Seerah pt 87 - Pt.1 Battle of Tabuk (Meaning, When & Why?) - Yasir Qadhi - 2014-8-20

bismillah ar-rahman rahim alhamdulillah Hobart alameen wa sallahu wa sallam ala say the muhammadin wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma'in i'm about so inshallah we will resume from where we left off last Halawa and we had finished the battle of hunayn and thought if and the benefits of the battle of hunayn and the siege of a thought if and today inshallah tejada we will move on to the LA swathi Tabuk but before we do that just a very quick note that there were around six months before between the the siege of Allah if and the Battle of Tabuk what happened in these six months around seven or eight mini expeditions which were not going to go into the names of the small expeditions the process did not participate but he sent the Sahaba to neighboring tribes and neighboring lands and one of the main purposes was to destroy large idols to destroy public idols and also to bring in the small tribes around mecca around Medina that we're still remaining to bring in so there's no need to go into all of the names but for example just so that you know the more famous ones so Fela bin Hamad was sent to destroy the idol of Vil caffeine and Ali bin Abi thought it was sent to destroy the idol of a play by the name of Al fools and other idols were destroyed as well now it's a very important point especially in light of modern political issues where we have these groups that are destroying basically sacred sites or whatnot and they use these incidents from the Sierra as evidence to destroy modern sites now one thing needs to be reiterated and that is that the Prophet system only did this after he had established his political authority in the land in other words he's not destroying Vil caffeine he's not destroying unfelt he's not destroying others and other of these idols until he has established political authority right so this is after the conquest of Makkah after the battle of hunayn when central arabia is basically his completely and he is now expanding and conquering all of Arabia so when the political power is with the Islamic state at this point in time they might contemplate destroying the idols of the pagan idols but there's another issue here now right there's another issue and that issue is what do our scholars say what do the math at him say about the freedom of other religions to worship in an Islamic state right this is another issue that many people bring up and the fact of the matter is that there has been a controversy from the very beginning of Islam amongst the tabular an intimate table your own by unanimous consensus Jews and Christians of course are allowed to practice their faith in the Islamic state this is something well known and the Quran is explicit on this and hadith or our mention about this point there's no delay at all the question comes how about paganistic religions how about religions that are not a hella key tab religions this is the the question and the response is that we've had asked Allah from the very beginning of time by almost unanimous consensus there is there is no idolatry allowed in the Arabian Peninsula features edited out and this was perhaps the greatest success of our prophet sallal are seldom is that he permanently got rid of idolatry amongst the Arabs amongst you see little Arab and the ethnicity of the Arabs right so to this day you really don't have idolaters amongst the Arabs and this is something that is the success of Islam that it completely wiped it out how about worshipping idols outside of the Arabian Peninsula would an Islamic state tolerate that and the format I hope have differed on this issue the format I'm have differed among this issue some of the madda have said you can only take as citizens in Aladeen my status Jews and Christians and the Austrians the Reston's of course are the policies we call them in India Pakistan the ones that consider fire to be a source of divinity and whatnot and the reason that the rest years are included but in all the way the media hype is that rahmatullahi table when they conquered Persia when they conquered Persia Iran Aeromotive no hot Bob said treat them like you treat Jews and Christians treat them like you treat Jews and Christians and so they were treated like Jews and Christians in terms of the jizya and being allowed to practice their faith within there there are temples now from this some of the scholars have said only the austrians have an exception from jews and christians jews christians origins no other group however two points firstly there's always been an opposing view and the most famous men have the champion it very strenuously was the hanafi madhhab the hanafi madhhab said you may ask on all of the religions why do we stop only as a austrians because the rest reans do not believe in our God Jews and Christians do they believe in our God yes what's your evidence the Quran is explicit anybody who denies this and there are many ignorant Muslims who deny this right and I have met plenty of them anybody who denies this has not even read the Quran Allah says in the Quran talking about the etiquette AB ba la una wa innahu come what we have the same God the God of Abraham the god of Isaac the God of Ishmael the god of Moses the God this is the same God the God of Noah that's the same good now the restrooms do they have this God our God no they don't have our God they have a aramas then a hairy man the god of good and the god of evil the god of light and the god of darkness right Ahura Mazda is the god of good and rahman is the god of evil they have two ultimate divinities they don't believe in Abraham and Moses and they don't believe in any of this yet by unanimous consensus all of them as I have said that the surest reans are treated like a leaky tab now based on this the Hanafi might have been also somebody Wyatt in the Maliki and humbly madhhab they said that therefore all non Arab pagan esthetic religions have the same exception they didn't allow the exception for the Arabs why because meaning when I say Arabs here I mean the Arabian Peninsula and in those days it was basically the same you didn't have Arabs in Egypt at the time of the process you didn't have Arabs so what by arrows we mean Jazeera turn out on why because Jazeera tear out of has a sacred not a sacred but I mean a better status or a holy you start there is even sacred is not a bad word to use in English it has a status that the other lands do not have and a professor Louis Elam said on his deathbed a Luger yahuda when nosara min Jazeera till out of meaning in the Arabian Peninsula you cannot have two religions flourishing you can have another religion that is on the side but not a parent not public so you can have other religions in small communities but not flourishing this is the hadith of the process of I heard you who the one I thought I mean jzl attained out of but he never said that you have to expel them from non Jazeera till out of Jersey Arabs the Arabian Peninsula so based on this the other opinion and the opinion that pretty much everybody has acted upon in the history of Islam and this is a very important point that most people who want to just study a book they don't ignore the ignore history historically speaking what did our qualifier do the OMA is their bus is the Ottomans what did they do all of the ho Dafa by and large they talked they tolerated every minority as long as that minority was civil we're doing by civil they didn't go murdering didn't go on a rampage they didn't go killing other people and that is why we have the most bizarre ideologies and religions to this day in places in the Muslim world right we have the most bizarre already to spoke about I mean religions and ideologies that we don't even believe or Islamic for example the Druze and the Alois was very small groups we don't view them as being Muslims because they don't believe in in the Kalima and and they don't pray they don't fast and the other ways as we know we're a small minority until the French came we talked I talked about this in the 1914 lecture you remember the other ways were a small minority and they were only attacked by the Hadassah when the Alois themselves became violent otherwise they lived to their own and they were given they're basically just hands off like Don't Ask Don't Tell type of policy don't attack us we won't attack you and right now we're looking at what's happening with the Yazidis of Iraq right and the Yazidis are one of the most bizarre cults that emanated from within our religion but then they broke away completely they have nothing to do with Islam anymore they don't even consider themselves even though their share idea been Mossville was a righteous Sufi share but when he died they continued to just exaggerate and change and and they have some bizarre ideology believe it or not they actually believe that Shaitaan is he repented from his sin and he is now worthy of being an intercessor between them and Allah or God and so they worship shape on the talk they called him the golden the the golden the golden peacock they call him Allah with the column of the golden peacock and so they have this misnomer that they are Satan worshippers there's an element of truth and there's an element of exaggeration they don't view Shaitaan as being shape on but they worship Shaitaan in some bizarre way like you're right so any we're going to my tangent you don't want to know but when maybe you don't want about your CDs but it's not the topic now is not you see this right that no way we had this is new this is news to me Wow well then bring them we want to speak to them if they convert just not bring them when I speak to them and find out because I have never met in my life a person of this belief my point being the Yazidis have existed this idea been Mossville he died around 532 or something Hitler right so that's around a thousand years ago and it took like a hundred years for them to develop and evolve this is in the heartland of the Abbasid Caliphate there's in the heartland of the Abbasid Caliphate and they were allowed to just be alone and do what they're doing what does this demonstrate historically speaking I mean look at the moral dynasty right if the Mughal dynasty had attempted to follow the strict shaffer a position they would have immediately ceased to exist the majority of the inhabitants were what Hindu right and they allowed them to be as they are and and this is the standard Hanafi position so the point being that and I say this because these incidents of the process of destroying idols and whatnot it is now being used in our times by these groups firstly to destroy some sometimes things that are not idols and now technically speaking I want to be very blunt here in an ideal Islamic state you could not practice publicly so if you were of another religion you will worship in the way you want to worship in your place of worship and these idols that were destroyed were public idols so there's a difference between a public icon of shirk you have a public idol right versus the temples that are closed and only the people of that religion come into that temple historically speaking this is how it was had existed in Muslim lands that the people of other religions they had their places of worship the rest ruins from our perspective they worship fire now I say this the Austrians don't agree with what I said they don't say they would say we're not worshipping fire and from their perspective that they don't consider it worship from our perspective when you present offerings and you bow down and you consider fire to be holy and whatnot we call this everybody from our perspective they are worshiping from their perspective they say they don't worship my point being the Islamic state allowed them to worship other than Allah in their lands but within their temples they were not allowed to be go public in this regard so here we have an extremism that we see in our times of these groups that they want to destroy anybody that doesn't agree with them and in our religion firstly if you want to do this properly you need to have authority in the land you need to have statehood our process of them didn't begin his Dawa by destroying the cab the the idols around the Kaaba did he did he began is that what by destroying the idols on the cavern oh when did he destroy the idols when he conquered Mecca after 20 years of preaching and these guys they want to start from this exact point when nobody will accept this from them and then number two they selectively apply they don't know properly which thing to go and destroy our prophets are some allowed and the Sharia allows the freedom of worship of other religions if it is done in in their own places of worship and this is the standard position the majority position and also historically this is how the OMA has always done it I do not know of any case now maybe there could be some obscure case somebody will correct me you know next week I do not know of any famous or well-known case of an Islamic caliphate destroying an entire ethnicity an entire population an entire religion just because they disagreed with that religion I don't know if any Abbasid oh my god our Ottoman soldier I've never heard of this in my study of history now again maybe there's one instance that proves the rule but the general rule is what the OMA tolerated the beliefs of other religions as long as some conditions were met and of those conditions is and this is a common sense condition don't practice your out in public don't have an idol in the town square and sacrifice to the idol in the town square if you want to do something that goes against the worship of allah azza wajal that's something in your own in your own religion basically then you do it within your own community not in front of others and I say this again because these types of incidents are misused and abused by the modern groups in our times and this is not in my opinion a correct understanding of the Sharia now we move on now to the Battle of Tabuk the Battle of Tabuk and we'll spend inshallah few weeks on the Battle of Tabuk well what are what are the names of this battle why did it take place one day to take place that's what we're going to talk about Hashanah today the names of this battle two primary names two primary names of this battle both of them are mentioned in the hadith one of them is referenced in the Quran but not by the name of the battle but rather as an incident as for the most prominent name it is Allah SWA to taboo cosmati to book the expedition of Tabuk why because our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom himself said as my either been general reports that Mahad said that we went on the expedition with the prophets asanam in the year of Allah SWA Teta book and we were combining our prayers lo hará NASA and Makarov Aneesha until we came close then the Prophet saws and him said tomorrow you shall arrive at the well or the spring of Tabuk I knit a book so he used the phrase I anita book he called a place of land a small body of water I need to book and ayah means a spring it's not a well doesn't miss miss miss incorrect translation ayan is a small spring so tomorrow you're gonna arrive at the spring of Tabuk and you shall arrive there at the hot time of the day so make sure you do not touch its water until I get there and we'll just discuss why the Sahaba had run out of water they were extremely thirsty they thought they were going to die and that they were going to come to Tabuk the next day and the process um said make sure you do not touch the water until you get there so maraad said that when we arrived we saw a small slither of water like the strap of a sandal just a small amount of water rather than the big iron that was had dried up it was the heat of the summer and there's a small bit left and we saw two men from our camp already having preceded us so the process and I asked them have you touched its water and they said yes so the processing became angry at them and he said what Allah wanted him to say this is Mars hadith he said what Allah wanted him to say so why did not quote what the process of them said why Adam you just cover up the process in him was irritated he deserved to be irritated he was angry at these two men for having disobeyed and he said some harsh phrases and Mahad did not want to report these harsh phrases out of ademma we're not gossip mongers we're not tattletale errs what happened happened and you you should know that the process and I'm rebuked them but you don't need to know the words that he used so Mourad said he said what Allah wanted him to say then he commanded us to gather as much as we could of the water in one place so whatever is the water to gather it in one place then he washed his fat his hands and face in that water and then the water began to gush out to spring forth until all of us drank from that water and they were probably 20,000 people or so so from this small slither all of the army drank at the I Anita book and so because of this incident that the army was quite literally saved at Tabuk they were about to die out of thirst so they were saved at the Anita book so the expedition became called the expedition of Tabuk and this hadith is assigned Muslim our professors Adam said Omar it's only a matter of time if you live long enough this very land you will see will be a land of greenery and gardens so he said to Martha bin jabal that this land of Tabuk or this place of Tabuk will become a land of greenery and subhanAllah when the process as I'm said this the book was in the middle of the desert in fact it was not a well known place it was just a small oasis nobody lived there you didn't have a civilization or a city around there and today the book simply because our professor sanam camped there and Allah had willed it and he predicted it the process and predicted it Tabuk is now one of the largest cities in Arabia it is in fact the largest city in northern Arabia it's a stone's throw away from Jordan and yes the book used to be on the trading route between sham and Medina between sham and Yemen but nobody really lived in Tabuk it was not a city or a town but after the the Prophet systems time an early Islam people began to congregate over there over time it became more and more prestigious in 1655 see Iran four hundred years ago the ottomans built a famous fortress remnants of which still stand to this day and then eventually when the ottomans built the famous railroad and i talked about the railroad as well in my class 1914 talked about the famous railroad from Istanbul to from Istanbul to Medina from Istanbul to Medina and of course by the way from Istanbul it was connected to Europe so you could quite literally travel by rail in the 1800's and early 1900s anywhere in Europe to Medina so when the Ottomans connected Istanbul to Damascus to Medina so they made a book one of the main stopping points and therefore this increased the city of the book or the the dwelling of Tabuk until now somehow that the book is one of the largest cities in Arabia it has a population of more than half a million people and it is indeed a land of greenery and trees exactly as the process and predicted one of those amazing predictions that hadith essence I Muslim and he told my image about that this land of Tabuk it's only a matter of time before it will be a land of greenery a land of Jinan lots of Janet and subpanel at the book these days is a resort it's a very beautiful city has anybody been to the book have you been to the book uncle or not no I've never had the opportunity to go up to the book but it is I have been told that the very OS that allegedly the process them drank from it is still green and Oasis right there and it is still water in that place I don't know I haven't been there I have been told and I've been told that also there's a message in there that is called Masood Rasool Allah says he didn't build it but later people built it to basically demonstrator commemorate the place that he was Allah knows best but this is what I have been told about the the place of Tabuk so this is the first name of the expedition was were too taboo closetit a book the second name of the expedition is Jael Asura the army of great difficulty J Shalu Sarah the army of great difficulty and this is in fact the more common name amongst the Sahaba the Sahaba referred to this as the Jerusalem as the army of great difficulty and Imam al-mahdi in his Saahil Bihari he in fact when he talks about the chapter the book of ceará he actually has the book of ceará than he has all of the chapters Bab of the budderball when he gets to the book he says nas what it's a book and it is the Rosaura so he has both names in the chapter heading it is the chapter of it is the expedition of Rosaura why was it called difficult why was it called the difficult expedition wasn't every battle of the prophets or some difficult yes indeed but the battle of tabuk was difficult in ways that none of the other battles were and the Battle of Tabuk is significant I'll just jump the gun and tell you and most of you know this there was no actual battle in Tabuk there was no actual clash of swords and and and armies meeting armies that didn't happen yet the difficulties of the book in some ways were much more difficult than any other quote/unquote battle and so it was called the difficult Basra even though there was no actual bloodshed the armies did not meet but what happened was so difficult to Sahaba almost died maybe multiple times according to the the narrations why well number of reasons first and foremost this was to be the largest army that Arabia had ever seen up until that point in its entire history now every time the battles are happening we're getting bigger and bigger and bigger and I was watching her nein how many people remind me her name between ten to twelve thousand right between ten to twelve thousand la Swati Tabuk it is estimated and the books mentioned figures that probably are larger than they they can be some say up to twenty even thirty thousand or mentioned the point being this was the largest now we need to be a little bit careful here these numbers it's human nature nothing wrong with it to kind of sort of exaggerate so if in our eight gatherings for example four-person estimates how many people come for eat any we have a 10,000 Masha Allah sees like as Monica definitely wants to make it Michelle at ten thousand it's human nature you see a large gathering and you kind of sort of you know inflate the numbers a little bit right if it's on your site you want to do that and then if it's the other side if you don't like this group so the classic example by the way when there's protests taking place anywhere in the world those who are supportive of the protests Marshall disturb article that the zeros get added right those who are against the protests the zeros get cut off okay and this is universal and somehow Allah is human nature so nobody should say stuff illallah that are you accusing the historians of lying it's human nature it's not lying you see a large number so and the Sahaba didn't have a checklist they didn't go through the roster one two three four when somebody's saying twenty thousand can II take it you know with understanding okay means it's a large number doesn't have to be exactly twenty thousand realistically realistically twenty thousand seems like a too big of a number for that time in place nonetheless it is let us say the largest expedition ever mounted by our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam so it's large when it's large what does that mean why would that be difficult Resources logistics food water right so all of this comes into play also the I'm was what it's a book it took place late July late July it took place so it is the hottest time of the year where temperatures rise around 110 hundred fifteen degrees Fahrenheit in Medina for those of you have been lived there for ten years it is just surreal the amount of heat that that is is in the summer over there you cannot function at all and that's why it is the habit of the people in those regions they don't work between the hot and acid they just stay inside they have a siesta and then they work again after all so you cannot work in such heat so it took place in late to July also closeted the book is the furthest distance the process Adam traveled as a prophet with an army of course he traveled to Jerusalem in Israel manraja that's a separate thing in his youth he traveled to what if it with his uncle if the story is valid he traveled to Syria as well but as the leader of an army this was the furthest distance he ever traveled so he is leading an expedition far away from Medina probably a thousand miles away around a thousand miles away from Medina and this is being there walking in the Desert Sun in July to go to Tabuk also going to the book and coming back would have taken more than a month at least 25 days or so and August is harvest season August is harvest season right after the summer is going to be the harvest season so if they went to Tabuk they would not be able to harvest the crops and we need to realize one thing which is very bizarre for most of us to even imagine most people for most of their lives humanity before the era of modern jobs did not know how much money they would make every month we are a custom thing called a salary we know how much we're gonna make exactly every month well lie this is a blessing from Allah the likes of which we cannot understand the majority of humanity for most of its existence lived day to day week to week month to march is not knowing what's gonna happen and there were certain seasons that you stored up for multiple years if you could and the number one season was harvest season if you owned a farm obviously but even if you didn't harvest season was the type of money why Labor's people need to do things right so for the entire agrarian society of Medina and was an agrarian society for the entire agrarian society of Medina harvest season is basically your paycheck not for the month for the year this was the the biggest amount of money that would come to them would be in this harvest season and now they're being told sorry guys tough luck no nothing you're gonna have to go leave your your harvests leave everything and then come back you know late August an and you will not get that big paycheck this isn't the bonus paycheck this is their hand-to-mouth this is their daily bread so this was obviously another test that they had to do and then of course the primary issue is that what happened in this in this expedition was that the army ran out of rations that there was too many people too many mouths to feed and they ran out of even water and it is narrated arminana kebab was asked by eben abbas and others that tell us about the issue of the odorous era what happened in the expedition of difficulty so he said we left with the prophesies Aminta book to Tabuk in extremely hot weather and we reached a place where we fell so thirsty we thought that our throats would collapse me he was an Arabic expression we would die and people went out in search of water but they came back even more tired and hungry and thirsty nothing left there literally about to die some people sacrificed their camels in order to squeeze the water out of the sack of the camel now I have never seen or done or tasted this but I'm assuming that is a very disgusting and bitter thing and it will probably bring you more salt than than water but nonetheless they were so desperate they killed their camels now when you kill your camel what does that mean you have to walk the way back to walk the entire way back right so they decided to kill their camels in order to squeeze whatever juice they could out of the the the the sack of water that the camel has until finally Abu Bakr pleaded with the prophets of Sodom that yellow suit Allah make dua for us like we need a miracle basically we need a miracle now can you imagine the state of affairs where they're literally you know they think they're going to die in this regard to which the prophets of them said if you wish and he raised his hands and maja Bob said that he did not bring his hands down until the skies began to pour rain so this is another miracle and we have talked about these miracles many times this is another instance where immediately as soon as the process and raised his hands clouds came and Omar said that we were able to fill all of our canisters and containers with that rainwater now by the way this also shows us a very interesting thing the Prophet SAW seldom did not rely upon miracles he sees the Sahaba at the very verge of death but it was Abu Bakr that had to prod him ya rasulallah please for the sake of why because how this is what you call us to be as map you it is what you call you have to take the means he is a Rasul SAS and he's going to get miracles of course but he doesn't want to just rely on them he wants to teach all of us a lesson that you have to struggle to get to the goal and this is the reality throughout the serie that the process and had to struggle whether or how do we see how desperate azaab look at at the very end yes the miracle comes it does come but not at the beginning only after struggle only after sacrifice and in this inshaallah is the lesson for us as well maybe our miracles will not be as blatant maybe one of us cannot just raise our hands and then we will start raining but wallahi the true believers who follow the path of the prophets of sodom they will see such many miracles maybe not to this level things will happen to them in their personal lives that they will see for themselves if they put in the struggle if they put in the effort and they taste the bitterness of the struggle then allah azzawajal will bless them in the end so for all of these reasons it was called Jo Sarah the difficult Jaysh and the Quran references this indirectly in the Quran in a version of Quran that Allah soja says the kitab allahu ala nabi will Mahajan well done Saudi Aladeen atiba you who fee Sarah Sarah that Allah has accepted the repentance of the Prophet system and the mahajan and the ants are those who followed him at the time of difficulty say I hear we translate as at the time of difficulty those who followed him at the time of difficulty this is surah Tauba verse 117 surah Tauba verse 117 so Allah called it visa at Anu surah at the time of restaura and that is what the name of Tabuk is patada who is the main student having been Abbas he commented on this verse this verse refers to the Battle of Tabuk Sarah Sarah it refers to the Battle of Tabuk they left towards Syria in the blazing summer and they were tested severely so much so that it is mentioned that two or more people were rationed one date per day two or more people were given one date as the ration per day and they would split that date amongst themselves however many they would split it up and then they would take the date pit and suck on it one after the other to get some taste and to be able to get some I mean maybe it's imaginary nourishment but it mates it's better than than nothing so kitada said Allah then accepted their repentance and allowed them to come back home meaning that allows which had raised their ranks and brought that home and therefore these are the two primary names of this expedition the expedition of Tabuk and the Jerusalem the army of difficulty and I explain why each one is called which when did this take place it took place in the month of Rajab in the 9th year of the Hegira six months exactly six months after the siege of allah if and if you calculate this out in our modern times it's basically late July or maybe early August is when it took place late July or maybe early August that would be the Rajab of the night and so it we understand why it would be so hot now why did as what it's a book take place what are the reasons for this war what were the causes of LA's what is a book to be honest this is something that I have not found a satisfactory answer after teaching Ciara many many times and just glossing over this I have not found a very clear-cut answer and I have come to a conclusion that ish Allah will share today but firstly what are some of the reasons mentioned by the classical scholars of ceará some of them are outright bizarre some of them we can just dismiss immediately for example they vanish Akkad one of the famous historians he reports and this report is mentioned by BALCO inhibin Cathy he reports that the yahood enticed the prophets Allah said I'm to go up to Syria they they goaded him they tried to basically trick him to go into Syria and they said to him if you are a true prophet then you must go to a sham because a sham is the land of the prophets and a sham is the land of matcha of Judgment Day so according to this report the who would wanted to get rid of the process of being in Medina and send him on some you know goose chase of an expedition so that he abandons Medina so that they could then get rid of the Muslims and according to this report this is why Allah revealed in the Quran surah Ezra first 76 well in Cardew latest F is una comida or De Luca do come in half way Delilah through nahin avec la colina were in car do they staff is una Camilla out they try their best and they almost have succeeded in getting rid of you from the land they have almost succeeded in getting rid of you from the land but if they were to succeed in getting rid of you then they themselves would only last for a short while before Allah destroys them so this verse in certain Islam it is said by a Banasik and others was revealed because they who tried to trick the Prophet SAW salam and send him up to north to the land of a sham but this simply cannot be true for multiple reasons who can tell me some of the reasons number one there's no yahood left this number one there are no more who left in Medina or the surrounding areas of Medina number two it's really a can you we can we imagine our process and I'm just listening to something like this just like a such a blatant trick it doesn't make any sense number three it's a little bit more advanced this one Surat Ezra same machi surah so how can I refer to those words the book say machi surah has nothing true with rosewater tempo okay so this this reason really we just dismiss it other reasons are given that perhaps might be more plausible one reason given is that and this is mentioned by al hafi that - me in his much wiser why than other books that the Romans were sending an expedition to battle the Muslims that the Romans were sending an army to battle the the Muslims and according to this narration the chieftain of the lisanna DARAB stella sonnets were north and arabs the northernmost arabian tribe that bordered the roman empire and over the course of the last centuries they had converted to Christianity so the loss Ana's were one of the Christian Arab tribes and they had a very cozy relationship with the Emperor with the Caesar and it is reported in this narration that the the chief of the LA sonnets sent a message to the Ceaser of Rome that he wants to attack Medina or according to one report that the processor was dead which was a false report is a fake report and send an army so that we can attack Medina so according to this report 40,000 Roman troops were sent to Tabuk or at least were sent down and the process and went up to battle them now again I'm a little bit more critical and whatnot firstly the the naree in itself it does need to be authentic in terms of its not secondly the Romans really it is not conceivable to imagine them sending 40,000 troops to battle the Arabs because they didn't care about the Arabs then we didn't pose any threat to them rather they weren't interested in oil back of them okay and there's no reason for the Roman Empire to send a massive legion down south it's really nonsensical if they wanted to conquer the Arabs they could have done it at any time of the last three four hundred years so this also seems a little bit you know bizarre and it doesn't seem to be very true the another report given is that the the Hassan it's themselves were the target and not the Romans the hassanis themselves were the targets and not the Romans and that there was a threat that the hassanis would attack Medina now there seems to be some basis there's some whisperings in the serie of the validity of this for example when the prophet sallallaahu Ali who was seldom took a month off from his wives if you remember the story about there was some marital disputes happening and the Prophet SAW said I'm cut off from his wives for one month if you remember and he went and he lived in the message it we didn't talk about this story and inshallah when we finished the serie will just quickly go back and do the Omaha didn't mean quickly we don't have that much narrations about them whatever we have we'll do them the mothers of the believers and whatever stories we have about them and we'll talk about this story as well that for one month the Prophet SAW they send them he cut off from his wives and he stayed in the messages because the the Omaha the the mothers of the believers were demanding bigger houses and more money and whatnot and then Allah revealed in the Quran that incontinent read that hyah to dunya was inna to her if he want this world and all that it has Fatah then come and I will give you as much as you want and I'll let you go and you live your own life but if you want to learn His Messenger and the final and the final laughter ah then this is what I have to offer me meaning I'm not gonna give you a luxurious life now in that narration in that narration I'm gonna blow hot Bob narrates the story that his coworker his colleague his friend came running to him rushing and he said something's happen something's happened and Omar jumped up and he said has the king of the hassanis attacked yet and the man said no something worse than this the processor has divorced all his wives now this turned out to be a bit of exaggeration he didn't divorce them he he says Allah he basically separated for a month but the point being what did Homer say what was he worried about as the king of the Hasan is attacked yet so this shows us there's some whiff of the hassan is having a threat there being a threat we've also seen in the past that the hassanis have caused issues they have killed the messenger of the messenger they did some some very harsh things so perhaps this is a semi legitimate reason but if this is the case the question really needs to be asked why the month of July if you want to take revenge at the vasanas if you want to attack the Lucerne is the other Cylons are not gonna come down in July it's too hard for anybody to do it so why the month of July and this really only leads us and by the way there's also the claim here that the process and wanted to get revenge for what had happened in muta and in the other massacres and up north where the tribes that did the massacres and the hassanis had helped those tribes so he wants to take the revenge also the death of Jaffa as well so he wants to get revenge at the death of Jaffa but once again the the question that needs to be asked why now this can wait until January why do we need to go right when the season is ripe the harvest is coming in the desert heat is as its climax why do we want to go at this point in time and really this only leaves us one logical answer and that's the one that I have to come with and that is it was a command from Allah to test the believers that there doesn't seem to be an immediate threat is what I'm trying to say when you read the Serie when you read the classical books there's nothing that indicates an immediate threat neither from the Romans nor the hassanis so what it appears to be the case and Allah knows best we cannot go back and but whatever seems to be the case is that this was a test from Allah a direct commandment from Allah that could not be obeyed disobeyed and our Prophet SAW Sodom told the Sahaba you have to go and fight and there is no questioning once he's given the command then there is no questioning and perhaps there is some evidence for this in the Quran and this is the opinion not exactly this opinion but something similar to it is really the opinion of IBN katheer and el bakraoui they base this on surah at-taubah verse 123 so that the Toba verse 123 yeahyou alladhina amanu arte to ladina Aluna communica fari Palio judo become relva oh you who believe do ok tell to those who are surrounding you yo new nakum those who are surrounding you of the coffe out and let them find you to be strict in your battle strict in your plate at now at Oh buddy himself and he's the earliest professor that we have of popery himself says that this verse was the verse that commanded the professor salam to fight the neighboring arabs and once he's done with the arabs to turn his attention up north to the romans so this is surah at-taubah and so that the toboe was revealed pretty much all of it in roswell today book so perhaps it is as if this verse came down and our prophet saw some understood and of course he understands what is intended by allah our process of understood allah has commanded me to go up north now that i have conquered all of the central arabs and really the rest of the herbs are going to follow there's no major threat left from within the arabian peninsula other than the hasan is way up north and the hassanis are a threat not because of the hassanis but because of their connection with the romans with the connection of the romans so it is as if allah commanded our prophet system to go and fight those who are neighboring them cartoon Idina yahoo nakum those who are neighboring one after the other go and fight and so our process him understood this to be the the Romans and what would add to this interpretation is that alwa D the famous the famous authority of the Serie he mentions that the prophecies am sent out messengers to the neighboring tribes even to Mecca requesting them to send all able-bodied men to fight with him and that he did not hide where he was going unlike every other battle he hit it he didn't tell them what's happening but the Battle of Tabuk he was open everybody knew what's going on so this is not a surprise attack this is an all-out if you like military expedition everybody knows where the processing is going and he's calling people from around even the new converts from Mecca and all of the surrounding tribes he is bringing them forth and what really in my opinion seals the the interpretation to me this one is that if you read surah Tauba cover-to-cover as soon as the Toba is one of the longest foods in the quran by the way even though it is the ninth surah it's actually one of the longest shooters in the quran if you read surah at-taubah cover-to-cover never is the command for cattle and she had given so bluntly as it is in surah at-taubah and so that the Toba is all about cosmati Tabuk and so allah azza wajal is commanding in a manner that you will not find anywhere in the quran and that's why suited the Toba is also caused a little attack it's also one of the names of sotoba its roots Alcatel because it is all about catalysis after that and look at what allah azzawajal says for example in surah Tauba yeah you were latina man whom allah come in a panella come on farofa sabili llahi' all terminal out our oddly tumble hair to dunya minute after a thermometer had to do never acted in la colline oh you who believe what is the problem why what is the problem alikum when it is said to you in fear to go ahead for it in expedient expeditions and in flu is the term that the process was using that I need you to go out what is the matter with you when you are told to go forth your bodies feel heavily attracted to the ground it's terminal oh right our oddly to amble hiya dunya I'm in Alaska are you more content with this dunya then the next and so what is the comparison of this world with the next except for a small bit L 10 few if you don't go forth you are live Akuma dub and Olema Allah will punish you a severe punishment where a step the Coleman higher come and Allah will bring another Ummah besides you another cone besides you and they will not be like you that's very strict you have to go why aren't you going if you don't go Allah will punish you if you don't go you're gonna be gotten rid of another Ummah will come after you and also in the same surah in Fedor - what's in Allah go forth whether you have something whether you have lots or whether we have nothing - what the allah' means whether you're heavily armed whether you're not armed at all go forth whatever state you're in - with your honor and also Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says that about the moon a few Khun lo Canara danke demon was suffered an austere than Lattimore oka while I can borrow that Allah him Ashoka that if there was lots of money and the distance were short the hypocrites would have come with you but they couldn't stand the strenuous journey it was too much for them and they will swear to you that if we were able to participate we would have participated you Laguna and fusa home Allah who you shall do in the home Lacaze born Allah is testifying that they are liars and by these lies that are destroying themselves now if you look at all of these verses and by the way these verses are always used by that you had these groups right and there's nothing wrong with using verses at by anybody at any time the problem comes these groups they cut and paste these verses as if they apply only to their particular cause and this is a big problem the only time a verse can apply to a specific cause is for the cause he came down and any other time you have to use it with the disclaimer might apply might not apply right you see my point here that Allah revealed this surah when for which expedition for Tabuk nobody can now take a verse and then apply it to a particular expedition and say if you don't go on this expedition Allah will punish you you understand what I'm saying right that type of specificity can only be done for when the verses came down all of these verses are valid and will lie here there will be many expeditions in the past into the future where these verses will have some legitimacy but you are not allowed to and is one of the things that these groups do you are not allowed to cut quran and hadith then apply it only for your situation such that it was revealed just for you know it was revealed for battle of tabuk and the bluntness of encouraging people to go for potala in Tabuk you will not find it for any other battle and i won't have time in these lectures to read all of suto before you but please one of the things of the serie and that i'm doing i reconnect you with the quran and i want you to read surah at-taubah now when you get a chance with this in mind with the incidence of Tabuk and mind you will find the strictness and the bluntness of going for cattle of encouraging jihad you will not find it in any other surah so in my humble opinion and Allah knows best it seems to me that the primary reason for laws were to Tabuk was not because of something physical in the world not because of armies or expeditions or Hassan or the Romans it was because Allah told them to and the Sahaba were put to a test and allah azza wajal wanted to test them now why did Allah want to test them well for many reasons one of them to raise the ranks one of them to test their Iman and one of them to prepare them for the future huzza wat that would expand islam after the death of the prophets or setup because this was the final as wa this is it Kalos there is no lesoire after the hospital book that the profitsystem participated in right after this the process went to for Hajj he fell ill and then we're gonna come to the end of the serie then what happened Abu Bakr Omar Othman the OMA is their beginning so it is as if husband Tabuk was a test so that they pass it so that they then move on to make the OMA what it was Allahu Alem this is my two cents take it or leave it but this is what I see to be the case if you look at the context in the story there is no threat it is a commandment from Allah merely to test the Sahaba and that is why no battle took place there's no need for a battle they passed the test they showed that they had the determination in fact the battle is easier than what they had to undergo right to give up all that they had to do and so with all of this as we said it seems as if the prophet's asylum was commanded by Allah and the Sahaba were put to the test and therefore the Sahaba passed this test with flying with flying colors and that is why the process um did not hide where he's going that is why he made it public that is why he called out for all of the Sahaba to come so it was followed the ie for every single health female to participate in a hospital book followed lying this is not like butter which was voluntary this was not like other battles this was far behind you had to do it if you were an adult male the only person was who was excused was somebody who was genuinely sick or had very extenuating circumstances we're gonna come to this point right so what other battle was it that every able-bodied Muslim from around medina even from Mecca you have to come and you have to participate it is to me clear and Allah knows best that this was a test for all of the Sahaba so that when they passed this test insha Allah to Allah they can then in the future after the process will move on they have now the Iman the faith the courage they have now what they need to go on and and basically expand the Islamic Ummah subhanAllah so much left here just one quick point in shallower island that will open the floor for questions also there's some announcements that seemed to be made as well that therefore when the process of understood the need for having this expedition the first thing that he did he began to collect the funds he began to collect the funds for the expedition and he would stand on the minbar and encourage people to give whatever they had so Sahaba would come and some but he would have a bag of gold somebody would have some coins somebody would have whatever it was until the piles began to form in the Masjid and our Prophet SAW some gave very beautiful encouragement whoever finances the j-shot Rosaura he shall be given gender if you help in financing Joshua Sarah you will be given Jana whatever you can help with that's a beautiful blessing and praise whoever Finance adjacent Oh Sarah will be given gender and so the Sahaba began to donate whatever they could and of course we all know the famous story the lion's share of the donation one to earth man even a fan rhodiola lillah and who that it had just so happened that around the hundred camels of his had returned from an expedition up north and so he had just got back all of these goods and when he heard this hadith that whoever finance is generous Allah he shall be given Jenna so with money but I found donated all of that money and this was in the thousands of gold coins he donated all of that money and he gave it to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom and the prophet's asylum had all of this pile of gold just from with man in front of him and he began flipping all of this coin around in his hands and he said well la he mouths with man my father by the loom that will lie here whatever if man does after today it is not going to harm him after what he has done now whatever he has done after today it will not harm him and subhanAllah this hadith which is in Bukhari and Muslim with money been a fan himself used it when these neohart jets were around his own house and they had surrounded him and he did not know they were going to kill him but this wasn't one of the things that do you not know and he'd been a bust as well used it to defend earth man even I found that do you not know our Prophet SAW said I'm said whatever your complaints are whatever your your fabricated complaints are your imaginary complaints are don't you know your own resources Adam said that whatever Othman does will not harm him if he the process of them said that who are you to have this long list of complaints that you don't like his governor you don't like this you don't like that who are you to complain when the process and I'm said whatever he does will not be harmful to him so this hadith was given at the insane of Tabuk and also over here the famous story of a Bakken almost competition as well took place that Romo immediately went home thinking that today finally I can beat Abu Bakr because I heard this hadith directly from the process of whoever finances jo Sarah shall be given Jena and so I'm gonna Bob took half of his wealth and he gave it to the prophets Allah Selim and I realized again this is half of his wealth the rest of the half is for his wife and children so obviously it's nothing wrong with this I mean subhanAllah you're not even required to give half of your wealth this is the process some did not say you have to give everything he said you have to come what was thought was to go physically with him as for money whatever could a person can afford and imagine giving half of your wealth not knowing when the next is going to come remember there's no paychecks here and you have to give up your paycheck for the the season so America Bob gave up half of his entire wealth that he possessed and when Abu Bakr came with what he had and it was more the profitsystem said yeah I'm a Booker what did you leave for your family what did you leave you do it looks like you bought everything and I would walk I said I left them a lot in His Messenger I left them alone in His Messenger that's enough Allah will take care of them right so no matter how Bob said that I give up I'm not going to compete with you again after today no way I can compete with that type of tobacco so this was also in the husband's it's a book that famous instance as well and our Prophet SAW said I'm gathered more money for the expedition than he had for any other expedition Anna's beautiful point here that six months previously he had at his disposal all the money he needed six months previously has just has the l'anima of her nein and Taif right but he used it all feasible Allah and nothing was left in his own pocket or in the pocket of the Treasury nothing and therefore one and that was his methodology so I said him he did not have leave anything and he everything feasible everything so this had to be refinanced for the Cosworth databook and eventually the funds ran out and began to dwindle down and inshallah we'll just finish on one final narration ashada and then open the floor for some questions that abu musa al-ashari narrates that his tribe sent him to collect some camels to go for delta scuti Tabuk why because you need camels to go you cannot just walk to the book you need camels and you share I either every through every two people will share a camel so Abu Musa says subscribe sends him as an emissary and says okay we have this many people we need camels so Abu Musa says I arrived and I did not realize that the Prophet system was he had little have been he was in an angry State I did not know this now why was he angry this narration does not say most likely it was because of what's happening with the moon African which we'll talk about in shala tomorrow or the or not tomorrow next week or the week after that there was a major issue with the munafa phone most likely this is what is troubling our prophet so I said so I came and I didn't realize the processor was in an state of anger so I asked him and he didn't have anything and he said well la he I will not give you anything to travel upon like that's a slightly harsh way to say that Musa wants to come he wants to go and the person said well la he I'm not gonna give you anything to travel upon so Abu Musa says I returned distressed did not realize I didn't know he was angry from something else and I thought I might have done something wrong he is angry with me he's irritated at me I went back and I told my my tribe that our prophet system said such and such that he's not gonna give us anything and I do not know why and then barely had any time passed when Badal came and bilal said to me the process and is calling you so a woman once i came and the prophet saw said i'm said take these two camels and then these two and then these two and he's giving them six cameras for those six camels i have just purchased them from sad so what had happened obviously was that some money had come and so he purchases 6 combos he remembers abu musa needed the camels he gives them to him so the process is registering who's coming and what they want and he then fulfills this what this also shows is that when you give an oath and you don't mean it the oath is not considered valid because he said well llahi I'm not gonna give you anything why did he say this could he didn't have anything he did not have anything so there's nothing to give him and we used the phrase wallahi as an expression and sometimes we use it as a genuine awesome and it is obvious from the context when is the to so for example you want to go and eat over here well I don't want to go there you don't mean like you're swearing by Allah you're never gonna go there it's just an expression you know well I we don't feel like going over there right now whereas in a serious state and somebody has accused you of let's say you're lying or something wallahi I am not lying to you now when you say it you mean it and there's a clear context and Allah says in the Quran la ilaha DoCoMo la who beloved with the imanakum what I can you a Hadouken be ma a cut to moon a man Allah does not call you to task for the lahu for the vain times that you give the a man a man means say well la him but rather Allah will call you to task for that which you are strict and firm about and our Prophet SAW said him is a human being and things are happening that sometimes perturb him make him angry the Arabic word used is called man and sometimes he will take it out in a manner that almost I did not understand but it wasn't because of a Moose's fault and therefore when the money came and he's able to purchase it he gave it to abu musa al-ashari but abu musa wanted to confirm because the processor had sworn will la you're not going to give it to me and now he is giving him the camels so he was a bit confused now so he brought he took his tribesmen and he wanted to clarify that you used the possum and now you're giving me the camels and there is the issue of what not so it was explained to him that no it's alright you can take the camels and this shows us the consciousness of the conscience of Abu Musa and O Sahaba they felt awkward like taking the camel that the possum has been given and the process um said I'm not gonna give you anything then he gave him and so he had to be explained what happened here and that is that the process did not have any money and so he said I'd have nothing to give you and he came out in a way that sounded a little bit different than it then it sure and so when the money came the the camels were purchased and given over to Abu sorry to abu musa al-ashari and inshallah with that we will pause for today and continue insha'Allah Allah next next Wednesday banana tada you

Channel: Memphis Islamic Center (MIC)

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Keywords: Prophet Muhammad, Shaykh Sheikh Yasir Qadhi, Abu Ammar, Islam, Muslim, Memphis Islamic Center, MIC, Quran, Koran, Sirah, biography of muhammad, Prophet Mohammed Mohammad, life of Muhammad, Mekka Macca, Medina Madina, Misconceptions islam, yasir qadhi, Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi (Person), Prophetic Biography (Written Work), Battle of Tabuk, Ghazwa Tabuk

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Length: 63min 10sec (3790 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 08 2014