Abdul Rahman Aldakhil The Falcon Of Quraysh | Mufti Abu Layth

speaking of calamities speaking of tragedies that before people there's nothing quite like taking an eyebrow taking a moral from a story so a great example to to cite here in line with tawakkul in line with calamities in line with disasters and something i've shared often before right and i always think is a great story to share

people if you think calamities you know have afflicted you in your life and they may have and they you know they don't discriminate however here check this out imagine being royalty here is an individual abdulrahman ibn maharaja who is he by the way he is a prince we're talking about a century after the prophet

he's a prince from the many princes of bani umayyad dynasty which is in its decline and he's living life he's chilling he's he's got it all wealth dunya women he's got it all family he's got he's one of many princes living in damascus what happens all of a sudden is he comes out one day

and whoa he sees these black flags isis perhaps not too different actually at that point it was the abbasids the abbasids had done a coup military coup they're taken over and what they were doing was they were hunting out seeking out and hunting every umayyad every person royal elite linked to bani umeya and they were

laying him or her not so much her but more so him to death wiping out they were wiping out the entire patrilineal lineage it was all going down any person that was a part of the royal family was gonna be exterminated and who is he so those of you that know uh a bit about history he is his name

so his grandad hisham is one of the major last caliphs of bani umeja and his dad wasn't a caliph and he's the grandson and he's just basically living life so he sees this oh my god what's going on him and his brother and they're like let's let's get out of here and he has a baby he's actually when he sees this he's his baby was crying and he decides to walk let's let's pacify the baby so he's taking the baby out walking pacifying the child and he sees these people coming these army soldiers of the abbasid soldiers hunting out on my

years he sees the flags he runs in he hides he gives the child to the mother he grabs them anything he can get hold of him and his brother as a younger brother they are gone out of there they go running people are being massacred massacred there was a bloodbath that was taking place it is some some of the soldiers see him and they say oh that's that's one of the princes catch him so they are on their chase these guys are running running they

reach the euphrates throw themselves in you know there's death in this death so they throw themselves in and right that's my my private jets right so the the soldiers and check this out the soldiers are like damn because they're too scared the current is too powerful he's a good swimmer he makes it across his younger brother early teens he's he's a bit he's struggling a bit in the river in the euphrates so the soldiers cut him a deal they say you

know what come back come back you know we'll relax you know oh do you think we're gonna hurt you this is a game man we're playing the game so they say to him you know what come back come back we're not going to kill you you know we're just going to we'll give you our word yellow have the word man in the beginning there was the word and here's my word he's given it so his brother whose name was waleed he thinks you know what i'm going to come back and he tells his bro no but

he goes back as soon as he gets out of the river in front of him whilst he's on the other side of the bank the riverbank they hold his younger brother who is probably about 13 and they slit his throat right in front of him this is his last this is what he gets to experience he runs he runs as fast as his legs can carry him he says that if i could i would have taken flight

aviation huh so he runs and he gets he just traveled and you know this is all these journeys of him trying to get out of the ghost heads down south he's just non-stop traveling traveling traveling in his mind he thinks where do i go where do i go so because he's trying to keep a low profile obviously umayyad prince huge price on his head so he makes his way down towards the arabian peninsula over into egypt and then he finds more hostile territory and he had some relatives deep down in uh libya uh

further down in africa so he heads over to there because he was partially berber his mom's side were uh berber so he heads there and he seeks sanctuary so he's kind of hiding he's in hiding there and he just stays there now think about this he's lost everything overnight he lost royalty luxury family child wife brother he lost money legacy everything is gone the whole kingdom is gone

so he's living almost an impoverished life with certain barbers in libya now he keeps himself to himself he starts trying to but then check this out you see you have the tawakkul but then you have a strategy so he thinks after a while when he collects his senses you know what i wonder if there's any other bani umeya alive or sympathizes so he starts writing letters to certain people obviously he didn't have social media

man he couldn't just do a live stream so um right so he starts writing out to different people trying to test the water see what's going on and time goes by and he's strategy and he realizes he has some sympathizers he has sympathizers in yemen he has sympathizers in some in the arabian peninsula some in egypt but not many and he's thinking yeah it's been years now i've been living in libya like a pauper what do i do shall i go to egypt shall i go to

arabian peninsula should i go and then he's like too dangerous and he's got this servant with him and the servants kind of advising very wise person telling him look don't don't don't be silly man so eventually what happens and i can't go into the full detail but there was an entire there was a power vacuum taking place in andalus muslim spain um the bani umayya had lost their control before the massacres a year before and there was just a void there was a power struggle random people were trying to

take over somebody says to him why don't you head over to alandalus and he says whoa andalus yeah what this one man and so they say to him look there is a struggle due to certain racist discriminatory and racist factors in landau's the arabs and the barbers were at odds with each other so because you have barbara ties and you are bani omaya the legacy so what if you

write to them and ask them would they support you so he starts this strategy and he starts writing and he starts getting some positive feedback and then he thinks okay this is you know people are saying yeah come over we'll support you so he sends his servant to kind of like test the waters everything's cool and then he goes on his own single-handed nothing no ca you know no cavalry nothing no backup just on his own him and his assistant that's it what follows is he is he lands at this

place called munyakar actually i may have a um i'll try and bring up here actually i may have a yeah so this is which is in south spain uh not too far from malaga and that's actually a statue of him because this is where he lands and when he gets there you know he's very intelligent incredibly astute he connects he's very courteous he's very charming has incredibly charming personality and as you can imagine

there's an ensuing battle that takes place and he is actually successful his little group of people they are successful triumphant in that battle and he shows clemency as well now this is interesting you see he has a strategy he has character because that is important and there's a point when he overcomes the other people that some of the the people with him want to massacre them and he says no don't says you should always show clemency kindness and compassion and he says that it will come back to

help us on a rainy day and it does in the future but here he is and he goes on to set up he is known as because he enters a landlord again and he establishes sets into motion an entire empire that will change the course of not only islamic but human history the civilization that he sets into

motion he sets into motion by setting up this empire bunny umiya in al andalus were one of the most opulent and flourishing kingdoms on earth that centuries down the line a few centuries his own offspring his great great great great grandson will go on to declare himself the caliph of the entire muslim world abdul rahman the third anna and in his time europe was beholden to his grace and he was very gracious and it is a

time of immense prosperity for muslim spain now hold that thought go back to where i was telling you in the beginning how this starts these abbasids who have come in and abbasids later on go on to become you know uh they have a huge legacy as well but in the early days they were very brutal as well like many people it's always it's always the brutality first so in the early days they were you know very just massacring people and killing people and and they made certain

attempts to have abdul rahman assassinated in muslim spain but it was unsuccessful and you know on this one occasion you've all heard of abu jafar al-mansoor he is the contemporary the great caliph who was the contemporary of abu hanifa and imam malik and all these you know this one who punished abu hanifa put him in prison and arguably killed him or at least contributed to the death of imam abu hanifah but he was is incredibly is infamously well known

um once abu jaffra mansur is sitting chilling in his palace and he randomly says he says i've got i got one for you i got a question who is the falcon of quraysh the falcon man the falcon so they say obviously ah up up sycophants in it he says seriously who is the uh the falcon

so they say you know so they start guessing all these people beginning from the great khalafar abu bakr allah write down all of them he says no no no no no he says they're great but no no no no no who man he says and they said why abdul rahman in awhile he says this man haraja binafsihi that he left here on his own

only all he had was his own his own kind of opinion his belief that's all he had and he left he said he had to cross a desert here to ride the sea he entered a non-arab foreign land non-arabic speaking entered a land like that a different continent

says fajana he says he amassed an army not just any army by at his death he stood with an army of a hundred thousand strong and he entered single-handedly he says janna he set up a master an army

he set up he says he created cities he said he set into motion again an empire that had long deceased bani umayya they are deceased in in the east abbasids had killed them he set that into motion again which was yet to last for at least two to three centuries to come and be one of the most powerful kingdoms on earth in its time and he says only because of his strategizing

washington and his sheer determination his reliance he was a person that you when you think of it he he was on the brink of death adasa somebody who he wasn't you know he wasn't he didn't have any talents in damascus he was just one of many royal spoiled brats that was just living life lavishly just like an over a child man basically a man child but when

he he was put on the testing times he rose he had tawakkul he had reliance he went on to shape the cause of islamic history to come allah there are so many examples that we have in our history where when you see what these people do the inspiration really it rocks your world like you think wow somebody so close to an nde near-death experience

going on to become a major figure that sets an empire recreates an entire empire not just any one of the most powerful to come on earth for centuries and that is you whosoever relies on god god is sufficient for that so that is something people that we can all take lessons from and obviously there's many other stories in there i had to leave up there's always you know with royalty and all

these things there's always betrayal and these stories huh what's that he says uh mess [Laughter] he says i'm an orphan prince surrounded by conspiracies there is a hidden dagger somewhere seeking me out akbar people