Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Remembering Hazrat Mawlana Yusuf Motala
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like rock man Rahim, Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ALA. So even when sitting farther earlier he was on
the edge of Marina.
To be honest, I didn't really intend to say anything because
Mana yunusov has basically given the entire biography, and the main
points and then all of these other reflections and I thought I'd said
what I wanted to say a few weeks ago.
But just some things came to mind, because something has to carry on
now, as its legacy has to carry on and Marshall Amala Yunus and
others have already given certain suggestions of what we need to do
for that.
What makes hesitant, a successful personality?
Why is it that when I was studying the UN, I entered the room, it
looks like in the same year as you 1985, when monosodium durata was
in Dora.
And that is when I was 11, half 12 years old. And I finished when I
was 22. So I essentially spent half of my life there at the age
of 22.
In the entire 1011 years that I was there, I never heard a single
person criticizing Hazzard, never a bad word to say, and I'm sure
you
now, this is not to demote anybody else. But I used to speak to
students about the mother ourselves. And they had all sorts
of criticisms about various teachers.
But in the room, I, the general atmosphere was not to criticize
anyway, that has to be created. That doesn't come about because
it's in a human nature, generally to criticize there's a negativity
aspect.
And the success of a
mentor, essentially what he said was, is not just the teacher, but
he's a mentor.
And the success of a successful mentor is that he creates that
harmony and that environment of
comfort, and ease, and love. If love is not there, then it doesn't
work. This is what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had,
which allowed the Sahaba to stay with him. Because Allah says, well
open the forbidden valleys are called nonfat doom in Holic.
And this is exactly hazards.
He did get angry, but very seldomly.
He had so much tolerance, I remember, I was eventually
fortunate enough to get a room in the very coveted husband's old
house, which was the place he used to live in before they got a house
outside, which is the place where he and his family lived in it was
a series of like four or five small rooms with a toilet. So it
was like this separate area where less supervision and
and the room that I got was Monona. ZAKARIA Patil damnit
Barakatuh, he was a very close, he was very, very close to hazard. He
was in the fourth year, fifth year, or maybe 50, or 60,
actually. And his whoever his partner was before him had left,
so has it chose me to go in there. And the point of that room was two
things. Number one, it has all of his books, he had his library,
from that time, he had not moved to anywhere else. So it had the
library there. And number two, he had the phone there, those times
you didn't have mobile phones or anything like that. So the office
phone, the 6106 number, the office number would be transferred to
here after office hours. So the beauty of that room was that you
didn't have to go to Matala, you didn't have to go to revision or
anything like that, after your class, you could just sit there,
because you have to look after the phone, it was your responsibility,
because if a call came in, and nobody was there to pick it up,
you'd get in trouble.
Now, it was impossible for both of us to always be there. And there
were some times when an important call would come. We wouldn't be
there because we'd be out somewhere doing maybe something
else. And I think it was my primary response because Mauna Kea
was in Buhari or something, and he had to be studying. So it was my
primary responsibility. So and then hazard we'll find out because
they were telling we call them nobody picked up the phone. So
sometimes you would get angry and you you want to go and ask for
Murphy the concept of asking for Murphy that was like go and seek
forgiveness. So you'd see that he was angry, say why didn't you pick
it up? Where were you? And you don't want to lose the room
either.
And then, after a few hours or next day, you'd go and you see him
anything. I'll ask him for forgiveness. But before you could
even do that, he'd say, how are you camp chair or whatever and
give you a smile and you know, it's all done. You don't even have
to say anything afterwards. That was his demeanor.
I had this thing for nasheeds at that time, and that room
overlooked that main fountain before you get into the shoe racks
as it had to go past that everyday when it came for salads, and I
used to blast the sheets
Right as though I don't know, you know that there was a certain type
of machine in those days that were in vogue. So we used to blast and
sheets and somebody said husbands downstairs, right, but Hamdulillah
He never complained, and I never used to do it all the time. That
amount of
insight. Prudence was just amazing. The control the self
control is what really distinguishes him. He would sit
there teaching, I don't know if you remember he would hardly move.
He just sat he wouldn't wave his hands too much, or is is totally
unlike, you know, he just composure. Even the words he
speaks is like he's weighing his words as he says them, because he
spoke very little to start with. So what he did speak, you know,
he's choosing his words, so that I'm assuming that they're good
enough to be written grammatically correct the right term to use.
I remember.
We were in Mischka, which means the penultimate year and we
finished the Muscat.
And the next year we were going to go into Dora to Hadith to study
and modernize Salman Huxley's a che called Hadith. So he's going
to teach us a * Buhari. So we're looking forward to that. So
I remember that year myself, I went to a place in Indiana, South
Bend, Indiana for taraweeh. And after he finished 27th, then two
of my classmates mana enameled the mount up the Subhan. They were in
Detroit, just a few hours away. So I decided let's go there. Let me
go and visit them this visit, Visit Detroit. So after the 27th
the 20th with a friend I went there, as we got there, that's
when the news came up one night Islam will hack sobs demise. So it
was like, oh, no, this is we're going to miss him. Alhamdulillah
Allah gave us a netmail bundle, which means a beautiful
replacement. So hesitant, started teaching. So we were very lucky
that we got we were the first group that he taught the entire
Sahil Bahati to, in a very calm there's so much barakah in his
lessons that he never had to teach outside of time, he only taught
within the class allotted hours and we completed the whole thing
with detail with sharp with commentary. So we were very lucky.
We got the whole thing with commentary, we're not just
rewired, but with the dryer as well. That was actually the same
year when he had got married so his wife had been with our the
younger Carla has been with in our basically joined us in class. So
that was an additional bonus for us. But the main thing is that he
then had piles you're suffering from pile so he had surgery. So
then he would come to class and he couldn't move much. But you know
what the amazing thing is that it was obviously very painful because
he couldn't even go to the gym or kind of Animas he had to sit
downstairs during that takeoff.
I never saw him grimace or wince even once like this was something
I noted from that time like he's in must be it's just had a pain,
you know, you can't when you sit, you can hardly sit. Never once did
he spoil his face. There's just certain things about him like
that. Just his demeanor, the control and the love that he
engendered to keep the environment Why do these Allamah that they
feel such a strong vibe, a strong sense of comfort when they go to
download Why did you feel like that? Why did you miss it so much?
Because of this environment. Though it was in a poor state at
that time. It's only towards the later years when a lot of the
renovation and now mashallah the food and everything is
you know, mashallah many stars, you know, those days Subhanallah
you know, it was a whole different story.
His
I told him, I'm getting married. So he gives me a just remembered I
don't think I kept these things, but he gave me a monkey and a vest
was like, Why do you give me a monkey and a vest for then I
realized that this is the tradition that you know, when
somebody had the shape gives a lunghi and a vest.
Once you know, you know what it is, in the last 10 years has it
became much more retired from his main teaching he just about used
to go just to let the Buhari be read, hardly saying much. And he
retired from a lot of public engagements, I mean, even from
before he would hardly go, his whole focus was this he so the
amazing thing about him is that he's such an individual who's so
firm in the way he wants to do something. But there's no fame
about it. He's not out there in the limelight. He doesn't accept
speaking
engagements. So for many years, even in the beginning, he would
hardly ever go out to give a talk, though. He's, he is known to be
one of the greatest of our scholars and only in the country.
You know, I mean, one of the greatest, but he would hardly ever
go out. People would love
him to have gone up. But he would hardly it's only recently that he
started doing in the last 15 years or so that he started actually.
But then though he started going out a bit more here and there, he
became a lot more private person. So even those people who were very
close to him and be in contact with him every week, even they're
telling me in the last several years that it's become boring
because he had a new family, young children, the family that the
children, you know, that he had wanted all of his life. And he
finally a login, so he had to focus on them. And we had to
forgive him for that, because we always felt that we don't get the
time. Right, because it was difficult, some people mashallah
they still were able to have that kind of access, right. But it was
difficult for for many people to get that people would come from
abroad. And if they even got a Salam at that balcony, that would
be Dyneema. And he had to be withheld, because there were so
many people that would want to see him and occupy his time. And the
thing is that a lot of this, you know, for him,
I don't want to have to say what's already been said. But for you to
be able to see in your own lifetime, your grand students and
your great grand students providing a service.
And then now he's passed away. And now we can say that he's passed
away, Rahim Allah, we can say
that he went without fitna.
Right, because until somebody dies, although we had absolutely
no doubt about this, but this is just within our Islamic tradition,
that until somebody dies, nope, until somebody dies, nobody's
protected. So only when they die that the ceiling state, the
ceiling state, what matters. We ask Allah to preserve all of us,
right? And he's sitting state, he gets 4000. I'm saying only 4000
people in his journals in Canada,
we say only 4000. And I think that's just again, Allah's gift to
him. He was a private person. He didn't like huge congregations, he
would give a buy on whenever you would come even to kid a minister,
which is his own program. It's his own conference, you would come
there, he would give a ban and walk out straightaway. You'd have
to rush to get a shit handshake if you're lucky or even a glimpse.
Right, he wouldn't stick around he wouldn't. He just that's what
that's not his personality. But that shows you that even an
introverted person like that can do so much. Why the power of Allah
the power of the love of a righteous person in the tradition
of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam you don't know beyond would you
sit and listen to his or any book in which it would be devoid of a
mention of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, or mentioned of Huzar
Sheikh Zakaria Rahmatullahi it's almost like he was left behind
with them that he he is still there. And he's just waiting to go
but he's got a responsibility to do. I don't know if you've ever
listened to a man who is where he does not mention his the chef,
Ramadan latte or Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the
love, you can just tell because you talk about who you love.
And obviously he che was his key and his path. And he's chained to
the profits and losses and both from a spiritual perspective and
an academic perspective, his own perspective. And what he got from
his a shake probably, I would assume that it's his father, you
know.
He, his father was
into his liquor, like, engrossed in his liquor.
So that's a part of his biography, which we don't have to get into
right now. But his love for his a shake was just absolutely amazing.
And I think it's only because of that, that he's able to do what he
he does, because he's got that power behind. And then the vicar
Maginnis that he had started, you know, to have the constant altcar.
Just now in Madina Munawwara.
We were with the other Khalifa Sheikh
Mansour, the one you mentioned earlier, right? And he said one
thing, which is really interesting, and now it makes a
lot of sense. He said, we do we insist on Vikram Angeles, in our,
in his Institute, and he says the baraka that comes with that is
amazing. Right? Now, he's making a claim, right? I mean, if you look
at it academically, he's making a claim. Could that be coincidence?
Could that be correlation? You know, a person who's analyzing the
thing, you know, how would you prove that? But then he said
something with just
takes away all of that, all of those suspicions or speculation,
he said, if the entire world is only sustaining itself because of
Allah, Allah, then how can how can a small
madressa not be sustained by the name of Allah.
I was like, wow, you know, we're missing a big thing. We do these
big fundraisers and we're talking here to those people are listening
here. And as
I'm assuming there's a huge amount of people listening online,
whatever you're engaged in,
right? We rely too much on big fundraising and promotion and all
that kind of stuff. We're missing the main point. The sustenance
comes from the nourishment comes from the name of Allah, even for
your own households, forget forgetting the data. If the whole
world can work, Why can't your house work with the vicar of
Allah?
These are the secrets that are his success is why He was who He was,
despite being such an introverted person who doesn't like speaking
so much. But Allah has another Allah has several
wavelengths through which the work is being done. And that's when
Allah puts things at your disposal because this is what Allah
subhanaw taala says, that no servant of Mine can come close to
me except by fulfilling the follow it. And after the obligations then
by doing the optional acts, by the Dhikr of Allah, and so on until I
become the eyes with which he sees the hands with which he grasps the
feet with and so on and so forth. So you're still you, but Allah is
guiding you, Allah is getting your work done for you with the minimal
effort.
And mashallah, there's this concept that he gave a huge amount
of effort and color in the beginning cooking and all the
sacrifice to go and live in that sanatorium to buy that sanatorium
in the first place, which was a TB hospital. Right? Totally. I mean,
there were no gender, I'll tell you that no Baljinder anyway, I
can tell you that from experience, because I used to have a job of
cleaning the will do Hana. And so I had the the rights nobody else
did, I had to accept the older people I had to write from three,
four years earlier before that to walk around at two o'clock at
night. Because I was doing a job. And a there was never once that
there was anything frightening or scary. Right? And they say this is
the doer of his shift from that time. I don't know the full story
to that. But these are these are the things this is all what you
see that it's all from Allah subhanaw taala. Right, because
there's a there's a focus on that. That's why they say that the
mentor must be one that has the right kind of compassion, the
right kind of sternness instinct strictness, but it has to be
carried through love. And that is the secret of hazard that we can
say for now, for sure, that we've experienced for those times in the
mothers. And that is why the people then have nothing bad to
say about him. I'm not joking. It is not an exaggeration. I don't
like to exaggerate. I like to say things as they are. Right. In all
honesty, there was no a single person who criticized him even
once. That is amazing. Right? It's just the walk. It's just the
balance, just the moderation with which he did things.
There was a silent
it's there was no rule, but it was understood. You don't ask him
questions. Nobody asked him questions in class.
And me being the better the person that I am, like, I at least once a
year, I would ask him a question. Right? I just couldn't help it. I
just asked him the question. But you see, that's the amazing thing.
He never discouraged it. It was just like the or amazing. It was
just the Oh harbor who you know, is just like the Haber that all
was a mile. You know, it was the probably sounds that means to say
to be Rob, right? That he that hazard definitely had a part of
that. Right. There's no doubt about it. So I remember once he
said
he was he was in a bit of a mood. And he said, people would you call
it there was a big shake, and he was going to die. And people used
to ask him questions. So his son used to his son wasn't very
learned wasn't really interested. So he told his son because
everybody is going to come to you now, after I die, everybody's
going to come to you. What are you going to tell them? How are you
going to guide them? So he said to him that he instructed me said you
know what, just say fie the love. Because nearly every masala has an
active life right? Now, me being who I am as like that, but mouth
doesn't have any filler. There's no extra love in death. So I
remember he remains silent for a while. Probably thinking about
like, is he? And he says, Yeah, you're right. But yeah, you're
right. He said.
So he was very, you know, that's it. If you got through to him, you
would find him to be completely casual with you.
completely casual and he'll always bring up something that kind of
eases the conversation. So for me it was always my grandfather. He
my grandfather Rahim Allah was very old associate from the olden
days. So every time I saw your grandfather in my dream or
It was always one of those, it's he always brings in something to
make it easy for you to discuss because he knows the effect that
he's probably having on people. And then you just make it so easy.
You know, speaking in the language, whether it's good
quality or do whatever, whatever it was, the Imagine I mean, so
many people want to speak to him to write to him and so on. And he
remembers all of that. Right? He didn't forget much. He didn't
forget much. I mean, we can go on, we can go on forever. But I just I
just want to, I just just want to mention that maybe it's sitting,
sleeping, because the shelves in the room were high up there were
about four or five shelves with all of his old books on there. And
I still remember a Komodo shim. And if shudder me Look, which are
the two bodies of the sofa Chishti the sofa such and I still remember
that I need to read those one day because Manas Acharya is Masha
Allah He is very closely became husband's brother by John mon and
Abderrahim sobre la his son in law as well. Fun fishy. I have not an
I'm totally envious, right of his state. He's in Canada. And so
he used to always say those books and he'd read them. I hadn't read
them. My idea was to read them, but I never got to read them at
that time. Well, Hamdulillah we produce a translation of the
English afterwards. It's all Baraka eventually, in a way you
are. It's all Baraka. So anyway, to basically finish off, what you
have to remember is that all of those who are listening and I'm
assuming those people who are listening have some special either
a relationship with hazard directly, or they hear or they're
listening because they've got a relationship with one of the
students of hazards. Or you've graduated from a institution that
either hazard has established directly, or one of his students
have established now think about it. You've got a monster career
academy that was established by mana Anna some of these others
have been some one of that's where we teach more one of our graduates
from there, right, has started another madrasah.
Can you see the chain it's never ending and imagine the mcnabb's
that the alums and olive oil as a teaching.
There's at least 2000 just direct graduates and then this there's no
way that nobody can stop this now. Nobody can stop this. So hazard is
done and dusted. Right? In fact, several years ago there's we don't
learn lanuza Key Allah Allah He had. We don't purify anybody, we
don't guarantee anybody paradise.
But there is a concept of Mara Ohana so Hassan for who are in the
law he hasn't and undo shahada, you know, fill out, right, there
are these ideas that we have. But nobody knows. So absolute. Anybody
stayed. But there have been some people who have said, has it
doesn't need to do anything else. He's sorted because of what he has
laid out. And there is no doubt here the floss Insha Allah,
there's no doubt about that. But what is in it for us now? How can
we help him? So one is obviously Eastside with the club, and
charity and so on. I think even more than that, along with that,
in fact, because nothing is ever mutually nothing is ever
exclusive, that you only do one thing. That's life, you always do
everything or more than one thing. All of us. Right. And that
includes more than a university students Manoharan students one as
it goes in one day funds students, one of the law students, our
students, right, is what you do is you continue the work of the dean.
That's what he Sheikh told him to do. He didn't want to stay here
wanted to go back but that's what he did. This is this is a massive
chain, you are part of a massive chain. All those animals who are
listening online, we you know, we we generally have women here but
today we thought we'd just you know, because it was going to
intimate discussing discussion. So they're listening online, you
carry on the work you're doing in wherever you're doing and do more
of it. And that in itself is going to pay her that's that it's all
going in his bank balance that's going into exactly yes bank
balance. That's probably going to mana Halima somebody's bank
balance that is going into one of the Schiedam is gonna go he that's
going up and up and up
to move on with Dino Leah hygene Dolla dolla is going up beyond the
up to the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Don't forget that you are
part of a tradition. You're not independent, you're not alone. The
power is behind you of that chain, as long as you maintain it. That's
the main thing you have to just maintain. You have to stay
connected by doing the work remaining within the spirit. And
that's what's most important, that is the best thing you can do for
yourself and for them and then continue. Right. You continue you
produce people like this as much as you can do and inshallah we
will rise with the great people
Have that chain that goes back to the previous lesson we will rise
on Insha Allah, we will rise with them on the Day of Judgment.
And we have not much else to show except the bit that we can that we
have learned and that we can inshallah do May Allah grant us
holy class, and even those who are not in the oil fields here who are
here, don't feel left out. If you've been inspired by anything
that anybody here has said,
then that inspiration comes from hazards. Because I don't think we
may have not been speaking like this. Had we not gone to our room
had hazard not established a madrasa. Yes, once he established
one, several others came up, because that's easy to do. But
imagine in a place where there is no integration in the mainstream
community. There is no wealth at that time, where things are
expensive, and people thinking
so, that pioneer mashallah, it's mon Sana Sana that has an earth
and So may Allah subhanaw taala accept him and may Allah never
allow his spirit and his teachings and especially the spirituality
let Allah allow that