Intellectual Seerah #14 The Battle of Uhud 1
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The upcoming battle of Autoit is a assassination attempt between Muslims and non-browns, with some believing it is a victory and others believing it is a stalemate. The speakers emphasize the need for investment in deception, protecting against Islamist attacks, and researching one's behavior. The success of the Prophet Muhammad's military campaign and the potential for anxiety among Muslims is also discussed. The conversation touches on the misunderstandings of the Magisk motto and the loss of people during a Battle of boyhood and a single disaster.AI Generated Transcript ©
Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. How are you guys doing? Welcome to the 14th session of the intellectual spirit where we will be employing the interdisciplinary approach in dealing with the life of the greatest man and the most influential man. In all of human history, that is Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And the last episode, we spoke at length about the Battle of better. And this was the victorious battle. And in many ways, the most important battle at the time of the Prophet Muhammad, Salah salah. This battle, which we're going to be covering today is the battle of Autoit, which is considered by some and I will say the word some, both Muslim and non Muslim
commentators to be a victory for the oroshi forces. However, some of them, I was just looking at some of the orientalist effect. Montgomery Watts and others, interestingly enough, don't consider this to be a total victory for the pagan forces, the mushroom guides, and they don't consider it because they see that the overall objective, what would say, was not actually accomplished by such forces, the material chi forces
of Mecca. Instead, they consider it to be a partial victory, or they consider it to be a stalemate, or there's different types of terminologies and languages that are used for this. But in any event, the strategic objectives of the Muslims was not met either. So it could not be seen to be a victory for the Muslims in that way. And so in many ways, this is an interesting battle, because we're looking at a time where the victory is not actually achieved, and how the Muslims coped with that, and in life, in general, this happens to us, we will never always be victorious, we will never always win, this is the truth. And Allah says this in the Quran, which will kill AM, there will have
been a nurse. And he actually mentioned this visa vie this particular incident very important.
A in the Quran, which is these are the days which we alternate between the people. So, which means to say that there are some days which you will win, and some days, which you will lose.
And the reasons for that
is for Allah to see, our behaviors, we have touched me shahada, and maybe that he will take from us some marches as well. And because of the events that are happening in Palestine at the moment, this particular
study of hot Assad is of significance, I think, as well, especially about the martyrs. So before we get to God itself,
we need to mention a few things that happen between bedridden or hurt, okay. And I will, I looked at the books of Sierra and found the two or three most important things which relate to us, and generally speaking, and I'll mention them, and one of them is
the assassination.
attempt on the profits or loss of life. This is one of the
assassination attempts, we're going to discuss two assassination attempts, or one of them was successful. One of them was a failure. The one that was successful was cabinet Ashraf's assassination attempt, which also, there's a difference of opinion among the scholars as to whether this happened in this time period. Wherever it happened, after I found that there was a difference of opinion among the scholars about this. But the first assassination attempt was on the process and life and the story goes as follows, follows that are made in webs.
He tried to
effectively get the Prophet Muhammad Hassan killed, and so forth, or may have been Hala. As you know, Maven, Khalifa was one of the enemies of Islam, which we discussed at length before, offered him riches to kill the Prophet Muhammad, Allah Salam, he came to Mecca and there's a whole narrative about this, I haven't looked at all of the chains of narration to tell you if they are correct or not. They don't appear in the books of say, Sierra. Nevertheless, we can look at the story that this person came to Makkah and he had his the sword wrapped around his neck. Allah tab
saw him
and he knew him and the process and the Muslims generally knew that this guy was not there. You know, for fun times. This guy was there for for some serious action. Why did he have a sword around his neck anyway? You know, why is it coming like that? So I'm gonna have interrogated him on the matter.
And so he was brought forward to the Prophet Mohammed salah, Salah. And Umrah. Hatha was accompanying the professor some as the kind of security guard or bodyguard in the situation. And so he said, Why did you come here? He said, I've come here to negotiate such and such and do such and such. They say he, the process, some said your line with this. And in fact, he told him the reason why you've actually come here is because you had a conversation
with such and such a person about such as, and this happened, and he offered you money. And he told him the whole story we just mentioned.
He was astounded that the Prophet Muhammad knew this information. And so according to this narrative, he actually became a Muslim. He said that she had to undercut Rasul Allah, that I bear witness that You are the messenger of Allah. And he said that as a result of information that couldn't have been known. And by the way, there are two kinds of thing that we find in this era.
We find this quite often where the prophet Muhammad Salah Salem, tells us, or tell somebody of information, they couldn't have known, we've already mentioned, Salah come and Jash about the future. But sometimes it could be about the present and sometimes it can even be about the past.
Sorry, so raka Malik, as we saw, you know, the, the story of the camel sinking into the sand.
But you also find this
with half Sutton that Russia, you know,
with sort of the hurry where Allah says into to by Allah Azza hotgloo bukhoma. He says that if you both make Toba to Allah, but the idea is
that this when they conspire against the Prophet, Allah, the angel Jibreel, told the prophet, what they were getting what they were doing.
So this is a whole line of argumentation that you can make, that the Prophet he wasn't just making major predictions about, you know, the state of the Ummah and the global situation, and the fact that there'll be tall buildings in the future, and sexually transmitted diseases, but he was also making predictions. And he was also speaking specifically about the lives of individual people in Medina cam, this is a whole argument for the veracity of Islam. Because the more predictions you make, and the more statements you make, about things which you shouldn't know about, because you're not privy to those things, the more likely we'll be wrong about those things.
This is a very simple reality. But the fact that he was doing this with people like his wives, people like companions, and people like enemies, like this individual here, it shows you the extent to which he this is information that he couldn't have known.
Anyway, so this was a failed assassination attempt. And in fact,
he became Muslim and he went back to Mecca. And when he went back to Mecca, he started preaching in Mecca. to the dismay of the chieftains. They're very interesting story, indeed.
Another interesting story, which relates to the old and boring claim now of anti semitism. Yes, it's a look at the Prophet Muhammad, they say, was an anti Semite, and Islam as an anti semitic religion.
And they mentioned, obviously, we've mentioned this in great detail, Ben coryza, as the main example, but as a supplementary example, they'll mention this next thing, which is benoquin, aka, the story of benoquin, aka.
And I came across once again, different stories of what happened here. What kind of car was a place that was outside of Medina, it wasn't inside of Medina was just slightly outside of El Medina. And in the souk, the narration say that in the marketplace. That's effectively
the chieftains of that particular Jewish tribe and Ohio QA. They were
attacking the Muslims and attacking the Prophet Arsalan verbally. So one of the things that they were saying was that, because obviously this happened after better, he said, they were saying things like, you know, well, you don't get excited effectively, that you beat these people in bed and do a low, low, low, low hanging fruit. They were weak soldiers. Were the real men. If you were a real man, it would have been a different story. Now already, quite frankly,
if you remember, we have a pact that was done between the Muslims and the Jewish tribes. declaring this as a chieftain, or as a tribal leader, is almost tantamount to declaring war. Because what you're doing, are you threatening the political establishment here? Are you threatening because the way it works, and this is something very important to know, in these societies and even in our society today, is that when the tribal leader says something, we will know that the tribe is going to follow the tribal leader. So when you're saying that you are effectively representing you
The entire tribe, in telling us what your attitude is, in this case, it's an attitude of hostility towards the political establishment.
Which means you've become a liability, you're making yourself into a liability. Now, this is not what triggered the issue. What really triggered the issue, according to a lot of people that I've mentioned or read, even this half, and these sera writers was that there was a woman, Muslim woman, with this particular Jewish man, he some kind of maneuver and her hour was uncovered, okay. And they started laughing at her. So as the Muslim man, he saw this, he killed him.
This is what he done. So they killed the Muslim man. Now, if you pause here, the Jewish people in that particular tribe killed the Muslim man. So there was two deaths that happened.
If you consider this
already, this shows us the attitude of Muslim men towards Muslim woman how it should be that she doesn't need to be a member of your family, for you to have rira towards her. And I was just speaking to one of the guys that I was going to school with back in the days. And he said to me back in the days, it was anecdotal now, but he didn't say this to me. He said to me back in the days, you know, people knew we went to a rough school. Okay? We did. And Muslims always had this reputation, that you cannot mess around too much with the Muslim people.
And back in the days, who, you know, if there was a Muslim sister,
everybody knew not to approach her because of the fear of approachment by the brothers. Now, the situation has changed a little bit, he was telling me this, he was telling me like, now, you can find the Muslim sister who's messing around with a non Muslim man, and everyone, we're just watching just like keep their mouth shut, and it's none of your business. That wasn't the case back in the day, because that would be seen as dangerous.
If that makes sense.
That would be seen as a dangerous move. Now, we can't get involved legally and otherwise, in a way which would be well, we legally we can go and say what's going on here. We can't say this.
We can do a kind of Nahan Moncure.
And this is it seems to me,
a fair minded approach, where we can as a Muslim men regain ground. You know, if we see certain things happening, whether this is, you know, the Muslim sisters, if you're going to school, if you're going to college, if you're going to university, and you seeing her like for example, something's happened, and some of the guys speak into it. Even worse, is that someone that can be assaulted in front of the men?
And then, you know, and there's no, there's no, there's no response by the men, for example, by the Muslim men, this is unacceptable behavior.
So, as you can see, the attitude of the Muslim people was protective, especially visibly, women very protective. Imagine the extent that this, like he saw this laughing, and he went, he was so physical, that he killed the guy. And I'm not obviously advocating that in our context, but we can't be sitting around idly watching Muslim sisters and this and that being besmirched in the Honors being this motion, some of them being assaulted, and this and that. And there's no and Muslim men now have lost all ground because of liberal ethics and feminist beliefs. This is not the way and even worse is that if a man allows this kind of thing to happen with his own family members,
and there's no resistance at all? How could there be no resistance?
Imagine this happen to and Dan has his her life, she can do what she wants. The man gives up on the situation.
And I was I saw one guy who is I'm not gonna mention his ethnicity.
But I was mentioning to him.
Would you let your sister this? And would you let your mom this and that? Because he wanted to do it himself. So I tried to employ the, you know, the prophetic method, you know, when the guy says I want to Zina? And then he said, Would you let your auntie Would you let your sister? Would you let your mind do that? Would you like that? To my dismay, he said, I don't mind.
That's what he said. He said, I don't I used to have business, not my business. She does that.
Then in that case,
you're not a man anymore. If this is really where you stand, then you've you've become emasculated in the religion of Islam. So Islam has a strong emphasis on protective jealousy Ohira and has a strong emphasis on protection in general.
And this is something which if it crumbles, the whole community crumbles. And people are scared to talk about these kind of things. And this obviously, within limits, you're not going to see a woman with that hijab or she's Muslim. You're gonna go speak to her about that. You don't need to do that. But at the same time, you
If there's some woman being molested in front of you, by some other guy, and she's right in front of you, at least say something.
You know, I'm trying to say,
from the liberal ethic perspective, and it changes to a philosophical conversation, but when they say, you know, this is
insecurity, how would you know you're being insecure? This initial is a really good question.
You see, there's two words which you need to be aware of definitionally. And otherwise, we should have become buzzwords. One word is word confidence.
And the word confidence is defined in the dictionary, most dictionaries as being secured one's ability. So the antithesis to to confidence is insecurity.
Right? Now, if you go especially with this, like pop psychology and counseling and life coaching, and this, there are now all these kind of life coaches that tell men and women, particularly women, how not to be insecure, or we will get let you get rid of your insecurity. If you ever come across this, you've got insecurities, and we'll help you remove those insecurities as if insecurity is a bad thing. But insecurity can be a good thing.
Because insecurity can be divided into two different types. There's justifiable insecurity and unjustifiable insecurity. For example, someone performing a very high level of athleticism is a footballer, for example. And then they watch the tape. And they realize that they have some flaws in their game
is insecure for them to acknowledge that it is, in a sense, because they're no longer secure about their ability. But that's a justifiable insecurity, which can actually lead to progression advancement if they fill up. So insecure, all human beings are insecure.
There was this very famous show called The Sopranos.
And
I don't know what character said it when I was watching it when I was younger.
But he said that man is motivated entirely
by his insecurity.
So insecurity is not a bad thing. And Western culture wants us to expunge and remove insecurity from our systems. But in reality, it's only the unjustifiable insecurity which we need to remove, which is the ones which lead to or lead to a kind of delusion, delusional behavior. So if this is insecurities as it is, and I'm secure, being insecure, and these issues because that's an issue, which I need to be insecure about, for example, if I was a morbidly obese person, weighing 180 pounds, kilograms, 80 pounds, I've already exceeded that.
But if I was 180 kilogram, and someone said, Well, I'm insecure, but boy, I should be insecure manually, because not being insecure, always leads to death.
I'm secure, being insecure, it's a justifiable insecurity. If my family member X is doing such and such behavior, I should be insecure about that.
And it's a justifiable insecurity. So if they say that, just ask them what's wrong with being insecure sometimes.
If without insecurity, there is no motivation to become better. So this idea that we should be because it goes back to the idea that we should be without blemish. And when there's no pain, there should be no inconvenience in the way we thinking insecurity as a kind of inconvenience. But it's a good kind of inconvenience, if it's justifiable, in certain contexts, to get you better at doing certain things.
So
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, he didn't decide to destroy these people and killed them in their women and children as we're finding the Israelis do now. He didn't get a catapult and just start bombing these people, although they had catapults at the time. And they in fact, use the catapults as we're going to come to the next session in the Zap.
What they did, what he did was he told him to leave. He said that you have now become a liability to the security of this particular nation. You are too close to our borders, and you can leave now.
That is what happened. It's the sum of the two their stuff and they left. Now someone would say some would argue was this kind of ethnic cleansing going on here?
Is this ethnic cleansing happening in this situation? It's not ethnic cleansing, because other tribes of Jewish people remained. It was only the liability tribes that was told to remove it was to do with ethnic, then why the other day? Why wasn't there a declaration? All the Jews must leave of the Medina, and there is no contractual agreement between us. And no, it was only those particular ones, which now have made the hostilities clear. Now they've effectively declared war. Now they're trying to kill the people. So to say, how are we going to offer you protection as a people?
How are we going to offer you protection? How are you going to be around how we're going to be anybody that this town is not big enough for them to have?
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isn't. If you're going to speak like this, your leader is effectively saying, you know, when the time comes, it's going to be us that's going to deliver you the decisive blow.
What do you think this is 1933. And we're going to let people come in and overpopulate and destroy the country become No, this is not for you. This place is not for you anymore. Please leave. If you want to kill us, you want to you want to be like that we're not allowed robbing Allah. And it's not the Jewish people is that particular tribe. And it was because of that particular action. And those particular hostilities, very contextual.
So someone may argue such and such whatever they argue doesn't matter.
Or having said that,
on this issue, you'd be surprised because I looked at the Sahai, Sierra of
Muhammad Ali, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ibrahim Ali, sorry. And you all you mentioned two sources.
And there's not that many sources. So let's get to the next one. The cabin, Ashraf
assassination, our cabin, Ashraf, once again, is Jewish. So there's there's some kind of some kind of common theme here. Well, he was actually Arab as well. So yeah.
Because he had a patrilineal Arabic lineage and had a matrilineal
Jewish lineage, lineage. I wonder what in modern times, you would say about a man like that? Like because you know, Jews affected, this has traditionally, to be an ethnic Jew, your mother has to be a Jew. But the Arabs did it in a way, which is the Father. So you could effectively be 100%, Arab and Jew. So I wonder if someone like that would be an anti Semite. In the eyes of the those who are claiming and Simmons, because he's young, he's got Jewish blood, and he's got our blood 100% from both sides conventionally this? Would they claim that such a person is a self hating Jew? Or does the Arab
the Arab genetics destroy the Jewish ones? is a poison that has to when it goes into the body?
It completely Hmm. So I don't know what they would say about this guy. Oh, killing him is an act of anti semitism. But his father was an Arab. Maybe it wasn't an Semitism then. And you don't find actually that they use this guy for the anti semitic claims. And I actually wonder why they don't? Was it because his father was an Arab? Maybe this is a kind of Arab anti semitism, the fact that they don't mention that one. But this guy, we don't know exactly when
this happened, by the way. So this difference of opinion, some say it happened after the assassination attempt on the Prophet. Some say it happened before. Some say he was collaborating with Abu Sufyan. And something he wasn't collaborating with, there was some say no, actually, was to do with the blasphemy laws, because he was mocking the people. But really, even Taymiyah, for example, in his book, doesn't use this guy. He was making the case for the blasphemy laws, as a great example.
Because there was so much
controversy, controversy surrounding him, and all these things. There's other Hadees, which are more primary than the many, many scholars use as as promoting the blasphemy laws. But this is not really as much one of them
in the cabin national fun. Some people do use it as a corroborating or supplementary kind of argument. So maybe, but the thing is, we don't know exactly why he was ordered to be assassinated. Fully we don't we don't have the full details of that. And what we do know is that he was hostile, how he was hostile was it because he tried to plan an assassination? Was it because he did this? Really, and truly, those details are not spelled out to us in an authentic way, which is interpretable incontrovertible. uncontroversial. There is clearly controversy here. So
anyway, so this guy called Muhammad Muslim, he was his hobby, Muhammad, even Muslim. And he was told, so the Prophet Salam said, He will deal with this guy for me. And this was very powerful North authoritative wording, who would deal with this person because
so this man, Muhammad, even Muslim man stood up. And this by the way, this particular incident is authentic and narrated. And he said, I will deal with this guy.
The first he was a bit worried because this guy is living in this kind of fortified places. He wears all these armors his he's a nobleman of his particular tribe. And he was well respected in his tribe. And so he had all this fortification and stuff, how are you going to? How are you going to get to him in order to kill him in the first place? So some narration say that he stopped eating for three days and three nights and stuff because he was so worried and anxious that he would not be able to fulfill even though he's still
opposite I'm gonna kill this guy who was not able to fill that.
But then he asked the professor's What can I say some bad words about you? Yeah, and you're just pretending to be and when Africa Yanni from the other side so that I can go and kill this guy and the Prophet gave him permission he said you can. So I know where they went. And
he did it in a certain way where he's asking this guy for lone cabin Musharraf somehow and Muslimah, who already had some connections with cap. And it wasn't like unknown to him. He's he said to him, Look, I want to loan blah, blah, blah. He said, No, he said, I'll give you as a collateral. My, my my wife, my weapons.
Now, obviously, he needed an excuse to get the weapons into the house, because you're gonna kill him. You're gonna kill the guy. But hey, if you went into the house, with weapons, people will say, Why are you coming into this guy's house with weapons. So they were very sensitive about this issue. So he needed a way to get the weapons into the house
with the guy's knowledge, but also killing him. Because he got to use the weapons to kill him.
So what happened is he went into the house with the weapons. And there was another guy because it was a consorted effort actually.
The other Sahabi
forget the name of the others hobby. That was joining him. Subhanallah
Abu ala Yes, stuff. I didn't mentioned that. That will not
help us.
He was I don't know if he was a cousin of Kevin Nash enough, or has a family relationship with him.
Oh, he's brother from
from breast breastfeeding. Yeah. So obviously, he's gonna get his trust as well. The story goes as follows that cabinet Ashraf was one of his wives.
And
they were downstairs. Okay, these guys cabin nationals was there. And so it's Abu Nyla. And his wife was like, Don't go, you're a man at war. You're gonna go and see these guys. He said, No, I want to go because I know this guy. I know. I'm gonna Eliza is my brother from another hour from from breastfeeding. And I know also, I know also this other guy is Muhammad Muslim. So I know that there's trust within you. And I already have a deal struck up with them. Don't worry about it. So he kind of like shook her off and went and spoke to the guys. And the way they did it was that well, not according to these narrations, said, Look, you smell really good today. I want to smell this
thing, you know, on snow, can you come bit closer? Because they want us to do a double attack on it because this guy was wearing shielded armory, you know, so to protect himself. So his work so he wanted to bring him close. So one of them grabbing probably from the back like this was the other one puts it inside.
So anyway, that happened. It was difficult, though, because this guy was struggling and someone was helping him. But they killed him. And they came back to Medina and he killed this guy.
Now there's obviously discussion, some people try and I don't see any issue with this story. I don't even need to justify or speak about that whatsoever. That happened yesterday. There's no need to apologize for this or create an apology for it. Instead, what we'll do is we'll think about how we can do something similar in a legal fashion with designers.
Because this show, this whole story shows you the importance of covert operations. If you have a person who looks for example, like a Zionist like my friend over here with a hat
I want to get
why not penetrate? Why don't we have you know, penetration happening? Okay, illegal penetration,
illegal penetration happening into organizations, which are opposing organizations, where people literally pretend because it's happening to us, we know the CID is doing the Mi five are doing it, they're probably listening to exactly what we have to say, Now someone in some desk somewhere is listening to me. So okay, if we're gonna play this game, we might as well play it, it's not illegal for us to do this. Is it illegal in the United Kingdom, or the United States or any part of Europe, for someone to pretend to be a Zionist for example, or to be such and such and go into an organization and to get information and then come back and report back to the other organization and
say, This is what they're saying? It's not illegal to do that. So if they're going to do it with us, is it not now high time for us to do to them?
To be honest, the Muslims have been too honest about this situation. This is a situation where we have boca.
Ha, ha. That was deception. By the way, this is a prophetic Hadith. But it's also something which is mentioned in
in Sun Tzu's Art of War in many different Robert Greene and it is charlatan this is a this guy, these guys, he just you know. And this guy, Robert Greene, he's never mentioned anything about Islam. And I'm very surprised. He didn't mention anything about like Helen Waleed, or any of the Islamic rulers or any of that.
Viji business, have we read his books, anything? Has he? Not even once. So I don't know if he's anti or something, but put them to the side, we're gonna refute him when his time comes.
But the point is whether war is deception.
And so we need to sometimes be like that.
Especially when we're at war, media war, information war, this war, that war.
You know, but we can't break the law. Because you break the law, you lose, then they, they'll put the narrative on, you can't break the law. But at the same time, we need to do this, we need to invest in deception.
I know this is something you've probably never heard any Islamic speaker, so called se. But we, as the Muslim world need to invest in deception of the enemy. We need to invest in this, whether it's an IT level,
okay, because there's so many I went to Pakistan, there's so many IT guys that are so amazing. It, how many of them are being invested in the right places, to get the industrial secrets of the enemies of Islam that want to kill the Muslims and hurt them? In a way, which is fine, according to the law of that particular country? For example? Why don't we invest in this in a proper way?
Look at this, this is what this is showing you is the high IQ, military genius of the Hamza.
Now, you have drones and all these kinds of things. And I was having conversation before about this. And this guy, this military guy, Scott Ritter, had this discussion about the drones and all those kinds of things. And he's, he's talking about now, the, the navies are becoming more and more irrelevant, because drones are gonna take them all out.
If you think it was a sitting duck targets and all that, and the drones can do so many things. I've got my son a toy the other day. And he's playing with it and thinking, Oh, my God, this is a toy. I never had this 110 years ago.
I never had this toy 15 years ago, when I was a kid that when I was just boys aged 20 years old, 20 years ago, I don't have it. But he's making it fly and all this kind of stuff. And so why don't we have technologies that go and see what's happening.
So we can make strategies. We need this, okay.
So this is what we need to, but this should not be employed with Muslims among themselves, well, let's just assume this is how many is about to not spy on one another.
What about the ones where it's not this is not applicable to the enemies.
In fact, the opposite is there for the enemies.
So this is shows you situation.
Now
we go into ohada. Now, because
we are setting the context of the quarter sheets, we're obviously humiliated by this defeat better.
And the most enthusiastic policies desire to go into battle with academia. So far, I'm not there yet. And I was a fan.
And that volume nebula br, and they managed to enlist support from well known tribes like Canada and the hammer, they had a an economic incentive these tribes, why would they go into war anyway, a lot of them will went into wars, not because of the religious significance, some of them did probably care about that, like the heads of the machine and so on. But the other guys who are these other enlisted tribes, these mercenaries or whatever you want to call them are pseudo mercenaries, they went into it for an economic purpose, because they realized that the trade routes were interrupted, and that it would benefit them maybe they get some netting or something from from the Muslims. But
mostly it was because of the trade routes were interrupted and they realize it serves some important economic significance. So this is why you would imagine that tribes like to hammer and Kwinana and so on,
decided to get involved. And there is a verse in Surah Al and fell actually which, which basically says the following says Verily, those who disbelieve, spend their money to hinder men from the Path of Allah because this was after better they started to do an effort or where they're collecting money to to go for another one. Because of the humiliation
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All right, I am hustler. So my olabode that eventually there'll be defeated and that will be regret for them. hustlers like there'll be regretting this.
Yes. So this is a key I am. And so the general leader of that particular war was able Sofia,
obviously, had no lead was there as well. And he was very instrumental in this particular war.
We started to understand his military genius and so on. But let's pause here because what was the name of that guy who made the Harvard lecture on on Helen Walid? Professor Roy Castle Granda Professor Roy Casa Grande made this whole thing about housing Waleed and his argument. He's not Muslim for my understanding.
I think he's, he's married to an Iranian.
Yeah, cuz in one of his lectures, he said that he basically insinuated those who believe in God even and imaginary friend, okay.
Okay, but he's not it doesn't come from Muslim background, right. And what he was saying is that you saw the lectures very famous online, this So Helen Waleed is the name of the lecture you've seen. And Roy Casa Grande is a professor in Harvard, right? In no in Texas, at the University of Austin. Oh, was it that thing? Wasn't a Harvard or? No, the presentation was in Texas. Oh, is it? Yes. Okay. So he's a he's a guy who's he was doing I don't know what the module was. But it's some lines very famous lecture. And his whole thesis rocastle grandeur, was that Helen Willett was one of the top three, he's world's most influential military leaders of all time, okay. And he explained why. And
he started going through the battles and stuff like that, and he's never been defeated.
And it's very interesting, because if you consider there's different ways of thinking about this, who are the best generals of all time? There's different ways of considering that. One way that people do, I've seen some of these things online as well, is that they look at the amount of battles that have been won by that particular leader.
Some of them look at the Okay, well, you could you could win a battle, but who are you winning it against and what context and so on. So people put Napoleon up there, for example, Alexander, they put up their
professor category under he said it was Alexander first. Then he put up Moses, the Egyptian. He put him second, then third, he put her knowledge number three, because I remember him saying that he's top three. But putting that to the side, there's no doubt. I mean, most people that are fair minded, they'll put Hallett somewhere in the top, top five.
And
the difference between all those generals that they had a strong empire that was competing, well, I had well, it was just a few Arabs, few camels, and then they defeated the two empires at that time. So I think there's a difference between Napoleon had been odd things phosphate. So absolutely, absolutely. But you know, with halogen, Walid he himself, he admitted this, and this is why I want to bring this to your attention. He admitted that
I knew that we couldn't defeat the Muslim enemy.
Like when he was with the most regards. He realized, after all of this, even though he was instrumental in this war, I can imagine he was instrumental in this war. And he eventually led the most regards to some kind of salvageable, you could say, stalemate victory, depending on how you look at it, right?
He eventually led them to that because of a tactical error, not by the prophet. In fact, you will see that this was this tactical error was to do with the,
with the soldiers, with the archers, in fact, we'll come to that.
But he himself after all, these engagements with the Prophet Muhammad, he realized near the end that this is a different level that I'm dealing with here. He himself admits this. And so if you consider that, that the greatest according to these guys is admitting of the superior the military superiority of the Prophet Muhammad Salah. So it would follow that actually, the process should be in that discussion, even just from a secular perspective. Now, of course, from a secular perspective, people are gonna differ.
People are gonna definitely gonna say no, Alexander this and Napoleon, that and whatever. But the fact that he's even in that discussion, and he is in that discussion by the secularists or the non Islamic military buffs, yeah. It's a miracle in its own right. It's interesting, isn't it? Because he was a political leader. He's in the conversation for the greatest military general of all time.
And the Quran that it's been inspired by God, we believe as Muslims. We're memorizing it, and we're living by it and so there's so this already is an
Another layer of the argument, which is Islam is true, because how could one man be so successful in so many unrelated fields? How can you expect one man? Oh, he's the greatest poet of all time.
Oh, he's the greatest military of all time. Well, why, at least in their understanding one of the greatest military generals all time? Oh, he's, he's, he's one of the best sociological, reasonable time. Oh, he's this kind of thing. Is you making this?
What kind of thing? Are you saying about this?
As well, multilingual, but I could because if you see, look, I mean, Aristotle. Sorry, Alexander.
You could say he was the best military general of all time, you can make the argument, but you cannot make the argument that he had the more sociological transformative effect. You can that is not an argument.
You can make the argument Napoleon. Okay. If you really want to know that he's the best player of all time. I know why you're making that argument. I don't agree with argument, obviously. But let's, for the sake of argument, say, but you can't say that he had a religious impact. He had no religious impact Napoleon, what religious impact did he have comparable to even this contemporaries of his day?
So the fact that you have one man that is so successful in unrelated fields, this is this transcends POLYMATH. Because a polymath is aka one guy, he's a scholar. But he's a scholar in multiple, multiple fields. But you're not even saying that this guy is only a scholar. You're saying he's a scholar. He's a great poet. He has civilizational history. He's he's he must be a polymath because he's talking about all these historical things. In the Quran, according to them, he's talking about the the agility Ancient Egyptians is looking at the Romans is talking about the Persians. He's a theologian. Okay, so he's a historian, he's a theologian, okay, he must have had this language
ability as well, it must have. And he was a linguist par excellence. But not just that he was a sociological leader. He was a political leader, and he was the military general, that he has to be in the conversation for the best generals of all time.
So you're telling me what Mike can do with that.
The one of the arguments for the veracity of Islam is the success of Muhammad. So
that is certainly one of the arguments, all the social stuff as well. Yeah, the successful marriages, friendships that last long term. So he's
excellent. And this is a great point. And this is why we're going to refute Robert Greene in the future because
this battle shows you the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad SAS and the leadership style.
And the leadership style of the Prophet Muhammad Sal Salam was not Machiavellian.
Which is playing checkers.
48 laws of powers. Some of its true, like a handbook of wars, deception, okay, some of it is true. But why were these tribes and these people and these devotees 700 of them because we know that in the beginning, when this battle started, okay, there was about 1000 Muslims. And a 300 of them, went away without belaboring
obey
them enough
that he isn't one of the hypocrite. He was a hypocrite. And he took 300 of these guys, and he decided to do this last minute to distract the Muslims.
He's Australian, he wants to distract them. Because it brings anxiety bro, if you consider if you consider like 1/3 of the army is leaving.
And why didn't he declare this before? Because he wants to create anxiety, disunity, confusion among the Muslim people. So this one, I'm not living or bait.
Yet he done that.
And especially the Quran about this guy. It says allow nelumbo Cattelan the tabernacle home will cover your maid and accountable minimally man.
Alarm Ron.
He said if we no truth if there was going to be fighting that they would have followed you But Allah says about them that they were closer to cover to disbelieve that email and there's so many eight by the way, and so LM Ron Are you see sort of and file is connected a lot to whether Surah Al Imran is connected a lot to a herd. So you'll find that like, if you look at 160 onwards, the verses were maybe we'll do that as an exercise.
You'll see some of the ayat relating to offered and it's exposing the people
the Emmys hola hola. habito mana type that Allah wants to distinguish between hobbies and type. And this was one of the key things that Allah He intended with this battle, as we'll come to see.
In fact, let's pause here and do that. Let's take a look at some of the eight. Five minutes spend five minutes insolate Tiller suit at Amazon
and see
Eat maybe some of the deficits and stuff like that and come back and discuss what some of these areas are because clearly the lessons are there
because I would I would put to you
that there are many Abdullah bin or basil on today
and the Palestine issue has exposed them
I'm not gonna mention groups and names but because last time I did they got quite controversial actually.
But why number is true though. If they're not sure I'm delivering obey. They have a partial envelope if nobody in them let's be honest.
Do you think that these people are the ones who don't say a good word about the Palestine issue and 30,000 people being killed in women and children this kind of they don't say a good word about it. And they only attack the Muslims about this situation they don't attack these the other group designers. You think these people if they weren't offered are doing better or they're NASA Honda or any of the ones do you think they will be fighting with the profit 100% There was a low level
there'll be like because they're not interested. They don't believe in Assam fully.
This is the reality of this why they think they might look religious.
They might look religious, they're sitting there with their so
this or that one, or that one?
The different hats because when you wear a hat you become an authority and but by the looks of it, that some people are that superficial, you were kind of different. The big one like that, or the one that one like that, or the one that when you sit down there's a few books behind you.
And you say a few
acid Allah La come
and this thing, and hello as you become the great one. But then when the fighting happens, you're the first one to run away. Lo Nana will pretend that tabernacle if we truly knew fighting, we will follow you.
And this, Allah exposes as homegirl Kufri Yama is an anchorwoman from Lima. They're closest to the Eman how many of these guys would fight let's be honest likeness. Can we be honest?
A lot of them the ones who are speaking about the Palestine issue and attacking the Muslim and this one. And it's their fault that they done this and it's that one and this
you just don't want to fight.
Because what you're trying to do is you're trying to avoid
defending yourself and other people because you're a coward. You have been a vocal of the cowardice of Dubin
and you don't truly have to work full of Allah
like Omar Abdullah and obey.
So Allah uses the situation to remove the impurities of the OMA
and SubhanAllah. The Palestine issue has done exactly that.
Do you think these people have credibility now among the masses, they don't have us? In the moment I see that guy even if he's wearing the glossiest hat, and he has the greatest books behind him.
And the original was halvat and the Magisk motto doesn't matter what he has behind him, because I know he's a coward in his heart. And he's a heart in treacherous traitor.
How and that's what is true. A lot of them are how they are traitors to the OMA.
Some of them will say this is how they talk they will say that are bogus. It's not my business literally is not my issue.
All the time Allah. So what is your cardio then? Only when you're getting attacked? So you want me to help you is your cardio, but when it's their cardio, they don't help
you Abdullah oneway I doubt your Islam. I doubt it. I'm not saying you're Catholic, but I wouldn't get my daughter married someone like this.
I would want my daughter to be married out and proud. I personally wouldn't want to provide you.
It's true though, like so anyway, that was a bit of a tangent. And if someone says he lays out cover Yeti
usually would say yes.
He calls it a three channel is of course it's not yours. It's for men. It's none of your business. I feel business anyway. Yeah. Because what Hello, Hello, Jim. Hello, Jim aacomas Ilhabela as the Quran says, if they came up with you, they would have just overburdened you don't have just weighed down on you would have helped you. Because you're their liability, actually. Yeah. Because if someone comes to fight,
this is a blessing that these 300 runaway because if they were their master do Camila Harbor, their liability, you think that they're doing some function, but actually you need to protect them. They want to protect you.
And sometimes, it can be like that on with the brothers. It's true. Like there's some brothers, that you can go out with them in the streets.
And you know,
you're the bodyguard.
Now I'm not saying abortion lender would be the fight Yanni be a fighting champion.
No, I'm not saying this.
But
if I go out my wife and my children, for example, yeah, let's be honest.
Everyone knows if something happens, I'm going to protect them.
You see?
Okay, no problem.
But if we're going out with the brothers, and they're all like fighting agents, we're going out.
And let's say four guys come, and I'm with four brothers, Three brothers. Yeah. Okay, I can't fight for I can tell you, I can tell you this. I can have four wives. I'm joking.
No, but I can't fight for I can I can tell you. Let me be clear about this. If they're on it, and they try to fight me, I can't fight for it. There's four of us or four of them. Now, if you're with me, and it looks like four and four axes, what four and one. They may have the wrong brothers. Because you're gonna make me look bad.
And these guys are gonna go back and say it was four and four, and we beat them. They want to be one of us. Because there's only one God, I want to fight.
I'm not saying you should fight, win every fight, but I'm saying you have to be ready to be a problem for someone.
As a man, you have to be at least learn the basic combination something. So if someone hurts you, so you can you can protect yourself defend. So that yeah, do you know what I mean? So this thing about
this idea of defense.
It's not just like some historical abstract thing that we're looking at. We're living in a jungle right now. London is a jungle, bro. It's no and it's only a matter of time. Someone's going to come up here. So I was driving Allah Subhanallah saw some guy attacking old man. He was trying to attack the old man. But then he walked away so everyone left him. I'm thinking why are you doing that? As it was a six year old man in the car. And this guy came out and he's puffing his chest and I will do Jana but with who was the old man
so anyone can get attacked and hurt. So Yanni the Muslims must always defend each other. And this is not this is not an abstract thing of the history of the past. This is a real thing, okay? Because if you if you couldn't do it with fists, imagine doing it with guns and knives. There's no way you there's absolute. Don't try and convince me that you would do jihad.
Don't try and convince me how on earth do you expect me to believe that you're a person that would shoot guns and be maybe shot back, throw a grenade and this and that you're that guy. Bow and Arrow and all that where in the street someone gives you a punch and you don't even want to want to punch him back.
Run away even as a one on one. It's a fair fight. No, no, okay. That means you haven't trained your bravery. Bravery is like a muscle.
If you don't train it will wither away and die. We've mentioned that in the previous anyway, let's go back to there yet.
300 people that runaway is before the water just before the matter. So this is different from the second thing Yeah. These are the
way that when he took his tribe members and he run away with that.
Okay, so let's look at the eight and then come back. All right, guys, let's do let's do a reaction, some of the eight in the Quran. So let's read some of those is actually from Stella Moran, and maybe the English
and then tell me what someone's have said is that you've come across.
So who wants to be the first person? Yeah, yeah, so surah number three Al Imran verse 166. It says, And what struck you on the day the two armies met, I heard was permission of Allah, that he might to make evidence, the true believers.
Yes. But the continuance
and he might, might make evidence those who are hypocrites, for it was said to them come fight in the way of Allah or at least defend. They said, If we had known they would be battle we would have followed you. They were nearer to disbelief that day than to faith saying with their mouths, what was not in the hearts. And Allah is most knowing of what they conceal.
So let's have some pondering over this ayah What do you what do you take from this? Yeah, so
those who fled away and are locals in this disbelievers basically. I mean, let's be clear. It says recovery on within occur a woman and a man that were closer to disbeliefs Iman than a man Okay. What else?
What are some of the reasons why this what is what are the positives that came from this?
He made evident the true believers from the from the false ones are those who are closer to kufr than Iman. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Excellent. Any other ideas?
Not really. Have you got any tough seals that you've come across anything?
tafsir from Yeah. Yeah.
Is 166 to one she made a bunch of me just read out
loud said when a single disasters might see it's quite a long one. So I'll read a bit of it in reference to when Muslims suffered 70 fatalities during the Battle of boyhood. Although, because this is this is another point there's 70 shahada and that particular battle.
Although you smoke your enemies with one twice as great drink butter when the Muslims killed 70 metrics and captured 70 others you say from where does this come to us? Why did this defeat happened to us? Say it is from yourselves. Even Abby had Tim recorded that Omar in Kota al Khattab said, when occurred a year after brother, Muslims were punished for taking ransom from the disbelievers at bother in return for releasing the mushriks whom they captured in that battle. Thus, they suffered a loss of 70 fatalities, and their companions of the Messenger of Allah gave flight and abandoned him. The messenger suffered a broken tooth, the helmet was smashed on his head, and blood flowed onto his
face, other than revealed
when a single disaster smites you, although you smoke your enemies with one twice as great. You say from where does this come to us say it's from yourself? Because you took the ransom. Furthermore, Mohammed bin a sharp enjoy doh out a Robbie been an US and US study said that the IRS say it is from yourselves means because you the archers disobeyed the messages command and not and to not abandon your positions. Yeah, so this is a bit of a theological question is like, why did this happen? As in Islam as
it's interesting, when a calamity strikes on one, it can either be due to a test or punishment, or a combination of both
people who have Ananda and full cecum you know, he says because of what you have done. And also you know, when something like this happens, we Makassar but a deacon we have one Kathir is because of what your own hands has put forward and it takes away some of the sin. So a calamity has many benefits. It strengthens you.
Famously Nietzsche said that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Okay. And on this point, a quick tangent on this point.
If you read books on resilience,
resilience is a term, which we have, I think, discuss to some extent here.
But resilient if you read books on it, like there's books now related to emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman resilience.
First of all, resilience is defined as the ability to recover after some kind of calamity. And there are two different concepts in psychology. One of them called Aloe stasis, and the other one is called homeostasis.
And homeostasis is going back to a kind of balance. Whereas Aloe stasis is coming back to a kind of balance when the pressure has increased. So for example, if I'm to be in a state of homeostasis right now.
There's no extraneous variable that's causing me
outside stress, whereas Allah says if I was on his treadmill, and I'm still able to moderate my, if you like,
my mood and my ability, my mood and recover continually,
there is some kind of stress being putting put on me. Now, the only way,
not the only way but one of the key ways that psychologists have spoken about getting better
at being able to moderate
homeostasis or aloe stasis is through exposure therapy.
And this particular calamity, it really brought the Sahaba to the brink, it pushed him to the limit effectively.
And sometimes you just need to be pushed to the limit.
Because that's where that experience is going to make you really dig deep into telecoil reliance on God, courage, mental strength and resilience that nothing else can. It has to be an extreme experience
where you consider giving up but you decided not to where you're taking close to your cracking point.
I was recently reading a book
called willpower
by Roy Baum
Eisah This is a very famous psychologist, we've actually quoted him before in other contexts in the context of sexual difference studies. And most of you remember him, we said that you know, the study about sexuality and that men are more sexual than women. He was one of the key psychologists who done this study. But he also done a study about willpower. And he has this model called the ego depletion model.
And in that model,
he talks about the fact that willpower is depleting, depending on
you can have unrelated activities, okay? That makes you reduce your willpower. And he had this thing called the radish experiment, where he told people to come in, and they were fasting.
And when they were fasting, he told them not to eat some cake or chocolate or something, and instead to eat the radish, then he done a secondary experiment, we gave them an unsolvable puzzle. And in that the people who had eaten the chocolate were better performers on the second experiment. And the way he explained this is to say that your there's something called ego depletion model, which is that your willpower reduces, the more you have tasks that
that makes, you have to restrict yourself.
And so in addition to the ego depletion model, which is somewhat controversial, to be honest, because there's some discussion about that, there's also the fact that willpower acts as a kind of muscle, we talked about bravery as a muscle, but willpower acts as a kind of muscle, the only way to have strong willpower
is to increase
your stressful events.
If you want iron willpower, you have to increase the stressful events. So really, these are blessings, when you're pushed to the limit like this.
Near cracking point, because it increases your willpower.
So you can consider this to be resilience can be tricky sub is similar to resilience increases your sub
situation like this, your resilience, your patience, your steadfastness, your willpower, these 700 people who were probably most of the men
of the Muslim world, at that time was only 700 people at that time, they would constitute
the Vanguard that would spread Islam to all of the countries of the world today.
There had to be a special type, they had to be pushed to the limit.
They had to go through extra ordinary experiences that are not like the experience of other people. They had to be faced with the greatest opposition,
they had to be faced with one of the greatest military religious leaders of all time has been bullied.
They had to go through that intense fear and that that killing and death and all that kind of they had to go through it.
And what was interesting was that
there was a lot of cycle psychological mind games on both sides with this thing. Because
the crushes, they took some of their wives with them,
where they took some of their wives with them to give them like a moral boost.
Now, this is interesting, because I've met fighters and professional fighters and stuff. And they have different opinion on this. Some of them like their wives and their family to be in the audience when they're fighting, or some of them hate it.
But it can be a thing that you put, it's like it forces you to perform, because you don't want your wife to see you get beaten up, it can be a thing. So they use this. I've also found was the leader. And the you know, that was one of the things that they done. It wasn't due to confidence, maybe it was due to you need to prep yourself because some will say, Well, they did that because they're so confident. Now it wasn't necessarily that it's people do that kind of thing to commit. And we'll see how the Prophet that his his way of doing that. Because he didn't do it in the way that these guys aren't. They got their women there are so he has a different method of doing that.
But
what we did we do find
is that when they started, in fact, let me look at the slides because I'm missing any
and in particular information here.
So the woman came with them.
And the Prophet Muhammad SAW Salam held a military consultation. Okay, like, well, I'm wrong. sure by now.
Especially with the show Assura. The situation is consultation between them.
So he brought the guys, the young people and the old people and they asked him, What should we do? Should we stay inside the city or should go outside the city? So the elders said, No, let's stay in here
because it's less impervious to penetration. If we stay in the city, militarily, this makes sense. Because when you're the defender, most military strategic will tell you you have an advantage. You know the topography, you know the terrain
It's harder to actually overtake a city than it is to defend it to defend it, it's much harder.
And so
one group of people, and they gave good reasons for that. They said, look, we've never been defeated as defenders to defend
is, it's harder to overtake a city. So it's easier to defend the city. Like usually that is the case, they know it better. They know this, the crevices, the back streets, they know this and that the other
what you have to do, because what you have, what the mission is, when you have to attack a city and overtake it, is to annihilate everyone, effectively, you have to you have to force and surrender. Whereas if it's not like that you don't miss. All you have to do as a defender is just resist to give them enough pain for them to leave.
Which is why the whole situation with Hamas, and as ruthless as it is,
because why can't he for example, we're looking at five months on why can't they? This is an army, which is like ranked number 10 in the world at some rankings. They have 2200 tanks. They have hundreds, they have one of the hundreds of attack aeroplanes.
100 Hundreds and some of the they have hypersonic missiles.
You know, they have nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
You know, they have some of the most advanced in fact, Israel is a is an exporter of military equipment. It's one of the only countries that are exposed to Pakistan is another one actually talking about that, as I saw some of the, you know, factories and stuff very, very interesting. Turkey is another one Muslim country. And Iran. These are only three countries Muslim, that are exporters of military equipment. And you have 60 Muslim countries and almost only three of them exports military stuff. Israel is a military exporter. They have the you know, the Desert Eagle. Have you seen the size of that gun? Some mats, I guess mini cannon. They produce this. There's the
Eagles in this guy. So you have a country that's producing pistols, hypersonic missiles, nuclear weapons of mass destruction. They have like probably ranked number 12 or 13. Most attack airplanes in the world.
Technology drones,
all of that. But five months on and they you know this these militia, they don't even have an evil force. They don't even have a tank, one tank, not even one tank, but they have the anti tank. That degree, a lot of good ol 100 and blow blow up. And what's going on, is because of this strategically, it's so much harder to overtake city, which is why insurgencies insurgencies are difficult to finish, even for the United States of America. Their failure in Vietnam, is due to that reality that insurgency is actually difficult to finish. Why couldn't they overtake over how many I don't even know what the numbers are? 80,000 Or maybe 70,000 people died in Vietnam. I don't know
how many people American side
over 20 20,000 That's still a lot of people, isn't it? Americans going into a place like Vietnam, and they were defeated effectively because they did not fulfill their military objectives.
Why? Because it was an insurgency you think okay, we say well, Viet they lost against Vietnam. Do you think Vietnam has a chance going into America? Go near America?
What country has a chance now going near America? There's only one country chances have a chance going into America? No chance at all. zero chance. Where would they fight they would fight on the Pacific Ocean.
You know, they would have to take them. They wouldn't have. The only comes really is Russia? I think so.
They don't even have a chance. No one's got chances right now. It's not like that. So you can't go into America. It's very difficult. You can but Russia, Russia is bordering it if you if you look at Alaska. Yeah, they can go into Alaska. Yeah, you can go into like what they had there. But if you know the history of that, Japan, Japan, you know, they sold Alaska to America in the first place. So they really wanted to take it back. You know,
maybe that's something but going into the United States going into that country? Yes. Like who were talking about who would do that got civilians or their guns you got the American militia? Yeah, that's not even what's gonna do it but I know but like you have to get past five six layers you call a you've got like a third of the country armed Exactly. And they're all patriotic and they're all a bit yeah, that's a good point is a good point.
Overestimate certain, like Russia struggling in Ukraine like and it really try it like you cannot say Russia did not try. Yeah, it's true. But what they're doing is the insurgency is there the attack again, we're currently defending if they're struggling this much in Ukraine. They have zero chance in America. Oh, absolutely. Russia. Oh, absolutely. What you think they're gonna overtake one like Texas something that no, absolutely. No chance. No one would bet on that.
No one would bet on this kind of thing. A notable mention is
Fallujah, in Iraq, where the Americans tried, but they failed miserably, but they just kept hurting the civilians until they basically forced to surrender. But
yeah, militarily, they failed in Fallujah. Absolutely. One thing that can be a strategic victory against America, I don't want to do this tangent, but is, you could imagine some of the bases being completely destroyed. Like if China wanted to attack America, they wouldn't go to the mainland, they'd go to Qatar, and destroy base there or something, because they're quite close to Huawei, the destroyer but they could do that. But then what the response will be quite devastating. But then again, you could also you could make the point that
the strongest bet isn't it is the best is the best bet. They're probably if they were do fight that fight someone like Taiwan or something. That's what they fight because I don't think America would even fight them. I'm just gonna be proxy wars. Yeah.
But even America, you can't imagine American going into China. No, it's very difficult. I mean, the American fleet of naval fleet going into China and the Pacific Ocean, you got nuclear weapons in the picture. So that's so for them to enter.
nuclear powers can't fight. Like that's where the issue is now. Because everyone knows this, that there's only one way to fully surrender. If there's no nuclear weapons, you're speaking of a Japan I think from that kind of war, America is obviously a superpower. But with nuclear weapons, that's a lot of the things can't be done right. everyone's awake now. And it's all gonna work global.
Correction, it was almost 50,000 in Vietnam, Vietnam. A lot of people bro. So insurgency. But the point I'm making is that insurgencies are very difficult. I think there has been a shift in modern day warfare like vehicle science, where, like China, America are so intertwined.
Economically, I think what one will try to do the other is destabilize internally, there are two big two, one collapse the other but they are hinging on one of them collapsing on itself. Even that, though, that is did back in 2008, when the recession took place. Do you know who gave money to America, it was China. And the reason why it's because they have an interdependent economic relationship as well. So there's a cultural war, it's not going to be a military on. And this is a good point you're making because when we're comparing kind of these fights,
these battles and wars, and we're making the comparison with nowadays, we have to remember one different main main difference, which is George Orwell mentioned the interesting, you know, literary, you know,
front runner, if you like of great masterpieces and stuff. He argued that
now we've moved into the era of total war, he called it. So it's not like before it used to be Territorial Army versus Territorial Army they meet and offered or something, which is, as you know, is a mountain. Okay, if we didn't even mention that after all this. But it's a great mountains, a massive mound is actually a range of mountains. And they meet in this place, because you don't really want to get the civilians involved. And they fight it out and see who wins. Okay, maybe get a couple of women there just to give you a couple of cheerleading and stuff like this. Apologies. But you're not going to get the civilian involved. Now, total war is no, we're getting everyone involved
here. There is no such thing as we're going to meet and discuss the battlefield is honor. And this is where we're going to fight and so on. It's going to be total war, everyone is involved. drones and this, and that is completely different story. Now, we're talking about completely different kind of war, nuclear weapons. I mean, that's another conversation for another time. But suffice it for me to say that from the Islamic perspective, this can be seen as totally haram.
Yeah, I mean, come on, like indiscriminate. We consider this to be haram. And the use of them, the possession of them is a different discussion, especially if your neighbors have them in the case of Pakistan in India, but the use of them in something different possession of them. I don't know, that's this. I'm not saying it's haram. I'm saying it's a different discussion.
No, no, I can use anything you like.
So long as you're not, you know, harming the civilians. But the point I'm making to you is, yeah, it's a very interesting discussion. Oh, God, as you know, as mountain range is very close to mission Neverwet
it's actually very, very close to mission nebo is maybe like 20 minutes, you drive there, and you'd be there. You know, 10 minutes even. Yeah, and so it's not even that far away.
The reason once again, we spoke about better it's the same kind of thing, they needed the mountain so that they can be kind of behind it so protects them.
You know, the Muslims were outnumbered here, three to one, four to one even. And the cavalry was, I don't know, maybe 50 to one or something, but the horses and all that kind of stuff. And we're gonna have them the horses, which shows you that it's possible that a smaller group of people can be a large group of people with the right tactics.
It's really possible. Like let's once again bring it to the Palestine issue. If you consider that a small drop
On worth I think $1,000 destroyed a Merkava tank, which is about a million. That's how much these tanks costs up to 100 million
destroyed?
Yeah, one tank in the market because the Israelis use these tanks called the Merkava tanks. Yes. And according to Abu Zubaydah, the military leader of the armed thing of Hamas, they've destroyed more than 1000 of those.
That's what they said. They said We destroyed over 1000. And they have proof for at least 100 of those we've seen videos, I don't know, maybe more than 100.
So you have 1000 pound thing can destroy 100 million pumping. What's going on here?
You see what I mean? Like it, you know, this come in fit in kalila. The ayah in the Quran was is that how much of a small force can destroy a larger force? It's not just a smaller force is this, it is the more compromised lesser economically
economic entity. So you can have something for 1000 pound destroying something which is under a million.
That's a hack. That's a shocking hack. When you have a drone that's worth, I don't know, 10,000 that can destroy an entire naval fleet. Maybe not. fleabag is a ship you can because this is what you call it, these drones that they commit suicide or so called
Kamikaze ones, they blow themselves up on the ship, you got this thing is probably worth a billion. And you got something that's worth 20,000 It can destroy.
Here, this is a very interesting book.
So it's about how you position everything. And the process Allah, he did it in a way in a HUD. So that okay, without gunden, outmanned, but we're going to force them to come into this area, the small area of maybe, I don't know, 50 meters. So it doesn't matter how many of them are there, they're going to have to squeeze through in this area. And when they come to this left side, the arches are gonna help demonstrate him. That's why he said, and this is something was authentically narrated, that if you see these guys, if you do not move from your position,
even if you see us,
if the voice of the birds eating, I cannot remember the executive will come to it. But if you if you see the birds eating from the enemy corpse, yeah, there's somebody in many different generations. Don't leave until I come in, and you don't leave, which shows you they made a mistake. They made a big mistake, because the whole strategy was dependent on the arches, frankly, and they had to be dependent on him because it was a gun development.
But it shows you if you stretch, strategize in the right way.
If you get the pin if you get the pinpoints, and it's like we're talking about Brazilian jujitsu
and the heel hook, like John Donahoe says, if you just get the knee, the whole body is destroyed. Doesn't matter how big the guys
so you can these are hacks. And a great military strategist can make this kind of stuff happen. Achilles heel, literally.
The Prophet SAW Selim had a dream before this happen.
And those those is a compound like dream with lots of different things happening, but one of them was that he saw, he said, let me read out, I have dreamt of, I implore Allah to be a dream of bounty cow slaughtered, and that there was a groove at the point of top of my sword and that I had inserted my hand into an immune armor.
So even the Hydra last Kalani has a very interesting the fear of this or sharp that hadith. He says about that hadith, that that dream means.
The choir the cow because the cow is beneficial, he says, in life and in death. So the cow represents and symbolizes the martyrdom of many Muslims.
Because a MATA is beneficial and Muslim, as a killed Muslim is beneficial both in his life and his death.
That's how he interprets that dream. But there's been different interpretations of that particular dream.
We've discussed already that the young man wants to fight outside and the oldest wants to fight inside there's benefits of both. So they decided to fly outside and there's some beautiful Hadith which says it does not become a prophet or does not fit a prophet but once he had put on an armor, he should take off until Allah has decided between him and his enemy.
Which either as I'm tasked with our cloud Allah and the Quran if you have made decisions that have to work or have lands on God,
and this shows you that the importance of decision making, once you make a decision, don't keep hesitating double thinking isn't that you're a weak person
I would rather make a wrong decision without hesitation than a right decision with his decision.
I know about the Roman thing. So that's my decision. That's fine. All of us told him. No. But having said that, yeah, but having said what I've just said, that's that depends on how wrong
because, you know, obviously Elijah to Mina shaytaan, there's a hadith, that haste is from the devil. And to me, when Allah, which is contemplation and thinking, considering things that's from ALLAH, so make you think you have a time to think this is how decision making is done. On the prophetic model, you have a time to think you have a time to share, and to shoulder and then you have a time to execute. If that time of execution has elements of A and B, then you're a failure. And you will be a failure for the rest of your life. Because that means you're hesitant person, you're weak man, you're incapable of making decisions.
Once you've made your decision, make it I'm going to marry her for example, okay, think about
in whatever way you like to, not to the haram. Then discuss with your this person, that person okay, then you make a decision finish.
That's it, don't go back. Don't keep cold feet cold feet is for cowards.
The Prophet he said, because if you think about that, as a very powerful Hadith, he says not befitting for a prophet to when he puts on the armor take off. What is it show in decisiveness? Weakness, me eagerness.
That's not what we're on about where Islam is not about this kind of it's not us against to aqui to get spiritually vacuous and empty thing to do.
Oh, I'm going to keep making them as you imagine your life. You're an over thinker. You keep overthinking about this and all but there's a bop bop bah bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. But what if what if
this what you what the psychologist called hypothetical anxiety, and it encroaches over your life? The WHAT IF statements just completely destroys your way of thinking. But this one this could happen. But it's not You're not fit to be a leader. You're not free to be anything. The worst people do all the time of the Sahaba when they went from Spain to China, because they kept on conquering this, this risk over this risk. Exactly.
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, it took an immense amount of risk taking to do these things. And sometimes it's, you know, what, sometimes the worst can happen. And by the way, sometimes it's okay for the worst to happen. Sometimes it's fine.
I remember listening to John Jones is one of the MMA guys many of these references. And he was going against one of the opponents. His name was rampage. Jackson, who was a knockout artist and very dangerous, scary individual. And he said something quite interesting. He said that before I went against rampage, Jackson, I considered and thought about myself getting knocked out in the worst possible way. And I became okay with that. So you consider the worst case scenario, you accept its possibility, and then that makes you braver? Sometimes it can work in a counterintuitive way. What is the worst that can happen? What really is the worst that you can die? Okay, that's not that bad.
It's not as bad as you think it is. To be honest, it being killed is not as bad as you think. Because you won't feel it afterwards. I know that sounds like a bad thing. But once you die once, you're not going to feel it 100 times. That's it, you die once or but I could have lived a longer life.
But your life would have included pain and pleasure. Who would have known that your life would have been better your life could have been so bad afterwards. Don't worry about this that much. If you worry about death, that much is going to stop you from being a real man
is going to stop you from taking the appropriate risks. That's going to bring you to the next level in life. I'd rather live fast and die young. They'd be a coward. Oh, my life. Do you know I mean, as as Shakespeare said, The coward dies or a million deaths. That's what he said. Many because every day, as people sometimes said, and he's real.
I'm trying to figure it figure out what he how he said this simple little tiny mentioned a very powerful way. And if you don't know who he is, you have to research this guy that no one was telling me about him the other day, amazing story, people sometimes. And he said I'd rather live like a lion for a day than a sheep for all my life.
One day, I'd live like a lion or die like a lion that doesn't live there and there was a line, then it's a sheep everyday. Walking around following this one.
It's not the way to live your life. There's the
Emraan 168. Yeah.
She does translate it says those who sat at home saying about their brothers. Have they listened to us? They would have not been killed. So it's about the people that are bad.
And then there was also Saddam would respond with, then prevent death from yourselves if you're what you're saying is truth.
So, you know, like both the sheep and the lion will die Subhanallah you know, let me tell you something statistically, bro.
I went and I checked cancer research,
because I was checking out about.
And as soon as you go to website, I don't know if he's still there, it may have changed it but it says one out of two people in the United Kingdom will die from cancer, one of two, one out of two
die. That's what he said something like one out of two will die from cancer now, I was very I was like, What the hell is this? You know, this doesn't even sound right. But then I kept reading and they said that most people that die is over 65. So yeah, the people the way they die of cancer, why don't have to, like half of us will die from cancer, according to them. And I'm not saying that's true. I haven't looked at the studies. But that's what it said, a significant amount of people are going to die from cancer. That's a fact. A significant according to the Office of National Statistics.
450,000 people on average die in the United Kingdom on a yearly basis. A lot of it is from respiratory diseases from heart attack, you know, what is more painful to die from cancer and to die from heart attack or to die from it? A shot in the head? I don't know. Actually, I don't know for a fact. So if you're thinking to yourself, if I defend myself, I do this and that I'm going to die with it's going to be so painful, but it's going to be painful for you to die in your house with a heart attack. That's a painful endeavor as well, isn't it? You can't prevent it either complement and further and enforce a criminal moat as the Quran says, prevent death from yourself you cannot
there is no there is no thing that you can do that can prevent death from coming further and further Komodo is the next one continues, which is one of my favorite ideas which says while at AXA Latina potuto. So yes, never think of those martyred in the Cause of Allah as dead. In fact, they are alive with their Lord
receiving sustenance.
So like even the ones that do die, that they are saying, Oh, I see they died if you were if they listened to us, they would not have died on like, Well, don't be so sure exactly. They're alive. You're actually exactly rude. And you know, this is another thing I came across was that the young guys at the time of the Prophet SAW Salem there were so eager to get into engaged in fighting and the ages were ridiculously young. So one guy is 14 years old 11 But imagine Yanni they want to get engaged now. One of them an offer and this is story of Rafa and some of them Joondalup
and you know his father was off as father was really like pleading for him to come in. He said, like you can be an archer, he doesn't have to be in the sword fighting range and stuff because being an archer is not you're you're protected in a week because you're kind of far away itself, right? Obviously, you can be killed, I mean, still is the battlefield. And someone when John duck is coming, he's 14 years old and stuff like that the prophet in the first instance he was too young, which shows you that the prophets Arsenal had standards for who would come into the army and so on. Then they done a wrestling match, like they'd done effectively. And in fact, a SUTI in his book
masala Massara, that hastening to wrestling. He mentions this as an interesting point of why wrestling is a very important
sport. Look, there are two sports that Muslims excelling in the Muslim world statistically,
you can put a third but any one of them is cricket. Okay, which is a useless sport when it comes to self defense.
And the other one is actually freestyle wrestling. Now if you want to add a third you can put MMA you can put that there's some good teams in football. I'm not going to especially Morocco has done very well recently and stuff like that. Very good. Handball squash. Okay, there's other sports. But really, if you look at the amount of gold medals, okay, it's a statistical exercise and see where the gold medals come. You will see that, for example, has accent Iran, Uzbekistan, all these countries are actually very, very good at freestyle wrestling.
And freestyle wrestling is arguably the best martial art for one on one combat.
Arguably, in fact, John Jones has this opinion I mentioned him before, but he does have this opinion. Yes, yeah. They say for a man wrestling's the most if to be the most athletic now this is a good honestly, let me tell you, let me tell you the thing about wrestling freestyle wrestling if there's something you want to encourage your kids to do, is that kind of thing because freestyle wrestling and grappling in general. It's it brings you look apart from the military, the best thing we can get involved in as martial arts. So the question now is what martial law freestyle wrestling. If you've ever done a class in freestyle wrestling, it requires a kind of fast twitch endurance
which is nowhere to
be found in any other martial law.
The pace of BJJ is slow. The pace of wrestling is extremely fast. A BJJ round is anything between five to 10 minute rounds, that is, this is a five day seminar for a reason. Because you can sit there, you can get the site control position, you can get into whatever you can, I can relax, sometimes I get bored and relaxing, they're wrestling, you cannot relax as a two minute round. And that wrestler bro has a different level of endurance
is got a completely different level of endurance. And so it's interesting the Prophet Muhammad Salam chose this as the sport to choose and scout who would be in the army who would not be because it requires a kind of mental fitness objectively because let me tell you something, right?
The UFC started in 1994. Okay, it's been going on for about almost 30 years now. 2728 29 years I don't know how many records
almost 30 years.
And the UFC was the whole thing about the UFC was an experiment to see which martial art was the best. In the 70s. In the 80s people thought things like kung fu was good. They did. People thought that
maybe it was that slow one called I forget. Wing Chun was good. The UFC disproved that but it's a scientific the UFC is a scientific experiment.
There's been over 10,000 fights, not just in UFC, but in all the other MMA promotions. 10,000 That's a big sample group. And these martial arts have failed.
The ones which have succeeded the most statistically.
Ah, freestyle wrestling, Brazilian Jujitsu, Muay Thai wrestling, boxing and karate. Karate was very successful. You had Machida you had people even like George St. Pierre, even have people like Conor McGregor, who have a pseudo karate style. My friend, MVP, Michael Venom page.
Yeah, he was actually in my school, we had classmates.
He had almost Christ that because the thing is karate and kickboxing were in the same promotion in the 70s and 80s. I don't know if you know this.
But this is a tangent. But the point I'm making to you is after the military,
how many people in the military all over the world? There are there are there are 10s of millions of people in the military, either as active personnel or reservists.
And if you look at the training the military do the reservists like in most countries, they'll do like two year program. Sometimes America has got the most active reservist
training program, I think in the world, and they do one weekend a month.
Yeah.
So they'll do things like they'll do a lot of jogging, they'll do better running. They'll do lot of stuff like that. They'll do shooting they'll do they'll learn how to use a weapon. And so now, we don't have the opportunity, mostly men. A lot of us don't have the opportunity to do this. A lot of us do, but a lot of us done. The next best thing without a shadow of a doubt is martial arts. So then we have to ask ourself a question which martial arts we go into kung fu? No, because I will say I'll put to you that statistically, and scientifically and objectively that these martial arts are a waste of time because they're not as effective. You being a black belt and Kung Fu is not the same
as being black bone. jujitsu or judo. Judo is actually a very good martial art. There's been people who have been fantastic Judo players who have gone into the UFC and implemented it. What I'm saying is we have to have proof of concept. And isn't it striking and amazing that the Prophet Muhammad Salam chose the sport that has one of the highest rates of success in a one on one combat scenario of all sports
Brock Lesnar, for example. The guy was an NCAA champion. Okay, now imagine he had no kickboxing or boxing or whatever experience and he became the UFC champion of the world bro.
He big threw up through taking people down with a double leg takedown and grounding and pounding them
because
it's a translatable sport. So what I'm what I'm trying to bring to your attention is if you want the stuff we're talking about today, because what's the point of abstracting this what is the point? Was it telling stories are we telling stories you want you want some of what these men had? There are there are outlets and especially if you're living in the West, there are outlets you can go and you can learn wrestling can learn grappling, you can learn this stuff takedowns all that it's more about the mental side of it.
Because you because it's that it's the toughness. Why did the process not admit this man into the army? Because it takes a kind of discipline
to be able to grapple
to wrestle and to take someone down into is that ambition and that you have, we have to put our kids in this.
We have to put our kids in it, we have to be in this ourselves. We don't have to be a professional fighter. We have to be in this. So I'm a strong advocate of that.
And that book has, I think, been translated into English and masala masala, which is an interesting BioSuit.
The Prophet betta champion wrestler, yeah, so they're very interesting. So that hadith is weak. However, there's the RO Khanna Hadith, this guy was a champion wrestler and the process of them beat him multiple times.
And he said this, he became Muslim just in the midst of that. He said, There's no way you can be a champion wrestler and a poet and this and that. And then literally, that will put a champion wrestler there as well.
You know,
before his prophecy
was his restaurant was that it was during Yeah, it was. It was over 40 Yeah, exactly. That's exactly. It tells you something. But you know, you can you can be a really effective player of jujitsu, even at 50 or 60. You can Yeah. But wrestling is not the wrestling is not the same. In fact, there is a there's a study that was done in the UFC. By MMA on point. They use AI and I'm not sure he saw this YouTube channel. Yeah. But they want to see when's the age of degeneration?
For UFC fighters 34 years old. That was because you need, you do need that. But it's a little bit different from BJ, you can you can go out for a lot much longer time.
Anyway.
We're nearly finished this session. In fact, I think we should actually finish here, because we need another session for awkward. Anyway. So let's have questions. And then we can finish it here. John. I just wanted to say so there are two different groups of people, the first group of people they abandoned the profit before the battle started.
300 and the other group of people were a certain assignment and they will archers. Yes, exactly. And then they abandoned their posts, some rewires because of the bounty they wanted. Yes, exactly that so those are two different groups. Now these people we set our
winner for pain, whereas these people they just made a error they did not exactly those are just some of the error. It says.
Yeah, well, could you know that as the Father and Holly they'll call bill and phenomen Holic five one who was tougher Laham Well, shall we don't feel hungry. It was about it was about it was about the archers because they made a mistake. So Allah is saying, forgive them mistake. Because magnanimity, as we've said already is one of the virtues one of the cardinal virtues right? And what is it to be magnanimous is to forgive someone when they've made a mistake. That's what the word means to be forgiving, and the time when you could be prosecuting, you see. So the instruction given to the Prophets of salaam about these arches was forgive them, not just that five, one who pardoned
them was tougher, let him make forgiveness for them, where shall we fulfill them, and bring them back into the table of consultation? Why? Because when you do that, you make them feel important. Again, when you take someone's advice for someone, you can take another strategy to shows you that you can take someone's advice that you don't care about taking their advice.
But you're doing it strategically to make them feel like they're important.
Like for example, you might have decided such and such a thing, but you know, that if you don't speak to your mom about this issue, she's going to feel very, very angry.
Or, and this might sound controversial, if you speak to your mom, she'll try to stop you.
So on the first issue, maybe it's a good idea to tell her maybe second issue can tell her afterwards. This is probably my mother's gonna be watching this.
Because some like I've just come from the subcontinent. And, you know, they were telling me that they won't get married until 35 because their mothers will kept stopping the marriages and I was saying there's a point where consultation becomes coercion
is the
relation Well, I thought it was something you know, I have to have to agree on the girl before before we get married. So there's the consultation has its limits. Because Shura is not Muslim. It's not something which is obligatory to do, by the way any
and especially for men who wants to get married just to let you know the mothers have no say in this Islamically speaking, but it might be a good idea to do it. Just so you can keep the kin but Yanni technically she doesn't she cannot get in the way without that the male and the female as well if you're for the female as well actually
she has no I'm sorry to say for the female as well.
Is that the prophesy someone you re added the Saba made mistake mashallah we can see in the future bells that they didn't do this mistakes again, and they were powerful and they stood and they built this characteristic. We've spoken about this, I think in something which is there's a difference between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD
and PT G, which is post traumatic growth. I don't know if you've come across the term, but we're in a world where everyone says I've got PTSD or trauma from listening, but so much is that there's such a thing as PTSD. There's such a thing as PT G as well which is that you grow from some calamity that's taken place in the past you grow from it and come stronger.
With that, yes. I just
when you're talking about deception, and
how Muslims need to sort of infiltrate I don't know if that's the word used
to basically whistle blow atrocities to prevent bad things from happening. They should actually look at what Egypt did like the Egypt 1973 Like the part of the reason the Egyptians succeeded is they had a spy the spy went into Israel they got all their plans and then they sent it back to the Egyptians and then they were able to and unfortunately the opposite happened as well.
A lot has been made on it and yeah, a lot of other again and other No, they forget their names and stuff, but it's a good thing for people to watch. I think it's a very good story for them to look and I wanted to say fantastic is correct as well. With that guys, we will conclude we're gonna continue with next time and finish it off in the next session. Inshallah I think we've benefited immensely from the group discussions and I'm think you have as well, that's why we've come to you completely
that's why you've subscribed to the channel and you're liking it and commenting. You've changed my life here to say pleases you and stuff like that and you if you're not doing that you should be ashamed of yourself.
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