
what was a very long quote because yesterday's
majlis, it kinda went on a little bit
too long.
So we'll we'll continue.
Arnold,
he says he quotes Arnold. He says, to
the student of the history of the Mongols,
it is a relief to pass from the
recital of nameless horrors,
and continual bloodshed to a document emanating from
a Mongol prince and giving expression to such
humane and benevolent sentiments,
which sounds strange indeed coming from such lips.
Quote,
a rev a a revolt broke out against
him.
Takudar Ahmed, one of the Mongol chiefs, headed
by his nephew Arvon,
who encompassed his death and succeeded him on
the throne.
During his brief reign, Christians were once more
restored to favor while the Musalmans had to
suffer persecution,
in their turn.
They were dismissed from their posts and driven
away from the court.
The successors of Takudar were all heathens until
in 1299
95,
I I say,
Ghazan.
Ghazan was
a prince who accepted Islam. He took their
the Muslim name Mahmoud.
He said until in 12, 95, Ghazan, the
7th and greatest of the Ilkhans became
Musalman and made Islam the ruling religion in
Persia.
Ghazan himself, before his conversion, had been brought
up as a Buddhist and had erected several
Buddhist temples in Khorasan
and took, great pleasure in the company of
the priests of this faith who had come
into Persia in large numbers since the establishment
establishment of Mongol supremacy over that country. It's
very interesting actually. Buddhism has a very good
PR in in the United States, and, of
course, we don't bear any sort of particular
ill will to any, human being.
But,
you know, it's important as a student as
a an astute student of history to know
that,
by the numbers, by statistics, probably the one
not probably without a doubt, the one the
one religion that has statistically
perpetrated the most,
genocide in terms of, like, just numbers of
people killed is Christianity
by far. And number 2 is Buddhism. Muslims
are not even anywhere on the, on the
on the chart compared to compared to them.
And,
most of the
older Mongols before their conversions, they were either
they vacillated between the story and Christianity, eastern
Christianity, and between
Lamay's Buddhism,
and, to this day, the Oirats
and Kalmyks,
from the Turks that live
way, way, like, towards Siberia,
closer to Lake Baikal
and and whatnot,
that they they still follow that Lamas faith.
And, it's very clear that, if you look
at the genocide that's happening in Burma,
what they call Myanmar now,
or if you look at Sri Lanka,
or even some places in Thailand, a great
section of anti Muslim animus comes from,
the the Buddhist, priesthood and monks,
who
oftentimes
are very virulent and accurate
Muslim and relatively obnoxious and xenophobic in terms
of their outlook. Of course, this is not
all, all Buddhist,
but,
it is something that for whatever reason the
students of history in America haven't really come
to terms with.
And so Ghazan himself was, before his conversion
to Islam, he was,
he was a Buddhist.
Indeed, the Turks themselves by and large were
Buddhist. They they during the life of the
prophet most of them were
Manicheist.
Manicheism is a Iranian dualistic religion that that,
went extinct at some point in the past.
I think Saint Augustine was a Manichean at
some point as well before his conversion to
Christianity.
And then for Manicheanism, they en masse become
Buddhist at some point. And then afterward after
they come in
contact with Islam, they all become Muslims,
east of there's a particular river somewhere like
in Siberia, and the Turks have an agreement
amongst themselves that if any Kafir goes west
of that river, the Muslim Turks are not
gonna
are not gonna, let him go. But if
they want to, stay safe, they just stay
east of that river. This was an ancient
agreement that they had, and the Turks then
by and by by by and large and
en masse, they all become Muslims,
Muslims except for in this very remote remote
geographical regions. So
this is
large numbers
of of the priests of that faith had
entered into Persia since the establishment of Mongol
supremacy in that country.
He appears, Yani Kazan, to have naturally been,
of a religious turn of mind for he
studied the creeds of the different religions of
his time and used to hold discussions with
the learned doctors of each faith. Rashiduddin,
his learned minister and the historian in his
reign maintained
the genuineness of his conversion to Islam and
the religious religious observances of which he zealously
kept throughout his whole reign.
Through this, his contemporaries and later writers have
often re echoed
the imputation,
represented
him as having only yield to the solicitations
of some amirs and sheikhs.
Ibn Kathir also relates in the chronicles for
the year 6 94 of hijra that Ghazan
embraced Islam during that year. The accounts left
by other historians show that the conversion of
Ghazan was brought about through a pious Turk,
Amir,
to Zaun,
in name. Uh-uh, Ibn Kathir, his version of
the story, is as follows.
In this year, the great grandson of Genghis
Khan,
Ghazan bin Arghun bin Ira bin Tulli bin
Genghis Khan,
announced his conversion
to the faith of Islam along with all
or majority of the Tatars under him,
through the persuasion of Amir
to Zaun,
upon whom may rest the peace of God.
Pearls, gold, and silver balls were showered upon
those who declared their allegiance to Islam. The
The king renamed himself as Mahmud and attended
Friday services.
A number of heathen temples and churches were
demolished and the Jizyah poll tax was levied
on them.
Goods and properties were confiscated from Baghdad and
other Muslim cities.
The goods and properties that were confiscated in
Baghdad
and other Muslim cities were returned, and justice
was restored to them. Rosaries were scenes in
the hands of Tatars, the, the Tasbis, the
Tatars were seen now walking around with in
their hands,
for which act of benevolence the people thanked
god almighty.
Molana continues. He says, continuing the account
relating to the Islamization of the Mongols kingdom
of Persia, Arnold writes,
his, Yani Razan's brother,
who succeeded him in 13/04 under the name
Muhammad,
Khuda Banda,
which is a Persian expression meaning the slave
of God.
Muhammad.
Is a cognate for the English word like
bondsman,
like bondage is slavery. So he's is god
is the god's slave. Muhammad
had been brought up as a Christian in
faith,
the faith of his mother and had been
also baptized under the name Nicholas.
But after his mother's death, while he was
still a young man, he became a convert
to Islam through the persuasions of his wife.
Ibn Batuta says,
his example exercised a great influence on the
Mongols.
From this time forward, Islam became the paramount
faith, in the kingdom
of the Ilkhan, which is a good lesson
for all of us. Don't ever clown a
guy just because he converted to marry a
Muslim girl. You know? You never know you
never know you don't know which homicidal, genocidal
maniac Nicholas is baptized. Nicholas is hanging out
out there and just, you know,
away from a nikon, from a good end,
and the Muslims will benefit from it inshallah.
So coming to the story of the spread
of Islam,
in the middle kingdom of the Mongols, Arnold
says, the details we possess of the progress
of Islam in the middle kingdom, which
felt that a lot of the Charitai and
his descendants,
are still more meager. Charitai is like the
the area where Uzbekistan
is.
Several of the princes of this line had
a Mohammed administer in their service, but they
showed themselves
unsympathetic to this faith of Islam.
Charatai himself harassed his Muhammadan subjects by regulations
that restricted their ritual observances in respect of
the killing of animals for food and ceremonial
washings.
It's it's interesting that they banned people from
making,
a ghusl and they ban people from slaughtering
animals. Right?
We're here roving around the backwoods of Bayou
country looking for halal slaughtermen.
What happened was that the Mongols when they
like
all of a sudden conquered this huge world
empire, they have a huge state and they
have no legal apparatus,
Genghis Khan will,
have codified the yasa, their tribal customary law.
And so the yasa was known to have
several dozens of of laws,
one of which which is really interesting is
that you cannot pollute a body of water.
They would kill they I mean, they considered
it to be a sacrilege,
unholy that if you polluted a body of
water, you should treat like bodies of water
with with faith. In fact, Chinggis Khan, the
word
in the Turkish language to this date means
ocean and it's not his name. His actual
name was Timucin, which means iron.
That was his actual birth name is a
tough guy but his title as emperor was
was Chinggis which means ocean because the ocean
is generous. It keeps giving. It keeps giving.
So he wouldn't have been happy with what
happened with the whole
deepwater horizon
pipeline spill, you know.
Just to let you know, there are more
than one type of barbarian out there.
So they have this yasa, which is this
entire,
like, ceremonial Mongol tribal law.
And, when they saw that the Muslims have
a way of slaughtering animals, they said we
should have a way to slaughter animals as
well because they would just eat carrion or
whatever, kill an animal and that's it. Right?
So the great Khan decreed that just like
the Muslims slit the throat in order to
bleed the animal out and kill it as
quickly and humanely as possible, that the Mongols
will slit the stomach of the animal open,
reach in and grab the beating heart and
pull it out and let it beat in
their hand, and,
and to slaughter an animal in any way
other than that was a violation of the
ASSA.
Now one very interesting issue with the ASSA
was this, is that it had dozens of
laws. They codify them. They had them written
written down, but they didn't have any sort
of codification of sentencing.
Right? Here, if you shoplift, you're probably not
gonna go get a life
sentence or lethal injection. You know? They'll probably
fine you or give you some days in
jail or whatever. You know? There's sentencing guidelines
that are oftentimes just as complicated as the
sentencing guidelines of,
the Sharia are or perhaps even more.
And, so the has no sentencing guidelines. So
they just said, okay. Well, what do we
do with someone who violates any of these
laws? Just just kill them. Just kill them.
So any Muslim who was caught mortally slaughtering
an animal,
was a death sentence for them,
as was, you know, someone who, like, takes
a whiz in a river or something. They
pull out a body of water. That's it.
The Mongols are gonna
gonna crack you. So Charitai harassed them that
Arnold is mentioning that. I just mentioned that
that that that
that that was something that was instituted from
the time of Chinggis Khan. The charatai harassed
his Muhammadan subjects by regulations that restricted the
original observances and respected the killing of animals
for food and ceremonial washings.
Aljujani says that he was the bitterest enemy
of the Muslims among all Mongol rulers and
did not wish anyone to utter the word
Musalman before him except for with evil purpose.
Urghana, the wife of his grandson and successor,
Cara Hulegu, black black Hulegu,
but not in the not in the African
American sense. This is something different.
Brought up, her son as a Muslim man
under the name Mubarak Shah,
and he came forward in 12/64 as one
of the claimants to the disputed succession
of the Chagatai
Khanate. But he was soon driven from the
throne by his cousin, Burak Khan, and appears
to have exercised no influence on behalf of
his faith. Indeed, judging from their names, it
would not appear that any of their own
children even adopted the religion of their father.
Burakan is said to have had the bless
the blessedness of receiving the light of faith
a few days before his death in 12/70
and to have taken the name Sultan,
the aid of the the life giving aid
of of the deen.
But he was buried according to the ancient
funeral rights of the Mongols and not as
a Muslim man. And those who had been
converted during his reign relapsed into their former
heathenism.
It was not until the next century that
the conversion of, Tar Masein Khan,
in 13/26
caused Islam to be at all genuinely
adopted by the Chagatai Mongols who,
when they followed the example of their chief
at this time, remained true to their faith.
But even now, the ascendency of Islam was
not assured for, Buzun who was a was
Khan in the next generation,
the next decade, the chronology is uncertain,
drove, Tajarin
from his throne and persecuted the Muslims. And
it was not until some years later that
we
cured the first Muslim king of Kashgar,
which the breakup of the Cartai dynasty had
erected into a separate kingdom. So Kashgar is
a city in
East, East Turkestan occupied by the Chinese
free them.
This prince, Tughluk Timur Khan. Timur is also
again a word meaning iron. It's
related to the word Timurjin, which is the
original name name of Genghis Khan. The Tughluk
Tughluq is a word in their language meaning
sword. The iron sword Khan, prince,
is said to have owed his conversion to
the to a holy man from Bukhara by
the name Sheikh Jamaluddin.
This Sheikh,
in company with a number of travelers
had, unwittingly
trespassed on the game preserves of the prince,
their hunting grounds, who ordered them to be
bound hand and foot and brought before him.
So
that jamat had a hard time. They had
a hard task.
Yeah.
They're ordered to be bound hand and foot
and brought before him.
In his reply to angry question how they
had dared interfere with his hunting, the sheikh
pleaded that they were strangers and quite unaware
that they were trespassing on forbidden ground.
Learning that they were Persians, the prince, said
that a dog was worth more than a
Persian.
Yes, replied the sheikh.
If we had not true faith, we would
indeed be worse than the dogs.
Struck by his reply, the Khan ordered this
bold Persian to be brought before him,
on his return from hunting and taken taking
him aside asked him to explain what he
meant by these words and what was faith.
You know?
Tabligh always has a smart answer.
Always ask
something
clever to say
So it peaked the peaked the Mongol chief's
faith. Chief peaked peaked his interest, I should
say.
The sheikh then set before him the doctrines
of faith with such fervor and zeal at
the heart of the Khan that before had
been hard as a stone was melted like
wax and so terrible a picture did the
holy man draw of the state of the
of the state of disbelief
that the prince was convinced of the blindness
of his own error, but said, were I
not to make profession of the faith of
Islam, I should not be able to lead
my subjects to the true path. But bear
with me a little, and when I have
entered into possession of the kingdom of my
forefathers, come to me again.
For the empire of Chagatai had been, by
this time, broken up into a number of
petty princedoms. And it was many years before
Tuhluk Timur succeeded in
uniting,
under his sway the whole empire as it
was before.
Meanwhile,
Sheikh Jamaluddin had returned to his home where
he fell dangerously ill.
At the point of death, he said to
his son, Rashiduddin,
Tuhluk Timur will one day become a great
monarch. Fail not to go to him and
salute him in my name and fearlessly remind
him of promise he had made me. Some
years later, when Tughluq Timur had re won
the empire of his fathers, Rashid al Din
made his way to the camp of the
Khan to fulfill the last wishes of his
father. But in spite of all his efforts,
he could not gain an audience with the
Khan.
At length, he devised the following expedient.
One day, in the early morning, he began
to chant the call of prayers close to
the Khan's tent,
which is not a good way of surviving,
for most people, but when you're good, you
know, you're good.
He said he started to call the adhan.
He started to chant the, call a prayer,
close to the Khan's tent.
Enraged at having his slumbers disturbed in this
way, the prince ordered him to be brought
into his presence whereupon Rashiduddin delivered his father's
message.
Tughluq Khan was not unmindful of his promise
and said, ever since I ascended the throne,
I have had it on my mind that
I made that promise.
But the person to whom I gave the
pledge never came. Now you are welcome. He
then repeated the profession of faith and became
a Muslim.
On that morning, the sun of bounty rose
out of the east of divine favor and
effaced the darkness of unbelief.
That's a quote by Arnold, by the way.
What did he say,
upon hearing of Tullu of Tamir Shahadah that
he said the Caliman became Muslim? He said,
on that morning, the sun of bounty rose
out of the east of divine favor, and
he faced a dark night of unbelief.
Mawana,
Seidab Al Hasan Ali Nadui continues.
He said certain Turk historians have related the
story of Tohu Timur's conversion in greater detail
and reported the dialogue verbatim between him and
Jamal al Din.
Tohu Timur had
inquired pointing out toward his dog whether Jamaluddin
was better than the beast. Jamaluddin
calmly replied, if I pass away from this
world with my faith intact, I would be
better than the dog. If not, the dog
would be better than me. Taken aback by
this reply to Tamir, Tamur,
asked,
what he meant by faith.
And thus,
he was eventually led to embrace Islam as
related by Arnold.
It is thus certain that a word uttered
by
in all sincerity was the ultimate cause of
immersion of the conversion of
and the spread, of Islam in his realm,
a feat which could not have perhaps been
accomplished by a 1,000 speeches or the might
of arms.
Turning to the spread of Islam amongst that
branch of the Golden Horde, which was succeeded
by,
or Ootai,
the 3rd son of Chinggis Khan under which
Kublai Khan later brought the whole of China,
Arnold said.
Scattered up and down
throughout the length, and breadth of the Mongol
Empire, there must have been many followers of
the prophet who
labored
successfully and unknown to win unbelievers to the
faith. In the reign of Ogedai, we read,
of a certain Buddhist governor of Persia named,
Curbus,
who in his later years, abjured Buddhism and
became a Muslim man.
In the reign of Timur Khan,
Ananda, the great grandson of, Kublai,
and the viceroy of Khonsu,
was
Musalman and had converted a great number of
per a great many number of persons
in Tangut and won over a large number
of troops under his command to the same
faith. He was summoned to court and efforts
were made to induce him to conform to
Buddhism,
and on his refusing to abandon his faith,
was cast into prison.
But he was shortly,
after set at liberty for fear of an
insurrection amongst the inhabitants of,
the Tangut who were much attached to him.
Bless it is,
Mubarak Amir and, blessed are,
those who follow and, show wafaa to him.
In this way, Islam won over in a
short time,
its most innovative enemy who had trampled underfoot
the entire Islamic world and whose onslaught for
a time,
no Muslim power was able to withstand.
Islam again proved, that it possessed
an irresistible charm which can captivate the hearts
of its bitterest foe. The Mongols, after accepting
the faith of Islam, produced a large number
of scholars, theologians, and doctors of faith,
as well as, those who fought in the
way of god and served to defend Islam
on many a critical occasion. Iqbal rightly said,
a sign manifested adduced the charge of totter
hordes
that defenders ear flock to the Kaaba,
from the heathen roots.
Allah
give us, the
chapter regarding the Mongol desolation is
over, and then from tomorrow, we'll read about
the life of Mullah, Jalaluddin Rumi.
But, before,
signing off for today, I just wanted to
remind people that the the Mongol hordes were
not
converted through appeasement.
If you want to appease somebody by appealing
to your religion, you're not gonna be able
to compete with Buddhist and with,
with Christians. You know, they say go eat,
drink, be merry. Richard Gere, make whatever movie
you want to. The the Dalai Lama got
your back.
You know, you do whatever you want.
You can do whatever kind of violation of
me too. You can enslave people. You can
kill people. You can *, murder, steal their
land, do whatever you want to commit whatever
crime, blue collar or white collar you want
to.
The priests promised the people that they'll be
absolved of their sins even though they're not
gonna be absolved of anything, but it's a
false promise and people buy it. They eat
it for breakfast.
So if you're a Muslim and you tell
people, oh, you know, well, Islam, you know,
really, is the same as American, this and
that, and, you know, Islam believes all the
same things that you guys believe.
And, you know, all that appeasement, you're not
gonna really you're not gonna make headway. You're
not gonna compete with them. And,
the problem is more so than not being
able to compete with them, you're selling yourself
short. You're selling your deen short. You're selling
the prophet
that he kept at great difficulty to himself.
The companions paid bitterly for. You're selling all
of that trust short, and it will not
be, something accepted by Allah Ta'ala, and it
will not please Allah Ta'ala.
Rather, the deen is what it is. We
ourselves are imperfect people. That's fine. We don't
have to harass and browbeat people. But,
the deen is what it is. We need
to respect that, and we need to keep
it real.
Only the person who has the guts to
walk up to the mongol commander's tent and
give the Adana fajr,
knowing full well that, this is it. You
know you know, they say go big or
go home.
In this case, it's go big or go
home in a body bag.
And, you know, those people, because they believed,
in the deen like that, the Mongols,
who, you know, for all their barbarity and
for all of the the destruction that they
caused,
they were human beings and they knew, they
knew what death was and they knew when
they looked in a man's eye who is
brave, who has courage, and who has nobility,
and, who is just another type of livestock
in their eyes, to be sent to the
slaughterhouse.
And, it impressed them.
And how could it not? It's the deen
of Allah ta'ala. So if a person wants
to carry it, let them carry it. You
know? Let them have some sort of conviction
in their heart and let them, be real,
and keep the weak soft stuff at home,
because it's not gonna help you not in
this world. It'll humiliate you in this world
and it'll humiliate you in the hereafter.
Let a person keep it real even if
it's small. You know, you don't gotta do
a whole lot. You don't gotta keep a
big program. But even if it's small, just
this one small thing you do keep it
real, keep it sincere and pure. There's no
way to,
raise up, in the court of Allah and
your value
better than sincerity even if in small things.
Because all things are small toward Allah but
sincerity isn't small. Allah loves sincerity.
Allah make us from
the. Allah reward our forefathers who,
gave this deen,
to, even their most bitter enemies at the
greatest of peril. And Allah reward those,
enemies that became pious and beloved brothers, through
this.
Allah unite us all through it.