Yasir Qadhi – The Wave That Freed Al-Aqsa

			In July of 1099, the Crusaders successfully from their perspective, attacked Jerusalem and
		

			overtook the city. And as you're all aware, one of the worst massacres of medieval times took place
the entire city was massacred during that period of 10 days, women children 10s of 1000s, hundreds
of 1000s of people. What was the result of that? Most of us we jump immediately to 1187. This took
place 1099. Most of us we just jumped to 1187 What happened in 1187. Salah had the you know, you
will be the Battle of 18. But how many years between 1099 and 1180 780-980-9889 years? What was that
interim like? What happened during that timeframe? So much. And if we don't understand the
circumstances that created Salahuddin, if we don't understand the precursors to how Salahuddin came
		

			about, we're going to assume Salahuddin is going to come from the heavens a miracle and then things
happen. No, it doesn't work that way. So many instances, laid the foundations for Salah Medina up
and today we're going to go over some of them because we are currently in that interim. We're in
between 1099 and 1187. You get my drift. We're in between this 1187 will come Wallahi it will come I
say this customer and biller that it will come because this is the Promise of Allah subhanaw taala
we have fully cleaned it will come but in the interim, what do we do just sit back and wait for a
miracle. That's not what the Muslims of that timeframe did. So much can be said but today I'll
		

			mention some key incidents and factors ones that resonate with me personally and perhaps you will
understand some of what inspires me as well because when I look to the past, I don't jump to Salah
Medina go to how Salahuddin began. I go to the whole trend that where did it all begin from? And one
of the people who started this entire trend was actually one of the scholars in the neighboring town
of dimished of Damascus in the neighboring town of Damascus. The chief called the whose name is
whose name is Zeno Islam and how are we Zeno's Islam and how are we? He was giving a halacha in the
masjid of Damascus you know the famous measure the Damascus right by the way, who is this guy Zane?
		

			Who didn't know how are we? And how do we where's that? How do we from who can tell me how do we
		

			when you say how do we mean he's from
		

			Hara
		

			he is from Herat.
		

			And where is he lots
		

			of one is done. We have an Afghan Desi Sheikh in Damascus. His story is really interesting, by the
way as we should know this as well born and raised in Afghanistan, okay speaking you know, mother
tongues, whatever the local mother tongues are buckling or whatever it might be, I don't know, off
the top, my head Farsi multiple languages. And he starts learning Arabic, very poor, dirt, family,
dirt poor family. As a child he has to start by writing scribes. You know, secretaries people can
read and write. He's on the street corner writing for people who cannot he starts the lowest paying
job. Then as a teenager, he becomes the Quran teacher for his Masjid then hit ox. But in the
		

			meanwhile, memorize the Quran, masters the Arabic language masters poetry becomes a very eloquent
taglib in Arabic, and goes into fifth becomes the 40. The Hanafi 40 of his time, he travels to
Baghdad, he interacts with the royalty over there and they appoint him a call the and send him to
Damascus. Even his story is amazing, by the way, so born in Afghanistan, and he becomes the chief
Aldie of Damascus. Now get back to our story here. July 1099. The massacre is taking place in
Oaxaca. And groups of people began fleeing for their lives. One group amongst them they took from
Masjid Al Aqsa, the oldest most have. It is a legend we don't know for sure it is a legend. It is
		

			one of the foremost hubs of Earthman Rhodiola one that was kept in a special room and Masjid Al
Aqsa, some Muslims wanted to preserve that Quran. So they risked their lives and they took this
Quran and they flood the city and they went to the closest large city that is Damascus July 1099.
And they barge into the masjid Omar we and our guys in Islam and how are we? He's giving his
helicopter in the grand masjid. And they see these people refugees, bloodied float you know, every
you know, tattered everything. And they're yelling and screaming. There's a mob being created and
he's in the masjid
		

			What's going on what happened? And they say the French the Franks have attacked Aqsa, and we are
some of the few that have survived, we have brought the copy of the most half of Earth amount of the
Allahu ion. And they began telling the stories that they have seen with their own eyes, women and
children versus Lee killed the streets of Oxford and Jerusalem flowing with blood. And so they
noticed Ahmed Hara, we decided that he needed to do something. You see during times of fitna during
times of war during times of grief during times of struggle, some scholars and I'm not blaming them,
they want to withdraw into their bubbles of teaching. And they say, you know, this is not our stuff.
		

			I'm not going to criticize them. But others realize they have a responsibility. Others realize if
the rulers aren't doing something, then the ruler might have to make the people feel something. And
so will Holloway decided he will go back to Baghdad, and try his best to get the khalifa to rescue
Masjid Al Aqsa. This is the same week this is happening the same week it's happening. And so he
shuts his books, no more teaching. This is not the time to teach now Mr. The oxide is burning. And
he closes his mcta and he decides to travel from Damascus to Baghdad, the capital of the Abbas at
Empire at the time to present his case to bring he actually brought some of these people with him.
		

			He took them with him and he decided to make a plea to the Ubud Khalifa. He enters Baghdad, but the
Khalifa staff basically says he doesn't have time for you. You're not going to meet the Khalifa. We
don't have time he didn't delay a few weeks, whatever. Because again, the Khalifa you know, he's not
just walking on the streets. He's the Khalifa and to get to him as an entourage, so tries tries,
nothing happens on Friday in Baghdad, when the hotbar is being given, he walks into the crowd in the
largest Masjid aboda. So this is not the capital of the empire and the largest Masjid of bother that
he walks in the middle and everybody is listening to the Hatim this Masjid. By the way there is a
		

			private chamber on the right hand side where the Khalifa has a VIP entrance. He walks from his
palace in a secret tunnel and he prays Juma in a secret place. By this time the Holy Father did not
interact with the people. This is not the time of Ibaka and one of the Allahu Anhu people didn't see
the Khalifa He is Mr. VVIP right. So he walks from his palace to a little chamber and he walks back
in nobody sees the Khalifa unless you get into the palace. So our guy Zanotti stammered Hara we
barges in, what was going on, he walks straight to the front of the masjid. And it is Ramadan. And
he turns around, take some bread and he eats in front of everybody.
		

			Now what's going to happen in a Muslim community? If you eat in the day of Ramadan? What's going to
happen?
		

			Chaos. The people stood up. Have you gone mad? How dare you a stop for Allah. You're eating in the
masjid in the daylight from Oban. Have you lost your mind? And he said to them
		

			You are getting angry at me for eating a piece of bread in Ramadan. But where are your emotions when
OXA is on fire?
		

			Where is that rage? Where is this anger? You get angry at a Muslim for eating in the anahata Ramadan
and day of Ramadan and 150,000 people have been killed. Where's your anger now? Everybody's silenced
Subhanallah what? Like he's making the point here. And then he says I came here with these refugees
and he pointed these people they saw it I have come I am Fulani been philon the call the up because
you know there's no there's no internet there's no he has to introduce himself right and I have come
to visit or or get help from the Khalifa. He has refused even to see us. He utilized this tactic
what tactic pr pr with whom with the Muslim community Subhanallah he had to do this to make the
		

			points and so obviously when this commotion and whatnot, obviously he gets an audience with the
Khalifa Subhanallah it worked to get into the private chambers to get into the the the office and
the the palace of the Khalifa. and wallah I wish his speech was recorded. I wish there was video
cell phone footage. All that is recorded because everybody who writes a biography of our guy Zenodo
Simon, how do we everybody who writes a biography of him, they mentioned he was blessed with a
tongue. They mentioned he was deep voiced and eloquent you know, like he had the presence of him and
the presence of Heba of Roma and you can imagine I'm imagining this is not mentioned but you know
		

			our mashallah brothers from a blonde his son they are mashallah big and bulky and whatnot. We can
imagine this right out of one brothers, they can come in later and he's a non Arabic
		

			Imagine and he's speaking to the hunted. How do you find out? We don't know the words of what he
said. We know the impact.
		

			There were chroniclers record, everybody in the chamber fell silent. People were crying in the
corners. Even the Khalifa had to lower his head in shame.
		

			And only one or two phrases are preserved. And he said to the Khalifa, here you are in your palaces,
enjoying your luxuries. And he pointed to the luxuries they're enjoying. And OXA has been ravaged,
rampages raped and you don't even move a finger for Oxford
		

			and he gave a type of speech that only an alum who fears Allah can give because if there's an evil
person there and he's being so harsh, you know what's going to happen you know, the reality of
politics you know, I don't want to mention too much but even now people are in jail across the
Muslim world in the hole anyway don't want to mention to you get my point here. Can you imagine he's
now speaking to the Khalifa putting him to shame as a non Arab even have to mention this point after
Is it because you have to feel that Masha Allah from where to where. And even though Halifa lowered
his head couldn't say anything. And he mumbled some things we will choose to do something what not.
		

			But see, here's the sad reality that people who don't study history romanticize the past. The
Khalifa at this point in time, was a nobody. He was a stooge. Like the Queen of England, she comes
she goes, nobody cares about her, the King of England just to rubber stamp. The Khalifa didn't even
have an army, because the Khalifa at this time was basically a token figure, token figure for the
bulk of our history, for the most of the Abbas in history. And much even if the Ottoman history the
real power was not in the caliphate, it was just an office, the title, the real power were the
people behind the visitors, the people that the dynasties that were founded underneath the Khilafah,
		

			you had the boy head dynasty, now you had the soldiers right now at this point, you have the
soldiers who are actually in charge, the Khalifa does not even have an army to do anything. He
doesn't even control both DoD much he's just a token figure with plenty of wealth and money. The
real power is not even in his hands, but he mumbles and whatnot, and nothing actually comes of this.
But the next week, I'll how do we was given the hobo Nietzsche SubhanAllah. After causing commotion,
now he was given the hotbar and he gave a halt by the likes of which the whole streets of Baghdad
were weeping. And there was a rising sentiment something needs to be done. He's awakening the
		

			people's emotions, and Subhanallah within a few years, you know, the Crusaders were successful from
their perspective and OXA. Now they established an entire mini set of dynasties four or five
dynasties. Again, you should know your history. The Crusaders whenever you and I did disable him
Jimmy and what Google Home shut down. The reality is that the Crusaders actually were themselves
very much just united, you had the Italians the Franks, you know the British, you had different
groups everywhere, you know, everyone is different, and each one is controlling a separate area. So
within a few years, the Crusader kingdoms four or five, six kingdoms have all been established on
		

			the coastline. And now some of the key cities are being threatened, including, for example, Heather
Aleppo is being threatened now. And so once again, the ruler of this region, attempt to send a
petition to the Khalifa. By the way, again, you should know this, don't think that our rulers of the
past were any different. The ruler of Aleppo at the time the ruler of HELOC. His name has been
recorded in history as somebody who did not nobody admires him. His name was ruled one or the other
one. And in fact, when the European army when the Frank army when the Crusaders were coming in to
attack Philistine, Ridwan was engaged in a civil war with his own blood brother,
		

			who is going to help hold the kursi. And as the Crusaders are marching and literally this is no
exaggeration, they go under their noses, meaning, you know, walking, listening or fighting distance,
and they're not interested to blood brothers because their father was the governor, the mini
dynasty, and now who's going to be the one in charge? They're having a war between them and the
Crusaders are marching in who's going to attack them when you're fighting each other. So this guy
that one is now in charge now, and he's in charge of of this area. And can you believe that one had
actually signed treaties with the local Crusader dynasty? paying them gold so that they don't attack
		

			his principality? You think peace treaties are new? You think normalization is new? Goes back
nothing new. With one would rather ally with the crusader against his own
		

			rather than what he ended up doing, he allied with a Frankish mini dynasty because he wanted the
currency and against his Muslim brother and you're not going to get it. He's paying gold to them.
And the locals of Hala of Aleppo. They they considered him to be a trader obviously. And amongst
them their main add him the greatest item of head above that time. His name was vanilla, Shep, even
though because Shep, if not a sharp, I'll call the above for the imminent Cheb he began riling up
the masses even against the own ruler against this guy with one calling him a traitor. How can you
ally with the enemy instead of fighting them, you're paying them gold, and now they're going to
		

			encroach on their own territory because that was the fear that they're going to enter had an eternal
Hashem managed to get a group of people to once again send a delegation to Baghdad once again. So
even Alicia the quality of help a few years after the incident of how do we even have a sharp as the
scholar as the jurist as the forte of of headup also then took a delegation. And in that delegation,
once again, he had eyewitnesses to the massacre. It's only been five years, 10 years, he has
eyewitnesses. And he marches into Baghdad once again. But this time, they went more than the
previous time. books of history a little bit, you know, obscure in this but and I'm not justifying,
		

			I'm not defending but it is what it is in order to bring attention to the cause of philosophy and
the people that came began preaching and riling up the people of Baghdad to protest outside of the,
you know, powers and centers. And when nothing happened, the protesters became violent. When the
rulers did nothing, the Muslims of Baghdad became violent and they destroyed public property and
they, you know, did whatever things you know, they into the soup and, and installs were whatnot. As
far as I'm aware, no lives were lost, but basically they they wreaked havoc in the city. And the
soul bonds had to do something to show that they're responding to public sentiment, pause here, the
		

			rulers in the end of the day do care about PR, this is a reality they did in the past and they will
now and the end of the day they need to validate whatever their motives are, leave it to Allah, we
need help, whatever your motives are, you need to do something. And so the Khalifa actually did
request who did he request? The silly jokes Hold on, because the Khalifa is the Abbas that is the
literal descendant of even Abbas, there are buses, this is one of the descendants of Ibn Abbas
literally right, the 10th or 15th generation of even Abbas, he has no power. So he kindly please
also find Can you do something you see what the people are doing? He has to beg the soul bond of the
		

			soul jewels to send an army. And so the soul bond actually did send an army. The first one? How did
it come about? The scholar immunol Hashem for men's mass support, he gets the people riled up, and
he publicly makes a show. Now again, I'm not I'm not suggesting anything, don't read into what I'm
saying. But I'm saying learn from the past. Like the reality is those soul bonds they needed to
answer to the public in that regard. And so the salon of the CIO jokes actually does send an army to
fight and defend
		

			the send, send an army to defend had a from the Crusaders, and this battle is actually one of the
most earliest and successful battles against the Crusaders. And this battle it is known as the
Battle of basalts battle ability in English if you look up the history books, The Battle of the
Field of Blood, the Battle of the fields of blood in 1119, way before sulla Cadena up 1187 A slide
1119 So I didn't even born right now, in this battle. Around 10,000 Muslims lined up, sent by many
of them sent by the cell jokes to defend head up and on the opposite side was the the Italian
Crusader Kings forgot his name the Italian Crusader King on the opposite side. And before the
		

			battle, Ibn Al Shabaab comes and writes out on his horse dressed in the garb of Rula ma now, Rhoda
had their special professors had their own garb, you know, the turban of Edelman, he dressed in the
garb of enemies like a professor coming out. And when the Crusaders saw him, they laughed. What is
this professor doing over here? What is this 40 You're doing over here? Ibn Allah sharp then turned
and faced the army he faced put his back to the Franks to the Crusaders, and he gave a hotbar.
Again, we don't know the wording of it. He gave a whole talk about the likes of which everybody in
the army was weeping. We know he mentioned muster the lochsa we know he mentioned the blue
		

			less things of striving for the way of Allah. We know he mentioned the blessings of being witnesses
Unto Allah. And he encourages them to stay put and do something for the religion. The entire army
was weeping and overcome. And when the Crusaders saw this, they realized this is not your average
guy here. And subhanAllah when the army came, he was at the forefront. And this victory was the
first major victory against the Crusaders 10,000 against 20,000. And it was a resounding defeat for
the Crusaders, the bulk of the Army, the rest of the army died, the 20,000. And the Muslim
casualties were minimal. This spread a hope and optimism that hey, we can do something that optimism
		

			it generated so many other mini battles, it generated an entire, you know, feeling that hey, this is
possible, we can actually win here. And along with the mini battles, you also had great route among
not just a shop many Rula Ma, who wanted to keep the spirits of Oxfam alive. In Osaka, one of the
greatest scholars of that time again from Damascus, even a soccer wrote a number of treatises about
the football in UK soccer and the football ill of a sham and the fallout of that's why he's known if
you if you any of you students of Islamic Studies, when you hear even our socket you associated with
history. Do you know why he talked about history? Do you know why even Asaka wrote about history in
		

			the favela, whatnot, he wanted to keep the memory of Oxford alive. And he wrote books about the
blessings of OXA and the history of AXA, because it was the time when you couldn't forget about the
blessings of this land. Another great item, which I'm not going to mention the name or the book, but
understand what I'm saying here, one of the most important treatises
		

			on struggling for the sake of Allah, one of the most important treatise he's ever written. It was a
very emotional, it is a very emotional treaties. And it was meant to be read in public in the hope
buzz in the Druce. It's a little book, it's not a massive volume. It's meant to revive the spirit of
struggling for the sake of Allah. And he wrote this book in the thick of this interim period. And
this book became well read in Billa de sham across the Muslim world. And it is one of the most
famous books to this day of that genre. And let's keep it at that. And I hope you see what I'm
saying here. So this is being done. While there seems no hope there is no light, the scholars have
		

			to do something to keep that light of life. They have to keep mustard, Oxon, they have to keep the
realities of Islam and our faith in the minds of the people. And the same soul font that sent to the
army to protect against help, that same soul bond and with this shallow final anecdote, that same
Solon also decided to send another army and this army was to protect Mosul in Iraq that was that was
being attacked by the Crusaders because again, you have to realize in the beginning of the Crusades,
people didn't know how deep the Crusaders are gonna go into Muslim lands. There was no idea that and
eventually the Crusaders just stuck to the you know, the the shoreline, you know, which is now
		

			basically it was and, you know, Lebanon and this area, the Crusaders trucked to the shoreline, and
that helped them because of the boats and the ships. But at one the Crusaders came, we didn't know
how deep they're gonna go, what if they enter, you know, into Iraq into other places of Sham and so
Mosul was under threat. And so the Seljuk Sovann sent one of the military leaders in generals His
name is Mo dude, his name is Mo dude. He sent mo do to protect Molson and to fight against the
Crusaders, and Madrid was also successful. In fact, Madrid was so successful, he went further down
south and he began to engage with actual fortresses. Until finally, he engaged in one of the most
		

			famous battles of this timeframe, the Battle of Santa Barbara, the Battle of Santa Barbara, which
took place with the King of Jerusalem, King Baldwin, King Baldwin from England, King Baldwin of
Jerusalem, the one who was in charge of Jerusalem. Mo dude was able to engage with him directly, not
in Jerusalem, but still you're engaging with the real enemy right here. And believe it or not, he
won.
		

			It was not in Jerusalem, it was miles away, but still, the fact is, you are now defeating barely it
wasn't a decisive victory. severe losses on his side, but more losses on the side of the Crusader
army. But Subhanallah back to our guide, that one that one did not want the most
		

			slums to succeed, because he's comfortable and the Crusaders are protecting him. Actually, you will
not believe this. When modos army passed by real Juan's city,
		

			he refused to open the gates and give them food and drink.
		

			This is how stingy and how on the other side he was. Now that module was successful, he goes back to
Damascus to rest to recuperate and the goal was, this is three general retreat for decades before
Salahuddin no six tickets before Salahuddin way before Salahuddin mo dude's goal was to liberate OXA
most of us have never heard of his name. But I am telling you without mo Dude, we wouldn't have had
that trajectory. You'll see why.
		

			Mo dude, went back to Damascus. And in Damascus was the envoy was the leader was the governor under
our guided one. Now something happens which was one of the mysteries that we'll never solve until
the Day of Judgment. muddled, was wounded from the battle, but he's going to recover he's going to
go back to us to the oxide to fight. After salata Juma, the leader of the city who's friends with
Ridwan is holding his hand and walking out with him right after slaughter Juma
		

			you know where this is headed. An assassin comes out of nowhere, and stabs and kills our guy mo dude
on the streets the week after his victory against
		

			Noah against the King of Jerusalem.
		

			In Damascus, he is assassinated, by whom? by our side
		

			who's the guilty culprit? People immediately accused you're the one but he said no, no will lie.
It's not me No. And the actual person who paid the assassin because very conveniently, very
conveniently, the assassin was immediately taken and executed.
		

			So nobody actually knows who and paid and whatnot. So there goes muddled but Allah azza wa jal works
in ways we don't understand. Eventually even Ridwan fell out and he died as well because this is the
Sunnah of Allah. Traders are never successful. And when with with, with with Ridwan passing away,
there was a power vacuum, in which eventually within a few years a dynasty comes in that vacuum.
That dynasty you're all aware of it it is the Zen good dynasty,
		

			after Maududi death, after modos assassination by a few years, read one dies, wonder if one dies.
The Zen good dynasty comes to power. And in the Zen good era, rule Dharma or pre preaching once
again, there are so many aroma of the Sangha era so many odema preaching riling up the masses. And
we all know the story from here and he made the Dean zenki. He puts it in his mind I need to free he
passes away no to Dina zanghi. He takes it on he passes away. And then Salahuddin combs. And the
rest as they say is history. But I want to conclude on this point.
		

			Those who died
		

			in the first 234 decades after the Crusades,
		

			did they die in vain?
		

			They laid the foundations for what was to come. Later historically, I was reading a book today
somebody actually remarked that the battle of Sinabung even though it's in the footnotes, it was a
key turning point in the Muslim Christian battle because it gave hope and impetus. It showed people
that hey, we can win. That optimism it came because Rhoda ma had the audacity to speak directly to
the hola because the OLA Mark kept a memory of OXA alive because the people's heart was so powerful
and strong. Even the Viziers and the soul Fonz had to listen and do small things and those small
things started a wave that the Holy Father did not intend. Salah had the ANA UB was not chosen by
		

			any Khalifa you have to understand this point. AXA was not rescued by the whole of ah, it wasn't
rescued by the politicians. No. in the vacuum and the chaos that was created people came who were
warrior princesses and who had faith in their hearts. And these people like this and gifts and life
Salahuddin they're coming after all of these incidents and much more so sisters and brothers, we
cannot we cannot assume that a miracle is going to happen and things are going to change until
Salahuddin comes because there's going to be one person without a doubt that's Allah's wait that
Allah azza wa jal until that person comes, we have to keep the memory and the spirit of the
		

			blessings of that land of the fact that it is painful. It is last of the realities of all aspects of
our faith, whether it is Iman whether it is dukkha, whether it is suburb, whether it is struggling,
all of these things, we have to keep the realities of these things alive.
		

			I've because that's the way eventually the circumstances will be formed. That insha Allah will bring
about the change. Do not trivialize your role. Do not trivialize your impact whatever it might be.
Most of us have never heard of moe dude's name most of us have never heard of him no clutch jobs
name. Most of us have never heard of a hello his name. But Allah azza wa jal has recorded the impact
that they have. And when you study, you see this reality. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala as well
allow us to be the shadows of our times allow us to be the huddled masses of our times we want to
tread in those paths. And may Allah azza wa jal to show us that day one Salahuddin returns may Allah
		

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