Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Our Beloved Shaykh Maulana Yusuf Motala

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alayhi wa sallam said, whoever starts, initiates innovates

introduces a new good path, a path towards goodness, a path to

following goodness, something to facilitate goodness, something to

start others and help others and encourage them to do good. Then

the person who started this, who encouraged this, who facilitated

this, he gets the reward of this, along with all of those people who

do that act. So let's just say that somebody encouraged several

people to donate in a particular cause, then all of those people

Inshallah, according to the intention should get a reward for

their donation. And this person who encouraged them, who started

the relief organization, or who just done a fundraiser with

sincerity and who just encouraged everybody else to donate to that

same cause, he gets the reward of all of those people who he's

encouraged.

Now, just imagine how that racks up. Just imagine how that will

eventually total up. If you've done this for years, and years and

years. And especially if you've chosen a means of goodness, which

has great potential to proliferate even more. It basically will take

a life of its own, it will take up a life of its own, and it will

continue and continue and continue.

And that's why one of the best forms of sadaqa jariya, is that,

for example, let's just say that somebody who came to this country

who goes to any country, where there's not much going on, when it

comes to Islam, just think about this, right? Imagine there's a

country where there's not much going on, in terms of Islam, there

may be a few Muslims there who have come. And these Muslims

primarily came there for economic reasons, right economic migrants

as such, they're there, their main focus is essentially to make a

living to survive in this place. Right, which they have they facing

maybe racism, right? Because you know, they're from maybe third

world countries, their color may be different, right? Just Just

imagine this scenario. And they're struggling. And for them to even

call out their faith or to practice their faith to ask time

off on a Friday, they'd be lucky to get a job in the first place.

And if they get a job then to ask for time off for prayers. In

winter acid is at three o'clock. Milgram is at four o'clock. And

then for Friday prayer, can you imagine how difficult that is?

That's why you have these ideas of

all these, these, these ideas that some people wanted to, because

they couldn't get a Friday. They wanted to make Juma on a Sunday

Subhanallah I mean, that you get you've got these stories from

different places, right? So imagine you're in a place like

that. Muslims have been there for a few years, and they're just

struggling and they're trying to get by.

And you decide to take a building in the middle of nowhere,

literally, far from where other Muslims even live. So you decide

to take because you are really driven. And the one thing we're

the reason why you're driven is because you've got teachers,

you've got a sheikh, you've got a teacher, a mentor, somebody who

you really, really love you really trust their connection with Allah

subhanaw taala. And they tell you to go to this country, and to

start up a seminary, a mother. So right where people are just about

surviving, whether Muslims are just about surviving. So you go

and you basically go and approach different people and people think

that you're crazy. People think that how you're going to do this,

there is no infrastructure, where's the demand going to come

from? Who's going to come and support you, and especially in the

middle of nowhere, who's gonna do all of these things.

But there's something in it which drives you and this has to come

from Allah subhanaw taala. Otherwise, there's very few people

who think out of the box like this

There's very few few people who have been who are inspired like

this, who have that kind of a high resolution, who try to go against

all odds for the sake of a higher cause. Right? You look at any

cause in the world in which somebody has done something,

right. It has to be somebody who defied all odds, generally

speaking, because if everybody's doing it, then that thing is not

special anymore. Because everybody's doing it, it's easy to

do what other people have already done. But when you have found a

gap, a necessity, an obligation, a good cause that nobody else is

doing, it's a need Subhanallah, then there is huge reward for

that, because the efforts are going to be much more different.

Right for us now, to start something new in London is easy.

The environment is there, the support system is there, the

infrastructure is there, it's very easy now, still, not everybody

does it. But there's a lot more people doing it than they did 30

years ago. Right? To start off a masjid, an institute, some kind of

whatever it may be, whether it be an online teaching portal, whether

it be down in Oregon, we have just been Subhanallah that what we're

speaking about right now is basically England, about 30 years

ago, beginning 1970s. And who I'm speaking about, is our shake has a

mana use of Matata Saab. And the reason I speak about him today is

because it's only when people

become sick, when people are in a critical condition. When people

are maybe

on their deathbed, right? Or when people die, that's when we

generally begin to appreciate what really they've done. So I'm taking

this occasion because he traveled to Canada recently. And that's

where he took earlier a heart attack, and he's in hospital. So

we asked him Allah subhanaw taala to make dua for him, but a lot of

people who are going to be listening to this

may not know who he is, what's all the fuss about? Why are so many

people around the world in various different countries? Why are they

making dua for him? Why so much sadaqa being given on his behalf?

Why so many arrived and so many car?

Why are so many our than car and remembrance is being done for that

Baraka so that Allah subhanho wa Taala grants him a cure a complete

cure, and it's not beyond Allah subhanaw taala to do that, it is

not beyond Allah subhanaw taala has power to do that it's happened

so many times in the past, especially South Africa, and other

car, these are all they would have. They would have

difficulties. And a word of this, because

the point is this that yes, he's done all of this work. And he

continues to do the work. And the people who are now doing the work

that and continuing the work that he started. They take great

inspiration from him, just like he took inspiration or if you read

his story, and I'm not going to go through his biography today. I

just want to give you some personal interactions because I

literally spent nearly by the time I was 22 years old, I had spent

nearly half of my life with him in darlin Berry. So in that sense, I

could probably say he's a second parents. Right? Definitely a

spiritual parent. And to be honest, I mean, I don't do much

but anything that I do, and not just me anything that's even many

of my teachers do, like more than abdur-rahim sub mufti, Shabir sub

and many of the others whether you talk about shaker the other Huck,

whether you talk about Maulana Muhammad Ali Mufti Mohammed, Al Ko

30, you talk about all of these people, all of this is his sadaqa

jariya.

Like, I can say that, you know, whatever I want to say, there's

nothing I can do to stop that. It's all of his sadaqa jariya is

his intention is correct. He gets all of this reward for as long and

then everybody that benefits through these individuals and the

multitudes of other just it this is such a big investment. This is

so huge. That Subhanallah I mean, there are some Adamo who told him

that it doesn't matter what you do after what you do now, you're

sorted.

People have told him that in the last 1015 20 years, because what

he did for England, I guarantee you that everybody sitting here,

and everybody who's gonna listen to this has has benefited.

Right has benefited from his work. So the thing is that anybody who's

listening would have benefited from him. Right? In some way or

the other not necessarily directly, but through something

that either he set up directly or something that one of his students

had have set up one of his grants students have set up you know, he

started this one madrasa in the UK dot bloomberry In Holcomb, right,

which is up north in the middle of nowhere. I mean, I studied there

for for 10 to

11 years. So I know exactly what kind of a place it was in those

days. It was an old TB hospital. Right? For a lot of people. It was

quite scary. Right Al Hamdulillah. I never I used to walk around one

two o'clock at night, it was never scary. There's no gym there, as

far as I know, never met one, right. But for a lot of people,

because it's such an old building, and it's been renovated so many

times. But to put so much effort in that place, and so much Baraka

came from that place. You could probably say that after the

subcontinent after India, Pakistan, Bangladesh itself, the

subcontinent, probably one of the first full time full fledged up to

Buhari madrasahs is probably done in very

now South Africa is a much older community, you have to remember

that, right? They've been there for over 100 years. Muslims are

here in terms of who we are now. Maybe people came before as

individuals, one or two here and there. But in terms of those who

came settled and now have built up communities, late 50s. Right. So

we're talking about 60. Coming to 70 years, approximately right?

Majority I think came in 60s, very few came in the 50s. But the

majority came in the 60s. South Africa is way beyond that. They've

got four generations that are more five generations. They did have a

mother so but it never went up to Sahil Buhari never had graduated

with me as far as a lot of people studied. They're the first mothers

are of the same kind where it has full fledged studies until the

whole early Media course was probably done on Newcastle, as far

as I understand that was after darlin, Barry.

So to do that, outside of the subcontinent where there is an

infrastructure to do that in a place like this, where there's no

infrastructure less than South Africa, for example. That's

amazing. And then his brother does the same thing in Zambia, right?

These were two brothers. That's the only family are two brothers.

They've got numerous sisters, but the two brothers and Masha Allah

has chosen both of them. And this was, I think, primarily the focus

of one man. And that is, shakes the career candle we Rahmatullah

Haley of Sahara and pool was a great spiritual guidance on when

he came, he said, This is what you need to do. You need to start a

mother so he took his shakes word, the word Quran, Allah subhana wa

Tada following the prophecy, because if you sit in any of

hazard monies of subs by eons, if you listened to any of his

lectures, in fact, even his books, there's only two personalities

that he talks about in pretty much every lecture is there has to be

the discussion of two personalities. One is the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And number two is a shave. I don't

think you can listen to any of his lectures without him mentioning

those two people. Right? That's his intro, you can tell he's a man

who's just profoundly driven by these two individuals, and that's

sufficient for him. You got the Prophet sallallahu someone your

site, and you've got your Sheikh who takes you to the Robeson

lowson Because that's where you learn to your Hadith from Your

Sahil Buhari, that's where you got your inspiration from your

spirituality from, right that's the one you trust their words, and

that's it. That has been sufficient for him. It's been 3040

years, probably more than that. Right. And it's, it's that that is

what we see in front of us. His students. His graduates have

started other mothers as in the UK, Lancaster, huge girl's mother

Teresa is Monica. Fazal Huck, who's basically a graduate of

darlin, Barry Ida Islamic Dawa Academy in less than one us

anymore. The wonderful work that they're doing, right, huge, huge

work. And look at the benefit they've spread. Again, he is one

of the graduates in fact, he was in Dota two Hadith Buhari when I

first joined Darlow in 1985, right, and numerous others,

numerous others, and then you go to Portugal, you go to you go to

Zimbabwe, you go to you go to places like Barbados, Trinidad,

Canada, USA, is just huge. That's why I say the amount of sadaqa

jariya. That's there is is absolutely amazing.

Just recording some of the incidents during our interaction

there in the room, he was just

there was hardly anybody.

Any student who

spoke better him.

You know, I've I've spoken to many friends from other places and so

on really be somebody who criticizes the teacher they've got

a criticism or something. But for some reason, the One unique

feature none of the students have ever seen criticizing.

You know, nobody's beyond criticism. Everybody has

weaknesses. Everybody has defects is no dummy. Nothing is a prophet

or anything like that. Right? Only prophets are beyond that. But even

prophets have been criticized by by the detractors. But what I'm

trying to say here is that he was just loved by all just never seen

this very unique because the amount of self control and

tolerance, wisdom,

just just huge amount of prudence that he had in the way he dealt

with people at that time was just amazing. That's my interaction.

I'm talking about you

He got angry when it was necessary not to say no. But then mashallah

because I had the fortune of looking after his old, his old

room, where he used to initially live before he moved out, because

the phone used to be situated in that room after office hours, and

I was in charge of looking after the phone, and sometimes a phone

would come for him and I would not be present, I would have left the

room, and he would get a bit upset, but then he would always

forgive me. And that was a very coveted room, and I didn't want to

lose that opportunity. Right to, to be thrown out of that room.

Numerous interactions like that there are so many other stories

that we can mention in terms of just his understanding of what you

want, without you saying it numerous times certain things that

you didn't want to do or think in a certain way. And somehow he

figures that out, and he tells you to do something else. It's like,

how did you know, I didn't even tell you numerous incidents like

that, we don't have time to open up to this, I just want to use

this occasion to tell you people out there, who this great man is

right, I should have spoken about him years ago. But I said, you

only start realizing the network, and the bounty and the benefits.

Once you think you might lose them, Inshallah, Allah will give

him a long life with iman a lot more work. As I said, he's done.

He he's done what he had to do, right? Alhamdulillah if he does no

more, Inshallah, it's more than sufficient for him. But the

benefit is for people like us the benefit for all of those who are

so sad and so grieved, because he is in this state right now. And

it's, this is our tradition, you have to remember that this is the

sunnah of our tradition, to always be under somebody's instruction.

And I don't say this lightly. I don't say this, just rhetorically,

I say this, because the world is a nasty place, it could be a

dangerous place. Once you become arrogant, let's just say that I

become a bit famous, I begin to do a few things that people

appreciate, I get complimented, I get praised, suddenly I start

feeling independent, that I can make my own does. And then there

will be people who will say, do it this way, change this around a bit

and do it this way. Because it will attract more people, your

focus then becomes attracting more people. And then you could be

basically going beyond boundaries of the Sharia at the end of the

day trying to facilitate for the Sharia, but you're using the wrong

means. So you have somebody that you can always take inspiration

from guidance from, to benefit from their wisdom, their huge

experience, the trouble for somebody to have gone to establish

something that he has done. I that kind of trouble is no longer

around in the UK because it the field is open now. It's

facilitated it's, it's ready for growing, it's ready for planting.

Whereas what he did, there was nothing going on. He had to toil

the fields, he had to prepare everything. So that experience and

Subhanallah his his his wife color who we call fondly color, right?

Michigan's auntie, the amount of support she gave him, right

cooking for the students at the beginning when you know, they were

just a few students. And the amount of support that she would

give

the what you can learn from such people and their guidance and so

on, is is what's amazing. That's why it's our benefit for him to be

here longer. And it's the benefit of the entire Muslim Ummah, for

him to be here because as I said, anybody who's listening to this

cannot say that they've not taken some benefit from some way through

him or one of his students or something he set up. I don't think

you can escape it anymore in the UK or something that you know

there's a benefit, whether that'd be a book somebody's written

whether that be an institution whether that'd be a mother that'd

be a masjid, whether that be an Imam, whether that be whatever the

case is. So, we ask Allah subhanaw taala to give him Shiva Carmela a

complete Afia complete, complete recovery. And we will suggest to

everybody to do what they can do for the sake of the Muslim ummah.

Basically that this this man, he has had huge benefit to the Muslim

ummah. And may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to follow in that

footsteps and accept us for the service of his Deen as he has

accepted him as well, actually with that one until hamdu Lillahi

Rabbil Alameen