 The Calamity of the Thursday is an event that broke the heart of Abdullah ibn Abbas. Abdullah ibn Abbas, the prophet's cousin, narrates it. The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa ala, when he was dying, he ordered the Muslims to leave and join the army of Osama ibn Zaid to fight against the Romans. The Romans again had prepared their armies and so Osama had taken the men. The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa ala, said all men must join Osama except for Bani Hashim. Bani Hashim stayed behind. And then he mentioned that famous hadith, may Allah deprive his mercy from the ones who do not join the army of Osama. Interestingly, some people did not join the army of Osama. And the question is why? And that is truly an intriguing question. If the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala said you have to join the army of Osama except for Bani Hashim, so Bani Hashim are staying behind. Everyone else must be with the army of Osama. Now in the Calamity of Thursday it tells us that an individual was not there among the army of Osama. Ibn Abba says, and he was crying when he was selling this hadith, crying to the point where his tears started to wet the pebbles that he was standing on. There was pebbles underneath him. That's how much he was crying, that the pebbles became wet. And he was like, you know what a calamity it was. He was crying. They asked him what is it? What happened? Sahih al-Bukhari says the following. This is how Sahih al-Bukhari narrates it. That he says, Ibn Abbas says the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala was on his deathbed and he asked the Muslims for a writing instrument, you know, du'at. And what we call today like something to write on, a katef. Katef at the time they used to write also on the shoulder of the camel. You know, paper was not something that was common at the time. So they used to write on the shoulder of the camel or sometimes on leather, for example, on skin. On the shoulder of the camel was a big, it's a bit large, so some people used to use it for writing. So he said, adhuni bi katefin wa du'at. You know, like a paper and pen, for example, in today's language. So that I can write for you a will that you will never go astray. Interestingly, you'll never go astray once you adhere to this will. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala according to Sahih Muslim says, I am leaving amongst you Muslims. This is prior to this incident. I am leaving amongst you two things, the book of Allah and my progeny. Atrati, ahla bayti, not sunnati, refer to Sahih Muslim. Atrati, he says, my progeny. Allah Allah bi ahla bayti, Allah Allah bi ahla bayti, Allah Allah bi ahla bayti, as narrating Sahih Muslim, that take care of my family, take care of my family. I'm leaving amongst you two things, the book of Allah and sunnati. In another other narrations, if you hold on to these two things, you will never go astray. When those people who are standing there heard that the prophet wants to write something down here so that they will never go astray, well guess what, put two and two together, the prophet apparently is trying to officially in writing write down that Ali and his family are to be full, you know, followed. Now, some people argued, they said, well, the prophet did not know how to read and write, so when he was asking for paper and pen, you know, he's probably hallucinating, our argument is when he says, get me a paper and pen or the equivalent of paper and pen, it's not necessarily that he was the one who was going to write it, he was dictated, Abdullah ibn al-Abbas was there, you know, other people were there, so he could have dictated it, so that argument does not hold. Now, the man was standing there, according to Bukhari, a man said that the pain has overtaken him. In other words, he's hallucinating, he doesn't know what he's talking about, so don't get him, so he stopped the paper and the pen to be delivered to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi, and apparently he did it in such a way that he was not by himself, there were others with him, he just was the one who was vocal about it, and he said, hasbuna kitabullah, the book of Allah is enough for us, that's how Sahih al-Bukhari narrates the incident, Sahih Muslim puts the name, he says, qala umar, ghalab alaihi al-waja, umar ibn al-Khattab says that the pain has overtaken him. Question, if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi says, onfudu jayshah usama, you should follow the army of usama. Why is umar ibn al-Khattab still in Medina, when the prophet also says, may Allah deprive his mercy from those who do not follow the army of usama, and I'll leave that question up to the expected viewers to answer. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi, the minute he says something, it becomes indoctrinated. Allah says in Surat al-Ahzab, male and female believers, whenever Allah or his messenger mandate something, dictate something, say something, then they have no choice to argue against it. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi did not need to put anything in writing, his words are enough. He however wanted to demonstrate to the Muslims on his deathbed that look at those people and look who they are. First of all, subhanallah, history has recorded that those people remained even after Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi ordered them to join the army of usama. So maybe Allah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wanted to demonstrate this, so history records it. Yes, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi could have written it maybe even the time of the Risala because Allah had told him that Imam alaihi sallam would be his successor. However, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wanted to demonstrate now that he has said the event of Ghadir, he has officially declared Imam alaihi sallallahu alaihi sallam as his successor. On his deathbed, he wanted to make his will now that he is dying. He wanted to put it in writing. This event, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wanted to demonstrate that look at these people and look what they have done. Interestingly, my dear brother and my dear viewers, I would like to also mention this incident. There is an individual who's written a book called Warakiptu Safina. His name is Marwan Khalifat. Marwan says, I was not of the follower of Ahlul Bayt alaihi Mus'ala. I was studying in the Islamic college in a Muslim country. With us was a Shia who was studying in the same Islamic college in that particular country. We knew he was a Shia, but he was studying in this college kind of university studies. One day he said I was kind of talking to him and I really wanted to kind of fix his beliefs, correct his theology by making him of Ahlul Sunnahi wa al-Jama'a. So I started having a conversation with him and we were friends. Then he looked at me and said, listen, before we really engage in this discussion, what I would really like you to answer me is one thing. He said, what? Explain to me raziya to yawm al-khamees. Describe to me the tragedy of the Thursday. If you can really answer that question for me, would you allow anyone to say something like this about your prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi? Would you accept that from anybody to say or suggest that he is hallucinating? This man said I was shocked. I said, what is this? What happened? He said, you know what, go back to Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, read about it and then come back and explain it to me. He says, when I went back, I read it. I was in a shock. How could this person, whom I revered so highly, whom I respect so greatly, have said something like this against my prophet? Would I have accepted this from anyone else? And he says, when I met my friend, I told him, you know what? I have no answer. I'm speechless. He says, so what do you think? He says, that was the start of my journey to become the follower of Ahlu al-Bayt, alaihim as-salā. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wanted that history to be documented, that incident to be documented. So people who have some enlightened hearts and minds, like this individual who followed the path of Ahlu al-Bayt because of that one incident, and hence the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi possibly did not do it earlier, did not do it later because he really wanted history to document this incident at that stage, at that point when he is leaving this dunya, so that people can discover the truth and follow the truth.