Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Mawlana Ali Mayat The Unassuming Selfless Administrator of Darul Uloom Bury
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim
hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad, were either
early or Sufi Germaine a mother,
Allah subhanaw taala will send people into into this world, and
then he will take them.
And when people are gone, when we're gone or anybody's gone, then
they leave behind things.
There's been investment opportunities and sometimes they
start benefiting from the investment. They leave behind good
memories and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
My unity love will be higher on stamina, who, whoever does a good
deed, whoever Allah subhanaw taala loves good for what's good for you
will use him, you will employ him.
The Sahaba said, what does that exactly mean? What do you mean
employ him? So the prophets of Allah Salam said that before his
death, he'll give him the ability to do something by which the
people around him
can be pleased with him.
So if somebody has died from this world, and there's multiple people
remembering him, sending to us for them, speaking well about them.
Maybe even building a masjid for them in their name for the salah
Philip to donate the reward for them, then isn't that a well worth
where a life wellworth lived as such a life well lived. We can
only know after our death, have we done enough for that kind of
thing. So today, you know, as people die, there's people who
touch you. And we remember them. And all the reason for this is to
talk about some godly people. Some people rob Danny people, people
who did things for the sake of Allah serve the Dean essentially,
so that we will pray for them. So this is a person who when I joined
the data room in very in 1985, November 1985, very young age 11
or 1211 and a half or so, this particular individual Montana
highly his name was Myatt, he was the administrator in the office.
And he was pretty much there until I finished 11 years later. And
then he was there
for many many like three decades or so or four decades or however
three decades and he just passed away a few days ago.
Now Masha Allah, he left behind children, and mashallah I know at
least two of them who are older MA and they're doing some good work.
So I remember him today because I think I need to pay him back for
all the good that he did for the double room for the students and
many other people and then myself as well as a student there.
So he starts off, he was born in Mozambique, which is a country
just above South Africa, in in Africa. And then he went to study
in the late 70s, early 80s, late 70s. He was in binnorie Town
Pakistan, which was one of the great mattresses that and he
studied under shade use of binnorie Rahima hula, one of the
great autumn of Pakistan, and who was part of that established that
mandalas are there.
And when he was there, he must realize he was a foreigner. But he
had the opportunity to be the heart of the main heart him of
service to Sheikh Yusuf Samus have received a lot of to answer from
him. He was the one in charge of doing a lot of things, sometimes
others would want to do it. And he was such a humble figure. It's
like, okay, you do it. And it looks like on one occasion,
somebody didn't do something, right. So your Sheikh Yusuf even
said to them that why don't you just let him do it if you can't do
it, right. So why might you know, some people you just hit it off
with and they just do things, right? They just balanced they
just on par? And he was like that he was either class fellows or one
year below or ahead of move. These are very hands on, we just passed
away.
Big Mufti of Pakistan, mashallah and Allama. So they used to play
together, they used to play together with students together.
And with these races that I used to try to go and do kedma of mana
use of but I couldn't, because, you know, Manali was just always
ahead in that regard. Or the one it says obviously, most is already
used always come first. And second class is very, very clever and
intelligent. So I remember him since 1985. And he had a lot of
pressure. He dealt with a lot of things. He was the administrator
of a big data looms are dealing with all sorts of things I
remember. And then we'd go and say, Oh, can you do this for us?
We need this we need that. And you could see he was always had this
look on his face. He was always busy. You know, some people they
just look always busy, like, Oh, what do you want? But such a heart
that even though he spoke to you like that, sometimes you knew he'd
get your job done because he was just always on trying to do
something.
He hails from this little village called Songhai, which is close to
where my parents came from. So our family he knew his family and he
was married. I used to go to visit my auntie
Blackmon in the orderly range area, and I would see him
sometimes outside his father in law shop called the Dora shopper
the door at stores. It's on that Queen's road or Queen's Park Road
or something, if anybody's been to Blackman ever seen it. So he's
actually helped out there as well. He used to also be there to lead
the press, sometimes in the local Masjid as well. And
genuinely a helpful person. That's what I remember, genuinely, I just
remember that look on his face, but he would always get things
done. You know, we're from London. So dark bloomberry was about four
to four and a half hours away for us. We certainly come back to
London, four times a year. The locals there, they used to go home
more frequently, they used to get food from home, they used to get
their clothing washed from home, they used to get food sent from
home, we four times a year, we got a bit of pocket money. And you
know, mother's alive. That's, that's how it was. So we had to
wash our own clothes. So I remember, you know, when you're
1112 years, you're washing your own clothes. It's kind of crazy,
you don't know what you're doing. So I'd learned that what you do is
you put your clothes in a bucket, sorry, you get some water, you put
a bit of soap powder in there, you mix it up hot water, and then you
put your clothes in there and you let it soak for a while.
Right for two, three hours because it loosens the dirt, then you take
them and then you scrub them and dry them. Oh man, there was every
stage of that was kind of crazy. Sometimes you'd put it then you'd
forgot. So it stays for 234 days, you go back in there smelling bad.
So you have to redo the whole thing. I remember once I had a
really nice top. And I was very excited about it. I watched it for
the first time came and put it on a radiator to dry and it got all
rust marks on it that could not be taken off.
You know those are when you get your first kind of in those days,
people didn't have the kind of money that kids have today. Right?
This morning, I think there was one occasion where he started
taking some students clothes in these black bags to Blackburn to
some laundrette and getting them washed and bringing them back I
still remember that and I really pray for him. Because during that
phase, it just became a bit easier because you don't have to wash
your own clothes. So we just send the clothes and he would take it
in his car he didn't have to this was not part of his job but he was
just such a thoughtful person mashallah and just such a helpful
person. So
that's all I want to say. That's what I want to say Allah reward
him abundantly. And I'm just hoping that
I believe that he has a status with Allah that's what I believe
because Masha Allah so many people are praying for him and his
janazah had a lot of people as well and as people are remembering
him this people have started a project to build a masjid for him
that people can donate to we'll put a link up online for that as
well. And
inshallah he's got an A status with Allah. So I mentioned that
here, number one for us to make dua for him. And number two, that
we pray to Allah that we can also be fondly remembered that we also
do decent things in this life and good things and Allah protect us
from the disgrace of this world and especially disgrace of this of
the Hereafter. And that Allah subhanahu wa Tada
can accept us and people we can be remembered with the dewasa people
and good fond memories after we go as well. We're here with that one
and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Allah bless him and grant
southern Jamil to all of his family and loved ones and allow
all of us to also live a good memory behind and good children.
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