Morality Redefined: Jahiliya - Sayed Ahmed Al-Qazwini || 4th Muharram 2017

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In this discussion, Sayed Ahmed Al-Qazwini reflects back on the Pre-Islamic period of Ignorance/Jahiliya, showcasing some of the good qualities in that society that Islam maintained and encouraged like generosity and preserving one's dignity. On the contrary, the light is also shed on some bad practices that occurred due to the distorted moral compass of society, like giving ugly/repulsive names to children and burying young daughters alive. Al-Rasoul Islamic Society || The Holy Month of Muharram 2017

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[1:47]respected brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum mohammad wa barakatu every culture and

[1:55]society has certain good and bad habits customs and values there is

[2:02]no culture or society that we can say is all bad that

[2:08]only has bad habits and bad values and customs and likewise there

[2:13]is no single culture or society that is all good that all

[2:18]their practices are noble virtuous and good each society and culture will

[2:24]have both good and bad and when we come to study the

[2:30]period of al jahiliyah the culture and the society that rasulullah was

[2:37]sent to the same law applies when we study al jahiliyah we

[2:43]find that there were many good qualities that the people of al

[2:48]jahiliyah had many good habits and likewise there were many bad habits

[2:53]and bad qualities that they possessed and we'll mention a few examples

[2:58]amongst the good qualities of the arabs in al jahiliyah as you

[3:02]know was generosity most arabs in the jahiliyah were generous not only

[3:09]were they generous but they admired this quality they saw it as

[3:13]a noble and virtuous quality and they all tried to become generous

[3:18]they used to boast about being generous they used to hold competitions

[3:23]between tribes to see which tribe is the most generous tribe and

[3:28]once a tribe would succeed and prevail as being the most generous

[3:32]tribe they would be given a prize which tribe feeds the most

[3:38]people which tribe has the most guests in their houses and you

[3:43]find someone that was known to be very generous in the community

[3:48]was exalted and considered as a national hero someone like you have

[3:53]hatam altai hatam altai is considered as a hero a legend in

[3:58]the arabian culture why the only thing that he had that he

[4:02]was that was special about him was his generosity because of his

[4:06]generosity he's considered as a hero as a legend he never rejected

[4:11]anyone his house was open every single day people would come and

[4:15]eat whether you're rich or poor you could go to his house

[4:19]any day and you will find food available he would never reject

[4:23]and they say even sometimes some people would come eat they would

[4:26]leave and come again and eat he would not tell them to

[4:29]leave his house was always open for guests whoever does not have

[4:33]a place to sleep he was always welcome to go to his

[4:36]house and for his generosity he is revered another character that is

[4:43]considered as a generous person in the arabian culture was the grandfather

[4:47]of rasulullah hashim hashim was a very generous man and he was

[4:52]the first person to feed the people of mecca when there was

[4:56]a famine and that's why he was called hashem he was the

[5:05]first person that prepared food for the hujjaj and he fed all

[5:09]the hujjaj and thus he was known to be very generous so

[5:13]this quality was a good quality of the jahiliyah the people of

[5:16]the jahiliyah another good quality of the arabs of jahiliyah was their

[5:20]bravery and courage to them being brave and courageous was very important

[5:25]they used to raise their children in a way in which they

[5:29]made sure they were raised to be brave and courageous and they

[5:32]would not be afraid to fight and they would be taught at

[5:35]a young age to not fear death another good quality of the

[5:39]people of al jahiliyah is they had respect for the four the

[5:43]four sacred months there was no fighting during four months out of

[5:48]the year during muharram rajab the qadad al hajjab they had respect

[5:53]for these four months and no one would fight they would stop

[5:56]all the fighting another good quality of the people of jahiliyah the

[6:00]arabs was their high sense of dignity the izzah that they had

[6:07]izzat nefiz that they had the high sense of dignity and honor

[6:12]and self respect that's why you see an arabian person back then

[6:16]would never beg he would rather die than beg because his honor

[6:19]came before everything else not only he would not beg he would

[6:24]never even ask other people for help even his family members and

[6:28]friends he did not want anyone to know that he's in need

[6:31]because his honor was first he considered that as a way in

[6:35]which he's dishonored that's why sometimes a man would sleep hungry while

[6:39]he could ask his father he could ask his brother his cousin

[6:42]his uncle but he did not want to appear in a way

[6:44]in which he's in need because honor to them was the most

[6:48]important thing in their lives they would sacrifice their lives for their

[6:52]honor and dignity and you find not every culture is like that

[6:56]there are some certain cultures where they have more important priorities over

[7:00]honor for example you find in certain western communities in certain western

[7:05]cultures to them the most important thing to them is the economy

[7:09]even if it's at the cost of their dignity and honor and

[7:12]that's why you see in the us they chose a president who

[7:15]is not a moral human being they all know he's not moral

[7:19]he's indecent he uses vulgar language and it is a disgrace for

[7:24]their young ones to grow up seeing that this person is the

[7:28]president but yet they chose him why because they said he will

[7:31]make the economy better so as long as he will make the

[7:34]economy better i am willing to accept this immoral person as my

[7:38]president to them economy is more important than dignity and morality to

[7:42]the arabs they would never do that dignity was the most important

[7:46]thing they would die for the sake of their dignity and that's

[7:50]why one of the famous poets of the jahiliyah by the name

[7:53]of antara ibn shaddad he has a very famous poem some of

[7:58]you have memorized it about the dignity of the arabs and how

[8:01]important is for the arab he says in those lines he says

[8:23]he says don't give me in his poem don't give me a

[8:27]sweet drink at the cost of my dignity i don't care how

[8:32]sweet that drink is as if it is at the cost of

[8:35]my dignity i don't want it in fact he says i would

[8:39]rather take a drink that is bitter if my dignity is preserved

[8:43]he says because if you give me a sweet drink at the

[8:47]cost of my dignity that sweet drink will be like jahannam the

[8:51]hell fires but if you put me in the hellfire and preserve

[8:54]my dignity i will consider that as paradise so to him the

[8:58]fires of hell is paradise as long as his what his dignity

[9:02]is preserved this was very important to them so you find these

[9:06]are certain good qualities that the arabs of al jahiliyah had and

[9:10]when islam came rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was sent he accepted all

[9:16]of these norms he said these are good norms these are good

[9:19]qualities that they will stay in islam it is recommended for a

[9:23]muslim to be generous and to help other people feed other people

[9:27]it is recommended it is good that a muslim is brave and

[9:30]courageous and he does not fear death islam you find the same

[9:34]idea of al ashhor al hurom it put that in place and

[9:37]it we are not allowed to fight in al ashhor al hurom

[9:40]those four sacred months and likewise islam teaches it adherence it's adherence

[9:46]to always have a high sense of dignity don't lower yourself don't

[9:51]humiliate yourself for worldly items don't never compromise your dignity and that's

[9:56]why amongst the most famous lines of imam al hussain that we

[10:01]all use and we recite from a'shurah is what never imam al

[10:08]hussain said never will i accept humiliation i don't care if yazid

[10:12]gives me the entire world i will never accept living under the

[10:16]tyranny of yazid because my karamah dignity is more important than the

[10:20]entire world he says if i die with my dignity it is

[10:28]better than to live in humiliation so you find islam likewise says

[10:32]never compromise your dignity your dignity comes before everything else so these

[10:37]are the good qualities of the jahiliyah period and then of course

[10:41]there were some bad qualities there were some bad evil practices immoral

[10:46]practices that they had in the jahiliyah amongst the worst practices that

[10:51]they had is that when someone would become broke bankrupt and he

[10:58]would begin to suffer from poverty they would sometimes kill their children

[11:04]so that their children would not suffer from poverty as well and

[11:08]so that they would not be burdened by the liability of the

[11:12]child a father he goes broke bankrupt he can't spend he's suffering

[11:16]from poverty what does he do he says let me kill my

[11:19]small children why first of all i'll be relieved so i don't

[11:22]have to spend on them they're a liability and number two they

[11:25]will be relieved so that they don't have to go through what

[11:28]through poverty and all these hardships so they would go and they

[11:31]would kill their children whether boys or girls and that's why the

[11:35]holy quran says about this in a few verse allah says don't

[11:41]kill your children because you fear poverty allah is the razaq allah

[11:48]is the sustainer don't worry about poverty allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he

[11:52]will sustain your child don't kill him because you fear poverty for

[11:56]your child allah mentions this in a few verses why because this

[12:00]was a problem in the arabian society that they would kill their

[12:03]children because of poverty so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he spoke against

[12:08]this in the holy quran and there is a famous poem about

[12:13]a person who killed his daughter because he was bankrupt and he

[12:19]did not want her to suffer from poverty so after he buried

[12:23]her he killed her and buried her he said these words he

[12:27]says i'm afraid one day poverty will affect my daughter he says

[12:54]that i'm afraid poverty will affect my daughter that's why i buried

[12:58]her and killed her and then he says because mercy because i

[13:02]killed her out of mercy so that she does not suffer from

[13:05]poverty and he says that death and grave for her was mercy

[13:09]for her so this was their mentality that if you can't support

[13:12]your child then kill them and subhanallah this mentality still exists till

[13:16]today how in a different way you know many women in the

[13:20]west they commit they perform abortions they get pregnant for whatever reason

[13:27]they don't want the child they go to a clinic and they

[13:30]kill the child why do they have abortions there's a few reasons

[13:34]but one of the most common reasons i read in some statistics

[13:38]up to maybe thirty to thirty five percent of abortions are caused

[13:43]for what reason because the mother says i am afraid i won't

[13:47]be able to provide for my child the same exact reason why

[13:54]in the jahiliyah they used to kill their children because they were

[13:57]afraid that they're not able to spend on the child now which

[14:00]is not the jahiliyah this is the twenty first century and we're

[14:03]so advanced correct but yet you find thousands upon thousands of women

[14:08]they kill their children every year for the same silly reason because

[14:11]they are afraid they won't be able to provide for their children

[14:15]allah says in the holy quran don't kill your child because you

[14:21]fear poverty allah has the razik don't worry leave it on allah

[14:27]so this is one of the bad habits that the people of

[14:32]al jahiliyah in the time of rasulullah had another bad habit that

[14:36]they had during jahiliyah was of course they used to bury their

[14:40]daughters and i'll speak more about that in a few minutes they

[14:42]used to bury their daughters alive as soon as they were born

[14:45]because it was a disgrace and i'll speak about that in few

[14:47]minutes another bad habit was that they used to give their children

[14:52]ugly repulsive names names that were very rough and they either had

[14:57]no meaning or they had a bad meaning they used to name

[15:00]their children names of animals they used to name them names such

[15:05]as for example abu sufyan do you know what his name was

[15:08]saqr ibn harb the rock rock son of war how can you

[15:13]say name your son rock and his father's name was harb and

[15:17]another name was murrah someone's name was bitter for example and all

[15:21]these other repulsive names that they used to give to their children

[15:24]and they used to think this is a good thing because when

[15:27]my child grows up and he goes to the battlefield his name

[15:30]will scare the enemy that was their what that was their mentality

[15:34]another another evil practice that they had or bad practice that they

[15:39]had in the jahiliyah was you find that they used to always

[15:43]side with their family member or tribesmen even if they were wrong

[15:48]and that's why they had a famous quote that said you always

[15:54]if there is a problem a feud a fight always side with

[15:58]your family member with your tribesmen whether they are the oppressor or

[16:02]the oppressed even if he's wrong as long as he's related to

[16:06]me and he's my tribesman i will stand with him this was

[16:08]also something evil and you find islam it came and rejected rasulullah

[16:13]he came and he made and he said this is the wrong

[16:15]mentality he said you have to always stand with the oppressed and

[16:23]stand against the oppressor even if he's your brother or father or

[16:26]whoever he is another of the practices in the jahiliyah that was

[16:30]evil is you find their arrogance their arrogance was embedded in everything

[16:36]in life that my tribe is better than your tribe i'm from

[16:39]this lineage i'm from this family i have more money arrogance was

[16:44]instilled in the hearts of most people it was embedded in the

[16:48]society and they were stubborn if it wasn't my way it's the

[16:52]highway and that's why you see abu farras al hamdani likewise you

[16:56]see the arabic poems they always reflect the arabian culture that's why

[16:59]i'm mentioning these poems he speaks about this quality in the arabs

[17:03]he says he says we're a people that have no moderation we

[17:14]either want to be the first the best on top or we'll

[17:19]take the grave i want to die i don't want to live

[17:21]there's no middle path either it's my word it's my way i'm

[17:25]the best or i'll die i don't want any settlements i don't

[17:30]want any middle course it's either the best or the grave so

[17:37]this was also something a bad practice of the jahiliy another bad

[17:41]practice was they used to belittle women and consider them as second

[17:45]class citizens and so on and so forth you can see many

[17:48]of these read them in history now and usually when someone commits

[17:56]when someone commits something immoral something bad something evil a crime usually

[18:03]they are aware of of the evil that they're doing the immorality

[18:06]that they're doing they know that they're doing something bad they acknowledge

[18:10]it and the reason behind that is because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[18:15]has given us a conscience intellect and through it he programmed us

[18:22]to know what's right and wrong when i do something bad how

[18:27]do i know it's bad i don't need other people to tell

[18:29]me i can feel it i know it why because allah programmed

[18:33]me in that way he says that in the quran where he

[18:36]says allah says that he created the nafs and he programmed the

[18:46]nafs to know good and bad how do we know even a

[18:49]child as growing he knows what's bad and what's good why because

[18:54]allah programmed the human being to know what's bad and good and

[18:57]that's why many a times when we do something immoral or evil

[19:01]we begin to have guilt and remorse why because allah has placed

[19:05]within us that conscience that rebukes and scolds me and it makes

[19:11]me feel bad for committing either a sin or a crime or

[19:14]anything that is immoral now this is the natural disposition of the

[19:19]human being that he can tell between right and wrong he can

[19:23]distinguish between what's right and wrong but the problem is that sometimes

[19:30]there are certain external factors that alter this device that allah has

[19:36]given the human being this sense that he can tell between right

[19:39]and wrong there are some external factors that may alter that may

[19:45]manipulate the human being's understanding of what's right and wrong and that's

[19:49]why you'll find this device will malfunction sometimes the human being's ability

[19:55]to differentiate between hap and baat and right and wrong may not

[19:59]work in the right way because of the external factors like what

[20:03]like the societal teachings society the environment sometimes can change my understanding

[20:09]of what's right and wrong another factor my upbringing the way in

[20:14]which my parents they raise me this can change my natural disposition

[20:19]understanding of what's right and wrong in one hadith the holy prophet

[20:23]sallallahu alaihi sallam is narrated saying every human being is born innocent

[20:31]he's born in the state of fitra and that innate nature where

[20:35]he knows allah he knows what's right and wrong but then the

[20:38]prophet says but it's the parents that what it's the parents that

[20:52]alter this fitra of the child that they change the child's direction

[20:57]and he starts going the wrong path they change the the the

[21:01]natural disposition of the child so if you leave a child and

[21:04]you don't play with his mind the child will grow to know

[21:08]allah to know right and wrong but sometimes the society and the

[21:12]parents the upbringing it may change and alter that and at times

[21:16]it can become so severe our understanding of what's right and wrong

[21:21]can become so perverted that we will develop a completely new understanding

[21:27]of what's right and wrong what do i mean what i mean

[21:31]is that sometimes the society manipulates our understanding so much that right

[21:37]in our eyes becomes wrong and wrong becomes right yes something that

[21:43]is in essence good it becomes bad in my eyes and something

[21:48]that is bad in essence immoral it becomes good and this is

[21:52]what happened in al jahiliyah to a degree that their sense of

[21:58]understanding of what's right and wrong was completely upside down and inshaallah

[22:04]tonight i'll speak about the jahiliyah and how the immorality how they

[22:09]lost their moral compass and i'll give you examples and tomorrow i'll

[22:14]speak about the moral compass of the western societies and how in

[22:18]the west they have also lost their moral compass but today i'll

[22:22]speak about the jahiliyah you see in the jahiliyah like we said

[22:25]allah has given you intellect conscience and through it it gives you

[22:30]a moral compass it tells you what's right and wrong but like

[22:34]i said because of the society's teachings and the upbringing you find

[22:38]that many of the good things they turn into bad many of

[22:41]the bad things they turn into good let me give you a

[22:43]few examples but first there were some good things in essence that

[22:57]the people the arabs of al jahiliyah they saw as bad negative

[23:02]they saw it as immoral as wrong shameful even though in essence

[23:06]it's something good very good very noble like what one example is

[23:13]your relationship with your children in essence it is very good to

[23:19]be merciful with your children it is very good that i show

[23:25]them mercy i show them affection i show them love i kiss

[23:29]my children our hadith tell us that if you just kiss your

[23:32]child allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you ajar take your small

[23:36]child and kiss them show them love and affection this is one

[23:40]of the qualities of a mu'min to be merciful to be nice

[23:44]with our children it's recommended to do all of that now this

[23:48]in essence it's good but when you cut when you came to

[23:51]al jahiliyah you found a completely different picture you would find that

[23:56]the people of al jahiliyah to them to the fathers it was

[24:00]a weakness to be merciful with your child it was considered as

[24:04]iib as a shameful act to kiss your child can you believe

[24:10]that something that is so good so noble it becomes aib it

[24:13]becomes a stigma in the society it becomes as a disgraceful act

[24:18]in the society no man in the arabian peninsula would dare kiss

[24:22]his child in front of people everyone would talk about it and

[24:25]look did you see this guy has no shame he kissed his

[24:28]child why because it was expected for a man to be rough

[24:32]and tough he had to be manly and he had to always

[24:35]you know frown no mercy no laughing no playing with children this

[24:38]is for the woman so a man would be condemned stigmatized if

[24:43]he would kiss his child and that's why the arabs would not

[24:47]kiss their child rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he's the symbol manifestation

[24:53]of mercy he used to always kiss hassan hussain the arabs were

[24:56]so surprised what type of man is this in front of everyone

[24:59]he has no shame he's kissing his grandchildren this is so ape

[25:03]and up until now unfortunately some arab communities they still have that

[25:07]that they don't kiss their children they want to be manly tough

[25:11]correct in some certain tribal areas they still believe in this and

[25:14]they still have these jahiliyah qualities and practices still till now in

[25:20]one tradition it's narrated that a man by the name of al

[25:24]aqra ibn habas once again remember the names his name was al

[25:27]agraq the one who's bald can you imagine you name your child

[25:30]the bald one and his father's name was habes habes a person

[25:34]that traps other people or confines other people so rasulullah the hadith

[25:39]says in front of this man al aqra ibn habes he took

[25:44]imam al hasan was a child and he kissed him al aqraha

[25:47]was shocked you rasoolallah what did you just do you kiss your

[25:51]child and then al aqraha told rasoolallah you rasoolallah i have 10

[25:55]children and i have never kissed any one of them in my

[25:59]life 10 children maybe ten twenty years he's had children and he's

[26:03]never ever and he's boasting about it he feels proud about not

[26:07]kissing his children he should be ashamed of himself that he never

[26:10]showed mercy but this was their understanding of rights and wrong do

[26:14]you see their moral compass how distorted it was do you see

[26:17]their understanding of right and wrong how it was upside down that

[26:22]kissing my child is bad and i will feel proud if i

[26:26]don't kiss my child and that's why they used to be amazed

[26:28]at rasulullah in another hadith it's narrated that an arabi a bedouin

[26:33]he came to rasulullah and he told him do you really kiss

[26:36]your children there was rumors no way muhammad and his people he

[26:39]kisses his children his grandchildren do you really kiss your children rasulullah

[26:43]said yes he says we never kiss our children this is something

[26:47]that we feel ashamed and this is something wrong in our communities

[26:51]rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says what should i do to you

[26:54]if allah has not placed any mercy in your heart in the

[26:57]other hadith he says if you don't show mercy to at least

[27:02]your children then don't expect allah to be merciful with you at

[27:06]least begin with your children be nice be soft be merciful with

[27:11]them play with them yes rasulullah used to play he's a messenger

[27:14]of allah and he used to play with imam hassan imam hussein

[27:19]and in the famous story where rasulullah was in sujood and he

[27:24]prolonged the sujood after he finished they asked him why the sahaba

[27:28]he told them because imam hussein was on my back they were

[27:30]shocked rasulullah gives so much importance to hussein he's only a child

[27:34]because to them a child was nothing they would kick the child

[27:37]if they saw him on their back just kick him like he's

[27:40]a toy because he had absolutely no worth but rasulullah he's making

[27:45]all of his weight for his grandson so to them not only

[27:50]were they impatient and they didn't like it they saw it as

[27:52]a bad thing sometimes when you can't do something good you admit

[27:57]it i can't i don't have the patience but other times you

[27:59]consider it bad rasoolallah is doing something bad according to their understanding

[28:04]so you find this noble act of being merciful with our children

[28:09]to the arabs of the jahiliyah it was something evil it was

[28:14]something immoral bad shameful and that's why they would not do it

[28:18]so this is one example of something that was good in essence

[28:23]but in the eyes of the people of jahiliyah it was considered

[28:26]as evil and then we'll give another example of something that is

[28:31]bad in essence but in the eyes of the jahiliyans it was

[28:35]good what's the example the example is what i spoke about wa'idul

[28:39]banaat they used to bury their daughters alive you've heard so much

[28:44]about this it's in the quran you've heard lectures about this you've

[28:47]heard speakers speak about this but i'm going to give you some

[28:50]more information about this tonight and you'll see how this is tied

[28:53]to our topic tomorrow and the day after history books write that

[29:00]when an arabian woman used to be pregnant and she would enter

[29:06]labor do you know what they would do the father would take

[29:09]her outside the house he would dig a grave while she's in

[29:13]labor she's about to deliver her child any second and he would

[29:17]make her sleep by the grave and that's where she would deliver

[29:21]the child not in the bed not in the hospital right by

[29:25]an open grave and then of course they don't know if it's

[29:29]a boy or a girl because there's no ultrasound back then you'd

[29:32]have to wait to see the child so the father would stand

[29:35]and wait is it a boy or is it a girl if

[29:39]it was a boy he would take it love it cherish it

[29:43]keep it but if it was a girl as soon as the

[29:46]child would leave the mother's womb he would take it and throw

[29:49]it in that ditch so the child is a few seconds old

[29:52]and that girl would be buried alive he did not even want

[29:55]to see it for a few seconds many women that's how they

[29:59]gave birth can you believe this society and if for any reason

[30:07]if that child was spared that girl was not buried because the

[30:11]father didn't have the heart to bury her and she grew eventually

[30:16]she would be killed in many of the arabian tribes so if

[30:21]she grew and she was either five six seven she was a

[30:25]young girl the father would take her either to a cliff or

[30:29]to a well and he would throw her off the cliff or

[30:33]off the well and that's how she would die right in front

[30:35]of her so many of these arab tribes they could not live

[30:39]having a girl now why did they do that allah says in

[30:45]the holy quran allah will ask the arabs for what sin did

[30:52]you kill this girl why did they do this one reason like

[30:54]i mentioned was because of poverty because they were broke they were

[30:59]bankrupt they didn't have money and they did not they could not

[31:02]support this child they would kill it but for many other arabs

[31:06]it was a matter of dignity and honor why to them it

[31:10]was a disgrace having a girl they could not live with the

[31:14]disgrace of having this girl so when the child is born yes

[31:19]the father don't think it was easy for the father to bury

[31:22]the father has mercy he will still love his child but according

[31:27]to the society of then the right thing to do was to

[31:31]bury your daughter even though it was difficult sometimes doing the right

[31:35]thing is not easy correct right now if i'm walking somewhere and

[31:38]i find a bag full filled with money i know the right

[31:41]thing is not to keep it it's to go and give it

[31:44]to find its owner and give it to him correct now it's

[31:47]not easy to keep it so when i give the money it's

[31:50]difficult but i do it because it's i'm doing the right thing

[31:53]i want to do the right thing that's how a father was

[31:55]in jahiliyah when he would take his daughter and bury her don't

[31:58]think it was easy for him but he had to because if

[32:02]he would not bury his daughter he would live for disgrace for

[32:05]the entire life the holy quran speaks about this excuse me the

[32:11]holy quran says when a father was told it's a girl they're

[32:19]waiting is it a boy is it a girl if he was

[32:22]told it's a girl he would stay silent he would be so

[32:32]upset so upset he wants to die why is it a girl

[32:35]not a boy and then the quran says the news of having

[32:44]a girl was so painful on the father that he could not

[32:47]even go and see his friends for a few days because of

[32:50]the shame the disgrace how can i see them they may make

[32:54]they may make fun of me sometimes you know when something bad

[32:58]happens in your family and people hear about it don't want other

[33:01]people to even see you because they may ask you about it

[33:03]because they may look you in a certain way they may stigmatize

[33:06]you so he would run away from his friends if he had

[33:10]a daughter because he could not tell his friends when they asked

[33:13]him it a boy or a girl he can't tell them it's

[33:15]a girl there's too much disgrace and then the quran says the

[33:19]arab he would find the father he would find himself in a

[33:22]dilemma what do i do with this girl should i keep this

[33:28]child but if i keep this child i will have to live

[33:32]with shame and disgrace my friends will condemn me the community will

[33:37]excommunicate me they will consider me an outcast this man is living

[33:41]with a daughter with this shame so he says he sees himself

[33:45]he has two options they're both bad either keep the child because

[33:49]he loves the child that's his daughter but if i keep the

[33:53]child i will live with disgrace for the rest of my life

[33:57]or the other option is let me just bury the child get

[34:04]rid of it and i will preserve my dignity i will be

[34:07]respected by the community because no one in the community in the

[34:11]arabian jahili community would respect you if you had a daughter you

[34:15]had to bury her what do you mean you have a daughter

[34:18]go bury her and relieve yourself from her so if he keeps

[34:22]her he lives with the shame if he buries her it's difficult

[34:25]it's difficult and this this is very painful for him but he

[34:29]would what but he would preserve his dignity and what did we

[34:32]say a few minutes ago to the arabs the most important thing

[34:35]was what their dignity remember so to them the most important thing

[34:42]was a dignity so that's why many of them they began to

[34:45]what they began to bury their daughters not because they wanted to

[34:49]just so they could live as noble human beings subhanallah if you

[34:53]want to live as a noble respectful person in the jahiliyah you

[34:56]had to bury your daughter can you see how their standards were

[34:59]upside down now a criminal would live if a person buries their

[35:04]daughter the society sees them as a criminal and the jahiliyah he

[35:07]was seen as a good person you did the right thing and

[35:10]that's why history narrates a story of one man by the name

[35:13]of usain or asim ibn marwan he was waiting for the child

[35:18]he saw it was a girl he wanted to bury her but

[35:21]he couldn't he was merciful as he had a soft heart he

[35:25]told his wife i can't bury her so i need you to

[35:28]do one thing i need you to hide this girl tell our

[35:32]friends the child died or tell make up an excuse but i

[35:36]have to make sure that nobody sees this girl because this is

[35:40]the biggest disgrace my friends will kill me my tribe will kill

[35:43]me if they know i kept him so he kept his girl

[35:46]for years in hiding because he wanted to live as a respectful

[35:50]man in the community but unfortunately many others they had to what

[35:59]they had to get rid of the child and there is a

[36:03]man by the name of history writes about a man by the

[36:05]name of sa'sa' ibn naji he is the grandfather of al farazdak

[36:10]farazdak very famous poet his grandfather he was called the rescuer of

[36:16]the buried girls why because they say he would always look out

[36:20]for any father that was having a girl and he would try

[36:25]to stop that father from burying the girl he would give money

[36:28]pay money he'll tell him i'll give you this much money give

[36:31]me the girl i'll raise her don't worry about her she disgraces

[36:33]you khalas just leave her and i will raise her and they

[36:37]say that he managed to save the lives of as many as

[36:40]three to 400 girls like that but these were very few people

[36:46]most of the people it was a disgrace for them to keep

[36:50]the child and the right thing to do in the jahiliyah society

[36:54]was to get rid of the child and you see how did

[36:58]the arabs you might ask reach this level of animosity and hatred

[37:02]towards their own daughters why were they in this condition how did

[37:06]they reach this level it's written in history that this entire custom

[37:12]of al wa'ad burying girls it began with one tribe by the

[37:17]name of bani tamim the tribe of tamim there are some other

[37:21]history books that say it was rabia the point is this tribe

[37:25]was invaded by another tribe that other tribe they had a king

[37:29]so the king said that we take all the women as slaves

[37:31]they took the women as slaves a while after the king he

[37:36]said you know what all these women that we are taking as

[37:39]slaves they can go back all the women went back except one

[37:45]she was the wife of a man by the name of qaiz

[37:47]ibn asum she said i don't want to go back i would

[37:52]rather live in captivity than go to my husband maybe he was

[37:56]a balam you'd say hijr i don't know but she did not

[37:59]want to go back to her husband she said i prefer to

[38:02]stay with my enemies so he waited never came he asked they

[38:06]told him she doesn't want to come back he was so angry

[38:09]so furious that he made a vow he said to allahi if

[38:13]allahi gives me any girls i will bury them alive because of

[38:16]the disgrace my wife has put me in she doesn't want to

[38:19]come back to me she'd rather stay with the enemies and he

[38:21]started to bury his own girls and slowly it became a what

[38:25]a custom that an arab man would be afraid what if my

[38:28]wife does the same thing what if my daughter runs away what

[38:32]if she is held as a slave i don't want her to

[38:34]be taken as a slave so slowly this custom began that you

[38:40]know what girls all they are is headache if you know if

[38:46]someone another tribe they come invade us and they take they kill

[38:51]us my girl will be taken as a war prisoner don't want

[38:53]that she may run away she may decide to stay so because

[38:56]they don't want to be put in that headache they said what

[38:59]the best thing is to get rid of these girls so that

[39:03]they don't give us this headache that's why there's a poet he

[39:06]even mocks his daughter after he buried her he says this line

[39:10]after he buried her he says he says i named her that

[39:17]you will die i named her death because she will not live

[39:23]and then he says and he says the qabr the grave is

[39:30]the best son-in-law let me just put her in the grave and

[39:35]the grave is the best son-in-law because he's a polite son-in-law he'll

[39:38]never bother you correct he won't do dhulam towards my daughter so

[39:41]many fathers that are afraid when i my daughter gets married what

[39:44]if my son-in-law is bad what if he hurts her what if

[39:47]he bothers her so to cut all of this you know headache

[39:50]and hassle let me just put her in the grave and she'll

[39:52]be safe in the grave and once they would bury her the

[39:56]daughter they would feel so relieved one of the poets he says

[39:59]after he buried his daughter he said after i buried my daughter

[40:03]i felt so relieved he said he said now that i buried

[40:17]my daughter it's as if a mountain is taken off my back

[40:21]off my chest it was a burden what am i going to

[40:24]do with this daughter people are going to make fun of me

[40:26]they're going to mock me i'm going to be stigmatized they're gonna

[40:29]condemn me she's a disgrace so the best thing is just bury

[40:32]her and get rid of her this was the jahiliyah and there's

[40:38]a story that's narrated to show you how ruthless these people were

[40:41]rasulullah was sent to these people so you can see when rasulullah

[40:47]says no prophet was bothered like i was prophet it's because he

[40:52]lived amongst animals barbarians people that bury their own daughters there is

[40:58]a hadith that says one day rasulullah he saw one of his

[41:05]companions he was frowning he felt very upset so he asked him

[41:10]what's going on he told him i committed a very big sin

[41:15]you rasoolallah during the jahiliyah what did you do he said it's

[41:20]a very big sin and i don't know if allah will forgive

[41:23]me he told him what's your sin he said will allah forgive

[41:28]me first he says allah will forgive all sins he said but

[41:31]my sin is very big rasulullah told him allah's mercy is bigger

[41:35]allah will forgive all sins he told him what did you do

[41:38]he said during the jahiliyah one year my wife became pregnant and

[41:45]before she gave birth i went on a trip i traveled and

[41:50]this trip took four years back then you know it's difficult to

[41:54]travel maybe he got stuck somewhere four years he has no news

[41:57]of his wife there's no way to contact so he says after

[42:01]four years i finally came back to my wife i had forgotten

[42:04]that she was pregnant so i should have a child now i

[42:07]went into the house i saw a four year old girl so

[42:13]i asked my wife completely forgetting about the fact that she was

[42:16]pregnant what happened to the child so i asked her who's this

[42:18]girl she told me she was afraid so she told her husband

[42:25]this girl is the daughter of the neighbors doesn't know because she's

[42:28]afraid he might kill her subhanallah mother would be afraid for her

[42:32]child from the father so this man tells rasulullah so i said

[42:38]okay he said i waited a few hours she's still there usually

[42:42]if the neighbor's daughter is over a few hours and she'll leave

[42:45]it's nighttime she's still here so he says i began to get

[42:49]suspicious that this is not the daughter the daughter of our neighbors

[42:53]so i went to my wife and i asked her be honest

[42:55]with me who is she she said she's the daughter of the

[43:00]neighbors she kept on assisting i told her if you're afraid i

[43:03]promise you i won't do anything to her now that i gave

[43:06]her the promise she told them remember i was pregnant remember when

[43:09]you traveled i was pregnant yes i remember this is your daughter

[43:12]and i named her fulana this is her name he says i

[43:16]went back to bed i was so upset i was so distressed

[43:20]couldn't believe it i was shocked that i have a four year

[43:23]old daughter what will people in the community say about me so

[43:30]he says that night i could not sleep i could not sleep

[43:33]because of the frustration that how can i have a daughter the

[43:36]disgrace so he says in the middle of the night i woke

[43:40]up i went to my daughter's room and i told her get

[43:43]up my dear daughter and i took her to the middle of

[43:46]the desert i took her to the middle of the desert and

[43:50]i began to dig a grave his young daughter is a child

[43:54]she thought the father is playing a game he says my daughter

[43:57]began to dig with me she didn't know she's digging her own

[44:00]grave he's telling rasulullah this the hadith says rasulullah last years began

[44:05]to come down she began to dig with her father after she

[44:10]was digging after he dug the grave he took her and he

[44:14]put her in the grave she still doesn't know what's going on

[44:16]she thinks it's a game he says i began to take the

[44:20]torah the dust the dirt and i began to put it over

[44:23]she still thought it was a game she said she said nothing

[44:26]he was smiling because she could not believe that her father would

[44:30]kill her so then he says and now what breaks my heart

[44:34]is when i remember that as i was putting the dust the

[44:38]torahab on her and burying her some dust came on my beard

[44:43]she took her hands and she began to remove the dust from

[44:46]my beard she says he says this is how merciful my daughter

[44:53]was with me i was there to kill her but she loved

[44:55]me and she was worried that no dust beyond the beard of

[44:59]her father so he says that she began to remove the dust

[45:03]from my beard but yet even that did not stop me he

[45:08]says i finished and then i completely buried her and she died

[45:13]you rasulullah this is my big sin in jahiliyah and this is

[45:16]just one story there's hundreds of these stories there's hundreds of these

[45:21]stories if you read the history of the arabs rasulullah lived with

[45:26]these kinds of people and it's said in history that many times

[45:29]when the father would take the girl if she was older to

[45:33]a well or a cliff and he would throw her do you

[45:36]know what she would call when she's falling she would cry my

[45:41]dear father save me and it's her father that's killing her because

[45:45]to her this is you know psychologically because of her innocent nature

[45:50]that of course when she needs help she'll call her father so

[45:53]he throws the father throws the daughter in the well or off

[45:57]the cliff and she cries abba taa my dear father help me

[46:03]so you find rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he was sent to

[46:08]such a backwards society which they had absolutely no understanding of morality

[46:16]he had to teach them what's right and what's wrong because to

[46:19]them it was the other way around it was upside down and

[46:23]the holy quran says that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the day

[46:26]of judgment he will ask them why did you kill those innocent

[46:33]girls and you find these people of al jahiliyyah who had absolutely

[46:40]no mercy who were so ruthless who were so cruel that they

[46:45]used to bury their daughters alive you find the imams of ahlul

[46:49]bayt they always highlight this fact that the people that killed imam

[46:53]al hussain they were even more vicious than the jahilians you can't

[46:59]imagine someone that's more barbaric and ruthless than the people of jahiliyah

[47:03]they bury their own daughters right but the imams used to tell

[47:07]us that the people that killed imam hussein those enemies on the

[47:11]day of ashura they were worse than the people of jahiliyah we

[47:14]mentioned the first night imam raza he tells ibn shabib he tells

[47:18]him which people were so bad at least during al ishhor al

[47:24]haram those four sacred months there would be no fighting and then

[47:30]he says my grandfather hussein was killed by muslims in al ashur

[47:34]al haram muharram is one of al ashur al haram the four

[47:36]sacred months they killed my grandfather during muharram while even the people

[47:41]of al jahiliyah did not fight during muharram so he wants people

[47:47]to understand what type of what types of vicious animals these the

[47:50]enemies of imam al hussain alaihi salaam were and there's a hadith

[47:55]that i read it says that when rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

[47:59]he left mecca and he went to medina the people of mecca

[48:03]they were looking for rasulullah to kill him so abu sufyan and

[48:09]abu jahl they were searching for rasulullah when they found he's not

[48:12]there they went to his house they knocked on the door the

[48:16]hadith says who opened the door his daughter the daughter they went

[48:21]to the house of rasulullah they saw the daughter of abu bakr

[48:25]aisha they saw the daughter of abu bakr aisha or one of

[48:30]his other daughters she opened the door and they asked her where

[48:34]is rasulullah she said i don't know where is your father abu

[48:40]bakr she said i don't know the hadith says that abu sufyan

[48:44]he slapped that young daughter because she told him i don't know

[48:49]after he slapped her he felt like what did i just do

[48:53]i hit a small girl because she did not want to tell

[48:56]me the enemy where her father is this is natural a small

[49:00]girl isn't gonna tell the enemy of her father where the father

[49:02]is so she just tried to protect her father and i hit

[49:06]her he felt embarrassed ashamed how could he hit a young girl

[49:10]so abu jahal was with him the hadith says he told abu

[49:13]jahal please don't expose me don't tell anyone that i hit a

[49:18]young daughter because this won't look good for me even these people

[49:22]of jahiliyah that we speak always against them abu jahil abu sufyan

[49:27]at least they had that small amount of shame that they were

[49:31]not willing to hit a child and you see what did they

[49:35]do to imam al hussein on the day of ashura they went

[49:38]after the children they hit them they beat them and that's why

[49:44]the imams they tell us these people were worse than the jahilians

[49:49]you find islam came to remove all of these rasulullah came to

[49:53]remove all of these immoral acts to make them into human beings

[49:59]it told them to stop treating these poor girls as a disgrace

[50:06]look at them as a gift from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and

[50:10]be thankful for allah for you find this girl may grow up

[50:14]to be one of the greatest woman of her time she may

[50:19]grow up to be fatima tuzahara don't consider them as a disgrace

[50:24]she is an honor for you she may grow up to be

[50:27]like a sayyidah zainab she may grow up to be like al

[50:33]baneen tonight's the fourth night of muharram and we usually mention the

[50:37]museebah of al baneen and her sons al baneen was a was

[50:44]the wife of amir al mumineen and the mother of al abbas

[50:48]and she gave four sons for the sake of abba abdullah al

[50:52]hussein when the caravan of imam al hussein wanted to leave to

[50:58]karbala from medina al benin came to al abbas and she told

[51:03]him i need to tell you one very important thing what is

[51:06]that my dear son abbas i want you to make sure that

[51:12]you protect the life of your brother your master hussein i want

[51:17]you to protect hussein i want you to defend hussein and sacrifice

[51:22]your life for abba abdullah that's the only thing i want to

[51:25]tell you and she's his son and imam al hussain is the

[51:29]son of amir al mumineen she tells him that's all i need

[51:33]to tell you that you're going with hussein to karbala make sure

[51:36]that you defend abba abdullah i raise you with my own hand

[51:40]you abbas i raised you i loved you now i'm asking i'm

[51:44]your mother i'm asking one thing from you don't leave abba abdullah

[51:48]by himself al abbas he told her my dear mother don't worry

[51:52]i will make you proud i will honor this request you don't

[51:55]have to ask you don't have to tell me that as long

[51:58]as i am breathing no one will come close to abba abdullah

[52:01]al hussein alaihi salaam subhanallah the days went the days came back

[52:07]after all the companions abba abdullah was killed in karbala after the

[52:11]caravan of imam hussein went to shyam and then came back to

[52:15]medina as they were entering medina one of the of the men

[52:20]that was with them was a man by the name of bishrab

[52:23]ibn hazlim al imam zainul abideen he told bishr to go ahead

[52:27]of the caravan and to tell the people of al madina of

[52:30]what happened in karbala and that the family of rasulullah has arrived

[52:35]so bishop nahazlam he went and he called out to the people

[52:38]of madinah he tells the people of medina that i bring you

[53:03]the sad news from karbala that imam hussein has been killed who

[53:10]came out albanin she does not know what happened she's waiting for

[53:14]news she came out she heard some words she didn't know exactly

[53:17]what he said she heard chaos and commotion she came out she

[53:21]saw the people had gathered around bishop ibn hadlam they're asking him

[53:24]questions she quickly came out to him and he she asked him

[53:28]where do you bring me news from he says i bring news

[53:31]from karbala she told him yeah bishar tell me about my son

[53:35]hussain what happened to hussain he tells her he tells her that

[53:58]your son your three sons were killed in karbala thus i consoled

[54:04]you she tells him don't tell me about them tell me about

[54:07]hussein all she cared was about abba abdullah al hussein not her

[54:11]own biological sons he tells her he tells her that your son

[54:24]abbas was killed in karbala and they cut off his hands in

[54:30]karbala she tells him he tells her i wish you would have

[54:40]never told me that they cut the hands of my beloved son

[54:44]abbas but please tell me about husayyah he tells her if you

[55:02]ask me about hussaid then his body was left his beheaded body

[55:08]was left lying on the grounds of karbalaya and as for his

[55:14]head his head was placed on a spear and taken from city

[55:20]to city and country to country she cried out that's why al

[55:37]baleen they used to say after karbala for the rest of her

[55:41]life she was to always go to the graveyard and she would

[55:44]make four small makeshift graves as if they are the graves of

[55:49]her children and then she would cry over these four small makeshift

[55:53]graves and then she would make a bigger grave and she would

[55:56]remove those four graves and she would say may all my children

[56:00]be sacrificed for hussein hossein deserves all my children being sacrificed for

[56:07]him

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