Mirza Yawar Baig – Lessons from the Anbiya #67 I love the Messenger
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My brothers and sisters,
ahamdulillah, we are on this,
the the story of, Tabuk
from
the seerah of Rasulullah,
and,
it's one of the most important stories
that we
learn from, Insha'Allah.
This is one of the places and one
of the incidents,
where the Munaf
shakon,
those people who
pretended to be Muslim, but were actually
the enemies of Islam and the enemies of
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and and
the enemies of Muslims,
they
became clear. They became visible,
and they were made visible by Allah
The whole expedition of tawuk itself,
many of the
people, the writers, or scholars of Sira,
they have expressed,
you know, different opinions.
And
the the the general
understanding is that this was something which was,
even though it was a military expedition, but
expedition, but there was no real military reason
for it. It was to bring out
as a test for the believers and for
the,
for those who claimed to believe.
And it was something that was said by
Muhammadu Attalla
to,
to clarify the believers from,
those who only
only claimed,
to believe. So it was a very,
in in important
incident from the Seerah,
and,
obviously,
much to be learned from it.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help
us to learn the lessons from it. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed Quran
about this,
and,
he
mentioned,
he,
secretary of Islam.
In Surah Surah Tawba Anaswati
said,
if it had been a near gain, which
is booty in front of them or an
easy journey, they would have followed you.
But the distance
to the in the Tabuk expedition was long
for them, and they would swear by Allah.
If we if only we could, we would
certainly have come forth and gone forth with
you. They destroy their own selves
through false oaths, and Allah knows that they
are liars.
This is a very important aspect of the
Sirah
where,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned,
many times and many things
where the importance of being truthful,
the importance of being truthful, the importance of,
of of of, sincerity
is reiterated and emphasized again and again. And
the important thing to understand here is that
it is important to do that because not
because Allah doesn't know. Allah knows anyway. Obviously,
Allah is the one who is showing out
showing up these people.
It's important because for ourselves
to be witnesses
for ourselves instead of being witnesses against ourselves
before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. To say that
even if I make a mistake, accept the
mistake,
repent,
be contrite,
make comments.
If your mistake hurt anybody else, make sure
that,
you know, you take care of that, that
you do not
that
you
don't try to justify the mistake.
And ask and see forgiveness.
And Allah promised to forgive
any sin, anything
that anybody does, provided the
forgiveness is sought with sincerity.
No. Not not in a hypocritical way. Allah
said,
Allah has said, Allah called it a condition
of iman that the believers
do not ask to be excused. Now here,
it's
a question of the of the particular incident
in Tabuk and the war. But this is
one of the qualities of the believers, of
people who are sincere
that anytime there is something to be done
for Islam, anything there is something to be
done for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, they don't hide, they don't find excuses,
they don't run away.
They volunteer their time and effort and their
energy and their resources and wealth and so
on to do the work of the deen
of Allah SubhanAllah purely for the sake of
deen. They don't convert
Islam into a
revenue stream. They don't make Islam into a
business
because we follow the Nabi alayhi salaam who
did not make Islam into a business. So
how do we make it into a business?
So it's very important for us to understand
that. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said those
who believe in Allah in the last day
would not ask your leave to be exempted
from fighting with their properties of their lives.
And Allah is all knower of al Muhtakkum,
of those who
are concerned about His presence, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sets the condition and says
that it is only those who don't believe
in Allah who make excuses.
It is only those who do not believe
in Allah and the last day and whose
hearts are in doubt that ask your leave
to be accepted
from,
the expedition.
So in their doubts,
they were.
May Allah save
us from all shubuk and shubuhat, from all
doubts,
in the Deen.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said also,
And if they had intended to march out,
certainly they would have made some preparation for
it. But Allah
was but but Allah was averse
to
their being
to their being sent out, meaning Allah is
saying Allah also didn't want them to go.
This is
because of their hypocrisy, Allah
sealed their hearts. So He made them lag
behind, and it was said to them, sit
among those who sit at home.
Allah
also said now this is a very good
lesson for us who,
sometimes get discouraged
when we do not have
support for, you know, good projects,
and where you expect to have support. And
you should have
support. But,
so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala here is saying
to,
Rabi Salam
that it was good that they didn't go
with
him.
Allah
said
to Ruzsa
that had they marched
out with you, they would have added to
you nothing except disorder.
And they would have
hurried about in your midst,
spreading corruption and rumors and sowing sedition among
your people.
And there are some among you who would
have listened to
them and Allah is all knower of the
zalibout of the oppressors.
So Allah says, alhamdulillah,
people who didn't come with you, this is
good for you
because those people would not
have added value. On the other hand, they
would have created confusion. I think this is
a very important thing
for us to understand and realize that it's
not just blind
following that is important. Blind blind following is
actually harmful.
We, many of us get caught up in
this thing of saying how many followers do
you have and how many people. Even the
words imagine this word follower is a word
which is actually reserved for the abdia,
followers of the prophets.
But today, I use it as a general
word for everyone. Everyone's got followers on Facebook
followers, on Twitter followers, on this and that.
So think about this. Allah is speaking
about the generation of the Sahaba
because a Barafat can be even there. Allah
is saying that these people
are capable of sowing sedition and sowing
discord among the believers.
Because a prophet can be very persuasive and
charismatic and influential and knowledgeable.
And they have a capacity to
mislead
a lot of people down the wrong path.
So it is just because a person's belief
is not, doesn't mean that they don't have
to give out their belief, and shaytan helps
them. Now this person will use all these
talents for evil. Now we see this very
clearly today, and, this is a very big
danger that we face today. The cure for
this is knowledge
and practice and sincerity and not, you know,
trying to,
just get
so called,
what do you call it, so called followers.
Now Allah
Verily, they had plotted sedition before
and had upset matters for you until the
truth came,
the victory came, and the decree of Allah
became manifest
though they hated it.
So this is,
for Nabi Salam.
Allah is controlling him, and he's saying this
thing is very
visible and has happened before. Now, Abdullah ibn
Ubay bin Salud
was the leader of the Munafiqin. He was
a prime example of that. And Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala said,
And among them is he who says grant
me leave to be exempted
and do not put me to trial. Surely,
they have fallen into trial. And verily,
Allah
and verily jahannam
surrounds
these people, these believers.
So many of them made, you know, they've
made all kinds of excuses and and so
on and so forth. And Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
for those who go out, Allah
has promised
Hidayah,
And Allah
mentioned, this very clearly where Allah said, and
for those who go out,
Allah has promised you that. And
He said,
and for those
who strive hard in
our cause,
We will surely
guide them to our paths, to Islam and
verily Allah is with thee, mercy noor with
those who do good.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
also mentioned,
about the wanafiqid that they rejoice when something
bad happens to Rasool al Sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and the Muslims.
So, Allah, we see signs of all these
all over the place. May Allah
protect us.
Incidentally, for those of you who don't know
this, the term munafiq
is specifically,
restricted and used only for
people with these qualities who lived during the
time of Rasool Rasool Allah. Just like the
terms Sahabi
referred to those who saw Rasool Rasool Allah
or were in his company in a state
of iman and died in a state of
iman. It doesn't matter how what duration
as long as they,
were in the company of Rasool they saw
him, some of them were blind, doesn't matter.
They were in his company
as Muslims and they died on Islam. As
long as long as that happened, this is
this person is called a Sahabi,
and if it's a woman, it's called Sahabiya.
And that's a special generation. That that word
is not used for anyone other than them
after them. So also the word is used
only for those who were these these hypocrites
and and,
women Sadhu was the
chief of them,
who lived during that time of and
who
who did whatever he did. May Allah protect
us.
Allah said in Tosibkah
Hasnatun
Tasuhum or in Tosibkah
And I said, if good happens to you,
it bleeds them. They are sad.
But if a calamity overtakes you, they say,
we took our precautions beforehand
and they turn away rejoicing.
Say nothing shall ever happen to us except
what Allah
has ordained for us.
He is our Mawlah, He is our Lord,
He is our helper, He is our protector
and in Allah
let the believers put their trust.
Allah's brother has said to the 1afirim,
Say, do you wait for us do you
wait for us anything except one of the
two best things,
which is martyrdom or victory? While we await
for you, either that Allah will afflict you
with a punishment for Himself
or at our hands. So wait. We too
are waiting with you.
The message is very clear about the need
to work for Islam and to spend our
lives, money, and
energy for the deen of Allah's Messenger.
Excuses are not acceptable, and making excuses
is a sign of the weakness or absence
of faith.
Rasool
appointed Mohammed bin Maslama Oderallahu to be the
abir in charge of Madinah
and Ali bin Abitayl
to take care of the affairs of his
own family.
The Buna Fjikin spread rumors about Sadr
Ali saying that he was a burden, so
he was left behind. Sadr Ali wanted to
go out and so he complained to
The wizard replied, he said, oh, Ali, does
it not please you to be what Harun
was to Musa
except that there is no one to be
after me? Now this is one of the
many great virtues
and falaiel
of Sayidara
alibihabitari.
Someone good afternoon.
They said, do you think,
the fighting
with Romans
is like fighting the Arabs? You are going
to return tied in ropes.
This kind of conversation obviously is demoralizing,
very demoralizing
and not
good in the army. And though it was
private, Allah revealed
it to Rasool As Sal. So he told
Ammar bin Yasir, he he said, go and
tell those men that they have burned themselves
and asked them what they said. If they
don't admit, then tell them what they have
said.
And he gave them the name. He said
so and so.
The man came to mrs salaf and they
apologized, but Allah
revealed that these are very important to remember
because today many people do this with the
Hadith of Rasulullah
They deny the Hadith, the,
they trash
the entire
body of knowledge
of hadith,
which is something that we Muslims
legitimately have a right to feel proud about.
Not that we did anything for it, but
the fact that we had scholars
among
our predecessors
who dedicated their entire lives to preserving
the teachings of Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
from day 1, from the time when he
was alive. They wrote things down,
they asked him
to verify what they had written, they read
out to him what they had written. He
verified, they preserved that from day 1. So
those who make these claims to say that
the hadith were collected only 200 years later,
first of all, they are liars.
And secondly, it's a impossible thing. Just ask
a simple question.
How could something have been collected 200 years
later if it had not been preserved before
that?
Because those Sahabi lived for 200 years. So
it by at the end of 200
years, all the Sahaba, all the people who
are with Ravi Salam were already dead.
And if according to the claim of these
people, the orientalists and many of these,
liars,
when they say that the hadith was connected
only after 200 years. Just ask a very
simple logical question, which is to say that
if you are right and the hadith were
not preserved, not written down, nothing was done,
then how could anybody have possibly collected it
after 200 years? They would not have been
there. The very fact that they they are
collected
whatever time, and and that is not true
that they were collected after 200 years. They
were collected on day 1.
But even if you go by this statement
to say collected after 200 years, it means
that they had been preserved and kept so
that somebody could collect them.
But the fact of the matter is that
the hadith were written down,
The Sahaba even
read them out to Hisrul Saladin and they
said, You Surah, this is what I have
written. The famous haddis of a Sahabi
was one of the scribes
who wrote down something
and then he said, You Rasoolullah
SAW, sometimes you say something in anger.
Should we write down those things also?
What does this tell you? It means that
writing down was the knot.
Rasool
said,by the one in whose hand is the
life of Muhammad
He held his tongue like this.
He said, This
is in the protection. This has the protection
of Allah and it is in the control
of Allah. So you can write anything I
tell you, whether I am saying it when
I'm angry or otherwise.
There's another very famous sadees where Rasool
said, the one who quotes from me,
who ascribes to me something that I have
not said,
will find and sit in his own place
in jahannah.
In the hellfire. He will find his own
place in the hellfire.
The recording of the Ahadis was
a very, very serious matter. The Sahaba recorded
it, they wrote it down,
they
taught them to each other,
they spoke about that,
They practiced
that. Immediately, as soon as anything was said,
they practiced
The hadees
of were preserved just like they preserved the
Quran
by the same people.
So those who claim that their hadith
are inauthentic and so on and so forth
are either ignorant or they are liars.
In the process of
reservation,
the scholars,
they
traced
the line of narrators
all the way back to Rasool Rasool Rasoolas.
And each of those narrators,
they investigated that individual,
man or woman,
and they made a note of that person
and a brief
biography of that person.
Who the person was, who their parents were,
where they lived,
what was their reputation
in terms of their character, as well as
in terms of the strength of their memory.
All of this.
And this was done
to the extent where there is a complete
separate body of knowledge called.
The knowledge of the names of the people,
which is unique in the history of mankind.
There is no place, no religion, no
culture, no nothing which has this kind of
a record, a historical record.
You're not telling me. This is not mythology.
This is history.
History preserved
with such
depth and such granularity
and such
a degree of
authenticity.
This is something that we Muslims should be
proud about. It's alhamdulillah.
We have knowledge which is completely and totally
authentic.
It's not somebody's dream or it's not some
mythology, some story, if this happened. No. This
is actual
documented
history.
When a person is mentioned, Abu Hureira
when he is mentioned,
we know who he was,
We know where he lived.
We know his whole
history
about,
you know, all the,
all that we
know about it.
We know that his name was Abdul Rahman
that he accepted Islam at the hand of
Tufayl
ibn Amir al Dawsi who was the chief
of the tribe of those in Yemen.
That he came to Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
at the time of Khaybar.
And he spent only 3 years with the.
But he was so dedicated in his in
his pursuit
of knowledge that he is he has quoted
the largest number of ahadis from Rasool
Allah. And people ask him, they said, how
come you quote more than others? He said
because and he's not criticizing them, he's just
saying this.
He said, because others were either in their
farms, they were taking care of their farms,
they were cultivating and so on and so
forth or they were in the marketplace, they
were trading.
Well, I would spend the time with the
Prophet
And he said sometimes
be I would fall down with hunger. Maybe
he had low blood sugar or something. He
said I would fall I would fall down
with hunger and people thought that I had
fainted because of epilepsy
And in those days,
even today in India, this is in
the in the village, this is a
remedy that people do. They
they make you they make the person smell
leather,
and usually that means your slippers. So he
said people used to do that,
But he said I didn't have epilepsy. I
I will I had fallen down because of
weakness.
We know all this and more. Had
a whole
room full of shelves of books.
His journals where he had written out, the
hadithild which is recorded and preserved.
Alhamdulillah.
So here Allah
is talking about people
who make fun of Rasulullah
and who make
these excuses. Allah says,
when they are asked
Allah said, if you ask them about this,
if you ask them about the fact that
they were joking about Allah and His Abi,
but they were joking about you know, joking
about Allah refers
to joking about the promises of Allah. For
example, the akhir.
People say, oh jannah, this will happen there.
You know, all kinds of I don't want
to repeat all this
stuff that people talk. So when they joke
about Allah and Hizdabi, in Islam, this is
kufr. This is to exit Islam.
And I'm giving you the dalil from the
Quran itself. Allah said if you ask them
about this, they declared we were only talking
idly. We were only joking.
Say to them, was it at Allah? You
are making a joke
and making fun of Allah and His ayat
and His evidence and His revelation
and His Messenger
Was it them that you were mocking?
Make no excuse, you have disbelieved
after you had believed, meaning you have left
Islam. If we pardon some of you, we
will punish
others among you because they are Mujhribil.
They are
criminals.
So the important thing here is to understand
2 things
that to joke about Allah is
kufr
and
Allah
promises to punish such people. But, of course,
if they if they,
repent and they return to Allah,
alhamdulillah, Allah
is is unforgiving.
So
that's also very important to that talking about
Islam and Muslims in a way that is
demoralizing
is also prohibited
because it makes them it it it discourages
people. Right? It,
discouraging is not a good thing. Now this
does not mean that you don't speak about,
you know, some hard facts. It's important to
do that, but do that in a way
which is
which is uplifting, which
is positive.
Alhamdulillah, Allah
told us, al aqibatulil muttaqib.
Muttaqib.
Right? Al Aqibatul
Muttaqib.
So,
it is
when Allah
mentioned that the good ending,
the Akiva, the good ending is for the
Muttaqeel. Alhamdulillah, inshaAllah, the ending of the Muslims
will be
will be good. There's no doubt about this.
People came to maysayers
while this expedition was going on, and they
kept him that so and so is not
with us and so and so is not
with us. And he would say,
leave him alone. Leave him alone. If there
is any good in him, he will come.
Come. Otherwise, Allah has rid him rid you
of him. So,
then they
they came and told him, Abu
Dar, who is not with us.
So Rasool alayhi said the same thing.
He said, leave alone.
So Rasool said the same thing. He said,
leave. Now Abu Ghad al Bifari is one
of the first of the Sahaba,
one of the greatest of the Sahaba, one
of the closest friends of Surah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
He was on a very slow camel.
So when his camel
kept lagging behind too much, he dismounted.
He took his things, his armor, and his
stuff from the camel. He left the camel,
and he started walking
behind the army, alone in the desert.
After some hours, people saw in the distance,
far in the distance, a man walking alone
and following the army. They told him, he
said,
He said, let it be Abu Abu Dharr
to find out.
Eventually, he caught up with them,
and they told him, You Rasoolullah,
he has come. So Rasool said, may Allah
have mercy on Abu Dharr
He walks alone, he will die alone, and
he will be resurrected alone.
Now many years passed and Abu al Mifari
al Dalan who was living in the time
of huge wealth of conquests.
He was a very strict and also he
was very short tempered. He was a quick
dragon,
and he was a zayd. He was he
used to worship Allah, he used to
exert himself in the worship of Allah.
He was also a big man, he was
very big and strong and he was nuts.
His view was that Muslims must not save
money and they must spend everything in the
path of Allah, and they must be austere
to the extreme.
Now he had a very strong personality, and
he did not get wrong with authorities and
people on account of his very strict views
on different things.
The view of the walama
throughout and of the sahabah at the time
about wealth
was that as long as you pay zakat,
your wealth is halal,
to spend as you like, to save or
leave behind inheritance.
Otherwise, there is no point in the laws
of inheritance.
But Abu al Fariq Aviala'anu's view was different.
So
he was in sham
in the time of Mahaviyyah
and so Mahaviyyah sent a letter to Osman
ibn Affan
who was the Khalifa
saying, Abu Zarr has ruined a sham for
me because says Abu Zarr replied, Abu Zarraday
was going to
Abu Abiyaz Radialan's
court and, you know, he would reprimand him
in public.
And of course, Mahaviyya was a young man.
He was, you know, much junior to Abu
al Bifari of the Al An'u even though
he was a governor, that didn't impress Abu
al Bifari of the Al An'u's
he couldn't say anything. So he said to
Usaydin Osman, call call him back. So
Usman recalled him to Madinah and asked him
to stay in Madinah. But Abu al Bafari
said, I don't want anything of you
of your duniya, so allow me to go
to Al Babala.
Now this was a small village in the
middle of the desert. So Saiedan Uthman
allowed him
to go and stay there, and he said,
I'm going to give you some camels as
a provision for you. I want you to
stay alone by yourself.
He refused. He said, I don't want anything
to do with you. I don't want anything
to do with your camels or with anything
from you. Meaning, he was not against Sayr
Rahman or they don't know personally. They were
they were brothers and dear friends, but he
said, you in your position as the Khalifa,
I don't want anything from the government. I
don't want anything from the state.
So he lived there for some years.
On his deathbed,
he had only his wife and one servant.
This great Sahabi
and a scholar who was a Mufti in
the time of Abu Bakr and Umar
was dying alone
without any students, without any friends, without any
neighbors, without any money, without nobody.
His wife started weeping. He told her to
subcribe. He said, I'm alone. She said, I'm
alone here. There's nobody here to help me,
and you are dying. I don't even have
a coffin for you,
and I don't have the strength to bury
you. You. You know, how can I dig
a grave and so on and so on?
And you don't want me to cry.
So he said, be happy
and do not
cry
because I heard Rasool
Allah say in a gathering in which
I was present,
One of you will die in an empty
land,
and his burial will be witnessed by a
group of mumineen.
He said all the people in that gathering
are dead, and they all died among people.
I'm the only one left, and I'm dying
alone, so I'm the only one to fulfill
that hadith.
Amazing amazing people and amazing iman they had.
So he said, go and check the road.
She said, what road are you talking about?
The pilgrims, the Hajj is over. Pilgrims have
all gone home and there's nobody.
But he told her, you go. You go
and
check. So every day, she would go for
a while and she would,
you know, check the road, and then she
would return to take care of it. One
day, she saw on the horizon
some men on camel on camels.
And,
who she said, they look like vultures because
they're silhouette in the distance. It looked like,
you know, like like vultures. So she waved
to them, she called after them, and they
came to her. And they asked her, what
do you need? And she said, there is
a man here who is dying. So please
take care of him. He said, who is
he? She said, Abu Dhabi.
He said to
the, he said, congratulations.
Rasool Alaihi Salam told me that I would
die alone in an empty land and my
death would be witnessed by mumineen.
So you are the mubin.
Then he said, if either I or my
wife had anything to use as a cover,
we would have used it, but we have
nothing.
Now he was living
literally living with nothing. I mean, this was
this is the issue of tawakkul of some
people. Now again, I'm not saying we have
to do exactly this, but
having faith in Allah, having tawakkur in Allah,
Material is no problem. Islam does not prevent
you from be having wealth, but to have
reliance on the wealth. This is the problem.
Once Abu Musa Rashid
came to visit Abu al Fani,
and he was doing some housework,
Abu Musa said, you are he said, you
are going to help
him. Abu Musa said, leave me alone. Abu
Musa said, I'm your brother. Abu said Abu
Radhelehanu said, you are not my brother.
Al They were friends, but this he this
was his zohar. This was his toughness on
himself.
So then he said to these people, I
don't want any of you to give me
a cover if you have been an amir
or a policeman or a postman or had
any,
position in government anywhere in in your life.
Now imagine, this is the government of this
of the Khalifa
Rashida.
He's
not talking about some corrupt government of today's.
He's talking about even that, he said, I
don't want anything to do with power and
authority.
He said, if there is anyone among you
who has not held any of these roles,
then he can give me a cover. There
was only 1 young Ansari in that among
them who never held any position of authority,
and he said, I have 2 garments
made by my mother,
which I will give you.
So this is how Abu Dhabi
Befari,
one of the greatest of the Sahaba of
Rasulullah
died alone.
They prayed Janaza
on him, and they buried
him. Subhanallah.
Now let us, you know, think of
ourselves and
our own lives and,
because the reason I'm saying that is because
these these people,
this is the gold standard. This is the
standard to which we'll help protect us from
ourselves.
This is the standard to which
we will be held accountable.
So you ask the to,
help us to do
that which pleases Him and to save us
from that which does not please Him.