Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #72 Violating the Treaty
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Last week, we went over an important part
of the Sirah
that
took place
after
the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
And that was
reaching out to the kings of the world,
and expanding the reach of
the dawah by
sending out letters
with
messengers
that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam chose from
among the companions
to send these letters to
some of the leaders of the world at
that time.
And so we went through some of the
more prominent
letters
like the one addressed to
Qaysa or,
the Caesar of,
the Roman Empire,
Heraclius,
as well as Kisra
of Persia,
and al Muqawqis
who was
one of the kings in Egypt.
And we also looked at how each of
these
leaders reacted
to these letters,
and how Allah
dealt with each
based on their respective reactions.
And so we now move on to
discuss
the fate of
the peace treaty
between
the Muslims and Kuwait.
And so it's only been
a little over a year.
And
what happens
is that Quraysh,
they violate one of the terms of the
agreement,
The agreement that was supposed to last for
10 years,
and that had brought peace
between them and the Muslims.
And so what exactly happened?
What was the story?
And
what did it result in?
So that's what we're gonna be talking about
today, insha'Allah ta'ala.
We start off with some background
that actually takes us back to
the days of Jahiliya, before Islam.
The Arabs being
a tribal society,
they would have alliances where
a man who doesn't belong to a strong
tribe would
move to live with
a stronger tribe,
and then he would become
their allies.
What is meant by this is that
that tribe now
protects this person
and takes care of him
like they would
any member of their tribe.
So during the days of Jahiliyyah,
what happened was
a man from
Banu al Hdram, a tribe
who was an ally of Banu Bakr,
another tribe,
he was traveling
in Shijaz.
And when he was deep
in the territory
of Khuzar,
which is a tribe
outside of Mecca.
Some men of Huza'a,
they killed him and they stole his money.
So
since this man was an ally of the
tribe of Banu Bakr,
who also lived
in Hejaz,
outside of Mecca.
What happened was Baru Bakr now,
being his ally,
they took revenge
by going and killing a man from
Khuzar.
Khuzar then targeted
3 members
from the family of
And this particular family belonged
they consider themselves
to be above everyone else. They were from
Banu Bakr.
But within the tribe of Banu Bakr, they
basically,
you know, they used to consider themselves to
be the more noble
of this tribe.
So what they used to do is they
used to charge
double the blood money if
one of their members was killed.
So
if someone is killed, you ask for the
blood money from the relatives.
In this particular family, they would charge double.
And now, Huza'a
had killed
3 of them.
And this was all in the in the
days of Jahiliya
before
Isin.
So here we have 2 tribes,
Banubakkuk
and Khuzah.
They are both big tribes
that live in shijas,
and
they will revive.
Now, one of the one of the terms
of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
was that
whoever wanted to enter into an alliance with
Quraysh could do so.
And whoever wanted to enter into an alliance
with the Muslims,
they were free to do so.
So Banu
Bakr had entered into an alliance with Quraish
and Khuzaa
had allied with
Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
And so now, here we have these alliances.
Quraysh allies with
or Banu Bakr allies with Quraysh,
and Huza'a
allies with
the Muslims.
Why did
Huza'a in particular ally with the Muslims?
This was because
Huza'a
had been allies
of the Nuhashim,
The family of Danu Hashim from Turaysh
in the days of Jahiliya.
And so they continued this tradition
by allying themselves with the sun.
And one of the most prominent
figures of Banu Hashim, that being Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Even though many of them at this time,
they had remained as an shrikoon.
They were kuffar.
There were some among Khuzaa who were Muslims
but many who were not.
But yet, they still
were loyal to Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam
not because of religion
but because of these tribal traditions.
So they used to In the past,
they used to be an ally of Banu
Hashim always.
And now Muhammad
is the most senior member of Binu Hashim.
So they decided, we're gonna ally ourselves
with Muhammad sallallahu alaihi was sallta.
So now what happens
is for years,
this rivalry
had been taking place between Banu Bakr and
Fuzaq.
And
for a long time,
Banu Bakr, they wanted to seek revenge
for those 3 men
who were killed.
Banu Bakr, they wanted to take revenge from
Khuzar.
So now during
the peace treaty,
during the
period of the peace treaty after Per Daya,
what happened was
one of the leaders of Banu Bakr,
a man by the name of Muawiya ibn
Nawfal al Du'al,
who was from the family
who lost
those 3 men.
You know, that,
noble family
from Ben Gurkha.
He found a golden opportunity
for the revenge.
He found
Khuzah
camp,
not too far from Mecca.
Right outside
the boundary of the Haram of Mecca.
And
they were not on alert and
they didn't even have weapons.
He said, this is the perfect opportunity.
So what he did is he launched an
attack on them.
And so this man, Mahawiyah,
he gave orders
to the other members of Banu Bakr
to participate.
However,
many of them said no.
Many of the chiefs of the Anubakar, they
said,
we're in a peace treaty.
Right?
We're in a peace treaty right now,
and we can't do something like this.
However, in the end,
this man Mu'awiya
ibn Nawfal,
he carried
out this attack
on his own with some of his men.
But what is important to note here
is that he also had the support
of
some men from
his allied forces.
And so
they provided him with arms
and horses to launch this attack.
And
these men from Thuraysh,
they knew how dangerous this was.
However,
they thought they could get away with it
because it was nighttime
and no one would see.
And so they thought that news would not
reach the Prophet
about their participation,
the participation of quick.
So
some of the people of Khuzaha were killed
as a result.
They say about 20,
while the rest fled.
Where did they go? They entered into the
boundaries of the haram.
And
the Arabs, they used to consider the sanctity
of the haruhar.
They used to consider it to be
a grave sin
to kill anyone inside
the boundaries of the Haram of Makkah
or to kill anyone during
the sacred months.
And so now
the men of Mu'awiya,
some of them, they stopped.
And they actually started warning wawiyah.
They told him, we are now entering the
boundaries of the Haram.
They were saying,
Your God, Your God.
What did he say?
He said,
There is no God today.
O Benu Bakr,
seek your revenge.
In the name of Allah, you are stealing
from people inside the Haram. Wouldn't you seek
your revenge therein?
He was basically trying to justify this attack
by saying that, You already
already you guys
are stealing from people inside of the Haram.
They used to do this.
They used to go and steal
from inside the Haram.
And so he's asking them, why are you
complaining now?
When you're actually taking revenge, you're doing something
right.
You're taking revenge
for the blood of
members
of your family when you have this golden
opportunity to do so.
So now,
those people from Huza who fled into the
haram,
they end up going into Mecca now.
And
they went to seek refuge
in the house of a man,
Badeel ibn Warqa'al Khuzar. This was a man
from Khuzar
who used to live in Mecca.
And so they told him what happened.
And so he got
the leaders of Huza'a together,
and
immediately
he got a group of 40 of
them
to travel to Medina
to convey
what had happened to
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasaydah.
And so
they go to Madinah
and
they meet with the Prophet
while he was sitting with his companions
in the masjid.
One of their leaders,
Amr ibn Salim al Khuzai,
he conveyed the news to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
in lines of poetry.
And he was reminding the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam not only of their current alliance
but also the alliance they had with his
great great grandfather
Hashim.
What was the response of
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Now if a similar situation was happening today
and
a similar situation was to be brought before
the leaders of today,
they would probably say,
let's consult
the international community,
or let's take it to the United Nations,
or let's see what the Security Council is
gonna say.
But when when
Amr
ibn Salim presented
this to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
What was the response of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam? He responded
and he gave him a clear,
and direct, and decisive answer right there and
then.
He said,
no sirutayahamr
bin Salih.
You have been helped.
O Amr bin Salih.
That's it. It's done.
It's over with.
You are guaranteed my help.
He didn't tell him how.
He didn't tell him he didn't give him
any details
of what he was gonna do,
but he just gave him this promise.
And the narration it mentions
that as soon as he was done talking
to him,
a cloud came by.
And the Prophet
said, This is a sign
of the help of Allah coming.
Immediately after that,
Rasulullah
started
making
preparations.
Abu Bakr
he went to visit his daughter,
Aisha
And he found her
sifting and
preparing wheat
for the travel of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
There was a particular kind of
food that she would prepare
for him
when he would travel
on a military campaign.
So when Abu Bakr rabiullahu anam saw her
doing that,
he knew
that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was intending on going out on a mission,
but he didn't know where,
or with who, against who?
In one narration it says that he asked
Aisha
is Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam planning on going
to war,
on going to fight?
Ayesha
said, yes.
Abu Bakr then asked her,
is it the Romans?
Because that was the last enemy
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
fought. We covered
recently the battle of Muqtah.
What was her response?
She didn't answer.
Then he asked, is it so and so?
She didn't answer.
In one narration,
she replied saying,
I don't know.
I don't know.
And so this
shows us that
she was keeping a secret.
This shows us
that whatever information she had from the Prophet
the Prophet
wanted her to keep it a secret.
Meanwhile, back in Makkah,
Quraysh
of Hudaybiyah
was meant to last
for 10 years.
That was the agreement, a 10 year period.
And it was already broken
in its 2nd year.
It's mentioned
in the books of Sira 17
to 18 months
after the crude idea this happened.
And so,
Quraish,
they decided they had to do something.
Otherwise, that's it. It's over.
The Prophet
is gonna be marching into Madqah.
And so they decide to send
their most senior
individual,
and that is none other than
Abu Sufyan.
And so Abu Sufyan goes
to Medina to meet the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
to try to do some damage control,
to try to mend and patch up
this violation and this reach
of the truce.
On the way there,
Abu Sufyan,
he runs into
Badeel ibn Warqa'al
Khuzar.
Who is he? We mentioned him. He was
the one who
The people of Khuzaa, when they were
fleeing the attack,
and they went into Mecca,
they took refuge in his house.
Then we mentioned he along with others went
to Medina
to meet the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and inform him of what
had happened.
So so when Abu Sufyan meets him,
he asked him, where do you just come
from?
He said,
I just went to visit
some people of Huza'a on the coast.
In reality,
we know that he had gone to meet
the Prophet
and he was just coming back from
Madinah.
So Abu Sufyan,
he was suspicious of Dali
and he didn't believe him.
So he waited until he left
and then
he went to the place where
his camel was
and he took some of the droppings of
the camel
and crushed it in his hands
and found in it
crushed date seeds.
And this is something
that is fed
to the camels of Medina.
Because Medina is where
the date on trees grow.
They don't grow in Mecca or
in the land of Khuzah.
You know, he's claiming that he he went
to meet some people of Khuzar.
Day palm trees don't grow there.
And so when Abu Sufyan saw that,
he said,
he is just returning from Madinah.
And so now he was even more worried.
Abu Sufyan, he reaches Madinah.
Where would he go?
He would obviously go
to the house of his daughter.
Who was?
The wife of the Prophet
When he entered her house,
there was
a rug on the floor or
a mattress.
And
he went to sit on it.
Habibah.
She immediately pulled it away from him and
wrapped it up.
Abu Sufyan says,
I'm I'm not sure.
Did you take the rug away from me
because
you don't see it as being suitable for
me?
I am not suitable for the run.
And so Habila
radiAllahu anha, she says,
This rug, this mattress belongs
to Rasulullah Sallallahu Anha Wa Salam
and you are
a mushrik nejis. You are a filthy mushrik.
And I don't want you to sit on
the rug of Rasulullah
Surallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Abu Sufyan
was in shock,
and he said, my daughter,
by Allah,
some evil has befallen you since you left.
But in reality,
it was this imam
that had changed her.
Then Abu Sufyan, he went to meet the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi, USM.
He told him that he wanted to renew
the treaty
and actually extend the time period of the
truce.
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him,
did something happen from your end?
He was saying that
we already have an agreement for the next
10 years
and barely 2 years have gone by.
What's the point of coming now asking for
it to be renewed?
Abu Sufyan said, no, everything is fine.
So then rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
did not respond back.
He just simply walked away.
He just ignored him and walked away.
So then
Abu Sufyan,
he went to Abu Bakr
and asked him to speak to Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to intercede
on his behalf
and ask him to renew the terms of
the treaty.
What did Abu Bakr say?
He said, I'm not gonna do that.
Then Abu Sufyan,
he goes to
Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu.
Now
Quraish know very well who Umar was.
They knew his nature
and his character.
But but this just goes to show you
how desperate
Abu Sufyan
now was.
And think about it.
This is after years
of Quraysh
dealing with the Muslims
with such pride and arrogance.
Look at how the tides have now turned.
Look at the state of desperation
and humiliation
that Abu Sufyan was going through right night,
going door to door begging the Muslims to
do something.
And so he meets Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu
anhu
and asks him
to go to the Prophet sallallahu anhu and
speak to him on his behalf
and ask him to
renew the terms of the treaty.
Because the treaty has been breached,
and he wants to renew it.
Umar
says,
you want me to intercede
before Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on your behalf?
By Allah.
If I find nothing but but an answer
to fight you,
I would fight.
If I found nothing but ants
to fight against you, I would go and
fight my dam against you.
So this was
the response of Umar al Khattab
So then Abu Sufyan being rejected,
he goes
to Ali ibn Abi Talib
He meets him and he asks him to
speak to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to intercede
on his behalf
and ask him to renew
the terms of the treaty.
Ali
says,
wayhatayahu
sufyan.
Says, Woe to you,
O Abu Sufyan.
By Allah,
Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam has made up his
mind
to do something that we cannot talk to
him.
He was basically saying that
whenever Rasulullah he wasalam
decides on a particular matter,
we cannot go to him
and ask him to change his mind.
That's it. It's over with. Yes.
We have something called shurah, but
that is before the decision is made.
After the decision is made,
it's done.
Right? Once the Prophet makes a decision, that's
it. As Allah
commanded him.
Fa idha aazamta
fatuwatqalarwa.
Once you have
made your decision, that's it. Go ahead with
it. Put your trust in Allah.
Now,
Abu Sufyan is
in a state of desperation.
He is desperate to have something done. He
does not want to leave Madinah empty handed.
He's there in the house of Ali
and he sees
Fatima
playing with her son Al Hassan.
And he was a small child.
Look at how low Abu Sufyan had gone.
He turns to Fatima radiAllahu anha and says,
O daughter of Muhammad,
would you ask this son of yours
to offer protection
to 2 groups of people
thus making him
the leader of the Arabs until the end
of time?
She said, by Allah,
my son is too young to do such
a thing.
And no one can give protection
in the presence of Rasulullah Meaning
that if Rasulullah
has decided
to fight a people,
we cannot go against him.
No one can say
that I offer these people protection.
O Messenger of Allah, don't attack them. No,
it doesn't work like that.
And so you can see how desperate
Abu Sufyan had become.
And
what is interesting to note here is that
this is not the nature of Abu Sufyan.
He was known to be
a wise,
strong leader,
but he was now acting foolishly.
And it was clear that he was in
a state of confusion and desperation.
Then Abu Sufyan said to Ali
he said, O Abil Hassan,
I see that things have become very tough,
So give me your advice.
Ali
he didn't really have anything to advise him
with.
But he said, he said, By Allah,
I know of nothing
that will do you any good. There's nothing
that, you know, will help me.
However,
you are
the leader of Bani karani.
So go to the masjid
and offer protection to the people.
Al ijar.
And then
get going back to your homeland.
Abu Sufyan here says,
do you think that that would do me
any good?
Rahaali raviallahu ani says,
no, I don't think so.
But I don't really have anything else to
tell you.
So even though Mahaliyah
told him that,
you know, there was nothing
Abu Sufyan could do,
but Abu Sufyan still, he followed his advice,
and he went to the masjid,
and he stood there,
and he said,
I grant protection to the people.
Now just some background on this idea of
ijari,
offering protection. What does it mean? In the
days of Jahilia,
men who were
leaders of their people,
They would give their word in front of
the people and say, I
protect so and so.
So and so is under my protection.
And because of his position
or his honor among the people or because
of the strength of His tribe,
the people would accept that
protection
and they would not go against Him.
They would honor His word.
This was part of their tribal tradition. So
Abu Sufyan, he did this in the Masjid.
He went to the Masjid
in Madina
and he said this.
Now the question is,
who is Abu Sufyan in Madira?
No one cares about him.
Yes,
he is the leader
in Mecca.
But in Medina,
the leader is Muhammad
and Abu Sufyan is a nobody.
Right?
So
whoever was there,
they just completely
ignored
Abu Sufyan.
So now Abu Sufyan,
he leaves Madinah,
and he goes back to Madqam.
He tells
the people of his journey.
He said,
I met Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
spoke to him,
but he didn't give me an answer.
Then I went to Abu Bakr,
and I didn't find any good with him
either.
Then I went to Ummah
and I found him to be the most
hostile enemy.
Then I went to Ali
and I found him to be the most
lenient among the people, the most the softest
of them.
And he gave me advice to do something
and I did it.
But I don't
know whether it's gonna do me any good
or not.
They asked him,
What did he tell you to do?
He said,
he told me to go and offer protection
to
the people,
and I did it.
They asked him,
did
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam approve of him?
Did did the Prophet
So law alaihi wasalam give the green light
for this?
He said no.
So then they said to him,
They said to him, Woe to you.
Rahali,
he did nothing but play with you.
He made a fool out of you.
And that's exactly
what ended up happening.
Aali radiya wagwan,
he made a fool of
Abu Sufyan.
And so so
that was the end of it.
Abu Sufyan,
he came to this dead end,
and
the attempts
of Quraysh to patch up whatever
they could of the damage caused by
Ben Waqqah, their ally.
And those men of Quraysh who had helped
them,
it all failed.
And now,
Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam had made up his mind
to advance
onto Mecca
for what will be one of the most
major
events
of the sigil yet,
and that
is Fatimaqa,
the conquest
of Mecca.
That we will
start talking about next week, Insha'Allah.
So some of the lessons that we learned
from
the violation of the treaty.
1st of all,
a treaty
can be considered broken
even if
some people break it.
We see how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
considered
the Treaty of Hudaybiyah to have been violated,
to have been breached
by this act
which was carried out by only one man.
You know, this Muawiyah bin Nawfaladu'ih.
All the other
chiefs of Ben Gurkur, as we mentioned, they
refused to participate.
And they even told him to stop.
But nonetheless,
Rasulullah
still considered
the treaty to have been broken.
And he declared
war
against Quraysh as a result.
And so we take from this
what we learned from this,
the lesson that we learned from this is
that
not all of the population
of a country
needs to be supported
of what their government does for it to
be considered
a breach of covenant between them and themselves.
For example, if people come out on the
streets
to demonstrate against their government
like these anti war protesters.
Or if some of the government
and elected officials are against war,
as long as part of the government
has taken the official stance of attacking
the Muslims or a Muslim country,
then the leader of that Muslim country
has the right to announce war
and to fight against this nation.
He can't say,
well, the country is split up. Some are
for, some are against. We're not gonna attack
them. Right? No, it doesn't work like that.
And we learned this from
we learned this from
how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam responded
even though it was one man
who broke
the treaty
and all the rest,
they were abiding by the treaty
and
even Quraysh. And Abu Sufyan said, we didn't
do anything.
It was Banu Bakr, but
the treaty has been broken.
The second lesson that we learned
is the importance of
keeping
a secret
as a secret.
And so a secret is a secret, and
you cannot tell it to anyone.
We don't really know whether Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told his wife, A'isha radiAllahu
anha of his plans.
Exactly.
But what we do see is how Aisha
radiAllahu anha dealt with the situation
and did not disclose
anything about whatever she knew about his plans
to her own father,
Abu Bakr,
who was also very close to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
There's no one who the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was closer to
than Abu Bakr. But yet,
even then she did not disclose any information
that was not necessary for him to know.
Right?
Because here we have a situation where
the security
of the Muslims could be at risk,
could be in danger
if any information is leaked out to the
enemy.
And so somebody who does not need to
know about certain information,
that's it. He doesn't need to know, and
we don't have to tell them.
And so Aisha radiAllahu anha, she didn't tell
anyone, not even her own father.
And this point is very important because
a lot of times we tend to
tell a certain someone
everything just because
we trust them.
Right?
But even then,
Islam teaches we're not allowed to disclose
someone else's secret
even if you trust the person.
And so if you do, you are breaking
your trust,
the trust that someone had in you.
Anyways, in one narration,
it mentions
that Abu Bakr radiAllahu and then he went
to the Prophet
and asked him and Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam ended up telling him
of
his plans.
The third lesson that we learned
is the loyalty
of the companions.
The loyalty they had to
the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasall.
We see this
in how
Khadibah
dealt with her own father
and how she spoke to him
when he wanted to come and sit
on the rug or the mattress of the
Prophet
Who was he?
He was
her own father.
But yet,
like many of the other companions,
she had a great sense of
This
concept in our deen
of having loyalty to Allah and His Messenger
and the believers,
and having enmity with
the kuffar,
where
their religion and the Prophet
was a red line for them.
And the dignity of Rasulullah
and his honor
came before the dignity
of a kafir
even if it was
you know, their own mother and father.
And this should not come as a surprise.
This should not come as
a surprise
or
as being unexpected
from
someone like Habib
Why?
She was one of the earliest Muslims.
Right? She had migrated to Abyssinia
with the early Muslims.
And then from there she migrated to Midian.
She was deeply immersed in Islam.
Having cut off her ties with Jahiliya
and, you know, her own people, and
their customs, and their norms, and their traditions.
Here she had not seen her own father
for
nearly 16 years.
Right? Because this entire time
she had left. She went to Abyssinia,
and then she came directly to Medina.
She hadn't gone back to Mecca. She had
not seen her father for 16 years.
And
when she finally meet him and he arrives,
She sees a man in front of her
who
she
sees as not deserving any respect or honor.
But rather
she sees him
as a leader of kufr and an enemy
of Islam
who for years stood
in the face of the Dawah and fought
against Muslims. And so this should teach us
a huge lesson.
You know, this is the kind of alwala
walbarar
that we Muslims need to display
with the kafar
even if
they aren't close to us.
The final lesson that we learned
is the importance of
displaying
a show
of force and strength.
And so if the Muslims today
would get over the belief that
we are weak
and
we can't really do anything.
The ones
who are bombing the Muslims today,
they will
come
and be like Abu Sufyan,
and they will come and beg the Muslims
for peace.
But
in order for that to happen,
the Muslims need to get over this belief
that we are weak.
We are incapable
of defending ourselves.
Look at how powerful the enemy is.
Remember how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
reminded the believers
after
In which they suffered the loss they suffered.
Look at how Allah reminded them to remain
strong.
Do not weaken
nor grieve.
Yes,
you suffer
but that doesn't mean you have to now
become weak.
Allah says,
Do not weaken nor grieve
for you will be victorious.
You will have the upper hand.
You will have the upper hand as long
as we're believers.
And so even if we are defeated
and we suffer setbacks,
we are still commanded by Allah
to stay strong
and not falter.
If we do that,
then Allah will eventually
grant us victory.
And that is exactly what happened after
after Uhud.
From then onwards, what did we see in
this era?
From after Uhf,
we saw that from then onwards,
it was just uphill.
The Muslims were just winning
after that.
They weren't suffering any losses after that.
Why?
Because the Muslims stayed strong.
They didn't say, oh, we've lost,
and now
they become inferior.
They say our enemy is stronger than us.
No. No. No. No. And now this was
the climax of that. This was the peak
where Abu Sufyan
was coming in a state of desperation
and humiliation.
But we cannot rush things.
Allah has destined
things to happen in a certain way.
And so we need to allow the Qadr
of Allah to run its due course.
Eventually,
the Muslims will be victorious.
It will happen.
But we need to persist
in showing strength
and remaining steadfast
to our principles and
not
falter
or compromise,
which is what we see Muslims doing today
unfortunately.
Right?
And so when the Muslims of today keep
on,
when we keep on feeding
the Ummah with this idea that,
you know, we are
in a state of weakness
and we're uncapable of fighting against our enemies,
that the enemies are stronger,
and we don't stand a chance,
and that we should compare our state to
the Muslims
when they were in Mecca.
The Meccan stage of the dawah,
where they were told not to fight back
because
we're defenseless and we don't have the power.
Many Muslims today are saying this.
They're saying we are in the Makkan stage
which means we don't fight. We shouldn't show
any strength.
And so as long as
these concepts, these ideas,
we are filling the Muslims with this fear,
and inferiority, and weakness,
and humiliations
that, you know, programs the Muslims to be
weak,
and accept oppression,
then as long as, you know, we are
doing this, then we're not gonna get
get anywhere.
We're not gonna get anywhere.
With that, we come to the end of
today's session.
And Insha'Allah
we will continue,
next week.
Again, at the same time,
we start an hour before salatulmuhrib
and then we continue until salatulmuhrib.
So we'll continue next week insha'Allaham ta'ala.