Kamil Ahmad – Lessons from the Seerah #82 The Battle of Tabuk – Part 2
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The speaker discusses the history of the Prophet sallali Alaihi wa sallam's actions as an example of his actions. They describe two groups of Muslim leaders who experienced similar struggles and lost their lives due to the Prophet's actions. The speaker also discusses the return of the Prophet sallal Unional, the importance of pride in Islam, and the sh tack of the ruling of mocking and making fun of anything related to Islam.
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We return to our
sessions on the of Rasulullah
And
last time
we
started
the discussion on
the Battle of Tabuk.
And so we looked at the background
behind this battle
and
why
Allah
wanted Rasulullah
to
face off against
this enemy, the Romans.
And
we also looked at the difficult
circumstances
that surrounded this particular battle.
It was much different than any other previous
battle.
The distance
was very far.
It was
in the heat of the summer.
A long distance had to be traveled
in the harsh
desert terrain.
On top of that, it was time
for
the harvest season
to get the dates.
And so
overall,
it was difficult.
That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala referred to
it
as sa'atulir
surah,
the difficult hour.
It was a test.
And so this led to a lot of
hesitation
and
dissatisfaction
among various people.
And we spoke about how,
you know, this
exposed
the true colours of a certain segment in
that society.
Who are they?
The Munafiqul.
And we mentioned how Surah Tawbah,
which
is which was revealed
concerning this battle.
Allah
revealed ayah after ayah exposing these people,
exposing
the munafiqun.
And so we looked at
the reaction
when the Prophet
made his call
for everyone to come out,
everyone had to go out.
We saw the reaction of the believers,
and we saw the reaction of
the munafiqul.
The believers, they brought everything that they could
of wealth, of armor
and some who didn't have anything.
They asked the Prophet
if he had anything to take them on
a ride and he said he didn't have
anything
and how they went back crying as Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran.
On the other hand, you had the munafiqul
who made excuse after excuse
to remain behind
and not
join this army.
So now
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is ready to march
out
with his army for Tabuk.
Before setting out,
he leaves behind Muhammad
ibn Maslama,
radiAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
appointing him as
the amir of Madina in his absence.
And the Prophet will do this every single
time when he would go out.
He would make sure there's someone behind
as the amir looking after the affairs of
Madina.
So this time it was Muhammad ibn Maslama.
And
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam also appointed
someone else
to
be the one who would take care of
his family.
And that was
Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu Han.
So now, some of the munafiqul,
they started spreading rumors
saying, how come
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam left behind 'aliyah
ibn Abi Taib?
And they were saying, he only left him
behind because he was a burden.
They said,
And so to lighten that burden, he left
him behind.
And
so, obviously, Ali
he
wanted to
go in this battle.
He didn't want to remain behind.
So when he heard these rumors,
he took his weapon
and
he left Madinah to catch up with
the Prophet
And when he did, and he met the
Prophet
he said, O Messenger of Allah,
are you leaving me behind with the women
and the children?
In another narration,
he said,
O Messenger of Allah, the munafiqun,
the hypocrites
are claiming
that you left me behind
because I was a burden for you.
Because
I was a burden for you.
So
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he replied,
he said,
They lie.
I only left you behind
to take care of my family.
So go back and take care of my
family and your family.
And then the Prophet said,
And this hadith is in Bukhari al Muslim.
The Prophet
made his famous statement.
He said,
do you not are you not pleased?
Are you not pleased? Would it not please
you
to be
to me
as
Harun was
to Musa
except
except that there is no Prophet after me.
What's the analogy here that the Prophet was
making?
When
Musa 'alayhi wa sallam went to meet Allah.
In the famous story,
when Musa 'alayhi wa sallam went to meet
Allah and get the tablets
and speak to Allah,
he left behind
his brother Harun
and appointed him to take care of the
affairs of Bani Israel.
So the Prophet
was saying here
that he was doing the same with the
hadith.
And so this is something
that he should look at as an honor.
Right?
This is something that he should look at
as an honor.
So as a result,
Ali radiAllahu anhu,
he went back to Madinah.
Now,
the army continued on and
previously we mentioned how
the Prophet
made a general mobilization
for this particular battle.
Basically, every
able-bodied
Muslim
was required to join this army.
And no one was allowed to stay behind
unless they had a valid excuse.
Right? Either they're sick
or they're old
or they don't have a ride, etcetera.
But besides that, no one was allowed to
remain behind.
But there were some who stayed behind
without a valid excuse.
And
here we have 2 groups of these people.
1 are the obvious, the munafiqul,
the hypocrites.
But the other group are some of the
companions,
some of the sahaba.
And so as the army continued to march
forth,
some of the companions noticed
that so and so
is not with us.
And so every single time
they would
remember someone, they would go to the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and
ask him about these people,
some of the companions.
And so what would the Prophet
say?
He would say, leave them alone.
If there is any good in them,
Allah will make them to follow you.
Otherwise,
Allah has relieved them of you.
If there's any good in them, they'll come.
But if there's no good in them, then
Allah has relieved them of you.
Right? It's good that they didn't come like
the munafiqur.
And we spoke about this before. Allah revealed
ayaat mentioning how
if they were to come, they would have
caused trouble.
So anyways,
as they were marching forth, they noticed
that among those who hadn't come
and Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said the same thing.
He said
the same thing.
If there is any good in him, he'll
come.
Otherwise, Allah has relieved you of
him. Now,
where was Abu Dhar?
He was actually following them
but his camel was slow.
And so when it slowed him too much,
he jumped off of his camel, he took
all of his belongings
and he started walking.
He started walking,
trying to catch up
to the army.
So now he was walking all by himself
in the desert
and the Muslims, they had stopped to camp.
And some of the Muslims, they noticed a
man approaching from the distance.
So they went and told the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Let it be Abu Dar.
And so when he came, it was indeed
him. So they went and they told the
Prophet
that it is Abu Zar.
And so the Prophet
said, May Allah have mercy upon Abuzaar.
He walks by himself,
he will die by himself,
and he will be resurrected,
meaning on the Day of Judgment,
all by himself.
Now years later
after the death of the Prophet
SAW
in the Khilafa of Uthman
Abu Zar,
he lived to see
the glorious days of Islam when the Muslims
had conquered
large parts of the Roman Empire, the Persian
Empire,
and
you had all this dunya and this wealth
in the hands of the Muslims.
Abu Dhar, he was not that kind of
person
but rather he was known for his zuhid,
abstaining from the dunya. He didn't want to
have anything to do with the dunya.
Nonetheless, he was living in Asham
And the governor of Hashan at that time
during the khilafa of Uthman was
Mu'awiya
radiAllahu.
So Mu'awiya complained to Uthman
about Abuza.
That he doesn't want to have anything to
do with us.
Whatever we give him, he doesn't take.
So Uthman called him to Medina and
Uthman offered him a place to stay in
Medina,
and he offered him a position.
Abu Dhabi refused it. He said, I don't
want to have any of this.
He said, Allow me
to leave Madinah and go and live
in the countryside, in the desert.
And so he chose to move to a
place called Arrabada,
which is this
in the
desert.
And so
he went
there by himself with his wife and his
servant,
and now he was on his deathbed
And there was no one with him except
his wife
and his servant.
Nobody else.
No friends, no neighbors, no one.
Prior to this, Abu Dhan was also one
of the scholars
and he would narrate a hadith and so
he had students as well.
But now he has no one with him
and so his wife starts crying.
He asked her, Why are you crying?
She said, Why wouldn't I cry
when
here you are
dying and I have nothing to wrap you
in.
And I have no strength to dig a
grave for you and bury you.
And so He said to her,
Be happy and do not cry.
For
one day I was in a gathering with
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam
and he said,
1 of you will die
in a barren land
and his burial will be witnessed
by a group of the believers.
He said, And everyone in that gathering on
that day
has long died.
And I am the only one who is
left behind.
So go and check the road. He was
saying
that this hadith applied to him.
So don't worry.
Allah will send someone,
a group of the believers and they will
witness my janaza.
So she said, Go
to the road.
Basically,
where they were staying, it was
along
the route for the hujjaj. When they would
come for Hajj
from
Iraq or from Sham, they would pass by
here on their way.
So she said what road?
The hudjaj, the pilgrims have all long gone.
They have left from Hajj and they have
gone back to their homes.
So
he told her, no. Go and just keep
an eye out.
So she would do this every day
but no one would show up.
Until one day,
she saw a group of men
on their camels in the distance.
So she wait for them to come
and they came and they asked her what
she needed,
and she said, There's a man here who
is dying,
and I need your help to take care
of
him. So they said, Who is he?
She said, He is Abu Dagh.
They said, The companion of Rasulullah He Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam?
She said, Yes.
So they rushed to see him,
and he was in his final moments.
And when he saw them, he said,
I give you glad tidings.
For
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam said that you
will die in a barren land and your
burial will be witnessed by a group of
the believers.
And then he passed away.
And
before he passed away,
when he saw this group of people,
he said, I don't even have
shrouds to wrap myself in.
But
I don't want any shrouds
from any of you
if you served as an amir
or as a police officer or as a
postman.
Basically, he didn't want to have anyone gifting
him something
if he held
a position
in the government.
And so when they looked, they found there
was only one person, one of the unsar,
who
didn't happen to have any of these positions.
And he said, These 2 shrouds,
they were,
woven by my mother, and he gifted them
to him.
And so Abu Zarhu was
wrapped in these shrouds
and they prayed his janaza
and they buried him.
In another narration, it mentions
that among the group was Ibn Mas'ud
radiAllahuaihi
And
when he saw this,
he said,
Rasulullah he
spoke the truth
when he said,
may Allah have mercy upon Abu Zar.
He walks alone,
he will die alone,
and he will
be resurrected.
And so this is the story of Abu
Dharr radiAllahu anhu,
and how
he
abandoned the dunya.
And
we also see a miracle of the prophet
here.
How he mentioned this, and it happened as
he mentioned.
Where Abu Dharr, you know, left
everyone and he died alone.
Now another companion who was
lagging behind
was
Abu
Khaitana,
one of the Ansar.
This companion, he lived
a very comfortable life.
He had 2 wives.
And so the army had left Madinah
and he was still in Madinah.
So he goes home
and it was a very hot day.
And
he finds that both of his wives
were waiting for him,
and they had set up what is known
as an harish,
which is a kind of hut
made of straw.
And they had cooled it with water. So
if you pour water onto it,
and then a breeze comes, it's like
a natural air conditioner.
So they had prepared it for him
and they had prepared
some water and some food.
And
he comes and he sees this.
And then he says,
Rasulullah
is in the sun,
and in the wind, and in the heat.
While Abu Khaitama
sits in a cool shade,
enjoys
food that is prepared for him, and he
is in the company of beautiful women,
living with his wealth.
This is not fair.
By Allah,
I will not enter either of your hutts
until I catch up to Rasulullah
So go and get my provisions
ready for me.
And so they got
his camel ready for the journey,
and he went and he caught up
with the Muslim army.
However,
he only caught
up when they had reached Tabuk.
So he made it just in time.
And he went to meet the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
What did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say
to him when he saw him?
He said,
Awwlaalakar
You Abba Khaitama.
He said, You had come close to destroying
yourself.
O Abu Khaytanah.
Basically,
if he had not come,
if he had not made it,
that's it.
He would have been
you know, like the munafiqur.
And so these are some of those companions
who
lagged behind, but they ended up
making it
to join the army.
And then there were some of the companions
who
did not make it.
And we're going to talk about them, next
week insha'Allah
as their story is a bit longer.
But now on their way
in Sahih al Bukhari and Muslim,
Abdullah ibn Umar
radiAllahu anhu, he narrates
that on the way to Tabuk,
the Muslims passed by the ruins of Tamud.
And so
the people of Tamud were destroyed by Allah
and their prophet was Salih alaihi sallam.
And
their dwellings
were between Madinah and Tabuk.
And so ibn Umar, he says
when the Muslim army reached this area,
some of the Muslims, they entered into their
homes, into these dwellings
and they took water from the wells
and
they use this water to make dough.
So when Rasulullah
alaihi wasallam heard about that,
he ordered them to pour out the water
and
feed the camels
with the dough.
And He ordered them to only go and
take water
from the well
of Anaka,
the camel
that Allah had sent as a test
for samut
that they had killed.
So
there was one well
where
she would drink from.
The prophet said, go and only drink from
that well.
Then the prophet said,
do not enter the dwellings of a people
who have wronged themselves,
who have transgressed against themselves
unless you do so
crying,
lest what afflicted them ends up afflicting you.
And so
here, the Prophet
was teaching the companions
that
we should not want to have anything to
do with
these people
and their homes, and anything that they left
behind.
And he mentioned the reason,
right?
That this is a place
where Allah was disobeyed,
and His Messenger
was rejected,
and thus Allah's punishment
descended.
So this place is cursed,
and we should not want to have anything
to do
with
this place.
It's a cursed place.
If you do want to enter,
then
it should be
in order to be reminded
about the punishment of Allah.
That's why the Prophet SAW says, if you
do enter, enter crying.
Meaning, you're looking at these people or
their homes and what happened to them,
and you realize that this was the punishment
of Allah.
So if you want to enter, enter in
that state while you're fearful of Allah and
you're crying,
otherwise do not enter.
Otherwise
do not enter.
Now along the way, the Muslims stopped to
pray,
and Rasulullah
he went to make wudu
and he got late.
So
the Muslims, they made the iqama,
and
Abdurrahman
ibn UHud radiAllahu
anhu, he led the salah.
So
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam then,
he then
came.
And Abdulrahman ibn Aouth, he noticed that the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was coming,
so he started to retreat. He was wanting
to go back and he wanted the prophet
to continue the salah.
But the prophet
stopped him and he had him carry on
and continue.
And so
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ended up
praying behind
Abdurrahman
ibn Aouth radiAllahu alaihi.
And so this is counted as one of
the fada'il, one of the virtues of Abdurrahman
ibn Aouth.
The only other companion who the prophet prayed
behind was
Abu Bakr,
radiAllahu alaihi and that was,
when he was
ill towards the end of his life.
Other than that, we don't have any mention
of any other companion who the Prophet prayed
behind.
Then after that, we have the incident
in which some of the munafiqoon,
they ridiculed
some of the companions.
And so
'Abdulla ibn Armar radiAllahu anhu, he narrates
that during the Battle of Tabuk,
a man was sitting in a gathering
and he made a remark
about
the Qur'an,
the reciters of the Qur'an.
What did he say? He said,
I have never seen anything like these
reciters of ours.
They have the hungriest of stomachs,
and
they have the most lying of tongues,
and they are the most coward
when it comes
to facing the enemy.
And so
one of the companions
in that gathering,
he got up and he said, you lie.
You are a hypocrite
And I will go and inform Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam of what you have said.
So
he went and told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
And
as a result, Allah
revealed some ayat.
Abdullah ibn Rumr, he says,
I then saw that man afterwards
holding on to the camel of the Prophet
saying, O Messenger of Allah,
we were only engaged in
free talk, idle talk,
and we were only joking.
And the Prophet
was reciting the ayaat
in response to them.
What are these ayaat? They are in Surah
Tawbah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
And if you were to ask them,
you
know, about what they said,
they will say, We were only
talking
idly and
we were only joking around.
And then Allah
says,
Was it Allah and His ayaat
and His Messenger
that you ridiculed, that you were making fun
of?
Make no excuses.
You have disbelieved
after your iman.
If
we pardon a group of you, we will
punish others because
they were
criminals.
Now
in another narration,
it mentions that
what the Munafiqun
said
was
they said to some of the companions,
do you think that fighting the Romans
is gonna be like
Arabs fighting one another?
And they said, you're gonna come back in
ropes.
You're going to come back tied in ropes.
So
what were they doing here?
They were discouraging the Muslims
and
they were demoralizing
that.
And this is something you do not do
in an army
that is going to face off against an
enemy.
You're supposed to encourage them,
you're not supposed to discourage them.
And so this will strike fear in their
hearts.
And so
this is no different than,
you know, some Muslims today
who
tell us that, you know,
what chance do we have against the kuffar?
Where they have all of the military might
in the world and we have nothing.
We don't stand a chance.
Let us just accept the status quo.
Right? As they are telling our brothers and
sisters in Palestine,
discouraging them, demoralizing
them. Anyways,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then revealed these ayaat.
And so they came after that, apologizing to
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam for what
they had said.
So either it was because of this or
it was because
of what Ibn Umar mentioned about,
you know, these Munafiqul
making fun of the Qur'at,
the reciters among
the Sahaba.
When Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam finally arrived
at Tabuk,
there was no trace of the enemy.
Now,
there's no doubt
that the news
of the Muslim army reached the Romans
because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did
not keep
this battle a secret
As opposed to previous battles where
he would go out and make sure that
no news reaches the enemy.
But this time it was different.
He made a call to everyone.
So without a doubt, you know,
the news must have reached them.
And
let us not forget
that these are the Romans.
They have
the military
capability
and the military might
and the experience
and so on and so forth.
But yet, they did not come out.
And so it is mentioned that the reason
for this was that Allah had strike Allah
had struck
fear into their hearts.
And this is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam mentions
that I have been given
5 things that no other Prophet before me
was given.
And he mentioned among them
he mentioned among them
Arruad
that I have been given
this fear
that Allah strikes
into the hearts of the enemy
from a distance of a month's travel.
So before I reach the enemy by a
month,
they're already
in fear
and so they did not show up.
However, it doesn't mean that the Muslims did
not accomplish anything.
Although they did not face off against the
Romans,
they did accomplish something else.
And so
in this area,
you had Christian Arab tribes
scattered along the border
between
the Arabian Peninsula
and Asham.
So Asham
was controlled by the Roman Empire.
And
along that border, you had these Arab tribes.
Many had become Christian
and
these tribes, the Prophet SAW reached out to
them.
He met with them
and they decided to surrender themselves,
and he signed peace treaties with them,
and they agreed to also pay the jizya
to him.
And so for example, there was the King
of
'Ayla. 'Ayla was a town
in modern day Palestine.
And so the King of 'Ayla, he sent
a white mule
and a robe as gifts to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he also agreed to pay the jizyah.
And there was also
Uqaydir who was the King of
Duma Al Jendal. We mentioned Duma Al Jendal
previously.
This was an area
in
Northern Arabia and the Prophet had previously sent
Saraya
expeditions
to attack them.
And so this time,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent Khalid ibn Walid
radiAllahu an
with 420
horsemen
to capture Uqaydir,
their their king.
So
Khalid ibn Walid, he went
and he managed to capture him
along with
taking 400,
prisoners
and or 800,
female prisoners,
a 1000 camels,
400 pieces of armor,
and 400
spirits. So all of this
Khaled ibn Walid he managed to capture along
with their king.
So when he arrived,
he surrendered himself and
he made a peace treaty with the Prophet
and he agreed to
pay the jizyah and so the Prophet
returned.
And so in signing
these
treaties and taking jizyah
from these
small kingdoms,
the Prophet
ensured
that the northern
frontier
of the Muslim state, it was secure.
And so
these kingdoms and these Arab tribes
had previously
allied themselves with the Romans.
And the only reason for that is because
the Roman Empire, it's a huge
it's a powerful state.
So
this is for this is to our advantage,
you know, to be allied with them
and perhaps that is also why they became
Christians.
And so now they were switching
their loyalties
to the Muslims
and so this would now create
a strong buffer zone
between the Romans
and the Muslim state.
And it was during the era of the
Khalifa,
after the death of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
that these very small kingdoms
would be used as launching pads
for the Muslim army
in their
conquests
of a sham.
And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam remained
in Tabuk
for
some time and then he returned back to
Madinah as we can see.
Although he did not actually fight
an enemy, he didn't fight the Romans. There
was no fighting that occurred
but he did accomplish,
other things
through this battle.
And so next week, we're going to move
on
to the return of the Prophet SAW
Salam to Madillah
and what happens then.
We conclude with some of the lessons that
we learned
from
what we learned tonight.
The first lesson that we learned
and that we see is the status of
Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu Alaihi.
As the prophet
said
to him,
He said, would it not please you to
be
to me as Harun was to Musa?
Except
that there is no prophet after
him. So Harun was a prophet.
Right?
And Aaliyah radiAllahu anhu was not.
But the comparison here is
that
Musa Alaihi Wasallam left behind Hahuul
when he went to meet Allah.
And here, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when
he's going on this battle, he's leaving behind,
Ali radiAllahu anhu.
And so
this incident
is counted among the Faba'il of Ali
ibn Abi Talib Rabiullah.
However,
it does not prove
what the Shia claim that it proves.
They will use this
they will use this to say that the
prophet
wanted Ali radiAllahu alaihi wa sallam to succeed
him after him, after his death.
Because the wording that is used in this
hadith is that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
He left him behind
to be his successor over
his family.
Why doesn't it prove what the shia claimed?
Because here,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam only appointed Ali
radhiyallahu
Alaihi to look after his family.
And not over the affairs of the Muslims
of Madinah.
That
job was for Muhammad ibn Maslana as we
mentioned.
And the only reason that the Prophet appointed
Ali radiAllahu an to take care of his
family in particular
was because Ali radiAllahu an was one of
the closest
to his family.
Being his cousin,
being his son-in-law,
right? It made sense to have someone like
him
to
be staying behind and taking care
of
his family.
And so
there is unanimous consensus
and agreement
of Ahlus Sunnah wal Janaha that
the succession after the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is in this particular order. Abu Bakr,
then Umar,
then Earthma'an,
then Halih
radiAllahu anhu.
And it happened like that
in reality.
Right?
And there is no proof
for those who claim that 'ali should
have been the khalifa after the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasallam.
The second lesson that we learn
is
sacrificing one's dunya for the sake of Allah.
How Abu Khaitana
radiAllahu anhu
saw things in Medina
is pretty much how we are today.
Right?
When he went and he saw,
you know, his 2 wives and what they
had prepared for him.
He was living in comfort
and in the luxuries of the dunya.
In fact,
it's not the same as today. We are
in a far better
position.
You know, we are living in far more
comfort
and the luxuries of the dunya.
But the question here is,
how many of us
today
would wake
up from that attachment to the dunya and
abandon it for the sake of Allah
as Abu Khaytama did?
And so Abu Khaydham
was a human being just like us.
And he was attached to a dunya just
like anyone else.
But when he saw the dunya in front
of him,
and he remembered Rasulullah
out there taking that long journey to Tabuk
in the heat,
and
without
water, without food, without these luxuries
that woke him up.
That woke him up,
and
as a result, he felt guilty.
And he said what he said.
Right?
And so he immediately after that, he settled.
And he said, I'm not gonna even enter
into these 2 huts until I catch up
to Rasulullah
And then as we mentioned, he barely made
it. He barely made it.
And then what did the Prophet
say to him?
He said to him,
you came close to destroying yourself, O Abu
Khaytama.
And so this applies to us today.
You know, we are destroying ourselves
unless we wake up from our ghafla.
Unless we wake up from
our heedlessness.
And so how does that happen?
It starts by a Realization
like Abu Khaytama.
He realized
that, no.
I can't be enjoying the dunya while the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is out there.
So it starts with that realization in the
heart,
Then it turns into an intention.
And then it turns into
a strong determination.
That's it. I'm gonna wake up.
I'm gonna abandon
these luxuries of the dunya.
I'm going to sacrifice it for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The next lesson that we learn
is
that we Muslims
should not have any pride
whatsoever
with the so called civilizations
of the past
that were kuffar
and were punished by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And we learned that from
how the prophet
dealt with the ruins of Samut
and how he forbid the companions
from entering these dwellings.
In one narration, it mentions
that the companions, they said, O Messenger of
Allah,
we're impressed by
what they have done.
They had carved
homes
into these mountains.
And Allah
has allowed these ruins to remain until this
very day.
But not for the sake of us to
be amazed
by what they did
while forgetting about
what ended up happening to them.
And that's what the prophet was reminding us
of when he told them, do not enter.
And if you have to enter, then enter
crying.
And so how can we
Muslims today
take pride in these civilizations,
these Kafir civilizations of the past?
Like Babylon
and Firaun
and
all these other civilizations, the Indus
civilization
in the Indo Pak
subcontinent
and all these other civilizations
that were destroyed by Allah.
How can we take
pride
in
these civilizations
when,
you know, they died upon Kufr,
and they were enemies of Allah, and Allah
destroyed them?
It's always very sad,
you know, that we see Muslims today
taking pride in their pre Islamic history.
And,
you know, these ruins
are being revived
today. They're being preserved and they're being
revived.
And this is actually one of the plots
of the kuffar and the enemies of Islam.
They have explicitly
mentioned
that they want to revive these
civilizations
in the Muslim world
so that the Muslims are attached to them.
And that would lessen their attachment to their
Islamic history.
So they're trying to tell the Muslims
that these are your actual roots
that you should be proud of.
So if you're in Egypt,
then take pride in the pyramids.
And
what the pharaohs did,
these are your real roots.
Not Islam that came afterwards.
And likewise with, you know,
all these other pre Islamic civilizations.
And unfortunately, this is exactly what we're seeing
happening.
Muslims
are taking pride in these civilizations
to the point where you have
some parents who named their children Firahun.
It's real.
You know, go to Egypt and you find
some people, they, you know, their parents named
them Firaun.
Why? Because
they took a pride in these civilizations.
And so we have no need to do
so.
Why?
Because
we have Islam.
We have Islam
and as
Umar,
radiAllahu anai said,
that Allah subhanahu, that we used to be,
That we used to be the most disgraced
of nations.
And Allah,
He
raised us through Islam.
As long as we seek pride
and glory through other than Islam,
then Allah will
disgrace us.
Finally, the last lesson that we can mention
here
is the shukum of
the ruling of
mocking
and making fun of anything concerning Islam.
The ayaats that were revealed concerning the munafiqoon
that we mentioned
make it clear
that
joking around and ridiculing
or mocking
anything
related to the deen
is haram and it is kufr,
which is why the scholars, they list it
among the nullifiers of Islam. Nawakul Bari Islam.
It is one of the nullifiers of Islam
to make fun of anything related to the
deen.
As Allah says,
Don't make excuses.
Right?
You have disbelieved
after your belief.
And so this is because
Islam
is something sacred.
And we need to hold it in high
esteem.
And we need to give it.
We need to give it the sanctity that
it deserves.
Making fun of Islam
or anything related to Islam
is considered
belittling it.
And it is a sign that you do
not hold
Islam to be something sacred
and, you know, valuable.
And unfortunately,
you know, today many Muslims, they take this
very lightly,
and they don't realize how serious it is.
And so you find them making fun of
something related to Islam,
whether it is,
you know,
salah
or whether it is
the hijab
or the beard
or
whether it is
religious people. Even making fun of religious people,
that falls under
this ruling
Because these munafiqoon,
they did not make fun of
Islam directly
or the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Who did they make fun of? The Qur'an.
They are the reciters
and they are
the religious among the companions.
Right? So today, if anyone makes fun of
the religious
Muslims,
then he is doing what the munafiqoon
did.
And so this is something we need to
be very, very careful about
as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
mentioned.
And so this is where we will stop
and inshaAllah wa ta'ala,
we will
continue
next week.