Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 22 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Umar and Campaign in Iraq 04022024
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We reach this Mubarak
22nd night of Ramadan.
Allah
give all of those
people who are
expending their energy and striving in order to
give life to these nights in the worship
of Allah ta'ala, more
than
they expected.
And may Allah
send the wind of
his
and filled their sails
and pushed their boats to the destination that
they wanted and to a destination even better
than they had imagined
in this world and the hereafter.
We,
you know, we commenced another recitation of the
Quran and the,
and it's a real blessing. I myself am
not a half of those people are probably
aware.
And
oftentimes, praying in the it becomes very
it becomes very
precarious in these nights
because you got held hostage by,
renegade fundraisermageddon
type operations. And I get the fact that
if you
don't, if you don't, you know, wanna pay
for your Islam, then that means you actually
just don't want Islam in the 1st place.
So in that sense, I'm not, ideologically
and dogmatically
antagonistic toward fundraising.
It should happen and it needs to happen,
but,
sadly, everything is excessive. We waste too much
money, waste too much time,
and value
shiny things too much.
So then when we need those things to
keep us
in our attention
due to our spiritual ADD,
then we gotta pay for them. And
oftentimes, the price is not just paid by
money, but it's actually paid by the dhikr
of Allah
which is the one thing that was the
point of the masjid, or at least in
theory, the one thing that shouldn't be sacrificed
even if all other things are sacrificed.
And, it puts us all in just this
really,
really just precarious situation.
And, so,
we
received an unexpected
gift, which is that
some of us got together in the rebat
with the intention of praying our 20 rakas
in order to,
be able to come and go and worship
Allah in silence.
And, the brothers
through their that they made just kind of
what seemed to me on the spot
decided to read another.
So by Allah's father, we had
4,
that we read tonight, and, likewise, we're gonna
read approximately 4 every night until 29th and
read the book of Allah. Again,
It's
one of those things when you get together
to read for the sake of Allah,
the Quran reads itself
not to in any way
take away from the efforts or the,
the the
difficulties that our huffal went through in order
to get to this point or that they
go through in order to read. I I
understand it's difficult.
But, at the same time,
when this wind
blows from Allah and
fills the sails,
then the Quran, it's as if it reads
itself.
And I've been in those situations. It's not
every every time and every place when it
happens.
So
gave us this tonight,
and we ask him to vouchsafe us,
this from him every night until the Quran
is finished. Its recitation is completed.
And through that mother to also
give,
to our brothers who are in and
to our brothers and sisters who are doing
all sorts of service. The highest one of
the highest of which I should say
is those people who are out in the
path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah
give them as well and fill their days
and nights and,
their movements
and their glances with and
with.
And may Allah
destroy and route utterly those who stand against
them. I also see in these Mubarak nights
the pictures coming from Gaza
of charred bodies of skeletons
being pulled from the hospital, meaning that they've
been killed long ago through indiscriminate fire. And
the
devils who killed them no longer even bother
to deny,
having basically,
initiated a general massacre inside of hospitals,
which they used to, I guess, a couple
of months ago.
So
my full and heartfelt prayer,
with every moment of remembering Allah
is that, you Allah, like you created every
single thing for something or another. The rasul
is
the tibla of the arwah, of those who
love for the sake of Allah ta'ala.
Just like you created
the love in the heart of a mother
for a baby,
just like you created
all sorts of different feelings and emotions that
are typified and personified,
at certain loci
and that are there to make us human
just like that. What whatever the * these
people are doing,
it's
made for a human being to hate it,
and it's made for anyone who has any
decency inside of their heart to hate it.
And the worst thing is that they're claiming
that, well,
even those who don't believe in God and
don't pray or don't worship say, well, God
gave us this land and God gave us
the right to do this and God commanded
us to it. Can you imagine the book
of Allah
when the prophet sallallahuahuaihi
recounts when the prophet sallallahuaihi
wa sallam would
stop the people, the idol worshipers of Quresh
from committing indecency.
They would say that, well, this is what
our forefathers used to do before us and
Allah commanded us to do it. And Allah
Allah commands the prophet
respond to them and say Allah doesn't command
people to
indecency.
And as indecent as it is to do
something stupid like, you know, make a throw
off around the Kaaba without clothes on or
or or something gross like that.
Imagine how much grosser it is to kill
women and children, and then after that say
that Allah commanded us to do it.
And so if there's anything to be hated
in the world, it's this. And, anyone who
has any iman or decency or humanity inside
of their heart, Let their heart fill with
hatred toward this thing that these people are
doing. And the ones who are doing it,
the ones who are egging it on, and
the ones who are unrepentant in taking up
this path.
If they had any common sense whatsoever,
and if Allah loved them at all, they
would repent from this and desist from it
immediately.
But there are many of them, it seems,
that are not going to do so. So
my prayers are with anyone who stands against
them, anyone who speaks against them, and for
the one who raises a hand against them,
may Allah crown them with eternal glory in
this world and the hereafter.
And may Allah give him madad, and may
he strike down his enemy
both with physical force and with spiritual force.
And may they never
sleep another night and comfort
people who killed women and children. Just today,
they say that there was foreign workers who
were
feeding the poor
from different countries.
They're human beings just like Hazarazawi people are,
but they came just in order to feed
the people that the whole world turned their
backs on, and they just, they bombed them
today as well. In fact, their manager said
that it was an Israeli attack on them,
that all of this nonsense,
whoever stands up to stop it, may Allah
just make them,
make them make them the the the the
beloved,
of his creation
in both worlds and make them his beloved
in both worlds and facilitate them facilitate them
in their work and facilitate their
path,
to to to to taking care of this
because if this is the way the world
is going to be, I don't think this
world is gonna last for a whole lot
longer. And Allah
give help in Tawfiq.
So we continue today reading
the,
about the conquest in the Futuhat and the
Mujahadat
and even the setbacks of the companions.
So we moved to
a
discussion of the Iraqi campaign
during the era of Saidna
When Abu Bakr
had passed away, the
commander of the Iraqi forces was in Madin
al Munawara asking for assistance.
And when Omar became Khalifa, he assigned people
to join him. So I skipped over a
little bit in the middle,
having to do with, you know, the circumstances
of the appointment to say
to the caliphate
and, also,
mentioning of his virtues,
which is something that fills the hearts of
every believer with pride and happiness, even many
of the nonbelievers.
But, because they're so often mentioned
and they will take such a long time,
I elected to skip over them, but they
shouldn't be skipped in general.
Inshallah, we'll read them at another time more
appropriate.
The first to respond to the call for
help for,
was
Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al Thakafi and Sa'id
bin al Ansari and Sultan bin al Qays.
Said the Omar
who appointed the first to respond.
Abu Ubaid ibn Mas'ud,
as leader over the group said to him,
listen, oh, companions of the messenger of Allah.
Listen to the companions of the messenger of
Allah. Include them in all affairs. Do not
hasten in carrying out tasks, but proceed cautiously
and with deliberation.
This is war, and the most worthy person
for it is he who deliberates,
seizes out an opportunity when he sees it,
and desists when it's prudent to do so.
So unlike
Yahoo Groups that run around and make a
bad name for Islam,
Just doing things
performatively
or masochistically.
Just doing things for the sake of doing
them. Look. I'm a mess.
I'm some sort of weird drunk
addict that goes to
bizarre types of bars and God knows alternative
lifestyle,
struggle issues or whatever. So now I'm just
gonna go kill a bunch of people and
kill myself for an easy out because I
don't wanna deal with my problems.
That's the complete opposite of what we're talking
about. What is he saying? He said that,
this is war, and the most worthy person
for it is the one who deliberates,
seizes an opportunity when he sees it, and
desists when it's prudent to do so. The
only reason for my not appointing Sult as
leader is his rashness.
Making haste in war when there is no
real reason for it leads to destruction.
By Allah, were it not for his haste,
I would have appointed him as leader.
He then said,
you are going to a land of scheming,
deception, treachery, and conceit.
You are going to a people who are
quite audacious in committing evil.
Indeed, they are fully conversant
with it.
They faint to have forgotten what is good
and are ignorant of it.
So be wary of your actions.
Safeguard your tongue and do not disclose your
secrets.
When a person keeps a secret and is
scrupulous about doing so, he is protected and
will never
experience anything disagreeable.
But if he does not safeguard it, he
places himself at risk of being destroyed.
This is sad because now this, advice, which
is very prudent advice,
and it's being given to the companions
for entering into the lands of the non
Muslims,
of the old and ancient civilizations, the Persians
and the the Romans. This advice is not
good for, those people who want to do
some sort of work for the sake of
Allah, in particular the,
that, when you go amongst evil people, you
have to
control yourself the way you behave. You can't
just scream kafir at everybody
and,
you know, be belligerent with everybody all the
time,
even if they are a.
Whereas,
if you're with a Muslim, but somebody who
has these attributes that they've become fully conversant
in with evil and treachery,
then you have to be careful with them
and careful how you deal with them, lest
you make a fool of yourself and others.
And these are bitter lessons that, sadly those
of us who didn't know and were not
told before had had to learn again and
again.
Omar
who then ordered to
proceed until the army caught up with him.
He also ordered him to enlist those former
apostates who had repented
sincerely.
So this was a request from before because
they were running short on soldiers.
With
who moved at a great speed and reached
Hayra within 10 days. In the meantime, the
Persians were pre occupied with internal conflicts over
who should become their new king. They eventually
agreed to the leadership of,
Buran,
the daughter
of Khosro. And Rustam should execute her orders
until they found a male from Khosro's line
and family who was fit to be king.
Rustam made preparations to fight to fight the
Muslims and equipped several armies for this purpose.
He sent an army to,
Forat
Badatla,
with the Javan as commander
and another to Khaskar
to the west of the Tigris between Baghdad
and Basra,
where the city of Wasith now lies
with,
Narsi as his commander. So Wasid is a
city that was,
that was built,
by Hajjaj, actually, because Iraq was in the
in that, like, later,
maybe about a 100 years later or so.
It was a very seditious
province
for Banu Umayyah to deal with.
And so
it's difficult to keep 2 full armies occupying
both Bardad and,
sorry, Kufa and Basla at the same time
because Bardad wasn't built yet.
But,
so his idea was to have a place
which is about a third of the way
from Baghdad to Basra and have an army
stationed there. That way they're not, like, messing
up the city, and, they can quickly be
dispatched to either of the 2 cities and
strike either of the 2 cities when needed.
And so this is another city that's not
exactly in the same place, but, but somewhere
near it.
So Rustam sent this army with
his commander,
Javan,
to this place,
and he sent
another
army with Narsi.
Another army was sent to engage
in combat. He was also sent to he
also sent a message off onto the farmers
to rise up against the Muslims, which they
duly did.
The the the
the kind of peasant farmers
that were that identified with the, with the
Persian Empire.
When all this information reached Mufana, he left
Hera and moved to
Khafan,
a region inhabited by lions, which was near
Kufa.
Then waited for Abu Ubaid who arrived a
month,
after him. Meanwhile, a large army of Persians
gathered and made camp at
Namadic,
north of present day Wasit,
the battle of Namadic.
Advance toward them and engage them in a
fierce battle until he overcame them. Jaban
and Mardan Shah were on the right flank
of the army and they were captured.
Abu Ubaid issued the order that Mardan Shah
be killed, but Jaban deceived his captor and
managed to get him to guarantee his life.
And this is another thing that the Arabs
were known for and the Muslims were known
for is that if they gave a person
a promise of safety, that promise was inviolable.
Later on, you'll see in Muslim history that
people start to violate that
that that
that promise. But,
in Jahiliya, it was considered
it was considered to be, like, a a
great sacrilege.
The Muslims took him to Abu Ubaid, and
some suggested that he be killed, but Ubaid
said, I fear Allah's
retribution for killing a person whose life had
been guaranteed by a Muslim. The Muslims are
like a single body. When something is incumbent
on 1, it becomes incumbent on all. And
so this idea nowadays that people have shaitan
whispers in people's ears that all the ummah
is a myth and the ummah is a
fairy tale and just save yourself and no
one else is gonna worry about you so
you don't worry about everybody else.
This is a satanic insinuation.
And the fact is, sadly, some of us
will find ourselves in a situation where really
no one else is gonna care for you.
But, that's their job and that's what, you
know, that they're failing at, and that's their
task that they're failing at, and that's their,
sin that they're going to have to account
for in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If the good were to look at the
wickedness of the wicked and take it as
an excuse to no longer do good anymore,
then one wicked person would be enough to
destroy the entire.
Rather the
and the righteous are commanded to be people
that are like a rock that breaks the
wave and, that reestablishes
order
by thinking about the Ummah and by keeping
the concern and the worry of the Ummah,
whether in something like this, like guaranteeing
someone's safety or in other,
considerations
as well.
In the meantime,
those who were defeated went to Caskar
and joined, the commander Narsi. So the first
after the the first defeated army
went to the remnants of it that were
able to retreat, went and joined,
the the the the next army proximate to
them.
The news of this defeat reached Buran and
Rustam,
so that so they send a huge army,
under the command of Jalenus
Galen to help the people of Khasgar.
So Abu Arbeid advanced toward Khasgar and engaged
them before Jalenus could arrive and inflicted a
crushing defeat on them.
So, again,
you should have deliberation, but when opportunity presents
itself, you strike. You don't just wait for
everything to become completely horrible.
Deliberation is after all something
that
is deployed in order to benefit you, not
something that you dogmatically deploy all the time
even when it makes
no sense. Abu Arbed then sent his squadrons
to,
Barusma,
Zawabi, and Jobar,
the Jobar River. These military squadrons defeated all
the Persians who had rallied in these areas,
and their leaders made peace agreements
and paid their dues in cash.
The leaders of the squadrons came to
with various food,
food stuffs that were beloved to the Persians
and he asked them, did they give meaning
the ordinary soldiers something like this? They replied,
no. We have not had a chance to,
but we will do so soon.
Abu Ubaid said, I have no need for
these foods. What a terrible person Abu Ubaid
would be if he took something and deprive
the people who came with him,
from his own country. By Allah, I will
not eat anything from that which you brought
nor anything from the booty which Allah had
bestowed upon us. I will only eat what
the average soldier eats.
This is leadership.
The captain goes down with the ship, in
fact. This is what leadership is.
If
leaders cannot give a good example
on their own, then what will followers do?
One of the reasons that we don't know
how to lead is because you learn how
to lead on the back of learning how
to follow. If you don't know how to
follow, then by default, you'll never know how
to lead.
This is a problem. We no longer have
this
understanding amongst us.
And,
yes, leaders sometimes have to be given a
special pass for certain things
just because, you know, if a leader is,
you know, the general cannot clean every toilet
on behalf of every toilet cleaner within the
army or whatever or within the state. But
at the same time,
if the leader is not cognizant of what
the toilet cleaner does
and then and
that every level and every rank
moving up, what that person is doing and
how that person is thinking, then he'll be
a complete fool and an idiot leader, which
is sadly what we have right now.
And, if the people at the top were
thinking about what the average people were eating,
then everybody would eat well. Nobody would be
deprived. So this is one of the very
great and praiseworthy qualities of the companions of
the.
The Muslims should reflect on the ways of
their predecessors. May Allah be pleased with them.
Abu Ubayd then advanced to face Jalenus,
at,
Barusma,
where he fought him until he fled and
his army was overcome.
Abu Ubaid sent the glad tidings of victory
and 1 fifth of the war treasured to
Omar.
In the war treasures,
were the dates of Narsi, which none ate
except for Persian kings or those who gave
who he gave them to and which none
but they themselves planted.
Abu Ubaid wrote to Omar saying, Allah fed
us things which Khusro used to reserve for
himself.
It was my desire that you should see
these foods and that you should thank Allah
ta'ala for his bounty and grace.
And look at that. Those were those people
who used to give sadaqa in half of
a date or in a date. Those are
those people who
tied stones to their stomachs in the path
of Allah ta'ala. And now they're seeing the
treasures of,
the the great
empires of the ancient world, those who call
themselves kings of kings.
Now they're seeing the treasures open up in
front of them.
When returned,
vanquished
to Rustam,
So the commander returned back to the,
the chief of staff of this princess who's
ruling on behalf of
the the bloodline of the the the previous,
Khosrow
in
in in Tisfun and Mada'in.
When he returned, he prepared another mighty army
under the command of, Bahman
Jadaway,
popularly known in Arabic as Dhul Hijab.
He, of all the Persians, had the biggest
flag, which was known as
Durash,
Qabyan.
It was 12 year 12, sorry, feet long,
8 feet wide, and made of tiger skin.
When Abu Ubaid heard of this, he returned
to Heira.
Jalenus continued until he stopped over at
on
the Euphrates River, the Forath.
Abu Ubaid advanced and stopped his army directly
opposite of the Persian army with the Euphrates
River in between
them. So the Persians built a long bridge
across it.
I think that's enough for tonight, and we'll
start again,
tomorrow or the next time we have a
chance to read
Inshallah. Recounting the battle of the bridge and
the battle of the Jisr Inshallah.
These recordings
use them as something to
listen to when you're exhausted of your Himma,
and you're tired from reading, your eyes hurt,
you're sleepy,
can't stand in prayer, you can't,
you know,
make vigor. Those things are are exhausted. Use
it as a way of resting
and getting reposed with that.
I'll give all of us
so much to do what is otherwise not
possible. So much so that once we're done
with the Eid salat, inshallah, we have nothing
to do but go home and collapse
and, and take a nap,
a well needed and well reserved nap. And
may Allah protect us from being those people
who get new clothes and fancy gifts and
nice things to eat on Eid,
but it's completely undeserved. And on the day
of judgment,
we look back at these days with woe
and regret
that,
we wasted something that was very precious
and that we didn't take benefit from something
that was very beneficial.