Mirza Yawar Baig – Lessons from the Anbiya #65 I love the Messenger
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We come to the closure of,
Taif.
The people of Taif retreated
back into Taif, into their fortress.
Rasulullah
put Taif under siege, and for the first
time, he used,
a siege equipment. He used a catapult in
the siege.
So the first 1 to use siege equipment,
in Islam was Rasool Alaihi Salam himself.
However, the people of Taif, they were very
brave, and they did not give up.
They did not surrender. The archers were good,
and the Muslim had to retreat.
The Sahaba used they used to use a
a wooden shield, you know, like the,
the Roman testudo where where they would lock
their shields and create, like, a turtle. They
used to call it they used to call
it the turtle, like a shell. And the
soldiers would be under that. They they're holding
the shield like this, all of their heads,
to
which would take care of arrows. Arrow arrows
wouldn't go through the wood, or if they
did, they wouldn't harm people under the under
the sheet.
And that would get them close to the
walls, close to the door, and they would
have a battering ram, and they would try
to,
break down the door,
the gateway of the fortress.
So they they use that. We use that
kind of
a contraption.
But the people of,
they
threw down,
iron
balls with the nails in them,
which,
damaged those,
see that that shield.
And so they couldn't use it anymore. This
is what they used to do in those
days. They would throw
down people from the top of the,
walls. They would throw down huge rocks, and
they would throw down 9 balls. They would
in some cases, they would throw down pitch
that is tar,
buttermilk
and light
then fire a flaming arrow into it so
it would light.
They would throw down
big balls soaked in oil
and light it, and they would throw those
down. There's different kinds of ways of
making sure that
the siege army does not get close to
the wall,
of the of the fortress.
If they didn't get close to the wall,
there's, you know, very little damage they could
do.
Arrows and so on don't work against the
fortress.
What the siege engines, therefore, catapults,
and of course, later on, canon.
This is how Constantinople got finally got conquered.
Constantinople was completely pregable. It had
3, it had 3 levels of
walls,
3 different walls. So nobody could get close
to it. It was only in the time
of Mehmed,
the first,
that
he was able to
he found a Canon maker who
interestingly, the Canon maker,
offered his services. He was a he was
a Christian guy. He offered his services first
to the,
to the Caesar of Rome. Rome, and that's
what they named the the author. What did
Roman Emperor as it was as it was
called the
constant time,
11th, I think he was.
Again, a very brave man,
who was the
emperor of, Constantinople
at that time.
Was completely impoverished.
They said that at that time in Constantinople,
even the palace of the king had no
roof because they had
removed the roof and used to line the
roof with lead. So they had taken that
out and used the lead
to cast
cannonballs and stuff.
The only building which
was intact and it was in good condition
and maintained was the Hoya Sophia was the
Hoya Sophia. Constantinople
was
conquered
by,
remember the first, Constantinople was conquered by
November 1st,
the Hagia Sophia at that time was almost
a 1000 years old.
So it's a very, very old and ancient
building built by
the,
by the Christians. So, anyway, so
so also in this case,
the people of Taif managed to keep
the Muslims away from the walls.
There were some Tayaf had some grapevines
and so on around the city. Rus'Allah ordered
some of those to be cut down just
to as a as a to weaken the
morale of the people of Taif, you know,
to
to see their property being destroyed.
The siege carried on for 15 days, but
it was not getting anywhere. Obviously,
the siege army outside, which is surrounding the
fort,
has to find its own food and so
on and so forth.
And supply chains
in the desert were not the easiest of
things.
So they were having their own difficulties in
terms of food and water and so on.
As soon as the last of,
and, he said, yeah, Surah, they are like
a fox in a hole. If you carry
on the siege, eventually, they will fall. But,
you know, that means you have to stay
there for that long.
But if you leave them, they can't have
you anyways because he said, what is type
now type type has no has no value
now. That Makai has followed.
So as soon as our son of agreed,
and he said tomorrow, we will leave inshallah.
But the sahaba didn't want to leave. So
they said, yeah,
how can we leave without victory? So as
soon as the said, alright. So tomorrow, you
go and fight.
The next day, the fighting was very severe,
and many were injured.
That evening, again, the
announcement about leaving the next day. But this
time, nobody said anything, so the last.
An announcement was made that whoever served us
will be freed.
So 1 of those who came down from
Attarif was, a man by the name of
Bakr. Bakr means puli,
Rudhe la, who came down from the walls.
He he
rappelled down the walls. He later became,
1 of the scholars of Islam.
And 1 of the hadith he narrated is
he said, I heard
say
that if someone claims
that someone
is his father, knowing who his real father
is,
such a person will be denied judgment.
So it's a very serious offense to claim,
that somebody else is your father when you
know who your father is.
As you know, adoption
in the sense
of,
giving a child your name and so on
is
not permitted. It's prohibited in Islam, and this
factors into the same thing. This was the
last Ghazwa that Rasool Rasool Ansar have fought
after,
there were no more battles with the Arabs
after attaif.
Now we come to the distribution of the
spoils of war. There are
2 very
important incidents that happened in this context.
When Rus'ul al Salove gave out the,
varima, the spoils of,
to the Quraysian Arab tribes,
He left out the Ansar.
He did not give them anything. He gave
someone,
from
the Quraysh.
He gave he gave Abbas bin Mirdas, the
head of Banus Udayb.
The answer was silent
because
especially
because they were the ones who stood with
the Rasool,
whereas the
the group is someone who was the Surakha,
the newly,
the new Muslims at that of the time
and as well as the Banus Sadegh and
so on. They ran away,
but they were getting the spoils of war
from Rasool as Salam, whereas the
Ansar who stayed with him and he fought
bravely, they did not get anything.
So there was some talk going on among
the Ansar.
Their leader, Saad bin Ubada
came to
these people are sad
because you have given your people, meaning
the people of Makkah.
And you have given great portions to other
people, but you have not given anything to
Anamza.
Said,
sir,
he asked.
He said, so where do you stand here,
sir?
He replied, I am but a man from
my people here also. He's very diplomatic. He
didn't want to say, you know, 1 way
or the other. So Rasulullah said bring all
your people together in this pavilion. So they
had elected a kind of
pavilion,
you know, like a shed with
the leaves and so on on top
for mister Sadu. So he said call the
answer and only the answer.
Nobody has not been there.
So he gathered all the answer, and, of
course, the
his his close companions, and,
you know, others said, Ali,
otherwise, they were all all only.
When they were all there,
he said,
He always began with this. And then he
said, I
he said, didn't I come to you and
you were misguided
and Allah guided you through me?
I came to you and you were poor
and Allah enriched you through me.
I came to you when you were enemies,
and Allah brought you together.
They responded,
and they said all favors belong to Allah
and his messenger. So then he said to
them, why don't you answer? They said, what
should we say, Arzullah,
When all favors belong to Allah and his
messenger.
He said, in the name of Allah,
you can say and you would
be speaking the truth if you said
to me,
you came to us rejected and we believed
in you.
You were betrayed,
and we supported you.
You were a fugitive,
and we provided you with a hope. You
were poor, and we enriched you.
See there?
See the
absolute
fairness and justice,
of Rasoolullah.
So he's saying to them, in the name
of Allah,
you can say
and you would be speaking the truth if
you said.
You say he they could say to him.
He says, you came if you said to
me, you came to us rejected and we
believed in you. You were betrayed and we
supported you. You were a fugitive, and we
provided you with a home.
You were poor, and we enriched you.
Oh, people of wazza, are you upset because
of a small material gain that I am
using
to bring
some people closer to
lab while I have
entrusted
you to your Islam?
Aren't you content,
oh, people of WhatsApp,
that
some people will go away with sheep
and camels,
and you will go back to your homes
with the messenger of Allah?
By he, in whose hand is the soul
of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
If it wasn't for Ali, wasn't for
the Hejalah,
I would be from the people of Al
Ansar.
If the Ansar take a road and all
other people take another road, I will take
the road of the people of the Ansar.
Oh, Allah, forgive the Ansar
and the sons of the Ansar and the
son because the sons of the Ansar.
Abu Sayed al Khuday al Ghaunal said they
cried, they wept
until their beards were wet. And they said,
we are pleased
with the
as our share.
It is very important,
incident of the seerah,
where,
you know, if you look at this and
say
how the love of Allah
and the love of his Rasool alayhi salaam
precedes and supersedes and should supersede
the love for absolutely anything else,
in this life.
So this was the deal
with,
our Surah Saruman and the Ansar. We will
fight for you, protect you, and support you
in exchange for them.
They were in it for the right reason.
They were not in it for any worldly
reason. So so so so reminded
them of that.
In Nesham, there is a narration where
the asked, he
said, yeah, Aba Hamza. Did you witness this?
And he replied, where else would I be?
Where else would I be?
There are no. His mother left him with
when
he was 10 years old. And he spent
the rest of his life with
as his servant.
So he was with him constantly for the
10 years that he was in. Was even
in Mecca. Another man, he says, I saw
2 days.
I saw the brightest day and I saw
the darkest day. He said, which day? He
said, the brightest day was when the Surah
Surah Surah Surah Surah Surah Surah Surah Surah
Surah
Surah
Surah left Madia,
Meaning, when he passed away.
It shows the status of and,
he
it is said about Allah gave him a
very long life. So he lived into well
into the nineties.
And he would see after the passed away.
He would see the source of in his
dream every single night.
So I'll let make the others.
Of snow 1 time in my life. And
I make the God for you. May I
follow you that may Allah
show you the source of set up in
your dream 1
the result of, of the love of the
of the, of the.
There is no formula. I'll now have to
show you.
And
I won't say that if you don't see
him in your dream, you don't love him.
It's not that's not how it works. But
at the same time, loving
is 1 of the means, our side,
to see Him in your dream. Another big
wasila, this is again related to the same
thing, is to send
on. The more durood and salam we send
on him,
the more chances of seeing him him in
your dream. And also, of course, we have
the,
to add this very, very important,
with relation to the to the to
the shirk.
1 is where Rasulullah Salam
ah, said that when if you send
people who will be
nearest to me on the day of judgement
will be the people who send the most
salaam and salaam on me.
So please try to do that as much
as possible inshallah.
Rasool Allah was giving
the
in dealing with people
and in bringing the hearts of people together
to forge their Ummah. And Allah
blessed him in this and told him,
the
1 night until he became the most beloved
person to me. And there are people like
this who come to Islam for,
you know,
for various reasons. I mean, I don't want
to he was a savage, so I don't
want to say anything more about this. But,
the point is that,
not everybody comes into Islam because they truly
believe in the,
Islam as a religion, as
which is the real reason why we should
be there.
Some people come for the reasons of power
and authority and money and whatnot whatnot.
But as long as they stay
follow Islam,
inshallah, this is good for them and plus,
you know, their children and so on and
so forth. They remain in Islam.
Was distributing money and and and slave because
they
also got captured, you know, prisoners of war.
And he gave to somebody, left some out.
To some people, he gave some like we
said, for the outside, he didn't give them
and to others.
When he was informed that some people were
not happy, he said, I would give a
man and I would leave out a man,
but the 1 I leave out is more
beloved to me than the 1 I gave
to.
I am giving to those in whose hearts
I
am seeing greed,
and I am leaving out those in whose
hearts that is contentment and good.
And I trust him to his.
And 1 of them is
I love those words of Rasool
more than all the red camels in the
ocean.
The red camel was a specially
valuable camel. And Abu
said, all the red camels in the world
are not words to me more than the
words of
where he said that he is not giving
me because he sees contentment in my heart
and he's leaving me to my mind. You
see see the see the value.
And you see this constantly, the where
Rasulullah Salazar emphasized
the value
of
of iman, of tawakul,
of trust, of faith in Allah
over and above everything else,
which is what it is, but we simply
forget.
Said, we were with the when
he was distributing
booty,
when he was approached by who
was a man from.
He said
He said,
be just. Do justice.
And he said, woe
to you. Who would be just if I'm
not just?
Why did there be these people?
Some there's a different kind of people in
the world. So,
Rasool
responded to
him,
and he said, who would be just if
I'm not just?
When the
got upset and he said, yeah, Surah, please
permit me to cut off his head. And
Surah said, leave him for he will have
companions.
They will pray. Now he's giving us some,
guidance with regard to some people.
So he says, leave him for he will
have companions. There are people like this. He
said, they will pray more than you pray,
and they will fast more than you fast.
Now imagine, who is he saying this to?
He's saying this to the likes
of and and so
on.
Right? The best of
the best. He said that these people, when
you look at them on the surface of
it, they will pray more than you pray.
They will fast more than you fast.
They will recite Quran,
but it will not leave their throats, meaning
the Quran will not go into their hearts.
The Quran will not leave their throats.
He said then he said, they would leave
the religion
just as an arrow goes through its target.
You would look at the blade and find
nothing on it. You would look at the
binding and you find nothing on it, and
you will look at the rest of the
arrow and you will find nothing on it.
Meaning, the arrow shot through an animal, It
goes through. There's no blood anywhere on the
arrow. It's it's like the arrow just went
through, had no effect,
at all.
And he said their leader, their side is
a dark man who has only 1 arm,
and the other is only like a trunk
that looks like the rest of a world.
We give them a,
sign to recognize
the leader of,
these people. We in Islamic history, we call
them,
the the people who have had left Islam.
I would say the says,
I testify
that I heard these words,
and
it was
who
fought them, who actually
made war on them. And I was with
him when he fought, and he told us
to search for that man and we found
him. And his description was exactly as the
had
described him.
Allah said, oh you who believe,
verily the mushrikul,
the palleties, the pagans, the idolaters,
the disbelievers are.
They are impure. So let them not come
near Masjid al Haram in Bakkad
after this year. And if you fear poverty,
Allah will enrich you
if he will out of his bounty. Surely,
Allah Allah is all knowing and all wise.
Now this is the
rule that
non Muslims
are not permitted
to come
in the precincts,
in the boundary
of the,
in Makkah,
in the boundary of the Haram al Sharif,
and they are not
permitted
to come within the boundary of Al Masjid
al Nabi al Sharif in Madia.
Now for centuries, the economies of Haraj was
based on trade with those who came
to Al Masjid Al Haram for,
Hajjid Al Haram.
Even after Islam, many of them were not
Muslim, and they came following a centuries old
tradition
of making tawaf of the Kaaba.
Then Allah
revealed
this
ayah. The Quraysh were very perturbed at this
because their economy dependent dependent on this trade.
Now
was banning the entry of all those who
were
not,
Muslims
into Masjid Al Haram.
In terms of the economy, this was apparently
bad news, but saying in
the that it is for him to remove
poverty. This shows the criteria for decision making
of what is halal and
not what makes money,
but what doesn't. Meaning, that something
which is done for the sake of Allah,
this is real profit, not something we just
make money.
This is the meaning of to remind Allah
and choose what is halal or what is
haram, even though
what is haram seems to be making money.
This is the confusion today. When people who
deal in riva or haram, on
you know, they they sell all kinds of
Haram stuff in their gas stations and,
convenience stores,
lotteries and and cigarettes and
alcohol and stuff.
And they the the plea their their their
whole
argument is, well, we have to do this,
to
survive.
Now
this is not true because,
the
survivor
is someone who's not in charge. It doesn't
depend on on, eating and drinking haram.
Opens this chapter on the battle of Tabuk
by speaking about about
the tafsir of these 2 ayats and shows
how Allah taught the Muslims to have on
him. And then he opened for them the
doors of conquest, which then became the means
for the spread of Islam
all over the,
rest of the Arabian Arabian
and,
the rest of the north world
of the times.
So we come to the
yeah. So, therefore, let us let us think
about this and say
today,
how is it and what do we do,
with regard to our earnings?
Eating
halal and earning halal are 2 of the,
absolutely the most critical things,
that,
you know, that I can talk about and
that you can imagine. There is no there's
nothing that is more
more critical than that.
Running halal and eating halal. These are the
2 absolutely
number 1 critical things that,
we need to be clear about and we
need to do.
Without this, dua is not accepted. Without this,
Allah,
depending on what you do, Allah,
you end up as an enemy of Allah,
declared an enemy of Allah. Because people who,
people who,
who are, who deal with interest,
they are actually
they are actually, you know, declaring
or accepting,
a
declaration of war from.
So this is something which is very, very
critical for us to
to understand and to
make sure that we don't fall into that
trap.
No matter,
you know, no matter what
anyone says or does,
the whole issue is
the whole issue is with regard to,
what Allah has decreed. That that today, people
there are people who give all kinds of
and
say that those oh, this is, you know,
those days, these days nothing
to do with those days, these days. The
point is that
as far as the as far as the
the the, matter is concerned, what Allah has
decreed, Allah has decreed. There is no
change to that degree from Allah's.
So Allah said that
the ones who deal in interest,
they have accepted let them accept a declaration
of war from Allah.
Rasulullah said, Allah's
has cursed the 1 who lends money, the
1 who borrows money, the 1 who writes
that
contract,
and the 2 people who bear witness.
And he said,
cool. He said, all of them are the
same.
Now
the world tells us that unless we borrow
on interest, we can't do business, we can't
buy a house, we can't buy a car.
First of all, that is not true. Secondly,
even if it was true, then this is
the condition. If you if you if you
cannot buy a house without
paying interest, don't buy a house.
Live in an rental house.
If you cannot buy a car without paying
interest, don't buy a car.
And if you say, well, you know, in
America, we cannot live without a car. First
of all, that is not true. I live
in America. I don't have a car. But
secondly, even if that is the case, then
move. Go to a place where you can
live without a car, where there's a public
transport system. Or in America, go to a
city where there is a public transport system,
where you don't need a car until you
have money to buy a car without going
it going into interest.
Or buy a car that you can afford,
not a fancy car which you for which
you have to borrow money on interest.
May Allah have mercy on a Muslim
take money on interest to buy television
sets. So that's a double.
But my role is to the whole point
of these lecture and so on is to
see how can we apply them in our
lives.
It's not just a storytelling session. So please,
let
us be true to ourselves. Let us, try
to do things in a way which is
beneficial for us because and remember that the
real benefit is the benefit of the afterlife.
The real life is the life of the
afterlife.
But that 1 goes on forever, then there's
no end to that. But if this 1
ends
so there's no sense in in talking about
this life when the other life has been,
you know, ruined.
Ask our
to help us to do that which pleases
him and to save us from that which
does not pleasing.
And to help us to,
develop
this beautiful,
wealth of in our hearts. It's complete contentment
and the rida with the
Whatever Allah has