[tqn] Secrets behind Hijrah and Karbala

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Secrets behind Hijrah and Karbala
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Sunday, Feb 12, 2006 | Yuba City, CA US
SufiLive.com

On the occasion of Muharram 10, Ashura

Allah created heavens, earth, planets, sun, moon and
all creation. And created Adam. He created earth but
what is the purpose of earth, without inhabitants?

So Allah created Iblees who caused Adam to disobey and
go to earth and in doing so he became cursed.

In doing so Iblees never disbelieved in the Creator.
For the disobedience there was wisdom, to cause Adam
to go on earth. It means that things to us might be
seen in a way, but this is because we think about it
in our minds. But in reality Allah wants it His way;
they plan and Allah plans and Allah is the Best
Planner.

So Allah did not tell you the future. Allah is not
able to tell you the future? Allah gave Sayyidina
Muhammad `uloom al-awwaleen wa al-akhireen - knowledge
of before and after. That means He gave him knowledge
of the unseen, of the future. But the Prophet (s)
covered that from us. Because the Prophet (s) is an
obedient servant to his Lord. So whatever Allah
planned the Prophet (s) followed. But for us, whatever
Allah planned we don’t follow. So if we know the
future we would pan according to the future we are
seeing which might cross or be an obstacle in the
plans that Allah planned for you because you’re
going to use your mind to execute the best for your
future and if you do that it might not go according to
what Allah planned.

Since we don’t know, he hid it, then we follow what
Allah wanted and it gets revealed to us as it happens.
If we knew we might not follow what Allah wanted.

So Sayyidina Muhammad migrated from Makkah to Madina.
The one who knows before and after knowledge. The one
who went to qaaba qawsayni aw adna. The one who is
hiding himself from Quraysh in the cave.

He could not just say Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
and reach to Madina. Did he not say Bismillahi
'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem and go on ascension to qaaba
qawsayni?

What is Buraq? It is [through power of] Bismillahi
'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. With Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani
'r-Raheem the Prophet (s) can say to something,
“be!” and it will be.

Prophet (s) doesn’t need any promotion that we are
trying to promote him and trying to defend.

Inna Allah yudafi`u an alladheena aamanoo - Verily
Allah will defend (from ill) those who believe:
[22:38]

There is only one believer. If we were believers, we
would have gone to Mi’raj also. Because the Prophet
(s) will not leave his Ummah behind. How is he going
to take us when we are not believers?

The Prophet (s) is the believer that he knew that in
front of him he has to execute the plan that Allah
planned. He did not say “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani
'r-Raheem” and appear in Madina. No, he said, “I
must be in that cave in that moment, in order to show
the greatness that Allah swt gave to Sayyidina Abu
Bakr as-Siddiq.” Allah wants to teach Sayyidina Abu
Bakr Radiallahu anhu from these unseen knowledges. To
do that he must go into seclusion, as the Prophet (s)
went into seclusion in the cave.

They say the Prophet (s) got the message at forty
years of age. No; that is for kindergarten. He got the
message even before he was created! He got the message
when Adam was between clay and water! He got the
message when his light was created. Does not the one
from whose light everything is created know why he was
created?

But he (s) has good adab with his Lord. Not like us.
If we know something we show ourselves in a crowd. If
the Prophet (s) did not show himself - why should we
show ourselves? The best people are those who are
humble; they don’t want to be on the podium. They
don’t want to be known. They want to be at the door,
the door of humbleness, not the door of arrogance. The
Prophet (s) was at door of his Lord. That is why Allah
swt said to him, “Come!” Come where? To qaaba
qawsayni aw adna.

He did not say “how?” If he said, “how,” it
would mean he had doubt. But Allah said, “Come!”
so he accepted. Not like us, we say, “How? Will You
send a car?”

So the Prophet (s)… look - he knows the wisdom. We
are coming to the story of Karbala, but before we
reach that, the Prophet (s) said “I am the city of
knowledge and Ali is its door.”

And he (s) said in another place, or it is said,
“whatever Allah put in my heart I put in the heart
of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.” So what was wisdom of
migration from Makkah to Madina? Why was not Prophet
(s) able to stay in Makkah and do what he did in
Makkah? It is very simple but he wants to execute what
Allah has planned.

So the day that decision to go to Madina, the Quraysh
enemies knew about and wanted to kill the Prophet (s).
Can anyone kill the Prophet (s)? No, but they
conspired to kill him. And Iblees was whispering
conspiracy to the tribes, so that all the leaders of
the tribe will come together and hit the Prophet (s)
at one time with one hit.

Who stayed in the bed of Prophet (s)? Sayyidina `Ali
(r). Why did he stay in his bed? Was not the Prophet
(s) able to recite from Surah Yasin and throw sand on
them and they would not see anything and they would
pass out? Even could he not stay in bed and throw sand
on them and they would not have seen him? But he put
Sayyidina `Ali (r) in his bed.

Sayyidina Ali didn’t say “no.” He gave himself
to the Prophet (s). He sacrificed himself to the
Prophet (s). He sacrificed him to the Ummah. He gave
up. He said, “Let me die for you Ya sayyidee, Ya
Rasulullah, you go.”

At that moment Sayyidina `Ali (r) did not yet get the
reality. The Prophet (s) tested him: is he going to
give his life for me or not. If so then one meaning;
if not then another meaning. And `Ali (r) said,
“fidaak abee bika wa ummee, I sacrifice my father
and mother for you, my beloved Prophet.” He stayed
in that bed that was still warm when the Prophet (s)
went for Isra and Mi’raj [and returned]. In that
short time in which Allah shortened the time and the
distance and brought him to His Presence and then sent
him back.

When a king has a kingdom who can sit on the chair of
the king? Only the king. It might be sometimes even
not the queen can do that. When the king is alive, who
sits on the throne? And sometimes if he has a child,
the son of the king and he sits there, they don’t
say anything. When the king goes away, who sits on the
chair? It is the son. What does that mean? It means
“You will inherit the kingdom and you become a
king.” It means that when Sayyidina `Ali (r)
karam-Allahu wajha, gave his life to Sayyidina
Muhammad, Sayyidina Muhammad has put him in that bed
which was the City of Knowledge. That is why he said,
"I am the City of Knowledge and Ali is its door.”

That bed was belonged to the City of Knowledge in
which Allah put the knowledge of awwaleen and
akhireen. Otherwise Prophet (s) would go to Madina
without putting Sayyidina `Ali (r) in that bed. He
wanted to inherit him that knowledge, that knowledge
that Sayyidina `Ali (r) brought that is flowing until
today and people are taking wisdom from it. He dressed
him from that knowledge that is one of the importances
of hijrah.

It is not the importance of hijrah to go in the desert
seek a daleel, a guide. Why does he need a daleel?
That is teaching to us, we need a guide a teacher. And
that is teaching to us, you need a guide, a teacher, a
master, a shaykh to reach the Prophet (s). You cannot
reach with your barefoot going in desert your feet
will burn.

You need someone to guide you. This life is worse than
desert. So how you can travel all this distance
without a guide, without a master, without a shaykh?

So then he dressed Sayyidina `Ali (r) with all these
secrets in the bed, now he wants to dress Sayyidina
Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu. He took him and went. The
one who threw the sand and read:

wa ja`alana min bayni aydeehim saddan wa min khalfihim
saddan fa-agshaynaahum fa hum laa yubsiroon, - And We
have put a bar in front of them and a bar behind them,
and further, We have covered them up; so that they
cannot see. Ya-Sin [36:9]

Was he not able to throw it in the face of the enemy
when they came after him? Allah said, “Go to the
cave, O believers, O human beings, and Allah will
spread his mercy on you.”

Go to the cave means go back to your spirituality, go
back to your heart. Go back to the cave of the Ummah.
The cave hides the needy ones, the cave is Sayyidina
Muhammad, he is the cave of the Ummah. Fa’u ila
al-kahf. Take ye hence to the Cave.” [18:16] He
wants to show Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq the real
cave. He wants to spread his mercy. He gave Sayyidina
Ali, now he wants to give to Sayyidina Abu Bakr.

He went to cave. Allah could not make the enemy not to
see? But no the plan is not like that. The plan has to
be as Allah planned by Allah swt. That is why don’t
plan for yourself anything, leave everything to Allah.
When you leave everything to Allah everything will
come good to you. When you leave things to your
Creator, all will come good.

They are demonstrating for cartoon, cartoon, cartoon.
We are trying to get rid of hate. Why is it the first
[such] cartoon? No. Before they were even trying to
kill the Prophet (s).

Why don’t you make demonstrations against Iblees?
Who is worse? Why you don’t make demonstrations
against your ego, your bad desires, that trick you
every moment, creating in you wild cartoons worse than
what they are creating?

[The Prophet (s) taught,] “Whoever loves me will
follow me?” How many of us are doing the Sunnah of
the Prophet (s)? What we do is worse than cartoons. We
are showing our hatred by not following the Sunnah.
They say “for what, Sunnah?” They are worse than
those who made some cartoons which itself is not
something new, but happened four months ago.

Anyway to leave that, Allah had a put a plan. We are
tariqah people we are trying to follow the way of
Prophet (s). We cannot say “yes, we followed”, but
we are trying.

So what did the Prophet (s) do in Ghaari Thawr? The
Prophet (s) entered and Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddiq
Radiallahu anhu put his leg for Prophet (s) to put his
head to rest. As Prophet (s) was resting a snake was
coming from the hole. So Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddiq
Radiallahu anhu was seeing it and saying the snake is
hungry, “Let the snake eat me and then Prophet (s)
will be safe.”

If people don’t give up themselves they aren’t
going to get heavenly knowledge. If we are not going
to give up backbiting and bad character we will not
achieve.

That is why they say this pir and this pir but no one
is like that.

So Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu put his leg in
the hole through where that snake was coming. And the
snake began to eat from the leg of Sayyidina Abu Bakr
Radiallahu anhu. When snake eats it is not like other
animals it is not biting like a lion - it takes
everything inside and crushes everything; crushing
bones and crushing the meat and Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r)
did not feel anything of that, out of his love for the
Prophet (s). He is thinking “when that snake
finishes eating me, it will eat my Prophet (s).”

At that time a tear came from his eye and dropped on
the blessed face of the Prophet (s). The Prophet (s)
woke up and said, “O Abu Bakr do not worry, Allah is
with us.”

Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu said, “O Prophet
of Allah (s), I know that Allah is with us but a snake
is eating my leg and when it finishes I am worried it
will come and eat you.”

So Sayyidina Muhammad (s) looked and the snake backed
up. Then Prophet (s) took his saliva and put it on Abu
Bakr as-Siddiq’s leg and it was miraculously
restored to what it was before.

Then Prophet (s) said to snake, “Don’t you know
that Allah has forbidden snakes to eat the flesh of
prophets and siddiqs, [veracious ones]?

The snake said, “O Prophet (s), I was alive since
thousands of years and since that time, I heard of
your name I was yearning to see you. And for that you
came here and as-Siddiq’s leg was blocking me to see
you.”

The Prophet (s) said, “Ok, come out.” And that
snake looked at the Prophet (s) and then said shahada
and then died.

So look at the wisdom, in that event. That snake
wanted to see the Prophet (s). And Sayyidina Abu Bakr
Radiallahu anhu was to be tested and Sayyidina Abu
Bakr Radiallahu anhu gave himself to Prophet (s) as
Sayyidina `Ali (r) gave his life to Sayyidina Muhammad
(s).

So Prophet (s) then dressed Sayyidina Abu Bakr
Radiallahu anhu with `uloom al-awwaleen wal-akhireen
– knowledge of the firsts and the lasts. So that is
why we see that 41 tariqats taking from that knowledge
of the Prophet (s) and that is why we seem them, 40
coming from Sayyidina `Ali (r) and one coming from
Sayyidina Abu Bakr.

So that is the need to give oneself in Islam.

Sayyidina al-Husayn Radiallahu anhu was told “why
are you going to Baghdad, they will conspire and kill
you?” But he didn’t want to break my promise. He
said, "I am sacrificing myself for benefit of
Ummah.” Because the Prophet Muhammad (s) said that
“Al-Hasan and al-Husayn, he said that they are the
leaders of the youths of Paradise.”

If he did not go there and stayed in Makkah, he will
not have that problem. He inherited from Prophet (s)
that knowledge. He knows he has to go there and be
killed for the sake of the Ummah.

So what did Sayyidina Husayn do before he died? Awliya
confirmed, that Sayyidina Husayn said, “Ya Rabbee,
if they kill me for sake of the whole Ummah to enter
Paradise, I accept to be shaheed. If I take them all
to Paradise as shaheed. I will accept that killing
from these people.”

Although who “these people” refers to we cannot
say anything about them. That is why `ulama al-Ummah,
the [traditional] scholars say “don’t bring this
issue up.” Because most of them are Sahaaba. You
cannot speak about Sahaaba in such a way. We cannot
say anything.

That is why when I am asked to speak on these issues,
I don’t like to speak on it. That issue is a red
line; don’t cross it. You side with this one or you
side with that one, but you don’t know where the
fire will come on you from. These are Sahaaba, so you
speak only about the mercy of these people... you just
say that Sayyidina al-Husayn Radiallahu anhu gave
himself for the benefit of the Ummah.

So if we keep love of Ahl al-Bayt, as Prophet (s)
said,

تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن
تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي

“taraktu feekum kitabullah was sunnatee - I left
behind me the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah.”
[al-Bayhaq? in al-Sunan al-kubr?, al-Hakim and Malik
in his Muwatta] And the Prophet (s) said,

I am leaving among you that which if you hold to it,
you shall never go astray, one of them greater than
the other: Allah's Book?a rope extended down from the
heaven to the earth?and my mantle (`itra), the People
of my House... [al-Tirmidhi (hasan ghar?b) and
al-Hakim]

Therefore keep love of the Prophet (s) in your heart,
love of the Sunnah in your heart, love of the Holy
Qur’an in your heart, love of the Prophets
Companions in your heart, love of Ahl al-Bayt in your
heart - that is what is needed. Otherwise we may have
question mark [behind our words and deeds].

Allah give us long life to see Mahdi Alayhissalam,
that Prophet (s) said is coming at end of world.
Christians are waiting for Jesus, Sayyidina `Isa, and
Jews waiting for the Messiah and Muslims are waiting
for Sayyidina `Isa and Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam.
Prepare yourself, not by concern about how people are
thinking but by being good in the community and
extending a hand to everyone. Bi hurmatil Fatiha.

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq
wasalam, arief hamdani
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