Hamzah Wald Maqbul – They Took It Personally… Ribt 01152023
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I just came
from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
where is
from,
and
it was an important program. I oftentimes would
not go to programs that will cause me
to miss or could come close even to
al Salihin,
being missed.
But it was an important program.
It was hosted by
the Al Mahmoud Foundation.
Anyone know who Mahmoud is?
Yeah. So the Mahmoud that that one is
named after, it's the same person that Sheikh
Hulind is named after. Mawana Mahmud Al Hassan,
the great grand sheikh of ours.
Very interesting person,
Mujahid, in the path of Allah
and epic scholar,
Sufi of the 1st grade.
About his
greatness. You can tell from his
students, the people who came from his lineage,
in Hadith and in,
the other branches of Eylin.
And
about his
struggle against the British,
you can read about his
being captured,
and imprisoned in solitary confinement in Malta.
For those who don't know what Malta is,
Malta is
a crusader fortress island in the middle
of the Mediterranean.
All of its population at one point were
Muslims, and they were converted by force. But
because it was such a backwards,
they couldn't force them to abandon the Arabic
language. So they speak, quote, unquote, Maltese. It's
just Arabic, and they say instead of and
they count in Italian.
They speak in particular the dialect of Sicily.
The mainland of Sicily, they got people to
stop speaking Arabic to some degree, although they
couldn't purge the language entirely. So they still
say things like Meskeen.
The old part of the city is still
called Madinah.
Right? The channels that that that that,
irrigate the places are still that irrigate the
farms are still called Panat.
The word for castle is still
They don't say the ain't ain't anymore. We
just say
like Berbero castle, right,
to this day.
Whereas Malta, the Maltese, it was such a
backwards they didn't really even bother to,
get them to switch their language to this
day, although they destroyed all the massages in
Bandaislam.
And,
so,
the British
had possession of this island at some point,
and so sheikhul Hind was imprisoned there for,
for years in solitary confinement because that was
the prison for the elite
enemies of the British Empire. May
Allah count us amongst them. Alim. And it's
gone now. And may, nothing that resembles it
ever come back.
Our brothers and sisters, if they make Tawba
in England, will be the first ones to
help them rebuild it rebuild the empire, but
it should be not like the
old one. But,
the, you know,
his
humility,
was such that,
one of the visiting ulama once came to
him
to visit him from a long way.
He arrived
right before Maghreb.
He was shown into the house by
a servant
of
dark skinned, disheveled,
countenance,
and simple clothing.
And he,
he was given water for and
facility to pray.
And the servant came in and asked, you
know, would you like
anything to drink? Can I get you some
food?
And, what happened, he served him. And then
after waiting for a very long time, he
called the servant. He's like,
look. I came from a very long way.
I don't have all that much time.
And, I, I wanna I need to say
you know,
talk to, Shekelhin
and, you know, can you please, like, hurry
it up a little bit? Tell him I'm
waiting.
And,
the servant said to him, he says that
this is your humble servant.
How can I help
you? And, this is these are these are
the people. These are.
That's who is named after, by the way.
So,
Sheikh Faraz
is a visionary,
man and a pious man. He's been having
an annual retreat in their Masjid Hamza that
they acquired a couple of years ago.
And the retreat
all of the themes of the retreat are,
in a certain sequence.
And, the sequence first, he talked first, they
had the retreat about the love of the
Rasul
and the love of the Khalafar Rashidun and
then the love of the Ahlulbayt of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And then this
one was about the love of the Sahaba
and this is exactly a tarteb that is
that is modeled on the aqidah of Alisun
al
Jama'a.
He says
that whoever speaks only beautifully about
the
the companions of the messenger of Allah and
the family of the messenger of Allah and
the wives of the messenger of Allah.
This is a sign that this person
is absolved of hypocrisy.
This is not a rhetorical flourish
from a an orator or a retroitician.
This is
a very condensed work that is there to
summarize the of the.
And so it was a beautiful gathering. It
was a nice gathering.
And,
I wanted to share some,
small idea from that as well with us
given that the time of our,
mostly been spent,
on the taxiway
of the Ojai airport
while my South Indian friend who was sitting
next to me,
that obviously just fellow passenger who was sitting
next to me was freaking out because he
missed his connecting flight to Dubai, so he
has no idea where he's gonna get,
Dosa in Italy from,
this late in Chicago.
But
the the thing that touches the heart about
the companions
that somebody
may think, well, they love the
and I love the
And they love Islam, and I love Islam,
and they love Allah, and I love Allah.
And they sacrificed, and I sacrificed.
One might think, okay. Fine. They sacrificed more
than me, but, you know, I'm still sacrificing
somehow or another.
The inspiration that a person
sees from their example is
how personally they took the love of the
Rasul,
How they used to address him
They didn't use to address him by name
They're not on a first name basis. This
is something completely like
scratches the chalkboard of my soul. When you
hear even a khatib giving a that refers
to the
prophet and says that Muhammad said this, Muhammad
said yes. It's factually correct. That's his name.
Nothing, I guess, in that sense
illegal or, like, haram about taking his name
like that
But look at how the the companions were
the who used to take his name.
They used to call him. They
said, that may my father and mother be
your sacrifice, oh, messenger of Allah.
For
those of you who may require some cultural
context, those were the days when people used
to love their parents more than they loved
anything else.
And,
they used to refer to him,
They used to refer to him as the
messenger of Allah and the prophet of Allah
ta'ala.
And they used
to speak to him softly and not raise,
their voices in front of him, and they
considered raising their voice in front of him
to be a sign of nifaq.
Abdullah
as Amr bin
who was not from the,
you know, he was not from the the
first of the Muhajarin, but from the last
of them.
He was one of the most bitter enemies
of Islam,
and he was the one who attempted to
basically bring back the Muhajirim that made a
hijra to Habashah,
in chains.
And he was known as the the Dahi
of Quresh.
He was the clever one who knew how
to talk talk his way through and into
and through things. He knew to convince people
of stuff.
And,
he employed it all over the place in
order to
in order to harm Islam and in order
to impede Islam.
Even he mentions that if you ask me
to describe him, I couldn't describe him to
you
because from the time I took Shahadah, I
didn't have enough courage even to look at
him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And this reverence, what does it mean? It
means that they took it personally. So many
stories. How many stories are we are we
gonna share? I wanna share one story in
particular.
And this is not about the Khalafar Rashidun.
This is not about the Azwaj with the
Harat. This is not about the. This is
not about the.
This is about someone from the rank and
file of the Ansar.
Their numbers are
too great to count,
and their
their numbers are too great to count. And
they they weren't people who were from the
noble patrician
companions,
of the first order.
And maybe somebody doesn't even know who they
are or hasn't heard much about them.
So there's a story about Abu Dujana
that the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
on the battlefield
when the Muslim army was arrayed.
He had a sword, and he said, we'll
fight with this. We'll take this from me
and fight with it. And all of the
companions
said that we'll take it. Then he asked
who'll take it with his haq, with its
right.
What is the right of it is to
fight until either victory or,
until Shahabat not not to hold back.
And everybody just paused for a moment just
to think about it. And he's the only
one who didn't skip a beat, and he
stood forward in front of everybody and said,
I'll take it, You Rasool Allah.
And so the Nabi
gave him,
the sword,
and he started to vaunt
in front of the entire army.
He started to show off how how tough
he was in front of the entire army.
You know?
And the messenger of Allah smiled
at him and said that, Abu Dujana, if
you did this in any other occasion, in
any other circumstance,
you would have been the most hated of
people to Allah. Allah doesn't love arrogant people.
But he says, you did this this time
and this day and this place and this
occasion and this circumstance, he says, because of
you're the most beloved of people to Allah
And,
this is also something important. It's good to
be humble.
Save your humility for, you know, when you
meet your
mother and grandmother. But when you stand in
front of
non Muslims,
show your dignity.
And when you stand in front of an
antagonistic
non Muslim
or somebody even who's a Muslim, we don't
have the right to judge who's a monothec
and who's not because we don't know what's
inside of people's hearts. But sometimes Muslims also
will,
very clearly
very clearly do something just in order to
denigrate the deen.
That you show not only your dignity, but
you show your strength. We're not talking about
something that's like a petty thing the household.
We're talking about somebody who's actually actively, actively
trying to damage the dean very clearly without,
you know, any reference to personal familial issues,
spousal issues. Right?
That in those cases, you show your strength.
You show you show your strength to to
that person that this is not going to
be easy for you to to push.
At any rate, so Abu Dhujana
he then took the sword and he walked
the encampment of the Ansar.
And Saidin Zubayr bin Awam
said, I wanted to see who is this
guy? The
he obviously doesn't do stuff for free.
Who is this guy? He gave him the
sword.
And so he said, I followed him. I
followed him back into the into the ranks
of the Ansar,
and they were whispering amongst each other that
he's taken out the.
He's taken out the turban of death. And
so I saw him tying a red turban.
What color?
A red turban.
Like, you know, red is interesting because it's
I actually involuntarily follow it. That's why, like,
Chinese weapons, they have, like, the red streamer,
like, with the swords and spears and things
like that.
So he took out a red turban, and
he tied it. And, he, read,
some lines of poetry that in extempore that
he made up.
That he said,
That I am the one I took a
covenant
and a pact with my Khalil Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
With the one whose love has mixed with
my heart until I cannot
tell where does his love start and where
does my heart end? Where does my loves
where does his my heart start and where
does his love
end? When we were in the rocky tract
under the shade of the palm,
the at the Bayat Al Aqaba, it's a
small place in Mina, at the beginning of
Mina on the side of Makkumukarama.
He said that that at that place, I
took this pact with my Khaleel
that I'll never get caught standing in the
back row.
And I'll,
I'll strike with the sword of Allah and
His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the hadith is very interesting. It ends
with what? It ends with falakabi
hamal mushrikeen.
That he took that sword and he busted
open the heads of the with it.
Said, I followed him around the field field
of battle. I looked for him. Like, I
was trying to check up on him. You
know? And he said, I would just see
dust come up in the, like, the the
the the the flare of the turbine, and
then when the dust would settle, there's just,
like, people falling.
Just like flies, there's people falling.
This much most people know this much about
the story. This much is not the point
I am trying to make is not not
this much. This much is very popularly because
even Riald al Salih, we read it when
it when it was that Darz. We read
that Darz,
from before.
The thing I wanted to mention is this
is do you know how he how he
finally passed away? He obviously survived that day.
How he finally passed away was what? It
was in the battle of Yamama.
Yamama is a the fortification of Banu Hanifa,
And this is the tribe of Musayla matul
kadab, the one who the beret who wrote
a letter to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. You know his name is actually Maslama.
It's not Musaylama.
Right? Musalama means what? Like, little Maslama. Like,
it's a taunt.
It's a taunt that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam aimed at him.
You treat that person like they're a scoundrel.
You treat that person with as much disdain
as a human being can take.
Why? Because your Rasul
did it.
And he referred to himself as Maslama, the
messenger of Allah Rasulullah SAW Alaihi Wasallam said,
You're Musalama Al Khabab, you're little Maslama, the
one who everything he says is a lie.
He wrote a letter back to him and
he called him that and it's in Tahrir,
it's one of the few things that the
Rasool Allah SAWS was left for us in
writing. There are very few things. It's one
of them.
And so the companions
took it personally.
That battle the battle of Yamama,
they took it personally.
Many of the first
converts to Islam,
including Abu Khalifa bin Utbah and
his freed slave Salim,
from the first converts to Islam from amongst
the Quraysh. It's the brother
of
Hind,
the wife of Abu Sufyan.
And one of the reasons she was so
upset was about with the Muslims was what
was because they were opposing her husband, they
killed her father, they killed her one of
her brothers, they killed her uncle.
And on top of it,
what unconsolably
angered her was that her brother was one
of the Muslims,
and that his slave, because he learned the
Quran faster than he did, he actually freed
him. And the 2 of them, he treated
him basically adopted him as a son, which
was later revoked with the,
abrogation of of Tabani, of of of adoption.
But he they they they basically were, like,
exempted into the system as mahrams for one
another.
Both of them were buried in the same
grave on the battlefield of Yamama.
So many so many
of the great companions
were shahid in that battle.
Why? Because they took the nubu or the
khatmul nubu of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
personally.
So many of them were shahid in that
battle. That was the occasion of the first
compilation of the
text of the Quran because so many hufa'a
were actually shahid in that battle.
Sayid Nabu Bakr who was hithered to,
reticent to compile
a written copy from beginning to end. Although
there there are written attestations to the different
Ayat, incomplete for sure. But to compile the
Mustaf, he was reticent to do so because
he said the Rasool
didn't do it during his lifetime.
He was convinced. Why? Because if
a battle like this happens again, then what
will happen is that there'll be
a chance for people to object that maybe
someone tampered with the integrity of the Quran.
That's how many people were shahid on that
day. Who else were the shurhadah that day?
Who else were the participants in that day?
Hadub
the
sorry.
The,
the slave that Hind freed
for
assassinating
Sayidna Hamza
on the battlefield,
Who the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam accepted
his Islam,
but politely requested him not to come around
the majlis because of how much pain and
grief it gave him just to remember his,
uncle who was
literally mutilated and cut to pieces. You've seen
pieces of his uncle, the one who defended
him when no one else was there to
defend him. The one even said that Omar
was coming and they thought he was gonna
come and kill the prophet
everybody else was afraid.
Hamza was the only one who said let
him in, if he wants good we'll give
him good and if he wants trouble we'll
give him
trouble. That hamza he saw and this this,
well, actually, he knew this is my chance
to this is my chance to, like, correct
what I screwed up.
And so he he says the same spirit
I brought the same spirit to that battle.
My intention was I'm gonna kill,
I'm gonna take out this, Musa El Amal.
And he describes he describes it. He literally
he said, with the same spirit. He kept
the spear. He said that with the same
spear,
I killed the best of people and with
the same,
spear, I killed the the the the most
despicable of people.
Who else was there at the battle of
Yamama? Although, Washi survived. Who else was Shaheed
in the battle of Yamama?
And how was he shahid?
This is, like, many years later. Right? How
was he shahid?
He
asked he asked the soldiers of the army
to carry him in a shield
and to and to, like, push the shield
up so hard and so fast that it
it gives them a boost so he can
get onto the walls of,
of the fortifications of of Yamama,
and that he can come inside, fight the
guards off, and throw the gates open.
And he did it, actually.
And on his way out while he was
running out,
he sorry. When he landed when they threw
him up, he had broken his foot. So
he wasn't able to he actually fought off
the guards and he got out but he
wasn't able to run and so they closed
in on him and he,
he became the Tasdik of the Ayah of
the Quran. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says,
From the believers there are such men that
made true
on the covenant that they pledged
with Allah
ta'ala.
Amongst them, there are those who
gave their life, and from amongst them there
are those who are only waiting, umab baddalut
abdila.
They're waiting the only difference between them and
the ones who gave their lives for the
sake of Allah is that they're just waiting.
They're waiting for when their turn comes up,
then they'll do it as well.
They didn't change in the least. They didn't
change in the least. They weren't, like, good
one day and then the next day,
you know, they're they they don't care anymore.
And so he he was in the path
of Allah The point I wanted to make
out of all of this, like, long story
recounting it,
is what
what drove him was what?
He was cognizant of his pledge that he
made with messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he took it
personally.
He could have sat back. He was already
well known. He was already famous. He already
got the sword. He already had the big.
He already put in the time. He did
the khidma for Islam that nobody else is
gonna do anyway afterward.
But he took it personally, and that's what
used to drive them. This is a dars
of tasawf. This is a dars of tasawf.
This is not a dars of fit. It's
not a dars of history. It's not even
a dars of hadith. Strictly speaking in the
sense that
is a comp a compilation of of of
of the book of Allah and the hadith
of the sunnah of the prophet
but the
topic of the madhah is what is to
instruct a person in their saluk toward
Allah and they're traveling the spiritual path.
The point of recounting all of this is
what? That
if you wish to travel the path to
Allah,
the way you will do it is through
what this love that they used to carry.
And because they carry this love,
when
Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala describes
All of these places where Allah outpraises the
Sahaba
The thing that they had is what? Is
that they carried this love of the Rasul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. They took it personally. They
didn't need to hear history books and fancy
talks that
we give ba'an nowadays. The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam didn't use give bad in that sense.
He used to speak at, you know, very
softly
and he used to speak very simple words.
He'd repeat, like, the few things he said
three times, and that was it. And they
would listen very intently to him
and that was I mean, it wasn't you
know, you don't have this, like, long,
like, orations that are narrated from him You
have them, like, narrated from people like Hajjaz
or whatever. But you don't have narrated from
the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Like it says, it's
just a kind, some sort of soothsayer, like,
saying spooky words or whatever. That's not you
don't see that from the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasalam. They didn't need to have
the hindsight of history and architecture and, you
know, this Kaaba made out of marble and
gold, made of marble and gold, made of
marble and gold, made of marble and gold.
They didn't need to see any of those
things. He said it and they believed him.
They took it personally. They said, if he
said it, it's true.
That's it. You know? They said, wouldn't you
rather Mohammed die in your place today? And
what was the response? I would rather die
than even, like, a thorn come into his
foot
They took it personally.
That love is what made them
That Allah has indeed been pleased with the
believer
believers.
And
that is why their love is the antidote
against nifaq.
And that's why it is
like the how he says that their love
is
your sharia, and it is your,
and it is your
and to hate them is kufr
outwardly, and it is nifaq. It's kufr inwardly,
and it is deviance. It's being crooked. That's
like the state of being crooked is to
not like them because who couldn't love them.
I mean, they weren't Masloomin. They weren't people
who were, like, divinely protected from error, but
they're the first ones if they made a
mistake to repent in their repentance and in
even the way that they committed their sins.
There's a great lesson for us. And even
if a person were to identify a sin
that they did, the sins of the ones
that Allah loves are more
are more virtuous than the good deeds of
the people Allah hates.
And Allah hates the people who, what,
the person who hates the of Allah.
Allah hates that person. Their Hajji hates it.
Their salat, he hates it. Their there's, their
fasting, he hates it. Their charity, he hates
it. The masjid that they built, he doesn't
accept them.
Their Masjid are referred to as Masjid Dharar.
None of it. Allata doesn't accept any of
it at all. There's a great lesson in
it for us as well that we should
love them and take their love personally as
well as part of the, taking the level,
the Rasuul personally.
And so this is one of the things
I wanted to share from,
the gathering,
and, this is,
you know, if this is the only benefit
a person takes from it, inshallah, it's not
only good for the week, it's good for
an entire lifetime. It will straighten afterward if
you wanna be Hanafi Shafi, it's up to
you even show.
Follow any
If you love the companions or the allotment
and your saluk is on their path
and your is their and your,
Sharia is their Sharia and your iman is
their iman, your aqid is their aqid, then
you'll be fine.
They're like the stars. Whichever one of them
you follow, you'll be guided. Even if every
Milana yells and screams and is upset at
you, still it's you'll still be fine.