This is about the ability to comprehend
It is from what the prophet SAW said..
And conveyed to us by Abdullah Ibn Omar may Allah please him and be pleased with him.
Abdullah Ibn Omar is an honored Sahabi..
And he is the son of the Islamic figure, Omar Ibn Al-Khattab
The famous Khalifa, Al-Rashed.
Al-Hussain Ibn Ali, may peace be upon him and upon his father..
The prophet, SAW said about him and about his brother Al-Hassan, that they are the masters of the young men at Jannah..
When Yazid Ibn Muawiyah was paid homage..
Al-Hussain Ibn Ali didn't approve that..
So some delegates came to him..
some messengers from Al-Kuffa
They invited him to visit them..
So, he sent Muslim Ibn Aqeel...
Al-Hussain sent Muslim Ibn Aqeel to find out what it is about.
Then he, may Allah be pleased with him, went himself..
at the Tarwiyah day, the 8th day of the month of Dhul-Hijjah,
heading to Al-Kuffa..
He thought..
that the invitations he had, were serious invitations..
We have a point here to talk about..
Some of the Sahaba, may Allah be pleased with them
they were having their hearts full of compassion and care for the family of the prophet, SAW in general..
and specially for this fine and pure person..
the grandson of the messenger of Allah, SAW
From these Sahabi who had such kind feelings in their hearts for Al-Hussain..
was Abdullah Ibn Omar..
may Allah be pleased with them both..
Let's see, how could Ibn Omar figure out what might happen?
And that Al-Hussain won't get what he was looking for..
He said to him:
The prophet, SAW was to choose between..
Dunyah[life] and Akhira[hereafter]..
So, he chose Akhira
And you..
this what Abullah said to Al-Hussain..
And you are a part of the messenger of Allah, SAW..
So, you are not going to have this.. Allah won't give it to you
keeping you for a better thing for you and for them..
i.e. for the family [of Al-Bait] of the messenger of Allah.
But, Al-Hussain, may Allah be pleased with him..
And it was his destiny [Qadar] as Allah wanted..
He didn't listen to the advice of Abdullah Ibn Omar.. So, he left
And later on he died as a martyr..
May Allah be pleased with him, with his father, with his mother and with his brother..
Here we want to focus upon how could Ibn Omar, may Allah be pleased with him and with his father, reach that conclusion..
Abdullah Ibn Omar said to Al-Hussain..
You..
you are a part of the messenger of Allah, SAW..
i.e. there is only Fatima between Al-Hussain and the messenger of Allah, in the line of descendants..
And we all agree that Fatimah is a direct progeny of the prophet
A chosen lineage..
She is The Lady of the women of Paradise
Furthermore, she was nicknamed ' the mother of her father [Om-Abiha]
Her gait was similar to that of the messenger of Allah SAW..
And when Osama acted interceding for the Makhzumi woman, he, SAW said:
'By Allah, if Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad were to steal, I would cut off her hand'
He stated that so as to close all doors..
And no one would have expectations from intercession in prescribed penalties
So, he gave us an example.. using his honoured and dear daughter as a model..
and she is a part of him..
And Al-Hussein..
is the grandson of the messenger of Allah, the son of Fatimah..
and Ibn Omar concluded that... he said:
' Whoever is a descendant from the messenger, peace be upon him..
would not get any great Dunya matter..
Among these are the throne.. ruling.. Khalifa.. etc
These are great Dunya matters..
Allah, Almighty said about Bani Israel " and made you kings,
" and gave you that which He had not given anyone among the worlds."
No one can deny that..
No one can argue against that..
So, Ibn Omar, may Allah be pleased with them, said..
to Al-Hussein Ibn Ali
You are a part of the messenger of Allah, SAW..
And the messenger of Allah, SAW has chosen the Hereafter..
i.e. he didn't want to choose Dunya
So, You are not going to get anything from Dunya..
Because you are a part of the one who had prohibited Dunya for himself
He didn't want it..
He didn't ask Allah for it..
He didn't wish to have it for a blink of an eye..
And as you are a part of him..
you won't be able to escape that destiny..
you can't escape the fact that you are the son of the daughter of the messenger of Allah, SAW..
This understanding made by Ibn Omar wasn't in a straightforward statement..
Otherwise, Al-Hussein would have accepted it..
but it was only a deduction an inference
No doubt that Al-Hussein, may Allah be pleased with him and please him..
had the right to go out in the first place.. he didn't pledge loyalty to Al-Yazid
We are not discussing now an issue which happened anyway..
It's over now...
or to criticize any person.. anyone..
this is not the point..
The point is that, a person might, sometimes does right, and get guidance
get some understanding..
He collects data.. connects them together.. and come up with an argument..
then he can convince others and brings evidences
the scholars have to learn this tactic and teach their students how to apply it..
teaching is not about memorizing matters..
and the students are to repeat what we taught them only..
By this.. way..
we can only test the ability of the person to memorize..
But we must train minds..
We must tell the Ummah that there is [Figh].. understanding.. something concealed..
A person can get it from Qur'an and from Sunnah..
can understand it after deep thinking..
and then get it.. Allah said: " then the ones who [can] draw correct conclusions from it would have known about it."
So, we have [Figh] by conclusion..
All our universities, institutes and schools need to..
to construct its curriculum precisely, the way it should..
because things change as we notice, life has changed now.. many problems..
we can't solve them by reading and searching in books written by scholars who died centuries ago..
Even if they were honorable, remarkable and great..
they can't give us a solution for a problem they don't know anything about
a problem that they never saw and will never see
But still we can use some of their words, follow their methodologies and their ways of contemplating..
But the final word is not for them, because they didn't witness such a case !!
And this is..
I seek refuge with Allah, a huge dilemma.. and so many people keep on the old path!! with persistence
and they hang onto it!!
they claim that this is the right way..
But actually, it is far from the truth..
The point here is.. how Ibn Omar was inspired to understand that..
What we said about Ibn Omar..
leads us to another conclusion that was made by Ibn Al-Abbas..
But, Ibn Al-Abbas, may peace be upon them..
comprehended it from Qur'an
This was mentioned by Al-Tabarani, may Allah put mercy upon him, at Mu'jam
and Hafiz Ibn Kathir copied it in his Tafseer book
And from there, sheikh Al-Shinqiti, may Allah put mercy upon him, copied it in his Tafseer book..
and after telling this story, he said:
'this deduction is unusual.. strange.'
This is what Al-Emam Al-Shinqiti, may peace be upon him, said after he convied the story..
the story is as follows..
We know that Al-Khawarij, from Misr and Iraq, had a conspiracy against the Khalifa, Usman Ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him and please him..
They attacked Al-Madinah and sieged his house, burned it and then killed him
So, no doubt that he was unjustly killed and he was a martyr.. the same way that happened with Al-Hussein..
he was unjustly killed.. and he was a martyr, may Allah be pleased with him..
So. Usman was killed by the wicked killers.. and he was the Ameer of the faithful people..
may Allah be pleased with him and please him.
After Usman was killed..
his shirt was soiled with his blood..
So, his wife Naila, took his shirt and sent it to Muawiyah at Al-Sham..
At that time, Muawiyah was the Ameer of Al-Sham.. as assigned by Usman, may Allah be pleased with him and please him..
It is also known that Usman and Muawiyah are relatives
Both are from Bani Umayyah
So, Muawiyah , may Allah be pleased with him, backed up the case of Usman
And he began to call for punishment of the killers..
Later on, some events happened between Ali and Muawiyah , may Allah be pleased with them..
Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him said that..
at the end of this, the victory and the sovereign will be for Muawiyah ..
How did he know that? from what Allah, Almighty said..
"And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right."
" And whoever is killed unjustly"
" We have given his heir authority, "
From that verse, Ibn Abbas figured out what is going to happen between both of them..
Because as we said before Usman, may Allah be pleased with him and please him, was certainly, unjustly killed..
So, Usman was a victim and Muawiyah supported his case..
and Muawiyah became his heir [walian] and he wanted retaliation in return for his death..
because both are related..
and Muawiyah was once under his command..
But he cared more for the family relation..
So, he called for..
bringing the killers to him, so as to apply justice ..
especially after having the shirt of Usman sent by Naila
Ibn Abbas comprehended that this is a hint.. a suggestion.. a sign!!..
and at the end, the victory and the sovereign will be for Muawiyah ..
Because Allah, Almighty said:
" And whoever is killed unjustly"
" We have given his heir authority, "
The word authority[Sultana], might mean also the evidence the power the proof..
it also means; to enable..
the keeper of the rights of the deseased to get the killer..
This is from Sharia law..
and all the muslim scholars agree with this..
But, let's regard the way Ibn Abbas comprehended that verse..
Bottom line is..
that Ibn Abbas had Fiqh and understanding..
may Allah be pleased with him and with his father..
And as I said..
this is an information.. a knowledge ..
that we need to enrich our Ummah by introducing it..
and after asking help from Allah, a person can use it to face his problems.. his life issues
To see things from different prospects.. to study history.. and to look at events..
This is..
a great treasure.. that Allah, Almighty would grant whom He wishes from His [Ibad]
Allah says:
"And Allah is predominant over His affair"
" but most of the people do not know."