Ismail Kamdar – The Reign of Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan

Today,

Inshallah, we

will

conclude our history of the aftermath of Karbala Udi, brief

biography of King Abdul Malik ibarwan.

And Abdul Maliki al marwani isn't someone who would usually do akut

about right? He's not one of the sahaba. He's not one of the

awliya. He was a king. He had his good and he had his bad. And there

are lessons that we can take from them. There are lessons we can

take from the fact that the bulk of the people in our history,

we're human. They have good and bad qualities, just like us. And

we ask Allah to forgive them, and we ask Allah to forgive us.

Abdul Malik, I want a very interesting figure in our history,

because he did a lot of guru for the Ummah, and he did a lot of bad

things as well.

And his life can be divided into three phases.

The first phase is his youth.

Abdul Malik grows up in Malina as one of the Tavi rain, one of the

second generation Muslims.

There is a difference of opinion of whether his father or the

sahabi or not. It seems most likely he was not that he accepted

Islam after the Prophet SAW passed away.

But nonetheless, growing up in Madina, Abdul Malik grew up around

the Sahaba,

and it is stated that he was a righteous young man. He will pray

in the masjid of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam regularly, some

say that he studied fiqh. Some say he memorized the Quran.

He had a very noble childhood.

But something clicked, something changes at some point in his life,

the civil war between the Umayyads and Abdullah ibn suvail had been

going on for about three or four years when Abdul Malik receives

the news that his father had been killed by his stepmother and that

he is now The new king.

So Abdul Malik's father, Marwan, had married the widow of Yazid to

take the Khilafat away from the family of mahawiya to the family

of Marwan, and he succeeded in doing so, but he was killed by his

wife

and his son, Abdul Malik comes into power at a very difficult

time, at a time where the omegas and Abdullah ibn Dubai have been

at war for years.

And what we see next from Abdul Malik is a different side of his

personality, right? Young Abdul Malik was a righteous man.

Abdul Malik, during the Civil War, was a brutal dictator,

and for the next 10 years, he goes into this brutal mode of just

making sure that he wins the Civil War and brings the entire

Darul Islam under his leadership.

And to this, he did some bad things, right? Most notably, he

hires Haja even Yusuf and his main commander,

and we know that step by step, Abdul Malik being a really crafty

statesman, really good at strategy, really good at war and

diplomacy, he step by step, he takes over

one city at a time, and

he's so crafty that even the brothers and the nephews of

Abdullah ibn Zubayr switched sides and joined him. So Abdullah ibn

Zubayr put some of his family members as governors of different

regions. They switched loyalties and start working for Abdul Malik.

And eventually, what we mentioned last week happens, the army of

surrounds

Abdullah ibn Zubayr in Makkah, and they kill him, and the entire

Ummah now comes under the leadership of Abdul Malik, and the

second civil war comes to an end

note that this is false perception in our history, that nobody did

anything about karma, yet we covered over the past three weeks,

that in the aftermath of God Mala, there was 14 years of war, of

civil war caused by karma. Uh, delight in Dubai. Didn't let it

rest. So this is a false notion that nobody did anything about it,

even the people of Madina Begum because of it.

After the the aftermath of God Bala comes to an end at this point

in our history. And what I want to talk about now is actually the

reign of Abdul Malik, because this is a very interesting individual

in our history that most people don't know about.

Abdul Malik is the actual, real founder of the umenyl Empire. In

many ways, he's the real founder of the Umayyad empire.

Why do I say this? Before Abdul Malik, we had Umayyad, khalifas,

Uzma Malawi, but Hagar, right? But there wasn't an empire. You see

Islam from the time of Rasulullah to the time of Abdul Malik, is an

emerging power. It's a rising power, right? They are growing.

They are taking over lands. They are a rising power.

And Abdul Malik, when he becomes the Khalifa, we see a third change

in his personality. We have the righteous young man. Then during

the Civil War, we have the brutal dictator. And when the civil war

comes to an end, and he has the entire Ummah under his control. We

now see another side of Abdul Malik. He becomes a visionary. He

becomes a man of vision. He becomes a man who sees what this

ummah could be, and he shapes it accordingly.

Abdul Malik is the first real king in our history

and all of the kingdoms that come after him, following his in his

footsteps and build upon his policies. He's the one who really

shapes what the umma would become. You know, when we look back and we

talk about this great civilizations, the great Muslim

civilizations, that we have superpowers, and they dominated

the world for over 1000 years. We talk about the Abbasid. We talk

about the Ottomans. Really, the first person to do this was Abdul

Malik,

right? And he's, and he's in his reign the Ummah shifts from the

rightly guided model of the philaf of the Rashidun towards the Empire

model, and he becomes the founder of the Muslim empire. Now,

what do you mean by the Muslim empire? Tell you a few things that

he did that turned the Muslim world from a emerging power into

an empire.

Number one is that he developed a national language. So before the

time of Abdul Malik, every region had their own language. The people

in Syria, they actually spoke Greek. And did all of the people

working Greek, because it used to be part of the Roman

Empire, right? The people in Iraq and Iran spoke Persian, and all

the people were presenting Persian Abdul Malik makes Arabic the

national language of dawn, Islam.

And it's because of this policy that all of those lands today are

Arabic lands. And all of those countries we go there today,

people speak Arabic. It starts in the time of Abdul Malik, when he

makes it the official language of the Empire. Is

something people before him didn't really think about doing that. The

language that the Empire. This is the Empire. Now I needed official

language, right? A second thing that he does is he develops a flag

that this is the flag for our country, right, like an official

flag of the imagin empire. But the most interesting thing that Abdul

Malik does that elevates his reign to an actual empire. He invents

Islamic currency,

and he invents Islamic currency. You see, until this point in

history, Muslims are using Roman currency, or Persian currency,

to show that they are now an empire equal to the Roman Empire.

Abdul Malik says, We need our own currency, and so you'll find that

the earliest winter Islamic coins go back to the reign of Abdul

Malik, and it's still available today. What millions, but it's

still available, right? And what's interesting is the first batch of

coins that he printed has his face on it, and then the Ulama.

So that was discontinued very quickly, and the second batch came

out when Islamic slogans on it instead, and that became the norm

for the Muslim world for over 1000 years. So what we see in the reign

of Abdul Malik is the evolution of the Muslim world from a merging

power into a superpower. It's under the reign of Abdul Malik and

his children that Muslims really become a global superpower. They

become the most dominant nation on earth, and they will remain so

under the awaits and the Abbasid and the Ottomans for 1000 years.

But it's not to this man. He's the one who has the vision of being an

empire. He has this vision of being equal to the Romans, if not

greater, and challenging their stages as the world's superpower.

And he said some policies to ensure this happens. And so

history changes. In the reign of Abdul Malik,

the one of the results of this change is that Islam starts to

grow rapidly once again.

So we notice the first major growth in our history is in the

reign of Omar Ravi Lahu, right at the time of Umar Rahul, the

Muslims took over basically what we call today in the Middle East,

from Egypt to Iran, right, all of this area they took over. But then

it's that names. It doesn't really grow after that, right from the

time of Abdul Malik

in the reign of Abdul Malik's first son, Walid,

by the time Walid passes.

Is the Muslim side, and this is Palestine, and this is Jerusalem.

So we see that even 1300 years ago,

Jerusalem, Palestine, was very close to the hearts of the

Muslims, and it became a the third Holy Land, and it remained one of

the most important places to the Ummah throughout our history.

Unfortunately, the past 75 years, it's been under occupation, and in

the past year, it's been facing a genocide.

And many of us are frustrated. Many of us are lost for words.

Many of us don't know, what do we do? What can we do about what's

happening in Palestine?

And I don't have the answers. I don't have the answer.

It has to come from the leadership.

And one of the duties of the king in Islam, of the Khalifa, was to

protect the Muslims. This

is why we have the Ottoman Empire. And the Zionist wanted to form

Israel.

The Ottomans told him, as long as we are around, you can't have that

land that belongs to the Muslims. And so they work to dismantle the

Empire. They work to dismantle the Khilafat and we end up in the

situation via each way. I don't have an answer, I don't have a

solution. All I can do is remind us to make you are. Remind us to

have someone, remind us to trust Allah's land, to remind the Allah

knows what is best for us, and to remind us to use whatever little

bit of power we have to try and make a difference. Whether it's to

one family of refugees, whether it's to one student from Gaza, we

come to South Africa, whether it's to anyone that you can, any way

that you can help the people there, whatever little bit that

you can do for anyone from that region, do it, whether it's

promoting the church, whether it's responding to the lives of of the

Zionist propaganda out there, whatever it is, do whatever little

you Can. Allah will inshaAllah reward us for that will remind us

that our history, it's a series of ups and downs, and the downs are

normally preparing us for enough. The downs are normally preparing

us for enough. So Rasulullah, they go to all of those difficulties in

Makkah, the early years of Madina. And then we have the khalafar

Rashid. You have the downs, and then we have the up and then after

that, in the period of civil war. And then we have the mighty Omega

Empire, the downs and the UPS. And then we have a civil war between

the Abbasid and the Umayyads. And then we have the golden age of the

Abbasid empire. And he carries on. And he carries on the Crusaders

come in, then Salahuddin comes in, the morguls Come in, then the

Ottomans come in. So we are at that curve now, when the bad

things are happening, but we trust Allah's plan. We trust Allah's

father, the way the disciple of history keeps repeating itself,

good things will come

and as an ummah remind us to remain optimistic about the

future, to trust Allah's plan and to remember the Hadith. The hadith

would see when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam told us

that Allah, Subhanahu wa said, I am as my servant thinks of

me. Allah said, I am as my servant thinks of me. So think good of

Allah. Think that Allah is using this as a means of preparing the

Ummah for something great, of preparing the people of Palestine

for something great. Perhaps they will be the leaders of the next

generation of this. Perhaps the revival of the ummah will come

from that land we have to think good, because everything is the

mother of Allah. Everything happens as Allah claims, as Allah

voted, and we can only do what is within our power to react to

situations at the end of the day. Nobody chooses when they are born,

or where they are born, or what situations they live through, but

we all choose how we react to it. That is what is in our control. So

don't stop having hope. Don't stop making dua. Don't stop doing what

you can to support the people of Palestine. Keep at it.

Allah's victory will come when he wills it in ways that we can never

imagine. Miracles have happened throughout our history, and they

will continue to happen until the end of time. Now we are asking

Allah, Subhanahu wa to liberate the land of Al Aqsa and Islamic

lands from all of the oppressors in that region. We ask Allah to

return those lands to be in the lands of peace and justice and

Sharia and philaf and to make those lands once again powerful

and mighty land the Muslims can live in peace and safety. We ask

Allah to accept them after them, of all of those who passed away

fighting to defend Al Aqsa and the regions around it from the

oppressors and even those amongst their leadership, we have hearted.

We ask Allah to accept them after them, and we ask Allah to forgive

us for our nobility. We.

To help them as we should be helping them, and we ask Allah to

accept

from

us whatever little that we do to try and help them.

Allah Steen, Allah Abu asmaati has Abu Asmaa present. Subah, you.