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LESSONS FROM THE ANNALS OF MUSLIM HISTORY

📜 *LESSONS FROM THE ANNALS OF MUSLIM HISTORY*

*The Death of an Unrepentant Heretic*

There was a Jewish man from Yemen who hated Islām and wanted to see the corruption of the Creed of the Muslims. He found a partner in the person of another enemy of the Rasūl - salallāhu alayhi wasallam - Labīd Ibn A'asam who made _Sihr_ on the Rasūl - salallāhu alayhi wasallam, and embedded in him the dangerous creed that claimed that the Qur'ān was a creation of Allāh, not His words. Labīd taught his sister same, she taught her son Tālut who taught Bayān Ibn Sam'ān.

Bayān was the teacher of Ja'ad Ibn Dir'ham, so recorded our Ulamā in the books of our History. But Ja'ad was skilled and resourcesfull, and was astute at propagating his beliefs without notice. He lived in Dimashq until Banū Umayyah determined his death and he fled to the city of Kūfah where his famous disciple was Jahm bn Safwān, the proponent of this Creed.

But the Sunni Imām Khalid Ibn 'Abdullah Al-Qusary - rahimahullāh - had a better idea. Ibn 'Asākir mentioned that on a Day among the Days of Īd, Al-Qusary mounted the minbar and prayed for the acceptance of the Īd sacrifice by Allāh and then said:

 _"O People! Make your sacrifices, may Allāh accept your sacrifices, for I am sacrificing Al-Ja'ad Ibn Dir'ham, he indeed claimed that Allāh did not take Ibrāhīm as Khalīl, and did not speak to Mūsā..."

Then he descended the Minbar and slaughtered Al-Ka'abāt found.

The Imām Ibn Taymiyyah - rahimahullāh - said: _"This happened in the City of Wāsit"_

***

O People! This is the seriousness with which the Predecessors took the propagation of Heresy in the Muslim Ummah. How far off from that are we in this time where people do not only innovate heresies, they battle Islām tooth and Nail?

Where is the Muslim Leader to lead us?
Where are the Muslim Scholars to guide our Ummah?
Where are the Muslim Technical Experts to help build and plan for our Ummah?

Bārakallāhu fīkum
Jazākumullāhu Khayran

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