When Yazeed attacked the Kaabah why did Allah not prevent him from doing so, the way He had previously prevented Abraha from attacking it?
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This question has been answered by Syed Ahmed Al-Hasan, as follows…
Question: Why was the army of Abrahah the Abyssinian stoned with stones of (Sajeel) when he wanted to demolish the Kaabah whilst the Umayyah army was not stoned when they wanted to demolish the Kaabah, to the point that the catapult attacked the Kaabah and destroyed the sanctified house?
Answer from Syed Ahmed Al-Hasan (as)
There is a sanctity for the House of Allah (Kaabah) and the angels protect it from attacks and this miraculous protection does not always materialise: it only materialises if people benefit from this miracle and take advice and follow the guidance to the straight path because of it. But if people’s hearts have become hard and they do not learn from being shaken up or from similar punishments, or divine retribution, or clear divine signs , then preventing them from sinning and transgressing and being subjugators and forcefully stopping them from following the path to Hell is meaningless, since that will end their test and trial in this world.
In the time of Abdul Muttalib (pbuh) – the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) grandfather – people benefited from this sign and took advice from it. That also indicated the sanctity of Abdul Muttalib and his family and their link with the heaven, since he was an executor from the executors of Abraham (pbuh).
As for Yazeed’s era (may Allah curse him) people’s hearts had become hard and they were not taking any advice. In fact they violated a greater sanctity than even the sanctity of the Kaabah, which was the sanctity of Al-Hussain, when they murdered him and mutilated his pure, holy body and Al-Hussain explained this in his sermons before them that after his murder they would not regard any sanctity as holy, nor would they fear violating it.
With that, when the army of Yazeed (may Allah curse him) proceeded towards the Kaabah from Al-Madinah, the leader of the Umayyad army – the cursed Muslim bin Aqbah – died, but people did not hear, in fact, they proceeded under the leadership of Al-HuSSayn bin Numayr Al-Sukooni, until they ended up stoning the Kabah with the catapult and Ibn Az-Zubair was killed in the Haram.
As for the end times, in the era of Imam Mahdi (pbuh), after people have returned to some semblance of the original character, they will take advice from divine punishments and signs – this sign will return to be visible again and this time when the Sufyani army has been sunk between Madinah and Makkah, after the emergence of Imam Mahdi (pbuh) from Madinah and his seeking of refuge i9n Makkah, Allah’s Haram, as has been narrated from the Ahlulbayt (Bihar Al-Anwar: v 52, p. 222/3)
So the most important reason for a sign to occur, or to be delayed, is people benefiting from it and being guided because of it and taking advice through it or their ignoring it, and their reliance on materialism and returning all causes to it.
Source: Al-Jawab Al-Muneer, v 2
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