Ismail Kamdar – Legacy of Abdullah Ibn Zubayr – RA
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You know hamdulillah whoo hoo when I started you know the stock
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image jewelry and phocoena For me, Dr. Lena Yes. Thank you for the
booty Lola, what made you DeLuca? How do
you have any figures in our history that we don't know enough
about? I mentioned before that we don't spend enough time studying
our own history. And as our own mouth, many of us have gaps in our
knowledge of history. I mentioned last week that for many Muslims,
there is a mis conception of history, that there were only four
Sahaba we serve this whole about
four or five, right? Abu Bakr, Omar, Osman Ali, the Mr. We really
love one too much mine. Actually number seven, there were seven
Sahaba Gusa.
Most people don't notice Abu Bakr, the and Omar they will smile they
are the den Hussen then who are we are and then up the as he comes up
to law events will be. And I'm delighted to be here. He's the one
that's forgotten about. He's the one that nobody speaks about. He's
the one that many people don't even know about, is according to
many historians, he is the legend of a Khalifa of that generation.
So today inshallah very briefly we will go through the biography of
Abdullah ibn travail, his childhood, his virtues, his
beloved, and his death, because this is a Sahabi, who we should
know about. He is an important figure in our history. He is the
archetype of the righteous rebel, someone who rebelled against
hydrants and did it in a righteous way. And he's an important figure
because today, there are certain movements, they're trying to paint
him as a bad guy. Right? Certain movements want us to believe that
there's no there's no situation where rebellions ever acceptable.
So to do that, they have to rewrite history and portray
Abdullah in Pennsylvania as some kind of villain in reality, he is
amongst the writers of the sahaba. So Abdullah, even Jubail is from
the lowest rank of the sahaba. What we mean by the lowest rank of
the Sahaba is that he's only around nine years old with the
Prophet sallallahu. Some passes away now. So he doesn't get to
spend any of his adult life accompanying Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. He's actually born into Islam. He's born into
Islam, and he is born in Medina, and even the story of his birth is
special.
Villa evens obey is the son of Zubaydah, even a WA and a small
bit the Abu Bakr so his father's who bail and his grandfather Abu
Bakr are from the ashram overshadow the blessed and his
mother is a smart we all know the virtues of a smart, the great and
courageous woman from upstate Baja Jiang. And his answer is Aisha
runs with us my sister. Interesting note, what is Aisha
Rajon has Punia
only Abdullah mother of Abdullah why shouldn't didn't have any
children. Why she called the mother of Abdullah because she
helps reach out to the image of me because she has the highlight of a
buddha image Kobe is like the second mother to him. So she gets
the Kanye who may have to
look more closer right.
I shall read as Punia is related to Abdullah image of it because
she helps raise it. She's born into a very virtuous family and
what happens is when the Sahaba of Baca migrate to Medina, there is a
rumor in Medina that the Jews always to juice and then some kind
of job who will see her to prevent the people the backup from having
male children. And this rumor goes about for a few months, every few
months or no male children born to the people of Africa. So people
started thinking the rumor true didn't you do something to us? And
then about 10 or 11 months after the move from Makkah to Medina,
Asmaa with the IV battle gives birth to her first son, and
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam himself names this child Abdullah
and so the birth of Abdullah will be it is a cause of celebration to
people of Medina. It's proof that this rumor was false. And they
were going to have healthy children. And his words he
celebrated by the prophets also himself who carries him in names
even and he grows up in Medina and he grows up under the guidance of
the likes of Zubayr even Allah and Abu Bakr, Siddiq and asthma BTOB
buckle and I shall be the army backer. These are his family.
These are his role models. These are his current two figures.
And I'm gonna even Joby
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Abdullah admins will be eligible for three things. Number one being
awarded.
Right he is known as a majority the one in his whole life is that
of of being a warrior to such an extent that some historians say
that his first word as a baby was safe, which means all
right, his first word is a baby was pointing to a solid six, eight
sword, and he lived by the sword and you die by the sword. Abdullah
imusa, Bane was a ward and he spent his youth and the bulk of
his adult life in the frontlines fighting jihad in the range of
postman and Maria Abdullah ibn Zubayr is the frontlines fighting
the non Muslims in jihad. Right. That is the bulk of his life. He
is also known for speaking his mind for his eloquence. He wasn't
somebody who shied away from what he believed in. And we saw this in
the previous weeks that he was the most outspoken against USC. For
all of the critics of USC, the most outspoken with Abdullah even
today, he would not stand for years, it's tyranny.
Interestingly, the third thing that Abdullah Inwood Zubayr is
known for is his crucial in Salah, his concentration in Salah to such
an extent, you can open any book today about for sure about
concentrating in your Salah, it is full of example to Abdullah
he becomes the role model of concentrating in your Salah, the
stories where he'd be praying salah, and a snake would enter the
house and you wouldn't even know the snake in the house. It said
they went I'm liable to obey we'll pray Salah he would go into a
different world, he will be completely disconnected from this
dunya it as if the dunya ceases to exist at all that remains is him
and his God.
He achieved the level of concentration in Salah that is
legendary.
And so he becomes the role model of Osho. And then he called open
any of the books about sure in Salah any of the books within the
books of Al Ghazali. When it's Medina ma whatever it is, you will
find stone your portfolio Abdullah even because he is the role model
of Osho.
An interesting note on his concentration in acts of worship,
I'm delighted to be with someone who would never want to miss an
act of worship. And so he is the only person we know historically,
who perform tawaf while swimming
is the only person we know of historically, who perform tawaf
while zooming. What we mean by this is that during the lifetime
of the image, there was a flood in Makkah.
So during the flood, everybody stayed away from the cover,
everyone stayed indoors, except for Abdullah Abu Zubaydah. He swam
around the Kaaba, several types of performed our so he becomes the
only one who performs the walkways today. So to layman's amazing,
amazing, amazing food and figure in our history. This is a man of
shoe This is a man of jihad. This is a man of speaking his mind.
This is a man born into a Greek family raised by Greek people who
really become some the greatest of these above his generation.
Many, many decades later.
He becomes a pivotal figure in our history, very late in his life.
When the story of Yazeed at Karbala takes place, Abdullah even
Zubayr is like 62 years old. All that the stories we mentioned now
he's in his youth. Right? Now we're talking 50 years after the
death of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said he was
like 10 years old when the prophets of Elijah passes away. So
50 years later, he's a 60 year old man. Now you can imagine when you
have in the community 60 Old man they got to the image to be who
has the issue of that level and the end and the biography of that
level and the lineage of that level. And yes, it becomes the
Khalifa. You can imagine this connection, right? And so he
refuses to give based on figures, and he takes over marker and
establishing the SEC as a separate region outside the control of your
seat, and even Karbala happens. That's the last straw and
definitely Abdullah even superior declares himself the Khalifa.
Justin Abdullah, even Jubail decides that this man is he is not
fit for power he declares himself the Khalifa is the rival of
disease. And what results is a 14 year war between Abdullah even
Zubair and Romanians over the Philippines, a 14 year war.
Now what many people don't realize is that after his he dies, there's
a lot of confusion over who is actually the Khalifa because you
have a rebel in Karbala in Kufa claiming to be the Khalifa who
wants revenge for Hussein. You have the Romanians in Syria, at
that point in time are one you become come claiming to be the
Khalifa. And you have Abdullah ibn Zubayr in Makkah claiming to be
the Khalifa so you have three people claiming to be the Khalifa
at the same time. And what actually happens is the majority
of the Muslim world give back to Abdullah
is one point
Now history many people don't know about after years he dies. The
majority of the Muslim world give the br to Abdullah even today. And
this is why most of the historians consider Abdullah even Zubaydah,
the legitimate Khalifa of that point in time.
Because if Abdullah evens obeyed his ruling the majority of the
Muslim world and they'll make a ruling in one region and fighting
against him, who is the Khalifa and who's the rebel.
So Abdullah Abrams will be at one point in our history becomes an
ephah over the majority of the Muslim world.
But we know that history went in a very different direction.
So what happened to see the awkwardness of history? Right,
what happens? Because how do we how do we go from Abdullah even
Civale ruling the majority of the Muslim world besides Kufa and
Serbia, and 10 years later, he only has control over data and
dominions control everything else. What happens?
The awkward reality of history just because somebody is more
pious than somebody else, it doesn't mean they're better at
politics.
Right? The reality is Abdulmalik improve on one and we'll discuss
his biography next week because he also did some great things up to
magic you know what one becomes the leader of the Soviet Empire
and the chief rival of Abdullah evil travail. And why Abdullah
able to there is more pious has a higher lineage and a better
more virtues in higher status. Then Abdulmalik number one, the
reality is of the money even when one is much better and strategies
and politics. He just knows his way around the battlefield better.
He knows how to win the loyalty of people get. One of the biggest
political mistakes of Abdullah even today is that he didn't do
enough to maintain the loyalty of his governors. Right. He just
assumed that people will be loyal.
And the Romanians on the other hand, they knew how to bind
people's loyalty. And they knew how to get people's loyalty. And
so one by one to take over each of the regions from Abdullah, even
Zubaydah, some of them to work, many of them just you bite off the
governor. And the sad reality is many of these governors are the
brothers and the nephews of Abdullah in Pennsylvania. But
these read sides inside the Dominions against him. So this is
just the reality of war and politics that Abdullah ibn
Zubaydah is an amazing zahavi. He has so many virtues he's a
righteous man. But he wasn't politically prepared for civil war
and and for fighting somebody who was more politically savvy in this
area. Furthermore, the Romanians have specifically up the money, he
hires
one of the most brutal dictators in our history to get rid of
Abdullah Ibrahim Hajaj with us.
If you haven't heard of her judge, Google him
is a strange character in our history. Hedgehog, even Youssef is
one of the greatest tyrants in history, he oppressed and killed
many Sahaba. But he also prayed five times a day in a project on
wall. In his private life is like a pious person, and in public is
absolute title. Again, our history is full of strange stories like
this where, you know, we want to box people into heroes and
villains, and sometimes they just a mixture of good and bad
qualities in one person. So her judgment used to be the one put in
charge of ending the rebel rebellion and bringing the entire
net domain rule. He's the main military
dictator and military commander who was put in charge of doing
this, and he goes into MOFGA he defeats Abdullah even prevail, and
that land becomes part of your empire after the Civil War ends
and the reign of Abdul Malik begins. Next week, Inshallah,
we'll talk about Abdul Malik and his reign because
he actually did a lot of good for this movement as well and it's
actually a lot of lessons we can learn from his reign as well. But
today our focus is not sure that
we should we learn more about Sahaba the computer in which he
teaches us that sometimes rebellion is the righteous thing
to do. He teaches us how to speak the truth and stand by the truth
even when the forces of the world and against you. He teaches you
how to bring with you how to never miss a chance anybody.
He teaches how to stand up for justice, you know, people ask, you
know, what did anyone do about Karbala, Abdullah the butcher his
whole life was trying to get revenge for God. You know, let it
go. Didn't let the ox so I'm gonna indulge Zubair is a role model for
amongst the Sahaba and someone whose life we must study deeper
and whose life we must take lessons because he is the model of
the righteous rebel. We ask Allah to guide us to understand the
furniture properly and to benefit long history you offer that wider
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The story of the death of Abdullah even Zubayr is actually quite
inspirational.
It's sad and inspirational at the same time.
Abdullah bin Zayed loses all of his supporters, and is left in
Makkah alone, just him and his mother. At this point in time,
Abdullah Abu Zubaydah is like 75 years old. And his mother is like
100 years old and blind. That when his mother is from the Mahabharat,
people will meet him. And this is like 80 years later. So she like
100 years old, and blind. And she's living with her son. And he
realizes that it's over. Everyone has abandoned him, his own
siblings and nephews have joined humans and given up hope in his
leadership. So he goes to his mother for advice. He knows her
judge is brutal, is ruthless, he's going to do very bad things to
him. So he asked him about the advice should I give up?
And his mother tells him that if you were fighting for a wrong
cause all these years, you wasted your life. But if you are fighting
for the truth, why would you ever give up, die for what you believe?
His mother encourages him to die for what he believes.
They told his mother, I'm worried that they're going to mutilate my
body after I die. Now these people really, really hate to be they
want to make an example of his mother says, Once you did that,
you know you're not going to feel it. It's over. So what are you
going to do to your body.
And then he hugs his mother, and she's blind, so she can't see if
she hugs him. And she realized that he's wearing many layers of
armor.
And she gets a bit upset with him about this. And so this is not the
way a one year dresses. This is this is like a cowardly way of
dressing with so many levers of power. You want to go you're not
someone who scale up yet. Again, imagine this is 100 year old lady
speaking to 75 year old man, right, and encourage him to go out
and fight to the death by himself.
And instead of the law, even so they fought the army of Hajaj when
you supply himself at the age of 75. And he took an entire army to
subdue him and to kill him.
Oh, you think about the kind of men the Sahaba were that one man
at the age of 75 to fight an entire army by himself. So level
of masculinity that doesn't exist today.
I'm delighted when Zubayr is killed, fighting for what he
believes in.
You know what started with Karbala only ends 15 years later, when
Abdullah in Pennsylvania is killed in Makkah. And her charge doesn't
just kill him. He hands the body of zobayan in front of the Kaaba.
This was a practice of some of the early kings to like,
make an example of the enemies that they will hand the bodies or
heads in public so people can see to see what happens if you people
can see this what happens if you rebel against us. So they
literally hand the body of the image is revealed in front of the
Kaaba and the wants his money to come in begging beg them to take
that take it up. And the mother refuses to do so. Instead she goes
and she confronts her job. And she tells him what for history and she
wants him that you may have taken my son's dunya but he has
destroyed your Ophira How are you going to counter the Day of
Judgment are killing us?
And she stands her ground and it's amazing. US mom maintains the same
courage at the age of 100 that she did when she was a young lady.
When she's a teenager, her father and Rasul Allah Islam are going
for the hijra, and I will Jehan come to our home and demands know
where they are. And she refuses to tell him and he slaps her as she
still stands her ground. This is a smile when she's young.
80 years later, she's 100 years old, she's blind that she's
standing up to her judging with yourself, measuring the carnage of
this woman who stands up to Abu Jamal in her youth and stands up
to her judgment usurping old age.
And is some kuramathi Palacio. Some of the historians say that
even though they found the body of Abdullah image revealed in public
for many weeks, the body smelled better and better with each
passing day. There was a fragrance of martyrdom and gender coming
from the body you have to learn to wait and eventually some of the
Sahaba
they wore the hijab against what he's doing. And they basically
admonished him to take down the volume up too late to better to be
rigged.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr and his mother are role models of righteousness.
This is a man who is born into a family orderliness,
his grandfather is Abu Bakr
and his father is obeyed. And his mother is asthma. And his father's
mother Zubayr. His mother is the prophets, our aunt Sofia.
You know who is Sofia, she's the one who in the Battle of the
church is taking place in some Jews getting into the Muslim
compound with the ladies as she goes and chops up the juice head
and throws it over the fence. That's his grandma.
He's literally born into a family of warnings. And he grows into a
mighty warrior. And he becomes the model of the purse of a type of
person who believes that he's fighting for justice, and he's
willing to die for that.
And this is something that we should aspire towards. If you
believe in a righteous cause, you shouldn't be willing to give your
life for the righteous cause for the sake of Allah
or Buddha image. So there is the role model of a real man. And he's
the role model of someone
whose life was all about Allah subhanho wa Taala and justice in
this religion, and we ask Allah to grant the Sahaba the highest ranks
of Jannah to allow us to follow in the footsteps to allow us to
benefit from the example and to allow us to benefit from religion
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