Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Mawlana Ali Mayat The Unassuming Selfless Administrator of Darul Uloom Bury

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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