How the Ottomans Defended Muslim Lands and were Betrayed - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

0:00 The Ottomans defended for centuries defended the Muslim lands. But then the Muslims turned on the Ottomans. They they turned on them. There's reasons for it. And I'm not going to deny the the Ottomans were very at that time they were uh they had lost their way as well. But they started allying with the colonialists who were promising them things and they went against their brother Muslims. The last attempt at defending Palestine. It'll bring tears to your eyes if you read the Ottoman what they tried to do to defend Palestine. And we know that uh Abdam would not sell Palestine to pay off all the debts of the Ottomans because he said it's not mine to sell. But they were betrayed and people betrayed them and now we suffer the

0:45 consequences of those people's mistakes because Allah says beware of calamities that don't just affect the guilty amongst you, they affect the innocent too. So people inherit the sins of people that went before them. In the Quran, Allah says, "No soul bears the sins of another." Some of the say in dunya they do. There's things your father does that you end up being disgraced by and people will treat you badly because of the sins of your father. There's people that are born out of wedlock and they suffer from the sin of their father. They did nothing. That ayah is in the you're not going to have any of the

1:32 calamities or the sins of anybody else in but in no we bear the sins of other people. We bear the sins of other people. We're suffering today from choices people made 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 300 years ago. We're still suffering. This country is suffering because they didn't resolve the problem of slavery at the very start. It was a problem. They were dealing with it, but they didn't. So, they had to have a civil war. We're still dealing with the problems of the Civil War today. The Confederate flag, it happened over 150 years ago. People, we're still dealing with it. Syria is going to be dealing with this civil war for generations. These things don't go away. So we were given guidance. We were given a

2:19 covenant. When the covenant is abandoned, calamities happen. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam his sunnah is the wisdom of this book. And if you look at our prophet sallall alaihi wasallam, all you have to ask, you know, the Christians have this thing, would Jesus do it? What would Jesus do? They they asked that we we have we should have the same criteria. Do you do you think the prophet sallallaihi wasallam would tell people to strap bombs on them and go blow up people innocent people? Is there anything in his sunnah that indicates that that would be a methodology that he would use? Because he was in Mecca. He could have had his Sahaba go assassinate people. They were brave. Abu Darifari was a really he was incredibly brave man. Iban

3:06 Masoud was incredibly brave. These men were lions in battle. He could have said, "Go kill secretly. Go sneak into so- and so's." He didn't do that. Why? Because that's not his methodology. What he does is out in the open. He never did anything by stealth. Other than to escape uh because Allah commanded him to do. He didn't do things by stealth. He he told people exactly what he was going to do and he did what he was going to do. He didn't shed blood. We have a cult of death. I was just reading a a book the other day and it was all about just death. Like these people love death more than life and they quote all these early things that in in war you want people to have that mentality. That's not the mentality that you want people to to just have as human

3:53 beings. The prophet said don't desire death. The only time he asks for death is fitna. He said, "Take me to you out without civil strife." And he said that when Allah wants, this is when Allah wants rahma for an ummah, he allows the prophet who gives them the message to live to see them accept the message. But when he wants to punish an ummah, the prophet who gives them the

4:38 message sees their destruction in his own life. Subhan Allah. And so our um he wanted rahma for this um he he Allah wanted rahma for this um and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said don't go become after I gave you this don't become how by killing one another say the kufur here means don't do the actions of people that don't believe in Allah as a rah because even Sahabah fought. So the wisdom of the prophet is something that we have lost in our community. We've lost it and and it's

5:26 something that we need to regain and it's regained with knowledge because the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam I was sent to teach. It's regained with humility because he was the most humble of men. And he said, "I was commanded to be humble, until no one deems himself superior to any other." Because if the prophet was humble, then who am I not to be humble? If the best of creation was humble, who am I not to be humble? The prophet was commanded to be humble. He was everything about him was wisdom. Everything he did, the way he ate, the way he sat, the way he walked, he walked briskly. He walked with intention. He didn't he didn't meander. Uh when he spoke, he spoke intelligently. He never

6:13 he never minced his words. He always spoke beautifully. If he joked, he joked with truth. And then he honored people. There's a beautiful hadith came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and she said I was sent by the women. So they picked this woman to come and speak to and she said Allah sent you to the men and the women. We believed in you and in your God. But we see Allah is given some

7:00 preference. The men, they get the the the get to gather like they get to go to Jum. They don't have problems. There's no little room in the back smelly or hidden with a curtain or something like that. No, they get to go in the big nice masid, right? The women were encouraged to pray in the homes. They can pray in the masjid but they were encouraged to pray in the home. The men go to the and the prophet said is 27 times better. And then she said and after for the woman it's she make the one time and then it's because it's and then she said and then jihad they get jihad. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,

7:46 he said, he looked at his companions with his entire face and he said, "Have you heard a better question than the question that came from this woman?" Like he's pointing out, look at the intelligence of this woman. And the Sahabah, they they said, We didn't think women could come up with things like this, right? He's teaching them. No. Right. They're your other halves, your better halves. Right. And then he said, "Yeah, listen woman." He said,

8:38 "Give salam to the women that you left who sent you." And then he said, "Understand this just being a good companion equals all of that that the men are doing. Just being a good companion equals all of that that the men are doing this amazing hadith. And that's who he was. He was somebody that elevated and honored people, male, female,

9:23 slave. You know, he had in his house Zadebar Zed. Zed was very dark and Osama was light-skinned. And some of the people they said he's not the real son because he was married to uh a dark woman also. So, how is it that he's light-skinned and these two dark people, they had light-skinned boy. So one of the Benu Medage came to his house and these people were known for like Ferrarasa in genetics and they came into the room and Zade and Osama were sleeping but their feet were outside and the one one set of feet was black and the other was white and Madrid he looked at the feet and he said

10:13 these feet are from these feet. In other words, this is the father of that the prophet called in Aisha. Aisha, did you hear that? He was so happy. He knew. But just to have that confirmation, he wanted Aisha to hear it. She would spread the news. Right? This is the prophet always elevating people. Alhamdulillah.

11:27 All ya Allah. Ya Allah. Libya.

12:14 along.