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