Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Three Lessons for ‘shr Ribt 07162024
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This is a day that
we fast. Could the messenger of Allah
fasted this day?
And
the reasons that he fasted are many actually.
They're not just one. The one most commonly
known reason is that he came to Medina
Manawara
and he found the Barmus Salahi who were
fasting.
And he asked them, why do you fast
this day? And they said, we fast this
day because,
we fast this day because the,
this is the day that Allah
gave, Najat to
send the Musa Alaihi Salam. That they were
that he was saved from
Firaun and from his hosts.
And so Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
we have more right to Musa than you.
There's a lot of Hikma and wisdom in
this as well.
The first is that the prophet
through his reaction
is
showing
that
the Jews don't have any claim to say
the Musa Alaihi Islam Aslam.
In fact, the day of Ashura itself is
a proof of how much of a mess
that claim is.
First of all,
obviously, as Muslims, we believe that whoever doesn't
believe in one of the prophets doesn't believe
in any of them.
The Adam, Samud, and the different nations when
they
belied there.
And, yeah, Alaihi, Musaam, Allah uses
the expression of that. They belied all of
the prophets.
And the meaning of that is what is
whoever
rejects one of them has rejected all of
them because it's Allah that they're rejecting. It's
not the m b a, alai mus salaam.
So if you cancel any part of it,
the entire package gets canceled.
Allah in
a similar vein says, he says
he
says,
yeah. Both of these are.
Oh, messenger.
Make this message reach its intended audience.
And if you haven't done so,
then you haven't
delivered my messages.
You haven't delivered my message. Both the word,
both of them are in the same grammatical
case. The only difference between them is what?
It's the same word really.
The only difference between them is what? Is
that one is in the singular and the
other is in the plural.
And the tafsir of this ayah among the
Mufassidians is that both of them are true
at the same time. Why? Because anyone who
rejects part of the message has rejected the
entire message.
So that's something, however, we only accept it.
They, as a Muqaddim, I don't accept that.
Rasool Allah is a Nabi. So they say,
well, this internally makes a lot of sense
for you guys, but for us doesn't make
any sense. We don't accept it.
So why do I say that it demonstrates
how much of a mess the claim that
the Jews have to say the Musa Alaihi
Islam
is. I've mentioned this in the past, and
I will mention it again only briefly because
maybe you've heard it from me before.
But there's a difference between the practitioners of
the ancient Israelite religion,
and there's a difference between modern rabbinic Judaism.
The
ancient rabbinic
or sorry. The ancient Israelite religion was when
the were with them.
When they had the temple, when they had
sacrifices,
when they had revelation,
when they had priesthood,
when they had all of these kind of
things that are described in the Torah
that were put into practice, that are not
put into practice anymore.
That religion ended
in
if you wanna stretch it the maximum, it
ended basically in the last decade of the
1st century
AD.
And, really, it ended in the
8th decade of the 1st century AD with
the destruction of the,
Mastila Aqsa, the what they referred to as
the Mikdash, the temple.
After that, the practices of that religion ended.
The institutions of that religion were disbanded. There's
no more Sanhedrin. There's no more any of
these things anymore. Their calendar changes after that.
Rabbinic Jews have a different calendar than the
Israelites had.
The Rabbinic Judaism
tran you know, follows a person's lineage through
their mother.
Whereas,
the Israelite religion
traced lineage patrilineally
like Islam does.
Rabbinic Judaism, at most, you can say, is
a religion that
derives its inspiration and it's some of its,
textual corpus and some of its
creed from the Israelite religion, but it's functionally
very different. And even in these issues, it's
kinda different as well.
And from it comes a bunch of different
religions. Rabbinic Judaism is not the only
the only,
quote unquote type of Judaism, which is a
word that we use the post,
post temple period.
So the the yahoo that were there in
Madinah Manoa were actually different. They were not
normal rabbinic Jews.
One of the interesting things about the Ashura
is what? Is that it's Yom Yom Kippur
at the same time, and it's also at
the same time,
like Sukkot. It's basically 2 different Jewish holidays
at the same time.
Why? Because they fast and they believe that
the fast is a kafarah for the sins,
and they also,
claim that this is the day that said
the Musa alaihi wasalam and his home received
Najat were were saved
from the host of pharaoh. And, they fasted
on that day, and it was also what?
The 10th of?
Muharram. It wasn't,
it wasn't the,
it wasn't the same day that Rabbinic Jews
keep the Yom Kippur on,
which is also the 10th of Tishrei, but
the thing is they have a different calendar.
It's a intercalated looming solar calendar. It's not
it's not the pure lunar calendar that not
only the Muslims use and that the Israelite
religion used to use, but also it's not
even the,
the calendar that the rabbinic Jews use.
It was something different.
So
we said that the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasalam,
asked them about this,
and then he said, well, we have more
right to Musa alaihi wasallam than you.
This should still be there amongst the people
of Islam if you actually believe in
Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Imagine if someone came into your house and
be like, you know, starts talking about your
father
and describing them in vivid detail. And you're
like, well, my father actually wasn't like that.
They're like, no. No. You don't know what
your father was like. I and you're like,
look. Have you even met him before? You
know, I read an article about him on,
you know, in a magazine.
Say no.
You read an article about him. I lived
with him day in and day out. I
know him.
The MBIA Alaihi Musa are
brothers. Their father is the same and their
mothers are different.
The
wheel
of this hadith is what?
That the the father is the same meaning
what the Aqai'id are the same. They worship
the same Allah. They're sent by the same
Allah ta'ala. They believe in the same
life and death and resurrection and judgment and
all of these things. They're all they're all
the same.
The mothers being different are like what? That
the Sharia is maybe different. You pray at
a different time. You have to do something
more than the other people do. They do
something more than than you do in one
thing, and you do something more than they
did in the other thing, etcetera.
The details of the sacred law may be
different, but the beliefs are the same.
And it also is a strong indication that
Aqaid are actually more important than
Shariah. That the creed is more important than
the law even though both of them are
important.
So we come
to the right of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, which is what you guys don't
know anything about Sinai Musa alaihi wasallam.
The Torah that was revealed to him, you
lost several times. You don't even have the
letters that it's written in. You don't even
know how to pronounce the words that that
are written in. You don't know where a
word
starts or a word stops. You don't know
where a verse starts and a word verse
stops. And even on top of all of
that, the things that you have, you still
have intentionally changed many of them. And even
then,
the things you didn't change, you still don't
practice anyway.
This guy that should be here.
There's no such thing as Abrahamic faiths. There's
one,
And the only representative of that is what?
Is Islam.
What we say that Allah,
you know, that we say we validate the
the the Torah and the teachings of Saidna
Musa alaihi salam. We validate the Injeel and
the teachings of
We validate those things. Those things were lost
far before the prophet
came to this world. The
power outlets are there,
but there's no electricity. People are plugging in
and pretending their phone is phone is not
charging. It's dying.
Many of them had already went out. The
rest of them is just dying. It's all
pretend.
If you believe in the rest of
you believe these things.
Where's the point of this is not to
be a jerk to people, to your neighbors,
or whatever and be like, you know, you
guys are like this. Like, you know, if
Christians do that, you know, you're going to
*. Did you know that? Let's pick put
up a big, like, sandwich board and where
where
like a anger management quota,
and they'll grab a megaphone and stand in
a public place and say, Muslims are going
to *, Jews are going to *, and
faggots are going to *, and this is
going to *. And that'll be and they'll
just still stand there and, you know, Catholics
are going to * and this and that
and the other thing. And, you know, like,
I'm, like,
17.4
baptist and 17.3 and 17.2 are going to
*. And, like, you know, no. That's not
a sun of the prophet
nor is it what we do.
However, at the same time,
there's no such thing as Abrahamic faiths.
It's a fiction. Just like Judeo Christian civilization
is also a fiction.
There's a certain strain of politically ascendant
evangelicals
who seem to have fallen for this scam.
Otherwise, mainline protestants, as far as I can
tell, and Catholics and Eastern Orthodox,
even though they know that they're gonna get
fired from their job for this, someone were
to say Judeo Christian, this, Judeo. They're like,
what is Judeo Christian? They killed Jesus.
They didn't kill him nor did they crucify
him. But to them, that's what, you know,
they that's what they understand.
With us, we say at least that was
the intent. Right? That they did the the
a good a good faith effort, good faith
in quotation marks,
but they just couldn't do it. They couldn't
finish the job, and they'll never finish the
job.
This is these are verifiable, objective, historic facts.
That's right. So,
Rasulullah,
what did he say? He said we have
more right to say that Musa alaihi salaam
than you.
You show a little bit of the Torah
and, like, make a big scene out of
it and the rest of it, you hide
it. You hide in the parathis. You hide
it from people. And you definitely don't put
it into practice.
You say you're god's chosen people. Well, thou
shall not kill. What about that?
You hide a lot of it.
You quote slaying Amalek even though Amalek are
your your relatives. Amalek are tribally related to
the Jews much more closely than the Arabar.
You're using 1 ayah and yours one verse
and you're trying to apply it to something
that it doesn't apply to.
This is not this is not what this
has nothing to do with the religion of
Sayedid Musa Alaihi Salam nor are they the
representatives of the religion of Sayedid Musa Alaihi
Salam nor are they the representatives of the
Torah.
Rather, they have some sort of affinity for
these things, and they have some sort of
non spiritual connection with these things.
And we acknowledge the that. We'd have some
cultural and traditional connection. We don't we acknowledge
that, but we don't cede that they have
their right to any of these things. Rather,
all they're doing is trademark,
ripping off a trademark, and and ripping off
a patent,
and,
copyright,
abuse and plagiarism. That's all it is.
And this is a reality.
Obviously, we're commanded to be polite with people.
Allah ta'ala is polite with people in the
Quran itself. So they're unapologetic
Muslim. Well,
it's sooner to say I'm sorry sometimes.
So don't be that unapologetic that you're, like,
unapologetically
Muslim or the actual Muslim.
Be polite with people, but at some point
or another, the fact comes up, you know,
just like a person when you're taking them
along the journey.
They have to have the strength at some
point or another if you wanna be, like,
ripped like,
have, like, those huge bison. You have to
go work out at some point. It's gonna
hurt.
If you hand a hand hand, like, a
50 pound dumbbell to a newborn child, you
might actually kill it.
But when it gets strong enough, you hand
them and they they'll start they'll start they'll
start working. Allah.
There you there's no blessing that you that
that stays, abides with you except for it
comes from
Allah.
Well, the fact is also no difficulty you
ever went through or no harm you ever
went through except for it came from Allah
as well. Right?
But what Allah Ta'a is teaching the to
the MBI alaihi Musallam, to the prophet, salallahu
alaihi wasallam, to the ummah,
which is the first thing you tell somebody
about Allah, Ta'ala, tell them something nice.
Why? Because that's the that's the dominant
nature of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when it
comes to the believer.
I shouldn't say nature. I should say that's
a dominant attribute of Allah when it comes
to the believer.
And it far outweighs any other thing when
it comes to Allah
with the believer.
Allah transaction with the believer.
People say, oh, you know, this thing this
thing happened to me and this and that
thing happened to me and the other thing,
and I'm paying for my sins.
No.
This is wrong.
This is your stupidity that you say that.
Rather, all of your sins were forgiven in
the first moment that you had regret for
them.
Everything that happens after when Allah Ta'ala is
raising your ring.
You got Allah Ta'ala is not petty like
you and me. He doesn't hold a grudge
like you and me do. I hold a
grudge. Trust me. If I say, like, yeah,
it's all we're cool. We're not cool. I
still hate you.
But Allah Allah Allah Allah forgives all things.
Without without without without without he said, I've
forgiven. It doesn't even it does not not
even a thing to me. I don't even
care afterward. I don't even care. It doesn't
even bother me.
It's not something even to boast about that.
Look how much I forgave. It's not even
a big deal.
So coming back to coming back to this,
you know, Allah's,
Muhammedulla with the believer that he forgives him
coming back even further than that too. The,
Reina, the prophet
coming back to the idea that when you
tell someone about Allah, Ta'ala, you tell them
the good things and the nice things. This
is the that we make of dawah.
Not because these other things
are not true. That rabbinic Judaism is not
a valid religion.
That Christianity,
Trinitarian or Unitarian,
it's not a valid religion. The only deen
with Allah Ta'ala is what is Islam.
They're true. At some point, you have to
explain it to somebody,
and it makes sense.
But if you don't just throw, like, something
rude and nasty up into someone's face.
The fact that you're being nice though is,
again, not like what happens in the majority
of our massages over here, which is people
will talk to people of other faiths, still
have interfaith events, and they'll yap and yap,
and they'll never get to the point.
I don't say interfaith
against our haram or even particularly bad. What's
wrong is that you show up and you're
a traitor to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and you're a traitor to the Ummah.
And most importantly,
you're a traitor to the Christians and Jews
you are talking to as well.
Which is what? They need salvation just because
you just as much as you and I
do.
And on the day of judgment, they'll ask
you, you guy you guys shot your mouth
off and fed fed us samosas until our
blood sugar went up. You didn't tell us
the thing the one thing we needed to
hear. You didn't say it.
That's not right. So the Risulullah
alaihi wasallam, he said this thing. He was
kind and polite to Jews. He made agreement
with them. He made a treaty with them,
all of these things. But he said what
he needed to say, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And his didn't allow him to sweep it
under the rug and let other people pretend
that
his brothers, his fraternity from the Ambiya Alaihi
Wasallam belong to them and they don't belong
to him. Where
you can see right now what belongs to
whom.
So this is a misunderstanding that this is
why we fast the the day of Ashura.
Actually, the prophet
used to fast the day of Ashura from
before coming to Madiram Nawara.
And it was a day also that was
held in reverence and also held in sacredness
by the
the Arab that had no idea about anything
about Judaism or Christianity.
It was known to be a sacred day
amongst people.
Describes in a number of hadith that are
of less
authenticity or strict verifiability
than the one that shows us that
the,
the day of for said the Musa Alaihi
Islam was on this day of Ashura as
well.
That a number of
of instances of the mother of Allah Ta'ala
coming down on the believers
amongst the different Umam from before us came
on this day.
I somewhat hesitate to mention them because then
people turn these things into, like, a kind
of that they live and die on, and
then someone will tell them it's a weak
hadith. And then they'll be like, oh, you
know, maybe Sheikh Hamza made everything up or
whatever. Right?
The point is is that there's some indication
that what? That it's more than say the
Musa alayhi wasalam. Why? Otherwise, the Arab would
not have known about it.
And the prophet in a we had even
mentioned that there are a number of important
things that happened in the past,
in the prophetic history of mankind.
That happened that the madad of Allah came
on this Mubarak day.
And so for this day, the people of
the Ummah also considered to be Mubarak.
And this idea at any rate that this
is a day that the mother of Allah
comes with the help of Allah and the
aid of Allah, assistance of Allah comes to
the oppressed
on this day. That those who stand for
what is right and who are being tested
just because they stand for whatever is right,
it comes on this day.
But then there's also another aspect of Ashura
that if we didn't discuss it, we would
be doing disservice to
the Ummah,
which is what that this is the day
of perhaps what
can be described as the second greatest tragedy
in the history of the Ummah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The first being the loss of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
walking amongst us.
The second is the murder and assassination
of Sayna Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, the grandson
of Rasool Allahu alayhi wa'alaam
by his political adversaries.
And the trauma of that event, the has
still not gotten over, and they probably won't
get over until the day of judgement.
Because a person thinks and understands the goodness
of the companions
and the success of Islam
so much.
And they wonder how could something like this
have happened.
And the fact of the matter is it
happened.
Does it mean that it's all fake?
That the prophet
somehow failed
in making this message reaches companions
or they failed to accept it from him
in sincerity and they're somehow some sort of
hypocrites or lukewarm believers.
A lukewarm believer is a hypocrite.
A lukewarm believer is a hypocrite.
What's the description of the hypocrites in the
books of Hadith? The Sahay Hadith.
That one asked who who is your lord
and what is your deen and what do
you say about this person about the Rasul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said, I don't know.
I just said what other people said. I
just went with the flow.
Many people think that this is what Islam
is. If you don't believe in it, you
don't believe it. It's you're the first part
on you before it. And it's hard for
you to make and
to,
you know, pray and grow a 7 foot
long beard and eat halal and do all
these other things, which are wonderful, you know,
and important. But before even that, it's the
what to figure out. Is this thing real
or, like,
we just causing ourselves, like, immigration problems?
The trauma of
how how is it that they could have
assassinated
the
grandson of
Rasulullah in an age that many of the
younger companions were still alive?
And in an age that many people have,
if they had not seen the at
least the majority of them have seen some
companion or were able to have seen some
companion had they wished to see some companion
of the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa
sama. How could this have happened?
And so we say, what is it? It's
somewhat anomalous.
It's not like everybody killed everybody.
There was problems for sure. This is not
the only one. There are other tragic things
that happened between
the Aslaf
and whom other than this as well.
But the majority of it actually worked. It
functioned.
Further than that.
Sometimes Allah test people in a way
that's very difficult. Why? Because they already passed
all of the easy tests.
One of the things mentioned by a great
number of the
It's mentioned by and
people make
but there are many people centuries before him
who mentioned
this. Held in a in great
esteem.
He mentioned it as well,
which is what? Said Hassan and Said Hassan,
both of them went through difficulty. Both of
them
went through great difficulty.
And
say that Hussein was assassinated, saying that Hassan
who was very likely also assassinated. He was
very likely also poisoned.
That this is also a claim that's made
by people who are not easily dismissed,
that he was poisoned.
And that Marwan bin
Hakam refused to allow him to be buried
in
the even though that was what the companion's
decision was that he was to be buried
with the
and would
say. And
said what?
He said that, oh, they didn't let my
relative, Rahman, be buried in
the, so why should we let their guy
be buried here? Even though all of them
were were not 15, the people who killed
Sidna Uthman and the people who
killed Sidra Hassan
who at least in the moment of that
murder.
And, fickle wise, I can't say more than
that, but
the so wise, they probably were not 15
also in the complete sense as well. Because
how would someone do that to either of
the beloved ones of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, either one of the family members
and the members of the household of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Move away from the door because other people
than you will come late, and then you'll
just throw people into the shoes.
And
so what does say?
Who himself is son of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
After chastising the extremists for all of this
nonsense about them,
basically, painting a black brush over all of
the companions of the
because this thing happened.
He
he confirmed, and he
claimed
that there was a greater tragedy that happened
to the Ummah than this, which was the
passing of the prophet and there was another
greater tragedy than this, which
which is the passing of Abu Bakr Siddiq.
And so a person knows that it's not
tribal.
Said that the passing of everyone of the
from this world is in itself
like a a a tragedy. It's a
difficulty for a believer to be able to
bear.
And he said that, but you don't see
that these were the younger companions
on whom they were not there. They didn't
have the opportunity to go to Uhud. They
didn't have the opportunity to go to Badr.
They didn't have the opportunity to be there
with the prophet
in the earlier times, but they were still
the beloved grandsons of
the prophet
the 2 foremost of the
the the the the the the youth of
Jannah? Obviously, everyone's gonna be youth in Jannah.
Right?
But he they'll be the for from the
foremost of of them. They'll be the foremost
of them.
What is it? Do they get the family
pass or is it something that they earn?
If anything, the indication is that the pass
is for the sinners
and for the nobodies.
Rather what the prophet
wanted first from himself
is that he should do as much as
he can to earn it even though at
some point it's all the fuddle of Allah
for everybody, but he put it as much
maximal effort as possible.
And he did the same thing for the
closest of his companions, and he did the
same thing for his
family And so
when addressing the objection of why is it
why is it that people fast and give
out
on this day?
And that this shouldn't be done because it
seems like people are celebrating. They're actually celebrating
like a holiday, the assassination of Saidna.
Al Hussein
The first thing is that the sunnah that
being fasted is predates
whose birth much less his assassination.
The second thing is that then
he mentions this
that there's a Hikma also of his assassination
being on that day,
which is that don't you see how don't
you see how
doing a good deed in auspicious time, in
auspicious place
multiplies its reward?
A good deed that a person does on
a normal day is better at when you
do it on a Friday. A good deed
that a person does on a normal day
is better when you do it on Ramadan.
A good deed that you do on a
normal day is better when you do it
in the.
A good deed that you do in Lombard
is better when you do it in the
Haram Sharif.
A good deed that you do in the
Haram Sharif is better when you do it
in Madinah.
Or at least the same
according to
the
he tragically challenged public.
For a slow brother that we love.
The point is is what? There's increase. Right?
So, say, the Hussein
who is the fact that he had to
make patience
when giving a to the Ummah.
He wasn't starting the armed rebellion.
Because if you start a armed rebellion, you
don't take your wife and kids to that.
You don't take your elders to that.
You don't, like, announce that you're coming and
write letters and hold public gatherings for that?
Rather, the sunnah that
you strike, you know, you strike
quietly,
which is a lesson for all the rest
of you as well. If you ever have
an enemy and you decide this person is
out for no good
and now we're enemies, then get the job
done. It's not good o'clock at that time
to, you know, give people a a way
to run away from you or to whatever.
If they're that good, then you shouldn't be
fighting them in the 1st place. But if
the decision comes that this person is trying
to kill you and you have to get
them first, then go ahead and do what
you need to. Don't give people warnings and
don't say please, beforehand.
Just finish the job.
That's how the Rasoolullah Aksam did it as
well.
He didn't make war on people very easily,
and he didn't make war on people all
that often.
But when
there's no more good left. Right?
The instruction was wait camp, wait 3 days.
Did you hear the adhan? If you don't
hear it, then that's it. That means that
this is not gonna end well.
And so go do what you need to
do at that time and finish the job
mercifully quickly
with
what?
Who who here slaughtered their animal on?
Is it more merciful to do it slowly
and gently? Or is it why? You just
just go in and, like, one one thing,
one thing. You you have to have determination.
If you're weak hearted and weak wisted, then
what what are you gonna do? You're just
gonna prolong the
suffering of the the sacrificial animal. Right?
So
does it seem like
having this, like, big caravan with, like, stuff
and, like, elders and stuff and children and
and wives and things like that going from
Medina? Like,
know being known that it's coming from Medina
too.
Kufa. That this is like some sort of,
like, military expedition or we started to, you
know, or
whatever.
No.
He was going to talk to people to
give them because something that was not right
was happening in the Ummah.
And
they took advantage of his.
His enemies took advantage of his soft heartedness
toward them
and his
not escalating things
unnecessarily.
And what did they do? They they massacred
him, and they massacred,
his family, the relatives of the prophet
in the field of Karbala.
One thing that's worth mentioning is worth
remembering
about the heroic nature of Saidna al Hussein
radiya wa ta'ala and who that it's reported
that
when
him and his caravan were surrounded
and they said, look. You're gonna come to
Kufan, cause political trouble. We're not gonna allow
you to do it.
We can't allow this. Forget about whether you
say it's right or wrong. We're not gonna
allow it. That's it. Done. No more discussion.
He said, then I'll give you three options
that we can both agree on.
You don't want me to come to Kufa
and do this thing?
And okay.
Let's have 3 options so that the Muslims
don't spill one another's blood.
One is that
I already see that, like, I'm overwhelmed.
I have my excuse in front of Allah
that I tried my best, and it's obviously
not working.
So just let me go back to Medina
Munawara, and I promise I'll never talk about
politics again. I already maxed out whatever my
duty was in front of Allah. What I
could have done, I did it. Nothing else
is gonna be of any benefit. Remember? I
would have been mad off the hand and
is not just like, I'm gonna do it
and it's gonna be the Alamo every time.
No. You have to think beforehand. Is this
gonna actually result in a net benefit or
not?
If it's not, then,
you know, you you you're not obliged to
do it and you possibly are not supposed
to even do it.
The second option is what
Is that you take me to meet with
my cousin, Yazid,
and we'll talk it out
face to face.
No violence. We'll just talk it out. We'll
come to an agreement face to face. Take
me to Damascus. And this is another thing
that, kind of the stupid
propagandizing
of
unscrupulous,
rabid preachers
that appeal to emotion more than they appeal
to reason
is that there's some sort of, like, ancient,
feud between Banu Maya and Banu Hashim, which
is not the case at all. Actually, if
you look during the life of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the strongest tribal opposition
to him was actually from.
It wasn't
from Banu Umayyah.
Rather, Banu Umayyah is the closest clan to
Banu Hashim
in the hierarchy of Quresh after Banu Muttalib.
They both come from the same common ancestor.
Abdul
that
of Hussein bin Khilab.
And so
they actually were the next in line so
much so to the point that Abu Sufyan
had said that when the Rasool
passed away,
he went to say
and he said claim yourself Khalifa quickly before
the other clans get to it. And said,
no. He told them like, no.
Why? Because if said, no. Because Khalifa first,
then it's his cousin. Right?
If you look at the family tree, actually,
he's much more close related to to Sin
Ali
than he is to Sin Abu Bakr Sin
Omar.
So this is ridiculous. This is just like
insinuation of people who came afterward that works
on people who don't, like, actually do their
homework and research things or think about stuff
for
very much quality
time or amount of thinking.
Rather, there is no
ancient feud between the two clans. Rather, he
said, tell me give me the option. I'll
go to Damascus and I'll talk it over
with my cousins. You want me to go
to CUFA? We'll go to Damascus. We'll work
it out.
What was the third
what was the third option? He said that
you let my caravan go to any of
the borderlands, the frontier lands of the Muslims
and wherever,
the government is fighting against the Kuffar,
I'll join and fight and keep going until
I'm Shaheed in the path of Allah instead
of spilling my blood here.
Which is something, by the way, wasn't just
like jest or a joke. The say, the
Hassan Hussein, both of them, after their father
who was the right to who's the rightful
Khalifa,
it was his was given to the people
who opposed him for it. They still went
out. Al Hassan went out on 3 different
expeditions.
2 to,
Central Asia and
and the caucuses,
and one to Transoxiana.
I'm sorry. 1 to, North Africa.
So they went out in the path of
Allah and fought so many different times. He
also they also participated,
they they also participated in a number of
other things,
under the Hilaf of the Muslims. It doesn't
just belong to the Khalifa. It's, something that
belongs to every Muslim.
So he gave these 3 three options,
And tragically and unfortunately, none of them were
accepted
from him by the people who
spilled his blood and they killed him.
But the point is is what? He wasn't
there, like, to fight. It's not like a
battle of good versus evil. This is a
this is not a battle at all. This
was someone trying to do something good and
some unscrupulous thugs. They
were chosen by Allah to commit one of
the worst sins, one of the worst crimes
in the history of
mankind.
And they did it.
And
back to Shab Lokadir, he said that all
of these things, the fact that he was
killed in such a bad way, the fact
that he tried so hard not to have
anyone's blood spilled, not not only his own,
but anyone else's either of those he was
opposing.
All of these things cumulatively and the fact
that it happened on the day of Ashura
is what how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala elevated
his rank to the ranks of those
companions who were there on the days that
he wasn't there to help the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He was too small or
he wasn't born yet. Or to do those
services of Islam that had escaped there,
Ability when they're younger. Remember this. This is
also a form that the duas of the
pious take.
The Sheikh of Janae, that his uncle, he
mentioned that I had a shock
and, you know, someone,
one of the passed by and said there's
a beggar outside. Can you give me something
to give them? And so he said, I
only had my lunch with him that I
brought with my with me that I brought
with myself, so I gave him the lunch
and said, you you just give him this.
So this was
so happy. He said, make any dua
that,
that that that that ask me for whatever
you like. And he says, I I ask
me for whatever you like. I'll give it
to you. He says, you make dua to
Allah to Allah that Allah does something like
Allah to Allah love me or make me
like you or something like that. And so
he says, since that day, nothing of my
duniya ever went right again.
Of course, he went became one of the
greatest,
like, ever. Right?
Imagine Janae then Sadri are Janae is the
well known one, but whose has hired the
sheikh or the disciple.
So imagine what a has.
So the
were with Al Hussein. They went through some
difficulty, not necessarily because of any curse from
Allah to Allah, but because those duas had
efficacy. They worked.
But all of the will be there for
them on the day of judgment.
And then look the 3rd module of what
I wanted to speak before inshallah, we roll
up the carpet and set up for
iftar and all these other things.
Which is what? 1 the first module is
what is Ashura from the time of
Rasulullah
Sallallahu
Alaihi
Wasallam.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, by the way, was
shown the the place that
Hussein
would be
murdered.
And think about that. How much he loved
his family, and how much he loved the
2 of them in particular.
And still, he didn't
utter a curse against the Ummah.
But the first part is what? What is
Ashura before the Rasulullah SAWSAW. And then what
is Ashura with regards to the
murder of Saidan Hussain radiAllahu
alaihi wa sallam?
And then the third thing is then what
about everybody else?
I'll tell you what about everybody else.
Said that Hussein
and the people of CUFA said, well, you
know, we wanna make you our Amir because
we
were part of the political party of your
father from before you.
They wrote him letters. In fact, the tribal
chiefs of all the major clans wrote him
letters saying the same thing.
He sent
his cousin, Muslim bin Ateev bin Abitaleb
to go and
see for himself what's going on. Muslim
arrives in Kufa. He sees that really there's
so many people who are in favor. It's
like an overwhelming majority of people. So he
writes a letter back to Madina Manawara and
he says or to where is said and
said and who was
in order to escape being forced to take
Be'a with Yazid,
who was an impious man and unworthy
of the of the Muslims.
A person, if he becomes once he becomes
Khalifa, even if he's impious and unworthy, as
long as he's Muslim, the is valid.
But it doesn't mean that
just because you recognize the validity of the
doesn't mean that the impious man becomes pious
or that the unworthy man becomes worthy.
And so what happens is that Muslim
writes a letter saying the people of Kufa
are ready to side with you. He said
that neither of them had taken the oath
of allegiance with the with Yazid
yet. So he says this is looking like,
you know, why don't you come here? Because
this is, like, tilted in in our favor
heavily. It's a landslide. It's not even tilted.
It's a landslide in our favor.
And so what ended up happening, said Al
Hussein
who set out
for
Kufa. In the days in the intervening days
that
were between him setting out and between the
tragedy of Karbala.
Nurman bin Bashir radiya wa ta'ala, who the
companion who was the
governor of Iraq
was replaced.
Why? Because
the central government knew that he would never
lay a finger on saying it'll be a
lot more.
The new
crew that came
in that took over the administration of Iraq
had no scruples whatsoever about harming Sayedem Saeridhi
Allah one who has we knew from afterward.
They're probably chosen for that reason.
That they would enforce the rid of the
government no matter how immoral or how even
politically perilous it was.
And
1 by 1,
the
enforcers of
Yazid's government
put pressure on those who had publicly supported
saying that saying that the law one got
them to retract and got them to take
Bea
with Yazid.
Some by promising
them inducement and some by threats and probably
most by a combination thereof
to the point where they all flaked on
him. They what? They flaked on him. They
ghosted on him.
Far before
say the Maktad of Hussein and Hussain radiya
wata'ala and who alayhis salaam in Karbala,
even Muslim bin Aqil was reduced to running
from house to house hiding.
Because once all the tribal chiefs had reneged
on their promise of support,
they no longer even and they gave him
the promise of tribal protection. You have to
understand even Jahilia, this is a this is
like a sign you're complete. If you give
someone tribal protection and you don't back it
up, it means your word means nothing. If
your word means nothing, then
you're, like, not even a human being to
the to the Arab.
Even in Jahiliya,
even more so in Islam.
And so
even those who gave him protection reenact on
it, so he had to run from house
to house
seeking protection.
An old woman finally gave him protection,
and she didn't rat him out. But her
son found out her grandson found out that
he was there, and he ratted him out
for money.
He was taken into the
palace of the emir of Kufa,
and his head was thrown out
as a sign
that
the government is not messing around right now.
All of this happened before
said that Hussein arrived and before even a
Muslim
could write him a letter saying, just turn
around and go back.
When
Hussein
left from Medina
and left to Kufa
from Hejaz.
Abdullah bin
who was known to be somewhat of a
political quietest. He whenever Muslims fought Muslims, he
said, I'm gonna sit this one There's no
good that's gonna come from this. This was
his political position. It was a position. If
you agree with it or not, that's fine.
But he tried to make the argument to
say I'm saying he said, you you know
that they flaked on your father as well.
I don't care whatever they can swear up
and down. A man whose word doesn't mean
anything. Their word doesn't mean anything. How can
you trust them now?
Said no.
The cause is just. It's right. How can
we not try?
Those people
stood by and watched when
mister Ben Appel was
himself murdered.
When flaking out on him for tribal protection,
they told him what? Our hearts are with
you, but our swords are with Badumaya.
And what kind of stupid thing is this
to say?
It's like
openly saying you're.
At that point, it's better just to die.
Why? Because Nivaka is, like,
not just Kuford. It's the worst kind of
Kuford.
But that's what they said to him.
And
the rest of the history
is familiar to those who are here present.
There was such a great sadness that came
over the people of Kufa
despite their recrestedness,
describe their hypocrisy,
despite their abject lameness,
despite their treachery,
despite this evil
in the form
of pitifulness.
They knew it was wrong.
And so
harnessing
the regret of what happened.
An in individual by the name of Muftab
bin Abi Urbaid
will lead a group of people.
They'll cause civil unrest in Iraq.
They will overthrow the army.
They will declare rule in Iraq,
and
he will take a chair that he claimed
belonged to Sayna Ali radiya ala'anhu, and he'll
sit in it. And he will claim I
received wahi.
And they ended up massacring people, anyone who
had any suspicion to be even tangentially related
to any of the people who
participated in the,
assassination of Hussein
They just spilled blood like manifold, multiples, many
multiples of the people who were killed in
cover a lot. People who were just tangentially
related people who were not in any way,
shape, or form directly guilty for it.
And they massacred so many people, whereas we're
the only people they should have massacred. They
should have killed themselves because they're the that
they only start the revolution after it's done.
After you maximally destroyed everything, now you're gonna
fight?
Now you're gonna be self righteous.
And the sign of his nifaq was just
that, that his khatima,
his end was what? Ankufur? That he claimed
he was an abi.
So he joins the ranks of, like, Mirza
and and Elijah Pool and all of these
other people.
If he ran for congress in Naperville,
people might be tempted to vote for him
and we'd have to, like,
do something about that.
But the point is, for those of you
pious and righteous people who are here, not
because of the dinner, but because you want
to
remember something or learn something
and keep good company.
Don't be like that.
Right now, exactly, this is what happened what's
happening with Gaza right now, and people are
being like that. Hey, if you cannot be
a hero that rides out and defends
the one you love.
At least be the grandma who's like,
okay. You can stay in my house. I
won't say anything.
If you can't even do that much, like,
what what's the point of any of it?
The fortunate person is the one who takes
the lesson for from from the misfortune of
others.
We have massages right now. Oh, don't talk
about it. It's too political.
Mister Hiral gave Khutba there for some time,
half between Gaza and between
when my tenure there ended.
Apparently, people would call the Masjid and say,
don't talk about this. Literally, the next Friday,
don't talk about this.
What kind of are you? Should you be
running a mustard at that point?
Should you be in charge of a Muslim
organization at that point?
Should you be someone who should answer if
someone asks for your opinion about anything at
that point? If you cannot say something about,
I don't know, children being killed and hospitals
being bombed and massages and churches being bombed
and all this, you can't say anything about
that. You know, some people are like that,
constitutionally, they're cowards. It's okay.
The first time someone told me me and
Moaz that we're not gonna make it to
the NBA, we had a good cry. But
after we realized, you know, this is the
way of life. You know? It's okay. We
can do other things.
If by constitution,
by psychological,
psychiatric, constitution, physical, constitution, disposition,
you're a coward.
Confrontation is very difficult for you to do
with one another. It's okay.
You can still be not just a Muslim.
You can still be a really great Muslim.
Part of being a great Muslim is not
putting your yourself in a position where the
Sharia obliges you obliges you to confront people.
There are people like this.
Hassan al Thabit, the noble no Nobel the
poet, laureate of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He would get so scared at any sign
of danger
that the prophet literally
excused him from battle and he used to
hide with
the women. And he didn't say he was
a monatheb. Rather, he praised him because what?
His talent was in right in in composing
poetry.
And for it, the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, loved him and actually would reward him
for it and actually honored him for it.
Why? Because not everyone can do everything.
If you have this thing inside of you,
don't covet position and power so much that
you sit in a mindset that you you
hold the entire community
hostage to your cowardice.
Right? Don't say anything in the first place.
If you're not going to go through with
it, don't tell somebody you're gonna help them
in the first place if you're not gonna
go through with it.
Don't be those people. Then afterward, what happens?
You flip on your head and you go
crazy and, oh, we're gonna kill this person.
We're gonna kill that person. This is wrong
and that's wrong. And the other thing and
the companions are wrong and the are wrong
and Islam is wrong and Allah is wrong.
This is actually by the way, this is
actually an aqid of many of these,
that
Allah did something, then later on he realized
that maybe that wasn't the best thing to
do.
Either the
prophet is wrong and the companions are wrong
and Allah is wrong and, the Iraqis are
wrong and the Medanese, everyone else is wrong.
That's one possibility
or maybe you're wrong.
I don't know.
Think about it. Allata gave everyone a brain.
Not everyone is like a Fakhruddin Razi, Imam
Ghazali award of, like, excellence and, like, rational
superiority, but this is what I think people
should be able to figure out.
So don't be like that.
Don't be the one who talks a big
game, then when it's time to show up,
you you chicken out.
And then after you end up living a
life that death would have been better than
that life because of your dishonor and.
Allah
give us
whatever
are in positions of authority in the Ummah.
We don't know what's in people's hearts.
So just in
general, whatever are
in authority of the the
the prophet,
whether it be something small and local or
whether it be entire nations of the earth.
Allah
do this week on my favor because that
test sometimes it feels like we're not passing
it.
Allah just do us a favor
and throw them to the side. Even if
I'm one of them, just throw them in
the garbage cans and be rid of them.
And whoever
is amongst those people
who
would wish better
but is holding the entire Umad to hostage
to their cowardice.
May
Allah remove them from wherever they are
and do something better by them even if
it means they live out their life in
exile or in a jail cell somewhere where
they can pray 5 times a day and
say they're Allah Allah. Do Do something good
for themselves. Make dua for good. Do something
good for others, but not
harm people through their coveting of those things
that really don't belong to them or are
not their,
majala in the 1st place. They're not their
field that they should, be serving in in
the 1st place.
All the weakness that we have inside of
our hearts.
May Allah
remove it. And may Allah replace with a
noor
that we can discern what's good and bad
with more clarity and more resolution.
And with courage with Himma,
that when we know what's right and we
see what's right, but something holds us back,
that we're more powerful and stronger than that
something that we can reach forward and grasp
with our hands and remove those things that
need to be removed
and grasp those things that need to be
grasped and break those things that need to
be broken and also make those things that
need to be made as well.
Allah ta'ala, have mercy on us. Our elders
have
left.
So many of our
have left.
So many of our teachers have left both
in the tariqa and in Deen.
We thank him for the ones that are
still are amongst us. This is Michelle Muhammed
al Hassan is here. His father passed away.
I thought, what are we gonna do now?
Because those were the righteous people. They used
to pray. They used to fast. Serve. They
used
to keep their foot on the neck of
their nuffs,
and they used to suffer quietly
and not show anyone outside what's going on.
And they used to keep the machine going.
Whereas now all of the rest of us
are, like, too cool for school. We consider
showing up to Darz to be like a
favor to Allah Ta'ala. Much as how are
we gonna, like, teach it to anybody?
How are we going to how are we
going to transmit the to anybody? We act
like receiving the itself is like we're doing
a lot of favor and how he owes
us.
We don't even take with the Hassan. How
are we gonna give? Much less give with
the Hassan.
But the father of Allah ta'ala is alive
with us. Yeah, Allah. The people at least
who know their the names of those people
are still here.
Their descendants at least are still amongst us.
They're ill, at least in some form or
another, still folks about amongst us.
You're the one who created the heavens and
the earth from nothing.
Anyone who had anything, you're the one who
gave it to him.
The same way you gave from your father
to others, give to
us. You Allah. And save and spare us
the humiliation of having to see our brothers
and sisters,
their children being killed, and their being killed,
and their people being starved,
and the innocent ones being starved, and being
denied basic treatment, and being given dirty water
to drink when they have water. Otherwise,
they die of thirst.
You Allah. You Allah. While the Muslims are
busy fighting with one another, backstabbing one another,
and
doing things
behind one another's backs
while sucking up to their enemies and sucking
up to Shaytan himself,
thinking that somehow Shaytan is going to be
able to do us a favor that Allah
had already decreed for us in this world
of the hereafter.
May Allah
protect us from such an evil end. May
Allah protect us from such evil thoughts. And
may Allah protect us from such evil dispositions
inside of our hearts.
This is the Mubar day of
Ashura. It's not all lost.
The help of Allah comes on days like
this. So sit and make dua, and
remember Allah ta'ala and ask him for his
help. It will happen. You'll see a door
will open even when you yourself feel
paralyzed and handicapped and unable to do something,
you think, if I do this, if I
do that, then you think through it and
you're like, it's not gonna do anything.
It's gonna make everything worse.
At least pray for Allah to open the
door for you to do something.
And when that door opens,
then have the courage to go through it
and don't waste it. But But you'll see
all of these people. What are they? They're
nothing to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Faraun is nothing to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Abu Jahl, he was the
he was not just like, Jahiliya club member.
He was also the president.
You know? And who who killed him? It
wasn't one of the big warriors. It was
like the like the kids
from the Ansar
who like, we're barely even allowed to go
on bother.
When he wants to
dispose of a tyrant, nobody all of them
like like a bubble in the water. How
long does a bubble, like, last?
It just has a little, like, a fraction
of a second that it's transiting through before
it pops at the surface. Right? All of
them are bubbles.
Just hold your supper for a little bit
and ask Allah ta'ala. If it wasn't for
the bubble, you would have no reason to
make dua, and you would be enjoying yourself,
your life, and your whatever.
But now, you can make dua, and you'll
enjoy yourself as well. Allah
give us all tawfiq. Allah give us his
mother on this Mubarak day. So with that,