Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 25 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Three Days Three Choices 04052024
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The transcript discusses the history of the Persians and their multi-region civilization, including the appointment of Iranian holyarch Muhammad bin Mukarian to Islam and the appointment of Spanish holyarch Muhammad bin Mukarian to Islam. The transcript also touches on the actions of different leaders in Iran during the previous year, including the rise of Islam, the loss of their countries, and the use of deadly drugs. The transcript also touches on the actions of different leaders in Iran during the previous year, including the fall of the Persians and the arrival of Muslims in Iran.
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We have reached this Mubarak 25th night of
Ramadan.
I'm recording tonight's messages from Cleveland,
from the No Man Learning Center,
under the able
leadership of Sheikh, Musa Subha Pang as well
as a number of other local,
people of knowledge as well as, Hrfat.
It is a a HIF school and a
Maktab in a place,
of teaching and learning,
for,
people, everyone from new Muslims to intermediate,
and more advanced students of knowledge.
And, we just had the barakah of reading,
the of the Quran,
which
fits in well with,
the topic of last night's discussion, which was
the
campaign of Sayid Al Amr
and the companions
to,
take Iraq,
and the Persian lands.
And his advice
regarding what it is that will give victory
to the
believers,
and his,
immortal advice,
that he gave, which is that our numbers
are not equivalent to theirs nor are our
resources.
If we equal them in disobedience to Allah,
they will be stronger than us. If not,
we will be helped through our virtue and
not through our strength.
So the recitation of the Quran inshallah. May
Allah
accept it from us and from all of
the congregations who are reading in the,
and, by day and by night in this
blessed month and in these blessed 10 nights.
And may Allah
give help to the Ummah Sayed Muhammad
So
say in the who
was
appointed leader, and we mentioned the names of
the different commanders of the different flanks and
the different functionaries in the army that were
all set by saying
And we also mentioned yesterday about
the internal strife within the Persian ranks that
were was put aside in order to
fight the Muslims and to protect,
the empire of the Persians.
Sadr
then descended to Qadisiya,
a village near Kufa,
where the pilgrims of Kufa would stop,
over on their journey to Maqamucarama.
And Atir, one of the tributaries
of the Euphrates in line
with Kantara,
a village which has a bridge over one
of the tributaries
the Furat
and is then, therefore, known by the name
Tantara, which means a bridge.
Umar
who wrote to Saad saying, if any of
you insincerely
offers peace to any of the non Arabs
by openly proposing it or by making any
kind of sign or verbal statement, which is
considered as such by them, then you should
treat them as if you have given peace
and this offer has been fulfilled. A mistaken
promise that is kept will ensure survival, but
a mistaken act of treachery will bring destruction.
This will make you weak and your enemies
strong. So the Usid Nama
in war still,
as long as people are
means what? That war is deception means what?
As long as people are hostile toward you,
then you're allowed to use deception in order
to,
fight your enemies. In order to what? Not
because deception is a good thing, but because
you want to end the hostilities as soon
as possible. You wanna end the violence as
quickly as possible.
Once they offer peace and they show that
they want to relent from hostility,
you're not allowed to lie to them and
give them fake offers of peace. And, Said
Nama who made sure to made sure to
make it clear to the command the commanders
that even if you said something
heedlessly,
if they accept it, then don't take it
back. Rather, keep your keep your promises even
if the promises are made by mistake
and avoid treachery at all cost because there's
no point in ever making peace with a
treacherous person.
That's a lesson for us as well. But,
also, if you are fighting a war against
people, people have enough common sense to know
there's never any benefit in making peace with
a treacherous person because
doing that just delays your destruction even more
and gives away your chance to oppose them
and to fight them while you still have
the chance. So no one in their right
mind would ever make peace with the treacherous
person, and we want to facilitate people making
peace with us. We wanna make it easy
for people to be friends with us. We
don't wanna make it difficult or onerous.
Sadhu
who remained in Qadisiyyah for 1 month
without any news of the Persians. So he
had sent squadrons between, Kaskar and Amba. They
attacked, those with whom no peace agreement had
been agreed to and those, who had broken
the compact of peace that they had made
from before.
The people of the rural areas
sent a message to a message to Yazdagir,
the newly crowned,
Persian emperor,
informing him of what the Muslims had done
and said, to him, that if he did
not send anyone to defend them, they would
surrender. So they were subject to the Persian
throne,
but the Muslims were overwhelming them. So they
sent a message to their their, their king
that, hey. Look. You know, if you wanna
hold on to this area, you need to
send us help. Otherwise, we can't hold out
against them. We're gonna make peace rather than
waiting for them to
destroy us. Yazdegir Sunday sent a message to
his commander Rustam ordering him to prepare,
to command a huge army to fight the
Muslims. He obeyed the orders, departing and encamping
encamping at the place called Sabah.
He only did so under compulsion, however, for
he was actually of the opinion that they
should come to terms with the Muslims and
not fight them until they become weak.
The news of Saab,
who conveyed it to Omar,
the news reached Saad, who conveyed it to
Omar.
Omar replied saying, do not let the news
you receive worry you. Seek assistance from Allah
and place your trust in him. Send articulate
people who possess intelligence and courage to call,
him to Islam. Allah will make this invitation
to Islam a cause of abasement for them
if they don't accept it. Give them a
chance. Again, the Muslims are not fighting for
the sake of fighting. They're not fighting to
take stuff away from people. When the when
the Muslims would send their armies out,
if they accepted Islam, everyone keeps their stuff,
everyone keeps their positions, no one takes anything
from them. This only has to do with
the right of Allah to Allah that he
should be worshiped alone and without any partner.
Nowadays, you know, like, for example, say, oh,
we're gonna spread democracy to the world. Okay.
Well, people take democracy, but we also, like,
take their oil and their stuff.
That's not democracy spreading. That's taking stuff.
Whereas the the companions of the along on
whom they have no interest in this in
people's stuff. It's also interesting to note that,
this
this this little,
snippet that was mentioned
about the,
Persian
commander Rustam
being ordered to prepare a huge army, and
he said, why fight them right now? They're
at their full power.
Why not just wait and make peace with
them right now and wait till they're weak,
and then we can, like, fight them later?
The Persians have an imperial tradition that goes
back, you know, 1000 of years.
And, really, Persia was the first empire in
the world in the true sense.
The Egyptians were not an empire because they
even though they had a very powerful state,
they would go do battle in other countries,
but they would come home. They had no
interest in occupying foreign lands.
And,
the the Persians, however, truly had a multi
ethnic, multi
religious empire in which they
governed
large swaths of land. They did,
public works projects, intellectual,
projects.
They advanced a lot of the things that
we attribute to Greeks like logic and math
trigonometry. These things were actually figured out by
the Persians far before they were, figured out
by the Greeks.
But the, you know, Europeans have this issue
that they kind of
forget other people exist in the world, from
time to time.
But, the persons are so
good at running countries, at running states.
This is even with when they become Muslims,
they provide all of the middle,
level bureaucracy
to run armies and states in all of
the Muslim empires of,
really of history with the exception of maybe
Spain.
And so the Ottoman Empire, the Umayyad Empire,
the Abbasid Empire, the mid level bureaucracy that
runs the
because these people know what they're doing. They're
talented. It's not like an easier pushover enemy,
which makes the conquest of the companions
all the more impressive.
Yazdegird is invited to Islam.
Saad sent a group of notables to call
the Yazdegird, the Persian emperor, to Islam, which
include Muhammad bin Mukarin,
When they reached Mada'in, the Persian imperial capital,
they were taken to Yazdegird.
He asked them, through an interpreter,
what drove you to attack us and enter
our country? Is it because we were occupied
with our own affairs and you had the
courage to attack?
Nurman Abu Mukarin spoke on behalf of the
group.
He said,
Allah ta'ala showed us mercy and sent a
messenger to us who enjoined us to do
good and prohibited us from evil,
promising that if we responded positively to his
call,
we would enjoy the best of this world
and the hereafter.
From every tribe, a group joined him and
another group shunned him. He then ordered that
we commence with the Arabs that had opposed
him, and they joined him either under compulsion
and were subsequently delighted by him or willingly
and thus only grew happier and happier with
him.
Thus, we all recognize the superiority of his
message over the enmity and constriction which we
had been living in before.
He had then ordered us to go to
our neighboring nations in order to invite them
to justice.
Thus, we invite you to our religion as
well. It is a religion which extols good
and condemns evil. If you refuse, you may
choose the lesser of 2 evils, the jizya.
But if you refuse this too, we will
wage war against you. If you accept our
religion, we will leave the book of Allah
amongst you, and we will remain with you
until you rule by its injunctions.
Then we will leave you, and you can
see to the affairs of your own country.
If you pay the jizya, we will accept
it from you and we will protect you,
and if not, we will fight you.
Yazda Gird responded,
I do not know of any nation that
was as wretched, disunited in small numbers as
yours.
He's saying this to the Arabs.
We used to charge the villages on our
borders to deal with you. You could never
have hoped to stand up to the Persians.
If it is delusion that has brought you
here, then don't ever be deluded by us.
If it is hardship that has forced you
to come here, we will give you enough
food until you get back to prosperity again.
We will honor you, feed you, appoint someone
over you who will be kind to you,
and you will be prosperous.
So he's like, here. Why don't you just
take some money and go home? You broke
a bunch of Arabs,
which is interestingly enough,
how they deal with the Arabs to this
day. The difference is what? Back in
the time of the they had dignity and
they had honor
in the time of Jahilia and nowadays, they
don't.
So they're like, oh, thanks. Food?
And they just go home again.
Allah to argue with to follow, those who
Allah honored.
Basement Zurara at this point stood up and
said, as for our terrible condition which you
mentioned, it was as if you said, if
not worse.
He He then spoke about the life of
the Arab and Allah's mercy on them by
sending them a messenger of Allah to
them. He made a similar statement to that
one made by a Norman
and said, either you accept in your lowly
state to pay jizya or you face the
sword.
Otherwise, save yourself by embracing Islam.
Yazdegard responded to Bais, were it not for
the fact that envoys are not killed, I
would have put you to death for saying
this. You'll get nothing from me. He then
called for a load of earth to be
brought and said to his people, place it
on the most honorable of them and drive
them out until they leave the gate of
Mada'in.
Asim bin
Amr stood up and said, I am the
most honorable, and took the earth himself,
went to his horse, and mounted it. When
he reached
Saad whom he said, glad tidings by Allah.
Allah has given us the keys to his
kingdom. Meaning, what? We gave them a chance.
It's not like we we proved into ourselves
in Allah to Allah that we're not fighting
them for any personal gain, nor are we
fighting them for any material gain. We gave
them a chance, and they're the ones who
turned their back on Allah to Allah, and
they knew that when a person turns their
back on Allah to Allah, this is a
sign of their weakness, and it's a sign
of their fault.
Rustam then departed from Sabah with his awesome
army, which numbered over 100,000,
which is a lot. When he passed, Kutha,
village between Mada'in and Babil, an Arab met
him.
Rustam said to him, why have you come
here? What do you want from us? He
replied, we have come to realize Allah's promise
of taking over your country and your children
if you refuse to embrace Islam. Rustam asked,
what if you are killed before you realize
this? He replied, whoever of us is killed
shall enter paradise, and Allah will fulfill his
promise for those who survive.
We have full conviction in this. Wristam said,
we have been lowered and placed in your
hands. Have we been lowered and placed in
your hands? Narab said, your evil deeds lowered
you and Allah made you subdued because of
them. You should not be deceived by what
you see around you, I. E. The large
numbers of your army. You are not fighting
men, rather you are fighting fate.
Rustam was angered and murdered him for saying
this.
When he passed with his army through Burs,
a village between Kufa and Hilla,
His, soldiers captured,
the children and stole their possession, drank wine,
and raped the women. The people of Burs
complained to Rustam Hussein
to his
people, by Allah, that Arab was right. By
Allah, it is our deeds that have subjected
us. By Allah, the Arabs and these people
who sided with the Arabs are displaying better
character than you. He then proceeded until he
came to Hira, and he reprimanded his seniors
for submitting to the Muslims.
Ibn Bukayla said to him, you cannot show
weakness in helping us, and at the same
time, reprimand us for saving ourselves.
When Sadr
who the commander of the Muslim
army heard about,
Rustam, he said, Amr bin Maadiqarab is Zabidi,
and today have been Kuwaited Al Asadeen. So
Amr bin Adikarab is,
and Tureha are Yemenis. Both of them are
Yemenis.
Sorry. Amr ibn Adikarab is Yemen, and Duleha
is actually someone who claimed he was a
nabi after the prophet
died.
But he made toba, and he made good
on his Tawba. He repented from from trying
to run that scam. He says, I was
wrong, and he participated actively in the conquest
of Iraq,
with so he sent both of them with
10 other men to gather information about the
Persian army as scouts.
They traveled only a short distance when they
spotted the camels of the enemy pasturing on
elevated lands.
They then returned except for Tulehahu,
continued until until he had actually penetrated the
enemy army
and learned what he had to learn before
returning to Saad and informing him of all
that he saw.
The battle of Qadisiyyah.
Discussions with Rustam. Rustam advanced with his army
from Hera until he descended into Qadisiyyah
via the bridge in Atir.
He positioned the army directly before the Muslim
camp, coming between them and the river. The
Persians had 33 elephants.
Now imagine that these people had only heard
about the field in
field that we
heard. Now they're actually seeing them
deployed against them in battle, and it's very
scary.
The enemy had 33 elephants. Upon arriving, he
had sent a message to Saad
who would send a person who he who
could speak to Saad. He sent to Ribri
ibnu Amir to him. Ribri came to him
while Rustam was seated on a bed of
gold, having laid out carpets and cushions woven
with gold. R'Ib'i approached,
on with his horse, his sword wrapped in
a rag and his spear attached by a
cloth. Meaning, so the emissary of the Muslims
is
completely broke, but he's ready for war,
whereas the general of the Persians is in
complete luxury.
When he reached the carpet, he walked onto
it with his horse, meaning showing he doesn't
have any respect for the carpet,
Then dismounted and tied it to 2 cushions
by splitting them in 2 and placing a
rope between them.
Meaning,
you know, he wasn't he wasn't there for
he wasn't impressed by the furniture.
He then took the woolen wrap of his
camel and wrapped himself with it.
The guards asked him to remove his weapons,
but he said, had I come to you
of my own accord, I would have done
so, on your order. However, you called me,
and I will not remove them.
He moved forward, leaning on his spear, taking
small steps, tearing the carpet as he, walked
along.
He went right up close to Rustam,
the enemy commander, and sat on the ground,
staking his spear in the carpet, saying, we
do not sit on your fancy seats.
Rustam asked,
why have you come here? He replied, Allah
brought us here. He sent us in order
to remove those who wish to be removed
from the worship of slaves to the worship
of Allah. From the restriction and constriction of
this world, the wide expanse
of the hereafter, from the injustice of the
ways of other ways of life to the
justice of Islam.
Allah sent his messenger with his deen to
his
creation. Whoever embraces it, we shall accept it
from him. Return and leave him to his
land. Whoever refuses, we shall fight him until
we achieve paradise or victory.
Rustam said, I have heard what you have
said. Are you prepared to wait a while
for us to come to a decision?
He replied, yes. From amongst the directors of
the messenger of of Allah is that we
should not give respite to the enemy of
more than 3 days, so we will hold
off for 3 days. You decide on what
you want to do from the following three
options at the end of the period.
Either embrace Islam, and we will leave you
and your land.
Pay jizyah, and we will accept it from
you and protect your land and help you
when you're in need. Or the 3rd option
is war on the 4th day, unless you
attack us before that. I guarantee this on
behalf of my companions.
Rustam asked, are you their leader? He replied,
no. However, the Muslims are like a single
body. The lowest of them can grant safety
on behalf of the highest of them. He
then turned around and departed.
I want you to, like,
appreciate a couple of things. 1 is, like,
complete alpha.
Not impressed and not afraid of any of
them.
And part of that is not being swelled
by their dunya.
You may you all can do this. You
may not walk up to the Persian emperor
and, like, rip his carpet or whatever,
but don't walk into especially especially impious people,
people who don't take their deen seriously, especially,
people who don't care about Allah, his Rasulullah
Sadly,
Sadly, there are many Muslims that are Muslims.
We don't say that they're not Muslims, but
they completely lost the plot.
Or a non Muslim, don't walk walk into
the White House or don't walk into the
palace of a king or a prince or
to the, to the hotel or to the,
you know, fancy mansion of a rich person
and be overwhelmed by stuff. Like, oh, look
how the carpet
that's not alpha. That's being sim.
Don't simp over people's dunya
unless that's what you wanna be.
Don't be impressed with people's dunya. You know
what you should be impressed with? You should
be impressed with people's character. You should be
impressed with people's righteousness, by their piety, by
their good deeds. Build some for for people's
stuff. It's not it's not worthwhile. Can you
imagine if you walked into it? Well, it's
a nice carpet. How long did it take
you to make? Don't don't be like that.
He turned and departed. Rustam confirmed in confirmed
in privacy with his aids. He said to
them, did you ever hear a speech like
this? They responded by expressing disdain for the
Muslim representative. But Rustam rather exclaimed exclaimed,
woe unto you. I'm looking at his intelligence,
speech, and character. The Arabs do not bother
about clothing, but they are very particular about
noble descent.
Meaning that this is only some someone who
has some quality inside of him could have
done what he just did.
On the 2nd day after making camp at
Paducia, Rustam sent a message to Sa'ad, send
send this man to us.
So Saad
sent
Hudayfa's actions in conversation with Rustam were no
different than those of.
And this is nothing to be surprised about
since they were both given,
to drink from the same source, which is
the religion of Islam.
Rustam said to Hudayfa,
why did the first one,
not come to us? He replied, our commander
deals equally with all of us in all
matters, and now it is my turn. Rustam
inquired,
when does the
agreed upon period end? Hudayfa,
responded after 3 days starting yesterday.
On the 3rd day, Rustam sent a message
to Saad asking him to send a man
to him. So he sent Muhira to Busherba,
who went to him, and when he was
before him, he sat with him on his
couch. Meaning, what? He didn't show that he
is, a superior, but he treated him like
a equal.
Rustam's aids advanced toward Muhira pulling him away,
and he said to them, we thought you
to be intelligent people, but now I see
you that I see that you're the most
foolish. We Arabs do not enslave one another
unless we are fighting one another. I had
thought that you cared for your own people
like we care for our own people. The
best thing you have done is for me,
for me is to show me that some
of you are lords over others, and this
is this this state of affairs will not
continue amongst your people. Meaning what? He said,
look. I'm you didn't treat me like an
equal, and now you're showing me that, like,
you're you treat your own people like garbage
as well. You think you're better than them?
That's going to make it very easy for
us to be victorious over you. I did
not come up my own,
choice, but you invited me here today. And
today, I have realized that because of all
of this, you are going to be defeated,
vanquished, and that a kingdom cannot exist with
such ways and such thinking. The subject said
by Allah that Arab is correct,
and those representing the farmers said he has
said something which our slaves have always expressed.
May Allah destroy our leaders who has belittled
this nation, the nation of Arab.
Rustam then delivered a speech, aggrandizing the Persian
and deriding the
the Arab, mentioning the terrible condition and worthless
livelihood that the Arabs had to suffer with.
Mavira said,
as for the terrible condition, poverty, and disagreement
which you described, we acknowledge all of that
and do not deny it. But the world
is a place of ups and down ups
and downs, and adversity is followed by prosperity.
If you were to be grateful for what
Allah has given you, your gratitude would not
suffice for all that you receive. Your lack
of gratitude has now brought you a change
of fortune.
Allah has sent a messenger messenger
to us, dot dot dot, and then he
recounted a speech similar to what Rebiri had
given,
2 days before. He ended by giving them
the option of embracing Islam, paying jizya or
going to war, and then he returned to
the Muslim camp.
So we,
leave off here,
and then we continue,
the prelude,
to the battle of Qadisiyah
tomorrow.
Obviously, I'm not gonna be here in Cleveland
tomorrow, but you can all catch it on
the, soundcloud,
dot com forward slash, h makbull, m a
q b u l, if you wish.
Give us
fill our hearts with the love of those
who he loved. You don't have to conquer
Persia this week. The step one is what?
Those
people that Allah that I love, you fill
your heart with their love. And those deeds
that Allah loved, you fill your heart with
their love? And then when your heart is
filled, you'll see all those deeds. They spill
out from your heart into your hands and
into your limbs as well.
No need to, no need to be hasty,
inshallah, it will happen. For right now, just
look and be careful what you fill your
heart with. Don't fill it with garbage and
with weakness and with cowardice. Rather, fill it
with strength in the
remembrance of the courage and nobility of those
who came before us.