Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah ‘shr & The Unspoken Villains of Karbal Hir 07282022
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Alhamdulillah.
Allah ta'ala,
by his father, gave us the
Tawfiq to witness this Mubarak day of Ashura.
Mubarak to those of you who are fasting,
and Mubarak to those of you whose
fasting is accepted
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and who received the expiation of a year's
worth of sins.
This is a day that has significance both
from the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and from the history of Islam as well.
The messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam
used to fast this day both in Makkamu
Karima and in Madinah Munawara.
This day is a Mubarak day,
and its barakah was recognized even by the
Mushrikeen and Jahiliya, although they didn't understand why.
It was considered to be a blessed day
to them as well in Jahiliya, but they
didn't understand why.
The Rasul
used to observe this day even before the
Hijra Mubarakah.
Then when he came to Madinah Munawwara,
he was
somewhat surprised why are the Jews fasting on
this day.
And he was told by them that this
is the day Allah ta'ala
saved Banu Israel from Firaoun.
And so he said
that we have more right
to say the Musa alayhis salaam
than they do. And because of that, he
commanded it's being fasted again as an emphasis.
It wasn't
the
This
is
the reason that we fast this day, and
this is the reason that the day has
this primal significance in the Deen of Islam
is what? Is it the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to fastest day? It
used to be a farthest fast on the
people of the Ummah
before Ramadan
became farther. And then once Ramadan became farther,
it became a sunnah to fast on this
day.
This is what the primal significance is of
the day of Ashura. Why? Because it has
connection with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
This is a sign Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
had of his gaira.
Imagine somebody talks about your family member, somebody
talks about your father and talks in all
sorts of exquisite detail in your presence. And
you said, this guy only met him one
time.
So who are you to talk about my
father as if you know who he is?
He's my father. Who are you to talk
about my brother as if you know who
he is? We grew up together and you're
some guy who just met him once or
twice, and now you're gonna write a book
about it?
And, and, and he had for
Islam and he had for the Quran and
he had for the
to Islam and he had for this.
What is
is a word that does not translate into
English. There's no word for it in English,
which may be why many people in the
civilization don't have it.
What is Rehra? Rehra is the
feeling that a person has when someone or
something special to them
is being abused or attacked improperly.
If someone hears about
a random person getting
beaten up and the other side of the
world, they say this is a bad thing.
But if you find out that that person
is your sister,
then there's an increase in the feeling. That's
what the is. Is part of Islam actually.
It's not something that is
bad in terms of being subjective. Rather, this
type of subjectivity is a sign that you're
alive,
that you're a human being, that you are
on the fitra.
So, rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam have Ghayrah
for the Ambiya alaihi musaatu wa sallam,
for the shara of Allah ta'ala, for the
turahid of Allah Ta'ala, for the hirma of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is something it's a sign that the
person has connection with somebody.
This is a sign that we also have
connection with the prophet
that Sweden as a publicity stunt they gave
a license to some deranged apostate from Iraq
to burn a copy of the mushaf.
And then afterward, a Syrian Muslim took a
license, I'm gonna burn a copy of the
Bible, and he made a big rally. They
all came together and when the rally happened,
he said, why would I burn a copy
of the Bible? This is stupid.
Which is what to show It's fa'abilatihiyahhsan.
Push back with something that's better.
That if you guys are going to behave
like this, we can't behave this way. Why?
Because we actually think of these things as
sacred.
The next thing that a person who
reads about the day of Ashura cannot escape
is that a great tragedy happened, one of
the greatest tragedies of the history of the
Ummah of Sayed Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
on this day.
Which is the assassination
of the grandson of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
May Allah
accept his Shahadah and raise his rank.
The story is a very long story and
it's a convoluted story.
And many people who listen to it, I
tell you this, that a lot of the
details that are transmitted with regards to this
story are completely fabrications.
Their
origins, most of them find themselves somewhere centuries
later, and they cannot be traced back to
anywhere near the time of the actual incident
of Karbala itself.
However,
what is known
to summarize
is that
He was given the he was given the
advice that he should make his son,
the, successor in the Khalifa after him
in order to ensure the continuity of the
state.
This advice was given to
who before and he rejected it.
This advice was given to Sayidina Muhammad
when he accepted it. And he said regarding
his son Yazid
that,
Yeah. Allah, this Yazid,
if he straightens out,
give him a long life.
And if he doesn't straighten out, take him
quickly.
This Yazid was then placed in power.
The Bayada oath of allegiance was taken for
him before Sayidina
who died
in order to ensure the continuity of the
state.
Once said the Mu'awiya, alayahu, who died Yazid
came to power,
it became clear that he was not a
good ruler.
Not a good ruler in terms of his
ability to rule, not a good ruler in
terms of his own personal character.
Oftentimes, if one is good in one and
not the other, people can excuse it. But
this was something unexcusable, especially in that time.
Where the aslaf, many of them were still
alive and amongst us.
Sayedan Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala who who lived in
Madina, who's resident in Madina at that time.
He went
when the
agents of the government came to Madina Munawara
to take the
oath of allegiance publicly from all the notable
people of Medina.
He knew they were gonna come for him
as well, so he escaped to Makkamukarama.
From there,
the same thing happened. He escaped again.
During this while, the people of Iraq, the
people of Kufa,
which is somewhat close to the modern city
of Baghdad, but Baghdad wasn't built yet.
The people of Kufa, many of whom were
the political
backers of his father, Saidna Ali radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu.
And you read history, you know they didn't
really do a very good job of it.
They said, we would rather take the oath
of allegiance with Hussein, the son of Saidna
Ali
and Huma.
And so
Saidna Hussain radiAllahu in order to investigate what's
going on, he sent his cousin Muslim Bin
Atil Abin Abi Talib.
Now another interesting another interesting fact,
the father of,
the father of Muslim,
is the brother of Sen Ali, but he
was actually on Saddu Muawiyah
on whose side before the battle of
Safim. In order to dispel this idea that
this is some sort of tribal warfare between
them. It was a political issue. It wasn't
a tribal issue, and it definitely wasn't a
religious issue. Muslim
bin Ateel comes
18,000
people from Kufa fighting young men. They said
that we'll defend Hussein with our lives. We'll
take the oath of allegiance with them. We'll
defend him with our lives.
He writes this letter back to Sayedan Hussein.
You should come. You have 18,000 men, they
swear, to the last
drop of blood that will protect you if
you come here.
So he makes preparation to go.
The preparation is not a military preparation. He
doesn't come with soldiers.
He comes with the women and children of
his family. He comes with his relatives.
It was a large kafirah, it was a
large entourage, but it wasn't an army.
What was it? It was his family he
brought with him, who's the family of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, him being the elder
from Banu Hashim at this point.
They're going toward Kufa. As you imagine, it's
not going to be like a 90 minute
flight like it would be nowadays. It takes
several days, especially with such a large entourage
to travel.
By the time they're halfway there,
the governor of Kufa from Damascus is changed.
The old governor was Anurman Abdul Bashir. He
was a man with
a great amount of hilm, with a great
amount of forbearance.
He's changed into what?
Ziyad.
Ziyad.
Ziad bin Abi Sufyan, his father, just so
you know, actually sided with Sayna,
Ali radiAllahu anhu in the conflict political conflict
between
Saidna Muawiya and Saidna?
Ali radhiallahu ta'ala anhu.
Just so you know, it's not a tribal
war nor is it a religious war. It's
a political issue
that happened between the companions
Our Baydulillah bin Ziyad enters into Kufa at
night
with something like 77
horsemen or 17 horsemen.
Nobody knows that he comes in. It's a
very small entourage.
On one side, what do you have? 18,000
fighting men. And on the other side, you
have what?
Just a handful.
Just a handful of people who come in
quietly into the city.
They deliver the note to Noamal bin Bashir.
He vacates the governor's mansion and he takes
up the governorship of
Kufa.
Then what does he do?
He sends
spies
into the majalis where Muslim bin Aqdil and
the supporters of Hussein
are meeting.
He sends somebody with
monetary donations
in a great amount
pretending to be a businessman
in order to find out all the information
about who's
backing this, what's going on, where's the money
coming from, where is this, where is that
to sit in the Majlis and hear all
of these things. He gets all of this
information.
Then he sends his his people 1 by
1
to all of these notables and tells them,
if you go through with your plan that
you swore, an oath that you swore,
you will find the entire might of the
state come down upon you. And he convinced
all of them 1 by 1 in order
to
renege on their promises.
To the point that by the time Hussain
who reaches 2 thirds of the way to
Karbala.
That 18,000
comes into what? It becomes less than a
100.
People stay home.
It comes to the point where even those
people, they abandoned Muslim bin Ateel, and he
has to run hiding from house to house
hiding because he knows now Ubaidullah bin Ziyad,
his guys are behind him.
Finally, he finds out the house that he's
in.
An old woman gave him refuge. Her son
or nephew
because of inducement from the state will betray
the refuge.
He's taken up to the ramparts and beheaded
in front of the entire Kufa.
That's it. All of it is done. Why
is Saidna Husayn
who going? Because they said, come and straighten
out the affair because we find Yazid to
be an impious, unrighteous man, and a bad
ruler.
He's not coming to fight him. He's coming
to what? Straighten out what's a bad situation.
18,000 people,
not a human being amongst them.
This is what I want to talk about
because this is the day that what? People
curse people curse in the Muslim world, Shia
and Sunni.
They curse Yazid. Yazid is a drunkard, Yazid
is this, Yazid is that. I'm not one
to say good about Yazid. I'm not one
who can likes to hear someone say something
good about Yazid. Why? Because even though he
wasn't physically there at the
place of Karbala, he was in Damascus.
But because it's connected to him, it makes
me upset.
However, brothers and sisters,
the nizba with Yazid is very light compared
to the nizba with
these 18,000 people who made promises,
pulled him out, and they're nowhere to be
seen.
You are very, very unlikely. It's very unlikely
that one of you will become the sovereign
leader of the Muslim United Muslim Ummah.
That you'll have to deal with issues like
this. What's probably more likely is that
the haqq will be spoken. Someone will need
you to back them up.
You have to have the decency not to
be caught
absent on that day.
If you give your word, you have to
have the decency that you're the one who
says the whole your whole life, oh, look.
The leaders are corrupt. The governments are corrupt.
The olamah are corrupt. This person's corrupt. That
person's corrupt.
You cannot abandon the person on that day
and at that time.
And so I thought this is something very
relevant for all of us to think about
in here. Amidst all the emotional black blackmail,
especially for those of you, those of you
who grew up in America maybe have never
heard these things before. If you've grown up
in the Muslim world.
If you speak Urdu, you speak Persian, you
speak Turkish, you speak Arabic. You may have
heard some of these very rousing talks where
they bring up all the most granular details.
All of them are fabricated with regards to
the Maqla of Sidon Hussein radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
What? For the sake of emotional manipulation.
Someone Someone says, what? Are you trying to
say it wasn't that bad? It was probably
even worse in real life.
Why do I say emotional manipulation?
Let's talk about the elevate of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Who has a Maqam higher
than Sayyidina Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala and who Sayyidina
Ali his father? Who has a maqam higher
than him?
Sayna Hamzal radiAllahu anhu?
Or maybe that's not true. Maybe actually that's
not true, but it's still higher than Sayna
Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
Both of them were assassinated.
You never hear anyone speak with this amount
of granular detail with regards to their
assassination. Why? Because politically, it's not as important
to people's political agenda.
You never see people in the streets beating
themselves up and crying and wailing and all
of this other stuff.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would say
the hamza radiAllahu alaihi literally it happened in
front of his eyes. If it was a
sunnah, you would have seen him doing it.
It's what? It's emotional blackmail. It's manipulation. It's
the same thing that the Christians do when
they talk about the fictitious crucification of saying,
Nai Sala Alaihi Salam.
What is it?
They make people feel sad and bad. Do
you see the passion of the Christ and
all of this these passion plays that they
do
again and again every year? It's the emotional
manipulation
because they know a person cannot be trapped
through their because that it doesn't make any
sense.
So emotionally, if you can get a person
to feel bad that this is something really
bad that happened, what happens is this is
a raw energy. You can recast it and
use it in any direction you want to.
But the fact of the matter is is
what?
Those 18,000 people, they are the ones who
make the same claim that some people make
nowadays who are emotional manipulators themselves,
and they weren't there to back him.
Right? Yazid is not a Sunni.
This is not a Shia Sunni issue.
No one from the Ahlus Sunnah in their
right mind
ever said that Yazid is a Sunni.
They'll say, Sayid Hussain radiAllahu and who is
Sunni. Yes. But they will never say that
Yazid is Sunni. Whoever backs in the Hussain,
radiAllahu, this is the sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The issue that's relevant is not cursing Yazid
because nobody in their right mind will ever
back him.
Even a non Muslim, if you tell them
the story, they're gonna think that Yazid is
a bad guy. Or Baydulaban, Ziyad, Shamar, all
of these people who are involved in this
despicable incident, they're gonna say, how could you
kill, like, a person in the middle of
the desert with, like, the women and children
of the family?
He said, I'll take one of 3 options.
Give me 3 options, and I'll abort this
mission.
One is that you take me to Damascus.
I can't sit and talk to my cousin
about this face to face.
Why? Because he's there for Isla.
The second is you send me back to
Madinah Munawarah, and I promise I won't leave
my house ever ever again. The the game
is over here. The only thing left is
to spill the blood of the family. There's
no point in that. I'll just go back
and say just consider my political career ended
at this day.
Or the third is what? You send me
to any one of the frontiers where the
Muslims are fighting their enemies, and I'll fight
them and tell them, Shaheed, I won't ever
come back.
Even these three options were not accepted from
him, and Allah ta'ala sees then who whose
Maqam is what. If anyone speaks irwassein al
Hussein after this, that person is a stain
on them. If they speak good about his
killers, that's a stain on them. I don't
know how they're gonna show their face in
front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
after saying something about the killers of his
grandson grandchildren that's, you know, there too. Make
them, you know, to try to rehabilitate them
or try to lessen their crime.
But again, the point is that none of
us are going to be in that position
most likely. More likely than that is what?
We'll be one of those 18,000 people who
talks a big game. But when the time
comes to show up,
What did they say? What did they say
to Muslim Bin Aqib when he asked where
has everybody gone? They said our hearts are
with with, with Hussein, but our swords are
with Banu Maya.
What kind of stupid heart is this pointless
wicked heart, garbage heart, useless heart?
It's better to be dead than to have
a heart like this. In fact, having a
heart like this is a sign that a
person is already dead.
Do you understand what I'm saying? This is
not about that time. Those are people, they
did what they did. They've passed.
Allah Ta'ala will judge them.
Who are we that we also know what's
right so much of the time? And we
even say, we even talk about it.
But then when the time comes to show
up, what is it? Your wallet, your money
is being spent with
one group of people while you talk when
you're talking, you're revolutionary and your tongue and
inside of your heart, inside of your wallet.
Forget about fighting. Who's gonna fight? People can't
even run a mile.
Just what you spend from your pockets, just
where you walk with your 2 feet and
show up.
Who's who's going to who's going to be
with the Haqq on that day?
This is a very important and a very
potent lesson. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
us from
the people who speak truth and the people
who stand with truth. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala give us the because hard. You know,
you have to be brave. You have to
be strong. People are weak.
Weaknesses
at some instant, it's something you cannot control,
but over large periods of time, it's a
choice that you can make.
Right?
It's a choice that you can make. And
I just handed you a bar with
£300
and said bench it. Can you bench it?
I don't know. Can you? Right? No. But
I bet you over the next 5 years,
if you train and work out, you would
be able to not only do that, you
would be able to surpass it.
In an instant, it's what? It's not a
choice. Over a period of time though, it's
a choice that we make.
Don't make those choices of weakness. Separate yourself
from the love of money. Separate yourself from
the love of comfort.
Separate yourself from the love of evil and
wicked people or pointless people and pointless things.
So that when the time comes that you're
tested, you have a little bit of strength
that you can try to fight that test
with.
Otherwise, death when it comes to a person,
it doesn't ask for permission. Trial and tribulation
when it comes to a person, it doesn't
send you a memo that I'm coming in
in a year.
And even when it does many of us
still fail to prepare. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, cure this cure this, whatever this thing
is, cure this from us, and give
us a better a better way of doing
things.