Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #73 The Conquest of Makkah #01
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Last week we looked at
how the peace treaty
that was between the Muslims and Quraysh
that they had agreed upon
at Hudaybiyyah,
how this peace treaty
had been breached
by Quraysh and its allies.
And the treaty was meant to go on
for 10 years
but it was already violated
less than
2 years
into it.
So now we mentioned how Quraysh,
they went into
a frenzy
worrying about what's going to happen next,
so they sent Abu Sufyan all the way
to Madinah
to try to agree with the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam to revalidate
the treaty and even extend it.
And we looked at his visit to Medina
and how he returned to Mecca
in utter humiliation.
So the attempts of Quraysh to
basically repair the damage,
it all failed
and now Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had made up his mind
to advance to Mecca
for what would be
the one major event in the seerah of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and that
is Fati Mekkah,
the conquest of Makkah.
So we're gonna start looking at
this major event from today
and we'll continue on with it,
next week Insha'Allah.
Now initially,
as we mentioned last week,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he concealed his plans.
We mentioned
how Abu Bakr radiAllahu an
noticed his daughter Aisha
was preparing food that she would normally prepare
for when the Prophet would go out on
a journey
and
specifically when he would go out,
for battle.
And so Abu Bakr asked her what was
going on
and she did not let out any information.
But eventually,
eventually the Prophet
started to let the sahaba know
about his plans so that they could
get ready
for
this battle.
However,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave strict instructions
to everyone
to keep this a secret.
You know, this
journey and this plan
was not
to be
let out. The plans were not
to be let out to anyone outside of
Madinah.
And so the Prophet did not want Quraysh
to even get the slightest of hints
of the fact that he was advancing towards
Mecca.
And this time it was gonna be even
more difficult to do that, to keep it
a secret. Why?
Because
of how huge
you know his force was this time as
we're gonna see.
And so such a huge force
going all the way to Mecca,
you know it's gonna be difficult to
conceal
the plans.
However,
nonetheless the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did
what he could. He did what he could
to try to make sure that no information
was leaked.
And so in order to do this, he
took several measures.
Number 1,
he sent out
a fake sariyah,
An expedition of
8 men
under the leadership of Abu Khattad Radiallahu Wa'an
to a place called Bal Tun
Ilam which is north of Medina.
And so the purpose of this was to
deceive
the enemy
that if
people think he's
going out,
you know, to fight someone, they'll think he's
going northwards,
which is the opposite direction of Mecca.
And so Abu Qathada and his men, they
they reach
this area,
and they don't find any enemy
and no threat.
There's nothing there
so they return. On their way back,
they get news that the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam has already
left Madinah on his way to Mecca and
so they they joined.
Number 2,
the Prophet
sent spies
and monitors
in and around Madinah.
And so he put Uramur ibn Khattab radiAllahu
anhu in charge of these
spies and monitors,
and they were supposed to be stationed at
different places
in and around Medina,
and he gave them instructions
to not allow anyone
from outside Medina to have
passage
into or even near Medina,
and
for these monitors to carefully watch
anyone who seemed to be leaving Medina heading
towards Mecca.
Thirdly,
and as we have seen throughout the Sirah,
after the Prophet
would take
the means that he was able to, that
are in his hands,
whatever he is able to do in order
to achieve his goal, he would then put
his trust in Allah
and he would ask Allah for his aid
and his help. So here, even this time
it was no different, the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam,
he made dua to Allah.
He said, O Allah,
take away their hearing and their sight
so that they are not able to see
us until we come upon them by surprise
and so that they do not hear
us except
upon a setting.
Now one day,
the Prophet
got
Ali ibn Abi Talib,
and Zubayr ibn Al Awam,
and Al Miqdad ibn al Aswad, these 3
companions,
he got them together.
And he told them he was gonna send
them on a mission. The
Ali
narrates the story himself
and
it's found in Sahih al Bukhari.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
the 3 of them,
I want you to go to a place
called
Rawlat Haq.
There you will find a woman
and she has a letter with her.
I want you to bring that letter to
me.
Ali radiAllahu anhu says that we set out
with our horses
and we ran at full pace until we
reach the place
where we found the lady.
He says, We went up to her and
we said,
give us the letter that you have.
The woman she said, I don't have any
letter.
So Ali radiAllahu anhu said,
Either you give us a letter
or we're going to strip you of your
clothes.
Meaning we're gonna strip search you
because Rasulullah he salallahu alaihi wa sallam told
us that you have a letter
and so you have a letter.
So when she saw that
they were serious,
she asked them to step aside
and then she took it out, she took
out the letter from her braid, she had
it hidden in her hair.
Ali radiAllahu anhu says, We then brought the
letter to Rasulullah hu sallam
and he opened it
and he found how this it was a
letter
that contained a message
from Haltib
ibn Abi Baltah,
the companion,
to some of the Mushrikun of Makkah,
informing them of some of the plans
of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so here we have
a major
security and intelligence breach.
Here you had one of the Muslims,
hapib ibn Abi Balthaha radiAllahu an,
acting as
a secret agent
for the kuffar
among the Muslims,
passing on intelligence information
to the enemy.
When Rasulullah
hee wasalam read the letter,
he called Halperb
and he asked him,
oh Halperb, what is this?
Habib he replied,
O Messenger of Allah,
don't hurry in giving your judgment about me.
I was a man closely connected with Quraysh
but I did not belong to their tribe.
While the other Muhajirun with you
who left Mecca,
they have their relatives in Mecca
who would protect their families and their properties.
So I wanted to make up for my
lack of blood relation to Quraysh
by doing them a favor,
by informing them of your plans
so that they may protect my family. And
in one narration it says
that it was his mother that he was
worried about.
He says,
I did not do this because of kuthr
or illtidad,
apostasy,
nor
out of preferring kufr over Islam.
And so here we see
why
this companion did what he did.
He had left Mecca with all the other
Muslims when they made hijrah to Medina,
But he was different.
He did not have he did not belong
to Quraysh like the rest of the Muhajirun,
but he left behind
family, and wealth, and property.
He was worried
that if the Prophet
now comes into Mecca with his army
and there's fighting and whatnot,
That
the kuffar of of Nakkad, they're gonna take
revenge. They're gonna kill all the Muslims there
or
the relatives of Hadid
because they don't have any protection. They're not
from Quraysh,
and they'll confiscate his his property, his wealth,
etcetera.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he said to the companions around him,
he said, Habib has told you the truth.
Now,
Rumr ibn al Khattab radiAllahu anam was there
And he said, O Messenger of Allah,
allow me to chop off the head of
this munafiq, this hypocrite.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Hati participated
in the Battle of Badr.
And who knows?
Perhaps Allah has already looked at
the participants of Badr and said,
iaamaloo
ma shaitum
faqadukhafaratulakum.
Do as you please. Do whatever you want
because I have already forgiven you.
Now we mentioned this hadith
when we spoke about the status of the
people of Badr
and it went to prove how their status
is
as a group
is the highest among all the companions.
So here Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not say that Hataib
did not deserve to be killed.
He didn't respond to Umar
or to what Umar
had said
regarding Haldib being a hypocrite.
Rather he clarified
that the reason he should not be killed
is
because
he participated in
a great event, and that is the battle
of Badr.
And so this shows us the high status
of
those who participated
in that battle.
But nonetheless the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
excused
Hatub RadiAllahu alaihi wa sallam
and he did not punish him, he did
not take any further action against them.
Now
after this, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed.
Which Surah?
Surah Allah
Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says,
And the rest of the ayat.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, oh you who believe,
do not take My enemies and your enemies
as trusted allies.
Don't ally with the enemies of Islam.
Showing them affection even though they deny what
has come to you of the truth.
They drove the Messenger and yourselves out, meaning
out of Mecca
simply for your belief in Allah your Lord.
If you truly come out for jihad in
my cause and seek my pleasure, then do
not take them as allies
disclosing secrets to them out of affection towards
them
when I know best whatever you conceal and
whatever you reveal and whoever of you does
this has truly
strayed
far from the Right Way. So here Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
rebukes
the likes of Hadib that
this is not what a Muslim is supposed
to do.
Now after this,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam marches 4th
for Mecca,
and this was in the month of Ramadan.
Precisely,
the 10th of Ramadan
of the 8th year of the hijrah is
when they left Al Madinah.
The force that the Prophet
had gathered
was an army of 10,000
men strong.
It was the largest army
assembled by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
thus far.
It consisted of all of the Muhajirun
and all of the Ansar
along with
some of the tribes
that surrounded Madinah,
like Sulayim,
Aslam, Ghifar,
Muzayna and others.
And so this shows us
what we previously mentioned after the Treaty of
Hudaybiyah. The Treaty of Hudaybiyah as we mentioned
was a golden opportunity
to spread the dawah.
And we mentioned those who
attended
at Hudaybiyyah were only
a 1,400
of the Sahaba.
But now you have 10,000.
This shows us that the dua had spread
during this small period of time.
Now in the initial part of the journey,
it's Ramadan
and the Muslims were fasting.
But when they were getting closer to Mecca,
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
ordered the Muslims to break their fast,
and he took some water,
and he drank it in front of them
to basically lead by example.
And so they broke their fast for the
remainder
of the journey.
Now on the way,
there were a few
notable individuals
who came from Mecca
to join the Prophet
Among them were, first of all,
Al Abbas
ibn Abdul Muttalib radiAllahu an, the uncle
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We already
mentioned how Al Abbas,
he had already accepted Islam
previously.
And we mentioned how he stayed behind in
Mecca
and he kept his Islam as a secret.
And Rasulullah
made use of him as
a spy
who he could depend on to,
you know, send him information
about what's going on in Makkah.
But now, Al Abbas radiAllahu anhu had made
up his mind
to leave Makkah
and make hijrah
to Madinah,
and so he left with his family.
And
coincidentally,
they meet the Prophet
as he was coming. And it's mentioned that
they met,
at a place called Al Juhfa,
which is closer to Madinah, but in between
Mecca and Al Madinah.
And so, Al Abbas
joined the army.
Another individual who left Mecca
was Abu Sufyan
ibn al Harid
ibn Abdul Muttalib.
Not the famous Abu Sufyan, we're going to
talk about him shortly.
But this Abu Sufyan, he is
the cousin of the Prophet
Abu Sufyan,
ibn al Harith,
Ibn Abdul Muttalib.
He was not only the cousin of the
Prophet
but he was also his brother from breastfeeding.
And the 3rd individual
who left Mecca
to meet the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah
ibn Muhirah.
And he was
the stepbrother
of Salama, the wife of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Now both of these two men,
Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith
and Abdullah ibn Umayyah
were staunch enemies of the Prophet
who had waged
years of war
and before the wars, persecution of the Muslims
in Mecca. Abdullah
ibn
Abi Umayyah is the son of
Abi Umayyah.
He's from that family that
you know,
was staunch in their hostility
to the Prophet and the Muslims. And he
was no different. He was
he used to persecute the Muslims.
He would
mock the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and he participated in all of the battles
against the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam heard of
these 2 men,
he didn't even want to meet them.
This is how much
this is how much
he hated these 2 men.
They were leaders of Quraysh.
However, they had come to sincerely accept Islam.
Like we mentioned previously,
Khalid ibn al Walid,
Ahamr ibn al Hawass,
And so these 2 men had also left
Mecca
after seeing that, you know, that's it. The
future is for Islam.
Allah had guided their hearts and now they
had come to accept Islam.
So although initially the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
did not even want
to see their faces, salama, she managed to
convince the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
to
basically
accept them, and so he met them,
and
he accepted their pledge, and
you know, they accepted Islam at his hands,
and
they
joined the army.
Now both of these 2 men, to show
how sincere they were,
they went on to
basically defend Islam and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Shortly after the conquest of Mecca,
not too far after.
We have in the Battle of Hunayn, which
we're gonna talk about
after the conquest of Mecca,
Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith, he would stand
with the Prophet
all the way until the end.
And we're gonna talk about the Battle of
Khanin and how difficult it became, how a
lot of people left,
the army and the prophet
stood ground with only a few of the
companions. Among them was Sufyan ibn al Abu
Sufyan ibn Harif.
As were Abdullah ibn Abi Omayyah,
then when the prophet went out
to lay siege to Ata'if, which was also
right after the conquest of Mecca, and we're
gonna talk about that.
In the siege of At Ta'if,
he stood ground as well
until he was killed and so he was
martyred. He died as a shahid in the
lifetime of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
So now the Muslims
were reaching close to Mecca.
Up until this moment,
Quraysh were not aware of this massive army
approaching that.
This was as we said
due to the smart moves and precautionary measures
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made in
making sure
that no news would reach
Mecca.
On the other hand,
as we have seen throughout the Seerah,
whenever Quraysh
would make a move,
whenever they were prepared for battle,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would immediately be alerted.
And so this shows us that
the intelligence
gathering
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was at a much higher
caliber than
that of Quraysh.
Even though
their resources, the resources of the Muslims and
their abilities
were much less compared to that of Quraysh.
The Muslims were few in number
and they were only
located
in and around Madinah
Whereas Quraysh has
all of Hejaz and you know all the
other tribes, the major tribes
of Arabia are with them.
But yet
we see how
the intelligence of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was far more superior.
So now the Muslims reach a place called
Maruthuhran,
which is just north of Mecca.
And here Rasulullah hee sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
gave them orders
to camp for the night.
And he told them to light fires.
It's mentioned that
10,000 fires were lit
to give them light.
Now it so happened
that
Abu Sufyan
ibn al Harb,
the other Abu Sufyan,
the leader of Quraysh,
along with
2 other men,
Budayl ibn Warqa
and Hakim ibn Hazam.
They had come out of Makkah
scouting for information on the possibility
of the Muslims coming.
Now this was not based on any
intelligence that reached them.
As we mentioned,
the prophet was
successful in making sure no information leaks and
reaches Mecca. So they never came out
because they got word,
but only based on suspicion.
Why?
Because as we mentioned,
Abu Sufyan had returned from Medina
without any success
in,
you know, renewing
the peace treaty.
And so
he was worried that, you know, maybe the
Muslims are gonna come.
And so he along with these 2 men,
they went out and they were basically looking
for travelers
who could give them in any information that
they had on,
you know, on the possibility of the Muslims
leaving Medina heading towards Mecca.
So at night,
they were close to the Muslim army,
and they saw the lights of this huge
encampment.
Abu Sufyan asked, Who are these?
Budayl ibn Warqa, remember Budayl ibn Warqa, we
mentioned him previously,
he is from
Khuzaa,
the tribe
that had allied with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So
he says, This is Khuzaha preparing for war.
Abu Sufyan being a very intelligent and wise
man, he said, no. Khuzah
is much less than this.
Their numbers are much less
than what we see here.
This cannot be Khuzaa.
Meanwhile,
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he had his army
well protected,
so he had guards all around.
So some of these guards,
they came across these 3 men
and they arrested them and took them to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In one narration,
it says that it was Al Abbas
who
came across them.
When he saw, he recognized Abu Sufyan,
he told him, Come with me. You better
hurry up and meet the Prophet
If any Muslim sees you, they're gonna kill
you.
So he took
Abu Sufyan with him,
and
as they're rushing to the Prophet
guess who sees Abu Sufyan?
Rumur ibn Khattbab, and he recognizes him.
And he says,
This is Abu Sufyan,
we have to kill him.
But Al Abbas, he protected them.
He protected Abu Sufyan, and he rushed with
him to the Prophet
before Umar could reach him.
So now when they reach the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
where Umar radiAllahu an is trying to convince
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to have
Abu Sufyan killed
while Al Abbas was appealing
to him to spare his life.
So as they were arguing,
Al Abbas radiAllahu anhu
he got angry
and he said to Umar,
If he was one of Ben Wuhadi
Ben Wuhadi
is a family from Quraysh
of which Umar
belongs to that family.
So
Al Abbas says to Umar, If he was
one of Banu Adi
from your clan,
you would not have said so. Meaning you
would not have said, Let's kill him.
But because you know he is from Banu
Abdul Manaf,
who is Banu Abdul Manaf?
They are the family of both
the Prophet
and Abu Sufyan.
And so
hearing this,
Rama
he stepped back
and he said
to Al Abbas, wait a second.
Wait a second Al Abbas.
Your Islam is more beloved to me than
the Islam of my own father Al Khattab
if he had become a Muslim
because I know that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
would become more pleased by the Islam of
you
than if my father was to become a
Muslim.
And so here, Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu
he diffuse
this, you know, potential war that was gonna
erupt
between
him and Al Abbas, and obviously the families
of both
of these companions.
Anyways, we're gonna come back to this statement
of Umar radiAllahu
anhu.
Rasulullah he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam then told
them
to go and come back in the morning.
So when he met them the following morning,
he offered these 3 men to accept Islam
and then they would be safe.
So Budayl ibn Warqa and
Hakim ibn Khizam,
they accepted Islam right away.
As for Abu Sufyan,
now remember
who is Abu Sufyan?
He is now the de facto leader of
Quraysh.
And
we know his years
of enmity against Rasulullah
He was the last remaining senior
of Quraysh,
with all the senior leaders
either having been killed
or some of them accepting Islam.
That's it. He's only he's the only one
left now.
And so Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him,
Abu Sufyan,
do you recognize
that there is
no God
except the 1?
Abu Sufyan said,
How generous and kind you are.
If there were any gods besides Allah,
then they would have given us protection
and they would have defended us.
So here Abu Sufyan
has accepted the premise
that only Allah
deserves to be worshiped,
Thus renouncing his belief in
his idols and false Gods.
He has accepted
the first part of the shahada.
Then Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Isn't it
time,
Abu Abu Sufyan,
that you testify
that I am the Messenger of Allah?
To this Abu Sufyan,
he said,
There's something in my heart against this until
this very moment.
And so here he accepted the first part
of the shahada,
but now he was having a difficult time
accepting the second part.
Showing us
that for many of these leaders of Quraish,
it was a power struggle.
They didn't want to accept Islam because they
didn't want to see the authority
going to someone else
other than themselves.
It was a matter of leadership.
And in this case, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
is the leader.
I don't want to bring myself under him
because I am the leader of my people.
Right?
So then, Al Abbas
he said, Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan.
Testify
by the shahada, meaning both shahadas,
become a Muslim
before your head is chopped off.
Then Abu Sufyan he said,
Waashhadu
anna Muhammadar Rasulullah
Right then and there he said and I
testify that Muhammad
is
the Messenger of Allah. And so this is
how
Abu Sufyan finally
accepted
Islam.
Then al Abbas radiAllahu anhu told Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam that look,
Abu Sufyan is a man who loves status
and position. And we could see this, as
we have seen so far.
Al Abda said,
He loves that, so O Messenger of Allah,
give him something.
Give him something.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
We are now about to enter Mecca.
Whoever enters the home of Abu Sufyan is
safe.
Whoever closes his door is safe.
And whoever enters the masjid is
safe.
Rasulullah He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam then gave instructions
to Al Abbas
to hold Abu Sufyan back from leaving
and to have him wait by the mountain
pass.
Now there was a reason for this which
we're gonna come to later.
The Prophet
had
divided the army into battalions,
And each battalion had
a banner,
and they were divided
according to their respective tribes.
So each battalion
was passing through this
mountain pass
1 by 1
because it was narrow
and the entire army couldn't go through.
So as each battalion
came through the mountain pass, Abu Sufyan was
standing there with Al Abbas.
He would see 1 battalion coming through. He
would ask Al Abbas, who are these?
Al Abbas would say, they are so and
so.
They are Riffar.
They are
Sulayim
Muzayna.
Whenever he would mention this,
Abu Sufyan would say,
what do I have to do with Rifaq?
What do I have to do with Musayna?
What do I have to do with Islam?
These tribes
are nobody.
I am from Quraish.
What do I have to do with these
people and the and these tribes? You could
see how, you know, tribalism was rooted in
his heart.
However,
one particular
battalion caught his attention.
He asked, who are these? Al Abba said,
these are the Ansar.
And so he noticed something different about them.
He noticed
power
and strength.
And so
the banner of the Ansar was with who?
With Sad ibn Rubadah.
And he was the leader of Al Khazraj
Before Islam,
he was one of the best companions of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
When Sa'd ibn Abu Ghada saw Abu Sufyan,
he said to him,
today is the day
Al yawm yawmul Muhammad.
Today is the day of the epic battle.
Today is the day in which the sanctity
of the Kaaba will be violated.
Meaning,
the haram,
no bloodshed is allowed there. But on this
day,
it will happen.
So here Sa'ad ibn Rubad
he
was taken away by his
valor, his enthusiasm
for, you know, what was happening
which led him to say these words.
News of his words reached the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. And
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Sad
is mistaken.
Rather this day is the day in which
Allah will honor the Ka'bah.
Meaning that the sanctity of the Ka'bah will
not be violated
and that Rasulullah
radiya wasalam did not have any intentions
to shed any blood
in Makkah.
Then Rasulullah radiya wasallam ordered that the banner
of the Ansar be taken away from
Saad ibn Hurghada and be given to his
son
Qais. And this was for two reasons.
Number 1,
Rasulullah He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not want
sadib bin rughada to have
authority
when he could potentially
misuse it
and cause bloodshed in Makkah.
And Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was doing everything
he could to avoid that from happening. He
had no intentions
of shedding any blood in Mecca.
And secondly,
at the same time,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not want
to hurt the feelings
of this great companion.
Of course, Sa'd ibn Ubada would comply with
the orders of the Prophet and would not
rebel against his decision.
Right?
But there would probably remain something in his
heart
for being stripped of
the banner.
So this is why the Prophet SAW wasalam
handed it over to his son,
right? To his son, please. So that he
feels
that it's still with me.
And so these were the events
leading up to the conquest
of Mecca.
Next week, we're gonna basically
talk about how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
entered Mecca
and what happened
after that. We're gonna conclude with
just a few lessons that we learned from
what we have gone through today.
The first lesson that we learned,
what is the ruling of
spying for the enemy?
We see what happened ibn Abi Bail Taha
did,
sending the letter
to Mecca
and he was caught.
The scholars have differed,
some say it is an act of kufr,
others say it's a major sin,
but from the story of Halqib
we
can see based on what he himself said
that it is most likely an act of
kufr.
What did he say to the Prophet Oh,
Messenger of Allah, I did not do this
because of kufr
or apostasy,
nor because I preferred kufr over Islam.
So he considered it
to be an act
of kufr and apostasy,
which is why he is saying here that
he didn't do it because of that.
If he didn't consider it to be an
act of kufr, why would he? Why would
he say that? So he considered the act
itself to be kufr,
but he was clarifying
what was in his heart. He was saying
that, I did not intend
that.
We also see in the reaction of Rama
a proof that this is an act of
kufr,
right?
He proposed to the Prophet
to kill him
because he is a munafiq.
Only a hypocrite would do something like this.
Again, if Umar did
not consider it to be an act of
kufr or nifa,
then why would he ask the Prophet
to allow
him to kill Haldim
And so to all those Muslims out there
who allowed themselves to
basically
work as agents for the kuffar.
Spying on the Muslims, conveying information
about the Muslims to the enemies they have
committed,
an act of apostasy,
an act of kuffar.
They are
considered to be munafiqun,
and so it's not a light matter,
it's something dangerous.
So sometimes
we're approached by intelligence agencies and this
started to happen a lot after 9:11.
And either out of pressure
or because of the money that they were
offered,
many Muslims,
they gave in and they worked
for the kuffar against the Muslims, and so
these people need to repent to Allah
before it's too late. The second lesson,
the strong sense of loyalty
among the companions of the Prophet
We see this in how
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
had disciplined
the Sahadah
to keep secrets
of the state
as
top secret and not disclose them to anyone.
On the other hand, he would train
them to be on alert
of the enemy movements,
bringing him any intelligence
of the Kufar
and what they're planning on doing.
We mentioned how
this made the intelligence
gathering of the Muslims to be superior more
superior to that of Quraysh,
even though
the resources of the Muslims
was much less.
So because of their loyalty to Allah
and His Messenger
and the Muslims, the sahaba would not leak
any information
that would harm and endanger Islam Muslims
to the end.
The case of Hataib
was
an individual case,
right? It was an exception
and we showed how the Prophet
was immediately
informed,
Right? And this was too wide.
How did the Prophet find out that how
to have sent a letter?
Jabir came to him and told him.
The point here is that the Sahaba
will not disclose any information about the Muslims
to the kuffar due to what?
Due to their Alwala Warbarah.
Right? Due to their loyalty.
One of the things
that we Muslims suffer from today
is a lack of loyalty,
a lack of Alwala.
And,
you know, not having a proper understanding of
this important
concept in Islam,
of alwalaaalbaraaalbaraa.
So many Muslims today are not
only willing to give information
to,
you know, to the kuffar on, you know,
on a single incident basis,
but rather they're willing to work
long term for the kuffar giving them information
about the Muslims.
The third lesson that we learn
is that Muslims do not think
along tribal or nationalistic
lines.
We see this in the dialogue that took
place between
Ibrahim Arbaas Saffab and
Ali Abbas
And so when their argument got heated
and
Al Abbas said what he said
to UHram and
then how UHram
responded, he said
Look, Umar Abbas,
you know, your Islam
is more beloved to me
than that of my father if he was
to become a Muslim.
Umar
was making it clear to Al Arbas
that this is not how we Muslims think.
What did Al Arbas say?
He had said
that basically he was putting down
the family of Umar ibn
You know,
Umar wanted to kill Abu Sufyan.
And Al Aqsa said,
If he was from your family,
you wouldn't be saying this. But because he's
from our family,
you're saying this.
And so, Umar alaihi
wa'am responded to him and said, No, Abu
Abbas, we don't think like this. We Muslims
do not think like this. We do not
behave like this. We don't think along tribal
lines.
He was saying that he was more happy
over the Islam of Al Abbas
because he was the uncle of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and that must be beloved to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so
whatever pleases Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, it
pleases me.
Whatever displeases the Prophet
it is displeasing
to Me. And so Rama
was giving
Al Abbas, a lesson
in how we Muslims think.
We do not view things from a tribal
or nationalistic
view. We Muslims, we base things on our
alwalaa walbaraa.
If a person is close to Allah,
then we are loyal to that person.
If a person is far away from Allah,
then we disassociate
ourselves from them, it doesn't matter who they
are.
The final lesson that we can mention
is waging
a psychological
warfare or psychological battle.
When Rasulullah
gave instructions
to Al Abbas radiAllahu anhu to hold Abu
Sufyan
back from
leaving
after he had accepted Islam.
And to have him wait by the mountain
pass,
there was a reason for this. When Abu
Sufyan would see
the overwhelming
forces
and strength of the Muslim army.
They were 10,000
strong on their way to Mecca.
When Abu Sufyan would see this,
he would see 1 battalion after the after
the other coming through this mountain pass,
and you would see the strength of the
Muslims.
That this is what the Prophet had brought
to conquer Mecca.
It would put an end to any
thought
of resistance.
Because although Abu Sufyan had just accepted Islam,
he was still
a new Muslim,
and he was still a leader of his
people
and if he goes back to Mecca,
his people may not be willing to surrender
and so they may want to put up
a fight.
If Abu Sufyan didn't see this,
right, if he didn't, if the prophet did
not show him
his army,
then he would have gone back to Mecca
thinking, well, let's fight because we have fought
them in many other battles.
Now Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was well prepared for war. Let us not
think
that he could not fight Quraysh.
He came well prepared
and his army could easily
enter Mecca defeating any resistance.
But what did we mention?
The Prophet
had no plans of shedding any flooding Makkah.
He didn't want to do that this time.
And so here, he wanted Abu Sufyan to
see how strong the Muslims were so that
they would just surrender.
And so this psychological
tactic,
it worked.
And when Abu Sufyan
went,
when he saw this, he went back to
Mecca,
but before he went back to Mecca, he
told Al Abbas,
he said,
no one can defeat these people.
He said, by Allah, Abu
Abu Fadl is an Adas.
He said, by Allah, O Abu Fadl,
the kingdom of your nephew
has become greater.
He's talking about the Prophet
Al Abbas said,
not kingdom Abu Sufyan,
but rather it is Prophet.
Again, look at how Abu Sufyan is thinking.
All he's thinking about is power
and authority and kingdom and leadership.
So anyways, Abu Sufyan, he went back to
Mecca
and he told everyone about what he saw,
and conveyed the message of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam that whoever enters the home of Abu
Sufyan is safe,
whoever closes their door is safe, and whoever
enters the masjid
is safe.
And so after this, next week, we'll move
on to what happens, how the Muslims enter
Mecca,
and what happens after that.