The Revival #05

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How are you doing? I'm the law on the dinner. I think last night, we need to do a quick recap to a lot of names last night, the people got kind of confused. Quickly. You said the Omega family, the Omega dynasty, took control of the Muslim ummah and this is the first kingship after the forthrightly guided Califa has within it a ruling family for about 100 years. They called the nomads and at the height of the power when they ruled, and at that point in time, no person on earth in history had such control as Al Walid had from Spain, as we said, until China, nobody had absolute control like this. And it was in that moment when the maids were at the height of the decadence, the

height of the arrogance and oppression that Allah subhanaw taala would have seen the first Mujaddid the first reformer of the Ummah, called Omar to the second Homer Ibn Abdul Aziz, we mentioned that he was a cousin of the ruler, he had no line of succession. In fact, every Khalifa was planned, the next see Khalifa so all plan, he was a part of the plan. And then when Sulaiman one of the Khalifa has passed away, very early, they unexpectedly, he was on his deathbed. He looked at his life, he felt remorse, he felt that he great, and you know, that's how it is. You add all the enjoyment in the minute molecule mode comes, you realize what did I do? He called a chef and he says chef Molana

make dua for me, what can I do now? And the chef said, well, nothing to do now, the only thing that we hope is try to appoint a good successor. And so he chose his cousin or even Abdulaziz, the great grandson of Satan or Omar as the next Khalifa completely without anyone away. And as we mentioned yesterday, after they buried Sulaiman the Khalifa, the OMA yet family got together in Damascus at the headquarters. The chief of the police was the and the official

Imam he took this is the last one a testament of Khalifa Salima, do you all agree the Chief of Police is they will he saw it? Everyone says yes, we agree. And you open the note and he said the successor is Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah, even

even my Marwan and everyone is shocked most of all about himself. And the first words that he says in alila, you are in a Roger, this can't be the must be a mistake. And he refuses initially, he said, I cannot accept this. I refuse to accept this. But with a fear of a civil war, he is forced to go to the masjid in the Grand Mosque of Damascus. This is called as we say, this is called the Grand Mosque of the Ahmed mosque. It's still there today. And as we said, there's a hadith within Islam says that Kiama when Kiana is about to come, Nabi Isa will descend in Damascus at the White minaret of the Grand Mosque. And that was before there was any Majid in Damascus. Maybe some gave this

hadith before any Muslim came to Damascus. But the Grand Mosque now is the Mosque of Dolmades. So

he comes to the mosque and He now gets on the minibar, and he gives his first sermon. And look what he says. He says, oh, people, I have been burdened with the responsibility of the caliphate against my own Well, I don't want this and without your consent. I'm not I don't agree to it. And you weren't where you asked, you want to ask. So I removed the oath of allegiance from everybody that is around you. And I say you are resolved though you don't have to follow me and let us elect a new Khalifa. That's his first inaugural address here we ever heard the President say that the results I want but I shouldn't win. And the crowd cried out see expected them to say someone else and they

cried out you we want to we have chosen you Oh, I'm no more meaning and we are pleased that you have been blessed and honored our good affairs. And he waits. He waits and no one is leaving the Masjid. So then he says I'm not bad, but to proceed. Finley there is no profit after all, after the enemy Mohamed Salah Salem and there'll be no divine book after the Quran. Indeed, Allah has resolved this matter until Kiana therefore, I'm not here as a judge for the rather to execute the command of Allah. And I'm not here to innovate or change or make anything new, but I am here to follow and be obedient to Allah and Rasulillah Salam, in which case nobody is to obey me should I act in this

obedience to Allah? I am a better than any of you. I am just a man for amongst you that has been burdened with a heavy burden grade to the new meaning I have now been put on a on a difficult thing that none of you should look NVMe you should be saying shame for me. When he says guys in this one look at this one.

At TCS OMA, we are not divided over our up we divided does any Muslim dividable who's our Allah? Are we not and we're not divided over our unabIe and we're not divided over our Quran. But we're divided over rands, and cents and dollars did Hamza dinars. Money is what divides us. Our problem is money. Therefore meaning this is what I'm going to fix. And oh people ask for he obeys Allah, he's obedience and his duty but that then you should obey Him. So when I obey Allah, you obey me. And if I disobey Allah, then you must disobey me and so obey me so long as I'm in the obedience of Allah. Now, now that it becomes a Khalifa, what is he going to do? The first thing is finally begins. You

already mentioned in his inauguration, I'm going to look at the corruption that's happening within the immediate family and within the caliphate, and he starts with himself. The first thing he does is he collects every property, every bit of wealth that he has, and he goes to sauce, the revenue and he says all of this I got from the OMA yet I don't know where this comes from. It's haram money for me. I am rather going to be a public servant. Give me a salary, and I will rent a house, not the palace. Subhanallah he moves his family and his wife nice family. And Allah bless her what a woman she was. And remember she was the daughter of the great Abdulmalik her four brothers will Khalifa

has her husband is now the Khalifa she has only known the palace she has only known the good life. Now he's saying to her my love you either come with me out of the palace and we live in a rented apartment. Oh, I divorced you and you can remain and she comes with him. After she packs up and she is about to leave. He says he looks at her packing her bags of jewelry. He says Where did you get the jewelry? That was given to you from? You. We need to return your jewelry to the Beatle man SubhanAllah. And she does so and she does so what a great woman. And so they live in this rented apartment. No great bodyguards when the police, the chief of police said but you need security. He

said the only reason a Khalifa needs security from the people is if they hate him. I mean the previous to that I say 90 How was he killed in Surah anybody could attend come to you and shake your hand. When the people love you. There's no reason for police. The only reason politicians have entourage of police is because we hate them. And so we need to keep him away from the people. And so he basically took away the Police Services, he took away all the safety special privileges. And then he punished the head of sauce, the tax collector. And he said all the oppression you've done you need to make Toba for every city that you've stolen from one year sentence to every city, where to

go and serve a sentence and apologize to the people. Besides for reform in money. We'll talk more about that. He's also one of the great you know,

one of the reasons why our knowledge and our our tradition is preserved in Islam. The hadith at this point is OHare. There's no books of Hadith, there's no books of Syrah. He realized that the scholars in Medina only are going to live for so long, then they're going to die. And that knowledge is going to be left we need to start putting this into books. And so he's the first khalifa to commission that we need to collect at least the hadith of Salam, and the end the fic rulings and so in Medina, he appoints the most leading of scholars to compile Islam in book form. And in fact, he himself was a scholar in the sense that you find him narrating Hadith you don't find any Khalifa. And this

Khalifa no Hadith doesn't come in the books of Hadith. But nevertheless, he is was a scholar in his own right. And he related Hadith that was put in the books. He also had extensive public works in Persia, North Africa, Afghanistan now interesting, not in Syria. Syria was the heartland of the OMA, it's so the areas that were neglected. This is where he focused on building and expanding. He had no great expansions in his time meaning no, you know, Jihads happened in his in his short reign, but he had good relations internally, with all the the harati just obey the xi as a solo ad vaulting. They all had peace. In fact, in fact, the only Holly for the holidays didn't rebel against was only

without the disease. And as for the, the means that they miss are the non Muslims living within the Islamic lands. They were more non Muslims living within the Islamic empire, the Muslims, and there was no effort from the OMA units to convert them to revert them. Why? Because you could text them there's a special tax on called the jizya, a special tax on the on the on the non Muslims. And so the only is like this, we could text him to death, and this is what's going to pay us. And so say under that as he's had a process of cutting away most of the jizya for those who couldn't afford it, he gave back the churches, he gave back the spaces of worship, and he encouraged them to enter into

Islam.

Even cathedra, the great tafsir Musa said he also has a big book of history, even cathedrals that have seen a very famous stuff see, but he also wrote a book of history. He says in this within one year, the tax revenue from Persia went up from 28,020 8 million Durham's to 124 million Durham's. So by doing by

Removing corruption, the people had no incentive to cheat. And subhanAllah this is what they say that when you see the government stealing, and the government corrupt, you're gonna make every opportunity to cheat them. Everyone's cheating the other one. But when you see a man is just, and this is, look, this is the hack of Allah, and I'm going to take it for the orphan and the widow and to build the roads, then everybody says that I also need to play my part. And by doing the right thing, the coffers were full, to the point where some cities wrote back and said, We have waited for a year. We haven't spent I was a car budget, we can't it's still here. What should we do?

Also, when many of his agents wrote that his physical reforms, especially with the reverse is resulting in many people becoming Muslim now, and we can't text him there's going to be a disaster. He still hamdulillah fantastic soon I look forward that you and I, we will now have to go and work in the fields because it's no more tax money for us to pay your salaries. I look forward to that day Alhamdulillah that we had because they entered into Islam one of the tax collectors it and we didn't want meaning you're too soft. Whatever the people can I can we how can I punish people for not paying their taxes? And he writes back and hunger we have his letters he says how strange is it that

you seek my permission to torture a human being as if I was some kind of protection against Allah, Allah's punishment, or if my pleasure can rescue you from Allah's displeasure. Therefore, once you've received this letter, and once you've got taken note now, approach those who pay pay taxes with the utmost compassion, administer an oath from them just say say Wallah, you have no taxes to pay. Imagine your tax return from I swear by Allah, that is nothing to declare to sauce you know you come to the customs Wallah. He knows nothing to declare sauce. Just take the oath from Allah. He says by Allah it is better for them to face Allah having committed treachery. Then for us to face

Allah having tortured and innocent person, I don't want that on me. He even set limits in terms of standards in terms of weights, and even animals had special can't wait. Can't put too much on the camel. And then the Subhanallah you can imagine him thinking about saying, Oh man, his great grandfather, so normal at some point wincon type of depression when he was the Khalifa. And they said yeah, I mean, why why are you so depressed? He said, can you imagine that right now somewhere in the Ummah raise a camel, whose feet is is painting because the road isn't fixed, and he's gonna complain to Allah about Omar Omar didn't fix that out. I have to account for not only the people but

the animals in this OMA Subhanallah to leadership.

He reduced the salaries of the immediate family and he started confiscating the own property. This became a problem now, he started going at his own family members, some stories and SubhanAllah. This is like extreme level of Taqwa. They would say that when they would govern government officials would come to visit him in his house. And meetings would go into the evening, when they were done with a meeting and now they started talking lightly. Like, you know what, casually he would put the lamp off. I mean, sitting in the dark comes in why we're sitting in the dark. Yeah, I mean, he said, This lamp is for government purposes. This conversation we're having, it's not government work. It's

like, think of a swan, we get that company cellphone. So we found someone, I will park you know, some customer, whatever. And we talk business, then we start talking about the weekend or imagined. So let me put the phone down. I'm going to call you from my private number. This phone was not mean for us to have a chit chat. This level of Taqwa when his wife was asked about what you know, because he dies quite young Subhan Allah was what made him such a person. And she said that, in my view, wasn't anything spectacular compared to anyone else. He just had a deep sense of accountability to Allah subhanho wa taala, he would always ask your Allah, I hope that I have not transgressed the

rights of anybody else. I don't want anybody to claim against me on the day of piano, I don't want any, any person to challenge me for I've taken from the rights. And so Subhanallah and remember we talking the series about the problems and do we not have people that are spectacularly wealthy in this room, that are that are above the law, but they can enjoy themselves and party like they want to, that's up to them, or they can change the Ummah with the wealth and the power, this man, he only lived his Khalifa for two years, two and a half years. But you know, obviously, once you start getting the tenders, and you've taking those people out, you've now become a target. And

unfortunately, he was poisoned. And most likely from the immediate family, which will we'll see tomorrow the consequence of that he was poisoned by a slave. And when he asked that slave, so why did you do this? And the slave said, well, for my freedom domain, it's offered me a huge amount. He said, Don't tell me who paid you I don't want to know. But as for I will set you free, I pardon you go let him go free. And the 1000 they gave you money, that money we paid to the Treasury. That's the GC that's the penalty for my death, and you go free and so on his deathbed. He assembles his family he gives him a speech when they said Khalifa you actually have no inheritance to give you have zero

property to give your family he said Alhamdulillah and the chef said, but aren't you worried about you?

Kids, they're still young. So he said a look at these words. He says, if my children are righteous, then I'm comfortable, Allah will take care of them. And if they are not righteous, then I don't want to give them money to add in the destruction, then that's even worse for them. So inshallah I'm comfortable, and the shift said will lie, I saw that the sons of Salima and the previous Khalifa, they inherited millions, billions. They all ended up beggars, who has every child of the disease. Later on in their life, they became very wealthy, and they will financing the jihad later on in life and Salma Abdelaziz may Allah have mercy on him dice, one of the few people that stood the taste of

absolute power, he reformed the immediate family, and he brought his back to what Islam really mean to be strong and powerful. We don't do this for empires and monuments. And when we talk about the Greek yes, those things are nice, but really, it is the substance of why we what we have come to do here to bring the Sharia of Allah on land to bring justice to the ummah. And so he also reminded us a lot of our problems and fighting, the disunity is not about the deen, it's about egos and money. And with that, with this example, he revived that spirit of honesty with on the ground, people want it to be better. People want it to be to aspire to be of a higher caliber, every person now in the

OMA did when they did their business, they were honest, when they treated each other, they did it with integrity. And so Subhanallah this was a reflection of his caliphate, the only rule that we said for two and a half years, he passes away, and then the immediate family goes back to its ways, and we'll see the consequences of that tomorrow in sha Allah. When we talk about the next stage in the Muslim series, with we say the the fight for the orthodoxy of Islam or Islamic Orthodoxy in sha Allah. A few announcements tomorrow inshallah is the orphan program. If anybody would like to assist in sha Allah, for on demand per orphan, we still have a few orphans that need sponsorship in nila,

last night we asked the question who was Omar Abdulaziz his father in law. Remember, his uncle was Abdul Malik Abdul Malik the great oh my god Calif, who was the father of all the Khalifa is Abdullah Malik's daughter Fatima Omar married her so he married his first cousin when hamdulillah

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and for the sisters have side if the half Sophia I have surf mashallah so have certain for now, tomorrow. What did the omit family pay a slave to assassinate Omar and the town's 100 rupees 100 dinars and the 1000 rial Sorry 1000 Whatever it was panela with what a great loss to the OMA or some Allah say now Mohammed, Islam was sending me some article mark of law you're about to go to