Hazrat Umar bin abdul aziz aur Yazid by Maulana Ishaaq

Muammar Gaddafi Another Tyrant who is Gone

After the news of Gaddafi's departure reached the Muslim world, a lot of Muslims felt sorry for him. They couldn't see a Muslim ruler being humiliated this way. In fact, I myself was got a little effected. Of course my reason what not because Gaddafi's was humiliated. I was actually relieved to see that. However, my reason to have a reaction is because Gaddafi had departed from this world and he now has to face his creator.

ذين اذا اصابتهم مصيبة قالوا انا لله وانا اليه راجعون
"Who, when a misfortune overtakes them, say: 'Surely we belong to Allah and to Him shall we return' (Quran 2:156).

Gaddafi was a tyrant and there is huge punishment for oppressors.


As for my view on the revolution which is happening in the Muslim world today, I don't fully support it. Its funny how Muslims got up one day, and starting taking up arms. Where were the Muslim for the last few decades ? The result of this revolution will not shift toward an Islamic governance. In fact, if one studies history these revolutions which are occurring now are no difference from the Abbasid revolutions. In the past the Abbasids exploited the emotional events of the Ahlul bayts (as), to gather forces to overthrow the Ummavi tyrants. However, once they got in power they became even worst rulers than the Ummavis. The Ummavis after Yazid, usually left you alone if you stayed in Mecca and Madina. However, this was not the case with the Abbasids. Likewise, these revolution will provide disastrous result. Then again even in the Ummavi line of rule we had great rulers like Umar ibn Abdul Aziz (ra), and Muawiyah II (ra). Then among the Abbasids, Mamoon Rasheed made a lot of progress for the Muslim nation. Let's hope Allah (swt) has a mercy on us, and allows us to live to see the good times as well.

Umar bin Abdul Aziz's (ra) Reform

When Umar ibn Abdul Aziz (radi Allahu anhu) who can be considered the 6th khalifah, not a king came, and he found that the propaganda and the rumors that were spreading by officials that was nowstandard procedure was not Islamic behavior- remember, we may have slipped, all of this position that the 1st king in Islam institutionalized that became a pillar of themonarchical establishment was attributed to an ayah. They had to have some misinterpretation of an ayah to extend all ofthese deviations to, and that ayah was concerning the death or the murder of Uthman (radi Allahu anhu), And, whoever hasbeen killed or murdered without a basis of justice, then WE have allocated to his guardian 1st of kin, an authorization(Surah Al-Isra' verse 33) They stopped here,the ayah says He should not beexcessive in taking corrective measures for a person who was killed without justice (Surah Al-Isra' verse 33) So, all of this wasextended to give a veneer of legitimacy to the vile language that was used to condemn Ali and his family.Imagine, a khutbah just like this during jum'ah, and then someone would come usewords that we cannot use- these were official words and public pronouncements,and then when Umar ibn Abdul Aziz came, he didn't say that in his khutbah. Hedidn't say any of these institutionalized statements that have been repeatedfor years and generations and then someone stands up and tries to remindthis Muslim who is trying to follow his conscience and tells him "Youshould be following the sunnah" Meaning the Sunnah means you should becondemning Ali and his side; and Umar ibn Abdul Aziz said to him "An innovation! AnInnovation!" and he obliterated or put an end to this type of policy and theseofficial statements from the Mimbar and he replaced it with something that isstill used today- it doesn't come from the time of Allahs Prophet- when you go tothe conventional andtraditional type of Masjid, you hear every khutbah ending with Verily, Allah ordersJustice and that you be patient and dutiful totally for His sake and that you be forthcoming to kin and He forbidsevil deeds and the things which are prohibited and aggression and oppression.Allah admonishes you so that you may take heed. (Surah An-Nahl verse 90) That was not the waythe khutbahs ended during the time of Allahs Prophet. This is the way it began to end when Umar ibn Abdul Azizreplaced those condemnation statements with this ayah from the Qur'an andwe still have it today. People who are not aware of these details think thatthey are saying something that belongs in the time of Allahs Prophet. No!They are saying something that can be traced back to correct what the 1stking in Islam did.

This tradition above is found in the esteemed salafi scholar Ibn Kathir's book. Ibn Kathir in his book The Rightly Guided Calipahs says


The Ummayads use to abuse Ali bin Abi Talib in speeches, but when Umar bin Abdul Aziz became the calipah, he put an end to that by writing to his provincial rulers, ordering them to stop that tradition and quoted the verse.

"Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and he forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: he instructs you, that ye may recieve admonition." (Al-Nahl:90). This is verse was always quoted in their speeches from then onwards.
(Biographies Of RightlyGuided Caliphs, Ibn Kathir Pg 393)

Most scholars agree that Umar bin Abdul Aziz is superior to Muawiyah ibn Sufyaan, for his matchless justice, modesty and asceticism.
(Biographies Of Rightly Guided Caliphs, Ibn Kathir Pg 398)

Online Link for the above source:
http://abdurrahman.org/seerah/BiographiesOfRightlyGuidedCaliphs-IbnKathir.pdf