Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #76 The Conquest of Makkah P4
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We continue in the Seerah of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
having reached, Fatihamakkah,
the conquest of Mecca.
And we've gone through
the major events
that took place
on that day when the Prophet
entered Mecca
after such a long time.
There were just a few more
incidents
and events
remaining to be covered
concerning
the
conquest of Mecca and some of the incidents
that took place thereafter.
So we'll be going through,
some of these tonight
And so
last week we had
gone through,
some events,
on that day like the Islam of
the father of Abu Bakr,
as
well as the Islam of Hind binturitba,
the wife of Abu Sufyan.
And we also mentioned that the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam gave several khutbas,
several sermons
on that day and the days that followed.
And so we went through some of those,
sermons.
And we also mentioned the famous statement of
the Prophet
that there is no more hijrah
after this day.
And we spoke about what that meant
and how,
you know, the hijrah that was mandatory,
it was no longer mandatory, the hijrah to
Medina.
And so today, we'll be looking at some
of the remaining events,
that followed.
Now
first of all how long did Rasulullah
remain in Mecca
after
entering it.
He remained for a total of 18
or 19 days.
And remember that this was
during the month of Ramadan.
The prophet
entered Mecca on 20th
of Ramadan.
However, what we learned from the various narrations
is that he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did
not fast.
And
he continued shortening his salah
during his stay in Mecca.
And
what we learned from this
what we learned from this
is that 1 is still considered
a musafir, a traveler.
And he enjoys the rukhas, the concessions
of a traveler,
even if
he reaches his destination
and he's staying there.
So
the concessions
that the traveler enjoys,
not having to fast in Ramadan,
shortening your prayers, etcetera,
This is not only during your travel
until you reach your destination, but even while
you're there.
And we learned this from,
what the prophet did when he
remained in Mecca
during
this period of time. And so the concessions
of travel only end
They only end
when you return home
when you return home and you're no longer
considered a traveler.
An incident that occurred
during the Prophet's stay in Mecca.
And this incident
has been narrated in
Sahih al Bukhari and other books.
And it is that of
the woman,
The woman who was caught
stealing.
The woman who was caught stealing.
And she belonged
to the family of Banu Mahzum.
Banu Mahzum was a prominent noble family from
Quraysh.
They weren't just any
family in Quraysh.
Several noble people or leaders of Quraysh belong
to this family,
such as
Al Walid ibn al Mughira, the father of
Khalid ibn al Walid,
as well as
Abu Jahl himself
and others.
So
some of the leaders
of this family,
they
now were in a dilemma.
Because now you have a woman who's been
caught from this family, she's been caught stealing.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam now
has authority over Mecca.
Mecca is in his control.
The Islamic laws are gonna be implemented.
So the prophet was told about her
and her crime, and so he ordered that
her hand be cut off.
Now
the family was concerned.
Why? Because
these people were used to
They were used to the fact that
the weak
and the slaves and those who didn't have
any protection from the lower class in society,
they are the ones who are punished for
crimes.
But if you belong to the nobility
and the upper class,
then
there are ways out.
There are ways
out.
So they wanted to appeal the verdict
of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So they wanted someone to go and speak
to the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Who did they choose
for this task?
They chose the son of
Zayd ibn Haritha.
Zayd ibn Haritha was
the beloved companion of the Prophet
He was like a son for him
and he had passed away recently
as a shahid in the Battle of Muttah.
We mentioned his story
And now his son, Usama ibn Zaid,
was also very beloved to the Prophet
And
Quraysh knew this very well.
So they went to Usama,
radiAllahu anhu,
and they asked him to speak on behalf
of this woman.
So he agreed
thinking that he was doing something good.
And so he spoke to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam about it.
When Rasulullah he sallallahu alaihi wasallam
heard Usama
intervening on behalf of this lady,
his face changed in color,
and he said,
Are you
intervening
concerning
ahad from the Khudood of Allah?
You dare speak to me
to intercede
and prevent
a punishment, a prescribed punishment
from the prescribed punishments of Allah.
Usama
he said, You Rasulullah
Istafirli.
Ask Allah to forgive
me. Then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he went out in the open,
and he delivered
a short khutbah.
He said,
what destroyed the people before you
was
that a person
of high rank from the upper class in
society,
if he
stole, if he committed theft,
then they would spare him.
But if the same was done by a
person
from the lower class, a poor person,
they would
apply the punishment on him.
And then the Prophet said,
I swear by Allah,
if Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad,
should steal,
I would have her hand cut off.
I would have
her hand cut off.
And so look at how seriously the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took it.
He didn't let this pass
lightly.
He took it seriously and he showed the
people the seriousness of the matter.
And so the hand of this woman was
cut off.
Her hand was cut off. In 1 narration,
it mentions that
she sincerely repented to Allah,
and she changed for the better.
And so
Aisha
says that she would visit me after that
when she would need something from Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and I would speak to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
on her behalf.
And so this is the story of
the woman who was caught stealing. This occurred
while the Prophet was in Mecca
after
Fatimaka, the conquest of Mecca.
Now we mentioned that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
had destroyed
the idols
in and around the cabin.
This was the very first task that he,
you know, went to
fulfill.
And so now Mecca was purified
of Kufr and Shirk and manifestations
of it.
And so Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wanted to
now spread the sovereignty of Islam
in the surrounding areas
of Mecca.
And so he sent
different companions
on missions to go and destroy
the major idols,
the big idols that were honored and worshipped
around Mecca.
And
the 3 main idols
that
were prevalent
around Mecca,
they are the 3 that Allah
mentions in the Qur'an,
and they are
Allah
says in
Suratul Najm
Have you considered
the idols of Allat and and
the third 1, Manat?
Do you prefer to have sons attributed to
you,
but you attribute to him to Allah daughters?
Why does Allah say this?
Because
there were superstitious
beliefs concerning these idols
among the mushrikun.
They believed that these,
idols represented
daughters of Allah
and elsewhere.
Allah tells us in the Quran elsewhere that
the mushrikoon,
they attribute daughters to Allah
and they say that the angels are the
daughters of Allah.
And so Allah Azzawajal goes on to say,
in here
in Sultan.
Allah says, then this is truly a biased
distribution.
You're attributing to yourselves
what you consider to be honorable
and that is males,
sons,
what you attribute to to Allah, daughters.
And so Allah tells us that these idols
are mere names that you and your forefathers
have made up.
And so
we'll see
now why
why they consider these to be daughters
or why they consider to
be why these idols were considered to be
goddesses
or females in nature.
So we're gonna talk about the destruction of
alhurza
and manat.
As for alat,
then it didn't happen right now.
It's gonna happen later on because allat
was
the main idol in Ta'if.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam until
now had not conquered Ta'if.
Once he does, which is gonna happen soon
in the Sirah,
that is when he destroys
Allat.
As for Al Uzza,
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent Khalid
ibn Walid radiallahu an with 30 horsemen
to destroy it.
And this was a big idol
that was situated at a place called Nakla
near
Qudayd
which was east of Makkah towards Taif.
So Khalid ibn al Walid radiAllahu anhu went
there.
And when they heard of him coming,
the custodians
of this idol, they ran away.
And the 1 responsible
for the idol,
the main caretaker
of the idol,
he took a sword
and he put it around the neck of
Al Aruza,
and he told Al Arzah defend yourself against
Khalid.
And if you don't,
then you deserve what's gonna happen to you.
So Khaled ibn al Walid, he came
and without finding any resistance,
he destroyed
Al Rizza
along with the shrine that was built over
it.
When he came back to Mecca,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him, what did
you do?
Khali ibn alwaleed he said
I destroyed Al 'izzah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked him
did you notice anything?
He said no.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said then
you did nothing.
Go back.
So Khalid ibn Walid,
he was upset. He thought he had accomplished
his mission.
He destroyed the idol
so he went back.
And now this time
he finds
a naked woman with messed up hair
and she was throwing dirt on herself.
And she was yelling.
So Khaled ibn Walid, he took his sword
and he killed her.
Now when he went back to the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he told
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I found
this naked woman and I killed her.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
that was al Uzzah.
You have killed her.
And so it seems that
Al Ruzah
was some kind of jinn
or shaitan.
And
it was an idol from the outside,
but there was a jinn living inside of
it.
And that shaitan now came out in the
form of this
of this naked woman. So when Khalid ibn
Walid executed her,
that was now the real end
of of Al Uzza.
So
this
superstition that was attached to
this idol was because of this jinn
that was living
in it, deceiving the people,
into thinking that, you know, it was a
God that can speak
and that has powers.
And so Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said,
Al Uzza will no longer be worshipped
after
after this day.
After that, we have the destruction of Manat.
This idol
was along the coast
of the Red Sea,
and it was close to Qudayd in a
place known as al Mushallal.
And this was the idol
that
al Ausin al Khazuraj would glorify and would
worship.
As for Al Rizzah,
that was the main idol of Quraysh.
And that's why
Abu Sufyan
what did he say on the day of
Quhayd?
When
the prophet
and his companions retreated
and Abu Sufyan came after them
and told them, you know, this is for
what you guys did to us in the
Battle of Badr.
And then there was a back and forth
between him and
So Abu Sufyan said,
we have a luza wala ursa lakum.
So he was referring to this idol, an
rizza. So the prophet said, would you not,
you know, reply to him?
Umar
said, what should we say? The prophet said,
say to him,
we have
Allah as our mawla, and you have no
mawla. So
Al-'Uzza was the main idol of Quraysh.
And as for Manat,
this was the main idol that was worshiped
by al Aus and al Khazraj.
And they were the inhabitants of Yathrib of
Al Madina,
who later on became the Ansar of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And in their days of Jahiliyyah al Ausin
al Khazraj, what they would do,
it was their tradition when they would go
for hajj
or umra.
Instead of
initiating their Hajj or Umrah from the mikat,
they would do it from this idol.
And
they believe that if you've done that,
then you're not supposed to run between Safa
and Marwah.
This was their belief.
And so while everyone else would run between
safa and marwa,
Al Aus and Al Khazaj if they initiated
their ihram
from
Manat, the idol,
they would not run between
Safa and Marwa.
And so this continued until they accepted Islam.
And then Allah revealed
in the Quran in Surat Al Baqarah.
To get this superstitious belief out of their
hearts, Allah
said,
Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of
Allah.
So whoever makes a umrah or Hajj to
the house, to the Kaaba,
then let them walk between
Safra and Marwa.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent
sad
ibn Zaid
al Eshhali,
who was a native of that land where
Manat existed.
He sent him with 20 horsemen
to destroy Manat.
When they reached there,
they found
the custodian
guarding Manat.
And he asked them, you know, what do
you guys want?
They said, we want to destroy Manat.
So the custodian said, go ahead,
thinking that they couldn't do it.
So Sa'd ibn Zayd, he approached the idol.
And
once again, the same thing that happened, with
Al Uzza
happened again.
It's mentioned in the narration. It says
a naked black woman came out to him.
Her hair was all messed up, and she
was wailing and beating her chest.
When the custodian saw this,
he had some hope.
And so he said to her, Manat,
take care of these men who are disobedient
towards you.
But his words
and her appearance
did not have any effect on Saad ibn
Zayd
and his men.
And so Saad radiAllahu ani, he killed her
on the spot,
and then they destroyed
the actual idol and the shrine that was
built
That was built
over it. So once again we can see
how,
you know, there was
this superstitious
belief
that was that revolved around this idol
of it being a female
attributing daughters to Allah,
how these idols represented daughters of Allah, etcetera.
So we see the reason for that.
So these were the 2 idols,
al Uzza and Manat, as we mentioned.
Allat,
We'll talk about it when we talk about
the siege of a Ta'if and the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam conquering Ta'if and then
after that he
destroyed,
Allat.
But there's 1 more
idol that we'll mention here
and that is
sua.
Su'a.
This idol originally belonged to
the people of Nuh alayhis salam.
And as we mentioned in the beginning of
the Sira,
when we spoke about
the shirk that was prevalent among the Arabs,
the 1 who introduced idol worship
into Arabia was
Amr ibn Luhay.
And 1 of the ways he did this
is with the help of a jinn.
He managed to
dig out
the idols
of the people of Nuharihis salam.
The idols that Allah mentions
in Surat
The people of Nuh they said to 1
another
do not abandon your idols
especially
Wadd
and Sua
and Yahuuth
and Yaruq and Nasr.
So these idols,
they became history.
They were buried in the flood
but
Amr ibn Lou Hayy,
who came centuries before the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
he somehow managed to
unearth these idols
and, you know, they started to be worshiped
among the Arabs.
So Su'a became
the idol of the tribe of Hudayl.
And so with the conquest of Mecca,
many tribes accepted Islam along with this tribe,
the tribe of Hudeil.
So now it was time to destroy their
idol.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent
Amr
ibn al-'Aas
for this mission.
Amr ibn al-'Aas
he tells a story himself.
He says when we reach the idol,
its custodian was there
and he asked us what do you want?
I said, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered me
to destroy it.
So he said, you won't be able to
do that.
So I asked why is that?
He said because you're gonna be prevented from
doing so.
So he had this belief that the idol
has powers. It's gonna defend itself.
So Ahamr ibn al-'has,
he said,
even until this very moment
you're still persisting
upon baqil, upon falsehood,
He said, woe to
you, does it hear?
Can it see?
So 'Amr ibn al-'Az he was saying,
that's it Islam has spread,
Islam has been victorious.
Shirk is now finishing
and you're still remaining upon,
you know, these superstitious beliefs of yours?
Then Amr ibn Aas, he approached the idol
and he destroyed it.
And he gave orders to his men to
destroy the shrine that was built over
it. Then he told then he turned to
that custodian
and he asked him, now what do you
think?
Right?
The idol was destroyed.
So the man he said, Aslamtulillah.
He said, now I accept Islam
sincerely
for Allah.
So these were
the idols that the Prophet
gave orders to be destroyed,
around
Mecca.
Next,
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
sends Khalid ibn Walid
to the tribe of
Banu
Jazima.
And this tribe was close to Mecca.
And this story is
found in Sahih al Bukhari.
Khalid ibn al Walid
went with
300 men
to invite these people to Islam.
So
they accepted Islam.
However,
they didn't know how to express that.
So these people were not educated enough to
say aslamna,
that we have accepted Islam.
Instead
they
said
Saba'nah. What does Saba'nah mean?
Basically,
when someone would become a Muslim
in the early days of Islam,
the people of Quraysh,
they would say
Saba.
This person has become a Saba.
The Saba, were followers of a religion
who believed in 1 God
and they even believed in some of the
prophets.
They didn't really worship idols,
but they did believe in,
different gods.
And Allah mentions them in the Quran.
Asabi'un.
Allah mentions them in the Quran.
So Quraysh would use this label
as a derogatory term
for anyone
who would become Muslim. So
they wouldn't say
so and so,
aslama,
so and so has become a Muslim. They
would say, so and so, Saba.
He has become a Saba.
So now
Khalid ibn Walid
told them to become Muslim
And they said, sabatna.
They said,
we have
we have accepted Islam,
but they didn't know how to say it
properly. They didn't know that the the term
we should use is aslamna.
We have accepted Islam.
Why? Because,
you know they they weren't educated.
They
used the term that they had picked up
from others,
And they heard this term being used all
the time for anyone who becomes a Muslim.
So they just repeated that, and they kept
on saying Sadatna, Sadatna. While Khalid ibn al
Wali, he's looking at them
and
you know he he's not
he's not accepting it from them.
So
then when he saw this and he saw
that they were just repeating the same thing,
he thought that what they were doing is
they were mocking him
and they were making fun of Islam
and they were insulting Islam.
So he started killing them 1 by 1.
He killed them, and he took the rest
as prisoners.
And then he handed over
1 captive to each of his companions,
to his army,
and he gave instructions
to each of his soldiers to kill his
captive.
So
in his army was Abdullah ibn Umar,
radiAllahu anhumaha.
Abdullah ibn Umar,
and he narrates this himself, and it's in
Sahih al Bukhari.
He says, in the name of Allah,
I am not going to kill my prisoner
nor will my companions
kill theirs.
Abdullah ibn Umar, he saw this as a
clear mistake
on the part of
Khalid ibn Walid.
These people have become Muslim,
and now we're being told to kill them.
So he refused to comply to the orders.
Not only did he himself not do it,
but he also said his companions,
those who had come with him, his buddies
who had come with him in this,
in this small army. He said they are
also not going to comply with your orders,
oh Khalid.
So now when they went back to the
Prophet
they brought it up with him, and they
told him what happened.
And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he told Abdullah ibn Umar
that what you did was right.
And then the Prophet
raised his hands
and said,
O Allah
Inmi abraoo ilayka minnaaswanaram
Khaled.
O Allah,
I am free
from what Khaled has done.
I disassociate
myself
from what Khalid ibn Walid has done.
And he said it twice.
And so these people, the Prophet was saying,
they should not have been killed.
They made a mistake.
And what Khalid ibn Walid had done was
a grave mistake
while the Prophet approved
of
the actions of Abdullah ibn Umar
for disobeying the orders
of Khalid ibn Walid.
Now
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam felt sorry for these
people
and what had happened to them
So he sent Ali ibn Abi Talib
to
pay the dia,
the blood money
as compensation
for those who were killed.
Why?
Because they died as Muslims.
Right? It's not as if they had died
as kuffar and here the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is paying
blood money on their behalf.
No.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam never did
that.
He would only pay the blood money, the
dia,
for a Muslim who is killed even if
he is killed by mistake.
And these are part of the akham of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah mentions these
rulings,
in Suratul Nisa.
So anyways, the prophet
sent to Ali radiAllahu anhu with this task,
and not only
did
he,
pay the blood money but also
he
returned to them any belongings that were taken
from them by the Muslim army.
And then Ali radiAllahu anhu, he had some
leftover money and
he gave it to them
just in case as a bonus. He left
it with them.
And so this is how Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
he dealt with
this mistake of
Khalid
ibn Walid
And so these were some of the outstanding
events
that remained to be discussed
following
Fatimaqa,
the conquest of Mecca. Next week
we'll move on
to mention how Islam was now spreading,
and
tribes were entering into Islam,
in huge numbers. And we'll also mention some
of the prominent
figures
from among Quraysh who accepted
Islam after,
the conquest of Mecca.
And so we conclude with some of the
lessons
that we learned from tonight. The first lesson
that we learned
is,
that we see
from what we have discussed tonight is the
justice of Islam.
We learn from the story of the woman
from Banu Meghzum who was caught stealing
that
whenever there is a double standard in society
in applying justice
where
the lower class
is punished
while the upper class are spared.
How the Prophet mentioned, such a society will
be destroyed by Allah.
Allah will destroy them.
He will take away any barakah from that
society.
And so unfortunately nowadays,
not only do we have a double standard
in applying the law
of Allah,
But in fact, we don't even have
the law of Allah applied
in many Muslim countries.
So if
Allah would destroy a society
and take away
barakah from that society,
just because
they have a double standard in applying the
law of Allah,
then what would be the case where
as we have it today,
where the laws of Allah are not even
applied
to begin with?
In 1 hadith the Prophet
says,
applying 1 hadith
on earth.
The hudood
are the prescribed punishments of Allah
for different crimes.
Those punishments that are,
you know, enshrined in our Sharia
that we find in the Quran or in
the sunnah
for certain crimes.
And theft is 1 of them as we
mentioned,
as Allah
mentions in Surat Al Maidah.
And so these Hadud,
the prophet
says applying
1 head on earth is better for its
people
than
40 days of rain,
than 40
days of rain. And so there's more barakah
in applying the Hudud of Allah
than rain
that brings
vegetation
and khair and,
you know water,
for us and animals to drink from etcetera.
And so this shows us
how much
barakah
we're missing out on.
You know when we
look at
the Muslim world today,
look at our state.
This is 1 of the main reasons for
why our Muslim countries are in the condition
that they are in
economically,
financially.
You know, why is it that,
you know, our Muslim
society suffer this way?
It's not because we don't have resources.
You know,
go from east to west and you see
Muslims are sitting
on huge
swaths of land,
huge
amounts of resources, natural resources
that could bring
riches
to to
to those societies.
So it's not that we are lacking
in
resources,
and we cannot become independent
and well off. No.
It's because Allah
has taken away the barakah.
Why? Because
we have
replaced
the laws of Allah
with man made laws.
And we are running our countries
based on
man made constitutions
instead of
the law of Allah
and the constitution
that is based on the Qur'an
and the Sunnah.
The second lesson that we learn
is destroying idols
and other manifestations
of kufr
and shirk.
We saw how Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
made it a point
to destroy all of these idols that the
people of Jahiliyyah
were so obsessed with.
And so he made this a priority of
his
and he did not delay it
and he didn't hesitate
in giving orders to destroy
them, right? The Prophet didn't say, well, you
know what? These people, they just became Muslim
today.
Let's go back to Medina. Let a few
years go by. Let these people,
you know, become accustomed to Islam and its
customs,
then we'll go and destroy those idols.
No. Why?
Because
this
is related to the very core and the
foundation of Islam.
The concept of Tawhid
and shirk is the opposite of a Tawhid.
And so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
as we mentioned,
as soon as he entered Mecca,
the very first thing that he did,
the same morning,
he destroyed all of these idols.
He didn't hesitate.
He didn't say, well the people of Quraysh,
they're attached to these idols. It'll take some
time. No. Right away.
And then we see how
he did the same with the idols, the
major
idols around Mecca.
And so in doing so, he was following
in the footsteps
of his father Ibrahim
who did the exact same thing,
smashing the idols of his people.
Allah
did not rebuke Ibrahim
when he narrated his story to us.
Right?
Allah Azzawajal did not criticize Ibrahim
anywhere when he mentions that story,
right?
Showing us that what he did was completely
right,
Right?
And so
likewise,
whenever Muslims
conquer any land
and they have sovereignty,
they control,
they have the ability
to remove these idols
and other manifestations of kufr and shirk,
they have to do the same thing.
They have to swiftly
destroy and level
any idols that are worshipped or
even not worshipped.
But if they are idols and statues,
they need to destroy them.
The same goes with any tombs
and graves
that people
are going to them
and worshiping them. They need to be leveled.
Right?
And
this rule applies
to all times and to all places.
And that's why 1 of the first things
that,
you know,
that resulted
in the dawah of Sheikh Mohammed ibn Abdul
Wahab when he conquered various parts of the
Arabian Peninsula, 1 of the first things that
he did was
he would level
these tombs that were built over graves,
and he did not spare
a single
grave, not even the graves of the companions
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so Baqiyyah in Madinah today,
you see it as
flat without any structures built on it. But
several centuries ago before he had come in
before,
you know, the the the his students came
in
and,
you know, took over Medina. Prior to that
there were statues or there were shrines
built over the various graves of the Sahaba
radiAllahu anhu.
And so even today, the same applies. And
so we Muslims should not be afraid.
We shouldn't think that just because the Kuffar,
as they have done today
through
their international organizations, through the United Nations.
They've
established
international
laws.
And 1 of these laws is that that
you're not allowed to destroy,
you know, ancient archaeological
sites, etc.
It doesn't mean that we Muslims have to
abide by these laws when they go against
the teachings of Islam.
And so that's why,
you know, not too long ago,
about 20 plus years ago, we had the
famous incident of,
in the year 2, 001,
the Taliban who had controlled
more than 90%
of Afghanistan.
This was before 9/11.
We're not talking about
today.
We're talking about, you know, 23 years ago
in March of 2, 001.
Once they had controlled most of the Afghanistan,
they went to 2 huge massive statues
and they were statues of Buddha
And they destroyed them.
Right?
They destroyed them. And this caused a huge
international outcry.
And it was led by the Western world.
And so
we Muslims should not care about that.
And so the lesson here is that when
we are just when we are determined to
do something
for the pleasure of Allah
and it is in line with our Sharia,
then we should not be deterred from doing
it
seeking the pleasure of the people. This is
the lesson that we learned from this. Right?
We shouldn't become deterred
from doing something
when we are seeking the pleasure of Allah.
We shouldn't become deterred from doing it
to please the people.
So here you have
the pleasure of Allah versus the pleasure of
the people when it
when it conflicts.
You have to put forward the pleasure of
Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
The third lesson that we learn
is
concerning obeying
the leaders in Islam.
And so in our deen there is a
lot of emphasis
on obeying
those in authority over us.
And so we have many
ayaat in the Quran where Allah
commands us to obey
our leaders
and those in authority over us.
However,
however,
this obedience,
it's not supposed to be unrestricted
or unconditional.
Rather,
it is conditional
to the obedience of Allah
and his messenger
salallahu alaihi wasallam.
And so we learned this from the actions
of who?
The actions
of Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu Han.
When he disobeyed
the orders of his leader,
his amir Khalid ibn Walid radiAllahu an, who
ordered him to do something that he saw
as being clearly haram.
And so
without a doubt this was disobedience to the
Amir
and
Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu he knows very
well
the teachings of Islam
that tell us that you're not supposed to
disobey
your Amir.
Right?
However,
he also knew very well
that 1 is not supposed to follow the
orders of the amir
when
the orders are not in line with the
teachings of Islam. As the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam says,
There is no obedience
to a created being
when it means disobedience to the creator Allah.
And so
even though we know that, you know, mutiny,
where
soldiers or commanders of an army disobey
the higher in command.
This is something very dangerous,
and it's not tolerated.
It doesn't go unpunished.
You know, it's something severe and even in
our deen, you know, our our deen is
no different.
You're supposed to obey
the leader, even the military commander
and you're not allowed to disobey him.
But here, Abdullah ibn Umar, not only did
he disobey himself,
but he told his his his boys, his
companions
that you guys are not gonna follow his
orders as well.
And so the lesson we learned from this
is that if a Muslim leader tells us
to do something haram,
we must disobey him in that.
We must disobey him in that. This is
where many Muslims get it wrong.
They have
a wrong understanding
of what it means
to obey our rulers.
And so when they see Muslims,
not complying with the laws,
that the rulers of Muslim countries legislate
and they rebel against
that, they say, oh, you know, this is
haram.
You have to obey the rulers.
And so we have to look at everything
in context.
It's not black and white.
Right? There are times when the rulers are
not supposed to be
obeyed, and this is 1 of those examples.
Finally, the last lesson that we'll mention
is
how to deal with
the mistakes
of the leaders.
We saw how Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam dealt with the
mistake of Khalid
ibn Walid radiAllahu anhu.
Here you had innocent Muslims
who were killed.
Right?
These people,
you know, inside their hearts they had accepted
Islam. They had sincerely accepted Islam.
However, they didn't know how to express that.
Khaled ibn Walid.
He killed them.
The question is
why did he kill them?
He killed them
because
of what is known as tawil.
He made a wrong judgment.
Right? Why
didn't the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam fire
him?
Why didn't the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
imprison him? Why didn't the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam punish him?
Because it was an honest mistake.
Right?
And so Khalid ibn al Walid
did not assume that these people had accepted
Islam.
Instead,
he had thought that they were insulting Islam.
Right?
And that was absolutely clear to him.
So he killed
them. If
he had actually thought that they had accepted
Islam,
he would never have done this.
He would never have killed them,
right?
And so
if he had done them thinking that they
had accepted Islam,
then it would have been a different story.
The Prophet would have punished him without a
doubt. Right?
But here Khalid ibn Walid, he did not
kill these these people assuming them to be
Muslims.
He killed them assuming them to be kufaq.
And
so
that is how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
dealt with him. He didn't punish him. He
didn't relieve him of his post.
Right?
Why? Because he made an honest mistake.
And so you don't deal with every situation
and every mistake and error
in the same way.
And this is what we learned from the
actions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
from this story.
Ibn Kathir, and we'll close with this. Ibn
Kathir he says commenting on the story.
He says Khalid ibn Walid intended
to give nusrah,
to give victory to Islam and its people.
Although he made a mistake in the situation
thinking
that these people
were insulting Islam by saying Sabatnah Sabatnah.
He did not understand from them that they
had embraced Islam.
Consequently,
he killed a large group of them and
he captured the rest,
killing most of the captives as well.
Despite this, Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not remove him from his position,
but continued to keep him as a commander.
Although,
he salallahu alaihi wasallam disavowed
the actions of Khadid in this instance
and paid compensation
for the blood and the property
wrongfully taken.
This indicates
1 of the scholarly opinions that the mistake
of the Muslim leader is to be compensated
from the public treasury, from Baytul Mal, and
not from his own wealth. Meaning,
the Prophet
did not order
Khaled ibn Walid
to pay
the dia from his own money.
Why? Because
it was a mistake
that is,
you know,
associated with
with the government and with the amir.
Ibn Kathir, he goes on to say,
for this very reason,
Abu Bakr as Sudirk radiAllahu anhu did not
dismiss him, did not dismiss Khalid
when he killed Malik ibn Wayra
during
the Riddah wars, the apostasy wars.
Interpreting his actions
when he chopped off his head and took
his wife, Tamim,
for himself.
In the time of Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu
when he was a Khalifa,
Malik ibn Wayra,
he had apostated,
and he did not send zakat to
he didn't recognize Abu Bakr as being the
khalifa of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So he was no longer sending zakat.
So the prophet, Abu Bakr radiallahu an, he
sent Khalid ibn Walid to fight, Malik ibn
Wayra.
Malik ibn Wayra was brought to Khalid ibn
Wayra,
and he said the shahada.
He said the shahada,
nonetheless,
Khalid ibn al Walid chopped off his head.
Why? Because he was still not he was
still preventing
Zakah.
And Zakah is a pillar of Islam.
And that same day
he took the wife
for himself, the wife of Malik ibn Wayra.
He took her,
for himself.
So Abu Bakr
did not relieve him of his position.
So Umar ibn Khattab he got very angry
and he said
to Abu Bakr he said dismiss him,
fire him because there is recklessness in his
sword.
He's he's reckless,
he's careless with his sword. Minikkalidib
min alwaleed.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu he said,
I will not
sheathe a sword that Allah has unsheathed against
the mushrikun.
I am not gonna rest this sword.
This is the sword of Allah
as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam testified
when he said, saif min suyu filaa.
This is the sword of Allah.
Nonetheless, Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu did not dismiss
him. Why? Because the Prophet
himself did not dismiss Khalid
ibn Walid when he made the mistake that
he made.
It was later on
in the time of Umar radhiallahu an, he
had this personal,
you know, problem with
Khalid ibn Walid.
And so
he did relieve
Khalid ibn Walid from his position.
But he mentioned the reason for that.
Right? Khalid ibn Walid was
winning battle after battle.
You know, he was undefeated.
So when he relieved him, he said the
reason I'm doing this,
I don't want people to think
that the victory
is coming as a result of Khaled.
I want the people to know
that victory is only from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And that's why Khaled ibn Walid
even though he was the mujahid that he
was,
he did not he did not die as
a shahid.
He did not die as a shahid.
He died on his deathbed for this for
this reason.
Nonetheless, these are the lessons that we learned
from
what we have learned from the events of
tonight
And so we'll continue next week inshallahum
ta'ala.
Subhanakallahu
Muhammadik