Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – An Overview of Saviours of Islamic Spirit
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala so you didn't
want serene or either early he was Safi or darker was seldom at the
Sleeman Kathira on in Iommi, Dean Amma bad
God Allahu Tabata Kota, either of your Quran emoji the word for
Colonial Hamid we're into our Ilona In Kuntum Momineen
so the Kelowna lien currently we're living in this particular
time when everything seems to be very challenging for Muslims
around the world, though as we were coming with the brothers, one
of the things that
I mentioned is the relative ease by which we travel the security
that we have mashallah the access to whatever we want to eat. We
just started we just went into Amsterdam, and I'd read about the
would you call us those special?
Yeah, this should waffles this. So under allah
Hamdulillah you know, Allah gave us the ability to have one of
those things, which I'm sure there are many people in the world who
would just dream of these things. They would just dream. Today, I
can look on online and see what's so special about
Holland. And come here and Masha Allah, Allah has given us the
ability to go and try these things. So clearly, relatively
speaking, were way better off. Like there's just no comparison to
what other people. However, we all feel a bit of challenge. This
constant bombardment against Islam, we're constantly having to
define ourselves, we're constantly having to put up fires, right? And
about that particular topic of how we deal with Islamophobia, how we
deal with the society in which we live in with the deen that we
have.
That is probably a discussion for tomorrow. The discussion today,
after consulting with some of the organizers,
is on this book here. Now, this is a book that I pretty much we've
been working on for the last 10 years. It's a very old book, it
was written in 1940s 50s, by a very great scholar, Shia couple
Hassan Ali nadwi,
a thinker, and a philosopher, you can say,
quite an international man accepted pretty much everywhere.
From originally from India.
He wrote this book in several volumes, we've only worked on the
first book. And the reason is that the first book deals with
approximately the first six or seven centuries of Islam. Why is
it relevant for today? I read it when I was around 20, around 2020
or so. And I wish that I'd read it much earlier when I was 12 1314.
Now, it is a complicated book in the sense that it's complicated in
its analysis, it requires you to think broadly, it's challenging,
speaks on a very intellectual level. So that requires obviously
a person who's reading to interact with it at that level as well.
However, my daughter, who's now 15, when last year when we
published this book, I needed an index and I couldn't find our
normal index, I was busy or whatever. So she index this book
for me. So if she can do it, then I'm sure others can read it as
well.
However, what the book does is that it deals with the ups and
downs of the Islamic history. Right. The ebbs and flows, the
highs and lows, the challenges, the victories, the losses, the
successes, is beautiful. So what he does is he he doesn't deal
with, for example, just the Mujahideen Majid did in the
revivals are those people who as promised a lot, some said in the
Hadith, of certain Abidal, that at the end of every or at the turn of
every century, there will be a person who will come and revive
the faith. So for example, at the end of the first century, it was
according to so you'd hear many of the other scholars it was who,
Omar Abdulaziz second one
second century, most likely Imam Shafi, and it carries on Imam has
early for the fifth century. These are people who
happen to die or happen to live and then just die after the
century. You could have some greatest scholars who did great
work in the middle of the century, but they would generally not be
called revivals, and then you won't see what he says that. I
wish I'm I hope I'm the one for the ninth century because he died
in 911. Right 911 Hijiri by the way, not the other 911. The idea
is that he doesn't deal with the Majid Dini in but what he's
dealing with, he's taking some of the greatest challenges of those
first six entries in this book in this volume, then he moves on to
the other volumes.
And he deals with the situation of the time.
What the problems were, what the Muslims were feeling. And then he
says how Allah subhanaw taala produced somebody to deal with it,
and the hope it gives you that's the beauty of this book. If you
read it, then you will
will not remain in a vacuum of the last 20 years. I mean, how far
back does your memory go? Think about it? Right? For many of you
who are probably, you know, between 20 and 30 years old, your
memory probably is of the last 10 years that you've seen Islam
constantly attack, under attack. You're constantly having to define
yourself, why do you do this? Why'd you do that? Right? Why do
we do this? Why we do that? That's our history. And we feel like,
there's a lot of people out there who don't want to be Muslim, who
hide their faith, we don't want to be Muslim for whatever reason.
What this book does, is that he provides you uh,
the, the issues of the past that the issues we're dealing with
right now are generic issues that people have experienced before,
sometimes on a much worse level. For example, let's just take
Baghdad, the shock and awe campaigns of Baghdad of recent
times, I don't know if you remember America attacking and you
know, the allied forces or whatever it is, and now the the
total corruption that's the the problems that are there.
However, if you look at the century of the tortoise, the time
of the tortoise when they swept through the lens of transaksi,
Aina, first, you know, your Bukhara, Samarkand, and all of
these other Persian lands, for ASAN, et cetera. Then they swept
into Baghdad, you know how many people they killed in Baghdad
alone, about a million people, million of the inhabitants of the
Dar Al Qaeda of the capital of the Islamic empire of the Abbasids
This is the time of the you know, the glorious Abbas it caliphate.
They killed a million people there. They took the Khalifa of
the time, and they didn't kill him because they had a superstition
that if they killed him, sorry, if they if his blood spilled on the
floor, then something very bad will happen. So another Muslim
within that realm, who didn't like him, gave them the suggestion
rolling up in in some rugs or carpets or whatever and beat him
to death. That's what we were dealing with. today. I was just in
mustard Luxor, a few weeks, two and a half weeks ago, three weeks
ago. And mashallah, yes, there are issues they question you and it
takes several hours sometimes to get in. Right but it's never been
easy to get into the holy lands. You know, Musar Islam took about
40 years or so he didn't he never even got in fact he asked Allah
let me be buried at least a stone's throw away. And thus he
was you know, he's he's, he's not buried in the just is buried just
outside of the Holy Lands apparently. Anyway. MashAllah
Yvonne is there. Quran is being recited there, there's Earth
garden they could be made there, you know, the salads are being
performed and so on so forth. However, do you know that for 90
years over 90 years, not a single Salah was performed there. During
the second crusades, not a single Salah, the walls were crying out
for the Quran to be recited. There was no thicker the walls the whole
messy Luxor was made into a muse, a palace next door the Marwan
masala was made into stables and the Cobra to Sahara, you know, the
Dome of the Rock that became the templum Domina, which is basically
the church with a golden Golden Cross on top. The people there
they were initially promised that anybody who enters that place will
be will get refuge but they were all killed totally without any
mercy whatsoever. The history the the non Muslim history by
historians of the time that when they speak about this, they say
that there was such an such blood and so much killing by the
Crusaders of anybody who was inside Muslims, Jews, whoever it
was that the horses were knee high in blood. I felt that was an
exaggeration. Before I went there, when I read it, I felt that was a
massive exaggeration. You know, when we're used to our dual
carriageways, you know, you're going to need a lot of blood there
yet to be knee high. But when you go to Jerusalem, then you realize
that it's very easy because the old city a city, still persists,
endures as it was at the time and the streets are very narrow.
Right? You can't take normal is very difficult taken long because
the who's been there, anybody been there? You must go. You must go.
Anyway, so now you can understand how that happens. They just used
to take children and fling them on the wall. It was just total mercy
merciless. So for over 90 years that was the case. Today, it's
bad. But if that's all you see, then you get so depressed you get
so depressed you think our third holiest site that's the situation
it's in. Right? But when you look at history, we fared worse there's
been worse than that. The tortoise in Baghdad and all the all the
rest of it. Islam has this amazing ability to endure. Give you an
example.
Um, if I if I come into to Holland, Netherlands, what do you
prefer by very Holland Netherlands? Does it matter?
Right? Is there a more fancy way of saying it? Is there a more
elegant way of saying it or it doesn't matter? Okay.
Right. Just don't say Dutch land or something.
Anyway, so when you if I come here and I see somebody who apparently
is a Muslim, Now initially is a stranger.
anybody working walking on the street? And then he says As salam
o alaikum, what happens to you? What's the feeling you get? All
this sense of whatever strangeness, instant insecurity is
strange. All of that suddenly just falls away. Right? And you
suddenly your heart just open Subhanallah you know, salam ala,
you see how powerful that term is? Right? That happens to anybody you
see anybody in the street may be black, white, any ethnicity,
whatever it may be Salam Alikum, Allah says, a sense of security.
Yes. It doesn't mean that you believe everybody who says Salam
to you. And, you know, trust Him with all your wealth. But you know
what I mean, right?
For example, myself and ismail and another friend of mine, we went to
Mauritania and Senegal, two years ago, one and a half, two years
ago, in about two years, yeah. And we got to Senegal, to a friend's
friend's house. And he had a number of other brothers there
from different African countries. We sat there for about half an
hour to an hour, and the food was brought in. Now think about this,
right? It was a big platter of couscous, right? I'm sure the
Americans understand that. Right? And some other meat and salad and
things like that. And we will all we all washed our hands. And
nowadays, these Indians, myself, right, and my two colleagues, and
all these different African people from different African nations, we
all sit eating from the same platter with our hands. Would you
get that anywhere? After just meeting with somebody for less
than an hour, basically, around an hour? That sense of security? This
is what Islam what gets, you know, feeling so depressed in the West,
right? With the situation and our challenges, and you go to
someplace like Senegal and you think, you know, what is Islam
down there and you It lifts your faith? It just lifts your faith?
Do you understand? There's a lot that's in store for us of course
the Islam will continue Allah says Allah Allahu multimorbidity. He
went, Okay, you can have your own, Allah will continue and complete
his light, the light of the deen the light of iman. Even if those
who dislike it, they dislike it, it doesn't make a difference. So
eemaan is going to continue Islam is going to continue that history
is going to continue. The question is, are we going to be part of it
or not? There's no guarantee for any one of us. There is guarantee
for the deen and there is guarantee for those who stick to
the deen. So it's like basically sitting in a train. You got a
first class you've got a second class, you've got a third class
and then if you go to third world countries, you've also got people
hanging on on the sides. Right?
So now if you're sitting in first class and you could have the worst
storm outside there's no problem mashallah you're having your, your
tea and you know, you're this that another you're relaxed, people who
are standing outside when the going gets tough. Some of them are
going to think I can't carry on any more. I'm just going to drop
off gone find some other shelter. Similar thing is where are we with
our deen when it comes to the train of Islam? are we sitting
relaxed in first class and none of this is bothering us because we're
so connected to Allah. We're so convinced in our heart. That's
what I'm talking about. So convinced in our heart that this
is all Allah's plan, I need to do my part, but I mustn't become
depressed. And then there's other people who are kind of in between.
And then there are people who are just hanging on a lot of people
are just dropping off. They don't want to be Muslim anymore. See a
number of people they reading things like one of the biggest
issues of this day and age that I have seen in terms of people
losing their faith is Charles is is Dawkins basically. And his God
Delusion that is, has been the biggest issue of people turning
away from their faith today. Yes, he's losing a lot of his
influence. But this is I mean, there's a great book that if
you're interested in this subject, and we should we should be. Nick
Spencer is written a wonderful book called atheism, The Origin of
the Species. Right? It's a really wonderful book, atheism, The
Origin of the Species. And he starts from around the 1500s for
1600s starts to trace atheism in the West specifically, and he goes
right through and basically, it's very interesting, you know, for
four centuries, atheism was always subdued. It was always a secret
that you had priests, pastors, these are people who came from a
Christian and Jewish background, families of, of religious clergy,
but they lost their faith. Right. And one of the biggest reasons for
them losing their faith is because of the imposition of the church,
because of the Ruhlman the oppression of the church. And
that's why they say that the worst of the atheists, they came from
France. In fact, his title is called the of that chapter about
Francis called French fury. And the reason is that the church was
the most dominant and most oppressive down there. And when
you oppress anybody, whether it be in the name of faith, it just
doesn't work. That's why many of our scholars have said that a
system a political system, or a rule of any country will persist
without eemaan but it will never persist or subsist rather without
justice. If this oppression
anywhere and there's no state of justice, it's going to be
problematic and look around the world. And if you see that, and I
just don't want to take names of our countries, you understand,
it's not a problem with Islam, it's just a problem of people. A
person's faith is only as good as he practices it, we have to
remember that any person's faith is only going to be as good as you
practice it. You can go on and say, I'm a Muslim, and this was
our history. And this is great this time the other, but I don't
practice myself. What's the big deal? What are you? What are you
bragging about? You practice it show me that is good. This is one
of the reasons why we failed in our data in the West, we gone
about Islam being so great, but we don't express it as we don't
express it, we don't show them, they're not going to go and read a
Syrah of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, they're going to see
us as representatives. So
what this book does is that it gives you an understanding that
we're not in a vacuum, we are in a situation that we've been there.
And we've had these problems, yes, it's a bit of a different nature
of a problem. But at the end of the day, it's a similar problem.
And Allah subhanho wa taala. So it gives hope that Allah will lift us
back up, I'm going to mention something about the author,
a bit more about the author, then I'm going to speak about a few of
the individuals that he mentions in here, then I want to open it up
to any questions that you have. So first and foremost.
Who is this author, this author? He passed away? On the 31st of
December
1999. Right, so literally the last day of the Gregorian millennium,
right, you know, the, literally the last day, but the one, I don't
think that matters, right? What really matters is that it was a
DUA, it was a Friday, the 22nd of Ramadan.
It was the 22nd of Ramadan, a Friday, and he woke up in the
morning and he was preparing for Joomla.
And just a few months before that, I that particular year, I was
studying in India, in a place called Sahara unpooled, which is
in western up. And he is in he was in Lucknow, which is in
eastern up. So it's in the one state but it's a nine hour train
journey. And we heard that he's quite sick and everything. And he
was well known throughout the world for his Arabic books. I
mean, his books are taught literally throughout the world.
For anybody who's done the early media class or studied Arabic
literature, whatever, they probably dealt with his book
called Casa suddaby, or pesasso Nabin. Then he's got
a number of other series, I think there's a while there. And then
he's got the Mortara which is on more advanced anthology of
classical Arabic writings a wonderful piece of work. And he's
got numerous other other books, some really masterpieces the Arabs
just absolutely loved him because of his prowess in his in his
Arabic and his style and his thought process. So
I am there studying for my Mufti course at the time, 1999. And I
heard that he's sick. So I was with my wife and my one year old
son, and we said, let's go, let's go, let's go and visit him get his
ijazah you know, authorization. So
we had lessons until Thursday afternoon, and then you're off
Thursday evening, and all of Friday, and then classes resumed
on Sunday again. So I took permission from the teacher, and I
got a last minute booking in India, bookings are a horror,
right? I'm sure there are in many other countries.
The idea was that you get a basic ticket to at least get on the
train. Now, it's supposed to be a sleeper ticket, but you can't get
a sleeper fear at night. It's too late. It's all booked up. But the
idea is that somebody's not going to show up. And what the ticket
collector does is that he sells them to people that you know, he
alots them to people. So we got on and talk to him and he says, Okay,
I've only got one I can give you one so I go okay, fine. Put my
wife and my child and I don't I don't know if I'd be ever be able
to do this again.
Had a piece of cloth or something put that on the dirty floor of the
train and the floors. I mean, has anybody been in a Moroccan train?
Those of you are from Morocco, right? Moroccan trains are a lot
better than Indians. I've traveled in Morocco, right? I've traveled
from from Casablanca to what do you call it? maracas. You know,
I've done the train there. And it's difficult, but it's these
trains. Allah Who? I don't I don't think I could ever do it again.
Right. But I stepped on the floor just to get this to this done.
Just to show you how you know great this person is. Anyway we
got there. He's there sitting down doing. We told him got the news to
him that the next day. Sorry that I'm here for his ijazah whatever.
So he says okay, come 10 o'clock in the morning the next day. So
the next morning I got there 10 o'clock and waiting. And till 1030
I think it was 1020 I can't remember exactly. And he's just in
his liquor. He's just enjoying his liquor. Somebody goes on reminds
him somebody's waiting outside for you. He does tell them to wait.
Right? So that's when you learn that somebody can be so engrossed
in liquor that they enjoying it. It's not like
I swear, tell us to spend five more minutes after any Salah to
just come and read a bit more Subhan Allah, whatever. And the
times when we get so much Baraka that it doesn't even move. And
when we are on YouTube, we can spend one two hours and then at
the end think, what did I just do that? Right? That's the kind of
situation we're in. So find anyway Hamdulillah I managed to read
something to him and, Joseph. What I want to tell you, though, is
that when he then died that year, 100 I caught him on time, right?
Because a few months later, on the 31st, December that 22nd of
Ramadan, it's Friday time, he reads a sort of the scene, he
calls for a Quran so that he could read through the roof, and then he
passes away. Right, just at that time waiting for Joomla at
nighttime, is the 23rd Night an odd night of Ramadan. That's when
his janazah takes place. I believe it was 500,000 people that turned
up for his janazah right now, that's great. I'd love even
100,000 people, you know, I'd love even 1000 people Subhanallah you
know, my janazah insha. Allah made me make that for all of us. But
for that many people and then more than that.
Many of you have probably been to the Haram
in Madina, Munawwara and mcomber. Karma. And
have you ever you've seen Janaza prayer after every Salaat? There's
a janazah after every Sadat, but have you ever seen them pray on
somebody who's absent?
You know, in the Hanafi school, they don't do this. They don't do
absent Janaza prayer for somebody who's somewhere else but in all
the other methods they do that. So now what happens in Saudi Arabia
is that a few days later, 27th night 27th Nights, they were so
they
in Makkah, mocha Rama 2.7 million people did his Janaza prayer,
mocha mocha Rama and in Madina Munawwara 1.5 million people, they
do his Janaza prayer. So you can tell acceptance of this manner.
Why am I mentioned this? The reason I mentioned this is this is
a concept of Ghoulia acceptance, divine acceptance for some work
that you do in this world. There's a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu
some it says it's related by Mr. Ahmed
from Aboriginal Hanoch. It mentioned that my god the love
will be higher on a stepmother who
waka EULA, Miss Tamela, who ya rasool Allah
Surah Surah la sala some said, You are fickle, Julio Amberlynn, Saleh
and Coppola Moti, another version Yoda and who Jurado. Essentially
the hadith is that the prophets Allah some said, Whoever Allah
intends here and good with he is that a mother who he uses him, he
employs him in a service. He accepts him for his service.
He he accepts him for something for the deen, you know? And he
just said his stepmother who uses him. So this How about us? What
does that mean? Yeah, Rasul Allah, what does that mean? So he said,
he gives him the TOEFL, which means the divine guidance to do
something by which the surrounding people become satisfied with him a
few things to understand here. There's another version of this
hadith, which says,
Whoever Allah intends good with my unit, Allah will be hired on as
Salah who
are solo. And what is acid? What's acid in Arabic? Yes, it's honey.
Right? Now, the way I translate this hadith, I'm taken a bit of
license here. When Allah loves somebody, when Allah wants to
sorry, when Allah loves for somebody to have hired, then he
sweetens the deal for them. Right? He sweetens the life for them.
Basically, he gives them the trophy to do something Yoda and
Huji Rana people around him become satisfied with him Pablo Moti.
Now, what I want to clarify here is that this is not an offer for
scholars exclusively
many times shaytaan makes us think that these kinds of offers that
are mentioned in the Quran, in the in the Hadith, they are only for
scholars people who spend years and years in you know whether
that'd be done on Karachi or darlin Durban though, or would you
call Karachi and, you know, whatever the case is,
it doesn't have to be the case.
And he's talking about the surrounding people being satisfied
with him. That means whether you are a
you know, whether you're a nurse, whether you're a taxi driver,
whether you're a lawyer, whether you're a dentist or a doctor, it
doesn't matter what you are a painter, you know,
a guy who does computer programming, it doesn't make a
difference. If you ask Allah for Tofik something will happen. We
just want to make ourselves useful in this world and be accepted.
That's about kuliah. So now, I'm going to just discuss a few of the
individuals in here
Number one word of mouth disease. Now what Omar Abdulaziz tells you
is of a man who was flamboyant in his own way, right? Somebody who
loves the latest perfume. He used to he used to spend, you know, you
got stars today that spend this many 1000s on a dress.
And they're seen with it once and the pictures are taken, and then
they don't want to ever be seen in it again. So they buy another
dress, these models and
stars and so on. Right? They basically buy a dress from
Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton or whatever it is they use it once
and then has it somewhere in their wardrobe and they buy another one
another one another one like this. That's how he was used to buy
some, you know, a pair of clothing or whatever, and then he would buy
another one for huge amounts of money. He was the governor of
Madina Munawwara during the time of the Romanians, the hit the
Caliphate was not in his immediate family. It was in his cousin's
family, in his relatives, so we're talking about Marwan, then his
sons Abdul Malik, his son, Abdullah Medicube number one
became the Khalifa very powerful belief of the time, and then his
sons basically so we're talking about he Charbonneau, Abdul Malik,
Willie Dibner, Abdul Malik, Suleiman, Abdullah Abdul Malik,
and all of these. So Soleimani Abdul Malik is the Khalifa of his
time.
And Amara Abdulaziz Rahim Allah He is the governor of Madina,
Munawwara right. The the head of the caliphate is where the center
of the caliphate at that time was where for the OMA yet, who knows.
Now, that's our buses, but that didn't even exist at that time.
But that was established by the Abbasids later on. So this was
Damascus. Right? This is Damascus in Syria. So so they might have
not been a medic. He's on his deathbed. And his children are too
young to dress up as the next leaf. He tried all sorts, being
long clothing on them or whatever. It didn't work. He had a minister,
a scholar who was with him and advisor rather, and he whispered
in his ear, what about your cousin and word of mouth disease? So it
was just that Allah's hokum at that time decree? And he says,
Yes, hello. So overdone. Abdullah Aziz is called.
Now Ramadan Abdelaziz when he came he, he literally
the night was spent in the burial procedure of Soleimani, bin Abdul
Malik, he comes out, goes and does his fajr prayer leads the algebra.
In fact, as soon as he comes out, there's this royal entourage, the
police, the security detail, everything around him. He says,
What is all of this? He says, You're the Hanif. Now this is for
you. He says, I don't need this. An original men come, I'm just a
man among your men, right? You know, just a normal person.
Anyway, fellas, he goes and does his Fajr gives his inaugural
speech. And then after that, he gets down and he's going off to
his, his, his residence, his son, his son stops him on the way.
And Omar Abdulaziz was only I believe, 40 or something, when,
when, when this is happening, he's very young. Right? He's not even a
very old man. So you can imagine how old his children must have
been. His son grabbed him. And he says, Where you going further? He
says, The whole night has been spent, you know, on the burial
procedure. I'm very tired, I want to go to sleep, have some nap, you
know, have a relaxing and I'll go back. And then you know, a
thorough time. And then we'll, we'll deal with the people. He
says, who's going to give you a guarantee? People are waiting
there to with their complaints, all the oppression and so on and
so forth. And they are waiting for you to bring justice? Can you give
them guarantee until that Sahana he grabs his son and he says all
praises to Allah Who gave me from my loins, such a person that can
give me these reminders, goes back. And that's it. It starts
immediately an old man stands up and he says, I've got a claim
against such and such a royal family, his cousins. He was he was
more of an adult Aziz was married to the daughter of Abdulmalik
number one. So all her brothers are caliphs, a father's a hadith,
a grandfather's or Kalif. He's married into that, but as soon as
they're married, he basically speaks to her whatever.
As soon as he becomes a Khalif, he completely changes, all that royal
stuff is all gone. In fact, once he's having a discussion with
somebody about some official business, and there's a lamp, you
know, like these lamps, Mashallah. And then the person switched to
speaking about something personal, immediately puts the lamp off, and
it's dark in the room. This is why did you do that for you said these
are state lamps. Now we're speaking on a personal level, we'd
have no right to use this. That's how he became afterwards it's our
job is change. And so immediately he starts to deal with the people
and he starts to give back land that people you know, because only
just enjoying themselves the bait
Till now was there as they could just do what they wanted taking
people's nine confiscating on basic, you know, this is the world
we're speaking about. He started giving all of this back, he
suddenly gets a message from one of his relatives or something that
What are you doing? You're bringing us to shame. You know,
You're embarrassing us. And he called out to him and he says, I
know what your mom was before. She used to be in the in the markets
of can't remember Damascus or wherever it is, and just shut him
up because his mother was found by his father in the market or
whatever, and they got married and you know, all the rest of it.
Well, he didn't last long. Two years and about four or five
months, and then they say he was poisoned by his family members.
But the main thing is this regardless of that story, the main
thing is is that
what I want to explain from that is the top down approach. Before
his time, people were speaking about architecture in the town of
Salim. I didn't Abdulmalik so they might even I don't know Solomon's
they love architecture, it seems. Because today, Martin Abdulmalik
he did a lot for and so when he when he didn't have the medic,
actually he built he's in, he's responsible for the great Ahmed
mosque. He's also responsible for a lot of the building in the Aqsa
right in the computer Sahara. Right. So people at that time were
talking about architecture on the streets, then what happens is in
Ahmedabad, Abdulaziz time, you know what the discussion on the
street is? Brother? How many know often how much to hedge? What have
you done? How much Quran Have you memorized? top down approach has
its influence. You know, there's this argument about is it a bottom
up approach? Is it top down approach? Where does the influence
come from? I believe it can come from both sides just depends on
the power of the topic of the time. But basically North Africa,
North Africa, right. They say that in his time in North Africa, when
does the card was collected, within two years, in four or five
months, we're talking about, that's the only time he had, there
was nobody there to accept the Zakat.
Because everybody was decently well off, they had the nisab they
had sufficient wealth that they couldn't accept zakat anymore.
That tells you that if you take basically 40%, and I think there
was a study that was done, which showed that if you just take 2.5
person which is our Cartwright, of the wealthy of the world, and
distribute that to the needy of the world, you will not have
anybody who's needy anymore. But unfortunately, that just doesn't
happen. You get you get some really really generous, wealthy
individuals, like your Bill Gates and your you know, there's a few
others and martial arts kind of studying a trend. Hopefully,
there's a lot of other rich, like Prince Walid just decided I'm
going to do that as well. And hopefully it catches on a bit
more.
And hopefully, it's genuine, right? So, you know, you'd have no
imbalance in the world. But this is, this is the way of Allah
subhanho wa Taala in this world. So it shows you how an effect of
just two years and some months can make such massive changes, such
massive changes.
Let's move on to Hassan bacilli. He is the second person and again,
I'm gonna let you read the book if you want to read it. I don't I
can't obviously do justice to the book in this short amount of time.
I'm just going to quickly mention some of the features hasn't
bursaries time. You've got the omits and hasn't dusted is
somebody who was brought up in the home of one of the amanatullah
Momineen he wasn't a Sahabi he never saw the Prophet sallallahu
sallam. He was born afterwards. But he was his mother was a
a slave girl of one of the Omaha and what minion does, he was
brought up, he saw the Sahaba then he saw the changes that took place
he was from Missouri, Missouri was Kufa. Basara were the thriving
cities before Baghdad before Baghdad was even established at
the time. Anyway, so what happens then is somebody wants asked him
he used to he was extremely eloquent his his language. They
say that in his time that there were two people that were very
effective in their speech, they could rally a crowd, they could
make people cry. They could make you know, the two people who they
were one was him, and the other one was
her judging the use of such a tyrant such a murderer, but he
could stand up to a massive crowd and make them feel guilty of how
they felt about him. That's his power of speech. Right.
However, they say Hasson Basu Rahim Allah was supposed to be
even more eloquent. He hurt he hurt a Holika NASA Amani Kowloon
Billa Amma will not refer to be a lady southern Mali are our
regional and voila our Gulin the halal comb Wallah Haytham Maha
Raju, Mahara Musa Mr. Hulu in the medina honeycomb locka tune Allah
listen either so LM min on Anta Bo mill hisab kala Nam Caliban ye
Maliki on within a minute of his sadati harsh we're in a record a
sorry, and then he carries on and then he says how can I kind of
us Why wouldn't I be sallallahu alayhi wasallam and and and the
stuff and he says what in the mail? Well, you'll be good luck.
Ma urutan and then he's and then he read the verse in. It's a
beautiful football of his anyway. So he used to try to tell the
people because at his time, basically what shaker would have
seen that we're showing is that there was a massive decadence
problem. People were just with these newfound riches, suddenly
you had the world open up to you superpower of the world,
everything is at your feet. And he says, because of that there was
decadence. So he singles up Hasan Basri, and a few others of the
time he says, This is who kept the people with their faith, otherwise
people would have become decadent. Once he was asked, do manavi teens
still exist? Do hypocrites still exist today? You know the
hypocrites of the timeless will Allah salatu salam. Now, this is
quite an extreme.
This is quite an extreme
response. He says, if the hypocrites will to live Basara
this city would not run anymore.
He could say that right? Because his was the different level. I
mean, today that would be very condemning statement, right? A
self righteous statement. That would be maybe, anyway, then let's
move on to
after that what you had is
books from the Hellenistic philosophers, the Neoplatonist,
the the Greek philosophers, Aristotle, Plato, and those that
followed them. They began to be translated into Arabic, then they
came into English afterwards. So now what happens is, the Muslims
started reading this, right this is now in Baghdad, the glory city
of Baghdad established by Abuja from the monsoon, right, so now
what you have is, people are being becoming influenced, they're not
taking it fully, but they are becoming influenced. They're
trying to take the rationalism that's mentioned in their the
purported rationalism, right? And trying to bring it together with
their faith. One of the ideas they come up with and I don't want to
go into the detail here because it's a long theological debate is
is the Quran which is the word of Allah is it created or uncreated?
Right now, just to let you know, according to the 100, Sonowal,
Gemma the Quran is uncreated Word of God, okay, just just believe me
for a moment, right? Even if you don't understand the background of
it, I know that you guys are quite into your Akita in this country,
right? I've never been to a country and I've never been to a
country and they they recognize themselves as being a Yamato Devi
or selfie. You know, I've never seen that before. I've seen issues
where saying okay, I'm sorry for you, I'm a mother would be your
Hanafi, Maliki or whatever. But Marcia, you guys here like have
Aqeedah classes and all sorts of things like a big deal here,
right? So it's kind of interesting. So I'm sure you know
what I'm talking about. Now, the Khalifa of the time that I
basically from the time his son of Harun Rashid, his name is Munna
regime. Now there's no proof to say he was a mortality and
mortality is a is a person of the time it was a rationalist. Not to
say there were other there weren't other rationalists but basically,
who, who believed in these five principles of dough heathen,
Otherland, Manziel, Albanian Lindsey Latina and so on, so
forth. Again, I don't want to bore you with the, the theological
aspects, but the main thing is that one of the concepts they had
in belief is that
the Quran is created, whereas the other synergism I believe, the
uncreated and they started the Inquisition,
manga Rasheeda was a very hasty, very stubborn individual. So he
started the Inquisition, scholars would be brought in, scholars will
be brought in and they would be asked what do you believe? And
many just said Colossus, okay, you know, whatever, you know, it's
created an uncreated you know, let me carry on my work. So,
numerous scholars, if they didn't, they will be persecuted, somewhere
even killed or died in the process. Imam Muhammad even no
humble, he would not be though it was the coffee of the time, who
happened to be Hanafy. Right. And you had a number of Hannity's who
were marked as lilies, like them actually, and so on, so forth,
right.
So now what happens is, Mr. Muhammad stood up to it, and he
just kept refusing. Now, that is not the case. That is not the
case. That is not the case. He was beaten, he was flogged. Now, they
say that there are the scholars who studied this history, they say
that there are two people who have performed such a task at a very
critical moment in history. There's numerous people who have
performed extraordinary things, but there were two people who
saved Islam at a really dangerous edge and you know who they say
those two people. One is Imam Muhammad, no humble and you know
who the other one is. You will understand the significance of
Imam Muhammad by when I meant when I mentioned the other one, will
Bakr Siddiq or the Allah one? Now what is the similarity? The
similarity is that if you remember, after the forester
Larson departs from this world, what happens in the Arabian
Peninsula is numerous people who start to want to personalize their
faith. There's some who become apostate, there's others
say we'll do this we'll pray we'll fast but we're not going to give
us a cut. That's a difficult thing always from an African. That's a
very difficult thing, right to give money. I can come and join
your party. But if I have to pay for it, that's difficult, right?
So they wouldn't want to they say, we're not going to give zakat, Abu
Bakr, the Allahu Anhu managed to level the field have managed to
sort everything out and stabilize the situation. That's why when
ometer the alarm came, it was smooth sailing for good 10 years
he did Mashallah. He, you know, he just took it forth. But it was a
bucket of Siddiq or the other who dealt with that critical moment.
Mr. Mahama didn't know humble is the one who dealt with it. Because
if this theology was changed, and if he did not challenge it, then
it's very possible that a lot more could have been changed. Now it
says that moment, Rashid was not nessa there's no proof to say he
wasn't mortality. But in the case of the Quran being created
uncreated, he definitely agreed with them. So it was on this
particular issue. So it deals with Imam Ahmed himno, humble, then we
carry on, and then you've got a bill, Hassan, Ashanti and you
know, mashallah, because you guys are so well known about that I
live in Malibu. Actually, I won't mention him. But basically the
need of the time he starts off as a mortality. And the mortality
lights are very, very prominent. They're very influential. They've
basically infiltrated the government in a sense, right?
They've got support.
Mr. Mahama, didn't know humbly what he's sorry, I'm gonna show
you what he manages to do is that he manages to, you know, turn
around, there's numerous stories about that. And he manages to, to
then rebut and respond to them and eventually, you see what happened
is you had the relief Munna Rashid, then you had after him
worth Biller, and then you had Marta Cymbala are more similar
than worth Camilla. All three of these were on the same message,
then came mutawa kill villa, who was off that manage he was normal,
and Masha Allah then after that, the martyrs he didn't like the
mortality lights at all. So what happened to the martyrs the
lights, by the way? I mean, since you guys are asking the students
what happened to the martyrs, the lights?
They weren't all killed, obviously. Where did they go?
These rational you know, rational individuals, they were sincere in
their work. This wasn't a conspiracy. You know, Muslims,
they think anything. Anybody that talks weird or strange or a baron
ideas, this is a conspiracy. This is the MI, you know, whatever, CIA
is standing up, but it's not the case. These are just people who
have these weird thoughts, you know, so, what happened to the
martyrs delights. Now, if you do a study of Arabic Philology, or
lexicography, Arabic language, basically Luva some of the
greatest of our Luhur we even lower our
martyrs delights people like Immanuel Pharisee and Imogen Lee
and a number of others Kashif was Elizabeth Shelley and his
beautiful dictionary called assassin Bulava. Right. Basically,
when they couldn't do this anymore. They turned all of their
powers to developing the language. That's why have you noticed you
have in now who's studying Arabic?
Arabic classes, right? You heard of them. Now who is from Basra and
Kufa, the bustling school in the cufon school? These are the two,
you know there's a lot of influences of the martyrs zeolites
because you had the Moto oscillator bus random Mark
desolates of Kufa, the person who deals with them to cut the long
story short is I will have a shoddy,
right? Then
somehow
the actual Hellenistic philosophy does take some hold into the
community. Now we're talking the four hundreds 450 or
so people, there are a number of people who have been influenced by
that full wholesale. We're talking about people like Al farabi. And
ignorance came later but ignore Cena epicenter. So as I was
saying, whenever issues came up whenever a problem was created,
Allah subhanaw taala always sent somebody to respond to it. Right.
So what happened is, then the philosophy took on a very strong
hold. And they started to say that people like Aristotle and Plato
are similar to prophets.
The difference is that anybody who's intellectual, they basically
they said prophets and the prophets and these philosophers,
they're saying the same thing. The concept called Double truths.
They're saying the same thing. The only difference is that anybody
who's intellectual, they don't need to go through a profit. They
get it directly
through their rational understanding.
They believed in a Supreme Being, right? They didn't deny God,
right? They just call them something like the unmoved mover,
or the first principle or whatever you know.
The prophet is for the normal folk. The nun in
Selection people, right? That's what they said. So a man was early
comes along and he writes this book called McCaskill philosopher,
then he wrote the Havel philosopher, and he condemned them
for 20 different issues. Three of those issues he said, go after the
other 17. Issues,
innovators. So that's Imam Al Ghazali. Imam Ghazali has a lot
more to offer. We don't have the time to do justice to that. I just
want to quickly move on. Then you have somebody like,
I will follow up with Josie. If you are a student of knowledge, or
you want to do something successful in this world, I don't
care what you want to do then read in New Jersey,
the HEMA that aspiration, the motivation that he gives you is
just RGB, you just read his work, and he just fills you with gone do
it. Then the other person I'm going to take here is, is the Dean
Abner Abdus Salam
is the deliberate Abdus Salam.
He is called the soul. Donal Olia.
He is responsible for a number of things. First and foremost. So
he's in Egypt.
And he is so beloved by the people there and also by the ruler, the
king. So he's made the chief Mufti.
Now he is I haven't seen I haven't read about somebody bolder than
him who got away with it. There's a lot of people have been bold,
and they speak out against the rule and you know the people of
the time, but then eventually get killed or put in prison or
whatever the case is, he gets away with it.
He
gives a fatwa that now you need some history for this. You've
heard of the mum, Luke's
mum, Luke in Arabic means owned.
You had a whole dynasty, the circumcision dynasty, another
dynasty, the Hmong, Luke, the MA Malik, they were essentially
started off as as slaves. But there's, there's another wisdom
behind this. But they rose up in influence, and eventually became
governors, and eventually became the rulers. Within that busted
caliphate. They kind of
wonder this impels us is that, you know, people go on about Islam and
slavery. This tells us that because one of the wisdoms of why
slavery was not abolished by the Prophet sallallahu sallam was
because these people had been slaves for centuries.
Sake, their psyche was slavery, if you just suddenly freed them, they
will know where to turn. There's people like that, you know, people
who are forced into modern day slavery, you know, where people
are brought in, and then they didn't know how to escape the
whole psyche becomes different. However, what sort of loss or loss
and did do is that he started in COURAGING, equality first, feed
them from what you eat, and all the rest of it, then gave as many
excuses as possible to freedom, the fragile, and you can free them
as a penalty. So if you break your fast and free a slave, if you do
this thing, you do this, you know, so it was to bring them up, and
then free them that way. integrate them first.
Now, the fact that in Islam, you can have rulers that were slaves
originally, that tells you what it meant to be a slave in Islam. Do
you understand you had a lot of rights as such anyway.
He suddenly gives a fatwa is the Dini Abdus Salam Rahim Allah gives
a fatwa that they are going these influential people in the city are
going to have to be auctioned off. Sold.
And thus, by their, by their freedom, otherwise, it's not
permissible
that they just walking around like this. Now, how does that feel for
you got governors, hi, people hypers influence with the ruler.
And they are they say, and somebody saying, you're gonna have
to be sold off? What are you going to do? So they start obviously,
influencing the king against him. And they, one day, he hears a
knock on his door. So his son's goes to open it, and it's one of
the one of the main Mamluks or whatever it was. And his son
became very scared because the person had the weapon. So he came
and told his father, it's so and so he's here and so on. And so as
it goes outside and says, yes, and suddenly the person starts
shaking, his soul drops and he says, What are you going to do
with us? He came to kill him. But he was just so overwhelmed by him
that he said, Okay, what are you going to do is I'm going to sell
you. So finally they negotiate. He says, Okay, if anybody sells us,
then you sell us. You do the deal, then you go out into the market
and you do this or not anybody else, at least has some honor in
that. Now, his son says to his father, seriously, I thought he
was going to kill you. You're going to be shy.
He this day. And you know what he says to him? Is the Dean even
Abdus Salam says to him, unfortunately that's not written
for your father. Right? Once he goes into the king's palace, all
the dignitaries are sitting there and he goes and he tells him, he
says, Do you know that wine is being sold freely in the streets?
And so and so is happening and so the king starts stammering and he
starts saying, Oh, is that the case? Is that the case? He says of
course it is. And you don't know and you surrounding yourself with
all of these things. So the king says oh, this is from my father's
time so immediately is the dean of the salon says also you're from
those who say hi there now we're generally about Hoonah but and
this is what we found our forefathers doing is it when I
said the king that's how he was he's just had this once the admin
if you guys have Moon issues here, right.
Differences in when it is in Ramadan is so
the ruler they gave us the official Fatah was that is
uncertain day, but the person whose testimony whose witness it
was wasn't considered to be upright, according to a Selenium
lamp disarm, so he rejected it. And he gives a separate fatwa. So
nobody observes Eden the king had to change the royal decree because
of him.
Eventually, after the Han mom Luke affair, The king felt it prudent,
not he resigned, the in between all of this is a deliberate
decision to resign, he says, I'm not gonna do it. Now, the ruler
felt it prudent not to reinstate him. He still had respect for him,
but he says it's him. He's too hot for this position. However, on one
occasion,
there was something else that happened. And he again, he gives
a ruling that conflicts with the Royal ruling as such, but the king
didn't listen to him in that occasion, for whatever reason. So
the next day the king is told, quickly, quickly go into the name
of the cinema said he's leaving the city is leaving Cairo, Egypt
that is called Mr at the time. And if you don't go your city is going
to be empty people went behind him.
So he had some IG ability.
He went through a place called if you've been to Jordan is a place
called Kerak. Carach is where the husband to move out to places the
city now where the three Sahaba are buried, and there's a big
Masjid there, Abdullah in Ottawa for the urine, Zaid ibn ohada So
he went through Kerak and they said
I'm sure this happens in many places scholar visits and you say
come and stay here you can be our local Imam you can you know
resident scholar this that and the other happens all the time. So
they must have said that to him and he says no, my your city isn't
what see is an expensive enough for my knowledge.
He's just, you know, in the end is called soltana. Lola is not a is
not a boastful man who just makes up stuff. On one occasion, he was
in the city. And he had a friend who lived in the villages outside
a very close friend of his on one occasion, that close friend of his
sent him some gifts. food supplies from the village, right? This is
stuff, right?
And
on the way, so there was a number of different things and one of
them was cheese. Now, I don't mean your cheddar cheese. I'm talking
about, you know, the white Arab cheese that you get. It's not
pungent, it's It's nice, right? It's not smelly. It's not how does
good actually you call it God or how the
how the Okay, it's not how the case is how the Okay. It's like
sleep or is it? Sleep or okay? Yeah, sucky people. Alright. It's
the HA. Alright. So
Edom is also
that's also is that Danish?
That's Dutch as well. Okay. The rest of you don't know.
Anyway, so on the way the cheese drops and becomes dirty, so he
throws it away. And there's somebody selling cheese, some old
woman, Christian woman, sending cheese, so he buys it, buy some
cheese to replace that one goes and gives him the idea. He accepts
everything except the cheese. And he says, I smell not serrania from
here. I smell Christianity from here. How does he know? Do you
understand? And upon inquiry. I mean, I told you before but upon
inquiry, it was discovered that yes, that the original cheese had
dropped. And
he had purchased this from the road where you know from the
seller on the street. So Talia is called. So basically, he is also
the one no, you know the title is they came down they swept through
and just started erasing city after city in fact, in some cities
after they'd gone through 1015 20
The people came out of the rubble. 1000s of people were just
completely murdered. And you know, became famous that nobody can.
They're invincible. Nobody can take them on and so on and so
forth. The whole story about that, however, they had reached now all
of these cities, Baghdad, etc. Finally they get to Damascus, they
take over Damascus, the Christians had some connection with them
because some of them had married some Christians and the Christians
had a good so in Damascus in the mosques, wine was being served and
things like this. Egypt, Cairo, across the board right is now the
next place. That's the next stronghold otherwise, Baghdad's
gone, all the Uzbekistan all that area somewhere can order these
Bahara all these areas have finished, it is within a minute
Abdus Salam who encourages that he encourages the ruler of Egypt of
the time, that look you must take this on and I can see that
inshallah you will have a victory Allah is with you. And he because
nobody had the hammer, nobody had enough conviction that anything
was going to happen. But mashallah they listened to him. And thus,
under Baybars, you you have this first defeat of the tortoise. And
that's it from then, you know, it went back and then. So then this
book discusses the tortoise. And he discusses how you had the four
main branches of the tortoise, the Golden Horde, and the Ilhan eight
and the other two, and how eventually all of them become
Muslim. Right, eventually, and how then they start speaking for
Islam. Basically, it's telling us a number of different things is
telling us about the challenges that have taken place in the past.
And how Allah subhanaw taala is always brought up something to
respond to that challenge, any challenge we have today. We've
seen it before. It's just different intensity, different
shapes. And the final thing I mentioned before, I'd open it up
to you is you know, you have a lot of discussion about when Maddie is
going to come. Everybody is going on about that, right? There's so
many documentaries online. But I've been following that for the
last 30 years or so. And all the predictions so far have been
wrong. Right? In my lifetime. Something was supposed to happen
in 2004. If I remember correctly, something was happening in 2000.
You know, the end of the millennium is supposed to end.
There's Christians who believe this as well. I just read a report
about somebody who
they call them the pocket. Apocalypse, Christians are the
Armageddon ones in South America, not South America, but South of
the US. There's a number of them, they just believe in these major
events. And this is all just going to come to an end and some really
crazy then you've got Muslims who believe that as well.
Let me tell you Imam, so ut passed away 911 Hijiri. Right. How many
years before the first Islamic millennium? Is that?
Common do the math quickly?
911. So that's 89 years old, right? That's 89 years left for
that millennium. Now, what's very interesting here is that he writes
a book here, sorry, small rissalah small treaties. And he
he calls it
I'll cash and Bucha wasn't how the * on earth.
Basically, treaties on the passage of this ummah, beyond the
millennium, because there was a famous scholar of his time, who
took a number of Hadith about the coming of Mahadevi and the jungle
and the signs of the Day of Judgment. He made some
calculations, and he said, we're not going beyond the 1000 Hijiri
world is going to end Pm is going to come.
So what Imams God did, and he did this in 890 98. So about, you
know, 1520 years before he died. So 898 he's writing this in 898.
How many years left for the Millennium in 898 102 898? Yes,
that's right. I'm trying to be as simple one.
So there's 102 years left. Now what he proves by looking at all
the Hadith, he quotes a number of narrations. And he says that just
to make it simple, the jar will emerge at the turn of the century,
followed by Prophet Sid salaam will kill him and then remain for
40 years in the world. So Eastside Islam is going to remain for 40
years, people are going to remain this world for 120 years after
rising of the sun from its selling place, then there's going to be 40
years between the two blasts of the trumpet. This amounts to 200
years in total minimum that are necessary to pass before the final
hour, how many years left when he was writing when he wrote this?
102 So he says it's impossible for the Kiama to occur by the
millennium, the Islamic Millennium 1000
Right Okay. His words are true and that does happen.
However, he says something else which is very interesting. He then
says that since now, only 102 years remain, right till the close
of the millennium none
These events have yet occurred nor have any other of the major signs
even started such as the Gog Magog and the job. He asked them how
anybody can think the world will enter the Millennium however, then
he continues say that it will end by 1500
He says at that time, it's going to end by 1500
which year are we in right now?
Come on, there you go.
1437 How many years left for 1500?
Mashallah 63 do we have 200 years?
According to his calculation by which he said it cannot happen by
1000? Can it happen by one by 1500?
Not according to that calculate not not not according to the same
argument.
Allah has Casey is one a long time ago, when I first got into this, I
asked my teacher, you know, this is what people he says Allah and
His Messenger kept this concealed.
So, it's going to be concealed, people will have speculations,
there's been so many speculation, it just doesn't work out. Now,
yes, we are dealing with times, which anybody who doesn't know
history will think are unprecedented, that we've never
had these issues before. But if you know your history, then you
won't be depressed. The what is the problem? What is the problem
with thinking, okay, you know, we can't do anything we have to wait
for the money to come. That's fatalistic, that means we don't
try that means we're just gonna go down, down down until it gets very
bad. And Maddie comes in. Only he and ESA is somebody that's wrong.
We according to our history, we could go back up. Yeah, we're in a
bit of a low, we could go completely back up, then there
couldn't be another low. And then, yes, there's many, many signs. But
you think a million people killed in Baghdad is not bad enough? You
think 90 years machine locks are not being in the hands of the
Muslims? Do you think that wasn't bad enough? That's why I want to
give some hope. That's what I'm trying to do. That we have to try.
The difference between the major and minor science is that a major
science would be global phenomenon, everybody is going to
be effective once the gel comes and all that it's going to be
supposedly global minus signs. For example, prevalence of
disobedience in the world. They happen, they are happening, but
they happen in different intensities in different places.
Some people have more disobedience than in other places.
You know that the whole culture of
singing and dancing and all that kind of stuff, some places is
worse than others. So that's minus signs they take place in different
parts of the world and different intensities, but major signs they
have lost, they will be major, starting with the MADI, or the
Hola, Juan. So
that's basically the whole point of this book, that I think it's
very relevant for today to give us an understanding of what happened
in the past, how we've had the dips, we've had the lows, we've
had the abs, but then we've had the flow, we've had the successes,
we've had the challenges, we've been able to show you how it's not
only from outside, that we've been attacked, we've been internally
attacked, we see all of these things today, all of these things,
Nothing is new. This is human race, generic things happen.
Right? If you've had more desolates before, you've got
certain individuals who though we don't have a group of martyrs
allies, but there are individuals, for example, there's a professor
and he used to be at UCLA,
highly double father, he says I'm no mortality. There's our famous
writer in England. Ziauddin Sardar, he reckons he's a
mortality. I have no idea. You know, there are people then you've
got Neo hullbridge. Right? extremists, basically, who love to
do tech fear of people.
You've got antinomian or merger, right? Who just say, look, as long
as your heart is good, you're you're you're cool, you're fine,
right?
You You've got all of these things.
It's just new generic ideas that come about.
And for us, it's just about trying to
do the best that we can for Allah so that we become accepted. We're
comfortable in the train of Islam, and
Allah is going to continue his his Deen will continue. It's just
whether we continue or not. So anyway, that's what I'm going to
say today. Sharla.
Rocha about the situation we're in. You're describing some sort of
material, situation where we end like of depressions of,
let's say, people destroying our cities, that kind of things. But
was there also a time in which we were spirit spirituality? Also
that way down so yeah, so you had more than once that's happened so
many times, the first time that he discusses this is in that time of
hustle and bustle.
So hustle bustle is known
To be you can say one of the first zoo heard one of the first Czar
hit it. Basically, if you read it says people were just becoming the
lawmakers were known for this indulgence. You know what he says?
And you wouldn't have even seen this today. And this was not just
only on May at times but abassi times. I can't remember which
relief. They started a royal eat possession.
eat salad is supposed to be the morning, right? You know, when,
when they performed the Eid prayer in the evening, the Royal
possession took so long that eventually when they got around to
praying it was in the evening.
That's the kind of indulgence Yeah, and it sounds crazy. You've
had people come to lead the federal because the khalifa to or
the governor had to lead the Fajr
with a hangover
right.
The second time, I forgot to mention the great Sheikh Abdul
Qadir jeelani, Rahim Allah Baghdad. So khazali leaves 505
Hijiri. He dies from Baghdad. Abdul Qadir jeelani comes into
Baghdad around that time, and he dies around the 570s. He sees that
he sees that he is very, very effective. Everybody used to come
to his doors. You know, today, if you want to read his, his
speeches, they've all been translated, a lot of them have
been translated by a wonderful translator called Mater Holland.
Right?
You read any of those speeches and you see the power of it even in
English. Can you imagine how powerful it was in the original
language, if so much power still retained is retained in the
English.
He says the king the rulers in Baghdad, everybody used to sit in
his lectures. But then he realized that when they go out so many
people became Muslim, they were just, you know, because Baghdad
was the city everybody was influenced Christians and Jews
would come there because that was the height of civilization at the
time you're talking about right? So
so many people became Muslim and so on, but he says that this is
just limited to when they hear then it's all finished. So he is
the one who started the whole formal tariqa system. Anybody who
Turkey is that one country where you go, they don't ask you which
month have you are they asked you which trigger you are? Right, we
studied Naqshbandi, you know, are you you know, whatever, you know.
So
that is the one place a sorry that he then formalized. You know,
before you had to you can you had the teachers but it was never
formal. He's reinvigorate the whole took the bait assistant from
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And he instructed a
number of his students to then go to other places people who he well
trained, that you Okay, you go to North Africa, you go to this
place, you go to this place, and thus the whole, you can say formal
tariqa system through beta, and shaken marine and all that. He
started that off. Why did he do this? Because he saw that not
everybody is going to be effective in trying to get people to make
doba and repent. So we've had that's probably the most common
problem. We've had materialism. Sorry, the most common problem
we've had, except that we're just probably dealing with it on a
whole other level, because the avenues of distraction or you can
say other entertainment today, has now come into a person's hands
before if you wanted to be entertained, and this is something
I want to probably speak about more about tomorrow. If you wanted
to be entertained, you went to the four roads Jara Vista, and there
was some snake charmer there or somebody playing with some puppets
or something like that right now mashallah you can have whatever
you know whatever fascination you want on your phone right nothing
no calls but virtual world make up a different avatar for yourself
make up a different reality for yourself. You want to look like
this or that in another world, right make it up you know, this is
who you want. This is what you're and it's only going to get worse.
You know, the the whole new would you call it virtual reality
systems like the
Oculus Rift and so on. And cheap. I don't know what that's going to
bring up. Now. We're not out there to say haram haram haram because
that's not the answer to this thing. You can't say as some
people have said Facebook is haram. This is haram that you
can't do that. It's just not right. There's the good, there's
the bad in it. We just have to be disciplined on how to deal with
these things because it's only going to get more and more