Shady Alsuleiman – Legacy of the Righteous – Umar Ibn Al Khattab RA Part 5
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The history of Islam is discussed, including the rise of Islam during the time of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. and the struggles faced by the Muslim army with various religious and political challenges. The history of Islam includes the use of troops and attacks on Persians, the struggles faced by the Muslim army with various religious and political challenges, and the use of elephants and horses and camels as weapons. The history also touches on the loss of the Muslim's losing and losing, as seen by Jesus, and the reliance on Allah's subhanababab wa dissababab.
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Rabbi shrah li sadri wa yasin li amri
wa ahlul aqdatan min lisani yafqahu qawli amma
ba'd All praise be to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and please be upon Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam I testify that there is
no god except Allah and I testify that
Muhammad is the Prophet and the Messenger of
Allah Brothers and sisters, may Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala make this gathering a blessed gathering
and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
us to be from amongst those who listen
to him and act upon what they listen
to him, ameen Jazakallah khair We are talking
about Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala
and Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala
was the khalifa, the successor of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in which he
was the successor of the successor of the
Prophet alayhi salatu wa salam and that's why
they gave him the title of Amir al
-mu'mineen, the leader of the believers because the
one that's going to come after Umar ibn
al-Khattab is going to become the khalifa
of the khalifa of the khalifa of Rasulallah
and the one that comes after that, the
khalifa, khalifa, khalifa, khalifa, Rasulallah so during the
time of Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta
'ala anhum, the sahaba radiallahu ta'ala anhum
decided to give a specific title to the
khalifa and that is Amir al-mu'mineen and
Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala anhum
was the first to be named as Amir
al-mu'mineen and then all the khulafa after
Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala anhum,
they all became the Amir al-mu'mineen, the
leaders of the believers Umar ibn al-Khattab
radiallahu ta'ala anhum was a khalifa for
ten years Abu Bakr was less than three
years, Umar ibn al-Khattab was about ten
years but during the time of Umar ibn
al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala anhum, the Islamic
state expanded so much it entered all the
way in the Persian heart and inlands and
also the Roman heart and inlands and last
week we spoke about, briefly of course, the
conquest of Damascus and that was the heart
of the Roman Empire in that region now
obviously we all know that Rome extends in
most of Europe at that time, North Africa
and Constantinople which is known as Istanbul now,
that was the heart of Rome but the
Bilad al-Sham, the Levant or the countries
that we spoke about last week and that
are known as Bilad al-Sham and alhamdulillah
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed us with
another blessing in the last two weeks with
the opening again for our brothers and sisters
in Syria Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, they
were considered to be Bilad al-Sham and
that was under the Roman Empire, adjacent to
that you've got Iraq and then after Iraq
you've got Persia, Bilad al-Rum Iraq, Persia,
that was part of the Roman Empire during
the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab they
managed to enter Bilad al-Sham and they
managed to conquer Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, all the
way not far from Constantinople and it was
after the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab
where Muslims managed to also enter all the
way to Constantinople and amongst the people that
entered Constantinople were Sahaba so Constantinople which is
known as Istanbul right now it was conquered
and it was opened at the hands of
Companions, not just Tabi'een because you've got
the Companions and a Companion is someone who
met the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. a
Tabi'ee is someone that met a Companion
so a Tabi'ee did not meet the
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. so a Sahabi
is someone that met the Prophet Muhammad s
.a.w. a Tabi'ee is someone that
met a Companion and a Tabi'ee Tabi
'ee is someone that met a Tabi'ee,
a follower so these are the three generations
that were always referred to and they are
considered to be the Salaf, our predecessors and
they are the greatest generations, there are three
generations the Sahaba and there are those who
met the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. the
Tabi'een, the followers, those who met Sahaba
and then you've got the Tabi'ee Tabi
'een, the followers of the followers, those who
met Tabi'een Constantinople was opened at the
hands of Sahaba and Tabi'een so you
had Sahaba and to this day you have
Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari's grave in Istanbul if
you've been to Istanbul you would have probably
visited the Masjid where Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari
and he's one of the great companions and
close companions to the Prophet Muhammad s.a
.w. he's buried there and he's buried on
the European side which means Sahaba entered Europe
and not only that you had also Tabi
'een who entered Europe from the other side
in Andalus, Spain which is in Andalus and
a lot of people don't know that Muslims
entered Spain as the second generation after the
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. it wasn't 100
years after the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
it was less than 7 years after the
death of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.
where Muslims entered Spain so Muslims have been
in Europe for more than 1300 years for
up to nearly 1400 years where Muslims have
been in Europe the Prophet Muhammad s.a
.w. passed away and he said something very
interesting the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. says
in one hadith after this Roman Emperor, there's
no more Roman Emperor and he said after
Kisra, Qaisar, after Qaisar there's no more Qaisar
after the Roman Emperor, there's no more Roman
Emperor and after Kisra, after Khosrow which is
the Persian Emperor, there's no more Persian Emperor
and exactly what the Prophet Muhammad s.a
.w. said happened after those two Emperors that
were during the time of the Prophet Muhammad
s.a.w. whether the Roman Emperor or
the Persian Emperor, they were the last ones
and this is the prophecy of the Prophet
Muhammad s.a.w. like you know, the
Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said that he
could have probably got it wrong, it's a
prediction but it was 100% precise, why?
because it came from Allah it came from
Allah s.w.t Allah s.w.t
is the one that informed the Prophet Muhammad
s.a.w. Allah s.w.t is
the one that informed the Prophet Muhammad s
.a.w. and Allah s.w.t is
the one that revealed to the Prophet Muhammad
s.a.w. that this current Persian Emperor
and this current Roman Emperor are the last
Persian Emperor and the last Roman Emperor after
the Sahaba r.a. entered Damascus during the
time of Omar ibn al-Khattab r.a.
I don't know, he divided the Muslim army
into different units, different armies.
And he sent one to Bilad al-Sham,
another one to Palestine, then later on he
sent to Egypt, and then he also sent
an army towards Iraq.
And the great battle of al-Qadisiyyah, which
is now one of the greatest battles and
expeditions in Islam, known as the battle of,
or the expedition of the Qadisiyyah, Qadisiyyah is
in Iraq.
And Iraq at that time was under the
Persian Empire.
And Iraq was a, we all know Iraq
is one of the oldest civilizations, one of
the oldest countries in the world, and it
was rich.
And it's the doorway to Persia.
So if you look at Persia now as
known as Iran, Iraq is the doorway to
Persia.
Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. first sent
a group of companions to go and fight
and make a pathway to Persia, and that
was led by one of the Muslim generals
known as al-Muthanna ibn Haritha.
Then Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. received
from al-Muthanna that this is way too
big of an army for me on my
own to fight against.
And al-Muthanna had about 18,000, 18
,000 soldiers.
He was going to face 200,000 Persian
soldiers.
So the first group of soldiers, the first
army that Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a.
sent towards Persia had only 18,000 fighters.
But when they arrived at the Qadisiyyah, they
saw themselves facing an army of 200,000
Persians.
18,000 against 200,000, that's way disproportionate,
way disproportionate, way too big.
18,000 against 200,000, that means each
one needs to take on 10 soldiers.
That's way too big for them.
So what al-Muthanna r.a. did, he
corresponded with Umar ibn al-Khattab asking him
to consolidate and strengthen him by sending more
of troops.
Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. sent 12
,000 troops with Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
And Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, he's one of
the early comers to Islam.
He's one of the 12 Mubashshireen of Jannah
and he's one of the first ones that
entered Islam.
So Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. sent
with Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas 12,000 fighters.
They didn't all come together from one area,
but with Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, he left
with 4,000 fighters from Medina, another 4
from here, another 4 from another state, and
he ordered them all to go and catch
up with al-Muthanna to fight against the
Persians in al-Qadisiyah.
Now al-Muthanna has 30,000 soldiers.
And Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. ordered
that the army to be led by Sa'd
ibn Abi Waqas due to his seniority and
his position.
So the leader of the army would be
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas.
When Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas arrived to Iraq,
where al-Qadisiyah is, and al-Muthanna was
waiting for Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas, another 4
,000 soldiers came from another direction or another
state, another 4,000 followed with Sa'd ibn
Abi Waqas, completed 12,000, and then they
became 30,000.
It was clear instructions by Umar ibn al
-Khattab r.a. that the one that would
lead this expedition would be Sa'd ibn Abi
Waqas.
And as I mentioned, without a doubt, Sa'd
ibn Abi Waqas, if he's not the most
senior companion in the 30,000 soldiers in
the army, he would have been probably from
amongst the most senior companions in the army.
And Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas brought the Muslim
army together of 30,000 fighters.
Now 30,000 fighters, that's huge.
And Nabi ﷺ never saw more than 10
,000 Muslim fighters during his pinnacle time.
And you could see that the Muslim armies
are growing.
And the 30,000 in al-Qadisiyah, that's
another entire Muslim army, because you still have
another group of Muslims in Damascus, tens of
thousands of them, another thousands here and there.
So the Muslim state is growing, and the
Muslim army is also growing, and the Muslims'
defence capability is growing.
This is all happening during the time of
Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. 10 years.
That's why those 10 years were amazing.
The expansion that Umar ibn al-Khattab r
.a. managed to achieve during his time is
something beyond imaginable.
But all this goes back to, obviously, to
the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ first and foremost, and
Abu Bakr r.a. Sometimes people ask, there
wasn't much expansion during the time of Abu
Bakr.
Yes, there wasn't much expansion during the time
of Abu Bakr.
First, it was less than three years.
Secondly, Abu Bakr was up against a big
challenge, and that was the apostates, those who
left Islam.
Umar ibn al-Khattab describes, we became like
a white hare and a black bull, where
the vast majority of those who embraced Islam
had left Islam, because Islam grew during the
time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in the
final years of the life of the Prophet
ﷺ.
That's when the big influx and large numbers
of people embraced Islam.
But because they were still new in Islam,
when the Prophet ﷺ passed away, and unfortunately
some of those new Muslims couldn't comprehend the
fact that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ passed away,
so they left Islam.
So the vast majority of Muslims during the
time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came in
the last years of the Prophet ﷺ, and
they were the largest number of people who
apostated Islam and left Islam.
So during the time of Abu Bakr r
.a, he was very much occupied in dealing
with the Murtaddin, in dealing with the apostates
of Islam.
Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a, he ripped
the fruit of the leadership of Abu Bakr
r.a. The Muslim Ummah benefited from the
stance and the position of Abu Bakr r
.a, who managed and maintained and preserved Muslims
during his time.
So Umar ibn al-Khattab just increased and
extended what Abu Bakr r.a had left
behind.
So now you've got 30,000 fighters in
al-Qadisiyyah to face an army of over
200,000 Persians.
Persians, 200,000.
So against each Muslim soldier, there's nine.
Each Muslim soldier needs to take on about
nine.
And the Muslim army, they were not exposed
to the war tactics of the Persians and
the Romans.
The Romans were by far, by far a
lot more advanced than the Muslims.
Because they're a bigger civilization, a lot more
established, a lot older civilization, a lot more
established empires, bigger.
So they had a lot more experience, they
had a lot more resources.
And amongst the things that shocked the Muslims
in al-Qadisiyyah is how the Persians were
using elephants.
They were using elephants as a war weapon,
as a weapon.
Not only as a transportation, like you'd rather
use a horse or a camel for transportation,
but elephants were used as weapons.
And the Muslims were using horses and camels.
And their horses and camels are not used
to seeing elephants.
So when they used to see the elephants,
the horses and the camels would run.
The horses and camels would run.
That was the biggest challenge that the Muslims
faced when they fought against the Persians in
al-Qadisiyyah.
And the Persians were led by a general
by the name of Rustam.
Rustam.
200,000 Persians against 30,000 Muslims.
200,000 Persian fighters against 30,000 Muslim
fighters.
The battle only took three days, three days.
And the Muslims were up against a number
of challenges.
Beside the large number of soldiers they were
fighting against, the more advanced weapons they had,
the elephants that Muslims probably never seen elephants
in their entire life.
And now there's about tens of elephants on
the battlefield that petrified their horses.
And Muslims just didn't know how to deal
with them.
And there's also the Tigris river which the
Muslims needed to cross.
They needed to cross the river.
So there were a number of challenges that
the Muslims needed to deal with.
One of them had to cross the river
to the other side.
And subhanallah, they talk about miracles that took
place during this expedition when Muslims walked over
water.
Relying on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
having their complete dedication and commitment in Allah
azza wa jal and in the cause in
which they walked over water.
And many of the sahabah radiyallahu ta'ala
narrate the story of them walking over water,
not only them, them and their horses and
their entire luggage.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them the
blessing for them to see a miracle with
their own eyes.
Reaching the other side of the shore of
the river to face an army of 200
,000 Persian fighters.
When they got there, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas
wanted to negotiate, wanted to open a dialogue
between him and the Persians.
So what did he do?
He started to send a number of representatives.
He will send a number of representatives, a
number of people to speak on his behalf.
What's been narrated the most is how Sa'd
ibn Abi Waqas chose an ordinary soldier with
no ranking, no ranking at all, an ordinary
soldier in the army of Sa'd ibn Abi
Waqas, where Sa'd chose him to go and
speak on behalf of the Muslim army.
This ordinary Muslim soldier enters the tent of
Rustam.
And obviously Rustam is a hierarchy general known
within the Persian empire circles, considered to be
one of the closest people to the Persian
emperor, has a name, has that respect, he's
got this big massive tent where kings and
big generals usually engage with him and now
he gets in front of him, just an
ordinary Muslim walking through that tent, walking to
meet with Rustam.
When this man, this Muslim soldier approaches Rustam
to speak on behalf of one of the
greatest empires to emerge, and that's the Islamic
empire, if you want to refer to it,
or the Islamic state, he walks right to
Rustam and Rustam is looking at him and
asking him, Rustam is under this impression that
this man that Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas has
sent is one of the senior people in
the Muslim army, one of the senior people
in Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas's army.
He approaches Rustam, even to this day not
many of the scholars know the name of
this Muslim soldier, you have some names bouncing
off here and there but just an ordinary
soldier from the Muslim army, walks in and
he stands before Rustam and Rustam says to
him, Rustam, who are you?
Who are you people?
And he says, we are Muslims, believers.
We are Muslims.
We are sent to take people away from
the worship of the creation to the worship
of the creator.
From the worship of the creation to the
worship of the creator Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And most of the Persians were Magans, they
used to worship fire, different to the Romans
that were Christians in which we have a
lot more in common with them than the
Magans for example.
They were Majus.
We are people that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala sent to take people away from the
worship of the creation to the worship of
the creator.
And from the injustice of this world to
the justice of Islam.
From the injustice of man-made laws to
the justice of Islam.
And from the tightness of this world to
the vastness of the hereafter.
Subhanallah he summarized Islam in three sentences.
We are sent to take people away from
the worship of the creation to the worship
of the creator Allah.
And from the injustice of all religions to
the justice of Islam.
And from the tightness of this world to
the vastness of the hereafter.
Rustam turned around when he saw the way
this Muslim soldier spoke with his head up
high, integrity, nobility, very dignified.
Rustam said, are you their leader?
He said, no.
He said, are you amongst their leaders?
He said, no.
He said, then who are you?
What are you?
He said, I am just an ordinary soldier.
That struck Rustam to see that if their
ordinary soldiers speak better than his own leaders,
then what about their leaders?
That brought fear in Rustam and his entire
army to see the way this Muslim soldier
presented himself as an ordinary soldier who spoke
better than his own leaders.
And Sa'd ibn Abu Waqas sent a number
of messages to speak to Rustam.
But obviously Rustam had this pride that he
wanted to proceed with the war against the
Muslims.
And they fought.
First day, second day, third day.
You hear of remarkable encounters of the Muslims
against the Persians.
But it was a big struggle for Sa'd
ibn Abu Waqas and the Muslims in the
first and second day.
Until the third day when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala made an opening for them.
Their biggest struggle was the large number of
soldiers they were facing against.
The elephants that put a lot of fear
in the animals and put a lot of
fear in the horses and the camels that
the Muslims were riding on.
They were all fleeing the battlefield.
And obviously the defense weapons that the Persians
had as opposed to the Muslims.
In addition to that, Sa'd ibn Abu Waqas
as the general leader, he felt ill during
this expedition.
In which he had to direct the Muslims
from far.
And also speaks about the nobility of Sa'd
ibn Abu Waqas and how much he really
pushed himself while he was ill and feeling
unwell during this expedition.
First day, it was a big tough day
for the believers.
They tried their best, they pushed hard.
But the elephants that the Persians had will
continue to make their animals run away.
And made the horses and the camels that
the Muslims had just not proceed or even
move forward when they see the elephants.
It was something like petrifying for them.
The second day, same thing.
They went hard and pushed so hard to
try and combat and fight against the Persian
army.
And yet the Muslims did not make much
progress.
Until the third day where some of the
Muslims said, let's change tactics.
Let's change tactics.
And amongst their tactics was just to put
all the pressure on the elephants.
And then they realized that the elephants were
controlled by someone who was riding them.
And one of their tactics was to try
and cut off the one that's controlling them.
He's the person that's riding.
I don't know the exact term to use.
But they realized that there's someone who's directing
them.
And then they picked up that those elephants
were led by one or two elephants.
So they picked up that there's someone controlling
the elephants.
And those elephants are directed by one or
two elephants.
So they put all the pressure on those
two elephants to cut them loose and to
turn them away from their flock.
Something that picked up, something new to them.
It's not to the Muslims who went on
this expedition.
For the first time they see something like
that.
For the first time they encounter something like
this.
They've never used elephants before.
And Persians used elephants in war.
And the other thing is they covered their
horses.
They said, if our horses continue to get
scared, we need to cover them.
So they covered their sight.
And some narrations say they even disguised them
in making them look like elephants too.
They had to do something with their horses.
Every time they try and push the horses
forward, they see the elephants.
The horses are running away.
As a human being, okay, it makes logic.
But to the animal, when they're not accustomed
to something, they get scared.
So they either covered their faces, they covered
their eyes, or covered them with a different
disguise.
Just for them to get used to and
get themselves accustomed to it.
Few of the Muslim believers managed to focus
on the chief elephant, if you want to
call it.
The master elephant that the rest of the
elephants were following.
They managed to cut off the straps around
it that had the person controlling it.
Until one Muslim managed to control it himself.
And turned the elephants towards the Persians, and
the rest of the elephants went that way.
That paved the way for the Muslims to
attack and combat the Persians.
In the third day.
The scholars speak about the Qadisiyyah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had given victory
to the Muslims because there was an opening
for the Muslims to enter Persia.
The Qadisiyyah was the pathway.
It was the gateway for Muslims to enter
Persia.
And winning against 200,000 Persian soldiers, that's
a big win.
That's a huge win.
And not only a huge win, that will
empower the believers even though they were small
in numbers.
And also that will demotivate, discourage the Persians
to see that we're fought against by 30
,000 soldiers and lost.
The Qadisiyyah is probably one of the most
popular battles in the history of Islam.
Because the Qadisiyyah was the pathway towards Persia.
And when the believers entered Persia, it was
so easy for them to conquer the main
cities of Persia after the Qadisiyyah.
The biggest battle and the biggest encounter the
Muslims had in entering Persia was the Qadisiyyah.
200,000 Persians lost against 30,000 Muslims.
200,000 against 30,000.
And when the news reached to Persia and
the Persian emperor that they lost the battle
against 30,000, they knew that they can't
withstand against Muslims.
And the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam spoke
about the conquest of Persia.
And he even spoke about the White House.
Don't go too far to Washington.
We're talking about White House in Persia.
Persia.
White House in Persia.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to
speak about, Allah had given me the keys
to the White House.
And that White House is the Persian Empire's
palace.
Persia is a big empire.
And a very well established empire.
And the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire
were the two biggest empires during the time
of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
after his time.
Until Muslims conquered both empires.
The Persian Empire was completely conquered by the
Muslims.
The Roman Empire was not completely conquered by
the Muslims.
Muslims conquered the vast majority of it.
They conquered all the Roman Empire's lands in
Asia and Africa.
But did not conquer in Europe.
They shrunk the Roman Empire.
They shrunk it.
But the Persian Empire, it was completely conquered
by the Muslims.
Completely.
And the Persian Empire goes so deep all
the way towards Russia.
And Afghanistan.
And the Indian subcontinent.
It goes very deep down that way.
The Muslims managed to reach all the way
there.
And we're talking about from the time of
the Sahaba radiallahu ta'ala.
It wasn't made hundreds of years after him.
All these conquests took place in less than
one century from the advent of Islam.
Less than 100 years.
That also includes Al-Andalus.
That also includes Spain.
Subhanallah, less than 100 years.
It usually takes hundreds of years to establish.
Just to establish and to be ready to
start conquering.
Let alone for you to be at that
position.
When you look at the, when you measure
things, there's no way that the Muslims would
ever be successful if it wasn't for the
blessings of Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala and
the support of Allah azza wa jal.
When someone like Sa'ad ibn Abu Waqas
sees himself that he's ten times outnumbered by
his enemy and opponents, but he still proceeds
and presses to go ahead and continues to
press forward in fighting against an army that's
ten times bigger than him, ten times more
equipped than him, ten times more experienced than
him, that's what you call tawakkul ala Allah.
Relying on Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala.
Relying on Allah azza wa jal is not
something that you just take lightly.
When you rely on Allah, Allah gives you
an opening.
When you rely on Allah, Allah azza wa
jal gives you victory.
When you rely on Allah subhanallah wa ta
'ala, Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala will grant
you an opening that you want.
From ways that you never thought of.
Wa man yatawakkal ala Allahi fawa hasbuh.
And whoever relies on Allah subhanallah wa ta
'ala, Allah azza wa jal is enough and
sufficient for them.
That's what you learn from the sahabah radiyallahu
ta'ala anhum.
It's their reliance on Allah subhanallah wa ta
'ala.
Not wallahi they were very well equipped and
they were very well experienced and they have
this or they have that.
It's their reliance on Allah subhanallah wa ta
'ala.
You think of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas when
he's standing in that position and he turns
around and he sees that his opponent, the
enemy that he's fighting against is ten times
bigger than his, and they've got all these
elephants and they've got all these equipment, that
puts fear and terror.
But that fear and terror doesn't exist in
their hearts.
It existed on the other side but not
in them because they are there for Allah
subhanallah wa ta'ala and you could never
ever lose.
Because there was one thing on the tongue
of the sahabah radiyallahu ta'ala anhum, the
Muslim fighters wherever they go, it's either we
win or die and enter the paradise.
What about the third option?
Lose.
It doesn't exist.
That doesn't exist in their mindset.
Losing doesn't exist in the mindset of the
sahabah radiyallahu ta'ala anhum or the true
believers.
It's either you win or you enter the
jannah.
What about losing?
No, no, what's that?
You tell them losing, what's losing?
A Muslim doesn't lose because when a Muslim
is with Allah, you never lose with Allah.
That's their calculation.
That's their mindset.
You never ever lose with Allah subhanallah wa
ta'ala.
And that's why when they entered the battle
of Qadisiyah, when they saw themselves up against
200,000 fighters, ten times more than them
and all these elephants, they never gave up.
Three days.
Three days.
Not three months.
Not three weeks.
Three days.
First day was hard.
Second day was harder.
Third day was even harder.
The sahabah describe and the Muslim fighters describe
those days.
The third day was harder.
But Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala opened that
door for them.
Allah is the one that opened the door.
It's not their numbers because the numbers don't
add up.
It's not their equipment and their weaponry.
That doesn't add up either.
It's their reliance on Allah subhanallah wa ta
'ala and their persistence.
Their tawakkul on Allah azza wa jal and
their istiqamah.
kam min fiatin qaleelatin ghalabat fiatin kathiratan bi
izni Allah In many cases Allah subhanallah wa
ta'ala says how many times a small
number of people defeat a large number of
people by the will of Allah azza wa
jal.
It happens by the will of Allah.
No one else.
By the permission of Allah.
No one else.
And what happened subhanallah in Syria?
I'm shocked till now.
I think about it.
How did that happen?
By the will of Allah azza wa jal.
Allah wanted that change.
Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala wanted that change.
The Assad regime is one of the worst
regimes that mankind has ever experienced.
And Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala wanted it
to happen.
Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala can turn things
around in a split of a second.
When you rely on Allah and you depend
on Allah, Allah azza wa jal make an
opening.
You don't know how this opening.
That opening could come through your own people
or could come through someone else.
Allah will make an opening through a Muslim
or even could be a non-Muslim.
Allah will make an opening.
This is, you know, even Nabi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam makes mention of similar lines of
this.
The sahaba radiyallahu ta'ala annum, the scholars
always say Allah could open Islam through a
disbeliever.
Yes, a common saying.
Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala has ways.
You rely on Allah and Allah subhanallah wa
ta'ala has the way.
Allah could make an opening through you, through
him, through them, through someone else.
Allah could make an opening through someone that
you least expect.
You have a responsibility and that is to
strive in the path of Allah, relying on
Allah, and leave the rest to Allah subhanallah
wa ta'ala.
And Allah azza wa jal make an opening.
The battle of Qadisi is one of those
battles that the scholars study a lot.
And I know I spoke about it very
briefly, but the scholars study it a lot.
Why?
Because when you come and calculate it with
your materialistic calculations, it does not add up.
There is no way this group of people
and this number of people will defeat this
powerful army.
But because they were true believers, relying on
Allah subhanallah wa ta'ala, and they were
persistent.
And part of that persistence is bravery.
They did not turn back.
They did not say, oh look, this is
a big army and they are ten times
bigger than us.
Look what they have got.
Let's turn back.
Unfortunately, we live in a day and age
where we complain a lot.
It is always about identifying the problem and
talking about the problem.
And subhanallah, we create despondence and negativity that
if you had any hope, subhanallah, we would
destroy it amongst each other.
It is always about this and about that.
It will never happen.
Don't even waste your time.
I am really fed up with that mentality.
It is always a very pessimistic mentality, a
very negative mentality.
Oh, whatever you do, no one will listen.
No matter what you say, it is not
going to happen.
That is not how we operate.
Look at subhanallah, the sahabah radiyallahu ta'ala
anhum.
They could have turned around and said, look,
Saad ibn Waqas, this is way too much.
These people are ten times more than us.
Look what they have got.
Let's turn back.
No.
We are going full steam ahead.
We are pressing forward.
We are going to rely on Allah azzawajal
and make sure that we don't walk out
of this battle unless we are victorious.
That is the mindset.
Hope.
Hope, optimism.
Not always pessimistic and always negative and always
just talking about the problem and it is
never going to happen.
Subhanallah, how do you know it is never
going to happen?
Who were you?
Who were you to even say it is
never going to happen?
No, inshallah, it will happen.
And Allah azzawajal will make a change.
And Allah will bring that change.
And Allah will grant you that victory.
And Allah will grant you that opening.
You don't have to always be negative about
everything.
We need to come out of this negative
pessimistic mentality that we have haunted ourselves and
surrounded ourselves so much with.
It is always about this and it is
never going to happen.
We are doomed.
We don't operate that way.
And this is something that we learned from
the battle of Qadisiyyah which became the gateway
to the expedition and the opening and the
conquest of Persia.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
to be from amongst those who listen and
he act upon what they listen and he
and inshallah we will continue more of this
in the near future.