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Debate Between Al-Hajjaaj and Sa`eed bin Jubayr.
In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Shaykh `Aa'id Abdullah al-Qarnee[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al Hajjaaj kept pursuing the noble scholar Sa`eed bin Jubayr for eight years or more until he eventually found him.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bin Jubayr was a scholar known for his scrupulous piety and a man of great knowledge and action who was waging jihad to raise the flag of La ilaha ill Allah the uppermost.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When he was arrested - as in the story mentioned by the author of Tuhfatul Ahwadhi - Sa`eed bin Jubayr entered upon al Hajjaaj, so al Hajjaaj told him: "What is your name (and he knew his name well)?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]He answered: "Sa`eed bin Jubayr."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So Al Hajjaaj responded to him saying: "Nay, you are Shaqiy bin Kusayr." (Al-Hajjaaj is playing with words here: Sa`eed means happy and Shaqiy means unhappy, wretched. Jubayr means one who splints broken bones, and Kusayr one who breaks them.)[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed told him: "My mother knew better when she named me."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So Al Hajjaaj told him: "You are wretched (shaqayta) and your mother is wretched" (shaqiyat - Al Hajjaaj is again playing with words, referring to Shaqiyy - "unhappy/wretched"). Then he told him: "By Allah, I will replace your dunya with a blazing Fire."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed said, "If I knew you could do it, I would take you as a god."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So al Hajjaaj told him, "I have gold and wealth."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bags of gold and silver were brought and spread before Sa`eed bin Jubayr in order to try him.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed bin Jubayr said: "O Hajjaaj, if you gathered it to be seen and heard in show-off, and to use it to avert others from the way of Allah, then by Allah, it will not avail you (lan yughneeka) against Him in any way."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So Al Hajjaaj said: "I have a female slave-singer" (al-mughanniyah - al-Hajjaaj continues to play with words, responding in mockery to Sa`eed's words 'lan yughneeka/it will not avail you' with a word that has the same triliteral root). He told her: "Sing for me and entertain me."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed bin Jubayr cried, and Al Hajjaaj told him: >"Are you crying out of joy?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So Sa`eed told him: "By Allah, I do not cry out of joy, but I cry for the slave girl that was subjected to other than what she was created for, for she was not created to sing, and `ood (musical instrument) was not built but for disobedience of Allah."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al Hajjaaj said: "Take him and turn him to other than the Qiblah. By Allah, O Said bin Jubayr, I will kill you with a killing with which I have not killed any of the people."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed said: "O Hajjaaj choose for yourself whatever killing you want, by Allah you will not kill me with a killing except that Allah will kill you with a like of it, so choose for yourself whatever killing you like."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al Hajjaaj said: "Turn him (wallooh) to other than the Qiblah."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed said: "Wherever you [might] turn (tuwalloo), there is the Face of Allah." [Qur'an, 2:115][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al Hajjaaj said, "Put him under the earth."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed said: "From it [the earth] We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time." [Qur'an, 20:55][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Death of Al-Hajjaaj[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al-Hajjaaj said: "Kill him."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sa`eed said: "Laa ilaha ill Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah. Take it, O Hajjaaj, until you meet me with it tomorrow before Allah. O Allah, do not give him authority over anyone after me! O One who cuts up the tyrants, cut up al Hajjaaj!" - and in the same gathering a blister appeared on Al-Hajjaaj's hand and he became enraged like a bull for a whole month - he couldn't sleep from the pain and fatigue, nor could he eat and drink.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Al-Hajjaaj said about himself: "No night has passed except that I saw myself swimming in blood and no night has passed except that I saw as if al Qiyamah took place and that Allah took me to account and that I was killed for whoever I killed with one killing, except Sa`eed bin Jubayr - Allah punished me for killing him with seventy killings."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Allah caused him to die after a month. He is considered wretched and miserable, although he belonged to Muslims. This is because he didn't know the guidance or uprightness and because he couldn't make sense out of his life mission.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Courtesy Of: Islaam.com
Source: Hiwar Bayn at-Taqiyy wa-sh-Shaqiyy[/FONT]
http://kalamullah.com/current-affairs04.html
Mashallah beutiful article
the scholars say he [al hajjaaj] was one of the greatest oppressors in history.