Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 20 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Yarmk 03302024
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So we today start
our reading
from
after wrapping up ironically, wrapping up with
the recollection of the conquest of Iraq
under the reign of.
Now we start with,
the
the fight with the with the with the
room with the Romans.
The Roman Empire was the 2nd major empire
which bordered the Arab lands to the north.
The first contact between it and the Muslims
was the letter of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to Heraclius,
the emperor of Rome,
inviting him to Islam. The messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam then wrote,
to Harith bin, Abi Shamr Al Ghassani, the
king of Ghassan in Balqa,
which was, in Sham.
He wrote him also a a a letter
inviting
the governor who governed on behalf
of the Roman emperor
over the Arabs to also inviting him to
Islam.
The governor's authority prompted him to evil, and
he decided to make war on the messenger
of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, but he
was prevented by an order from the Caesar
himself before he could before he could do
something. He's upset he wanted to punish the
companions of the allotment for this letter. It's
interesting. Heraclius,
was himself a Syrian.
So he spoke Semitic language. He had knowledge
of scripture, and he probably could understand some
Arabic.
In those days in those days, the Canaanite
languages and the Northeast Semitic languages. So Canaanite
is basically,
like, Hebrew and,
Phoenician and Punic and all of this.
They were still preserved. The Hebrew that they
call Hebrew nowadays,
it's,
it's just this degenerate, like, fraction of Hebrew.
And that's why when you hear them speaking
it on TV, you're like, that doesn't sound
like Arabic at all. When they write it,
it's more legible. If you can learn the
script, it's more legible. But the way they
speak, they completely garbage all of the phenoms.
Like we said from before, there's no the
shutdown is gone. The vein is gone. Everything
turns into The entire thing just becomes like
a fruit salad. But in this time, it
was still semi intelligible. It was much more
intelligible. If you actually hear it pronounced properly,
it makes a lot more sense to an
Arabic speaker than,
than what what they do nowadays.
And,
that's you know? So it means that the
Heraclius probably understood the message of Islam relatively
well just like Najashi, the
the the king of the
of the Abyssinians did. And so he actually
restrained him. He said that, like, you know,
just leave them alone. Don't mess with them.
The The hadith of the prophet
indicates that he was actually on the,
the hadith of Athar, I should say, not
the prophet
from him himself, but from from, Abu Sufyan
and others indicate that Heraclius actually wanted to
accept Islam and his people, his courtiers and
ministers basically
were about to
assassinate him for it, and so he backed
down from that.
But at any rate, he prevented them from
going going as the, you
know, punitive action against the prophet
right away.
In the 8th year of of the hijrah,
the messenger of Allah
prepared an army which he sent out to
Sham under the command of Zayd bin Haritha
the expedition of Mu'ta.
The Romans assembled a huge army of over
100,000 to meet meet them. Zaid, Jafar, bin
Abitaleb, and Abdullah bin Rawaha
and whom were all murdered in this battle
before,
Fad Radhiwa
and whom the sword of Allah took command
and rescued the army from destruction.
And,
this, the author says I've discussed this battle
in great detail in his Surah entitled Nurul
Yatin.
It was in this 9th month, sorry, in
this 9th year after Hijrah that the messenger
of Allah
prepared for, battle against the Romans and made
for Tabuk.
The governor of Iliya, Yohannabin
Roibah,
as well as the governor of Jarbar,
Avruh,
came to the messenger of Allah and agreed
to pay him jizya.
When Heraclius heard of what Yohanna did, he
issued an order that he be killed and
crucified him in his own village.
Ilya is the Roman name for
Aqlo?
Is it Aqlo?
You're you're Chicago. You should know these things.
It's a.
Why why do they call it that?
The reason they call it that is because
after the,
the destruction of the second temple
and the complete desolation of,
of the sacred lands in general and in
specific removing everyone, all the all the from,
Al Qudsas Sharif. They actually changed its name.
They made the city. It's a city, but
they tried to remove all the afire of,
of the the the dean
of from it. And so they changed its
name as well. So it's Roman administrative name
was Ilya. Interestingly enough, this status was kept
even after all of them supposedly became Christians,
which is why the Masjid al Aqsa was
found
destroyed and was found in garbage. They actually
used to throw their their their,
garbage on it. And,
said the who put an end to that
that foul practice.
And,
he was actually quite upset about it. There's
a lot there's a lot of things written
in the history books about that,
that I won't get into right now because
it's been a very long time, and maybe
some of them have gotten mixed up in
my head. So I don't want to say
something wrong. But,
at any rate, said the who is the
one who reconsecrated it. So, obviously, you know,
there's all these
whack
genetic engineering,
cattle breeders from Texas
with their red cow. You know, at first,
I thought, you know what? We'll just
we'll eat it on. But then I thought,
GMO, it's not good for you.
It's probably garbage. It's probably bad for you.
It's probably like the beef equivalent of the
COVID vaccine. You know what I mean? So,
I don't want it. You guys just burn
it. We already built the 3rd temple.
The Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam already fulfilled so
many prophecies. They were there in your book,
and you guys just don't wanna see it,
which is your problem. No problem. Go ahead.
Do your little, pageant and your little parade.
Muslim children are getting scared by, like, sending
each other, like, Snapchats and TikToks
and whatever about the,
you know, the, oh, they're gonna do this
thing and then the is coming. They're already
killing kids on TV in front of your
eyes. What how much worse do you want
it to get?
So,
you know, plan b should be
to go back to plan a. Right?
At any rate,
so that's why that's why it became al
Quds again under
the under the the the the the reign
of Said Omar Ibn Khattab
Otherwise, it was Ilya that was an impiety
of the Romans that the Christians upheld ironically.
It was in the 9th year after Hijrat,
the messenger
prepared for a battle against the Romans. Again,
when the, when the Romans agreed to pay
Jizya,
Heraclius had had his governor killed for, for
for that. In the year in which the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was to
pass from this world, he prepared an army
under the command of Osama bin Zayed bin
Harifa,
so that they might go to upna in
Qudaa to avenge the death of his father.
But the messenger
passed on before Osama could depart. When Abu
Bakr was appointed Khalifa, he dispatched Osama's army
to
where he attacked the tribes of and returned,
victorious. When Abu Bakr
appointed the different commanders to the Al Qasah.
He appointed Khalid bin Saeed bin As to
head for the Highlands of Sham. Then, however,
he ordered him to remain in Tayma, which
is in the Arabian Peninsula
to support the Muslims and to remain there
unless ordered otherwise and to fight only if
he was attacked.
News of this duly reached Herakonius, the Roman
emperor.
Herakonius ordered that an army from the Arab
tribes under Roman rule,
should be prepared and made up of men
from the tribes tribes of, Baharat,
Sulay, Kalb, Lakhm, Juzam, and Ghassan.
Khaled and Sa'id bin asked
advanced toward their territory, but they absconded. They
ran away. So Khaled informed Abu Bakr
and he replied with an order to proceed
further into their lands. He did so and
was meant by,
met by a Roman named Namaham on the
way, and he defeated him.
So these are all the these are all
the,
the clients
of the clients of the Romans.
So you have, like, client states.
The the Soviets have their client states amongst
the Arabs, and America has its client states
amongst the Arabs. They don't really do the
anything of their own. They just kinda do
their bidding,
which is good for us as Americans, but
as Muslims, kind of a disappointment.
But, this was also the case back then,
and they got a lot of money and
they got a lot of backing. And they
thought they were better
than than than others as well. Like, they
think they're better than others nowadays.
But, you know,
a
pet,
you know, may be very proud of how
groomed and how much dog food it's fed,
but
there's no honor in that.
Khaled bin Saeed
who then wrote a letter to Abu Bakr
Siddiq
asking for assistance.
It was then that he really turned his
attention to Sham.
The first, of the fighters sent to Yemen
had begun to return.
And those who were with him from Tihama
and Bahrain as well. So all those other
things that we talked about, the rebellions in
in in the south and Oman, Yemen,
Bahrain.
After having been successful, they're now returning to
Medina
Abu Bakr send a message to Amir Bin
Asul
who who he had sent out when he
sent out the other commanders at Lulbasa.
Amr was dispatched to collect the zakats from
the tribes of Saad and Hudaim
who were, from.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
had promised him governorship over the regions of
Abu Bakr
who wrote a letter to him saying, I
reappoint you to the position that the messenger
posted you to once and guarantee it to
you a second time. I fulfilled his promise
and you were made governor, but now I
would like to relieve you of that position
for something that is better for you in
this world and the hereafter unless you pre
unless you prefer your present post.
Replied saying I'm the arrow of Allah and
after the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, you are the archer who gathers and
shoots the arrows. Should you now look for
the strongest arrow, the one with the most
fear of Allah, the best of arrows, then
find it and shoot?
So this is the answer of somebody who's
not self interested
or running some sort of kuked up scheme,
but somebody who
is sincere in his Islam and somebody who
is,
sincere with Allah and his Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Abu Bakr Sadiq radiallahu anhu thus summoned him
and he responded. Abu Bakr then prepared 4
armies, appointed Amr bin Asr radiallahu anhu over
one of them and sent him toward Palestine,
which was a rural region in the southern
part of the, of Sham. He appointed,
Sharahbir bin Hassana who came
to him from Iraq over with the second
army and sent them toward Jordan,
the area of the Levant named after the
Jordan River, which runs from the Sea of
Galilee down to the Dead Sea. The book
was written in the Ottoman times. So none
of these things were like countries back then.
They were all just part of the part
of the part of the Muslim state.
He appointed Yazid bin Abhisafyan over a third
army and sent them toward, Balqa, a city
in Sham, and he sent his brother Muawiyah
after him. He appointed the trustworthy,
man of this Ummah or the trustee of
this Ummah Abu Ubaydah Tukhnul Jarrah
as a commander of the 4th army and
sent him toward Hinniss.
These commanders traveled along with Allah's blessing.
Abu Bakr who used to accompany them on
foot and then bid bid them farewell and
advise them, with that which, would benefit them
in this world and in the hereafter.
The great advice which he gave to Yazid
was recorded,
and it contained valuable words of counsel which
every military commander should heed to the older
brother of Mohawi and not the son of
Mohawi.
I'm therefore quoting it in its entirety.
I have appointed you in order to test
you, assess you, and make you go out
and gain experience.
If you do well, I will give you
more work to do and promote you. If
you do not do well, I will remove
you from your post. You should fear Allah
for fairly your for surely your inner self
is apparent to him just as your outer
self is.
He who is most eminent in Allah's eyes
is he who entrusts his affairs to Allah
most
and the closest to Allah is he who
desires most to gain his proximity,
through his deeds. I have appointed you to
the task of Khalid,
bin Sa'id bin As,
who Abu Bakr had first dispatched to, Levant,
Tasham.
Beware of conceitedly vilifying others
in the way of the days of ignorance
for Allah
abhors this and those who engage in it.
Meaning, whoever is your enemy, it's fine. They're
your enemy. You don't have to, like, make
them into a boogeyman and, like, artificially, like,
pump up your enmity with them. You're fighting
with them, fight with them, but don't make
your enmity with them
greater than it needs to be because it's
a trait of Jahiliya, which sadly some people
do. Their friends put the person up to,
like,
and if your enemy then nothing that person
does is good good anymore. Even the good
that they do is not good anymore. This
is a trait of of of
It's a trait of as well.
Allah abhors this and those who engage in
it. When you go to your men be
a good companion to them and be good
to them from the outfit outset and promise
them that you will benefit them. Be concise
in your lectures because much of long speech
will be forgotten. Set yourself right and the
people will set themselves right for you. Pray
at the prescribed times with perfection and bowing,
prostrating, and being humble therein.
Honor the envoys of your enemy who come
to you, but minimize their stay so that
they leave with very little intelligence about you.
Do not allow them a lengthy stay for
they will see your shortcomings and gauge how
you, know. How much you yourself know. Host
them in the best part of your camp
and prohibit people from engaging in conversation with
them. Right? Versus nowadays where anyway. Okay. You
alone are responsible for conversing with them. Do
not conflate your secrets with that which is
apparent or you yourself will get confused.
When you,
seek counsel, speak the truth so that you
are given an honest response. Do not conceal
anything from your adviser rather say all that
you have to say.
Engage in conversation with your companions at night
to gather information
so that information may come to light. When
when you,
have guards keep many of them and disperse
them about, your camp. Then surprise them often
at places where they keep guard without having
knowledge of you. If you find anyone neglectful
in their guard duty, admonish them in a
goodly manner and reprimand him without being excessive.
Let them take shifts by night and day.
Make the 1st shift longer than the 2nd
shift because it's easier as more of them
will be on it in the day.
Feel no inhibition on punishing the one who
deserves to be punished. Do not be lax
in this nor hasty. Do not abandon it
due to being overpowered.
Do not be unmindful of your camp for
you will destroy it. Do not spy on
your people for you will humiliate them. Do
not examine people's secrets rather suffice with what
is outwardly observable in them. Do not sit
in the company of those who are idle
but in the company of those who are
truthful and loyal. Stand firm when you, need
to meet the enemy and show no cowardice
or your people themselves will become cowardly. Avoid
deception in dealing with the war treasure for
it will bring poverty upon you and drive
away victory.
You will find some people who are bent
on deceit when dealing with the treasure obtained
by war.
This is the end of the quote. The
armies continued to advance until they reached Sham.
Who stopped at Araba in Palestine.
Descended
on Jordan.
When the news of this reached Heraclius, the
Roman emperor, he said to his people, I
think you should make peace with the Muslims.
By Allah, if you make peace with them
in exchange for for half of the produce
of Sham while retaining the other half,
and retaining the Roman lands, it will be
better for you then if they take over
the lands of Sham and half of the
Roman lands. The people, however,
rejected the suggestion.
However,
and went to him,
this
hence the city in Sham, which is,
opposite of the Orontes, the Assi River at
some distance from it. He ordered the troops
to rally together. A massive,
army gathered there. And to each commander, he
sent a division of soldiers exceeding what he
already had in his number.
Amr bin Asr
also asked the commanders of the Muslims to
force,
Muslim forces to assemble, but they all sent
messages to Abu Bakr
asking for his advice.
He replied agreeing with Amr saying the likes
of you are not defeated on account of
your small numbers.
But most certainly, you can be defeated on
account of your sins, so be afraid of
them.
It's the battle of Yarmouk. This is the
sets the stage for the battle of Yarmouk.
The Muslims gathered gathered at Yarmouk, a valley,
in the southwestern
part of Sham.
Each commander
remained in charge of his own army and
the Romans stood before them with a trench
separating the 2 armies. The Romans had the
advantage and could remain protected behind their trenches
if they had wished.
The 2 forces remained like that for 3
months.
For Safar Rabi al Awal and Rabi al
Aqid in the 13th year of Hijra.
At this point, the commander sent a message
to Abu Bakr asking
for assistance.
He wrote to Khaled bin Walid, commander of
the forces of Iraq, ordering him to appoint
somebody to deputize over half of his army
and take the other half of his army
with him to Sham in order to help
the commanders there. Khad, radiallahu, who marched with
great speed and reached the Muslims and Rabiu
al Athir.
His arrival coincided with the arrival of Mahan,
with an army, to help the Romans. So
both sides now receive
reinforcements.
Who engaged with these new arrivals while the
other commanders fought the armies before them.
Who realized that the battle would not be
won as long as each section of the
army had its own commander.
Therefore, he assembled the commanders and addressed them
after praising and glorifying Allah,
and he said, this is a day in
which Allah has blessed us. Neither rebelliousness nor
pride can be tolerated. Make your jihad solely
for the sake of Allah and please him
with your deeds. This is the day after
which such opportunity as this will not come
again. You cannot fight an orderly and organized
enemy with all of your armies under different
flags. This is neither acceptable nor appropriate.
If the enemy in front knows how you
operate then they will be able to thwart
you. You are not obliged but if you
can see that this is
out of love for you and in your
best interest then act upon it.
You know if somebody said this to us
nowadays, it's oh it's a scam he's cooking
you know everyone will start sharpening their knives
in in the darkness and hide it in
their cloak.
But they said, what is your suggestion?
All the commanders asked, what is your suggestion?
Hazar, the Allahu, who put forward that there
be a single commander over the entire army,
each taking turns in command, but that he
would be the commander for the first day.
The generals duly accepted his suggestion and made
him commander. Khaled then arranged the army in
a manner
hitherto unknown to the Arabs in a formation
that divided the army into different parts, causing
it to seem very large.
Khad radiyaahu ta'ala Anhu then divided the center
of the army into sections and appointed Abu
Ubaidah in charge of it. He divided the
right flank into sections and appointed Amr radiallahuhanhu
and Shuhabil,
over it. He divided the left flank into
sections and appointed Yazid over it. Over each
division, he appointed a courageous warrior. The divisions
in each of these sections numbered 33 with
1,000 men in each division. He then ordered
Ta'ata Abin Amr and Ikrimatubnu Abi Jahul to,
launch an attack, and the infantrymen engaged the
enemies enemy in close combat.
The horsemen scattered the enemy and Qas radiAllahu
anhu himself
displayed great feats of bravery and zeal for
Islam.
The Romans encounter attacked which removed the Muslims
from their positions.
Khan rushed forward
with the central division to isolate the cavalry
of the polytheists from the infantry, the horse
the horses from the,
from the troops on foot.
Now defeated, the cavalry deserted the infantry. The
Muslims split up and rushed upon the infantry
and routed them. They slayed a number of
them especially those who had been chained together
so that they could not flee the field.
This is interesting as well. That Romans used
to do that. They used to have slaves
fight or they used to have,
soldiers that they didn't really trust. So they
chained them to the battlefield so they couldn't
they couldn't run away. And on the flip
side, Michelle, the Muslims and the Arab in
general, the Muslims,
in specific used to fight with hit and
run tax hack tactics. They didn't they were
the opposite of, like, European, like, knights
that are, like, heavily armored and, like, heavy
horse charges and, like, like, thick armor. Why
do you need armor if you wanna go
to Jandun, you know? But the irony is
what? If you hit hit hit and run
fast and hard,
you actually end up winning the battle before
any of that stuff, you know, comes, becomes
an issue.
So they they completely decimated the infantry, which
was all tied up. They couldn't move. They
couldn't maneuver. They couldn't do anything. And they
didn't really wanna be there because if you
wanna be there, they don't have to chain
you, do they?
The Muslim women also fought hard and bravely
proving their courage that day as did Abu
Sufyan ibn Harun, who proved his gallantry with
exertion and encouragement. The women used to go
with the army also to treat the sick.
The battle ended with a terrible defeat for
the Romans. It was a complete route,
but in the midst of it, a letter
arrived from Medina Munawarat telling them about the
passing of Said Abu Bakr Siddiq radiya long
and the ascension of Said Abu Huribdin
to the caliphate,
and appointing Abu Ubaydah
the,
the field commander.
This news reached the army after the battle
had finished.
Allah ta'ala have mercy on, all of them.
Allah ta'ala be pleased with all of them
and raise their rank. May Allah ta'ala make
our love for them
the reason for our salvation on the day
of judgment
and the reason for the rectification
of our broken affairs in this world.