Iqbal Gora – Fajr Khatirah Wars Expose People [Tafsir of Ali ‘Imran 179]
AI: Summary ©
The conversation discusses the verses in the Quran that describe events of the current Guinea and the battle of Uhud, as well as the confusion of people on the spectrum of gray and black and white. The speaker also discusses the fall of ambassador sallali alaihi wasallam and the need for unity among Muslims, as well as the history of Islam's actions and its impact on communities. The speaker concludes that some leaders, including those in the Middle East, were not supportive of the operation and that political and political beliefs of the people involved were not aligned with the centers.
AI: Summary ©
Inshallah, just a quick summary, of some ayat
in the Quran. Some of this would have
been mentioned yesterday in the Khutba, so my
apologies if this is a repeat, but for
those that weren't here, inshallah, this will be
of,
some benefit.
The first thing is that many of the
verses in the Quran,
that we otherwise may not have considered,
they start to come alive in the current
genocide that we find ourselves,
facing as the Muslim Ummah. A lot of
these verses we might have brushed aside and
not really paid much attention to. They, we
understand them in a different light,
in light of the events taking place in
Palestine.
And many of these verses in particular are
those verses wherein Allah
discusses the events
of the battle of Uhud and the battle
of Al Ahzab, both of these particular battles.
And, the
verses which discuss the battle of Uhud, many
of them can be found in Surat Aliam
Imran, and we'll discuss one of them, inshaAllah
in his short khathira as well. So Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in the Quran, he
says,
In these verses of the Quran, Allah says
that He will not leave you on the
condition that you are in
until He separates between the good and the
bad, from the pure and the impure, from
those that are righteous, from those that are
trash. Whenever you find a situation in which
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala needs to remove the
Muslimen from a certain condition,
he will not do so until he does
this. And what we can understand and gauge
from this is that historically,
a lot of Muslims, they might have been
confused as to which group was right,
whether it was a particular group of Muslims,
and there might have been some gray as
to which group was right and upon the
tr or the true path. Likewise, it could
have been for some Muslims. They They were
confused as to whether you could support certain
politicians.
Are they for us, or are they against
us? Likewise, for certain Muslims, they might have
been confused with respect to the media or
with respect to the CPS, the Calabrio Police
Service, as many of us experienced firsthand or
secondhand, or they saw what happened to our
Muslim brothers and sisters in a lot of
protests.
And a Muslim might have been confused with
respect to the media, the schools,
and all of these various entities that we
have in society. However, in a situation of
war, in this context, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
makes it no longer a matter of gray,
but now it becomes a matter of black
and white. So, on this area, now it
becomes very easy for you to classify people.
It becomes very easy for a person to
classify people and entities
as to where they fall on this particular
spectrum, and this ayah was revealed in a
particular context as well. This ayah was revealed
in
the events which preceded the battle of Uhud.
It's mentioned that the Mushrikeen,
when they fought against the Muslims in the
battle of Badr, Badr took place coincidentally,
in a sense that it was not a
planned battle, but rather it took place coincidentally.
It just so happened that it happened, and
when the mushi'kin lost that particular battle, then
they wanted revenge.
And one of the uncles of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, al Abbas,
ibn Abdul Muttalib. He was a secret Muslim
at the time, and because of this, he
was in Mecca, and he was able to
get some information about the battle which is
to come, which is the battle of Uhud,
and he was able to convey this to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in advance. And
in so doing,
the prophet
after this point, he made certain plans and
preparations
to prepare prepare for this assault. And there
were some elderly from among the Sahaba
that said, let us stay in the city
of Madinah to Munawarah because it offers a
type of natural protection.
As we know in the battle which followed,
which was
the Battle of Al Azzab,
there is one section of Madinah in which
they built the trench. They didn't build it
all around Madinah. There's only one section in
which they built a trench because there are
mountains on either side. There are palm groves
and date groves and a type of natural
fortification in the city of Medina. So the
elderly that had experience, they said, let's station
ourselves here and wait for the enemy to
come us and defend ourselves in the city
of Medina.
The youth, they disagreed because youth can sometimes
be overzealous,
and they have a lot of energy. And
they said a lot of them that missed
the battle of Badr,
they now wanted to prove themselves in the
battle of Uhud. Some of them were quite
young, and the prophet did not even give
them permission. So they wanted to prove themselves
in the battle of of Uhud.
So they requested that the prophet
now go out and meet the enemy on
the battlefield.
And because this was the dominant view,
in general, the prophet
he agreed to this. Later on, some of
the,
youth, they they regretted their decision, and they
went to Hamza ibn Abil Muqtaleb, the other
uncle of the prophet
to try to convince the prophet to change
his mind, And at this the prophet
he made his famous statement
where he said that it is not befitting
for a Nabi when he puts on his,
his his armor for him to take it
off, until
he fights the enemy because this would show
cowardice and weakness on the part of the
Ambia, which is not befitting of them. So
they went out with 1,000 people to Uhud,
and on their way there,
there were various battalions,
and at the head of each of these
battalions were different people. And at the head
of one of them was a man by
the name of Abdullah ibn Ubay ibn Salool,
and he was one of those elderly sahaba
that was trying to convince the prophet
not to go out to Uhud.
And when he found that the prophet was
doing this, he commented by saying that the
prophet
is leading us to certain death.
I tried to convince him otherwise, but he
did not heed my advice,
And he expressed anger at this and resentment
towards the prophet
so instead of even informing the prophet
they started to
to to to basically
break away slowly from the main army, and
at a certain point they made a u-turn
and they turned around, and they abandoned the
Prophet
altogether. This was around 300
men, and as you can imagine, if you
drop off from 1300,
that's a significant decrease, and this would have
affected,
any army in terms of their morale and
also in terms of perhaps even their victory
to have this type of drop off.
What he escaped, the prophet
and he abandoned the Muslim
in this time of need. And the Sahaba,
they asked him why you're doing this. He
made all sorts of excuses that's mentioned. These
excuses are mentioned, by the way, in Surat
Ali Imran as well. We won't get into
them. But they made all sorts of excuses
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But the
first lesson that we understand here
is that Abdullah ibn Ubayhi Musalul was one
of the leader of the Munafiqun,
and he abandoned the Muslimen
in their time of need.
Whenever you find people doing this, whether it's
leaders, whether it's Muslims, when you have a
sense of need for the Umma, and then
they abandon them,
then this is a quality of the munafiqoon.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prior to this,
people might not have known that Abdullah ibn
Ubay ibn Salul because his name was not
revealed, was from the Munafiqun.
However, in this context, as Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala mentions in this verse we quoted,
Now it became very evidently clear who was
where.
And when we go further to this, again,
not to make it too long, but we'll
just summarize it. In the time of Salahuddin
Ayyubi, and prior to him, Nur ad Din
Zanki and his father, Ahmad Ad Din Zanki,
they faced this as well. That there were
many,
things they had to do before they were
able to go into lands of the,
where the Crusaders had attacked. One of those
things was they needed to unify the Muslim
Ummah,
and one of the things and challenges they
faced
was the fact that many of the leaders,
Maureen Adein Una was one of the particular
people, one of the leaders of the Mashkh
of Damascus,
because they loved their seat of power so
much, they loved their throne so much, they
loved their position so much, They loved it
more than defending the blood of the Muslimen.
Because of this, many of those particular leaders
in the towns of Damascus,
of Homs,
and in in the Fatimid dynasty as well,
who were Fatimid Shia at the time,
they sided with the Crusaders
against the Muslims. They sided with the Crusaders
against the Muslims. Does this sound familiar?
Right. So this is another lesson that we
can derive from this, and in these situations
and context, all of these leaders, all of
these peoples, all of these entities that previously
might have been with you and saying we
support you, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and we'll conclude
with this point. We continue this discussion as
well tomorrow.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in the next,
ayah or in the some ayahs
also discussing this this type of context and
situation.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says
something that we need to think about in
this current context.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Allah
says, oh you who believe, do not take
your closest
associates,
your closest advisors,
as people that are not Muslim. Can we
have relationships with non Muslims? Yes, we can.
But don't take your closest associates
as people that are not Muslimian. And Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he makes this very clear
as to why. Some people have a problem
with this and they say, you know, Islam
is,
why why are there these restrictions? These are
good people. But Allah tells us the reason
why.
Prior to all of this stuff happening, a
lot of Muslims were leaning towards the political
right. And what was the reason for this?
The gender ideology and LGBTQ
issues. They were leading politically rights because they
align with our. They're leading politically my right,
I guess your right is here, but my
right is here. So they were leading politically
right,
because of the
LGBT issues and and and and, gender ideology.
And,
subhanAllah, we see that when this event took
place, then their true colors came out. People
from the daily wire, Jordan Peterson, the famous
example I'm sure many people have heard of,
when all of these situations happened, we used
to follow them, but then their true colors
came out with all of this. And that's
why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us
not to take your closest associates
as people that are not Muslimian,
because
the left, they want to kill your soul.
The left wants to kill your soul, they
want to kill your morality,
and the political right, they want to kill
your body. So we find in this situation,
both of them they want to kill you
from different ways. And in this context the
best thing for you to do is ally
yourself with other Muslimen. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
goes on to say,
they only want evil for you.
And after this, and we'll conclude with this
part, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Their hatred has become now apparent from their
words.
And what is hiding within their hearts is
far worse. An example of this is, as
I'm sure many people have seen,
one of the advisors to the Obama administration,
and there's a video which went viral in
which she was abusing and hurling Islamophobic insults
at a person who was, I think he's
of Egyptian background, in New York City, and
he was selling shawarmas,
and this person was an advisor to the
Obama administration.
Obama, from face value,
seems like a pleasant person, very personable,
very easy to get along with, has good
social skills, and is able to convince people.
He gave a speech in Cairo, but this
person was an advisor to him in that
time frame while he was putting up this
huge, this entire front. And Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says, in context of war,
Their hatred becomes apparent from their tongues. 4,000
dead Palestinian children is not enough, these sorts
of sentiments.
And what they're hiding in their hearts is
in actuality far
worse.
And Allah says,
These are people that you have some love
for.
The politicians, they come here, you express love
towards them, and you try to welcome them
into our community.
But they don't love you.
And this becomes very evident and clear in
this context that we find ourselves in.
The the the the truthful and the righteous
become very evidently clear from those that were
hiding all along,
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will use this
as a context to make it evidently clear
to the Muslimine which side is upon righteousness.
Again, we could go further to this. We'll
continue tomorrow, inshallah, but hopefully this was beneficial
in providing some insight into some of these
ayaat, which,
discuss the events of Uhud and how we
can apply them into this context. May Allah
make us understand.
Allah protect the people of al Seen. The
bombardments have continued as we all are,
unfortunately all aware, and we ask Allah to
make the Muslims victorious
through all of these circumstances and to grant
them patience and steadfastness and,
make the Quran, as we mentioned in the
dua, the spring of their
heart. The light of their chest.