Once there was a tyrant an evil man, his name was al Hageag ibn Yusuf Al Takafi and this man was politically motivated in the sense that he was serving his masters no matter what devious actions he did. We are told once that he attacked Mekkah, though he was a Muslim, he had the Kabba'h stoned; he had the companions (May Allah be pleased with them) of the Prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) and the son of the Companion of the Prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) Abdullah Ibn Zubair (May Allah be pleased with him) he had him killed and he had him crucified for days and nights, though his mother was Asma bint Abu Bakr, due his aunt was Aisha, the wife of the prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam)
This evil man sentence one of the scholars of Islam Said Ibn Jubair to death, and there was a man who cried because of this sentence so Saaid ibn Jubair told him why are you crying for? So the man says because of this evil sentence: sentencing you to death and you are a scholar of Islam. Saaid smile and said: “Don't cry, you have to know that this was essentially decreed by Allah (Azza wa Jal) and Allah decreed that on us and if you know this you have to believe that Allah said “No calamities ever take's places on earth or on yourself except you will find it that its in a Book with Allah (Azza wa Jal) before it was created and this is something that we have to believe that whatever take's places is written long time a go before it was created”
it was destined by Allah (Azza wa Jal) long time ago, and as a believer we believe that everything takes places on us, calamities or others, all of these are for our own benefit and this may sound a little bit strange but, our prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) once wondered and he said: “Strange! The believer, how Allah (Azza wa Jal) tries him and tests him, no matter what happens to the believer it is to his own benefit, so if Allah (Azza wa Jal) blesses a believer then the believer would be thankful would be grateful and this would be to his benefit, and if a believer is been tested and tried by Allah with calamities he would be patient and accepting Allah's decree and that would also be to his benefit”.
Al Kitabah means that Allah wrote everything about the creation. He has written what He says and what He does and all that comes to existence due to His actions and sayings. All is written in Umm ul kitab (lit: the mother of the book) known also as (al-Lauh al-Mahfoudh) The preserved tablet and (Ad dhikr) the original book of records. Allah says which means):
"Do not you know that Allah knows All that is in the Heaven and on earth? Verily, it is all in the book. Verily! That is easy for Allah"(22:70)
The prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) explained that "Allah had written the ordained measures (and due proportions) of the creation, fifty thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth and His Arsh was on the water" (saheeh Muslim v4 pg. 1397)
Allah ordered The Pen (Al-qalam) to write the records of all preordained measures and qualities unit; the hour is established.
Narrated Abee Hafsah: Ubaadah bin saamit said to his son: "Oh son! You shall not get the true sense of eemaan until you know that what has befallen you was not going to miss you and what missed you was not going to befall upon you. I heard the prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) saying:
"As soon as Allah created the pen, he commanded it saying: write. It said: "what should I write my Lord?" Allah said: "Write the record of all things to happen till the establishment of the hour" Oh my son I have heard Allah's Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) saying: "He who dies believing other than this is not from me"(i.e. is not upon the prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) belief) (Abu Dawud)
(Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous. Who has taught by the pen. He has taught man that which he knew not.) (96:3-5) Therefore, this statement is Allah's swearing and alerting His creatures to what He has favored them with by teaching them the skill of writing, through which knowledge is attained.
Thus, Allah continues by saying,
(and by what they Yastur.) Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid and Qatadah all said that this means, "what they write.'' As-Suddi said, "The angels and the deeds of the servants they record.'' Others said, "Rather, what is meant here is the pen which Allah caused to write the decree when He wrote the decrees of all creation, and this took place fifty-thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth.'' For this, they present Hadiths that have been reported about the Pen.
Ibn Abi Hatim recorded from Al-Walid bin `Ubadah bin As-Samit that he said, "My father called for me when he was dying and he said to me: `Verily, I heard the Messenger of Allah say,
(Verily, the first of what Allah created was the Pen, and
He said to it: "Write.''
The Pen said: "O my Lord, what shall I write''
He said: "Write the decree and whatever will throughout eternity.'''
This Hadith has been recorded by Imam Ahmad through various routes of transmission. At-Tirmidhi also recorded it from a Hadith of Abu Dawud At-Tayalisi and he (At-Tirmidhi) said about it, "Hasan Sahih, Gharib.''
The prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) gave us the glad tidings by saying that the magnitude of reward is in accordance with the magnitude of the calamity that hits a person and Allah, when He (Subhanu Wa Ta’ala) loves a group of people he will test them. So whoever is satisfied with what Allah has tried him with, then he will get Allah’s satisfaction and whoever complains will get the displeasure of Allah Almighty. It always comforts us to compare apples to apples in the sense that whenever a calamity strikes us it would make it much easier for us to look at other’s calamities and be grateful to Allah that what came up to me was not as big or huge to what compared, came to others.
Orwah Ibn Al Zubair., he was one of the great scholars of Islam, he is the brother of the companion of Allah, Abdullah Ibn Zubair, and he was one of the seven scholars of Medina who came after the companions of the Prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam), so he is to be a Taabi’een, which means that he saw the companions of the Prophet (Salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam). This man, it was said that he was very handsome and he had seven of his upspring brave, strong, handsome men and he was quite wealthy.Once one of his sons felled from a building and died and other stories say that he went into the stable of the ruler and was killed by one of the horses and in the same night doctors discovered that he had something wrong in his leg and they have to amputated it from the knee down or it would kill him. He said: “Do what you have to do” they told him: “You have to drink this so it would make the pain easier on you, it would make you in a sense out of conscience. He refused and said:”I would never take with my own hands what takes my mind away from remembering Allah, from making dhikr. They told him “it is very painfully, we are going to saw your foot. He said “Do whatever you wish, but give some time to indulge myself in prayers and remembering Allah and once you see this, do whatever you wish. So they started doing that and they started sawing his leg and he did not utter one sound. Once it was over and they put his leg in this oil so that bleeding would stop, what do you expect he would say?
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