Mirza Yawar Baig – Lessons from the Anbiya #64 I love the Messenger
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Incident of, for the.
I just want to remind myself and you
that
because I have to go through the whole
portion, I'm
trying to be brief. But,
each of these things in the, there is
a wealth of knowledge
and a wealth of understanding
that is in every single incident.
So each 1 of them and something like
Fatimaqa, we can spend
days on it discussing each individual aspect of
it, why Rasool
did something, what is the lesson for us,
and so on and so forth.
So I want to leave that as a
marker for you for you to do this
in your own time.
Now in the time of,
1 of the Tabian
wanted to invite
to his home for a meal.
Was famous. He was very generous. He used
to invite
And then he accepted.
When he came in the evening for the
meal, he said, shall I not tell you,
oh, Ansar, a Hadith
that belongs to you?
So, of course, they were delighted, and they
I mean, 1 of the reasons to be
probably writing over another line was
commanding 1 wing, Khaled bin Walid the other,
and Abu Baidah,
commanded the foot soldiers.
Was in his battalion.
He saw me and said, oh, call the
answer to me, and nobody but the answer
should should come to me.
So I called Al Ansar, and they surrounded
Rasul Rasulam from every direction.
Rasul Rasul Rasulam said to them, whoever enters
the house of Abu Sufyan is safe.
Whoever enters his own house is safe.
And then he said,
did you say that I will leave you
and stay in Makkah?
The answer said, yes,
You Rasool Allah. They had a fear that
now that he's got his hope down back
that he will not
go back to Madinah, he will remain in
Makkah. So they said, yes, you Rasool Allah.
Rasool Allah said, I am a slave of
Allah.
I made hijrah
to Allah
and to you.
My life is with you, and my death
is with you.
Now they came crying. They started weeping with
joy,
and they cry crying to him, and he
and they said, we only send this because
we love Allah and his Rasool.
And he
said, Allah
and his messenger
Rasul bear witness that you speak the truth.
The position of the Ansar is amazing. It's
a very, very special position.
They loved Rasulullah SAWSALAM and Rasulullah SAWSALAM loved
them, and he gave them he gave them
a very special status, which is not given
to anyone else. May
Allah put the love of Anza
in our hearts and the love of
and his own love Jadun Jarro.
The final hadith in for Tabakkah,
Amar bin Salamah
lived outside Makkah. He said,
whenever we met, any travelers, we would ask
about
Mohammed,
about his man.
They would tell us what was revealed to
him.
He said, I was a child
and I would memorize these ayats,
and they as if they would stay
inside my breast, and they would stay inside
my breast.
Imagine that little boy,
he would hear the ayat 1 time, and
he would memorize it.
The Arabs were waiting he continues. He said
the Arabs were waiting for the conquest to
become Muslim before they becoming Muslim.
They were they were waiting to see the
result between the Quraysh and Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And
that's the reason why Allah
gave people who accepted Islam before Fatawaka
a higher status than those who accepted Islam
after Fatawaka because
the truthfulness and the
value of accepting Islam
only because Islam is the truth
as compared to accepting Islam because now Islam
has power. You know, we're not saying the
others are not truthful, but the point is
that
with them, when people accepted Islam after Matamaka,
there was no threat involved. It was that
was the power. That was the land. That
was the rule,
and so he became Muslim.
But those who became Muslim before Fatawaka,
they faced all kinds of difficulties and all
kinds of trials and tribulations because they had
no power. So the general Arabs, they said
if he loses, then leave him
and leave him and his people alone. But
if he wins, then he's the true prophet.
Now that's a wrong way to think because
winning or losing has nothing to do with
the truthfulness of the message.
Nuh-uh, alayhi salaam,
in
950
years, was able to convince only a 100
something people. So what do you say? He
lost 21?
Guidance is the truth is the truth
even if nobody believes it. And falsehood is
falsehood even if the whole world believes it.
And today, we are living in a world
which is based on falsehood.
So that's that's the wrong way to think,
but most people think
and they only follow those with temporal power
authority. And that's also 1 of the reasons
why
Muslims should be wealthy and they should be
powerful because this is 1 way of giving
them.
When Muhammad,
all the tribes were rushing to embrace Islam.
So, Amr bin Salamah said my father went
to to meet
and accepted Islam and returned to his tribe
and told them, truly, he's a prophet, and
he has told us to pray this salah
at this time and this salah at that
time. So he he got some instructions on
how to pray. He said, when it is
time to pray, 1 of you call the
other and then have the 1 who knows
the most Quran to be your imam.
So they searched
and they found that I was the 1
who knew the most Quran, thanks to what
I learned from the travelers. So I used
to read them in Salaam.
He said I was 6 or 7 years
old at this time. Now for the purpose
of our understanding, it is not permissible to
have a 6 or 7 year old leading
Salah.
In this case, it was permissible because he
was the only 1.
He said I had a burtha. I had
a saw that was very short,
and,
you know, it had holes and stuff. And
when I bent forward, it will rise and
my
behind will be exposed.
So 1 day,
1 of the,
you know, older women,
she stood up,
and she said, why don't you cover the
behind of your recital
from us? So
they bought a new song for me and
he said nothing made me happier than that
song.
This is a little boy, and he's feeling
so happy that
he was able to get some new clothes.
Thanks to
thanks to, the objection of this,
of this lady, you know, of this auntie.
With the
we come now with that the end of
the, hadith related to and story related to
Fatah Makkah.
Now with the opening of Makkah, the strongest
resistance to the Dua of Islam ended. However,
there was another tribe, the
Banu Zakif,
and,
we know this tribe from
the incident
of
Rasulullah. His his journey to Taif and all
that, they did for did they did to
him. So this was the same tribe. They
were a branch of Al Hawazim,
and,
Al Hawazim was a big tribe all around.
And they consider
themselves to be superior
as did
the. I have also had
this evil history,
with respect to
when he went
to them with his message.
The,
leader mobilized the Hawazim,
and they put together an army to attack
Rasulullah.
When
Rasulullah
heard about this, he marched
to Taif with his army, which was 12,
000.
Abu Bakr of the Lamu and probably some
others.
So now the
this this I mean, I mean, happened.
The,
Malik,
bin Auf al Nasri
came out with all his,
fighters,
and they also,
you know, brought out their women and children
and livestock
and wealth because they, they thought that this
would prevent the men from running away. So
this was 1 of the customers at the
time. They brought their women and so on.
They said the men would find better if
they are actually actively
defending the women folk instead of having the
women folk
staying somewhere else.
Duraid Bien Simba was a famous poet and
an old warrior.
He was with them. He was very old
and blind, but was highly respected for his
wisdom and poetry.
He asked where where are we? They told
him, we are in Al Augh Tas. He's
at a a fine place for cavalry,
not rocky and not soft
with sand.
Then he asked, why is it that I
hear the grunting of camels and the bleating
of sheep and the braying of donkeys and
crying of children?
They told him, Malik has brought
everyone and all our wealth with him so
that the men will not run away.
He called Malik, and he said, yeah, Malik.
This day has great consequences for the time
coming after it. This day will determine
our future. Why did you do
what we have done? Malik said, I brought
them so that everyone will fight for his
family as well.
Dorel bin Sima said, you sheep grazer, will
anything
ever
turn around someone in
retreat. He said if the battle is to
go well, only men with swords and lances
will do you good. If it goes badly,
you will be disgraced with regard to your
family and wealth anyway.
And then he asked them, what did Kaab
and Kula, the 2 major tribes of the
time, said, what did it what did they
do?
Malik said, they did not come with us.
Then
skill and courage are absent. If
it was to be a day of great
deeds, they would not have missed it.
I wish you had done the same. Meaning,
I wish you had also not come out.
Then he asked him, who's with you?
Malik said, Amal
and Auf,
the 2 other clans.
Duray bin Simba said, those 2 will do
neither good nor harm. Then he said, yeah,
Malik, take away the families and cattle
to the highlands, to the fortified lands
of Hawazim.
And then meet the Subah,
which is the name that they call Muslims
on horseback.
If the battle is for you, then the
rest will come. If it is against you,
then you have at least protected your family
and wealth.
Molly said, well, I am not going to
do what you tell me. You're an old
man, and your knowledge has become old.
Oh, how was it? When you see the
enemy
break your sheets, I mean, this of the
sword, and attack them as 1 man. If
you don't come with me, then I will
fall on my sword and kill myself.
Today I said, this is a day that
I am not counted as part of it.
And he said, I'm not meaning. I'm not
responsible
for the consequences
of this day.
This is the problem that
people don't want to listen to advice,
because their mind is already made up and
the advice being given is the opposite.
So they disregard.
Now the person giving the advice is a
person of experience.
He has knowledge. He has he's concerned about
them.
So they should listen to the advice, but
he decided not to.
Rasulullah
sent Abdul Amin I mean, Hadra
to gather intelligence for him. He returned and
reported what he saw.
Refused to believe.
So Abdullah bin Abi Hadra said, you may
be rejecting the truth.
Wanted extra arms, so he asked
if he would give him some weapons. So
far, I asked him, are you taking them
by force, are you borrowing them? The said
no. I am borrowing them, and we'll return
them to you. Safan was still in the
waiting period because he had been given
2, 4 months
to decide whether he wanted to become Muslim
or not.
After the battle, some of the pieces were
lost. So Rasool Nasr al Hassan told him,
I will compensate you for the pieces that
are lost. Safran said, no. Don't do that
because I now find in my heart what
was not there before, and he accepted Islam.
On the way, the Muslims passed by a
large tree on which soldiers used to hang
their swords for.
Some of the new Muslims, they
asked,
they said,
you Rasoolullah, what we want to have
that,
anwat,
like the mush mushrikeen have anwat.
So the anwat is some kind of a
sign or symbol,
and this is the whole root of idol
worship. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
by Allah, who has my soul in his
hand, you have said what the Bani Israel
said to Moses. We want our God as
the Mushriqim have gods.
You will follow the disbelievers
1 by 1 in everything that they did.
Meaning, the Muslim will follow the Bani Israel
in all the evil that they
therefore, refused to do that. He said, I
will not give you any of any such
any such or any such, you know, signs
or symbols.
Rasool said, who will guard us this night?
And has been I mean,
for the round of volunteer. Rasool said to
him, mount up. Face this valley
until you reach to the end of it,
meaning go down this valley to the end.
We don't want to be taken by surprise
on your side,
And this is the duty
of every Muslim
to protect Islam
from their side.
In the morning, Rasulullah
went to the Musa, prayed to Raqqah, and
then asked the people,
did you see your night, meaning? Did you
see?
They said, no,
Then he started.
As he was praying,
he kept looking in the direction of the
valley. And when he finished Salah, he said,
good news. Your night is coming.
The Sahaba still could not see him, and
the saw
him before anyone else.
He came and made salah, and then he
said, I was at the place where you
sent me,
in the morning. I looked down from between
the 2 mountains, but saw that there was
nobody there.
Said, did you dismount?
He replied, no. You have, except for salah
and to all to and to answer the
call of nature.
Rasoolullah
said Allah will give you Jannah and you
have to do nothing more after this.
So Anas bin Nabi was
given
the basha of Jannah
for guarding the Muslims,
and he was told that he was not
required to do any more good deeds in
order to earn Jannah. That 1 night of
guarding was enough.
It was a very hot day.
Called stood up from under a tree which
had a shade like that of a bird.
They started to march, and they came to
a valley, and suddenly,
they were attacked by the horsemen of the
hazzim from the front, and the archers of
the hazzim attacked
them from the sides.
The were good archers and the arrows fell
thick and had a devastating effect. The Muslims
were ambushed and taken by surprise. In the
front of the Muslim army was
Banu Soleim, a tribe which lived near Madera,
who couldn't withstand the cavalry attack and started
to retreat.
Behind them were, the new Muslims from Mecca.
They also had no battle experience, so they
also turned and retreated.
They were about 2, 000, and as they
ran,
the camels stumbled on each other.
There was chaos
because it became alive. It's not a
properly
executed
retreat, it was like a like a route.
So there was chaos. Rasulullah tried to call
them back. He said, where are our people?
Where are our people? Where are you going?
Come to me. I am Rasulullah.
I am Mohammed bin Abdullah. Come to
me. Javed bin Abdullah
Qadilah,
the narrator of Zadid, he said, but no
return.
Auzafian,
when he saw them, he said the defeat
will not end. This retreat and this route
will not end until they reach the sea.
He said this will not end
until
they reach the sea.
Khalda with Alhambal,
he said the magic is gone, meaning that
the magic of Rasul Rasul 7 is over.
Safar was not happy with what he heard,
and he said, I'd rather have a man
from Horesh
rule over me than a bezel.
Not the best intention, but better than what
others were saying.
Salamah bin Akwa,
who was an excellent
runner,
and, he was the 1 who
ran in
Khobar and caught,
2 sheep.
He said, yeah, he said I I ran
like an ostrich.
He says when the retreat started, I was
fleeing.
I passed
next to,
and when he saw me, he said, even
Akoa has seen something terrifying.
So even, I mean, good people who
who are not or something,
you know, they this
happened to them. Allah
tranquility
on the Messenger Mohammed
and on the believers and sent down forces
as angels that you could not see
and punish
the disbelievers and such is the recompense
of the disbelievers.
In 1 narration, it says, we saw
black cloud coming out of the sky
and when it landed on the ground, we
saw a carpet
of black ants. We saw that these were
angels,
and Allah knows truly,
the truth about his forces. Allah knows
what,
his
army consists of. Initially, only
Abbas bin Abdul Mutaleb, Abu Sufyan,
ibn al Harith, 1 of the sons of
Abbas,
the son of,
were with Rasulullah
salami him and holding his mule. Everyone else
had written it. At this time,
Rasool asked Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib
to call the Ansar
and to call Al Khazraj.
The narrative says they turned like cows turned
to their calves. They surrounded the source of
salar. There were about a 100 of them
facing the
army of Al Hawazim, which was about 20,
000.
The Rasool,
was marching ahead alone. There was a man
ahead of the hawasim who had a very
long lunch with a banner. This part of
the army was forcing the Muslims back. Now
when Rasulullah salam reached them with a 1
with with a with a 100 people, 100
fighters, the real fighting started. Rasool
said, now the fire of battle is waging.
Rasool
stood in his stirrups and made dua, and
he took a handful of dirt of soil,
and he
threw it at the enemy.
Every enemy had something in their eyes, and
there was a feeling in their hearts of
fear. 1 of them who later accepted Islam,
when asked how they felt in that moment,
took a handful of stones and threw them
into a metal pan with a great clatter.
He said, this is how we felt in
our hearts when Rasool
threw
the soy. In,
Musa al Muhammed,
he quotes
Abdul Abdullah in Masood, who
says I was with Rasulullah
in the battle of.
There were about 80 Ansar and Mahajirou remained
with him.
We withdrew about 80 feet but did not
turn our backs to the enemy.
These were the men upon whom Allah sent
his sakinah.
Meanwhile,
was
still
going forward his mule rear to 1 side
so that he slipped off his saddle.
I called out to him, up you get,
and may I raise you up? He told
me, get me a handful of dirt,
handful of soil.
With
this, he struck them in their faces
and filled their mouths.
Then he asked me, where are the and
the answer?
And I said they are close by. He
said call for them.
I did, and they came with their sword
in their right hands
shining like stars,
and the Mushrikain turned their
backs in retreat.
Now some of the
events in the battle of Honei, said
whoever
kills an enemy gets his possessions. So Abu
says that there was 1 of the who
raised his hand to strike a Muslim. So
I struck him, and my sword dug deep
into his shoulder. The man turned and embraced
me so hard that I felt death.
Then he fell out dead.
Then the retreat started. I saw
asked him what was happening.
He said, this is a decree of Allah.
When Rasulullah
made the announcement about the Al Haniba, Abu
Khatada,
tried to find someone to witness for him,
someone who had seen him kill the man,
but nobody would give it to us. Finally,
1 man from the Quraish stood up and
he said, yeah,
I took the possessions of that man,
so please ask
Abu Khattada to allow me to keep them.
Abu Bakr Radir
Abdul Azar intervened and he said, by Allah,
no. We will not allow a land from
among the lands of Allah
to have nothing and give it to a
haira
of the Quraysh.
The Surah
said give
them and give them to Abu Khadada.
He said, I took those possessions and sold
them, and with the money, I small I
bought a small garden of date palms, and
that was the first wealth that I owned
in Islam.
Abu Talah,
his wife,
saw his wife, Umu
Saraim, brother Arno, carrying a dagger. He asked
her, what is this?
She said, I will rip open the belly
of any enemy who comes near
me. Then she said
to
kill all the
it is because of them that we suffered
defeat. Rasulullah
said, no need for that. Allah has been
good to us and given us victory.
Then Rasulullah
saw people gathered around something. He said, what
is that? They said, it's a woman
killed by Harib Bin Walid. Said,
this woman is not a combat competent.
And then then he gave orders to Khalib
bin Walid not to kill, women
and, laborers
and children.
Revealed aat
about Hunayn. It's a very important
part of the Seerah and
of Islam and
something which we need to understand
and and and learn from.
Allah said, truly Allah has given you victory
on many battlefields
and on the day of rain when you
rejoiced at your great number, but it availed
you nothing
and the earth, vast as it is, was
straightened for you. Then you turned back in
flight.
Then Allah
did send down his Sakira,
his calmness and tranquility on the Messenger Muhammad
and on the believers and sent down
forces
which you could not see and punished
the disbelievers
and such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
The Hawazim were defeated
by a core group of Muslims
between 80 and
100 and they were a core group among
them
who never moved back at all and only
moved forward. These were the people who defeated
the Hawazim.
Malik bin Auf and the main army retreated
to Taif and closed the gates.
A smaller group went to Al Autas.
Rasul
split his army
and led the main army to Taif himself
and sent Abu Ahabar al Ashari,
the uncle of Abu Bhus al Ashari,
in charge of a smaller force to deal
with the Hawazim
at Al Aqdas.
Abu Hamel, Raghal Al Ho, was shot in
the knee.
Abu Hamel
asked him who shot him. Abu Hamel pointed
to the man. Abu Huza chased the man,
but the man was running away. So Abu
Huza shouted to him, aren't you ashamed?
Aren't you going to stop and fight? Aren't
you an Arab man? When the man heard
this, he stopped and came to fight. Abu
Hosea killed him.
Then he returned to his uncle and told
him that he had killed the man.
Abu Hamed had told him to remove the
arrow. In that process,
1 of the arteries in his knee got
cut, and he started losing blood rapidly, and
he knew that he was dying.
He said to Abuza
al Ashari, give my salam to
and ask him to ask
forgiveness for me from
after his uncle passed away,
he went to
and told him the story.
Was sleeping on a bed. He was was
lying down on a bed made from ropes,
made from dead palms.
Said,
I could see the marks of the ropes
on his side and back.
When he
got up, told
him the story.
Asked for some water and made wudu,
then he raised his hands until Abu Musa
said I could see his armpits. He raised
an eye above his head.
And this is this means that he was
deeply involved in the Dua. He said, oh,
Allah, forgive the slave of yours, Abu Ahmed,
and on the day of judgment, make him
above many of your creation.
Abu Musa Adiranu
Arashiri heard this
dua for me. Rasulullah,
forgive Abdullah Al Hais and give him a
noble admittance on the day of judgement.
Our
said, 1 dua was made for and
another for Abu Musa.
A better made his dua. He said, oh,
Allah, make the best of my life the
end of it and make the best of
my deeds the last of them and make
the best day of my life the day
I will meet you.
This is a wonderful thought
because the 1 for whom the day of
judgment is best is a successful
person.
The lot of the type
is a very,
important
part
of the serum,
and
it is something to think about and reflect
on.
Because
here was a situation where
for the first time, the Muslims had
adequate weapons
and they had,
you know, they had enough weapons and they
had enough
material,
and they had a large army. But 12
1, 000 people were never in. Even in
Fatawaka, they were,
10, 000 and then they were 12 year
because
this the the the got added from the
from the.
And
it was in the hearts of some of
the believers
that this time we cannot lose because we
are so many.
They felt that we are so many, so
we there's no way we can lose.
And this is where Allah
was showing
that
Muslims Allah does not give Muslim
victory based on
their numbers or based on their resources or
based on their wealth or based on their,
you know, based on anything
other
than,
the
other than the connection with Allah,
other than their piety.
It's very important to remember this because many
times we get carried away.
If you ask somebody, you know, what is,
what are the assets that we have? For
example, Muslims feel today,
very
left out and so on.
Where they feel very persecuted,
they feel very helpless.
But if you think about that,
why do we why do we say that?
Why do you feel that? Because if you
ask I'm a Muslim sometimes I ask this
question to some of my Muslim clients.
I I tell them do a SWOT analysis,
you know, write down your strength, weaknesses, opportunities,
threat. When they finish that, I ask them
where is Allah in
this? Where is Islam in this? You've written
your strengths, you've written your weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
In your strengths, there's no mention of Islam.
There's no mention of Allah. Why?
Right? Isn't isn't that us isn't Islam your
an asset of yours? Isn't this isn't that
a strength? Should it not be a strength?
Should Allah
not be
our only strength?
And the 1 who has Allah,
if he loses everything else in life, what
has he lost? Whereas, if the 1 who
does not have Allah, if he gains everything
in life, what does he gain?
Now this is the difference between us and
the Sabbath, among the many other differences.
Where
the Saba, if you had asked them to
do a swaddlers, what do you think they
would have written in the in the
in the in the section of strengths?
For them, Allah was everything.
For them, Islam was everything.
And because they
believed in Islam,
they followed Islam completely,
and they got the full benefit of Islam.
Just ask yourself, what is the value, for
example, of dua which is mabul?
Dua which is accepted. There is no there
there's no,
know, ifs and buts about this. Do you
ask, I will give
you. What's the value of that?
Something beyond value. Right?
But how do you get there?
You get there by being obedient to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. There's no shortcut to this.
The salah were completely and totally obedient to
Allah That's why Allah accepted this Torah.
In the case of,
Allah is mentioning this very clearly. Allah is
saying, Allah give you victory on many battlefields,
and on a day of honor,
you rejoiced at your great number,
but it availed you nothing.
It availed you nothing on the earth.
Vast as it was, the earth was became
constricted and straightened for you,
and you ran.
Leaving the battlefield is 1 of the worst
sins that you can that you can commit.
Right?
But
that happened. I mean, it's just fear, terror.
They they they ran away.
Whereas, if you look at mother, for example,
they had nothing.
They were ill equipped. They were few in
number, but they had iman. They had taqwa,
and so they stayed.
There's no retreated mother.
They stayed, and Allah gave them victory.
In this case, Allah gave victory because Rasool
Allah remained steadfast,
and the few Sahaba who were with him.
80 to 100. That's it. And these were
the answer. They remained
steadfast,
and because of them, Allah
gave victory to everyone. But Allah is saying
very clearly that you ran away, so Allah
turned the tide of the battle against you.
So I remind myself to you that 1
of the big lessons learned from
the is
the fact that
firmness
and strength
comes from Allah alone,
not from the world.
So don't seek it there. Don't seek it
in the world because the world doesn't have
it. And
we look for it from Allah,
and we ask
Allah
to give it to us.
We ask Allah
to help us
to live a life which is true to
him,
and to save us from anything which goes
against that.