Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Revival of Islam
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Soldiers chef Abdul Malik new use of
he studied. He has been studying the traditional Islamic sciences
and writing scholarly works for most of his life. He completed the
bulk of his studies at Darul Uloom allowable Islamia where he
memorize the Quran by the age of 15. And after that he went on to
complete a rigorous six year Shinya program.
And after graduation from Darul Uloom he traveled to South Africa,
where he attended medulla South Korea to gain specialized training
in answering legal questions if and move to Laval,
and while in South Africa, he also completed a Bachelor of Arts with
Honors in Islamic Studies at RAND African University Johannesburg,
under the supervision of Professor of the Rotman Dewey. He then
traveled to Syria where he received a second memorization.
After his trip to Syria, he traveled to southern food India,
where he received a formal authorization to issue legal
rulings fatwa. To date shares of the Rockman has authored the
highly popular faithful Imam. He co authored reflections of pearls.
He also published provisions for seek for the seekers, a
translation and commentary of the Arabic word arbequina Zaditor Lee
been a collection of short Hadith compiled by Maulana Ashraf Allah
he from allometry breezes Michigan wasabia
shares of the Rama and presently serves as the Imam of the masjid
Imam as imam of Masjid Kuba. Some of his fatawa can be found online
at WWE dot Sunni path.com and some of his lectures online at www dot
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are also available from Amazon as her Academy and most Islamic
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actually man's duties poem that he composed with regards to the
machete and that's our topic of today. What it is, is that there's
a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam related by a
number of Hadith scholars, including Imam Abu Dawood Imam,
Hakim, in his mustard ruck, he considered the Hadith to be Sahai
as well.
This hadith I mean, I don't think there's any there's much of a
difference of opinion about it because
everybody is considered sorry. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam made a very, very special statement and that's something
that we're going to analyze and we're going to look at today
because we are obviously experiencing certain times people
need glad tidings and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
up Shiro Bashir who, so give glad tidings to the people, but
obviously we have to have a proper perspective. We have to understand
the Hadith properly and I'll explain that later. But basically
what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in this hadith
that's related by Abu Huraira, the Allah one that in Allah Yeah, but
I thought in Allah here, but I thought they had the hill Almighty
Allah ROTC could limit at the Senate in my ujet. The doula Deena
that Allah subhanho wa Taala will send Allah subhanho wa Taala will
appoint or send for this ummah, at the peak of every 100 years at
every century, at the end of every century, someone that will revive
the faith for them. So every century that goes by, from the
time of Hijra of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. From
the time the Prophet sallallahu Sallam migrated from Makkah to
Madina, Munawwara. From that time, every 100 years, there has been at
least one individual, if not more, who, Allah subhanho wa Taala has
especially selected and appointed to be a revival of the faith. Now,
what's the need for revival? I think we need to understand this
properly. What's the need for revival? We know that Allah
subhanaw taala has said has said in the Quran, that we're in the
hula, have you learned that we are going to we are going to protect
it we are the protectors of it, talking about the Quran in
particular but obviously when you're speaking about the Quran,
you're speaking about the deen in general because the Quran is the
heart the Quran is the heart and the soul of our deen and that
Alhamdulillah is preserved until today Allah subhanaw taala has
taken has taken that responsibility upon himself. Now
the thing is that the difference between this and the previous
nations, the previous communities of other prophets are the humans
Salatu was Salam. As a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam says
that the Bani Israel for instance, the Israelites got a susu who will
Ambia they they actually had prophets that would come one after
the other. There were there was the Rasul there was the special
messenger, which was Musa it has Salatu was Salam who came with the
Sharia. After that numerous, numerous Ambia came that's the
difference between rasool and B. We use this word interchangeably.
You know, when we speak about prophets, we use the word Nabhi or
Sulan interchangeably, we say Nabi SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, we
say Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because obviously the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was both for Rasul nnB.
But not all prophets were Rasul and Nabi Rasool is a very special
type of Prophet Rasul is the one who Allah subhanho wa Taala
selects out of the prophets among the prophets and gives him a new
Sharia something that
would abrogate the previous Sharia. For example, Ibrahim Ali
Salatu was Salam was a rasool Allah Nabi was an OB and Rasool
likewise Musa Ali salaam was the rasool and an OB a Saudi sunnah
was a Rasool as well if you if you remember that with Musa alayhis
salam he had you shall be known as a salatu salam he had Harun Ali
salaam, his brother, they will not be they will not Rasul they were
supporting him. They were helping him they were assisting him. So
with the with the Israelites, they used to have prophets that would
come and they would be taking care of the religious affairs of the
people. And you know, we've heard numerous stories about the Indus
OMA, there are no more prophets, neither Rasool neither Nabhi or
Ambia to come Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
the final was the heart among the begin, and he was defined the
final messenger of Allah subhanho wa taala. And after him, there's
nobody to come. It's the responsibility has been given to
the orlimar and that's why the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
very clearly in numerous Hadees speaks about the level of the
other man saying that
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the other ma are the inheritors of the prophets. They are the
inheritors of the prophets of the prophets of the message to
continue it. There's numerous Hadith in this regard. Now, the
first thing that you have to understand is that Islam has a
very enduring nature. Islam will never be stamped out. Well, Allahu
Mati minority he will carry health care of your own, that Allah
subhanho wa Taala will complete his nor and he'll he will take it
to the end until the last day, until until he wants it to remain
in this world after which this world will end he will take it
despite what anybody dislikes about it, or despite any
opposition to it. There are numerous Hadith in this regard.
And that's something that we want to understand properly today.
Despite that fact that Allah subhanaw taala is preserving this
faith, there is a need of revival and that's where Allah subhanho wa
Taala sins, Allah subhanho wa Taala sends of select certain
individuals from among the OMA especially at the end or at the
combination of each century. At the end of each century at the
coming of the end of each century, who who revives the deen reviving
the deen basically means that things that have become prevalent
in terms of aspects that have been corrupted of the deen, where
people have begun to spread innovations whether it means
innovation in belief, you know, strange theologies, strange
philosophies that are alien to the core fundamental perspectives of
Islam, the core fundamental soul and spirit of Islam, you're
talking about actions and deeds, you know, whatever that innovation
may be, and whether it's an attack from outside or whether it's an
attack from inside, there are individuals that Allah subhanaw
taala selects groups that Allah subhanho wa Taala selects, from
every different field from every different discipline that who, who
take the deen who purified that's why there's another Hadith that's
related from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in
which he said, Yeah, moo Ha, the LEM mean called the whole thing, I
do know that this knowledge, this special sacred knowledge of the
dean is going to be carried is going to be taken and carried from
every previous generation by every subject by a group from the
subsequent generation. So from every predecessor and generation,
a group will take that knowledge from them, and they will, they
will, what they will do is you and fauna and hooter, riffle Harlene,
what if the halal
info line with that evil Harlene then it says, What the * mocked
in in, and what that will Johannine. So basically, any kind
of misrepresentation of the faith that took place earlier on, as
somebody came with a call, and he managed to persuade a number of
people and corrupt a number of people, exaggerations that some
people do in the faith, you know, because ideas are prone to
exaggeration, the whole reason why communism came about is because
the core the core need of man was, was a economical stability, right,
that was the need for man to have economical stability. What
happened in in Russia basically, was that the the became a massive
divide and a massive gap between those who had and those who
didn't. And that's why one specific need among many needs of
humanity of people of humans in general, which was economic
stability, that was promoted at the time because of the need of
that kind of equality. But eventually, that particular
aspect, which is only one aspect of the many aspects that relate to
our life, as human beings in the world, that became the dominant
aspect where everything else began to revolve around that particular
aspect. Right. So for example, let's just say that there's a time
when we need to promote the politics of Islam, which is just
one aspect Among its many aspects. But if somebody then takes that
politics and makes it, the crux of the whole spirit of Islam, and
start to say that even your salad is basically part of you know,
your Islamic politics and following the leader, and he
starts to reinterpret all of your other worships in light of that
one aspect, because you have to remember temporarily we need to
promote a certain aspect because there's a need for it. But when
you make that the dominant aspect, and then your whole Deen becomes
that then you've just pointed in. So the next generation needs to
take that because they can look at this with a clear mind and they
can try to purify it and that's that's the system that Allah
subhanaw taala has set for this Deen in this world. And that's why
it's it's amazing how you how you look at this. Now this hadith is
it's not an easy Hadith because when we look at our whole history,
we see numerous individuals sometimes who are not considered
Mujahideen, they will not considered the revivals of faith
because they did not you know, they did not pass away or they did
not gain popularity at the end of the century. They were in the
middle of the century, but they did not gain
popularity at the end of the century because, you know, they
passed away in, you know, maybe the middle of the century. So we
really need to understand this hadith. You've got to you've got a
number of a hadith in this regard because
what it is, is that there are other Hadith we speak about the
enduring nature of this Dean, the powerful nature of this Deen, that
Dean will continue, yes, people will fall off the bandwagon. There
will be people who consider themselves Muslims. But when
something happens in the world, they become confused. Shaytan is
always looking for a way to confuse the Muslims, right, both
the shayateen ins and the shayateen IlJin. You know, both
the shaytaan of the gin the unseen ones and the seen ones as Allah
says, you know, mineral gin naughty one nurse, which is human
genes, basically, it's people out there to, to distort the message
of Allah subhanahu wa taala. to corrupt the believers, that's when
events take place in the world. They promoted they are, they're
given notice the made notorious, they just expanded and magnified
way beyond, you know, any decent level. What it does is that people
who are on on the edge, who are just about clinging on to their
feet, they look at these things and they become more confused.
They think if my bean was Huck, how come it is becoming so
blameworthy today to be a Muslim? Right? So that's, that's, that's a
major issue that that
that takes place and then there's other ma who have to respond to
that. There's, there's Amara who have to respond to that. There's
other individuals that Allah subhanho wa Taala sets up to
respond to that, but in with regard to the enduring nature of
the deen of Allah, there's numerous other Hadees which will
fit in with this one. For example, there's a hadith in which the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said lainnya zurlo Amaroo has a hill
Omar Musa Tieman that a matter of this Dean, you know, the the main
objective of this Dean, the spirit of this dean will constantly
remain strong and straight, it will remain on the path had that
Acoma sir, until the day of judgment will come by. So
basically, Allah subhanho wa Taala has promised us that this deen is
going to remain, it's just whether we are going to hang on or not.
And that's the fitna that is the that's the challenge. That's what
we need to understand.
Another another, another Hadith says letters out Almighty Allah
does not apply if atonement Almighty called me to be amarilla
there will always be a group of people from my Ummah that will
remain steadfast upholding the matter of Allah upholding the
religion of Allah upholding this data from Allah subhanho wa Taala
the deen of Allah lai aduro Herman hatherleigh, whom that those who
try to forsake them will not harm them, though basically 100 of whom
have learned in Arabic means to leave somebody alone, to stop
assisting them, to stop supporting them to basically sideline them
and this happens often, you know, we see this happening day in and
day out today people are being sidelined because you know, the
according to the truth, for instance, so lie adoro home and
huddle home, but these people are such that they will be upholding
the deen of Allah in such a way that they will not they will not
be concerned with those and they will not be harmed in the least by
those who forsake them.
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right until the matter of Allah until the HUKUM of ALLAH until the
Command of Allah applies to them becomes applicable to them or
comes upon them whether they die or whether the day of judgment
comes by, they will remain holding on to that Deen. So it's really
it's it's irrelevant whether you and I leave the deen of Allah
because there will always be a group that will be upholding the
deen of Allah, the deen of Allah will continue. I'm just making
this as an expression just to kind of bring the point home. You know,
of course the deen is extremely important to us. But what I'm
trying to say is that the deen is so important and it but it's so
independent and self enduring because it's the deen of Allah
that he doesn't need you and I it's something that we need from
Allah subhanho wa Taala to hold fast to our deen because the deen
is going to continue. The question is whether we continue or not. So
now getting back to the whole aspect of revival of revival and
the revival of the Mujahideen, we had what I what I read in the
beginning was an entire
poem that Imam sooty had had composed, Imam su D passed away in
911. Right 911 Hijiri here. Okay, so this was this was a very famous
date before that. 911 Hijiri. Right. 911 Hijiri. And it's kind
of very interesting because I want you to look at it this way that
you know, today, you've got, you've got people who are saying,
I remember speaking to somebody recently and he's saying
Maddie is going to come and nothing's going to happen until
Maddie Khan is you know, this is this
is the end of the world, you know, Medina has to come. This is the
time that he's coming. There's so many other ma could, you know,
he's saying there's so many other ma who are giving this glad tiding
that man, he's already been born, and he's going to be coming and
then a Saudi Salatu was Salam will follow. And I said to him that,
look, I've consulted a number of other ma about this. And the thing
is that the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam never told us when he
is going to come, there was no there was no categorical
information that tells us when the malady is going to come. So it's
something that was purposely left obscure because because of good,
good reasons, you know, some of them are psychological reasons,
because there's some people who have given up. I remember a talk
when somebody was saying that, you know, the times are so bad that
only in the MADI can come and solve the situation. Right?
Somebody was saying that another person came up to me and he said,
You know what, why you being so pessimistic for why do you have
Why do you have such a fatalistic idea and a perspective, I mean,
that's not what the Prophet salallahu Salam wanted us to
think. Because when you start thinking like that you give up,
you don't want to assist the Dean anymore, because you think it's
beyond you to do that. Shaitan wants you to feel that way.
Because shaytaan wants you to feel despondent and hopeless, that
there's nothing that can be done, and it's only the money that can
do anything. I remember a person comes up to me just recently, and
I'm speaking to him, he says, you know, my these are man, you know,
man, these are man, he's the man and he's the one who's gonna do
it. Of course, he's gonna do it. There's no doubt about that, you
know, we, we have to believe in MADI Alayhi Salatu was Salam. But
the point is that right now, are we in such a situation, if you
look at history, we've been in worse times. And we have now way
more worse, way more way, way more deadly and detrimental than what
we've been right now. I mean, just just completely.
And, and that's why I want to mention suited those people who
ensued this time, a lawsuit this time and others, what they they
mentioned, they listed the Mujahideen from the first century
to the eighth century, in the ninth century. And then they
basically said that in the 10th century is going to be made in a
Saudi Saddam.
Very interesting because at the time, remember 911, it was coming
to 1000, it was going to be the first Centenary of Islam. It was
going to be the 1000 year of Islam, people thought that was
going to be the end of the world, then we've had 400 years after
that, right? It's 14 130. Right? So people thought that that's the
case. In fact, in his poem, that's what he's saying. That's what
Imams God is saying.
Now, after that, we've had so many centuries, we've had number of
other a number of other words add in as well. So we have to realize
that
this deen is enduring. You know, there's been so many downs and
dips in our history, but then Alhamdulillah there's been the UPS
as well. And we'll we'll look at some of those. We'll look at some
of those just to give us an understanding of that. Because
when we look at our history, it fills us with, with more with more
courage. It tells us that Allah subhanho wa Taala is always with
this OMA because there's been so many times where it felt as though
this Deen was coming to an end. I mean, you're talking about a time
of the tortoise for him, for instance, when they went into
hiragana hirato is a bustling city of the time one of the main cities
on the on one of the main caravan routes. You know, when you speak
about Hera today, it's not much but in those days, it used to be
one of the magnificent cities of the world, very important center
that people would go through. And when the Tatas finished with that
about 27 people came out of the ruins of that. That's it. He just
wiped everybody out. Now, you know, there's been carnage today
but it I don't think it can compare to what others have done
before. It's bad. It's it's better. I'm not undermining it.
You have to remember, I'm not under estimating it. But we have
to realize that this should not make us despondent to feel that
look what's happening and the mercy of Allah is not coming to us
the assistance of Allah subhanho wa Taala is not coming. Where is
the Mercy of Allah? Where is the Nusrah and the victory from Allah
subhanho wa taala? Aren't we on the truth? I mean, this is the
kind of statements that some people made to the prophets of
Allah isn't the profit and loss and got extremely angry. And he
talks about the people of the past and how their bones would be
separated from their flesh, the flesh would be combed off their
bones and that would not stop them from from believing in Allah
subhanho wa taala. So this is what this is part of the life here in
this world. Nobody promised you paradise in the world. Allah did
not promise you paradise in the world. Allah promised us paradise
in the hereafter. Allah promised us in this world that will enable
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He will unfussy with Tamara Tober she disobedient Allah subhanaw
taala said we're gonna test you with a decrease in your wealth
decrease in your in your children, decreasing your possessions and
other things, but give glad tidings to to the sub 18 which
means those who are patient now
Getting back to our topic of the Majid, basically, as I explained
to you, there are orlimar have written like
even a hydra last Kalani and many other scholars, suity and
numerous other scholars have written that there were many
scholars who did great things. In fact, sometimes their achievements
were a lot greater than some of the Mujahideen. Some of those
people have been considered revive us afterwards. But because they
didn't come at the end of the century, they don't fit the
description of the other officer Laura Selim said, Now, this
agreement that the in the first century, the first Mujaddid of the
majority of the first century, there's an agreement that is a
modern Abdulaziz and he is probably the greatest of them,
which I did in because he was able to combine between I mean, he was
the only one who was an Emir. He was the Khalifa of the Muslim
empire of the of the Obama years when he became the Khalif wasn't
by default, it was coincident, that he became the Khalifa I'll
speak about that later. But he's he had scholarship. I mean, he was
a scholar of the dean. He was he was a Zahid and it duniya meaning
he was an ascetic, he, he left everything he left all of his pomp
and riches when he became the when he became the Khalifa. And in his
two years and five month rule, he managed to do that which not many
had attained before him, and not many have attained after him. So
according to the Hydra last Kalani and many of the other scholars,
they consider Omar Abdullah Abdullah as he used to be the
first Majid the second the majority of the second century was
Imam Shafi. Imam Shafi was the majority of the second century. He
passed away in 204 Hijiri. He was born in 150. In 150, the Imam Abu
Hanifa passed away. Now, Imam Shafi there is agreement about him
as well. But if the hydrogel as Kalani says that after the second
century, and likewise, numerous other scholars, they say that
it's very difficult after Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz to only
have one Mujaddid because when we're talking about Mujaddid, what
does it mean to be a Majid? Majid is somebody who is still alive at
the turn of the century, right at the beginning of the new century.
And he is, he becomes known he becomes prominent for his
knowledge, both his internal knowledge of the internal sciences
and his knowledge of the external sciences. He is calling to the
Sunnah of Allah subhanaw taala of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi
wasallam and he is speaking out against the innovations and the
corruptions in the deen. He is trying to talk about the reform of
the deen in a sincere manner. And obviously, this is not something
that you can, you know, this is not something that comes with a
guarantee as such, you know, from Allah that this person is the
Majid and you know, you have to agree to it. This is known through
the Ummah who recognize such people who say this must be the
Majid of the century, right? So now it's very difficult for one
person to have all of these characteristics to reform the many
different corruptions that occur in the different aspects of the
deen you know when you're talking about in terms of the political
aspect of the deen the judicial aspects of the deen the Sunnah
Hadith Quran Kira, right, in all of the different aspects in the in
the in the lives of people, etc, etc.
When you see that when you see that it's very difficult for one
single person to encompass all of those things. That's why many of
the other MMA they entertain the idea that it doesn't have to be
one person at the at the turn of the century. Who is the Majid that
there are, there is a Mujaddid maybe for renewal Hadith, there's
a Majid for Cara there's a Mujaddid in terms of just reform
reformatory talk you know, Islam of the people reform of the people
that are Majid did in in all of the different aspects. Now I'll
mention some of them you know, some of these names may may some
of these naming names may be familiar to you, but just to
explain that it doesn't have to be one person. Right? It doesn't have
to be just one person. That's where they're at am I said that
Robin Abdulaziz was probably the only one although they do say that
ignore ducky kill a definitely during his century, and they also
say Imam Ghazali. And I would probably agree with that Imam
Ghazali, although there's other names mentioned as well, but for
the fifth century, Imam Hassan Ali, and if you look at some of
these Mujaddid it's kind of very interesting because Allah subhanho
wa taala, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the
best of you is the one who has
is the one who has a long life. And his actions are abundant in
that. Now, if you look at these three, if you look at Omar
Abdullah Abdul Aziz, if you look at Imam Shafi and if you look at
Imam Ghazali, just to take three of those who there's a agreement
that they were the matcha, Dean of the of their relevant centuries,
the first second and, and fifth century. If you look at Imam
If you look at Omar Abdullah as he is he passed away in 101 Hijiri in
101 Hijiri. And he was born in
he was born in 61.
He was only 40 years old when he passed away.
And he goes down as a Majid did
and what he did I mean, he's called O'Meara, Thani, you know,
the second or Merle Farrokh. Right. I'll talk more about him
later on, but just to put in perspective, that it's not about
time in this world, because Baraka is given by Allah subhanho wa
taala. You could have 10 years in this world but if Allah wants to
take you for the service of his deen and he can, he can take each
one of us for the service of his Deen. If we ask Him in sincerity,
then that will go down and we will remember that person for a long
time. So when you look at Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz, you got 40
years old he passed passed away in 101. Just just at the turn of the
century, right. There's agreement about him Imam Shafi. You've heard
of Imam Shafi Muhaddith a fucky an imam of a month hub, right the
people people speak about him today with great reverence. You
know, Rahim Allah, Imam Muslim, he says that people haven't even
understood Imam Shafi. They haven't understood his level, the
level of his knowledge, the level of his understanding, because
people don't have that level of understanding to recognize and,
and and to appreciate what level he had gotten to and Muslim he
says that I understand it because you know, my level his level was
high. He one expert can obviously ascertain and other experts.
He passed away in 204 Hijiri. Right. 204 Hijiri at the age of
54. was born in 150 days, Mr. Abu Hanifa passed away.
Right 54 years old goes down in pages of history as the great
Imam, Imam of a mother hub. And when people follow when people
study their fit, they have to they have to say call a chef at Euro
Hema hula. You know, may Allah have mercy on him. Imagine you and
I, if people could be saying Rahimullah after our names, that's
a dua every time somebody says that we're long gone in our grace,
but somebody is saying Rahim Allah Allah have mercy on him. Allah
grant us the trophy to do something in this world for the
sake of his Deen so that we can be remembered. We can be remembered
with Dora's until the Day of Judgment, what better investment?
What better, and what more can we ask for from Allah subhanaw taala
Imam has early.
He passes away in 505 Hijiri. And he was born in 450 Hijiri.
Wait for 2050. And anyway, so Imam Hazari passes away in 505 Hijiri.
And it's kind of very interesting when you study life remembers
early, before the turn of the century, there was somebody had
seen a dream about him and said that Allah has intended something
very special with you,
man, because that his life is long, we don't have time to go
into that. But just to make this point here, he dies when he's 55
years old.
Imam Hassan Ali, who went down as the hospital Islam, the proof of
Islam, in the many in universities today. I mean, in my master's
program, one of the assignments has been given to us is that in
which discipline was Imam Ghazali? Is contribution the greatest?
That's the question. study in which discipline was Imam Hassan
is contribution the greatest? Was it in theology or philosophy? Was
it in his rebuttal of the philosopher's was it in terms of
his Horus geographies? You know, his, his dealing with the various
heresies of his time? Was it in his the so often in his Sufism,
bringing that to the masses? What was it in, you know, you can't
really make a decision, because he was a master in everything, you
know, he he gained proficiency and the way he was very eloquent in
his language, you know, despite the fact that, you know, he was by
Origin. You know, he was from the non Arab lands, he was from tus,
which is basically in Iran. Right.
So, you have these you have 4054 and 55 years old. I mean, those
are considered young in our time, you know, that's considered young
in our time, you know, people are just about getting on their feet
when they're 40 years old nowadays, right? So, what you got
here is that Allah subhanho wa Taala can take from us what he
wants in a short amount of time, because everything is in the hands
of Allah subhanho wa taala. Now
it's very difficult nowadays to find all of these aspects come
together in one person. That's why you have you could have many Majid
in now let's let's just quickly look at some of the names that
have been fought some of the lists that have been fought, everybody's
got a kind of a variant list, and especially when it comes to the
last century, you've got numerous Mujahideen, you know, you've got,
you've got some people, you've got people who are saying that hasn't
been now Rahim. Allah was the Majid.
said couture was the manager did mold and mildew there was the
machete did more naturally tannery was the machete
Muhammad, Muhammad Radha Han for delivery was the Magette Did you
know you've got numerous and you know, that's just what I can
remember. There's numerous others, you know, there's others who are
saying, you know, obsidian has an Han is numerous, numerous things.
It's just, it will it will come to light, you know, it will come to
light, it will eventually come to light. It's the other man who make
these you know who who decide these things, who who ascertain
these things. But anyway, in terms of the earlier generations, what
what we have is, in the first century agreed upon Omar
Abdulaziz, but some have also said when you look at certain other
individual disciplines like renewable Hadith, for instance,
you've got Ignosi Hubbard's theory, right? You've got
ignorance you have Zuri you've got Kasim Muhammad, right you've got
Salim Abdullah, you've got Hassan Al Basri you know you've got
hustle and bustle you know the thing is that maybe they don't
qualify completely because they don't they don't you know, they
their date of death is not at the turn of the century. Right But
Muhammad luminosity in the great the great interpreter of Hadith of
of dreams he was also Mohammed death he was also a professor so
you had Muhammad Al bakr in the second one you've got a you've got
other names like yeah, he had no marine now some of you may have
heard of these things. That's why I'm just mentioning so you can put
it in perspective. Yeah, he had no mine and Imam Shafi which is
agreed upon anyway, in the third century, you've got Imam Nissei
you've got Abdullah and majority think it's a will Abbas eveness
rage call the call call the ignorance rage. Then you've got in
the fourth century, you've got Hakeem and Nisa booty, right. This
is again a great Hadith scholar who compiled what he considered to
be Hadith that were
at the level of Bukhari and Muslim but they hadn't mentioned it in
their books. So that's this half of the Abdullah honey and mystery
this Abraham middle is Farah eenie. This was one of the great
missionaries scholars elbakyan, Lani, another great Ashanti
scholar, predecessor to Imam machete, then you've got in the
fifth century, one name has early, right, he definitely he definitely
deserves that position. Not that that's my decision. That's
basically what pretty much everybody thinks. Number six, it
says alpha, alpha raazi Alpha raazi then shamsudeen should have
been a Romley. Then you've got in the seventh century and again
there's a lot of people say this is ignorant, the classical a great
scholar, it was he was a scholar, not just a fic and of Hadith, but
also of of theology and Aqeedah.
In the eighth century, you've got another it theologian al
bulkiness, and you've got Zeno dental heirarchy another great
Hadith scholar. Now this Zeno dental heirarchy was another great
Hadith scholar. So they mentioned him in the eighth century, in the
ninth century. The poem that I read includes most of these names.
Now remember Imams duty is in the ninth century 911 He passed away
so 10th century,
ninth century, because I mean, he passes away in the 10th century,
so it's ninth century. And he says, in his poem, he actually
says, Raja wakad, Rojo to Unani. Al Majid fear, he says, well, mill
had the word know what had he does, he told me in a cut at it,
what are you have Milady what it says, And this is the ninth
century that has just arrived, and that which Allah subhanaw taala
has promised will not be will not be broken. So basically, there has
to be a Mujaddid in this century as well. And then he says, What
are the Rojo to Anthony l Mujaddid. And I hope that it's me
who's that Majid Imam SUTI. I mean, he had the right to say that
I'll just clarify that with you. He used to make certain statements
like that. But this was the Hadith bin Nirma. What is basically as
Allah says, In the Quran,
at the end of Surah, to Doha, what does he say? Well, Amma Binetti,
Rebecca, for Hadith as a Prophet sallallahu, I was told that with
the
express to others, the bounties of your Lord that what your Lord has
bestowed upon you, so some aroma would do this, obviously, with all
sincerity, and if you could do it, sincerity is permissible, but it's
just a very difficult thing to do. It's a struggle of the soul to do
that. So Sue to numerous occasions would make certain statements that
you know, in this masala I've been guided in this in this issue,
right. Nobody else has written like it before. Numerous scholars
say that there's Allama Shammi says that ignore everything. Shami
says that sometimes, again, you have to take it put it in
perspective. But anyway, he's, he's, he's making this prayer to
Allah, that I hope that I am the Mujaddid in that for federal law,
he lays a huge hug, because the Grace of Allah cannot be denied.
Right. And then those who came later said that yes, he was a
Majid of of the ninth century. So you've got SUTI in the ninth
century, in the 10th century, you've got
she had the anomaly. I mentioned him by mistake, another one.
Number 10 in the 10th century.
A 10th century you've got a Romley in the 11th century, you've got
Ibrahim Abu Hassan Al Kurdi, Al Quran you now again, remember this
is what some arrma have proposed. You've got a CL mourtada al
Husseini ZBD I mean, great Yemeni scholar who actually did a
commentary on Imam Al Ghazali is
Magnus Opus, which is his, his hero MIDI in the famous book. It
has a sad, sad attitude talking. That's the book and According to
some scholars, if all of your books were destroyed, and all you
had was the it half that would suffice you because the valleys
book is so profound to begin with, because he's got so much knowledge
all together, coming together in those volumes. And then you've got
the it's half you've got mourtada As the video comes in as a
commentary of that, you know, from a hadith perspective from, from,
from a spiritual perspective, numerous perspectives, and he
completely expounds upon that book, and it makes it into 11 or
12 volumes, as can be found today. So it's everything so anyway,
that's more thought as they've been in the 11th century. You've
got numerous others, some say Shaohua EULA had this deal with
the the great Imam of the subcontinent. Imam Al Haddad. Some
people have put him in. There's Melania Makati, some people have
considered him to be one of them, which at the end of the 11th
century, 12 century, you've got Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Eminonu
health al Fulani, and then in the third in the 13th century, which
is quite recent for us, well over 100 years, obviously tatami,
you've got Shah Abdul Aziz de lui you've got with man. With man, dan
Fodio. With man being foodie. So you've got numerous others. Now
again, for this century. We're not making any decisions here. Allah
subhanaw taala knows best, we'll leave it to the Allama. And
the thing is that everybody will, each area can probably have a
machete because there are people in each area that may not be known
by the by the main data Rohilla, for example, and they've done a
great job for example, in
the in the 10th century. You've also got
at the turn of the of the millennium of Islam, you've got a
sir.
You've got Majid Al Thani, the majority of the second millennium,
which is basically say
I met Sir Hindi SHEIKH AHMED sir Hindi and the amount of work that
he did and the way he dealt with the corruption that the ruler of
the time in India had tried to create of trying to mix the deen
of Islam with the dean of Hinduism to make this Dena Ilahi as such,
you know, the godly religion though the divine religion, you
know, an amalgamation of the two religion. It was it was a Sheikh
Ahmed, sir Hindi, who managed to deal with that at the time. In
fact, he was put into prison, he was put into prison, and he
basically turned the prison upside down in terms of turning all the
criminals were basically turn the right way around. That's what it
is. He turned all the criminals into Olia of Allah. That was his,
that's how much profound impact he had as an individual, that he was
able to do that. And that's he became the budget of the second
millennium. So you've got numerous people. Remember, you could in
Bangladesh, for example, there's been an individual who's done so
much by removing all of the corruption that has that had been
created or whatever, you know, people would consider him the
majority of the area, obviously, there's going to be a difference
between a majority of a particular area people just his people
consider him the majority, rightly so as well. And there's a
universal majority. But it's very difficult today to have a universe
in which are they? Well, maybe we might have one again, because
we've got you know, now the media and everything and Allah knows
best, the way the way things work, but Allah knows best.
Now, when you look at Islam, I'm gonna I'm gonna give us some
specific examples of how Allah subhanaw taala uses individuals,
and how you think and how people thought that this was the end of
Islam. I mean, we think today with the massacres that happen, and
again, I'm not under estimating them. I'm not playing them down.
But you have to realize that we've had worse before. Now, when, when
you look at the change from the time of the whole of Russia, when
you go into the omega times, you know, you've got Marwan Abdullah,
Abdullah Medicube, number one, and then and then his various sons and
others in the whole family. You've got the Umayyad the Ahmed
caliphate, and then you've got the abutted caliphate, Hasan Basri,
was one of those who are a remnant from the time of the Sahaba,
meaning he was a bridge between the time of the Sahaba and the
time of the taboo in, you know, he basically observed he wasn't a
Sahabi he he was born afterwards he was born after the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam left and departed this world. But he
observed the Sahaba firsthand, he was able to see them and he
benefited from them. That's why when he saw that the Sahaba
leaving this world, and he saw the corruption that had begun to
To become widespread, he would give these very hard to rendering
sermons. And because they were directly from the heart and number
two, he was very eloquent. He was very proficient. He was extremely,
extremely articulate, he would make people cry. Now this was
obviously when you see people who had seen the glorious time of the
Sahaba you know, so fallen live with iman. And then suddenly this
decline that comes up and turns into materialism because the OMA
yet what they started to do was to use the Baitul mal the, the
National Treasury for themselves, so it was all about just just
amassing, amassing and taxing people and then basically using it
on themselves giving large gifts to their family members and
others, right. Hasson bacillary was looking at this and seeing how
people are turned from spirituality to materialism, and
he would exhort. He would exhort them, when Huston bursary was
asked about Manasa keen in general. You know, we had we had
the hypocrites during the time of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam. So when hustle bustle he was asked that are there any
hypocrites in Basra? He said that if the hypocrites were to leave
the city, the city would not be able to run. Right? But obviously
that was his perspective, you have to understand because he was
looking at it from a very, very pure, pure perspective because
he'd seen the glorious time of the sahaba. He'd seen the corruption
and the demise that had taken place. So by his sermons, he
managed to influence numerous people back to the way of the dean
said that he was he was used as a savior of the Islamic spirit he
was used and Molana about Hassan another shakable, saying that we
actually considers him to be one of the saviors of Islamic spirits,
not necessarily a Majid that some have also considered him Majid but
the thing is that hustle bustle he passed away in 110. They they've
mentioned him, but it's Omar Abdulaziz who passed away just
before him.
Then you have Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz, who passed away
just before and what happened with Omar Abdulaziz is that the Khalifa
before him, who was one of the sons of Abdul Malik him, number
one, his sons were too young to become the Khalif. They tried
everything to try to prop them up, you know, by putting long garments
on them so that they look old enough to be considered the
belief. But but that just didn't happen. Then at the last moment,
somebody whispered into the ear of the heavens, and why don't you
give it to your cousin? Why don't you give it to Omar Abdulaziz. And
it was it was what Allah subhanaw taala had planned. He said, Yes,
we'll give it to him would have not disease, obviously, with the
condition that comes back to his sons afterwards, or Morona Abdul
Aziz, in two years and five months, he sorted out the entire
empire to such a degree that North Africa which was under the same
rule, by the time,
there was nobody left there that could accept zakat anymore.
Because his method of distribution in that just manner was such that
everybody had sufficient now there was nobody that could accept it.
Now, obviously, that wealth goes into the beetle money can be used
for other things. The suffering that we have today is because the
laws of Islam are not enacted properly down to zakat, which we
can all do that people don't give out their zakat on time to the
right places, and to the right people. And that's why we're
suffering otherwise. And that's why others are progressing,
because they've got a lot of surplus cash to do these things
with. The Muslims are basically in the defense mode just trying to
survive, because those who have don't give it in the right places,
they'll give it somewhere else just to make a name for
themselves. And this is something seriously that we need to think
about. Because you can have all the money you want and all the
resources you want. But when you don't have the deen and the spirit
to go with it, then you're not going to use that wealth in the
right way. That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that the best of wealth is the one which is in the hands of the pious
person. So well, there's nothing wrong intrinsically with wealth,
as long as it's in the hands of a pious person. So some people say
that today our our solution is that Muslims need to become more
resourceful. That is a good point. But it's it's not the point
because you have to remember you can have all the resources and
Muslims don't have don't have less resources. There are numerous
Muslims and have a lot of resources. Right? You look at
Dubai today, right? It went up in a matter of 30 years or less, like
at some incredible speed. And today, people are running away
their cars, you know, prestigious cars left at the airport with a
note in them saying, you know, we can't pay off our debts. It's it's
basically it's not what it was two years ago, just in a matter of a
year that this is what's happening. You've got lots of
resources among the Muslims it's just it's not in the hands of
those with the spirit to distribute it well and to do the
right things with it. Not we're not saying they don't do anything
write with it is just that unfortunately, it's not used with
that thought in mind.
So you have Omar Abdul Aziz, the thing as soon as he came into
power his wife
All of the stuff that she had got from her uncles because she was
from the royal family. She was from Abdulmalik in the Moran's
family. He immediately put all of that back into, you put all of
that back into
the beetle Mal. It says that he he would.
He came late for Jumeau one day, because he was his clothes, his
one set of clothing hadn't dried. He, he wants his sons was sent to
him to visit him to meet him is the mother must have sent and they
had their hands over their mouth, says why you've got your Why are
you speaking to me with your hands over your mouth? So because we've
had to eat onions only today, right? And that's why we don't
want you to smell it. I mean, this is but this was voluntary poverty
that he had adopted. He wanted it like that. So you have to remember
this was not forced on him. He could have had what he liked,
could have enjoyed himself. Finally he was poisoned and by by
one of the one of the family and
he passed away in 101 Hijiri. Now after that, you had obviously Imam
Shafi with the whole codification of figurehead Imam, Abu Hanifa.
You know, Imam Abu Hanifa is obviously had a greater impact
because there's more Hana fees in the world and chef is there's more
magic is in the world and chef is right doesn't mean one is better
than the other. I'm just giving you a statistic here, right Hanafy
is constitute the greatest majority followed by the magic is
followed by the chef is followed by the humbleness, right, but Imam
Shafi goes down because of certain points in my wife a pastor in 150.
A very literally looking at the Hadith Imam Shafi was the one who
passed away in 204 Hijiri. So he goes down as as and that's why
other other wives said that there are others who have passed away in
between, like, Who can deny Muhammad Ismail Buhari, you know,
Imam, Muslim and Nissa booty, but because they they're not at the
turn of the century, right? We can't, we're not going to give
them that title. So you have to realize that it's not just at the
turn of the century that Allah uses people it says that they are
special at that time, but then there's others as well who've
who've achieved maybe a lot more sometimes as well.
So you have Imam Malik Imam Shafi Imam, Ahmed, Imam, Imam, then you
have Mr. Muhammad and humble who's a bit later than the three, Imam
Muhammad have no humble, you have to realize that at his time, there
was another fitna now, the texts of the Greeks of Aristotle of
Plato and the other
philosophers, it began to appear in translation there was a
translation movement started by Harun Rashid, and son, Moon
Rashid. And they were, they employed these Christian and
Jewish Arab translators who translated many of the books from
Greek and Syriac into Arabic. And slowly, slowly, this began to
infiltrate into the Muslim lands, people who read and who are
scholarly, began to look at these things. And they thought that
there's a lot of wisdom here. There's a lot of wisdom here and
we need to take some of that wisdom and amalgamated with Islam.
The problem was, is that if they had just benefited from it on a
very supplementary auxilary level of just using it for some basic
supplementary aspects, then that may have been okay, as Imam
Ashanti did later on, but they tried to amalgamate it with the
dean. Now, you know, what's happening here is that the dean is
becoming corrupt, there's a foreign element being introduced
into the dean, the dean is changing its image or the image of
the dean is being changed. And this became so powerful.
I mean, the problem there was that when they couldn't reconcile
between a philosophical concept and an Islamic concept, they
would, they would consider the Hadith week and they would
disregard the Hadith. You know, for example, one thing that they
just couldn't understand, because of the theories that they had
formulated, is that which is clear as the moon on the 14th find, as
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that you will see people in
Paradise will see Allah in the Hereafter, on the just as you see
the moon on the 14th night, you will see Allah and you won't have
to push each other to get a glimpse, but you will be able to
see him clearly. Right, although in this world to the record will
absorb you, you cannot encompass him in this world but in the
Hereafter, it will be done without modality without description in a
very special way. We leave that description to Allah subhanaw
taala but they couldn't reconcile that. They had other issues, they
began to say that Arkell your uncle in the human intellect, it
if it thinks of something to be good, then Allah has to also think
that thing to be good. And if the uncle and intellect reason thinks
something to be bad, then Allah has to think that thing to be bad
as well. It's as though the actual of the human being obligates the
goodness or badness of something to Allah. Not the other way around
as the answer no Gemma, I believe that Allah gives us insight
buys the occult, and tells us and reveals to us through revelation,
what's good and what's bad. And the occult is just a
it's just a vessel, that that helps us to understand and
comprehend that. So I don't want to go into everything else that
they said. But these were some of the ideas that they had. Slowly,
slowly this began to take hold until there was one major issue,
one major issue about the creation of the Quran, they just couldn't
understand that the book of Allah, that it was with Allah, which is
the speech of Allah, that it's always been with Allah. They said
that the Quran is something that Allah subhanaw taala spoke about
later on. Now, this is a bit complicated, so I'm just going to
mention it in general, that there was a major issue that was created
about this particular issue. The other scenario, Gemma's belief is
that the book of Allah is eternal, it doesn't have a beginning. It's
always been with Allah, the Martha zeolites tried to say that no,
it's something that came on later on. Now we're saying that Allah is
so perfect every quality of his every attribute of his has been
with him from the beginning. Because if we say that like like a
child like a human being, that if a child as he grows up, then he
develops he developed How to Speak properly can learn different
languages. So slowly, slowly, he's developing slowly, sir, is
enhancing is improving, things are becoming updated in their mind,
he's learning new things with Allah. That's not the case. Allah
has been the way he is today. He's always been like that perfect, all
powerful, and the creator from the beginning, but what they were
saying kind of compromised, compromised that ideology, right?
They went round, this became a pet issue for them. They went around
to all of their element, they say, What do you say about the Quran?
What do you say about the Quran? Is it created or not created?
Now, slowly, slowly, they began to persecute the other man finally,
they even killed some of their other Ma. Right. Imam Ahmed of no
humble was that last frontier who stayed until the end saying I'm,
I'm going to say what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, and if you
bring me proof that supports your ideology that I'm willing to
listen to you. Otherwise, I'm going to say, I'm not going to say
that the Quran is created. Mahmoud Rashid died, and he had requested
to his brother he had advised and counseled his brother, Martha
Cymbala, to take care of your mama Muhammad issue, in the sense that
to deal with him, Martha Cymbala, he brought him brought into court,
Mr. Muhammad, you know, humbly standing there, and he's saying to
him, What do you say about the Quran? He said, I'm saying exactly
what I've been saying before, that it is the eternal, eternal speech
of Allah subhanho wa Taala this is something which came from your
grandfather, you know, from Abbas, Abbas or the Allahu Anhu as well,
you give me any delille if you give me any proof, I'll listen to
you. He had him flogged 37 or 38 until he fainted. He kept him in
prison for a number of months, right kept him in prison for a
number of months. And by that he had a very, very serious wound in
the in the bottom of his back later on when he was freed,
because after that came alive, again, he was an artisan he as
well see the martyrs Martella became so strong, so influential
that the sleeves basically took up that idea so you had Munna Rashid
matassa. Sorry, Munna Rashid Mata Cymbala. And why think Billa all
three were martyrs delights, right now. Finally, the fourth brother,
the fourth brother mutawa kill Billa. He was as a sinner, well
Jamar so he began to show His favours on Imam Muhammad on humble
Imam Muhammad and a humble just to understand his level of sincerity
to Allah subhanaw taala and his piety. The doctor is operating and
the surgeon is operating on his back and you can understand
there's no local anesthetic at that time. All right, he's
operating on his back where the wounds were. And every time
there's a sharp pain that he that he feels, he says Allahu
macfeather Little myrtos him Allah Who methodically tomatoes him
every time he's saying, Allah Who methodical Martin, which means Oh,
ALLAH forgive mortal sin, Oh ALLAH forgive mortal sin. The doctor is
amazed after he finished he says that is the first time I've seen
somebody pray not against but for the one who has caused them this
kind of distress. And this is what you might not have a do not humble
face to the doctor. He said that on the Day of Judgment. I don't
want there to be a case between me and one of the family of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam because remember, he was from the
Abbasids. You know, they were family of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, I don't want a case I don't want. I don't want to
charge against that. I want it to be clear. I mean, this is the
sincerity that these kinds of people had. So that's Mr. Mohammed
doing a humble Rahima hula. After that, the martyrs although that
battle was one but the mortise Allah, they needed the common
people needed to be to be convinced that they were
completely wrong. And then what you had is that you had one of the
mortality
Who was taught by one of the arch delights of the time? And what are
the eligibility? His student, a Bill, a bill has an ID at the age
of 40 or so he sees a dream. There's numerous incidents about
this where he turns around and he starts to attack the Martha's
delights. So in buzzer one day on Friday, after staying home for 15
to 18 days, he comes up to the member of the main mosque of Basra
it gets on the member and he said that look, you knew you, you knew
who I am, you know who I am. And I've been speaking about the
Morteza lights until now. Today, he took off his garment. And he
said just the way I shed my garment, I am shedding the beliefs
that I've been propounding or propagating until now. And now I
will start to to respond to them. And he became because he was able
to use the logic, the rhetoric, the dispute, disputing tech
techniques that they had, which they'd learned from the Greeks and
others. He was able to respond to them because he was a master at
it. You know, he was a master in debate. So he was able to respond
to them until Alhamdulillah, he managed to deal with the martyrs
delight. So today, you don't see martyrs, right? Except one or two
individuals, academics here and they will say, I'm a martingale.
There's one in Los Angeles, there's one somewhere else. I like
that group and I'm from the martyrs, you know, that
rationalist group in mortality, I consider myself a Marxist, very
few just but as a movement, it's died down. This is the enduring
nature of Islam, that is always endured. It's always come out. And
all of these strange heresies have have gone down. After that. What
happens is, I mean, we don't we don't have time, but basically
after that you had the
burqa learning is Farah Eenie, Imam Al Haramain. Abdullah medical
journey Shirazi numerous others who, through the normal MOOCs,
universities and colleges that he set up in the different lands,
they continue to deal with these martyrs, the lights and the other
heritage groups. After that, what happened is that us, philosophy
itself began to influence certain individuals so that they actually
became complete philosophers. See the philosophers what they used to
believe is this. We're talking about
Ibnu Sina. We're talking about evolution and others. Right. Now,
these are what you call the Muslim philosophers. Their idea was that
Allah subhanho wa Taala has revealed the Quran for laypeople
for the common people, people who don't have enough Arkell
basically, they're saying, but there are certain individuals
among the community who Allah subhanaw taala has given enough
reason and intellect to grasp everything that's in the Quran,
just through their reason. Understand this carefully.
Basically, they were saying that people like Aristotle and Plato,
they were at the rank of Prophets, is just, these were two different
categories. Allah was inspiring both But here Allah was inspiring
them directly to the actual, so that the actual and the intellect
and logic was able to give them the the realities of everything,
right. Whereas for others, through the prophets, Allah gave them a
revelation in the form of Quran, Torah, etc, etc. So he's, they
basically said that whatever is in the Quran, that's what we're
saying. And we can reconcile the two it says, we don't need to go
with the Quran because Allah has given it to us directly. Now, Imam
now now they became so strong, that there was no ILM to respond
to them in a very, in a very categorical way.
That's when Allah subhanaw taala sends the revival of the fifth
century Imam Ghazali. Now remember, he's a very busy person,
because he was made the rector and the
chief lecturer at the new Gambia University in Baghdad by normal
milk. It's one of the most coveted positions, it's one of the most
sought after positions, positions. Everybody wants to be in a
position. It's very busy, 300 400 students, he says that what I did
was for 200 For two years, in my free time, I studied all of the
books of the philosophers. And then at the end, he wrote a book
called McCaskill philosopher,
the objectives of the philosophers. And today, you know,
I've heard professors at university saying that that's a
wonderful book that is so objective, despite coming from
somebody who rejects that it's so objective, because when a person
who's against something writes about that it's normally biased,
but the way he wrote it, it was in a very objective way, just to show
people that these are their objectives. After that, he wrote a
response to them call the to have full philosophy, which means the
incoherence of the philosophers. Now remember, until now, nobody
could face up to these philosophers because they didn't
have the requisite knowledge and the terminology and the
methodology to respond
to them with, you know, because they were using a complete
different methodology, Imam Ghazali learned this by himself
and responds to them, the way he responds to them is kind of very
interesting, because he begins to not just respond to them in this
cautious way. But He does it so boldly. And he does it. So
sarcastically, is that some of the things that these guys come up
with, it's just like it's a figment of their imagination. I
can't even believe how, how they come up with certain things, which
even children would not even think about, or even with children would
understand and comprehend.
Because of doing it this way, it says that for about 100 years,
Malabo has ended he says that for about 100 years, there was nobody
that was able to respond to that. And that really dealt a very
strong blow to philosophers. And they, they, they there was a
decline among them, until another Muslim came along in Spain, if
nourished or ever arose, who responded to Ilan was early by
writing the to half of the half of which is the incoherence of the
incoherence. And in that he tried to prove that everything that we
say, comes from the Quran, so what they call a concept of double
truth.
Everything that we say, Imam has led us to have basically had said
that there were three issues that the philosophers believe, which we
call them Cafe Obi Wan, is they believe that the world is eternal,
that's world does not come out of nothing. Because we believe that
the world was not there before and Allah created it from nothing but
the philosopher's they believe that the world emanated. That's a
Neoplatonic theory that they have, it's called emanation is theory
that it came out of Allah, because Allah is eternal. So the world
came out of Allah. And that's why the world is eternal. And Imam
Ghazali says that they carefully because of that, you know, how can
something come out of Allah like that as a, as a part of Allah
emanating out of Allah. And there were two other issues. One is one
is that human beings will not be resurrected in body form, they
will just be a resurrection of the soul of the Spirit only. And they
also said that Allah does not know the particular details of
everything. He only knows the universals of things. But anyway,
hear that there was numerous other things that he spoke about, but
the way he responded to them, it basically sorted them out. People
were thinking that how are we going to respond to this? As I
mentioned before, Allah subhanaw taala brings about people one
after the other, especially at the end of centuries, that respond to
these things. Now, finally, we can go on, you know, we can go on
about this, but just just one more thing. You had the Crusades.
Right. You had the Crusades, a mighty force of all of
Christendom, you know, Austria to Britain, everybody coming
together, Richard the Lionheart to the Duke of this place and that
place all coming together against the Muslims of against the Muslims
of Sham and, and the Muslim empire. They took Jerusalem, they
put a cross on the Dome of the Rock, you know, the octagonal
building that's at the top, they put a cross on there, there was no
Juma in the masjid. luxafor, 90 years 9090 Now Alhamdulillah
today, at least a solid being performed there. And there is no
cross on there's no cross on the the Cobra to suffer on the Dome of
the Rock. We are praying there. It's still kind of in the hands of
the Muslims. Right? Surrounded though, but it's in the hands of
the Muslims. But you have to realize that for 90 years, they
were pigs and they were they were they were horses in that masala
marijuana which is next to the masjid Luxa you know, it was a lot
worse than what it is today. The amount of people that were killed
when the when the Crusaders came in when the Christians came in.
And just the carnage I mean knee high and blood right there. Horses
were knee high and blood when I read that, before I went to
Jerusalem. I thought that was an exaggeration. How can you have
rivers of blood in the streets? I just couldn't fathom and I thought
it's an exaggeration. But once I went they you can you can now
understand I can put in perspective because
old Jerusalem who's been told Jerusalem who's been too much in
Luxor.
Okay?
The one person there right, Mashallah. All Jerusalem is
surrounded by walls and major gates. And that's why on Friday,
sometimes they don't allow anybody under the age of 40 or 30. And
you've got all these young people outside of trying to come and pray
Mr. Luxa, they can't. The Old City is a walled city, like you've
seen, you know, you read about in books, right? And then the alleys
are narrow, right? They all cobbled alleys and narrow. So now
I can understand that if there's just been 1000s killed, the blood
can definitely rise, at least to some level there. Right. And then,
you know, you go up to the Masjid Al Aqsa and the whole compound and
it's beautiful because when you go to Makkah and Medina, it's all
marble and everything. So you can't get a glimpse of what it may
have been before. When you go to Masjid Al Aqsa, and you just go up
there and you see all of these various arches and you know,
rubs and all these various different gates and it's all old,
it's classic, it's just still looks the part it takes you back
in time. It's kind of an amazing experience. Obviously, you can't
replicate McCann, Medina, because there's just something else. But
here, you can still go back to the classical times, because that's
the way that's the way it looks. But then you had no somebody to
respond to the Crusades, you had no Dean zanghi and you had
Salahuddin a UB. So basically, every time when things felt that
it was going to be lost, and that was the end of it. I remember, it
isn't as bad today as it was then, you know, who can tell the
difference anyway? It really depends. Because at the end of the
day, I think it's not about what place you have and what place you
don't have. I think what really what really matters is what is the
level of the Imam of the people who are dealing with the with with
the affairs of the time because if you don't have anything but the
Imam, the level of Iman and people are solid Muslims and they're
dying shahada well, they're going to paradise Alhamdulillah. But
what happens when you've got all the land you want, but there is no
iman.
So think about it, you know, you will have to think about it this
way. We have to think about it more deeply about this. So
then after that you had the Tatas now I'm going to really cut this
short but you had the tortoise and we don't want to speak about them
in detail, but everybody must have heard about the tortoise there was
such that they just swept through city after city just just
completely invincible, seemingly invincible, nobody was able to put
up a fight against them. They came into Baghdad, 18 100,000 people
killed 18 100,000 people killed in Baghdad. Now they the Khalifa of
the time that are Basset Khalifa of the time, they were a bit
frightened to kill him because they had the superstition that if
you kill the Khalif, then something bad would happen. So you
know, if his blood spilt on the ground, something bad will happen.
So another Muslim who was against the belief of the time, he gave
them an idea that rolling up in rugs and then beat him to death.
So that's what they did. Right? So you can understand that but now
with the Tartars. What you have is they're coming one after the
other. There was one area, one major center of Islam that
remained beyond them, which was Egypt, Cairo
is Ebony Abdus Salam, the great scholar in Abdus Salam so Tonle
Irma, he convinces the Melek of the time the leader of the time
that Allah has written this for you this victory is for you go and
attack them. Because remember, they've taken Baghdad, then they'd
come to Damascus, they've taken Hollub Damascus, they've taken all
of the area and now the Christians were having a good time in the
streets of Damascus in the massage everywhere, you know, a drink and
pig and swine and everything because the Tatas were some of
them were from a Christian and Buddhist background. They were
encouraging that. So now you have Egypt, which is the next the next
place until now, the Tatas had not been defeated. So, it the idea,
the perspective that people had at the time is that if you say that
the Tatas have been defeated, somewhere, don't believe that
that's impossible. They were thought to be invincible
is if the Abdus Salam whispers on the whispers on the leader. Now he
had such a powerful impact on anybody that he spoke to. What
happened once is, is that when he was moving from one area to the
other, he went through a city which is today in Jordan called
Kerak. Right? That's where it was what will move took place was one
move that took place, you know, where the three Shahadat passed
away, that the leader of the area said to Mr. President Abdul Salam,
why don't you settle here? He said that this city is too small for my
knowledge. Right As Salam I mean, his impact was so great that the
ruler of Egypt, listen to him but something happened, where they
were going to do something against the fatwa that is imminent Abdus
Salam had given it was with regarding to some of their
ministers who are Mamluks from before, don't want to go into deal
detail about it. But basically, the king was in a bad position,
you know, between what do you call it a hard
rock and a hard place? He was in one of those situations, he wanted
to listen to him. But at the same time it was these ministers. It
was a bad it was a bad issue. And he passed a judgment against as of
now Abdus Salam is it now this time said I'm leaving Cairo, I'm
leaving Egypt. He started leaving God is belonging started leaving
and
numerous inhabitants of the city began to live with him. They said
we are leaving as well. The news reached the ruler, the king. And
they said if they leave if is if the Abdus Salam leaves, that's
going to be your destruction. He had to go out of his palace to the
outskirts of the city and beg is now the salam to come back. Right?
That's the kind of effect that he would just go into the king and
addressing by name Oh, uh, you don't you realize that on the Day
of Judgment, Allah will say this to you and that to you. He's
sitting with all of his core tears. Now is it now the salon
comes out and one of his students ain't in touch even you know,
aren't you even frightened? No, I'm not frightened at all. I mean,
these people they
They seem like cats in front of me when I start to speak to them. I
mean, basically, he that was his level. I mean, he was able to get
away with it because he had that level. But you have to realize, he
spurred on the king. He gave him enough him. He gave him the
courage and he said that Allah has written the victory for you.
That's why the King, the medic, he sent Sultan Baybars with a with a
force. And he said, we have to attack them in Sham we were not
we're not going to wait for them to come to Egypt. And they won the
first victory in a place called Angel loot which is in Palestine
today against against the Tatas and they killed numerous of them
and the tortoise fled. Now the strange thing there is a number
one they're forced to stop there. But then the strangest thing and
again, Allah uses whom he likes the Tatas, they can be split into
four different groups for different hoods, right, the Golden
Horde, and then there's the ill Khan's and there's the other two,
slowly, slowly, every one of them became Muslim, some immediately
and some later on in their generations ajeeb how Allah
subhanho wa Taala with these people who were out to destroy
Islam completely, and people had actually thought Islam will be
destroyed
and imagined by the dad being taken, Damascus being taken and
only Egypt left. And then suddenly, it's all turned around
and they become the call as to the deen Lausanne, Han and others, I
mean, any hands here. So you have to realize that this is the deen
of Allah, in our time has gone otherwise, we could we could
continue with this until recent times, but time, you know, time
obviously it's late. It's people have to go home. But we have to
realize that whether Maddie comes or he doesn't come in our time,
that's not our responsibility. Our responsibility is to do something
for our Dean ourselves, which is to teach our children and which is
to educate ourselves, which is to stick to the deen of Allah
subhanaw taala. When we go wrong, then we correct ourselves, we
correct ourselves, and we get along with it. Do not ever become
despondent. Now, again, as I mentioned, when people hear about
the Mujahideen, there's two approaches to this. One is
hamdulillah is taking care of it, you know, there's going to be a
machete just like there was, you know, in the worst of times, so we
don't have to do anything. Right. That's one approach. The other
approach is that we have to wait for Matthew, nobody else can do
anything. Because even cod said that after the ninth century is
going to be that but there's force for centuries after that, that
have already passed. So you have to realize there could be an up
and down. There could be another glorious period of Islam before
you know we even hear about Maddie Ali, he's salat wa salam. The
point is that we need to strengthen ourselves because
that's our responsibility. On the Day of Judgment, we cannot get up
to Allah and say that, you know, we're waiting for Maddie to come
up and send him. The idea is that we need to correct ourselves. And
we need to teach our children if you think that we are beyond
becoming any kind of savior of the Islamic spirit, or any Mujaddid or
whatever, well, let's hope that in our children, but we have to
create the environment for them. We have to give them the
environment at home. We have to build our communities to do such
so that people have people have
attraction to the deen so that they're not attracted to other
things. And they're not sponsoring and supporting other things. But
their focus is on the deen, obviously, the other Allama who
have been under other speakers who have been speaking today and
tomorrow, they obviously going to speak more about this from a
contemporary perspective, what we can do, so I leave that to them.
Mine was a very historical perspective, which is an extremely
important perspective because we are not we do not live in a
vacuum. We do not live just in the last 1015 2030 4050 6070 or
whatever years that surrounds us. But we are products of history. We
are just another cycle in history. And history repeats itself and we
learn and we take him we take courage and we do not become
despondent after we study our history and Allah subhanaw taala
grant us all Tofik Allah subhanho wa Taala make us all close to him.
Allah subhanho wa Taala take us an acceptance for the service of his
Deen, you know, in in the various different ways that we can give
the service to our deen everybody has their own ways of doing it.
Allah subhanaw taala accepts us all working with Dhawan hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen