Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 25 Ramadan 1443 Late Night Majlis Uthmn ii Addison 04262022
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Alhamdulillah.
By Allah's father, we've reached this Mubarak
25th
night of Ramadan.
With it,
we see the passing of 3 of
the 5
odd nights of the last 10 days of
Ramadan
with every nafas and every breath,
opportunities are are leaving us.
Any of these nights could be.
So a person would be best advised to
spend them as much as they can in
the masajid and in the ibadah
and in the worship of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and
to avoid
the festivities,
the festive cultural
aspect,
of these nights,
which is fine.
It's definitely better than being engaged in, some
sort of sin and disobedience as long as
it itself is not sin and disobedience,
but
a person should also
see,
too much engagement in lengthy talk
or lingering
or
eating
or making friends or socializing,
in these times
is wasting an opportunity
that otherwise,
will not be there for us. And there
are opportunities that people who know make dua
for,
and there are opportunities that the people who
don't know will really kick themselves for having
wasted
and not having taken advantage of.
So we continue inshallah tonight
with
the story of Sa'dna' athman ibn Affan
And,
you know, I wanted to mention, I wanted
to reiterate
that the Sahaba
and
despite their
differences of opinions that sometimes
became so intense that they even led them
to the battlefield.
That in terms of Deen, they were always
united. They never broke apart. You don't see
and later people definitely caused fitna amongst one
another, but amongst the companions that was not
there.
And
you see also,
one of these one of the anecdotes that
I thought about after
last night's majlis ended was about Sayid bin
Uthman,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
the son of
Uthman
bin Afan, radiAllahu Anhu,
That he was
appointed the commander of the army that conquered
Samarkand,
which is the place that Imam Maturidi will
write his books. It's the place
where Imam the Nasafi's will write, it's the
place where Taftazani will write, it's the place
where,
the Sahibul Hidayah Burhanadin,
Marinani even though Marhalan is in
Farhana. It's actually
further east than Tashkent,
but
he lived and is, his maqam still is
in
Samarkand.
In fact, all of these mashaikh that I
mentioned,
their mazarat
are in Charkariddeesa
in a particular cemetery, the cemetery of
the Muqabat of Muhammadin, the cemetery in which
you have to be a Muqak scholar to
be buried in your name has to be
Muhammad.
And they say the only
exception to that was the Sahibul Hidayah.
Other than that, the other,
named Mashaikh
and hundreds of other
noteworthy,
whose names came in the Tabakat,
literature are buried in that in that Makbara.
That, this fat has a great fat, so
those who conquered it,
think about what their maqam is with Allah
ta'ala,
that their intention to conquer it for Islam,
means that whatever good is done in those
places thereafter,
is in their
scroll of good deeds until the day of
judgment.
And that Sa'id bin Uthman
was
appointed the commander of that army, and he
made a special request to Putham bin Abbas
who is a first cousin of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a brother of Abdullah
bin Abbas al Fazl alaihi
wa sallam.
And
this first cousin relationship is a very close
relationship.
And his
he was young at the time the prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, passed away, but he
does have sohba. And his particular,
maziyah and fabilah,
his particular virtue for which he's known, is
he was the last person to see the
Rasulullah
in as much as he was
part of the family of the prophet
that laid him into his
and he was the last person to come
out of it before it was sealed, before
his his, the was sealed.
And
this Quthen bin Abbas, Saeed bin Uthman
who made a special request for him to
be part of the army,
and he said he said to him that
I'll give you a fix for you the
stipend of 1,000 shares of Hanima, the shares
of 1,000 foot soldiers,
I'll fix it for you.
And, Qutam
Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu
the ghanima which is fixed for the family
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because
they're not to be given from zakat.
So he says just give me my share
from the Khums. And then he thought about
it, and then he said afterward, he says
you don't have to give me anything at
all. You give me whatever you want to.
I'm not putting any stipulation.
And he actually was part of that
army that conquered,
Samarkand.
And,
in fact, the garrison was overthrown after the
first conquest,
and he was actually executed
by
the locals who overthrew the Muslim garrison over
there, and he's shahid fisabilillah
in that place.
And this is all of this is after
this all of this is after the assassination
of Sinai al Hussein
and after Yazid and after
all of this that was done
to the family of the prophet
and all of these kind of political lines
that were drawn. On the flip side, think
about Saeed bin Uthman
who was also part of Banu Umayyah
that politically
if anyone could have challenged them
it was the Ahlulbayt of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and many of the less
scrupulous
politicians from Banu Umayyah,
for that reason kept the Ahlulbayt at bay,
in fact treated them very badly in order
to suppress them. But you see that the
sanasaid,
the son of Uthman bin Afan,
he was not like that, and it wasn't
the dominant characteristic of their family
that they fought with one another. Rather, in
fact, it said that Abdullah bin Abbas Bazbafam's
older brother, the reason he's, you know, buried
in
in in Ta'if is that, he was going
to,
Sayidina Muawiyah radiAllahu anhu on his way out
of Makkumukarama,
and
death catch caught up with him on his
way, that they didn't they didn't, you know,
they didn't have this kind of some sort
of ancient rivalry or whatever that
conspiracy theorists try to pump up,
and haters try to pump, and negative people
try to pump. Haters, they live on hate.
And,
the people who brought us this dean, they're
they're not haters. And
common sense leads a person to understand that
this work doesn't happen on
cynical
nickel and dimism. It doesn't happen on self
interest.
It doesn't happen on,
being cheap. It doesn't happen through avarice and
through greed
and through
miserliness
and stinginess and selfishness.
Rather, the way this Deen spread throughout the
lands, people don't accept it openly and readily.
It requires work and it requires great sincerity,
and it requires a type of proof, both
intellectual and emotional and spiritual and human, that
shows quality above other ways.
Otherwise,
you know, you can walk into a masjid
and tell people every rule in the sharia.
No one will accept any of it until
you can establish this proof of its superiority,
not only intellectually, but also on a human
level.
So
I wanted to share those couple of anecdotes
before continuing.
Hazr Sheikh Zakaria writes
about the passing of that
the duration of his khilafa of his caliphate
was 12 years
minus 12 days.
He was brutally martyled martyred on the 18th
of Dhul Hijjah, in the 35th year of
Hijra.
When he was martyred, he was reciting
the,
magnificent Quran,
and his blood, his his precious blood fell
on the ayah,
that Allah will suffice you against them, and
he is the one who hears
everything and knows everything.
Long ago before this incident, the messenger of
Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam had predicted
Saidna Uthman radhiallahu anhu's brutal assassination.
According to the narration of Tirmidi,
once while explaining to the companions radhiallahu anhu,
about a great anarchy and fitna that will
occur, the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam pointed at Sayidna Uthman radiallahu anhu and
said, he will be slain unjustly in that
fitna.
And another hadith also narrated in the Tirmidi
said, Nahudayfar
narrates that the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said, I take an oath by that being
in whose,
controls my life.
Will only be established when you have killed
your imam and shed each other's blood. And
these are difficulties that the Ummah is going
to go through because of the impetuousness
and the ignorance of, of of some of
its people.
And it's mentioned that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam actually told Sayna Uthman
radhiallahu anhu that his that the qaum is
going to kill him and he said what
should I do on that day, oh Messenger
of Allah?' He said he said just be
patient and don't do anything against anybody.
It's another hadith that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
saw the 3 of them, Sayidna Abu Bakr,
Sayidna Umar and Sayidna Uthman
on Uhud and he said he said that
he said to the Uhud that standing upon
you is
a siddiq, a man of true faith, and
2 shayeds and 2 martyrs.
Hadr al Sheik narrates, other anecdotes about Sayidna
Uthman
Once he said to his slave,
'I twisted your ear and I want you
to exact compensation.'
The slave then twisted Sayna Uthman
ear.
Thereupon, Sayna Uthman radiAllahu Anhu said
'Twisted harder
The compensation extracted here on the earth is
best.
After such compensation, there's no apprehension in the
hereafter.
Of course, this is the
mentality, and this is the
vision that the person who sees the sees,
and god knows how many things that
happened to us in this world
that an ignorant man would curse their own
fate
and be angry with Allah to Allah. Why
did this happen to me? Why did that
happen to me? Whereas they don't curse their
own stupid actions and they don't curse their
own mistakes
when they make them
and they don't know that sometimes Allah fills
our accounts out over here,
not for those sins that we
repented for but those sins that we didn't
even know to repent for
so that we don't have to see them
in the hereafter
and the one who Allah loves, he settles
their account before they
go to the other side
and the one who Allah Ta'ala hates, Allah
Ta'ala lets them rack up a huge debt
and trusts me to pay on that side.
It's much more bitter than paying on this
side. Allah
forgive us all of our sins
and settle our accounts before the day we
meet him.
One said in
the most honored prophet
said, 'Who will purchase
purchase a well for the benefit of the
Muslims.
In return Allah quenched his thirst on the
day of judgment.'
that day said Naruthman
who purchased that well
for 35,000
dirhams, 35,000 silver coins
of 3 grams each approximately,
and declared
it a waqf, an endowment
for the benefit of all Muslims.
Allah
accept it.
And by the way, this
offer of
digging a well for the Muslims and having
your thirst quenched on the day of judgment,
this offer is still valid.
But, Allah raised the rank of those noble
and saintly people
who showed us how to make good on
these offers
so that we also will know that this
is the path of the righteous
by seeing them do it because human beings
learn from each other,
much better when seeing than when being told
so that they receive the reward of those
who emulate their noble,
example until the day of judgment.
Saidna al Hasan al Basri
from the Imams of the Tabireen
said that during the era
of caliphate, he saw Sayidna Uthman
sleeping in the masjid.
His body bore the marks of pebbles from
the ground upon which he was sleeping,
and the people said
look he is the but look at his
condition.
He is the but look at his condition.
This is good.
Let's try this especially our brothers
try this sometime. Try to go to the
masjid
whether in ramadan or or outside of Ramadan,
worship Allah Ta'ala,
spend so much time in the masjid, sleep
in the masjid, and don't say, oh, I
need my bed, where's my this, where's my
that. Rather spend time in the masjid you'll
break your body trust me your neck will
be sore your back will be sore but
your spirit will be very refreshed.
Said
said that he saw Sayna Uthman
during his
caliphate on the mimbar delivering the Friday sermon.
The value of the garments on his body
on that day were no more than 4
or 5 dirhams.
So see the when it comes to charity,
when it comes to the
sadaqa,
dinars and dirhams are going by tens of
1,000
but when it came to his own clothing
it was only 4 or 5.
And these are the oliya of Allah Ta'ala
that their love for the ummas and their
love for Allah and their love for good
things isn't like one for me one for
you rather
their love for their nafs was only what
Allah Ta'ala mandated that they minimally needed to
do, and their love for khair and for
goodness
knew no no bounds.
Just like one of us might love ourselves,
our love for our own nafs knows no
bounds, and we do a little bare minimum
here and there for
Allah Ta'la's sake and for the sake of
the Ummah and for the sake of the
creation.
Once a man who gazed at a woman
in the street came into the gathering of
Sayyidina Uthman
and he remarked, 'Some people come to me
with the effects of zina, of fornication in
their eyes.'
Someone remarked,
'Does revelation descend even after the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had passed?' Meaning, it
was a tongue in cheek way of saying
like, how do you know? Like, how do
you know what's unseen?
Said Northman responded
that this awareness is the effect of firasa
of a,
ken
that people have a sort of spiritual sense
that the people have
of piety and of righteousness.
I said
fear this can that the
believer has because a believer sees with a
special light from Allah
Ta'ala.
Would say,
worship is to safeguard the commands of Allah
Ta'ala
to fulfill a promise with anyone once it's
made
and to be content with whatever is obtained
and to be patient when
desired things are unobtainable.
Worldly concern produces spiritual darkness
and concern for the hereafter
produces
spiritual illumination.
The sign of piety is that one considers
all others to be saved and fears that
one's own self is doomed.
The greatest destruction is old age accompanied by
indifference to the hereafter.
The greatest destruction is old age accompanied by
indifference to the hereafter, and this is something
we should all fear. And the thing is
a person might think, well, I'm gonna, like,
do what I want, and then when I'm
old, I'm gonna make tovah. Everybody knows. Nobody's
guaranteed tomorrow. Nobody's even guaranteed the next minute,
much less old age.
But more than that, when a person is
old, they become like a baby. You know,
things become involuntary. You don't really
you don't you don't choose how you behave.
You can't control how you behave. Your inhibitions
are gone.
And at that time, what happens is you'll
see a person's actual
personality come out.
So you see the pious and the righteous
when they get afflicted with old age, with
dementia, and with, you know, other types of
neurological impairment.
That same person will read, like, the same
salat, like, 15 times over. If this isn't
a proof in somebody's favor that their ruh
is
predisposed to the worship of Allah ta'ala, I
don't know what it is.
And on the flip side, a person whose
habits all their life were to
be concerned with dunya or to be angry
or to be jealous or to be a
hater or to be any of these other
things, then that's all they're gonna crank out,
in their old age.
And just like that, the person who spent
their entire
life cussing or talking about stock markets or
about cars or about real estate or about
sports or about this or about that, Do
they think that they're somehow in their last
moment
when their body is literally dying,
when their mind is literally dying, when every
faculty that they have in the life of
this world is at its weakest, do they
think that they're going to be able to
fight against their own habit and say La
ilaha illallah?
The only person who's going to say La
ilaha illallah at that time is the one
whose noble habit it was to say La
ilaha illallah and even that only from the
blessings and mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So a person should be careful about what
they say,
even if sometimes saying certain things is justified,
but they should keep in their mind not
to go overboard when speaking about other things,
material things, unimportant things, lest the tongue become
so habituated to speaking about them that it
becomes a second nature.
Said Naruthman radiAllahu ta'ala and who he said,
the grave will be a comfort for the
one
who is in this world as if it's
a prison,
Meaning those people who were tested so much
for them,
the grave will be a comfort.
And glad tidings to you. Some people, it
seems like you can't ever get a clean
break and everything in your life is hard.
That Allah
will give you comfort that you seek and
will be there forever.
It's just a matter of patience. The days
of your life will pass one way or
the other. They'll pass one way or the
other. Whether you're having fun or you're not,
the days of your life will pass, and
the days of the will never finish. Whether
a person is in
Jannah, in paradise, or in the hellfire, they'll
never finish.
So glad tidings to the
one who, suffers with patience a little bit
of tribulation in this world,
in order to
receive the happiness of everlasting life.
And, a curse
a curse has truly visited a person who
enjoys a few days in this world
only to be robbed of,
any sort of life in the hereafter
to be described by Allah Ta'ala as
Allah be our protection to be described by
the prophet Allah
words
as being in such a state that they
don't live. They're not alive in the torture
of the hellfire.
They they they they don't die in the
torture of the hellfire fire, but nor can
you quite say that they're alive.
Imam Malik
narrates that one day said that Uthman radiallahu
anhu
passed a place called Hashkokaab.
While standing there, he said soon a pious
man will be buried here.
The first person to be buried, in Hashkoka
was Saida Uthman And
I'll I'll
give a little bit of extra, why is
why should you believe Malik when he says
this other than him being a an impeccable
Muhadith of the first order. Imam Malik,
it's said that he's Malik bin Anas bin
Malik,
that his grandfather
Malik
was,
from amongst those people who buried Sayidna Uthman
body. That agitators came from,
the provinces,
and,
they were given
propaganda against Sayidna Uthman
with false accusations against him,
and they didn't give him a chance to
speak or defend himself.
Rather they sieged Madinah Munawara for a while,
they sieged his house, and then they breached
the siege of the house, and they killed
him brutally,
which is a sin that,
god protect us. It's better to be
guilty of being a drunkard and a fornicator
than
something as,
something as blasphemous as killing a person who
Allah and His Rasool
loved, much as harming them in the least.
It said that, it said that
on the day of his assassination,
that Saidna al Hassan and al Hussein
and Abdullah bin Zubair
and the 4th one with them is Abdullah
bin Abbas
that they were
standing guard at his house
and when
their house the house was breached,
Saidna Uthman forcefully told them to go away
and,
forbade them from defending him because the Rasul
just told them to be patient, and so
he forcefully made them leave and invoked his
privilege and his rank as Khalifa,
which made it a matter of deen that
they were to obey forcefully his commandment. Otherwise,
they would have fought to defend him to
the last one.
And again, who the family of the Prophet
SAW and the heroes of the family of
the Prophet SAW.
With him also on that day was Sayrna
Abdullah bin Salam
he
he was
a man whose mention is made famous,
and he
was one of the rabbis of Madinah Munawwara
who accepted
Islam at the hands of the Prophet
right after his Hijra Mubarakah
that he also was ordered to leave
and he refused to listen to the order
despite all the rank that Sayna Uthman had
and he was martyred with him as well.
And it said that Sayna Uthman radiallahu anhu
on that fateful day,
he made an announcement on the house that
any slave in this house that doesn't
take up arms against,
another Muslim on this day,
you're free. Meaning, don't take up arms and
you're free. So he made them all leave
as well so that, they just kill him
and and be done with it and minimum
bloodshed occurs.
And so these insurgents,
they actually
were prohibiting
the burial of Saidna Uthman
possibly also because
they didn't want him to be buried in
the Hujr al Mubarakah with Sayna Abu Bakr
Saidna Amarin with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and that he should receive that honor out
of their spite. And so
his janaza was delayed, the burial of it
was delayed,
And,
what ended up having to happen is that
some people in the cover under the cover
of the blackness of night had to take
him far, far away,
in order to, in order to be buried.
And,
one of those people is
the grandfather of Imam Malik,
and who knows perhaps it was this service
for 1 of the oliya of Allah Ta'ala
because of which Allah Ta'ala
blessed their family with,
with
with Imam Malik and the great Maqam he
has amongst the ulema and Allah knows best.
Sayedna Uthman radiAllahuhan who would feed guests from
the Baytul Ma'l, however, he would not join
them in eating, That when there is guests
of the state, he would feed them from
the public treasury,
but he would not join them in eating.
Rather, he would eat his own simple food
at home.
And this is how much Amana he used
to keep.
He would cry much when passing the grave,
the graveyard.
His beard would be soaked with tears.
Someone once asked, you do not cry as
much when Jannah and Jahannam are discussed.
He responded, I heard the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say, the grave is
the first station from the stations of the
hereafter.
Therefore, whoever is successful in the grave will
traverse all of the stations that come afterwards
successfully.
And if such a person fails
here, what's ahead is only hardship.
And Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
I have not seen any seen more dreadful
than thee, the grave.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all of
us a good end. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala be pleased with and with all of
the companions
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
raise the rank,
of our aslaf that brought such a beautiful
example
And may Allah himself be praised who made
it an act of worship to love them,
and he made them in such a way
that they're so easy to love. And may
Allah
make our najat and and loving them so
much that we find it easy and facilitate
it to follow some part of their noble
example. May Allah
give us the bishara also of almaru'mam and
ahabba that a person will be with the
one that they love.