 سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ونعود بالله من شرور نفسنا ومن سيات عمالنا من يهده الله فلا مضيلا له ومن يضل الفلا هاديلا منشدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريكلا منشدوا أن محمدا نعبده ورسوله وبعد فإن أصدق الحديث كتاب الله وقار الهديه هدي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وإياكم ومحدثات الأمور فإن كل محدثات بدعا وكل بدعات طلالة وكل طلالة في النار يا أيها الذين آمنوا التقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتنا إلا وانتوا مسلمون محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم الله سبحانه وتعالى خلقنا وخلقنا وخلقنا من so many of his creations الله has given us عقل with which we are able to think and عقل means that you are able to know the right from the wrong and once you are able to know it is not just a matter of knowing it but more important than that is acting upon it so when Allah gives us this عقل so that you can know the facts and the truth and then act on it and believe in it it is important for us also to know how are you going to act on it on what you are allowed to and what you can't do and what you can't do if we see those who are the enemies of Islam they are basically everybody including many who call themselves Muslims including many who call themselves Muslims and only if you go and study Quran and Sunnah and the history of Islam and those things which happened before was even born and those things which happened in his lifetime and those things which happened in the lifetime of a Sahaba الله تعالى عليه مجمعين many things will come and answers will be given without asking anybody else if you know what enemies of Islam they are keeping for us the amount of hatred they keep against us the opportunities which they are looking for any opportunity to come and destroy us things which are happening where they do not declare openly that they fight Muslims or they want to destroy and kill you but would come under different agendas and different names there are too many if you know how much they hate us you would never have a single moment in your life where you would rest but you would be fully awake finding out ways to defend and protect the owner which Allah has given you and there is no other better owner than the owner of Islam which Allah has given you الله سبحانه وتعالى made it very clear when he said لتجدنا أشد الناس عداوة للذين آمنوا اليهودة والذين أشركوا that you will see that those who are the most severe enemies of Muslims are those who call themselves Jews and who are pagans مشركين now for a person to be a Jew it does not mean that he has a certificate a bad certificate a driving license a passport in which it is written he is a Jew and for a person to be a mushrik he does not need to be born in India which looks like he is the core of all the mushrikين where majority of them they live at least those who worship idols no you can be anywhere you could be calling yourself anything you could be hidden behind so many agendas which nobody would know and even you may not know about it meaning that the person who is a part of one of either being a pagan or a Yahudi but what is important to us to know what these people are and how to keep yourself protected from it I would like to go back today 1430 years ago in مأركة الخندق the battle of trench the battle of Ahzab when Salman Al-Farsi ربي الله تعالى عنه who originally is a Christian from Iran who kept on looking for truth from being a child of those who worship fire then on his long journey he ends up in Madina because he was guided that this is the place where the prophet would come which ends up being really what it was told to him what he was told Salman Al-Farsi and the other Sahabas they are digging that trench to protect Madina from outside invaders now in the duration of that when they were digging the trench there was this big rock very solid and it was a special of Salman Al-Farsi he was the one who was doing it there and he was he had very mighty shoulders he was meaning that he had a lot of strength and he could not break it so he went to Rasool Allah he said asking him to help him so he said he wanted to tell Rasool Allah look we cannot dig from here why don't we dive a little bit and dig from the other side Rasool Allah he said give me the pick so he said he started to hit it Allah has given him certain powers including that he was a strong a steady man and this is authentically recorded and the blessings of Allah which comes to him whenever Allah wants to give it to him so he hit it for the first time and he said Allah who opened and Salman Al-Farsi he is saying that light came out I could not verify the authenticity of this particular word but Rasool Allah he said that I have been given by the light or he could see in the vision the palace of the Romans and then he hit it for the second time then he was shown the palace of Qisra the white palace of Qisra which was in Iran then for the third time on the third hit he was shown the palaces of Yemen he said Allah has promised the Sahabas that this is what you people are going to conquer and it will belong to the Muslims now this one said in the 50th of Hijrah after that by 11 years Salman رضي الله تعالى عنه سعدي بن أبي وقاص رضي الله تعالى عنه درار بن الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه when he said Allah عليه السلام said that he was not a Muslim but he had about it and he became Muslim later on all these people are moving towards that side and that is Al-Mada'in where this palace in the surroundings were now we are talking about about 150 to 160 kilometers away from the current Baghdad and all of these things are happening in Iraq in Iran now to understand more this place was overpowered and taken by Persians known as Fuss now these people they worshipped fire as their official religion so whatever battles which took place between the Sahabas and whoever came later on till today it is not not about the region it's about the belief in religion and that is those Persians they taught and they still believe that Islam came and Muslims and then they include Arabs they have taken this land from us it belongs to our forefathers the worshippers of the fire and so forth this thing I am saying it started 1430 years ago when the Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gave that blooddaring in the battle of Trench and now 11 years later those Sahabas they are walking in to take that place they know the promise of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and how these things are going to happen the first the captain losing all their battles is others the Romans on the other side they hadith keep on saying and everything almost happened as it is being written in the historical events such as إبن كثير تاريك الأمم والملوك إبن جريرة طبري and so many other historical books now then they were moving and conquering in the end we see that these Persians they ran to the other side of the river known as الدجلة in English they call it tigris river of tigris which is one of the major rivers the other one is this one tigris and they took all the boats and seized all the other boats so that the Muslims they cannot cross from this side of the river to the other side and it was around the month of March at that time when the river flow is very high all flooded and very hard to cross to the other side without boats and now they were well fortified in that palace there out on the other side and then they thought that whatever the Muslims will be able to come and take over them take over them but Allah سبحانه و تعالى He wanted it to happen and that is what will happen and definitely would happen when Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqasi gets their likes of Ka'qa and others amongst them these are all famous names in the battles of Islam amazing there were we only know few such as among them now they had to cross this river Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqasi the commander he did this and he saw a vision and he did understand from that that they would cross it to the other side he from his 60,000 soldiers chose as volunteer who would go to the other side 600 they decided to be the first ones among those another 60 were chosen to be the first ones then the next 600 and the 60,000 soldiers to follow later on they went inside the river of course the patients they could not believe that they are crossing it never came in their mind that they would cross this river regardless of whatever it is so the patients they decided to send their soldiers inside so that they could fight the Muslims in the river which was a big mistake by them and they ended up losing the battles they were not able to attack the patients were not able to attack from that side because their own people were there mixed with the Muslims they could not sling they could not throw bows and arrows or anything like that or spears the Muslims they took care of them and then they penetrated there and in a matter of very limited time Allah SWT granted them victory including that the entire army could cross the river and come to the other side and they took their place now we see that the the Qisra the emperor he lost and he ran away and everything was granted to the Muslims and he gave the Taqwira again and said that this is what Allah SWT has promised us and today we are taking it now all of them they ran away they dispersed here and they are small crowds big crowds and they decided to stand and have at least last stand and مهران was one of them as a qaid and few others and then they decided to have their final of the stages being set up in جلولة جلولة there they did lots of trenches and they fortified themselves صاعد بن أبيب قاس he asked the permission from طب and then he sent رضي الله تعالى عنه with 12,000 soldiers and they were able to siege the place and it continued for about 7 or 8 months and it was very difficult telling the end they decided that the patients they decided to come out and find the Muslims with the deed but that was the end of them because the Muslims they kept on fighting them المجاهدون and they had اعين those are the patients where if the Muslims will come they will get trapped in it and naturally die but it so happened that it became the trap for them and their horses were trapped in those traps which they were setting they had set up and they had to get out of the horses and fight the Muslims in the end they lost about 100,000 soldiers were killed 100,000 soldiers of the patients were killed and Muslims were just 12,000 in that battle and that was just more you might say the final showdown in which they lost and they ran away and they could not do anything after hardly ever there was many to run away anyway what I am trying to tell if they lost hundreds and thousands of people defending what they think belongs to them do you think that they have forgotten it 1430 years now? والله by Allah no they openly say it but we can't read they openly declare it but we refuse to understand they openly say this is what we are going to do but we close our eyes why? this is what we are going to know in the next goodbye إنه في ذلك العبرة لما تذكر فتح عدو يا أولي الباب إن الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام وعلى رسول الله والباب when Allah made it very clear لتجدن أشد الناس عداوة للذين آمنوا اليهودة والذين أشركوا that they are the worst of your enemies how come we recite it every day how come we understand the meaning how come we read the translation but we are not able to relate it to the current events it is not meant to be something only which is there and you can only relate it to the current affairs of that time it is meant to be اليوم الدينة اليوم أتملت لكم دينكم وأتملت عليكم نعمتي وردت لكم الإسلام الدينة so whatever has happened had happened again and it has been repeated multiple times and still it is being repeated today so we have to be very careful of what is happening in all those places it is not patience in Arabs it is not patience in Fulan it is Islam this is in the end of the day this is what it is all about and that's why we have to be careful رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم has warned us multiple times with various narrations we see with different wordings such as when he is صلى الله عليه وسلم he said لا تداع الأكلة على قصعتها قالوا يا رسول الله أو من قلة نحن يومئذ قال لا أنتم يومئذ كثف ولكنكم جثائك جثائي السيل ولا ينزي عن الله المهابة من قلوب يعدائكم ولا ينزي لنا في قلوبكم الوهن قالوا يا رسول الله وما الوهن قال حب الدنيا وكراهية الموت وسدق رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم سوف نحاول الوقت when the enemies will come from everywhere inviting each others to come and kill your people kill who Pakistani kill Indians, kill Afghanis kill Iranis kill Yemenis, kill Saudis kill who kill Muslims kill Muslims تداع عليكم الأمامة to who? against who? Muslims he did not sing aloud this and that no based on Islam only so the Sahabas they thought that we would be too few in numbers رسول الله said no you are too many but the strength of the iman is gone you people have nothing of significance in yourself as being a Muslim meaning that we lack a lot in that that is what he said and the fear which the kufar behave from you people would be gone and the weakness will come and overtake your heart what is this weakness يا رسول الله they know of course we know it is weakness but they say what you really mean خالى شب الدنيا وكراهية الموت your love for this dunya and your fear of death our love for this dunya we are ready to step down from all the rights which Allah has given you for the love of this dunya you are ready to be away each and every command of Allah to get some part of this dunya for this dunya is so much that you are ready to go over the board in everything so that you can get even one single dollar your fear has become because of the love you have for this dunya and everything you do is tense for this dunya that you fear dying if somebody comes and tells you that you are going to die next minute what will you say what will really if you know you are going to die when the doctor gives you time that you have got only one week to die what are you going to do and here you don't know maybe in next minute or next second you die and still you do not fear at all so let us see among those at least let us be among those who know be vigilant and know what is around you and who your friends are who your enemies are who your allies are my brothers and sisters in Islam it is very important not only to pray but to know what happens to you and the rest of the Muslims if you are not careful enough if you do not have this strength to stand on your own foot when he said that is a lot of wisdom behind it when Allah is ordering you to be prepared be strong not only in iman also in physical sense also in military sense in every sense why if you are strong nobody dares to touch you are they the strong ones ones whose countries are invaded by others are they the strong ones never they are the ones who are always weak those who receive are always weak the rich people they dominate receivers are poor people the rich people they dominate receivers, recipients are those who are poor so he exactly does apply in every sense of life and living when he said give us courage in iman and we stand strong for the sake of Allah و لا يأخذنا في الله لو متلاعب الله منصرنا على الكفر والملحذين اللهم انصر المجاهدين الذين يجاهدون في سبيلك لعلاي كلمتك يا رحم الراحمين سبحان ربك رب العزة والسلام علي المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين أقيموا السر أشاد ولا إله إي الله أشاد وهنا محمد الرسول الله أعيّل الصلاة أعيّل الفلاح قد قامت الصلاة قد قامت الصلاة الله أكبر الله وكبر لا إله إي الله استأقيم الله أكبر خلال الله أعب العالمين رحمن رحيم مالك يوم الدين إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين مهدنا السعات المستقيم سرات الذين أنعمت عليهم بير المضوب عليهم ولدال لي خل يا أيها الكافرون لا أعبد ما تعبدون ولا أنتم عابدون لكم دينكم وليا دين الله أكبر الله أكبر الحمد لله رب العالمين رحمن رحيم مالك يوم الدين إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين إهدنا السعات المستقيم سرات الذين أنعمت عليهم بير المضوب عليهم ولدال ورعيت الناس يدخلون في دين الله فسبح بحمد ربك واستغفره إنه كان سميع الله ممن حمد الله أكبر السلام عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله we have our monthly lecture tomorrow if you start straight after Salat al-Maghrib would continue till Salat al-Rasha and then I would be saved straight after Salat al-Rasha you and your families all are welcome if you have anybody who is not a Muslim and interested also bring him we are insha'Allah going to have our global messenger day 16th of May in the Autea square in Oakland city بإذن الله more than 50 countries are taking part in it the theme is about Muhammad Salat al-Maghrib all of you are invited if you are able to please do contact us we will start in this masjid by 9 in the morning where there will be a small course given and then after that we would proceed to the city those brothers who are blocking others please remove your vehicles before you pray your Salat مرحبا