Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – In Search of Sacred Knowledge (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)

The next Hadith today is a very

popular narration that's probably something that most of you have

heard. It's mythology of he thought a bigger enemy for who if

he submitted Allah he had died ology.

Whoever leaves home to seek sacred knowledge is on the path of Allah

until he returns.

Wherever leaves home to seek sacred knowledge is on the path of

Allah until he returns.

Being on the path of Allah subhanaw taala is clearly

understood because of the

verse in the Quran yesterday Lavinia Allah Munna well Levine,

Allah, Allah moon, do the people who know Can they be equated to

those who do not know there's a clear distinction between the two

made in the Quran there are so many Hadith that speak about the

virtues of knowledge. And, in general, the one Hadith which

really stands out, in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam

said that the, that the Ambia or prophets and used to be numerous

prophets, among the Bani Israel used to administer their religious

affairs. So they were very fortunate to have prophets who

Allah subhanho wa Taala would

Allah subhanaw taala would

send revelations to a such way. But in this OMA the Allah ma, take

their place. So we don't have any prophets after Muhammad sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam and it's the Redeemer who take their place,

the place of the prophets, the prophets, Allah Allahu Allah was

soon then confirmed that in another narration, it says that we

don't have inheritors, the inheritors, that we do have the

aroma.

And their Aloma are the one that will be the inheritors of the

prophets, because they carry on the knowledge. So you've got

numerous Hadees, that give you an understanding of the level that

knowledge

has in the, in the Sharia in the sight of Allah subhanho data.

So definitely then to

encourage people to go out and study

and not just to encourage them. And this is not some kind of a

false promise. This is the fact that anybody who is then going out

to fulfill this responsibility of communities having knowledgeable

people, they're going to be considered in the path of Allah

subhanaw taala, because what they're doing

would be considered for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala, it's

there to go and seek knowledge, this is clearly speaking about

sacred knowledge, or any other contemporary form of secular

knowledge that would be necessary for the spiritual upliftment of a

Muslim community. So you could include things which are required

by the Muslim community

to make the living the Dean's more simplified for them. And if there

is something that is not completely a sacred knowledge

aspect of sacred knowledge, but something else, then that would

also be part of this because it's done for the sake, it's done for

the same purpose. Being in the path of Allah subhanaw taala

obviously means that if you are in the path of someone that means

you're their guest, in a sense, and that's why you have some other

hadith is support this give a a more

an idea, a better idea of this, for example, it says that the

angels lay down their wings for such a person, the fish in the

ocean may draw for such a person and as we explained some time

before, the reason for it is that you'd expect that somebody with

knowledge would do less volume in this world, less oppressive to

others and to themselves, and would promote piety and

righteousness. And when that happens, the Mercy of Allah

subhanaw taala descends because of that, the more piety that's

discussed, and the more the name of Allah subhanaw taala is taken,

there are more mercies that are sent down and the Wrath of Allah

subhanho wa Taala are withheld. And it's not just the human beings

that benefit from that, but all of the creatures around they also

benefit from that. So they make a lot of dua for the student of

knowledge. Because student of knowledge has great potential to

be of benefit for everybody. This is what some arrma have explained

as to the meaning of the angels like laying down the wings or the

the

fish in the ocean making the offer for such a person.

Another aspect of this is that if

My son who's in the path of Allah subhanahu wa taala. He's the guest

of Allah subhanaw taala. So Allah is going to facilitate more for

that person.

If you do a study of the scholars that left their own communities to

study outside, you will find that there have been many who've done

that

tell you from personal experience, the further you go, the greater

difficulty that you undertake for that to go and learn something

that is not available locally or in a closer place, the more Allah

subhanaw taala gives you. So I am speaking about one individual who

the the few years that they spent studying in a further a further

place in another country, in more difficult circumstances where the

heat was a lot more the problems with electricity and you know,

things like that in third world countries, the benefits were much

greater, they would seem to be more delicate in time, there just

seems to be more of a facility that was provided for,

for for knowledge to be gained. I mean, aside from certain socio

social, maybe demands and conditions. Clearly there was

Baraka there, clearly there was Baraka in that. So the more a

person is in the path of Allah subhanho wa taala, the more

difficulty that they have to undergo to do this, the greater

the benefit is that Allah subhanaw taala will reward a person,

clearly, if a person has come from very far to our homes, and they've

taken a great journey to do that will probably appreciate them a

lot more than somebody who's just kind of come from maybe next door

will give a lot more to those who pay a lot more attention to those

who come from very far, because we'd really appreciate and

acknowledge that fact, and really appreciate it. So whoever is in

the path or whoever goes out to study the knowledge, to seek the

sacred knowledge, they are in the path of Allah subhanaw taala until

they return. This is not this has nothing to do with knowledge. Some

people try to equate this narration with any type of

knowledge. So if you're going for a university degree or any other

kind of training, if it's, as I said earlier, right in the

beginning, if it's something to do with making it better for Muslims,

and you can type in somehow the intention is righteous, and you

can tie very clearly, with something to do with the religious

community and the intention is sincere, then that could also play

some part in this, but it was just for a degree just to make a better

living and so on. And it's just for a worldly career, then

obviously, that doesn't equate to this. There are many people who

try to equate all times of knowledge and try to put that put

that into this. There's nothing wrong with that. Having said that,

we're just talking about the felida here of one thing. So the

fact that we should be studying knowledge from the cradle to the

grave, that's absolutely that stands in its place. But we're

just trying to make a distinction about the virtues that are

mentioned here.

There is a narration from

that's related by ignorable humbly. And it's a famous

narration. But essentially what it's saying is that, that with the

Allahu Anhu was once sitting in the masjid in Damascus. Now this

is after the prophets of Allah Subhan departed from this world.

He was sitting in the masjid of Damascus, he moved there he was,

he was there and suddenly a man came all the way from Madina.

Munawwara. Madina Munawwara is where

the center of everything was, but in this case, many of the Sahaba

had left the city that gone out. So in this case, we've done that

with the Allah one who was in a masjid in Damascus. And suddenly,

this man comes along. And he says this about delta, or the hola Juan

instead, yes, this is about delta. He says, I've come to you to ask

you about a hadith which you relate from Rasulullah sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam

about that not only Allah Horton who said, Have you come for any

other reason here? Have you come because of some business? Because

Is this a business trip for you? Is this for any other need that

you've come here and you're just kind of visiting me in between

that is there's no magic to it lovely Heather. I've only come for

this reason, meaning I've come purely for asking you about this

hobby. I've not coming for any other reason.

So

that was quite astonishing, that a person is now traveling from the

city of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam where the Hadith that he's

going to attain and seek

was clearly said in that city. But now the source of that the

recipient of that statement of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam

was now sitting in Damascus. He traveled all

that distance, which takes a good number of hours, even by road 1015

hours just by road. And he went there to hear it from a medical

doctor their loved one. And very clearly, it wasn't any kind of

it wasn't any kind of secret narration that only I will tell

that the Allahu Anhu knew. And he would only give it to those who

came to him. It was a famous narration which

he, which this individual had heard as well, but he wanted to

hear it directly from our delta the Allahu anhu, to be connected

with the person who had heard it from Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi

wasallam. So you can tell that that's the kind of endeavor that

the amount of the past our predecessors

that's the kind of endeavors they undertook, that is what they put

themselves under to be able to protect this beam. So to get the

Dean from the primary sources, and then to continue it that way. Had

it not been like that for them, if they had taken it loosely, if they

had focused more on just building up their dunya and their world,

that can you imagine the state of the beam today, you would have

been, as you can understand you would have been very far from it.

And there would have been a lot more distortions, but the emphasis

that the rhythm are put to take the Dean as closely as possible,

in an accurate way as possible authentically as possible. And

reliably, that is what has helped the beam to be preserved as as it

is today.

So that's this hadith that whoever leaves home to seek sacred

knowledge is on the path of Allah until he returns.

And that was a similar narration that Abu Dhabi Allahu Anhu. Then

related to this individual who had come from Madina, Munawwara to

Damascus.