Ismail Kamdar – Lessons from Karbala – Virtues of Ashura

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			So today we have a very difficult and controversial event in history that we want to discuss. And
each, I hope to discuss it from a balance model perspective.
		

			We could focus more on the lessons from the story rather than going into too many details, right?
Because, in general, at this time of the year,
		

			we tend to recap the story of Caterpillar of the tragedy of karma. And too often, when discussing
Karbala, we tend to go to one of two extremes. We go to the extreme of exaggerating what happened,
causing a lot of anger causing a lot of
		

			a lot of sectarian violence calling other unnecessary problems. amongst us today are we go to the
other extreme of brushing it away. It was just the a fight between two people and 3d both sides as
if they were equal. And both of these extremes are incorrect. So what I hope to do today, and you'll
have time to do the full story right to go through actually what happened at Karbala will take us at
least two hours. And we tried to do this in about 10 or 15 minutes. So I'm going to give a summary
of the story focus more on lessons that we can take from the story and apply to our lives.
		

			And before we do that, just a recap of last week's goodbye which this is building upon. Last week, I
mentioned that history is messy. History is not you know, stories are only heroes and villains is
not story The only pious people the only nice things happening. The reality is every generation
faces their own tests. And in every generation, great calamities will come. This is the reality of
the world. You cannot live in this world without facing a test outracing a calamity. And the closer
someone is to Allah subhanho wa Taala, the more difficult the calamity that they have to deal with.
		

			And this helps us to understand the good of what's going to happen in the scoring. The other thing I
mentioned last week, is that the people in our history are human beings. And humans feel they are
going to sometimes do the right thing and sometimes do the wrong thing. If you approach history,
expecting all those terms throughout history to be like pious Odia, you're always going to be
disappointed, because in every generation, the way the righteous and the unrighteous. And the story
of Karbala is the first example in our history of Islam of a tyrant.
		

			This was the first time in the history of Islam, that someone came into power, who is generally
considered a tyrant was generally considered an unjust ruler.
		

			And, again, one more point to add to that before we go into it. It is not fun, the
		

			methodology of Ultron our Jamaat to curse anyone, especially to curse someone who has
		

			even if they committed major sins and major crimes. So when we talk about stories like this of any
of the titans of the past, we don't curse them, we leave the judgment to Allah. If Allah forgives
them for eternity because of some other reason, that's between him and Allah. And if Allah holds him
to a calculated totally that is his, his justice, Allah, you know what man, he's also most just, and
we leave it to Allah. So it's not our methodology to cause people. It just we are going to narrate
the facts and take some lessons from So what happened? What was the incident of karma?
		

			To understand this? We go back a generation before that the time of Ali rajala, when there was a
civil war between the Sahaba and that civil war would basically be if you if you were to break it
down in terms of tribal support between the two main tribes of America. Now not a math guy anymore,
once and silly, I'm watching Iraq, but over the leadership, right, because Ali Raja who represented
the tribe of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sunderban, Hashem and his opposition while he
		

			was from the budding media, and this will be trended throughout history that there will always be a
political rivalry between these two tribes. And this comes up again, at the depth of where we are
radula one Somalia becomes the Khalifa after Ali, and he says, as Khalifa for 20 years, and towards
the end, he appoints his son, he is here to take over acting. Now two points to note on this. Number
one, technically, it's not haram for him to appoint his son as an expert. It's not technically
Haram, if you go and study the bookshop. There's nothing saying
		

			Technically,
		

			so it's not an illegitimate choice, but it's not the best choice either. Because at that time, the
prophets grandson Hussein is
		

			Abdullah, even overeater like Abdullah, even Ambassador like Abdullah, even two babies like, right
so this is like about 60 years after the time of Rasulullah saw you and Philips Allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and now all the Sahaba who had children in the lifetime of Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam they are now the adults and the older generation of Sahaba have passed away. So this younger
generation of Sahaba, we have amongst them great people like Abdullah, even Sylvain Abdullah, even
Omar and the grandson of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for saying rhodiola. So these
individuals, we can say that they were more qualified for the position of Khalifa. But again, if
		

			somebody won't qualified exists, it doesn't mean that the other person is around to give him the
job. Right. So the most you can say is that ma we are Raja who made a political mistake by
appointing his son as an extra, you can't see it what it said. You can't say it was Cofer. You can't
say he was betraying the oma. And you can't hold him accountable for the sins that his sacraments.
But if you want to start holding people accountable for the sins their sons commit, none of us are
going to get away on the Day of Judgment. Because no one nobody cruised through life without using
one of the children grow up in doing things that they disagree with all the grandchildren, everybody
		

			at some point, you know, you have a descendant who you're not proud of, is one of the tests of life.
And he can't foresee what's going to happen after he passes away. Nonetheless, it was a political
mistake, to appoint yazeed as a next kaliba. He did it for his reasons. He saw it as as you're
communicating the peace, avoiding civil wars, and he told us what will happen. Nonetheless, while we
are passing away, he suddenly as he comes into power, now now he has in his number one, he is the
first non Sahabi to be forgiven, right, he is the first non Sahaba to be forgiven. And he's a
believer at the time, it's the habits the life. Now the two he is very young. Number three, he did
		

			not have the derby of the Sahaba. They were taught by the prophets like some of the senior Sahaba,
he was brought up in a palace in Syria. So he's obviously not on the same level as them in terms of
piety or in terms of his capabilities as a ruler. So he proves to be a not very competent ruler, and
in many ways the tyrannical ruler. And one of the political events that occur soon after he becomes
the ruler is that he tries to force the Sahaba were against him, to accept him as the ruler to give
him the Pledge of Allegiance. So he appoints someone over Medina, whose job is to force Hussein and
Abdullah able to bail to accept yazeed as the ruler, and so to say, and Abdullah, they run away to
		

			backup to escape from this hierarchy. And Abdullah even debating over mapguide another story that
perhaps you can discuss another time, he ended up eventually, a few years later claiming to be the
45 aka and a civil war takes place between him and the millions. That's another event for another
time. But Hussein, he is in Makkah, refusing to accept yazeed as the leader and the people of Iraq,
they hear about this, and they start writing letters to Hussein telling him come to Europe come to
Kufa we will protect you we will make you our leader. So he sees all of these letters he sends his
cousin to inspect his cousin tells him yes loss of support for your Why did you come here people
		

			your love you people, your respect you people will take care of you. So Hussein takes his family, he
leaves Makkah, he decides to go to Cuba. Now why he is on this journey on the way to prove up.
Remember those days there's no cost. There's no phones. journeys take long and you can't receive a
lot of information while on the journey. The entire situation of Kufa changes while he's on his way.
So Hussein Rajaraman his family on the weekend yazeed realized that the people in Cuba want to rebel
through he appoints over a very, very tyrannical government. A man by the name of Obaidullah
		

			and this is a name that we don't hear enough of Obaidullah even Xia is the real villain of the
story. It is anybody in this story that you want to cast as a villain, as somebody who is truly was
evil in terms of his political
		

			methodology. Obaidullah was perhaps the most
		

			tyrannical person alive at that time.
		

			So he appoints Obaidullah as well as a young man in his in his early 20s. he appoints this young man
as the governor of Kufa to end any rebellions in the game. That's his main goal. Don't allow any
rebellion to take place.
		

			So whaler goes to Kufa and he places the city under lockdown. No one's allowed to leave or enter
without
		

			permission, because he knows Hussein is coming. And he begins to send spies to outer city to look
for rebels, and we say his cousin. And he, he starts, you know, going off to anyone who supports him
saying, immediately the entire city abandoned depends. The majority of people abandon their plans,
they go back to living a normal life. And they give up the political aspiration of siding with
Hussein against he, as he now has in regular one who does not know about this. He comes close to
Kufa, he notices the areas under lockdown, there's checkpoints everywhere, can't get into the city,
he meets some travelers and they tell you what's going on in the city. He's now just him and his
		

			family outside in the desert in a small thing called karma. And the army of availa epcr surrounds
him.
		

			And at that point, he realizes he's not going to be saving over and in a situation change. So
Hussein radula, he makes a offer of compromise. Right, and there's different durations and what he
what he offered, but it can be summed up as follows he offered to either go back to Makkah and
forget about the whole situation, or to go fighting jihad against the non Muslims, or to go and meet
with the ASEAN himself and discuss the differences. So very reasonable, you know, compromise to
make. But Obaidullah this tyrannical young man Kufa, who's got you know, this, he's got this ego
about him, he doesn't accept it. And he tells saying, you either pledge allegiance to yours eat at
		

			my hand, or you die.
		

			Now think about what the insult This is to the grandson of the prophet SAW yourself that this young
man is treating me this way when he's trying to give away solution to the problems. And while all of
these discussions are going on, at the back and forth, it gets more and more heated. Eventually,
some of the men in Obaidullah army, they attack the family of Hussein, the descendants of the
Prophet sallallaahu salam, and the massacre the entire family, all of the men of the family,
including Hussein, a massacre at Karbala, on the 10th of Mojave.
		

			And this event has a ripple effect on the oma in many, many different ways. You know, again, we
understand the emotion attached to it. When we study history, we expect the only United States but
they think they just the generation after the time of the Prophet slowly or sudden his own grandson
is killed by Muslims. That's something many of us still can't wrap our head around, right. And
		

			it's a very difficult thing to swallow. And that's why right until today, the story raised a lot of
emotions and a lot of sectarian violence and a lot of problems between Muslims whenever it's brought
up and whenever, whenever it is discussed. But it is a part of our history, and we shouldn't do it,
we should take lessons from it. For most of the lessons that we can take from what happened at
Karbala
		

			is that every generation will face some form of protest. And even the best of Muslims will face
difficulties. And justice doesn't always happen in this world. Sometimes something unjust will
happen in this world, and justice will only come to the Day of Judgment.
		

			Because, you know, one of the biggest crimes that he has either as key was that when the news
reached him of what we did not even care to say he did not punish him. He did nothing about it. And
by the way, that led to another event, when the people of Medina learned about yazeed, not punishing
away to them. They rebelled. And they began to rebel against
		

			the army after them, which led to a second massacre. We don't talk about the massacre. This massacre
was even more brutal and more people were killed and more terrible things happen. The what happened
at Goodwill, but we actually don't talk about it because of how bad it was. So bad things happen.
And sometimes we don't get justice in this world, sometimes justice only completely of judgment. And
that's something we have to learn to live with while we are in this world. Because this world is a
test. And every generation adjusted is certain lessons we can take from this is that even the Sahaba
themselves differ on how to deal with a tyrant rule.
		

			Even amongst the Sahaba, they had differences of opinion that some of the Sahaba they just lived
their lives. And they didn't worry about the ruler and what he did, right he just focused on
teaching or walking or whatever it was, some of them took a verbal stand against the wall. So they
would you know, speak out against him or speak up to him. Right. And that's as far as they would go.
And some of them like Abdullah even
		

			had a military rebellion against the wall. And Abdullah even obeyed when Hussein when was martyred.
He became very, very angry. And he claimed to be the halifa in Moscow. And that started a civil war
between him and the males right over the hill. So even amongst the Sahaba, they had different
differences of opinion on how to deal with titles. And I say this because sometimes people bring for
legal solution, and they portrayed as if that's the only way and there's no other way. And Dave, as
you know is what Islam teaches. in theology, this is the issue that even the Sahaba
		

			third lesson that we can take from the life of Hussain regular Bible is the importance of being
brave and courageous that he was one of the most bravest men of that generation. He was a majority,
not just in his deeds, but in his words as well. In the Hadees, I quoted at the beginning, the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam stated that the best jihad is to stand up against the tyrant, to
speak a word of truth against a tyrant worldwide. Because in that situation, you know that you're
going to be overpowered, you know, you can't when you're doing it, because it's the right thing to
do, even though you know, it might cost you your life, after that becomes the greatest form of
		

			jihad. And so when Hussein Rolando and his family are surrounded by this army, and they know that
they can't defeat this army, but he still stands for truth and justice against the title we love,
this is a, this is a clear example of what it means to stand up to a tyrant ruler, even when you
know that you don't have a chance of defeating him. Now, it's permissible not to do that, by the
way, because of the rule that necessity makes around Palau. But this is the highest form of jihad.
Remember, not everything that's the highest form is what you have. And Hussein, of course,
represents the highest form of piety in his generation.
		

			And one final lesson.
		

			Or this is a bit of a darker lesson to take. But this is one final lesson you can take from the
story to see
		

			is that
		

			you know what happened on that day had ripple effects right until today
		

			that Hussein was killed by weight lipids
		

			and Obaidullah even car was killed by another rebel army, and then that rebel armies neither was
killed by another rebel army. And this continues throughout history, every generation, the
rebellions, and there are people who are killed. And this becomes a cycle that is dealing with right
through today. In many parts of the Muslim world. We are tired kings. In many parts of the Muslim
world, the civil unrest in many parts of the Muslim world, righteous people are being massacred and
killed for no other reason, except that they stand up against injustice. This is a sad, dark reality
of the world that we live in, is not something new. It's something that happened even in the title
		

			of this novel. So we end this goodbye by asking Allah Subhana Allah to grant us the ability to be
people of should injustice, to protect us from ever being tyrants, and to protect us from being
harmed by the tyrants. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to allow us to extract lessons from history to
be balanced in our approach to history and to protect us from ever being on the wrong side of
history. So behind Robin is a damaging phone or syllable of recevied 111
		

			hamdulillah salat wa salam, O Allah May Allah Allah.
		

			Allah, Allah Allah Allah.
		

			Allah,
		

			Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam, Bashar Al Assad to Hakuna Matata gokula Bill akintola.
		

			We are few days away from the 10th of Muharram and the 10th of Muharram is a very auspicious and
holy day Islam and its virtues and holiness is directly related to see something we have to make.
These are two separate things. Karbala happened on the 10th of Muharram. And that is a tragedy. And
that is a legendary story we can take lessons from but the virtues of mohyla were narrated by the
prophet SAW yourself
		

			on almost half a century before and they relate back to the story of Tucson, Arizona. And it was on
the 10th of Muharram that Mousavi Salah was saved from the vowel and so he problems on the level he
was setting up when he was in Medina. He noticed that the Jews on Medina would fast on the tent.
		

			And he asked him why. And he said that it was the day when moose moose, Ali's lover said. So the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that we have more right to honor Mousavi Salah because he's
our Prophet. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the next year He fasted on the 10th of Muharram
and he made the intention for the day after too fast, the tender hearted with one extra day.
		

			And another heavy is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said whoever fasts on the title of
Allah on the day of Ashura, then one year sins are forgiven the previous year's sins are forgiven.
So what do we do on the 10th of Ramadan? The sooner is too fast. It is a day of fasting, and it is
one of the most auspicious and holy buzz outside of the obligatory pass that if there's any fast
outside of the obligatory fasting, I would recommend that you keep the two. The first has just
passed, which was the nitrogen pitcher, the other is coming up which is the tender offer. These are
the two most important facets of all of the recommended process, and for both of them the reward is
		

			similar. For the nine digit HR reward
		

			Was your previous year and your next year sins are forgiven. Now many of us may have missed that
because you will go into the rioting and looting at that time. So we can get a chance to talk about
that to even think about them. Right. And that is past, we have another opportunity to have a year
since forgiven and which of us did not have a year's worth of sins and need for giving. So inshallah
letters or make the intention to fast on the kingdom of Harlem with what he did, when we can follow
and provide the sooner a very, very important to know of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
there is a certain Sunnah attached to a ghetto Hello. The only thing is that this should not the
		

			scholars differ on the authenticity of the Hadees right, so some Allah say that this is a Sunnah and
some sage novel, and that is to spend money on your family or project. So there is a narration that
says you ever spent money on their family on the 10th of Muharram, then they well will be blessed
for the next year.
		

			And there are many other matter of history, who say that they have practiced this every single Tatum
ohana and he never disappointed them, that every 10th of Muharram they treated their family they
spent money on the family despite their family, and they never had any financial problems for that
year. So again, the Hadees is a dispute about some alarmist is weak and that is the opinion your
follow up to me now focused on the pasty but other hola Mercedes authentic and they even type in a
word for them. And I'm also inclined to the opinion that could be located authentic and acceptable.
So that gives us a second center to practice on the 10th of Muharram wants to know is too fast the
		

			other is to spend money in your family. simple way to combine the two in the modern world faster
Tatum O'Hara before you start to your family out or the takeaways or something like that, right you
spend money on your family by fasting and that way you can fulfill both of these signals at the same
time. So the tender moharram is a very important day and I highly recommend all of us that we start
fasting outside of Ramadan many of us you know we have this we have this thing that we only fast
Ramadan. Once Ramadan think about fasting until the next Ramadan. But there are so many Suna fasts
and one of the gates of Jannah are for those who pass often. So if you want to be from the you know
		

			from those people who get entered from that door let's start off with the simpler pass it started
with something at the tender mojarra with the 92 he job and maybe from the Allah will give us
guidance will pass more often maybe the Mondays and Thursdays the three middle days of the month
there are many other types of services that we can think about but let's start with this one. This
make intention inshallah to foster tender mohalla as the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and
the great Sahaba May Allah allow us to practice on this and to be with the people of the mind and of
the people of fasting the people from justice. Robin Allah to reasoner in the scene, our Robin,
		

			Alina is Shaka hamato commelina Robin Mila Allah
		

			Subhana Rahman is it on my phone or Salah
		

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