Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Series Caliph ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al’Aziz
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala Nova Ruthie Ramadan Dillard. I mean while he
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Rodney Abdulaziz with kuruma Hasina, who were insurer her
farlam under mudra. Either Erica Hi Ron insha Allah
my dear respected friends, Allah subhanho wa Taala has guaranteed
one thing for this ummah, the one thing that he's guaranteed for
this ummah as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran that Allah Who
multimonitor Allah Who ut menorah, Allah subhanahu wa taala will
complete his light,
Allah subhanaw taala will complete his light and healer, his light
will always be available, despite the dislike of any enemy, despite
the dislike of any disbeliever or anyone who wants to see that light
if faced from this world. So that's a guarantee. And there's no
doubt about that. Anybody who lives in the vacuum of this time,
so anybody who lives today, and only witnesses the events of today
without looking into their history, without having read any
history, then they will generally be depressed. That's why if you
look around the Muslim world, it's on fire today. And there's a lot
of people who have a lot of depression. The reason for this
primarily is that the inner fortification which is generally
gained through remembrance of Allah subhanho wa taala, that
unfortunately has been lost. So there is massive weakness in terms
of our spiritual state of the Ummah today. And number two, we
are bereft of the knowledge of history and the knowledge of the
ummah of the past, the nations of the past, and the ebbs and flows
of this ummah, there has been many upheavals and challenges and
problems and attacks. And all of these things have taken place on
this ummah before us. This is not the worst that we're fearing we're
faring right now, this is not the worst of situations. Because if
today that Monsieur Luxa is surrounded and is skirmishes there
and there's problems there once in a while, and there's a constant
threat to it, and so on and so forth. Well, in the past several
100 years ago, we lost it for nearly a century. It came out of
our hands for nearly a century over 90 years, in which time no
sermon was given from its pulpit. No other than took flight from its
minarets. And the walls of this masjid, was just waiting was
crying in anticipation for its worshipers to come back. There was
a golden cross that was placed on top of the Cobra to Sahara on the
mysterious Sahara, and it was renamed the templum Domine. And
that became a church, the Masjid Luxor itself became a palace and
adjoining it, it became a stable and many, many 1000s of Muslimeen
were killed there. Despite being promised to be given security and
safety. If they took refuge there. They were killed, and the
Crusaders went around bragging the next day that they had been in
Auggie of blood than the blood was knee high. So if today, this is
the situation of Mr. Luxa is in our end, it's a bad situation.
It's been worse before. If we're talking about the great massacres,
and the shotgun or campaigns of Baghdad of recent times, where so
much has been looted and corrupted, and many people have
been killed and there's still problems in Iraq. Well, if you
look at the time of the glorious Abbas in Empire, the glory glory
at Ambassade caliphate, and towards the end of it when the
Tatas started sweeping down from the steppes of Mongolia, going
through the major cities of Hora sun and transaksi Aina, leveling
each one to the ground, leaving hardly a few souls alive, just
totally desecrating everything, leaving them desolate cities and
finally sweeping into Baghdad, that then capital of the Muslim
world, the city of all of its glory, and Great Might that could
ever been seen at that day that one of the glorious and greatest
of the caliphate that had been seen in the Harun Al Rashid just
before that time. Now, what happened is, they massacred over a
million souls. A million people, over a million people were
massacred in Baghdad alone. And the Khalifa himself was they had a
superstition that if the police blood falls on the ground, then
something bad will happen. So the Mungo's the thought is they were
superstitious people so somebody gave them an ID actually another
so called
Islam gave them that idea, roll the leaf in a roll up the Khalifa
and a carpet and beat him to death. And that's exactly what
they did. That's exactly what they did. So when a person looks at
history and studies history, they will realize that this is the
nature of this world. It doesn't mean that we sit back and do
nothing and wait for things to the storm to pass as they say. The
idea is that at least it saves a person from depression. Depression
is a very bad thing. Depression is a very bad thing to know that
there's been many ebbs and flows, many highs and lows, many
challenges, and but there have also been many achievements, and
these have all been done. Allah subhanho wa Taala has used
individuals who share Hubbard Hassan Ali nadwi. In his great
work on this subject, he said, there was no such subject of that
nature that trace this outline of the ebbs and flows, the highs and
lows, the challenges, the successes, and then the
weaknesses, and the failings and that's what he wrote. And he
called it the saviors of Islamic spirit. And in that he has
numerous individuals that he speaks about. So his history is
not entirely about the Majidi in the revivals, the revivals are
those people who will come who come at the end of that who come
at the turn of the century.
They do a work of revival. A work of revival means as is the hadith
of Abu Zubaydah who represent a lowly Salam said that Allah sends
at the turn of every century somebody that will come when ujet,
the doula who, Dina that, who will come and revive the faith, revive
an aspect of the faith. Now, there's many discussions about as
to who these revivals have been over the centuries, there is more
agreement, of course, about the earliest centuries and who the
revivals were there, because now we can look at in hindsight, and
we can, you know, there can be a discussion, and you can trace the
effects of these individuals. Today, if you ask people who have
been the revivals of the recent century, you will have, every
group will say that it's their main shape and scholar, that that
is the reviver and that's a possibility. Many, Your Honor must
say that it doesn't have to be a single Reviver. It could be a
revival for Hadith, a revival for aqidah, a revival for activism of
some other aspects of the deen. So there could be many, many revivals
because when there's a need for revival in different aspects and
today, as you know, there's there's there is a need for
revival in many aspects of our deen. Now, the important thing to
understand here, as Allah Masucci also clarifies is that the revival
is somebody who will come at the end of the century, Islamic
century and Islamic century. He will he will be alive at the turn
of the century at the end of one century and the beginning of the
next century. This means that people like Imam Abu Hanifa Rahim
Allah who could be considered the greatest scholar than some of the
revivals that may have come at the end of the centuries, Imam Abu
Hanifa, will not be considered a right Reviver because he died at
the age of a he died in 150 Hijiri. Having been born in 70. He
died in 100 150 Hijiri, which means that he he didn't die just
after the millennium, just after the century, just after the
century had had passed.
Now among these, they say that in the first century, it was Omar
Abdulaziz, he is the Majid of the first century the Khalifa, Amara
Abdulaziz. For the second century, they say it was Imam Shafi. He
died in 204 Hijiri. He was born in he was born in 150, the mom or
Hanifa passed away and he died in 204 Hijiri which is just over the
just over the century, and and so on and so forth Imam because it
was of the fifth century because he died in 505, Hijiri 505,
Hijiri, and so on, and so and so on, so forth. So Imam Ghazali Imam
Shafi died in 204 Hijiri, Imam Ghazali in 505. Is he an imam? So
ut who's narrating this inner poem, he says that I hope to be
that of the ninth century because he died in 911 911. He, by the
way, not 911.
So the point is, we're going to speak about the first of the
saviors and also the first Majid of the first century, which is,
Abdullah Aziz re the reason why his story is so striking, so
inspirational. And just so motivating is because out of all
of the Majidi in that I've lived so far, and Obama have considered
them to be Majestics and rivers, he is probably the most
comprehensive of them all.
And they probably will not be another like him for a very long
time. The reason is that most of the other Mujahideen and revivals
after Omar Abdulaziz like Imam Shafi was early even though ducky
Tillery. So UT, whoever else that you mentioned
None of them were also the Halifa of the muslimeen. None of them
also had rule in their hand. They weren't the rulers of the time.
They were just scholars, activists, extremely respectable
individuals and pious people. But they didn't have rule in their
hands. They didn't have the military prowess that needed this
aroma. And Abdul Aziz was the only one who had scholarship who had
piety. And along with all of that, he also had the ability to impose
his views and to make a greater difference because he was the
Hadith of the muslimeen.
So you know, you're not going to have anybody like him until until
another leader comes like the Madeira the Allahu Anhu. Oh, Sid
history.
Anyway, so let's start with him. Imam Muhammad have no humble he
says something very interesting about Muhammad, you know, humble
who came some centuries later, he said, either right, or in 202 140,
something to 200 That's when Mr. Muhammad, it looks back. And he
says that if you see somebody either right or Rachel, you have
more Omar Abdulaziz. If you see any man who loves Omar Abdullah
Abdul Aziz with chroma Hasina, who, and mentions his merits and
his virtues and his good, excellent contributions, then
farlam anemia whare Vertica. Hi, Ron, the know that there's some
good to come out of that. There is some good to follow.
And the reason for this is that generally speaking, the way humans
work is that they're inspired by inspirational individuals they
inspired today where today in this time and age, we're in a low, both
spiritually, politically, socially, we there's problems.
When you hear about great things, and how people have overcome them,
then inshallah it helps it liberates people, it takes them
out of their sense of downtrodden pneus inferiority, gloom, sadness,
depression, it helps people to come out of that. And when these
are real stories, not movies, but real stories that you don't have
to suspend your reality for where you know, it's a reality. Then
Subhanallah there's something good this is my assessment of why he's
saying that of course Imam Muhammad Muhammad Allah knows best
why he said what he said
Abdullah hidden Jose Ibnu Aslam relates Abdullah Hypnose at Islam
relates from his grand grandfather Aslam. Now many of you may know
Islam was the special hadham and servant of Ahmad YBNL. Hatha abre,
the Allahu Ameerul Momineen. The second Hadith, Islam was his main
man, he was his second he would go around with him, he was his. He
was his attendant, he would travel around with him at night and as
you know, Omar Omar Radi Allahu anhu, was known
to go around that night, to try to learn from people to see the state
of how people were living at his time. So as they'd been traveling
at night, on one occasion, they stopped at this place just to take
a rest there was a wall of somebody's house, and they decided
just to rest this as he's leaning. In those days you didn't have
soundproofing. Now you want to rent a home out, do you need
soundproofing? You know all of these things. In those days, there
was no such thing. You know, you just put up something curtains
were literally curtains were used for doorways, the prophets, Allah
Lord ism did not have a solid door in his in his house. It was a
curtain, essentially. So as they're sitting there, there's a
discussion going on in the house is a young girl, a young woman, a
young woman who's speaking to her mother, they did a milk business.
So they're collecting the milk, it's probably you know, early
morning before Fajr time they're getting everything ready. And
she's the mother is saying that add some water to it. So the girl
that the younger voice is heard saying, How can you do that the
Ameerul Momineen has just given orders that this is illegal. Now
this you can't do that. You can't do this. It's wrong. said well,
he's not going to hear us he's not going to he's not listening to us.
What a statement to make. Omar Abdulaziz she said that well how
can you openly outside obey Him but inwardly not obey him? See,
this is the mindset of the of this girl so O'Meara the Allahu Anhu
was extremely struck by her faith, by her trustworthiness. So he said
to Islam, look, mark this house, you know where we are. Tomorrow,
find out who this is find out if she's married.
Right. So the next day he found out that she was not married. So
he went to his three sons, their three sons, Abdullah Abdul Rahman,
Abdullah, everybody knows about Abdullah Abdullah Omar Abdul
Rahman Lipner Omar and a house him ignore Omar says Okay, which one
of you is not married? Which one of you needs a wife? If I were to
be he said if I was still wanting to marry, if I was still in need
of marriage, I will
I have married her myself myself. This is a great girl there is who
which one of you wants to marry her?
So, Abdullah Heppner, Omar and Abdul Rahman Ibn Ahmad, they said,
We're fine. You know, we've we've got waves and we're happy. Our sim
says I need a wave. So then sent the proposal and they got married.
Now you're wondering, why would a father go and ask his children,
you know, who needs a wife? You should know, right?
Marriage was very casual in those days, Allahu Allah, Allah knows
best. Maybe there's a possibility of a second wave whatever the case
was, right? Who wants a wife who wants to get married? So
now what came from this I'm not telling you this story for
nothing. This is history. This is before American Abdulazeez this
time. The reason I'm mentioning this is that this is the inception
of Omar Abdulaziz. It comes from Amara, the Allah and the story
starts at Omar. And that effects the second Omar or the Allahu Anhu
Rahim Allah. So as him got married to this to this girl, and from
them came a daughter, who they called Omar Omar asked him, bint
ausimm, who asked him the daughter of Assam, and this Omar asked him
she met she was married to Abdulaziz IGNOU. Marwan Marwan
Abdul Hakim was a major governor and the right hand man of Earthman
Radi Allahu Anhu was overthrown or the on during his caliphate. He
was a very influential individual. Initially he was considered to be
very good and everything like that later there were issues with the
whole marijuana and Omega issue. He was the he was the governor for
our fourth mana the Allah one very influential individual his son was
Abdulaziz IV number one. His main son was Abdullah Medicube number
one who later became the leaf of the omegas and took everything
away from Abdullah Hypnose Zubaydah. The hola Juan that's a
separate piece of history there. Anyway, so Abdul Aziz him number
one was a governor of Egypt was the governor of Egypt later, but
he married this daughter of ausimm. So now
Omar awesome is married to Abdulaziz. They have Abdullah Z.
They have Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz, they have Omar, this Omar
Abdullah Abdullah Aziz is their child. So now these are Omar,
Abdullah Abdullah Aziz, both * has he has the Omari blood of Omar
Abdullah hottub through His Son awesome. And he also has the
marijuana the Omega blood of that these were two major families of
the time and the omega is is who from whom came Sofia abou Soufiane
he was the Omega Earth Meridian was made while we are the UN was
OMA yet yes, Eid ignem. Why are we and then why are we able to use it
and all the rest of them that are made empire that came from that?
So you could see that he had kingship rule, caliphates ruling
ability and also the piety of Amara Radi Allahu La Meridiana
also the great ruler so you can see all of this is coming together
in in Amara and Abdulaziz
before he became the hot leaf, he wasn't his life takes a sudden
change. This is the most interesting part of this before he
becomes a leaf. He is not all that. scrupulous. He is not
ascetic, he is indulgent. In fact, he's indulgent before he becomes a
hadith he was very indulgent. He used to use the best of perfumes.
You know, today you have people who are so into their perfumes.
They will only go into Harrods and buy their unwashed and you know
these other you know, Selfridges and you know, there's some Clive
Christian is probably the most expensive perfume in the world and
unwired which is an Omani brand expects to be the second most
expensive small bottles for you know, 180 pounds, 300 pounds, 400
pounds, 600 pounds. This is the kind of crazy prices you pay. But
people who are interested in perfume they will pay for this
because it's this desire. It's this addiction that you have for
it.
So he used to use the most the best perfumes, the best of
clothing on one pair of trousers.
On a single pair of trousers, he would spend sometimes 100 dinars
which is about 1000 pounds today 100 Durham's or 100 dinars, I
can't remember exactly, but I calculate to be at about 1000
pounds today. Now that sounds a lot to us. I mean, people do spend
two 300 pounds in pair of jeans, diesel jeans or whatever they call
it right? But there are wealthy people who will spend no less than
that. They will spend on huge amounts. They don't even go to
shops like Primark and so on. Right They just shop in a
different level that that's just the way they are. Right. So this
is royalty. I mean, he's from a royal family. This is you can
understand these people were linked. So he would spend that
much on a pair of trousers on
pants as they say, and he used to spend so much on clothes, that it
was literally like a movie star, you know, some of these movie
stars, you hear about them that they will not be seen in the same
dress twice. If they want to dress once, the reason why they have so
many clothing is that they can't be seen in the same dress twice,
or the same pair of shoes. That's that's the problem. That's the
issue. It's an image issue. So he would actually say that La La
could refer to a your G Zuny. risky and kiss sweaty, like I had
such an addiction for clothing that I would I would feel that,
you know, my my sustenance, my provision would not suffice my
taste and need for for garments and for clothing. And then he
would say that we're my lab is to Thoburn Well, my job is to Thoburn
to Farrar, who NASA year, anytime that a war any garment, and then
somebody saw me wearing that garment. So today you've seen me
wear this garment, he would say that I could then not wear it
again. Because Because I would assume who yearly and who believe
that it's already worn out because you've seen it once it's not worn
out. Now that's a complex of the mind. Right? It's serious. It's
just the complex of the mind. There are people today who spend
crazy amounts, they don't have money and they spend crazy amounts
on the wedding dress day. And it's not the bride who's spending it.
It's her sisters and everybody else. They'll spend several 100 on
each of them. You know six sisters, five sisters, they all
have to wear the same just for that one day they can't wear it
again. Right? So you understand the complex but this money at the
money he could do these kinds of things. However, as soon as he
becomes the Khalifa, suddenly something happens when you become
the Halevi of suddenly the world has opened up to you. You've got
the Baitul mal at your disposal. The National Treasury it's all
yours. This is what the Romanians were doing that will make it for
the army as the national treasury was there as they could spend from
it as they light. Obviously that was an unjust but for him
something suddenly happens. The the Omari effect, the Omari effect
suddenly came at the right time, he did his indulgence. Suddenly,
when he sees all of this opening up to him, he suddenly switches
completely and then you see what happens with him. That's why he
had he when he was younger. He had obviously studied the deen as many
people have done even Abdullah melachim number one and studied
the deen he was supposed to be proficient in numerous sciences of
Islam, in Hadith and Tafseer and so on, even in poetry and
everything else. One of the great biographers and historians and
Hadith scholars, Allah he says in his CRO Allah novella, he says
about Omar Abdulaziz con I mean, in metal he had
he was from the Imams of he had, he had that much penetrating
scholarship that he was able to extrapolate rulings and he had
that juristic insight. Right, you will learn more about that later.
We're Minal hola Rashid in and he was from the Khalifa regime. So
that gives him that combination that many other people didn't
have. If we just go back to his father, his father Abdulaziz was
considered to be one of the better marijuana it's one of the better
bunu Omiya. He was known to be very generous, and he was the
governor and ruler over Mr. over Egypt for about 20 years. And the
day when he wanted to get married, he asked one of his assistants to
gather about 400 Pure did hums, sorry, pure pure dinars from his
wealth that get the purest of my 400 dinars. And then after that,
he went and he found Omar asked him to marry this mother of Omar
Abdulaziz, the granddaughter of Omar Abdullah Cadabra, the Allahu
Anhu. He used to study Hadith and the Abu Huraira. The Allah his
father, Abdulaziz used to study Hadith and the Abu Huraira, the
Allahu Anhu.
And again, he was very wealthy, but he was also very generous.
Omar Abdullah Abdullah Aziz was born in 61 Hijiri and he died in
108. He died in 101 Hijiri. So he lived just less than 40 years,
when his son was asked what was the age of your father he said
that he did not reach 40 Completely. So he died just short
of 40 years of age 39 years in some months 61 He died in 101
Hijiri. He just made it over the century to become the Majid as
such. He was born in Madina Munawwara but then after in 65,
Hijiri, his father moved to Egypt. He's he, he also moved to Egypt,
but then later he had come back to study in Madina Munawwara and then
after that, he used to stay with Abdullah hidden or Amara then
because of his family ties, Abdullayev normally then it was
like an uncle, or a cousin was like an uncle to him was an uncle
to me
Fact. So he benefited from Abdullah Amara, the Allahu Anhu as
well.
He would go a lot to him. And in fact, on one occasion, even though
his father had was in Egypt and dilemna, one of them and said,
leave him here. So his father was happy that he stayed with Abdullah
then he went to Egypt to visit his father, but then that maternal
influence of his maternal side was really benefited him later,
especially. He was the governor later on, he was the governor of
Madina, Munawwara he became the governor of Madina, Munawwara
under Well, he didn't have the medic, when he didn't have the
medic. So this was
Abdul Malik. I don't want to go into his history of the Romanians,
but Abdul Malik number one was the Hadith after Marwan
Marwan
was initially in Damascus, when Abdullah Zubaydah the Alon had
most of the Muslim world, but slowly slowly what happened is the
Marwan knights, they became more powerful. And then Abdul Malik
number one the son of Marwan he became an N He consolidated all of
those areas. And finally, Abdullah eveness, Zubaydah was martyred by
hegemony use of who was a governor under Abdulmalik even number one.
So after Abdullah Medicube number one then his sons took over so you
had Waleed Abdul Abdul Malik is one of the sons when he didn't
have the medication. We have no Abdul Malik Soleimani Abdul Malik,
these were the famous sons of Abdul Malik, Huebner Marwan and
some of the first rulers of this omega dynasty, you know, after
after Marwan so what he did know Abdul Malik makes Omar Abdel Aziz
who's is who's his cousin, because Abdul Malik and Abdulaziz were
brothers Abdulaziz is the father of Omar, and when he is the son of
Abdul Malik, so their cousin brothers, so his cousin is made
the hadith is made the governor of Madina Munawwara
so they might even know Abdul Malik then becomes the Khalif so
so they might even Abdul Malik becomes the Hadith. And when he's
about to pass away now these were all old so when he was about to
pass away
his sons were too young to be the next Khalif he tried to dress them
up in Long garments and armor and all of these things to make them
look bigger. But unfortunately, it was not going to be he said, You
know what a deprivation that I don't have older children. Raja
IGNOU Hayward who is a scholar of the time and an advisor to
Soleimani Abdullah Abdul Malik, he whispered to him that what about
your cousin? What about your cousin Omar, the governor of
Madina, Munawwara and for some reason Zulema and Ibn Abdul Malik
decided that that's a great idea. So Omar Abdulaziz Rahim Allah did
not become the Khalif as part of a normal succession. He wasn't
supposed to be the Khalifa. He wasn't supposed to become the
leaf. This was just a turn of events that Allah subhanaw taala
decreed. So he agreed Solomonic, Abdulmalik agreed, and thus he was
named as the next leaf.
This was in 99, Hijiri.
Right 99 Hijiri right when he's only 38 or something like that
3738 That kind of age. Now what happens is
the day he he they spent the night he'd gone and he taken care of the
affairs of burying the burial procedure of Solomon, Abdulmalik,
so he fought for the whole night when somebody dies in your family.
You don't get a good night's sleep because especially when you're in
charge, you have to worry about this stuff than the other. So in
all of those proceedings, because he was he was very, he was very
busy. He
buried Soleimani Abdulmalik came out of the grave, came out of the
grave after laying him in there. And as soon as he came out, you
just suddenly heard this massive rumbling sound. He said, What is
this rumbling sounds
Mojave. So it was told to him that had he Meraki will Hilah This is
the Khilafah convoy, the killer for mobile, you know, like the
Pope has a mobile. So this is the healer for mobile. This is your
vehicle this is your convoy that's come to pick you up your Ameerul
Momineen
core Ribbit na Kalita kabbah it's been brought close to you now so
that you can now get on because now officially you're the next
Khalif for Carla Marie what uh, what have I got to do with this?
Now remember, just before this is expensive garments, perfumes and
everything. Suddenly he's put in this position when he can really
exploit this and now get even more expensive, but suddenly what he
does, he says Molly, what? Uh huh. What What have I got to do with
this convoy?
Take it far from me. Get rid of it.
Move it away from me. Curry boo la Bugatti. Give me my mule that I'm
used to riding give me my mule for Coronavirus, la Heba to his mule
was brought close to him for Rocky Baja. And he got on to that. Then
after that Joe who saw him was shorter, the chief of police and
security, whatever you want to call it that time, right the Chief
of Security suddenly comes in front of him. You see Romania,
they had Bill Hader, he is walking in front of him with a lance, you
know, the Royal delegation the way they the way they go about these
things for Carla Turner Hani move move away from me. What are you
doing Molly? Molly, Molly, Molly, you are what have I got to do with
you? What is this all about? In NAMA, an original middle Muslim
mean, I'm just a normal member of the Muslim in the Muslim ummah.
I'm just a normal member of the Muslim ummah.
So, he then walked with the people until they came into the Masjid.
When he came into the masjid Seidel member, he got on top of
the member, and the people gathered around him to hear the
inaugural speech, his inaugural hotbar just as the Khalifa as
before him had given one. He said first,
he said that I have been given this post without requesting it. I
did not request this post. This position has been given to me
without my requests. That's why I release you from my beta. So it
would be assumed that if he is made the Khalif people I've given
him beta, the pledge, I've released you from my beta, I've
released you from this pledge that you've given. So go and choose who
you like. He sat there, but when he saw that people did not move,
and instead they save they they they became extremely agitated in
that they were really satisfied. They said Cardiff Tanach we've
actually chosen you. Yeah. Ameerul Momineen. What are the NOC and
we're absolutely satisfied with you, when he found that they were
confident about this, and they were satisfied with him as as
being the Khalif.
That's when he said, he then said that
I am now he started first with reminding them about the
preparation of death, because that's the eventual abode that's a
reality that cannot be denied. He started with the preparation of
death speaking about that. And then he said that I want you to
obey me as long as I obey Allah. If I stop obeying Allah, then you
do not need to obey me. Your obeying of me needs to be
contingent on my obeying Allah subhanho wa Taala my obedience to
Allah subhanaw taala he had all of the curtains and all of this
glamorous things around him pull down. He had all of that pull
down. All the special rugs that had been laid down from the Royal
rugs and everything are lifted and put into the Beatle mal put back
into the treasury.
He then
he had them sold and put them he put them into the treasury. And
then after that, after the inaugural speech was done, he got
up and he started walking towards his house.
His son, Abdullah medic abnormal
catches up with him. And this is the most amazing part. He said, Oh
Ameerul Momineen
Oh, Ameerul Momineen. What are you doing? Where are you going? He
said, I've slept very little. I've been engaged in the burial of
Soleimani Abdulmalik for the entire night. I haven't slept much
at night. So I want to go to sleep. He says you haven't heard
the grievances of the people. People have cases that they need
dealt with. And you haven't dealt with those yet? He said, Yes. I'll
come back. I'll go and have a nap. And I'll come back for her. And
for the heart after the heart, we will we will deal with everybody's
cases. So his son says to him, yeah, Ameerul Momineen
molucca and their Isha Ilove. Dora. what guarantee do you have?
Who's given you a guarantee and assurance that you will remain
until solidaridad? So Omar Abdulaziz he turns around to his
son and he says to him, Odin Minnie, come closer, my son come
closer. A Bonilla, my son come closer. He came close to him. He
embraced him for autism who woke up Bella beignet and he kissed him
between his eyes. He kissed him between his eyes and then he said
Alhamdulillah he Ledi Raja min soul be a hora German soul be
making you're in May in your Indonesia Allah dini. All praises
to Allah who has taken extracted from my loins, someone that will
assist me in my Deen.
Then he went back and he did not do kalola He did not have a
siesta. And he instead people have probably dispersed by now. But he
he told one of the Herald's to announce one of the announcers to
announce a La Mancha and that little mother Lima, for your
heart,
Anybody who has a complaint, a case come and bring it on, come
and come and present your case. So the first person to stand up was a
non Muslim from humps from homes in Syria, who was one of the first
to stand up. And he said that Abbas YBNL, Walid Ibn Abdul Malik,
so Abdul Malik son, Waleed, his son, his son, Abbas, who was one
of the royalty he confiscated my piece of land. Abbas was present.
So he was asked, you can you know, he was asked, what's your, what's
your evidence that this is yours and not his. So he says, when he
my father, when he didn't have the money, gifted it to me, and I've
got, I've got a
authorization written to that effect, but he wasn't able to
produce it. So the land was taken from him and given back to the
Christian, for give it was given back to that, to that non Muslim.
And
in the midst of all of this, as the cases were coming one by one,
and he was just dealing with all of them in a just manner, like
that. Suddenly, he received a letter A written a written note, a
letter
from
o'mara ignored YBNL, Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, that you are putting
our family members to shame. You are basically this is bad for us.
What are you doing? You're messing up the whole family, you're
messing up all of our wealth and riches, and all of our positions.
They're being taken away? What are you doing?
I said that this was a disgrace against you're doing this as a
disgrace against your own family. He also said that you're breaking
ties of kinship by doing this. So they're using the the employees to
try to take him away from this American Abdulaziz. When he read
this letter, he wrote back to him saying Subhanallah, he wrote to
him back saying, He said your mother was one that would walk
around in the markets of hence, your mother was a woman who used
to walk around in the markets of humps. And Allah knows best what
her state was at the time, I don't want to go into that. Allah knows
best what her state was. And then after that, IGNOU the beyond
purchased her and gifted her to your father. And then you were
born from her. You were born from her. What an evil child, what an
evil child you are to write this. And then he said, when you grew
up, grew up, you were a tyrant.
You were a tyrant.
And you think that I am a tyrant, that I'm giving back these things.
Then he enumerated a number of evils done by him and his father,
and he silenced him. So that was his state. This is the way he
became after he became the Hadith. In fact, it's mentioned that he
became so particular that
when at nighttime, there would be a lamp and somebody came to to
speak about something to do with the state, an official business of
some sort.
With that lamp, it was fine. As soon as he became personal and
started speaking about personal matters just between him and Omar
Abdulaziz, he would extinguish the candle straightaway the lamp says
Now it's person, we can't use this lamp for personal matters.
Subhanallah once I found a friend of mine, right, I found a friend
of mine who used to teach in a mother. So I found the mother's
phone line, or he found me actually, because I he had to
contact me for something. And we spoke about whatever he wanted to
speak about that was madrasa related. And then after that, I
started saying, how are you how the children everything, and he
put the phone down on me?
And I was like, why did he do that?
Actually, no, I called him and he put the phone down on me. And then
suddenly I get a call back from his private number. And he said,
Okay, let's talk now.
What do you just do? Here's that was, that was the mother of
cellphone. Like he didn't make a big deal out. I says that was the
mother of cellphone. So we do have Alhamdulillah people like that.
Right? And when you hear these stories, then we become a bit more
scrupulous as well, the whole Bennett the whole point of this is
for us to learn from these small things, one of these things will
benefit or somewhere or the other.
So he, there was once he would live on the absolute basics, you
remember obika And Amara, the Allahu Anhu. You remember their
lifestyle. On one occasion, his children came to visit him, and
he's speaking to them with his hand over his mouth.
And then they said, What's wrong with your mouth? Why are you doing
that? And the reason is that he'd eaten onions, that's all he could
afford at that time. So that's why he just didn't want them to smell
it.
He would not even smell the mask. That was in the that was in the
Beatle model. He said this has nothing to do with me. It's the
people it's the people's wealth. After all his remember his wife.
He was married to Abdullah Medicaid number one
his daughter, Abdul Malik of number one, when when Omar
Abdulaziz was young Abdul Malik number one used to really like him
as a child. In fact, he used to put him in front of his own
children. And he actually brought him up to a certain degree and
helped him a lot. And when he became old enough, Abdul Malik
number one gave him his daughter to marry Fatima Binti Abdullah
Malik. So literally, Omar Abdulaziz was royalty all around.
You know, he was the Hadith his wife was the was the sister of so
many Khalifa, the daughter of a Khalifa, the granddaughter of you
know, she was really linked, but after they got married, sorry,
after he became the Hadith, he took all of her jewelry, and
mashallah she was influenced by him. So she accepted everything.
And she accepted the life that he wanted to live to a certain
degree. So all the jewelry and all the fineries and niceties that
they had taken, that she had been gifted beforehand from a family
members after he became the head if he put he had all of that put
back in the beetle mouth. So imagine your wife's all of her
adornments and you know her, all of her nice jewelry and everything
going back into the beta model. But she she was fine with that.
So that was that was basically his life the way he wanted to live his
life like that. In fact, there's it's related by abou Huff's. He
says that Monica Medina, has related that when Omar Abdul Aziz
became the Hadith,
somewhere else in the mountains, they were the shepherds. They had
no idea what was going on. They were just doing their job
shepherding, right. And
you have the shepherds at the top of these mountains. And suddenly
they probably they probably heard that there was a new leaf and the
Khalifa died or there was going to be a new leaf succeeding the
previous one. Certainly one of them said Madhavi hit manhandle
khalifa to Salah. Who is this pious, righteous Khalif that has
Allah the karma alumnus who's just assumed this position over the
people. So somebody said to him, somebody said to these, Mama, Mama
can be daddy who told you that he's a pious man how'd you know?
Right? How do you know that's an anomaly pious Khalifa at the time
became an anomaly. They said that either in the huida, karma Khalifa
and Salah when there is a pious Khalifa that becomes the Kalief
Cafferty, the ARB, well, acids, the the wolves, and the lions, and
you know, these, these carnivores, they will stay away from our our
sheep and our our animals. So this is what we're seeing today. Wallah
who annum but this is exactly what what, what was related at the
time. On one occasion, he told a female slave of his to find him.
So as as she's finding him, she also fell asleep. And he fell
asleep. He must have been dozing or something. She's finding him.
And then suddenly she fell asleep. She was probably very tired. When
he woke up, he found that she was asleep and she's already in the
face and everything. So he took the phone and started finding her.
She suddenly woke up from this cool air or whatever, she woke up
and she screamed, she woke up, and she screamed, and he said to her,
that look why you he thought she screaming out of fright that Oh,
what have I done? I've made the belief, find me. So she said, he
began to say to her that you're also a human being, you also need
this. So that's why I'm doing this. What's the problem? He tried
to comfort her and reassure her.
She said I didn't scream for that reason, I scream for another
reason. She said that, I was seeing a dream. I was seeing a
dream. And in my dream, there was a whole leaf before before they
said that there was a hadith before you that was shown in my
dream. And he was he was brought and he was he was brought and it
was said that he was a tyrant. It was like the day of judgment was
being shown to me. This Khalifa was brought and it was shown that
he was a tyrant. And that's why he was very oppressive and so on.
And that's why he was thrown into the fire. Then another Khalifa was
brought. And again he was said that he was a tyrant, and he was
thrown into the fire as well. When Omar Abdulaziz is listening to
this, he became so affected by it that he fainted. He fell down
unconscious, he fell down unconscious, when he came back,
and
the coolness of the night relieved him. When he came back to he asked
her to carry on her story, her dream. And then she said that you
were brought and then it was you that was standing in front of me.
And it was said that no, he has judged by the book in the Hakama
Bill Kitab he has judged by the book, why the law Fillory bad and
he has been just with the servants of Allah. So grunting
Jana colluvial Jana, Jana, Grantham Jana. So he prays Allah
subhanaw taala that he praised Allah subhanho wa Taala that it
has said about him. His wife relates actually Fatima bint Abdul
Malik, she relates that I remember he's only 40 just about 40 years
old when he's about to pass away. Right? So it's quite young, but he
was going through this he was going through some illness at this
time. He was going through an illness and
his his wife, Fatima. She says that, according to s marijuana, Fi
Model D Allah de Mata fi I would hear him in this sickness in which
he finally passed away he would be saying, Oh Allah, Allah Who mafia
li him Moti,
keep my motes concealed from them. Don't let them know when I die.
Let not there be anybody around me. Let me die alone. Keep my
mouth and my death concealed from them. What Oh, sir, I am in a
hurry. And even if it's for just a moment of the day.
So one day, she says that I said to him, oh, Ameerul Momineen. I'm
going to leave you for a while she was always by his by his side. But
she said I'm going to leave you should I leave you for a while so
that you know you can just relax for a while you can just rest and
be alone for a while and relax, because you haven't slept yet for
in a column Turnham You haven't slept yet? So she said that he
agreed. And then she went to an adjoining room, another room, not
the room that he was in. And I then heard him from that room
saying, reading Tilka Dar Al Hijrah Naja Aloha, Lila Xena, la
URI doing our olu and Phil are the word of Masada, well are people to
deal with Dokin that those are that is the abode that is the
abode of the hero who we designate for those who do not who do not
want tyranny who do not intend tyranny. In this in on this earth,
no facade and violence and corruption on this earth. We're
actually talking and the final return the final abode is for the
true McDuck in those who have Taqwa he was constantly saying
this, he was repeating this over and over. And then after that, I
could see him some Taraka kaladan Some attacker, then he, his head
went down, he lowered his head and she's thinking that he's doing all
of this purposely, you know, while still alive, she he lowered his
head fella with a toggle and then he remained like that for a while,
until I could not hear him saying anything anymore. So what So then
she said that I quickly said to another, hire them another seven
that we had, who was also the way hack undergone, look what's wrong
with you go and quickly check. What's your problem, go and check
what's happened to him. As soon as he went inside. He screamed, he
screamed, and when I entered, I found him to have passed away. I
found him to have passed away. But we weren't sure he will Kibler he
had faced, he was facing the Qibla. And while the day here and
for me, he one of his hands was on his mouth. Well, and the other one
was over his eyes Rahmatullahi it that's how he passed away. Then
there's many stories about how he was buried. In fact, in one
narration, it says use of pneumatic relates, this is related
actually from Josie. Ignore Josie. I will follow general Josie one of
the great scholars of Baghdad very, very strict in his approach
to Hadith and transmission and so on and so forth. He relates in his
biography he has on Omar Abdulaziz he relates from use of of nomadic
he says that be NAMA, Bina Nununu. So with Taraba Allah Cabrillo Omar
Abdulaziz while we were leveling the soil over the grave of
Ahmedabad, Abdulaziz is Sakata Elena Rocco Mina sama a fee he
Kitab suddenly something fell down from the heavens in which there
was a there was a note there was a piece of paper it was written in
it. Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim, Amin Amin, Allah there Omar
Abdullah Abdullah Aziz Minnaar this is in the name of Allah, most
Gracious, most Merciful safety, a guarantee of safety, security, a
guarantee of security from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada for Omar Omar
Abdulaziz from the hellfire. So this was a note that fluttered
down at his at his burial while they're doing this, Allah subhanaw
taala knows best these things are not of the impossibilities they
are of possibilities. And just because it doesn't happen to us,
doesn't mean we deny it. Claim. He was definitely
of that great caliber. He did much of revival work during his
lifetime. He did a lot of revival work that span many different
aspects. He's one of the first to actually incur
Reg,
if no hasm
Abu Bakr Ibn Hazm not even know has an Allah here, well what could
even know hasm to start collecting Hadith and writing them down and
start making compilation, because they had a fear that the oral
tradition was dying out. A lot of corruption was creeping in. People
were fabricating narrations. So in order to make sure that the Hadith
science is preserved in the Hadith corpus does not, does not become
going into oblivion. He encouraged that this happened. So he was one
of the first to encourage this as the as well, there's a number of
things that he did during his tax. He's the one who,
on one occasion, because so many people in his time were becoming
Muslim in the lands that they that the Muslims had control over. Many
people had the lens that the Muslims had overcome. In the
previous during the previous beliefs times. There were many non
Muslims who live there. And these non Muslims, they weren't all
becoming Muslim. Yeah, they just paid the jizya, the poll tax, the
Security tax. So there was a good revenue that was coming from the
Security Tax. Now, there's a bit of a dilemma here, looking at
Omar, Abdul Aziz is piety.
Many of these people suddenly become Muslim.
Right? So they're seeing his justice. They're seeing his
justice come top down. And they liked the faith. So they becoming
Muslim. Now, they don't have to pay politics. So suddenly, in the
revenue, poll, tax is decreasing, that's politicians get problem
problematic. They start getting nightmares when, you know, they
have to be able to balance the books, and this is the big problem
all the time, isn't it? So some people told him about this, he
said, subhanAllah, he says, will we will go back to toiling the
lands, if that's the case, let them be Muslim. I mean, how can
you stop them, they can be Muslim, you know, let them be Muslims, the
more the merrier, we will go and work the lands with our hands if
we have to, not a problem. You know, that's the way a true
Khalifa speaks. There are numerous things that he he, he abolished
many, many unjust taxes, this is the way of governments to just put
lots and lots of taxes when they want the money. At the end of the
day, they decide where this money goes. And when you've got people
who are enjoying the benefits of this wealth at the you know, at
the ruling level, then you can imagine what kind of ruling that
creates, he made trade free trade, he standardized Weights and
Measures of his time, because you know, different tribes, different
areas use different types of weights and measures. So he
standardized all the weights and measures of his time, he made an
unpaid labor, he made that illegal. He said state officials
cannot enter into any business. In many third world countries. This
is the problem, the ruling party owns much of the big businesses.
And that's why really they become entrenched completely, this is a
big problem. So he understood all of this. And you know, the biggest
thing of this is as totally When did he become the Hadith in 99,
Hijiri. And he died in
two, he died in 101, Hijiri. He literally he was only alive for
two years and four months, during his Caliphate was only for two
years and four months. And this is what he's doing in two years and
four months. When I read his story, the one thing that I get
from it is power doesn't have to corrupt, wealth doesn't have to
corrupt. That's the Naseeha that I get from it, power and wealth does
not have to corrupt. That's the biggest lesson I learned from
homerun Abdulazeez. The second lesson I learned is that when
you've got justice coming top down and is piety at the top, piety,
justice, fear of God in empathy for the people and compassion, and
that's coming top down. Within two years, you can do a big deal. So
the quick fix the quick fix solutions that are generally
suggested by and used by politicians who are always looking
for quick fix, because they've got four years to do it and right or
five, five years or whatever the term is in different countries of
the world.
They they try to do quick fix just to show they don't work long term
solutions that are based on the essential workings of the human
being. This is what he did in two years and four months is just
amazing. You don't think you can you can show that. But it's
possible that money doesn't have to intoxicate and wealth does not
have to intoxicate Omar Abdulaziz proved that by doing all of these
things, he said officials state officials could not enter into
businesses and trade. And it would be announced every year in the
hedge hedge is our main gather there was no TV satellite stations
national international broadcast Twitter accounts, President Obama
You know nothing of that nature in those days. Right. The hedge was
the place where you could get your words out. He would be announced
during these hedge times that anybody who had a complaint should
bring it forth against any state official against any state
official anybody buddy has a complaint, bring it over. And if
anybody has a special suggestion that is for the betterment of the
state, they will be given 100 to 300 dinars for
that. So you are basically awarded for coming up with good ideas for
your country for your state for your, you know, for your, for your
people around you. So this is something that he he came up with,
started a compilation of the Hadith, Abu Bakr Ibn hasm, he
infused Islam in all aspects of life, meaning he made Islam, the
dominant idea that should permeate every aspect of life, such that he
even wrote to the Rogers of India. And some of their children
actually embraced Islam because of what they received. His letters
are quite amazing. If you read them, he wrote to one of his, he
wrote to the governor, in Madina, Munawwara after him, you know,
when he became the leaf, and he said to him, Look, I'm telling you
all of this, and I know that I'm not the best of you. But if I
don't do, if we don't do, I'm going to be my number one model
for Nokia and LaMancha, then who will do it? So he was trying to
tell him, Look, I'm telling you to do this good. I'm prohibiting you
from wrong, I'm encouraging you to do good. And I know I'm not the
best of you, but somebody has to do this task. That was his idea.
That was his idea. In fact, with another one of his governors, he
told him, I want you to write small and concisely so that you
don't have to waste too much paper and ink of the of
that belongs to the states. So rights don't waste and
SubhanAllah. In our government institutions, it's thrown away.
It's kind of free for all type of thing, isn't it? Because it's
owned by everybody. It's okay. But this is what his encouragement
was. I mean, the insight I mean, you just how does somebody who's
so indulgent, suddenly become so particular, despite having Sunday
everything open to him that just that is just what really
bedazzles? You know, that's, that's the stunning, astonishing
aspect of it. In fact, it says that much of North America and
North America, North Africa came under his rule at the time.
So you know, today you have Egypt, Egypt was already but Algeria,
Tunisia, Morocco, right. All of these Libya, all of these big
states. If you look at the map of Africa, and you look at the
Muslims, that major North import, which is the bloated area of
Africa, it's what are no seams all down through that, too, you know,
West Africa, East Africa, all of that is all Muslim means
SubhanAllah. You know, Africa is a big powerhouse of Muslimeen. And
they've got some strong faith. If you go to West Africa, I was just
surprised. It boosted my faith. I tell you that when I just saw the
man of the African tribes down there, you know, in Senegal, for
example. Amazing. So anyway, north, much of North Africa came
under Islam during his times.
His letters, he would write letters to them and they would be
read out in large gatherings direct from the Khalif special
broadcast. And in terms of financial reform, he did it so
successfully that yeah, he Abu Saeed, one of the Zakat
collectors collecting the cards could not find because generally
you're supposed to collect the card and then return it to the
poor of the area. He couldn't find anybody poor enough to take it.
Everybody had enough to prohibit them from accepting zakat. So
people were so so sufficiently well off, that they couldn't
accept the card in North Africa. That's within two years and four
months. That's the astonishing fact here, two years and four
months.
Spiritual reform. So these are all the different forms of reform and
revival that had political reform, of course, right, which was hated
by his family, then he did the different sciences of Hadith and
Islamic sciences, then you have this welfare and financial reform,
and then the spiritual reform and this is amazing. So what happens
here is,
during the time of Walid Ibn Abdul Malik when he was the Hadith, the
trend of the time to speak about would be building an architecture.
You know what even Abdul Malik is responsible for much of the
building of the masjid Luxa.
The mosque in Damascus, the great Ahmed mosque or Malawi is built by
Willie Abdul Malik, he loved his architecture. Right. It was a bit
of some of these Jalisco kind of crazy as well when he was known to
but he loved his architecture and spent a lot of money, right. So he
was one of them. Then later it was Sulaiman al cannone. Suleiman the
Magnificent among the Ottomans. So when he didn't have the medic is
responsible for some of these great buildings that we have. So
in his time, it was all about people all about architecture, and
building and everything, then in such a month's time. So a man was
relatively a better a better person, relatively a better
person. He wasn't as tyrannical or anything, but in this time, it was
all about women and banquets, so eating and womanizing, that was
the Volgen his time. Then you have Omar Omar Abdulaziz, the next
leaf, and you know what people are talking about on the streets. They
start talking about Brother How much color prayer Have you made
up?
How many novels did you do at night? That's what they started
speaking about SubhanAllah. That's what they started speaking about.
This is the point that I say that if you got somebody at the top,
and they do the right thing, against all odds against their own
family, I mean, this is what he did. You can see that it will, you
know, because there's this whole argument when you look at politics
and social politics, and the way these things work is do changes
happen, bottom up from the grassroots, do they happen top
down? You know, both of those theories, I think, have some
validity. But at the end of the day, this is a proof of the top
down theory of a just individual at the top, who doesn't abuse and
who is fair. And this is what you see that comes from this. Finally,
finally, it was why was it just two years and four months, of
course, that's Allah subhanaw taala has planned for the world.
That's Allah's plan for the well that's what we say. However,
it's said that his family, some members of the family, who are now
being deprived of the old, all the, you know, the gold cards and
the first class flights, and, and so on, and so forth. In modern
parlance, they commissioned a slave who was in his company to
poison him. And thus, after rule of only two years, and
for four months, or five months, it's two years, four months, and
some days, some say four days or 15 days, something of that nature.
He died in the middle of the 101 Hijiri, in the month of Rajab, at
the age of just 40. And he goes down into history as the Majid of
this time.
But, as I said, these are the things that we learn
from his life. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the trophy.
That's why they're generally they mentioned the first four Hadith.
And then they always have to mention Omar Abdulaziz because he
was an anomaly afterwards, they have been good hurry Fs, but
nothing as great as him. There have been bad reliefs as well,
many of them. Some have also been known to come in the morning.
Some have also been known known to come in the morning, the police
used to lead the prayer in the big mosques of the capitals. Some have
been known to come intoxicated leading fajr prayer, some of them
will also known to come and delay the prayer, just you know, in
official work, or whatever it is, and just delay the prayer, delay
the prayer delay the prayer. That's why it's actually mentioned
that some of the Sahaba would silently pray, if they couldn't
openly do it, because it would be going against so they would
silently pray in secret and then repeat the prayer again
afterwards, with the belief it there's been occasions a bit later
during the time of the Abbasids where the Eid prayer in one Eid
was done after sunset,
the sunset the next day. So you're supposed to be done on that day,
but the royal possession was so long and so elaborate, that they
went through the roster Maghrib. And then they made the prayer. So
there has been crazy things like that that have happened just
before Omar and Abdulaziz this time, this is what you had the
Omiya is when they became the beliefs. They started using the
beta male for their own purposes.
I will forge us Bernie, he mentions in his Kitab Milani, an
interesting story about two chiefs of the Romanians, how sharp and E
crema, they were challenging each other competing with each other,
you know, you have to do who makes the biggest bar of chocolate and
the biggest easter egg and things like that it was something like
that. So they were challenged, they were challenging each other
about the quantity of feed food required to feed the household and
guests of each of them, which one required more food to to feed the
household and their guests. So a whole shop was likely to win
because he had more generally. So what increment did was he
purchased several several 100 bags of flour, distributed among his
tribesmen for needing it and making into you know dough, and
that raw dough he took and he had it all put into a pit. And then he
covered that with grass. And then what he did was he had whole
shrubs horse
right over it. And when it did, he obviously fell down into the pit,
the horse and only his neck. Only his head remained outside and he
sunk into the door. So then it became very famous. His generosity
and his greatness became very they will do crazy things like that
just to prove just to prove these kinds of things.
On one occasion the Christian poet
he once came completely drunk into the quarter of the Khalifa
Abdulmalik number one wine dripping from his beard, the cross
on his chest, but nobody had the courage to say anything to him. It
became so crazy, so indulgent. This is what this is.
is what richness can do to you. One famous singer of Iraq, who
name he visited Madina, Munawwara, once, along with his group and his
entourage, such a large crowd in Madina, Munawwara La La La Quwata
illa biLlah gathered to hear his performance that the roof of the
house that they were on a collapse and who named died in that. So you
can see the kind of crazy things and bouts that were taking place
at the time. Yes, on the common folk, they were people like
they were they were people who were the common people they had a
lot of respect for. This was the Royals who are doing this. This
was the chiefs who are doing this, these were the ministers who are
doing this, but the people on the ground, they still have that piety
from the time of the Sahaba and the tabby right they still had
that piety. And that's why they will have an ignorant Mithuna
Abdullayev no Maha Salim Abner Abdi Leidner Omar Qasim to
Mohammed Abu Bakr, Sayyiduna, Musa Ottawa, Agnes obey all of these,
they, they were trying their best, but what really was needed was the
khalifa to change. And that's when Allah says Omar Abdullah Abdullah
says, in fact, on one occasion,
just to show how people revered the religious people, and not the
leaders as much, which has always been the case, he shall ignore
Abdulmalik the prince at the time. He's not his father's the leaf,
but he shall make no Abdulmalik comes to mechanical Rama into the
Haram and he wants to go and kiss the Blackstone.
He wants to get the Blackstone, so there's too many people. So he
stood on the side. He stood on the side, waiting for the crowd to
disperse slightly.
Suddenly, somebody comes in this illuminated character, individual.
And as he walks in, people just moved away. They acknowledged him,
gave him great veterans respect moved away. He went right to the
Kaaba and kiss the kiss the Blackstone. There's a slave girl
who's sitting behind the Shabnam abdomen and she's saying, that's
the King, who is that? So he shall know optimally who knew he was he
was Zainal Aberdeen. It was a liability in the idea of the his
grandson.
So he knew he was basis who is that? So next to him was the poet
for us duck. For us duck is one of the great points. Immediately he
says a poem, he makes a poem on the spot. And the first two lines
of that poetry poem. The way it still stands is pebbles and puffs
of maca affirm his virtue, the house of God knows him well as do
the environments. And then he carried on. So you, as you can
see, generally there's piety within the people, because the
scholars have always worked. But what Omar Abdulaziz did was that
this was kind of a break in the anomaly in the in the normality of
the beliefs and the way they were, and suddenly Allah subhanaw taala
wanted to show that after that during the Abbasids they also had
their problems. There were some that were better than others.
There was some that were more righteous than others, you know
that you had this kind of disparity between them as well.
But may Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik May Allah subhanaw
taala give us true understanding all of us and correct our mistakes
and keep us guided wildly with that one and Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen