Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Life of Junaid Jamshed
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Probably one of the most successful pop stars of the time.
However,
he dies at a young age now,
he could have continued to be a pop star, many pop stars continue,
they don't leave. You get intoxicated in that state, the
culture that it brings you, the so called honor and the fame, that it
brings you the money that it brings you the access and the
influence, that such a thing opens up for you. They're intoxicants,
they're very difficult to get out of.
However, religion and the love of Allah is greater than all of these
things. And that is what will help a person to come away from this.
He passes away, praising the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
going out in his path.
And subhanAllah he's infused, he leaves his music.
And Allah subhanaw taala gives him a replacement, that is able to use
this great voice of his and in history, we've had this so many
times when some of the scholars would hear a singer that had a
very good voice because the voice is in itself a gift of Allah
subhanho wa taala. Just like intellect is a gift of Allah
subhanaw taala.
Just like strength is the gift of Allah subhanaw taala now a person
can take that and use it in the right way. Or he can use it in the
wrong way. You think crooks are not intelligent, you think they're
losers, very intelligent, but they've decided to use it in
different way to hack people's accounts, steal credit card
numbers. That's basically what they do. That same intellectual
person could have done something else for the welfare of mankind
could have designed so it could have been an Imperial College or
Cambridge or somewhere and did something else. So the
intelligence Allah gives to people and then it's up to you how you
use these things. Everybody has a very unique personality
characteristics. And Allah gives you various different faculties.
So now, there's been many times in history where somebody had
mentioned that What beautiful voice he has, if only he would
have used it for the Quran. Only if you would have infused and
beautify the hearts of people with something so enduring as the
Quran, which really beautifies the mind and inspires the heart. So
alhamdulillah that's what Allah subhanaw taala has given this
numerous other eulogies that have been provided for him that are
much more in depth, I want to focus on something else, some of
his works. For example, they'll Buddle there that one then there's
the other one about
going to the the
what you call that the militarism very very emotional very emotion
anybody who's really thinks about those it helps them a lot. It
helps them a lot it's his voice as mashallah infused the the thought
of these great things made brought a lot of people closer to the dean
and the religion.
I met him a few times, but I didn't have too much of a personal
relationship with them. I never had the opportunity to though my
two brothers they have had because Monotribe when he was he's
actually
his the first album of Junaid Jamshed the first time I think the
second and probably the third one as well. They're the ones who
worked on it and and launched it. So he had very close contact with
him. And then my other brother who's in America right now is
alpha Law Center. He's invited him over there and he had a personal
communication with Junaid Jamshed as well he tells us that he had
great o'clock. Very humble person, if you spoke to him, he he's not
arrogant with all the even after he left his music and came into
Halal music as such, and became a not singer or a machine singer,
whatever you want to call it, right? He
people like this generally generally speaking, on the high
horse, they don't have to speak to every time Abu Bakr and Zaid on
the street, they can they can really be restricted to who they
speak to just being whizzing in and out. This is unfortunately,
what this thing brings about. However, he was very humble, he
would speak to whoever it is very humble. And my brother says that
sometimes he'd even say a few things that were a bit a bit
strict and he would he would just listen He would just take it he
had a lot of respect for Allah ma anyway to start with. But even
with normal people, he was very, very respectful. This goes to show
that you can be famous, but if you have a flock which is most
important, then that is how you win the hearts of people. And that
is what people will remember afterwards. People will remember
your softness, your greatness and your personal interaction, not how
much knowledge you may have had all the time, not how much fame
you enjoyed, not how much other how many other achievements you
had in this world.
Now if you look at his past to leave such a career, like Imam
Ghazali leaves his position as one of the main teachers and directors
and highest
position of teaching in the new Gambia college have, it's time to
just give it all up when it was one of the most coveted positions.
That's a big deal. Not everybody can do that. The only way you
could do that is I believe, if you are feeling demoralized in your
current situation. So while you're a pop star, while you're enjoying
all of this fame, and influence and everything else, all the glitz
that it brings you and the stardom and everything else, you must be
feeling disquietude, an estrangement, a wash it in Arabic,
you must be feeling that for you to leave it. If you're very
comfortable in that position, why would you leave it? You only leave
something when something pushes you away, when it doesn't fulfill
you in such a way in some way or the other that's fulfilling
basically, there must have been a loneliness. There must have been
an imminent we believe this because it's all shaytaan it's all
darkness. There definitely was a loneliness and emptiness.
Darkness in fact,
and then he's he leaves that for you have to have something that
can replace that. And for him, it was religion.
That gave him that replacement, where he meant Allah subhanaw
taala replaced everything that he was doing haram with halal.
What I find from here is that this should be a lesson for people who
are doing things like this in the world, who are engaged in things
that they wouldn't like to die doing, change that state and do
something different. What the Hadith mentions that I quoted
earlier, which is related by Imam Muhammad even know humble that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that anybody who Allah
subhanaw taala intends good with
virtue four wants to give him some credit
is that a mother who
uses him employ similar service accepts him for some grandma
makes him do something that gives him divine enablement. Star mother
who or Isola who same thing sweetens the deal somehow for him.
And so what does that mean? So the prophets Allah some replied, He
said, He gives this person the divine enablement to do something
by which people become happy and satisfied with them.
Alright, shatter the Allahu anha she saw a person who did something
very great or had some good deeds. So she said
that workone or MaryLu she, she read the verse This isn't recycled
Buhari, she read the verse in the Quran. We're calling Emmylou fossa
Allahu Allah Kumara, Sulu, who will not be known. We can not do
desert care, we cannot purify anybody and say he is definitely
like this or that. We say it based on dominant opinion, because the
province of Assam has said that people are the witness for people
when they pass away to a certain degree. For example, Janessa went
past the process at wager but watch a bit.
And
they said good things about him. He asked to be when they said Good
thing he said whichever torture but which means that paradise is
necessary for him or successes, salvation he's received, right?
Another person ethna they didn't praise him, but they said bad
things about him. And he said, well, but torture. But so then the
whole point of that was that to some degree to some degree, the
way we're seen by people is assign not for sure, not 100% Because
people can then change. But generally speaking like that, we
have this hadith, and Allah says in the Quran Wakulla Malou. And
this is what I showed the quoted, continue to do your actions,
continue in your deeds.
What Kalia Malou do deeds continue doing your deeds, Allah will look
at them, of course, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam because our
deeds are presented Professor lorrison and the believers will
not be known. So that that is another way of saying that I'm not
going to I don't have to make a judgment but you continue it's an
encouragement to do the good deeds. So
one of the most interesting things is that he is given who knew he
was going to die at this age, there's only 50 or so who knew he
was going to die at this age nobody expects to die they when
you get to 6070 then people expect to die but 50 you don't and
mashallah he's moving around going different places in the path of
Allah subhanaw taala with his spouse, Mashallah. And on his on
his way back, he passes away but before that he's given the ability
to do this wonderful deed to change because imagine if he had
not changed and he had died, because he was still traveling
around in those days as well. That is the most that is the greatest
thing that
He dies at a young age not expecting today. And Masha Allah,
Allah subhanaw taala has given so this hadith is what came to my
mind when this happened, that Allah gave him the ability before
his death, to make this change, build up a big bank account, in a
sense, build up a big balance of all his good deeds. Imagine how
many people he has infused, you know, with the love of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam Love of Allah bring him back to the deen.
And it was not just the performer, he would go out in public, you
know, free, you know, not not just performing everywhere, but giving
bringing in people to the faith and to be close to the faith. And
now, it's happened with numerous people that before they die
somehow they say certain things that are very relevant to the fact
that they're going to die and maybe they don't even realize it.
And thus, I'm sure many of you have heard of Mufti Taqi with
minor Hymel.
Damnit baraka to him. He also mentioned this as well, that in
one of his final one of the speeches, I think it's online as
well, that he gave, he actually said, Let's make a DUA, and the
die is that oh, well, one of the first was he made it so Allah give
us death in your path. Little did he know that the next day that is
exactly what's going to happen. Very relevant. You think he knew?
Right? It's almost like he knew and this kind of incident has
happened with numerous people like that.
And the other thing is, that in the Joomla, before that, that he
led he read these verses la taxable Nila Lena Cuttino visa vie
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do not fall for even an instance never, ever considered that those
people who died in the path of Allah subhanaw taala are dead, but
they are very much alive and they are being sustained by their Lord.
And we already know that anybody who dies in an accident, who dies
by drowning, who dies by being crushed, who dies in a fire.
There's approximately 70 categories mentioned in the
Hadith, about the shahidul akhira. They may not be shade of the
world, because shade of the world is the one who dies fighting in
the path of Allah. But the one who dies in one of these freak
accident strange accidents or whatever they are also even a
woman dies in pregnancy. Shaheed as well. But here you've got
somebody who dies in one of these strange accidents. And he is in
the path of Allah subhanaw taala.
So, that is an addition to the fact that he's a shade is all in
the also he's a shade of the Astra but also in the path of Allah
subhanaw taala.
The way I look at this is that this is a wake up call for all of
us because any of us could die. Dying in a plane crash, they say
dying in planes is more seldom than dying in a car accident.
Strange as it sounds, you're they're suspended in the air
flying through the air. But planes are supposed to be by statistics,
through statistic planes are supposed to be safer than, than
than cars. There are way more accidents that you could die in in
a car accident or be bruised or something then in the plane. Very
seldom I know it's Pakistan here, right? But Allah, right, but that
that is the statistic, it's a wake up call for a lot of us and
especially people out there who are who are like him who start who
are still in the business, or in a similar business, that they
wouldn't be very happy to stand in front of Allah subhanaw taala with
those kinds of people,
that they should also try to think of this and change and use this as
a role model. Because he managed to benefit so many people just
before he died in the province that Allah, Allah used him. And we
can only say that this is what we think. And another thing is that
why him so many other people, but why him? And as other speakers
have also mentioned some of the reasons of why he came out and
some of the specific points he had that were very different to other
people in his field. Right? I just want to relate to something that
if you look at all of the arch enemies of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam in the early Makkah period.
And I've not done any exhaustive study on this, but there's only
one person that comes to mind that actually became a Muslim
afterwards. And you know who that is? Abu Sufian Can you think of
anybody else?
Abu Jamal, Abu Lahab, this Omiya and all of these they died in
cofre, but abou Soufiane are the Allah one.
He eventually gets Islam.
And what's very interesting is that if you look at his biography,
and if you read more about him
there's a very interesting story related about Tim, that I believe
it was when hubba beadnell Rot where the hola Juan was being
killed by the enemies at that time, a booster
found was there with more IVR or the hola Juan as a young child at
that time, infant baby toddler. And
when hubbub are the hola Juan mentioned his poem and whenever
what his final words, which was like a DUA,
Abu Sufian grabbed more out of the Hola, Juan, right? And he's a non
Muslim at the time, and he just dived to the ground. It's almost
like you know, when a bomb explodes, a grenade explodes,
you're supposed to dive to the ground, because generally when the
explosion takes place, it takes place like that. Right? So if
you're as close to the ground, you will be safe from the shrapnel or
whatever. They used to believe that when a curse came about a bad
da, then if you hit the ground, you will be safe.
ajeeb and that's what he did. But look later he becomes a Muslim
hint who
choose chewed on the heart of Hamza, the liver and etc, of
Hamza, the Allahu, and she becomes a Muslim.
Subhanallah right. So there has to be something, some good deeds that
Allah subhanaw taala That's why they say the question that arises,
Amara, the Allahu on when he that day when he was an enemy of the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam he set out to kill the Prophet sallahu
Sonam what was he in the law? What was he considered to be by Allah
subhanaw taala say that he was a believer and beloved to Allah
subhanaw taala even on that day, because Allah knew what was gonna
happen in the future. So there are people who Allah who will give the
Tofik to they have a mashallah good ending, right which matters
the most, which is the significant factor here in the mala Mala will
have a team so regardless how they spent their life they've got some
goodness in them that goodness will grow inshallah and one day
will happen. So this the lesson teaches us that whatever you may
be doing today,
always, always keep a window open to Allah subhanaw taala and try to
focus on the bit of good even if you think it's difficult for you
to do all good, but at least try to do some good and Inshallah, one
day Allah will bring out the fruits of this and you will reap
the crops of this. May Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik
May Allah subhanaw taala
bless him and his family to the highest in the highest levels of
Jannah make the rest of the stages of the Hereafter easy for them and
those who have left behind their children etc. May Allah subhanaw
taala grant them the ability in the Tofik to further the work that
he had started following Suzanne make this an inspiration for a lot
of the other people who used to hold him as a role model, and even
those who didn't, but could follow his path and make him an
inspiration after the dot $100 Bill Atomy