Uhud is witness

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu salam. Sashliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I am seeing and looking at a view which, Allah grant all of us, is the view that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself used to see when he was in his masjids, when he was in his home, when he was in his city of Badin al-Barawarah, and that is the site of the Mount Ravaad. The Mount Ravaad is a very important historical place in Islam. This is Mount Ravaad. This is the mountain which has been mentioned in the hadith many, many times. It is the mountain about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the mountain of Ravaad loves us and we love Ravaad. This is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the battle of Ravaad when he was injured and he fell and they took him up the side of the mountain into a little defile where he was sheltered from the enemies. This is the mountain which, was witnessed to the reason for the defeat after the victory. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded a set of sahaba to, a set of archers from the sahaba to be on a small hillock that is adjacent to the Mount Ravaad to cover a passage that is between that hillock and the mountain, and prevent the enemy from entering the mountain. And prevent the enemy forces, especially enemy cavalry from attacking the Muslims through that passage because that would have brought them right at the back of the Muslim army. But unfortunately the sahaba who were there disregarded the instruction and command of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded them very clearly and said, do not leave your post even if you, whether you see us winning or losing, even if you see the crows and vultures eating from our bodies, do not leave your post. What happened was that with the initial victory, the Muslim forces were even into the camp of the disbelievers and the enemy, and they were collecting booty. When these archers on the hill, they saw that, their intention changed and they said, well, the instruction of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his command does not apply anymore because we have won the battle, the battle is over. The command applied only while the battle was happening and now that the battle is over, we don't need to obey the command. And they left. And when they left and they came down to collect booty, they left. And when they came down to collect the booty, that was exactly the time that Khalid bin Walid bin Al-Ahmad bin waiting for. And he came and he, he came and he, he attacked the Muslim army from behind. And the worst nightmare of any infantry is to be caught between the enemy in front and the enemy cavalry behind. And that's exactly what happened. The result of all that was of course disastrous. And the Muslims lost the battle. And in that battle, more than 70 of the Sahaba, the blessed companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, were Shaheed. They were killed. And among them, some of the greatest of them, Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib radhiallahu anhu, Musa bin Umair radhiallahu anhu, Abdullah bin Rawah radhiallahu anhu, and others who were among the greatest of the Sahaba. All of them. And the rest of them died in that, in the battle of Arhat, thanks to this one act of disobedience of the Sahaba. As I mentioned, the Sahaba had not rebelled. They didn't rebel. They were not, they had not left Islam. They had not stopped believing in Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. All they did was, they took a command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and interpreted that in the light of their own convenience. They interpreted that in the way that was convenient for them to interpret it. And that was the biggest mistake they made it, that that they made, and which resulted in this great calamitous defeat of the Muslims. My brothers and sisters, the reason for saying this is, I remind myself and you, this is exactly what we do today. We take the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we take his blessed sunnah, and then we take the liberty which we don't have of interpreting that to suit ourselves. And we say, oh, but you see, this is, doesn't apply anymore. We are living in the 21st century, and that was 7th century, and we are living in America or Canada or somewhere, and that was in medieval and pre-medieval Arabia. And all sorts of taweelat and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of ridiculous explanations, none of which pay attention to the fact that this was the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It is not open for us to interpret it and to change it, and to choose to follow and not to follow. I ask Allah SWT to guide us and to keep us guided, and to save us from all misinterpretation, and save us from all the... all the mistakes of our own making. I will insist, as I mentioned before, when we are in the city of Madinah, it's very important to read the seerah before you come here, so that you can really enjoy it, because without a sense of history, without a sense of what is... what has happened here, without a sense of all that and how that relates to or applies to Islam, it's... you lose out on the enjoyment that you can have if you come with that sense of history. And this mountain, there is something which is... subhanAllah, I mean, just think about this, this is the only thing from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's life that we can actually do that he did, which is to look at this mountain, right? Just look at the mountain. This is... when we look at this mountain with that sense and say, alhamdulillah, oh Allah, I thank you for allowing me this beautiful opportunity, of seeing the sight that your Rasul alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw. My eyes are seeing and my eyes are resting on the same thing that his blessed eyes rested on. I am seeing the thing that he saw, subhanAllah iladhim, subhanAllah ibn abdil, that sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that that is the beauty of it. That's why I'm saying a sense of history is so important. And it is so close from where I'm standing to where Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's life, would have been standing to see this mountain. It's so close and so real. Obviously, all these buildings and stuff around there, but you know, that's easy to focus them out from your sight. As I turn around, as I turn around and there I am, in Majid-e-Nabi wa Sharif, right here in front of me, alhamdulillah. So that's how close we are to the, to the Masjid-e-Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and to Wizarawdah Mubarak with respect to Ohad. Beautiful sight here of all these people. SubhanAllah, everyone here is here for one purpose only, and that is to worship Allah. And to pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this second most holy site of the Muslims, Masjid-e-Nabi wa Sharif, and to make salaam to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his Raadha Mubarak. I remind myself and you that the best way to send salaam on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, which was prescribed by him alayhi salaam himself, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, which is to send dhurud on him. To send salatus ala Muhammed. To say Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi sayyidina Muhammad kama sall skilled ala Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad Allahumma barik ala Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad kama barik ala Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad Yeah wa ala alihi Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad Allahumma sall skilled ala Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad Yeah wa ala alihi Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad Yeah wa ala alihi Muhammad wa ala alihi Muhammad This is the best way to send salam and from the hadith of Abu Hurairah and the hadith of Ibn Masud, we know that this hadith is that this was the way that Rasulullah himself prescribed for us to send salam on him from anywhere that we are in the world. And he said this will be brought to me by angels appointed for this purpose and I will reply. We ask Allah to help us to do exactly what he told us to do without changing it, without putting our own tabilat on it, without inventing ways which he did not tell us to invent but to do what he told us to do without change.