Sabr and Salah

Auto-generated transcript:We mentioned the Ayat of Allah SWT where he said, Allah SWT said, After that Ayat Allah SWT said, Allah SWT said, O you who believe, take the help. Take istiaanah. Take the help of sabr and salah. Inna Allaha ma'a sabirin. Verily Allah is with those who have sabr. Now the question is, what is sabr? The usual understanding that we seem to have of sabr is to do nothing. Sabr karo. Tu kya kano? Kuch nahi kano. Whatever is happening, just bear it in silence. Now this is a completely false and totally wrong interpretation and meaning of the word sabr. They'll give you two dalayl. One from the Quran and one from the Sunnah. The dalayl of the Quran is, in several places, Allah mentioned the mujahideen. He mentioned those who are fighting in wars. Fighting the enemies of Islam. Soldiers on the battlefield. In the front line. Allah SWT called them, He didn't call them mujahideen. Allah SWT called them sabireen. He said sabireen. And Allah said, if there are a hundred, Allah will give them. victory over a thousand. If there are a hundred, Allah will give them victory over two hundred. And so on. Allah called them sabireen. Now a soldier who is fighting in a battle. There is no one who is more engaged, who is struggling more than that soldier. He is literally fighting for his life. He has invested everything in that action. Nothing is left behind. Especially if you look at hand to hand combat. In medieval times. It's complete investment. Total commitment. Even for a second, a blink of an eye, if he loses concentration, if his attention is diverted, he is dead. Literally his life is at stake. He is not sitting like, nowadays in some bunker playing computer games. No. That kind of person engaged in that kind of activity, with that kind of commitment and total investment, Allah SWT is saying, this is a sabir. He is doing sabir. Second Dalit from the Sunnah. Rasulullah SAW, in Bahraini, he is saying, this is a sabir. He is doing sabir. He is doing sabir. Rasulullah SAW, in Badr, they were in Madinah, when they got information, that Abu Sufyan, is coming with his caravan. And this caravan has, the, the original, capital of the caravan, most of it was, the possessions of the Muhajirin, which the, people of the, the Masjid-e-Mishri, now Pankah had usurped and stolen. They took that and Abu Sufyan, had traded with that and he was coming back with the, result of that. So this caravan, really consisted of things which, came out of the possessions of the, Muhajirin. So Rasulullah SAW decided to, capture that caravan. So he was in Masjid-e-Nabawi Sharif, and he took out the caravan, and he was going, and he announced, he said, whoever is ready, come with me. So the people who went with him, the 300 and something, they were not, going for a battle. They were not prepared to go for a battle. If they were, if that had been announced, that we are going to go and there is going to be a battle, then they would have prepared, they would have had their armor, and they would have had their weapons, and so on and so forth. So they were ready to do something. So you get up and go, whatever you have, you have. So when they reached, or before they reached Badr, they got information to say that, Abu Sufyan has, changed his direction, because he got, his intelligence was very good. So he got news that, the people of Muhammad SAW, are leaving Madinah, and they are going to attack the caravan. So he changed his route, and he took a different route. So he was not going to be at Badr. On top of that, he sent a man, to Makkah, and he went on a fast camel, and when he reached the, when he reached Makkah, right at the Haram, near the Kaaba, which was the center of the town, he slashed the nose of the camel, so it was bleeding. He unsaddle the camel, and he took it to the caravan. And he said, he took the saddle, and put it upside down, and he started screaming, and yelling, and he said, oh you are finished, and your caravan is gone, and everything is looted, and all your goods are gone, and you are losers, and all kinds of things. He said, what happened? He said, he got the people together, and he came to Badr, with an army, and this was, they were going for war. This is not the same thing, like saying, let us go right now. They prepared. They had weapons, they had material, and so on. And 11 to 13 hundred of them, they were 12. And when the army was close to Badr, he got information that, the whole situation has completely changed. We were going to capture a caravan, the caravan would have had some few guards, it was not an army. But on the other hand, now we are going, if we go to Badr, then we are going to face an actual army. So he made mashwarah. He asked, he called all the people together, he went with him, there was some Ansar, there was some Maha Jiroor. He called them together, and he said, what do you advise me to do? I would like to go, and since we have set out, we don't want to turn back. But what is your advice? So from the Maha Jiroor, one by one, they stood up, and he said, Ya Rasulullah, we are with you, you take us wherever you want to go, and so on and so on. But he gave them dua, he said, Alhamdulillah, Jazakallah, and then he asked the question again. So, the head of the house, if I'm not mistaken, was Sa'b bin Mu'adh, he stood up, and he said, Ya Rasulullah, it seems that you want us to answer. Nabi said, Yes. And he said that because the Ansar, the pact, the treaty, the agreement with Nabi was that they would protect him in Madinah. But now they were outside Madinah. So the agreement with them was technically not there. So Nabi said, Ya Rasulullah, we are with you. And the people of Madinah wanted to make sure that they are with him. Also they were the majority of the group. So he said, you came into Islam because of you. We followed you, and we will follow you even if you tell us to go to the ocean. So do whatever your Rabb has ordered you to do. Nabi set up the positions of the army for the next day. He appointed a leader for the Muhajirin, commander for the Ansar, and he set the lines. Then one Sahabi came to him and he said, Ya Rasulullah, you have set up your lines here. Is this a command of Allah? Is this a command of Allah? Or is this something that you have decided? Nabi said, No, there is no command of Allah with regard to where the lines should be. So he said, then my submission to you is there is a pond, a tank, which if it rains it will fill with water. So let us keep that behind us. So if there is rain, if there is water, then we will keep the lines. So move the lines forward where this tank is behind the lines. It becomes ours. Nabi said, Yes, good advice. And he changed it. When all this was over, Rasulullah had made a small shed for him. He went in there, he stood in Salah, and he made Dua. He was wearing a shawl. Where Abu Bakr said, we could see his armpits. His hands were raised up like this. And he made Dua, and Dua, and Dua. And he said, Ya Allah, help us. You promised to help us. Ya Allah, if these people are finished, if they die, then there will not be anyone left on the earth to worship them. And he went on, and he went on, until Abu Bakr said, Ya Rasulullah, the way in which he was begging Allah SWT, and he came and said, Ya Rasulullah, your Rabb will fulfill his promise. Enough. Now the reason I'm explaining all of this in so much detail is, as the Tafseer of the Ayah, Ya ayyuha allatheena amanu astainu bi sabri wa salah. So the first Daleel is who is the Sabireen? Who are the most engaged? The people who are fully committed and who are doing everything they can to succeed. Second Daleel, if you see the Ayah, bi sabri wa salah. Allah SWT is mentioning two things, and He's mentioning them in sequence. Allah is not saying, Ya ayyuha allatheena amanu astainu bi salati wa sabab. Was Salah then Salah. Bi Sabri wa Salah. So you see in the actions of the Nabi because the Seerah of the Nabi is the Tafseer of the Quran. And again, this is not my statement, this is the statement of Sayyidina Aisha Siddique After Rasulullah passed away, some people went to her and they said, Ya Umarul Mumineen, O mother of the believers, please tell us something about the life of Rasulullah So she said, do you read the Quran? I said, yes of course. She said, his life was the Quran. His life was the Quran. You read the Quran, you know the life. So in this Ayah, if you see what happened in Badr, Nabi did not simply enter Badr and say, Allahu Akbar, Ya Allah, Ya Allah. No. He entered Badr, before entering Badr, he did all his, he did his intelligence, the gathering intelligence, got reports of what is happening where. Then he took steps to make sure that his people are with him. He didn't simply assume, I am the Rasul. They said, Ashadu anna Muhammad Rasulullah, they have to be. No, no, no, no. Nobody has to be anything, you make sure. You make sure. I am not saying don't trust people, but make sure. So he makes sure. And then when he comes into the actual place where the battle will be fought the following day, he will be there. He makes all the arrangements that are in his power to make. He settles the troops and where should we be and what position and so on and so forth. Distribution of whatever arms they had. He takes all the steps. And after that he stands in Salah. And he says, Ya Allah, help us. Right? Now the reason I am saying all this is because today our problems, whether they are individual or whether they are collective, are because we have forgotten this. We feel that somehow success is our birthright. Success is our inheritance. We will succeed. Why will you succeed? Why do you think you will succeed? Allah made this world a place of darul azbab. A place of effort. You don't make the effort, you will not succeed. You make the effort, you will succeed. And you will succeed to the extent you make the effort. Today we complain, oh look at these people, look at that people.