Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How Imam Rabbani Shaykh Ahmad Sarhindi Changed the World (Mujaddid Alf Thani)
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dear respected elders, the respected brothers and everybody
else that's online wherever else you are. Allah bless you all. I'd
like to start with the elders and say Gustaf him off. I'm not an
expert on this subject, but I'm absolutely absolutely honored that
I was actually shocked that this topic was even chosen. Like it was
a pleasant surprise, then later found out shake Dubai yawns was
this just didn't know what to make of it. I was like, subhanAllah
What an absolute honor. This is what I would have loved to have
heard why you I unfortunately missed it. If you mentioned why
you chose this topic. But I guess there's no surprise really, this
in my speech. Yeah, I heard half of your speech. Unfortunately,
inshallah go back and listen to the rest of it. Because reasons
are really important reasons why things happen are very important.
What is the reason that this man was chosen? I think it's no real
surprise, really.
For those, the history of this man has impacted us all. Today, I
think we are sitting here
and have benefited from the scholars that we have benefited
from. And if I'm to ask you, of our who we generally refer to as
the Caribbean, your elders, who do you who do who comes to your mind
first, I would guarantee that those that come to your mind
first, especially from if you're from the Indo Pak subcontinent,
then it will be a scholar who is who has benefited from the
heritage of Sheikh Mohammed Salah Hindi Sheikh Mohammed, sir him
these story goes back centuries. It doesn't start off 400 years
ago, with just over 400, his, the, his so called fourth anniversary,
fourth St. centenary will be in about three years. In about two
years or so. That was 400 years since he passed away. He lived
over 400 years ago. But the story starts before that, with the
conquest of Asia, by our, our, our Muslims, from the main lens of
Islam from from Arabia.
You had a number of families, especially the coalition, the
unsolved descendants of the coalition and Saudi that had moved
into the subcontinent. And today I'm assuming that there will be
people sitting here who have the names Farooqi, and Siddiqui and
Romani and probably Allah we and answer yet. Hopefully, they are
all authentic and reliable.
Because I mean, unfortunately, with everything as there is,
whenever there's something valuable, there's a lot of fakes
that come around as well. I mean, I'm not charging anybody with
anything but Hamdulillah, you know.
So, there's a family that had eventually ended up in a place in
Punjab. Right. And I guess the Punjab is will be really, really
proud of this. Unfortunately, it's the Indian side of Punjab
fortunately, unfortunately, I don't know. But this is the Indian
side of Punjab, we're speaking about I visited it, these areas
that hint. So sir Hill, Punjab was unfortunately split into two as
other states of India were as well. So you have places like
Ambala and funny but and you have
Louisiana you have
this sir hand, this stays in the Indian side, Muslims had to
migrate. That's a long story. But before all of this, so over 400
years ago, you have a family down there a respectable family
respect, extremely respectable family of four rupees. They are
for rookie, so they descend from orignal hottub or the hola one. So
what happens there is that there's a sheikh there and he has a son
and he sees a dream and there's always a dream included and a lot
of this sometimes that you will find that in that story in the
story, Allah subhanho wa Taala knows but that's what's reported.
Now while this is happening here, there's a son that's born Armand
right to a shake there at the same time in present day like currently
Uzbekistan. So the lands of Bihar are some are contained with Hava
ism, that area, shush, Nassif, all of that area which is present,
they Uzbekistan right down there. There's a little area now that's
where a really huge shake had had worked very hard and had
The established an order of spirituality. And it became known
as the so called nakshi band way that's hijacks when he was in in
Bukhara summer camp area. And from him mashallah, he had many
students that spread around. So there was a little area, there was
a little area call in in Cana. Some they refer to as in Kinect,
anybody who's from there, they call them in Canada. There's a
shake there who was one of the descendants, one of the grand, you
can say students of this bout the Naqshbandi Rahima, hula. So
that's the second connection. Now that I'm going to introduce you to
a third person. Now there's a person that leaves Cobble, which
is in present day Avalon is Stan Kabul Afghanistan is actually
right next door to Uzbekistan today. If you go to tell him it is
actually on the border of Afghanistan. Mazar Sharif and bulk
is just like two three hours away from Tidmouth. That's where the
famous Oxus river is. And you know what the Oxus river is? The Oxus
river is what you will hear when you read history. It's the Nahata
it is done or it is the lake or the river. And anything beyond
that was called Mahara on Mahara trans Oxus lands beyond the river.
That's that river is called the Amu Darya. Today, Ahmadiyya also
the Oxus River, Jae Hoon, right. These are various different names
Alhamdulillah, I managed to go and see it, I made a special effort I
went to I was in Teignmouth that I have to see but they were not
allowing us to go because border, and there was there's a flush
area, but I slipped away and made sure I had to see the river. I
mean, there's so much discussion about it, right, you need to see
these things. Anyway, that's, that's another story. So there's
somebody called Bucky Biller, he leaves gobble, and he is looking
for spiritual enlightenment, spiritual purification
fulfillment, he wants to be spiritually enhanced, you know,
this gear as we call it, right, he wants to become closer to Allah
subhanaw taala is going from one spiritual retreat to the next. And
there were lots of spiritual retreats at that time. IGNOU RRB,
the so called Sheikh Akbar had just come and gone some some time
before that. And so Sufism was throughout the world, I mean, it
was spread everywhere they were hung cause and unfortunately, a
lot of corruption have crept him, like in anything that's corruption
that creeps in to everything, and huge amounts of corruption, and
laxity, and so on. It became as if the sort of almost like another
religion, and Islam, the practice of Islam is not as important. I
mean, I'm not saying that was everywhere. They were obviously
the good and the bad wherever he was. So he's looking, he's going
from retreat, Hong Kong to Hong Kong. And he eventually ends up in
this
place with this Hajah. And Kennedy is or in Carnegie, who is a, who's
a spiritual descendant of the how the next one Rahima hula. So this
particular hajus says to him, that he gives him he gives him a healer
for and while he's there, while he is there, he authorizes him to say
that now you can teach others. While he is there, he sees a dream
in which involves a parrot. Now, in those days, not any more, I
don't think
parrots were for some reason seen as Hindi birds. Hindustani birds,
Indian birds, for some reason, I don't know what the history is.
Right for that. But we don't treat them as Indian birds anymore. I
don't think right. You never thought about India, when you saw
parrot Did you? Okay. So that was the time now from India. They came
from India, originally imported from India. And now they bred all
over the place. Yeah.
It's an interesting how they were no potatoes here before they came
in. You know, that's how much it becomes global afterwards. But
anyway, so the dream, the sheikh told him that you're gonna go to
India. Now this is really significant. You're gonna go to
India, the parrot represented India. And that time India was
huge. Right? And India's always played a huge has always had a
huge position in world events, I would say it's, it's at the
center, huge population. And mashallah, the people are very
adventurous that they even sitting in Wembley today, right from that
from that area. In fact, Indians, Asians in general, Indian,
Pakistani, Bangladeshi, that whole area there all over the world. I
personally think audio is the second language of the world
because even works in Saudi
it works in Bahrain, Saudi Emirati are the works everywhere of the
English, right? They just go everywhere they in Africa, they
just all over the place. Where have they not gone to? You go to
Italy, you go to there they're like everywhere, Indian Pakistanis
Bangladeshis, this is everywhere. Anyway, so that's a very, very
important place. It's a very important place and that has to be
preserved. So this is Allah subhanho wa Taala isn't
While making private plans for the preservation and for enhancement
and strengthening the Indian Muslim, right when I say Indian, I
don't mean today Indian, I mean Indian as a whole subcontinent as
a whole.
So he doesn't want to go because Hajah Bucky Billa, from originally
from Kabul is a very low key figure very humbled, has a lot of
humility is not an extrovert, okay, he doesn't want to go. He is
told by the sheikh that you will go to India there will be a man
you will find there and you will pass on your you will pass on your
teachings to him and he is going to have a major impact. A lot of
preservation work he's going to do a huge amount of preservation of
the deen work in India. You're going to be instrumental now he
didn't want to go so he was reluctant but the finally the CHE
pushed him to go. So he comes and settles in Delhi that he was one
of the glorious cities of the world is had numerous empires
there, right.
Coming from all around them trying to take over the sub country you
had the moguls you have the hill, geez, you've had the Avant ease.
You know, you've had all sorts of it's a very interesting history
for another time. So he settles there in a masjid, I visited that
masjid. And people, people of Allah Nigeria like magnets, you'll
see the same thing with all the great people that you may have
heard about. I mean, two of my favorite scholars of the past the
first seven centuries, I would say,
hustling 505 Hijiri he died. And the second one that inspires me
the most is Sheikh Abdul Rahman, Al Josie. Ignore Josie. It will
Josie again from Baghdad. Both of these were in Baghdad just
absolutely phenomenal scholars, right. And as Magnus YBNL Josie
Rahima hula used to have 100 people in his lectures. Right, he
was just such an effective speaker. And the books are
prolific. These are you know, we could spend the whole day is on
him. Because he and many, many of these others, just trying to keep
myself in time here because out of respect for everyone else as well.
So
he's in Derry, lots of people are flocking to him the benefiting
people get to know him. There's this of Ronnie cobbly kind of
person who's here very, you know, this is based on a hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam that when Allah subhanaw
taala loves someone he calls Gibreel Alehissalaam says I love
him you should love him too. He realized and I'm spread this
information among the other angels, those angels they come
down to the earth because angels come down on the earth to the
earth to to deal with the affairs that Allah subhanaw taala is
appointed them for. So for those who matter for the righteous in
their hearts and other people Allah subhanaw taala places where
you are level Kobudo fill out Cabul right Allah subhanaw taala
places acceptance you don't know why you're kind of attracted to
this person. You have some respect for the the class, the sincerity,
the Leela here, you know, things that they do for Allah, that's all
seen. So Sheikh Mohammed, sir Hindi was from Punjab, he's on his
way for Hajj, and he hears about this person. And he already has
Misbah of Tessa woof and spirituality already through his
father and and from others. He He's already a scholar of
mashallah immense proportions in both theology in jurisprudence.
He's read all that the soul of books of the past or the Sufism
and he's got a mind of his own. Right now he's already got a
vision of his own. Maybe not yet. But eventually that that's, that's
what happens with him. So now what happens is that he comes to visit
Delhi, and he meets this Hydra, bulky Biller, right, who had come
there, because that Sheikh in Kenya, we had told him to come
here. And mashallah into he stayed with him for two or three months
first. And then after that, he came back and stayed with him for
a month or so again. And at this point, hija knew that this was the
man that he had been sent here to find, and to pass everything on
to. So he tells all of his own students that from now, you're
going to listen to this, you're going to take your teachings from
him, gives him what they call the healer for, you know, the
authorization. And then eventually he passes away. Now Sheikh
Mohammed, sir Hindi, he obviously goes back to set hint, but
eventually what happens is, he becomes very, very well known as
people do. And
at the time when all of this is happening, there's a huge fitnah
maybe
there's probably two major fitness two major challenges that the
Hindustan the subcontinent has seen that are unlike any other one
was this ideological. And then after that, it was the British,
right? That came that was it's had other issues as well, but these
really standout Akbar was a nice guy in the beginning he was
righteous kind of guy. He was the son of
Uh, what's his name?
Huma Yoon, and who is the son of?
Baba Baba, right? So that's the you can say, he's the third or so
in line of the moguls. He's a decent guy in the beginning he has
is okay with all the money. He has respect and everything. But
apparently he had not learned to read and write forever. There was
some upheaval before that he had not gotten the chance to read and
write. He would always take information from advisors, it
seems right. shakable Hassanein that we and others have mentioned
these points. So slowly, slowly, what happens? He's very
impressionable, and you have these
these various types of scholars and, and so on at the time as
well. And they get heavy influence on him. So he comes up with this
idea. I mean, he's he is you have to remember Hindustan, or
subcontinent has always been majority Hindu. I'm assuming
that's correct. Even today, it's only 15% Muslim, and that's about
200 million Muslims. Right? Okay. If you add Pakistan to that,
that's another 100 and 170 100 and 80 million Muslims, Bangladesh,
I'm not sure how many there are. But that's a huge number as well.
But it's now in Bangladesh.
Yeah, maybe about 50 500 million Muslims or something like that.
But there you've got like, good 800 million Hindus. Now. That's
now but they've had a real good
position in India. So what this Akbar decides, he suddenly has a
few women, Hindu women in his home now as well. And there is this
idea that we need to unite, we need to unite the Deans together.
So somehow, this is causing too much conflict bands, cow
slaughter, so it's not the first time it's been banned in many
states as it is now. It was banned before. And we're going to bring
this together and have what they call the Dean Ilahi. Right, that
did divine faith or something like that, that the activity that
eventually became to know and he started all these other strange
traditions anybody who came to meet him would have to do a search
there to Talim which means a prostration of reverence. The some
of the scholars of the time even justified that for him, basically
saying that as long as you're not intending his worship, it won't be
haram to do so you're just respecting him by this but this is
one of the salient features I mean, you only bow down to Allah
and this is only in this religion that we do this so a non Muslims
find this so strange when they see us in a service station on device
what are these guys doing? Right because if you go to a church they
kneel down in the seat in front they have a they have a piece of
wood that you kneel down and that's that's as far as others go
in Islam we go all the way down we don't do this for anybody but
Allah subhanaw taala
now before Sheikh Mohammed sir Hindi during that time, there were
a number of others it was they weren't all sold out. There were a
number who did speak out. They were either imprisoned or they
were somewhat even put to death. All the lands all their properties
confiscated, so it wasn't as if Sheikh Allah subhanaw taala lifted
completely alone No, this sometimes this stagnation happens.
There's always been ups and downs. There's always been ups and downs.
And that's why I think we're just in a down right now. I'm not
waiting for Maddie, I don't want to be here and Maddie or the alarm
comes here. I think there's going to be an up again, in sha Allah,
because I don't want to be in the worst fitna that's ever seen the
job. I don't want to be around them. Because if if our fitna
today is X, Y and Zed What is your biggest fitna for men what's the
fifth night? What is our biggest fitna? What is the people's
biggest fitna women,
whatever it is for women, what's the biggest fitna for women,
men or handbags, or whatever, whatever the case is, whatever the
case is, whatever the case is, that gel is going to provide the
worst of those confusion and fitness I don't want to be around
personally. And when the Tatas when the Mongols were around a
million Muslims were killed in the Dar Al Khalifa of Baghdad, a
million the Khalifa was beaten to death. Like we've had really bad
times before. That's why you should really read the book
saviors of Islamic spirits. At least the first volume saviors of
Islamic spirit, that is out of the mouths of mana. idemia nadwi Rahim
Allah, that really it will put life in perspective history in
perspective that we've had ups and downs, Allah subhanaw taala has
always come to save produce people to save this religion, the
Mujahideen and there's a hadith about that as well. Right? So now
what happens is
La ilaha illallah, Sheikh Muhammad said Hindi now he's writing
several books and everything now Akbar dies. After Akbar dies,
Jahangir his son, who's a nicer man, he becomes the next ruler of
India. He's a bit nicer. He's not really involved. He doesn't have
an ideology. He's just interested in life and shift I would say no,
this is something really interesting here. He says that if
you have a ruler who has an ideology against Islam, they're
going to be much more severe it's very difficult community
Because have another direction on opposing that if you have a ruler
who's just into dunya he doesn't have an ideology besides that.
They, in fact, he says that these people even have respect for
religion because they know this materialism and religion gives
them Rouhani and spirituality and everybody, everybody has respect
for spirituality. So they actually it's easier to work with them.
They say Jahangir was one of those Akbar has started like that, but
had become an ideologue like a really bad ideologue. right with
that. So with Jehan give the some meetings, but eventually Sheikh
Mohammed certainly is so popular that many of the courtiers army
generals and other people within Jehan these ranks his Marines are
essentially the students of Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi. Now these
other or the MA who are now being pushed out to had a lot of
influence in corrupting the system and making it very worldly and,
you know, perennial or whatever you want to call it. They're
getting frightened. So eventually, Jahangir is told about this. He
has a meeting with him once he lets him go as details about that.
He calls him again. Then he imprisoned him this thing for
about a year. MashAllah SHEIKH AHMED certainly makes that his
Hunter and all the prisoners there, they become religious,
right? They become practicing, you know, on the road to Wilaya.
Eventually junkie feels really bad after a year and he says, Okay,
you're out of prison, but you have to stay with me. Right? You have
to stay within, you know, house in prison within me. In that time,
subhanAllah, Jahangir gets effected. Right. And he's
influenced to such a degree that some biographers have written that
when Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi eventually passed away.
Jahangir actually thought he was a Khalifa, like in the sauce and the
other whole have to kind of tell him nicely, that no, you're not a
spiritual Khalifa. But you know, you can, you can, you're going to
help the work and so on. And then after that, Sheikh Ahmed said,
Hey, let me just to finish that side off in terms of the Mogul,
Sheikh Ahmed said Hindi son is more than one son, but Schiff
might assume hijama assume they refer to him as he has. He, he
continues his teaching and his connection with the royal family,
because they've seen SHEIKH AHMED Scindia said Hindi has seen that
I've got influenced there now. And that is the way because that's
where much of the corruption is coming from SHEIKH AHMED sir
Hinduja demanded several things you need to allow us to be
slaughtered again, you need to give back free those prisoners of
you know, religious prisoners and so on, and basically turned around
so much of what the Father Akbar had had initially implemented in
the subcontinent.
So he, he manages to get a lot of that done. There's a lot of
influence. Now, Jahangir is really mashallah, you know, into that
now, a lot of the other families in terms of Sheikh Maktoum now
continues the work he's the son of Sheikh Mohammed sir Hindi.
Now, what happens is, in fact, what Sheikh Masoom did was he
actually sent his son hajus sayfudine, the grandson of Sheikh
Ahmed set Hindi to live in the palace to teach the princes and
princesses to essentially give them vicar to benefit them and
mashallah, I stayed there for a while. That was very important
because that would have a profound impact on the rest of the
subcontinent because that was a very powerful family and they were
the leaders and that time the moguls were strong. If they start
going down afterwards after oral exam, you know, the greatest of
the moguls they say is Orings if he is the son of Jehan here. Now
when Aurangzeb is born, he is taught by these people. He is
taught by the family of Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi he grows up as
the most right actually noise. First, it's Shah Jahan. Jiang is
Sunni Shah Jahan was even better than Jiang Yu. Jiang Yi Sun is
Orings who's who's probably the best. And he's seen as the last of
the greatest Mughal emperors, just like the last of the Great
Ottomans, the Sienna, Sultan Abdul Hamid, after which things just had
already gone downhill. He tried to boost it up a bit, and then he
just went further downhill until it was eventually eradicated. Same
thing happened here with Bahadur Shah as of right at the end. But
what happened now is
So alhamdulillah is taken care of that. Why is he now called he's
referred to by many names. He's referred to as Imam Rabbani. It's
a very lordly kind of name in a very respectful name in terms of
spirituality, but he's also known as Mujaddid Al Thani, the Magette
did the revival of the second millennium now that's huge.
There's a hadith and Sunnah libido, in which the prophets are
also mentioned that at the turn of every Islamic century, Allah will
send somebody to revive the faith what is revived mean? Sometimes
what happens as I mentioned earlier, you have corruption,
misinterpretation, interpolations that have crept in to the
teachings of Islam. Right, somebody or the other, a person
who calls himself a sheikh.
have started coming up with new ideas, right new
twists in the tale as such, right? Oh, it's okay. Based on maybe
humanitarian reasons or for whatever reason, or just different
perspectives are considered to be heterodox, no longer on the path
of Orthodoxy, no longer maintaining the what they call the
Orthodox substratum of beliefs, right? They move on from there. So
then what Allah does is you send somebody to revive that who's got
the boldness, who's got the knowledge, who's got the impact,
one of the greatest was honorable Abdulaziz. He's probably the only
one who was in Bucha, didn't Island and in he had the rule as
well. So you could implement it, but then you had the likes of Reza
Imam Shafi and so on, ignore ducky kill, read cod claims to be of the
ninth century and so on, but to somebody to be called of the
second 1000 Millennium, because everyone said Hindi is born before
1000 milennium of Islam. He was born at a time and actually people
thought Islam wasn't even going to study the world wasn't even going
to continue. Beyond 1000, that dunya was going to end. That was a
belief at the time, just like you remember those of us who were
there before the year 2000, there was this idea that there was going
to be a year, what is it a 2k millennium bug and all the systems
were going to, and so on. Nothing happened from the Rila. Right, so
Imam, so ut who died in 911, Hijri. Right. So a lot early, like
100 years earlier than Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi in Egypt. He
had written a book at that time. And I want to mention this because
it's very relevant. He had written a book at that time rissalah Small
treaties about the world continuing beyond the 1000,
because scholars that he was with in Egypt, were saying it was going
to end dunya was going to end
he showed that there are events that has meant been mentioned in
Hadith, which to occur, they need 200 years to occur, according to
the narrations. And still, the first of those events have not
happened. So even if those events start happening tomorrow, about
900 Hijiri is going to take you beyond 1000. Anyway. Now what's
really interesting in the result, he says, while we're going to go
beyond 1000, is going to end before 1500. That was his
prediction. However, I can take those same events and say they
haven't started yet. And we are at 14 143 years, right now.
We've got only about 50 Something years to 1500, we need at least
200 years. So we're going to say it's going to go beyond 1500s and
inshallah that is going to prosper again in sha Allah, but it's only
going to prosper if we make an effort for 1500 is gonna go but
you know, we have hamdulillah beyond that. There's always been
predictions, there's lots, if you want to become popular online,
give predictions, and everybody will start listening to you know,
be our heroes, the man, you will become popular. But these
predictions don't work. It's Allah, it's raved, Allah has left
it, leave it work on your own. Our Qiyamah is our own death. It's
more important than the Day of Judgment occurring. That's
inevitable, but our death is more important for us that we prepare
ourselves for that now how how do we justify is what justification
is there of Sheikh Mohammed sir Hindi
being the revival of a millennium, not just a century, a century?
Right. What what is that? Well, as I mentioned to you, and it is just
my idea that I think subcontinent has had a very important position.
The Akbari, you know, they've, they've spread in all sorts of
places, that Dean would have been very, very different if Akbar as
Dean had been allowed to prosper. We may have not been here, they
may have been so many different ideas going on. I want to just
give you a thought.
I want you to compare
just boroughs of London.
Right? Not even the whole country, not even countries in Europe,
right? Just boroughs of London. What do you see if you've know
these boroughs? What do you see as the difference between Hackney
Tower Hamlets, new home parts of Ilford compared to places like
Barnet, and a lot of boroughs in Westland have lots of Muslims. But
there's a massive difference between these two. I've not I
don't know too much about Wembley, I can't speak for it. But there's
a massive difference.
And what is that difference? The difference is that there's more
olives and almonds. There are people who've graduated good and
bad, you know that there's the strong ones, there's a weaker
ones. Why, though, because the people who came first in those
areas just like they came to all parts of London, they decided the
first thing we need is our madrasah.
The first thing we need is to take our children and send them out to
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, darlin, Berry, Dewsbury, whatever,
they're going to be away from us. My dad
I wanted me to be an architect. But he sent me to Darren berry my
mom cried for two three months Rahimullah I cried for a while but
that's why I'm able to talk here the way I'm otherwise I would have
been an architect, I would have been doing something else which
would have been a good thing okay as well, but it would be
different. The honor in this is different now today, Mashallah. We
actually have I have, we have students in Imam Zakaria Academy
where I teach for escape.
They are PhD they're doing PhD or they've completed a PhD at
Imperial College in physics, and they're just doing body now as
well. hamdulillah Allah is giving us the best of both worlds in this
place. Right? I've just been to Montenegro 20% to 25% Muslim, only
five Hafiz of the Quran in the whole country. They've never had a
Tara with full Quran. Just now they have a hip school inshallah
we'll continue. There's lots of stories like that. We have
extremely lucky. The reason is this, I believe is some baraka
from the above, obviously, because why were the people who came here,
those bearers? Why could How could they to send their children,
pieces of themselves Beloved's for several years somewhere else to be
looked after by others for the sake of the team? Where does that
come from? Why isn't that widespread? Where does that come
from? Right, I can say comes from May Allah reward the academy
reward. Now, who are these? Where does this come from? This claims
also that had it not been for Sheikh Ahmed sir Hindi to have
started this work and laid the foundations because this was the
problem. Now this was the one problem with DNA, Eli, that's just
one of the problems that were there. The second big problem,
which I alluded to earlier, was that into some of those, those
Sufism was widespread, there was a lot of corruption. And if you read
Sheikh, Sheikh idemia, he actually explains as well, that the concept
of what the tool would do, I mean, I don't want to get into this had
become so. So would you call it widespread that while the the
originators of this idea may have been still righteous and pious,
and were definitely good people, but it gave rise. And it's
complicated how they did this. It gave rise to this idea that as
long as you're Sufi, and you're involved in the Sufi exercises,
your other religious if your religious practices are not that
necessary, in some cases, not necessarily at all. And there was
some weird interpretations that they made from this.
The only way to sort this out would be by somebody who is a
Sufi, who has all of these experiences who can speak
Otherwise, they would just tell you, you don't even know what
you're talking, you're just that are limited via him. Right? If if
somebody was not a Sufi, who tried to say that this is wrong, it's
extreme. This is extremes that you've gone to. This is completely
misunderstood. This is not Quran and Sunnah. And say, Oh, you're
just Islamophobia. You're just like an outward scholar, you just
know a bit of bit of Fick and the books you don't really know
spirituality. So it needed somebody like that. And according
to Sheikh idemia, it says that 80% of Sufis believed in that way, but
they weren't all corrupt in that sense, but there was an amount
that was corrupt. He managed to as a Sufi through his MK two, but his
MK two, but his writings, generally he wrote some books as
well. He wrote books as well, but a lot of the time you'd write a
pistols these were letters to various different either rulers,
ministers, and Allah ma. And they're full of knowledge. And
they've been compiled together. And in places like Turkey today,
if you're a teacher of the Matoba to like teacher Buhari, almost in
some cases, the respect that in fact, today they say that the
religiosity in Turkey would probably have not been there had
it not been, for example for people like Sheikh Saeed Dorsey,
but he was the man
and he wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for the Naqshbandi,
Majid the the way of Sheikh Mohammed Salah Hindi, and his
students moving on to the area. That's one claim there in the
subcontinent. Share with you Allah, who we all have great
respect Rahim Allah, Allah and his sons and the whole enterprise of
this, though they benefit in Makkah macabre but where they
found that said Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi has laid a foundation
to for that milieu for that for them to flourish. If they weren't
there, you wouldn't have had a Sheikh Ahmed
Sheikh said Ahmed Shaheed of Ribery right and the whole
movement of his you would not have had that if you did not have them.
You may have not had hygiene dadullah and calcium nanotubes and
Rashida hummus gumbo, your Rahima home Allah, you would not have had
a day open today that reformation or what was the point in all of
this is the Reformation spirits not go with what's prevalent but
reform reform reform. take people back to the Quran and Sunnah do
essentially uproot to the bidder uprooting the bidder has always
been, you know, removing innovation
has been one of the biggest hallmarks of this reformation
movement that doesn't start in the opened in 1867. It starts before
that, in Sheikh Muhammad shahid. It starts before the inshallah
with the Allah and his sons. It starts before that in Sheikh
Muhammad said Hindi and of course it goes back through the rosaries
and everybody up to Rasulullah. Salah that's the idea that is our
deen, that is a perennial Deen that has come down. I don't mean
perennial in the modern sense it in the literal sense that it's
always been there has always been caught me and I have there's
always been people who are on that path. So that's the second thing
that he clarified, and he made amends. And, you know, he gave an
alternative way of thinking about it, while not
putting shake, if not to be down either. Like not outright saying
that what he is saying about an experience is actually just it's
not the highest thing. There's a state beyond that, which is more
in line with the Quran. And sunnah is that it's, I don't want to bore
you guys with it. But it's, you know, the wider to shoot concept
that, don't worry about it if you don't understand that part. And
third,
so these are all the various different things that what we have
his whole focus on the Naqshbandi Way, they only had 17 lessons to
get you to where they wanted to get you he added to that added
made it 35 lessons. The next one the way is actually a very
organized way through 35 lessons to get you through all of the
different spiritual stages to reach or they say Allah subhanaw
taala. Right. That's something that we don't want to speak about
today. Now, the benefits of this set is not in the subcontinent
only the benefits of this are felt in parts of the Arab world or much
of the Arab world as well. So what you have is you have a grand
student of Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi, whose name was chef Ghulam
Ali Dalloway, he became the Sheikh of the retreat the hunter there
and mashallah he had students from they say Turkistan of the time
from bulk Samarkand Bukhara, all of these areas from the ages is
mentioned, from
Iraq in Baghdad. So there's a guy who comes along called Sheikh
Khalid, a Rooney Al Baghdadi, there is a Kurd actually, as far
as I understand is occurred. He comes, he's heard great things
about this special place in Delhi, and a special man that he comes
there. And although he's shaking his own rights, right, he's
shaking his own rights when other shoe found out that he's here.
They tried to come and visit him. He said, I'm here for this
purpose. I'm not going to do anything else. They will he would
refuse to engage with others. He was there just to benefit from the
Sheikh. He went back to Baghdad. He went to Baghdad and mashallah
people just flocked to him. That is why then Syria, he went to
Syria. He's actually buried there. Eventually. That's where he passed
away. You guys must have heard of Imam Shami.
Imam Shami is one of the latest of the great Hanafi scholars about
250 years ago in Sham, we use his book for Iftar. It's like the book
to go to for Iftar along with the other books. He's even written a
book in defense of Shahada. I mean, when you have great people
there's going to be hassling, which means jealous people,
they're going to create issues about them. He wrote a response
and a rebuttal to that. And a number of people in those areas
benefited them through Sheikh Khalid, right Baghdadi and
mashallah the topic.
That's why there it's called the Naqshbandi Magette, Diddy Harley D
way, because he was seen as somebody who revived the soul in
those areas.
Today, for example, there's a big madrasa with 12,000 students,
right call in Indonesia, sorry, called Timbo. I'm sure it's
Indonesia, right? 12,000 students,
and it's on the path of the nashman the budget the the way of
Sheikh Mohammed said Hindi. Right. Can you see the influence and stay
in India? That's the thing about the deen of Allah Allah chooses
whoever he wants. Buhari is from Uzbekistan, Turkic speaking. Right
terramin, Turkic.
All of these people. Abu Dhabi is from CG Stan, which is in present
day Iran. Imam Nasai is from NASA, which is in Turkmenistan today.
Right. Imam ignore magic because we need strong Iran is north
northwest Iran. Right.
Allah chooses whoever he wishes the dean is not in need of any one
of us. Allah picks whoever he wants, whoever makes the effort,
because they will get the took the civil morality that's why when we
went it was Becca, Stan, I asked, Is there somebody with a Nisbett
to shake and ijazah to shake? Imam Al Bukhari? I'm asking him Bohan
said unfortunately nobody left here. They're taking their ijazah
from out
sight, because unfortunately the ATM is destroyed everything is
Allahu Akbar. What is the sad case? There's only three madrasahs
in the whole country right now teaching advanced studies, whereas
there were hundreds in each town. Imam Buhari was not like one
scholar. And there was only one scholar in town, there were
hundreds 1000s He's the only one who shun one of those who shone.
That's what happens. So anyway, to finish off now.
My time is coming up. And to finish off, all I would say is
that we need more Sheikh Mohammed Cyndi's. He hails from Punjab.
How many people here not from Punjab? Probably easier to say
that. My assumption is most people here are Punjabi, is that right?
Yeah. I don't get to sit with 20 Punjabis all the time and get all
these in Gujarat is among the dishes. Punjab is mashallah,
right. beautiful language. Your poetry is amazing. We need this to
move on. We need Punjabi aroma, not because you're Punjabi, but
you know, because every dean, I remember every bearer. You need to
make an effort for your bearer. It's difficult to import teachers.
If you've got homegrown teachers in those areas where this is
happening. You've got mashallah madrasahs for children. You've got
classes for adults, men, you've got Alima classes for women,
you've got everything, Islamic schools, the works, everything is
happening. Of course, a lot more needs to happen because we are in
the face of a great fitna, and
you need to dedicate at least one child, each of your children need
to be a half of the Quran. That's easy. If you think your children
are intelligent and you want to make them your doctor.
And liar.
Right? That's the old one doctor a liar. Right? was sick come to her
in a sector.
That's fine. Make him a doctor and a lawyer. No problem, not a liar,
right? Make him a doctor or a lie, no problem, but they can be a half
of the Quran. I can give you several examples. Just one night
right now he's finished his physics at UCL top university. And
he's also this year finishing Bihari inshallah. I have had
several other students, Imperial College, UCL, and others and they
also now alum. In fact, I can probably say, I don't know if
anybody can even match this. I know one sister, she's half either
ri Lima. And she has a PhD as well. There's very few people who
could probably match that. Okay, this is possible now. So why you?
Why don't you want the best? Why don't you want the best why just
education of the world have both and reap the benefits of both
places. And your children will thank you, especially on the day
of judgment, because you have an engineer who's early as well
mashallah look at the work that they will be able to do. That's
what we need today. In fact, that's what we need, because this
is what people are looking for. This is what people are looking
for. They want people who are educated, right in a comprehensive
way to lead them. May Allah subhanaw taala grant that Tofik
again, I'd like to really, really thank and congratulate the
organizers of this masjid, Atolla, Saab and everybody else and Sheikh
Dubya. And for this topic, it's amazing. May Allah subhanaw taala
allow many, many Greek revival to come from this because we're
speaking about a revival, inshallah that revival will
happen. It's been 400 years since that time, but nearly 400 years
since he's died, so it's about time shall Nevada Loafie
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